The Sun.
London, England, 1824-08-09 00:00:00

tct of authority against the Journal called
the Courier Francais, one impression of which
has beep► seized by the police, because it gave
from the London papers some passages of the
will of Buoeaparte.—The troubles at Madrid
turn out to have been serious. There was no-
thing short of a pitched battle between a Consi.
derable number of French and Spanish soldiers, in
which several were killed and a great number
wounded. The French are described as having
conducted themselves with moderation, heroism,
and indeed every other virtue—besides the merit
of fighting and vanquishing, unarmed, the Spanish
soldiiers, much more numerous, and armed with
their muskets. The narration, be it observed,
is French. The utmost rage prevailed against
the French at Madrid—even among the Servi!es.
Placards denouncing death to them were posted
on the walls—at the same time, horrible excesses
are committed in the provinces by the Royalist
volunteers—whom the French General has re-
xolved to get disbanded. Desertion among the
new levies also prevails to an extraordinary ex-
tent. They disperse by hundreds, under an al-
arm that it is intended to send them on au expe-
dition to South America.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
It is highly gratifying to find, from the Re-
port from the Select Committee on Poor Rate
Returns, ordered to be printed 15th June, 1824,
that the expenditure for the Pour continues to
decrease. The whole of its amount for England
and Wales, for the year ending 25th'.March,
1823, was 5,772,962/. The expenditure for 1813
amounted to 6,856,1051. being at the rate of 13
shillings a-head of the population of 1811, while
the expenditure for 1822-3 amounts only to nine
shillings a-head of the population of 1821. The
expenditure for 1822-3 falls short of that of
18'21 -2 by no less a sum than 585,745/. TheAppen-
(fix to the Report, containing extracts from the ob-
servations of parish officers, furnishes much mat-
ter for reflection. Tu those who wish to have a
correct notion of the working of the present En-
glish Poor Law system, many of these observa-
tions will be found extremely useful. The sum
expended on the poor in Lancashire for the year
ending t he 25th of March, 1823, is 219,4111. This,
for a population of 1,074,000,is at the rate of four
shillings a-head. Sussex, again, pays 246,8271.
which on its population of '237,700, is at the
rate of 11.1 s. per head. But if labour were not
paid nut of the Poor Bates in Sussex, we have
not the smallest doubt that the differences be-
tween what would in that case be paid as wages
and what is now paid as wages, would actually
exceed this sum of 246,8271. The fact is, that
in Sussex, as in all the other counties similarly
circumstanced, the unmarried men pay for the
families of those who are married, and those
who work pay for the unemployed. The farmer,
from the market of labour being glutted, has the
labourers on his own terms, and takes care that
Olt the whole he shall not pay more in wages
and poor's rates together titan he would pay
under other circumstances for the former alone.
Mr. Brervton, in his excellent pamphlet, was
told by .an individual extensively employed as a
Lund Agent, that on all the estates under his
management, he took cure to throw the papule-
tion on the parish, finding the rates and the'
wages less than the wages alone would be. The
' difficulty in the way of a return to a sound state
of things, is the disposal of the superabundant
labourers in parishes in which the population is ex-
cessive. So long as this state of things shall exist,
the farmers will have the power of fixing wages,
and consequently will throw the maintenance of the
superabundant labourers on those who are em-
ployed. The proximity of Ireland throws' great
difficulties in the way of returning to a sound
state of things. The market for labour in our
y glutted with emigrants
great towns, is constant!
from that unfortunate country, who have tin
choice between employment on auy terms -and
downright starvation. ‘Vere it not for the influx
front Irelands the superabundant hands in the
country parishes might gradually be drained off.

ECUTION.—.Thmes and Pit((two, convicted
at the ()hand Assizes, of the murder of Lord Cit u item Lt.'s
gamekeeper, underwent their sentence on Monday morning.
The prisoners were attended on satuiday morning by Mr.
cooper, the Under-Sheriff', and the Rev. Mr. Brown, the
Chaplain of the prison, the latter of whom earnestly exhorted
them to lay aside all worldly considerations, and to supplicate
for mercy nt the throne of Grace. At this time they appeared
composed. On the same evening the Reverend Divine had
them separately for an hour in the Chapel, when they firmly
declared their innocence of the crime for which they had been
condenand ; and although repeatedly told that by asserting an
untruth they were flying in the lace of their Maker, they
still declared they did not commit the murder. In the
course of the morning, James's wife and one of his daugh-
ters, and his wife's sister, took their final leave of him,
and the scene was truly heart-rending, l'ittaway's father
was also with him several times on Saturday, and on
Sunday his father and brother saw hint for the last time.—
On Monday morning, at a quarter before seven, they were
brought into the chapel, and were again attended by the Chap-
lain, who used every possible means in his power to prepare
them fin the awful change. The sacrament was again adini-
nistered to them in the most solemn manner. At nine they
ascended the scaffold, in front of which an immense concourse
.of spectators were assembled, who were remarkably quiet and
orderly; the rope was first put round the neck of James, and
when affixed lathe galldws, the cap was drawn over his face.—
Whilst the executioner was adjusting the rope round the.neck
of Pittaway, James said, in an unomeerned.way, " The rope
is tight enough for me already, hut I suppose it will aeon be
tighter." At ter having again asserted their innocerioi, the drop
fell, and they were launched into eternity.

Surctor.—On Saturday last, an Inquest was
holden at the Artichoke public-house, Stepney, on the body. of
a young woman, named Caroline Swain, otherwise Collins. "
appeared that the deceased had been fur several months labour.
ing under a dreadful depression of mind, attributed to her hew.
ing been cheated into a marriage with a man named Swain, the
mate of an East India ship, who, she subsequently discoVered
was married to another. Decease' d, at the period of her mar-
riage, was possessed of a considerable sum of motley, besides a
small annuity 4, the former she intrusted to Swain, who soon
made away with it. After his departure from England, (which
was in April) she was delivered of a still-born miens. A few
days previous to her death, deceased had occasion to come to
London on some business, and is supposed to have purchased
the drug, part of which was found in her drawers, lidded in
paper, and marked poison. On Wednesday night, she dire.
missed her female attendant at an early hour, swallowed the
fatal draught, and the next morning wasfound quite dead, A
surgeon proved poison to be the immediate cause of dissolution.
A verdict of insanity was returned.

The young man named Lowe, who made so
conspicuous a figure at Marlborough.street.otlice
some short time since, where he appeared in a
military dress, has, We understand, obtained his
Liberation. His father, it appears, has settled
the creditors' claims, and has succeeded in ob-
taining his ctischarge from the regiment to which
he belongvd.--(Sunday Paper.)