The Sun. — London, England, 1833-10-12 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We have inserted elsewhere a selection from the last country papers of the articles in whi c h they gave an account of the proceedings of the Corporation Commissioners, and of the general result of their investigations, so far as they have gone. The local press seems to have been fully penetrated with a sense of the importance of the inquiry, and to have registered the examinations of the Commissioners at sufficient length, though not, in all cases, with an unbiassed spirit. In the course of the inquiry many abuses have been detected, much mismanage ment and venality has been exposed, and a ' strong foundation has been laid for an extensive and urgent municipal reform. From even the partial and desultory accounts in the provincial newspapers of what the Commissioners have done, and without having access to the more detailed information which their reports must furnish, we may thus safely maintain that the working of the commission has been eminently successful—that its itinerant courts, open to the public, have brought to light many abuses which might otherwise have remained unnoticed or concealed—and that more has been done in the last two months, and at a trifling expense, by inquiries on the spot, than could have been ac complished in so many sessions or years, and at an infinitely greater public charge, by Parlia mentary Committees. To have summoned to Westminster all those persons in the numerous cities and boroughs of England who could give evidence on corporate delinquencies, and to have required the attendance of all the corporate officers, with their deeds, hooks, and accounts, would have been more expensive, and probable more inconvenient, than calling out the militia of the counties—while the general muster of corporators and their accusers, at a distance from their homes and local influences, would have turned out, perhaps, as an exhibition of mere parade and uselessness. The delay, too, in taking the depositions of such " a cloud of witnesses" by one Committee, must have ope rated as a mischievous postponement of that municipal reform which has been so urgently de manded by the people, and which the Govern ment is so solemnly pledged to introduce. The Commissioners have been the more successful in their labours, and have accomplished their task with the more expedition, that they have held open courts in the different boroughs which they have visited, and have invited the public evidence of all the inhabitants who had useful information to communicate. Had they sitten in secret conclave, with only their registrar or secretarv,and the witness under examination, their information must have been often partial, and their motives always liable to suspicion or misre presentation. Besides, a municipal corporation should have no secrets to disclose. The persons who compose its management are a public body, appointed in the policy of the law to act for the local public, and the very attempt to conceal from their constituents any part of the conduct of their stewardship lays the foundation for a grave suspicion of guilt, and warrants the insti tution of a rigorous course of scrutiny. It cannot be pretended that any portion of corporate pro perty, or of the funds of a borough, is private property. It cannot be pretended that the cur porators could, at any moment, divide it among themselves, and break up the corporate firm like a private partnership. As little, surely, can it be alleged that the individuals composing it can employ the funds intrusted to their care for the purely personal object of defraying the election expenses of their friends, or clearing the score of their tavern dinners. Least of all can they be justified in employing the corporate money to bribe the support of unscrupulous voters, to cor• rupt the morals of their fellow-citizens, or to promote the cause of civil dissension and faction. If the consciousness of having perpetrated these acts is pleaded as an excuse for concealing or withholding the documentary evidence which establishes the charge, then public exposure be comes the more necessary, as a punishment on the delinquent—and if, on the other hand, there be no consciousness of guilt, there can be no dread of the fullest public disclosure. Though in the course of the inquiry much malversation, corruption, and knavery has been brought to light, and though the guilty parties must, from the beeinning, have anticipated such a result, it is creditable to their good sense that, with onl) one exception, all the corporations of the United Kingdom have bowed to the authority of the King's commission, and have surrendered, with out reserve, into the hands of the Commission ers all the papers and documents of which they required an inspection or a copy. The borough to which we have thus alluded as having attained " a bad pre-eminence" among its most splendid rivals in corruption, we need scarcely say, is Leicester. The corporation of this town has a second time resolved to persevere in the contu macious conduct, the audacity and folly of which we formerly exposed. It will he remem bered that their Town Clerk, after submitting to nearly a week's examination, and after disclosing or admitting some of the most extraordinary acts of corporate delinquency which ever met the public eve, refused at last to exhibit the accounts and deeds relative to the borough pro- ' perty, by which their malversation might be substantiated. This refusal was sanctioned by the corporation itself, whose contumacious resolution was delivered to the Commis sioners ; but, as it pretended to be grounded on a misrepresentation of facts, which the Commissioners charitably ascribed to their agent, the latter adjourned their court for a week, to allow the parties an opportunity of reconsi dering their decision, and of submitting to the terms of the Royal Commission. Their second refusal is a repetition of their Tory and loyal contempt for the King's authority. The deed which they were at first required to exhibit, before they proclaimed their disobedience, was a political mortgage of 10,000/., given on tine borough property to defray the expenses of an election struggle. But this is not the only enormity of the kind of which they have been guilty. It is now in evidence that they have alienated 34,800/. of real property belonging to the borough, of which no account can be ob tained, and that they have besides incurred a further debt of 14,000/. ! On the production connected of the accounts with Si r Th omas White's charity las t session to the House of the way, was only effected Commons—which , by by a threat of being called to its bar—it was • found that this fund was mixed up with other funds, while the corporators pretended that they could not separate them. This charity, in which, at least, they surely cannot pretend to have any private property, and which they can only manage as trustees, is thus thrown into a common stock, liable to the same mis management as the property of the • borough it self, which we have stated to be alienated or I mortgaged to such an extent ! ! As this is the I only corporation in the United Kingdom which has had the hardihood to resist the King's corn mission,—as even this refractory body is afraid to avow its undisguised contumacy, fixing upon its dislike td publicity as the reason for refusing the required documents,—and as, in the interval allowed for reflection, it. has itself ceased to be unanimous in its disobedience (a schism having manifested itself among its members), it would be superfluous in us to go over again the grounds on which the authority of the commission rests. We formerly cited the preamble to a commission of William and Mary, founded on an Act of Parliament, for inquiring into the state of the Royal burghs of Scotland, in which the principle is broadly laid down and formally asserted, that the King has the right to appoint commissioners to inquire into the condition and management of the funds of all municipal bodies. All cor porations, particularly municipal corporations, are the creatures of the Crown ; their lands, funds, tolls, market dues, and other sources of revenue, were often conferred along with their charters, and always made, subject to the same conditions as those of the property so conferred, for the benefit of the whole citizens or burgesses. We know of no corporation created by the Crown for public purposes whose management may not be in quired into, and whose funds may not be directed to be applied to their original objects by a com ' mission from the Crown. In the recent coin ' mission of George IV. under the Great Seal for inquiring into the state, conduct, and reve ' trues of the Scotch Universities, the King, not in his character as vizier of these institutions of learning, but in his capacity of creator and su perintendent of corporate bodies, directed the Commissioners to inquire into every part of their management, and not a professor's salary, or a bursar's pension, or the management of a library or museum, in these four literary corporations, has been left unnoticed or unexamined in their admirable report. Every college deed was produced, and the disposal of every acre of landed property accounted for. But even though there were any legal doubt upon the question, it is difficult to conceive what the corporators of Leicester can gain by contesting its authority and delaying the production of their accounts. They must see that the Parliament which recommended the commission to his Ma jesty will not allow its progress to be thus ar rested, or its efficiency thus baffled. The Town Clerk, if necessary, will be summoned to give, at the bar of the House of Commons, his reasons for refusing to comply with the double mandate of the Crown and the Parliament. In the mean time the accounts must be produced, and the mortgage of the corporate property to defray election expenses must be displayed before the whole world, unless (as happened in the Scotch burgh of Dunbar a few years ago) a corporate tire opportunely comes to consume the leaves of the book on which such transactions are recorded. —Times. We extract from the Leicester Herald a se cond series of resolutions passed "at a Common Hall" of the Corporators of the borough of Leicester, when on Monday last the self-elect determined to adhere to the refusal of their accounts, and so far to resist the legal and reasonable authority of the Corporation Corn. mission. The Corporators judiciously preserve their pretended respect for the Royal powers of the Commission, but persevere in their objections to the mode of inquiry and the publicity of ex amination adopted by the Commissioners. The Corporators allege, in substance, that the public mode of investigation subjects them to the dis respect of the burgesses ; but by public rumour !he closeness of their Corporate Constitution, ind the secret and illegal nature of their muni cipal and political acts— in their notorious crea tion of the 800 honorary freemen, and in the mis-appropriation of the trust property of the burgesses to party and political objects—have long deprived the Aldermen of the confidence of the inhabitants of Leicester. The sagacity of the Corporators is not very conspicuous on a comparison of their two sets of resolutions passed in September and October. In the latter docu ment they appear determined to record in a Pro tocol every possible argument in their justifies- Lion ; and among their manifold objections is a moral dread of the perjury of burgesses, and !he supposed impunity of false oaths. This refined objection clearly denotes that the Learned Recorder or Town Clerk, or the two function aries of the corporation together, prepared this elabbrate document. What can the corporation of Leicester seek to gain by its solitary and ab surd conduct ? Surely the public, who read in die country papers the general respect paid to the commission everywhere, except in Leicester, will believe that the corporation of the latter borough has peculiar reasons for concealing ac counts. If the Leicester corporation is as pure as it would have us believe, the corporators are adopting a destructive course of conduct, which must involve them in deep suspicion. If they have committed themselves, and abused their trust, how will they conceal their misconduct, or avoid ultimate exposure and legal punish ment ? The position of professing obedience to the commission, and assuming the right of controlling the procedure of the commission, is truly absurd. If the commissioners had not adopted publicity of inquiry, could they have satisfied local or public opinion ; or, indeed, ,:ould they have attained the objects of the Royal Commission ? The fact is, that the motives of the Leicester corporation contu macy are palpable : the corporators have plunged themselves in debt, and illegally alienated the public property. The members trust to the chap ter of accidents to preserve themselves from ex posure. But they will be grievously disappointed. The Legislature never can or will sanction such malversations of public trust, or support the soli tary resistance of the Leicester Corporators to an authority obeyed in all the other municipal towns. We do not notice the editorial personal abuse of the Commissioners, by the Leicester Herald. Such vulgar and calumnious com mentaries can make no public impression but against the Corporators they are intended to support. We do not doubt that the Leicester shire liberal Journals will sufficiently answer these secondary and irrelevant objections to the conduct of the Commission ; and we are satis fied, especially as the last Common Hall Reso lutions are not stated to be agreed to " unani mously," that the Leicester Corporation is not , on good terms with itself ' • and we are confident that it s mem b ers will ere long see cause to regret the folly of their refusal to produce roduce accounts. They may gain a teifiporary reprieve, but the execution of the publi c sentence must be soon carried into effect. In the meant i me the sub mission of the Provincial and City Corporation s to the authority of the Commission will secure tor their members the better opinion of the coun try. If the Corporators of Leicester are resolved to be an exception to the general rule, they must abide the consequences.—Morning Chronicle. The Revising Barristers have now nearly completed their circuits, and, though there are some instances to the contrary, the general result Of this year's registration of votes will, we appre hend, exhibit a considerable falling off in point of numbers, as compared with that of last year, which latter, it must be remembered, was said to amount to little more than half of the actual constituency created by the Reform Act. For this result, so contrary to what might have been reasonably hoped and expected, various reasons may be assigned. Among others, the neglect of overseers in making out the lists and passing them through the necessary forms, and the dis qualification of so many persons, owing to the non-payment of rates or taxes ; added to which an indifference to the matter has been found to prevail to an extent scarcely to be credited. In every point of view, such a state of things i s greatly to be deplored. Next to the extinction of rotten boroughs, the great advantage to be derived from the Reform Act was the creation of a new and enlarged constituency, by means of which the Members of the House of Commons might become, what they had not hitherto been, the real representatives of the people. As far as this object has been hitherto defeated by a neglect of mere forms, the Government are, we think, to blame. As their favourite and pet child they were hound, we think, to look more narrowly and attentively to its movements, and not have left it to go alone before it had learned to walk. It was too much to expect that overseers, without instructions and without reward, would unravel and set in motion all the intricacies of an Act of Parliament ; and it was, therefore, we apprehend, the bounden duty of the Government to have taken the proper and necessary measures to set the machine a-going, and to watch and direct its movements. Lord John Russell, for instance, as the official parent of the Act, and who, probably, is not overworked in his own particular department, might have made it his business to furnish the necessary forms and in structions required upon !he occasion, and for want of which so much difficulty and temporary disfranchisement have arisen. That there are some defects which it will require the aid of Parliament to remove we can readily ima gine, nor can we at all impeach the delay which has up to this time taken place. The experience of two years' registration was ne cessary to enable the Barristers to point out with accuracy what the defects in the ma chinery of the Act really are ; but the Revisers, both of this year and the last, should now be called upon to report them, which reports should be forthwith referred to competent persons to condense, as well as to frame the necessary re medies. The non-payment of rates and taxes up to a particular period forms the sweeping head of disqualification in towns and boroughs ; and both its policy and justice call, we think, for reconsideration. Though no friends to uni versal suffrage, we are warm advocates for opening the doors of suffrage as wide as the spirit of the Reform Act intended. The spirit of the Act certainly is that liability to pay should form the ground of qualification ; and the letter, therefore of the Act would, we think, be more in accordance with the spirit, if the being rated, and not the having paid the rates or taxes, were made the ground of qualification. The revenue and parochial laws furnish ample means for compelling payment of taxes and rates, without a forfeiture of so high a nature as that of the elective franchise being brought in aid of their powers.—Morning Herald. The Revenue Returns for the Quarter just ended present a decrease upon the Quarter of 253,2761. ; and on the Year, as compared with the Year ending in October, 1832, of 380,4201. Taken in conjunction IA ith the pernicious syste m which leaves no surplus in the public Treasury beyond the current demand upon its means, this is unquestionably a state of things which cannot be regarded with much satisfaction. At the s ame time we are free to admit that, under the incubus of so miserable a financial Administration as that to which the resources of the country have now for a considerable period been subjected, it is a matter of congratulation, as well as surprise, that its energies have been no further crippled or re pressed. The deficit will be found, indeed, chiefly under those heads of income with which the meddling of the Government and the opera tion of its principles have been most direct. The causes alluded to by the Ministerial prints, in their attempts to bolster up the ac counts as producing the extraordinary decrease in the Customs revenue, are totally inadequate for that purpose. They forget, however, t o press into their service the mass of legislation recently applied to this department by the " fruc tifying" Vice-President of the Board of Trade, and which was hurried through Parliament at the fag end of the Session in a manner defying all investigation or discussion. We think it more than probable that a considerable portion of the loss to the revenue may have been occasioned by those measures. Upon the whole we repeat that there is ground for sincere congratulation in the fact that, in spite of Lord Althorp's Bud gets, and the general financial blundering of Whig officials, the point of bankruptcy has not yet actually been reached. The improvement in the Excise revenue, as an index of the increased means of consumption on the part of the peo ple, is a fact in which all parties must rejoice.— Morning Post. One of the most common effects of milliners' apprentices working so constantly is a disease in the eye, which leads to blindnes. COMPARATIVE MORTALITY IN ENG LAND.—Froin tables of the persons, and their ages, buried in the districts treated of from 1813 to 1830, prepared for the Factory Commission Report, it appears that of those who attain 100 and upwards, Rutland, a healthy county, produces 2 ; London 102 ; Essex, a maisby county, 28 ; Chester, which is old and closely built, but not manufacturing, 7 ; Norwich, old and closely built, and m inufactu r i ng , w i th b ut few or no f actor i es , S Carlisle, partly manufacturing and partly spinning, from 1818 to 1830, 1 ; Carlisle, front 1779 to 1787 inclusive, according to Dr. Heysham, 4 ; Bradford (Yorkshire) worsted spinning the stapl e , 2 ; M acclesf i eld, s i lk throw ing and spinning, 5 ; Preston, cotton spinning, &e., 3 ; Wigan, manufacturing and spinning, 1 ; Bury (Lanca shire), cotton spinning. &c., 1 ; Stockport, the same, 5 ; Leeds (town), manufacturing, and woollen, flax, and silk spinning, 3 ; Bolton-le-Moors, cotton spinning, &c., 2 Holbeck, flax-spinning, 1. There have died in there various places under five, in Rutland, 1,707, the metro polis 172 409 Essex, 29,483 ; Ch ester, 3, 10 7 , Norwich, 8,838, Carlisle 3.395 (do. according to Dr. Heyshatn's perb fl 812), Bradford 3,058, Macclesfield 4,230, Preston Wigan 3,8 , 11, Bury 4,930 , S tockport 5,732 ' Leeds 9,708, Bolton 8.563, H o lb ec k 1,01 0 . Th e num b4ee6re9dos9f, d e aths between 80 and 40 (the medium calculation) , has been in Rutland 336, in the metropolis 37,573, Esse x 6,296, Che,ter 658, Norwich 1,120, Carlisle 429 (Dr. Heysham's period of calculation 89), Bradford 346, Ma c• td esfiel 745, d 6725, Preston 615, Wi gan 451, B ury 578, Stockport Leeds 1,083, Bolton 1,082, and Holbeck 118. In every 10,000 persons buried there were in the metropolis 4,580 under 20, 6,111 under 40, and 3, 889 lived to 16 and upward , . In Leeds there were burl" under 20, 6,213 ; under 40, 7,441 ; lived to 40 and upwards, 2,559. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION HO USE. BRITISH LEAF.—Yesterday being the day ap pointed by the LORD MAYOR for hearing evidence to prove that the 11,000 pounds weight of British 1 0,f seized by the Excise upon The premises of Mr. Heck should not he consumed with fire, the Justice room was crowded by mercantile men at eleven o'clock. Mr. Adolphus said that his course was a very simple one. He had only to prove that the seizure of something in imitation of tea had been made, and to call upon the Lord Mayor to issue his order for the destructi.on of such article. The warrant was then read. Sergeant Bompas and Mr. Phillips took several objections which were overruled. Sergeant Bompas intimated that when the first seizure of the leaf was made, nearly twelve months ago, it was understood that the Lord Mayor was to ask the opinion of the Attorney-General as to the le gality or illegality of fabricating the article, and that according to the judgment of that authority would the Board act. The broad arrow, which had, he said, been put upon the " British leaf" at that period, was subsequently removed, and the irresis tible inference to be drawn from that fact was, that, the opinion of the Attorney-General being against that of the Solicitor of the Excise, the idea of pro secuting was abandoned. Mr. Dean, upon being questioned as to this matter, admitted that the broad arrow had been re moved, but could say nothing as to any understand ing entered into by the Excise as to future proceed : ings. The manufactory had been allowed to pro ceed ever since until the great seizure was made. The beadle of the parish proved that the pre mises in which the seizure was made was in the parish of St. Dunstan in the East. Mr. Faraday had within a few days examined the leaves of which the samples produced by the Ex cise were composed, and found them not to be tea leaves.—(Laughter.) He found amongst them elm-leaves, sloe-leaves, a wing of the seed of maples, and rose-leaves. There were sloe-stones amongst the sarnoles. He was but little of a botanist. The LORD MAYOR —Do you consider sloe-leaves pernicious ? Mr. Faraday—l do not know it. I consider the sloe-leaves to be of the class of plants which are pernicious, but I do not know that they are. Some plants which are in their wild state per nicious are in their cultivated state wholesome. Mr. G. T. Burnett, Professor of Botany in King's College, had examined the samples, which consisted of the leaves of elm, sloe-leaves, apple-leaves, poplar-leaves, and willow-leaves. The sloe and willow leaves were the most numerous. He had no objec , ion to a cup of the infusion now and then, but he objected to the ordinary use of it. He spoke as a medical man as well as a botanist. He did not think it wholesome. It was astringent and reputed unwholesome. The LORD MAYOR—Were there any leaves to neutralize the astringent in it ? Witness—Back thorn i 3 of an opposite tendency, but I observed little of that. There was a strong resemblance be , ween the leaf and tea. Sergeant Bompas—ls not green tea more astrin gent than the infusion of these leaves?—Nu. Sergeant Bompas—Would you give green in quantities ?—YeA. Sergeant Bompas—And you don't think that it would do people any injury ?—No. Mr. Phillips—Would not green tea taken four or five times in the day do mischief ?—Any food taken so often would injure. Re-examined—He knew that those leaves con tained some of the most active poison in the vege table kingdom—prussic acid. Sergeant Bompas—Do you say that there is the slightest portion of prussic acid in sloe-leaves when they are dried? Witness did not answer this question in an audi ble manner. Several witnesses proved the leaf strongly re sembled tea. Sergeant Bompas then contended that the proof had altogether failed; that the conduct of the Ex cise was oppressive in the extreme ; that the be verage, instead of being noxious, was wholesome; and that the Act was not in the most distant de gree infringed; and he then called Doctor Birkbeck,who had examined theßritish leaf, and could discover in it nothing at all injurious to ihe stomach. It was not as astringent or aromatic as tea. He had taken some of it down to Waltham stow, and tried it with his family for a week. He considered that sloe-leaves were wholesome; an opinion which had been held by Dr. Witherby and Dr. Woodfield. The LORD MAYOR—If you saw any of your patients take the leaves instead of tea would you say it was not injurious? Witness—No; but if I found them taking tea I might say .omething of the kind.—(A laugh.) Mr. John F. Daniel, professor of chymistry in King's College had examined the British leaf, se ezindant artent, and had not the least objection to drink the infusion. There was not the slightest particle of prussic acid in it. He was convinced there was nothing deleterious in the sample. He should say that green tea was more astringent. It was quite impossible that after steaming, prussic acid could be in the leaf. Mr. Pereira, who had been long at the Alders gate-street Dispensary, said that there was nothing injurious in the British leaf, and not a particle of prussic acid in it. Mr. Hume, the chymist, stated to the same effect. Mr. Sergeant Bompas produced the specifica tion of the patent, which was read by Mr. Hobler. Mr. Adolphus then replied. He stated that the question was whether the public were to be de frauded by the sale of such abominable trash instead of tea, and that the patent could not justify the sale or fabrication of it. The LORD MAYOR retired with the City Solici tor and Mr. Hobler to the private room, and on his return stated that he and his advisers were unani mously of opinion that the British leaf ought to be condemned.—Condemned accordingly. Mr. Heale signified that he should apply to Par liament. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Mrs. Marsh, the wife of a house-agent residing in Park -street, yesterday, appeared on a warrant charging her with assaulting a Mr. Hay. Complainant was the partner of Mr. Marsh. Wed nesday morning he went out in a gig with one of the clerks, to transact some of the business of the firm. On his return he found his drawers and all his wearing apparel put out in the yard, and the defendant declared he should leave the house, and commenced a very unladylike attack upon him, by spitting in his face. She then kicked and struck him, and attempted to fling different articles at him. Mrs. Marsh said that her husband had nothing to do with the business. She was the person who managed everything. Her husband knew nothing about it, and when people came they addressed her on business, and not her husband. Mr. Hay was no partner of hers, and she was determined she 'wouldn't have him in the house. She had not assaulted him until he had put his arm round her waist, to put her on one side. Mr. CONANT inquired whether it was Mr. Marsh's wish that Mr. Hsy should leave the hou.e. Mr. Marsh knows nothing about it," observed the lady. " He's no partner of mine, and he shan't be there." Here the lady commenced abusing the complainant, whose conduct was mild and gentle manly. Complainant said that Mr. Marsh wished his re turn to the house. Mr. CONANT and Mr. HALLS, having consulted together, ordered the defendant to find bail to keep the peace towards Nit.. Hay. She was removed in custody, to be committed in default of producing the necessary securities. A young woman, named Randall, servant in the family of a distinguished Nobleman, was charged with secreting the birth of her infant. The principal evidence .was Mr. Sawyer, a sur peon, who proved the recent birth of the child, which was found, a few hours afterwards, concealed between the sacking and bed in her sleeping-room, quite dead. A fellow -servant stated an admission made to her by the prisoner, that she was delivered of the chill while standing before the fire in her own room. Mr. sawyer was of opinion that the birth of the child might have so occurred. The prisoner, who was in a very weak and lan guid state, declined saying anything, and was fully committed for trial. MAR YLEB ONE. Caroline Warbrook, an intere,ting little child, about ten years of age, was yesterday brought before the sitting magistrate, Mr. HOSKINS, by police-con stable S 36, who stated that about ten o'clock the previous night he found her siting on the step of a door in the Kilburn road, when, having a , certaitied that she was destitute, he took her to the station house. Mr. HOSKINS (to the girl)—Where do you be long to ? Girl—Hastings, Sir. Mr. HosKiNs—Where are your parents ? Girl— My father is dead, Sir, and my mother ran away from me at Hastings about six months ago. Mr. HOSKINS—How did you get here ? Girl— Begged my way up, and have ever since subsisted on the charity of strangers. Mr. HosKINs then desired the policeman to take the child to the overseers at Hampstead, in whose parish she had been found, anti to request them to take care of her till the truth of her statement was ascertained. QUEEN- S QUARE. MILITARY OUTRAGE.--Yesterday David Moore, a corporal in the 78th Regiment of Foot, and J. Creed, a private in the 70th Regiment of Font, were brought up in the custody of a police constable of the V division, and placed at the bar before Messrs. GREGORIE and WHITE, charged with vio lently assaulting Lieutenant James White, of the 56rh Regiment of Foot, of No. 1, Salamanca -terrace, Brompton. It appeared from the statement of Lieut. White, 'hat on the previous evening, between seven and e'ght o'clock, some persons knocked at his door with a stick, which was opened by his sister, and the two prisoners insisted noon searching his house for a deserter, who, they said, was concealed there. She was greatly alarmed, and, considering that they had some dishonest intentions, she shut the door in their face. Shortly after there was a knocking at the door, and he went down stairs himself and opened it, when he found the prisoners there, who were dressed in plain clothes. They said that they wanted to search the house for a man named Mi chael White, a deserter from the 70th Regiment of Foot. He told them to go away, as there was no such person in his house, but they insisted upon going up stairs and searching his house. They found their way into the passage, and he endeavoured to prevent them, not knowing what their inten tions might be, as they were total strangers to him. Creed seized him by the collar, acted in the most violent manner, and tore his shirt down in front. His sister, who was greatly alarmed at such violent conduct, ran into the street and called for assistance, while he kept the prisoners at bay. They said re peatedly that they were authorised by Lord Hill to search his house, and they would do it. A police constable and a gentleman came to his assistance, and both the prisoners were conveyed to the station house. A police constable said that both the prisoners were sober. The magistrates having consulted together, Mr GREGORIE said that Crred should pay a penalty of 405., or be imprisoned for one month ; and as the ccnpordl had not used so much violence he should pA) Is. and be discharged. LAMBETH-STREET. THE MURDER AT MILE END.—Yesterday Robert Emmitt, the sweep, who has been in custody sine, Saturday last on a charge of stabbing George Ash ton, was brought before Messrs. WALKER and HARDWICK for final examination, and sent to New gate on the Coroner's warrant. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. LONDON MARKETS. (From the" London New Price Current" of yesterday.) SUGAR.--The sugar Market has been very heavy all the week, and some parcels taken upon speculation some time ago have been re-sold at low prices, and a consider able loss has add d to the gloomy state of the trade ; the holders in many instances are, however, still sanguine of high prices, and have withdrawn their Sugars from pre sent sale ; the purchases for the week are estimated at 2 500 blade. and trs. at prices a shade lower than the previous currency. The refiners do not yet purchase, except on the most confined scale, as the price of Raw, compared with the Refined, still leaves a loss to the ma. nufacturer. This afternoon West India Sugar may be stated at a further reduction of Is. per cwt., Brown 545. a 555., but the Market is more firm, on account of the speculators tieing now out of the Market, and the buyers evincing a greater disposition to purchase. The Refined Market remains in a completely nominal state; the shippers offer 635. for low Lumps, and the holders ask 675. ; fine Crashed is 345. 6d. a 355. ; small Lumps of fair quality have been so'd at 68s. to Melters. This afternoon Refined Sugars continue in very limited demand, and prices are again rather lower, 345. per cwt. having in some instances been accepted for small parcels of the fine descriptions of Crashed for exportation ; for the home trade there is scarcely anything doing. MAURITIUS SUGAR.-The sales of Mauritius this week are quite inconsiderable; they have sold much about the usual proportion with West India Sugars, and at the re duction of Is. 6 , 1. a 29., which we stated on Friday last. EANT INDIA SUGAR.-There are no purchases of East India Sugar to report. This afternoon it is reported some sales of Siam Sugars have taken place at nearly former prices ; and 1,000 bags Manilla, mid. greyish vellow 21s. 6d. and 255. FOREIGN SUGAR.-There are no inquiries whatever for Foreign Sugar, except from Refiners, who have evinced some disposition to buy Brazil Sugars at low prices, a parcel of good brown is stated to have been thus disposed of at 225. The only public sale this day in Foreign Sugar has been 10 chests 46 bags Bahia, all damaged, and of brown to ordinary grey, for which from 21s. 6d. to 235. were given. COFFEE.-The favourable accounts of the large sales of Coffee in Holland has had a favourable effect of Foreign and East India Coffee; the purchases this week are chiefly by private contract : 2,000 bags Havannah sold 665. 6d. a 695. ; good to fine ordinary Brazil 61s. to 655., fine ordinary dingy at 665. ; good mid. Cuba 85s. 6d. ; 600 bags good brown Sumatra 565. 6d. ; fine ord. Samarang 595. 6d. ; good ord. Batavia 625. 6d. a 635. In Briti•h Plantation descriptions there is little alteration: we men tioned the fall of the finer descriptions of Jamaica 3s. a 4s. on which Friday ha s ; be n M Market has general e o n sinceb all descriptions u l at h t of f s decline, sh Plantation ; good ord. Jamaica 88s., fine ord. 91s. 6d. to 935. There were no public sales of Coffee this day, and the market is not so brisk as early in the week; the ad vance in Foreign and East India Coffee of 6d. a Is. per cwt. is maintained ; the estimated sales by private contract are stated at 8,000 bags, of which 3,500 bags were Brazil, ord. to fine ord. 631. a 665. ; and 2,000 bags ord. to good ord. Sumatra 555. 6d. a 575. ; Ceylon Coffee did not participate in the advance we have stated ; it is Is. lower on account of the decline in British Plantation Coffee. At a late hour this afternoon large parcels of St. Domingo and Brazil were offered at 665. Cocoa.-Several parcels of Cocoa have been offered at i p y t: r b t l e i d c sale, i sa p a a n , e wit of hdrawn Grenada a ; 6 t o h s eonly . 6d purchase a u 6 r 3 c , 1 . 1 a 65 8,1 re - RUM, BRANDY, AND Hof.LANDs.-The Ruin Market continues in a depressed state, and some parcels have been forced off privately at a reduction of Id. to 2d. per gallon, Leewards seven over at 2s. 41., Jamaica 29 over at 3s. lld ; there are, however, ta7 sellers at the reduction. la Brandy or Geneva there is little variation. IRISH PROVISIONS-Since Monday there have been arrivals of 3,013 casks of Foreign Rutter, of Irish 7,570 firkins, and of Bacon 572 bales. The deliveries from the wharfs this week of both Butter and Bacon will be pretty considerable. Fine Friesland Butter at the quay has further improved in value, we quote the price this day 925. per cwt. ; and for Irish we must also note an im provement upon some descriptions, particularly Coik and Limerick, for which 80s. is demanded by some holders, but over 795. cannot be fairly quoted as obtainable, and that price only from necessitous buyers ; lor all other kinds of Irish Butter there is scarcely any alteration to be noticed upon Tuesday's quotations, but the market cer- tainly assumes a firmness. Prime small singe-(1 $ t 't meets a ready sale at 455. per cwt. as it arrives, v e , i , t it sales on board f o r f orwar d s hipment there is very It , mini as yet at the prices demanding by the s h. Pco Old Bacon continues to move off at our late qe° t L a v , r . l o l and for all other articles under this head prices bay s varied this week. Hors—There is no material alteration in the Pr' cd Hops this week, nor in the estimated duty. pure hi° rt SALTPETRE.—SaItpetre is dull ; the only ported is Calcutta, rough. 41 to 44 refraction, 96# ' d fot WooL. —There continues to be a good dern' rj o ost Wool, and the prices are well supported, exceP t v st' which is considerably lower. About 2.000 bagsu ° so d; rived from New South W a l e s an d V an Di e men the public sales will tak e pl ace th e latt e r end ° month, or the baginning of the next. Spices. —The few pat eel; of Pcpper sold this 0 0 0 , id. per lb. lower, black half heavy 4i 1. and 4-1 4 ' r i c est nary white sold 4-a I. Pimento sold at former P middling to good and ht FRUIT.—The parcel of new French Fruit broeg,„, , / ward by public sale on Frid a y last wen t o ff a s fol o 4t,e l viz., qr.-brls. Pruens 525., small b r l s . 54 9 ., see op 569. Qr.-chests new Imperial French Plums 70 9 . a pelf small boxes ditto in cases 85s. a 115 s. ; cartooeh 01 and qr. cartoons ditto in eases 5/. 10s. a 91. 19 '01 0 Wednesday the first cargo o f n ew Muscatell Rai si n 'or offered also by pubic sale, an l the following price°, lizA, part of the cargo, however, only being sold new hunch I\luscatell Raisins 1154, half-boxes 12 6e 'V boxes 1405., cartoons ditto in cases 71. 55., boxes pl . in paper layers 1245. a 1255. ; qr.-brls. new Lel i i s ho tt l sins 40-., new Jordan Almonds in boxes an d hsle b lO 91. a 9/. ss. ; another parcel has since arrived, Whi t t y° been put on tap at the same prices. For currants 0 3 has been rather more inquiry, and sales have been 1 ? at the prices n a m e d l as t wee k, 78 s . f or Zante, anuf(t, for Patr aa . Th e first cargo of n e w V a l en ti a Prima Donna, landing to-day, has since been tsitc by the trade very freely at 485., quality fine. TaLLow—The Tallow Market has been beatt,o 1 without any marked alt e rati o n. This e v en i n g bl, ll-4 ' sale 1,350 casks of Petershurgh Tallow, all sold at 45-. 1 a 444.6 d sO r COTTON. —The reduction in the prices, which sve on Friday last, has nearly suspend e d b us i n ess. l be r' lowing are the transactions : —5O B o w e d, goo d fair 07 0 10i-d. a 10id. ;30 Surat, mid. to very good 6iti. 750 ditto, by public sale, very ord. to fair 54.1. s ' lo 30 Smyrna, by public sale, fair 911. ; So West ditto, far 9id INDIGO —The East India House sale of Indieoi menced on Tuesday; it consisted of 8,161 chests 438 chests were withdrawn previously to the oro The mid. the good and fine qualities are selling t i t average decline of 4d. per lb. ; the ord. and lotv a reduction of 6d to 91. per lb. ; yesterday the prel ) ,,te' came forward, and bought in freely to support the ' l l O , O Fourth Day's Sale.-1,017 chests have passed t op this day, making altog e ther 4,160 c h es t s . The P r y, tors have shown gr e at firmn ess , an d b oug ht in fr ee ,ti about 400 to-day, and in all 800 c h es t s ; the ( l ti- 0 sold, which was mostly of middling and good 4 brought decidedly better prices th an on th e p r ecedingj" TEA..---The Declaration of the Tea Sale for the I nt cember is the same as regards quantity wi t h the i l l, sale, with the exception of Congou, Campoi, ' l %; ehong, which are coll e ctiv e ly 100,000 lbs. 11 ' 01. ,.10 Declaration has no eff e ct what e v e r o n th e M a rket P' PRICE OF SUGAR. co lo l The Average Price of Bro w n or M uscova d o Sugar ro 4 01 from the Returns made in th e wee k eliding the , Oct., 1t133, is 3. s. 10. id. per Hundred Weight, exclus_ro l utics of Customs paid or p a y a bl e th ereon on the Iwr thereof into Great Britain. eitlcE3 OF HOPS.—Oct. ft New Kent Pockets (per cwt.) —5l is. 61. 12'. to Ch ice —Bl Os. 01. 06.0 East Kent. Lo r) Choice K nt ISag! Choice Os. ot. Os. t°, .1. Cs. 0/. N t° 0 1, 01 Os. 0/ Os tO 61. New S 'sex Pockets The Hop Duty is es'im s a l :cd ('s a . t 1 Superfine I)ittc, - 6/. 10s. Of. Os. W (5-4;5,00_02..... to vv. t'1t1 3 (2 7 1 2: . Refined !Lye Oil, brown Linseed Oil. !. , iiseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand Cake, prr ton COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING T x .... „%1194 Wheat. Barley. i Oats. 1 Per Quarter. o 4 if I Ashburn 51 54 60 28 32 21 r, Basingstoke 152 59 25 30 19 21 ; ° 3 9. Bath Bridgewater 1 5 3 60 26 2 8 Bristol 148 56 28 32 16 ; 0 7 ; Chesterfield 48 58 30 40 20 2 " 1" l l Derby 52 60 30 40 20 Doncaster 48 60 26 33 16 20 0 D0rche5ter.,,,.,,.,,,,,,,, 54 29 ' 6 Exeter 46 58 26 28 17 46 58 28 34 16 A 3 0 Hungerford 46 56 22 30 16 26 5 7 35 ss 4 1 ) Newbury 38 58 24 31 17 Romsey 56 62 26 30 17 ,/ 5 Shaftesbury 54 25 yd 2 Shepton Mallet 46 59 24 30 18 , 2 6 O Sherborne 52 58 24 3! 22 04 IQ Taunton 48 50 24 28 21 0 5 .1 Yarmouth 44 54 30 32 20 5 4 Yeovil 50 56 22 28 18 '",j. fl Per Bushel. a. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. 4g Shrewsbury 7 0 8 0 4 0 5 0 4 46 0 ;/) HULL M AR KET —Oct. 8 - Wheat, Old —S. 545. 56s New ...... / /i t Foreign —s. 50s. 54s ln bond"' ' /*, Oats, Poland —s. 181. 225. Old ....•••• ' - Sinai! or Feed.... —s. 16s, 20s ..................... r, Foreign —s. 16s. 18s .. ............ . Barley, Norf. & Suf —s. 00s. 00s. ' Line. & ‘N ° PITA Foreign Beans —s. 365. 38s. Foreign ......... Pease, White Taros Free, per ta: Rapeseed. in bond none. gs:°3B°:: iO. 00 41' s s . . .......... ° rl l , DEVIZES CORN MA RKET 110 V L' Per Sack. s. d. s. d. Per Quarter. Best Wheat 2B oto 6 Barley. .......... 1 ... i s 4; Second 25 0 26 0 Oats ......... it; 0 ' Thirds 2O 0 '22 0 Beans (per sac) 40 12E13 Sacks of Wheat sold} ,25 P . / Hour (per hail," 1 at the average of Bread (per * MEETINGS OF CREDITOIO AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL- 0 t (From the London Gazette.) o f ON MONDAY, Oct. 14. IDIVIDEN D. ..... ..„. ut.'• 11. Fletcher, bookseller, Finsbury-place So F. Jones, silversmith, CornhiU t oe BIBTIL aino iro On the 6th inst., at Beel House, Bucking"' Mrs. Barrington, of a daughter. On the 9t o li f ii c is h t t a n t isr S o t r . d ? e t o o rg s e , MARRIED. „too, lir On the Sth inst., William Gee, to M ad ter of George Fort Cooper, Esq , of Holt, Wilts- sOagor and, Esq., John Al • arah Alln' liston, Esq. of Russell s uare. On 10th inst., Henry Hay, ES:, of 31ilbur-teclare square, to Sabina Mary, youngest daughter of ~I ', ,re. Jourdain, Esq., of Artillery-place, Finsbury -sg" f 9, DIED. ad / On the 10th inst., Francis Aberdeen, .g'' ford-place, Pimlico. ormes, 14 • PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY is;:(/ ° SUN OIFICIg, 112, STBASP, d't11.71.0:0 tO ki ot ,.._ ar 0 tal t i;"; b too g n th e tif I P in tl the ao Per c i Ilt oPe eti ooa ,Lowi de nies tAti ittd ) 1 , 1 1( C11001:1(1)1( I• I,bis ,104 90 kl• .1 1t . I dd 1i k ti , 011 4 the ( tnti on "r jßiteltt IVltj f, ve c' ce ot , hour, t , 4 ° vi Nr,e, Pg kly of 4 r te 'Pa ei . oh, )'r 4lt ia L " t r. )'A, trui, - Iti cv. OF POT A i OES.—Oct. 11. ,(1. Marsh Champions Shams- Middling _ Os. Od. to 2s. I'd. (11 0 7; i .,.. Chats --_ -. Os Od. to 2s. Cd. dit"' rt ''lq WHITECH tIA. Y MA it 0.. E 1 -Oct ,10 ,.4 1- ib, s ti , 44 al Hay - 706. 'so. to 90s. Od. I C10ver......, 75,, 0,1, to I"' - "Ey f Straw-................ 26s Od. to 30s. Od. P0; 1 , is ° / )11, , - gee() i , iti CBS OF LEATHER. (I. l ' la lltio Per lb. d. to d. Per lb. 1 4 ,4 % a vv , dulls, Eng1i5h..,,..,,.., 15 25 English Horse Hides , i 6 't; ro b ea , 0, t to, Foreign .........- 14 21 Spanish Ditto .............--"' j! t i , 4 4t p, Dressing Hates-........., 12 15 Per dozen._ 10 d VII, Ditto -i4 17 Calf Skins... 80 to 44 1 ' 16 41,0. , Ditto, light ---.....- - Ditto ............. 40 to 601 b. g 0 1 '44,1 C, op Hides, light -12 14 Ditto ............ 70 to 9 0 1 d 16 ; 4, 1 , • , at Ditto 40 to 501 b 13 18 small Seals, Greenl: 1) D. fitto- l4 20 I...krge ditto....--- ?~ `,"-• SHEEP SKINS. od, toss' i t ' tt) Polled Lambs 3s. Oil. to 4s. 6d.1 Polled Skins ... 4 5•,, t)h b Down Lambs 2 6 40 1 D0wn5.,.......... 3 ii Vi r 'IQ PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, Ste. per 1121 t 6 1 4 1 ‘," or V I ['own Tallow -.........-.... 486. Od. Yellow 50ap.......••••••"'7,,..4 t UN, Yellow Russia.----..... 486. Od. 510tt1ed,...................7, 4 White -s. Od. White--------- --. It. ' I'l lb er ' Soap Ditto -s. Od. Graves .....................^7, • ....r 4 ,,, , r, NI efted Stuff' 37s. Od. Good Dregs ...... . t e ,,q'r , Ditto R )ugh ..21s. Od. / ti e " 4 ivs Atitl ti It Pa PRICE OF CANDLES. ~,Ilor,, ‘ercAf es The price of Store Candles, in the retail shops, is as ',,,,,.." t 'cOo r a. 4 Candles, per doz. 7s. Od. to Bs. Od. I Moulds, per doz en i ro 41.1 j IS, COAL MARKET.-Ocf.ll. g P AYE ,, i ° E Per Tor, s. d. Per Ton. ...,„.. , 17 ,0 c ,,,u 1 ‘d air's................-........... 15 6 Walls End tlotsP ur ,,,, l! 6 /A- 4,1)A Beaton...it _ 15 0 Ditto Killingworthivo.,l,7 b relt y 4 Carr's Hill Chester INLiin,-..... . 1:1 6 Walls End Riddell ~ a lj 'lv it , Dean's Primrose East Percy- -........ l6 0 Walls End fiettOn , 2'll tl &T i p, Hebhurn Matti °I. " 4 Kenton Ve5t...,.,...,.,....,. 17 3 '‘,. E. k t : i o ssOL t l's w l 4 3 _ c t, ;/ . 1 '6 ll, _t or Ord's Redhogli --....,-..... 15 6 s lot •it r c t/ I, It O IN, Pontop Windsor .....--..- 15 0 Dixon's Butterlal e ,/ It , lac e , , C Shipcote -- 14 3 Walls End Adela' l: I ', Wit] l'atifield-- l7 0 Walls End Gordon _.,./1. tl to T0wn1ey...,...,..,...... 15 3W. E. Musgrave „ ''' p'' ° O k, 4°4 West Hartley l7 6 W. E South Dur"_,/1° t! 'l, Wylam -... . 17 3 Walls End Tees •-•17,...e,r; ' qtr e P teh Walls End Bell & Brown 17 9 Cowpen -.............-" - 7,0 . P 1„, 411 1 . 1% - W.E. Bell, Robson, &Co. 17 0 Howard'sNetherto-,, (k+l Ii -411 Walls End Bewicke & Co. IS 6 Walls End Elgin.,- y i . O r Walls End Carr and Co. 16 0 k• 44 ti IP ~1 1 1, Ti Ships arrived since last market-day, 58 ' r ,, e 1., - le ttet , f 4E _l/ ,'lt h t COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING .-- . r, 4 \ ••+t , or .1