The Sun. — London, England, 1832-08-13 00:00:00

.) . %~ SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. When we mentioned on Saturday, that no thing but a list of the killed or massacred was wanting to render the late outrage at Clitheroe more atrocious than that of Manchester in 1819, we spoke advisedly on the subject : we s p o k e after a mature examination of the facts, an d f rom my desire to give undue importance to any of our sta t eme nts by exaggeration. We have repeatedly demonstrated the wickedness and the folly of those pretences which have been set lip in pallia tiou of the Manchester massacre ; but we have no such task to perform in the present instance. In the recent outrage at Clithero, no one will pretend to find more than the characters of a common electinneering riot, till the Hussars were called in to attack the people. There can be made out no justifiable pretence for requiring military aid. The life of nobody was threatened, nor was property injured. There is not even an allegation that revolutionary anarchy would have taken place, or that the constitution would have been endangered, by Mr. Irving's failure to inoculate a body of reforming cotton-spinners with Tory principles. If there was any pretext for magisterial inter ference or military execution, it was in the morning, when Mr. Irving had made what he had anticipated would be his triumphant entry. This morning's riot had ceased—the unpopular candidate had retreated—the people had dis persed—the quiet of the town had been restored —the master manufacturers had left their men in the perfect confidence that all was over—they had gone to their homes and resumed their usual avocations, when, four hours alter the repulse of Mr. Irving, the cry was heard, " The military are upon us," and when the original cause of the disturbance, the very matter of the riot, was brought back by a detachment of cavalry riding through the streets at a hand gallop, brandish ing their sabres and spreading dismay among the terrified multitude. We present in our paper to day, faithful and detailed narratives of these lamentable transactions, from the tw6 most ex tensive manufacturers of Clithero; men of unquestionable respectability, together with depositions of persor.s who suffered by the violence of the military, or who wit nessed the cruelties inflicted on their neigh bours. These narratives seem to us to be drawn up with a scrupulous regard to truth, with a scrupulous avoidance not only of mali cious exaggeration, but of party colouring, and with every desire to see justice done by a neces sary investigation into the conduct of the Ma. gistrates, without any transgression of the cour tesy due to these Magistrates, by the use of any such epithets as their conduct might appear to have warranted. We beg particularly to direct attention— Ist. To the fact, tint after the cavalcade of Mr. Irving had passed Clithrro in the forenoon, the crowd had dis persed, and no disturbance occurred till its return with the menacing force of the dragoons in the evening. 2. To the fact, that though an unjustifiible outrage was offered to Mr. Irving and his friends on their first entry, nobody could complain of being hurt, and therefore no military force was required to apprehend the authors of any criminal violence. 3. That there could he no object in returning to rescue any. of Mr. Irving's friends, blockaded at the inn of Ci thero, for it is in evidence that no attempt was made to injure them—that the Chief of them did not even )(row of the insult offered to the Honourable Gentleman himself till be had left the town, and that be himself escaped with safety before the riot had been appeased. 4. That Mr. Irving, though he were the most stupid and insane creature in existence, could not expect to pro mote the (I bj«cts of his election by attempting to harangue in tie evening, under the protection of a detachment of dragoons, the same people who would not listen to him in the morning, when he came attended only by a peaces' le cavalcade of his friends. 5. That in the opinion of the people of Clitheroe, the only object of the return of the Hon. Gentleman, attended with a posse of lay and clerical magistrates, and supported by 50 sabres, was to punish the inhabitants of that •place for their morning insults—to take revenge for their past misconduct, as soon as an adequate - force could be pro cured—and to inspire the friends of the lielmining casdi date with a proper respect for his Tory antagonist. And if.this were really the object, how foolish a;, well as_ savage must they have been who con ceived it ! A mob is not, even for a quarter of an hour, an identical body. The men, women, and children who were Sabred - at six or seven o'clock in the evening, may not have been, and in all probability were not, the men, women, and children who had the criminal audacity to hiss the honourable gentleman and his friends at one o'clock in the day. But the chief point for consideration in this affair is, that the proposition to send for the military originated with the magis trates,—that these same magistrates were persons in the electioneering procession of Mr. Irving, —that therefore their personal feelings were too much engaged to take an impartial view of tin it official situation as guardians of the King's peace, —that five or six of them returned with the troops,—and that so little was there of danger before they had provoked hostility, that one of them, Colonel Clayton, was seen walking with out molestation in the streets after the fray had begun ! These magistrates, therefore, must be called upon to give an account of their conduct. Six of them were present. They were all Tories. They were ail the canvassing friends of Mr. Irving. The only magistrate in the neighbour hood who is of opposite principles, was not invited to aid in quelling the alleged tumult. They bad evidently represented to the soldiers that the disturbance was greater than it really was, because they entered the town with drawn sabres, where there was no resistance. They had resisted the advice of the Bailiff or Mayor, Mr. Garstang,. who, though a Tory, and a friend of Mr. Irving's principles, had objected to the entrance of the dragoons, as likely to create a riot which did not exist. racy put forward a clerical Ma gistrate to read the Riot Act, who ultimately behaved well in restraining the fury of the troops, whom he ought not to have at first introduced. In such circumstances, we sty that the Magis trates ought to be put upon their trial, and re quired to prove that personal passion and a sense of wounded pride were not stronger motives of action on this lamentable occasion, than a sense of duty, or a desire to preserve order. Such au acknowledged outrage demands inquiry. The blood of Englishmen has been unnecessarily shed, and the Government must ascertain how far the Magistrates encouraged, or could have prevented, this tragical occurrence.— Times. The "Established Church" is in a fair way of being pulled down, unless her proprietors con sent to en immediate and thorough repair of the old and wcrn out materials with which it is constructed. Saturday last, the last day of busi ness of the old system of corrupt Parliaments, seals the ultimate doom of a corrupt Hierarchy, if the sacred" edifice is not re-built or re paired by the forthcoming House of Commons. The quaint old author of the Religia Stoki says, " most of all churches do lace themselves vo stiff' and tight, that they bring on .a consump tion." If Ministers are determined to uphold the Protestant Establishment in 'Catholic Ire land, it requires not the gift of prophecy to fore see that twelve months will achieve its full 'and utter subversion. The religious economy of the present age will determine the people to pay for and choose their own faith, and not to contribute to the maintenance of a secular system. of religion from which different classes conscientiously dis sent. Scotland was early absolved from ecclesi astical domination, and unless the mode of sup porting the Church of England by tithes be radi cally altered—if the ritual, discipline, and creeds of the Establishment be not early made more conformable to the spirit of the times—the Hierarchy will speedily fall to pieces. No Administration, whether Whig or Tory, can much longer blink the question ; Mr. Stanley may attempt to prop up with his shoulders the Irish Church, but it will break his back before the expiration of the year 1833. The chapter of revelations is open before him if he will but read it. The recent political conduct of the Bishops—the infatuated blindness of the Right Reverend Prelates to even the shadows of coming Reform—have contributed not a little to the unpopularity of the Church, and to the notorious and wide-spreading animosity con stantly displayed towards the Clergy. It is in vain for the Tory prints to rate the lower classes ' of the city of Canterbury for their late outrage on the person of the Primate, and their ludi crous, though vulgar attempt to purloin his Grace's wig that they might carry it in proces sion before his Palace ; such acts are indefensi ble and scandalous, but who are the real and original sinners ? NWe say the Clergy ! The professors of the State Religion have been ever the subservient tools of the political enemies of the people; they have coveted every unpopular secular office in the Magistracy and Corpora ' lions; they mostly regard their calling as a trade ; their colleges and schools of education have maintained a system of exclusion and pedantic learning which turned the Clergy out into the lorld bigots in opinion, and tyrants in the towns arid villages. They have kept the people in moral arid political ignorance, and till late years discouraged elementary education. They would abridge the people of all sound information which could make them patriotic citizens or true Christians. Is it, then, matter of surprise that the flocks should now turn upon the wolves ? Verily, the Clergy are severely punished, and the system of fagging will change hands. The people begin to feel their power, and in proportion to oppression they will deal out retribution. The Standard and Bull John are most wrathful at the recent proceedings of a Birmingham Vestry meeting. The pioneers of that activ e p o p u l at i on , h a vi ng - done so much to accomplish Parliamentary Reform, have now, it appears, begun to throw up outworks to storm the citadel of church abuses. We have inserted, from the Birmingham Journal, the report of the proceedings of the Vestry meeting, which called forth the ire of our contemporaries. The decision of the rate.payers not to provide the I legal demands o f th e c h urc h war d ens , certa i n l y ! treads close on the doctrine of " constructive re bellion," advanced by Lord Brougham, but the correctness of which we nevertheless question. The Birmingham rate-payers do not commit " re bellion ;" they are only converted to Quakerism, and, with the Society of Friends, refuse to pay b'it by the coercion of the law. And where will thC church find a broker bold enough to sell up the goods of 3,000 rate-payers, or buyers of such an extensive furniture sale ? And if' the "goods" are taken to the churches, in what way will the congregations be accommodated at the Sunday services? We refer our readers to the details ! of the meeting ; and the proceedings are the more remarkable, because we do not see the names of many influential gentlemen who have headed the recent " agitation." The unanimous feeling of the great assemblage present must therefore have been voluntary and innate, as the the churchwardens who proposed the rejected rate are or were members of the council of the Political Union ! The times are indeed changed, since Tories could excite Church and King mobs in Birmingham. The clergy, when there was no cause, set up the cry of " Church in danger !" The cry of " wolf" will not now avail them, though the danger is palpable.—Morn. Chron. We beg to invite the attention of our readers to the very full and interesting intelligence which an adjoining column, under the proper head, will be found to supply, upon the subject of Portugal and the hopes of Portuguese liberty. In this mass they will see letters from our correspondents at Falmouth, Oporto, and Lisbon, together with the official details of such military transactions as have occurred hitherto in the interests of the Usurper, all of which joined to and collated with •the representations of the other side, will leave nothing more to be desired as to the hopes and fears of the two pa►ties whose passions and in terests are engaged in thepresent struggle, though it may not add further light as to the accuracy of the faCts which have been already stated. As our communications are entirely of the descrip tive kind, it is unnecessary here to attempt any lengthened summary of their contents, and, therefore, with a very index-like glance at them, we shall at once refer the reader to the documents themselves. At the actual seat of war, then, it would appear that very little change has taken place in the position of the combatants since our last notice of it, it amounting still to this—that Don Pedro is at Oporto, confining himself within, but fortifying that position—that he is organizing his volunteers, who now form an effective body of 4,000 or 5,000 men, and receiving deserters, who do not, however, confessedly come in in any great numbers—that the Miguelite Ge neral, Santa Martha, is at Penafiel, in the neigh bourhood of Oporto, which he claims to call his head-quarters, though with an army of 2,000 men—and that no collision,however trifling, has taken place between the troops of the rivals since the much-disputed affair of Vollonga, upon the 23d of July. With respect to that, we know that the liberating army, though it was unable to follow up its advantages, obtained an important and undenied success ; and we now find, even in the official reports of the tyrant's Generals, an admission that, upon the 18;h and 23d (the first affair of Major Hodges), actions had taken place, in the first of which they only deny that the enemy obtained any advantages, whilst the latter Santa-Martha himself admits was a drawn battle. This is in itself a most important cor roboration of the very moderate accounts put forth by the Constitutionalists, for the fabricated details as to the results, the numbers of killed, wounded, and prisoners, on either side, must of course be received, as coming from the Gazette, with utter distrust. So much then for the immediate seat of war. As regards Li,boti, where popular demonstrations may now so powerfully influence the result of the con flict, we leant that though things remained quiet, the minds of the people were in a high state of excitement, and it only required a little better assurance to draw forth very general adhesions to the Queen's cause. The tyrant's fleet of crazy vessels, which has been so long tied up, had, it appeared, caught by a feint of Admiral Sarto rius, at length ventured out to sea, and are by this time, We expect, in the hands of their ene mies. This took place upon the 3d inst., but as the vesses upon both sides had disappeared from Lisbon, the result was not known at the departure of the despatches; but from the re appearance of one of the blockading squadron off the coast, its friends felt encouraged to in dulge the best hopes to the Constitutional cause. The reports prevalent in Lisbon were all unfa vourable to Don Miguel, it being said, amongst other things, that General I'ovoas had been arrested and deprived of his command, either for incapacity in the affair of Villa Flor at Va longo, (in which, by the way, the Gazette claims equal advantages with the enemy,) or for disloy alty, as he was always known to be a liberal per son, and the sincerity of his attachment to the Usuper was much doubted. It was also said that Sir John Campbell had been offered Povoas'c (large, but that upon making inquiry into the state of the army, he found it so entirely disorganized and ineffective that he declined the trust. It is certain that at his recommendation some more corps, with a much-wanted supply of money, had already left Lisbon for the use of the Usurper's troops nearOporto. From the orders recently given, it would seem that Don Miguel means to make the grand stand at Coimbra, which he is fortify ing; but Don Pedro has, for the reasons assigned elsewhere, ordered a levy of 36,000 men in the provinces north of .the Douro, and with every prospect of success. We . - shall look forward with anxiety to the confirmations of the pre sumed naval successes of the Constitutional fleet, which must reach us shortly. The friends to the cause will not overlook the resources which Don Pedro has found in the wine cellars of Opo. to. Those and the prizes already taken cannot but prove a most seasonable relief. His little army is described as being still in the best spirits, and most anxious to be again led against the enemy. Even the official bulletins confess its valour, and we trust decided success will have soon rewarded its virtue and patriotism. The ex-Emperor, it would appear, makes himself be loved by every body —Morning Herald. The present Administration is certainly the most unlucky that ever held sway in this country. It was visited shortly after its birth with the miserable failure of the Budget, and from that time to the present the defalcation of the Reve nue, as compared with the expenditure, has been, rapidly on the increase. It has almost consum mated the ruin of the colonies; it has lOst the Church of Ireland ; white the non-interference doctrine, on which the Ministers relied at their accession to power, has been sported with, in fringed upon, and violated, till it has become a subject of ridicule even with its authors. The Reform of Parliament was, however, the giant measure of the Administration ; to this all their energies were applied. The unanimous call of the nation was the excuse for dissolving Parlia ment in one session, for attempting to swamp and annihilate the House of Lords in the next ; and yet what has been its fate ? Lord Al thurp, within a month of its passing, has attempted to bring in a Bill to amend it, and Colonel Evans, the great partisan of the measure, the ardent supporter of the Administration, avowed, in his speech of Thursday, Bth August, that " if the present Bill be not altered, or some remedy ' to it devised, he much feared the people would again be resorting to their threat of not paying taxes, and a runfor gold." Was there ever so impotent a conclusion? Was there ever brought together in the Government of the Bri tish empire a set of people, calling themselves Statesmen, who could bear up against such proofs of their utter incapacity, who could venture to continue in the service of the King after such evidence of incompetency ? Lord Goderich was far less unfortunate when he resigned his power; and yet these incapables are still strong in the conviction of their own superiority and of their unrivalled talents. But let them prepare for it ; a day of judgment will come upon them ; they will have a heavy reckoning to liquidate. While, however, this is preparing, let us inquire what is passing in our foreign relations. Upon this subject every body knows that the only two very essential points of interest to England on the Continent are the • following :—First, that such an arrangement should take place as re gards the Belgian provinces that they shall be secured against becoming either the prey or the ally of France, and thus proving a means of ag gression upon England. Now, it is well known that Leopold is in strict alliance with France, that his army is officered in great part by French, and yet that our Ministers are striving by every means to put him in entire possession of that country, and of all the fortifications and defences which England has spent millions to establish as a check upon the ambition and hostility of the French people. The next essential point is, that Portugal should be maintained in its close alliance with England, and that the commerce of the two countries should remain upon the footing on which it has for so many years, to her exclusive benefit, been established. Yet our Ministers have openly fostered and covertly assisted the attack upon that country by Don Pedro, who is in strict alliance with the Government and Revolutionary party in France, and, notwithstanding the strenu ous exertions of Spain and the other Continental Powers, they have refused to join in an at tempt to accommodate the differences between the pretenders to its Throne, or to avert the chances of a civil war. By the announcement to Spain that they had sent a fleet and a general officer with his staff' to watch the neutrality of Spain, the Ministers have brought upon them selves the declaration of that country, that, in the same spirit, it had assembled an army upon the Portuguese frontier, and had sent officers to Lisbon to watch over the neutrality of England ; and from Austria, Russia, and Prussia they have drawn a remonstrance incompatible with the high station this country has heretofore main tained. At thi s very moment C ount Palniella _ ..... is in England for the purpose of recruiting Don Pedro's forces, and of transmitting to him re sources of men, stores, and horses ; and yet they continue to hold out to the country and to Europe that they are strictly neutral. The ho nour of Great Britain is tarnished by such con duct, and the independent countries of the conti nent will see cause in the interfering character of our Government to act towards it as Russia has already done, in answer to the insults which were offered to the Emperor in the House of Commons, by stating that, if such l anguage were known to the people of that country, the lives of the English throughout the Russian empire would not be saf e ; an d there fore,olllymeans of pr o t ect i ng t h em, if it occurr e d a g ain, they would b e d es i re d to as the remove from it. How much longer is this sys tem of misrule and degradation to be inflicted upon us ? For whose advantage are we to be severed from the old and faithful allies with whom England has been powerful, prosperous, and respected? The answers to these questions are in the womb of time ; but, when England awakes from the delusion in which she has been held lor the fast sixteen mouths, she will visit with a heavy hand upon the authors of her misfortunes the injuries they have done her.—Morn. Post. It is with pain and regret that we refer to the coeversation, and its result, which took place on Saturday, respecting the disfranchisement of vo ters, in consequence o f the non-payment of rates and taxes--with pain because it exhibits a degree of most culpable weakness, or negligence, on the part of his Majesty's Ministers, which cannot fail to produce upon the country a most unfavourable impression of their general charac ter—and with regret, because, in consequence of the refusal of the King's Ministers to bring in a Bill for the relief of those who have failed to qualify themselves as electors, the new constituency, un der the Reform Act, will be so greatly narrowed as to render many of the new boroughs little better - than rotten boroughs, and, at all events, to place the voters, in many places, wholly who completely at the mercy of those who are inclined to sacrifice a valua ble privilege at the shrine of base gain, or equally base interest. Such conduct was neither expected from, nor is worthy of, his Ma jesty's Ministers—such was not the aim and end of the Reform Act—such were not the promises made by Lords Grey, Althorp, and Russell, when the Reform Bill was first introduced by them —nay, such conduct is contrary to their own interest as Ministers of the Crown, We have, by the Reform Act, got rid of most of the rotten boroughs, and that is a great gain, for which the country can never be too thankful ; but, on the other hand, unless a Relief Bill be brought in, and the time for the payment of rates and taxes be extended beyond that origi nally fixed by the Bill, other boroughs, which would have been free and independent, will have become rotten at the very moment of their birth, and the great end and object of the Act not only defeated thereby, but such a Hotise of Com mons, in all probability, returned, as cannot fail to disgust the country—to undo all that has been good in the policy of the present Ministers, and what is more, with the aid of a Court which is well known to he most inimical to them, expel them from the offices which they have turned to so little account. The title of Reform will roll back upon those who might have directed its course onward through safe and easy channels, and the very men become its sacrifice who might have saved all others from being brought within its reach. And what are the reasons urged for pursuing a line of conduct, which is certain to injure the cause of Reform, and throw the ntrcouy again into that state of confusion and excitement froM which it was hoped that it was now about to escape ? Why, first, that those who have neglected to pay their rates and taxes, bad sufficient warning of the consequences, and deserve not to be relieved—secondly, that the Reform Act cannot be altered this session —amid, thirdly, that if a Bill were brought in to relieve the disfranchised voters, we could not have a dissolution of Parliament this year. And are these the only reasons why a great and manifest injury should be :inflicted on the country—its constituency narrowed by the disfranchisement of a great portion of its new electors—and the great objects of the Reform Act either defeated, or placed in the most immi nent danger of being so ? True it is that such is the case; and true it is that there is not one of these reasons which will bear the test cf. investi gation. The truth of the first, alleging that suffi cient warning was given, w e deny—for the first warning on the subject was contained in the columns of this paper only a few weeks pre vious to the call for taxes ; and with regard to the others they are so utterly insignificant, and so cowardly, as to be undeserving of serious no tice. Why not have another Session of Par liament? Is there not sufficient time both for another Session, as well as for anew Parliament, should a necessity occur for calling one together ? That we do not no tice this matter with undue seve rity may be satisfactorily gathered from the uni form, and we think not ineffectual, support which we have given to his Majesty's Ministers —from the extent of the disfranchisement, and from the not extravagant joy of the Anti-Re formers at the first results of the Reform Act. lu_Manchester, according to Colonel Evans's statement, not above 750 persons had paid their rates ; in Ashton, 74 ; at Bury, 42 ; at Oldham, 42 ; at Bolton, 84 ; at Blackburn, 78 ; at Roch date,.66 ; at Salford, 40 ; and in Warrington, 38. The metropolitan divisioni are little better off, and yet in the teeth of this statement of manifest evil, Lord Althorp's only reply is, that "he could not think that the operation of the clause would be so extensive as the lion. and Gallant Member represented. He himself knew nothing certain of the matter; and nothing could be certainly known till after the 20th of August. Not believing in the extent of the disfranchisement, he could not believe the extent of the dissatisfaction. He had always admitted that the registration clauses might at first present some difficulty in the working. It should be remembered that the period fixed by the Bill allowed three months to be in arrears ; and he could not think, according to the custom of parishes, that it would be found that so many people were disfranchised." Facts are, how ever, stubborn things, and we know the facts to be - true. Let those, however, who have sown the wind reap the storm. The country will, no doubt, take care of its rights sooner or later— of that we believe there is no fear ; but with re gard to his Majesty's Ministers, they may rely upon it that they have sealed their fate by their own weak acts. The Tories are boasting that they have got them at last—that they are caught in their own net—that they will be in office in six months—and they are right. They have hi deed won the day at.last.—Morning Advertiser. SUICIDE.—On Friday an inquest was held at the Rose and Crown, Ratcliff Highway, on the body of LYDIA WALDRAVEN, aged 20. Mr. J. FRANKS, a baker in Hook's-yard, Whitechapel, said that the deceased was his sister-in-law, and had assisted him during the last seven years. About four years ago Mr. FRANKS and his wife broke off an acquaintance which the deceased had formed with a young man, on account of her youth. She took poison, but was recovered by medical aid, and she afterwards conducted herself in the most exemplary way. Within the last two months she had kept company with a young man named SMITH, and it was also un lerstood t h a t a police sergeant of the 11 division had paid her some attentions, which she rejected, finding, on inquiry at the Station-house, that he was a married man. The deceased was at home on the night of the Ist inst., and nothing particular was observed in her conduct. Ab.mt 5 o'clock the next morning a policeman, named WRIGHT, saw her leave Mr. FRANKS' house. She was in a violent perspiration, and site said she was very mueb distressed in mind, and had to go to a washi ng . Af ter that she was net. see n till the morning of the Bth, when she was found drowned in the London D oc k B as i n. The following paper was found in her room :—" Dear Friends,—l hope you will all ways respect Mr. Sunni as one of yore one— he is a sola..r welly yung man as can be,— by my wish,— L . w." The Coroner said the case was involved in some mystery. The Jury returned a verdict o f F oun d drown ed. It is the opinion of the friends of the del:eased, that she had been seduced, and had destroyed herself in con sequence POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MAR YLEB ONE. Jazzes Field and John Hurley were again broarbt be fore the sitting Magistrates, Messrs. Hosicnis and Toss, from Newgate, to which pri-on they were committed oo the 4th instant, in erd,r that Field might b 2 ., ideatifted as the perpetrator of another plate Obbbery in July, last year. Sergeant Thompson and John Conelly give evidence in support of the eharj:e. Hurley and Field were asked what they had to say in their defence? Ft: Id, with indignant warmth, had nothing to say, tx cept that the newspapers had belied him. He was by them represented as having b , en in titnee with the Sappel•, who murdered the policeman Long, when he never bad wen them. He moreover, now defied any man to say, unless he swore falsely, that he had ever, till the present, he-n before a Magistrate on any charge. Sergeant Thompson then produced a bunch of keys, which, acting one upon the other by way of cross-keys, he s l id Mrs. Ringmaiden could identify. Mrs. Ringmaiden was hereupon sent fur, but she de clined to come, as her ho band vr:ts abroad, and, in his absence, she could prevail on no gentleman to accompany her to the office. Again and again the Magistrates so licited the lady's kind attendance, who, notwithstanding, still refused. 3lr. Flosiutcs—Well, then, it appears that this case must he postponed on account of the lady's fancy and whims.—The prisoners were remanded. _~ _ LAMBETH-STREET. On Saturday one of the overseers of the parish of St. John, Wapping, appeared before the sitting Magistrates, Messrs. WALKER and NORTON, to show cans, why he refused, on the part of the parish, to support the illegiti ma's child of Lucy Egan, which it was alleged legally belong,d it. The mother, being in the family way by a master, whose service she had left, was sent, when about to be confined, from a new place in Southwark, to Wap ping. O❑ her way the child was born. The parish officers raised a que•ticn as to white': parish ought to bear the burden ; and this was to be decided by proving at what precise spot the mother had arrived when tile child came into existence. The case was adjourned for further proof. According to the woman she was opposite the Hop.: aid Anchor, East Smithfield, when the event occurred. The p rich officers of \Yapping think this very doubtful. W ORSHIP- STREE T. On Saturday, a respectanle looking man, named Thos. Fuller, was brought before Mr. BROUGHTON upon the following serious charge of wounding his lodgers, John Langford and his wife. The prosecutor, who was in a very weak s'ate, and with three dreadful cuts on his head, was a shoemaker, and resided with the prisoner, who was his landlord, in Phillip•street, Kingsland-road. Witness, on Friday af ternoon, hearing the prisoner call his wife a w-, and fearing he would ill use her, ran into the yard where the prisoner was building au oven, and asked him what he meant by it, when the prisoner, without making any reply, threw away a trowel he had in his hand, and seiz ing hold of a h.:miner, inflicted a deep wound on his fore head. Witness's wife, who held a child in her arms, ill-lied between them, when the prisoner struck her a tremendous blow on the forehead, and in trying to save the child, she received another on. the artn from the same weapon. Witness then (Awed upoi. the prisoner aid re ceived five or six blows more, one of them on h.sforehead, andanother on the back of his head. (Here both the prose cutor and his wife exhibited to tine Magistrate the wounds they had received, the sight of which drew forth au ex clamation of " horrible" from every.person present.) Three respectable witnes.4es corroborated the prosecu tor's statement. —The prisoner was committed to New gate fortrial. SUMMER.ASSIZES. NORFOLK CIRCUIT, APPLEBY, AUG. 10. The Learned Judge arrived at this place this morning, and opened the commission for the county of Westmore land. If the business of the assize be regarded as a cri terion, certainly the inhabitants of this county cannot be accused of a very strong propensity to litigiousness or crime. The calendar contained the name of one prisoner only, and that together with a charge of misdemeanour against another party, who was out up ,r. bail, constituted the whole of the criminal business. There were but five causes entered for trial, only two of which were defended. Both these were issues directed to try a right of common, awl possessed no general interest. John Clark was convicted of feloniously breaking into the warehouse of John Kidd, at Kendal, and stealing then e from a quint3y of currants. • Mary Smallwood, a decent-looking woman, pleaded Guilty to the mi,dem •anor of concealing the bit th of Ler Illegitimate child. She was sentenced to one year's im prisonment. MIDLAND CIRCUIT.— IKuovicK, AUG. 10. The Judges attended divine service this morning at 10 o'clock, and afterwards commenced the business of the Ass;zes fur this county, which is comparatively very light. On the Crown side acre are only SO prisoners for trial, and, with the exception of one case of alleged murder, the charges are of a very ordinary description. On the Civil side 28 cases are entered ; there is not one special jury case amongst tl em. All the rases disposed of to-day were of the most com mon-place nature. The bill for murder was ignoral by the Grand Jury. OXFORD CIRCUIT.—MoNmounr, AuG. 10. John Llewellin was charged on suvicion or breaking open a chest and bureau of Mrs. Ann Arney, and felo niously stealing, taking, and carrying away 215/. in gold and silver coin of this realm, and a silver watch, with gold seals, out of 1).1. dwelling-house, in the parish of Nash, in this county, her property. The prisoner was found Guilty, and sentenced to be transported for life. WESTERN CIRCUIT.—Bacoux, Atra. 10. Zacharias Williams and Benjamin Gerrance were indicted for the wilful murder of Joseph Symons, at a place called Crowan, in this county, on the 21st of July last. Richard Williams said—l am a miner, living at Tre maine, in the pariah of Crowan ; the deceased lived there also. On Friday the 20th of July we went to Crowan town together to Poole's public-house; This was about half past five in the erening ; we went into an up.stair room, in which there were many persons ; we asked for a pint of beer; we drank five pints between us; I saw the prisoners, who are miners in the same parish, come in; they sat down at a table by our side; after we had fin'shed our beer, Symons and I went down stairs into the kitchen. The prisoners came down to us ; the prisoner Wil liams sat opposite Symons, about four feet off ; 1 had a conversation with Williams about a girl, dur ing which Symons came and leaned between us to light his pipe at the candle. He said, " Don't fall out about the maidens, for they are plenty enough." Williams then rose and caught Symons by the collar, and said, " You have been putting upon me all this night." Symons had had not used any offensive language before this. About this time Mrs. Poole came in. Fall then took Williams by the F: In collar,andth e backt he and door. otherth ep prisoners e;ons w ‘v e iez r ou e hre p rayww u r , de t ernp o tehte u se o t topa t inuclefotdntitiahosniteakagbironoli constable, was home After we buttbhe by kitchen. In about half an hour after th e pri soners b ro k e op a sent for. Williams came in nak e d, all b ut hi s trou ens. His clothes were put on again. I an d S ymons rema i ned in the bar had rfor gonanhe 100 yardsour.NVe then Thomas w Curry, could not tell their voices. We went into a field leadinc, to our home. We then heard some persons running after us, and the two prisoners ov,itook us. I saw Williams strike Symons, who fell on the ground. Gerrance struck me and I caught him by the collar. lie tried to strike me again once or twice. I struggled with him, and we fell to the ground. Williams then came up, and he began to kick away at my head and faCe. I asked Gerranve how he could come out of his road to beat us, as we had never given him an angry word. We re mained h of an hour on the ground. I begged for mercy, and asked them not to kill tne ; upon which they kicked ran away about twenty yards , when the p risoners came disturbedm oresiriar t t h l y e . m, Some bulo il they yltcks hen camewent r a u w n a ni y. n ground aand after me and caught hold of me, threw me down, and I screamed prisonersamed then ran away.urder,andCorry, the j e k o it o lc s c ra d bl m ep e eaagmaien.np. T was lying on my face and hands. I could not walk. I was taken to the inn ; whilst there Symons'was brought in Bothrs rhe Poole came prisoners covered with blood. John Fall examine d —I saw the p risoners in th e kitchen. Williams was trying to li g ht his p i p e at the table. Symons said, "Young fellows, y o u must not fight ;" whereupon Williams s aid in 1 . 94 , , " You have been put ting on me all the evening." Williams then rose an d caught t c h o e l ar. bar. Mi were aand n then put out of the house. I.• followed them and t , ied to prevail on them to go home. They said they would rot, for they would give it to them that night. Neither of the took t Symons Sym o n a s ty abyy into prisoners were drunk. In half an hour after, Williams returned half stripped to fight. Other evidence was adduced, after which the prisoner, in his defence, said he never intended to murder the de ccast d GE rrance said nothing in his defence. The Jury found Williams Guilty of ►canslaughter, and acquitted Gerranre. Mr. Justice TAUNTON told the prisoner William that he should b.! transported fer life. This case excited considerable interest in this county; the Court, nwwithstanding the exees..ive heat of the day. woe rr,wded in all parts. The vetclict, as well as the sentence, seemed to give general sitisfation to all present. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAST WEEK. Wheat. Barley, Oats. Beans. Per Quarter. Carlisle s. to S. C. to s. 68 38 60 73 36 42 68 72 36 40 67 33 79 : 26 67 32 35 s. d. 5.1. 5.41. 70 39 43 90 48 54 99 64 66 93 36 46 99 56 60 79 40 44 100 46 50 S. to S. s. s. 41 Hexham. 1! urpqh 22 27 22 27 - 22 34 37 Pem:ith Sheffield Winchester 60 Per Bushel. s.d. Carmarthen--, (i 3 Coventry -- 7 0 Newcastle (Stall.) 19 6 Northallerton —. 7 0 9 8 Swansea 7 6 Warwick 9 0 Per 8011. Barnardeastle—.. 20 6 Durham :5 0 Richmond 17 3 Stockton ;16 6 22 24 x. d. Hi 20 36 40 36 39 33 40 38 47 23 26 22 26 42 46 s. d. a. d. 00 00 56 6 0 53 56 1 6 6 0 62 66 00 00 73 7 6 2! 0 90 10 0 1 186 90 10 61 21 0 94 10 0 180 96 1001 66 74 56 76 58 90 54 70 00 110 10 6 12 0 86 90 00 0 0 WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.-Aug. 9 Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Suffhlk -s. 535. to 61s. fine 645. -- Lin. and Cam. -s. 535. to Ills. fine 645. Yorkshire -a. 575. to 625. fine 645. NVhit , .. -s. 59a. to 655. fine 675. - Foreign, Red -s. 48s. to 565. fine 625. White...............-a. -s. to -s. fine figs. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk ------ Lincolnshire l'is. to 38s. fine 40s. - Yorkshire %Vold - Foreign -a. to -s. fine -a. Beans, Small Its to 3fis. fine 375. -- Tick 3ds. to 355. fine 36s Oats, Potato 22s. to 245. fine 255. - Poland -.s 20s. to 235. fine 24e. - Frieziand and Small -s. l7s to 225. fine 23a. - Meal in g I Id. to P 24 d. per Stone. Shelling 255. to 2Ss. Od. per Load. Malt 34s. 435. fine 465. per Load. Rapeseed tnt. Os. 25/. Os. 271. Os. per Last. SCOTCH MARKETS. Wheat. Barley Oats. Beans Oatmeal -......... %berdeen ,—.. 59 58 25 28 18 22 30 31 Renvick—.—, 49 50 2'2 24 15 17 22 24 34 37 Coldstream —. 46 50 28 25 16 18 22 23 Cupar ....—..—.: 68 71 30 34 22 25 27 29 -- Dundee --.......1 18 70 34 -- 23 26 29 30 —• Elgin ..-...--. ' 641 62 28 no 18 21 23 30 Inverness..... 57 60 30 32 20 24 23 30 48 -- Kelso ..M,.,.,. 48 50 24 26 17 18 23 25 —. Kirkalcly-- 140 45 27 39 25 32 45 48 43 44 Perth --... 65 72 30 35 ,24 26 26 30 . rr The size of the measure varies throughout the ceuntrY% EDINBURGIt CORI We had a small supply of the sales were still very heavy. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. First 7Ps Od —s I'd 26s 84 34s 01 Second 74s lid —s Od 23s Od 31s 01 Third 6Bs Od —s Od , 21s 4d 32s Od PRICES OF PROVISIONS, &C. UARK I kinds I.:T.—Aug. 1 of Grain ti ,taday, and Beat's. 34s Oa 3.3 s Oil 32s Od Beef, per lb. N. 3 4 ,1.t0 Os. exl. Niutton ----- 0 4 0 6 Veal 0w...44w 0 6 0 8 Pork---- t 4 0 Lamb, per qr. 0 6 3 0 cwt.... 33 0 35 0 Quartern Leaf 0 9 0 10 Potatoes, 1711 b. 0 6 0 0 Fresh Butter, lb. Os. 9.1. to ls. Pd. Salt Ditto—. 0 9 0 10 Ditto, per cat. 0 0 80 Il Eggs, per doz. 0 8 0 0 Oat Straw( kp'.) 12 6 13 0 Wheat Ditto-11 6 13 0 Barley Ditto.., 0 0 0 0 Hay,perst.— 1 0 I 1 EDINBURGH MEA The supply of Oatmeal at tl and sold heavily, at last week's Per Sack of '28011) imp First Oatmeal Second ditto 1 15 0 Rarleymeal 1 1:3 0 Pea setneal . 1 6 0 Pot Barley—No. 1, per cwt. 13! MARKET: —Aug. 7. its day's market was middling, prices. Per Stone ol 141 b. Imp. First Oatmeal ..... X 0 2 0 Second ditto Barleymeal 0 1 10 Peasemeal .-2d. 15a .....%1 . 2(is .-...1'(. • I 24 a GLASGOW CORN Wheat, per 2401 h. s. d. s. d. British, old 250t0300 new 32 0 33 0 Canada, free 24 0 29 0 Irish Barley, per 3201 b. English — 0 0 Seettish 2B 0 00 0 Irish MA It K. E .—Aug. a. Oats, per `.:641b. a. d. s. d. Irish l4 0 to 16 6 British — 0 0 Beans, per 2601 b. English ....... 18 0 18 6 Scottish Pease, Scottish Oatmeal, per 1401b..15 0 16 0 Flour, per Mb 4B 0 50 0 CORNWVAJA MARKETS. TRUR o—Wheat (average) '25, 13s.—Oats, 93. 6d. ST AusTELL--Wheat, —s. to 2.si.—Barley, —a. to 124.—Oatr, Os. to 9s. 311. PENZANCE—Wheat, 265. to 284.—Barlev, —s. to 13,.—Oats, to 9s. Od.—Beef and Mutton, sd. to 6d.—Pork, 01. to V.-- Butter, 9d. per lb. LAUNCESTON—Wheat (average) 2:8. 01—Barley,11s. L—Oats, 7s. Oa.—Beef, sl.—.Mutton, I.vo:routo--Wheat, —s. to 21s. 6:l.—Barley, 133. 6 , 1.--Oats, Os. to 7s. Od. BoomiN—Wheat (average) 255. 6d.—Barley, 14s. 6d.—Oats, Os lier.sToN—Wheat, 255. 6d.—Barley, 14s Od. ST. COLUMR—Wheat, 245. to 25s.—Barley, 12s. to 135.—Beef. and Mutton, al. to 6d.—Veal, Od.—lamb, Od. ' MINING INTELLIGENCE. Tons. Cwt. Quantity of Copper Ore sold at Reclruth last Thurday 2,897 0 Quantity of fine 212 4 Average Produce 7% 0 Amount of Sale, 15,447/.175. Bd.—Average Standard. 110 i, 76. Cd. On Wednesday morning, the Dart, Leeds and Huddersfield coach, was overturned at Morley, near Leeds, when on its way front Huddersfield to Leeds. There were eleven outside passengers, several of whom were injured ; and four inside, who sustained no material damage. A Mr. TATTERSALL, of Huddersfield, received a severe contusion, and it is feared is internally injured. Mrs. TATTERSALL, his wife, had her face much injured, and her nose broken, Miss TATTERSALL, their sister, sustained a compound fracture of the leg. Mr. CASS, of St dey-bridge, was much hurt in the breast. Mr. RICHARD WOODHEAD, of Bridge mill, Holmfirth, sprained his left shoulder. Mr. WATSON, of Hobert town, received an in jury on his knee. Mr. SMITH, watchmaker, of Hudders field, slightly hurt his ancle; and two or three other per sons received datnar.te, but fortunately no lives were lost, and none of the injuries are likely to prove fatal. The coat h nun. THOMAS COOPER, had his shoulder dislocated. —Leeds Intelligencer. RICHARD THE THIRD'S BED.—RICHARD slept at the Blue Boar Inn, opposite the Grammar School, the night before the battle of Bosworth Field, and the bedstead whereon he is supposed to have lain is still pre served, and its history is thus handed down :—ln 1613, Mrs. CLARKE, keeper of that inn, was robbed by her servant maid and seven men,and the relation is thus givea by Sir Roovn.Twasnxtr, who had it from persons of un doubted credit, who were not only inhabitants of Leicester, but saw the murderers executed :.....When King RICHARD II I. marched into Leicestershire against HENRY Earl of RICHMOND, afterwards HENRY VII., he lay at the Thee B•iir Inn, in the town of Leicester, where was left a large wooden bedstead, gilded in some places, which, after his defeat and death in the battle of Bosworth, was left either through haste, or as a tiring of little value (the bedding being all taken from it), to the people of the house; offs e ea o this (. rte piece em mosf:ligleockoodnn") thenceforward this old bedstead, boarded at the bot is o (as the manner was in those days), became a piece of standing furniture, and passed from tenant to ten int ails the inn. In the reign of Queen ELIZABETH this house was kept by one Mr. CLARKE, who put bed on this bedstead, which his wife was going to make hastily, ann jumbling the bedstead, a piece of gold dropt out. Thu excited tarn(' antiquated t ewdom piece an's of curiosityfiirn imi u : p dn o ea n b e tw ß ee i n e them filled which she discovered the space with gold, part of it coined by iv , HAlin HI. continued t o the inn, though w became rich from a douhht bottom, took off the uppermost with a chisel, a hoc condition, and in the space of a few years Mayor of and then the story of the bedstead came to be h she was known to be very rich, W hi c h obtit rumoured ter'''valuablehigtiso the iew rn1.1.: rp;' '''bosynTt things, plundered thofse st engagingi e s er vant. yet tatt earlier maid t left ethe rfltehaat furniture, anfi floor. As rsecser nid umber d o sehhd. h b n raee A evoe s i na :i r r ff s d d tnnh e o f 4ti fi s ° r o fifrhrh a n t r sur. b ome° g etd. b A I vC e w e el y i aee r sni rs n'of q gY s lAidn legt c r o ol (ix n tars i v dis : Ee t eng il eeB n t i lesc y c° : dtk h ooata : abh e in l n s : persons d eslua e help, ii ilt p s on sc w at b le ie r l e id her e b r ot m it ~eraLlf, who was very fat, she endeavoured to cry out for , hroat, and choaked her, fur which she was burnt ; the seven men who were her accomplices were hanged at Leicester some time in 1613. On the 10th i nst. Mrs. Peter 13111TII. Ge;lady, of Wellington-place , Limehouse, of a son. MARRIED. On the flth inst. at Camberwell Church, Dr. P. Lovell Phillips, to Mary Ann Hawkes, only daughter of the Rev. Dr. Collyer, of Peckham, Surrey. On the I Ith inst. at St. Pancras New Church, Mr. Charles Tunaley, surgeon, to Harriet Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Mr. Brookes, Grove-terrace, Kentish-town. DIED. On the I I th inst. at Sunning-hill, Berks, Ann, the wife of It Kitchener, Esq., of Bedtbrd-row, Islington, and youngest daugh. ter of the late William Shrubsole, Esq., of the Bank of England. On the 21th ult. at Ofichina, near Trieste, of apoplexy, in the 42d year of his age, Charles Frisby Barry, Esq. On the 10th inst. at Bethel-place, Camberwell, after a fen' hours' illness, of cholera, Elizabeth, wife of Richard Heale, of Mincing-lane. On the filth ult. Mr. Walter Metter, of Hart-street, 81001 116- bury-square, aged 67. On the Nth inst. at Mecklenburgh-square, alter a long and painful illness, Robert Brown, Esq., aged 66. On the 10th nist. at Stamford-hill, John Blackett, Esq., in the 18th year of his age. FEINTED AND PUBLISDED BY MURDO YOUNG, AT TIIE SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND. LONDON♦