The Sun. — London, England, 1832-09-18 00:00:00

M•CI. he had sold goods in Germany to the amount of 13,156 marks, to ribt.tin a hill on London for 1,4931., instead of for 1,000/. ; or, by the con verse rule, it en'able'd hiM to obtain a bill for 1,0001. for 8,810 marks, instead of giving 13,167 marks. Can this be said to be unfa vourable? and, if so, to whom was it unfavour able ? Certainly not to the active and produc tive interest of England. Had England pos sessed gold wherewith to have met the amount of the bills, and had been foolish enough to have paid it away at the rate of 775. 102 d. per oz., instead of 111 s , then, indeed, it would have been unfavourable in proportion as the rates of exchange were below 13.156 in Hamburg, or 22.25 in Paris. But gold having been released from its shackles, and left, as it ought always to be, to find its own level in price according to the desire or determination to possess it, the altera tions in the rates of exchange were decidedly favourable to the best interests of England in proportion to their extremes. In fact, the terms against us, favourable, and unfavour able, when applied nationally to rates of ex change, are solecisms—palpable absurdities; they are applicable to individuals, but to a na tion or a country not ; but, in proportion as a rate of exchange may be either favourable or un favourable to an individual paying it, it must necessarily be the converse to the individual re ceiving. The use of such terms, therefore, in reference to the aggregate interests of a nation, bespeak an entire ignorance of thegreat principles best calculated to maintain a due equilibrium in society ; and, when applied to individuals, the terms in themselves are unintelligible. A rate of exchange may be unfavourable for drawing or receiving, but then it will be favourable, in an equal degree, for remitting or paying, and vice versa ; but to say simply that an exchange is either favourable or unfavourable in itself has no meaning. Mr. Horsley Palmer, the Governor of the Bank, in his evidence before the Com mittee, in answer to Question 120, with great meekness and simplicity, has said that he " imagines the Bank of England to be the only body which has knowledge of the actual state of the foreign exchanges ;" yet in 20 different in stances where he implies the rates being favour able, they have been prejudicial to the shippers of 30,000,0001. value of British produce ; but the fallacy will be more apparent as we proceed to show the effect of their operation, from 1815 down to the present time.—Morning Herald. We know not exactly what our contemporary of the Standard would be at when he answers our question, " When were life and property ever safe in Ireland ?" by a reference to the first half of the eighteenth century, when the penal laws were in force : " The Morning Chronicle next, making some extracts from the speeches of the Rev. Messrs. Boyton and O'Sul livan, asks, ' When were property and life ever safe in Ireland ?' And Mr. Thomas Moore, now, we suppose, a naturalised Englishman, in a late speech at Rath, de clared that he could see no dawn of hope for his afflicted country.' Now, laying these several propositions side by side—first, the acknowledged influence of the Popish priesthood driving to the extreme limits of lawful resist ance a barbarous peasantry prone to transgress those limits, and leading into temptation persons likely to commit vio lence ; secondly, the acknowledgment that life and pro perty have never been safe in Ireland ; and, thirdly, the complaint that there is no hope of any improvement in the state of that country—setting these propositions, we say, side by side—remembering, too, that the system of resistance to the law h--s immediately followed a large con cession by the law—remembering, also, that there is an exception to the assertion of the Morning Chronicle, that life and property were never safe in Ireland,' namely, the first half of the 18th century, when testibus Berkeley and Goldsmith, Ireland was fully as peaceable, and nearly as happy as any part of Enrope (this first half of the 18th century being the period during which the sacerdotal power was suspended by the penal laws) —bearing finally in mind that the present law-transgressing, insecure, and hopeless day is the very saturnalia of priestly power ; putting all the-se things together, we suppose that it is not rash to infer that the Popish Priests are the authors of all the afflictions of the sister kingdom, that these incendiary eonvirators, through whose agency Mr. Charles Grant, a Statesman, and a mock religionist—save the mafk— proposed to govern Ireland, and whom honest Plunkett (who, for the sake of the Established Church, would fling all other considerations to the winds') called the most excellent and exemplary body existing,' are the bitterest enemies of the British connection—the arch-disturhers of the reign of law and order." Assuming, for a moment, with our contem, porary, that the power of the priests is not. a salutary power, and that there was peace during the period of the penal laws, when no man could hold land, no man could hold land on lease, when the son was arrayed against the father and the father against the son, when the parents were not allowed to educate their children—does our contemporary mean to infer from this, that we should trace back our steps, re-enact the penal laws, again take from the Catholics their lands and their leases, again prohibit them from educating their offspring, in order to obtain peace in Ireland ? Our contemporary has thrown away a good deal of declamation against the Catholic religion and the Catholic Clergy. " The system of the Church of Rome (he says) is a system contrived for the acquisition of wealth and power, and exquisitely elaborated (luring twelve centuries of contest and experiment. It is the greatest folly in the world in any man, German or Eng lishman, to reason from the common analogies of our nature to the conduct of an animal so per fectly artificial as a Popish Priest. He is not a man, but an integer of a system. Cut off from the charities of kindred and the relations of country, by the obligation of celibacy and the chain of subordination to a foreign power, the common ties by which men are bound have no hold upon him. Greedy, ambitious, savage, and incendiary, Rome, will allow him to be, because these are but the reflections of her own temper, and indulgence in these vices the cheapest wages with which her priests can be rewarded." The people of England require no ghost to persuade °kern that priestcraft is a great evil ; and as a great majority of them dislike the Church of England on account of its bearing too close a resemblance to the Church of Rome, it is not likely that they will become enamoured of the original. But the question is not one for their decision. The Irish, the great body of the people of Ireland, are Catholics. They are of the religion of four-fifths of' the people of Europe. They are not on'y strongly attached to the Catholic religion, but they detest the Pro testant religion, as being that of their oppres sors. It is quite clear that they will not whin- . tarily abandon their religion, and we presume there are no men in the present day so wild as to wish to compel them to become Protestants. Catholicism may be a bad religion, but that igno reason for forcing on the Irish the establishment of a religion they detest. But when our Con temporary refers us to the first half of the eigh teenth century, when the Penal Laws made Ire land happy, and peaceable, and prosperous, we must take leave to tell him that he is not borne out by facts. Bishop Berkeley, to whom he refers us, asks, " Whether there be upon earth any Christian or civilized people so beggarly, wretched, and destitute as the common Irish.? Whether in all public institutions, there should not be an end proposed, which is to be the rule a nd li m i t o f t h e mea ns ? Whether this end should not he the well-being of the whole ? And whether in order to this, the first step should not be to clothe and feed our people ? Whether aforeigner could imagine that one halfof the people were starving in a country that sent out such plenty of provisions? Whether it is possible the country should be well improved, while our beef is exported, and our labourers live on potatoes ?" So much for the evidence of Berkeley as to Ireland being " fully as peace able, and nearly as happy as any part of Europe" during the first half of the eighteenth century. After the Irish were finally subjugated, and the Rapparees fairly hunted down, the spirit of the natives might be broken for a time, for terror must have had its effect. Sir John Dalrymple observes of the victors, that " they condemned many to die without trial, and called this the law of war ; but these were the most fortunate ; seeing to others, to whom a trial was offered, the false semblance of justice was more cruel than the death it inflicted ; for prisoners were massacred in cold blood who had surrendered upon terms." But let us hear Primate Boul ter's account of the peaceable and happy state of Ireland between 1724 and 1738, as given in his letters during that period. In 1731, the Papists had begun to find a loophole in the Disarming Act of the 7th of King William; and Boulter, alarmed, writes—" The Papists, by the most modest computation, are about 5 to 1 Protestant ; but others think they cannot be less than 7to 1. And what use they have formerly made of their arms in this kingdom, our histories give too melancholy an account of. And I can assure your Grace, that the Papists in the country, before the defects of this Act were discovered, were so formidable, that scarce any Magistrate durst put any of' the Laws against Regulars, Bcc. in execution, for fear of being murthered, or having his houses fired in the night. And if our present Bill miscarries, they will grow much more formidable and inso lent ; nor have the Papists scrupled often giving threats against every Magistrate that was more active on anv occasion than his neighbours." Another example :—Writing in 1737 to Sir R. Walpole, he says, " As a great part of the gentry entered into associations not to pay for agistment to the clergy, and to make a stock-purse in each county to support any one that should be sued for agistment, and were understood by the common people every where to be ready to dis tress the clergy all manner of ways in their other rights, if they offered to sue for adjustment, it was thought advisable to hinder, as much as we Bi shops could, any of the clergy from carrying on or commencing any suits on that head for a time. * * * # How far, and to what other pur poses such associations may in time extend, I do not pretend to judge ; but I find in some counties they already begin to form associations against what they own due to the clergy; and they are encouraged by the success of this first attempt to go on to further steps. The humour of clans and confederacies is neither so well un- lerstood nor felt in England, as it is here. But by discourses dropped among people and by some papers handed about, there are other undoubted rights of the clergy that are designed to be voted •sway, one after another, or taken away by new laws, if they are permitted to go on ; and I find we Bishops are threatened to have our fines, if not part of our estates, taken from us. Some gentlemen have let their lands so high, that, without robbing the clergy of their just dues, they are satisfied their rents can hardly be paid ; and others fall in with them that they may be able to raise their lands as high ; and the con troversy here is, not whether the farmer shall be eased of an unreasonable burden, but whether the parson shall have his due, or the landlord a greater rent. Some hope they might come in for plunder if the Bishops were stripped ; and most of the needy gentry here envy to see the Bishops, by a proper frugality, though not with out a decent hospitality, easy in their circum stances." Tithes, tithes, are the constant subject of these letters. The Gentry threw the odium of the wretchedness of the Tenantry on the Clergy, and the Clergy on the Landlords. In a long letter to the Bishop of London, in 1728, he says, no Clergyman would think of an ex pensive process against a tenant, as the greatest part of them were so poor that they would run away. And he dwells on the grievous exact-- ments of the landlords, who left nothing for the Parsons. " I need not mention to your Lord ship what I have been forced to talk to several here, that if a landlord takes too great a portion of the profits of a farm for his share, by way of rent (as the tithe will light on the tenant's share), the tenant will be impoverished ; but, then, it is not the tithe, but the increased rent, that undoes the farmer. And, in deed, in this country, where I fear the tenant hardly ever has more than one-third of the profits he makes of his farm for his share, and too often but a fourth, or perhaps a fifth part, as the tenant's share is charged with the tithe, his case is no doubt hard, but it is plain from what side the hardship arises." So much for the happy condition of the Irish during the first half of the eighteenth century. Is it not then trifling to talk of Popery or Protestantism being the cause of the disorderly habits of the Irish, when we find that the great body of the people have in all times been plundered and op. pressed without measure or mercy ? The gen , try, instead of setting an example of order and good conduct to them, trampled on all laws di vine and human. Here we find a handful of fo reigners in possession of nearly all the land of the country obtained by forfeiture, not merely nut protecting the body of the people, but abso lutely depriving them of the means of acquiring property ; and, to crown the whole, the English at . home watching both colonists and natives with the most illiberal jealousy, and putting down one branch of industry after another. Popish Priests, forsooth. The Irish can tell another story. The plain matter is, that the Church of England is not wanted in Ireland, and the Irish are not to be blamed in seeking to rid themselves of this badge of their slavery. It will be time to complaiu of the unreasonableness of the Irish when they ask what is not accordant with equal-handed justice. We cannot afford to expend the resources of our industrious people to impose a sinecure establishment on a Catholic and Presbyterian population. The Irish might have been at one time destroyed by fire and sword, but they are now too numerous to be dealt with on the principle of coercion. The experiment would be too costly to endeavour to retrace our steps till we arrived at the penal system in all its perfection. We must, there fore, make a merit of necessity, and try what the effect of even-handed justice will be, as tyranny and oppression have signally failed.—Morning Chronicle. We observe that Lord John Russell, at a Public Meeting in Devonshire,has been explaining his sentiments on some important matters, in answer to questions put to him by a political opponent. With regard to the ballot, Lord John Russell says that he anticipates greater evils from its introduction than any which its bitterest enemies have predicted ; but never theless, if he shall find landlords exerting over their tenantry such an influence as he has found used against his interest in the county of Devon, he may be induced to support the adoption of this perilous innovation. With regard to the Church property, Lord John Russell says that he feels himself at liberty to confiscate the reve nues of the Irish Church, differing herein from one or two of his colleagues, and particularly from his Right Honourable Friend the Se cretary for Ireland. But, for the English Church, Lord John Russell thinks it is not overpaid ; and, however he might study to improve the distribution of its revenues, he shrinks with horror from the dream of their alienation. And, lastly, with regard to the Corn Laws, Lord John Russell says that there is much to be said for various methods and plans by which protection might be afforded to the English farmer. He leans himself to the notion of a fixed duty. But he holds that the present amount of protection is not too great ; and he promises to do nothing which shall have the effect of reducing it. These are professions which sound well. But we know how easily a Whig in office forgets a promise or abjures a principle. We cannot trust the retrenching pa triot who sent the five millions to Russia, nor the moderate Reformer who brought in the re volutionary Bill. We desire, however, to make some comment on the statement given by his Lordship of his present opinions on the ballot. " I think," says our Noble Patriot, " that the adoption of the bal lot will occasion more mischief than any which its opponents anticipate ; but, neverthe less, if the landowners of the country attempt to influence their tenantry in favour of Mr. Buller, I will punish them by advocating its adoption." It is in admirable accordance with all we have seen of the bearing and demeanour of Lord John Russell that he should risk the encounter of dangers whose magnitude he so accurately measures for the gratification of personal spleen and the annoyance of political enemies. His Lordship has been for many years a Reformer. He has made himself acquainted with all the faults of the British Constitution, and has found them more numerous than we could have guessed them to be. He has studied the ne cessary remedies also, and has suggested of them a greater number than ever we shall de sire to try. He has not been ignorant that in all periods of our constitutional history the rich landlord has possessed a power over his poor tenant ; and that such power has been used, not less in town than in country, not less by Whiggism than by Toryism. He has not been induced by his knowledge of this undoubted fact to recommend the secret vote. He was not converted by the asserted and admitted interference of the Duke of Newcastle at Newark, nor by the denied and proved inter ference of Lord Anglesey in Dublin. But he finds his own interests at stake ; and for the advancement of his own prospects he will em brace the ballot while lie denounces its evils, as a fortune-hunter, for the relief of his necessities, marries the rich vixen whose wrinkles and de formity he derides. The truth or error of his Lordship's opinion on the subject we will not now consider ; but we grieve to see a share of the Government of the country in the , hands of a man who, by mere resentment and the operation of a vindictive temper, can be led to abandon so strong an opinion upon so momen tous a subject. In the paper from which we take the report of his Lordship's observations there are two accoonts of the proceedings of the Meeting at which they were expressed. One of these accounts proceeds manifestly from a Con servative, the other as manifestly is the work of a Reformer. The Reformer pays to his Noble Patron a compliment with which he cannot fail to he much gratified. He states that the Meet ing, which took place at Teignmouth, was at tended by many gentlemen of the first respecta bility residing in the neighbourhood, and in proof of the correctness of this assertion he fur nishes a list of names. Of the gentlemen so mentioned not one, nor two, nor three, but all, are stout Conservatives, and of course were op posed to the objects for which the Meeting was called to g ether by his Lordship's friends.— Morning Post. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Alexander Coploffe, a chin-music performer, and John. Smith, a flute-player with one hand, were brought before the LORD MAYOR, charged with having d;sturbed the whole neighbourhood of Cop than-buildings by their discord. The defendants, it appeared, were in the habit of delighting the public with pieces of music; and after having played several airs on Saturday evening in Coptl;lH-court, they struck up " God save the Kng" as a finale. The flute-player played with great simplicity, barring shakes, which he rattled through the court in wonderful abundance; while the other whipped his chin through an immense number of variations. It was, however, the opinion of the crowd that the instruments did not agree, and the general cry was that the shaking gentleman, being but second best, should cease altogether. The flute-player did not relish the preference given to his comrade, and, for the purpose of showing his contempt for his hearers, played up--" Molly, put the kettle on ;" by which expedient he drew down the -heavy displeasure of the chin-musician, who at once turned his knuckles from his own face to that of his partner, and gave the flute-player a most disagreeable smash in the corresponding part of the countenance. The flute-player in an instant bran dished his copper-bound flute, and, with an excellent aim, tried to knock music out of Mr. Coploffe; but, although the melodious instrument came in contact with the melodious chin of that gentleman, nothing was heard but a loud bellow. The gentlemen who own chambers, and who have lately shown very little taste for the higher sort of mu-ical entertain ment, then interposed, and caused the combatants to be taken into eu , tody. The LORD MAYOR said that he had several com plaints from men of business in the retired parts of the city against singers, whistlers, fifers, hurdy gurdy grinders, and others, who were often paid to stay away.— Smith (the flute-player) said that he had introduced the chin-chopper to the town. At first the people were disposed to laugh at such a nonsensical piece of mummery, but they here him at last, the introduction was so respectable. The LORD MAYOR—He has the advantage, of you in not being at the expense of an instrument. Smith—Yes, my Lord ; he has only to dab his tongue up against the roof of his mouth, and to work his fists upon his chin, and out comes all s his music. There's no use in such juggling. I have only four fingers and a thumb in the world, and I can play any air that ever stood in an orchestra. Coploffe—You play I You can't play none at all. Nobody would give you a farthing, if he didn't for pity, when de see you shivering and shaking. I don't know vot make me beat my chin along vid such a stupid rascal.—(Laughter.) Smith—How would you have got your living but for me ? Please you, my Lord, he was but a poor beggarly foreigner when I took him in hand. The LORD MAYOR—And what do you call him now ? Smith—lie told me, when first I seed him, that he had plenty of practice, for he had nothing else to do with his jaws hut to play upon them—(Laughter)—and now he has every thing a gentleman wants. Coploffe—De people takes me best. He gets more for charity, but I gets more for music. He blows in dat flute of his until he sets all a shivering and shaking. De people trembles when de looks at him, and den de gives him hawpennies.—(Laughter.) The LORD MAYOR—But you had no right to strike him, my good Chin-chopper, although he might have played out of tune. Smith—l forgive him that, my Lord, for I gave him better than I got; besides we are both going to a party to,night at the West-end of the town. The LORD MAYOR—But I'll not let either of you go until I have every reason to believe that we shall not be troubled with you again. Smith—To tell you the truth, my Lou!, after one whole day's work we got only 4d.,and most of them was so hot that we could have mulled our beer with them. At the West-end we have crowds after us, and we always gets our money raw.—(Laughter.) Coploffe—'Tis his flute vot gets de burning hawpennnies. I never lifts up none ven he plays, or I get the scald. Yen I play de hawpennies comes like out of de sky.—(Laughter.) The LORD MAYOR— Well you may go, but if you appear before me again I'll send you where the hawpennies are neither cold nor hot. BOW-STREET. THE Two MRS. TEw.—Yesterday, Mrs. Ann Tew, who claims to be wife, de jure, of one Ben jamin Tew, a journeyman glass -cutter, and against whom a charge of bigamy is pending, appeared be• fore Mr.IIALLs,in answer to a charge of assault pre ferred against her by Mrs. Emma Tew, who asserts that she is wife, de facto, of the before-mentioned Benjamin, but against whom she has caused a war rant for bigamy to issue. The wife de jure is an elderly respectable looking matron, but the wife de facto is young, and rather handsome. The wife de facto, having been sworn, deposed that, on Saturday night she was passing through Chandos-street, when :the wife de jure came up to her and charged her with having inveigled her husband away from her. The wife de jure —Well, and so you did, can you deny it, you— Mr. HALLS—Be patient, Madam, allow her to finish her story; you shall then be heard at any length you please. The wife de facto continued—Not only did she accuse me of seducing her husband away, which is a falsity, but she shoved, and struck me several blows. Mr. HALLS—WeII Mrs. Ann Tew, what is your answer to the statement of Mrs. Emma Tew ? The wife de jure—That person has no right to the title of Mrs. Tew. The wife de facto—l was married to Mr. Tew as well as you, and I have a right to use his name until the laws do justice to my wrongs. _ _ Mr. HALLS observed that as Mr. Tew was not present, the only question for consideration was whether or not an assault had been committed. The wife de jure assured the Magistrate that not only was she innocent of the assault, but had not even seen the complainant on the day stated. A servant belonging to the wife de facto, how ever, swore positively that she saw the blows in flicted by the wife de jure. The wife de jure was moved to tears by this evi dence, but instead of replying to it, she declared that she was an ill-used woman. Until the fatal hour that brought him acquainted with the complainant, Mr. Tew was the most exemplary of husbands, but, alas 1 the complainant had so infatuated him that his whole mind seemed to have undergone a change, and the wife and home he once so much loved, he now shunned like a base and deceitful man as he was. A woman who accompanied the elder Mrs. Tew to the office said that she had been greatly annoyed by the complainant, who went to her lodgings and in sisted on taking possession of them as Mr. Tew's wife. Mr. HALLS told the complainant that she must not do so again. The Magistrate then ordered the warrant to stand suspended, and intimated that if either of the parties should break the peace it would be put to force against the offender. The wives then withdrew. A ruffian, named William lll'Carthy, a coster monger, was convicted of a brutal assault on a re spectable married woman, named Porter, and fined 5/. Being unable to pay the penalty he was com mitted to prison. GUILDHALL. A young woman of mild aspect, named Mary Evans, was charged with having stolen thirteen cats from different parts of the parish of Cripplegate. John Hill, a constable of the parish, in going round the ward on the preceding night, met with the prisoner, and, being aware that ;he was a cat stealer, and observing she had something in her apron, he stopped and searched her. She had alto gether thirteen skins in her possession, one of them quite warm, and a portion of them were concealed in two large pockets, which hung parallel with the calves of her legs. _ Sir PETER LAURIE understood that there was no law for the protection of that species of animals, Sir R. Peel's Act extending only to beasts and birds ordinarily kept in a state of confinement. Hill hoped she would not be allowed to go away unpunished, for the treachery to the poor things with which she carried on her abominable calling was truly harrowing. With a piece of baited liver and a coaxing voice, she enticed the unfortunate things within her reach, when she would st rike them on the head so as to stun without killing them, and then whip their jackets off in an instant. In a few minutes the watchman would find the vic tims recovering from the stupefaction, and strug gling and sprawling skinless on the ground, and he had the trouble to despatch and dispose of them. Hortono patrol, corroborated this statement. Poor cats were often found in the dead of the night up arched courts and in by-places, still alive, though without their jackets. The prisoner had been in custody before for the like offence, and when discharged, she told him she would do it again in spite of his teeth. He entreated that she might be punished. The prisoner said nobody could prove she had skinned the cats. She had purchased the skins at 2d. each, and should sell them at 3d. The owner of the houses, to which a privy is at tached, near which the prisoner was taken, said he would have trounced her if he had caught her in the fact. Above 50 naked cats were drawn from his drain about four months ago. It was quite shocking, and he hoped she would be severely punished. He had heard of her, and had sat up seve ral n ights to detect her, but without success. A very prt tty skin of a large cat, with black spots on a white ground, was exhibited as a specimen of her neat workmanship in stripping. Sir PETER LAURIE said the complainants were very pressing, but surely they did not wish him to do that w hicn he should be sorry for—to overstep the law. If the law had enabled him to punish her, he would have done it. He must discharge her.— She was accordingly dismissed. MAR YLEB ONE. Yesterday Thomas Clement was brought up in custody of the policeman No. 174., S, charged with coming out over the railings of No. 3, in Morning ton-cresent, Hampstead-road, at about two o'clock that morning. The prisoner was stopped with a bundle in his hand, which contained a lo a f, same butter , ribs of beef,prov apples, and cheese, the greater part of which proved to belong to the owner of the house. The Rev. Francis Ellaby, minister of Percy chapel, Rathhone-place, admitted that the articles found on the prisoner, with the exception of the apples, had been taken from his pantry, but he felt ;eluctant to prosecute for them. Mr. RAWLINSON—What, Sir, will you t a ke no no tice of the thief who attemps to break into your dwelling-house in the middle of the night. Clement said he was in great distress. Rev. Mr. Ellaby—l can pity Mr. RAWLINSON—There is a morbid sort of sympathy in such matters, Sir, which imposes on our better sense; but I, acting here judicially, must respect my- oath. The Rev. Mr. Ellaby here repeated the remaik, that the apples did not belong to him. Mr. RAWLINSON—BeIong to whom they might, Sir, no man steals apples to appease the calls of hunger. I feel it my duty to commit the prisoner. Clement was committed to Newgate for trial, and the Rev. Mr. Ellaby was bound over to prosecute. Q UEEN- S QUARE. Yesterday a journeyman blacksmith, named John Adams alias Hallagan, was brought up in custody, and placed at the bar before Mr. GREGORIE, charged with imposing on the public by pretending to be attacked by the cholera in the streets. About 4 o'clock on the previous afternoon, the prisoner was in Orchard-street, Westminster, when he pretended to be suddenly taken very ill, and his groans, and the distortions of countenance that he assumed, soon attracted a number of persons around him, to whom he complained of being violently at tacked with the cholera, and that he was seized with most dreadful spasms all over. Mr. Gallon, the landlord of the King's Head, on hearing what was the matter, instantly took him a quartity of brandy, which the prisoner drank. He, however, still com plained that he was unable to move, and that he should be a dead man if something was not done for him, and more brandy was administered without the patient getting a►►y better. The police at last came up, and so well did the prisoner play his part, that no person had the slightest idea but that he was attacked by that frightful disease, and it was deemed advisable to take him to the Cholera Hos pital in York-street, which was effected by four men carrying him on their shoulders, followed by an im mense concourse of people, the prisoner struggling all the way, and calling out, " I am a dead man." At the hospital he was immediately put to bed, and attended to by Mr. Knox, the surgeon, who at once suspected that the prisoner was shamming, and ordered an emetic to be administered to him instantly. The prisoner protested against this course of medi cine, and said nothing did him so much good as brandy. The doctor thought different, and while the medicine was preparing, the prisoner got out of bed, hurried on his clothes, and ran out of the hospital. He was, however, followed and given in charge to a police constable. Mr. George Knox, the surgeon, when the priso ner was brought into the hospital saw no symptoms of cholera about him ; he was evidently intoxicated. Mr. GREGORIE regretted that he had not the power to punish the prisoner as he deserved ; all he could do was to fine him ss. for being drunk. HATT ON-GARDEN. Yesterday Samuel Wetherall, a man of respect able appearance, was brought before Mr. LAING on a charge by George Barton, a cabriolet driver. Barton stated, that on Sunday evening last he was called off the stand by the prisoner near Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury-square, when he ordered him to drive as far as Tavistock-square. On his arrival there he insisted upon his taking him to the Mother Redcap in the Hampstead-road. When there he requested his fare, but the prisoner swore that he would not pay a single farthing until he drove him to Jack Straw's Castle, at Hampstead ; but even there the prisoner was equally as obstinate as before, and eventually ordered him to drive to Brighton-street, St. Pancras. The hour getting late, witness being desirous of returning to his mas ter's premises with the horse and cab, readily con sented to drive him to Brighton-street, which is situate in the immediate neighbourhood of his mas ter's; but when there the prisoner would neither pay nor leave the cab, and told witness that he was anxious to have an interview with a lady in that street who was with child, and he pointed out a house, and told witness to drive to that house and knock at the door. It was now two o'clock. A young female, who had evidently been aroused from her slumbers, protruded her head and shoulders through the window, with " Who's there ?" The prisoner said that she was the lady he wanted, and requested her to admit him, but she refused, saying, that it was im possible, her landlady would not suffer it. " Open the door," demanded the prisoner, " and I'll give you a sovereign." She answered " I cannot." " Do," replied the prisoner, and " I will give you two." She still refused to let him in. At last the landlady came and opened the door, when the pri soner handed a piece of paper to witness, saying, " Give that to her, and I'll get out." Witness on looking at it discovered that it was a 101. note, and he handed it over to the woman at the door. The prisoner being admitted refused to come out until some time after, when the witness gave notice to the police, and eventually the prisoner was brought in the cab to St. Giles's station-house. Mr. Oakley, the inspector of E division, stated, that on Sunday afternoon last the prisoner was brought to the station-house, charged with the most extraordinarily eccentric conduct at the house of his landlord, Mr. Chidley, a respectable man in Hart street, Bloomsbury, but there was nothing done or stated to warrant his detention. When brought to the station-house by the cab driver, he recognized him immediately, and such conduct confirming the previous statements made as to his being of unsound mind, he felt it his duty to take charge of him, and to accompany some of his men to the house in Brighton-street, for the purpose of making inquiry as to the 101. note. There they found a pregnant young woman, who had lately been in custody on suspicion of being concerned in the robberies of the Inns of Court, and on questioning her she produced the 101. note. Mr. Chidley stated that the prisoner's family were highly respectable persons, residing in the West of England, and he held a situation in the city, but within the last fortnight his conduct had so materially altered that strong fears were enter tained that he would do some injury to himself; and he begged of the Magistrate " for God's sake," to do something to protect him. He had often returned home, and threatened witness and his wife. Mr. LAING—Can you swear you go in bodily fear from the prisoner's threats? Witness—No, your Worship. Mr. LAING—Then, whatever my will may be, I have not the means of doing so. Mr. LAING ordered that the prisoner should pay the demand of the cab-man, which amounted to a guinea, and that the ten pound note should be de posited with Mr. Chidley, to be doled out to him as he required it. Mr. Oakley—The young woman is here, your Worship, who claims the note, or part of it. Mr. LAlNG—Where is she ? A young pregnant woman, rather good-looking, here stepped forward with a curtsey, and said the prisoner made her a present of it. Mr. LAING—You shall not have a farthing of it ; it amounts almost to a robbery, and be off out of this office instantly. He then advised the parties to make proper application to the prisoner's parish, in order that necessary care might be taken of him until his friends could be apprised of his condition. LAMBETH- STREET. Ann Wilkins, who has been in custody for the last fortnight, and has been examined four different times at this office on a charge of having in her possession 151. in Bank of England notes, which she stated, on being taken into custody, and afterwards, formed a portion of 1001. of which she had robbed her pa rents, who were farmers, arid residing near Cam bridge, was yesterday brought before Messrs. WALKER and HARDWICK, for final examination. Slieliwell, an officer of this establishment, since the previous examination of the prisoner, had as certained that the whole of what the prisoner had stated about robbing her parents and eloping with a soldier was, from beginn►ng to end, a fabrication, and that on the night before she was apprehended she had robbed a private of marines of a purse con taining the two notes which were found on her, and four sovereigns. Lie (She'swell), in consequence, wrote a letter to the depot, at Chatham, where the man was stationed, to request his attendance at the office on that day, and he was now present. George Williamson, the person alluded to by COAL MA Per Ton. s. d. Adair's Bensham Main 17 3 Hebhurn Main l9 6 Holywell Ord's Redhugh l7 6 Pitt's South Moor. . 16 9 South Holywell M 16 6 18 6 Townley l7 6 West Hartley 19 6 Willington Wylam Walls End Bell & Brown 19 6 Ditto Bell, Robson, & Co. 19 0 Ditto Bewicke and C 0..., 20 3 Walls End 19 0 Walls End Callerton 17 6 Walls End Carr' and Co. 18 9 Walls End Gosforth 20 0 Walls End Hotspur....... 19 0 Walls End Hllda 19 11 Ditto Killingworth 19 3 Walls End Newbiggen « 17 0 Walls End Newmarcn...— 19 6 Ditto Northumberland.. 19 0 Ditto Perkins and Co 19 6 Walls End Riddell's —.... 20 6 Ditto Todd and Watson.. 19 6 Ships arrived since .KET.—Sept. 17. Per Ton. a d. Walls End Walker 20 6 Bells 16 9 Lambton's Primr05e......... 19 3 Walls End Hetton 2l 6 Walls End Lyons 20 0 Walls End Lambton ..... 21 6 W. E. Russell's Hetton,.. 21 6 Ditto Steam-b0at.,,...,.,.,,. 18 0 Walls End Stewart's,.... 21 6 Walls End Stobart's 17 3 Walls End Adelaide ...... 20 0 Walls End Butter Knowl 19 9 Walls End Cleveland...-. 17' 9 W. E. 17 6 W. E. South Durham 20 0 Walls End Tees 21 6 Cown NW.. 19 6 Walls End Elgin 20 0 Hartley wwW••••••••••••••• 21 0 Llangennech 26 6 Netherton Main 17 6 Merthyr 19 6 New Floekton, Milne, and 18 3 Silkstone Field and C 0... 18 6 Silkstone Wilson 17 6 Thorpe's Gawber Hall 17 6 Tantield 18 0 last market-day, 120. A curious incident occurred on Thursday evening in Carlton-gardens. An individual of clerical ap pearance, said to be the son of an eminent banker, and formerly a regular frequenter of The Opera, and other places of public amusement, posted himself opposite Lord Kensington's mansion (the Conservative Club-house), and commenced preaching to a crowd of about twenty persons. His discourse was, however, soon interrupted by the ap pearance of a police constable (C 106), who commanded him to retire forthwith, as be (the constable) would not suffer a mob to assemble there. The gentleman, in a sub dued tone, said that be believed he was committing n o of fence in expounding the Gospel to his hearers. The con stable replied that whilst he was bolding forth half-a-dozen pockets might be picked, and repeated his orders to the Rev. Gentleman and his auditors to " move on." An al tercation ensued between the constable and a man who took up the cudgels for the preacher, but who, however, quietly walked away. BIRTHS. On the 16th inst. at Twickenham, the lady of James Foot, Esq.' of a son. On the lath inst, in Spring-square, Mrs. Lewis, of a daughter: On the 15th inst. at Great Stanmore, the lady of George Lewis , Esq., of a son. On the 17th inst. in Bedford-row, Mrs. John Murray, of A daughter. MARRIED. On the 17th inst. at Clewer Church, near Windsor, Henri i Gordon, Esq., son of the late J o h n G or d on , E sq ., Governor o f Accra, in Africa, to Emma Charlotte, second daughter of Jamb Walsh, Esq., of Camberwell. On the Hith inst. at St. John's Church, Clerkenwell, Mr! Thomas Goode, of Wilderness-row, printer, third son of Mr. Goode, of Goswell-street, to 111iss Caroline Saunders, of St. John street. On the 31st of July last, at the island of Trinidad, his Excel lency Major-General Sir Jervis Grant, K.C. H., Governor of To: nidad, to Isabella Elizabeth, only daughter of the late Alexand o Grant, Esq., of Tullochgritan, North Britain. DIED. On the 12th inst. at Brighton, in his 41th year, Lieut.-Colon el M. E. Ward, of Bangor Castle, Ireland, and his Britannic Dl i jesty's Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Saxony. On the 14th inst. Mrs. Undershell, relict of the late Jato e. Stevens, Esq., of Hale , near Farnham, Surrey. c- On the 11th inst. at Merklands, Perthshire, Alexander lga kenzie, Esq. 11 ' On the 9th inst. at Lewisham, aged 43, Ann, the wife of John Romanis, 75, Uracechurch-street. On the 10th inst. at Chatham place, Hackney, James ChapPle' Esq., in the 76th year of his age. On the 16th inst. Hester, daughter of Captain and Mrosiirl3„; Soper, Jamaica-row, Bermondsey, of cholera, after a few b severe illness, aged seven years. On the 15th inst. Mr. John Mattam, of Brick-street, Piccadilly' in his 43d year. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY MURDO YOUNG, AT 114 SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, LONDON. She'swell, confirmed the statement of the constable. The prisoner did not deny that the notes be longed to the prosecutor, but said he had given them to her to keep for him. This the prosecutor denied, and the prisoner was committed to take her trial. In the course of the investigation Mr. WALKER read a letter from Cambridge, stating that the pri. soner had lived as servant in the families of two or three respectable persons there, and had conducted herself with great propriety during her servitude. UNION-HALL. John Gorman, a member of a society called the " Hand of Friendship," was brought up in custody on the following charge : In the rules of the society to which the defendant belongs, there is a clause entitling every member to a certain sum of money on the decease of his wife, for funeral expenses, &c. The defendant, deter mined on taking advantage of that particular clause, sent his wife into the country, and went himself to the steward of the society, and, with tears in his eyes, said that he had called to give notice of the death of his poor wife, who had been carried off in a few hours by an attack of cholera. It is the usual practice of the Society to send some of the stewards to view the body of any deceased member or his wife, previously to advancing any money ; but in this instance that form was dispensed with, none of the stewards being willing to run the risk of catching the infection. The defendant was believed, and ac cordingly furnished with 4/. for the funeral. Un fortunately, however, for the defendant, his wife having heard that he reported she was dead, and imagining that he did so in order to marry again, came up hot from the country to find out the truth. As she was hurrying along through the streets to the abode of her husband, she was seen by one of the stewards, who gave notice of the fact, and Gor man was soon afterwards given into custody. The MAGISTRATE said, that unless he refunded the 41. to the Society, and paid a fine of 4/. in addi tion, he should be sent to gaol to work for the county. The Magistrate then committed the defen dant for two months. LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. The highest price of Bread in the Metropolis is Nd. for the 41b. Loaf. There are others who sell from ;id. to 134 d. below that price. PRICE OF SEEDS.-Sept. 17. NT ew English Red Clover Seed (per Cwt.) -s. -s. fine -s. -s. Old Ditto Ditto -s. 60s. fine -8. '74s. New Foreign Ditto -s. -s fine -s. -s. Old Ditto -s. -s. fine -s. -8. New White Clover. _ ..... -s. -s. fine -s. -s. Old Ditto Ditto - _ -s. 58s. fine -s. 70s. New Trefoil 31dDitto ..............-.- .--. --s. 265. fine 32s -s. Rib Grass __ -s. 3'7s. fine -s. 425. English Carraway Seed --s. -s. 58s. fine 655. Foreign Ditto Coriander ....- -. -s. -s. fine 20s. 245. St. Foin (per Quarter)..........-. 40s. 445. fine -s. 48s. Rye Grass _ -s. -s. new 20s. 435. Pacey Ditto 4os. 565. new -s. -s. Linseed, for feeding ......-.. -s. 425. fine -s. 48s. Ditto, for crushing...... -........ 395. 435. -s. fine -s. Canary Seed, New -s. -s. '7os fine 84s. , Old _ MO Ind . —s. —6. —s. fine —a. White Mustard Seed.--(per 8u5he1)...... --s. Bs. 9s. fine —s. Brown Ditto .. —s. 14s. 16s. fine. —5. Turnip Seeds, Rounds . —a. —s. 18s. fine 20s. Green and Red Ditto —s. —a. 18s. tine 21s. fares, Old —s. 4s. 6d. fine Bs. Ditto New —s. —a. fine —s. —s. Rape Seed, English, fine (per Last) 241. 261...,.,,. Foreign 221. 255. PRICES OF HOPS.—Sept. 17. Kent Pockets 4l 15s. 61. 6s. to 6/. 15s. Sussex Ditto . _ 4l. 4s. 51. 153. to 61. - 6s. (Essex Ditto 4l. 12s. 51. Os. to 5/.loi. Farnham Ditto. Fine.,,.. Seconds 71. Os. 91. Os. to 0/ Os. 0/. Os. 51. Os to 71 Os. 41. 4s. 51. 5s to 51. 12s. 41. Os. 41. Bs. to 41. 12s. 01. Os 0/. Os. to 01. Os. Old Duty laid at 140,0001. Kent Bag! Sussex ditto Essex Ditto., PRICE OF OIL. Rape Oil, brown Os. Refined 0 Linseed Oil linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand Rape Cake, per ton 11 0 5 5 WHIT ECH APEL HAY Id ARKET.—Sept. 15 Flay 60s. Od. to 903. Od. I (10ver...-. 803 Od. to 1103. Od. 245. Od. to 303. Od. Ward PRICE OF POTATOES.—Sept. 17. ----...—.2./. 10s. to 3/. 10s. per ton. LEATHER. Per lb. d. to d. English Horse Hides.. 11 14 Spanish Ditto .............. 15 19 Pee dozen. Calf Skit;s: id it;illib. 14 18 Ditto --- 50 to 701 b. 16 24 Ditto —.... 70 to 801 b. 19 24 Small Seals, Greenland 16 17 Large ditto-----........ 10 12 HID IS. PRICES O. Per lb. d. to d. ' Botts, English ................ 16 23 Ditto, F0reign................. 14 19 Dressing Hide 5..—........... 12 14 Ditto —...... i 4 17 Ditto, light Ctop Hides, light 12 131 0itt0,..........:40 to 451 b. 13 15i Ditto l4 l6 * RAW Per Stone. s. d. to s. d. Per Stone. s. d. to s.d. lest Heifers& Steers 2 4 2 8 Ordinary 0 0 1 8 Mitlcilingsw.l 10 2 0 Market Calf.--....... 6 6 each. SHEEP SKINS. Short Wool ......... Os. Od. to Os. 111. I Lambs Is. 6d. to 28.6 d. Shearlings.....—.ls. 0.1. to Is. Sd. PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of 81b. Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Me1ter5),.............a.5. Bd. PRICE OF TALLOY Pown Tallow Od. Yellow Russia. 43s. 6d. White _ 44s. Od. Soap Ditto ,42.5. Od. Jlelted 365. Od. Ditto Rough.-----223. Od. ', SOAP, &c. per 1121 b. Yellow 625. Od. Mottled _ 708. Od. White _ 745. Od. Graves 14s. Od. Good Dregs —..—. ss. Od. PRICE OF The price of Store Candles, in t Candles, per doz. 7s. Od. to Bs. Od. CANDLES. :he retail shops, is as follows : . I Moulds, per d0zen.....--9s. 6d. F