The Sun. — London, England, 1832-02-13 00:00:00

g7 - 7:1 , 7 cud Eve dart for " having a part of a deer in his possession T.' Something must be done to secure rural magistrates in their field sports, without giving them the wanton privilege of imprisoning so many of the king's subjects for a hare or a pheasant. The expense at which they purchase their double monopoly of game and justice, is the sacrifice of liberty to 1,000 of their fellow• creatures, who are now confined in the gaols of England and Wales for transgressing their laws ! We regret perceiving, by the communica tions from the Council-office received yester day, that there is reason to fear that the cholera has at length found its way into Rotherhithe and Limehouse. We fear that the preparations to meet this scourge are by no means so good in the metropolis as they are in Edinburgh. Places ought to be prepared for the reception of individualsattacked by the disease, to which they may be instantly conveyed in covered carriages. With respect to one description of persons, who are supposed to contribute greatly to the spread of the disease, beggars and vagrants, there is absolutely no attention whatever paid to them in the metropolis ! Why is this ? Why should we, in a country in which there is a provision for every destitute person, be afflicted with hosts of beggars and vagrants ? The new police, upon the whole, works well we believe ; but it is sadly contradicted by the old women, who are called Police Magistrates. These men are jealous be yond measure of the new police, and do all that they can to counteract them and impair their efficiency. We call for the rigorous execution of the law against vagrants and beggars. The whole country is annoyed by swarms of mendi cants, but the metropolis and its vicinity in a more especial manner. Surely, with our pre sent highly effective police, we may be freed from this scourge. If' there are obstacles to the giving effect to the law, let them be known, that means may be adopted for having them removed.— Morning Chronicle. The Committee have now arrived at the 62d clause in the Bill, and from the nature of the remaining clauses, we may hope the Committee will have terminated its labours in two more sit- Sings. The period, therefore, rapidly approaches when the battle will have again to he fought where the enemy is the strongest—the House of Peers. To attempt to carry the Bill through that House without a strong reinforcement of liberal Peers, would of course be a mockery of the people, and we will not anticipate any such mockery. This creation of Peers is the point on which all depends. Against this measure the enemy directs all his efforts. It decides the ques tion of Reform or No Reform. The observa tions in the house of Commons on Friday night have drawn the following remarks from our con :temporary, the Standard:— "One gentleman proposed a creation of 40 Peer/t— -aw:her a creation of 61, and Mr. O'Connell suggested a reinforcement to the corps of ennobled Whigs and Radical, of no le,s than 122. There is no man of sense, who rightly views these respective prepositions, who must not see that they will all stand or fall by the same principle—and that a King who should create 122 Peers, or 1,200 Peers, tr carry effectually a particular object, would be in no re spect more criminal, and would he a great deal wiser, than the King who should attempt the same object, without rtertainty of success, by the creation of 40, 20, 10, or esen 1. The Constitution has not given to the King the prerogative of creating Peers, for the purpose of absorbin the power of the House of Lord.; and any King wise uses that power for such a purpose, is so far an usurper and a violator of his compact with the people, as well as of his Coronation Oath. Such a King, William IV.—such King any descendant of George 111. never will be." It is very well in the Anti-Reformers to hold this language ; but every Reformer knows that there must be means to an end, and that when the end is to withdraw the House of Commons front its subjection to the Peers, who have al ready by a majority of 41 determined to perpe tuate that subjection, it is absurd to suppose, that without an alteration of the composition of the House of Peers the end can now be attained. —Morning Chronicle. The Reform Bill has made some progress during the last week, and there seems to be hut little doubt that a few weeks more will be sufficient to conclude its progress in the Com mons. As almost all the important clauses are already disposed of, the completion of the sche dules is the operation in which delay may be ex pected to show itself in future. But it can scarcely hold out for any length of time, even under the judicious management of the Oppo sition, who can play the game of cross purposes with such admirable skill. A few weeks, there fore, at farthest, will bring us again to that anxious crisis in the history of the measure when the decision of the Lords will be looked to by the whole country with a degree of eagerness which has not been, and is not likely to be, abated by time. Whether a batch of Peers s to be created, for the purpose of en- I Fusing the concurrence of their Lordships' House, is a question, the difficulty of which is not removed by the positive and in fallible tone in which both parties have already answered it. Our hope is that there may he no necessity for having recourse to a proceed ing so objectionable in principle, and we derive more confidence in support of that hope froin ;the general probabilities against the rejection of the measure on the second reading, than from ail that has been said in the shape of authority on the subject. That their Lordships will not throw out the Bill on the second reading we consider probable, because they would, by that means, cut off all opportunity of compromise. That they will try what can he done in the Com mittee to remove or palliate the objections urged against it is the course which would seem to offer the best chance of accomplishing their own end. But the time is not far distant when specu lation will be superseded by certainty. Until then let us hope that there is reason and good feeling enough upon both sides to insure the success of a beneficial measure, without any violence to the principles of the Constitution, and that the long discussions which have already taken place have produced, in reality, some effect beyond the mere delay of hopes to be again consigned to disappointment.—. Morn. Herald. An attempt was made the other night in the House of Commons, by two or three of the most ardent of the revolutionary party, to obtain from that assembly some indication of a feeling fat, ourable to the tyrannical and unconstitutional expedient of packing the House of Lords, for the purpose of depriving this branch of the Le gislature of the power to exercise an independent judgment upon the projected new Constitution of Great Britain. The attempt, we rejoice to say, was singularly unsuccessful. We think, when we have mentioned the names of the only Members of the House of Commons who, when thus openly challenged, could be brought to ac knowledge any feeling in favour of the despotic and fraudulent project of packing, we shall have said nearly enough to shew that the scheme is not more iniquitous and unprincipled in conceit. tion than it will prove impracticable or abortive, should an attempt be made to put it in execution. Me. Duncombe, Lord Ebrington, Mr. °Ton- i . itell, and Mr. James, were the high constitutional authorities who stood forward to volunteer the i sanction of their eminent names to the degrada tion and virtual destruction of the House of! Lords— four persons, the manifestation of whose hostility can certainly have no other effect than that of making the Upper House of Parliament feel somewhat more secure than it was before. If the names of these four champions of packing should, however, not be deemed sufficient to dis credit the contrivance which they only of all the House of Commons have been courageous enough to support, we feel that we may confi dently appeal to their arguments upon the sub ject as a final completion to the task which their well-known characters had so auspiciously begun. Mr. Duncombe will have Earl Grey to pack the House of Lords by the introduction of a hun dred menials of the Administration (less than this we assure him will not do, and nobody knows it better than Earl Grey), first, because the Earl of Oxford packed the House of Lords in the reign of Queen Anne by the introduction 1 of twelve menials of his Administration ; se condly, because the Earl of Oxford was im peached by the unpacked House of Commons of that day for advising this abuse of the prero gative ; and, thirdly, because having to be tried by the tribunal which he had previously packed,. the arl of Oxford escaped the punish ment which every body now, Reformers in cluded, admits he richly deserved. Lord Ebrington is of opinion that Earl Grey will prove himself a patriot by doing precisely the same thing for doing which he the said Lord Ebrington thinks the Earl of Oxford was a traitor ; first, because the present Premier would not have been justified in bringing the Reform Bill a second time before Parliament unless he was determined to carry it per fas et nefas ; and, secondly, because he (Lord Ebrington), who is a high authority in such mat ters, happens to like the Reform Bill, and happens also to be one of that order in intellect and morals who would always get what they like per fas et nyas. Mr. O'Connell ;vas for a large, and, indeed, an unlimited creation of Peers, because, first, the petition to the King, which gave rise to the conversation, praying his Majesty not thus to abuse and prostitute his pre rogative, was signed by the possessors of property in a single English county to the amount of ten mil lions of money, a proof; by Hibernian and Rockite logic, that the country is unanimous in favour of such a creation ; and, secondly, the silence of the Gazette satisfied him that, in urging the King to pack the House of Lords, Ministers would outrage the feelings of the Sovereign and offend the dignity of the Throne. Mr. O'Con nel: has no belief in the disposition of the Mo narch to pack, degrade, annihilate the House of Lords, neither have we. He thinks this the best of all possible reasons why the King's Mi nister should insist upon the packing, degrada tion, annihilation. IA e think differently. Each is consistent with himself, and each infinitely more respectable than the Minister of the King, who willingly permits ambiguity to exist upon such a subject for an hour. Mr. James, the last of the packing Committee of four, sail that the weavers of Carlisle were strongly in fa vour of the manufacture of Peers, and he, their suitable representative, approved of it also upon this occasion, heeause he felt convinced that the Reform Bill being once passed, the Sovereign would never more dare to create any Peers whatever, except in obedi ence to the wishes of a Reformed House of Commons. After these strong arguments in its favour, and the great weight of personal respec ' tability and political wisdom and honesty by ' which they were advanced, the new batch of Re ' form Peers will appear in the next Gazette, or we suppose Earl Grey must reckon upon losing the support of Mr. Duncombe, Lord Ebrington, Mr. O'Connell, and Mr. James. Great losses unquestionably to such an Administration as the present. But others unfortunately, as well as these distinguished four, expressed either by words, or by a silence equally expressive, their sentiments upon the subject. The Whig and Reformer, Mr. Bvng, was called upon to say something upon personal matters connected with the petition, but not a word in favour of pack ing the House of Lords escaped from him. Ire, although a Whig and a Reformer, hap pens by some strange chance to be a man who has a character to lose. Mr. Fane, also a Reformer, intimated in express words that any attempt to pack the House of 1_ ords would alienate him from the cause of Re form. To den y that there are many who have voted in favour of the Bill, who yet feel as Mr. Fine feels, would be in effect to affirm that the Bill has been supported exclusively by unprin- Icipled revolutionists. And if there be one in four, time exact proportion which this conversation exhibited, who voted for the Bill, and who are actuated nevertheless by the same honourable and constitutional feelings with this gentleman, it is arithmetically certain that an attempt to pack the House of Lords would leave the Bill in a mi nority in the House of Commons. Why does not Earl, Grey bring forward his menial Peers ' We confidently and triumphantly dare him to Gazette the twenty-five demanded by Mr. O'Con nell for a beginning, being less than one-fourth the number he kno:vs he will require. Hypocrisy and delusion have lasted long enough. Let the country, we say, at length know what it is about, and upon what footing it stands.—Morning Post. A great sensation has been excited at Ilan dovery and its neighbourhood, by a discovery which came to light under the following singular circtunstancea Monday the 30th ult. as the sexton of Llandingan church was digging a grave in a spot where it was traditionally reported that an eminent attorney of the above town had been buried about 80 years ago, when he had proceeded to a certain depth, he discovered the bones of a dead body in a considerable state of decay, and about the chest he perceived small white sparkling globules intermixed with the decomposed remains of the stomach ; on disturbing these, his surprise was great when be found they were liquid, and that they readily united together, forming a fluid not the least affected by the earth through which it passed. The sextrn suspecting it to be quicksilver, immediately went and informed a few respectable individuals, ssho, upon arriving at the grave, were decidedly of the same opinion. Upon a closer exarninati n more of it Was dis covered, and it was concluded that the quantity observed may have been about the weight of three or four pounds. Curiosity bring now rife, many visited the grave, and still more numerous were the inquiries as to the original cause why the mercury should have been found in such a silua tion. Soule concluded that the attorney, in whose le mains it was fo un d, mus t h ave me t hi s d e ath by poison; whilst others were of opinion that it might have been ad ministered to him medicinally, it being formerly con sidered a remedy for intestinal obstructions. There can be hut little doubt of th e i ent i ty o f t h e body, from the situation in which it was found. All that is known of the manner of his death is, that some old people have been heard to say that one night, having ate his supper as lanai in perfect health, lie retired to bed, and next morn ing was found a corpse. We give the above as a true and circumstantial account, as several marvellous stories have been in circulation on the subject. Sorue of the quick silver and earth yet remain in the possession of one or two persons at Lldndovery.—Shrewsbury Chronicle. THE GENERAL FAST. (From the News.) • The saints, led on by Perceval and Inglis, have, it appears, triumphed over the good sense of the Ministers. They have had a day ap pointed for their carnival. Now it strikes us as not a little absurd, when we remember to what purposes " national fasts" have hitherto been de voted, that the demand for a repetition of these scenes should have come from men to whom we are ready to allow the credit of acting from the purest of all motives—a genuine sense of reli gious feeling. The absurdity can only be matched by the votes of the Bishops on a late occasion, for the continuance of bribery, corrup tion, and all the present attendant vices of a ge neral election. There are certain wrong-headed people in this world, who, with visionary notions of mil lenianism and other such things, are not of this earth, and yet are on it. These people will, we doubt not, keep fast accordingly ; and when we look at their pampered stomachs, with good fat capon lined, and behold the gaudy equipages in which they march along the narrow road to Heaven, we do not deny that a little fasting may he of service to them. But in the name of humbug, why not do the thing, if they so de sired, and make welcome, without letting loose from their occupations a whole population, to run riot, and quit their labour ? Why give those the opportunity of sinning whom they revile for their "habits of indulgence," as the saints term a working man's Sunday evening dance—if there be such a thing in " merry" England now—or his visit to Richmond on the Sabbath, if he be in a condition to pay a few shillings for the luxury of a mouthful of pure air, and the sight of the green fields. Let the Bishop of London, for example, de vote the fast day, if he pleases, to inward medi tation on the coming attack on the Church Prin cipalities, the shadow of which is already cast before—let the godly Percival revolve upon that certain downfall of the Pension List which will leave him more fast days than one in the year, and let the other cormorants who have thriven on the public purse as their daily banquet, see the legible writing of the hand on the wall which foretells their downfall. These are things which we hope they will " inwardly digest" on the great day of fast, and if they do, it will not have been appointed in vain. But the people, whose fast days are many, and whose festivals " few and far between," to them, we say, devote the day as you are ordered by the proclamation. Keep it as one of " public fasting and humiliation,”—in the event—and the time will have been afforded in the interval —of the second rejection of the Reform Bill by the House of Lords. Let it be kept as a day of solemn fast, and let there be formed throughout the nation a Covenant like that of the Scottish Reformers two centuries since, never to cease labouring until " the unclean thing" be put away from the face of the land. We give this advice in sober seriousness, because we deem it fully within the meaning of the proclamation. Have not " the manifold provocations" of which that document makes mention, been the sins of the boroughmongers crying out to Heaven for vengeance ? We con fess that we find ourselves in some degree falling into the language of those who " speak under an influence ;" but it has been of old remarked that fanaticism is contagious, and hypocrisy not without effect in the way of' example. Should, however, the Lords see wisdom in their days, and repent in time, our recommen dation would be, let Wednesday, the 21st of March, be a day of solemn thanksgiving for the victory of the people—a victory in its way, as great as that which Miriam commemorated with songs of triumph. MINISTERIAL IMPROVEMENT. (From the _Examiner.) " When nations are to perish in their sins, in the Church the leprosy begins."—CoweEst. At the opening of the session, this promise was held out in the King's speech : " In parts of Ireland, a systematic opposition has been made to the payment of tithes, attended, in some in stances, with atiiictirg results; and it will be one of your first duties to inquire, whether it may not be possible to effect improvements in the laws respecting this subject, which may afford the necessary protection t the Estallshed Church, and at the same time remove the present causes (f complaint. Id tin this, and in every other question affect ing Ireland, it is above all things necessary to look to the I,est means of securing internal peace and order." Who could have conceived, that by this was meant to improve the condition of the Irish clergy, which Lord Grey now explains to be the object proposed . This is not only an insult to • reason, an insult to justice,—it is an insult to humanity. Let the words be written on that wretched land of blood and want,—that wilder ness in the expanse of civilization, where man is to be found nearest to the condition of the naked savage, but all accomplished in mischief; naked, starving, but feasting on vengeance ; knowing every extremity of suffering, and voluptuary withal in revenge :—the first wants of the creature miserably denied, the worst appetites of the devil riotously glutted ;—let it be written on this land of Cain, that the grand object of our political re ! generators is, to improve the condition of the clergy, whose faith is alien to it. Let all who witness the miseries of Ireland, label them with those words,—improve the condition of the clergy. On the very maps where the name ap. pears which bespeaks all the woes and mischief's man the master can inflict on man the slave, we would have written the Grey motto, improve the condition of the clergy. We would brand the words on every sign of suffering,—on every cir cumstance of misery,—on every sad token of distress. It should be labelled on every rag of wretchedness,—on the sea-weed, which the perishing creatures swallow, against revolting nature, to stop the gnawings of famine : it should be written on every cold hearth, and on every desolate cabin—improve the condition of the clergy. Let it be graven too, as the hand writing on the wall, on the palaces of the pam pered prelates, signifying that the cup of abo mination is full to the last drop, and that retri bution is at hand. Let it be the label of priestly luxury, the motto of those « who make God's work a sinecure," as well as the scroll on the miseries they have pinched, and would pinch still more. We thank the Earl Grey for his words: they are as the consummation. Every man who yt themh ei r to own their r rules practice, l e t h b n e e i reads his Bible, knows how to construe the m ; as every man who reads his Bible knows h ow to think of the clergy. B be tried ; by applying their vast desertion of God's Word measured. " Woe to the shepherds that do feed thetngelves ;—y e eat the fat, and .'e clothe you with the wool ; but y e f !e d not the Ruck." The verse follOws hard upon it : " Neither Ishii the shepherds !red thermelves any more ; (or I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat fur them." This should be the lesson for the appointed Fast-day ; this 34th chap. of Ezekiel, which sets forth the state of things, without the addition of improving thecondition of the shepherds without flocks—the shepherds who eat the fat, and clothe with the wool of the sheep of another's fold. Lord Grey promises, that all the powers of the Government shall be employed to enforce the rights of the clergy ; a third part of which rights are notoriously composed of the wrongs of the poor. We shall see how the Earl keeps his word. We shall see that power, which has been so weak in vindication of the rights of the nation against an usurping oligarchy, wielded in full might, and with all resources, in the cause of Church exaction, against the miserable people of Ireland. Here we shall see illustrated the motto of our Ministry,—the scroll of its spirit,— Parcere super bis et debellare suyectos. With the plunderers of the public they have been long suffering and indulgent, but when they come to deal with the recusant of tithes, the resisters of an exaction abusive in itself, (as the third of right belongs to the poor), and for which there is no service rendered ; then we shall see the might of this Ministry put forth,--then will be no parleys, or reserves, or waivers, but the prompt rigour of a rigorous law ; for, they will then not be con tending under the banner of the God of Justice, circumspect and deliberative, nicely weighing, and scrupulous, but of the God of the High Priests, which is Mammon, greedy and rapacious, fierce and forward as a wolf ;—a howl and a spring, a gluttonous and a merciless tooth. Readers of the book of mercy, worshippers of the spirit of charity, and self-renouncement, which makes the essence of Christianity, we pray you to mark the words which, unrebuked of Bishops, passed from Lord Ellenborough in the House of Mischief. • " Ile thought it was desirable that the clergy should be enabled, by some speedy and cheap process, to attach not only the property, but the persons of the corn tithe payers, and to recover their dues. As the law now stood there was no power of breaking up the cumbinators, nothing could effect that but a cheap and speedy method of attaching the person." Such is a mode proposed for improving the condition of the preachers of that religion, one of whose precepts it is, that if sued for their coat, they shall render the cloak also ! Imagine the disciples of the Most Meek, the apostles of peace, and preachers against strife and conten tion, flinging their fellow-beings itito gaols for pelf? Well does the Chronicle describe this as a project for putting Ireland into prison. Where, it asks, are the gaols to be found ? We will answer the question. There are buildings which have never contained congregations, or been used, except as instruments for extortion, which might be aptly converted to prisons, as they have served only to pauperization and to crime. Let us bring again under the consideration of our readers, a case which we quoted last week. " In the county of Louth, a clergyman having served nearly two hunched processes in his parish, and finding it impossible to procure a proctor to levy the execution, called, in his capacity as a Magistrate, on a troop of Dragoons staioned in the neighbourhood, to aid the col lection. The Dragoons came to the spot, and on inquir ing how they were to proceed, they were surrounded by the peasantry, one of whom, a Stalworth Presbyterian, offered himself to the captain, stating that he had been sewed regularly with the process—that he hsd no money, but that he offered his person, and was ready to proceed to Dundalk gaol, if the officer chose to arrest him. This was a signal for the rest, and a number of them made a similar tender." The Dragoons (what servants of the Apostles of Christ !) faced about, and nothing was done. Nor can any thing be done ; for, as Mr. O'Con nell has stated, there is no violence in the resist ance of the people. The law is allowed to take its course ; but when the cattle are distraitted, there are no bidders. Against this passive re sistance, force is unavailable. Let Earl Grey take his measures for improving the condition of the clergy—let Lord Ellenborough give up the bodies of the miserable debtors to the Church creditors—let the men of mercy fiil the gaols with them, and call upon the Government to provide a dozen more gaols for every church without a congregation :—let all this happen, and more, and out of this bruising of humanity a precious and redeeming essence shall come, "Like crueh'd rrfurnesexhaling to the skier." Out of oppression is squeezed retribution, or, as Sheridan finely said,—" Wherever the heel of oppression is raised, trodden misery springs up, and glares around for vengeance." Lord Grey declares, in contradiction of the benign sentiment of the King's Speech, which prefers peace to all other considerations, that obedience to the law, coute qu'il coute, shall first be compelled. But is the justice of the law not to be considered, before severe compulsion be attempted ? Gesler, when he condemned Tell for not doing reverence to his cap on a spear, only punished lawlessness; he doubtless argued with Lord Grey's apologists,—the law must be vindicated, whatever it is,—the habit of obedience must not be distutbed ; but in the issue, he found— ." Midst tumult and alarm, The might that slumbers in a peaiant's arm." •_ It is more than questionable whether a tax, a considerable part of which has for ages been mis applied, and continues to be diverted from its original applications, can any where be justly ex acted, but certainly, least of all in a country where there is not the pretext of service for any part of the impost, and where nothing but offence is rendered for it. The followers of the all-suffering Apostles, do not even appear in Court as prosecutors with clean hands. The Church is not recites in Curia. Let the clergy renounce their trespasses before they complain of the trespasses against them. Let them cease to withhold from the poor-box its third: let them restore the other third to the maintenance of the Church, and live apostolically in blessed poverty, so beloved by Heaven, on the remainder. Let the Bishops, too, make good the first fruits for their brethren whose little incomes need addi tion. As things are now ordered, when we hear " Church robbery" bawled out, we feel inclined to ask the question Sheridan put to a gentleman w ho exclaimed, " Have you heard of my son's robbery?" " No," said the wit—" Whom has lie robbed?" When we hear of Church robbery, we think of the poor. The Chronicle, whose labours in the province of Church Reform exceed all praise, observes, in a pology for Ministers— " No man of any sense could ever suppose that any government of this country, constituted as every Govern ment must be, of the Aristocracy, at any time contemplated any material Reform in the Church." Can we believe, then, that they have really contemplated any Reform in Parliament ? That Reform involves all others, and as it is so feebly conducted, while Ministers are so vehemently hostile to objects for which it is sought, what are we to thinkiorni n of a th c e e i r o s f in c t e h r e i i t r y t ? ask Nothingcan deliver'n ow , but the pr them from the worst suspicions. But from pre sent signs we should infer a disposition to open a quarrel with the people (who have so nobly supported them), by the ostentatious adoption of the most hated abuses. Patience is sorely tried—but let us yet give them the free course on which to found their glory, or find such disgrace as man never before achieved. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, FEs. 11. MR. MABERLY'S BANKRUPTCY. Te-day the agent for the estate under this fiat met the agent for the Aberdeen creditors, in order to verify the powers of attorney under which the latter yesterday proved the debts of the Aberdeen creditors. It was in virtue of the authority given him by these powers, that Mr. Gordon yesterday put the assignees who were chosen in nomination, and insisted upon signing the choice on behalf of every creditor for whom he proved, in order that if any dispute should hereafter arise on account of neither of the assignees being creditors, he might be backed by the number of names put to their ap pointment. The number of powers of attorney verified to-day was about 130. These were all from Aberdeen creditors. Only one Edinburgh and one London debt have yt't been proved. The greater part of the deposits in the Abet deen hank appear to have been made by poor people. There are only two of 3,0001., one of 2,8001., and one of 1,1001.; the remainder being for the most part of very trading amount. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. HATTON-GARDEN. ALLEGED ATTEMPT AT " BURICING."—On Sa turday a notorious fellow of the name of Wedderburn, formerly a soi-disunt Methodist preacher, afterwards connected with the Cato-street gang, then a dealer in blasphemy, sedition, and obscene books, and, finally, the keeper of several brothels of the lowest description, was brought to this office before A. S. LAING, Esq., the Magistrate, together with a woman named Atkinson, two boys named Mason and Ross, a girl named Ann Andrews, and a woman named Ann I'Vhittingham, by Waddington, one of the principal officers, charged with being concerned in attempting to destroy a female by strangling her with a cord. Mr. Davis, the landlord of the Distillers' Arms Tavern, in Saffron-hill, stated, that about nine o'clock that morning he was passing down Field lane, and heard cries of murder at No. 8, which was kept by the prisoner Wedderburn. Several per sons assembled round the house, and as the cries be came fainter they resolved to burst into the house. They proceeded along a passage till they arrived at a vault at the back, and a more shocking place he never saw in his life. In the vault he found a woman with her legs tied, and a cord round her neck. Her hands, which had been tied at the back of her neck, she had unloosed; but the cord still remained round her neck very tight, and she ap peared to be in a dying state. The cords were re moved, and she was carried to the workhouse, where she continues in a very dangerous state. Witness added that the woman had informed him that the prisoner, Wedderburn, had tied her arms and legs, and nearly strangled her by twisting the cord round her neck. The prisoners Mason and Ross also said that Wedderburn had done it. Waddington, the police officer, said that part of the house was kept as a brothel, and in the front Wedderburn sold obscene books and prints, some of which, the most filthy th it can be imagined, the officer produced. Mr. LAING asked Wedderburn what he had to say to the charge. He replied that the woman came to his house at seven o'clock in the morning, quite drunk, and in a state of madness. She pulled the clothes off the lodger,' beds, and threw a kettle of water over them. He could not get rid of her. She used to come to him at another house, which he was in dicted for keeping; and that morning he tied her legs and hands, and placed her in the vault, to keep her there till she became sober. Mr. LAING asked him what he had to say about twisting the cord about the woman's neck. He made no reply; and all the prisoner: were re manded till a future day, when the woman shall be sufficiently recovered to be able to attend to give evidence. W OR SHIP- S TREE T. On Saturday Mr. Ellar, the Cavent-garden Har lequin, appeared finally before the Magistrates, at the instance of the parish officers of Shoreditch, Miss Esther Owen having sworn to him as the fa ther of a child to which she gave birth in that parish on the 29th of July. Miss Owen, it appeared, had been an actress upon the Dover stage, and there first saw Mr. Ellar, who declared a passion for her, but was not ad mitted to a particular intimacy until the night of the Bth of January, 1831. Upon that evening Miss Owen came to London, and put up at the Bell and Crown, Holborn. She sent to Mr. Ellar, who, at the conclusion of his pantomimic performance on the Covent-garden stage, flew to the embrace, and the result was the birth of the child now produced. According to Miss Owen's reckoning there had been an interval of only 202 days, or six calendar months and 21 days, and the Magistrates wished to luxe medical evidence upon the subject before they decided. It now appeared, ho, ever, that such mat ters are under lunar influence, and the reckoning being computed accordingly, the 202 days resolved themselves into seven lunar months and six days. Mr. BROUGHTON observed that the case seemed to have excited a particular interest, and a gentle man had written to him from Lincoln to say that a married woman of his acquaintance, and mother of four children, had a child living which was born at six months. Mr. Holmes and Mr. Birch, medical witnesses examined on the part of the parish, found no reason to disbelieve Miss Owen's statement, and said, upon cross-examination by Mr. 'Wooler, that they could not tell with certaiwty whether a child was of seven or nine months. Mr. Wooler, however, called a surgeon, who said that in nine cases out of ten he could tell the difference if he attended the birth. Miss Owen declared most solemnly that she had never been criminally acquainted with any man but the defendant, whu was therefore adjudged the father of her child, and ordered to pay 7s. 6d. weekly for its support. LAMBETH.STREET. THE GARRICK THEATRE.—On Saturday several trumpery assault cases were disposed of, which ori need in disputes and quarrels at the Garrick Theatre on the preceding evening. In themselves they pos sessed nu importance or interest, but they led to an inquiry, on the part of the Hon. G. C. Norton, as to the character of the persons frequenting the theatre. It was stated that the proprietors and managers, Messrs. Wyman and Conquest, were both in prison for debt, and that the theatre was about to be sold, but in the interim the performers were allowed to use it for their own advantage. No care, however, was taken to exclude improper characters, and it now became a rendezvous for thieves. On Friday night, when the disturbances occurred, there were nearly 300 well-known thieves in the pit, and the whole audience was described by one of the officers to consist of the " very rakings of society." Mr. Nowros expressed himself displeased at this state of things, and gave directions that the parties who How managed the concern should be cautioned against tolerating such disorders ; indeed he won dered that, for their own interest, they had not adopted a different course. It was stated further that sufficient caution had never been exercised in this respect, and to this, more than any thing else, might be attributed the failure of this theatre. LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY EVENING.—Ar• rived yesterday the Dash, from Leghorn, and a number from Ireland and coastwise. Arrived to-day the Nautilus, from Liverpool, Nova Scotia. The mystical paragraph in a Morning Paper, referring to Sir W. KNIGHTON'S Lite Visit to Paris, is not without foundation. Besides being an invisible agent of the Duke of WELLINGTON —and active, as such, in sum moning to the mus:er various Anti-R , form Members of the House of Lords—he had much to do in setting Wilk accounts for furniture and tfjouterie left unpaid by the ht.t. KING, as w(11 as in buying up (no doubt on the most liberal terms) the floating bills left behind on the Continent by poor Queen CA ROLINE. —Spectator. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. DURING LAST WEIR. Wheat. Barley. s. to s. s. to s. 58 30 55 63 130 36 54 61 132 35 57 I 35 56 C 62 — 3l I ' 4 s. d. s. d. s. d. 68 70 36 39 70 90 48 54 93 96 60 66 70 93 36 46 94 96 58 60 76 80 39 42 90 10 0 4 6 50 146 16 6 9 0 100 ,140 160 90 100 !146 180 96 100 ;149 156 96 10 0 Fer Quarter. Car1i51e............... Hexhzun Murpeth Penrith Sheffield Winchester —,-- Per Bushel. Carniarthen...—.—. Coventry .----... Newcastle (Staff.) Northallerton ..... Swansea ---.—. Warwick , Per Roll. Barnardcastle—, Durham Richmond Stockton Oata. s. to s. 21 26 10 23 72 24 s. d. s. d. 14 20 g 6 4 0 36 40 33 40 36 40 22 26 X 2 2 26 50 G 0 56 7J 50 68 50 70 _~ 3'2 40 42 46 1. d. a. d. 00 00 56 60 56 80 56 tS 0 7(5 80 00 00 73 70 00 110 10 0 12 0 90 10 6 00 00 WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.—Feb. Iv. Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Suffhlk —s. 525. to 586. fine 61.. Lin. and Cam. —s. 523. to 583. fine fibs. Yorkshire —4 544 to 58s. fine 60s ---- Whit- —s. .7,65. to tits. tine 657; ----- Foreign, Red --. 475. to 525. fine 59g. White —s. —g. to --s. fine ti.ts. Barley, Norfolk and SWF()Ik 3os to 333. tine 375. Lincolnshire 33s. to 366. fine 40a. YorkF ill re Wold 32s. to 365. fine 38s. Foreign -g. to —a. fine —s. Beans, Small -- llick 32s. to 345. fine 3(te Oats, Potato 22s. to 245. fine 26 5. Poland —g. 21s. to 245. fine 2541. Friezland and Small .. ..... —s. 18, to 224. fine 245. Mealing lid. to 12%d. per Stone. Shelling 3is. to Ws. Od. per Load. Malt 3ss. 425. fine 455. per Load. Rapeseed V% Os. 221. Os. 241. Os. per Lag. _ sco 'CH MARKETS. Wheat. f Barley Oats. Beans lOatmeal. . • 26 27 30 31 38 a► - - - 30 20 24 30 34 48 -- 24 25 45 48 43 44 20 25 . •hout the ceuntry. 25 30 20 23 1 20 23 15 18 i 20 23 17 18 30 34 25 26 32 35 23 25 26 n 20 24 32 33 20 22 22 23 17 19 27 39 25 32 30 34 20 25 asure varies throng; 30 32 35 33 OH CORN MARK Barley. Oats. 37s Cd 2.96 Od 35s Od 25a 0,1 321; Od 20s 8d Pease. 33$ Od 32$ Od 30s Od Beaus. 33i Od 324 Od 301 Od PRICRS OF PROVISIONS, RC. Os. 3id.t00e.6d.1 Fresh Butter, lb. s. 10,1. to od. 0 3 0 6 Salt Ditto ^ 0 10 1 0 0 9 Ditto, per clAt.B4 0 92 - 0 0 6 Eggz; doz. 0 9 OatStrawtkl>.)l 1 6 12 6 Wheat Ditfo,:.lo U 11 0 Barley Ditto ..... 9 0 10 0 Hay, per st.--- 1 2 3 0 0 0 NI A It K ET: —Feb. 7. Oatmeal at this day's market, it week's prices... Per Stone of 14th. Imp. First Oatmeal £0 2 0 Second ditto Barleymeal 0 1 8 Yeasemeal .-2d. 155.-3d.lBs.—Peail 220. GLASGOW CORN Wheat, per 240th. a. d. a. d. British, old 25 0 to 30 0 - new 260 290 Canada, free 27 0 59 0 It - iit MARKET.—Feb. 8. Oats, per 2841 b. s. d. s. Irish l6 0 to 18 6 British 0 0 Beans, per 2601 b. English Scottish Pease, Scottish 17 0 19 0 Oatmeal, per 1401 b. 15 0 17 0 Flour, per23olh 47 0 48 0 Barley, per 3201 b. English 0 Scottish '27 6 28 0 Irish CORNWALL. MARKETS. Tautto—Wheat (average) 225. 9d.—Barley, I Is. 93.—Oats, Ps. ST. ArsreLL—Wheat, —6. to `2'..?s.—Barley, —a. to I.—Oats, Os. to Bs. Od. BoomlN—Wheat (average) 01—Barley. Od.—Oats. 7e. flEturrox—Wheat, 235. Od.—Barley. 111 Pasziorce—Wheat, 225. to 23s.—Barley, --v. to 12•.-. Oats, O. to Sg. 64.—Beet'and Mutton, 541. to Od.—Pork, aid. to 01.— Butter, 12d. per th. LIBKEARD—.Wheat, 04. to 233.—Barley, Bs. 6d.—Oata, 09. to Se. Od. LA CI scEsTois —W h eat (average) 275. Od.—Barley, IN. 44 L—Oats. 7s. o.l.—Beef, W.—Mutton, sd. Sr. CoLUMß—Wheat, 225. to 235.--Barley, Ils. to Its.—Beef, and Mutton, 4d. to sd.—Veal, 4d.—Lamb, sd. FILIAL AFFECTION OF THE MOORS.-- A Portuguese surgeon was accosted one day by a young Moor from the country, who, addressing him by the usual appellation of foreign doctors in that place, requested bits to give him some drogues to kill his father, and, as an in ducement, promised to pay him well. The surgeon was a little surprised at first, as might be expected, and was unable to answer immediately; but quickly recovering himself, (for he knew the habits of the people well,) he replied with sang froid equal to the Moor's, " Then you don't live comfortably with your father, I suppose ?"._ a " Oh, nothing can be better," returned the Moor ; " he has made much money, has married me well, and endowed me with all his possessions; but he cannot work any longer, he is so old, and he seems unwilling to die." The , loctor, of course, appreciated the amiable philosophy of the Moor's reasoning, and promised to give him what he desired. He accordingly prepared a cordial potion, more calculated to restore energy to the old man, than to take it away. The Moor paid him we I and departed. About eight days after he carne again, to say that his father was out dead. " Not dead !" exclaimed the apothecary, in well-feigned surprise, "he will die." He composed ac cordingly another draught, for which he received an equal remuneration, and assured the Moor that it would not tail in its effects. In fifteen days, however, the Moor came again, complaining that his father thrived better than ever. " Don't be discouraged," said the doctor, who doubtless found these periodical visits by no means unprofitable, " give him another potion, and I will exert all my skill in its preparation." The Moor took it, but returned no more. One day the surgeon met his young uquaintance in the street, end inquired the success of the remedy. "It was of no avail," he replied mournfully ; "my father is in excellent health. God has preserved hint from all our efforts ; there is no doubt that he is a Marabout"—(a Saint). —Monthly Magazine. IRELAND.—The summers in Ireland are the most temperate in Europe—the winters the mildest-- cattle can remain unhoused from January to December— yet there are more famines in it than in Siberia. The people, naturally hardy, easily subsisted, and singularly vigorous, laborious, and intelligent, when we consider their opportunities, are yet one-eighth of them paupers, and almost all restless, insubordinate, and embittered against the laws and present system of Government. 'roe face of Ireland is singularly picturesque, yet eminently adapted for all purposes of commerce and communication; by its genet al level no point ofl and is two th ousan d fe et a b ove the plain, and no land in Europe abounds so much in chains of lakes, in rivers flowing in different directions, and in a perpetual supply of water. Ireland might be made a country of water-communication through its whole length and breadth ; yet it has but two canals of any consequence, and these, too, in embarrassed circum stances. Ireland has more harbours for ships of the largest size than the whole of Europe, the single western coast containing for two hundred miles but a aucceseion of the most magnificent ports. It is the nearest coast to the western world—the course is direct from thence to Portugal and Spain, to the Mediterranean, to the whole navigation of the immense regions south of the Straits of Gibraltar. The coast of Ireland is the first made by every sail from India, Africa, and America. It has been ascer tained, that before a vessel from the port of London gets out of soundings, a vessel from the west of Ireland can reach America. Ireland seems, by its position, by its western harbours, and by the facility of communication over every part of its surface, to have been actually in tended as the /peat centre of intercourse between the old world and the new. It is large, containing 32,301 square miles ; of all this space, the indenting by harbours, arms of the sea, and river.,' mouths, are so reetneroue, that there is not an acre above fifty miles from the sea.— Bryan's View of Ireland. BIRTHS. On the 10th inst. in Portland-place, the lady of Sir W. Curtis, Bart, of a daughter. On the 10th inst. in Ilereford-strcet, the lady of B. Brocas, Esq., of a VAL MABRIEP On the 11th inst. at :Hilton, county of Murray, N. 8., Henry Jor.vpl; Dunn, 'Esq., to Eliza, only daughter of the late Wm. Brodie E sq. . . _ On the 4th in t. at Bonn Church, Isle of Wight, T. L Bruncker, Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, to Everelda, sixth daughter of Captain Woodham •' and also at the same time, Cap ? taro Haselwood, of the 14th Infantry, at Southarriptn, to Cla_ rinse, fifth daughter of Captain \Voodham. PIED On the 10th inst. at Hattie Won, W. P. W. Freeman, Esq., 4enior Admiral of the Fleet, aged 01. On the 10th inst. in the 55th year of her age, in the Albany road, Camberwell, Mrs. Mary Fisher, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. Thompson, surviving her mother only eight days. On the 10th inst. at Islington, Elizabeth,.widow of the late J. Barber, late of Limb's Conduit-street, aged 65. On the 10th inst. Reynolds, youngest son of the Bev. J. E. ( ;ray, of Wimbley-park, Middlesex. On the 9th inst. at Ramsgate, G. A. Carruthers, Esq. of Not tingham-terrace, Regent's-park, aged 48. At Garmouth, Jane Grey, at the very advanced age of 119. On the 9th inst. at Theobald's Farm, fleas, Elizabeth Frances, second daughter of E. Hannan, Esq. On the Uth inst. at Walworth, aged 80, Sirs. Anne Cleaver, relict of the late Samuel Cleat F4q., of Gate_street, Lincoln's inn-fields. . _ _ inst. the Rev. C. Ballard, Vicar of Chalgrave, in Oxfordshire, aged 74. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY MURDO YOUNG, AT TRH SUN OFFICE, 112, STitAND, L(ND)N.; Aberdeen Berwick....—. Coldstream Cilia'. Dundee Elgin I n:ern ess...-- Kelso --...—. Kirkaldy....—.. Perth --... IS -, The size 56 60 40 45 40 43 42 60 62 64 52 58 50 56 42 45 40 45 60 65 of the tn, EDI NEU Wheat. First 67s 0(1 Second 624 0(1 'Third sos Od Beef, peer lb. Mutton .—...-v-• Veal 0 6 2 0 Lanb, per qr. fallow, cwt.... 38 Quartein Loa( Potatoes, 171 lb. 00 0 3 EDI NMI ltG H MEA We had a middling supply 01 which met with a dull sale, at 1, Per Sack of 2801 b. Imp. First Oatmeal Second ditto 1 16 0 Barleymeal 1 10 0 Peasen4eal 1 10 0 Pot Barley—No. I, per cwt. 12 o o Beans.