The Sun. — London, England, 1832-01-18 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We are nut altogether surprised, on a subject of so much anxiety, that a slight degree of im patience should be expressed by the friends of Reform to sec the Peers requisite for carrying the measure made forthwith. "Is the list of the new Peers out ?" has been frequently de manded. However, the public will recollect that a man, generally speaking, can marry but once, and he is then a married man for the rest of his life. So, when the new Peers are made, they are Peers ever afterwards, and they will be made in time enough to beget an heritage of freedom to their countrymen for future ages ; so that a short delay at the beginning of their career can be of no moment. They are to be made or created to carry an important measure, and who knows how many will be wanted (scattered as I the body is at present) for the occasion ? Let the re-assembling of Parliament bring together all the Members of the Upper House, and ren der it practicable to ascertain the sentiments of each, and there will then be no hesitation, from motives of delicacy, in securing, by one com prehensive creation, a majority in favour of the people's rights. Let not, therefore, the enemies of the great measure indulge a hope, or its friends feel an apprehension, that there is any faltering. Every thing is in train to ensure success. An error with respect to. one Peer's vote makes a miscalculation of two upon the di vision : an intentional or accidental absence has only half the effect. The power of the Crown will be exerted, not lavished ; and this fact may serve to assuage the fears of those who fancy the House of Peers is to be deluged with new Mem bers.—Times. It has become an almost universal impression, that the Magistrates of Bristol, by their criminal neglect of all rational and legal means for avert ing the outrages which they ought to have fore seen in that great city,—and, foreseeing, were bound by every tie of duty to provide against, — have been the immediate and undoubted authors of the worst results of the October tumults ; in cluding amongst them the much-lamented fate of the amiable officer whose remains lie still un buried. Had a large power of constables been prepared by the authorities, and had that power been instantly put in motion, supported by even the smallest demonstration of military force in its rear, the multitude would have been checked at the very outset ; the lives of those who perished under the tardy and deplorable application of the sabre would have been saved ; and the dreadful ex amples of capitaipunishment, about to be furnished in the persons of the five unhappy convicts, need not have disgraced the penal records of Bristol. Even after the rioting had commenced, it was several hours before the Magistrates, who had left the scene of their jurisdiction destitute of all protecting civil power, thought of authorizing Colonel l3rereton to take upon himself the guar dianship of the city. We therefore concur with the great majority of respectable persons who have fallen in our way, that the conduct of these same Bristol corporation gentlemen must be made the subject of a formal inquiry by the law officers of the Crown, or at the instance of the Commons House of Parliament : otherwise we may expect to find the calamities of Bristol re peated in .50 other quarters, and as many occa sions taken, through the perhaps designed ab sence of a constitutional civil force, to bring the British soldiery into direct personal conflict with the people, that thus an habitual exasperation against the populace may be created in the mili tary mind of England, and the groundwork laid for a yrompt recourse to the bayonet and sabre as the ultimo ratio of the Tory faction, when ever it shall (and its hopes are not yet extin guished) resume, which God forbid ! the Go vernment of this ill-starred realm.—Times. The Parliamentary campaign was re-opened last night. By a sort of tacit understanding the subject of Reform has been seldom brought forward of late, in order that the period of the holiday's might be exempt from excitement and agitation. The repose will have given fresh vigour to the combatants. We must now pre pare for a desperate struggle ; for it must not be supposed that the boroughmongers will yield to anything short of a stern determination on the part of the people not to be trifled with. The Charles-street Club, and the Dorsetshire Tories and Parsons, have not found it conve nient to support Lord Ashley, and that Noble man last night stated to the House, that he should not be able to resist the petition against his return without incurring an expellee which he was not in a condition to afford. Report, in deed, says, that the attorneys, who, like the publicans, are always glad to encourage an oppo sition, will be severe sufferers on account of their outlays in the contest, on the faith of Tory liberality. The outstanding bills are enormous. One of our contemporaries (the Globe) states the expences of the contest on both sides at 80,000/. Mr. Ponsoliby has himself paid thirty thousand pounds, and ten thousand pounds have been borne by the freeholders of the county. We have heard, that though Lord Ashley has renounced the intention of opposing the petition, some of his Tory constituents intend to oppose it. They had better reflect in due time on the pc4ctice of the House, which always views unfa vourably the interference of third parties to pro long a contest renounced by a candidate himself. and usually subjects such parties to heavy costs. If any of them have more money than they know what to do with, they ought to consider the case of the tradesmen, whose accounts re-' main to be discharged. Mr. Croker furnished a good example of " Much Ado about Nothing." On presenting a petition from Helstone, com plaining of the erroneous mode in which Lieu tenant Drummond had proceeded in his calcu lation, he charged Ministers with having inten tionally delayed a number of papers necessary to the discussion in the Committee, in order that their opponents might not be possessed of the requisite information ; and he started a va riety of objections to some of the returns, with out any justification in fact. He complained, for instance, that the total population of no one county was given ; indeed, there was no total whatever given. The various divisions of the several counties had been taken, and the popu• lation of each division given separately, although assuredly the professed purpose of the returns : 4 -'was to spew the total amount of the population in each county. These cavils furnished,accord ing to Mr. Croker, a substantial reason for the delay of a week or two. Lord John Russell coolly informed him, that the returns io question wer e not prepared for the purpose of showing the population of the counties at large, because that had already been ascer tained in other returns before the House, but with a view to the division o f t he counties. Our readers may remember that Mr. Croker, whose forte d oes no t s ee m to be skill in calculation, bid the assurance to hazard an attack on the principle on which Lieutenant Drummond had made the calculations. Lord J. Russell reminded th e confident Ex-Secretary, " That he had pledged himself to prove the ignorance of Lieutenant Drummond, and to show that the same results to the relative value of the boroughs set down in the schedules, will be obtained by the simple addition of the population, and the houses, and taxes, as had been arrived at by Mr. Drum mond's more elaborate calculation. Now he (Lord J. Russell) thought that if the Right Hon. Gentleman would not incur the imputation of ignorance which he cast upon Mr. Drummond —an imputation which might be thought not a little presumptuous, especially as that gentleman is known only for his great learning in that par ticular department of science." Mr. Croker twisted and turned, and talked an amazing deal of nonsense, and at last confessed he knew nothing about the matter. Mr. Warburton ad vised him to refresh his memory a little, by look ing into Cocker, or any of the vulgar Treatises on Arithmetic, for the use of children, before he again meddled with such questions. Mr. Hunt counted out the House on the Anatomical Science Bill, so that the arrangements with re gard to the next stage of the Reform Bill were not fixed.—Morning Chronicle. Parliament has resumed its labours, and, as will be seen from our report, even the first day of their meeting did not pass over without some skirmishing on the Reform Bill. The first alit!. sion to it arose out of a very novel proceeding on the part of Lord Ashley, who candidly avowed his inability to resist the petition against his return ; not because his right was defective, but because his purse was not long enough to maintain the right. Nothing could more clearly demonstrate the necessity of some Reform than a statement such as this; and Mr. Hume took advantage of it to lecture the Anti-Reformers • upon the one hand, and his Majesty's Govern ment upon the other—the latter of whom, he , hoped, would introduce some measure or some provision into the Bill to lessen the expense of elections. The Anti-Reformers seem to have taken the hint more readily than the Ministers. Sir Charles Wetherell expressed concurrence, for once in his life, with Mr. Hume ; but there was no pledge from the Treasury Bench that the new topic would be added to the long list already awaiting discussion. There can be but little doubt that the present Reform Bill, or any Reform Bill, which, by making the House of Com mons what it ought to be, the representative ofthe people, would interfere with the system of corrupt influence, must also contribute to diminish the ex pense attending elections, for the:price ofa seat de pends in a great degree on the value of a seat, and the value has a direct reference to the good things which it can command for its possessor at the hands of a jobbing Administration. But, though much is likely to be effected by the ge neral measure towards the correction of this monstrous evil, something more specific should be attempted. The enactment of a bribery oath, to be taken by the candidates themselves, has been often suggested. Would it not be likely to prove effectual ? Those who think not en tertain a worse opinion of our legislators, elect or expectant, than we should be willing to adopt. The next allusion to the Reform Bill was on an attempt made by Mr. Croker to postpone the Committee, which stands appointed for Friday. There are many difficulties connected with the • details of a Bill -ntended to regulate the whole representation of the country, which an expert debater, like Mr. Croker, knows how to take advantage of. We may therefore conclude, though he did not succeed in his endeavour last night, that, as delay appears to be his object, he will neither want nor emit opportunities of throwing impediments in the way of despatch. The distinction, however, between necessary and vexatious delay is, we hope, plain enough to disappoint many of the Right Hon. Gentleman's intended interludes. His proposition last night was founded on the feasible pretext of waiting for documents ; but the documents referred only to parts of the Bill, they supplied but a lame argument for postponing the whole measure, and the attempt was consequently defeated. What followed on the question of Mr. Warburton's Bill, for which we refer our readers to the de bate, affords but little prospect of any immediate arrangement for the supply of anatomical sub jects.—Morning Herald. Whatever may be the state of opinion with regard to the right or propriety of punishing certain crimes with death, we presume there can be but one opinion as to the necessity of guilt being clearly and indisputably proved, before the dreadful sentence of the law shall in any case be carried into execution. This principle —to which no ►man, however sanguinary, will, at the present day, refuse his assent—is often fearfully and flitally violated in practice. There is not a year that passes in which some persons are not executed of whose guilt great and reason able doubts are entertained. This is particularly the case when any species of crime which in spires public terror happens to be prevalent—for then it is difficult to divest Courts of Justice and Juries of that passion and alarm which dis turb the clearness of the understanding, and too often make prejudice supply the deficiencies of proof. The history of Criminal Jurisprudence shows, from the earliest times down to the pre sent day, that the public mind is sometimes in that state which renders accusation almost, if not entirely, tantamount to evidence of guilt. This has been the case, of late years, in the agri cultural districts, where the atrocious crime of wilful burning —or, as it is technically called, arson—has spread alarm among that class of men who are generally called upon to decide, as Jurors, upon the guilt or innocence of persons clic) stand accused of crime by which the pro duce of a year may be reduced to ashes between the setting and the rising of the sun. The chances of an innocent moan being able to clear himself of a dreadful accusation under such circumstances are considerably decreased when rewards are offered for the production of evi dence—because such rewards operate as a direct temptation to that most malignant sort of perjury which swears away human life for the price of blood. Accordi►►gly, since arson became frequent, several doubtful cases of conviction have occurred, and in every one, or in all but ono, of those doubtful cases execution has followed, as if the present Government had come to the resolution to take time risk of hang ing persons by possibility innocent in cases of arson rather titan advise a reprieve, upon the ground of there being cause to entertain rea sonable doubts of guilt. Witness the case of Dyke, who was executed at Pennenden-heath about a year ago, on slight and most unsatisfac tory evidence ; and that of Ewens, executed at Clieltrisloal soon afterward s , although there were laid before Lord Melbourne documents afford ing, in our opinion, strong presumptive grounds of innocence—and several have since suffered death upon evidence by no means convincing or conclusive, Of the five men convicted of rioting 'and burning at Colwick-hall and Beeston-mills there are no less than four of whose guilt the proof is exceedingly doubtful. On this subject an intelligent correspondent of a Morning Paper, who writes from Nottingham, has a passage which we give in his own words. After paying a suitable tribute of praise to the considerate and dispassionate conduct of the Learned Judges, he says, " Still, with all those feelings operating upon me, I cannot help wishing that they had not selected so large a number of victims for the vengeance of the law. If the infliction of terror on the multitude, and not mere blind, indiscri minating revenge, be the only excuse for the sa crifice of human life by the hands of the execu tioner which can bear a moment's e xamination, surely much less than the deliberate destruction of five human beings will answer all the ends of public justice. Thank God! it is not for me to say which of these parties are more or less guilty : still I cannot hide from myself that there are strong ,;rounds for doubting even the guilt of some of the parties now exposed to the ex treme penalties of the law." We have not space to go into the particulars of the examination of the evidence in each case; but the result of that examination is such as to excite considerable doubts of the guilt of the four unfortunate men— Berkins, Shelton, Hearson and Beck. The fifth man, Armstrong, pleaded his youth in ex tenuation of his offence. Yet this is the sacri fice or holocaust about to be made, not to " au gust and god-like Justice," but to vindictive law, under the Special Commission at Nottingham—. ' namely, one man so young as to be a fit object for mercy, and four others whose criminality is so doubtful as to make it a matter of extreme peril whether their execution would not bring upon the Government the fearful responsibility of shedding innocent blood. We may briefly state, and we call the attention of the Home Secretary to the subject, hoping that the obstinate error r committed in the case of Richard Lewis, at Merthyr-Tydvil, will not be repeated, that Per kins was convicted as one of the rioters at Col wick Hall, on the unsupported evidence of a witness whose credit was successfully impeached ; and not only was the evidence of this witness in every material point unsupported, but it was actually contradicted by respectable persons, who, as the correspondent to whom we have referred states, had better opportunities of knowing the (- truth ; and, indeed, the most materi a l p art f his n , e va e s d sN co o i r it n ra t t o lic b t y ion oi . ily A a s s t i o ng S le hehoii evidence was in itself so highly imp ro b a bl e as h sc i a s r i c d e e ly nt t i o ty wit ness, under circumstances on which no positive reliance can be placed—he not pretending to have seen him for more than a moment, through the confusion and smoke of a riot and conflagra tion, being, as he said, at twenty yards distance; but, as it has since been ascertained, at more than thirty yards. In the cases of Hearson and Beck it is perhaps enough to say, without going into any particulars, that the conviction of both was procured by the evidence of two accomplices, which " was shown to be so unworthy of credit that on subsequent trials two juries refused to convict upon it." If human life be taken on such testimony, the law will be less terrible to guilt than dangerous to the lives of innocent men.—Morning Herald. At the commencement of the present session of Parliament the Ministers of the Crown, who wanted something to redeem their innumerable blunders and failures, thought proper to com municate to the country, by a channel no less solemn and august than that of the King's speech, that the arrangement of the separation of Holland and Belgium was finally concluded, so far, at least, as the Five Powers and the King of the Belgians were concerned. In communi cating this we now feel ourselves entitled to say that his Majesty's Ministers imp ar t e d, whether wilfully or not, a falsehood to the country. It was not true that the Five Powers had agreed upon the terms of separation. They have not even yet agreed ; and we venture to say that they never will agree, unless the revolutionary feeling of the Governments of France and Eng land should' so far have abated as to admit of something like justice being done to the King of the Netherlands. The senseless and unfounded boast of the King's Speech is in the following words " The arrangement which I announced to you at the close of the last Session for the separation of the States of Holland and Belgium, has bee❑ followed by a treaty be tween the Five Powers and the King of the Belgians, which I have directed to be laid before you as soon as the ratifications shall have been exchanged. " A similar treaty has not yet been agreed to by the King of the Netherlands ; but I trust the period is not dist int when that Sovereign will see the necessity of ac ceding to an arrangement in which the Plenipotentiaries of the Five Powers have unanimously concurred, and which has been framed with the most careful and impartial atten tion to all the interests concerned." _ In this statement it is difficult to say whether wilful deception or gross ignorance is most con spicuous. The King of the Netherlands was not likely to see any necessity of acceding to an arrangement which could have no validity until he had acceded to it. The unanimous concur rence of the Plenipotentiaries oldie Five Powers was worthless, inasmuch as it was certain that two or three of the Five Powers, not having been revolutionized into injustice, would refuse to ratify the treaty until the King of the Netherlands had acceded to it. Why then introduce this treaty into the King's Speech at all ? Why, above all, introduce it to public inspection as a structure wanting only the audition of an insignificant ornament, when in truth the keystone of the edifice was wanting, without which it must crumble, as in fact it has crumbled, into a heap of ruins ? The Emperors of Russia and Austria have, it appears, positively refused to ratify the treaty which it has cost Prince Talleyrand and Lord Palmerston so much pains to concoct. The King of Prussia will only ratify it upon the condition that all the Powers whose Plenipotentiaries have signed it do the same. So that at last it turns Out, after the boast of Ministers, promulgated through the medium of the King's Speech, tli.tt the treaty is nothing . more than a project of the r e v o l ut i on i ze d Govern ment - of France, and the revolutionary Govern ment of England.We described this precious treaty some weeks ago as a piece of waste paper. Who can now describe it as anything more If six weeks ago Ministers trusted that the • period was not distant when the King o f t h e Netherlands would see the necessity of acceding to an arrangement in which the Plenipotentiaries of the Five Powers had unanimously concurred, we now in our turn trust that the period is dis tant when that upright Sovereign will be reduced to the necessity of acceding to an arrangement which has no Power in its favou r but Prince Talleyrand and Lord Palmerston, and the revo lutionized or revolutionary Governments which they respectively represent. To boast of havin g done something when nothing is done is the resource of impotence. To say that parties are satisfied when they neither are or ought to be so is the expe pedient of dishonest umpires. The union of Belgium and Holland was guaranteed by the Five Powers, and to absolve those Powers from the -obligations which that guarantee im plied required the full and complete assent of both Holland and Belgium. The guarantee was secured by solemn treaty, and to say, as the Ple nipotentiaries in Conference by some of their recent Protocols have said, that the obligation can be released by means less formal and solemn than a treaty, is in effect to say that there never can be any difficulty in getting rid of obligations which are felt or supposed to be inconvenient. What has England, or France, or Austria, or Russia, or Prussia to do with the language which the King of the Netherlands may have thought proper to address to the States-General of Holland or of Belgium ? What have the proclamations of the Prince of Orange to do with the matter ? Have the Five Powers been exonerated from their guarantee by a treaty as formal and solemn as that by which they undertook it ? This is the single question. They might get out, as shabby people are never at a loss to get out, of an agreement which they find burdensome. But if they will not do justice to the King of the Netherlands, why attempt to re strain him from doing justice to himself? Terms of separation are offered him which he thinks unjust. He very properly says, " No; I can, without the assistance which, nevertheless, if required it you are bound to give, recover my dominion." Can any thing more monstrous be imagined than that those who are bound to protect him in the possession of his territories should turn round and tell him that they mean not only to refuse the assistance they have pledged themselves to afford, but that they will prevent him from exerting the independent strength for the maintenance of his right which Providence has placed in his hands? The refusal of a majority of the Great Powers to ratify a treaty of which the scope and object were so iniquitous rescues the character of European di plomacy from a stain which would have been indelible. This gross breach of faith, as it was meditated only in deference to the revolutionary spirit, will now be the exclusive trophy of revo lutionary governments.— Morning Post. Our readers will remember that we mentioned yesterday, that according to information which had been furnished to us, but which we did not authenticate, the names and titles of some of the new Peers would make their appearance in the Gazette of last night, No such list, how ever, (lid appear, nor were we very sanguine upon the subject. Our information has, in fact, led us all along to entertain the belief, that the in tended creation would not take place until it was no longer possible to delay it, or useful to con ceal it; and in that belief we still remain. There is only one ground, however, on which the policy of such delay can be defended, and that is that the creation of new Peers, previous to the demonstration of the necessity for their creation, might tend to delay the his Majesty's of t a esty, le Reform siMinisters sters and ne e t d o l e s e s mb de a f r e r i a w s e s of their conduct in the matter ; for, in every other respect the immediate creation of the ne cessary number of Peers would be a God-send to the country, whose trade and prosperity have so sadly sunk under the uncertainty, whether the Bill would be ultimately carried, or convulsion and anarchy ensue from its rejection. We ac knowledge the validity of the reason, however, and shall endeavour to wait in patience for the time which his Majesty and his Ministers may deem to be the most convenient for ridding the public of its uncertainty, and ensuring the suc cess of the Reform Bill. With regard to the second point in our correspondent's letter— " That the King has found no difficulty in select ing a sufficient number of persons willing to accept the intended mark ofdistinction"—who can doubt the fact ? Was there ever in this country a more popular, or a more discriminating and revered Sovereign—or was a creation of Peers ever S 6 loudly called for, at any period of our history, as now ? And will not the new Peers be equally, nay, more, honourable than those who now have the advantage of them, created, as they will be, by such a King, and called for, as they are, by the unanimous voice of the public ? Talk of degradation, indeed, as some Peers, not five years old, have lately done, with respect to the new Peers—why we tell them, and the public will also tell them, that it is impossible to de grade the House of Peers in public estimation by any new creations, and that the great source of its stability, and not of its degradation, will be in the infusion into it of men known to the public as men of honour and talent, and who will only have been honoured with their titles because they are the friends alike of the King and the people.—Morning Advertiser. EAST INDIA COMPANY'S SALE OF IN- DlGO..—.Yesterday the: Company's sale of Indigo com menced at the India House. There was nut a very full attendance of buyers on the opening of the sale, hut as the quantity declared is small the demand was active. The total quantity declared is 3,991 chests, of which 3,827 are Bengals. The prices obtained yesterday have ranged, as far as the sale has proceeded, from 4s. 6d. to 10. 10d. per lb., which are higher prices than those sus tained at last sale for the same quality. SPICES.—The periodical sale of Spices, by order of the Lords of the Treasury, for the Ceylon Go vernment, took place on Monday afternoon, and was fully attended.. The quantity of Cinnamon declared was 1,400 bales and 116 chests. The first pile (119 bales), taxed at 6s. 6d., sold at from 6s. 7d. to Bs. 10d. per lb. ; the se cond pile (496 bales) were taxed at ss. 6,1., and sold at frcsin ss. 7d. to 7s. 2d. per lb. The thin! pile (about 700 bales), which were taxed at 4s. 6tl. for the best sorts, sold at ss. sd. to 6s. ad. ; the second qu,lity was taxed at 3s. Gd., and sold at from 49. Id. to 4s. I Id. per lb. ; and the third was taxed at 2s. 6J., and sold at 4+. to 4s. 4d. per lb. Subsequently Nutmegs went off at front 2s. 2d. to 9 4. 3d. ; Mace, front 4.. al to Lid. ad. ; Cloves, from s. 2.1. to Is. 3d. ; Java Coffee, from 525. to 525. 6d., The Cinnamon went off very briskly, and Spices in ge neral are firm. It appears that in the plague, which cut off more than 1,000,000 of people in Upper and Ltwer E 2 ept, nut a single o ilman, or dealer in oil, had suffered ; a nd also that alum; the Barbar y coast, where the plague is there never f, iglntfu', watt known k r no ir any ti: ' e n o i i r l n s t' t 4 o n r c e e s:l t witg in the i of the porterscoolie=, or least ,tfected by the disorder. T h e p h e nomenon ( so to ' . pe „k) may be the same in cholera , for any thing th a t w e : who u have yet heard about it. Let your able correspondent at Sunderland ascertain whether this exception now holds in the north. If it does, we have a simple preventive within our reach, and so obvious, too, that any one can see it.— Times. ISLANDS OF THE PACIFIC.—There is, per no portion of the globe that offers, at the present m oment, a spectacle so full of interest to the contempla tive mind as the islands scattered over the vast ocean in terspersed between the Asiatic and American Continent , Half a century ago many of these islands were scarcely known, even by name, to the civilized world ; and most of them, though indeed casually seen by early mariners, had never been explored by Europe till the expeditions equipped by the British Government in the early part of t h e le ign of GEORGE HI, and the indefatigable rese,iichts of our great circumnavigator, Captain COOK, exhibited their inhabitants in all the freshness of a new discovery, and opened to the Philosopher a fertile theme of inquiry and specubtion. M. SzEwartis "Narrative of his Visit to the South Seas," just published in two volumes, not only shows the existing condition of the various islands, but introduces to us scenes and characters such as no other traveller bas bad it in his power to describe. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOIV-STREET. Yesterday James Sparrow, a salesman in Covent garden-market, 'vas brou g ht in custody before Mr. MlNstim, by Mr. Thomas, Superintendent of Pc lice, charged, on suspicion, with having been acces sory to the death of a woman who had passed as his wife. _ _ Mr. Thomas stated, that one of his sergeants had that morning reported to him that a woman with whom the prisoner had cohabited was found sus pended by the neck and quite dead, in the room occupied by the deceased, at No. 23, Great Wild street, Lincoln's-inn-fields. In consequence of this information, he (Mr. Thomas) went to the house, and horn circumstances which he there ascertained, he felt it his duty to take the prisoner into custody. The prisoner, who appeared somewhat agitated, had lived with the deceased for the last sixteen years, during which time she was constantly in the habit of absenting herself front home, pawning his pro petty, and getting drunk with the produce. She went away an Wednesday last, and he saw no mote of her until Monday night ut ten o'clock, when he was informed by some of the lodgers in the house that she was lying across the landing overhead, so drunk as to be unable to walk. He immediately had her conveyed to her own apartment, and at seven o'clock that morning he got up for the purpose of going to Covent-garden-market, but before he left the room, be asked the deceased whether it was her intention to absent herself again from him. She re plied that she was unable to get up then, but he might, if he pleased, lock the room door until he came back to breakfast, and she promised she would get up in the mean time, and prepare some soup and tea for their breakfast. He accordingly locked the door, and went to the market intending to return at nine o'clock. It was one o'clock, however, before he returned, and on entering the room he saw that the bed was made, but not seeing the deceased, he conceived that site might have hid herself under the bed, as she had often done before. He accord ingly looked under the bed, and on raising his eyes saw the deceased suspended by a rope in front of the looking-glass, He immediately cut her down, arid found that she was quite dead. The prisoner added, that about a fortnight before he locked her up in the same manner, to keep her from making away with his property and converting it into gin. Mr. Thomas said, it was very odd that the pri soner, if his own account were true, did not imme diately on his entering the room see the deceased, as she was suspended nearly opposite the door. Perhaps the prisoner could account for a wound which he perceived on the right side of the head of the deceased. The pi isoner had no knowledge how the wound was inflicted, unless the knife had done it in cutting her down, or her head had come in contact with the corner of the bedstead as the body fell on the floor. He then repeated that the deceased was a most aban doned drunken woman, and considered it very hard that he should be taken into custody, because she had chosen to commit suicide. Mr. Thomas said that the appearance of the de ceased did not warrant the character she had re ceived from the prisoner. She was a very respec table looking woman, clean, and decent in her dress, and had no appearance, as far as he could judge, of her having been addicted to drink. Mr. MINSHULL asked Mr. Thomas to describe in what manlier the rope was fixed round the neck of the deceased. Mr. Thomas produced the rope, and pointed the attention of the Magistrate to the peculiar manner in which it was knotted. The cord had been passed three times found the neck of the deceased, who, if the act was done by herself, must have stood upon the side of the bed in order to reach the hook to which the rope was fastened. Mr. MiNsfium, observed, that the circumstances of the case, as related by the defendant himself, were so far suspicious as to warrant him in detaining the prisoner until the result of the Coroner's Jury should be made known. The prisoner was accordingly directed to be de tained in custody at the police station in Covent garden for the present. An application was made for his liberation in the course of the day, but the Magistrate adhered to his former decision. A gentleman, named Burgess, who resides in Kentish -town, came in thecourse of the morning, to give information of his having been robbed, on the previous night, of his gold watch, chain, and seals, at the box-entrance of the Covent-garden theatre, by a group of well-dressed thieves, by whom himself and family were surrounded and hustled. The watch was capped and jewelled, and was made at Paris by the celebrated Brequet, whose name was written on the dial. The property was ordered to be described in the Hue and Cry. HAT T ON-GARDEN. Yesterday Waddington, the gaoler of this esta blishment, made the following singular application to Mr. LAING, to procure the discharge of a prisoner named Mason, who had been committed until he procured bail, fora riot. It appeared that on Monday night last, Wad dington was proceeding to the House of Correction, when a woman, named Murphy, was seized with convulsions, and he was obliged to unloose the pri soners. Mason, although at full liberty, stayed to assist o i r r i e g c to o i v ) y t h a o t f the e w o ‘ u v l o d m n a o n t , t a a nd said ke t advan tage of the opportunity, but he would go to prison like a man. Hall, the officer, came up, and Mason still continued to assist the woman, in the meat humane manner, until she was brought partly to her senses, when Mason actually carried her to the House of Correction, where he was locked up himself. Mr. LAING asked Waddington what he wanted ? Waddington—Why, your Worship, the man's con duct was so excellent, that I wanted to get him discharged. Mr. LAING—He must find bail (throwing the commitment back to Waddington.) Mr. Mallet said he understood the man's con duct to have been most praiseworthy. Waddington—lf he thought proper he could have made his escape. Li the course of the morning Mason was brought up, and a housekeeper became his bail, on which he was liberated. On the afternoon of Saturday the court of offices at Dalswinten, the seat of JAMES M'ALrxaeE LEVY, Esq., was discovered to be i❑ flames, and a hay-loft, stable, and byre, &c., were speedily consumed. Some suspicions are entertained that the file was not accidental, and pur suit is making after certain vagrants who were seen loiter ing in the neighbourhood, and who made their way into the Mansion-house in the forenoon in a clandestine manner, and were expelled with little ceremony .—Duntfries Courier. DEATH OF A CHILD FROM STARVATION. —Oa Thursday, the 22d ult., the mother of an illegiti mate child, six years old, named SMITH, applied to the overseer of WoManton parish, for an order to admit the child into the workhouse, which he granted. The fol lowing morning she brought the child, and on the over seer remarking that it was unwell, she replied that it was not, but had recently had the measles. He told her that if she could leave the child safely she might, and go about her business. The mother then put the child to bed and left. In a few minutes after it was taken out of bed by one of the women of the house for the purpose of being cleaned. On proceeding to wash it she found it very ill indeed, and requested that the surgeon might be sent for. The child died shout three hours after entering the house. Au inquest was held on the Sunday following, hut from the necessity of a pose mortem examination of the body, i t w,s adjourned till the 30th ult. At the adjourned in quest the Jury, after mature deliberation, gave their ver dict that the c; ilk came to its death by ill-treatment, viz. neglect and starvation. The mother is commited to Stafford gaol, to take her trial at the Assizes on a clia4;e of manslaughter. It appeared in the evidence that the moth e r was married, and res:ded at Uurslem. She re ceived weekly allowance from Woolstanton pat ish for the child's maintenance, which she is said to have appropriated to other purposes, the child being sent out to Leg, and it unsuccessful, to starve.—. Pottery Gazette. BIRTHS. On the 12th inst. at Henstead-hall, Suffolk, the lady of Onley Saville Onley, Esq. of a d aug h ter, st i ll-born. On the 16th inst. at Sennowe, Norfolk, the lady of J. Scott , Esq. of a daughter. MARRED. On the 17th i ns t . at St. Giles's I , Camberwell, John Charles Thorowgood, Esq. of Totterldge, Herts, to Sarah, second daugh ter of Thomas Napier, Esq. Peckham. DIED. On the 17th in s t . in Saville-row, Francis Knight, Esq., in his 85th year. On the 17th inst. at Chitts-hill, near Southgate, J. Overeat], Esq., of Lombard street. At Boisselas, near Blois, Joseph Bullock, Esq., Commissary- General of his Majesty's Forces, and for many years, the most eventful of the last war, Chief of his Department on the West India command. On the 15th inst. Joseph Wheelwright, Esq. of Lowca, near Workington, Cumberland, and late of Stamtord-hill, ri.uch re gretted and universally respected. On the 12th inst. at Little Hea t h, Charlton, Caroline Mari, the w ife of Captain Robert John Little, of the Royal ner, and daughter of the late Captain Wm. Holberton, Paymaster of the South Devon Militia. On the 10th inst. at Southampton, Lieutenant -Colonel Phair, of Killoughram Forest, county of Wexford. On the 10th inst. at Stanmore, J. 'Ferment, Esq , of Pool La' narkshire, aged 67. PICINTED AND PuntoED ET MURDO YOUNG AT TI; SUN OFFICE, 112, STR4IND, LONDON. MARKET INTELLICIENCE. LONDON MARKETS. (From the London New Price Current of yesterday.) SUUAR.-We had again a brisk Sugar market fast week ; the purchases exceeded 4,000 hhds. and try. ; the advance from the lowest point of the market was 2s. on brown, and 3s. per cwt. on the finer descriptions. The stock of West India Sugar is now 29,335 hhds. and trio., which is 3,687 less than last year. The stock of Mau ritius 64,074 bags, being 45,534 more than last year. The delivery of West India Sugar last week 3,769 hhds. and trs. being 74 more than last year. The delivery of Mauritius 5.672 bags, being 2,840 more than the corre sponding week of 1831. We have again a very brisk Sugar market; the estimated sales this day are 1,500 hhds. and trs., at prices again fully Is. higher than on Friday, making the advance from the lowest point 3s. a 4s. per cwt.—The general advance in the Refined market last week was Is. per cwt., making the advance on in ferior qualities 2s. a 3s. from the late lowest market prices; the rise rather checked the demand ; low lumps 615., mid. sorts on board 28s. a 295., for low 275. was asked, and for fine entitled to the double-refined bounty 31c. 6d. and 325. This day the market is agai❑ Is. higher; for lumps 625. paid, and scarcely any at market; the holders ask 635. ; the grocery goods are fully Is. higher, and a brisk market. COFFEE.-There was little alteration in Foreign Cof tee last week ; 1,500 bags Brazil sold 555. a 565. for fine erd. coloury, ord. pile, 51s. 6d. ; fine ord. St. Domingo 50g. The East India, at public sale, Ceylon, 925. 6d. and 535. ; Cheribon, 58s. ; very ord. Samarang, 465. 6d. a 475. 6d. ; It is, however, reported, that parcels have since been pressed upon the market for cash at prices 2s. lower, but the latter cannot be taken as a criterion of the market prices. There was little alteration in British Plantation, the Demerara and Berbice sold again rather lower. This day's public sales, 320 bales Mocha sold, 625. a 645., good. 82s. a 84s. ; 1,748 bags East India, chiefly Ceylon, 525. a 535. ; Sumatra, 50s. ; ord. Sama rang, 475. ; 746 bags Brazil, the fine ord. sold at 555. 6d. ; pale Havannah taken in. The Coffee market more firm, and a great improvement in the demand. Rust, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.-The demand for Rum continued general and extensive last week, at a fur ther advance of id. per gallon ; proof Leeward selling at Is. 4id. ; the estimated purchases lately 2,000 puns. Brandy is firm. Geneva, ld. to 2d. lower. The prices of British Spirits have fallen 4d. per gallon. EAST INDIA SUGARS.-The Mauritius Sugars have advanced nearly in proportion with West India Musco vades; Siam are Is. higher, 1,800 bags sold 235. to 245. ; fine Bengal 264. FottEicN SUGARS.-Havannah Sugars sold last week Is. to Is. 6d. higher than the prices previous to the holy days ; 165 chests good and fine white sold 325. a 345. 6d. ; yellow and Brown Brazil 17s. a 235. ; all Foreign Sugars are held for prices about the advance we have stated. This day 135 chests good fine white Havannah sold at full prices, 325. 61. a 345. ; 66 chests Brazil soft white, 235. 6d. a 245. 6d. ; brown, 16s. a 17s. FOREIGN SUGARS USED IN RLFINERIES•-There is no progress made in the experiments ordered by Govern. ment.—Average prices of Sugar 1/. 3s. sd. per cwt. HEMP, FLAX, AND TALLOW.-The Tallow market continues very brisk at a further advance of Is. a 2s. per cwt. In Flax or Hemp there is no material alteration. TEA.-Bobeas have become mlre scarce in the market and are now worth id. per lb. premium. Hysons bear Id. per lb. profit. There is but little doing in other de— sriptions. SILK.—The market is improving slightly, and higher prices arc asked, and good Thrown Silk finds a tolerably ready market. In Raw there is not so much doing. Orts.—The Oil market is heavy, and rather lower. RICE. -There is rather more firmness in Rice; fair Bengal held for 15s. COTTON.—The Cotton market firm. The sales arc-_ 800 Egyptian, fair 6-ad. to 61-d. ;40 Bengal, good fair 4-id. a 4-ad. ; 700 Surate, ord. Sid., fair 11d. FRUlT.—There is no alteration in Fruit. SALTPETRE. -There are no transactions to report. COUNTRY CORN IkIARKETS DURING THE WEEK, Wheat. Barley. I Oats. Beans. Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. ia. to s. • Boston Gainsborough 59 37 21 33 Grantham 57 58 34 40 19 25 44 49 UrimsbY 50 60 20 36 18 21 32 40 Horncastle. _ 5O 57 28 35 18 23 35 38 Lincoln Spilshy 54 59 28 38 16 20 31 3.8 Stamford 46 67 35 38 20 25 35 York NORWICH, Jan. 14. Our supply of Wheat and Barley has rather fallen off, yet we had a fair show to-day; dry samples of Wheat were in moderate request, and have obtained an advance of Is. to 2s. per quarter, but there was no improvement in the price of Old and damp par cels. Barley is Is. to 2s. per quarter d earer , w i t h a good demand for malting quality. Oats, Beans, and Pease, remain as last week. No alteratiOn in Flour. I Wheat (per qr.) —54 s 665. Beans ( per qr.) ........ 345. 42a. Barley ------.. 245. 3fis. 38s. Pease, Grey ---.... 365. 40s Oats ------__ 9.25. 21is. 28s. Flour, fine (per sack) 47a. 495. CANTERBURI, Jan. 14. We had a go o d supply of Wheat, but Barley comes shot ter to sod, and our market was considered dearer for all sorts of Grain. Wheat, white-- 60s. to fills. Old. —s. to —s. 50s. to 635. —s. to —5. Barley, Malting 345. to 425..,,,,,. Grinding.. 265. to 325. Oats 345. to 38s. Old— 40s. to 44a. 43a. to 455. --... Grey....,.,... 3.55. to 38s. Pease MANC, Jan. 14. We have had a f a i r retail H demand ESTER for most articles in the trade during the present week and last Saturday's rates were generally realized. Notwithstanding we had a large attendance of millers and dealers at market to-day, the abundance of samples (many of which were raw in condition) were greater than the necessi tous buyers were inclined to purchase. Wheat is 2d. to 3d. per 701 b. cheaper. Grinding Barley as last noted. Oats are Id. per bushel lower, with a good su pply l e ft on h an d. Fi ne B o ili ng Pease sell at the quotations subjoined, the inferior samples are New Beans are Id. to Is. per quarter cheaper; Old are steady at last week's rates. The demand for Malt continues languid. There is little alteration in the p rice of Flour. Oatmeal may be noted as on this day week. Wheat, per 701 b. 9s. Od. to 9s. Bd. Red 9s. 34, to 9c,. eat. Barley, per 601 b 5 0 5 3 Oats 3 6 3 8 Beans, per Imperial quarter Pease, White, per Imperial bushel 5 0 6 6 Malt, per 6 Imperial bushels 42 0 40 0 Flour, per Sack of 2801 b 47 0 53 0 EXETER MA Beef (5c0re)........,„,85. Cd.. 93.0 d. Mutton (14 5k 0 6 Veal and lamb--0 5 0 6 Pork --..--0 4 0 6 Geese (each) -,,,2 6 4 0 Ducks 'couole\--3 6 4 0 Fowls 0 4 0 ,KETS.—Jan. 13. Wheat (bushel) —7s. Od. Bs. Od. Barley 6 4 8 Oats 5 2 7 Beans 6 6 0 Butter 0 1 2 Eggs (12) —0 0 1 0 Potatoes (peck) ..0 6 0 0 IRISH MA' DUBLIN MARKET NC RKETS. DTE..—FRIDAY, Jan. 13. From To Average. 2,489 Wheat, per barrel 20 stone 25 0 35 0 30 5 202 Bete .16 stone 14 3 15 0 0 372 Barley l6 stone 16 0 16 6 0 4,210 Oats 12 stone 10 0 12 0 10 9 12,911 Cwt. 9 stone 6 6 22 0 0 0 406 Oatmeal 8 stone 10 0 14 6 11 9 Sold to Bakers only. 11,247 Cwt. Flour l6 0 22 0 18 0% Average price of Wheat and Flour 46,. Bd. per sack. Receipts of Flour, 10,156 Firsts, --..... from 20.. Od. to 22 5. Od. 1 „ Seconds, from 16s. Od. to I9s. Od. Sales of Do ' 12, o, "" Thirds, from 6s. 6d. to 10s. Od. Quartcrn Loaf. PRICE OF BREAD. 9.7 id. I Half Quartern Wheat, Barley. Oats. Flour, per cwt. per barrel per barrel per barrel 20 stone. 16 stone. 14 stone. Ist. 2d. ---- --. —..--- —..---- \s.d. a s.d. s.d. a s.d. s.d. a s.d. s. d. as. d. s. d.as. d. Cork —..... 23 6 31 0 12 8 16 0 9 0 11 4 16 0 10 6 5 0 16 0 Limerick t 27 6 39 0 13 0 14 010 0 13 618 0 20 9 0 0 lb 0 Waterford* 0 30 013 0 15 010 0 11 018 0 20 010 0 j6O Clonmel —129 4 300 120 160 136 13 920 0 20 013 0 18 0 Carlow ~...1290 80 015 0 16 010 0 11 620 6 21 0 00 0.0 Beef, Mutton, Pork, Butter. 0 1 ! per lb. per lb. per cwt. Tit - : -- W - T ----- kl. 4th. sth, d. a d. d. a d. s. d. a s. d. s. d. s. d. 8. d. s. d. s. d. Cork --.4k 63i 528 0 32 90 085070070 0 64 0 Limerick... 3 431 434 0 35 0,90 084078072 0 70 0 Waterford 4 6 3 632 0 35 0010000800 78 0 68 0 Clomnel 4 5 5 6 330 34 0870840 0 0 0 Carlow—. 4 5i 0 0 0 0 00880860760680_0 .. KILKENNY.—Butter 90s to 925. per cwt. ; Wheat 26& to 290. per barrel; Flour 20s. to 345. per bag; Oats 9s. to II& per bar• tel ; Barley 13s. to 15s. ; Beef 4d. to sd. per lb. ; Mutton 4d, to sd. ; Potatoes 2d per stone; Coals Is. 2d. per cwt,; Buono Pigs 325. to 335. per cwt.