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GLOB E.—The improved Simi; of the country,
far as its peac and security were threatened,
may be attributed to two circumstances. The
first is, we think, too manifest to admit of rea-
sonable doubt. There was •no widely, extended
conspiracy, the object of which would have been
to arrange a simultaneous rising, and precon-
celled attacks upon property. This obvious ab-
sence of co-operation enabled the Government.
and local authorities to deal effectually
with time corn motions, and to suppress
them with comparative ease, and at a trifling
loss of life among the. misguided people.
To impute any part of the disturbances, now hap-
pily suppressed, to au arrangement entered into
by the master manufacturers to lower the rate of
wages, in order to provoke their work-people
into a general strike, in the hope of fomenting an
insurrection, is really so monstrous, that— farm-
liar' as we needs must be with the absurdities into
which the virulence of party hostility will impel
those who unscrupulously commit themselves to
its guidance--;we could hardly have predicated
anything so utterly absurd and wicked even
from this sufficiently fertile source. Yet this
is the new cuckoo note of the Tory journals.
Without alleging a single fact in corroboration
of a statement which involves a charge so grave,,
that it ought not to be hinted at without " con-
firmation strong as proof from Holy Writ," viz.,
that of having involved the country in tumult
and brought it to the verge of an insurrection,
this charge is recklessly made against men,
Whose property would have been the first to
fall under the fury of the multitude; because
the first which would have presented itself' to
their view, and as belonging to those whom
they had been taught to regard with dislike as
making theMselves rich by paying inadequate
wages to their starving Operatives! If there
Were any necessity for repudiating so foul an ac-
cusatitin by any other evidence than that which
arises out of its owe absurdity, it would be fbund
in the fact. we have stated, that no plan was ob-
served in the movements of the insurgents. The
ea tent of the disturbances proves the prevalence
of discontent, the result of deeply-seated and
widely-spread distress and suffering among the
amasses of the population. But there was no
plan—no plot—no conspiracy—no general un-
derstanding, by which a simultaneous movement
Would have been ,directed towards one common
object, for the purpose of accomplishing a well-
understood and general design.
STANDARD.—The disorders in the manu-
facturing districts of the north appear to be vir-
tually at an end, as tar as the working . classes
are concerned. The labourers are rapidly re-
turning to their employment in all the places
recently disturbed, and apparently returning in
no ill-humour. In South Wales, however, a
strike for wages has been commenced ; but this,
as it is plainly an imitation of whitt has occurred
in northern counties, will doubtless complete
the copy by a prompt and peaceable termination.
The Chartis,-s everywhere continue their meet-
ings and their mischievous noise; but, deserted
as they sire by the populace, they are again
contemptible. Some of our respected Con tempo.
ttries complain of a want of energy and deci:,ion
(ni the part of time Government, and say, perhaps
truly, that by prompt and sharp measures the
Movement might leave been checked earlier, and
With less of injury to the rioters themselves.
This is' a. complaint in which we cannot join.
Our readers Will be so just as to remember that,
tit the commencement of the affair, and befbre it
Was possible for us to know what course Sir R.
Peel's Government would pursue, we strongly
urged' the propriety of that very course which
has been adopted; our approbation of the same
course now cannot therefore be ascribed to any
disposition to flatter the Government. It may
be very well to say that the promptest and
Most vigorous measures are always, in the
end, the: safest, and the most just. And so they
I are when pal have to deal with incorrigible
traitoFs--so.perhaps they may be when, tyrant-
like, you are indifferent to the temper of the
people. whom you coerceo• But in repressing the
excesses of a -moral and really well-disposed
People at bottom, an alacrity of rigour is the re-
verse of politic, for it is sure to end in making
enemies of those whom you did not find such.
Again, our Governnient is not a tyranny which
can affect to despise the feeling of any consider-
able portion of the people; and whatever the
presen gain of acting with promptitude and deci-
sion, it,is infinitely overbalanced by the ultimate
injury of acting with unnecessary harshness.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
BANKRUPTCY COURT, August 22.
IN THE MATTER OF THOMAS HAYES.

The bankrupt in this case had carried on an exten-
sive business as a currier and leather-dresser, in Shad-
-4ell. The amount of debts which appeared in the
.4hedule was stated at 7,9401., and the available assets,
so far as the assignees had at present realised, was
drily about 4701.

Phis day having been appointed for a proof of
debts, and auditing the accounts, several creditors
*eared in person, and ,tendered proofs in the aggre-
gate amounting to about 2,0001.
A point was raised with respect to a sum of 2,8001.,
to which it was alleged the bankrupt's wife was en-
titled, under the will of a person named John Price,
and the Learned Commissioner ordered it to be re-
served until evidence could be adduced to establish
the tact of its being available to the estate, or settled
by deed upon herself.
After some further discussion, the final examina-
tion of the bankrupt was ordered to stand for the
29th instant.

CEN TRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.

These sessions, which are the ninety-fourth since
the Act passed establishing the Court, and the tenth
of the present Mayoralty, commenced yesterday
before the Lord Mayor, the Recorder, Aldermen
Farebrother and Gibbs, the Sheriffs, &c.
'the calendar contains a list of no less than 359
prisoners, and the following may be considered an
epitome of the crimes with which they stand charged:
Arson, 1 ; Bigamy, 3; Burglary, A
; Uttering and
having in possession counterfeit coin, 3 ; I? el o -
niously uttering counterfeit coin, 4; Embezzle-
ment, 13 ; Forgery, 4 ; Housebreaking, 2 ; Larceny,
200 ; Larceny in a dwelling-house, 9 . From the per -
son, 30 ; Larceny by servants, 54 ; Manslaughter, 2 ;
Misdemeanours, 6 ;
Murder, 3 ; Personating a per-
son to procure wages, I ; rape, 3 ; receiving stolen
goods, 9 • robbery, 6. Of this number, 49 have been
committed from London, 273 from Middlesex, 1 from
the Admiralty, and 17 from Surrey.
The Grand Jury having been empanelled and
sworn,
The RECORDER proceeded to deliver his charge to
them. He said the calendar comprehended a list of
nearly 360 prisoners, and that number would probably
be increased in the course of the present week to
nearly 400. Among the graver offences were 51
cases o larceny by servants, and 9 cases of the re •
ceiving of stolen goods, one of which was of a very
important and extensive character. There were no
less than six cases of felonies from the person; four
cases of cutting and wounding ; three charges of the
crime of rape ; and three for murder. The great
number of criminals contained in the calendar might,
in some respect, be attributable to the unusually long
period that had intervened between the last and the
present session ; but still, after making that allow-
ance, the number was extremely large, and he was
sorry to add, the offences were great with which many
of the prisoners were charged. In addition to these
charges of felony there was a party who had been
committed as for a misdemeanour, in which the party

was charged with the crime of assaulting her Ma-'
iesty. He would presently call the attention of the
Grand Jury to the circumstances of that case, and he
would advert to what had been laid down as the law
with respect to assaults where no blow had been
jives. He would also call their attention to the pro-
visions of an Act of Parliament which had been
passed during the last session for providing for the
flirther security and protection of the person of her
Maje Sty: Upon consideration it perhaps might be
more convenient that he should address himself to the
last topic first. On the 16th of July last an Act. of
Parliament passed for the further security and pro-
tection of her Majesty's person. The Grand Jury
were aware, that in ordinary cases of, treason, where
no direct attempt had been made upon the person of
the Sovereign, there were many important formalities
to be gone through for the • protection of the subject,
which encumbered the proceedings to a great. extent,
and required great nicety and care in the
prosecution for high treason. This was re-
quired by the 39th and 40th of George the
Third, and the present Act was intended to
simplify and amend these Acts. As the --present
case, however, did not fall within the charge of high
treason,. he Would not further advert to those Acts,
but would call the attention' of the Grand Jury to'
the provisions of the Act that had been passed during
the last Session. By the first clause of the sth and
6th of her present Majesty, chapter 51, it was en-
acted, " That the proceedings provided by the 39th
and 40th of George the Third, in the case of parties
guilty of an attempt against the person of the So-
vereign should apply.; but where the overt act of
treason should be any attempt to injure the
person of the Queen, the party was to be
tried as if he had committed murder. The second
section was however, the more important one,. and
that to which he would more particularly advert
that. section provided, that if any person should
wilfully discharge, or attempt to discharge, or point,
or aim any gun, pistol, or fire-arms at her Majesty,
whether it contained or not any explosive material, or
if the party struck at the person of the Queen, or wil-
fully threw anything at her Majesty, with intent to in-
lure or alarm her, such person should be adjudged guilty
of a high misdemeanour, and, being convicted, should
be transported for seven years, or imprisoned with or.
without hard labour, at the discretion of the Court,
for any period not exceeding three years, and during
that imprisonment, if the Court should think fit, the
party might be publicly or privately whipped. Ile
had thus far adverted to the Act of Parliament, in
order that it might properly be understood, although
the -case he had been referring to, having been corn-
Mated in July, did not come under its provisions.
Many persons had supposed that the offence of assault
involved some act of violence ; that was not the case,
for according to the law laid down in " Hawkes'
Pleas of the Crown," an attempt to strike, but not
hitting the object; was an- assault ; nay, even the
holding 'up .of the fist to a party had been held to be
one. He would now advert to the circumstances of
the case, with resp(og to the assault upon her Majesty.
On the day in quest:on, when her Maj esty's carriage was
passing through the Park, -a young,person was seen
to take from his breast a pistol, point it towards the
carriage, and pull the trigger, but from some cause or
other the pistol did. not go off.' In that pistol was
found some coarse powder, rammed down with wad-
ding, and had that pistol went off it would undoubt-
edly have constituted an assault, not only in point of
law; but with those aggravating circumstances of at-
tempting to take away the life of the Sovereign. He
would not advert further to this charge, because if
any question of nicety should arise, time Learned
Judge who would try the prisoner might have that
question brought before him and determine upon it.
This, however, he would say, that he felt the case Was
one which should be put in a course of trial before a
Petit Jury. He had already referred to the fact that,
in the calendar, there were fty-one cases of larceny,
committed by servants, and it must' be remembered
that the crimes of parties placed in- such
situations, were greatly aggravated in consequence,
of the dependence that was placed on them, and the
easy means that were afforded to commit depredations.
There were six cases of robbery, in two instances
committed by soldier's with great violence ; there were
also three charges of rape, two on the persons of chil-
dren under ten years of age, and one on the person of
a young woman of the age of seventeen. The
whole of these charges, although most important
for the consideration of a Jury, for the
safety of society, did not appear to him to involve
any questions of difficulty or law ; but at the same
time he could not but observe with sorrow, that while
the Legislature had been removing the punishment
of death for this offence, it had been on the increase,
and more aggravated in its cha'racter. With respect
to two of the cases, those of the children under ten
years of age, he thought, looking at the depositions,
the Grand Jury could not entertain a doubt as to the
course they should pursue • but with respect to
the other, it would be for them, looking at all the
circumstances and probabilities of the case, to con-
sider whether they could place implicit reliance upon
the evidence of *the prosecutrix ; but perhaps the
safest course would be to put that inquiry into a train
for investigation. He would not advert to the charges
of murder, because their particulars involved no
questions f law. The Learned Judge, after a short
commentary upon the duties of Grand Juries, re-
mitted them to the discharge of those functions ids
the law called upon them to perform.
The COURT then proceeded to swear in the Petit
Jury.

Frederick Howe, 24, pleaded guilty to a charge of
stealing 236 printed books, the property of her
Majesty.
Mr. Adolphus was instructed for the Crown, and
in answer to a,question from the Court, the Learned
Counsel stated that the prisoner was the son of a person
employed in the office of the Board of Trade, and by
this means he had access to the office, and took ad-
vantage of this to steal the property in question, which
consisted of various printed returns for the use of
the office, and which were, of course, of considerable
value.

The RECORDER sentenced the prisoner to be kept
to hard labour for twelve months.

A prisoner named Thomas Madly, who pleaded
guilty to a charge of stealing some pieces of cloth,
the property of his master, applied to the Court to
order the restitution of some letters that had been
taken from him by the policeman who took him into
custody.
The RECORDER asked what was the nature of the
papers, and whether :they had anything to do with
the charge made against the prisoner ?
The constable, one of the City police, said they
were merely private letters.
The RECORDER, with some warmth, inquired why,
as this was the case, they were detained ? In the
first place they had nothing to do with the charge
against the prisoner, and they ought to have been
produced in Court, and delivered up to him.
The policeman said, the course was to send such
things to the chief office, where the description of
them was entered in a book, and upon the expiration
of a prisoner's sentence, he could get them, by making
application for them.
"he RECORDER—SO that if a person is transported,
the property .is taken, and may never more be heard
of. It 18 the duty, of an officer who may take any
property from a prisoner, to produce it at the trial,
and any officer who does not do so, shall not have his
expenses, and I will take care that a representation of
the fact Shall be made in the proper quarter.
The papers were then produced, and handed to the
prisoner.