The Sun. — London, England, 1832-01-06 00:00:00

We publish in another column the usual quar terle account of the revenue for the year and the quarter ending the sth of January. We regret that the statement is not more flattering to our wishes for financial prosperity, though we at the same time think that it affords no room for despondency. The, quarter ending yester day, as compared with the corresponding quarter of last year, exhibits a decrease of 903,218/., and the decrease on the whole year, as com pared with the year ending the sth of January 1831, is 3,984,175/. This latter decrease is about an equivalent for the abolition of the beer and leather duties, and therefore, though some what greater than was expected, need excite no surprise. The deficiency in the last quarter, which appears both in the Customs and Excise, but chiefly in the latter, is more to be regretted, but ought likewise to have been anticipated. The business of a great commercial and manufac tte log country like this, cannot be interrupted or deranged by political agitation without affecting the comforts of the people,—without checking consumption, and consequently di mieishing the sources of the public revenue. If the revenue has, therefore, fallen off in the last quarter, the opponents of the great measure of Reform, who have so long kept the nation in a ferment, are alone to blame, and may add a de ficient national income to the other offences for which they are responsible at the bar of the pub lic.— 7 imes. The official report on the finances of the United States, the principal part of which we give this day, is a paper which ought to become the manual of every English statesman. Here is a country, second only to Great Britain in power among marine States, overflowing with prosperity and happiness ;—one which knows not the meaning of internal tumult ;—one of which all the citizens, with scarcely an exception, can command the necessaries of life, meat, drink, clothing, and shelter from the elements, in abun dance,—one in which labour is sure of its re ward ; vet, where Members of Parliament are chosen by universal suffrage,—where neither tithes nor Game Laws are to be found, and where the Chief Magistrate lives with dignity on an income from the public of about 5,000/. per annum. See how this country is taxed,—a country of 12,000,000 of inhabitants. The re venue, then, raised upon the United States last year eks been about six millions and a quarter sterling, and yet the Government has contrived to devote to the liquidation of the public debt within the same period, no less than 3,300,000/. sterlitT,—more than double what the ma nagers of English finance have been able to bestow upon the same object, out of a reve nue of 46,000,000/. ! But if we inquire how it happens that America has been able to do so much, and England so little, towards that most desirable of all ends,—whether for an individual or a nation,—the solution lies upon the surface. The civil list of the United States, which covers the whole expenses of the civil Government, from the President to the youngest clerk in of fice, throughout all the departments, administra tive and judicial, together with the cost of the entire, much extended, and well-executed diplo macy of the Republic, in her intercourse with all the nations of the civilized world,—covering, further, that item so formidable in the finance re ports of England usually described as miscella neous,—that civil list, during the year just expired, has very little exceeded half a million sterling,—ahout one-fifth, we apprehend, of that of England. Again, the military service, including the army itself, fortifications, ordnance, Indian af fairs, army, the militia, and internal improve ments, the last article including the great roads, canals, and general communications throughout the country, does not amount to more than 1,.250,000/.—less actually than the ordnance estimates alone for a single year's expenditure in Great Britain ! The next head of expense in this report is the nary. We know well what navy estimates are in England—what injustice to wards friendless officers is provided for and sanc tioned by them—what procigality, the result of uncha,tiscd obstinacy, stupidity, arrogance, and indifference to the public interest, in some ofthe executive civil officers. To perpetuate this ruinous system, and to protect its authors or abettors, the accounts of some of the Boards under that department have, it has been proved, been learned with all the marks and tokens of studied mystification. Who will ever find out what has been charged to the people of England for the single article of alterations in certain classes of our men of war ? That no wasteful vagaries are tolerated in the marine department of the United States, we may judge from the fact that the sum total charged to that branch of the public service is but 670,000/. feerling feer the year 1831. Y et w h erever an American Interest requires it, there an Ame rican frigate or squadr o n i s assure dl y to b e found. Yet, moreover, besides five large fri gates, eleven heavy and effective corvettes (slily termed sloops), and seven schooners, the dock yards are filled with valuable timber and stores for the maintenance and rapid increase of the navy, the fruits of parsimony and a real respon- Aibility_during a succession of years. Can it, from a few such circumstances as we have glanced at,—can it, we say, surprise any think ing man, that the whole debt of the Republic is now reduced to 24,000,000 of dollars, or about 4,000,000/. sterling ? Can it surprise any body that, under a system of rigorous and salutary superintendence by the nation, no such phrase as "carrying on the President's business" has ever occurred to the imagination of any Minis ter when calculating the result of a measure pro posed to the Congress or Senate of America. But ponder well the happy consequence of the progress made in paying off the public debt of America. The sinking fund accumulates, but does not (as in other countries) melt like a snow-ball. While the estimated revenue for 1832 exceeds by the difference between 28,000,000 and 30,000,000 that of the pre ceding twelvemonth, the expenditure is reduced from 14,000,000 to little more than 13,000,000; and the stupendous phenomenon will in about twelve months from the present date be pro duced, of a national debt utterly aunihilated by a young republic,—that debt which, originally created by war with England, has been regularly and wisely diminished during every year of peace ; while the same, peace leaves England saddled with a debt, little short of the full amount at which it stood when the miserable treaty of Ghent was signed by Mr. Goulburn. There are other matter s of considerable though secondary , inte rest, and connected with Ameri can finance, discussed at large in this interesting and able document, but we must here conclude our notice.— 7 ;Ines. We call the a ttention of our r ea d ers to our report of th e Surrey Sessions, for an account of a dispute between the Grand Jury and the vvivi icrpeci, LO tne relative functions of Grand Jurors and Magistrates. We have no hesitation in saying that the Grand Jury are deserving of great praise for their spirit in expos ing the abuses which are forced on their notice. The threat of the Chairman, that if they continue to censure the conduct of Ma gistrates, access to the prisons should, in future, be denied to them, was anything but dignified or becoming. How are Magistrates to be kept in check, if notice is not taken of abuses like that of the female groundlessly committal for trial ? As to prosecuting a Magistrate for misconduct, the Chairman knows, that without gross wicked ness be added to gross stupidity, a Magistrate cannot be reached.—Morning Chronicle. The official accounts of the revenue for the quarter ended last night have been published, and': will be found in another column of our Paper. These tables show, as is to be expected, when the repeal of taxation is becoming every day more tangible, a considerable falling off of public income, both as respects the late quarter and the preceding year, to which the same term just completed corresponds. The decrease, as between the two years ended severally Jan. 5, 1831, and Jan. 5, 1832, is 3,984,1751., and between the two last quarters of each year 903,2181. The principal deficiency continues to present itself under that head from which the " beer" and other duties have been taken—the " excise," which shows upon the whole year a falling off of 2,564,9001., and upon the last quarter of 565,646/. Next is the " Customs," which for the whole year, as compared with the last, are short in receipts to the amount of 1,006,8461., and for the quarter of 840,972/. The Assessed Taxes also appear to have pro duced upon the year 149,0631., and upon the quarter 80,768/., less than in the corresponding periods of last year ; and " Miscellaneous" 191,980/. upon the year, and 30,1571. upon the quarter, less, by the same comparison. The only increase which appears is in the revenue of the " Post-office," which is better by 32,9951. upon the whole year than it was the last, though upon the quarter there appears (probably from the new arrangements, intended for public accommoda tion), a falling off of 2,005/. The " Stamps" account presents a mixed result, as it appears that, though deficient by 104,381/. upon a com parison of the whole year, there has been an improvement in this branch of the revenue during the last quarter of 16,3301. It will be seen, however, that the charge upon the Consolidated Fund continues to be reduced in pace with the falling off of the income, the surplus of receipt over expenditure for the last quarter being 3,672,057/., or, in round numbers, 1,200,000/. greater than in the preceding quarter. The amount of the Exchequer Bills to be re-issued to provide for these deficiencies in the present quarter is fixed at 5,626,2511.—M0rn. Herald. The revenue statement for the year and quarter just ended is given in another part of our Paper, and the public will see with appre hension and despondency that the decline con tinues to an unprecedented extent. On the quarter every item presents a decrease, except ing the Stamps ; and the total decrease is 903,218/. On the year there is a decrease in every item, excepting the Post-office, which pre sents a trifling increase of 32,995/. The total decline on the year is to the alarming amount of nearly 4,000,0001. The reductions, effected with so little skill by the Whig Administration, are very far from accounting for this result. No; the energies of the country, great as they are, are paralysed, and its very resources almost de stroyed, by the agitation, the distrust, and the confusion, which the ruinous projects of the Government, together with its weakness and incapacity, have introduced into every relation of society and every department of trade and commerce. The immense relief af forded to the country by the Wellington Admi nistration in the year 1830, and previously, renders the reductions effected by its successors thoroughly insignificant. The remission of taxation in the former instance might, indeed, have explained and justified a falling off in the revenue almost equal to that exhibited in the present statement. Let us, however, compare the official returns for the years ending at the four quarters preceding the agitation of the Re form Bill, with the four succeeding the intro duction of that measure, and let us profit by the inference : DECRZAI;E. Year ending April 5, 1830 864,349 July 5 690,980 Oct. 10 943,756 Jan. 5, 1831 640,450 _ _ It is proper of course to include the returns up to the beginning of last year, since, though the Whig Ministry had been in office for five or six weeks, they had had no opportunity, up to that period, of rashly or ignorantly meddling with the finances ; they had not sown perplexity and discord throughout the country by their Revolutionary Bill, and, in fine, the influence of the happy policy and judicious measures of the Anti-Reforming Administration was as yet un impaired. The revenue had in fact virtually in creased during all this period. We proceed to the years ending on the four following quarters : DECREASE. Year ending April 5, 1931 1,134,947 July 5 1,656,282 Oct. 19 3,072.201 Jan. 5, 1832 3,984,175 Crescit eundo. As the rash and incapable Whigs proceed in their course, the affairs of the kingdom over which they unhappily preside be come more and more gloomy. In April, when they had been a quarter of a year, and in July, when they had been half a year, in office, they had progressively marred the good effects result ing from the policy of their predecessors. In October, the Whigs having three quarters of the year ending at that period to answer for, the bid appearance which the revenue had previously presented becomes materially worse ; and now having held a office a full year, and the effect of their measures beinggeneraliy felt, the statement of revenue during a year of a Reforming Go vernment, as compared with the preceding year under a Tory Government, exhibits a deficiency which must fill with alarm the mind of every considerate person, and, if any thing can, will open the eyes of all men to the true merits of the present Ministry and to the real tendency of their desperate schemes.—Morning Post. All doubts respecting the result of Lord Grey's interview with the King at Brighton on Tuesday appear to be at an end. The good nature of the Monarch has yielded to the subtle impor tunities of the Minister ; and it is finally deter minen that the Peerage of the empire is to be degraded by an unexampled increase of its num.. ber, for the purpose of enabling Lords Grey and Durham to carry their revolutionary project into effect, How the Premier will be able to recon cile his conduct in this instance with his un equivocally expressed sentiments against its lega lity on a recent occasion remains to be seen. But nothing can prevent him from standingbefore Par liament and the country a self-confessed violator of the Constitution, after his open and candid ad mission in the House of Lords, that any increase of the Peerage with a view to carry a disputed question between the two Houses of Parliament would be in the highest degree unconstitutional. The loss of character which must thus inevitably arise to his Lordship is a consideration of per fect insignificance in comparison with the tre mendous evils to be inflicted upon the State by the revolutionary measure which is the end and the object of his perfidy. Betrayed as we are doomed to be by a Ministry perhaps the most selfish and imbecile that ever oppressed the country,: we have only, in so alarming a crisis of our fate, to invoke Divine protection to an injured King, and safety, as far as it can be af forded under such occurrences, to a people about to be deprived of all hitherto held dear by them, and which they were led to hope was a sacred inheritancOlerived from the valour and wisdom of their foliefathers.—Moriling Post. THE-At EVENT H PLAGUE—TOBACCO SMOKING. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Stit,—No man can be insensible to the change he feels in escaping from a place where the air is cor rupted to another where the air is pure. It is a re lief from impending suffocation. The difficulty with which the machine of life is worked in an atmos phere loaded with impurities is evident, not only among our own species, but even in the vegetable kingdom. The sickliness and dwarfishness of flowers and plants raised in towns are as remarkable as the similar falling off among people bred in crowded cities. How much, then, is it to be lamented that in London, the greatest city in Europe, in addition to the necessary corruption of the air arising from the breathing and exhalations of twelve hundred thousand inhabitants, and from the baneful smoke from several hundred thousand coal fires, the im portation of a foreign vice should daily set ten thou sand pair of lungs at work, in superailding to the deleterious compound we breathe—the poisonous smoke of tobacco. That tobacco smoke is a most poisonous effluvia, that it renders the air unfit for the support of animal life, is at once proved by the fact of its killing outright all the smaller animals, caterpillars, &c. which are within its reach—and from the tat ger animals, dogs, horses, and the like, turning away from it with evident uneasiness. Hu man creatures generally, until their lungs have be come inured to the poison, can scarcely breathe the air which is polluted by it. Difficulty of breathing, approaching to suffocation, and violent coughing, with giddiness and congestion of the blood in the regions of the lungs, heart, and brain, are symptoms which affect even the healthy and robust, when in volved in an atmosphere strongly impregnated with tobacco smoke. But with the consumptive and asthmatic, these symptoms are so increased as to threaten their immediate dissolution. There can be no doubt that the irritation and spasms produced on diseased limes by tobacco smoke hasten the deaths of the invalids who are unfortunately exposed to its presence, nor are the effects of the poison less marked upon persons who have weak stomachs. I have frequently known an excellent appetiie and an anti cipated good dinner completely spoiled upon the guests at an inn being shown into a room where some idle fellows had just been smoking cigars. Nausea, in a greater or lesser degree, is almost always produced on people exposed to the smoke of tobacco, and not unfrequently the irritation produces the convulsion of vomiting. The stomachs even of the strong and vigorous often revolt at the pungency and poison of tobacco-smoke; and it is only reason able to infer that the continual action of the effluvia on the stomach must produce debility and the pre mature decay of the powers of that important organ, with the usual train of nervous symptoms. This has been generally observed, but latterly in a very marked manner, at Sunderland and Newcastle ; the victims of the malignant cholera proving to be per sons who were predisposed to receive the infection, owing to a debilitated state of their stomachs, with great nervous irritability, which persons were almost invariably great dram-drinkers and smokers. Wherefore is it, then, that this plague is volun tarily speed all over the country ? It is not brought on for the gratification of any natural appetite, for nature revolts at it. The first essays at smoking produce painful sickness; arid afterward, if you ask a smoker at a public-house why he smokes, he will most frequently tell you that he does it in self-de fence, to keep himself from coughing or being made sick in the smoke from others. It is, therefore, an unnatural and vicious habit into which people are led by bad examples. But the habit once acquired, as with all other bad habits, is not very easily shaken off. Where an indulgence is resolved on, an excuse is never wanting. The smoker will tell you that be smokes, as the dram-drinker will tell you that he tipples, medicinally ! One finds the cigar or the pipe a gentle aperient—another finds it comfort his stomach—a third finds it warm the air under his nose and keeps off catarrh—and a fourth finds it throw him into a pleasing forgetfulness. These ex cuses one would not take the trouble to disturb if the consequences of the vice were limited to the person who indulged in it. If a man chooses to embiter or shorten his own days by a vicious gratification, let him : it is his own affair. But the tobacco smoker takes the peculiar unwarrantable libertyof forcing his odious does upon all unoffending and unconsenting persons whom he approaches. That which may be physic to him may be poison to another. The aperient which may suit him may aggravate the illness of another. The Anodyne to his stomach may produce nausea and vomiting among a dozen others about him. The puffing which he may think bent ficial to his own breathing is very likely to produce fits of coughing and suffocation among half a dozen by-standers, and the stench which may sooth him to sleepiness, Not unfrequently irritates those whom it annoys to re sentment and quarrels. Here, indeed, we may see the singular injustice of the smoker's indulgence. Whatever little good there may be in his smoking he keeps to himself; all that is mischievous he dis• perses among others. The little fire under his own nose may warm the air he breathes agreeably, and the finer spirit of the tobacco may be a useful physic to himself occasionally; but the unfortunate people about, on whom he puffs the bitterness of his smoke, neither have the benefit of the little tire, nor the timing of the dose to their condition of body. The acridit;es which he has blown away from himself gurgitate about them ; and in the atmosphere so infected by him they may cough, gasp, arid retch, as they can—and live—or die, for aught lie cares. Until lately we, the inhabitants of the great city, were not without a refuge from our malaria. In a I voyage to Margate, or a day's tide on a stage-coach, much was done to blow off the smoke from our out sides, and to refresh our lungs and stomachs with a current of uncorrupted air. But now, alas ! go whither one may, the smoke of tobacco, like a Sirocco of the East, or a blast from the Upas tree, pollutes the pure air from heaven, and thieatens our existence. The uncontaminated and invigorating breeze, which never failed to sweep over the roof of the stage-coach and the deck of the sailing vessel, no longer revives the nervous or enfeebled citizen when travelling in search of health. A set of selfish and unfeeling brutes now infest his path, infecting the atmosphere with the poison which they en gender. At first, the nuisance only appeared occa sionally with a foreign adventurer, or a whiskered dandy just returned from abroad ; next we had Jew pedlars smoking the cigars they travelled to sell by way of sample; and an offer was usually made to abate the nuisance if it were objected to. But now tine nuisance is multiplied out of all bounds, and no excuse is thought necessary. The stage-coach whirls along, fuming like a dung-heap. The coach man and guard puff their cigars in your face, while asking for a gratuity. The freshness of the sea I breeze is no longer felt on deck, loaded, as it now is, with tobacco smoke, in addition to the coal smoke and grease smoke incident to steam-navigation. At home a man has but little chance of escaping a smoking, unless he be master of the whole house, and then if he open a door or window, the poisonous effluvia seldom fails to effect an entry. If he walk in the streets, he is sure to have kis nose assailed with the hateful odour, and he may think himself fortunate if he do not have a smoker accompanying his steps, and enveloping him in an atmosphere of smoke throughout his walk. Even the ragged urchins who are on the look-out to hold your horse, or pick your pocket, give you a whiff of tobacco with the offer of their services. We are now not only all -dust, but all smoke 1 . To speak of the bad effects of tobacco-smoking on those who practise it, is but a minor considera tion. They may do what they like with their own ; yet it may be truly remarked that the keen smoker, like the dram-drinker and the opium•eater, never fails to suffer in his digestive powers and his nervous system. A decided smoker is never seen to retain a ruddy complexion. A pale, cadaverous hue succeeds to the clear red and white of health; or if any efflorescence remain, it is in curdled patches, and chiefly about the nose. The listlessness and soothing stupefaction which he covets is no more than he might obtain from suitable doses of prussic acid, opium, ardent spirits, or any ether of the vege table poisons, as well as the essential oil of tobacco. In these ways he might please and poison himself, without hurting his Mrighbours. The repayment in nervousness and debility are the same. But the smoker in his best moments is an enslaved arid de graded being—he can neither use his mind, his tongue, his hands, or his limbs, with the activity of other men. His smoke enshrouds him in not only a selfish, but an anti-social feeling—he cares not what happens to others, so that he and his cigar are suffered to smoke on. The best apology that can be offered for him is, either that his mind stands in need of forgetfulness, or that he may be one of those whose natural effluvia being particularly offen sive, he may deem it no mere than decent to over cortio;With a still more pungent odour. Among the commonalty this new vice acts with peculiar virulence—while their wages are too low to buy them a sufficiency of nourishment, it is de plorable to see them wasting their pittance, not only in gin, but in tobacco-smoking, which cannot afford diem an atom of nourishment, but which lesds them into further expences in loss of time, drinking and the necessity of medicine. When we see a debili tated mechanic a smoker, we may say, " That fellow is in training for the cholera morbus." Whenever we find a shop-boy or an apprentice with a cigar in his mouth, we may fairly guess that the shop goods or till has suffered ; and, judging upon frequent dis coveries, when an agricultural labourer is seen lurk ing about of an evening with a pipe in his mouth, we have too much reason to apprehend that there will he a farm-yard on tire before the morning. To this brief catalogue of the evils inflicted on humanity by the vice of tobacco-smoking, I may add that of the perpetuation and extension of the Slave TraJe, as not a cigar is burnt which has not been produced by a slave. If that consumption were foregone, it is self-evident that the demand for slaves would to a considerable extent cease. To set limits to this growing vice is, therefore, an object of very general interest. So far as regards the smokers themselves, I would proceed no further against their free agency than the power of persua sion. Temperance Societies or Anti-Smoking So cieties might be of much use. But to protect the public, who are not smokers, from the nuisance of those who are so, something more is necessary. We have a right to the air we breathe pure and un defiled, as God has given it for our use. No man has a right to empoisun it for the gratification of his own wantonness or vice. But as it is the peculiar character of the vice of tobacco-smoking to cast its worst effects on persons who are not parties to the practice, and as it is also a character of the persons who indulge in that vice to be particularly regard less of the feelings of others, I ask for a legislative protection against their acts—l ask for a prohibi tion of tobacco-sm: king in all public places and con veyances, on all highways, and also in all buildings which are in a plurality of occupations, and in which all the occupiers are not consenting to the practice, and in all hotels, inns, and public-houses, excepting in such rooms as have legibly written on the outside of their doors the words " Smoking Rooms." With these defences provided for the innocent, let the smokers smoke on, if they are so unfortunate as to desire ir, in rooms devoted to their nuisance, or in walks, by themselves alone. Whether any person of sufficient weight may take up this question to give it a legislative sup. port, I know not : but in the meantime, I submit hat we ought to oppose the smoking nuisance by all the means we may now legally possess. I have no doubt that we may legally refuse to proceed in a stage-coach in or on which smoking is suffered; that we may quit a room in an inn or public-house, without paying for refreshments ordered, but not used, if smoking be introduced into such room ; and that we may thrust from us, in any public place or highway, any pipe or cigar from which the smoke of tobacco is blown under our noses, and to our an noyance.—l am, &c. A MAGISTRATE FOR MIDDLESEX. PARISH OF ST. SAVIOUR, BOROUGH. A vestry meeting of this parish was held yester day, chiefly for the purpose of considering the pro priety of accepting the offer of the city of London to effect an opening at the Borough side of London bridge to the Church of St. Saviour, by throwing down the present Spiritual Court, pursuant to a par ticular clause in the London-bridge Act. The chair w as taken about eleven o'clock by WILLIAM DAVIS, Esq., the Warden of the Great Account, and the meeting was attended by nearly 100 of the most in fluential and respectable parishioners. Mr. WESTON moved, and Mr. BENJAMIN WOOD seconded, " That the offer of the city of London should be accepted, and that the Court should, as soon as possible, be pulled down." Mr. AmBLEToN moved an amendment, and was seconded, at considerable lenwh, by Mr. SAUNDERS, the attorney—that the question, for the present, should he postponed, till the city of London should furnish the spec fic plans of the intended improve ments or alterations which they have promised. It was in this Court (said Mr. Saunders) that the famous Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester , ha d con demned so many during tile time of Queen Mary to the flames of Smithfield, so that it might be con sidered a curiosity to the historian and traveller. Mr. ELLIS contended, that for that very reason the sooner the better the remn ants of the infernal pandemonium were destroyed. The register of those acts is a stain upon the page of history—the struc ture where they were committed is a stigma on the localities and improvements of the city. After some discussion, the amended resolution for postponing the final agreement with the London bridge Committee was ultimately carried. his age, witii a THE LATE MR. BOYD !—This unfortunate and murdered gentleman, who has ben made the victim of FERDINAND'S intolerant and bloody despotism, contrary to all justice, in direct defiance of the law of nations, and in open violation of the faith of treaties, was a British subject, and a native of this country, He was born i❑ the county of Derry• and was a brother to Mr. W. Born, the barrister.--Dublin Evening Mail. The distinguished physician, who is said to take both sides on the Reform question, justifies himself on the score of precedent in the other two learn i e ‘l d r. p ,ions—in one the Vicarage of Bra e y .t s i t l a e nt F is ri a sh p t ro F ve a r r b n i l a , l monument of pliability of opinion, while Counsellor Either-side is not less characteristic of the easy versati liinty Died,ui()afstvlkl gentlemenuarsie widtahy o e f s the I s t 7 e itnh l long a r ra o b toifn n JOHN BARROW, a farmer of the old school. The deceased was drawn from his residence to the burial ground by threw ppraeirviooftnoxreeniunetstta.ehed to a waggon, POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARLBORO UGH-STREET Yesterday an old woman, named Fry, residing in Newman's-mews, Castle-street East, was placed at the bar under the following circumstances :—From the statement of Thomas Conway, late servant to a gentleman named Gifford, residing at Walthamstow, it appeared that, on Saturday last, he forwarded his trunk, containing ten sovereigns, linen, and other articles of wearing apparel, together with several rings, brooches, pins, &c. amounting in value to about 801., by the Essex carrier's cart, to the resi dence of Mrs. Fry, with whom he formerly lodged. On his coming to town the same evening, he pro ceeded to the house of Mrs. Fry, and, on inquiring after his trunk, he was surprised to learn from the old woman that the carrier had returned and took the trunk away, alleging for hia i so doing, that lie could not leave it without two shillings being pail for the porterage. Conway made the best of his way into Essex after the carrier, and on an interview with him, he denied having returned for the trunk, and offered to accompany the complainant to the abode of Mrs. Fry, in order to exculpate himself from any participation in the disappear ance of the property. The prisoner, on being confronted with the carrier, acknowledged that he was riot the man that fetched away the trunk, and for the first time asserted that two men came to her residence and requested its delivery, under the pre tence that the porterage must be paid, the amount of which she had not at the time in her possession. The fears of the unfoeNnate complainant that his property had been hltillen; be was now fully con vinred were realized, and he came to this office to ask the advice of a Magistrate upon the subject.-- Mr. Conant ordered an officer to accompany him to the house of Mrs. Fry, and make inquiries into the tran'action. Nothing further could be ascertained than that the trunk was gone ; but the prisoner was brought up yesterday, to answer for its mysterious disappearance. She declared that, if the trunk was stolen, she was totally innocent of any participation in the robbery. Her character for honesty would bear the strictest inquiry among her neighbours. Mr. CONANT asked the complainant if he suspected that the old woman had some knowledge where his property had been taken to ? The complainant certainly did suspect her. Mr. CoNANT then ordered her to stand remanded , until further inquiries were instituted. During the whole investigation Conway appeared to feel his loss most acutely; and when giving evi dence he could not refrain from shedding teats. He informed several gentlemen in the office that his trunk contained all he was worth in the world, and he had not a shilling or a change of any description of wearing apparel left. He had resided two years in the West Indies, as servant to an officer of rank in the army, where he had accumulated the property contained in his trunk, the loss of which reduced him to a state of destitution. LAMBETH-STREET. William Morgan, a notorious body-snatcher, was remanded under the following circum stances :—A police constable, in consequence of in formation from a man named George Fisher, searched a privy in a house in which the prisoner lived, in Essex-street, \Vhitechapel, where he found lying upon the soil, the body of un infant of tender age, but in so putrid a state as to render a discovery of the sex impossible. The prisoner acknowledged his profession, and said that about a fortnight ago he and Fisher, who was a body-snatcher, got the infant from the burial-ground of Poplar New Church, but on getting home they found it so stale and decom posed as to be perfectly unsaleable. They therefore threw it down the privy, where it was found. Fisher gave the information in consequence of their having a quarrel.—The Magistrates said that every inquiry should be made into the circumstances. MARY LEB ONE. Application was made by a coal-merchant, to know if coke came within the meaning of the new Coal Act, as the only things specified in the Act were " coal and cinders ?" The question was one of considerable importance to the trade, as many, jbut. tifying themselves by the omission of the word, con tinued to sell it by measure, as before; coke being extremely light, it would make a serious difference whether it were sold by weight or measure. Mr. HARDWICK (who sat for one of the Magi strates) was of opinion that " coke" came under the more general term " cinders," there being but two extremes, coal and cinders ; and, of course, coke must be included under the one or the other. He considered, therefore, that coke did come within the mean,ng of the Act, and should be sold by weight. QUEEN-SQUARE. Mr. Samuel Page, a coal-merchant, of Park street, Marylebone, was fined 405., on an informa tion laid by Byers, for not sending a weighing -ma chine in his cart with some coals which were taken to No. 73, Upper Berkeley-street. The extreme penalty is 201. The defendant said he was not aware he was bound to send a weighing-machine. A similar information against Mr. Joseph Cooper, of Millbank-street, Westminster, was dismissed, as it appeared he was in the employ of a Gas Com pany, to whose premises he was taking a quantity of coals which he Lad taken from the barges near bank. DEATH OF MRS. RENAUD (FORMERLY MRS. POWELL), THE ACTRESS. This celebrated woman and highly-accom plished actress expired at her apartments in London on Saturday last, aged 68. Mrs. Re naud was born at Cranbrook, in Kent : her father was a serjeant in the army, and her mother expired a few hours after her birth. In conse- quence of her father marrying again, to a lady of rather ungovernable disposition, she very early forsook her parental roof, and through telling her unhappy story to an innkeeper, a few miles from her father's residence, she obtained the situation of barmaid. After continuing in this service for upwards of two years she obtained a situation as lady's maid, and in this capacity visited the me tropolis. One night, having witnessed the per formance of the Grecian Daughter, she became bitten with the theatrical mania ; all domestic duties were disregarded, nothing was attended to but tragic starts, dying gracefully, &c. All the servants on the establishment were shortly under the tuition of the stage-stricken maid ; but the master of the house not being of a theatrical turn, the would-be actress deemed it prudent to resign her place. The great personal advan tages that she possessed, added to a full clear voice, at length induced the elder Colman to allow her to appear as Alicia, in Jane Shore, in the year 1787. She repeated the character the next season, and she ultimately obtained a permanent engagement at Drury-lane, where she in poi)ular at Drury-lane favour, an d soon became a favourite with the public. H er next engagement was in the Liverpool ci rcu i t , where she became the wife of Mr. Po we ll, t h en the prompter in that circuit. Powelli Ii c r u e e a x s t ed appeared Theatre, Mrs. and after some years joined the Covent -g ar den com pany, where she remained until 1814, when she quitted in consequence of her f re usal to act Me° . Merrilies. She then entered the marriage state a second time with Mr. 1 . tenaud, a provincial actor, and then accepted an engagement at the i Edinburgh theatre, where she had the honour of acting before his Majesty George the Fourth, at the period he visited Scotland. The character she performed before the sovereign was Helen Macgregor, and she received a co mpliment we believe unparalleled in the annals of theatrical history—the moment she entered the king rose and bowed to her. At this time she was in com paratively indi ge nt circumstances, and it was! generally thought that he would make a provision for her, as in early years she had been sometime his mistress. Unfortunately Airs. R. received nothing from his Majesty but the compliment we have mentioned. She continued a member of the Edinburgh theatre until the time of her A death. Though she was incapable of acting, Mr. Murray, the proprietor of the Edinburgh theatre F liberally continued her salary of 2/. per week. When Monk Lewis's Castle Spectre was first produced at Drury-lane Theatre, the leading ti actresses declined to perform the part of the rif Spectre; Mrs. R., however, relieved the author's 1( embarrassment, by undertaking the character. ti Her name was not announce d i n t h e bill s, b ut as in some modern instances, it was published ‘v thus—" The Spectre by * * *." Such was the G curiosity excited, that when at the close of the run of the piece a night was appointed " For the benefit of the Spectre," the house was crowded to excess. _. In person Mrs. R. was majestically beautiful, her face remarkably handsome and particularly expressive. When Mrs. Siddons and Mrs. Jor dan were dividing the town, Bensley, speaking of the three actresses, said—" Melpomene (Mrs. Siddons) may do much, and Thalia (Mrs. Jor dan) more ; but Venus (Mrs. Powell) will prove more attractive than both. One of her best characters was Volumnia, in Coriolanus ; and where majestic deportment was a principal requi site, she had no rival but Mrs. Siddons. Mrs. R. was very tenacious about her age, and used to say that she was twelve years younger than Mrs. Siddons, which was not the fact. Each of her la marriages proved unfortunate. She parted from Powell shortly after her engagement at Drury lane s' Theatre, and with Mr. Renaud, who still exists, she lived only a short time. She was ( once the reigning toast of the day, and few d women have had more numerous or more noble admirers, y e t s h e di e d extreme l y poor and nearly ( friendless. r 1( THE MARKETS. pt I SOUTHALL MARK ET.—Jan. 4. In this day's market, which exhibited a moderately good wads rather was tolerably well attended by buyers, the trade was rather dull throughout, at the following prices per stone of Slb. to sink the ofl a l s Beet as. Od. to 4s. 2d. 7 eal I 4s. Od, to 51. 2d. Mutton 4 0 5 0 Pork .4 2 5 4 The foregoing quotations are Veal from 2d. to 4d. per stone lower than on this day se'nnight ; prices otherwise stationary. A considerable part of the supply left the market unsold. LEWES MARKET.—Jan. 3. Beef. 3s. 2d. to 4s. 2d. Veal Os. Od to Os. (Al. Mutton I 4 4 5 4 Pork 0 0 4 0 moderately good, and trade dull. RUMFORD MA RKET.—J a n. 4 . s. d. to s. d. s. d. s. d. Beef 2lO 4 0 Veal Mutton 3 8 4 8 Pork Suckling Calves from 14s. to 34s ; Quarter old Pig s l2 s t o 18 s. each. Supply rather limited, and trade dull. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. ) Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. Per Quarter. s. to s. s. s. s. to s. s. to s. Mandford 59 36 25 43 Brigg 5O 58 34 16 20 33 36 Can— 62 34 19 34 Chard 56 62 32 42 18 22 33 40 liuntingdon .58 67 29 39 16 25 28 361 Long Sotton , 52 61 17 23 32 36 Louth 52 60 28 33 18 54 30 33 Ly 50 nn . 62 28 36 18 24 32 36 Newark 51 61 32 40 15 28 32 42 Nottingham 58 64 27 45 22 30 38 46 Peterborough 48 60 32 37 19 24 28 36 Plymouth 59 66 29 35 19 22 Pontefract=... 07 43 27 43 Sleafonl Uppinghain 52 63 30 38 18 26 30 40 52 612 20 23 132 35 LEEDS CORN MA ItKET.—Jan. 3. Norfolk and Suffblk, 601 b. York. and Lincoln. 601 b. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk Yorkshire and Lincoln s h ire t t too o zua 3 u ls .. . Grinding Beans Wheat, Oats, Potatoe —Dealing, For. I2d. to 13d Eng. 12d. to 1334 d. per P t. Shelling Rapeseed, English, 161. to 24/ Foreign, —l. to —l. per last. LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.—Jan. 3. MIEAT, English, White, per 70lb. Red -- Scotch, Welch, and Manx • Irish, White 8 4 8 6 Red 8 2 8 4 Foreign 9 0 9 4 OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 3'2 3 4 - Irish - Forei g n BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 3B 0 41 0 - Scotch and Irish, per 6011 is. Feeding 3 10 4 0 BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter 4O 0 44 0 - Irish, &c. 38 0 40 0 - Foreign 36 0 4'2 0 ['EASE, English, per Imperial quarter 43 0 45 0 -. Foreign FLotie, English, per 2801 h. 4B 0 49 0 --- Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401b5. 26 6 27 6 INDIAN CORN, per 4401 h. '3o 0 31 U ItYE, per Imperial quarter 31ALT, per Imperial quarter IMPORT or GRAIN for the Week ending Jan. 2. Wheat. Oats. Barley, Flour. Oatmeal Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Foreign, Brls.llrish, dm. Scks.l Loads. 5,148 15,940 3,182 1,201 1 1,836 1,436 BONAPARTE used to say that " Impossible was the adjective of fools." The condition of the operative glasses in Perth is indeed deplorable. The number of the unem ployed is daily increasing; and in Dunning, Auchter arder, and other manufacturing places in the county, there are, we are assured, not a few wearers in want of work. Though the rate of weaving has long been under the mi nimum of comfortable subsistence, it has of late been con siderably reduced.— Scotsman. STRANGE OCCURRENCE.--A strange OC• currence took place previous to the sale of the land of Gight, the patrimony of Lord 13ntox's mother, to Lord HADDO. All the doves left the house of GIGHT and came to Lord HADDO'S, and so did a number of herons which had built their nests for many years in a wood on the banks of a large loch called the Hagberry Pot. When this was told to Lord HADDO, he pertinently replied, " Let the birds come, and do them no harm, for the land will soon follow," which it actually did. CHILDBIRTH EX TRAORDINARY.—Last week a woman, pregnant with an illegitimate child, was seized with the pains of labour while on her return from taking the oath of affiliation before a Magistrate. She sat down on a stone in the road, was safely delivered, and shortly afterwards walked home, carrying the naked new-born babe in her apron. This singular occurrence happened in the neighbourhood of St. Arran's. —Bristol Mercury. PRESS IN INDIA.—A Parliamentary Paper has been published containing the number of the periodical publications and printing-presses under the licence or sanc tion of the British Government at the several Presiden cies :—Bengal, European publications in 1814, 1; 1820, 5; and 1830, 31 ; Native publications in 1814, not any, 1820, not any, 1830, 8 ; Fort St. George : European, 1614, 5 ; 1820, 8 ; 1830, 8 ; Native, not any ; Bombay : European, 1814, 4 ; 1820, 4 ; 1830, 12 ; Native, 1811, not any ; 1820, 2 : 1830, 4 ; Bengal : European print ing-presses, 1830, 5 ; Native printing-presses, 1630, 1 ; Fort St. George : European, 1830, ; Native, not any ; Bombay : European, 1830, 6 ; Native, 2. 'rile famous lion of Waterloo, erected on the plains of Belgium, has undergone strange mutilations in spite of all the precautions taken to preserve him from all such attempts. He has now only two teeth remaining ; his tail is docked, his Inane is reduced three fourths, and, if the English do not before a month employ persons to remain but the torso of a lion. —Le Cor:satre. statueslatehiol him, he tchse will he r e czu and/1 1u 1 A c N e d toe y 0 R pitiable fac.t n s o t t a hT of the will BIRTHS. On the sth inst. at Dover-house, the Right Hon. Lady Dover, of a daughter. On the sth inst. in Brunswick-square, the lady of Wm. Clark. son, Esq., of a son. MARRIED, On the sth inst. at St. George's, Bloomsbury, W. S Sims, Esq. of Sawbridgeworth, to Martha, fourth daught-r of the late Rev. John Lane, Vicar of Sawbridgeworth, and Rector of High Itoothing, Essex. On the sth inst. at Cranliam, Essex, D. A. Morel, Egg., of Langhasu_place, London, to Anna Maria, eldest cl4ugliter Of tltp Rev. T. Lubbey, Rector of Cr :nham, DIED. On the 29th ult. at Kensington, Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Archibald Kelso, Esq., of Sauchrie, Ayrshire. On the 2d inst. at Cricket Chard, Somerset, the Hon. Horatio Nelson Hood, youngest son of Lord Bridport. On the 4th inst. at Chislehurst, Kent, aged 58, John Martin, Esq., of Lombard street, banker, and M.P. for the borough of Tewkesbury. On the 4th inst. in Greenwich Park, aged 413, Captain B, Backhouse, formerly of the Royal Welsh kusileers. PgINTHO AND PUBLISHED BY MURDO YOUNO, AT HE SUN OF ICE, 112, STRAND, LONDON. ) < . i r c a l' 1 I