The Sun. — London, England, 1832-12-27 00:00:00

protection. No, for a real protection we might seek elsewhere, We find that in America the ballot gives no secrecy. If we wished that electors should not suffer for their votes, the power of voting ought not to have been extended beyond those who are independent of all others for. their subsistence. The tenantry-at-win franchise was a revival of the nomination borough system in a more plausible form. We foretold it from the first. What is it that has thrown out Western for Essex, and brought in such a political charlatan as Baring, but the inti midation of tenants? We have a letter on that subject also. Deeply will Essex deplore the miserable change—the rejection of one of the gentlemen in England most eminent for consis tency, integrity, and honour, and the substitu tion of Mr. Alexander Baring. Notwithstand ing what we have said of the ballot, however. and believing that it offers no guardianship tc, bona fide free agency, while, in the instance 01 corrupt constituents, it must lead to much sys tematic and unpunished falsehood, we are in clined to dread that the people, exasperated by the tyranny of the rich, may demand it energe tically, and force the Legislature to adopt it. if it be the desire of the' nation, the ballot, it is manifest, must come ; nor can those who con - template nothing hut the grievous persecutions of the tenants-at-will, and at short leases, under the present system, be greatly blamed for grasping at the most prompt and plausible, without considering whether it be the mos effectual, expedient for relief. Make canvassing impossible, and there is some protection in the ballot. Hermetically seal the lips of each elector, so that the balloting urn alone shall be privy ti , his vote, and the ballot may prove to him a pro tection—it being at the same time understood, that wife, children, and neighbours (all equally in the secret) shall remain as discreet and silent as himself. The chief, though not the sole. desideratum is undoubtedly to insure the inde pendence of the constituent body ; and if such can be certainly predicated as the result of the ballot, every objection to that experiment, on other grounds, becomes of secondary conse quence. We may not feel it our duty, therefore, to oppose such a measure, knowing the abuses by which the call for it has been provoked ; but we make no hesitation whatever to record our fears of its ultimate and entire failure. The second head of our correspondent's communica tion, which glances at the necessity of henceforth making the qualification of Members of Parlia ment something better than a farce, as it now is, e have not time at present to discuss. It evi dently deserves to be seriously and favourably received.— Times. PARLIAMENTARY QUALIFICATION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—A loud outcry has been raised respecting the ballot. I have myself no great objection to that metsure, though I am very certain that the concession would only givi rise to new demands on the part of the Destructive!, who ;n so many places have put forward their nominees at the present election. The ballot will not prevent landlords and others from exercising undue influence by extorting a promise before the vote is given, and can only prove effi cacious where the voter secretly makes up his mind to he guilty of an untruth in promising what he does not in tend to do. A few scoundrels might escape the influence in this way, but the man of integrity would not. There is, however, a species of influence far more to be dreaded, and against which no ballot could afford any protection, and that species of influence is and always will be exer cised to a great extent by the desperate and unprincipled over the lower and less informed class of voters by tht circulation of sophisms and the most barefaced falsehoods, in order to dupe them into giving their votes for the Ra dical champion. Whether, therefore, the ballot be con ceded or not, it is essential, at all events, that those who have property to lose should be protected against the intro duction into the House of Commons of the pauper And all promising nominees of the Destructives, by a new and e ctual registration of the Parliamentary qualification, which is now merely colourable. This might be easily accomplished so as to prevent fraud or evasion, and at the same time the qualification might be safely extended funded and other property, to a certain rank in the army or navy, to high public situations, and whatever els.- affords good presumptive evidence of substantiality and trustworthiness, which is the great object of the quail -cation. The seat, of course, should be vacant the mo ment the qualification passes into other hands, unless an equivalent be substituted, and all secret transactions re specting it of which the Registrar is unapprised should be void. lam induced to press this topic on the public notice, because persons have lately presented themselves as candidates who are bankrupt in character and in circum stances, and to whom even the most clamorous in their support would hesitate to lend a 10/. note. The account in a recent number of your paper of the application made by some hackney-coachmen at a police-office, in conse quence of the non-payment of their demand for conveying voters to the poll, deserves the serious attention of all those who are ignorant of the sort of substantiality that belongs to a Radical candidate. In urging the absolute necessity of placing the Parliamentary qualification on such a footing as effectually to exclude King's Bench ad venturers from a trust that involves the dearest interests of a mighty empire, and the security of all the property it contains, I indulge the hope that I shall not have written in vain, and that every respectable Member of the new Parliament will direct his earliest thoughts to this subject, which is of paramount importance. Loudon, Dec. 20. AN ENGLISHMAN. It has been too readily taken for granted, that in the county elections, the tenants at will are more subservient to their landlords than tenants by lease. In the Times of yesterday, for in stance, appears the following passage : Whatever difference of opinion may exist among Con servatives with regard to the general working of the Re form Bill, sure we are that there is one portion of it to which they cannot reasonably make the shadow of objec tion—we mean the clause of the Mirquis of Chandos, for restoring the old borough system in the shape of a vassal franchise. Fatally has that invention of the Tory Mar quis worked, and intolerable are the fruits of it to the country. The Irish 40s. freeholders were exclaimed against because of their supposed dependence, upon their landlords—but what was that dependence? A mere ac cident, or oversight, was the occasion of it. In its nature, the Irish 40s. freehold war a valid and respectable founda tion for a vote, inasmuch a at least one life, with a period of 21 or 31 years, was the usual term secured by his lease to the tenant. The evil habit of letting rent lie in arrear Was the only real ground of the Irish landlord's power over his tenantry, and it was the tenant's own fault. But Ibinv is it amongst ourselves under this abominable provi eion,ingrafted on the first Reform Bill by Lord Chandos, and most injudiciously (to say no worse of it) interwoven, with the frame of the second Bill by Ministers themselves, when subject to no visible compulsion ? The tenantcy-at will franchise has so contrived matters that the voter's dependence on his landlord is absolute, and neither pro• duced nor increased by poverty; so far from it, that the mot piosperons and solvent tenant, whose farm is of the greaest size and value, has had the largest sums expended on it, and Whose rent has been paid up to the latest hour of all others, in proportion to his prospe rity and by reason of it—he must of necessity be, above All others, most at the mercy of a despotic land lord, the most perfect and abject slave ! It is, we repeat, most monstrous and intolerable, that a class of Englishmen, in all other respects so mu c h to be esteemed and looked up te--roen who must have acquired knowledge and habits of reflection —men, moreover, who must have been used to a course of independent action, which it was not the interest, and therefore not the prac tice, of their lofty landlords to control --it is monstrous' that a new badge of servitude should have been affixed to the foreheads of men , like these, and thus a real degrada tion inflicted on , a vast body of the middle classes of England. It would,. be infinitely less galling and cala mitous to have the poor, uneducated, and ignorant 'lrish or English forty-shilling freeholders made subject by cir cumstances to the will of those above them, b_cause they might in that case be guided by judgments superior to their own; but to reduce high intelligence and capacity to a state of bondage, was a strain at once of cunning and remorseless cruelty, for which we trust that the name of him who advised it will go down to after ages unforgotten, Nor was the hypocrisy of the act less odious than its tyranny. It was recommended by Lord Chandos as a benefit, ft rsootb, to ' a respectable•class , of farmers'—as a boon to those who nominally received the franchise, instead of a grievous impost to be levied upon them by those who would infallibly direct its exercise ! And after what fashion has it worked ? Mr. Western was told, when he voted for the clause, that be would pay, for it one day or other ; and he now admits it as one of the chief causes of his defeat by Baring." The Scotch are more decided Reformers than the English, as is proved by the utter exclusion of Tories or Corruptionists from all the Bo roughs. But in Scotland there will be, not withstanding, Tory Representatives from some of the counties, in defiance of popular opinion, by intimidating the tenantry. Intimidation has, in fact, been more offensively practised in Scot land than in England. But in Scotland there are no tenants at will. Every tenant holds his lands by lease. In the passage we quoted yes terday from the Scotsman, regarding the Perth shire Election, it is stated " that Lord has sent orders to all his tenants to meet on the polling-day with the tenants of Kippenross, and to march to Doune in cavalry order, and to vote for Sir George only. is of opinion, that when the tacks (leases) are out, Lord will wreak his vengeance on those who do not obey him. It is thus that the independent yeomen of Perthshire are marched in gangs, under their overseers, like slaves going to a market, to be disposed of at the will and pleasure of their mas ters." In the Aberdeen Herald of Saturday, received yesterday, it is said " it will be seen that the Banffshire election has been carried by the same disgraceful system of intimidation which has been every day more and more extensively adopted in this county (Aberdeen) and in that of Kincardine. We shall next week have much to say on this infamous practice." In the report of the Banffshire election, it is stated— " That the Sheriff closed the poll at 4 o'clock on Wed nesday, and the number of voters for each of the candidates wid riot he announced until Friday. It is, however, cer tain that Colonel Gordon has lost the election, and the Colonel does not appear at all surprised at the result. In deed, there could be little doubt of it, from the manner in which the voters were dragged to the poll by the influ ence of his opponent's agents and friends, which has been most shamefully abused, and calls loudly for the adoption of the vote by ballot The circumstances attending this erection, and the conduct of the Tory Lairds in bringing their tenantry to the poll, we believe, have not a parallel in that of any other election on this ride the Tweed. Every day we bear of numerous in stances in which the electors have been threatened, either directly or indirectly, by their landlords or factors, unless they gave their vote to Pitfour ; and many of the tenants themselves have openly declared, that, unless they did so, they would be turned out of their farms." We could fill the paper with such instances ; but it is unnecessary. The tenant is the slave of his landlord, whether he hold his possession by lease or at will. In fact, there are times when a tenantry by will are more independent than a tenantry by lease. When the rent of land was rising, the tenant at will was more dependent on his landlord than if he had held by lease. But ever since the hill of prices, the tenant at will has had the best of it. By most of the local customs of England, the tenant at will is entitled to receive from his successor, whether landlord or tenant, a variety of compensations for outlays on the land ; and no landlord who is not a fool, will incur this loss without some strong reason. The land of Scotland has never yet fallen to its proper level, and the tenantry are understood to be, in various ways, in the power of their landlords. On the expiration of their lease, they have no compensation of any sort from suc cessors. They remove from the houses and pasture lands at Whitsunday (Whitsuntide) and from the arable lands on the separation of the crop from the ground. The English tenant at will, of late years, has had comparative security from his landlord, with the choice of cutting the connec tion when he himself chose. The Globe of last night, in commenting on the result of the Ber wickshire election, has attributed it to other causes than the real ones : " The Scotch landlords (says our contemporary) have long let their lands to the best tenants they could find, at the highest prices, never supposing that they should re quire the exercise of political influence over the oc cupiers ; and, in fact, they were not so unreasonable as to imagine that they bad any right to call upon those who benefited the owner of the soil as much as themselves by its cultivation, for the sacrifice of their con sciences, because they happened to give a value to the soil by their skill and industry, and not to be the tenants] of the Crown, or the hereditary owners of the fee. In proof of the small degree of influence which the landlords of Scotland now have over their tenantry in their choice of representatives, it may be men tioned, that whilst the valued rental of property in Berwickshire belonging to the friends of Sir A. Maitland was 78,0001., that of those who voted for the successful candidate, Mr. Marjoribanks, was only 7,0001. Let the English tenants manifest the same spirit of independence, let them think and act for themselves, and so manage their farms as that their landlords shall as soon expect to be asked for their votes to please their tenants, as the tenants be required to vote for unpopular or unworthy can didates to please their landlords." It is quite true that the Scotch landlords have long let their lands to the best tenants they could find, at the highest prices ; but it does not follow that these tenants are independent. In fact, in Berwickshire, the farmers, with hardly an exception, voted as their landlords voted. But in Berwickshire there are a number of small towns, as Dunse, Lander, Coldstream, Eyemouth, Coldingham, Earlstown, Clurnside, Aylon, &c. &c. A very large proportion of the voters belonged to these towns, and they were almost to a man Reformers. Besides, several large proprietors of Berwickshire, and in particular one, wno has more than double the rental of any other (15,0001. a year) at the commencement of the canvass, gave his tenantry leave to vote as they pleased. Had . the election depended on the farmers, the voters of Sir Anthony Maitland would have quad rupled those of Mr. Marjoribanks. In the neighbouring county of East Lothian, in which the farmers are more decidedly Reformers than in Berwickshire, the Conservatives carried through intimidation. The cause of the diffe rence is, that there is only in Berwickshire one small Royal Burgh, Lander ; whereas in East Lothian there are three—Haddington, Dun bar, and North Berwick ; and these being nearly all the towns in the county, are cut off from it. The fact is, that every man who occupies the land of another is, and always has been, a slave. The effect of Lord Chandos' motion merely was to in crease the number of slaves ; and in that respect it has done good rather than evil, because, by making the calamity more extensive, it has rendered the remedy of the ballot more imperatively neces sary. Wherever in the county elections in Eng land the Reformers have been successful, the victory has been achieved, not by means of the tenantry, but in spite of the tenantry. Thus, for instance, in the Norwich East Anglian, of Tuesday last, it is observed, " We have achieved a glorious victory in East Norfolk ; the strong cita del—the very Anttverp of the Tories'—has fallen. We expected it ; fully expected as large a ma jority as we actually obtained, because we could reckon up the large landlords and the number of their tenantry with the utmost exactness, and we know too, that there was another body of voters, whom neither bribes, nor threats, nor promises would ttyluence. Here lay th e mis. t ike of our opponents ; the success of Lord Stormont and Sir James Scarlett gave them an inconsiderate confidence. The city was bought, and they reckoned upon the practicability of buying the county too." From the Shetland Islands to the Land's End there is but one .voice with respect to the tenant franchise. As the East Anglian well observes, " Every one must call aloud for the ballot, as a protection against the usurpation of a tenant's franchise by his landlord."—Morning. Chronicle. Antwerp has surrendered, notwithstanding all the anticipations of our Conservative contempo raries to the contrary—the Tete de Flandres is included in the capitulation—Chasse and his garrison are prisoners of war until the forts of Lillo and Liefkenshoek shall have been given up—and given tip they will and must be—and thus terminates that " Dutch war," as it was de nominated by the Conservatives, which was to involve all Europe in contention and bloodshed ! Were not the columns of our evening contem poraries before us, we should have been inclined to pity them, on two grounds—the first, the falsification of their honest predictions, as well at heartfelt wishes, respecting Antwerp, and the slaughter of the French army, in an assault upon it—and the second, the difficulty to which they would be reduced in supplying the vacuum which has been created, by the almost bloodless surrender of the citadel, by any other foreign matter on which they might expatiate at equal length, and with equal fury. Iliumfuit—we might have said, had we not seen them, and have closed'our compassionate bewailing for their disappointment with the regret that nothing was left them but to mourn their inestimable loss— igfandunz renovare dolorem. But we have seen their columns, and although there be some ground for our sympathizing with their dis appointed hopes, we find none for compassion on the score of having lost a good subject for conservative discussion, and would-be mi nisterial annoyance. On the contrary, the conservative darling, which, according to general report, as well as general opinion, was supposed to have died a natural death in their hands, has grown all at once into a fine child, as full of quips and cranks, and oddities, as any of the harlequins who exhibited last night at the different theatres of this pantomime-loving metropolis. Antwerp, they allow, has surrendered—its garrison and chief become prisoners of war, and, we believe, they add, that forts Lillo and Lief kenshoek will be given up as a matter of course, in order that the prisoners of war may be re leased ; but then they ask " What next ?" Aye, that is an important and ingenious question. " What next" would pose any man, out of any million of people, to answer upon any given subject; and " What next," upon a question involved in so much mystery and obscurity as the Dutch and Belgian, might not unfairly be allowed to be a poser to all Europe. " What next," indeed ! A wise man would answer the question by asking another, " Is not the day sufficient for the evil thereof?" No, say our Conservative contemporaries—there has been evil enough, but the evil that has happened is only the foundation and forerunner of greater evils, the nature and extent of which no one knoweth. It requires no great extent of political charity to believe that our Conservative contemporaries are really in terror lest the ultimo dies be at hand ; for they have, for sonic time past, been greatly out of their latitude in reckoning, and repeated occurrences of this kind, as every one knows, are apt to engender a species of wandering which there is scarcely a possibility of correcting by any other means than actual demonstration. But let us ask them in sober earnestness, what proof is there that their fears are well grounded ? What probability is there that greater evils will follow the surrender of the citadel of Antwerp than that of the surrender itself? It is true that the delivery of Antwerp to the French, for the purpose of being restored to its proper owners—the Belgians, does not settle all the important questions pending between Holland and Belgium ; but it does settle all those on account of which a combined English and French fleet was equipped, arid a French army was permitted to march into Belgium. France and England have nothing more to do with the matter—they have acquitted them selves of their engagements to the full—and with regard to all the remanets, they are either Dutch and Belgian questions, which the Dutch and Belgians must settle, or decline to settle, among themselves, as they think fit, or Euro pean questions, of the settlement of which France and England will treat, in conjunction with the other Powers of Europe. In a word, the greatest "stumbling block in the way of pre serving the general peace has been removed ; and if our Conservative contemporaries be in clined to ask again, " What next ?" we know of no better reply than that which we have given, except the following, which we borrow from one of their clique—the tail of their rump—if we may use the expression —to wit, oracularly as followeth :—" The policy of the King of Hol land is altogether so inexplicable on ordinary grounds—the utility of the defence of the citadel of Antwerp is so questionable, and the whole matter so mysterious, that we must leave to time, the great expounder of mysteries, to resolve the enigma."— Morning Advertiser. Now that the siege of Antwerp is brought to a conclusion, the sympathies of mankind, which have hitherto been so naturally and deeply en gaged in the situation of the -handful of brave men who have been struggling with so much determination and- perseverance, in the just cause of their country, against the powerful assailants of her honour and her rights, will give place to reflections upon the probable consequences of the fall of this citadel, so well and gloriously defended, or in anticipations rather as to the further progress of the miserable drama of which the siege of Antwerp can only be considered as an episode—an episode of need less misery and bloodshed—contributing as it does nothing whatever to the main action. The cessation of useless slaughter is in itself a circumstance which must afford gratification to every humane heart ; and what can be imagined more useless than that which the assailants of Antwerp have inflicted and suffered, when the whole object, as described by the aggressive Governments of France and England, was to smooth the way for future negotiation, to the immediate progress of which n fl o tuyt, Powe r ure and when negotia tion, brit the th pointsemselves t i o nte h r e po s s e e t d tle a d ny hy di t ffi hi c s u which, for some unfathomable purpose, they had determined to initiate in blood, were of no higher importance than a florin, or some fraction of a florin, more or less, of tonnage duty on the Scheldt, and of toll on the road by Limburg ? By the surrender of Antwerp a fraction of one half of the object of the Convention between France and Great Britain •is accomplished. When the other portion of this half, the half in which the "dignity and interests of France" are peculiarly concerned, .may be attained is yet uncertain. There is no doubt, indeed, that whatever measures may be necessary for en forcing this entire half of the purpose of the two confederate Powers will be prosecuted with sufficient vigour, and that the occupation of the remaining territory and fortresses included in it will, if not quietly surrendered, be wrested even tually from Holland by the strong arm of mili tary power. As to the accomplishment of the other half of the declared purpose of the Con vention, which relates to surrenders to be made not to, but by, the son-in-law of the Citizen King, and in which therefore, " the dignity and interests of France" are not by any means so deeply involved, we are not quite so certain that this will be prosecuted with the same energy and deterinination. It is a circumstance not un worthy of note in connect* with this part of the subject that, a day or two only before the acquisition of Antwerp, Belgian engineers of eminence were sent to Venloo for the purpose of strengthening its fortifications. It never was nor could have been expected, either by Holland or by any of those who took an interest in her destiny and sympathized in her gallant resistance to foul wrong, that, un assisted, she could oppose an effectual resistance to the arms of France. Yet was her Proud and gallant resistance to her oppressors a duty pre scribed alike by honour and policy ; nor has it proved unavailing. It has availed to disperse the mist and fogs of diplomatic hypocrisy and intrigue; it has availed to reinstate the great Powers of Europe in their natural position, from which several of them, in their character of mediators, had permitted themselves to be drawn away ; it has availed to show the other Powers of Europe that the revolutionary Govern ment of France is a self-willed and imperious Go vernment, with which the less intimate their rela tions the better, since it can be deterred from the perpetration of no crime by any protests or dissua sions of its allies; it has availed to call forth from the British people so loud and unanimous an expression of their sentiments as must compel their Government, however devoted to " the dignity and interests of France," to bear always steadily in mind for the future that the' honour and independence of' Holland are objects a thousand times dearer to the hearts of the English nation _than the dignity and interests of France ; it has availed to alienate the policy of Europe from that of France, and to tear to pieces the meshes of that net in which the arti fices of French diplomacy had been able to en tangle the other great Continental Powers ; it has availed, in fine, to reduce revolutionary France, so far as she is the enemy of Holland, to revo lutionary France merely, and to secure to Hol land the immediate restoration of that aid and protection upon which she had always a right to rely from all the other Powers of Europe, her natural fiiends.—Morning Post. THE LATE BARBAROUS MURDER AT ENFIELD. The Coroner and Jury resumed the inquiry yes terday morning into the circumstances connected with the murder of the young man named Benja min Couch Denby at the Coroner's-office,at Enfield. Mr. Tuff, a medical gentleman residing at Enfield, was called and asked if he had lately sold any drugs, or articles of a nature calculated to cause stupor, to any of the persons who are suspected to have been concerned in the murder. This inquiry was made in consequence of the statement made by the pot boy at the house where the deceased was drinking on Wednesday night, that 'when the deceased left the house with the prisoners he suddenly became giddy, and was unable to proceed without assist ance. Mr. Tuff declAred that he never sold any drugs of that description to any person of the sus picious character of the prisoners. He was applied to some time ago by some persons whose appear ances created some suspicion in his mind for coculus indicus, but he refused to supply the article. The ho,tler at the Rising Sun was then called, and asked if, when he accompanied the deceased home from his master's house on Tuesday night, he passed any persons on the road; he replied, he did not. He knew Fare, Johnson, and Cooper, but he did not see them on any part of the road on Tues day night in the way from the Rising Sun to Mr. Addington's house. Neither of those men were at the Rising Sun on Tuesday afternoon, nor were they in the habit of coming to the house and spending their evenings there. A Juror observed that if the men had been seen on the road on Tuesday night, it would have con firmed some important disclosures which had been made. Mr. Esdaile, by whom Cooper was employed, said Cooper was engaged at the brewery on Wed• nesday ; but he could not recollect whether he was on the premises between 5 and 7 o'clock in the evening. He found the work done properly in the morning, which would not have been the case if Cooper had absented himself. William Frenchman, apprentice to a tailor, stated that on Wednesday night, about half-past 11 o'clock, he was going home with Mr. Wynne, who resides near the Hollybush, at Enfield, when he met Fre derick Young, near Holt White's-lane. Young had a young man with him; they were standing in the road, looking in the direction of Mr. Addington's house. The young man had a dark c a p on, w i t h a peak i n f ron t. Witness said to Young, " Good night, Fred.," but he turned his head another way, and made no reply. Young h a d on his usual dress, i and witness s confident he is not mistaken in his person; as he (witness) passed him he touched him, and as it was a star-light night he had a full view of his person. He knows John Cooper, and is posi tive he was not the person who was with Young. Young had light clothes on, and the person with him wore a dark dress; but he did not take a suffi cient notice to state whether he wore a jacket or a coat. Mr. Wynne did not speak to Young or the other person, but cautioned witness not to go home across the field, as the men might be after no good. At that time a lady passed, but witness did not know who she was. When he returned, after part nthoet H see ot Y se o sh u e n e g s npourhltile ie other ha e nM r 'er.TWh Wynne, closed nshutters when did e f passed, but he could observe lights in the lower part of the house. He saw the body of the deceased, and he gave his opi nion at the moment that his dress and person corres ponded with the person whom he observed in con versation with Young. The cap which the deceased wore on the night of the murder was exhibited to the witness, and he said he believed it was the same cap which the young man wore who was with Young. The Jury cautioned the witness to be very parti cular in stating that Young was the person whom he saw on the road, as his evidence would implicate another person. The witness said he knew Young well, and was confident he was the person he passed. Mr. Wynne also knew him and recognised his person. He did not hear any noise or alarm as he proceeded with Wynne, nor when he returned. Mr. Wynne, who is a shopkeeper at Enfield, said he left the Nag's Head, at Enfield, at 11 o'clock, on Wednesday night, to go home, and was accom panied by the last witness. At the turning be tween Parsonage-lane and the Chase he saw two men standing in the centre of the road close to gether, looking in the direction of Mr. Addington's house. He did not hear any conversation pass be tween them; he did not observe their features. After he passed them, he said to Prencham it looked very awkward to see them in the road, and he thought they were after no good. He proceeded about 30 or 40 yards further, and, looking round, observed they were in the same position. He then asked Frencham if he knew them, and he replied he knew one of them was Fred. Young, but he did not know the other person. Witness's eyesight was not sufficiently good to enable him to see the features of the persons in the dark, and he should not know Young if he was to see him. He walked by the side of the hoy, but did not hear him say " Good night" to Young. He did not see a lady and gentleman pass. Tt►e moment he reached home he went into his house, and did not hear any alarm or noise. There was light enough, if his eyesight had been good, to enable him to distinguish persons. Frencham accompanied him part of the way home, on account of his sight not being good. The witness Frencham was recalled, and in an swer to some questions by the Jury, said he was certain that a lady and gentleman passed while he was with Mr. Wynne. Young, who is a stout-built young man, about 20 years of age, was then brought into the Jury room, and the evidence of Frencham and Wynne having been read over to him, was informed that he was not bound to answer any questions, or make any statement, unless he thought proper. He im mediately stated, without the least hesitation, that he was at the Hollybush from 6 to 10 o'clock on Wednesday night, and on going out met two men named Stokes and Smith. He proceeded straight on till he came to Mr. Browning's house, and slept there, remaining on the premises till half-past eight in the morning. Watkins, the officer, said Young was taken into custody when the murder was first discovered. He (Watkins) made inquiries at the Hollybush and other places, and the result was so satisfactory that the Magistrate before whom Young was taken dis charged him. Frencham, by desire of the Jury, looked at Young, and he then appeared to have some doubt if he was the person he saw on the road. It will be recollected that I Is. were found in Fare's box, and to show that he was in distressed circumstances the parish officer was called, and stated, that on Wednesday morning last an order was made for him to receive 2s. 6d., in consequence of having applied for parochial relief. Richard Wagstaff, one of the men who was drink ing in the Horseshoes public-house on Wednesday night, said that when he left the house he suspected, from the characters who were with the deceased, that he would be robbed, and he proceeded home without any delay. It was known that the deceased had money in consequencee of flashing his purse about, and witness knowing that Fare and Johnson had been out of work some time, and were in' dis tressed circumstances, the impression on his mind was, that they intended to rob him. The Jury said, that if he entertained that opinion it was his duty to have protected the deceased. Wagstaff said that if the man lost his money while in his company he would have been accused of it, and he therefore thought it was the best way to go home. I (said Wagstaff) felt convinced that Johnson and Fare intended to rob the deceased of his money, and I therefore advised Cooper, when he left the public-house, to go home and have nothing to do with it. Juror—Did any conversation take place respect ing the intended robbery ? Wagstaff—No ; but I considered Johnson and Fare would do it to obtain the deceased's money. The money was a great temptation to them, as they Lad been out of work some time, and particularly Johnson, who was almost starving. Juror—Did Cooper follow your advice and go home ? Wagstaff—No, he went with Johnson and Fare, and the deceased. The witness complained bitterly of a statement made in a Sunday paper that he had been appre hended on suspicion of the murder, when the fact was that he had done all in his power to discover the persons by whom the murder had been committed. The Jury said, that when he suspected it was the intention of Johnson and Fare to rob the deceased, it was his duty as an honest man to have endeavoured to prevent Cooper, the prisoner, was then brought into the inquest-room. He is a young slim-built fellow, and evidently not possessed of much strength. The CORONER informed him that he was charged with the murder of the deceased, and it was his in tention to read over to him the whole of the evidence in order that he might be in possession of the whole of the facts which had been proved by the witnesses. The Coroner read the whole of the depositions and observed, " You see what has been alleged against you, have you anything to say respecting it ?" Cooper—No, Sir, only what I have said, and that is the truth. CORONER—Anything you state will be taken down in writing, and made use of as evidence against you. Whatever you say must be quite voluntary on your part,—no promise has been made to induce you to make a confession. Cooper—No, Sir, I have said all I know. CORONER—Do you wish to repeat it ? Cooper— Yes, Sir. CORONER —State it. Cooper—l went into the Horseshoes public house about 10 o'clock on Wednesday night to get a pint of beer. John Taylor, Charles Jackson, the deceased, and Richard Wagsatff were there playing at dominoes. When they had done playing at do minoes Fare began to toss with the deceased for gin and beer, some of which they gave me. We left the house about 11 o'clock. Johnson and Fare were also in the room. I went out of the house about 11 o'clock, and the others followed me imme diately after. The man who was murdered fell against the rails of the river, near the door of the Horsehoes, and he a sk e d so me o f us to lead him home. Johnson and Fare took hold of him, and led him as far as Wagstaff's. In going along Wagstaff advised me to go home, but I did not follow his advice. A scuffle took place between Johnson, Fare, and the deceased; and just when it com menced Wagstaff arrived at his own house, went in, and shut the door. Fare then fell down, and then deceased took hold of my arm, and asked me to lead him home. I, Johnson, and the deceased then went on, and Fare stopped behind. When we got op posite Mr. Addington's Johnson persuaded the de ceased to go on and get a pint of beer. The deceased said, " Yes, with all my heart," and I, Johnson, and the deceased went on to the bottom of Holt White's-lane, or Chase-side, as it is called. A man and a woman then passed us, and I wished them good night. I,Johnson,and the deceased then turned up the Chase-road, as I thought to pro cure some beer. When we came near Pinnock's beer-shop on the Chase, Johnson turned us round to go back; I at that time had hold of the deceased's left arm, and Johnson the right. On going down the road Johnson said, " I am -if. Sam hasn't robbed him." About half a minute after, Johnson put his foot behind the deceased 'and threw him down on me. I was close to the ditch at that time, and the deceased falling on me, threw me into the ditch, and the deceased fell on top of me. I drew myself from under him, and in so doing my cap came off, and when I found it it was covered with blood. I said to Johnson, " What have you been doing to him ? Don't hurt him !" Johnson replied, " I have done him." I then got out of the ditch, and went and stood in the middle of the road trembling. The deceased then lifted up his head and said, " Oh pray! oh pray ! don't, pray don't." I know John son then came up to me, and said, " I have begun it, here, take this knife and finish him." I said, " I won't ;" and he said, " Don't say a word," and shook his fist at me. He then went to the th ceased and killed him. I would have run away, only I thought he would follow me and serve me the same. I saw Johnson pick up some] thing lying beside the deceased after he had killed him. He took a red handkerchief from the deceased, and gave me a piece of bread, part of which I threw over the hedge. We then came away down the row, and Johnson several times said, " Don't say anything to anybody," I wanted to go to my own house, but he said, " Come this way across the fields, don't go that way." We then went a cross Mr. Coney's field, and over the New River-bridge• Johnson then washed his hands and the knife in the river. It was a black-handled clasp-knife, which I have seen several times. After washing the knife • we went on over the Horseshoes'-bridge, an d turn ing down by th e r i ver s id e , near M r. Robinson'"' Johnson took the deceased's handkerchief from his pocket, and threw it into the water. We the n parted, Johnson again urging me to say nothing' I then went home. F are l e f t us near M r. Shu ffl e's (near the house where Wagstaff lived). I did not see him again after I took hold of the deceased to lead him away.—The prisoner signed the dept` tion, and then withdrew in custody. John Cuffiley was called to prove the time e t which Wagstaff returned home on Wednesday nights but he could not prove the fact. The CORONER said it was clear that Young 0 5 free from any participation in the murder, and it wa s evident his person had been mistaken by the 10 Frencham for the prisoner Cooper. The inquest was then adjourned till to-morroW (this) morning. INTERESTING ACCOUNT of Miss MARIE EDGEWORTH and HER FATHER, The secret of his daughter's success is well painted by the father. " The natural and happy confidence," so this excellent individual was , in his seventy-fourth year, able to inform she reader, " reposed in me by my daughter, pills it in my power to assure the public that she does not write negligently. I can assert, that twice as many pages were written for these volumes as are now printed." Miss Edgeworth's works, indeed, contain sufficient evidence that she had learned the art how to blot. Her father, - indeed, was accustomed to blot for her. It was, uh' doubtedly, a great advantage to this inimitalAc writer, and may account for the manly character of her works, that she should have been blessed by a wise Providence with such a father. Never were parent and child so fitted for each other. " Whenever I thought of writing anything," sg s Miss Edgeworth, " I always told him my firs t rough plans; and always, with the instinct of s good critic, he used to fix immediately uP9 II that which would best answer the purpos e ' Sketch me that, and show it to me.' These words, from the experience of his sagacity, net' failed to inspire me with hope of success. l t was then sketched. Sometimes, when I was fond of a particular part, I used to dilate on it in the sketch ; but to this he always objected ; I dont want any of your painting ; none of your drapery' I can mention all that ; let me see the bare skeleton.' " " It seemed to me," continues the amiable biographer, sometimes impossible that he could understand the very slight sketches 1. I made ; when, before I was consc i ous that had expressed this doubt in my countenance, he always saw it. ' Now, my dear little daughter: I know, does not believe that I understand her. Then he would, in his own words, fill up mY sketch, paint the description, or represent the character intended, with such life, that I wa s quite convinced he not only seized the ideas , but that he saw, with the prophetic eye of taste , the utmost that could be made of them. After a sketch had his approbation, he would not see the filling it up till it had been worked upon for a week or fortnight, or till the first thirty or forty pages were written ; then they were read to him ; and if he thought them going on tolerably well, the pleasure in his eyes, the approving sound of his voice, even without the praise he so warmly bestowed, were sufficient and delight' ful excitements to go on and finish.' When he thought that there was spirit in what wag written, but that it required, as it often did, great correction, he would say, leave that to me ;it is my business to cut and correct ; your's to t write on.' His skill in cutting, his decision to criticism, was peculiarly useful to me. His ready invention and infinite resource, when I had run myself into difficulties or absurdities, never failed to extricate me at my utmost need. It was the happy experience of this, and my cons& quest reliance on his ability, decision, and perfect truth, that relieved me from the vacillation and anxiety to which I was s o muc h su bj ec t, that , am sure I should not have written or finished . 1 anything without his support. He inspired in my mind a degree of hope and confidence, e ssen:. tial, in the first instance, t o th e f u ll exe rtion 01 the mental powers, and necessary to insure per' severance in any occupation. Such, happily for me, were his powers over my mind, that e 0 one thing I ever began to write was left tio 6 " nished." Mr. Edgeworth would often advise his daughter t o l a y b y w h at was d one f or severe , months, and to turn her mind to something else' that she might look back at it afterwards with fresh eyes, a practice which we know to be hen e ; ficial. Accordingly, many things she had written lay by several years, while she was nec°' pied on others ; a nd t h e y were reconsidered IoY her father, read aga i n a t long intervals, and re " corrected with much drudgery of revision. Such are the pains necessary to insur e suc h finish ed excellence as characterises these tales ; a parti cular in which they are superior to th e Scotch novels, which are, one and all, notwithstanding their surpassing merit, marked with many traces of negligence, both in regard to style and con. duct.—Fraser's Magazine. THE TYRAWLY STAG.—Many years ago , a stag was in the possession of a gentleman of TyrarrlP He grew to be a powerful and splendid beast, but his P r o ' pensities and disp os iti ons were very diff erent t o those ' d the playful and innocent hind. The stag was bold, biir ' violent, detested s t rangers an d women, an d, free` a enormous size and str eng th, was f requent l y a ver y „ A gerous playfello w . H e h a d a part i cular fancy _ 09' resided mostly in th e s t a bl e , an d , w h en the ca rriage w ordered to the do or , if perm i tte d , h e would accomPanYlo A curious anecdot e i s to ld o f hi m. He b a d no objeri° .f. whatever to allow a g ent l eman to enter t h e coa ch ; h nt th the fair sex he had an unconquerable aversion, a nd I:he bis consent, no lady should be inside passenger• i s , servants were obliged to drive him away, before their in tress could venture t o a pp ear; an d at last be bec ame go troublesome and unsafe, as to render his banishmen t W i o , adjoining d e er pa r k th e necessary pun i s h ment o f his 'l e a cility. He did not surv i ve thi s di sgrace long ; away rapidly, av o id e d t h e fallow-deer, and died, as 111 " o f formant declared, of a broke n h ear t.— Wild Se ls the West. HORRIBLE DEATH BY BURNING.'_, I( D , terday morning, a b ou t t wo o ' c l oc k , as a person Dallimet, ERNET, residing at No. 25, P opp i n ' s - court , Fleet-a f t nr was passing the hou se o f M r . F RANCIS, of Ni'. 95, rd Surrey-street, Blackfriars.road, his attention w , - 11 e t, It by an unusual gl i r e of li g h t i n one o f t h e rooms . It af r o him immediately the house was on fire, and he lost no t' in making an alarm, and Mr. Inspector Small, of of re a division of police, and Sal, a policeman, No. 69, r e eorlt instantly to the house, where an entrance being nb t t est they heard the sh r i e k s o f a f emale as if i n the groi, agony. On rushi ng up sta i rs t h ey found M ts . Fa r b er is abeu' 35 y ears o f age, a ll i n a b laze o f fire, an' . e v mother literally consumed. As quick as possible IheY A ga tinguished the flames, and Mr. SEDDON, the surgeon , yo promptly in attendance, but the unfortunate sufferer al e severely burnt that she soon after expired. 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