The Sun. — London, England, 1832-09-06 00:00:00

ings of the Bank parlour. In the end of 1817 and the beginning of 1818 this 12,000,0001. or gold was given out to the public with a large omparative supply of Bank -notes, and pros perity was restored. This gold, being issued at an unfavourable state of the exchanges, soon disappeared from the channels of trade ; so that In February, 1819. the Bank treasure was re duced to 4,354,0001., or nearly 8,000,0001. in the course of a year. The Act to restore cash payments passed in 1819 ; so that it became ne cessary in 1820, 1821, itha 1822, to secure a supply of gold to meet the new state of things. The effect of this Act will be seen in the rise of; the Bank treasure from 3,570,0002., as it stood in September, 1819, to the amazing sum Hof 14,142,0001., as it stood in December, 182 . 3,—about four years after the period of its former depression. A great portion of this amount, it will he perceived by the table, had been converted into coin, instead of remaining, like the Bank treasure at other times, in the shape ; of bullion. Such a quantity of gold could not have flowed into the Bank cellars unless it had been drawn by the suction of a diminished paper currency. Accordingly, we find that the paper issues of the Bank in 1822 had been reduced to the lowest level which they have attained since the peace, and that the derangement of credit, and the extent of national suffering, were in proportion to this violence of transition from one state of things to another. From this " high and palmy state" of Bank treasure, which was simultaneous with the general suffering of the people in 1822 and 1823, we find the coffers of the establishment gradually declining, and its issues, as well as those of the country banks, '.gradually extending till we reach the panic point in December, 1825, when the Bank coin was only 426,000/. and its bullion 601,0001., or in zulll about 1,000.0004 sterling, to meet a de mand of nearly 27,000,000/. Since that period the Bank treasure has borne a fair proportion to the amount of the Bank issues, averaging about one-third of a reserve, in the shape of coin or bullion, to meet the demands of the public for export abroad, or for internal security. Its treasure was on the 28th of February last lower than it had been since 1825, owing, as Mr. H. Palmer states in his evidence, not to the unfa vourable state of the exchanges, but to the late appearance of political insecurity, occasioned by the resistance of the Tories to the Reform Bill. The effect of this is calculated at about two millions, which, most likely, has been hoarded for a season by the timid and the cautious. Let any one recollect accurately the political occur rences and economical condition of the country for the last 17 or 18 years, or let him read its annals in more authentic records than the tablets of his own memory—with this account of the succes sive changes in the Bank treasure on the one hand, and the amount of the Bank of England notes and those of the country banks on the other, spread out before him ; and if he is not led to ascribe a great part of our real distress and apparent prosperity to the influence of the Bank Direction upon the currency, we shall despair of his being able to trace any relation between cause and effect on any political ques tion. And who would propose to re-unite this broken circle of vicissitude, and to run giddily round it again ? We have purchased the expe rience of the last 17 years at too high a price to throw it lightly away. The nation must now be universally convinced of a fact which it ought long ago to have known,—that we have in trusted the management of our monetary system in the hands of a body of irresponsible empirics, —that we have allowed them to usurp the Royal prerogative in clipping or enlarging the King's coin—in debasing or restoring the national cur rency at their pleasure,—that we have put into their possession the means of altering the value of every man's property, and affecting the ex tent of every man's credit,—that we have al lowed them to raise or reduce the burden of our taxes, and of all our fixed money engagements ; and that alternate intervals of factitious pros perity and real distress, of speculation and of panic, have been the consequence. Yet the party to whom we have intrusted these enormous powers desire not to be considered as public ser vants, or to- act under any kind of public con trol. When they are accused of negligence in not watching the exchanges, and in thus permit ting the ruinous fluctuations to which we have alluded, they answer, that provided they secure themselves and their constituents, it is no con cern of theirs that the precious metals depart from the country, or return to it, by artificial means. With a mixed character of Finance Ministers, of private speculators, and Govern ment bankers, they pursue, in turn, each part of their varied trade or profession that suits them, always under the direction of private interest, and without any uniform feeling of public duty. If . we are, therefore, to have a paper currency, let its. management be placed in different hands. BUt in no hands let us place the power which existed under the Restriction Act—and under no circumstances let us conceive the possibility of repealing the bill of 1819. With this feel ing of the ruinous impolicy of again tampering with our currency by new changes, it was grati fying to see that the Ministers of 1825 rather chose to advise the Bank, when in alarm at the drain of gold, and before the miraculous disco very of the box of small notes, to "shut up shop," and to write on its doors "a promise of more cash to-morrow," than to agree to its request of a new restriction act. Such ought to be the conduct of the present Adminis tration, or of any future Cabinet in the same circumstances. We have now passed through all the calamities of the transition from a ficti tious to a real standard of value. The trial has been severe, but it is over; and the Minister who could contemplate its renewal would deserve to'be regarded as a greater enemy to his coun try than he who would introduce a wasting pes tilence, or provoke a civil war. It has been proved to demonstration, that the 1/. note and the sovereign can never circulate together ; and therefore that the permission to circulate the former is a decree of banishment against the latter. Our currency speculators, then, who bawl out for the issue of small notes, declare against the retention of that metal in circulation by which the value of all notes, whether great or small, must ultimately be measured. They, in fact, assault the fabric of our monetary system at its base, and destroy all chance of its stability. For the foolish rabble of talkers on this subject, or for the needy swarm of adventurers who ex pect to get rich on the manufacture of rags into money, we can, of course, neit her feel nor express respect ; but even those who can give some reason for a currency of small paper, and who may be aeotetically right, forget, or omit, circumstances sufficient to overthrow their hypothesis. 1 hey tell us that paper is a cheaper currency than gold, and that, by using the former instead of the latter, we might save the interest of all the metal with which we are enabled to dispense. Tpose 10,000,000 or 12,000,000 of 1/. notes in circulation, there would, no doubt, bea saving of about half a million sterling on the interest of the capital which would have been invested in coin ; but is this mighty nation to be made lia ble to convulsions, and panics, and bankruptcies, for the equivocal gain or saving of half a mil lion a year? Without allowing ourselves to suppose fora moment that any persons of politi cal innuence, either official or parliamentary, entertain the idea of virtually repealing the Bill of 1819 by the renewed permission of a small note circulation, and without entering further into the subject at preeht with antagonists of another class, we lay before the reader a strong ar- Aliment against such a measure, derived from no less an authority than the present Governor of the Bank of England,--no enemy, certainly, to an ettended paper currency. " Will you explain more at large, in what way the state of the small nose circulation operated so as to interfere with the management of the Bank 2--..1t - rendered the Bank liable to a - Very great sudden demand ; for instance, in the year 1225, from October to the Ist of December, the demand upon the Bank was nearly 2,500,0001. ster ling, for the support of the country circulation, when the exchanges were nearly at pir, if not entirely so, and which placed the Bank in a very peculiar state of difficulty. The whole difficulty of that period, with regard to bullion, arose from the magnitude of that demand._ " You conceive the maznitude of that demand was very much increased by the small note circulation of the coun try ?—I consider the demand was almost entirely to up hold the small note circulation. Will you explain why you are of that. opinion ? Because the holders of small notes are the lower orders of the people, whose fears are more extensively acted upon in times of distiust, and there baying been no exchange for the If. note but the sovereign, the demand upon the Bank became inevitable. " Were you not also pressed for geld very much by the London bankers, who were called upon to send it to hankers in the country for that object?—That was the channel through which the supply was sent to the coun try?"— Tirnes. We understand that the evidence taken before the Committee upon the Bank Chatter question will be this day regularly before the public, and therefore we shall no further pursue the course we have adopted of giving extracts from what we believe will be found in that of the several witnesses examined, whose names and opinions upon certain points we have stated, and content ourselves with a short answer to the remarks of some of our Morning Contemporaries of yester day, although they are scarcely deserving of the notice that we are about to bestow upon them, short as it will be. We again call upon the Chronicle to state the specific charges of mis management on the part of the Directors in 1825. Vague and general assertions can and ought to have no influence. Our Contempo rary has, however, no other weapon, and there fore can only trust to his untangible male volence against the Bank sticking some where. We distinctly state that no part of the evidence will bear out the assertion that the Bank, since 1819, have been in the habit of acting upon the public market, and thereby con tracting or extending the circulation. It has been the action of the public upon the Bank, and not the Bank upon the public, that has pro duced alternations. From the year 1819 down to the present period is the time during which :he conduct of the Directors should be looked at, as we have before repeatedly stated. From 1797 to 1819, they had virtually no control over the affairs of the Bank. We shall deal very concisely with the rhodomontade of the Times in its city article of yesterday, in allusion to the operation of an additional issue of Bank notes, preparatory to the reduction of the divi dends. It has been put forth for the sole pur pose of raising the Funds. The assertion has .10t the slightest foundation in fact; it is posi tively false. Whatever increase took place at that •inie was the increase of bullion, and that alone.— Morning Post. We observe With astonishment, equal to the indignation with which we are sure the bare men tion of the fact will inspire all Englishmen de serving the name, that the report which some time Ago existed, and which appeared to be incredi ble, of the French Government having an inten tion of transporting a number of the Polish exiles to Algiers, who had been received on hoard French ships, at Prussian sea-ports, under the pretence of conveying them to a hospitable Asylum in France, has not only been revived, but confirmed. We recollect when the Berlin Papers poke of a contract having been entered into be tveen the Governments of France and Prussia -dative to the Polish fugitives in that country, in virtue of which they stated a number of them were about to embark at Dantzic to he landed at Bordeaux. What is the truth ? It appears he gallant exiles were induced to believe that, After all the persecutions which they had suffered in Prussia, they were at length to find sympathy and a resting-place upon the shores of F ra nce, until the course of events might open better :)rospects for their country and themselves; but their secret destination was the burning sands of Africa—the scenes of pestilence ind Arab warfare their resting-place—the captured fortress of the Barbary pirates their isylum ! In the periodical work called Polonia, or Monthly Reports on Polish Allizirs, the second number of which has just appeared, we Find the particulars of this nefarious transaction. Under the head of " Foreign Intelligence," there is the following melancholy account from Toulon, dated August 2 :—" The vessel Lachs, whose Arrival had long been expected at Aix, came into the roadstead of that island on the Ist August, having on board 400 under-officers and privates of the Polish army. But scarcely had she an chored when orders were sent by the French authorities directing them to sail for Algiers. The disappointed Poles presented an address to the French Government, through Rear-Admiral Jurieu. Legravene, who informed them that an answer would be sent to them at Algiers."— Thus was insult added to oppression, and perfidy aggravated by an uofeeling taunt ! Another communication from Rochefort says, " concern ing the Poles, who were not permitted to land in our port, but were ordered to proceed to Algiers, we have learned the following par ticulars :—The Gallant General d'Ornier, for merly Colonel of the 6th Regiment of Dra goons, and decorated with a deep sabre cut on his cheek, took upon himself the responsi bility of disembarking the Poles on the island of Aix. Two companies of the 57th regiment had welcomed the exiles on shore with the affection of comrades and brothers, and an hospitable en tertainment was prepared for them. A veteran ' French soldier of the 57th regiment recognised in one of the Poles his ancient comrade, at whose side he had fought in the battles of Somo sierra, Wagram, Mozaisk, Champ-Auber, and Waterloo. On this occasion General d'Ornier did not hesitate to express that if the Govern tnent were displeased with his 'conduct towards the Poles, they might deprive him of his com giission, but he would never serve them as an exe cutioner. This noble disinterestedness gained him the hearts of all the inhabitants of Roche fort. The Captain of the Staff, Nourion, be haved on so delicate an occasion with great prudence and humanity, and he also gained both the confidence of the Poles and the respect of his companions in arms." A writer in a Poictiers Journal, called the Pcho du Peuple, represents a visit which he made to the vessel containing the Poles, to see, as he de scribes it " the precious remains of so he roic a nation." He adds that he knew already, "by idormation received from a Captain of the Staff, that Government had or dered them all to Algiers, on board the frigate Thisbe." The particulars which he communi cates are too long for recital here ; but we can• not avoid giving a part of what this eye-witness records. He says—" The greater part of the Poles were from 14 to 25 years of age—the elite and the hope of Poland, chiefly students of the Universities, of the Polytechnic School, and the Lyceums. Their fathers are either dead or in Siberia ; the greater part of them possessed estates which are confiscated ; they have lost their all for the sacred cause of liberty. Among them were, however, some old soldiers, who fought under Napoleon. If you had seen them, as I did, your heart would have been ready to break. They were without shirts or shoes— : many were adorned with wounds and scars — true decorations at the side of the virtuti mili tari." The writer then states that M. Jurieu, the Maritime Prefect, who, we should mention, was accompanied by the Russian Consul, an nounced to them the sad and unexpected news that the Government ordered them to sail for A lgiers. The indignation of the Poles may be more easily imagined than described ; when those who understood French explained the meaning of the Prefect ' s words to their corn rades, it was asked, " Is it to Poles that you hold this language,—to those who have left behind them their country, their parents, their wives, and their fortunes, in order to save honour and liberty ? We came here by virtue of a stipulation, and we did not embark before the French Consul at Dantzic, a public func tionary of France, gave us his word of honour that we were to disembark at Bordeaux and join the rest of our brethren. You have cannon and fortifications, do fire upon us with grape-shot, and see whether any of us will ask for mercy. Before asking any thing from France, we ask for freedom." It is added that nearly half a day' passed in parleying with them •,—they were firm in refusing compliance with the treacherous and tyrannic decree, by which the French Govern ment—not the French people—expressed their readiness to immolate, as a peace-offering to the Holy Alliance, the men who had formed the advanced guard of the liberties of Europe, and especially of France herself. We are told that everywhere on the coast the inhabitants felt as indignant as the Poles themselves. The garri son humiliated, and the officers and soldiers ma nifested everywhere one common feeling of sym pathy and admiration for this betrayed and per secuted band of heroes. From what we have since learned, we fear that those barbarous orders have been carried into execution.—Morning Herald. Many regret that, from the embarrassed state of our finances, we are unable to play such a part in Europe as we have been accustomed to play. But our glory and our debt are cause and effect. Were we rid of our debt to-morrow under the influence of a disposition to inter meddle in the affairs of every country, we should soon run up another score equally heavy. There will always be some injustice to be redressed in some quarter or other. The phrase which we too often hear in the mouths of our present Mini sters, of national honour and dignity, is so conveniently vague, that if the funds be forth coming, the pretext for war need never be wanting. Were it not for the sufferings of the nation under the pressure of excessive taxation, we should almost be rejoiced at the obstacles which our financial condition opposes to the pragmatical, busy interference of this country with what does not concern us, which has led to such a wasteful expenditure. Thank God, we shall have in the next Parliament a number of men accustomed to business, who will probe our finances, and introduce into them a severe economy. Establishments must stand or fall, as they are proved to be useful or unnecessary. Real and in dispensable services must be performed and fairly rem unerated ;but of the expenditure of this country, how large a portion is for services that may be dispensed with, or for sinecures ? With a Bo roughmongering Parliament, the measure of our financial ability would always have been the measure of our expenditure. The possessors of Parliamentary interest were too well aware of the power over the national income which they possessed, not to make the most of it. Fortu nate it is for the nation, that the pressure of taxes became at length so insupportable, that the demand for Parliamentary Reform as a means of meeting the evil could no longer be resisted. — If the nation had endeavoured to relieve itself by a violation of contract with the'national cre ditor, we should have plunged again into the same career of extravagance, because we should have been without Reform. With the means now at our command, we shall be enabled to di minish our expenditure at the right end. We have never attempted to conceal the opinion that the Law of Succession i❑ this country is con nected with our extravagant expenditure, and that a reduction of our expenditure must intro duce a change into the Law of Succession, while a change in the Law of Succession will still further reduce the expenditure. One as sumes that we must have an Aristocracy ; and we must have an extravagant expenditure, because an Aristocracy cannot exist without a large public expenditure. " I remember once (says the able author of Newton Forster) when conversing with an American, I inquired after one or two of his countrymen, who, but a few years before, were of great wealth and influence. To one of my remarks he answered, In our country, all the wealth and power at the time attached to it does not prevent a name from sink ing into insignificance, or from being forgotten soon after its possessor is dead ; for we do not entail property. The distribution scatters the amassed heap. by which the world around him had been attracted; and although the distribu tion tends to the general fertilization of the coun try, yet with the disappearance, the influence of -the possessor and even his name are soon forgot ten. Well, and what then do we gain by the endeavour to perpetuate families ? Consult Lord Collingwood's Memoirs; listen to the tale of the threadbare . half-pay officers, who were doomed to the mortification of remaining at the bottom of the scale of promotion, while beardless boys, possessed of interest, were placed over them. We remember in our youth, while military ardour had possession of the na tion, being present at a family consultation, where a spirited young man having expressed a strong wish to enter the army, a sensible rela tion told him, " You little know the mortifica tions to which every one is doomed who enters the service without interest or fortune, You are now voung and thoughtless, and see only the bright side of the picture ; but *hilt state for any man of feeling and spirit to be In, to see youth after youth promoted over his head —to see merit of no avail, and hopeless poverty the only prospect of his declining \ ears." The rertiOnstranee had its effect. The author of Newton Forster, an experienced Offi cer of the Navy, well acquainted, of course, with the feelings of the profession, makes an old First Lieutenant act with some harshness towards a Midshipman who had unexpectedly succeeded to a title and estate. " I would have called him down," muttered Mr. W, (the Lieutenant), *hose teriiper had been soured from long disappointment ; " but since he's a Lord, he shall have a good spell of it before he quits the service, and then we shall not have his recommendation to others in his own rank to come into it, and interfere with our promo ►ion." Such is.the consequence of having a privileged and an unprivileged caste ! We can not deny ourselves the satisfaction of quoting from the same writer the following very sensible observations on the above subject : " It is a curious fact (he observes), although little com mented upon, how much society in general is affected by the entailment of property in aristocratical fami ies upon the male heir; we may add, how much it is demoralized. The eldest son, accustomed from his earliest days to the flattery and adulation of di) ndents, is impressed with but one simple idea, name'y, that he is the fortunate per son deputed by chance to spend so many thousands per annum, and that his bratlnrs and sisters, with equal claims upon their parent, are to be almost dependant upon him for support. Of this the latter are but too soon most conscious, by the difference of treatment which they expe rience from those around them ; and feelings of envy and ill -will towards their eldest brother are but too often the result of such inequality. Thus, one of the greatest charms in life, unity be ween brethren, is destroyed. • • s C During their father's life-time, they had a home, and were brought up in scenes and et ith ideas commensurate with the fortune which had been entailed. Now they find themselves thrown upon the world, without means of support, even adequate to their wants. Like the steward in the parable, they cannot dite, to beg they are ashamed;' and, like him, they too often resort to unworthy means to supply their exigencies. * • * * * " But major part of our aristocracy are neither defi cient in talent nor in worth. They set a bright example to the nobles of other countries, and very frequently even to the less demoralized society of our own. Trammelled by the deeds of their forefathers, they employ every means in their power to remedy the evil, and a large proportion of their younger branches find useful and honourable em ployment in the army, navy, or the church. But their numl , ers cannot all be provided for by these channels, and it is the country at large which is taxed to supply the means of sustenance to the younger scions of the nobility ; taxed directly in the shape of place and sinecure, indi rectly in various ways, but in no way so heavily as by tle monopoly of the East India Company, which has long been permitted to oppress the nation, that these detrimen gals (4s they have named themselves) may be provided for. It is a well known fact, that there is hardly a Peer in the Upper House, or many representatives of the people in the Lower, who are not, or who do not anticipate to be, under some obligation to the Company, by their rela tives or connections being provided for in these distant climes; and it is this bribery (for bribery it is, in what ever guise it may appear) that upholds one of the most glaring, the most oppressive of all monopolies, in the face of common sense, common justice, and common decency. Other taxes are principally felt by the higher and middling classes ; but this most odious, this most galling tax, is felt even in the cottage of the labourer, who cannot re turn to refresh himself after his day of toil with his fa vourite beverage without paying twice its value out of his hard:earned pittance, to swell the dividend of the Com pany, and support these pruriencies of noble blood." We trust then that the people of England, in choosing their representatives, will look more particularly to the subject of economy and re trenchment, as by economy and retrenchment they will be enabled not merely to relieve the present generation, but to strike at the root of the grand source of demoralization of society. Aristocracy and immorality are closely connected. Estates cannot be continued long in the same family without a fraud on the public. The in equalities in the distribution of church property, bad as they are in themselves, are also deeply in jurious to the nation, by contributing to per petuate a system of social inequality and pillage. The eyes of the people will soon be opened to these great truths. The late Lord Redesdale observed, that a Yorkshire clown, pointing to a Bench of Magistrates, said, " Sir, there are two hundred thousand pounds a year on that Bench." His Lordship thought this creditable to the Yorkshiretnan. We trust the pride of Yorkshiremen will take a nobler direction than this. The nation is, we think, in a fair way of being cured of a taste for hugging its chains.— Morning Chronicle. HORRIBLE ACCIDENT BY EXPLOSION OF GUNPOWDER. Yesterday evening, a few minutes before seven o'clock, the gentlemen residing in Furnival's Inn, Holborn, and the inhabitants of the . surrounding houses, were thrown into the most indescribable alarm and consternation, by a sudden and awful explosion, which shook the houses almost to their foundations. The occupants of the chambers in the Inn fled in all directions, to ascertain from whence the report proceeded, when it was ascertained that the chambers of a law student, named A. Barry, on the first flour of the building No. 7, were on fire, and the window frames and part of the wall of the back room were carried into Furnival's Inn passage immediately in the rear. The doors of the cham bers were locked on the inside, and although re peated knock. and kicks were resorted to, no answer could be obtained from any person within. In a few seconds, however, the front door was found open, when the persons present were prevented from pass ing over the threshold by the immense smoke that ensued, and the overpowering smell of gunpowder. The groans of some person apparently in the greatest agony could be distinctly heard in the bed-room; but nothing could be observed, owing to the smoke, for some moments. As soon a; this obstacle had some what abated,lights were perceived, and on going into the bed-room, a mos: awful spectacle presented itself —the unfortunate Mr. Barry was observed lying on the floor, weltering in his blood, with scarcely a rag on his back but what was scorched. Every article of furniture in the room, including a valuable piano forte arid a book-case, was completely demo lished ; in fact, the havoc that was made baffles all description. The unfortunate young man was re moved in a state of insensibil ty into the front room, and placed on a sofa. His face presented a mo•t awful picture; both his eyes were nearly blown out of their sockets, his right cheek was laid bare to the hone, his nose was shattered to pieces, his left hand was nearly divided, and several of his ribs on the left side were fractured. Surgical aid was immediately procured, and the wounds were partially dressed, the unfortunate gentleman writhing with agony. After a few moments he partly recovered, but not suffi ciently to explain how the awful calamity ensued. The surgeons (Mr. Lloyd and another) after binding up the lacerations, conceived it advisable to have the sufferer taken to the hospital, where he was re moved with all speed in a hackney coach, without the slightest hope of his recovery. It is conjec.ured hat at the time the explosion took place, Mr. Barry, who a ppears to be about 23 years of age, was making some experiment in the use of gunpowder, which it is well knoNn he frequently amused himself with. EXTRAORDINARY FEAT.-- On Tuesday Mr. NASH, lan dlord of the Royal Standard, in Frederick- Street, within th e h our , w i t h apparent ease . H e :areret from Hampstead road , for a wager of twen'y sovereigns, Tyburn-turnpike at tw o o ' c l oc k, and accom plished the task w i th ease in fifty-eight minute ', betray - walked t t six : betray ing no symptoms of fatieue from the (ffoets of this ex traordinary feat of pedestrianism. SUMMER ASST S. NORTHERN CIRCUIT, YORK, SEPT. 4. William Hodkins and Sarah Elam were put to the bar on an indictment that ,;barged William Hod kins with feloniously ravishing Catherine Stacey, and charged the female prisoner with aiding and abetting hint in the commission of the said offence. The prosecutrix, an intelligent child of 11 years of age, lived as servant to the female prisoner Elam in July last. Elam kept a public-house in Sheffield. On the 17th of July the other prisoner, Bodkins, and several other persons, were drinking at L'lam'a house. Witness went to bed about 1 o'clock. She slept in a room adjoining that in which Elam slept, and there_ was only a thin partition of board between them. Witness had not been in bed long when she heard the outer door of the house shut, and sup posed that the men who had been drinking were leaving the house. Shortly afterwards the two pri soners came up stairs. Elam desired witness to make room in her bed for the other prisoner, and she did so. Elam then went into her own rooms, and the other prisoner undressed himself and went into witness's bed. He had, on one occasion, slept in. the bed with her before, and had not offend any injury. In a short time he assaulted witness, who screamed out to her mistress. The latter told her to hold her tongue, or she would Ina! her. Hodkins desisted for a time, but afterwards again assaulted witness, who then got out of the bed, and went to wards another room, in which there was a bed, with the intention of remaining there for the rest of the night. The female prisoner got up, arid locke I the door of the room in which witness slept, and forced her back into the bed to the other prisoner. Hod kins then accomplished his purpose, in spite of wit ness's opposition. She called out to her mistress, and knocked against the board partition, but was desired to hold her tongue. Witness rose in the morning earlier than the prisoners, but did not tell any one at that time. She left her service in about 1 1 a week, and she did not tell her mother what had happened until a week afterwards, when her mother observing that the child seemed to be in pain, inter rogated her and learned the troth. Witness ac counted for her silence, by saying that she feared her mother would beat her if she told her what had happened. The two prisoners were taken into cus tody, and carried before a Magistrate. After their first examination, a brother of the prisoner Hodkins took the prosecutrix to Manchester, Liverpool, and different places, but as the Magistrate would not liberate the prisoner until the child was forthcoming, she was, after a week's absence, sent back to Shef field, and left in the street, near the gaoler's house, The male prisoner attempted to prove an alibi, and called a witness who swore that he and the pri soner had slept together every night in the week to which prosecutrix's evidence referred, and that prisoner had not once been absent. The Jury, after a long trial, found both prisoners Guilty. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. A woman, named Powe I, applied to the LORD MAYOR under circumstances of rather a singular kind. She had been many years ago married to a man who left her and went to Van Diemen's Land For ten years she heard not a word about him. At last she was informed, upon what she considered good authority, that he had " gone the way of all flesh," and she no longer thought she was bound to look upon him as qualified to control herinclinwions. She, accordingly, yielded to the entreaties of Mr. Powell, became his Nife, and bore him several children. A short time ago, however, news reached her that her fist husband was alive, married to ano ther woman, and carrying on business in America. They had been now separated 19 years, and Mrs. Powell and her second husband, having fallen into adversity, were obliged to apply to the parish of Bishopsgate, where the first husband had a settle ment, for relief. Mr. Booker, one of the parish officers, was quite at a loss to know whether the children were to be considered legitimate or not, now that it was ascer tained that the first husband was alive. By the de cision, one way or the other, the parish would be affected, by being obliged either to support them, or freed altogether from the incumbrance. It hap pened that the children had been all born in different parishes, so that very great inconvenience would arise from their being bastardized. Mr. Hobler said the question was a very nice one. The absence of a husband for seven years, during which no account was received of him, certainly established the impunity of the wife if she married another man, but whether the children were illegiti mate under the circumstances was another matter. The LORD MAYOR postponed the consideration of the subject, and directed that in the mean time relief should be afforded. MARLBORO UGH-STREET. Francis Steel, a well-grown youth, about 14 years of age, was brought up for re-examination, charged with having plundered his father, Mr. Steel, silver-smith, Oxford-street, of a large quantity of jewellery; and Catherine Phillips, Amelia Saunders, and Jane May, three young prostitutes, were also charged with having incited him to commit the of fence, and afterwards receiving the property. Mr. Steel had missed a great number of valuable articles from his shop in Oxford -street, and having set on foot an investigation, he was painfully sur prised at discovering that the delinquent was his own son, who had, unfortunately, formed an ac quaintance with the three prisoners, who lived in a brothel in Adam-and-Eve -court, arid that they had been the cause of the serious loss he had sustained. A great many duplicates of jewellery, of various descriptions, and a quantity of valuable articles, taken from the persons of the prisoners, were iden tified by Mr. Steel, as having formed part of the property stolen from him. The policemen who took the girls into custody convicted them severally with the charge, by pro ducing the following proofs :—On Amelia Saunders were found coral ear-rings and a coral necklace, with four duplicai es of a brooch, locket, seal, and two rings, all of which were sworn to by Mr. Steel. On Catherine Phillips nothing was found, but she was proved to have sold a pair of silver-edged can dlesticks and snuffers•tray to a publican, with whom she had been in the habit of dealirtg. On Jane May were founi coral necklaces, negliges, bracelets, an several silver spoons. Mr. DYER, after cautioning the prisoner to say nothing which might criminate himself, asked him if he wished to make any statement. The youth replied that he had been persuaded by Catherine 'Phillips and a girl named Lee (not in custody) to rob his father of money and pro perty, and bring the plunder to them. Mr. DYER remarked that at his age, with the education he had received, he must have been fully aware of the wickedness in attending to the girl's solicitations. The girl bounders in defence said that the articles found on her had been exchanged .with Phillip for others, and she declared that she was entirely ignorant that Steel was in the habit of robbing his father. With respect to the duplicates, they re ferred to property which Steel had at differe .t times given to her, and which she had pledged. She denied that sh e kn e w whereabouts Steel lived, having met him accidentally in the street. DYER said that there was evidence to show that r edewt nt presenti asked, ne h . r til o) s ey h a poga u el :aeprnvdpdttegioeveiraonspnt,t deniedanddnnhe gggen:sst look ing into the shop of Mr. Steel repeatedly. g y sh o e ucn h ag a th d setr b ei e ne e le n seen tapping at the window,and for him. money, and when he was one evening , h Phillips and J Jane en necklace. May a c s e a d t T h qp it:t e le S n n i H t e ti h e iv x Y e e e e tr l ds eh m e aav n girl a ring y apnurdensdeatma.nsa.edceklace, and hi l m n , f a a l e l t eg l i i t a ig d t m ha a t de a several m era m l jewellery w s e o l m le e ryfor paid he would redeem them. She positively that she knew his place of residence. This was contradicted by the boy Steel, who de• young maalar‘itliocivevsedohf dared that he told her *here he lived on the first evening he met with her, and that on the following evening she came to the shop to look for him. The girl Phillips here made a great outcry about her innocence, and slid it was not her, but it was the girl Lee who first persuaded Steel to rob his fat her. Steel said that they all knew he got the jewellery out of his father's shop, and Phillips one evening said to him why not get 1001. at once; upon which another of the prisoners replied " What is the use of 1001., get as much as you can, and then we can go into the country." All the other prisoners were ordered to stand remanded for a few days, in order to apprehend the gill Lee,—so that they miglit take their trials to. get her. WORSHIP- STREET. Yesterday, a journeyman weaver, named Thomas Middleton, was charged before Messrs. BROUGHTON and TWYFORD with purloining and embezzling 170 yards of silk, the property of Mr.. John . Parsons, silk-merchant, Spitalfields. It appearing that the principal witness against the , • prisoner was not in attendance, the case was ad- journed for - a week. HATTON-GARDEN. Mr. Sharman, the extensive coach-proprietor of the 801 l and Mouth, was summoned before R. A. LAING, Esq., for carrying on the Shrewsbury coach, " The Wonder," more outside passengers than allowed by law. The information was laid by- Rawlings, who called as his witness, James Stringle. He deposed, that on the 22,1 of August last he ..aur the defendant's coach going limn London tow ads Shrewsbury with 1 I outside pas', .engt-rs, b aides luggage. It was about 8 o'clock in the morning be saw it, in the parish of S Rah Mims ; one of the passenger:, was a boy about nine years of age; be would swear he Witi above seven. The defendant called Mr. Jeffries, the book-keeper,. : it; who produced the book of the Wonder, in which were . entered only eight and a half passengers, the child, being under seven years of age, only paying half fare. Also the t:' inspector of coaches, at the Angel, Islington, who saw the tttach set off on the day named, said there were only nine 31 and a half passengers on the coach, including th e guar d. - The boy did not appear to him to he more thin six years :1 old. A passenger, who was on the coach at the time, also ' l .l proved the same Lets. Mr. LAING asked of Rawlings's witness whether be saw I the coach stop, or only counted when it was guingo4. 47 He had not seen it stopped at all. „ Mr. LAING dismissed the information. IT'r Rawlings was making some remarks upon the case, when Mr. Lam; said, do not reply to me, Sir. , The case' is dismissed. You allege that there were eleven outside passengers, and they distinctly prove that there were only nine adults. What snore would you have ? There was another information against a driver named Wrangle, for a like offence; but it appeared quit Rtiw lings had made a mistake in-drawing it up. That was also dismissed, thereby leaving him little profit by his day's labour. BRUSSELS AND GERMAN PAPERS. - BRUSSELS, SEPT. 1. - All our officers absent on fur h have received orders to join► their corps. " Colonel Borremans, who was ptrdoned by the King on occasion f his marriage, came out of the prison at Mons on the 29th. The late detachment of militiamen who are to malce part of the army of reserve, has quitted A:l.m to go' to Liege. i4AMEIR, AuG. 31.—0 n Wednesday next, the pro ceedings against the partizans of Tornaco will commence. The 29 prisoners, 01 whom 23 are accused of a capital crime, will be defended by twenty members of the bar of our city. The Witnesses are 68 in number. The indict- ment contains four counts, in which the accused are charged, some in one count, and some in another, with having plotted to change or overthrow the Government in the province of Luxemburg., and exciting civil war ; of having raised troops for this purpose; of having, by speeches at poqic meetings, or by printed placaxdo, excited the inhabitants to commit such crimes ; of hiiing made part of a seditious armed band ; of having been`guilty of pillage, by taking away muskets, • &c. belonging 'to 93e civic guard ; and of having carried off registers and docu na..nts from the officers of some receivers of taxca. It is not confirmed that the Government has yet treated about the second part of the loan of 48 millions, as several journals have announced. The Allgemaine HandelsPlitd, of the . - Slst aaya " Within these few days the • exchange of. cauriers has been very frequent at the H ague. On Thursday M. Ju not, Cabinet messenger, set out for London, with de spatches from our Government, and five couriers arrived in the night of the 29th. THE CHOLERA. New Cases. Deaths. Recovs. BRUSSELS, AUG. 27 to 30 ll7 68 not stated. GHENT, AUG. 7tO :30........... 30 ANTW4P, AUG. 27 to 30 36 The Journals mention nearly thirty other places in which the cholera has appeared. - At Hulpe, where there" has been Only one case (not fatal), M Hennessy, whose paper manufactory gives employment to almost the whole of the poor classes, has ordered his workmen to leave off ' work the moment they feel the. slightest symptoms, and to apply immediately to the physicians, promising to con tinue their wages during the whole time that their indis position may last, and to defray all the expenses that may ensue from it.--Brussels Papers, Sept. 2. ST UTTG A RD, Au G. 27.—1 n consequence of recent events a considerable number of addresses have been sent ' to the King, expressive of gratitude to his Majesty and confidence in his intentions. That of the Communes'of the district of Meiningen says, among other things, that the agitations of the present times are caused by the rest less spirits of wicked men, who do not consider the evils that must ensue from their unworthy intrigues, which have led to resolutions of the Diet of tl a C ,afe &ration, that have been laid bold of by the ill-disp 'fed to excite alarms in the minds of the citizens, which alarms could not but be dispelled by the declaration of the Council of Ministers, afterwards confirmed by his Ma jesty. They are convinced that the King will maintain the constitution inviolate, while their unalterable attach ment cannot give ground to any foreign interference in their affairs ; and that such interference may not be brought about by the violent proceedings of a few agitators, they request his I'elajes•y to proceed with all the rigour of the laws against those who endeavour to sow dissentinn: • among the peaceable inhabitants.—Frankfurt Paper, , August 9. A labouring mm, by the name of PEASE, sitting by the fire-side with his wife, last Sunday, at Shipdam, was struck dead by lightning, while the latter was scarcely at all injured. Just at that moment he was endeavouring to calm the alarm of his wife, who ap- Peared extremely agitated on account of the tempest. The bedstead, we understand, was dashed to pieces. • The leztric fluid appears to have passed through his head, and then to have run down his side. The hole in the ,ceding through which the fluid passed is about three - qual ters of an inch in dianieter.—Norfolk Herald. ~ • BIRTHS. oun t g h e e st l s ad on y o o f f tWheillie: On the 2d inst. in a l y e r b e' one, Edward Berwick On the 4th inst. at Paley-cot ag , Mrs. Clement, of a son. NABB/ED. ollington, near Ramey, Henry This Newton,m ni n ' g ,0E as, it ih, of Connaught-s q uare, i i o a,mn n s :no Inner yi u; .ste, h r , n t Ae - i i) s la i r yT u , Harwood, Esq., of Bryanstone-square, and niece of the Vis countess Jadis, Escl,,. countess inst.Goderien at St. George's, Hanover-square, the Rev. of of the to Maria Frances, only daughter of uogest son of the late Right Hon. Sir Evan Evan Nepean, d Y r ° s, e Dorset, Bart. to Anne, second daughter of Dr.o On the Harwood, Nepean, of Le - cr , Knight, his Majesty's Advocate-General. ' h je in fin st at St. Giles's, Camberwell, Henry Sheppard. ,_ Amy, third daughter of Law,,Lvq n - y e n , Esq. of Peckham, Surrey, Pi ke ''.l3-- ) I) inst . at St. Mary's, Islington, Mr. Peter Bunnell., On the 4t i • d . Martin's -le-Gran , to Eliza Matilda, eldest dauLhter of John tt o f ush-lane, London to h o dy Burkitt, Esq. of Highbury-place. 1 0n - the 4th inst. at Lexden, William Wilson, Esq., FelloW Commoner of St. Peter's College, Cambridge, to Hester Ann • youngest daughter of John Fletcher Mills, Esq., of Lexden-Park , orostn t .,.. r b b e e J r: Essex. On the 4th inst. at Stretton, Derbyshire, William Booth, Esq., o f Beighton, Derbyshi re , late Major in the 15th King's Hussars , to Harriet, only daughter of Sir Wm. Cave Browne Cave, Bart., . and niece of Sir Robert Wilmot, Bart., of Chaddesden The/ ' were present on the happy occasion the Earl Howe, Visconti, Curzon, Hon. Mr. Curzon, Sir George and Lady Crewe, Mr. ano.. Mrs. Wilmot, of Chaddesden, and about thirty other friends and relatives. On the sth inst. at St. James's Church, Wm. Gi bmt, Esq., .o f Clapham, to Mary A nn, eldest daughter of Mr. Skelton, of Du:. cadilly, and gr an d - d aughter of the late Jahn Schweitzer, Esq., °` Middlesex-place. DIED. On the 2d inst. at Carlisle, Robert Spottiswoode, Esq., of Little New street London, in his 41st year. On the sth inst., at Brixton, in the 26th year of her age , Katharine Rose, wife of Ellis Cancellor, Esq., of Lambeth, On the 4th inst., suddenly, Joseph Savill, Esq., of Guildford' street, Itussell-square. On the 4th inst. Mr. Lynch White, of Brixton, Surrey, aged V . On the 3d inst., of a short illness, Mr. William Cousins, me.? years a resident of Lambeth parish, eldest son of the late lu o ' t , William Cousins, formerly of the Tower of London, and Maidstone, in the county of Kent, aged 54. On the 27th ult. at Hill-house, Twyford, Berks, the D.. Thomas Eisdell, in his 77th year. 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