The Sun. — London, England, 1832-07-27 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. A more tiresome task has never been imposed upon us, than that of following the slow and un certain footsteps of the London Conference ie its measures for the settlement of the question between the Flemings and the Dutch. The re flection forced upon every straightforward mind by the perusal of those two marvellous volumes, wherein the written compositions of the aforesaid Conference, or quintuple Cabinet, have been re corded, is the melancholy one, that no faith whatever can be reposed in the engagements of modern diplomacy. If a distinction were to be drawn, prima facie, between the moral charac ters of England, and of certain among her co signing Powers in this instance, we might be disposed to say that her Ministers had behaved like children, in prescribing and promising what they felt themselves not enabled to enforce, and that the representatives of at least three other Governments had acted like full-grown cheats. in affecting that they ever meant to fulfil what they signed without any seeming reluctance. It is impossible to look over the map of Europe with out perceiving that the elements of war are every tchere. It is not at Frankfort, or at Paris, or Vienna, or Berlin, at Brussels, at Peters burgh, or the Hague—but in all these places at one and the same moment—and for one single cause—that the rush of armies appears to be imuending. France and Prussia—France and Holland—France and Austria (speaking of Aus tria apart from the house of Austria), have no such adverse interests ; nor have Holland and Belgium (leaving out the King of Holland) any such, as would induce any reasonable man in either country to make an appeal to arms. On the contrary, we believe there never was a period at which, so far as nations are concerned, there was less disposition to settle with any neighbour, by mere violence, a question of territorial, com mercial, or political controversy. Not so be tween nations and courts. The real, and in deed only solid, grcurd of danger to the peace of Europe at this hour, is a tremendous one. It is the array of two principles, drawn up in each other's presence, between which on either side no middle term will be accepted, and which nothing short of transcendent wisdom and virtue in some third quarter will enable to retire without a fierce collision—the divine right of Kings to govern as badly as they please—and the social right of citizens to be governed beneficially and justly : these two rights are maintained and con tested throughout every corner of Europe—not always perhaps loudly—not formally—but in sub stance, and with incessant, if dexterous and even silent, activity. The French revolution of July,—the Belgic revolution of the following autumn,—the effort for a Polish revolution ; more glorious than all, because unstained by bloodshed,—the overthrow of the English bo rough system, were, each of them, it would be absurd to deny, declarations of war against the divine right doctrine of the Potentates of St. Petersburgh, Hanover, and Berlin. The coun ter manifesto of the Emperor of Russia against Poland was written with a flaming sword. That noble country is to all present purposes annihi lated. Against the Reform Bill, proposed, re commended, and finally passed into a law by the King of England, the King of Hanover issues letters of marcpie and reprisal by a State paper, signed in his name at Frankfort, wherein he stigmatizes the first principle of all free go vernment as revolutionary, puts down, as rank treason, the liberty of the press, and trans fers universally from representatives of the people to the Crown and its Ministers, the privilege of imposing taxes, and all con trol over the public money. In the same docu ment the Austrian and Prussian Monarchs con demn and threaten at once the spirit of the Bri tish Reform Bill—thefact of that revolution, which expelled the Bourbon dynasty—the con stitutions of Germany, which their own com pacts, seventeen years ago, had established, — and the separation of Belgium from the Dutch sceptre, in favour of which they have been pro tocolling, and against which they have been in triguing, since December, 1830. We do not hesitate to say, that matters have every where come to a crisis,—that Polish liberty, German liberty, Belgic liberty, French liberty, and Bri tish liberty, are regarded by the enemies of all dominion but that of force, as part and parcel of the same gigantic grievance—the grievance of a representative constitution, and of a Govern :, ment by law instead of by ,‘ will and pleasure.' When, therefore, we are asked, " To what end advise England to interpose in one sole direction for the professed purpose of averting a war which menaces us from so many points of the horizon ?" the answer is, you have no other prospect of tranquillity even for a twelvemonth. If England with France interfere at once, and call upon the other Powers to execute their treaties, in behalf of Belgium, there is one of two results on which we may with safety calcu late :-Ist. Belgium will, with the solemn con sent of Europe, have been created, in fact as well as right, an independent and sovereign power, thereby crushing all secret hopes and consequent machinations of the King of Hol land to bring about her relapse under his yoke, and recognizing a complete authority and duty on the part both of France and England to protect the kingdom of Leopold in every emer gency. To this end the first step must be the evacuation of Antwerp, the continuance of which city in the hands of the Dutch King leaves the desired « independence" of Belgium at his mercy. The immediate business of France, therefore, and Great Britain, is to insist on the surrender of Antwerp forthwith, that the acknow ledged master of Belgium may have the key of his own door in his own keeping ; or that, 2d, The three other protocolling parties, unable to stand the test of such an upright, how ever tardy, fulfilment of their own sworn obligations, and to submit their ulcered policy to so severe a probe, may be compelled to throw off the mask under which they have been per sonating the allies of England, France, and Bel -gium. The time for ripening their false pro jects' will thus, at least, be shortened. One effect, which. cannot fail to follow a refusal by Russia,.&c., to exercise the stipulated restraint upon Holland,. will be an immediate demonstra tion to the whole world of the nature and ex tent of their schemes against the French revolu tion. If the three Courts withhold their con currence when required to execute the protocols, theie remains -not the shadow of doubt that Prance is to be the next victim in the destined series,; and if the Moloch of despotism de- Man& more I:amid-worship from his ido laters, let„.England at least 'be warned of what is to came, and.. France have opportunity to buckle . on her armour. If Lord Grey then wishes to ascertain who are honest men and who knaves on this occasion, and to provide .a clue for his own egress from the labyrinth, let him apply the test. Command Antwerp to be evae6ated. If he desires to lessen the probability of a combined attack upon the French nation by the despots, let him un mask the latter before they choose to unmask themselves. If he feels it to be of importance that the people of England should emerge from the suspense which has so long overhung them, and should be enabled to measure and direct with any accuracy their commercial enterprises, we pray him once again to have done with pro tocols, to act, and not vacillate or drivel, but to appear in his own character of a Statesman who will not suffer his fellow-subjects to be any longer trifled with, and force the adverse party to meet England on level ground.—Tinzes. We received last night the Paris Papers of Tuesday, and the Illessager des Chambres, dated Wednesday. The feelings of the French are too much alive to what is going on in Ger many to allow the reasonings of the Court to make much impression on them. The Government of the July Revolution would wil lingly be more monarchical than the mast mo narchical of the old Governments. Listen only to the Journal des Debuts :—" The opposi tion (says that Journal) demands what will be the independence of a German State in which Prussia shall, by force of arms, gag the Press, or cause a Budget to be voted / We shall an swer without reserve, whatever clamour we may give rise to—we know only Princes in Germany —we know nothing of the people. The States are represented externally by Princes ; it is with hem only that we ought to concern ourselves. If a Prince lose his dominions, it is a case of war be tween France and the Diet ; if the Diet oppress the Press and the Tribune, this is a case of insurrection between the Germans and the Diet." The King of the French knows nothing of the people of Germany ! He knows only 39 indi viduals, resident and absentee Princes connected with that country. Let us listen further to this Journalist :—" The treaties of 1814 and 1315, which M. Odillon Barrot himself accepted at the Tribune, gave us a Germany with 38 Princes and a Diet, without any right of surveillance or intervention in the interior administration of the countries of the Confederation. We can only, then, know German Princes ; we can only know the independence of their States, because that alone regards us. As to the independence of their subjects, we cannot occupy ourselves with them, for the independence of subjects is li)erty ; and liberty is an internal dispute b Aweeti Princes and their subjects, with which foreigners have no concern." So far so good. The King of the French, then, is not bound to know that there are people in Ger many. But it is of immense importance that he should know that there are thirty-eight Princes, and see that this blessed number be kept up. Why ? The balance of power, we shall be told. If one Prince should oust ano ther, the balance would be disturbed, and France might then interfere. But if Prussia and Austria, through the instrumentality of the Diet, destroy the Constitutions of the several States, and reduce the Princes to such a depen dence on them as the dependence of the native Princes in India on the English Government, France must not • interfere. This is being the slave of words with a vengeance. Austria and Prussia, by compelling the different rulers to destroy the Constitutions of their respective States, throw these rulers into a state of depen dence on them, as the only protection against their respective subjects, which is exactly the same thing as obtaining the command of the resources of protected Sovereigns. It is the most contemptible pedantry, therefore, to pre tend to know only Princes, when the only rea son for knowing anything of Princes, is, that the security of a State may be affected by one Prince usurping the possessions of another. The Monarchies, however, we know, observe a very different rule. Austria invaded Naples, to put down the Constitution. The late Bourbon Government of France in vaded Spain to put down the Cortes. And notwithstanding the French continue to enjoy the felicity of a King, the internal affairs of France have occupied much of the thoughts of the great Monarchies. The French people will not be turned aside by this compound of sophis try and pedantry. They know that both Princes and people exist in Germany ; and they will ask themselves the simple question. In what manner is our security likely to be affected by what is doing there ? If they know that the same cause which leads the Monarchs to des'rov the Constitutions of Germany, must inspire them with a desire to destroy the freedom of the Press in every other country—and if they see large armies moving towards their frontiers, are they not justified in apprehending that the opportunity may be seized, in addition to the German Constitutions, to destroy the great cause of all the liberal movements in Europe—the French Constitution ? Nothing is so contemptible as this affectation of substituting the technical twaddle of diplomatists for the reality. Every one knows, that ever since the French Revolu tion, two principles have been struggling for ascendancy in Europe, the Democratic and the Monarchical. Every extension of Representa tive Governments, in which those who govern are responsible to the governed, adds to the power and consequently the security of those which before existed. If France is surrounded with Constitutional Governments, her security must be mueh greater than if' surrounded with Governments in which the Monarchical prin ciple has the ascendancy. If the freedom of the Press exists in one country, the neighbour ing country partakes more or less in the benefit, and strives also to obtain a free Press. Hence the Monarchs conceiv e th a t t h e i r grea t enem y i s Constitutional Government and the freedom of the Press. For the same reason that Constitu tional Governments must wish the extension of their principle, the Monarchs must be anxious to put down Constitutions and the freedom of the Press. One or the other of these prin ciples must have the ascendancy, and till this is determined, Europe will, even in peace, be in constant apprehension of war. The Poem of Beranger, in the Times of yesterday, sufficiently expresses the feeling of the French that Louis Philippe altogether mistakes his po sition. If he is not the King of July, why is he on the throne of France ? Beranger shows that it was not for him that the revolution was made, but the revolution, when made, adopted him. " When, in July (exclaims the Poet), the popular Lion broke a blood-stained scep tre in the Louvre, the heavens opened, and from the bosom of the eath, the cry of Liberty thrice ascended. Drunk with hope, I saw, at the noise of arms, the Kings turn pale—their thrones overturned. Silence, earth ; Kings, calm your alarms; poor Lion, thou wilt be muz zled. Dost thou not see, Lion of the Bastille, a Royal Beggar crawling towards thee, who, to obtain the Throne, denying his family, licks thy claw, and calls himself thy Vassal ? " 0 Banish your fears, Castilian and Tartar ; the human race is here out of the question, you have but to assist a miser to strip a Royal orphan. You see that it is for this iniquitous work that our blood has flowed in Paris. Let Poland die. and Belgium languish, is not our Lion muzzled? * " If, as we are told, France is monarchical, among the lakes of Scotland there lt comeaboy. Call him to the S a lk land ; let him alone—he alone is innocent. On his cradle let the fate of all be immediately regulated by ail France ; and, at the age of twenty, let him guide to the frontiers our Lion, free and unmuzzled." That song will haunt Louis Philip in his dreams.—Morning Chronicle. It is impossible not to be struck with the ex ceedingly minute economy which enters int o every subject where the public taste or interests happen to be concerned. We do not quarrel with the present Government for this so much as we should do were it not notorious that their means are crippled by the shameless prodigality which marked the conduct of their predecessors : as a proof of which it is quite notorious that as much was expended in that rottenest of all build. ing jobs, the Parliamentary mews, behind Great George -street, Westminster, and twenty times as much in deforming the plum-pudding Palace at Pimlico, as is now required for a National Gallery to contain the public works of art, and present a study for rising genius. The trum pery idea of uniting with this building a recep tacle for the public records will, we have n o doubt, be abandoned. It is only under the vul gar persuasion that " opposites sometimes meet" that such a conception could enter the mind of any man. Of all strange things none could be more preposterous than that a crowd of attorneys' clerks, seeking food for litigation, should be seen thronging the same doorway which leads to the peaceful pursuits of science and of taste. Yet some wiseacre has been found to think such objects can amalgamate. In common with some of our con temporaries, we doubt whether the sum destined for these joint objects (50,0001.) will be found sufficient.- At any rate the paltry littleness of proposing to extend such an expenditure over a period of three years is, in our view of the matter, contemptible beyond our powers of ex pression. What ! when a club-house or a bazaar, of equal dimensions with the building now contemplated, can be raised in nearly as many months, is it necessary for this nation to take three years for building a picture-gallery ? Or is it to be borne, even in imagination, that we can crouch to the oppressor of Poland with our mil lions—not his due—and still not have where , withal to meet the commonest wants of our tax paying population ? Nothing but its preposterous folly prevents our indignation from finding suitable vent upon such an occasion. This is being "penny wise and pound foolish" with a vengeance ; and we trust that for the honour of Lord Grey's Government, lie will not suffer it to lie under the joint charge of extravagance abroad and par simony at home. We have already suggested, and we suggest again, that the money neces sary for such an object as this National Gallery ought and might be readily found by the Com missioners of Crown Lands, if those personages were but half as much alive to public objects as to private patronage and convenience. Instead of 50,0001. coming out of the public taxes, twice as much might easily be found from the hereditary revenues which the Crown has surrendered to the people. There is one word, by way of advice, which we would submit to those who have the direction of this building—which is, that the plan and site should be so arranged as to per mit of its extension, as wants may arise or means increase. A centre, for instance, with wings to be hereafter added, or a three-sided square with one side only erected at first, would afford faci lities which cannot be obtained should the ground be occupied, and the building com pleted, in the first instance upon too small a scale. —Morning Herald. Colonel Evans brought the subject of our Military establishment before the House last night, in a speech containing much valuable information, and many useful hints. The field is too extensive for our discussion. One point alluded to by the Colonel is particularly deserving of attention : " In his opinion, the army was now unnecessarily crowded with officers, by which the expense was Very much increased. He had considered the subject, and he believed that one Major would be enough for a battalion, in which, too, might be reduced one Captain and four Subaltern Officers. The present large number of superior Officers was much connected, he was certain, with another subject that had lately occupied a good deal of att!ntion--he meant that of corporal punishment. It was in consequence of that degrading species of punish meant that they could not get respectable young men to enter as recruits ; and that again prevented them from raising Subaltern Officers from the ranks, and afterwards promoting subalterns to be superior Offiers. Napoleon had remarked this among the four faults in our military system, d had assigned it a chief place in the list of those faults." This confirms the view we took when the ques tion of flogging was last introduced in the House. The race of men in this counrry is good, and the soldier must partake of the excel lence as far as mere physical qualities are con cerned. But, in a moral point of view, the soldiers must necessarily be at the very bottom of the scale. No one who has the spirit of a man would enter a service in which he is liable to be treated as a beast. The men who respect them selves seek more honourable pursuits. Hence the difference of feeling between a French and an English soldier. The French soldier respects himself; is jealous of any invasion of his honour, and studies to acquire the knowledge which may obtain for him professional distinction. No man who has the cat-'o-nine tails constantly present to his imagination can respect himself. The Eng lish soldier never dreams of advancement, and lie has no motive for acquiring the knowledge neces sary for it. Being without any noble aim, lie is naturally prone to sensual indulgence ; and thus the very subjection to flogging has a tendency to drive men into the irregularities which form an excuse for flogging. The English soldier is brave and intrepid f rom hi s organ i zat i on ; but how superior would he be ter all the sol diers in the world, were the hopes of advance ment to give him, in addition to his fine physical qualities, the high moral qualities that qualify men for distinction. We see low Englishmen sur passing low foreigners in all the pursuits of life by which wealth and distinction are obtained. There is not, for instance, one civil engineer in ten in the country who was not at one time a common mechanic. Why should not the Bri tish soldier be equally capable of distinguishing himself? But, as Colonel Napier happily ob served, he is doomed to languish in the cold shade of Aristocracy. Sir John Hobhouse met the observation of Colonel Evans on this point by a sort of argumentum ad hominem. The Colonel was himself an instance that pro motion was not always slow. In five months h e h a d risen from Lieutenant to Lieutenant- Colonel, and his whole period of service had been little more than eight years. So much r ho h u o ld ma h o al w ' the greater the Colonel's merit,' t h at i n a ser viceehoobtained such rapid m o in terest, in the English service, jumps in without u ot r i s on h . e s five months from Lieutenant to Lieutenant- Colonel, is either surprisingly lucky or sur prisingly brave. We are now a nation, instead of subjects of an Oligarchy, and it is high time that the army should become national. All the skimble skamble stuff' about the necessity of officering the army with gentlemen of property—that is, with the Aristocracy—in order to prevent the army from being em ployed against our liberties, deceived no one. The great object should be to combine effici ency and economy; and the opening a career to talents and energy would add to the efficiency, while it diminished the expense of the army. Sir George Murray deprecated the holding up France as an example, and spoke of the expense of arms and accoutrements for 1,200,000 Na tional Guards. But is the spirit that such a system maintains nothing? We deprecate war ; but while we do so, we deem it of the first con sequence that the body of a people should thoroughly enjoy life, by being at all times indif ferent to the loss of it. Sir George Murray " confessed it did excite no small suprise in his mind to hear a British officer quoting the autho rity of Bonaparte, who had no practical acquaint ance with the British army until he encountered them at Waterloo ;" and this, we suppose, is to be taken as a proof that Bonaparte knew nothing of military matters—that everything in the French system is bad, and everything in the English good. Sir George dislikes the con scription, and so do we ; but " during the latter part of the war, the army was recruited chiefly from the Militia, whence excellent soldiers came ;" and pray, Sir George, what is the Militia but a conscription of the worst kind, operating on the poor, and excepting the rich ? Morning Chronicle. We should not ourselves have thought it ne• cessary to say a single word about the miserable attempt made by Sir E. Sugden to impute in consistency to the Lord Chancellor, for having filled up a vacant appointment, which he had described as one which ought to be abolished, or rather conducted on different principles. But as much is written about it in the morning and evening papers, we may be permitted to make a short remark. In point of fact, the Lord Chan cellor has sacrificed an immense proportion of the patronage of his office, and a very large part of his income. He contemplates, and has repeatedly expressed his determination, to make further alterations, tending still to diminish the emoluments of his office ; but he has not yet, owing to the overwhelming pressure of public business before both Houses of Parliament, been able to carry his determination into full effect. iVleantime the holder of one or two of the of fices about to be regulated dies: but the office exists, and cannot be abolished without an Act of Parliament. Somebody must fill it, and who so proper as the Lord Chancellor's brother, who, knowing his sentiments and intentions, does that willingly which another man might hesitate to do —accepts the appointment subject to regulation, nay, to abolition, should abolition be deemenie cessary. Thepublic will see in this conduct of the Lord Chancellor an additional motive to admire his consistency and disinterestedness, and will feel contempt for the paltry insinuations of those whose personal meanness makes them unable to appreciate the motives of a superior mind. If' we had in the first instance thought that no tes timony which we could offer was necessary to the vindication of the Lord Chancellor, how much is that opinion strengthened by the tri umphant statement made by the Lord Chancel lor himself last night. His castigation of the author of the absurd insinuation against him is calculated to cut through the thickest integu ments of infatuated conceit, and might almost penetrate the mind of a " bug." But the Lord Chancellor must not descend to notice such per sons ; the public confidence will defend him against such miserable opponents. Let him per- severe in the straight course of public service which his own right mind has marked out for him, and he need not turn aside for the buzzing of gnats nor the croaking of crows. Such ene mies as he has are disowned by all the leading men of their own party. The eagerness with which the Duke of Wellington separated him self from the dirty accusers of the only public man who has made any real private sacrifice, shows that his Grace's political prejudices have not blinded him to the merits of a great oppo nent. His Grace's testimony was cordially given, and was such as one eminent man may with pride and pleasure accept from another. It was not either without reason or without a just apprehension of the real character of the movers and main springs of the Germanic Diet, that the meeting in favour of the people of Germany took place on Wednesday ;'for the despots have already begun to act upon the atro cious edict which was lately promulgated, as if it were the received and undisputed law of all Germany, and commenced their proceedings, as all despots and haters of truth and freedom in variably do, by launching the first thunderbolt at the Press. Two journals, published in the Grand Duchy of Baden, entitled the Liberal and the Journal of the Rhine, have not only been sup pressed, and their circulation prohibited in all the German States, and all continuation of them forbidden by the Diet, but it is decreed that the declared editors 9fthent shall not be allowed to edit any sinzilarjournals in any State ofthe Con federation for five years ! Nor is this all ; for lastly, says the news from Frankfort, "The Government of Baden, with reference to the resolution of the 10th May this year, is called upon to communi cate the information promised in the 18th sitting this year on the 24th of May, respecting the real authors of the now suppressed Journal, the Sentinel, within 14 days ; and also to give simi lar information with respect to the real Editor of the Liberal." Such is the spirit of the Ger manic Diet—such its conduct at the commence ment of the campaign—such a fair sample of what it will do, if it can, before it closes. Never was there exhibited such a gross breach of faith—never was so much insolence and ty ranny betrayed—never was the cause of the law and justice set at such open defiance. The ce lebrated ordinance of Charles X. and his Minis ters was a trifle—a mere brutum fidtnen compared to this sweeping decision of the Ger man despots—a decision which, if unresisted, puts an end at once to all free discussion—to all security of person and property--to all in dependence on the part of hitherto inde pendent states—to all law—to all justice—to all hitherto-acknowledged right. Literature and learning will become unknown to the land in which they are cultivated with so much disin terested zeal and ardent enthusiasm ; and Ger many, instead of being the seat of arts and sciences—the great storehouse of European lite rature—the region, par excellence, of poets, philosophers, and historians, become another -Siberia—a land of darkness, and oppression, and undeserved punishment, and ignominious land unjust death. But will the people of Ger many submit tamely to the will of their would he oppressors ? Will they, with the example of France and England before them to guide them, and their ardent sympathy to cheer them, make no effort to redeem themselves from the foul degradation which is in store for them ? We really cannot answer the question, nor do there exist any data for forming a correct judg ment upon the subject. The Germans arc a calculating people, and, as we observed, the other day, the odds are greatly against them in any struggle with the Sovereign despots ; they are also a brave people, but their bravery has been principally shown in the defence of the independence of their country, and of their legitimate Princes; and from neither of these facts, therefore, can we positively infer what their conduct will be in the present juncture. If the accounts, however, which have reached us from Germany may be relied on, the people of that country are not likely to submit so tamely to the decrees of the Diet as its main movers would no doubt wish. The Govern ments of Baden and Bavaria have already shown a disposition to question the legality of the power attempted to be exercised over them ; and even in Berlin, as is averred in the following letter, the decree of the Diet has produced an unusual sensation. Success to their Three Days, if they have the courage to imitate an example near home—and, if not, may the time speedily come when men will be found of suffi cient mettle to unsheath the sword against the enemies of their species, and to teach the des pots that Kings and Emperors were made for the people, and not the people for them.— Morning Advertiser. SUMMER ASSIZES. HOME CIRCUIT-CHELMSFORD, JUL r 26. John Hills, a labourer, of a most disgusting and ferocious appearance, aged 21, was indicted for a rape on the person of Mts. Leslie, the wife of a highly respectable liquor• merchant, residing at Chelmsford. Sarah Leslie, the prosecutrix, a delicate looking woman, was on her way to a friend's house at Galley wood-common, in the parish of Great Raddon, on the 29th of March last. It was in the afternoon.— She saw the prisoner walking at a rapid pace behind her, and not liking his appearance, although he was a stranger to her, she somewhat quickened her pace. About two fields before she reached a cot tage, which stood near the place she was going to, the prisoner overtook her, and using some disgusting language, took hold of her. She begged loudly for mercy, and offered to give him all the money she had about her, if he would but let her go. Prisoner replied, with an oath, that he did not want them.— He then threw her into the ditch.—(Here the wit ness, with some hesitation, and evidently under the most agonizing feelings, detailed the particulars at tending the full commission of the capital offence, under circumstances of the greatest aggra►vation.)— The whole Court were affected by the recital. When the prisoner rose, be left her with an expression of brutality. Witness lay in the ditch a short time, being too weak and exhausted to get up, till her groans brought the woman at the cottage to her assistance. Witness could positively identify the prisoner as the person who committed the owrage upon her. _ _ Mr. Jeremiah Slade found the prosecutrix in a shocking state of mind. Witness brought her home in a cart, she being unable to walk. Mr, Leslie spoke to the dreadfully exhausted state, both of mind and body, in which his wife was brought home. Witness went in pursuit of the prisoner. Charles Blanks, constable of Springfield, hearing the prisoner had escaped, went to the public-house where he lod ! , ed, to take him. He had just packed up his clothes and was going out at the back door. Witness collared him, a struggle ensued, and he was obliged to knock hini down three times before he could secure him. When he was handcuffed wit ness asked him what he bad been doing—to which he replied, " Oh, enough to hang me this time." He added, "I shall catch it," putting his finger to his ear. A short time after he said, "Ah ! never mind, I'll give the Springfield chaps a cock-crowing when I get on the gallows." The prisoner attempted to deny the fact, but made no substantial defence. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty. Lord TENTERDEN immediately passed sentence of death upon him in the most impressive manner. The prisoner did not seem much affected by his situation. N ORF OLF CIRCUIT-CAMBRIDGE, JULY, 25. John Nunn, Simeon Nunn, and Ephraim Litch field, were capitally indicted for assaul , ing Henry Thurnall, Esq., junior, on the highway, and stealing various monies, a watch, &c. The Jury found all the prisoners Guilty. The Learned JUDGE immediately passed on Litchfield and John Nunn the sentence of death, giving them no hope of any extension of mercy on this side the grave. The other prisoner, on account of his youth (he is only 18), and other extenu fling circumstances, was sentenced to transportation for life. WESTERN CIRCUIT.—SALISBURY, JULY 25. Joseph Buxton was indicted for having set fire to his dwelling-house, situated in the town of Bradford, wit h the intent to defraud the Salamander Fire-office. The prisoner was a very respectable-looking man, about 45 years of age, and had carried on business at Bradford, as a publican, for the last twenty years. Latterly he had been very unfortunate, and had ex perienced several severe losses. Thomas Shedder' was in the employ of the prisoner in March last. Went to bed about eleven o'clock on the night in question. Heard Buxton come up stairs, and a few minutes afterwards he heard him cry out that the house was on fire. He went down with Mizen and Doddomy, and with the assistance of the prisoner extinguished the flames. They then went down to the parlour and had some beer. When they went up stairs another room was on fire, which they put out. About two o'clock a fire was discovered on the second floor; the bed-curtains were in flames, which they ex tinguished, and returned to the parlour. About an hour or two afterwards, in consequence of some smoke coming down stairs, they went up, and found the floor and partition boards of the closet at the top of the stairs to be on fire. There was also in it a box, and other articles, which had likewise caught fire. Before the fire was discovered, by the desire of his master, he called a man of the name of Davis, who subsequently assisted them in extinguishing the fire. Cross-examined—Buxton did as much as any of them to extinguish the fire. Mr. Saunders, a director of the Salamander In suranee-office, went on the second day after the fire to the house of the prisoner, whom he told he was come to examine the premises, and inquire into the circumstances of the fire. Buxton showed him the house; in their progress through which, he asked him how the fire originated. The prisoner said it began in the inner bed-room on the first floor. Wit ness said that was very strange, as there were mote marks of fire in the outer room. Buxton said be could not account for it . He went in t o a clew - , where he found the partit i o n boards and floor burnt, laeeF n ' not know as if a and wished to know ho w the fire h ad got there. Prisoner said he could not. tell. Th ey then went into a two-bedded roo m . The b o lster of one of candlet e that d ehr s aed ‘ h v ba a e s de nb burnt epeunt au i t it yd t e : ir v ri o et . ct Pr there t r h is t r o e ri e il er did l P next morning. Witness wished to know how it was put out; pri soner said he supposed that it went out of itsel:. They went into another bed room, where he sass the bedding burnt in two or three places.. They then went down into the cellar; all the casks were empty, except six, which contained together 2 5 I hog heads. He went into a yard, where he saw the box tak , n out of the closet : it was a great deal burnt in the inside, but not the least on the out. The Learned JUDGE summed up, and the Jury found the prisoner Guilty. His Lordship then passed upon him sentence of death. He is to be executed on Tuesday week. MIDLAND CIRCE/ IT.LINCOLN, JULY 24• Mary Taylor, a young woman of pleasing appear' ance, aged 18, the wife of Benjamin Taylor, of Be' lingbroke, in the West Fen, in the parts of Lindsey , was indicted for the wilful murder of her infant child. The prisoner and her husband came together to reside in the above village, the prisonei being then in the family way. There Ivas no imputation of any kind upon her character. They lived next door to a publican, named Harrison, whose wife the prisoner engaged to attend her as midwife in her confinement. She was prepared with her babplinen, and the other things necessary for that occasion. One morning in March last, the prisoner came into Hal' rison's house, and said that her baby had been born, but that a tramper (a travelling woman) had carried it away. She afterwards said, that she (prisoner) had laid the child across the fire, and destroyed ite Her appearance and manner were such as strone indicated insanity of mind at the time. There were no remains of the child to be seen, although it wag evident, from the exalainat ion of the prisoner's person by a surgeon, that she had been recently delivered. She spoke of what she had done as a thing of no harm ; she was alternately either singing very loud, or crying or praying, and continued to do so for 3 weeks after hercommittal to prison ; she had had a quantity of milk before her confinement, but not a dropafterwardgr and from some expressions she used, it was inferred that her delivery had taken place very suddenly. The paler said, that whilst in the gaol she had been subject to sudden transitions from loud mirth to the deepest depression of spirits, exhibiting at the same time an expression of wildness in her counts' mince, which left no doubt on his mind that her reason had heen temporal-Ay unseated. The sue' geon was of the same opinion, and accounted for the state of her mind on the supposition that, finding herself alone and with,ut succour when she was suddenly taken in labour, she became terror-stricken as that critical moment, which caused a revulsion of bl )od to the head. Tile Jury immediately acquitted the prisoner' aid she %vas ordered by his Loidship to be die' charged. Edward Croft, aged 35, was indicted for bur glorious!y entering the house of a farmer, named Shaw, at Frampton, in the parts of Holland. The Jury found the prisoner guilty. The Learned JUDGE sentenced the prisoner to 9 1 % months' imprisonment, and such hard labour 0 , should be found consistent with his st a t e o f h e alth after he was cured of his wound. William Greenfield, aged 43, was indicted 01 stabbing and wounding Robert Chantry Balderso°l a farmer, residing at Crofts, on th e 16 t h o f Apr' las', with intent to do him grievous bodily harm. , The prisoner was found G u il t y, an d senten ce d of death recorded against him ; with an intimati° from the Learned Judge, that, as he had aireadY been convicted more than once, and been trans' ported, he must expect to leave this country nod fcr life. THE MARKETS. SO UTH ALL M A it K ET.—July 25. This day's market was moderately well supplied, but rat e thinly attended by buyers, particularly from London. 1 "( trade with prime Beef was somewhat brisk, with other kind.. o l mcdt very dull, at the following prices per stone of 81b. to s the oflals:— Beet 3s. 0(1. to 4s. 2d. I 3s. Bd. to 4s. el Mutton .-.. 3 6 4 6 Pork .--..... 4 0 4 Lamb 4s. ticl to ss. 6d. _ The foregoing quotations are Beef 2d. per stone dearer thy;' on this day se'nnight ; prices otherwise stationary. Beasts, 7 til Sheep and Lambs, 3,016; Calves, 30; Pigs, 150. A considetsw part of the supply left the market unsold. HAI LSHAM MARKET.—JuIy 25. Beef 3s. 4(1. to 3s. 10d. 3s. 6d. to 45.? I 4 0 4 8 Pork 0 0 0 u Lamb 4s. Od. to ss. 2d. Supply moderately good ; lia e with prime small Mutton a pi Lamb somewhat brisk, with other kinds of meat very dul" ARUNDEL MA It V.ET.—July 24. 3s. Od. to 36.10 d. I 3s. 2d. to 44. Mutton .. 3( 4 6 Pork 0 0 0 " Lamb 4s. 4,1 to ss. 4d. Supply good ; trade with the primest Beef, Mutt on, an d Lao somewhat brisk, with other kinds of meat very dull. CHI CH ESTE R Al ARK ET.—July 25. Beef 2s. Mt. to 3s. 10d. 3s. 0 Mutton I 4 4 4 Pork.— 31( I amb 4s. 2d. to ss. 2d. Supply of both fat and lean stock moderately good, with Loth dull to 4 4 6. °g4 and tr°`.. COUNTRY C SRN MARKEL'S DURING IRE WEB Wheat. I Barley. Oats. 12 . 4 ..... "1 06 ' Per Quarter. s. to s. s. s. a. to s. S. to of Blandford j 63 35 26 Brigg 52 63 36 40 19 22 31 0 Cambridge 66 34 2N-- Chard 56 64 30 36 20 22 34 0 tiuntingdon......... 58 67 29 31 17 24 30 0 Long Sotton--.. 56 64 17 22 32 0 Louth 50 55 27 32 17 20 32 Lynn 56 64 28 32 22 28 34 0 01 Newark 58 64 33 40 18 24 36 41 Nottingham 61 67 31 42 20 25 38 0 Peterbvrongh 56 63 32 36 19 25 33 , Plymouth 4 9 61 68 30 34 20 24 67 43 27 49 Sleafonl Uppinghant 58 65 32 40 20 24 30 0 isbech 54 59 32 35 14 18 32 LEEDS CORN MARKET Wheat, Norfolk and Sufihik, 601 b. York. and Lincoln. 601 b. Barley, Norfolk and Suffblk Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding Beans 63lb. l'.—July 24. ,I 568. to 725. i Ms to 693. •. 345. to Ws. 21s. to 23 5 . fl4s to 425 , 235. to 28 6 • i t , ng. 11%cl. to 13d. Pe_ r aA ~. 31s. to 328. per Iv _.l. to ..../. pe_y Oats, I'otatoe —Mealing, For. 12d. to 13d. Shelling Rapeseed, English, 161 to 24 Forel' LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.—JuIy '24. ~., 0 WHEAT, English, White, per 701 b. Red Scotch, Welch, and Manx Irish, White 8 0 2 9 --- Foreign 9 Red 0 0 6 g OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, p er 451 b '' 10 ,1 9 Irish Foreign BARLEY, English, Malting, pe r I mp. quarter 36 0 4 `,' 0 - Scotch and Irish, per 601b s . - Feeding 4 0 0 BEANS, English, per Imp er i a l quarter 36 0 4, ,1 0 - Irish, &c. - Foreign 14 0 36 PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter 36 0 38 0 - Foreign 11 0 3 ,9, 0 0 ~ - FLOUR, English,lrish4s 0 .`-'; 0 per 2801 b. OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401bs 2l 0 23 0 INDIAN CORN, per 4401 h. BIT, per Imi erial quarter MALT, per Imperial quarter at I Niroirr or GRAIN for the Week ending July 2 a„ au ser, Wheat.' Oats. I Barley Flour. ' l4l Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Foreign, Brls.ilrish,&e. Saul 8,6u6 3,041 8 409 I 3,767 1,1 by the Committee on 1 ,, 4 , 1 0 H B O ill ß e T on Fs o A lid ß a E ti S t; -" th i e he la r w eB fe . 10: • ,i OR clause to remove doubts as to stage.coacbes taking „ 0 " fares" in the streets along which they pass in their ; e d. tomary and prescribed route. It is to the following e P ig e , .....‘ That it shall be lawful for the driver of any gt ,o l been gar di na introduced STAGE-COACH ~stasiege-coaches," into .c o a e t h h e s e s , , , carriages to stand or ply with such carriage for passensot to be carried for hire, and to take up, convey, an d JO' down such passengers at a n y p l ace e i t h er w i th i n the tance of jive miles front the General Post Office, „ d ie don, or elsewhere," any thing in the Hackn e y Carr' e er Act notwithstandi ng, b ut not to deviate from the r -b.l, route or line of road specified in the license, nor to g ° yond the limits allowed by such license. BIRTS. 1, 1" On the 25th i nst. in Foley-pla H ce, the lady of E. W. r d surgeon, of a d aug h ter. On the 25th i nst. in Upper Guildford.street, Mrs. o'4 l Brown, of a daughter. el .'s 0 On the 23d i nst. at Hi g h W ycom b e, the lady of Lie°t , Huffam, R. N, of a daughter. -ti MARRIED. Ch r' fi On the 24th i ns t. Willi am S ers , E sq. , l a t e o f C o rpus A OC College, Cambridge, to Lucy, th e thi r d d aug ht e r of '''" Hanslip, Esq., of Norman-cross, Hunts. DIED. , of fli t On the 24th inst. in Great Surrey.street, Frances, witcols 11.:.v. C. H. Ga } e, having, two days before, lost her only c' , If e" boy, In the seventh month of his age. On the 26th inst. in Park-crescent, Harriet, wife of th e J. T. Leslie Melville. , W . t e/' On the 24th inst. Mr. Hollobrooke, of Great Boakhalo , e i agOnB t ed 2. _ . he 25th inst. at Kentish-town, Mr. Willi a m w"- ,,00, d Great Sutton-street, aged 64. rche On the 26th inst. in Lower Brook-street, Mrs. Stablest c , the late John Stables, Esq. ~a Dr On the 21st inst., of cholera, at Peckh a m Rye, Jain. - Esq., aged 45, of New Broad street. We /4' On the 23d inst. in the 85th year of his age, Benjanth> Esq, of Melksham, Wilts. ------<: . a O l ., PRINTED AND PUBLISHE D BY MURDO YOUNG, A" SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, LONDON.