The Sun. — London, England, 1832-08-01 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. _ es The Journal des Debats proceeds in its lid nest-course of endeavouring to detach the sym pathies of the French people from the unhappy Germans, now threatened with the destruction of all their rights as civilized men, by their leagued and banded governors. The journalist, indeed, does not say in direct terms to France, " You must not pity, nor feel for, the menaced sufferings of your neighbours across the Rhine." He knows his business better. He labours only to prove that the compassion of France for Ger many ought to be of the least possible use to either country, administering no immediate suc cour to the Germans, nor any ultimate security to France herself. We have seldom witnessed mle flagrant sophistry or folly than in the ar ticle of the French paper on which we are now remarking. It assumes, that because the despot Powers made no attack upon the ant . s•Carlist re volution of 1830 at the outset, they cannot be supposed to harbour such a scheme in 1832. It goes on to argue against the possibility of the Allied Courts issuing the decree of Frankfort in connection with any design against French liberty, seeing that the spirit of the people of Europe has every day since 1830 been growing more in veterate against the principles of despotic Go vernments, and that the decrees of the Diet have so widened the breach between German Princes and German subjects, and have, con sequently, so enfeebled the means of the former for all offensive operations as to render quite preposterous the conjecture of their at this mo• ment possessing any power " of action against France." Such is the substance of the article in the Journal des Debals, and a few words will, we hope, suffice to show its fallacy. When the French revolution of 1830 took place, foreign Powers were not prepared to crush it. The event was an explosion, which none of the Holy Alliance had foreseen, and against which they had taken no military or political precautions. It was their weakness therefore, not their will, which caused the non aggression of Russia, Prussia, and Austria, against the popular power which overturned the elder Bourbons, and succeeded them. The Belgic question followed, which, from the part of necessity taken by England, embar rassed them still more. The Polish inswrrec tion came next to paralyse, for a season, the offensive means of Russia, so that little or nothing could be done beyond a general recruiting and subsequent con centration of the forces of the military monarchies. With regard to these two points, we believe it might be shown that they have not been idle during the last two years. The Polish revolution was put down : an im. mense (and in relation to the country a dispro portionate) army was organized for Holland. Nearly 300,000 Austrians have been moved towards the Italian and south Rhenish fron tiers of France. Little short of 200,000 Prussians have been distributed upon the north east frontier. The Court of St. Petersburgh, with unwashed, though unencumbered hands, bears down through Poland upon Germany. For actual warfare, therefore, it is clear that the Allied Governments are, in a military sense, far better provided than at the perid of 1830. Now for their political position. It is true that the people of Europe generally have advanced in a desire for the enjoyment of rights withheld, and in distrust and dislike of the powers which withhold them. It is unquestionable that the arbitrary Monarchs see thus far ; but the Journal des Debats is unreflecting or insin cere enough to take for granted, that they see a great deal more, of which, indeed, their acts have proved them to be altogether unconscious. The Debals talks as if the allied despots felt that they were undermining their own strength, by drawing closer the cords which bound the free agency of their subjects, and that with their eyes open they issued ordinances and edicts, the result of which they knew beforehand would be a source of injury to their power. This is sheer humbug. The military Courts have clearly miscalculated their own true policy, by employing brute force against prevailing opinion. Instead of the argument of the Journal des De bats being good- for anything, the obvious fact is, that Prussia, Austria, &c., have persuaded themselves that the free use of the bayonet would make them stronger, and the people less capable of either physical or moral resistance,—would frighten into submission the aspirants after li berty, and would be a efficient aid, instead of a check, to their schemes against France, including ' Belgium. The error that runs through the whole dissertation of the Journal des Debats is in the double assumption-Ist, that the rulers of the Frankfort Diet see, as the rest of mankind see, that their ordinances against German free dom must react to the detriment of their authors ; and 2d, that with such a truth strongly impressed upon them, they are yet idiots enough to eegage in that losing contest with the people. We stand upon our original proposition, that whatever act on the part of Austria and Prus sia enables those two States to subjugate more of German will,. or to wield for their own purposes more of German power, than it was designed that they should do by the ether parties to the " settlement of Europe," would be substantially as complete a disturbance of that settlement, and would confer upon France and England as absolute a right of interference with a view to re-adjust the balance, as any aggression in the shape of military violence, conquest, and approprivtion of territory. To the latter object, indeed, there is little doubt that the autocrats of Frankfort are approaching, if these fierce edicts be permitted to stand. For the constitutional German States, their lawful authorities may protest, or may cffer a passive resistance to the Diet—but without that support of France and England, of which the Journal des Debals and certain English newspapers, which seem to be moonstricken when the reali ties of national interest are concerned, would fain deprive them, the constitutional Germans must be ready to undergo the most terrible visi tations of remorseless and obdurate barbarity in their path to final freedom and repose. Never theless, to whatever degree the mean and sordid councils of Louis Philip may be swayed by such arguments as those of the Journal des Debats, the gallant and earnest French nation will hold them at little price.—Times. On the third reading o( the Forgery Acts' Amendment Bill, Sir Charles 'Wetherell made a speech which may be described as strange even for the Honourable and Learned Gentleman. Under the colour of lashing the mawkish senti mentalists and pedant philanthropists of the pre sent day, he alluded to a case which lately cc curred at one of the Circuits :—" They had very lately (he said) had a specimen of what the philanthropists were capable of doing. By taking away the punishment of death from catdc stealing, and making the punishment of trans portation compulsory on the Judges, they had levelled the most aggravated and the most trifling _cases, which had brought complaints from some of the most Inimane Judges that sat on the Bench."—Mr. Cutler Fergusson observed, " that the law which had lately caused such confusion on Circuit was not the Bill that was sent up from that House, but the Bill, as it was altered in the House of Peers by his Honourable and Learned Friend's Friends in the Upper House. —(Hear, hear.) The Bill as it went up from the Commons left the punishment of transporta tion at the discretion of the Judge." Sir Charles, no doubt, knew as well as Mr. C. Fergusson, the history of the changes the Bill underwent in the House of Lords, but he took this indirect way .of hitting his friend, Lord Wynford, to whom the merit of damaging the Bill is due. The whole of Sir Charles's argument is a begging of the question. He assumes that severity of punishment, and protection of property, are synonimous. The whole of his speech is a raving against mawkish sentimentalists, as he calls them, for directing all their care to criminals, and leaving property unprotected. The abolirion of the punishment of death is advocated by one class, on the ground that it is judicial murder to deprive a fellow-creature of life for an invasion of property. By another class, society is sup posed to be at full liberty to resort to that pu nishment, however severe, which is most effec tual to the repression of crime. Both of these agree in thinking that the punishment of death for crimes against property affords less security to property than less severe, but more certain punishment. Sir Charles has no right to assume on the part of those who advocate the abolition of the punishment of death, any want of sym pathy with the widow and orphan who suffer from such acts as those committed by Faunt leroy. The whole question resolves itself into this—what is the description of punishment for forgery by which the crime will be most effectu ally repressed ? If, under the law as it at pre sent stands, persons suffering will not persecute, witnesses will not come forward, and jurors will not convict, they who advocate the continuation of that law, can only escape the charge of indif ference to the protection of property by their being ignorant of the tendency of what they advocate. Sir Charles said " he would not trouble himself to inquire very minutely into the origin of this lachrymose modern philanthropy. He had, however, looked into the writings of Addison and the writings of Locke, and there he found no traces of it." He might have looked a good deal farther back without finding any traces of it. We are told that in those times, when, God knows, the punishments af forded no indication of lachrymose philanthropy, but were as severe as Sir Charles himself could possibly desire, the country swarmed with thieves and robbers. Henry VIII. hung up three score and twelve thousand rogues, great and small, in his reign ; and Sir Thomas More informs us that twenty were frequently hung on one gallows. Yet the Historians tell that these " most cruel sanguinary laws failed to terrify." So far from men being terrified by the frequency of the punishment of death, all manner of coarse and obscene jokes were uttered both by the men on the cart, and by the by-standers, when execu• tions were of constant occurrence, and persons flocked to them as to a pleasant entertainment, where they were sure of abundance of ribaldry. In Newgate, the heads of the men who were be headed, used to be pickled in order to preserve them, before being stuck up, and amusement in Newgate with the turnkeys and prisoners used to be to play at foot-ball with these pickled heads. So much for the by-gone times when there was certainly no great stock of lachrymose philanthropy. Sir Charles is out of his proper age. He ought to have belonged to the times when pickled heads were used for foot-balls (if we may believe one of the most respectable of the founders of the Quakers, for as they were constantly in prison, they are our chief evidence for their interior administration in former days.) There may be a cant of hu manity as there is a cant of every thing which happens to be in vogue. The existence of a cant of humanity, however, proves also that the age is humane, for men in general do not as sume what they do not suppose calculated to raise them in general estimation. Sir Charles says he can find no trace of lachrymose philan tropy in Locke and Addison. We dare to say Sir Charles himself remembers both the birth and maturity of humanity among us. In the Letters of Mirabeau, just published (and we have received the most positive assurance of their authenticity from a quarter in which we place credit), he says, in 1784, only a year or two before the breaking out of the French Re volution, " I have much to say upon the subject of the recovery of debts in this country—on im prisonment in general—but more particularly on the Penal Code of Britain. Draco and Co. must have presided when such sanguinary laws were established. Blood—nothing but blood, or pounds of flesh, are required by this humane people for every offence. Should Hardy (a servant of M.'s, charged with some petty thefts) he found guilty, he will suffer death—the pu nishment awarded to the man who has butchered his own mother. Such laws ought to be re- vised ; they are a disgrace to a civilized nation. I have before me a list of crimes—about forty in number—all punishable with death. The laws of the most despotic countries of Europe are merciful when compared with those which are in force here. * * * My excellent friend Ro milly tells me, that he has been carefully study ing the Criminal Codes of every nation in Europe. Ours (he observes) is the very worst ; and when the plan I have in view is sufficiently mattired, I intend not to rest upon my pillo; until these laws, worthy of Anthropophagi, are for ever abolished.'" The certainty of punish ment (adequate it ought to be) is of far more consequence than a sev,:;rity which is only no minal. But even to this day comparatively little has been done in the way of ensuring certainty of punishment. A note written by Sir Samuel Romillv, communicated in these Letters of Mirabeau, points out clearly what is yet, in a great measure, a desideratum . " Cruelty in punishment, for slight offences, often induces offenders to pass on from trivial to the most atrocious crimes. Thss are these miserable fellow-mortals rendered despe rate, while the laws, which ought to soften the ferocity of obdurate minds, tend to corrupt and harden them. What education is to an indivi dual, the laws are to society ; whenever they are sanguinary, delinquents will be hard-hearted, desperate, and even barbarous. The real good of the State consequently requires that, not only adequate punishment should he impartially in flicted, but that the injured should obtain a reparation for their wrongs. Instead of such reparation, it is greatly to be lamented that many are induced to desist from prosecutions, and even to conceal injuries, because nothing but expense and trouble is to be their lot ; as all the fruits of the conviction, when the criminal has any property, go to the State. That the State shall be the only immediate gainer by the fines .and forfeitures of criminals, while the offended party suffers, is certainly not reconcileable to the principles of either justice, equity, or sound policy." To this day it is only by a kind of connivance that Magistrates effect a sort of repa ration to an injured party. The Magistrate allows the party complained against to talk with the prosecutor, i. e. to buy him off, for the infliction of a fine or imprison ment would afford him no reparation for the wrong suffered by him. Our readers may re member the case of the boy brutally used by the 1 master of a ship, l a t e ly mentioned in the House of Commons by Mr. Maurice O'Con nell. For such a case there is no re medy within the reach of the sufferer. Sir Edward Sugden doubted whether the Bank of England could conduct the public business if this Bill were carried ! The Bill was read a third time and passed. It was generally admitted that the law was inoperative, and could not be executed. But still forgery is a crime of which the consequences are often extensively mis chievous ; and an adequate punishment ought to be substituted without loss of time. We have at present no secondary punishments. It may truly be said, that there is at present a complete impunity for crime. The number of persons who pass through our prisons is enormous ; and no person can pass through a prison without sinking in character. Some great effort ought to be made to check the pollution which is creeping over the land.—Morning Chronicle. The passing of the Forgery Bill is a great tri umph of humanity, but it is a triumph ofjustice as well as humanity. It is one of those occur rences which will be dwelt upon by the future historian as characterising the improved intelli gence of the present age. Thank God we have at length got rid of that stupid blunder in legis lation, which looked upon death by choaking as a panacea for the cure of every crime, and stuck to its stupid text in spite of compromises and ac quittals, and refusals to prosecute, and, in short, every symptom of an ineffective, inoperative, and most disgraceful state of the law. In assuming that we have got rid of this blunder, we, of course, assume that the House of Lords will not identify themselves with the good old rope which Sir Charles Wetherell is so indignant at see ing discarded, but that they will concur with the Commons in getting rid of it, for the purpose of ensuring a more certain punishment and a more unpitied fate to a very flagrant class of delin quents : for this is the spirit in which the Com mons have legislated; this is the spirit in which the merchants and bankers of London, and the rest of the practical men, whom the Wetherells and Sugdens denounce as mere visionaries and theorists, forgetting that their own theory of the efficacy of the hanging law is contrary to all fact, all reason, and all experience ; this, we say, is the spirit in which the merchants and bankers of London, and the rest of the practical men, have petitioned the Legislature in favour of the change that has already obtained the sanction of one House of Parliament. We shall probably hear in the Lords, as we heard last night in the Commons, a few philosophical treatises from those philosophical personages, the mere lawyers ; for, as the Commons have their Wetherells and Sugdens, so have the Lords their Wynfords and Abbots. We shall probably hear from those authorities what danger property will be exposed to by abolishing the punishment of death. But the Lordswill, we doubt not, rescue themselves by their vote from the odium of such heartless, miserable, drivelling folly. They will say, as the Commons have said, that the cer tainty of punishment is what is wanting; and that they will ensure that certainty by putting an end to the dreadful doom from which the heart of the nation turns away in loathing and dis gust. When Sir Charles Wetherell and the rest of them, charge the advocates of this Bill with sacrificing the interests of society to a spurious humanity, they adopt a mode of attack which could be easily retorted. If they are justified in thus attributing motives to their adversaries, their adversaries may attribute motives to them. Their adversaries may accuse them of real ferocity—a ferocity sanctioned and en gendered by the existing law, it is true ; but so much the worse for the existing law, and the better for that which is to supersede it. But we do not impute such a feeling to the friends of capital punishment, though tempted to do so by their want of candour. All we accuse them of is an infatuated attach ment, a blind and devoted reverence, for the system in which they have been educated, not withstanding the clear evidence produced, over and over again, in proof of its total inefficacy. We presume they want no proof' of its revolting nature. The debate of last night will be read with great satisfaction by the public at large. If ever the advocates of a measure had a tri umph in argument, the Ministers and their supporters had a triumph last night. We do not regret that the measure has been so much contested, because the contest has led to a victory which could not have been otherwise so complete. No one can now affirm that the Legislature do not clearly see their way. We have not entered into particulars, because they will appear to more advantage in our report of the debate; but our readers will perceive on what side assertion was most vehement, and proof most deficient. To the debate, there fore, we refer with confidence and satisfaction, convinced that honest men will see they have lost no security in losing a sanguinary law, the terror of which had merged in its uncertainty, while they have gained a mere mild, but at the same time a more certain, efficacious, and operative mode of punishment in its place.—Morn. Her. The financial statement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Friday night was distin guised from all preceding expositions of the same kind (excepting, of course, his own of last year) by this, that it shed no ray of light upon the subject, communicated no particle of infor mation which Was not already familiar to all the world, stated no grounds, or none at least but such as were unintelligible or absurd, for his belief that the national finances will bo in a better state next year than they are at present. From tables prepared for him by the clerks of , the Treasury, and already published to the world, he read certain columns of figures as any schoolboy might have read them, terminating in the result that at present the necessary expendi ture greatly exceeds the income of the country. So far the Noble Lord was within the scope of his capacity, and every body understood him, be cause every body knew beforehand what he had got to sty. But when he tried his hand at that which Treasury clerks could not supply, the ex planation of the causes of the present depres sion, and the grounds of hope for the future, he floundered as deplorably as could have been theex most ignorant o f Northampton shire The revenue h as d ec li ne d he pcaeuetsee(glGrfarm r zoirs. eaetßritain has had an Administration avowedly, and upon principle, fond of change— an Administration under thegovernment of which many, we might say all, the great interests of the country have felt themselves liable to be assailed or undermined, and have, as a matter of ordinary prudence, been compelled to diminish their acti vity and draw home their resources. Lord Al thorp expects that the revenue will recover ; and so no doubt it will, for there is a vigour and elas ticity in the resources of this country which even a Government composed of such Statesmen as himself cannot utterly subdue. But unless the present Administration be succeeded by a better, or adopt, in defiance of consistency, Conserva tive principles, no man who reflects upon the subject can believe that we have yet reached any thing like the lowest point of depression. The dangers which hang over the West India inte rest, the new and additional dangers which have their source exclusively in the principles proclaimed by Ministers, would seem alone to be more than sufficient to account for a greater defalcation of Revenue than has yet taken place. How many shipowners of that numerous and ' important class who depend chiefly upon West India freight, how many manufacturers who are employed solely in providing goods for the West India market, may have been induced, by the precarious aspect which Ministers have commu nicated to West India affairs, we do not say to suspend, but to contract, their operations, to do as little as possible with a view to future and distant remuneration, until they see that the cloud has blown over, to adopt the narrow and cautious system of working from hand to mouth? When- the influence of this paralysing conside ration with respect to the West India interest only is traced through its infinite ramifications, and its effect computed, what can be thought of the Statesman who finds the chief cause of the decay of the national resources in a trivial and ordinary fluctuation in the course of ex change ? But other and even greater interests have been placed by Ministers, by their known character, their past professions, and their actual conduct, in a situation of conscious jeopardy. The landed interest is threatened with some change or other essentially affecting its prospe rity, and the more depressing that it is undefined. On the funded interest an open attempt at spo liation has already been made. The whole pro perty of the Church of Ireland, and that of the Church of England also by necessary conse quence, is already, in the imagination of many of the more ardent supporters of Ministerial principles and policy, under the hammer of the national auctioneer. Every thing is me naced with dislocation, while in fears alike of the timid possessors, and the hopes of many of the unprincipled agitators, to dislocate is to destroy. This is the situation of the country ; at least one man in five of the possessors of every de scription of pruperty is lying by, awaiting in terror the storm which he foresees the disorgan ising principles and pledges of the Government must speedily conjure up; and Lord Althorp, good simple man, believes that the chief cause of the decline of the revenue is that the foreign exchanges have been for some time aginst us ! It is really a pity that Lord Althorp will venture to talk of things to which he has obviously paid no attention ; for, limited as his capacity is, the slightest attention to the subject of currency and exchange would have rescued him from the errors into which he has fallen, and at least have taught him the wisdom and propriety of holding his tongue. It would be difficult to comprehend in the same compass a greater num ber of gross blunders than are embraced in the few words of the Noble Lord upon this subject : " The circumstance, however, which had a still greater effect than both these causes together was the state in which the currency of the coun try was (luring a considerable period. It had undergone a gradual contraction. The exchanges were against them ; and the natural and neces sary consequence was a stagnation of trade. Mat ters, however, were now changed. The ex changes were in their favour, and he trusted the effects would ere long be apparent in a more flourishing state of commerce and an increase of customs." If the currency did undergo a gra dual contraction, we can tell Lord Althorp that this could only have arisen from the diminished number of transactions in our internal trade (an identical proposition with the decay of prosperity, and no explanation of it at all), by which, natu rally and necessarily, that amount of currency which was before only sufficient for the wants of the country would become redundant, and thus give rise to an unfavourable course of exchange. This is a strange confusion of cause and-effect.— But this is not all. The course of exchange will, it is known, fluctuate, within narrow limits and in short periods, above and below par in the case of every commercial country, but can never as sume a permanent direction one way or the other unless from a progressive change in the value of the currency, or from the progressive decay or prosperity of the internal commerce of the country, requiring a diminished or increased amount of currency. In the value of our cur rency we know there has been no alteration for several years. In its amount there has, Lord Althorp says, been a gradual diminution since he came into office, effected by means of an unfavourable exchange. This is no doubt a proof of decay in internal commerce, a conse quence of decay, but certainly not the cause of decay. His Lordship says things are improv ing, because the exchanges are fbr the moment a little better. It is probably no more than a momentary fluctuation. We wish he could have said that the exchanges arc better because things are improving. A non sequitur is no doubt less dishonourable than a falsehood ; but it would would have been as well to avoid both. As it is, Lord Althorp has proved nothing but his own ignorance. The Ministers arc content to leave the country .for a year to come with re sources inadequate to its peace expenditure, instead of having, as every competent and vigo rous Ministry must desire to have, a fund in excess to meet accidental and unforeseen emer gencies. This, we suppose, is intended as a compliment to the diplomatic skill and influence of Lord Palmerston. The power of striking an early and effective blow in case of war is what has hitherto been thought desirable with a view as ord May o t E li e a r a o n oufGc. a fioL t irdn i Ee o oglyi t tu l eal sdhrni congenial c l eNuroiseoi r trirl e t.vupi s iic r itle i r,ore e ei cs : ai t taalr . i ,laii;:yniso, l ei 3 pdn u talhe t pt now, to avert the necessity for actual hostilities by in -1 spiring o o r t s s sl o t the h n :ge e t , although an L d the circumstanceswith him aort of attitude on the part of this country, the imposing f a t oh t r t ae i t t i u gt c hn l e of e G t v h e is rn m ent country can n r resolves e nothingvs itself against this, s t any enemy without violating the law and Constitution, and, what is stil n l dp a rae s ms t u r p o mi t e l i g Ac e io r oml b i,p o e t i t .o d i.; exposing nch g disadvantaget eiro v te blundering sol e a sation is the fact that Lord Palmerston presides s i u t ffi th c e iel k it 'o t r o eig i n ns O pi ffi re ce a . n a O w f e c % ot i r c s h e tills fact ishighest state of financial preparation for defence or at tack could never have produced.—Morning Post. INTENDED MEETING at the DEVIL'S BIT. THE POLICE, THE PRIESTS, AND THE PEOPLE. (From the Tipperary Free Press.) _ Sunday, the 22d inst., having been fixed for the Anti-Tithe meeting at the Devil's Bit, the people began to assemble at an early hour. Every road leading to the mountain was thronged with vast multitudes, moving on quietly to the place of meet ing. The police and military took possession of that particular spat which is called the Rock. About 12 o'clock, the hill for three or four miles round was literally covered with the vast multitudes con gregated to witness the day's proceedings; at least 50,000 people must have been assembled. A com munication arrived from the gentlemen at Temple more intimating that for certain reasons, known only to themselves, the meeting was adjourned: this was signed by the very persons who got up the requisition for calling the meeting. An occurrence took place upon the summit of the mountain which will exhibit the feelings and dispositions of the police in a most conspicuous form.—A chief con stable, named, Malone, stationed at Newport, was placed with about 30 men on a remote part of the hill; the people, moving in great bodies from one position to another, came close to his station, and he, thinking this an intrusion upon a spot which he held sacred, began, without even re monstrating, to charge them at the point of the bayonet. Fortunately murder was prevented by the intetference of a Catholic Priest from Nenagh, who prevailed upon the people to return beyond the ju risdiction of this sanguinary peeler. The rest of the police and military showed the utmost propriety and forbearance. Towards two o'clock the assem bled multitudes began to separate; their disappoint ment was visible at the meeting having been ad journed. The small town of Toomevara is situated between Nenagh and the Devil's Bit ; here most of the people who came from Lower Ormond stopped to take refreshment. Malone, with a large body of police, remained also there, and the public will perceive from the following simple statement of facts, whether this man was bent upon shed ding human blood :—Five Clergymen on their way home from the place of meeting, and passing through Toomqvara, remarked the public houses thronged ; they spoke to the people, recommending them to go home imme diately, least perchance they might get drunk, and give their enemies a pretext for assaulting them. This advice was willingly complied with—they left off drinking, and followed the clergymen through the streets. After having quietly passed the police, and at a distance perhaps of 50 or 60 yards, one of the gentlemen began to address a few words to the people, thanking them for their peaceable conduct during the day. During this short address the de tachment of the 92d Highlanders, stationed in Ne nagh, passed. The police were immediately after them, and though the same passage was open, they were not satisfied to proceed, but immediately, and without provocation, as can be attested by thou sands, commenced charging the people at the point of the bayonet I ! I So extraordinary a proof of the people's forbearance is not, perhaps, on record, as that manifested on this occasion; for though one man was mortally wounded, and many mangled in a most horrible manner—though the five clergymen who were present had nearly fallen victims to the rage of those blood-thirsty men, yet the people of fered no resistance ! they were detearnined to be tranquil however great the provocation. I myself witnessed one or two most daring attempts made on the life of the Rev. Mr. Power, of Nenagh, by a fellow named Roberts, a sergeant of police at Toomevara; he pursued him across the street with fixed bayonet, and would have thrust it through his body had he not been arrested by a young man who followed close after him. The Rev. Mr. Dunn was also pursued by three other ruffians, and only saved his life by throwing himself into the Rev. Mr. Masher's garden. The particulars of this atrocious outrage have been transmitted to the Lord Lieute nant. VINDEX. At Sutton Coldfield last Wednesday a wo man pretended to have the cholera, to excite compassion. A medical man, WhO suspected that she was an imposter, proposed that a red hot poker shonld be laid over her back; the effect was electrical; she declared that she was sud denly well ! By way of completing the cure, the Magis trate sent her to Warwick gaol for two months. A woman named SARAH RICHARDS has attempted a similar imposture in Worcester.—Shrewsbury Chronicle. MAGISTERIAL SYCOPHANCY.—The Ma gistrates, we must say, have been guilty of a piece of vile sycophancy, in offering a reward of fifty pounds for the discovery of the persons who " abused and maltreated " the " Lord Lieutenant of the County," the Duke of Buc- CLEUCII! What was the crime which provoked this piece of official folly? A few boys, or beardless apprentice lads, hiss and hoot the unpopular Duke, and throw two or three pebbles at him, but without doing him the slight.. est personal injury. We execrate this mobbish violence as much as any one; but it has happened again and again to better men, and wiser than the Duke, and the duty of re pressing it, or punishing the guilty parties, has been uni versally left to the police. When the Duke of WELLING TON was much more roughly treated in London ten days ago, did the Magistrates offer a reward for the discovery of the miscre ints who attacked him ? The Duke, we presume, had gone straight from the mob to the chief Magistrate, and ca asplained that " the Lord Lieutenant of the county" had been insulted on the streets ! The Ma gistrate, of course, held up his hands in utter astonishment, wondering that any one, young or old, could have the audacity to offer violence to the "Lord Lieutenant of the county !" and declaring that extraordinary means should be used to insure the punishment of such unparalleled wickedness ! Forth, then, issues this foolish proclama tion, the object of which clearly is,—first. to soothe the Duke's vanity ; secondly, to apprise the public, that though " your even citizen" must rely on the police for protection, the " Lord Lieutenant's" person is sacred ; thirdly, to let the world know that the Reform Bill has rendered this the most turbulent and di , orderly city in the kingdom ! The whole affair exhibits the Magistrates in a very paltry light. The proclamation teas issued, because the Duke was a Duke, though the law knows him as nothing more than a private man.—Scotsman. APPREHENSION OF A GANG OF BUR CLARS.—For some time past the inhabitants of the seve ral villages in Kent and Essex have continued in great terror, owing to the existence of a regular organized gang of robbers and burglars in the neighbourhood. Scarcely a night has elapsed these three months past without some persons having been plundered by these midnight marau ders, and nrywithstanding handsome rewards have been offered for the apprehension and conviction of the offenders, and the vigilance of the police, no clue could be obtained of the robbers' retreat, until Sunday morning, the 22d inst., when, as police constable DYKE was on duty in the Broadway, Deptford, he stopped a suspicious -looking fellow with a bundle in his possession, and conveyed him to the Station-house. The bundle, upon being opened, was found to contain a sirloin of beef ; and as the pri soner could not give a satisfactory account for its posses sion, he was locked up. As soon as inspector THOMAS caught a glance of his features, he recognized his prisoner as an old offender, who had been eight times tried at Maid stone upon charges of felony. The prisoner's name is JOUR NEEDIIA.M, but lie is much better known by the cognomen of Deaf Jemmy. Inquiries having been insti • toted, it was discovered that early that morning a gang of villains had broken open the pantry of Mr. Miens, of Elthain, and entirely stripped it of its contents, which consisted of a sirloin of beef, a leg and a shoulder of lamb, two hams, several fowls and ducks, a salmon, and several pounds of fresh butter, and that six or seven men were seen that same morning regaling themselves in the fields. The sirloin of beef found in time poasession of the prisoner was identified as that stolen from Mr. MI z.r.'s pantry, and he was brought before Mr. SHIPMAN on Monday last, and remanded for a week. Inspector THOMAS, and police constable DYKE, then went in pursuit of the prisoner's accomplices, and succeeded in capturing another of the gang, named JAMES MACCLESFIELD, on suspicio n () fl y i ng concerned in the robbery, which he stoutly denied at first, but afterwards promised to reveal every thing if admitted an evidence for the Crown ; another of the gang, named MILLER, was then captured on a simil,r charge. Several marine store dealers' premises were examined by the In spector, with a search warrant, but nothing cull he trace, save a white cotton stocking belonging to the ser vant of Mi s s WYNDHAM. This b e f oun d at t h e shop of THOMAS EASTERFIELD, a marine store dealer, in Friar street, Blackfriars-road. EASTERPIELD was cons: quently apprehended as a receiver of the stolen property. Oa Monday morning the whole of the prisoners were brought up for final examination. MILLER was discharged. The other prisoners were fully committed to Maidstone gaol. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. LONDON MARKETS. (Front the London New Price Current of yesterday.) SUGAR-The Sugar Market was apparently heavy last' week, but the transactions were extensive, as the buyers bought on more favourable terms; the purchases were es' timated at 3,soohhds. and trs. ; the Market closed on Friday rather more firm. The stock of West India Sugar is saw 31,781 hhds. and trs., which is 14,387 less that last year. The stock of Mauritius is 51,206 bags, being 65,781 less than the last year. The delivery of West India Sugar is 3,691• hhds. and trs., being 153 less than last year. The delivery of Mauritius 5,701 bags, being 1,686 less than the corresponding week of 1831. The demand for West India Muscovades has been general and extensive; the trade are out of stock, and as they could purchase on lower terms, they came freely forward ; the estimated sales this day are 1,500 hdds. and trs., including the public sales of Barbadoes and Trinidad ; the prices at the close of the day are rather higher than on Friday, particularly the brown. The refined trada wag dull last week, the purchases being confined to the borne trade, and the grocers purchased on rather lower prices ; some partial sales of low lumps were reported at 635. 6d. a 645. There was no alteration in the Refined Market , but the brisk demand for Muscovades must eventually have a favourable effect on Refined goods. EAST INDIA SUGARS.-The only sales reported last week were of Siams, 235. a 255. 6d. MAURITIUS SUGARS.-The stock of Mauritius Sugars in this market is mostly out of the hands of the impor' ters ; the purchases last week were inconsiderable, and there was no alteration in prices. FOREIGN SUGARS.--In Foreign Sugars no sales were reported last week. COFFEE. -The Coffee Market was heavy, and declining in price; the reduction in British Plantation was about 2s. per cwt. on all qualities above fine ord., and Ss. t 5 4s. on the ord. and triage ; good ord. Jamaica sold 75 5 . a 765., and fine ord. 775. and 785., triage 625. a 725. In East India or Foreign few or no sales were reported; large parcels of the latter were withdrawn from public sale, there being no buyers. The small public sale of 4 1 casks British Plantation this day went off with briskness ls. 6d. a 2s. higher, ord. middling at 81s. 6(1. In Fu' reign or East India there are no sales by private contract. The market is more firm this afternoon. BUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLAND& -Io the Rum IMP ket there is still little doing ; the prices are nearly norm' nal. As the demand for Brandy continues general and_ extensive, principally for home consumption, the prices may be stated Id. per gallon higher. For Geneva there is no inquiry. HEMP, FLAX, AND TALLOW.-The Tallow Market continues dull, but purchases cannot be made on such lase 1 terms as last week. In Hemp there is no alteration. FIS is quoted higher. IRISH PROVISIONS.-In the last week the import o f Foreign Butter was 4,191 casks of Irish, 4,264 firkins and of Bacon 1,895 bales, with a further arrival yesterday of about 1,200 bales of Bacon. The price of Foreign Butter at the quay has declined within the last few days; the finest Friesland Butter cannot be quoted over 88s. to' , slay ; Irish Butter keeps pretty stationary, and is no t ' likely to be lower until we have an accumulation of stoei 4 , at the wharfs. Limerick we quote 80s. on board fa parcels now shipped, and 83s. landed ; Cork '79s. ‘ 5l board, 81e. and 82s. landed ; Carlow, 80s. and 82s. or hoard, 82s. and 84s. landed ; and Waterford, as to reput e ' of brands, '7Bs. a 80s. on board, 80s. a 828. landed. Ther e , r are very few, if any, speculativ e sa l es ma ki ng for forwa r d shipment. Bacon continues to meet a fair sale, prises singed Waterford we quote 51s. a 535. and Limerick 50' a 525. landed. Bale Middles sell slowly at 445. a 46s and Tierce Middles at 445. a 48s. landed. Bladder Lail as to quality we quote 565. a 635. Belfast Hams, 58s. e 645. and fine small-sized Limerick, 731. a '76s. landed' In Beef and Pork little doing, but prices are steady. INDIGO. -The Market continues dull : th ere i s no 15 ' teration in prices. FRUIT. -The only alteration in F ru it i s i n C urr ants; there is more demand since it was ascertained that ther e will be no reduction in the duty at present. SALTPETRE. -The large public sales of - last week' about 5,000 bags Saltpetre, partly 30,. 6d. a 38s. sin ce which the Market is more firm. Orr.s.-Oils generally are steady in prices, though ne t much doing in them. TURPE;TINE.—No arrivals or sales. ASIIES.-Holders are firm, and sanguine of a furtligl advance. RlM—The demand for Rice has rather improved. , Corrow.—There is no alteration in the Cotton Marice; The sales lately are inconsiderable; they consist of 17 Madras, good fair 4id. ; 30 S ura t, goo d f a i r qd.; , Pernams, good fair 91-d. ; 160 Bowed, fair to good 50 Bengal, good - fair qd. TOBACCO.—In 'Tobacco there is no alteration. Hors.—The accounts from the best districts state 1,. increase of fly; the crop is in a very precarious state. duty is estimated at 150,0001. to 155,0001. .SILK. —The Silk trade, since the sitting of the Cl f mittee in the House of Commons, has been in a very oel pressed state, but few sal e s eff ec t e .f, an d th e p r i ces co d e e quently remain stationary. The Brutia Mark e t i s ratte d lower, but even at the reduction of prices but little bO 5 nese is doing. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING IHE WEE Wheat. Barley. I Oats. 1.2.3,.„>15* Per Quarter. s. to s. s . to s. s. to s. — s_ Boston 62 25 18 35 5/ Gainsborough « 65 37 20 Grantham 58 65 37 44 19 26 36 4 0 Grimsby liorncastle. 6O 63 30 35 16 20 40 51 Lincoln . 58 (2 18 24 35 4(1 60 6.5 30 34 18 22 38 51 6 54 64 30 38 20 25 33 Ig 52 72 34 44 16 26 32 NORWICH, July 28. Wheat (per qr.) 60s 68s. 70s. Beans (per qr.) 355. 434 :0 Barley 303. 345. 365. I Pease, Grey-- 365. 10, Oats 2:25. Ws. 28s. Flour, fine (per sac k) 495. RKETS. PTE.—FRIDAY, Jul' From To 31 0 38 0 11 6 12 0 —0 0 8 9 12 0 4 0 22 0 9 6 15 0 Aver 34 If 0 1 220 1 Flour 48s. 4d. per - from 21s. Od. from 17s. 0(1. - from ss. 01 (READ. Half Quartern.............. IRISH MA DUBLIN MARKET NO 322 Wheat, per barrel 20 stone 2'2 Bete ..,--- 16 stone 0 16 stone 1,510 Oats 12 stone 9,563 Cwt. 9 stone 712 Oatmeal 8 stone Sold to Rakers 8,193 Cwt. Flour-- Average price c Receipts of Flour, 12, Sides of Do. 9, only. .f - Wheat an; 1 Firsts, ;Z Second ' 8" Thirds PRICE OF N. I 4 10 o 11 19 5 1c 012:42 , , to 9 0 '• Od to 1* Quartern Loaf —....... 91. 1 Half Quartern ..........O• 4 V ~,, ...... I _-, Wheat, Barley. Oats. Flour, per 0 ..... :/_, per barrel per barrel per barrel —ll.-- 20 stone. 16 stone. 14 stone. lst' 2± , / -- --. ----_ ---'. s. d. a s . d. s. d. as . d. s. d. as. d . s. d. as. d.Io• 6 ad, s. d• 16 Cork ....... 250 0011 0 136 96 10 617 0 196 60 il Limerick !276 39 0 13 0 14 0 12 0 13 6 16 0 1 9 0 00 „ 10 0 Waterfordi9.9 0 31 013 0 15 010 0 11 0 17 0 19 0 10 0 16, Clonmel —4 u 29 4 30 0 12 0 16'0 13 6 13 9 17 0 19 0 13 0" Carlow —PO 0 32 016 0 17 0. 9 0 10 020 6 210 0 0 ...-gft Beef, Mutton, Pork, flutter. per lb. per lb. per cwt. Ist. 2d. 3d. it t '' ...1 , -- Limerick— 3 4 3-1 431 0 3.5 7 o °l l4o o 76 0 70 0 66 ° ~..w i i „ IVaterford 3 6 3 5 35 0 Cork ...— d 4; a d. 5 ' 5 l. a 36 0179 070 0 ol— 0 v Clonmel ... 3 4 4 637 0 3 8 ~, 060 „ , 0 0 00 AO - " Carlow...-. 4 51 0 o_—:-:s0 ( d ; . 29 s d o . a a s 2. d o . 7 s . 9 d :3 . ;7 8. 1. 41 00 . 6 .7. 05 0_ 10, .6 5 56 . 9 c1 00 . 1,6 0 5 : , 000, stone; Coals ls. 2d. per cwt.; Beef 4d. to 5,1. per lb. ; 14,1utt0.0000 t r 0 c1 5 ; 4. 8 ; 8 . 2 , E 33. per t r ° D.IS KILKENNV.—Bu s t 2 o 4 l . s p s. ei l )eat 3 per barrel ; Flour 'Xs. to 345 . per bag; Oats Bs. to 10s. P a ' F' .Pigs 3 , 25. to 335. per cwt. r l l ' e crt Potatoes ' o 6th nit. in Curzon street, Lady Emmeline S t°so 28th ult. Mrs. James Pringle Barclay, ( i t et tfe co 3 F l a st so t n il . t. the lady of John Currie,Esq., 51.1). ' On o f $ WO ° • 1 114.° 1 On the 27th ult. at Bath, the lady of Captain Lysaght, a son. 3, a l e On the 2d ult. at the Homat, near Thoune, Switzer It e ' lady of Charles T. Bourke, Esq.,(late of l• DI ' ty's ` iv A its aies giment), of a son.tiff' . Ton' On the 23th ult. at Kennington, the lady of Alfred a : V l aOO a :i r grtin k lh e t t te , hr S e. uffolk, a son. - Esq , of the Hon. East India Company's Service, o f a son. MARRIED. $ 54. ' On the 31st ult. at St. Martin's Church Donald Cameo:toil, eldest son of D onald Cameron, Esq ,''of Church, North f e lifi ry to Vere C a th er i ne Louisa, youngest daughter of the 1 4 ,, 5 11 , 10 Geo, Hobart, and sister to the present Earl of Bucking ''oe o ' On the 28th ult. at St. Mark's, Kennington, Mr* , iee va t Ed On the of Wandsworth-road, to rcMis 3 WThlliam T iselton. o 'of Po 31st ult. at St. James's Chu h, of Watford, H erts , t o J ane S tone h ouse, secon d d a ughter . o' l ' late William Boyd, of Bewley-hill, Lancashire. ` t he_ , On the 28th ult. at Edinburgh, Robert Wade, Esq., ~_ . of Dean.street, Soho, to Susannah, youngest daughter of „ ii ar ,, , On the 31st ult. aSt. Margaret's Church, Westmins h te r Hertslet, Esq., of College-street, to Mary Spencer, daps te • William Wainewright, Esq., of Fludyer.street, Westin. ill Wm. Howard, Esq., surgeon, of Park-street, Grosveno t r e - r 7v;t h o f DIED. ____ P a' On the 29th ult. Charles Gibson, Esq., of Quernra or e o I . 4 ft th er yt.a t r e o w f d h a is ys ag i e liness, the brain, in her 25th year, Susannah, youngest daughter ei Thomas, of Martin's.lane, Cannon-street. L a O h 'l c a s t h h i e r e 3, l i s n t ult h e „,, fCh 3 lO On the atth ult. Margaret, aged:32, the seventh chutl i ,ger' Rossi, It A., Lisson-grove North, Marylebone, after a o ff and severe illness. her 71st , Y ,,e o ' On the 27th ult. at Langley House, Bucks, in N I il ,- (o ft , ' Lucy, wife of C. T. Depree, Esq., after a long and pain ite , o p , On the ‘26:h ult. drowned, while bathing at rdLrg,nt °f'- Thomas, the second son of the late Mr. Williatu R° 1 "" church-lane. raurszoranntssuramairanunek. . O S 0 A l PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY MURDO YOUN , of in flattltartiolVf, SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, LONDON.