The Sun. — London, England, 1832-12-14 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. It is almost superfluous, we believe, to solicit The attention of our readers to the progress of the elections or to the state of the polls, as re corded to-day in our reports from the various districts of England where they have begun or where they have terminated. The subject is too interesting to require any indication of its im portance from us, and our accounts would be perused with avidity though we ourselves offered no comment. We cannot, however, refrain from again and again congratulating the country on the success of its own efforts to be wisely and faithfully represented, or the friends of good government on the final triumph which awaits their cause. Even the riots and tumults excited by the Conservatives and their Jacobin allies tend only to promote their own discomfiture, and to elevate the friends of Reform in the national esteem and confidence. Mr. Hill, the Ministe rial - candidate at Hull, was knocked down by some Conservative or Radical ruffians in his pro cession to the hustings, only to be elevated to the head of the poll by the independent voters of the town ; and in other cases intimida tion of a less violent or brutal kind has been equally defeated. Sir Edward Sugden has been signally beaten at Cambridge ; and we are afraid that, though we had been present, all our yes terday's pleadings on behalf of Sir Charles We therell, at Oxford, could not have saved the Learned Knight from the fate which has im pended over him ever since he formed his most unfortunate alliance with the expiring boroughs in schedule A. At Newcastle-under-Lyme, Mr. Peel, the brother of Sir Robert, has lost his seat by a considerable majority. Mr. James Brougham, the brother of the Lord Chancellor, has been elected for Kendal without opposition. At Ipswich, Mr. Morrison and Mr. Wason, the Reform candidates, have been returned at the head of the poll by great majorities At Sud bury, the Reform candidate, though run harder, has likewise won the race ; Hunt is likely to be defeated at Preston ; and Sadler at Leeds ; and in very few instances indeed do we see a choice to hich, all circumstances considered, we should wish to change. We were never so absurd as to imagine that the Reform Bill would at once create new talents for public affairs, or alter suddenly the personal composition of the House of Commons. In this great and free country, where the means of publicity are so various,—where an able man has so many opportunities and so many inducements for displaying his capacit3 or acquirements, independently of the Legisla ture,—where, if he escapes detection at school. he is almost sure to be deterrj at the Univer sity, and where, if even his modesty or indolence at college should prevent him horn commandin g the respect due to his abilities, he is certain of - being made known afterwards in professional life or in local business,—it was not to be sup posed that many persons could have hid " their lights under a bushel till they brought them to the hustings, or that we should hear of the pre tensions of many untried candidates for popular favour at the elections. Nor have many such appeared : the people have in general attended to the claims of their old friends, where the\ found them constant in their professions and consistent in their principles ; and probably the new Members, whose characters and qualifica tions are yet comparatively unknown, will no! constitute a very important part of the ne,,, Legislature. But by the enactment of the Reform Bill, both old and new Members are now, to the extent of their constituency, real representatives of the people. They enter the fl ouse under new auspices and stricter obligations, —they must address themselves to their public' duties with a more direct feeling of the trust placed in their hands, and they know that the) are subject to a more efficient control of public opinion over their conduct. This consideration gives us hopes even of the Conservatives returned by the influence of prejudice or old habits, and at any rate strips the operation of their principles of all reasonable cause of alarm for their results. In the exercise of a privilege which had been so long coveted with impatience, and so long withheld by injustice, it was but natural to expect that the new constituency would be some what wanton in their exaction of engagements, and that the candidates for their favour would be somewhat profuse in their promises of service. Such an evil has undoubtedly occurred, but it has been much less general than was to have been apprehended. We have heard of only one or two instances in which any proposition has been made by the former, or accepted by the latter, to break faith with the national creditor, or to overturn—without attempting to repair or im prove —any of our ancient institutions. Even in those cases the influence of the wretched de magegues will be rather reduced than extended by being directed against the impassive and im penetrable composition ofan enlightened, honest, and popular House of Commons—just because it is enlightened, fearless because it is honest, and strong because it is popular.—Times. The elections still continue to favour the cause of Reform ; but there are exceptions, in particular places, not only to the success of li beral candidates, but to that general character of propriety and tranquillity which, on the whole, distinguishes the progress of the present election. Lord Henley has given up the contest for Mid dlesex, and given it up, as will be seen from his address, which appears in our advertising colums, because he had ascertained that suc cess was out of the question. It is true his Lordship talks of defective registries and tem porary reasons as the only obstacles to his re turn ; but why should not his Lordship break his own fall ? For our parts we were prepared for this result from the beginning, and we said so. Lord Henley can now judge whether we spoke from o b serva ti o n, or from mere political antipathy and capri ce . At all events his resig Lion is a triumph, i nasmuc h as it s h ows th e odour in which even the more moderate and reasonable class of Tories is held in Middlesex. But what shall we say of the defeat of Sir Charles `Wetherell in Oxford, and Sir E. B. Sugden in Cambridge ? On e wou ld h ave thought that if the Tories were those prosperous people—that daily-increasing majority—whom their friends of the Press so glowingly describe-__ the fight between the different constituencie s must have been who should put the two worthy Knights into Parliament, not who should be the first to shut them out. The contrary, however, was the case. Oxford and Cambridge—two venerable names, >by the way—have set an ex ample of exclusion, which other places may follow, if those zealous Conservatives will put them to the test. We suspect that they will not find the doors of Parliament so open to them as those of the Court of Chancery. In one or two places, however, the Tories have had some suc cess, such as it is. Lord Stormont and Sir James Scarlett are in for Norwich, but the means by which they succeeded reflects as little credit on their constituency as on their party or on themselves. Lords Ingestrie and Mahon are returned for Hertford, but they too must set a high value on a seat in Parliament if they think it cannot be paid for too dearly. At Hull there has been also a disgraceful scene. We regret to say that Mr. D. Hill, the successful candi date, has been attacked, and we fear seriously hurt, by a brutal rabble in that town. These occurrences are greatly to be deplored ; but, as we stated on setting out, the general character of the present election, with all allowance for such abatements, is a character of tranquillity, as compared with the spirit that used to prevail upon such occasions.—Morning Herald. At a moment when the great question of peace or war may be literally said to tremble in the balance, it is our duty to omit no opportu nity of procuring the earliest and best'intelligence on this important topic ; and it is with peculiar sati6faction we make the following statement : in the first place, because we can guarantee its authenticity ; and in the next, because its direct tendency is to set at rest the gloomy prognostics of general war, with which a portion of the public Press has latterly been inundated. A capitalist whose operations exert an influence throughout the whole of civilized Europe, has just received from the Prime Minister of one of the great Powers the most distinct assurance that the general continental peace is in no danger. This communication is of the more value, as, in addition to its own intrinsic importance, as as certaining the pacigc intentions of a Power of the first military and political consequence, it contains the most explicit contradictions of re ports circulated of a difference of opinion be tween the Power in question and the other great Powers, whose movements have for some time been looked on with apprehension. The com munication to which we refer asserts, in the most unqualified terms, the entire cordiality that sub sists in the views and purposes of the three great military Powers. This intelligence is the more satisfactory at this moment, because it is quite certain that, up to a very recent pe riod, the most sinister apprehensions were en tertained in the best-informed circles. We believe the present ascendancy of pacific councils in the policy of Austria (and in which her northern allies fully concur) is to he attributed to the perfectly satisfactory assurances she has received that the French army in Belgium has no object beyond its avowed one—that, having effected the purpose for which it crossed its own frontiers, it will immediately return. In addition to the above intelligence, we may add, that the Prussian Envoy openly speaks in a similar tone. It is quite true that in the " Court and camp" of Frederick there is a strong war party ; but it is equally certain that the King himself is a stre nuous advocate for peace ; and whatever hopes the anti-pacific faction might have entertained from the reported precarious state of the King's health are at an end, if he has been ill at all. He is now perfectly well ; indeed, we have reason to believe that the contrary rumours are to be considered as mere stock-jobbing ma noeuvres. It is asserted, by what ought to be very competent authority, that his Majesty has not experienced any serious attack.—Morning Chronicle. We refer our readers, and all Reformers, to the report of the Stamford election, or, as it is more properly termed, " the solemn farce and mockery" of nomination. It will be a source of deep regret and sympathy throughout the country that the public-spirited electors of Stam ford, who contributed so much to the movement of Parliamentary Reform, should be the first and bitter sacrifice to a general principle of the amendment of the representation, which, by the boundary of the ancient borough, has im posed upon the electors the chains of political slavery. The added constituency and tenantry of the Marquis of Exeter may not alone have " closed" the borough, as his " notices to quit" (" may I not do with my own as I like ?" said his Grace the Duke of Newcastle) have pro bably had their due effect. But Stamford must have the ballot, or be disfranchised. Represen tation under a system of open voting, in such a borough at least, is a local injury and a public nuisance to the nation. We rejoice that the Election Committee of Mr. Gregory are re solved to expose all the facts and circum stances of the " influence" prevalent in this bo rough, and of the three contests which have now concluded in its hopeless return to slavery. Give Stamford the ballot, or disfranchise it ; no alter native exists for a reformed Parliament in re dressing the evils of a coerced and limited con stituency. From one of the actors in this bo rough election we may form some general idea of the sincerity of those who, on their own evangelical valuation, deem themselves eminently pious. Mr. George Finch, a Rutlandshire 'Squire—the political Aide-de-Camp of Captain Gordon—recruits with the Protestant Saints in Ireland, to rescue, as he says, the minds of the Catholics from religious thraldom and per dition. The same peculiarly pious and sanctified individual thinks it not inconsistent with his prose lytising labours to contest Stamford under theNew market wing of the Marquis of Exeter, and to share thegains of his domination in that borough. So much for the virtue of the ranters of Exeter Hall, who boast as an ornament of their sanc tuary Mr. George Finch, the elasticity of whose conscience is now tolerably apparent ! We, however, console the electors of Stamford with the confident hope that better times are at hand, and that the unsuccessful issue of their efforts in the common cause will afford " good out of evil," and greatly promote the question of the ballot. If ballot was tried in Stamford, as " sample goods," no gift of prophecy or tongues is necessary to assure Alr. Finch that he would not represent the majority of its electors. Mr. Gregory, on the contrary, with his tried public character and opinions, and his manly conduct, might successfully present himself for the suf frages of any open constituency in the kingdom. Such is the anomaly in the case of Stamford— present Members could be returned by no in dependent constituency ; Mr. Gregory, the re jected candidate, would be accepted by any en lightened body of electors, especially where the ballot protected the honest exercise of the fran chise ! We have always predicted that, among the results of this general election, would be the demonstration of the ballot or a new sche dule A. We observe that Mr. Newcomb, the opulent and intelligent proprietor of the Lin coln Mercury—as country paper of the largest circulation —avowed that the Stamford contest had now converted him to the absolute necessity of the ballot.—Morning Chronicle. Lord Henley has retired from the contest for Middlesex. In this he has done well : he would have done better had he never come f orwar d. I t certainly evinced anything rather than a modest estimate of his own importance, that a man of whom nothing was known, but that his votes in the House of Commons were uniformly in sup • port of intolerance and jobbing, should oiler himself for the metropolitan county. In the excellent speech of Mr. Grote, at Guildhall, on Wednesday he observed, " that he feared not an open enemy—he was not unaccustomed to their attacks—but there were some enemies who fought with poisoned weapons. If on future oc casions the thousand tongues of slander should be let loose against him, he should call on them by their own observations to judge of his con duct—to recollect their present feelings—and to continue their regard, if he had done nothing to deserve that it he changed." Mr. Grote may lay his account, that in proportion as he merits, by his services to the people, the regard of all good men, in the same proportio❑ will slander, with her envenomed tooth, seek to fasten on him, and poison his peace. But we trust that there will be in the next Parliament a number of honourable and upright men, determined to discountenance all such modes of attack as he has denounced. The reptiles who delight in covering with their slime the best and purest characters, exist only by the cowardice of the better disposed. We observe in the Times of yesterday, a letter from one of these reptiles, who subscribes himself Thomas Thompson, and who is styled in that Journal, Thomas Thomp son, Esq., Treasurer of the Home Missionary Society, purporting to be addressed to the Rev. George Evans, in which the stale calumny of infidelity, so often refuted, is again directed against Mr. flume. After a great many imper tinent accusations, this Thomas Thompson, Esq., of the Home Missionary Society, pro ceeds to denounce him : " His opposition to the acknowledgment of the hand of God in our late national visitation, and his dividing the House on the late question, deeming such an acknow ledgment 'cant and humbug,' will not, surely, strengthen his plea to the support of Christian electors. " Is he not also the patron and warm admirer of Tom Paine's political writings ? Are not his associates men of infidel sentiments, Deists, Socinians, and Anarchists ? If so, surely no friend to the best interests of the British po pulation will ever lend him his cordial aid. The diffusion of those principles in a neighbouring country prepared the revolution, and the records of history tell a tale of their results at which humanity shudders ; and in pointing to Voltaire, D'Alembert, Rousseau, and others, she points to a beacon at which the friends of Mr. Hume will do well to take heed. " Then, as to education, what would he teach the po pulation of this mighty—this influential empire—' the arts and sciences, and politics also'—politics from the school of his admired author, Tom Paine? From these schools he would exclude the study of theology, leaving that to the well-endowed teachers of Christianity—' po litics and political economy were essential parts of the education of every man.' To Mr. Lancaster's schools he had devoted the earliest years of his political life, be lieving that the people had been the dupes of ignorance, and the system of Government had been a system of mis rule, to which nothing but ignorance would submit;' whilst, with singular inconsistency, he observed, that the only reason why education had failed of its effects in the country, was because it was in the hands of the clergy. " His presiding at the head of immense assemblies, and remaining at a dinner during which he was a party to an insult on our patriotic Monarch, and at another time sanc tioning, by his presence, the most atrocious calumnies against the Queen, will certainly not endear him to those whose principles are summed up in the fear of God and loyalty to their King." We are astonished that a virulent libel like this should have found its way into the Times. Is this fair hostility ? Is there a man in society against whom such charges could not easily be brought? The Lord Chancellor used to be assailed day after day, for years, in the John Bull, on the same grounds, and with equal in justice. It is shameful. Here is a man of simple habits, scrupulous in the discharge of his moral and religious duties, attacked—not be cause he is himself a Deist—not because he is himself a Socinian—not because he is him self an Anarchist—but because, in his inter course with mankind, it is possible he may have come in contact with Deists, Socinians, and Anarchists ! He is charged with pa tronising infidelity, because, forsooth, in com mon with the Lord Chancellor, and most of the Members of the Cabinet, he approved of the plan of the London University, and encouraged the system of Joseph Lancaster ! But Mr. Thomp son comes forward with the weight derived from his handling the treasures of the Home Mis sionary Society. We remember that when the project of building new churches was started, one of the reasons urged by Dr. Lushington, which seemed to weigh the most with the House, was by furnishing the people with churches, they might escape the pestilence of the Home Mis sionary Society, some of the reports of which he held up as a disgrace to the nation. But now the Home Missionary Society is put in re quisition to run down Mr. Hume.—Morning Chronicle. The cause of Reform is triumphant in almost all quarters, and the Conservatives fairly hors de combat wherever they expected to regain a foot ing. Wetherell, as we were the first to announce yesterday, has been beaten at Oxford—Sir E. Sugden at Cambridge. Poor Sibthorpe, gallant Colonel though he be, ha s ma d e an ineffectual attack upon Lincoln ; and, in a word, in every other quarter where Conservative principles have been put forth, they have met with the most decided opposition. Nay, such is " the change which has come over the spirit of the times," that in the very place—in the venerable city of Oxford—where Sir R. Peel could not find a majority, when a Minister of the Crown, on account of his assent to the Catholic Relief Bill, a Catholic has actually obtained a seat. But it is needless to waste words. Not only are all those who supported the Re form Bill in the course of being returned to the ensuing Parliament, but Reform itself— practical and sweeping Reform is pro gressing with tremendous—with revolutionary —strides—with strides which in other coun tries would have occasioned bloodshed and civil war ; but which here will be accomplished, thanks to Lord Grey and his Majesty's Minis ters, without either turmoil or disturbance. Henley has resigned Middlesex, and is not that a fact, not only that the Conservatives—th e op ponents of all Reform—are extinct as a party, but that even moderate Reformers can find no place of election ? The contest everywhere, in fact, except in a few counties, is between Re formers of different grades, and in every case those who bring honesty and respectability to the poll, along with liberal views of the true interests of the country, are triumphant. The lowest on the poll are those who pride themselves on former performances—who will not state their opinions at length—who will not pledge themselves to adopt those views on ques tions of vital importance which have already been embraced by the people ; and on e great and important consequence of this stat e o f t h e public mind is, that while, on the one hand, Ministers will not be opposed with so much energy in the adoption of measures of practical Reform, they will be urged forw ar d, on the other, by the real representatives of the people, to go to much greater lengths than th ey h a d previously thought of. Viewing, in fact, the elections as a whole, they are, so far as they have gone, highly satisfactory and cheering. The people have not triumphed in every in stance, but their worst enemies have been gene rally beaten, and their cause is progressing— another election, and what benefits may they not expect from it !—Morning Advertiser. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. 110 IV- STREET. Yesterday John Smith a lad of 14, but of remark ably diminutive stature and childish appearance even for that age, was brought before Mr. HALLS, charged with robbing his master, Mr. William Crofts, the bookseller, 19, Chancery-lane, of a 101. Bank-note and other money ; and Thomas Grimwood, the driver of the cab No. 110, was also brought in cus tody, on suspicion of aiding and abetting him in his acts of robbery. Mr. Crofts stated that the prisoner had been for some months in his service as errand-boy, and lat terly witness found that he had been robbed of mo ney to a very considerable extent in some manner for which he was totally at a loss to account, his till being kept locked, and he keeping possession of the key, and of his desk, where he kept bank-notes in the same way. At length he suspected the pri soner, and on Wednesday morning he marked nine teen shillings in a peculiar manner, and placed them in the till, and went out for a short time. On his return he examined the till and found that one of the shillings was gone, and he found also a bad half crown, which was not there before. He called in John Gurney, police constable, No. 118, F division, who searched the prisoner, and found upon him a new and expensive steel purse, in one part of which were 24a. 6d. in silver, and amongst them the miss ing 'lurked shilling, and in the other a 101. Bank of England note, which witness immediately knew to be one that he had placed in his desk that morning. When questioned he said he found the 10/. note under the desk early in the morning, and meant to return it to witness, but had not had time or oppor tunity. When asked how he came by so much silver, and by the marked shilling, he said he found a sovereign that morning in Holborn, and got it changed at a barber's shop, where he went to have his hair dressed, and he supposed he must have re ceived the marked shilling there. The prisoner, in answer to the charge, repeated with perfect coolness the statement he had already made to his master, and when asked what he had done with the money he was supposed to have stolen, said he had spent a good deal in cab-hire and oyster suppers, brandy and water, &c. Mr. HALLS—Upon my word, this is the "march of intellect" with a vengeance, or rather, I am sorry to say, the march of youthful delinquency. Pray, Mr. Crofts, had the prisoner any want of time or opportunity to return you the 101. note if he had found it as he describes? Mr. Crofts—Certainly not; for I was at home all the morning, with the exception of a few minutes. The cab-driver was not at this time in custody, but Mr. HAILS desired Gurney, the constable, to apprehend him, which he did in a short time. When confronted, the boy said he had ridden in Grim wood's cab several times, and had paid him a good deal of money. The first time was when he engaged him to take him from Picket-street to Exeter-hall, where he had to leave a message, and back, for which he paid a shilling. lie had since taken him home several times to Hackney of a night " after business was over," and he always paid him. He one night thought he would have a ride to Stratford-le-Bow, and paid Grimwood 6s. to take him there. They had also had oysters to gether. Grim wood used to drive up to within three doors of Mr. Croft's house and wait, and when that gentleman was gone out he (Smith) went to tell him if it was all right. Grimwood admitted that what the boy had said was true, and stated that he had driven him to Chelsea, to Kennington, and to other distant places, and received his fare. The boy always carried a purse, and appeared to have plenty of money, some times silver and at other times sovereigns. Mr. HALLS-And did you never ask him arty questions as to how be became possessed of such a supply of money ? Grimwood—l did latterly, Sir; and he said his master allowed him money to pay for cab-hire when he went on his errands. I did not inqure of his master in person certainly. Mr. Crofts never sent the boy on errands to any of the places mentioned. Mr. HALLS, in very strong terms, con demned the conduct of the cab-driver, who, he said, must have known that such a boy could not be in the honest possession of so much money ; besides, he could at any moment have ascertained the truth or falsehood of his statement by personal inquiry. The boy must be indicted capitally for stealing the 101. note in a dwelling house ; " and," said Mr. Halls, " there was a time when this wretched child would in all probability have been hanged. Thank God ?. however, that those days are past; but you, Grim wood, have much to answer for. The evidence is not sufficient to send you to trial as an accessory, and I must admit you a witness for the Crown; and I have no doubt that you will receive a lecture from the Court which will probably have more effect than anything I can say here." The Prisoner Smith was fully committed for trial on the capital charge, and the parties, including Grimwood, were bound over to prosecute. MARY LEE ONE. MORE RIOTING AT THE MARYLEBONE WORK HOUSE.—Yesterday, Jane Wood, Elizabeth Bidder son, Sarah Carter, Hannah Reader, Elizabeth Ran dolph, Jane Siddlers, Susan Parsons, Jane Jeffries, and Sarah Olivers, nine female paupers of the Mary lebone Workhouse, were charged with riotous con duct, and wilfully and maliciously breaking upwards of sixty panes of the workhouse windows, value 181. Isaac Twilly, steward of the workhouse, stated that the prisoners were separated from the other female paupers in consequence of their outrageous conduct. They were placed in a ward under the control of a nurse, and locked in until their beha viour should be altered. On Wednesday night, be tween 11 and 12 o'clock, they broke out of the ward, and actually succeeded in making a hole through a 14-inch wall, when they got into the open yard, where they kept up a continual yelling and howling for some time. Witness remonstrated with them, and eventually persuaded them to return to the ward; but yesterday morning they again dis played acts of insubordination, and, in spite of all reasoning, commenced an attack on the workhouse windows, and broke upwards of sixty panes of glass before their work of destruction could be arrested. Mr. TUBBS should commit them to the House of Correction to hard labour for 14 days. The prisoners here set up a general shout of dread ful imprecations against the parish officers, and were with difficulty removed from the bar. QUEEN- S QUARE. CURIOUS CHARGE OF FELONY.—THE JEW AND THE SAUSAGES. — Peter Garbanetta, a hatter, of No. 34, Tothill-street, was charged before Mr. WHITE, by a Jew, named David Lazarus, with stealing three earthenware dishes, and also with as saulting a police-constable of the B division. David Lazarus obtains his livelihood by selling earthenware about the streets, and purchasing old hats to polish up and sell again, a n d lie was fre quently in the habit of calling and d ea li ng w i t h t h e prisoner. About six weeks ago L azarus entere d t h e shop in the way of business, when a discussion arose ou the merits of an old hat, valued at one shilling, which the prisoner had for sale ; various other matters were also talked over, which at last ended in a theological dispute.. The prisoner remarked that he understood the Jews never, under any cir cumstances, ate pork. Lazarus affirmed that was perfectly correct, and explained th e great o ff ence i t wa s considered by his tribe. It so h appene d, t h a t in the midst of this harangue the prisoner's wife brought in a quantity of pork sausages to be cooked for dinner, and he was asked if he would eat some. Lazarus replied that he must be aware from what he had said that it was against the religion which he professed, upon which the prisoner offered to give him a shilling if he would eat them. The bribe tempted the Jew, and a bargain was struck. The sausages were at once put in the frying-pan, and their savoury smell appeared to delight the Jew, who smacked his lips at his expected gorge and a shilling. The prisoner, seeing the Jew's eagerness to commence the feast, now began to repent his bargain, and considered that he had in some measure played the fool to give a person a shilling to eat up all his sausages, merely for the pleasure of seeing a Jew eat swine's flesh ; he, therefore, tried to back out, but not so the Jew, who exclaimed, " that a pargain was a pargain, and he would shtick to it." The prisoner, finding that he could not pa cify Lazarus, stuck one of the sausages on a fork, and handed it to him ; and Lazarus soon convinced him that a Jew could eat pork, for he bolted the sausage at one mouthful, and claimed the remainder. The prisoner cried, " Hold, enough !" and said that he was convinced; but no more sausages would he allow him to eat, and flatly refused to give him the promised shilling. Lazarus flew in a rage, and find ing that he could not get the money, he laid hold of the old shilling hat, and walked off with it. Nothing more was seen of Lazarus until yesterday, when he again entered the prisoner's shop, and commenced bargaining for another old hat, and after a long parley, he purchased it for sixpence. The prisoner now requested to look at some wares in the Jew's basket, and selected out three large dishes, at the price of eighteen pence, which he purchased, telling L+ztrus that they were now square, as he reminded him of the shilling he owed him for the hat he had taken away six weeks ago. In vain the Jew urged that he had eaten the pork sausages, and was en• titled to either the hat or the shilling.. Words at last got so high that a police constable was called in, and Lazarus gave the prisoner in charge fcr stealing his dishes. The prisoner resisted and as saulted the constable. The whole party at last got to the station-house. Mr. WHITE said that there were no grounds whatever for the felonious charge, and blamed the constable for interfering. The charge was then di,missed, and the prisoner threatened to take out a warrant for the police constable. A DRUNKEN ADVENTURE.—Richard Sandon, of Quebec -street, Portman-,quare, was charged with being drunk on the previous evening, and corn , witting some trivial damages. About half-past ten o'clock at night, the defendant, who had taken a few glasses too much, was returning home, and on passing along Little Chapel-street, he, unfortunately unable to preserve his equilibrium, pitched head fore most through a shop-window filled with lollypops, and sweetmeats, at the same time smashing a num ber of show-glasses. The defendant soon reco vered himself and ran off as fast as possible, closely pursued by the lollypop-maker. Finding that he was close at his heels, the defendant bolted into a house where the door was partly open, in the hope of escaping; he attempted to run up stairs, but he had not ascended more than a few steps when he pitched over the bannisters and fell into the kitchen, where all the family were at supper. The conster nation produced by the sudden appearance of such an unexpected guest, can scarcely be described, and it ended in his being given into custody for the da mage done. The defendant was fined ss. for being drunk, and ordered to make good all damages. HATTON-GARDEN. Yesterday Elizabeth Gilmore, Elizabeth Foley, Mary Perkins, and Mary Weston, were charged before Mr. Sergeant SELLON with having assaulted James Clutterbuck, a lad thirteen years of age, so as to endanger his life. The prisoners Gihnore, Foley, and Perkins, did not deny the assault, saying that the boy called then) " Irish tishfags." They were remanded, and Mary Weston was discharged. Yesterday the following interesting application was made to Mr. Sergeant SELLON, by William Jones, a Hackney-coachman:—On Tuesday last, while at the hustings in Charing-cross, a boy named Charles Foster, who resides in Tufron-street, West minster, about 13 years of age, asked him to allow him to ride on the box with him, which he con sented to. As he was driving through Chancery lane, applicant saw a waggon coming towards him without any driver at the horses heads to guide them, on which lie called to the horses, thinking they would stop, but they proceeded along until the wheels came in contact, and the jerk precipi tated applicant and the boy from their seats, and the wheels run over the leg of the latter, who was taken to the hospital, where it was found that he had received a compound fracture, and Dr. Earl ordered its immediate amputation, which the poor little fellow bore with the utmost courage and for titude; and on seeing his mother yesterday, be smiled, and requested her not to fret, as his pain was all over. Applicant had taken the number of the waggon, and could produce several witnesses that the waggoner was to blame. The boy was not yet out of danger, and he wished to know how he was to proceed. . _ _ Mr. Sergeant SELLON told him that he might have a summons against him if he thought pro per, and regretted that that remedy would not in flict adequate punishment upon him. Applicant took out the summons. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. MR. LEECH'S BANKRUPTCY. A meeting of the creditors of Mr. Leech, of the London Coffee-house, was held on Wednesday, pursuant to appointment, to declare the fiist di vidend on the estate. The solicitor to the Com mission said, that Sir Charles Price, who claimed to be a creditor for 1,0001., had received from 31r. Leech some transfers for wine in the docks, which could not be considered in the shape of dock war rants. Sir Charles had refused to give them up. Mr. Price, son of Sir Charles, contended that the transfers ought to be considered in the light of dock warrants. The COMMISSIONER, however, was of opinion, that the dock warrant must be taken to be the symbol of right to the property, which Sir Charles Price had not in his possession ; and he thought, therefore, that the wine must be placed at the dis posal of the assignees. Mr. FAULKNER, the solicitor of Sadler Hall, said, that his client, Mr. Slark, of Cheapside, who made a claim of 2,760/. for money lent, held, among other documents, a bond signed by a person calling himself the Earl of Stirling, which Mr. Shirk had received from Mr. Leech as a security for his debt, but which he (Mr. F.) conceived of no value, and he should therefore hand it over to the assignees to do the best they could with it. _ . Mr. STRAIEFIIT read the principal part of the bond, from which it appeared the bond had been deposited as security in the hands of Mr. Leech by a gentleman named Briant, who was largely in debted to him. The COMMISSIONER stated, that the debts al ready proved amounted to 90,3741., upon which a dividend of one shilling and ninepence in the pound would be made.—The meeting then adjourned. DEATH OF VISCOUNTESS DUNCAN.-It is with deep regret that we hove to announce the death of HENRIETTA Viscountess DUNCAN, which took place at her house in George-square, on Saturday last. Her Lady ship, who was in her 84th year, was daughter to Lord President DUNDAS, and u idow of Admiral Lord Viscount Du NCA N . , who gained the glorious victory off Camperdown, on the 11th of October, 1797. Few individuals have died more regretted by her extensive circle of relations and friends than Lady DUNCAN. Her many amiable qualities, as well as her fascinating manners, will long endear het memory to all who knew her. Her Ladyship, notwith standing her advanced age, continued to the last in pos session of all her facultie3, and was distinguished by her numerous and unostentatious acts of kindness and benevo lence to all around her. Her Ladyship's eldest son i. ROBERT Earl of CAmmtnowx.—Edinburgh Advertiser, FRENCH PAPERS. SIEGE OF ANTWERP. The following letter has been addressed by Marshal Ge rard to the Minister of War : " Head-quarters, at Berchem, Dec. 9. " Sir,—The descent of the protecting fosse in the co• vert way to the Lunette St. Laurent was completed yes terday as far as the outlet on the border of the counter• scarp exclusively. These works were greatly harassed by the fire from the citadel, which, during the whole of yes. terday and list night, has incessantly thrown upon our workmen a great number of shells. This fire, however, caused us no great losses. The fire of our batteries bee compelled the Dutch to withdraw to the casemstes of the citadel, which are immense. The communications from one bastion to another are now made under ground; and except the number of men strictly necessary for the service of such batteries as are still firing, no one is seen in the interior of the citadel. This total disappearance of the enemy deprives our fire of the greater part of the effect which it should prO4 duce upon the garrison. A report from General Achard states that a frigate, a sloop, and twelve Dutch gun-boats appeared yesterday before Fort Frederic, and the Admiral summoned the Captain of the 22d, who occupied that fort with his detachment, to evacuate it, threatening to cut the dikes. Upon a negative answer from the Captain, the flotilla commenced a brisk cannonade, which had no effect. Under the cover of this fire the Dutch at. tempted to land some troops, hut they were forced to re" embark by four companies of the 22d regiment. The armament of Fort Philippe has just been effected. TWO mortars will also be placed immediately at Fort Lacroix , which the fleet continues to harass by its fire. The se' counts received from General Sebastiani, who is on the left bank, mention that the Dutch squadron has not come near the positions occupied by us; that it is still beyond, Fort Liefken s h oc k, an d appears to have the intention 0 ' cutting the sea-dike of the polder of Duel. Its attempt' in this respect have hitherto proved fruitless. la° taking every possible measure to completely isolate the citadel from the Dutch fleecand to thwart the efforts w hich the latter might make to cut the dikes. Accept, &c. " COUNT GERARD." CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES-SITTING OF DEC. 1°• At two o'clock, M. Dupin, the President, took the, Chair. Shortly after w hi c h M. d'A rgout , Mi n i s t e r 01 Commerce and Public Works, ascended the UMW' , to present a project of law relative to the measures neat , ' sary to be adopted, in order to dispossess any individual whose property should he considered indispenamble for the erection of any work of public utility. The Minister pointed out the difficulties and expenses the Governmen t had to encounter, whenever it was thought advisable for the public good to purchase any private property. 14 ' said they were of such a nature that it was impossible to execute, in France, a road, a canal, or a rail-road, so in' surmountable were the obstacles, and so exorbitant the demands of the owners. He then pointed out the advan tages of such a law, in forwarding the prosperity of the country, and concluded, amidst the noise of private con' versations, which prevented our hearing the tenor of the proposed law. M. Salverte then gave notice of a motion, tending to continue, from one session to the other, the discussion of such bills, as want of time, or other circumstances be d not allowed to be passed in the preceding session. Some desultory discussions had commenced on the pro priety of considering the proposition immediately, or de ferring it to another day, when M. Barthe, the Minister of Justice, announced that lie had a project of law for the regulation of the responsibility of Ministers and other agents of the Government, to submit to the Chamber. A profound silence:then ensued, hut no sooner had he ber' to read the expose: des motifs, than the deputies resumed their conversations, and the Minister's voice soon becam e inaudible. We could, however, collect that five deputies, could denounce Ministers for the crimes of treason, peeu lation, or prevarication; the Ministers to have three days to reply. If the Chamber impeached the Minister, th e charge is to b e r e f erre d t o a C omm it tee o f n i n e of its Members, who must report on it in the course of eight , lays. Should the Chamber admit the charge, they will appoint a Committee of three or five Members to prose" cute the offender before the Chamber of Peers, who shall sit as Judges on the occ.ision, &c. The rest defines the nature of the above crimes, and the judiciary forms to be, observed in carrying o n th e p rosecu tion before the Court 01 Peers. FItENCU FUNDS.-.PARIS, DEC. 12.-Five per Cents.„9Bt 9 8 f: sc. 98f. 98f. sc. 98f. 981. sc. 98f. 9Sf. sc. 98f. sc. 98f. 98f. sc-, Four per Cents., 81E 50c. ; Three per Cents., 67f. 95c. 68f. IV. 95c. 90c. 68f. 67f. 90c. 85c. 90c. 80c. 85c. 90c. ; National Loan. 98f. 30c. ; Bank Stock, 1,6801. ; Rente de Naples, 80f. 40c. 30C. 20c. 25c. 20c. ; Roman Five per Cents., 78% Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 13 12S, ; Rente d'Espagne Three per Cents., 33 331 ii 33 3314 ► % 33 3314 ; Royal Spanish Loan, 81 14 14 82 81 % 4 82; Rente Perpetuelle d'Espagne, 567 s % %; Belgic Loan of 1831, 7614 Haytian Loan, 2151. 2201. 225 f Exchange on London, one month, paper, 2 5 . f. 75e. ; money, 25f. 70c.; three months, paper, 2.5 f. 60c.; money' . 25f. (50c.-Cours Authentiquc. THE MARKETS. SOUTHALL MA RK I. This day's supply of Beasts was tolerably good, both as t ° numbers and quality; of Sheep, C a lves, and Porkers, rather li mited, and not over prime. Ihe trade with each kind of protl e meat was somewhat brisk, with that of middling and inferior quality dull, at the following prices per stone of Sib. to SO' the oflals Beef 3s. Od. to 4s. 4d 3s. Bd. to ss. Od e I Mutton -3 8 4 8 Pork 4 0 5 10 The foregoing quotations are Beef from 2.d. to 4d. per stone lower than on this day se'imight ; prices otherwise stationary . Beasts, 569; Sheep, 2,431 ; Calves, 46 ; Pigs, 24. A co nsiderabl e . number of the Beasts, but not many of the small stock, left the market unsold. HAILSHAM MARKET.—Dec. 12. 3Bieuetft„.= 8 ---- 0 0,1 to So I d. P V o e r a k l.„---__ ._. 45.3 8 0,1. to 4 4 5. 4 0 1 • Trade with prime Beef and Mutton brisk, with other M C ' rather dull. Our Christmas Cattle Show, which was held here to -day, ' Ca ' both well supplied and numerously attended. CHICHESTER MAREET.—Dee. 12- Beef —w 3s. Od. to 4s. 6d. Veal 4s. Od. to 45 0 44 ' I Mutton -- 3 6 4 8 Pork, . 3 8 4 "'A This being our great Ch r i s t mas mar k et, th e sup ply was !Ver . t throughout, and the trade toler a bly brisk. Some of the 3 Beasts were exceedingly prime. I n lean stock but little doing. .ING THE WEB COUN FRY CORN MARK .ETS DUR Wheat. Barley. Oats. Bearte_ .. . Per Quarter. s. to s. s. s. s. to s. s. to ;; Blandford 53 30 20 Brigg . 52 63 36 40 19 22 31 35 Cambridge.— 55 32 17 Chard 54 58 28 34 17 20 34 •"- Htintingdon—.. 58 63 22 40 15 21 25 Long Sutton 56 64 17 22 33 35 „ t Louth 5O 55 27 32 19 20 32 Lynn 54 56 20 38 22 28 32 Newark Nottingham 46 63 36 44 17 23 38 42 Peterborough —... 46 60 28 36 17 22 29 36 Plymouth 67 41 27 43 Sleafonl 65 70 35 38 1 22 28 41 38 4 3 Uppingham 50 59 28 38 20 26 30 Wished) - 44 47 20 24 13 15 30 J LEEDS CORN MARKET. Wheat, Norfolk and SuHi,lk, 601 b. - York. and Lincoln. 601 b. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk - Yorkshire and Lincolnshire - Grinding Beaus 63lb. Oats, Potatoe -Mealing, For. 12d. to 13d En Shelling Rapeseed, English, 211. to 22... Foreig '.—Dec. 11. } 525. to 595. 0 4 495. to 543. :4 ° 11s. to 355. 4 9.95. to 33 3 . 21s. to 235. 335. to 41s. C,' 233. to 261. :. lg. Mid. to 13 , 1. pet '',' 265. to 28s. per 104 ..1 zn, —l. to --/. P_ ___. . S L ..: - - -''' LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.—Dec. 11 . m, WHEAT, English, White, per 70Ib. 8 0 Red Scotch, Welch, and Manx Irish, White 7 3 .., 9 8 Red 7 2 ' 10 -- Foreign 8 6 ~, -. OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 2 5 ~ 8 Irish . Foreign BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 34 0 4 8 ---- Scotch and Irish, per 601bs. -- Feeding 3ll 0 BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter 36 0 38 0 Irish, &c. Foreign PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter 3B 0 40 0 08 Foreign FLOUR, English, per 280Ib. Irish ‘ , 4 6 OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401bs 22 0 so 0 INDIAN CORN, per 44011). LIVE, per Imperial quarter '2 NIALT, per Imperial quarter IMPORT OF GRAIN for the Week ending Dec. la to ld' Oa Wheal Oats. 1 Barley Flour. Load s ' Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Foreign, Brlsilrish,&c. Scks.l 1 56 4, _.... 12,309 9,C23 , 2,423 1,140 I 5,987 ____......2:------ ARRIED. 1/1 ' On the Ilth inst. at St. M Nicholas Church, Great largo otl os _......................... ...,.. ....... - he Rev. Harvey Bawtree, M.A., to Margaret, niece of Th - Fiddes, Esq. , o il, On the I ith inst. at Clifton, Lee Trotman, Esq., to S I ill only daughter of the late Rev. A. K. Thomas, o f Charlton' the county of Somerset. DIED. On the 7th inst. at the Vicarage House Southwell, hamshire, Henrietta Auriel, wife of theßev. M. Waticills• t pc On the 111th inst. in Friday-street, John Garle, t.:9.• Di 81st year of his age. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY MURDO YOUNG, AT - SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, LONDON. BIRTHS. lady °f On the I ith inst, at Thorna ge R ec t or y, N or f o lk, the the lady of the Rev. Augustus Dashwood, of a son. , lady of On the It2th inst. in Hans-pl a ce, Sloane-street, the la Signor T. Rovedino, of a son. Mach in' On the 13th inst. in Upper Harley-street, Mrs. Geo. - tosh On , of a daughter. the I•2th inst. Mrs. Richard Ward, of Great Russell-st reet' Bloomsbury, of a son.