The Sun. — London, England, 1832-10-11 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF Try. PUBLIC JOURNALS. We are much gratified at the promising aspect of the financial accounts for the quarter ended yesterday, the 10th of October, which will be found in another column. Even those who an ticipated an improvement in the revenue of the last quarter, as compared with the corresponding period of last year, must allow that their most sanguine hopes have been greatly exceeded by the actual result. The excess of the last three months is 696,8471., or nearly 700,0001. above the income of the corresponding three months nf 1831. This improvement extends not to one branch of national income alone,—it arises from no accidental circumstance, like an increase of the duties on corn, but it pervades the whole sources of our revenue, and seems to depend on general and permanent caues. The Customs and the Excise share it in nearly. equal propor tions. The assessed taxes Ica Ve likewise in creased, and only two of the considerable branches of our national income show any deficiency. The increase on the Customs is 356,3881. ; on the Excise, 297,591/. ; and on the assessed taxes, 116,383/. The deficiency is 23,986/. on stamps, and 33,0001. on the Post-office. The latter is easily accounted for from the general election, or the more active correspondence incident to a time of political excitement, which swelled the Post-office revenue last year. On the whole year, or between the 10th of October last year and the 10th inst., there has been a falling off' of 327,576/., a sum which will no doubt be fully compensated by the improved revenue of the en suing quarter. The result to which we have al luded, and to which we cannot now refer at greater length, is most gratifying, as it falsifies more than one sinister prediction, and gives us the assurance that if all the great interests of the nation are not in the most thriving condition, at least its vital resources remain unimpaired. When we couple this state of the revenue with the reduction effected in the expenditure, the prospect becomes more cheering. The national gain from this source in the present quarter may be estimated at 500,000/ ; more than making up for the deficiency on the revenue of the whole ; and actually raising the improvement of this quarter, over the corresponding quarter of la , t year, to more than a million sterling.— Times. Our attention has been called to a paper which has been enclosed to us from Marlbo rough, describing, as it does, a case of much apparent oppression. Mr. Lucy, the writer of this appeal " to the inhabitants of Marlborough and its vicinity," and a tenant of Lord Ayles y, complains of having received from his Lordship's agent a notice to quit the premises he held under him, on no provocation, as he al leges, but that of' having, in the course of his trade as a printer, printed off such political handbills as were brought to him ; the object of many of which, he acknowledges, was "to weaken Lord Aylesbury's influence over the election of Members of Parliament." Mr. Lucy, he him self affirms, has no vote for the borough ; so that, even according to the criminal jurispru dence of Newark,—the classic soil of election tyranny,—he had done nothing, and could do nothing, to earn his domestic ruin at the bands of a vindictive landlord. It is true that Mr. Lucy had been charged with printing many (anonymous) handbills which appeared,—and some of them, no doubt, sufficiently offensive, — lint this poor man declares, in the most solemn manner, and is ready to do so on his oath, that the charge is utterly without foundation,—that he never printed a single handbill to which his name, as printer, was not annexed,—nor ever been instrumental in transmitting or circulating any, but in the performance of his duty as post master, which obliged him to forward whatever should be sent through the office. Now, it is obvious, that had every slander put forth against Mr. Lucy been an unquestionable truth, and had he not merely possessed a vote into the bargain, but actually voted against Lord Ailes bury's candidate, nothing could justify the spite ful retaliation inflicted upon the Postmaster on his Lordship's alleged authority,—nothing, save the example of a Noble Duke, which will not, we presume, be quoted by Lord Ailesbury as a de fence. How much more flagrant, then, was this persecution, when it turns out that Mr. Lucy had been falsely and shamefully libelled,—that be had never printed the obnoxious handbills imputed to him, nor circulated them, except ex- officio, and by compulsion ! We read of suck proceedings with more grief than anger. It is far from our wish—it cannot be the wish of uly reason b'e or upright Englishman—to see the body oflanded proprietorsbecome objects of popu lar hatred, or the persons of the peerage, forming a large portion of that proprietary, held in aversion by the middle classes throughout England—a mis fortune pregnant with one "still more serious, viz., the exposure of their constitutional func tions to a share of that strong sentiment of dis psi, which will have been provoked by the abuse of thgif. landlord power. If Noblemen be anxious to strengthen and prop up their " or der," they muta attain the end as much through the attachment of their respective neighbour hoods to themselves as individuals and their fa milies. as through a conscientious and public spirited fulfilment of the duty of legislators and judges. The tide at this moment sets not in faviur of either the aristocracy or the temporal church. The age for furnishing sops to the imagination, that men's reasoning faculties might be lulled or diverted, has gone by, and names, anti forms, and glittering externals, which served to dazz;e the great bulk of our forefathers for centuries, are now listened to or gazed at with other emotions than those of reverence and won der. Even the worn artisan, thirsting for relaxa tion, turns away from the most elaborate politi cal pageants, mutters his dislike of their le vity, his denial of their use, his anger at their extravagance, and his distrust of or con tempt for the actors in them. A dry and stern temper of mind like this is not to be safely trifled with ; much less ought it to be exasperated by grave and solid provocations. We scarcely think that at such an hour a considerate clergyman would press with even unwonted pertinacity for his arrear of tithe, or that a nobleman who could see a Nail before him would choose just this particular crisis as the best for bolstering up an odious candidate at an election by insisting on a double rent from his tenants,—their free-agency in addition to their money. On the other hand, let us once again impress it on the Government, that if' they desire to rule the storm, they must ride with it and upon it. They must themselves begin by separating uses from abuses. If they would preserve the church, they must reform the condition of the clergy. If they would preserve the existing distribution of lay property, against which there is much, though ill-fOunded, cla mour, they will take some active and efficient steps to prevent or mitigate the corrupt perver sion by men who own the soil, of the rights over others-, which enure to them through that pos session-- Times. The manner in which the whole population of Scotland may be said to have exhibited their sorrow on the death of Sir Walter Scott, and the promptitude of all, and especially the higher classes, who are most able, in coming forward to raise a perpetual monument to his memory, reflect the highest honour upon them. It pre sents a national tribute paid where a national tribute is so justly due. We should have been the first to upbraid the want of such a feeling ; and would, therefore, be among the first to hail its salutary presence. It is truly refreshing to the mind occupied in the turmoil and constant contemplation of mere political subjects . to be drawn aside, even for a moment, to view at once the amiable, nay perfect character, accom panied by the splendid genius of Scott. It is rarely indeed that such an object presents itself, or that the lamp of life expires after having presented, from first to last, so pure, so steady, so brilliant, (would we could say so unextin guishable !) a flame. But the mighty magician is laid low ; the mind which has done more than any other of the present age to delight, inform, and humanize mankind, is now fled :o the ream of kindred spirits, leaving to his surviving coun trymen only the painfully-gratifying task of do ing all that can be done to perpetuate their sense of a memory and a genius which can never (lie. Though our Northern brethren have a- just right to take precedence upon this occasion, we need not say the pleasing task of honouring the memory of Scott must not be confined to them. As his genius was universal, so must the im perishable trophies to his memory be; and we trust there will not be a hand, capable of contri buting even its mite to such an object, whose contribution will be withheld. Let even our children live to say, " I was among those who reared that statue." While every pen of any literary note in the kingdom is employed on this one topic, we feel it alike presumptuous and unnecessary to say more upon a subject on hich all men's minds are bent. All then that we would add is, let the call which has been thus promptly made be as promptly obeyed ; and let Great-Britain show, upon this occasion, to the world, that her inhabitants, though occupied so largely in commercial pursuits and political ob jects, are feelingly alive to the claims of genius ; and that while they can hand down her states men and warriors to posterity, as objects of un dying honour and applause, a large space in their Temple of Fame lies open for such trim scendant claims as those which Sir Walter Scott has left upon the applause and admiration of a grateful country.—Morning Herald. The " latest " last day—namely, the 10th of October, for the settlement of the Belgico-Dutch question, has expired, and, like all the former " last days," has left the question as complicated and unsettled as ever. Some of our Ministerial contemporaries anticipate great things in relation to a new " final settlement of the matters in dispute between " obstinate" William and com - plaisant Leopold, from the Cabinet Council which is convened for to-day. It is time, indeed, that the curtain should fall On this solemn farce. Europe has had quite enough of that ridiculous oscillation of our diplomacy between peace and war which has signalised the interference of oty: Government in a questio❑ which it should have allowed the parties inirnediately interested to have decided inter se, and it would long ago have been decided. Destructive, indeed, has this absurdly-protracted negotiation been to the interests of commerce, and to all regular busi ness. At one time couriers are seen traversing the political stage from all quarters with packages of protocols ; at another, armies and fleets move on only to— move off again. This moment the immediate approach of a " final settlement " is announced from " unquestionable authority " the next, the trumpet of the ordeal of battle is flourished, and the cannoneer is seen with the lighted match at the touch-hole, only to burn priming and make a little smoke ! While the English Government is duped into this children's play by the crafty Holy Alliance, that despotic confederacy are pursuing their own despotic schemes on the continent—for he is blind who does not see that all the minor interests of the Governments of Russia, Austria, and Prussia are merged, for the present, in the one grand object of putting down political liberty throughout Europe. We al ways looked upon the renewed connection of our Government with the Holy Alliance as a most unfortunate connection.. In entering into it our Whig rulers sinned against know ledge," for not only did they understand what were the despotic principles and ambitious in tentions of the members of that Autocratic Confederacy, when out of office, but they took good care that the people of England should understand them too. What eloquent denun ciations did they not pour forth against the ma chinations of the "legitimates" while the Tories held the reins of Government ! What praises slid they not bestow upon Mr. Canning when he severed the connection with the Holy Al liance, and, without asking permission of all or any of the military Dictators of Europe—with out submitting to a Conference, or manufac turing a protocol—without sending an Ambas sador Extraordinary to St. Petersburgh to be feasted and wheedled, declared the South Ame rican Republics independent. When our Mi nisters display in their foreign policy the decision and firmness which the crisis requires, and which becomes the station and character which England ought to maintain, we will rejoice at it more sincerely than their flatterers. It will not do to make the Cossacks the legislators of Eu rope. Let the fate of Germany instruct the world !—Morning Herald. The war seems now begun in good earnest against the church. The Protestant Dissenters throughout the country are willing to contribute their fair share to the burdens of the State ; but they are unwilling to be taxed for a church to which they do not belong, and from which they derive no advantage. They claim no superiority over their brethren of the sect of the Episcopal Church ; and they do not see why their brethren should have any superiority over theth. They build and repair their own chapels, and pay their own Ministers, and they think it is but fair that the members of the Episcopal sect should build and repair their own churches, and support their own clergy. The present time is unquestiona bly most fitvourable to the object of the Dissenters. There are now few of those who approveof the doc trines of the established sect who are not as sen sible of the glaring abuses in the establishment as the Dissenters can possibly be. The people of England generally have become convinced that the abuses in the establishment render the clergy the patrons of all other abuses. They see in the clergy the enemies of all improvement, the drag on the wheels of the State machine. They will never forgive them for the dangers to which they exposed the country during the progress of the Mom contest ; and, indeed, the clergy take care, by their continued hostility to the cause of good government, that the impression produced by their conduct during the struggle for Reform should never be effaced. The church of England is a costly establishment. The people are at least entitled to demand, that for what they pay so much, a corresponding re turn ought to be made. They look to the esta blishment, and they ask, what return does it make for the cost - at which it is upheld ? In the Liveipool Albion, received yesterday, we observe an attempt at an estimate of the numbers of the Dissenters ; and the inference is drawn, from the numbers without the pale of the church, that the establishment does not answer its end. " Few (says our Liverpool contemporary) in this c.iuntry would, we believe, trouble their heads about the abstract hearing of the subject of the Church Establishment, if such establishment proved its capability to answer the end for which it was designed. The age of theorizing and of speculation has passed away. Now every subject and every plan must be submitted to the test of Cui Lono? The real question at issue en the subject before us is, sim ply, whether the Church of England has, with the ample means at her disposal, done what ought reasonably to have been expected at her hands for the spiritu ml amelioration of the population of this kingdom ? This is the point to be discussed, and which must inevitably occupy the early attention of our reformed Parliament. We hope we may not be deemed pursuing an irrelevant course, if we attempt to offer some data by which our readers may be enabled to form an opinion as to how far the Established Church of this country has answered the end for which she was in stituted. Our calculations on this subject, general as they must occasionally he, cannot be expected to be accurate ; but, we believe, from all the observations we have been ah!e to bestow, as well as from the state of things in our own neighbourhood, that our readers will find the follow ing statement to be much below the m irk as to the actu ml religious destitution of a large proportion of our country m n. " In the following calculations we will confine ourselves t , the condition of England and Wales. Scotland cannot well be included in our investigation, inasmuch as the bulk of her population belong to a distinct establishment; and with much less reason can Ireland be enumerated in the research, where five-sevenths of its inhabitants profess the Ramish religion. The population of England and the Principality was, by the last census, nearly 14,000,000: " Of these, the adult members of the Wes leyan Methodists amount to about 210,000 Supposing one third of these to be heads of fimilies, with 4 to a family, we shall have . _ the additional number of 280,000 And if we compute the occasional hearers on their Ministry to amount to twice that number, we shall have to add 9BOOOO 1,470,000 Making a total of newly a million and a half connecte.l with this denomination of pro fessing Christians alone. The numerous classes of Independents and Baptists will, at least, equal the amount just given 1,470,000 Add the Roman Catholics and other sects, who will amount to, at least, an equal num ber 1,470,000 4,410,000 Ilak'ng a grand total of about four millions and a half, under the spiritual jurisdiction of the various bodies of Dissenters. But this is, after al!, a very inadequate view of the case. We ought, in order to estimate the number of our population actually un connected with the Established Church, to add to the above aggregate those who do not belong to any religious per•uasion.— The number of these it is not easy to deter mine, but if we may instance the case of our own town, as a specimen of what may be inferred as to the kingdom generally, we should think our estimate much under rated when we computer!. those " sheep having no shepherd" at one-fourth of our whole population, say ...... 3,500,000 7,910,000 " We have, then, considerably more than one-half of our whole population unconnected with the Estal.lishei Church of this country, that church comprising among its hearers only about six out of the foutteen millions in England and Wales. It does not consist with our present impose to enter into the causes why so great a number of our population sht.uld be found without her pale. Causes for such a s•a'e of things there doubtless are, and of many or wh'cli Churchmen themselves now seem very conscious; and, could they be brought heartily to seek their imtne dia.e removal, the CArcle of England, if she could not re• claitn tho , e who have departed from her fold, would, at least, command their respect and f,rbearance." We have reason for believing that the number of Dissenters is considerably under stated in the above estimates. But, assuming that it is near the truth, it must be borne in mind that the Dissenters, in all places where the population is active and enlightened, form a majority of 3 or 4to 1. The return of burials in Manches ter exhibits a proportion between Churchmen and Dissenters which will be found in most of our large towns. The population of the Church of England is to be found in the dark and igno r.int regions of the country. Wherever educa tion and industry are found, there dissent pre vails. In truth, the Dissenters, as has been shown in a curious volume by Israel Worsley, were the establishers of nearly all our manufac tures, and to this day nave the lead in all indus trious undertakings. How is it that they who are without the pale of the Church are the citi zens who most contribute to the prosperity of the State ? If they who do not belor.g to the establiThed sect are the most enlightened and industrious of our citizens, does not that prove that the Established Church is less efficacious in instructing the people than the Dissenting Churches ? • And may not, then, the Dis senters avail themselves of their superiority, and say, why should we, who possess al ready what is proved by its fruits to be good, be forced to pay for what we do not ourselves re quire, and what benefits no part of the people ? The Liverpool Albion does not hesitate to ascribe the regard for religion which exists in the country, chiefly to the exertions of the Dissenters : " To the Dissenters (says the miter) we owe much of that morality and reverence for sacred things which are left amongst us. They have, unaided by any provision from the State, and amidst the misrepresentation and the odium to which their efforts to promote the spiritual in struction of their fellow -countrymen have been continually subj'-cted, pursued their beneficial labours through evil re port and good report. To them it is owing, we believe, mainly, that England has not, before now, been pervaded by the poison of infidelity, and by a general indifference, nn the part of all classes, for the solemnities and obser vances _of religion, similar to that which prevails in some of the neighbouring countries of the Continent." They certainly have given to the middle classes the serious character, which of late years has become almost universal. Our contem porary (the Times) justly observes, " Perhaps, taken altogether, they are the most sagacious por tion of our countrymen." If the landlords were to compare their various mortgages, this truth would, we believe, be established to their satisfaction. We have heard it mentioned that the Dissenters have only grown with the growth of the population in general. But thi s i s a mis take. We have as good evidence to the con trary as can well be desired. Sir John D a l r ymple has given us, in the Appendix t o hi s A nna l s, a curious Report, framed in consequence of an inquiry instituted by King William at the Revo lution, to ascertain the proportions between Churchmen, Dissenters, and Papists, which was found in his chest. According to this Report, in the Province of Canterbury the Conformists were 2 123,362, the Non-Conformists 93,151, the Papists 11,878 ; in the Province of York, the Conformists 353,892, the Non-Conformists 15,525, the Papists 1,978. So that the pro portion of Conformists to the Non-Conformists was 22 4-sths to 1 ; the Conformists to the Papists were as 178 10-13ths to 1. The Con formists and Non-Conformists together to Papists, 186 2-3ds to 1. This is merely the summary, but the Report goes minutely into the proportions in the different Dioceses. But the Church of England has been altogether of this world ; and are we to wonder, that in the affairs of another world it should, both in England and Ireland, have so signally failed ?—Morning Cbronicle. We present to our readers, in another co lumn, the usual statement of the financial resources and expenditure of the year ended yesterday. It is, on the whole, much more favourable than we had any reason to anticipate. On the year, there is a small decrease, amounting to 327,5761., but the quarter is highly promising, and exhi bits an increase of no less than 696,8471. The decrease on the year is easily accounted for, partly by reductions of duties which have come into operation during its course ; partly by the prevalence of the cholera ; partly by the unset tled state of our foreign relations ; and more than all these, perhaps, by the state of agitation in which the country was kept by the opposition of the Tories to the Reform Bill. The evil arising from this latter source may be readily seen in the falling off in the stamps, the Post-office, and the miscellaneous department ; a falling off which was most unlikely to have taken place, had the public mind been at ease, and general confidence existed among the different classes of the community. It is most gratifying, however, to perceive that the increase which has taken place during the last quarter, has occurred in those departments which speak most in favour of the increasing energies and capabilities of the people—that is to say, in the Customs, the increased revenue in which proves beyond all possibility of doubt our in creased consumption of articles of foreign pro duce ; and in the Excise, which shows that the home manufactures have not been slighted. In these two departments of the public revenue, and in the taxes, there has been a total increase of nearly three quarters of a million ; and we con sider ourselves, in consequence, warranted to set down the result of the present quarter as highly favourable and gratifying. In the expenditure, also, there is some reason for congratula tion ; the amount having considerably de creased during the last six months; but still there is nothing in the present financial condition of the country not to induce us to pray that the Go vernment may not relax in its exertions to reduce the public expenditure. In the army, in the ordnance, and in the miscellaneous departments there is still much to be done. It is almost be yond all endurance that, in a time of profound peace, the country should be paying at the rate of nearly fourteen millions a year for the support of an army, a navy, and an ordnance, whose services are not needed to defend us from foreign aggression. There must be great and ample reductions in two of these departments. We grudge not the navy anything that may be re quired for its maintenance in a due state of vigour and efficiency—it cannot, in fact, be too vigorous and efficient ; but there is no one, however liberal in his notions of public expen diture, who can defend such an expenditure as that of nearly seven millions for a standing army, and but little short of two millions for a train of ordnance to wait upon it. The thing is ano malous in a time of peace, and must b put an end to, as we are confident that it will be by a Reformed Parliament. There are also various other departments in which reduction is impe ratively called for, and of which we shall endea vour to take notice to-morrow.—Morn.Advert. The incessant hostility of the Times News paper to all our existing institutions is every day more strongly exemplified. Not satisfied with the inroads which have been already made upon the Constitution—not satisfied with having seen the Peerage proscribed, and their existence as a deliberative body rendered unavailing—it now proceeds to calumniate the Church of England, and would sacrifice the means of its support to gratify the mobocracy of the country. We do not pretend to know who may be the writers of all the violent ar ticles which have appeared in the columns of our Contemporary ; but it is impossible not to notice a letter which appeared in that Paper yesterday, and which we have given in our last page. That letter contains a direct appeal to the people to pull down or otherwise anni hilate the Established Church ; and, the better to effect this unhallowed object, the Times calls upon the body of Dissenters as one man to resist the payment of tithes to the Protestant Clergy. How very willingly the exhortation wwlphei Protestant tini el nbys,get we je a vt t oo t e uufi nd rrn.Leilddae e sty. tl Legislature, can The utl erpecp,po be b mistaken tii Iseosdewn Dissenters, e t iel t ra le aNi, doubted self-styled the n ity gratefully turn round upon it, and only ask for the destruction of the national religion ! This black ingratitude, this foul turpitude, finds its advocates in some men who call themselves Englishmen and well wishers to the Church of England. If the means of their support are to be forcibly taken from the Clergy, we should like to know what other species of property can be secure ? The public creditors, like the landed proprietors, must, at last, bestir themselves, and make a determined effort to keep off the approaching danger. They must act promptly and deci sively, or their fate and that of their country will be soon decided. The Church has been hitherto considered as one of the main pillars o f the State, and, if it be now uprooted, the destruction of the State itself must follow as certainly as effect will follow cause. With the destruction of Protestanism will follow that of Monarchy, and the place of both will be sup plied by anarchy, revolution, and irreligion. The Crown will be held but as a mere bauble, and the altar as unworthy the respect or reverence of' their majesties the people. What deeper in the deep of evil may next ensue is not difficult of conjecture,. but we are unwilling for the present to a nticipate it. We long ago predicted what would result from the measure which has been recently carried, and every day convinces us that we took the proper view of the subject. Every coming hour furnishes additional light upon the objects intended by that measure, and it will not he long before an astonished nation will wake to its madness and delusions. " The Dissenters are a shrewd body," says the Times, and we n ever doubted it, any more than we doubted that the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts was striking such a blow at the existence of the Church of England as it could with difficulty re cover.—Morning Post. The Board of Admiralty having expressed its very great admiration of the beautiful symmetry and stand ing of the sails of the Water Witch yacht, have ordered that the sails of the men•of-war shall in future be cut in a similar manner. CORONER'S INQUEST UPON MARY ANNE PEARCE, alias LADY BARRYAJORE. Yesterday afternoon, an inquest was holden before Mr. STIRLING, at Mr. Johnson's, the Red Lion and Still, Drury-lane, upon view of the body of this un fortunate woman, whose name has so often appeared in the police reports of the metropolis. Norton, a policeman, about 3 o'clock on Sunday afternoon, saw the deceased very drunk in Long acre, surrounded, as usual, by a large crowd. He took her into custody, and she went very quietly with him to the Station-house, where she was locked up until 9 the next morning, when Mr. Thomas dis charged her. The CORONER—Had she any thing to sleep upon, or any covering. Policeman—No, Sir; nothing of that kind is allowed. CORONER—I think it would not be amiss to al low some covering. Did she complain of being ill when you took her to the Station-house ?—Yes, Sir; and for the last few times that I have seen her she has complained of a pain in the chest and ex treme weakness. CORONER—I think there ought to be better treat ment provided for persons who are brought in for drunkenness. It is an act of indiscretion only, and ought certainly not to be punished by incarceration for so many hours in a cold cell. A surgeon was called, who stated it as his opinion that the deceased died from suffocation occasioned by the excessive use of spirituous liquors. There were marks about her body which were very likely to have been occasioned by falling about the streets, as she was known to do when drunk. There could not be the slightest reason for supposing that she came un fairly by her death. Richard Bevan had the care of the house, No. 8, Charles -street, Drury-lane, for the last eight days, during which the deceased lodged there. She com plained of a pain in her chest, and said she knew her time was nigh at hand. She came home, after be ing discharged from the Station-house on Monday morning, and remained in the kitchen for several hours, bemoaning, " in terms that would melt a heart of stone" (such were the witness's words), her sad condition, but at the same time expressing ht - r conviction that her sufferings would not be of long duration, " for" said she " I know that I am dying, and may G—d forgive me I never wil fully injured any one. I have been more sinned against than sinning.' " This quotation she re peated several times, and at length was prevailed on to go to bed. In the course of the night the unfor tunate creature was found dead in her btd by a woman named Margaret Smith, who occasionally slept in the same room. The Jury, upon this evidence, returned a verdict of " Died a natural death, accelerated by the exces sive use of ardent spirits." _ The CORONER observed that no one who knew any thing of the deceased could regret, but would rather rejoice at, this visitation of Providence. In his (the Coroner's) capacity of Clerk of the Visiting Magistrates of the House of Correction and New Prison, Cletkenwell, he had often had opportunities of observing the conduct of " her Ladyship," as she ‘sas called, and he never saw any thing more ex emp;ary. He also happened to know something of the history of her early life, gathered chiefly from her own lips, when he had occasion to see her in prison. Her statement was, that when at hoarding school she accidentally became acquained with Lord Barrymore white walking out with the other pupils, one of whom fell into a pond, and was rescued by his Lordship from drowning. The conduct of hi Lirdship upon the occasion struck her youthful anl romantic fancy, and possessing at that time a tine form and considerable beauty of face, attracted the attention of the libertine Lord, and the became an easy prey. It had been stated that she swam a considerable distance to join the Noble Lord when she eloped, but this was not quite true, the fact was, however, that she waded through a large pond breast high upon that occasion. The &cased, when found dead, had in her pocket two-pence halfpenny and a gin baffle, showing in a striking manner " the ruling passion strong in death." SUPREME COURT of BOMBAY, MiRCIT 23. ATROCIOUS MURDER. Bhican, a Muhomedan, and butcher by trade, was arraigned for the murder of his neighbour, Chim tnun Bangur, whom he stabbed to death in his own house. The prisoner is described as about 23 years of age, of a dark complexion, tall stature, and vigorous build ; his bearing was firm, almost contemptuous, and his whole demeanour during the trial, which lasted till near midnight, displayed a character quick sighted, impatient, fearless, obstinate, and scornful. On his arraignment he pleaded Not guilty, and, challenging the whole native panel, demanded to be tried by a Jury of white men. Twelve European Jurors having been impannelled and sworn, The witnesses for the Crown clearly proved that the pristiner entered the deceased's house in the night to rob it. The deceased awoke, alarmed his wife, and endeavoured to intercept the retreat of the thief, who stabbed him with a knife, and the un fortuna; e man fell into the arms of his wife, whose cries brought persons to the spot. They found a cummerbund and turban, which the dying man re cognised as the prisoner's, adding that he knew the man who had stabbed him—it was Bhican, his neighbour and caste brother. The murderer and his victim were members of the same religion, El lowed the same trade, and dwelt in the same street, and lived upon terms of intimacy, if not friendship. In his defence the prisoner reasoned somewhat ingeniously upon the improbabilities of the evi dence; declared the witnesses were actuated by revenge; appealed to his character and to his be haviour before the Magistrate. " When I was exr mined before the Coroner and the Magistrate," he observed, " those gentlemen marked me well; they can declare that my eyes were not bloodshot, that I had no appearance of a murderer. Tne blood mounts to the eyes of him who has shed blood—the expression of a murderer's countenance can never be mistaken : ask those gentlemen whether my fea tures wore that expression." After a charge of two hours from the CHIEF JUS TICE, the Jury in ten minutes found the prisoner Guilty. His LORDSHIP passed sentence of Death, after a solemn and affecting address, which, however, was quite lost upon the culprit; for, from the moment he saw the black cap assumed, he commenced a strain of defiance and contempt so loud and out rageous as frequently to drown both the Judge and the interpreter. Before his execution, which took place on the 26th, his previous violence gave place to a mild and decorous, but firm demeanour. At the scaffold he was pressed to make a confession, when he de clared as follows :—" I was not the man who mur dered Chimmun, but I was present ; I know who who did the deed, but will not tell ; there were 10 of us at his house that night ; our object was to rob it; the turban which was found was mine, but I am not the murderer." On being again urged, he said, " What is the use of asking me ? Whether guilty or innocent, I am about to die and I am prepared; I have made my peace with God l" The last words lie pronounced with his eyes raised up to liea,en, and a smile upon his lips. HISTORY OP THE ENGLISH GENTRY.- A work of complete novelty, and of very great interest and importance, is about to appear from the pen of Mr. BURKE, the well known author of the Dictionaries of the Peerage and Baronetage. We allude to a History of the Commoners of the United Kingdom, the first part of which is to be published on the Ist of November. The want of a work of this nature, furnishing an account of alb the Families constituting the Gentry of the United Kingdom, has long been extensively felt and acknowledged ; mil it is expected that the present undertaking, founded on the most authentic sources, and aided by the most ai siduous researches, will be found to accomplish in the most satisfactory manner the important o'Jject required. Adair's 17 9 Dean's Primrose 18 3 East Percy... 18 0 Holywell. IS 0 Ord's Redhugh 17 3 18 0 West Hartley 19 6 19 Walls End Boundary..... 18 0 Walls End Elgin Ditto Bewicke and C 0... 21 6 lAangennech 26 , Wall: End Callerton 17 6 Ravenhead Walls End Goforth 20 9 Silkstone Field and C 0... 11 ' Walls End Heaton--- 21 0 Stone Coal Shears & 24 Ships arrived since last market-day, S. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK --- Per Quarter. s. Abingdon 62 81 31 43 22 30 38 " Wheat.oe. s. to Beans Andover 73 80 :37 41 Birminghain—..... 56 66 40 44 24 32 Britlport 56 74 32 36 26 30 Cirencester 50 62 26 88 21 25 36 Naringdon 54 86 36 40 26 34 Guildford 48 74 23 32 26 35 54 83 30 35 i 20 30 Hereford 84 92 44 48 Z Highworth 62 80 32 42 28 34 Maidenhead 56 68 34 44 22 30 36 ' 56 61 39 Reading,_ 65 70 31 47 21 27 34 Salisbury. 5O 64 30 36 21 25 36 f i Southampton 54 58 33 40 28 32 Stroud 64 78 37 38 i 22 32 'fewkesbury 65 74 30 42 130 38 Uxbridge 48 74 37 40 23 33 Wantage 5B 80 27 43 21 30 34 ,; Warminster 48 64 33 36 22 27 34 ; Windsor 59 21 22 Worcester—........ 65 66 44 51 31 34 LEWES MARKET.—Oct. 9. White Wheat (per quarter) #2 12 oto .B 'lB Red ditto 2 10 0 2 14 0 Barley 1 5 0 16 0 Oats, New 1 0 0 1 3 0 Pease 1 13 0 1 16 0 Oil Cake. New 12 0 0 per thousand. LEWES MARKET.— White Wheat (per quarter) £2 Red ditto Barley Oats, New --.....--....... Pease Oil Cake. New............. CHELTENHAM Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d Wheat Barley 4 0 5 6 Oats 4 0 4 3 Beans Pease 5 0 7 0 Hay 3l. lOs MA RKET.—Oct. 9. _ _ Per lb. Beef - Mutton Veal Pork Lauib to 3/. 15s. Od. per ton fl. to 1 6 / 61 11 6i 7 ~ HULL MARKET—Oct. 9 Wheat, Old —s. 50s. COs New —s. 38s 413. :, Foreign —s. 50s 545. ln bond... —s. —s. "'",: Oats, Poland —s. 20s. 22s Old —s. —s. -- Small or Feed..... —s. 18s. 20s Foreign —s. 15s. I6s Z s s s .. -- sss 30s. Rapeseed, i: Barley, Norf. & Suf.... —s. 31s. 345. Linc. & Wold —s. 31 ' —s. —s. _32ss. —s. F0reign,,,,,,,,, F F o o r r e e i i g g n n ...... — 2- 4:. 30530 325... 4 Foreign Beans Pease, White —8 365. 38s. Grey 'faros Rapeseed, in Lioild none. Free, per last 24/. 251„, DUMFRIES Mt . 5. d. s. d. a. d. '' 1 6 0 to 7 II Butter, I6 oz 3 6 4 0 Egg 4, dozen ....... 2 2 2 6 Beef, per lb. 0 3 0 3 4 Mutton 0 4 C I I 8 1 9 Veal 0 4 01 I 8 20, Quartern Loaf 0 7 RKETS.—Oct. 3, Wheat, Imp. Bush Barley ...... Oats .......... .•.• Flour, 141 b. Oatmeal Potatoes, cwt. ANECDOTE OF LOUIS PHILIPPE A . , 1411 O'G— I'll give y ou a samp l e o f w h at citilw royalty is subject to. An Irish gentleman, of rath er „j conspicuous politics, haunted P ar i s l ast w i nter, and Sri well received. Amongst o th er a t tent i ons, a car d the halls and concerts at the Tuileries never failed to 'r+ left at his hotel. However, having been engaged at aCO vivial party, the p ersonage arr i ve d so l ate at t h e palace, tu, although the festivities had not q u it e cease d, t h e royal pwf, had retired. Our Irishman was indignant at such nee!, such an exceeding lack of courtesy, and he vented lae, Cie indignation which he felt on fi n di ng th e M onarc h ", present to receive him. He talk e d so bi g an d so der of his disappointment, that some of the officers in weal imagined that the wight hail something important communicate. They in consequence aught the Mon in his cabinet or dressing-room, and mentioned to him circumstance. The debonnaire Monarch did not besiti to re-habit himself in his state coat, re-enter the s rooms, seek out Mr. —, and ask him in plain, courtly language, his business or his wishes. P o or 0 was struck of a heap, surprised, but not altogether out big self-possession. " Oh! I merely wanted to a sk mission to shoot through your Majesty's forest of VII I ' Coterets," replied the nonchalant Hibernian. Loll PHILIPPE purpled with anger; and with aje ne rag eons la donner, " You shall have no such p e e r nistr . Sir !" the Monarch once more retired.—M e t ropo lit a tt• When POTEMKIN g a v e hi s extraor di na ry) magnificent fete to CATHERINE, at the Tauridan Ptt there were in the conservatory fountains filled with ell pagne and claret, into which were introduced silver po for serving the company with these wines. Yesterday afternoon, about 3 o'clock, a c ll , l was heard screaming in one of the coal barges lying ° P wharf at the end of Adam.street, Adelphi ; its cries tracted many pers tris to the spot. The only reply the thing could make was, " Brother Billy in the ant' . brother Billy in the water." A diligent search was mediately made, hut the tide, which was running d rapidly at the time, had carried him under one of barges. A few minutes brought ti e mother, a po or man named HARRIS, residing in Off-alley, to the Her distress at the loss of her child, a fine boy, abou t years old, was truly heart-rending. MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.—Under this h we noticed in our last, the circumst meet' under which body of a male child, said to be still-born, had bee° at the house of Mr. BECKETT, the sexton of St. China. An inquest was held on Tuesday, a t the of the Sheffield Poor-house, when a shocking diser, took place, viz.: That on an average t h e sexton re°' stx still-born children every month, without makiPe inquiry as to the parents to. the medical men who O e n , on the births ! And this, be it rec o ll ec t e d, a t St. r: 4 11 atone. How many may be taken to the other ch°ol, yards can only be known by a publi c i nves ti ga tion t fi ought to be immediately made. The Coroner said Pi l oti was glad two of the churchwardens were upon the lei: and hoped that they would me a proper register 1% 49 0 of children brought for interment, when they were 0 , 110 , be still-horn, as well as of the parents who belong them. As it was wished by the Jury that the P e i t , ' who took the child should b e di scovere d, t h e inques t , adjourned for a fortnight, for the purpose of constables an opportunity of making inquiry ab oll matter.—Sheffield Iris. , SUDDEN DEATH O F A CLERGYN'-` Yesterday an inquest w as h e ld at t h e D evons hire , Devonshire-street, Portland-place, on the body of the THOMAS STANLEY, a Dissenting Minister, and P r at Hinde-street Chapel, Manchester-square. The who was a stout, robust man, and nearly seventy Y"; age, was carrying a picture on Tuesday afternoon the New-road, when he suddenly fell down. Two men of the D division ran to his assistance, and 190 procured some vinegar, bathed his temples, andAt voured to recover him, but without success. fi g : b e t NINGHAM,. of Hereford -street, was hie arrival he Lund the deceased dead.thert f H e e tc h b i e stt rui :l) a blood-vessel, which p ro d uce d apoplexy, 00"" instant death. S even t y pounds in notes, ten sae, gold watch, an d a quant i ty of silver, was found 0 1 11., person. He was residing at 17, Beaumont-stree t ' abet--Died by the Visitation of Gon. Every week convinces us more and ril °re i the necessity of the b a llot, to p ro t ec t th e peoPle in newly-acquired rights. The system of i n timidati° t A inatically adopted by the Tory landholders, has led p r liatitmn on the part of the people, and in many 10, 05 4 of England and Scotland resolutions have bee° go ttt i and acted upon, nut to deal with shopkeepers svh ° inti-reform candidates. Nor is this system of n o V o l( course confined to the supporters of the Tories. SO cashire the Whig candidates hav e b een o pposed in so if manner—a proceeding which has been severely les I e.rted on by the Whig press. But all their I will prove ineff ec t ua l t o p u t it d own . Th e MO which the purity o f e l ec ti on can b e o bt a i ne d, is 11 10 0 8 (in every one to vote in secrecy, for by this waYO an elector obey, without f ea r, th e di c t a t es of his ,4 science.—Edinburgh Weekly Chronicle. BIRTHS. 10/ On the 9th inst. the lady of William Dugmore, s ot at-law, of a daughter. ~ (S a l' On the Bth inst. at Limehouse, Mrs. E. E. RowseT,, ° tv - On the oth inst. in Lower Fitzwilliam-street, Dub of George Latouche, Esq., of a son. MARRIED. „ i es On the 10th inst. at Christ Church, Marylebone , 5er,7, 4 4., nerman, Esq., of the Hon. East India CompaoY ' %ii, China, to Ellen, second daughter of William Atkins tys Upper Baker-street. A O 9th inst. at St. Marylebone, George of elbeck-street, to Harriet Susan, second tlaugo aerslej W 7„ Rev. Thomas Clare, Rector of St. Andrew's, Holboropee On the 10th - inst. at Richmond Church, the Rev. w oe Op( to Anna Sophia, eldest daughter, and at the same ~a p ier lames Money, to Charlotte Christiana, third 'la"' lion. and Rev. Gerard Noel. DIED. v 1410' hr On the al inst. at Camberwell, in her 94th Ye ' o f t Ackland, widow of Mr. John Ackland, forme rIY Mace. On the 9th inst. in Devonshire-terrace, aged 8 years, Lavinia, second daughter of HenrY tll j, On the Bth inst. in the 27th year of her age, 5a 1 1 a ,,,'0 4 4 0 Edward I. 'Peale, Esq.. of Leeds, solicitor, and YT,, s , ter of the late I. Greenwood Clayton, of New Lai" Es q after .3_o4,loolooiii PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY MU RDOYO ~ - 1 1, SVN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, UNDO* THE MARKETS C )AL MAR Per Ton. s. d. .......1~04.00.10••••W I s 0 .KET.—Oct. 10. Per Ton. s. Walls End Hilda 19 Ditto Killingworth Walls End Riddell's `4, 1 , Ditto Todd and Watson-. %:‘, Walls End Hetton Walls End Lambton Walls End Tees