The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-05-16 00:00:00

, . NI. wars the tuseertaisty IliellheprelP•eidentest the Right Bon. Gast. would be varied Into effect. With rupee' to the disposition of the Colonial Legislature to improve the religiose condition of the negroes, he did not fully agree with the Hon. Member. He begged to remind the Howse that some years ago a resolution had passed the House. which had for its object to enforce in the Colonial Legisla ture the necessity of taking steps for the religious improve ment of the oegroes. Now If they did rot act UP to this in junction, they were either guilty of gross neglect, or they ii ffered from the House upon a very material point. Bat what security had the House that the present resolution would receive greater attention than the one to which he had just referred? tie wished to ask had any of those things ' , been done, which were r, commended to the Legislature by the authority or the British Parliament? He would ask wire they mean in a train of execution? The Hoe. Member then adverted to the state of Jameffek and said that he found a statement in a Getette of that island, dated in November last, from which it appeared that it was only in two or three parishes that the measures for the religious improvement of the negroes had begun to take effect. He ridiculed the opi nion that we were to take the same interval and allow the same means to operate as in former times for the extinction of the state of servitude. Would Hen. Gentlemen have the House recur to the practice of the Genie. dark ages? Would they allow nething for the advancement of knowledge? Did Hon. Gents. know that in the 13th century slavery existed is' ' England; that slaves used to be bouoht on 11 - 3 coast of the ' , Channel and sent to Ireland, andthat the testae was at length I stopped by the Irish themselves. Ile urged the House to act with firmness. So long as the House suffered a sub ordinate authority to entertain the notion that any of the subjects of the Government under their controul were not completely the subjects of the Government; so long as this notiun was eutertaiued, the march of improvement would be slow, indeed. Mr.HRIGHT begged to add his testimony to the improved condition of the mirrors. He complained of the many important this-statements which hail gone abroad upon this sei njeet. For instance, it was putlickly asserted that since the discussions commenced in that House for the abolition of slavery, the price of the manumissions of slaves was rais ed iu the different islands. The Hon. Member said that this statement had not the least foundation in truth, and quoted the imperative sums paid in 1797 and 1821 for the manu mission of slaves, from which it appeared that in most in. 'tames the sum had been reduced from one hundred pounds to a trifiag amount. The Hon. Gentleman here called the at tention tat the House to a gross inisre:,resentation which had been made by a pretended qm..tation from Mr. Cooper's book, sod which tended to excite en unjust prejudieesgainst the West India planters. There arts not one of those pro , prietors with vi hum he had ever conversed, who expressed any otter feeling toward, their negroes than that of a sin cere and anxious desire to promote their comforts in every possible way. Sir GEOGGE ROSE stated that, being possessor of a %mail estate in one of our West India islands, and under standing that there ;'err difficulties in the way of the re ligious instruction of the slaves, he had himself gone to the West Indies fur the purpose of examining the subject. lie found that on One estote the slaves were in a state of darkness, but that in another, it being adjacent to a w e al. yen Establishment, their conduct wassoexeuiplary. that out of 120 men, only ten were considered as bad, mid only one woman out of 130. He thought they were ier aitily raised in the scale of human beings. lteligions Instr.,. :ton was not forbidden or impeded. Six ye seven a ere et tirely, arid others were partially, open to the Wesleyan, ; although there was in general a great prejudice against that sect. He believed that if the pe cuniary woos of the Wesleyans were a little improved, they tote lit be enabled to double their action. Sir. SYKES said lie wild not agree with his Hon. Ft hind (Mr. Bright) that Mr. Cooper's hook had been misquoted, and he notintaiced 1114 the wretched slaves were exposed to every kind of hardship and ill usage; their evilli nun was never taken in any way whatever, and they could acquire no property; for whatever property they h their t ad . n sa d v i l a n l I t he , was a Ipropertya l together L o t f the It; ffe masters. reo t ln from t h s a l t t o r o t f slaves in ancient Rome, or in any other country in the world. Mr. BRIGHT explained. Mr. MARRYATT said that by the law of Dominica, the testimony of negro slaves was admitted ; that law produced the happiest enacts, and he had no doubt but it would be adopted in other islands. Here the Hon. Member read a re port from the Governor of Dominica, in which it was de -dared that the negroes were treated in the best possible manner, and behaved themsclies uncommonly well. He read a similar report from Honduras, which stated the slaves were welt fed, well treated, and contented, and comfortable. The Gentirman who gave that description said he had gone soMonduras a perfect Wilberforce—(a laugh)—in all his feelings towards the owners of slaves; but that his opinions were 3000 eltere-: by every thing he had witnessed. Mr. Marryatt read reports from St. Kitts, St. Lucie, Tobago, and other islands which represented the condition of the slaves to be greatly improved and comfortable; and stated tat many of them possessed property. The report from Jamaica slid Trinidad also stated that consider' ole im provements were making in the condition of the slaves, and that the value of those with good characters had been really • enhanced. From the different extracts whic.l he had read, it was evident that, during sonic years past, the condition of the Caves had been much improved ; and they were suffi cient to refute all the calumnies that had been sent forth against the slave-owners and the colonial legislatures ; and he was confident thnt fatal effects must arise from any de claration made by that (louse that slavery was inconsistent with the Christian religion, and with humanity. Mr. BROUGHANI said he could not allow this ques tion to be finally disposed of, without taking care that he should not be understood to he a party to what he thought could prove a delusion ; thon-ti he sincerely believed that it could not he a delusion intended by the Right Bon. Gentleman who bad been uniformly a warn) and able acrocate for the abolition of s!avery. He (Mr. 13.) could rot see at v miens of carrying into effect those admire bledot trim s o Lich were somewhat speculatively advanced la the Amendment. Two Addresses from both Houses of Yarlian eat lad, at different times been presented to the Crown, praying that it would take measures for &who satin; the condition of the Negroes, Those Addresses bad been most graciously received by the Crown ; and Yeti seven years after the last Address, they were not any more forward than they w ere originally. He was told, however, that his distrust of Colonial Legislatures was misapplied : and his Hon. and Learned Friend the mem ber fur Bristol (Mr. Bright), was well content to take the testimony of the Slave Owners themselves as to their humanity. His Hon. and Learned Friend had also told them sot to trust to a book called " Negro Slavery," and hal Inought a glare charge against the author of that 610 k. a Mr. Macau'ay, whom he had long known as a ftie ad, and whose conduct ogs above all praise. After a warm and eloquent culoginin on Mr. blocauley, and his runlocs in the sac red cause of abolhibing sfavery, the Hun. and Learned bleitil er observed that, in the ease of tie particubir rge hrought icgainst that Gendent to le sterting his it.i•qui.ung r. Conper,t lie answer was short soil deem' ye. Mr. Uo..per 11 la II u.s.-If corrected the press sheet elthat p irt of Mr. Macaulev's work.—(Hear,hear.) lie (llt. it.) was qn to rat4ti d his Hon. and Learned Yricod nau no into ntim to bring an unfounded charge agaimt Mr. Macan!ey. The Gun. arid Learr.ed Gentle- Ism lamented that lie could not see the treatment of the bkves•to be so achnirahle as an Hon. Member lied de resibed. H e admitted that Governor Maxwell was Im bue, but it the inhabit f :ea were as humane, u. I t by % mas tire ovt., pre-eoted I;y the Grand ur ? MU said a G n was per f-i t, and that the Slaves J were 30 delighted with their cundj•iun, that they had no wish I ', chimer. He had seen in the Jamai a Paper something se a cuntradietien to that suaterteut. It was not resiom able to suppose they wi s h e d for no change in tb , ir al-' t u•thni, because he fount) not less than fifty runaway slates advertised. Himont-able and Learned ties). 'lsmail -mil toe &der risement, and also one for s run ("mak slave named Celia ; her person was descrih mtving ivark.rd aul branded witli the letters P. W. S. ~. TILE STATI H e denied that ancient history could furnish any eases of slavery so disgusting as the system of slavery in the Colo nies. No one could find any thing like the brutal force anti. use of the whip which distinguished the :resists:at °films io the West Indies, who were reduced to a footing with the brnte.lt was said, however, on a former occasion, when the subject came under the consideration of that House, that the unfortunate negro would be enlightened, by religion. —They were told of the kind Governor, the humane master, and the amiable driver. All these topics were urged to render the generous efforts of humanity made for the liberation of the unfortunate slaves unsuccessful. The statement that slaves were under the contrail of old masters was incorrect. The West lodia Planter was not like the English landholder, West India property was always subject to fluctuation—masters of planttitionir might be humane, but it appeared, on enquiry, th it it was not the interest of masters to behave well to slaves. Persons too ufteo purchased Colonial property as a ape• culation, and to make the must of their purchase they were disposed to flog their slaves, under the expectation of making the property more productive. The Post masters in England often dogged their horses on a prin ciple of profit eni loss. The more the animals could do tire greater was the interest of the merciless owner. lie might ask what bad been done since the abolition to ameliorate the condition of ►he slates? His lamented Friend (Sir S. Hominy) put that question, and uo satis factory answer could be given; and all the advocates of emancipation had been bitterly disappointed. After dwelling upon these topics at considerable length, he expressed a hope that his H3n. Friend would not quit the subject until be prodoced a law to make all male children born in the Colonies free; and concluded by hoping that this and other similar regulations would be enacted. Mr. M A R HYATT explained. Mr. BERNAL thought his Hon. and Learned Friend, the Member fur Winchelsea, had made en invidious a:- tack on the owners of colonial property. He could prove that acts of cruelty in the West India colonies bad !teen prosecuted and punished. It was unworthy the talent of his Learned Friend to state that negroes were branded and !rested like cattle. Was it candid or fair to call in , the aid of ridicule, which could only cast unmerited oblo guy on the unfortunate planers. Hun-away slaves had always been found by advertisem•nt, and were secured in work-houses. It was well known that in Jamaica all persons of the black population having claim to freedom, could proceed by law again:l any one who detained them, and recover damages. Mr. MANN INV! explained. Mr. BARING spewed that the statemews as to the si tuation of the slaves had been greatly exaggerated, and entered at some length into the general question, to prove that it was nut one on which this country could form a correct judgment, and of course the greatest c e curnspectson 'MOIL to be used in legislating upon it. Lord ALTHOHP strongly condemned the present system, observing that he wanted nothing mom to prove tne necessity of interfering in behalf of these wretched beings, st lien they were content, of their own free choice, to doom their progeny to the perpetual lash of a brutal master—their daughters to his lust —(Hear, hear.) Mr. F. BUXTON made a general reply. Mr. becretary CANN explained that he had abjured the idea of perpetual slavery, being convinced that a time must arrive when the progeny of staves must be free. But he had guarded himself, whatever might be his feelin g , from saying any thin { speci fi c as to when or how, because he bed no precise plan in his mind, and also because be did not wish to say any thing that bight, whic;i be might hereafter be re ' quired to qui•liiy. Mr. F. BUXTON said, that under these consideration?, ' with 'the concurrence of his friends, be had only to express his extreme satisfaction at the decided manner in which the Right Hon. Gentleman had declared himself, and asked per. mission to withdraw Lis motion, with liberty to renew it should aay misunderstanding arise. The Motion was then witudrawu, and the other Orders o the Day having been disposed of, the House adjourned a Half-past One. GRECIAN INDEPENDENCE. PROCZLDINZS ♦T THZ ►URLIC NIZETING AT THZ CROWN AND ANCHOR TRIITZRDAY. (Continued from our last.) Mr. Hosuousa conic forward amidst great applause. As he had passed some of his early days in Greece, it might be supposed that his sympathies were increased by that circumstance; but it required not to be in Greece, and to see the spots where the most splendid actions of the world were perform, d, to advocate the cause of that un fortimate people, who were now contending fur the greatest of all rankly blessings—liberty, without which life is nothing. All that bad been said against the cha racter of the Greeks, he was full able to contradict. lie had it on the authority of Cul. Gordon, and a high au thority it was, fur he had adventured his person as well as opened his purse in the cause; that all the accounts of similar . barbaiities exercised by the Greeks at Tripolez za, were either exaggerated or bad not the slightest foundation in truth. To say that trey hail not about theta those appearances of liberty which their ancestors loved, was only saying, that for several centuries they had not been independent; for they had been under the yoke of despotism; and certainly that was nothing, for their misfortune should not be construed into their fault. Af ter many other appropriate observations, the Honourable Gentleman said he lied it in his power to state, that the Greeks had already done great things. Almost the whole of the southern parts of Ureece were in their possession, and in two years they had nearly ex! rininated 70,000 of the enemy. He concluded with moving, that it was the bounden duty of the Meeting to promote the success of the Greek cause by all the means in their power. Mr. JOHN SI uN sir TAYLOR, the Barrister, seconded the motion with several impressive observations; but our limits will not allow us to report them on the pr..sent occasion. Lord A. HAMILTON thought it a high honour to be any way instrumental in pioniuting so just and noble cause, and in defeating if possilale the designs of that fraudu lent conspiracy which was formed at Verona. (Applause.) tie hoped at least, that the Greeks might have lair play against their oppressors, and that they and their children would not again become the prey of a voluptuous IlLiko :nem soldiery. The Noble Lord, atter several pertinent remarks,which wint of room compels us to omit,tuoved that it was the duty of this country to prevent the reptitioa of the ravages which had been committed by the Turks on the Greeks. M r. U.BRINDELEY SHERIDAN seconded the Resolution, and coded the a.tetition of the Meeting to the horrible pro ceedings at Scio. The Turkish fleet left Constantinople a ith peremptory orders lilt to leave a human being alive in that devoted place. They executed those cutlers like true Turks-13UP0 (Leeks were pet to death aids as much rapidity as if but a single head had been tahrii oil, The cause of the Greeks had been deeply injured hy the sovereigns of Europe. Three times had Greece revolted at the instigatitin of nimbi and as often bad she been lett to her late. it was a sort of blasphemy against nature to refuse amp'e justice to a race of men so situate I.— (Applaus .) It had been said, in every point of view, wh•ther oh morality, religion, or fresdum, they were urged to come forward, and to remember that it was the mural itilinence of their exertions, as well as their pecu niary subscriptions, that was likely to kindle a dam throughout this cuuutry, and animate the Greeks to std, further efforts. Mr. W. SUIT" then addressed the Meeting. He had heard with admiration the eloquent speech of the Gentle-' man who preceded him. He had heard that Gentleman witb far more pleasure than most of those be addressed, because it reminded bin: of the manner of his eloqoent AN father. The ilemeerable , Gentleman then urged with much ability tb cameo Of those on whose account they had assembled. He stated the con litioa of some who, as fugitives, had Wien refit*. lb Russia, subsequently fleeing to Switzerland, and 'now wieldiest an asylum on the British shore; and concluded by aim vine a Resolution, reco amending exertions on behalf of the Greeks on the continent of Europe and in America., Mr. lIARTOPP seconded the Resolutton. Mr. Maxwau. moved the sixth Resolution, recom mending a subscription. Mr. WILIUS seconded the Resolution, and urged it as a duty to show the world that it was not only the Noble and the Learned in England, but men of all classes and of all denominations who joined in sympathy for the eV feri ng intuthitants of Greece. He would read the sob. scriptions that hail been already received : —Lord John Russell, SO/. ; J. C. Hobhouse, P. 1.251. ; J. Home, Esq. 10/; the Duke of Bedford, 100/4 had Pim/Fill; am, HMI.; Lord Milton, 501. ; T. Coke, 'Esq. 25/. • the Hon. Lev cester Stanhope, NI.; E. Ellice, Esq. 401. • J. Maxwell. Esq. 401; J. Smith, Esq. lOU ; —Rolii, Esq. 41)1.; Mavrocorilato, Esq. 401 &e. &c. Mr. Wilks also stated thst Thomas Campbell, the Poet of Liberty, had cont•ihnted. The list was received with great applause. Mr. HENRY IiLINT presented himself to the meeting. He Nit that something had been omitted that day, and it was his disposition to supply what was defective. It had been omitted to state bow the Greeks had been treated by the Representative of the British Govern mem, Sir Thomas Maitland. He was sorry to see the meeting so thinly atten led. They hail not an assembly of more than 1000, thoult the struggles and sufferings of the Ureeks•had continued for two years. He was da -1 lighted to 'hear the expression of feeling in favour of the Greeks front persons of high rank and character, to hear sentiments in favour of liberty from the mouths of souse whom he had heard express very different feel ings in their pl ices in the House of Commons. Lord John Russel hail described to them in glowing language s victim, who liad been plunge.) in the dungeons of the despots of wodero Europe. He 01r. Hun), could, if their time was not to be better employed, give them a living picture of a victim from one of those dungeons. He was sorry to hear such a list, as bad just been read, 4 which was ealcola'ed to throw cold stater on their exer tions (" No, no!"). When some time ago, there was a subscription for an i•jured individu- I, Sir R. Wilson, they saw 50t1/. sub.cribe.l hv those who now subscribed 1101. (hisses). This would discourage subscriptions. (hisses, " No, no.") He cane there prepared, impo verished MR he was by oppres.ion, to put down his liaise for as considerable a sum as the Duke of Bedford (ap pianist.). He came these nut to shake a show hut a sacri lice (applause). When he was chained in the borough monger's dungeons his heart had bled for the sufferings of the Greeks. Ile bail understood that two years ago there had been an intention of calling a Public Meeting of this kind ; üby bail it been so long delayed till the evil bad come si Much nearer our own doors in Spain (hear, hear, bear !) ? There wait, he understood, a Com mittee fur the suffering Spaniards ; he hoped they would not drive off all exertions for two years (hear!) It they ' aid, he (Mr. II) and his friends should take up the sub ject (applaus..). Ile thanked those who had heard him, and those who ha I done him the honour to hiss him (a laugh), for rapid, as tue progress of the age was rapid, it would be ominous if be could speak at a Crown and Anchor Meeting without being hissed (a laugh.) The Ittholution was agreed to. Captain 11!assume moved the nomination of the Co.nnsittve, which was at present se•fsappointed also that it be empowered ti apply the subscriptions, and add to its ',lumbers, according to its diacreton ; and that it he likewise instructed to open a correspondence with other societies formed fur the same purpose. Mr. ftcrT seconoled the motion. Ile hoped the friends of the Ureeks would contribute, according to their abilities, whether they contributed mites or thousands. —(Applause ) Me, HUNT Said it would he much better that the money should be put at the disposal of five honourable men, Lord Milton one of them, which would be a much better security than a numerous seli.elected Committee. He did not care who the persons entrusted with the money were, so they were gentlemen known to the world. Captain Manumit said, the money was to be in the hands of three Treasurers who he thought would satisfy every Englishman. They were John Smith, Esq. M.P., E. ellice, Esq. M.P., and Sir J. D. Forbes, Esq. Bert.— (Applause.) Mr. Ilcv•r—But they have not the disposal of the money, they have only the custody of it. The money pot at the disposal of Committees generally falls into the hands of souse intriguing persons who by superior a:•ti• vity prevail over the snore honest members. I do not mean to reflect on the present Committee, for I do not know one of them.—( the names will be read.) Captain DI AstERLY read the names of the Committee. The following is a List of the Committee : LORDs—Archi laid Hamilton, M.P., Glenorehy, M.P., Beutinck, ALP., Deere, Nugent, Dundas, John Russell, Ebringtoa. BINS—H. Banbury, James Mackintosh, John Dean Paul, Robert Heron. _ _ flosounauLes—George Dundes, Lawrence Dundas. Maunets or PARLIAMENT—David Ricardo, Charles Ten nyson, W. L. Maberly, John Smith, John Maxwell, D. Sykes, W. W. Whitmore, Robert Chaloner, Dominic Brown, Simnel Crompton, J. C. Ilobhouse. S. Majoribanks, Joseph Hume, J. B. Monk, W. Smith, George liartopp, George Philips, Colonel Davies. General Long ' • Colonel L. Jones (Guards); Captain Wil braham Major Murray. Rev. Dr. Chattietd ; get. Mr. Barker, of Thetford. Dr. Gilchrist ; Dr. M'Lean. John Wilks, T. B. Beaumont, David Millie, John Christie. . . Wi3lam Turnball, John A. Smith, Samuel Parkes, John Lowe, Skin's, Jabez Henry, Alavrocordato George Ensor, George H. Sheridan, David Davenport, John Towel Run, George Weatherstone, 'F. Rowcroit, George Wilbra ham, Henry Cooper, Esquires. Messrs. Francis Place, R. Taylor, Bowring. Mr. HUNT asked 1 , ..w many of these would attend 2 The Committee consisted, a 4 was generally the case at the outset, of very honourable names, which were put forward, while In the and some active intriguing fellow nipped in who dis posed of the money. lie tit- ught the plan he had proposed much better. Mr. Husia said, to judge from the past, eight or ten of the Committee alwapi attenc;ed, and lie thought in any eight or ten of the persons whose names had been read,theru was a security against any misapplication of tue money (ap plause !) The Resolution was agreed to, Mr. Hunt alone dissenting. The Rev. Dr. CII%TVIELD moved the thanks of the Meeting to the Noble Chairman fur his able conduct iu the Chair. Lord CLENORCIIY sec mkd the motion, and took occasion to observe, that vie individual (Mr. Hint). who was in the habit of ittterf:ring in meetings where hie presence was nei titer useful nor agreeable, had apparently only come to in terrupt Unit. proceedings (ap?laiise, and cries of no !) If every wan hat ensue to speuk of his own grievances and stif ferino they shouli have lit.le advanced the great cause for whicik they w e r e wet.—(Mr. II unt—Orde r, order! question, question !)--Ile slid not deny that he had suffered. As to bir Thomas Maitland, he (L red Olenurch)) believed, that that officer had acted according to the best of his judgment, and it lie was the instrument of improper acts, it was the fault, not oft . e individual, but of tne Government (hisses). As that individual was a near connection of his. he had thought it fit to say this much. As to the remarks of the Lientieman (lr. Haut) on the sul.• Aritions. every ono wits the propt rjudge of his own ;aeons (applause !) Mr. lit NT—•Whiit is the neut.+ of that Gentleman 7 The Secnirraar—Lord Me. Ha:me—Lord Gienorchy; very well. The motion was carried by acclAns.ition. Lord M LTA, briefly returned thinks, and the Mee ting • eye rated. DUBLIN. —...-- Kime's Billies, MAY 10. Mr. Edwird Pennehkther moved thq Coert fora Criminal Information against Mr. T. R. Ryan. a M•gg,latrateof thq County of Tipperary. for having forcibly broken open the pound of Comfy, and rescued cattle thetstout, under to fol lowing circumstance.. Ile stated, that some cattle had been (Retrained for rout due to Messrs. Scully, and impounded, in En•ty pound ; they were lying there on the g2d of April, when Mr. Ryan, the Magistrate, came to ttmly, at the head of a mob of apwards cf one 'elmired armed teen mostly mountalueers. and in the noon day he forcibly broke open the pound, and rescued several bead of cattle, drove thent •way, and converted them to his own vie. Such an outrage , desarves t.. be particularly reprobated: It was committed i.t a county which has been particularly .14iirhtd, and the scene of rontinuel riots and breaches of the peace ; and suet an evil example of misconduct in a person of any etetton, must prove exceedingly mischievous in its consequences atnonest lb. lower orders of the community. He hoped. therefore, that the CoUrt would severely visit this de:in gurney upon Mr. Ryan. ilia statement Was supported by the affidavits of Jeremiah Connell. the pound-keeper, -- - Leary, poliretnan. and Thomas Cunnurs, the wan who had distrained the cattlo. Covet —Undoubtedly, this is a most ontrugeons and il;s grateful proceeding in any gentleman, pirtictiLirly a ,Magis trate; and a county, so very lawless and di.turhed i.e that distaitt is at pr‘s,nt ; and the Magistrate who could have bean guilty of such gross misconduct, deserves the heaviest punishment of the law. However. since it is pot sworn that hearted at tl Magistrate in the business, we fear that we cannot interfere, but must leave him to an indict ment and trial by a Jury of his country. If it had hero sworn that he acted as a Alegistrete, we should certainly grant the criminal informative against him. Mr. H•Tenett..—My I.ords; it is sworn by Leary, the police-man, that lie would have interfered to prevent Ithe outrage, but was awed by Mr. Ryan's situatiou as a Mugu trate, and thereby prevented from interfering. ' Mr. Justice BotTon.—That is all inferential matter, awl lest a f.ct than a consequei,ce. We fear that we carload act upon it in tais ease ; and although we cannot notice it pr.,- 1 prrly as we could wish; yet we have no doubt that it will he duly 'lofted in another quarter. CRIMINAL INRORMATION. The King, at the prosecution of Mich .el O'Connor, against Joseph Timothy liadyn, and Willie& Glynn. proprittois of the Newspaper cailed "The Evening Mall." • On Friday, Mr. O'Connell moved for a conditional Order for a Criminal lnforia.t , ion against the defendants in this case. for a gross libel on the Catholic Clergy of the South of Ireland, printed in their Paper 4 f the 2311 t of April ult. Mr. O'Connell grounded his application on en efficient, :tins which he read two or three passageS of the libel in que►tion. and was about to proceed, but Tge Court said It was unnecessary to go further, and im mediately granted the Rule. Mr. O'Connell ►toted that he was prepared with an autho rity to shew that a prosecution kr a libel ou a body of men m ght be sustained.—Thelr Lordships Lid not thaik an au• thority necessary. 1 OLD BAILEY.—(YEszeRDAi) 1. fl'i lfisrd and George 'erre indicted for 'mt. elariously breaking into the doeliin.: - - house of ti i m r o Dillon% and stealing therefrom divers arlis les ut the property of John Webster aidl others.—Vesdoi, Mr. Justice flay LET pronounce.' the deei,ion of the twelve Judges, in the s case of John William Norms, tries for a burglary in the February Sessitins. On the trial his Counsel took an Miersimi to the indictment on cot ground that the prmeeutrix It of hot been properly ci - scribed. she having been statue.' Mary Johnson. wiser...se her real name was Mary Davi s . Trie fact ea', that the proseentrix's real name was Davis, hut for the last five vears she had gone by no other name than that of Mary 'Johnson. Their Lordships were of opinion that the prisoner was placed in a better situation by having the name of the person by which he or she was gene rally known given to him, that if he were to have the real name by which such person was designated furnish ed. His Lordship had therefore to inform the prisoner, that the result of the inquiry was, thst the house W. 1% rightly de s cribed as that of Mary Johnson, and the pr:- loner was properly convicted. James Maslen was chargei: with stealing in the dwell Ing•hodse of Wm. Tontt, victualler, of Jerthyn street, property to a very considerable amount. The Jury found. him guilty of Wolin.; to the ainannt of 39a. CORONER'S ImqUE6T.—An extraordinary ease came before T. Stirling, Esq., the Coroner, on %%redoes lay evening last at the Thatched House, Lower Koos:, l&ngton. The inquiry was held respecting the deal:s of a youth named Anthony ;'ring, aced ten years. Mrs. Clara Griffin, of Bethnal-green Ituid, abnat three weeks since was passing, through the Borough,.near St. Thomas's Hospital, and saw the deceased lying in the road in the greatest agony, with his bands pressing against Lis ►tomach. He said a boy had givenhim.aomrthing t., drink, who stated it was Spanish liquorice water ; he was taken to St. Thomas's Hospital, where every means were tried, but lie still continued in the greatest aguny.--Tho medical gentlemen endeavoured to ascertain n hat it was lie had taken, and they at length concluded it ea% oil of vitriol ; the froth that came from his mouth having left a red mark on his clothes-. Hannah Daniels said the deceased was her snit by ► former husband; site went to him ir. tile Hospital, and he told he• he had wet with a Doctor's boy cr.i-rying a basic t with two lids, apparently about the ace of 16, dressed in a blue coat, white waistcoat, and black truwsera; they walked on from the church, until they came near St. Thomas's Hospital, where the buy asked the deceased if lie would have some Spanish liquorice water ? Ile theta poured some into the deceased's hand, who drank it ; he tiad no sooner however done so, than the doctor's hoy laug,heil at bins and ran away. The deceased remains. in the Hospital a fortnight in the dreadful state as tii scribed by the former witness ; when, in consequence of his ard. nt wisl► she took hint home, where he died ou Sun-lay last. Mr.lVllas Semple, of the Islington Disci •-.sary, op-neil the Ins ly. Ile found there had been loth. tion of the stomach, intestines, and in souse degree of the bladder; the inflammation had been of some standing, and seewe ► terminating in itiortilication, especially in the intestit es The injuries were such as would be occasioned by vitriol. 'l'he body in other respects appeared healthy. ' The Jury, after a short consultation, ret•trned the fol lowing verdict "'That the deceased died in consequence of taking some cos rosive acid, administered to hint by some persou or persons auk:town." FIRES.—Last night, about half-past nine o'clock, an alarming tire broke unt in Crooked Lanc,at a fancy wire worker's. , It fortunately took place at the top of the house, and therefore was a considerable time Intrninc downwards. Great anxiety prevailed on account uf its being next door to Mr. Dun-.'s large oil warehouse 13 Gracechurch-street. After having almost gutted lino house in Crooked Lane, where it was first diseov.vd, it was fortunately gut under by the exertions of the tu•caca by eleven o'clock. 31r. Dunn's back premises were in jured; but to no very considerable amount. 'l' he varioJs combustible ina!ter was eery actively moved MI, in ease (as was at first feared) flirt.• premises n1'01111 . 41 tall a facin gs:v. Tilers *as at hest but a poor supply of water. About nine o'clock on Wednesday night, a tire broke out in the extensive pi glass tnat . ..sfacitory of Messrs. Wainriled and Head, in IVhite's yard, Rnsetuaryelose,, which did couailetabl: damage Oe toe it claald be got under. i