The Sun. — London, England, 1830-06-21 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC jOURNALS , - We have recei ved the French Papers of Thurs day and Friday. They contain no further news, either of the state of the electoral collegez or the pro gress of the Algerine expedition. Private account of Friday evening state, that the telegraphic communi cations received from Toulon during the course of the day announce that the wind and weather were unfavourable for vessels going to Africa, and that no further news had been received of any move ment of the expedition from Palma. A very stupid paragraph is quoted by an Evening Paper from the Quotidienne French Journal on the, affairs of Per tucral. In th a t p aragrap h i t is stated, that " th e Cabinets' of London, Paris, and Vienna, had notified, in the most positive terms, to the Emperor of Brazil, that they would never t)ertuit a constitu tional Government to be established in Portugal." Nobody who has the least recollection of recent events, or the smallest power of forming a judgment cm the spirit by which the British Government is ani mated, can place any faith in such en absurd rumour. If the policy of the Allies was against interfering in the affairs of Portugal to support the Chatter, it re quires no ghost to tell us that they will never inter fere to support absolute power against Internal at tempts to establish freedom. The Royalist Papers in France are fully as credulous on such topics a-, the liberal, though on an opposite side of politics,— Timm In the " English at Home," of Lord Normanby, some instructive lessons are read to the people of this country. In what he says with regard to the causes of the neglect of science and all serious studies among us, and the trashiness of our literature, there is much that it would be difficult to contradict. In a former work, his Lordship noticed one great difference between the modern French and ourselves, the notions with regard to economy. In the pre sent work he returns to this subject : " To govern an English estate (he says) is, I perceive, no sinecure. If its extent and the influence and impor tance attached to it consequently be large, the responsibi lity is enormous. The legislative duties of the great are alone equal to the professional man's fag ; and of the writ Id of others, not ten men of the country are equal or able for the task. Hence the disordered state of their affairs, and of their lives. Few know where they are, or what they are worth. This is a strong argument against overgrown fortunes ; they do not afford enjoyment at all proportionate to their extent ; on the contrary, they require duties that are onerous if fulfilled—most perni cious, if neglected What surprised me (it is a French Nobleman who speaks) is the utter want of economy and good management amongit the higher orders here. All are in debt ; all are embarrassed. The nation is doubly involved ;as a union first, and then as individuals. But this is not con fined to England. It is a just rule of human nature that the inheritors of wealth are, nineteen in twenty, inclined to waste and dissipate it .. France, we are all of the middling class, all bourgeois. If an aristocracy exists, it is that of wealth, yet imbued anti full of the ideas of that class from which it rose. The very peasantry almost belong to it from their independence. Hence come cur general habits of order, our frugality, prudence—in short all those virtues of a middling class which the English so marvel to find, and which they can not reconcile with our old character for vanity and frivolity —a character that, perhaps, we deserve under the ancien regime The English seem in every way a spendthrift generation, lavish of all kind of means, mental as otherwise. A recklessness of the future seems th it distinguishing trait. The universal prodigality of yoirog heirs to wealth is only equalled by the prodigality of the young inheritors of talent. Both stores are ex pended in worthless trifles, aiming at most to obtain idle eciet, rather than to be solidly or honourably useful." Is this picture exaggerated ? We do not believe it in. But profusion and rapacity always go toge ther. He who is out at elbows in fortune is always equally out at elbows in morals. The profuse are always corrupt. When the Secret Societies existed in Germany, the first inquiry instituted by those whose duty it was to exclude people likely to be tray them, was, does he live beyond his means ? forthey found that a spendthrift was always cor ruptible. When the family men, as they are called—the capitalists. who are at the bottom of the robbing bank parcels, &c.,—look out for instru ments, the first inquiry with them is, does such and suelt a clerk dress fashionably, ride a hunter, pro tect a dashing gill, or is he seen entering agambling house ?—for then he is to be easily gained over.— Pditical power is, in this country, monopolized by the spendthrift class. Hence the extravagance of the Government—hence the establishments in every quarter of the world for our Aristocracy. The great via toe among us is the appeurance of wealth.-- Niggardliness is not likely to be the vice of men who can put their fingers in the pockets of others when they please. All men who can acquire pro. perty by easier means than the exercise of industry, are liberal. Robbers seldom quarrel with their ta vern reckonings. if Mr. Hume had, by a splendid freed, like many Members of both Houses, hoaxed the credulous out of their properties, he would haVe beets forgiven ; but his calculation of the interest in the affair of the Greek Loan was not to be forgiven. Lord Normanby attempts to account for the tinpo pelarity of the Church of England. " Why (he says) ha the Church lost its power over the pees entry ? From the want of sympathy betwixt their pa tors and them. The pastors are men of birth anti refined education. There is no fellow.:feeling betwixt them and fee peasant, who turns in preference to the illiterate and evemporiaing artisan. Why ? Because he speaks a lan guage intelligible to them. Look at Roman Catholic countries. Observe the influence exercised over the popu lation—to bad effects in some instances, no doubt—but that is not necessary ; it is very often exercised for good. How is the authority held ? By the perfect sympathy betwixt the clergymen and his flock. They are of the same race, the. Paine habits. There can be no jealousy of caste--of superiority in the inferior—no contempt and neglect in the other: ' Metbinki d'peasant curate in England would ,produce all the good effects of *this system, without aoypf the bid. In the first,Piace; the lower ranks would, as in Catholic countries, cease to be jealous of a church, into which they might enter, and where they saw their sons anti brothers. And it is thii jealousy of the lower orders in England that most prominently and dangerously menaces the church. But education is expensive I. Not the educa tion-required to understand the Gospel, and to preach it to the peasant. Of what use to such a man is scientific lea 9 -1- ing, nay even profound classical learning ? The illiterate Catholic priest does the parochial duties of his st ition better. Then the higher class will look down on this pastor. Well ! Let the• beneficial clergyman be of the better rank. Let the two reside, the two be paid, and let each class of the population have a pastor which suits them. This may be inconvenient. But what is the con eequence of the want of it ? 'Why that the lower class chusea a Dissenting pastor fyr itself, and the inconvenience to the church is increased tenfold. But a Cure at seventy pounds a year in Engiand,, is pitied. Nu doubt from his birth and education. (By-the-bye, every one in England attracts pity, that does not rise to gentility, and suppert it.) But a peasant curate, one of the rank of our Cure, would be munificently paid by it. That he could do the duties the Continent furnishes us with example•. The Protestant Cantons of Switzerland vill show them as well as the Catholic, and the political benefits resulting from the arrangement would he great." Lord Normanby is quite out. The Gentleman ' P. , .•ctor and the Peasant-Curate would not work well ::gether in one parish. We are too far gone for this. Never, never more will seventy pounds a year be revectad in England. There is not a servant in the kitchen of the Squire, not a stable-bov, not a m; ,, hanic in the village, who would not make a butt of the Peasant Curate with his 701. a year. A Cnrate is at present held in some respect by the lower orders because he may be a Bishop, and he cause his fortune is beneath his expenditure. This, too, in spite of his dependent situation—the chance of his being► thrown on the world with a family at a slorter warning than a domestic receives. The Cures on the Continent are respected because no contiguous palace ret:rs its head in their neighbour hood—because, though not rich, they have enough for their .wants; and thought not perhaps very learned, they are deemed so by the poor. The peasants never see them treated with contempt. In England, every waiter at art inn, every driver of a stage-coach, would have his fling at the peasant Curate. The exciseman would deem it a great con descendence to allow his wife to be on visiting terms with the Curate's, wife. Every man who kept a carriage, a curricle, a horse, or even a taxed cal t, would keep aloof from him. A very singtflar Frenchman, a M. Rubichon, wh o res id e d some fire and twenty years in England as a merchant, and en riched himself in that pursuit, published a work:on England, first in 1811, and afterwards, much altered both times, in 1813 and 1819. The writer has many singular views, but he is withal often acute, and always amusing. Ambilg other subjects he con trasts the Anglican and the French churches. " 'lie wealth of the Church would increase (he ob serves) in the same proportion as the agriculture of the country, if the gentry had not taken fiz'tsession of it; for the Anglican Church is Ple a dead-born child, which can neither be the heir of its parents nor allow them to inhe rit: We see from official returns lately made, that of 11,000 incumbents 4,500 alone reside. The six thousand four hundred best bentafiect ate the patri mony of the younger children tlf the Nobility and Gentry. The latter, lit.'intt in the world, deduct from their income fifty rrtineas, anti give them to the first person the Bishop is willing to accept as a substitute. The latter no sooner reaches his church than he climbs to the top of the steeple to have a view of the whole of his hotiion, and know what other parishes he thtty serve; he finds them, pur chases a gig, and there is not a dancing-master, who, for his ticket ; rattles over the streets of Paris so eagerly as our martyr drives in all weathers, every Sunday, to read the service in one place at nine o'clock, in another at eleven, and so on throughout the day. If the sheep sub scribe annually twenty guineas, he will give them a sermon a month, fur twenty-five guineas one a week, and for thirty a little of the . . . into the bargain. Baptisms, mar riages, and interments are sacrifices still used in the Pro testant Church, and their price has a tarif like the aides or the gabelle. These are additional resources. Feeling the necessity of edifying the public, our Curate marries ; but, having at present employment and bread only for the Sunday, be must procure both for working days, and he sets up a school. In order not to alarm the parents, lie undertakes in his prospectus nut to speak of religion to their children; still England, to support her Church, has only eight thousand Apostles of this stamp. This Anglin in religion, though still young, has lost its strength and its health by the multitude of sects to which it has given birth; they have abandoned their mother. • Every Englishman, in his private distress, acts like the Japanese, in their public calamities—he changes his divinity. • 5 • • " lam here obliged to ask my reader to credit me here in advance, till he proceeds further, when I say that there is no country in Europe where the Nobility and Gentry are so exclusive, show so much pride and disdain towards the lower classes of society as here, and that there is no country where these sentiments are better founded. What is the consequence? That all the professions which de. mand and exercise the moral faculties, such as those of ecclesiastics, professors, literary men, artists, &e. enjoy no consideration ; and why ? Because those who follow them obtain little or no success. The institutions always hold out to them in perspective, an advancement, which, instead of augmenting their force, as is pretended, paralyses them. It is because the Cure cannot be a Bishop that he stands up fur the honour of the Priesthood, that he defends his independence and his rights against the usurpations which the Bishops might attempt; it is because he believes himself irrecoverably fixed to his cure, that he endeavours to centre all his wishes there, that he organizes public education or charitable establishments— that he supports his parishioners against injustice and op pression; give him the chance of one in a thousand of rising to be a Bishop, you ruin all, you destroy all ; will he use his purse or his credit with the great, to build or adorn what he thinks of quitting? Will he brave the men on whose choice he is dependent ?—will he diminish the authority which he wishes himself to share?" There may be exaggeration in all this, but there is truth also in it. A peasant Curate beside a gen tleman Rector would be despised in England. Were, however, the . parish Clergy to be identified with their parishes, and not constantly, as at preaent, looking wistfully for further advancement, there might be more chance of their becoming popular with the people,— Morning Chronicle. The only measure, with regard to the promised alterations in the administration of justice, which Ministers seem to be really in earnest about, with the exception of the Bill for appointing a new Judge in Equity, is the Bill for the abolition of the Welch jurisdiction, and the creation of three new Puisne Judges for the Courts of Common Law. Now, it is worth observing that the people of England have been long calling for a reform of their oon system of law in all its department. They cannot get it. They have, indeed, the Royal pro mise that such a thing is to take place, given in a speech from the Throne ; but when that promise is to be fulfilled is a matter still hidden among the secrets of futurity. In the mean time the people of Wales, who not only did not call for a subversion of their system of justice, but most unequivocally declared that they preferred it to every other, are to have that system swept away, " destroyed clean" out of the land, and another substituted in its stead. What is that other ? It is the English administration of justice ; the very system of which the English themselves complain ; the sys tem which they loudly and universally demand to have thoroughly reformed. It is this system, in which the English have no confidence, that is to be forced upon the Welch in place of their own, in which they have confidence that they have repeat edly and generally expressed at all the public meet ings that have been held upon the subject since it was first put in agitation. We ask, can the genius of inconsistent and perverse legislation go any far ther ? It, however, furnishes an excuse for the ap pointment of three new Judges in the Courts in Westmirster Hall—no small accession to the pa tronage which Ministers already exercise there. Not that Ave object to the principle of all law ap pointments being in the hands of the Crown ; on the contrary, we think it will, on the whole, be al ways better exercised there than in any other hands; but what we do object to is the appo;nt ment of any new Judges at all. It is not the first time we have informed the Government that there are four Judges absolutely dying of ennui for having nothing or next to nothing to do in the Court of Exchequer ! It is not the fault of those learned personages that they have nothing to do—it is the fault of that close and exclu. sive system of practice over which they preside. Well, but we are told the Court of Exchequer is to be thrown open, like the King's Bench and Common Pleas, to the duly qualified attorneys of England and Wales. If it is, we have no doubt that the business of the Court will rapidly increase, and greatly tend to the relief of the two other superior Courts, so as to make the appointment of three new Judges unnecessary; but then some such arrange ment as what we are going to propose must be con nected with the opening of the Court; that is, that the Equity department of the Exchequer should be altogether separated from that of the Common Law, and connected with one of the three Equity Courts already in existence, or put under the jurisdiction of the present Chief Baron; - Who could also assist the Lord Chancellor, as he is well acquainted with Equity practice, and thus supersede the necessity, if any there be, of the appointment of a new Equity Judge, in which case we would propose that the Chief Baron's place should be supplied by that learned and truly upright Judge, Mr. Justice Bayley. We have no doubt that, with such a Chief Judge to the Court of Exchequer as a Com mon-law Court, the confidence of the public would be obtained for it, and the business would so in crease as to lighten the excessively severe duties of the Chief Justice of the King's Bench, whose ta lents are equal to any amount of business, but whose health has already, unfortunately, suffered from in tense devotion to the public interests. Such an ar rangement would indeed make it necessary to ap point another Puisne Judge to succeed Mr. Justice Bailey in the King's Bench; but that would be the only judicial appointment necessary, instead of the country being saddled with the expence of one new Judge for Equity and three for Common Law. In the meantime the Welch should be allowed to enjoy their own mode of administering justice as long as they have confidence in it ; or, at least, until the English system is reformed. As to the necessity of that reformation Mr. Harvey stated an astounding fact in the debate of Friday night. He said he " held in his hand one of the most extraordinary documents that had ever been laid before Parlia ment ; it was au account of the number of parkas, or returns of causes tried in the Court of King's Bench for three years, namely, for 1826, 16127, and 18 0 8 In this period the number of causes disposed r.f, • 1 nti on which verdicts had been returned, was 5,6 .-.). But what did the House think was the amounti of damages upon those causes on which verdicts were so found ? Why, not more than 836,343/., making An • average of not much more than 1501. to eacji plaintiff. The party, however, did not receive any thing like that sum, and, in many cases, he got little or nothing after the costs were raid. The House could scarcely believe the fi:ct, but it was not to be disputed ; for there were proofs of it in black and white, that the taxed costs upon the causes he had just j enumerated amounted to the enormous sum of 1,203,0004 !" Let us take this stun without the addition ot the extra expenses not con tained in the taxed costs, and what an enor mous price it is to pay for recovering the ,mount of damages in question. So, in their kind consideration for the people of Wales, his Majesty's lAlinisters and Attorney-General resolve to take from them their own cheap system, and give them one in return, under which it requires about a million and a half of money to recover about eight hundred thousand pounds ! A system, also, tinder which, as was stated by Mr. Jones, those disgrace ful falsehoods call e d sham pleas, invented to *delay, and defeat men's rights, are recognised as part and parcel of the practice of the Courts ! In the Welch practice no sham pleas were allowed ;—the pro• ceedings in equity were also remarkably cheap and expeditious; but now that Mr. Wynn and his Mi nisterial patrons resolve to extend over them the protection of the English Court of Chancery, the descendants of Llewellin will have good reason to exclaim " the Lord deliver us from our friends P i What a rise it will require in the prices of agricul tural produce to enable Welch farmers to pay for jo urneys to expenses of their attorneys and agents' to and residence in London, to work the machinery of the law !—Morning Herald. Sir Edward Knatchbull brings forward his motion this evening on the Report of the Sale of Beer Bill, for a clause "to limit the operation of the Act to three years, and to prohibit persons licensed under the Act from selling Beer to be consumed on the premises ;" and we trust, that as the Chancellor of the Exchequer has promised to act apart the even ing specially, to a full, fair, and free discussion of the most important principle of the Bill,—every friend to consistency, to justice, and to sound po licy —every one who does not wish 'wholly to de stroy the morals of the poor, by enticing them from their families and their homes, or to establish in every part of the country places of rendezvous for poachers and burglars—will attend to give his opi nion and his vote upon the question. No measure has ever been introduced to the consideration of the Legislature so unjust in its principle—so contrary to sound policy, and so utterly incon sistent with its previous enactments ; and none, we are confident, should it pass into a law, will be pro ductive of more pernicious effects, both ith regard to the public, and to that numerous and respectable class, whose interests are compromised by it. That the Chancellor of the Exchequer has been grossly imposed upon by the representations of interested individuals, we have no doubt ;- but although much mischief has already been done by the mere agita tion of the question of a free trade in Beer, the time is not yet passed for a salutary retraction of the principles which he has advocated—much ruin and misery may still be saved to individual., and much mischief to the public prevented. We do, therefore, trust either that the Chancellor of the Exchequer will give up the Bill to the opposing voice of at least three-fourths of the country ; or that, if he have not the good sense and good feeling to do so, he will be taught by Sir Edward Knatchbull, and the country gentlemen, who have determined to support his motion, a more just regard than he has yet manifested for the rights of private property. —Morning Advertiser. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. - MANSION-HOUSE. Mary knean, a vender of potatoes, was charged by Mr. Benjamin, a fish salesman in Billingsgate market, with having stolen a turbot, one of a number for which he had paid 12s. each ; he found the turbot covered with potatoes in her basket. _ The LORD MAYOR asked the defendant how the turbot got into her basket ?—She said she could not tell, unless it was Peg Delany done it. They went together to market, and as she could not keep her eyes always on her basket, Peg might have slipped it in unknown.—(Loud laughter.) The LORD MAYOR asked was Mrs. Peg Delany present ?—The prisoner said she was not ; she was striving to get an honest bit for her children, but her own husband, Jack M‘Lean, was present to speak to her character. Jack M'Lean stepped forward, evidently prepared to take his wife's part. Mr: nobler—Well, Mr. M'Lean, how did this fish find its way into your wife's basket ? Mr. M'Lean—ln troth I don't know how the d—l it got there, only I'm sure she never put it there. If they went the right way about it your Honour, they'd soon find that she wasn't the thief. The LORD MAYOR—Why, I think that finding the fish in her basket was pretty good proof that she stole it. Mr. M'Lean—Stole it ! 0 Lord, your honour, is it Mary ? You didn't steal it Mary, did you ? Tell God's .truth.—(Laughter.)—l never seen it, upon my sowl jewel, until they pulled it from under the fruit. Mr. M‘Lean—l thought so, darlint. But smell her fist, your Honour. If she's a thief, she'll smell of fish and not of pratics.—(Excessive laughter.— Here the husband held up his wife's hand in triumph.)—lf your Honour will let her come home along with me, she shall stick to her own market, and never go to that thieving place again. Mr. Hobler—l have no doubt myself that this turbot leaped into the basket after the new po tatoes.—(Loud laughter.) Mr. Benjamin's foreman—Please your Worship, that's unpossible, for the head and tail was tied gether, and she couldn't leap ; and besides, your Worship, turbots vots retched in France never eats no tatoes.—( Loud laughter.) Mr. Benjamin said that as Mr. M'Lean had pro mised never to let his wife tempt the fish again he should not prosecute. Mr. M‘Lean—Arrab, then, the Lord bless your Honour. Now, Mary, let this be a lesson to you. The husband and wife then departed amidst the laughter of the room. GUILDHALL. On Saturday a young man, named Gianelli, the son of an old-established Italian image -maker, in Cock-lane, Smithfield, attended before Mr. Alder man KEY, on a summons, for assaulting Dominick Cardost on Wednesday morning last. As his behaviour had not been blameless, the Alderman dismissed the complainant's charge, tell ing him he might nevertheless indict Gianelli,at the Sessions if he chose. BOW-STREET. The following case, involting a charge of bigamy and fraud, was heard on Saturday by Mr. lIALLs, the sitting Magistrate :—A person named Sayer, who has lately served the offic e of constable in the parish of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, brought forward two young women, and an elderly female, the mother of one of them, and said he hail a charge of bigamy to prefer against a perso n who called him selfand who it appeare d h a d con tracted marriage e ed with the tw o y oung women now present, both of whom he h a d d eserted, after crue ll y Major m afr e ia n stripping them of their last shilling. Sayer then went on to state, that Major Kennedy and one of the young women, who it appeared was his last wife, had lodged in his house for so me wee k s past, an d frem the plausibility of his manner and the repre sentations he had made of his interest with the Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, and others, he (Sayer) was induced, not only to gipe credit for board and lodging, but had also advanced him money. • Mr. Heves asked what evidence there was to support a charge of bigamy. Saver replied, that the first marriage had taken place in Ireland, and the young woman whom he then married, and who was now present, raid that • the ceremony took place about two years ago. Betsey Yeoman, the second wife, was then called forward, and, in answer to questions by the magis crate, she said that she became acquainted with Major Kennedy about six months ago, and was married to him some time in the month of January ' last, in a Roman Catholic chapel, situate in Mill ; street, Manchester. • Mr. Haus said he was fearful that, according to • the existing state of the law with respect to Roman Catholic marriages solemnized in England, this mar riage would not be held legal, and therefore the charge of bigamy could not be maintained. Why the legislature in passing an act whereby Catholics were placed upon the same terms as their Pro testant brethren heti omitted to legalize Catholic marriages, he was at a loss to learn, but certain it • was that CaFCS of very great hardship were con stantly occurring, owing to the state of the law upon this subject. The first wife, a well-looking young woman, who wept bitterly from the time she entered the office, was then questioned as to her connexion with the accused. Her name, she said, was Sarah Handley, • and she first met " the Major" at a place called Fairy Mount, in the county of Roscommon, in Ire land, where she was bred and born. Her acquaint ance with Major Kennedy was but of short dura tion, when he asked her to become his wife ; and believing him to be an honourable gentleman, she consented, in the hope that the change would be beneficial to her, for the Major spoke largely of his acqua'ntance with great people in London, and of the mint of money that the Go vernment owed him for his services in the wars. She accordingly became his wife, the marriage hay ing been performed in the house of her uncle, a Ro man Catholic priest. Her relations, however, were in general averse to the marriage, for they suspected that the Major was a cheat, not withstanding his fine stories. He lived with her for nearly a year and a half, during which thee he was supported solely by her friends, and about seven months ago he raid he must go to Dublin, having received a pressing invitation to pass a few days with his intimate friend the Lord Lieutenant. He, however, told her to lieep up her spirits, assuring his " dear girl" that lie would return to her with plenty of money. Soon after he went he wrote to her to say that urgent business called him to London, where he was to receive a considerable sum, which had long been due to hint on account of his services as a Portuguese officer. She heard no more of him until about five weeks ago, when she received a letter, de siring her to join him in London with all haste, as he was just on the eve of receiving the money which he had written to her about. Her friends were averse to her going to a strange country, and placing herself under the control of a man whose conduct hitherto had appeared so doubtful, but she felt it her duty to do as he desired, and moreovver she thought it but fair that, as his wife, she should share in his good loch. She accordingly packed up her clothes, and, putting Cl. in her pocket, set out for Dublin, ac companied by a man and woman whom she knew, 1 1 anti who, like herself, were bound for London.— ; From Dublin they crossed over to Liverpool by the steam-packet, and her friends being too poor to pay coach hire to town, she walked with them every step of the way from Liverpool to London' sooner than part their company. She had scarcely put her foot in London than she met " the Major," who re ceived her with great kindness, and took her to St. Giles's, where he hired a lodging for her, but he was seldom at home, which he accounted for by saying that he was so constantly engaged with the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel that his time was not his own. Sometimes he would lie down in his clothes beside her on the bed, and get up at twelve or one o'clock in the night, telling her that he had particular business to transact at the House of Commons, with his friend Sir R. Peel. Sayer said, that at this very time he was carrying on precisely the same game with his second wife, whom he had lodged in his house. In short, he 'deceived every body by telling the most barefaced . _ lies. He told him (Sayer) that his friend the Duke of Wellington had offered to make him a commis sioner of police, promising that Colonel Rowan should be dismissed on purpose to make room for him ; and so certain was he that this would take pkce, that he went to Whitehall, he said, every day, for the purpose of acquiring a knowledge of the manner in which the new police were managed. He had also shown a variety of letters which he said he had received from different great people, and amongst others was a letter purportiag to be an order written by his Grace the Duke of Wellington upon Cox and Greenwood, the army agents, Charing-cross, directing them to pay to Major Kennedy the sum of 3251. Sayer here produced the letter in question, which was written in red ink, and in a scrawling hand : " Treasury, Downing-street, June 16, 1830. i‘ Messrs. Cox and Greenwood, Esqrs. Army-agents, &c.—On this my order please to pay to Major Kennedy, late of the Portuguese service, the sum of 3251. 10s. pay, due from his regiment. Major Kennedy will receipt this order, after which it is to be returned to my office, with his (M , ijor K.'s) signature, acknowledging the sum paid. " Giren under my hand, at three o'clock afternoon, this 16th day of June, 1 830, " WELLINGTON." Mr. HALLS asked if - the Major had obtained any specific sum of money by means of this forged document ? Sayer replied that he himself had given him credit upon the faith of this and other documents which he produced. Mr. HALLS said, he was afraid this would not be sufficient to support a charge of fraud, us it must be proved that money was advanced upon the credit of the false document. The Magistrate than inquired if the Major had possessed himself of any money belonging to the second wife. The mother of the young woman said that the Major had prevailed upon her to give him 61., and he had also taken 41. from her poor girl, added to which they had been at a great expense in London, and were now reduced almost to beggary, not hav ing the means of returning to their native place. The first wife declared that she also was left quite destitute, the Major having prevailed upon her to give him 3/., which she had brought with her from Ireland, and which was all the money she had in the world. She should not, however, think so badly of this, but that she had been robbed of every stitch of clothes which she had brought with her from Ireland by a young woman who lodged in the same house where the Major had placed her. Sayer said that he believed that her clothes had been taken away by direction of the Major, to pre vent the young woman from going out, and perhaps stumbling upon the second wife. _ _ _ Mr. HALLS immediately directed an officer to go to St. Giles's, and use every exertion to apprehend the woman who bad committed the felony. In the mean time, if Sayer should meet with the Major, he had only to lay his hand upon him and give him in charge to an officer. " If once we get him here," observed the Magistrate, " we shall most likely have cases enough aga►nst him." Sayer said he would act upon the advice of the Magistrate, and seize the Major wherever he should meet him. The parties then retired. An elderly female, named Warburton Paffall, was charged with having, in concert with others, de frauded Elizabeth Graham, servant to Lord Farn ham, of one quarter of a hundred in th? Three per Cent. Consols, by producing at the Bank of Eng land a paper purporting to be the burial certificate of the said Elizabeth Graham. The prisoner, after a short examination, was re manded until Wednesday next. WORSHIP-STREET. On Saturday William Cook, a respectable-looking man, about 35 years of age, was finally examined before Mr. 13n6UGHTON, charged with stealing a quantity of plate and other articles, the property: Mingo William Allen Gilmore, Esq., of Stam ford-hill. The prisoner appeared in great distress, and wept bitterly : he was committed to Newgate for trial. L A MBETILSTREET. The Rev. G. C. Smith yesterday came to this office, accompanied by a young woman, to ask the Magistrates' advice how to act under the following circumstances :—He stated that the young woman who was with him, had formerly been on the town, and was a very bad character. About six week, since sl4e was brought to this office charged with being disorderly, and striking the officers who at tempted to take her into custody. She then ex pressed her regret at the course of life she had lately followed, and said she wished to amend it ; and a !Jerson in the office mentioning that there was a Re fuge fur Destitute Young Women in Wellcloe square, the Magistrate (Mr. Walker) humauely requested Mr. Miller, the chief officer, to go with her to the Refuge, of which he (Mr. Smith) was the founder, end she was immediately admitted into it. He had kept her there nearly six weeks, and the funds of the society not allowing him to keep her any longer, he wished to know whether the Ma gistrates would not grant a warrant to apprehend the woman's husband, and compel him to relieve her. Mr. WALKER said he should advise Mr. Smith to make an application to the husband in the first in stance, and if he did not attend to that, then a war rant would be granted. QUEEN-SQUARE. On Saturday, a young man who gave his name George Jordan, by tr4de a jeweller, lodging at No. 6, Harp-alley, Fleet-market, was placed at the bar before Messrs. GREGOKIE and MARRIOTT, charged with an assault of a revolting nature on Henry Stride, a police-constable of the A division. He was fully committed for trial, and the pasties were bound over to prosecute. THAMIS•POLICE OFFICE On Saturday James Brooks, a middle-aged man, with club feet, having the appearance of a fanner, and Thomas Little, a young man, who has been in custody a month, were brought before Mr.BRODERIP, for final examination on various charges of horse stealing, a crime which now prevails to a most alarming extent throughout all parts of the kingdom. After hearing the case, Mr. BRODERIP said there was not sufficient evidence to warrant him in com mitting Little, but ordered him to find sureties in the amount of 1001. to come forward and give evi dence against Brooks, who was sent to Newgate for trial on two separate charges. THE BATTLE OF SHORTWOOD FOREST The grief and indignation which were felt among the English at St. Johnstone, on hearing of the slaughter of their countrymen, induced Sir Gerald Heron, the Governor, to allow Sir John Butler, son of the forementioned Sir James, to follow the Scots with all the force of the garrison, to revenge the death of his father. In this undertaking he was joined by Sir Wil liam de Lorayne, an officer of reputation, and a great favourite with the soldiery. Although the force under these leaders amounted to nearly a thousand men, from the admirable management of the Scottish chief they were kept in a great measure ignorant of their ovtn vast superiority. In the forest of Shortwood, a part of which they endeavoured to invest, their provident enemy had erected a number of rustic fortifications, in the form of squares, communicating with each other, the walls of which were made by affixing two rows of planks to the trees, and filling up the space between with thorns. Each of these squares had a small opening towards the enemy, and another at the opposite side, for the purpose of retreat ; while the advance towards them was in- tersected by defences, formed in a similar man ner, in order to break and otherwise prevent the approach of too great a body of the enemy. By this means, when the Scots found themselves obliged to retire for shelter to these intrench ments, they could only be pursued in broken and straggling detachments. These defences were not fully completed when the English came in sight ; and Wallace, therefore, in order to gain time, appeared at a distant and almost detached part of the wood with a few of his followers, leaving the rest under the command of Stephen of Ireland, to complete the works. On the approach of the English, an arrow from the powerful and unerring hand of our hero, brought down one of their advanced-guard. This had the effect of attracting their attention towards that part of the N't o o d where he had stationed his little party, who also sent their ar rows among the English, though not with such good effect as their chief, who continued to bring down his man as they advanced. The enemy, having observed the opening at which Wallace made his appearance to discharge his deadly shafts, sent forward one of the most expert of their Lancashire bowmen to lie in wait for him, while the rest directed their missiles at random toward those parts where they conceived his men to be stationed. It was not long before the ea gerness of Wallace betrayed him to the practised hand of his watchful adversary, whose well-di rected shaft, after grazing the collar of steel which he usually wore, stuck fast in the fleshy part of his neck. His keen eye, however, soon discovered his lurking foe ; and, hurrying to wards him, intercepted his retreat, and slew him in front of his companions, who were so struck with the boldness of the deed, that not one of them attempted to oppose his return to his associates. Although the Scots were gene rally thought inferior to the English in the use of the bow, on the present occasion, having the covering of the wood to shelter them from the superior number arid direct view of their adver saries, they managed, by shifting their ground as their enemies advanced, to keep up a kind of bush-fight till after noon; during which time fif teen of the English had been slain by the hand of Wallace, besides a considerable number by his companions. Their arrows being all ex pended, and having arrived at a part of the fo rest, where a high cliff prevented their further retreat, Sir William de Lorayne advanced upon them with nearly three hundred men, while Sir Gerald Heron and young Butler remained with out the forest, in order to prevent the escape of any of the fugitives. Wallace had just time to make a short animating address to las com panions; and, placing them so as to have the advantage of the chit as a protection to their rear, they stood prepared for the onslaught.— The English were astonished to find themselves opposed to so small a number of Scots as now appeared waiting their attack, and conceived they would have little else to do than to surround the party and take them prisoners. The deter mined valour, however, with which they received and repulsed their repeated charges, convinced them that the toils of the day were not yet over. Wallace, who was always a tower of strength to his friends in the hour of danger, displayed, on this occasion, more than his usual heroism.— While the strength which nerved his resistless arm excited the greatest enthusiasm among his followers, and spread horror and dismay through the ranks of their enemies, Sir William de Lo rayne still urged his men on to th e con fli c t, and Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. • Per Quarter. a. to s. s. to a. a. to s. a. to s. Carlisle 64 33 31 -•••• Carmarthen ..1 65 '4O 23 - 36 Flexham 52 72 33 31 22 29 50 52 58 66 32 35 23 29 36 40 Penrith 60 31 23 68 28 41 Winchester 56 68 127 34 21 25 42 46 Per Bi isheL d. s. d. s. d. v. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. (J..) Coventry --- 70 90 48 54 36 40 56 61;: - Newcastle (Staft) 10 6 11 0 00 00 43 46 56. Northallerton 70 93; 3 6 46 33 40 59 6 a : Statibrd 9 0 94: 5 9 6 2 3 6 4 0 7 2 8: Swansea 8.2 8 6 4 4 48 24 28 0A 0 v Warwick 90 0 100 46 50 33 40 73 7 Per 8011. Barnardeastle .16 0 19 0 8 0 9 0 6 6 7 6 9 6 . 12 Durham 150 180 8 9 100 56 86 11 0 12 0 Richmond . 16 0 20 0 9 0 10 8 7 0 8 8 11 0 12 0 Stockton --- 14 6 17 0 8 0 0 0 48 7 6 09 00 ~- they as• quickly receded, when they found theta' selves opposed to that champion of whose strength and exploits they had heard so many appalling accounts. The battle, however, still continued to rage with unabated fury on both sides ;—the English, eager to revenge the slaughter of their countrymen, and the Scots, frantic with the wrongs they had already sus tained, determined to conquer or die on the spot. At this time their dauntless chief burst like a thunderbolt amidst the thickest of the English ; and, having scattered them before him, ascended a little hillock, behind which they had retreated, and applying his bugle-horn to his mouth, made the woodlands resound with .a bold and animating war- note. The English leader, conceiving that this was done in deri sion, rallied his forces, and again advanced to the attack. Wallace and his few hardy veterans were soon environed by their enraged assail' ants, and the battle commenced anew with all the rancour of their former animosities.--" Though the Scots fought with the most inflo ible obstinacy, yet some of them, from the seve rity of their wounds, appeared unable to cony' nue much longer the unequal contest ; but at this critical juncture Stephen of Ireland, and his party, in obedience to the signal sounded by their chief, suddenly emerged from the brush wood, and fell upon the rear of the enemy with, determined fer oc ity. S urpr i se d an d di sma yed at so unexpected an attack, the English fled in the greatest confusion, followed by the victors, who continued the pursuit, making dreadful car nage among them, till they reached the boun' dary of the forest. Here the terrified fugitives were met by Sir John Butler, at the head of five hundred men. This accession of force obliged the Scots, in their turn, to retreat to their de' fences—the first of which was carried by the enemy, but at the expense of a considerable number of the bravest of their warriors. The English had now the mortification to find that their opponents had only retired to a second en' closure, from which Wallace, supported by Cleland, Boyd, and a few of the most re solute of his companions, made a sortie, in which, after killing a considerable number, Wallace came in contact with the Knight of Lorayne, and, at one blow, clove him to the chin. His terrified followers shrunk aghast from the ponderous weapon of their gigantic adversary ; but, urged on by Butler to revenge the death of their leader, they again crowded round the little band of heroes. Again they were dispersed ; and Butler, who had been foremost in the attack, came within reach of the sword of the Scottish champion, which de scended with a force that would have cut him to the ground, had not the intervening branch of a tree saved him from the blow, and his men, rushing forward to his assistance, carried him off before it could be repeated.—Constable's Miscellany. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. DURING LAST WEEK. WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.—June 18. The supply of all Grain fresh up here to-dap is short, the recent ars ivals of Foreign at Hull having chiefly gone under lock, in anticipation of a lower duty. There is a good attendance of Millers, and a fair extent of business has been done in good fresh Wheat at an advance of Is. to 2s. per quarter, but there is little demand fur, and no im provement in prices of stale and unsweet parcels. There are few Oats offering, and good sweet samples are in request at better prices. Beans are rather dearer, but the demand is not great. A considerable quantity of rain has f a llen here this week, and the weather is yet very cold, and wears an uns-ttled appearance. • Wheat, Red 'Norfolk and Sul%lk 533. 583. to 655. fine 70s. New 60s. 655. to 61s. fine 725. - White Old 60s. 655.:t0 698. fine 738. - New 60s. 655. to 61s. fine 725. Foreign, Red 545. 608. to 675. fine 71s. White 625. 665. to 695. fine 735. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk 2Bs. to 325. tine 345. -- Lincolnshire 2Bs. to 31s. fine 325. - Yorkshire Wold 2Bs. to 31s, fine 325. - Foreign -s. to -s. fine -s. 335. to 355. fine 365, New - Ne 345. to 355. fine 38a. () Be a :7, r Old 28s. to 318. fine 325. - Poland Ns 2ss. to 28s. fine 30s. . - Friezland and Small 0 .2 s 24s. to 275. 'fine 2e.s. - healing 13,1. to 14%d. per Stone. Shelling 335. to 345. 6d. per Load. Malt 3Bs. 4)s. fine 435. per Load. Rapeseed SCOTCH MARKETS. EDINBURGH CORN MARKET --June 16. We had a middling supply of all kinds of Grain irl market to-day, and Wheat fully supported last week's prices. Oats at opening sold freely, at a small advance upon the top. Clean Pease in good condition brought higher prices; and Beans sold rather heavily at last w ee k's quotations. Barley a dull sale, although only a few sam ples appeared ; one fine parcel brought 365. 6d. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. First 7oa Od 36s 6d I 32s 0.1 42s Od Second Third Beatis. Od 4ls Od 33s Od PRICES OF PROVISIONS, &v. Beef, per lb. Os. 3d. to Os.6d. Fresh Butter,lbAs.B.l. to s. 10.1. Mutton 0 4 0 6 Salt Ditto 0 9 010 Veal 0 3 0 6 Ditto, per cw t. t3O 6 0 0 Pork 0 0 0 0 Eggs, per doz. 0 7 0 0 Lamb, per qr. 2 0 3 0 OatStraw(kpl.) 8 6 0 0 Tallow, cwt.... 0 0 28 0 Wheat Ditto.. 9 0 11 0 Ouartern Loaf 0 9 010 Barley Ditto,., 0 0 8 6 otatoes, 17tIb. 0 6 0 0 Hay, per 5t.... 0 6 0 8 EDINBURGH'MEAL MARKET.—June 15. _ _ _ We had a middling supply ket, which sold heavily at la Per Sack of 2801 b. Imp. First Oatmeal £2 3 0 Second ditto 2 0 0 liarloymeal 1 12 0 Peasemeal 1 11 0 Pot Barley—No. I, per cwt. 12 2 of Oatmeal at to- d ay 's mar it week's prices§ Per Stone of 141 b. Imp. First Oatmeal £0 2 4 Second ditto 1 10 Peasemeal 0 1 10 145.-3 d, Ms.—Pawl 2s. GLASGOW CORN MARKET.-.June 16. _ . Wheat and Oats in good higher. Barley has a better steady. Wheat, per24olb. s. d. ...t British, old 330 t 6350 new Canada, free 34 0 35 0 Irish Barley, per 3201 b. English 26 0 28 0 Scratish 27,0 28 Irish 24 0 26 0 demand, and prices rather sale. Beans and Pease were Oats, per 2641 b. I. d. s. d. Irish 2l 0 to 23 0 British 22 0 25 0 . Beans, per 2601 b. English ..... 0 0 Scottish . l9 0 22 0 Pease, Scottish 18 0 21 6 Oatmeal, per 1401 b. 18 0 21 0 Flour, per 2801b.:.s 50 0 54 0 BIRI On the 12th inst. Mrs. A, of a son. Upton, of Guilford -street, MARRIED. On the 17th inst. at Richmond, the Rev. C. E. Ken-. naway, second son of Sir J. Kennaway, Bart. of Escot o Devon, to Emma, fourth daughter of the Hon. and Rev. Gerard T. Noe!. On the 4th inst. at Christ-church, St. Marylebone, the R,v. H. Farrish, M.A., Fellow of Queen's College, Cam bridge, to Jane, only daughter of the late H. Farrer, Esq. Commander of the True Briton East Indiaman. DIED. On the 18th inst. at his house, Charlotte-terrace, Wa terloo-road, G. Bennett, Esq., surgeon and apothecary ; his loss will be long regretted by a numerous circle of friends and acquaintances. On the 18th inst. aged 19, Sarah, eldest daughter of Mr. J. D. Jutting, of Clapham. On the 19th inst. in Welbeek_street, G. Henekell, Esq. aged 77. On the 20th inst. at Lavender Sweep, Clapham Com• mon, Susanna, wife of R. W. Eyles, Esq. 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