The Sun.
London, England, 1832-03-26 00:00:00

SSIITHFIE

This day's supply was througi
but of excellent quality, and ful
demand. The trade was with (

the primest small Sco,s, &c. at,
Vance of 2t.i. per stone; but I
Lamb, Veal, and Pork, at nothi

PRICES PER STONE OF OL
s. d. to s. 4.
!nferior Beasts 2 2 2 4
Second quality ditto 31 2 310
Prime large Oxen 3 6 3 8
Prime Scots, tic 3lO 4 0
Inferior Sheep 2 6 210
Second quality ditto 3 2 31,,
Coarse-woolled ditto 310 4 8
S iuthdownWethers 0 0 0 0

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SUPPLY, AS PER CLERK'S STATEMENT. •
Beasts. 'Sheep and Lambs,' Calves. Pigs.
2,623 1 16,160 70 I 120
About CO of the beasts came up the St. Alban's road ; about
30 up the other northern roads; stout 70 (including Irish)
from the western and midland districts ; about 2200 from or,
folk, Suffblk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire; about 140;frons Kent
and Sussex ; and most of the remainder from the marshes, &c
in the neighbourhood of London.

NEWGATE AND f.,NADENHALL MA Ettial lb.
At por stone, by the Carcass
s. d. to s. s. d.tos.
Seer, Inferior 2 2 2 4 Mutton, inferior... 2 6 210
- middling 2 6 210 - middling.. 3 2 3 8
- prime large 3 0 3 2 prime 3lO 4 4
- prime small... 3 2 3 6 Pori., large '1 8 4 0,
Veal
Both these Markets were exceedingly well hupplied ; but the
trade in them was depressingly dull, wth Beef and Muttot at a
depression of from 2d. to 44. Veal, 4d. to 6d ; with Lamb and
Pork at Friday's currency, The butchers complain that the
6shmonners ana poulterers have stolen the greater part of their
trade.

NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET—Mara} 24.
Our farmers supply of wheat today was rather better than
of late ; but our millers having little else to depend upon, sales
were ready, and the prices of last Saturday fully supported;
there was more business doing in granaried parcNs. The Oat
trade was dull, at late prices. All the fresh samples of Barley
were cleared off the market, yet the needy buyers get supplied
from granary, and we can still note no advance in the price of
that grain. Fine Malt in fair demand. Rye as our last. Beans
and Peas very Aat. Flour free sale.

New. Old.
Wheat, Northumberland 565. 67s .„... —s. —s:
Norfolk and Suffblk 56s 61s.
Berwick and Scotch 56s 62s ~ ..... —s. —s.
Foreign , , 48s. 575. —s. —s.
Rye, Norfolk and Suffolk
- Foreign .., 325. 36s .....5. ~s.
Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk...32s. 35s .„ —..s. —,s.
Grinding and Feeding 245. 28s. —s. —s.
‘lalt, Norfolk and Suffolk 58s. 625. —s. —s.
Beans, Small
...._,.. Tick ei.. i 295. 313 —s. —5.
Pease, White .345. 36s —s —s.
Gray
Oats, N,)rthumberland,P ipt IL 3 . 23s 26s 233. 255.
--- -- Feed 19s 21s. 195.216.
-- Foreign
Flour, Fine (per sack)

THE LORDS AND THE REFORM BILL.-
The parishioners of Clerkenwell have sent several requisitions
to the churchwardens to convene a Vestry meeting, to petition
the House of Lords to pass the Reform Bill with the least pos.
Bible delay, in answer to which they (the churchwardens) have
appointed Wednesday next for the meeting. The neighbour.
ing parishes are about to follow the example.
LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY EVENING.-Ar-
rived yesterday, the Lochiel, from Mobile; the Corsair, from
Halifax; and Elizabeth, from Villa Nova. Arrived to-day, the
Planet, from Zante,

EXAMINATION OF WILLIAM BENBOW

FOR A RIOT ON THE FAST DAY.

This afternoon William Benbow was brought in custody be.
fore F. A. ROE and N. CONANT, Esqrs., and the Rev.
G. A. THURSLEY, at Marlborough-street Police Of.
:ice on a warrant charging him with " unlawfully, riot-
ously, and routously assembling, together and with divers
other persons, to the number of one thousand and more,
on the twenty.first day of March instant, at the
parish of St. Pancras, and continuing and remaining
there for a long space of time, making and causing a great riot,
rout, noise, and disturbance:'

The prisoner, when asked his name, refused for some time to
give it, and at length very pertly said, his name was William
Benbow.

A. J. List, Inspector of S division of police, deposed as follows
On Wednesday, 21st inst. I was on duty with a party of my men
in Theobald's-road, when I heard a riotous mob proceeding
alongGreatOrmond-street and Queen-square, into Southampton-
row ; I went into Southampton-passage ; the mob then turn&'
towards Lamb's Conduit-street ; considering they would come
into Russell-square, I proceeded on towards Bernard. street,
Russell-square; hearing the mob had gone towards Judd.
street, I repaired to the New road. At that time a very
large mob was passing St. Pancras New Church hooting and
creating a great disturbance. I then went to Tottenham-court-
road, and at the end of Grafton-street, East, in Tottenham.
court-road, I saw a body of men and boys in the New.road,
making tbeir way towards Oxford-street. From their being dis.
orderly, and having instructions to disperse any mob that I met

with, I placed a company of men, to the number of 42, across
the road. One or two of the leaders of the snob asked to be
allowed to pass on ; being very noisy, I told them that I could
not allow them to pass. At that time Mr. Benbow (the
prisoner) came forward and asked why I prevented them
proceeding on their route, or words to that effect. i told him
I was acting according to my instructions. He then asked me
which way they should go, and I replied I did not know, but
they could not pass that way. He then said if I would not allow
them to pass they must force their way. Looking round, and
finding the men under my command completely surrounded by
the mob, and every disposition shown to commence hostili-
ties, with great exertions I withdrew the men, and the mob
then passed on without a blow being struck by the police,
although one of my men was struck on the knee. There
were from 1,500 to 2,000 persons present; the road was COlll.
pletely blocked up. At the time when the prisoner asked
which way they were to go, I said they must go back again.
When he came to speak to me he advances! from the crowd.
Cross-examined by Mr. Edwards, clerk to the prisoner's
attorney—The crowd immediately about the prisoner was not
peaceable ; the prisoner was not violent but he said they should
force their way. I saw my men surrounded by the snob, but I
did not see any of them struck. They were hooting and
pressing round my men. It was a dense mob, and not a pro..
cession.

Mr. ROE thought these questions immaterial.
Mr. Edwards said his object was to show there was no riot
nor any violence.

Mr. ROE said that was a question of law.
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The witness in addition said, that the prisoner stated, their
intention to be to go to Lincoln's Inn fields and there assemble
and then to disperse. On Saturday night at half past nine
o'clock he went to the prisoner's residence in Fleet-street,
near Temple Bar, but found he had left them; he, however,
apprehended him, at a private house in Theobald's-road, in a
room, where about 15 persons were holding a sort of meet.
ing, and passing resolutions. Witness took the pri-
soner away in a coach, and on the road to the station_
house the prisoner said, " We did not show you what we
could have done; if we had, it would have surprised you."
Thomas Lendegrun, police constable, deposed that he heard
Mr. List tell the snob they could not go that way ; then
the prisoner came up, touched List on his shoulder or his arm,
and asked him what he wanted. Mr. List told him they must
not go down the road; List asked where they were going to,
anti the prisoner replied (as witness believed) to Moorfields.
List said he could not allow them to pass, and the prisoner
said they would pass ; eventually they did pass. There ap.
peared to be about 2,000 or 3,000 persons in the mob. Wit.
ness saw several stones thrown by the mob before Mr. List
spoke, and while the police were coming up.

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Cross-examined—The stones' were thrown At the police, and
witness also saw several sticks in the hands of the mob.
List's evidence was then read over, and the witness said he
could add nothing to it. He however said, he saw at least
twelve stones thrown, and several of the mob had mop-sticks.
By the prisoner--When List said prisoner could not pass, he
replied " we shall go."

James Cole, division S, No. 162, stated that he
first saw the mob at half past twelve o'clock, in
the neighbourhood of Queen-square, and watched
its progress along the New-road. At St. Pancraws New Church
they hallooed and shouted. The people were coming out of
the church at that time. Witness and the rest of the police
then went round and met the mob at the corner of Grafton.
street and Tottenham-court-road, where they threw many
stones at the police; one stone struck witness severely on the
knee. Many of them had sticks, but they might have been
walking sticks.

Cross-examined by the prisoner—Stones were thrown from
where the prisoner was, One person, a tall man, held up his
umbrella and called " order, order,"

William Aggs, inspector of the S division of police, was in
Gloucester street on Wednesday, when he saw a mob of
about 2,000 persons or more; he did net know where
they came from; this was about twenty minutes past twelve
o'clock; witness and his men turned them back to the other end
of Gloucester street, and they went westward. The defer.
dant was with the mob.

Mr. .1, Farquharson was in Finsbury-square at eleven o'clock
on Wednesday morning ; the square was full of people, and they
had mounted the railings of the houses and areas ; a few minutes
eleven o'clock a procession started partly from the shop
of a person named Watson, in Finsbury-square, and
partly from the Philadelphian Universalist& The pri-
soner, a person named Hetherington, and another per-
son, a tall man, with an Umbrella, were among them ; they
proceeded along Finsbury-square, down Sun-street, into Bi
shopsgate.street, Cornhill, Cheapside, Ncwgate.street, Skinner.
street, Farringdon-street, and Fleet-street to Temple-bar ;
the policeman drawn across the Middlesex side of Temple.
bar, and stopped the mob from passing ; they then im-
mediately turned up Chancery-lane, with the decided
intention, as witness understood of proceeding to the
West End of the town up Holborn : they were, however pre.
vented by the police proceeding down Holborn, and they
turned up Gray's-inn-lane. An attempt was made to
proceed down the King's-road, but there the polio
stopped them,land the ponce then went along Gray's-inn-lane,
lane to Guildford-street, and turned clown Lamb's Conduit.
street and Great Orrnand,street, into Queen's-square; then
down Gloucester,street, at the bottom of which they were met
by the police; and they then returned into Queen.
square, and from thence immediately to Brunswick-square,
Hunter-street, and Judd-street, to the New-road, and Tot-
tenham-court-road ; at the corner of Grafton street they
were met by the police as described by the preceding wit.
nesses. The leaders of the crowd in passing the police,
turned down Chenies,street, and to South Crescent, where, by
the intreaties of the load, rs, they dispersed.

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Cross-examined—Witness went with them through the
whole route; on each occasion when they were stopped
by the police they returned without using the slightest violence.
He had no doubt that he saw the prisoner first in Windmill.
street.

To a question whether there was any riot, rout, or violence
Mr. Roe objected, because that was a matt_r of legal construe.
tiiin for a superior tribunal He should on his own responsi.
bility hold the prisoner to bail as being the leader, or one of the
leaders of tue mob.

This being the whole of the evidence, the Magistrates eon.
suited together as to the amount of bail necessary to ensure the
prisoner's appearance at the Sessions,

Benbow declared that he had no property, the whole a what
he once had having beep taken by the tax gatherers.
Mr. ROE then observed, that it was of no us* to hold him
to bail on his own recognizance, as he had !I* property to an-
swer for any default.

]Kventually'he was ordered to find four sureties in 501. each, or
two in 1001. each, for his appearance to take his trial for the
riot.

ARREST OF BENBOW, THE BooKSELLER.

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—Government are, it seems, determined to prevent a recur-
rence of the foolish exhibitions which endangered the peace of
the metropolis on Wednesday last, by punishing those who in-
stigated the people to take part in them. Shortly after ten
o'clock on Saturday night, Mr. Benbow, the bookseller, who
has rendered himself conspicuous on that and several other oc.
casions, was arrested, under the authority of a warrant from
the Secretary of State, by List, an inspector of police, and con.
vcyed to the Head Office at Whitehall. It is understood that
warrants of a similar description havebeen also issued for the
apprehension of Hetherington, Lovatt, Cleave, and the other
persons who acted as leaders of the people on the day in ques-
tion. After Mr. Benbow was arrested he was handed over to
Police Sergeant Heywoo& of the A division, who conducted
him from the Head Office to the station house in Garden lane,
Westminster, where he is now confined in close custody. His
r,pprehension is reported to have taken piac3 in the city ; and
the police seem to have a clue to the other parties who most
distinguished themselves at the head of the processing► on the
day of the fast. Since taken into custody he has conducted hiss.
self in a very reserved manner, and has shown an indisposition
to communicate on the subject of his apprehension with any one
in authority. We are assured that no other arrest is contem.
plated than that of William Benbow. The parties named In
the Observer yesterday presented themselves at the Home.
office, but were informed that no warrants were issued for their
apprehension.

In reviewing that very extraordinary Novel,
" The Adventures of a Younger Son," The Spectator says.
" This is a very clever book : it is a sort of fighting Don Juan,
containing all descriptions of adventures in the East, except
t hose of love; for he does not make love, but offers battle." To
this latter assertion the numerous readers of the volumes will
in all probability demur, for they cannot forget the character
of Zels, the heroine—the whole of whose acquaintance with
the hero, from his first romantic courtship of her, to her un-
timely death, is one dream of pure, exalted love. Zela occu.
pies a very considerable part of the volumes; and her character
has been pronounced Daily equal to the Medora, the Haidee,
and the Myrrha of the Author's friend, Lord Byron.
Alexander Rowe, E-q., of Torpoint, was killed
near Barnstaple last week by a fhll from his horse. This gen-
tleman was brother to Sir Joshua Rowe, Chief Justice of Ja-
maica.--Cornubiey.