The Sun.
London, England, 1821-10-24 00:00:00

TRAINING CHILDREN TO BE THIEVES,

' Jemima Matthews, WhO stood charged with having seduced
children to her lodging tti thieve for her support, underwent a
re-ciamination, at ‘Vorship-Street Office, before M. SWABEY,
j~tn. Anil Jolts* 2PIsLWAHD, Esqrs. The three boys who I:ad
been employed by her to commit felonies were brought up from
the New prison; Clerkenwell, where they had been detained in
custody; Air the purpose of being witnesses againSt her. They
were then sworn and examined.
Bailey stated, that he had been off and on staying with the
priioner for the last -twelve months. He and the others were
sent 'every day under pretence of selling matches and pins, but
the prisoner told him to thieve. He remembered stealing a
piece of mtitton in Spitalfields-market, which he took home,
and told the-prisoner he stole it. The prisoner told him to take
care of himself, and not get in a hobble. The prisoner had a
pack of cards, by which she told fortunes to people ; and she
could tell the children whether they would GET NIPPERED
when they went out in the morning.
Frederick Clarke was with Prisoner three flights, and was
sent out by her every day to rob. In that time he robbed three
shops in Whitechapel. He remembered one, a butcher's shop
on the right hand going into Whitecharid, where he:stole a
heart, liver, and lights, last Wednesday, and took them home,
for which the Prisoner gave him two weeks' lodging. •
John Clarke, a little boy, brother to the last witness, said
that he was sent out a thieving. The prisoner had two boys of
her own, Ben and John. Ben went out and thieved every day,
but she used to beat John with her fist, and sometimes with a
stick, because he would not go a thieving.
John Tyrrell, another little boy whose father had delivered
him from the clutches of this monstrous woman, corroborated
the story of the other boys.
The prisoner in her defence denied the charge. She said she
was an unfortunate Woman, and she took the children is out of
charity.
She was committed to take her trial for the misdemeanour in
receiving stolen goods; and the boys iwere committed to Cold
Bath Fields, to be produced as witnesses against her.

At Nine o'Clock on Tuesday Morn'nz t? e
Wheel goes round, and within a few minutes
after Somebody will find himself possessed of an
independent Fortune of Thirty Thousand Pounds,
real Money, not Stock.
When there were three ,E 30,000 Money
Prizes in a former Lottery BISH sold them all !!!
There are Three of that denomination in the
present Lottery. What are the odds Bisn does
not also yell the whole 'of those Three ? The
Chances certainly are greatly against 'such an.
event, but many persons, in spite ;of all the odds,
have hacked 81,411's luck, as he is remarkable
for selling thirty Thousand Potan4 Prizes; hair_inrrB sold more than half of afiThat have ever been.
A few days will determine; as the Drawing be-
gins next Tuesday, and the very first Prize
drami that Day isiure'lO ile one of those- Three
Thirty Thousands.

Yesterday, about three o'clock, an alarming
fire broke out at the house of Mr. PAN'S, North-
street, Lambeth, which threatened great destruc-
tion ; but from the timely arrival of the en-
gines the effect of the devouring element was
confined to this house, which was entirely
consumed. Mr. 13.tePs, we understand, is the
proprietor of one of the 'Woolwich coaches, and
a number of horses were in the premises, the
whole of which were taken away without injury.
The public are cautioned against the arts of
two men who are travelling, as is supposed,
through Monmouthshire and South Wales, selling
Liverpool watches, called "runners," with chains,
seals, and rings for gold, which are merely gilt.
The watches are of no real value; and the better
to deceive, the rings have the word " pure"
stamped therein. It is said they have been living
on the plunder of the unwary for these two!, t
months, in this and the adjoining counties; and
had made a gentleman's servant pay 30s. for a
chain, seals, and rings, which might have been
purchased in the shops for 3s. or 4s. Happily
their ends were defeated at Monmouth ; and our
readers are hereby put on their guard how they
deal with such miscreants. A decently dressed
young female, in a brown pelisse, was en suite in
their excursion.—(Gloucester Paper.)

TIIE MARKETS, &c.

CORN-EXCHANGE, OCT. 24.

Having no fresh arrivals since Monday, our Market continues
its prices the same as on that day, without any variation, the
supply being fully equal to the demand.

HOP INTELLIGENCE.

SOUTHWARK, OCT. 22.—Our trade is not so brisk as it was
the beginning of last week. Weald of Kent and Sussex Pockets
are certainly lower ; the Middle Kent Hops support their prices.
MAIDSTONE, OCT. 18.—At our Fair yesterday and Market
to-day we had a brisk sale for our best runs of Hops, in both
Bags and Pockets, at an advance from last week ; as to the low
and inferior sorts, they met with a heavy sale at about last
week's prices. Owing to the Duty getting down so very much,
we certainly anticipate better prices will yet be obtained for
our best Middle-Dent growths, a large proportion of which are
already sold : the inferior sorts we fear that there will be sorr e
difficulty in getting through with. We hear of many of our
best Middle-Kent growths being sold this week at from 80s. to
84s. per cwt. It is now thought the Duty will very little ex-
ceed that of last year.
CANTERBURY, OCT. 20.—Our Hop Market this day was
very dull, and but few sales were effected, the buyers not being
inclined to purchase unless at reduced prices.
CHESTER FAIR, OCT. 22.—Orr the first day very little bu-
siness was done, but on the second good samples sold freely,
at better prices ; about 700 pockets were disposed of, and it was
expected that the remainder would be sold.

The following is the total number of Beeves, Calves, Sheep,
and Lambs, slaughtered in Glasgow, from the 2d September,
1820, to Ist September, 1821 :
Beeves. Calves. Sheep. Lambs.
11,031 9,166 39,82.5 42,P35
Being an increase on the consumption of the preceding year in
the city of 69 calves, 9,065 sheep, and 2,766 lambs, and a &-
crease of 456 beeves.

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THE LONDON JOURNAI,s;.

DAILY EXTRACTS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS,

October 24.

[MORNING IItRALD.]
The Elections in France have closed, and the
3.loniteur boasts that the Revolutionary, or
" Liberal" candidates have been universally re-
jected. It follows up, however, this assertion
with a very intelligible hint that the. Ministerial
and Ultra parties in the Chamber should unite,
else the compact minority of the Liberals could
outvote each separately. The Journals of the
Opposition, a title sometimes assumed by French
Liberals, do not appear much depressed by the
result." But the .Censors will scarcely allow
them the most common-place allusion to the in-
fluence of the elections upon the state of parties.
There has been a trial of an extraordinary cha-
racter before the Tribunals of Paris, nearly
similar to the story of one of Tobin's Dramas :
A junior officer, turned nut of his regiment in
disgrace by his Colonel, after brooding over his
dishonour' for some time, made a dreadful- at-
tempt to assassinate the author, as he thought,
of his dishonour, who was also his kinsman.—
He was happily prevented from accomplishing
his crime, the contemplation of which he avowed,
was condemned to death, and bore his fate with
a sand froid that seemed to partake less of cou.
rage than of the want of compunction and com-
mon feeling.—There are various and new details
of the progress of the yellow fever. There is
some diminution in the average of deaths. The
utmost- precaution continues to be observed.
Some extracts will be found from the 'Speech of
the King of the Netherlands on opening the
States-General. He describes the kingdom as
prosperous in every respect—notices the cultiva-
tion of the finer as well as the useful arts, and
expresses the strongest disposition to peace, with
rather a qualified hope of its continuance. This
is perhaps the only point for which his speech
u ill be looked to with much curiosity—as, no
doubt, what is spoken from Royal lips upon so
solemn an occasion may be recorded as an au-
thority. " The disturbances in the Levant have,"
his Majesty says, " caused anxiety, but still there
vas a well-founded hope that peace would be
preserved."

[MORNING POST.]
Unable to discover any flaw in the Returns of
the October Quarter of the English Revenue,
and seemingly astounded at the magnitude of its
increase, the prophets of national ruin have lately
maintained- an unusual silence, or if they have
mustered resolution to speak, it has been with a
degree of moderation which might almost pass for
modesty, and which, if they do not take care,
will undoubtedly destroy their character in the
eyes of their Radical friends and supporters.—
They have admitted the increase, and have even
had the rashness to express something like awk-
ward satisfactibn at its having occurred. These
are crimes which will not be easily forgotten.—
They are little short of High Treason to, the
cause, and will not be sufficiently expiated by
the feeble attempt recently made to raise a
doubt on the probable. produce of the Irish
Revenue. The Radicals will not be satis-
fied with the mere anticipation of a defici-
ency in the Revenue of Ireland, if the recent
augmentation in that of England is not de-
nied. Denial, however, is become impossible
_since the publication of the Official Returns for
this country ; and in order to prevent both the
deluders and the deluded from indulging too
long in hopes which cannot be realized, we, will
charitably inform them that the increase of Re-
venue in Ireland has not only kept pace with
that of England, but has been regular every
quarter, and comparatively greater. In support
of this assertion, we this day give a statement,
in British currency, of the Irish Revenue, for
the years ended on the 10th October, 1820, and
on the lath October, 1821, distinguishing each
-quarter of the two years. It will be seen that
there is an increase in the year ended on the
.IClh October, 1821, of 216,325/.165. gd.; that
in the quarter
_ended on the 10th October last,
there is 'an excess of 147,0001. beyond the cor-
responding quarter last year ; that with the ex-
,ception of the January quarter, there is an ex-
cess in every other quarter of the present year :
in the April quarter, an excess of above 116,000/4
in the July quarter an excess of above 53,0001.;
and in the last quarter, as we, have already stat-
ed, an excess of 147,000/.

[NEW TIMES.]
rEIELAND.-The accounts from the South of
Ireland received yesterday, continue, we regret
to say, of the most painful character. Indeed
sufficient time has not yet elapsed for the pre-
cautionary measures of Government to have their
due effect, and the misguided wretches seem de-
termined not to relax in their atrocious career.
More murders have been perpetrated, and more
dwellings assailed for the criminal purpose of ob-
taining arms. In connexion with this daring
system of plunder, we find it mentioned in a
• Limerick paper, that a considerable quantity of
lead had been purchased at the cellarsand stand-
ings in the Old Town, last week, by country
people.—The greatest degree of alarm necessarily
prevails throughout the County of Limerick, in
consequence of the murders and outrages daily
committed there. A large military force, how-
ever, is to occupy the county ; and several de-
tachnaßnts of regiments, and active Police Magis-
trates, have already arrived in the most disturbed
parts. The Irish Government are indefatigable in
their labours to investigate the causes of the out-
rages and to apply an efficient remedy. His Ex-
cellency the Lord Lieutenant, we are assured,
spends several hours daily at the Castle, devoting
his personal exertions to these objects. The whole
of Friday and Saturday morning his Excellency
was thus engaged. Mr. Secretary Grant, who
had arrived from his seat in Scotland ; Mr. Se-
cretary Gregory, and his Majesty's Law Officers
were in consultation with the Lord Lieutenant
till a late hour on Saturday evening. Major
Warburton, who is the Chief Magistrate of Po-
lice in the county of Limerick, and who was
summoned to Dublin to afford, personally; infor-

mation 'regarding the outrages which disgrace
that county, bas examined some' hours on the
subject ; after which he immediately left. ,the
Castle to resume his functions. We have reason
to believe, that Government have such measures
in contemplation as will effectually reduce the
disturbed district to order and obedience ; and
we hopes, devoutly, in a short time. The other
parts of the kingdom are .in a state of perfect
tranquillity.

[THE TIMES.]
In Limerick, the progress of murder seems to
have sustained no check. Two individuals have
been assassinated since • Major Going. - Mr.
Sperling, an-intermediate landlord between Lord
Courtenay and.some of the wretched occupiers.
of his estate, called Middlemen, in Ireland, was
on his way to have a dispute settled with the
lower tenantry, in the presence of Lord Courte-
nay's agent. Ile was wayfaid on the road, and
the other litigants put an end to the question, by
shooting the unfortunate man. An oath is said
to be administered to the peasantry, to this
effect—" No rents, no tithes, no taxei."—
Under these these three heads may well be com-
prehended the great mass of Irish grievances.-
1. The relation' between landlord and tenant,
under the characters of absentee and occupier,
at a rack rent. 2. The relation between
Popish parishioner and Protestant clergiman ;
—and 3d, that bottomless gulf of disorder, the
relation between an exorbitant Exchequer and a
people overloaded with taxes.—lnour list of high
outrages we ought to place one of a civil na-
ture. One Brady, an ex-Sheriff, at a Sheriff's
dinner, has once more, in spite of, the host who
entertained him, as well as of the Sovereign who
had graciously admonished him, given and drank
the " Glorious Memory." While this spirit rages

in the capital, can we be surprised at any other
brutal spirit breaking the bonds of 4ociety and
laying waste the remote provinces ? But when
the Viceroy forgets his master's mandates, the
smaller minions of a factious Government are
wholly unworthy of animadversion.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
We are prepared for extravagame in the Ultra
Journal, but the following passage from it, in
which the disturbances of the South of Ireland
are gravely attributed to the machinations of the
Carbonari, is so outrageously absurd, so much
beyond the flights of ordinary folly, that we own
it did surprise us. We say nothing as to the in-
human recommendation to shut our ports against
the unfortunate Italian exiles ; for no person can
read the passage and peeservO sufficient gravity
to be angry
" We are loth to suppose that there is any deeper scheme in
agitation, than such as-we have already described, or, to con-
ceive that the diabolical plans of the Italian Carbonari can, by
any circuitous means, have found their way into Ireland ; but
the murder of Gianpetro, as detailed in the last letter of our
private Correspondent at Naples, presents circumstances very,
similar to those of the assassination of Mr. Going; and it is re-
markabh that both the unhappy victims were retired agents of
the Police. It is not many months since we had occasion to
notice that there were in this country certain foreigners, who
avowed the most atrocious principles imputed to the Car-
bonari ; and whose movements were in consequence closely
watched by the proper Authorities. Subsequently to that pe-
riod, we have seen a conspicuous Leader of the Neapolitan Re-
bellion arrive openly in London ; and though we have no rea-
son to believe that he would engage in any criminal schemes
here, yet his previous connexion with the Carbonari might ren-
der it not improbable that he would be accompanied or followed
by some individuals of that sect. This is at least a possibility
which may justly call forth particular vigilance on the part of
those officers to whom the supervision of Aliens in this country
belongs. A very wise rule was laid down, at the conclusion of
the war, not to permit any of the leaders of the French Rebel-
lion, of 1815 to'hnd a refuge in England ; we confess it would
have appeared to us prudent to have applied the same regula-
tion to the cases of equally criminal and equally dangerous re-
bellions of Sardinia and Naples."

We have heard, that whe❑ the plague last
raged at Constantinople, a learned. Member of
the Turkish Ulema gave it as his opinion that it
was caused by a servant of the English Arnbasp
sadoes playing on the fiddle. We leave it to the
curious to determine whether the palm of saga-
city, in matters of causation, is due to the
Turkish or English Doctor. The plague is not
a more constant guest in Turkey than disturbance
in our Sister Kingdom, which has never yet tasted
the blessings of regular order and good govern-
ment. Carbonari indeed ! We suppose some of
the Italian white mice men, after due prepara-
tion in St. Giles's, by the acquisition of the Irish
language, have set out for the banks of the
Shannon. Every zealous Orangeman• will do well
to look sharply after the bearers of white mice
or tortoises, who, ten to one, are Carbonari.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The intolerant party in Dublin has obtained
another recruit in the person of Ex-Sheriff Brady,
a man knighted by the King himself, as one of
the supporters of his system of conciliation. At
the breaking up of the Quarter Assembly on
Friday evening, Sheriff Smith invited the whole
Corporation to dine with him at Morrison's,
where he had ordered dinner; and as the candi-
dates for Aldermen were there to declare them-
selves, a more than usually numerous attendance
took place, consisting of between ninety and one
hundred Members, when Messrs. Foot, Archer,
Whitford, and Brady, declared themselves
aspirants for the Aldermanic Gown. Ou the
health of the worthy Sheriff being drank,
he availed himself of the opportunity of
stating, that when last he had the honour
of presiding in the Chair, he appeared, by the
line of conduct he had adopted, to have given
offence to some Members of the Corporation, by
not giving a particular toast : but he must assure
the Gentlemen that the line of conduct he had
then pursued, he would still fearlessly follow,
and not be biassed by any one ; he could not be
in that chair as a puppet, by pulling this; string
or that ; he was not to dance or sing, or
make a speech, at any man's pleasure. He
did conceive, from his heart, that in obeying
the Mandate of his Sovereign, he was best
supporting the interest and independence of the
Corporation of Dublin, and he did, therefore,
hope no one would dictate to him what line of
conduct he was to pursue. Things were going
on so far so well, when a gentleman got up, de-
claring he would drink the " Glorious Memory."
in spite of the Sheriff ! on which Sheriff Smith
most manfully stood up, and declared he would
either be supported in the chair or leave it,
which we regret to find was the case. Sheriff
Brady was then voted to the chair; and the toast

accordingly given by those who Were op
posed to Sheriff Smith. At the Quarter assembly
on Friday the vote of thanks to Sir A. B. King
and the Mansion-house Committee,• for their
condpct on the occasion of the King's visit, was
carried only by a majority of 10, the numbers
being---l Ayes, 50 ; Noes, 40. The Member of
the Corporation, who brought forward the mo-
tion, said he was induced to propose it, in Itopo;
-that it would be negatived, a rumour having gone
abroad that within the last six months the politics
of the city had been much changed.