The Sun. — London, England, 1832-12-11 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TIII PUBLIC JOURNALS, The course of the elections yesterday may, upon the whole, afford a tolerable indication of the manner in which they arc likely to run this day. In noticing the dissolution of Parliament on Tuesday last, we observed that " the repre sentatives will, for the most part, belong to the class from which representatives have always been taken," and the polling of yesterday seems to bear us out. A great deal of alarm was ex pressed by some persons at the appearance of several candidates, merely of the strength of their professions of liberality. We never parti cipated in this alarm. We deemed this merely an evidence of the prevalence of liberal principles, and of the importance of individuals in their own eyes. Whatever illusions may be entertained by our countrymen, an excessive respect for men not possessed of a tolerable share of property is not one of them. We are perfectly easy, there forefore, on the score of the elections. They will, upon the whole, be honourable to the Re form Bill. It may happen that a few men, who in the last Parliament have proved themselves good representatives, are excluded from the new ; but, in most cases, we suspect it will turn out that there has been some defect of management, some excessive economy, to account for it. In England, a man who wishes to serve the people must lay his account with paying something for the ambition. Under the Reform Bill, the ex pense has been greatly reduced, hut still there is a considerable expense. The poorer deseription of freeholders must be conveyed to the poll, and it often happens, that the same man who would not take a tolerably large bribe to give a vote of which his conscience disapproves, will not put himself to one shilling of expense to assist in returning the man whom he conceives able to render the most essential services to his country, This is a feature in the character of the people, and it ought to be taken into account by all who are ambitious of being returned for coun ties. It is, indeed, absurd in any man to sup pose that the character of the people should at once change in his case. He must submit to this pecuniary sacrifice, or he will not be re turned. We have by means of the Reform Bill got rid of a most formidable description of men dicants, the nominees of the oligarchy, who were the great obstacle to economy on the part Government. Property has not hitherto been adequately protected. Some persons were afraid that, in lieu of noble beggars, we should have plebeian beggars. But property possesses a strong instinct of self-preservation. The Reform Bill makes the franchise co-extensive with pro perty ; and it is not likely that property will commit a fib de se. Under the old state of things, property was without defence. A corn paratively small number of individuals, having a majority in the House of Commons, could plunder with impunity ; and it was their inte rest to plunder, as what they drew from the public far more than counterbalanced their share of the loss. But all property can never benefit by a system of plunder, which impairs property ; and therefore there is no fear of property in the aggregate return. ing needy men, or men likely to feather their own nests at the expense of the public. We are certain that the representatives to the new Parliament will, for the most part, be men who will watch over the public money with vigilance. A prodigal vote will be the sin that never will be forgiven by the constituency. This is a sin which it will be impossible to explain away. If we can only enforce economy, and disperse the host of aristocratic paupers, now pampered at the public expense at home and abroad, all the good will follow. We shall never despair of a country like England, possessed of so many valuable resources, with such an industrious po pulation to turn them to account. Let us add to the number of the industrious, by diminish ing the number of paupers. Pauperism, whether aristocratic or plebeian, is a great evil. The latter is, to a certain extent, inevitable. But the institutions of a nation are alone in fault when aristocratical paupers are suffered to prey on the property of the community. Though the great majority of representatives will be honestly re turned, yet there is no doubt that bribery to a greater extent than before will prevail in the small boroughs. A number of rich men who have not cultivated the good opinion of their fellow-citizens, and who are, at the same time, ambitious of a seat in Parliament, having fem.r places of a venal character, must give higher prices. But if the great majority of represen tatives be returned by sound constituencies, those who buy the smaller boroughs cannot speculate with a view to a return. In truth, we have no doubt that in spite of the mode in which they enter Parliament, some of these men, having nothing to get from the public, will na turally enough wish to promote economy. We are, therefore, upon the whole, optimists with regard to the result of the elections.—Morning Chronicle. The working of the Bill has commenced. The great machine of Reform is in practical operation, not only in the metropolis, at the head-quarters of intelligence and liberality, but in many parts of the country, upon whose gene ral interests it will operate for good or for evil with an energy proportioned to its mighty evolu tions. It is impossible not to feel a deep anxiety as to the result. We feel that anxiety, but we feel it unmixed with any doubt of the people of England. Flow could we doubt the people of England, after what they have already done ? how could we suspect that they would prove unworthy of the great moral triumph which they themselves were mainly instrumental in achieving ? No, they will do their duty, as we always said they would, and the result of this the very first election in which their voices are permitted to preponderate, will put their fidelity to the cause of freedom and the Constitution for ever beyond dispute. 'they will distinguish between the different classes of Reformers—for all are Reformers now—which ought to be sup ported, and which to be despised ; and those who have the greatest con fid ence i n t h e i r mode ration and good sense, will, if we are not greatly mistaken, go the nearest to anticipate their conduct. Of course, there will be some mistakes, some instances of mi s j u d gment, an d some of unprincipled selection ; but th e charac ter of the country is a guarantee for the main issue of the different contests, that it will be such as ought to emanate from the intelli gence and the virtue of such a community. We should have said so much without any voucher than the general knowledge we possess of the habits and dispositions of Englishmen, but the result of the first day's polling in the metropolitan districts is now before us, and, without any regard to the influence which it may have in promo tin g the objects of one party in preference to another, we may say that it has been, upon the whole, a highly creditable manifestation of the popular will equally free from truckling subserviency and from credulous folly. It would be a waste of time to speculate now upon what must, in a few hours, become known ; but we cannot withhold th e expression of our satisfaction at the orderly manner in which the vast constituency of London and its environs can exercise, and has been exercis ing, its elective functions, under circumstances, politically speaking, not a little calculated to produce excitement. The number of polling booths has greatly contributed to this, and, coupled with the shortness of the period to which the election is limited, has produced the very best effect on the tranquillity of the election. We must, of course, except from the general approbation here intimated the conduct of those ruffians who, at the Covent-garden hustings, pelted Sir F. Burdett and Sir J.C. Hobhouse. A scene more disgrace ful to the actors can scarcely be conceived. That it has operated strongly in favour of those can didates against whom the outrage was directed is more than probable. Certainly the state of the poll is not what we anticipated, seeing that the two Hon. Baronets had taken such high :round in the appropriation of Westminster to themselves. But the arrogance was forgotten in the insult. Thus it is ever that base and violent courses lead to their own defeat, by the resistance which they create in the mind of a generous public. Another subject of a disagreeable kind, though not connected with any of the metropo• 'itan districts, is the resignation of Mr. Lub bock, who has declined to stand for the Uni versity of Cambridge. Mr. Lubbock, it seems, was obliged to retire, in consequence of the su perior influence of Mr. Manners Sutton and Mr. Goulburn within the walls. What a com mentary on the state of our Universities ! A man of learning and science, an ornament to his age and country, is overborne by the superior claims of men who are opposed to all improve ment. The University must have some pride —some literary and scientific pride, but all the pride it could muster was not strong enough to combat upon this occasion with its love of illi berality, and its desire to prolong the dirty life of corruption. Our Universities—that is, the represented ones—are likely to keep each other in countenance at this crisis ; but, if the people do their duty, it will not signify much how a few illiberal bodies may act. To themselves, indeed, it will be something, but to the people it will be nothing, except as it may operate in directing them to further improvements and re• forms. To return, however, to the general subject, we expect that the upshot of the elec tions throughout the country will be to create a Parliament more honest, and therefore more economical—more able, and therefore more daring in the application of strong remedies to great abuses, than any Parliament which has ever sat in England. This is what the interests of the people require—it is what, so far as we can judge from the indications already afforded, they seem determined to obtain for themselves. —Morning Herald. We were right. Our conviction has been abundantly verified, that nothing more would be necessary for the utter defeat and mortification of Ultra-Radicalism, as well as Toryism, in this right-minded country, than to grapple stiffly with them both. Now look at the progress of the metropolitan elections which commenced yes terday, and will happily be closed this day ! See what sort of battle has been made by the faction of the Destructives ! Compare its deeds with its boisterous and mighty boastings,—see how it " rides the poll !" Never will a more decisive blow have been struck for the cause of lawful government,— of enlightened legislation,—of constitutional liberty,—social peace, intelligence, and morals, than that which will, we trust, within the next 12 hours, have driven away the revolution fiend by which this great capital and its adjacent districts have for so many months past been haunted. The disgrace to the coun try, as well as the incalculable danger to all its best institutions, which must have flowed from a return of some of the candidates that were set up in the east, west, north, and south divisions of the metropolis, to take advantage of what they flattered themselves would prove the '‘ fa cilities" afforded by the Reform Bill to turbu lent adventurers over men of character and pro perty, appeared to us a sufficient motive to at tempt the demolition of this bastard and hate ful power, and to engage others in the same salutary work. The enterprise bids fair to be crowned with signal triumph. Look again, we say, at the polls of yesterday. Was there ever a more cheering promise of a great constitutional victory over the stupidity and fury of combined though contrasted factions, than is presented by the results of this first half of the battle ? We do not bid the friends of liberty and order relax for one moment until the day be finally won ; but we do recommend to the public, whose feelings must always act with more or' less effect upon the mind both of candidates and voters, and we still more earnestly press those electors whose suffrages yet remain to be be stowed, that they consider with attention the lists of candidates for the metropolis and its bo roughs, that they consider patiently the political sentiments and connexions of each, as they are known whether by his acts or declarations, and that they will then compare the several degrees of support which have as yet been manifested towards them. A pretty fair indication may thence be drawn as to the real force and tenden cies of the Reform Bill. A valuable proof may thus be obtained that the consequences which the measure was designed and qualified to produce were to uphold property, capacity, and every description of wholesome influence. In the city Mr. Lyall and Mr. Scales are below all the other candidates, Scales not having so much as one-tenth in number of the votes already tendered for that candidate who stands ouly fourth upon the poll, Mr. Grote being at the head of it by more than 600 above the next candidate. In Westminster, Sir J. Hobhouse closed with 1,914 votes, Colonel Evans having just 620, — that is, being about 1,300 behind the Right Hon. Baronet whom he flattered himself with the sure prospect of defeating. To persist in such a contest is even more frivolous than vexa tious. If we turn to Southwark, Mr. Brougham, who so much distinguished himself by his reso lute opposition to pledges," triumphantly heads the poll. Then, again, in Marylebone what has taken place ? Mr. Portman stands where he ought to do—about 500 a-head of every other candidate. Next comes Sir W. Horne, exceeding Sir S. Whalley by 900 votes, and Mr. 11 , 1 urphy by upwards of 1,400. In Finsbury, Mr. R. Grant is foremost by a large majority ; Spankie and Babbage, both respectable gentlemen, follow him at different and very con siderable intervals. After all three, marches Mr. Wakley, the swallower of pledges; nor from the state of the poll last night does it look as if many of them stand much chance of being redeemed. Lushington and Clay, in the Tower Hamlets, finished 600 and 300 respectively above Colonel Stanhope, who has coquetted with the " Destructives ;" Captain Marryat, the Conservative, being at the tail of all,—viz., more than 600 below Colonel Stanhope. Finally, Messrs. Tennyson and Hawes have decidedly beaten Mr. Wakefield in Lambeth. Thus it appears that everywhere, almost without exception, the friends of real Re form and of constitutional freedom have, hitherto l at least, shown themselves to be the decided majority of the enlarged and improved elective body of the metropolis and its neighbourhood. Of all the 16 candidates at the head of yester day's polls there are but two who have not de clared themselves to be friends of the existing Government. This is a good beginning. It is honourable to Ministers that they acquire their hold over the nation through such meritorious means, and most honourable to the people is the virtuous discrimination which they are evinc ing between their friends and enemies. As for the Bill itself, had it no other value than that which constitutes one of its minutest praises,— the curtailment of the period of elections to two days instead of 15, and the dispersion of mere mobs by the multiplication of polling it would be still among the most precious gifts that ever were offered to Great Britain. The comparison between yesterday's peaceful aspect and former commencements of Westminster and other tumultuous polls, must have struck every body with mixed gratification and wonder.— Times. We stated yesterday that Mr. Lubbock had retired from the contest for the University of Cambridge, leaving therefore the coast clear for the two Tory candidates, who will of course be elected. From the intimations which we had recieved of the probability of this gentleman's failure, we are not surprised at such an event. Should the friends of the other candidates, how ever, be disposed to rejoice, we would advise them to do it with caution and trembling. Let them take their casual and temporary good luck in silent thankfulness. The influence which their two Anti-reforming Members will have in the new House of Commons may probably in duce the constituency to think that they have hazarded a dangerous experiment in sending them thither. Some conformity to the course of events is necessary in order to influence its direction, though but slightly. Direct opposi tion in absolute weakness is only irritating, and will, in the event, prove dangerous to those who set it up. We do not know, in a general and public point of view, that a mere man of science is the best representative possible ; and it will be recollected that a Member chosen for the Uni versity becomes, when he ,pas taken his seat, a repiesentative of the whole . British nation. We will not pronounce, therefore, that Mr. Lubbock, though an excellent man, was the best man that could have been selected ; but it certainly is disgraceful to a place of which the sole merit is that of being a scientific corporation, to cast a slight upon one of the most guished sons of science. Cambridge, with all its political faults, has generally had some regard to its reputation as a school of en lightened education : latterly it seems to have been struck with a sudden blindness.— Times. The carnage at Antwerp proceeds vigorously, o the great satisfaction, no doubt, of Lord Pal merston and his colleagues, whose policy has occasioned this horrible waste of human life. The greatest destruction and misery have hither to been the lot of the French troops and the Belgian population, both of whom, particularly the latter, have reason enough to lament the circumstances which converted the British Go vernment into the slave of France, and thereby encouraged the French Government to become once more an invader of the peace and security of the Netherlands. This bloodshed and ruin must be deeply deplored, nevertheless, by all the friends of humanity, for its vic tims are no sharers in the crimes that pro duced it. It is probable, at least, that few of the Frenchmen who have been consigned to death, or of the citizens of Antwerp who have been driven from their habitations, to perish in misery and by thousands on the highways, have participated in the crimes which have led to these appalling calamities, in the ambition of the French Government, or the baseness of the English. It is still, however, some consolation that the subjects of the Citizen-King and of his son-in-law should hitherto have been the prin cipal victims of this atrocious proceeding, inno cent as they may be of any participation in its guilt, rather than the faithful and loyal subjects of the brave and magnanimous Sovereign of Holland, who carry on a war purely defensive, and are engaged in the meritorious duty of re l i - pelling a most perfidious and unprincipled ag gression upon the independence and welfare of their country. We shall hear, we suppose, no more of the disgusting jargon by means of which the denial was once attempted that France and England were going to war with Holland ; or, if we should, we must beg to be informed by the callous and blood-thirsty metaphysicians of Downing-street what amount of human slaughter is in their estimation necessary to constitute a state of war. It were well, however, if the murders chargeable upon the base and coward policy of the British Ministry were confined to the thousands of French men and of Belgians who have perished, or are destined to perish by arms, by pestilence, and by famine, at or near the chief seat of the military operations in Flanders. We should in this case have found a mitigation to our grief and indignation in the exemption of our own countrymen from the fatal effects of Ministerial guilt. But this alleviation to the feelings of the British people is unfortunately denied. The melancholy task is imposed upon us this day of re cording the loss of his Majesty's ship Snake, one of Lord Palmerston's blockading fleet in the North Sea, with the appilli.ig addition that every soul on board perished. Thus about 200 of our brave sailors have been consigned to death by the criminal subserviency of the English Minis ters to the domineering and ambitious policy of revolutionary France, and by the folly and inca pacity of our naval administration. What do Lord Palmerston and Sir James Graham now think, what do they expect the country to think, of their Dutch war and their manner of con ducting it ? Was it not enough to abet the French Government in its iniquitous attack upon Holland, without sending, as an added proof of our zeal in the cause of wrong, our brave and valuable seamen to wage an useless w ar aga i nst the elements at this season of the y ear i n the North Sea ? Did our Minister s t hi n k it indispensable to the r a eethatetability the ed lives s ui o ty f of their alliance with France Englishmen as well as Frenchmen should be sa crificed to its unhallowed commencement ? Or what other inducement could they possibly have to send our ships of war at this season of the year to battle against the winds and waves in the North Sea ? We trust the maritime inhabitants of Hampshire and of Cumberland will on the hustings, where they arc soon to meet Lord Palmerston and Sir James Graham, demand of those Ministers a severe reckoning for the lives of the gallant crew of the Snake, thrown away as they have been in an anti-national cause, and in an experiment so dangerous that nothing could have justified it, short of national inte rests of the highest and most urgent importance. —Morning Post. A few days ago we adverted to a subject of a very unpleasant nature connected with the foreign correspondence of this Journal--we mean a charge of an odious and calumnious character made by a rival newspaper, the Times, upon our private correspondent at Antwerp. Why a charge which endangered his liberty, and was calculated to put even his life in peril, was made and circulated as widely as the columns of our contemporary could circulate it, we can only surmise. It will be recollected that the inculpa tory statement was published in the Belgic cor respondence of the Tinzes at a period when every particle of political information from Belgium was looked for with intense anxiety. Whether the freedom of our correspondent's communica tions displeased those whom the Times finds it useful, at present, to flatter, and, therefore, he was held up to public odium and discredit, or whether there was some other motive for de nouncing him to the authorities at Antwerp, as being in the " pay of the Orangeists," we know not. Certain it is, however, that if the denun ciation had been followed by the result which it might have been expected to have in a town in a state of siege, and if by an act of arbitrary power he had been shut up in a dungeon, or banished from the country, the Times would have had the stage of Belgic affairs clearer to itself for making its own repre sentations of the blessings of " peaceful war"— the popularity of French domination over Belgic independence—the kind offices of amicable ag gression, and the refreshing spectacles of friendly slaughter, which will make the Palmerston paci fication of Holland and Belgium memorable to the end of time. That the charge was false has been admitted by the most competent authority, even the author of the calumny himself. That it was an odious charge the Times will not deny —nay, it will not deny that it was quite as odious as if we had made our columns the medium of asserting without proof that the Times or its correspondent was in the pay of Louis Philip, though neither the life nor the liberty of its correspondent would thereby be exposed to dan ger. That the insertion of this calumny in the Times was as malevolent as the charge itself was false can hardly be doubted, when it is considered that if our contemporary had allowed himself to be deceived by his correspondent in the first in stance, he has since had as convincing proof as we ourselves of the groundlessness of the accu sation—for the author of that libellous state ment, having been discovered and called to account by our correspondent, made a public retraction—acknowledged that he had been led into error—expressed his sorrow for what he had stated, and promised to write home an apology to be published in the Times, which has never yet appeared in that journal, though some subsequent attacks upon our correspondent have, which we pass by at present. One would have thought that if our' contemporary of the Times only acted as he did because he had been imposed upon, or led inadvertently into an error, which might have been productive of serious or even fatal conse quences to another, he would have taken the earliest opportunity of making those honourable amends which bespeak au honest and manly contrition for an act of unintentional injustice. Not so. The Times published the calumny, and suppressed the contradiction of it furnished by its own correspondent. We are therefore compelled, in justice to ourselves, as well as to our correspondent, to publish the following extract of a letter which we have received from him , leaving all details for another opportunity:— " I think the London journal that thought proper to insert the calumny against me, made by one of its own private correspondents, should, in justice, have inserted the apology publicly made to me by the libeller. I have it from his own lips that the apology was given in his correspondence of last week, and that he felt surprised at finding it omitted." The malicious arrest of our correspondent, which followed, and his liberation, without being able to ascertain the name or charge of his secret ac cuser, are connected with circumstances of which the detail may, possibly, hereafter come before the public. Since that arrest he was described in the private correspondence of the Times as a " foreign Jew," not entitled to British protection —though he was prepared to prove, if neces sary, that he is a native of England. The ob ject of this new representation was obvious. It did not suceed. They were disappointed, who ever they were, who would have made him the victim, without proof or open accusation, of a political inquisition or a military tribunal. It is only justice to the regular correspondent of the Times to say that he denies any knowledge of th we e a a l u lu t d h e o d r hip to of this the subject subsequent before, attacks. something Since like an apology indirectanu s e a p r va way,private of which hw was e make o nded, in no account, because apology can afford no reparation of a public wrong—especially one of so serious a nature, and attended with circumstances of such malignant aggravation.—Morning Herald. The actions brought by the CHAMBERLAIN against Mr. DAVENPORT, the stage-manager of the Strand Theatre, have been withdrawn. DREADFUL SUICIDE.—On Sunday even ing, about half-past five o'clock, a most determined suicide was committed in Ball's Pond-road, near the Terrace, by a respectable-looking man, apparently about fifty years of age, whose name or address has not yet transpired. Two gentlemen, named FITZGEORGE and FAIKCLOTH, were coming across the fields from Highbury, when their at tention was excited by the loud report of fire-arms, and shortly after the cry of "Police," made by a lady and gentleman, who happened to be passing at the time. They proceeded to the spot, when they were horror-struck at beholding the unfortunate gentleman lying in the road, with his head nearly blown to atoms, he h av i ng pl ace d a b'underbuss between his legs, and discharged the contents into his mouth. Assistance was procured, and the ill fated man was removed to Islington Ch urc h ; b ut , b e f ore reaching there, he expired. On searching his pockets, a pair of razors were found, ten shillings, and no copper, but no letters or card to lead to a discovery who he was. The body now lies for a Coroner's Inquest. The deceased was a man about the middle stature, and wore a drab coat with a cape. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, DEC. 8.- The import this week is 15,252 bags, and the sales are 10,760 bags at last week's prices, viz., 190 Sea Islands, at I Id. to 1:34d. ; 4,400 Boweds, 61d. to 78d. ; 2,750 New Orleans, bid. to Bid. ; 1,000 Alabaman, 64d. to 7A-d. ; 450 Pernanas, Bid. to 94d. ; 460 Bahia», 74d. to Sid. ; 600 Maranhams, 71d. to 9d. ; 100 Demeraras, Bd. to 90. ; 310 Egyptians, 81(1. to 9d. ; and 500 Surats at qd. to 6d. per lb. To -day the sales of cotton are estimated at about 2,000 bales, viz , 500 Brazils, in Babias at 71d. to '7id., Sawginned arid Maranbams at 71d., and Aracatis at Sit ; about 1,500 in American descriptions from 6id. to lird. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. BURGLARY AT RICKMANSWORTR, HERTS.—Yes terday two young men, named Joseph Gilbert and Daniel Smith, were brought- up, charged with break ing into the house of Mr. William Jerdan, a clock and watch-maker, in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, on the 2d December instant, and stealing property to the amount of 501.—Mr. Jerdan stated, that on the afternoon in question, he left his house, in com pany with his wife, between one and two o'clock, and on his return, at about eight o'clock the same evening, he found that an entrance had been effected by means of a back kitchen window, which he found open, with a pane of glass broken in it, as if for the purpose of removing the fastenings. He also found a door, leading from the kitchen to an inner room, forced open. Upon proceeding up stairs, he dis covered that 24 silver watches, three metal watches, and three metal watch•cases, together with a brace slide for a watch-chain, had been stolen. On the stairs was found a brass candlestick, which he de livered to Mr. Foster constable of Rickmansworth, Suspicion having fallen upon the two prisoner-, from their having quitted the village on the night of the robbery, on the following day he accompanied Mr. Foster as far as the Harrow-road, where they met the two prisoners, about two miles from Pad dington, walking in the direction of Rickmansworth. The prisoners were secured at the station-house of the horse-patrol, at Stone-bridge, five miles from Paddington, where, upon seaching them, the ring now produced, being that stolen from his house, was found upon Smith. Mrs. Jerdan, wife of the last witness, corroborated the former part of her husband's evidence. Elizabeth Jerdan, daughter of the two last wit- nesses, stated that she left her father's house on the afternoon in question at about six o'clock, when all was safe, she having fastened the windows and doors herself. James Pole, of Rickmansworth, stated that abou half-past six in the evening of the 2d December he saw the prisoner Smith standing at Mr. Jerdan's front door. After a short time he saw him walk a few yards from the house and look about as if to see if any one was watching him, he then saw him re turn to the house. Robert Rowledge, a tailor, residing at Rickmans worth, stated that he saw the two prisoners in com pany with a third matt, whom he did not know, walking in the direction of London, at about two miles from Rickmansworth, at half-past nine o'clock in the evening in question. They appeared to be in earnest conversation and were walking very fast. Mr. Charles Foster, constable of Rickmansworth, corroborated Mr. Jerdan's evidence, and produced the candlestick which he had received from Mr. Jerdan. Chatles Collins, a brazier, living in Rickmans worth, stated that he had repaired the candlestick produced, which had been left with his brother in the name of Gilbert, and which he gave to a girl whom he knew to be Gilbert's sister, about two months since. James Price, a horse patrol, stated that he took the two prisoners into custody at the station-house, at Stone Bridge, and that upon searching them he found on Gilbert 4/. 13s. in money. On Smith was found 3/. 14s. in money, and the brass slide produced. On being asked at what time they left Rickmansworth on the previous day, Smith said at four o'clock in the afternoon, and Gilbert said at nine at night. Smith, upon being called upon for his defence, denied the charge, and said that he had had the ring for four months, which he said he had taken off a parasol sent to his sister from London, and with which he had used to fasten the ends of his handkerchief to gether when at work ; to corroborate which fact he called upon a person named Deane, whose daughter, he said, had often tried to take it off his handker chief, supposing it to be gold. Deane, however, upon coming forward, said he knew nothing at all of it. Gilbert said he had come to London to look for a dog for the prisoner Smith, whose dog, he said, had been shot during the previous week. The per son with whom the witness Rowledge had seen him walking, was a persou named Cooper, the captain of a canal boat, with whom he had been woiking. The prisoners were remanded for a week. Q UEEN-SQUARE. - Yesterday darks Henderson, John Williams, and Susan Swaley, were charged with coining. In con sequence of information received, Mr. Grossmith, Inspector of the B division of police, went with a party of policemen to No. 7, Union -court, Orchard street, Westminster. Having gained admittance, they discovered the back-room door on the first floor fastened. They found it was strongly barricaded within, and part of the partition gave way with the door when they succeeded in breaking it open. The prisoners were all in the room, and trembled violently when the policemen entered. Henderson had a mould in his hand endeavouring to destroy it, which was instantly seized and found to contain a counterfeit shilling just coined; Williams was also assisting. There were other moulds also found in in the room. On the fire was a pipkin full of hot metal, and in a cupboard was found a quantity of old metal spoons used for making base moneys—in short, there was every implement for coining found in the room, which was seized by the policemen. The two male prisoners were remanded; but the female was discharged, as it appeared that she was taking no part in the coining when the officers burst into the room. .HAT T ON- GARDEN. GILDING SlXPENCES.—Yesterday, S. Nisbitt, a respectably connected gilder, residing in White- Rate's-alley, Bishopsgate-street, was charged with co louring sixpences in imitation of half-sovereigns. On the 29th u 1.., Hall and Lloyd, two officers, went to a public-house in the neighbourhood of Bishopsgate street, where they met by appointment a man named Daniels, whom they furnished with five marked shillings, and then directed him to go to the prisoner and purchase two gilt tanners (sixpences). He (Daniels) did so, and the moment he had completed the purchase, the before-mentioned officers entered the house, which they immediately searched, and three gilt sixpences and two gilt farthings were found concealed under a time-piece. They then searched the prisoner and Daniels, when they found on the former the five marked shillings, and on the latter two gilt sixpences. Mr. LAING asked the prisoner what he had to say to the charge ? Prisoner—Daniels brought the five sixpences for me to gild, and I did so in the way of trade.—He was fully committed for trial. PUNISHMENT.---Sir JOHN TREVOR, cousin to Lord Chancellor JEFFRIES, was an able man, but as corrupt as he was able. He was Speaker of the House of Commons, and officially had the mortification to put the question to the House, " Wbether himself ought to be ex pelled for bribery." The answer was, " Yes." THE WEAVERS' TURN-OUT.—This event, we are glad to say, has at length been accommodated : it would, however, be more gratifying if it bad taken place on conditions that were likely to be permanent. Some of the manufacturers were impelled by circumstances to cede the point at issue with their hands, and their example was of necessity followed by the employers generally, and the weavers have returned to their occupation,—Macclesfield Courier and Herald. EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE.-011 Tuesday last, as the two Misses Evaxs, daughters of the Rev. WILLIAM EVANS, of Towy-castle, were returning home ward from Carmarth, n in a double gig, one of the ladies having in her arms a young child ; the horse became restive, am! suddenly starting, ran violently down Castle hill, and o❑ approaching the bridge, rushed into the river. The younger Miss EVANS immediately sprung from the gig, and alighting in shallow water, escaped. Her sister, however, floated down a distance of nearly 200 yards, supported by her cloak, and with admirable heroism and presence of mind, still held the little child in her arms. Some coracles, being on the spot, hastened to the relief of the parties, and we feel great pleasure in saying, that both were rescued from a watery grave, and all are now nearly recovered from the effects of the wetting and the fright. Welshman. LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD, The highest price of Bread in the Metropolis is 9d. fot the 41b. Loaf. There are others who sell from Yid. to 134 d. below that price. PRICE OF SEEDS.-Dec. 10. New Englishßed Clover Seed (per Cwt.) -s. -s. fine -5. .-5. Old Ditto Ditto. -s. 60s. fine -s. 720. New Foreign Ditto -s. -s fine -s. --s. Old Ditto ---- ~ .. -s. 60s. fine -s. 720. New White C10ver.....-......... -s. -s. fine -s. - 4 . Old Ditto Ditto -3. 58s. fine -8. 708. New Trefoil Jld Ditto ...._.-.. -s. 20s. fine 26s --s. Rib Grass ..........- ....... -s. 375. fine -s. 421. English Carraway Seed- .... -• -s. -s. 655. fine 12i. ........._.-. - 4 4. 12.3 fine - 5. 1 7 :: Foreign Ditto ..................-...-......._... -s. -8. f3s. fine 7 01 . Coriander .-.. St. Foin ....- . 445. fine -s. 50 Pacey Ditto -w....'(171- ' Quarter) Rye Grass -... -s. -s. new 28s. 408. . 40s. 565. new -s. -. 4 . Linseed, for feeding -....... -s. 508. fine -s. 60 5 . Ditto, for crushing __ 4ss. 50s. -s. fine --- 6 . Canary Seed, New -s. -s. 668 fine 765. ' 'at° Old -5. -s. -s. fine--5• White Mustard Seed -(per 8u5he1)...... -8. Bs. 9s. fine ...a• Brown Ditto .. , -s. 21s. 245. finc. --- 5 . Turnip Seeds, Rounds ... Green and Red Ditto . -s. -s. les. fine 2,10. Fares, Old -a. 4s. tine 58. OZ . , Ditto New -s. ss. fine 7s. 6d. PapeSeed, English, fine (per Last) 221. 24/....... Foreign 211. 231. PRICES OF HOPS.—Dec. 10, Kent P0cket5—.............................. 71 Os. 91. Os. to 11/. 01. St , Esex Ditto ........ lissex Ditto ....... 0/. Os. 01. Os. to 01. 0 1 . Farnham Ditto. Fine..........—..... 0/. Os. 121. Os. to 141 01 . Seconds ............ 01. Os. 10/. 10s to 111 Ils. Kent Bags ........ 71. Os. 01. Os to 91. 0 1 . Sussex Ditto . 01. Os. 01. Os. to 01. 0 16 Essex Ditt0................. Ol. Os 01. Os. to 01. 05 PRICE OF OIL. Rape Oil, brown O. Refined £33 10 0 Linseed Oil 25 I 3 5 5 Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand Rape Cake, per t0n,.,.,,,,,.,, WI - lITECHAPEL HAY MAKKET.—Dec. 8 Ray .—......„,. 553. Od. to 755. Od. Clover..—. 65. Od. to 1005. Od• Od. to 27, Od. PRICE 01 POTATOES. —Dec. 10. Kidneys (York) 01. Os. to as. 10s. per ton. Scotch Reds 31. ss. to 31. 10s. ditto. 41. Os. to 41. les. ditto. 21. 10s. to 31. Os. ditto. Marsh Champions---........ Oxnobtes and Shaws ~............. PRICES OF LEATHER. Per lb. d. to d. Per lb. d. to 1' Butts, English 15 23 English Horse Hides.. 12 Ditto, Foreign 14 20 Spanish Ditto 18 Dressing 12 15 Per dozen. 14 16 Calf Skins.. SO to 41Ib. 14 Ditto 50 to 701 b. 16 Ditto 70 to 80Ib. 19 Small Seals, Greenland 17 Large ditto-- Ditto Ditto, light , Clop Hides, light 12 14 Ditto 4U to 451 b. 13 16 Ditto., l4 17 12 i 6 SHEEP SKINS. Best Polled ....... 4s. 6d. to 58.6 d. I 1 Half-bred 5........ 3s. Od. to 4s. OP Middling Polled 3 6 4 0 D0wn5................. 3 0 4u _ RAW HIDES. (1. Per Stone. s. d. to s. d. Per Ston e . a . d. to S. g :test Heifers& Steerb2 4 2 8 Ordin ar y 0 1 tliddlings— 110 2 0 Market Calf 7 0 eiaCt, PRICE OF TALLON fown Tallow .. 51s. 6d. Yellow Russia 47s. Od. Nhite 4ss. (id. Soap Ditto 44s. Od. Melted 5tufF.......—„,..., 37 e . Od. Ditto Rough..... —... .......21s. Od. ', SOAP, &c. per 112 lb. AA Yellow 50ap......................1521. u,.1 . Mottled 7os. uu* White 725. O d ° Graves , -16 s. O tt Good Dregs _ • ss. um, PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of 81b. Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow PRICE OF CANDLES. The price of Store Candles, in the retail shops, is as follows' Candles, per dos. 7s. Od. to Bs. Od. Moulds, per d05en.......96. 6(4 COAL MA Per Ton. Fiolywell 19 0 Kenton West 18 3 ['onto', Windsor 17 6 South Holywell l6 6 18 3 Townley . 16 9 West Hartley 18 0 Walls End Bell & Brown 19 0 Ditto Bcwicke and C 0...., 20 6 Wall, End Callerton Ditto Clarke and Co lB 6 Walls End GostOrth.—..., 20 0 Walls End Heaton ... 2-) 0 Walls End Hotspur...—. 18 9 Walls End Hi1da..,,.,..,,,.,. 19 0 Ditto Killingworth ---. 19 6 Walls End Newbiggen 17 0 Ships arrived since ,KET.—Dec. Per Ton. s Walls End Newmarch..... 1 9 Ditto Northumberland.. 19 g Walls End Riddell's `-' 0 '- • Walls End Walker 19 6„,, Walls End Hetton 6 Walls End Lyons 19 Walls End Lambton 2 0 4' W. E. Russell's Hatton.. 20 ; Ditto Russell's Lyon's... 19 - Walls End Gordon -1,) 9 6 Walls End Tees ~.... 2 0 6 Clackmanan 15 Walls End Elgin 17„ 0 Silkstone Field and C 0.... 3 Walls End Henderson,... q 6 Greenwich Hospital.... 1 6 0 Lambton's 1 9 last market-day, 8. NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET—Dec.B uCh We had a fair supply of Wheat from the farmers to-deb tr i _A, of it in poor condition, and the coasting arrivals during tbe having been moderate, the whole went elf steadily at about prices of last Saturday. The Oat trade continues with little Tit riation. So much stained sprouted Barley has been in bete lately, that such is scarcely saleable, and 2s. per quarter love bright south.country and Scotch in fair demand at our tions. Malt dull. Fine Rye wanted. In Beans and Pane uw" doing. Flour, if quite sound, ready sale. New. Old. Wheat, Northumberland 425. 58s —B. - Norfolk and Suffolk .545. 645....... Berwick and Scotch... ........ ....465. 525....... --a. Foreign —s. Rye, Norfolk and Suffolk .345. Foreign .325. 355. - - is. Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk...3os. 36s —.s. g Grinding and Feeding 245. 28s —s. —4. Malt, Norfolk and Suffolk 545. 59s —s. -8. g Beans, Small —s. —s 32s. 345. • --- Tick —s. —8 3os. 32a. P Pease, White —s. —s. •••••‘• --- Gray —s. —s — B. Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe 20s 225. —B. 'Feed l6s. 19s — B, —s. Foreign —s. —5.•....• —s. - - 4, Flour, Fine (per sack) ...S. ...S lO3. 4.1‘. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS, AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL-STREET. (From the London Gazette.) TO-MORROW, DEC. 12. M. "' A. Assereti, auctioneer, Bridge-street, W es tminster at 11 ~, G. Sheward, horse-dealer, Edgw ar e- roa d 1 W. Brice, glover, Charlbury, Oxford s hire 1 1 11 J. Williams, stationer, Fleet-street W. Thomas and Co., ship-owners, Narrow-street, Ratcliffe 1 DIVIDEND. ,at / 2 J. Leech, licensed-victualler, Lud ga t e -hill J. Nicholles, lodging-house-keeper, G rosve n o r-street .. ..... 11 . DEVONPORT, FRIDAY NIGHT, DEC• 7. -- The Rhadamantkus, man-of-war steamer, arrived here this morning from the eastward, and brings the melattch° l Y intelligence of the loss of his MAJEsTy's ship Seek' with every soul on board. It appeared she foundered to the North Sea during the I boisterous weather, bet particulars have not yet transpired. The Vernon, 50 ' also experienced a narrow escape, baying shipped 1001 seas, and sustained so much damage in other respects 0 t° oblige her to return to Portsmouth ; it is said she mast be taken into dock. Both these ships were built by CaPt• SvmoNs on the new principle. The Snake, although only a 16-gun ship, was nearly be() tons, and had &IWO of a frigate.—Falmouth Packet. THE LEATHER TRADE.--.Tllis trade has been extremely fiat and depressed for the last twelve months, and prices have been so low as in many cases not to leave the Tanner a profit. It now, however, appal l that prices have passed their lowest ebb, and that the tan" ners have again the prospect of realising a fair return for heir capital. The stock of leather at present on hand is ry limited, as compared with that of last year at this season. A good deal of leather has been sold of late, and some articles are becoming scarce, and looking up in price:, Stout foreign backs are now scarce, and have advanc e° considerably in price ; good calf-skins, Spanish and Gee' man horse.hides are also scarce, and advanced in price"; Crops are getting in short supply also, and looking upwar d s in price. Shaved hides are now the dullest article In t he market, but when other articles have improved in Pric e. ' they may naturally be expected to follow soon.—Scotsm as• FINDHORN SUSPENSION BRIDGE.--FO" day last was an important day in the neat and flourishing little town of Forres. The beautiful Suspension Bridge, erected by Captain BROWN, R.N., by general enbscripti?° of the inhabit/tots of the place, was opened to the poblle by a procession o f th e t rus t ees an d su b scr ibers, juL tbe a t presence of above 2,000 spectator s . Th e bridge is ".°„ on the site of th e f o rmer s t ruc t ure , acro ss tbe r ':; Findhorn, and has an extr eme ly h an d so me 116 ° l eo -- posing appearance. The span or length betw. 6 g the towers is 270 feet, and th e platform, h ; l,, is 23 feet in width, i s su s p e nd e d front four main eu s- e d that pass over two stone towers, built in the cotellesoo Gothic styl e . Th e w e i g ht o f t h e w h o l e bridge „Jo tons, and the greatest possible load it can suppor" 6 o ins about 200 tons . Th e un i te d strengt h o f t he , (before they can beat all effected) is, however, 540 tooth leaving a surplus strength of 140 tons, over and shove is greatest moveable load which the bridge, from its area , capable ~f supporting.— Scotsman BIRTn On the 7th inst. at Taplo w Court, H. the Countess of Orke of a daughter, still-born. On the 9th inst. at Woodle D y l L E O D dge, Berks, in the tuth )sa_r of her age, Mary Juliana, sixth daughter of James le wheb a On the '2d inst. after a severe illness of many months, I ,' t he Sarah, wife of Capt a i n B ra db urne, and fifth d a ughter v. late Robert Hoadley Ashe, D.D. re rn On the Bth inst. at Croydon, Thomas James, Esq., ' LI aged 57. St a art On the 6th inst. a t East Lodge, Enfield, the Hon. Ann e Elphinstone, eldest daughter of the eleventh Lord Elphinstone J On the 7th inst. in John-street Pentonville, Anna Alb" daughter of the R ev . C. J. L a t ro b e , aged 36 years. wi thal , ' On the 10th inst. in Conduit-street, Bond-street, Hussey, Esq., of Hill H ouse , Wargrave, Berks. On the 9th inst. D oug l as J o hnson, Esq., of Bowl-Yar d ' St : Giles's, in his 26th year. • PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY MURDO YOUN G, AT ." 0 SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND. La(DM