The Sun. — London, England, 1832-05-04 00:00:00

- - SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS The King is to be this day engaged in a royal and we may add—what we are sure will not he ungrateful to his Majesty's feelings—a profes sional visit to the Royal Dock-yard and nava: depot of Woolwich, by the latter of which esta blishments the Emperor Alexander was so struck with admiration, as to exclaim, " What an evi dence is here of the resources of England, after twenty years of unremitting warfare !” Theis Majesties propose, on their return, to examine Greenwich Hospital,—a second monument of the grandeur of Great Britain, more generous a nd glorious than all the manifestations of mere belligerent power that ever she has exhibited in fleet, arsenal, or fortress, by-courage, skill, or eenius, on sea or shore. V. 76. can imagine our beneficent Monarch in this asp of his worn out shipmates, a thousand times more exhilarated by their hearty and honest shoutggoi welcome, than when met by the obsequious,ind mayhap suspicious, greetings, to which he has lolls , since been accustomed on other scenes. How often amidst the circle of stars, feathers, and embroidery, will King William sigh to tred once more the beautiful quarter-deck of the Vernon, or the Hospital terrace. There are considerations too, of a different nature, which may force them selves on his Majesty's attention while he tra verses the long and densely-peopled streets of Woolwich, Greenwich, and their neighbour hood. The King will ask himself what was the state of that whole district in the days of Elizabeth, even when animated by the bustle of a present and brilliant Court, as compared with' its actual condition. What ratio, may his 111 a jesty inquire, did the amount, the opulence and importance of the population, throughout the Greenwich district bear in the sixteenth century to those possessed by it in the nineteenth, com paring it with the progress of other places ? Some foreigner calls London a " province covered with houses ;" of those houses three fourths or more, as well in the capital itself as in the environs, are the work of the last hundred years. So, in respect of wealth and inhabitants the Greenwich district, as defined by the Re form Bill, is a modern creation. Must it not strike the active mind of King William, to be the most preposterous thing in the world, that the relation between representative and consti tuent should correspond with what has not been the state of England for three or more genera tions ? Now, we have some reason to suspect that the metropolitan clauses of the Rill, are those which the whole body of anti-national Peers have doomed the foremost to destruc tion. If so wild a vote be passed, we once more wain the noble persons who may be guilty of it, that twelve hours will not have elapsed before they will repent themselves in sackcloth and ashes. The spirit of the .nation will brook no such unworthy proceeding. Nor does that spirit, so raised, and so unanimous, owe any of its ardour to a disregard either of se rious consequences or of moral duties. The earnestness of the people has grown out of anxious, diligent, and persevering discussion upon the principles and effects of the Bill. On this precise point of the metropolitan district question, what do they say about Greenwich and its adjuncts? Why, there is a Kentish popula tion of 64,000 souls, with about 6,000 houses of 10/. rent and upwards, and paving assessed taxes to the amount of between 21,0001. and 22,0001. per annum, condemned to have no organs but the county Members, through whom their sentiments can be made known to Parlia ment. Midhurst pays a few hundred pounds per annum, with a population of hardly 2,000 souls, and it retains a representative ! Here, then, is what may be considered by far the most important town population in the whole of Kent, with between 60,000 and 70,000 inha bitants, Canterbury having but 14,000, Maidstone 15,000, and Dover 12,000. Yet the ultra nomi nation Lords are threatening to refuse the Green wich district its franchise, because the 6,000 qua lified houses paying 22,0001. in assessed taxes, are tenanted, forsooth, by rabble. Then come to the metropolis itself, where it has been proved repeatedly, that, except in the Borough, the 20/. householders far exceed the 10/. in number, and how monstrous is the anomaly which it now presents ! Of the four sections of the Metropo• lis about to receive members, they all—to-wit, Finsbury, Marylebone, the Tower, and Lam beth—contain a larger population than the city itself (proper), of which the inhabitants, accord ing to the returns of 1831, are in round numbers 123,000, while Finsbury contains 225,000 ; Marylebone, 234,000 ; the Tower, 293,000 : and Lambeth, 154,000 ! Such are the masses of Englishmen regarded as unworthy to be in trusted with the choice of their own members of the House of Commons !—a mass of English men, whose annual contributions to the revenue, under the single head of assessed taxes, is not less than 670,000/. What unproductive rabble ! We have already expressed our sincere persua sion that the country will not endure a rejec tion of the Metropolitan, or of the 101. clause of this Bill. The measures consequent upon a vote for the rejection of them are already at this moment organized throughout the kingdom, and grievous will be the self-reproach of those who compel the people of England to put in force their resolutions. If the Lords will not have the 101. voters, the Reformers of Bir mingham, Manchester, and other towns, will de mand, and will carry, too, the scot- and-lot quali fication as a substitute. And will the Anti- Reform Lords, with their eyes open, invite and warrant such an aggravation of all .the alleged offences of the Bill ? How, then, by what human means, can they expect to avert it ? Lord Grey has but one rational and manly course before him. If his Lordship chooses to be beaten on Lord Salisbury's or any other im portant motion, by way establishing that case of solid necessity which some persons are reported to look for, as his justification of a large in• crease of the Peerage, the Noble Earl must then address himself, without losing an hour, to that authority in which is vested the creation of Peers. We will anticipate no result but that which all good men desire. Should the issue be of an opposite character, the question then comes home to every breast in England. Dares a middling personage like Lord Wharncliffe as sume the Government of a nation so intrepid of purpose, and so formidable in its Just resentment,' as the English under such a provocation ? If Lord Wharncliffe make the experiment, how long will he (politically speaking) be suffered to survive it ?—Times. We are glad to see that the intolerants have brought an old house about their ears, by endea vouring to enlist the Presbyteridn 'Ministers of Scotland in the opposition to the Government plan of education in Scotland. Fortunately, the clergy of Scotland are not of that rank and stand ing in the country, that they can aWord, like the English clergy, to place themselves in opposition to the people. All Established Churches have a leaning towards illiberality, and it is pretty obvious, that if the Scotch clergy could, they would abet the Bishops and Irish Orangemen in their factious attempts' to impede the Government plan of education in Ireland. They will, how ever, be brought to their senses by their flocks, who are quite indignant at the mean subserviency of their clergy to hypocritical Bishops and Orangemen, who cover Protestantism with dis grace. They have been so imprudent as to call a public meeting in Glasgow for Tuesday last, and we can see from the Glasgow Chronicle of Monday, that they will experience a sad humi liation. How could Presbyterian clergymen so far forget themselves as to suppose that in Glas gow of all places a subserviency to bloated Epis copalians would be tolerated ? Throughout the NV est of Scotland, the memory of the persecu tions from the Episcopalians is still fresh ; and it maybe safely stated that the Church of Eng land stinks in the nostrils of the people. We see, from a number of addresses and letters in the Glasgow Chronicle, .that the liberal citizens are determined to repel with spirit the insidious attempt of tlie'Clergy and Anti-Reformers. In one of the addresses to the requisitionists, in the-Glasgow Chronicle, the writer forcibly ob serves— " There cannot be a doubt that one of the most urgent questionsin a Reformed Parliament will be,how it happens that while Scotland, yielding more revenue than Ireland, is kept quiet by a few hundred troops, Ireland should re quire, in regular yeomanry and prlice, a military force of 63;367, to collect the tithes of the idlest and the richest hierarchy in the world, from a peoplo of a different religion. It was to protect such a system as this that the Irish Anti- Iteferin Lords, spiritual and temporal, met in Dublin, and although they had only a few years ago declared open war against allowing the Scriptures to be read, even by the grown up people, unless accompanied by the Common Prayer Book, and glosses of the episcopal Church—they now, most hypocritically, change their note to catch the Protestant Dissenters, and sing out the praises of the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible, unaccompanied by the liturgy, as a school-book for infants, learning the mechanical process of reading the English language." The writer adds— "Do all the teachers of Glasgow, inferior to none in care for the proper teaching of children, even if they were not under the special inspection of the Established Church, we nothing but the whole Bible as a school-book ? Every teacher, every parent, every clergyman knows that it is not so used. " Why, then, are the reverend sounders of the tocsin of religious and political discord so anxious to pull the mote wit of the eye of the reforming Ministry; while such a beam obstructs their own vision, that it perceives not their own negligence of their own bodies, their carelessness of this newly-discovered peril of all the little ones who use in n-any school-books constructed en the common sense prin ciple by which every art is most speedily learned; passing from that which is easiest to that which is successively more and more difficult." From the following passage, it may be con jectured that the Bishops have little chance of gaining partisans in Glasgow : " The Orange Protestant Dissenters, who play the gan e of the Irish Bishops, have a paper called the Guardian, which is the mouthpiece of intolerance in Belfast; and the same game has now been attempted in Glasgow, where the same breed of Bishops engaged and quartered our an cestors, and stuck their heads on spikes, which were even lately visible at the Cross, because our clear-sighted, bold hearted martyrs would not play the underling, like the stupid renegadres of these degenerate days—to the same Episcopal tyranny which in Ireland only exists by the folly and wickedness of these Orange Dissenters—falsely called Protestant, which means—protesting against per•ecution of tho.e who refuse to swallow religious tests as the con dition of receiving education, and enjoying other civil pri vileges. But is it not worth the serious consideration of the che ip resident decorous and laborious established Clergy of Scotland—whether they should follow the lead or play the sordid hypocritical gains, and draw on them selves the odium of the Anti• Reforming Absentee Lordly Hierarchy of Ireland, which charges with the bloody bayonet for tithes from people whom they neither see nor teach?" _ _ Another correspondent reminds the Presby terian Clergy that the Catholics are taxed to support them, and asks them— " Would it be called tolerance if the Catholics of Ire land were to say, Money is granted to a church in Scot land consisting of Presbyterians? They don't use in their schools the Apocrypha, which we believe to he part of the word of God, and they use a Catechism, which we be lieve not to be of Apostolic authority, and to be heretical. It is against our conscience that public money should he granted to such a church.' " Another correspondent exposes forcibly the inconsistency of the Scotch Clergy, in opposing that in Ireland which they overlook at home— " The very men (he observes) who clamour most against the Government plan of education for In land, are among the very individuals who admire, who prai-e, who sup port systems of education in our own country, from which the Scriptures, as a whole, have been lung exploded. Go to any, or to all of the most fashionable and genteel pi ices of elementary education in either Edinburgh or Glasgow, or any other of our principal towns, and will you find the Bible used as a class-hook in any one of them ? Verily not. A system of education which is good, if not indispensable for the poor of Ireland, cannot be bad for the comparatively rich in Scotland ; and yet, in none but the very lowest and commonest of our schools, will you find the system advocated preval. What is the cause of this ? Why, that enlightened teachers—men who have studied teaching practically, and with regard to effect—have long ago discovered that the Bible, as a whole, is a very inexpedient school-book ; and even in schools in which it is so employed, 1 never knew an instance of its being employed in any other way by a judicious teacher than by way of selection ; and where is the difference between leaving the selection to the instruc tor himself, or preparing it ready to his hand ? No teacher, worthy of the name, either can, or will cause the Scrip tures to be read in his school straight-forward, from be ginning to end ; and of a prepared selection, and one made to suit individual taste, it may be caprice : the advan tage, in my judgment, lies all in favour of the former. To make the Bible a common hackneyed school-book, is a total prostitution of the Word of God." It is curious that none of the dissenters from the Church of Scotland (the Dissenters are the genuine Presbyterians) have joined in this cru sade against Ministers. We anticipate for the others a severe castigation. They will be much the better of a lesson from their flocks at this time, calculated to impress on theirminds the doctrine that Christian ministers can only hope to be respected by keeping within the limits of their duty, and that when they make religion a stalking horse for factious politics,-and seek to injure the cause of Reform by attempting to sow divisions among Reformers, they can only hope to reap discomfiture and•disgrace. We hope to be able in few days to - give a good account of this %Nicked attempt to disgrace Scotland by an oppo sition, which the dissenters in England at once s a through, and reprobated.—Morn. Chron. • Ministers have entailed upon themselves a se rious responsibility by their late delay in bringing. forward the question of the Bank Charter. Whe ther this delay arose from the inability of Lord Althorp.,to grapple with the question, or that Ministers themselves can sometimes be " wa verers,"O'd, as such, had not been able to make up their,.minds upon the subject,—in short, in whatever point of view the subject is considered, :the niore we must lament that gambling specu lators in the Funds should receive their cue from a quarter which ought to be the first to prevent it. That Ministers th emse l ves a re' quite above being parties to, still less in being partakers in these consequences, we need hardly affirm our unequivocal belief ; but as, in, private life, the man who is the cause of vice in others can lay but little claim to merit on the score of his own virtues, so public men, who, by their indolence, neglect, or indecision, give rise to consequences which an opposite conduct might have prevented, must be held moraiir . responsible for no small part of the evil triis produced. A speculative rise of 15 per cent. in one description of Stock in a few days, and that arising from the con cealed views of Government, cannot but be looked upon as an evil, adding, as it does, to the gambling propensity of those who too frequently, dike other gamblers, feed, as it were, voraciously upon the vitals of the credulous, and of each other. But there is another point of view, and one to which we have already slightly alluded, in which the postponement of this question must be productive of anything but good ; and that is, that it tends to raise a suspicion that t he Government dues not turn its mind to topics of infinite importance till the very hour arrives when its views are to be publicly developed. This looks too much like a mere life of expe diency to satisfy the country, which expects, at the hands of men in the high responsible stations of Government, at least as much foresight and preconsideration as prudent men bestow upon the affairs of private life. A want of this has, un fortunately, of late years, marked the conduct of more Administrations than the present, arising, we apprehend, not merely from an inaptitude for business in some of those who fill the higher de partments, but from the indolent sleepy manner in which those who fill the minor departments, and whose duty it is to prepare details, too often conduct themselves. It has been one of the blessed consequences of the borough system to crowd the public offices with inefficient persons, who often place the Administration in the situa tion of able workmen with bad tools. This, it is to be hoped, is one of the many evils which Reform will remedy. But, after all, the tools are of little value, unless the workman himself is endowed with skill, and a thorough aptitude and willingness to labour.—Morning Herald. The price of the Stock of the Bank of Eng land had suddenly advanced within the last two or three days as much as six or eight per cent., which is accounted for upon 'Change by the as sertion that the present Ministers have deter mined not to meddle with the affairs of that corporation further than to extend the present Charter for two or three years, in order to give themselves time to know a little what they are about before they propose any final arrangement. The fact of the rise in the market value of this security is certain. Whether the explanation of that fact which is current in the city be the true one or not we do not profess to know ; but it is to be inferred from this explanation that, in the sober judgment of monied men, an escape from the hands of Lord Althorp and his colleagues, even although it be but for a time, and although it be attended with all the inconveniencies and disadvantages of a provisional and transitory state of existence, is sufficient to add six or eight per cent to the value of property. We had not before so accurate a criterion of the discount at which the present Ministers of the Crown are computed upon 'Change. It will scarcely be disputed that this criterion is a fair one, or that it is fairly applied. For why should the postponement of the question of the Charter for a period of two or three years raise the value of Bank Stock ? Why should the prolongation of that suspense and uncertainty as to its eventual character, functions, and powers, which might actually be thought injurious to the interests of a mercantile corporation, be deemed in this instance so eminently advantageous ? Why, but that there is a good chance that in less than the time mentioned the settlement of the affairs of the Bank, as well as of all other public questions, will have devolved to other hands, and no chance at all that they can devolve to hands more unsuitable and incompetent. The eight per cent. rise in Bank Stock is the exact measure of the premium which men are instinc tively eager to pay for a probable chance of get ting rid of the intervention of such statesmen as Lord Althorp and Mr.Poulett Thomson in mat ters in which their private interests are concerned. And who can wonder that this premium is so high? It is scarcely three weeks since Ministers thought themselves sufficiently prepared to ente r upon the discussion of the subject of the Bank Charter in the House of Commons They had a motion upon the subject on the paper, which dropped on account of the accident, or no acci dent, of forty Members not being present at four o'clock. Now it seems the Charter expires too soon to admit of a satisfactory investigation of the subject. Was there ever in the whole history of mankind such pitiable imbecility displayed in the Government of a great na tion ? Does the Charter expire unexpect edly ? Have n ot the present Ministers been in office a year and a half? Did not many Members of the Administration, and many even of its underlings, pretend to uncle stand all the principles and to be cognizant of all the facts relating to the Bank question for years and years before they had a glimpse of office ? Yet now it is said the subject is to be postponed for two or three years. For this pe riod the system of banking throughout the coun try is to be held in a provisional and transitory state. So long the country is to be deprived of all the advantages which, as these same States. men have asserted every year since the Charter was last renewed, might be attained on a revision of the system. So long the Bank of England, the great dispenser of our national currency, the great bulwark of commercial credit at every crisis of panic and distress, is to remain in doubt as to its final character and condition, and consequently to be a less vigorous and effective agent for these important purposes than it would be in a less equivocal and precarious state of existence. And all this for what ? Simply, it is said, because these miserable Ministers admit that the theyecauasree unprepared and incompetent to meet qu es ti o n of the Charter. The world bears testimony to the fact, while it expresses its joyful surprise at the humiliating admission, by rushing as it. does to the purchase of a description of property which it is at once perceived has had a most for tunate and unexpected escape._Morning Post • At our petty sessions on Thursday last, the overseer of a neighbouring parish brought before the sitting magistrates a young woman, who filiated one child, and *swore another, of which, on repairing to the house oppo site, she was safely delivered, and was afterwards removed to the parish workhouse, the whole business not occupy ing quite an hour.—Leamington Spa Courier. " SELF-CONTROL."—In the interesting me moir of the Authoress of " Self- Control," which Dr. Bans- TON has given to the world, is the following passage, relative to the composition of that celebrated novel, which now forms part of the series of Standard Novels. "It was chiefly for the e mployment of accidental intervals of lei sure," says Dr. BRUNTON, " that Mrs. BauNroN began the writing of ' Self-Control.' A considerable part of the first volume was written before I knew anything of its existence. When she brought it to me, my pleasure was certainly mingled with surprise. The beauty and correct ness of the style—the acuteness of ohservation—and the loftiness of sentiment —were, each of them in their way. beyond what even I was prepared to expect from her. It had not been published a' ore a month when a scond edi ion w.,s 4.a1 , e1 for." COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAY 3. THE KING V. KELLY AND ANOTHER. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL had an application to make to the Court in this case, in which on Monday _ _ last Sir James Saarlett obtained a writ of habeas corpus, directed to Mr. Alderman Kelly and a police officer named Rowe, commanding them to bring a lady, who was called Mrs. Newton, into Court, as the wife of a Mr. D'Arcy Raymond Newton, a news agent in Warwick-square. His application to the Court now was, that the time for making a return to the writ might be enlarged. He said, that he and his Learned Friend who was with him in this case had taken upon themselves to advise that the lady should not be brought up to-day ; but in case the Court should, after hearing the affidavits, refuse the application, she could be fetched within half an hour. The Learned Counsel then proceeded to state the circumstances. The application for the habeas corpus had, he said, been made on behalf of Mr. Newton, who described himself as the husband of the young lady, Miss Rosa Matilda May Baxter. She became of age in November, and on the 23d of March last Mr. Newton, having procured a horse and chaise, took her from Kentish-town and pro ceeded to Gretna-green, where they underwent the ceremony of marriage. The lady was entitled to considerable property under the will of her uncle, and to such annual income under the will of her grandfather, the late Mr. Alderman Crowder, as the trustees should think proper to allow her. Her mother, who knew that she was of an extremely weak mind, her governess, and some other ladies of her acquaintance, were induced to accompany her to the Zoological Gardens, whence she was decoyed away by Mr. Newton. While on the journey to Gretna-green, she evinced great reluctance to pro ceed, and a great change was noticed in her manner and appearance. At one place on the road, so ex tremely unwilling was she to go forward, that the hor'es were sent back eleven miles; but they re turned, and the lady was taken to Gretna-green. After the ceremony had been gone through, Mr. Newton slept wi:h her, and the marriage was con summated. The parties were pursued by Mr. Al derman Kelly, one of the trustees under the grand father Mr. Alderman Crowder's will, and a police officer. The lady received Mr. Alderman Kelly with the most perfect cordiality, and, without the least force or violence being used, she was taken away in a carriage and brought to London. She was now at the house of Mr. Alderman Kelly, arid was perfectly satisfied with what had been done on the part of her friends. He would now state the reason why she ought not, lie submitted, be brought up at pre sent under the habeas corpus. It had been sworn by her mother, her governess, and by others, who had known her for some years, that she was a per son of weak mind, and subject to violent fits of pas sion. She could not understand what other persons were capable of understanding, and had no sense of the obligation arising from a contract of marriage. This was evidenced by her having spoken, since her marriage, of other persons for whom she had felt an attachment. In addition to the affidavits of her mother and governess, it was sworn by three medical men, who had known her from an early age, that she was a person of unsound mind, and utterly unable to take care of herself; that she frequently went into fits of ungovernable passion, and committed acts of folly, such as throwing books and knives at her mother,and throwing knives and forks out of the wirl dow ; and one occasion she actually struck a knife into her mother's hand. The medical men had sworn that they believed she was totally incapable of understanding the nature of the marriage-contract. Under these circumstances, the Learned Counsel sub mitted, that Mr. Newton had not put himself in a situation to have the lady brought up as his wife. Her mother, Mrs. Baxter, thought it her duty to institute proceedings both in the Court of Chancery and at Doctors' Commons—in the one court for the pur pose of having her, protected as a ward of. Court, and in the other for the purpose of annulling that which had been called a marriage, but which in fact was no marriage at all. It was stated in the affida vits that Mr. Newton had until lately been living with another woman as his wife, and that she had now become reduced to the greatest possible dis tress by his desertion of her. The Learned Coun- Sel said he hoped, upon this statement, that the Court would be of opinion that Mr. Newton, the husband, as he called himself, of this young lady, was not in a situation to object to any course that her friends might think it advisable to adopt in order to have her taken proper care of. Lord TENTERDEN—Without going further into the affidavits, suppose you were to take a rule to show cause why the time for making a return to the writ should not be enlarged, and then there will be an opportunity to the other side to answer the affidavits. Mr. F. POLLOCK appeared for Mr. Alderman Kelly, one of the guardians named in the will of the young lady's late grandfather, Mr. Alderman Crowder. His prayer to their Lordships was, that she might be restored to the custody of her mother, and remain in that custody until the further order of the Court. Sir J. SCARLETT—WouId the Court have any objection to let one or t(vo persons, to be named by the Court, have an opportunity of seeing the lady ? Lord TENTERDEN--Tbere can be no objection, I think, to that. The ATTORNEY.GENERALNOt the least objec tion. Lord TENTERDEN—To wh it time do you want an enlargement ? The ATTORNEY-GENERAL—TiII next term. Sir J. SCARLETT -- We can answer the affidavits in a very short time. Lord TENTERDEN—WeII; let the time be enlarged. -Mr. POLLOCK—In the mean time the husband is not:to molest the parties. Sir J. SCARLETT—He has no wish to do so. Mr. POLLOCK—It is chiefly on account of his in . terference that Alderman Kelly objects to the lady's continuing at his house. Sir JAMES .'iCARLETT was not aware of any im proper interference on the part of Mr. Newton. He called at the house, and Mr. Alderman Kelly being from home, he left a note stating that he had come to demand the delivery up of his wife. Mr. PoLLocx said that he had been parading be fore the house, and causing great annoyance. Sir J. SCARLETT—Since you state that, I will mention that he saw his wife at the window, and that she made eight tokens to him, indicative of the severity with which she conceived she was treated. Mr. POLLOCK—If your Lordships read the affi davits:, you will find that she is utterly incapable of making any token at all. Lord TENTERDEN, after conferring for a few minutes with the other Judges, said, we propose to name, as the two persons to see her, Dr. Morro and Dr.M'Michael, as they have not made any Ada% its. Sir J. SCARLETT---Will there be any objection to allow Mr. Newton's solicitor to see her with the physicians ? Lord TENTERDEN—Then we must allow the so licitor on the other side to see her also. Mr. FOLLETT—The solicitor on the other side has access now. Lord TENTERDEN—Then Mr. Newton's solicitor ma y see her, in company with the solicitor on the other side. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, MAY 3. GLASGOW, EXECUTOR, V. DIXON. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, as ex• ecutor of the late General Schalchs, against the de fendant, Miss Dixon, to recover back the sum of 500/, alleged by the defendant to have been received by her as a gift from the testator two months before his death. The testator, who had served several years in Canada and other places, was an eccentric old gen tleman, and for some years previously to his death conceived ideas very unfavourable to his relations. In 1825 he made his will, bequeathing his property altogether to strangers in blood, and appointing the plaintiff his executor and re,iduary legatee. To the lefendant he bequeathei a legacy of 500/. lie re• sided in obscure lodgings, for which he paid 10s. a week, at Lewisham, where, for the last two years of his life, he conducted himself in. a manner which showed that he laboured under a singular delusion of I mind. He was a single man,but he fancied that his re lations had combined to destroy him,and not only they, but that many other persons had concerted to take him off by poison. So powerful was this delusion, that he used to refuse the food prepared for his meals. He would throw away the fowls boiled for his dinner, and drink the water in which they had been boiled. He would take the bread from the baker himself, choosing the loaves at the bottom of the basket, and then would eat no part of them but the crust. He had from time to time had the pump pumped dry and cleansed to avoid the poison he s s o u m pp e o t sd im e es to havewalkei in n bee t n put the garden, buttle water. i when uhe He did so, he turned out any person who might be in his apartments, and locked them up, for fear of affording an opportunity of introducing poison. He also con ceived an idea that the fair sex had ccn , pired against him, and occasionally put love powder in his bed, which, he said, did not affect him as it did other persons, for it only made his stomach --. Upon all other subjects he was perfectly rational, particu larly on scientific topics connected with his profes sion. In money matters, also, he was perfectly ac curate, never giving or receiving more or less than the proper sum, either when making purchases or paying his rent, &e. His father, and the father of Miss Dixon, who is a respectable elderly lady living in good society at Woolwich and keeping her carriage, had been brother officers; and on one oc casion at Minorca, when his fathergot into difficulty in consequence of a defalcation in his accounts as pay master, Miss Dixon lent him a sum of money to meet the deficiency, and thereby rendered him an essential service. For this service to his father, the testator expressed himself grateful, and anxious to manifest his gratitude by conferring an act of kind ness on Miss Dixon. On the 14th of December, 1827, he requested Mr. Stace, a respectable magi strate of Kent, and an old friend of his, to procure him 8001. on his cheque, from his agents, Messrs. Cox and Greenwood. Mr. S..ace accordingly pro cured the money, and sent it to him. He had pre viously inquired of Mr. Stace whether Miss Dixon, to whose father's kindness he referred in grateful terms, was in a situation in which 100/. wculd be of any use to her, and desired that she might call upon him. On the day on which Mr. Stace sent him the 800/. Miss Dixon placed 5001. in the hands of Colonel Campbell, a mutual friend, for security, which she requested him to have invested in the funds for her : and at the same time she procured the change for another 100/. which she sent that evening to the General, who sent back a written note (not produced) by the messenger. The 5001. deposited by Miss Dixon with Colonel Campbell, and afterwards invested in Three per Cent. Long Annuities, were subsequently found to have been some of the noes sent by Mr. Stace to the testator in December. On the 12th of February, 1828, Ge neral Schalchs died, his death being supposed to have been occasioned by starvation through fear of poi son. After his death a sealed parcel was sent to Mr. Stace, who supposed at first it contained the money he had sent him ; but a portion of this mo ney not being forthcoming, Mr. Stace inquired of Miss Dixon if she had received any money from the testator. She replied that she had nor. But she afterwards stated that the General had made her a present of 5001. In some time subsequently, when the parties attended at Doctor'-Commons to have the will proved, the plaintiff observed to Colonel Campbell, in the defendant's presence, "Miss Dixon is very fortunate; in addition to 5004 bequeathed to her by will, I understand that the General gave her 5001. more, as a gift, shortly before his death." He added," We are very fortunate in getting anything from General Schalchs : I never knew that such a person had been in existence, until I was informed of his death." Such were the leading facts of this eurilas case, on which it was contended, on the part of the plaintiff, that the defendant had either not been given the money at all, or, if given, th it it was at a time when the General was incapable of dis posing of his property, his mind being then decidedly insane. On the other hand, the defendant's Counsel argued that the General had bestowed this money upon her, and that whatever might be the testator's fancy as to persons intending to poison him, he was in every respect capable of managing his affairs. The Jury returned a verdict for the defendant. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. A case of some importance to publicans came on for hearing yesterday at this office. Its consequence of repeated complaints of the manner in which the Ship public-house in James. street, Covent-garden, was conducted, the Magi strates suspended the license on the last licensing day, against which suspension the landlord, Mr. James Mills, an attorney, residing in Hatton-garden, gave notice of appeal, and entered into the required sureties to appear at the next sessions, and show cause against the decision of the Magistrates. In the mean time the house has continued open, and is said to have been conducted in the same disorderly manner as heretofore ; iu consequence of which Mr. Thomas, the Superintendent of Police, felt it his duty to cause an information to be laid against carried t th edecisiont the proprietor for selling excisable liquors, w ith out a license. The information was laid by J o h nson, the informer, and the question to b e decided was, whether usin business appeal could b against aia s on in s during the suspension of the li cense b y the Magi hhe r a e t t es, notice having been formally given. The case having been proved, Mr. James Isaacs, on behalf of Mr. Mills, con tended that his client had a right to trade under the license which he held from the Excise until the case should be finally disposed of at the sessions. He urged the great loss which publicans would suffer, if they were obliged to shut up their houses between the period of the suspension of their licenses and that at which their appeals could be decided. Ma gistrates might suspend licenses on insufficient evi dence, and publicans might be ruined, if obliged to close their houses even for a week. Mr. HALLS said that the suspension of a publi can's license by magistrates was sufficient to cause the house to be closed at once, unless an appeal against the decision had been entered, in which case he conceived the publican might continue his busi ness until the higher Court had finally decided either for or against him. Mr. MINSILULL was of a contrary opinion, and held that after the magistrates had suspended a li sense, the publican had, in fact, no authority to trade under it,and must close his house until that euspen sion was reversed. Under that view of the law he should convict the landlord in this instance in the sum of 5/. and costs, for selling excisable liquors without being licensed by the magistrates. Mr. Isaacs, on behalf of his client, gave notice of appeal against the decision. A stable-keeper, named James King, was charged with having brutally assaulted two unfortunate females. • It appeared that the defendant was driving in a cabriolet along Holborn during the heavy rain on Wednesday night, and offered to give the two females a lift towards Somers -town, where they lived. They gladly ava iled themselves of the offer, but were scarcely seated in the vehicle, when the defendant began to take indecent liberties with one of them. She resisted , when the fellow seized her in the most savage manner by the throat, tore her clothes, and finally attempted w throw both her and her companion out of the cabrio let on the p avement, and would have done so but for the interference of a police constable, who caught one of them in his arms, as she w as in the act of fallin g , and finall y suc ceeded in stopping the vehicle, and taking the de fendant into custody. Mr. MINSIIIILL fined the defendant 505., and in default of payment he was sent for one month to the House of Correction, there to be kept to hard CORONER'S INQUEST. An inquisition was yesterday evening taken at the Swan-with-two-Necks, Lad-lane, before Mr. PAYNE, the City Coroner, and a highly respectable Jury, on view of the body of Mr. Frederick Murray Hourgan, aged 26, the publisher of The Sun News paper, who terminated his existence at the above Inn, by cutthig his throat with a razor in a most horrid manner. Mary Kitt, chambermaid at the Inn, &posed, that the unfortunate young man came there about six o'clock on the previous morning, saying that he had just arrived by the mail from Brighton, and that he was desirous of retiring . to rest. He accordingly went to bed, and about four o'clock in the afternoon he rang the bell, and upon witness going into the room, he told her that he felt poorly, and wanted a basin of tea, which she brought him. Lie drank the tea, and subsequently two basins full more, and became very sick, com plaining of a violent pain in his forehead. She went to him for the last rime that night, about nine o'clock, and he then told her that he felt considerably better, and wanted nothing else. On the following morning (Thursday) she went to call him. She knocked at the door, but receiving no answer, she looked through a window into the room, and beheld a spectacle truly appalling. The deceased was re clining his head over a washhand basin, which stood on a table, with a dreadful gash in his throat, and his face so dyed i n bl oo d, t h at not a f eature was distinguishable. She instantly gave an alarm, and, the porters coming to her assistance, the door was forced open; they then entered, and on examining the deceased, found life perfectly extinct. A bloody razor was firmly grasped in his right hand, which inclined towards his throat. His head was nearly severed from his body, so that he must have died instantly.—Mrs. Mary Macoy, of 26, Commercial- . road, stated, that the deceased, who lodged at her house, came home rather inebriated on Sunday night. He retired to bed about eleven o'clock, and complained that lie felt poorly. He got up, and went out as usual, on the following morning, and she saw nti more of him.—M-. Murdo Young, editor of The Sun newspaper, deposed that the deceased had been the publisher of that journal for the last six years, and generally conducted himself with pro-. priety, so much so, that unlimited confidence was placed in him. The last time witness saw him was on Saturday night after the pub lishing of the Paper, and he did not then observe any thing particular about him, but he believed he had been under medical treatment for some time. As he did not make his appearance at the office at the usual hour on Monday, inquiry was made after him at all the police-offices, as it was imagined that something fatal had happened, but all to no pur pose. On that morning a letter was brought to the office, which had been received from the deceased by his cousin; it was dated from Brighton, and he complained in it that he was sorely distressed in his tnind, but witness is not aware of the cause of his uneasiness. Juror—Was he in embarrassed circum stances? Witness—Not that I know of. Juror— Had he over-drawn his account ? Witness—Yes, a Itt ht :t not to any great eltent. you intimated that you meant to discharge him ? The witness having answered in the negative, a person from the Blossoms-inn proved that the de ceased arrived there on Wednesday morning by the Brighton mail, and that having no money, he had deposited his watch with the book-keeper as secu rity for his fate, which amounted to 12s. Verdict— Temperary insanity. THE MARKETS. SOUTIIALL MARKET.—May 2. In this day's market, which exhibited about an average time of year supply throughout, and was moderately well attended both by London and country buyers, the trade was rather dull with each kind of meat, at the following prices per stone of 81b. to sink the oftals : Beet tts. 10d. to 3s, 10d I 3s. 84. to ss. Od. Mutton 10 .5 0 Pork 310 410 Lamb .. ss. fkl. to 6s. ed. The foregoing quotations are Lamb ed., Veal from 2d. to 4d. per stone lower than those of this day se'nnight ; prices other wise stationary. Beasts, 181; Sheep and Lambs, 2,tii3 ; Calves, 4t.": ; Pigs, 45. A con siderabl.• number of the Sheep and Lambs ' and some of the Beasts, Calves, and Pigs, left the m a rk e t unsold. HA 1 I,BIIA 1 , 4. 31 A ItK Ea.—. May 2. 3s. Ott. to 3s. Bd. 4s. Oil. to 48.4 d. 3 8 4 8 I Pork 4 0 0 0 A limited supply, and a sluggish trade. ARUNDEL MA Rl:El.—May 1. to 3s. 10(1. 3s. Eld. to 4s. £4l. Mutton I 4 10 Pork—, 3 8 4'2 . . , . Lamb . ss. 4d. to 6s. 4d. Supply rather limited, and trade dull. CHICHESTER M A RKET.—May 2. Beef 3s. at. to 3i. sd. 3s. Od. to 4s. Od. Mutton 3 6 4 8 I Pork.. . .... 3 6 4 0 Lamb ss. Od. to Gs. 4d. Couples, 30s. to 425. each. In other store stock but little was doing. RU 14 FORD MA ItKET.—May 2. s. d. to s. d. s. cl. s. cl. Reef 0 8 3 8 I Veal ItLitton '3 4 4 8 Pork Lamb .ss. 4d. to 6s. lid. Suckling Calves from 14s. to 32s ; Quarter old Pigsl2s.to 185. each. A limited supply, and a dull tra,e. COUN FRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. W heat. I Barley. Oats. !leans. Per Quarter. S. to s. s. s. 8. to 8. 8. to 8. Blandfird —62 36 23 42 Brigg— 52 63 36 40 19 22 i3l 35 Cambridge--. 61 30 19 Chard 56 60 28 34 18 22 32 36 Huntingdon,,,,,, 58 67 27 32 18 23 28 32 Long Sutton.-- 46 61 16 21 28 38 Louth 50 55 27 32 17 20 32 34 Lynn • . 56 66 30 35 20 28 32 34 Newark (i 5 33 43 17 20 32 40 Nottingham --.... 56 63 31 41 20 25 33 45 Peterborough 46 61 29 37 18 25 32 38 Plymouth Pontefract. Sleaforl Uppingham 58 65 32 40 20 24 30 40 Wisbech., 5t 18 33 LEEDS CORN MARKET.—May I. Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, 60th. York. and Lincoln. 601 b. 544. to 665. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding Beans —Mealing, For. 12d. to 13d Eng. 114 d. to 134. per st. Shelling Rapeseed, English, 16/. to 24/ Foreign, —l. to —l. per last. LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE—May I. WHEAT, English, White, per 7111 b. Red ---..... Scotch, Welch, and Manx .10 9 2 Irish, White 8 4 8 6 ----- Red 8 3 8 3 Foreign 9 0 9 3 OATS, Ehghsh, Welsh, and Scotch, per 4511, ,3 0 3 2 Irish Foreign 131111,EY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 33 0 39 0 Scotch and Irish, per 601133 -- Feeding 3lO 4 0 BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter 36 0 40 0 - Irish, &c. - Foreign l4 0 38 0 ['FAME, English, per Imperial quarter 36 0 . 38 0 Foreign FLOUR, English, per 2801 b. 47 0 48 0 Irish 0 ITMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401bs ‘. . )5 0 26 0 INDIAN CORN, per 4401 b. BYE, per Imperial quarter MALT, per Imperial quarter 1 Ntroirr OF GRAIN for the Week ending April 30. Wheat. Oats. i Barley I Flout. Oatmeal. Ors. Qrs. Qrs. Foreign, Brisilristi, &c. Scks.l Loads. 3,111 8,1,431 i Ili I 1,777 3,414 BIRTHS. On the 3d inst. in Whitehall.vard, the lady of the Right Hon. E. G. Stanley. of a daughter, wlio died shortly after her birth. On the 31st ult. on her passage home from Calcutta, on board the Andronurche, the lady of Captain R. L. Laws, of a son. Oa the 3d inst. Mrs. H. Teape of a daughter. On the 3d inst. at Dalston, Airs. flainerton Williams, of a daughter. On the Ist inst. at Llantarnam Abbey, the lady of Wm. Porter, Esq., of a son. MARRIED. On the Ist inst. at Dawlih, the Rev. James Hamilton John Chichester, younger son of the late Colonel Chichester, of Ar lington-court, Devon, to Louisa Isabella, youngest daughter of It. W. Blencowe, Esq., of Haye s E n d, Middlesex. On the Ist in s t. at K irkham, Lancashire, John Cortazzi, Esq., of Brunswick -squa re , L ondon, to Mary Anne, youngest daughter of the late Th omas I lornby, Esq., of Kirkham. On the 3d i nst. at St. Pawl ' s, Chard, to Ann e , e ld est daughter o f G eorge B ags t er, E sq. of S t. Pancras. Covent-garden, Mr. Tome, of On the 2d inst. at St. Matthew's, Brixton, Mr. William Drink water, of Grosvenor-street, Camberwell, to Miss Elizabeth Greenwood, of Pontler's-end. On the 26th ult, at Southampton, Lieutenant-Colonel Ic Fevre, of the Hon. East India Company's 25th Regiment cf Native Infantry, to Eleanor, third daughter of the lion. P. B. Blaquiere, of Enfield-house, Southampton. DIED. On the 17th ult. at Bath, aged i 2, Mrs. Catherine Fowls. On the 3d inst. Frances Mina, fifth daughter of James Mit• ch ell, of Dalston, aged five years. On the 3d inst. Mr. Thomas Smith, jun. Upper North-place, Gras 's -inn -road, aged 40. On the 27th ult. at Exeter, in her 46th year, Eleanor Philippa, widow of the ►ate Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Paterson, and daughter of the late Vice - Admiral Dacres. On the 2M,li inst. at Worthing, William Bpyan, Esq., in the 63d year of his age. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY NURDO YOUN(;, AT TUB 'SUN' OFFICE. "112, STRAND, LONDON.