The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-09-21 00:00:00

TIM S'rAIVIMAN.

LSTTRIC TO .4IR. CANNING.

FROSI TEM CLGISTIR OF THIS DAT.
Kensington. 17 Sept. 182!.
Sta-41aring read in the newpapers. that you. at
t Dinner at Liverpool, spoke of the distress of the
landlords and (Armen as a thing that would find a
remedy in the patience of the suffering parties; and,
haring read. in the same newspapers, that you. on
the same occasion, spoke of the "comfort and offiu
•trce" now enjoyed by the humbler clause ; I take the
liberty to enclose you two newspapers, the Norwich
Gazette of the 14th, and the Hampshire Chronicle of
the 9th, of this month. The one hundred and el:
advertisements in the former, for the public sale of
farming stock, may enable you to judge whether pa-
tience meek short of that of Job would be sufficient
for the present emergency: and the Resolution in the
latter, of Sir Thomas Daring and others, may serve
to give you something lilts a correct view of that com-
fort and affluence, which the humbler classes are now
to have the happiness to enjoy. One ob ion on
Ibis resolution I mint add : the whole of the wage.,
which it allots to an able laboure►, amount to 3s. fidl.
a-week, taking the year roand ; while a private foot
soldier receives 7s. 7d. a-week, besides clothing. lodg-..
iog, fire and candle.-1 am, Sir your •net oheilleof
and most humble Servant,

Wm. COBBETT.

N. B. Tie above letter was written burnt@ we bad
taken time to cook at the other Norwich Paper. We
fad, in that, axe hundred and twisty one such adver-
tisements. We. of course, wish every Register to be
read with attention; but, we think, that, if this Re-
gister, which is addressed te Sir Thomas Baring, were
read by all, or bat hay; the landlords and farmers is
the kingdom, the difficulties of the country would be
put an end to, during the very nest station of !tarifa-
went.

wLD DAILSY—Thrs Momum.

Jane Gibbs was indicted for stealing a watch, the pro-
perty of Paulo Rosa, an itinerant image tender, in
Sharp's•alley, near Smithfield, to which sink of infamy
he had accompanied her.
The prisoner pleaded, in her defence, the desertion of
berbushand, leaving her with three children, through
which she was driven to distress.—Guilty.
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Dentso Ronsear.—Frank Poirdon, Win. Corbett,
alias Watson. Joseph Cotten, alias Watson, and John
Watson, were pot to the bar, on an indictment charging
them capitally, with burgiariously breaking and enter
log the dwelling-house of Thos. Crawley, of White's-
yard, Roremary-lane, victualler, on the 30th of July
last, and stealing therein tovereigns and silver, to the
amount of upwards of 1001.
A great number of witnesses were called to establish
the fact against the prisoners, from whose testimony it
appeared that the robbery, from the manner in which it
it was effected, must have been planned with much
dexterity. The prisoners were in the habit of using
the proseentoeslouse, and about nine o'clock in the
evening of the day is question, the prosecutor was
alarmed, aml on going out, saw a light in the room
in which the property was deposited. A man whoa he be.
lived to-be W. Corbett jumped out of the window, aad was
caught by him in his arms. Three or four others came
up and rescued the man from his grasp, and for
the moment they escaped, but the prosecutor followed
and brought him back. The other prisoners proved to
have been on the spot at the time of the robbery. Pardon
and Wm. Corbett were also sworn to have gone in and
out a great somber of times, and Pardon said to the
ether, look what a "swag' (quantity) he's got. The
prosecutor was counting up 351. worth of halfpence.—
Pardon was also proved to have seized held of both the
prosecutor's wrists, while he was running and asking
him what was the matter. _ _

Pardon put in a written defence. William Corbett said
be had been drinking in the tap room of the prosecutor's
house, from six until nine o'clock in the evening, with
two persons named, the first Thomas Payne, and the
second John Knight, who swore that William Corbett
was drinking in the house at the time the alarm was
given. He saw Crawley have hold of a man, but did
not go to assist him, He did net see him take hold of
a man at the instant. It was not until three weeks
since that he was applied to to give evidence. Could
not say whether Corbett who went to the door with him
walked or ran away.
The Recorder seemed up the evidence at great length
and the Jury found the prisoners Guilty.

EXPLOSION OF THE STEAM ENGINE NEAR
CAMBERWELL.

in oar paper of rstertlsy was an account of the pro-
ceedings of the Coroners' lequest, on the two anfortu-
eye men, who lost their lives by the explosion of
the boiler of the steam *nine. Dear Camberwell.—
11. verdict was " accidentally killed, by the bursting
of a steam-hoiler." "The Jury," it is added, I. oat
of the papers of the asernieg, " also lammed the
number of accidents which has occurred in cease.
queues of Dot proper attendees being paid to the
apparatus used in the prisms of steam. far, ja all
eases is gesarally was occasioned by mime defect is
the as tidies teed in the machinery." There is too =web

'r.11311 (or theseremarlis; and we therefore wish that
e Jury. in every ease of this kis& would require
e best evidence tbat can be collected to throw
light on the causes of the accident in question. in--
steed of suffering their time to be engrossed with
etwe eircesnstaP es io which the -hapless deceased
• found, aseertainine scientifically the buds-

were J, or . _anises
or fractures that occasioned glide death, they
might be most usefully occupied in detecting Ond
reporting, with the aid of intelligent and im-
partial men, the particular defect either in the appa-
ratus or in the overseers that was the origin of the
disaster they had assembled to investigate. At all
times" the life of man ", it has been said," is like unto
• vapour ; but more especially is it at the present pe.
tied, when the existence of thousands. not only who
voluntarily trust themwlves to vessels navigated by
steam, bet who casually reside in the neighbourhood of
manufactories, is dependent on the precarious condi-
tion of intricate engines, and the careless watching of
their " safety valves ". It is no use, after a boiler of
sob of those engines has burst, and two men have in
mmsequence been killed, and four have been wounded,
lieu a score of individuals to meet and tell us, what we
lower before, that the two men were killed by the burst-
ing of the steam-boiler. A verdict in such terms Las
-little other ell than to give the timid additional rea-
son of being elnild of steam-boilers in general, It may
confirm a prejudice, bat cannot give information. What
appears expected front a solemn investigation of a
caw wherein a human life is lost, is su.h information as
may teach precaution where the disaster was accidental,
or direct to punishment if it arose from negligence or de.
sign. The instruction of the Coroner is to enquire
"how the deceased came to his death." In the instance
I of a death occasioned by a weapon, it is not enough that
the weapon beascertained; the hand thatdirected it must
also be sought out. In like manner in the case before
us, it is of little service to learn that the men
were killed by the bursting of a steam-boiler, unless the
manner is described in which the steam-boiler is supposed
to have burst. Go 'tearable to be wise from others harm,
we shall then do well. If the evidence on the late inquest
be correctly reported, the steam-boiler had been entirely
rebottomed. The accident happened the first time it was
used, after being repaired; and a question of no small im-
portance was asked by a juror, respecting the manner in
which the bottom had been rivette,l. If rivets are
ournerone, too much of the metal may be cut away, and
the vessel must be dangerously weakeued. This is a
point that well deserved leveetigation ; and if, as we
are sorry to learn from a paper of this morning, two
more persons have died in consrqueoce of the injury
they received from the explosion, another opportu-
nity will be afforded of having the point cleared up.

Upon one estate alone, near Is'legion, that of i
Mr. Rhodes, the foundations are Ity;ing for the erec-
tion of 2.700 houses.

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One of the provisions of this marriage-causing, mar-
riage preventing, paragraph creating Act, is evaded
in a very effective meaner at the church of Saint
James in this city, where we observe that the names
of the parties, and, we suppose, a reference to their
residence, but certainly not `• their houses" are affized,
it is true, to the Church door, and also in a conspi-
cuous part of the Church, but in both instances at
such as altitude, and written in such diminutive (we
do sot say illegible) characters, as to give very little
greater chance of publicity than there would be were
►ey pinned in the inside of the parson's sleeve.—
(B 1 istol Observer.)

IMPORTANT DECISION REGARDING TITIIRP.

[PROM Till DUBLIN MORNING POST
A correspondent has tarnished as with the follow-
ing note of a little case which was tried at Kilkenny.
in March, 1789. At the present period it is curious,
as well as important. The case is reported in the
Dublin Chronicle of April 2, 1789 :
KIL KK NN K APRIL I.—On Thursday, a remarkable
Nisi Prins cause was heard at tbd Conrt-honse, before
Mr. Justice Daquery and a respectable Jury, in which
the Rev. Mr. Stone, of Kells, in the County of Meath.
was plaintiff, and Sydenham Davis. Esq. of Johnsville.
defendant. The action was brought to recover 2001.
due for tithes leased by the defendant to the plaintiff.
at Rector of Kilmocabill, in this county ; when, after
a trial of some length, the counsel fur the defendant
produced a Statute of Charles 1., by which it is enact-
ed, that every Rector shall reside eighty days in his
parish every year, and preach thirteen sermons, other-
wise he will not be entitled to the tithes or dues of his
parish ; and as it was proved that the Rector was non-
resident, the Jury found a verdict for the defendant,
with 6d. cost..