The Sun. — London, England, 1832-04-02 00:00:00

" . tOF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. s • r•; / - ation at Oxford has, as might he Ai • , by a swinging majority to 1,4114 s against the Reform Bill. 01 r to wigs of Oxford would not dis - onvocation history of ages past by "InrapallyNisi)Zrthodox decision. If it were put to the vote by their reverences, whether the revolu tion of 1688 should be unravelled, and James 11. recalled from the sepulchre, for the service of true Toryism in Church and State, who doubts that the affirmative of both propositions would be carried by a swinging majority ? It is said by a Sunday paper, in its simpleton de fence of the Bishops and the Universities, that these grave bodies have refuted the slanderous imputation too often cast upon them, of their subserviency on all occasions to the Minister of the day; for that, with regard to the Reform question, they have " preferred the Constitution to the Minister." Yes, when the question is between a Constitution full of vices, by which they hope long to profit, and a Minister bent upon the purification of those vices, whom they reckon on ousting from the Government by op posing him, it - is easy to see which they will " prefer," as well as their motives for the preference. Yet this is ascribed to the superior " education and intel ligence" of the reverend convocators of Oxford. Why, if education be college discip line, and if all useful intelligence be summed up in ill-learned Greek, stale port wine, and furious hatred of ame , idment, to be sure the people of England ought at once to accept the votes of a convocation as a basis for all Acts of Parliament in this country. But the obvious truth is, that the habits of our Oxonian residents, connected with, and aggravated by, the prevalent corrup tions of the church, have little to do with the acquisition of that species of " intelligence" which fits men to judge upon matters affe, ting our political constitution. Their large majori ties against " Reform" are neither no more nor le , s than so many measures of inferiority to the hulk of their countrymen in the most important branches of general knowledge. The larger their majorities in opposition to the general voice and determination of the people of England, the more palpable and more offensive is the brand by which they are separated from the rest of the community, and stigmatized as foes to the com• loon rights of Bri ons. If they can see an inch before them, they must be satisfied that Parlia mentary Reform is out of their keeping, and in vulnerable by their wretched cabals. If facts, notorious to all the rest of the world, speak still a tongue unknown to them, let their advocates boast with somewhat less assurance of the " education and intelligence" of these recluse intriguers. Let them stick to their school books, and not meddle with subjects beyond their comprehension.— Times. The sufferings of the poor and oppressed factory children are not likely to be soon alleviated. Though Mr. Sadler's Bill to einan cipte them from a state of bondage as painful and degrading as negro slavery was carried through a second reading in the House of Com mons, its further progress has been stopped, at least for a long time, if not defeated, by be ing referred to a Select Committee, instead of a Committee of the whole House. The only ground for sending a Bill before a Select Com mittee is to collect evidence to enable the House to legislate upon an accurate knowledge of facts. We should have thought that so much of Mr. Sadler's statements as was indisputeti would have been sufficient to warrant the House of Commons, without further inquiry, in adopt ing the provisions of' his Bill. It is not—it cannot be denied that children of a tender age are worked in our factories 12, 14, and 15, and sometimes 16 and 18 hours a day. Let us take the smallest number of hours—namely, 12, and we nay say this alone, as an admitted fact, fty ms a groundwork for .legislation. God and nature never intended that - half the period of exi,tence of a child of tei der years should he cow timed in constant drudgery in unwholesome air. We care not how light the labour may be, in one sense of the word—that is, how little muscular power it may require ; the constant at tendance- upon it for such a length of time de prives ch ldhood of the necessary hours of recrea tion, without which disease and infirmity must take possession of the human frame at the very time when it ought to be braced and invigorated by open air and healthful pastime. It also de prives it of the hours necessary for instruction, whether moral or intellectual; and thus, whether the human being be regarded as a mere animal, or as a being of higher powers and destinies, it is, by this cruel system, in the first years of' life, cut off from the attainment of the physical energies of the one and the moral improvement of the other. Besides the number of hours in the twenty-four to which it is obviously re quisite to restrict the labour of children, it is equally imperative on the Legislature not to al low children of a certain age to be worked in the factories at all. In regard to both these points what does Mr. Sadler's Bill pro pose ? It goes to enact that children under nine years of age shall not be employed in the factories, and that the labour of children above that age shall be limited to ten hours in the day. Now it is not denied that children under nine years are at present employed in the factories, and that children are, in general, worked consi derably more than ten hours a day. To know these two facts was all that Parliament needed to prove the existing necessity for passing Mr. Sadler's Bill. What sort of a House of Com mons is it, either for intelligence or humanity, which requires specific evidence to show that it is improper and inhuman to place children under nine years of age in the harness of fatiguing and unwholesome labour, and that it is equally im proper and inhuman to condemn children above that age to a continuance of toil beyond ten hours in the day ?—a duration of labour which has been considered too oppressive even in re gard to adult felons. The production of evi dence before a Committee of the House of Commons is attended with great expense. How can the poverty of the poor workmen contend in such a place against the resources of the rich masters? It is with pleasure we refer to an advertisement in our Paper of to-day, from a society . which Las just been formed to meet the difficulties of this case, of which his Royal High ness the Duke of Su ssex i s P atron, and the philanthropic William Allen the Chairman. That society purposes to collect funds necessary to prosecute this great contest, to advocate the cause of the helpless children, and " remove the reproach of infant slavery f'rom this Christian land."—Morning Herald. It may not be in the nature of some people to learn wisdom even from experience. We hope, however, there is nothing in the unassuming character and modest deportment of the present Irish Chief Secretary, that could place him within such a description of short-sighted, ob tuse mortals, who cannot see beyond the pre cinct of themselves, nor mark the signs of the time we live in. Indeed, we should hope better things of Mr. Stanley, and that he has by this time learned from the patriotic resistance of the small but firm body of Irish Members, in %vim' manner his system of coercion without concilia tion will be received in Ireland. He may pos sibly recollect the unhappy fate of his Arms Bill, for which he has acquired in that country an unenviable notoriety, and with which his tithe measure seems to be so nearly allied—and he should pause in his wild career before he attempts legislating for a country that has been but too long blessed with having a Secretary with every season, and a sys tern with every Secretary." We understand, however, that another effort will be made this evening, in the House of Commons, to en lighten Mr. Stanley on the tithe question, and that a set of counter-resolutions will be moved on bringing up the report of the Committee, than will place the subject in a right point of view before the public, and caution them against the dangers that will be likely to arise from the folly and fatuity of the coercive measures which Ministers still seemed disposed to adopt against the unfortunate peasantry and land-owners in Ireland.—Morning Chronicle. The declarations of Lords Harrowby and Wharncliffe, that they will not oppose the second reading of the Reform Bill, have not afforded much satisfaction to the country. The great fear is, lest Lord Grey should be out-manoeuvred by this apparent defection of these two Peers from the out-and-out Anti-Reformers. The fear is, that his Lordship will be drawn on till he has no longer power to extricate himself from the critical position in which he may find himself. The Leeds Mercury of Saturday last observes:— " From all that we can learn, Ministers have no secu rity that they will even carry the second reading. They reckon, indeed, on a small—a very small majority, includ ing the votes of the Harrowby and Wharncliffe party; but in contest of such vast importance, on which we may ti my assert that the safety of the empire is staked, is it the part of a good General to give battle with the chances so equally balanced, when he has it in his power at once to command the victory by increasing the strength of his army? Lord Grey is leading on a party, of which not a few are reluctant supporters of this measure, and some are possibly treacherous aides. Why not insure success, when it may be secured, anti when failure would he so disastrous? What would be the consequences of a defeat on th e second reading, or of the destruction of the Bill in the Committee? As regards the peace of the country, there would be imminent danger; an explosion of popular violence, however much to be deprecated by every true friend of his country, would be too probable to result of so grievous a disappointment ". In a well-written article in the New Monthly Magazine for April, the Ministerial plan of operations is, we think, satisfactorily shown to be full of hazard : " Lord Grey (says the writer) positively declares—at least so we are assured I.y those who would not deceive us —that he is ready, the moment he foresees any obstacle in the Committee that requires greater strength than the Government possesses at present in the Upper House, to make the necessary creation. But who denies—dues my Lord Grey even doubt—that these obstacles will be found, and the creation, therefore, necessary? Why not, tl en, we ask, as p 1 ,in men, wky not make it at once ? Be cause,' reply Lard Grey's friends and confidents, 'it is better that no Peers should be made for the second read ing, though it may he necessary to make Peers for the Committee. Let the Anti- Reformers pass the principle, and then they can scarcely blame us if we call in new forces to carry the details of this measure, the principle of which they themselves have sanctioned. Nor is it likely that so large a number would then be necessary. Several Peers who will be Reformers if the creation be not made will be Anti. Reiormers if it be. They are delicate logicians' and do not care much for a small swamp at one stage of the Bill, if they escape a great swamp at arm her.' To me, how ever, this argument seems but a pl etraible sophistry. How can my Lord Grey foresee with so unerring an accuracy the exact portions of the Bill which will be objected to in the Committee? May he never be taken unawares ! It is easy to say, if necessary, Peers shall be made. But the necessity may collie before the cr, ation ! Tt a Bill is read a second time; no Peers are made. Well ! Schedule A is to be passed. That clause will be stoutly opposed. No one denies that the Harrowhys who vote for ti e second reading will oppose schedule A. My Lord Grey is now, therefore, called upon to make Peers : he makes (accord ing to the principle by which he is reported to be actuated) the stna lest number possitil. —he just pours enough demi , crat-y into the old ch noel to fl .at off schedule A. But next comes schi du'. B. It is well known tha , many, very many Piers who will swallow the vaniels of schedule A. strain at the gnats of schedule B. If your fii at little batch has been a moderate one, we shall now want a few more votes for schedule B. So. presto ! off with a second batch ! Then comes the 101. franchise. May you not want a al. batch for that? And, lastly, the Aletropo litan districts; may nut a fourth batch be wanting fur them ? So that, instead of making one batch for one purpose, in a scholarlike and cleanly manner, we nay be obliged to go on hlunilering, and sprays ling, and sputtering out little batchkina of a dozen at a tune, making use of the same violent strugg'es for three or four occasions which would have sufficed fur one, and swamp ing, at it is called, the House of Lords. not for one gre it .end majestic end, but for a strictured and tedious series of events. Either Peers are necessary or they are not. The whole juggliog arid :eeislation of 'Not fur the second read ing,' and Certainly for the Committee,' may do very well for the metaphysical Sihellites of a college of schoolmen, but it is not the braid and stern line of argument that be cAnes a great statesman. New Peers are necessary or uot. If they are necessary, as it is universally allowed, it is better to make them at once than at any .übsequent stage ; and for these simple reasons, which plain men can understand. By making them now, you remove anxiety, fear, suspic'on among the people. By making them now, you put yourself beyond the power of surprise. You de lay making you dependent on the caprice--the humour (or even be it said) the honour of your enemies. Your firm ness would make these enemies dependent on you." Our weekly contemporary ( The Examiner) places the arguments against Earl Grey's policy in a very striking light : " Here the danger is laid in Lord Grey's chart, and it is one against which he cannot he secure, except by a cre tion. If ho carries the Bill to a third reading, without a reinforcement to he relied on, he, for no adequate olject (for there is no obj,ct adequate to such a risk) runs a hazard of mischiefs inc.alculatde to the country, and thus proves himself, in any event, favourable or disastrous, un worthy of the great task he has undertaken. There are acts of r:tahn.ss, which success itself wit not sanction. If he succeed, having pl iced himself at the mercy of faction, he will have chile with difficulty and danger which he might have done with security and rave: he will have played such a trick as lEmas would have done, had he danced the tight rope with Anchises on his shoulders. But if he should fail through the craft or whininess of the Tiny Lords, or the versatility of the Trimmers, what then ? The 510 ke would be final as regards the Ministry, and they know it; and the indignation of the nation would run ny re against the imbecility that had given the opportunity, than at the treachery with which the advantage of it was taken. If the stork will thrust his neck down the wolf's throat, why the stork is more to be blamed than the wolf for what may happen." From every quarter, then, we hear only the lan guage of despondency. No man doubts the honour of Earl Grey ; but all seem to question his possession of the energy demanded by the present crisis. We confess we have no faith in the skill of the Whigs in mancevring. Their opponents are ten times more dexterous than they are at that work. Earl Grey's strength is in his great c a us e , with which the nation is identified._Morning Chronicle. The present Ministers of the Crown seem to entertain n o ti ons so fl ex ibl e an d accommodating as to the validity of the obligation contracted 1)) public men when they give pledges respecting the policy they mean henceforth to pursue, that we should not be much surprised to see then, drop by one or two at a time- into the C miser• vaiive - ranks, and become as decided Anti-Revo lutionists as ourselves. An amusing illustra tion of this peculiarity in the character of our Rulers occurred the other night in the House of Commons, in the debate upon the subject of Irish tithe. Mr. Sheil maliciously quoted the resolution rejected by the House on the 6th of May. 1824, viz.—" Resolved, that it be referred to a Select Committee to inquire into the Revenues of the Church of Ireland, and whether they were not more than sufficient for the payment of the Clergy." He stated that nine Members of the present Government voted for this resolution, that he did not see how the Lord Chancellor and the Noble Paymaster of the Forces could escape from this resolu• tion, and that a persuasion existed in Ireland, that the Ministers were pledged to abolish the tithes, and lessen the amount of the clerical property in that country. Certainly Mr. Shiel was right enough in this. The resolution im plies the confiscation of Church property, and the putting the clergy upon the quantum merutt, for work and labour done. But how did Mr. Stanley extricate himself from the difficulty in which he was involved by this mischievous quo tation ? Listen. Mr. Stanley declared that none of the Ministers would be found to depart from the fair interpretation of any pledges they had ever given." Indeed. Is there then to be at once confiscation and no confiscation ? Or is this tithe question to di-solve the Cabinet ! Or are Lord Goderich, Lord Palmerston, the Grants, and the other Canningites who are deeply pledged to no confiscation, absolute nobodies ? Or are pledges given by public men for the future to be considered as words without meaning ? We take it for granted that the last must have been what the Right Honourable Gentleman intended to convey, for any other construction of his language would make it revolting to some of his Col leagues, and this makes it revolting only to men of principle and integrity. It is, no doubt, a great misfortune to a country when its leading politicians cultivate the habit of pledging them selves to specific measures, for no other pur pose than to serve the party purposes of the moment. When the nine Members of the pre sent Government voted in favour of the confis cation of Church property in Ireland, they little imagined probably that the time would come when they, being in power, the recollection of this pledge would be one of the main causes of a tithe rebelllion, accompanied by the most horrible circumstances of outrage and bloodshed in that country. Neither is it probable that Mr. Henry Brougham, when, to gain the votes of the Quakers and other dissenters in Yorkshire, he promised the speedy emancipation of the blacks, foresaw very distinctly that in a few months he would be Lord Chancellor of England, and that his pledges, coupled with his elevation, would in Jamaica operate as a firebrand, consign numerous planta tions to the flames, produce the destruction of an incalculable amount of property, reduce some hundreds of families from independent affluence to sudden and fearful ruin, condemn large bodies of the negroes, whom he affected to patronize, to death by famine, by the sword, and by the hands of the executioner. But they did give these pledges ; they did sow the dragon's teeth ; and they did this while they were striving with all their energy, and not without hope, to bring about the state of things in which the armed men were sure to spring up, in which it was morally certain that the natural harvest of blood and fire must be produced. The present Ministers have cost the country much—incalculably more than their utmost services can ever repay. But why do we speak of repayment or of services ? The highest talent, the purest integrity, the most ardent zeal in the public service, could never re pair the mischief which these too eager and too successful hunters after place have occasioned. What compensation then is to be expected from the future services of" men who have already shown themselves so utterly destitute of at least one of the most essential qualities of a States man, prudence or integrity ? Can it excite surprise that the Ministers, whose accession to power, in consequence of the symathtes they had evinct d, the doctrin,es, hadthey had made, c encouraged, and the promises they while desperately struggling for power, was a signal for insurrection in half the dependencies of the empire ; and of democratic turbulence in its very heart, should be compelled to increase that standing army, against the maintenance of which they had always been the most violent de claimers ? It can excite none. It \sill he a just subject of astonishment indeed, if, even with this increased military force at their command, they should be enabled to restore die empire they have disturbed and endangered to security and peace. We do not deny, far from it, that the increa , e is necessary , ; but this necessity is the opprobrium of die present administration. Would an increased army have been necessary to their predecessors ? No man believes it. Their constant cry when out of office was that the standing army is an unconstitutional descrip tion of force. Were they factious in opposi tion ? Or are they unconstitutional despots now that they are in power ? Let them make their choice.—Morning Post. LADYE CHAPEL, SOUTHWARK. DINNER TO CELEBRATE ITS RESTO RATION. On Saturday the friends to the restoration of the Ladye Chapel dined together at the London Tavern About 250 sat down to dinner, amongst whom we recognized Mr. Charles Bareky, M.P., Mr. Etty, R.A., and Messrs. Wallace, Savage, Nash, Cot tingham, Allen,G wilt, Rhodes, and Anson, architects. JOHN IVATT BRISCOE, Esq., M.P. for Surrey, in the chair. After dinner, the usual loyal toasts having been given, The CHAIRMAN gave," Success to the measures then in progress for the restoration of the Lady , . Chapel: and the opening of the view of the Church." Mr. SAUNDERS read a long list of subscriptions, at the head of which was the Chairman, ten guineas, and Mr. Denison, his colleague, the like sum. About 300 guineas were collected in the course of the evening, and the subscription was announced as amounting to nearly 2.0001. The next toast given was, " The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Marqu's of Lansdowne, and the Aber 'Members of both Hous,s of Parliament who ,iad supported the restoration of the Ladye Chapel, which the Chairman ob3erved was equivalent to i!t•itiking the healths of the Members of both houses of Parl:anient, as he could safely say h e h a d not heard anv individual Member o f e i t h er House ex press himself unPvourahly to that object. CHARLES PUTT, Esq. (treasurer), said, that by he indulgence of the chairman he would propose a toast, " The health of those Members of the House If Commons who had supported the cause of the :,adye Giapel in she House and in the Committee." ['he toast was drunk with much applause. Me. LEADER returned thanks, and concluded by iiroposing the health of the chairman), which was hank with the customary hollows. The CHAIRMAN briefly returned thanks. Alter ,everal other toasts, the Chairman and the note distinguished members retired at half-past ele :ell, but a large portion of the company remained li a late hour, WARWICK, MARCH 30. John Danks, a farmer's labourer, aged 47, was in dicted for the wilful murder of Mary Green. The deceased Mary Green, who more commonly went by the name of Polly Button, oas a single woman of loose character, residing at Nuneaton, and had had several illegitimate children, some of whom were grown up, the youngest of them, about two years old, she had sworn to the prisoner; and she wa., at the time of her death, far advanced in her pregnancy of another child, of which he was also the father. On the evening of Saturday, the 17th of March, the prisoner came to the house of the de ceased, and called her out, saying he wanted to speak to her. She went out, and they had some conversation together. She then, seeing her nephew go in, went in also, and in a little time the prisoner threw something against the window, as a signal for her to go out to him, which she did, and he took her across some fields, called Burgage-fields, to a hovel which they bird been in the habit of fre quenting, and sometime afterwards two neighbours heard the voice of a woman in distress proceeding from that direction, arid exclaiming, " 0), oh, loose me, loose me." The sounds d , ed away, and nothing further transpired until the following morn ing. On that night the prisoner, who was a mar ried man, returned home about nine or ten o'clock, and went to bed. The daughter of the deceased, who had gone out with her cousin, upon returning home at ten o'clock, found the door locked: and having knocked up her brother, got in through the window. Not finding her . rnother at home, she sat up for her all night, but could learn no tidings of her until next morning, when she was carved home a corpse, with her throat cut in a dreadful manner n investigation immediately took place, and blood was traced from the hovel to where the deceased was found, a distance of several yard-, with a gate between, on which also there were maths of blood. Prints of a shoe were found in an adjoining field, which corresponded with the shoe of the prisoner; in addition to which, he confessed to the constable that he had knocked down the deceased in the hut by a blow of his fist on the remple, and when she was down lie fell upon her and cut her throat. The Jury having returned a v e rdict of Guilty, The Learned JUDGE sentenced the prisoner to be executed on Monday morning, and his body to be diEsected. John Coleman, a farmer, about 60 years of age, was indicted for the murder of Edward Goode. The prisoner was a tenant of Lord Bute's, of whom he rented from 200 to 300 acres of land at Shotteswell; but having failed to pay up his arrears of rent, his crops were distrained last summer, and person placed in care of th m, to get them in and manage them. Ever since then the prisoner has been extremely irritable and disturbed in his mind.— On the Bth of October last, the deceased and an other man, and his son, were employed in tha , ching a rick of hay, and the prisoner objected to allow them to take water from his pump. Having observed the boy fill a bucket of water he went out and kicked it down, and subsequently emptied another bucket full over the lad's person, who thereupon went to his father and complained of this treatment. The deceased, the boy, and his father, then went all three to the pump, and the deceased took the bucket to fill it with water. The prisoner said he should have ne water there. The deceased, who had his pitchfork in his hand, said he should have his bucket and water also. He and the prisoner then struggled for the bucket, which the deceased succeeded in wresting from the hold of the prisoner, who imme diately went into his house and discharged a gun, loaded with shot, through the window at the de ceased, who was within about three yards of him. The shot took effect in the deceased's forehead, en tered the brain, carried off some of the skull, and killed him on the spot. The prisoner received a good character for kindness of disposition down to the time when the distress was levied on his farm ; which, together with some contradictions on the part of the witnesses for the prosecution, induced the Jury to find a verdict of Manslaughter only. Mr. Justice PARKE sentenced the prisoner to be transported for life. Saturday, March 31. John Garmonsway, aged 33, was indicted for the murder of Thomas Worron. The pi isoner arid the deceased were both journeymen in the employment of Mr. Knight, clock-maker, at Birmingham. On the 21st of October last, the prisoner having taken it into his head that the deceased had injured his work and spoiled his clothes, took up a sharp in strument called a scraper and plunged it into the deceased's breast. The wound penetrated to the heart, arid the deceased died in a few minutes. It appeared that the prisoner had laboured under a lusion for twelve orthirteen years past, that where ever he went, whether in London or Birmingham, there wa- a conspiracy to injure and persecute him by spoiling his wink and injuring his clothes, al though there existed not the slightest foundation for s , rcit an idea. His brother died insane about ten y. , ars ago. The Jury acquitted him, on the ground of insa nity : he wdi therefore be confined at the plea,ure of the Cr ,wn. Eliza Maria Jones, aged 30, was indicted for the murder of her new-born illeg , timate child, at Bir mingham, on the 20,h of October last The Jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty. Henry Parker, aged 19, Robert Twigger, aged 20 John Eal y, aged 22, Henry Ashley, aged 22, Thomas Squelch, aged 26, and Joseph Squelch, age d 22, %%ere indicted for shooting at Simeon Clay, with intent to murder him, or do him soms grievous bo dily haim. The July found Packer and Twigger Guilty, and acquitted the other four prisoners. Ealy,Ashley, and the two Squelches were then arraigned upon an indictment, charging them with being found in the wood at night, armed with guns, for the purpose of destroying game. Ealy and A-hley pleaded Guilty. The Squelches pleaded Not Guslty, and attempted to prove an alibi, in which they failed. They were found Gu lty. Judgment will be pronounced upon them on Mon day morning. RATIIBONE V. PIERCE. This action, o hich excited great interest in this part of the country, was brought by the plaintiff, the messman of the 3d Dragoon Guards, against the defendant, an officer of that regiment, to reco•et compensation for the seduction of the plaintiff's daughter After the cause was called on, the par ties came to an arrangement, and a verdict was taken by consent for 1501. damages. None of the particulars were stated; but we un derstand that the cause of action arose in Birming ham, when the regiment was quartered there, about three years ago. GLOCES TER ASSIZES, MARCH 30. Business com►n-aced here on Thursday. The Grand Jury was sworn in late on that day. There are 200 prisoners for trial, but no case of any pecu liar interest. There is one for murder, and three or four of the Bristol rioters to be tried for pulling down the toll-house at Bristol, which is in this county. On the Civil Side there are 36 causes, but they are generally of local interest. Thomas Newman, a very interesting genteel• look rig young man, aged 19, was charged with having on the 18th of November last, in Chelten ham, destroyed a certain letter which was delivered into his possession as a letter-carrier, and feloniously stealing thereout a 10/. bank -note, the property of Thomas Radnor. Mr. Henry Lucie, postmaster of Cheltenham.— The prisoner was a letter-carrier on November last ; he had been so for about ten months previously ; 1 recollect the London bag arriving on the 18th ; tt was properly tied and sealed uh ; I opened it ; I put the letters out on the table ; they were given in charge to the clerk, Mr. Cousins ; the prisoner was a letter-carrier of one of eight districts; the noose of Mr. William Radnor is in the prisoner's district. Edward Allen Cousins—On the 19th of Novem- her last I met the prisonero n the road to Tewkes bury; it was about twelve or one o'clock in the day, we went as far as Tewkesbury, and stopped at the Farriers' Arms, and had two pints of beer; whilst I was drinking a part of one of them, prisoner let the house, and said he was going to see a girl ; when he returned we left the public-house together: when we came to the Bell and Bowling-green, I asked him the way to Forthampton : he said, " I -hall not go there to-day." I asked him the rea son ; prisoner said, " I'll tell you what," and laughed; I then asked him what it was he had ti tell me. He said " that he had broken open a tetter and had taken a 101. note out of it." I said " I would not believe it ;" he then pulled out of hi• pocket twelve sovereigns and a-half, and offered six sovereigns and a half; I said that I would no take them. I then !aid to him, " instead of going to see a girl, you went to change the note." 1-1 , said that he did ; arid when in the batik the clerk asked him his name, he was in such a " fluster," , ie gave his own,—he could think of no other; I then advised him to go back to the gentleman •o beg his pardon and return the money; prisonir said that he was just thinking of doing so; I went with him to Cheltenham, and saw him go to Mr. Radnor's; I stood outside the door and saw him go in. Mr. Philip Radnor of London—l was in Chel tenham in November last, and lodged at 439, High street ; I recollect the prisoner calling on me on the 19th ; I brought him into my private apartments; he immediately threw himself on his knees, and im plored my pardon, for he said that he had robbed me; I asked him to explain : he said that he had opened a letter of mine, and rook a 101. rote out of and changed it at the Tewkesbury bank : he then gave me ten sovereigns. _ Several highly respectable gentlemen gave the prisoner a most excellent character. The prisoner was found Guilty, but strongly re commended to mercy. His Lordship said, from the excellent character which he had received, he thought the ends of justice would be satisfied in giving his case a most indulgent consideration. SATURDAY, MARCH 31. BUBB V. ESSEX. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a poor labouring man, against the defendant, an opulent farmer, to recover compensation for the breaking of the thigh-bone of his (the plaintiff's wife) by the de fendant's wife. The plaintiff and his ,wife are in a very humble station in life, and reside at Averting, in this county, near the residence of the defendant, who is an opu lent farmer there. The plaintiff and his wife were employed by the defendant in agricultural business, and it appeared that in the forenoon of the 17th of August last, being a wet day, the plaintiff's wile (Mrs. Bubb) did not go to work for the defendant, but employed herself in gleaning in one of his fields. About mid-day, the weather having cleared up, Mrs. Bubb returned to labour, having left her glean ings near the gate. The defendant's wife (Mrs. Essex) came down a lane, and there saw the glean ings, which she seized. The plaintiff's wife, having heard of her doing so, directly followed her down the lane, and demanded the gleanings. Mrs. Essex refused to part with them, and Mrs. Bubb forcibly took two or three ears from Mrs. Essex. It would not be denied that the plaintiff's wife had com mitted an assault upon the defendant's, in forcibly taking the ears of corn ; yet Mrs. Essex could only be justified in defending herself; but, not con tent with doing so, being a very powerful woman, she knocked Mrs. Bubb down, and so tremendous was the blow, and so severe the fall, that it broke Mrs. Bubb's thigh-bone. The unfortunate woman endured the most excruciating agony. A thunder storm came on, arid she lay under a hedge for a con siderable time, exposed to the effects of it. She was at length carried home, and kept her bed four months, arid ultimately was obliged to use crutches, one leg being shorter than the other, and beyond all doubt she would be a cripple for life. Before the present action was brought, Mr. Houseman, the plaintiff's attorney, wrote a letter to the defendant, Mr. Essex, seeking compensation for his client, but it remained unnoticed. The plaintiff was undoubtedly entitled to a verdict, and the only question was that of damages. After hearing other evidence, the Jury returned a verdict of 601. damages. YORK ASSIZES, MARCH 29. Joseph Brooke was indicted for uttering two forge.: 51. notes, of the Dewsbury Bank, of Hague, Cook, and Co., kn.i wing the same to be forged, with intent to defraud Brian Abbey. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty. The same prisoner was then tried upon another indictment, charging him with a similar offence, and found Guilty. John Sutcliffe ,vas then put. to the bar, and tried upon a Aimiiar charge of uttering a forged 5/. note to Mr. Dy , on. It appeared that the prisoner had expressed a de sire to turn king's evidence, and had said he could get a hundred such note, within five miles. Ver dict—Guilty. FRIDAY, MARCH 30. James Bradshaw and John Bradshaw were charged with having, on the morning of the 3 , 1 of ,Va►rh la-t, unlawfully and maliciously cur, broken, o r damaged, with intent to render useless, certain machines called grinding machines, the property of John and Henry Sdnderson, of Stieffit4d. The jury, after hearing evidence, found the pri soners trot NAVAL IN TELLIGENCE. (From the Portsmouth Herald .4 Sun day.) PORTSNIOUTH. MARCH 31.—His Majesty's brig Pants lo.m, 10, tender to the 11..yal Geotge yacht, Lieut. Diw son, returned from a cruise on Sundry, and came into harbour. —____ The Gossamer, tender to his Majesty's ship Victory, sailed on Sun•'ay for Falmouth. His Majesty's gun brig Leveret- 10, Lieut. W. F. Lle pislge, artived from Plymouth on %londay, with super numeraries for ships at this port, and Marines belongii4: to this Division, lately paid off from his Majesty's ship Ferret, and returned the •ame day. His Majesty's gun•hrig Recrui , 10, Lieut Hodges, re turned on Monday from her cruising station, and is unakin t good some necessary detects. His Majesty's sham-vessel Meteor, Lieutenant Symons, came in on Friday ,roar the River, on her way to Fal mouth, where she will receive on board the next Med - terranean mail. Lieut. M. Clive, appointed to his Ma jesty's ship St. Vincent, went out passenger in the Meteor, which proceeded on the sane day. The cr w of his M.,jesty's ship Ganges, which was pai I off last week, subscrtbed the sum of upwards of 5/. in aid of the funds of the Seamen's Hospital-ship Dreadnought, in the River. l A n t H S u p r i t b l n i e u l— N ß ri r e i t t o a r n y n , i a, RoyalTa I a George, e e r o a r , g Recruit, ant a Pantaloon, Arab Em erald, e and 11,covery transports. sT r ill- l a ) g , v it e a e ol l o C T n A e N e e A a II V I e N 4 73 I I . E TS. Lieut. C. S. Bo sHr.n q p u i e pr t roi: i .o s ,r a3hviA Majesty's jp e rne d isnetyas t n o , i h s i l appoints lllety d 's to sh h i i i : Majesty's ship shipis ea n, Victory, Supernumerary doii,doing duly A s a s t i s t i a i r a i s t : lar, is appointed to his Majesty's surveying-vessel Investi gator, at Woolwich. Mr. Spencer Stirling, Mate of hi- Maj sty's ship Victory, is appointed to his Majesty's reve nue cruiser Eagle. Mr. W. Harries, Clerk, is appointed to his Majesty's ship Ocean, vice R. S. Stokes, appointed to his Majesty's ship Conway. Second Lieut. Thorn s Fraser is appointed from the Woolwich to the Portsmouth Division ef Royal Marines, vice Colliss, promoted. Mr. Roger Wright Ilawkes is appointed a Second Lieutenant of Roy a l M a rines at the Woolwich Division, vice Fraser. The officers of the Royal Marine Artillery have pre sented Colour Serjeant Kirbie, on hie discharge, with a very handsome silver tankard, to mark their sense of his zeal and unwearied attent ion to the duties of his station, during a long course of honourable service. Mr. Houston, late Midshipman of his Majesty's ship Stag, recently promoted , had the honour to receive a gold medal at the Royal Na val Colle g e. Lieut. Edward H. Butterfield, whose pro-notion to the rank of Commander, for his gallant conduct at the cap ture of the Velez Passagora slave-ship, is the son of Cap tain William Butterfield, of the Royal Navy, so wel known as the gallant supporter of the late Captain Alex- Oats. Beans. Ter Quarter. Hexham Morpeth Penrith Skettield Winchester Per Bushel. Coventry Newcastle (Staff.) Northallerton Stone..-- Sw•anSea Warwick Per 8011. Barnardcastle Durham Richmond Stockton _ 66 to s. 3 5 6 to s. j 57 65 30 35 54 62 32 36 62 33 —64 43 60 68 30 36 s s.d. s. 0. s.d. 63 70 36 39 70 90 48 54 90 92 60 64 70 93 36 46 91 93 56 60 76 80 39 40 90 10 0 4 6 50 150 17 6 9 0 100 140 163 90 100 150 180 90 9ti 1146 180 96 100 a, to 8. i 2O 24 20 25 23 22 22 24 s. d. s. d. 16 20 3 6 4 0 36 39 33 4 0 39 4 0 20 24 22 26 53 60 46 70 50 68 50 70 S. E. 41 -- 32 40 39 42 46 s. d. I. 00 00 56 60 49 50 56 60 70 80 O 0 0 73 70 00 11 C 9 0 10C 9 0 10 C 00 0C WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.-March 30. Wheat, Red, Norfolk and SutTolk -s. 535. to 58. tine 61,.. Lin. and Cam. -s. 535. to 58s fine fils. Yorkshire -s. 555. to 58s. fine Gls. Whit, -a. Lfis to fits. fine 655. - Foreign, Red -s. 475. to 525. tine 58s. White -5. -s. to -s. fine 635. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk - Lincolnshire 33s. to 3Ss. fine 425. - Yorkshire Wold 34s. to 38s fine 41s. - Foreign -s. to -s. tine -s. Beans, Small 37s to 395. fine 41s. - Tick 128. to 345. fine :36s Oats, Potato 22s. to 255. fine gis. - Poland -s. 20s. to 245. fine 251. Friezland and Small -s. 17s to 225. fine 245. Mealing lOl. to IN d. per Stone. Shelling SIBS. to 295. 00. per Load. Malt 325. 40s. tine 445. per Load. Rapesved COW , . WALI AIARKET. TRURO—Wheat (average) 223. 118.3c1.—Oats,9s. ST ArsTELL—Wheat, to ‘.s.—Barley, —s. to ILL—Oath Os. to Bs. Od. BonmiN—Wheat (average) 22s o.l.—Barley, Ils. Od.—Oats, 83 H ELSTON—Wheat, 235. Od.—Bariey, I is 6d. PENZANCE—Wheat, 2''s. to 24s.—Barley, —t. to 12.4.—0ati , Os. to 8,3. Od.—Beef and Mutton, sd. to 6d.—Pork, 31d. to 4d," Butter, 1241. per lb. LtsKttAttn—Wheat, —s. Ott. to23s.—Barley, I Is. 81--Oats, 0 6 to 7s. 6d. LA .A U NC F:STON—W heat (average) 275. o,l.—Barley,l Os. 4, I.—Oati , 7s o.l.—Beer, 6 , l—Mutton, Sr. Cot.usin—Wheat, Z2s. to 2 3s.—Barley, I Is. to 12,—Beg ,rl Mutton, 4d. to 6,l.—heal, .amb, Od. MINING IN PELL! G ENC/i. Tons. 1.;v0." mantity 01 Copper Ore sola>t Redruth last Thurd h y 3,291 0 , uantity of fine•26B 17 -verage Produce 8% U Amount of Sale, 17,611/. Ss N.—Average Standard. 99/. 5,0 d. grOTCH MARKETS. Wheat. Batley Oats. Beans l latm A bet devil ...... B Coldstream C,:par Dundee 50 58 40 43 38 42 59 tl4 18 56 52 56 52 58 4'2 45 40 45 Go 64 of the no, ---- —.- 25 29 19 22 20 23 15 17 20 22 lti IS 30 34 21 24 32 35 23 27 25 32 20 24 33 34 20 24 23 26 17 19 27 39 25 32 28 31 24 214 asore varies throo In;erness—,. Kelso Perth The size - - 30 3 1 i. 2 24 35 fiS 30 31 27 31 -••• 28 31) -.. .." 23 31 .... 123 30 48 -',' 22 '26 .. "- ,Z, 45 48 43 4. 2.5 29 .. hout the cesuntri'7. BIRTHS. On the 30th ult. in Clifford-street, the Lady Janet Walrond, a daughter. On the 31st ult. the lady of Th omas Morgan, Esq., r r , PP el Brook-street, of a son. On the 31st ult. in Brunswick-square, the lady of John E. g., of a son. On the 29th ult. the lady of Alexander Elphinston E sq. , of th! dau Hon. East India Comp a ny' s B om b ay Civil Service, of twitghte. On the 29th ult. at Wooll e y H a ll , Berkshire, the lady of t -1, Rev. Augustus Philip Clayton, of a still-born son. On the Ist inst. in B uckingham.street, Adelphi, the lady ul William Jenkins, Esq., of a son. MARRIED. On the 31st ult. at Itemenham, Berkshire, James Muria, Green, Esq., of T orr i ngton-square, to Louisa Elizabeth, eldes t daughter of Reginald Graham, Esq., of Remenham Lawn. On the 31st ult. a t S t. James's, Clerkenwell, John Scott, F,s(11! of Claremont-square, t o Miss Elizabeth Purse, of Cowley How , ' Oxon. On the 29th ult. at St. Giles's, Cripplegate, Anne, 11)14 daughter of Mr. Aaron Stafford, of Fore-street, to Mr. W. Lain' ) of Islington. On the 3lst ult. George's, Bloomsbury, John Curtis, EA, of Hunter.street, Brunswick -square, to Sarah, youngest daught e " of Benjamin Hawes, Esq., of Russell-square. DIED. pa ( g ) , n , 30th ult. at Pointers, Surrey, Catherine, wife of Thoin: On the 31 s t u lt, i n h er 2 3 d year, A nna Maria the only st viving daughter of Willi a m He nn by, E sq., of Upper Norton' street, St. Marylebone. On the 31st ult. aged 12 years, after a lingering illness, Hann,' t Jane, third daughter of Mr. George Jennings, of Spital-square., On the 26th ult. in St. Swithi t e s -l ane, Lombard-street, Jame Alley, Esq., aged 71. On the 31st ult. in Montagu-street, Portman-synare, Susanns, t C e a n t a h , e l t_ r i (2 n o e i e f i e l o t o f James ,v les Rust, On the '2sth ult. Harry B r i dger, Esq of Buekingham-plac es near Shoreham, Su ssex. Esq., and on l y d aug h ter o f Lie" On the 28th ult. aged 18, Catherine Louisa, third daughter!, the Rev. illnFess.red. Ans on, Prebenda r y o f S out h we l l, after a f o .' night's On the 30th ult. at Feversh• m, Kent, John Bait, Esq , aged, PAINTAD tD PUULISIIFO RY MURDO YOUNG, A T TIJ Sux OFFICE, 112, STRAND, LONDON. ander Hood, of the Mars, when that officer lost hie life in tction with La Heche. By the demise of Captain Henry John Hatton, A.N., who died on the 11th inst. a Gentleman Usbership of lee Majesty's Privy Chamber has become vacant. The si tuation, we believe, is in the gift of the Duke of Devon liire, the Lord Chamberlain. The Duke of York packet, Lieutenant R. Snell, sailed from Falmouth, on the 26th ult. for Jamaica and Mexico, vith a mail of the 21st. His Majesty's packet brig, Goldfinch, 6, Lieutenant J Walkie, sailed from Falmouth on the 26th ult. for the Leeward Islands, with a mail of the 21st. His Majesty's brig Onyx, 10, Lieutenant A. B. Howe, tender to the Royal George yacht, which sailed from this port on the 20th ult. arrived on the 23rd at Plymouth, sod sailed again on the same day for Cork His Majesty's ship Stag, 46, Captain Sir E. T. Trou bridge, Bart. has been ordered from Plymouth to the Azores, to afford protection to British merchants during tbe present unsettled state of affairs in that quarter. His Majesty's ship Briton, 46, Captain J. D. Markland, C. 8., now on the like service at Madeira. The flppe, transport, Lieut. Ryder, Agent, which soiled from this port for Plymouth, on, the 15th ult. with g ve rnin en t stores for that Dock-yard, arrived at Ply mouth on the 22d ult. Ships in Plymouth Hamoaze—San Josef, Romney, Echo steam .ve.sel, Dili , ence, Industry, and Hope tran sports. In the Sound—Caledonia. At the Island—Leveret. His Majesty's revenue cruiser, Horner, Lieut. Aldred, experienced a most viol , nt gale in St. George's Channel, on the 6th inst. and after lying twelve hours under double. reeled try,ail with her hatches hatteneildown, was obliged to hear away and run for the Lough of Belfast, a distance of upwards of eighty miles, where she arrived on the fol lowing day. Aft r a imecession of heavy gales, she arrived at George the Fourth's Harbour, Kingston, near Dublin, on the 16th ult. in company with the Diligence, revenue cruiser, Sir John Reid, Bart. Commander. The England, convict ship, arrived at Sheerness on the 23rd ult. to embark convicts at that port for New South Wales. She receive., forty convicts on board from the Retribution, in that harbour. The brigantine Viper, 6, Lieut. James, arrived at Sheer ness en the 24;h tilt , from a cruise, and sailed again on Wednesday I tat. The Salatninder, steamer, of large dimensions, will be lunched front Sheerness Doek-yard during the pre,ent month, and tke Vestal, 28, to be built on Capt. Symonds's plan, will be immediately laid down on her slip. The Ftiry, 10, was hauled out of the basin at Sheer ness on Wednesday last, alongside the. Shanno n hulk, pre paratoryto her proceeding on surveyin g serv i ce, i n t h e North Sea. A splendid breakfast was given at Chatham, on the 24th ult., on board the Royal Sovereign yacht, by her Com mander, Captain Charles /Wen, C. 8., who has been re cently appointed Superintendent ot Chatham yard, to the chi,f officers of the public departments and principal in habitants. Ships at Sheerness—ln dock, Hercules and Alert. Ili his n, Ocean, and Lion, sheer-hulk. Building, Sala mander steamer, and Caliope packet. In harbaur, Fairy. The Naval Captains at present employed .ss Inspecting Commanders in the Coast Guard pf Ireland, are about to be superseded by Commanders. It is ascertained, beyond all doubt, that there are at present no less than eighteen hundred Mates and Midship menunemyloyed ! Sir Robert Seppings visited Chatham Dock-yard last week on a professional survey. A series of packets has been engaged by the Portuguese Regency to run regularly every ten days between Terceira and Falmouth. Four vessels of light construction and good sailers have been taken up fur that purpose. The first was to sail on the arrival of last Thursday's mail at Falmouth. We are happy, in testimony of the presence of mind and gallant conduct of Mr. Benjamin T. Fox, a midship man on board his Majesty's brig Brisk, to record that the grateful thanks of a general court of the Royal Humane Society, held on the 11th of January last, were unani mously voted and transmitted to that gentleman, fur hilt courage and humanity in jumping into the Rapids of the river Chagres to the relief of his late commander, Henry Foster, E.q., of his Majesty's atop Chanticleer, who had unfortunately fallen overboard, and for his gallant and tneritorious efforts to save his life. This flattering reso lution was communicated to Mr. Fox, signed by the Duke of Northumberland, as president of the society, and by Colonel Clithero, chairman of the meeting. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAST WEEK. Wheat. Barley.