The Sun. — London, England, 1832-07-31 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TfIR_PLIBLIC JOURNALS. The Right Hon. Charles Manners Sutton has announced his intention of retiring from the chair of the House of Commons. This may be a fair subject of congratulation to the Right Hon. Gentleman himself, but sure we are that it is likewise one of deep regret to the House of Commons and to the country. No person ever filled the Speaker's chair, of whom it could be said with more entire truth, that he discharged its various duties to perfection. For sixteen years (we believe) Mr. Manners Sutton has commanded the respect, esteem, and confidence of all descriptions of men within the walls of Parliamer - , during a period too when party was often raging and unreasonable. Though repeatedly tried, his temper was always proof against provocation. Under the pressure of manifold fatigues, unexampled for their severity and constancy, the assiduous attendance of the Speaker was never for a moment relaxed, his vigilance surprised, his firmness shaken, his zeal for the privileges and honour of the House of Commons clamped, his cour tesy blunted, his impartiality suspected, the dignity of his eminent station lowered, his know ledge of the law and usage of Parliament im peached, or his authority on questions however difficult and important disputed. Nor were the accomplishments that fitted the Speaker for his arduous office confined to circumstances which met the public eye. His industry and punctua lity throughout the whole range of Committee business were as incessant as they were valuable and useful. His urbanity upon all occasions, and to all persons, was that of a gentleman, not merely of high breeding, but of a complaisant and kindly disposition. We should be wanting in gratitude did we not bear willing testimony to those marks of attention and indulgence towards the press, which, like others of our brethren, we have experienced from the Speaker, or through his interference, during many years, and which well became the individual who six times stood forward to claim from the Crown, and on behalf of the Commons of Great Britain, that uncontrolled freedom of speech which was their inestimable birthright. Reiterating our regret for the loss which Parliament must sustain by the retirement of Mr. Manners Sutton, we wish him, in the walks of private life, all honour, prosperity, and happiness. Besides the proceedings relating to the retirement of the Speaker, the other business seemed to indi cate the near approach of the close of the Ses sion. The Chancellor of the Exchequer an nounced that it was intended to fix the salary of the Lord Chancellor at 14,0001. a-year, and the retiring pension at 5,000/. This certainly seems to be enough, and we are not aware that on an average of five or six years it has ever been higher. It was right, however, to assign a handsome salary to an office from which the present holder has, with great disinterestedness, cut away so large a portion of patronage. It should be observed that the Lord Chancellor has expressed his determination not to accept a larger retiring income than his predecessors, un less the places at present at his disposal shall have been withdrawn by act of Parliament from his patronage. In the House of Lords the Irish Reform Bill was read a third time and passed, and a decies repetita crambe having been delivered by Lord Wyndford on the sub ject of the Russian-Dutch Loan, the house of Lords, with the full consent of the Duke of Wellington, agreed to sanction the payment of a debt, which it would have been a indelible stain on the national honour not to have at once and fully recognized.— Times. Our Frankfort Correspondent, in an able let ter in this day's Chronicle, observes, with great appearance of truth, that " the Monarchs have gone too far, because it is in the absolute neces sity of their case that they must go farther. They cannot stop at threats. They must exe cute as well as menace. They dare not suffer their anathema to lie a dead letter, or be laughed at through Germany, as the Pope's at Ancona. He who rules by force must be resolute. If a bad man be not a bold one also, he becomes despised rather than hated. The despots know this, and have worked up their courage to the sticking place. Their legions are ready to march on to the slaughter, for the anticipation of which, the petty and pitiful Sovereigns of Germany have humbly thanked them.' The prominent part taken by Hanover in this infa mous work, has led to conclusions with regard to the disposition of the English Government, which are by no means warranted. England has nothing to do with Hanover. It is the mis fortune of England that the King of England is also King of Hanover ; but it would not be more reasonable in Austria or Prussia to attack the Hanoverians on account of the English Re form Bill, than in the nations of Europe to cen sure the English for the conduct of the Hano verian Government. We are even disposed to question whether King William, though nomi nally Master of Hanover, at all interferes in Hano verian politics. As Hanover must soon pass from the Sovereign of England, it is by no means impossible that his Majesty has resigned to the individual who will succeed to it the manage ment of its affairs ; and there would be nothing singular in the Duke of Cumberland's concur• ring heartily in the Decree of Frankfort. Our correspondent, we are sure, is not warranted in saying, " Of one thing you may be certain. Without the full assent of France and England, this nefarious measure had never been attempted. The despots were one and all beginning to de spair, until they found means to prevail over the scruples of these two Powers. What their ex cuses must be time must tell ; for they are by their mere consent participators in this new po litical felony, the worst that has been acted since Poland was torn in shreds by the Northern Tri umvirs." It is not true that England has given any consent to the Decree of the Diet. There is no English statesman who would have such a load of guilt on his soul. That England and France may have been sounded as to whether they would resist the carrying the Decree into execution, is probable, and that the answer in the negative may have encouraged the Great Powers is equally probable. But, whatever may be the case with France, England is assuredly not bound to expend her resources in wars for German independence. Our Correspondent says—" Let it be borne in mind that the people of Germany blame England and France alone for all the evil that is so prodigally prepared for them:' They are not justified in blaming England for the evil prepared for them. The people of England are not called on to fight their own battles, and the battles of German independence into the bargain. The Germans should remem ber the proverb, Aide toi et le Ciel t' aidera. These divisions, no doubt, interpose great diffi• culties in the way of any common effort against the great Powers; but if Austria and Prussia avail themselves of their troops to destroy the liberties of the Constitutional States, they will 1 1 all possibility kindle a flame which will ulti mately consume them. But be this as it may, if the Germans are inclined, they are numerous enough to do the work without us. But the Journal des Debats makes out a tolerable case for the non-interference even of France ; " Admitting (says that Journal) what is true, that the European Powers detest the revolution of July ; ad mitting, what is also true, that by a coalition of their armies, as in 1814 and 1815, they could unite military ma.-es much more numerous than the French army ; a , !mitting, what cannot be denied, that this numerical disparity was still more alarming in the first days of the Revolution, from the state of weakness in which the elder branch of the Bourbons had left our military system, as it certainly did not dread the aggression of the European thrones, which served it as accompli_tes against liberty— by what cause has the hatred of Kings been neutralized in its effects? Why did they not enter on a war which offered them so many material means of success ? Does this cause still exist? Has it diminished in force, or is its influence increased ? " The evil inclination of the Kings has been chained down, because all their material force is in our days con trolled by a great moral fact, which asserts a predomi nancy over them—namely, the general will of the Euro pean nations, who, now united by common ties, by a commerce essential to their life, by an internal conviction of their rights and their wants, have, as it were, a great soul, a great intelligence, a great vital strength, against whch and without which no Government can act. Formerly there was in the European nations governed mo narchically a predisposition to follow the impulse given to them by their Chiefs, without scrutinising too narrowly the motives, persuaded that the will of the Chiefs was a decision without appeal, whether good or bad. It is no longer the same thing. The Kings of Europe have still a power, of which the form alone is absolute, but of which the exercise is subject to conditions in point of fact, with out which every real power extinguishes, and dies in their hands. " And with respect to the absolute form of Govern ment, on what title is it possible for them still to pre serve it? By perpetually arranging with the real power, of which the tendency is to take it from them—by evading the difficulties, like those commercial houses which con tinue to carry on their business by means of factious cir culations. Now, in order to enable the Kings of Europe to act hostilely against France, and declare war against us, without compromising their own royalty, deprived suddenly of its factitious means, the general will of the people of Europe must have been hostile to France, and the people must have, as in 1814 and 1815, supported the royalist crusade against us by their concurrence. " But every mind capable of observing must see that this moral influence has entirely changed its nature since 1815; that from being hostile to France, it has become favourable to it; that from being favourable to the Euro pean Kings, it has become hostile. The conclusion, then, is that which I have always boldly formed,—that in spite of all these mutual irritations of Governments, war will not take place. " Has this moral influence again changed ? Has it be come favourable to the Kings of Europe ? Has it become hostile to French liberty ? I maintain the contrary; I to iintain that, thanks to the prudent direction of the Go vernment of Louis Philippe, this disposition of mind, favourable to France, still animates the people of Europe; awl that, on the contrary, it would have been destroyed if the political principles of the Movement had prevailed, and directed the march of our affairs. " And why then would the disposition of men's minds in Europe have become favourable to the absolute Mo. narchies against us ? Have the nations of Europe received so many benefits from their Sovereigns, that all of a sudden they would become transported with enthusiasm for them ? Far, far from it !—For two years the Monarchies of Europe, carried away by a fatal necessity of their situation, which impels them to revolt against demands for ameliora tions, but which, however, they cannot possibly resist al ways, have been, and are still obliged, as a condition sine q ua non of their existence, to violently attack, to torment, to vex, to oppress, a great part of their subjects. Is it believed that Poland is better disposed now towards Ru•sia than it was two years ago? Is it believed that Italy is more favourable to Austria and the Pope? Is it believed that Spain and Portugal have any moral means of aggression against France? Is it, in short, believed that the act of the Germanic Diet is of a nature to conci liate to the German Monarchies that adhesion of the people, who are indispensible to them if they would act against us ? " I affirm, on the contrary, loudly two things : First, that this act of inquisitorial policy reveals an increase of disunion between the population of Germany and absolu tism ; and next, that far from calming the irritation and modifying this disunion, it is only calculated to add to it. How then can there result from it a means of action against France? I see, on the contrary, in it a great ad ditional probability of the maintenance of peace ; and if the interests of France should make us deem it advisable to raise our voice aloud for the affairs of Belgium, the Pro tocol of the Germanic Diet announce., in an incontes tible manner that we may do so. 0 ! the admirable means for the German Monarchies increasing their force against us—the commencing by putting themselves in a state of open war with their irritated people. This is a political conception of a new kind. " But we shall be told this disposition of the people, favourable for France, would he still more favourable if you hid delivered Poland—if you had delivered Italy—if you had intervened, or if you were still tolintervene, in behalf of the population of Germany against the despotism of the Germanic Diet; I do not believe this—l believe even the very reverse." The writer (H. Fonfrede) proceeds to prove his proposition that France, were she to take the aggression, would rally the people round their Governments. He dwells on the mistake in judging of the liberal opinion of Europe from the exaltation of youths and students. " We know," he observes, "beyond a doubt, from facts known to us, that during the last two years, whenever there has been a possible chance of triumph for the men and the system of the move ment, instantly a sensation hostile to the Revo lution of July manifested itself in foreign na tions ; instantly they thought they saw the revi val either of the excesses of the first Revolution, or the spirit of conquest of the empire disguised under an armed propagation of liberty." It must be owned that the writer in the Journal des Debats pleads his cause ably. We fear that his view of the calamities in store for Germany, before good Government can be attained, is but too likely to be realized. " In judging of the act of the Germanic Confederation, it will be seen that, as far as regards France, it is not dangerous * * * * As to the peo ple of Germany, however, this act is more nn portant and more fatal. It indicates all the dif ficulties of their situation, and lets us see how much their transition to political liberty is sur rounded by obstacles and danger; at that aspect the heart of every honest man, every true liberal, is wrung with sadness, because he sees vast and cruel sufferings for humanity." In speculating on so important an affair as that which now agi tates Germany, we ought to be careful how we allow ourselves to be carried away by partial considerations. Our part can be attended with little difficulty. But in pronouncing judgment on the Government of France, we ought not to overlook the circumstances dwelt on by the writer in the Journal des Debats. Even on the supposition that the French ought to support the people of Germany against the Diet, it does not follow that the people of Germany would thank them for the intervention. It is one thing to assist the people of Germany, and an other to have to combat both the rulers of Ger many and their subjects. We are not, at same time, blind to the dangers attendant on the subjection of the people of Constitutional Germany to arbitrary rule. But we must leave the subject for the present.--Morning Chron. Though no one can justly accuse Lord Al thorp of intentionally mystifying the public ac counts, it seems very obvious, at least to our apprehension, that he goes a round-about way to discover the causes of a declining revenue, when the true causes are close at hand, and as clear as the sun at noon day. A man who owers his rent can have no great difficulty, we imagine, in ascertaining how his income comes to be lessened ; and if the same person, in common with all his neighbours, has less money to spend, it follows that they must all consume fewer taxable articles, and, consequently, that the amount of such taxes must fall off: This is literally the case with the country. Repealed taxes and restricted currency are the two main causes which have produced a diminished reve nue ; and our wonder is not that there should have been a falling-off under such circumstances, bat that such falling-off has not been greater. And this brings us to the real point of our diffi culty. Can a country be expected to continue to bear its public burdens, or, in other words, to be wealthy and prosperous, the inhabitants of which (all, at any rate, who do not derive in comes from the public taxes) become every year poorer? Th ere i s suc h an a b sur dity in the question that we should be ashamed to put it, were it not evident that it is the point which public men cannot, or will not, see ; or else the setting it right is a difficulty with which they have not the courage to grapple. At the same time common experience in his own affairs must convince every man that the sooner difficulties which must be met are met and dealt with, the easier it is done ; while postponement and de lay, or, as Ki ng S o l omon ca ll s it, " a little folding of the arms to sleep," only renders the task the harder, and often converts temporary danger into permanent ruin. We are very far from wishing to encourage gloomy ideas of the state of the country, which, on the contrary, has hitherto, at all times, evinced an elasticity pro portioned to any difficulties with which it has been assailed ; but we do think with the writer of an admirable article " on the Rights of In dustry," in the last number of the Quarterly Review, that " we are arrived at a crisis threat ening the most terrific explosion, unless some thing be done to avert the inevitable conse quences of the continued pressure on the mass of the population. We are seriously impressed with the fearful state of our trade and commerce. Any one who contemplates the effect of a general breaking up of the com plicated and highly-wrought fabric of our industry,—and we consider its dissolu tion to be momentarily threatened,—the vast masses of desperate men who may in any one day be thrown out of employment by the withdrawal of the capital which now supports them—the terror and devastation that a few short hours may spread from one end of the island to another—will think with us that not an hour should be lost by the Legislature in taking up this momentous subject, and consi dering whether any and what remedy can be provided for a state of things which promises in its longer continuance to disorganise society, and precipitate this country into an abyss of de struction." Looking at the subject in this point of view, what is there in Lord Althorp's recent financial statement which is calculated to lead any one to suppose that the Government, of which he is the financial organ, either sees the danger, or is prepared to meet it ? His Lordship's exposition, it is true, was plain and candid enough, and happily exempt from that ' tone of groundless confidence, and boast of prosperity, which has too often been resorted to by his predecessors upon similar occasions. But here our approbation must end. Instead of enlightened and states manlike views of our real situation and the diffi culties surrounding us, they are passed by or glossed over as if they were mere summer clouds ; and the vessel of the State, as far as the helmsman is concerned, is left to steer a right course, or founder, as mere accident, without any reckoning, may chance to bring about. It is consolatory, however, to know that we have in the country those who can see the danger, and who have the skill to prescribe what would be a thorough remedy. Among such persons we class the writer from whom we have taken the preceding extract ; and we earnestly recommend the whole article to the perusal, not only of those among our contemporaries who have been pleased to cavil at our views, but to all who wish to see the veil of mystery removed from a topic of such vital importance to the very existence of all the best interests of the country.—Morning Herald. In adverting briefly to the financial statement made by Lord Althorp on Friday last, there are two points which are not unworthy of particular notice as distinguishing it, in an especial manner, from all the budgets of all former Chancellors of the Exchequer. Ist. The statement was candid and straightforward—there was no attempt made in it either to mystify the accounts—to conceal the real state of the country—or to exaggerate its future prospects. A fair balance sheet was for once exhibited—an acknowledgment made that there was a deficiency of income to meet the current expenditure, and no hope held out that the results of the revenue of the present year would do much more than balance the de ficiencies of the time that is past. This is one improvement, at least, upon former practice ; for, from the time of Mr. Pitt, down to the ejection of Goulburn from the office of public accountant, it seems to have been the studied and determined endeavour of every Chancellor of the Exchequer to render the public accounts unintelligible, to withhold the real financial state of the country from public inspection, and if so seriously de pressed as to have become a matter of notoriety, to represent the depression as transitory, and the coming prosperity as exceeding in every respect the experience of former times. The country was thus gulled for a time, and the Government enabled to do, what will never, we trust, be again attempted, to drain the public purse as freely, for needless and sometimes mischievous purposes, as if it had had no bottom. 2dly, It is worthy of observation, also, that although there exists a deficiency of revenue, the Government does not propose the imposition of any new tax, or the augmentation of any already in existence ; but trusts to its economical efforts for bringing down the expenditure to a level with the income of the country, and to the good sense of a Re formed Parliament, to make good the deficiency, should any be found to exist. In other words, the Government conceives that, partly by eco nomy, and partly by an increase of the revenue, it will be enabled to carry on all the branches of the public service, with credit to itself, and be nefitsph mbcieeoaainynlyegte b t doocteiboht necessaryf coffers. xe e trrheas c est. o ui po u l etn n yi r ca. y aol hnes,:dsrlt likely i ahei t ens h oir ysu o in gt u ioto t hbh pb a eenri n enoi y nemtgxeciiutpner car,h et additionthe as obu lfel nGtotfioefw t :%os,aheeuntirmcchnc such e more just or praiseworthy than thiseaurl;yeedt upon Government but the present ever ventured the experiment of putting it in practice ? With all former Governments the maxim has been to provide, in the first place, for their own exi gencies, and to think of those of p o o f ss th ib e le c , ou a n r t e ry . ure, from w h atever g r to the e expenditure, e i n v d e a , sources ivieenxut—e ceetxo it teadkie ca li might arise, or by whatever means it might be got at—and to let agriculture, com merce, and manufactures stand still, if t h e y could not do better, but to make the wheels of Government go round while there was a n y thing left wherewith to oil and propel them. How mischievous such a system is, as well as how much at variance both with the true nature and end of Government, as well as with the princi ples of social wealth, it would be a waste of words to explain ; and we hail, in consequence, the practice adopted by Lord Althorp, as not only a return, on a small scale, to what ought to be the conduct of a good Government, but as the triumph of a sound and good principle over one that is rotten and vicious. We intended, after making these observations, to have drawn the attention of our readers to the manner in which Lord Althorp's statement was received by the regular opposition--the Goulburns, Peels, &c.; but we have reason to believe that they have done for themselves what we intended to have done for them, and we shall therefore let the matter drop. A more enraged or silly op position never existed, and the public appears to have done justice to it, in the disgust with which it has received its puny and captious attacks upon his Majesty's Ministers.--Morn ing Advertiser. SUMMER ASSIZES. NORFOLK CIRCUIT-BURY Sr. EDMUNDS. JULY 30. WADE V. TIIE MARQUIS OF lIERTFORD. Mr. KELLY stated the case for the plaintiff, an elderly widow lady of good family, residing at Re)- don Cottage, a short distance from the mansion of the defendant. The action was brought to recover damages for a nuisance, which it was alleged the defendant had authorized, whereby the peace and comforts of :Mrs. Wade's life were very seriously disturbed. The lands of the Marquis entirely sur round those of the plaintiff, with the exception of one end, which is bounded by the high road. The plaintiff's husband was on the best possible terms with the defendant, and so the plaintiff and her fa mily continued since his death, until 1826, when one of her sons unluckily shot a pheasant in her grounds, which fell on the adjoining land of a te nant of the defendant. From the terms on which his family were with the noble defendant, young Mr. Wade did not for a moment imagine that his following the wounded bird would give offence, and he therefore passed the boundary line of the esta!es, and picked up the pheasant. The good understanding, however, which had up to that time existed, from tha' hour ceased, and a system of annoyance was commenced which: completely destroyed the quiet and privacy of the plaintiff's domain, till at length Mrs. Wade was obliged to remonstrate with the defendant, which she did by letter. The Marquis, in his answers, assured her that he had given his " bird-boys " strict orders not to incommode or annoy her, and he was extremely sorry if they had not attended to his orders. Ne vertheless, things continued in this state for a sea. son or two, when Mrs. Wade again remonstrated. Not only were pistols, cat-calls, and a variety of implements, of which the Learned Counsel scarcely knew the names, made use of, but of late, tin ca nisters, with stones, or some such thing, withinside, were employed in addition to the other engines of annoyance, till Mrs. Wade's cottage had become almost uninhabitable, and her life miserable. Mr. ANDREWS, for the defendant, assured the Jury that nothing was farther from his wish than to cause any annoyance to the plaintiff. He had given orders to his keepers and the other persons employed about his estate, not to give any ground of com plaint, and if they had exceeded their authority, it was against his wish and without his sanction. The Jury delivered their verdict for the plaintiff. NORWICH, JULY 30. The commission of assize for the county of Nor folk was opened this evening with the accustomed formality. The Civil list is lighter than has been known for some years ; but in the Criminal Couit there are for trial, six cases of sheep-stealing, two of horse-stealing, eight or nine of burglary, five of highway robbery, and one of arson. OXFORD CIRCUIT—STAFFORD, JULY 28. On Thursday the Commission was opened here, and their Lordships went to church on Friday morn ing. Their Lordships entered Court at nine o'clock; but it being three hours before the usual hour, busi ness of course was postponed until twelve o'clock, when by that time the Grand Jury had arrived. It was rather amusing to see Mr. Justice Bosanquet enter the Nisi Prims Court with about 40 Gentle men of the Bar, without the appearance of an At torney or a Jury. After looking at each other for a few minutes, they all marched out and retired to their lodgings, to await the arrival of the Attornies and their briefs. There is a good deal of business on the civil side. There are 10 special jury cases, but of no great pub lic interest—two are writs of right. Thomas Hart, a respectable farmer, aged 60, was charged with the wilful murder of his wife, by knocking out her brains with a bludgeon. His appearance at the bar was that of a lunatic; when called up to plead, guilty or not guilty, he said," I am not guilty that I know of." The Jury were then sworn, to ascertain his sa nity, when it was proved by Mr. Brutton, the Go vernor of the prison, and Mr. Hughes, the sur geon, that he was decidedly insane. Prisoner—When I used to keep Lichfield-mar ket, nobody thought me then insane; people want to get my money. The Jury, after a short consultation, found the prisoner insane. When the verdict was returned, prisoner said," I should like a pipe and some tobacco." Mr. Baron GURNEY directed the prisoner to be detained to await his Majesty's plessure. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY-JULY 30. COURT OFREVIEW. The COURT having disposed of several petitions, was obliged to adjourn at 12 o'clock, on account of the room being wanted for a sale. Their Honours regretted, that the time of the public and of the Bir should be so wasted, for want of a place in which the Court could uninterruptedly sit. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION fl 0 USE. Yesterday, after the general business of the Jus tice-room was terminated, a female of respectable a ppearance, named Nichol, applied to Mr. Hobler for advice in what manner to act under circum stances which she felt to be peculiarly hard. The applicant said, that about 15 or 16 months ago her husband, who was a carpenter, was engaged to go out to Fernando Po, which had been considered by Government as a climate much more congenial to British constitutions than that of Sierra Leone. He had not, however, been many days at the new settlement, when he had reason to think that the account he received of it was very far from the truth, for it appeared to him a place formed by n ature s the e dl,e,shtoruwcteinotneoaft at humthaensalimfee; time num bersehad given ghost upon landing, altho ug h th ey e great bodily strength. H er hus bandv e r of upm foret those othoef was one of the most punctual of men in wr i t i n g home, but that he had been now for a considerable time silent, from which fact she con cluded that he was dead. Her apprehensions had become greater by the refusal of Mr. Dillon, of Broad-street, the agent upon whose representa tions he had gone out to the colony, and who had regularly engaged him for the colonial service, to pay 31. 164., the last monthly st i pen d , w hi c h he had given her instructions to receive at the office. Upon requesting that Mr. Dillon would state the grounds of his refusal, and appealing to him as a man of hu manity to let her know whether her husband was alive or dead, she was assured by him that Mr. Nichol was in perfect health, and that the money had been ordered to be withheld, because those who had gone to Fernando Po were upon their way to England. She had received no intimation from her husband of the intention of the Governor to send him home. The applicant said, that Mr. Dillon had described the settlement as one of the most healthy parts of the world, and her husband had no other means of obtaining information with respect to it. The let ters she had received from her husband described the climate as the most dreadful in the whole world, and thet the blacks could not make coffins or shells fast enough for the white men who were taken off. Mr. Hobler said, that if the Lord Mayor was present, his Lordship would probably adopt some means of procuring more conclusive intelligence for the applicant, and advised her to make another ap peal to Mr. Dillon. MARLBORO UGH-STREET. Win. Robinson, a little boy about nine years of age, of artless manners and appearance, was charged with having embezzled 255., belonging to his master, Mr. Longcake, a blind-maker. The boy, though young in years, was an adept in dissimulation, and the present case afforded a re markable proof of his precocious proficiency. The boy had been discharged from a former situa tion for robbing his master, and, knowing the diffi culty he would have of obtaining employment with out a character, he adopted an ingenious device to obviate this drawback. He went into the shop of Mr. Longcake, and trumped up a story about his father and mother having been taken off suddenly by the cholera morbus, and drew such a picture of his destitute situation with so much apparent sin cerity, that Mr. Longcake, out of compassion, took him into his employ. He intrusted him with a pair of window-blinds to take to a customer in the Borough, but net to ask for payment. The prisoner, however, made up another story to the customer, and got the money, with which he absconded. An officer found him at a lodging-house in White Lion street, and took him into custody. He was remanded, in order to procure the at tendance of the persons who had paid him the money. PARLIAMENTARY PAPER. QUEEN- S lJ UARE. Joseph Walker, a well-known vendor of the Cos mopolite, The Poor Man's Guardian, and other publications of the same description, who has been several times committed from this office for selling the above•mertioned publications, was brought be fore the Magistrates, charged with working a private still. Mr.WnITE ordered him to pay the penalty of 301., and in default of payment he was committed for three months to the House of Correction. WORSHIP-STREET. Yesterday a young countryman, named John Car tcr, was charged with cutting and maiming two horses belonging to Mr. Wm. Clements, a farmer. The horses were in the prosecutor's field at Hackney, and on Saturday morning it was disco vered that three or four inches of the tongue had been cut from the mouth of each of the poor ani mals, which are in consequence in a most dreadful state of suffering, and unable to feed. The prisoner, it appeared, had been several years in the prosecu tor's employ, but a fortnight ago, in consequence of his neglect of the cattle and of other charges com mitted to him, he received notice to quit, and it was now sworn by two witnesses, labourers in the same employ, that in conversation with them on Friday se'nnight, he said, that if he did quit, " he would either poison his master's cows, or injure his wife." He was afterwards discharged, and when the horses were found in the state above-mentioned, the prose cutor, who had been informed of the prisoner's threats, had him taken into custody. The prisoner was remanded for a week. James Dunn, a young man of some note as a pe destrian in the " fancy circles at the east end of the town, was finally examined, charged with steal ing 30 gold rings from the shop of Mr. Sowerby, a pawnbroker, in Brick-lane, and was committed to Newgate for trial. UNION-HALL. Yesterday James Jarratt, the man in custody, charged on suspicion with the murder of a woman with whom he cohabited, was brought up for re examination. The body of the deceased woman was found in the Surrey Canal, on Tuesday last, without bonnet or shoes on, but the surgeon who examined it was unable to state whether any injuries had been in flicted, in consequence of the decomposition that had taken place from the length of time the body had re mained in the water. When the accused was taken into custody, he stated that he was with the deceased on the Saturday preceding her death, and that he left her the same evening with a man named King, with whom she went towards Peckham, and he (the accused) returned down the Kent-road himself, and called at several public-houses by the way, at some of Nr hick he sold herbs, which he was in the habit of selling. The magistrate (Mr. MURRAY) on hearing Jar rates statement with respect to King, in whose com pany it was alleged the deceased had been last seen alive, despatched Jeaffreson the officer to Oxted, were he said that King lived. Yesterday morning the officer returned from the above village, and gathered in the course of his in guides, that King, although having resided there about four years ago, had since gone to sea, and was therefore a stranger to Oxted, and had been so for the above period. Jeaffreson said, that in justice to the accused, he was bound to state that when he took that individual into custody, he told him that when he met King on Saturday, the latter person in the course of conversation said, that he had been at sea for the period above-mentioned,—that he had recently come home from India, and that his inten tion was to l eave E ng l an d again for a foreign country. This statement on the part of the prisoner, when he was taken into custody, was confirmatory of the ac• count the officer had subsequently heard during his inquiries relative to King at Oxted. Jeaffreson added, that be had also made inquiries at various p übF c h he had c ouse s alongad on the night ile the Kent - r ad h , t where thed de thecea deceased was alleged suspected to have been drowned, and ascertained that his account as related to that particular fact was also correct. _ Mr. MURRAY should remand the prisoner until Thursday next, in order to give more time to make inquiries after King, as well as to give the officer an opportunity of summoning the attendance of all the witnesses whose evidence was material in the case. Richard Stanton, the man whose wife in a fit of jealousy nearly deprived him of life, was brought up for final examination, charged with bigamy. When the prisoner was placed in the slip, and the witnesses called, the officer said that there was no one to appear against him. The MAGISTRATE expressed some surprise at the circumstance, especially as the woman who repre sented herself to be his second wife seemed, on a former occasion,so anxious to follow up the charge. Mr. Harmer was instructed that the accused was perfectly innocent of the alleged charge, at all events there were no witnesses in attendance to prove any thing against him. The Magistrate said, that as the parties who for merly attended and made the charge against the prisoner were not in attendance that day, he was entitled to his discharge. They were aware that he was to have b een b roug ht up for re-examination, and by absenting themselves showed that they were not desirous of following up the charge. The prisoner, on being discharged, merely said, " I am innocent of the charge that has been made against me." The sister of John Palmer, the celebrated come dian, who died suddenly on the stage, attended at the office for the purpose of being passed to the settlement of her late husband, who was rece n tl y carried off by the prevailing epidemic. MISS BAGSTER.—The friends of this Lady have received notice from Mr. NEWTON that it is his in tention to make application to the LORD CHANCELLOR to :-et aside the verdict of the Jury. It is the practice of the Court, we believe, to allow a month's time for a motion to traverse a Commission. Miss BAGSTER still continues in 'he house of Alderman KELLY. COAL MAR. Per Ton. s. d. Adair's 17 3 Rensham Main 17 3 Garesfield _.....17 0 South 16 0 I 19 0 Townley l7 91 Willington Wylam Walls End Bell 84., Brown 19 9 Ditto Bewicke and C 0.... 20 6 Walls End 8r0wn'5....... 18 6 Walls End Callerton 17 6 Ditta Clarke and 18 3 Walls End Gosforth...—... 21 3 Walls End Heat0n......... 20 0 Walls End Hilda 19 9 Ditto Killingworth 19 6 Walls End Newbiggen 16 6 Walls End Newmatcn.... 20 0 Ditto Northumberland,. 19 6 Walls End Itiddell's 20 9 Ditto Todd and Watson— 19 3 Ships arrived sine( NATIONAL GALLERY AND RECORD OFFICE. An Estimate of the Sum which will be required, in the Year ending 31st March 1833, for the Erection of a National Gallery and Record Office. 15,0001., clear of Fees and all other deductions. The estimated Expense of erecting the above Building is £50,000 The Amount proposed to be taken for the present Year is 15,000 Leaving to be granted in future years ... £35,000 T. SPRING RICE. Whitehall Treasury Chambers, July 17, 1832. The proposed building will be 461 feet in length and 56 feet in width in its extreme di mensions, and will consist of a centre and two wings. The western wing will contain, on the ground floor, rooms for the reception of records, and an entrance into the barrack yard, such as now exists. Above them will be the picture gallery, divided into four rooms ; one 50 feet by 50 feet, two 50 feet by 38 feet each, and one room 50 feet by 32 feet ; together with four cabinets for the reception of small pictures, or for the use of the keeper. The floors will be made fire proof. The eastern wing, of similar extent, will con tain on the ground floor a hall for casts, the library and council room of the Royal Academy, and a dwelling' fur the keeper. There will be likewise a gateway or entrance corresponding to that leading into the barrack-yard in the other wing. _ _ In the basement below this wing there will be offices for the use of the Royal Academy, and a separate set attached to the dwelling-house of the keeper. The centre building will consist of halls, vestibules, stair-cases, &c., for both establish ments ; they will be distinct and separated, but so brought together as to form one grand feature of interior decoration. The building is proposed to be executed in stone. The central portico is to be constructed with the columns and other members of that which formerly decorated the Palace at Carlton House. The materials of the present building are to be used in the construction of the new building so far as they can be employed with propriety. The whole cost of the buildingwill be 50,000/., exc'usive of the old materials above mentioned, which have been valued at 4,0001. It is impossible to state with any great degree of accuracy the cost of the grates,air-stoves, and fittings of the buildings, which will mainly de pend upon the mode to be adopted in warming them ; but it may be confidently stated that it will not exceed 6001. LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. The highest ptice of Bread in the Metropolis is 10d. tot the 41h. Loaf. There arc others who sell from 3d. to 114 d. below that price. PRICE OF SEEDS.—JuIy 30. New English Red Clover Seed (per Cwt.) —s. 525. fine —6. 82s. Old Ditto Ditto —s. —s. fine —s. —6. New Foreign Ditto s2s. figs tine —s. 925. Old Ditto New White Clover . 525. 82s. fine —s. 925. Old Ditto Ditto —s. —s. fine —s. —s. New Trefoil Old Ditto ...- Rib Grass English Carraway Foreign Ditto ...—... —s. Its. fine Ns. 525. —s. —s. fine —5 —s. —s. 375. fine —s. 425. Coriander —s. —s. 601. ftne 655. —5. —B. —s. fine —s. -S. fine 255. 30s. St. Foin (per Quarter)............ —a. —s. fine —S. 725. Rye Grass —s. —a. new 20s. 43a. Pacey Ditto . 4os. 565. new —s. —s. Linseed, for feeding _ —s. 40s. fine -a. 4411. Ditto, for crushing 36s. 40s. —s. fine 90s. Canary Seed, New —a. 70s. 72a fine —.e. .. 'ate Old —4. ...S. ..8. fine —a. . White Mustard Seed —(per 8u5he1)......... —s. 7s. Bs. tine ..—s. Brown Ditto .. —s. 10s. 17s. fins. —a. Turnip Seeds, Rounds . —s. —.s. Bs. fine Its. Green and Red Ditto . —s. .41. Bs. tine 12a. - Tares, Old —.4. ss. 6d. fine 6s. Ditto New —B. —s. fine —s. —a. . flaiteSeed, English, fine (per Last) 23/. 27/........ Foreign 201. 24/. PRICES OF HOPS.--July 30. Kent Pock Syrsex Ditto Feltz Ditto, Farnham Ditto, Fine Seconds Kent nags 41 15s. 51. ss. to 5!. 12s. 41 10s. 5/. Os. to 5/. sa. 4/. 12s. 51. ss. to M. 10s. 71. Os. 10/. Os. to 01 Os. 01. Os. 51. Os to 71. Os. 4/. 4s. V. 12s to 5/. Od, 4!. Os. 41. Ss. to V. Ila. 0/. Os. 01. Os. to 01. Os. Old Duty laid at 150,0001. Sussex ditto Essex Ditto., PRICE OF OIL. Rape Cl . il,!:!rown ................321. 65.....,,.,, Refined ......£35 0 Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand Rape Cake, per ton .. PRICE OF POTATOES.—JuIv 30. 2/ lOs. to 3! ss. per ton. 10 10 5 5 WHI'rECHAPEL HAY Al ARKET.—JuIy 29. thy 555. Od. to 955. Od. I Clover— 635. Od. to 1355. Od. 38s, Od. to 445. Od. Wan PRICES 01.: LEATHER Butte,s 2 English Horse Hides,. 12 14 Per lb. d. to el. Ditto, Foreign 15 181 Spanish Ditto 14 16 Dressing 12 14 Per dozen. Ditto 17 18 Calf Skins .,, 36 to Clib. )5 20 Per lb . I d. t o dl. Ditto, light Ditto 50 to 701 b. 19 23 Crop Hides, light 12 131 Ditto 70 to 801 b. 17 19 Ditto 40 to 451 b. 13i 149 Small Seals, Greenland 184 191 Ditto RAW I, RIDES. Per Stone. s. d. to s. d. Per Stone. 8. d. to s.d. Heifers & Stgers2 4 2 6 Ordinary 1 6 2 0 10 2 2 Market Calf--. 6 0 each, SHEEP SKINS. Short Wool Os. Od. to Os. Od. I Lambs Is. ed. to 4d. Od. to Os. 12d. PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, &c. per 1121 b. Town Tallow ......--.. 445. Od. Yellow Soap. _ 605. M. Yellow Russia 435. Od. Mottled 72 Od. White 425. 6d. White ~,,„.. 745. N. Soap Ditto 4ls. 6d. Graves , ..- 14s. od• NI 0 tcd 5tuff........,........... 345, Od. Good Graves , , ss. Od• Ditto R0ugh,,,.,..,,, 225. Od. PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone ot 81b. !'rice of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Melters) 2s 6d. ..—......... • PRICE OF CANDLES. The price of Store Candles, in the retail shops, is as follows :•-• Candles, per doz. 7s. Pd. to Ss. Od. I Moulds, per dozen--. 95. 6d. XT.—July 30. Per Tots. s ( 1 . Walls End Wa1ker",...... 20 3 Bells 16 Walls End Helton 21 6 W. E. Russell's Helton,. 2 1 6 Walls End Stewart's 21 6 Walls End Stobart's and Simpson 15 6 Walls End Adelaide 20 0 Walls End Cleveland.... 16 6 Walls End G0rd0n...,....,,, 19 6 Walls End Tees 21 0 Cowpen 2O 0 Merthyr 23 New Flockton, Milne, 3 Ne ed Co 17 '4 Silkatone Field an d c o . IS Scremerstone Engine—, 16 Walls End Selby 15 6 South Helton Seam 16 Greenwich Hospital 16 ‘,"' Warde's IS last market-day, 59. BIRTHS. On the 21st inst. at Hopetoun House, the Countess of Hope; toun, of twin sons, the one of whom was still-born, and the WC' only survived a few hours. On the 30th inst. Lady Susan Lygon, of a daughter. of On the 30th inst. a t t h e Gothic, Kentish-town, the lady Sir James Williams, of a daughter. On the 29th inst. in Portland-place, Mrs. Oswald Smith, of daughter. vid On the 29th inst. in York-terrace, Regent's-park, Mrs. Da Barclay Chapman, of a son. On the 29th inst. at Hermit's Tower House, Wi nc h es t e r, the lady of Anth ony F rench, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 28th inst. Charles Fassett Burnett, Esq., of Park-cresi. cent, to Eli za b et h , w id ow of t h e R ev. G eorge H e b er den I of Dartford, Kent. On the 28th inst. at Great Sating, Essex, J. H. Benbow, op of Lincoln's Inn, to A ga th a Georgiana, eldest daughter of t late Captain Dobie, R.N. DIED. On the 27th inst. at Tunbridge-wells, in her 21st year, t- 3 e;„ beth Phene, eldest daughter of Mr. Reuben Williamson, of I , " bury-terrace. Fra - On the 28th inst. at Hampstead, the Rev. Henry William - er, 8.A., of Queen's College, Cambridge, the youngest O n the late John Fraser, of Achnagairn, Esq. On the 28th inst. after a long and painful illness, Mrs. Ea st t Galbraith, in her 35th year, eldest daughter of J. Turn bu printer, late of Edinburgh. On the 30th inst. Mr. Ordidge Hedges, of the Stock Exchange' eldest son of Henry Hedges, Esq., of Hayes, Middlesex. sea On the 29th inst. Mary, the Wife of Mr. Thomas smith, Upper North-place, Gray's-inn-road. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY MURDO YOU, SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, LONDON.