The Sun.
London, England, 1832-03-22 00:00:00

DERBY ASSIZES, MARC'! 19•

majority.

John Shew and William Wild were indicted for man-
slaughter, committed in feloniously killing and slaying one
William Swann, at Menai-, in the parish of Glossop, in
this county, on the 14th of October last.
liceased, who was a labouring man, and the prisoner
Shew, a weaver and small farmer, were in company with
,everal others at a newly opened beer-shop, on the day laid
in the indictinen•. The prisoner Wild, a farmer and
dealer of cattle, came in about four and joined them. The
deceased having had a good de d to chink, wis desirous to
show his strength, and offered a wager of 55. upon lifting
a weight or wheeling a barrow. He challenged Shew in
particular, and they went out into a field to wrestle. Both
of them came to the ground in this match, Shew being
over the deceased, whom he struck with his fist on the
head, one or two blows, while down. Wild, who is a
powerful heavy man, came, and gave the deceased a kick
in the abdomen while he was under Shew. After they
rose, Swann again challenged Shew to fight, and they did
fight for some minutes. The latter brought the deceased
again to the ground, and, while down, he struck him two
blows on the breast and belly. After that Wild laid hold
of deceased and beat him, and gave him several kicks on
the side and belly. The deceased died on the following
day. The case for the, prosecution being closed,
The Learned Juritig, upon this evidence, observed that
the prisoners were improperly charged in one indictment.
They should havr een indicted separately, for both could
not be guilty of tut offence. There was no joint act of

‘,.intenee. Wild gave the deceased a kick or a punch first.
In a few minutes after that Shew gave him kicks. The
injury done the deceased might have been by the first kick
ftiom Wild, or by those which were given after by Shew,
but not by bo'h. It was, therefore, for the Counsel for
the prosecution to elect against which of the prisoners he
would proceed, as both could not be found guilty on this
evidence.

ME. WHITEHURST elected Shew, and Wilde was, of
coure, acquitted. His defence was conducted by Mr. Ser-
jeant ADAMS, and the Jury gave a verdict of Not Guilty.

NATIONAL POLITICAL UNION.

The usual Weekly Meeting of the Council of this Union
was held last night, at their rooms, in Saville House,
Leicester-square, and was numerously attended by the
Members of the Council and several of their Ladies, and
also by many of the Union.
H.B. CHURCHILL, Esq. (of the Temple) in the chair.
The SECRETARY informed the Council, that doting the
last week were received for the Library, Boswell's Life of
Johnson; 250 Pamphlets on the Origin, Objects, and Ad-
vantages of Political Unions ; and Biogr iphia Britannica,
by Mr. Carpenter; 330 copies of Col nel Jones's address
to the electors of Southwark, by Mr. Place; Arguments
on Parliamentary Reform, by M. E. Weylan ;
History of the Wars, lent for twelve months by Mr. Wil-
liams ; and the Moralist, by Mr. Hatteraley.
Mr. STYLES then informed the Council, that some
parishioners in the parishes of St. Margaret and St. John,
Westminster, had requested him to beg of the Council
their assistance or sanction in firming a district library in
that part of the town. He therefore moved " That the
Council approves of the formation of a district reading-
room in connection with the library of the Union, and that
the Council will render assistance in its formation."
Mr. CHEESEMAN objected to the motion.
Mr. PLACE considered that the resolution was couched
in illegal lancuage ; for it was in direct opposition to the
39th Geo. 111., which imposed the penalty of six months
imprisonment, or transportation for seven years, on con-
viction at an Assizes, on all of one society or body already
established holding any communication by way of corres-
pondence, or sanction, or approval, with any other body.
And this law had been made more coercive by the famous
champion of liberty, the renowned Castlereagh—who had
it enacted that the law should extend to all Clubs and So-
cieties, which ale thus allowed to exist solely by sufferance.
Religious Societies are certainly excepted.
Mr. ROEBUCK altered (or proposed altering) the terms
of the resolution, so as not to have the objection of ille-
gality against it, which could easily be done.
Mr. WAKLEY considered it not illegal to express the
simple approbation of any body—even an approbation of
a criminal act would not render the approver an accessary
to that act. Should any fatal accident happen to the
House of Lords, and the people subsequently express their
approbation of that accident—(Loud cheers)—that appro-
bation could not be construed into an accomplicing of

that act.
Mr. ROGERS supported the motion,—but the amend-
ment of Mr. Cheeseman, negativing it, was carried by a

PETITIONS TO THE HOUSE OF LORDS.
This subject, adjourned at the previous Meeting, was
now resumed. The motion had been to prepare a petition
to the House of Lords, in temperate yet determined lan-
guage, in favour of the Reform Bill now passing through
the House of Commons ; and was endeavoured to be nul-
lified by an amendment, stating, that it would be degrad•
ing to the English to petition a body like the House of
Lords, after the unceremonious and unconstitutional treat-
ment of the former Bill in the last session.
Mr. REDMAN supported the original motion for a peti-
tion.
Mr. MILLARD agreed that all Governments and Con-
stitutions, as Mr. Macaulay said, were the results of poli-
tical experiments, and that an experiment like the Reform
Bill wool.' he consistent with the practice of the constitu.
tion and of all good Governments. If petitioning would
tend to accelerate such an efLet, it would have his hearty
concurrence.
J. A. ROERUCK, Esq. said that the simple question
was, whether the Union should petition legally for a peace-
ful Reform, rather than project a revolu►ionary one ? Mr.
Wakley had stated that the King had the power of grant
ing charters, and that a Bill might be passed without the
assistance of the Lords—which he firmly denied; for, since
the revolution of 1688, no such power had been exerted.
Mr. WAKLEY explained.
Mr. ROEBUCK continued, and said that the opinions
asserted were those of Mr. Wakley, and that they were
promulgated here and everywhete—in every clap-trap
publication of the day. He, therefore, strenuously denied
that such was the law, and thought that the recognition of
such a principle would be distinctly revolutionary ; and a
revolutionary reform, while he could have a peaceful one,
was not what he, nor any other well-wisher to the country
could desire. He wished a Reform through the House of
Lords, and would not sanction any other means, though
lie was far from thinking them dignified or intelligent;
for he thought them contemptible and avaricious as a body ;
but it is a principle of the Constitution to petition, how-
ever the duty of exercising that power might be painful;
and it c uhf not render any petitioners despicable, however

they might despise the body addressed.
Mr. CaItrENTER would rather that a declaration o
no confidence in that House as at present formed wa- made
known, and that the creation of Peers would alone ensure
success to the measure desired and contemplated, and de-
termined on by the people—for the Reform they must and
shall have—the manner only of obtaining that Reform
remains undecided.
Mr. Fox SMITH thought it would be dishonest and hy-
pocritical to address a body in whom no confidence was
stated distinctly in the address of the Council to be placed.
He preferred a remonstrance to the House.
Mr. PLACE considered it expedient to petition, even if
rejected ; for an opinion thus expressed was virtually tan-
tamount to a declaration, and might express any senti-
ment in formal language which might be considered ne-
cissary for the purpose. lie, therefore, preferred repeating
such petitions as those alluded to in favour of the lately
rejected Bill, even if not couched in language the most
complimentary to the interested feelings of the Noble
Legislators addressed ; for in language to which no ob-
jection could he made might be expressed the real feelings
and opinions of the petitioners with regard to the creation
of new Peers—he thought that not more than two Mem-
bers, even of the Privy, were apprised of the real circum-
stances of the truth of design. Indeed now, considering
that Reform of some kind is inevitable under some Go-
vernment or another—for no Government would be recog-
nized in the country without some advancement towards
Reform—the matter is one of personal consequence to
Lord Grey, who will find in his tardiness the danger of
adhering to the dignity of his order ; and whose defeat
now, in consequence of his personal hesitation, will pro-
duce an infamy as lasting on his failure, as the success of
the measure by the means proposed, and with which he
is said to he empowered, will procure him lasting honour
and dignity.
Mr. CH EESEMAN consented to withward his amend.
ment, to have it altered by
Mr. F. SMITH into a motion for a remonstrance to the
House of Lords, and a declaration of the malconsequences
likely to result to the Legislature and the country by an
opposition to Reform at this awful crisis.
This amendment being seconded,
Mr. NOEL said he was in favour of petitioning.. He
thought petitions, even to the Lords could not fail of having
their due effect.
Mr. LEONARD regretted that the subject had been
brought under discussion ; hut he hoped that the decision
of the Council would influence the nation in proving it
was for the interests of the people never to neglect, under
any pretence, much less from the absurd pre.ension Of
neglect which should doubly embolden to repetition in a
more determined manner—petitioning in favour of any
measure demonstrated or supposed to be for the general
welfare of the country, and stability of the Government.
Mr. Cars.EsEstAlsr said that a remonstrance, whether re-
ceived or not, would be an appeal to the nation, which
would he equally satisfactory ; and he therefore preferred
remonstrating to petitioning.
Mr. WAKLEY said, though averse to strong resolutions,
yet he would almost feel it compulsory on him to move
an amendment, did he not intend to make it the subject
of a specific motion to watch the progress of the Bill
through the Lords ; and if it may be rejected (for that
little word may has a great latitude of applic ttion,) im-
mediately to see what measures shall be adopted e
for stop-
ping the Supplies for pensions and places, which hav
thus emboldened these aristocrats to refuse that which
they have no right to deny or retain—Reform for the
people—or no taxes for the Lords; the die is cast. The
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againstm ak e a
nt heex exertion () f just,
injustice. if the2''
Bnt the rights of the people are now as it were in the
hands of the Itlinisters, who, having the power to secure
the measure, will justly be culpable if they neglect using
vin-
dicate power.
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orprotest,elouludeenrtp manner
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stances, against any petition to a body which lie said had
not the right to discuss, much less to reject the Reform Bill.
Mr. MONGREDIEN considered that petitioning had
changed the animus of the House of Commons, and it
was not impossible to regenerate similarly the house of
Lords. It has often been the occasion preel ef-
fects...he alluded particula:ly to on: ented by Lord

Brougham, from Edinburgh, signed, said his Lordship, by
thirty thousand men capable of bearing arms.
The amendment proposing a remonstrance was lost, and
Cie motion for a Committee to prepare a petition to the
Lords in favour of the Reform Bill was passed by a great
majority, but with some marks of disapprobation by some
members of the Union, not of the Council. The meeting
then adjourned at a very lite hour.
It should he distiney understood, that the National
Political Union is not identified in members or measures, in
motives or cbj,cts, with that p irty calling it.elf a Union,
which so violated yesterday the Proclamation for theVast•dsy.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

W ORS HIP-S TREE T.

Mr. BENETT, the senior Magistrate, was in attendmec
at this office during the whole of yesterd I, to be in readi-
ness to act in case any disturbance had tAket plate in Fins-
bury-square, where, at twelve o'clock, some thousands of
the lower class of persons had congregated. All, how-
ever, in the course of an hour after, moved off simulta-
neously in different directions, some parties two, and some
three, abreast.

On Tuesday evening Mr. Durant, a cheesemenger, in
the Curtain-road, Shoreditch, was brought before Messrs.
TWYFORD and STUTFIELD, upon an assault warrant.
William Clay a short little fellow, about fifty yeas of
age, stated to the Magistrates that he was employed by the
Surveyor of Pavements in that district to superintend the
sweeping of the pavements and to prevent nuisances,
" My orders from the surveyor (said the witness) are, if I
see any dirt thrown out of a court, I am to throw it hack
again ; if from a passage, I am to throw it back again ;
if from a house, lam to throw it back again." The wit-
ness, in explaining the duties of his office to his Worships,
created considerable meriment by his suiting the action to
the word.

Mr. TWYFORD to Complainant—Well, but come to the
assault. Witness—Well, and so I will ;it was on Saturday
morning, that when I was sweeping opposite that man's
door (pointing to the defendant) he swept out of his shop
a whole lot of dirty sawdust ; so I, according to my mas-
ters' orders, swept it back again.

Mr. TWYFORO—And what did he ? Witness—
Why swept it back again ; and so I threw it back again ;
then he threw it back again, and seizing hold of the broom,
flung it at tae, and afterwards punched me twenty or thirty
times with the head of it, until I was nearly blind ; and,
not satisfied with what he had done, he floored me in the
gutter, where he left me. 1 have a witness who am thE
whole of it.

An old woman, the complainant's witness, corroborated
his testimony in every particular.
The defendant did not deny having struck the com-
plainant, but added, that if there was any nuisance to com•
plain of, it was the man himself, who was a nuisance to
the whole neighbourhood.
Mr. Twvroan—Still that could not justify your at-
tacking him in the way you did.
To the complainant—Are you really empowered by the

surveyors to return all the dirt thrown into the street?
Complainant—Yes, if it comes out, no matter where ; if
out of a garden, my orders are to throw it in again.
Mr. Twvroan told him that in his opinion he had
done wrong in throwing the dirt back ; he ought, instead
of so doing; to have summoned the defendant to the office.
Under these circumstances they (the Magistrates) should
dismiss the warrant; but if the inspector was not satisfied
with their decision, he might come himself, and they would
hear it again.—Dismissed.

THE MARKETS.

coUNIRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK.

Wheat. Barley. ' Oats. Beaus.
Per Quarter. s. to s. 3. to s. 3. to s. I. to 3.
Abingdon----. 62 81 31 43 22 30 38
Andover 73 80 37 41
Bitmingham
56 66 40 44 24 32 32
Bridport 56 74 32 36 26 30 54
Cirencester 50 62 26 3S 21 25
P aringdon--- 54 86 36 40 26 34 46
Guildford . 48 74 23 32 26 35 43
Hen I 54 83 30 35 20 30 40
Hereford 84 92 44 48 42
Highworth .......... 62 80 32 42 28 34 56
Maidenhead 56 08 34 64 22 30 37
Monmouth 56 61 30
Reading _ 65 90 31 47 21 27 42
Salisbury 44 62 32 37 21 54
Southampton 54 58 33 40 28 32 46
Stroud
Tewkesbury 65 74 30 42 30 38 44
Uxbridge 48 74 40 23 33 46
Wan tage 5B 80 27 43 21 30 42
Warminster 45 64 30 43 20 28 46
Windsor _ . 59 21 22 52
Worcester*. 65 66 44 51 31 34

HULL MARKET—March 21

The supply of Wheat from the farmers to this da:
is larger than has been shown for the past few weeks
dition is generally much improved, and selected pi

'a market
the con.
reels have

obtained rather above the currency of last week, and for general
runs late prices have been fully supported; very little passing
in foreign of good quality, and there is scarcely any left. Oats
continue to be shewn to fair extent; late prices are firmly de-
manded, but the trade dull. Not many Beans offering, and
prices without alteration. Malting barleys are in very limited
supply, and had much been offering, last week's prices would
have been freely paid. Not much doing in foreign and no in.
quiry for grinding parcels. Rapeseed dull at late prices. Lin.
seed in more inquiry, but no alteration in value.
Wheat, Old —s. 565. 58€. New
Foreign —s. 50s. 54s ln bond... —s. —s.
Oats, Poland —s. 20s. 225. Old —s. —a. '24s.
Small or Feed.... —s. 16s. 20s —s. —S. .-11.

Foreign —s. 168. 18s —s. —s. —s.
Barley, Norf. & Sul ... —s —s. —s. Linc. & Wold —B. 34s 31Ss.
Foreign
Beans 30s. 32s 345. Foreign —s. 36.. 38s.
Pease, White... ....... ... —s. 38s. 41's. Grey
Tarns
ltapes,eed, in bond none. .. Free, per last —l. 261. 271.

CHELTENHAM MARKET.—March 15.
Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d. Per lb. d. to d.
Wheat
Barley 4 0 5 6 Mutton
Oats 4 0 4 3 Veal
Beans
Pease 5 0 7 0 Lamb 0 0
Hay 3l. 10s to 31. 15s. Od. pet ton.

DUMFRIES MA _
s.d. s.d. s.d. e. d.
Wheat, Imp. Bush... 6 9 to 7 0 Butter, 16oz 0 0 to 0 0
Barley ......... ........... 3 8 4 0 Eggs, dozen 0 0 0 0
Oats ..... 22 24 Beef, per lb.
Flour, 141 h.
Oatmeal
Potatoes* cwt.

.KEYS.—March 14.

A great sensation is understood to have been
made in certain fashionable coteries, by the announcement
(without name) of a work under the designation of " The
Fair of May fair." Conjecture is the more busy touching the
mystery of this book, inasmuch as nothing of its contents has
been yet allowed to transpire. We, however, are able to state,
that one of the narratives, or rather disclosures (for we hear it
is to consist of several) is to be called " The Flirt of Ten
seacons..' This may be said, in the words of Hamlet, to look
as if it were 't Miching mallecho, and means mischief."

•
Early in the morning of Sunday last, the in-
habitants of a place called Chanders-lane, in Nottingham, were
alarmed by the cry of " Murder!" issuing from a house oc-
cupied by a person named Pople, a joiner. On gaining admit-
tance, they found Pople's wife lying at the bottom of the stairs,
and just above her a child about three years old, with its brains
dashed out! the wife was also severely wounded, and insensi-
ble Upon inquiry, it was ascertained that some time ago
Pople had lost a blind child by the small pox, which preyed
very heavily on his mind, so much so that upon one occasion his
wife was obliged to call in a neighbour. On the night in ques-
tion, Pople, who had been in bed some time, got up, and be-
gan to beat his wife ; but she making her escape from him, he
then seized the child, and dashed out its brains by beating it
against the floor. Upon his hearing the neighbours coming in,
he made his escape out of a window, but was captured about
tn(l yards from the place, having only his shirt on, and a hand-
kerchief tied round his head. When taken, and being told
what he had done, he shook his head and said, " It's true, I
did it." The woman was taken to the infirmary, but is likely
to recover. Pople was conveyed to prison to await the coro-
ner's inquest, which sat this day ('Tuesday,)when the above facts
came out in evidence. A verdict of " Wilful murder against
Thomas Pople" was returned, and he was committed to take his
trial at the summer assizes for this place. There is little doubt
of the man's insanity.

BIRTHS.
On the 2.lst inst. Mrs. Alsager, Queen-square, Bloomsbury, of
a daughter.
_'oth On the inst. Mrs. William Griffith, •t Belgrave_street,
Belgrave-square, of a daughter.
On the i2lst inst. at Bedford-place, the lady of Lieutenant Van
Heythuysen, of the Bengal Army, of a son.
On the 19th inst. in the Camberwell New-road, Mrs. Edward
Biddle, of a daughter.
On the 2lst inst. at Lady Colchester's, in Montague-place, ltus-
sell-square, the Lady of the Hon. Philip Henry Abbot, of a son.
On the 18th inst. at Arundel, the Lady of the Hon. and 13. e,
Edward John Turnour, of a son, his sixteenth child.

MARRIED.
On the 20th lust at Norwell Church, by the Rev. Roger Pock-
lington, James Archibald Campbell, Esq. of Inveraw, Argyl-
shire, to Jane Augusta, youngest daughter of Roger rockling-
ton, Esq. of Carlton House, near Newark, Notts.

DIED.
On the 19th inst. Isabella Calthorpe Montriou, the amiable,
accomplished, and only child of Charles Montriou, Esq. solic:tor,
aged ten years and two months.
On the Nth inst. at Egham, in the 79th year of her age, Lady
Bamplylde, relict of the late Sir Charles Warwick Bampfyldc.
Bart. mother of the present Lord Poltimore, and eldest daughtct
of Admiral Sir John Moore, Bart. K.B.
On the 20th inst. in Upper Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square
Emma Louisa, third surviving daughter of the late Samue
Foyster, Esq.
On the Itith inst. at Rugby School, of measles, George Edwarc
Shirley, fourth son of Evelyn John Shirley, Esq. of Eatingtor
Park, ‘Varwickshire, aged 14 years.
On the 17th inst. at his seat at High Legh, in the county 0
Chester, George John Legh, Esq. in the 65th year of his age.

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