The Sun. — London, England, 1822-05-28 00:00:00

TnE LONDON JOURNALS. EXTRACTS FROM THE DAILY MORNING PAPERS, May 28, 1822. [MORNING POST.] It is highly gratifying to find that the satisfac tion expressed and felt by the public at the Chancellor of the Exchequer's statement on Fri day night, is quite as universal and strong as we anticipated. One thing, however, must now be attended to, in order that the people may derive the fill benefit from the remission of taxes, which his Majesty's Ministers have been at such pains to afford, consistently with the State and the integrity of the national credit: In mention ing the reduction of the Leather Tax, Mr. Van sittart emphatically suggested the necessity of the utmost vigilance of Parliament to see that the price of leather fell to the consumer, in the proportion which the duty on it is now diminished• He himself had great doubts on the subject, and particularly as Leather had not been reduced in price since the peace, proportionably to the fall in the raw article from which it is manufactured. These doubts our Readers may be assured are well founded. The Leather Trade has at present got into the hands of a few large capitalists, who, like the Brewers, act in concert, and possess the closest monopoly of the market. If they should, therefore, attempt to keep pos session of the Tax now remitted, we trust it will be again imposed, and some other duty, operat ' ing more directly on the public, repealed instead of it. To justify these remarks, we would ob serve, that so far from I I ides, or Peltry in gene ral being at the rate they were during the war, they are now a drug in the market. In the mean time, too, every thing expended in their manu facture has fallen greatly in price, but there is, withal, scarcely any decline in Leather. Some thing of the same vigilance will be well bestowed enforcing the practical remission of the Salt Tax ; and on the whole the public owe it to his Ma jesty's Ministers to co-operate in carrying their plans for relieving the country into the , fulles l effect. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] The designs of Russia with respect to Turkey a short time will now serve to discover. It is difficult to believe that Russia will withdraw armies which she has moved to her southern frontier at an expellee nearly ruinous to so poor a Power ) without an indemnification. But how is she to be indemnified ? England cannot bribe her to inactivity, and Austria is as poor as her self. The personal character of the Emperor Alexander is variously represented. Some con sider hula Jesuit, others a weak hut well mean ing man, flattered with the idea of being at the head of Legitimacy in Europe, and having it in his power to turn the scale in favour of the divine right•of Kings to gover❑ wrong, or the rights of the people.—No one however supposes that the Russians have renounced the dazzling plans pre sented to their ambition by Catharine. The personal inclinations of Alexander, Autocrat as he is, cannot alone decide this matter—The feelings of the Russian ,Nobles and Army must , be more or less consulted, even if the opinion of the Cabinet should be disregarded. We can hardly bring ourselves to think that mere con siderations of regard for the safety of the Holy Alliance would be palatable with the Russians, who are not yet sufficiently advanced in civiliza tion to appreciate a refined policy of this descrip tion. Another policy was openly attributed to the Russian Nobles by the Greeks who fell in the principalities, namely, that of a wish to see the most active and enterprising of the Greek population destroyed, that there . might after wards be no obstacle to their becoming absolute lords of the soil. We leave it,for those who are best acquainted with the Russian aristocracy, to say how far they are capable of harbouring such views. [Tii•E TTMES .] [NEW TIMES.. The Constitutional Association, which the Radicals flattered themselves had become ex tinct, has most effectually convinced them of their error, by obtaining another verdict. " The man without a name" was yesterday tried, at the prosecution of this most excelleht and patrio tic Society, before Mr. common Serjeant Den. man and a Special Jury, and was found guilty o publishing a most blasphemous and sedi,.. libel. The sentence passed On this offender is alone a high eulogium on the Association for having brought him to justice. In addition to the five months' imprisonment which he has suffered by his own contumacy, he has now been, sen tenced to eighteen months longer confinement in the House of Correction; and to find bail for his good behaviour for five years more.—No person of common decency can hesitate to regard this man as a most proper object for prosecution. — Frog . ) the shameless conduct which he displayed on his trial (and which was such as to render it necessary to clear the Court of the females and boys who were present), it is easy to conceive what mischief he might have done in corrupting the youthful and inexperienced, if his course had not been arrested by. the vigilance of the Consti tutional Association. Now we see why this most valuable Institution is reviled : now we see why the pestilent venom of The Old Times is poured forth against it. Let the friends of sound Constitutional Liberty, of pure morals, and of the Christian Religion, only shew half the zeal in support and encouragement of the Con stitutional Association, which its enemies display in clamour and calumny against it ; and it will not only remain a scourge and terror to evil doers, but a safeguard to the precious fabric of our laws and liberties. The new scheme for converting the bulk of pensions into long annuities being now fairly be fore the country, as a proposed act of Ministers, we are more at liberty to discuss its full merits, or rather demerits. While -the measure was in agitation between Government- and the South Sea Company, our remarks were chiefly confined to the pretensions and interests of the contracting parties. The measure is now in its incipient state, as a public one between the Government and the people arni it therefore behoves every honest man to lift up his voice, and arrest, if possible, what we have no hesitation in calling one of the most cruel and unjust projects that ever was conceived. Does Parliament, we ask — do the Country Gentlemen, as they are called — or does the Country itself, which as an aggregate body is much more pure than that port ion of i t which is now, we believe partly in derision, de signated by the above title—does the Country, itself; we ask, consider what is now going to be done to it ? By the proposed act, then (we will tell it briefly), it is intended at one stroke to affix upon the people of this laitd taxes amounting to two millions eight hundred thousand pounds annually, for five and forty years to corne ! taxes, we may. say, that cannot be removed for 45 years to come, and amounting to almost two millions eight hundred thousand pounds every year ! The very repetition of such a proposition, in the present state of the cotintry,almost freezes ' one. Yet—let us repeat it again, that it may sink deep into every man's heart, and the evil be, if possible, averted—we are going then, at the close of this session of Parliament, and ivhen all the important business was thought to be trans acted, to have fixed upon us two millions eight hundred thousand pounds in taxes, not for one, or two, or three years, not even for ten or twenty years, but taxes which cannot be repealed or shaken off (for the money is mortgaged) by any thing short of a revolution for almost half a cen tury to come ! [BRITISH rRESS.] The mania for visiting the Continent has been always a source of jealousy among the people of England, who are either nailed to their counters by their business, or by other circumstances un favourable to migration, left prisoners at home.— The present distress of the country has given in creased poignancy to the feelings excited by this state of society. It has been noticed in Parliament as an evil grown to a height requiring legislative interposition, and loudly demanding a tax upon absentees ; and from the Parliament it has found its way into pamphlets in set and formal phrase upon the subject. Absentees must be of neces sity regarded with an envious eye by their coun trymen, whom they have abandoned to the pres sure of taxes, in which they should sustain equal share, and left to bear the brunt of the battle, of the benefit of which those who thus abstract themselves from any part of the burden enjoy the fruits. Any restraint upon our intercourse with the Continent, under any circumstances, is evidently inconsistent with a liberal policy. That the intercourse may work some partial evil is admitted, but it is not equally plain that the evil is not more than counterbalanced by various consequent advantages. It is, impossible to draw a line between the man who visits the Continent for health, business, and im provement and him who is only flying from the payment of taxes.• The attempt would be as vain as it would be imprudent : it would pro duce an unfriendly feeling towards England in every country in Europe ; it would also work a great injury to ourselves. It is monstrous vanity to suppose that Englishmen who go to the Continent, return deteriorated by its mariners.-- • e position modestly supposes that an Englis man, in whatever part of the island he may have 'been born and educated, is of necessity a model of perfection, incapable of improvement by any acquaintance with foreign nations. IRELAND. REPEAL OF THE TAX ON HEARTHS. We have great satisfaction in stating, that his MAJESTY'S MinisterS have signified their inten tion of repealing the Tax on Hearths, as well as that on Windows. The following is a copy of a Letter on the subject, addressed to Sir ROBERT SHAW, Bart., by the CHANCELLOR of the Ex CHEQUER :--- " Downing,stxeet, May 22;1822. " Mr. Vansittart presents his compliments to Sir Robert Shaw, and has very great satisfaction in acquainting him that his Majesty's Government, having taken into consideration the .representations which he has made to them of the operation and effect of the Hearth and Window Tax in Ireland,. and those which have reached them from different parts of the coun try upon the same subject, have come to the deterfnination of proposing to Parliament the entire repek of that Duty.-:—From the personal interest which Sir Robert Shaw has always evinced in this question; 111 r. Vansittart has much pleasure in making the earliest possible communication of the intentions of Go vernment with respect to it."--( Dublin Correrpondent, May 25.) A Letter, respectably signed, has been addressed to the Editor of The Mayo Constitution, giving a most deplorable ac count of the situation of the poor in the parish of Island-Eady. The Gentlemen implore relief from the fund already collected, and pledge themselves that there are hundreds of dying victims, whose state of starvation and misery is not to be-described, SPECIAL SESSIONS. LIMERICK, MAY 23.—At the Special Sessions under the Insurrection Act, holden in the County. Court, on Tuesday, before Serjeant '1 orrens, seven men, charged with having been found out of their dwellings at improper hotirs, were tried and acquitted. On Wednesday, Cornelius Hannan and Patrick Fitzgerald were tried and acquitted, for being absent from their dwellings. Hannan was, however, remanded on another charge. The Learned Sergeant then proceeded to the City Court, when Michael Downs was put on his trial, for being found on the road near Ballygrennan on the night the farm-house was burned. He received a good character, and was acquitted. The Court was - then adjourned to Monday next. KILKENNY, MAY 25.—0 n Thursday last the Court assem bled, when, after a consultation of the Magistrates present, no prisoners being in custody for trial, an adjournment to the 3d of June was determined on. Extract of a Letterfrom Monte Video :--- 44 We had lately a very unpleasant occurrence here, a disturbance having broken out amongst the officers and soldiers of the. Portuguese army, under the command of General LECPUTI, which for some time caused great consternation among the in habitants of this place. The foreign merchants particularly were fearful for their property, as the Portuguese troops declared, in a manifesto to their Gederal, that unless further provisions were made for their better support, and the pay ment of the old arrears, they would enter the town in ten days, and pay themselves. In con sequence of this alarming threat a contribution was levied on the, inhabitants, which fell prin cipally on the foreign merchants. A sufficient sum of money, however, at last having been raised, and distributed among the troops, order was re stored." bus MATTHEW RUSSELL, ESQ. M.P. On Monday se'nnight, the remains of the late MATTHEW` RUSSELL, Esq. M.P., were brought to Brance peth, to be interred in the family vault. From Sunderland Bridge, a procession, headed by Lieutenant-Colonel Mills, passed through Durham to Brancepeth Castle, about twelve o'clock. It consisted chiefly of Lord Stewart's tenantry and colliery agents, Mr. Russell's tenantry and colliery agents, and the Hebburn Colliery agents ; mourning coaches, with the, medical attendants and others; Mr. Russell's chariot and four ; several gentlemen in their carriages ; carriages empty, belonging to Lord Viscount Barrington, Rowland Burdon, Esq. Rev. Dr. Phillpotts, Rev. William Nesfield, Thomas Hopper, Esq. of Sherburn, and others • and a consi derable number of gentlemen on horseback. When the pro cession approached the outer gate of the Castle, the horsemen who preceded the body, consisting of about 300, divided and formed an avenue, through which the hearse, and all those im mediately engaged in attendance upon it, together with the car riages which followed, passed into the court-yard of the Castle. Mr. W. Russell, Sir Gordon Drummond, C. Tennyson, Esq. M.P. General Seddon. Colonel Grey, Captain Hill, and other friends of the deceased, were in waiting to receive the body at the entrance door of the 'great hall, through which a procession, formed of the relatives, 'friends, agents, stewards, and domes tics, attended it to the Baron's Hall, where it was deposited un der a canopy. The arrangements of this apartment were such as to give a most impressive effect to the interesting ceremony —an effect most sensibly felt by the surrounding group. After this mournful scene had closed, and those who were present had retired to other apartments in the Castle, the tenantry and others who had by this time arrived in the Great Hall, partook of the refreshments which were arranged within it, immediately after the procession had passed into the Baron's Chamber. They were subsequently admitted through the breakfast room into the Baron's Hall,. and after passing round the canopy, returned through the dining room, and departed by the second entrance. The procession on this melancholy occasion was conducted with the greatest solemnity. While passing through Durham, the great Bell of the Cathedral and the bells of all the o then churches tolled at intervals of a minute. It is, indeed, as creditable to the good feelings of the citizens of Durham, as to the memory of the excellent person himself who excited them, on this occasion, that the shops were closed, and business sus pended ; while amongst the large assemblage of persons who crowded the streets, great numbers were in mourning, and a considerable proportion of the remainder in their best attire. An expression of unaffected sorrow was displayed on the coun tenances of all, which clearly evinced an universal respect for the character and virtues of the deceased. The body lay in state in the Baron's Hall from Monday till yesterday, when the remains of this truly amiable and benevolent gentleman were de posited, amidst the lamentations of the poor, and the deep regret of all classes, in the family vault, under the chancel of Brance peth Church. The mourners at this last sad ceremony were Wm. Russell, Esq. the son of the deceased ; Sir Gordon Drum mond and C. Tennyson, Esq. M. P., his brothers-in-law ; and Colonel Grey. The pall was supported by Major-Gen. Seddon, Rowland Burdon, Esq., Thomas 'Wilkinson Esq. John Allan, Esq., Thomas Greenwell, Esq., Rev. John Fawcett, Lieut. COL Mills, and-Capt. Hill. No fewer than 2750 persons from Dur ham and the surrounding country flocked to the Castle during Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, to view the melancholy apartments, which were eminently calculated for the mourn. ful purpose to which they were appropriated. The three rooms fitted up for the occasion are of very large dimen sions. The centre apartment is the Baron's Hall, a very ancient room, and is, as well as the two others, exceedingly lofty, with antique groined roof. The light in the two centre rooms was obscured, so as to produce a suitable gloom, being admitted through the upper portion only of the painted windows. The effect of the Baron's Hall upon the beholders, was awful. The apartment consists of three groins, one of which was di vided from the others, so as to form a sort of anti-chapel. The two further groins constituted the Baron's Chamber, where a magnificent canopy, surmounted by beautiful plumes, and orna mented by heraldic devices, was seen occupying the upper part of it. The walls of the chamber and anti-caapel were hung with black, leaving the beautifully groined ceiling exposed. A richly painted hatchment occupied the points of the arches at each end, and escutcheons of arms were seen in the centre of the side arches: At the further end of the chamber magnificent black plumes were arranged upon What appeared to be the lid of the coffin, over which was placed the pall. To this great effect was given by a white drapery behind ; between this and the coffin was a very lofty candelabrum, containing amass of lights, which illuminated the roof, while the light itself was concealed by the canopy. On each side of the coffin, which was covered with black silk velvet, and richly decorated,, appeared the funeral tapers - and" mutes. The breast plate was inscribed as follows : MATTHEW RUSSELL, EsQ. M. P. Of Brancepeth Castle, Vice-Lieutenant of the County of Durham, Died Bth May, 1822, Aged 57 ears. At the head of the coffin was placed the grand escutcheon. The whole effect was exceedingly imposing, and calculated to pro duce the most solemn and permanent impressions ; indeed, we never witnessed, nor can we conceive . any scene, the effect of which was more decisive or which more completely harmonized with the feelings of those who approached it. OLD BAILEY. THE CONSTITUTIONAL 46SWIATION. Yesterday, at twenty minutes past 11re - o'clock, Mr. DEN MAN took his seat on the Bench, and the man who refuses to give his name was put to the Bar. The Deputy . Clerk of the Arraigns read over the indictment against the prisoner. It charged him with having published, on the 27th of December, 1821, a blasphemous and seditious libel against the religion of the country,, and tending to bring into contempt the laws and Kingly Government. He then stated that the prisoner having refused to give his name on a former indictment,. he had on the present occasion been indict ed under the description of a man while name was unknown, and had been brought before the Grand Jury, when he was identified as the person who had published the work in ques tion, but wilfully refused to give his name. They had, how ever, returned a true Bill against him for the misdemeanour.— The prisoner was then asked if he were Guilty or Not ? Prisoner—ls that the whole of the charge against me ? Mr. CLARK—The indictment charges the same as that on which you were arraigned last Sessions. Prisoner—l pleaded above three months ago. Mr. CLARK—Are you Guilty or Not Guilty on this indict- ment ? Prisoner—Am I to plead again ? The Commox SERJEANT—The indictment on which you are now placed at the bar is not the same as that to which you pleaded before. You must now plead Guilty or Not Guilty. Prisoner—Then I plead Not Guilty. Mr. CLARK—WiII you be tried on this indictment now, or will you traverse until the next Sessions ? Prisoner—Pll be tried now. Mr. CLARK proceeded to swear in the Jury. • Prisoner—Stop ; I .wish eachof those persons now in the box to be asked if he was on the Jury two Sessions ago. .The COMMON SERJEANT put the question, which.was , answered in the negative, and the Jury were sworn. Mr. ADOLPHUS addressed them for the, prosecution, and after reading the passages complained of, called the following witnesses : Mr. Wm. Paine, of the Guildhall Police-office, proved the pamphlet to have been put intohis hand by Wm. Smith, and the issuing of a warrant to apprehend the prisoner. Wm. Smith proved purchasing the libel in the shop of Car lile, on the day mentioned, of the prisoner, who was serving be= hind the counter. Cross-examined by the prisoner—Was employed by a person named Turton to buy the pamphlet. Prisoner.—Who is he F--An officer of Bow-street. 'Witness did not know who Turton was employed by ; he only knew by hearsay. Mr. AnoLrirus,—That is not evidence. Prisoner.—What have you received for purchasing that pam phlet ?—Nothing further than for his time. He could not say what sum he had received ; it might have been 31., but could not say within a few shillings; could not say if it was 41., nor would not swear he had not received 51. He did not receive a weekly salary. He read part of the pamphlet going towards the office for the warrant. Was told it was blasphemous, and had sworn it was at Guildhall. By Mr. ADOLPHUS.—The witness had been employed .on Other business for the Society. The passages were then read by the Clerk, and compared with the indictment. ,The only difference that appeared was the words " the" and "this," which was held to be not ma terial. The prisoner was now called on for his defence : he held a written one, and describing himself as a poor journeyman me chanic, called on the Jury to give him all the indulgence in their power. He then defended the work he had published, and attempted to justify the observations it contained, by al luding to certain passages of the Bible. Several of the Jurymen were about to question him, but de sisted at the suggestion a the COMMON SERJEANT, who humanely warned him how he was about to act. The prisoner, however, insisted on reading the passages, and the females and boys were ordered out of Court. He then read the passages in question, and commented upon them. He called no witnesses. The COMMON SERGEANT summed up and observed, that the only question was, whether the passages bore the character imputed to them ? In the present instance no doubt could exist that the prisoner published them with a full knowledge of their contents and meaning, for in his defence he had fully avowed them to be his own opinions. The Jury immediately found the prisoner Guilty. The COMMON SERGEANT said, it was to be regretted that by the defence the prisoner had made the Court was called on to pass a more severe sentence on him than it would have done had he acted otherwise. The sentence of the -Court was, that he should be imprisoned for eighteen months in the House of Correction, and at the expiration of that period, find securities for his good behaviour for five years, himself in 1001., and two sureties in 501. each. Prisoner.—l have a mind, my Lord, that can bear it all with fortitude. The prisoner was then removed from the dock. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MURDER OF MRS. DONATTY. BOW-STREET.—Although the public have not lately heard of any pursuit of the murderer of Mrs. Donatty, yet Mr. Tay lor, the Vestry Clerk, and a Gentleman well qualified, have been indefatigable in their exertions, and no expense has been spared to detect the wretch. They have at length got a man and woman in custody, who are strongly suspected of being concerned in the murder. They underwent a long private examination yesterday before Sir Richard Birnie, in the pre sence of the above Gentlemen, the particulars of which were not suffered to transpire, as its publication at this particular juncture might prevent the detection of the actual perpetrator of the crime. EXTRAORDINARY CHARACTER. On Saturday a young woman calling herself Donna Caro lina Isabella Isidora de Rcveleyaz, Countess de Chantal;alias Caroline Riley, underwent an examination, on a charge of be ing an impostor, before Sir Richard Birnie, of which, although private, some of the parties contrived to get the paiticulars.— 'Fhe object of the second investigation,. which took place yes terday, was not to visit the defendant with any legal proceed ings, but merely to give publicity to her real character. Blacks ley, the patrol, who went to serve the summons on the defend ant for her appearance, found her residing in a small but re spectable house, at No. 8, Hayes-place, Lisson Grove North. The house contained four rooms, which were but scantily fur nished, and was supposed to be for the reception of ladies ol distinction who visited her and took an interest in her welfare. The Defendant and all the parties taking an interest for and against her, contrary to expectation at the office, arrived about two o'clock, as it was not supposed that any thing more would be heard of her or the parties, as no proceedings against her were intended, only an exposure wanted. A chair was requested for the Defendant, which was readily granted by Sir Richard Birnie ; and during the investigation the Defendant constantly refreshed herself with a scent bottle. John Westmore Buckell, of Chichester, a dentist, stated, that he first knew the Defendant about nine years ago, when he lived at Ryde, in the Isle of Wight : she then passed by the'name of Miss Riley ; and when he first: saw her it was to attend her professionally ; she being then extremely ill, occa sioned by a violent toothache, he found it necessary to draw two of her teeth, and he was a short time afterwards obliged to extract two more teeth. She then kept a small school at Ryde, which decreasing, instead of increasing, the income arising from it was not sufficient to support her, which . in duced her to relinquish it, and to engage herself with a Mrs. Aikman as a Governess in her family to two of her grand children. He asserted that he was quite positive that the de fendant was the same person whom he had known at Ryde, and as a confirmation that he could not be mistaken, she had been on a visit to his house at Chichester, which place she left about five yeirs ago for London. Frances Buckell, the wife of the last witness, stated that she had examined the features of the defendant very particu larly, and was quite certain that she is the same person who lived at Ryde, in the Isle of Wight, about nine years since, and passed in the name of Miss Riley, and who was afterwards at her house at Chichester ; she had often dined and spent days with the defendant. This statement was confirmed by the daughter of Mrs. Buckell, as to the identity of the defendant as Caroline Riley, and living at Ryde. It was upon this family coming to town on a visit to Mr. Buckell's brother, of Orange-street, Red Lion-square, that the discovery was made of the defendant's passing .as a foreign Countess, and her extraordinary history and grievous misfor tunes had excited the commiseration of Mrs. Longly and other wealthy ladies, who we understand had actually raised the sum of one thousand pounds, and were about to purchase an annuity for her, and that she had obtained relief from the Society for the relief of foreigners in distress to prove which Mr. Murray, of that Society, attended, and produced a number of letters from the defendant ; one upon which 'she gained relief was in the year 1819, in which she states she had applied to the Duke of Gloucester, and Major Curzon, one of the Duke's 'equerries, answered her, letter, and referred her to the Secre tary. In consequence of the receipt of that letter, the Rev. Mr. Ranspike, belonging to the Society, was deputed to make inquiries respecting the defendant. His report of the defendant was riot very favourable, but upon some further representations by Mr. Horneyman, the Assistani Secretary, she was relieved with two pounds, and since that time she had received 11. at va rious times, amounting to 101. more. In these representations she had stated ticitself to have been in England only five years ; it was asked if it was not possible that she might have made .a mistake, and confounded London with the country, but this was explained, and it was stated that she had called it Great Britain. The most extraordinary and contradictory part is, that she de nies all knowledge of the Buckell family, and that their state ment about their having been acquainted with her for nine years, and that she was residing at Ryde, in the Isle of Wight, was wholly unfounded ; although they endeavoured, by a great variety of circumstances, to make her acknowledge the correctness of their representation. It was even said that she had burnt a mole, with hairs on it, off her face, to prevent her being identified by it. She was questioned how she came into this country, to which she answered that she came from Dieppe to Harwich; she did not know the name of the vessel she came in. It was stated that vessels from Dieppe did not come to Har wich; this she explained by saying that they put into Harwich in consequence of a storm. She was asked how she was entered at the Alien Office at Harwich • she replied that she was not entered at all, and was never applied to on the subject. This was considered false, as no foreigners are allowed to land without entering their descrip tion .&c. at the Alien Office. A' desultory and uninteresting conversation ensued, in which several persons took a part, amongst whom were a Mr. New port and a Mr. Collett, which concluded by Sir Richard Birnie addressing the defendant, observing, that he was instructed to say that it was not the intention of the Society to prosecute, but all foreigners might be assured that if they attempted any im position they would be exposed. The defendant was then taken home to Mr. Newport's house n York-place, Baker-street. VISTURBANCES IN MONMOUTHSHIRE,—We have much pleasure in having it in our power to inform our Readers, from good authority, that the ferment which for weeks past has existed in the Mining and Manufacturing Districts in the inte rior of the county, is subsiding, and that, on Mcmday last, the men employed in the several , departments of Blaenafon Works, to the number (at least) of 500, returned to their respective em ployments. Others,we are informed, are disposed to follow their good example.—( The Canibritz4.) Gnoss ImposTort.—A young man of the name of Pilkington, about 21 years of age, has been, for some time, imposing upon many respectable persons in this city, and in va rious other places, by stating himself to be deaf and dumb, and has, in all instances, excited commisseration and relief. His general tale is, that he has been at the London Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, but being unhappy, and anxious to return home, he had left clandestinely, and got out of his way. He described himself in several instances as the son of the Minister of Haslingdon, Lancashire, of the name of Philips ; in another as the son of a Quaker, of the name of Binns, of Crawshaw booth, near Haslingdan ; at Birmingham, where he has resided -for the last two months, he has gone under his right name, of John Pilkington • but stated, that he was the son of an Archdeacon in London. After a minute investigation all his representations have been proved to be false, and he has given ample proof that he is neither deficient in speech nor hearing.— The reason he has chosen Haslingdon and Crawshawbooth for the places of his residence is, that he has an uncle at the former with whom he has lived, by which means he is enabled to de scribe those places accurately. He is a young man of slender make, about five 'feet eight inches high, rather fair com plexion, light brown hair and whiskers, very interesting in appearance; his ideas flow with great facility, and his man ners are polite and gentlemanly. He has evinced the most perfect indifference to all sudden and unexpected sounds, which have been made to detect him, nor can we find that the least emotion has been at any time discovered in his counte nance, when his case has been the subject of open and severe animadversion, in his presence ; though at other times he has feigned the utmost sensibility offeeling. We have thought it pro per to state these particulars with the view of putting our readers upon their guard, since, from the circumstances with which we have been made acquainted, he must be a young man of con siderable ability, and likely to deceive the most cautious. We think it desirable that this case should obtain publicity through • the medium of other journals.—( Worcester Herald, May 24.) LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD THIS., WEEK. The highest price of the best Wheaten Bread throughout the Metropolis, is stated by the principal Bakers to be 94d. the Quartern Loaf.—Some Bakers sell the Quartern 1..0a4 from one penny to two pence lower. lb. oz. lb. oz. Peek Loaf to weigh .. 17 6 Quarter n Loaf to weigh 4bi Half ditto.. ditto.... si I Half Quartern ditto .. 22i IMPORTATIONS OF GRAIN LAST WEEK. English. Iri3lrish.Wheat Barley - --- Malt - --- Oats - Rye lO 6 -- Beans . 1,787 - -- Peas - --- Tares Rapeseed Mustard Seeds 241 Flour Brank Linseed 7 SEEDS, May 27. Red Clover (Foreign).. 25s 40s—Gne, 48s 56s —s per cwt. Ditto English R... 24s 36s—fine new, 486 54s 56* White ditto 3os 46s—fine, 62s 64s Rye-Grass . . .. l4s to 24s per qr. Turnip Seeds. —s Od 32s to 46s pr. bush. White Mustard Seed Bs to I Os 6d _ . Brown ditto lOs to Its 6d Red and Green ... —sod to —s Od, , Carraway Seeds s6s to 65s—fine, 67s Coriander do lOs 14s 15s Cinque Foin 34s to 36s—fine —s per qt. Trefoil Ribgrass ... 2Bs 34s—fine, 42s 45s Canary per qr —s 38s to 42s Od per qr. Linseed 48s Sts—fine, 54s 56s per qr. Rape Seed Winter Tares 26s to 30s Od per qr. PAWN; OF HOPS, per Cwt., Alay 25. Pockets. I Bags. , Kent .. 21 18s a4lOs a 51 Os Kent .. 21 16s a4l Os a4l 1 Sussex.. 21 lis a3l3s a 3i 12 s Sussex 21 lOs a 2l 18 s a3l 65 Essex ..21 16s a3115s a 41 4s Essex.. 21 163 a3l lOs a4l Os Farnham, fine, 41 lOs to 71 to 101—Sec., 21 lOs to 41 to 61 6 6 Old Duty for the year's growth, laid at 100,0001. SNI.II - IEIELD MARKET.—May :27, (To snit( the Offal—per Stone of Blbs.) Beef 2s Od to Ss 4d I Veal - B a, Mutton .... 2s Oil to 3s Od Pork 2s Od to 4s 0 ' Lamb 3s ato 5s Od HEAD OF CATTLE THIS DAY. Beasts 2,223 Calves Sheep IB,ISO Pigs 242 ..ie° NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL MAtthETS. By the Carcasc. Beef Is fhl to 9.s 6d Veal Mutton .......ls sd togs 6d Pork 2s s 0 0 dt o d to s 4 8 4,1 S Lamb, 3s od to 4s 4d ST. JAMES> HAY MAltri.ET, May 25. Hay .. 31 us Od to 4 1 4s Od Clover, Sttaw.. 11 7s Od to 11 17s 6d 1 .... 31 5s to 41 Bs SMITHFIELD. 04 Hay . 21 17s 6d to 31 17s 6d--Average, 31 5 5 ~./ Straw Clover 31 lOs Od to 41 7s 66--Average, 31 55 °d WHITECHAPEL. 04 Hay 31 8s Od to 41 Os Od--Average, 41 65 i New ditto Ol Os Od to 01 OS od-Average, 01 0 5 ° O4 Straw Clover 4l us Od to 5! Os Od--Average, 41,10 s oo RAW HIDES. Best Heifers & Steers, per st. Ordinary .... 95 Od to ati es -,, 2s Sit to 3i Ot! Market Calf .. each.. los pd Middlings ... 2s 4d to 25.6 d. Eng. Horse Os Od to os " SHEEP SKINS. Fells ' , 42d to God 1 Shearhags . 11 Downs PRICE OF LEATHER. Butts, 50 to 561hs each per Ib , 18d 2ed to to , . 1 9 2 , 1 4 Ditto, 56 to 661hs each s Dressing Hides 17itl to 1 9 ; Coach Hides Crop Hides, 35 to 40lbs for cutting 18 d to 19 „4 - DittO .... 45 to 501bs - Calf Skins..oo io 401bs Ditto 50 to 701bs Ditto 7O to 801bs Small Seals (Greenland)" 68 3 dd d t t t 00 0 ' 2 s 2 - 3 : 6 , . . Aa isd to god Large ditto . •115 to 2" ( 5:I to: 1 1 , s , d T d Tanned Horse Hides ' Spanish Horse Hides --- 1 -- PRICES OF TALLOW, SOAP, &c. per 11216.—M a Y .24 6; Town Tallow 38s Ott —s od Yellow Soap ......... • • 8 6i Yellow Russia 37s 6d —s od I Mottled ............. .• • Qui White ditto .. 36s Od —s 04 Curd Soap ditto. ... 34s od —s Od- Graves ............. .• • Melting Stuff 28s Od 30s od Good Dreg 5........ • • Ditto Rough.. 18s od —s Od PRICE OF CANDLES, FROI Price of Candles, per dOzet 6tl per dozen allow 51 TALLOW CHANDLER'S, ° A A "' 9s Od—Moulds, i os6u• ed for ready money:. PRICE OF RAW FAT, per Stone of 81b. —May 24 ' L d Price of Tallow (as stated by the fallow Melters), COUNTRY GUILDFORD M, Wheat per 1. 61 Os to 151 15s New Wheat .. 01 Os to 01 Os Oats, per qr... 01 14s to 11 5s New ditto.... 01 Os to 01 Os 4ARKET. ,RKET, May 25. k 1 05 Barley, new, 01 156 .° Beans, per qr.ll 05 tO 65 Pease, per qr. 11 25 to 01 0 Rye, per qr. 01 Os_t_c__l, COAL MARKET, May 27. ce' Ships at Market. - Ships sold. Pri O 3•4 —. s 64 A 60 Newcastle O . aos od a 161 Sunderland wif e Saturday evening, a respectable lady, these of a Solicitor, residing __ in Whitechapel, left home in...,`blecl quence of some domestic quarrel, much agitated, and pipi t P as far as the canal at Bow Common, into which she 1 ; $ ge tated herself; but being espied by some persons, she Noose' out, and conveyed in a state of insensibility to the wer exert where she was promptly attended by a surgeon, by vilo s i" WO' tions she was so far recovered as to be able to speak, W I lingering till Sunday morning she expired. BU THS. of On Friday last, in Upper Brook-street, the Lady SYIYPfeI Jervis, Esq.,. of a daughter. On Wednesday last, the Lady of Andrew Aradecbnel °4l.' of a son and heir. On Saturday, the 26th inst., in Upper Gower-street ,tbe of Charles Green, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIED. a t d ie. In the City of Durham, on Monday the 20th W I " li.A„.:;• Church of St. Mary-the-less, by the Rev. Robert Gre,, n 'ite„ the Rev. James Blackburn, M.A., Vicar of Gainf or ,"' w essu'r of Romaldkirk, and Chaplain to the Corporation a Esq ., upon-Tyne, td Jane, widow of the late Martin D 1111 1") Durham. i , IP fib Ircp, f . 0 On Saturday, the 25th inst., at St. Pancras new Lil l to ;) ,0 John Houlgate, of London-terrace, Hackney-ro"' jjer' Jane Sarah Eustace, of Kentish-town. rea ev On the 22d inst., at St... Michael le Belfcey's, 111°- G s rOg r a bert Place, Esq., only son of E. Place, Esq., of Skelto!l_ , t i 11..., and grandson to the late Earl of Aberdeen, to Careli' e botti P . 'daughter of the late Rev. R. Smith, Rector of Marston, the County of York. ___- DIED. . At llamburkh, on the 14th instant, Peter GodefroP 5 1 10 f merchant, in the 72d year of a truly active life. Ll e only well known and respected in the small: State of w isp i t istv was so faredistinihed a Member but his death will '4lO - in distant parts, Where his character P'' were held in equal estimation. , ac t * On the 24th. instant, Mrs. Faulkner, Upper. Nortoo-str ' f)r oia On the 23d instant, at 107, Sloane-street, Mrs. Sarah mond, relict of the late Capt. Francis,Drummond. ,v0;115, . On the 9th of March,' at Charlotte Town, Prin ce ( CIO' Island, North America, Frances Carpenter, wife island Douglas Smith, Esq., Lieutenant-Governor of that See l ; S On Saturday last,•the 25th instant , at the Betifer,,4lac H Covent-garden, the on: Simnel Hinley Ongley, ay .p lat the County of Beds, aged 47years. jorg 1 , ;11'1 On Sunday, the 26thinstant, at Holloway, afteLa . 00 1 gering illness, 'Mrs. Eleanor DavieF, the wlfe of far' avies, 39, Noble-street,,Cheapside, in her 36th year' 4' t he P ., Printed and Published for the Pnopitmrdits, at Office, No. 112, Strand, by J. B. CAitss'Allt4 4 Fl,