The Sun.
London, England, 1832-03-27 00:00:00

EXECUTION AT LEICESTER.

At noon, yesterday, the sentence of the law was carried
into effe, t at Leicester county gaol, on Sarah Smith, aged
28, convicted on Thursday last of the murder of Elizabeth
Wood, at Mountsorrel, by administering to her arsenic and
laudanum. The wretched woman has for a long time past
borne a most indifferent character, and is strongly suspected
of baying been repeatedly employed in administering
drugs to unmarried females, who had been imprudent, for
the purpose of producing abortion. Such, however, could
ceased was not enciente, and the only motive that can be
assigned tor the horrid
deed, was the desire of securing
not have been the object in the present
Case, as the de-
i
for herself the few --pounds
pounls in money, and the stock of
clothes and trinkets belonging to
the deceased.
_ Since her commitment, the prisoner has repeatedlymade
attempts to destroy herself, and it in consequence ws9
found necessary to watch l er most closely, In her anxiety
to
an save
dd
ignominiousievaour,ddeattoh,
fix
xie hasthe through-
outdreadfu
ed indifference for her hos'
band, h,ipaeoyreedlnswfti fromb,(e)Lu m
oassn hardenhteelii
crime, and persisted in her assertion, although there was
not the slightest evidence to corroborate her :failing in
this attempt, she accused him of receiving goods, which
she had at different times purloined from places where she
i stp
was employed, and this charge being borne out by circum-
stances, he was apprehended, and tried on the first day of
the ussiz ss and sentenced to six months' imprisonment.
We regret to be compelled to add, that the demeanour of
the woman has been such as to afford little or no hope
that the confession was made from remone of con,cience,
but rather horn the basest of passions. After being
brought upon the scaffold, but a few minutes elapsed be-
fore the necessary preparations were completed, and the
signal being then given, the bolt was drawn, and the
earthly sufferings of the wretched woman were almost in-
-tantly at an .e id The crowd assembled to witness the
awful scene was very great.

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EXECUTION.---ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF
GuiLv---Jarnes Burns was executed on Thursday, in front of
the county gaol. It will be a satisfaction to the Jury who tried
this case to hear, that he acknowledged the justice of the sen-
tence which condemned him to death, And audibly said from the
.cafrold, " that he was prepared to sacrifice twenty lives, if he
had them, to atone for his guilt."--TipOtrory Free true.

____. - - - ._a_. a_ - a__ _____a__-___ '" dare our Constitution theoretically and prac ' country. But it is needless to enlarge on a sub•
PRICES OF STOCKS THIS LAY A r ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock
tically immaculate, an abstract perfection, ject which has been already so frequently dia-
'
• ere a per Cent. Red
1 2 el,. and that any Reform was a sacrilege equally 1 cussed, and on which the public mind is already
3 per Cetat.Cons. ......83%!-jli% Ditto Bonds• I , made up. The reply of Lord PALMERSTON to
rite lai jr Cent.
se; Ditto Red • Old Annuities
,at New 3%per Cent. 91 90N 1 New Ditto ............ --a- Lord ELIOT was unanswerable.
.2 his power fell like the image of Nebuchad- '
3 per Cent Ann. 1703 .... 3 per Cent. Ann. 1751
;S- 4 per Cent. 1626
red Bank Long Ann. to expire Ditto...-......
Jan 5, 1860 Ditto Small ..- IO 11 inc. si was a
• , •
.....pri„ 1 e a disciple of Lord HARROWBY—a news, unless we may consider another Protest by
Oct. 10, 1859 Ditto Commercial.
at/ Jan. 5, 1860 — Ditto Advertised. — Pm' friend of moderate Reform—but as to the pre- Cardinal BERNETTI as such.
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Jars 5, 1880 - Bank for account
anti
April t, 181•:"'..,
1 Jan. 5. 1870 — Cons. for April 1183,,,,oa,German Papers contain a report of troubles
Principle was not Reform—its principle was having broken out at Lucca, but, though it caused
FRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
de. ;Peruvian Bonds IN disfranchisement, and enfranchisement, and the sonic sensation at Vienna, the rumour was not
Austrian Bonds
51" Belgian Bonds — Ditto Account
believed. The POPE still continues in bad _pm. Portuguese Bonds
hu-
b s Ditto Scrip
Ditto Account l,„i ~,t', pm. j Ditto Account
moor with the French :
Brazilian Bonds 45%1 Regency Scrip a new qualification"—" coupled with an altera-
the Ditto Account — Ditto Account
Buenos Ayres Bonds .. 201.; '2O Prussian Bonds 0,1 11 tion of the representation of Scotland, amount- MARCH 15. MARCH 16.
of Ditto Account — Five per Cents.
Ditto Account
rd." ~. Chilian Bonds - l6 Ditto Bonds, 1822 lO3 nig there to a complete revolution, and the Four per Cents.
• Ditto Account — Russian' klonds, 182, 9714 Bank Shares 1126 1142
Columbian Bonds -
1 Ditto Account 97 oyerthr9w in Ireland of all the measures which
the Ditto Ponds, 1624 —j
Yal Ditto Account —.l
Ditto Account New Esiah •
were adopted in that country three years VICE-CHANCERY COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
, •
'; Tleyaish LCAIC;S 673t1,4 'Spanish Bonds, 1:3211 layi ________.....—_.
O ...sato Account —l Ditto Account
ago." If enfranchisement and disfranchise- INJUNCTION—.STUBS v. THOMPSON AND OTHERS.
nif Greek Bonds —' Ditto Bonds, 182:3
inent be not the elements of' Reform, his Mr. ROMILLY applied in this case for a Special Injunction
ds, Ditto Bonds, 1825. 25 9 BVC, French Itentes, sp. c. —f —c.on the behalf of the plaintiffs, who are file-makers of eon-
Ditto Account — ' Exchange —f —c.
,s • Grace must have sonic recondite definition Deuce at Warrington, to restrain the defendants, Messrs.
41- Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent. —/ —. per cent. —f --c.
of Ditto Account i Exchange —f - C.
.1.2,:,, of the word which passeth all understandina. Thompson, Leonard, and Dawes, of Birmingham, from selling
Ditto, 6 per cent Ilk !Dutch Scrip
11.•
Ditto Account — l Ditto Account 42Mi!ss.Ys But the Duke declares that under the Bill the by the plaintiffs. The Learned Counsel made the op.
in- Neapolitan !French Scrip
plication upon the affidavit of the plaintiffs, which stated
p
Government of the country would be "iM raC-
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE OCLOCK. that they and their fattier before them had carried on
Paid. Per Shareticable, or if practicable, pernicious." He made the business of file-making at Warrington; that the files
• I Anglo Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at V. pm.l.£loo
which they manufactured were much approved of in the trade
Brazilian Imp. MM. Co. OM at 5/. pm.) £2O ; ''''. 36 5F the same declaration with respect to the Catholic
Ditto St. John Del R•sy
Ditto Cos.:nes. a 1434 claims, and yet he found the governing of Ire- which their files were held, had so imitated the marks
.Rritisti lion Mining Company .£so 7.71
made use of by the plaintiffs, that a casual observer could not
Columbian Mining Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) 471,1 3I land as practicable after his Emancipation Bill as without scrutinizing them very closely detect the imitation,
English Mining Company I2X, 2.2 y, -V.
0 • Real del Mont?. Mining Co.. , .
eh Alliance Fire Insurance Comp lO Stubs, and those of the defendants, P. S. Studs.
Protectar Insurance Comp. - His Honour, the VICE-CHANCELLOR, considered that
ijs Canada Company . l7
this was clearly a piracy on the face of it, and ordered the in-
s General Steam Navigation Co.
h- Provincial Bank of Irel”nd
Van Dieman's Land Agricultural Co, 12 334 li social existence. The Duke has never been for .211ing the files.
li. . .. _.
The MARQUIS of BUTE v. FORMAN.
half measures, and to be consistent he ought to re e;•;F•4 g.----.. The arguments on this part-heard case were resumed.
ir-• ,lAN ir'._,....4...... . . eschew our present middle state, and revert to It was an application on behalf of the Marquis of
et irfir :.t. Aproo,, tut. the absolutism of CHARLES I. We do not Bute for an injunction to restrain the defendants
ve *4•••S-4 .:: --..-- . ' .ti' ia,..1, .....-t who are large iron masters in Glamorganshire, from using a
at wish his Grace any fortune in common with the a jetty which they had erected on the Banks of the river Jaffee,
_
for the purpose of unloading the coals.
ar
LONDON, Royal Martyr; on the contrary, we wish a right
His HONOUR, without calling upon Mr. Knight to reply,
3-•
place to a head which more than any other IS thought that the best course to adopt would be to order the
Id
TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 27, 1832.
01 --.40 -- capable of receiving new lights, and turning them motion to stand over, the plaintiff bringing such action as he
ee Whether the Administration be successful to good account. The only misfortune is, that might be advised, for the purpose of determining the questionwhether the defendants had the right to use the jetty as they were
ti a light never becomes new to his Grace, until it now using it.
with the Reform Bill,
or the reverse, the people
"'has long been old and common to all his cotern-
of ) of England arc more indebted to Ministers than
le to any party, or set of Statesmen that ever m poraries. BANKRUPTC Y COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
a- —.....—____
i- IN THE MATTER OF STODART, A BANKRUPT.
paged the aff•airs of the kingdom. Our Go- It has always been found that' an unnatural In this case two persons, Mr. James Howell and Mrs. Eliza. ig•
beth Timbrell, had presented petitions to the Court, praying to
vernment has shaken the Castle of IndolenCe, and vicious opposition to any thing in itself ex-
. be allowed to prove certain debts under the commission issued
i,
, cellent, has but the effect of encouraging what it against William Stodart, the elder, a clothier, and on a former
and of corrupt prejudices, to the foundation
a•
t. and they have established a fulcrum by which would mutilate and destroy. The energies of day, after hearing Counsel on both sides,
petitioners should be required to attend the Court this day,
the intellect and spirit of the nation must and the English character have overcome innumer- and give viva roe, evidence of the existence of the debts. This
ss is a new point of practice, and put in operation for the first
St will raise a structure suited to the state of the able obstacles which our rulers have thrown in - time upon this occasion.
~ age and condition of' the country. When the the way of every improvement, more particularly Mr. MONTAGU appeared in support of the petitioners, and
t Mr. MATTHEWS on behalf of the bankrupt's assigneesa.
people were once moved to suspect the divinity the improvement of the public mind. The Press After some discussion, as to the mode of proceeding,
ie of Thor and Odin, or to doubt the infallibility has risen to omnipotence, in spite of the tyranny Mr. James Howell, one of the petitioners, was called in and
examined by Mr. MONTAGU. He swore to having sold the
IS of the Papal usurpation, the Dagon and the Idol of the law of' libel, the iniquitous imposition of bankrupt in the year 1823 a quantity of cloth, to the amount
rf
of 1,636/., and also to having lent him 1,0001. ; a promissory note
3- were soon hurled from their pedestals, and direct and indirect taxes, and various insidious was given for the whole, viz. 2,6361., dated Jan. 1, 1824, and was
II
trampled in the dust, amidst the execrations practices of Tory Governments, too numerous to bear interest at five per cent. The Bankrupt and his nephew
I
of men. The fact that successive Par- to be named, and too base to be credited. joined in the note, and what interest had since been paid had At generally been paid by the nephew, who had written indorse.
• liaments, in spite of all the established tram- this moment the stamp duties are more of the ments to that effect on the note. He also held a similar note of
lc , mels of corrupt influence, and in despite of every nature of fiscal frauds and vexatious interrup- hand but for St/0/ lent to the bankrupt and his nephew in 1825.
The petitioner handed' his book to the Court in which the
; ' wile, and lure, and artifice—the fact that a Pa- lions than of an effectual impediment to the cir- transactions were entered.
partnership
ined by Mr. MATTHEWS—He was at onetime
triotic Sovereign, in contempt of every threat and culatiOn of' intelligence. Notwithstanding these
in with the bankrupt and persons of the name of
insult, and in utter scorn of the insidious turpi- impediments, the machinery and business of the Gale and Colburn, but they separated in August, 1823. The
si ii tneers
s intohe psanritfi-
tu d e that would create discussions in his family Political Press of the metropolis are beyond thedeclining
n bankrupte r ship a:dmal sh theis nephewpetiti petitioner was were
abo' t
wase
giventhe stockfo
rthat in
sum, trade,
fihto
e i amounting
—has twice pronounced the Representation to conception of foreigners, and perhaps scarcely the two Stthodfiartst
inisteshar o
• be mass of corruption, teeming with injury to understood by the public at large. The lent to; them. He did not recollect that he hadameivetr sai' 0001
ad the
the people, and danger to the Commonwealth— rapidity and accuracy of the labours of the
A T% thatEN‘ MATTHEWS
lheciZe:crile=tihneadvtant.ce. r s
affi.
this fact alone will render it impossible that Press may be fairly illustrated by our pub- davit annexed to the petition, which stated three clotioin. *e ' ' '
sideration
to be money lent and advanced
. s ,/ , The petitioner said he considered it as cash lent, because the
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respect for the political Juggernaut that has Opposition Lords—speeches to which the cloth was to have been paid for on the Ist of Jan., 1824, and
not being paid, it was agreed to consolidate that amount and 1..
crushed her children for successive generations to anxiety of all Europe is intensely directed —were the 1,000/. into one note. On being asked if he had ever said
the earth. The cause of Reform is perfectly safe, uttered in the Peers from a quarter-past five to that young Stodart was but a surety to the notes for his uncle,
3 he denied that he had ever said so
but that safety implies a question of time, and we half-past six. By the hour of seven they were Mr. MATTHEWS here read a' portion of the petitioner • ' 's 1
apprehend that the Bill is at this moment in printed at our office, at a distance of more than affidavit, sworn on the 15th of the present month, in which it
was stated that he refused to sell the goods to the bankrupt, un-
-1 greater danger than at any preceding period. a mile from the Houses of Parliament, and were less the nephew joined in the security, and that that proposi-
forwarded by the mails of last night to every part Lion was aceeded to.
Lord HARROWBY confesses to only a pie-bald
rhe petitioner said he was not aware he had made any such
of the country. Our intelligence, with respect to •
conversion—he acknowledges that a Reform is sitlaiteenninelnytm, fnonrehyealways considered the nephew as a principal.
time and quantity, was exclusive, and it preceded,
necessary ; but he likes nothing of the Bill but
with respect to foreign nations, the ordinary chan. was a sum of 501. from the nephew.
its most objectionable parts, and even these eii
• nel of intelligence by four-and-twenty hours. This [The case is likely to last the whole day.]
likes but faintly. He wishes, as a matter-of ex- rapid priority of information is of almost unpre- CHOLERA NIORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT.
pediency, that the Bill should go into the Corn- cedented importance, in the present feverish
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mittee, and then if the thrice triply corrupt state of fore' n
ei n Cabinets, and of the people of CENTRAL BOARD OF HEALTH.
COUNCIL OFFICE, WHITEHALL.—(THIS DAY.)
. the continent with respect to the stability of our
Peers—the race pensioned for three generations .
domestic peace, which is dependent on the Bill. •,-, .. 1 • ,;3 Z '.4 i
—do not modify it to their purpose, Lord HMI.- we are glad that we have had it in our power ri E', I ?. .5 ,1§- e §
ROWBY Says "it is their duty to exert all their to precede by twelve hours the :NI • Papersorning Places and Date. *E' a+ t., e.• '-'c- § .."..t-, E
*.ig .1-1 '8 2 E E 2... A
power to throw it out"—" he still retained in the effect which the inteliig,ence will have E.' o 1* s, 0.0 .52.
sag z ...., ae :a otlE,--.-...
every opinion, and did not retract a syllable of' upon the hopes and fears of every man, even in — ._ ___l_ _ _l____l"___. 0
Ely;;Cambr. March 2g ... 9 2 2 0 9 . 22 9 a
what he had formerly stated." Lord WHARN- the most distant corner of the three kingdoms.
h
-----........_ Coldstream 24 4 1 0 2 3 116 41
CLIFFE said, that "it' it depended upon himself b
the present Bill should never pass." The We are happy to perceive that a Bill for mak- Edinburgh, March 01
.
ing a Railway between Edinburgh, Leith, and Water of Leith, March 24 2 0 0 2 0 49 26 '''
Bishop of London pledged himselfonly
for Glasgow, has at length been brought into
Cannon Mills, March 24 0 2 1 0 1 10 7 tl
the second reading, and tile Committee.
Lord CARNARVON pronounced the Bill " such Parliament, read a first time last night, and Bonnington, March 23
,
ordered to be read a second time. Nothing Greenock, March 24.
i I
a one as the Government ought never to have
iconduce so much to the prosperity of the Glasgow,c., March 24 45 18 &iitrodoced," and the Duke of WELLINGTON can 8 7 48 II 479 244
declared d war against the Bill, "even to the knife." country c 1
as the general adoption of railways ;it Mary Hill, March 23 7 0 0 21 5 57 24
Govern- 1,
is a subject worthy the best attention m,. Maryston, March2l 4 '7 4 61 1 2'2 10
Earl GREY confessed that " he had heard
merit, and in this view we think that the spirited Paisley, March 24 °2 216 } 17 275 152
what had been stated, that evening with much re-
gret." Ti H
le ARROWBYTarty half unsheath promoters of the Northern undertaking deserve Pollockshaws, March 24 1 1 1 1 0 ,
.) i 4
the stiletto, but th c Vt
e Duke Of ..7ELLINGTON every encouragement. They have our best
Larbert, March 24 1 0 1 0 0 3 2 E
A
wishes.
boldly draws the sword,Fall irk, March 24
and throws away the
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, scabbard, whilst Lords
• E LDON, BEXLEY, TEN- Of all the political no-meanings, we know of Total 1168 i 3619 31 194 1169 581 ,Sc
Total from places where the disease has ceased,
TERDENs WYNFORD, and
1 that whole genera-. none more perplexing, consequently more useful and from which no returns have been this slay
tion, are mixing the subtle draft to drug the to those who have the address to enlist it in their received 5759 1631 F.
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posset, or smearing the meshes of the net to
catch and soil the halt andpurblind. The service, than that mysterious phrase the " law of
,
nations." It suits all times, all men, all parties,
country has placed unbounded confidence in and means just as
Earl GREY, and he ought at once to
whether.the declare
Bill be safe beyond the contamina- much, or just as little, as
accords with the views of the speaker. Mr.
CANNING quoted it to justify the invasion of
Spain by the French • Lord
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condemn, the same invasion. Both parties, City
point he intends to secure the rights of the wi •
ligs and Tories, now press it into their Afloat in the River l9 8 1 125 78 32
people by the creation of Peers. If the Bill service to settle
the questions of Belgium and Limehouse
, be lost, for a short time
at least, the KING is a Portugal. Sir ROBERT PEEL last nightoShadwell 2 2 4 0 0I 19 17
cipher and the people are slaves, and Lord GREY waxed remarkably oratorical on this same hack-
ought
not to endanger trifle • h the one, or with the nied " law of nations," which he scarcely at- Ratcliff
hopes and fears of the other. Throughout theconti- tempted to define, but which, by a logical pro- Poplar . 4 1 0 5 16 5 ab'
da'
rent the French cess peculiar to himself, he discovered was in Bermondsey 2B 5 2 6 25 110 51 his.
Journals are praised and confided direct opposition to the foreign policy of Go- Southwark cat
in as the vehicles which 57 39 13 14 69 571 279
'by the Government so vernment. The Right Honourable Gentleman's gu
liberally communicates Newington Butts l2 8 4 2 14 95 45 hay
its policy anti intentions speech on this occasion was a master-piece of
..we / to the nation, 1
and why should the English dexterous sophistry. This was more especially Lambeth
people be left to inferencesthe case as regarded his allusions p Christchurch 5 '7 0 0121 55 26 of
from Parliamentary to or- pla
debates, or to what J , tugal—a fertile theme, and attractive to those Westminster 4 1 1 1 3 38 21 0•1
. Journalists can arrive at oy '
who know how to make the proper •of hat
' excessive sacrifices use tom- Chelsea 4 4 I 2 5. 27 19
and exertions. Are theeir
English mon-place verbiage, and take refuge from oarti-
, . St. James's
people less worthy of' confidence than i ' -l• B h d'd
cu ars in geneta ales. ut wat ts. tile Right •
the French ? I St. George's, Hanover-sq. 0 1 1 0 0 8 6
n a measure which involves 'Hon. Gentleman mean by talking of Don Mr- ma.
the public safety and the
domestic peace—a ouEL's " unpopularity," and asserting that he Marylebone
' Measure in which honesty is the only policy— " knew some of his actions could not be de- st• Luke's to t
4 9 2 1 10 54 32 con
why should fended?" is this glib, smooth language applies- st. Andrew's, Holborn
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character of a Divan, or a Court of Inquisition ?
all
perfect master in one art is generally
deft- ble to a wretch like .. MIGUEL ! Can no jester •
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phrase be found than " unpopularity, or than Whiteehapel . .
St. Geor es's East
" some of his actions cannot be defended," gmot
12 9 4 3 14 59 34 nigl
2 2 0 0 4 22 14 .
y est
some one science only 1
genius fit,. will ""e for the falsifier of his word, the despoiler of his waPPi"
in s
from thorns, and men do not gather grapes country, tile usurper of his niece's rights, the •
St. Botolph Aldgate
great general is
tOrian or a. , -
nor
MA RLBoRou,.? d figs from brambles.
not expected to be a good his-"" kr,' •
derived SHAKsPEARL,s brcian.
all his
A bigot, the trait
Alarqu'
The Duke of of his o% father•of the 4t. Luke's
or, the reputed assassin .
is de LOULE, and the would-be assassin
vii ? We think we could help i
history from Sir ROBERT PEEL to some more appro-
in Bethnal Green
lrentford 2 0 1 1 20 13
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83 %
5 latex
3 o 1 0 2 I
18 10 earn
tude
Wandsworth
i of WELLINGToN plays, and whence the Duke priate language. Butthe whole
speech of' the . . .
derives %‘ooavich 1 0I o 0 1 a I "in'
his logic no man
I, can pronounce—like Right Honourable Baronet, though elabo- i_. —.l-1-_l—__ T
he .- -
i ' it corneal or whithert a iod, 1s whence rate and ingenious in its way, was a failure; Tout
knowetli." The \ Duke 1
't goeth no man as such it was received by the House ; as such, ''''''''
t
was the first to de- we are convinced, it will be received b
y the tom placc:s before reported ... ..........
(Signed ...... ** 30 36 the s
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