The Sun. — London, England, 1832-11-26 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The protracted riego.ititions upon Belgium have been malignantly turned against the dearest inte rests of Great Britain, by a faction British only in name. It ought to be deeply impressed upon the people of England, so deeply as never, during thi s or the succeeding generation of our statesmen, to be obliterated, that the Dutch Court has been crammed for many months past with counsels and injunctions, issuing from certain quarters here, of which the di rect and only object was to defeat the efforts of the King's Government for a pacific adjustment of the Dutch and Belgic quarrel. England, and not Eng land alone, but every one of the mediating Powers, had declared by numberless, and on that point con sistent state papers, that Antwerp and its dependen cies belonged of right to Belgium, and ought of right to be restored by Holland. This, we repeat, was not merely Belgic law, or French law, or Eng lish law—it was the formal decision of Austria, Prussia, and Russia, of Holy Alliance Europe. It was no longer, therefore, open to the Conservatives here to question that which had been admitted by their brethren the absolute Monarchs of the con tinent. It was not within the limits of justice, honour; or decency to urge the King of Holland to the retention of Antwerp, the fruits of his wholesale pi racy. Yet we charge these men, these hounds of faction—we charge their chief and his core science will inform him whom we mean under that title, with having positively encoutaged the King of Holland to stand out against the earnest and solemn adjurations of this Government for the pE aceable surrender of the great Flemish city, as the most certain guarantee of repose for Europe. The Dutch King has rejected the friendly appeals of our Sovereign. He has acted under the advice of a predominant English Tory. Under that counsel, he has spurned at peace ; he has defied the Allied Powers, or any of them, to execute their own de crees—decrees in which they all concurred—and the result of that vile selfish counsel, offered by a fac tious hater of liberty, who still anticipates a death blow to practical reform from his own hand—the re sult, we say, of that atrocious counsel, is the war which now threatens to embrace and desolate all the habitable world. On the head, then, of this dealer in human blood, and on his only, be the sin ; on his, alas ! cannot fall exclusively the suffering. But the war is a treasonable war, for the wretched end of expelling a liberal Adminis tration and restoring the Duke of Wellington and his Tory myrmidons to office. Every guinea spent, every habitation levelled, every family ruined, every drop of blood spilled, and all the anguish of spirit and body to be endured, rests, therefore, we say emphatically, on the English Con servative faction, and on it alone. The meeting , called by Tories all over England, to force war un der the cloak of a clamour against it, have ended invariably in the defeat and mortification of the re qnisitionists. That at Leeds, on Thursday last, had a local as well as general aim—to give a fillip to the flagging hopes of Mr.-Newcastle Sadler, in his can vass for the borough, aed to help the grand Con servative project of encouraging the Dutch to op po-e the King of England in his pacific policy. The naivete of the worshipful Mayor, on that occasion, was delectable when he professed his belief that " commercial, and not political, motives (!) had any share in producing the requisition." His Worship tacked to this avowal of easy faith a declaration that " he was opposed to any policy which was likely to involve this country in a general war." Then, if commtrcial motives were at the bottom of the meet ing, let us have leave to ask what class of commer cial Englishmen have an interest in closing the Scheldt against the mei chandize of England ? There are, we are well aware, men wearing the British garb who have active partnerships at Amster dam, and whose profits as merchants are de rived from Dutch monopoly ; but, with that exception, it seems to us hardly conceivable what sort of " commercial" motive can induce an Eng lishman to clap Holland on the back in her wicked appropriation of a Flemish city, which she retains confessedly but as part of a system of opposition to all attempts of the Powers of Europe at releasing the commerce carried on between them, Great Bri tain, and Belgium, from the tyrannical shackles which she has for centuries imposed upon the navi gation of the Scheldt. However, the unhappy Mayor and his Conservatives when ogee they yen tared to encounter the Leeds public were swamped and no more seen. The coercion of Holland had commenced many days before the requisition was heard of. 'I he pretext, therefore, of prevailing on his Majesty to retrace a step already and irrevo cably taken, was a gross insult to the understanding of the country : the true purpose was seen through in a moment by the meeting,—that it was to impose upon the Dutch a belief of their having powerful friends among the commercial interests and poli tical parties of Great Britain,—that the war might, therefore, with safety be persisted in by Holland, because, if it should be general, the people of England would become dissatisfied, — the old Tory gang once more be Ministers, — the Holy Alliance politics abroad be trium phant,—and that, through some fortunate hocus pocus of the cards, the reform principle, worked by anti-reform wires, might bring things back again to that blessed state when corporations were Parlia ments, and boroughmongers Kings. The flight of the Mayor and his Sadler partisans before the col lective public opinion of Leeds, and the unanimous adoption of resolutions in support of the King's po licy, and that of his Ministers, will be taken through out England for proof sufficient of the real insigni ficance of an unprincipled and fallen faction. At Huddersfield, the outline of the project was the same, and its discomfiture no less complete and signal. A meeting was called, professedly to pre vent a measure which had been already executed. Ttie artifice and the genuine object were contrasted without mercy; the purpose of bringing back the Tory faction to power was treated as its iniquity and folly. deserved ; the Duke of W'ellington's com mencement of the plan of interposing in the affairs of Belgium was recorded,—his pledges to enforce _the execution of the treaty of 1815 (which sub jected Belgium to Dutch supremacy), and those other provisions (from which he did not even except the dominion of the Charles X. dynasty over France), " by which the political system of Europe had been established," and to recognise Don Miguel as King of Portugal, were all read as part of the Kieg's speech in November, 1830, and made a deep and just impression upon the audience. The mildness, forbearance, and reluctance to intermeddle in foreign affairs, on the part of Lord Grey's Ministry, even when the temptations of Poland and Portugal had presented themselves, and were diligently pressed upon its attention by the national voice, were brought to the remembrance of the meeting, and the result was an all but unanimous rejection of the factious motion for giving effect to which it had been called, and the substitution of one i n su pport of the King, his Government, and its pacific policy. Two such thrashings, administered to Toryism on the same d a y, and in spite of every advantage which previous concert and long preparation could have afforded it, s may . erve, if its partisans have not lost all use of reason they ever exercised, to show them the little . bow desperate is the hope on which they are act ing. Unhappily, they have resorted to other means, which e xhibit an insaDity almost beyond the chance of cure. Th,:t the revolutionary party which . exists amongst us shouiJ make A abQW of . cualescing with Conservatives, i; not at all surpsing,—such. a scheme bespeaks at once edroitness and depravity, and so far is in character with ;its authors.—Pww. The Prussian journalists, while 4enouncing the. French invasion of the Netherla nds as :.1;) unprin cipled trick of State, for the purpose of rendering the existing Government popular, take occasion to draw, from the policy of the Cabinet of Louis Philip, inferences unfavourable to the operation of civil liberty in France. They artfully take it for granted that it is the position which the King of the French occupies, as Chief of a liberal system, which makes it in some measure compulsory ou him to re sort periodically to theatrical displays of military heroism to obtain the popularity of the multitude or Preserve the support of the Chambers. The infe rence is that the existence of civil liberty in France is necessarily dangerous to the repose of Europe, and :might to be suppressed. In an article from Berlin, quoted in the Frankfort Papers, the writer says, It is melancholy and disgusting to see how events ond enterprizes, on which the welfare of whole coun tries and nations depends, should be got up for stage effect in the theatre of the representative system.' Here it is evident that all the vices and errors of the Government of Louis Philip are charged upon the representative system. The King is likened to a melodramatic actor, all whose performances have a studied reference to stage effect in the theatre of the representative system, where the Deputies enact scarcely a more important part than a Greek chorus, Ind the peole of la belle France are the ap plauding spectators. Now the real state of the case is that Louis Philip is obliged to have constant recourse to stage tricks of policy, because he has no taste for the honest arts of crood government, and, having falsified the promises which he gave when the nation raised him to a throne which the crimes of his predecessor forfeited, cannot keep himself there but by those meretricious expedients which give power a hollow and uncertain support by the influence of sudden and startling il lusions upon public opinion. But the most fertile tivention for such expedients and political clap-traps will wear out in course of time; nor is the ex citement of the public so exhaustless as to supply for ever the feeling of surprise which is necessary to insure the success of those fantastic exhibitions. Even children may become so familiar with the ricks of a pontomime by repetition as to lose that .wondering credulity which was the source of all the delight it at first inspired. There is also the danger of such political coup: de theatre being carried so tar as to alarm those Powers whom the Government France would rather not just now alarm. The melodramatic production of the " flags of Ulm" and the expedition to Ancona were near producing a war with Austria, and, in fact, the French Government was obliged to make the most abject explanations to soothe the despotic pride which it had offended, and ro appease the ambitious jealousy which it had pro voked. For any thing which the French expe lition to Ancona effected it might as well have re mained at home; but it served to give a dash of popularity at the moment to Casimir Perier's Admi nistration ; and that being done the tri-coloured flag was allowed to repose ever since over the wrongs of Italy in inglorious inaction. With regard to the eventual consequences of the expedition against Antwerp the Prussian writer says, " It were much to be wished that the French Government would consider what it is about. It may, by its impru dence, kindle a conflagration which no human hand will be able to extinguish, and which may in the ,nd prove most fatal to France itself. It is the French policy which, after all the vain attempts to consolidate its new Government at home at the expense of foreign countries, now makes a new one to maintain, by arrogant conduct, a system which was already out of joint at its birth. It has met with encouragement in London from Lord Palmers ton, and thinks itself now strong enough to throw the sword into the balance, and violently to decide a quarrel with which it has no concern, though the common sense of justice protests against it, and even prudence seems to forbid it; for the taking of the citadel of Antwerp will neither cool the military ardour of the French party of the Mourement, as they are called, nor so far lull asleep the Cabinet of the Hague as to induce it to depart from what it be lieves to be its right, and to subscribe to conditions which it believes would lead to the ruin of the com merce of Holland." From the same quarter we are old that " nothing will have been done to pacify the Opposition, or to terminate the differences between Holland and Belgium, if the French campaign is to terminate under the walls of Antwerp. On the con trary, the Opposition (in France) would only be turnished with the more dangerous weapons, and the Belgian question become more complex." Thus, as we stated the other day, the general peace of Europe is endangered to effect an object which, when achieved, if the French army should imme diately withdraw, would not in the least facilitate the settlement of the Belgic question. On the contrary, it will, by rousing all the national pride and angry feelings of the Dutch, make it more dif ficult than ever to settle in a peaceful way the great question of the free navigation of the Scheldt, and other matters in dispute, such as the navigation of the internal waters of Holland, and the question of the debt, which have yet to be adjusted. It is hu miliating to see the Government of this country made the tool of the immoral and selfish policy of Louis Philip's Cabinet. When we objected to the interference of the Tory Government in the Belgic question, the Whigs did the same, and a notice of motion given by the present Secretary at War, to prevent the Duke of Wellington proceeding with such interference, had their warm support. Before the motion came on for discussion, the Duke was out of office, and the Whigs, succeeding to his power, became enamoured of his policy. The ex ample of sitting in Conference with the despotic Powers is his—the blunders of the protocols and the warlike measures against Holland, are their own. —Morning Herald. Since writing the above we have received the Paris papers of Thursday and Friday, and later ac counts from Berlin to the date of the 20th instant. The contents of these journals are still speculative and inconclusive as to the results, which alone the curious world has now in view—namely, the strength and stability of the present Ministry in France, or the real intentions of Prussia with respect to pass ing events, and their consequences in the Nether :ands. As these several matters belong essentially fo the province of opinion; which changes its phase from day to day, we are, of course, not unprepared for the report of one day presenting a complexion very materially differing from that of its predece , Nor ; and accordingly our present presumptions from read ing these papers would be, that the views of the King of Prussia were much more pacific than they have hitherto been represented—that all his arrange ments, threatening though they looked, were still but precautionary, and contingent only upon the French army remaining in Belgium after the reduc tion of Antwerp—and that the Ministerial party in France was so strongly established as to be now in a condition to defy all the opposition which has been threatened in the Chambers to it. It certainly does appear that the Ministry has obtained a victory of no small importance by the election, and by a large majority too, of M. Dupin aine, whose un doubted adhesion we announced on Saturday, to the Presidency of the Chamber of Deputies. The trial, judging of the number and popularity of the other candidates, seems to have been a severe one, arid it would be uncandid to withhold from the Govern ment the concession of all the advantages which they may fairly anticipate from its issue. Thiselection has been long looked to as the test of the relative strength of the parties. The candidates were six M. Laflitte, the idol of the revolutionary party, and lately Prime Minister ; M. Dupin aide; another M. Dupin ; M. Dupont de l'Eure ; Gaillard Kebertin: and Beranger; but the real contest lay between Dupin and Laffitte, the Representatives severally of the juste-milieu (which is some shades more liberal than the doctrinnaire or Ministerial) and the revolutionary party. The whole number of voters was 376, of which 234 gave their suffrages for Dupin, and 136 for Laffitte, leaving the former an undoubtedly triumphant majority of 98—the other candidates receiving only nominal support. The election,, therefore, fell upon M. Dupin aine, who was proclairile.d presid ent , an d w hi c h e l ect ion is likely to exercise a cooeiderable influence upon the Chamber during the important ensuing Session. The strength of the ;Ministry is said to have been considerably increased by the late attack upon the King—to which, by the way, no further clue, ex cept a suspicion that it was the young woman her self who boasted of her friendly interference who actually fired the shot, has been since afforded. The French Chamber of Peers also held its first public sitting upon Wednesday, when three of the last batch were duly introduced, but under a protest from some of the Carlist party as to a violation of the Charter, in not setting forth the special services for which the honours were conferred. It was, how ever, a mere remonstrance, and ended in nothing. Paris, by these accounts, remained tranquil—profes sions of attachment continued to pour in upon the King—anti the friends of the Ministry were in the highest spirits at the result of the election in the Chamber of Deputies,—Morning Herald. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. 24. LIBEL.—REY V. HEATH. This was a rule Nisi for filing a criminal information against the defendant, for a libel on Mr. Walter, a Magi strate of Berkshire. Mr. POLLOCK, for the defendant, showed cause against the rule. The printed placard put a question to Mr. Walter, whether he was personally concerned in facts about to be stated ; and it said, that if the answer should b e in the affirmative the facts would stand thus. Now the answer was not in the affirmative, but in the negative ; for the facts concerned not Mr. Walter, but his father ; and, therefore, there was no ground for the information. Sir J. SCAKLETT addressed the Court in support of the rule, but was stopped by the Court. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE observed, that the Court was of opinion that the imputation on Mr. Walter hid been satisfactorily denied by him ; and that, therefore, the rule must be absolute.—Rule absolute. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. CASE OF AFFILIATION.--The beadle of St. Botolph, Aldgate, summoned a young man named Henry Paplet before the LORD MAYOR, in order that a girl might affi liate a child to him. The case was rather of a remark ab;e kind. The girl appeared with the child in her arms, and swore without hesitation that the defendant was the father. The defendant—lf I was on my dying bed this women I'd declare that the child is not mine. - This abandoned girl is the sister of my wife. I took her into my house out of charity, and after being with us eleven weeks she became a mother, to our great astonishment ; and this is her gratitude for our kindness. Kinnersley, the beadle—My Lord, nobody ever sus- pectd that any one else was the father ; the girl bas always stuck to her story. The defendant's wife, who appeared to be in great distress, said that the girl had most cruelly deceived her. " I thought," said Mrs. Puplett, " when she took ill that ,he was attacked with cholera, and I sent at once for Dr Davis, who gave her some powders. I thought, as the powders did not seem to have effect, that what they call collapse would take place, and I sent off for another doctor, and he also prescribed for her, but he was scarcely gone when she became the mother of a baby, without any as- sistance." Kinner•ley—l assure you, my Lord, that our parish is more troubled with that sort of cholera that brings people into the world than that which takes them out of it. The Lon') MAYOR—Did the girl say any thing to her sister about the father of the child at that period ? Mrs. Puplett-1 asked her who the father was, and she told me that I didn't know him ; that he was a sailor, and had promised, when he returned from his voyage, he would . . marry her. The Girl—Well, for all that, your husband is the father of my child ; you and he make out a very good story for yourselves, but I'll take my oath my story is true. The LORD MAYOR—You must be a very abandoned young woman, if your story be true, to admit the familia rities of your sister's husband. The Girl—They were not married at the time, and he was always after me. Mrs. Puplett—No, you dirty hussey ; it was after me he was. After you, indeed !—(Laughter.) Kinnersley—Please you, my Lord, if you believe me, and I understand these things well, for 1 believe my parish thinks of nothing else, he was after both on 'em.— (Laughter.) Mr. Hobler (to the girl)—How could you let your sister marry a man who played you such a trick? The Girl—l didn't act unkind. In fact 1 gave tham the money to get married ; that was all I could do. Puplett—My Lord, I am totally innocent. When she was confined I told her that if she wouldn't tell who the father was I'd apply to your Lordship. " Oh, very well," said she, " I'll swear it to you, so that I shall get some thing out of you, at any rate." The girl having sworn the child, the LORD MAYOR said that the case appeared to him to require deliberation. Witnesses were accordingly ordered to attend, when the Magistrates are to decide upon the paternity. BOW-STREET. A COACH SNEAK —A well-dressed;nan, named John Edwards, was on Saturday brought up, charged with stealing a brown paper parcel. directed to Miss Eld, Slea ford Hall, Stafford, from the Chester mail, while standing in the yard of the Golde❑ Cross Inn, Charing-cross. It appeared from the evidence of a man, named Elder field, a wheelwright, employed by Mr. Horne, who keeps the Golden Cross, that on the previous evening, lie saw the prisoner enter the yard of that inn, take the parcel off the coach, and walk away. He immediately followed him, and gave him into custody of police constable F 56, who, upon searching him, found a new silk pocket-hand kerchief, a light-coloured crape shawl, and a quantity of leather, also supposed to have been stolen ; together with IL 3s. 6d. i❑ money. The prisoner, on being called upon for his defence, said, that be was a respectable man, and that he held a lease• hold of 400 acres at Grantham, in Lincolnshire, but re fused to state his place of residence in town. With regard to the propel ty, he said be knew nothing whatever of the parcel. The crape shawl and handkerchief, be said, he had bought for an unfortunate woman, but had not had an opportunity of giving them to her. Sir F. ROE, under the circumstances of the case, felt it his duty to remand the prisoner, in order that some in quiries should he made as to his character. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. THE LATE EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF SHorLIFTING. ' —Goddard, the officer, into whose care the warrant was ' given to apprehend the Misses Turton, on a charge of robbery at the St. James's Bazaar, informed Mr. DYER that ever since the warrant was granted he had been in readiness to execute it, but Mr. Downes had never been to him to accompany him to the residence of the ladies for the purpose of identifying them. Under those circumstances, he was at a loss how to act. Mr. DYER-There was some difficulty made by the complainant to me after the warrant was granted, about who should go and identify the accused ; and it was stated that Miss Finlay was in too nervous a state to go with you. Now, I thought, when that young lady gave her evidence, she laboured under no such indisposition. I was asked to let Clements go down to identify the ladies, but I stated to Mr. Downes that as Clements did not see the felony committed, it would he very improper to let him go, for he might make a mistake as to the persons of the young ladies. I thought that Mr. Downes left the office under the full intention of going down on the following morning. Goddard—Although I have been to the Bazaar, I have never seen him since. Mr. DYER-Mr. Downes may have left the office under the inistaked notion that Clements could go with him, and therefore you had better see Mr. Downes upon the subject. Goddard accordingly proce,ded to the Bazaar, and on his return stated that he had seen Miss Findlay, and she stated that she would not go, for what had taken place had made her extremely ill ; but that Nlrs. Johnson had seen the ladies, and she could go. Mrs. Johnson, the Inspectress of the Bazaar, declined going, as she could not leave the Bazaar. Goddard and Ballard were then ordered to go to the residence of Mr. Downes, High street, Islington, to ascertain whether he intended the warrant to be executed or not. Upon Goddard's return he stated that he had not been aide to see Mr. Downes, but the daughter thought that C ements ought to go. Mr. DYER-Then nothing has been done, and I must say that what has taken place is nothing more than a so lemn mockery of justice, playing with the criminal juris prudence of the country. Clements could not safely go and apprehend the ladies; he would have been liable to an action ; and, as far a s you are concer ne d, G o dd ar d , w i t h the warrant , yo u are d ischarged. Goddard then withdrew. Mr DYER observed that he was very sorry for what had taken place. When measures were attempted they ought to be carried through ; and, for his part, he did not know why any distinction was made between the high and the low offender. MARYLEBONE. FRAUD ON SII3Z-NIERCERS...... William Collins, a gen teel-looking young man, was charged with fraudulently ob taining twelve yards of satin from the shop of Messrs. Howell and James, silk-mercers, Regent -street. The pri soner entered the shop, and asked fur twelve yards of satin, and at the same time showed a pattern, which had been obtained front their shop a few days before. When the satiu was given to him he said it was for Mrs, Bell, of Wimpole-street, and desired the shopman to place it to that lady's account. He was, however, suspected, and a 4hopman was sent to follow him, which the prisoner ob serving, threw down the parcel, and made off. He was fully committed. Two other charges were then preferred against the prisoner, by Messrs. Swan and Edgar, of Regent street, and Mr. Oven Morris, silk. mercer, of Pickett street, Strand, who had also been defrauded by the prisoner in a similar manner, but the necessary witnesses not being in attendance to prove the charges, he was remanded. QUEEN-SQUARE. DESPERA ES ASS A ULT.—TWO men, named Henry Faulkner and Henry Alexander, dustmen, employed by NIG Tame, of Paddington, were charged with committing violent assault on two policemen of the B division. On the previous day the defendants were engaged in their limal employment in Belgrave-place, Pimlico ; but they had drunk so much in the course of the morning as to render them almost incapable of transacting their business, and one lady ordered them to leave the premises ; they refused, and, on policeman 53 B interfering, he was knocked down ; while on the ground Faulkner sat up .m his breast, and, by repeatedly raising himself up and down, endeavoured to force the breath out of his body. Policeman 104 c Inv up, when he was also attacked, and Alexander, in the scuffle, caught hold of the policeman's litttle finger, and i❑ trying to twist it off actu illy tore away a portion of the flesh. A gentleman, named Arm strong, a retired Captain in the army, was pas•ing at the time, and seeing the perilous situation of the constables, save information at the station-house, when additional assistance was procured, and the defendants were secured. Mr, WHITE convicted the defendants in the penalty of 31. each, and, in default of payment, committed them for -o months each to the House of Correction. HATT ON- GARDEN. ROBBERY BY A POLICEMAN. —A policeman of the G division, named Barris, was charged under the following circumstances :—ln September a fire occurred at the house of Mr. Bragg, gunmaker, of 36, High Holborn, and the prisoner was remarked for his temerity in rushing into places to save property. He saved a great quantity, amongst which were several bags of pocket pistols. Some days afterwards he raffled a brace of pistols, which, on inquiry, appeared to be the property of Mr. Bragg. The prisoner, who has always borne a good character, was committed for trial. THAMES-POLICE. APPREHENSION OF A GANG OF COINERS AND SMASH ERS.—On Saturday, Sarah Mills alias Chamberlain, Elizabeth Hall, Edward Chamberlain, and James Stewart, were charged with coining base money, and having base counterfeit half crowns and coining imple ments in their possession. It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Alexander Mitchell, a survey or of the Thames Police, that he pro ceeded on Saturday morning to the house No. 99, Went worth -street, Whitechapel, in company with Thomas and James Fogg and George Judge, three other officers, ex pecting to find a gang of coiners at full work, but they arrived before they commenced operations. In the first floor front room they discovered Stewart in bed, and under him they discovered a base crown piece. Some coining implements were also found in the room. In the second floor room they met with Chamberlain and the girl Mills at breakfast, and found a base half-crown on each. All were from the same mould. In the table drawer they found a file, the teeth of which contained white metal. It had been used in filing the rough edges of bad money. The prisoner Hall was the landlady of the house. He found her there, and she said she let the rooms to the other prisoners. She was the landlady of a house where he apprehended another gang of coiners, ,end gave evidence against them as to their hiring rooms of her last Sessions. She said she could make snore money of her rooms by letting them to smashers and coinera than to honest people, The prisoner Stewart was in company with the last gang of coinere, but made his escape. Thomas Fogg, a Thames police constable, produced a bag of plaster of Paris, and a band in which the plaster is set when melted. He found the bag in a cupboard oppo site Chamberlain's room. George Judge, a Thames police constable, said that on opening a trap-door in the ceiling he found it led to a loft, and behind a beam close to the trap-door discovered a per fect plaster of Paris mould for casting shillings, and a piece of spurious metal by the side of it. This being all the evidence, Captain RICHBELL directed notice to be sent to the Mint authorities, and remanded the prisoners. SMUGGLING FOREIGN SPlRlTS.—Captain Wm. Ho neyman, master of the ship James, from St. Petersburgh, lying off Limehouse, was charged with having smuggled brandy and whisky concealed on board. On Friday after noon Messrs. Blyth and Fortey, surveyors of Thames Po lice, in consequence of information, boarded the James. The Captain was on deck, and they asked burn if he had any liquor. He said he had not, but on proceeding into the cabin, and knocking something down with an adze, they discovered three half ankers of brandy concealed in the rudder-case, in a large bale, very ingeniously made. In a secret locker of the state-room, a stone bottle, containing a gallon and a half of Hallands, was found. The Captain said the officers must find out where the brandy came from, but the Hall:ands he owned having brought from St. Pe teraburgb. The defendant admitted the liquor was his, and that his vessel had been cleared. Captain RICHBELL said that Hooeyman had subjected himself to a heavy penalty, and sent the liquor to the Custom-house. The ship will he put under seizure. SHAMEFUL ROBBERY OF A POOR WOMAN. —Sarah Watts, a woman of a forbidding appearance, was charged with stealing a quantity of wearing apparel and other pro perty from an aged woman named Francis Kelly, now an inmate of Spitalfields workhouse. It appeared that the prosecutrix lived for the last 14 years comfortably, sup ported herself by making slops for Messrs. Clark and Co., wholesale slopsellers of Sparrow-corner, Tower-hill, and had occasionally employed the prisoner, who had no other means of subsistence, to assist her in making the slops and taking them home. A few weeks ago the prisoner was despatched to Messrs. Clark's with slops to the amount of 201., which Mrs. Kelly and herself had just finished, but she decamped with the property, sold and pawned it, and ex pended the proceeds with some dissolute companions in debauchery and drunkenness. The prosecutrix was re duced from a state of comparative affluence to beggary by the robbery, for her securities had to pay the value of the goods to Messrs. Clark, and the former compelled the old woman to repay the amount ; and to raise the money she was obliged to sell every thing she possessed, and seek an asylum in Spitalfields workhouse. She had not been there many hours before she discovered the prisoner, who had only a few days before sought parochial relief, and was sent to the workhouse ; and, singularly enough, the same bed was appropriated to both. The old woman did not discover who her intended bedfellow was until she was about to retire to rest. Wayling, R Thames police officer, who bad long been in search of the prisuntr, was sent fur, and took her into custody. Mr. BRODERIP commented on the prisoner's wickedness and ingratitude in robbing her benefactor ; and as Wayling said he expected to bring other charges against her, re manded her for a week. Driscilla Rayment, the prisoner's former landlady, said she had lost a good deal of property while the prisoner lodged with her ; and after Watts was removed from the bar, Wa y ling had her searched, and two under petticoats belonging to Mrs. Rayment were taken from her. A correspondent at Rochdale informs us, that the people of that town were struck with astonishment when they saw it announced in the London papers the ether week that a petition from that borough had been sent to the KING on the Dutch war. About that peti tion not a single individual in Rochdale knew a syllable till it made its appearance in one of the London journals, except the factious crew who got it up. The Magistrates, with the Rev. Mr. HEY, of Manchester notoriety, at their head, stand forth as the leaders of the Tory faction. Then there are the underlings of those personages, with a❑ old gardener at the vicarage, and his five sons, that compose this precious squad of patriots, who think proper to ad vise his MAJESTY how he is to treat " his ancient allies the Dutch ! !"— Tunes. LIFE OF SIR DAVID BAIRD.—" If we reflect upon the great and varied success of Sir DAVID BAIRD, we must feel surprised that his biography bad not been given to the public at an earlier period. The desideratum, however, is at length supplied. The biography is full and satisfactory as to the life of this eminent Officer, and whilst it possesses a lively interest, with respect to the many great characters, with whom he was brought into asso ciation it affords a clear elucidation of a series of great national events, which must for ever form an im portant feature in the page of history. There are not mare than two or three amongst the greatest of our Officers in t h e last two reigns, whose career has been more active, successful, and full of important consequences, than that of Sir DAVID BAIRD. The scenes of his many and eminent services have been in countries which give them a very ex traordinary power over the feelings of the present genera : tioo. "..-Morning Post, HAMBURG PAPERS. ST. PETERSBURGH, Nov. 7.—Mr. Thomas Gislearne has been admitted as English Consul at St. Petersburgh. BERLIN, Nov. 16.—(From a Letter in the Hamburg Correspondent of Nov. 20.)—" The assembling of our troops, consisting of about seventeen battalions, sixteen squadrons, and the requisite artillery, will not, it is now said, be of any importance, unless the French, after taking the citadel of Antwerp, should not immediately quit Bel gium, or should enter the Dutch territory. But then other measures would be necessary, besides the assembling of about 24,000 men, who, in this case, must be considered as merely a neuclis. As a proof how little our Government thinks that war will break out, it is to be observed, that not even the Bth corps, which is properly that of the Rhine. is called together, and that the Landwehr remains at home, The French are as little prepared for war as we are. Their army of the North, as we positively know here, is not 45,000 strong, and,therefore, hardly more numerous than the troops in the three disturbed western provinces. This number may be sufficient to take the citadel of Antwerp, and, together with the Belgians, to check the Dutch army, but could not do more, especially if it must furnish garri sons for the numerous frontier fortresses. How long the veteran Chasse will be able to hold our, in case of a serious attack, is a frequent subject of discussion here. In general, war is not expected, because, if there were a real wish for it, the means—namely, money—are not easy to be found. Even the rapid fall of the Funds does not alter this opinion, because it is known that the Government, fearing a sudden fall, has purchased to a great extent, which is considered as a favourable symptom. However, every preparation is making, to be ready at a moment's notice if needful, and the Landwehr is at least organized. There is great activity in the War Department, which is equalled only by that of the Foreign Department. " Great exertions are making to complete the line of t. legraphs to the Rhine, and it is thought it will be com pleted as far as Magdeburg this month. In some provinces, the desire of war with France is very great—for instance, in Pomerania—where the French are still considered as the hereditary enemies of the Empire. However, the pro bability of war is in reality more remote than in many preceding periods. The movement of troops in Poland hive led to all kinds of reports in the newspapers, but such movements are now nothing extraordinary. Should war take place, it is said to be resolved that Prussia should bring its whole force into the field, and only the first corps remain on this side of the Elbe to occupy Posen. " The Court is very much affected by the news of the capture of the Duchess of Berry, which was received by the Minister for Foreign Affairs the day before yesterday, M. Von Nagler having sent an express. To-day his Ma- jesty closes the 35th year of his reign." COPENHAGEN, Nov. I7.—We have just lost two eminent men. The celebrated philologist, R. C. Rask, died on the 14th, at the age of 45 ; and on the 15th, Dr. C. F. V. Schmidt Phiseldeck, equally celebrated for his political writings. He was carried off by apoplexy, in the 63d year of his age. EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, Nor. 20.-13 11 1 4 ; two months, 13 Pi. ST. PE CERSBURGII, Nov. 7.—Three months, 10 7.16. BREMEN, Nov. la—Two months, 613 614. —Hamburg Papers, Nov. 20. LORD MAYOR'S COURT, Nov. 24. iiirvnis v. NEWTON. A gentleman of the name of Newton was, at his own request, brought into Court from Whitecross-street prison in order to state his case to the Recorder, the circum stances of which are rather curious. The defendant was formerly a dentist, and married a lady with a considerable fortune, which was settled on herself, in the name of her brother, as trustee. Some time after the marriage, and the birth of several children, Newton proposed going to America with his family, and it was intimated that it would be convenient if the property in the English funds were invested in the American funds, to which proposi tion the brother assented, and the stock was accordingly sold out, and be crossed the Atlantic with his wife and family. Not many years back Mr. Newton returned alone to England, bringing with him considerable property, and made a dashing appearance, keeping a close carriage, and dressing in the first style of f±shion. During the ill ness of the late King, George IV., the defendant was continually at Windsor, endeavouring, with much im portunity, to gain an interview with his Majesty, for the purpose of promoting the King's restoration not only to health but to youth, the secret of effect ing which he believed himself to possess. He also was anxious to renovate the Duke of Wellington in the same m:,nner. At last he became so trouble some in his attempts to grind old age into youth, that Taunton, the Bow-street officer, was called on to remove him. About this period his brother-in-law, who had in advertently allowed the money to be removed from his control, heard that a remittance, amounting to 6001., had arrived from America on the defendant's account, and was in the hands of a mercantile house in the city. He there fore immediately attached it, by process out of the Lord Mayor's Court. In order to obtain this money, the de fendant rendered, in dissolution of the attachment, to Whitecross-street prison, where he has remained for nearly two years. He has considered himself as the victim of a foul conspiracy, in which he believed Mr. Barrett, the Governor, was implicated, whom he charged with sending into the prison Americans to annoy him. That gentleman, however, most sincerely commiserated the destitute condition to which he was reduced, and used every exertion to promote his enlargement, having made repeated applications to the Aldermen and Sheriffs o❑ his behalf, and ultimately represented his case to the Recorder, the Judge of the Mayor's Court, who very humanely held a Court merely fur the purpose of hearing the unfortunate man's application for a discharge from prison. The defendant, on being asked by his Lordship what he had to urge in favour of his application to be released from prison, proceeded, at great length, to condemn the law of the Mayor's Court and the conduct of the ministers of that Court. On being requested by the Recorder to speak to the point, and not to abuse individuals, he ac cu•ed his Lordship of gross partiality and a reluctance to attend to the merits of the case. The attorney for the plaintiff said that an injunction had been issued from the Court of Chancery, and the de fendant was necessarily responsible, the attachment having been rendered not available. The defend tnt assured the Recorder that God would one day revenge the total disregard of justice which dis tinguished the Mayor's Court. The RECORDER could not interfere, under the circum stances of the case, to procure the liberation of the defendant. The defendant then returned to prison. UNIVERSITY ELECTION.—A requisition, signed by fifty resident members of the Senate, was yesterday morning forwarded to HENRY PERCY GORDON, Esq., of St. Peter's College, calling upon that gentleman to become a canditate for the representation of the Uni versity in the ensuing Parliament. Mr, GORDON is a distinguished member of the Universty, having obtained the high honour of Senior Wrangler in the year 1827. We believe that he is prepared to support those principles which may render the institutions of the country most effec tually beneficial to society, and thus place them on their firmest basis.--Huntingdon Independent. To ASPIRANTS FOR HISTRONIC FAME IN NEW SOUTH WALES.—A merchant of high respectability at Sydney having, during the reign of General DARLING as Governor, erected a theatre, capable of containing 300/ , intended to open it for the public amusement. Oastacles were, however, thrown in the way; and the enterprising adventurer was compelled to close it until General BURKE came into office, who immediately allowed the theatre to be opened for the performance of the regular Drama. The manager had, single-handed, given an " At Home," which produced him 2001. ; and, as his own personal efforts had been attended with such success, he was anxious to extend his means of attraction, and to represent the regular Drama in as perfect a state as European persons could do so, possessing the following singular qualifications, which have been described by the manager in glowing terms, and which he is desirous should be known, for the purpose of being fairly appreciated; they wil!, however, appear a little extraordinary to the acute ear and refined taste of a European critic :—" No doubt (he says) there are in London many good players out of employ ; though he would not recommend them to emigrate to Sydney, unless both male and female were of some trade—such as carpenters, joiners, hoot-makers, tailors, painters (house painters of course), cat vers, dress-makers, mantua•makers, florists, &c. &c., though the dresses of the females would not so much signify—but married women would do better than single ! To a man like YATES, he could afford to give a share of the house ! They had plenty of low [query, convicts ?] col edians, but a good singer or two, two good walking gentlemen—T. P. COOKE and COBHAM; eight good musicians, with plenty of strings to their bows, and a deep tragic actress, would do well there ; but the worthy manager would ❑ot hold out positive employment on their arrival ! —the distance being only sixteen thousand miles! ! --but a preference would he given to any ene coming out, provided he or she was fully qualified to fill the vacancy! Thirty tawdry dresses complete ; books of ' Tekeli,' ' Valentine and Orson,' The Freebooter,' The Con script,' The Blind Boy,' The Blind Beggar,' would be acceptable—and a Rope Dancer would be made much of: he would not be thought lightly of !" COUNTRY CORN MARKETS Per Quarter. Carlisle Rexham orpeth Penrith effield Winchester Per Bushel. Carmarthen Coventry -- Nlewcastle (Staff.) Northallerton Swansea Warwick Per 8011. ffarnardcastle Durham Richmond Stockton DURING LAST WEEK. Wheat. I Barley. Oats. s. to s. s. to 5. 55 26 42 60 28 33 42 52 27 31 50 28 56 36 45 54 26 30 s.d. s.d. s. d. R. 56 63 30 3 7 0 9 0 4 8 5 83 89 64 6 7 0 9 3 3 6 4 86 93 56 6 69 72 39 4 90 100 46 5 11 6 16 0 111 0 18 0 1 12 0 18 0 (I`3o 129 80 86 96 96 90 100 96 100 Beans. s. s. 40 30 32 - 33 42 46 s. d. s. d. 00 00 56 60 54 59 56 60 64 70 00 00 73 76 10 0 10 6 jll 0 12 0 90 100 L 0 0 00 17 22 17 22 S. tO S. 21 22 24 s. d. R. d. 13 18 36 40 33 39 3 3 4 0 30 39 22 2 4 22 26 40 80 50 63 50 66 44 58 WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.—Nov. 23 Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Sunlk -s. 465. to 555. fine 595. ---- Lin. and Cam. -s 425. to 533 fine 565. -- Yorkshire -s. 429. to 525. fine :his. - White -s. 475. to 595. fine 64g. - Foreign, Red -s. -s. to 445. fine 575. White -s. -s. to -s. fine 625. Barley, Norfolk and Suftblk - Lincolnshire 29s. to 365. fine 3Ss. - Yorkshire Wold 'Hs. to 365, fine 375. Foreign -s. to -s. fine -s. Beans, Small 33s. to 355. fine 365. -- Tick 12s. to 345. fine 35s Oats, Potato 2os. to 2.25. fine 225. - Poland -s. 18s. to 20s. fine 225. - Friezland and Small . 169 to 1 . 95. fine 20s. .... .... -- Healing --- Sid. to RIO. per Stone. Shelling 2ls. to 265. Od. per Load. Malt 'l3s 425. fine 455. per Load. Rapeseed 2O/. Os. 22/. Os. 231. 10s..per Last. SCOTCH MARKETS. Barley I Oats. 1 Beans. Wheat. Aberdeen -- Berwick—. Coldstream Cupar Elgin Inverness....,. 40 48 1 30 36 30 36 48 70 50 60 45 53 40 46 33 38 40 45 54 57 of the mi Kelso .............. Kirkahl y....,...., Perth ................ Cr The size 20 24 1S 21 18 20 28 3-2 30 3 3 28 30 24 28 20 24 27 39 29 31 asure va 14 17 13 18 14 15 20 24 20 25 18 21 16 23 14 16 25 32 21 24 ies throe; am eal EDINBURGH CORN MARK. We had a large supply of all kinds o: the sales were brisk in general. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First 6os Od 35s 6d 22s Oct Second s4s Od 32s Od 19s Oct Third 4'3s Od 24s 6d 14s Sd Oa. --- - 9.2 26 22 24 30 34 19 20 -- 26 29 -- 30 3 ... -- 23 30 -- -- 23 30 46 -- 23 24 -- 45 48 43 44 26 30 -- -- 'flout the country. if Grain t 21. o-day, and Pease. Od 29s 01 27s Od Beane. aI s Od 29s Od 27s Od PRICES OF PROVISIONS, &C. Beef, per lb. N. 3d. to Os. 6d. Fresh Butter, Ib. 08.91 to Is. Id. Mutton— 0 3 0 6 Salt 0 9 010 Veal 0 6 0 8 Ditto, per cu t. 76 0 84 0 Pork---- 0 4 0 6 Eggs, per doz. 1 2 0 0 Lamb, per qr. 1 0 2 6 OatStrawOcpl.) 7 0 7 6 cwt.... 3.5 6 38 0 Wheat Ditto.— 6 0 6 6 Quartern Loaf 0 8 0 0 Barley Ditto 5 t 6 0 Potatoes, 17:1b. 0 0 0 4 Hay, per st.--.. 0 8 1 0 EDINBURGH MEA] The supply of Oatmeal at this sold heavily, at last week's price L MARKET.--Nov. 20. day's market was middling, and Per Sack of 2801 b. Imp. First Oatmeal Second ditto 1 8 0 Barleymeal 1 5 0 Peasemeal 1 5 0 Pot Barley—No. 1, per cwt. 12 Per Stone of 141 b. Imp. First Oatmeal £0 1 6 Second ditto Barleymeal 0 1 6 Peasemeal .-2,1, 145.-3 d, 16s.—Pea 1 1 208._ GLASGOW CORN MARKET.—Nov. 21. The supplies of Grain are moderate, and the market stead,' all descriptions. Barley rather dearer. Wheat, per 2401 b. s. d. s. d. Oats, per 2641 b. s. d. s. d. British, old 23 oto3o 0 Irish l3 oto 15 ---- new 23 0 27 0 British 0 -- Canada, free 26 0 29 0 Beans, per 2601 b. Irish - ° Barley, per 3201 b. Scottish English 0 C Pease, Scottish ... 16 0 1 90 , 0 Scottish 23 0 25 6 Oatmeal, per 1401 b. 13 0 I '. 0 Irish CORNWALL MARKETS. TRURO—Wheat (average) 22.. o,l—Barley, 83. ST. AusTELL—Wbeat, —s. to 2 6.—Barley, —s. to Ils..—Oav' Is, to 9s. Od. PENZANCE—Wheat, '2ls. to 22s.—Barley, Ils. to 12. 9 ...-Oath 7s. to Bs. 01—Beef and Mutton, Od. to sd.—Pork, Od. to 44°. Butter, 12d. per lb. La uNc EsToN—Wh eat (average) 2a. Od.—Barley,lls.3l.-O at* 7s. Od.—Beef, sd.—Mutton, 6d. LtsKEettn—Wheat, —s. to 20s. Od.—Barley, 10s. 61....0ath to 7s. 6d. BODMIN—Wheat (average) 21s. 01—Barley, lls.—Oats, 7i HELSTON—Wheat, 21s. Od.—Barley, 103. 6d. ST. CoLums—Wheat, 21s. to 25s.—Barley, Ils. to 125..--Be e6 and Mutton, sd. to 6d.—Veal, Od.—Lamb, Od. MINING- INTELLIGENCE. Tons. Ogle Quantity of Copper Ore sold at Redruth last Thurdsy 3,569 0 Quantity of fine Copper Average Produce BN, 0 Amount of 5a1e,21,5351. 16s. Od.—Average Standard. 119 f. 9s, Od. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS, AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL-STREET. (From the London Gazette.) TO-MORROW, Nov. 27. M. 0' J. Blackstone, jun., lighterman, Goinsford.street, Horse lyttown T. J. Thorpe, fish.sauce.manufacturer, Milton-street, 2 12 Dorset-square ll J. W. West and Co., brewers, Turner's.square, Hoxton 2 10 o J. Andrews, tailor, Strand A. Wells, surgeon, Kennington-place, Vauxhall 2 1 ; W. Smith, fishmonger, Bil ingsgate 1 ' I r" W. Palle, dealer, \Vest-end, Northall DIVIDEND. W. Henfrey, wine -merchant, Northampton .....................at ATTACK ON BARON SMITH'S HOUSE, A i. NEwTowN, IRELAND.-On Monday last, about 2 o'cloc k in the morning, Baron SMITHS house, at Newtown, i' the King's County, about four miles from Tullamore, wr attacked by a number of armed persons ; every palle,:. every window in the front of the house was broken. uc stone of immense size, which entered a bed-room window+ struck the bed, and was near killing a female servant I'M was sleeping there. Above 100 panes of glass Were broken. Several shots were fired ; some of the Pieced' were charged with large shot only, which lodged in 113 „ about the hall-door. One bullet (supposed to have bell . diseLarged from a rifle) penetrated a very strong ai d door, leaving a hole in it, and lodged in folding d°°r:i which separated the outer from the inner hall. A secon bullet passed through the window-shutters of the diAiDr parlour, struck the opposite wall, and was found upon ; floor. Those within were repeatedly summoned by knocks to open the door, but the summons was n b e e obeyed, and the door was too strong to be forced. All tut windows of the front and back gate-houses were broloct be the sashes broken, and the lead taken off the roof. 1e party next attacked and demolished the windows of t,e4 house of a tithe collector. The Baron, it is said, receii r threatening letters, denouncing him for his charge',st a Maryborough and at the late commission. He had g i/e employment to many, and had never had any differ with any of his neighbours. The learned Baron has 11 1 ' therto been much beloved and respected by the poor I) san'ry in the neighbourhood. During his visits to N e i town he has invariably used every means to incre,se i comfort and happiness of all around him. SHOCKING RAILWAY ACCIDENT: t are extremely sorry to state that a very serious accide.llc: attended with fatal consequences to one individu al, curred on the railway on Friday morning, at the Rai station. It appears that the first class train, WWI, leaves Manchtster at a quarter past seven, and stops by, 1, way to take up passengers, stopped at the Rainhill as usual, for that purpose, about nine o'clock, to take OF four or five ladies and gentlemen, who were waiting b 0 come on to Liverpool. Whilst stopping here fort b purpose the second class train, which leaves Manchester 4 eight o'clock, and which must have travelled with mendous velbcity to reach Rainhill at so early an 11 1 3 e was observed coming along th e roa d w i t h gre at , The persons belonging to the stationary train, who the other distinctly at a distance of 150 yards, thoug m dense fog prevailed at the time, called out loudly for v e engineer to stop. Fortunately, the managers of the l os tionary train contrived to get it into motion, by whi ch , lo pi. force of the concussion was, in so m e degree ". nislatd. The concussion was, however, dreadful. Tr ie _di e give of the advancing train stru c k th e hindmost' carer and, after driving some of them off the road, w" ar :tbe with tremendous violence aga i nst t h e stat i aa .bouse a ' a se side of the road, the front of whi c h was complete l Y: Do t• tied away. One young man was killed upon th e t if The last carriage of the blue train, the one next the a p e engine, was broken to pieces ; the nest, a, clone " t or e was not much inju re d ; t h e next t h rea were all 0 3 "' sg e, less so, and the engi ne an d tender escaped without dOeel Several of the passengers were most severely hut o, hardly one escaped without cuts, bruises, or ontt____>•°- RIBTI-I,S. e4C On the 24th inst. a t O a kfield, Hornsey, the lady Of t; Buckton, Esq., of a son. Harr i s on , On the 23d inst. in Alpha-road, the lady of Thorax , EsqOn ~ of a son. o er the 21st inst. at Blackheath Park, the lady of .4 - 1 1 ` ( I D. Inglis, Esq., o f a d aug ht e r. fliCh 3r On the 18th inst. at Lanreath, the lady of the Rev. Buller, of a daughter. l'Al" DIED. EA° On the 23d in s t. at Pavilion Parade, Brighton, Clar o f mer, jun., Esq. fiq' On the 24th inst. Sophia, wife of Thomas Wilson , Walthamstow, in the 63d year of her age. sg e3 - On the 18th inst. at Bath, Mrs. Helen Ker, aged 71 . a re. y ot On the inst. in Cumberland-street P or tman -4 - na r y . 82, Buxton Kenrich, Esq., late of Alwalton, in th e of Huntingdon. pit., On the 21st inst. James Henry, son of James M oore, ....et Mitcham, aged 15. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY MURDO you, n SUN OFFICE, 112, STZAND a LONDON•