The Sun. — London, England, 1832-07-17 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The House of Commons was engaged again last night in a dull and prosing repetition of the former debates on the Russian Dutch Loan.— We must say, that Ministers tax the patience oi their friends very freely. Mr. Robert Grant was set up to make a long legal argument, evidently prepared for the previous debate, on the legality of the payment without the sanction of Parlia ment ; and was of course followed by Sir Charles Wetherell, in one of his happiest effusions, for another tedious hour. The exhausted Mem bers might have been well spared these two hours waste of their time, by Lord Palmerston rising before Mr. Grant. When the Session is to end, or how an attendance of Members is to he insured under such management, we do not understand ; but we hope the remaining busines, will be got through with more despatch, and every endeavour made to get rid of the present House of Commons at the earliest possible pe riod. Short speeches will conduce more than any thing to this result. Mr. Hume wisely and manfully supported Ministers, and may console himself , for the ridicule and abuse which Sit Charles 'Wetherell and Sir Robert Peel attempted to cast upon him, by the reflection that he has done that which was both for the satisfac tion of his constituents and the interests of the country. Neither the people of Middlesex or Great Britain have the least desire that power shall be transferred from the present Government to the factious party whose motives Mr. Hume so ably exposed.—Morning Chronicle. Mr. Baring, by way of pretext, last night professed not to be in possession of sufficient information to enable him to decide whether there is any truth in the allegation of Ministers, that though according to the letter we might not t he strictly bound, we were according to the spirit of the treaty. He wished to hear some evidence for the assertion that the Convention of Aix-la-Chapelle merely intended to guard against the encroachments of France, and con templated no severance of Holland and Belgium but by foreign invasion. This is, of course, a re-opening of the question. It has been alread% decided twice over that Ministers were justtified in paying the money on the anterior engage ment, and the motion for further papers is oril intelligible with reference to the fresh agitaticn of the question. The pretext is further informa tion ; but the object is, the playing into the hands of the Tories, who do not say that if they were in power to-morrow, they would not pay erery farthing which Ministers have paid, and are to pay. The motion is, therefore, altogether without an object ; for no men capable of carrying on the Government of this country will refuse to pay the money. On the part of the Tories, the ques tion reduces itself to a mere quibble. They do not say that they would have acted towards Russia differently from Ministers ; but merely, that as nothing appeared on the face of the engagement to sanction the payment, they would have had recourse to Parliament. They have no objection to avail themselves, however, of the aid of those who wish to get rid of the payment altogether; but should they obtain a majority, they would turn round on their allies, with a " Gentlemen, .ve thank you for what you have done ; but hereafter we take different directions. You wished to keep the money, we wished for place ; hut having obtained place, we have no intention of refusing to make the payments, to which in spirit, though not in letter, we are bound." It is really scandalous to consume the time of the House at this advanced period of the Session with tedious debates which can have no practical result. They who, like Mr. Hume, think that we were not bound to pay the money to Russia are so few in number, that it is only in so far as they may turn the balance either way that they are of consequence. We have already alluded to the course taken by Mr. Hume. He sees that the question is not whether the money shall or shall not be paid, but whether the Whigs or Tories shall be in power. " With regard (he said) to the terms of the amendment, if it were carried, and if, in consequence, the present Mi • nisters retired from office, those who brought forward and advocated the amendment were not themselves prepared to assert that they would have refused the money to Russia ; and the nature of the counter-proposition of the Hon. Member for Thetford did not show that if the Tories oh- Gined power they would not pay it. They still cun ningly left a loop-hole, out of which they mi g ht escape. --(Cheers.) The object of the proceeding of Thursday ni g ht was avowedly only to turn out the Whi g s, that ti.e Tories mi g ht get in. He (Mr. Hume) had come down with a determination to vote a g ainst Ministers, until he found out the game that was playing. He soon saw how he was surrounded, and would not become a party to the scheme.—(Cheers.) He had, therefore, not changed his opinion, but his action. He had supported the Whi g s, even though be thought them wrong—(Cheers, and laughter)—because he did not wish to lose their services in the great cause of Reform.—(Cheers.) The real ques tion was, not as to the justice of the claims under the Rus sian-Dutch Loan, but as to the comparative merits of Whigs and Tories; and be, for one, could not entertain a moment's doubt about it. If once the Tories obtained office, they would soon find the means of defeating Reform, eves although the Bill had been passed." We trust the country will carefully examine the lists of the majority and minority on these questions. No man who voted against Minis ters on Thursday night or last night is deserving of any confidence. This vote is a proof that he is either an enemy of the people or a fool. On a division, the numbers were—for the Motion, 191 ; for the Amendment, 155 ; majority, 36. —/V/co fling Chronicle. We confess we cannot understand the object of the third debate on the Russo-Dutch loan which took place last night. On Thursday the Opposition moved a vote of censure on the Ministers for paying a debt allowed to be due to Russia. Their motion failed. They last night, with a somewhat Irish sort of hysteron proteron, and with that kind of modesty which once also was peculiarly Irish, besought the Ministers to have the goodness to furnish information which might, perhaps, justify their late abortive endea vour to censure and turn them out. This illo gical argument, this innocent appeal, had such success as might have been anticipated. The reasoning of their opponents did not convince the Ministers—the simplicity did not persuade them—that they ought.to comply with a request which was founded on the hope and intention to destroy the Government. It was suggested, however, by a clever and promising young Member (Mr. Vernon Smith), that the object of the Opposition was t o " make a splash on the hustings" at the next general election. We agree with the Hon. Member, that this object will also be defeated. The people of England are too intelligent to be duped by the cry of eco nomy from Anti-Reformers. They are too honest not to support those representatives who adhere to the stern demands of justice and na tional honour, however odious the party to whom the debt is owing.—Times. Asitiell,speculation, indicative of extreme con -. d 0 eucy, has been thrown aw a y , n;;;:_ dt Don Pedro s capture of Azi l tr r 046:::-71iiiirit that so far as facts are ~.. .0 1 talik._41$44:: ' - ' 1 ' s little material for con . 61 „lA - 164414"i The accounts by the --,- , .../ 1 • , -,::-. .:-..> ,_ - Firebrand have brought no more than-Ist, that Don Pedro was not opposed in the landing of his troops, in their march upon Oporto, or in their seizure of Villa Nova, on the south bank of the Douro. 2d, That neither .Mignel's civil authorities, nor his troops, had shown any symptom of deserting to the Constitutionalists, but had retreated before, probably, a far superior force. These are all the particulars stated, which bear any mark of authenticity. It has, indeed, been circulated, though somewhat vaguely, that one regiment, which declared for Queen Maria, was surrounded and cut to pieces by other corps which did not sympathize with it. But a day or two will most likely furnish us with intelligence on a larger scale, and of a less doubtful nature. Pedro has been charged with imprudence or bad generalship, for landing at so great a distance from Lisbon. But Oporto is described to be a liberal city, and if a strong spirit in favour of the Queen should really exist amongst the Por tuguese people, a descent upon Oporto—ten days' march from the capital—would give the invaders time to organize their friends, to raise the country, and confirm their footing, so that Nliguel should not bear down with an over whelming power, and crush them before the ar rival of solid reinforcements. Military men of experience have certainly desired that the land ing should take place at such a distance from Lisbon as might admit of the Queen's troops being put in order of battle unmolested ; and, on the other hand, so near as that they need not incur the fatigue of many successive marches, or undergo much difficulty in the search for provi sions, until they reach the scene of action. Why this plan was not followed, it is impossible for us to determine 1,000 miles from the spot. Pos sibly Lisbon might be too strong for a direct at tack, and the tyrant's garrison so numerous that the resident friends of Don Pedro durst not avow themselves, until a large portion of it should be drawn off towards the north, to meet the invading army. A division of Don Pedro's force, it is said, composed no part of that which took possession of Oporto, but was directed against the intermediate point of Figueras, where, if it proved able to maintain itself, it might considerably annoy the flank of Miguel in his movement towards the north of Portugal. l'here are those who suspect that the landing at Oporto has been a mere demonstration, for the sake of compelling Miguel to uncover Lisbon, and thus expose it to an attack by sea, from the army suddenly re-embarking at Oporto, and steer ing for the Tagus. We are no judges of military matters, but such a proceeding appears not a lit- tie hazardous, the success of It tieing wholly de pendent on the winds and waves. At all events, the main reliance of Pedro must be on the people of Portugal. If they be against him, thrice the number of troops that accompany him would be sacrificed in such an expedition. If the country be tired of Miguel, the Usurper's reign is at an end. The first defection among his troops, as indicating even a divided feeling in the army, will be fatal to him, unless the crimes of Miguel meet a set off in some gross folly on the part of his anailants.— fines. The question whether the people ought to exact from the candidates for their votes to re present them in Parliament specific pledges as to the course they will pursue, is much agitated , at this moment, not only by the Press, but in all political circles, and at many public meetings. It is certainly a question of great importance. In the late struggle between the Reformers and the An ti- Reformers—that is, between the mass of the people and the small but well-compacted body of their enemies—between those who paid the price and those who received the wages of corruption—the principle of exacting pledges was generally adopted, and no one can be igno rant who watched the Parliamentary movements of the time how much the popular cause was be nefited by the rigid exaction of a promise to stand by the Bill. In fact, the efficacy of the practice, as manifested in that instance, has caused a strong feeling in its favour which in terferes in no small degree with the dis passionate consideration of the principle, when it comes to be regarded as a general rule appli cable to any and to all questions on which the Legislature may have to decide. For our own parts, though we strongly approved of the exaction of pledges as an expedient in the instance alluded to, we are as strongly opposed to its application in the extended and universal sense which many persons now contend for. We object to it as a general rule, not merely because it involves the absurdity of sending men into a deliberative assembly without the power of ex ercising a choice, as implied in the act of deli beration, but because it involves the still greater absurdity of supposing questions to be decided in the first instance by the mass of the people, whose necessary avocations disqualify them for such a task, if there were no other impediments. But the fact is, that the principle of Represen tative Government itself is founded on this defect in the nature of society and of man, that great bodies cannot deliberate, and, consequently, must delegate to smaller bodies the functions of discussion and legislation. If we assume,as those must assume who maintain the propriety of dic tating and demanding pledges, that the people en masse are capable of deciding upon all questions of State—that is, of governing the country—why is ar.y other mode of government resorted to ? There can be no good reason why it should. What is it then but the worst spe cies of quackery to make the decision of the people binding on the Parliament. Reason and experience declare that the business of legisla tion, often including the most complicate de tails, requires the almost exclusive attention of intelligent minds ; it would, therefore, be more consistent to extinguish Parliament altogether than to make its proceedings dependent on the dicta of the multitude. The case of the Reform Bill was one of those plain, straight-forw ar d cases which nobody could mistake. The ques tion was—" Here is corrupt ion, do you like it— will you continue it—or are you p tired of it-- and will you put an end to . ? If a similar question should arise again let pledges be de manded ; but, in ordinary cases, let our Re presentatives go unshackled by previous engage ments to the discussion—let their talents as public men have fair play—and let their charac- . ters be our security for the honest exercise of those talents in the cause of freedom and huma nity.—Morning Herald. The landing of Doti Pedro in Portugal is announced, and the various particulars of the occurrences by which it was followed are also be fore the public, amounting to this, viz. that on Sunday evening, the Bth inst., he anchored off Oporto, and the next morning landed his 7,500 troops at Alatozinhos, without opposition, and then marched upon and entered Oporto, whence the garrison, magistrates, &c., fled by the bridge to Villa Nova, on the other side of the Douro. Throughout the next day (Tuesday) Don Pedro's forces, it is said, were annoyed by those who had retreated to Villa Nova, which place was captured by 3,000 troops who had landed on the other side of the river in steamers, of course belonging to the expedition. This was the work of Wednesday. If all this is true, it is certainly immense doing for three days. We may ob serve, however, that though telegraphic commu nications go to Lisbon in twelve hours, and an express in twenty-four, yet on the 9th instant, at four o'clock, when the mail closed, his arrival on the coast was known only as a report. Still he might have anchored in the evening of the Bth ; but that must have been at four or five miles' distance from the shore, the coast happening to be extremely difficult of access without expe rienced pilots. It is besides not possible to land unless during high tide ; and having thirty-six transports, and each furnishing a boat capable of conveying fifty men, he could not disembark more than 1,800 in one trip ; and experienced mariners concur in stating that he could not make more than one trip per day. When Brazilian ships, of a large size, heavily loaded, arrive off Oporto, the boats destined to land their cargoes go out in the evening in order to come back the next day, will only bring twenty chests of sugar, or half a load, owing to the dangers of the surf. This is known to every British captain who has been at Oporto. The landing of 7,500 men and the materiel of an army at the point described, scarcely, therefore, could be effected in a morning, or during one tide. Matozinhos harbour is infinitely less easy of access than Mondego Bay, where, as we have before stated, it took a Wellington, with the aid of a British Admiral, five days to land nearly the same number; and would Don Pedro at tempt an operation of this kind without pilots, or establishing his communications ashore, and this the very morning after he anchored ? Ma tozinhos is a small inlet, defended by two forts and a battery of twelve guns, and is three miles north of the Douro. At the entrance of the latter river the fortress of St. John de Foz, having forty-eight heavy pieces, and in the intervening distance between the latter and Matozinhos is a strongly fortified elevation called Nabogilda ; and would not these five fortifications have fired a single gun ? It is besides curious to observe, that not one of them is mentioned in the reports arrived. The fort of De Foz must, however, have surrendered, otherwise the steamers could not have entered the river, and its capture would have been more glorious than that of an open town, and yet the name is not alluded to. Colonel Martins is the Royalist Commander of Oporto, one of the most spirited officers in Portugal, and the division stationed there and in the vicinity amounts to eight or ten thousand men. And has this army dwindled into no thing ? Villa Nova, we are told, on the other side of the river, was taken ; but had the 'noun- taro of El Pilar, commanding Oporto and both banks of the Douro, and which afforded our il- lustrious Wellington a position that enabled him to drive away Soult, disappeared ? The reports on which we argue, it will be borne in mind, are exclusively derived from the Pedrite party ; and really if, till we receive more authentic particu lars, we withhold our belief in the whole of the three days' doings, as stated in the accounts be fore us, we have the consolation to know that some of our own most experienced officers, who have trodden every inch of the ground, are equally as incredulous as ourselves. For the present we merely refer to our Lisbon letter of this day.—Morning Post. WICKLOW, TUESDAY.—Ourmuch respected Under-Sberiff, W3I. MANIFOLD, has this moment been buried, having died two hours since of decided cholera. It was a most malignant case, and its victim is most deeply and deservedly regretted. lie was quite well on Sunday, and was only taken ill lite yesterday. The country is in a frightful state.—Dublin Plain Dealer. e regret to state that the cholera has broken out very severely at the end of Drury-lane towards Hol born. There were eight cases carried into the cholera hospital, George-street, during yesterday. The filthy state of the avenues leading into Drury-lane is abominable, and the whole atmosphere is impregnated with it. No wonder that cholera or any other disease rages in the neighbourhood. We should be glad to learn why the parish authorities have neglected to attend and remove the nuisance as far as possible. MILITARY PUNISHMENT.—Friday the 3d Battalion of the Ist Regiment of Grenadier Guards mus tered at the usual place of parade in the King's Mews Barracks, when ROBERT HILTON, a private, was brought from confinement, to hear the result of a Court Martial read to the battalion. The prisoner was charged with desertion and robbing his comrades. He was sentenced to be drummed out of the regiment. This sentence was immediately carried into effect. The non-commissioned officers cut the lace and buttons off his jacket, and he was ;narched in the usual manner along the line to the gate of the Mews, when his discharge was given to him, and he was turned out of the barrack , , the drummers and fifers during the ceremony playing " The Rogue's March." THE BURNING CLIFF AT H O LWORTIL-- The last week has presented numerous parties boating athwart the bay to Ho'worth Cliff, which is at least as interesting as at any previous period since its first disco very ; many large fissures exhibit every indication of ex tensive ignited materials, and more particularly on the summit of the cliff, which has heretofore not offered any such external traits of ignition as now attract public at lpstion. The progress of the fire is unquestionably tend ing eastward, and, from the immense mass of pyritous substances embedded in the soil, in a gradually decompos ing state, there is every evidence that this phenomenon will vet for a long time continue to excite the notice of the philosophic world. THE PIKE.—The size the pike attains in some situations is almost incredible. We have one upon record, caught i❑ a pool near Newport, that weighed 170 pounds. I❑ Ireland, particularly in the Shannon and Lough Corrib, they reach a great size, and are frequently caught from 50 to 70 pounds each. Colonel THORNTON took one at Loch Alva, in the Highlands of Scotland, which weighed 48 pound., and gives us a pleasing ac count of his capture in his " Sporting Tour ;" adding, with an incredulity we can well excuse in a fisherman, " there may be larger pike, but I cannot readily credit the account of such till I receive more authentic information." New Sporting Magazine. It is said that a representation is about to be male to the LORD CHANCELLOR, on the subject of the serious inconvenience resulting from the long period during which the Court for Relief of Insolvent Debtors is closed in the course of each year. The Commissioners make two vacations of six weeks each, which they contrive to bring so near each other as to afford some of those learned persons three months holydays ; these, adled to the ad journments at Christma-r, Easter, and Whitsuntide, form nearly four months, which is a pretty fair share of otium cum dig. for fourltwyers to whom the public ply 4,5001. a-year. The evil arising from the present mode is, that prisoners are kept in confinement much longer than was intended by the Legislature, and the prison-houses are crowded at a time of year when it is especially desirable that they should be thinly populated.— Times. FATAL RUNNING MATCH.— Saturday an inquest was held at the Queen's Head, Great Windmill street, on the body of Mr. LOBAN CooK, aced 30, a re spectable tradesman, of Cook's -court. On the 4th inst the deceased and Jam BURN, the pugilist, were at White Conduit House, when the former proposed to run JEat fifty yards for a bottle of wine; they started in the garden, and had proceeded about forty yards, JEM being in ad vance, when the deceased was tripped up by a stone ; he fell, and his nose and face were cut by the gravel; b;s wounds were waled, and no serious consequences were apprehended, but the next day he was seiz e d with a stiff ness in the lower jaw, which was speedily followed by tl e usual symptoms attending a locked jaw, and on the fol lowing day he died in strong convulsions. In the opinion of Mr. LameEwr a small artery had been divided in the nose by the fall, which brought on the dreadful malady of which he died. V e rdict—Accidental death, produced by a locked jaw. BANKRUPTCY COURT. COURT OF COMMISSIONERS, JULY 16. SIR GEORGE DUCKETT AND CO.'S BANKRUPTCY. A meeting of the creditors of the above banking firm took place this day at Basinghall-street, for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of authorizing the assignees to apply to Parliament for power to ‘ell the Sort Navigation, belonging to Sir George Duckett, in more shares than three, which was the limit beyond which the present act would not allow of its being divided. The opinion of Counsel having been read upon the present act, Mr. SIIUTER, a creditor, begged to know wv•at had been the receipts and expences of the canal for the last f►ve years. One of the assignees stated, that the persons they had appointed to survey the work had only been able to give a rough estimate, from the accounts of the canal being mixed up with others, but that, as far as they could at present see, the value of tl►e canal might be between 3,0001. and 4,0001. per annum. Mr. SIIUTER thought they were not in a condi. tion to take into co►►sideration the question of ena bling the assignees to apply to Parliament for fresh powers till they had a more precise account of the value of the canal, and proposed that they should adjourn the meeting till a perfect account was made out. Af►er some discussion this proposition was with drawn. Mr. BARBER BEAUMONT complained that he had not from the beginning been able to obtain from the bankrupts any account of the income derived frem the canal in 1831. Sir GEORGE DUCKETT stated that he bad brought a perfect account with him to the last meeting, but that it had been laid upon the table by a clerk, and had not since been heard of. He was, how ever, ready to give the creditors an account of its value, including the year 1831. Upon his father's death lie came into possession of 7,000/. or 8,000/. per annum; and, had he taken Mr. Beaumont's ad vice, he certainly never should have entered into this bank. For the nine years from 1813 to 1822, the average annual income from the tolls of the ca nal was 5,0401. The average tonnage upon the canal was 40,000 tons per annum. For the subse quent nine years, from 1822 to 1831 inclusive, the average quantity of tonnage increased to 42,700 tons per annum; but in consequence of a diminu tion of the tolls, the receipts were only 4,270/. per annum. The annual average expenditure for both periods might be taken at 1,3001. Improvements which had since been made, the benefits of which had not been felt till towards the close of last year, and the raising of the tolls to their former amount, which might very easily be done, would make the canal yield a much larger income. If he might be allowed to express an opinion, it would be, that the estate would derive considerable advantage from the proposition of the assignees being adopted. As he looked forward to the receipt of a large surplus, of course his interest and that of the creditors was the same. Mr. BEAUMONT observed, that upon Sir George Duckett's own showing, the canal was not worth a 20 years' purchase—more than between 70,000/. and 80,000/., and as it was put down in the va luation they originally had put into their hands at 150,000/. he did not think the result had proved his original statement, of the esrimates being double what they ought to be, far from correct. He did not think that any good would result from the pro posal of the assignees to apply to Parliament for powers to enable them to create a joint stock com pany, for it was certain to lead to great delay, and probably to great expense. Mr. Beaumont con cluded by moving a resolution to that effect. Mr. BARRON moved, as an amendment, that the assignees should be authorized not to apply to Par liament, but to give the necessary notices of their intention to apply to Parliament, so that if the ne cessity to apply to Parliament should afterwards arise, they might not have lost any time. Mr. B. BEAUMONT observed, that it would be time enough to apply for even this authority after the assignees had taken the property into the marker, and failed to sell it for its fair value. A creditor said that he should oppose the amend ment, as tending to lead them to litigation, and put money into the pockets of the lawyers. Mr. Barron's amendment was then put and nega tived, and Mr. Barber Beaumont's resolution put and agreed to. In the course of the day one of the assignees stated that the following property had sold for the sums annexed to the several items : House in New Norfolk-street, with furniture Wine in ditto House in Pall-mall (This sale is not quite com pleted) Furniture in ditto House at Roydon Farm at Downhall Cottages at Roydon Pictures of Sir George Duckett . . Ditto of Sir Francis Morland Shares of Sir G. Duckett Part of Sir Francis Morland's property at Wands worth , 900 Sir F. Morland's property at Hammersmith Shares of Sir F. Morland Mr. Barnard's phaeton Several estates and much personal property belonging to the partners are yet unsold. The amount actually in the hands of the official assignee of the separate estate of Sir G. Duckett. was 2,5341., of the separate estate of Sir F. Mor land 875/., and of Mr. Barnard 1,124/. The total amount in the hands of the official assignee of the joint esrate of the partners available for the purposes of a dividend is 26,8931. The total amount of debts which it is calculated will be proved against the joint estate before the end of this month, is 130,000/. M r . WALFORD said, that as some reflections had been made upon him for having miscalculated what some particular parts of the property would fetch, he begged to compare the official assignee's account with his estimate. He had stated the liabilities of the estate at 191,0001., whilst the official assignee made them come to 189,000/. only. He had esti mated the assets of the house at 102,000/., whilst the official assignee had ascertained that, putting aside doubtful debts, the assets would be 105,000/.; so that in both particulars he had erred on the right side. Thanks having been voted to the assignees, the meeting separated. SURREY SESSIONS, Jiro. , 16. Sarah Hill, aged 27, was indicted for stealing 17s. in silver moneys, a knife and a key, from the person of Wm. Cleverdone, his property. The prosecutor, who said he was a " Yorkshire man coomd up to Ltinnun," gave his evidence in a manner which convulsed the Court with laughter, to the following effect :—" I knows the lass, but I only had a short acquaintance wi' her. One night (the 24th of June), aboot twelve o'clock, I was a gang ing gown the Borough, and she corn and cotchd hold o' moy arm, and axed me to ge her some gin. I wur aboot three sheets in the wind, but I knowd what I wur at, and I tould her I wanted nooan of her coompany. Just as I got through Mint-gate, she put her hand in may pocket, and grabbed all moy mooney.—(Laughter.) You 'maun laugh, but she (Id thou' as sure as my name's Bill Cleverdone. (Loud laughter). Well, you know, I sings out for the watch ; the pa/ism-in cum'd and took the money out un' her hand under the lamp -post, loik, you know—(Laughter.) The prisoner cross-examined the prosecutor very minutely, and asked him if another lady was not in his company ? Prosecutor—No ; there wur one cum'd up to you and laid hold o' me the other side, but she made laer Prisoner—Did n 't you promise to make it up ? No; you sent some o' your friends to me, and they swore they'd kill me if I did not keep away; hut I 'oppose I must foight through it as well as I can. (Laughter.) Police-constable M, 124, watched the prisoner, and was close behind her when she committed the offence. He immediately seized her, and found the money, with the knife and key, in her hand. The prisoner denied the charge. The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty; and The COURT, understanding that the prisoner wtis an old offender, sentenced her to seven years' trans portation. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION HOUSE. Yesterday two men, named Pedley and Smith, were brought before Alderman HUGHES for final examination, charged with obtaining goods to a large amount, the property of Mr. Williamson, ware houseman, of New -court, Bow-lane. It appeared that on Saturday morning, the 30th ult., Pedley, who is occasionally employed as a " trimmer" at the Carron Wharf, went to the com plainant's wharf and inquired if he had any packagt s to send to the above wharf ? The complainant answered in the affirmative, adding, that they would be ready in the course of three or four hours, and Pedley said, that if he did not call himself he should send two men for them to take them to the wharf. Two men, one of whom was Smith, did call, and described that they had been sent from the Carron Wharf, and the packages were delivered to them. One of the packages contained shawls to the amount of 1501. Some time after the departure of the men, it was ascertained that the property had not been taken to the wharf; and as Pedley had been at the complainant's house in the morning to make the in quiry as to whether any packages were to be sent to the wharf, and was answered by Mr. Williamson de scribing the time they would be ready, it was strongly suspected that the former had given the requisite in formation on the subject to the men who had suc ceeded in obtaining the goods. Mr. White, one of the proprietors of the Carron Wharf, proved that Pedley had no authority to ap ply for goods to be sent to the wharf, and that he was merely employed as a trimmer or helper by some of the carmen belonging to the wharf. Smith was identified as one of the men to whom the packages had been delivered, but the other man who had called there with him, has not yet been taken into custody. Pedley, in his defence, declared, that although he had called at the complainant's premises, and made the inquiry respecting the goods, yet that he gave no information to any person by which they could be procured. The other prisoner said that he was employed by a man (not in custody) to assist in carrying the packages from the complainant's warehouse to Bi shopsgate-street. Alderman HUGHES, in committing the prisoners, in default of procuring bail for their appearance to answer the charge, remarked that the offence, although novel, was one of great importance as affected the public, and therefore he should send it before a jury. Thomas Turner was charged by Mr. Blanch, the gunmaker, of Gracechurch-street, with attempt ing to pass a forged order for the delivery of goods. The complainant stated, that in the course of Sa turday evening last the prisoner entered his shop, and presented a written order, purporting to be in the hand-writing of Mr. Lacy, of Camomile -street, for a pair of pistols, with percussion locks. Wit ness, on examining the writing, and the signature attached to the order, discovered that they were forgeries ; he inquired of the prisoner from whence he brought the order, and the reply was that it had been given to him by a man in the street, from whom he was to receive some remuneration for his trou ble. Mr. Blanch accompanied the prisoner to the place where he said that the man was waiting, but no person was there. Mr Lacy having proved that the order in ques tion was forged, the prisoner was committed for trial. CURIOUS APPLICATION.—In the course of the day a gentleman applied to the Alderman for his advice how to act relative to a talkative parrot, be longing to his next door neighbour. The applicant, in describing the nature of the annoyance to which he and others were subjected, said that the parrot talked incessantly from morning until night, and his noise was so dhcordant and shrill as to operate most unpleasantly on his organs of hearing. Applicant had had an interview with the lady to whom the bird belonged on the subject, but all the satisfaction he could obtain from an application in that quarter was an expression of astonishment on the lady's part that he could be a man so void of taste as not to be delighted, instead of being provoked, at the " sweet talk "of her favourite parrot. If the bird was placed in one of the back rooms, or even in a front room up stairs, the jargon which it sent forth and its loud screech would not be half so bad ; but when it was suffered to hop about the front parlour window sill, mimicking the voice of the human species, there was no bearing it; and he (appl cant) was deter mined if possible to abate the nuisance, and for that purpose had come to the Mansion-house. The ALDERMAN, laughing, said he was not aware there was any law to prevent a lady from keeping a talkative parrot, if she liked ; it was possible that the lady, unlike most of her sex, was not fond of talking herself, and therefore had provided herself with a substitute. He would advise the applicant to coax the lady over. MAR YLEB ONE. Sarah Chapman, was placed at the bar before Mr. HOSKINS, charged with stealing one silver spoon, one silk handkerchief, and various other arti cles, the property of her master, Mr. William Evans, of 33, Edward street, Marylebone. Mr. Evans stated that the prisoner had been in his service eight days; when she first applied for the situation, she referred him to a clergyman at Bath, whom she said she had been living with, and likewise to Mr. Hobbs, foreman to Mr. Morritt, pawnbroker, of High-street, Marylebone, who said that he knew the prisoner to be an honest woman ; upon which statement he took her; he had since written to the gentleman at Bath, but up to the pre sent time had received no answer. On Friday last she went our, and returned home in a state of in toxication and quarrelled with her fellow servant, when witness told her she was discharged, and must go directly ; but, before she went, he sent for a police constable to search her boxes, who found the above articles, and took the prisoner into custody. Police constable, D, No. 1, stated that about a quarter to eight on Friday evening he was sent for by Mr. Evans, to search the prisoner's boxes, in one of which he found a silver spoon and silk handker chief, which the prosecutor identified as his pro perty, and on opening the other he discovered a quantity of Irish linen, several new damask table cloths and napkins, marked Gray, a hand basket full of cut glass, a set of old fashioned china, &c.; in all to the value of about 35/. He has since ascertained that the prisoner had a few months ago been in the service of Mr. Gray, pawnbroker, in Fleet-street. The prisoner, who made no defence, was re manded till Tuesday next, for Mr. Gray to come forward, who will no doubt be able to identify some of the articles found in the prisoner's possession as his property. THAMES POLICE. SHOCKING BRUTALITY AND MURDER.--All Irish coal-whipper, named Dennis Nowlan, was brought before M r . BRODERIP and Captain RICIIBELL, On Saturday, charged with committing a brutal and un provoked assault on an elderly woman named Jane Nowlan, who has since died of the severe injuries inflicted upon her. It appeared from the evidence of the complainant, given before the Magi,strates, that she was on her way mulewtuttheonperison,cnleorc,knfor:viSlnamtursdhaey slight knowledge, in Shakspeare's-walk He pushed against her, and drove her ) St? well. didagainst the wall, and on her asking him what hethat for, he abused her, and swore that she should not leave him until she went with him to a had something to drink. She refused public house and said she wanted nothing of him.s to do so, and Some words en sued, and the prisoner gave her dreadful blow oa the eye, which knocked her backwards against. a _lima d o d r snoteg:, door. He then seized her by both ears, and beat her head in a violent manner against the door. She endeavoured to get away from him, and called out o Murder, murder !" on which the prisoner knocked her down, and while she was lying on the g round kicked her in a most savage way about the body Several persons, alarmed by h e r cries, came up and prevented any further ill usage. The poor woman statement was in part confirmed by her appearance , She had a black eye, which was much swollen and her face bore the marks of the blows she hail received . The prisoner, in defence, said that when he acci dentally pushed against the woman, she tore his coat, and grasped him so tightly by the throat that he was compelled to knock her down in order to disenga-e himself. Mr. BRODERIP observed, that the prisoner, sc.. cording to his own statement, had been guilty of $ most unmanly assault. His conduct was most atro cious, and the Bench were of opinion that he should pay a fine of 3/. to the King, or be imprisoned six weeks. The prisoner, in default of payment, was com mitted to Cleikenw•ell prison for six weeks. Yesterday, Mr. Fagan, an inspector of the IC division, waited upon Mr. Broderip, and informed him that Nowlan had died of the injuries inflicted upon her. The deceased bore the character of $ harmless, peaceable, and industrious woman. Her back and loins were severely bruised, and there wag the mark of a kick on the left breast. Fagan stated that one of the bolts of the door against which t he woman's head was beaten, had given way owing to the force of the blows. Mr. BRODERIP said, that a Coroner's inquest ought to be held without delay, and directed that a detainer should be lodged against the prisoner if any one should call to pay the fine at the prison. LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. The highest price of Bread in the Metropolis is 10d. fot the 41b. Loaf. There are others who sell from %d. to I}6d. btlol that price. PRICE OF SEEDS.—JuIy 16. New Englishßed Clover Seed (per Cwt.) —s. 525. fine —s. St:S. Old Ditto Ditto —s. —s. fine —s. ---S• New Foreign Ditto . 59.5. 68s fine—s. 920. - Old Ditto New White Clover ... . .—.—..... s2s. 82s. fine —e. NS. Old Ditto Ditto ..., —s. —s. fine —a. --se, New Trefoil _ —s. its. fine 50s. 5.0. 31dDitto .......... —s. —s. fine--s ..."' Rib Grass . . —s. 375. fine —s. 4?. ~,, -----. English Carraway Foreign Ditto .--. —s. 60s. fine 6[ 4 _,' —s. —s. —s. fine +l' Coriander ..... —s. —s. fine 255. 30.- St. Foin .(per Quarter)--......... —s. —s. fine —s. 72S' Rye Grass Pacey Ditto —.. 4os. 565. new —B. --;_,' Linseed, for feeding ........... Ditto, for crushing . 366. 40s. —s. fine --S• Canary Seed, New —s. 70s. 72s fine --k "ate Old. -a. —a. ....S. fine -- 44 White Mustard Seed —,.(per 8u5he1)......... —s. 7s. Ss. fine -•-k Brown Ditto —s, 10s. 17s. fine -.... 0 . Turnip Seeds, Rounds .... —s. —s. Bs. fine 12 8 . Green and Red Ditto . ~ —s. —s. Bs. tine I'-'B•Fares, Old —a, ss. 6d. fine (5k Ditto New —s. —s. fine —s. --.S. Rape Seed, English, fine (per Last) 231. 276...... Foreign M. 241•., PRICES OF HOPS.--July 16. Kent Pockets .41 15s. ss. ss. to 4!. 15s. Sussex Ditto If saex Ditto ....... 41. 12s. 51. 01. to 51. 12e. Farnham Ditto, Fine-......,.......... 71. Os. 10/. Os. to 01. Os. Seconds ............ 0/. Os. 51. Os. to 71. Oe. Kent Bags 4l. Os. 41. 10s. to 51. 56• Sussex Ditto ................-. 31. 15s. 41. 4s. to 41. 106. Essex Ditto. . 01. Os 01. Os. to 04 Os. Old Duty laid at 160,000/. - PRICE OF OIL. Rape Oil, brown 6s. Refined 0 Linseed Oil x 3 0 Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand ,10 10 Rape Cake, per ton 5 5 WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET.—JuIy 14. Hay 60s. Od. to 953. Od. I Clever."... 80s. Od. to 1365. od 345. Od. to 475. ocl PRICE OF POTATOES.—JuIy 16. 31. ss. to 3/. 10s. per ton. PRICES OF LEATHER. Per lb. d. to d. Per lb. d. to ill Butts, English .............. 15 21 English Horse Hides.. 12 i'l Ditto, Foreign ....—........ 15 181 Spanish Ditto . _ .14 1 1 ' Dressing Hide 5—........ 12 14 Per dozen. Ditto l7 18 Calf Skins,. 36 to UM 15 ,„ Ditto, light .....—......... Ditto ............ 50 to 701 b. 19 w n Crop Hides, light..~.. 12 1:31 Ditto ........ 70 to 80Ib. 17 1 , 4 ' Ditt0....—.—.40 to 451 b. 131 141 Small Seals. Greenland 18/ 170 Ditto.. l4l 151 Large ditto l2 0 _......, RAW HIDES. ‘I , Per Stone. s. et. to B.d. Per Stone, a. d. to a• 0 Best Heifers & Steers 2 4 2 6 1 Ordinary 1 8 2 Middlings«, 110 '2 2 Market Ca1f.....--. 6 0 cad> SHEEP SKINS. Short Vool ,—.. Os. Od. to Os. Od. I Lambs Is. 6d. to 9.3. 641 ' Shearlings—Os. tkl. toOs. 12d. PRICE OF TALLov Town Tallow 445. Od. Yellow Russia _ 435. Od. 425. 6d. Soap Ditto 4ls. 6d. Melted Stuff. 345. Od. Ditto Od. , SOAP, &c. per 1121 b. AA , Yellow 50ap.................... 608. v",„4. - MoWed 725. u''' White 745.11 ' ,1 Graves ........--................... 14s. (r.,,_ Good Graves .......—....... 55. v"' PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of 81b. Price of 'fallow (as stated by the Tallow Melters)...—..—.2s. PRICE OF CANDLES. The price of Store Candles, in the retail shops, is as follows :" Candles, per doz. 76. Od. to Bs. Od. J Moulds, per dozen-96. .ET.—July 16. rl• Per Ton. s Walls End Newmarch...... 20 Ditto Northumberland.. 19 g Walls End Riddell's 20 6 Lambton's Primrose--- 19 0 Walls End Helton 2 1 0 Walls End Lambton --. 22 6 Ditto Russell's Lyon's.... 20 6 0 Walls End Stewart' s ...—. 22 Walls End Stobart's.....— 16 9 Walls End Tees 21 0 Cowpen Walls End Elgin ...... l6 North Durham and Selby 0 Walls End mixed...—. 1 6 0 Scremerstone Engine—. 16 0 Stone Coal Begelly 37 g Warde's Llanelly l9 6 Adair's Trader 1 9 South Durham Nuts small 13 last market-day, 53. C;►AL MAR Per Ton, s. d. Adair's 17 9 Blagdon 16 6 East Percy l7 6 Garesfield . ----..- 16 0 Hnlywell _ l7 9 Ord's Redhugh --... .. 16 6 I'itt's South Moor 16 0 Pontop Windsor 16 3 19 0 lownley l7 3 Wylam Walls End Brown's--,. 18 3 Ditto Ball, Robson, & Co. 16 0 Ditto Bewicke and C 0.... 21 0 Walls End Callerton 17 3 Walls End Gosforth 20 9 Walls End Heaton..... 2O 3 Walls End Hilda ....,....,.» 20 0 Ditto Killingworth ,. 19 9 Ditto Newhiggen.- .. 16 6 Ships arrived since NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET.—JuIy 14. Our farmers' supply of Wheat to-day was again small, 3 ", e there having been little in coastwise during the week, sales gre„',„ ready, at an advance of Is. to 2s. per quarter, with a good u to mand for such granaried parcels as were in fair condition. O a continue steady, the demand fully equal to the supply. * Barl e i in short supply. Fine fresh English Rye in good demand. Be'ar Pease, and Flour, without change. —• ew. Old. Wheat, Northumberland 645. N 72s —s. --5. Norfolk and Suffblk COs. 70s Berwick and Scotch 60s. 70s —B. —5. Foreign 51s. 56s Rye, Norfolk and Suffolk —s —s —s. — 5 . Foreign 325. 36s —s. --5. Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk...—s. —s —s. S. Grinding and Feeding .7s• 32a —s. —5. Halt, Norfolk and Suffolk 58s. 62. —a. —5. Beans, Small 12s. 34s —s. -- 5 . --- Tick 0 0s 31s. —a. — 5 . Pease, White 345. 36s —s. —. 4 . Gray —s. —s —s. --- 5 . Oats, Northumberland, l'otatoe .2s 255. —s. -- 5 . Feed 10s 23s —s. — 5 . Foreign —a. —s —s. — 5,, Flour, Fine (per sack) —a. —s 4Bs. 505. REFORM.-011 Saturday morning a copy 9, the Bill for " Amending the Representation of Engloft,' and Wales," was received by the overseers of every par iet : in the metropolis and suburbs, a ccompanied with print ed instructions, occupying eight folio pages of letter-pre'' giving them every necessary information with respect "' the performance of their duties in the registration of vote!: placing notices on the church doors, & c . ; and remin ing th e m that, by a clause in the Act of Parliarnel l ; they will be liab le to heav y penalties for neglect of th e' official duties pointed out in the Reform Bill. The il l ; structions and and admonition to " all overseers" '` r signed " J. DI. PHILLIPS, Home Secretary's Offi c : , ' Whitehall." The Act and th e i nstruct i ons were a l s o 0. warded, per mail, free of postage, to the sheriffs, retuf fl ; i n g-officers, overseers, and other functionaries, of ev e :: county, city, town, parish, hamlet, and village, in f t : . 1 "; land and Wales. B y th i s evening every corner o f t or e part of the U n it e d Kingdom will be provided with t Reform Bill , and instructions for carrying it into effect',/ BIRTHS. a On the 15th i nst. at ,the ßrighto Hon. Mrs. Anderson, of son. On the 15th i nst. the lady of Arm i n i us Mayer, Esc] , °t daughter. On the 15th inst. at Highbury, the lady of Ambrose Esq., of a son. MARRIED. On the 13th inst. at the parish church Newington, see°' Palmer, of Hon. Company's Service, to Miss T. E daughter of R. Bond, Esq., solieitor,' Leicester. ha On the 11th inst. at Padenham, Gloucestershire, Mr. Tombs, of Hon. East India Company's Service, to Maria, "" daughter of Mr. John Allen, of Tadenham. On the 12th inst. at St. Paul's, Covent-garden, Woodth ° to ' l? second son of Robert Clarke, Esq., of Oundle, NortharnP A ts -shire, to Eleanor, daughter of Mr. Charles Few, of WWI street, London. DIED. e• 0 55 ' On the 16111 inst. at Bow, of cholera, after five hours' ' ll William Munro, Esq., of Berbice, aged SO. of b a t On the 16th inst. of Asiatic cholera, in the 28th year, Esq •' Elizabeth, eldest daughter of George W. Wyse, r' s '''' Kennington.fo On the 14th inst. at St. St e ph en ' s , near Canterbury, Ele l:Y" youngest daughter of the Rev. Henry Plumptre, Rector of pole, Notts. W ife 0 i On the 14th inst. at Hampt on Wi c k, M rs . Derby, the C. Derby, Esq , of George-street, Portman-square. __........0,_ PRINTED AND PUBLISDE.D nv MURDOYOU N Gs A' SUN OFFicit ; 11; STRAND, LONDON.