The Sun. — London, England, 1832-12-19 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. It is pleasing to remark, that where the county contest lies between the friends and enemies of Reform, victory is likely to decide for the for mer. Our readers will see the position which Lord Douro occupies on the poll of North Hampshire, and which Mr. H. Sumner has at tained on that of West Surrey. In the western division of Sussex two Noble Reformers have been returned without opposition. Mr. Benett still represents a portion of Wiltshire ; and Ox fordshire has returned its two former Members, out of the three whom it is novoentitled to send to Parliament. We regret to learn that the eastern division of Sussex is likely to be con tested against a Reform candidate by an Irish Tory, who has surely no great pretensions to ap pear for an English county. In Ireland the elections are not so satisfactory : the agitator is at work. Yet, in spite of the disgraceful at tempts at intimidation practised at Dungarvan, Mr. G. Lamb has been returned for that borough. The Repealers seem to be anxious to show the weapons which they intend to use for their " patriotic" objects. This is at least candid. On looking again at the completed returns for the boroughs, published in another part of our paper, we are satisfied that the Re form Bill has generally " worked well" for the town portion of the national representation, both in the old and new constituencies. Tories, trading politicians, dandies, and lordlings, who formerly sprung into notice from the luxuriant corruption of the boroughs in schedules A and B, have in a great measure disappeared. The House has obtained, indeed, less fashionable substitutes, but the country has got better re presentatives. The former legislative insects themselves (if they survive the change) will even be bettered by their banishment to more fitting situations and • more congenial employments. They can keep " bad company and bad hours" elsewhere ; they can swarm in clubs and flutter at routs, destroying each other's reputations by their small-talk, instead of damaging the national interests by their votes. It was predicted by the enemies of the Reform Bill during its dis cussion, and is now brought forward as an ob jection to its operation, that by abolishing rotten boroughs we shut the door by which certain great public interests can send their representa tives into the House of Commons. We look upon this result as a positive good. We are sure that the facilities for admitting such hired advocates of their own partial interests into Par liament was in itself a nuisance that required to be abated, instead of being a practical good arising out of a political perversion. 'file opi nion of such delegates could never be depended upon,—even their statements were always liable to violent suspicion. They consumed the time of the House in needless disputes, and relieved the Ministers of the Crown from wholesome re sponsibility. When the Government perceived their presence in their places, to harass their conduct, or to resist their projects, they antici pated discussion enough during the progress of the debate, and therefore were less attentive to the original concoction of the measure. In short, they either yielded too much to the oppo sition of the hired advocate, or took his consent too readily as a justification. In order to gain the support of this mercenary corps on general questions, they were sometimes obliged to bribe them with concessions to their own particular in terests, at variance with sound policy or national advantage. Besides, as they could not be ex pected to accomplish their objects without pro voking opposition, other persons came into the seat-market as well as them, and met them on the same arena. Hence frequent wrangling and angry controversy between antagonist parties, on subjects which deserved calm, temperate, and mature deliberation. Hence the Ministers some times opened the lists as to a kind of judicial combat, and left " saints and planters" to fight their own battle without interfering in the dispute by the proper compromise. Neither our great monopolies nor our colonial inte rests require any other representative in Parlia ment than the Administration, which is respon sible both to Parliament and to the country for the measures affecting them proposed to the Legislature. If information is required, it can be obtained by appointing a Committee of Inquiry, —by moving for official returns, or by present ing in petitions, statements of grievances. 'Would the slave trade have continued till the year 1807 had the planters been unable to purchase borough representation ? And what can a Bank Di rector' now say in the House in favour of his privileged establishment,—though Old Sarum were reserved for him,—which cannot be as well said by a responsible "'Minister of the Crown %.— Times. In Scotland the operation of the Reform Bill has produced an infinitely greater change than England. In that part of the empire there was previously no popular constituency ; the whole country was one huge overgrown rotten borough; the representatives, of course, partook of the cha racter of the electors : a domineering oligarchy directed the whole machinery of power to ac complish its own selfish or ambitious objects ; and as the distribution of Government favours and employments had so long existed in the Tory faction, the majority of the Scotch Members were inveterately Tory. This system is now entirely altered ; the diffusion of liberal know ledge had prepared the people for the liberal ex ercise of their new franchises, and Scotland will send to the united House of Commons more than her quota of Reform Members, and friends of the existing Administration. But, unfortunately,no re form Bill has passed for the Scotch Peerage; and, as if to form a contrast between former and present times, while the great majority of the counties and boroughs of that ancient kingdom, respond to the general voice of the empire, and elect liberal Commoners, the noble conclave at Holy rood-house, intends, it is said, to despatch to London sixteen Tory representative Peers. This body, so docile under the Melville reign, has now become restive and refractory. While the country becomes liberal, it insists upon being more inveterately Conservative, and constitutes a species of living anachronis m in our political history. On former occasions it was the custom for the Administration of the day to send down to Edinburgh a list of sixteen Peers whom they desired to see returned, and the list was almost invariably adopted without change or opposi tion. 1 he message of the Minister was consi dered a species of cono d'elire, and a Dean and Chapter would almost as soon have thought of disputing the Royal nomination as these well trained Peers the will of the first Lord of the Treasury. Now a spirit of resistance has taken possession of them, precisely because the coun try is in favour of the Ministry. Is it not pos sible, and would it not be advisable, by the ex ercise of the Royal prerogative, to counteract the influence of these sixteen (if so many Anti- Reformers arc to be elected) by calling up six. teen other Noblemen of liberal opinions ? Times. The Standard has not answered our argu ment on the subject of Providence. We showed that nothing could be more unfair than to trump up a charge of irreligion against any man, as a dis believer in Providence, because he objected to the unnecessary mention of Providence in a legislative act. If a constant reference of all acts to the interposition of Providence be deemed conclusive as to the fervency of religious belief, or enlightened notions with regard to re ligion, then William Huntington, who preached in Providence Chapel, and to whom, according to his own account, in that most singular pro- duction, the "Bank of Faith," Providence sup plied him not only with a meal whenever he wanted one, but with breeches and other tog gery ; and Henry Teonge, to whom Providence put a towel in his way to enable him to steal it, must be prima facie set down as true religion. ists and enlightened supporters of religion. But we contended that the constant connecting of particular events with Providence, was no more to be taken as an evidence of religious sincerity than the refusal to allow a reference to be made to Providence in an Act of Parliament was to be taken as an evidence to the contrary. If what. ever happens, happens under an all-seeing Pro vidence, it is not serving religion to introduce Providence unnecessarily in public documents. This is precisely the fault committed by Win. Huntington and Henry Teonge, and other real or affected enthusiasts, who, so far from fur thering the interests of religion, detract from the reverence in which it ought to be held. The Standard, in the following observations, quite forgets the scope of its objections to Mr. Flume : The Morning Chronicle proceeds to make out its case against us in a manner more whimsical than either reverent, or, as we think, conclusive. It quotes sonic very silly and profane allusions to particular providences in the works of Teonge and Huntington, for what pur pose we are wholly at a loss to guess. We said nothing of particular providences, still less of presumptuous hopes to be entertained by the careless and indolent. Our creed, as embodied in the advice we gave, was as pagan and un- Ajectionable as the Secretary of the Board of Control, or Mr. Hume, or Mr. Carlile could have desired—it was, in fact, the creed of a great pagan, Demosthenes, v:z , that ' in pursuit of even the highest and most sacred object, men are to use all human means within their reach before th e y can presume to hope that the Deity will aid in its attainment.' We advised the Middlesex elec-ors to use the human means within their reach, even for securing their interests and their fellow-subjects' interests in reli jon—religion itself being an abstraction, and therefore in no danger, and the object of its worship being immeasu rably removed above all human influt nces. And to this advice the Morning Chronicle replies by legends of parti t•ular providence vouchsafed to Henry Teonge and ' the Sinner Saved.'' Our contemporary quite loses sight in the above passage, that the charge of irreligion against Mr. Hume had no other foundation than his objection to the absurd innovation of thrusting Divine Providence into au Act of Parliament. The objection taken by Mr. Hume was precisely what would be taken by any sensible titan to the passages which we alluded, namely, that reli gion is injured, not benefited, by all improper references to the agency of Providence. The Scotch have an excellent saying, levelled at those who are always thrusting religion into every thing—" A man may be fond enough of the Kirk without riding on the rigging (the ridge of the roof )." The electors of Middlesex are called on to secure their interests, and their fellow-subjeets' interests in religion," by voting igainst Mr. Hume. But abundant evidence has been adduced, that Mr. Hume is not merely reli gious,but that he is singular in the class to which he belongs for attendance to his religious duties ; that for ten years he has never been one Sunday thsent from church ; and that he passes the re mainder of the day in communicating religious instruction to his family. It was observed by Paul Courier as somewhat curious, that the Abbe Mennais and the other fervent advocates of religion in France never themselves entered t church. This was primafacie evidence against their sincerity. But here we have prima facie evidence of a contrary disposition in Mr. Hume ; lnd on what evidence are we called to question his religious sincerity ? Because he refuses to render religion ridiculous, like the Percivals, the Irvings, the Huntingtons, &c. &c. ; because, while thoroughly persuaded of the great truth, that not a sparrow falls to the ground without the consent of our heavenly Father, he refuses to join in the pharasaical attempt to introduce religion into an Act of Parliament, which could only have the effect of desecrating religion, and de tracting from its reverence. The attempt to -tigmatise Mr. Hume as irreligious on such grounds is utterly contemptible.—Morn. Chron. Much is said about a projected Russian '. loan, which was first announced as being in the market ; then stated to be withdrawn, for want of encouragement ; again said to be in progress of negotiation, and now suspended. An even ing contemporary (the Courier) represented this loan as intended for the promotion of objects of internal improvement—among other things the cutting a great canal in the dominions of the Czar. The public were not informed of the lo cality of the canal. Perhaps, like some of the wonderful works of the era of bubble projects, which Lord Palmerston ought to recollect, it was, to use his Lordship's felicitous description of the slaughters of Antwerp, " a creature of exuberant fancy." The fact is, we believe, that our contemporary was imposed upon when he was induced to state that the loan was concocted for objects of internal improvement, and had no reference to warlike proceedings. The other Ministerial papers, both morning and evening, in our opinion, take a correct view of this loan, by considering it a project for procuring those means which are emphatically called the " sinews of war." As such we should rejoice in its failure ; for although we regard the present war against Holland as a war most iniquitous in princi pie, a war as much against the interests of England as it is in favour of the present profligate Go vernment of France, and its ambitious projects, yet we have no desire to see Russia, reeking from the unavenged blood of sacrificed Poland, ming ling in the strife, and planting on the banks of the Rhine the banners that are stained with the murders of the Vistula, and laden with the curses of humanity. An Evening Ministerial Paper says that Russia wants to carry off the Poles from their na.ive soil to Asia and Siberia. In the first place, a glance at the map might have satisfied our contemporary that Siberia is as much a part of Asia, as Sweden or Norway is of Europe. In the next place, the thing has been done to a very great extent already, and when we, some months ago, described those felonious deportations by the Russian Government of Idroveshumanof a tr d to the Siberian mines, laden with chains, like gangs of convicts, at the point of the bayonet and under the infliction of the knout, the same Evening organ of the Ministry la boured anxiously to palliate the conduct of Russia, and make the British public believe that the statements of Polish suffering and Russian oppression were, if not invented, at least grossly exaggerated by those whose ob. ject it was to malign the policy and cha racter of the Herod of the North. Up to a very recent period, indeed, and since the barbarities of which Poland was the theatre have been committed, our Treasury Journals have re peatedly described the policy and intentions of the Emperor Nicholas as just and honourable. Whence this new indignation for his conduct to Poland ? that Poland, which, along with the state of Belgium, are the two glaring proofs of the costly inutility of Lord Durham's mission, if it had any better object than to smooth down the ruffled temper of the Emperor, whose auto cratic bile had been disturbed by the terms of reproach and execration which had been bestowed upon him, on a memorable occasion, in the House of Commons. We are consistent in wish ing the Russian loan to fail ; not so those who supported the Russian Dutch-loan Job, and now raise an outcry against the present attempt to levy money to assist the progress of Russian ambition. That job, under the pretence of a treaty which had " ceased and determined," put vast sums of English gold into the coffers of the Autocrat, which enabled him to overpower and annihilate Poland, that we were bound by a still-existing treaty to protect. The fulfilment of that treaty was not demanded, and English gold helped to break down the barrier against Russian ambition.—Morning Herald. MIDDLESEX ELECTION.-The Times, ac tuated, as it always is and ever has been, "solely by a sense of duty, and by a regard to the con sistency of this enlightened and important di s trict of the empire," asserted yesterday that Sir Charles Forbes " has opposed every motion for improve ments in our laws or retrenchments in our expen diture for the last fifteen years." A sense of duty should have led the writer of this paragraph to make inquiry into Sir Charles Forbes's Par liamentary conduct, lest in preferring such charges against him he should " bear false witness against his neighbour." He would then have found, what is notorious to all who are conversant with the proceedings of Parliament during the last twenty years, that Sir Charles Forbes supported all Sir Samuel Romilly's pro posed improvements of the law, and this at a time when the doing so was not the road either to Ministerial or to popular favour; that he con tinued to support the same object when advocated by Sir James Mackintosh and Sir Robert Peel. More recently, and under the present Whig Go vernment, he voted for Lord Brougham's Bank rupt Bill, and Sir John Campbell's several Bills. On various occasions, and in opposition to various Ministries, Sir Charles voted for the abolition of public offices as unnecessary, and as opposed to an economical public establishment, e. g. those of the two extra Lords of the Admiralty, the Joint Postmaster-General, &c. If the Times expects that such gross misrepresenta tions of facts will find credence with the electors of Middlesex, its contempt for their understandings must be unspeakably great, and its application to that county of the term " enlightened can only have been intended as expressive of its derision. It is contended, in the same article, that the consequence of*return ing Sir Charles Forbes along with any of the other three candidates would be " to neutralize a Reform vote on every division." Its effect would no doubt be to neutralize either a Whig or a Radical vote, and that is precisely the point to be determined by the, electors. There is but one Whig candidate, Mr. Byng. Is the Times become so suddenly enamoured of the Destructives, at whom it has lately spit so much of its froth and venom, that it would be well pleased to see Hume and Lillie returned ? Yet in no other way can the electors obtain two Members of the same political opinions, and avoid the national calamity of neutralizing a Reform vote. Nothing is more common in elections than voting for candidates of different sentiments. By so doing the minority is repre sented as well as the majority, a thing essential to every well ordered representative system ; for otherwise the nation must be at the mercy of the dominant party. Are the Whigs become so intoxicated with success, and so eager to secure in perpetuity the possession of power, as to in culcate it as a duty on electors not to choose any but the adherents of Government ?—Morn ing Post. It appears that Yorkshire will hold a conspi cuous place in election record for the unnatural alliance of the Whig and Radical factions, to the exclusion of the Conservatives ; for, in ad dition to the disgraceful union thus formed at the contest for Hull, we find a similar display of political dishonour at Beverley, and, we regret to say, with similar success. Yet the Whigs apparently are anxious to console themselves with the idea that if they have lost that high sense of character which in the olden time ren dered them fair and equal opponents of the Tory party, and if they have since that period sacrificed the shreds and patches of that charac ter which enabled them still to hold some rank in the community as a faction, they have in lieu of these sacrifices obtained new and faithful adherents in the Radical Revolutionary party, upon whose vulgar violence they have been borne into the Reformed Parliament, from a natural aversion borne by the Mobites to any thing honest or gentlemanly, and, who, in con sequence, willingly acceded to any proposition of the Whigs to defeat, by a junction of votes, all chance of Conservative candidates being re turned. But fallen as is the party of the Pre mier, lost as it is among the worthless dross with which it has mixed, even the consolation of being respected or reputed by their new allies, all sans culottes as they may be, is denied them ; for we find that, whenever boast has been made that the Whig party have aided in bringing in any Radical candidate, the latter has spurned the idea with indignation. We are borne out in this by a sort of placard i ssue d by Mr. Hutt, the successful candidate on the revo lutionary interest for Hull, who, in consequence of the general rumour current, that his success was caused by a " splitting of votes between him and Mr. Hill, the Whig candidate, whose party he had bespattered on the hustings in a manner most disagreeable, put forth the fol lowing : " Ma. HUTT. —The friends of Mr.Hi in his s itt feellt apeednchty they owe to the public to explain a passag e made from the Kingston Hotel yesterday, after the chair ing, as it is in some instances understood that he thanked the Whig party for their assi!tance. His intention was merely to express his obl iga tion . to Major Sykes for his JCa.mPesarker, Parker,J H. kindness previously to his going to London, and to (Dr.) , and a few other Matthew Chalmers, J. , T EH . sl. F :.is o pm. o as r er d lk , feri J ,n J. C. for their as sistance, especially on Wedu!sday . morning, in urging the voters to go to the poll. His opinion of the Whig faction gentle men,PSeh;;ojE.ldviLa ' ri n d'. he l believeda P a rker , r M arch e , remains unchanged, and his detestation of them is much increased by the treatment he has received from that party." This is the recorded opinion of one branch of the new Whigs' allies, and wc believe it is a pretty fair specimen of that felt throughout the kingdom. " Call you this backing your friends?" —Morning Post. COURT OF CHANCERY, DEC. 18. DUKE OF YORK'S AFFAIRS. (Continued from The Sun of yesterday.) TILE ATTORNEY-GENERAL (for the defendant, Mr. Farquharson) felt it his duty to protest against 'he course adopted by the Counsel for the plain tiffs in mixing up with the motion to commit an in dividual for• contempt, the names of many respecta ble, distinguished, and illustrious persons, who had been connected with the late Duke of York, as interested in the progress of the suit. He did not nor could not anticipate the line of argument taken by his Learned Friends in this case ; for, although hey had endeavoured to connect Mr. Farquharson with previous proceedings, it was clear that down to the first publication in the Times newspaper, he knew nothing of what had taken place, and could not be implicated in those articles of comment which had for months appeared in every newspaper in London, without distinction of party, beginning with the Times, and going down to the Morning Post. Mr. Farquharson was answerable for the four publications in the Times and for no other, nor with any other could he be connected. He (the Attorney-General) felt it necessary, however, be fore he went more fully into the case, as connected with Mr. Farquharson, to say a few words on the uit itself, and on those other matters which his Learned Friend had introduced to influence the decision of the Court on his case. He regretted much to be compelled to say, that although the b 11 was filed in January, 1827, and although it was Pushed on with all haste, he did not mean to say unne cessary haste, but although it was pushed on with so much haste that a decree was had in February, still no steps had up to that hour been taken by any of the par ties either to put in the books and accounts, which the haste and urgency of the case before the obtaining of the decree would not allow, or to distribute among the creditors, for whose advantage the bill was filed and the decree obtained, any portion of the assets of the estate. He found no fault with those who advised the commencement of that suit. In many cases it was absolutely necessary that such friendly suits should be instituted to protect the executors from a multiplicity of actions, and the proceeding was ultimately found beneficial to all parties ; but he did complain that after the execu tors had, from the urgency of the case, been allowed to get a decree without the formality of making out a schedule, or producing their books of accounts, no steps had been taken for that purpose up to that day on which he was addressing the Court, in De cember, 1832, the bill having been filed in January, 1827. He thought, however, that when the credi tors were one and all thus deprived, by a decree of the Court, of the power of taking any steps against the executors, the fact that nothing seemed to have been done—the admission, indeed, that nothing was done for six years—might account for any little ill humour visible among them, and for some anxiety being at last manifested to become acquainted with the real state of affairs. When, therefore, his client Mr. Farquharson stated, on the authority of a credi tor, that nothing had been done in the suit for years, he did nothing more than every newspaper in the metropolis had done before the publication in the Times ; and as he stated nothing that was not per fectly true, his conduct, instead of being criminal, was, on the contrary, innocent and even laudable. His client had published four• statements between the 15th and 30th of November, but they were merely the result of a series which had appeared be fore, and which were unnoticed and untouched. His Learned Friend had given a peculiar reason for not proceeding against the authors or printers of the articles which appeared in the daily papers before, and that was, that they had not referred to the suit in Chancery. That ground happened, however, to fail them. Any man, therefore, who occupied the position of his client, Mr. Farquharson, had this much ;n his favour, that the publications he aLuded to had been allowed to go on without comment or observation for months before the appearance of the reports in the Times. It was indeed ntnch to be lamented that no notice had been taken of them to serve as a caution to others, if the publication of such statements were to form a subject of complaint. The LORD CHANCELLOR asked whether the pub• lications had not taken place during the long vacation ? The ATTORNEY-GENERAL observed, that the public cared very little for either the long or the short vacation; but if the parties had been inclined to punish the printers of the newspapers in which these statements appeared while the Court was nut sitting, his Lordship knew well that there were means of applying for the protection of the Court although it did not sit. Sir E. SUGDEN said, that they could not in the vacation take means to punish a libel. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL was not applying him self to the question of punishment for libel; but punishment for contempt of that Court. He ►would beg his Lordship to consider the intention of his client. He knew nothing of the parties. If he had been guilty of what could be construed into a contempt of the Court, it was done in total inno cence of the consequences. Mr. BETHEL having risen to follow on the same side, his Lordship said he would hear him to morrow morning. The Court rose at four. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. Mr. Ward, Captain of the Perfection, of London, a vessel engaged in the coal-trade, was yesterday summoned to this office, to answer to an informa tion, charging him with having commenced dis• charging his cargo of coals in the River Thames, without having previously paid the City dues. It appeared that the defendant arrived with his vessel at Woolwich, previous to the 27th of Octo ber, and that on that day he broke bulk, and com menced discharging his cargo, neglecting to pay the due; imposed by the Act for the Regulation of the Coal-trade for the City of London, until the 31 s t of the same month. This being an infringement of the Act, he became liable to a penalty of 251. Evidence was produced to support these facts, which Mr. Ward did not deny; but stated that he was not aware that he was committing any breach of the law, having always broken bulk before Mr. White, the factor of the ship had paid the duties. Sir F. A. ROE, under these circumstances, con victed the defendant in the mitigated penalty of Si. and costs. John Poney and Thomas Tey, were committed for trial for uttering counterfeit five shilling pieces at the shop of Mrs. Flatman, green-grocer, Vauxhall terrace. A PAWNBROKER'S DUPLICATE.--Just before the close of the office, a middle-aged man, holding a pawnbroker's duplicate in his hand, stepped into the witness's box, when the following conversation took place between him and the Magistrate : Applicant—l have to apply for your - Worship's pro tection on this here duplicate.—(A laugh.) Mr. WHITE—What is it you want, my man ? Applicant—Why, your Worship, on the 12th of December, 1831, I was " necessiated" to pledge a table for 10s., when I received this ticket. A day or two after it had been in pawn twelve months, I applied to redeem my table, when the pawnbroker told me it was sold. So you see, your Worship, I comes to ask your protection.—(Laughter.) Mr. WnrrE—l cannot assist you. As you have done without your table for twelve months, I hope you can do without it altogether. Applicant— Why yes; but my table cost me upwards of 31. Mr. WHITE—SO much the better for the pawn broker—that's his profits, and what he lives upon. Applicant—Then I can't have no protection ? Mr. WHITE-.-i cannot assist you. Applicant—What ! no redress upon this here ticket ? Mr. WHITE shook his head, but it was several minutes before the applicant could believe the Ma gistrate had no jurisdiction in the case. When he left the office, he said it was a nation shame pawn brokers should be allowed to act in such a manner. He should know better another time. Q UEEN-SQUARE. Yesterday, a middle-aged man, named James F ax , a poulterer, residing in the New-road, South Lambeth, charged Sarah Williams and Sarah Wat kins with robbing him of thirty-eight sovereigns, and about twenty-five shillings in silver. It appeared that on the previous evening, the prosecutor and the prisoners were together in Kennington -road. As they were walking up and down the road, a police man cautioned the prosecutor against the prisoners, who were well known characters; and observed that, if he had any money about him, to be careful o f it. Mr. Fox defied anybody to rob him, and told the policeman to mind his own business. About 11 o'clock, however, the prosecutor complained to another constable of having been robbed of a bag which contained thirty-eight sovereigns and upwards of a pound's-worth of silver. He also stated that he had accompanied the prisoner Williams to her residence; and shortly after, from her mariner, he suspected he had been robbed. He instantly put his hand into his side pocket, and found the bag had been extracted. Both prisoners were taken into custody, but not a shilling of the property was dis covered. The evidence not being deemed sufficient aga i ns t :Watkins, she was discharged. Williams was remanded until Friday. COUNTERFEIT COIN.--T o young men, named HATTON-GARDEN. THE MURDER IN CO➢IPTON-STREET. —Yesterday Samuel Newland, a young man about 19, was brought up on suspicion of having been concerned in the murder of Mr. Shepherd, clerk to Messrs. Williams and Co., the soap-boilers. He was taken into custody at the house of his employer, a shoe maker, in Tottenham.court-road, and both the Co roner and Jury at the inquest on Monday had strong suspicions that he was concerned in the murder. He was privately examined by Mr. LAING, who ordered him to be discharged, after a long examina tion, in which the prisoner's master and other wit nesses clearly proved an alibi. LAMBETH-STREET. DARING BURGLARY.—Yesterday two young men, named Sampson and Price, were charged under the following circumstances : Yesterday morning, at an early hour, a young woman, named Price, who resides with her aunt, aged 76, in the Sailmakers' Almshouses at Bow, perceived a light on the stairs, and on going out to the lobby, she observed a man coming up stairs with a hatchet in his hand. She called out to her aunt that thieves were in the house, upon which the man approached her with the hatchet uplifted. She still continued to scream, and he then turned tail, and bundled down stairs. After he had made his escape with another man, she found that the thieves had regaled themselves with hot wine in the kitchen, and had carried off several silver spoons and of her pro perty. Inspector Grand, of the K Division, heard her screams for assistance, and having seen the two pri soners near the almshouses some time previously, he succeeded in tracing them to a coffee-shop at Bromley, where he found all the stolen property in Price's hat. Price had been employed to do up the garde❑ of Mrs. Price. Both prisoners were remanded. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL' S. DERBY, 1833. 9 to 1 agst Mr. Ridsdale's Glaucus 9 to 1 agst Mr. Rawlinson's Revenge 11 to 1 agst Mr. Hunter's Forester 13 to 1 agst Mr. Mos'yn's Prince Llewellyn (taken) 16 to 1 agst Duke of Rutland's 11oses's dam c. 17 to 1 agst Lord Cleveland's Muley colt (taken) 20 to 1 agst Colonel Cosby's Bravo 30 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Emmeline colt (taken) GRAND STEEPLE CHACE. A steeple chace was run on Wednesday by the Officers of the Queen's Bays, which excited considerable interest. The ground selected for the occasion was between the village of Corstorphine and Gogar, on the property of Sir Robert Dick. The distance agreed upon, two miles across the country ; to start a mile from the south side of the brook which runs pa rallel to the Glasgow road, taking a north-easterly direction, passing the farm. To accomplish this, it was necessary to leap this brook, which is from 12 to 13 feet wide ; the banks being so soft and rotten, the odds were very much against its being effected. Men, however, with ropes were stationed in readiness to render assistance should any accident occur. A great concourse of people had assembled to witness this novel spectacle. Seven Officers started, Captain Copland, Lieute nant Dyer, Assistant-Surgeon Home, Lieutenants Sahnond and Dyer, Cornets Campbell and Elliot. The first mile, al though several formidable fences occurred, all kept their places well. The brook was first cleared in fine style by Mr. Dyer, followed by Elliot ; Home's horse next, which, although hav ing cleared it with his fore legs, its hind got immersed, but, after some struggling, was liberated ; Captain Copland's horse refused altogether, and was therefore thrown out. The remain ing part of the ground was heavy, with several double ditches. The case was ultimately contested by four of the Officers, three of whom entered the field together, and won by Lieute. rant Dyer, the whole distance having been accomplished in the short space of five minutes.—Edinburgh Observer. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. LONDON MARKETS. (From the London New Price Current of yesterday.) SUGAR.—The Sugar Market was very dull all last week; the estimated purchases did not exceed 1,700 hhds. and trs. ; the prices were supported. The stock of West India Sugar is now 30,257 hhds. and tor., which is 8,932 less than last year. The stock of Mauritius is 56,338 bags, being 21,806 less than last year. The de livery of West India Sugar is 2,335 hhds. and trs., being 792 less than last year. The delivery of Mauritius 5,137 hags, being 1,802 less than the corresponding week of 1831. The Sugar Market has been very dull all day, and the few sales effected are at prices 61. a Is. lower, which is the general decline in all descriptions of Sugar; the purchases to-day are only 600 hhds. and trs., includ ing the Barbadoes 120 hhds., which also sold rather lower, 545. a 61s. 6d. Towards the close of last week the Refined Market became very dull, and the prices fell 14. 6d. a 2s. per cent., and even at this reduction no sales to any extent could be effected; 61s. and even lower reported for Lumps, and 295. 6d. and 30s. for crashed. The Refined Market was in a very depressed state this af ternoon, low Lumps 605., Molasses 6d. lower. EAST INDIA SUGARS.—The only sales stated last week are some Siam and Manilla Sugars, much about market prices. This day's public sale 702 bags Siam Sugar, al sold 21s. a 235. 6d. rather lower. MAURITIUS SUGAR.—There were no sales of Mauritius Sugars last week, and few parcels were offering ; some few sales are reported by private contract at full mai ket prices. Tuffs day's public sale 3,707 bags Mauritius sold heavily at prices a shade lower, low brown 495., brown 51s. a 52t. FOREIGN SUGARS.-In Foreign Sugars no purchases at public sale or by private contract are reported. This day's public sale 400 chests damaged Havannah, brown 20s , yellow 23. i. 6d., white 255. 6d. a 285., all sold at full prices. Average Price of Sugar 11. 10s. Oid. per cwt. TEA.-The orders from the country are coming up well. In the Market there is no alteration since the sale ; about one million pounds weight of Tea was refused at the East India House Sale, under the impression that as the Company reduce their upsetting price in March next Teas will be lower. COFFEE.-There was little alteration in Coffee list week. The demand, as usual at this season of the year, is very limited, and the market is rendered still more heavy, by the political and military events of Holland and Belgium. The ordinary sorts of East India are rather lower. Brazil is also very heavy. St. Domingo is scarce, and maintains a high proportion to the other descriptions-575. a s'7s. 6d. for good quality ; Ceylon Ms. In British Plantation de scriptions there is little alteratio❑ in price. The Market has been heavy, and a considerable proportion of the public sales have been taken in on account of the languid state of trade. This day's public sale, 4 casks 533 bags damaged Havannah, 40s. a 495., as to quality, forming no criterion of Market prices. There are no purchases by private contract reported. RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS. - There is no altera tion in the prices of Rum ; the only sale reported is a parcel of Demerara, 30 over, at 2s. 7d., and a few strong Jamaicas at full prices. In Brandy or Geneva there is nu alteration. TALLOW. —The Tallow Market was brisk I,st week; the prices rose to 465. 6d. ; from this point there was a re-action of 6d. per cwt., and the market h e avy. INDIGO.—There is no alteration in Indigo. The in spection of the East India approaching sale commenced yesterday ; the quality is chiefly mid. consuming 5 01 the quantity deel :red is 2,400 chests, and it is expect' be increased to 3,000 chests. SA LTPETAE. —There is no alteratign in the price Saltpetre. Rim—There is no alteration in Rice. This day's 500 bags Est India Rice, all taken in Iss. a 15.. SPICES.—The demand for Pepper has rather subsid good Pimento sells at sd. This day's sale 2,096 b Pepper, lower, partly sold 3d. and Sid. CASSIA.-This day's sale 312 chests Cassia Ligses' 775. and 775. 6,1. Cocoa.—There are no sales of Cocoa; the Market led COTTON.-The Cotton Market continues very d u the sales reported are quite inconsiderable. OlLS.—Oils are as last week, except Linseed which has been sold at 335. for delivery in the nest months. s TURPENTINE.-1,300 brls. report e d l as t wee L . .. - old 12s. 9d. ASHES.-Considerable arrivals from Qqebee, crb l renders the prices for the present nominal. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE W: Wheat. 8. to 8. 47 57 53 67 42 58 44 52 46 60 48 54 47 59 52 64 Barley. I Oats. ----- ----- Per Quarter. Boston Gainsborough Grantham Grimsby Horncxstle Lincoln Spitsby Stamford. York- S. to s. I 5. to 5. - 22 • - 34 - 18 36 41 17 25 24 30 14 22 25 33 12 18 30 39 10 21 28 35 14 18 30 36 21 23 26 34 15 24 NORWICH, Dec. 15. Wheat (per qr.) 40s. 555. 58s. Beans (per qr.) 5.9 Barley 18s. 28s. 335. Pease, Oats —..— 18s. 21s. 245. Flour, fine (per sack), CANTEIIBURI. Dec. 13 e l ' Wheat, white- 545. to 575. Old --s• t 0 red, 465. to 54s ..«.. Barley, Malting -30 s. to 365. Grinding.. 9.55. Oats - '2os. 1° Beans 36s to 40s. '2 75 . t ,, ° ,* Pease ----..... 375. to 395. MANCHESTER, Dec. 15. Wheat, per 701 b. Ss. 9d. to 9s. Od. Red Bs. Q. to I Barley, per 601 b 5 6 6 0 Oats 3 0 2 0 Beans, per Imperial quarter 5 Pease, White, per Imperial bushel 5 0 7 0 4 Malt, per 6 Imperial bushels 43 Flour, per Sack of 2SOlb EXETER MARKETS —Dec. 14. Beef (score) Bs. Od. 93 6,1. Wheat (bushel) ....7s.Od• 6 9 Mutton (113.) 0 5i 0 6 Barley 6 3 g Veal and Lamb-0 6 0 7 O a ts 9 3 0 6 P, , rk 4 0 6 Beans 5 6 i 6 Geese (each) Ducks 'coup e\.....4 Fowls •••••.••••3 O 5 6 O 5 0 O 4 0 Batter Eggs (12) Potatoes (peck) ..0 IRISH MA: DUBLIN MARKET NO' RKETS. 7'E.—FRIDAY Dec. 1 !,', e 4 From 1 0 '' '2 6 1,971 Wheat, per barrel 20 stone 20 0 32 6 ~, , 86 Bete .16 stone 12 6 0 4 • 749 8ar1ey....--- 16 stone 13 0 16 0 1 8 $ 4,496 0at5.,....—... ... 12 stone 8 0 13 0 9,952 Cwt. Flour...—. 9 stone 6 0 22 0 1 - 0 1 778 Oatmeal --..- 8 stone 8 0 14 0 Sold to Bakers only. 10,763 - Cwt. Flour..._- 22 0 11 .r.... 01 I 14 0 id Flour. Average price of Wheat ank Receipts of Flour, 15,900 Firsts, I Secend, sales of Do. 9,93'2. Thirds, Od. per s 119 s. Od. i 14s. 6d. I 6s. Od. is, I , 0.0.14/IPAII PRrC OF BRISAI;D ' 4 1 0 Quartern L0af.—...............84d. I Haleirlitern.... , 0 1 . 20 stone. 16 stone. 14 stone: Ist. .....,„/, Wheat, Barley. Oats. Flour,r;,/ per barrel per barrel per barrel , 9.1. .—......... ..--...:—..... a s s. d. as.d.s. d. a s.d _ s.d.as.d. s. d. as. d 4t s• 0 l' Cork 180 25 311 0 150 TB 9015 0 176 ?, 0 11 Limerick 1200 26 812 0 13 412 9 - 13 6 16 0 19 a ~,, 0 0, VVaterford'23 0 26 011 0 140 70 8017 0 18 01; 0 P, Clonmel ...... M 4 27 010 0 14 610 0 14 617 0 19 0 1 *: () i ' Car10w.,..,._ 25 Cr ,27 012 0 130 8,0 9 020 6 21 0 -!_...---- i Beef, Mutton; . Pork, • 4t ' 1 . I Per lb. Perib• per cwt. Ist. 2d. . .„, ; -- —,—. --. Butter. d. ad. d. a d. s. 'd. as.d.s.d.s. d. s. d., s ' , 1 Cork 5 6 5 63003578 0 74 64 ~," t b ,; 3 o'' i Limerick.. 31 41 4 434 0 „ZS 0181 079 69 v •i) Waterford 3 6 3 ,533 Q .-.35 085 82 76 0 9' ....—.l Clonmel —3/ 4 5,1 61 32 0 33 01 1 82 78 , s 4 ' 6 4 0 Carlow.-- 4 5/ 0 0 0.0 . 0 066 84 74 v 4 --- KILKENNV.—Butter 82s to 84s. per cwt. ; Wheat Vt, per barrel ; Flour 20s. to 345. per bag; Oats 7s. to Ss. t r t - 0 0 rel ; Barley 12s. to 13s. ; Beef 4d. to scl. per lb.; MU ly to Sd. ; Potatoes 2d. per stone; Coals Is. 2d. per cwt.; Pigs 355. to 365. per cv, t. 4 SCOTCH MARKETS. HADDINGTON CORN 51 A ftKEf.—Dec. 1 8 e ot Wheat. Barley. 1 Oata. Pease. F t i a !:i First .sBs Od 33s Od 21s Od 26s Od 4, ;P A ' Second 49s Od 29s Od 18s Od 25a Od -0- 4 Third There were 488 qrs. of Wheat in market, 453 whereof We 35 Unsold.-0 Grey. ........ ......... 21. 91.5 d. 7-12ths. Avers DA LKlE'cli CORN MARKET.—Dec. 1L Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. D . ' First 6os 6tl I 306 tid 21s Od 29s Od Second Third 42s Od '24s Od 17s Ad 24s Od .11" THE LIFE OF A SAILOR.—" Three I P " various and amusing volumes, with that great tlier it ;j j air at least of reality. They will he best characte rs maritime travels, told as our travellers used W adventures, simply and earnestly. Lord Byaott, Sir PARKER, Bouvatt, PAEZ, are names to attract r,ader ; and the scenes are north, south, east, and ft Many sensible observations are scattered throug h°- work, which, we are told, embodies the real adveu tu el a Pont Captain in the navy, and does its a uthor r r it credit. He has seen " a deal of service," and Ora what he has seen with infinite anirnation."---iiti Gazette. The Mercantile advices from Rio J 3 lo state, that considerable arrivals of wines had takePi t from Cette and Catalonia ; but, in consequencedevoi system ad.pted of selling nothing but with an 11, tie wine-merchants bad refused to make any nt o 't , the consignees had been obliged to put them re-export them to Rio de la Plata. The Cette Wt y been, as usual, imported in English, Sardinian, O n e Oil trian vessels. The sugar crop in Brazil proves vn less than that of last year. P SHOWER OF FIRE.—A singular p 3 menon presented itself lately in some parts of Frori ce ' r 4o ( ticularly in the department of Orne, in the neighbe°l,olo of Argentan. Several times, and during two wilol e d i the atmosphere, which was calm, became filled °lot innumerable quantity of vivid sparks, forming O. shower of fire. The appearance was most striliolo tween 4 and 5 o'clock in the morning. The sam e P it y menon was witnessed about Caen, where, howeve r ' l pis cited less apprehension than at Argentan, in ofbiic the inhabitants were under the greatest terror. 1 1 . , that in some places the sparks were seen to alig" . 110, the ground ; but no traces of them have a ny syl , e re t ul found, and it is probable that the phenomenon reo l l,d place in the upper regions, the appearance of scended being most likely an optical Gazette. re Pt HEREDITARY DEFORMITY.-A tidy (Mad. D-) has had 12 children, nine bor t ' oe g three girls. One of the boys has a supernumer ir Y the left foot; another has six toes on each foe t ',.. l ll , elde-t brother, who has no superabundant toes , "'pi children ; one of them has the additional toe. Coed; daughters had a supernumerary finger on the 9 6 0 1 was amputated when she Was an infant. A '0 Mad. 1)- had several children; one of then+ it" supernumerary toe, she (the mother) being free fro° Medical Gazette. g o MARRIED. e n es,, On the 18th inst. at Sr. Mark's, Kennington, thmr James Dolling, to Catherine Ann, eldest daught er o rr l fa, rnonds, of Spencer-place, North Brixton. T .: hie Esq.,O t o h i e r i t a f sti i n n g st s . , at u ß ss a e r x n , es t C o hu m rc i l s i, F W o ca t l y te , r ait i - ! b a c r rt ne; ooe: Surrey. On the 18th inst. at Andrew's, Holborn, Mr. t b, Bendrose, Buckinghamshire, to Anne Eliza be t. William Matthews, Esq., late of Bishopsgate-streeourt, der, Last week, Joseph Garside, Esq., of Sutton -c e f N l / 4 '' Jane, fourth daughter of Edward Morris, Esq' , the same county. w et DIED. oelr e'r On the 18th inst. in Piccadilly, of apople xY,, he ,1 Esq., late Governor of th e c o lony of Berbice, ` of soli 4 his ae. On g the 12th inst. at Guernsey, William, the late William James, Esq., of Bath. 10' 1 111e " At Woodstock, suddenly, John Joberns, Es,„o„j o r 6 , neral of' Hospitals to his Majesty's Forces, and De"pf the Middlesex Hospital. o On the 16th inst. Charles Baring Story, youngest in otb Story, Esq , of Tusmore-house, Oxon. On the 12th inst. at Richmond, Yorkshire, Jane,e, of the Rev. John Brasse, 1).D., of Theobald - g r° cross. n ofO O Lt n ii st t bi h ioe e n. l l o 4 t t h h i i: s s t t .. sMr. r g e a , t s e u , t k g 'e e r o i: l a , nodfoc Chaurrdeohz,o' street: in ney, aged 77. 75th On l o 3 t. th lits ir a ls g t e ..at Camberwell, Robert Pue , k ,,, le n : On the 14th inst. in Efra-road, Brixton, WO," aged 66. 1 'Th t N 00 b PRINTED AND PUBLIsDED BY MU RDO Y0. ,?4 Y SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, LONDO• .0 1 li 1 e 31 31 25 40 36 30. 30 o 1 0, i 6 1701 . 1 to 01 to la' 1 , .. a.,. . \,.• V VW Y.. , 4 •••,• _______________......._.... ' tai BIRTHS. of % On the 15th inst. in Montague-place, the lady ~01 CP A Medley, Esq., of a daughter. Igo . On the 16th inst. in Lower Grosvenor.str eet, i f,tak Sotheby of a daughter. On the lath inst. at Upper Nuttnell, Devon, the 1341' '' Pringle, Esq., of a son. hterC.oo e 4 On the 14th inst. at the house of her mother, the Sandwich, the Countess of Walewska, of a ciao); ..a.OO