The Sun. — London, England, 1832-06-22 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Sir Robert Peel has, more than once, volun-1 teered Parliamentary allusions to the Duke of Wellington, which, whatever may have been the motive for risking them, could not fail to be re garded by his Grace as not merelyintrusive, but offensive. Every one recollects that the smooth faced Baronet took pains to manage the defence of his own conduct, on the late occasion of an expected change of Ministry, in such a manner, as of necessity to heap reproach and shame upon the Duke of Wellington, just in the same de gree in which it exonerated Sir Robert Peel from censure. If the Duke ever forgives the candid speech made on that occasion, he is more pigeon-livered than we think him. But Sir Robert was not long in finding another opportunity of left-handed tenderness towards his illustrious friend. The late outrage upon his Grace was too good a thing to he lost by the protecting baronet. So good indeed, that he dragged it in by head and shoulders, upon the discussion of Wednesday's address of attach ment to the King. We should like to hear any rational account of the connexion subsisting in nature, or analogy, between those two disgusting occurrences. We should like to hear it plainly and soberly stated, what connexion there was between the posse of ruffians who expressed at Lincoln's-inn and elsewhere, in a brutal manner, their dislike of the Duke of Wellington, because of the general unpopularity of his politics, and the vindictive rascal (perhaps maniac) Collins, who at Ascot-heath, from a feeling of con fess• edly private vengeance, outraged the sacred per son of the King. There was no particle nor shadow of pretext for forcing in the name or mob-adventures of the Duke of Wellington upon an occasion which had as little to say to them as the attack by Peg Nicholson on George 111., or that of the wretched fanatic by whom Louis XV. was wounded. However, such as it was, Sir Robert Peel would have it. He would a second time be the guardian of his illustrious repudiator--for such has the Duke of Welling ton long since become. Then for the method of doing it. The Duke of Wellington has in every company made a laughing matter of a scene, wherein there was not a decent individual within sight or hearing, who did not regard with disgust the assaults of the ruffian multitude. The Duke, we say, acts wisely in treating the whole business with contempt. Not so, how ever, his Right Hon. protector. His wisdom was of another qu Ality. For if the outrage could be magnified and made much of—if the attempt to injure the Duke could be blown up into an association with prodigious public ex citement, and worked into an evidence of the dreadfid unpopularity which attached to the name and person of the Duke of Wellington, it is a clear case that the Duke would be pro tanto lowered in the political scale, as a candidate for power, and by consequence, that certain other persons would have more of the field to them selves ! So much for the views with which vo lunteer protection may now and then be granted. So much for the dexterity of your prudent and long-sighted people. Nobody is better prepared than the Duke of Wellington to encounter open enemies, and dispose of them ; but his Grace may not always have been equally successful ill swinging clear of his friends.—Times. The Jacobinical opinions of Joseph Surface, and his notions of the law of constructive trea son, are extremely amusing and edifying. The Right Honourable Baronet, Sir Robert Peel, ingeniously contrived, for palpable party pur poses, to couple the scandalous attack on his Majesty by a wretched maniac with the vulgar violence of a low metropolitan mob against the Duke of Wellington ; and thence, by that artful and cunning logic of the old Parliamentary and horoughmongering school of politicians, to fasten the responsibility and origin of the two outrages on the Reformers, with the usual spice of ma levolence against the cause of Reform. The Right Honourable Baronet entertains peculiar doctrines of ,‘ equality," in thus characterizing as the same crime treason against the King and a common assault and battery on the person of an obnoxious political subject.: We do not think that lie will find favour in the sight of the good old Tories, and the Courtiers of the old regime. A more despicable device of a party-man was never displayed within the walls of St. Stephen's Chapel: and we are glad to know that it is received with the dis gust due to the barefaced acting of the artificial orator, who made such a vulgar abuse of politi cal debate. It is equally amusing to see Mr. John Wilson Croker, one of the invariable dra matis personer in the cast of these political farces. In vain may these two remnants of the Castlereagh class of politicians attempt to vamp up the fallen public character of the Duke of Wellington. The political reputation of his Grace can never be redeemed ; he may be eter nally played off in conjunction with associations of royalty and loyalty, but the country has com mitted the remains of his Grace's political in tegrity to the grave of inconsistent and unprin cipled politicians. The time was when the name of the Duke of Wellington was formi dable in his native land, but the spell is broken ; it no longer denotes any terrors. The events of last month have dissolved that charm by the dis play of popular power infinitely superior to the mysterious gunpowder associations heretofore connected with the military name of the Noble Duke. Contempt has supplanted respect ; and the honest men of all parties de pise the craft which the recent pseudo Tory gambols of opinion have exposed to public scorn and derision. The miscarriage of the plot—its breakage in the egg-shell from its own rottenness --not a little contributed to the complete de struction of the public influence of those men who attempted to destroy the Cabinet of Lord i Grey, that they might adopt its principles f they could but. obtain the seals of his offices. And let not Sir Robert Peel flatter or conceit himself that his selfish and bungling attempts to escape detection, and to avoid all past participation iu the past transactions and Court intrigues, have ameliorated his own personal condition. True it is that Sir Robert Peel, by sacrificing the po litical honesty of the Duke of Wellington (in his memorable and never-to•be-forgotten speech on the miserable plot to form a new and tempo rary Administration), vainly sought to draw a veil over his own schemes and future intentions ' • but the monk's hood did not concea l h is face, and he stands before the country m ore disgrace fully culpable than the would-he Premier, be cause lacking the courage to take a step which he (Sir R. Peel) originally stimulated anothe r to take. Warming-pan places are well-known utensils in the scullery of politics. The public now fully discern and comprehend the whole chicanery. We recommend the Right Hon. Baronet to employ himself in the ensuing long vacation at his seat, Tamworth, in learning the alphabet of political sincerity, and studying the arts and graces of a more simple oratory.—Morn ing chronicle. The postponed motion of the Attorney-Ge neral relative to the forgery law stands for dis cussion this evening. Whether it is to be further postponed we know not, but we trus that those Members of Parliament who are friendly to the Reform of a sanguinary and bar barous system of criminal law will give as full an attendance in their places in Parliament as they did when last the Attorney-General so un expectedly put off this measure of his own, which had been already but too long delayed. Certainly no adequate reason was given for the delay—none that would have prevented the pressing on of a Tax Bill, or a Vote of Supply, involving millions of the public money, with, perhaps, not one-tenth the number of persons in the House ; but it is a pleasanter task—a task more sincerely undertaken by official persons, and, therefore, more strenuously persevered in— to make laws to transfer the money from the pockets of the people to the coffers of the Go vernment than to legislate for the improvement of the institutions of society. This first notice of this motion for leave to bring in a Bill to re peal the punishment of death in cases of for gery was given during that short Ministerial interregnum when it was supposed the Duke of Wellington was engaged in forming a new Ad ministration. Sir Thomas Denman then said that he would move for leave to bring in the Bill as soon as the new Ministry should have been formed. We have no doubt he would, in that case, have kept his word. The attempt to form a new Ministry was not successful, and the Bill, which was to be one of the first acts of a Whig Opposition, has not yet been brought in by the NI hig Government. It is a melancholy reflection that, in this respect, the cause of rational justice, of civilization, anti humanity, has been delayed, not because a Tory Adminis tration came into power, but because a Wnig Ministry retained their places. We only state the fact—let others account for it. It is quite certain that those legislators who overloaded our Statute-book with laws inflicting death for offences not subject to that penalty by the ancient common law of England, among which this of forgery is one, did not evince any want of zeal or activity in pressing on their atrocious enact ments. It is easy, nay pleasant, if we may judge from the facility with which it is often done, to disseminate immoral and barbarous principles through the medium of vicious laws, and to blunt the feelings and brutalise the habits of a people; but to perform the beneficent duty of restoring the authority of reason, and correcting the evils of bad legislation—this is the difficulty which appals a certain class of patriots, who are bold enough in assailing bad laws, and in sug. gesting improvements, until they happen to get possession of that power which would enable them to realize their own principles ; then such persons falter, and swerve in their course, more than others in the career of criminal enterprizes. If the Whigs connected with the Government display any longer the timidity and the wavering which they have manifested with respect to the criminal laws in general, and the law of forgery in particular, and if no independent Member can be found in the present House of Commons to take up the subject, and pursue it with the firm ness and intelligence and energy which it de mands, we must only wait for a Reformed Par liatnet.t to repair the consequences of their de sertion of a great duty, and brand their insin cerity or moral cowardice as it deserves. Why is it that the Whig Attorney-General does not show the same energy and persever ance in endeavouring to obtain the repeal of the sanguinary law of forgery which Sir Robert Peel evinced in obtaining its enactment ? Is not the Session of Parliament now drawing to a close, and is it to be supposed that any time is to be lost if it be really intended that any thing effectual shall be done in both Houses o: the Legislature during the present Session ? Why is England behind all the civilized nations of the earth on the question of criminal law ? Why should this otherwise enlightened country be the last refuge of barbarous laws ? Why should human life be cheaper in England than in France or Holland, or even than in America? Even in the midst of the political troubles that France has been involved in, ever since her last revolution, the Chambers found time to make considerable improvements and ameliorations in the criminal law. One improvement was to abolish the penalty of death in all cases of for gery. The British House of Commons had decided against capital punishment for this of fence under a Tory Administration. We then gave all the assistance in our power to the battle which the Whi , s and the friends of humanity fought against legislative barbarism. Little did we think that the time would come when we should find it almost as difficult to induce those Whigs to make a single movement in support of their own principles of criminal law, though in the full enjoyment of power, as we formerly did to extort a decision of the House of Commons against the sanguinary prejudices of their poli tical rivals. The capital law of forgery is in practice at an end. Who will dare to execute what public opinion has so completely abo lished ? Why then not at once erase from the Statute-book a law which is impracticable, arid a punishment which is a mockery Why not give an effective protection to commercial pro perty against forgers by a law that, not being repugnant to reason, to morality, and the best feelings of our nature, can be ' executed uniformly ; for well does Beccaria ob serve that the efficacy of law consisted not in the severity, but the certainty, of punishment. America has abolished the sanguinary laws which she derived from this country—she has effective secondary punishments in imprisonment, fine, hard labour, and occasional solitary confine ment. So admirably is her penitentiary sys tem conducted in some of the States of that great union, that the crime of forgery, which, while it was a capital offence, was very frequent, is now scarcely ever known. We have men tioned Holland—one of the most commercial countries of Europe. Is forgery punished there with death ? No. The Dutch have been ac cused of being great worshippers of Mammon--, but they do not propitiate that idol with the sacrifices of human blood which are offered on his altars in England. The proof of this will be found in ‘, Van der Linden's Institutes of Hol land," translated by Sabey Henry, Esq., Barris ter. tinder the head of forgery we find a note of the learned translator, of which we quote, as most applicable to our argument, the following words :—" It may be further observed, as a proof that those penal Statutes which grossly of fend, by their severity, the natural ideas of proportion in criminal justice, virtually repeal themselves ; and that the two ordinances of the Emperor Charles V., affixing the punishment of death in cases of bankruptcy and forgery, al though passed as early as the years 1540 and 1545, have never yet been acted upon 111 a single instance in Holland—the most commercial State in Europe." -Yet what human hecatombs have been offered up for the offence in this . country ! The heart recoils at the recollection of the promiscuous massacres which used to take place in the front of Newgate, on Bank of Eng land prosecutions for forging one-pound notes ! We observe with pain and regret that there never is any amelioration of the criminal law introduced into the Upper House of Parlia ment that there are not some of the Judges of the land, in their capacity of Law Lords, found ever ready to come forward in support of the sanguinary system. We respect the Judges in their proper situation ; but the influence of the system under which they have been educated has generally disqualified them from being compe tent legislators on the laws which they daily ad minister;—they learn to respect the very errors of those laws of which they are the oracles. It is therefore that our greatest constitutional writers express their admiration of that theo retic principle cf our Constitution which se parates the legislative fro m th e judicial func tions, and places them in different hands. It is a theory which, like some other of our consti tutional doctrines, has been sadly violated in practice. Blackstone says, "In the distinct and separate existence of the judicial power in a peculiar body of men, nominated, indeed, but not removable at pleasure, by the Crown, con sists one main preservative of the public liberty, which cannot subsist long in any State, unless the administration of common justice be in some degree separated both from the legislative and also from the executive power." And again, " Nothing is more to he avoided in a free Con stitution than uniting the provinces of a Judge and a Minister of State." Yet this salutary maxim is continually violated. Even the exe cution of Druitt, the other day, which produced such a general sensation of disgust, was as much the work of certain Law Lords as of any lay ad visers of the Crown. Judges who administer the law with the greatest uprightness and purity may have their reason so warped, and their feel ings so indurated, by the system to which they are accustomed, as to be the last persons that ought to be consulted in criminal legislation.— Morning Herald. An evening contemporary, alluding to our observations on the murderous attack upon our gracious Sovereign, supposes that we may have some remembrance of a former Sovereign upon whom Margaret Nicholson made a desperate assault. Our contemporary is perfectly correct, in his supposition ; we have a perfect recollec tion of it, His Majesty George 111., on getting out of his carriage at the Palace of St. James's, was approached by a decidedly frantic female who aimed a harmless knife at him, it being supple, t a h n e d e h x e c r el u le t n ni t o K st in f g o . rce H co is ul N d ia i j i e lfl st i y et , I no uit i e nj ury on with perfect calmness and benignity, turned to wards the wretched woman, and seeing her in the close custody of the Yeomen of the Guards, thus addressed the latter—" Be careful, my Guards, that you do not hurt that poor woman ; she is clearly mad, and due attention must be paid to her safety." His Majesty's opinion was fully borne out by the medical establishment of Bethlem Hospital, where she was ordered an asylum for the re mainder of her life. And now we would ask our contemporary whether he considers there is anything like a parallel case in the act of a poor imbecile woman, unarmed with any means of doing mischief, not entertaining the remotest ideas of politics, and that of a murderous ruffian, who, with all his senses about him, and at a time when the idea of physical force had been made familiar to the minds of the people, aims a deliberate and deadly blow at the life of his Sovereign ? But there are some other acts of this description to which our contemporary has failed to call our attention. The first was the attempt made upon the life of his Majesty King George 111., when on his way to meet his Parliament, for the purpose of giving sanction to the measures of his Ministers for the sup pressio❑ of dangerous societies and assem blages held for the express purpose of over throwing the Constitution. This, we believe , will be considered a case not altogether in point. On this occasion George 111. displayed an undaunted courage never surpassed in the history of this or any other country, and by his majestic equanimity and deportment actually struck terror into the minds of the misled mob. It were unnecessary, perhaps, to allude particu lady to the circumstance of the same Monarch having been fired at while entering the stage box of Drury-lane Theatre. But it may be as well to relate in a few words what we witnessed on that occasion. His Majesty went to the theatre, attended by his family. With his usual dignified step he entered the box, but had not proceeded more than two steps when, amidst the enthusi astic greetings of th e au di ence , h e f oun d a pi s t o l shot directed towards him. His halt was only for a moment, and looking towards his assailant in the pit (who continued to stand upright), he advanced to the front, most majestically returned the loyal greetings bestowed upon him, and then, as was his custom, took out his glass and calmly surveyed the audience around. The offender was instantly taken into custody, but he proved to be rankly mad ; and consequently there can be no similarny between his case and that of the deliberate assassin whose attempt now excites so much attention.—Morning Post. There is to be a meeting this evening of cer tain inhabitants of the new borough of Lambeth, at the Horns Tavern, and there have been meet ings, or meetings are about to be held, in Fins bury, in the Tower Hamlets, and in other new boroughs, for the purpose, we presume, of de termining on the pledges to be exacted from can didates at the new election, judging of their fit ness for the office of legislators, and - concerting generally such measures as may appear to be ne cessary for insuring a satisfactory representation of these respective boroughs. Having from the beginning counselled the adoption of this line of conduct, it is one which we feel bound to eulogize, as at once creditable to the spirit and prudence of the inhabitants, and calculated to benefit the country generally, by adding to the efficiency of its representation. But it is inquired of us, and not without reason, by whom these meetings arc called —whe ther they are for special or for general purposes—for accomplishing the patriotic end of giving efficient Members to the new boroughs, or for that only of insuring the elec tion of some favourite of a parish junto ? To these very pertinent and proper questions we can g ive no satisfactory answer ; but it augurs i l l for the fair intentions of the parti es concerned in more these pub meetings, that they do n o t ren d er them hat they do not state by whom they are called, and for what special purp oses _ that they appear t o consist of a f ew only of the inhabitants of the different districts, and not to be int e nd e d to embrace the opinions of the whole. These things, we say, form just grounds of suspicion, that under the specious plea of giving effect to the Reform Bill, the parties con cerned in getting up these meetings are only anxious to promote the interests of particular individuals ; and if what has been stated to us by our numerous correspondents be cor rect, such is actually the fact in more than one instance. In the Tower Ham lets especially, if we are not misinformed, the genius of intrigue is hard at work to procure, without a fair canvass, the return of certain individuals, whose merits would not stand the test of a fair and open trial of strength ; and it may be, though we know nothing on the subj ect, that similar proceedings are taking place in Lambeth. We think it, therefore, high time to call upon the inhabitants of the new boroughs to be upon their guard—to watch carefully the proceedings of all meetings which may be held in their name, by whomsoever called, or of whomsoever they may consist—and to decline pledging themselves to vote for any candidate, however fair his claims may be, until it shall be seen whether a better and more efEient one may not present himself. This is the only mode by which the intrigues of inte rested persons, and the plots of Tory par tisans, can be successfully and surely de feated—an efficient and creditable repre sentation be given to the country,—and those great reforms in Church and State accomplished of which the country stands so much in need, and the denial of which has brought it so nearly to the verge of ruin and revolution. In ordinary times, when neither the peace of the country is likely to be disturbed— nor a faction to be destroyed—nor great and ne cessary reforms to be accomplished which are certain to be opposed with all the virulence and malignity of party spirit—something may, per haps, be safely given up to personal partiality, and party connexion ; but the present times are by no means of that complexion, and the path of public duty must, therefore, be sternly pur sued by every friend to the welfare of the coun try. The next Parliament will be the most im portant for good, or for evil, that ever was as 7 sembled in this, or in any other country—impor, tant on account of its reformed character—impor tant on account of the measures on which it will have to decide, and important also for the tone and character which it may give to the spirit of the times. Let us have, therefore, no underhand dealing—no intriguing—no sacrifice of the pub lic good to private partialities. If we cannot be of the same mind in all things, let us at least be of one mind in taking integrity for our guide— the public good for our object—and the rejection of unworthy or only indifferent candidates as the only means of accomplishing it. The hour is auspicious—the wind and the tide are favour-.: able, and though the ocean be somewhat stormy,- yet with a strong and hearty pull, and a pull altogether, we shall easily gain the haven of our long-cherished hopes and ardent expectations.— Morning Advertiser. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARLBORO UGH-STREET. A man named Thor►as Arunn was charged with stealing a suit of clothes. On Saturday evening the apprentice of Mr. Lloyd, tailor, residing in Conduit -street, Bond-street, was sent with a suit of clothes to Mr. Pontifex, of Holloway. The lad was watched from his master's house ; for, on bis arrival in Regent-circus, he was accosted by a man, who asked him if he had Not come from Mr. Lloyd's. On the boy answering in the affirmative, the fellow observed that he had formerly lived in that gentleman's service, and made inquiries about the men then engaged in the establishment. During the conversation the stranger ascertained the name of the boy, and also that of the gentleman to whom he was to deliver the clothes. He then gave the lad some pence, told him to bea good boy, and make haste on his errand. The groundwork of an intended robbery hav ing been adjusted, the man disappeared, and the lad hastened towards his place of destination; but on ar riving in the New-road another man came up to him apparently in a great passion, and said " You young rascal, why don't you make haste, Mr. Pontifex is waiting for his clothes." The boy immediately hurried on ; but previous to reaching the above named gentleman's residence, a third man accosted him with " What a dine you have been coming, you rascal, when you knew Mr. Pontifex was waiting for his clothes—give them to me instantly, and go back and tell your master to come on Monday for further orders." So specious was the manner of the robber, that the lad instantly gave him the suit of clothes, which was valued at ten guineas. Be tween eleven and twelve o'clock on the same even- ing, a young man named Myers, residing at 37, Princes -street, Soho, while standing at his own door, observed the prisoner and another man talking together, and heard the prisoner say to his com panion, " You go and beef (a flash phrase to look out) while Igo in and lumber (pawn) them." The prisoner then went into a pawnbroker's with a bundle, when Myers followed, and believing from the con versation he had heard that a robbery had taken place, he took the prisoner into custody just as he was about pledging a pair of trousers. His com panion escaped. The prisoner was conveyed to this office on Monday, but was ultimately dis charged, a woman comin g forward and swearing the g t r n o i u n s g e ra belonged on, A . Lloyd t o had her husband.ascertained thatV i the su a of it s clothes had never reached Mr. Pontifex, and infor mation was given to the police. Hobbs and Far rant, two constables of the C division, made the ne cessaiy inquiries, and ascertained that a man was in custody on suspicion of stealing a pair of trousers, but before they could reach this office the prisoner had been discharged. They, however, pursued him, and after some trouble, succeeded in finding him out. The trousers were found at the house of the woman who swore they belonged to her hus band, and identified as the pair made for Mr. Pon tifex. The prisoner was also identified by the ap prentice as the man who first accosted him. After a long examination, the prisoner was remanded, in order that inquiries might be instituted after the re maining property; and the woman, whose name is Stroud, was held to hail. On Wednesday W. Parkin, a master-builder, of Queen-street, Soho-square, was charged with inter marrying with Jane Symonds, his first wife being still living. Jane Symonds, a smart-looking young woman, stated ted that to months wasa widower,ago t e prisoner a nd they r repre sented after a month's courtship. The parish clerk of St. James's, W es t m i ns t er , i said a person of the same name as the prison e r w as married in April, 1 82 9 , to Alice Satchfield.se lier three tlat he A female here said that her name was Elizabeth Satchfield, and that the prisoner was her husband, Mrs. Dily said she had always known her as such. The first wife said that she had been christened Alice, but she had always been called Elizabeth. To meet this difficulty, the Magistrate suggested that she should be described with an alias. Th e prisoner said he had never been married to Alice Satchfield, and that he had come forward vo luntarily to meet the charge. Mr. DYER said, after the evidence he had heard, it was his duty to commit him for trial. HATT ON-GARDEN. On Wednesday Thomas. Reilly, who stands charged with the murder of his wife, Catherine Reilly, w as brought from the New Prison, Clerkenwell, for re examination. He was attired in the prison dress, and appeared more calm than on the previous ex amination. Ire, Pulley, whose evidence hai already ap- peered, added, that. on going down stairs and enter ing the hack parlour where the body lay, she placed her hand on her (deceased's) face, which was warm, remarking " She is dead, but has not been dead long ;" upon which the prisoner went to the body, and, looking at it, said " Alt, poor creature, she's dead enough," and kissed her.—(The prisoner was here much affected, and was ob , erved to wipe a tear away which was trickling down his cheek. He instantly resumed his confidence.] Mr. Hill, who attended on behalf of the pa, i.. 11 of Clerkenwell to prosecute, said that there was evi dence to show that the deceased had been seen at ten o'clock on the night before the murder, loiter ing about the prisoner's home.—The prisoner was remanded. LAMBETH-STREET. Yesterday a Hebrew gentleman, of great wealth and high respectability, who for many years retained the friendship and confidence of the late Duke of Kent, as well as other distinguished individuals, and through whose influence several important immuni , ties have been granted to the Jews by different foreign Courts (particularly that of Spain), appeared with his solicitor before Messrs. HARDWICK and WALKER, to meet a charge preferred against him on the preceding day by a female domestic, named Esther Kirby. The defendant, who is upwards of 72 years of age, and appeared extremely feeble and decrepit, from the effects of gout, was accommodated with a chair during the investigation. The complainant, on Monday fortnight, entered the service of the defendant, and a few days after her master followed her into a closet of the drawing room, and pressed her very much to kiss him. She refused to do so, and resisted liberties which he on several subsequent occasions attempted to take with her. On Friday last, while making her master's bed, he entered the chamber and forced her on the bed ; but she pushed him away from her and got out of the bed-room. On subsequently mentioning the subject to her parents and friend., they advised her to adopt the present proceedings. In her cross-examination by the professional gentleman who attended on behalf of the defendant, the witness admitted that she had not complained to either of her master's sisters (two of whom were in the house) of his conduct towards Ler. She also acknowledged to having thrown a cat out of the two-pair window into the yard in her passion, but denied that the family had given her warning to quit in consequence of this act of inhumanity, and other improper conduct. The defendant, in the most solemn manner, de clared that the statement made by the complainant was, from beginning to end, a tissue of falsehoods, and that the charge itself was a mere conspiracy, got up fur the purpose of extorting a sum of money from him. The wife of a respectable grocer, who resides nearly opposite to the house of the defendant, had frequently observed the complainant come out of her master's house of an evening, and go to the corner of the street, where different men were in the habit of "waiting for her. She also observed these men take libert►es with her in the open street, which a decent or proper female would not permit. Another witness had overheard a conversation be tween the mother of the complainant and one or two of her friends, when the mother declared that unless ►he old gentleman paid them 40/, the busi ness should not be settled. Mr. HARDWICK said that the tables were very nearly turned on the complainant, and had a charge of attempted extortion been more clearly established, he should have punished her to the utmost extent the law would allow, as he could not conceive a more serious charge than that of attempting to ex tort money under such circumstances. With re spect to the charge immediately before him, he thought that the defendant's age and infirmities completely negatived any thing like violence, and he should therefore discharge the complaint. The defendant then left the office in company with his friends. AMERICAN EXPEDITION. The expedition sent out by the American Go vernment in 1820-21, to explore the Rocky Moun tains, ar.d North from the Numean Line, has at length been heard of, after an absence of eleven years. The company landed at Green Bay, and wintered ; went by Prairie du Chien to St Antho ny's Falls, Mississippi; went up St. Peter's two hundred miles in search of lead mines, where they discovered several very valuable ones ; wintered there; went down the same river and down the Mississippi to the mouth of the Missouri; then up the Missouri to the foot of the Rocky Mountains ; wintered there, and continued to the middle of August; then crossed the mountains and were west eight years. While travelling by the Frozen Ocean, and having been into Asia South, towards the head of the Colombia River, they were overtaken by a storm, and compelled to build houses, and stay there nine months, six of which the sun never rose, and the darkness was as great as during our nights. The snow, part of the time, was fourteen feet deep, and the company were compelled to eat forty-one of their pack-horses to prevent starving, while the only food the horses had was birch bark, which the com pany cut and carried to them by walking on the snow with snow-shoes. After passing the moun tains, they passed three hundred and eighty-six different Indian tribes, some perfectly white, some entirely covered with hair (denominated the Esau Indians) who were amongst the most singular, and so wild, that the company were com pelled to run them down with horses to take their di mensions, which was part of their duty, whilst others evinced the most friendly disposition. While west of the mountains they fell in with a tribe called the Copper Indians, who receive their names from own ing extensive copper mines; 300 of them, armed with bows and copper darts, copper knives and axes, attacked th e company i n d a y t i me: a severe action ensued, and on l y about oof the Indians escaped; the rest were killed or wounded, with a loss of two the company, and 17 wounded. Among the various discoveries made by the com pany we have only room to mention those of exten sive beds of pure salt, the largest of which was 47 acres, several inches deep, on the borders, found to be pure and wholesome; also innumerable beds of alum, iron, lead, copper, gold, and silver ore, the gold almost pure. Among the animals the grisley bear is the most ferocious. The weight of several killed by the company varied from 601bs. to 1251154. Of the company five died by sickness, one by breaking a wild horse, one by the fail of a tree, and fifteen were killed by the Indians—total twenty-two. Ten of the nineteen survivors are lame, some by ac cident. Captain Leavensworth is among the num ber. He was on horseback half a mile distant from the camp when he was shot by an Indian, which broke his thigh, and dropped his horse; the horse fell upon the injured leg, and broke it again below the knee. The horse continued to hold him thus, whilst the Indian ran up to scalp him, when Lea vensworth seized a pistol from his saddle and shot him dead; after which he was got safe to the camp. DOLL'S EYES,—lnsigniflcant as may appear this petty article of commerce, it is well known to keep in employ several thousands hands, and goes to show the vast importance of trifles to a country of decided commercial ists. Mr. OsmEx, an intelligent manufacturer of Bir mingham, gave the following statement before the Com mittee of the House of Commons in 1824. " Eighteen Years ago, on my first journey to London, a respectabl e looking man in the city asked me if I could supply him with doll's eyes, and I was foolish enough to feel half offended ; I thought it derogatory to my new dignity as , manufacturer, to make doll's eyes. He took me into a room quite as wide, and twice the length of this, (o ne o f the large rooms fur Committees in the House of Corn. moos,) and we had just room to walk between the stacks, from the floor the ceiling, of parts of dolls. He said these are only the legs and arms, the trunks are below, but I saw enough to convince me that he wanted a great many eyes; and as the article appeared quite in my own line of busi ness, I said I would take an order by way of experiment, and he showed me several specimens. I copied the order, and on returning to the Tavistcck Hotel, I found it amounted to upwards of 5001,"..—Mirror, ENDURING MONUMENTS. I (From the Sc o t sman .) At this season of national felicity, the philand • thropiSts,- like John Gilpin's spouse, are showing the world that " though on pleasure they are bent, they have .a frugal mind," and are devising various plans for commemorating the passing of the Reform Bill, by something more lasting and beneficial to humanity than the blaze of an illu mination, the explosion of a fe iv pounds of gun powder, or even the erection of a magnificent pile of unprofitable stones. There is something so reasonable and Christianlike in the proposi tion for rearing a monument which will benefit our species to all ages, while it commemorates our joy on the occasion which led to its founda tion, that we have no doubt the suggestion will receive serious consideration. Besides the let ters on this subject given elsewhere, the follow ing notice has fallen into our hands. It will at once .be perceived, that in any building to be erected commemorative of the triumph of Re, form--a room or several rooms, could easily be constructed in the basement for the purposes of education :—" Brother Reformers of Scotland, let us show our joy at the obtaining of the great measure of Reform by an illumination more bright and lasting than that of gas or oil, by monuments more durable than those of brass . or stone, and which may be obtained at no greater expense than those which have been proposed. I mean by that illumination which would he spread abroad by the general establishment of monuments worthy of a religious, moral, and intellectual people, such as are places of edu cation, for the training up of our infants and children. The boasted monuments of ancient Athens, where are they ?---Ruins which excite the wonder of the traveller,— fragments which puzzle the brain of the learn ed„—or adorn the museum of the antiquary 1— Let then, the Inhabitants of Modern Athens be foremost in setting the example of founding monuments more enduring, more worthy; not such as can only benefit the few who may be employed in erecting them, and are speedily destroyed or forgotten :—but such Institutions as we propose, transmitting from generation to generation of our descendants, the memory of the great event we wish to celebrate, and pre paring them for the full enjoyment of their pri-i vileges, would thus at once be Monumantg of Reform, and an earnest of the general improve ment which it is expected to introduce."--- Scotsman. 4 THE MARKETS. SOUTHALL MA RK ET.--June O. This day's supply of Beasts was limited, that of small stock moderately good. The market was moderately well, though not numerously, attended by buyers. The trade with prime Beef; Lamb, and Veal, somewhat brisk; with each kind of Mutton and Pork, as also with coarse and inferior Beef', Lamb, and Veal, very dull, at the following prices per stone of 81b. to sink the offals ;-- 8eef 5 ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 38.4 d. to 4s. 4d I 3s. Sd. to 4s. Mutton 3 4 4 6 Pork -- 3ti 4 H Lamb 4s. Bd. to Os. Od. The foregoing quotations are Bea, Mutton, and Pork, 2d. per stone lower than on this day se'nnight ; prices of Lamb and Veal about stationary. Beasts, 157; Sheep and Lambs, 4,284; Calves, CO; Pigs, 40. A considerable number of the Sheep and Lambs, but not many Beasts, Calves, and Pigs, left the market unsold. • LEWES Al ft K ET.—June 19. ButtonN. 64d :8 4 . to 4s. I Pork Veal 3s. 8 0 0 d to 4s. 4d. Mutton 3 0 0 Lamb 4s. 6d. to N. 6d. Supply of Beasts rather limited, of small stock muderately good; trade dull. RUMFORD MA MU:T.—Juno 20.: s. d, to s. d. s. d. s. d. Beef 3 0 4 2I Veal Mutton - 3 4 4 4 Pork 3 8 4 8 Lamb 4s. 6d. to ss. 6d. Suckling Calves from 14s. to 26s ; Quarterold Pigsl2s.to 18s. each, A limited supply, and a sluggish trade. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK Wheat. Barley. I Oats. I BORT) .1. Per Quarter. IS.to S. s. 8. 8. to S. to s. Blandford —6l -.- 95 Brigg 52 63 36 41 19 22 . 31 3831 Cambridge—. w 62 29 18 35 33 Chard 56 60 30 34 10 22 34 36 Huntingd0n..........,, 58 67 28 3'2 17 22 29 34 Long Sutton.-- 46 61 16 21 28 38 Louth 50 55 27 32 17 20 32 34 Lynn 56 66 30 35 20 29 32 44 Newark 55 65 33 43 17 20 40 Nottingham .60 64 31 42 22 26 36 42 Peterboroiigh 46 61 29 37 18 25 32 38 Plymouth 59 68 28 34 19 22 67 43 27 43 Sleafonl 65 70 36 38 22 28 41 43 Uppingham 58 65 32 4() 20 24 30 40 W.hech • 57 18 34 LEEDS CORN MARKET Wheat, Norfolk and Suffblk, 6016. - York. and Lincoln. 601 b. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk - Yorkshire and LinCobah ire Grinding Beans 6 1b ...... ....... Oats, Potatoe -Mealing, For. I2d. En Shelling Rapeseed, English, la to ‘24/. '.—June 19. } 565. tp 71s. ~,,, ~. sls. to 695. nr ...,: a2s. to 3U 345. to Nis. ' z ' 21s. to 235. ..,. 3-Is. to 425. n Ws. to 28s. ri )g. 11% (1. to 13d. per st. .. 31s. to 325. pgiipci. zn, —l. to ~.1. per last -- • LI VERTOOL Colt N ENCHANGE.—June 19. WHEAT, English, White, per 701 b. Red Scotch, Welch, and Manx 9 6 19 0 Irish, White 8 9 9 0 ---. Red - Foreign 9 3 9 8 OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 3 0 3 4 Irish Foreign BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 36 0 40 0 ----.. Scotch and Irish, per 601bs. -- Feeding 4 8 4 BEANS, English, p er Imperial tillarter ~.t ; .. ;.:: 47 0 40 0 ----"- I rithl4p. •,,,.. 35 0 37 0 , Foreign '5 0 39 0 PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter ....... .39 0 Foreign FLOUR, English, per 2801 b. 5O 0 ;it id Irish . . lll Ai 0 r 0 OATMEAL, English and Irish, per `,4 4 f 1 4...,,. ! , €1 4ti INDIAN CORN, per 4401 b. ~, ... 11 " 1 1,,C•0,,, . . u 30 0 1117., per I infierial quarter 31 0 32 0 MALT, per Imperial quarter IMPORT OF GRAIN for the Week ending June 18. Whea Oats. I Barley Fl our. OatmeaL l Qrs. Q rs . Qrs. (Foreign, Brls.llrish, &c. Scks.l LkattV• 10,240 13,313 i 817 1,891 I 2,506 t.'207 ~ The forthcoming third volume of Sir JONAH BARRINGTON'S Personal Sketches, is reported to abound still more than the two preceding in racy anecdotes of the true Hibernian character, and to be particularly ric:h il4 the Humours of the Irish Bar. The follr i wing names, we are informed, figupe copwieliously in this new volume:— Chief Justice CLONMELL, Chief Barons YELVERTON, Atiorolo4E, and HussEy, Burgh Lords NORBURY and CLARE, Judge FLETCHER, JOHN PHILPOT CURRAN, Counsellors BYRNE, FITZGIBBON, NORCOTT, and LI-- SIGHT, Mr. FLOOD, Fighting FITZGERALD, Mr. MARTIN, of Galway, Sir JOHN BURKE, Sir HERCULES p tku ., REISH, Mr. DUNDAS, BEAucna:9. pacp.i4 (leader of the r e bels j{} 17989, Mr. livslrr, j unnot FITr4GgRALP, £6e. .411ARyElr gIkfITHERS.—The following curious circum stances may be relied upon as facts. When SIIITHENE, the man accused of having set fire to his house in 9xforci4 street, was last week to be removed ffom iii theldsei sta Hospital to thatwhich was, th.erefore, called to convey him, was the very same coach Which had been standing oppo sitedoor wh ep the fire broke out. The usual cour ii s ' e 9 w w o ou n ld have been through Russell-square; but he made it his particular request to Avis, the officer, flat they might tak e t h e route of Oxford-street, and so pass his former habit a ti on. This was complied with ; when get ting opp os i te hi s house, the horses either would rtp, Pr could not, p rocee d any furtheF, rt(l to call another into which the p r i soner was re moved. That th e superst i t i teus, however, may not attach too much consequence to this circumstance, it is right to add, th a t t h e h orses were a pair of the veriest worn.out Rosin antes ever seen. to necessary 4117711. On the aOth inst. at Deninark-hill, Mrs. William Stone, f a daughter. MARRIED. On the 18th inst. at St. Pancras" James 134110 P, Esq. 0 1 Del mendeex., Hawkhun C d, Rout, to aroline George, of H ast i ngs , Suss n On the 21st inst. at the New Church, Brompton, John Shed den Scrimgeour, Esq. of Brompton-row, to Isabella, third daughter of the late Daniel Mackinlay, Esq. of Buenos Ayres. On the 21st inst. at St. John's, Waterloo.road, AL% G. W. Shury, of Ealing, to Sophia, daughter of 4r. W. Garland, of Stamford-street. On the 21st inst. at St. Vedast Foster, F. W. Collard, Esq., of South Lambeth, to Miss Mary Lea, of London. DIED. On the 2d of February last, at French Rocks, near Serings pNative atam, Infan ajar Robert Mur cett, of the 35th Regiment Madras try. PRINTED AND PußusnEn BY Y 11 " MTi - n-- n - iI AT TUB' SUN OFVTCB, 112, STRAND, Lozinox.