The Sun. — London, England, 1832-06-07 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We communicate to the country, with deer and sincere grief, the fact that his Majesty will not attend in person to give the Royal Assent to the English Reform Bill. A more unfortunate deteimination could not have been imposed on the King, and it must have been instigated by courtier advisers surrounding the Royal Pers on , actuated by a desire to sow jealousies between the Monarch and his people. The utmost excite ment pervaded this great metropolis the whole of yesterday, from an anxiety that his Majesty should avail himself of the golden opportunity of this grand national occasion to renew his so lemn covenant of affection and liberty with his loyal subjects. Arrangements had been made for his Majesty's popular reception by deputa tions from the different parishes of the metropo lis. Up to a late hour yesterday afternoon, the King was at St. James's, which was naturally considered as an indication of his intention to go down to Parliament in person this day ; anda report was current that the Royal equipages were prepared for the joyous event. His Majesty, however, took his departure, last night, fir Windsor, and, with feelings of deep regret, we deem it to be our duty to allay the public anxiety and certain disappointment by this previous communication. Such a grievous decision cannot, v.e are confident, be attributed to the Cabinet ; it must emanate from those despicable minions who have unhappily misled his Majesty, and who, for their own base pur poses, endeavour to estrange him from the af fections of the people. The back stairs in triguers—the miserable whisperers in the Royal ear, are the responsible agents of this national disappointment ; they have destroyed themselves, and they now seek to involve the Monarch in their own fall. On their heads be the respon sibility and consequences of the act. His Ma jesty must be surrounded by deceivers and ca lumniators of the people ; his own natural impulses would otherwise have gratified the ardent and loyal hopes of his subjects. The Royal Assent will be given to the Bill, in the House of Lords, this day, at four o'clock, by commission ; the usual State Officers will attend for that joyful purpose—Lord Grey, Lord Brougham, Lord Durham, Lord Lansdowne, and other official organs of the Government.— Morning Chronicle. The Political Unions are the favourite sub ject of abuse and vituperation by the Anti-Re formers in Parliament. These desperate and sagacious party politicians have various motives for their malignity and hate. First, they are sensitively aware, that these Political Associa tions have mainly contributed to break up the borough system, and, by their energy and union, to defeat the base machinations of the Tories and " Red Tape" placemen. Secondly, they ingeniously and artfully hope to increase the dif fictf ties of the Government in regard to Politi cal Unions, and the natural jealousy of the Crown of their existence and possible continua tion. These are the double motives of the pre sent factious opposition. We have only to sub mit their hollow and base devices to the test of fact and common sense, to expose their titter insincerity and baseness. Mr. Thomas A ttwood is denounced as the Father of Political Unions. But what is their real parentage ? The Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel are the real parents of Political Unions—the father and mother, who have indeed begotten mon sters that devoured themselves. The ever memorable consequences of the East Ret furd votes are notorious to the whole king dom. The craft and blindness of Sir Robert Peel insulted and outraged the hopes of the public-spirited and energetic inhabitants of Bir• iningham. The loan cunning and short-sighted policy of Sir Robert Peel terminated all expec tation of any the smallest quantum of Reform. The subsequent insane and infatuated declaration by the Duke of Wellington, on the opening of the autumn session of 1830, notwithstanding the important events and solemn warnings in France, that the constitution of the House o Commons was perfect, filled the minds of the British people with dismay and despair, and nerved their hearts with bold and patriotic de termination. The Birmingham Union, at that momentous period, stood alone—a lighthouse in the ocean of corruption. It formed, in the centre of a vast and intelligent population, the nucleus and point d'appui of political combi nation. In a short period the radii of its central influence extended to the remotest part of the United Kingdom. The Reformers made com mon cause, and buried in oblivion their various differences of opinion—forming a solemn league arid covenant to depose the infamous faction and oligarchy which had so long tyrannized over the country, And how were these Political Asso- ciations constituted ? We assert, strictly within the law ; and it is a remarkable fact Chat, sub- sisting for months before the breaking up of the Wellington Administration, they were ogoicr even in any single instance arraigned for a breach of - the — law ! Happy would the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Ppel have considered themselves if they could 1 - see discovered a plausible excuse for supressing these formidable bodies, or blackening them by sfr-gal persecution ! But it was impossible, though often sought ; and the Ex-Ministers who now taunt the present Government with corre spondence with these strictly legal bodies, actually aila frequently exchanged communications with xhe Linions ! Facts are stubborn things, and. the records of many Political Unions attest the truth of this assertion. Assuredly it is cues 4cely natural, that Sir Robert Peel and John Wilson Croker should bitterly hate the instru- Men ts which have thus contributed to dose their . . political existence ; hence the bitter animosity of the ex-placemen against the clubs of the people. Pitt Clubs, Boodle's, Constitutional Associations, and Charles-street Gangs, were righteous and !evil in the eyes of the Tories as combinations againat the rights of the people ; but other Political Unions, to renovate the Constitution, to enforce a new distribution of power, called for by time and the diffusion of knowledge, were, formooth, illegal and unconstitutional ! The boroughmongers early foresaw the germ of their destruction in the union of the people. Sedition And riot were anciently the only illegal objects or unconstitutional acts of political associations. The common law was the sole requisite se- curity against illegal proceedings. In the year 1780 was formed the Society for diffusing Information on Constitutional matters, and in the memorable year 1792, the London Corre sponding Society and the Society of the Friends of the People were formed to promote Parlia mentary Reform. At the head of the latter Political Associatioi stood Charles Grey and twenty two Members of the House of Commons, with all the popular and influential Reformers of the day. Mr. Pitt soon discerned the certain ruin of corruption in these societies. 'rile infamous and rotten system of representation was soon exposed to the public `;sae and abhorrence, and the whole country roused to a sense of its politi vat 'degradation: Green-bag plots, secret com mittees, and reports, were speedily contrived, to keep down the rising spirit of the people. Every possible political bugbear was invented by an infamous Ministry to " put down" Reform. The bug-a-boo of a French invasion was the most successful diversion, and a foreign war the ingenious contrivance to cheat the public mind. The Habeas Corpus Act was suspended, and warrants from the Privy Council were profusely issued against every young and indiscreet Re former. Pitt's Sedition Act was the first statute against the political liberties of the people. This infamous sample of a scandalous legislation ex pired 1798. In 1799 an ACt was passed (39th Geo. 111., c. 79) " for the more effectual sup pression of societies established for seditious and ;treasonable purposes, and for the better prevent ing seditious and treasonable practices ;" in other I words—for the felonious purpose of postponing !Parliamentary Reform. This statute ren dered illegal all political tests, delegations, and 'correspondence, enacting certain penalties for evasion. Prosecutions succeeded against Horne Tooke, Hardy, Muir, Palmer, and the un fortunate and noble-minded Gerrald. The heart shudders at the remembrance of these cruel sa crifices of victims, whose sufferings were the fertile nurture of Reform. In 1817, the popu lar demand for Reform again burst forth. A new political extinguisher became necessary. The boroughmongers provided one in the statute of the 57th Geo. 111., c. 19. This iniquitous act of legislation was similar to its predecessor, it prohibited correspondence and delegation. But in no single instance have the political unions of the present era of Reform violated the letter or spirit of the law. They have been strictly lawful and constitutional associations, for the ac complishment of Parliamentary Reform. If revolution had been the ostensible or secret ob ject, as asserted by the Tories, excellent oppor tunities existed in October and May last. Sir Robert Peel and his footman, John Wilson Croker, taunt the Government with the imputa tion that the Proclamation of November last was intended to suppress these political bodies. They well know that its only object was to pre vent an illegal police organization, which com menced in Birmingham, and that no proclama tion can over-ride the law, or make political as sociations illegal which are strictly constitutional. But it is convenient for these two " veritable Statesmen" to make Political Unions the ful cruin of their party levers, and to endeavour art fully to excite the fears of his Majesty against them. The Unions, however, have eman cipated the King from the thraldom and vassalage of the boroughmongers. They have redeemed the people from political slavery and from fiscal extortions, more intolerable than the oppressions and plagues of Egypt. Mr. John Wilson Croker, N' ho is extremely choice in his precedents from the United States, cites the opinion of Washington against the impe rzum in imperio of political associations. Un questionably these bodies are inconsistent with good government and national peace. But what is their cause and origin ? They are the effect, not the cause, of bad government. The countrymen of Washington combined and united to emancipate themselves from the domi nation of a tyrannical and foreign Legislature; and the sole spirit 01 the denunciation of Washington was the inconsistency of such bodies continuing agitation when the causes of their formation had ceased. If Political Unions are " let alone"—if unprovoked by false and im prudent legislation—they will naturally and certainly expire with the causes and objects which called them into being. When the Re form Bills are carried, men of station and worldly pursuits will never continue that labori ous and anxious devotion of time and mind to political agitation which they have so honour ably and successfully bestowed on the present contest for Parliamentary Reform. Unions will then die a natural death. The only pro longation of their existence would be an unjust and persecuting Legislation ; and it is the cunning and unceasing obje c t o f suc h disap pointed°and hungry ex-placemen as Mr John Wilson Croker and such prostrated politicians as Sir Robert Peel to endeavour to embroil the Ministry with the King, and in mad crusades against the unions and the people. The arti fices will not succeed, notwithstanding the in dustry and machinations of the Opposition, who sigh for the places of Ministers, and are ever plotting to retard the great objects of a reformed House of Commons. Lord Grey, on Monday last, wisely appealed to the Reform Bills, as the only effectual mode of terminating the political combination of the Unions ; and Lord John Russell, with statesman-like wisdom, stated on Tuesday that " the good sense and right judg ment of the people of England, when they had the opportunity of choosing their own Repre sentatives; would not continue associations in jurious to themselves, the Government, and the Constitution."—Morning Chronicle. However, or in whatsoever form, the Royal assent shall be given to the Reform Bill, matters not, as we said yesterday, a single straw to the people of England. Whether his Majesty (seated on his throne and crowned) shall, as is customary, make a . signal to the Clerk of the House of Lords, authorizing that officer to pronounce the ancient formulary Le bile veal, or whether the Lord Chancellor, as spokesman for the Commissioners, shall, in his Sovereign's name and absence, declare to Parliament that the King has consented to pass the Bill into a law, matters to the validity of that law not a single farthing,— to the purgation of future Parliaments not a farthing,—to the permanent interests of the country, nothing : but to the King—William IV., we mean—it is every thing. The Royal presence, on the appointment of a commission, will be regarded universally throughout the em pire as a proof that the Sovereign is a liberal and patriotic King, a champion for the constitution in its purity,—true, constant, and religious in his fidelity to England, his wedded and devoted wife, or that he has taken Toryism for a mistress, and been intimidated by her termagant brawling. The people of this country are by habit most loyal and attached to their Kings. That they should deliberately violate the strict duty of obedience to the law, or of prescribed and outward respect to the Sovereign's office, is not to us conceivable. But there is a wide difference between cordiality and punctilio,—between obedience to the autho rity and affection to the person of a prince. King William, if we mistake not, is of a nature to feel the loss of his people's heart for its own sake, far more than for that of any formal weakening of the Sovereign power, which might, and indeed must, flow from such a calamity. We assure his Majesty, in a spirit of profound solicitude for the ease and happiness of his future life, that the appearance of disre people's wishes, or o f sym gard for his pathy with the mortified spite and inso lence of ; the defeated borough faction,—the mere shadow, we repeat, of that disregard on one hand, and of that complaisance on the other, which must be implied by his voluntary absence from among his subjects on so glorious an oc casion, when they cry out and pray for their good King William to " bring home his own finished work,"----to be, as becomes him, the High-Priest of' the nation, and officiate for them and with them at this vast solemnity, would make the difference to oui Sovereign of being for life the most honoured and beloved of Kings, or one who had irrecoverably flung away more of public affection, more of public gratitude, than ever before was at King's or man's disposal. If his Majesty hears no truth within his Palace, let him search for the treasure out of doors. His high estimation of' the people of England has long been wormwood to many of the persons who infest the Court, and would fain monopolize, or share with old partners in bad government, the Royal authority and councils. They move Heaven and earth to break off the alliance be tween King and people, that his Majesty may cease to have any dependence but on their own factio n , an d may t h en b e d r i ven unresistingly into their toils. If they can succeed in now detaching William IV. from a nation so eager to applaud and love him, as the people of the United Kingdom have again become since the reinstatement of Lord Grey's Ministry, the immediate consequence must lie, a corresponding alienation of the public mind from the Monarch. But we augur more encouraging prospects than these on behalf of our kind-hearted Sovereign. The people of England yearn towards him, and pant for the opportunity to wipe out from his imagination the chimeras with which it has been filled. Let his Majesty despise the folly or the mischief which lurks in the remonstrances of stupid women against his suffering himself to be styled " the People's King." Is it not a prouder title than that of " the Tory King ?" Let his Majesty trust his faithful people, and take and cherish their affectionate gratitude as frankly as they tender it in all loyalty and ho nour. Let him indulge them with a spectacle of Imperial state, made tributary to the solid happiness of unborn millions of Englishmen. Whoever dares to insinuate suspicions of the possibility of insult being offered to King William IV., while engaged in the performance of the sacred duty to which the business of this day invites him, knows worse than no thing of the British mind, and ought to retire from a scene which little suits such a slanderer. —Times. In the House of Lords last night there was little said. The Duke of Wellington, however, made his appearance, and the Reform Bill, which was returned from the Commons, was laid upon their Lordships' table in profound silence. After the Duke of Buckingh am had presented a peti tion from the Queen's county on the state of Ire land, the Earl of Roden gave notice of a motion on that subject for Tuesday, June 19. The iVlarquis of Lansdowne informed the House that the Commission lately appointed in Ireland had proved itself adequate to the enforcement of the law, after which the conversation dropped, and the House adjourned. In the Commons several petitions were presented by Mr. O'Con nell, Mr. Ruthven, and others, upon a variety of subjects, amongst which were the Irish Reform Bill, and the Irish Grand Jury Bill. It was stated by the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mr. Spence, in answer to questions from Mr. J. Campbell, that Bills would be introduced in the course of the present Session, for regulating the salary of the Lord Chancellor, and arranging the business of various officers connected with his Lordship's Court, but it was not expected that both Bills could be completed and passed before the prorogation. A brief, but not uninteresting, discusson took place on the question for the commitment of Mr. Ba ring's Bill respecting Parliamentary privilege. The object of this Bill, as described by its author, is to prevent the privileges of the House from being made use of to keep poor people out of their money ; and the way in which it proposes to do so is by vacating the seat of the Member so indebted, if after due notice the debt be not discharged. Mr. O'Connell, Mr. J. Campbell, Mr. C. NV. Wynn, the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, and others, objected to the Bill, though they generally approved of the object it had in view. The chief objections insisted on were the possibility of its interfering with the freedom of debate, and the partial manner in which it was likely to operate in favour of the moneyed, and against the landed, interest. Mr. Baring hoped the House would consent to go in r t o o fo C r o i m na m , i a tt n e d e pro form a , f or t h e purpose o f filli ng up t h e blanks. Aft er a di v i s i on upon t h e quest i on , th e House w en t i n t o C omm i ttee p the Bill was ordered to be recommitted on Wed nesday. The Scotch Reform Bill in Committee occupied the greater part of the night afterwards, —Morning Herald. FRENCH PAPERS. The Moniteur contains a Royal Ordinance placing the departments of the Maine et Loire, La Vendee, the Loire Inferieure, and the Deux-Sevres under martial law, It is founded upon the following report, addressed to the King by the Minister of the Interior ; " SlRE,—Since your Majesty ordered the three arron• diNsements of Laval, Vitro, and Chateau Goutier to be placed under m trtial law, a new fact, the presence of the Duchess of 13,16 in the west, has been ascertained. Al- though it may be in some measure consolatory that the Duchess of Berri, on entering upon the soil of France in contempt of the law of April 10, 1832, and making her appearance in L's Vendee, as she did off Marseilles, has only come to witness the ruin of the intrigues that had been forming for exciting a civil war, the very nature of this step, her usurpation of the title of Re gent, and the presence of the ex-Marshal Bour mont, who has issued orders to the chiefs of the Chouan,, whom he promotes to be Commanders of Corps, his proclamations and his correspondence, all impose upon the Government the duty of resorting to extraordinary measures fur better insuring the arrest of the Duchess, the ex-Marshal and their adherents. It is necessary that the Duchess should be met by all the powers of your constitu tional and national Government, arm,d with sufficient farce to chain the madness of her projects. Four depart ments appear to form the circle within which the Duchess of Beni has sought an asylum since her arrival in La Vendee. Within the circle she must be surrounded, in order that she may be captured. Activity in search, and energy in the measures to be taken, require as an essential, it being the only efficacious means for attaining this end, that these four departments should be for a limited time placed under martial law. In (orating the resolution to sub mit this measure to the approbation of your Majesty, we .have not concealed from ourselves the importance of cir cumscribing the application of it to those facts alone which arise from the special situation of these districts, and so to regulate it that it may not interrupt the na ,ural course of things within these departments where they have no direct connexion with this counter-revolu tionary conspiracy, the attempts at insurrection and the arrest of the Duchess. Consequently your Ministers of Justice, of War, and the Interior, will send instructions to this effect to the Procureur-Generaux, the Lieutenant- Generals, and Prefects, whose attributions will be modified by the ordinance for instituting martial law, merely so 'ar as relates to the insurrection which has been fomented in this part of the kingdom. The only object is to render tte search more active, and the repression more decided, t . , x ) a t accelerate p le s ‘,t b t u d fl i i r e 71 st a m p r e o n , t of o p t t the ude insurgents, to obe efficacious, to give to the authorities greater means of action with resources for hastening, by assuming a threatening attitude, that terminatio❑ which justice, policy, and every public and private interest so loudly called for. To this end the Lieutenant-Generals, invested with the supreme command of these divisions, are to re ceive full powers to mike arrests, to pronounce sentences, and thus dispense with forms which would be too tardy during a state of things so entirely out of the ordinary course, that a principle of hu manity alone prescribes it as a duty for us to put an end to it as soon as possible. In all other respects the ordi nary jurisdiction and administration will follow their re spective courses in these departments, wherever questions relating to the troubles with which they are inflicted are not involved. The judicial and administrative authorities will constantly act in concert with the military authorities, at the same time yielding to the latter all that is invested is them by the establishment of martial law, for the avowed purpose of repressing political disorder, and reserving their accustomed jurisdictions in all cases, which have no con nexion with these disturbances. The instructions of your Ministers on these points will be clear, positive, and un animous. The duration of this measure, Sire, will be short. It will cease as soon as these districts shall no longer be agitated by the presence of the Duchess of Berri, who, after being met by the indignation of the people, whom she has attempted to corrupt, must be subjected to the justice of the Government, which is bound to avenge the laws of the country, and fulfil the wishes of the na tion, by which it was constituted. (Signed) MONTA F:T, DEATH OF JEREMY BENTHAM. Died yesterday, at his residence, in Queen-square-place, Westminster, Jeremy Bentham, in his 85th year. During the late unhealthy season he had been subject to repeated attacks of bronchitis, but he had recovered from the first severe attacks with so much vigour, that it was conai dered by many that he would return to his former health, and he again received the visits of distinguished foreigners and of public men with whom he was in the habit of friendly intercourse, and it was believed that he would have been able to continue his labours for several years to come. Several days ago he had taken up the portion of his manuscripts for the third volume of his unpublished con stitutional code, which is reputed by jurists, who are acquainted with its progress, to be one of the most valu able of his productions, as it contains the principal for the formation of a judicial establishment and a code of procedure. Another attack of his disorder, however, arrested his labours for ever. His death was singularly tranquil. Only a portion of his works have been printed; and of those printed, some of which have been spoken of by eminent me❑ as the most valuable, such as the "Essay o❑ Judicial Establishments," have never in reality been published. Repeated proposals have been made to pub lish a complete edition of his works. A few weeks ago the Prince Talleyrand, who at all times, in com mon with the leading spirits of the age, has professed his high admiration of the author, made proposals to get a complete edition of all his works in French pub lished in Paris. A short time before his death he had projected a new work on language, and one on mathema tics. Amongst the unpublished works is ose on the use of language, with a view to the giving certainty to the ex pression of the will of the legislature. Some, if not all, of these works, will, it is expected, be edited by gentlemen well conversant with the branches of science and art to which the works relate, and will at some future time be made public, in a complete and uniform shape. Besides those which were edited by the late Dl. Dumont, others of his works, which are little known in England, have great reputation on the continent of Europe, and in North and South America. Mr. Bentham was a bencher of Lin coln's Inn, and was the father of the Bar. In conformity with the desire of his father, be practised for a shot t time in equity, and was immediately remarked for the ability he displayed ; but the death of his father hft him with a moderate fortune, and the free choice of his course of life, when he immediately abandoned all prospects of profes sional emolument and honours, and devoted the whole of his subsequent life to those labours, which, he believed, would produce the greatest happiness to his fellow. crea • tures. His extreme benevolence, and cheerfulness of dis position, are highly spoken of by all who had the honour to be admitted to his society, which was much sought after ; and also by his domestics, and by his neighbours who were acquainted with his habits. The news of the Reform Bill having been carried greatly cheered his last hours. He has, we are informed, bequeathed his body to his medical friend, Dr. Southwood Smith, with a charge that he shall use it in an anatomical school for dissection, in illustration of a course of lectures. PARTICULARS OF THE APPREHENSION OF COOK, THE MURDERER. [RECEIVED FRO3I LEICESTER LAST NIGHT.] The providence of God has not suffered this atrocious wretch to escape the vengeance of those earthly laws which his horrid crime has so deeply provoked. He was apprehended in the Channel at Liverpool on Tuesday morning, by Cummins, an officer of Leicester, who had been sent in pursuit of him, and who on this occasion was aided by a Li ' verpool officer. The insane folly of Cook, since making his escape from Leicester, and which can be equalled only by the deepness of his guilt, had fur nished an easy and certain clue by which to trace him. It was known, for a moral certainty, that he must be at Liverpool, or in its vicinity; and that his object was to get received clandestinely on board one of the three packets which were expected to sail that day for America, after they had quitted the harbour. For the purpose of better watching his movements. Cummins and his assistant passed over to the Chester side of the river, from whence they kept a constant look out upon the open waters. To the disgrace of the bluff and hardy watermen of Liverpool, there are to be found among their num ber many who are ready at all times, for a valuable consideration, to aid those who may be flying from the laws of their country, utterly indifferent as to what may be the character of their guilt. Cook succeeded in procuring the assistance of two of those ready agents of guilt, who put off with him in their boat early on Tuesday morning. The movements of the party did not escape the vigilant observations of Cummins and his well-experienced assistant as to matters of this kind. The boat was distinctly seen lying off the Black Rock, and Cummins and his assistant having well manned the boat they had in readiness, instantly started in pursuit; they rapidly gained on the small boat,the persons in which finding they were pursued, made for shore. They had already got into shallow water, when the pursuing boat was close astern. Cook, who appeared quite frantic with desperation, jumped overboard, as is supposed with the intention of drowning himself. The water was too shallow for this purpose, and he drew out a phial bottle, which, it is believed, contained lau danum, or some other poison. He had already uncorked the phial, and was in the act of raising it to his mouth, when his intention was frustrated by Cummins, who seized the hand in which was the phial with such force as to literally crush the bottle, cutting both his own hand and that of his prisoner with the fragments. Cook, with the assistance of the other officer, was speedily placed in the large boat, and having been well secured thereto, the party rowed for Liverpool, in the gaol of which town the prisoner was placed immediately after their reach ingreac thheedr Leicester he fi r a s t t h n i e l f. % - v p s of as t C t e o n o k o'cl apprehension . It was brought by the Red Raver Liverpool coach. The news was rapidly spread through the town,and afforded Elia greatest satisfaction. It was expected that he would have been brought up by one of the night coaches, and crowds were collected in the streets in the hope of seeing hi m ; h a d h e so come, it would have been a difficult thing to keep the mob from tearing him to pieces—such is the horror in which his crime is held. It is now understood that he will certainly be sent off from Li verpoo l early this (Wednesday) morning, so th at h e may be ex pected to arrive in Leicester about seven o ' clock in the evening . Orders hare been given for making the necessary preparations for his secure custody in the county gaol. are extracts f rom l etters received by 1 ;17.1 f t o vv i l l l e o y, ing the Chief Clerk of Mr. Burbidge last night. They describe th e pursu i t and circumstances of the capture : " Seven o'clock, Morning. ‘" DEAR SlR,—Since writing to you we have taken the villain, after a very severe chase; he was making off in a boat near the Black Rock. We succeeded in running them ashore ; he leaped overboard, and attempted to drown himself. When we secured him he took out a bottle and tried to swallow something from it, but Cum- ,nine knocked it out of his hands. We found 44i love . eigns, a guinea, and '7s. sd. about him, no notes, a silver watch, gold chain and seals, and brooch. We shall at Leicester to-morrow evening, by the Red Rover. I find it impossible to get any other conveyance. I assure you it has been a very tight business, for I scarcely know what bed is.—l am, &c. " GEO. W. OUSTON, " Liverpool, June 4, 1832. " DEAR received your letter on the 3d instant, and met Unwin that evening at the railway, who has ascertained that Cook, on getting off the Defiance, made his way by the railway fur Liverpool that evening. No ship has sailed since last Thursday ; there are three to sail to-morrow. which we have been on board and intend doing so again before they leave the river. Cummins and a police officer are on the Cheshire side making search, as there is every reason to believe that he is concealed on that side the water, with the intention of taking a boat, and going on ship board when she gets off the Black Rock. I hope, if that is his intention, to disappoint him. You may depend every exertion shall be made to take him. Unwin is stationed at Prescott, where I have ascertained Cook has an aunt. It is possible he may be concealed there, it being only eight miles from this place. I under stand that for money there are people here who make a trade of concealing criminals, and smuggling them away. Cook was down here three months ago, and had plenty of money with him; m was with him. (Signed) " C. W. OUSTON." Mr. Ouston is chief constable of Leicester, and it ought not to be omitted to be mentioned, to the credit of the officers, that the capture had taken place before their exertions could have been stimu lated by the knowledge of a large reward having been offered. (From the Liverpool Courier of Wednesday.) Yesterday morning a great sensation was excited here by a rumour that Cook had been traced to this town, and had fallen into the hands of justice; and much anxiety was manifested to know the result of his exa mination. Between eleven and twelve o'clock yesterday forenoon, the prisoner was taken into the Magistrate's room, and underwent the following examination before the Mayor, Mr. Alderman Porter, and Mr. Alderman Littledale. Mr. Porter conducted the examination. What is your name 2—James Cook. Of what trade are you ?—A bookbinder. Where do you lire ?—I have a shop in Wellington street, Leicester, and reside with my father, in New Milk street, Leicester. When did you leave Leicester ?—(After some considera tion)—l left on Saturday morning,—.either Saturday or Friday : nay mind has been so agitated that I can hardly speak positively. I know it was one of them. When did you arrive in Liverpool ?—On the same day. I started from Leicester in the evening, and arrived here— I mean I started from Leicester in the morning, and ar rived here about six or seven in the evening. 1 cannot speak precisely as to an hour or an hour and a-half. By what conveyance did you come?—Prisoner (after some delay), I came to Loughborough. Yes ; but by what coach or conveyance ?—The first coach I came by, I think, about four or five miles; I can not say exactly. What was the name of the coach ?—I cannot say. I do not recollect having beard it. Yon came by that four or five miles. What coach did you take next ?—Either the Telegraph or the—Ex press—not the Express,—l cannot exactly think of the name. By the Telegraph, you say, er—or what ?—I cannot recollect. Did you come all the way to Liverpool ?—I came from Loughborough to Manchester. To what house did you drive to Manchester ?—I can ❑ot say. Can you say how long you stayed in Manchester ?—I stayed but a very short time; I cannot tell exactly. Do you know by what coach or conveyance you came here?—By the rail-way. Where did you get out?— I got out at the regular place where they stop, I suppose. Where or what house did you go to then in Liverpool ? —1 came to some Comnaodation-place or row (Commuta tion-row.) Where is that ?—I think it is adjoining the London-way. What house did you come to there ?—I believe (after a considerable pause) to Mr. Graham's. . , Did you sleep there that night ?—Yes. After you arrived there, did you go out before bed time ? What time did you arrive there ?—I came straight from the rail-way to Graham's. Did you go out again that evening ?—I do not know. You slept there ?—Oh yes, I slept there. Was that on Saturday night ?—Either Saturday or Friday. What were you doing on the following day ? Where did you go to the next morning ?—I believe I went down $j Prince's Dock. Well, did you go anywhere there ?—No ; I merely went down for pleasure. Did you go to any ship ?—No, I did not. Halsall, the police-officer, in consequence of information which had been given, Ainsworth, Cummins, and himself were on the watch for a boat. They saw several boats on the water, and one more to the eastward ; this they pursued, and observed it change its course to the Cheshire shore. The chase was continued, and just as the boat came to land, Cummins descried and recognized the pri soner. Upon leaching the boat, the prisoner threw himself into the water, and witness and the boatman jumped after him. He was seized and replaced in the boat, and he then drew out a small bottle and attempted to swallow its contents. The bottom and the cork of the bottle were produced before the magistrates, and were , found to smell of laudanum. The prisoner here denied having made such an attempt. Cummins, the Leicester poliee.officer, fully identified the prisoner. The latter was then asked if he wished to state any thing at that period, and on his declining to de so, he was delivered into the custody of the high constable. Cook is a young man, 22 or 23 years of age, about the middle size, with sallow, characteristic, strongly-marked features, inclining to sharpness, dark hair, but without whiskers, which had been shaved off. He wore a blue coat and black trousers, much dirtied by the circum stance of his capture, and his general appearance was that of an ordinary mechanic. His countenance exhibited nothing strikingly malignant, though, when taken in con nexion with actual atrocity, it has sufficient to render it unprepossessing. His answers were direct and respectful, and he seemed to be utterly indifferent both to feeling and situation. All that he appeared to feel was, that artifice could serve him nothing against the glare of conviction that fell upon him ; and his willingness to answer was only a resignation to he condemned in sullen apathy. When the examination was over, Mr. Alderman Porter said to irim, " You stated your name to be Cook—some thing. What is your name besides Cook ?" The prisoner at first appeared not to notice the question, as he remained with his eyes turned downwards, and his hat held before him with both hands, as it had been from the first; but the question being repeated he answered i❑ a decided tone, as if thinking they had no right to give him so much trouble, "My name's James Cook." His firmness and undaunted demeanour were remarked by all; he betrayed no agita tion either in countenance or band, and his voice could scarcely be said to falter. FURTHER PARTICULARS PRO3I OUii LIVERPOOL COR- RESPONDENT.) It appears that Cook arrived here about six o'clock on Friday evening, and lodged with a watchman in Accomo dation-row. I conversed this morning with this person, and he told me that he appeared quite lively, enjoyed him self, walked our, and absolutely went with the family to Dr. Stewart's Scotch Chapel, last Sunday morning. His villany does not seem to have been complete, as last night, at a quarter before eleven, he met the said watch man in the street, and asking him what time it was, begged him to let him look at the watch. On receiving it he went off with it, and it was found upon him. When shown one of the bills describing it, he read it, and laughed, saying he could not help it, and he supposed they would have gone first to London after him. He slept soundly in gaol as soon as he had got his wet clothes changed. The description of him was very correct, but he had taken care to have his whiskers shaved. Every commendation, lam sure, will be accorded by an excit d public, to the zeal and ability of Mr. Owston. J. S. G. Mr. GALT'S New Novel, " Stanley Buxton," is quite as dramatic as any of his former produc tions. This present story details the history of three schoolfellows, and the various incidents which diversi fied the tenour of their after lives. Stanley Buxton is introduced to the reader as the young Earl of Erring_ ton, and to his tale is attached a mystery which is de ve'oped in the comae of the novel. Henry Franks is the son of a gentleman in a mercantile situation in London, and the confidant of Buxton. In Rawlston the cha racter of a Scotch laird is admirably depicted, with all the humours and peculiarities apt to he engendered in such a situation ; and in his sister, Miss Sibby, we have the por traiture of an old maid, than which nothing finer has been drawn since the days of Dr. SMOLLETT and Tabitha Bramble, COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JUNE 6. BRYDEN V. CARTER. This was au action brought by the plaintiff to recover rom the defendant the value of goods purchased for his wife, living in a state of separation from her husband. She had been engaged as a governess in the family o f the Marquess of Chandos, and leaving that, she went to live at the house of the plaintiff, to whom she owed a specified sum for board and lodging, and from whom (or on whose credit) she got several articles of apparel, on receiving 5 0 appointment as governess i❑ the family of Miss Shepherd, of Bath. The purchase of the articles at the house of Mr. Dent, on the credit of Mrs. Bryden, was proved. Two milliners of the name of Stewartson proved the purchase of the goods by theiraunt, Mrs. Bryden, for Mrs. Carter, and asserted they considered such articles as had been purchased (and which were enumerated in Court front the bill of particulars) were necessary to the outSt of a governess. Mks Jane Stevenson being cross-examined by Mr. JONES—How do you know that Mrs. Carter ever had the articles you mentioned ? Did you give or send them to her? Witness—No, but I saw them on her. Mr. JONES—What ! you saw six pair of hose on her ? Witness—Not at the same time ; but she wore one pair at a time.—(Laughter.) Mr. JONES—Had the hose any particular mark by which you could have known it ? 'Witness—No, there was nothing peculiar in it ; but Mrs. Carter told me when she had a pair on her.—(Laughter.) Mr. JONES—What, then, she pointed to them ? Wit ness—l don't understand your poiitts, nor did I say she pointed to them.—(Laughter.) Justice ALDF.RSON—She held up her leg?—(Great laughter.) Mr. JONFS—You say you got her a boa fetch. Is not that a fetch ? Witness—l don't know, but it was A boa.:—(Laughter.) Mr. JoisEs—Then it was the fetch or ghost of a boa, with a long tail.—(Laughter.) But why do ladies wear boas ?or why was one necessary for a governess ? Wit ness—To keep her warm. Mr. JONES-But the velvet cape was to keep her warm.? Witness--She might want both.—(Laughter.) Mr. Serjeant JONES addressed the Jury for the defen dant, who returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Dsmages, Twenty-six Pounds. 9 THE LATE FIRE IN OXFORD STREET INQUEST ON ANOTHER SUFFERER. Yesterday evening an inquest was held at the Middlesex Hospital, before Mr. Stirling and a re spectable Jury, on the body of Charles Richard Napoleon Fearngo, about eleven years ofiage, who died from the injuries he received at the late fire in Oxford-street. Henry Caddell, servant to Mr. Applegarth, 36, Oxford-street, gave precisely the same evidence at the inquest on Miss Eliza Twamley, which has al ready appeared in our paper. The only evidence respecting the deceased was as follows.—H e ob served the young lady who was burnt at the second floor window with the deceased boy in her arms. The deceased clung to the window outside for about a minute, when his strength appeared to be exhaus ted, and he was obliged to leave go his hold. The boy turned over and over, and his head came in con tact with the shop front; he then rebounded on the persons in the street. The deceased was taken up and conveyed into a public-house, and the witness saw no more of him. Mr. Lonsdale, house surgeon to the hospital, ex amined; deceased was brought to the hospital about half-past six o'clock on Monday, 28th ult.; and on examination, discovered that he was burnt very much in his face, legs, and hands. The de ceased had also a wound over the left eye, which proved to be a fracture. On Tuesday morning he died from the effects of the fracture and the burns. A long conversation then ensued as to the neces sity of having the evidence of witnesses who could give some account as to the actual cause of the fire, and it was ultimately agreed to adjourn the inquest until Monday next. Smithers was yestered considered much better; his wife is a daily visitor, but her interviews are very short, and those only in the presence of an officer, who has strict injunctions not to allow the slightest conversation relating to past events. The plasters are so thick on the face of Smithers as to tally to disable him from seeing any person. Only a small space around his mouth remains uncovered; his tongue appears much swollen, and he speaks thick and indistinct. He constantly lies on his back. Those who are in the habit of visiting him declare that they never saw a man apparently in so troubled and agitated a state of mind. Miss Caroline Twamley, sister to the unfortunate young lady who lost her life at the fire, remains in a deplorable state. She is almost delirious. In addi tion to her shoulder being broken, she received a violent shock in her descent on the leads, in the rear of the burning premises, with her mother in her arms. Her ultimate recovery is, however, not hope less. Miss Thomasin, niece to the Misses Twamley, fortunately had no bones broken in her descent from the second-floor window, but she received several severe contusions, and was so much burned in the face and neck, that she will be disfigured for life. She is recovering rapidly, and is now enabled to walk about the house. The servant-girl is still obliged to carry her arm in a sling, and the shock was so great in falling from the window of the second floor, as totally to incapacitate her from work. TILE MARKETS.—(THIS DAY.) COAL MAR. Per Ton. .KET.—June 6. kdair's 17s. 6d. 13ensham Main 17 0 Holywell l7 9 Pontop Windsor .. 16 6 South llolywell 16 0 Per Tot,. Walls End Riddell's...—. 19s Od. Ditto Northumberland 18 0 Walls End Hetton 21 0 Walls End Lambt0n........ 21 0 Walls End Stewart's, ..,. 21 0 Musgrove W. E. :11 1 67 ! 900( ( ) ; NCGWl.Wlera7aaawawnllildPgillssse°Fl:7llE.a'o:ocl.":.:ktio.een,7ilne—, 22: 00 Silkstone Field and Co. 17 0 Warde'B Llanelly 20 0 Tanfield Trader 17 0 last market-day, 13. 'anfield 17 6 17 0 Wylam . 17 6 Walls End Bell &C 0..., 19 0 Ditto Bewicke and Co. 20 0 Walls End Carr and Co. 17 6 Ditto Clarke and C 0... 16 9 Walls End Gosforth 19 6 Walls End Hotspur.... 18 0 Ditto Killingworth —. 18 • 3 Ditto Newbiggen 16 6 Ships arrived since COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. Wheat. , Barley. Uats. B eans. ' Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. s, to s. s. Abingdon 62 81 31 43 22 30 38 Andover 73 80 37 41 23 44 Birmingham.— 56 66 40 44 24 32 52 Bridport 56 74 32 36 26 30 54 Cirencester 50 62 26 38 21 25 36 41 baringdon w 54 86 36 40 26 31 4fl Guildford 48 74 23 32 26 35 43 Hen1ey,,,,.,,, 54 83 30 35 20 30 40 Hereford 84 92 44 48 52 Highworth 62 80 32 42 28 34 56 Maidenhead 56 68 34 44 22 30 36 37 Monmoutli.---,, 56 61 39 -- Reading - 65 90 31 47 21 27 34 42 Salisbury 52 63 34 40 20 26 36 54 Southampton 54 59 33 40 28 32 .... 46 Stroud 64 78 37 38 22 32 Tewkesbury 48 65 74 30 42 30 38 -- Uxbridge 44 48 74 37 40 _ Wantage...---- 46 58 80 27 43 21 30 34 42 Warminster 48 64 30 44 20 28 34 45 21 22 52 Worcester—...—..—. 65 66 44 51 31 34 50 LEWES 111A1tKET.—June 5. White Wheat (per quarter),£3 4 0 to £3 8 0 Red 2 16 0 "3 0 Barle y•••••••••••••.......... 14 0 1 10 0 Oats, New ••••••••••••••••••....., ••••• • , h , ••• I 1 2 Oil Ca 0 Pease... 1 14 0 Cake, 12 0 0 per thousand. 1 15 0 k New _____7"..'"--•-••••••-: HULL MA It K ET-June 5. Wheat, Old ............... S. 58s. 60s. New -s. 58s. 634. - Foreign ......... --s. 50s. 545. ln bond... -a. -8. -s. Oats, Poland ........... -s. 20s. 225. Old -s. -8. 245. Small or Feed.... -s. 18s. 0 0s -s. -s. -s - Foreign .......... -s. 16s. 18s Barley, Norf. & Suf . ..._ s. 335. 368. Line. & %Vold -s. 36s 383. _ Foreign Beans ........................ 30s. 325. 345. Foreign l'ease, White... .......... -s. 38s. 408. Grey -8. 323. 345. ..-8. 306. :365. fares .... .................... 40s. 445. -5. Foreign Rapeseed, in lmnd ...... none. CHELTENHAAI Per Bushel. 8, d. to s. d. Wheat . .............. 60 80 Barley ................ Oatsßeans 4 0 5 6 ................ 4 0 4 3 ............... 5 0 6 0 Pease ..................... 5 0 3/.1070s A RKET.—June 5. _ _ Pez lb. Beef - Mutton Veal Pork Lamb to 3/. 15s. ed. per ton d. to d. 6 7 6 7 6 7 o 0 0 U s. d. s. d. OtoO 0 0 0 0 04 05 04 00 04 0 5 07 09 .RKETS.—May 30 DUMFRIES MA: . .1 Wheat, Imp. 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