The Sun. — London, England, 1832-02-17 00:00:00

: 4 91111'T OI THE PUMA(' JOURNALS. A report ftom the Committee upon the Irish Tithes was presented last night, in the House of Lords, by the Marquis of Lansdowne. This report does not conclude the labours of the Co mmittee, which is still occupied in hearing evidence on the subject. There is something unusual, inconsistent, m such a mo d e o f and anparently proceeding. A report should be the result of t h e whole evidence maturely considered ; but in this case the evidence is confessedly unfinished : the report is, therefore, in som e res p ects , an an ticipation which may or may not be realied, which may or may not be founded in fact, ac cording as the investigation may turn out when it shall have been completed,. Perhaps the state of Ireland, and the misrepresentations which had already taken place concerning the intentions of The Government, may justify such a course in this particular instance ; hart., generally speaking, it is not more opposed to the practice of Parlia ment than to the dictates of common sense. One thing, however, is, we should suppose, defini tively settled by the report—we mean the outline of the plan which Government is about to sub init to Parliament. The plan embraces two ob jects—the putting down of the present resistance to the law, and the extinction of the tithe sys tem. The first step which the Committee recommends for the accomplishment of those objects is that of enabling his Majesty " to ad. vance to incumbents of' parishes, not having received their tithe, sums of money propor tioned to the income of each for the year 1831." By this operation the tithe will be converted into a debt to the Crown, and enforced, if ne cessary, under a less obnoxious form—the Attorney-General to proceed for the re covery of the same in various modes to be prescribed by the Act of Parliament. But the most important recommendation of the report is that which suggests the total abolition of tithe, and the substitu tion of an equivalent, either in the form of a tax on land, or an exchange in land. In either case it is hoped that the ferment which now exists in Ireland upon this subject will be appeased without recourse to any extraordinary powers. It would be presumtuous to speak with confidence as to the merits of the plan without any of the evidence before us. That there is great boldness in the decision to abolish tithes is manifest, but, if ever there was a case which called for a strong remedy, the condition of Ire land would appear to be that case, even if we had no other evidence than common rumour to the fact. Our first impression is certainly , favourable to the report. How far that impres sion may be advanced or checked by the detail , of the future measure it is impossible for us to say, but every one who considers the vast im portance of the subject will recognize the neces sity of approaching it in a calm and candid spirit, and with a desire to legislate upon en larged principles of policy.—Morning Herald. 'e have great satisfaction in announcing, that Government has ordered a legal inquiry into the conduct of the Bristol Magistrates on the 29th, 30th and 3lst of last October. Whilst luckless and insulated military men are brought to a severe account for their supposed neglect in not supporting the authority of the civil power, —although there is reason to believe that their inaction arose from their consciousness of the jealousy with which all military interference in domestic tumults is regarded by the people a this country,—it is utterly disgraceful to those whom the Constitution recognizes as lawful guar dians of the public peace, that they, in a body, should so act as to induce a general, and in Eng lishmen, an unnatural, wish for the constable's staff to be superseded on any occasion by those arms, the edge of which ought never to be felt but by a foreign enemy. The effect of cowardice or indifference to their duty in civil functionaries would be truly dreadful, if it were to generate in any portion of the community a more implicit reliance upon the standing army than on the firmness of magistrates, and the protecting power of the laws. Ministers have done wisely and patriotically in directing this investigation.— Times. The report of the Lords' Tithe Committee was yesterday presented by Lord Lansdowne to the House, and the substance of it will be found amongst our Parliamentary proceedings. In this Paper the Committee state the arrear of tithe now due to the clergy in the dioceses of Ossory, Leighlin, Cashel, and Ferns, arising from the recent combinations to resist the py ment, at not leas than 85,0001. They propose to grant to the individual clergymen so deprived of their incomes, relief from the Exchequer in certain proportions, decreasing with the value of the living. The grants so made are to be se cured upon the arrears of tithe themelves, which the Attorney-General in the King's name is to be emt,owered to levy by civil bill in the Courts of Chancery, Exchequer, and at the Quarter Sessions. This process may, undoubtedly, prevent further collision between the clergy and their Catholic parishioners; but it will bring the executive power itself into immediate conflict with the people. However, that can be only tOr once. The Lords proceed to assert etn• phaticallv their conviction, that the clergy must be supported by some other means than tithe, which they pronounce the necessity of ex tinguishing altogether, as well those which be long to the lay impropriator as those belonging to the clergy, and they recommend an equiva lent, either on the land, or in land, as may be hereafter settled. Now, to a full equivalent in favour of the existing clergy, we apprehend that there can be no objection, but, on the contrary, that it will command universal assent and con currence. But if it be designed to perpe tuate the present amount of income, and to ap propriate it indefinitely to clergymen of the Established Church, without reference to the amount of Protestant population, or of actual duty to be performed, it appears to us that no success can attend a measure founded on such partial and unreasonine, views ; but the whole landed interest of Irelarld will eventually oppose to it a resistance, not indeed so fierce and san guinary as that of the wretched peasants has been, but one, beyond compar i son, better or ganized, more skilful, formidable, and rapidly triumphant. To prepare a general measure, on statesmanlike principles, the Legislatur e ought to embrace within it a provision for the Ca- I tholic clergy as well as for the Protestant ; as likewise for the relief, the education, and ge neral improvement of the poor. To a tax for the exclusive benefit of the established clergy, all but that clergy, and some, per haps, among their own congregations, will he hostile ; but in support of a tax which shall extend its application to the maintenance of the Catholic priesthood , to the. poor man's relief, and to his children's instruction, a powerful combination of feelings and in terests co-operate. The Protestant clergy 'man and his Catholic neighbour will be alike' eoncerned for the easy collection and ample pro duce of such a common fund. The poor, above all others, will see in it the acknowledged means of physical and intellectual succour ; and as for the probability of any opposition on the part of the Protestant Church itself to anu scheme by which a regular payment from the Treasury can he provided for their subsistence, instead of the precarious, odious, and dangerous resource of tithe, or, in other words, a war contribution from an insurgent enemy, on which hitherto they have been compelled to place their sole depen dence, it appears to us that the Established Clergy must be mad if they to not loudly bless the King and Par!imaent for opening to them such a refuge from calamity. We ought to have remarked sooner, in speaking of the report, what small hopes it encourages of slightest benefit from any modification of the tithe system which has yet been suggested, since it is in evidence that of the whole arrear of tithe, an infinitely greater portion is due from parishes where the Composition Act has been put in execution than in those where the tithe is uncompounded. The Lords have come to the right conclusion—that the mortal hour of the whole tithe system has arrived.—Times, Our readers will see, from our report of the proceedings last night in the House of Lords, that the first step has been taken towards re medying the evil of tithes. The report presented by the Marquis of Lansdowne, from the Tithe ; Committee, embraced the past and the present. With regard to the past, the Committee recom mend that the Government should pay to the incumbents the amount of tithes withheld in 1831, being 84,9541., and that the Government should be empowered to levy the amount of tithes due for that year ; and that the incum bents should be empowered to proceed against the persons for the sums due for the years 1827, 1828, and 1829. But the most im portant part of the report was that which' related to the future. Though the Committee were not able to make up their minds as to the specific measure which it might be adviseable to adopt, yet they thought they had had sufficient evidence to prove the necessity of a permanent alteration of the mode of paying the tithes, as well as of the lay impropriators as of the paro chial clergy, either by an equivalent charge upon land, or by an exchange for land, so as to pre vent collision between the clergy and the occu piers of the land. It is thus admitted that a permanent commutation of tithes must take place. The question which remains is, what equivalent shall be given ? In the preface to a third edi tion of Mr. Senior's letter to Lord Howick. On Legal Provision for the Irish Poor, and a Commutation of Tithes," a light is thrown on the project of commuting the tithes for land, which, it is understood, originated with Dr. Whately : " Every one," says Mr. Senior, " seems to admit that a commutation must take place; the only doubt is as to the nature of the commutation. The plan of commuting them for laud, which is proposed in the following letter, still appears to me to combine more advantages, and fewer obj• ctions than any other scheme that is before the pub!ie. I am informed that the Archbishop of Dublin, by whom that plan was originally sugges , ed, has supported it by his evidence before the Comtnittt e of the House of Lords on Trish tithes, and has also proposed to subject to the same sort of administration the episcopal lands. And I under stand that a most important su,gestion has been made in the Committee, namely. that a part of the purchase moneys of the tithes should he employed in the purchase of the leasehold interest in the episcopal lands. ‘. When we consider that the episcopal lands exceed a million acres, and that the beneficial interest of the lease holders is worth from five-sixths to six-sevenths of the whole value of the fee, it appears likely, that if they could all he so applied, they would be sufficient to absorb nearly the who'e value of the clerical tithes. The arrangement which I have proposed in the following letter might then be made, and the estates divided between the different sees and the purchasers of the leasehold interest, in proportion to the value of their respective interests, the see giving up the fee-simple in one portion on receiving a surrender of the leasehold interest in another. Such an arrangement would put an end to the whole grievance, real and ima ginary, of tithes, without increasing the quantity of land held in mortrnain, or increasing the visible amount of Church property." This plan supposes a valuation of the tithes, on some principle analogous to that adopted by the Parliament of Scotland, and a sale, with a power of pre-emption at a certain number of years' purchase, by the owner of the soil. By employ ing the purchase money in redeeming the lease hold interests of the episcopal lands, the clergy would no longer come into collision with the owners or cultivators of the soil. Should this matter be arranged, another question will arise. Are the clergy of a sinecure Church to be per mitted to enjoy exclusively, in all time to come, the enormous revenue arising from upwards of a million of acres of the best land in Ireland ? It may be said, sufficient for the day is the evil thereof; and that the first great point is the effect ing the commutation. But besides reconciling the existing incumbents to the commutation, the Catholic population must be reconciled. Mr. Senior admits, that " the experiment which we have been trying for the last two hundred and fifty years in Ireland—that of devoting a large portion of the rental of the country to the support of a clergy whose doctrines are admitted by only a small minority, and of leaving the clergy professing the religion of a vast majority totally unpro vided for—is one that never has been attempted in any other country since the beginning of the world ;" and that " to suppose that it will be tolerated an instant after it can be shaken off; seems to imply great ignorance of human nature ;" and he would willingly apply a portion of the re venues towards the payment of the Catholic clergy, but he doubts the practicability of any transfer in the present state of violent excitement of both parties. " There are, however," he adds, " some purposes to which the surplus revenue of the Protestant Establishment may be applied, which would be a relief to the Catholic population, latioa without exciting those feelings of gratified hate, which I fear would be raised by its direct application to the support of the priests. Among these I have mentioned, to the following letter, church ceas and expences of education. And as these purposes would probably exhaust all that could be expected fur a considerable time from that source, it is unnecessary to form any plans respecting a still further sur plus to he hoped I or at a distant period. But, both to facilitate the repression of the present insurrection,. and the recovery of the arrears, and to satisfy those whom justice can satisfy, it is essential that the Government should immediately bring forward sonic plan for the gradual reduction of the Protestant Establishment, us the present life-interests de terrnine, to its proper dimensions, and for the application of revenue so to be obtain d. That any such plan should be approved of by both parties, or by the violent of either party, is of course impossible. But, though there is not a moderate party,-there are moderate persons in Ire- Lind; and in England, where we are mere bystanders, the great majority, as far at least as this question is con cerned, are of that character; and it is on their assistance that the Parliamentary success of the measures which Nli nisters may adopt in the present emergency must depend." Mr. Senior thinks the assumption of the ar rears by the Government will be a title to their confidence and their gratitude, and will smooth the way to their consent to a commutation.— However, all is not over when the consent of the Protestant clergy is obtained. The Catholic peasantry will have no objection to Gov ern ment !paying the arrears to the clergy ; hut we suspect it will be no easy matter to reconcile them to the re-payment of the arrears to Government. It is much easier to demand the arrears than to reco ver them by any imaginable process.—Morning Chronicle. The subject of cholera continues to excite the general attention of the metropolis ; and though we deprecate panic and alarm not jus tified by the history and nature of the disease, yet where human life is endangered, particularly the lives of the people—and the interests of the humbler classes must be a peculiar anxiety with humane and patriotic men—the Government. cannot be too prompt, liberal, and earnest in measures of precaution and alleviation. Before the cholera becomes extinct, death may close the mortal existence of one or two hundred thou sand British islanders, and twice the number may be subjected to the disease and the misery of protracted recovery. We confess also that we cannot anticipate the introduction and spread of the disease in Ireland, where it will be more virulent and fatal in its ravages, without the most painful feelings. Precautionary measures cannot be too early adopted to anticipate its ar rival in that unhappy country, already the scene of an unparalleled political cholera. This may be done by ordinary activity in the Irish Go vernment, who, through the Magistracy and parish officers, may disseminate simple and pru dent descriptions of the disease, with proper printed precautions and directions of treat ment. The Irish are a quick people, and it would appear by late events, tolerably alive to their worldly interests, whatever their reli gious superstitions. The journeys of the disease are not rapid, though unexpected ; and much may be effected by anticipation. We can not forget the dreadful prevalence of typhus fever in that part of the empire three years since. In all the necessary preventive measures, how ever, the greatest care should be taken not un necessarily to interfere by quarantine regulations with trade or commerce, as there is little differ ence between death by starvation, through an in terruption in the demand for labour, and death by cholera. An article in another column al ludes to a most opportune and valuable discovery of our scientific countryman, Dr. Henry, of Manchester (one of the most eminent chemists in Europe), alluded to in the House of Com mons on Tuesday night. From the experiments of Dr. Henry, it appears that heat is a com plete dis-iqftctant of the virus of contagion. Such a fact is, of course, capable of de monstration, and at this moment of great na tional importance to determine. If proved, it must necessarily become a highly important subject, in connection with quarantine and lazaretto discipline. The application of the necessary degree of heat would thus liberate the great proportion of commercial goods from the ruinous loss to which their owners are subjected by quarantine detention. The immediate atten tion of the Government to the proof of this dis covery, cannot he too promptly afforded. From the report of the Commons' debate on Wednes day, it might be inferred that Dr. Henry de ' sired a course of experiments to be made on the disinfecting powers of heat at the public ex-, pence ; but such is not the fact. Dr. Henry, in the disinterested spirit of a philosopher, wor thy the country of Wollaston and Davy, pub licly communicated his important discovery, seeking no personal interest or reward. Dr. Henry certainly authorised the communication to the Government and the Board of Health, and would doubtless aid by advice the practical application of his principle of disinfection. Mr. Warburton and Mr. Hume justly urged, that the name of Dr. Henry and the vital importance of the subject, commanded an official and imme diate attention to test, on behalf of the public, the value of such a desideratum in medical science.—Morning Chronicle. The report of the Lords' Committee upon the Irish tithe question is now before the public. Its recommendations are of course to be con sidered as an exposition of the views and in tentions of his Majesty's Government, by whom the Committee was proposed and its members selected. We forbear for the present from any observations upon the larger scale of a perma nent settlement of tithe, as the Committee have not yet proposed any definite measure upon this more comprehensive and important branch of the subject ; and confine ourselves to a very few words upon the contrivance by which his Ma jesty's Ministers propose to escape from the im mediate difficulty in which the untractableness of their Irish friends have involved them, and avoid at the same time the odium of starving the Irish clergy, and conniving at the habitual prac tice of violence and outrage. The contrivance is an ingenious one, and, so far as it has for its object to neutralise opposition to Parliament, we can scarcely doubt that it will be to a very great degree successful. It is this : The people of Eng land and Scotland are to pay their arrears of tithe for the Irish nation. For the Irish nation, did we say ? No, but for such parts of it only as have ac quired a title to this favour by rebellion. And then the Attorney-General is to recover the money as soon as he can from the parties who now owe and refuse to pay it. There is much cleverness in this as a mode of getting rid of a difficulty. The O'Connell party will pro:note it of course, as an immediate boon to their friends, the tithe insurgents ; while the conservative party will probably be restrained from any very deter mined opposition by considerations of humanity, by the conviction which the whole conduct of Government has tended to produce, that, so long as the administration of affairs is in such hands as at present, they have no choice but to agree to the payment of Irish tithe out of the Trea sury of Great Britain, unless they can endure to see the Protestant clergy of Ireland subjected to the horrors of actual famine.—Morrting Post. An Evening Paper yesterday, whose informa tion we have:generally found to be correct, states that it has been given to understand that " legal proceedings are to be instituted against the Magistrates of Bristol for their conduct during the late riots Thank Heaven for this tardy attempt at justice to all parties—not because we anticipate any great good to result from the in quiry, but because it is a mere act of justice to the army and to the spotless character of the late commanding officer, as well as to Captain War rington, that such - inquiry should take place. It is possible that the worthy Corporation of Bristol may be enabled, with the aid of Sir Charles Wetherell's eloquence, to prove themselves to have been much injured men ; anti if so, it must, after all that has been said about them, be a matter of satisfaction to them to have an opportunity of clearing themselves ; but after the facts sworn tpo on the trial of Captain Warrin,.a ton, these Magistrates were not to be found, or had given orders to prevent their place of re treat from being known to the military, there are tew, we suppose , who will not agree with us in thinking that justice is required on other grounds. The law declares that, in its eye, all Englishmen are equally entitled to its protection and to its penalties ; and if so, why, we ask, should the late Colonel Brereton and Captain Warrington have been subjected to a severe military in quisition, and the civil authorities, who, ac cording to all appearance, were the real author s of the mischief, allowed to pass unpunished ? If the Government has determined, according to our cotemporary's statement, to institute a legal inquiry into the conduct of the Bristol Corporation, it is so far well—but if they have not, we beg to assure them that the country will not hold them guiltless. There ►►ever occurred in the country such a needless destruction of pro perty, and never were there apparently such un deniable grounds for instituting an inquiry into the conduct of the supposed authors of the ca lam i tv.— Morning Advertiser. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, FEB. 10. John Silke, described as bite of Colchester, one of his Majesty's surveyors of raxes, whose case had bees adjourned from a former hearing, to give an account of some property not accounted fur in the schedule, particularly " some valuable articles," stated to be concealed in three tea-chests among some Government papers, came tip this day pursuant to that adjournment, when Mr. KNOWLEs appeared, as on the former occasion, to oppose his discharge, and Mr. COOKE, on the part of the petitioner, to supppit the application. Mr. COOKE submitted that lie had a most amusing catalogue to read to the Court, descriptive of the supposed concealed property, which he thought would excite the Court's risibility. The Learned Counsel then proceeded to read the items—to wit, three odd volumes of" Tom Jones"—(Laughter)— " Humphrey Clinker," a " Family Bible," with a cornet register of births, burials, marriages, Sze., of the insolvent's family—(Reitewed laughter)—"llla• teria de Illedica," which work, said Mr. Cooke, at this moment of alarm and agitation, must be of considerable consequence to the whole world— (Great laughter)—.“ Gil Bias ;" part of a patch work counterpane; a leaden pincushion; a slop-pail; and six old chairs, without bottorns—(Roars of laughter, in which the Commissioners joined which mighty property, said Mr. Cooke, had been estimated at 61. Is. Mr. KNowLEs said this might be a very good joke ; but the creditors were far from being satisfied with the account, and proceeded to read a counter affidavit ; after which the Court asked the insolvent whether he expected to retain his situation as sur veyor of taxes ?—when he replied he had received a letter from the Board, stating that it depended upon circumstances. His sal ,ry at present was 901. s-year, with perquisites amounting to 1901. The CHIEF COMMISSIONER snd that, taking all the circumstances of the case into consideration, with the unsatisfactory account given by the insolvent of his property, the judgment of the Cow t was, that he should receive no benefit under this Acr until he should have been imprisoned for a period not exceed ing six calendar months from the date of filing his petition, under the 47th section of the Act, and that such imprisonment be within the walls. Upon which M—. KNowLlis said he hoped the Court would order an allowance from the insolvent's salary, provided the Board < f Taxes reinstated him in his situation. Mr. COOKE said he was afraid the judgment of the Court would operate against the insolvent's re appointment. The CHIEF COMMISSIONER observed there was a great deference between S he 47tk section (the dis cretionary clause) and the 48;h. Mr. COOKE—But it will be the same in effect. CIIIEF COMMISSIONER—We cannot help it—men should act rght.—Costs allowed. ROMANCE AND REALITY.—From the com mencement of this new Novel by the fair " Improviia trice," we have a very shower of epigram and antithesis, and sarcastic truths, which fly as thick and hit as hard as hail-tones. We are told of the heroine, " that with the exception of young gentlemen she had refused, and young ladies she had rivalled, she was universally liked"—of her father, that " be was a Captain in a dragoon regiment, who spent his allowance on his person, and his pay on his horse—that he was the last man in the world who should have fallen in love except with an heiress, yet he 'Parried suddenly and secretly the pretty and portionle•s Emily Delawarr, and wrote home to ask p irdon and cash'." The story is made, as it were, the string upon which to bang the gems of wit, and the pearls of condensed obser vation, which have been brought together i❑ such rich profusion. LAUD AND STRAFFORD.—Never were tea features more strikingly- characteristic of the indivi du as to whom they belonged than those of LAUD and STRAFrottn, as they still remain pouttrayed by the most skilful hand of that age. The mean forehead, the pinched features, the peering eyes of the pre. Late, suited admirably with his disposition. They mark him out as a lower kind of Saint Dominic— diff,ring, from the fierce and gloomy enthusiast who founded the Inquisition, as we might imagine the familiar imp of a spiteful witch to differ from an archangel of darkness. But WENTwoant—who ever names him without think ing of those harsh, dark features, ennobled by their expression into more than the majesty of an antique Jupiter—of that brow, that eye, that cheek, that lip, wherein are wri!ten, as in a chronicle, the events of many stormy arid disastrous years—high enterprise accomplished —frightful dangers braved—power unsparingly exer cised—suffering uushrinkingly borne—of that fixed look, so foil of severity, of mournful anxiety, of deep thought, of dauntless resolution, which seems at once to forebode and defy a terrible fate, as it lowers on us from the living canvas of VANDYKE! Even at this day the haughty Earl overawes posterity as he overawed his contempora ries, and excites the same interest when arraigned before the tribunal of history, which he excited at the bar of the House of Lards. In spite of ourselves we sometimes feel towards his memory a certain relenting, similar to that relenting which his defence, as Sir JOHN DENHAM informs us, produced in Westminster-hall. —Edinburgh Review. SINGULAR CASE OF SHEEP-STEALING. — On Friday morning Mr. JOHN TAYLoR, farmer, of Chig well, having received information that three sheep had been driven, about ten o'clock the previous night, past the house of a neighbouring farmer, was induced to examine his flock, three of which be missed from the field adjoin. ing his house. Mr. ROWE, the constable, was imme diately in requisition, and that active officer, with his usual assistants, and acc-mpanied by Mr. TAYLOR, pro ceeded to trace the footsteps which marked the progress of the depredator from the " field of action." This was ac complished as far as Bentry death, five miles distant, when on inquiring of a constable there whether any sus picious characters resided in that neighbourhood, they were informed that the only person of doubtful character was JAMES Baowy, who resided at Dagenham. about three miles off, and his principal and only cause of suspicion teas, that he retailed mutton at a very cheap rate. This was powerful encoura.4ement to Mr. RowE's keen scent, which was fully confirmed by the footsteps continuing to the dour of BROWN'S house, where they terminated. BROWN was not at home; b u t o n searching the premises two sheep were found in the shop, another in a back shed, and three skins in the yard. The mark on the skins (a circle of black paint) had been partly obliterated with identify them. ochre, but Mr. TAYLOR was able clea rl y to them. Shortly after ROWE apprehended BRol . vN whilst r e turning home, and on stating the object of his visit, BROWN said the sheep belonged to his father, a sheep ] ,fiber at Little Parndon, who had given him leave to fetch them away. On inquiry it was ascertained that the sheep actually belonged to BRowN's father, for whom slr. TAYLOR had taken them in to graze ; but the time and manner in which they were taken still ex c i t i ng strong su spicion, Mr. ROWE having secured BROWN, proceeded to Parndon, a distance of IS miles, to question the father i s j ;a en tes f l o upon the subject. He denied havi ng empowere d any one, no t even his son, to fetch away his sh ee p ; b ut on b e i ng thatund at his shiso whon son's i house, v with he him b e- m i g ht have given him leav e . Thi s, t h e l atter sa id, was c t told e that ala r t m h e e i y i had been the case, but he had foreotten to mention it to his father. On RowE's return to Chigwell, BROWN was examined before the R ev . TH OMAS L AYTON, a M ag i strate , an d fully committed for trial at the ensuing Assizes, on a charge of stealing his father's sheep. The prisoner bad resided at Dagenham about three months, and although during that period a great many sheep had been missing, one farmer having lost as many as seven, no suspicion attached to the prisoner.— awa y Citron f POLICE LNTELLI GEN CF. QUEEN- S QUARE. Madame Maria de Bavois, a lady of very fashion able appearance, residing at No. 31, Upper Eaton s reet, Pimlico, was charged before Messrs. MAR RIOTT and GREGORY, with a, , saulting Miss Margaret Wilson, of No. 2, Charlotte-street, Pimlico. The complainant stated that on Monday evining Madame de Brvoie knocked at her door, which was opened, when she seized hold of witness by the hair of the head in a most violent way. Witness called out for help, and the Rev. Mr. Sone, who lodged in the house, called out for a police constable, who came to her assistance. Madame deßavois denied the statement, and said that the complainant committed the first assault upon her. Mr. Mattatorr, having consulted with his c()',. league, ordered Madame de Bavois to pay the full penalty of 5/. for the assault. There was a second charge against Madame de Bavois for violently assaulting the Rev. Mr. William Stone, on the same day, a few hours previou-4 to the la , t as:ault. The Reverend Gentleman stated that on Monday he was in Davies -street, when Madame de Bavois came up to him, and said that she wanted to speak to h'ni. He stopped, and she seized him, and tore his coat from top 10 bottom; she then struck him several violent blows in the face, and knocked off his ha , . He called for the police, but there was no constable near, and Madame de Bavois called a hackney-coach, and drove away. Mr. William Levastege, of No. 83, Berwick street, Oxford-street, confirmed the greater part of the Reverend Gentleman's statement. Mr. MARRIOTT—What have you got to say to this second charge of assault 1' Madame de Bavois -1 deny it : call Thomas Jenkinson. Thomas Jenkinson said that he was a hackney coachmati, and he was called by Madame de Bavois on Monday. ller clothes were torn, arid there was a gentleman with her, who told him not to drive her away. She got into his coach, and he did drive to the place she directed him. In answer to a question, the witness said that he did not see the beginning of the affray, he only saw the gentleman catch hold of her. _ _ Madame de Bavois said that Mr. Stone first us, saulted her; she ct-rtainly spoke to him in Davies street, and told him that she had got a writ out against him, when he called her an infamous woman, and seized her and tore her cloth, s. In self-defence she caught him by the coat, which was a very old one, and it tore. She was forced to strike hint to make him loo , e his hold. Mr. MARRIOTT, after consulting with his col• league, ordered her to pay another line of 51. to the King. Madame de Bavos—l am determined not to pay a farthing. Mr. MARRIOTT —Then, as you do not choose to pay the money, you will be imprisoned two months for each assault. Madame de Bavois—Very well, Sir, I don't care for that. She was then locked up, but in a short time re• pented, and paid the money. THAMES- OFF! GE. Yesterday, soon after Mr. BALLANTINE,the sitting Magistrate, had taken his seat on the Bench, Mr. Gole, the senior churchwarden of St. George's in the East, called in consequence of the statement which appeared in the Morning Papers of the dis tressed situation of two families, in a place called Star -court, where typhus fever is raging, and where several persons have died. Mr. Gole said, that the overseers of the parish to which he belonged were charged with neglecting to afford relief to a family named Clark, in whose ' house the fever first broke our. He begged leave to state that directly he was made acquainted with the distressed condition of the family, the parochial surgeon, Dr. Hopke was sent to the house, and every attention was paid them. He had since sent two shillings every morning to the family by the beadle, and caused the house to be lime-washed. It was previously in a very filthy state, and an elderly woman, named Clark, who had died of the fever, actually kept several dogs, which she suffered to lie in the same bed with her daugh , er's children, and when the beadle entered he found them all huddled together. After the old woman's death, he gave orders that the bed on which she had died should be brought out and burnt, and a new one provided, but her daughter on learning this, sold it for sixteen shillings. He had also paid a bill of nineteen shil lings for dogs' meat, which the old woman incurred, and provided her daugh►ter's children with every necessary. BILLANTINE said, that immediately after the report was made to him by Mr. Sag e, a medical practitioner in the neighbourhood, he sent Mr. Evans, the chief officer of the establishment, to make inquiries, and from the information of the neighbours it appeared that the parochial authorities had paid every attention to the family, and relieved their wants. He was quite satisfied that no blame was attributable to them. Mr. Gole said that two persons afflicted with fever had been removed from the house in question on Wednesday by his orders, and he had used every precaution to prevent the contagion from spreading. He complained that such a statement as had appeared in the Morning Papers of that day, re flecting on the parochial authorities, should have been published. Mr. BALLANTINE said he was bound to state that the statement which appeared in the Morning Papers was very fairly and correctly reported. It had been given by Mr. Sage, a respectable medical practi tioner, in that office, who had called his attention to the circumstance of a malignant fever which was prevailing in the parish. He had no doubt that Mr. Sage had been misled as to the conduct of the overseers. Mr. Gale then called his attention to the fact that he had fitted up a cholera hospital in Vinegar lane, St. George's, to which there was a back en trance from Sun Tavern Fields. He had provided sixteen beds, with entirely new bedding, nurses, a surgeon to attend on the patients and pipe-con ductors of steam, to convey heat to the afflicted persons and the beds. lie had also provided a litter, made of wicker, and which could be covered in at pleasure, for the cal removal of persons from their own houses, and immediately under the patient, a portable steam apparatus, which would act to keep the patient warm during his conveyance through the open air. The hospital was quite ready, and was situated in the most airy part of the parish, and, should the cholera break out, he was prepared to meet it. Mr. BALLANTINE said the arrangement reflected great credit on Mr. Gole, and he hoped that other parishes would follow the example of St. George's. Mr. Gole said he was sorry to state that the ad joining parish of Shadwell had as yet made no pre parations to meet the cholera, and lie thought it was time they should do so. Mr. BALLANTINE inquired of Mr. Dowling, an overseer of Shadwell, who was present, the cause of this neglect. Mr. Dowling replied that the overseers had been unable to procure any place to fit up as a cholera hospital. In fact, no person ►could let them a house fur the purpose. Mr. BALLANTINE said be should expect the over seers of Shadwell to fit up a temporary cholera hos pital without delay, and he thought that a place could be easily found if the authorities would put their shoulders to the wheel. It was no use waitin t until the cholera actually appeared. Mr. Dowling promised compliance ►with the Ms. gittrate's orders, and the parties then retired. Mr. Evans, the principal Surveyor of Thame• Police, was, after the above conversation terminated, sent to inquire into the typhus fever now raging u. St. George's, and which has caused great alarm iii that parish. The first person attacked was a cos termonger, who lived in the house inhabited by the family of the Clarks, in Star -court, St. George's. He was a man of very dirty habits, who used to run about the streets vending oranges, without either shoes or stoc kings on his feet. He died, after a few days' illness ; and the next Vetim , was an elderly woman, named Clark, whose daughicr, a widow, and her four children, who are now suffering from the fever, anti have been relieved by the overseers of St. George's, still live in the house, to which all communication has been forbid by the surgeon in at tendance upon them. A man and his wife, named Greenfield, who were attacked with the fever, were removed from the house on Tuesday afternoon. The nurse who had attended on Mrs. Clark, was taken ill and died ; and a young woman named Leary, who had visited the sick, is now with her child ill of the fever, at a house in Union•plare, within twenty yards of the miser able hovel in Star-court. The parish officers of St. George's offered to remove them to the Fever Hos pital on•Tuesddy, hut the woman refused to leave her home, though she is labouring under great dis ,ress. A family named Daniel-, residing in the same dwelling, are in a most destitute condition. The man has been out of work several weeks, and his wife and youngest child have been attacked with the fever, and their recovery is very doubtful. He has three other children, who, for want of sufficient no irishment, have been reduced to mere skeletons. The parish officers sent them two shillings yesterday mot Mng for the first time, an 4 the like sum was for warded to the woman Lt.ary. Mr. Sage, the medi cal gentleman who first called the attention of the I Magistrate to the case, received five shillings from ' an individual named Rolls, for the benefit of Daniels and his family, yesterday morning. The person who sent it holds a situation in the docks, and had read an ace :unt of the distressing case yesterday morning in the Papers. The only articles of furniture in the room are a chair, a straw bed, and a table. Mr. Gole, the churchwarden, has ordered that every attention should be paid to the family, and as soon as they are recovered they will be removed to their legal settle ment, Bristol, which Daniels left in consevence of the overseers setting him to break stones on the toad. Mr. Evans described the house where this malignant fever broke out, and the yard at the back, r, ; fo be in a very filthy state, but not so bad as many other places in the eastern district. T 0 VVIV-HALL A debonnaire little widow was summoned for assaulting one Mrs. Ann Ryan, an ancient dame, residing in a most pugnacious neighbourhood. Mrs. Ryan gave the Alderman to understand that On Wednesday evening last she was sitting by the file at work, surrounded by her lodgers, when the widow, who espied through the window a gentle man of her acquaintance among them, called out to him " There you sit with your -!" and entering the hou-e at the same time, favoured Mrs. Ryan with the crack of an Italian hot), which " knocked all her memorandums out of her knowledge-box and o bile she was endeavouring to pick them up again, would have saved her the labour by a coup de grace, had not the aforesaid gentleman prevented it, by pushing aside her hand, which aforesaid gen tleman Mrs. Ryan explained had lodged with her for 12 months, and was the innocent cause of the " asr sassinalion" with the aforesaid Italian iron committed by the widow. " Horrible, horrible !" exclaimed the widow at this juncture. " My name is Paris, Sir" (to the clerk's eres- Lion), said the thrice-before mentioned gentle-man, who to judge from his silver locks might have bothered the widow's grandmother : and Mr. Paris having fully corroborated his landlady's testimony, re sumed his seat. And now came the widow's turn to be commit.. nicaiive, who adjuting her tucker, said that the gentleman aforesaid had made sad havoc in her family; in the first place he had been seven times in prison for annoying her; and God knew what she had suffered by him; in the next place he had behaved cruelly to her daughter, when sick ; thirdly, he had abused the Captain for whom she washed; and, to sum up all, lie was a most barbarous man. " But what about the assault ❑pon Mrs. Ryan?" said the Alderman.—" That, Sir," resumed the widow, " was in return for a blow she gave me for remonstrating with that vile odious person." This being positively denied by the good woman complaining, the widow was held to bail. THE MARKETS. SOU MALL MA RH EF.—Feb. Li. In this day's market which was moderately well supplied throughout, but rather thinly attended by London and country buyers, the trade with the very primest stock was somewhat brisk, with that of middl ug and interior quality very dull, at the following prices per stone of 81b. to sink the oflals tfeef 3s. Od. to 4s. :M. 4s. '2d. to .ss. 6d. Mutton -- 3 10 5 0 Pork 4 0 5 0 The foregoing quotations are precisely the same as those of this day se'nnight. Beasts 181, Sheep 2070, Calves 50, Pigs 40. A considerable proportion of the supply left the market unsold. LEWES Al A ET.—Feb. 14. 3s. Od. to 4s. Od. Veal 55. ed. to 55. GI Mutton 4 2 5 `.2 I Pork -- 4 0 4 0 Supply moderately good, and trade dull. RU M FOR D M P. d. to S. d. S. d. s. d Heel 9 0 4 (1 1 Veal NI u Eton 1 6 4 8 Pork . 3 8 4 P Suckling Calves from I4s. to 34s ; Quarter old Pigsl2s.to I Bs. each, Supply rather limited, and trade dull. R K ET.—Feb. 13. COUNTRY CORN MARKE' Prg Nr 'FS DIMING THE WELK. Wheat. i Barley. Oats. Beans. Per Quarter. s. to s. Blainiford —lih 8 50 55 Cambridge—.. GI Chard 56 64 Huntingdon—. 58 67 Long Sutton-- 48 60 Louth 5O 56 Lvnn —.. 48 60 NC - Nark .... 53 62 Nottingham —.j 60 C,6 Peterborough --. 50 62 Plymouth 58 65 67 Sleaforil ... .... j 65 70 Uppingham 50 60 Wisbech--.-- 50 60 s. 5, - 35 372 3t - 32 20 36 I '2B 8. to 8. B. to S. 18 21 - 18 18 22 16 23 16 21 17 20 16 24 18 30 21 t 6 15 24 18 23 31 33 34 37 27 03 '2B 38 32 34 30 32 33 41 36 44 28 36 27 32 26 32 34 40 00 44 34 38 30 34 36 3S '2 8 35 28 16 21 i 18 2'2 41 43 2S 40 30 34 LEEDS COltN MA It KET.—Feb. 14. Wheat, Norfolk and Suftblk, 6011.). York. and Lincoln. 601 b. s:2i. to - 635. 3 Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk - Yorkshire and Lincolnshire --- Grinding Beans Oats, I'otatoe —Mealing, For. 1•24. to 13(1 Eng. 11 Y,id. to 13d. Per rt. Shelling LIVERPOOL CORN I , 2XCHANGE.—Feb. 14. WHEAT, English, White, per 70Ib. ......... 9s. 01 to 98. ---------- R, 8 8 8 10 Led ' . Scotch, Welch, and Manx Irish, White 8 3 8 4 - Red 8 2 8 3 Foreign 9 0 9 3 OATs, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 3 0 3 2 - Irish - Foreign BARLEY, English, Malting, per imp. quarter 36 0 38 0 - Scotch and Irish, per 601bs. - Feeding 4 0 4 4 BEANR, English , per l:nperial quarter 4O 0 42 0 - Iris h, &e. ----- Foreign PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter 3B 0 40 0 - Foreign FLotitt, English, per 2501 b. 47 0 48 0 - Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401bs 26 0 27 6 INDIAN CORN, per 4401 b. RYE, per Imperial quarter MALT, per Imperial quarter I+l POUT OF GRAIN for the Week ending Feb. 13. Wheat. Oats. Barley I Fl our . Oatmea l Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Foreign, Brls lrish,&c. Scks. Loads. 5,366 6,450 1,131 -- 3,063 4, 14 0 _......! BIRTHS. On the 14th inst. at Leamington, the lady of Sir C. E. Carring' ton, of Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks, of a daughter. On the 13th inst. at Broadstairs, the lady of the Rev. C. 6 ' Davies, of a (laughter. On the 15th inst. at Bow-lane, Mrs. T. Lott, of a son. tit On the 12th inst. at Bath, the lady of Captain Ellis, 13th LIS Dragoons, of a daughter. _ • MARRIED. On the 15th inst. Monsieur J. M. Malian, of Great Russe ll" street, Bloomsbury, to Miss 1). M. Samuel, niece of W. :I:snit''' . ' of the firm of Lundyfoot and Co., Nine-street, America-squar e ' On the Ifith inst. at St. James's church, G. L. Russell, EA youngest son of the Right Hon. Sir Henry Russell, to the LadY ; Caroline Alicia Diana I'ery, youngest daughter of the Earl °' Limey ick. On the 11th inst. at Alnwick, H. W. Askew, Esq., of Glen ridding, Cumberland, to Miss Lucia Percy, third oaughter , the Bishop of Carlisle. The ceremony was performed by thC Bishop of Carlisle, and the bride was given away by the Duke ol Northumberland. On the 13th inst. at St. Bride's, Mr. F. Faxon, of Hampstead , to Sarah, eldest daughter of S J. Button, Esq , of the Stocl‘ Exchange, and Racquet-court, Fleet-street. DIED. On the Kith inst. at Mortimer, Thomas Claudius, second s ol ' of Sir Claudius Hunter, Bart , in his '2Bth year. On the 13th inst. at his seat, Esholt-hall, Yorkshire, Joslil o Crompton, Esq., aged 77. On the 13th inst. Mary, wife of G. Twynam, Esq. of NOW church, Hants. On the 14th inst. in Clapton.iquare at the house of her fath e f, Mr. W. Ha'Jlton, Jane, the wife of J. S. Campbell, Esq. of grove, Q. 4eb,,e, PRINTED ANT Pr3l,lSiitD BY MURDO YOUNG, AT -,,0 St 4 OFFICE ) i I,r)Nno,c,