Star. — London, England, 1831-10-14 00:00:00

V A 1 .1 It~' 4 , i 1 1 i lf,til ' JO - '~ ~ THIS n 1 r.P JOURN.ILS. -1 are really in a perplexity to know w hat course we should adopt, be*reen our own desire to urge, with whatever power we possess, the cause of reform, and the multiplicity of our communications to which we must dedicate space on the subject. Suffice it for the present to state, that all England is in movement to heal the mis chief that has been done by the rejection of the bill. We think we are cot going too far when we say, that even the authors of the wrong itself are (at least many of them) anxious to repair their unhappy error, and unite themselves to these whose wise measures have been delayed, not frustrated. We may roundly assert, that in' numbers all England calls out for the Bill : in intelligence also, in knowledge, and in principle, we may repeat the expression,— all England call s ou t f or t h e Bill. Th e proceed ings of public bodies, however, demand the first attention. The bankers, merchants, and traders of the City of London met yesterday at the Man sion House, in pursuance of the requisition of which we before spoke, to express their feelings on the rejection of the Reform Bill, to testify their grateful confidence in his Majesty's present Administration, and to take other step, of a similar nature. Are these gentlemen revolutionists? Are they indifferent to the peace of the country ? Have they nothing to lose ? Where, on the contrary, are we to find equal intelligence? With what country of the world have they not dealings ? Of what history are they ignorant ? Yet they, with every source of information open to them which man can possess respecting the course of human affairs,—they urge the passing of the Bill without abridgment or modification, as the only means of securing the present tranquillity, and consolidating the future happiness, of the people. There is one subject slightly touched on by some of the speakers, to which we would most warmly solicit attention, and that is the danger of delay. Ministers, undoubtedly, have many things to look to, but Reform is the chief : this obtained, all the rest will follow; but the rest, however happily executed, may be undone unless reform takes place. The enemies of reform obviously study and impose delay. They hope to obtain their end by the same method as the Ro man Consul, " qui cunctando restituit rem." They look to the chapter of accidents,—and who can tell what time may bring forth ? But time can have no effect upon that which is done and past. We hope, therefore, for the speedy con summation of the measure, and for the country's return to a peaceful and settled state. Of yet more importance, if possible, than the meeting of the peat commercial body in London yesterday, is that of the county of York on Wednesday. We cannot hero repeat the sentiment of the various speakers. We must therefore point attention to the report of the proceedings, and above all to the resolutions, where it will be observed despatch is recommended with the same eagerness and firm ness. Some official leaders, who hare been worked almost beyond their strength, must, how ever, have time for relaxation ; but we believe the length of the prorogation will not exceed three weeks or a month. In allusion to the subject connected ,with the assembling of large bodies of people, we may say without hesitation that so far have the letters of Lord Althorp and Lord John Russell been from having any un due effect on the population of the manufacturing districts, that they have actually tended most es sentially, by mitigating disappointment, to produce patience, and of course peace. It is most unjust to tax those noble lords with any attempt to excite disturbance or stimulate to fury ; their assurance, or assurance equally authentic, that the bill must pass, was necessary to calm the disposition to riot ; and the country is obliged to the noble lords for the part they have taken. These are not days in which the substance of security is to be sacrificed to form or etiquette. CuRONICLE.—We are sure that the rejection of the Reform Bill would bring aristocracy into great odium on the continent. We foresaw that the French would feel like mariners, when, on the sudden dispersion of a fog, a dangerous rock appears before them. The administration of M: Perier had evidently gained ground in public opi nion, in consequence of the exertions made by him to preserve the peace of Europe ; and after the failure of the opposition, in the recent attempts against him, his influence must have been on the increase. But the same love of peace which pro cured for M. Perier support from the piddle clas ses, led them to oppose the Peerage, when they saw a majority of 199 Peers in another country expose, for their own interests, a great nation to the chance of revolution and anarchy. Accordingly, instead of the majority on which M. Petier counted, the Chamber of Deputies bare, almost by acclamation, rejected an hereditary Peerage, the majority being 238,0 r three hundred and twenty-four to eighty-six —Although in England jurisdictions are not at tached irrevocably to certain estates, yet jurisdic tion is considered as an adjunct of landed property. The power of naming the landholders to be vested with magisterial authority, is de facto vested in the Lord-Lieutenants of countie., and the Lord Lieu tenants are with few exceptions creatures of the government in being when they were respectively made. When a party has been sixty or seventy years in office, the whole lieutenancy and magiste rial authority of the country is opposed to the mi nistry who succeed them. We see the results of this in county elections. We will answer for it there are twelve Anti-reforming magistrates for one liberal magistrate in Dorsetsliire. In order that the king of this country should have fair play, Lieutenancies should change, as a nil: ter of course, with Ministers, and Magistrates should, instead of forming a collective Judiciary, connected with ownership of land, become a regular judiciary and police. In this way no faction would be able to beard the Sovereign, and set the nation at defiance. When the representation becomes more perfect, there will be far less of the affected jealousy of the Crowe, which has so long served as a pretext fur giving individuals power to oppress the people, without the dread of being called to account for it. POST.—The efforts of the Radicals, so artfully . contrived to create tumults in ti-c capital, are ' completely exhausted ; the discontents which they temporarily excited in some quarters have alto, gether subsided, on the returniug good sense of the populace; and the metropolis is now free from all symptoms of tumult and disorder, malgre the apologies which certain persons have almost daily offered for those outrages,which they, in their • utter discomfiture had so insidiously promoted. The revolutionists, by means of their tumultuous meet- •••,•••••=.l. • ings, end-rivoured to show that their mis ! chievous preiictions were net alto. ether vcid, and the vile sabtlety to which they *exerted, in pacific diggui:e. to effect this purpose, wag every way worthy of the enemies of the constitution. The people, we aro convinced, are at hArt truly loyal, and never depart from the path of rectitude but when instigated by the evil revolutionary spirits, who are the curse of the state. On all occasions, the aural delusion practised upon them being exposal, they never fail to repent a their error, and to return ta their wont«l obedience to the laws and respect for aocial order. The truth of this observation is sur.lciently demonstrated by the pre sent traequil state of the metropolis; and thus have all the 2l . Jetz, of the revolutionary faction (with peace on their ton-. I:Cg, but mieehief at their hearts) been colapkuly frustrated. Upon this result we caneot deny ourselves the hi3h satisfaction of con gratulating not only the metroFolis but the whole erapire. Our accounts from the country by yes terday's lost are of the most favourable descrip tion. The effurts of the radicas at Bristol, Mau ch.,:ster, Ginsrnw, and various other places have cora pletely fail .11. Hen A Ll).--The only article of interest which the Paris papers contain—and they admit that ia vastly inferior in their estimation to the fate of our Reform Bill here—is the division in the Chamber of Deputies upon the long-discussed question of the French Peerage, whether in future it is to be hero di;ary or not, for that is tho only issue as 'et tried, the suggestions for supplying a sort of peerage in the room of the present system being left as a matter for ulterior consideration. This division took place on Monday last, after a discussion of se veral days. The original motion was the ministers', and it proposed the extinction of tho hereditary prin ciple of the peerage, but giving to the King the nomination of fit and proper persons to enjoy the honour during life. No less than six-and-twenty amendments have, in the course of the debate, been roode to this proposition, embodying various suAestions fur filling up vacancies occasioned by deaths, modes of elections, &c. but though, by the usage of our Parliament, these several amend ments ought to hare been put from the Chair in an inverse twee: to their being proposed, the Oppo sition hail the tact to prevail upon the Chamber to waive such a course, and to proceed to the ques tion of " hereditary or no hereditary" at once. The result has been, that the be.editary principle has been proscribed by an overwhelming ma jority, there being, out of a House of 410 Mem bers present, only 86 for the Peers, and 324 against them,—thus giving a majority of 238 against an hereditary House of Lords in France. It is quite true that, some months ago, and during ape lest general electiou for D:puties, an excitement orevailed it the public mind as general throu3lem. France, and almost as strong, as has been felt in this country for the reform bill; and away of dm candidates were required to pledi;o themselves to vote agaidat the heredity of the peers. Bet, with all these known prepossessions by a large body of the Deputies, the amount of the majority oyon the question seems to have taken the public nod the Journals by surprize, and they all concur in attributing it to the news which had but just then reached Paris of the ontrre;* committed on popular feeling by the English aristocracy here, and by the irresistible conviction which that circum stance is said to have forced upon the minds of the representatives of the people, that au hereditary I:ouse of Lords, not taken from, but on the con trary, some of its members boasting of their isola tion from, the penele, was naturally and necessarily an enemy to the enjoyment by the people of those privileges which their weight and usefulness in the Stete fairly entitled them to claim. We have in another column given extracts from several of these Papers, with the view of showing what is the bent of public feeling in France with respect to " the Bill," as the papers familiarly call it ; and we may add, that wore than one of these Journals pledge themselves that, whatever other ultimate results the late vote of the House of Lords may produce elsewhete, it has certainly been the death warrant to the extinction of the Peerage itself in France. ' •:** 414 • 1 4 113 :I. 1 . -: - • - J 1 • ... ili1:::. * q % ' -':• f t '''' ci ; ''. :... •-•., .** i l i t .. • , : . 7 . • ":,/, . 4 ‘ '-': X L . - IUTpF 1 Ti 31 ES . --- We ii r, :. tt •1 ; , `if t LOI:D WHARNCLIFFE. This Nobleman has worked himself into no small share of disfavour as a member of the aristo ' eracy, from that disingenuous attempt he made on Monday last to throw dust into the eyes of his Peers, and to misrepresent the feelings and desires of the people of England on the subject of Par Ha- mentary Reform. Wo could not have expected,' although the fact has proved wo were wrung, that a Yorkshire Nobleman of about five years staudine-, and the proprietor to boot of a little rotten Cornish borough, named Bossiney, was to be the lealler against the people, in tha corp &eta! (as the Marquis of Londonderry termed the late dissolution, in a menacing address to the Duke of Richmond), designed to continue that deprivation of their rights which tha people of this country have so long protested against. We looked for vete tough Tory of twenty years' vegetation, or some law Lord whose inveterate habits forbid all correction, as most likely to act as pioneer in this business, whilst the main body took up the debate in turn, under the skirmishing fire—the cheers and the gestures of the Duke of Cumberland, the Duke of Newcastle, and others, who, though tl:ey swell the rank and file of their patty, find it a bootless task to attempt to give a reason for the faith that is in them. With Lord Wharncliffe's talents, when he was the Hon. J. Stuart Wortley, we are not unac quainted ; we know him to be a man of business from habit, and when a renresentativa for the largest county in Ragland, one of the most atten tive men that existed to the interests of his con stituents, witzneve:- he could advocate them iu con sistency with his own opinions. He was member for Yorkshire, for a n•lmber of years, not in con sequer ce of either his sivrlatire merits, or the complexion of his politics, but simply because he had one of the weightiest purses, which none awe oppose who could not make up their minds to the probable sacrifice of 100,0001. Thus ha wallies; into the House of Commons as the representative of Yorkshire, though, beyond the mere courtesy that his offer demanded se think that Owe was no great sympathy between him and the 'l' , ti whom he took upon himself, after the formality of some solicitation, to represent. While in the House of Commons, his lordship, we believe, never gained any particular distinction, either as a ready debater or the assiduous advocate whom the mi:ister of .the day might call upon, at a short notice, to sus tain his policy, or to refute the arguments of an adversary ; but he stood high as a man of large 'ended propel ty, substantial wealth, and of an in ( y (Ardent spirit—qualincatioas which would, un r.er any oche: administration, as well as MT. Can ning's, :nobaNly have opened the way to the Upper House, es?ecialls , in tunes of less difficulty than the present, when the reverence for Old Sarum o . Cation was not quite ceparted. During the pre miership of that gentleman, Mr. Motley occupied a high place hi his favour, and through his instils iner.tality, no dcubt, a peerage was granted to ham. ilia sentiments were strictly in accordance with those of the Canning school, and they had that patrician tri , e, and that inconvertibility, which pe cdiarly fitted him who held them for the up er House, where 'll could miss with kindred spirits, tho dlstinguis`i:ag characteristic of which appears to be, that they aro more grossly ignorant or wil fully 'uliatled than any other order of men whatso ever in this country, and who, for many years, have been the unflinching sup perters of every de fect i.t the practical appl:cltion of the British Con stitution to the wants, the desires, and the circum stances of the people of this realm. Were we to descrine Lord Wharricliffe more ..fiesely, when a Comwonor, we should any of him, that ho was tics Sir Thomas Lethbridge or the Nu: Lb o;Englami--having acs same do6gedness, the same !rertiancity, and a largo prooortiou of cre dulity. With strongsr hahLe of thiaLhig, and a certain resolution to Corm iris own opinions, than Sir Timmas ever exhibited, yet 'Jo was always found in the train of the minister, and was one of the choice boz'y which, under the quaint descrip tion of the " squirearay," has sanctioned ma.i7 a edict tcr the sorious and almost irre)ara ble injury of our comm o n c oun t r y. That was the great instru-aJat in the hands of Itf:•. Canning, which always res;)onded most harmoniously to lila ; it was the " country gentlemen" who, in the admiration of the orator, the glare produced by 'Os genius, and ;ho fascinations which played around them, b. came so bewildered that, whatever doubts or hositr.tions they had at the beginning of ade'cate, they were sure to be removed or forgotten hi the aniulation and the cheers which followed au oration fforu oue o: the most splendid speakers of the day. It was amongst them that he felt him self triumphant, and it was through them that he won his way to the Premiership—the highest ob ject of his ambition, hit which proved to hide a source of so many diiliculties ..ud annoyances, so sow as he exhibited a tendency to Whig policy— tho detestation, in that day, of the nobility of the land, and in contending for which, Mr. Canning fell a sacrifice. • There is a manliness, and a determination of pmpuse in the character of Lord Wharncliffe, which every one who loves a bold straight-forward con- 1 duct, whether in peer or plebeian, cannot fail to admire. In ~he spring of 1826, the year of a ge »eral election, two while Mr. Wortley was a can didate for the representation of Yorkshire, intelli gence reached hi m th at h e h a d b een called to the peerage. It was at a time t hen that great county was much agitated, like other parts of the king dom, with the Catholic question, then the criterion of the Blues in the choice of their candidates. The " No Popery" cry was loud and very general in Yorkshire, and a further stimulus was given to the county election, by the addition of two more mem bers to its representation, in consequence of the disfranchisement of Grampound. Three candidates started in the Blue interest, and two in favour of Whig polities ; but as four members only were warded, one of the Blues, Mr. Bothell, though a moderate man, wa s obliged to yield rather than risk an immense pecuniary loss. Suffice it to say, that Lord Wharncliffe, on being succeeded by two Blue representatives, was by no means surpassed by them in diligence; one of them, indeed, was utterly unfit for his station, as the event proved, although be bad been thrust into it by certan officious friends. Oa the day of nomination, in the usual frank ness of his character, Lord Wharncliffe repaired to York, to surrender into the hands of his consti tuents that power and those duties with which he had been entrusted; we had the good fortune to be close besitio him on this interesting occasion, and a more energetic and constitutional address we never heard, tint is, as far as we could hear it, from the yells and turbulence of the " No Popery" fac tion, who paid so link respect to the Blue mem ber, (like the Blues nearer a;; home) as absolutely to refuse to listen to his :wanly ani respectful ad dress maile to them on his retirement We well .eareuther with what pathos his Lordship dwelt on Cie value of the appointment of representative to so large * county—a honour which, he declared, ho so highly pized, as almost to regret his being called to the peerage by the unsolicit a kindness of his Sovereign. If we ever did feel respect for a Tory - Nobleman, it vas on that occasion ; we ad mired his Iranknurs, and the emphatic and con • scientious way in which his Lordship could advo cate his own principles. From th.t moment to the present, when he has blcome the tauter of the revoltrionary party, th at party %die!, may eject the Bill—his Lordship has continued his c resister*: couise ; but as he never, in all protality, could' :lave been a member for York shire, save and e::cept in consideration of his purse, so neither could he have attained the peer age, had not his politics been of the proper colour to suit the interests of a long dominant party in the State. His Lordship may have acquired some renown by the step he has just taken, and his name may, if he is ambitious of it, be inscribed in the page or history ; uut be has incurred an impu tation and a responsibility, not only as regards himself, but that House of which he is a raember, which but few men could be found to hazard.— Lord Wha.ncliffe resides near the large, the po pulous, and the unrepresented town of Sheffield— one of the hot-beds, if you please, of Reform— and yet, as a plea for its rejection, he talks of the opinions of a few Bond-street trades men ! But why had not his Lordship walked into the streets of the market-town in his own vicinity, and there ascertained the state of pub lic feeling ? having done so, why did lie not state that feeling to the house ? If the manufac turing towns of the north furnish no fair sample of the public affection for the reform bill, let him visit the agricultural districts in Yorkshire or in Cornwall; he will in both counties find the feel ings prevalent, and in such strength as not to be mistaken for any passing excitement. But, were proof wanting bow duplicity could be practised by a political leader, we might fearlessly assert that his lordship resides is the atmosphere of reform— in Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, and ~. Lanca3hire, the spirit of the people is the most ar• cent thaw can nosark be imagined ; and he can not, looking ;row his mansion, cast his eyes east, west, north, or south, but, whether in town or vil lage, the same enthusiasm prevails. The country is determined; and we can hardly conceive a more wanton mistake than that just committed by Lord Wimracliffo, in his endeavours to persuade his Peers to the contrary, and to reject the bill. In deed, it is but too evident, that he has not cast away the trammels of the country gentleman in his ad vancement to the peerage, and that if be be an or nament to their house, it must be for the force of his prejudices and his unparalleled hardihood, ra ther than for any characteristic of the prudent and enlightened statesman. RRFORM OF PARLIAMENT. We give place to-day to the following letter of the celebrated writer Junius, which he dedicated to the British nation ia 15 70. Its leading pas sages being faithfully illustrative of titu present comupt system of the representation, with all its manifold abuses. " If an honest, and, I may truly affirm, a la borious zeal for the public service has given me any wo . c . ,:t. in your esteem, let me exhort and conjure you never to suffer an invasion of your political Constitution, however minute the in stance may appear, to pass by without a de terinined persevering resistance. Oae pre cedent creates another. They soon accumu late, and constitute law. What yesterday was fact, to-day is doctrine. Esamples are sup posed to justify the most dangerous measures; and where they do not suit exactly, the defect is sup 'died by analogy. Be assured that the laws which protect us in our civil rights grow out of the Constitution, and that they must fall or flourish with it. This is not the cause of faction, or of party, uor of any individual ; but the common in terest of every man in Britain. I cannot doubt that you will unanimously assert the freeeom of election, and vindicate your exclusive right to choose you. representatives. But other questions have been started on which your determination should he equally clear and unanimous. Let it bo impressed upon your miuda—let it be instilled into your children, that liberty of the press is the palladium of all civil, political, and religious rights of an Englishman, and that the rights of juries to return a general verdict in all cases whatsoever, is an essential part of our constitution, not to be con trolled or limited by the Judges, nor in any shape questionable by the Legislature. The power of King, Lords, and Commons, is not an arbitrary power. They are trustees, not the owners of the estate. The fee-simple is in us. Tbey cannot alienate—they cannot %vast°. When we say that the Legislature is supreme, we mean that it is the highest power known to the constitution ; that it is the highest in comparison with the other subor dinate .:'powers estaolished by the laws. In this sense the word supreme is relative, not absolute. The rower of the Legislature is limited, not only uy the general rules of natural justice, and the welfare of the community, but by the forms and principles of our particular constitution. If this doctrine be not true, we must admit that King, Lords, and Commons, have no rule to direct their resolutions, but merely their own will and pleasure. They might unite the legislative and executive power in the same hands, and dissolve the con stitution by act of parliament. But I am per suaded you will not leave it to the choice of seven hundred persons, notoriously corrupted by the crown, whether millions of their equals shall be freemen or slaves ? The certainty of forfeiting their otvn rights, when they sacrifice those of the nation, is no check to a brutal, degenerate mind. Without insisting upon the extravagant concession made to Henry the Eighth, there are instances in the history of other countries of a formal, delibe rate surrender of the public liberty into the hands of the sovereign. If England does not share the same fate it is because we have better resources than in the virtue of either house of parliament. I said that the liberty of the press is the palladium of all your rights, and that the right of juries to return a general verdict is part of your constitu tion. To preserve the whole system you must correct your legislature. With regard to any influence of the constituent over the conduct of the representative, there is little difference be tween a seat in Parliament fur seven years and a seat for life. The prospect of your resentment is toe remote, and although the last session of a sep tennial Parliament be usually employed in courting favour of the people, consider that at this rate your representatives have six years for offence, and but one fog atonement. A death-bed re pentance seldom reaches to restitution. If you reflect that in the changes of administration which have marked and disgraced the present reign, although your warmest patriots have in their turn been invested with the lawful and unlawful authority of the Crown, and though other reliefs or improvements hare been held forth to the people, yet that no one man in office has ever pro moted or encouraged a bill for shortening the dura tion or parliaments; but that (whoever was minis ter) the opposition to this measuie ever since the Septennial Act passed, has been constant and uni form on the part of government. You cannot but conclude, without the possibility of a doubt, that long parliaments are the foundation of the undue influence of the Crown. This influence answers every purpose of arbitrary power to the Crown, with an expense and oppression to the people, which would be unnecessary in an arbitrary Govern :rent. The best of our ministers find it the easiest and most compendious mode of conduct ing the King's affairs, and all ministers have a general interest in adhering to a system which of itself is sufficient to support them in office, without any assistance from personal virtue, popularity, labour, abilities, or experience. It promises every gratification to avarice and ambition, and secures impunity. These are truths, unquestionable. ICI they make oo implestion, it is because they are too vulgar and too notorious; but the inattention or indifference of the nation has continued too long. You are roused at last to a sense of your dangers. The remedy will soon be in your power. If Junius lives, you shall often be reminded of it. If, when the opportunity presents itself, you neglect to do your duty to yourselves and your posterity, to GOD and to your country, I shall have one consolation left, in common with the meanest and ' basest of mankind, civil liberty may still last the life of " Junius." APPEAL CASE OF HARRIS vows 1E.51131.1 JUDGMENT IN FAVOUR OF Ma. C. KL;NIBLE HOUSE OF LORDS—Tut/inner. HARRIS. V. KESISTR....aft. TENNEY replica! at grt-t length t is morning, on this Important appeal, at th. co ;. elusion of which The LORD Cuewci Ltoe rose to g i ve judgment, hi, noble friend at the table (Lord Plunked) an d hi mself, b3d paid the greatest attention to the arguments in this cam. and at the conclusion of the addresses of sir E. S i . g d a „ and Mr. Timmy on behalf of the appellant, they (am , mined no doubm ;.S to the advice they ooght to give to the house, but from the preliminaries of the ease, his noble friend (Lord Lyndhurst) havitig reversed the decision el the pre sent Namer of the Rolls, who had heard the ease at great length, and at great labour made himself %nuttier the Ind they tnought it right to hear the whole ease. That had no w been done, and more able argumeo4 he (th.l Lad Chanclioe; never had head. rce (pinion, hei6ever, whit: and his learord friend bad formed bad . :ot been /Mucci I,v those arguments. It was eller to his lordship, tha t in the suit of a specific performance tilt plaintih: had failed lo pea of misrepresentation. He agreed entirely tei:h tlit grounds of his Lamed friend's (Lord Lyndhurst) juelot:nt, and h: I.bonid, therefore, move their lordships that that judgment he r.fHrmed. Lord PLuxzETT concurred entirely with the judg ment pronounced in the Court below. No doubt could be entertained that misrepresentations had taken place, not upon trifling matters and things that were immaterial, but with respect to the receipts of the Theatre, which were cal culated to induce the parties to submit to a rent which they otherwise would never have done. He thought that stall. cleat grounds had been shown for not carry;r.g the contract (which was entirely executory) into execution. I.lrd LvrannuasT had attended timely to the argumentc on both !Ades, and sew no reason whatever for altering the opinioa lie had originally formed. Their Lordships then ordered the judgment of the Court below to be effirmed, but i.ithout costs. Mr. Rouble and Miss Fanny Kemble, who had been at tending to the zrguments during the morning, on returning from below the bar received the congratulations of their sur. rounding friends. POLICE REPORTS. e GUILDHALL. T. Carter, a boot.maker, in Hosier-lane, Smithfield, was charged with assaulting some person in the Court of Re. The but who did not appe ar t o su pp ort hi s complaint. The defendant was therefore discharged. The cause of the assault was said to arise as follows:_ Defendant had summoned a customer for 30s. the price of pair of boots, which he disputed Won the Commissioners, on the ground that they were too little for him, and that he had been compelled to sell them at a loss; and the Com. minima, thereupon reduced defendant's claim from 30s. to 221. But defendant was satisfied that, notwithstanding this defence, his customsr had the identical pair of boots then o:1 his feet, and thought that, if by some feat of agility he could suddenly ling his customer on his back and draw off h:s boots, be could satisfy their Honours the Commissioners that he had not misfitted the gentleman. He however failed in executing his coup de grace, and was instantly pounced on by the beadles of the Court, and brought before th e Mullane. THAMES POLICE. Yesterday, Michael Cotter, the keeper of a new beer shop, in Green Bank, Wapping. was fined Ws. for having his house open at three o'clock on Sunday morning. Harriet Webb and Elisabeth Robinson were remanded, charged with Coaling a ten- pound note and two shillings, from the person of Robert Skean, muter of a Scotch trader. LAMBETH-STREET. PIACI/LILO ST7tTZC7I;HEILT Exn Or net Toww. —Nothing can be morc peaceable or orderly than the con. duet of the inhabitants of diedistrict of this cam for the last week ; u a proof of it, and though it comprises a great pow. doe of Spitalfields and Bethnal Green, there was only one solitary , and that of common-place disorder, brought before the trates yesterday, a drcumatance which has not been recollected for some years past. Lest, however, their assistance should be required, which it is hoped will not be the cue, the officers of this establishment are oc duty every night until twelve o'clock, and reports of the state of the district are sent to the Bome•oflce until the latest hour. MARLLA.BONNE. CHAtelt or FJLAUD.— , Yesterday Aim Catherine Berk. skim, an elderly lady, wee brought up on the tidlowlag :—Mr. Haw Mae, as upholsterer, of Seymour.street, charge Bedford-square, said, that in June, 1830, be called, bide. sire, on lbs. Berkshire, who told him ebe was parted sum her husband, and was in the enjoyment of 2001. a yeu. Her next payment would be in October, and if he, eon. plainant, chose to furnish a house for her, she would giv him a cheek for the amount on Mews. Coutts and Cc He agreed, and having furnished a house to tb. amount of 291. received two checks i _ the payment of shish was refused on being presented. He endeavoured to get back his furniture, but was prevented by a m a n wh o turn e d out to be her husband. He beard no more of Dlr. Berk. shire until last Saturday, when he received a notice that be was about taking the benefit of the Insolvent Act, and had put his debt, among others, in the schedule. his. Berk. stare said her husband had stopped the payment of the checks, and that she was not to blame. This excuse, how. ever, was not received, and the lady went to Coitus's with the complainant in order to pay him his debt, an officer at. tending there with directions not to set the lady at liberty until it was paid. Dl.l RLBOROUGH-STREET. Joseph Thompson and Moses Solossiiios were charged with being reputed thieves, and being about creating a riot for the better committing depredations on the pockets of In dividuals. A gentleman named Prockter, residing at Charing.cross, observed the prisoners put their bands in the pockets of st. viral persons in the crowd. They were committed to prison for one month each and bard labour. Thomas Lucas, a country-looking man, was charged with throwing stones and defacing the statue of Achilles in Hyde Park. On being called on for his defence. the prisoner sad that be bad just come from the country, and seeing a mob pelting the statue, he thought that he would have " a bit of a lark ton," and consequently he commenced throat's; straws, when he was taken into enstody.—The Niagistrau severely reprimended the prisoner, who, promising out to be guilty of such conduct spin, was discharged on psy.n s small fine. There were metal other prisoners, all coming undo the description, examined at Knightsbridge, where a ms• &trate was sitting, and all summarily dealt with. QUEEN SQUARE. Yesterday, a great number of persons of the lowest ortla were charged with riotous conduct and assaulting the No Police, ;in St. James's Park. Francis Hoyle. of 31, ear. rest-street, Lambeth; Thomas Christopher, of 3, Pleasant. row Pentonville, were fined 31. eac h. Charles Smith, of Bidixirough-street. wu fined 41. Mr. Charles Patin, 0: Holborn-hill, was fined 3L for rescuing a man out of cui• to r tr ie Michael Clifford, a journeym an bl ac k sm i t h, d PGoacc. asa or, of 22, Peter -street, Doctors' Commons, 3 S f - ed 31M. for rioting and assaulting the officers. On Wednesday last, i i : lß Dl T oa li tag . us.placr, thc I dy of F Thesiger, Esq. of a soo. MARRIED. The 13th inst. at St. Matthew, Bethnal.green. Mr. J. Greenway, of Leigh-sweet, Burton.ereseent, to Eliza, dna daughter of W. H. Wright, Esq. of London-terrace, Hack ney-road—The 13th inst. W. It. Waddell, Esq. youngwt son or the late R. Waddell, Esq. of Islandderry.housr. county_ of Down, Ireland, t o L ou i sa A nne , d aug hter of th late Wall, Esq. of Alontague.street, ltursell.squarr• —The 13th last. at St. John's, Hackney, C. Plane, EN. of Darny Hey, near H a lif ax , to M argaret , d au gh t er of the late G. Tubb, Esq, of Clacton. DIED. The 12. h inst. at SVoolwich, Mrs. Marshall, Stl. of E. Marshall, Esq. late of the Royal Atsenal, WooOrli:. —Tbe I Ith inst. at South Lantbetb, J. Pinnick, &kW!' of Broad -street, Bloomsbury, 72—The leth Mr. at inn=' Heath, Worcestershire, Miss Russell--The 22d of Jo : at Rio de Jamb*, in the Brasile, 3lrs. Cunningham, 44 '' wife of Lieut.-Col. Cunningham, His Britannic Mar! . Commissary Judge in that city—The Bth inst. at Ilsrloi Mrs. Wallace, 87, relict of the Rer. M. Wallace, I ' 4 Bishop's Siordoed. Herts.—The 11th inst. at Clapba'r. Burley, Mrs. R. Taplin, 47, wife of Alr. T. Tsplic,l 4- muter, after a long Protracted illness. Lownox : Printed and Published by Joni MeTtgla t ski STA& OYFICg, No. 1, ?idealises, TsIDIk Mar* ,~ i