The Sun.
London, England, 1828-10-29 00:00:00

NEW COVENT-GARDEN MARKET.

The plan of the buildings is very simple. There
are three ranges of shops and offices, running, as the
sheds do at present, from east to west. On the
north side of the middle one is the fruit market,
Partly. protected from the weather; and on the south
side is the green market; the other two ranges form
the northern and southern boundaries of these; and
the potato-market and the waggon areas retain their
present positions at the outside. Each of these
ranges contain 38 fruit shops, or fruit salemen's
counting-houses, of about ten feet square, placed
back to back, and possessing a room of the same
dimensions above, and, a vaulted cellar below. The
exterior elevation of the north and south ranges is
embellished with a colonnade of granite, supporting
an entablature, and terminated by a massive balu-
strade, the first floor being lighted from above. The
columns, which are twelve feet high, are placed
eight feet from the wall of the shops, thus affording
ample protection to purchasers during inclement
weather, and effectually preventing the encroach-
ment of horses and waggons, a nuisance severely felt
at present. The interior elevations of all the ranges
are simply but neatly ornamented with pilasters;
the windows of the upper floors being in the walls.
The most prominent feature of the whole, however,
will be the splendid colonnade and terrace, facing
Great Russell-street. This will be nearly three
times the depth of the lateral ones, and besides the
row of columns common to all sides of the square,
will contain a considerable number more•for the sup-
port of the terrace above. There are three passages
or alleys which perforate the area longitudinally, and
three which cross it ; of these, the two middle ones
will be respeetively embellished at each end by a co-
linntiar gateway, surmounted by a pediment.

BRISTOL. ASSIZES.

BRISTOL, MONDAY NIGHT.

The Assizes for this city commenced this morning
before the Recorder, Sir CHAS. WETHERELL. After
the preliminary business had been gone through, the
Recorder addressed the Grand Jury (a most highly
respectable one), at considerable length. He com-
menced by alluding to the sedulous and unremitting
attention which had been devoted by his Majesty's
Government to the revision of the laws, and to the
more effective administration of justice, and stated
that a similar spirit of improvement had actuated the
Corporation of this city, in adopting the determina-
tion of holding two gaol deliveries in the course of
the year, instead of one, which hitherto had been
the practice. The Recorder concluded by glancing
at the different cases contained in the calendar; after
which the trials proceeded as follow :
Joint Shipp, and Margaret, his wife, were placed
at the bar, charged on a Coroner's inquest with
'killing and slaying William Ball on the 51st of
May last.

William Thomas stated that he had known the
deceased for twenty-eight years ; Ball had taken a
severe cold at Birmingham ; he came to. Bristol in
the earlier part of last May, when he took lodgings
at the prisoners' house, in the Narrow•plaiu ; he
had only lived there a week before he died; during
;his time he *as supported by the subscriptions
raised for him by witness; his complaint was asthma;
witness had seen him the Wednesday previous to
his death on the Saturday, when he had been bled,
and appeared to have been considerably relieved.
The witness was cross-examined by Mr. Siiirrnt
but no further fact of importance elicited. Dr. Fox,
one of the surgeons of the Infirmary, had attended
the deceased.

Robert Johnson, a chimney-sweeper, stated,.that
on the day mentioned in the indictment, he had been
called in by the prisoner, Margaret Shipp, to stop
up a chimney. When he received ii s directions
both the prisoners were present. 'Mrs. S. said there
was a flue communicating with the parlour chimney
from an underground kitchen, which she wanted to
hav° stopped up, and sbe gave witness a piece of old
blanket for the purpose. Witness stopped up the
flue as desired, and asked the prisoners what they
wanted it done for, when they said that they had
lodgers in the house whom they wanted -to get rid
of. There was a great smoke issuing from the flue
when witness stopped it up. This was between
twelve and one o'clock in the day. shortly after-
wards witness was again sent for to come and open
the flue again. On arriving he found several per-
sons running down stairs. lie went down too,.and
found the room so full of smoke that it was impos-
sible to breathe in it. The deceased was lying
gasping for breath. The prisoners told him to run
and take out the blanket, which he did, at the same
time exclaiming " Good God, you have made me
kill the man I" Whilst witness was taking the
blanket from the hole the man died. The room in
which the deceased laid was a very small one. Both
the prisoners and the wife of the deceased were pre-
sent when he died.

Jane Ball, a very decent looking woman, the wife
of the deceased, deposed that she and her husband
had lodged in the prisoners' room a week previously
to his death. The prisoners knew that her hus-
band was suffering ui.der a dreadful asthma when
they took the lodgings. His breath was so short
that he was obliged to stop repeatedly when he
walked out, and on one occasion the female prisoner
had been obliged to lend him a chair to sit down in
after he had been out, before he could get down
stairs to his room. He had walked a considerable
way on the day before he died. On the morning on
which he died, the female prisoner cAme down into
their room, and gave them notice to quit. Witness
paid for their week's rent. and said that they would
remove as soon as ever her husband was capable of
getting up. The prisoner then took the key from
the door, saying that she would take good care nei-
ther of them should pass another night in her room.
Witness i.hen made a lire, and got the deceased his
breakfast, of which be partook heartily ; after which
she went out to get some one to come and sit with
him as he was too ill to get up. Ott opening the
door of their room when she returned, she found it

so full of smoke that she could hardly breathe; she
cried out, " Oh, my God, my poor husband is
smothered !" when, by a convulsive effort, le
clasped round her neck, hut in attempting. to drag
him out of the room, both fell backwards into the
smoke : th© deceased never spoke afterwards.- The
prisoners came down, and helped her to place her
husband on the bed. Witness had told prisoners
when she took the lodgings that her husband was
too ill to work : nothing was said about the notice
at the time.

The witness's examinatiou at the Council lloteze,
at the time the prisoners were committed, was here
put in anti read. In this site did not impute any
malice to them, but attributed her husband's death
partly to the circumstance of his having eaten more
heartily titan usual the day before, when lie had
dined at his brother's house.

After a severe cross-examination by Mr. SMITH,
in which no new fact of moment was elicited, the
Learned Counsel submitted to the Court that ;.here
was no evidence to prove a felonious intent. He
then called a number of witnesses to character.
The prisoners, in defence, said, that owing to the
poverty and iliness of the deceased and his wife, they
found that they would be very troublesome lodgers,
and had accordingly given them notice to quit the
day after they had taken the lodgings; and further,
that when they offered to send for a doctor to exa-
mine the deceased, his wife begged they would not
c(c_
oatsh.
o, ;he was convinced he had died a natural

The Jury retired for about half an hour, after %Oa
they returned with a vet diet of " Guilty of man-
slaughter against both the prisoners," hut recom-
mended them to mercy. Sentence--Twelvemonths'
imprisonment, arid hare labour.
The trial of this case occupied the Court for up-
wards of three hours, and excited the deepest in-
terest.

LoNnoN UNIVErtSITY.—There are said to
be upwal,k of 2,000 pupik in regular attendance at the
new University. Ultdival exceeds

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING.
NEWMARKET, TUESDAY NIGHT.

The list to-day turns out quite as unproductive as it did
yesterday, and our fear of a dull meeting promises to be
realized. The only interesting race wus the following.
Handicap Sweepstakes for all ogre. Ab.M.
Mr. Robert f. by Blacklock, 3 yrs
Lord Egremont's Stumps, 6 yrs
Lord Vernlam's Brocard, 4 yrs 0
Mr. Payne's Mufti, 3 yrs 0
Mr. Rogers's Medallist, 3 yrs
Mr. Thornhill's Bee-in-a-Bonnet, 3 yrs
Lord Orford's Vicar, 3 yrs
Won easy by two lengths. The following paid :
Mr. Irby's Toso, 4 yrs
Mr. Gully's Trample, 3 yrs
Lord Sefton's Pastime, 6 yrs
Mr. D. Radcliffe's Fleur de Lie, 6 yrs
Mr. Houldsworth's Flush, 3 yrs
Mr. Stonehewer's Kildare,' 3 yrs
Match for 200 sous. h. ft. D.M. Bst. 51b. each.
Lord Taviatock's Lepanto rec.
Mr. Payne's Johanna Southcote colt pd
The following races were decided on Monday after oar
account left :

Match for 50 sovs. Ab.M.
Mr. Wetherley's Tokay, Sst. 121 b.
Col. Wilson's g. c. by Young Gobanna, 7st. 10Ib.
2 to 1 on Tokay, who won easy by two lengths.
Handicap Plate of 100/. for four-yr-olds and upwards.

SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS.

The supplements to the Hamburgh papers of last
Saturday, received yesterday at the Baltic Coffee-

house, announce the fall of Varna. This important
intelligence is presented, on the above authority, in
the shape of a letter from before Varna itself, which
is dated on the 11th instant, and states, that on the

morning of the same day, the fortress had sur-
rendered at discretion. " Our army," says the
writer, "is now entering the place." The doubts
which, under different circumstances, might have
been entertained of the accuracy of this information,
cannot be reasonably indulged, since we have dis-
covered that the previous and positive assurances
given to the public by the German papers of the
retreat of the Russians with their whole army from
before Shumla to- Bazardjik, were absolutely void
of truth. Had Count Wittgenstein been forced so
far north of Varna as Bazardjik, and so early as on
the 15th ult., it is clear that the besieging army
under Count Woronzoff might, between that
period and the Ist instant, have been much em-
barrassed by strong detached corps from Hus-
sein Pacha, if not placed in imminent dan-
ger of being cut off. But the ascertained
falsehood of the first accounts confers a
prima fade probability on the pre:7cnt ; and
we see no cause, in the nature of the intelligence, or
in the date assigned to the surrender, for doubting.
the authenticity or correctness of the Verna letter.
Thus, then, have the Russians gained what they
must have felt great need of throughout their pre-
ceding operations,—a powerful support to the left
wing of thei:• army, in its further advances against
the Turkish capital. Varna will be to them a se-

cure depot for stores, magazines, and the mate-
riel of invasion. With this great fortress in their
hands, their army cannot be tamed during its attack
upon the Balkan, unless (what is difficult to con-
ceive) the Pachas of the north-western provinces
should be able to bring down a powerful force to
the neighbourhood of Shumla, keeping in check at

the same time the Russians on the Cower Danube.

This is the first time, we believe, that Varna has

been successfully besieged by a Russian army; nor
had Silistria and Giurgevo, which still hold out,
escaped in previous instances. The capture of these
important bridges over the Danube will now, of
course, be vigorously pushed ; and Russia, it she
seeks a continuance of the war, will be quail&
ed to commence a second campaign with .a more
perfect basis for her movements than she ever.
could boast of on any former occasion. It is
unquestionable that the Turks have shown great
bravery, and even considerable skill and enterprise,
in several actions of the eampaigs, which now seems
about to terminate so unfortunately.
.But they were
in every case except one, viz, the simultaneous at.
tacks on thie army before Shumla, which resulted in
the recovery of the post of Eski Stamboul--detached
and isolated conflicts, where military knowledge on
a large scale had no field for full exertion. In a
general battle we suppose that no army which the
Porte could muster would stand half a day before
80,000 Rnssians ;. and if the
,negociations of France
and England fail during the winter to bring about a
peace, -the forces of Nicholas will undoubtedly try
what can be done by numbers as well as discipline,
in the open country of Romelia, before the end of
next April. How other countries are likely to lie
affected by this new change in the relations of the
belligerents is a serious questiOn;and may prove
difficult as well as painful in the solution. Accord,
ing to the known sentiments of the military Prime
Minister here, any decided superiority gained by
Russia over Turkey, so as to alter the great
landmarks and boundaries of the. Ottoman em-
pire, will be a circumstance which Europe can
by no means " look at with indifference."--
It is not, therefore, too ranch to assume, that if the
Duke of Wellington be a consistent per: on, his
Grace is comprehended in that same Europe which
will not look with indifference a. such successes
over the Turks as may lend to any further territorial
aggrandizement of their powerful enemy. Nor is it
probable that France would look on and leave Russia
unmolested mistress of this game of empire. There
is no reason to disbelieve the daily representations
front' Paris, that the spirit of the French people has
undergone a certain change since the campaign be-
tween Russia And Turkey opened,--,a change which
leads them to meditate Greece less exclusively, and
Russia with more active jealousy, than at the outset
of the war. The success of iitissis, therefore, if
carried far,—and it has been conshlerable au-an-Ist
Asiatic Turkey,—tends to approximate the policy of
France and England : if there have been diGrences
between these two Governments, to compose them ;
and if not, to strengthen their spirit of harmony and
cooperation. Of the details of those military.oe-
eurrences which must have preceded the capitulation
of Varna, and produced it, the short account through
Hamburgh leaves us in entire ignorance. They will
soon, we take it for granted, be supplied by a Russian
bulletin, and other communications from Turkey.—
Times.

We know not whether the Duke of Wellington
still thinks a County Meeting afarce; but he must
be satisfied that a County Meeting may give ri.,e to
many a farce. Our Contemporary of the Courier
talks it in good heroics :—" Why ((midi he) should
Somerset be silent ? If it cannot boast a Knatclt-
hull, it may be proud of a Lethbridge. Why
should Devon be dumb ? If it can look for no help
from its Representative, it can ut least afford him a
hint. Why should Dorset be backward It has tr
Bankes in its service. Why should Gloucester be
unheard ? It hits a Beaufort to speak in its name."
NtSVElruica;de).De`
Cornwall, and Dorset, and the rest doing:" says
another
er whyco
nrtleoltu
pi
(1)1:.Ii indeed
to Heaven, that they hall a Winchelsea in each to
Devon,
rouse them." Kent has a Knatchbull and a Win-
chelsea, and the heroes elsewhere are few and far
between. Winchelsea is one of those few great
men who gains golden opinions from all sorts of nett.
Mr. Cobbett seems to have been quite carried away
with his appearance and deMeanour. " His argu-
ments," he says, " were not all Satisfactory, to be
sure, but his demeanour was the best that can pos-
sibly be conceived ; his person tall mid stout,
hia
voice good, his manner unaffected." This is the
very man for a popular idol. The Protestant
religion will not, indeed, have_ portly
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representative in Dorset,
mitt then Air. bbett, tyho
says he gave Lord Winchelsea tlletrvre
jtory,', could
throw his protecting shield also °araies ;
for after Lord Winchelsea, anti It;
_3Bankes, and
Sir Thomas Lethbridge to preserve the Prott sthut
Constitution intact, they will of course be ready to
assist him in putting an end to rotten boroughs,
and tithes, and sinecures. It tvill be amusing to
see Sir Thomas Lethbridge backed by his old anta-
gonist, Mr. Hunt, and by Mr. Cobbett. The
Church surely is no longer in danger ! The
lug Journal takes a very' odd way of impressint). via
with a high idea of the polititld wisdom of the
Sages, who went through their exercise so dex-
terously at Penenden Heath :—" Mir Sheil (we are
told) came to vindicate the Catholic Religion
agamst
its assailants. But what did the- people of Kent
impute to the Catholics 1 They detest the Catho-
lic religion, they detest the Catholic patriots, they
hate Irish rebels and Popish njests, and they only
demand, that against the ma;:hinations of these in-.
eendiares the British Constitution, fc:; established
1688, shall he protected. They know nothing
(f---th.ev care nothing for Ireland. They only
look to- their own rights and their own interests
in this matter. They' only seek the maintenance
of their own principle-, and the ascendancy of
that religion for which .tbeir fr..:l-iers. shed their
blood." We have no doubt that this ;F.; a very
correct exposition of the views of the most of
those who sincerely oppose Emancipation. " They
know nothing of, they care nothing for Ireland," but
they must have a Protestant Ascendancy, whatever
be the cons,cpence. They detest the Catholic Re-
ligion, and care nothit4. for Ireland; sufficient rea-
sons, no doubt, for I;azard'ng the consequences
which must follow from the refusal of Emanclpatien.
They care nothing for Ireland So the Govern.