The Sun. — London, England, 1832-08-10 00:00:00

Manchester had learnt to maintain its hundred thousand inhabitants by manufacturing the cotton brought frpp t,be ug k e p ro ,wpste f o.world. We take, therefore, the %Vole project of camp at Windsor, to be either a fiction of some disloyal anti-Reformer, or the plan of some Tory par tisan, to throw odium on a Reforming King, and suspicion on an orderly and peaceful nation. —Times. The people of Ireland were informed last night, by the Lord Chancellor, of a material distinction between the natives of the two islands. The Irish Habeas Corpus Act is of comparatively recent origin, having been passed towards the close of the American war, and contains no clause against the imprisonment beyond the seas of any .2f his Majesty's subjects. But there is another still more material distinction —the Irish Habeas Corpus Act can be sus pended without the instrumentality of Parlia ment. The cases in which it may be suspended by the Lord-Lieutenant, are invasion by a foreign enemy, and domestic rebellion, and whatever is deemed rebellion by the Executive Government for the time, is in law to be considered rebel lion. These, of course, are most extensive powers. Tell me your man, says a Scotch pro verb, and I'll tell you the law. The liberty of every man in Ireland depends on the fiat of the Executive. It becomes,. then, of consequence t: - ) know what the Executive Government—the sole Judge—shall deem to be rebellion. And here the Lord Chancellor made a very significant revelation : " As a lawy, r (he said), and as a Member of that House, he did not hesitate to say that rebellion as much consisted in such acts, or such a course of conduct as, by bringing together in any part of the empire great as semblages of people, and producing such excitement as to place the laws in a state of abeyance—in a word, to annihilate their operation—accompanying such conduct by acts of outrage conformable to the design of compassing those objects,—that, he would say, was as much rebellion as any other act or any course of conduct." His Lordship added— " Surely the state of things to which he alluded was in all reason and common sense rebellion, as truly as the insurrection of a whole province, or the bringing out bodies of armed and disciplined men to oppose by force the constituted authorities of the land. Those acts were, of course, admitted to be acts of rebellion, by ti e universal consent of the least informed of mankind ; but there was no one familiar with public affairs who would not readily acknowledge that the other proceedings to which he ad verted were likewise acts of rebellion. In _such an event he had no doubt that the Government, proceeding upon its own responsibility, would manfully exert the authority which it possessed, at the same time that he could not view otherwise than with the utmost repugnance and abhorrence the necessity for even exercising its judgment on such a question." The above declarations will unquestionably produce a great sensation in Ireland. But really we. do not see that the powers in question can add much to the powers of the Government. They will at most affkird a handle for declama tion. Earl Grey, in answering the Marquis of ' Westmeath, asked, " Would the Noble Mar quis propose the re-enactment of the Insurrec tion Act ? If' the Noble Marquis wished to apply that remedy, then he said that this would be no remedy at all for the existing evils of Ire land. The true remedy existed in the vigorous execution of the existing laws." Now, unfor tunately, the Irish consider their grievances to arise out of the law, so that they are not likely to consider the execution of the existing laws the true remedy for the existing evils of Ireland. But more—the Irish, like all other nations, who have long been the victims of bad laws, have taken up the notion, that the evils im posed on them by law would never be remedied if the law could be executed, and they, therefore, conceive they have an in terest in the law not being executed. They say, if we bad only been willing to pay tithes, we should never have heard anything of the possi bility of improvement in the distribution of tithes ; and being suspicious of their masters, they conceive, that if the law could be carried into execution, the faith or the possibility of an improvement in the distribution of tithes pro fessed by those masters would soon cease. They are no doubt wrong in entertaining such suspi cions ; but the fact is certain that they entertain them. An improved distribution of tithes would contribute greatly to the execution of the law. So long as the Law-Church exists in splendour, so long will the people oppose themselves to the execution of the law. What is going on in Ireland affords only another to the many previ ous proofs, that remedial measures, which at one time would be efficacious, if delayed too long, cannot be applied with advantage. The Church of Ireland has allowed the time to pass when it might have obtained favourable terms from its opponents.—Morning Chronicle. Ministers by connecting the suffrage with the payment of rates and taxes before a day certain, have hung a millstone round their own necks. Colonel Evans, in moving an Add ress to hi s Majesty to prorogue the present, and convene another short Parliament, to take into conside ration the unexpected disfranchisement produced by certain restrictive clauses of the Act, stated 44 that these clauses would operate very power fully for bribery ; that there were two places, in one of which 1,1001., and in the other 9001. had been advanced to pay the rates ; that the number of persons everywhere disfranchished would be very great ; that, for example, not above 750 persons in Manchester had paid their rates ; in Ashton, 74; Bury, 42; Oldham, 42; Bolton, 84 ; Blackburn, 78 ; Rochdale, 66 ; Salt - Ord, 40 ; Warrington, 38." We quite agree witb the Colonel in thinking there is something in this result, of a very alarming nature, and that it is enough to endanger the . Administration. The people, who feel these very difficulties caused by excessive taxation a bar to their ex ercising the franchise LT which they might re medy the evil, will naturally enough be savagely disposed towards Ministers. Men in the rank of Ministers know little of the difficulties with which the people who struggle to keep up ap pearances have to contend. It is athousand pities they did not, instead of a qualification of this invidious kind, take some broad and ob vious one, not calculated to embitter the people, who find themselves tantalised by the promise of a qualification of which they are unable to avail themselves. Colonel Evans said, " lie had heard the disappointment was so great that the people were again talking of not paying the taxes, and of running upon the Bank for gold." That would be absurd. But the disfranchisement must. make the present Ministers very unpopu lar, and perhaps destroy them. Mr. Htnne ob served that "if the population of the large towns were disfranchised to the extent of three-fourths or four-fifths, it would be a most serious evil, and would produce nothing else but dissatisfac tion." Lord Althorp admitted that lie knew nothing certain of the matter; but not believing in the-n.tent,of,the disfranchisement; he could not hefieve-th s e..eitent of the dissatisfaction." This is a matter of too_great importance to be left to accident. WeTear Ministers will be found to have eried . egregtously in their . estimate of the - alacrity with . which rates and taxes are paid. -'Lord Althpip s saiil, that " it should be remem bered that the period fixed by the Bill allowed three months to be in arrears." To his Lordship three : months may appear a long arrear, but this only proves how little his Lordship knows of what passes among the people. The brokers could have told him something on this subject. —Morning Chronicle. The wretched product of Ministerial inca pacity, the Reform Bill, again excites some degree of public attention. As we said long since, it satisfies no party, but is contemplated with general disgust. The Radicals are now quarreling with poor Lord Althorp for not consenting to repeal the only clause which offers the slightest security against an overwhelming pauper constituency, and that too before the measure has come into practical operation. Those who cannot or will not pay the taxes due in- April by the 20th July, and give one shilling each for the registration of their illustrious names, are not permitted by the Bill to exercise the privilege of voting ; they are assumed either not to be able to pay their taxes, or not to feel suf ficient interest in the subject to give it the re quisite degree of attention. The first class are excluded by their pauperism, and the second by what the Attorney-General describesas a species of treason against the community. But most un fortunately these two classes are found to include, according to the Radical Journals themselves, about two• thirds of the new metropolitan con stituencies. The reformers now ask for the re peal of the obnoxious clause, and it therefore appears from their own showing that their object is to place a preponderatin g influence in th ese elections within the re a ch o f a class of men who are publicly stigmatized as paupers or traitors. The Reform Bill, bad as it is, does not go quite so far as this, and hence it is already an object of contempt and loathing to its recent supporters. Lord Althorp brought forward a motion to modify this clause, but hastily withdrew it at the first . notice of opposition. The motion was made to keep things a little smooth with the Radicals ; it was withdrawn as a matter of course. Ministers could not dream of altering this clause without the grossest conceivable breach of faith. The clause belongs to the very es sence and vitality of the Bill, as much so as the political extinction of Gatton and Old Sarum. Touch the pecuniary limitation to the right of voting, and the Anti-Reformers would have a right to insist upon the restoration of schedule Ain all its integrity. It was insisted upon from first to last by the Whigs, and their organ, the Times, that the Bill was a Conservative Bill ; the close boroughs were to be given up ; but, on the other hand, crowds of scot and lot voters were to be disfranchised, and none were, on any pretext, to be permitted to vote but those re spectable and steady householders who occupied a ten-pound house, had paid their taxes, and would pay a shilling for registry. These were to be the tests of the new constituency, and the Times actually proclaimed it as a peculiar feature of the Bill, that under its provisions, « every voter would be a man of property !" The clause was no mistake, its tendency was accurately calculated, and a perfect understanding existed among all parties, that so far as these poor tests went, the new Legislators should be respectable. To attempt to alter the arrange ment now, without restoring schedule A, or giving the aristocracy some other equivalent, would be a gross fraud upon the whole country; and particularly upon those who called out so loudly and so wisely for " the Bill, the whole Bill, and nothing but the Bill." *Lord Althorp felt this as a man of honour, and instantly with drew the proposition when its real nature was pointed out. Why he introduced it at all is a question which his Lordship may settle at his leisure with his late radical friends. Let it not, however, be supposed that, because this clause limits the pauper constituency, the Bill is on the whole more acceptable than it was to the great Conservative party. Their objections went deeply into the essence of the measure. They objected to the wantonness of needless change, to the destruction of corporate rights over the bul warks of practical liberty, to the neglect of the great principle of prescription on which half the British Constitution rests, to the unfair preference given to Whig interests, to the total want of science and judgment evinced in the distribution of the franchise, to the excitement of absurd and necessarily abortive expectations, and to the tendency of the whole measure to bring about alternate intimidation and corrup tion in their worst forms among large bodies of electors. These objections are not answered by the circumstance of multitudes of the less re spectable classes not having availed themselves of the opportunity presented of making them selves electors. On the other hand, let no one imagine that the party who are now styled Con servatives are necessarily opposed to the exten sion of the elective franchise. They only wish the great interests of the State, those interests by which alone the mass of the population can be sustained in comfort and prosperity, to be fully and impartially represented, that the powers of the Government may not be vested in the hands of any faction. That object they considered to be accomplished, at least to a considerable extent, under the recent system, to which the various interests of the community had gradually accommodated themselves, and they were reluctant rashly to change that system till there was reason to be lieve that the proposed substitute would better accomplish the object. Many of them strongly supported the principle of temperate and impar tial Reform, while they opposed the Ministerial Bill as deficient in all the requisites of a useful national measure. They were defeated for a mo ment, but the subsequent experience of every hour proves the soundness of their views, and they have now a right to hope that the returning good sense oldie people of England will do them that justice which was confessedly denied to them during the madness of popular excitement. The Reform Bill, being now law, they would not probably seek its repeal, but, mindful of the hazards of further and indefinite change, would be content with such modifications as reasonable Men of all parties perceive necessary to the formation of an extended and respectable con-. stituency, and an efficient representative body. We are far from despairing of the speedy formation of an Administration at once liberal and conservative, which should unite the suf frages of moderate men throughout the com munity. We are convinced that if the sense of the people were fairly taken, Conservative prin ciples would now achieve a splendid triumph. We are not aware that the Statesmen who are obviously most competent to govern the country are now opposed on important questions to any large section of the people. We beg to submit to the holiest portion even of the Radicals and Unionists whether we have not had changes enough in all conscience of late, and whether we should not do well to betake ourselves at once to a policy which would protect the permanent interests of the country, instead of one which only scatters them to the winds. We take it as a settled thing that the present blustering Cabi net cannot possibly go one much longer ; and we ask the intelligent friends of order and free dom, without whose cordial support no Admi nistration can long exist, or ought to exist at all, whether it is not high time to rescue the fore most empire in the world from the calamities with which it has been visited, and under which it still suffers, in consequence of eighteen months of democratic misrule ?—Morning Post. If Lord Grey intends, as we hope he does, to continue at the head of his Majesty's Coun cils, and carry into effect the glorious measure of which he has been the author, we would frankly tell him that, previous to another Parliamentary campaign, he must recruit his forces, and, above all, remodel his staff'. We would not, nor would circumstances justify our appealing to the thread bare corps we allude to being such as no com mander would march through Coventry at the head of, but oil the contrary, we would rather have our own joke, and say that some of them might be sent to Coventry, and would never be missed. It has been generally the misfortve of the Whigs, when in office, to show a marked deficiency in business-like qualities, and those of the present day do not seem to be one jot behind their predecessors, either in this respect, or in a remarkable thirst for office, whether fit or unfit for its duties. The attainment of this was unfortunately mischievous, yet attainable enough, while a faction of boroughmongers could send their nominees to maintain it ; but with the passing of schedule A the ability to do this, either by Whig or Tory influence, is extin guished, and one of the first fruits of the Reform Act will, we confidently hope, be to drive in com petent men from office, and put competent ones in their place. If we have any leaning upon this subject, it is, as we have frequently declared, that the fruits of the great measure of Reform should proceed from, and be gathered by, those who have themselves planted and watered the tree ; and though we are convinced that it is ut terly out of the power of any set of men, how ever inimical to then), to defeat its objects, yet we know too well what enmity, and even hollow friendship, can do in the way of thwarting ob jects, not to wish most heartily that Reformers, and not Anti-Reformers, may be at the head of affairs till the very name of the latter has ceased to be remembered. But Reformers, to be so indeed, must not only be sincere in their inten tions, but firm of purpose, and competent to that which they undertake. How far too many Members of Lord Grey's Administration have shown themselves otherwise it would be equally painful and invidious to enumerate. The coun try owes them (we had nearly said one and all) a debt of gratitude for the past, which must make it anxious not to throw avoidable doubts upon the future. At the same time convic tion and experience speak a language which goes home to the mind of every man ; and we wish it were, on the subject, and towards the persons of whom we are speaking, any thing but what it is. Put there are, we fear, those upon whom incompetency has put its mark in characters too legible to be misunderstood. Some men live and learn ; but the persons we allude to appear to live and unlearn—at least, according to Scripture phraseology, their last sets are worse than their first. Of this incom petency the Premier himself has exhibited no proofs. On the contrary, he has shown a firmness, accompanied by a temper, tact, and generalship, which could alone have ensured the victory which he has won. He is now avow edly among the first of the Political Generals of the age, and, as such, is entitled, and in deed called upon, to weed his ranks of those _ who are unworthy of, or unfit for, their stations ; and to replace them by those who are competent to sustain the honour he has acquired. This, and this alone, can sustain him in a station which all honest men wish to see him fill, and which his own merit, in the highest degree, en titles him to.—Morning Herald. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. QUEEN-SQUARE. Yesterday being the day appointed for the further exa mination of William John Little, alias Butler, of No. 40, Kensington-Nuare, and of No. 26, Little Albany_ street, Regent's Park, the office was crowded to excess by tradesmen of every description, who had been duped in some manner by the prisoner out of their property. After the business of the office was over, the prisoner was placed at the bar before Mr. GREGORIE, and no sooner was he placed in the dock, than there was a gene ral buz of " That's him !" some asserting his name was Little, and others Butler. The evidence of Mr. Wyse, a hay-salesman in Cumber land market, which was taken at the first examination, was read over, and his charge fully substantiated against the prisoner. Several tradesmen then stepped forward to prefer their charges against the prisoner, for obtaining from them goods to a considerable amount; but it appeared they had acted very incautiously, and the charge amounted to nothing mote than a debt. Mr. GREGORIE said, that it was astonishing to him they could have been so credulous as to have given him credit. An ironmonger stepped forward and said that the pri soner came to him and purchased a number of grates of hitn,which were sent to his house. fie had determined not to leave them without the money, but wben he went with the goods, the prisoner was not at home. His wife, or his woman, was there, and her manners were so insinua ting, that he left the goods without the znoney.—(Shouts of laughter.) The prisoner afterwards ordered eight more grates, but he fortunately did not execute the order, as be found him out. Mr. Serjeant, a butcher, at Pimlico, stepped forward, and described a novel mode that the prisoner had of pass ing his small bills. It appeared, that about eighteen months ago the prisoner lived in Kemp's-row, Pimlico. He dealt with Serjeant for meat, and ran up a small bill. Finding that he could get no money of him, he summoned him to the Court of Requests, for 1/. 19s. ; but he had no sooner served the prisoner with a summons, than he served the butcher with a copy of a writ, for a fictitious debt, by his attorney, which bad put him to a great expense. Mr. Whi ting, a baker, and Girlder, a milkman, at Pimlico, to whom he was indebted, he served also with a copy of a writ, and they were also at a great expense. They had all got executions out against the prisoner, but had never been able to find him out before they saw the account of his first examination in the newspapers. Other tradesmen began to detail how they bad been `• done" out of their property, from which it appeared that there was scarcely an article of property, from loads of bricks and mortar to silk goods, but what he had traf ficked in, without paying for it. Mr. GRTEGORIE (to the tradesmen)—All I can say is, that you have all been duped, and I hope you will be more cautious for the future. A tradesman at Brentford now stepped forward to prefer a more serious charge against the prisoner, and produced a bib paid by the prisoner for goods, the acceptance of which, he said, was forged. Some discussion now took place, and the charge of for gery was adjourned until the witnesses could attend. Another charge of forgery was also adjourned. Mr. GREGORIE fully committed the prisoner for trial, for fraudulently obtaining a load of hay and 10s. from Mr. Wyse, after having sold the haystack to another person, and the parties were bound over to prosecute, MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Mrs. Mary Carty, a (our-feet square Irishwoman, with a face like a red potato, was introduced to Mr. Co whose rubi con nose l'AN l b e b t y o k l e ' e n r e l d an a d n l aidnytimMartse. Ellen Maloney,ncewith a " drop of the crattr," for having broken eleven panes of glass, and for sending a pint pot bang at her h•ntd, when she put it out of the w i n d ow t o see what was the matter. " I'll be on my oath," said Mrs. M a l oney, " that Misthress 31Tarth's the very devil himself, for did'ut she take the poker to me when I axed her for my rint? And did'nt she offer to bate me and Dennis, me husband, be kase I whident lend bet me bellows? which she borry'd of me once afore, and kept a whole wake." " Don't he after taking a false oath, Mrs. Maloney," vociferated Mrs. M'Carty. " I'm a poor lone woman, plase your Wertchip, and I gets my living wid a wheel harry and a little bit o' frute. Divil a wod did I spake to Mrs. Maloney till she locked me out of me own room, which I pay 18d. a wake tint for." " Sorrow a halfpenny of rint did I get of ye, Mrs. M'Carty," said Mrs. Maloney, " barring an ould flannel petticoat, that dropped to pieces wid the first wash." " But," said Mr. CONANT to Mrs. M'Carty, " how came you to break so many windows ?"—" I did it in my own defince, plase yer Wertchip," said Mrs. M'Carty, curtseying. " Well, then," returned Mr. CONANT, " I must fine you 125., or send you to prison for fifteen days " " D'ye hear that, Misthress Maloney ?" said Mrs. M'Carty, in a rage. " What will Ido with me five fatherless children? Ocb, the cholera morbus 'll catch you for that same." Mr. CONANT directed the children to be taken care of in the workhouse till the term of their mother's imprison ment had expired. THAMES POLICE. Yesterday, James Murray, a middle-aged Waterman, well known to the Thames police, whose person and clothes were covered with mud, was brought before Captain RICHBELT., charged with breaking into the warehouses of Messrs. W. H. Harton and Co., merchants and ship owners, of No. 3, Norway-place, Limehouse, and stealing property to a large amount therefrom. William James Pearce, a police constable, No. 177, K, stated, that about three o'clock that morning he was on duty by the side of the Limehouse.cut, a branch of the river Lea, when the prisoner passed him at a very quick pace, with a large bundle under one arm, and something in his hand. He stopped him, and asked what the bundle contained, and he replied, only some twine and some biscuits which be bad brought from Gravesend. He seized the bundle, and called another policeman, who was a short distance off, when the prisoner threw a quantity of biscuits into the canal, and leaped into the water. Wit. ness and his brother officer instantly lost sight of him, and concluding he was drowned, procured the drags, but after dragging the canal for an hour, could not find him. He remained about the spot until five o'clock, when wit ness observed the prisoner's head just visible above the water, partially concealed behind some piles. His body was wholly immersed in the stream, and had been so for two hours. Witness no sooner caught sight of him than he jumped into the river, swam across, and dragged him out by the collar. The prisoner, on being brought ashore, appeared half dead ; but he gave him some cordials, re stored him, and conveyed him to the station-house, where their clothes were hung up and dried. The witness, whose vigilance and courage were highly praised, produced the bundle, containing skeins of new twine, which were at once identified by Mr. Harton. Roberts and Castleman, two other policemen, Nos. 53 and 236, K, observed the prisoner waiting about the warehouses late on Wednesday night. On the banks of the river, near the spot where the prisoner jumped in, they found two bolts of new canvas, each containing 140 yards, placed against the wall. They were identified by Mr. Harton as his property. Aylott, the prosecutor's foreman, said he had some re collection of the prisoner, and believed he was formerly employed in the warehouses. Captain RICHBELL committed him to Newgate for trial. TO TEN-HALL, SOUTHWARK. Emma Lemon and Anne Hookey were placed at the bar, before Mr. Alderman ANSLEY, charged with stealing from the person of a countryman, named Edward Robin son, 2501. and upwards, under the following circutn, stances:— The prosecutor on Saturday last arrived in London from Glamorgan. in Wales, and upon his arrival, he called upon several persons with whom he had dealings, and paid each of them their accounts, and by this time it was dusk, and wishing to see a relative whom he had not seen for many years, and who resided in Walworth, as he was journeying thither, on his road through the Borough, not knowing the direct way to Walworth, he inquired of the prisoners his best road. They said they would show him, and for this civility he invited them to take some wine; to pay for which he pulled out his purse containing gold, silver, &c. After drinking their wine they all journeyed on towards Walworth, and in a crowded part they bade adieu, the prosecutor returning many thanks for their ci vility. But 10, on arriving at his relation's house he found he had been robbed of all the property he had- He had not spoken to any individual after he had left the prisoners' company. He was perfectly sober at the time he left the prisoners, and was quite so on arriving at his relative's house, This latter part was confirmed by his relative, who added, that he had been to the Bank of England to stop payment of the bills. There were two for 1001. each; one was S 3, No. E 4,880, Aug. 3, 1832 ; another for a similar amount, S 3, No. E 4,879, August 3, 1832; one for 50/. S 3, No. E 4,889, August 3, 1832; and it was fortunate that the prosecutor had called upon his trades.. men. for he might have lost all be had when he arrived in London. John Bentley, police-constable, No. 53, division M, was on duty on Wednesday night, when the prosecutor and his relative came to him in the Borough, and stated the cir cumstances of the robbery, and from the description he gave of the prisoners, he took them where the prisoners used, and on seeing them, the prosecutor instantly, and without being questioned, pointed them out. Witness secured them. Alderman ANSLEY in the hope that publicity might do good, should remand the prisoners until Saturday next ; but as to the purse containing the gold and silver, &c., there was no probability of that being recovered. THAMES POLICE. FRAUDS ON LICENSED VICTUALLERS.—Four fellows of shabby-genteel appearance, named John Barrett, Al fred Sussex, Daniel George Whaley, and Robert Brad bury, were charged with consuming a great quantity of provisions, beer, ale, liquors, and cigars, at the house of Mr. John Hahne, the Kinder's Arms, Little Joiner-street, Commercial Road East, without having the means to pay the score. On the previous afternoon, the prisoners, who had just got rid of their beards at a neighbouring barber's shop, to make them look as decent as possible, entered the Kinder's Arms, and took possession of the parlour. The landlord making his appearance, they asked him what he had got to eat in the house, and ordered dinner for four. Mr. Hulme apologized to the gentlemen, and said he had no meat in the larder, but recommended a fine large piece of pickled salm on , we i g hi ng three pounds, the remains of l e a very ndl or landlord thing e o rig r w a. e Barr wanted, ett; an w d h w ils e t re S t i a a l d k b il t:ry gab sa o i u d t ,.:: his own family' s di nner. " Bring it in directly, " exclaimed it• T 's he th tulated himself that he had so well hit the tastes of his ens tomers, and began to lay the cloth, when Barrett said there was no occasion for one, as they were very peckish, and wanted to begin eating without delay, and one knife and fork would do for all. Mr. Mime replied that he did not like to serve gentlemen in that kind of way ; the cloth was laid in proper trim, the salmon was brought and quickly devoured, with plenty of bread, three pots of porter, and a "small drop of brandy and a bit of cheese," ordered after dinner to promote digestion. The prisoners were loud in their praises of the good accommodation afforded them, and called for cigars. Mr. Hulme brought those which be generally serves to his customers, but the gentlemen" said they were not good enough, and the landlord sent to a tobacconist's close by for some superior ones. The " gentlemen" then requested a pack of cards, but Mr. Hulme replied that he never allowed card-playing in his house. He was, however, at last induced, on their promise not to play for money, to let them have cards. Some rum and water was then called for, and the prisoners pronounced it the best they ever drank, and Ba rre tt sa id h e should never use any other house but the Kinder's Arms. A second, third, and fourth glass of hot ruin and water was called for, and despatched in quick succession ; and sub. sequently, as a cooler, ginger beer was ordered. The prisoners, at this time, began to c as t many an anxious look towards the door, which excited the suspicions of Mr. Hulme ; and they also went out one at a time to reconnoitre, but were closely watched and no chance was given them to run away. After drink ing some mare drops of brandy, rum and water, gin ger beer, and ale, with now and then a biscuit, the bill was called for and brought. It amounted to 1/. 135., in cluding dinner; and Barrett, after examining the items, observed, "It is very reasonable, landlord; I wonder how you could do it so cheap." " Very reasonable in. deed, wonder how it could be done so cheap," echoed the others. Barrett then stood up, and told the landlord they bad no money; but Mr. Hulme believing this was said i n joke, left them a short time. On his return, he was again told they had no money, and they wanted to go. Mr. Hulme refused to let them move a step until his bill was paid, and after some altercation Bradbury asked, if the landlord would allow him to go alone and fetch the money ? This was agreed to ; but he had scarcely left the house before his companions said he would not return, and they would not pay their shares if he was allowed to so away. Mr• Hulme accordi n gly b roug h t him back, and during a scuffle in the passage he wilfully thrust his hand through a pane of glass and smashed it. Mr. Hulme now thought it high time to call in the police, and the prisoners, after a desperate resistance, were conveyed to the station-house. On their arrival there, Barrett put his hand in•his pocket, and said he would pay his share of the bill. Mr. nubile held his hand out for the money, when the prisoner laughed in his face, and exclaimed, "Don't you wish you may get it !" The prisoners, on being called upon for their defence, said, they each thought when they entered the house that the other had money sufficient to meet all demands. Barrett described himself as a tailor, who worked for himself ; Whaley said he was a journeyman tailor, and was employed by Barrett ; Sussex, whose face was as long and as pale as a candle, said he was a tallow-chand ler; and Bradbury said be was a master cabinet-maker. Mr. BALLANTINE-Then there are two masters and two journeymen, and you surely can find no difficulty in paying the publican's bill. I don't wonder at the tai lors refusing the luxury of a cloth, as they have no doubt been in the habit of eating the dinner off the shop-board where they ought to have been at work. The prisoners said they had not a farthing amongst them, and endeavoured to turn the tables on the land.. lord by saying he encouraged them to play at cards, and be could only make a debt of it. Mr. BALLANTINE said he would commit them all to prison if they did not pay the bill, and for the window they had broken. Bradbury said, pointing to Whaley, " That gentleman invited me." Mr. BALLANTINE._Oh, you mean the journeyman tai• lor.—(Laughter.) The worthy Magistrate then ordered the prisoners to be locked up until they could find the money. They managed, by the assistance of their friends, whom they sent to, and by raising a loan at the pawn broker's, to pay the bill just as the van arrived to take them to prison. SUMMER ASSIZES. ROME CIRCUIT, .LEwEs, Auo. 8. worm v. THOMSON. This was an action of assault. Dr. Wood, the plaintiff, is a physician on the staff, and resides at Newick, in this county. The defendantalso re sides there, and be, as well as the plaintiff, takes a great interest in every thing connected with the parish, and, as it not unusually happens to persons mixed up in parish mat • ters, is sometimes engaged in parochial broils. At a vestry meeting holden some time ago, both the parties were pre sent, and the defendant accused Dr. Wood of having, with out consulting his brother parishioners, made a return to the commissioners of the poor. He denied it, and averred that the defendant attended the meeting for the sole pur pose of insulting him. This counter-charge naturally pro ducea altercation, the defendant alleging that Dr. Wood had acted presumptuously, and be intimating that if he asserted such an untruth, he would assuredly pull his nose. A struggle ensued, and the assault--the cause of grievance —was committed, though it did not clearly appear which was. The Jury found for the plaintiff—Damages 40s. The business was terminated here, and the commission for holding the assize for the county of Surrey will be opened at Guildford to-morrow. CHESTER. CURIOUS LIBEL CASE , -.-THORLEY V. PY3ILOT. Mr. J. JEava opened the pleadings. Plea, thegenera, issue. Mr. TEMPLE stated the case. This was an action for a libel of a very aggravated character, written and published by the defendant, of and concerning the plaintiff, in a pamphlet entitled Modern Methodism in its true Colours. The plaintiff, Mr. Thorley, was a highly respectable shop keeper at Macclesfield, and a class-leader among the Wes leyan Methodists, as well as a trustee and treasurer of the chapel and Sunday school belonging to that denomination of Christians at Butley. The defendant was a member of the Church of England originally, and had been educated for a clergyman of the establishment, from which he sub sequently seceded, and associated himself, as far at least as the management of their schools, with the class of Dis senters to which the plaintiff belonged. These school+ were under the management of Mr. Thorley, and because of some petty quarrel or difference with Mr. Thorley , about the places of the singers in the chapel, the de fendant made an attack not only upon Mr. Thorley in par ticular, and the whole body of Wesleyan Methodists to which he belonged, but upon the Established Church also, He thus spoke of the Church Establishment : " After the short and imperfect sketch, Sire (for the pamphlet was prefaced with an epistle dedicatory to his Majesty), who can say that the Church is not in danger ? Yet, after all, its greatest enemies are within it, in the persons of its archbishops, bishops, deans, rectors, and vicars, who, by their incompetence, their assumed pomp, their eagerness after the good things of this world, and their tenacity of them when obtained, excite the indigna tion and disgust of all, who know, as well as they, the arduous duties which they have undertaken to perform, and the several and religious qualities with which they ought to be endowed." After denouncing the system of the Wesleyan Methodists generally, and its professors, the dead and the living, —even that celebrated individual, John Wesley himself, did not escape his censure,—the defendant proceeded to denounce particular individuals, and the plaintiff among the number. It should be here observed, that during the connexion of the defendant with the Wesleyans, he had learnt something of the private history of the plaintiff, and other members of that body. He learnt that Mr. Thorley had been apprenticed to a person of the name of Buckstone, and he accused Mr. Thorley of having robbed his master—of having started in life as a thief, and laid the foundation of his fortune in fraud and peculation. (Here the Learned Counsel read several extracts from the publication in question, which contained gross reflections upon the character of the plaintiff.) After expatiating at some length upon the enormity of the charges, and the aggravated character they bore, from being deliberately written, revised, corrected, and printed, not in an ephemeral shape, but in the form of a bulky pamphl e t, which had reached a second edition—the learned Counsel proceeded to say that the plaintiff, considering his station in society, and the relation in which he stood to the respectable and influential body of dissenters of which he was a member, could not do otherwise than bring this action to clear his character. Mr. Serjeant JONES, for the defendant, said, in this case the question was not what should be the amount of pu nishment inflicted upon Mr. Pymlot for the sake of soci ety in general, but what was the amount of the injury and damage to Mr. Thorley. The amount of the injury Mr. Thorley had sustained might be collected from the fact, that he was still continued in - his office of treasurer, and trustee, and class-leader, and the other honorary dis tinctions which he obtained among the Wesleyan Me thodists. The learned Serjeant expressed his hope that the jury, by their verdict, would not give a triumph to either party, but would give moderate and temperate da• mages Lord LYNDHURST summed up, and the jury gave a ver. diet for the plaintiff—annages 501. It has been said that the Tories have no sense of economy ; they, however, atone for this deficiency by displaying singular economy of sense.—Figaro in London. DREADFUL ACCIDENT_---On Tuesday, a girl of loose character named JACKSON, was burnt to death in a house in Earl-street, City Road. The house has been for some time occupied by a woman named WIL LIAMS, during which scenes of the most shocking and disgraceful depravity have been carried on in it. The de ceased bad retired to her room about twelve o'clock, where she had not been many minutes when the other inmate s , alarmed by her c r i es , b urst open the door, and found her enveloped in flames. After some time they extinguished the flame., but the poor creature was so dreadfully burnt, that she surviv e d on l y an h our. Her last words were uttered in prayers for forgiveness for her companions, and beseeching them to abandon their present course of life. On Wednesday an inquest was held at the Rose in the Bud, Greenwich, on the body of Me. S. IIISDELL, aged 56, a hairdresser in Beauchamp street, Deptford. On the 3d of May the deceased was walking along High-sweet, Deptf rd, when a small spaniel fol lowed him sonie distance, and upon his attempting to fondle it, th e an i ma l sprang at him, and bit h i m very severely in the wri s t. H e too k no not i ce o f t h e woun d, an d it ap paraitly heal e d up. O n Monday . night he complained of pain in hi s wr i st , an d en the following day he became worse. He then evinced the dreadful symptoms of hy drophobia, w hi c h i nc reased to such an extent in the even ing, that a strait waistcoat was necessary to be put on him to restrain his vio:ence. He died in the greatest agony about 2 o ' c l oc k on Wednesday morning. The Jury re turned a verdict that the deceased died by hydrophobia. On Saturday night last, a respectable mall, named PATRICK GILL, residing near Portadown, w as shot dead while sitting at his own fireside ! Suspi c i on f e l l upon an individual who had been served with a notice of ejectment by a relative or connexion of GILL. A ramrod of a pistol, which was supposed to b e l ong to this person, was found under the window through w hi c h the shot had been flied. He was taken into custody, b ut di scharged for want of evidence. An inquest was held on the body by the Coroner of the county of Armagh. The Juryre turned a verdict of Wilful Murder against some person or persons unknown, —Newry Examiner. ASSAULT ON HIS GRACE THE ARA. BISHOP OF CANTERBURY. CANTERBURY, AUGUST B.—Last night, about sat o'clock, his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterif arrived here, to hold a primary visitation of the dioc, It had been previously arranged by the corporation t 0..., ceive him in the usual way at the Guildhall, whe t ; sumptuous dessert was arranged. The Sheriff (Jaw Ridout, Gent.) and the junior Alderman (Sampson Kin. ford, Esq.) met the Primate at Harbledown, accompani by several Prebends of the Cathedral in carriages, whe they invited him in the usual way, and passed the acct, tomed ceremony. His Grace received them cordially, 4 with great becoming dignity and condescension express' himself pleased at the attention of the body corporal,' The procession then returned. It had been feared, in cot, sequence of the Archbishop's vote against the Reform BI that some minifestatien of opinion might be made by tl populace; accordingly, strong barricades were erected k front of the Guildhall, and a large number of spa cial constables sworn, to act in case of necessity 1 All passed off, however, without any exhibition n feeling, until within a few minutes of his Grace't arrival, when a sailor, in a state of inebriation, but; perfectly quiet and harmless in his demeanour, ac companied by two loose girls, steered up the High-street. The moment he was observed by Alderman Cowtan, an order was given to a constable to apprehend him, being a person likely to commit an act of outrage. The populace, to the amount of some thousands, interfered, requiring to know what the man had done ; but, instead of being an swered by Alderman Cowtan, he charged them immedi ately, in the:King's name, to assist in apprehending the ult. offending individual. The crowd were not disposed to allow him to remain in custody under such a trumpery pretext, and took him away, inveighing against the Cor poration for spending the public money upon an Arch bishop, when there were so many deserving poor in abso lute want. From this moment the mob became excited, and heaped all manner of abuse upon those who en' eisavoured to promote harmony. No sooner had the car. riage of the Archbishop appeared in sight, than the most deafening noises rent the air ; and when his Grace arrived at the Guildhall, the rains and hisses were tremendous. The venerable man seemed quite unnerved; he shook vio lently, and made the best of his way into the building, the doors of which were instantly closed. After he had partaken of the dessert, and drunk the health of the ladies, the car' riage was immediately ordered to be prepared. His Grace stepped in evidently much alarmed. The hisses and groans were now renewed, and missiles of every descrip tion were hurled at the vehicles—hats, caps, pieces of brickbat, cabbage-stalks, indeed every thing the ruffians could collect. Unluckily the postilions, being unacquainted with the city, directed the coach towards St. Margaret's, instead of Mercery-lane ; the mob had therefore more time to gather weapons, anti again furiously assailed the oarriage. When his Grace entered the precincts of 3be Cathedral the large gates were instantly closed. Severa l hundred person s h a d prev i ous l y gained admission, and ranged themselves within the walls of the Deanery, where hisses and groans prevailed over every other feeling. Per sons of every description concur, that but for the oil' cious interference of Alderman Cowtan, the city would not have been disturbed from its propriety. His Grace received no injury, although one of the carriage windows was broken. THE MARKETS. SOUTHALL MARKET.—.Aug. 8. This day's supply of Beasts, Calves, and Porkers, was mode' rately good, of Sheep and Lambs rather great. The market was tolerably well attended both by London and country buyers, particularl y the latter, whose consumption is considerably in creased by the harvest, and the trade with each kind of prime stock was somewhat brisk, but with that of middling and infe rior quality very dull, at the following prices per stone of 81b. to sink the offals:— Beef 3 3s. Od. to 4s. Od. I 3s. 4d. to 49. Mutton 4 4 4 Pork 3 6 4 6 Lamb 4s. 4d. to ss. 2d. The foregoing quotations are Veal and Pork from 2d. to 4d. per stone higher, than on this day se'nnight ; prices otherwise a p t i a g t s i Ng! y . A B e o e n a s s d s , e r l a B b 9 l ; e She nu e m b p e a r n o d f s L b l e u e l p b s an 3 d , 4 L 3 3 am ; bs, Calves, aid s l o t/ e i Beasts, Calves, and Pigs, left the market unsold. HAILSHAM MA ItK ET.—Aug. 8. 8eef................... 3s. Od. to 3s. 10d. f Vea1................ 3s. 841. to 4s. , 2(t. Mutt0n............. 3 8 4 8 I Pork 0 0 0 0 Lamb 4s. 4d. to ss. 4d. Supply good, and tia , ,e somewhat brisk. ARUNDEL MARKET.—Aug. 7. 3s. Od. to 4s. Od. 3s. 4d. to 4s. 4d. Mutton 3 4 4 6 j 0 0 0 0 Lamb 4s. 2d. to ss. 2d. Supply good ; trade with the primest B ee f, M utton, and Lam b, , somewhat brisk, with other kinds of meat very dull. - --- CHICHESTER 111 ARKET.—Aug. 8. Beef 2s. 10.1. to 3s. 10d. Vea1.................. , 3s. 2d. to 43.2 ,1 ' Mutton .....—.3 4 44 I l Pork 3lO 4 Lamb 4s. Od. to ss. Od. Supply of both fat and lean stock good, and trade with prime stock rather brisk, with other kinds very dull. ... RUMFORD MARKET.—Aug. 8. s. d. tos. d. a. d. s.d. Beef 2103 10 I Veal Lamb 4s. 2d. to ss. 2d. Suckling Calves from 14s. to 26s ; Quarter old Pigsl2s.to 18s. eacif• A moderate supply, and a sluggish trade. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING IHE WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. Per Quarter. s. to s. S. s. 8, to s. s. to I. Blandford — 62 35 24 42 52 63 36 40 19 22 31 35 62 28 22 33 Chard 56 62 30 34 18 24 34 36 Huntingdon...—. 58 67 29 32 17 24 30 34 Long Sutton...—. 56 64 17 0 2 32 35 50 55 27 32 19 20 32 34 L ynn 56 64 28 32 2 2 28 34 wark 59 64 18 24 0. Nottingham 57 67 31 33 4 333 2O 23 37 36 4 2 Peterborough --. 56 63 32 36 19 25 33 3 8 Plymouth 61 68 30 34 20 24 Pontefract......" 67 43 27 43 Sleafonl . Uppingham .—.... 58 65 32 40 20 24 30 40 Wisbech. . 54 59 26 30 14 18 32 34 LEEDS CORN MARKET Norfolk and Suffolk, 60114. York. and Lincoln. 601 b. Norfolk and Sunlk Yorkshire and Lincolnshire , Grinding Beans 63lb. Oats, Potatoe ---111ealing, For. 12d. to 13d. Et; Shelling Rapeseed, English. 161. to 24c Foreis Wheat, .-Aug. 7. Barley, .• 565. to 725. pd 545. to 695. 325. to 355. t o als. to 365. 21s. to 235. 5 345. to 425. 3 235. to 28s. • )g. 1154 d. to 13d. per st. .. 31s. to 325. per load. ;fl, -1. to -1, per last . ~ LL VERPOOL CORN EXCHANU.E.—Aug. 7. WHEAT, English, Red White, per 701 b. 8 10 9 0 Scotch, Welch, an d M anx 9 0 9 6 Irish, White 8 2 8 6 Red 7 10 Foreign 9 6 Ovrs, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 2 10 Irish 7 Foreign 2 2 5 BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 36 0 —..... Scotch and Irish, per 601bs. ......... Feeding English, per Imperial quarter 36 0 4k Irish, &c. 33 0 35 Foreign 34 0 36 , English, per Imperial quarter 36 0 38 Foreign 34 0 36 FLOUR, English, per 2801 b. 5O 0 51 Irish 48 0 t OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401b5.... 24 0 INDIAN CORN, per 4401 b. RYE, per Imperial quarter MALT, per Imperial quarter IMPORT OF GRAIN for the Week ending Aug. 6. Wheal Oats. I Barley Flour. Oatmeal. Qrs. Ors. Qrs. 'Foreign, Brls.llrish, &c. Scks.l Loads. 3,019 4,219 1,550 0 I 3,065 1,293 BEANS, PEASE ; - _ • i n r e a f u I d a y. past A LONG BREAKFAST.—A farmer observing his servant a long time at breakfast, said " Jour?, you cheese of this size is not so soon eaten as you would make a long breakfast." " Master," answered Jowl', " A think of." One medical g entle. INFLAMMATORY PIGS.—We have had se veral communications from the landholders in the south of this county, stating that a dreadful mortality had lately committed great havoc amongst their pin.,_ , 6 SOlllehnieS man n ry to ing id o u em examination, he came to the conclusion that those animals all died of inflammation of the bowels. The contagion has travelled over a great part of the barony of Sh lb e urne.— Wexford Independent. _ ff s that hai f a f a te rdaozce On the 7th BIRTHS. Esq., of a son, inst. at Chislehurst, the l a dy o f Malcolm Lewin On the 7th ult. at Wo odchester-park, the Hon. Mrs. Moreton , of a son. On the Bth inst. the lady of the Rev. Edward Woodhouse, ° f Weston, Thames Ditton, of a daughter. dau At hter She erness, the wif e of Captain Andrew King, R.N. of a g. MARRIED. On the 9th i nst. at St. George's Church Charlotte Burgoyne, eldest daughter o f the late Sir Montagu Burgoyne, Bart., of Sut ton Park, in the county of Bedford, to the Rev. Gilbert Blacit, burne, youngest son of J. Blackburne, Esq., of Hale, in Lain'shire, which c ounty he represented for the long period of 41 years. On the Bth inst. at St. Pancras New Church, Mr. Robert E. Adams, of Sevenoaks, surgeon, eldest son of Captain Adams,. o . , Witham, Essex, to Sarah, second daughter ot Mr, John 1-1 111, of Whitechapel. DIED. On the 9th inst. at Denham, Barbara, wife of John Druro mond, Esq., of Charing-cross. On the Bth inst. Robert Randal, youngest son of James Fools Esq., aged eighteen months. On the 7th inst. Major-General Sir Charles Bruce, K.C.B. of Beckenham, Kent, aged 55. On the 7th inst. in his 69th y ear, Thomas James, Esq.. of Whitchurch, Hants. - On the 9th inst. in Southampton-street, Bloomsbury, Miss Theresa De Bruyn, aged 55. On the 25th ult. after a lingering illness; Sarah, wife of William Churchill Esq., of Trinity-row, Islington, late ,of YorK-Pl ace ' City-road, aged 57. 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