The Sun. — London, England, 1832-08-14 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. In alludistlyesteidaytosthe state of affairs in Portugal, we had not - room for a few intended observations of a general character, which the present aspect and probable result of the con test would appear to warrant, Our correspon dent " Lucitanus," in the letter which we have published, has well pleaded the cause of his con stitutional countrymen ; but it did not require his extensive knowledge of their sufferings and constancy, or his profound acquaintance with the villainy and perfidy to which they have been for the last four years sacrificed, to raise a claim to British sympathy, or even to British justice, in their favour. In every word which he has said of their merits in adhering faithfully to their political opinions and engagements, through de sertion and persecution, we fully concur. In his portraiture of the oppressions practised by the Usurper in P or t uga l i tse lf, an d t h e justice of his excommunication from the class of legi timate Sovereigns, we willingly admit the fide lity of his pencil ; and it would give us infinite pleasure to learn that his anticipations of the speedy overthrow of the oppressor, and of the establishment of a rational Government under the Veign of the young Queer., were realized. It is :sheSene to the civilization of the 19th century, A l o',d particularly to the character of the existing free Governments of Europe, which, marching in the van of political improvement, ought to hate encouraged their elder but more infirm companions in the same career, to find two an• cient and renowned nations like Spain and Por• tugal, to whom the world owes so much glor) and so many discoveries, at the general revive of knowledge, art, and enterprise, placed it the circumstances in which they now exist. I is disgraceful to think, that connected as the have been with us in the grand struggle for na• 'Solid independence, and for the deliverance ol terope from foreign thraldom, their internal bondage has only been increased by their tempo rary alliance with freemen. But it is more espe cially disgraceful to reflect that their very victories have been the means by which they have been more intolerably enslaved; that their companions in the noblest feats of arms which history can record, have left them behind to the oppres sions of their domestic tyrants; that, while we ascended the Capitol in triumph, they were de graded like captives in the rear of the conqueror, instead of being taken as sharers in his glory ; and that the leagues which we formed onl) brought upon them the barbarous despotism of the North, to add to the weight of their former chains. By the establishment of the Holy Alli ance—which our joint success alone rendered possible----the least civilized power of Europe was brought from the neighbourhood of the Pole to influence the destinines of the south, and try dies-wing her sword into the scale in which theis rights were weighed against the pretensions of their tyrants, turned the balance against them. England is thus inadvertently the cause of their present degradation and sufferings—England is thus the cause of that state of things, by which the beet instructed and most respectable part of the vote, nations are in exile or in dungeons—by which confiscation has deprived them of their property, and left them to the mercy of strangers. But our connexion with the miseries and oppressions of the Portuguese Constitutionalists is even more recent than the formation of the Holy Alliance, or the decrees of the Congress of Laybach and Verona, by which so many constitutions wert overthrown. The very existence of Don Miguel on the banks of the Tagus, his return to Por tugal, after having been banished for attempting to dethrone and murder his father—his vet-) power of usurping the throne of his niece, and of overthrowing the charter established by his hrother—the flight of the Constitutionalists to our shores—die judicial murders and massacre: which awaited those taken at Lisbon and Oporte for the last four years—all these atrocities and calumnies may be directly traced to our acci dental interference, though not, of course, to ottr intended policy. It was by our counsels that Don Miguel was released from Vienna it. the end of 1827. It was with our concurrence that his pretensions were united with the right! of his niece by a hateful marriage. It ww through our advice that he was invested with the Regency of Portugal. Our Ambassador at Vienna ... attended all the solemn ceremonies of contracting and swearing, by the breach o: which so much perfidy and perjury was after wards committed. He was invited through England to Portugal, that we might testify to the Portuguese Constitutionalists our confidence in their future ruler. He was escorted to the Tagus by an English squadron, attended by am English Ambassador—he took the oath to the Charter, in the presence of the Chambers, and before the diplomacy of Europe, headed by the English minister. Our troops, who had beet sent the year before out to oppose his partisans. were present to protect his person, and to inau gurate his reign ; and he was seated on his throne against the will of his brother, and amid the darkest suspicions of the nation, chiefly b) English influence or concurrence. Thus did we almost become responsible for the horrors which, immediately followed ; and we showed out sense of responsibility by immediately re calling our ambassador when Don Miguel broke his engagements,—by receiving with wel come the Constitutionalists, whom our polies had inadvertently sacrificed,—and by refusing to acknowledge the title of the Usurper ever since. Even the Duke of Wellington, though he or dered the firing at Terceira, would not agree to recognize the Usurper without a full amnest) for those Portuguese, who, in reliance on our en. gagements and support, had admitted the " monster" to devastate their country and to destroy their rights. Why do we recur to these facts and reasonings at present ? Not, we an swer, for the purpose of urging our Government, as a Government, to interfere directly in the contest now going on in Portugal ; or to lend assistance, in arms, to the cause of the young Queen, whose tithe we have acknowledged ; but for the purpose of showing, that this country should lend all the moral aid it can to a faithful people, whom we have so misled, and to whom we so deeply owe reparation. An expression of sympathy with the cause of the Constitution alists in the King's speech at the approaching prorogation of Parliament, would only appear to us to be a just atonement for the apparent in difference with which it has hitherto been treated. We are convinced that the Por tuguese Constitutionalist s must rely on their own resources for their ultimate success, but an allusion of our Sovereign to the rights of her Faithful Majesty —to the gallantry with which those rights are now sustained, or to the interest which all free nations must take in their establishment, would bind us to no ac- tive interference, while it would be an appro priate encouragement to the champions of legiti macy and freedom, in their struggle with the basest usurpation and despotism which ever disgraced the earth. The English people would form but a very inadequate idea of the import ance of the contest, if they considered it merely as a struggle between two members of the family of Braganza, or even between a charter and no charter, in a country so small and so little quali fied at present to appreciate liberal institutions. Legitimacy is indeed something when contracted with a perfidious usurpation ; and the re-esta blishment of Don Pedro's constitution, though it would not immediately regenerate Portugal, or restore the conquerors of India to their former colonial splendour, would be a considerable ad vantage to the kingdom itself, and to those who are interested in its prosperity. But the chief im portance of the contest to Englishmen and freemen arises from other causes. On its result depends the fate of the whole Peninsula. To its progress the eyes of all absolute Governments are directed, as an ordeal of constitutional principles. It is regarded at Petersburg') and Vienna with the interest of a domestic event. It is not indiffer ent to the Diet of Frankfort ; and we have no doubt that the whole coast of the Mediterranean, from the straits of Gibraltar to the southern pro montory of Calabria, will feel the shock, as in 1820, were the cause of freedom again to tri umph in Portugal. Englishmen, however, are not only interested in the result of the contest, lout in its speedy termination. Our trade with Portugal, though much reduced by the usurpa tion, is still considerable. Our factories at Oporto and Lisbon are adorned by the names of many of our most respectable merchants. So long as the war continues,—so long as the blockade of the Tagus and th e D ouro are enforced,—and so long as armies traversing the country, inter rupt communications, business must nearly cease. With an expression of sympathy for the constitutional cause, Englishmen would therefore be pleased to hear from the King's speech an ex pression of hope in the approaching termination of hostilities.—Times. Times are strangely altered indeed, when Noble Lords can in their places in Parliament coolly declare, as Lord Teynham (lid last night, that " tithes are the property of the nation, and, as such, came within the disposal of the Legii lature for national purposes," and in " depreca ting the employment of the military to collect the salaries of the clergy." We remember the time when even a hint that a commutation of tithes would be advisable was deemed an offer c never to be forgiven. The noses of the Bishops used to be remarkably fine on the subject of what was called, drolly enough, the property of the Church. Most anxiously did they exert them selves to prevent the public from prying into the state of their property. Sir John Sinclair very naively informs us how he came to be in such bad odour with the Church, that when he wished to obtain, through the clergy, such an instructive work as he obtained through the Ministers of Scotland, the Archbishop of Canterbury for the time positively interfered to thwart him. Sir John had, among other matters, proposed an account of Church property. That was deemed tDo bad. No man could hope fir any advancement who was suspected of heresy in matters of tithe. The late Arthur Young used to sav, that rotwith standing he had the patronage of Mr. Pitt, by whom he was employed to furnish data for the Income Act, it was out of Mr. Pitt's rower to do anything for him ; and while he remained Secretary of the Board of Agriculture, lie had the mortification of seeing an individual who laboured under him while employed in the de tails of the Income Act, preferred to a situation of 2,0001. a year. These were the days when the Church could afford to persecute—days de parted, never to return. The Bishop of London uttered a few words in answer to Lord Teyn ham, in a mild tone, when his Lordship said, "He wou!d assure him of this, that if it was possible to collect the tithes, that could only be done by military- force ; and if the Noble Prelate thought it expedient to resort to such means, let him put himself at the head of the army. Let him do so, and in Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' he would find an event recorded from which he might guess where his bones would lie.—(Hear, and a laugh.)" Those who like ourselves remember the Church in the days of her glory have a difficulty in believing all this is real. Had Lord Tenyham spoken in this way thirty years ago, he would have been enveloped by Spiritual Lords. With loud voice and threatening gesticulations, they would have so belaboured him as to strike a terror in• him that would have stuck to him for life.. But is the Church really be come humble ? It was Waller, we believe, who observed to one who remarked that the Church was fairly down, " Aye, hut she has a trick of rising again." The Church of Rome has always, in times of difficulty, yielded to circumstances, and availed herself of the first favourable con juncture to recover her lost ground. The suc cess of the Church in question, in this respect, has led to a sort of superstitious belief, that she always succeeds in her object, sooner or later. But will the Church of England ever re cover her high and palmy state ? Will she ever be as she was forty years ago, when no housekeeper in London durst give shelter to Dr. Priestly, when, after the fire at Birmingham, he wished a covert for only a few days, till he could embark for the western world, which contains his bones ? We think not. A secular Church, like the Church of England, flourishes only in the ignorance of the people, and suffers from the diffusion of know ledge. An instinctive knowledge of this led the clergy to persecute all those who wished to diminish the numbers of the mob, and to dif fuse knowledge among the people. An instruct ed and reflecting people never can be the tools of a priesthood. What a fertile subject for re flection will the history of the Church of Eng land prove ! Confident in her legal establish ment, she has neglected the only means which can give security to a Church, namely, the at tachment and confidence of the people. The Church of Rome, aware of what importance it is that the Clergy should not be an object of dis like to the people, will not permit a Clergyman to be in any way instrumental, as an accuser or otherwise, to the death of a fellow-creature. In England, the Clergy are almost the only acting Magistrates of the country ; for though they are outnumbered in most counties by Lay-Justices, yet the latter, from being often non-resident, do not so frequently appear in their magisterial ca pacity before the public. But how can the peo ple unbosom themselves to men whom they con stantly see armed with the sword of the law ? It is not of the Clerical Magistrate that it can be said, " A bruised reed shall he not break." It may truly be said of this union of the character of penal Judge and Priest, that the efficiency of the former destroys the efficiency of the lat ter. But the great ambition of the Clergy is not to conciliate the people, but to monopolise the Magistracy. It is customary, when a De puty-Lieutenant recommends to the Lord Lieu tenant a gentl eman for the Commi ss i on , t o sound first the Magistrates of the district. We know of a case which illustrates the way of - thinking , of tne Clergy on this subject. A Noble Earl, now deceased, a Deputy Lieute nant in one of our principal counties, proposed to his brother Magistrates a gen . tleman of excellent character, distinguished abi lities, and great influence in his neigUoui hood, as one who would be of great service in the Com mission. The Magistrates of the Division, who were all parsons. discovered, that though the gentleman himself was a church-goer, yet his fa ttier had been a Dissenting Clergyman, and they thought that the stain of dissent could not b wiped out in the second generation. By these means have the Clergy come to lose their in fluence, and to be associated in the minds of the people with the idea of hostility to everything calculated to promote the benefit and increase the prosperity of the nation. The history of tithes is a very curious one. In the learned work of Thomasinus, " Vetus et nova Ecclesice Disciplina circa Beneficia et Bencficiarios," in three folio volumes, there is an ample store of materials for those who take an interest in such things. In almost all countries, the first intro duction of tithes led to rebellions and insurrec tions. In the year 1180 the peasantry of the greater part of Sweden rose on account of the attempt to impose tithes on them. The Church of Rome on such occasions, always temporised, and if we may use th e ph rase , soug ht to get in the small end of the wedge. It would appear as if the end we re t o b e like the beginning. So ciety was convulsed at their birth, and is con vulsed at their death. Happy is the country that is freed from such a fertile cause of mis chief.—Morning Chronicle. The Lord Advocate left town on Sunday, for Edinburgh. His Lordship and Mr. Aber cromby are the liberal candidates fbr that city ; and if they be returned, as we hope and believe they will, the Edinburgh electors will have just reason to be proud of their representatives.— They will not, however, be allowed to walk over the course. The Conservatives have put forward a Mr. Forbes Blair, a respectable enough private individual, but without any claim what. ever to public support, except that he is the no minee of the Dundas family, and of the majo rity of the Town Council ! We hardly think that this will be a sufficient recommendation to the suffrages of the 8,000 electors that now form the constituency of Edinburgh ; but if it be, it will indicate such a debased and servile spirit, • that we shall almost regret that the peaceru reign of the Thirty three should have been dis turbed. It is said that the Lord Advocate is not so popular in Edinburgh as formerly ; but the statement cannot, we should think, be true. At all events, we are certain, that if the render ing of great and signal services to his country men should make any man. popular, few were ever more justly entitled than the Lord Advocate to that distinction. He had the entire management of the Scotch Bill ; and those who compare it with the English or Irish Bills, will be satisfied of its great superiority. Justice will never be done to the firmness, sagacity, and tact evinced by the Learned Lord in the conducting of this delicate affair. The difficulties he had to encounter were formidable in the extreme ; and nothing could exceed the address with which they were obviated. That his Lordship may not have made so many set speeches as some of his su perficial admirers in Edinburgh expected, is pro bably true. But this, if a fault at all, which may be doubted, is a very venial one. He has ma naged his own department with singular skill ; and had his health been more robust, we have no doubt he would have made a more promi nent figure in the debates. But is Mr. Blair, whose whole life has been spent in the counting house, and who never so much as attempted to speak in public, a man to be sent to Parliament to repair the deficiencies of th e L or d Advocate ? The idea is absolutely ludicrous. The Learned Lord may not in all respects come up (who does ?) to the ideal model of a perfect representa tive ; but we are bold to say that there is not an in dividual in Scotland who approaches it so nearly. It is, perhaps, the least of his Lordship's merits, that for thirty-five years he has been the unflinch ing advocate of liberal principles, and that it is owing infinitely more to his exertions and his ex ample, than to those of any one else, that Scot laud has roused herself from her lethargy, and has so zealously co-operated with England in securing the triumph of Reform. His return for his native city in the first Reformed Parlia- ment may be deemed the more appropriate, and the highest reward that his fellow-citizens can bestow on his Lordship. Much, however, of its value will depend on the selection of his col leage. If the citizens mark their sense of the services rendered by Francis Jeffrey to the cause of Reform, and of the distinction which his talents and character have conferred on Edin burgh, by giving their second votes to Mr. Aber cromby, they will do honour to themselves, to the Lord Advocate, and to their country. But if, at the same that they elect the individual who has been most instrumental in procuring for them the right of election, they elect one who did all he could to prevent their acquiring such right, his Lordship will not have much reason to be proud of his return, and the electors will de serve the contempt of every really independent man.—Morning Chronicle. The civility of the Emperor Nicholas to our Ambassador Extraordinary, Lord Durham, has been ostentatiously dwelt upon by some Minis terial JGurnals, and they would fain have the public believe that the politeness of the Calmuc betokens a prosperous issue to his Lordship's mission. They are either very simple-minded who argue in this way, or they presume upon a very abundant portion of credulity and ignorance in the British public. We have heard of the ‘, smooth barbarity" of Courts, and no Court ever possessed a larger share of that commodity, so much used in diplomatic intercourse, than that of St. Petersburgh. What could be more civil than the conduct of the Autocrat and his minions to our Ministry during the whole of the solemn farce of the protocol negociations, which were undertaken with the professed in tention of making a speedy and satisfactory settlement of the disputes between Belgium and Holland, but in which Belgium' has been perpetually duped, and our Foreign Minister made the "cat's-paw" of the insidious and overreaching policy o f R uss i a ?— l b r during those negociations, which were never meant by the Holy Alliance to have any other object than to hoodwink England and France, while they prepared their armies to put down both the Belgic and French rev o l ut i ons, the levying of Prussia, an d A ustr i a, went on. Positions forces by R Isu'esrsia, eOCCUpled to f ac ili tate the grand object in view. Poland was crushed as much by Prussian intervention and by bench intrigue as by Russian arms. Italy was sacrificed not more by the bayonets of Austria than by the pusillanimity of the French and English Governments ; and now, as the natural consequence of their sub- servicncy to Russia, both France and England must witness a kcal prostration of the liberties of the Continent to military power, or repel aggres sion tinder greater disadvantages than they would have had to encounter before the subjugalion of Italy, the enslavement of Germany, and the utter annihilation of Poland. We deprecate war as long as it can be avoided without the sacrifice of the interests and the honour of the country ; but we should be sorry to see the genius of Great Britain, the arbiter of the destinies of Europe, at no very distant period, only endeavour to avert war, by raising in her defence the " sacred shield of cowardice." To be peaceable, and to be dastardly, are two very different qualities, whether in an individual or a nation. The one is con sistent with a character that may make its owner both feared and respected—the other is sure to provoke worse insults, and worse acts of aggres sion, than those which make the first experi ments on its coward submission. It is because we think England could have averted war, by taking a manly and energetic tone in support of the faith of treaties, when Russia was about to invade Poland, that we think our Ministers as deficient in wisdom on that occasion, as they were in spirit ; and most fully do we concur in the sentiments expressed by Sir Francis Burdett, the other night, in the House of Commons, upon the weakness and the folly which the con duct of our Ministry betrayed. To have threatened to send a fleet to the Baltic would have saved Poland, without the necessity of having recourse to arms, and, instead of provoking war in Europe, would have averted it. The fact is, that the Russian Government felt its way with the Government of this country, and the more passive it was found to be, the more active Russia became in pushing on her vast designs for the " subjugation of European liberty, and the advancement of her own barbarous supre macy." The jusle-milieu Government of Louis Philip has, through a contemptible obsequious ness to the wishes and demands of the autocrat, betrayed the interests of France perhaps beyond redemption. England having tried submission only to be made to feel her inferiority, now tries remonstrance, or, at least, expostulation. A special Ambassador is sent for the purpose, and the autocrat receives him with great personal civility, for he would not begin by insulting, when he meant to cajole. He knows how easily our statesmen are deceived by shallow arts, and he continues the practice.—Morning Herald. We shall never cease to urge upon our readers the necessity of grappling with their political enemies on whatever ground those enemies may select for their field. It is not only from the throne of the Sovereign ; or from the chair of the Speaker, that we would banish evil counsellors ; it is not only the Ministerof State that we would denounce, or the Member of Parliament that we would refute. Whenever or however it may ap pear, falsehood must be contradicted, calumny must be exposed, robbery must be resisted, treason must be unmasked. A person is making a tour through the western counties for the pur pose of delivering, in their cities and villages, what he calls a " Lecture on the Origin of Tithes." This " Lecturer" is an Irishman, of apparently little or no education, but possessed of the usual Irish stock in trade, the volubility of a Shiel, the veracity of an O'Connell, the dis interestedness of a Plunket, and the piety of a Doyle. His lecture is composed of the common materials, old jokes and new lies, anec dotes of fox-hunting parsons, and wine-fibbing parsons, and card-playing parsons; curses ful minated against cassocks, laughter levelled at lawn sleeves, mis-statements of whatever has been done, misquotations of whatever has been writ ten. " Leave him to himself," says an aristo cratic Tory, "he is beneath the notice of an educated man ; at present he is obscure and harmless ; answer him, and he becomes noto rious and formidable." We dissent, as we have ever dissented, from this doctrine. While there is wickedness to excite, and weakness to •be excited, we must watch the machinations of the one and correct the unguardedness of the other. How shall we be in security on the house. top when, in the cellar, there is a barrel of gun powder with a red-hot poker beside it ? If this man, and agents of a similar description, the tools of various Associations, whose designs are daily becoming more and more manifest, had power only to unsettle the minds, and disturb the happin'ess, and awaken the bad passions of the miserable audience whom their ribaldry and mendacity collect, it would yet be a charitable office to remove the delusions by which they augment a hundredfold the distresses of the humble and poor. But this is not all. The venom is one of wide and rapid spread. To-day a drop of water may wash it from the wound ; to-morrow excision and cautery may be applied in vain. We know, for we have seen, by what an easy gradation the dream of a crazy Radical is transmuted into the will of an enlightened people. It must not be taken for gra i n n t s e u d pe t r l a ia b t le among s t the lower classes of our countrymen ther e i s any y discontent, tnrht there e t ir , ) el foouirlgat plough, , e b r ae e i rietas.ols of right. otherte.t f o st ‘ T v h s ro ehue ig ps i rpeeia , csiia a son n t t d is eceit. abhor renceciastctue; en d to the workman at the loom, truth is more at tractive than falsehood, if they compete for the preference upon equal terms ; and we possess the means, because our leisure is more abundant, and our advocates more able, of giving to truth additional attraction such as her rival cannot command. We have the better discipline, the keener weapons, the right cause. It were sheer imbecility to shrink from the contest, or doubt the result. One of the lectures of the itinerant teacher to whom we have alluded was attended the other day from motives of curiosity by two Gentlemen. The rest of the audience consisted of about two hundred of the poorer farmers of the surrounding country, and the small shop-, keepers of the little towns in the vicinity. When the Lecturer had completed his task, and sat down amid the cheers of his congregation, one of the Gentlemen rose, and, having remarked that the Lecturer had challenged contradic tion to his statements, begged leave to say a few words:— " The Lecturer has told you of a division of tithes into four parts, made by direction of Pope Gregory in a letter to St. Augustine. Has th:! Lecturer re ul that letter ?" The Lecturer owned he hid not. " When the Lec turer reads the letter he will find that instead of directing the division of the tithes, it suggests that the tithes should not be so divided." " Again, the Lecturer has told you that the amount of the tithes collected annu illy is six millions. Has the Lecturer looked at the returns of the amount of tithes Printed by order of Parliament?" The Lecturer owned he had not. " When the L,c turer has looked at the returns he will Snd that the tithes, which he states at six millions, amounted, when corn bore its highest price, to two milliuna and a half; and amount now to little more than one million and a half." The admission to this lecture was "free." But the Lecturer, although i ns t ruct i ng gratui tously upon principle, pleaded poverty as his excuse for the receipt of voluntary contributions. The two Gentlemen contributed each half a crown to the necessities of the ragged apostle : and the two hundred by whom the room was filled collected between them five shillings more. And we believe that the niggardliness of the pay arose not so much from the indigence of the dis ciples as from their honest distrust of the doe trine.—Morning Post. SUMMER ASSIZES. HOME CIRCUIT, GUILDFORD, AUG. 13. Thomas Edward James, brass-founder, aged 20, was indicted for feloniously assaulting Richard Pitt, putting him in fear, and stealing from his person a golf seal, key, and ring, and a silk handkerchief', value 71., his property, on the 22d of April last, in the borough of Southwark.—Verdict, Not GlOlty. George Wheatly, mariner, aged 19, and Eliza beth 'Really, aged 20, both very good looking young persons, were indicted—the male prisoner for breaking and entering, on the 12th of July last, the premises of Elizibeth Faulkner, in the parish of Sr. Miry, Lambeth, and stealing therefrom a gold watch, chain and seal ; and the female prisoner with receiving the same, Miss Faulkner lodged in a room in the house of a Mr. Parker. On the evening of the Bth of July she left her watch in her room, locked her door, and went out to take a walk. During her absence, George Whently was sitting in the kitchen of !he house, with Frederick Oliver, a hair-dresser, who worked for Mr. Parker. Parker left the kitchen for about twenty minutes ; on his return, Georg- Wheatly was gone. About eight o'clock, Miss Faulkner returned, found her door broken open, and her watch gone. She gave the alarm, and went to Mr. 'rarrant's,a pawnbroker, to whom she described her watch ; in about half an hour afterwards, Elizabeth Wheatly arived at Tarrant's shop, and offered the stolen watch as a pledge. She was im mediately taken into custody; the male prisoner was apprehended next morning. The Jury found both p;:isoners Guilty. The Learned JUDGE directed sentence of death to be recorded against George Wheatly, and cb served, that as it was affirmed the female prisoner was his wife, inquiry should be made as to that point, arid if fcu►id to be the fact, she would be discharged, as the present indictment could not be supported. The female prisoner, on hearing that death would be recorded against ber husband, and supposing that by that sentence his life'would be taken, fainted, and was carried out of court. John Grafton was indicted for assaulting and stealing from Thomas Wicks, on the 29th of June last, at the foot of London-bridge, two sovereigns, some silver, and a handkerchief, his property. He was found Guilty. The prosecutor recom mended him to mercy, and it was understood that he will not be sent out of the country. He has a a wife and four small children. MIDLAND CIRCUIT.-WARWICK, Auc. 11. SHARPE V. LOUDON. This was an action of assault. The plaintiff is the editor of the Leamington Courier newspaper, and the defendant is a physician residing in that town. In March last, the defendant sent an article of a scientific nature to the plaintiff for publication, and on finding that it was not in serted, he called on him at his counting-house, to inquire the reason. The plaintiff declined to insert the article, except as an advertisement; an angry discussion then ensued ; provoking language was used on both sides; and the defendant, who held his manuscript in his hand, struck the plaintiff with it. This was the assault complained of. The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff— Damages, Is. The JUDGE would certify, to give the plaintiff costs. Charles Thompson, aged 42 (the bill against whom was ignored by the grand jury) was arraigned on the coroner's inquisition, for the wilful murder of Chas. Mills. The prisoner and deceased, an old man upwards of 80, were both inmates of Atherstone wo►khouse in June last, and in a quarrel which they had on the day in question about the dinner, the prisoner stuck the deceased with his hand. The deceased was taken ill in consequence, and died in the course of the night. The prisoner was said to be subject to fits of derangement, particularly after he was seized with epileptic fits, with which be was frequen!ly afflicted. When arraigned he did not plead, but en tered into a rambling account of the transaction, and said he understood he was committed to gaol merely for " kicking up a bit of a row" at Adler stone, when he had had too much liquor. The Jury were then sworn to try whether or nos the prisoner was in a fit state of mind to take hii trial ; and after hearing the statement of the gao surgeon, the ga.)ler, and one of the turnkeys, they returned a verdict, that he was not in a sound state of mind. The Learned JUDGE then ordered the prisoner to be taken care of, and detained in custody to await the King's pleasure as to his disposal. Jams Murphy, aged 20, and Mary Stephens, aged 25, were charged with having stolen.B6s sove reigns from the person of Francis Lowe. They were found Guilty, and sentenced to trans portation for life. CHESTER. John Boddington, aged 40, was charged with as saulting Aaron ithodes, at TettOn, and stealing from his person Is. The jury found him Guilty, and the Judge or dered death to be recorded against him. The pri soner heard his sentence without betraying any emotion. John Cheetham, 22, and John Peeling, .21, two ill-looking fellows, were indicted for the highway robbery of George Frost, at Bredbury, on the 9,h of July. The prosecutor is a simple farmer, resid ing at Glossop, in Derbyshire ; and on the day named in the indictment, he was in a public-house in Stockport, and the prisoners were also there. The Jury found both the prisoners Guilty, and the Court ordered sentence of death to be recorded against them, with an intimation, that if any force had been used, their lives would have paid the for feit of the offence. Both having been previously convicted, his Lordship said they must expect to be sent nut of the country for the rest of their lives. Michael Donnykin, 20,. and John Farroll, 33, were indicted for breakng and entering into the dwelling-house of Mr. C. Poole, at Altrincham, and stealing thereout divers articles. It appeared that on sth of April last the prosecutor's house was broken open, and that the thieves had entered by breaking open a panel of the shutter, and getting through the window. Articles of wearing apparel, a table-cover, a whip, &c., were stolen. The Jury found the prisoners Guilty, and the Court ordered sentence of death to be recorded against them. His Lordship said they would both be transported for life. Donnykin—l hope, my Lord, as I am a deserter, that you'll send for my di,charge from the 13th Regiment. Edward Brougham, 26, was indicted for assault ing Mary Atkinson, at Hyde, with a felonious in tent, arid for a similar assault on Elizabeth Bury, both of them girls of tender age. He was convicted of the miner offence of a common assault only. Mr. Justice ALDERSON sentenctd the prisoner to be imprisoned for the term of one year. James Hayes, 30, committed by the Rev. Arch deacon Clarke, for his appearance to answer articles of the peace, to be exhibited against him by his wife at these Assizes, was brought up accordingly, towards the close of the business. He seemed to be labouring under some aberration of intellect ; for in the course of a long examination by the Learned Judge, the defendant stated the cause of his violence to his wife was, that he bad reason to suspect het fidelity, and that a beneficed and dignified clergy man was among the number of those whom he sup posed to have violated the sanctity of his marriage bed The COURT fined him 6d., and ordered him to eater into cognizanees, himself in 40/. and two sure- J ties in 201. each, to be of good behaviour towards his wife for five years. THE ARMY. The Reserve Companies of the 25th Regiment (tbe King's Own Borderers), under the comm Ind of Alijor Priestly, marched from Edinburgh, on Thuraday, to Greenlaw barrack+, near Pennycuick, about seven miles south of Edinburgh, where they are to be stationed until further orders. Captain Forbes awl Lieut. FitzTeralrl, with a party of the 79th Highlanders, have left York for Fort George, N}agara. The Reserve of the 7,h Fusileers have removed from Bristol to Gosport. The 85th (King's Light Infantry), at Manchester and Blackburn, are under orders f►r Ireland. Major Th,rnhill, with 200 men of the 21 Battalion 60th Rifles from T,mplemore, arrived to occupy the neW barracks at Nenagh on Saturday. New colours were presented to the 29th Regiment, commanded by Lieut.-Colonel Lirrlesay, at Sydney, New South Wales, the I6th or M my last, the anniversary of the battle of A'buera. The Lien`.-Colonel of the 57th, and Lieut.-Colonel IJ:spud, 17th R.giment, assisted at this ceremony. The Officers of the 10th Hussars, the 60th Rifles, and 59th and 76th Relint giro, are at pres:nt in MultiNar, on district court-martial. The two companies of the 59th Regiment, stated to have marched to Kille.sandrn to prevent an anti-tithe meeting, returned to their quarters in Enniskill e n o n Thursday and Friday. LONDON MARKETS. PltloE OF' BREAD. l'he highest price of Bread in the Metropolis is 10d. for the 4.b. Loaf. There are others who sell from %d. to I}id. btlow that price. PIUCE OF SEEDS.-Aug 13 New English Red Clover Seed (per Cwt.) -s. 525. fine -s. Ws. Old Ditto Ditt0.....---...---..--............... -s. .-.3. fine -e. --s• New Foreign Ditto -.. 525. 6Ss fine -s. 925. Old Ditto - . -s. -s. fine--s. -8. .. New White Clover ...-..-..... 525. 82s. fine--s. 928. Old Ditto Ditto .._. .... ....-..-...- -s. -s. fine-g. -- 4 . New Trefoil --.....-.. „ -s. 12s. fine 50 , 5. 528. Old Ditto ......... - ............ -s. -s. fine -s --s• Rib Grass -- .......- --s. 375. fine :.-s. 423. English Carraway 5eed............ -6. -s. 60s. fine 655. Foreign Ditto --............... -is. -s. -.1. fine ....54 Voriander .......... St. Foin (per Quarter)..---. -s. -s. fine-s. '723. Rye Grass . ---- -s. -s. new 20s. 431. Pacey Ditto ....-.....--- 4os. SOS. new ..8. ..4* Linseed, for feeding -..... . --s. 403. fine ...4. 441. Ditto, for crushing - .... 365. 40s. -s. fine 908. Canary Seed, New . -s. 70s. 724 fine --6. ' 'lan Old .-..... -s.-s. -s. fine-s. White Mustard Seed-(per 8u5he1)...... -s. 73. Bs. fine ....9. Brown Ditto . -s. 10s. 17s. fine -- 6 . Turnip Seeds, Rounds -s. -s. S.. fine 128. Green and Red Ditto , fares, Old - -s. ss. ed. fine 6i. Ditto New -s. -s. fine -s. --4. Rape Seed, English, tine (per Last) 23/. 271. Foreign 26!. 24/. PRICES OF HOPS.—Aug. 13, Kent Pockets...—. 4l 15, St. ss. to W. 12s. Svesex Ditto . 4l 10i. 51. Os. to 51. ss. res.ex Ditto...—. 4l. 12s. 51. 5:. to 5/. 10s. fatrlatin Ditto. Fine 7l. Os. 101. O. to M. Os. .41,7 Seconds —.—. 0/. Os. 5/. Os. to 71 Os. Kent 8ag5........................... "...N... 41. 4s. 41. 12t. to 51. Os. Sussex Ditto . . 41. Os. 41. 84. to 4/. Pis. Essex Ditto Old Duty laid at 150,0004 PRICE OF OIL. Wipe Oil, brown .a2.1. 6s. Refined Linseed Oil ••••••••• ".......w.....nnowev.woorte.wo.ll.lwa s so 23 0 Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, par thousand lO 10 Rape Cake, per ton- 5 5 HAY MARKEL—Ang. 11 flay 40:.0d. to 90s. Od. I Clover—,, 55: Od. to 110. Od. 5traw,..,,.,,,,,..,.,, 30s. Od. to 38..0d. PRICE OF POTATOES.—Aug. 13. Ware_ 10.4. to 31. ss. per ton. rutcr.a tit 1.4. A. Hral.. Per lb. d. to d. Per lb. d. to d. Butts, English 15 21 English Horse Hides... 12 14 15 181 Sp•mish Ditto .--..—.. 14 16 Dressing 12 133 Per dozen. Ditto 17 174 Calf Skins.. 38 to 40lb. 15 20 Ditto, light Ditto 50 to 701 b. 19 23 Crop Elides, light...—. 12 13 3 Ditto 70 to 801 b. 17 19 Ditto 40 to 451 b 131 14 Small Seals. Greenland 174 184 Otto 144 15 Large 12 13 RAW HIDES. Per Stone. a. d. to s. d. Per Stone. a. d. to "Jest Heifers & Steers 2 4 '2 6 Ordinary 1 6 2 0 SC& tlings 2 0 2 2 Market 6 0 each. SHEEP SKINS. Short Wool .—,.. Os. Od. to Os. Od. I Lambs .................. Es. Od. to 2s. 6d. Shearlings—........os. mt. to Is. 44. PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone ot 81b. Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Melters)--.......15. 8(1. PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, Sze. per 11V1b. ['own Tallow -.. 455. Od. Yellow 80k. Od_ Yellow Russia--. 435. Od. Mottled 725. Oa. 425. 6d. 80s. Od. Soap Ditto 41s 6.1, Graves Melted Stutr w . 345. Od , Good Graves . ss. CO. Ditto Od. PRICE OF The price of Store Candles, in t Candles, per dos. 7s. Pd. to Bs. Od. CAN 'ILES. .he retail shop;, is as follows Moulds. per tlusen—,9l. 6d. C')AL MAR .KET.-Aug. 13. Per Ton. s. d. East 19 0 tiolywell 19 6 Kenton West 19 9 eontop Windsor 18 6 19 6 lownley 17 9 Wylarn _ 18 3 Walls End Bell & Brown 20 0 Ditto Bewicke and Co.— 21 3 Wall. End Callerton 18 0 nitta Clarke and 19 0 Ditto Killingworth 2O 6 Ships arrived sin Pei Ton. s. d. Walls End Heaton—......, 21 0 NValls End Riddell's 21 0 W. E. Russell's Heaton.. 0 Walls End Adelaide 21 1 1 Walls End G0rd0n......,. 21 0 Walls End Tees 22 0 ,„ Llangennech Pemberton 20 v New Flockton, Milne, and Co. ------- 18 P Silkstone Field and Co.— 19 6 Sou.h Heaton Seam.«.—.. 16 9 ice last market-day, 19. THE ROMANCE OF WAR.-A French sot. dier who accompanied the armies of Russia, concealed small treasure at the entrance of a village near Wilna, with the view of taking it with him on his return. After the defeat of M.,scow he was made prisoner, and sent to Siberia, and only recovered his liberty about three years since. On reaching Wilna, be remembered his hidden treasure, and after tracing out the spot where he had hill he went to take it away. What was his astonishment to find, in the place of his money, a small tin box, eon.. titling a letter addressed to him, in which a commercial house was mentioned at Nancy, where he might receive the sum buried, with interest. The soldier supposed this w s all a hoax ; he wt nt, however, to the house pointe3 . out, where he received his capital, with twelve years interest. With this sum he established a small busine•s in Nancy, which enables him to live comfortably; but he has never yet been able, though he has taken pains, to ascertain how his money was taken away and restored to hits. —New York Paper. ACCIDENT TO THE FLOATING CHURCH. On Saturday afterno , •n, the Floating Episcopal Church Ship was removed from her moorings, n e n- th e Tunnel, at Rotherhithe, to a more convenient spot lower down the river, off Evans's Wharf, Rotherhitliv, about three quar ters of a mile from her old station. At low water the ship was left dry in the mud, and to prevent her from turning over, dog shores were placed beneath to keep her upright, until the water again reached her on the return of the tide. Daring the night, however, the supports on one side gave way, and her mooring -chains, to which she oas made fast, being insufficient to ret lin her in a proper position, the vessel fell over, with a loud crash, towards the Middlesex shore, and lay on her broadside. There were only three persons on board at the time, and they moored. could were almost frightened out of th e i r li ves a t this sudden accident. Several chain-b o at s an d pl en ty of tackle were procured as soon as p oss ibl e , an d b e fore high water the ship was raised suffi c i en tly t o prevent her The from being swamped, and y e st e rday s h e wa s safely ves sel has sustained some damage, a nd Divine Service not be performed as usual on Sunday. BIRTHS. AtirubdTitetsigil:eaere,,Sluhrereviy,ifteheoflaDdy. of p a J i n ii h i : On the llth inst. in Esq , of a son. ." 12th inst. the lady of John Gordon, Esq., of Gower street, r n a the tt, Esq l2t . h , e 13 ford -square, of a daughter. On t the ed str O e n 'the 13th inst. at Camberwell, Surrey, Mrs. Benjamin Edg" _ .. oinfsat. son. On ington, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 13th inst. at the Parisi) Church of Welwyn, Hefts, IV t h e Hon. and Rev. Robert Ed en, J ohn Villers Shelley, }-15q.' eldest son of Sir John Shelley, Bart., of Mansfield-park Susses to Louisa Elizabeth Anne, on l y child of the Rev. Samuel Johnes,_ Knight, of Henley H a ll, i n the county of Salop, and Rector of Welwyn. Immediately after the ceremony, the bride and bride groom left Welwyn, for Oakley, the seat of the Marquis of Ta vistock, in Bedtordshire. On the IWI inst. at St. Mary's, Islington, Mr. S. Staughtaa , of Hertford, to Mary Susan, eldest daughter of Thomas Dean* Esq., of Barne,bury-park. On the WI inst. at Chilton, Joseph Addeson. Es of Boraugl.): bridge, Somerset s hi re, to Emma, third daughter of Colonel Aa deson, of Chilton.hall, near Sudbury, Suflblk. DIED. On the 6th i ns t . at Mißingham, after a short illness, aged 15, Ayscoghe, the beloved son of Ayscoghe Boucherett, Esq. On the :na ult. at D, , rharn, Cheshire, of consumption, aged 2(l, Mary Ann, wife of Mr. A. Casacuberta, Goolden.place, ford-road, Manchester. On the 10th inst. at Ripley, Surrey, Edmund Giles, Esq., of Tal istock-place, Tay istock-square. On the 11th inst. in Kent-terrace, Regent's-park, Thomas Solly, Esq On the 11th inst. in the 82d year of his age, Zachariah Foxall Darby, Esq., of Woburn-place and Hampstead.heath. On the oth inst. at Paris, after a lingering illness, Francoise Madeleine, wife of Wm. Clyatt, Esq. On the I Ith inst at Kensington, aged 42, Eliza, wife of An drew Carrick, Esq., and eldest daught er o f th e l a t e A r chibald Gilchrist, Esq., of dinburgh. On the 9th inst. at Harborne, near Birmingham, in her 38th year, Sophia Mowatt, wife of Mr. R. R. Judd, of that place. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY MURDO YOUlia, iir Tux SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, LONDON.