The Sun. — London, England, 1832-04-16 00:00:00

Hate the agitation of Reform ? The bit-and bit Reformers appear to fcirget that it is much easier to begin a -- b - itvrit=treform than to terminate it. A large and liberal' measure of Reform will satisfy the people, and instead of abandoning themselves to fresh agitation, they will endeavour to reap in peace the benefit , which they anticipated from the Reform. The Reform is only means to an end, and that end is good Government. If the people find that their Reformed Parliament works well—that it saves them from profligate expenditure and pillage—that it does not place itself in opposition to their just hopes and wishes, but sets itself in good earnest to improve our laws and institu tions, they will be afraid, perhaps, of altering what already answers its end. But the miserable policy inculcated by the Duke of Wellington during the late debate, who, to use the late Lord Ca.stlereagh's phrase, has turned his back on himself, would only serve to whet and stimulate the desire for Reform, and the Reformers might he driven step by step to demands of which they did not dream at first, and beyond even what wisdom might sanction. The policy which stops short of justice is a miserable policy. The in iolence and impudence of the Duke of Welling. ton, and the cunning of the filching school, will he found equally unavailing at this conjuncture. The Duke of Wellington may be assured that he has done himself far more injury than he can ever do to the cause of Reform.—Morning eltronicle. The interest with which the debate of Friday _ evening will be read throughout the country, and which was raised in the hearers of it while the discussion proceeded, is not so much attributable to any superior force or novelty in the argument produced on either side, as to the introduction of certain collateral and personal. but exciting topics, and still more to the importance of the question at issue,—viz., whether the principle of .Reforni should he received by the House, or be at once rejected. The second reading now se cure, and the principles of the Bill—namely, disfranchisement, enfranchisement, and a more extended qualification for voters—being recog nized by their Lordships, many questions will arise, to be determined by the Committee, as to the breadth of application which shall be given to those principles. It is with infinite satisfaction that we find Lord Grey declaring upon this point his resolution to resist a change of the qualification to a higher sum than 101., and to maintain at their present number the schedules of disfranchised boroughs; for, undoubtedly, a formal adherence to the " principles" of the Bill itt the mere technical or verbal sense of the word, might be consistent with a serious depreciation of its value as at present estimated by the people, although a partial reduction in the amount of disfranchised boroughs, or enfranchised towns, or a more exclusive standard for the elector's right of voting, would still leave the abstract principles of the Bill untouched, however little disposed the country might and must be to tole rate such a fraud upon the solidity of its long cherished expectations. There must, in fact, he no tampering with the principles of the curtailment of its fair proportions— ':o linsey-woolsey fringes stuck, by " im proving"Antisßeformers,on its present strongand simple texture. England will not be amused by mere words, or give away substances for shadows. The impudence of the Tory prints becomes . . more extravagant as their cause declines. The matinees o what will he done by the Tories in committee appear to take a bolder swing at the moire It which has witnessed the utter falsifica tion o f their prophecies about the second read ing. The ultras will have the whole of schedule B expunged—(turned over to schedule A more likely). Schedule A itself is to be emasculated, —the metropolitan members " sent to grass," and the 101. qualification, in some way or other, mystified. We shall see. Along with all this, and as the only condition by virtue of which so many great things are to be accomplished, the King has laid a positive injunction on Earl Grey that hfeis not to add to the peerage : Lord Grey " dares not make peers." Here is a drawcansir for you ! Why, indeed, if that be true, it is suffici ently manifest that the schedules, the metropoli tat s, and ten-pounders, will all be swept away by the board: there is neither shroud nor stay, nor tackle, to support them. But, once again, we shall see. Lord Grey exhibited no mark of weakness, or timidity, or hesitation, in his powerful reply, when he maintained the right of the preroga tive to create peers when it mig4it be necessary to prevent a collision between the "two Houses of Parliament." As the two houses are at pre sent constituted, that collision must at once take place after the total re-modelling of the Reform Bill by the Lords, anticipated in the Tory jour nals. And two methods only exist by which ucl► a disaster might be repaired, or such an unnatural legislative warfare terminated. Ist, the house of Commons might be sent to a new election : would that course remedy the evil com plained of, by the return of a body of members more in accordance with the Peers ? We appre hend- quite otherwise. Nothing, then, remains but, 2dly, an appeal to that constituent powe by which Peers themselves are sent into Parliament, —a resort to the prerogative of the Crown. Thus, and thus only, can the several branches of the, legislature be brought again to co-operate to their common and lawful purpose—the main tenance of peace throughout the land, and the sectivity of regular government. But if that mosrnoxious and daring assertion of the Duke of ! Wellington were true, that the King disapproved the Reform Bill brought in by his, Ministers, is it probable that a fact of ouch transcendent importance would be withheld front Lord Grey, or that Lord trey, being apprised of it, would not retire from office ? or that, showing a disposition to remain there for the achievement of a design so hateful to the Sovereign, his Majesty would not, ere now, have given the Noble Lord his dismissal ? The palpable absurdity of this tale about the King makes it more than wonderful that the Noble Duke should have suffer, d his party ve hemence to betray him into an avowal of his be lief in it. Poor Lord Eldon, whose thoughts take now an d t h en an enterta i n i ng turn, °de scribed the constitution as " the best property handed down to us by our ancestors ; and truly it has been made by certain Noble Lords a property with a vengeance. It has been to them a property, not merely enjoyed, but bought and sold as regularly as any other mer chandize ; only they who sold it were accus tomed to forget that they sold what was not their own, and they who . bought it shut their eyes to the fact, that an unlawful purchase could confer no legitimate rights of ownership ; so both are now, in the late but righteous dispensation of public justice, brought . to their own account, and the whole political value of Gatton - (one example among many,) which fetched some years ago many shameful thousands of pounds, is confiscated for the be nefit Of that nation from whom it had been made tie corrupt instrument for plundering as mans millions. • But the-dying attempt to arrest tln; inarch of Providenw.T,lvHll prove abortive. The growing civilization and intelligence cf mankind will push aside the miserable fiction which strives to block up the path of peace and liberty. The maxims of borough policy by which England was ruled 70 years ago are as little suited to the genius of the present day, as was the despotic fury of Henry VIII. to the times of Charles I. and James 11. One truth is clear, and Lord Grey will of course not lose sight of it for a moment : his Government has carried the second reading by a majority of not more than two present Peers ; and in com mittee proxies cannot vote. Now, of those who voted personally for the second reading, more that twenty are pledged against the main clauses of the Bill. is that a position which can be defended by his actual force, without ruin to the Bill, to the Ministry, and to Reform ?—Times. The more closely Lord Grey's conduct on the Reform question is considered, the more unquestionably is he entitled to the gratitude, applause, and confidence of his countrymen. Assailed on all sides by alternate threats and inducements, abused by enemies, and not very kindly treated by friends, with a greater responsi bility on his mind than ever fell to the lot of any public man, his Lordship has kept the even tenor of his way, and has, up to the present mement, mei'and subdued all the difficulties of his situation with a philosophic dignity and calmness, not the less remarkable and praise worthy when compared with the total absence of that quality in many of his opponents, and not a few of his supporters. It is to the admi rable tact and temper, with the firmness and consistency exhibited hitherto, by Lord Grey throughout every period of the trying situa tion in which he has been placed, that the present favourable situation of the great question is mainly owing ; and the county may therefore look forward with the most cheering hope and confidence, under the same auspices, to a safe, a peaceable, and full fruition of those national advantages which Parliamentary Reform can scarcely fail to bring with it. If there is any one point upon which Lord Grey is mora entitled to applause than another, it is the admirable skill, judgment, and forbear ance, which he has shewn in carrying the Bill through its most important stage in the House of Lords, without any new creation of Peers. On this point he has not only out-generalled his enemies, but has falsified the threats and fore bodings of many who call themselves his friends and adherents. We beliete that of the latter ' the greater number differed from Lord Grey upon this important topic. It is clear, however, that his Lordship knew better than they did what he was about ; and as the success has been all his own, so ought to be the honours of the victory. Whether it may be necessary in any future stage of the measure to create Peers in any considerable numbers, to insure its success, be : comes comparatively a very minor consideration. 1 Such a step now will not be resorted to, to compel the House of Lords to change their minds, but to compel them to be consistent with themselves. In fact, the odium, if any, of such a step, will not now attach to the advisers of the Crown, but to those, if any, who may be found to blow hot and cold in two different stages of one and the same ques tion. But we are strongly inclined to think that no resort to any such proceeding will now become necessary. On the one hand, we have the high authority of Lord Lyndhurst, one of the most uncompromising of Anti-reformers for, believing that the Bill having passed the second reading, " there can be no possibility of prevent ing it from becoming the law of the land ;" while on the other, to insure its speedy success, as well as the peace and tranquillity of the country, there is no honest reformer who, in the spirit of Lord Grey himself, would not be ready to make any reasonable minor concessions of detail which did not encroach upon the great features and prin ciples of the measure. At any rate w e see every reason to congratulate the country on the point at which the measure has now arrived. The Reform Bill may again come into jeopardy—it may encounter a fresh storm—it may ineura re lapse,—but the more probable conclusion, is, that it will arrive safe in port, under the guidance of a pilot who has steered it thus far through so many great and palpable hazards.—Morning Herald. We have no pleasure in contemplating the result of the debate on the second reading of the Reform Bill, nor in adverting even to the splen did and triumphant arguments of the conserva tive Peers upon the main question, since all that a manifest superiority of eloquence and talent could perform was performed in vain, so far as this stage of the measure is concerned. Yet, though mortified, we are not desponding.— Much yet remains to be done before the Con stitution of England can be effectually de stroyed ; and if the glorious minority of 175 keep firmly together, and manifest the same zeal, ability, and energy they have hitherto evinced, there is little reason to doubt that the revolu tionists will yet be defeated. To the grounds of confidence in- the final triumph of the Con stitution which we find in the conduct and character of its . defenders . we,. have only to add those which are to be discovered in the temper and proceedings of its assailants; and we have a foundation for hope scarcely inferior in value to the actual possession and enjoyment of assured and complete victory. The Durham episode in the late debate is in itself sufficient to assure us that the cause which is supported by such characters as are there exhibited cannot long be in the ascendant in a nation consisting of honourable men. Let us briefly describe this tragi-comical performance of the greatest. and most powerful of the Reform statesmen, Lord Durham. The Bishop of Exeter, in the course of his luminous and unanswerable speech on Wednesday, happened to say, in allusion to the revolutionary Press, that a certain Journal was supposed by ignorant persons to breathe the inspiration, rf not of the Treasury itself, of some other high office. Lord Durham, after two days' deliberation, thought proper to take this inuendo to himself, and accordingly came oat on Friday with an attack upon the Right Reverend Churchman, in the choicest style of Billingsgate, accusing him of wilful and malignant falsehood, decked out in the flowers of pamphleteering slang, &c. Upon this the Bishop of Exeter, who is by 00 means a rnan to be silenced by the petulant Lordling, even although the latter should become thegreat Parliamentary man which it is a main object of the Bill to make him, begged to say that he thought the reports alluded to were not unlikely to be in some degree true, and maintained the probability of the report, an allusion to which had excited so much impotent and silly anger, by referring to a recent instance in which passages in a letter from a Noble Peer to his Majesty had found their wAy to a f N Radical (Journal. The Duke of Buckingham laid that the - letter was his, that he had given a copy of, it no one, and that he had read it only to two of IL own family and two of his particular friends. Earl Grey admitted the literal accuracy of the extracts of the letter to the King, said that he had been at a loss to ac count for their appearance, stated that he,-having received the letter from his Majesty, communi cated it to his colleagues, but disclaimed for himself and for them any communication with the Journal in question. The above is the precise state of the matter as it stands upon the reported procceedings in Parliament, and it suggests, in the first place, this very obvious remark, that the situation of the King of England is exceedingly unfortunate at the present moment, since it is plain that, so long as he is surrounded by his present Mi nisters, no communication, however confidential, can be made to him of a nature which implies the necessity of referring it to those Ministers which may, not within a few days find its way to the columns of the Revolutionary Journals, and that an effectual interdict is thus placed upon such communication, inasmuch as no Peer will henceforth venture to expose his Sovereign and himself to the degradation and insult which such irregular and unauthorized publication involves and conveys. Lord Grey disclaims for himself and his colleagues having had any thing to do with this publication, a publication which was not merely irregular, unbecoming, and indecent on the part of any official man—which was not merely a per sonal disrespect to the King, and a certain injury to his service—but which, if the act of a Privy Councillor, was a direct and flagrant vio lation of his oath of office. And we give full credit to the disclaimer of the Noble Earl, so far as it can be of any validity; that is, so far as he is himself personally concerned. But. we have not the same, nor indeed any, confidence in the conduct of Lord Durham. We require strong probabilities to be in favour of the man who has insulted, to our knowledge, a church man and a Queen before we can hold it to be of any value ; and we require these probabilities to he the stronger if we have observed in the same man singular forbearance towards persons whom the laws of their profession or the weakness of their sex have not deprived of the privilege or the power of seeking honourable redress. The following words were spoken in the course of the debate by a Lay Peer, and on the same night when the supposed inuendo of the Bishop of Exeter excited an indignation so violent that it remained boiling for two days : " Perhaps there might be sonic ascetic States man now in existence who had indeed retired from taking an active pact in this measure, be cause the plots with which it was connected were not quite ripe for execution, or who was disappointed in his attempts to push it forward by the means best suited to his views, and im patient of the scruples of the Minister into whose hands die Government had been con fided by the Sovereign." Lord Durham had surely as much right to take this to himself, and to make it the pretence of an angry and intemperate attack, as any thing which fell from the. Right Rev. Prelate. But here his discriminating Lordship thought fit to be silent. Disregarding, then, as we think we have a right to do, the assertion on behalf of Lord Durham that he was not the person who communicated to a Radical Journal, pr to its Radiailt - Corresponiteti, the confidential letter addressed by a Peer of England to his Sove reign, we beg to offer a short summary of the facts which appear to us to favour a contrary supposition :- 1. It is admitted that the contents of the letter were clunmunicated by the Noble Author only to two of his fa mily, and to two of his political friends, persons none of whom can be suspected of the least tinge of Radicalism, or the least connexion with Radical writers of any clase or description. !2. The only persons besides the Noble Author and his four friends who were in possession of the content+ of the letter were the King and his Ministers. What did trans pile, therefore, of this letter was probably conveyed to the ' public by the act of some one of those Ministers. • 3. Of all the Ministers of the King, the only one in the Ilou:e of Lords who seemed morbidly sensitive to the slight allusion which Was made in the first instance to their supposed connexion with the Daily Press was Lord Durbalm 4. The extracts from the letter appeared in the Times Journal under the s;gnature of " Radical," a well-known person, once connected with the army, and the author of a series of articles in that Paper, while the articles which have appeared under this signature have been overflowing with allusions to the supposed timidity of the Premier upon the subject of creating Peers, and with lamentations that he did not imbibe the spirit of the wiser and more vi gorous Statesmen who are immediately connected with his domestic circle. We leave our readers to draw their own con clusion in a case in which these facts are on one side, and the assertion in favour of Lord Durham on the other.—Morning Post. CHESTER ASSIZES, APRIL 12. Mary Sedgwick,l9, and Sarah Sedgwick, 17, in dicted tor demanding money by menacei and force from Sarah Sutton, at Winele, pleaded " Guilty." Sentence—Transportation for seven years. These two females dressed themselves in sweeps' clothes, and after blacking their faces, went into the house of Sutton, an old woman, who they well knew kept money in her possession. As soon as they entered they laid hold of the old woman, threw t►er on the floor, and then placed a pitch plaster over her mouth ; one the women held her down while the other proceeded up stairs, and searched a bureau for the money; the thieves found a few shillings, which they carried sway, and also some other articles, but they fortunately missed a good round sum which was in one of the drawers. 'hen they had got all that they thought worth carrying away, they made off, and left the old lady with the pitch plaster on her mouth, lying on the floor. William liesketh , 3-1., and Samuel Clough, 30, were indicted for being out armed in the night time, on the 12th of February, with intent to de stroy game on . the lands of Sir T. Stanley, Bart. A verdict of Not Guilty was taken, and the pri soners were discharged, with a private admonition from the Avorney-General and Mr. Cottingham to abandon their former course of life. William Pennington 18, a young man of a very mild and preposse,sing appearance, was indicted for the rape of Ann Latham, a little girl of thirteen years of age, on the 11th of January last. The Jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of Not Guilty. TA LL MEN.—About two years ago a Kirk bean farmer, a strapping youth, who stands six feet three inches wanting his shoes, attended a horse market at Long town. The well-known Mr. Samuel G. was also on the spot, eating a hearty dinner, turning the quid and driving a good bargain, as usual. Samuel, it appears, had business with the Kirkbean farmer, and, after a fruitless personal search, sent his son in quest of him. The son, not knowing the man, inquired what he was like, and so forth. "Just look for the longest man in the market, aad bring him here directly," was the abrupt reply. The messenger, like a good boy, did as he was bid, scanned the crowd carefully, and at length fastened on a Dumfries-shire clergyman, who measures six feet six or seven. His reverence, somewhat puzzled, obeyed the summons, and great indeed was the father's surprise, when the son ushered the minister into his presence. But in place of apologizing, he merely stammered out, in his own blunt way," I bad him bring me the langest man he could find, and feggs he's brought a Langer ane, ~bilk 1 didna think possible "--Dumfries. Courier, POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HottSE. John Williams, alias John Moore, alias Captain .Moore—an individual with a Jewish cast of couti ienanee, and a very warlike pair of whiskers, the tout ensemble of whose appearance and dress was that of a Naval Captain--was brought before the LORD .MAYOR on Friday, on the following charge : William Heilman, a constable of Bishopsgate parish, said, that on Wednesday evening he was in 'lie ball-room of the London Tavern, where the anniversary dinner of the Licensed Victuallers was celebrating, when be perceived the defendant enter the room with a consequential air, apparently as if he had been one of the bidden guests. To the un initiated his exterior presented that of a " swell" of the first order, displaying on his military stock a large diamond of the finest Bristol wat e r, a b unc h of huge gold seals, chain and guard en suite. His fingers were decorated with a profusion of rings, apparently of prodigious value; and the buttons on his coat were of the description worn by Naval Commanders. Notwithstanding his "out.an'-out" appearance, the constable, suspecting his object might possibly be to cultivate a too intimate ac quaintance with the silver spoons, went up to him, and politely requested to know if he had a card of invitation. The gentleman answered evasively, but, finding himself hard pushed, he pulled out a red morocco pocket-book, and with apparent indigna tion pointed out to the constable his name and pro fession, which was stamped in gold letters on the cover. The constable, on looking at the book, found the words " Captain Moore" on the outside, and a printed card inside, describing himself as " The Engraver to the Society of Licensed Vic tuallers, appeinted by Act of Parliament." The " licensed engraver" was conveyed to the watch-honss ; and, on being searched, a complete stock in trade of a duffer was found upon him. His hat was crammed with rings, brooches, seals, &c,,as were the pockets of his clothes; and a couple of watches, apparently of immense value,, and superb workmanship, but got up in reality for the purposes of fraud, were also taken from hint. " Well," said the LORD MAYOR, who had pre sided at the dinner in question, " what was your business in the room last Wednesday evening, Cap ! rain ?"—" Oh ! 'pon my sacred honour," answered the Captain, " for nothing improper, I assure your Lordship ; I went there to see a friend." " Arid what is that friend's name ?" inquired his Lordship.—" WI)), his name," said the Captain, " is Grover ; he is a licensed victualler at Bromley. The fact is I am an engraver, as well as a jeweller; and 1 have worked for upwards of ten thousand , publicans, I'll assure your Lordship. My friend Grover will come forward and convince your Lord ship that I am a perfect gentleman." " Well, but what was your object in calling on Mr. Grover at such a time ?" said his Lordship. " My object !" responded the Captain--" Really, this is a very extraordinary question. Oh! my ob ject was to get some orders in the engraving line." " Pray, are you a Captain in the marines or in the army ?" said the LORD MAYOR, " for I see you have Captain Moore printed on your pocket book."—" Oh ! that's quite a mistake," said the Captain. The fact is, lam no Captain." His LORDSHIP remarked that it was very proper on the part of the constable to have made this in vestigation, for lie suspected that some " Captain" or other had got admitted into Guildhall the last time he gave a public dinner there, as he received a large parcel the other day, upon the inside of the wrapper of which was written in large characters the words " Conscience," arid the contents of the parcel were about two dozen of metal spoons. " Bat," added his Lordship, " had these spoons been of silver, I am afraid `conscience' would not have al lowed their restitution."—(Laughter.) The " Captain," after having his stock of jew ellery restored to him, was allowed to depart. G UIL D HALL. a On Saturday C.iaple4 Kelly was charged with stealing half a hundred weight of paper, forming quires of the novel called " The O'Briens and the O'Flaherties," the property of Messrs. Colburn and Bentley, of New Burlington -street. Chidley, a bookseller, in Goswell-street, bought the paper as waste, at the rate of 455. per cwt., of the prisoner about the beginning of last year. Hearing lately of the committal of a lad for stealing some sets of the above work, he suspected the paper he had bought was stolen, and he com municated the circumstance to Messrs. Shackell and BayliS, of Johnson's-Court, Fleet-street, from whose premises the paper had been stolen. He met the prisoner by accident in Barbican, and he took him, after a desperate struggle, into custody. A warehouseman identified the sheets as part of above a ton of popular novels, in quires, which had been stolen, in 1830 and 1831, from the warehouse in Johnson's-court. Mr. Colburn said the warehouses of several printers had been plundered to a great extent. He had lost books to the value of 600/. The prisoner had bought the paper of a man named King, whose address he did not know. Mr. Alderman WINCHESTER said the prisoner was, no doubt, in connivance with some persons employed in the warehouses, and committed him for BOW-STREET. Information was on Saturday given at this office, that a young woman, named Elizabeth Bolton, 28 years of age, a cook in the service of Mr. Rhodes, jun., the proprietor of the Coal-hole -tavern, Strand, was in the custody of the New Police, under the direction of Mr. Thomas, the superintendent, charged with having privately delivered herself of a child, which she had strangled with a piece of tape. It appears, that on Friday night, Mr. Rhodes sent for Mr. Thomas, and communicated to him his suspi cions that the young woman had given birth to a child. The question was put beyond doubt in a few minute , , but the infant could no where be found. 'I he mother refused to give up the keys of her boxes, but Mr. Thomas forcibly took posse•sion of them, and on opening one of the boxes he found the corpse of a fine infant boy. still warm. On examin ing the neck, a mark was found indenting the flesh, and he was of opinion the child had died from stran gulation. He sent for surgeons Jones and Beaman, who examined the body minutely, arid information was sent to the Coroner to hold an inquest thereon. The woman has threatened to de-troy herself, and is therefore strictly watched by a policeman. On Thursday seven smugglers, named Adams, Baker, Straiten, ("lake, Nokex, W. and H. Gutxall (brothers), were brought before T. Haus, Esq., by the officers Ellis, Gardner, and Stevens, charged with being the principals concerned in three very desperate affrays on the southern coast of Sussex, on the 1.4 of January, on the Ist of February, and on the 16th of February, when two of the Coast Guard, severalnamed Wicks a were seriously ser nd ious S i V y at ‘ t r s e , were utided. shot Th e dead, and prisoners, who were men of most determined and fearless aspect, exhibited the true character of the bold and lawless smuggler. Their apprehension was not effected by the officers without the hazard of their lives. The officers were directed to proceed to S u ssex some weeks ago, by order of Government, the smugglers at Hastings and Rye having assem bled in bodies of not less than 200, armed with pistols and batts, and set the Coast Guard at Defi ance. On the Ist of January, a most deadly affray took place at the Warehouse Gate, near the New Tower, St. Leonard's. Two of the Coast Guar.] were killed by pistol-shots, and six were wounded. Several smugglers were killed, and car ced off by their companions. The smugglers ran only part of their cargo, and the rest was taken by t h e Coast Guard. On the Ist of February, at Comber, near Rye, another severe conflict took place beta een the Coast Guard and the smugglers. Lieutenant Parry was severely wounded, two men were killed, and several others seriously wounded, the smugglers having loaded their pistols with cop. per coin cut into pieces. On the 16th of February another fatal conflict took place at 80-peep, near Hastings, when Lieutenant Ross anti his party were fired at and two men killed. The police officer. .viao were sent from .this office to apprehend the ringleaders disguised themselves, and by stratagem captured five of the prisoners on thc same evening. On Friday last they took thc other two. They were brought to London, arid lodged in the New Prison, Clerkenwell. On Friday they were brought up again, handcuffed two and two. On their being placed at the bar, Mr. Thackery, he Solicitor of the Customs, applied on the part of the Crown to have the business remanded with out going into the evidence at present, which could not he disclosed without danger of defeating the ends of justice. The prisoners were attended by Messrs. Lang. ham and Isaacs, solicitors, who contended that they should not be kept in custody without hearing the evidence against them. _ i%lr. HALLS said there were difficulties in the case, but where there had been such a loss of life it was necessary to use extraordinary means to prevent justice being defeated, and he should remand the prisoners for a fortnight. A considerable number of the Coast Guard who had been wounded were in the office—one poor fel low on crutches. QUEEN- S QUARE. John Lunzints, a youth of about fifteen, dressed like a groom, was charged with uttering a forged check for 250/. at Messrs. Drummond's, Charing Cross. On Friday afternoon the check, which purported to be drawn by Joseph Hume, Esq. M. P. t% as presented by the prisoner, who said he was sent by his master, Mr. Price, of No. 5, Bel grave-terrace, Pimlico. The forgery was at once discovered, and a letter was given to the prisoner, directed to Mr. Price. A policeman dressed in plain clothes was then sent to follow the prisoner, who, unconscious of being watched, went to No. 6, Belgrave-terrace, (No. 5 was unoccupied) and asked if Mr. Price did not live there? The servant said she knew of no such name. The prisoner then looked at the policeman, who was standing watching him, and he changed colour. He walked away, and on: getting to the next street, ran off. He was overtaken and secured. The prisoner said that he was a groom out of employ, and he was met on Friday morning by a respectable looking man, with green spectacles, in the park, who asked him to take a letter to the London Coffee House, Ludgate-hill. The gentleman for whom the letter was intended, was out. He met the person again at a hotel in Bond-street, and he was desired to take the check, and say he was sent by Mr. P r ic e , o f Belgrave-terrace. He was to meet him in the psrk with the money, but not meeting with him there, he (the prisoner) took the letter as had been de scribed. The prisoner further said he had two bro thers, one of whom was coachman to Lord Hill, and the other coachman to the Duke of Cumberland. The prisoner was remanded, that further inquiries might be made. Blazy, George North, and Mary David son, were put to the bar on a charge of coining. The prisoners were remanded until the solicitor for the Mint could attend. HATTON-GARDEN. On Saturday Mr. James Brennan, an artist, of North -terrace, Lambeth, was brought from the House of Correction for re-examination, charged by Messrs. Venables, linen-drapers, of No. 75, Lamb's Conduit-street, Brunswick•square, with ha ving uttered a forged bill of exchange for 201. Mr. Richard Venables stated that on the evening of the 3d of April, while he was in the shop, the prisoner entered it in a hurried manner, and asked him for change of a bill (now produced) for 20/. Witness told him he was not accustomed to do such a thing, unless the party was known to him, arid was about to refuse, when the prisoner said he was well known in the neighbourhood. His name was " Bott," and he resided at No. 41, Guildford street, Brunswick-square. Witness having no doubt of the prisoner's respectability, and after looking at the bill, handed it to the boy at the desk, and or dered him to give the money, which he did, and the prisoner quitted the shop. The bill was drawn upon West, Field, Carls, and Co., of 5, Pope's Head-alley, Cornhill, and accepted by Mr. James Alderion ; and on application to the firm of West and Co., it was discovered to be a forgery. On Saturday evening, the 7th inst., witness was going through Guildford-street, Brunswick-square, when he saw the prisoner, whom he determined on watch ing, and he followed him as far as Lansdowne-place, when he accosted him, arid asked him where he lived : but he refused to name his residence, saying that he lived over the water. On referring to the bill transaction, he professed ignorance, and in a scuffle he struck witness. He eventually gave him into custody, and he was brought to this office. Mr. Wooler—There is no such person as James Alderson to be found, then ? Witness—There is not. Mr. Wooler—There is no such party known as those represented on the bill as being the endorser and drawer ? Mr. Venables had been to West, Field, and Co., who knew nothing of the case or parties, and it was altogether a forgery. Mr. Wyburne asked the witness at what hour the transaction happened ? Mr. Venables—Be tween five and eight o'clock in the evening. Mr. Wyburne—Are you positive, —can you mention more particularly the time? Mr. Venables —I cannot, but I am sure it was between the hours which I have named. Mr. Wyburne—Pray, how near were you to the person who offered the bill ? Mr. Vetiables—As near as lam to you. (About two yards distant.) Mr. Wyburne—Are you in the habit of discount ing ? Mr. Veriables—We sometimes accommodate parties. Mr. Wyburne—Do you accommodate any person who might ask such a favour, or to customers only ? Mr. Venables—We do not, unless acquainted with the person's respectability. Mr. Wyburne—Did you think you were ac quainted with him ? Mr. Venables—No; but from the prisoner's manner, I concluded that he was a respectable neighbour. . . _ _ Mr. LAING asked Mr. Venables whether he could swear to the prisoner as being the person who offered the bill ?—Mr. Venables could ; for when he met the prisoner on the Saturday, his manner and tone corresponded so much with what took place on the Tuesday. He said, " I suppose you think yourself a very sharp fellow." I replied, " Not so very sharp, or I should not have been duped by you." Mr. LAING—I suppose if a respectable party offers you a draught, you don't refuse to exchange it ? Mr. Venables—Certainly not, your Worship. Olney, a lad in the service of Mr. Venables, on Tuesday evening, the 3d instant, paid 20/. to a person in the shop for a bill, by order of his master. Mr. LAING—Was it to the prisoner ? Witness— Ido not know whether it was to the prisoner. I asked him whether he would have the change in sovereigns or notes. The prisoner denied being the person, and said that Mr. Venables was inaccurate in his description of the rencontre at the time of his apprehension. lie was about to address the Magistrate, when Mr. LAtNG ordered summonses to be issued im mediately for the attendance of some material wit nesses, and the prisoner was remanded till Monday. He was then taken back to the House of Correction. MARYL EB ONE. On Friday the Baron and Baroness De Lana were re-examined. Mrs. Parker, who keeps a lodging-house in Cir encester-place, Fitzroy-square, appeared as a new witness, and deposed that the Baron occupied apart ments in her house. After running up a score for tea, sugar, &c., witness pre-ented him with the bill, when the 13..r0n observed that he had just pur chased a horse and a chaise, and NHS very poor, but that in about ten days he should be able to pay her. L a st Monday week witnes s s aw a set of bronze ornaments in the Baro n's bed-room, which he afterwards packed up and sent off.—(These orna ments were taken from Mr. Elder's house.) The same day he borrowed half . a sovereign and a sovereign of witness, on the score of temporary dif ficulty. About ten the same evening she missed his portmanteau, which excited suspicion; but when she had spoken to him of it be said that he had nerely packed up some things in it, and had sent , iii servant out with them. On the Wednesday he rail away, and witness has not seen him since, till to day. After his departure witness missed a tea caddy and a pair of sugar tongs. Mr. Elder re-capitulated the evidence which he . gave on Wednesday. 'Several pawnbrokers were called, and produced the sugar-tongs and tea-caddy belonging to last ness; as also part of the property which was car ried off from Mr. Elder's house in Bath-place,-and identified the Baron as the person who pacined some of them. Signor Angelo Benedetto Ventura, professor of the Spanish guitar, preferred a fresh charge against the Baron, for obtaining three valuable musical .ip saruments of him and pawning them. The Signor entered into a long history of the manner in which the B aron p ract i se d hi s d ecep tiOn-ifii 'him, which elicited bursts of laughter from the crowd in the office, in consequence of the humorous manner in which he told his story in broken English. Mr. RAWLINSON asked the prisoner what he had to say. He appealed to a document he had caused to be submitted to the Magistrate. The memorial stated that the prisoner was horn at Strasburg, on the Rhine, and had held a commission in a French regi ment of light horse; but that an affaire politique had compelled him to leave France. He positively assured the Magistrate that the woman was.his wife, and implored that she might be liberated, and the punishment devolve on himself. He denied ever pledging anything, and laid all the criminality on his servants. Madame, he added, was originally an actress, and he became so enamoured of her per• formance that he married her, in contempt of paternal authority. They afterwards felt obliged to do the best they possibly could. Circumstances —not in clination—were their misfortune. • Mr. RAWLINSON discharged the Baroness, as neither charge touched her; but he committed the Baron on two charges. He will be again examined to-morrow, on .Signor Ventura's charge. On Saturday evening, a notorious imposter, Thomas Morlay, was brought before Mr. HOSKINS, the Sitting Magistrate, charged by the policeman D 68, with soliciting alms, under the pretence of being " deaf and dumb," at noblemen and gentlemen's houses. It appeared that the accused had alternately gone under the aliases of Page, Webster, and Smith. Sometimes he pretended to have been an attorney's clerk, but his true occupation fur seven years seemed to have consisted in extorting alms under the sem blance of the affliction just mentioned. from the be nevolent and the humane. Several cases were made out against him, and he was committed. WORSHIP- S TREET. Catherine Hon, an Irishwoman, and a pauper in the parish of Shoreditch, was, on Saturday, charged before the Magistrates, Messrs. BENETT and , BROUGIITON, with having the night before as saulted a butcher, and also a police constable.. • •-•• The butcher stated, that the night before, about eight o'clock, the prisoner collected an immense crowd of persons round his house, in High-street, Shoreditch, by accusing a girl in the street of hav ing robbed her of a shilling. Witness civilly re quested her to walk away; but instead of so doing, ,she kicked up " such a row" that it brought to the spot from 400 to .500 persons, whose presence ap peared to infuse into her greater courage, and she celled him a 'name that is too indecent to mention, and said, " You fat abominable butcher, give you a little fun. There now, take that (giving him a tremendous black eye), and so do your best." Witness told her lie would forgive even this if she would only go away; but she would not, and he was obliged to send for a police constable. He would not then have done so, seeing the prisoner had an infant at her breast, and was surrounded by three little boys, had she only gone away. The police constable, on being sent for, also civilly requested her to go home, instead of doing which she seized him (although she had an infant at the time in her arms) by the wrist, and, being a powerful woman, in the next moment she had the thumb of his right hand between her teeth! For a few moments he thought he had lost his thumb alto et'ler, so excruciating was the agony he suffered at the time. Here he showed his wounded thumb to -; the Magistrate. Mr. BRouGuToti—lndeed, a very serious thing. It might have brought on a locked jaw, and ulti mately caused death. (To the prisoner)-:-What have you to say for having bitten the policeman's thumb? Prisoner—Why, I did that to get sway from him.—(lmmense laughter.) Mr. BROUGIITON—Ar t odd mode that of getting away. What family have you? Prisoner—Four children besides myself. The Magistrates, after a long consultation, or dered her to pay to the King a fine of 10s., or, in default of payment, ten days' imprisonment; and, not being able to pay, she was committed to prison forthwith, and the children, by order of the Magis trate, were taken to the workhouse. On Sunday last, at St. Saviour's Church, Southwark, an excellent sermon for the benefit of the Royal Dispensary for Diseases of the Ear, was preached by the Rev. J. F. Denham, M.A. Since the establishment of this excellent Institution upwards of 8,100 patients, afflicted with deafness . . and other diseases of the ear, have been cured and relieved. After the sermon several deaf and dumb children who had ob. tained their hearing and speech at the institution were present in the vestry, where they were subjects of much interest to those who conversed with them. GARDENING AT SEA.—W e were onboard of a vessel the other day, just about to sail for America, and were most hospitably received in a fine airy roomy cabin. The captain's wife was present, and on the supposition that she was a permanent inmate, we remarked that though she could boast of not only a floating cottage, but a cottage ornee, she never. theless lacked thecomfort of a kail-yard for the cultivation of savoys and other pot-herbs. " And there you arc wrong," said his excellency the Captain ; "and if you will go with me I'll soon show you as goodly a crop of greens as you could wish to , look upon." Our curi os it y b e i ng excited, we followed him to ,{ the hold, and there beheld on a large scale a novelty, or rathei , phenomenon, in horticultu re. Th e p l an was this :—a suffi- : tient number of savoy plants are pulled up by the roots, and .. replanted among the sand used for ballast. After a few days the outer blades fall oil; but on the other hand new ones spring from the heart ; and Captain Carson assured us that his stock • of vegetables would continue quite fresh for months, and, bar ring accidents, thicken the broth of a dozen persons, lessen the chances of scurvy, and otherwise mitigate the effects of salted provisions, till the man at the mast-head descried their define tion—Chaleur Bay, on the shores of America.—Dumfries Courier. BIRTH. On the 14th inst. a t Hertford-street, lklay-fair, the lady of Major the lion. Geor ge K eppe l, o f a son and daughter. MARRIED. On the 14th inst. at St. Mary's, Newington, Wolley Foster, Eiq., solicitor, Chancery-!ane, to Sarah, eldest daughter of William Harding, Esq., of Newington -place, Kennington. On the 14th inst. at Aston, Herts, J. W. Smith, of Gray's-inn, to Margaret Ann, eldest daughter of William Hudson, Esq , of Erogmore-lodge, Herts. Es, ence Wof Stockwell-place, to Eliza On the 14th inst. at St. M ark Magaret, eldest daught er o f awrill iams, Esq., of Vi m i era, Wandsworth-road. Kennington, W. M. Berkley, q. L On the 11th inst. a t F erran l ED , in-law, near Truro, Jane Carter,A aged 64. worthall, the house of tier son- On the 14th .in s t. at Earl's-terrace, Kensington, in her 25th year, the Lady He nr i etta Atm, wife of Charles Knight Murray, r Esq., and si-ter.of the Earl of Rothes. On the 14th inst. Mr. John Field, of Union-street, Southwark, in his 54th year. On the 13th inst. Edmund William, infant son of Edmund A ntrobus, Esq., of the Strand. On the 13th inst. in London -street, Fenchurch-street, Sarah Edwards, younger daughter of the Rey. Dr. Pye Smith, Of llomerton, aged 21, Lar On the lanl4th inst. Sarah, the wife of T. G. Glover, ail. , —'4 l k-hall.e, and youngest daughter of the late Henry Mauda lay, Esq., of Lambeth, in the 26th year of her age. On the 14th inst. Mr. Richard Davis, of Davis's wharf, ,/ , 11 orselydown, aged 73. On the 14th inst. in his 82d year, John Freeman, Esq., late of r the Stock Exchange. On the 1 lth inst. at Brompton, Mr. James Robinson, late of Sutton-place, Homerton, aged 52. On the 6th inst. at Shipton-under.Wychwood, Elizabeth Philli- • hlore, second daughter of the late Rev. Joseph Phillimore, of Orton-on-the-hill, in the county of Leicester. On the 30th ult. Frances, young est daughter of Williamsparling, Esq., of Petton-han, Shropshire. On the 12th inst. at Brighton, Mrs. Janet Whyt, in the 90 11, year of her age. On the 13th inst. Mary, daughter of William Wynne, E sc] of t ;rove -hill, Camberwell, in the 12th year of her age. On the Ist inst. Mr. William Ray, at the house of his brother, King's-road, Chelsea, • , PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY MURD 0 YOU NG, AT ThiE SUN N . , STRAND, LONDON. ui. y