The Sun. — London, England, 1832-08-28 00:00:00

4PIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Amid the uninteresting mass of mediocrity, both in sentiment and in style,—both in discus , - sions on th e c h arac t er o f p o liti c al parties and the tendency of political measures,—amid the eternal clash of controversy on questions long settled in this country,—amid the sickening recurrence of the same charges and the same an swers,—the same phrases and thr, same affecta tions, which have distinguished the Paris pe riodical press for some time past,—we are de lighted to find a little variety in the introduction of a name well known to European literature, — of a name connected with the chief triumphs of the French press,—of a name which, though identified with wayward and absurd politics, can never be indifferent to the literary and political world. We allude to M. de Chateaubriand, whose foibles and caprices we have often ex posed, but whose literary renown we never wished to depreciate. This eccentric and chivalrous friend of the Bourbons in adversity ; —this enemy of the Bourbons in power,— this odd compound of loyalty and disaffec tion,—who acted as Minister when M. Ma nuel was expelled from the Chamber of Deputies for saying that the " Restoration was viewed by France with repugnance ;" and who himself, a short time afterwards, joined the same party of Manuel—this leader of the " de fection," whose opposition contributed so pow erfully to the expulsion of Charles X., and who, as soon as he was expelled, attached himself to the fortunes of his infant grandson in exile— this sentimental and conceited,but able and warm hearted man, has caused a letter to he published in the journals in exculpation of his friend M. Berryer, the well-known advocate, now confined in prison at Nantes. M. de Chateaubriand himself, along with M. Hyde de Neuville, one of the members of the Martignac Cabinet, and the Duke of Fitajames, a distinguished Royalist, had been imprisoned during the " siege of Pa ris," after the insurrection in the beginning of June, on a charge of Forming a provisional Cabinet for the Regency under Henry the Fifth. The sole ground, it would now ap pear, on which these Noblemen were deprived of their liberty, was certain letters found on the person of M. Berryer, who had been arrested at Nantes towards the end of May or beginning of June, on a suspicion of corre sponding with the Duchess of Berri, then in La Vendee. M. Berryer is still in prison, though the parties above mentioned, who partook of his sentiments, and were accomplices of his crime, have been acquitted without a trial, and libe rated without requiring a recognizance of future good behaviour. Having got out of prison himself by the raising of " the siege of Paris," the first thing which M. de Chateaubriand did was to announce the extent of his politial con nection with M. Berryer, and to deny the charge of a common plot by which they were so unequally affected. The letter found upon M. I3erryer is said to have contained an as sent to the opinion of that celebrated advo cate, that this was not the time to commence an insurrection in favour of Henry V.,—that a civil war in La Vendee was to be deprecated,— that it could not at present succeed,—and that the Duchess of Berri, by hoisting the white flag, was about to make a useless sacrifice of the lives of her devoted partisans. This opinion is said t o have been common to the three Peers who were subsequently arrested at Paris, but how so good and so guarded a counsel should have exposed them to such persecution, has never yet been explained. Neither is it yet ex plained how M. Berryer,—who knows the law so well,—who must have so many powerful friends at the bar, —whose own eloquent voice must subsequently be heard in his defence, could, even under the most arbitrary Government, be confined for months without having against him something more serious than meeting with a proscribed female, to advise her to leave the kingdom. If this was all, M. Cassimir Perrier, when Prime Minister of France, com mitted the same offence in waiting upon the ex-Queen of Holland, the Duchess of Saint Leu, in her passage through Paris the year before If M. Berryer went to La Vendee merely to warn away the pretented Princess Regent of France, why are not his own correspondence, and the letters of his three noble friends in Paris, published as his justification ? We have no doubt that the distinguished C a rli s t s a lluded to had committed themselves farther than is allowed by AI. de Chateaubriand, though, perhaps, not to the extent of warranting their apprehension or de tention by any Government conscious of its own popularity, and strong in its own security. Since the above observations were written, we have re ceived by express the Paris papers of Sunday ; they do not bring any news. Their contents consist chiefly in extracts from the London pa pers of Portuguese intelligence, and remarks thereon. The Journal du Commerce says, that the proposition of new laws relative to the system of levying custom-house duties is now undergoing consideration at the Board of Trade. A tariff for Algiers and other French possessions on the African coast, is said likewise to be under con sideration. Letters from Ancona of the 15th state, that it was currently reported there, that the French corps in occupation of the place was to give it up in a few days, and return to France. The Messager des Chambres gives an account of a pretended mission of the Duke de Blacas to La Vendee, the object of which was to remonstrate on the part of Charles X. with the Duchess de Berri against the claims to the throne of France set up by her on behalf of her son. According to this story, neither Charles X. nor the Duke d'Angouleme has wholly given up the hope of being recalled to France. M. de Schonen, a Deputy of the juste milieu, has lately experienced some ill-treatment at Moulins, through which place he was passing in the dili gence on his way to his country seat. A crowd of persons not friendly to the political principles of the worthy deputy collected round the dili gence while changing horses, and not only hissed him, but handled him very roughly.— Times. Our contemporary of the Standard very gravely observes, " Of the certain reward of real services to the people, the late splendid re ception of Mr. Matthias Attwood, at White haven, and the no less splendid compliments paid to Mr. Sadler, furnish abundant proofs ; and though few or itone have such claims upon po pular gratitude as these distinguished gentlemen, there is no instance in which a similar feeling to that exhibited at Whitehaven and at Hudders field has not manifested itself, where anything like similar occasion has arisen to call it forth. IVe have again and again told the Tories, that as the canaille are the natural enemies of the Aristocracy and public order, so the people are the natural auxiliaries of both." In enlarging upon his claims to the suffrages of the people of Whitehaven, we suppose Mr. Mat thias Attwood did not forget to remind them that he opposed the Reform Bill, be cause it would throw the representation into the hands of the middle classes, and that the talents and energy of the middle classes would make them so much more than a match for the indolent aristocracy, that the latter would be deprived of all their influence. He will remind them that he thought the aristocracy of this country required for their protection the exclu sion of all men from power who would labour assiduously to make themselves acquainted with public affairs. But leaving Mr. Matt. Attwood for a moment ) we find from our contemporary that " the people of England are Christian and loyal in heart, and that they will therefore in stinctively adhere to a Tory party, if that party do not rrpei them with insult and violence, or by ;prong." Then the Reform Bill, which en ables the people to return Mr. Nlatthias Attwood and Mr. Sadler, who are such prodigious fa vourites at Whitehaven and Huddersfield, has been most unwarrantably opposed by our con temporary. All that the Tories have to do is not to repel Mc people with insult and violence, or by Wrong ; which means, we suppose, that they ought not to cut them down by the soldiery during the time of canvassing. The most strenuous advocate of the necessity for bleeding the people occasionally—for taking means to keep them quiet, to use the expression of the Great Captain of the age—will allow that the return of Mr. Irving into Clithero with Parson Magistrates and Cavalry, to make an on slaught on a crowd not prepared for any out rage, was an injudicious election manoeuvre. Then if the Tories, by merely not being rude, and violent, and repulsive, on the eve of an elec tion can obtain the favour of the people, they ought to praise the Reform Bill. What more would they have than the favour of the people on such easy conditions ? But our contemporary is most incomprehensible. We thought the Scrip ture maxim, to judge of the tree by its fruits, was a good and praiseworthy maxim. But in the very same breath that he tells us that a majority oft he electors in most places will return Tories, he tells us that the Bill is mischievous. "We contend (he says) that the Reform Bill was mischievous, and we trust that a majority of the electors in most places will show that they agree with us in opinion, by rejecting at least all the Members of the Cabinet with which it originated, and the Members of the House who gave it their active support." What ! the majority fly in the faces of the men who gave them the franchise and tell them we are brutes made to be trodden on, and we will punish you for thinking better of us than we deserve, by giving our votes to your opponents ! Does our contemporary mean to ex hibit the very singular candour of terming the Re form Bill mischievous, because a majority of the electors will return Tories ? For what more would he have than a majority of the electors for Tories ? But now does our contemporary reconcile his hopes of the return of Mr. M. Attwood and Mr. Sadler for Huddersfield with his grounds of opposition to Lord Althorp ? " As for his return for Northamptonshire, or any other agri cultural district, we trust that the farmers will remember that he and his colleagues are pledged to the abolition of the Corn Laws, and that while they gave the elective franchise into the hands of the rabble of towns, the portion of the community most ho.tile to the agricultural interest, they did their utmost to defeat the mo tion of the Marquis of Chandos, which ex tended the right of voting to farmers in every point infinitely above the three-and-tenpenny nrotegh of the Ministers." We suppose, then, Mr. Matthias Attwood and Mr. Sadler are to make a merit with the people of Whitehaven and Huddersfield that they will oppose all at tempts to modify the Corn Laws. But we ob serve that the sins of Ministers are, that they gave the suffrage into the hands of the rabble of great towns. But Whitehaven and Hudders field are not small towns, and each have a tolera ble proportion of rabble. Indeed, it is not long since an agent of Lord Lonsdale led on the rabble of Whitehaven to a furious attack of the Reformers, dining at one of the principal inns. Do the rabble become people, because Lord Lonsdale has the power over the mob ? We leave it to our contemporary to reconcile all these contradictions the best way he can. In the mean time we may observe, that if we take the following address from Lord Burghersh—who,as a practised diplomatist, no doubt bestowed due consideration on it—as a model of what the Tories deem proper condescension towards the people, the outlay of civility forced on them by the Reform Bill will not be very burdensome TO THE INDEPENDENT ELECTORS OE THE BOROUGH 01 LYME REGIS AND CIIARMOUTtI. " Gentlemen,—After the very kind and flattering man ner in which I have been received by you upon my can vass, I cannot take my leave without expressing my warmest thanks for the promises of support I have so ge ,:erally met with, and which enable me with confidence to anticipate the honour of being returned to the next Parlia ment as your representative. " The connection of my family with Lyme, (luring a period of nearly one hundred years, renders the desire of representing you the greatest object of my ambition, and I (rust, that under the new system of representation which has been established by the Legislature, that connection will not be allowed to cease. " I believe I may truly say that, during the period above mentioned, no act of my family towards Lyme or ts inhabitants has had any other object but to secure, to the best of our ability, advantages to the town and the good individuals belonging to it. If you do me the honour of returning me as your re presentative to Parliament, I shall be found the anxious supporter of every measure which may conduce to the well•being and prosperity of your town and of Charmouth ; sod by the fearless and conscientious discharge of my duties as a Member of the Legislature, I shall hope to obtain your confidence and esteem. " In the expectation of being able, in a very short time, again to pay my re.pects to you in pt , r9on, " I beg to remain your obliged and faithful servant, " Lyme Regis, Aug. 4, 1832. " BURGHERSIL" His Lordship does not even condescend to tell the people of Lyme Regis what his views and opinions are on any subject. He tells them, in so many words, " to talk to you about the affairs of the nation would be a waste of words ; all your thoughts are about yourselves. You know that I and my ancestors, for one hun dred years, have crammed you ; and if you con tinue to return me, you may count upon a con tinuation of my favours to yourselves and your town." Now really Lord Burghersh could not have treated the Lazzaroni of Naples more cava.: lierly than he has here treated the inhabitants of Lyme Regis. If this be the general fashion of Tory addresses, the people of Lyme Regis have no particular ground of quarrel with his Lord ship ; but if he has singled them out as deserv ing of peculiar contempt, the question may be altered. For ourselves, having no knowledge of the place, we cannot say how far the people are deserving of the treatment they have received from his Lordship. He says he has been re 7 ceived in a kind and flattering manner. If that be true, it only shows that some people are like spaniels—the more they are beat, the better they behave.—Morning Chronicle.! Our contemporary of the Globe, whose offi cious subserviency to power sometimes has the effect of unintentional malice towards his patrons, • forgetting the discipline which we were com pelled to administer on a former occasion, fa vours us very often, of late, with a notice more particular than polite. If the indulgence in petty splenetic effusions against those whose taste and moral sense do not allow them to prostrate themselves before the idols who receive the in cense of his evening adoration affords any relief to his mind, we wish him " all the health and pastime in the world," as Mr. Shandy used to say, and have not the least desire to disturb him in that Congenial recreation ; but, when he reads us a lecture on " independence," we feel disposed, for treating us with so good a joke, to reward him with a little wholesome advice. We begin by telling him that it is a foolish thing to charge us with not being the subservient tool of a party whose livery we have never professed to wear. In the next place we tell him that independent counsel, if followed, is better than flattery. Wholesome advice, though unpleasant, may save, where the glazing words of the flatterer lead to destruction. We write for the public, not for any faction : nevertheless, as the 'Whigs professed liberal principles—and so do we—it was our de sire to assist them to carry those principles into effect ; but, whenever we found them de serting or compromising their principles, we cautioned them when their flatterers crouched to them, and confirmed the course of error which a friend would have endeavoured to prevent them from pursuing. Our motto is, Nullius addictus jurare in verba nzagistri. When the Duke of Wellington was at the acme of his power we cautioned him against the dangerous course which he adopted in endeavouring to destroy or enslave the Press by State prosecutions, and to assimilate as much as possible the civil go vernment of this country to that sort of guard house discipline which is necessary for the camp. While we were serving the public, at that time, by taking an independent review of the principles and practice of the Duke's Go vernment, our Contemporary of the Globe was the humble slave of the domineering anti-refor mer, as he is now the obsequious organ of the reforming Whig Ministry. That friendship is always to be suspected of interested motives which only waits upon a man's or a party's prosperity. The friendship that only livesin the sunshine of its friends is very like that pious zeal which only waits upon Religion when site walks abroad " in golden slippers"—it is somewhat hypocritical. The difference between our conduct and that of the sycophants of the Whigs is, that we stood up for the principles which the Whigs pro fessed—they for the power which the Whigs enjoy. We supported them when in adverse circumstances—they deserted the falling fortunes of their enemies, to gather some of the spoils of that victory which they did all that lay in their power to prevent. Nor are we advisers of that description who first concur in a design until it happens to be unfortunate, and then condemn it. We deprecated from the commencement the several errors in both foreign and domestic po hey which the Whigs have committed, just as plainly as we do now, when the great mass of the public see and acknowledge the injurious consequences of measures which we predicted would lead to evil. The wisest of men has said that " the wounds of a friend have a saving power, but the kisses of an enemy are deceit ful." Certainly our advice to the Govern ment on various occasions, however it might have wounded the vanity of those who were taught by their flatterers to believe themselves perfect Statesmen, was given with the most friendly intention of rendering both them and the country service. But, whenever we found the policy of the Whigs and the interests of the country at variance, we could not hesitate as to which cause to prefer. If we do plead guilty, as we fear we must, to not being the slavish ad mirers of the Whigs, we cannot be accused of paying our court to the Tories. The great prin ciples of Reform (though we early objected to the machinery of the Bill) found in us no wa vering—no laggard support. Whether it was effective we leave the public to determine. Our contemporary speaks of a system of shooting between wind and water. This is a metaphori cal expression taken from seamanship, and, if it means any thing, means the most effective mode of shooting to sink the vessel of an enemy ; but the objects we aim at are not the colours of any party, but the vices and errors of misgovern ment. We confess we would rather hit them " between wind and water" than merely damage the rigging. As to " operating upon the world of Noodledum," we suspect that our contem porary, from his recorded praises of the labours of such statesmen as Lord Palmerston, the pa tron of Lord Heytesbury, Sir Charles Ba- , got, et id genus omne—his admiration of Mr. Poulett Thomson's talents, and others of that class, is better acquainted with the inhabitants of the world of Noodledum thari we are. We have had something to do with them, no doubt, when they have pretended to the wisdom of statesmen ; but it has been more in the way of reproof than admiration. With regard to Ire land and the Marquis of Anglesey, we have only to observe that his Lordship is wholly incompe tent to the civil government of that or any other country. We have said that personally, and as a soldier who has served with honour, he has our respect ; but as a statesman he will never add the civic wreath to his martial laurels. It is not a Chief Governor hardy enough to run his head against stone walls, or loquacious enough to be perpetually engaged in some foolish " pa laver," that is wanted in Ireland ; it is a man of thought, of moral energy, of political knowledge and civil wisdom ; one who, instead of exciting the animosity or provoking another sensation among contending parties, would enforce respect, and obtain affection, not less by the qualities of his mind than by those of the 'heart. We do not question the goodness of Lord An- glesey's intentions : it is his discretion, his knowledge, his capacity, we dispute. To sus pend the Habeas Corpus Act at any man's dis cretion is bad enough ; but, if suspended at his, who could answer for the consequences.— Morning Herald. For thirty years the Whigs have been hourly assertin g that they could govern this country better than their rivals. They have now been in office for something less than two years, with full powers to carry all their measures, and we take the liberty of asking what have been the results ? Their professions were of course mag nificent in the extreme. They promised us peace and non-interference ; financial retrench ment ; and such a Parliamentary Reform as would relieve the State from abuses, satisfy all reasonable men, and yet be essentially conserva tive of whatever was really valuable in our ancient institutions. We were to have a golden age of satisfaction and prosperity at home, and of glory and influence unparalleled abroad. All our dif ficulties were produced by the mismanagement of Government, anti would instantly yield, at least to a considerable extent, and as an earnest of better things hereafter, to a more judicious system. Never was pretension carried to more exorbitant lengths than by this party, and never perhaps was public disappointment more bitter or more calamitous. The Tories left them the government of the country in what may be called a state of absolute prosperity compared with its present dilapidated condition. A little topical irritation indeed existed, the natural result of the sympathy, it may be the morbid sympathy, of a great and free people with the excitement of the recent French Revolution ; but this could not .fail to be merely temporary, when the great interests of the country were in a safe and improving condition. A heavy pressure had been sustained by the adoption of a metallic standard as the basis of our currency, and by the subjection of several branches of the national industry to a modified foreign competition ; but public confidence being unimpaired, and the real resources of the country being untouched, the various interests were fast accommodating themselves to the new system, and rising above the difficulties by which they were surrounded. The chief dangers incident to these measures, arose from the extensive changes they produced, and the embarrassment which multitudes could not but feel in adjusting their operations to an altered standard ; but those dangers might be expected to cease when the transition had been perfectly accomplished. At all events, whatever opinions may be entertained as to the abstract policy of those measures, the country under a Conservative Government was more than able to overcome the permanent or temporary difficul ties which they induced, and had in fact sur mounted them, or very nearly so, when the Whigs came into office. In spite of all the disasters we had encountered, the country was essentially prosperous, and full of hope and energy, up to the moment, the fatal moment, in which its destinies were confided to Earl Grey and his colleagues. The last acts of the Duke of Wellington's Ministry diminished expendi ture and repealed taxes, and yet so elastic were the springs of industry, and so buoyant was public confidence, that the revenue instantly flowed up to its former level, and left a surplus of two or three millions in the National Exche quer ! Such was the proud condition of the country when au unparalleled coalition of par ties threw the Ministry into a minority in a new Parliament, and induced them, from a too punc tilious sense of honour, to retire from the re sponsibilities of government. The melancholy sequel is well known. The Whigs came into power, and all the national interests, without a solitary exception, have since been in a constant course of deterioration, and that, too, from causes clearly referable to the measures of the Administration.—Morning Post. I'OLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Mr. Barker, the pawnbroker, was summoned for hav ing refused to restore to Mr. Huekstable a pair of silver spectacles, of which the litter had been robbed, and which had been pledged at the house of the former. Mr. NOBLER, said, that the law was against the pawn broker, but the equity was for him ; and Alderman FAKEBROTHER advised the complainant to divide the expense with Mr. Barker, which he at once acceded to. BOTV-STREET. THE FACULTY AND THE POLICE OUTWITTED.-Yes terday Mr. Thomas, superintendent of the F division of police, attended before Mr. HALLS, the sitting Magis trate, for the purpose of accounting for the non-appearance of a man whose name was entered on the official list of charges to be heard, as being accused of a violent assault, and endeavouring to rtscue a person, charged with felony, from the custody of a police constable. The statement of Mr. Thomas created great merriment in the office. It was, that a tall powerful young man, who gave his name Thomas Taylor, and stated that he lodged at No. 7, Duke-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, was brought into the station-house, in Covent-garden, on the charge above described. He was locked up in one of the rooms below, in the usual manner, but had not been there many minutes before dreadful groans and moanings were heard, and an alarm was given by the other inmates of the cell that the new corner was attacked with cholera nimbus. Mr. Thomas ordered him instantly to be brought up stairs, and sent for two surgeons, who attended in a very few minutes. The prisoner seemed to be in the extreme of agony, and as he sat on the floor, which he preferred to an easy chair which was offered to him, his limbs appeared to become contracted; he complained very much of cramps, and reached violently, but nothing was ejected from the stomach. Hot brandy and water, with an infusion of laudanum, was administered very libe rally, and the man called out every minute or so for a fresh supply, telling his surrounding attendants that he thought it did him good, and was the only thing that would save his life, although the agony that he was apparently en during did not seem at all to decrease, The surgeons, in fact, were acting upon the belief that he was labouring under an attack of most " decided" malignant cholera. At length a surgeon proposed to bleed him, this operation was submitted to by the prisoner, and a pint and a half of blood taken from his arm. He then seemed more composed and free from pain, but complained of being faint, and re quested that he might be taken into the yard for the be nefit of the air. He was taken into the yard, and placed in a chair, and said that he was much refreshed, but that his head felt cold. At this moment there was only one gentleman in immediate attendance upon him, th e others being in the supei intendant's room, and he went into the home to get his hat for him, hut he had scarcely turned his back upon his patient, when the latter jumped from his chair, bounded upon the high wall at the back of the station-house with a deer-like spring, ran along it with the speed and confidence of a tom-cat long experienced in nocturnal excursions of a similarly hazatd- Ml 3 kind, until lie got into Covent-garden church-yard, at the end of which, at the back of Mr. Oiliey's celebrated Burton Ale House, he contrived to seramb!e over an iron gate at least ten feet high, and escaped altogether. All search for him was vain. His address was found to be fictitious. His person was well known to the policemen on duty at the station-house at the time he was taken there, and it has since been ascertained that he was " wanted" for offences of a much graver kind than that with which he was charged at the station-house. Mt. HALLS made no observation upon the statement. NOTHING.—A young gentleman, residing in Euston square, who, we understand, is a student at law, was charged by a young man, named Langhain, who resides at No. 3, Middle-row, High Holborn, with committing a violent and unprovoked assault upon him on Saturday night. in Chancery-lane. Langham said that he was going down Chancery-lane between twelve and one o'clock on Saturday night, and he saw the defendant and a number of other young men " larking" with every one who passed them. They kept possession of the footway pavement, and " shoved" every one who came by into the carriage way. One of the party attacked a female, and he (Langharn) told the gen tleman that he was a " blackguard," when the defendant came up to him, and, with a cane, about an inch and a half in diameter, struck him on the temple, and he fell on lhe ground stunned. Witness exhibited his forehead to Mr. Halls, the Magistrate, who said that he appeared to have suffered severely. Mr. HALLS asked the defendant what he was ? De fendant—l am, Sir—that is, I may say, I am " Nothing" —(Laughter)—but, I assure you, I was struck first. He interfered, and I tapped him slightly on the face, and I said to him, " My good fellow, don't be angry," an d h e tr i e d to strike me with his fist, when I knocked him down with say stick. Mr. HaLts—Oh, you tapped him on the face ; then I recommend you to write in your note-book, that tapping a man on the face is an assault. As you are a law student, i t m ay be hereafter useful to you in your profession.— (Laughter.) Defendant—l have a witness who will prove I was struck first. A young gentleman, wearing spectacles, who was stated to be a barrister recently called to the bar, said he saw the transaction, and the first blow was given by the complainant. Mr. HALLS—Now, Sir, perhaps you will inform me what the defendant is? Witness —Why, Sir, I may say that he is—that is—he is nothing.—(Loud laughter.) The cane with which the blow was given was here banded to the magistrate. /1 \ Mr. H A L LS Do you call this " nothing.—(Laughter. Defendant—The man had no right to intei lete with me ; he did interfere, and 1 certainly knocked him down with the cane. Mr. HALLS—You must find bail to answer the charge at the sessions, or retire and make the man some compen sation. If you are " nothing," you can pay nothing—ex nihilo nihil fit; but, in this instance, it may be wise to bring something out of nothing.—(Laughter.) The de fendant satisfied the complainant by giving him two sovereigns, and was discharged. 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A respectable-locking roan, named William Smith, a corporal in the Royal Artillery, quartered at Dover, was brought up in custody and placed at the bar, charged with having absconded from the regiment, taking with him about three hundral pounds, the property of Capt. Ward, of the Artillery. The prisoner, a corporal in Captain Ward's company, had the greatest confidence placed in him, and was accus• tomed to pay the men. On the 20th instant he absconded from Dover ; every search was made for him, and it was discovered that he had gone to London by the mail, dressed in a new camlet cloak. Information was immediately s e nt to the Commissioners of Police, and he was traced to the Spread Eagle, in Grecechurch-street, where he had taken some coffee. It was strongly suspected that he had an intention to go to America ; and Mr. Lowry, the su perintendent of the B division of police, who chanced to know the prisoner by sight, went down to the London Docks on Sunday morning, about ten o'clock, when he found the Hannibal and the Joshua Bates ready to sail on the following day for New York ; and amongst the paesengers of the Joshua Bates he discovered the prisoner and took him into custody. On searching hint, be found 23 sovereigns, a new watch, and seals. He had also a sea-•chest full of clothes, bed and bedding, a stock of salt beef and biscuit, and other sea stores necessary for a voy age across the Atlantic, all of which he took out of the ship and had conveyed to the station-house. The prisoner admitted to Mr. Lowry that he had taken the money, but not to so great an amount as he was charged with. Since the prisoner absconded, it has been discovered that two cheeks on the Dover bank, which lie had presented and received the money for, were forgeries. Oue of the checks was for 501. and another for 401. Mr. Lowry said that he wished the prisoner to be remanded until Capt. Ward could be informed of the prisoner's appre hension. The prisoner was remanded. The prisoner has been upwards of 20 years in the Royal Artillery, and bore a character for honesty and integrity scarcely to be equalled, which caused the greatest confi dence to be placed in him. It A W HIDES, Per Stone. s. el. to s. d. Per Stone. s. d. to cd, Set Heifers& Sthers2 4 2 8 Ordinary 0 0 1 11i lillinga .« 110 2 0 Market Calf 6 0 each. WORSHIP-STREET. Thomas Fuller, of Phillips -street, Kingsland-road, who had been several times remanded on a charge of feloniously assaulting and wounding John and Mary Langford, his lodgers, with a hammer, was yesterday committed for trial. PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, &c. per 1121 b. Dawn Tallow ----. 455. Od. Yellow 50ap........................, 625. Od. Yellow Russia . 445. Od. M0tt1ed ....,....,.....,.....,. 70s. Od. White— 425. (Id. White.. 74s. Od. Soap Ditto 42s Od. Graves .—......---................... I4s. Od. Melted Stull' 355. Od. Good Graves , ss. Od. Ditto Rough 225. Od . UNION-HALL. Yesterday, William Cleaver, a young man of respect able appearance, was brought before Mr. MURRAY, on the alleged charge of stealing a watch and its appendages from William Aberdown, under the following rather sin gular circumstances. The complainant stated, that in the early part of life he and the prisoner were schoolfellows, and having met acci dentally a few days ago, they resumed their acquaintance. The prisoner, who lives in Uxbridge-street, Walworth, in vited him to come to his house, and after having had tea, they proceeded into town together, and, in the course of their rambles, called at several houses, at each of which they had refreshment, in the shape of brandy, rum, and gin and water, besides sundry potations of ale and beer to qualify the epirits. When they had taken what he (com plainant) considered quite enough, they re-crossed Black friars-bridge, and Mr. Cleaver having pressed him to pass the night at his house, as it was then getting late, lie ac cepted the invitation, and accordingly accompanied him home. When they reached the house in Uxbridge-street, the prisoner introduced him to his housekeeper, a " nice-looking young woman," and as there was only one bed and bedstead in the house he was invited to take share of the same, which he as readily accepted, the " housekeeper" having retired thither previously to the arrangement. When the gentlemen went up stair., the " housekeeper" was either asleep or pretended to be asleep, and the complainant, according to an invariable rule, commenced winding up his watch, and placed it in his trousers' fob-pocket. He and his old 'choo fellow then got into bed without disturbing the housekeeper, and complainant had not been long there before he fell asleep, but was awakened in the night by hearing one of his bed fell ,wa getting up. Having ascertained that it was his schoolfellow, who complained of !sickness, owing to the mix ture of liquors he had taken, the cause of his illness did not create any surprise at the time in the mind of complainant, who, on the other hand, felt some astonishment at being left so long alone with the housekeeper. Neither of these circumstances, however, would have made much impres sion on his memory, had it not bee❑ for the fact of miss ing his watch when be got up the next morning, when the circumstance of his schoolfellow getting out of bed in the night, and leaving him and his housekeeper there to gether, at once recurred to his mind, and induced him to suspect that it was a ruse, to get possession of his watch ; and that while alpient from the room he was engaged in concealing it. The complainant made some noise in the house about the loss of his watch ; but eventually called in a policeman, who ransacked the place from top to bottom, but found nothing to lead to a suspicion that it was concealed there. The prisoner said, that it was true he and the young man who had accused him of stealing his watch were at one time schoolfellows together, and on that account he had invited him home under the circumstances already stated. As to the charge on which he was brought there, he could declare that there was no foundation for it, as they were both very much intoxicated, and had taken liquor over the bars of several public-houses between Charing-cross and the eastern end of Fleet-street. They were, in fact, so drunk, that the one did not know what the other did, otherwise he (prisoner) should not have had the folly to invite his schoolfellow to lie three in a bed, and one of the three a female, for whom he had a great reg ird. The MAGISTRATE discharged the accused, observing that it w,is a case of mere suspicion, and that no jury would convict under such circumstances. In the case of the boy Sinclair, the following special report has been made :—" Covent-Garden Division, Aug. 24.—Special Report.—Police Constable James Higgins reports, that on the 20th instant, being at Camberwell fair, according to orders received, he took into custody Edward Sinclair and James Rickets, on a charge of attempting to pick the pockets of Monsieur Goffe.— The gentleman appeared before the Magistrate on the following day, and, on his evidence, together with that of Police Constable Tipper, 152, F. and Hig gins, 35, F. they were committed by Mr. Cham bers, the Sitting Magistrate at Union Hall, for one month each to Brixton. On the 23d instant, the parents of Sinclair appeared before the same Magistrate, and ap plied for his discharge, stating that the evidence given against their son was false, inasmuch as he never was in custody before. On such application from the said Sinclair, police-constable Higgins had notice to attend be fore Mr. Chambers this day, the 24th, to have the case properly investigated. He did attend, and the result was as follows :—The Magistrate had a perfect recollection of the case in question ; and remembered speaking to the prosecutor (who was a foreigner) in the French, who ex plained to the Magistrate that he distinctly felt the prisoner's hand in his (the prosecutor's) pocket, and that the police constable took him (Sinclair) into custody, wi h hie hand in his (the gentleman's) pocket. The Magistrate, after given them a full and impartial hearing, stated in the public office that he was perfectly satisfied with the police constable's conduct on this occasion, and gave him great credit for the manner in which he acted. The Magistrates also told him, that should his character be called in question, he would give Higgin's a letter to the Commissioners, stating his good conduct on the occasion. Signed, J. S. Thomas, superintendant." QUARTERLY RETURN OF RUNAWAY CONVICTS -A list from the police-office, Hobart Town, is now to be seen posed in all the police offices in London. It contains a description of all the convicts that have es caped, and the number does not amount to less than one hundred and sixty. In looking at this list two rather curious circumstances are observable. Of the whole num ber there are but two persons of the height of five feet ten. rig T ht h a e rn o l ib l e ie r a T t l e ie se a v v e e r r a a l ge co h n e v ig ic h t t s is feet four, m less. ,a, T Le h lo. e ov r se e s whosenve height does not exceed four feet i is y lo j o rNnio u gpi t hhi h i Nto : . y LE, eight; so that crime, in this case, seems to be more corn. DAVIS, a na tive is the passion thieves and convicts have for native of marking their persons. A description of one or two will k g s o e h nd t o .. 3 1 : 01 tphilavasecgeooftth‘Vi'hni \V.H., :eacnhi aa ß Pi . en l l- i i . ti , ss probert E lu .. , an anchor, i t p lit n i l , i l e i ll ' , i n e h o a a n r s t g , r " s ot n a a besides l r b u i zes crucifix, x e , n p j e d . irri o s ß t oa s l . nr . i on the back of his right hand ; on his breast the figure of a woman, with a heart and darts. THOMAS Atisx LI, a Ilussorah merchant, and native of Sreitc i, ilo d' I has got on the right arm—T, a rose, sun and 1 moon, and J. L., with a mermaid ; on the left arm he has a man, woman, ano ther woman, T. blarney, J. Eke, a woman again, an an chor, E. R., a sun, S. J., three hearts and four darts ! PRICE OF The price of Store Candles, in t Candles, per doz. 7s. Od. to Bs. Pd. CANDLES. COAL MAR Per Ton. s. d. A dai r's 18 0 Bcnshain Main ---. 17 6 Garestield l7 3 Hulywell ..--- 18 0 Kenton West 19 0 Ord's Itedhugh 17 0 Pitt's South Moor-- 17 3 Pontop Windsor 18 3 Shipcote 17 6 St. Lawrence Mail - 1.w.... 19 0 South 16 0 .._ 19 0 ro w 17 6 Willington ----- Ii) 3 Walls End Bell & Brown 19 3 Ditto Bell, Robson, & Co. 18 6 Ditto Bewicke and Co.— 20 3 Ditto Burraton 19 3 Wall, End Callerton 17 9 Wall: End Gosforth—.. 20 3 Walls End Gosforth Pa- tent 21 3 Walls End Heaton-- 19 9 Walls End Hotspur-- IS 9 Walls End Hilda 19 3 Ditto Killingworth --. 19 6 Walls End Newbiggen ~, 16 6 Walls End Newmaren..... 19 3 Ditto Northumberland.. 19 3 Ships arrived slug ,he retail shops, is as follows : . I Moulds, per 41ozen-9s. 6d. KET.-Aug. 27. Per Ton. s. d. Walls End Riddell's ..... 19 9 Ditto Perkins and Co 19 3 Walls End Walker...—. 19 6 Lambton's Primrose...—. 20 0 Walls End lietton ......... 21 0 Walls End Lambton 21 0 W. E. Russell's Hetton., 21 0 Ditto Russell's Lyon's... 19 3 Walls End stewart's...... 21 3 Walls End Cleveland..,. 17 9 Walls End G0rd0a........ 19 3 Norwood's Hett0n........ 18 0 Walls End Tees 21 3 Cowpen 211 0 Cul rn Denby 18 0 Graidola 20 0 Hartley 21 0 Llangennech Pemberton 20 U New Flockton, Milne, and C0...,......_.- 180 W. E. Preston Grange._ 18 6 Silkstone Field and C 0... 18 0 South Hetton Seam.-- 17 0 South Togston -- 17 0 Warde's 20 0 Greenwich 16 6 Pontop Trader 18 0 Tan ti el d Trader 18 6 last market-day, 82. On Sunday afternoon week, a glass bottle was picked up, on the sands, about three miles south of Flook burgh, by Mr. JOHN LAWRENCE. It is supposed to have been left by that day's tide, as it was found in the water mark. The bottle contained a small piece of paper on which was written, with lead pencil, the following words :—" I was drowned July 24th. T. Buitx." From the appearance of the writirg it seems to have been done in a very great hurry, as the year of our Lord was omitted, but from the new appearance of the cork, it does not seem to have been in the water more than two or three weeks. —Kendal Chronicle. SLOW DEATH.—Snakes eat lizards, and ge nerally gorge the head of the lizard and its fore feet first, in which case you see the tail and binder legs projecting out of the snake's mouth ; but it sometimes happens that the snake seizes the lizard by the tail ; when its head, with its bright eyes, will be seen peeping out of the destroyer's mouth, quite alive, and struggling bard, but in vain, to get away. It is well known how slow the serpent tribe swallow their food ; and as the lizard is very tenacious of life, its lower extremities are pretty well digested before the head and upper parts are dead, or nearly swallowed. —Loudon's Magazine of Natural History. THE OTTER TRAINED TO CATCH FISH. —We passed to my surprise a row of no less than nine or ten large and very beautiful otters, tethered with straw collars, and long strings, to bamboo stakes on the bink. Some were swimming about at the full extent of their strings, or lying half in and half out of the water; others were rolling themselves in the sun on the sand banks, ut tering a shrill whistling noise as if in play. I was told that most of the fishermen in this neighbourhood kept one or more of these animals, who were almost as tame as dogs, and of great use in fishing, sometimes driving the shoals into the nets, sometimes bringing out the larger fish with their teeth. I was much pleased and interested with the sight. It has always been a fancy of mine, that the poor creatures whom we waste and persecute to death for no cause, but the gratification of our cruelty, might, by reasonable treatment, be made the sources of abundant amusement and advantage to us. The simple Hindoo shows here a better taste and judgment than half the otter-hunting and badger-baiting gentry of England.--' Heber's Journal. MONMOUTH CAP.--The Presteign otter hounds visited Monmouth Cap on Monday, the 6th inst. The io followingnomv, andanon mo foundrnin a gtheyveryfine turned out dog o o t n ter t , hever Awhich, after an excellent hunt, was killed in gallant style. On the morning of the Sth inst. they turned out on the river Kinvy, and immediately came on the drag of an otter, o hich, after a hunt of three hours and a half, was killed. On Thursday, the 9th, in the Housby, a river with a fine gravel bottom fur trout fishing, the dogs killed a large otter. On Friday, the 10th, the pack were turned out on the river Doyne, and soon found and killed a dog otter proceeding a little further up, they put down a bitch otter, which, after a hunt of five hours, was killed in ad' utirable style. On Saturday, the sportsmen retired home with the pack, which is certainly proved to be one o f the best in the kingdom. On the 15th inst. these excellen t hounds were turned out on the river Arrow : th e y 80 (0 came on the drag of an otter, which they continued for three miles, and after a bunt of five hours, he was killed . The animal proved to be a remarkably fine dog otter, which weiglied22ll,s.--From the Hereford Times Correspondent. atii7sl,lP,o.a,r,l,iearinßenrot.osktr.seterte,etth,etil,aedyladofy of Joh n Wi l l ia mjori BIRTHS. Thomas Selwin, Esq., of a daughter. On the 24th inst. the Lady Garvagh, of a son. 1 hn On the 27th inst. at the Bridge.house, Southwark, Mrs. -° Newman of a daughter. On the 27th inst. the lady of Charles Lewis, Esq., of Berna rd street, Russell-square, of a son. _......," Ei t h i gn ii t i o. st fa . I;. .On the s t t t h h e e l e l o 2 :, MAR i l l On the ` 2 sth July, at Chichester, by RIED. the Rev. George L op e Fraser, Capt a i n F raser, R.N , of Ashling House, eldest sn"of the late Major-General Fraser, to Mary Elizabeth, young daughter of the late Charles ii. Fraser, Esq., of Brighton. „, a cc, At St. Paul' s , I s li ngton, S. P. Arnold, Esq., of Barossa ect to Sarah Ann, eldest daughter of B. Smith, Esq., Fro' Cottage, Shacklewell. On the 125th inst. at Bath, John Baruh Lousada, Esq., tn,: r ar , 6 s : phena Jael, eldest daughter of Simon Barrow, Esq., of down-grove. , of Bar... LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. The highest price of Bread in the Metropolis is .914 d. fot the 4:b. Loaf. There arc others who sell from !•d. to I%ci. below that price. PRICES OF HOPS.—Aug. 27. Kent Pockets----.. 41 153. 5/. 53. to 5!. 123. SpFsex Ditto 41 10:. 5/. Os. to 5!. 53. ifesrx Ditto 41. 123. 51. o.i. to 5/. Bs. Fateliain Ditto, Fine 7l. Os, 01. 03. to 01 Os. Seconds 01. Os. 51. Os to 71 Os. 41. 4s. 4/. 103 to 51. Os. 4/. Os. 41. Ss. to 41. 12s. Os 01. Os. to 01. Os. Kent .1.3agl Sussex Ditto Essex Ditto., Old Duty laid at 150,000/. PRICE OF OIL. Rape Oil, brown Linseed 0i1,...,.,, 24 0 Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand 11 0 • Rape Cake, per ton WIHTECH A FEL HAY Al A HKET.—Aug. 25 flay —.—. 453. Od. to 81s. Od. I (lover.— 70s Od. to ills. Od. Straw 31s. Od. to 4t, Od. • _ PRICE OF POTATOES.—Aug. 17. W. 10s. to SI. ss. per tort. PRICES 01. LEATHER. Per lb. d. to d. 1 Per lb. d. to El. Butts, English .......,....... 15 21 1 English Horse Hides,. 12 14 Ditto, Foreign-- 14 18 i Spitnish Ditto ................. 14 16 Dressing Hides--...... 12 14 j Per dozen. . Ditto Ditto, light Ctop Hides, 1ight,,,,.,. 131 Ditto 10 to 451 b. 13( 15 Ditto i 6 18 Calf Skins., 86 to 411 b. 15 19 Ditto 50 to 701 b. 21 23 Ditto 70 to 801 b. 18 20 Small Seals, Greenland 16 17i Urge ditto l2 13 SHEEP SKINS. Short Wool Od. to Os. Od. f Lambs Is. Gd. to 2s. tid. Shearlings—......ls.od. to Is. Bd. PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of 81b. Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Melters)—........—Qs, 6d. DIED On the 26th inst. in the Albany, Sir Walter Stirling, Fas Onkine th,e N.B. 2 , lth inst. at Holme Pierrepont, Anne Countess 13°1P ager Manvers, in the 76th year of her age. On the ‘26th inst. in the I Ith year of his age, N . % youngest son of John Dickinson, Esq., of Bedford-row, an d ' 43 Mills, Herts. A• 5 2 ;1 On the 2.6 th inst. at Bayswater, Adam Clarke, LL.D., /4 of fleydon-hall, near Pinner, Middlesex, of cholera, in hi s year. te 93lll' On the 19th inst. at Callington, in his 70th year, Licuni c ryt Colonel Horndon, late Major of the Royal Horse Ar ti many years one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, an d D uly Lieutenant for the county of Cornwall. of S j. On the 27th inst. aged 14, Margaret, eldest daughter ward Gibbs, Esq., of New Dorset-place, ---- #lO P R INTED AND I'UBLISIIEI) BY M U RDO YOU N v, Ai' 1 - SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, LONDON.