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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS The Duke of IVciiiug ott has put his name to a protest, to which we are sorry that such an ornament has been affixed. It would in some degree have indemnified those who respect the Noble Duke, for any slight or- temporary in convenience accruing to the cause itself, from so decided an evidence of the inexorable animosity which he bears it, had the expression of that sentiment been conveyed in terms not unworthy of his Grace's reputation for something like reasoning power. But, in fact, if the friends of Reform wanted before Easter any triumph in addition to that of the second reading of the Bill, they need only consult the production which we have just alluded to. Nothing more vague, inconclusive, or feeble, has yet, we make bold to say, issued from Tory lips or pen—(and the Due of Newcastle has not slipped out of our recollection)—since the discussions on this great measure have been opened. His Grace of Wellington begins by reminding the country, that the Government of Great Britain is and always has been " a monarchy ; and that this monarchy, limited by the laws and customs of the realm, and by the necessity imposed on the Sovereign of having constant recourse to the advice and aid of Parliament, is the form of Government Lest adapted to the habits, wants, and wishes of the people." And, consequently, the Noble Duke goes on to say that no changes ought to he adopted which would either strike at the principles of the monarchy itself, or would leave the Sovereign without the power of performing his high duties, and freely exercising his prero gatives, &c. Now, if our readers be not puzzled, we undoubtedly are so ; but it is by the va riety and abundance of unmarketable matter con tained in the above paragraph, the first part of which is quoted literally, and the second abridged from the text of the illustrious dissentient. His Grace talks about the " monarchy," as if any one desired to make an inroad upon that, in sub atance, form, or operation ; but his Grace says not a single word about the oligarchy, which has sat like an incubus upon both monarchy and people, and from which it is the true and only purpose of the Reform Bill to release them. His Grace says truly, that the monarchy is" limited by the laws and customs of the realm ;" but he does r.ot tell us that the oligarchy is so limited. The law of Parliament, which is the law of England, makes it a crime for Peers to meddle with elec tions, while the " custom" of the oligarchy, which is not the law of England, but too strong for it, gives Peers the privilege not merely of meddling with elections, but of smothering elections altogether, and returning members to the House of Commons by an act of their own will. So, the Duke of Wellington speaks truth when he tells us that the necessity imposed upon the Sovereign, of having frequent recourse to Parliament, is one of the limits applied by the Constitution to the Royal power : but his Grace omits to add, that the Parliament, if not a "free Parliament—ifrepresenting the oligarchy, or the ministry, instead of the people—is no protec tion to popular rights ; and is, in the first case, the establishment of a power unknown to the Constitution ; in the second, the vicious extension of a power which the Constitution, as now exer cised, pretends, but is unable, to restrain. So the " free and independent" use of the Royal prerogatives is justly stated by the Duke of W ellington, to be essential to the in - terests of the people. His Grace ought, then to have rebuked some of his own sup porters, for daring to menace the King's Ma jesty, should he now, at a moment of such tre mendous need, think fit to avail himself of that prerogative which his Grace declares ought ever to be " free and independent." His Grace, in the second member of his protest, dissents from the passing of the Reform Bill, because the Rouse of Commons is already the best institu tion in the world for the " protection of the subject." What ! against its own corruptions —against the quartering of borough patrons upon the public purse ?—against the creation of a debt of 800,000,0001. sterling ? If it be all this, in the name of Heaven don't think of im proving it. The Congress of North America is, we take it for granted, but a name, and the written Constitution of England herself a paradox, prescribing that the House of Com mons shall be something very different from what it is. The Noble Duke talks gravely of " chartered rights and vested interests " as about to be sacrificed by this vile teemblance of Reform. Let us respectfully remind the Duke of Wellington, that no charter can sanctify a gross perversion of the trusts which itself has created, and that no prescrip tion can be pleaded in defence of an abuse which each year serves to aggravate. The Noble Duke having protested retrospectively against what he calls (though by a misnomer) the " printiples" of the Bill, as acknowledged in the second read ing, then protests by anticipation, and with an eye to the Committee, against what, by an equally severe misnomer, he describes as its se rial -ate "provisions." To this end he soundly thraAes the 10/. housekeepers, blows to pieces the Members for the metropolis, who, he asserts, • will be returned by " universal suffrage," and proves, by a long and elaborate declamation against mobs, that the soreness which led his (irace, when Prime Minister, to dissuade King William from enjoying the festivities prepared for him by his affectionate citizens of London, has not yet left the spirit of the Duke of 'Wel lington to its wonted setenity and comfort. The Duke winds up with a panegyric on " disci- plined" freedom, which is curious enough in its way. Certainly this Reform Bill, at St. Petersburgh or Vienna, has long since been con demned as a nefarious breach oldrscipline. We conclude, as we began, with an expression of rorrow for this protest and compassion tor its author.— Times. We published : yesterday Ridgway's List of the majority and minority on the second reading of the English Reform Bill in the House of LoTds, on the memorable division last week. This red and black record of the friends and foes of the liberties of the people ought to be hung up in the House of every Reformer throughout the kingdom. An analysis of the component parts of the minority remarkably dis plays the effects of the long predominance of Tory politics. Twenty Lord Lieutenants of counties, Thirty one pensioners, and Thirty four borough proprit tors, voted against the Government and Reform. Such is the political and sinister interest arrayed against any effective amendment of the representation. The Spiritual Peers somewhat redeemed their character and their reputation with the nation ; the majority comprised twelve Bishops, the minority fifteen Prelates ; and three of ~ the Right Reverend Fathers in God," viz., Ely, Hereford, and Peter borough, did not appear in person or by proxy. In the Committee, therefore, parties being so evenly balanced, the Bishops—if the fitteer4 Spiritual Anti-Reformers stand to their text— will gvie the casting votes against the main clauses of the Bill. Should this result follow, the enemies of the Church will rejoice inwardly to view the heads of the Church thus commit a deliberate act of suicide ; but we counsel the Bishops to mark the " signs of the times," to ponder well the peril of such their hostile posi tion against the million laity, and to observe the fortunate effect on the public mind of the recent spiritual conversions to the popular cause. II the fifteen Spiritual Peers—Canterbury, Ar magh, Bangor, Bristol, Carlisle, Exeter, Gloucester, Kilmore, Oxford, Rochester, Clo gher, Durham, Salisbury, St. Asaph, and Win chester—continue their fanatic non-conversion, they will effectually alienate the hearts of the people from the Church Establishment, and in fallibly work the downfall of the hierarchy. We do not appeal to the Phillpott genus—to those who, as they foolishly opine, are worshipping the rising sun—but we do earnestly beseech the prejudiced and near-sighted Prelates to pause in their insane career. Their former banishment from the House of Lords, in the days of the Commonwealth, is held out to them as a scare• crow by the wily boroughmongers, who thus la mentably succeeded in misleading the blind and erring prelates. We call upon them to view the primary causes of that memorable " weeding of the House of Lords." Was it not the bigoted and persecuting conduct of the Stuart Bishops— was it not their contumacy towards the people which led to their banishment from all temporal power in the State ? They were the ever-ready and active tools of persecution and corruption. Ignorant of the world—except in the means of personal advancement and temporal ambition—. they rushed on their destruction, though fore warned by all the enlightened political men of the seventeenth century, of the inevitable conse quences. Too late they discovered the errors of their ways, and fain would they have retraced their steps, when the precipice stared them in the face. The Anti-Reform Bishops are treading in the shoes of their Stuart predecessors. May they be saved, say we sincerely, from the brink o; political perdition ; may they persevere, pray their enemies, who joyfully behold them working the destruction of the hierarchy. The Bishops, we ardently hope, will see the light, and resist the stale baits thrown out to them by that wily, but superannuated politician, Lord Eldon (who is no longer the sole patrons of the "livings" of the Church), and with an enlightened fore sight of the spirit of the times, may they cease to oppose Reform, if they cannot be induced to support it. We know that the eyes of the country are upon them ; their conduct is unseemly and ungrateful to the people ; they are blindly undermining the Establishment, and swelling the ranks of the sectarists. These ob servations we make in the spirit of charity, and we have never been suspected of any affected love for the Right Reverend Bench. But we do not desire to see the uses fall in a common ruin with the abuses of ancient institutions ; we would wish to see the Church upheld by liber ality and enlightened support. We now turn to lay Lords. The list of absent Peers enrols some Noblemen who, in person and proxy, ought, at any sacrifice, to have supported the Government at this momentous period ; and among the proxies we notice many Noblemen who in person ought to have been at their post. The Commander-in-Chief, Lord Hill, did not vote in person or proxy! 'Was even-handed justice dealt out to Sir Henry Parnell, if, on the great vital question of Reform, the head of the army is allowed by the Premier to assume the position of an habitual absentee ? Difficulties may and do exist in cashiering the recusant Lord- Lieutenants ; but surely the high officers of the Government are bound to their allegiance. Cer tain we are that energy and determination can alone carry the Ministry through the rocks and shoals of the channel of Reform ; they must 'support their friends, and their friends must sup port them. The country will jealously watch the conduct of every Reform Peer. It is the solemn duty of the liberal Lords to sacrifice every personal object to a constant and watch ful attendance in support of Ministers. Those who absent themselves from the Committee will, notwithstanding their votes in favour of the second reading, and however unjustly, be es teemed by the people as the secret and worst enemies of the Bill. The Peers are equally with the Commons representatives of the nation. Let the liberal portion of the Aristocracy con sider their stake and deep interest in the success of the Bill. Let them bear in mind that the Anti-refirmers are superior drill-sergeants, and will daily muster all their forces. In political generalship the Tories ever excelled ; we repeat that the nation calls on every Peer, friendly to Reform, to mount guard in defence of the com mon liberties. None are so interested as the Peers generally, in deposing an oligarchy, which has, in fact, usurped the powers of the whole Peerage, and robbed every Peer not a borough monger, of his ancient and hereditary rights.— Morning Chronicle. The result of the division on the Reform Bill proves the injustice of the intemperate and un reasoning attacks which were made in a Morn ing Paper upon Earl Grey, for not making a mob of Peers at all events, to attain that object which he has attained without any such violent and dangerous application of the extreme power of the prerogative. Greatly would the moral value of the victory have been detracted from if it had been earned by means which would have put an end to all deliberation—to all freedom of action in the Upper House of Parliament, and established a precedent which might, hereafter, be fatal to the very existence of that Constitution which it is the object of the Reform Bill to re novate. To apply no more force than is ne cessary to obtain a certain result, bespeaks ac curacy of judgment, and a knowledge of his business, whether in the mechanist or the Mi- !lister. To apply a hundred-horse power to overcome a resistance for which one of 20 would be sufficient, would argue gross igno rance and incompetency in the engineer, and no less in the statesman. The just economy of force, whether in mechanics, in war, or in politics, is a test of skill ; as a super fluous application of power is a proof of inca pacity. Though the Bill has passed the second reading, we would not have the country consider that equivalent to final success, lest we might thereby contribute to relax that vigilance and firm exertion which are always most necessary when a great struggle appears to draw towards. its conclusion. The House has, undoubtedly, adopted the priuciples of the Bill, by voting for the second reading ; but then there arc persons who would essentially impair it, and deny that they had interfered with its principles. We ob serve that, in his reply, even Lord Grey said that, although he should be sorry a less number of boroughs than were in schedule- A should be disfranchised, or that the 101. qualification should be raised, still they formed no part of the. principle of the Bill, and both might be altered in perfect consistency. As to the 101. qua lification, we admit that it is rather matter of detail than of principle ; but as it will operate to disfranchise a considerable num ber of electors in several places, we think it is quite high enough, particularly as the old con stitutional qualification was scot-and-lot, which, if adopted in the present Bill, would have saved a great deal of complicated and clumsy con trivance, which will be productive of a great deal of inconvenience and litigation in the working of the measure. But as to the disfranchisement of the boroughs in schedule A, we consider it to be so essential a principle of the Bill that tl►e Bill would be of little or no value without it. What is the great principle of the Bill To substitute real for a mock representation. What is the great machinery of a mock representation? The nomination boroughs. To extinguish those nomination boroughs is, then, the chief object and leading principle of the Bill. And inasmuch as the boroughs in schedule A are placed there because they are nomination boroughs, how can Lord Grey consistently s a y that a less number of boroughs might be dis franchised without touching that principle ? We say, on the contrary, that not a single no mination borough should be allowed to remain without interfering with the principle of the Bill, and so far marring its chief object. If, indeed, any borough has been placed there, which, on a fair statement of facts, ought not to have been placed there, that is another question. Let such an act of in justice be rectified ; and if any nomination borough has, through party favouritism, been kept out of the schedule, let such an act of gross partiality be rectified. The Duke of Wellington has charged Ministers with having saved or sacrificed certain boroughs, not upon principle or fair calculation, but because they belonged to Whig or Tory proprietors. The Duke will, no doubt, attempt to establish his positions in Committee ; and if he makes out any such cases he will succeed in throwing just censure on the Ministers, and will deserve to be supported in rectifying the schedules by all those who vote for Reform, not because it is a .11i nisterial plan, but because the country requires a real representation. It matters not to the country whether nomination boroughs remain in the hands of \Vhigs or 'f uri es, they are monstrous innovations upon the representative principle in whatever hands they be ; and what the country wants is not that the mischievous power of a mock-representation should be transferred from one party to another, but that all mock-represen tation should be abolished. As to whether Peers ought to be made hereafter if the prin ciple of the Bill cannot otherwise be eventually carried, it is useless to discuss that unless the necessity should arise.—Morning Herald. In another column we give the protest of the Duke of Wellington against the second reading of the Reform Bill. It is a curious document, but the ground has been too often travelled over in the course of the late debates to call fur much observation, the reasoning, as may be well sup posed, affording no new topic for comment. The first argument put forth by the Noble Duke against the extinction of the rotten boroughs is, that the Government of this country is a mixed Monarchy, and that the change proposed strikes at the root of that Monarchy by depriving it of the respectable support of Gatton and Old Sa rum. So then, according to his Grace, the Bri- tish Constitution and the monarchical principle involved in it, have no support in the affections of the British people, who are thus obliquely charged with wanting only an opportunity to get rid of both. This is pretty well for a beginning. But what if this false assumption should run through the whole document, from beginning to end, and form, as it were, the burden of the song ? Can even the name of the Noble Duke rescue such misrepresentation from the contempt that belongs to falsehood ? The second argu ment, after a reluctant admission that "it may be expedient to correct abuses," reminds us that the House of Commons with all its faults, is still an institu'ion " the best calculated of any in the world for the general protection of the subject." Admitting this proposition in its fullest extent, we may still contend that the insti tution will not be injured by being purified. But here, as we stated before, the burden comes in again, that the people of England are anxious not only to destroy the Monarchy, but to destroy the House of Commons—a work which they are supposed to begin by giv ing it increased strength. The third argu ment is a repetition of the nonsense about vested rights. The vested right of the boroughmon. gers to traffic in Members of Parliament. The vested right of a few wretched Corporations— for the great ones, to their honour, have repu diated such a claim—to shut out the mass of property and intelligence from a voice in the Legislature. After bemoaning the ancient char ters by name, and the rotten boroughs by impli cation, the Noble Duke anticipates " more fatal violations of the principle in future," which is a return to the old burden which charges the people of England with a determination to get rid of the Constitution as fast as they can. The fourth argument put forward is only another modification of the same charge. The fifth argument (we state the number from the docu ment itself, without professing to see the distinc tions very clearly by which the paragraphs are separated into distinct heads)—the fifth argu ment denounces the provisions by which those principles are carried into effect, and repeats the jargon so often refuted of giving the preponde rance to towns, of excluding the moneyed and colonial interests, of overwhelming the landed interests, and, above all, of giving the metropolis ' that share in the elective franchise which its wealth, its intelligence, and its numerical im portance seem to require, though, in the opinion of the Noble Duke, they render it unnecessary. Yes, strange, unreasonable, absurd as it must appear to every unprejudiced mind, it is because the metropolitan districts are so important that they ought, according to ducal logic, to be denied their fair share in the representation. The metropolis,. he would persuade us, requires to be kept down. But so he thought of every other place until the outcry of the people compelled him to change his tone, and give himself the nick-name of a Reformer. The sixth and last argument on which his Grace relies for the vindication of his opinions with posterity is another version of the burden which runs through this lament, the increase of the democratic element, and the certainty that the peop l e will avail themselves of it to destroy the Constitution. His Grace laments the absence of all necessary charges ; he does not name the rotten boroughs, but it is evident that lie regrets their loss as the soft emollients of popular fury. But for whom is this protest intended ? Is it for the people, whom it insults in every line, or for the House of Peers, whose extinction it fore bodes in every sentence? Whatever his object. may be, he has put opinions upon record from which the future historian will glean materials for observation the very reverse of those which his brilliant victories would suggest, and which those who are most interested for his fame will have the greatest reason to wish that they could expunge from his history.—Morning Herald. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BO W- STREET. Yesterday a well-known thief, named Samuel IVynmont, was brought in custody to this office, and placed at the bar before Mr. HALLS, charged by Tipper, a constable of the F division of police. Tipper was on duty in plain clothes near Temple bar on the preceding evening, when he saw the prisoner, whom he knew, and a young man, whom he also believed to be a thief, come out of Shire lane. The prisoner was carrying something in a bag, which appeared to be a box or writing-desk, and he (Tipper) determined to watch his move ments, tie accordingly followed the prisoner and his companion as far as Pickett -street, Strand, when the latter, perceiving that they were watched, ran away. The prisoner then faced about, and walked at a quick pace through Temple-bar, and along Fleet -street, witness still following to watch his movements. The prisoner turned down Bridge street, Blackfriars, and was walking at a quick pace across Blackfriars-bridge, when, turning suddenly round, and perceiving him (witness) at his heels, he deliberately rested his load on the parapet of the bridge, and shoved it into the river, sack and all. The constable immediately took the prisoner into custody, on suspicion of his having stolen the con tents of the sack. Mr. HALLS asked the prisoner how he accounted for the transaction ?—" Please your Worship," said the prisoner, " this here is the truth. I bought a dog the other day, and a dead bargain he was, sure enough, for the hanimal died the day arter I bought him. Fearing that I should be had up, your Wor ship, by some of the parish gentlemen if I threw him into the street in these cholera morbus times, I shoved him into a sack, and thought the safer way to get rid of him was to take him to the bridge and heave him into the river." Tipper was quite sure the contents of the sack were the produce of some recent robbery. Mr. HALLS was of the same opinion, notwith standing the ingenious manner in which the prisoner endeavoured to account for it. The prisoner was then remanded till Wednesday next, to give time for the river to be dragged, with a view to the recovery of the sack and its contents. MARLBORO UGH-STREET. Yesterday Bernard Conroy, a young man of gen tlemanly appearance and address, and who stated himself to be a native of Ireland, and by profession a medical student, was brought before Mr. DYER, the sitting magistrate, sad charged with having com mitted a robbery on the preceding day at Mr. Phil lips's chapel, in Regent-street, Oxford-street. Mr. Richard Stratton on Sunday held at one of the doors of the above chapel a plate for the recep tion of contributions in aid of the parish charity school. While thus occupied the prisoner went up to him, and placed a penny on the plate; immedi ately afterwards witness missed one of two sove reigns which had just before been in the plate, and, suspecting the prisoner, he followed him, calling out " Stop thief," and he was taken into custody. Mr. Underwood stated that he ar►d a policeman stopped the prisoner. He had one of his hands in his coat pocket, and appeared to be endeavouring to secrete something. Witness immediately searched his pocket, and found in it a sovereign and a small box, containing Venice turpentine; both the pri soner's hands and the sovereign were smeared with this adhesive composition, and it was evident that the turpentine had been applied to the hand for the purpose of enabling the prisoner to remove a piece of coin with the under part of his extended fingers. Mr. Underwood added, that when the prisoner was taken into custody, a strong spirit of opposition was displayed between the policeman and a beadle named Webb, which gave rise to a great deal of unplea santness. lie (Mr. Underwood) gave to the po liceman the sovereign which he had found upon the prisoner, but immediately afterwards requested that it might be returned to him, in order that he might put upon it some mark by which he might be ena bled to recogn - ze it on a future occasion. The po licetnan gave back the sovereign, and while he was marking it, the beadle came up and seized hold of the prisoner, and begged that he, Mr. Underwood, would give him the sovereign to take care of. his witness refused to do, and handed it back to the po liceman. The beadle snatched the sovereign out of the policeman's hand, and a scene of great confusion ensued. A police constable, No. 165, of the C division, stated that he and the last witness took hold of the prisoner at the same moment. When the man was in custody, Webb, the beadle of St. Stephen's Chapel, made his appearance, and told witness to go about his business, and not to meddle in things that did not concern him. Witness insisted upon de taining the prisoner, and Webb then took out his staff, and said, " let you know that I am consta• ble here," and pushed witness about in a very rough manner, for the purpose of forcing him to retire, \Viten Mr. Underwood put the sovereign into wit ness's hand, Webb violently snatched it from him, and persisted in keeping it. Mr. DYER—This is really very extraordinary con duct. What have you to say to it, Webb? Webb—What I have to say, Sir, is this—l had the man in custody, and the policeman endeavoured to take him away from me. Mr. DYER—I shall say no more upon yours and policeman's conduct, than to express my surprise that there should have been any contl , ct between you in the performance of an act of duty. lam extremely sorry to hear of such conduct. Whatever petty jealousies may have existed at the commence ment of the new police force, I had hoped they had long since died away. :::The prisoner, when called upon for his defence said, that the charge against him was wholly without founda!ion. Mr. DYER.—HOW do you account for your pos session of the sovereign and the Venice turpentine ? Prisoner.—The sovereign I obtained on Saturday night by pawning my coat, and the turpentine I purchased for the purpose of applying it to my, back, having some days since met with a serious accident. I am member of a very respectable family, your wor ship, and would not be guilty of such an act as that which has been imputed to me. Mr. DYER.—Who are your friends ? Prisoner.—My brother is a clergyman residing in Parson's Town, Queen's County, Ireland. Mr. DYER.—It is a melancholy thing to see a young man of your description placed in such a situ tion. There cannot be a doubt of your being guilty of the crime with which you are charged, and it is my duty to commit you to prison to take your trial. The prisoner was much affected, and begged that his friends might be informed of what had happened to him. Mr. Repton, the clergyman of St. Philip's Chapel would wide to the prisoner's brother. He was removed from the bar. HATT ON-GARDEN. Yesterday Louisa Biddle and Sarah Mitchell were placed at the bar before Mr. LAING, charged by James Edward Nixon, Esq. of No. 19, South ampton-street, Bloomsbury -square, with having robbbed his dwelling-hous e of a French clock, plate, and other property, of the value of 200/. and up wards. The prisoners were remanded, and directions given to the inspector to apprehend other parties strongly susrected of having been concerned in the transaction. 'Vim. Henry Sansom, a man of sanctified ap pearance, wt►o described himself as messenger in the Hon. East India Company's service, was charged under the following circumstances : Police -constable west, 100 G, deposed that on Sunday morning, at half-past ten o'clock, the de fendant was "holding forth" on Clerkenwell-green, surrounded by a hundred persons, and, conceiving that such an assembly was likely to create a die. turbance, he requested the defendant to desist from his " calling," and go about his business. The defendant, in answer to Mr. LANG, con ceived he was not offending against any law. Mr. LAING assured him he was committing an offence by causing a mob to assemble. If, however, he would promise not to offend again, he was at liberty to depart, otherwise he should hold him to bail. The defendant conceived it his bounden duty, from the present unparalleled immoral state of the country ; arid he could not compromise the dictates of his conscience, and the danger of his soul, by any such promise. He was consequently held to bail, and in defau of the required sureties locked up. CHESTER ASSIZES, APRIL 14. Edward Brown, aged 37, was indicted for a bur glary in the dwelling-house of James Heath, of Audlem, and stealing therein several pieces of linen, and other articles. It appeared from the evidence, that in Novem ber last, the prisoner at midnight entered the house of the prosecutor, by breaking through the wall with a crow-bar; and after making a hole suffi ciently large for himself to go through, he went into the house, and took a quantity of property, which he carried away. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, and on his being called upon in the usual manner as to what he had to say why judgment of death should not be recorded against him, he broke out into a furious tirade against the prosecutor, in the course of ‘vhich he said, " I'm a man that can forgive little injuries; but the prosecutor, who has been the cause of transporting for life a man like me, that has fought for his country, I'll never forgive him ; and I hope that all the curses in the 49th Psalm may light upon him." CHILD MURDER. Last night, pursuant to adjournment, the Coro ner's Jury re-assembled at the Coal Hole Tavern, Fountain -court, Strand, before Thomas Stirling, Esq., Coroner, to inquire into the cause of the death of a female infant child, which it was alleged had been murdered by its mother. Sarah, wife of R. W. Simmons, a lighterman, residing in Off-alley, Strand, knew the mother of the child, Maria Coulson, who was cook at the Coal hole Tavern ; about four months ago witness taxed her with being pregnant, and she denied it, and abused her for having suspected such a thing; on Friday last, about two o'clock, witness was informed that something had happened to Maria, and she went to the attic, and observing her situation, she said, " Oh, Cook, what is the matter with you ?" She replied, " Nothing," and desired witness to leave the room; after that she said she would tell the truth—she had had a miscarriage; witness pro posed helping her on the bed, but she would not let her; witness asked her where the baby was ? She replied that she had no baby ; witness said, " Nonsense, Cook, you must have a baby somewhere ;" and she replied, " No, I have not, Mrs. Simmons, and leave the room ;" witness then left the room, and informed the pro prietor of the house of her suspicions, when he di rected Elizabeth, the housemaid, to go with witness to assist the cook and search for the child ; the cock was then sitting on the bed, and, from certain appearances, Elizabeth left the room to fetch a doctor, and in the interim the cook said to witness, " For God's sake clean up the room before the doctor comes !" A surgeon came, arid, after some conversation, witness again accused her of having had a child, which she again denied, and gave a similar denial a third time. Mr. Rhodes sent a mes sage to the cook, that if she did not tell where the infant was, he would send for an officer ; she replied that she did not care for all the officers in the parish, and she would not open her box till to-morrow morn ing ; on Elizabeth going down stairs, the cook got from the bed and said, Mrs. Simmons, call her back, I have a baby ;" and she unlocked her box and took out a child, which she placed on the carpet ; she then went to a drawer near the window, and from thence took a pair of sciz zors (produced to witness) and cut something in the bundle which the child was in ; witness called out, " Ob, Cook, you have hanged the baby ;" witness said this in consequence of hearing the scissors snip, and the cook exclaimed," Hush, you will hang me; and for God's sake shut the door, keep it as secret as possible, and don't tell master." Elizabeth heard this and screamed, and surgeon Jones came up ; he examined the child, and took a piece of tape (pro duced by Mr. Thomas) from under the child's neck, which was bloody, and appeared to have been tied round it. Elizabeth Emmerson confirmed the statement of he above witness. After some other evidence, the Jury returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against Maria Coulton ; and the Coroner issued his warrant for her committal to Newgate to take her trial. DOVER, APRIL 15. A scene of considerable bustle and excitement took place here to-day, occasioned by the sailing of a large schooner, called theSterret,which has been fitted out in this harbour, it is said, for the service of Don Pedro. The beautiful proportions of the vessel—the cause in which it was understood she was soon to be engaged—combined with the circumstance of her crew (about 100 in number) consisting entirely of volunteer seamen from Dover and Folkestone— seemed to have produced an intense degree of anxiety in the inhabitants to witness her final depar ture from the port. For several hours previous to high water numbers of well-dressed people were seen proceeding towards the piers of the outer har bour, and at twelve o'clock, the hour of high water, the assemblage on the piers could not have con sisted of less than from 3,000 to 4,000. The Sterret, decorated with a number of flags, was now seen to emerge from the crowd of merchant ships by which she was surrounded in the inner harbour, and which obstructed the view of her, and having warped into the outer harbour, exhi bited such a specimen of perfect symmetry and extraordinary size, for a vessel of her class, as seemed highly to delight the amateurs. The wind having died away to a dead calm, she was taken in tow by the Duke of Wellington steam-packet, and glided beautifully out of the harbour, amidst the lively acclamations, waving of handkerchiefs, &c., of the immense concourse of spectators on the piers, mingled with the enthusiastic cheers of the seamen and officers, &c. on board ; the whole forming a highly imposing and animated spectacle. She pro ceeded in tow of the steamer in the direction of Folkestone, and having arrived off that place, a scene similar to that at Dover again took place. A number of boats full of seamen, being the remaining part of her crew (although they all shipped, it was understood, as passengers), immediately pushed off, and joined the schooner; and having taken leave of their townsmen on shore with three hearty cheers, the schooner immediately proceeded on her course down channel, towed by the steamer, which, in case of the weather continuing calm, or . the wind becoming unfavourable, it said would tow her out of the Channel. The Sterret i s one of the largest and finest schooners ever turned out of Baltimore, where she was built a little more than a year since. She is upwards of 100 feet in length on the gun-deck, measures nearly 300 tons, and is pierced for 16 guns. She had, however, no guns on board, for although a license was given by the Customhouse to take her armament on boa r d as cargo, the parties concerned , desirous of avoidi ng the least appearance of arming in a British port, preferred going to the expense of forw ar di ng i t b y a cutter, which sailed with it for a port in France some days ago, where it was understo o d t h e sc h ooner would proceed, and after taking it on board, and be ing regularly commissioned for the Regency of Ter ceira, would proceed on a cruize off Lisbon, in the hopes of intercepting some of Don Miguel's cor vettes, of which, if they were fortunate enough to PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, &c. per 1121 l). Town Tallow .........„.......... 445. Od. Yellow 50ap....................., 624. Od. Yellow Russia _ .. 43s Od M0tt1ed—.,...._,.....-......, 68s. Od. White 42s. Od White ................ 745. Od. Soap Ditto 42s. Od. Graves ................................. 143. Od. Melted Stuff 3ss. Oa. Good Graves gs. Pd. Ditto hough 224. Od. PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of 81b. Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Me1ter5),.........25. 70. CUAL MAR} Per Ton. Adair's 18s. Od. 17 0 Benshain Main East Percy, --. 17 _ . 20 0 Kenton West 18 6 Killingworth Shipcote Tantield Townley. l7 3 Wade's Bensliam 16 0 Willington . 19 6 Wylain IS 9 Walls End ltrown's—... 19 0 Ditto Bewicke and Co. 20 9 Ditto Bell,ltobson,&Co. 18 0 Walls Eno Callerton 17 0 Walls End Carr and Co. 19 0 Walls End G05f0rth........ 21 0 Walls End Heat0n...v..... 21 0 Walls End Hilda 19 0 Walls End Ilcaspur..... 18 6 Ditto Killingworth 19 6 Ships arrived since ET.-April 16. Per Ton. Walls End Jolliflc 17s. 6d. Walls End Newmarch.... 19 6 Ditto Northumberland 19 0 Ditto Perkins and C 0... 19 0 Walls End Riddell's.... 20 0 Walls End Walker 20 6 Walls End Hetton 22 0 Walls End Lyons --. 19 6 Walls End Lambton..... 21 9 W. E. Russell's Hetton 22 0 Ditto Russell's Lyon's.. 19 6 Walls End Stewart's 22 6 Walls End Adelaide.... 19 3 Walls End Cleveland.. 17 3 Walls End Tees 21 9 Tees Primrose .—...... 1G 6 Cowpen Hartley 19 0 Merthyr 24 0 Silkstone Field and Co. 18 6 Silkstone Wilson ........ 19 6 Sough Hetton Seam—. 17 0 Tan field Trader—....... 18 0 last market-day, 23. It appears, by accounts laid before the late meeting of the subscribers to King's College, that there are de falcations in the pledged subscriptions to the amount of 13,0001. ; or, in other words, that there are persons who have had the meanness to allow themselves to be advertised and otherwise held up to public notice as promoters of the Institu tion to this extent, who, when the day of payment arrives, pocket the eclat and keep their money. The managers would surely have as good a right to publish the name of these de. faulters, as the latter had to have their names published in the first instance, as pledged to a voluntary engagement which they have since failed to fulfil. HORRIBLE CASE.-Michael Douglas, a pensioner, who resided with his wife in an old stable at the back of Edinburgh Castle, received two quarters' pension on Tuesday, and both husband and wife were, shortly after, as usual, in a beastly state of intoxication. On Wednesday, the woman was taken very ill, and some neighbours went for a medical gentleman, but Michael resisted his entrance with dreadful threatenings, and on Thursday the woman died, hav ing been just twenty-four hours ill. Douglas, it appears, locked the door soon after, and set off with another woman to Glasgow. Yesterday the door was forced by an order of the Board of Health, when the horrid spectacle presented itself of the poor woman's body mutilated in various parts by rats. It was immediately interred. COMMISSION OF LUNACY.—Saturday a commission of lunatico inquirendo was held at the Gray's Inn Coffee-house, in the case of E.T. Blewit, Esq. of Llantainara Abbey, Monmouthshire, aged about 30. It appeared from the evidence, that in January, 183', Mr. Blewit resided in Great Ormond. street, at which time he laboured under a state of great excitement, and was attended by Sir George Tuthill. In the following March he attempted suicide, by cutting his throat, and he was shortly after conveyed to Mortlock asylum, the medical gentlemen who attended him having no doubt of his labouring under insanity. Stillwell, Esq., Dr. Tat• tershall, and other witnesses, proved the disordered state of Mr. Blewit's mind up to the present period, and from their evidence it would appear that the unfortunate gentleman's insanity ma nifested itself in various ways ; sometimes he addressed him self in whispers to the images on the mantelpiece ; next he said he was Earl of Mayo, and the individuals around him were not good enough to converse with him. On his way to town, hib notice was attracted by the cows in the Park, to which he took off his hat and bowed. The Jury returned a verdict—. " That Mr. Blewit had been of unsound mind since 18::..2." EDi IGRATION.--A FFECTING STORY.--We mentioned a few weeks since that the mania for emigration rages just now, in this part of the country, to an unheard-of extent. People of all ages, as well as of all trades, are quitting their native country for the western hemisphere. Some time ago two indiiiduals, man and wife, the former aged 80, and the latter 76, determined, in compliance with the wishes of their family, all of whom had located themselves in the new world, to undergo the pains and penalties of a voyage across the Atlantic. The aged pair, who belonged to a neighbouring county, after . doing a violence to their own feeling, of which younger, and consequently more lively emigrants, can know but ccroparativell. nothing, accordingly took coach for Aberdeen, where a vessel was awaiting them to carry them for ever from the land of their birth. They arrived at Aberdeen the same day as the)' quitted their homes. At the sight of the sea, p ar t o f th e w orl d of waters they had to traverse before reaching their children, boll' of the aged emigrants turned pale; and so great was the impre' sion it made on the woman's mind, or, in other words, so great WO her fear of committing herself for so long a voyage to the mighty deep, that she took ill the day after her arrival In Aberdeen, and in two days more she died. The vessel was t ° sail the day after the old woman's funeral, and it now bete ?e a question with the survi vor whether he should proceed °,, ,7 the voyage, or whether h e s h ould not remain in his onl. country and die in the land of his fathers. The struggle hard between attachment to the place of his nativity, eon* •joined with an aversion to so formidable a voyage on the o i l hand, and a wish t o see his family, to whom he was nli°' warmly attached, on the other. The latter feeling pree l li derated. The m an of fourscore went on board the vessel, Al% she sailed for th e U nited States. What between grief for I' wife, regret at leaving his country, and the fatigues of ti le voyage, the old man took seriously ill after the vessel had bee ° three weeks on her passage. In precisely five weeks after th e ship had sailed, the mate of the vessel, who had been in the shrouds at the time, shouted " Land, land!" The shout Wl ° answered by a deep groan from the old man it was the groan of expiration —Elgin Courier. BIRTHS. On the 15th inst.'at Blackheath, Mrs. Mason, of a daughter. On the 12th inst. in Devonshire, the lady of Augustus Oran" ville Stapleton, Esq., of a son. fall in with them, the erew of the Sieved promised to give a good account. LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OTE• B R EA. The highest price of Bread in the Metro D polis is Mi. for tbll 41b. Loaf. There are others who sell from jici. to 130. Woo , that price. PRICE OF SEEDS.—ApriII6. New English Red Clover Seed (per Cwt.) —,s. Ws. fine 80e. Old Ditto llitto dew Foreign Ditto Old Ditto .--- —s. —a. fine --a. LC,. 66a fine —a. 901. —s. fine --1. —a. 503. SOS. fine —a. 90s. flu Old Ditto New Trefoil ald Ditto - , Rib Grass English Carraway Foreign Ditto Coriander St. Foin Rye Grass Pacey Ditto Linseed, for fr Di" - 106. fine 48.5. 50s. —B. --s. fine —s —r. —s. 355. fine —B. 40s. —s. —B. 58s. fine 635. -8. --s. —a. fine —s. —s. fine 23a. 28a. ,(per —6. ...s. fi ne —s. —s. new 20s. 43a. 40s. 565. new —s. —a. —s. 40s. fine —s. 440. 365. 403. —s. fine —s. _ —s. 70s. 72s fine —a. Jitto, for crushini, Canary Seed, New.. "itte Old —s. fine—s. White Mustard Seed --.(per —s. 7s. as. fine Brown Ditto - —.b. —O. 10s. 17s. fine —l. —s. —O. Ss. fine 12s. Turnip Seeds, - Roui Green and Red Dit -8. —B. Bs. tine Ns. , —S. ss. 6d. fine 6s. —s. —B. tine —s. —s. Rae Seed, English, fine (per Last) 231. 271. Foreign 201. 241. ;, Old litto'Ni "PRICES OF HOPS.-April 18. Kent Pockets 4l 183. 61. Os, t• 8/. Os. Sussex Ditto VW^. 41. 12s. 51. 12s. to 71. Os. , 9/, Os. 121. Os. to 01. Os. Seconds 0/. Os. 71. Os to 91. Os. 41. 108. 51. 15s. to 61. 15s. 41. 4s. 41. 15s. to 5/. ss. ^' 15s 51. Os. to 51. 120. Yesex Ditto Farnham Ditto, Kent I Sussex Ditto Essex Ditto.. PRICE OF OIL. Rape Oil, brown ..............301. 6c...,,..,,,. Refined .......f261 6 Linseed 011 _ _ 23 0 11 0 5 5 Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand Rape Cake, per ton.. WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET.—ApriI 14. Hay ............. 604 Od. to 904 Od. I Clover...—. 656 Od. to 1204 Od. Od. to 38.. Od. PRICE OF POTATOES.—ApriI 10. Kidneys . 31. Os. to 31. lOs. per ton. Scotch Reds Oxnobles and Shaws 21. ss. to 2/. 10s. dato. LEATHER. Per lb. d. to d. English Horse Hides.„, 12 15 Spanish Ditto 14 16 Per dozen. Calf Skins.. 36 to 44Th. 15 23 Ditto 50 to 701 b. 17 21 Ditto 70 to 801 b. Small Seals. Greenland ISi 19 Large ditto----. 12 lb PRICES O: Per lb. d. to d. Butts, English 16 21 Ditto, Foreign 14 18 Dressing 13 15i1 Ditto l5 18 Ditto, light Ciop tildes, light 12 13 Ditto 4G to 451 b. 131 15 Ditto l5 16i ItA W HIDES. ter Stone. s. d. tog. d. I Per Stone. •. d. to 1. d. Bost Heifers & Steers 2 4 2 8 Ordinary 1 6 1 9 0 2 2 Market 6 (each. Polled SHEEP SKINS. 53. Od. to 7s. Od. I Downs 33. Od. to 4s. Cdt, Os. Otl. to Os. 9d. PRICE OF CANDLES. The price of Store Candles, in the retail shops, is as follows Candles, per doz. 7s. lid, to Bs. Od. I Moulds, per dozen—.....9s. t3cL MARRIED. On the 14th inst. at Kensington, the Rev. M. Harrison, Mdt,; rector of Church Oakley, Hants, and late Fell ow of Queen.. College, Oxon, to Margaret, only surviving dau g hter of the la"' Samuel Bcachcroft, Esq., of Beauleah, East Indies. DIED. (hi the lath inst. in the 65th year of his age, Thomas Fr os t Gepp, Esq., of Chelmsford. On the 15th inst. at his house i n -Y or k -p l ace, City-road, sr' S. 0. Bacon, in the 53d year of his age. • 10 / On the 14th inst. at the H erm i tage, Old Windsor, Ric Isherwood, Esq., aged 43. On the 13th inst. at the vicarage, Lambourne, in the 69th Ye gr of his age, the Rev. Thomas Whiteing. i On the 12th inst. at Brentwood, Essex, Mrs. Barnes, relict the late Mr. George Barnes, of Shenfield, aged 87. PRINTED AND PUBLIsIiED By AIURDO YOUNG, AT I . SUN OFFICE, II; STRAND, LONDON.