The Sun.
London, England, 1824-04-23 00:00:00

BOW-STREET-(hu: DAY.)

DARING- ROBBERY.— Two notoriously. bad,
'characters, named Williarn Nibb and Wepry
Yearn, were put to the bar, charged with rob-
bing the shop of Mr. Christian, of the Strand, of
a quantity of' silk handkerchiefs. They had
been observed for several days lurking about, and
several of the neighbours had kept their atten-
tion towards them. This morning, at half-past
eleven o'clock, they went up to the window, is
the most daring manner, cut out a square of
glass, and, with a wire, drew out the property.
They were pursued, and on their persons was
found a knife, with a considerable number of in-
struments and a piece of wire, used for drawing
goods from windows. Several persons provedthe
daring manner in which the attempt was made,
and the prisoners were committed. Both of theta
have been before in custody, and convicted.

A SHOOTING PARTY.
Yesterday a young Wan of respectable appear-
ance, named Samuel Gardiner, was brought up before the Ma-
gistrates charged with committing an assault and battery upop
William Rockshall.
William Rockshall, a little old man, in a fustian jacket and
hobnailed half-boots, swore that be was one of a large party of
sporting men, who on. Good Friday last, met at Chalk Farm.
to enjoy the diversion of pigeon shooting. In the midst of the
sport, the defendant came up to him, with his mouth bleeding,
anti seizing him By the collar, said, " You d--41'eld rascal; yo•e
have shot Me." The witness denied it, and shewed him his
gun, which was still charged. The defendant upon this ran to
another Man, whom he also collared, and accused of having shOt
him, but it was stoutly denied by the other. While they were
disputing,. the witness went up to the defendant, and merely
tapping him on the shoulder, assured him he had got hold of
the wrong man, upon which the latter turned Wm: t and knocked
hint down. Be got up, and the-defendant not only knocked
him down again, but kicked him ; then, in his own defence, he
certainly did use his gun and knock the defendant down.
Sir R. Bum surely that was sufficient retaliation
without punishing him also " according to law," as •the
phrase is.

Rockshall—No, no, Sir; he committed the first assault, and
therefore I have the law on my side.
Sir R. hill NlE—Perhaps you also know enough of the
to be aware that it is necessary to hear both sides. What ha; 0
you to say, Mr. Gardiner ?
• The defendant stated that he was one of the shooting party',
and while in the act of discharging his own piece he received
part of the contents of some other in his mouth. lie Mime-
diatelY perceived that the complainant, or a young man
who stood near to him, must, from. the position in which they placed, have been the assailant, and I e a •cused Rockshall,
but was instantly satisfied at seeing his i cc still loaded. He
then seized the young man and accused him, and he denied that
he had fired his piece at all, but on examining it he found the
pan and muzzle still smocking. While he was still talking and
threatening to take him before a Magistrate, Rockshall came
behind, anti with the butt end of his gun struck him a blow en
the head which brought him to the ground in a senseless titatc,
anti broke the gun in two pieces.
Drummond the patrol produced the gun, which was broken
asunder at the lock.

Mr. Efar.Ls examined the gun, which is a very stout one,
and observed that either that must be very defective, or Mr.
Gardiner's head particularly strong.
Mr. Gardiner said that nothing bat the breaking of the gun
prevented the blow from being fatal.
A witness corroborated the defendant's statement, and said
that the blow felled hint as though he had been shot througn
the head.

Sir R. BIRNIE said he had seldom met with a more impu-
dent attempt than this to turn the proper course of justice. The
defendant had been shot in the mouth, and very naturally seized
upon the person who, in his judgment, was the offender, and for
doing so the complainant had almost fractured his skull, and
now had the face to proceed against him by law for an assault.
It appeared in the course of further inquiry that the person
who actually shOt Mr. Gardiner, and whom the latter seized,
was Rockshall's son.:

The result was that the original warrant was diseha'rged, and
Mr. Gardiner being sworn as a witness, Rockshall was ordered
to give notice of bail for the assault. He in the mean time was
locked up.
Sir R. ilinwir strongly censured-the practice of assembling
together for such sports as pigeon shooting oa a Good Fridy,
a day held sacred by the law of the land, and said l c had
mind to have the whole party indicted.

RCANTILE SHIPPING.

The schooner Lord Wellington, Geer ; sloop Jane, John-
son; schooner Catherine, Talbot; and schooner Swift, Pear-
son, were wrecked at Terceira during a violent gale on the
night of the 30th ult. ; the crews saved, except one man belong-
ing to the Lord Wellington. The following is a copy of a
letter from the Captain-General, offering his friendly assistanie
on the occasion :

" To HILLIATLD ALTON, Esq., his Britannic Majesty's Vice-
Consul, and Agent to Lloyd's, Terceira..
" SlR—'Phis moment (seven o'clock) I am informed of the
disasters which have occurred to four English vessels, as alsc,
of your having called on me at day-light, ar.. that my servants
objected to wake me. I have been much afflicted at their con-
duct. To -the Harbour Master I have given orders to render
every possible assistance to save the remains of the vessels.
'fo the Custom-house I have also given orders to allow thtt
effects. that may be saved to be placed in their warehouses.
You will send me word what more you may wish tei to .do tbr
the benefit of your countrymen, and our good friends—my per-
son, my money, my servants, are all ready, for my duty and
my affection to the English nation, and for the fricalship, with
which I remain,
" Sir, your constant and obliged Servant,
(Signed) " Baron DA VILLA DA PRAIA,
Captain-General."

DEAL, APRIL 22.—Wind W.S.W.—Came down from the
River and remain with the Siren, and Alacrity, the Jane,
Wylie, 'for St. Lucia ; Latona, Lovie, for Demerara ; and '
Flora. Passed through for London the schoorier Spai tan, fro:it.
Lisbon. •

PORTSMOUT/I, APRIL 22.—Wind W.—Arrived his Ma-
jesty's ship Jasper, .from a cruize; Upton Caale, Thacker,
from London, for India ; and Le Charles, Gui/pert, from
Havre. Sailed the Jemmiraa, Watts; and Friendsbury,
Walker, for London.

P.l.Ystounr, APRIL 21.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrived the Mer-
chant, Wilson, from Charente ; Dart, White, from London ;
Hero, Morris, 20 days from Terciera ; and Eben,zer, , •.
from Seville. .

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FALMOUTH, APRIL 21.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrived the Unity
Lanfesty, from Cette, in 41 days.
LIVERPOOL, APRIL 21.—Arrived the Francis Eivs!,
--, from Malaga ; and Matilda, Pellat, . from Lisbon. •
DAnTsiouTH, .A mitt. 22.—Off the Port the Clarunont,
Gaudin, from Jamaica.

Arrived in the Channel the Honourable Cooapany's ships
Herefordshire, and Kellie Castle, from China.
The Expedition, Brown, bound to Pctersburgh, put Lacl,-.
to Hull the 20th inst. with loss of foremast.

CORN-EXCHANGE, APRIL 23. . ,
The arrivals of this week are moderate—Wheat, 4300 ;
Barley, 1300 ; Oats, 4900 ; Irish Oats, ti7ii quarters; Flour,
3300 sacks ; there is very little business doing in the 'tirheAt i- ...
trade to-day, and Monday's prices are scarczly. supported . ....
Barley also hangs on hand at last quotations; in Beans and. '.
Peas there is very little doing; the Oat trade has beer. veiy
languid during the whole of this week, and very few saleS can
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be effected to-day, although offers arc made wider Monday's . 't
quotations. .
Although the
market this
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great,
isiutplpEl
supply
still there is a sufficient quantity for the demand ; the trade
being very dull, and, owing to the change of weather, law:::
prices are demanded for all descriptions of cattle.
To sink the Offal, per stone of alb.
Beef 2s led to is we. Veal - •
Mutton 3s 6d to 4s sa Pork 3s 10c1 to ,Is 104 - •
•• Lamb /5s 6 to es 61

HAY AWD STRAW., rim LOAD.
Hay £4 105 to X 5 lOs I Clover XS Its to LIS Os
Straw .C 1 lts to £2 Os.

We regret to learn that the Cork coach, by
Cashel, which left Dublin on Saturday, was
stopped by an armed banditti in the ronbty of
Tipperary, and robbed of the mail. The guard
was badly wounded, and two of the horses ware
shot. The robbery occurred nearly at the same
place where a former robbery of the Cork coach
had been committed.

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THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the Morning Papers, April 3.

[THE TIMES.]
It gives us some satisfaction to see, that instead
of the bubbles and impostures lately presented
to the public in the guise of schemes for making
money, the genius of speculations begins at length
to aspire after objects which cannot be fairly
disapproved ; and to call into its service the
weight and authority of names which are uni-
versally respected. We have long wished that
oar West India colonies should be looked at as
affording somewhat more than a theme for con-
troversy and a source of irritation between
patties who are each, we verily believe, dis-
posed to serve that general interest, with
regard to which they have nevertheless em-
braced. such opposite and inconsistent theories.
Is is long since we predicted, that if means could
be discovered for ameliorating the condition of
the West India Planters themselves,such a change
'would be necessarily followed by an accession of
comfort, intelligence, morality, and eventual free-
dom to the Negroes. Distressed masters seldom
fail to visit, in some shape or other, their own
misfortunes on their slaves.- Starving and over-
working are the sure symptoms of an embarrassed
property : flogging is resorted to as the natural
expedient for stimulating the labours of the
weak, and for stifling the murmurs of the
wretched. Thus misery reciprocates between
the oppressors and the oppressed ; and in
such a state of calamity, it is at least a
doubtful undertaking to attempt the cure, with-
out striving to mitigate the predisposing
causes. A Joint Stock Company is in
the act of forming itself for the invest-
ment of a capital of no less than four mil-
lions sterling, in what we may briefly describe as
a plan for infusing new vigour and activity into
the whole West India interest. Some persons
of unquestioned reputation for affluence, honour,
and sagacity, appear to have engaged in this great
enterprise ; 24 Directors, of whom 12 are to be
West India merchants, and 12 general merchants,
will manage its affairs. No monopoly is look-
ed for—no interference with private lights or
establishments. Money, when wanted, is to be
lent on the security of West India estates
or consignments, and an immoderate profit is
not desired. There are to be 40,000 shares,
each of 1001.; and the institution has already, it
is said, received the sanction of Government. Mr.
Manning-, the Bank Director, is at the head of
the undertaking. One consideration connected
with this plan affords us no small pleasure—we
mean the inference to be clearly drawn in favour
of the transient and remediable nature of the ex-
isting distress of the West Indies ; for if that
distress were likely to be permanent—if it were
in its constitution hopeless, can we imagine that
a body of capitalists (the most enlightened, per-
haps, in the British empire) would think of de-
riving a definite profit from the application of
their funds to its removal ? Let us trust, there-
fore, that the execution of this measure may be
worthy of its conception and design—that it may
be effectual to the purpose which it professes to
accomplish, of at once relieving the master and
the slave.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The state of things in Spain, far from improv-
ing, as the Etoile and its patrons would have us
believe, is every day growing worse. The trea-
sury of the tyrant is so destitute, that even the
handful of troops now on foot cannot be paid :
for three days, it appears, they were without pay,
and obliged to procure food on credit. On the
representation of the Minister of War to Ferdi-
nand stating that he would not answer for the
fidelity of these mercenaries if their pay was
withheld, an order was sent to the Treasurer-
General to make no future payment until these
soldiers received their money. The most disas-
trous accounts are still given from all the pro-
vinces. The fanatics are yet running riot in the
most savage excesses, and practising the most
shocking cruelties on the unarmed constitutional-
ists who are at their mercy. At Rueda, a
town in Old Castile, where the Empecinado
and about eighty Constitutionalists are in
prison, ceaseless cruelties and insults were
heaped upon them by the Royalist Volunteers. At
the Castle of Caravanca, in Murcia, four Consti-
tutionalists, immured within its walls, were mur-
dered by the Royalist sentinels in their beds,
with perfect impunity. A letter from Bayonne,
of the 14th instant, states that numbers of the '
Spanish prisoners, who were on their return
from France, alarmed at the cruelties of the
Royalists, and apprehensive of the fate awaiting
them within the Pyrenees, had escaped from
their conductors, and again returned into France.
This letter also mentions that a great number of
the Royalist volunteers in Logrono, Bilboa,
and Vittoria, still refuse to obey the decree of
Ferdinand, and lay down their arms. In fact, but
for the presence of the French troops, every pro-
vince would be one wide scene of civil strife and
murder. These are the" energetic measures" so
highly praised by the Etoile, which were to re-
store credit and confidence in Spain, and assure
Guebhard's loan. 'No amnesty has yet been
issued, though peremptory demands have again
been made for it on. the part of the French Cabi-
net. Bourmont, who has been created a Grandee
of the First Class, left Madrid on the Bth for
Toledo, to meet Ferdinand and his brothers.
The monk Saez, the despot's former favourite
Minister and Confessor, was at Toledo, and his
pernicious .influence was greatly feared by the
Spanish Ministers.

[MORNING POST.]
We should not be surprised to find the ob-
stacles to the conversion of the French Five per
Cent.Rentes into a Three per Cent. Stock in-
crease to a formidable height before the project
shall be dispose-d of by the Chambers. It is in
every respect an astounding experiment. We do
vot,however, consider the difficulty to lie in the
mere exchange of one species of Rente for an-
other, although in the absence of French stock
at a lower rate of interest than 5 per cent. it is of

course no easy matter to estimate the real value
of French securities at 3 or 4 per cent. while those
only in existence, from the. menace of their re-
demption, oscillate about par. Here when our G-
overnment announced its intention of reducing 5 to 4
per cent. stock, the price of the old 4 per cent.
and of 3f and 3 per cent. securities, left no room
for doubt as to the rate of capital in the British
market. But supposing every impediment of
this sort removed, the very nature and object of
the operation contemplated by the French Mi-
nister must depress the credit of that country.—
As we lately explained, the purpose for which
the measure has been introduced is to make a
vast addition in the capital of the Public Debt of
France; and while such an end was in view, the
effect upon the money market of Europe will
be nearly the same as if the French Govern-
ment had advertised for a New Loan. In the two
instances in which our Government recently had
recourse to similar expedients, the tendency of
each project was to facilitate its own accomplish-
ment, by diminishing the expenditure, and con-
sequently raising the credit of the nation. In
France there will, should the present scheme
succeed, be no diminution of the expenditure--
no relief of the people—but a vast addition to
the Public Debt—and of course the very terms
of the measure will obstruct its realization. Be-
sides, M. de Villele cannot hope for much valid
support in the opinion of France generally. The
great body of the people must be averse to such
a gratuitous augmentation of the national burdens
—the holders of French Securities must be averse
to a plan which in all ways tends to lessen the
value of their Funded Property ; and all the
Ultras who would not profit iudividully by the
scheme, we may be equally assured, feel but little
sympathy for the Emigrants who are exclusively
to reap this Golden Harvest. In one regard, in-
deed, the whole kingdom seems interested for a
Law which is equivalent to an Act of Settle-
ment; but will an object so remote and specu-
lative counterpoise the hostility provoked by so
many instant and uncompromising motives as we
have already alluded to ? M. de Villele him-
self, we take it, was aware of the difficulties he
should have to encounter, when he only ventured
to bring forward the project after he had formed
a league with all the great capitalists of Europe
to become its sponsors.

[MORNING lIERALD.] •
Tuesday's Paris Papers, containing the news
of Monday also, no Journal having appeared on
that day, reached us last night by express.—
They contain various articles of Foreign In-
telligence.
The King of Spain still continued
at Aranjuez. The most zealous vigilance is
observed at the Royal residence. Military posts
are occupied as if in the presence of an enemy.
—No one is allowed to .approach or pass
through the town without a written permis-
sion signed by the Minister Heredia. Even his
authority is not sufficient without the sanction
of the favourite Antonia Ugarte, a person who
has made rather an extraordinary figure in
Spanish politics. There appears nothing very
tempting in the actual situation of a Minis-
ter of King Ferdinand. Yet there is a contest
for place at Madrid and Aranjuez, as early as if
it conferred the utmost profit and power. The
party of the Confessor Victor Saez is stated to be
again struggling for the Ministry, and to be re-
pressed only by the French. The Moniteur men-
tions the probability of an arrangement between
Portugal and Brazil, by the mediation of Eng-
land. It also states, on the authority of let-
ters from Augsisurgh, that these differences
are to be taken into consideration by the
Emperors of Austria and Russia and the King
Prussia, who are to meet at Prague on the
2d of May. The Sovereign Triumvirate will,
it is stated, take into their hands the arrange-
ment, not only of Brazilian affairs, but of those of
Greece also, and a notification to that effect is to
be made to the King of Portugal and the English
Government! It is no doubt very civil to let the
King of Portugal into the secret of his own affairs,
and the notification to the British Government is
an act of extraordinary courtesy and condescension
to his Majesty's Ministers. In truth, we believe
no reliance should be placed upon these statements,
notwithstanding their insertion in the French
Official Journal. The sera of Congresses is gone
by—for the present at least,—and if a Con-
gress like that alluded to should take place, it
would be any thing rather than a pacific symp-
tom. The affairs of Greece are just as unlikely
to form the subject of a Congress as those of
Brazil. Indeed, the Augsburg-Is Gazette, which
affects to know something of the Cabinet parties
of Constantinople, state—for the hundredth time
it is true—that the Anti-Muscovite influence has
once more gained the ascendant in the Divan—
that the Russian Envoy can affect nothing—and
that war will take place between the Turks and
Russians. At the same time, it is asserted in
letters from Belgrade, that the Turks are making
great efforts ; that a Paella was on his march
to Thermopylm with a reinforcement of 15,000
men ; and that the Pacha of Egypt was about to
invade the Morea with an overwhelming force.—
The latter statement is, we have no doubt, un-
true. Nothing is more improbable than that this
Pacha, who has provoked the vengeance of the
Porte, should, with his eyes open, quit the se-
curity of his Egyptian dominion, for a command
which would only draw him away from his re-
sources, and expose him to certain death.