The Sun. — London, England, 1832-03-30 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The eternal question of Scriptural Education v;as opened up last night by the Earl of Win. chilsea in the House of Lords. The Earl of Winchilsea professes himself a zealous Pro- testant, and we may admit his Protestantism without admiring his logic, Because the Pro testants derive great henefitcrom the unrestricted right to search the Scriptures, and are, in conse quence, more advanced in civilization than thc Catholics, the Noble Lorl.l ; - yould impose addi. tional obstacles to the improvement •oi ~ the Ca►holics, by excluding them Iron the benefi► of education. If we had the determining 01 what religion the people of Ireland should be, we would, of course, make them Protestants ; hut it so happens that six-sevenths of them arc Roman Catholics, and we have been trying to make them Protestants for 300 years without success. The Roman Catholics object to the placing the Bible in the hamis of children as a schoolbook, and allow only of selections from the Bible. If, therefore, we wish to place edu cation within the reach of these Catholic children, who are at present without the means of obtaining it, we must give such an education as may be compatible with their religious Fin viples. Many Protestants are as much opposed to the placing the whole Bible in the hands of children as the Catholics are, and Earl Grey last night alluded to the late Archbishop Magee, who had said that it was advisable to use select portions of the Scripture to prepare the minds of youth fo r a more thorough study ofthe Scriptures in mature age. But though many Protestants may think that the whole Scriptures can be placed with advantage in the hands of children, there are none who can possibly think tflat judicious se lections from the Bible will be productive of evil. The Protestant and Catholic, therefore, are so far agreed that selections from Scripture are good, though most Protestants have another opinion not shared by the Catholic, that the whole Scriptures would also he productive of good. By adoping what both Catholics and Protestants are agreed on, a national system of education may be established. The question is not between the whole Bible and a part, because All who are inclined to place the whole Bible be fore their children are not prevented from doing so, but between education and no education. It must surely be better to place selections from the Bible before six-sevenths of the population of Ireland than to leave them in total ignorance. The Earl of Winchilsea, Earl Roden, and some other Peers, may be merely silly on this ques tion, though, with all their silliness, they have a wonderful knack in arriving at conclusions hos tile to the general good; but there are many of the Peers who voted against Ministers several nights ago, for whom the apology of weak ness of understanding cannot be offered. They join in the cry of the whole Bible, because they are enemies to all education, and because they are little scrupulous as to the means by which they can strike a blow at a Minister. The Duke cf Wellington, for instance, knows as well as any man can do, that there is no choice between the Ministerial plan of education and none. But what does he care for the education of the Irish ? The exhibition of his Grace on that night alone will satisfy all men with regard to his Grace's principles. 1-le may do good here after as he has done before ; but of this we may be sure, that he will in that case have some other motive than the mere wish to do good. He is evidently a man not to be trusted too far. The zeal of the Church of England clergy for the whole Bible is not a little suspicious, when it is recollected that a few years ago four-fifths of them held it worse than infidelity to place the Bible without note or comment into the hands of children. Dr. Marsh, the present Bishop of Peterborough, published sermon after sermon, and tract after tract, against the Bible Societies, and he had a great majority of the clergy on his side. " Though," said he, in his sermon preached at St. " without the Bible the Liturgy has no support, yet, without the Li turgy men are left in doubt whether the princi ples of our faith should be embraced by them or not. Without the Liturgy they want a guide to lead them to the Established Church. With out the Liturree, the Bible may be misapplied to doctrine and discipline most discordant with our own." Here, then we have the Protestant cler gy blowing hot and cold almost at the same time. But in truth the contradiction is only in appear ance. The object was the same then as now— to prevent the diffusion of Education. The Bible, without note or comment, was then cried down just as the Bible alone is now advocated. —Morning Chronicle. The fury of the Ultras, with the Duke o' Wellington at their head, is now transferred from those w ho would go all constitutional lengths in support of Reform, to those whose conscience and honour forbid them to run the most wild and outrageous lengths in opposition to it. We have read nothing more rancorous or indecent than the abuse poured out by the ostensible organs of Toryism, upon those Lords who seem willing to open their eyes, however tardily, to the " pro" as well as " con." of this all-important question. And what is, what can he, the pur pose of such extravagance ? Do the Duke of Wellington's partis ins persuade themselves that his Grace, though he had (which he has not) 150,000 soldiers at his back—or further, if he had (what we are sure he has not) the disposi tion to make England one field of battle, could arrest the cause of Reform for even a single twelvemonth? It is impossible for the Duke, or for any man in his right sense 9, to fancy that the introduction of a solid Reform into our insti tutions can depend upon the miserable chance of a majority or minority in the House of Lords. Ask where is the Reform question ? What space does it occupy ? By what power is it sustained ? and by what force sent onwards ? Why, every schoolboy will inform his Grace that it exists not within St. Stephen's Chapel or the tapestried chamber,—that it is not confined by the walls of the old palace at Westminster, nor will it be governed merely by what passes there,—that it is not buoyed up or dragged for wards by 360 Members of the House of Com mons, nor will it be sunk by the pressure, nor driven from its course, by the adverse breath, of 199 lay and mitred Lords. It is every where— in every cottage, in evlby shop,—on the moun tain, in the dell, in the village, the factory, the city,—in the breast of every Englishman, Scotch man, Irishman,—that it spreads over, pervades, inflames, propels the whole community,—that it forms the atmosphere, and the food, and the life blood of Britain, —that he who destroys the na tion, and he alone, can rub us of a full, effective, and permanent reform of the constitu tion of Parliament. " But," says the Duke of 'Wellington, " a. change so total in the represen tative system of Scotland amounts to an entire revolution.' Well, my Lord Duke, and what of that ? The overthrow of episcopacy was a " revolution" in Scotland. Yet the nation willed it, and in spite of the abusive epithet " revolu t.on," the sound frightened nobody ; the " revo• lution" was hailed by nine-tenths of the people as a great and real good. So the union with England was a tremendous " revolution." was so designated, but it passed ; and Scot land may d ate - her prosperity from that hour. The degrading epithet of " revolution," — the cuckoo-note of the Duke of Wellington and others. whose arguments are all compressed within that word of five syllables,—that epithet had no terror for the Ministers of Queen Anne : when employed by the people of Scotland to deter them, thr, Ministers, happily for Scotland herself, persisted, and the " revolution" was per petrated. What was the event of 1688, but a Scotch as well as English and Irish revolution ? The Duke of Wellington, had he, unfortunately for the England of the 19th century, and perhaps not less so for the England of the 17th—had the gallant Puke, we say, been a subject of James IL, he might then, too, have exclaimed against the act of abdication, " What are Toll doing, ye turbulent and disaffected Whigs Why this is nothing short of a revolution." — True, it was, God be praised, a " revolution." The Duke of Wellington, as brave and great a soldier as Marlberzmgh, and as a politician, if so !cog-sighted, certainly as honest, would. probable, have attacked the Dutch troops, beaten William, but the statesmen of that were no more to be scared by the vulgar of revolution, than are the statesmen and e people of three kingdoms now. So the " revolution" of 1688—often since appealed to by this very Duke of Wellington, and by every Bishop on the Bench--the "revolu tion" of 1688 became the law and constitution of the realm. The Irish Union, too, we sup pose, was a " revolution"—another, a minister r.ade " revolution." Yet the Duke of Wellington and age would terrify us with the sound, as if in this case words were things. Alas ! he cannot help it : it is his only argument. 'We tell his Grace, and his crotchetty ally Lord Carnarvon, and hi, somewhat slippery friends the Bishops, that the people will have this Reform, the value of which consists in its extensive—that is, what the Tories call its " revolutionary"—character. But the people desire that it should be a revolution without victims, if noble Lords will permit. With regard to the second reading, we hope it will be carded. But there are had as well as weak spirits abroad, and until the " noses" are counted up, there is no good in guessing. But since the Duke of Wellington talks of Scotland, is his Grace so far familiar with the political organization of Scotland at this moment, as to form even the most distant conjecture of what would happen at Glasgow, Leith, and Paisley, should he succeed, through some demon's influ ence, in defeating the principle of the popular clauses of the Bill ? Let him not speak again, we beseech the Duke of Wellington, of treating the national eagerness for reform with contempt, or of " the loyalty of the King's troops," as if it were to be tested by the blood of the King's subjects.— Times. Mr. Portman's resignation of his seat for Dorsetshire has been, during these two days, a subject of very general regret, and for the sake of truth we are bound to add, of not very par tial animadversion. Why should a Whig Member for a county desert the service of that county in times like the present, if not personally disabled from discharging the duties of his post? It appears that the Hon. Gentleman in question had declared that if Lord Ashley should turn out to be the choice of the electors of Dorset, he would himself not continue to sit for that county with an Aiti-Reforner for his colleagu?.. Now, in order to justify such a determination, which would at all events expose the county to another contest, Mr. Portman ought at least to have been quite sure of a refoi ming Member being elected as his own successor, otherwise the fltvour which he conferred on Dorsetshire would amount to this—that having at present one Tory vote in Parliament effectually neutral ized by that of a Reformer, she might henceforth be blessed with a pair of Tories, both counting in each division, and making a difference of two against the country ! This is not the legacy which Dorsetshire has a right to expect from a gentleman bearing upon him such numerous anti just marks of her esteem and respect as Mr. Portman. Nor is a possible triumph to the house of Bankes, as the fruit of an arduous, acrimonious, and exhausting contest, any honour to the memory of a liberal representative, who has wantonly volunteered such an infliction upon his county. This wiry-edged fastidiousness, at such a period, is some degrees worse than cut ting blocks with a razor : it is an attempt to soften granite with milk and water.— Times. Much interest is at present excited by the question, whether the numerical strength of what is termed the middle party extends beyond the Lords Harrowby and Wharnciiffe. The Bishop of London indeed may be added to the number of the waverers by those who do not recollect that the Right Reverend Prelate offered as an excuse for not attending his Parliamentary duty on the second reading of the Reform Bill, last autumn, the death of his father, and that deco rum and his feelings would not allow him to appear in public ; though in less than twelve hours after the decision in the House of Lords against the overthrow of the Constitution the Bishop of London attended a public meeting, -mud took an active part in its discussions, his Lordship's nerves having become suddenly reno vated for the duty that he had later in the day to perform. By those who recollect this fact the Bishop of London will not be regarded as a new waverer. And now as to Lords Harrowby and Wharncliffe, the two Commanders without soldiers. It is fully believed, and by those too who have good means of information, that their wavering Lordships are minus a corps ; and the probabilitieS also strongly tend to that conclusion. In their:own proper persons they thought it neces sary to declare that they intended to vote fur the second reading of the Ministerial Bill. They performed this task with all the pomp and cir cumstance necessary for an occasiou upon which two Peers were to belie their former declara tions ; and, by analogy, if it were desirable for the officers to declare allegiance to the new dy nasty of mob law, it was doubly incumbent upon the soldiers, if there be any, to undertake this duty. For weeks it had been reported that these two Peers had come round in favour of the second reading, and therefore they only con firmed floating rumours by their declarations on Monday night ; but how imposing would it have been, after the Adelphi in political c , nsisteney had arisen to avow their new-found principles to the world, if adhesions had been offered to those principles, even . should they have issued from . some dozen of Peers only ? The public has been kept in the dark as to the number and names of the rank and file in the Harrowby Bat talion of Reformers ; and consequently the effect would have been powerful if only a detachment of them had appeared in the field ; but no, not a ,ingle Peer opened his mouth in favour of the .vavering policy but the two leaders, who, if they have any troops under their controul, have no, managed them judiciously on the present occa• sion. Declarations of adhesion to a political party are a tower of strength, which we should imagine the two Noble Lords in question are sufficiently old Parliamentary taticians not wil lingly to have neglected. For our own parts we are fully convinced that no Tory Peers will be found to follow in the tortuous and dangerous path marked out by Lords Harrowby and Wnarn elide, and for this. plain reason. The Re. formers both in and out of Parliament declare, with one accord, that they will not allow the slightest modification in the leading enact ments of the Bill, and that they will consider any such change, if effected, a virtual rejection of the measure. We say, then, it is not possible that any Peer, with this fact before his eyes, will f.illow the example of Lords Harrowby and Wharncliffe in voting for the second reading with the view of destroying the Bill on a subse quent stage. But, independently of the sense of rectitude and honour which must deter them from such a course, they well know that they will get no thanks whatever in return for their dishonesty. On the contrary, the Radical party will feel and will evince far deeper resent ment against those who shall insult them by a fallacious and hypocritical shew of support, than against the men who have fairly and openly opposed them. The Waverers, in short, will lose the esteem of their friends without in any degree conciliating their enemies. Can we be wrong, then, in asserting that they are but three in number ?—Morning Post. The exhibition of the six conspirators at Marlborough-street (one of whom, by tl►e bye, was bathed in tears) was no doubt irresistibly ludicrous. We are vet a great way from that ,tate of things in which authority has anything to dread from resistance. Better subjects can not be conceived than the English. They are fond of talking, and fond of drinking and smoking their pipes. They are accustomed to think aloud ; and the Government must be rery negligent of its duty which is not aware of the subject of their thoughts. A conspiracy known only to a dozen of people, in a town of a million and a half of inhabitants, cannot be very formi- midahle. Eut this population, so peaceably di,- posed, so obedient to the laws, who posses habits of such value to any tiovernment, may be driven by a series of blunders in politics to extremes of vthich they themselves are not in the least aware. Let but the Anti-Reformers have their way for a while, let disappointment take the place of the present hopes of a favourable issue— let but the Duke of Wellington attempt to coerce the nation, which he has already in sulted by his declarations—and the same change will take place in the character of the English people which has taken place in the character of every other people under similar circumstances. In that most instructive work, the Souvenirssur Mi rabeau (Recollections of Mitabeau), by the late M. Dumont, of Geneva, we have a striking de scription of the easy transitions by which the effeminate (flasque) and indolemt population of Paris became in a short time ready for all sorts of desperate undertakings. The moment sus picion began to he entertained of the good faith of the Court, " The people (says M. Dumont) became alarmed, suspicious, easily moved, and all that the Court could do in the sequel could never re-establish confidence. Such was the true origin of that ardent fever which was care- Cully fed by two sorts of men—the factious and the timid The day of the Royal sitting I was at the Palace, to see the magnificent procession pass along. recollect the hostile and triumphant looks of several persons who repaired to the chateau, the victory seemed to them already decided ; I saw the Ministers leave the King ; they wished to appear tranquil, their emotion was visible in spite of them ; the attitude of the Count I)'Artois was full of haughtiness ; the King appeared sad and downcast; the crowd was great and the silence pro found. When the Kingascended hiscarriage, the rolling of the drums and the clangour oftrumpets were heard, but no applause from the people, no God save the King ; fear alone repressed the mur murs ; at length the vast body put itself in motion ; all the Royal Household, the Guards, the Officers, the Cavalry, all proceeded towards the Hall of the States-General, where the three orders united, suspicious of each other, awaited impatiently with a mute indignation the result of this great day." But soon the pride of these haughty Nobles was humbled. When the cur rent of public opinion sets strongly in any direc tion, it is madness in any separate order to op pose it. The means of execution are wanting. A Government can only be strong through the people, and never long by setting the people at defiance. Let the silly rash Nobles and Priests of this country, who count on insulting the people, take warning by the events of other times and other nations. The six conspirators practising the broad sword exercise in a loft, afford matter for laughter ; but tragedy some times follows as well as precedes farce. There are materials in England which events may mould into any shape.—Morning Chronicle. The case oftlle six military spirits who under went examination at the Marlborough-street office, on Wednesday, appears to have produced its natural effect upon the minds of all reflecting persons. In truth, nothing could be more idiculous than the figure which these poor crea tures cut, with wooden swords in their hands, and wooden heads on .their shoulders. [hat their belligerent propensities were not very strong, notwithstanding their having been armed cap-a• pie in timber, may he inferred from the readiness with which they surrendered to the Government forces—a few policemen. Whatever deeds they might have come!r plated, certain it is they looked very lit.le like heroes. Sir John Falstaff would never have marched through Coventry with them. Still, however, courage is not always painted in the face, and, per haps, if the superintendent of the T division had not luck ity overheard their manoeuvres before they got the word " march,' some of the bakers' shops in the neighbourhood alight, by this time, hive satiated the hunger of revolution. But this exhibition, with all its folly, suggests some serious reflections. W e o ppose the present Government, and every Government, when we find them doing wrong, and many are the opportunities which they give us of asserting our independence by our dissent. It is but justice, however, to the present Ministry to observe that in treating the fools, at whose expense the public have been laughing, with contemptuous neglect, they have given a proof of wisdom and humanity not a lways the characteristic of statesmen. There are Governments in this world—there have been Governnients in this country—who would have chuckled with delight to have caught a set of idiots or i any pranks which mi g ht be con strued encouraged into treason. It may be good engaged policy in despotisms which exist by fear to pounce upon a few victims now and then, bu' in a free Government like ours, though the thing has been practised, the spirit of our insti tutions is against it. And yet we do not know that spies have been employed, not merely to • detect, but to work up into tangible acts of trea son the proceedings of a few wretches who hardly knew what they were about until the rope was round their necks. We repeat it, these things have been done in England. Let us re joice that they are done no longer ; and let us do justice to the men who, whatever errors they may have committed in other respects, have never sent their emissaries treason-hunting into the haunts of folly or the receptacles of misery and vicc.—Morning Herald. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. Yesterday a fellow, in the garb of a gentleman, who first gave the name of Petlg, and attetwards changed it to Janzes Williams, but whose real name s said to he Wright, was placed at the bar before I , lr. MINSEIULL, charged with having taken indecent liberties with a young man, named George Cuth bert. The . details . of the case are not fit for publi- cation. The prisoner said that;he should be enabled to prove that there was a conspiracy against him, and he should therefore defer his defence to another op- portunity. He was then fully committed for trial, and Mr. NIINSHULL directed that the witnesses should be bot►nd over to prosecute, and that they should pro ceed immediately to the Westminster Sessions to prefer a bill of indictment against the prisoner. A gentleman residing in Clement's-inn, said, that th.• prisoner had assumed the name of Slr. Jones W►lliam•, a gentleman of h;gh respectability, who resided in Clement'.-inn, and %%hose character might be irjured, if the circumstances were not explAined, MARLBOROUGH STREET. Yesterday llfidtael Murphy, the man who stands charged as the principal of the supp.sed conspira tors who were apprehended on Tuesday night last in Glass-house-ydrd, was set at libel ty upon produ- Cf bail for his appeaiance fn re on Saturlay next. Before the close of the office, Mr. Watson, the b .okseller, itt company with other individuals, waited upon Mr, Ro , for the purpose of inqui.ing if a single bail in 40!. wouli not answer as well as two bails in 201. each as a security for the appear ance 01 the pris“ner Sparks at the next. examination. Mr. ROE could not consent to rake single bail for any one of the prisoners, and for this reason, — that two persons must have more influx rice and con ironl over the conduct of the party bailed than could be possessed by any single individual who might wish to become security. One of Nlr. Watson's companions here said, with much warmth, that he considered the derention of the pri,oriers an outrage upon the liberty of the subj.-ct. Mr. ROE was not in the habit of outraging the liberty of any person, and he would not allow such an insinuation as that which had just been made to be repeated. Previously to the parties quitting the office, Mr. Osborn, who described himself as the secretary to the Trades Union, handed to Mr. Roe a small pamphlet descriptive of " The objects and laws of the union of the working classes and others." Mr. Roe politely received the book, but made no observation upon its contents. AIARYLEBONE-OFFICE. On Wednesday William Leversage, alias the Rev. H. Johnson, a respectable-looking young man, dressed in a suit of black with an olive great coat lined with silk, and velvet collar, outside breast pocket, about five feet eight in height, dark sallow complexion, and dark hair, was charged with rob bing the house of - Mr. Collard, 32, Great Castle street, Regent-street. It ap l •eared the .prisoner called last Sunday week under pretence of looking at some part of the house that was to let, but left without coming to terms. On Monday evening the prisoner called shortly after Mr. and Mrs. Col lard had left home, and told the servant, Sarah Barton, that he had partly settled with her mistress when he called before about the apartments, and that he now called to say he should come to town for the season on Wednesday, and that he had got a quantity of luggage which he would send up to town on the following day, directed to the Rev. Mr. Johnson, and desired it might be taken care of till he arrived on Wednesday, against which day all was to be ready for his reception. He then left, saying he was going out of town by the coach that evening. Some time after he returned, and told the girl, that although he had given the coachman 2s. 6d. to wait for him a short time, he had gone without him, and put him to great inconvenience, by compelling him to remain in town all night, but he supposed it would make no difference if he took possession of his apartments then. She said " No," and showed him into the parlour, while she proceeded to put his room in order. When she had done so, he said he would go up stairs and wash his hands. She lit him up stairs, and as she was about to come down, he desired her to get a mut ten chop for his supper immediately. She had not proceeded far down stairs before she heard him open her master's bed-room door. She immediately con cealed her light, and listened on the stairs till she heard him come down to the second fluor bed-room, anti open the drawers there. She then went down stairs quietly to the street door, and begged of a neighbour's servant, who happened to be passing, to fetch her master, Mr Ray, of Castle-street, who immediately came, as did also a private watchman in the street, who immediately fetched police con stable, E, 117. The prisoner had by this time come down stairs into the parlour, and was very impa tient for the servant to go after his chop , . At this time Mr. Ray stepped into his room, and stated that the girl felt uneasy at his taking possession in her mallet's absence, and wished him to give his card. This the Rev. Gentleman was very high and indig nant about; but the girl stepped boldly forward, wal charged him with ransacking the drawer+ 11l rooms where he had no business. The policeman coming in at ibis moment, the prisoner became con fu-e I and his guilt apparent. The policeman and servant, together with Mr. Ray, proceeded up stairs, and found all the drawers open in Mr. Coll rd's room and in the second fhor, from which consider able property had been removed, and secreted under the counterpane of the bed made up for the prisoner. Toe policeman carne dawn stairs and searched the prisoner, upon whom a black silk stock was found, and subsequently a pair of trousers, drawn over his own, belonging to G. Pilkington, Esq. a gentleman lodging at Mr. Collard's, with whose wardrobe he had also made free in other respects. These facts being clearly proved by the evidenee of G. Piiking ton, Esq., Mr. Collard, Sarah Barton, the police man, and watchman, the prisoner was corninitted for trial, but ordered to be brought up on Friday next, at twelve o'clock, further charges being ex pected to be brought against him, there being little doubt that the prisoner is one of a gang who live by plunder, obiaoied by contrivances of a similar nature to that detailed above, and by whom the me dical profession have been great sufferers lately. Mr. HostaNs observed, the girl deserved great credit fur her conduct throughout, as well as for the manner in which she gave her evidence. THAMES POLICE OFFICE. Yesterday Mary Eyles, a diminutive young WOMall in the service of Mr. App leford, a respec table tea-dealer, of No. 19, J u bilee-row, Commer cial-road east, was charged with wilfully setting fire to her master's house and property. Henry Lee, a police c onstable of the K division, No. 262, stated, that on Wednesday evening, about half-past eight o'clock, he heard the alarm of fire, and saw a quantity of smoke issuing from the pro sectu or's house. On entering it, with some of the neighbours, he discovered the bed curtains and fur niture on fire, in a back room on the first floor. Ile succeeded, with the assistance of others, in extin- 9:, uishing the flames, but not before the property in 1 he apartment was destroyed. Mrs. Appleford appeared greatly alarmed, and gave the pii soner in charge for setting the house on fire. He found her in the kitchen, and asked her if she had been in the apartment, to which she replied that she had been there to close tilt shutters a few minutes before the fl 'riles were dis covered. She appeared quite unconcerned and be haved in a very strange manner. She had had some difference with her mistress a short time since, in consequence of Mrs. Appleford finding one of hei -ilk handkerchiefs on her servant's neck. The pr - scmer had since thrown out some hints about being revenged. Mr. Fagan, an inspector of the K &visit n questioned the prisoner at the station-house, and she at first declared that she had not been in the room since four o'clock in the afternoon. She afterwards said that she had occasion to go into the room at eight o'clock, and left the candle on the ,tair-case. Subsequently she told him she did not take a light with her, and that morning she told him she was mending stockings in the kitchen when the tire broke out. BALLANTINE remanded the prisoner. Q UEEN-SQ UARE. John the driver of the hackney-coach No. -207, was summoned by lifers, under the new act, for grossly abusing him, whereby he had incurred a penal'y of any sum not exceeding 5/- It appeared that the defendant had used very insult ing language iu Piccadilly to the informer, and called him various names, which need not be repeated. By the new hackney-coach act, there is a clause in the 56th section, which empowers Magistrates to fine hackney-coachmen who shall use insulting lan guage, or be rude, to any person whatsoever. This is call.-d the compensation clause,and is but little known. Mr. MARRIOTT, who heard the carne, fined the defendant in !he mitigated penalty of 10s. and costs. UNION HALL. A few days ago George Goodman, a labourer, in the employ of Mr. Richardson, the proprietor of lime kilns, at Catnberwell, was brought to this office charged with being concerned in robbing his master, and exciting his daughter to elope from home. Subsequently to the elopement of the girl, who is only 17 years of age, it was ascertained that the prisoner had been seen in her co t•pany late in the evening, carrying a bundle, which was supposed to contain the ciot hes and other articles which she had parked up in readiness preparatory to her elope ment. The prisoner, when first brought to this office, denied that he knew the place of the young lady's concealment, although it was strongly suspected that he had been in her company from the time she quitted home until he was taken into custody. He was therefore remanded, and Mr. Nicholson, with the aid of en officer of this establisioneot, fortunately succeeded in tracing the unfortunate girt during the imprisonment of the accu-el. When Goodman was brought up yesterday, he was ignorant that Miss Richardson had b, en found : and when the M,gi - rate (Mr. Murray) asked him if he was then inclined to oisclose ,‘ here he had I,,keu her, he replied, with great effrontery, that upon condition of his being liberated, and again taken into Mr. Richardson's service, he would divulge the secret. Mr. MURRAY never saw a fellow possessed of more consummate impudence in his life, after the conduct he had pursued towards Mr. Richardson, to dare expect ever to be taken into his service again. M. It chardson declared, that if ever he caught the accused on his premises, after what had hap pet:et!, he should have reason to repent. The prisoner sa , d, that as his terms were not agreed to, he should be silent on the subject of giv ing any information respecting the young lady. When told that she was then at home, the fellAv exhibited great surprise; and after a severe admoni tion from the Magistrate, who regretted that the law did not give him power to punish him, he was turned out of the office. EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR. TOWN-HALL, BRIG I-1T 'N. —MARCH 26 A person, very iespectahly dressed, of dark curnplexiiin, possessing the air, language, and manners of a gentleman, was placed at the bar on suspicion of forgery. The pri soner said that his name was Charles Nichols ; that he was connected with persans of the first rank and conse quence ; that he had one brother who went the Western circuit ; that he had another ordained at Chichester, and who had an estate on the borders of this county ; that he was known io the present Bishop of Worceater, Dr. Carr; that h s unt was worth 3,0001. or 4,0001. a year, re sided in Surrey ; that Mr. Sergisson, once a candidate for this county, was his uncle, &c. &c. &c. Mr. Hargraves, surgeon, on the King's-road, preferred the charge against him, and stated, in substance, that some months ago, Mrs. Rutter, the wife of a German banker residing in Preston House, used to come to him for va rious m.dicines. Mr. Rutter's firm had since, as he un derstood, become bankrupt. On one occasion Mrs. Rutter came with Nichols to his shop; when Nichols had some me , dicine and paid for it. Mrs. Rutter owed him money for medicine; and on one occasion she came with Nichols, and told him he should be paid, but wished him to give her a receipt for the bill, and Nichols would see that he should be paid. Nichols, accordingly, undertook to pay him. Nichols afterwards owed tim on his own account 41. Gd. Mr. Hargraves, from time to time, continued to press him for Mrs. Rutter's bill; and to-day he said that he believed Nichols bad received, hut kept hack the amount. On the 13th (we suppose of March) Nichols came to him, and asked the loan of I/., which he said he wanted for Airs. Ashhurst, W e st-street, with whom Nichols lodged. Mr. H. told him he had not a soveriege, but offered harms check for '71., or a Si. note. Nichols said the check would be of no use to him, and took the 51. note, saying he would return it in an hour, as he was going to have a check of his own changed He did not, however, return within the hour ; and Mr. H. has not yet got back his 51. Mr. IL then premed him fur the money ; and, after some further overtures, Nichols called upon Mr. Hargraves, and gave him a bill drawn for 451. on John Dick, by way of security. Mr. Hargraves took the note ; but a suspicion arose in his mind that the signature of " John Dick" was written in the same hand as the rest of the note, anti that it was a f rgery. This note was given to him on Friday last. Mr. H. had also, in the meantime, heard terrain reports, which caused him to become more uneasy about his money ; and the next tidings he heard of Nichias were, that he was in custody of Mr. Coop, the Sheriff's officer. Tile prisoner, addressing the Benda, apologized for any warmth or anxiety he might spew; but really it was in talerable that a gentleman like himself, moving in the first c rcles, should be deprived of his liberty on the mere sus picion of Mr Hargraves He admitted that he owed Mr. Hargraves mooey ; and that lie hail borrowed the sove reign and kept the Si., but it Mr. Hargraves had waited only day longer, he would have teen p iid ; for he re ceived mo .ey on Sunday, as Mr. Ashurst know.—(Mr. Ashhurst said he hail received a packet containing money.) He had received 401., a sum quite auffici-nt to satisfy every claim upon him. As to the bill, it was a good one, as he should prove. The reason that he had not endorsed it was, because lie would Hardly deposit in Mr. Hargraves's hands 451 for a 101. debt. As to the objection of Sir James Lloyd that the bill was no security unless endorsed, he contended, on the contrary, that it was, inasmuch a s he was kept out of the money till he redeemed it. The history, he said, of the bill was this: Mr. John Dick was the son of Sir -- Dick, Bart. Mr. Milliard here asked how long Dirac had been created a Baronet, apprising the prisoner that he had a list of Baronets in his hand. Nichols said that Dick bad made his fortune in the East Indies ; and that on till return to England he had revived a Scotch Baronetcy, h h af e l re no ub so w which belonged to his family. It was the son of Sir set-garden=, Dick who had accepted the bill. Dr. Anderson, of Dor but was rejected . on a ts t .as he his ladr l w eg ri it e h r na to te t s h o e n E ; abstutltntideiaaccocemptpoarnoyf ;the Billth illegi timate sun, of half caste. This son was to have been a nr.vedNthicahtollsierekpnieiseva a Sir Dick; considerable loss. He (Nichols) had,. however, ass i ste d account of the above circumstances, and thereby incur' ed again objected that the Bill was dated, " London, 16th him with money ; a nd Dick gave him this bill. It was March, 1832 ;" and Mr. Hargraves said he knew that Nichols was in Brighton at that . time. Nichols replied to this that the bill was complete in every respect except the filing-in of the date, which had been le:t for him to do whenever he thought proper. The Magistrates retired into the private room for a short t ime, when, having returned, Mr. Iklilfold said that under all the circumstances of the case, the Magistrates felt it their duty to remand Nichols for seven days. Mt Prisoner said that within tlrat time be could get lown persons to swear to Mr. Dick's hand-writing ; and, in reply to an observation of Mr. Seymour, be said hs could endeavour to obtain the attendance of Mr. Dirk iinoself. lie hoped, in the me,intime, they would enable him to be as comfult ible 49 possible. The Magi.trates r.plied that he should be sent to Hor sham.—.Brighton Gazette. COMMON COUNCIL. A Court of Common Council was held yesterday t Guildhall, for the despatch of such business as had not been disposed of the preceding day. The Lord Mayo r in the chair. Mr. C. PEARSON was just informed that a person, living in the neighbourhood of a certain public build had been seized with a disease which many thought contagious. lie would then ask Sir C. Hunter whether he, as Colonel, would give the heal-quarters of the London militia for a cholera hospital, rrovided the consent of the Lieutenancy were obtained, Sir C. HUNTER said that this was really a prodia g;ous i iquiry. He protested against being called oti it that moment to answer a question of such im portance. The place was a military station, con t ining arms, amunition, and other stores. The eye of Government was on it. Individually his should be glad to g've the place, but it was coma pletely under the hands of Government. He did not like to have animadversions made here on him, which went abroad misrepresented in the news papers, and he would continue to absent himself from this Court. His peace was destroyed. The report from the London-bridge Committee was then brought up. The Committee regretted hey could not advise compensation to be made to the inhabitants of the Fish-street•bill, &v., a, it would_ ultimately fall on the Corporation. The only mode of reparation that remained was to grant them ground for building along the new approaches. The report further recommended that the 7,0001. already paid as compensation be repaid out of the Corpora tion funds. On the suggestion of Alderman Wood, it was ultimately determined that the money be paid out of the Corporal ion funds. Mr. R. TAYLOR moved that this Court do ex press its regret at the existence of the clause in the Act of Incorpora ion, which requires that the chil dren be brought up in the doctrine and discipline of ihe United Church of England and Ireland. Such a clause was disgraceful to an age that boasted of its and was, moreover, a gross injustice, as the principal endowment was made by a absenting Minister, the Rev. D. Williams. Sir It. Clayton, a Dissenter, had also been, he believed, a large con tributor. PEACOCK said the clause was forced on them by the B shop of London, and in some degree by Lord Shar esbury. Several other gentlemen strongly censured the cl..use. The motion was opposed as referring to an act already in operation, but it was supported as a necessary expression of the opinion of the Court, and passed by a very large majority, hot more than about s•x haiid having been held up against it. The Court then adjourned at five o'clock. THE MARKETS. SOUTHALL MA ICK ET.—Murch In this day's market, which exhibited an average time of year supply throughout, and was rather thinly attended, especially by London buyers, the trade with each kind of m. at was very dull, at the following prices per stone of Sib. to sink the oflals Bee, --2 s. 10d. to 3s 10d. Veal-- 4s. Opt. to Si. 4d, Motton 0 5 0 I Pork 4 0 5 0 The foregoing quotations are Mutton 2d. per stone lower than on this day senmight ; prices otherwise stationary. Beasts, 2'26; Sheep, 2,713; Calves, 52; Pigs, 41. Some, but not a great part, of the supply left the market unsold. LEWES M A RKET.—March '27. 3s. (M. to 4s. Od. Veal Is 4d to 4a. 10d. Mutton --,. 4 5 0 I Pork 0 0 4 0 A moderate supply, and a sluggish trade. It K ET—March 28 HU 51 FOR L) 51A I K. d. to s. d. •. d. s. d. Beef 2 S 3 S I Veal !Button 3 6 4 8 Pork .. Suckling Calves from 14, to Weis ; Quarter old Pigsl2s to 18s. each. Supply rather limited, and trade dull. COUNTRY CORN hiARKETS DURING THE WEEK. Ve heat. I Barley. Oats. j Hearts. I'er sluarter. 's.to s. I s. s. s. to 3. IX.to s. Illandlord 52 58 34 24 41 Brigg— , 50 54 32 36 18 21 31 35 Cambridge—. 59 30 18 31 Chard 54 60 32 36 16 20 34 36 Huntingdon --- 58 67 27 33 jl7 22 23 33 Long Sutton.-- 146 61 16 21 28 38 Louth. 5O 55 27 32 17 20 32 34 48 60 26 32 16 94 30 3.2 Newark ---- 154 61 34 40 18 30 33 42 Nottingham 157 64 29 42 20 25 31 42 Peterborough 50 62 34 38 15 24 28 36 Plymouth ---- 56 65 27 32 18 23 Ptintetract---- 67 43 27 43 Sleafor.l 65 70 36 38 22 28 41 43 Uppingliain --- 54 60 28 35 16 21 28 40 Wisbech----. 54 —i 18 33 .ETS.—March 23. Wheat (bushel) ..Bs. Od. Bs. 6d. Barley 6 4 9 Oats 9 3 2 5" EXETER MAR: Beef (seore)--Bs. Od. 9, 641. Mutton (119.)---0 5i 0 6 Veal and iamb-0 6 0 7 P. rk —0 4 0 6 Beans 5 6 6 0 Geese (each) 0 5 6 B Ater (111)--,—..-1 0 1 3 Ducks (coun'e\--4 0 5 0 Edge (12) ..0 0 1 0 Fowls ---..3 0 4 0 Potatoes (peck) —0 6 0 7 NORWICH. March 24. Wheat (per qr.) 55s 60s. 665. I Beans (per qr.) a. 21. 345. Barley —......—. 253. 355. 363. Pease, Grey 135. 375. Oats 203. 244. 265. Flour, fine (per sack) 465. 485 LEEDS CORN M A RKET.—March 27. Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, 601 b. -- York. and Lincoln. 601 b. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk 12s. to :KA. 4 Yorkshire and Lincolnshire l4s. to 365. g Grinding Beans 6:llb. Oats, Potatoe —Mealing, For. 12d. to 13d Eng. 11 y.',, d. to 13d. per st.• Shelling Rapeseed, English, 161. to 241 Foreign, —l. to —l. per last; I.IVER4'OOI. CORN EXCHANGE.—March 27. WiIEAT, English, White, per 701 b. Red -- Scotch, Welch, and Manz -- Irish, White 8 2 8 4 Red -- Foreign BlO 9 0 OATH, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 3 0 3 3 ---- Irish Foreign 2 0 2 8 BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 35 0 37 0 ----- Scotch and Irish, per 60Ibs. ------ Feeding 3 10 4 0 BrANs, English, per I:nperial quarter 36 0 40 0 Irish, &c• -- Foreign PEASE, English, per Imperial quart e r 360 ;1,30 F(nreign 'l4 0 36 0 FLot , n, English, per 280 Th. 46 0 46 6 ---- Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401hs 25 0 2 6 b INDIAN CORN, per 4401 b. BYE., per Imperial quarter '(ALT, per Imperial quarter IMPORT OF GRAIN for the Week ending:March 26. Wheat. Oats. 1 Barley Flour. Oatm ez I. Ors. Ors. Qrs. Foreign, Brls.llrish,&e. Scks.l Load 6,897 7,054 , 447 1,000 I 2,529 3,48.1 LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, WEDNES' DAV.—We have had a rather dull day in this market. Th B outward-bound nation in Manchester, has been extremely limited, the sale , e n g g r ° e:a t t t i w t number of vessels rcn demandnot exceeding from th el, 50 7 trade, s owing, Prices, s 2h s said, ,ao:eirn.ounaltered. r g o : LIVERPOOL, MARCH rivals to-day. This morn o i f n g g telt t et h i to get under weigh. From for sea, and the difficulty few succeeded in in the river, which is now crowded putting to sea. The remainder . came to ancli;r with vessels, and toget b la The new city I &icemen, one hundred ii , number, will commence their duties on Monday next. ',, e c with the outward -bound still ) in dock, will sail in the morning: p o li ce Committee .of . Aldermen will gratuitously perforrn t 'i o functions of Commissioners, but their is to be a chief officer ~, d i rec t the whole system. Mr. Cope, the Marshall has been b po i n ted to this duty with the titl e o f S uper i n t en d an t. Mr. C0,.-F t a n is named the second or r a th er D epu ty- su p e rintendent. l'f': tin and Maclean, two o f t h e C i ty officers, are appointed ',,-; spectors. The scal e o f wages w hi c h h as b een fi xe d in t " - , County will be ad o pt e d i n the C i ty ; b u t th e d u ty w ill be 1 10- 44 , severe, as the men will be on their beats the whole day. e gentleman of the name of Bell has been appointed clerk to Ol t corps. The whole are to be paid out of the City purse, and 1 1° by imposing a new rate. 0. BIRTH. On the 29th inst. Mrs. Bousfield, Chatham -place, of a son. MARRIED. On the 18th inst. Mr. D. M. Japha, of Konlgsberg, to Itacho l l second daughter of Mr. Mi chael Josephs, of Crown-stree t, kinsbury.square DIED. On the 29th inst. in Park-street, Regent's-park, Mr.H.lßroo lii aged 34. On the 06th inst at King's-terrace, Southsea, Field, Royal navy,A deserving and meritorious o ffi cer, havi'Captain Wilae, ' served his king and.country faithfully 52 years. On the 07th inst. in.ring the 36th year of h er age , at Thanet-Bo illness, Harriet Maria Silver, th l N l arg ate, after a linge daughter of John Silver, 1..5q., surgeon, of that place. n, William the 09th inst. at his lodgings in Bury-street, St. Jalli o , William Gamelial Magrath Fitz Gerald, Esq., of Reclitionds•to v, in the county of Tipperary. PRINIED AND PUBLISHED BY MURDO YOUNG, ATV' SVN OFFICE, IN, STRAND, LOND4:4,