The Sun. — London, England, 1840-09-29 00:00:00

,YENING EDITION DUEL BETWEEN THE EARL OF CARDIGAN AND CAPTAIN TUCKETT. EXTRAORDINARY TERMINATION OF THE INQUIRY—COMMITTAL OF THE EARL OF CARDIGAN AND THE SECONDS. Yesterday having been appointed for the final inquiry into the charge made against the Earl of Cardigan as principal, in having feloniously shot at Captain Harvey Tuckett with intent to murder him ; and Captain John Douglas and Captain Wainwright as accessories, the room in Mr. Fletcher's office where the Bench usually meet was crowded long before the time appointed for the commencement of the inquiry, and the proceedings appeared to excite the very greatest interest. The Magistrates, Mr. Nettidge, Chairman, Mr. Bainbridge, Captain Page, and Mr. Wilson, took their seats on the bench at ten o'clock, and shortly after wards the Earl of Cardigan and Captain Douglas, ac companied by Sir James Anderson and several friends, entered the room. Mr. Adolphus attended on behalf of the defendants. The CHAIRMAN, before the business commenced, took occasion to inquire whether Captain Wainwright was in attendance ? Mr. Adolphus said that on behalf of that gentleman he had to state that there was no desire on his part to evade justice, but that he should not appear unless some specific charge was proved against him. The evidence which has been already repeatedly given, was then read over, and M r . D ann , th e p erson who keeps the mill on Wimbledon-common, and who, it will be remembered, took the Noble E:irl and Captain Douglas in charge, having been examined. Mr. WILSON suggested that Sir James Anderson should be sworn. Mr. Fletcher, the Magistrate's clerk, expressed his opinion that Sir James might be considered as an ac cessory, and he suggested, that before he was examined, he should be cautioned not to say anything that might criminate him. Mr. Adolphus submitted that it was impossible that Sir James Anderson could be charged as an accessory. There was no proof that he wa3 present at the firing of the shot, and his only share in the transaction was to render assistance if it should be required. He reminded the Bench that in the case of Cap tin Montgomery, who was shot by Captain MeNAmara, near the same spot, the Magistrates very imprudently committed Dr. Ilea% iside, the medical gentleman who was present un der similar circumstances, and the Ceurt, upon the trial, ccnsured the proceeding in very strong terms. Tee MAGIITEUTES said they did not think any charge could be substantiated against Sir James Anderson, and they should therefore take his evidence. Sir James Anderson was accordingly sworn, and in addition to his former evidence he said that he had seen Captain Ti,c'iett on Saturday ; his wound was heal iag rapidly, and his general health was good, and not the Icast (L.m. , ,cr was to be apprehended. So f►vourable was this Cailtain's state that he did not consider it ne cessary to pay him daily visits. _ John &again, an inspector of the V division of poice, produced two cases of pistols, one of them, bore his Lordship's crest, had been claimed by E Cardigan. He had obtained a description of the piste's which he produced and read. (It, among other things, described them as of a most d4ugerous and crdetiated to hit a mark with un rr;ng pr(cision if used with a steady hand.) Lord Cardigan Isere objected to this hearsay evidence berg gon:• into. AloVms---If your Lordshi2 will permit me, I attonl to your intt-vests. This evidence is of no cor;rqu ,nee. Lord CAriligan—lt is of consequence in this way, tl!at it may t o forth to the world that unfair pistols were used by , me. I huuzht them of Mr. Manton as con,rnle pist:ils, and ther2 are plenty more of the same k . nol to be lind. .M.AGiTTIATES said, that in the inqu',ry now go': g !0-..• thew, thr: eh a•aetcr of tha p;-;tots ii not: i wh :'over to do. If an- pistol was di s charged, w::111 1 Lc ,ur-ici-at. fr. Buz.,in ;hen proecAed to state th a t w h co L or d Git(!i . _;an co , n(! to the statinn-hnuse, he addressed him, _c“.! e "I !) lieve I arn a prisoner." Witness slid 'f3r ? repned, " for a dud, am', to C.lpt:lin Douz!.ls, :Thor..as .'l.alkd " I h;t my Tn,m, but I In, [:it 1*), compained of the witness giving this acdi'i•xrs! et iiierice to his 'oriner statement, and said - hat he did not represen' him to have mad...! this s'ute rn t upon the f.rmer rx minitien. Mr. Bus. Ail said that he os.lile use of the cxact words wren the former investigation took place. Mr. Ad,)lphus again reque..qed his Lordship not to nTe.- any remarLs upon the evident...! of the witnesses. Thaz wes mt.rely a court of prelimioary inquiry, ead the .Magistratos were justified in gettuig all they cou!d, The proper time to remark upon these conflicting statements cu::' tw, Niai4i,tro.tes, unhappily, felt their fluty conont thr,n to send the case for further investi g;it Mr. cross-examicol by Mr A-lolpbus-1 arfl quite sere l,is Lordship did not say, " I hops ho is not burt.". lie did sAy that he thought ttio wound was a slight one, and that it was merely a graze across th.o back. The, MAGISTRATES hating ascertained that there was. eidence to be adduced, addressed Lord C a rdigan. end the Chairman told him that if he pleased jw was at libcrty to make any bbserrations to the lilerreti, was not hound to do so. Ado!pLuis asked Adietlipr he Was to and thrtt he ca:ie vra9 Liu dly c!osed The CHM 3MA Lord Cardigan and Captain Douglas baying, by the .advice ,of Mr. Adolphus, declined to Lifer any observe ;.tipiis to the M:igistrates, Mr. Adolphus proceeded to address the Bench, The L e , ri.p!ti Gent!eman ebserved that he bAieved this was c at , ~first tiine an attempt had been made to strain what b e e l p,risidered was in itself a most severe Act of Par liament, to apply to cases of this denription. The charge a ainst the Noble Earl and Captain Dangles as that afshooting at Captain Tuckett, w;th intent to murder hint, and it was an offence which subjected them to the penalty of death. He submitted with confidence to the Bench that there was not the -least endeavour to allow that there was any intention on the part of the Earl of Cardigan to commit the crime of murder. He was aware that the law was stated to be, that if, in the commission of an unlawful act, death ensued, it amounted to the crime of a:order, but be had yet to lea, n that where death aid not follow the act that the parte could be charged with the intention of committing 'Murder. The Magistrates had no evidence to show /hat Ciptaio Tuckett did not menace and threaten the Earl of Cardiata. and if he did do so, Lard Cardigan would only have tired at him in serf-defenee, and would have been legally justified is so doing. And yet M the nbscncc of all direct evidence, the Magistrates would have to decide that Lord Cardigan intended to murder Captain Tuckett. He hoped that the Bench would not strain the law, and send a nobleman to take his trial for an offence which might endanger h;s life, and this for an act which might have been only done in self (tele:lce. He reminded the Bench at. the same time that no serious injury had bean done to Captain Toe kett, and- said he was quite sure that that gentleman would regret the adoption of any further proceedings a gainst Lord CartFgan and Captain Douglas on his account. 'The Learned Counsel concluded by stating that he might mention, once more, on behalf of Mr. wilinairight, whose name had been alluded to in the eonree of the evidence, that that gentleman had not the slightest desire to evade justice, hut if the Magistrates thought proper to call for his appearance, he would attend upon them immediately. Tee Bench then retired, and in about an hour they came into Court attain, and the CHAIRMAN asked Mr. Adolphus if he understood him correctly to say that Capt. Wainwright was willing to appear if the Magis trates wished it ? Mr. Adolphus—Certainly. CHAIRMAN—Then I think it will be better to ba:Ye him przifrot. Captain Wainwriglat was accordingly sent for, and in a few m i nutes h e enterqd the Court, and he was then told that he roust consider himself a prisoner. The evidence was then again read over in that gen tiemaa's presence, and the witness Dann was asked if he could identify Mr. Wainwright as one of the gentle men who was present at the duel? He replied that he cou'd not. The CHAIRMAN then appealed to Sir James Ander son as to whether he could identify Capt. Wainwright as the second of Capt. Tuckett, and he said that he only gag him at a distance_, but h e b e li eved that he assisted Ca ;t. TuAett after the duel. 'rh o Bench then again deliberated for a short time, when igventheth!liefendants, said, Tire CHAIRMAN, addressing ease the most that the Alagiitrates had and it pelled It.lias distressin?: patio:, and painful investigation, for the BArch to feel itsdf corn ooei..lusiou to send the Noble Lord to come to the t. Captains Doudas and IVitnwright for trial, upon he serious chart'e made i , gainst them. .: , -Ir. Adol;)hus—Oi course, you will take hail ? Mr. WiLsos—dace we tliv p - wer in Ulu case or a Peer of the realm to take bail? Mr. Aciolpl:u.s—l ens not awar:! that the Act of 1 1 .1riiauv271t. which authorises Magistrates to take bail in ease.: of felony, makes any execptons, Captain PAGE—TiIe C.Sc.! la altogetlvr of an PX tr,,ord n. , ry and no7el cit.:Jactor, and I have felt; it my : 1 . 4 , ,t . v . to requite o f Fe y, c a l li gal ,;;;entle , nen thc!, 4, lni , :a. and that opinion i•-•!, thlt '7°,l):iv:,,,,rf,arrn::t77tir.: 'i3 a 1 3 ,rr. tie cannot be bo::na to _,,-,ovu,t voud "-'tial evil - nil:1! C3urt, b , :eatise tbt G• ha vit teltnistlic!izr:. rclii'n.i tiklolptv,l, - , CcrtAi: , lv nct ; but I ' l,- . -en ~.. therib'Endit b....g- Lc) ditrt....m!ty to bind b;n3 Os'. ,l. : .ppi?,..t r .ci , on..re4 A-Tiy-t,ll-.?ft-lt ri:l3, be pl teed in a tf con I`jr 15- Vi.titt&-rti4li t . ' ' ill' 1. 1 - - c f , 5. , .O ` Uie C.,)07,C ;). 1,17.% t 40 , 4 77r: A. 24i- :: ) ' 9 ._ ”1: L1 , 4 1 - -an.l that th..-i should, of course, 0 0 ,4.-: ; - acrry 't act th ith onv unz.ec.: - -ssary harsl,n, Si ; 0 E . ifRL:i., . uy lit, i-, tltcy,co ulti naiy talc,: oso stcp; the 3:-.ofrlvi th 1,,... k.tc.--r xuutc :iir`...cer conversation the Atigistratcs said :: •,...- - T - -'-' THE SU.N, LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBIER 29 1:10. they thought the Act of Parliament would authorize them to take sureties of Lord Cardigan in the mod suggested by Mr. Adolphus, and they directed that hi: Lordship should enter into his own recognizance it 2,0001., with two sureties of 1,0001. each for his appear. ance, to answer the charge of shooting at Capt. Hem) Tuckett, with intent to murder him, wheneve, charge should be preferred against him, and Capt. Douglas and Capt. Wainwright were ordered to enter into their own recognizance in the sum of 500/., with two sureties for each in the sum of 250/. CITY OF LONDON PENSION SOCIETY. . A general meeting of the subscribers to the above benevolent and excellent Institution, was held yesterday at the Society's rooms, 7, Ironmonger-lane, Cheapside, for the purpose of receiving the annual report of the Directors and Auditorseof the Society for the past year, and of electing the officers of the Society for the year ensuing. JOSEPH PEARSON HAYWARD, Esq., ORO of the Di rectors, was called to the Chair. The minutes of the last general annual meeting, having been read, and confirmed, 'I he SECRETARY proceeded to read the Report for the present year, which commenced by alluding to the in stitution of the Society in the year 1818, under the im mediate sanction of the parents of her Majesty, for the purpose of granting pensions to decayed artisans and .nechenics, and also their widows. At its first institu tion the pensions granted were thirty-one shilling , per month to men, and twenty-two shillings per month to women, and so flourishing was the Institution at one period that 10,0001. per annum had been given away in pensions. Other Societies had, however, been founded upon the same principles, and the consequence had been that at one time the parent Society had been nearly deserted. So low had their funds become that in 1833 the pensions to the men had been reduced to 3s. a month, and those to the women to 2s. The Re port then animadverted on the great injustice of those who, having placed pensioners on its funds had withdrawn their subscriptions, and left the Society to struggle through the difficulties entailed upon it by such unjust conduct. Latterly, however, the Society had been re covering from its adversities, and the Directors had, in consequence, been enabled from time to time to increase the pens'ons, which, at the beginning of 1840, had been raised to 9s. 6d. per month for the men, and 7s. per month for women. In January last her Majesty the Queen Dowager had been requested to become the Pa troness of the Institution ; with this request her Ma jesty had been graciously pleased to comply, and bad, through the Hon. W. Ashley, sent the Society 101., which she had been graciously pleased to signify her in tention of continuing as an annual subscription. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge had also kindly been pleased to take the chair at a public dinner in aid of the funds of the Institution on the 28th of May last, on which occasion 3161. 7s. bad been collected for the Society. The Di rectors. therefore proposed that, after the month of November next, the pensions of the men should be in creased to 10:. 6d. per month, and those of the women to Bs. The Report was then ordered to be received, printed, and circulated among the sub3cribers. It was ordered that a deputation be appointed to wait upon the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor for the year ensuing, to make a special application to him for his support to the Society, and to request him to ac cept the office of President for the year ensuing. Riziit Hon. Lord Chief Justice Tindal, his Grace the Duke of Buccleugh, Lord Viscount Lake, and 11. T. Hope, E , q., were elected Vice-Presidents, in addition to B. B. Cabell, Esq., and the other Vice- Presidents of the past year, who were unanimously ro cketed. A &T nation was ordered to wait upon the Sheriffs elect to 11.eir support. it was moved by Jr. MAGUIRE, and seconded by Mr. DENHAM, that the Duke of D.:•.'oshir:?, the Mar quis of Br,adalbane, and Mr. .? , -derznan Hooper, be requested to become Vice. Presidents. . - D:reetors of last c a r were re.eiected, and, ii idiCton, Jaales E Clowser, D Bedford, E q. Morison, Eich North, Esiq ,any the 11..2v. Mr. Webster. Henry F. Rehardson, Esq Honor. ry Scretr.ry, MI 4111 fi);11.iS!) . re-elected, and the thank* of the So ciety voted to him for his service::: 6 1uring the past ye .r. atld more patticularly for the great zeal, industry, and pervuerance manifested by Kim at the public dinner. Tins vote of tha .ks Was ordered to be placed in a con spicuous part of the Board-room. Mr. Rchardson, woo :teknowiecir,,ld the compliment in a very neat speech. ,vas received ,vith loud cl!oers by the meeting. Thanks were afso vottd to the Ret. Mr. Faulkater, Cle Chap hen, who tvo-, elected a Vie:-President ; to the Audi tors, Messrs. Howell, Spink, arid Waterman, and to Mr. Allen, ne Collector ; to the !atter gent! man a gritnity Of 101. for coact) hire was' voted in addition to his poundage on the subscriptions,' which only amounted to 211.1. Oe a vote of thanks being proposed to the Chairman, SECIRETmIy .(Mr. Richardson) said that Mr. "nal - ward had ever been one of the fi-mest friends of the Society, and that at a time when there had been the greatest difficulty in raising- funds for the payment of the pensioners, they had only to make application to Mr. Harvard, and whether it was for 20/. or for 100/. he had always been ready with a check for the amount receired. The motion was then carried by acclamation, and the meeting separated. From the audited accounts, it ap pears that the Society has at present in the bank a ba lanco of 6331. Bs. DINNER TO COLONEL SALWEY, M.P.—The Reformers of Ludlow have invited their worthy representa- tivc, Colonel S.dwey, to a public dinner early next month (October), which invitation he has accepted. It is ex pected also that several other eminent Members of Parlia • Trent will honour th:., meeting wi!li their presence. The day fixed was Thursday, the Bth; but we understand that, in consequence of the death of the .Princess Augusta, seve ral of the most distinguished guests will not be able to at tend, and consequently the day is postponed for a week or so. A numerous Committee of the Electors is appointed to superintend the management of the festivity, who will, no doubt, discharge the duty of their office in a manner that will be satisfactory to the large and respectable party expected on the occasion. We rejoice to learn that the Shropshire registration has so far proved eminently favour able to the Liberals. —Stafford Examiner. THE BUBBLE FAMILY, BY LADY BULWER. —Those readers who delighted in the tableaux painted by Lady Bulwer in her interesting and popular novel of " Cheveley," will have, we understand, a still richer treat in the scenes, adventures, and gallery of portraits to be presented by her Ladyship in her new novel of " The Budget of the Bubble Family," now on the eve of publica tion. In the preface to this " Budget, Lady Bulwer thus openly avows that " everything, possible and almost impossible, has been done to prevent the book appearing at all ; and with regard to the dfferent personages of the Bubble Family,' I have no doubt that their characters will be thought overdrawn. I can only assure the public, that every one of their sayings, doings, seeings, and adventures are subdued far under the originals, and that Lord John Bubble is not Lord John Russell.'" THE NEW WORK BY LOVETT AND CC L LINS —Col. Thompson, in a late letter, speaks in , See highest terms of this guide-book for the Chartists, eed particularly of that part of it which treats of educati The following are his words—" They have a most reas; e .. able doubt of the propriety of giving up the education et their children to any Government, and the strongest s horrence' of giving any such power to an irresponsilee one. The abhorrers are right. For what assignable tea son does anybody think Miss Monflathers, or any other personification of educational ardour, applies herself to the training of 'the lower orders,' except for the purpose of training them in the way it is for her interest they should go ? This has in all ages been the polished arrow in the quiver of that [transit of despotic power, which did not pro fess to act in.mediately by pike organ Give us the Op portunity to mould the minds of the people (rem their youth tr p ; allow us to fill their minds with the ideas of false duties, false crimes, and ingraft the habits of not fearing where they ought, and of - fearing where they ought not ; and, though we will not admit their entire security from change, hill engage that you the interested shall acknowledge t h e benefit of the results.' And in this there is nothing so monsa.rous after all. Would you vote your money to teach what peu think directly opposed to the interests of your class ? 'The inference is clear ; what you. want doing, do for like other people. Be assured the upper classes'never give sixpence, but to get a cro wn ' s yo ur se w 't i v i e r S ' wal e . , f rom you , There are a few talkers, who may mean ; but they will be allowed to talk and nothing else, tlee profitable conclusion just hinted at is in some way coteplcd with closing their plans. To conclude then, the Chi artist leaders have struck out a great het ; and any bod y who opposes it, wants to keep the Chartists in i glu , san e,' s for interested purposes. It does not follow that everybody who wants to see them learn, is right in what be es ou:d propose to them for their studies; but it is clear that he dares submit his proposals for what may come of therm by exemination and inquiry, arid that the opposite C.I)Q date s riot." There is scarcely an inven:nn of str iking merit, i egen.uity, and skill, that does not rouse the cupidity of ig teerant pretenders, who unblushingly come fo7th with their spurious imitations ; this applies to those valuable inven teas of the Messre. S. end B. Solornoes, 39, Albemarle sere et, Piccadilly, and 76, King Wdlism-street, Bank of Easelend, the ncwiy.invented levisible Operative Voice sre'ssesluctors, which have relieved thousands of individuals a3.3310,n, - 1 with extreme deafness ; and the improved Specta cle- Lens's for defective vision, the transparent brilliancy aret superi o r excellence of which over all other Speetecles Lars , gained the patrons g e Cie Rey-s 1 Family, and the yogi taiitied ae , p;ohation of Acre four hundred of the vie + :{#4 M C1T16 , 111 ut th e me di ca l profess i on, t h e , h av i ng c i e n so touch repeee end celebrity that nuineeous v sit :.:Is, assuese the n a r ae o f s- y to London and varioue ,lemons ; this u e oes. not apply parts of the country, but to f r 'and, Scetl.:nd, and on the Contieent, all 'have en veurcd to iientete the Messrs. Selornons's new inven ff.,4 i; but the materials being a secret to themse l ves, and t• 3 1 various . mode of their application to th e car an d eye int ;,,,,,f eg . known to them, their spurious have eat ; ;Jot e been found to b r useless:. The Messrs. Sol : (oppesito 51 e mote; have no comics:lion whatever with persona of the sac,;(3 ; theie ieventions are solely co e fi e , d tip.lr esieblisineeete. :39, E , ...l i e v enarlzestre ct , York Hotel), zed Ki; , g qietetts-strnet, Beek, SPIRIT of the PUBLIC ,JOURN itiAtz-. FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. (From the Globe.) The well-reasoned and well-timed article from the 1 Scotsman, to which the Times returns this morning, , and of which the " leading Journal " affects to speak contemptuously, as "the Scotch article," is evidently a ;ore subject with the Tories. The clear and forcible exhibition of the dates, facts, and circumstances relating to the defeats sustained by Tory Governments on ques tions of far greater moment to the policy and character of those Governments than any to which the present Ministry has beep subjected, has so completely an swered the party clamours against Ministers for retaining office notwithstanding such defeats, that the Times applies its best powers, both of sophistry and abuse, to show that the defeats of the Tories were not of such a character, nor followed up by such repetitions, as either to defeat the principles, or to damage the character of their government ; while those of the Whigs was pro ductive of both. As vituperative epithets neither strengthen argument nor establish facts, but, on the con trary, manifest a conscious destitution of both, we can well afford to make the Times a present of all the ad vantages which can be derived from the choice flowers of rhetoric which embellish the article before us. The Times, in common with most public writers, is invari ably most abusive when most at a loss to make out a case, or when rendered angry by the exposure of the faliehood of some asserted fact, or the demolition of some favourite theory. Two concessions are made by our Contemporary, which have been wrung from his reluctance, to which we will briefly advert, before we proceed to expose the fallacy and falsehood of his most important statements. The first is, that the comparison of the several defeats of the two parties, so far as relates to the present ad ministration, are to be confined to the session of 1840 ; the second is, that the vote in reduction cf Prince Albert's allowance was net properly such a defeat of the Ministry as to be deserving of being so designated. We thank the Times for both these concessions. The latter stands forth in striking contrast from the notes of triumph struck by the Tory press upon the occasion. The Times is now " aware that almost all allowances to Royal persons from the public purse are vastly un popular in the country, and therefore briskly opposed by great numbers of those who are otherwise the fast adherents of the Ministry." (From the Standard.) The Morning Chronicle to-day offers a long defence of Ministers against the charge that they ought to have taken the manifold hints" of the necessity of resigning tendered by the House of Commons in the course of last Session. We have some difficulty in meeting the argument of our Contemporary, because, if it have in fluenced the conduct of Ministers we are pleased at its success, for nothing in our opinion can be more desirable than that the game of the Whigs shall be fully played out, than that they shall show unequivocally the sordid ness of their system by clinging to office, until they are dispossessed by actual force. Such an exhibition will he illustrative of more than the character of the men ; it will cast a reflecting light upon all their measures of the last ten or twelve years, in. brining the public of the real motive of all the violent changes the country has been made to undergo —changes, let us observe also, not affecting Great Bri t tin alone, but the whole civilised world, as the present reform and war manie in France vary clearly demon strives ; yes, all this is the work of the ascendancy of Whig principles, asserted by Tory Governments acting upon Whig principles, or by Whigs in person. M.Thiers is as 'nue!, indebted to the English Wiligs for his posi tion as Mr. Wakley or Mr. O'Connell. When we see, however, so great a fire kindled by seemingly so small a spark, k cannot be unprofitable to trace the incendiary and to detect his motive ; it is, therefore, well when we bring the Whigs to confess, that they will do anything, suffer nny thine, rather than relinquish the emoluments of office. The Morning Chr,»zicle has been led into its pre sent line of reasoning by a pre-eminently absurd article which appeared some time ago in the Scolsizzan, ba laneing the defeats of the Ministers in the four or five months of the last Session, by a• list of Tory reverses, collected from the parliamentary contests of more than twenty-one years. 'fills was ridiculous enough —as ridiculous as the device of a Vrench writer, who s,'t off Dunkirk, Fontenoy, and the recovery of Calais, picked up from about three centuries, against the thick s.lecession of victories which adorned the arms of Great Britain in the first fifteen years of the present century. But, as if in order to make the matter more extravagant, the Scotsman has thought proper to claim as victories over the Tory Ministers successes mainly owing to the exertions oftese Ministers themselves. (From the Courier.) It is. we believe, generally, if not universally true, that obstacles, repulses, and even repeated defeats, but add fresh strength and energy to the passion, whatever 6e its aim or character, by which individual minds are exclusi v ely cogrosscd, It is on this principle alone that I the appearacce_and conduc. of Mr.,Gibsou before the electors of 'l4lancliester, on Friday last, in the eltareetcr of a candidate .for Vog . jr s.utTrawes.can. ttAlAimet.iadoounted for or cuon.oonaprolncotteit The..master pasel.r..of that gentleman's soul in a longitig - tar a seat,io the House of Commons. The repeated rejections he.has experienced under circumstances the most galling to his pride, ap pear to have had nceother effect on him than to stimulate him to renewed efforts. Defeated at Ipswich, the foun tain-head of his political existence, be turned with eager embraces towards Cambridge. Alas for baffled ambition, the account of his sudden, and on that account sus picious conversion from the extreme of Toryism to that of Radicalism had gone before him, and an ignominious defeat was the consequence. The repudiation of,all his former principles (if sveathercock politicians of 114 stamp can be supposed ever to have had any) availed him not—and equally unavailing was the unbridled license of his tongue in vituperating those whom he lied di serted, we will not say betrayed, and in lauding' those with wham he bad then allied himself. It was in vain that he " swallowed" on that occasion, without grimace or grum bling, the toughest, and, to a•sensitive, mind, the utast revolting pledges of ultra-Radical ism ; it was in vain that he attempted by the impas sioned zeal and indiscreet eiolence of a recent convert to atone for the sins of his former brief political ca reer, " lateri lethalis adhaeret arundo"—a suspicion of political insincerity attached to his character, and Cain bridge, by a large majority of electors, repudiated him. One might suppose that these defeats would have some what.cooled the ardour of this aspirant foe Parliamen tary honours ; not so, however, for since that time he has been eagerly on the look out for a vacancy, or the chance of one, and rumour having whispered abroad the speedy retirement of one of the Members for Man chester, Mr. Gibson forthwith opened a communication with a clique styling itself the Reform Association, composed for the most part, we are informed, of elec•. don agents, local intriguers, and politicz] busy-bodies ; by it he is brought out on the stage to be examined and catechised in the various articles constituting his po itieal creed by Chartists and Socialists. WONDERFUL ESCAPE.— The crew, six in number, of a Lerwick herring boat, that had been among sailers driven off the Shetland Isles in the storm of the 10th instant, were landed at Dover on Thursday. They were picked up at sea, in great distress, by a Flemish fisherman, and carried into Nieuport, thence they were sent to Dover by the Ostend packet. There they obtained the means of proceeding homeward, from the Dover Alms house Charity, and were sent off, via London, next morn ing. The boat sunk immedately after the Shetlandmen were taken out of her. She had been kept afloat for a long time previously, by the sheer force of pumping. The crew were three days and nights without sustenance of any kind. THE CORN TRADE.—The quantity of foreign wheat entered in British ports for consumption during the last few weeks, is estimated at about one million quar ters. The produce of this to the growers abroad, at the average net value of fifty shillings per quarter, including the charge for freight, which goes into the pockets of foreign shipowners, would be upwards of two millions and a quarter sterling. In Leith, two weeks ago, duty was pail on one hundred and thirty thousand quarters of grain (instead of twenty-eight thousand, as formerly stated); one firm alone releasing between twenty thousand and thirty thousand quarter's of wheat ; and another between ten thousand and twelve thousand quarters of the same grain.—Scotsman. The World, a Dublin paper gives the following character of some of its countrymen:—" To one well ac quainted with life in Dublin—conversant with all the place hunting and jobbing which are to be found running through every cranny and crevice of society—nothing well could appear more Quixotic than for any journalist who sought to thrive harbourin for a moment the idea of holding up such iniquitous practices to public reprobation. From the Lord Mayor, the father of the city, down to the humblest patriot who bawls at a parish meeting, you discover the place-seeker, or champion of some self-interested scheme. The putting in a judge, or the putting out a gaoler—the aecoucheur who brings the wretched foundling into the world, or the coroner who, a few years hence, inquires the cause of his strangulation—the projector of a bank—the builder of a workhouse--have all a relation to jobbing and cor THE ruption." NEW NAVAL ENGINE.—It is settled by the Tory organs that England is to be ruined because some wonderful discovery, that i 3 to blow every thing to pieces in " no time," has not been adopted by the Ad. miralty ; but what the exact discovery is, or how we are to bring it into use, and yet keep it so secret that foreign ' powers shall not find cut how to imitate it, does not appear. We happen to have beard something of the dark infernal machine now alluded to, and when we tell the public that at the very time it 'vas effared to the English Govern west, it had been already detailed to the French, oe think th it the people will f ee l p l ease d t h a t wale thousands of Hounds were not spent i n b uy i eg nhat had been sell or ha lan eel about else where. Private Correspondent of Glas gow Argils. THE ORIENTAL STEAMER.—Accounts have this day been received of this vessel's arrival at :sialta on the 12th inst., at 1 30 ram , alter a pas;ag e o f 239 hours from Falmouth. Thus arriving three hou rs within the time allowed by the Adm'ralty. Upon the arrival of the 1 French mail steamer from Alexandria, bringing intelligence i of -all beiroe quiet at that . port, the Orieotai left Nlalta 1 for Alexandria' the Leila mails end passengers on the 15 I, instent. at 4 P.M. TnU rep o rt o f her having been • stopped at Malta is thus l=oved to be without foundation, POLICE INTELLIGENCE, MANSION-HO USE. A Frenchman named Eugene Teobale Tillot was brought up for final examination, charged with having defrauded tradesmen to a very large amount. The prisoner said that he did not understand the English language, but there were several present who said that he could speak it perfectly well. He had been twice remanded, but no evidence was heard until yes terday. Mr. Chambers, the barrister, appeared for the prose cution, and Mr. Humphreys, the solicitor, attended for the prisoner, who had absconded from his creditors, and been apprehended upon a warrant in the Island of Jersey. Mr. Chambers said that the prisoner pretended, in his dealing with Mr. Storar, a warehouseman, that he had a partner in Paris to whom he wished to send goods to a considerable amount. Relying upon the truth of the statement that the order was to be transmitted to that place, and that the prisoner had a partner there, to whom a former parcel of goods had been sent from the firm, Mr, Storar supplied the goods, at the same time receiv ingone-third of the amount in cash. Subsequently it was ascertained that the goods stated by the prisoner to have been sent to the abovementioned destination were sold to a person in London. The Learned Counsel contended that the prisoner had obtained the goods under false pretences, in stating that he had transmitted a former parcel of goods to his partner in Paris, which was false in fact. Other persons, from whom goods had been obtained by the prisoner, had caused him to be made bankrupt, but Mr. Storar had not interfered in the bankruptcy, nor treated the prisoner as a trader at all. Mr. Humphreys submitted to the Lord Mayor, that upon the statement of the Learned Counsel the case was one which (if proved) did not amount in a legal sense to the offence imputed, for it had been held by the Judgest hat a false pretence must be something more than a naked lie, and something against which common prudence could not guard. If such a transaction as that of which the prisoner was accused were to be deemed fraudulent, every person who should become unfortunate in trade would be liable to an indictment for fraud. The LORD MAYOR said it was a common practice with schemers to pay for part of an order, in order to insure the execution of the whole ; and ordered that the evidence should be taken down. Mr. William Salter Storar stated that he was a part ner in the houie of Thomas Storar and Co., of No. 90, Watling-street, warehousemen. In June last the pri soner came to the warehouse, inquired what the terms of doing business were, and said that he was buying goods at three months. Witness replied that it was the custom of the house, in dealing with merchants, to have cash monthly. Witness then received the order pro duced from the prisoner, and supplied him with twelve pieces of linen, to the amount, according to in• voice, of 281. 18s. The prisoner had previously said that he had a partner in Paris, through whom he had the means of disposing of linens there, and he re quested, and received from witness patterns of linens of different qualities, with the prices attached. A few days after, witness received a second order, which the firm could not execute until the 29th of June, not hav ing the requisite linens in the house. On that day he sent the goods, which amounted, according to the in voice, to 83/. Bs. 3d., to the prisoner's office, Trinity- chambers, Water-lane, Tower-street ; and in the invoice it was specified that the goods were to be paid for on the 31st of July following. On the 20th of July the prisoner called again at the warehouse, and said that his partner approved of the goods, and told him to send a larger parcel of each number, from the lowest quality up to the finest. Witness, perceiving that the order was very extensive, required a reference, and the pri soner gave the names of his bankers, and of Scotch warehousemen, but the result of the inquiry induced the witness to decline to execute the last order, at the same time that be admitted not having heard any thing to the prejudice of the prisoner's character, and told him that if he would pay half the amount in cash, the goods should be sent to him. Shortly afterwards the prisoner offered to pay one-third in cash, and the re. mainder in thirty days, and the proposition was accepted, and goods to the amount of 2171, 13s. 9d. were sent to him, upon the deiivery of which he gave a check for 72/. 11s. 3d., which was duly pail. • It was impossible for witness to say that he should have declined supplying the prisoner with the third- parcel of goods if he had known at the time he agi cod to'supplY them that the goods, previously supplied had not been Sent to the prisoner's partner in Paris, but it he had known that the previous parcel of goods had been so d by the prisoner at a loss. he certainly should not have trusted him with the third parcel. The first parcel of goods was paid for on tne 11 th of • July, but the payment for the second parcel, • which. was to have taken ple.ee on the 31st, was not tnade, and the prisoner, with: all his bookS, had•disap peered before that-poi:A. Mr. James Basset, merchant, of No. 8, Fenchureb buildings, said that he was acquamted with the pri• s ner, and had had dealings with hiM about nine Months previously to the .Ist of July. Oa that day witness purchased goods to the amount of .70/. 10s. of the prisoner, the particulars of which were specified in the invoice produced. The price asked for them war SO/. 10s. 6d., and witness agreed to purchase them it a discount of 101. Os. 6d. were taken off, which was ac cordingly done, and witness paid the prisoner for the goods with cash to the amount of ten guineas, arid sixty pounds which, on the 15th of Juno previously, he had lent the prisoner. Frederick Atterbury said that lie was formerly clerk to the prisoner. He believed that the goods referred to in the invoice for 831. Bs. 3d. were delivered at the prisoner's office in Trinity Chambers, and that he re ceived them on the 30th of June. They consisted, he saw by the entry-book, of thirty-three pieces of Irish linen ; on the same: day witness delivered these goods, but he c.iuld riot say to whom, but he- to whom he delivered them, gave him a receipt for them. When he received these goods he found he had ordered them as coming from Messrs. Storar and Co. Witness last saw the prisoner on the 27th of July, when he told witness that he was going home to dress in order to meet some French merchants, to accompany them to various ware houses in the City. He, however, did not return on that nor on the following days, on which witness at tended at the office, and witness never saw him again until he was in custody. Mr. Humphreys submitted that the prosecutor having refused delivery of the goods without payment it was quite evident that the goods were not obtained on account of the representation about the prisoner's part ner in Paris, but in consequeace of payment of a third of the money. The LORD MAYoa was of opinion that there was sufficient evidence of the intention to defraud to justify him in sending the case to a jury for trial. Be should, however, accept of good bail. The prisoner has contrived, it was stated, to raise the wind by dealings of this description, to the amount of nearly 3,000/. BOW-STREET. Yesterday two middle-aged men of respectable ap pearance were brought before Mr. Jardine, charged with being drunk on the previous night, and obstructing persons, particularly females, as they passed them. They gave the names of Loten Harrison and Hugh Tate, and were described on the police sheet as having no trade. Alan Phillips, 48 F division, stated that at ten o'clock, while on duty in Brydges-street, Covent-gar den, his attention was drawn by a gentleman passing to flo defendants, whom he had observed insulting several persons by pushing them into the carriage-way pave ment. The gentleman having gone away, witness fol c u tl lowed th em as t h ey ree l e d a l ong , unt il t h ey came to t h e corner of S ou th am pton-street, when h e saw the defen dant T ate . l ay hold o f a respecta b le female i n a most inde cent manner, which caused her to cry out for assis tance ; a n d severa l persons w h o h a d w i tnesse d the cir cumstance conductwaswimtnoesstsdisgraceful.Constabl e sances ad 67t,hwho their joined the last mo ment the assault was committed, corroborated his state ment. Toe defendants both said that they were intoxicated, and they had no recollection of the occurrence, for which W they w ere very sorry. Mr. J ARDINE—Was there any d ou b t t h at the person treated i n t h e manner described was a respecta b le fe. male ? itness—She certainly was, and she appeared to be totally unprotected. Mr. ZARDINE said that he could hardly conceive a more disg raceful situation than t h at i n w hi c h t h e de fendants, who seemed in a respecta bl e stat i on, were placed, an d i nstead of sending t h e m to prison, be hop e d that by inflictin g a pena l ty t h e e nds of justice would be ensured. T ate should pay a fine of 31., and the o t her 40s. and b e d i scharged. paid The d e f en d ants i d the fine, and left the Court. THE W.. ATERMEN. On Saturday , at the Mansion-h ouse, a Waterman, of the na me of Grace, was fined 15 s . an d costs, and ordered to for overcharging two bays sons of Dr. Bowring, in a refund the difference fare from a steame r off the ' Tower to the stairs. The D. Barring like the defendant. The pillage waterman eemancied 6a. but finally consented to take 55., which wag paid, landed from a steamer without witnessing the most mon strous extortions, particularly upon foreigners, by persons and it was much to be regretted that so few of those who arm Gibbs said the public were were plundered could convepiently at tend to fh (Dr Bowring) w" punish the perpetrators, was, constantly going on, determined to let no case in which he was able to exercise any influence es:Ype With impunity, for the sake of the public. Alder ; arm fur following un the case. THE WEATHE R AND THE fIARVEST.—Sonic of the of cur provincial Contemporaries report very unfavomably greatly indebted to Dr. corn yet lir:housed (of this, however, we think the q uln . The Scotch papers speak of tity must be small), an d o r the i n jury, eiprcially to the From Ireland, as well weather, and of the deplorable condition of the putatoc crops, done by the frost. as from Wales, the accouats are on the whole favourable: tint busit.e.F4 I ing ', at,ieria , the crops by the wet weather. But it seems that th e fi,- ! ld s h a ve generally " stookt'd" exceedingly well, and the produce from the mill is proving satisfactory. the suipnsion of the impor. BRITISH JIANA. ADDiti SS BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR TO THE LABOURERS OF BRITISH GUIANA. The unspeakable blessing of freedom was bestowed on you this day two years. All the rights of British subjects and freemen were then fully acquired by you. Your rights as freemen are coupled with obligations to all your fellow-creatures in every condition of life, whether above or below you in station, and with duties to yourselves and your families. The grateful performance of those duties and ,;obli gations is a proper tribute to that all-wise and merci ful Being, from whose Providence you have received freedom and all your other blessings. These duties, however, you could neither fully learn nor practise until you obtained freedom. The time which has elapsed since you became free has been so short, that I take occasion this day—the second anniversary of your perfect emancipation—to address to you a few words of remembrance ani advice. On former occasions, when there was news of the freedom, which, with nitural and proper anxiety, you longed to possess, the Governor was always quick to give you true and correct information. He is now, and ever will be, your sincere friend and well-wisher. O 11 At your part, continue to be, as you now are, wet . assured that his power will always be exerted, and will prove sufficient to secure to you every right and privi lege which belongs to you in common, and equally with all other loyal subjects of our Gracious Queen. I am satisfied, and so ought all the world to be, that you have furnished proof that liberty does not pro duce idleness, but that, on the contrary, it promotes industry. Let me, however, caution you at present against being too hasty, altogether to exchange work on estates, for work solely on your own account, least you should, under existing circumstances, find such an exchange comparatively unprofitable. You have a choice of employers ; you have good wages, and the ordinary task by which they are earned is not too much ; your houses are generally good ; and there is no want of land for provisions. Be not, there fore, over eager to use the money which you have made, or may easily make, in the purchase of land in order to leave the estates. In the neighbourhood of the estates you have your churches, chapels, schools, clergy, and magistracy, ap pointed by the Queen—remove not, then, from these promoters of civilisation. Thousaads of our African brethren are detained in the slavery from which you have been relieved, whose emancipation will be hastened provided you deprive their owners of any pretext for saying that the black man will not work without coercion, and that the pros perity of a West Indian colony cannot be maintained where the people arc free. You owe it to your suffering brethren to use every exertion to prove that the abolition of slavery tends to the advantage of the master, no less than to the benefit of the servant. Beyond every other duty, however, is the dcty which you owe to yourselves and your families to use your freedom for the purpose of advancement in civilization, which is not attainable without education. The facilities for education were never in this colony so numerous as at the present moment, and now it is that your situation in life affords you opportunities for ay.tiling yourselves of them. In little more than twenty years to the three clergy men of the Established or Endowed Churches, and to the four ministers of other Christian denominations, who at that period comprised the total number of reli gious institutions in the colony, have been added thirty two clergy of the Endowed Churches, and, at least, twenty-two ministers of other congregations. The increase of Churches, Chapels, Schools, and Ca techists, has been proportionably great, and the number is still augmenting. Avail yourselves, then, more fully than you ever yet have done of these great advantages. Education, properly recpived should increase—not di minish—your industry. From the one you will learn to value, and from the other you will acquire, the coin forts and conveniences of civilized life. As the law has freed your persons from thraldom, so education will ef face from your minds the marks and traces of that ig norance which slavery either generated or fostered ; you will thereby improve your moral and religious cha racter, and thus will be more fit for that higher and more lasting state of existence to which all men are destined. l'hese are the objects to which freedom, properly used, gives you the means of attaining. I recommend yeti, and feel assured that the advice will be cordially adopted, to avail yourselves of to-morrow's sacred day, to commemorate with suitable thankfulness and decent joy, before the Almighty, the Second Anniversary of what has been your well•deserved, and I hope will con tinue to be, your well-used freedom. HENRY LIGHT. Government Apartments, Guiana public Buildings, Ist August, 1840. AVARICE' OF THE CHURCH. (From the Leeds Times.) It has been reserved for the Rev. Mr. Urquhart, of Chapeltown, to exhibit to the world how the avarice of Churchmen is not to be stopped by death, but will pur• sue their parishioners into the very grave itself. George Watson, of Lorrybank Hill, a notice of whose death appeared in our last week's obi tuary, was interred in the burying ground of the family, in Chapeltown churchyard, on last Tues day week, after the usual Church forms and ceremo nies. It appears that the friends of the deceased, in order to make the grave as secure as possible from the exhumers of the dead, wished to lay a heavy flat stone immediately over the cot pse ; but the clergyman being informed Of this, said it could not be allowed un less on payment of a fee of one guinea! The de ceased's friends disputed the legality of any such claim, besides considering it to be exceedingly exorbi. tent. They offered, however, for the sake of peace, to compromise the matter; but in the mean time the interment took place, the stone was laid over the dead body, and the ordinary burial fees were paid, and a discharge given. The cler gyman, however, continuing to insist on the payment of the extra guinea, Thomas Watson, the son of the de ceased, proceeded to take professional advice upon the subject, and en learning that the claim was perfectly illegal, he refused to satisfy it. And what, do our readers think, was the next resource of clerical cupi dity, when thus baulked of its extra " guinea ?" The Rev. Mr. Urquhart, after the body had lain undis turbed in its narrow bed for six days, gave orders that the grave should be opened, and the stone re moved from off the corpse. Accordingly, on Monday last, the grave was opened up, and the stone was taken out. The friends of the deceased, resenting this insult upon the dead body of !heir relative, imme diately had the corpse disinterred, and removed from Chapeltown to the new Cemetery, at Woodhouse, where it was buried on Wednesday ; the same stone being laid down without any additional fee being de manded. Thus has George Watson, one of the oldest and most venerated men in the parish, at length evaded for ever, it is to be hoped, the clutches of the established priest hood. We have long had the assurance that in the grave " the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest," but the present case proves that this holds true only with graves over which State priests have no control ; for there appears to be no spot so sacred and hallowed that it may not be profaned by the intrusion of clerical extortion and avarice. Had the clergyman's claim to the extra "guinea" really been a legal one, he could have had no difficulty whatever in recovering the amount by legal process, without violating the last resting-placa of the " hal. lowed dead." Three several courses were left for him to adopt, before resorting to such an extreme and un precedented measure. It may be asked whether the friends of the deceased ought not to take further steps in this matter ? Were there a pes&bility of obtaining justice, they assuredly would ; but the nuisance of Ec clesiastical Courts is a barrier in the way of all remedy, adding insult to wrong, and tyranny to injustice. In conclusion, we must congratulate the Rev. Mr. Urquhart upon his display of Christian love and charity in this matter ; we congratulate him on the loss of his extra " guinea," now feeling more than ever assured that " money is the root of all evil ;" we congratulate him upon the victory which he has gained over a dead parishioner ; and, finally, we congratulate him upon the Christian reputation which he is likely to acquire by the achievement. ACCIDENT IN SWANSEA BAY.—On Monday morning last, the pilot boat Mary, left the Pier He a d, Swansea, with fresh provisions for the brig John Haidy, then lying in the Mumble Roads. In the boat were Thomas Rosser, aged 19; Edward Browne, aged 18 ; and three boys about thirteen years old, William Shaw, Thomas David, and Griffith Rosser. When the) put to sea, the wind blew very strong, and the sea ran very high. As they passed the Pier Head, some sailors there cautioned them that they had too much sail ; however, they paid no attention, and went on. When they were about two hundred yards from the Pier, the boat was struck by a tr , 2inendous wave—filled, and instantly went down. They all clung to the boom for a few minutes, when Thomas Rosser said, " Here I am, off for a boat," and threw off his coat. He swam very well for some distance, but the sea was so very strong that he soon became exhausted and sank. The other four continued clinging to the boom; three were picked up soon after by Mr. Lewis Rosser, master of the Dasher, who put off in his boat. The Victoria pilot boat ais.) put off, and was instrumental in saving one. The three boys would undoubtedly have been lost had it not ben for the noble end .ct of Edw. Brown, who held them on to the boom, after they were completely exhausted. The body of Thornas Rosser was found behind the East Pier the vaiane evening by Mr. Joseph R )biuson, pilot. A most sin4ular ch - curnstance attended its recovery, for as the body was bein conveyed into the house, the mother of the Unflrtunate %num , man was saf,ly ielivered of another son l An itiqueq was held On the blely cf the deceased, and verdict of Accidentally Drowned was returned.- 11Telshman. The quarterly incetin,ls of the Staffordshire Lon masters be hull in Wolva...anyton On Oct. 7, and in Birmingham October.B. MODEL, OR SEPARATE ti VSTEM PRISON. This new prison, as its name imports, is intended as a model by which the houses of correction or penitentia ries in England are in future to be erected. The Go vernment have obtained a grant for its erection, and it ' will be completed in three years. The works com menced last April. It is not, as is generally reported, intended for juvenile offenders only, but for all classes of convicts. With the exception of some of its details, it will be constructed upon the same principle as the Eastern Penitentiary, in the State of Pennsylvania, near the city of Philadelphia, but not upon so large a scale. The site of ground selected for the building is situated on the eminence adjoining the Chalk-road, which leads from Pentonville t o Holloway, and is adjacent to the Caledonian Asylum. It will consist of four principal erections or wings, which will stand in angular directions to each other, and radiate to a point in the centre. One of these wings is so far completed as to be ready to be roofed in. The foundations of the others are all laid, and the external walls are finished. The prison, when com pleted, will accommodate .500 persons. The wings will be 189 feet long and 49 feet wide, and three stories high. Each of these stories will contain 126 cells— that is, 63 on each side of the wing, which is divided by a corridor 16 feet wide, running from one end of the building to the other. As these corridors will all meet in one point, a full view may be obtained of the whole of the edifice, by placing oneself in the centre. The upper stories are approached by staircases from the cor ridor, and communication obtained from one cell to the other by galleries. The cells themselves are 13 feet long, 7 wide, and 12 high. They are lit by a small window near the top. Each cell will be fitted up with a small bed, a table, and a water-closet. They will be warmed by hot-air flues, which will carry off the efflu via to a large chimney in the centre of the wing. In these cells the prisoners will be constantly confined, excepting at the time of exercising. They will be sup plied with work, but the arrangements are such as to pre vent the prisoners seeing each other, or speaking to each other during the whole time of their confinement. The pipes of the water-closets are furnished with valves for the purpose of preventing the convicts talking to each other by means of this communication. In the original construction of the Eastern Penitentiary this precaution was not taken. For the purpose of cleanli ness and drinking, each prisoner will be allowed e cu bic foot of water, or six gallons daily. Besides the cells above-mentioned, there ore a number of under-r=ound cells, intended for the confinement of refractory pri soners. There are five plots of ground set apart for ex ercising yards. This arrangement is very curious, and it is belie% ed quite original. It should be borne in mind that the great feature of the system about to be carried into effect is that of absolute separation. The prisoners must at no time, whether at prayers or at exercise in the open air, see each other, must not converse with each other—in fact, must not possess the means of doing either one or the other. To effect this object the convicts, when taken from their cells to the exercising yards, will be hooded or masked. When in the yards the hoods will be re moved, and, though upwards of 100 persons may thus be taking exercise at one and the same time, and within a few yards of each other, they will he as effectually separated, as regards seeing and hearing, as though they were many miles apart. This is accomplished by the following means :—Circular plots of ground are surrounded by high walls ; from the interior of these outer walls, twenty-seven other walls are erected at about nine feet distance from each other in the first instance. These walls all radiate to a point in the centre of the circle, where they diminish from about nine feet to about three feet of each other. We have thus, it will be seen, twenty-six exercising yards, into each of which only one person is admitted at a time In the centre is stationed the keeper, who, from his situation, has the ready means of constantly watching twenty-six prisoners almost simultaneously, and entirely unobserved by tin In. A portion of these yards is covered in, in order to shelter the convicts in wet wea ther. When the time allowed for exercise has elapsed, the hoods or masks will be again placed on the faces of the prisoners, and they will be conducted back to their cells. In addition to the four wings described above, there will be a chapel, a house on each side of the gate or prison -door, and fronting the Chalk-road, for the go vernor and chaplain, and six other houses or lodges for the use of the subordinate officers and their families. The walls enclose an area of six acres and three quar ters. The walls meet at angles. The lodges for the keepers are situated in these angles, and have somewhat of a tower-like appearance, being pierced with numerous loophole windows, apparently for the purpose of firing from, in case the prison should be attacked. Four of these lodges have six rooms each, and are in• tended for the accommodation of eight officers and their families. The other two arc for the use of the unmarried officers, who will have one room each and a closet. The unmarried men employed in the prison will take their meals in the mess room. The chapel will not contain at one time more than half the prisoners namely, 250. It will be so constructed in the interior as to prevent the convicts from seeinc , each other, but they will all be ' enabled to see the clergyman. In going to and from the chapel the prisoners will be all masked and hooded. On the first arrival at the prison they will also be masked till they are conducted to their cells. These cells, like the yards, are so constructed as to enable the officers to see the prisoners unobserved by the convicts themselves. The prison wi;l be supplied with water from an Arte tiin well, which has been already bored to the depth of 370 feet, the shaft being 170 feet deep, and the bore 200 feet ; the water rises in the shaft to the height of 12 feet. It has not yet been ascertained, however, whether this well will yield a sufficient quantity of water to supply the prison. Too works are under the superin tendence of Captain Jebb, of the Royal Engineers, who furnished the design. Messrs. Crawford and Russell are the inspectors. As the strictest eco - nomy is ob served, architectural beauty has not been much regarded. The Woods and Forests have no control over the Mo del Prison beyond passing the accounts, which are paid at the Treasury. THE AVERAGES. In two former numbers we exposed the manoeuvres by which a few speculators were raising the average price of corn, for the purpose of lowering the duty on foreign grain iu bond. We showed that those opera tions were carried on chiefly in London, where prices had advanced ten and fifteen shillings a quarter, whilst in the markets of Kent and Essex, whence the London supplies are derived, no rise in prices had taken place ; and whilst in Mark-lane double the ordinary amount of business was doing we enumerated several large towns from whence no returns had been made ! We explained by facts and figures how completely the supply of food for the people was at the mercy of a few gamblers. The result has shown at once the power of the London dealers over the averages, and the utter worthlessness of the present law to the farmer. At the very moment when the latter was gathering in his crops, the speculator contrived to lower the duty to the nominal rate of 2s. Bd., and thus liberate nearly a million quarters of foreign corn from bond, just in time to forestall the protected British farmer in his own market ! No sooner was this operation upon the corn-market made public, than the upholders of the present Corn law raised a cry against it. Admirable consistency, to find fault with the effect of the very system which they had themselves panned and passed into a law! Mr. Handley, one of the South Lincolnshire Members (a supporter of the inhuman bread tax, yet calling himself Liberal!) published a letter, stating that " several large houses in the corn trade have combined and subscribed to make forced purchases for the purpose of reducing the duty." And some of the Newspapers in the interest of the landlords actually charged the Anti-Corn-law party with being at the bottom of the plot ! The Standard and Post must surely speculate largely on the gullibility of the farmers, to imagine that they will follow so false a scent. No. no ; the gamblers who can work the averegas as they please—they into whose pockets the sliding scale puts iniihors—will flyer be found in the ranks of the repealers. We believe that, with scarcely an exception, the great corn dealers are in favour of the present law ; and judging from the proceedings of the last month, they have very good reasons for supportieg it. Looking back to the evidence of 1836 before the Committee of the House of Commons, we find our eminent friend, Mr. Joseph Sturge, alone advocating nature's Corn law—freedom of trade in the article of food with every market of the globe. That excellent man and S:r Joshua Walmsley arc, we believe, almost the only large corn 'dealers who have prominently aided the Anti- Corn-law party. No, no ; let the cap he rightly fitted. The sliding scale belongs to the landlords and the corn speculators, both parties professing to support the pre sent Corn-law for the like disinterested object. the pro teetion of the farmer and labourer.—Anti Corn-Law Circular. We have heard from Ludlow that a pair of stockings. presumed to belong to Misters, charged with the attempt to murder Mr. Mackreth, have been found within the last day or two in the msttress of the bed in which the prisoner slept,— Worcester Herald. Private George Bennet, of the Ist Dragoons, is about to be discharged. fie is the last man left (except the Quarter-matter) out of 450 who served with the regi ment at Waterloo, where 97 of his comrades were kited and 98 wounded. lie was born in the regiment, and weal s four rings for good conduct —United Service Gazette. It has been decided that Drury Lane is to open next week with Concers &Hirer; and, as at present known, it is Mr. Eliason's intention to have the German Opera probably bef .re or soon after Christman. M. Liszt, in passing through Bonn the other d, paid the sum o f 10 . 060 f ra ncs as. part of his promised munificent donation toward:, the monument of Beethoven, BRUSSELS, SEPT. 2G.—On account of the September fete, the Courier Belge of this diite is not pub_ lisped. The Monaca). Beige has no news different from that of the Courrier Bflye of Friday ; and the pikes of the funds are only for the 2.Lit. :VI-41N INTIT FD TAN. : A Fit EN Cll. , 3 .t. I .:' , . - i_ tO I.LP rP.t.llipe A man named Godard has just b een a rrested by the police of P ar i s , the history of whose numero us escapes is almost as remarkable as any in the annals of crime. Godard has not yet passed his 26th year, yet he Los been seven or e i g ht ti mes sen t e nced to lengthened pe' riot's of imprisonment for as many different felonies, and has each time effected his escape. lie was firs condemned in 1829 to five years' o imprisonment, as, five of surveillance, for robbery on a large scale, effecte with great hardihood, of whi c h the Marchioness de Lou!e, a sister of Don Pedro, was the victim. God of suffered the entire penalty for this crime, and via"' let loose again upon society until March, 18 35 . b, Four months afterwards he appeared befor e the oP oo ,1 ; lie tribunals, charged with a new robbery , was demned, but contrived to make his escape, by dose ° ing the staircase leading frore the sixth cham ber of the Palais de Justice, and passing through the hall of the Pas Perdus. Arrested shortly afterwards for s e lf other misdeeds, on January 5, 1836, he was again detnned to five years' imprisonment and five year; OP veillance. In less than three months afterwards be effected his escape, at the moment when the Ger a darmes were removing him from the prison of Gai l° . to that of Clarivaux. On the sth of Decernber thil that year he was again arrested in Paris. Oa be st e of January following, while he was awaiting in the prison of the Souriciere, he pierced abate thr e % the roof, and again effected his escape. On the S t . of March, 1837, he was again taken, being surprised,: flagrante delicto, while committing a burglary in t quarter of St. Eustache. the He was placed at first in the prison attached to Daring post of the municipal guard in the Rue Trainee. f the the course of the night he removed a portion 0 ~v pavement front the prison floor, and, unassisted bY 1;1 other instrument but his fingers and nails, es aavit te it under the door an opening sufficiently large -to Pera— him to pass through, and he thus escaped. A Pro later he was again surprised in jlat i ronte by the ,0 prietor of a house in the Petit Carreau, which h e . t ee leisurely robbing. He was hotly pursued, a nd 0 e ar , point of being taken, when he turned round on h ie e P o - ife suer (the proprietor of the house) and plunged body' which he carried three times ,tic • • 4-1 into hi s t eo Alter this Godard .'ett Paris, wil'ita:iailvliatYll.-. become the hut to hold him ;" but tnt continued in the proveice-s 0 same career of brig a nda ge an d d epre d a tion. Il e e w or t eventually arrested in the dep ar t men t o f the Cot e t ' o e a at the moment of hi s runn i ng off with the Cileb b°s be mercantile house, and h e re, to avoid identia , :a ti°° ' n d assumed a false name, under whi c h he was condsle-c to six years' imprisonment. The Parisian police at last became e aware of b'sideoll; tity, and resolved to put him on his trial for the atte t;9 at assassination recorded above Every measure wal v t ; r 's. to transport him securely from Dijon to a prison in: - is l e He was about to appear before the Judge of i' ss ne r: when, through negligence or want of foresight je L a ; : e r son employed by the huissiers, he again effected °i ces , cape, traversed the court of the venerable Saint e ; ,elf pelle, behind the P a lais de Justice, and buried hillt-„i. in the narrow streets of the Cite, where he ; would oe v io theless have been again arrested by the [Ali ce ': of were upon his track, but that, with rare Pr ee n t) ; b t mind, he interested the workmen assemble d ''' t o o a t' quarter in his favour by telling them that he was e ;tlie father of a family, who had been arrested durie'nar late disturbances in Paris, and that he was end ee , v- E to ing to recover his liberty for the sole purpose of g e ' - ' console his unfortunate wife and four little children' di d 1 ,,, The workmen to whom he told this fable not e P v„ho not oppose his flight, but put the municipal guards ;bee pursued him upon a wrong scent. Godard was; es free ence more, but as hi s st a t e of destitution "Tea him to the commission of new cr imes, he was trae"oo by the police, now become doubly vigilant , n ed etee Thursday last he was arrested in a cabaret in the toi Arbre Sec, where it was impossible for him to m a° if& resistance although he was armed with a poinard 10. ll oa and with several burglar' s i m pl eme nts. At the P e a id of his arrest he had got rid of his convict drese 'l e l er was clad rather respectably. Through a so rt (3f bad % ratio, very characteristic of wen of this class, he the®' made up his prison clothes into a parcel, and sent G ea . 1 by a porter to the governor of the Conciergerie. (lard will be shortly brought before a Jury. THE MARKETS• -,-- the 410 IE OF /SAE AD, The h - ghest •fe c. f PR e . C .! i the ilL.t.eoriiil Is it d or L at' Good Brew may be had a. 81. . PRI,. E, OF SEF.DS. . , Per Cwt. I Per Qu arter. s 5 - 65 0 1 ..... "7 . es rod NwEgl sh 11.., C10ve.•...50s SCs St. Fein ....... ..... -- . ...-. ,,,..s Old , it. Di , o —8 —s —8 Rye G ass , ............ :....0 44 s 51$ New Foreign Di to —s 50s 75s Pacey Grass ...•,'. . ;,..-- - g 6 0. 70 - to v9',.,0 01, Di to IH to — s —s —s L i nseed, for . fe (a '"" 42$ 46 4 rew White Clover • 40s sfs 6 - 8 Ditto, fo sowing '''' ',...3 ~,,, 4., Old Di t • Dia, —s —s —s Ditto, for crushi g " . .......6 ~,'. . 0 61 , NV 'l're oil._ —s 16s 34s H m ..................... ~ ......5 9.48 . ~, Old . itto - 8 17s 2r's Canary . .................. . Tr folium s 208 30s. Per B sbel• od t 0 110 1 E glish Carraway —s 46s 50s White Mustad • ... ,4 r S 04i Foreign Liao 4ss 48s Brown Ditt0......... I.s „ d t c li, Cieriand , r —s 12s 16s 'fares P.:IOE ..)F OIL. . . 3 0 0 '. , ' Rape Oil, brown, per ton /. .... DA o, refined . - IC Linseed Oil . ni) Liras cd 011 Cake at tEI Mill (p er 10 ii) l4 I Ita n i e ake, per to . PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, Ac. per 1121 b. o 1 Town Tallow £2 13 0 Melting Stuff' xi 6 it - Yellow Itussi i White ... ... , 0 1 Graves . . j.,•:,l Soap Ditto • 0 0 0 Good Dregs 0 . PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of 81b3 01 Price of Tallow (as stat e d b y t h e T allow Melters) .18. COAL Al hips arrived since s. d.l Adair's Buddy's West Hartley 1 0 1 Dement Main l7 0' lyweil Ma n l9 6 Orig•nal Windsor's Polito, IS Ord's liedhugh ussell's High Main TGwilley , I , NYlaal ................ . 19 3 Nalis E d etvic e aria: . 21 9 Walls End Killingworth . 0 9 Walls End Belmont Walls End Haswell. Walls End Hetton '23 Walls End Lambton [ARKET. 1 s market-day, 42. • ° tl 0 Walls End Pemberton ''''' ::‘ Walls End Stewart's '''' , Walls E Wh i twe ll ........p3 g V‘ ails End Hartlepool ....... Walls End Kelloe ............. lennant's Hartlepoolo"''' 2 6 Walls End Aklel,ide. ......... 91 .• Wails End Barrett ..•••'' ii Walls End Evenwood 3 Wills End Gordon ..... .... 0 Walls End Tecs ............ a 0 Brampton Main ............. ja 0 Fordel Splint .. .. ..... •••••• ... 1 1 Howard's Netherton ... lls End Cliff ........ • Ye S"rs SWEARING IN OF THE SHERIFFS.-- oro day Alderman Gibbs and Mr. Farncomb were st the into office as Sheriffi of London and Middles c %fly Guildhall. A greater number of persons than us u t - b - ie%' tend on such occasions were resent, probably in ' ( OM f Mayoralty. The ceremony was upon erformed with t he: s P'etation of hearing something the subject 01 formalities. The Under-Sheriff, P Mr. James ( the ;01 3 A ° the Secondary of the City of London), an' iur.gelliu were also sworn into effice. The whole busine ss °°- but a few minutes SUN S 0 113 10 PLATE.—A. B. SAVORY and SON. - ' () go a t to f facturing Silversmiths, No. 14, Cornhill, London , „ ° ) PAlS,i l l Bank of England. The best wrought FIDDLE V h ",, feii' SPOONS and FORKS, at 7s. 2d. per ounce. ' "- a y be ing are the weights recommended, but the article In ' , a lighter or heavier at the, same price per ounce. d . 'l - "a G g.., 1° 0 ,i. 12 Fickile Pattern Silver Table Spoons . 30 a s . 1.. • . ih v 12 ditto Dessert ditto..„, 2O . 7 2 ... 1 gl t 12 ditto . ' 11 ' 12 ditto - Dessert ditto 90 7 .. i 11 8 2 ditto Gravy Spoons lO 7 2." 3 8 8 19 7 ~e••• 5 1 0 0 . 1 ditto Soup Ladle. 4 ditto Sauce ditto. - Salt Spoons (gilt strong)!•!••" 7 " . : .... 1 113 v 4 ditto 1 ditto Fish Slice ......... . ................... l' . . 3 1 5 0 12 ditto Tea Spoons I pair ditto A Price Current, S s u ta g drawings, and every information relative to rar w - te r. silver or Sheffield plate, may be had ow applicatiout aid let sent into the country, free of postage, in answer t° a ATSSO ptl 1 m ar p T e o d ng a s s (s a tro N ng e c.. ................... .. ................................ SUPERIOR LONDON TABLE - 1 0, 1 , - ;* with Ivory Handles, 14s. per dozen ; Dessert t ti v ;ifite w - 31, Carvers, ss. 6,1. per pair ; Table Knives, wi t c a reer, s : 6 o, handles, Bs. Bd. per dozen , Dessert, 6s. 8 11 . ; ne w on of per pair ; Globe-shape Tea-urns, 4 quarts, 275. ; the 0 395. ; Papier Macho Tea-trays, gothic shape, bps, • Ir— full siz. < iital es egues, contai n i ng th e pr i ce o f ever y article I 0 i ttrni' ing ironmonger and cutlery, ras e et ,. RIPPON an y d BURTON,g We ti lls-street, Oxf ord-str A s., Established 1820. _.....11090°'—' fle pif BIRTHS. 1, Lad! On the 23d inst., at Moore Abbey, Kildare, t- e Moore, the a daughter. ,,, ~. a soil' v. , 4 ./ On the 24th inst., a'. Liverpool, Mrs. F. Ilas , o r ,' ro .e. .'" On the 25th ult ,at Clifton, the lady of W. C. '-'"-' df of the is On the 26th inst., at Dunford. greet, Storehouse' corir of Captain H P a li ser , 11. M. (Th un d erer ), of a s" airs. - . On Use 26th inst., at York-.place, Edinburgh, '`. - , , of • . t bell, of lilyth swoo d, o f a son. , , ig bill ate. On the 27th i ns t., Mrs. R. C. H ar vey, of ' c leso a son. W. f iV* On the 27th inst., at Leamington, the lady 0 . Esq., of Ploeden Hall, Salop, of a daughter. _ surr e°lii o n the 25th inst., the wife of Mr. E. Hickru a" tiffs SOU t hampton-row, Russell-square, of a s,,n• o f CaP On the 28th inst., in Welbeck-street, the lady Which, R.N., of a daughter. son of D i 14.: I.P. On the Ist of August, at Kingston, Jamaic a, J°ll T ' 2 8 * of Rowland Mitchell, Lsq., of Upper Harley.street. ac . „ ; ...hte r • On the 19 th inst., at C. hippeuhttm, Emma , 'b ird ' Wilts. il, the kte Aljor- General Bounes. of Stilton Bertger o ' rw y 11 0 " On the 22d inst., at Rylando, Peckham Rye , 1 ,.. c , r• lip ton Benson, Esq , of the Ordnance Department, • o 'l fe of - d , . I . 9riiiiit,haen2d3d secondi n st. , d a a t ug N h i te te r Elms, of j.D E o l , i ‘ z n ab s et y ll s . q l . l :%flichu l° ,1 Surrey, ag•ed 30. 01,, , id R ued On the 24th lust , at Clifton, near York, '-'-% is l''' ( (1 .; r; a ti g ie e€ 2 l s 67 ,l; inst ,in C - nal rore Kent-roa d ' SoP il 3IrB• . fo Foster, aged 72. . " •g • wid°" On tile 'Gth inst., at Fast Vn'codhay, Hants, An,? . . tO I. Dr, WI li Iti:T b•): ton , late c ' ,f ' Newbury, F•.trks. an rd '°' j Go t 0 the ,- 1• " ' ' late Mr' . Oa Juti inst., Ann widow of theof Regent-st reef, aged 53. ' On the 27th hist., James. the infint sou 11' C,rnbr' 0 ‘, Cliii` c . e , , , dge-terface, Edgeware-road. On the 27th inst Elizabeth, wife of Mr. raffle . .„ .' •bou' e street, Finsbury-squire, aged 41. It, Gi a " Oti the 27th inst., Sarah, wife of Mr. G. Ric s;l% et, Regent-street, aged '-'B. .-----(-; j o f Mr. C at°' , . . t_C:l(l,ln : Printed and Pubildied hy Mr IWO . 1 , tra rd p i • No. i 1'.2, Strand, at Ik c 3,-.. , Otiiee, r. - - i I - 1, ,,, , ,1640. toe coot ty of Aliddlesrx..—Tuesday, S,:ptember 7 ~ out a tew minutes. 11.•••••=110/MOYOSPAInny. 11 6 0 SILVER TEA and COFFEE S'''" V t psid_.. r g t , Drawings of the newest patterns, will be forwarded, f t % r any part of the country, in answer to a paid letter, "1 ill P i culars of size, weight, and price; or Purchasers. in the cafe' most extensive as sor t men t o f th e sil ver Services or Rooms. Either Tea-pot, Sugar Basin, Cream Eyl er pot, may be had separately. T. COX SAVORY, c obtir cy Silversmith, Sze., 47, Cornhill (Seven doors from ' III street), London.