The Sun. — London, England, 1832-09-07 00:00:00

XPIRIT OF TM PUBLIC JOURNALS When we drew the attention of the public last week to the Lord Chancellor's reforms in the Court of Chancery, we were prevented, by want of space, from pointing out the distinction between his Lordship's abolition of the sinecure offices in the gift of the Great Seal, and his disinterested relinquishment of those placed at his disposal by the death of Mr. Scott. The loss of patronage to the Great Seal in the first instance is very considerable, and the increase of 1,000/. to the pension of retiring Chancellors is perhaps but an inadequate provision for it, but in the latter instance there is no compensation at all. The increased pension is an equivalent to the Great Seal generally for the abolition of the sinecures, and it will go to every Lord Chancellor in succession, in lieu of his chance of having one or more of the sinecures fall in whilst he is in office. It is, in legal phraseology, a pecuniary consideration for his chance, and no more. Now the present Lord Chan. cellor is peculiarly situated. His interest in Mr. Scott's sinecures was not contin gent, but vested ; the chance had become certainty ; the sinecures had fallen in, and were as much his property as any portion of his other emoluments. The increased pension could only affect his chance of the sinecures subse quently becoming vacant. It is the very essence of its calculation that none of the sinecures were vacant. An instance will make this clearer. If instead of paying Bishops by fines on renewal, as at present, an Act was passed to give them a fixed yearly salary,--suppose before the Act took effect, and, indeed, whilst it was only co►►- templated, a life dropped in, and any given Bishop received 30,0001. or 40,0004,—it would doubtless be thought very hard, if, in stead of letting him keep that sum and make the arrangement prospective, he was compelled to refund it, a►►d to receive so much a_ year in lieu of that and all his other fines. Yet this would in some degree be parallel to what has happened to the Chancellor. Nay, in fact, the case of the latter is a great deal stronger than this, for the Bishop profits immediately, whilst the Chancellor only profits after his retirement. Some Bishops, whom we could name, have expressed themselves in favour of this commutation of their revenues, quite as strongly as the Chancellor did of his plan before the Finance Committee, and we trust that his noble example will not be lost upon them. Be that as it may, they may rely that it will not be lost upon the public. A precedent has now been established for the interference of Parliament with vested pecuniary interests, and it was treated by Sir Robert Peel, Sir Edward Sugden, and their friends, as a matter of course, as a case in which the party concerned had no alternative, and could claim no merit for his sa crifice. This line of argument was intended to depreciate the Chancellor, hut its tendency is to advance all those objects of Reform which he has at heart. The trumpet, therefore, has been sounded in the quarter where we least expected to hear it, and if there be such a thing as con sistency in statesmen, we are not hereafter to be told that any abuse is to be protected merely because a person has a vested interest in it.— Times. Having at last obtained a copy of the Bank Report ourselves, we are no longer dependent for a supply of extracts on other sources, and have in consequence availed ourselves so freely of the contents of the volume as to have left ourselves little room for our own remarks. We regret that circumstance the less, as without time to classify such an immense mass ofevidence under proper heads, our observations upon it could only be vague and general. The table of discounts in each quarter of the year, from the year 1815 to 1831, is extremely curious, as showing how little the Bank of England assists the trade of the country, and how great a pro portion of its funds are employed in transactions with the Government. The Bank of France, with its comparatively very limited means, is often of greater assistance to commerce than the Bank of England. Some interesting information on the exchanges will be found in Mr. Rothschild's evidence, besides opinions on the policy of one bank or several banks of issue in the metropolis, and publicity of bank accounts. To these two latter topics we shall afterwards have occasion to advert. As we have stated generally, that for several years the principle of the Bank has been to secure their establishment against panics, by having a treasure in their cellars equivalent to one-third of their issues, we think it may be use ful to extract the following portion of Mr. W. Norman's (a Bank Director) evidence in ex• planation of this point. The new system is much better than the old haphazard practice. Are you aware of the principles upon which the Bank of England regulate their issues?—l am aware of the principles upon which they regulate their issues at present. " Will you state what those principles are?—l con ceive that the principle for the regulation of the Bank issues under ordinary circumstances is, at the time when the currency is full, to invest, of the whole amount re ceived for the circulation and deposits, in the proportio❑ of about one-third in bullion and coin, and about two-thirds iu securities bearing interest. " Do the Bank of England, in regulating the amount of their paper in circulation, have reference to the state of foreign exchanges ?—The Bank, for several years, have always looked very narrowly at the state of the foreign exchanges. Since tie principle which I have just mentioned has been adopted, the plan has been, under ordinary circumstances, to let the public act upon the Bank, rather than the Bank upon the public. Having tired the amount of securities and treasure at about two thirds and one-third, the drain is allowed to go on un checked, unless some special occasion for interference should arise. The diminution of treasure is then accom panied by an equivalent diminution of circulation and de posits. " In case of the foreign exchanges bring against this country, would the Bank take any step to counteract that issue ?—I should say, under ordinary circumstances, not; there might possibly be extraordinary circumstances, in which a forcible and more rapid contraction of liabilities would be requisite. " When the bullion is being drawn from the Bank, do the Bank take any measures to restrict the accommodation they give to the mercantile world ?—No, they usually have contrived in that case to dispose of a portio❑ of their Exchequer tills or other securities, and thus increased the fund disposable for discounts ; the object is to keep the securities upon the whole at the same amount, or s one what near the same amount ; it is impossible to obtain perfect accuracy. " Do the Bank, then, look at the amount of securities bearing interest in their bands, more thin they do to the positive amount of bullion ?—Yes ; the principle is, at the commencement of a drain—that is to say, when in all probability the circulatio❑ and the treasure are about at th e highest—that we should have the proportion of two thirds and one-third ; then if the securities are kept about at the same level, the reduction of the treasure must show itself in the circulation and the deposits." Though a considerable part of the Bank evi dence hits already been laid before the publ►c, and though at successiv e periods in 1810, in 1819, and in 1826, long discussions took place on the state of the currency, w e have been sur- prised to find how little some of the Tory organs of public opinion yet understand of the matter. Becaus e we find fault with the present manage ment of the Bank of England—because we ob ject to a combination in the same Directors of the incongruous characters and functions of a finance administrator, who ought toa consult (ally the public interest, having made himself acquainted with banking business for that sole purpose—of a superintendent of a great corpo, rate banking establishment, whose interest is often opposed, or seems opposed, to measures of public security—and of a Government banker paying dividends, buying Exchequer-bills ) and advancing money on loans to a certain extent under the control of the Minister of the day, and too apt to consult the convenience or sub mit to the views of Chancellors of the Exche quer for the time being,—because, we say, we have objected to this system, always vacillating and hazardous, and frequently productive of im mense calamities, we are accused of being op posed to all paper credit whatever, or of having personal objects in pointing out its existing de fects. To say that the present Bank institution has failed in answeiing all the objects of a dispenser of currency, furnishes no ground for supposing that an improved one would be objectionable. But why even under the present establishment do such persons consider the repeal of Peel's bill as indispensable to the national safety, and desire to return to the state of 1819 ? Do they mean to contend that the issue of paper should be unlimited ) under the late system of Bank management ; and, if it is not to be unlimited, what is to act as a check upon it but its conver tibility into one or other of the precious metals ? There is, at present, no restraint on the issue of paper, in notes at or above 51., except the obli gation to pay them in gold if demanded. Would it be proper to abolish this liability, and to allow the Bank of England, and every one of the 600 or 700 country banks, to inundate the country with as much currency as they chose ? The 11. note is indeed prohibited, and prohibited for the very reason that we require another one-pound standard to measure the value of other notes. Were it permitted to supply the whole circula tion with paper, and to use notes of the same amount as sovereigns, the latter would disap pear, as they have disappeared in Scotland, and as they disappeared in the counties of England %%hen the country bankers were permitted to issue small paper. It is necessary, therefore, if we desire to guard ourselves against unlimited depreciation, and protect the nation from as signats or double prices, to moor the bank-note to gold as our anchor, and never to allow their connecting cable to be cut. Mr. Attwood, who opposes this indispensable principle of a sound currency, but who is far above the class of persons to whom we have alluded, has ad dressed to us a letter, which we willingly insert, in answer to some strictures of ours on his cur rency speech at Birmingham last week, noticed in our`paper of Monday. We really, however, do not see how his communication has altered the position of the question, or given any new support to his opinions. In applying the word " robbery" to any projected change in our system of currency, brought about with the previously avowed design of reducing its present value, by increasing artificially its quantity, or by re lieving it from the legal check of a metallic stan dard, we spoke advisedly, though of course we meant no imputation on the personal integrity or patriotic views of Mr. Attwood. His proposed repeal of Peel's Bill, and the restoration of a small-note circulation, will either raise prices and depress the value of money, or it will not. If it will not, then no change can be demanded, and the question is at an end. If it will, then it must alter all existing money contracts—it must affect the relation of all debtors and cre- ditors—and it must enable the nation, as a great debtor to the fundholder, to discharge his divi dend at a lower rate than before the change. This being dune with design, and with knowledge afore thought, is, to all intents and purposes, a law of confiscation to the full amount of the effect which it produces. It is a forcible alteration in the distri bution of property, resulting from Government interference, without any compensation to the party injured. It is, in truth, to " rob" the national creditor, or, in other words, to deprive him of a portion of his revenue without an al legation of an offence. In pointing out the years 1823, 1824 and the beginning of 1825 as prosperous times, produced by a happy state of the currency, Mr. Attwood must have forgotten the blessings of the panic in the end of the latter year. But that, he will say, was produced by a departure from his system in contracting the circulation in order to draw back the exported gold. Be it so ; but then we must have al lowed the depreciation to go on by over-issues, in order to obtain still higher prosperity, till all our gold had fled and taken refuge in other countries, where it was not repudiated as here. phis must have led immediately to a restriction act ; and in a short time, under a continuance of that system, a Bank -note, like a paper ruble of Russia, must have fallen to a third or a fourth of its nominal value measured by the old standard. Then certainly creditors would have been " robbed" in the worst sense of the word. But it would appear that we are threatened first with an " avalanche," and then with a " re volution," if we adhere to our present monetary standard and our present currency laws. On this subject we continue to differ as much from Mr. Attwood, as when we made the re marks to which he replies, though we have neither time nor room to re-state the grounds of our opinion. Revolutions or political convul sions are sometimes brought about by mis chievous experiments on the circulation of a country, or by a derangement of its monetary system through depreciation, but never by a firm adherence to a solid value and a universal standard. Paper is of no use in a general con vulsion—and the calamities of this nation, in case of civil disturbances, would be aggravated a thousand degrees beyond those of any other people in similar circumstances, not because we have so much gold, but because we have so much paper in our currency. Had France pos sessed only a paper currency during her two in vasions in 1814 arid 1815, she would not so soon have recovered from her distresses. Let Mr. Attwood only contrast her situation, after being overrun by half the armies of Europe, and paying such enormous sums in contribu tions to her conquerors, with the condition of the United States, after the single British expe dition to New Orleans. The comparative order and perfect security of money transactions in the one case, and the extraordinary derange ment in the ether, though the people were placed in more favourable circumstances, speak volumes - against an exclusive paper system.— Times. It is somewhat ludicrous to observe the elabo rate efforts of the submissive scribes of the powers that be" to make the public believe that Europe presents nothing but peaceful ap pearances, while the three great despotic Go vernments, that now openly strike at the exis tence of all free institutions and of all free opi nion, have, for the enforcement of their atro cious decrees, a million and a half of men in arms ! If this be peace it is a peace sleeping upon gunpowder ! It is a peace in which there is neither security nor confidence. But it is not in the number of their legions only and in their equipment that th e d espot i c Sovereigns are formidable to all nations and people that value independence. They have taken up positions silently, while keeping our Statesmen engaged in the puerile frivolities of the Belgic bubble, which positions give them the means of making the most powerful use of their arms, if the strug gle of freedom and despotism, of civilization and barbarism, should take place. And most assuredly events are tending to produce such a struggle eventually, unless the people of France, of Belgium, of Switzerland, of Italy, of the German States, and, finally, of England itself, should tamely and basely submit to the yoke of the Holy Alliance through the mere terror of armies, which will, in that case, have conquered without the necessity of firing a shot. By sub mitting after such a fashion to the commands of the Despots, peace may indeed be preserved ; but it will be a peace which will have nothing else worth preserving. Human nature, how ever, is not yet so far sunk in political debase ment as to present, in the nineteenth century, that unvarying submission throughout Europe to military dictation and brute force, which would reduce the most intellectual, vigorous, and civi lised quarter of the globe, to the deplorable servitude and degradation of uneducated, demo ralised, and enervated Asia. Yet, if the Holy Alliance be permitted to carry on their schemes of aggrandisement, and to enforce their decrees for the subversion of free institutions and the total subjugation of the human mind, as they now do in the Germanic States, and as Russia has clone in Poland, the condition of "enlightened" Europe will, at last, be assimilated in passive servitude and mental darkness to that of the oriental world ; and the suppliant scribes of power will call this peace ! It will, indeed, be the perfect realization of what the Despots mean by their favourite terms, " order and tranquil lity"—the " order" of political extinction—the " tranquillity" of moral death. The miserable ex pedition of Casimir Perier to Ancona—" too few for an army, too many for an embassage"—is iso lated amid the inundation of Austrian troops that possess that fine country, and secure all its im portant passes. The presence of the French just suffices to iiritate the Absolutists, but not to inspire them with fear. Meanwhile Austria, who has the complete military command of Italy, occupies the frontiers of Switzerland with a imposing force, and, by the combined agency of circumvention and terror, may be said to hold that republic in her grasp, whereby she may, at any time, unbolt the gates of France in that quarter. Still more formidable is the vast force which Prussia has concentrated on the Rhine, so well equipped as to be ready to commence active operations at any moment ; while in the rear of these collected hosts other large armies are in readiness to march ; and Russia, having beaten down the ramparts of western Europe against her barbarous ambition, fortifies the whole frontier towards the west, evidently as a basis of operations. These things look as much Ike a prolongation of peace as collecting masses of thunder-clouds betoken fine weather. They may certainly be followed by fine weather, but not without a storm. We do not say that such a peace as Europe at present possesses will be broken while the allied Despots can have all they demand—dishonourable submission from France, the slavery of Helots from the German people, and gold and coward courtesies from England, without actually letting loose the " furies of war." But who does not see that in such a state of things Europe, apparently at peace, is strown with combustible materials, and no one can say whence, or how soon, the spark may come that shall set it in a flame.— Morning Herald. Among the arguments used by the Marquis of Palmella and the Conde de Funchal, in the hope of inducing the British Cabinet to adopt a more liberal policy towards the Constitution alists of Portugal, none deserved greater atten tion than the offer, on the part of Don Pedro, of entering into such an alliance with this country as would materially promote the interests of British commerce. For many years past there has been on the part of France great jealousy of the pecu liar privileges enjoyed by our merchants in their trade with Portugal ; but the French Cabinet having been induced, by the loud and almost unanimous expression of public feeling in France, to promise a concurrence in any measures to which our Government might resort for the overthrow of Dun Miguel, and in order to avoid all ground for distrust, to leave the management of the affair entirely in our hands, the French nation, so far from exhibiting any jealousy at commercial advantages being thrown i❑ our way by Don Pedro, as the condition of our sup porting his daughter's claims, would cheer fully make any sacrifice to obtain through Great Britain a result which their own Cabinet desired, but which, on account of the arrangement with Lord Palmer ston, it is unable to take an active part in effecting. This, therefore, is the moment for decision on the part of the British Government, and we hope that Earl Grey and his colleagues will pursue the course which they are bound to follow by interest as well as honour. They have done enough to make Miguel the eternal enemy of this country, without having, by any overt act, rendered assistance to his opponent, who is now, and, in the event of success, would be still more, a friend to British commerce. Should Miguel maintain his usurped throne, he will naturally look for continued support from those Powers who do not even now hesitate to avow their sympathy for him, and whatever ad vantages he may be able to withdraw from Great Britain, he will throw into the hands of the North Americans and the Russians. Russia, instead of drawing from France the low wines, of which he consumes so large a quantity, will take them from Portugal ; and Portugal, instead of admitting our produce into her ports, with the facilities promised by Don Pedro, will cultivate relations with the United States, and with those manufacturing por tions of the Continent of Europe in which she may find the articles which she has hitherto received from us. But it is not as regards the imports alone that Miguel would show his hatred of Great Britain. Regardless as such a man must ever be, wherever his passions are concerned, of the interests of his subjects, he would increase the export duties on articles of Portuguese produce, for which there is a de mand here, to such an extent as would ma terially affect our market, and a very short time would show how much we had l os t b y t h at un generous policy, which is one of noninterven tion only when the rights and liberties of men are at stake. Portugal, under a settled Con stitutional Government, would be a valuable market for British produce, and equally va luable to us as to the facilities of obtaining the produce of that country, at a reduced rate. Don Pedro has already given earnest of what he would do, if successful, through our means ; and his agents here have made such representations as no Government, with a common regard to interest, to say nothing of the broad question of right, ought to disregard.—Morning Herald. It is really sickening to be compelled, day after day, to notice the malignant ribaldry of the Times upon the Bank question, which, however, we do because some persons may be weak enough to take for granted what is stated in that Journal, in attributing to the mismanagement of the Directors the distress of the people. The Times asserts that the paper issues of the Bank in 1822 had been reduced to the lowest point they had attained since the peace. In answer to this we have only to state that the circulation of 51. notes was the same in 1822 as it was inlBl9, and the one-pound notes were paid off in 1821, and therefore that circulation was, as a matter of course, reduced under Mr. Peel's Bill. We now recommend a general and attentive perusal of the evidence itself, which will be an effectual antidote to the poison so malignantly circulated by the Journal we have named. We confess and lament the danger that a certain class of persons, not in the habit of investigating such matters for themselves, may have been influenced to receive unfavourable and injurious impressions respecting the Bank. But with the great and intelligent body of the mercantile classes we are happy to know, what indeed we never doubted, that the hardy ignorance displayed in the attempt to shake public credit through that of the Bank is as thoroughly contemned as the motive which led to it is abhorred.—Morning Post. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. Yesterday Mr. Barker, a pawnbroker of the city, was summoned before the LORD MAYOR for having il legally received in pledge three unfinished silver watch cases from a person employed by Mr. Isaac a watch manufacturer. The man who had pawned the cases was in extreme poverty, and had hut very lately re ceived parish relief, and the object of Mr. Isaacs was to punish the pawnbroker for having given encou ragement to depredators by lending money upon work in a course of manufacture. The watch-cases were produced, and Mr. Isaacs pointed out the proof of want of finish in the manu facture. The articles had neither springs nor linings, and he thought it quite impossible that the defects could have escaped the notice of a pawnbroker, who received such strong cautions from the Acts of Par liament inflicting heavy penalties for violation. Mr. Stevens, for Mr. Barker, submitted that all means were constantly resorted to for the purpose of deceiving the pawnbroker, and that, in this instance, the person who pawned had long been supposed to be a master. It was well known that masters often had occasion to raise money to answer pre-sing emergencies. The LORD MAYOR observed, that if dishonest men found a readiness of disposing of goods fraudu lently, the respectability of the man who lent money on such goods was an unanswerable proof of the ne cessity of putting in force the Act of Parliament. No one could for a moment think that the man who had pledged was the owner of the articles. His Lordship then intimated that he must fine Mr. Barker. Mr. Nobler said that Mr. Barker had shown the most marked disposition to stop any article which he suspected had been stolen. The LORD MAYott—lf that be the case, I shall remit the penalty; but if such a representation had not been made, I certainly would have levied the fine. The watch-cases, however, must be given up to Mr. Isaacs. GUILD HALL. Eliza Kerman, a tall young woman, the wife of a driver of a branch coach from the Blossoms Inn, Lawrence-lane, was brought before Sir PETER LAURIE yesterday, on suspicion of having destroyed her own child, aged ten weeks, about the latter end of Msy last. Mr. Newbon, the vestry clerk of St. Andrew by the Wardrobe, appeared with the over seers as complainants. Mr. Newbon said, a female child, about four or five months old, was found deserted in the passage of a house in St. Andrew's-hill, on the night of the 16th of June. It was advertised on the 18th, and on that day the prisoner called at the place where it was at nurse, examined it, arid said it was not the one she was in search of, as it had not a particular mark. Next day, however, she called on the over seers, arid said it was the offspring of an impreper intercourse between her sister and her husband, and that she was ready to take it and maintain it. It was about to be given to her, but it was deemed right to make some inquiry and take some indemnity first, and upon visiting the husband he declared he knew nothing of the circumstance. They were con fronted, and she then admitted her statement was a fabrication, got up to screen herself from the punishment for deserting her infant ; that in truth the child was her own, arid she had dropped it. Prisoner had a dispute with her husband, and dropped the child, intending to take away her own life immediately afterwards. To obtain this full confession, the officers had promised not to prosecute her, but they still required her to give proof the child was truly her own, as her husband protested he was not aware she had given birth to one since about 18 months ago. The child was accordingly sent to Norwood. Sir PETER LAURIE having called upon the pri soner to answer the charge, she said the child was really her own. To prove that site dropped the child that was found, she would state, that she watched it, as it lay undiscovered, for some time in the passage. It was sleeping, but a boy coming out kicked against it and woke it,and an old woman refused to take it in. A woman who lived at White chapel offered to take and suckle it, but the parish beadle who had been fetched to the door declined the offer, on account of the distance. She had concealed her delivery from her husband, because he was not fond of children. Her nurse and infant did not sleep with her, therefore, even during the first fortnight. She was oppressed with low spirits, and had been twice in St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and once attended by a medical man at home. Sir PETER asked why she was taken to St. Bar tholomew's ?—The husband replied, the first time because she poisoned herself. Sir PETER asked how his wife had obtained money enough, without his knowledge, to pay for the lying-in and nursing of the child ?—Prisoner could explain that. She received a small annuity from her friends in the country. She was entirely innocent of the charge brought against her. It was intimated there was some difficulty in trac ing out the nurse, Mrs. Tivey. Sir PETER LAURIE said the prisoner had been guilty of a very grave offence in deserting her child, and he should remand her fora few days while some inquiry was made. LAMBETH-STREET. THE " INVISIBLE HORN" BLOWER.—Yesterday a young man named Baron, but no nobleman, was b r ought before Mr. WALKER and the Rev. D. MATTHIAS, charged with exercising his pugilistic propensities upon the person of John Stansfield, a stuut, elderly, and good-looking mall, save that he had a black eye, and carried one arm in a sling. Th e complainant was a constable " riggleily" sworn in before their Worships, and was employed by Mr. Hemingway, the landlord of the King's Arms, Mile-end-road, who had a long room " rig glerly" licensed, and fitted up with " a norchester" (query, an orchestra ?) which he (witness) had to guard every concert night, and keep out improper characters, and preserv e goo d or d er. H e t h en Pointed out a little dark man, named Moody, stand ing in the corner of the office, as the author of all the mischief. It appeared that Mr. Moody had a peculiar knack of playing upon a horn which nobody could sec, though all could hear it well enough. He was formerly in the habit of going about to enter tain people at public-houses with what he called " trumpet imitations ;" but he had made his " for tin," and set up for a " gemman," and certainly he had got up in the world since he was become a companion of Barons. He was in the habit of fre quenting the concert room, and interrupting the performers by giving them a "twiddle' with his sham bugle, and setting the whole place in a roar of laugh ter. Last Tuesday night he came to the concert with the defendant and other " young sparks," and complainant, being up to his tricks ) kept his eye upon him. lie was pretty quiet till the perform ance was over, when it was time to clear out, but he and the defendant, with others, remained sitting, and complainant saw him put up his hands.—(Here he suited the action to the word, and held up his fingers as the vulgar do when they cry out " take a sight.") He was just beginning to " twiddle away," when complainant went up to him, saying " I'm blow'd if you shall blow here," The de fendant vociferated " Who are you ?" He told him he was an officer, and Moody should not blow there; upon which the defendant Baron gave him a blow in the eye and knicked him down ; and then they all set upon him, " a matter of eighteen on 'urn," and hurt his arm by thumping him about. Mr. Spratt, a mere shrimp in size, was conductor of the concerts, and handed a programme of the per formances to the Magistrates. He, as well as the landlord of the house, was extremely anxious to keep good order, and he regretted that Mr. Baron, who was a friend of his, should have acted as the complainant had described, which was perfectly true. The Magistrates ordered the defendant to find bail; but Moody, who, like trumpeters in general, only set people together by the ears, was allowed the privilege of his profession—to depart without cen sure. Yesterday Miss Anne Wilkins, the young woman who has been in custody since Monday last, on the charge of robbing her patents, who are most re- spectable farmers, residing near Cambridge, and elo, ing with a private soldier, who belonged to a lee uiting party in that part of the country, wa• again brought before the sitting Magistrates, Mr. WALKER and the Rev. D. MAlrums. In-pector Fryar had written by Monday night's post to the parents of the prisoner, but had not as yet received any answer from them. He added, that he thought there was not sufficient time for the letter reaching thoparents, as they resided seven or eight miles across the country from Cambridge, and it was possible, at this busy season of the year, that the biter would remain at the post-office until mar keg-day. The MAGISTRATES also thought this extremely probable, and remanded the prisoner till Saturday. Her manner since the last examination has under gone a wonderful change, and proves to demon,tra don the baneful consequences which result from persons being sent to prison, and allowed to associ ate indiscriminately with the most abandoned and vile characters. On Monday, while at the bar, the prisoner hid her face from the gaze of those present. continued to cry aloud during the examination, and appeared altogether most penitent; but yesterday, she seemed perfectly indifferent to her fate, and ap peared as if she had been an experienced and hal dened thief. In the Times of Saturday an account appeared under the head of this office, of two girls, sisters, who gave their names as Mary and Catherine Fur long, and said they had run away with four other apprentices from their master and mistress, pill-box makers, at Woodbridge, in Suffolk, in consequence of their ill-treatment towards them. In reference to that account, Mr. WALKER yesterday received a le ter from R. W. Shawe, Esq., a Magistrate of Suffolk, and Chairman of the Petty Session at Woodbridge, requesting, as the report was highly di-agreeable to the respectable inhabitants of the town, it to be stated that due inquiries had been made to the parish officers and others, and no such persons as Mary and Catherine Furlong had been known in the town or neighbourhood, nor was there a pill•box-maker in or near Woodbridge. W OR SHIP- STREET. On Wednesday evening William Dignwit, who had the appearance of a mechanic, and was stated to be a chair-maker, was placed at the bar for exa mination before Mr. BROUGFITON, upon a charge of highway robbery and attempt to murder, alleged against him by a young man named Henry Andrews, who was stated to be employed as a clerk in the office of a Mining Company, and resident with his father, in Duncan-place, Hackney. The prosecutor, about half-past eight in the even . ing of Friday se'nnight, was crossing a field at Hag gerstone, called Clement's-field, on his way home from Islington, when two men met him, and one of them, the prisoner, asked him the way to Shore ditch Church. While he was telling the prisoner the way, the other man struck him a violent blow on the side of the head with a stick, and knocked him down, and the prisoner, he said, then knelt upon him and held him down while the other rifled his pockets. They robbed him of his watch and 21. 10s. in cash, in a drab kid purse, threatening that if he made any noise they would throw him into the canal, which is near the spot. He did cry out for assistance, however, thinking that the police or other persons might hear him ; but one of the men said to the other, " him, give it him ;" and while he was in the act of uttering the cry of " Police," the prisoner drew a knife and cut him across the throat, and they then both ran away. He felt himself very weak when they left him ; but lie made for the lock-house of the canal, at some distance from the place, and the lock-keeper saw him home. He had received two or three cats on the side of the throat, not very deep ones, and was afterwards attended by a surgeon, and confined to his home for several days. He had since been about with officers in search of the robbers, and on Wednesday saw, and at once recognised, the prisoner at a public-house.—The prisoner was remanded. UNION-HALL. Yesterday, George Hussey, the man charged with endeavouring to procure charitable contributions by false pretences, was brought up for final examination. Miss Elizabeth Horsburgh, of Herne-hill, Cam berwell, stated, that on Friday, the 31st of August, the prisoner called at her house, and telling the story of the widow's distress, obtained from her sister the sum of 3s. After a long examination, Mr. White, of Grove hill, Camberwell, had known the prisoner for a num ber of years, arid he was an apprentice to Mr. An drews, the principal surgeon of the hospital in Salisbury, at the same time he (Mr. White) was one of the directors of the institution. He added, that he never heard any thing prejudicial to the cha racter of the accused until the present charges were brought against him. The MAGISTRATE addressed the prisoner, saying, that although a case had been proved of his having received a sum of money under false pretences, yet they were not disposed to commit him upon the charge, in consideration of a wife, who was depen dent upon him in some measure for support. The prisoner was then discharged. The prisoner was just retiring from the bar when a gentleman stood forward, and said, that on seeing the former account in the newspapers, it induced him to attend, to state that the prisoner received sum of money fromm, small him, saying that his wife was (lying. Mr. MURRAY said, that the applicant had better let the matter d rop. =--- - - - - John's On Church Ao I il , day t t. morning L,, wri t, uA was ms , married who i in the at 68th St year of his age, to M. E. CoATEs, a g ed twenty-seven. St. , The parties repaired to the church in a fly, the silly old man being a cripple a nd unable to walk. A considera ble co ncourse of people asse mbled to g ive the cou p le rather a ualsishano hisel. missiles, s rough salutation , under the im p ression that W ILLIAMS had discarded a n onl y dau g hter to make roo m for this youthful 3ool.i i)o,es na bride. nh dis b the, better I r t i de bridegroom is h rao said,half." of: :, we woa sn k t n h o e t i v their return forcibly not h e h i d o how byo from aperson ch church r correctly, ch that the old fool has set t led his little property (about twhheyilsitvearneotpheelrted placed with a pa - ir of t bullock's dirt, nsd on other sawdust, grass, brow.—Brighton Guardian. MAGNIFICENT SPORT AFTER A FOX. In the last week of the meeting, the Kildare Club ex perienced a run which was never, perhaps, exceeded, coupling together the severity of the pace and its duration, in any country with any hounds. They met (" with a southerly wind and a cloudy sky ") to a large field of both hunts, and the gentry of the surrounding country, at Walls-court, and found almost immediately in a new gorse. From the number of horsemen out, the '`fox got well away before the hounds could be steadily settled to the scent ; but which once fairly accomplished, they went away at a tremendous pace to the Wicklow-hills, a distance of ten or a doien miles ; thei3e hill's he skirted; tenth turning to his right, p issed back again over partly the same which lie had previously come over, but not exactly in a traverse, and, still diverging more and more, reached the banks of the Slaney, which he crossed. Here a fear minutes' check let in the best part of the crowd, who, but for this timely incident, were already beat; and, leaving a strong gorse to his right, he went away at a racing pace over a splendid grass country to Belem-park, crossing the county of Carlow, re-entering Kildare between Castle herniate and Ballitore-inn, and leaving a tail of scarlet, as long as that of a paper-kite in every ditch and field. The park at Belem hangs rathef on a sharp declivity ; and the scent lying breast high, though it was pouring rain, the distress that here took place would be difficult to describe. Many a nag who had come gallantly hitherto was here irretrievably spread eagles, " So shrewdly on the hill's steep side, Had the sharp burst their mettle tried." Leaving the Park (out of which only about half a dozen horsemen made good their way), he held resolutely on through the Bottoms of Ballitore, for the covert and earths above Narraghmore Court-house, and crossing the river Greed, was within a field of his point, when he was raced into and killed, after a run which lasted nearly four hours, the most part of it at a distressing pace, dur ing which lie had crossed the best part of three counties, and gone over more than thirty miles of country. Among the vety few who witnessed the end of this gallant chevy were, Mr. Kennedy, on John Grenada's favourite grey horse Gamecock, by Irish Soldier, which he had purchased with the hounds ; and Sir Henry Parnell, who in his bro ther-in-law's (Lend rtarlington) absence acted as master of his pack, on a chesnut horse by Master fagot, and who rode at least fif een stone.—Sporting Magazine. THE MARKETS. SOUTHALL MARKET.—Sept. 5. This day's supply wus moderately good throughout, and the assemblage of both London and country buyers was numerous. The trade with prime small meat was somewhat brisk, with other kinds very dull, at the following prices per stone of 81b, to sink the ollals: Beet 3s. Od. to 4s. 2d 3s. 6d. to 4s. Bd. Mutton 3 8 4 8 I Pork 310 5 0 Lamb .. 4s. 4d. to ss. 4d. The foregoing quotations are prime Lamb 2d. per stone lower, prime small Pork 2d. per stone higher than on this day se'n. night ; prices otherwise stationary. Beasts, 251; Sheep and Lambs, 3,465; Calves, 90; Pigs, 35. A small part of the supply left the market unsold. HAI LSHAM 111A1tKET.—Sept. 5. 3s. Od. to 3s. 10d. 3s. Bd. to 4s. 2d. Mutton- 3 S 4 8 j Pork 0 0 0 0 Lamb 4s. 4d. to ss. 4d. Supply good; trade with each kind of prime meat somewhat brisk, with other kinds very dull. ARUNDEL MARKET.—Sept. 4. 8eef........., , 3s. Od. to 4s. Od. Vea1—.......... 3s. Od. to 4s. 4d. I Mutton w 3 6 4 8 P0rkw............ 3 8 4 2 Lamb 4s. Cd. to ss. Od. Supply good, and ha , e rather dull. CHICHESTER MARKET.—Sept. 5. Beef—....— 4 25.10.1. to 3s. 10d I 3s. t. 2 to 4s. 2d. 4 4 I lamb 4s. 4d. to ss. 4d 3 6 4 4 Trade with prime fat stock, and store Sheep and Lambs rather brisk, but otherwise very dull. Mutton ---,3 RUMFORD M s. d. to s. d. a. d. s. d. Beef Mutton '2 10 310 Veal 3 2 4 2 3 4 4 4 Pork 3 8 410 Lamb 4s. 2d. to ss. 2d. Suckling Calves from 14s. to '26s ; Quarter old Pigsl2l.to 18s. each. Supply rather limited. and trade dull. RKET.—Sept. 5. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING IHE WEEK. Wheat. Barley. 1 Oats. Beans. Per Quarter. s. to s. s. s. s. to s. s. to s. Blandford 59 35 —22 42 Brigg... . 52 63 36 40 19 22 31 35 Cambridge .... 56 29 23 33 Chard ---........... 56 62 30 34 18 22 36 42 Lluntingdon.....—.. :58 67 28 32 18 23 32 33 Long Sutton...—. 56 64 17 22 32 35 Louth 50 55 27 32 19 20 32 34 Lynn 56 61 28 32 22 28 34 35 Newark 58 64 33 40 18 24 36 38 Nottingham —.— 64 67 37 40 20 25 37 42 Peterborough 56 63 32 36 19 25 33 38 Plymouth 67 43 27 43 Sleaford 65 70 36 38 22 28 41 43 V , lqti " et i ll am 5 5 8 1 6 5 5 , lg 7,7 24 30 '344,3 LEEDS CORN MARKE', Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, 60Ib. York. and Lincoln. 601 b. Norfolk and Suffolk Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding Beans 6.11b. Oats, Potatoe —Mealing, For. 12d. to 13d Er Shelling Rapeseed, English, :6/ to :Mt .—Sept. 4. 545. to 87s. , ti 525. to 655. 325. to 355. 345. to 365. g 21s. to 338. to 41s. Fe 235. to 28s. ng. 11 4d. to 13d. per st. 30s. to 315. per load. gn, —l. to —l. per last. Barley, LI V ERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.—Sept. 4. ‘VIIEAT, English, White, per 701 b. Red Scotch, Welch, and Manx Irish, White 7 10 8 0 ---- Red 7 6 8 0 Foreign 9 0 9 4 OATs, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 2 9 2 10 . .. --:- Irish - Foreign BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter at 0 38 0 - Scotch and Irish, per 601bs. - Feeding 4 0 4 3 BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter 36 el 40 0 - Irish, &c• - Foreign '34 0 36 0 PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter 36 0 38 0 - Foreign FLOUR, English, per 2801 b. - Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401bs 2l 0 23 0 INDIAN CORN, per 4401 b. RYE, per Imperial quarter 3IALT, per Imperial quarter I MPORT OF GRAIN for the Week ending Sept. 3. Wheat. Oats. 1 Barley Flour. Oatmeal Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Foreign, Brls.llrish,&c. Scks. Loads. 6,069 , 1,083 , 12 0 1 1,e22 1,736 A GIGANTIC GOURD.—There is now to be seen in a confectioner's window in Fleet-street an enor mous pumpkin, the weight of which exceeds 721bs. and the girth measures five feet six inches. It is a handsome spe cimen of this tribe, and was grown by a market gardener at Hammersmith. THE LATE EXPLOSION BY GUNPOWDER• —Mr. BARRY rs not, as stated, a law student, but a pro' fessor of chymistry, and was considered to be one of the most experienced men in that art. He frequently gave lectures at Guy's Hospital, which were always sought after with much interest and anxiety. Just before the accident took place, he desired his valet to fetch him a cup of coffee, at which time he was making some preparation, upon which it is said he was about to lecture yesterday (Thurs day). The servant took up the coffee to his master, when lie desired him to procure a light, which had no sooner been given him, and the valet had left the room, than the explosion took place, and the dreadful consequences al ready detailed ensued. On inquiry yesterday, we ascer tained that the unfortunate gentleman, who is under the care of Mr. VINCENT, of Lincoln's-Inn-fields, was still re maining in a very dangerous state. The si g ht of his eyes is, it is feared, completely gone, and s hould he recover, whi c h is e xtr e m e ly doubtful, he will b e most horribly dis figured. In our account of the melancholy accident, yes terday, we stated that the u nfortunate gentlem an b a d b e en was wrong. A r . taken to the hospitalsti still remains : in our informantchambers, an d i s eon ,tautly a ttended by Mr. VINCENT, Mr. DALE, an d se veral other em inent persons. — Times. BIRTHS, 6thte,r,,mas Jenarnett, inst. in Parx-strect, the Lady Elizabeth Trefu:l6. A f Russell-s the la ,, O square, inst. in Bedford-place, Esq,, barrister.at.law, of a son. ~,, NV On the Ist inst. at Rossall Hall, the lady of T. T. Know , ' E sq ., of Heysham, Lancashire, of a daughter. MARRIED. , „ On the sth inst. at Lowestoft , the Rev. W. Herbert Chapuli; M.A. of Emmanuel College Cambridge, to Elizabeth,. ° O-ic daughter of the late Emmanuel Bringloc, Esq., of Hingham, in county of Norfolk. ,01- On the 6th inst. Charles William Tabor, Esq., of Ru'' o f square, to Jane, youngest daughter of William Clifton, Escl'? Leicester place. .. , 40.. On the sth inst. at Woodford, John Knowles, Esq., of .r . 7 4, of O oad o ldliaa t t: l ini i ,g e chist,th stead, to Maria, only daughter of Peter Mallard, Esq., of Vii -- ford, Essex. OA 011 the sth inst. a t Isleworth, John Morris, Esq., of AMP ~cO. /, Beds, to Ch ar l o t te, second daughter of the late W . Ashby, of Staines, Middlesex. Ma O r n ia t t h,e red 4t e h ri i c n a s , t d . aautgthlieterGorofDttio,E,, DIED. l A le r ti th d u it r ig lh C e a n r , ( i i s i o h n ic , i fi n if a Lee i s a t t e l e i e re 4t s l t i e i e n t s e t : at Es q. : O Cheltenham, ja,, her fifth year. On the 29th ult. at St. Omer, irance, Alice, wife of Mr. S 3 ‘' — eSin i t n he th c e ou sB nt t y h o 3 f 'e S a u r r o re f y i . lis _ a . i ge e ; Brooke, of Paternoster row, I.ondon, in her 47th year. si° •• On the 6th inst. a t Newington-place, Matthew Slater, =';'‘.. nearly 50 years in the General Post Office, in the 73. d year of age. On the 4th hist after an illness of only a few hours, 1 13 „ c1 ; m el : the wife of Ferdinando Anderdon, Esq., of Upper Mall, .'" inersniith. i On the sth inst. at Hastings, Sussex, aged '2O years, N v 'l. , „ a lia il, r tile second son of the late Daniel Fowler, Esq., of Down n Kent. H e nri On the 3d inst. in Avenue-road, Regent's-park, Wm. Church, Esq., aged 66. ______.—........1e U PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY MURD 1/ XOUN AT TICS SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, LONDON.