The Sun.
London, England, 1832-03-12 00:00:00

LINCOLN, MARCH S.

Priscilla Woodford, aged 15, was indicted for felo-
niously and maliciously setting fire to a stack of hay, the
property of Isaac Teesdale, fisher, at Ilacconby, on the
Bth of December last.

She was found Guilty, but recommended to mercy on
account of her youth.
The Learned Juoc.j took time until to-morrow to con-
sider of her case.

Margaret Wallis, wife of James Wallis, labourer, was
indicted for feloniously and maliciously setting fire to a
house in the possession of her husband, with intent to in-
jure either M. Wright or the Right Hon. Lord Yarborough.
The prisoner's husband was a labourer in the employ-
ment of Wright, the prosecutor, a large farmer, who
allowed him and his family to occupy the house in ques-
tion as part of the remuneration for his labour. About
the latter end of August he and his master had some dis-
pute, and the latter gave him notice to quit in a mouth.
In two days afterwards the nrisoner was confined of a still.
born chtio. un the 28th of September, two nays darl
the expiration of the month's notice, the prosecutor rode
down to the house, taking two of his men with him, fur
the purpose of driving the prisoner, who was known to be
a violent woman, out of it. The husband was from home at
the time, and the prosecutor deeming it vain to attempt to
persuade the prisoner to quit the house voluntarily, directed
his men to strip off the thatch. They set ahoutdoing so, when
the prisoner rused out of the house with a pitchfork, and
thrust it at one of the men, who, however, succeeded in dis-
arming her ; upon which she ran buck into the house and
came out with another pitchfork. Of this she was also
diaarrord by one of the men. No sooner, however, was
she at liberty, than she milled into the house, and bring-
ing out a hatchet, commenced breaking in the window
frames. She then went in and came out armed with a
red-hot poker. With this she ran at one of the men,
who ran out of her way. She next rushed towards the
prosecutor, who had remained on horseback, and Is ho
seeing her making towards him clapped spurs to his horse,
and gallopped off. The other man then went up to her
for the purpose of taking the poker from her, but she
quietly gave him the hot end of it in his hand, and he was
glad to let it go instantly. She also pelted the men with
stones, until at last one of them struck her with his fist in
the face, and knocked her down ; and when she was down
he struck her on the back part of her person with a pitch.
fork. The men, after having pulled off sonic of the
thatch, went away; upon which the prisoner collected
iv,oario
usei:s nienaartnerv,ia,lisn,doawnd,
onrowade fire
hicha
she
in h
e plactedetwmni le of the
doors
and
after the fire had communicated to the floor, she said she
should have more fire, and placed two other doota anti a
gate upon it, by which the whole house was speedily set
on fire.

The Jury having found the prisoner Guilty, judgment
way respite(' until neat assitos.

FRIDAY, MARca 9.

Frederick Miller, and six other defendants, named
Glen, Waite, Wells, Stout, Clemment, and Bradshaw,
were indicted for a riot at Boston in May last.

Ag the defendants were identified as being present at the
riot, except Bradshaw, who was therefore acquitted, and
the others found Guilty.
The defendant Bradshaw, who is a fisherman, and a
butcher named Woods, were then put to the bar, charged
with having been concerned in a previous riot, which took
place two days before the election.
The Jury found both defendants Guilty.
The Learned RIDGE took time to consider of the sen-
tences, both in this case and the last.

HORTENSE, EX-QUEEN OF HOLLAND.-
This lady, whose connexion with the Bonaparte family has
involved her in so large a share of its memorable variations of
fortune, is the daughter of the Viscount de Beauharnais and of
Josephine, illustrious in her virtues and her misfortunes. She
has given conspicuous proofs of talent, the cultivation of which
was partly due to the fostering care of that well-known precep-
tress of female aristocracy, Madame Campan. Her unhappy
differences with her husband, Louis Bonaparte, and her wand, r-
ings, subsequently to the decline of her greatness, though vari-
ous European states, under the title of the Duchess de St.
Lcu, have been hitherto the subject of considerable mystery
—but these, and other circumstances of her eventful careen,
will receive ample elucidation in the forthcoming " Memoirs."

COUNTERFEIT CROWNS.-There is now
a gang of common utterers of counterfeit coin actively at work
in the City and East end of the metropolis in passing off coun-
terfeit crowns. The imitation is so excellent, both in sound
and appearance, that detection is almost impossible, without
weighing the counterfeit. A great number of respectable
tradesman in the neighbourhood of Birchin-lane and Cornhill
have been duped by an individual dressed in the garb of a jour-
neyman carpenter, passing off base crowns in purchase of some
trifling article. The public will do well to be on their guard,
and to rely on "weight" alone' when a crown.piece is tendered.

COMFORT FOR C}GAR SMOKERS.—The
greater and more common part of the cigars vended in the
United Kingdom, and sold at from Ss. to 13s. the hundred, are
prepared from the cabbage leaf, soaked in a strong solution of
tobacco water. Cigars, so composed, are generally passed off
under the names of Hamburg, Maryland, and Virginia. The
same deceptions may be said to exist in respect to the small
cheroots, whether scented or not ; they are, with comparatively
trifling exceptions, nearly all of British make.—Nicotiaita.

The precautions taken against the cholera at
Woolwich are operating very much against the public house.
keepers. The troops are all ordered into barracks by six o'clock
in the evening ; and the coachmen bringing company to the
monthly balk, given by the officers, are in general ordered not
to enter the public houses. The precautions appear to be effec-
tual hitherto, as no case of cholera has appeared at Woolwich.

READING —On Thursday evening a hand-
some silver cup was presented to Mr. Cowslade, the editor of
the Reading Mercury, from the mechanics of Reading, at a
numerous meeting convened for the purpose at the Lower
Ship inn. This mark of respect has been called forth by the
liberal manner in which Mr. Cowslade has afforded gratuitous
information to the public, on every momentous occasion, by tl •
distribution of handbills. The mechanics have taken up the
matter with much spirit, and the gift presented was the produce
of the conjoined subscriptions of nearly 700 operatives. The
evening was spent with much harmony.—Windsor Express.

It is rumoured in London that Ministers are
desirous of securing the powerful aid of Mr. Macauley, and
that, with a view of enlisting his great talents most effectively
in the service of the public, they have requested his acceptance
of office. Should this be correct, which seems very probable,
and should Mr. Macauley accept office, the Administration
will have strengthened its hands by obtaining the active sup-
port of one of the ablest and most upright of our senators ; and
Mr. Macauley, we think, will do himself honour by joining the
most patriotic and virtuous Ministry this country has ever
known. There can be no greater benefit to a nation than to
have wise, honest, and disinterested men occupying the import-
ant offices of state : and in the present circumstances of the
country, nothing is more essential for extending the liberties of
the people, and securing grand reforms in the Representation,
the Church, and the Public Departments, than the upholding of
the existing Administration, which has with unparalleled bold-
ness grappled with the worst abuses, and manifested a deter-
mination to stand by the cause of the people against every form
of oligarchical corruption and tyranny. We doubt not the
Electors of Leeds, who will owe their political existence
to this Reforming Ministry, will be pround to have an
opportunity of testifying their gratitude for the inestimable
gift, as well as their regard for the most eloquent ad-
vocate of that measure, by returning Mr. Macaulay
as one of their Members at the first election- So public-
spirited an Administration may safely count on public sup_
port. That support Leeds and Yorkshire have already given
in every possible way, and they will never withdraw it so lon g
as Ministers are true to their principles of economy and Re-
form. After the Augazan stable of the representation shall
have been cleansed by their Herculean hand, the Irish Church
will call for their reforming :energies ; and we have seen that
Mr. Macaulay has pledged himself to a " complete Reform" of
that extravagant establishment. It is above all important to
prevent the return to power of that party which has created
the greater portion of the national evils and burdens, which
defends every abuse, opposes every Reform, maintains with a
blind bigotry an unjust, intolerant, and corrupt ascendancy
in Ireland, with the whole system of tithes, and which by its
foreign policy would enlist England in support of despotism
over the whole Continent. We should be glad, therefore, to
see the vigorous and manly powers of Mr. Macaulay devoted
to the support of that Ministry which is identified with the
cause of liberty and Reform.—. Leeds Mercury,

GLASGOW CORN 1
The transactions in our Grain
ittle alteration in prices.

Wheat, per 2401 b s. d. s. d.
British, old 250t0280
new 26 0 29 0
Canada, free 2B 0 29 0
Irish
Barley, per 3201 b.
English — 0 C
Scottish 24 0 26 0
Irish

M A }MEE—March 7.
I market have been limited, with

OMs, per 2641 b. s. d. s. d.
Irish lts 0 to 18 3
British .. 0 0
Beans, per 2601 b.
English
Scottish
Pease, Scottish
Oatmeal, per 1401 b l6 0 17 0
Flour, per 2801 b 46 0 48 0

CORNWALC. MARKETS. •
Trtuao—Wheat (average) 228.3d.—Barley, Ils. 6d.—Oats, 9s.
ST AUSTELL—Wheat, —s. to 23s.—Barley,—s. to Ils.—Oats,
04. to Ss. 0(1.

BoOMlN—Wheat (average) 2Bs. He. Od.—Oats, 8s
HELSTON—Wheat, 2.25. od.—Barley, llr Od.
PENZANCE—Wheat, 225. to 248.—Barley, —s. to 125.--Oats,
N. to Bs. o,l.—Beef and Mutton, sd. to Gd.—Pork, aid. to 4d.—
Butter, 12d. per Ih.

LNK sAan—iNheat, —s. 0(1 to 238.—Barley, 10s. Od.—.oats,
:o 7s. tkt.

LAUNCEsroN—Wheat (average) 275. Od.—Barley,los. 441-oata,
75. o,l.—Beef, CA.—Mutton, 6d.
ST. CoLumu—Wheat, 225. to 23s.—Barley, Its. to I2l.—Beef.
and Mutton, 4d. to sd.—Veal, 4d.—Lamb. sd.

Thel.K ,piiliAicnuclizarllyo.
within
theA week,
the last day or two, has been general, and full prices have been
realized for American descriptions. The quantity of Uplands
in the market is proportionably rather limited, and in the fair to
forPO OL
Cotton C T
during'f ON MARI~F:T,
good fair qualities an advance has, in some instances, been ob-
tained of per lb. In Brazils, with the exception of Bahias,
which are still heavy of sale, there is also a further improvement
of to 1,4 d; per lb. East India Cotton is scarce, and prices are
extremely steady. The sales of the week, including 1,000 bales
of Maranham, 1,030 Pernams, and 1,500 American, taken on
speculation and 300 American and 200 Surat, for export, amount
to 18,500 bags, namely, 390 Sea Island Georgia, 101,4 d. to I3d. ;
70 stained ditto, 6d. to 85'd.; 6,590 Upland ditto, 5%d. to 7,,tidt. ;
1,4334 Alabama, 5%d. to md.; 3,200 New Orleans, 64gqd, to BNd.;
1,550 Pernambuco, Bd. to 9V.; 1,160 Bahia and Macaio,
to 7!4,d.; 2,730 Maranham, 6,4(1. to d. ; 100 West India, s%si.
to 6%d. ; 630 Carthagena, dd. to 9d. ; 380 Surat, 4%d. to 5%c1. ;
and 40 Bengal, at 43 d. per lb. Import 23,484 bags.

Mr. Horace Smith's forthcoming work of
fiction denominated " Romance of the Early Ages," is likely
to prove as attractive as his celebrated tale of " Zilla." Like
that narrative, several of the stories of which his new volumes
are composed turn on the powerfully interesting events which
occurred on the first dissemination of Christianity and the
prosecutions which its early professors had to endure from the
Jews and the Romans. Egypt, the Holy Land, and Greece
are, we understand, the scenes of three of the Romances; the
others being laid in Britain, and on the bleak shores of
Scandinavia.

In the General Assembly of Scotland, held
in Edinburgh on Wednesday, a motion was made by Dr. Dick.
soti, for the appointment of a Committee to inquire into the
character of the reported doctrines and proceedings of Mr. Ir-
ving, at the Scotch National Church, with a view to deprive
him of his license from the Church of Scotland. It was carried
by majority of 46 to 7.

BIRTHS.
On the Oth inst. the wife of Mr. Thomas Cansdell, of the
Hoop and Horse-shoe Tavern, Queen-street, Tower-hill, of a
daughter.

MARRIED.
On the Sth inst. by special licence, at the domestic chapel of
George John Legh, Esq., of High I.egh, in the county of Chester,
Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton, Bart., of Oulton-park, in
that county, to Anna Elizabeth, second daughter of George John
Legh, Esq., of High Legh.
On the 10th inst. at St. Margaret's, Westminster, Leonard
Barber, Esq, to Sarah, eldest-daughter of the late William
Walker, Esq., of Brunswick-square, and the Inner Temple.
On the 10th inst. at All Souls, Langham-place.' Richard Car.
venter Smith, Esq. to Miss Elizabeth Webb.

DIED.
On the Bth inst.' at his chambers in Barnard's-inn, in the
66th year of his age, much regretted, the Rev. S. P. Sheppard of
West Wickham, Kent, rector of Constantine, Shropshire.
On the 6th inst. in the prime of life, Matilda, the wife of Ed-
ward Merrick Elderton, Esq., of Queen-square, Bloomsbury.
On the Nth inst. at Harleston, Norfolk, at the house of her
son-in.law, Thomas Hunter, Esq., Mrs. Wilcox, relict of Thomas
Wilcox Esq., late of Wimbledon, Surrey.
On the 7th inst. at the Priory, Leamington, while on a visit to
the Lady Katharine Howard, Harriet, the wife of Thomas Paul
Sandby, Esq., ..0 years Deputy Ranger of Windsor Great Park,
aged 68.
On the 9th inst. at his residence, Canterbur-yplace, Lambeth.
Joseph Liitlefear,:Esq., aged 70, one of the oldest members of the
Court of Assistants (and formerly Master)
thecalies of London.

NVilliam Allen, of South-place, Fintbury-
71uare.

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