The Sun. — London, England, 1832-07-11 00:00:00

SPIRIT OE THE PUBLIC JOURNALS We are greatly relieved, and, we will add, much gratified, by the few words which fell from Mr. Stanley last night, in answer to some obser vations from Mr. Hume, on the motion for re suming the debate on the Irish Tithe Bills.— Mr. Stanley distinctly stated that it was not his intention to press more than the first Bill in the present Session, and to leave to another Par!i meat the disposal of the other measures wit!! which it was at first accompanied. This Bib merely provides for ascertaining by valuation the amount of a money commutation for tithe, in tilos( parishes where no agreement has been math under Mr. Goulburn s Bill, and to impose the commutation on the landlord instead of upon the tenant, in all future cases. So far there can be no objection to this measure, as it is obvi ously necessary, whether the future payment is to be collected in the shape of commutation, or by an acreable land-tax, the amount due to the public for the Church shall be ascertained. No new powers are taken for the collec tion ; and great advantages are held out to the tithe-payer, as an inducement to a vo luntary commutation and the ultimate extinction of the tithe, by a composition for a certain number of years' purchase of the valuation. But the valuable part of Mr. Stanley's speech consisted in his statement, that he did not desire to pledge Parliament to the future application of this portion of the church property. On the contrary, lie wished to leave that question en tirely open. He observed, that this was the main difference between his proposition and the resolutions of Mr. Grattan, the latter pledging Parliament to a specific application,and prejudg ing a settlement, which it would be unadvisable and embarrassing to discuss at present. All parties agree that the actual incumbents shall not be called upon to make any considerable sacri fice of income ; and no person desires that the landlord should be allowed to put into his pocket that share of the produce of the land to which clearly he is not entitled. Nor would the occupying tenant derive the smallest advan tage from such a transfer. The Irish landlord has been at least as hard a task master as the Irish par son, and no other benefit could result to the occu pier, by an absolute cc nfiscation or any deduction from the payment of tithe, than having the (with's exaction imposed by one collector in the shape of rent. We have never seen the advocates of any proceeding which would produce this result, and have always desired to see a fair arrangement under which the landlord could exonerate his property and his tenantry from the burden and vexation of tithe by a fair commutation to be paid to the State, and to be applied by Parlia ment, in the first place, to the maintenance of a sufficient Protestant establishment, and• the re sidue to other purposes of religion anti educa tion. It would be, above all things, desirable to obtain some provision for the working Catho lic Clergy and for the Dissenting Ministers in the North of Ireland. We hope, therefore, as Mr. Stanley appears to have given up his unpo pular propositions of collecting the commutation for tithe by Clerical Corporations, and investing the fund to arise from compositions in land, for the exclusive benefit of the Church Establish ment; and as the question of application is to be left open to tne Reformed Parliament, that some amicable arrangement may be made with the Irish Members to pass the first Bill. Adjourn ments were moved by them last night, princi pally, we believe, on account of the absence of Members who were much interested in the de bate ; but we have no doubt they will soon be satisfied of the expediency of allowing the busi ness to proceed, and more especially of aiding the Government in some measures for the tran quillization of the prevailing excitement in Ire land. No civilized society can long remain in the state in which the last accounts left that unhappy country ; and after Mr. Stanley's de clarations of last night, we would fain hope that all parties would join cordially in an endeavour to arrest the tumultuous and riotous conduct of the people. The hay crops of persons who have paid lawful demands upon them cannot be got in, and a threat is held out that the same system of violence and intimidation is to be extended to the corn harvest. The mail-coach contractor cannot perform his contract for the conveyance of mails, the people refusing to harness his horses from the sainer eason—and no Bank-note is nego ciable in certain districts, which is not stamped with a mark, as free from the contamination of having been passed for a payment of tithe. How long can this continue? The Government ap pear disposed, by Mr. Stanley's speech, to con cede as far as any reasonable man can desire, and if the Irish Members are not sensible of the necessity of putting an end to a state of things which threatens an entire annihilation of the rights of property, we trust that there will be an unanimous feeling amongst the English Mem bers to support Government in such measures as may be indispensable to protect the empire from the imminent danger to which all our in terests must be exposed, by the continuance of a state of confusion and anarchy in the sister king dom.—Morning Chronicle. In a short conversation which took place last night in a Committee on the Customs' Acts, moved by Mr. Poulett Thomson, for the pur• pose of reducing the duties on some additional articles in the Schedule of the Customs' Bill, the Member for Worcester again interposed his eternal babble for the same purpose as usual— the advocacy of everything that is illiberal in commercial policy, and the delay to the best of his powers of the business before the House. Really we almost regret that Worcester did not bring up the rear in schedule A ; and unless it vindicates its right to the election of representa tives at the next general election, by dismissing its present Members, and by the return of men endowed with common sense and tolerably enlightened views, we are of opinion that it ought to be placed there. Reform is now hap pily achieved, and the only claim vihich either of these gentlemen possesses, that of having under the fear of their constituents abstained from opposing it openly —cannot, or at least ought not to, be considered by the electors as of sufficient weight to counterbalance their absolute want of any of those qualities which ought to distinguish the representatives of a large and populous city. Ig norant, shallow, frothy, full of long exploded prejudices, and cursed with a kind of volubility which enables him to expose these qualities for hours together to a suffering audience, the one stands forth on all occasions in which the coms Inercial policy of the country is touched upon, the self-elected champion of the Merchants of England, who repudiate such an advocate. The other, disappointed in fondly-indulged ex pectations of power, is, by turns, the supporter of the most Ultra-Radical opinions —as in the case of the Army Estimates, or of the most violent Ultra-Toryism—as in his denunciation of the creation of Peers, when it was indispen sable for the success of the Reform Bill. Dif- , fering in their general professions and their opi nions—the one a Whig, the other a Tory— they are agreed on one point—the most virulent. hostility to the Government. Equally vain, equally shallow, they are alternately the victims of their own passions, or the dupes of the Tory laction. Surely the city of Worcester will not again submit to the stigma of such representa tives ! If the electors are really opposed to the present Administration, they might find, without difficulty, men who would support their views in straight-forward and manly way—men whose opposition, whilst it was far more effective, would be far more honourable to them ; but if, as we believe to be the case, Worcester be really friendly to the liberal Government of Lord Grey, it cannot inflict upon it a deeper injury than to insure the presence, in the House of Commons, of men who use the power intrusted to them solely to gratify the spite engendered by offended vanity, and who strive, by all the means which they possess, to oppose the ends of good govern ment, and, under the mask of patriotism, to war with every measure which is wise, liberal, or useful.—Morning Chronicle. One of the subjects brought before the House of Commons last night must soon occupy the at tention of a Reform Parliament—the expendi ture in counties. Some means must be devised ror giving the rate-payers a control over a con tinually increasing local taxation, which Justices of Peace order at their discretion. The subject was introduced by a petition from the county of Chester, complaining of the burden imposed on hat county under the provisions of the Police Act. The Earl of Grosvenor seemed to think that he had sufficiently met the allegations in the petition when he stated that Mr. E. Davenport was the only Magistrate present at the meeting at which the petition was agreed on. So much the more creditable to Mr. E. Davenport,. that lie was the only Magistrate who had the courage to-set himself against the hole-and-corner system of which Magistrates are so enamoured. Mr. Warburton supported the petition, and thought that all Courts in which public money was voted should be public and open Courts ; and Mr. Hume supported the petition for the same reason, adding that he agreed with the petitioners, the clergy ought no longer to be continued on the commission of the peace. It may be taken for granted, that when ever men are anxious for secrecy, they are conscious that their acts will not bear the light. It has been admitted that Cimmittees of the House of Commons did not scruple to make their privilege of secrecy avail able to the commission of the foulest jobs; and great pains were taken to devise a system for putting an end to this abominable system. Surely it will not be contended that Justices of Peace ire more likely to be pure than Committees of the House of Commons. The public ought not only to be admitted into Court when their money is voted away ; but there ought to be some sort of provincial assemblies for voting the money for local purposes, in order to secure property against the arbitrary encroachments of Magis trates.—ATorning Chronicle. The policy of demanding pledges fro.n a can didate at elections, and, on the part of a candi date, that of complying with such demand, is not a very easy question. To state the outline of our opinion as briefly as possible, it appears to us that a proper choice of representatives would, in 99 out of evary 100 cases, render the practice of requiring formal pledges almost, if not entirely, useless; and therefore, that on a general view of the subject, " pledging" ougEt to be the exception, and " mutual confidence" between elector and representative, the rule. 'There are, doubtless, emergencies in the affairs of nations, of such critical and transcendent im portance, that no obligation can be imposed upon the candidate more binding than a due regard to the public welfare would justify. But then, as is fairly stated by a correspondent, in a letter too long for insertion here, the subject matter of the pledge ought, for the most part, though not always, to be a principle, not a specific measure. Reform of Parliament, at the last election, was a proper subject for a pledge ; but in that instance it must he confessed that peculiar and unprece dented circumstances warranted a specific de mand upon the candidate, that he would support not merely the " principle," but " the measure," the " Bill itself," and no other than that which Ministers had already laid before Parliament. The example of the Reform question, and the difficulties it encountered, may serve to illustrate both affirmatively and negatively, the rationale of the " pledging system. " Will you sup port," we may imagine a constituent to have asked a candidate upon the hustings, " will you support Parliamentary Reform ? " " I will," was the answer. Would such a pledge, then, have sufficed for the attainment of a real Reform of Parliament this last session ? So far from it, that there was no conceivable evasion, delu sion, or extravagance of boroughmonger trickery framed for the sole purpose of defeating the Reform principle, which might not have satisfied the letter of a solemn promise to promote it. After a certain stage of the proceedings on the Reform Bill, almost every change that was urged upon Ministers assumed the guise and shape of " Reform." The rankest oli aarch, on the third reading of the Bill, would have claimed to be a Reformer, by substituting the di'franchisement of East Retford—and at most of old Sarum, with one or two more in schedule A—for the great body of the measure with its extent and variety of improvements. A specific pledge, therefore, in favour of " the Bill," ought to have been, and was very generally, ex acted from the majority of the present House of Commons when candidates, as a necessary pro tection to Reform. But even in that there was danger for conscientiou s and consistent men, as well as danger from the dishonest. If the whole Bill' was the subject of the pledge, how should lie vote who stood so bound,-- w h en Ministers saw reason, with a sincere and upright view to the interests of Reform itself,—succes sively to correct and amend, but very seriously to alter likewise, some of the most important and prominent provisions of the measure ? A pledge still more specific, therefore, was adopted, and the Bill, " as understood and approved by Ministers," was held to be the only safe form of obligation for the candidate. So much for a question which had been for so many months before the country, sifted rand familiarized, and pretty universally understood. In that case, regard being had to the arts which were resorted to for the stealthy subversion of the principle, under the semblance of au anxiety for certain details,—the real difficulty was to find ,1 form of obligation sufficiently minute and vi gorous. But how would it he with subjecls more imperfectly examined as to the practical effect of given enactments towards the production of desired ends ? Take the question of a pro vision for the clergy by commutation of tithe ; take that of poor laws, to he amended in En land, to be created in Ireland, or that of West India slavery, or of banking, or of finance, or of emigration, or of colonial trade,—all questions of high value to the community,—and see what would be the inevitable consequence of exacting, we do not say a declaration of general princi ples, but of detailed pledges of support to parti cular measures, upon subjects where the whole truth does not always lie upon the outside ; and where, from the complexity and intricacy of the operation of various half-appreciated causes, the provisions of an Act of Parliament seldom, if ever, go straightforward to their proposed end. A re peal of the present fluctuating duties, imposed by the corn laws,—with a view to alleviate the difficulty of importimg foreign corn, and of re gulating the price without injury to the grower or consumer—is a plain and direct benefit ; to a specific pledge on that point, there can be no fair objection. A repeal of the Union with Ire land would be, in our judgment, an evil to both countries. A pledge to oppose any measure so calamitous would be easily understood and ful filled. But unless the end be at once most im portant and most urgent, the general character of any man, fitted to be a representative, ought to suffice without the exaction of pledges, which imply the want of such qualification ; and on any other than simple and uniform questions, no pledge, beyond that of supporting a principle, ought to be conceded or required.—Times. The cruel, unnecessary, and man-degrading practice of military flogging we have often de nounced, and shall continue, whenever occasion offers, to denounce, until the British empire shall cease to be disgraced by a system of tor ture only worthy of the barbarous institutions of Russia. That time, we trust, is not far distant. It cannot be supposed that the genuine representa tives of the sentiments of the moral, the re flecting, the humane, the Christian English people, when once such representatives shall have been in Parliament assembled, will long either allow the slave-driver of the West Indies or the flagellators of the military service to treat rational beings in a manner in which our laws will not allow the beasts of the field to be treated, and to bear, as the symbol of their " civilized" power, the lash dripping with human blood ! If the torture of the cat-o'nine-tails be confined to offences strictly military, it is bad enough; but if it be made the means of punishing and degrading men for other offences than those which are cog nizable by a Court-martial it is still worse. The case of the soldier Somerville now attracts, and deservedly attracts, public attention. On the merits of his case we express no opinion, except so far as to say that there are circumstances connected with it that call loudly for inquiry. It is not on the part of Somerville alone that such an inquiry is requisite. The character of Major Wyndham, whom Somerville's statement so seriously inculpates, makes it necessary that that officer, if conscious that the charges brought against him are groundless, should insist upon in quiry, for his own vindication. Weunderstandthat the Noble Lord commanding his Majesty's forces in chief was at first adverse to any inquiry when applied to for that purpose, saying, that Major Wyndham " had done no more than his duty." It may be, that, under the existing system, the Major had acted in strict conformity with the rules of the service, in which case it is the sys tem and not the gallant officer that is to blame ; but, certainly, by granting an inquiry Lord Hill avows the propriety of altering his original opi nion, and of satisfying public feeling that the punishment of a British soldier by the British knout was a matter of military discipline, and not of political oppression. But to satisfy pub lic feeling in this matter, we must have an inquiry instituted before such p e r so n s ae w ill place the result above all suspicion. It is not only the character of an officer in his Majesty , s service that is at stake—the official integrity of Sir John Hobhouse, the Secretary at War and Repre sentative for Westminster, is involved in the question. Nothing but a bona fide and search ing investigation will satisfy the public. The Secretary at War ou g ht to k now t hi s , and w e hope he will act accordingly.—Morn. Herald. Referring to the report of a meeting in another part of this day's paper, on the subject of parlia mentary pledges, we beg, at the same time, to point the attention of our readers to the obser vations of a contemporary on the same matter. " We observe of late," says our contemporary, " a remarkable anxiety on the part of the re formers to exact pledges from the candidates for seats in the House of Commons. This is an ill compliment to the Bill which has lately passed, if we are to understand that men re. turned under its provisions are lcss fit to be trusted with a liberty of acting independently than their predecessors ; or, if it be otherwise explained, that the extortion of pledges is but the exertion of a privilege intended to be con ' ceded to electors by the measure, still it is but an ill compliment to the Bill." We have ob served precisely the same thing as that for which our contemporary vouches--namely, a just anxiety to exact pledges from candidates for seats in the House of Commons ; and we have also made another observation, which our contemporary does not appear to have made—namely, that there is a remarkable reluctance in certain quarters to give the pledges required. Both facts—for they are facts—will, no doubt, be set down by our con temporary, as an " ill compliment to the Bill," and as a proof that " men returned under its provisions are less fit to be trusted with the liberty of acting independently than their prede cessors ;" but we opine so far otherwise that we consider the anxiety for the exaction of pledges as the best imaginable proof of the value of the Bill, and the just sense which the people enter tain of the rights and privileges conferred upon them by it. We make no doubt, from all that we can see and hear, that it would be vastly agreeable to the Tories, and very agreeable also to no inconsiderable body of lukewarm reformers, who have gone with the tide, and enrolled them selves under Whig banners, to hear nothing of pledges, and to be sent to the House of Commons as unfettered as the representatives of Sarum and Gatton now are ; for then they might safely and without any breach of faith, play again the same game which they have hitherto played, so much to their own profit, and so deeply to the injury of the country ; but with their likings or dislikings the people have nothing to do ; they are anxious to have men who will serve diem in stead of serving themselves, and if it be not the wish of certain . persons to d o so , w h y t h ey have only to retire from the contest, and make way for others whose sentiments are more i n un i son with those of the public. 'l'o talk of the exac tion of pledges being an " ill compliment to the 13i11," or an illiberality on the part of the people, neither more nor less than downright lying, or downright nonsense. It is not the people who ) but, on the are unreasonable in their demands contrary, those only who complain of them ex ercising their rights, and who are unwilling to give pledges. The Bill confers upon a great proportion of the population, the right of choosing their Representatives, and how, let us ask, are the people to deter mine the fitness or unfitness of the candidates to represent them, but by the opinions which they entertain—the declarations which they make —and the pledges on particular questions which they are inclined to give ? The people neither have the right nor the inclination, to compel any one to represent them in the Commons' House of Parliament, and, in consequence, they can only exact pledges from those who arc willing to give them ; but they have the right to send re presentatives to Parliament, and if that right means any thing but a mockery—a delegation of uncontrolled and irresponsible power—it as suredly means that the people should send such persons, and such persons only, to Parliament as shall fairly and honestly represent their feel ings, wishes, and sentiments. And what is the meaning of the exaction of pledges but the ef fecting of a species of insurance, that those whom they may choose as representatives shall truly and fairly represent them ?—Morn.Advert. The cholera has visited Canada. It broke out first at Quebec, in a lodging-house occupied by emi grants, and spread so, that on the Ilth ult. not less than 60 case's occurred, many of which proved fatal. Mr. SAUNDERS, a merchant residing in the upper town, was among its victims. The brig Carricks, from Dublin, had lost not less than 42 passengers by the disorder during tie passage out. The greatest consternation and alarm pre vailed in Quebec and Montreal. Upwards of 25,000 emigrants had arrived during the season. TH E COLLIERS AND THE COAL-OWNERS IN THE NORTH. —The Magistrates of Northumberland and Durham have held a meeting, in which they have re solved to represent to Government the absolute inefficiency of the present police force to put an end to the outrages of the pitmen. If the Legislature does not speedily devise some means to put an end to these combinations of work. men to overa've and dictate to their masters, the same system will soon extend itself to other parts of the coun try, and prove of the most serious injury to commerce of every description. LIVERPOOL, JULY B.—Wind at noon, N.W., fain—Arriveil, the Hindostan, Essex, Homer, and Henry Lee, from New Orleans; Nouvelle Adeline, from Marseilles; Pacific, and Washington, from New York; Sarah, from Newfoundland ; Laura, from Demerara ; Ellen, from the Mediterranean ; Henry Hoyle, from Oporto; Jamaica, from Jamaica; Protector, Tamerlane, and Hamilton, from Savannah ; Hellespont, from New Orleans; Mary Ford, from St. Andrew's; Celia, from Savannah; Marion, from Mobile; Hannah, from St. John's, New Brunswick ; Factor, from Smyrna ; Agnes, from Africa. Two ships, one bark, and one brig, off the port at a quarter past eight o'clock. Etna, and Emerald Isle, from Dublin; Town of Drogheda, from Drogheda; Ann, from Newport; Peace, from 'Waterford; Good Intent, from Poole ; Queen Adelaide, from London derry ; Hibernia, from Belfast ; Lion, from Glasgow ; and George IV:, from Newry. A DOG ATTACKED BY CHOLERA.—We hive learned from an authentic source that a singular in stance of the spreading of this fatal malady to the canine race has just occurred in the vicinity of the cholera hos pital in Townsend-street. Whether the animal lay in the bed of any deceased inmate of that place (a conjecture not improbable), or how the distemper was contracted, is not positively known. The following particulars have reached us :—The animal was a large mastiff; he was at tacked in the street, about one hundred yards from the Depot gate. He whirled about, as if shot, and became attacked with violent spasms, his frothy tongue lolled out ; two medical gentlemen examined the animal, and in stantly pronounced the case to he one of decided Indian spasmodic cholera. They directed him to be shot by a publican named JEFF, who refused to destroy the property . . of any one without the consent of the owner. A labour ing man, however, not so scrupulous, went for a pistol, intending to destroy him; before he returned, collapse had taken place. The dog died within half an hour after he was attacked. A physician who saw the body declared it was capable of imparting greater infection than the dead bodies of 20 human beings. The dog was accordingly instantly interred.—Dublin Times. A TAILOR NEARLY SMOTHERED.—On Saturday morning, about one o'clock, as CORNELIUS DRA PER, a tailor, of No. 13, Orange-street, Red Lion-squsre, was returning from Chelsea in a glorious state of intoxi cation, he had unfortunately to pass Cheyne-walk, close to the river; here he tacked to the left and right, when un luckily standing too long upon his starboard tack, be pi.ched head foremost off the bank. It was nearly low water at the time, and he fell a height of about ten feet into the mud, where he rolled about for some time, until a policeman heard a moaning noise in the mud ; he went to the spot, and, in order to render the unfortunate tailor assistance, he jumped down to assist him, little thinking that the mud was nearly six feet deep. The policeman, finding himself unexpectedly up to his neck, shouted for assistance, when several policemen came up, and with great exertiors both parties were hauled out of the mud by ropes. The tailor was in a most deplorable condition, and nearly exhausted ; he was conveyed to the station-house and scoured, and some brandy was given him, when he vomited a large quantity of Thames mud which he had swallowed. He was afterwards carried to the White Horse and put to bed, The surgeon said that if he had been half a minute longer in the mud he must have been suffocated. Many years ago, Mr. WALTER BOYD ad vanced a considerable sum of money to the Duke of Oa- LEANS, father of his present MAJESTY, who being a cre ditor of the late Duke de FITZJAMES, transferred that debt as a collateral security to Mr. BOYD. In consequence of the revolution and the confiscation of the properties of the two Dukes, this debt remained many years unsatisfied. The mother of the present Duke de FITZJAMES having returned to France from emigration, NAPOLEON restored to her the use and enjoyment of her late husband's pro perty for her life, with the reversion to her son, who, upon her death, entered into possession of his paternal estates sous benefice d'inventaire, that is taking upon himself the responsibility of his father's debts no further than the amount of the property would go to pay. The respective debts having remained unliquidated, Mr. BOYD, at the request of his MAJESTY, and on his guarantee, in which he was joined by Madame ADELAIDE, instituted proceedings against the Duke de FITZJA3IES, for the re covery of that which was due from his late father to the deceased Duke of ORLEANS. These proceedings, com menced many years 4go, have been procrastinated, till at length they reached the Court of Cassatien on Thursday last, which confirmed the liability of the Duke de FITZ JAMES to pay the debt of his late father, now amounting to 277,000 francs, and ordered him to deliver in, on or before the Ist of November next, an account of the pro perty inherited by him and come into possession from his father ; and, in default, the Court declared him liable to payment out of his own estates and effects. That the dignity of the House of Lords has greatly fallen, every one feels and must acknowledge. Men come in from the Courts and other places below, more ac customed to talk, and occupy the whole arena. The most busy and most noisy men must not be taken to be the most able, or the most intelligent. If the Lords lose their dignity, they lose their power. Dignity is power in certain cases, as BURKE said. It is certain that Lords without dignity will not long survive. They are sup. ported by opinion and respect; if they fail, all is gone• In blind feudal times the respect for a Peer might be too great. (See " Tom Warton's observation in his Chapter on the Poetry of Queen Elizabeth's age.") We can not new-make human nature—we cannot take cold abstract philosophers of a whole people: to venerable and historical descent people will look, reason as you may ; and boast as they will, men will not look up to the son of a chimney-sweep as to a PLANTAGENET, a TALBOT, a STANLEY, a HOWARD. There is most distinguished and venerable blood among the Lords; but they who made all the bustle among the Lords on the late occa,ion had it not, and these were they who thus became pro minent to the notice of the nation. The desire of tno nopoly of their new-got elevation was thus so striking, that it coul.l nut but fill the public with disgust. They !oust have been very short-sighted not to keep up appear ances a little better. The tenour of their whole argu ments went to provoke the people to inquire into their history, which they ought to have known would not very well bear research. The ancient free constitution of France was destroyed centuries ago in a somewhat similar say. Official Peers, lawyers, Sce., were substituted for the ancient peerage and feudal chiefs, who were entitled to a seat i❑ the assembly of states; and the French Par liament superseded that assembly.— Times. SURREY SESSIONS, JULY 10. James Colwell, a common informer, was indicted for stealing 81bs. of ham, value 45., the property of William Copelin, of Newington. John Green, a policeman, said he was on duty in Walworth on the 27th of June last, and was cane] to the prosecutor's shop, where he took the prisoner into custody on the charge named in the indictment. The prisoner was tipsy, and said he bad given two " bob for it. The bone now produced is the stolen property; it is not all here—a good deal has been cut off because it " run about."—(Laughter.) In fact, it was alive ! The prosecutor sta!ed that the prisoner came to his shop, and after remaining in it a few minutes, stepped out with the ham-bone, while witness was engaged with a lady at the farther end of the shop. Witness called to his brother, who followed hi:n, and brought him back. lie then appeared to be very drunk. Cross-examined by Mr. CHAMBERS—Knows the prisoner, hut not perfectly well; has sold Ihim se veral " ham bones ;" sold him one a few days before this affair, but don't know what was the matter with it. The prisoner did not complain to him that it was bad, though he might have done so to brother. Knows the prisoner is an informer, but can't recollect any thing about light weights. The brother to the last witness corroborated his statement. Cross-examined—The ham bone he sold to the prisoner was a very fine one indeed—(Laughter.) Don't recollect his complaining of its being bad, and saying he would have another. The bone was neither strong nor mity.—( Loud laughter.) The prisoner was " more drunker" after he had the bone than before.—(Laughter.) The prisoner said he bought a ham bone at the prosecutor's shop on the previous Saturday, for which he paid Is. 6d., but it was so bad it was thrown away; on the day mentioned in the indict ment he was out and drank rather freely, and in re turning home went into the ham-shop, where he complained of the bad bone, and asked for a good one. The younger Copelin showed him one which stood on the counter, for which he asked 35., and he threw down 24., saying, that will be right with the queer bone. He was going out of the shop, but was stopped. This was a vindictive proceeding on the part of the prosecutor, who had been twice fined for short weights, and owed him a grudge. The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty, and the Court sentenced him to one month's imprisonment and hard labour. The policeman, who kept the barn bone in his hand during the trial, was directed to remove it as soon as possible, for it had a very unpleasant odour in the nose of the Court. Mary Ann Highanz, a genteel-looking young wo man, aged 19, and rather gayly dressed, was indicted for unlawfully intermarrying with Wm. Parsley, at St. Mary's, Lambeth, on the 24th of June last, her husband, James Thomas Higham, being then The prisoner appeared greatly affected, and the Court directed that she should be accommodated with a chair. The witnesses, William Williams, Mary Ann Clutterbuek, and Samuel Jefferson, who were to have proved the first marriage, were called in suc cession, but did not appear. The COURT then ordered their names to be again cilled, and no answer having been returned, their recognizances were declared forfeited. The CHAIRMAN addressed the Jury, and said, as there was no oil t present to prove the first marriage, it was useless to go into the case, and the prisoner must have the benefit of the neglect. She was ac cordingly acquitted. A few minutes after the prisoner was discharged, the absent witnesses hurried into Court, and were informed they were not wanted. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. LONDON MARKETS. (From the London New Price Current of yesterday.) SUGAR.—The Sugar Market iir,rs very languid all the last week ; the purchases did not exceed 2,500 hints. and trs. ; the prices of low brown were rather higher—all other descriptions heavy at the previous currency. This afternoon the market must be reported steady in price; the sales do not exceed 700 hhds. and trs. The stock of West India Sugar is now 25,440 hhds. and trs., which is 15,273 less than last year. The stock of Mauritius is 73,817 bags, being 52,170 less than last year. The de livery of West India Sugar is 3,250 hhds. and trs., being 630 less than last year. The delivery of Mauritius 8,534 bags, 2,574 more than the corresponding week of 1831. In the Refined Market last week little or no business has been reported ; purchases could be made on rather lower terms. This afternoon the Refined Market remains in a very languid state ; low Lumps 64a. a 64W. 6d. MAURITIUS SUGARS.—The Mauritius Sugars at public sales last week went off steadily at former prices. This day's public sale 547 bags Mauritius went off steadily at full prices. EAST ItiniA SUGARS.—The sales of Siam and Manilla Sugars have been very considerable; very full prices have been realized. This day's sale 1,147 bags 200 baskets Siam sold Is. higher. FOREIGN SUGARS.—Tbe sales of Havannah Sugar last week were at prices 2s. higher ; 500 boxes white Havan nah sold at 38s. ; 1,300 boxes damaged white 29e. a 335. 6d., very low 28s. a 265. 6d. ; 700 boxes good white were withdrawn from public sale at 31s. and 38s. This day's public sale 55 chests three barrels Brazil were all damaged, forming no criterion of the market prices; 107 bags soft white Havannah all taken in 355. a 365. COFFEE. —The ordinary descriptions of East India and Foreign Coffee are again la. a 2a. higher; in the other descriptions and in British Plantation there is no altera tion in price worth reporting ; Ceylon sold 591. a 61s. Sumatra 565. a 595. ; Semarang 560. a 575. ; Batavia 60s. a 635. ; Brazil 60s. a 625. ; - ordinary St. Domingo 61s. 6d. This day's public sales 1,344 bags Havannah went off heavily, the first lots Is. a Is. 6d. lower, but afterwards nearly recovered to previous market prices ; 818 bags East India, Sumatra, and Semarang, sold 565. a 595. at market prices ; 151 bales Mocha 755. a 755. 6d.—The Coffee Market is flat to-day, but we cannot quote it generally lower. Russ, BRANDY, and Homarms.—There were exten sive sales of strong Jamaica Rum last week, 32 to 35 over at 2s. 10d. a 3s. ; the latter was the only price at the close of the Market ; very few parcels of the low Ja maicas are left on sale, and few parcels could now be pur chased under 2s. 6d.; in Leewards last week there were few sales, as the holders were not inclined to sell ; proof Leemards were, however, sold at ls. 7d., and few par cels were left on sale at that price, 5 over sold at Is. 8:1-.1.; the Market was firm, but a Government contract for 100,000 gallons of Rum was announced on Friday last, which, in place of adding to the firmness of the Market, as usual, had a contrary iffect, as these contracts lately have been taken under the Market rates, and have had the effect of depressing the prices. In Brandy or Geneva there is little alteration to notice. HEMP, FLAX, AND TALLOW.-The Tallow Market has lately been languid; yellow Candle Tallow at 41s. 3d. and 41s. 61., yesterday and this day there has been more firmness, and the prices have advanced. In Hemp or Flax there is no material alteration. IRISH PROVISIONS. —ln the past week the import of Foreign Butter was 6,383 casks, of Irish only 886 firks., and of bac,n only 428 bales; we had, however, a further import o rt fm ieon. o y of w2i,nlg2 4 tothe 8 firks. r of t Irsisuhppbluyt,ter, both a Foreignrl2,o34 halesnio and Irish butters have been bringing rather higher prices ; tine Friesland has been sold at the quay at 88s. and 90s. Cork and Limerick 82s. a 83s. and Waterford (as to re pute of brands), 80.1. a 82s. landed ; for the above descrip tions of Irish (now shipped) 70., a 80s. on board is de manded, but there are no forward sales to be affected at inything like those prices, the clieesmongers looking for. ward for very heavy imports ere long, as the make is a nuke is iepresent e d to be unusually large. For bacon there very fair demand, the holders of fresh prime singed are l'wking fora little advance in price; except, however, in some partial instances Waterford has not been sold over 31s. a 525. nor Limerick over 495. a 50s. landed ; for Russell's very prime Limerick 525. has been refused. Bale and Tierce Middles sell more slowly, the former t 15s. a 475., and the latter at 445. a 50s. as to quality. not very plentiful ; Belfast we quot e 58 llama are 655., but lice small sized Limerick would bring 73 5 , a 765. Blaildcr lard, as to quality, we quote 58s. a 645. : arid in beef and pork, although the business dolor , is tri our late quotations are fully supported. Oits.—Seed oils are firm, and large business doily , 'or forward delivery. Olive oils are again heavy, though t Liverpool the price has advanc•A to 53/. at public sale EXETER MA Beef (score) Bs. Cd. Mutton (16.)--0 5i 0 6 Veal and I amb-0 6 0 7 Pork 0 4 0 6 Geese (each) —.A 0 5 6 Ducks Jeoun'el—t 0 5 0 Fowls 0 4 0 RKETS —July 6. Wheat (bushel) Od. Bs. 6d. Barley 6 4 9 Oats 2 3 2 5 Beans 6 6 0 Butter 0 I 3 Eggs (12) 0 1 0 Potatoes (peck) ....0 6 0 7 IRISH MA DUBLIN MARKET NC 398 Wheat, per barrel 20 stone 24 Bete 16 stone 0 Barley -,--s. 16 stone 1,144 0at5...., 12 stone 11,816 Cwt. Flour 9 stone 407 Oatmeal 8 stone 17 01 22 01 ►f Wheat and Flour 48s. 4d. per s „„ c Firsts, from 21s. Od. Seconds, from lis. Od. C. Thirds, from Bs. Od. PRICE OF BREAD. I Half Quartern.--- Sold to Bakers only. 8,334 Cwt. Flour—. Average price t Receipts of Flour, 10, Sales of Do. 11, DTE.—FRIDAY, July 6 From To Average. 20 0 37 0 34 2 15 6 0 0 —o 0 0 9 8 12 0 10 6 I 8 0 230 0 0 9 0 14 0 11 1 Quartern Loaf 19 431 sack. _ to 22e. Od. to 20s. Od. to 12s. Od. Wheat, Barley. Oats. Flour, per cwt. per barrel per barrel per barrel 20 stone. 16 stone. 14 stone. Ist. 2d. s. d. a s.d. s.d. a s.d. s. d. a s.d. Is. d. as. d. Is. d. as. d. Cork 200 31 313 6 14 310 0 10 617 0 196 6 0 166 Limerick ,27 6 30 013 0 14 012 0 13 616 0 19 0 0 0 15 0 Waterfordgi 0 31 013 0 16 010 0 II 017 0 19 010 0 16 0 Clonmel 294 30 0 120 160 136 139 17 0 19 013 0 16 0 Carlow 0 32 016 0 170,100 10 620 6 210 00 0 0 Beef, Mutton,' Pork, Butter. per lb per lb. per cwt. Ist. 2d. 3d. Itb. d. a d. d. a d. s. d. a s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. (1. Cork 4,1 5 5 6 290 32 0780740680 64 0 55 0 Limerick— 3 431 434 0 35 0177 0710 65 0 511 053 0 Waterford 3 6 3 5 360 37 0880770700 66 0 60 0 Clonmel 4 5 5 6 370 38 079070 0 0 0 Carlow— 4 51 0 0 0 0 00 70 060 050 0— 0— 0 KILKENNY.—Butter 76s to 78s. per cwt. ; Wheat 30s. to 328• per barrel ; Flour 20s. to 345. per bag; Oats Bs. to 10s. per bar rel ; Barley 13s. to 15s. ; Beef 4d. to sd. per lb.; Mutton 44. to sd. ; Potatoes 2d. per stone; Coals Is. 2.d. per cwt.; Bacon Pigs 325. to 335. per cwt. It is expected that should the present favour able weather continue Lord YARBOROUGH, in his frigate yacht the Falcon, will reach the Tagus about Sunday or Monday next, his Lordship having sailed from Portsmouth on Thursday last. Lord YARBOROUGH is the bearer of despatches from Lord PALMERSTON to Lord GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL, who, it is generally believed, in the event of the success of Don PFDRO, will be accredited to act immediately as Minister from our Court. About a quarter after eleven o'clock on Friday night last, a meteor of a remarkable description was seen by severargentlemen of Devizes. They state, " that it at first appeared as a very small luminous body, descend ing perpendicularly in a south-western direction; that for a few seconds it was lost in a cloud, and afterwards re appeared at an angle of about 40 degrees, of great snag• nitude and brilliancy, emitting a bright light, and illuini. nating the atmosphere. The meteor at this time ap peared about three feet long and one broad at its base, which was a globular shape, terminating in a sharp point at its upper end. On its re-appearance from the cloud it seemed suspended for an instant, then slowly descended and exploded."—Cheltenham Journal. DUCK HUNTING IN THE NEW COURT OF THE OLD BAILEY.-On Monilay evening during the trial of a young lad, named WILLIAM MADDOX, for stealing some ducks in the neighbourhood of Brentford, it was necessary to produce the ducks, that the prosecutor might identify them. From the clumsy manner in which the basket, containing the ducks, was handled, one of them escaped from it, and the officers of the Court, aided by several individuals, were occupied a considerable time before the duck was recaptured. The bird, after having visited nearly every corner of the Court, to the no small amusement of every ore present, was at length replaced in the basket from which it had escaped. SIGN PAINTING.--Sixty or seventy years ago the trade of sign painting gave employment to nisnY of our best artists, and was, indeed, generally a part of the profession. Since that period fine signs have been legs in fashion, and the task of executing them has devolved oa inferior artisans. We observe in a New York Journal that a Bull's Head, one of the eatliest productions of Wss'r, and which has hung there about seventy years, was latch,' purchased by an English gentleman, and is destined fo r our Royal Academy. On this sutject we may notice that the Gout in Boots, at Little Chelsea, on the Fulham" road, is said to have been painted, in one of his tipeY freaks, by GEORGE MORLA ND ; and the Queen's to this Head, performance,which we saw the other day at Epsom, in a whim, hY, against w h om he e ast t i 1 11 - e k R head L°‘ r on . o T n l e i e side l is report e d to have given great o ffence to L AWRENCE by atte a r nd is ti c w ur fa io c t e ts . f . ro t m he havingother. the H HARLOW k or o in ae i p f u d tt o in ne g 1 4: y i t ' h . e L f . u , tu G re rt p l,k et re - z t d r e e nt ;" period entertained some pique.—Literary G azette _..-. * l % l 7 -fair, the lady of Lieut. - - ------ BIRTH. On the Bth inst. in Queen.street I% .P., of a son and heir. Colonel the Hon. Standish O'Grady, h e 10th inst. at Ch f r il l ll it On , • ' . ,hte+ Madill, Hon Co , Frederick •-.. , _ • lypany's Service, to - Mulct, daup, . ~f the late it James Graham, Brat., of Netherby, Cumberlan, Tl ( l ) 7J l s ,, Jones, i n E st s . q a . , t of st . the Ge G or ro re v , e s: I H l a ig n h o g ir a e t r e .. . sq MARRIED. Maridebone captai'l On the 10th inst. at St. Pancras Church, George Herd f KinderbY, E,CI., of Lincoln's Inn, to Ann Jaques, daughter ° Burton Phillipson, Es-., 9 eldest son of the late Itev. Richa to nurton Phillipson, formerly of Herringswell Hall, Suffolk,„„ Georgiana Jane, only child of John Turner, Esq., of Great u :nond-street. 'c square, John Tha r r S Lately, at Munich, according to the rites of the Cithol2., t.lhurch, and afterwards at the house of the British Minister, F . l,' the lion and Rev. Henry David Erskine the Count Herrma n Paumgarten, of Ehring Castle, in Bavaria, to the Hon. l'i'" Erskine, second daughter of the Right Hon. Lord Erskine. , On the 10th inst. at St. George's,r Bloomsbury. Belo",_ nr ,nrith Esq., ,of Wivenhoe, o, Essex, 0.. i Bernard" : tral , , second daughter of Benjamin Hooke, Esq., of >trect, Russell-square. --, DIED. 0 01 a, ii e t. , h ß e a ti r t t h . inst. at Broadstairs, Lady Bla n e , wife of Sir Gilbe rt ;1i On the 9th inst., after a long illness, at his father's house in , ;rafton-street, Watkin Henry, eldest son of the Right HO' C. W. Williams Wynn, aged 16. On the 10th inst. Elizabeth, wife of Mr. George Sadler, Great Guildford-street, Southwark. On the 9th inst. at Carshalton Park, John Taylor, Esq., ag ed 2 years. On the 10th inst., after a lingering and painful illness, Ante/ 'tame, Esq., of Hampton Wick, Middlesex, in the 72 year his age. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY M RDO YOUNG, Ari' s SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, LONDON. last week, and by private contract. South Sea Oil id at 241. to 271. Hoes.—The accounts from the Ilop Plantations state a great increase of fly and verin;n ; the duty, which had ad vanced to 185,0001. fell yesterday to 160,0001. and this day to 150,0001. There has, in consequence, been more demand for old hops, and some appearance of a speculative inquiry, which is likely to lead to extensive transactions, as the Hops in the Market are offered at very low prices. COTTON.—The demand for Cotton has rather revived. The salts are considerable, and the prices more firm. The purchases since our last consist of 1,650 Surats, ord. 411, miod fair sd. ; 160 Bengal, ord. 41d ; 450 Madras, fair 4d. goad sd. ; 1,050 Pernams, mid. 8/1., good fair 9d.; 1,100 Ecyptian, good 78d.,fair 71d. ; 220 Bowed, mid. to fair sfl. good TOBACCO.—The only transaction in Tobacco of any extent is the sale of a cargo of rejected Virginia, partly da rn iged, about 16s. per 1001bs. manifest weight t the only other sales are small parcels for the home taade, whieb continue brisk. SALTPETRE —The Market last week was more firm, and several purchases were reported at higher prices ; 31d. was paid for good rough, and few parcels now offer under that rate ; Brirish 35q. TURPENTINE.—The two last imports of rough sold at Ils. ; the demand for Spirits dull. TEA.—There is nothing doing in the Market. The declaration expected is not published, there being no Court. CASSIA LIGNEA.—This day's public sales 200 chests 84s. a 855., Market prices. COCOA.—British Plantation Cocoa continues in good demand on speculation for the home trade, at high prices parcels of good Trinidad soil at 48s. and 50s. COUNTRY (URN MARKEI'S DURING "IHE WEEK Wheat. S. to S. Barley. I Oats. Beans. Per Quarter. Boston --- S. to S. s. to s. 8. to s. 35 Gainsborough Grantham 57 rinisby sb Horncastle 55 Lincoln 58 Spilsby 5B St am ford.—... 53 54 25 19 37 20 37 44 18 25 tdB 32 17 24 30 35 16 20 39 40 18 21 30 34 18 22 30 39 21 23 36 45 18 25 36 39 20 40 30 34 35 37 34 Z 6 37 C 4 32 41 NORWICH. July 7. Wheat (per qr.) 60s 665. 68s. I Beans (per qr.) 355. 40s. Barley 2Bs. 325. 345. Pease, M. 365. 40s. o.4ts CAN'FER BU RI, July 7. Wheat, white 58s. to 675. —s. to —it. 50s. to 635. —s. to —s. Barley, Malting —s. to —s. Grinding.. 245. to 30s. Oats Beans 335. to 38s. 38s. to 40s. Pease —s. to —5. Gre3 3.35. to 37e. MANCHESTER, July 7. Wheat, per 70ib. 9s. 9d. to Ws. 2,1. Red 9s. 63. to 9s. Sd. Barley, per 60Ib 5 6 6 0 Oats 3 6 3 8 Beans, per Imperial quarter Pease, White, per Imperial bushel • 5 0 5 6 Malt, per 6 Imperial bushels 43 0 49 0 Flour, per Sack of 2801 b. 49 0 53 0