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

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Af With hearty congratulations to all friends of law, and order, and wholesome , government, we refer to our columns of this day for the result of yesterday's election throughout the vast metro polis and its dependencies. We do not con dole with or pity those turbulent intriguers whose notion of the natural state of a political community is, tli - at it should be kept from fall ing asleep by a frequent exercise of the " holy right of insurrection ; " nor have we .much com passion for those maniacs of an opposite stamp who esteem law, and order, and peace, after their fashion, to be very orthodox ingredients in a state, provided only that the " law " shall be made by themselves, and for their personal uses,—provided that they shall have the main tenance of " order" in their own hands, and that the " peace" which they tender to the nation shall not be disturbed by cries from those over whom they rule of famine, oppression, or mis government. These two classes of politicians, we apprehend, have been by this time pretty well sickened of appeals to the people of London and its neighbourhood for proofs of their approbation and support. Con servatives and Destructives have been spurned alike by the central, the most intelligent, and affluent, and commanding constituency of the whole United Kingdom. The prospects on which we dwelt with such cordial satisfaction in our last number have been confirmed and tri umphantly realized by the final issue of the poll, which, out of the 16 Members to be elected by London, Westminster,Marylebone, Tower Ham lets, Finsbury, Lambeth, and Southwark, has sent 15 supporters'of the Reform Bill as it stands —l5 friends of the liberal Government which proposed it—as many contemners of the prin ciple of stagnation in politics, and conscientious haters of wanton change and of the confusion and misery in which it so often terminates. It would have been difficult to anticipate a return for this great division of the country so en couraging to all honest men as that which has just been completed. Nowhere have the anarch ists prevailed; all their uproar and bullying have ended in utter mortification. If it shall produce such a sense of their own thorough insignificance as may render them hereafter less obtrusive upon public notice, and less offensive to public de cency and morals, the various " Rumps" of the metropolis will have gained something by their own exposure and by the kickings just inflicted on them. Upon the whole, the country must feel satisfied with these first fruits of the Reform Bill, as it has acted upon the metropolitan representation ; and an impetus as well as direction will thence, we trust, be so imparted to the political mind throughout every quarter of Great Britain, that liberal men, independent men, determined but intelligent and safe men, may be preferred to both extremes of faction, and may impress their character upon the first Reform Parliament, whose acts for the application of Reform principles must be of such inappreciable value to all future times. It is impossible to look over even the scanty list of Members already returned without being struck by the glorious contrast between a free and a trammelled constituency. The tranquil and de cent conduct of the polls, as well as their result, is a subject of the highest satisfaction to every one who feels the importance of the trust reposed in electors, and the solemnity of the occasion on which they are summoned to discharge it. Riot and debauchery, and systematic brutality, as means of succeeding at elections, have been ba nished by the Reform Bill, and for ever. We have got by means of the Reform Bill the incal culably extensive steam-power to correct all the evils of the State, and instead of a wild igno rant mass of fools, we have enlightened engi neers to manage the machine. With such power and such managers the friends of Free government may confidently expect the most important re sults.— Times. To a long tirade in a morning paper of yes terday, respecting certain attacks on the opinions and on the conduct of its correspondent in Bel gium, all that seems necessary in the way of re ply from us is, that our own correspondent, who originated those charges, assigned sufficient reasons for believing them to be well founded, and that his object in exhibiting them was not to gratify private spleen, but to set the public right in a matter of great importance. The as sertions, that any apology has been made by our correspondent, or that he had any share an causing the correspondent of the other paper to be denounced and apprehended as a spy, have not the slightest foundation ; neither could we suppress such apology, for the best reason— viz., that it has never reached us. For any further notice that the charges against us may appear to require, we refer to our own corres pondent, who is not a man to make rash asser tions, and certainly not a man to retract through fear, or any motive but conviction, anything which he has advanced. We have written to him on the subject, and shall leave him to ex plain it. The sympathetic yellings of some 01 the evening curs on this occasion are amusingly characteristic of the paltry habits of the mongrel race.— Times. The progress of the elections has hitherto, with a few exceptions, been decidedly favourable to liberal principles, without evincing any thing of that revolutionary spirit in the reformed con. stituency which the opponents of the great measure of Reform had anticipated, and which even some of the sycophants of the existing Ad ministration had recently prepared the public to expect. The augurs of evil had predicted that the elections for the metropolitan districts in particular would be characterised by those exhi bitions of violence and tumult which often dis grace the exercise of the most important and valuable of all popular rights ; yet, with the ex ception of some disgraceful maltreatment, rather of an insulting than injurious nature, experienced by the Secretary at War and Sir F. Burdett, at the hustings in Covent-garden, we have not heard of any act of personal violence committed at the present elections in the metropolis or its imme.. diate vicinity. And it must be recollected that inasmuch asWestminster is not one of the districts that has been enfranchised by the Reform Bill, the outrages of the election are not chargeable on that measure. Besides, every one re collects that, some years before the Reform Bill was dreamt of, both Sir Francis Burdett and Sir John Hobliouse were pelted with even more vigour than on the present occasion, an d were obliged to fly from the enraged populace even although the election was uncontested. In the city the whole four Members returned have come forward on liberal principles, and two of them were under no necer sity of professing such principles—we mean Aldermen Waithman and Wcod—tbe former of whom had shown himself one of the most firm and consistent men that this country has produced in the advocacy of liberal Principles, when liberality was,. far from being either the safe or fashionable doctrine of the day. Nor are we less gratified to see the de cided support which Alderman Waithman re ceived, without soliciting a vote by personal can vass, when we recollect the manly, strenuous, and indefatigable exertions which he has made for a long time past to combat the destructive theories and pernicious principles of pseudo statesmen and addle-headed " philosophers," to whose ignorance and vanity the commercial greatness of England, the capital of her ship owners and manufacturers, and the interests, nay, the daily bread of her skilful and industrious artisans, have been sacrificed to promote the bubble of " free-trade"—that fatal delusion, through which our commercial advantages are surrendered, without reciprocity, and which must, under any circumstances, while the enormous taxation of this country remains, con tinue to be a delusion, and nothing else. It is, therefore, that we should like to see a great many men of Alderman Waithman's principles in the new Parliament ; for it requires a good deal of sturdy honesty and practical good sense to save the best interests of the empire from the quacks of " political economy," who are ready to dose with their nostrums whatever remains of the commercial prosperity of the country to death. As to the Westminster election, it may not be superfluous to say that the return of the two worthy Baronets, who treated the consti tuency of that populous city as if they were the lords of a nomination-borough, does not make us think better of their principles or conduct than we did. We can have no respect for those men, as political characters, who took their early stand in public life on the ground of the extreme and impracticable doctrines of annual Parliaments and universal suffrage—who took pledges of the most extravagant sort by wholesale, and now fling contempt on all who propose that candi dates should bind themselves to the sentiments of their constituents by the most moderate and reasonable obligations. We shall still continue to think that the assessed taxes ought to be abolished, notwithstanding the shock which the bare mention of the subject gives the sus ceptible nerves of the ci-devant radical Mem bers for Westminster, and we shall still take every fair opportunity of reprobating the barbarous, inhuman, and degrading practice of military flogging, though it has lately been so well re gulated as to disturb none of the tender sensi bilities of the Secretary at War. While the elections have been conducted v►ith so much quietness and regularity in town as has almost universally distinguished them, we regret to find that in some parts of the country outrages have been committed that ought to make a civilized people blush. We may instance Coventry, Hertford, and Norwich. Surely they can have no idea of the value or object of political rights who, at the moment when they have the oppor tunity of exercising them, disgrace them by brute violence. It is as impossible for despotism and popular privileges to be reconciled as for licentiousness and true liberty to co-exist. We know that those advisers who, at the former elections, told the people " to strike at the faces of their enemies" are greatly answerable for this state of things ; but as the exceptions to general good order are few, so we hope the bad examples will not be contagious.—Morning Herald. Our readers will find in another column an abridged report, taken from the Brighton He rald, of an interesting meeting, held in the Town-hall of Brighton, on the important sub ject of capital punishments. It will be seen that Mr. Milford, a respectable and intelligent Magistrate, of 40 years' experience, presided, and gave his decided opinion, founded on that long experience of the administration of penal justice, that our code of criminal laws, from its sanguinary severity, has contributed, and is con tributing, most powerfully to demoralise and brutalise the people, and consequently to promote, instead of repress, the commission of crimes. Three of the candidates for the representation of Brighton spoke at this meeting, on the side of enlightened justice and the interests of huma nity.—Morning Herald. We yesterday observed that the course of the metropolitan elections the first day might be pretty safely deemed conclusive as to.the result; and at the final close of the poll yesterday, all of them, with one exception—the advance of Alderman Waithman on Alderman Wood—will be found to have kept the relative positions t hey occupied the first day. Messrs. Grote, Waith man, Wood, and Sir John Key, are returned for the City ; Sir Francis Burdett and Sir John Hobhouse for Westminster ; Messrs. Brougham and Humphery for the Borough ; Sir Stephen Lushington and Mr. Clay for the Tower Ham lets ; Messrs. Grant and Spankie for Finsbury ; Mr. Portman and Sir William Horne for Mary lebone ; and Messrs. Tennyson and Hawes for Lambeth. Thus there is not one Tory candidate returned for the whole of the metropolitan boroughs. The greatest constituency is in the City, where about 12,500 electors are said to have voted. The gentleman who stands on the poll above one thousand higher than any other —Mr. George Grote—has, from his entrance on manhood, been a most decided Reformer. When a very young man, about twelve years ago, he published a very able pamphlet on Parliamentary Reform, at a time when all sorts of substitutes for a thorough Reform were in vogue even among men claiming to be Libe rals, and when the praises of a variegated system of representation were sung in the Edinburgh Review by a great man now no more, in which, with equal courage and ability, he advocated a measure of Reform in which the electors should be identified in interest with the nation and the ballot. Mr. Grote is, therefore, a thorough Reformer, and we hail the distinction he has re ceived by the largest borough constituency in England, as a favourable omen for the New Parliament. We were much struck by the earnest tone of the observations which, at the close of the poll, he delivered to the people. " He could not (he said) refrain from noticing on that splendid occasion—an occasion unequalled in his short life—he could not refrain from de claring how proud he felt at obtaining the sup port of so many thousands of his fellow-citizens. He would make it his first and most fervent prayer, that their choice might be as auspicious to the city of London and the country at large, as it was ex.ulting to him. He could assure them that his heart beat high with the love of the principle of liberty, and a desire to promote the happiness of the people, which were strength ene d b y see i ng b e f ore hi m t h e ma j esty of the pe o pl e o f England as they were repre sented in great multitudes in that splendid place. The power of the people he recognised, and to them he owed fealty and allegiance, and here (said Mr. Grote), on this spot, I vow to devote my best services to them, to the utmost extent my humble talents will allow me. I shall es teem myself eternally base and dishonoured, after having gloried in your confidence, if I should eve r do ought to giveyou cause to repent." We have not the smallest fear that this covenant, into which Mr. Grote then entered with the people, will be righteously observed. His first consideration will be the happiness of the nation ; and he will never give his countenance to any measure which tends to promote interests opposed to those of the people. Throughout the country the elec tions appear, with few exceptions, of the same character. Mr. Edward Ellice and Mr. Bulwer have polled six times the number of their oppo nents. In Harwich, Mr. Herries, we are sorry to see, is at the top of the poll, but there has been a split in the liberal interest in that borough. Mr. Town, the next in order, is a Whig, but so recent a convert, that at the election for Essex in 1830, Tyrrell was even too liberal for him, and he proposed a candidate still more illiberal. If a better man had been started, Henries could have had no chance whatever. In Norwich Lord Stormont and Sir James Scarlett are at the top of the poll ; but there have been sad doings in that corrupt city. The advertisement from scot and lot voters, some time ago, wishing to be bought, speaks volumes. Upon the whole, we may confidently say a new era has commenced. The gentlemen of England will now see that, to be honoured by the people, they must sympa thise with the people. The aristocracy, which, of all others, is the most offensively exclusive, must change their character, or reconcile them selves to insignificance and contempt.—Morn ing Chronicle. We are glad to find, from the Dublin Even ing Post that the prospect of Sir Henry Par nell's return for Queen's County is now better than it was represented to us : " The Chronicle" says that Paper, " no doubt, will be glad to find that its information on both the points re• fel red to in the preceding paragraph, is erroneous. Domi nick Brown has not yet resigned, nor will—and Sir H. Parnell will he returned for the Queen's County, in spite of the machinations of Old Treachery and his Tail. It is true there may be opposition, and the names of several gentlemen have been mentioned, as ready to stand on the repeal pledge—Mr. Gale, Mr. Lalor, Mr. Cassidy, Mr. Trench, and others ; but it is not true, we ima gine, that up to this moment, any of these gentlemen have explicitly declared their intention to stand for the county, much less their desire to disseat Sir Henry Parnell. The Queen's County Club resolved to support repeal candidates on Monday last, but the parish priests of the Queen's County had assembled previously, and come to a resolution that they would not, individually or col lectively, oppose any Member who would pledge himself against the present tithe•system. So that at all events, the repealers, if they should go the hustings, cannot cal culate on the moral influence which so justly belongs to the Catholic priesthood of the Queen's County. Indeed, it would be very extraordinary, if among that body were found an opposition to the able, strenuous, and consistent advocate of Irish liberty, Sir H. Parnell." I❑ the same paper appears an advertisement, which explains the allusion respecting the Ro man Catholic priests. They came, it seems, to the following resolution :—" Resolved, that at the ensuing election for the representa tion of the Queen's County, we will not op pose any candidate who will pledge himself to vote for the total extinction of tithes and Church rates, and the enactment of a law to support the poor out of the property of the Church." This resolution was agreed to at a meeting in Maryborough, on the 26th No vember, the very Rev. N. O'Connor in the chair, and it is subscribed by fifteen parish priests. A pledge, however, to vote for the total extinction of tithes and Church rates, and to maintain the poor out of the Church pro perty, must be taken by every candidate who wishes to be returned. This is a sign of the times which cannot be mistaken. The English must abandon the idea of cramming their own religion down the throats of the Irish.—Morn ing Chronicle. The result of the metropolitan elections,which terminated yesterday, as it may be regarded in various aspects, may excite sentiments of dis appointment or satisfaction. It is unpleasant to reflect that the whole body of Members of Parliament returned from the metropolis are men, more or less, committed to the principles of revolution ; while, on the other hand, it is satisfactory to observe that a considerable ma jority of their number are also men who may be expected to admit by their speeches and votes in the Legislature, that black is black, and white white, however Ministers may be compromised by the confession. This latter quality in the representation of the London districts is the more to be prized, that the executive Govern ment has, upon the present occasion, exerted its great local influence unsparingly, and that it results from the working of a measure devised by Ministers for the purpose, not of giving the nation faithful representatives, but of obtain ing for themselves devoted partisans in Parlia ment. In the city of London we have to lament the defeat of the Conservative candidate, Mr. Lyall, who polled, however, 5,322 votes without the least assistance from any of the other four candidates, each of whom was assisted by the combined influence of all. This mis fortune only shows the folly of the Conser vative party in not having brought forward four candidates instead of one. Had this been done Mr. Lyall's friends would none of them have voted for Mr. Grote, or have thus enabled him to attain a position in which he could safely direct the chief atten tion of his peculiar partisans to the success of Sir John Key. As it is, however, his Ma jesty's Ministers must not, if they can help it, blunder during the next session as they did during the last, or they will find that the four Members for the city of London will be com pelled to know the difference between black and white. The city of Westminster, under the dictation to a considerable extent of the official boards, has given his Majesty's Ministers two Members who will probably be as blind as even the present Administration can require, one of the o being a candidate for the Peerage, and the other a subaltern Member of the Government. From the borough of Southwark-Ministers get one Member in the person of Mr. W. Brougham, who will be ready of course, as often as it may be necessary, to vote that black is white, or anything else that their service may require ; for is not his brother Lord Chancellor, anti is not he Master Brougham ? Mr. Ro bert Grant and Sir Wm. Horne are also per sons upon whom Ministers can . depend in any emergency ; for, however it may be the duty o f the Member for Finsbury and the Member for Marylebone to assist in correcting the blun ders or in punishing the crimes of an Adminis tration, it is the more cogent duty of the Judge-Advocate and the Attorney -General to support the Administration that supports them. Thus, from the metropolitan districts, Ministers have obtained five Members out of sixteen who will support them throug h t hick and thin ; that if we may judge fro m t h e i r pas t is to say, who will give them th e on l y ki n d o f support which, conduct, is likely to be of any use. The remaining eleven, now that the Reform Bill is passed, and Ministers are probably not yet quite prepared with any other nostrum wherewith to drug the country into delirium, will probably be inclined to admit, now and then, that black is black, and not white, and must therefore, unless Ministers are greatly improved, of which we see no symptom, vote quite as often against them as in their favour. There is nothing more re markable, in connection with the metropolitan elections, than the very small proportion of the whole registered constituency that have actually polled at the greater part of them. Many Con servative electors in each of the new districts, as well as in Westminster, have, we know, thrown away their votes, with the view, not to support the Attorney-General, or Sir John Hobhouse, or Mr. Tennyson, or Mr. R. Grant, but to keep out the Joneses, the Evanses, the Wakefields, and the Wakleys; while there can, we suppose, be no doubt that most of the voters who disdained to approach the polling-booths at all, or to in termeddle with an election in which they could give no vote to their satisfaction, were Conser vatives also. We know how painful it must be to men of gentlemanly habits and feelings to un dergo the rough ordeal of a contested election in the metropolis. But while we cannot condemn this feeling, we must deeply lament that it has prevailed to so great an extent upon the present important occasion. We have no doubt that, had proper leaders of the Conservative party come forward in suitable numbers, and with proper spirit, the election of several of them for the metropolitan districts would have been se cured. One especial pleasure we have derived from this election in witnessing the deplorable figure cut by the Radical Jones at Marylebone. Out of the immense borough of Marylebone, where he has been canvassing and speechifying for at least a year, this favourite contributor to the Times journal could find only 318 voters infatuated enough to give him their suffrages. It is perhaps an omen of similar humiliatio❑ to another equally important individual connected with the same establishment who has presumed to set himself up as a candidate for the county of Berks.—Morning Post. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY BY SERVANTS.—CharIes Stean, formerly sbopman ; Hannah Jones, cook; Philip .Fudger, porter ; and Mary Ann Parker, housemaid, in the employ of Mr. Gray, chymist and druggist, No. 97, New Bond-street, were charged with having stolen a very large quantity of the stock, the property of the firm of Messrs. Gray and Co.; and Wm. Weir, Rebecca Weir, and Thomas Weir, were also charged with having received portions of the property, well knowing them to have been stolen. About the latter end of last November, Mr. Gray, having suspicion that something wrong was going on in his establishment, and from a communication made to him, was induced to question Fudger, the porter, who had been two years in his employ, and whose honesty had never before been suspected, and also Hannah Jones, who had lived in his family as cook for about two years and a half. Upon looking into some drawers in the scullery, Mr. Gray disco vered a quantity of articles which had been taken out of his shop, and in her box a miscellaneous as sortment of property, all of which had been either purloined from the shop or the dwelling-house. After this discovery, Jones took Mr. Gray into the kitchen, and pulled down a basket, which she gave into his hands with the observation that it contained the remainder of the articles she had stolen from him, and she hoped he would forgive her. The porter (Fudger), when questioned, said that he had no portion of Mr. Gray's property in his possession, and readily agreed that Goddard and another officer of this establishment should search his lodgings in Woodstock-street. The officers, on searching, found only three articles of about the value of 1 Is., which Mr. Gray identified as his property. The witness accounted for their possession very plausibly, but his statement was ascertained to be totally untrue. Mary Anne Parker, the houQemaid, whie. had left just before the discovery, having called to see the cook, was also interrogated, and a promise was made to her, that if site would confess, even if she had any of the property, she should be forgiven. She, how ever, positively denied having anything belonging to Mr. Gray ; but when her boxes were searched, a number of articles from the shop were found, the greater part of which she stated were given to her by the cook and Stean. Stean, the shopman, who had left the service of Mr. Gray some time, and was, at the time of the discovery, in the employ of Mr. Gill, Charing•cross, was questioned by the two officers, and his boxes searched, but nothing what ever was found to criminate him. Goddard, how ever, proceeded to Grove -terrace, Camberwell, where a brother of Stean lived, and where he had depo sited a trunk, and on looking into the trunk, a quan tity of valuable essential oils and miscellaneous arti cles were discovered, all of which were sworn to by Mr. Gray. The officers returned to Charing-cross, to communicate the result of their search to Stean, but they found he had quitted Mr. Gill's house, leaving a note of apology for his abrupt departure. The officer went back to Camberwell, and there found the prisoner, who acknowledged that the oils, &c., were his property, and asserted that he had ac counted to the till for their value. Mr. Gray, in contradiction, said there were no entries of this description in the book. Rebecca Weir, a feinale occasionally employed as charwoman at Mr. Gray's, was next taken into cus tody, and on searching hei lodgings, in Ormond street, a great number of articles were found, which she acknowledged had been brought from Mr. Gray's house. William Weir, her husband, having left a can and a bag at a baker's shop where he dealt, the contents were examined, and they proved to be a further portion of property belonging to Mr. Gray. When taken into custody, he said it was nudger and the cook who had brought him into this trouble. The remaining prisoner (Thomas Weil), a plumber and glazier, in White-streer, Borough, was taken into custody, some articles but of trifling value being found in his possession. _ _ _ All the pri;oners declined to say anything for the present, and they were all committed. HATTON-GARDEN. A TROUBLESOME CUSTOMER.—Yesterday, Ann Freneham, alias Smith, was charged under the fol lowing circumstances. On Monday morning the defendant went to the County Treasurer's office, Clerkenwell-green, and demanded a sum of money from Mr. Wright, a clerk there; but failing to pro cure it, she struck him, and forced a bunch of seals value 71. from his watch, with which she made otE In the course of an hour she returned with an infant, of which she was the mother by Mr. Wright, and having laid it on Mr. Wright's desk, she threw down a pawnbroker's duplicate for the seals, and ran off. Mr. Wright paid ss. a week to Clerken• well parish for the support of the child, and was constantly annoyed by the female, who is noted for her bad language. She was ordered to find bail. QUEEN-SQUARE. THE POLICE AT ELECTlONS.—Yesterday James 111-artin, a young man, a b r i c kl ayer b y tra d e, was charged with assaulting two policemen of the B di vision. On the preceding afternoon a fight took place between two men in th e crow d a , sens bl e d op posite the polling booth erected in St. Margaret's Church-yard, .Westminster. Th e po li cemen b e i ng on duty there interfered, and eventually succeeded i n putting an end to the conflict, which arose out of, we believe, some party feeling. Thi s a b ru pt termi nation of the pugilistic contest appeared to give umbrage to the defendant, who, with a disgusting expression, called them Peelers, and observed, that they would before long be obliged to dispose of their clothes to help to keep themselves. One of the policemen desired him not to molest them in the execution of their duty, and, placing his hand upon the defendant's shoulder, ordered him to go about his business. This proceeding of the police man was met on the part of the defendant by a violent kick on the shins, and as matter of course a scuffle ensued, during which the other policeman came up, but, before they could place the defendant in safe custody, they had much to encounter. The mob collected round the booth followed them to the station-house, calling out " rescue !" and pelting them with mud and stones. The defendant denied the greater pact of the policeman's statements, and had he been aware the complainants were policemen, should not have re sisted at all. Mr. WHITE—What ! were the policemen not in uniform ? Defendant—No, they were in plain clothes. Mr. WHITE—It is very extraordinary—half the disturbances which take place arise in consequence of policemen not wearing their uniform. Policeman—The defendant must have been aware who we were, or he would not have called us " Peelers." Besides, he saw us with our staves in our hands. Mr. WHITE—I will not encourage the practice of going about in plain clothes. If you like to in dict him at the Sessions, you may, but I will not entertain a charge of assault under such circum stances. A great many charges brought before me arise from policemen wearing coloured clothes. Inspector—The men have been requested to at. tend in plain clothes by the Commissioners. Mr. WHITE—I, don't care who they are re quested by. They can refuse if they like. If they do so, they must take the consequences. I hate spies, and I hate the system. The defendant was then discharged. THAMES POLICE. DEPRAVITY, WRETCHEDNESS, AND ATTEMPTED SUlClDE.—Yesterday seven wretched females of loose character, named Jane Green, Martha Higgs, Sarah Gardner, alias Jane Harvey, Mary White, Ellen Martin, Elizabeth Mellington, and Ann Friends, were charged with riotous and disorderly conduct. The woman Gardner, who is better known by the name of Harvey, has been committed from this and the Lambeth-street Office more than fifty times during the last eight years. Though not more than twenty-five years of age, she has the appearance of being more than sixty, and a more pitiable spectacle of human misery than she pre sented was never seen in a police-office. But a few years since she was living in splendour with a Captain Harvey, whose name she adopted. Mr. Fagan, an inspector of K division, said the district was in a constant state of disturbance from the disorderly conduct of the prisoners, and in con sequence of the complaints of the inhabitants he had lately taken measures to suppress the nu"- sance occasioned by that clues of unfortunate wo men to which the prisoners belonged. On Mon day night, between twelve and one o'clock, he found White, Martin, Friends, and Higgs, in a state of intoxication, and making a disturbauce in Shad well High-street. Higgs was using the most obscene language, and Martin was fighting with another woman of the same abandoned character. A po liceman, on taking White into custody, was as sailed with the most dreadful abuse, while the noise made by friends caused the inhabitants to get out of bed and throw open the windows. About the same time Green was found lying dead drunk in the street, with her infant crying by her side. Soon af terwards he discovered Harvey on a dung-heap. She was quite insensible with the liquor she had drank, and almost suffocated. He was compelled to borrow a truck to convey her to the station house, and he believed that, but for the assistance of a surgeon she would have died. She had been often brought to the station-house in the same state, and the commissioners had been put to great expense for medical attendance upon her. Wheeler, a policeman, No. 160 K, stated that he was informed that Mellington, who lived in New Gravel-lane, intended to commit suicide, and had at tempted to throw herself out of a window. He went to the house and saw her struggling with ano ther female at the window of the second story, but she succeeded in throwing herself out. He fortu nately caught her in his arms, but his whole frame had received such a shock that he thought he should never get the better of it. The prisoner was also much hurt. Mr. BALLANTINE said, if the fact was not placed beyond doubt, the mass of profligacy and misery before him, if d scribed to the world, would appear a matter of fiction. Here were seven young females, all of whom were in a continual state of Intoxica tion ; and, though young in years, were in constitu tion and appearance old women whose days were almost numbered. With respect to the wretched woman Harvey, whom he had frequently sent to her parish, she was a nuisance of the worst kind, and had been found in a state truly horrible. It would be a charity to her and to the public to send her to prison instantly, and he committed her as a vagrant to the House of Correction for three months, to be kept to hard labour. White, Martin, Friends, and Higgs were sentenced to one month's imprisonment each ; and Green, more on account of her infant than herself, was discharged. The Worthy Magi strate then questioned Mellington as to the cause of her attempting the dreadful crime of suicide. The prisoner made no answer; in fact she was too ill to speak. Mr. BALLANTINE said the crime of self-murder should be decried as much as possible; it was op posed to all laws, human and divine. It was for bidden by God, and the Christian religion de nounced it. He was satisfied that the best th , ng for morals as well as religion was to mark the atrocity of self-murder, which, if winked at by the constituted authorities, would be productive of much harm. The worthy Magistrate then stated his rea sons at great length for adopting a particular line in these cases, though he was opposed to the opi nions of others for whom he entertained great re spect. He did not wish to do anything hastily, but he was satisfied in his conscience that he was doing right, and that a person who attempted sui cide ought to be punished. He should endeavour to find out whether the prisoner was in a sound state of mind, for insanity alone could palliate her offence. If she was a lunatic she should be sent to a proper asylum, but if she was not, she should be compelled to find bail to answer the charge at the Sessions. In the meantime she should have every attendance her situation required. M. MOZINHO DE ALBUQUERQUE, Minister of the Interior to Don PEDRO, and who accompanied the Marquis PALMELLA to this country, is going to Madrid, it is said, to sign, on the part of the Ex-Emperor, the treaty of negotiation of Donna MARIA. It appears certain that General SOLIGNAC is about to take the chief command at Opoi to. It is asserted that he has had lately an interview with Queen Donna MARIA and the Duchess of BRAGANZA.-Journal du Commerce. DEATH OF J. S. GRlMALDl.—Yesterday morning died, after a sudden illness, at hit lodgings, No. 24, Pitt -street, Tottenham-court-road, Mr. J. S. GRIMALDI, the son, and, as it was once thought, the successful successor, of his highly-talented father. The deceased had performed last weak, at the Totten. ,ham-street theatre, the parts of Scaramuuch, in Don Juan, and Black Cesar, in the Slave's Revenge, and then appeared in his usual bea!th. On Monday, how e ter, he became delirious, but dressed himself, and as sumed one of his principal characters ; he was then mildly restrained, and medical aid called in, but all proved in effectual, and at 9 o'clock yesterday morning he breathed his last. The deceased was unmarried, and in his 30th year. DUELLING.—SWIFT'S observations upon duelling is certainly the best reason that can be assigned for the continuance of its practice. He says, " I s hould be exceedingly sorry to find the Legislature to make any new law against the practicing of duelling, as I can dis cover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own, where the law bath nut been able to find au ex pedient," MARKET INTELLIGENCE. LONDON MARKETS. (From the London New Price Current of yesterday.) The business of the City is suspended o n account et the election ; the great proportion of the Markets are oboe. SUGAR..—The demand for Muscovades last week was oil a very confined scale ; the estimated purchases did not et7j reed 2,200 hhds. and trs. Th e p r i ces were w i t h out tbel slightest alteration ; there were no anxious sellers, 0 4 no parcels pressing upon the Market at any reductioe4 The stock of West India Sugar is now 31,774 hhds. sot trs., which is 9,342 less than last year. The stock Mauritius is 56,475 bags, being 27,905 less than lest year. The delivery of West India Sugar is 2,619 hbds' i and trs., being 470 l e ss th an l as t year. Th e d e li ver y "' Mauritius 5,711 bags, being 98 more than the correspond' ing week of 1831. In the Refined Market there Mr little variation last week ; the holders were firm, parts" cularly with the low goods, on account of their scarcity' no reduction could be stated, but the Market was ve r y heavy. Molasses 255. EAST INDIA SUGARS. -About 7,000 bags East Indi a Sugars were brought forward at public sale last week, the great proi , ortion Siam Sugar, which sold at previou . prices ; the Manilla went off a shade lower. MAURITIUS SUGARS.-The public sales last week cl f , Mauritius Sugars w ere li m i te d to 1,178 bags returOe• from Bremen, which sold at full market prices ; the de", mand by private c on t ract was cons i dera b le ; the reqoP,,, was particularly for the brown descriptions, for wb high prices were paid. FOREIGN SUGARS.-The demand continues confined," the lower d escr i pt i ons o f F ore i gn Sugar, particularly tve brown : good b rown B a hi a 21s. ; good yellow Havant's", 25 5.-Average price of Sugar 1/. 9s. 71 per cwt. COFFEE.-The Coffee Market remained steady all IP . week till Friday, when extensive sales were brought fo r. ward, 2,215 begs Foreign .2,192 bags East India, besicl_t i small parcels c f M oc h a an d Br i t i sh Plantation ; the vib' went off with heaviness, and generally ls. per cwt. lowe r ' the Batavia, how e v er , supporte d the previous prices j Brazil good to fine or d. a part on l y sold 545. a 565. ; gr to fine ord. La Guyra 54 5 . a 555. 6 , 1. ; Havannah _ _ and 555. 6d. ; the Satnarang sold Is. a 2s. lower ; g°s Batavia sold 555. a 555. 6d. ; the Mocha ord. to goy 58s. a 755. The British Plantati on d escr ipti ons ,go heavily at the previous prices. There were no public sal t this day, and no transactions by private contract are f r ported. Rom, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.There are no 1 0 0 ; chases of Rum reported this week; there is not ao slightest variation in the curren c y. B ran d y i s fi r m at former quotations. Geneva continues scarce. Carrots. -The Cotton Market continues very bead. The sales are inconsiderable. FRUIT.-New Valentia R tisins continue to be taken A in small parcels at 445. Another cargo has arrived. parcel of new French Fruit was sold by public s ale , „ Wednesday a t th e f o ll ow i ng pr i ces , viz , qr. brls. Prop, 70s. a 725. ; qr. c h es t s I mper i a l F renc h Pl ume , 106 1 ' 110 s. ; small poxes ditto in cases, Si. I ls. a 81.; car ; toons ditto in cases, 71. t3s. and 9L 2s. ; half car 1 0 ° J ; ditto, SI. a 101. 18s.; and qr. csrtoons ditto, 11/. ; boxes new Muscatel Raisins, chit fly bought in at 95 1 ' 0 . 105 s. ; half boxes, 105 s. a 110 s. ; an d qr . b oxe s, ". a 1261. ; old Red Smyrna Raisins, fine quality, at SSil butts new Zant e Cur ran t s , d amage d, 65 5 . a 66 a . ; pt. at 675. ; caroteels ditto, damaged, at 675. ; new Psj Currants, damaged, butts at 67 5 . a 68 s . ; an d s oun d 68s. a 695. SricEs.-There is no alteration since Tuesday l a t The slight reduction in P e pp er h as b a d t h e e ff ect o f 0 e : ink many of the holders withdraw their goods from as they will not submit to the reduction. • Cocoa.-British Plantation Co coa o f goo d qual i ty iI held for higher prices. The Brazil is neglected. : „ 1 the CASSIA LIGNEA.-At the public sale of Fr...s, prices were a shade lower ; 600 chests Cassia Ligneso° 765. 61. a 771. 6d. a INDIGO. -The only pa rc el s of I n di go repor t e d so ld some small lots of l ow q ua lity. Th e M ar k et i s rtit'w variation. TEA.—Congous sell at 2s. op. a 2e. 0A I. for coot.; good 2s. Id. a 2s. 3d., fine 2s. 4d. a 3s. They are set. rather under last sale ; about 2,200 chests have beet l ;i i i fused. The Black Teas fini s h e d y es t er d a y. Catripai'" . 0.114 at 2s. Oid. to 2s. 441 3,716 chests refused. Souch l al sold at 2s. Sd. to 4..-530 chests refused. Twankar at 2s. lid. to 2s. 6d., being ld. cheaper—about 2,7; 0 c, chests refused. Already 800,0001b 9 . w e ight of Tea i ll been rejected by the buyers. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE W 1 Wheat. Barley. I Oats. B s. to s. s. to s. s. to e 15 32 1 p 34 18 ' , I 36 41 17 25 37 *MIII 24 30 14 22 25 4 , 25 33 12 18 40 30 39 10 21 36 .t 28 35 14 18 3 2 0 1 30 36 21 23 3 3 26 38 16 24 NORWICH. Dec. 8. 3.0 Wheat (per qr.) « 45s 58s. 625. I Beans (per qr.) o jp. Barley 2os. 325. 365. Pease, Grey 3 ° L 40.= Oats 20s. 225. 245. Flour, fine (per sack) d 2 1 Per Quarter. Boston Gainsborough --- Grantham Grimsby Uorncastle Lincoln Spilsby Stamford York S. to S. 53 67 42 58 44 52 46 60 48 54 47 59 52 66 CANTERBURk, Dec. S. tom Wheat, white Ms. to 625. — B . 465. to 564 wow.. --s. to n ag, Barley, Malting 345. to 40 s . G rin ding.. Ws. teM Oats 18s. to 22 3. •Nnr.ro to !`nl Beans Pease 343 to 263: 279, to 375. to 395, Grey 345. to MANCHESTER, Dec. R. st l ' Wheat, per 701 b. Ss. 9d. to 9s. Ocl. Red Ss. 01. to 1 , Barley, per 60111 5 6 6 0 Oats 3 0 a 0 , Beans, per Imperial quarter Pease, White, per Imperial bushel 5 0 ;•:, 0 Malt, per 6 Imperial bushels 43 0 ' 5 4 Flour, per Sack of 2801 b 45 0 EXETER MARKETS —Dec. 7. mt 1 04. Beef (score) _Ss. Od. 9s. 6d. Wheat (bushel) ~..75.‘ 0 Mutton (03.),.............0 51 0 6 Barley .......................4 .° g Veal and i arnb........0 6 0 7 Oats " 2 3 6 5 ° Pork ~....................—....-0 4 0 6 Beans ...... _ 5 6 1 Geese (each) -...4 Ducks 'counle\--4 Fowls —...,.,,,,.,.3 0 Butter (10:—.........1 0 ; 0 Eggs (12) ____O 0 i 1 Potatoes (peck) .4/ 6 0 5 6 0 5 0 4 0 KILKENNY.—Butter 82s to 84s. per cwt. ; Wheat tO 8 u` per barrel ; Flour '2os. to 345. per bag; Oats 7s. to 9 • to p _„ 0 rel ; Barley 12s. to 13s. ; Beef 4d. to s€l. per lb. ; N„ of' to NI. ; Potatoes 2d. per stone; Coals Is. 2cl. per cwt.; Pigs 355. to 365. per cwt. SCOTCH MARKETS. - - - - --- -- -- ---- HADDINGTON CORN 111ARKET.—Dec. 7 • 0 0.4 - Wheat. 1 Barley. Oats. I Pease. First s7s Od 33s Od 22s Od 26s Od % OLI Second sos Od 28s Od 193 Od 23s Od crA ,'"' O, Third There were 574 qrs. of Wheat in market, 542 whe re of We re 32 Unsold.-0 Grey . .21. lOs - Aver B.l2tbs. MARK: 6. Pease. Bel 32s Od 2`2 , Od 28s Od V. 4 24s Oti DALKIE TH Con: Wheat. Barley. Oats. First 6os Od 32s 6d 22s Od Second sos Od 2Ss Od 20s Od Third 4OB Od 24s Od 16s Od MEETINGS OF CREDITORS, AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL-STREET' (From the London Gazette.) 1: TO-MORROW, DEC. 13. 1 r S. Drucker, wine-merchant, Old City Chambers ............ „ DIVIDENDS. i t ,1, 2 ' H. and J. Cazenove, merchant, Broad-street -buildings ......... J. and E. A. Smee, warehousem en , C rown - c ourt .......... .. I R. and W. B. Bywat e r, grocers , W a lth am AbbeY ............. 1 W. Morgan and Co., merc h an t s , Li verpoo l -s treet .......... . 1 G. Richardson and Co silk-mercer s , West Cowes ........ J. Phillips, jun., china-dealer, Great Newport-street .. . R. Sherwood, uilder, Princes-street, Blackfriars-roa a . „,....-- _ en MARRIED. va ard Cr i- On the llth inst. at St. George's Bloomsbury, .--w„„ t ist ic ll o , Esq., of Liverpool, to Margaret, daughter of Z. ld,c h— ry P.,,11t e On the 3d inst. at the Royal Chapel, Tower, Mr. Ther, ciartirs son, of Pentonville, to Eliaa Eleanor Gilbertson, 0.1 , d of of the late James Whalley, Esq. of Gloucester, Whalley, of Canonbury-square, Islington. J 00 0 h ni n , ti t h l , the 10th al l eo o ht t he h ri i ,n n so s ti t : ao at L I - oe l ra e din n . 1 i e n y g , t o i n n , t he9s t h . year lloi. DIED. versally lamented, Mrs. Grace Treacher, sister 0 . t ”" _...ce ° suddenly, In con •bbi sr seq U esi e"isle o . f the rupture of a blood-vessel, the Right Hon. Lord 1 1 . t t, le., a . On the 9th inst at Woodley-lodge, Berks, in the Dief. ftiont her age, Mary Juliana, sixth daughter of James Vih, e e ns.P c On the 7th inst. in Lower Phillimore-place, ." OP' William Sawer, Esq., in his 96th year. filth op t' ° ae On the 10th inst., aged 17, William Edward, •••-• ~,or-, tr , e , .• J. W. Scott, Barnsbury.park, Islington. On the 10th inst. in Gloucester-place, portman,sq t tb a ro ) 01 Neville Adams, Esq., of Abesfords.hall, Essex, in o e, ec. of his age. fever (whilst engaged with his regiment in quelling airy, Lion,) . tion,) Ensign J. D. Pinder, of the 38th Native 10.a . ' fle a In May last, near Midnapore, in the 21st year of ft . ,lo l l fr rth son of Richard Finder Esq., of York.place, Bristol..., lit On the Bth inst. at Widmore, near Bromley, Ke lp nett, in the 82d year of his age. - --,. %.___ ____<;o o PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY MU 11D0 YOUN G ' ' of, i h er e to sif SUN OFFICE, In, STRAND, LONDON, BIRTHS. P 4 ' On the 9th inst. at Sunbury, the lady of John 13lsb° 0 0 ,11 a son. On the 10th inst. in Cornwall-terrace, Regent's-Par ' the ' of O William Pay . nter, Esq., of a daughter. n the 11th inst. Mrs. Edward Si meon Meyer, street, Covent-garden, of a son. ,e, On the 9th inst. Mrs. S. Savill Kent, of Artillery P" — , bury-square, of a daughter. of °lig* On the sth inst. in Surrey-square, Mrs. Woodwa.— , On the 9th inst. Mrs. G. R. Corner, of Canterb,l" Southwark, of a daughter.