The Sun.
London, England, 1832-02-27 00:00:00

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ALBERTINI, who has already appeared as Emilia in
Otello, undertook the part of Rosina. She went through
the character with ability, but not with the tact or spirit
with which we have seen it performed. We cannot con-
cur with Signora ALBERTINI in thinking that her choice,
as a whole, was felicitously or judiciously made ; the exe-
cution of the air selected by her was certainly more cal-
culated to lull her guardian than to awaken the admiration
of her audience. In secondary parts she may prove a
very useful person. Signor VINCENZO G.A lux, who ap-
peared here two seasons ago, made his re-entree in the
character of Figaro. His voice is not without merit, but
by no means possesses the qualities necessary to give bril-
liancy to this favourite part. It is one demanding consi-
derable comic power, in which also he is defective, and no-
thing could he more miserable than the contrast between his
lumbering sprightliness and the imperturbable gravity of
his countenance. Fur the representative of Bartolo the
management has been obliged to fall back upon DE AN-
GELI. The piece, however, went off well_

THE MODERATES!

(From the Times. )

The following has been gent to us as an abstract
of a circular letter issued by Lord Harrowby. We
beg that every Reformer will read it with attention.
It is on such support that Ministers are now relying
to carry the Bill : it is the prospect of such friendly
aid which they plead as the excuse for not creating
Peers. Such weakness and credulity are almost
incredible

ASISTRACT FROM THE EARL OF HARROWBY'S CIRCULAR

LETTER.

" Lord Harrowby, in his circular letter to the Tory
Lords, states as his reasons for voting for the second read-
ing of the Reform Bill, his b.lief that Lard Grey lrts full
power from the King to create Peers to any extent, and
that he will have an unanswerable justification for resort-
ing to that strong measure if the Bill is a second time re-
jected ; which event would be followed not by the resigna-
tion of Ministers, but by the prorogation of Parliament,
and on immediate creation of Peers.

" They could then expect no modifications, whereas by
yielding the second reading, they would then he able to
make in the Committee such alterations in the schedules
and qualifications as would, if not render the Bill harm-
less, at least extract a great part of ' its venom.'
"Besides, a second rejection of the Bill would
strengthen the Ministers, as it would be impossible to form
a❑ Administration to succeed them, the Duke of Wel-
lington and Sir Robert Peel having declared against
any Reform ; and without some sort of Reform the country
never would he satisfied.

" That he knows many members of the Cabinet are
averse to the creation of Peers for the purpose of carrying
the Bill, and which they would willingly see modified;
that carrying the second reading would strengthen their
hands, and justify them in forcing their colleagues to agree
to essential alterations.

" That other results advantageous ti the Tories would
be gained. If the Bill passed, with these alterations, and a
dissolution took place, the Ministers would suffer from the
unpopularity which would attach to them for having by
their weakness permitted the efficiency of the Bill to be
impaired. They would be deserted by the zealous Re-
formers, and despised by all parties; their influence over
the country being thus annihilated, it would be very easy
for old influences to regain their former strength ;' the
people would gradually ' get into better humour with the
Tories !' and the return of the Duke of Wellington and
Sir R. Peel to power become thee safe and practicable."

A coach proprietor, with the infelicitous
name of ONstow, advertises expeditious travelling in a
northern Paper.

APPLICATION EXTRAORDINARY.--An
Irish servant, in the employ of a lady residing in Ha-
nover-street, came before Mr. DYER, and wished to make
oath that he would not get intoxicated for the ensuing six
months. It appeared that his mistress had threatened to
discharge him for drunkenness, unless he made oath before
a Magistrate that he would leave off tippling. She was
willing to allow him a pot of porter daily, but nothing
more :—" And by the powers, your Honour," said Pat,
I wishes to take my oath that I won't drink any thing
else for six months to come." Mr. DYER observed, that he
could not administer the oath, but advised him to make a
vow to keep from drinking. The son of Erin left the
office, saying that lie should lose his place, for his mistress
would not have any more of his vows—she wanted an
oath before the Magistrates.

ARRIVALS OF DRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAST WEEK.
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15,
Qrs. Qrr. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Scks.
Aldborough 3B 942 70
Bridgwater 156 28 241
Bridlington
Bideford lBB 250 --=
Bridport
Boston
Clay — 670 15
Cowes
Dartmouth
Colchester 33 335 45 1 15 38.
nHarwich 4O 642 267 31:
..,, Leigh 453 281) 145 251 183
-"4 Maldon 6O 159 05 15 151 32 551
Gainsborough — 157
Grangemouth —
GI imsby — 31'4
[lull 417 49,1 11
Ipswich —. 30 1928 240 C,
Kent 976 464 170 216 298 167 52
Louth
Lyme
Lynn l5 253
Newport
Poole — 30 22
Plymouth ......
Spalding
Southwold
Stockton
Wells 165 670
Weymouth
Wisboach 455 1155 31
Woodbridge 163 780 -- 45 13 39
Yarmouth 29 1778 '2929 185
Aberdeen
nerwick
Dundee 1330 240 20 20 4
r.irkaldy 209.
Leith 25 58
Montrose
5767 6023 6816 7007 1683 4)0 756
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Cork
Dublin
_ _ _ Limerick
Londonderry
Newry — 3570
Sligo
Waterford
Wexford
Youghall 213 678
FOREIGN.
Carolinesiel _ 300
Copenhagen 1735
Hamburg 250 j 120
Heiligenhafen — 450 I
Horsens
:Zslyborg — 1170 .—_ _
Rusterziel — 317 _
Coastways 111
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SMITHFIELD MARKET.

This day's.supply of Sheep and Beasts was moderately/good ;
of Lambs, Calves, and Porkers, but limited. Veal went off
briskly at a❑ advance of front 4d. to lid, per stone; Lamb was
much enquired after; other descriptions of meat were very dui',
Mutton and Pork at a depression of 2d. per stone, with Beef Lt
Friday's quotations.

PRICES PEA STONE OF BLISS. TO SINK THE OFFALS.
S. d. tog. d. S. d. 10 S. d.
Inferior Beasts 2 4 2 6 Large Lambs
Second quality ditto 3 0 3 4 Prime small ditto 6 6 7 6
Prime large Oxen... 3 8 310 Large coarse Calves 4 4 4 8
Prime Scots, ea..... 4 0 4 2 Prime small ditto 5 4 6 0
Inferior Sheep 2 6 2 10. Large Hogs
Second quality ditto 3 0 3 8 ; Small Porkers 4 4 410
Coarse-woolled ditto 310 4 8 Suckling Calves 12s.to36s.eaL h.
S mthdownWethers 4 8 5 0 Quarter old Pigs 12s. to 18s. each.

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SUPPLY, AS FER CLERK'S STATEMENT.
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AbUut 450 of the beasts came up the St. Alban's road ; about
150 up the other northern roads; about 120 (including Irish)
Rom the western and midland districts ; about 1700 from Nor-
folk, Suflblk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire; about
.80jfrora Kent
and Sussex ; and most of the remainder from the marshes, &c
in the neighbourhood of London.

sENVGATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS.
At per stone, by the Carcass.
s. d. to s. d.
Beef, inferior
-- middling 2 6 210 - middling.
- prime large 3 0 3 2 - prime
- prime small 3 2 3 6 Pork, large
Veal

s. d. tos. d,
2 6 210
.3 2 3 8
3 10 4 4
38 4 6
48 5 0

NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET—Feb. 25

Our supply of Wheat was not so large to-day as of late, and
there was more life in the trade at about late prices. Several
parcels of Oats, for seed, brought rather more money, but in the
ordinary qualities there was no change Though we can note
no advance on Barley, yet there has been more demand lately,
and a good deal has been sold during the week at our quotat one
Malt dull sale. Fresh sound Rye inquired after, Beans and
Pease very flat. .

New. Old.
Wheat, Northumberland 535. 64s —s. —B.'
Norfolk and Suffolk 535. 64s
Berwick and Scotch 565. 605....... --s. —s.
Foreign 50s. 6ls —s. --s.
Rye, Norfolk and Suffolk —s —s
Foreign 325, 36s —s. —s.
Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk...32s. 35s —s. —s.
Grinding and Feeding 245. 28s —s. ".S.
Malt, Norfolk and Suffolk 58s. 60s
Beans, Small 30s 32s
---- Tick 22s 30s
Pease, White 345. 36s —s. —s.
--- Gray 30s 36s —s. —s.
Oats, North umberland,P it tt.,,e 23s, 26. 2.1. 235.
Feed 19s 3s I Ss. 235.
—• Foreign
Flour, Fine (per sack) —B. —8 44s 468.

Halifax Stuff Market has been more lively the
two last Saturdays; on the latter day considerable business
was done, and a small advance realised on the article of
shalloons.—Leeds Mercury.

The Staffordshire Advertiser contains a sa-
tisfactory account of the trade of that di.trict, the work-
people being generally in full employment.
Halifax market, on Saturday last, manifested
some improvement, and much more business was done.
Shalloons were rather on the advance.—Halifax Express.
Bradford market, on Thursday last, was much
the same as the preceding week. The demand continues
good, though chiefly confined to the lower sorts of goods.
—Halifax Express.

THE WOOL TRADE.--LONDON, THURS-
DAY EVENING.—The public sales of Wools, which have
been announced for some weeks, took place yesterday
afternoon, at Garraway's Coffee-house. The attendance
of the mannfacturers from Yorkshire and other places
was limited, but there was a pretty full assembly of those
interested in the trade resident in London. The quantity
declared for sale was rather above 600 bales, consisting of
the following descriptions :-490 bales of New South
Wales and Van Dieman's Land Wool, 58 bales of Cape
Wool, 22 bales of German Wool, 14 bales of Spanish
Wool, 14 sheets of English Merino Wool, and 5 bales of
Odessa Wool. The New South Wales Wools were generally
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other at is. 9d. per lb. The Van Dieman's Land Wools
lid. for the lower sorts, and from Is. 2d. to Is. 9d. per
demand ; it fetched from Is. to is. 7d. per lb. ; inferior
samples sold lower. The Odessa Wools were bad, and
German Wool sold pretty
well, at from Is. to Is. Bd. per lb. The Spanish ob-
tained from Is. 6d. to Is. 7d. for good samples. The
English sold at rather improved prices, at from ls. to
Is. 4d. per lb. The sale altogether established rather a
lower market, as compared with the prices obtained at
the last public tidies. The transactions to day are re-
ported to be on a pretty extensive scale. The arrivals of
Wools from Germany in the week ending to-day have not
exceeded 30,000 lb.—Leeds Mercury.
SHEERNESS.—The Ranzilies has been or-
dered to be sent to London to be fitted up as a cholera
hospital. All vessels arriving here from the Thames are
made to perform quarantine.
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growing at Dunkeld ; tbey have been transferred from the
green-house to the open air, and are said to be magnificent
specimens ; although some of their offspring growing in
the neighbourhood of Blair, in Scotland, are much more so,
having attained the height of 120 feet.—lnverness Journal.
There is said to have been an unusual falling-
off this year in the supply and consumption of or

WESTMORLAND SPRING ASSIZES

(Abridged from the Kendal Chronicle of Saturday.)

'l'• e Commis‘ions of Assize were opened at Appleby, on
S.tturday nidtt last, by Mr. Justice Alderson, and Mr.
Justice Patieion, and the business of the Courts adjourned
until Manly morning. On Sunday their Lordships at—
tended divine ,erviee in Applt-by church.

CROWN COURT.

(11 FION. E MR. JUSTICE
.PATTE9ON.

This Court opened between nine and ten o'clock on
Monday ; and after the usual preliminaries had been gone!
through, his Lordship briefly addressed the Jury, and com-
plimented them on the scarcity of crime (there being' only
three cases for trial). He also adverted to the cholera
being so near them ; and urged the necessity of their using
every me ins to prevent its nearer approach,
CIVIL BUSINESS.
(BEFORE MR. ‘IUSTICE .ALDERSONT.)

SINGULAK CASES OF BIGAMY IN MAN AND

SCOTT V. SCOTT.

Mr. COLTMAN stated the case. It was an action
brought by the plaintiff, Fanny Scott, to recover possession
of certain lands in Kirkland, which her husband, John
Scott, who died in 1831, possessed, but which she, as
his lawful widow, although entitled to them by manorial
rights, had never got pt session of. The case would
altogether turn upon one point—whether the plaintiff was
the lawful wife of John Scott, or not: and he should
['rove that she was, by the production of the marriage
certificate. Scott and she bad not been married more than
seven years, when they parted; and Scott had cohabited
with another woman ever since, a period of3B years, to whom
he left his property. He could not, from the time which
bad elapsed, 44 year, bring forward the witnesses to the
marriage with Scott; but he (Mr. C.)
.ap-
prehended that if he provtd the marriage certificate of the
parties, and that they had lived together as man and wife,
he should be entitled to their verdict.

Mr. Isaac Wilson, of Kendal, is steward of the manor
of Kirkland ; and knew John Scott. At the time of
Scott's dece ise, in 1831, he was possessed of some tene-
ments. The custom of the manor is, that on the death of
the husband, the property goes to the wife, and she is to
possess the same so long as she remains a chaste widow.
Cross-oxamined by Mr. BLACKBURN—I do not know
that there is any record of it, but it has been the custom.
John Scott's will was made at my office, about a day be-
fore his death. I had known him for 15 years; he kept a
grocer's shop in Kirkland. I knew a person who lived
with him, as his wife, but I had heard strange stories that
she was not his wife. She had lived with him for the last
twenty years, up to the time of his death.
Thomas Scott produced the marriage certificate of John
Scott to Fanny liawsqn, from the old church, Sheffield ;
it was dated the 29th of S ptember, 1785.
Cross-examined by Mr. BLACKBURN—I have lived 38
years in Kendal ; knew Scott for 10 or 12 years ; never
knew Fanny Scott, until August or September last, when
she w .s removed to Kirkland.

Ellen Arbor, knows Fanny Scott ; my father was her
uncle ; her name was Fanny Rawson ; I knew John
Scott, he used to travel with corks and mustard ; I 110
member his living in Kendal a few months along with his
wife, about 44 years ago ; they were at my father's house
together at different times ; after that he ceased to reside
in Kendal ; I have seen them together travelling the
country ; she used to travel with him.

.......
George Fawcett, hawker, knew John Scott for 36 years;
wet with him at fairs frequently. Knew his wife, Fanny ;
and he once told tne at Milnthorpe fair, on the 12th of
August, that she was his lawful wife ; I never saw thew
together.

Jobn Hudson, after stating that he had given no pro-
mise to indemnify Mr. Pennington, for costs, produced a
piper which he had got from the pauper. It was a note
from Scott to his wife, addies-ed to Marsh-lane, Leeds.

By Mr. BLACKBURN-Have heard the pauper say that
she had been married to Kay for thirty-five yeare, and
lived at Penrith.

Mr. him! Wil-on, re-called, identified the hand-writing
of Sent, in the letter produced. " Scott" was very like;
Mr. Wilson also produced the record book of the manor,
which set forth the property that he died possessed of.
This WAN the case for the plaintiff.
Mr. BLACKBURN, for the defendant, contended that the
pLintiff had not brought sufficient proof to show that she
was the lawful widow of the deceased John Scott.
Where were the witnesses to the ceremony ? They were
all dead, or not to be found, as it was so long since.
But had any evidence been adduced to show that
they had been properly sought for ? And why,
then, in the absence of those, was the parish,
res;stei not examined, and the hand-writing of
Scott identified ? Because the whole affair had been
trumped up ; and the only evidence they had
was that of an old man, who swore to a con-
versation which had taken place between him arid
Scott, at Milnthorpe fair, on the 12th of Auguste
a day on which there never was a fair at 11.tilnthorpe.
The John Scott alluded to had, on the plaintiff's own
confession, been a soldier, and was killed in North Ame-
rica—and she had since been married to a person of the
n irne of Kay for the last 25 years, and lived with him.
But, supposing, for a moment, that she was the lawful
wife—a thing which he most distinctly disavowed—on
her own showing, she was not, according to the custom of
the manor, entitled to the property--because she was not
a chaste widow, having either married again or committed
adultery. Therefore, in the face of the will made by
Scott, she is not entitled to the property.
Mr. BLACKBURN then produced the will of the late
John Scott, dated July, 11131. He bequeathed all his
property to his wife Elizabeth Scott, at his decease.
Mr. Richard Wilson, solicitor, produced the marriage
certificate of John Scott, to Elizabeth Curtis, from But,-
ion church, dated the 19th of August, 1794.
Mary 13ulfield had lived in Kirkland all her life, and
had known John Scott and his wife Elizabeth for up-
wards of 30 years. They lived as man and wife.
Benjamin Sisson—Lives in Captain French-lane, in
Kendal, and knew Kay, a fi!e•cutter, and his wife Fanny.
They lived in Benson's-lane, Penrith, about 23 years ago.
Fanny is the person who now claims this property.
John Wilson, overseer of Brampton, knew Fanny
Scott, living at Brampton tv ith Joseph Kay, and removed
her to Penrith in 1826. Kay died in Brampton in 1826
—and Fanny was with him. She afterwards applied for
relief and I removed her to Penrith. The examination
now produced, was signed by her in the presence of the
magistrate. Kay had been a soldier, and had a pension of
74. a week.

Mr. Ramsay, of Brampton, took the examination of
Fanny Kay. She sated that she bad been married in
Rotherham, in 1792.

Mar, indale Scott—Lives at Penrith, and is Governor
of the Workhouse; has known Fanny Kay about five or
six years. She said that her husband Kay was sick, and
she must be supported. She was afterwards removed to
Penrith workhouse, where she lived for a year, under the
name of Fanny Kay. She once told me that her first
husband's name was Scott, and that he died abroad.
Nancy Noble—Lives at Penrith, and has known Ks/
and his wife for five years. They lived in a house of
my mother's. She said her first husband's name was
Scott, a soldier, and that he was killed one day when he
was out bush-shooting. He was a cork-cutter by trade.
Mr. Coltman did not doubt but the woman had
married again as Scott had done, nor had he attempted to
deny it: because that related to her subsequent conduct
after the separition had taken place. Au regards her stories
about her first husband—they are easily accounted for. It
is not at all probable, that during the lifetime of her second
husband, or while receiving a benefit from that husband,
she should confess the truth. Women do not often confess
their own shame upon the most pressing occasions ; much
lees then could it be expected of her to do it to injure
herself.

The JUDGE summed up the evidence, and remarked tbai
it was indeed a singular case. The on'y question for the
Jury was, had the first marriage of the plaintiff been clearli
proved,
or not; because her subsequent conduct in
not
having remained a chaste widow would be a question of
law for another place. If they were:of opinion that the first
marriage hid been proved, then the plaintiff was the lawful
widow of the said John Scott.
The Jury consulted for a long time, but could not agree.
They then retired for a considerable time, when thei
again came into Court, and gave a verdict for the defendant.

The inhabitants of Henfield are, we under-
stand, greatly afflicted at present with the influenza, the
complaint which was so prevalent last spring.—Hants
Advertiser.

THE IRISH REFORM BILL.---MEETING
OF IRISH MEMBERS.--A meeting of Irish members was
held on Wednesday, at the King's Arms Hotel, Loudon ;
about thirty were present.—The OTONNER DON in the
Chair. The Reform Bill was discussed, and it was agreed
that they should insist on as efficient a Reform Bill for
Ireland as is given to England. The meeting was ad-
journed till Monday next, when the course to be pursued
will be finally determined on.--Dublin Pilot.

FOSSIL ELEPHANT.---The bones of an enor"
mous Alastodonte were found last July near the Mein, in
Bavaria. It was at the depth of about twelve. feet; and
among the remains were fragments of a molar tooth, weigh-
ing six pounds.