The Sun.
London, England, 1828-05-30 00:00:00

LEEDS CORN MARKET.—May 27.

We had but a moderate supply of Wheat at market ;
the good fresh samples supported the last week's prices,
but the demand was only limited, and middling chambered
Wheats were very dull sale. There was a good supply of
Barley, but as several maltsters are yet at work, the best
samples were taken off on much the same terms as last
Tuesday. Ia Oats and Shelling there was very little
doing, and prices nominally the same. Good dry Beaus
were full as dear, but other sorts were bad to quit.
Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, 601 b. `i3s. to 605.1
-- York. and Lincoln. 50th. 52.3. to 565.
Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk • 33s. to 355. ~
-- Yorkshire and Lincolnshire 3os. to 32a.
Grinding
Beans 63lb. ............ 401. to 455.
Oats, Potatoe
—3leoling, Foreign Ild. to 12d....English 11d to 1234 d. per St.
Shelling 27s. to 23g. per load.
Rapeseed, English, 201. to 23/.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—In the course of a complaint
against the driver of one of the Paddington stage-coaches,
for furiouily driving through the streets to the great peril
of the passengers, the
.following curious statement was
handed to the Lord Mayor.
There are 48 Paddington coaches to and from the Bank
daily, each performing four times. The distance thither
and back is nearly ten miles, and the duty is 3d. per mile ;
so that Paddington stages, passing and repassing, perform
384 times on the road, making 1,920 miles per day, and
which fur mile-duty only, yields 8,7601. annually. The
horses perform the journey thither and back but once each
day; so impetuous is the speed ; so that it requires 192 at
daily work upon the road for this single branch of public
accommodation. If the coaches are full, the money ex-
changing hands amounts to nearly 300 guineas daily, and
the persons conveyed amount to 5,576.
The LORD MAYOR observed, that perhaps the change
which had taken place With respect to stage coaches within
the last forty or fifty years, was as great as had occurred in
any thing with which the public had to do. lie remem-
bered, in 1780, that the first stage-coach was established
between London and Maidstone, and the sluggishness of
the conveyance might be guessed from the fact, that the
coach set off at six in the morning, and did not reach its
destination until eight or nine at night, and those who
travelled so formidable a distance used to take leave of their
friends about a week before. He had sat on the top of a
coach and picked nuts from the boughs of the trees, which
were at that time thick along the Rochester-road.
GUILDHALL.—The Rev. Mr. Bowyer, of Sunning-
wall, Bells, appeared before Sir PETER LAURIE yester-
day, fur the purpose of justifying himself against a charge,
made at this office on Saturday, by a Miss Jackson, who
claims to be the next of kin to the late Duchess of Nor-
folk, who died in October, 1820. He saw by the news-
papers of Monday that she had charged him with conspiring
with others to insert words in a copy of a register of a
burial at his church, with a view of defeating the claim to
the property ; and he immediately came to London to ex-
plain his conduct.
A gentleman stated, on behalf of Mr. Arthur Clarke,
the solicitor who had conducted the claim of the Jacksens,
that he was particularly anxious to be present at this bear-
ing, but had unfortunately, before he was aware Mr.
Bowyer would be in town, fixed this day for a consultation
with two of the leading counsel in Chancery, and he there •
fore begged, as he was so deeply interested, that the case
might stand over till Friday.
The Rev. Mr. Bowyer felt some disappointment at this
delay, bet was nevertheless willing to accede to it.
Sir PETER. LAURIE said, lie had entertained this ques-
tion upon a feeling that police-offices might sometimes
usefully be permitted to become safety-valves to the public,
where, when much excitement existed, passions and opi-
nions might find a rapid vent. He thought much anxiety
and expence might be avoided by such facilities for expla-
nations and ebullitions of feeling. The account in the
newspaper of the charge made by Miss Jackson was cor-
rect, and she had produced two copies of the register with
the Rev. Gentleman's name attached, one only of which
stated Dame Scudamore to be the " second" wife of Sir
James. This word " second," she insisted, had been
interpolated, and had entirely defeated her claim, by caus-
ing the Master to make a wrong report.
Miss Jackson again produced the documents, and the
Rev. Mr. Bowyer having examined them, acknowledged
they were both written by him.
The Rev. Gentleman said he had but once been per-
sonally applied to respecting this register, and that was
when Mr. Clarke and Mr. Turner had visited him toge-
ther. Upon referring to the register, it was found that a
word at the end of a line had been marked across with a
pen, and it was suggested by Mr. Clarke (as he now un-
derstood front the description of his person) that this erased
word was " second," and against his own judgment, not
having th, least notion at the moment that a right to such
vast property could possibly hinge upon the word, he suf.
fered himself to.be persuaded to insert that word in his cer-
tificate. When, however, he was afterwards applied to in
the ordinary way for a copy, be gave it without noticing the
obliterated word. The word " second" must have been
suggested to him, for the appearance of the erasure itself
would not have led him to adopt it : and that word, more-
over, was unintelligible with the context—it could not be
read with what preceded or followed the erasure. The
Rev. Gentleman then handed up the register to the Alder-
man, remarking that some persons to whom he had show❑
the erasure were of opinion, that the word was " Dame,"
and that the clergyman had obliterated it at the end of that
line, that he 'eight write it with the rest of the name com-
plete in the next line, which commenced with the word
"Dame."

The Alderman thought it was a word of more than
four letters ; but Mr. Payne, the second clerk, and some
others, were decidedly of opinion that the erased word
was " Dame." It did not appear to have been blotted out
with a determination that it should never be discovered,
but merely marked across as an error.
Misa Jackson expressed her feeling, that when she in-
cluded the Rev. Gentleman among the conspirators, she
had included an innocent person, but yet, with the docu-
ments before her, what else could she do?
Sir PETER. LAURIE remarked, that the Gentleman had
pleaded guilty to the charge of introducing the word.
Miss Jackson wished the Rev. Mr. Bowyer to show the
Alderman another part of the same book, where a part of
a leaf of the register of marriages had been cut out. This
was about the period where one of the entries she requited
to establish her claim was expected to have been found.
Sir PETER asked the Rev. Gentleman whether the ab-
stracted entry had related to the Scudamo:e family ?
Mr. Bowyer had not the least knowledge of what it had
related to. There was a gap in the marriages from 1599
to 1602, and the only entry for the former year preceded
one for 1599, so that the entries could not have been made
from time to time as the circumstances occurred.

Sir PETER looked at the book, but would not go further
into the matte;, as Mr Clarke was not present; and after
some further conversation, the hearing was adjourned until
the fOlowing afternoon.
Sir PETER advised Miss Jackson to bring with her
some person skilled in reading old deeds and charters,
the entries in question being written in the cramp old
court hand, which was unintelligible to most people.
He mentioned Mr. Dealtry, of the Court of King's
Bench, as remarkably clever in this way. When he
claimed to be exempt from serving on juries, one of the
old city charters was produced before the Lord Chief
Justice, and was read with ease by Mr. Dealtry, when
he believed there was scarcely another person in Court
who could have deciphered a word of it.
BOW-STREET.—Yesterday, Francisco Yigano and
Giovanni Majorani, the two foreigners, who were detain-
ed in castudy, the latter in consequence of the confession
made by the boy Tagliano, before the major of the gene
d'avnierie at Milan, were brought before Sir R. BLRNIE
and Mr. MINSIIULL for a re-examination. Vigano was
brought from Tothill-fields prison, where he has been de-
tained for more than three weeks ; and Majorani was
brought from the watch-house of St. Paul's, Covent-garden,
to which place Mr. Illnisitur.r. ordered him to be taken.

R. 13'RNIE asked if Signor Schutz had any addi-
tional eivvidpelineedeitioi
toiffleern?egaStiigvneo;r
aSnedhuatdzd,etdh,rothuagth
hheishaindtenro-
rpti:aestoert: to suspect either of the prisoners, except the proof
which the confession of the boy Tagliano afforded, and the
fact of Vigano having brought him a letter, containing a
10/. note of which he had been robbed.
Mr. Mussitum. said, that that circumstance appeared
rather to the credit of Vigano.
Sir B. 13ritNIE observed, that Tagliano being an adroit-
tteoderiinite
thief,n criminate
saininy one.
The would not be sufficient
The prisoner Majorani acknowledged, through Mr.
13erronie, the proprietor of the Lemon-tree public-house,
St. Martin's-lane, that he was acquainted with Vigano,
and bad been often in his company. He also admitted
that he knew Tagliano, and had met bins about a month
before the robbery at Signor Schutz's.
Sir B. BIUNIE directed Mr. Berronie to ask Majorani
whether he had seen Tagliauo on the night of the robbery.
Majorani replied, through his interpreter, by stating that
he met Tagliauo on the night in question in the Haymarket,
and that he was carrying a bundle under his arm.
signor Schutz said, that the boy was then going to the
King's Theatre with his mistress's dress.
Ford, the gaoler, stated, that the turnkey of Tothill-
fields prison had declared to him, that Majorani had been
several times to see Vigano.
This was positively denied by both prisoners, who were
examined apart.
It was here intimated that the landlord of the house in

which Signor Schutz resided, could identify Vigano as
having been in the Signor's apartments on the night of the
robbery. A messenger was accordingly despatched to bring
this person to the office.
Mr. Berronie was directed to read the letter which Vi-
gano received from Tagliano, when the 101. note was for..
warded to him, by which it appeared that Tagliano had
still upwards of 300/. left.
Sir 11. BIRNIE said, that that was in direct contradic-
tion to the confession made s.t•Milan by Tagliano.
The landlord of Signer Schutz being by this time ar-
rived, stated, that he had never seen Vigano until the
morning after the robbery, when he called to receive.pay-
ment for a top-coat, which, he said, he had sold to Tagliano.
Sir R. BIRNIE said, that under these circumstances, he
could no longer think of detaining the prisoners, who were
both immediately discharged.
UNION-HALL.—It will be recollected a man named
Lawrence, the driver of a hackney-coach, was brought up
to this office, on Thursday, the 18th instant, for a gross
assault alleged to have been committed by him on a lady,
the wife of a Mr. J—n, a professional man, The prisoner
was remanded until yesterday, in the expectation that the
lady, who was described to labie been so grossly treatssl,
was sufficiently recovered t(be enabled to attend to give
evidence against him. In the course of the morning, how-
ever, a letter, of which the following is a copy, was trans-
mitted to Mr. Staples, the chief clerk, from which it ap-
pears that the unfortunate lady still labours under serious
indisposition, produced in consequence of the brutal nature
of the attack made upon her.
" Mr. J-- presents his compliments to 31r. Staples,
and solicits the favour of his conveying to M. Swabey, Esq.
the regret he experiences that, owing to the serious indis-
position under which Mrs. J. is suffering, it is impossible to
even allude to the late gross attack made upon her by the
miscreant Lawrence without greatly increasing her bodily
and mental excitement. Mr. J. is therefore under the
painful necessity of abandoning his intention and desire of
bringing her forward to give evidence against the prisoner,
being convinced the attempt would be attended with the
most serious consequences. It will, perhaps, be in the re-
collection of Mr. Staples, that Lawrence, on Thursday last,
stated that he had a witness in his behalf, named Mike
Wood, which individual Mr. J. has since ascertained was,
about two years since, tried at Guildford for felony, and
convicted. Connected with such characters, there is little
doubt but the wretch will ere long meet with that deserved
punishment he now unfortunately escapes. Mr. J. cannot
canclude without expressing his gratitude for the conside-
rate attention he has experienced from 31. Swabey, Esq.,
and Mr. Staples.
" Thursday, May 29."
On perusing the above letter, the MAGISTRATE expressed
his regret that the lady was so indisposed as to be unable to
attend to give evidence against her brutal assailant. lie
then directed that the prisoner should be placed at the bar,
and asked if the husband of the lady who had been assaulted
was present. Mr. J—n immediately stepped forward, and
on being sworn, the following questions were put to him by
the Magistrate. " You have described in your letter that
your wife is extremely ill : is she, in fact, so unwell as to be
incapable of appearing against the prisoner, who has been
new in custody a fortnight ?"
Mr. J—. She has been in a state of delirium the whole
night, and it would be ,attended with danger to bring
her forward ; indeed, ever since the attack, her health has
been in a declining state, and I am convinced that were
she now compelled to appear, the consequences might be
fatal.

Mr. SWABEY—Under these circumstances, of course,
the lady cannot appear and I regret it. exceedingly, U 9 it
is unfortunate that a delinquent, meriting such punish-
ment, should escape from justice. However, added the
Magistrate, if I now discharge the prisoner, and that in
the event of your wife recovering, you feel disposed to pro-
secute him at the Sessions, you can easily obtain a bench-
warrant, and have him apprehended again.
Mr. signified his determination of following the
Magistrate's advice.
The prisoner, who stood attentively listening to the
above dialogue, now asked whether lie was discharged ?
" For," said he, " I am willing to come forward when-
ever I am wanted to answer the charge alleged against me."
Mr. STAPLIES—You did not show any' disposition to
come forward to answer the charge before, and it has been
ascertained that subsequent to the assault committed on the
lady, you absconded, and were absent from the night of
the 25th of April, until the 17th instant, when you were
apprehended.
James, the Bow-street patrol, who, it will be recol-
lected, detailed the particulara of the outrage, and appre-
hended the prisoner, described the difficulties he had to
encounter before he succeeded in taking him into custody.
The Magistrate asked the prisoner what friends he had
in town ? He replied that his father was a musician at
Astley's theatre, and expressed a desire that that fact might
nut be made public, as it might injure him in the estima-
tion of his employers.
The prisoner was then discharged, after having given
his address to the husband of the lady alleged to have been
assaulted, in the event of her recovery and desire to prose-
cute him.

RAPE.—In the case at the Old Bailey which
we gave in rart yesterday, and in which 1111cHAEr. Cox-
NER and THOMAS BURR were indicted for a rape on MA RY
BARTLETT, an unfortunate woman of the town, the Jury
found the defendants Not Guilty, and the Judge ordered
them to he datained to take their trials for the misdemeanor.

Dieppe is getting very gay ; the various hotels
are well filled with guests, and another good season is an-
ticipated.—Brighton Gazette.

It is reported that in consequence of the dis-
putes between the carpet manufacturers of Kidderminster
and their workmen, some of the former have it in contem-
plation to remove their establishments to this city, where
those men who are willing to work may do so without mo-
lestation.-IVorcester Journal.

SUICIDES.—On Friday week, WM. WAR-
EENER, a cloth dresser, of Leeds, terminated his existence
by hanging himself in an out-house.--And, on Thursday
last, BENJAMIN VAREY inflicted a mortal wound upon
himself, at Ilolbeck, by cutting his throat. A paper, of
which the following is a copy, was found in the pocket of
this ill-fated man :—" I have lived till all has become a
burthen to me, and I now take the tight of dying. On
the other side is my name. My wish is my body be given
to the Doctors. If Mr. will accept it, I wish he
would.---11ENJ. VA REV."— York Courant.

MARCH OF MORALITY.—Very favourable
conclusions are t• be drawn from the behaviour of the ser-
vant-men who were at Lincoln on the Friday after Old
May-day—more money being deposited in the Savings'
Bank on that day, and fewer persons intoxicated, than were
ever before known.--Hull Packet.

According to the latest accounts from the
southern countries of Europe, where silk is a principal ob.
ject of trade, all the silk worms are in a thriving condi-
tion, and promise an abundant. crop. In Smyrna, 13roussa,
and other parts of Asia Minor, no fears are entertained on
this year's supply.
There is scarcely a vegetable which we at pre-
sent enjoy that can be found growing naturally. 13uFFoN
states that our wheat is a factitious production, raised to
its present condition by the art of agriculture. Rice, rye,
barley, or even oats, are not to be found wild, that is to
~ay, growing naturally, in any part of the earth, but have
been altered by the industry of mankind, from plants not now
resembling 12i 0n even in such a degree as to enable us to re-
cognize their i elations. The acrid and disagreeable apiuot
graveolens has been thus transformed into delicious celery;
and the colewort, a plant of scanty leaves, not weighing
altogether half an ounce, has been improved into cabbage,
whose leaves alone weigh many pounds, or into a cauli-
flower of considerable dimensions, being only the embryo
of a few buds, which, in their natural state, I,ollltl not
have weighed many grains. The potatoe, again, whose
introduction has added many millions to our population,
derives its origin from a small and bitter root, which grows
wild in Chili and at Monte Video. If any of my readers
should be sceptical upon the subject of such metamor-
phoses, let them visit the fairy bowers of horticulture, and
they will there perceive that her magic wand has not only
converted the tough, coriaceous covering of the almond
into the soft and melting flesh of the peach, but that, by
her spells, the sour sloe has ripenedinto the delicious
plum, and the austere crab of our woods into the golden
pippin ; that this, again, has been made to sport in almost
endless variety, emulating in beauty of form and colour, in
exuberance of fertility, awl in richness of flavour, the rare
productions of warmer regions and more propitious cli-
inatrs,---Dr. Pant on Diet.