The Sun.
London, England, 1826-10-03 00:00:00

WRESTLING.

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At an, early hour yesterday morning, the admirers of this ath-
letic exercise began to assemble at the Gardens of the Eagle Ta-
vern, City Itoad, to witness the play of the hardy sons of Cornwall
and Devon. The wrestling was confined to the mechanics residing
in London ; the great ones, such as Cann and Warren, being ex-
cluded. Middleton, the best Devonshire man in Loudon, was
on the ground. Pardew and Glanville, the first and second Cor-
nish 'Dien, were also present, to contest the honour of the prize.
Young Cann, cousin of the great -Mirabelli Cann, a little fellow
about five feet, and of high reputation in his own country, was
also present, to represent the prowess of his renowned relative.
The -conditions of the Devonshire play were, that each man
should throw two men, or throw one man and hold out against
two others eight minutes each, to be entitled to double play. The
DrOonshire men played in shoes, and had their legs strongly ban-
daged, to prevent the effects of kicking. At half-past eleven the
play commenced.

I. Frewina, a new man, and Pyle, both Devonshire, first entered
the ring. The two men laid hold of each other's jackets,: and
kept kicking each other's legs for a considerable time, when .Frewins
cams down on his chest, but instantly sprang up, and was shortly
after tripped up again and came down on one shoulder; .they then
took hold again, and resumed their kicking system, and, after
struggling for eight minutes, neither was thrown. • Frewins was
much the strongest man, and was reputed to be a first-rate plater,
but the result of this match did not confirm his reputation. Frewins,
according to the rules of the Devonshire play, threw his hat 101 l
the ring, and his challenge was accepted by Middleton. The men
were nearly equal in point of weight; there was less kicking and
more struggling flr the fall than in the last match, and both men
came down repeatedly on their chest. A very revere struggle at
length- ensued, and Frewins was thrown very heavily on his left
shoulder, and Middleton upon him. "When Frewins got up, he
staggered like a drunken man, and appeared very much hurt.
After a short rest, they went to it again, hut at the expiration of
eight minutes, Frewins was not thrown.

2. Cornwall.—Pardew and Chapman ; the latter was throivrt,
when Brown entered to oppose Pardew, who being much the
strongest man threw Brown several falls, but none. of them were
fair back fags, and they were both timed out. This result made
Pardew first double player •on the side of Cornwall, having
thrown one man, and held out with another.

3. Devon.—Burnott, who before held out with Pyle, again
entered the ring, and wad opposed by Conybeare, whom he soon
threw, and was then oppesed in his career to double play by
Thomas Cann, a cousin of the Devon Champion ; both were
timed out without a fall. This added Burnett to the hat of
double players on the Devon side.

4. Cornwall.---Stephens and French : Stephens was thriEWO.
when Glanville entered to oppose French, and quickly threw
him. Glanville is the person who got the third prize at the last
wrestling, an excellent player, and iernarlable for having the
two middle' Angers of each baud closely webbed tagethet. He
was then opposed by lasses, who held out time with him. This
made Granville second on the list of double players, having
thrown French, and held out pith Isaacs ten minutes.
5. Devon.—Scott and Watery timed each other out. Waters
retiring, made room for Howard, who also timed it out with
Scott. T. Calm then entered again to oppose Howird, whom ho
threw, as he also did Croote, the next man that entered, being the
first who had thrown two men. This made T. Canu the third
double player on the Devon side.

6. Cornwall.—Brown re-entered and threw Williams, which
made him third double player on the C,ornisli side,tutving before
held out with Pardew.
The remainder of the evening was occupied in., single play,
which, although excellent, afforded nothing worth detailing, ex-
rcpt that of adding to the number Of double players for to-
11101TOW, when the sport will be renewed at ten o'clinit for the
last time this season, and the merits of the men be derided by the,
prizes they will then be entitled to receive. The number of
double players made up hut night wave five for Devon, and five
fur Cornwall.

FIELD SPORTS FOR OCTOBER.
• (From the Anna, qf Sporting.)
This is the month when every sportsman who is blesse4 with
health and competence may find exercise for his skill, ;,ad em-
ployment for his activity; 'for almost all those field
which constitute his delights are to be considered in season. Sep-
tember brought to him partridge.shooting, coursing, and the har-
riers; and now October grants the pursuit of that beautiful bird,
the pheasant, and will soon summon to the'stilt more glorious chase
of the fox. it has been, however, stated, and good authorities
have warranted the practice, that this noblest of field sports
might be followed even in September, but, in our opinion, the lat-
ter part of the present month is quite early enough fur the . in-
spiring diversion ; for, in the first place, no horses could, for
any length of time, and with the scent breast high, as it probably
would be, maintain themselves in such sultry and oppressive heat
as we frequently meet with, and have, up almost to this period,
met with in the month which has just closed upon us. Foxes,
without doubt, may be found in abundance in some counties,
and the scent would be well, but it may be taken as a good rule,
that hound, and huntsman, and hunter will all go the better, and
live out a long day stouter, a week or two hence, when cooler
breezes blow, and

" Gentle birds do perch aloof,
And smooth their pinions on the roof,"
preparatory to bidding our chilly elimate fare Well, fur, to them,
more genial atmospheres. Till Noeirnber, therefiwe, we shall
cease to think very intensely of foxes and fox-hunting.
Pheasants, from the extraordinary fine summer season, from
which we are now departing, will be found of good size, and
hence they will be fairly the objects of the (miler's occupation,
though, in a general point of view, we are inelined to ape* with
many, who have expressed their opinions upon the sub3ect, that
the first of October is somewhat too early a day to commence this
crusade of dog and gun against them. Of the breed, however,
end the success of the shouter against these beautiful birds, we shall
more appropriately dilate in our next.

Partridges have been found in great number*, at least so in
those parts which we visited in September, and we have been
both north and west : but they were very wild, and very strong
upon the wing; at the same time, the greater number of those
bagged proved remarkably fine birds. We have, at this moment,
(thanks to out correspondent " W. T.), two braces of as fine
young birds arrived from the " Gloucester coach-office" as we
ever saw, and he informs us that they may be taken as a sample
of the general quality of the breed iu his part of the world. The
same friend informs us that the harriers, and which he has been
used to join, were out early in September, and had some very fair
runs, generally ending in death. By this time hare-hunting will
he coining general, as also will coursing, which, from 411 we I:
gather, is likely to be followed even more Ordentli' and to
comit WWI in the last eta-
e more i' the sun of public favour, than
~ we
shall betson. Of the great matches, at present on the - i
prepared to speak, as also to furnish fall details the
im-
portant meetings of the year.

_ •
• At the beginning generally, but often at the latter end of
'toter, aonie summer birds of pasisgat of which the 'wallow is
the first, take their departure tin Warner regions, though these
birds have ken %,eu, in Milli weather, to congregate, pe,,eitamy
to their emigration so late as December. On the other Laud,
the throstle,
the re:l-wing, and the field-fare, which left us in
M arch, now return; and thering-owsel arrives front the Welsh
and Scottish "Ups, to winter in mote sheltered situations.

lIAY RIAIIKET
(At per Load
ST. JA
Loxylforot 3readutv .' tot
Ditto
jilve.graw. flay . ... 4 5 6 5
Plctv sleadow )
Napplytiood, titute dull, in

DAV. )
Drsa'rrusaem.)
Clover Hay ......... !, to 8 6
Ont Straw ................ I i 10
Wheat Ditto ............ 1 .111 10
ad prices as on Saturday.

SMITHFIELD.
T.tsv land meAdow IlayX3 oto t 0 Clover Hay really .f 4 10 to 0 0
Upland D
Rye-are Hay
as
)4,,,,,140,,d0vr Hay 315 415 Wheat Ditto . ... 110 11g
Supply moderately good, and trade very dull at the prices last quoted,.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS,

The Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench
appears to have treated the case of Mr, Atchdall as
that Court is in the habit, we believe, of dealing with
all cases in which the charge nude appears to it to be
groundless. If a man is arrested for a debt which he
does not appear to owe, the. Court, or any one of the
Judges, at Chambers, will order him to be discharged
upon what is called common, or nominal; bail ; or if a
man is accused of an offence, of which, either by
affidavits or otherwise, he can show himself most pro-
bably to be innocent, a Judge will, as in this case, or
der his discharge upon his own recognizance. This
authority provides a very wholesome check over the
power, as well as the mistakes and Dais-judgments of
sliagistrates, and, as it is uniformly exercised in favour
of the liberty of the subject, calls for the. support of
all who know how often those mistakes occur, and
who consider what a frightful oppression would often
he inflicted were there no such poWer as this to re-
strain its abuse. Besides, there are many cases where
it is fit .that this iMportant discretion should be lodged
in wiser heads than those which are placed upon the
shoulders of mere Justices of the Peace. In many
cases •of logs of life, to which the law of necessity
looks with Mote than ordinary anxiety and caution, it
is often of great consequence, both to parties accused,
and to the cause of public justice, that the proceed-
ings of IVlegistrates should be controulled by the wis,
dont Of those who can look calmly and dispassionately
at a case, uninfluenced by, the temporary feelings and
circumstances by which it is often at first surrounded.
it cannot be denied, however, that the power in ques-
tion may, and doubtless does, in some few instances,
degenerate into abuse, and defeat the very object it
has in vise.. The Judge, by seeing the evidence only
in the shape. of depositions,. loses the advantage of
judging of the tone, the temper, and manner of those
who give it, and is open to be influenced by affidavits
on the opposite side ; in which often zeal, and some-
times design, supplies, as facts, circumstances which
have no existence, or gives a colour to others which,
rightly viewed, they will not bear. We know of no
Accusations which require more caution than such as
those of which' the person here alluded to has been
charged. The facility with which such charges are
made, the ,difficulty with which they are rebutted, and
the strong and almost laudable prejudices which they
excite, are all circumstances which tiniformly throw
great difficulty and doubt about theM, and are reasons
why the accused should have every protection which
calm, deliberate wisdom, can afford. Instead, there-
fore, of finding fault, as some persons have done, with
the course which haS been taken upon this occasion,
it is fair to presume that it has been the result of a
staid and sober judgment, and as furnishing a striking
instance of that security
.and protection which the
Judges of this supreme criminal Court or the king-
dom furnish against time errors and mistakes of those
who are too often. what they are, because they are fit
for nothing else. But should it, on the other hand,
turn out to he the case, as some of the papers inti-
mates but which cannot persuade ourselves to be-
lieve, that there has been any trick in the proceeding,
or that time .fridge has been imposed upon, then we must
admit that the genera! observationmi we have been trik.,,;.
ing.will,not be at all applicable to this particular cane
which, if that he so, will, we trust, be probed to the
bottom in 'A its bearings. The prosecutor, at all
events, seeins to have been no party to what has taken
place. He will therefore, of cowrie, follow up, this
matter, and prefer his bill at the Westminster Sessions,
which commence on the 19th inst. Should this
charge be entertained by the Grand:jury, and time ac-
cused be forthcoming to answer time indictment, all will
be well ; but should .it turn out otherwise, it is not
improbable that it will be one of the first subjects
wind) will come before the new Parliament, which
will, among other things, have to appoint a Standing
Committee, to which such subjects necessarily' he-
long.—Morning 'Hernia.
. .
Mei) Buonaparte described ris as " a nation of
shop-keepess," some silly people took it as a great
affront, while the majority, with mil better reason,
saw in the sarcaso an unwilling compliment and Ito,.
mage to our commatial greatness. Had he lived to
witness, the two last years of our national history, and
had described us iii «a nation of swindlers," ingenuity
would have been somewhat taxed to evade and stave
off' the apparent truth and keenness of the censure. it
is hard, irideed, that a whole nation should stiffer for
the. faults and cupidity of the ; but it would be
impossible, we dmink, for any, solier-minded marl to
view the list we published of the various Babble
Frauds which have arisen during that tint° (imperfect
as it'neeessasily was), -and to view the immense soma
Mit of Which people have been plundered by means of
them, and.not admit that our national eharacter roust
have seriously suffered in the eyes of all calm and rea-
sonable lookers-on upon the occasion. ,Every day is
mare
,ansl more developing the craft and, time licartlese-
ness;*ithobich the system of phinder has been
tied on ; and the titmice of persons hitherto respect-
able in the connslercial world are continually coming
forth tarred amid feathered in all the disgrace which
necessarily belongs to the miserable state of' uncer-
tainty, which poison tosa's character between the 1111..
enviable alternative a krutve or fool. There are persons
who :Tort as a favourite. theory, that all mankind are
More or less insane ; and the adoption of this theory
is, perhaps, the most charitable way of accounting for
the figure in which many p'eramis hitherto accounted
honest have distinguished themselves upon this occa-
sion. 'There has, however, been too ranch method in
the madness of most of therm, to admit even of this
excuse. A man who wildly lissipates his ownpro-
perty without any prospect, of an adequate return, may
be a subject for Bethlem ; but those who 1110/0 been
making ticks and drakes of the property of others, '
themselves, and who have
for the, purpose of enriching
flinched from investigation, are fitter subjects for iron
risfilem thine for strait waistcoats. :chey may wish to
be shouslit mad, but mankind will be more apt to
think :hem. rogues.—Aid .
Our readers may remember
a report of a ease at the
Middlesex Oessiows about a year ago, according .to
which Mr. ChCl I _es requested a verdict against
* • wed from the heavy fees
his client, that be pug ie sa
tal Yesterday, a case of' the same
payable on an acquit . p 41111
S f ions. A I. eft'
description occurred at the same essf
entmant, and sub-
having succeeded in convicting a de
jecting him to a fine of 13s. was called upon to
pay the customary fees, twelve shillings for the Jury,
and five shillings for the Crier. He aillealed to the
Chairman, :who told him, for leis consolation, that mn
might be astaitied for non-payment, but that if the
demand was not, correct, --he might indict the officer
for extortion: The Chairman told him, moreover,
that. if, instead of coming into that Court, he had
staid at home, he wiauld have saved his time, and
avoided the demand." If the defendant had been ac-
quitted, he would have been wont, off than he was
under the verdict of conviction, This gives an odd

idea of English justice. The Chairman, it would
appear, thought that this was 'all right, and he only
wished that the plaintiff would :make the expence it
had cast him as public as possible, to deter persons
from bringing trumpery prosecutions. But may, not
another consequence result from the publicity of such
a way of doing justice ? The same circumstances
which may deter persons from proSecuting, may en-
courage other persona to,give annoyance to their fel-
low-citizens. In this case, ,be it remarked, the evil
is not impunity, but the punishment of the injured
party. 1 The latter retires ..from the Court with . the
laugh against him : the defendant, on the other hand,
has the satiafietion of haVing hot 'merely Annoyed his
opponent, but added to the annoyance, by punishing
him in .Court. And yet, absurd as the above and
many other parts of our judicial procedure appear, we
have seen, from what has been the consequence of
several recent changes, that the remedy is often almost
as bad as the disease. For instance, the payment of
charges to proseeutors and witnesses has entailed a
taxation on the country, under the name of county
rates, of a most appalling magnitude. But the great
vice of English Legislation is this endless tinkering.
Intent only on remedying an inconvenience, we: often
see a greater inconvenience produced by the remedy.
Our way of going to work serves only, us Lord Bacon
observed, to render the provisions of the law, " com-
plicated and perplexed ; it provides a remedy for 'the
case which presses; but violates the general body of
the law.".--Moiwing chronicle.
From 1773 to 1815; a period of 42 years, England en-
joyed the practical benefit of a free trade in corn. Before
the former of 'the above years, she had been for the most
part an exporting country, with a scanty population in pro-
portion to the fertility of Iser. soil. After 1773 a dirty of
24,5. 3d. per quarter was imposed on foreign wheat im-
ported, so long as the price in the British market remained
under 445. When the article reached 445., but did not
exceed 48s.' a low duty of 2s. 6d. was made payable;
and when the quarter of wheat rose to 485., that duty of
2s. (id., moderate though it may have been, was reduced
to 6d. only. The low duties always remaining the same,
the conditions under which they became chargeable -were
successively varied. In 1791, the duty of 244. ad. attach-
ed until wheat rose to 501., and 2s. 6d. was then payable
until the 'quarter reached Ms. In 1804, SOs. was set
aside for 60s;, and Ms. for 635.; but as wheat was al-
Most invariably at a price which brought the two,
lower rates of duty into operation; the country, as we
set out with observing, enjoyed a free trade in corn.—
These statements are drawn from Mr. Whitmore's pam-
phlet, recently published; on the corn question, in the shape
of a Letter to the Electors of Bridgenorth. It is a clear
and able production, giving, not merely the substance of
the recognized argument against the continuance of these
pernicious corn-laws, but adding many sound and forcible
reflections on the part of the author, and administering, in
our judgment, a valuable accession of good sense and
knowledge to the common stock of, intelligence on a sub-
ject which will one day, we trust, be decided on grounds
not wholly suggested by intemperance or gratuitous
alarm with respect to their influence on the landlords of
England. The pithy view of the prohibitory corn laws is,
that they were, in 1815, an innovation upon the old policy
of England; that the forty-two years preceding their en-
actment, were those in which the commercial and agricul-
tural interests advanced and flourished more conspicuously
thrum at any period before or since; and that if the time
were to be named during which our " landed interest"
hams, suffered more severe vicissitudes, and been rucked by
more terrible chastisements then ever, it would lam
.that wherein the same landed interest hums experienced
whatever protection was to he found in a smeremptory ex-
clusion of. foreign corn. Thin, we repeat,is a summary of
the whole argument, so far es the advocates of the prohi-
bitory system, whether from a dislike of innovation, or
from selfish anxiety, are concerned-1. That the prohibi-
tion is of modern date—just 11 years' standing, andno
more. 2. That those 11 years have been . the most dis-
astrous that ever occurred to the landed gentlemen of
England. Had the fact been otherwise, it would indeed
have made no difference in our estimate of this .important
queition, because time welfare of the landlords, could it be
possible to separate it altogether from that of the nation at
,large, would not deserve to be considered even a momen-
tart obstacle to a measure called for by the necessities of
so many millions. We quote from Mr. Whitmore the
following passage, because it seem to contain a strong
general foundation for the most decisive body of reasoning
which time subject of the Corn Laws admits
It is thus clear, that time present system, Which consists of
prohibition to impnrt foreign corn, except at prices rarely obtained,
and which may, in truth, be considered as those of scarcity, is an
innovation upon the Fortner system of our corn law.. It remains
to be seen bow far this innovation is or, is not a beneficial One.—
But first let us pause, and consider whether there ever was a pe-
riod in the history of this or any other country exhibiting a
greater degree of prosperity than Great Britain enjoyed during 42
years I have mentioned. When has capital so increased ?—when
have manufact UM so Inuit i plied ?.---when has a revenue, and a
revenue, too, paid with equal ease tp the people, been so aug-
mented?—when have tt midis of art, roads, bridges, canals, har-
bours, been constructed With equal facility ?--wlien iats military
glory and polifieal aseendancy beeit carried to so high a pitch?*
maul when, (and that is 114 rhapS the main point in the present in-
ttiry,) when has agriculture flourished to a similar extent? Look
at the wastes enclesed—at the draining 4:e:tett—consider the vast
improvements which have Wien, place in husbandry, and calculate
the prodigious augmentation areas, and then say whether or not this
was a period of great and national prosperity. 1 wish not to carry'
my argument too far, snit I will admit that an impedituent to im-
pert corn arose in the later years of the late war, from its extent
and its peculiar features, 1 will admit, that this, and time vast.
'atiops of the etirreney, will explain, in some measure, the high
price of agricultural produce, and the eousequent high rents: but,
making every deduction on these hearts, I urn clearly of opinion
that the period I have named was tine of great agricultural pros-
perity, and this prosperity was in no measure owing to the laws
respecting the admission of foreign corn : it sprung from that
source from whew* alone real agrieuitural prosperity tau spring,
nudely, the healthy and prosperous state of the other interests of
time countryss-from increasing capital and augmenting population.
But it is time to consider the effects of the present laW. Time
principle of time law passed its 1915 was, that alt intercourse with
foreign countries in grain should cease, unless the 'prices rose, so
high as to evince the necessity of foreign supply ; that the trade
in corn should riot be, as it had been heretofore, the rule, hut the
exception ; that the home demand shoold, except in extraordinary
cases, be. supplied by the Immune produce. 1Now„ this it had been.
found (torrid only be accomplished by the existence of high prices ;
and, notwithatareling the parade of patriotism then put forth by
time advocates of this system, it was obvious that high prices and
high rents were the objects sought to be obtained by this law.
NeVer, perhaps, in an enlightened country, was an order of
things established more at variance with common seas and sound
Policy than the one introduced by this law. It established a TOO.
nopoly, but,faihal in producing that essential ingredient of all num-
uolmbem, u limitation of quantity of the article monopolised,.-.-an
ntniasion which would be etterly destructive of any monopoly, but
"Molt, as I shall endeavour to show, was pre-eminently absurd
and eliel irs, in the canuneree of gain. Practical men. will surely
allow necessity of such liMitation. The object Of monopoly is
to raise time price of a given article beyond the rate at which it
would he sold without it. Pricer hOwever, is regulated by the
demand rind time supply. It is obvious that, in order to realize
yito4yrottle,ett,wyleartwuvuotisit not allow the supply to exceed
. time demand ;
meat. rie„
14,4
feialr.l pass will he effectual for its eeeomplish-
°radical men eanneot,"
al y, it has been proved, that a very
trifling excess of th over the demand will effect it. I.say
i)ropositio,
04 ;secede to the truth of this obvious
chants destroyed► wr it it atiways acted upon. The Dutch mer-
chants of the spices grown in the Eastern
Archipelago, in ortleil
the
11,1:10undooliv its
t'llete'atidsvhannitaolgigeeorsf
of the same course. At the
period of agricultural. (lista% in 182.1 r
1822, a proposition
was made at (me' of time county meedo 1)
113 held generally at that
period, destroy,
in some way or other, a portion the surplus
produce then in the farmers' hands.
to
1 utve no see aollection how
and I cannot be suppostd
an'isaiwivlaptreolfregod teilrgbuetreripriotieetriuljg ; .but I have no hesitation
in aayino, that if it had been possible, it was a more sensible pro-

position than thole commonly 'locipted at such meetings:--more
sensible, at least, if the monopoly system was to be preserved. if
I were an advocate for its continuance, I should be most anxious-
to see a burning clause added to' the lair, that should consign to
the flames the exteas, when the supply exceeded the demand, be.
cause in that way only can I seethe possibility of the object being
attained. The distress of the period I have alluded to *is, if not,
produced, fearfully' aggravated by the system eatablished,by that
law; and if it be allowed to continue in existence, it is, ithink,
obvious, we OA again, at.no distant period, rbe exposed to
lar calamity. The state doctors have, in truth, thrown their pa,:
tient, the agriculturist, into a state much resembling an ague, sub-
ject
to hot and cold fits, and, in mockery, they miscall it protec-
tion,--4 fatal misnomer, which, carrying With it, as it does, the
force of an argument, has done more mischief to 'the world than
any other single word ever usel Protection forsooth ! can that
be protection which strips the industrious farmer of hie.hard.:earned
capital? can that. be protection which exposes the mass of the
people to famine? can that be a beneficial system which de-
ranges the trade of the whole world, and exposes to hazard
the wealth, the poWer, the importance in the scale of nations of
this, with all its faults, the most virtuous and the most blessed of
any country in existence? But I have said this abortive attempt
at monopoly is more injurious in the corn trade than in any other.
It is so, bemuse corn is in itself in a great measure the regulator
of its own cast; a high price of corn leads to high rents, high
tithes, high rate of labour, high poor-rates; it demands more ca-
pital' to stock a farm. All the various charges incurred by the
farmer are, as all farmers know, augmented by the price of corn
continuing high for a period of two or three consecutive years.—
This extra expence has been incurred previous to the fall in price
occurring consequent upon an abundant harvest ; it cannot be
checked at once, and even if it could, there is nothing wherewith
to indemnify the farmer for tie money already expended in pro-
dueing his crops. He calculated upon 'a continuance of high
'price ; his agreements of various kinds were contingent upon it—
they are binding upon him, though the data upon which he en-
tered into them ore totally changed. The consequence of which
is, that one season of agricultural distress sweeps off num-
bers of the poorer farmers, and that if it continue beyond
that period, as it most commonly does when it once
begins, the whole farming body feels it most severely. It
cannot be too often repeated, that great fluctuations in price
are injurious to no interest more than to the agricultural.
A Monopoly iu any other article, if it fail, is pmduOtive of in-
jury to the persons engaged in its production; but they have the
power of cor.trol ; they can cease to produce until the excess is
worked off; nor does the high or low price of the produce affect,
as in the' case of the farmer, the pricy of labour and the other
charges incident to such production. If a manufacturer of cloth
or hats imam a monopoly of any given markets, and that, owing
either to competition or false calculation, the market is overstocked,
all he has to do is to limit his manufacture until the excess is
worked off, and prices Lave attained their former level. But the
farmer cannot do this, or at least he cannot do it with any thing
like the same facility; his produce depends upon seasons, over
which holm no control ; his capital must be employed ; it con-
sists in part of live stock, which must tie fed whether they 'end to
further production or not. Ile has engagements to meet, which
necessitate a produce, however low it may be soltl, and the first ef-
. feet a change from low to high price, is a greater and not a lessened
growth of grain. It is iu thii way the poer farmer tries to meet
his engagements, be finds himself on the brink of ruin, he disre-
gards the common maxims of prudence, and ho breaks throng's all
his covenants to save himself and his family from being precipi-
tated from the respectable.'station of an English farmer into the
class below him, if not into the abject condition of a pauper."

Yet urn we .Wrong, perhaps, in troubling 'our readers
and filling our coluMns with reasonings on this vital sub-
ject, since, while we write, it may have, been already
settled, that in the approaching conflict on the corn laws,
Ministers shall adopt ..a course more characteristic of the
ascendancy of sordid and selfish passions over little minds,
than of the sensibility of an enlightened and patriotic spi-
rit to the claims of 'justice and political manhood. It is
rumoured that the Government of this country will be
actually base enough to shirk the corn question—even as,
from equally discreditable • motives, they have skulked
from another great public question—the dread of losing
their places: 'The corn question is not, as the report says,
to he made a Ministerial question I , We live in degrad-
litletit:festioe
itril'illixe
wafeethiesr past when Mrienioste,rhwt 11:0 claw-
tarried for, the good of the country, avid of staldeg his
office on the truth or error of his policy. The old lan-
guage of a British Minister was, " I 'feel this mea-
sure to be right, and I will carry it or resign." The
language.of a modern _statesman is marvellously opposite:.
—" I am in a comfortable office ; I will let the Parliament
rule the kingdom as it likes; but for my part I will keep
my office." This vi:tual abdication of the duties of Go-
vernment, this. conversion of an effective employment into
a sinecure, this transfer of responsibility, and retention of
patronage and
profit, are unworthy. of beings in the form
of man. • Not make a. great question a ministerial question ;
Why, if the influence of the Crown be the real power by
which the business of the' State is known to be carried on,
it becomes the bounden duty of Ministers to make every
question a " ministerial question." There must be a right
and wrong upon such matters as Emancipation and the
Corn Laws. If a Cabinet be not capable of discriminating
between them, it is imbecile and utterly contemptible.
—lf, seeing where the truth lies, a Cabinet Minis-
ter fails to enforce it, from ie fear of compro-
mising his own vile place, he is, morally speaking,
impeachable, and ought to be capitally punished. But,
long as these' men have held their offices, they live, as one
may term it, from hand to mouth . iere -is no fund of
forecast or science among them. Whey the sky lowers,
they trust to Providence to navigate the vessel, and to
bring her, as well us her lubberly crew, into harbour; but
regularly, when there is any danger near, they lash the rud-
der and drift before the wind. One leading Minister, we
have been informed, never thought gravely- about admit-
ting foreign corn within these few weeks, until ten minutes
before he signed the order in Councilto, sanction it. Now,
We take-for granted, that. his Lordship will let the landed
interest govern both the . Empire and the Government, by
suffering the landlords to do what they please with. the
Corn Bill,—s, degree of indulgence quite as reasonable as
it would be to allow a band of refractory weavers to make
what laws in their wisdom and virtue they might think
'proper, for the destruction of power looms, a minimum
rate of journeymen's wages, and a maximum price of corn,
"reef, and beer.—Times. , ,

I .
at all be mule to the presence of the officer, who hold been ap-
pointed by the Lord Mayor for the purpose of preventing any
breath &the peace. After his Lordship should bind over the
parties; an indictment would he preferred against every one of
them. Mr. Alley rejoiced to see his learned friend, Mr. Adolphus,
engaged upon this occasion, as if theirtwo clients were pitted
against each other, the case probably would not come ton speedy
and amicable a termination.—(A laugh.)
Mr. Adolphus was of opinion that his learned friend had gal-
loped a great deal too fast in his 'statement of what had taken
place. There was no evidence whatever, he was assured, of riot,
Mr. Wilks had no right to file affidavits at the Justice-room. In
a case of this kind, be was hound to produce evidence, and not to
come forward with affidavits. The fact was, from all that he bad
heard, he was justified in calling the entry a peaceable entry, and
not a violent or forcible one. With respect to the application of
Mr. Wilks to have Mr. Verbeke's servant turned out of the house,
the Lord Mayor had no such power.
The Loan Mason—sli the violent possession of the premises be
illegal and improper, surely the person holding possession, under
such' circumstances, can be removed.
Mr. Adolphus—Ay, after a decision to that effect by a jury.
Mr. Alley—The man is certainly not justified in remaining in
possession. All we require is, that he do quit the house, and that
those gentlemen do find bail to answer at the sessions.
Mr. Adolphus Indeed he will not quit the house. We have
got an agreement in our possession, signed by Mr. Wilke, in which
he admits the propriety of keeping the officer iu the house, for the
sake of securing the public peace.
Mr. Alley said, that that stipulation had been made upon a cer-
tain condition, which had never been performed. Mr. Wilke was
not at all disposed to attain reparation by violence. He wished
that every thing should be done in a quiet and peaceable man-
ner. With respect to the production of the affitlavits,'he allowed
that they ought not to be admitted under' circumstances of this
descriptions
Mr. Nobler said, that in taking notes of what had occurred on
a former day, he bad never once thought of referring to the affida-
vits which had been produced.
The Loan MAYOR—I mentioned before, upon hearing the
charges, that I considered that a violent possession had been taken,
which could not be defended in a court of justice, and that a riot
had taken place. .
Mr. Adolphus--if your Lordship thinks so, thedefenelant must
enter into recognizances to appear at the sessions; but you cannot
interfere with the man who is in possession.
1 Mr.. Alley—All I want is, that the Lord Mayor will recommend
1 to the man to leave the premises quietly.
The I onn AIATOR said, that he could not take upon him-
self to interfere. The presence of that man involved a ques•
Lion of law with which a magistrate would not be justified in
interfering.
Mr. Adolphus—For God's sake, Mr. Alley, don't say anything
more about Mr. Wilks's quiet and peaceable demeanour. I don't
wish to say any thing about that disposition to peace and quietness
which you ascribe to your client, for I wish to act upon Tristram
Shandy's principle. In my journey through life, I would not
hurt the hair even of a jackass on the road.—(Laughter.) .
Mr. Alley—l have no acquaintance with Mr. Wilke; I have
had no communication with him until this day ; and when I spoke
of him, I spoke from my impression of his manner in addressing
me, and certainly he showed a great disposition to quietness.
Mr. Adolphus—Oh I dare say he did—to you.—(Laughter.)
The Loan MAYOR—The conduct of Mr. Verbeke appeais to
me to have been calculated to do great public mischief. Whatever
may be his right in the case, he has taken means of possessing him-
self of the right in a way that may be turned to very bad puts.
poses. It is my opinion certainly, that he, and those who ac-
companied bins to Mr. Wilka's house, must find bail.
Mr. Alley—l am glad that my learned friend and I have been
employed on this occasion. It has been one good effect of that
arrangement that we have got. through this business without tra-
velling into partnership accounts, or meddling with any other
question. . .
Mr. Adolphus—Yes ; and we have our names in the newspapers
too. This plan of getting business before the public, is what per-
sons ought to avail themselves of, for the purpose of saving elec-
tion expences.
The Loan Mevon then directed Mr. Verbeke, his brother,
Mr. Corrie, and one. or two others who assisted those gentlemen
in getting possession of Mr. Wilke's house, to attend next day
with securities.
A friend of Mr. Wilke s---'There is Dr. Mitchell ; he is to find
bail as well as the rest ; he was amongst the rioters.
Mr. Alley—Certainly the doctor must find bail too.
Mr. Verbeke—Dr. Mitchell ! There is not a tittle of evidence
against him ; why would you include him ?
Dr. Mitchell—No; I was not in the house at all ; I trust that
you will not put me to expencelor nothing. There is no pretence
for saying that I was present.
Mr. Wilke, sen. (uncle to the complainant).--The doctor cer-
tainly assisted in the riot, although he was not in the house.
Mr. Alley—Yes ; it appears that Dr. Mitchell banded in a
sword to Mrs Verbeke's party. That was very materially assist-
ing in my opinion.
Mr. Verbeke—There is not w tittle ,of evidence against Dr.
Mitchell ; and I refer to the chief clerk's notes to prove it.
Mr. nobler, in referring to the evidence of which he had taken
notes, did not see the name of Dr. Mitchell amongst those who
stood occulted, but there were two persons alluded to whose names
did not appear.
Mr. Alley—lt will be only putting us to the trouble of bringing
forward cur evidence again.
Dr. Mitchell—ls it possible that you can have anyllea of in-
dicting me ?
Mr. Verbeke—Why, Mr. Wilke has included Mr. William
Clark in his charge of conspiracy against him.
Mr. Clark expressed some surprise at this information, but
seemed not to have much dread of the consequences.
The LORD NATOR—•-He lies included the Editor of The Times
also in time charge.
Mr. Corrie requested, that as he was already hound over in
the burn of 2001. to appear at the Sessions, on a complaint arising
out of the same circumstances, no further security should be de-
manded,'
tpwroaesecidnTwthhintlft.:efitplsoi
The Loan MAYOR ordered all the defendants, with the excels;
tion of Dr. Mitchell, to produce hail this day.
BOW-STREET.—It was understood in the course of yestev-
day, that Mr. Charles Edward Grindell and .James Hunter,
against whom our readers will remember a warrant for assault on
the person of Mrs. Jane Grindell, wife of one of the parties, hail
been issued, were brought to town in custody of Ledbeater, one of
the officers of this establishment. On inquiry, we found that the
report was correct.
Immediately after the termination of the investigation on Friday
when Stiuton and Cochran were ordered to find bail on the same
charge, the above named officer was despatched to Tuubriolge
in the warrant had repaired, with Mr. Grindell, sen.,
Wells, to which plan it was ascertained the other parties included
furced.from his house with the intention of placing him in a wborn they
lu-
natic asylum in that place. Ledbeater was fortunate enough in
securing the persons against whom he held the warrant, before
they effected their purpose of confining the old gentleman. Ile
immediately posted to town; , leaving Tunbridge Wens at two
o'clock on Sunday morning. The old gentleman being rely. Weak
and unwell, and also considerably agitated in his mind in conse-
quence of the gross end unwarrantable proceeding of his nephew,
remained : behind, it not being considered safe that he should
face the night air, and he exposed to the fatigue of a rapid journey.
Ile remained is Tunbridge Wells until Monday morning, when
he followed the rest of the parties to London, where he arrived
in the course of the day, and immediately proceeded to his
own reliance, in 'Judd-place, from whence he bad been for-
cibly taken three days before, Although these partin-
lars had but partially transpired, the greatest possible in.
terest was excited during the day, . and the utmost
anxiety was manifested to know when the examination
of the prisoners would take place. Lettheater brought. them
at their own request, to a tavern nu the neighbourhood of Bow-
street, in older that they might he spared the impleataautnets of
e.troethem that the magistrates
course
bofetreheaddyay;oi
Wing lodged in a watchhouse,
to the office, until their examination sho
or time teminwpoetrirmairyisrisn aaliebtaed:
uld take place. ' In the
"(Culgtatrles
b h beforeevening, and
--
cordingly at eight o'clock !
other officer. Mrs. Grimly% accompanied 7 several female 1
so not before, am M Cattle,h
• her
shun, the sitting magistrate,tllthe. custody..of_ .itedbeater and an...
friends' had arrived a fa--
111'gentlemen who interested
sees brought
solicitor, and a number of
e.
l'stlwiltrd. Grin-
dell)
exceedingly dark in his Ora-
nge, were also present.
, tail thin man, apparently tumid of 40.
dell) is a ife has rather
al
B'.'" '4,od by no means prepossessing inlislooks. Bewail dressed
P'"'"' • brown body coat, a fashion
1 in a Plain able coloured' cravat, drib
_, se and a white hat: The other prisoner (Jamey Ilun-
pantesom ,
I fa, cast of countenance,
abetter looking although I •
ter) is rather
spoke him to belong to a humbler rank of life.
When the case was about to be gone into, the prisonetGrindell
segOested that it might be delayed a few moments, until h nuf Le pro-
fessional gentleman whom he -1,
ad engaged should arrive. The
magistrate said he should by all means wait, and a few unimportant
,matters being disposed of, Mr. Adolphus, the barrister, arrived
..shout half-past eight as the profetsional friend of the accused, and
Lthe case was at once proceeded with.
Mrs. Jane Gritelell WIN sworo, ro'eseeded With great clelir;•

ness and precision to repeat the testimony which she gave when
the prisoners Stinton and Cochran were under examination on
Friday. She commenced, as she did then, by stating the circum-
stances under which the outrage was committed. She said, that
the prisoner Hunter was the person who had dragged her into the
house, and used her with the greatest roughness and barbarity, so
much so, that she bore marks on her body, to whom a lady present
could testify, who accompanied her to a warm bath on Saturday.
Such was the resistance that she made against the attack of the
conspirators, that it took the united force of the whole four, in-
cluding
her husband, who assisted, to throw her on the carpet in
the parlour, and place the handcuffs and irons on her. The poor
old gentleman, she said, frequently exclaimed, against the brutal
treatment she experienced, but every time he spoke, the prisoner
Hunter kept showing him the strait waistcoat, which he had
brought with him, as if to awe him into silence. She was for-
cibly dragged to the coach, she said, by her husband, Stinton,,antt
Cochran. Hunter and another man, not yet in custody, were left
in the house with her uncle.
Mr. Mrssuuu..—Wheu you arrived at the lunatic asylum at
Bethnal-green, did your husband go in with you?
Mrs. Grindell—No ; he had the audacity to bia use good
night, and he offered to shake me by the hand, when I was taken
into the house. I have already stated my sensations on finding
myself locked up with nine insane women, with one of whom I
was obliged to pass the night amidst the most dreadful howlinp,
and in a room the smell of which was most offensive.
Mr. MtesnueL asked the lady by whose directions, and
under whose authority, the outrage appeared to have been cam-
ruitted.
Mrs. Grindell replied, that Mr. Stinton and her husband ap-
peared to manage the affair between them. The others seemed to
act as their servants. With the exception of Hunter, who used
her, she said, in a savage manner, the man Cochran and the per-
son not taken did not display any particular roughness towards
her. Hunter said, when he first seized her, " D—n you, I said
I would get you for your insulting meihis morning." My lins-
lrd (Mrs. Grindell continued) can do nothing without the ad-
vice of others, and, she was sorry to say, that those with whom
he associated were persons of the worst character. When they
were without a penny, she said. she and her husband lived happily
together, but, now that he had got some money, and had the ex-
pectations of more, his conduct had sadly altered.
Mr. Adolphus begged the lady to confine her remarks to the
charge; general character land nothing to do with it,
Mrs. Grindell—l am not addressing myself to ;cu, Sir--I ant
speaking. to the tuagietrate.
Mr. Adolphus—l am only cautioning you, Madam,
not te
indulge in a. line of remark which J, as Counsel for your husband.
cannot suffer to be followed. You have stated your complaint .
Very circumstantially and with great clearness. Turning to
the lady's solicitor, the learned gentleman wished to know if
there was any other charge at present to be brought against
the prisoners.
Mr. Gattie said there was another charge against them, which
should be gone into on another day, when the evidence would he
inure complete.
Mr. Adolphus, addressing the prisoners, observed, that they
bad heard the statement of Mrs. Grindell, awl if they LI
nti
deliberative,
any observations to make or any questions to put rowing
lady,gre at cltehaeryn might
ess eolibweraitfiotnh,ey
listened to the lady's story, and -finding that she told
f r the as
strata could not do less than hold them both to bail o.
no the wit
sank. The Learned Gentleman added, that it wag --eltrilluidell
of Mall to pick a hole in such evidence as Mrs.
had
given.
Mr. Grindell said that his hail was ready.
hail which the
A question then arose as to the amount os inis
magistrate would require from the parties. Mr. At 1)
wished. For lars pee it
with
hoped that his clients would not be required to find excessive bail,
ye
while Mr. Gattie contended that, as Stinton was obliged to, ‘11,...
bail to a large amount, although he was only the agent .
he was of opinion that the magi-
Grindell in the busiuesa, the latter gentleman should find sureties,
in at least as large aeon.
Mr. Minsitur.t. concurred in the propriety of this obielvisc_.
tion, and directed that the prisoner Grindell should find
himself in 5001:, and two sureties in 2501. each, and that 0,4
ter should find bail, himself in 1001. and two sureties in
rtip
each. The former offered Mr. William Cross, of No. 5' L'l 0
otherrr person.
Gattie
the
Queen-street, as one of his sureties, and the latter propose
d
baila offered.aidlieshouldutalse
theotninameatxolecaolnlsiadperoiaseatitoonthe
part of Mrs. Grindell to bind her husband to keep the°)Ptet:e
ei e y ofreA
towardssl,ottitifeehelrh,earaseislphstadidanshgeer dwrbeattdedieverthleteeoffbeetatainoetft: hisit isserrtys an
said, that
co could ldbtoenthder of the
flue h avail
The Magistrate immediately said that he should bind, over
Grindell accordingly.
Hunter applied to be sent to the watch-house, instead
removed to gaol, until of b'ing
Mr. Mrslsstute aprisoners to b
iemselves of his permission to that effect. e
The prisoners were then removed to the watch-house, 1/.."
Ley will be confined until the bail which they offered is oecePtel