Star.
London, England, 1831-05-02 00:00:00

GENERAL ELECTION.

ESSEX—The county of Essex has for ages been regarded
as one of the strong holds of Toryism ; its subdivision into
406 parishes gives it a strong clerical influence,and at the late
general election the Tory candidate was placed at the head of
the poll, after ono of the closest contests at any place in the
united kingdom, the poll having been kept open to the latest
hour allowed by law, viz.-15 days, during which .5,318
freeholders polled, about 600 of whom were resident in, or
connected with the metropoils. The mutual good feeling which
at present exists individually between the members of the two
committees of Mr. Wellesley and Mr. Western, in con-
junction with good feeling, good sense, and public principle
of the freeholders at large, is such as to insure a common
interest for those two gentlemen, and the result of the votes,
in the event of a poll, may be stated as follows, viz.

For Mr. WESTERN.
The whole of his last plumper ...
Ditto of his split votes with Tyrell 1514
Diuo with Wellesley ...... ........ ... ..... •• • • 457
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And of Mr. Wellesley's lea ..... •• • • • 1500

Total for Mr. Western.. 4054
Foe Ih. WELLESLEY.
The whole of last plumper - -163 R
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Ditto of his 6plit votes With Mr. Western - - 457
Ditto ditto with Colonel Tyrell - . 200
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Of Mr. Western's 583 - - 500
And out of the 1514 who voted for Western and Tyra],
at least - . . - . 500

Total for Mr. Wellesley - - 3331
Whilst Mr. TyreWs totality of votes at the last election
will be reduced at least 1,000, leaving his numbers below
1,700, with a probability of its not being half that amount ;
but Mr. Tyrell, his committee, and friends, will doubtless be
too discreet to expose their weakness by the test of a pall.
A series of resolutions were adopted at a meeting oft
Kentish freeholders, held at Bromley on Saturday last. The
freeholders, having a Bank Director for their chairman, de-
clared that Sir E. Knatcbbull, by his conduct on the reform
question, has forfeited their confidence ; and, with a spirit
worthy of the cause, solemnly pledged themselves to use
every exertion, at their own expense, for securing the elec-
tion of Messrs. Hodges and Ryder, the reform candidates.
TOTN£B.—At Totnes, Dartmouth, Beeralston, Plympton,
and the other close boroughs, we feel the chains that en-
shackle us, and the curse which we seek to avert.
How ITON.—At Honiton the contest will be severe—the
faction seek to eject their valuable Member, Mr. Guest, the
man who has sought to relieve the country from its burthens,
and prevent corruption, is not, at Honiton, the man for many
of the electors. The system of corruption that has so long
I characterised this borough, aan see no evils in corruption on
a larger scale. There are, however, many independent men
there, and we trust they will feel their influence over the
good sense of the people, which should make them duly ap-
preciate the services of such a man as Mr. Guest.

THE 13COTECTIONS.
The following, so far as we have yet learned, is the state
of the present election contest in the counties and burghs :

COUNTIES.

ABERDEEN.—The Hon. Captain Gordon, voted against
the reform bill. No opponent.
Argyll.—Mr. Campbell, of Shawfield, in favour of the
bill. No opponent.
Berwick.—Hon. Captain Maitland against the bill. No
opponent.
Caithness and Bute—Mr. Sinclair, of Ulbeter, believed to
be in favour of reform. No opponent.
DUMFRIES—Mr. H. Johnston, in favour. No opponent.
ELGIN AND MORAY—Hon. Colonel Grant, against.
No opponent.
FORYAR—Hon. Mr. Menlo, in favour. No opponent.
INVERNESS—Right Hon. Charles Grant, in favour ;
Colonel Baillie, against.
KINCARDINE—Hon. General Arbuthnot, against. No
opponent.
KINROSS AND CLACIMANN AN snlzz—No candidate
yet started. Late member, Hon. Col. Abercromby, in favour
of reform.

LINLITHGOW—Sir Alex. Hope, against. No opponent.
ORKNEY—Mr. Trail, the late member, in favour, ex-
pected to stand.
Ross—Keenly contested by Sir F. Mackenzie of Gair-
loch and Mr. Mackenzie of Seafortb, in favour; and Mr.
Mackenzie of Kilcoy, against.
St; ER LA D—No candidate yet announced.
We are of opinion that Aberdeen, Ayr, Berwick, Edin-
burgh, Elgin, Kincardine, Lanark, Linlithgow, Peebles,
Perth, Roxburgh, and Selkirk, in all 12 counties,will return
members hostile to the bill ;—that seven, namely, Cromarty,
Dumbarton, Fife, Haddingtoo, Kirkcudbright, Kinross, and
Ross, are doubtful, and that the remaining 11 will send up
supporters.

DISTRICT OT BURRIS.
EDINIIVIIG/IThe Lord Advocate in favour of the bill;
Mr. R. A. Dundas, against it.
Dumbarton, &c. contested by Mr. Dixon, advocate, Mr.
Campbell Blythswood, and Mr. Kirkman Finlay.
NAIRN, &c.—Mr. Bruce of Kinnaird has secured his
seat, having the votes of Nairn and Forres.
ELozw, &c.—Major Leith Hay, in favour.
ABERDEEN, &c.—Captain Ross, in favour; Sir James
Carnegie, against.
PRRTH, &c.—The Lord Advocate sure of his election.
No opponent as yet started.
KILKENNY, &c.—Mr. Johnstone, jun. of Rennyhill, in
favour ; Mr. Marsham, against.
KIRIRLDT, &c.—Mr. Ferguson of Reith's election sure.
Lord Loughborough is said to have just started.
STIRLING, &c.—tlr. Johnston of Straitou, in favour.
Election sure.

SELKIRK, &c.—Mr. Gillon, in favour; Mr. Monteith,
against.
JEDEURGII, &c.—Mr. Stewart of Alderston, in favour;
A. J. Dalgleish, against. We are authorised to state, that
Provost Dunlop yesterday withdrew all opposition to Mr.
Stewart of Alderston's return, and that the Town Council
of Haddington are now unanimous in favour of that gentle-
man Mr. Stewart ins also secured Jedburgh.
DUMFRIES, &c.—General Shairp, in favour; Mr. K.
Douglas, against.
The following gentlemen have announced themselves as
rival candidates for county representation in Scotland, viz.
Mr. Blair of Blair, and Mr. Oswald of Auchincruive, for
Ayr; Mr. Morison of Auchintoul and Mr. Ferguson of Pit-;
four, for Banff; Col. Douglas and Mr. Maxwell of Polloc,
for Lanark ; Lord M. W. Graham and Mr. Colquhoun of
Killermont, for Dumbarton ; Capt. Wemyss of Wemysa and
Col. Lindsay of Balcarras, for Fife ; Sir David Baird, Mr.
J. T. Hope of Luffness, and M. Balfour of Whittingham,
for Haddington; Mr. Pringle of Whitbank, Mr. Lockhart,
younger, of Borthwickbrae, and Mr. Johnson of Alva, for
Selkirk ; Mr. R. C. Ferguson of Craigdarroch and Mr.
Forbes of Callendar for Kirkcudbright; Mr. H. F. Scott
and Sir Wm. Scott, for Roxburgh ; Admiral Fleming and
Mr. Ramsay of Barnton, for Stirling. The following have
again offered themselves, and no opposition yet announced,
viz.—Sir George Clerk for Edinburgh ; Mr. W. F. Camp-
bell for Argyll; Sir M. Shaw Stewart for Renfrew ; Sir
George Murray for Perth •, Sir George Montgomery for
Peebles ; Mr. Hathorn of Castlewigg for Wigton ; and
Mr. Macleod of Cadbell for Cromarty.
The Landgravine of Hems Homberg, and a select party,
dined with the Princess Augusta on Saturday.

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the Parliament, when the effigy of Admiral Sotberon, the late county
member (who voted along with the boroughmongers,) was placed on al
pole and carried round the town, and was a tennuts shot at, then partly
burnt, and thrown into the river Leen, to drinks health to his learned
friend Sir E. Sugden !
At a public meeting in Nottingham to agree on an address to the
King for dissolving the Parliament. Mr. Thomas Bailey, in moving
one of the resolutions, spoke in the following eloquent strain t—ls there
an individual upon earth whose feelings are to be envied by the patriot
and the philanthropist, it is Earl Grey—whose life devoted to his coun-
try's weal, through an ardent, active, and consistent course, has sur-
rounded his name with a steady, unabated, and unextinguishable blase
of glory, which is incomparable in its lustre, by that which adorns any
other British statesman. Need I then ask the men of Nottingham If
they arc willing to commit the presentation of the address just voted to
their patriotic monarch, to such bands ? I need not. (Cheers.) I
know that every bosom before tue is now swelling with exultation at the
opportunity thus afforded to him to sbew his respect to the illustrious
premier, whose talents and whore principles have originated As greet
measure of parliamentary reform now before the country. Engllshoss,
a crisis has arrived in theaffairs of our beloved country which demands
a vigorous exercise of the intelligence and patriotism of all its dtisens to
bring to a beneficial result. The elements of British society are every
where in commotion ; power is oppened to principle—light is In con-
flict with darkness—opinions mmWd by an age of universal know-
ledge are struggling against precedents drawn from periods of general
ignorance and barbarism--the bmdienable rights of social man are poised
against rolls of musty prescriptive privileges, whose sanctions are tape,
and wax, and black letter:
" And the balance yet trembles with fate."
(Loud cheers.) No wonder that you are so sensibly alive at this
moment to all which concerns this momentous question. Not to feel
an extraordinary degree of sensitiveness at this important conjuncture
of British affairs—not to be susceptible of the most intense anxiety
upon the success or failure of what so much concerns the public weal
and so much affects the public interests, as the great plan of parks.
mentary reform brought forward by Earl Grey's administration, would
be to commit suicide on your own characters...would be to turn traitors
to your own profession—would be to casts stigma and reproach on
your own fathers, who were among the tint men in the kingdom to take
up this great question, and who now for a century have contended for it
against power in every form and under every name, with an un-
flinching pertinacity which has no parallel among the provincial
towns of the empire. (Cheers.) Could ft then be expected,
that whilst all the rest of the country is in motion—whilst
one vast simultaneous exhibition of moral means for the accom-
plishment of this great work of our social improvement is
taking place in every county and city of the empire, that the
men of Nottingham can be silent ?—that the sons of the earliest re-
formers will remain inactive ? No. The country is now doing its
duty; we have long done ours, even when alone and unsup-
ported. (Cheers.)
General Sir R. C. Ferguson stated that at the time of dissolution,
he (Gen. F.) was in London, and observed the universal enthusiasm in
favour of his Majesty; never was a King so well received by his sub•
jects, and never was there a Ring who so well deserved it. Not only
his own subjects, but all foreigners concurred In the feeling. Mr.
M'Lean, the American ambassador, himself a staunch republican, said
that he never should have envied any monarch in the world, but he did
envy the situation of Ring William the Fourth on that day. (Cheers.)
~MAItJIED=Mr. Elijah Hudson, to Miss Marta Smith.—At Gil.
motion, Henry H. Hewitt, Esq. of Litchfield, to Sophia, eldest daugh-
ter of the Rev. D. J. Burdett.

DlED—Mary, the wife of Mr. J. Nixon, Hounds-gate, aged 52
Mr. Wm. Broughton, only son of Mr. Broughton, Leenside.—Aged
41, Miss Charlotte Jackson, daughter of the late Mr. Samuel Jack.
son, of Eastland House.—At New Buford, 33, Mr. James Robin.
son, of the firm of Robinson and Widdowson.—At 'Worksop, Alm.
Allinson, relict of Nathaniel Allinson, Esq. M. D. and sister of the
late Richard Hird, Esq. of Bradford.—At Loughborough, Mr. Joseph
Twells, aged 40; and on Tuesday, Hannah, wife of the said Joseph
Twells, aged 33.—Aged 74, Mrs. Sikes, of the London Road, Lei.
eester.—At Repton, Derbyshire, Thomas Walton, Esq. 85.—Joseph
Stables, aged 71—At Whitworth, aged 48, Mr. William Mears,
comedian.

In per Ih. 5d.--Weigh-house Bhop.—Butter, per lb. Is to ; salt
ditto, per cwt. 84a to 00$; ditto, per lb. 124 to Ild ; cheese, Dunlop.
per cwt. 40s to 50, ; common, 991 ; eggs, per dozen, 7d. Wheat
straw, 9s 6d to Os ; oat straw, 8s 6d to Os ; and barley straw, from 7s.
to 7s 64 per kemple. Hay, is 9d per stone trots.
FREEMAN'S JOURNAL, APRIL 28.
Since our last, lands on several farms, in the neighbourhood of Bruff
and Crean, have been turned op.—Limerick Evening Post.
Between two and three hundred of the tenantry on the estate of R.
W. Hartopp, Ifsq. of Inch St. Lawrence, county Limerick, were en-
gaged on Monday in turning down the sods in a large field which
was dug up on Thursday last at Cahenelly, the property of Mr.
Hannan.—lb.
On Friday night the pews and forms were broken in the chapel of
Clue. For this sacrilegious outrage we have not heard any reason.—lb.
Monday night a large quantity of land was dug up in the neighbour.
hood of Quitpool.-16.
A pedlar, named Lyons, was robbed between Corofin and Ennis, on
Friday, of 11. sa. 64.—/b.
The Terry Alta, having turned up Mr. Going's ground at Kilian,
are now tilling it--lb.
The Terry Alta have forcibly taken possession of a large quantity of
land at Knocklara, barony of Tulle, the property of Matthew Redden,
Esq.—lb.
Guns have been taken from several houses in the neighbourhood of
Kikush this week.—/b.
It is rumoured, but we have it from no very authentic source, that
the steward of Mr. Scott, of Caber:son, was on Monday night carded to
death.—/b.
.41ARRIED...-Daniel Moslems, Esq. of Magbarakeel, to Sarah,
third daughter of Mr. William Allen, of Grange, county Sligo.—Mr.
Joseph biTiuskey, to Teresa, daughter of the late W. Rice, Esq. of
Hcnry -street.

LAW REPORTS
COURT OF CHANCERY, SATURDAY, APRIL 30.
TATHAM T. WRIGHT.
The argument on the part of the defendant being concluded, Sir
James Scarlett replied,
The Judges then rose at one o'clock, and it was arginged that counsel
should be heard on either side on the equitable points of the case at a
future day.
COURT OF ICING'S BENCH, WESTMINITZII4PLAIL 90.
The Court heard the argument of counsel In the V. Saville,"
and' several other cases from the crown paper ; after w ch, at two
o'clock, their Lordships were to meet the other Judges in the Exche-
quer Chamber.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, SATURDAY, APRIL 30.
Nothing of any general interest occurred in this Court to-day.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, APRIL 30.
William Jackson, described as late of Rochford, Essex, auctioneer,
estate, and house agent, trading under the firm of pack:ion and Soo,
was opposed by Jr. Wool:mores, on behalf of Mr. Gerrard, batter,
of Cornhill, the holder of a bill of exchange. Mr. Courts defended
the insolvent.
In the course of a long and rigid examination, the Insolvent stated
that he had formerly been a banker at Chelmsford ; he became a bank-
rupt in 1827, and shortly afterwards obtained his certificate. On his
second marriage, which took place in 1819, he settled a thousand pounds
on his son, then a mere boy, with whom he had lately been in partner-
ship. Under that settlement trustees were appointed, and when he
failed they purchased for 2801. of the above sum his business as en
auctioneer and estate agent, which he had since carried on in conjunc-
tion with his eon. He had paid his former creditors considerable sums
of money, not as an inducement to sign his certificate, but to maintain
his respectability, as he was extensively employed in Essex as an estate
agent. He was arrested on the 7th of January by a young gentleman
named Leek, who, he said, had " no home," for a sum of 381. a balance
due on the sale of an estate while he was a minor. The detaining cre-
ditor held a check on an accountant in Fenchurch-street, named White,
with whom be had considerable dealings in accommodation bills.
—lie swore- the arrest was a hostile one, and that immediately
' afterwards he gave a warrant of attorney to his son, professedly
to prevent the opposing creditor, who had obtained a verdict
from seising the whole of his property under his execution.—
The property had been sold by the officers of the Court, and realized,
after deducting the expenses, 1301. for the general benefit of the credi-
tors.

The insolvent was next examined with s view to show that he had
vexatiously pleaded to the action brought against him by Mr. Gerrard,
but it was proved that his son had on Friday paid the attorney 151. as
the extra costs of the action. _ .

Mr. Cooke said, he had heard nothing of such payment, but the at-
torney not being present with the proceedings, he considered as conclu-
sive that the payment had been made.
The Court, after a further investigation of the case, declared the in-
solvent entitled to the benefit of the act, but delayed the discharge until
the service on his creditors were perfected.
Isaac Datil, the pugilist, was opposed by Mr. CasswELL ou be-
half of Messrs. Hodges, the distillers. Messrs. COOTS and WOOD.
norrz supported the insolvent.
The inquiry was chiefly directed to the authenticity of the balance-
sheets, from which it appeared that the insolvent had lost a considera-
ble sum of money, by the sale of his public house, the Black Bull. in
St. John-street, Smithfield, owing to the passing of the Beer Bill. He
had, be stated, lost little money of his own in prize-fights, but a great
deal of money in the payment of costs to attomies, for defending him
in eases of assault, and, had paid a surgeon 1001. for medicines acid at-
tendance within the last year.
Mr. Casswitm. contended, that the balance-sheets were fallacious.
He said, the creditors believed the Insolvent had lost his money in a
way very different to that he had stated.
The CHIEF Commissionta said, he apprehended it was not extra-
ordinary for a prise-fighter to get into law and require medicine. (A
laugh.) With respect to the beer bill, he could not help observing,
that that measure was now =dr a " stalking horse" by every licensed
victualler.

Mr. CooKE said, it could not, however, be denied, that is bad caused
considerable deprecation in the value of public-houses.
The accounts were ordered to be amended, and the insolvent was ul-
timately discharged.

POLICE REPORTS.

Bow.irritEET.--W. Wright, a constable of the parish of Chiswick,
accompanied by a policeman named Church, of T. division, brought be-
fore Mr. HALLS a decent young female named Sarah Shelton, whom
they charged with the murder of a child.
Mr. HALLS directed the person who intended to act as prosecutor,
to step forward.
Wright replied that there was no prosecutor.
Mr. Hama asked who then was it that was to make the charge
Wright exclaimed that an inquest had been held on the body of the
infant alluded to, which had been found in a privy, at Chiswick,
and the verdict returned by the jury was, " that they (the jury) found
that the female child discovered in the privy was born alive, and that
they suspected that Sarah Shelton, the mother, had placed it there."
Mr. BALLS expressed much surprise at the terms of the verdict,
and inquired who the coroner was.
Wright replied, Mr. Stirling.
ItIr.11•11.• wondered that Mr Stirling should have received such a
verdict.
Wright observed that Mr. Stirling wished for a verdict of murder,
but the jury would not agree to any other verdict.
Four persona here stepped, but each of them declined to make any
charge against the young woman, and Wright explained that be had
that morning lodged the young woman at the police station at Turnham
Green, by order of the churchwardens and overseers of Chiswick.
Mr. HALLS inquired the reason the prisoner had not bean taken at
once before the Magistrates at Hammersmith.
The policeman replied that the inspector had directed him to bring
her to that office.
kir. HALLS thought that the young woman ought not to he detained
under such circumstances ; she had a clear right of action against all
parties concerned in her detention.
The young woman's aunt here came forward, and assured the Biagi&
trates that her niece was then seven months advanced in her pregnancy,
and that the child alluded to could not therelbre be hers.
Mr. HALLS dismissed the case, observing, that if a premature la-
bour' with loss of life, should ensue, the parties concerned in the trans.
action would all stand in a serious situatioa. The young woman, who
was greatly affected, with the other parties, then left the office.
Lamarrn.srarzT..--Soeute/ Drake, who has been several
weeks in custody on the charge of having murdered his mother,
Mrs. Markham, was again brought before the magietitaess. He was
dressed in a suit of mourning. IVo additional evidence was pro.
ducal to support the charge. A woman, aimed Potter, who keeps
a beer shop nigh to where the deceased resided, said, in answer to a
question put by the prisoner, that she hail never heard the de-
ceased complain of the conduct of any of her children. The
mother of the boy Robert Birch, who, it will be recollected, swore
that be saw the prisoner and another man standing at the
door of the deceased on the Sunday night before the murder,
and heard him state he could get into the house by the Black Ditch,
was asked by the prison.r who it was that her son Robert was bound
to appear against at the ($d Bailey, and she replied that it was another
son of hers by a Siemer husband. A sicken stated, that
when he saw the prisoner at the dieW's house, he was making a
noise, and affected to cry, but not a tear followed.
Dexter, in a passionate tone, said, " That illiberal =mark had beim
made before, and I think worse of it than all the *video's against
ma." Then, turning to Mr. Drew, an Inspector, be excleimed, " Yen
have made that illiberal remark. I may forgive, but so help ass Heave,
I'll never theist it towards you—no, never." The vitles having
condoled. the Magistrates said they Mt it thtdr duty is arsenic the
tsirfee trial. Dexter said be was anxious to talcs his WO, as he
or doubt of a triumphant acquittal The charge tipist MN was
a base conspiracy, and on the trial he would oblige tag Wilma to maw
that which they wished to conceal.

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BIRTH.

CORN-EXCHANI
Wheat,new,Kent, Rasta 74. 76.
Old . —. —s
Suffolk. (White) . 72. 78.
&Soft (R , 60. 70s
Rye . 30.34.
Barley, 36. 40s ..Fine 42s 48.
Peas, White . 40. 428

Boilers . . 4b.
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Wheat, English (qrs.) - 2,6721
Irhh - - .

Foreign - - . 28,824
Barley, Buglish - -, 1,301
Irish - - . —...

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MURDER IN JUSTIN-STREET, NEW-CUT.
On Thursday night the inhabitants of Justin-street, Hooper-sircet,
New-cut, were thrown into the utmost alarm, in consequence of an un.
fortunate female having been murdered at No. 5, in the above street.
The circumstances of this cue will be best unientood by the evidence
given before the Coroner.
CORONER'S INQUEST.
On Saturday afternoon, an lemdeition as taken before Richard
Carter, Esq. Coroner, and a respectable Jury, M the Fans-house, pub.
lie-house, Hooper-street, Westmhsstirateed, Ow if the body 0
Ann Williams, who was murdered en memdog. The Jury
viewed the body, which was lying In the sem rides in which it was
found—partly naked, and lying spot a wretched bed. The sight side
of the head was much beaten end Wised, and the neeltand throat ex-
hibited marks of strangulation.
Margaret Evans, wife of John Even. of Na 5, John's-place, Justin.
street, stated that she bad known the deceased for about site week,.
She went by the name of Robinson, bet she had heard that she was a
widow, and that her real name was Williams; she we. then an oh,
fortunate woman. On Thursday morning, between one and two
o'clock, she on returning hone hem seeing the illuminations, and
met the deceased near the Tower Tap, in Tower-street, Westminster.
road ; she was walking with a man dressed very shabbily, short and
stout, who walked lame with the right leg—they were proceeding
towards Justin-street- _ _

Richard Holme, residing at No. 7, Harper-street, baker, nett,'
that he had known the deceased for eight or ten years by the Lune
of Robinson. Between twelve and one o'clock on Wednesday night
be heard the deceased talking to some man near her house, who ac-
cused her of causing him some injury. About half:past two
o'clock in the morning, he heard a violent screaming in the dint.
don of her house. _ _ _ _ _

Ann Wilson stated that she had known the deceased for some year
She was a widow, and she told her that her husband was an engineer.
She obtained her living in the streets. About two months ago she told
her theta man named Pratt, a journeyman saddler, accompanied her
home to her lodgings, and whilst there he behaved very cruelly to her,
and pulled out a knife, with which be threatened her life.
F. Handles, of Justin-street, opposite to the deceased, stated that on
Thursday morning, between the hours of two and three o'clock, herself
and husband were preming to go to bed, when she beard the deceased
scream out " murder ', ' and immediately after she called " Police, po-
llee, i shall be murdered ;" She remarked to her husband, " there is
Robinson crying murder," when he desired her to go to bed. She after-
wards said, " Don't murder me, my dear, and I will be a good girl,*
which she repeated. She at this time was looking out at the window,
but could not see any person moving in the room, the curtains were
drawn close, but there was a light in the
_room. he heard no person's
voice but that of the deceased.

Mr. James Cooke, surgeon, stated it as his opinion that the death of
the deceased was caused by violent strangulation.
Here Mr. N. Brown, one of the jurors, said that the unfortunate wo-
man dealt at his shop, and only a few days before her death site had
told him and his wife that she expected to be murdered one of these
nights, as her life had been threatened by a man who complained of
having been ill-used by her.
Wm. Griffin a neighbour, said that be, at the request of several peo-
ple, got in at the
window and found the deceased lying at the foot of
the bed. There was a violent bruise upon her cheek, and there were
many scratches and discolourations upon her throat, apparently caused
by the hand of some person. The room was in great disorder, the bed
clothes were thrown about the room, and the pillows and bolsters were
turned over as if to look underneath them. He missed her clothes
from the room where she was lying, and upon going down mini, be
found them rolled up in a bed-quilt, and lying near the door.
By a juror. He had been called one night some time ago to her
protection against an officer in the army, who had accompanied her
home, and who had threatened to murder her.
A juror inquired if there had not been a man apprehended on the
charge of the murder ?
Mr. Dowling replied in the affirmative. He had been taken to Queen.
square, but Margaret Evans distinctly proved that he was not the man,
and he was therefore set at liberty.
There being no further evidence, the jury returned a 'raffia, that the
deceased was es Wilfully murdered, by some person or persons un.
known."

The reason why the French are opposed to the selection
of Leopold, " the candidate for all the vacant thrones," for
Belgium, is obvious. In the first place, they argue, that by
one of the protocols of the allied powers, those powers
mutually agree to exclude each other from the sovereignty;
and if that principle is to be violated at all, it is France,
who, in every respect, is the natural ally and protector of
Belgium. In the next place, the Prince of Saxe Cobourg
on the throne of Belgium—say they—would be equivalent
to the establishment of an English fleet in the Scheldt, or
an English garrison in the fortresses of the northern
frontiers.

An intelligent political writer in Paris, speaking of an
recent dissolution, says, " the great measure of the disso-
lution of the English Parliament is the most memorable
since the establishment of the great Charter. The prompt
and resolute step of the King of England has displayed a
firmness of character, which he was far from being supposed
to possess. The contest is now seriously commenced be-
tween the arrogant and obstinate aristocracy of England,
and the royal power, supported by the nation, Every appeal
was made by the opponents of the bill to the passions and
interests of the people, who only laughed at their impotent
rage; and, while the aristocracy offered this disgraceful
spectacle, the body of the people flocked to the House, to
hear from the lips of the King, that the scandalous reign of
venality and corruption had aroused the indignation of Eng-
land, and was-about to be terminated"—we hope for ever.

The 30th nit. in Hatton-garden, Mts./ Henry Wakefield, of . a
daughter.

MARRIED.

Saturday, at Hammersmith, A. Walford. Esq. of Bolton.atreet, Pis.
cadilly, to Eleanor, only daughter of the late J. Carr. Eq. of Enfield.
—The 30th ult. at St. Dunstan's, Stepney, Mr. W. H. Hobbs, of St.
George's.in.the.East, to Isabella, daughter of the late Mr. T. Lam.
ridge.—The 30th ult. at St. Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside, T. Lott, jun.
Esq. of Bost.lime, City, to Jane Carolina, only child of E. Darby, Esq.
of Dad, Kent.

The Ist inst. at Bartholotnew.eiose, Kentish Town, in tim34th year
of her age, Aurelia, wife of Mr. Gardner, of the Inr.er Temple—Wed-
nesday last, Margaret, the infant daughter of the Earl and Countess of
Wilton—the Ist inst. at his house in Upper Montagu-street, BUR/a-
-ll square, F. W. Sanders, Eaq. of Lincoln's-inn, barrister, aged 62—the
30th ult. Mr. C. H.Swans, of Dorset-street, Fleet-street, aged 22—the
28th ult. at his house in Great Quebec-street, B. Keeling, Esq. late of
the island of Antigua, aged 64—the 26th ult. at his house, Alfred.
Ow, Bedford-square, J. Bennett, Esq. Professor of Anatomy in the
Unit Leahy of Loodon—the 29th ult. and on the eve of her third year.
Am.l4s, ninth child of M. A. de Fairs, Brazilian Consui-Oeseral•—

Tht. 29th ult. in Craven.street. &rand. itisr-AdmiralGeo7Sryer,
in the 68tb year of his age.—The 30th ult. in Lover Connaught-oam
in his 76th year, Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Bentham,
late inspector of Naval Works. and Civil Arddlect ind Eogineer:of
the Navy.

.E-THIS DAY.

Peas, Grey • MI 101
Beans, Small . . 404 121
Tick • . Us Ws
Oats, Potato. . 269 31*
Poland . Us 37.
Feed . . 1! 1*
Flour, per saelt, . . 00. 60+
Rapeseed . 1.16 £3B per last
PALL
Barley, Foreign . . 10,833
Oats, Wish . 5,504
Trish . 7•263
Foreign . 10.370
English Flour (sack.) 6,12 t:

BMITHFIRLD.-THIS DAY.

CAMS 417 1111AllEIT
Beasts, 2,96l—Seep, 13,280—Plis,100—Calves, 130.
Beef ........ 34 104 to le 64 Pork Od wB. 04
Motto* .... N 4d be 4.1 Lamb .. 6. Od 7e 04
...... 44 84 bs Od
Hay (per load), AO 10s. to 24 Os. Clover, i 3 lbs. to 23 10►.
Straw, 21 13s. to ieg 1116.

COA4EXCHANGE—THIS DAY.
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HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW.
Morning Ss. 481 s. I Afternoon

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