The Sun. — London, England, 1833-11-16 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. When on Thursday last we alluded to the' shameful disclosures made before the municipal commissioners at Cambridge, of the corrupt s ....administration of that burotteh, we had only j '' - seen seen the Cambridge Independent Press of the 2d inst., and were not acquainted with the paper of the 9th, which contains the conlusion of the inquiry. After reading attentively the ten days' proceedings recorded in these two journals, we are almost tempted to recall the patent of pre cedence, or the honours of senior optime which we had conferred on the bold and pre sumptuous abuses of the municipal body of Leicester, and to transfer the " bad pre-etni nence" to the corporation of Catnbridgs. Pro bably no judicial investigation into a psblic trust ever brought to light more shameless profligacy or more inveterate dishonesty ; more barefaced venality in politics ; a more heartless disregard of the claims of the poor, in the perversion of the funds left for their benefit, or a more de grading subserviency to the views of the rich, , when they appeared in the shepe of patrons or distributors of places—a more insatiable cupidity in the corporate officers to enrich themselves with the corporate property—or a more entire neg lect of their duties and functions as magis trates, than are presented by the evidence now before us. The mass of corruption here col lected is so great, and the whole management of the borough appears so deeply tainted with the vices of the close system—hardened by the im punity of ages—that we scarcely know where to begin, or in what terms to denounce it. Like other close bodies enjoying the elective franchise, the Cambridge corporation found in the manu facture of Members of Parliament one of the chief sources of its own corruption, which in its turn it reflected upon the Legislature, through the venal choice of its Tory representatives. The patrons of the borough for nearly the last fifty years, without interruption, have been the Rut land family, who at first obtained this ascendancy by the agent of their estates in the neighbour hood. Their supremacy, though sometimes threatened was never in any real danger from 1788 till the passing of the Reform Bill, when, as if to show expressly that the corporation (lid not speak the sentiments of the inhabitants, and that the latter had never been accomplices, either before or after the fact, in returning the nominees of the Duke of Rutland, two Whigs were elected after a generation and a half of' Tories. At this moment his Grace of Rutland is High Steward of the Corporation, and his brother is Recorder, —two offices which seem to have little affinity with the habits, rank, or qualifications of those noble persons, and from which they will, no doubt, forthwith withdraw when they perceive tog they confer no elective influence. When the Tory party had effected a lodgement in the corporation for the Rutland family, it was im possible to drive them out by the enactment of re:)rm, which, by creating a new consituency nom without, destroyed the object for which they had entered. Though the inhabitants of Cambridge are estimated at 21,000, the corpo rate body took care to keep down the number of burgesses entitled to vote at elections to the manageable handful of about 100, or, as they are stated at present 148 ; and before even they ad mitted any strangers into this conclave they ascer taised their political sentiments by a rigid in quiry. The mode in which the corporate offi cers, the May or and Aldermen, were selected from this limited corps,—not larger sometimes than the College of Cardinals at Rome,—allowed no politics to strain through the electoral ma chinery, and reach the chair or the bench, but such as suited the original majority. For 33 years out of the 49 which have passed since 1784 we find only three names as Mayors. In that interval we have John Mortlock, 12 years : Sir John Mortlock, 9 ; Francis Mort lock, 4—making twenty-five years of office in the same family. Then we have 8 years of the family of Furlows, who are said to have been the creatures and the victims of the Mort locks,—and 7 years of the Purchases, who have acquired a notorious celebrity in these proceed ings. The following is a curious return of the Mayors of Cambridge since 1784 :—" Mr. Chevell put in a return of Mayors from 1784 to the present time, during which space it ap peared that John Mortlock was Mayor 12 years, John Furlow 6 years, John Furlow, jun., 2 years, Samuel Francis 4 years, Sir J. Mortlock 9 years, Mr. F. Mortlock 4 years, Mr. Alder man Purchas 5 years, Mr. Alderman Coe 1 year, Mr. Ingle 1 year, Mr. Abbot 2 years, Mr. Cot ton 3 years, Captain Purchas 2 years ; and Cap tain Coe, the present Mayor." It is proved, on the evidence of several witnesses, that the most respectable inhabitants and tradesmen have been excluded from the corporation on account of their political principles ; that the corporation sometimes even rejected the claims of the sons of freemen who had be longed to their own body, because they entertained doubts of their political subser viency; that persons to whom admission was an object in the way of their business were driven from the door of the Common Hall ; and that, when they entertained any fear of mutiny, they made out-voters or non-resident freemen on the Rutland estates, " who used to be sent in car riages to the poll from Belvoir Castle and Che veley." Some of these non-resident tenants on the Duke's property confessed to one of the witnesses that lie was ashamed to come to the Cambridge elections, but was compelled. Titus a monopoly of civic privileges was kept for the benefit of the corporators, to the exclusion of the citizens of Cambridge, to whom a participa tion in such privileges would have been useful, but with the partial admission of distant agri cultural tenants, to whom they could only be an inconvenience or a badge of slavery. The man ner in which the Noble Patrons, or Lords of the Corporation, maintained their influence, would scarcely deserve notice, except from the long duration and skilful management of their authority. Jobs, places in the Excise and Customs, Cornmissionerships, and other political favours, to the Mayors' and Aldermen's families, could easily be commanded from the Govern mint by the Rutlands during the long Tory reign of the last fifty years. Their Graces or their nominees, knowin g likewise that the hearts of corporators lie very near their stomachs, took care to penetrate to the former through the latter by the most prodigal hospitality. A monthly feast was spread out at the Eagle for 30, 40, 50 , or 60 g uests, compo se d o f t h e corporation and their friends. The viands and wines were provided by a invisible order, an d t h e reckoning was paid by an hand. The jovial burgesses asked no questions, and the kind landlord of the Eagle told no tales. The latter is even so little disposed to reveal to the profane the bountiful providence which paid his bilk, that he has kept away from Cambridge .• during the whole of this municipal Inqulry, though aymmoivid thrice w attend the Commi ,f ~~~~ a 3 1a(17 sioners ; and the former, who have given evi dence, express a natural regret that such enter tainments can never more be enjoyed. There appears a kind of regular profusion or garnish of baseness about these entertainments, which we do not remember to have seen paralleled anywhere else. In other cases we hear of occasional feast ing at the expense of the patron of the borough ; we hear of pipes or hampers of wine, and of haunches of venison or presents of game, being sent to make the corporators merry at an elec tion, or at the anniversary of some electoral vic tory. We hear, in fact, of what Sir Joseph Yorke, in his sailor style, called a " blow out," given once or twice a year, but we have never seen guzzling corruption organized like that of the Cambridge Corporation. hay, the corporate knights of this Rutland round table were even proud of their slavery, and called themselves " The Rutland Club," wearing probably the collar, and sitting under the arms of their Lord. " The ox," it is said in Scripture, " knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib." But even those animals, though avowedly the pro perty of man, are not branded with the name of their proprietor on their foreheads ; they are not degraded to the level of the corporate guests at the Eagle in Cambridge ; they are allowed to eat their food, and to ruminate in quietness without wearing their master's badge ; they are not, in short, called " a Rutland Club." But political corruption and subserviency were not the worst vices about the Corporation of Cam bridge. Their gross peculation and embezzle ment of the town property are still more glaring and criminal. It would occupy columns of our paper to detail and to explain the disgraceful facts which go to support this assertion. The property of the borough has been leased or ra ther alienated, in a great part, to the corporators themselves, or their relatives and friends, at lu dicrously inadequate prices. The summary produced by the Town Clerk of leases granted for various terms was the following :- 62 for 999 years ! 69 for 40 years, 3 for 99 years, 2 for 21 years, 1 for 500 years. They were generally granted for merely nominal sums to burgesses and their connexions. It was pro perly remarked by one of the Commissioners, that such long leases amounted to virtual sales of the property. "If this property," he added, " had not thus been improperly disposed of, the corporation would have had funds sufficient for every public purpose ! The town clerk and deputy town clerk replied, if the property of the corporation had been properly disposed of, or remained in their hands at the present time, it would have been one of the richest out of Lon don." Large sums of money have been re ceived, of which no account whatever could be given. Charitable funds to a considerable amount, intrusted to the management of the corporation, have been misapplied to the private uses of that body, and never devoted to the ob jects for which they were destined. This is par ticularly the case with two charities—White's and Crane's, of which, till within these last two or three years, the corporators pretended com plete ignorance, while they were all the time applying their proceeds to their own purposes. But two facts strike us as more extraordinary even than this corrupt disposal of borough and charitable property ; namely-Ist, that the right should be claimed and asserted by some of the corporators of dealing with such property as if it belonged to themselves in their private capacity, and as if they were perfectly irresponsible for its management, though they had sold it all and pocketed the proceeds; and, 2dly, that they should have had the effrontery to pay the costs l l of the prosecution of two of their members fur an assault out of the borough funds. The ad ministration of justice intrusted to the officers of the Corporation presented nothing more sa tisfactory than their management of the borough property. One of them was in the habit of making about IW/. by de manding and pocketing illegal fees, and Mr. Gunning's (a barrister) account of the mode of transacting business in the Court of Pleas would make it a burlesque on judicial tribunals. " I do not," said he, " practise in that Court, Ist, because the Judge, who is the Mayor, is deficient in legal knowledge, not having been a lawyer ; and 2dly, because it is influenced so much by corporation feelings that I could not expect an impartial decision." But we have neither time, room nor patience at present to enter into any further detail of these disgraceful abuses, and can only congratulate the country on the appointment of a commission which has brought them to light, and which must insure their correction.— Times. If we have condemned the system of calumny acted on towards the Earl of Durham by the Conservative journals, we are not, on that ac count, blind to the defects of the present law of libel. It is impossible to use too strong terms in condemning a law, which may at any time be invoked by guilt to the destruction of the inno cent ; which is unjust in principle, because it deals out equal ruin to intentional malice and acts to which malice cannot even by possibili y be imputed. It is of the very essence of news papers, for instance, that they collect and pub lish information from distant quarters, as well as what takes place in their own neighbourhoods. With respect to the intelligence originally com municated by themselves, it is in their power, and it is their duty, to see that it is derived from authentic sources. With respect to intelligence derived from distant places, they are precluded from verifying it ; and they must either cease to publish such intelligence, or they must take it or, the faith of the jouanals in which it originally appeared. But the English libel law holds every one who copies a statement from another Jour nal equally responsible with that journal. There is not a daily paper published in London which does not contain hundreds of statements, de rived from Continental, American, and Provin cial Journals, which, for anything that the publisher can possibly know, may be libels. It not unfrequently happens that the paper in which a statement first appears is acquitted, and the innocent copier is punished. Some years ago the Birmingham Journal co pied a paragraph from a Worcester paper, the latter escaped, while the Birmingham Journal paid, in costs and damages, a heavy sum—more than equal, we believe, to the mar ketable value of the paper at that time. For the same paragraph, our contemporary, the Times, was prosecuted, and the result was, a verdict for a small sum of damages: no doubt but that stun answered the ends of the attorney who brought the prosecution, as it enabled him to receive a large sum of costs. We remember having, in common with all our contemporaries, copied a paragraph respecting some swindlers who were carrying on their operations in different towns of the north of England. As all swindlers are in league with attorneys, these gentry were soon informed by their London adviser, that by com mencing actions againat the London papers who had copied the paragraph from a distant pro vincial paper, rather than be at the trouble and expense of obtaining witnesses for the justifica tion from a distance of some hundred miles, they might be induced to pay a sum by way of compromise. This is the working of the libel law of England. From a hatred of newspapers, and indeed of all discussion whatever, Judges, with very few exceptions, have always encouraged malicious prosecutions. Juries, unaware of the consequence of their verdicts, have too often become blind instruments in their hands-- imagining that they gave merely 20s. of damages, when they were in effect subjecting the de fendant to 4001. or 5001. A late Chief Judge of the State of New York effected a most beneficial alteration of the Libel Law of that State, by regulating that all damages below a certain amount (50 dollars, we believe), should not carry costs, on the principle that an injury which was not estimated at more than that sum had better be suffered than redressed at an expense out of all proportion greater than the injury sustained. This regulation wa , !evelled at unprincipled attorneys, who are always ready to encourage actions for the sake of cost s . While such is the state of the Libel Law, it is clear that upright men are placed in a situation of peculiar difficulty. When persecuted by systematic slanderers, who invade the sanctuary of private life, and hold them forth in the most invidious light to the world, they must either submit with patience to the wrong, or have recourse to a law, justly detested, on account of its being in general called into operation only by the worthless, and being equally efficient to crush the innocent and the guilty. It is hard on a man of fair fame, that he should be the prey of the malevolent, because the law is bad ; and nothing but unquestionable points of cha racter would enable a man to escape unscathed from so perilous an experiment as invoking a law, which is the resource chiefly of those who have no character to lose. We cordially agree with our contemporary (the Globe), that the Law of Libel demands instant attention from the Legislature. As our contemporary well observes, with reference to the argument of the Standard on Thursday evening— " Nothing can be better exposed than the principle by which acts of inadvertence are punished, which originate in the unavoidable necessity in a Periodical Press of gene rally and mutually trusting to local and other authorities, where there is no reason to impute premeditated misrepre sentation or falsehood. The manner in which newspapers are punished for errors against which no human prudence can guard, is of the very essence of oppression and in justice ; nor in actions have they the protection of a jury in a verdict for nominal damages, while the necessity un der the constructive principle of giving a verdict for plain tiff implies a fine in the way of expenses, of the most onerous descripti ,, n. The very fact that people l e nd themselves to pettyfogging attorneys for the levy of costs, exhibits at once the character of a system under which such a conspiracy can be rendered profitable. Neither does this truly consistent law itself make any distinction like the French, between the original communication of an unfounded article and the innocent copiers of an inac curacy or mistake—who, in fact, while morally blameless, are preposterously subject to the same penalty as the really offending party. The criminal prosecution, it is unne cessary to say, as respecting construction, is governed by the some principle ; and moreover puts it out of the power of the Jury to stand in the way of a morally unjust prosecution, or even to be affected by alle viating circumstances, which must all be left to the „lunge in the adjustment of the sentence. Need it be said that all this subjection of annoyances of a character so essen tially dia'inct to one sweeping rule is most monstrous? The case is more monstrous still when it is reflected that, by this definition of the existing law—and the doctrine is v, ry frequently laid down from the Bench—almost every thing one man may say of another which does not please him may be construed into a libel; and a finer reduclio ad absurdum could scarcely be found than a copious crop of prosecutions undertaken on the strength of these deb• nitions. Enough, however, are undertaken. from time to time, to expose the nature of a law, in respect to which we accept the invitation of the Standard, and heartily join it in exhorting " the public not to content themselves with a mere idle declaratio❑ in favour of the liberty of the press; but in whatever reform is to be made to get rid 0 , toe whole fraudulent m ichinery of the libel code, viz., constructive responsibility, constructive cogn'zance, or, which is the same thing, constructive malice, and con structive publication."—Morning Chronicle. While the more ambitious class of gamblers, for we cannot call them the more respectable, are pursuing their nelariow system of fraud and plunder in the neighbourhood of St. James's -street, and other fashionable localities, unmolested by the police, the less aspiring portion of the " profession," who levy contri butions with the dice-box, or by less disguised modes of robbery, are equally active and equally undisturbed in the low haunts of vice and dissipation. A case appeared in the papers the other day, which was heard at the Thames Police Office, and which afforded a revolting illustration of the scenes of violence and rob bery which nightly occur at certain low public houses, where the demoralising practice of gambling is encouraged among the work-people and poorer classes. The complainant in this case was a working engineer, %% ho had just come up from Bath to look for employment, and wh o was a stranger to the town. His charge was against a stout woman and a black man, whom he accused of assaulting and dreadfully beating him in one of those dens of dissipation in the Back-road, St. George's East, where he had been directed, upon inquiring for a lodg. ing. He stated that he first sat down in the tap-room, but left it shortly, on account of the disorderly characters with which it soon filled. He asked to be shown into another room, and was taken into the kitchen ; that also was thronged with a disorderly company, who had assembled to raffle for a hen and chickens. From the kitchen he went into the parlour, which also became crowded with people, engaged in another raffle for a pair of ear-rings. Be coming disgusted with what he witnessed, he requested the servant to allow him to sit by himself up stairs. There he remained but a few minutes, when the woman and the black man came into the room, followed by two fellows in the garb of sailors, when he received the ill treatment of which he complained, and which made it necessary to transfer him to an hospital in a most battered and pennyless condition, every farthing he had having been abstracted whilst he lay stunned from the violence which he had received. Now, whether the complainant really gave any provocation in the first instance, or whether the facts were exactly as he detailed them, we, of course, know not. The brutal violence committed on his person was proved by two witnesses; but the wanton and unprovoked nature of the assault depended on his own state ment. The accused parties were committed for trial at the Sessions on the charge of assault for it does not appear that he made a specific charge of robbery against them, which, under the circumstances, if only one farthing had been taken from his person, would have been a capital offence. But our object in adverting to this case is upon general grounds, to show what is metropolis, s lis il seems, without onfiShcrt o ly w i d lo s n o e f ; p n eo t p h l e e, m a e n t ( r in the presence any concealment in the way of gambling, and various sorts of depredation, without any inter ference of the police. It appears that officers of preventive justice at the east end of the town rival their brethren of the west in their supine ness, if not connivance, in regard to those abominable dens of gambling which are the hot beds and nurseries of crime. When Mr. Bro derip, the magistrate, asked the police sergeant if he knew any thing of those raffles, he said he did not ; and then the worthy magis trate went on to say, "We are constantly hearing of those disorderly proceedings in public-houses, and no attempt is made by the police to suppress the nuisances. Here are two raffles going on, and a man robbed and all but murdered. I can only say it used not to be the case." The other worthy magistrate, Mr. Ballantvne, stated that he had talked to the police about it until he was tired. The disorderly public-houses were not properly looked after. It was justly observed by his colleague, that raf fles in public-houses, especially at late hours, ought to be suppressed, for they generally brought together an assemblage of the worst characters, and ended in bloodshed and robbery. He again called the attention of the new police to the state of the disorderly public-houses in the district. Such is the boasted efficiency of this Home-office force, which, if not efficient to protect property and prevent crime, has nothing else to recommend it, being of great expense to the public, and founded on a principle decidedly unconstitutional.—Morning Herald. In the November number of the United Service Journal there are some " Observations on the Report of the Committee of Naval and Military Inquiry," from the pen of Major Mitchell. We should have read them with much interest if they had merely contained an expression of the sentiments and a development of the opinions of an intelligent and high-minded soldier. But they appear to us worthy of more attentive con sideration, when we learn from various sources that Major Mitchell in these observations gives utterance to feelings which are cherished almost universally by the noble body of men to which he belongs—the Officers of the British Army. We are grieved when we find amongst men who have merited so well of their country a belief that their services are undervalued, a complaint that their exertions are ill rewarded ; but we are ashamed when we recollect that we must not call this belief unfounded, or this complaint unjust. " The Committee," says Major Mitchell, at the commencement of his able remarks, " can be considered as nothing more than the offspring of that strange kind of unpatriotic spirit (to be met with only in England) which, from the very commence ment of the French Revolution war, heaped every species of insult on the profession of arms, and constantly strove to lame our military efforts and to crush the military genius of the nation. It was this evil spirit that instigated active and influential parties in the State to diminish the confidence and to augment the difficulties of the army, by constantly prophesying defeat, and by undervaluing our power when contrasted with the mighty means of our gigantic adversary." We perfectly agree with the gallant writer. The Whigs, who for so many years reckoned our losses while the messenger of success was on his road, and foretold defeat by the light of our joyful illuminations, can scarcely be expected to look kindly upon those by whom the errors of their calculations have been detected and the falsehood of their predictions exposed., The British army has offended the Whigs both by its triumphs and by its misfortunes. It has won honour in spite of their evil auguries ; it has suffered reverses in consequence of their feeble councils. They cannot forgive the failures of Egypt and Buenos Ayres, nor the glories of the Peninsula and Flanders. "To the remnant of those p irties," continues Major Mitchell, " who are naturally willing enough to prevent that gallantry from being re warded which it was not in their power to repress, must now be auded all the professed agitators ; all those who under various pretences seek for the overthrow of the Constitution ; the numerous hand of desperadoes, who, having nothing to lose, think they must necessarily gain by anar• city ana confusion." Again, we entirely admit the accuracy of the view taken by the writer. The orators of the taverns and the statesmen of the Unions have ere this discovered that the loyalty of the army is proof against pamphlets and placards. They are preparing to destroy, since they have tried in vain to seduce. Hence the continued misstatements and misrepresenta ti ns of the puolic press ; hence the undervaluing of the gallantry, the depreciation of the renown, of our heroes ; hence the forgetfulness of the blessings we have enjoyed, the exaggeration of the price we are paying ; hence the o stentatious . exhibition of the army as the sole cause of national distress and suffering ; hence the ludi crous allegations of the profuse expenditure lavished upon the officer ; and hence the niggard economy which begrudges to the poor and time worn pensioner his hard-earned stipend, which is commonly lower in amount than the parish relief afforded to the pauper. Since the Whigs hate and the Radicals fear the army, the writers who on some occasions hesitate which to prefer, the patronage of the Cabinet, or the patronage of the Club, have in this matter no hesitation at all. The Times leads the attack, certain for once that it can do the bidding of Earl Grey without treason against the majesty of Dr. Carpue. The period for the onset is well chosen. A few days or weeks before the army estimates are to be brought before the House of Commons, the columns of the Times are devoted to the circu lation of libels upon the officers of the army. Nothing which decries their courage or discipline is too mean for notice at that auspicious period. The fierce " Vindex," the jocose " Quiz," the meek " A.8.C.," all are good witnesses against our best and bravest defenders. But pleasant it is above all to find the calumniators of the army in its own ranks. Let us listen with due deference to the depositions of "An Old Cavalry Officer." Ex tracts from a pamphlet bearing this signature, and containing as many lies as pages, are studiously inserted in the Times, and its falsehoods are made the foundation of comments by which the character of the profession is degraded and insulted. Two Officers, the Adjutant General of the Army and the Military Secretary, are selected ; and the Times publishes a letter which attributes to two of the most honourable men in the profession that, for the sake of their own emolument, they had corruptly caused their regiments to be sent, out of their turn, from healthy to unhealthy stations. After a constant promulgation of such monstrous libels, and a frequent recap i tu l at i on o f t h e easy asserti▪ ons that military governments are jobs, that staff appointments are jobs, that the victualling of the army is a job, that the clothing of the army is a job, it is supposed that the hasty are sufficiently ex c it e d and the credulous suffici▪ ently deceived. The command of the army is handed over from the executive Go vernment to a Parliamentary Committee—from his Majesty the King to Lord Ebrington the Chairman. We will shortly proceed, with najor Mitchell, to inquire how much of ability, of discretion, and of impartiality has been exhibited by this" Committee of Naval add Military Inquiry."—Morning Post. TRAGICAL EVENT AT BARNES. On Thursday, at twelve o'clock, a Coroner's jury as sembled before Mr. Carter, at the Old Red Lion, Barnes, to hold an intluisitio❑ on view of the body of Miss Mary Watt, aged 19. The decease , ' was the daughter of Mr. Watt, the re spectable proprietor of Byfield-house Academy, situate at Barnes, and who had necessarily in his establishment some persons to superintend his school ; one of the n was an usher, a Frenclan in, of the name of Dumas, and of whom it is reported that he intruded his attentions on the deceased, which were rejected on her part, hot which led to the catastrophe that caused the deceased's death. On Monday last, between 10 and 11 at night, the deceased retired to bed, having been playing at chess with her father. She wished him and her mother good ❑ight," and taking a candle went into her own room, from whence, soon after her entrance, the house was alarmed by a fearful scream. Dumas had previously hid himself behind the door of the room, upon goir.e . into which he started before her, holding nut an un sheathed razor in his hand. The deceased's screams being repeated, Mrs. Watt hastened to her daughter's assistance, whom she found almost frantic with fear, and tremulously exclaiming, " There's the wretch behind the door, with a razor in his hand to murder me." Upon saying this, she dropped in an hysterical fit into her mo ther's arms. By this time Mr. Watt having arrived, he seized Dumas by the collar, and taking him down stairs, asked him what be meant by such conduct ; but no explanation was given. Every means were resorted to to south the agitation of the deceased, who that night slept with her mother; previously to which, however, while the servant was undressing her, she took a draught of eau de-Cologne for the purpose of raising her spirits. The servant urged her not to do so, but the advice was un heeded, and she repeated the draught shortly after, and went to bed about 11 o'clock. In two hours after the deceased awoke and said, " Oh ! mother, I have had such a frightful dream." Mrs. Watt kissed her daughter, and said to her, " Go to sleep, my dear, and you will be better." After passing a restless night, from the appear ance of the symptoms on the deceased, between seven and eight in the morning, Mr. Scott, the surgeon, of Barnes, was sent for, who immediately attended and used the stomach pump, when a portion of eau de-Cologne was ejected, but no ingredients of any poisonous nature. The deceased relapsed into a state of stupor, and shortly after died. The body was examined by Mr. Scott and Mr. Howell, of 'Wandsworth, in whose opinions the deceased died from having taken eausde.Cologne, being at the time in a state of much excitement. The Jury shortly consulted together, by whom (as it appeared in evidence that the liquid was taken for the purpose of removing a severe depression of spirits, but which was drunk in too large a quantity) the following verdict was returned :—" That the deceased died from having taken inadvertently a considerable quantity of eau de Cologne, being under a degree of nervous excitement at the time." The deceased, who bore a most irreproachable character, was highly esteemed. No letter his been found of any the least probable correspondence between the deceased and Dumas, who was under temporary restraint till the ver dict of the jury was known. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. LONDON MARKETS. (From the " London New Price Current" of yesterday.) SUGAR.—There is a new and important feature in the Sugar Market this week; the Refiners have come forward to purchase, and have bought to some extent, particularly yesterday, when rather extensive sales were reported, but the prices must be quoted Is. lower than on this day week, as the low prices submitted to was the great isducement to the buyers in their purchasing. The estimated sales for the week are 3,200 hhds. and trs., and the r;ces this afternoon are decidedly 13 , gher than on Wednesday, with a firm appearance. The Birbadoes sale went off with briskness at rather higher prices. The Refined Market this week has assumed much firmness ; 31s. 6d. has been paid freely for Crashed, and the quantity of offering for sale is getting more limited every d.iy ; the Market looks more healthy. This afternoon the Refined 111rket continues firm, and only few parcels of Crashed offer at 31.4. 6,1. MAURITIUS SUGAR.—The sales of 1,092 bags Mauri tius on Tue.(' iy (sold on account of the speculators nut being able to clear them) went off at Market prices, but about 7s. a 84. less than they were originally b.•aght at. EAST INDIA SUGAR.—There are no sales of East India Swear to report. The Siam Sugars at public sale this day sold rather higher; good whit.: 24.. 6d. a 251. Gi.. yellow 22*. a 235. 6 1. FOREIGN SUGAR.—There is no new feature in Foreign Sugar ; no sales ; the trade have taken out of the w4re houses about sixty picks this week for refining. By public sale this day, 20 chests Bahia, greyish white sold 255., the brown was taken in at 21 If COFFEE. —There is little alteration in the Coffee Mar ket ; ir remains very dull; th- only transaction in East India is a parcel of good ordinary Ceylon at 57a 6,1. ; no sales of Foreign are reported. The British Plantation descriptions are dull, but there is no further reduction in , he prices ; a large proportion of the C , flee offered at public sale this week has been withdrawn on account of the continued heaviness of the Market. There was only one public sale of Coff,e this forenoon; 150 packs of Bri tish Plantation, chiefly Berhice ; the whole sold wi•li so.ne briskne, (which is a new feature), at full Market prices. Coffee has a firm-r appearance. COCOA. —There was offered at public sale this week 446 bags of Trinidad Cocoa of fair quality, of which about a half sold at 455. a 48s. 6,1., formerly worth about 621. Rum, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS. —The Government contr ict for 75,000 gallons was Taken yesterday at Is. I I d. for 5 per cent. under proof, which is a fair price, and rather higher than was expected. The Rum Market is decidedly more firm, the late reduction having attracted attention. Proof Leervards, formerly sold at Is. 1 1 d., are now held firmly at 29. ; 14 over proof Tobago sold at 2s. 2id. ; Jamaica, 30 per cent. over of fair qu ility, sold formerly at 2s. 9d., are now held firmly at 2s. 10,1. Brandy is heavy, on account of the prices in France bring lower for the new vintige titan was expected. In Geneva there is no alteration. Ter Low.—Tallow is 6d. higher, and firm at the ad vance. This afternoo❑ the Market is again still higher; buyers at 455. 6d., both for forward delivery and also on the spot ; it is stated the trade are entirely out of stock both in town and country. 1832. 1833. Stock of Tallow on Monday 28,562 31,640 Delivery last week SALTPETRE.—In addition to the India House sale, 2,184 bags were offered in Mincing-lane, 10 to 13 refrac tion 325. and 325. 6d. ; 19i to 20i at 31s. 6d. a 321.6 d. NITRATE or SODA.—There were considerable inqui ries after this article by the consumers, and only one parcel left in the importers' hands; 120 bags have been sold (usual conditions) at 275. RICE.—A parcel of good white Bengal Rice, Patna kind, sold at 16s. 6d. ; a large parcel of ord. Java was withdrawn from public sale at 109. ; Carolina Rice fell 2s. early in the week ; the price is now 325. and 335. This day's public sale 3,869 bags Java, inferior Bs. 6d., good 11s. 6d., all sold. TEA.—Bobeas continue in good demand ; large chests a t 3s. 101 d., Congou chests 3s. Hid., duty paid. Con edl Pimentoinagitatd steady a. l s also Four o uprrihc hundred supportsdttrhheides g o u s s rc hr remain Ereesa n.vywithout mid.e p4SP I C E S. — P e pper a nh a ada l g e 4s b r o i ode t d i on o: l w at e e ek c ' u and ee k !*sprices, forty-one 76a. chests 6d. and 7 mid. Cassia Lh s afternoon i nea so n sold at last s w• siderable purchases of Pimento by private contract have transpired; 4id. has been paid for mid. quality, which is id. higher. Itinico.—There is no alteration in Indigo. _ - - COTTON.-The purchases by private contract this week are about 800 bags, at prices a shade higher tban the public sales of this day week : 700 Surat, ord. to good fair bid. a 6Ntl. ; 50 Bowed, good fair Sid. Fauir.—The demand fur this article continues steady, and rather more business has been done in the common descriptions; new Valentias at 435., and new Denia Raisins in baskets at 38s. Of new Turkey Ft uit two more cargoes have arrived, consisting of Vourla, Cara bourna, Saltana, Black Smyrna, and Eleme Raisins and pulled Turkey Figs. At this day's public sale the Figs s•old firmly, good quality at 605., extra fine 70s. ; Eleme Raisins lbs. a 485., new red Smyrna 425. a 44a., old 35a. EAST INDIA HOUSE SALE (TUESDAY.)—Ten tons Saltpetre, Company's East India Refined 365. 6d. ; 646 ditto, 3i to 5i refraction 335. a 345. 6d. ; 22 chests Cloves, good bright Bencoolen Is. 2d. a Is. 6d. ; 15 chests Mace, fine 7s. 4d. a 88. sd. ; five chests Nutmegs, brown unsorted 7e. a 71. 9d. ; 91 chests Cassia Buds, sifted, weak flavour, lazed at 80s., only 4 chests sold 00. 6d. The Spica sold In.} , high ; the oa''' Is. 61. a 2‘. lower. PRICE OF SUGAR. 0 The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, cf ri b u y tet from the Returns made in the weer.ending the 1 2 t" of tye Nov., 1833, is '29s. 4d.r Hundred Weight, exclusive tine per Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the IMP" - thereof into Great Britain, FRIOES OP . i. Nov. New Kent Pockets (per cwt. liOPS ) 5 61. 5 71. P 23. to 9i. 9s. Chrice St It. Cl. 0 3 t o East 71. is. 01. N. to Ica Os. . Choice 91. Os. 0/. Os. to pt. New S 'ssex Pockets 5/. os. (11. Os. to r i 10 9 Superfine Ditto ---..--...... fit. Os. 01. Os. to al 1,25. Farnham I Is. 01. Os to ' OS. Ditto (seconds) 0,0/ Os to 1 The Hop Duty is estimated at 155,0007. PRICE OF OIL .0 0 Rape Oil, brown ................161. 6s. ............. Refined .... 19 Linseed Oil ....----....—..,.....' II; , 0 Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand ...........”•••• 5 ' zaeci Cake, per ton --.....------"' PRICE OF POT A TOES.—Nov. 15. —.W. Os, to :;1 10a. Pe r o Os. to t.'l. ss. ( 1 ?,„.: Os. to 4/. 105. dn . 31. 103. to 41. Os. "1. Os. to a Cs. (222;./ Middling Marsh Champions Scotch Iteds—.—.. Chats - - WHITECH APEL HAY 11 ARKET.—Nov• t 046.0it —.....—. 755. Od. to 93i. Od. ( - over -- B°s Straw—..—.....* 311 Od. to 335. Od. ii , PRICES OF LEATHER. a. 0 il Per lb. d. to d. Per lb. pl . Butts, English ............ 15 25 English Horse Hid`-'s" 16 Ditto, Foreign ............... 14 21 Spanish Ditto .............^" ( 4., Cfressing Hide 5—........... P 2 15 Per dozen. „11 ,6 -, Ditto —... 14 17 CWSkins,.. 30 ;o 4 8 1' 11 ; ‘ , - 1 Ditto, light ~ alto ............. 40 to 6 01 .• ,6 Crop Hides, light 12 14 alto ii 70 to n:.. ,1 b;,,16 ' l 6 Ditto 40 to 501 b. 13 18 Small Seals, Greenla n " it Ditto--.—.—.„....—..... 14 20 L.rge ditt0......—......,.., RICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of filb. ,d, Price of Tallow (as stated by the 'fallow Melters) PRICE OF TA 1.1.0 V Town 'Fallow ......—........ 48s. Od. Yellow Russia....--. 48s. Od. White _ B. Od. Soap Ditto. s. Od. Melted Stuff 375. Od. Ditto Itough .21s. Od. hi' y 5 e ( 1 111' 5 , 0 5c ap................... c. per 110. . 10, 1 M0tt1ed..,,.............. 70' 05, 1 White,.........................." . pliv, Graves ............--.0...^' si. Good Dreg5..,......-- y PRICE F CANDLES. The price of Store Candles. in O the retail shops, Is as fo. 'lo'W Candles. per doz. 7s. Od. to Bs. Od. I Moulds, per dosen,,f, .ET.—Nov. 15. N d Per Ton I , 9 Walls End Hotspur...s 10 0 Walls End Killingwort• 15 0 Walls End Nevirnarch," 11 Ditto Northumherlanl ' 16 6 Walls End Perkins .5c C°' 19 0 Walls End Riddell's 4...19 6 Walls End Walker 19 $ Lambton's Primrose 91 6 Walls End Hetton 61 6 Walls End Lambton $ w. E. Russell's Hetton• 1 9 5 Ditto Russell's Lyon s"' 91 9 Walls End Stewart '+•.l 19 6 Walls End Butter Kno* $ W. E South Durham' 60 6 Walls End Tees 1 6 5 Hartley Howard'sNethertonr 43 ' Ist market-day, 5. WO COAL MAR Per Tor, 8. d. 16 3 Beaumont,...,. l6 3 East Percy— 16 6 Ifebburn Main 18 0 Holywcll-- l6 6 Ord's Redhoeh 15 6 Pontop 16 0 Shipcote 15 0 Canfield West Hartley 16 6 %V E. 13e11, Robson, & Co. 18 9 Walls End Bewicke & Co. 19 9 Ditto Burraton 18 6 Wills End Carr and Co. 17 3 W. E. Clarke and Co.—. 17 0 Walls End Gosforth 9.0 3 Walls End Heaton l9 7 Walls End Hi1da..,...._ 18 6 Ships arrived since COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING Tl - 1 0 ;; , " Be ij > Wheat. Barley. I Oats. Per Quarter. 42 Ashburn 52 5S 34 38 20 25 64 i 6 Basingstoke 48 58 25 29 17 22 1, ) Bath Bridgewater 53 60 26 40 Bristol 4B 56 28 32 16 20 , 4 Chesterfield 46 56 28 38 18 2 6 ; Derby 52 57 26 36 20 25 ' 4 ' o 4 0 Doncaster 48 60 28 39 17 2 5 5 6 40 Dorchester 54 27 23 6 l g Exeter. 4B 56 26 28 16 20 16 G10uce5ter—........... 46 54 28 34 16 24 H tin ger fo rd .. 46 58 22 29 16 2 2 5 / 4 41 Leicester 54 34 I 23 6.4 0 Newbury.--... 36 56 28 31 17 30 3 6 41 Remsey ..--...,—. 56 62 26 30 17 23 Shaftesbury 54 25 164 Shelton Mallet 48 54 26 30 20 26 5 6 64 Sherborne....—..... 50 56 24 28 20 2 6 5 .2 0 Paunton—...—.. 48 50 24 28 21 23 6 2 40 Yarmouth 46 57 30 36 22 25 5 4 L k Yeovil Per Bushel. Is. 3. 11.3. a. d. s. d. s. d. s. d• 0 Shrewsbury —... I 7 0 8 4 4 0 5 0 4 0 54 , 0 DEVIZES CORN MARKET—Nov. 14. 0., 0 Per Sack. s. d. s. d. Pcr Quarter. s. d• on P„ 0 Best Wheat 29 oto3l 0 Barley o6 0.-g7 g Second 24 6 26 6 Oat; lB 0 63 o Thirds 2l 0 23 0 Beans (per sack) 17 0 4 , „ 0 1171 Sacks of Wheat sold} 23 7 Flour (per bag).. 40 y :.....5 y at the average of Bread (per gall). I ' BIRMINGHAM CORN MARKET, Nov. 1 , 4 ,.. Oa , Wheat, 62 lb. Barley, 3 3 4 6 imperial quarter Do. Grinding, 49 lb. Oats, 391 b 0!d Beans, 66 1 4 lb 16 0 I 7 F , 6 New ditto l4 6 '"" 6 gl New White Boiling Pease, imp. quarter2l 6 isg 0 Ditto Grey ditto is 0 MEETINGS OF CREDITORS 4 , AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL-STRES`' (From the Londm Gazette.) k ON MONDAY, Nov. IS. 1 1 DIVIDEN DS. o'll W. Thotnpson, wine-merchant, Uper Thames-street ...:,, 1 1 J. Tan3ley, ironmonger, Little reat...treet, Westrnins_tc', ' „ ,g R. jw.es, hat-,cat•er-cutter, B , log( -street, Sfiuthwarl,..oo, 3. F. Taylor, wine-merchant, Great A. Helens ...........• In the village of Martock a rook is n ° ,l , the act of incubation, and anothet is actively b uildili° nest.—Sherborne Journal, Nov. 4. We have been favoured by our co rrespo rl o oe l with the subjoined further particul.“ - s relative 10 t h o 6 discovered imbedded in the earth at Yew Romney :- Pt earth being now removed, the shape and form of tll eo gll eel 14 seen, and by admeasurement is found to be ill 14 10' 51 feet, and in width 24 feet, clitals-r built, and i r tb fastened, having had only one mast, and built afr o , manner of the Grecian vessels. Several skulls of 1 ',, - 101 16 animals have been found, supposed to be of the sl' e cie l ; with various bones both of the brute sod human 01)0" Several pieces of rope still retaining the smell of " r he n found ; from the length of time chi vessel naultoolle been sunk, this fact seems almost incredi de. Man/ t dt timbers are solid, and when cut with a sal: appeal 10 as newly-used wood. Curiosity is so great' ly ezet e ' c 's persons are daily fl icking from rill parts 'o vessel. Amongst the numerous visiters were not' dro of the judges of the law, and Professor Cowman, el Vet.rinary College, London. Toe stage coach /1 - '' ;1 1,1 # off the road to the spot to afford - .he passenger. a this piece of antiquity. Our correspondent, trs taf, very ancient ch.onological account of events occurred in the neighbourhood, discovered the written in old English :—" In the month of 06 . ' 1 ' 8 4 the rei4n of King Henry 111., dared 1250, these ;:o twice without ebbe, made so horrible a noyse ths t heard a great way into the lands. Besides this, to night the sea seemed to be on alight fire, and the Gi °, t°,l fight one with another, so that the mariners were "f I to save their sbippe', and to omitte to !wake of otbe 4 in one Haven, called Hureburne, besides small „volrl three noble and famous shipper were swallowed Is it waves. And at Winchelsea, beside cottages for Is ), ( J ' '' . l fishermen's houses, bridges, and milles, above SOO vlf, in that towne, with certain churches, through the 00 1 • rising of the sea, were drowned." This poen°lf allude to the time when the small vessel now fouri o imbedded, as the sewer where she was discovered 11 0 tnerly, and is to this day, called the Haven.—ffette DIED ,ft r f, On the 14th inst., at Rowdeford . House, near DO I o 4II beth Sarah, second daughter of Wadham Locke, I t 'y On the 15th inst., at Hendon, aged 7, Sarah COlAl'cti' daughter of William Parr Isaacson, Esq., of Newill9ll' On the 13th inst., at Reaseheath, Cheshire , 0 0 0 ' cr i; Charlotte, infant daughter of the Rev. Henry Tonal' h ' r otPj On the 14th inst., at Acton, at the house of her ",,r law, the Rev. F. Wall, Mrs. Martin Wall, datig4iiiti-11, heiress of the late Humphrey and the Hon. Jane , 0 5 nadon, Devon. we*ii/ On the 15th inst., aged 66, at the Cloisters, •• jI• 1 after a long and painful illness, the Rev. Richard l$ '5 4 , 5 Prebendary of St. Paul's, and Rectorof&.Edn and Martyr, Lombard-street. 0 411,, On the 14th inst., Mr. Josep h S . Harrison, soliciNti Arms-yard, Coleman-street , aged 30 . v et.t et, 4 ,, On the 13th inst., at Walworth, Captain Robert • j r aged 67. Vi rF 4 0( On the 13th inst., Ann, the wife of Mr. Joh n 60' Tichfield-street. ,„ttr• On the 13th inst., in Torrington-square, Charw 4e o o ',.o7",,, the late George Edmunds, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn-fPioC"aer On the 11th inst., at his father-in-law's, 'ne, Charlton, Kent, in his 40th year, Mr. George S t° A .- son of W. Stone, Esq., of his Majesty's Dock-W."- ,r o OP PAINTED AND PUDLIERED BYlliUnDo yOld 01/101, ilk ItIRATIPp BIRTHS. of On the 15th inst., in Brunswick-square, the l 8 e Davis, Esq., of a daughter. On the 15th inst., in Stamford-street, Black fria tli Charles Price, of a son. MARRIED. df On the 15th inst., A. T. Malkin, Esq., to Mariann e, of the Rev. Addison Carr, Rector of Hadstock. I , f‘' ub r On the 14th inst., at St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington' ? Charles Jumpser, of Chelsea, to Miss Mary Drew, 50 0° 6 1/ , ' ter of Thomas Drew, Esq., of Brompton. 4 ° t On the 12th in st., at Petersfield, Hants, Will, 'a pc Esq., of Harting, to Elizabeth, second daughter of t G. Collins, of Dagstones-house, Sussex. nl" AA *hi t he O ty 14(