The Sun. — London, England, 1832-10-29 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Military authorities from Oporto state, that if Miguel's attack, which was expected for Fri day last, should fail, they considered the cause of Miguel as utterly hopeless. It is not, we con fess, without much anxiety that we look for intelligence of the events of that day. Miguel was bringing up 6,000 fresh troops from Lisbon, to take part in the projected action—a reinforce ment which would nearly supply all the vacancies caused in his ranks, whether by the sword or sickness. The Constitutional army had, on the other hand, been strengthened by the arrival of 600 or 700 Englishmen, with some gallant officers, and a good proportion of stores and am munition. We can state, moreover, upon the best authority, that the spirits of the Pedroists, and their confidence of successful resistance to any force that could be brought against them, so far from being impaired, were higher than at any time since the commencement of the campaign. Some interesting traits of the general enthusiasm visible amongst the inhabitants of Oporto are enumerated in the letters to which we have had access. During the attack on the Serra, above 30 gentlemen, residents of Oporto, crossed the river, with their double-barrelled guns, to aid the defence of that important outwork ; and near 100 others were prevented from following them, only by the assurances of Count Villa Flor, that he had already reinforced the Convent, and that he considered it out of danger. In the streets of the city the shells drop unheeded, and some heavy guns, which had been planted by the IVliguelites so as to enfilade one of the streets, where the poor market-women sat in rows to sell fish and other necessaries, opened their fire, and sent in shot, without exciting further proof of alarm in these females than a " Jesrt .Maria!" or some other habitual ejaculation. There is, however, one view of the relation wherein Portugal stands to Great Britain which undoubtedly deserves the serious attention of this Government. We do not greatly admire the policy which commits itself exclusively to ab stract principles. The maxim of non-interfer ence with foreign states, for instance, is one under which the most serious practical mischiefs would have been perpetrated, had it been (as it has not been) always and rigorously ad hered to. The duties of neutrality are all very well to talk about where a given Government is bona fide in a neutral position—that is to say, a position which enables her to look at the suc cess of either party engaged in war upon a fo reign soil as of equal indifference, or equal value, to the direct and essential interests of her own subjects. A solid and deep stake in the issue of any contest whatever, such as extensive pro perty, or numerous English lives, would make it an unpardonable offence in British statesmen to act with the same coolness upon non-interfe rence maxims, as they might be excused for do ing in cases where British life and property were in no degree risked upon the result. To search for no precedents beyond the last six years, why did England meddle in the affairs of Greece and Turkey, but because her commerce was a sufferer from their irregular contest ? Why did we meddle between Belgium and Holland (to little good purpose, as it has yet been, but) —what was the ground of our interference, other than the peril to English interests from permitting mat ters to take the course which alone seemed open to them had this country lain inactive ? Why, then, has England done nothing with regard to Portugal ? We must answer, because, as it seems to us, she has been governed by the pe dantry of general maxims, instead of a bold and just regard to the importance of practical and very urgent duties. Portugal has, time out of mind, been held as a dependent ally of England in the face of the whole world, and the alliance, if essential to Portugal, as a shield against the long and well-known designs of both the Spa nish and French branches of the House of Bour bon, has been equally valuable to England, as affording her a substantial counterpoise to the weight of an adverse interest in the south of Europe, as well as a powerful naval station, the only one south of Cork, in the Atlantic. Be sides all this, a vast extent of Portuguese pro perty has found its way into the hands of Bri tish owners ; and tens of thousands of British families have made Portugal their settled habi tation. We therefore affirm that nothing was ever weaker than the scruple which held back this Government, at any period within the last ten years, from interposing with a vigorous hand, and fixing the affairs of Portugal on such a footing AS should at all events secure the strict alliance between the two kingdoms, with the immense advantages thereto appertaining, from any chance of dissolution, and the British lives and pro perty vested on the Douro and the Tagus from acts of spoliation or destruction. The question is at this moment—nay, it has been so from the beginning of the family war—shall Portugal be British or anti-British? Shall the rela tion of patron and willing client—of protector and ready ally—of Great Britain watchful over the designs of . Spain, and Portugal conscious of security in that watchfulness—of British mer chants and proprietors enjoying the rights and benefits of the most favoured nations, and car rying on a hghly-lucrative and valuable com merce from Portugal, as their entrepot, with the finest harbour in the west of Europe at the dis posal of Great Britain for all lawful purposes,— shall these continue, through the attachment of a grateful dynasty, to our nation, or, after the establishment of the tyrant and monster Miguel, the darling of all despots, and mortal enemy of the British name upon the throne, shall we see every living individual of our countrymen ba nished from the country, or murdered on the spot,—every pound's worth of English pro property confiscated,—and every resource of Por tugal, political or commercial, whether as an ally, or a market, or a maritime asylum, turned to the detriment of England ? This question, we say, has long since arisen, and has remained without an answer by far too long. It is, indeed, a proof of sot rething not far removed from ex treme imbecility that steps have not many months ago been token to promote effectually the British cause, viz., that of the lawful Queen of Portugal, and to put down the anti-British by at least such a demonstra4ion of the feelings of this great Government and country as will en courage the friends of the Constitution and of legitimacy among the Portuguese to show them , selves. No Government is bound to cut its own throat, which ours is now doing by its apparent apathy on this question, while traitors to Eng land in Miguel's pay, or rather in that of the Holy Alliance, are converting the London Press itself, of the baser part of which they are conduc tors, into an organ of beastly exultation at the de struction of British lives by the Usurper's troops, as they have for some time been indulging it► treasonable joy at the anticipated defeat of the British arms and policy, when employed to bring the perverse Dutchman to his duty.—Tinzes. Our Government agents in Portugal, as well as those who re-echo their sentiments in this country, have usually taken care to be provided with some flagrant case or other as a screen to their own conduct, and adopted rather as an ap• peal to the feelings of a deluded public than to the sober judgment of Englishmen. Of this disposition to quarrel with our oldest friends, or humble them to the very dust, abundant evi dence may be found in the papers respecting our relations with Portugal lately laid before Parliament, or in the columns of certain Minis terial Journals, where the most preposterous charges are often raised against the Portuguese authorities, and frivolous incidents represented as matters of great moment. On Friday even ing a contemporary, on whose judgment and discrimination the public have been accustomed to place more than ordinary reliance, produced a span-new case, just arrived from Lisbon, and, without most probably having before him the means of forming his own opinion upon its merits, told the story, it is presumed, as it was told him, and after a little preliminary qualification, such as " that the private accounts from Lisbon are most melancholy as regards the system of terrorism and brutality which prevails there," proceeds to deduce a plea for the entry of British ships of war into the Tagus. We have been favoured with two Lisbon letters on this subject, and, as we are assured, of the mos respectable character. They will be found it our columns of this day, and to their contents we invite particular attention ; nay, we call that of our Evening Contemporary by whom the affair was first mentioned, and frankly ask him to de clare whether his version of it, or that furnished in the letters above we refer to, be the most reasonable and correct. Lisbon, it will be borne in mind, is in a state of siege and under martial law—a measure equally adopted in other countries in times of extraordi nary turbulence and disorder. It cannot, in deed, be denied that there are periods when the ordinary course of justice is too slow, and con sequently inadequate to the coercion of the most dangerous crimes against the State, which, if left unprotected by extraordinary remedies, might perish. That period, we think it will be acknowledged, has arrived in Portugal. No better means having been discovered of keep ing pace with the daring celerity which attends the operations of rebellion than the employment of a vigilant police, composed of respectable inhabitants, and a guard something resembling that of the gendarmes in France, to their united care the Portuguese capital was confided from the moment the invasion commenced, and to their credit it must be said that the public tran quillity has been effectually preserved. Whilst Englishmen were fighting at Oporto and block ading Portuguese ports in Lisbon, not a single British resident has been molested; perhaps the most signal instance of forbearance on the part of a justly irritated people ever on record, and the remark applies to a period of better than three months. But to the main subject. In the night of the 14th, according to the letters before us, a corporal's guard of police, going theif rounds, found a man in the streets at a forbidden hour, who refused to give an account of himself. He was twice admonished to with draw and shut his door, as the law prescribed. Again he refused, and, on the corporal telling him that he arrested him in the name of the King, a volley of treasonable abuse was returned. The guard having come up to seize his person, a scuffle ensued, in which the incognito endea voured .to disarm one of the soldiers by wresting his musket from him. The bayonet having fallen, the man attempted to seize it and resort to force, at which moment the corporal, finding the matter to be serious, and not knowing where it might end, fired his musket. The ball struck the man, and he fell lifeless to the ground. The body was then taken into the yard of the house, of which the door was open, and, on a view of it by the proper authorities, the deceased proved to be a Spaniard, had been twelve years in Pinto's service, and that he was well known as the general porter of a furnished house let to lodgers, among whom was Lord W. Russell. If such is the state of the affair as described in the letters above mentioned, how is it that Lo►d William Russell says that the deceased was a servant of his own ? Had he returned him as such to any public officer ? But, even if he was a ser vant of the Noble Lord, under the circumstances described, and however much he might deplore the man's death, how can he interpret it as an insult against himself,or an indication of danger to British subjects? How can an accidental ren contre between a police-guard and an obstinate or factious man, which in the confusion of the moment terminated fatally for the latter, serve as a charge against the Government of the country? What intentional offence could there be in the exercise of the right of self-defence, and in firing upon a man who attempted to disarm a guard in a town at the very moment under martial law ? In justice to the Government of Portugal, as well as to those of the British residents who do not approve of the manner in which that Go vernment has long been treated by our Consul residing in Lisbon, for at his door we understand the affair is chiefly laid, we hope that this matter will be fully and fairly investigated. We further hope and trust that Lord W. Russell will be called upon to show why he rejected the proffered satisfaction of the Portuguese Minister, by de clining the investigation of the circumstances of the affair, before he proceeded to commit a fla grant breach of neutrality, offensive to the rights of an independent nation, and, in the particular predicament in which our deluded countrymen are placed in Oporto, extremely dangerous to the well-being of our peaceable and trading countrymen scattered about in various parts of Portugal, who have hitherto experienced an effec tual protection, even under circumstances in which they could scarcely expect it.—Morning Post. We have found where we least expected to find it, namely, in the Quarterly Review, an attempt to demonstrate that the Aristocracy of this country are the chief cause of the crime and immorality which prevail among us. We allude to an article on " Novels of Fashionable Life," in the number for October, just published. We have often endeavoured to connect the exorbitant expenditure of this country with the law which gives the estate to the eldest child, and leaves the other children in a st a t e o f co mparative des titution. This law tends to prevent the distri bution of property, which is an object greatly to be desired, by all Nobles who wish to see a popeand virtuous. But a mis c hi ev ous consequencel happy results from there being in a coun e ' try a number of large estates in the hands of in dividuals, and that is, that the relations of the Aristocracy, in public employments, are paid, not according to the value of their services, but to enable them to live in a style equal to that of the Aristocracy. Thus, the expenditure of the nation is much greater than it ought to be, and thus heavy taxation is connected with the une qual distribution of property. An Ex-Member of Parliament, of distinguished talents, once wrote an amusing Essay, in which he proved that the tall servants at the west end of the town were the pivot on which the British Constitu- tion turned. It was for the sake of these ser vants that we had boroughmongery and all the corruption necessary to the working of our Con stitution. The end of all the jobbing is the adding not to the comforts of the owner of the mansion, but to the number of tall, well-fed men whom he keeps. The writer in the Quar terly Review, so far from considering the ability to maintain a number of idle men a national ad vantage, attributes to this the increase of crime among us : " Hitherto (be says) those who have undertaken to de scribe the ways of fashionable life, have not followed it even to its more direct and contiguous relations with other classes of mankind. This is a defect which it might be worth the while of any duly qualified writer to supply. It might be well, for instance, if any such writer would so far extend the sphere of his contemplations as to observe and exhibit the effects of fashionable manners and customs upon the class of servants and the class of tradesmen. Under the former head, there may be found, perhaps, little to find fault with on the score of mere manner and out ward demeanour. To use servants with harshness, is to be wanting in that species of consideration for them which consists in a certain mildness and amenity of manner, would ruffle and deform that smooth surface of things which it is agreeab'e to the taste of people in high life to see around them. Nor do they perhaps interfere with the comfort of their dependents, by any undue or onerous exactions of service; for their establishments, being for the most part calculated for show, are more numerous than is required for use, and are, therefore, necessarily under worked, except perhaps in the case of some poor drudges at the bottom, who slink up and down the back stairs un seen, and whose comfort, therefore, does not engage the attention of a family of this class; and even these will not be oppressed with their labours, unless when some impo verished people of fashion may find it necessary to dock the tails of their establishments in oiler to keep the more pro- minent portions entire. Nevertheless the exceptions which may be taken against fashionable life, as affecting the class of servants, are of a very grave description. Late hours and habits of dissipation in the heads of a family mike it almost impossible, especially in London, to exer cise that whole-ome household discipline which is requisite to secure the well-being of a servant. Luxury and osten tation require that the servants of these people should be numerous; their number unavoidably makes them idle; idleness makes them debauched ; debauchery renders them often necessitous; the affluence or the prodigality, the in dolence or indulgence or indifference of their masters, affords them every possible facility for being dishonest ; and beginning with the more venial kinds of peculation, their consc ence has an opportunity of making an easy descent through the various gradations of larceny, till the misdemeanant passes into the felon. In the meantime the master, taking no blame to himself, nor considering that servants are for the most part what their masters make them, that they are their creatures, at least of those circum stances which their masters throw around them, and might be moulded in the generality of cases, with almost certain effec., by the will and conduct of the master, passes over, with an indolent and epicurean censure, the lighter delin quencies which we may happen to detect, laughs perhaps at his own laxity, and when at length alarmed, discharges the culprit without a character, and relieves himself at the ex pense of he knows not whom, by making of a corrrupted menial a desperate outcast. If it be raid that a man can not lie expected to change his mode of life for the sake of his servants, it might be answered, that any mode of life by which each individual indulging in it, hazards the perdition of several of his fellow-creatures, ought to he changed, and cannot be persevered in without guilt. But even if no such sacrifice were to be insisted upon, there remain means by which the evil might be mitigated. In the first place, the adherence to honesty on the part of the masters might be exemplary ; whereas, their actual measure of honesty would perhaps be indicated with sufficient indulgence, if they were described (in the qualified language which Hamlet applies to himself) to be ' indifferent honest.' Fashionable people are the most unscrupulous smugglers and buyers of smuggled goods, and have less difficulty than others, and less shame, in making various illicit inroads upon the public property and revenue. It is not to be denied that these practices are, in point of fact, a species of lying and cheating; and the latter of them bears a close analogy to the sort of depredation in which the dishonesty of a servant commonly commences. To a servant it must seem quite as venial an offence to trench upon the resources of a Duke, as to the Duke it may seem to defraud the re venues of a kingdom." Many of the dignitaries of our Church think it strange that their Divine Master should have proscribed riches in such unqualified terms, and even excluded rich men from the kingdom of Heaven. But the writer in the Quarterly Re view's remarks furnish a valuable comment on the doctrine. He has sho'voi the l pliSWsifon of great property is so far an evil, as the enjoyment of it leads inevitably to immorality and crime, To give, for instance, to a Lord Bishop, splendid mansions, and 20,0001. or 30,0001. a-year, is not Only a waste of the public money, but a stimulus to crime. The swarm of idle servants whom he keeps, to be like other fashionables, are, of course, exposed to the same temptations to which servants in other fashionable houses are exposed, and tainted with the same vices and crimes. The Bishops of the times when Chris tianity made its way in the world lived in a simple, unostentatious manner, and their ex ample was as efficacious in converting as their exhortations. Their successors are placed in circumstances which make them disseminators of corruption and vice. In an excellent work, Lettres sur la Hollande, in two volumes, pub lished in 1780, the mode of living of people in easy circumstances in Holland is contrasted with that of the rich in England and other coun- tries : "In England (he observes), whe❑ a Lord or rich man is visited at his country seat, every thing announces a great expenditure. The table, always open to the neighbouring gentry, and even to those of the whole county, profusion of all sorts of wines, all the domestics heated with beer and wine, the coachmen of those who depart all so drunk as hardly to be able to keep their seats (things are changed for the better in this respect since 1780); vast houses built in the Italian style ; parks filled with deer; gardens in which the roots and fruits of climates the most opposed to that of England are forced ; orchards filled with the fruit trees of every country; forests planted with trees transported from the four quarters of the world , cedar from Mount Lebanon ; the plane tree of Persia ; the tulip tree from the Iroquois ; the tree of India ; the balm tree of Canada, &c. ; and quantity of horses, d gs, &c. * * *. No thing like this is to be seen in the country in Holland ; no fracas, no marks of pride and folly. It is much if you see in the morning or afternoon, the ladies and gentlemen takiug tranquilly their tea in a povillion at the end of the garden. The French, and e.pecially the Milanese, the Neapolitans, and Sicilians, love to fill their houses with servants, to make the public believe that the house belongs to a great Lord or rich man, though, perhaps, the Lord is only a farmer, and the rich man a gentleman over bead and ears in debt. The Dutch, on the contrary, have no thing of this vanity ; they have no more servants than they require, and they are even discomposed when their circum stances require them to keep several. They are too well aware, that this canaille only serve to embarrass a house ; that they maintain disorder ; that while every one seeks to throw the service from his own shoulders on those of some of his companions, the master is often obliged to serve himself ; that beggars like those, without industry and without e ducation, can only corrupt each other, and com municate their vicious morals to the children even of their mast r. Thus, it is not from avarice, but from prudence, that they dispense as much as they can with servants." The Quarterly Reviewer does not content himself with showing the corrupting influence of Aristocracy in the case of servants, but proceeds with his examination through tradesmen, mil liners, &c. The connection between primoge niture and adultery is also illustrated by the Quarterly Reviewer, who, in examining Mr. Lister's novel of " Arlington," draws attention to the distinction to which it leads of marrying and not marrying men, and the resources of the latter : " Lord Arlington' is fixed upon by Lady Crawford, an arbitress of fashion, to be the prey of her niece Julia Saville, described as one, the richness and luxuriance of whose beauty suggests so much in the mind of the spec tator as to make the emptiness and barrenness of her own mind unsuspected, if not almost incredible. Her affec tions are pre-engaged to Mr. Beauchamp, a man of great personal attractions, and much profligacy, and fashionable distinction, who is, after a certain manner, in love with her, but being without the means or intention of marry ing, forwards the design upon Lord Arlington, with a view, when that should have taken effect, to profit by her coverture. The adoption of such a design is but too cha racteristic of that unhappy state of society which these books represent, and the scenes in which it is described, are well imagined.' Laxity (he elsewhere observes) in respect of the cardinal female virtue is unquestionably the cardinal sin of fashionable society; and what renders it most offensive is, that it is a discriminating laxity. It is impossible to deny that the frailties of persons who can surround themselves with a surpassing degree cf splendour, and prop themselves against prodigious piles of wealth, meet with an extraordinary quantum of indulgence. Ab solutions and dispensations of a certain kind are bought and sold ; and of two women taken in adultery, the one of whom riots in a profusion of riches and is lavish of costly entertainments, whilst the other enjoys no more than an ordinary share of affluence, fashionable infallibility will assure to the one its indult, and to the other its anathema. Many who contemplate at a safe distance the ways of the great world will feel the injustice and baseness of the distinction even more sensibly than the immorality, per nicious though it be, of the looser proceeding. Au in discriminate indulgence might pass for an amiable weak ness, or an excess of charity. But if it be through a charitable spirit that the great and sumptuous sinners are admitted into society, what shall we call that spirit by which the more obscure or indigent are expelled ? Society acts either in the one case with the cruelty of a tyrant, or in the other with the vileness of a parasite."' Such are the effects of a system of legislation, the object of which has been to preserve great masses of property in particular families. The nation is heavily taxed to provide for the junior branches of these families in a style equal to their notions, and corrupted in every way by the mode in which the great ex pend their incomes. The Quarterly Reviewer would seem to think, that since Lords and Ladies have become authors and authoresses, and laid open the mysteries of fashionable life, the people have lost all respect for high life. To use his own words, " With many simple per sons a mystery has been revealed, and a charm has been broken, and they will never again have the same respect for the great which they once had." It is curious to connect reform with fashionable novels ; though there is some reason for thinking that the Reviewer is not far out in his opinion. We look to the Reform Bill for strict economy and unsparing retrenchment. The scale of payment is vicious in the extreme. Eco nomy in the State will soon produce its effects in the distribution of property. The nation will gain not merely in diminished taxation, but in the diminution of the pestiferious corruption which flows from Aristocracy.—Morn. Chron. We regret to perceive many persons in diffe rent parts of the kingdom, especially in coun ties, deterred from coming forward as candidates for the next Parliament, on the score of expense. This is one of the evils which we were in hopes that the Reform Bill would remove ; and which, though it may fail in the first instance to accom plish, it will, we have little doubt, in the end bring about. The idea of a mail becoming an inde pendent representative of the people who is com pelled to part with his independence, as the price of obtaining his seat, is a self-contradiction upon the face of it, too manifest to admit of dis pute. As these things have hitherto proceeded, no sooner does a man announce himself as a can didate for a county, or any other populous place, than all hands unite to fleece him in every pos sible way, from every lawyer down to every publi can ; till, as has too frequently happened, not only has he in the end found his own fortune crippled, or actually consumed, but a load of debt left him to encounter, which nothing but subserviency to the Minister of the day can give him any hope of seeing discharged, or his future means of living repaired. The fortunes which have been sacrificed in election contests, and the unworthy manner in which many of them have been thus repaired, are matters of notoriety on which it is as unnecessary as it would be in vidious to dwell. In the outset of the working of the Reform Act this evil seems to be rather enhanced than diminished by the novel and ap paretly reprehensible practice of candidates and their agents attending before the Registering Barrister to invalidate or establish the votes of those to whom they look forward as their friends or opponents on the day of election. This we cannot help looking upon as an intrusion and interference which ought not to be permitted. It is quite clear that the ob jections and other proceedings in this new in stance far exceed those which have heretofore taken place in the Assessor's booth ; and, if permitted to go on, are calculated to give a wealthy candidate (as in the present instance in Essex) the power of almost nominating the constituencyeveryyop he i al midaa recentll se, man's afterwards tsauotbec tcciaia isntiyobnc t e o a represent rnbenrmoouatgrkiletdt, : o iifs undermine. fstohuree, upon thes e occas i ons , t h ere i s scarce l y one i n ten Among the many minor reforms, then, of which we trust the Reform Act will be the parent, that of effectually cutting down and diminishing the enormous expense of reaching the House of Commons will, we trust, be one. It is not at all to be feared that this would lead, as some persons imagine, to needy and desperate persons gettinginto Parliament. The very slight encou ragement which such persons are every where now receiving affords a sufficient answer to that objection ; while the practice which at present n r g e v i a t i l o s v g e i r y e t s a t i e o n mere andwienadl t e l p i e s n u d c e h n i e n e e aanssmouf must, is - long as it permitted, shut out from the Legis lature those persons, in almost every rank, sta tion, and department, whose services are calcu lated to be of most value if amalgamated in the eneral stock.—Morning Herald. LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY EVENING.-Ar rived, the Clemence, from Antwerp; the Maria, from Dordt; the Como, from St. Petersburgh ; the Fifeshire, from Rotterdam ; the Engelina, from Rotterdam ; the Arichat, from Jersey; the Haitzema Victor, from Am sterdam; the Thetis, from Mersey ; the Nottingham, from L e eds ; the William Huskisson, from Dublin ; the Emerald Isle, from London ; the Star, from Aberavon ; -the Friends, from Poole ; the Princess Elizabeth, from Falmouth ; the Albion, from Ipswich; the James and Jane, from Amlwteh ; the Herald, from Cork; the Ca therine and Mary, from Poole; the Gipsy, from Water ford ; the Hannah, from London ; the Shannon, from Ipswich ; the Hannah, from Wicklow; the Active, from Newport; the Marchioness Wellesley, from Wexford; IVellington, Favourite, and Jane, from Poole ; the D vv wick, from Fowey ; the St. Andrew, from the Comilla, from Cardiff; the Carolina A ug usta, Bristol ; and th e Mary Ann, from the jan f;,. m Aberdeen. Arrived yesterday, the Experiment and Pa tience, train Jersey; the Earl of Roden, from Dundalk ; the St. David, from Newry; the Chieftain, from Bel- fast ; the Fair Trader, from Drogheda ; the Britannia, from Dublin ; the Courier, from London ; the John Wood, tram Glasgow; the Solway, from Carlisle; the John, from Lancaster ; the Wellington, from Newhaven ; and the Fortitude, from Poole. Passed Holyhead, in ward bound, the Arab, from Lima, Valparaiso, &c. ; ana the Pacific, from New York, sailed on the Ist. inst. The New York packet was off Holyhead on Friday ; she was expected to reach Liverpool yesterday morning. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. On Saturday Mrs. Martha Fuller, the wife of the keeper of a leg-of-beef soup-shop, was charged by the Count de Roke, an elderly Frenchman of very small dimensions, with having committed a violent assault upon him. The complainant had been in a delicate state of health for some time, and had taken a room in the house of which the soup-seller had the lower part. Unfortunately, he could not pass in or out of his lodgings without going through the shop, and as it was not convenient for him to diet on the beef broth, the defendant took every opportunity to in sult him, so that he used to creep backward and forward on all-fours, to prevent her from seeing him, as she sat behind the counter. On the last evening he went out, he put on his large fur coat, and was stealing out in the usual way, when the landlady spied him, slipped round, and cried out What a filthy brute of a dog !" and gave him such a kick in what he called " de side of de back," as not only rolled him over head and heels, but spun him round several times in the puddle. He here exhibited his great-coat, which was in a most filthy condition. vv The defendant declared most solemnly that she thought it was Mick Stubbs's Newfoundland dog that was always sneaking about for bones and bits, and was brought up to steal anything he could lay his tooth to, and she didn't find her mistake till she heard the difference between their woices.—(A laugh.) Stubbs (a dog's-meat man), who had been in formed of the compliment paid to his " Bloss," here assured the Lord Mayor, that the defendant's shop was the last place in the world the dog would walk into, for the hanimal know'd the difference between his own wittels and the split-vowel kagmag Mrs. Fuller served out to her customers.--( Great laugh ter.) She kicked the gentleman most cruel besides. The defendant—Don't you say nothing, Mr. Stubbs. You ought to take that ere dog's old master for a vorning. You know he vent out of the vorld and out of Noogate the same day, and blest if you von't go off squeezed as well. The LORD MAYOR asked the complainant whe ther he thought the defendant might have mistaken him for somebody or something else?—Complain ant —No no, my Lor, she did not tink I vas de dog, for she first did give my calck de kick over my head, and den she kick me hard on de side of de back. The LORD MAYOR—She must find bail for the assault, except she can make her peace with the complainant. Stubbs—Thank you, my Lord. You must find bail, you vonian. Defendant—There, my Lord, I'm blessed if that ere man as gived you the adwice to lock me up a'nt a lag. He only corned back a year ago from Wan Dymon's Land, where him and the other conwicts was obliged to run about with hundred weights tied to 'em. Stubbs—Over the left, my old un. Blessed if I ever left the river.—(Laughter.) The defendant begged to have a day to prepare a recompense for the Frenchman, who consented that she should be liberated on her solemn promise to pay him a sovereign, and to act to him in such a manner that he might go through her shop like any other biped. GUILDHALL. On Saturday a carpet-weaver named Pratt was charged with unlawfully pledging a quantity of car peting, value 401. The prisoner was sentenced to hard labour for three months; and ordered to be whipped publicly if he did not pay 401., the value of the goods, before the expiration of his imprisonment. BO W-STREET. A few days ago Mr. Thomas Jeans, of Wands worth, obtained a summons against Messrs. Douglas, Thompson, and Co., of Chiswick, under the 7th and Bth of George IV., c. 30, commonly called the Wilful Damage Act, for damage done to his chaise, in consequence of a dray belonging to the defend.. ants coming in contact with it, the driver, as it was alleged, being asleep at the time. On Friday last the case came on for hearing before Mr. HALLS, but before the defence was entered on, the Magistrate decided that the summons must be dismissed, the complainant having admitted that he left his chaise without any person to take care of it, and, further, that the road was not of sufficient width to allow the dray to pass the chaise without a collision. The case, although dismissed, is of some impor tance to the proprietors of vehicles, as it establishes the fact that compensation for injuries of this de scription may be sought by application to a Justice, under the provisions of the above-named Act, pro vided the amount of damage shall not exceed 5/. On Saturday night two men of shabby appear ance, named Thomas Mansfield and John Clayton, were charged by Mr. Thomas, the police superin tendent, with writing and presenting a forged letter, addressed to Mr. Bartley, of Covent-garden Thea tre, with a view to obtain admission to that house. The letter, which Mr. Thomas produced, was to the following effect : " Mr. Byrne, of the Monting Advertiser Office, pre sents his compliments to Mr. Bartley, and feels somewhat surprised that he received no answer to a letter which he addressed to him a few days ago. He has now to request that Mr. Bartley would favour him with an order for the admission of two friends from Bath, on whose account, for peculiar reasons, Mr. Byrne does not feel inclined to avail himself of the regular privileges of the press. The obli gation shall be returned to Mr. Birtley in some way agree able to his feelings." This letter, it appeared, was presented by the pri soner Clayton, who received it for that purpose from the prisoner Mansfield. Upon inquiry, how ever, it was found to be a forgery, and both pri soners were taken into custody. Mr. Notter, the boxkeeper, said that frauds of this description were constantly practised, although the utmost vigilance was used to detect them. He had some recollection of the prisoner Mansfield, and he believed that he had been apprehended about two years ago, for a similar offence. The prisoner Clayton had no knowledge when he presented the letter that it was a forgery. Mansfield was directed to be remanded, and the other prisoner, who did not appear to have acted with a guilty knowledge, was discharged. The five young men who have undergone so many examinations on the charge of writing and uttering a cheque for 150/., with the intent to de fraud Messrs. Coutts and Co., the bankers, were brought up for final examination, and discharged, with the concurrence of the solicitor for the Society of Bankers, who declared that he consented to their liberation solely on the ground that the evidence was not deemed sufficient to insure their conviction. MARLBORO UGH-STREET. • A gentleman, accompanied by a young man in the dress of a groom, came on Saturday before Mr. CONANT to ask advice under the following singular circumstances : About three months ago the master of the young man quitted, it was presumed, the metropolis, leav ing behind him a gig, harness, and a pair of horses. called Shortly at t h e livery-stablesafterwards a frin where bait, and obtained one of the hor ses, which he had since detained, and had refused t o return when re peatedly applied to by the groo m. The g roo m , friend of the t hehor gentleman tl wererieman ' s at being on board wages, was already greatly embar rassed, in consequenceof his master neglecting t o send him money, and he was likewise answerable for the keep of the horse, which was " eating its head off," as it was remaining at the stables at the weekly charge of one guinea. The groom had been unable to learn any particulars of his master, and, being entirely without approved withou tm(omfetyh,e stepshe thought the applicant ad visable, before selling the prope r t y , to make this application. Mr. had adopted, and recommended t h e groom to state the name of his master, and t o f urn i sh h i s own ad dress, as a means of obtaining the information he desired. The groom then stated that his master was Sir James 'Wright, formerly occupying lodgings at 32, St. James's-street; that he frequented the Cocoa tree Clubhouse, but none of the members knew of his present residence. It was conjectured, however, that he had gone to New York. Mr. CONANT inquired the value of the property left in the care of the groom. The groom replied that the horse might be worth about 301., and the cab and harness about 501. After giving his address, " John Shillinglaw, at the Bull public-house, Windmill-street," the parties thanked the Magistrate, and withdrew. MAR YLEB ONE. On Saturday William Mitchell and Daniel Wil son were brought to this office, in custody of John Currie, who is employed by the Commissioners of Stamps to apprehend persons found vending un stamped publications. Currie found the two prisoners in Oxford -street, selling cheap publications, and purchased from both of them a copy of the Cosmopolite Almanack for 1833, for which he paid 2d. for each copy, and then took them into custody. Here the witness produced a number of copies of the Poor Man's Guardian and the Cosmopolite, which were found on the pri soners. The almanack was printed on a large sheet of paper, of the exact size of the commercial alma necks, and besides the regular tables of the days in each month, contained tables of interest, stamp duties, hackney-coach fares, lists of bankers, mail coaches, army agents, &c.; and on the reverse a copy of the Cosmopolite, which contains a number of reasons for publishing the almanack. Among others is the following:—" Because we have hun dreds of men who, like ourselves, are willing to suf fer imprisonment to get so great a good (as the re peal of the tax on publications) done." The prisoners said they were reduced to great distress, and considered it much better to transgress the law by vending these publications than to beg, starve, or steal. They were committed for one month each. LAMBETH-STREET. On Saturday, Denis Donovan, a middle-aged Irish labourer, who was charged before Mr. WALKER with having murdered a man named Keitie, in Kinsale, in the county of Cork, about seven years ago, was on Saturday finally examined and discharged. QUEEN- SQUARE. Joseph Knetley was committed for trial for stealing from the shop of Mr. Lamb, jeweller, in Cockspur.street, a valuable gold watch, several diamond and pearl rings, and other articles to a large amount. W OR SHIP- S TREET. On Saturday, an elderly, grey-haired man, named Granger, was charged with conspiring with other persons to defraud Mr. W. Dallas, the proprietor of several houses in St. Luke's parish, of 5001. Mr. Dallas said the prisoner had formerly been a banker in Devonshire, and had failed. The prisoner, who said nothing in defence, was held to bail to answer the charge. THAMES POLICE. Captain Michael, the master, and IV. ill. Michael, the chief mate of the American ship Allongay, lying in the London Docks, were charged with assaulting and flogging an English sailor named Lunn. The defendants were dismissed. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS Per Quarter. Cat-lisle- Eiexham Murpeth Penrith Sheffield Winchester Per Bushel. Carmarthen ............. Coventry ............... Newcastle (Staff.) Northallerton .......... Stone—...---... Swansea ............«....• Warwick --..... Per 8011. Barnardcastle "-- Durham ......"............... Richmond --......... Stockton ,„,............ 126 17 01 11 6 17 1 14 0 18 0 ; 12 6 14 0, DURING LAST MIRY. Wheat. 1 Barley. Oats. s. to s. s. to s. 54 24 40 fio 25 33 46 52 28 31 52 26 55 39 40 53 25 30 s.d. s.d.'s.d. s.d. 60 7 0 3 6 4 0 70 90' 4 8 54 83 89 64 66 70 93 36 46 86 93 56 60 7 3 7 9 3 6 4 0 90 10 01 4 6 50 90 100 86 100 90 100 96 100 8. to a. 17 22 17 23 - 22 22 24 8. d. s. d. 14 19 36 40 33 39 33 40 30 39 20 24 22 26 50 58 50 66 50 68 44 58 Beans. 3. 8. 40 - 30 32 - 38 42 46 s. d. s. d. 0 0 0 0 56 60 54 59 5 6 6 0 64 70 00 0 0 7 3 7 6 00 110 9 0 11 0 90 106 00 00 WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.-Oct. 26. Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Suffblk -s. 475. to 545. fine 565. --- Lin. and Cam. -s 435. to 525. fine 545. --- Yorkshire -s. 40s. to 515. fine 545. - White -s. 50s. to 58s. fine 60s. - Foreign, Red -s. -s. to 465. fine 541. White -s. -s. to -s. fine 60s. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk 32s. to 345. tine 375. - Lincolnshire Ms. to 335. fine 408. - Yorkshire Wold 365. to 395. fine 408. - Foreign -s. to -s. fine ..-4. Beans, Small -- Tick 33s. to 355. fine 36s Oats, Potato 2os. to 225. fine 235. - Poland -s. 19s. to 21s. fine 244. - Friezland and Small -s. 17s. to 20s. fine 211. - Healing Shelling 235. to 265. Od. per Load. Malt 34s. 435. fine 465. per Load. Rapeseed .21. Os. 241. Os. 251. Os. per Last. SCOTCH MARKETS. Wheat. Barley Oats. Beans. Oatmea l ' Aberdeen 56 58 21 28 16 23 i 27 30 34 17 19 14 17 22 24 29 °- Coldstream 46 50 23 25 16 18 22 23 Cupar 48 70 28 32 20 '24 26 29 Dundee 50 60 30 al 20 25 30 31 Elgin 45 53 28 30 18 21 23 30 -- Inverness,* 40 46 24 28 16 23 23 30 46 Kelso --,. 28 35 16 18 14 141 23 25 .-- 43 4 4 Kirkaldy—,.. 40 45 27 39 25 32 45 48 Perth 54 57 29 31 21 21 26 30 .•-• I* - - The size of the measure varies throughout the country EDINBUR We had a small the sales were quicki GH COR' supply of N MARK: f all kindi ET.—Oct. of Grain Wheat. First 7os Od Second 6os Od Third 47s Od .er. Barley. Oats. 35s Od 21s 8d 32s Od 19s Od 27s Od 14s 8d Ly, anl Pease. lea% Od 32. s Od 125 Od od 303 Od 303 PRICES OF PROVISIONS, &C. IS 2d. Beef, per lb. Os. 3d. to Os. 6d. Fresh Butter, lb. s. lo d. to 10 0 3 0 6 Salt Ditto...—. 0 9 0 6 010 Ditto, per cm t. 78 0 0 Pork 0 4 0 6 Eggs, per dos. 010 0 Lamb, per qr. 1 0 2 6 OatStrawocpl.) 7 0 „; Fallow, cwt.... 35 6 38 0 Wheat Ditto.. 6 0 Quartern Loaf 0 8 0 0 Barley Ditto 6 0 6 0 Potatoes, 1711 b. 0 0 0 4 Hay, per et...—. 0 8 EDINBURGH MEAI The supply of Oatmeal at this sold readily, at lower prices. Per Sack of 2801 b. Imp. First Oatmeal ,£l 10 0 Second ditto 1 8 0 Barleymeal 1 5 0 Peasemeal 1 6 0 Pot Barley—No. 1, per cwt. 12 L M A RKET.---ciet. 23. day's market was but small, and Per Stone of 14th. Imp g First Oatmeal £ 0 1 6 Second ditto 0 1 6 B a rleymeal....... 6 Peasemeal 0 I .-2d, 145.-3 d. 10s.—Paai I 20s• GLASGOW CORN 1%1 ARKET.—Oct. 4 2 . 'The supplies of Grain are moderat e, and the market firm for all descriptions, and Wheat is rather clearer. _. Wheat, per 240th. s. d. s. d. Oats, per 2641 b. S. d, s. d,,. British, old 2301028 0 Iris h ----- new - u Canada, free 26 0 28 0 Beans, per 2601 b. Irish Scottish EnglishpeaPease, e, s c. . . 0. . .. t. . t. . i. . s. . i .i . . .. ... .. .. Barley, per 3201b. 1 1 06 S 6 0 0 1 1 9 ! 00a ! 3 English Scottish Irish MEETINGS OF CREDITORS, AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL-STREET• (From the London Gazette.) u• TO-MORROW, Oct 30. S ist 11 J. Clarke, Margaret-street, Spa-fields, ginger -beer-dealer ,11 J. B. Stanley, King-street, T ower -hill, ship-chandler....: 2 1 ? W. Rowley, Great Queen- s t reet, saddlers'-ironmonger" 1 J. Channon, Hertford H ouse Piccadilly, dealer.. ........• , t G. Phillips , Bishopsgate-strea Within, ironmonger ...... ; lu W. Brind, Brook green, Hammersmith, bilL.b ro ker ....... 1 11 R. G. Bowyer, Brick-lane, 01d-street, grocer ......« ...... ' . n 0; DIVIDENDS. R. Thompson and Co., Sun-court, Cornhill, merchants ..... ''... IS J. Ford, Bath, bookseller.. 1$ .... . ...... , l' W. Elphick, West Ham, farmer ............................ .-• ........ BIRTHS. On the 26th inst. Mrs. Whittem, Little Queen-stree_ t, , coin's-inn-fields, of a son, which survived only a few On the 24th inst. at Hackney, Mrs. J. M. Morris, of a:," 0 . On the 26th inst. at the Vicarage, Woking, Surrey, "" Farley, of a daughter. DIED., • P ird' On the 27th inst. at Richmond, Surrey, Mr. Allen Bli the '7sth year of his age. i/l' ie° On the 24th inst. at Highgate, after a long and painfu l „ Miss Elizabeth Teulon, late of Hackney. De r° On the 23d inst. at Aspall Cottage, Suffolk, Charles g .•° Esq., formerly of Black Motley, Essex, aged 71. ,111 0 On the 21th inst. of apoplexy, Elizabeth, wife of N' Mortlock, Esq. i of Meldreth, Cambrigeshie. On the 28th nst. in Giltspur-street, Mr. r James Dayie , • p iadr ° On the 25th inst. Lieutenant Thomas Keighly, of the Engineers, in the 18th year of his age. O S PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY MURDO YOUNG, - a SUN OFFIcs, 112, STRAND, UNDQN! MARRIED. Or e l; On the 25th inst. at St. Pancras New Church, Albert e , Esq., surgeon, of Upper Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-5q11.;,,, Mary Anne, only daughter of the late Samuel Brierly, s""" Brighton. 0 0 1 On the 27th inst. at St. Peter's, Walworth, Mr. Charles itc of Great Surrey-street, to Eliza, eldest daughter of t he Edward Andrews, LL.D. of Beresford-street, Walworth.