The Sun. — London, England, 1832-02-21 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF. THE PIiBLIC•JOURNALS. The professions of the " Great Powers" about preserving the peace of Europe are sadly incon sistent with their acts. When we speak of the Great Powers, we mean those States that form the c. nfederacv for the support and enforcement of despotic principles throughout Europe, called the " Holy Alliance," of which Russia is the head and living soul, and Austria and Prussia the steel-clad arms. Of these Powers the eatest has not yet emerged from barbarism, and Prussia is comparatively new in the family of European States. From a petty principality, tributary to Poland, she has risen upon the ruins of that heroic, hut ill-fated country, into a degree of importance that makes her, by means of a highly-disciplined and powerful standing an arbiter of the destiaies of continental nations. Bound together by the strong tie of a common hatred of all liberal institutions, and a common resistance to all political improvements, they find themselves still more strong by the weakness of the Governments of France and England than by their own strength—for, though they have carried the military system of govern ing mankind to a high degree of power and great mechanical excellence, they are destitute of the greatest of all sources of strength, the moral potver which Governments de rive from the support of enlightened public opinion. The three great Powers, if they have not honest or enlightened Statesmen at their head, are directed by a class of political counsel - .whose principles of action are more con genial with the system of policy which they have to uphold and extend than honesty or wisdom could be—we mean subtle, shrewd, dexterous, and circumventing politicians. The Cabinet of St. Petersburgh has been, in particular, since the days of Peter the Great, distinguished for the possession of a high degree of ambitious crafti ness and has hada') sagacity. It was by the exercise of those arts, much more than by the force of arms, that Russia wrought, step by step, the downfall of the nobler, the more honest, and snore manly. barbarism of the Turkish empire. With her armies often routed in the field, and her poWer reduced to the verge of destruction by the superior valour of the Alahomedans, Russia has always retrieved those reverses by the keen tact and persevering cunning of her policy. There can now be little reason to doubt that before she engaged in the last war, which ended in the surrender of the Turkish independence on the plains of Adrianople, she had half conquered Turkey by inducing the infatuated Sul , an, by means of the insidious advice of her emissaries, to cut off the right arm of his power— the enthusiastic and impetuous, and, with'regard to their Russian adversaries, the generally in- ' vincible Janissaries. Thus, long before. the , battle of the Balkan, a stroke of wily 'and deep laid pOlicy undermined and prepared for final ruin the throne of the Amuraths and the Soly - mans, which once 'flashed a terrible glory over - Christian Europe. When we look back to all that Russia has accomplished in Europe, and . the means by which she has carried her ambi tious purposes. into effect, we cannot wonder at any instance of bad faith, of falsified promises and of double-faced policy, which that Power, in conjunction with her equally unprincipled bre thren of the Holy Alliance, has displayed in the course of the protocol policy relative to the affairs of Holland and Belgium. There we find Ru , sia and her two Allies proceeding step by step, along with the Ministers of - England - and France, in settiinz, upon the baSis of - terms dic tated by themselves, the disputes of those two countries. This dictation being in violation of the principle of non-intervention previously pro claimed by all the Powers, the excuse offerecifor it was the necessity of preserving peace in Europe: yet no sooner are the tedious negotiations brought to that point when nothing remained to be dune but that the Powers at whose dictation, or at least with whose concur rence, all the terms of the Belgic treaty had been drawn up, should formally ratify their own act, than we find them shuffling out of the responsibility which their voluntary en gagements had incurred, by declining to ratif upon the day agreed upon, the 15th of January, obtaining then a postponement to the 31st of the same month; and on that day leaving France and England to exchange ratifications by them selves, as if the other three Powers had never been any parties to their own diplomatic acts. Such conduct in private life would cause men to he stigmatised with the name of knaves, but it is called State policy in Princes. Now we find that the treaty relative to the demolition of the Belgian fortresses, which we were positively assured, over and over again, by the French and Engtsh Ministerial Papers, had been defini tively settled, has been also postponed, from the kith of February, the day when the ratification was to have taken place, to the 15th of March. Thus do the Holy Alliance, while pretending to be most anxious for the preservation of the peace of Europe, take those steps which must keep most ruinously alive the apprehension of war. But what is Europe to think of the political talents of Lord Palmerston or Casimir Perier, who have been thus made the tools of the bar- ()aria! , Machiavelisrn of the North ?—Morning Herald. e have laid before our readers letters from our own correspondents, and extracts from the Jamaica Papers, and the columns of our con temporaries, on the subject of the alarm;ng in surrection which has broken out in Jamaica. The insurrection appears to be of a most for midable character. Lord Hovvick said last night, in answer to Mr. Burge, that the latest , accounts which had been received by the Go vernment were dated on the 6th of January, , from the Earl of. Belmore, stating that the in- ' surrection was at that moment in a great mea sure suppressed. It appears that there have been several encounters between the revolted ne groes and the army and militia, in all of which, as was to have been expected, the. former were defeated. The loss in these engagements does not seem to have been great ; but by all accounts the destruction of property has been immense. There is but too much reason for believing that the whole of the slave population is more or less disaffected, but much will depend on the promp titude and energy of the authorities in the out • set. Any success, however trifling, would ne cessarily afford encouragement to the negroes who had not risen ; while, on the other hand, the crushing of the first attempts might deter those who were %vatting to see the results of these first attetnpts. Great blame is thrown on the Mis sionaries and the Saints, and three of the Mis sionaries are in custody. One of our corre -8: oi:dents apprehends, that under the present violent popular excitement their situation is ex tremely critical. " It is difficult (he says) to iortn a correct opinion on this point, amicht such conflicting statements ; but I do not think the Sectarians have in any way been the active Tric7e;s in these m;st disastrous scenes' , Slavery, disguise it ati we will, is a bitter' draught. Comparisons .have often been made between the English agricultural labourer and the plantation slave ;s but there is this immense difference between them, that though both are slaves, the one is slave to a whole parish and can change his masters, whereas the other is slave to one man. In both cases punishment is the consequence of refusal to work, but in the case of the refractory agricultural labourer, the sentence of a Magistrate must precede punish ment ; whereas the plantation slave may receive a certain amount of corporal punishment as often as his master, or any delegate of his master, chooses. In this state of things, the more you instruct a man, the more he must be alive to the evils inseparable to his condition. To see, day after day, the man who may hear to wards him a strong dislike, or towards whom he he may bear a strong dislike, without the hope of escape from his presence, must often make he condition of the slave one of exquisite misery. The planters are, instinctively, averse to all at tempts to instruct their slaves, because the slave must hate slavery, and whoever instructs him, adds to his power of escaping from it. The missionaries are hated, because they are the only persons who take an interest in the slaves. They are to the planters what the Catholic priests are to the Protestant Ascendancy men—sectarians, the planters call them. The clergy of the Esta blishment are more wise in their generation than to concern themselves with either the souls or bodies of negroes. They may be tempted to visit the West Indies in the capacity of Bishops, or to hold the rich rectories of Jamaica ; but the instruction of the negroes they prudently leave to sectaries. Were the clergy of the Church of England to take an interest in the instruction f the negroes, the Church of England would be as unpopular in the West Indies as the unfortunate Baptists; for the unpardonable crime is not sec tarianism, but the communication of knowledge to the negroes. "If any violence be committed on these preachers (says the correspondent al ready alluded to), unless on the strongest evi dence of actual guilt, I am satisfied that such is the hold they have on the minds of the slave population, their fate would become the signal for a general insurrection." We can easily con ' ceive that these missionaries must have a pro digious hold over the affections of the slaves. The cause of a similar attachment is admirably described by the author of The 0' Hara Tales, in his Songs for Ireland, recently published:— " Who, in the winter's night, Soggarth aroon ' • When the cold blast did bite, Soggarth aroon, Came to my cabin dour And, on my earthen Sure, Knelt by me, sick and poor, Soggarth aroon ? " Who aA friend only met. Soggarth aroon, Never did flout me yet, Soggarth aroon And when my heart was dim, Gave, while his eye did brim, What I should give to him, Soggarth aroon." Religion andt.,lavery do not assort well to gether. The missionaries, no doubt, teach the slaves the religion of the Gospel, but then this instruction cannot add to their respect for masters mid overseers who live in the open commis-ion of all that the Gospel forbids. In the last num ber of the Anti- lovely Reporter there are a number of illustrations of the effects of slavery on manners and morals im Jamaica, drawn from the l i periodical Press of that island, and among others the following extract from a letter from Mr. R. Grundy to the Christian Record of Jamaica,' vindicating the sectarians from the charges of being hypocritical, dishonest, seditious, &c.:— " Ju-t think for a moment what this country was forty ur tifty )ears ago, before any dissszting church was plum. d in it. " When the parish rectors used to haptile a parcel of poor h-athens in the morning, aid thus make sometimes as many as a hundred good Christians out of them before night, and at the same time pat a good round RUM of money into their own pockets fur the job. while 'tierce ever afterwards did they—believing, I suppose, that bap tism is regeneration—.trourde their heads about the moral -tate of the new converts. And, Sir, what is it but these eery Dissenters corvine here that has made all the change which we see, even in the Establishment itself ? Is it more rhan reasonable to suppo-e, that but for their bring heir to act like a whip of marry thongs, it would still be a rear useless burr hen upon the country, living upon its fat hinge, and rrhrking no manner of return ; just like that lazy animal called the sloth, th it I once read about in a troak of the history of beasts, which is said to climb up a tine floori-hing tree, and never leave it while it can find a green leaf to feed on ? Mrry he you will say, good Sir, that all this is very harsh ; but I ask you is it not very true, as to what w a s the state of the E-talrlished Church formerly ? Thank God, it is cliff rent from this now ; though still far be , ind what it ought to he, arid wanting many a stroke of the cat-o'-nine-tails just mentioned. The great error iron which its Ministers hive fallen, and which I wish tospeak about in this letter, as appears to me, is the seeking of ?vividly patronage, and the striving to labour kith worldly instruments. Into this erievous mistake the Bishop has fallen, for he writes to Magistrates and Vestrieo, asking them to help him in his labours, while most of them are giving all their help quite another way. He tries to sail along with the current Of bigotry and prejudice, when he ought to do his best to work up the stream. His clergy ate for the most part right good fellows, boon corn • panions of all the ungodly people about them, and dare not, for their lives, do anything to displease men so necessary to their comfort. I cannot mention a stronger instance of th a endeavour to go hand in t and with prejudice, and gratify the wishes of the worldly people about them, than that one which you have yourself often spoken strongly about. I mean ttre snaking cate chists and reigious teachers of immoral hook-keepers. I hope and trust this business is going to be soon put an end to. It is a disgrace. a crying shame to a body of professedly Christian ministers, to Ire playing into the hands of the enemy, as they must do, by upholding such a system. I hope and trust the day is not far off when the Bishop and all the clergy will have their eyes fully opened to the impossibility of doing God's work w;th such means as they know he cannot bless, and I am sure it is your and my duty to pray for that day's speedy corning." —p, 16. In short, the same teachers cannot possess the regard of both masters and slaves ; and if we wish the slaves to receive religious instruction they can only receive it from sectarians. This, however, the inas!ers will never be brought to relish. We have before us a very curious col lection of sermons to black slaves in Maryland, published in 1749, in which the endeavour to please both masters and slaves appear.: at tunes ludicrous enough. After dwelling on the advan tages they have over most white people, who have the care of looking forward to provide for the morrow, while they are without care, the Rev. Orator adds— " There is only one circumstance which may appear grievous, that I shall now take notice of, and that is cor rect:on. Now when correction is given you, you either deserve it or do not deserve it. But whether you deserve it or not it is you: duty, and Almighty God requires that you heir it patiently. You may, perhaps, th nk that this is hard doctrine, but, if you conaider it right, you must ' needs think otherwise of it. Suppose, then, that you de serve correction, you cannot but say that it is just and right you should meet with it. Suppose you do not, or, at least, you do not deserve arm much or so severe a correta tion for the fault you have committed, you perhaps have escaped a great many more, and are at last paid for all; or suppose you are quite innocent of What is laid to your charge, and suffer, wrongfuly in that particular thing, is it not possible that you may have done some other bad thing taat never was doicovered? But supposing that even this was nut the case, and that you have by no means, known or unknown, deserved the correction you suffered, there is this great eon: fort in it, that you bear it patiently, and leave your cause in the hands of G o d, he • p;i;st, Oar. wilt reward you for it in Heaven, and the ptiniahment y ou Liffey unjustly here shall turn to your exceeding great glory heieaftet .This preacher Would not be very popular among the.. blacks. In short, to accuse secta rianism is to look a short way below the surface. The evil is in slavery itself, which is incorporated With an intelligent population.—Morning Chron. The eff ct produced upon the commercial in terest yesterday by the but lhgence of a slave in surrection iu Jamaica is briefly described in a communication from the city, and some of • the melancholy details which have come to hand through the journals of that colony, and private letters, will be found under tho proper head. Considering the well-meant but headlong vehe mence which has for years been exhibited by a considerable party in England upon every . question affecting the relations between the white man and the slave, and on the other side the mass of pecuniary embarrassmentlunder which what is termed the " We•t Indian interest '— that is, the body of proprietors of estates—have been gradually declining, until now that they are all, with scarcely an exception, within the very jaws of ruin, it is no easy matter to treat the subject of those colonies, much more to legislate for them, without aggravating for a time the very evils for which we seek a final remedy. The original crime and parent of all mischief was thefounding the colonial system in slavery. The . making slaves of barbarians is the best receipt for obstructing, or infinitely retarding, their progress to civiliza tion ; but every obstacle that delays their moral im provement re-acts upon and perplexes the ques tion of admitting them to freedom. The wildest enthusiasts for slave emancip:ttion do not venture to assert that the negroes are fit for the duties of free citizens at this moment. Yet some at tempts have been made to instruct them, but not, it would appear, in the way best calculated to supply the real wants of the negro mind. Their first and frightful defect is total ignorance of what Englishmen understand by religious and ' moral duties. The domestic vices of this de graded race are host ible. The most promiscuous indulgence of the most brutal passions, unre strained by any of those decent or conscien tiousties which amongst civilized nations render individuals of the same family sacred to each other, is known to pollute the threshold of every negro dwelling. The sort of instruction which they yet have received has never, with any success at least, been directed to the extirpation of such enormities. The children have ever been, as they ought to be, separated from the contamination of the parental vices by being kept in a school-house apart, and taught regularly and perseveringly what to believe, or v hat, in conduct, ought to be avoided. The blacks, of a large district, and of all ages, may have been assembled in multitudes, and heard discourses more easily misconstrued than re membered, from which they have often contrived to draw inferences, more than probably uncle. signed by their teachers, in favour of an imme diate and universal release from work. This is not surely the mode of enlightenment ultimately most profitable to the negroes : ought not some knowledge of duties to accompany, if not pre cede, that of rights ? It is said, why should not the masters be compelled to find instruction for the slave ? The answer is; that in the actual condition of the property of most West India planters, they have scarcely the means to educate their own children—they are in want, for their own families, of most of the comforts of life. And we have been informed that many of them forbear to abandon their estates altogether, :only from some vague hope that the price of sugars may one day or other im prove. In the mean tone, does the distress of the planter operate•exclusively upon himself and his family r No, it extends in every instance to the negro, who always suffers, like a wretched Irish tenant, in proportion as the landlord is em barrassed. It is, indeed, obvious that where the employer fares badly, the unfortunate labourer will titre still worse ;—that as prices fall, and profits Ivani , h, and every farthing becomes of double its former worth, the same extenuation of cruelty towards the negro and his child will be pleaded by the West India planter, as has been pleaded in defence of the cruelties practised towards the equally or more wretched infants of Englishmen, by some master manufacturers in this country, exerting themselves even while we write to thwart and throw out the humane Biti before Parliament for regulating infant labour. If the English or Scotch manufac urer exclaims, ' " Competition on every side presses me so severely, that I must work these poor children to death, or starve in my own person, or else stop their wages altogether, and employ them no more ;" so the planter says, " My poverty, not my will consents. I am sorely beset by successful competition, and by a load of taxes. I must either work these negroes barbarously, or I myself must perish." He does not, indeed, talk of throwing his negroes out of employment, for he must continue to feed them, let what will happen. In that respect their slavery turns a sharp edge upon the enslaver. It plain, then, if the West India interest con tinues to be impoverished, the pressure will as it has fallen, with fearful weight upon the un happy negro. If, again, the condition of the slave is ever to be substantially amended, the blessings of a religious titsl moral education must be imparted to him. But it is, as we have seen, impossible fin . the planter in his present em barrassments to bear the expense of hiring mas ters to teach the slave, or to spare even the youth ful negroes of either sex time enough to receive instruction. If Government wish to improve the slave population of the West Indies, let it - begin by forcing the planters to admit the lessons of teachers sent from England,---m e n of known good character, of the Established Church, to be Licensed by the local Government, and to act under the superintendence of the Bishops.— The expense ought to be defrayed from the colonial revenues; but to be just, the means of payment ought to be afforded by such fiscal measures as might tend to assist the planter through his actual difficulties. Nor ought the injustice to be committed of charging a duty on sugar which is never sold, the law as it now exists levying the tax on the quantity warehoused, not on that which after a course of melting and leakage actually comes to market, and returns a price to the grower.— What may be the intention of Government we cannot tell, but if some advantages of the above nature were granted to the colonists, it would be no more than right that the boon should he made contingent upon their acceptance of the regulations proposed on official authority from home, for ameliorating the condition of the negroes ; nor is it to be presumed that the colonial legislatteireesfittevd proposals,ould hesitate to The actual embrace such fair and bn crisis for the whole range of our West India pos sessions is terrible. Of' the capital there vested, or we say wasted, it is now unnecessary to speak ; but certainly, at a moment when fears are so universally entertained for the stability of the national revenue, a portion of the cropit which - yields, from one article of it: produce, a tax of about 5,000,0001. sterling, is not to be wantonly or lightly flung away.— Times. . We give in another part of this day's Paper additional details respecting the damage done in Jamaica by the insurrection of the slaves, of which w e gave a brief notice yesterday. We have good reason to fear that the damage done is much more considerable than we are yet aware of ; and that if measures he not speedily adopted for settling the mode in which the slaves shall be manumitted, the present is only the prelude to an insurrection of a more determined and de cisive result. As is justly remarked by a cotem pnrary, " the example of Hayti virtually settled this question, as to every thing but exact duration in the West Indies. The slaves must be sooner or later set at freedom, whether it be or whether it be not for their own benefit ; and the sooner that proper steps are taken for this purpose, so much the better both for the European inhabitants of the West Indies, and for the owners of West Indian estates in this country. At the same time, we are among those whb, consider that the West Indian pro- Fietors of slaves and estates have the most un doubted legal claims upon the possession of both ; and in consequence, however anxious we may be to witness the abolition of slavery, we must always treat it as one in which the owner of slaves is as much entitled to compensation for the deprivation of his rights, as the owners of estates in this country, were they to be mulcted of their property in them.—Morning Advotiser. We this day publish copious details of' an in surrection which broke out in Jamaica at the beginning of the present year, attended with a lamentable destruction of property, and consider ' able loss of life among the deluded negroes. Happily, by the promptitude and energy of the free inhabitants, and of the military under Sir Willoughby Cotton, the revolt was checked be fore the rebels could accomplish the dreadful de signs they contemplated ; for, from various state ments we have seen in the Jamaica Papers, it appears certain that but for the fortunate pre sence and timely assistance of the King's troops a general massacre of the whites would have en sued. These distressing occurrences can be viewed but with one feeling by ail men, what ever may be their abstract notions on the subject of slavery ;—a feeling of horror and detestation for those canting hypocrites who, with religion and philanthropy in their mouths, are the immediate and responsible authors of all the misfortunes that have taken place, and must be held morally guilty of all the fearful crimes which might have been per petrated. The missionaries have long been pre paring this work. They found the negroes of our West India islands the best fed, the best conditioned, the most cheerful, and withal the • happiest set of labourers in the whole civilised world, and on their heads is the guilt and shame of having disturbed that happiness by instilling into the minds of their victims vain notions about liberty and the rights of man, distracting them with the discussion of questions which they never before thought of, and misleading them with fallacies which they have not pene tration to detect. The efforts, however, of these men to persuade the negroes they ought not to be happy or contented, and that they were not bound to submit to the authority of their masters, failed of producing the desired effect. Even the supposed dictates of religion could not induce the slave population to forget the care and kindness with which they were treated. A suc cessful expedient was at length devised. The slaves were assured that the King of England had' manumitted them ail, and that their freedom was unduly withheld from them by the planters Is not this, we ask, a transaction which must stamp all who were engaged in it as criminals of the deepest dye ? And does it not become ' doubly infamous when we remember that the perpetrators assumed the garb of religion in order to accomplish their purposes ? Several of them, we rejoice to find, are actually in custody ; so that particulars will shortly be forthcoming, which must at length open the eyes of those weak though well-meaning individuals who have hitherto been duped into supplying the means for carrying on a system of fraud and wicked ness. Let these benevolent persons withdraw their attention from the other side of the At lantic, and look at the condition of the labouring population in their own country. Ready as we believe them to be in the cause of humanity, and really solicitous for the welfare of their fel low -creatures, they will here find an ample field for the exercise of their charitable inclinations. Here their efforts would be productive of obvious and certain good ; the projects they now pursue are worse than visionary, for they have a ten dency to results which humanity and religion alike shudder to contemplate.—Morning Post. At Dudley, the truck masters, finding it impossible to stand against Mr. LITTLETON'S Bill have closed their shops and relinquished the system.—Halifax Express. THE PEOPLE.—It is not denied that the people are best acquainted with their own wants, and most attached to their own interests. But •hen a question is started, as it the persons Joking it were at a great loss for the answer, where are we to find the intellect of the people? why, all the intellect that ever was is theirs. The üblic opinion expresses not only the col!ective sense of the whole people, but of all ages and nations—of all those minds that have devoted themselves to the love of truth, and the good of mankind—who have beque 'toed their instructions, their hop-s, and their example to pos - erity,— who have thought, spoke, written, acted, and suffered in the name and on behalf of our common nature. All the greatest poets, sages, her es, are ours originally and by right. But surely Lord Bacot.; was a great man ! yes, but not because hr was a land. There is nothing of here nitary growth but pride and p , ejudice.—Hazlitt. ANECDOTE OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. h a plessure in making paper boats, and floating them on the water. The New Monthly has the f o ll o wing curious anecd o t e on thi s subject :—So long as his paper lasted, he , remained riveted to the s p ot, fasci nated by this peculiar amusement ; all waste paper was r apidly consumed, then the covers of letters, io-xt letters of little value ; the most precious contritiutions of the twist esteemed correspondents, although eyed wistfully many times, and often returned to the pocket, here sure to be sent at last in pursuit of the former squadrons. Of the portable volumes which were the companions of his rambles, and he sold im went out without a book, the fly leaves were commonly wanting—he had applied them as our ancestor Noart applied Gopher wood but learning was so sacred in his eyes, that h- never tresp issed r upon the integrity of the copy, the work itself was alwars respected. It has been said that he once found himself on the north hank of the Serpentine river without the ma terials for indulging those inclinations which the sight of water invariably inspired, for he had exhausted his sup plies on the round pond in Kensington -gardens. Not a s i ng l e scrap of piper could be found save only a bank post bill for fifty pounds ; he he.itated long, but yielded at 1,, t ; he twist d it into a boat with the extreme rt finement of his skill, and committed it with the utmost dexterity to f , r o t t u e n e i Trewn intense c v‘ h a, iti)tst than i p a r n ( progress, if s k i f : p ot i ,r i ) s t s u i t b nh l ee e, osf w otue i n t o h ifa a bl s o t k, i r l : l those who frankly and fudy trust her; the north-eas wwliriedte gently y g the latter part of the voyage the yen mous ownerohf cotiidzit is a edit:lsiyarthc fable,riival with patient solicitude. The story but it dominion of a singular a n d unaccountable passion overthe mind of sn. tatkusiast, aptly pourtrays the POLICE RN CL HAT T ON- GARDEN. Yesterday being appoint,-d f'r the final examinatiou of Robert Wedderburne, Ann Atkinson, his housekeeper, John Cunningham, - William Ross, alias Dross, alias Rose, and George Anson, boys from 13 to 15 years of age, on a charge of having dreadfully maltreated Mary Ann Middleton, alas Tibhut, the office was crowded to excess, and the utmost interest Was manifested. Crowds of persons assembled, and when the prisoners were brought trorn the New Prison they were received with groans and hisses, &c. until they were safely lodged in tbe lock-up place behind the office. The injured woman Middleton was 'brought from Saffron-hill workhouse at one o'clock, in a very weakly condition, and the prisoners were placed at the bar, the prisoner Wedderburne in the centre. Mary Ann Middleton, alias Tihbut, was accommodated with ach rir and a rumbler of cold water. She is a good looking woman, about 30 years of age. Being sworn, she stated as follows :—On Saturday morning, the 11th of February, about seven o'clock, I went to the house of the prisoner Wedderburre, with whom l was previously acquainted, in Field-lane. He inquired whether I had .toy money; I said I had, and wanted some breakfast. He called Atkinson, who acs as his housekeeper, to put down the bed for me to lay upon, and afterwards to unlace my stays; on dung which she thrust her hand down my bosom to try if I had any money concealed th e re. I re. fused t, he undressed, or to go to bed, when the prisoner Webriethurne seized hold of me, and violently dragged nor into a dark and filthy cellar, into which he was accompa nied by the prisoners Gunningbam and Ross, who behaved to me in a brutal manner. I was forced down to the ground, when Wedderburne tied my hands and legs with ropes, and the boy Rose, alias ROAS, was extremely vio lent, and conducted him-elf towards me while I was bound in a manner that I cannot, in the presence of the Court, dr scribe. Mr. LAING.-..The ends of justice cannot he satisfied un less you tell the whole truth; you must, however dim greeable, describe exactly what took place. Witness, after consi.lerable hesitation, continued. While I was on the ground, which was wet and dirty, the prisoner pulled my clothes over my head, which prevented my calling. and—[This part of her statement is unfit for publication.] The prisoner Gunningham assisted the others while my arms and legs were bound. Wedder hurtle frequendy slapped my face. I could not resist the whole of them ; but while WeVerhurns was tying my legs I cried out, when he exclaimed " That toy crying would not avail me, as that was Field lane." The boys Gunning ham and Ross were, if possible, worse in their treatment towardsme than Wedde-burne him-elf. Ross threw some of the moist dirt in the cellar upon my person, and iiimped upon me violently. Ross also ass sted .0 tie my legs. Wedder borne s 'id it was useless for me to cry out. Atki..son did not assist in t%ing my legs and arms. The whole of the party, after tying me, lett me by myself in the ei llar when I struggled very h rd, and cried out murder, fearful that more violence would be offered. I managed to bit, the rope through gradually with my teeth. and at length pl iced my hands at liberty ; but the rope which hound mo. lees! could not undo. Weddet burne ordered the boys, Cun ningham and Ross, to go and get a gimblet, but for what pur pose I cannot say. He soon of er left himself, and I contrived to crawl from the spot where I was lying to the door 01 the vault or cellar, which occupied full hall an hour, but no one came to ascertain whether I was alive or dead. On my arrival at the door I screamed and cage , . out " murder!" and exclaimed, " If there are any Christian neighbours here, for God's sake let them enter and save me." During the whole period the woman Atkinson, al length Davis, %ista n e t, e ' unbound ictu •1 1 1: al though she had every opportunity, n e v er a ff or d e d me the having h e a r d my cr i es, and he least assistance, or did any thing to p revent t h e v i o l ence offeredtennet,e entered toh r rendered e e d . e r A d me the most Mr. D humane a n a e licensed um house, t came insensibl e , and was carried in a sedan-chair to S.f fin-hill wo. khouse, where I have been ever cnce, under Mr. Appleton, the surgeon. Mr. LAING asked her whether she had given any cause for the treatment which she received. Witnesss—l gave no cause wha-ever. Mr. LAlNc—Hoty do you get your livinz ?—Wit negm-1 am assisted by a gentleman who is my friend. Wedderhurne —Slie h.ia two gentlemen who are her friends ; she is an unfortunate woman. Friar, a policeman, produced several infamous book and publications, atid described the vault as a most hor rible place. Macarthy, a policeman, having received information that a woman had teen attempted to be " Burked" pro ceeded to the place and apprehended the prisoners. The pro.reutrix info, med him that Wedderbtirne and tile b had tied her hands .nd legs. The 0 era era of the lower liberty of St. Andrew's, Hol►tern, attended the examination. Illr. LAING inquired of them whether they felt inclined to prosecute the prisoners at the bat—they had heard the evidence. Overseer—We do not wish to prosecute, your Worship. Mr. LAING— I can only say that this is a fit case fur pros,,cution. Overseer—l am one of the select vi-stry, your Worship. If you will postpone the cane I will consult with the vestry as to the propriety of supporting the prosecution. Mr. LAING—If you cannot say that you will do it now you never wid t,y consulting with the ves•ry. Here is a min who, by his own confession, has committed a gross outrage upon a female. He has been convicted for having k. pt a disordeily house before. Select Vestryman—So I understand, your Worship. I also understand that he to,ik the house in Field lane, and would not let any f -male enter it unless she brought home a certain sum of money ; and he encouraged labouring boys to the house. Mr. LAING—The boys, by all account, are as had a.. the man. I is s fir case for prosecution. He asked Wed drlburne for his d,fence. Alter a confused statement, in which he stated that he had no ill-wi,l or malice towards the prosecutrix, or any cause to ill-use her, he said she entered the pl ice intoxicat, d, and asked to he unlaced. She had no mone,. Ross had been out of work six weeks. He denied the charge. Gunningham also denied the charge. An Overseer said Wedderhurne was in the habit of ill treating women, he understood, if he did not bring home money The prosecutt ix—l supported Atkinson for six months, and she refuse,' me assistance. The Nl.gistiates expres..ed their abhorrence at the con duct of the prisoners, and convicted Weilderburne in the penalty of 5/. or two months' imprisonment. Gonningliam and Ross were convicted in a similar penalty. The Maui strate, sincerely regretted that the law would riot allow a greater punishment. Anson WIN discharged ; and, addressing the prisoner Atkinson, Mr. LAING said, with the concurrence of Mr. RocEfts, that they most unwillingly liberatid her, and i! she had any sense of feeling she would never show her face in that neighbourhood again. An overseer now said that there was a gentleman pre sent, from the Society for the Suppression of Vice, who w.ts ready to prosecute ; hut that gentleman we did not observe to identify himself to the Mae istrates, or hear him say Any , hing upon the su..ject The overseer rtquested to know how th:- impure books were to be disposed of? Wethierburne—They are not improper books, your Worship. Air. LAING—Th.y must be burnt. The Magistrates selectel a quantity of books of a base character, and they were all set into a blue over the grate the prisoners' presence. While the prisoners were under examination, the im mense crowds in front and behind the office indulged in indi A nant execrations, arid on the news reaching the out side that Atkinson was discharged, a woman, who was mist 'ken for her, was followed, and hooted and groaned at, and summary chastisement would have been inflict d were it not that Inspector Busaine and a party of police pro tected her to a place of safety. Atkinson would have been maltreated if she had left, but she remained in the office till a late period of the day, when she hastened out of the neighbourhood. Before three o'clock the crowd increased consideratily,.and Wvd i!erbuine and the other prisoners were escorted to the new prison, Cierkenwed, iollowed by the populace, who vented their tury upon them. They were hooted, groaned at, and pelted, during the whole of the way, and the officer, cia)welitnh greatforth firmness. eirshareof violenci; ; hut Wedderburne bore all Although medical men seidom take the cho lera, it is certain hat many of the faculty are at present labouring under a disorder of the chest, one unequivocal symptom of which is, an extraordinary itehiny in the Palms of the hands.—Morning Herald. The refugee Monks of LA 'FRAPPE have taken Deer-park, county Clare, for their establ.shito nt. Seventy memliers will he locate.l there, and a large agri cultin al school opened.—Freeman's Journal. INQUEST.—Yesterday evening the inquest upon the body of DINAH HARMAN, aged 78, who, e death was reported to have been caused by her uwu son, was conch.ded. The iiiiy returned a verdict of " Man slaughter" against Joys H.s.FatA:c- COURT CIRCULAR:. Baron &tow, the Prussian Minister, and the DAM! be WassaNsuaG, the Austrian Minister, on a special mission, had int,rviews with Viscount Par.mitasTos yCA terday at the Foreign-office. Mr. BURGS, the agent for, Jamaica, and Lord SEAFORD, had a conference with Viscount GODERICII yesterday at the Coloni 11-office.. Lord Hut., the Commander of the Forces, had an interview with the Noble Viscount yesterday. The LORD CIIANCELLOR and the Right Hon. CHAR. GRANT visited Earl GREY yesterday at the Treasury. BRIGHTON, FEB. 20. After Divine Service yesterday, their MaJxsTtks took a carriage airing along the East and West Cliffs. This morning her Royal Highness the Princess Au- GUSTA took leave of their MAJESTIES, and left for St. Jimes's Palace, accompanied by Miss WrtivAttn. Her Royal Highness's suite followed in a carriage and four. Sir ROBERT, Lady, and Miss OTWA Y, Colonel Sir THOMAS DowtimAN, Lieutenant• Colonel SHORT, Lord A. HILL, Lieutenant-Colonel and Mrs. GREY, Lieutenant- General BAILEY, and Sir THOMAS anti Lady APMA lION, had the honour of dining with their MAJESTIES. Prince GEORGE of CAMBRIDGE entertained a select party of young ventlemen at dinner on Stturday. Dl rdlle d'EsTE, Lily CAROLINE and Miss Woof), Sir BENJAMIN STEPHENSON, Mts. HOPE, and Colonel Sir JAMES REY NETT. left the Palace yesterday for London. Ten o'clock to-morrow (t..is) morning is fixed for the depart ure of their MAJESTIES nil Royal suite to London. S veral of the Nobility and Gentry are on the move in consequenve. The Etr i and Countess of BEVERLEY, the Ladies PERCY. the Marquis of BRISTOL, Marquis and Marehinness of CA RIIA RTHE N, Marchioness of HASTINGS, he Lath., HASTINGS, the Earl of HADDINGTON, &C. have already taken their departure. The Earl of DELAWARE, Countess of DVXDONALD, and Lord PORTMO RE, have arrived. It was the Etrl and Countess of SHRIEWSBURY (not Sitsrrasatrati - ) that had the honour of dining with their MAJESTIES on Friday. LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. l'he highest price of Bread-in the Metropolis is 10 ,id. fot tht lb. Loaf. There are others •who sell from I4d. to 1 d. blow that price. PRICE OF SEEDS.—Feb. 20 '.ew English Red Clover Seed (per Cwt.) -s. 675. fine -5.1035. ild I)itto -5. -s. fine -s. Jew Foreign Ditto-. . 50s. fife fine -8 106 s. Old Ditto - ' l / 4 :ew White 3fis. sfis fine -s. 668. Old Ditto Ditto__ -8. 465. fine -s. fils. dew Trefoil -.------- 20s. fine -s. 365. Old Ditto -s. 15s. fine -8 19s. Rib Grass English Carraway Seed- -8. 53s fine 575. -reign Ditto -s. -s. 645. fine Et3s. coriander - s . -s. fine 345. 38.. it. Foin Quarter).- -s. 758. fine 80s. 82s. Rye Grass -s. -s. new 20s. 255. l'acey Ditto . 40s. 455. new --s; Linseed, for feeding . -s. 525. fine -s. 58s. Ditto, for crushing . 465. 48s. -s. fine -s. Canary Seed, New ,r • -s. -S. fine -s. White Mustard Seed .. .(per 8u5he1)...... -s. Ss. 10s. fine-s. Brown Ditto Furnip Seeds, Rounds -s. -s. -s. fine 14s. Green and Red Ditto .. -s. -s. -s. tine 18e. Fares, Old Ditto New Ita,seSeed, English, tine (per Last) 22/. '261. Foreign -1. -r. PRICES OF Ht.Ps —Fe'.. 41 15s. 6t. t• St. Os. 41. !Os. 51.. 58. to 51. 14a. 4/. 10s. 3/. 15s. to 61. 15s. . 91. Os. 121. Os. to 01 Os. . 0/. Os. 71 Os to 91 Oa. 41. Cs. 51. 103 to 61. lOs. 4/. 4s. 41 15s. to 5/ Os. 31. 13s 51. Os. to 5/. 12s. dent P0cket5........ Srisex Ditto lissex Ditto Fatrtham Ditto. Fine ,... Seconds Kent Lags— iusstax Ditto Essex Ditto., PRICE OF OIL. Rape Oil, brown Os. Relined ....IX 0 Linseed Oil , 4•••• ,, . .1.1... ,, ,,,..,,, • ,, .,,,,, 90 IJ ianseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand 12 0 , tape Cake, per ton 6 0 PRICES 0 Per lb, d. to d. sutts, 16 21 )itto, 14 18 )ressing 13 151 16 18 Di t.., light Hides, 112 13 t)itto tai to 151 b 131 15 15 161 LN:ATHr:Ii Per lb. d, to d. F.nglish Horse Hides,. 12 15 Spiiisti Ditto 14 16 Per dozen. Catf Skint". 30 to 4lab. 15 23 Ditto 50 to 701 b. 17 21 Ditto 70 to 801 b. Seal% Greenland 18 19 LArge ditto 12 15 WHI . I•ECHAPEL HAY NIARKET.—Feb. 18. Hay 555. Od. to 84s. Od. It 65. thl. to 1900. Od. Od. to 40.. Od. RAW HIDES. Per Stone. s. A. to s. d. Per Stone. s. d. to s A. etost Heifers& Stuers2 6 2. 10 I Ordinary 1 8 110 2 0 2. 4 Hai ket 6 ()each; Polled SHEEP SKINS. , 4s. &I to :.)s. 6d. I I)ow•ns,,. M , '2s, ticl. to 4s. Ocl. Shearlings-- N. Ikt. to Os. oi. PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of 81b. Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow ltd. PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, Ac. per 1121 b. fown Tallow ....--. 59.5. Od. Yellow 625. Od. Yellow 46a. Od Mottled 645. Od. White. .-- 465. Od. White , 74, Od. soap Ditto 44s. (ii, Graves 16s. Od. %lelted Stuff-- . 375. Od. Good Graves Od. Ditto Itough-.........255. Od. Kidneys Scotch Reds PRICE OF POTATOES.—Feb. 20. 2!. 54. to 3/. Os. per ton. 01. Os. to 3/. Os. ditto. lbs. to 3!. Os. ditto. PRICE OF The price of Store Candles, in 1 candles. per doz. is. Od. to Ss. Pd CANDLES. :he retail shops, is as follows : . I Moulds, per dozen,.~,. 9s. ti-d. CET.—Feb. 20. Per Ton. Walls End Gosforth 120 i. I'd. Walls End Heaton...—. 20 6 Walls End Hilda ........... 19 6 Walls End Hotspur-- 19 6 Ditto Killingworth 20 0 Walls End Nev.inarch— 20 6 . Ditto Northumberland 19 6 Ditto 17 0 Ditto Perkins and co.—. 20 0 Walls End Russell's.... .8 0 Walls End Riddell's-- 21 3 Wa Is End Walket 19 0 Walls rnd Helton 22 0 Walls End Ly0n5..•,.,,., 21 0 Walls End Larnbton....., 21 6 Wall, Stewart's 21 9 Walls End Adelaide...., 20 6 Walls End 21 0 Cowpen Walls End Elgin.. , 16 9 • Hartley 21 0 Old Haigh Moor 15 0 Silkstone Field and Co. 17 6 ived, 50. ket to-day, with a fair demand. COAL MAR Per Ton. kdair's ....,...«.. 18s. Od. Beaumont 18 0 Benshain Main 16 0 Bishop's 'Main --- 16 6 Bell, Robson, and Co.'s Low Main._ l6 0 Coxlodge _ 19 0 East i 17 3 18 9 Ord's Reillnigh 16 6 Windsor lB l'eiaw 17 0 Shipcote 16 6 17 6 Wade's Bensham - 16 0 W.llington--. 2O 0 18 0 Walls E' d Brown's- 20 0 I)ittoß,ll,Robson,&Co. 19 0 Ditto Bewicke and Co. 20 - 9 Wall In Callerom 16 3 Walls End Carr and Co. IS 0 Ditto Clarke and C 0.,. 18 6 Ships art There was a good supply at mai The Park, froin Piccadilly to Oxford -street, was thronged on Sunday with carriages, horsemen, and rdestrians, whose cheerful countenances ehew•ed they had n .thing choleric about them. Extract from the Nottingham Mercurg— From a Correspondent) :_ii Mansfield Justice-room.— JOSEPH SUTTON and JOHN IVES, two youths, were con victed, before JOHN COKE, Esq., under the Vagrant Act, for playing at in irides in Mansfield, on the afternoon of Sund ty se'nnight ; they were reprimanded, and ordered to pay costs." k. 4 • d. • 1 • ADVENTURES OF A GENTLEMAN OF THE COURT OF CHARLES D.—This is precisely the work we should have expected front its clever author. It is a book in which we meet with a thou-and touches of cha racter, a thousand amiable and philanthrophic sentiments ; a taste for beauty, whether in a female face, a court dress, a picture, or a hawk ; with a tone of the times of which it treat' pervading the whole, and presenting a vivid re presentation of tt,e Court of CHARLES. All the I:4auties of the day pass glowing before us ; CASTLEM A IN rises ike the Qtren of Love upon eur imagination ; there are the migniardises of la belle STEWA RT, and the frank good heartedness of NELL GW YN NE. To all who have read , GRAMMuNT anti PEPTS, who know WALLER. and SUCK.. LING, arid SEDLEY, and DENHAM, we commend this sot k ; for they wiul in " Sir R tlph Esher" meet with their old acquaintances, performing their parts to the life. ;11 BIRTHS. On the nth inst. at Edinburgh, Mrs. Cargill, of a son. On the 19th inst. Mrs. R. Carter Smith, of Stamford street, of a son. On the 17th inst. in Langham-place, the lady of Geo. Palmer, Esq., of a 60n.. On the 18th inst. Mrs. James Le Cren, of 73, Coleman-street, of a daughter. On the 18th inst. in Somerset-street, Portman-square, the lady of J. Latham, Esq., of a son. MARRIED. On the Gth inst. by the Lord Bishop- of Meath; H. Garnet, Esq. of Felton, in that county, to Louisa,. eldest daughter of Colonel H. Wade, late of the Rifle Engade. On the Ifith inst. at Northflca church, U. S. Rutherford, Esq. M.D. surgeon, of Welbeck-strt et, Cavendish-square, to Eliza beth, second daughter of the late John Tilden, Esq., of Meld court, Kent. DIED. On the 17th inst. at Torquay, Miss Law, eldest daughter of the Bishop of Bath and Wells. On he 17th inst. at Bath, Esther, widow of C. Burney, Esq., formerly of London, and eldest daughter of the late Dr. Burney, of Chelsea College. East Clandon, Surrey, the e th l c B ß th ev i . n j t . . J. a ‘ t v t e h li e er P , a p rs . o p na a g g e ed H [ zi . ise, On the 18th inst. at the Hermitage, Old Ford, Bow, Mrs. Bridge aged 88, widow of the late I '. Bridge, Esq., of Bread. street, heapside. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED SY MU RDO YOUNG, AT THE SUN OFFICE, 1)2, STRAND, LONDON, 1