The Sun. — London, England, 1829-01-05 00:00:00

ttructed with the well-being of 7,000,060 of men in Ireland, knew nothing of the opinions entertained by the Prime Minister on that subject matter of state policy which most affect4l every individual in the nation. The Council-room, under such a domi nation, is fit only for sentinels and niuts (FROM THE.MORNING HERALD.) In another part of our paper we give a etter of Lord Anglesea to the g entleman who is called the Catholic Primate of Ireland. For our part, we question the propriety of a Lord Lieutenant writing to any One but the Ministry on Catholic or any other affairs of Ireland. In our opinion; a Lord Lieu tenant ought to be as silent upon such subjects as a Lord Chancellor is on the subject of any 'suit before his decision. In common life it is unwise to write more than people can avoid ; in public life it is al most unpardonable, at least, in a confidential and responsible situation, to others who have an interest in a political or religious question. When banking credit is founded upon substantial wealth and inflexible honesty, as it ever ought to be, no idle rumour can endanger its stability. It has a conservative principle within itself, which will make it come forth fi or temporary detraction like " gold • thrice refined from the furnace." But when it hap pens to be a thing of showy and delusive exterior, without solidity and substance at the core, every breath of sinister report diszarbs it, for it is indeed a " reed shaken by the wind." Of the latter species of banking credit England has seen a great deal too much, and hence the sensitiveness that exists in cer tain quarters with respect to the observations of the Press upon any suspicious proceedings of bank ing concerns. Ivis thought a very cruel thing to put the public upon their guard against the coming crash of any one of those infirm con cerns which have brought so much discre dit upon the banking system. It is thought exces sively uncharitable—nay, positively criminal—t o give such information to the public as may make the crash less ruinous, when it does come, by inducing people, not quite infatuated, to save their property in .time from the destruction prepared for it. But there is no cruelty at all—no criminality—in totter ing bankers making deceitful appearances, and keep ing their failing concerns " bolstered up" by one hollow contrivance or another, until the calamity comes upon the heads of the devoted and credulous victims sudden and unexpected as " a thief in the night." Is this an imaginary case ? The domestic history of England, for the last thirty years or more, affords it melancholy answer to that question. 'How many thousands in this country, who were once in possession of competency and even affluence, but are now reduced, by the failure of banks in which their whole property was placed, to penury and de pendence, bitterly repent of that stupid credulity which caused them to neglect the " warning voice" that would have preserved them and their families from irreparable ruin ? Would really respectable bankers feel aggrieved-by being exposed to the ob servations of the Press? Certainly not, any more than respectable merchants would feel aggrieved at the exposure of those adventurers who, under the pretence of trade and commerce, swindle the public out of enormous sums of money by joint-stock bubbles. It cannot be denied that a considerable number of such adventurers have contaminated the banking system of late years. The paper currency afforded great temptation to such persons, and also afforded them great facilities for duping the public. We should like to see an account of all the money of which the public have been defrauded by the failure of banks for the last thirty years, for which no delinquent has suffered any puni:hinent ; and placed in an opposite column the whole of the sums of which bankers have been defrauded by individuals committing forgeries on them during the same period, and for which forgeries the said delinquents have been executed. the recall has either taken place or will soon take place. We may mention, however, that no intima tion of a►iy such evOnt has reached his family. Not the slightest preparation has been ordered, and his friends do not believe that he will return to this country. - (FROM THE MORNING POST.) REPREHENSIBLE CONDUCT OF THE MARQUIS OF ANGyr:SEA, AND CONsEIVENT RECALL FROM THE GOVERNIIHNT OF IRELAND.—The letter of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to the Popish Arch bishop, Dr. Curtis, which will be found in another part of our Paper, has created a considerable sen sation in Dublin, and must as, a matter of course be followed by the immediate removal of the Marquis of Anglesea from the office of Viceroy, with the au thority and influence appertaining to which. it would be. evidently improper any longer to entrust him. I - Qo obvirs- " le' the Duke of Wellington could not perhaps do a more un popular act, in so far as Ireland is concerned, than to ap point the former, he could not perhaps nominate any one whore sentiments are known to be favourable to Catholic Emancipation, who would be so unpopular as Lord Mel ville. His Lordship is too hackneyed in the ways of po litical life to inspire the Catholics of Ireland with any con fidence; and the mer! , circumstance of his having avowed himself a friend to Emancipation, would, we fear, be enough to render him odious to the Orange Community. FROM THE NEWS.) THE MARCH OF CRIME.--TFIR EDINBURGH MURDERS.--The disclosure of the horrible particu lars of the murders in Scotland, has extended the dominions of human crime. It is a " new case," as the lawyers would say ; and is therefore destined in all probability to some distinctive illustration, by that " perfection of justice" called " Law." As a people, we commit a thousand errors, in the capricious choice of free will; but whenever we make any direct ad vance in improvement, it appears to be from necessity. The resurrection men have horrified society by their outrage on the grave, during a generation of our race; yet the simple principle of making it a felony fora surgeon to receive into his dissection-loom any ' subject without a certificate of its being placed le gally at the disposal of surgical purposes, would have cut up the trade, root and branch, from the beginning. Robbing the grave, and " plucking" some " fester ing Tybalt from his shroud," did not produce a suf ficient action in our nerves: it was only a nasty and disgusting offence; arid being committed on" nobody knows who," it received the common newspaper opprobrium of the day ; had its• hour of bad odour, and was forgotten. At length some of the " bra' lads of Edingbroo" have done more for the dissec tion room than all the resurrectionists of the United Kingdom, by the simple" doing up" of an old Irish beggar woman. Henceforward the objects of surgi cal science will be provided for by Law, without smothering Irish beggars, however numerous they may become. The Scotch may well attempt to throw off thi%‘ stain from the national character, by contending that Burke was an Irishman. Ireland is rebutting the slander; and refuses tb own him; contending that the evidence of the name is nothing; and it must be admitted that the character of the mur der is not at all Irish ; it involves none of the pas sions; is unconnected with all animosities, religious, moral, or political ; it has no plea of malig nity, hatred, or revenge. Neither can it be called Scotch ; it can make but little pretence on the score of avarice; for the different patties would scarcely realize a pound each after the shot of the evening's revelry was discharged. The reward therefore was little better than a common week's labour. The gang strangled people for sale; the same as poachers do hares for sale (and nearly at the same price); but they had not quite so wide a range as the poachers have in the means of destruction; it was necessary to these " providers" to the surgery, that there should be all the appearances of a natural death in the subject ; and strangulation is not only difficult but dangerous ; semblies than the authority of the Government; and as he hints in his letle: that he had been "disap pointed" at the declaration of the Duke of Wellington, that he saw no pos,ibility of settling the .Catholic Question at present, it is more than probable that this declaration decided hint at once on either giving in his resignation, or• stating his sentiments on the Question itself in that public manner, which, being at variance with those entertained by the Duke of Wellington, would render his recall absolutely ne cesetry. Be this, however, as it may, it is beyond a doubt that the Marquis of Anglesea quits the Government of Ireland, and. it will be seen from our Dublin Correspondence, that he quits it with the deep telt regret of every Catholic whom it contains. Such a sensation, in fact, has never been excited in that country by the recall or resignation of any individual who has ever go verned it, as by that of the Marsois of Anglesea, and the letter which we give in another column ; and in propor tion, to this sensation will be the difficulty of appointing a suceemoe. Who he may be, is as yet unknown. Lord Lonsdale and Lord Melville are both spoken of; but while it is so obvious that the letter must have this effect, that it has generally been considered as a virtual ab dication of the Viceroyalty, and has established the accuracy de report circulated with much confidence in London previous to his arrival, that the recall of the Marquis of Anglesea had already taken plaee. Dr. Curtis appears to have become all of a sud den one of the main springs of Irish politics. He 'first addresses a private and friendly letter to the Duke of Wellington, to which he receives a very courteous answer, which answer is also of course private and confidential. This letter he publishes, with the alteration only of ene word, to render it more suitable to the purposes of vhe Popish Faction, by the mouth of Mr. O'Connell, the agent and representative of the Popish Pries:- hood in the Ass , ,c'ation, and pleads as his apology for this breach of confidence, that the Duke's letter being franked by his Grace, excited a degreg of curiosity which rendered its publication unavoidable. We stop here to ask this worthy head of the Italian Hierarchy in Ireland—first, whether he believes that the Duke of Wellington franks no letters but such as are written by himself; and secondly, whether he, knowing beforehand that the answer, if the Duke of Wellington should condescend to make any, would be so flanked, did not anticipate at .the mo ment when he wrote his letter the very flimsy apo logy he now offers ? The next step in the proceed ings of this Popish Primate is to appeal from the opinion of the King's Prime Minister to that of the King's Lieutenant. And we lament to add, that the latter has been silly and inconsiderate enough to fall into the trap laid thus artfully for him, and to answer this appeal. We have no wish to speak disrespectfully of the Marquis of Anglesea; be 13 a brave and most meritorious so!dier, a generous, warm-hearted, and excellent man, but he is manifestly deficient in the dex terity and reflection which are necessary to cope with the subtleties of the Popish Leaders, ecclesiastical or lay, and is therefore manifestly unfit for the office of Lord-Lieute nant of Ireland. If Lord Anglesea had been out of office altogether, and had dated ,from his private mansion in London, or his seat in the country, a letter intended sad made up for publication, placing his own political opinions in opposition to those of the First Minister of the Crown, and offering his' advice and admonition to the British Government, and to the Catholics of Ireland, it would b.ty^ been merely ridiculous. Nob Ody would iu this case h..ve thought the, worse of Lord Anglesea ; but everybody would have laughed at the idea of this brave and excellent Cavalry Officer setting up for a Statesman on his own ac count. What would however have only been ridiculous if done by the Marquis of Anglesea, requires great repre hension when done by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.— This officer belongs to the pageantry of Government; his functions are merely ministerial. The most important of them consist of matters of mere etiquette and form and with respect even to these it is his duty to act in accord ance with the views of the Government that employs them, to receive its instructions and to obey them. It is sufficiently obvious from these considerations, that the Marquis . of Anglesea, in promulgating his own per sonal opinions in Ireland as he has done, with a view to influence the mind and conduct of any portion of tine Irish people, has transgressed the line of his duty, die wded , tinsregat . (FROM THE MORNING CHRONICLE.) the character of his office, and violated the first principles tor the human frame is capable of a most extraordi- The report of the recall of the Marquis of Angle- of civil subordination. It seems scarcely necessary to ani- nary and almost inconceivable power of resistance s ea is it; general circulation in Dublin, and we think madvert upon the contents of a document issued to the under such circumstances. This was experienced it extremely probable. Indeed the Letter to Dr. world in circumstances so disadvantageous ; for h e w h o i n in the case of the Idiot whom these wretches like- Curtis,r opiu . io . a n vio o late b s e his , own . duty, can hardly wise prepared ; %Ow had been drugged with liquor which we have copied from the Dublin giving et pr i ree, gu as dreissc a e n ef a al u n. t bd h e t r n;i l t i y t.) .. till his strength was deemed to be measured out; e rr x i i: e ect Na t h ta le t 3 o l p e n r iel i o l. Morning Register of Thursday last, expressive of q t talks of r ' the but he recovered -from his first sudden throw, flung his disapprobation of the course announced by the and the gradual ' overthrow - of Duke of Wellingtom with regard to the Catholics, mates to the Roman Catholics thatp prejudice, dint of these off his aseailant, and got on his legs ; and, but for would hardly have been written except under the things they must eventually prevail. It is unfortu- being tripped up again by the heels (by one of the witnesses in the late trial!) lie might have escaped, certainty of resignation or recall. To remain in nate for these fine-sounding• reunite, and for the cause. and perhaps have hung the whole gang. It seems office after arraigning the policy of the head of the which depends upon them for its succeee, that they should Administration, would hardly be cousisteat with so generally deteriorate the character of their admirers. So to be a downright libel to confound even in name, propriety—and certainly would not be in keeping looe as the Marquis of Anglesea remained free from their or otherwise, this mercantile company of stranglers, with the character of the Marquis of Anglesea. It induenee, he always did his duty es became him : now with the professi on of th e resurrec ti on i s t. I t was may be taken as his valedictory address to the Irish that he is subject to it, we find him for the first time aim. proposed as a distiwtion in the offence to hang Burke and seems indeed to be considered as such by the ing at something equally incompatible with his duty a nd in chains; anti it is curious that while the L-ard beyond his powers. If such are to be theeffects of , theyrogrese Justice Clerk, in addressing the prisoner, waived paper which published it. " Whether (soya the • e , of liberality, and the gradual overthrow of prejudice,' they this part of the ceremony for " a more lenient exe- Dublin Morning Register) lie shall long abut, are entitled to no favour ;—the Noble Marquis amongst us, or shall speedily depait from Ireland, cured that they will never give to Britain auet'nerinNajateerlonos-. cation of the sentence ;" the public mind of Scot. let him be assured that lie has won the hearts of His Lordship considers the recommendation of the Duke of land had rejected it with scorn because the offender seven millions of inhabitants." 'rile Duke of Wel- Wellington, that Ireland should abstain for a time from the was not entitled to the favour o f f orms w hi c h wou ld Jitigtom cannot complain of any di s po s ition on the discussion of the Catholic Claims, as impracticable ; and in class and confound the offence with some lesser pre part. of the people of this country, or the Press, to order , we suppose , to prove his own eminent qualifications viously knoWn dimensions of c r im e . There i s a be unjust towards him. So far from it, he has been as a judge of what is practicable and what is not, pro- double_ inconsistency in this : the word " lenient" is more leniently dealt with than any Minister. There seeds forthwith to recommend to the Papists that they most ignominiously applied, if it can he so said, to was, in the first place, the surprise how such a man agitate the subject incessantly, and abstain nevertheless aIW of the fi)rms of hanging; and outrageously out froin all violet or intemperance. Bit ideas upon this of place, even then, 03 in _favour of such a criminal. could get on at all; and people not being gene part of the subject . are 80 . strange (to ale no other term) rally aware with how little wisdom the worldOn the other hand, how can those who think that that they are reprehende d even by the prime Agitator him- the hanging of such a wretch in chains would have may be governed, especially the British world, enter- sot lhe Noble Marquis, indeed, will doubtless pe ' tainted with regard to his Grace an indulgent feeling, once the fate to wi,:ele volunteer couucillons are peculiarlyexrl- a tendency to do outrage to . the memory of many somewhat akin tun that with which they read the subject. He gives advica both to Protestants and Ca- common murderers who have heretofore paid the epistles published by the Missionaries from the See tholice, each of whom will applaud that bestowed upon his penaltyeof life in such ornaments,--reconcile them vereigns of Otaheite and the Sandwich Islands. If e ppor e aut, and reject that which is offered to himself. The selves to the more civilized ceremony of simple from him to whom much is given, much is required, letter of t h e Marquit of Anglesea, in one word, and hempen strangulation for such a monster, for an hour it is equally true that there is a disposition in men to we write it with regret, is discreditable to him. It is by the town clock ; and then, his receiving of seien. over-estimate the talent and wisdom of those from tree which cannot by possibility do . good to any party or this company in the dissection room, an d offering up whonf nothing is anticipated. It is this feature of to any cause. Its only effect is to furnish a new argument the offal of such n mass of villainy, as a good sample our nature that leads lo the admiration of Young t o dos e who wish the - office of Lord Lieutenant of Ire- of ,- riir common or ! There is a s much laud to he ab i ;disined. s' i M d 'e have now seen one Vice- folly in the argument for hanging in chains, as there Rosciuses, and all exhibitions even of slender talent, fl : i p te, a . s tl a e n n epen o tl f e t n i t ie S p ta i te , s e m h an le , ad and in is in the spirit by whieli it was rejected. The English where none was expected. His Grace has ehewn no wisdom, that we are aware of, except in holding r that set capacity u e What," they may hopes naturally esk, " secures}-' us. againste:s people are extremely slow in emancipating them his tongue ; and if he had not held the pen, and left the danger of having another Viceroy of more audo tiaue selves from the prejudices of their forefathers. The us in the same ignorance, with respect to his inter- c h arac t e r g e ed profounder views, who shall flatter the Pe- Laws of the State have nothing to do with re tions, in which we were before the appearance of pish leaders, in order to set himself up as an independent ven r ,.ie; and still less with the lower f e eling of that unique composition, each individual would Rider ?" We hiiieve it to lw quite certain that the insult to the dead- To hang the dead in chains, is have been draw;tig on his own fancy for the f poo r m isled Marquis has been recalled, and we cannot deny no solace to those who have been injured : sier future policy of his Grace, and given him of ouraelvesehe pleasure of congratulating the nation upon the security to those who have not. When a man is dead course, credit' for great and wonderful ability. event. His Administration has item such as t o ex c it e what d oes it ma tt er w h e th er t h e worms which consume alarm in the mind of every true . friendh dangerousto th e Constitution him are of the earth or of the air ? There is no igno- His Grace's course was to rub on doing nothing, dignityt andtrue p e ra h i e se n_ of L i n n ed C e r h a t t i i r o c n h , i, and e i, bas ta u t:miny beyond hanging by the neck, about which and saying nothing. The iiddle, however, is now ;in sacrificed theen meet who are to die, or those with whom they are solved. The giving a triumph to neither party, ter of the Irish Government, and, inohdienee to the . cou ' n e - - will please neither party, and . his Grace has, he- sels of the worst of men, has suspended the first laws connected, that are to live, will think it worth while sides, revealed the secret that he does not possess of society .in that most mischievously agitated coon- to draw nice distinctions. The gravest pliiiosoe even the determination for which he has received try. Unlike his noble and able predecessor, (now pher might be induced to smile, were he to hear credit, and which contributed to atone with many for so vilianously calumniated by those wretches who two descendants of different criminals arguing a point his notorious deficiencies. People have it now from daring hie Ad mini ; ;offered him 1 A..m.netrat_on - of morel precedence of character, on the plea that him in black and white, that he dares not act on his ing Lhtttery), he knew not how to unite the qualities the father of ()ne s tled been only hanged ; while that own conviction as to what is best for the interests of firmness and conciliation ; his conciliating measures of the other haul been suberquently gibbetted in of the nation, that, in fact, his object is merely to were marked with estpineneee, vacillation, and inertness ; chains! The forfeit of life is the last great penally remain in place ; and that he prefers remaining inn and when } h i e endeavoured to. he firm, he was merely which man can pay to man ; and it Ought to be exacted place to the acting on his conviction, at the risk of the fiercec Catholic ie s blustering far to the ai ni n n s n u i c e h nt' a feHarfisurepr.rmeiilt:minig with sorrow and with pain. Beyond this, what the loosing it. According to all received notions of natice irs Ireland as almost gain plunge the country into- present world can . effect in contumely, or otherwise, propnety, a Minister ought not- to hold- office a rebellion, will be an indelible stain upon his Administra- the greatest criminal can neither fear nor dread; it anoment when what he considers a course beneficial tion and his character. The truth is, that seduced by can only affect the living, who have no further to every individual in the nation, cannot be carried, the insidious writings and arivree of the artful enemies of business in the affa i r than their own future security. We do not say that the Duke is the only Statesman the Constitution, he pertnitted the Catholic Agitators to We do not see to what useful _purpose, or public uselee has remained in office, when his views are not dictate to the Government; and had it net been for benefit, the peculiar novelty of this instance of crime acted on ; but there is generally an anxiety to eon- the timely union of the Brunswick and Protestant So. can be dwelt upon, beyond leading to a legal supply veal this from the public. The puke is almost the cieties, the whole country would long ere this have been of subjects for dissection ; it is " murder made only man in the three kingdom', who has not the plunged into_reheflioo• cheap ;" and though the thing has not happened penetration to discover that there is any thing awk. (FROM THE MORNING ADVERTISER.) before,—perhaps with the great majority of mur ward in disclesingthe inconsistency between hisprin- We little thought, notwithstanding the rumours which derers, in low life, ofil) moral obstacle would have ueiples and his actione. If he had threatened to rs- h a ve been afloat for some time, that we should so soon offered itself to the same form of crime, had it acci have to report tine office of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland euen, unless the measure of Emancipation were carried, dentally happened to them to fall in the way of it. it is probable that his reaignation would not have vacant; batithiso so i is. Lo rl tn e l m A ese m ie le n sea, who eti went to andthat By far the greatest sad most horrific shades' in the country been accepted; and, at all events, in the event of a many with rriu.iices and r" r purnefpzvottrables again to ove7 dreadful picture is, the fact of arties bein so many pg return to power, he would have been enabled to be come, and ‘,ho has since ingratiated himself so completely directly or indirectly accessary to this and other si almost despotic ; but he has allowed it to be seen with - those who were his former enemies, has either re- miler murders; and standing forward as witnesses, that he cares for nothing but place, and advantage i signed or been recalled; and the Premier has, in cense- while it is clear that the system is not of short or evill, no doubt, be taken of this. The Prince De i quence, previously to the meeting of Parliament, to execute sudden growth ; that the crime has been frequently Ligne says, I never yet knew a coward die a natural i the very difficult duty of appointing a successor who s h a ll perpetrated before, while they (the gang) have re death ; for every one is encouraged to take liberties not only deal out impartial justice to the two reigning fac- mained in the same room ; or by way of some cam with him, and matters at last come to such a height tions in t ha t countr y , but ins p ire, from his personal cha- I punctious affectation of virtue just " slept oat for a that he is absolutely forced to fight. The weak side racier, confidence in both that such justice . will be meted ! moment," as one of the women ! confessed herself to Of the e causes of he Lord h Angleseas recall or re set* his Grace being known, advantage will be taken out, ! have done,—that she might not " see it done!" It of it. Encroachments will be made on him, on the shiegnhantionr.e-exedwheistherot yet s ku b c :n n re w e e alle k d n , e‘ o v r whether notii ,is tolerably evident, from the various information presumption of his also putting up with them ; and be trod the letter, which ' appears in another part of our we supplied by the Edinburgh Papers, that the stock we should not, therefore, be surprised if he were aper, which, if he bad not previously resigned, must in trade of this company of stranglers, has been not forced to resign whether he will or not. The Letter rave been sufficient to have produced his recall, It is less thatiihrty subjects. We have nothing, e ven i n of the Marquis of Anglesea is highly creditable to known, however, that for some time past, the Marquis of horror of romance, that has gone so far into the re that Nobleman, and is really a severe censure on the Anglesea bad become sick of ruling in a country where gions of crimee as this most appalling fact; the joint Premier. We consider it extremely probable that faction was more powerful than the law, and illepl as- result of a defective police; a childish prejudice against dissection;' and a portion of a populace gys tematically degraded ; mostly cut off from all remu , Berating employment by the poverty-struck aid over-taxed middle classes; and by the vices of Go vermnent. Crime is advancing equally in frequency and magnitude. Starvation and ruin are nor re garded ; the oppression that pulls a man down in society, breaks up his little establishment, and con signs his family to the winds of chance, bank rupt in fame and fortune, though of eve.l7 day occurrence, in every town of the kingdom,—forms a matter of neither individual or collective concern; and thus are the lower departments of life sup plied and crowded with desperate minds. Look at the thousands upon thousands who crawl about in . extreme: poverty, anti almost necessarily in vice,—in London, Dublin, Edinburgh, &c. &c., and who are of less estimation in the operative social principle, (in a state of society is which every man is obliged to look narrowly to himself), than the dancing bear in the street or the well-taught monkey on the mountebank's stage ; on whose superior merit and attractions the man and his whole family obtained a decent livelihood; but man, involved in poverty, has no resource ; " and bath not where to lay his head ;" yet the whole frame of society, that renders nothing to misfortune, but the dole and the death of the workhouse ; and connives at the vicious legislation that peoples the country with a Pan demonium of evil and wicked spirits—affects to be shocked to its centre when the veriest beggar comes by her death in a way uncomfortable to the usages of society, even in its very Murders; she was not murdered, secundum artem ! We bang the offender —the principal in the firm ; and heap a double igno miny on his head; while all his partners escape, by furnishing the disputable and odious evidence of their own inferior shares in the traffic ; and their proof of the more executive portion of the _crime in their leader 1 There is much in this case with which the public mind will reflect on with au unap peased feeling of disgust and .horror. We hope that Burke, before he dies, will give a history of the origin, formation, rise, and progtess of the gang ; and all that are or have been connected with it. We shall now have the interests of science brought for ward, and the folly of holding forth premiums to murder, in the scarcity of subjects for dissection fully demonstrated. Mr. Peel—that great sloth of the political world—will now begin to see for the first time, that, " unclaimed bodies' may possibly be (riven up, without injuring thefeelings of those who Low nothing about them ! Men in power are not quite so scrupulous, where evils of a thousand times the magnitude are inflicted on thousands who are known; and known by their sufferings. (FROM THE JOHN BULL.) It has been said that Mr. Stephenson's pursuits were incompatible with the profession of a banker— that he encouraged and associated with theatrical people and professional singers, that he expended money in pictures, and that he frequented the play houses, in some of which he had private boxes; let the man stumble, and there are never wanting those who will dead him the helping hand.do►vnwards; but without pretending . to know any thing of Mr•. Stephenson's affairs more than our neighbours, we cannot avoid expressing our firm conviction, thftt however criminal the encouragement of the liberal arts and professions may appear in the city, Mr. Stephenson's patronage of either pictorial or histri onic artists could have nothing to do with the em barrassments into which he must have fallen to in duce such conduct as that with which he stands charged ; and we must be permitted to add further, that if the dispersion of a little of the profits of mer cantile life is t 9 be allowed for matters of taste and re finement, Mr. Stephenson's constant protection and support of native • talent in both the professions which he is said to have favoured, can surely be little more blameable than the patronage, some what more costly and a' great deal less national, which we find many others of his calling lavishly beitowing upon the pretensions of foreigners. With respect to Mr. Stepheirson'S association with actors, it would greatly puzzle the most profoand searcher for causes to discover how his receiving at his table some of the leading members of the theatrical world could condace to his difficulties. The actors who were in the habit of associating with Mr. Stephen son, along with others of his acquaintance, were of" the highest class of the profession; men whose manners and conversation, perhaps enlivened by physical powers, and a greater command of those powers than falls to the lot of strictly private indi viduals, are unexceptionable; and whose private lives would bear as strict a scrutiny as any others of Mr. Stephenson's associates of much more lofty bearing. It is due to the stage to say this ; and we say it with the greater pleasure, because we know that certain works of fiction, in which the low and disreputable part of the theatrical profession, have, in fictitious characters, and imaginary personifica tions, been satirized and ridiculed, have had the effect, (or are said to have had the effect) of degrad ing the characters of the actors of the present day— however irrelevant such a disquisition may appear in this place to some, .to us it seems to he due to those, to an association with whom Mr. Rowland Stephenson's ruin is openly attributed in the city, to say that such satire and such ridicule, however well merited by the dregs of the p►•ofessiou—(and what profession has not its " black sheep I; . '') never can affect, as it never could have been intended to effect, those actors who, treading in the footsteps of the Kembles, (who began thq course), have raised the character of the British stage to a point of respec- . tability it never before mentioned. After saying this, it would be invidious to uatne those actors who were the personal acquaiutances of Mr. Stephenson, we are therefore silent; and 110%N-ever little they may need this explanation to that portion of society which do not know them, we have sincere pleasure in making it for own gratification, since we do. (FROM THR ATLAS.) TIM FIRST NIESTING BETWREN Fox AND GRAT TAN.—This took -p=ace in Ireland, some time about the year 1790. Mr. Fox was over there on a visit: to an Irish N6bleman, and Mr. Grattan had been invited to give the meeting to the English orator and patriot, who was just then rising into celebrity and popular favour. It happened that on the day that Mr. Glattan came, Mr. Fox had rode over ten or a dozen miles from the country-seat of his noble friend to dine with the Bishop of -, in the neigh bouring town, and vvus not expected 'to return till the following day. At dinner, however, u here a large party had been collected, Mr. Fox and his Reverend entertainer differed, as to the political merits of some public character that was mentioned. Mr. Fox, who was at this time in the full glow of early enthusiasm, " the rose and the expectancy of the fair state," expressed signs of disgust and im teatience, the moment the name was pronounced. The Bishop attempted an apology. Mr. Fox re joined, and kindling as he spoke, the cloud gathered on his brow, and the tire flashed horn his eye, while epithets of no qualified abuse, and denunciations of apostate patriots, flowed feom his tongue. His host at length found himself obliged to declare that the politician alluded to so unceremoniously was his friend, and 'as the other still persisted, he got up and was about to leave the room. Mr. Fox, already on tip-toe with eloquence and indignation, immediately started from his scat, and said this was quite un necessary, as he would stay no longer in a house where cintriwters of such a kind were screened from reprobation ; and forthwith proceeded to execute his threat amidst a volley of parliamentary invective aimed at the Bishop's head, and "the pitiless pelt ing of the storm" without, which fell on his own. It was " a night to cool a courtezan," but not patriot. He would hear neither excuse nor entreaty, and refused all compromise or coalition with apos tacy or its advocates. He set off in the middle of the night and the teeth of the storm with his ser vant following him; rode at full speed, and came suddenly, about two in the morning, like an appa rition into the room where the Noble Lord and his Mr. Rowland Stephenson was looked upon as the peculiar patron of dramatic performers, end as guest were still sitting up, engaged in deep discourse such, several of them have trusted him to their cast ; on liberty and its new and zealous champion. He one celebrated performer, however, we hear, had the good burst into the drawing-room, uttering shouts of luck, by a timely warning, to save a large sum from laughter and incoherent exclamations, "saying, that the claws of his patron. he hadbeat the Bishop, and had run away from him into barpin , tha and that he , would never dark en his doors again. He was drenched in lain from head to foot as much as if he had been dipped in a river ; was dressed in a blue silk coat, lined with white, iu a white silk waistcoat, breeches and stockings, and red-heeled shoes, in which he had performed his journey ; and all the while he was abusing the Bishop and exulting in his escape, he hurried up and down the apartment, shaking the moisture from a plume of feathers which he wore in his hat. Mr. Grattan, who was not more surprised at the arrival than at the youthful and elegant figure and fanciful costume of the future leader of Opposition, said that he gate one very nearly the idea of some young debit taut in the part of Rosalind,in'As You Like li. Tie riding-dress was changed ; the claret was called for, and the morning rose before the new friends parted. (FROM TUE EXAMINER.) THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON'S LETTER TO THE CATHOLIC PRIMATE OP IRELAND.—The Duke of Wellington's letter to Dr, Curtis is a most wonder ful letter, for it has given satisfaction to all parties. It is like the cameleon in the fable, upon which every one fixes his own colour—a brilliant Orange, exultingly exclaims Sir Harcourt Lees ; Green, by this light, triumphantly shouts Daniel O'Connell ; the Tories pronounce it True Blue, while the Whigs do not hesitate to declare it as palpable a Blue and Br as ever was seen at Brooks's. From these opinions it might be inferred that his Grace had contrived to say the nothing which might be con. strued anything with considerable skill, but we can not pay his Jesuitism this compliment, for. it seems to us that there is not so much address in the com position of the letter as hopeful self-delusion in the interpretation of it. For oar own parts, we see only one conclusion to be drawn from it, simply that his Grace will attempt no measure for the satisfac tion of the Catholic Claims—the matter stands by him distinctly adjourned to the Greek Kalends, or to the day when the lion shall Court with the lamb, and the streams run with milk and honey; when these periods arrive, men may consider questions affecting churches and the monopoly of power dis passionately and without violence. When the in genious Sir Abel Handy, in the play, iscalled upon to suggest some means of extinguishing the flames which are consuming his house, after having to no purpose bethought himself of this and that 'clever contrivance for the extinction of fire ; he says, " A sudden thought strikes me—perhaps it may go out of itselfl" The Duke is playing Sir Abel Handy to the life—the flames of party strife, which he de sires to go out of themselves, are fed by the ques tion, and will rage so long as it remains unsettled. The world expected to see the Duke plying the fire engine on the combustion this ,Session, but instead of that it has the satisfaction' of finding him with Sir Abel Handy's " sudden .thought " in his mouth. We are by no means surprised that his Grace should have contrived to broach this ingenious and brilliant idea in a quiet, unostentatious way, before the meeting of Parliament. The abortion of the mountain in labour has thus been suitably delivered by the mole-hill. We Cdll imagine the awkward pain of the Premier, had he been compelled to speak that note in Parliament with the sense that a na tion's highly wrought expectation was fixed upon its nothingness. The expedient of the letter was therefore a judicious one; it has stayed curiosity, and balked the eagerness of hope without dissipating it. We still most wonder, however, at the credulity which can allow of the last effect. The cameleon, to our eyes, is as black as night. What says the Man of Decision ?—" I am sincerely anxious to see the settlement of the Roman Catholic question,"— " but I confess that I see no prospect of such a set tlement " —" party has been mixed up with the con sideration to such a degree, that it is impossible to expect men to consider it dispassionately—if we could bury it in oblivion for a short time, and employ that time diligently in the consideration of its difficulties on all sides, I should not despair of seeing a satis fdetory remedy." It is impossible, thus affirms the Duke, to expect men to consider the question dis passionately, and while passion prevails, adjustment is unachievable; but if they could compass another impossibility, that of burying it in oblivion and dis cussing it too, he would not despair.—No, in such a case we need despair of nothing, the miracles might encourage any hopes. The encouragement of fa vourable expectations all lies, let it be observed, in a passage, which, by hypothesis, excludes positively predicated impossibility, and further carries with it that pledge and assurance of clearness of mtvaning, a bull! Hope takes its stand exactly where the Duke begins to flounder in his expressions, all the other positions of the letter being of the most positive character, and forbidding the expectation of Adjust ment. But it may be said, the Premier, so great, so powerful a man," is sincerely anxious for a settle ment " of the question ; and according to the trite saying, where there is a will there is always a way, though he has riot yet discovered it, but on the con trary, proclaims "No thoroughfare." The words we have quoted are of a vagueness open to every in terpretation. SUICIDE of the REV. ROBERT BATHURST. A few days since the family of the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Norwich was thrown into a state of the deepest affliction and alarm, by the un expected and heart-rending intelligence that one of its members (the Rev. Robert Bathurst) had put a period to his existence, at his residence in Uppe t Seymour-street.. The shock was, as may be sup posed, dreadful; and for a time the information was discredited, but it was soon ascertained to he too true. For a considerable time past the unfortunate gentleman laboured under an indifferent state of health, and was attended by Mr. Osgood, of Upper Brook-street. He was, at times, much depressed in spirits, without being able to assign any cause, and would frequently sink into a state of abstractedness, from which it required no little exertion to wrouse him, when he would and walk about the draw ing-room. On the night preceding the fatal event he bad some conversation with Mr, William Deer ing, his father's butler, and was by him observed to be very absent and dejected. This took place a little before 10 o'clock, and he immediately after wards retired to his chamber, it being his practice, since his health. became impaired, to retire to rest early. At half-past seven the next morning, one of the housemaids went to call him, according to custom, but receiving no answer, she opened the door an inch or two, but could get it no fur ther, and, on endeavouring to ascertain the cause of the obstruction, she saw her master's feet close to the door, and the floor bloody. Greatly alarmed, she ran down stairs and told her fellow-servants, one of whom instantly fetched Mr. Elsgood, who, by using considerable force, succeeded in opening the door wide enough to obtain admission. On enter ing the room, the floor of which exhibited a pool of blood, he found the body of the deceased lying close behind the door, with a dreadful wound in the left side of the neck, and .quite dead. The deceased had on all his clothes, except his coat and cravat; and by his side, immersed in the vital stream, was a razor, with which, no doubt, the wound had been inflicted. Au inquest has since been held on the body, in the deceased's drawing-room, before Mr. Stirling, the County Coroner, when ,the only witnesses examined were the female servant, Mr. Deering, butler to the Bishop of Norwich, and Mr. Elsgood, the latter of whom stated that within the last few days he had altered for the worse, his de jection increasing, and symptoms of derangement occasionally exhibiting themselves. On this evi dence the Jury returned a verdict that the deceased destroyed himself, being at the time deranged. He was a man of peculiarly regular habits, and has, we believe, left several children, but was a widower. ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH. ~ .On Thursday a gener. - il Vestry Meeting of the inhabitants of the parish was held for the purpose of teceiving the Report of, the Church Repairing Committee, cr in fact to determine, whether the re-' pairs of this ancient edifice should be stopped; or, if they were to be proceeded, with, and by Whom. A Mr. BLACKSIOHE contended that the old 'edifice ought to be pulled down, because' a new churelt,, adapted to the wants of the inhabitants, might be built for 13,0004, while the complete repairs of the, existing building would be full 26,0001. He moved, as an Amendment, that an application should be made to the Bishop of Winchester, and to Parlia ment, for leave to pull down the old dumb and build a new one for 18,0001. Mr. HARZZISS, a Quaker, addressed the Meeting at great length, and contended that they ought to . do nothing with the church until the line. of raid for. the New London bridge•wae •doWn. No one could tell how th e li ne o f roa d wou ld , 'affect the church. He moved, as another amendment, that the repairs should be postponed until the approaches to the New London Bridge were determined upon. Mr. Blackmore's amendment was put and.nega lived almost unanimously; Mr. Wild withdrew his amendment ; and Mr. Harriss's amendment was carried by a considerable majority. • • It is but justice to state, that the •renewed f pro posal to destroy this most ancient edifice was viewed by some of the more intelligent and respectable in- , habitants as an intrepid display'of ignorant Van dalism, to which they would not reply. The church is valued by all judges of the.finearts.as the third ancient sacerdotal edifice in the metropolis; and such•another could not now be built at a less ex- • pense than between one and two -hundred-thousand • pounds. The remaining walls are considered Ithacan as fires as when first built, and the' expence of the 'complete restoration has been estimated at aboitt twenty thousand pounds. COUNTRY CORN , MARKETS DIMING LIST VVENK. I Wheat. I Barley. Oats. Seams. Per Quarter. Ccto a. a. to a. a. to a. s, to a. 82 38 Carmarthen 163' 85 21 86 -- 64 'M 97 SS 18 25 50 62 Ilarped& 66 78 37 39 19 26 40 44 Ponrith 77 36 27 Sheffield 80 92 35 46 24 31 46 65 Winchester --- 174 86 I 113 b 8 ,25 27. 42 46 Per Bushel. a. d. s. d. a cl. r. d. s. d. a, d. a , d. a. d. Coventry {lOO 104 46 50. 84 60 4.8 60 Newcastle (Staff) 112.0 18 6 6 0 68 4 6 5 0 76. 7 Northalleston !8 0 10 0 4 0 4 8 2 3 2 6 6 0 5 Stafford 'l2 0 128 56 60 40 43 7 6 8 Swansea 189 93 40 . 46 26 3 2 0 0.00 Warwick !9 2 104 43 50 3 0 80 46 .5 8 Per 8011. 1 Barnardeastle 6 230 80 90 1 6 0 76 00 126 Darlington ~.....1176 288 90 10 6 4 6 7 6 9 0 10• Durham 118 6 23 , 0 91$ 14 61 5 6 '7 0 113. 13 WoltAngliana —..07 0 20 6 8 6 901 6 0 7 6 Op U 9 WAKEFIELD, Jam 8. There is a large supply of Wheat here to-day, and, the • Flour trade being in a dull state, the millers have botiglit very sparingly, at a decline of Is. per quarter, and up to the close of the market not much business has been done. Oats are unaltered in value, but the demand is only tri fling. The best samples of Barley are very heavy tale at the rated of last week, and there ie no demand for any other description for malting. Beans are very plentiful, offering freely at a decline of ls. to 2e. per (outer, but the sale is as dull as possible. Wheat, Rod, Norfolk and Suffolk Ms. to 775. fine 70s. Lincolnshire. 69s. to 735. floe 78s. Yorkshire, &c. 72s. to 755. there. -- White ,7os. to 755. Rue 85s. - Foreign, Old 66s to 76a. Sae 795. Barley, Norfolk and Sußblk 33s to 38s. line 419. --. Lincolnshire B6e to 40g. fine 41a. - Yorkshire Woki :3s. to 38s. tine,4lls. Beans, Tiek 37a. to 40s. fine 41a. - Small 365. to 41,. fine 425. . Oats, Poland and Potato 22e. to 31e. fine 33e. - Friesland and guiall ,ti•ci to 2Se. fine 28e. - Meeting M. to 16d. For fitoue. Shelling 3se. to .-a. -s. to 395. per Load. Malt 431. 465. tine 48g. per Load. Rapeseed •all. 91. 321. Og. 1331. 10s. per Last. LIVERPOOL MARKETS. LIVEKVOOL, JAN. B.—There hae, been no change .b the value of any article of th e c o rn trade since' this day week. The general demand Kati been very lialite4l, but holders, particularly of Wheat, are flrni, and the quantity of that Grain at present pressing on the market is unusually small, though, at the some time, it is geecratly believed that the stocks are on the increase. We have experienced another dull-week in colonial pro duce. Of British plantation sugar bop J.logrolae.uls.(chiefty Batbadoes) have been sold at about last week's quotations. Nothing done in East India or foreign sugar. One hun dred puncheons Demerara molasses of fair quality wera sold ut Qss. tid. per cwt. off the quay, and fifty puncheons (in store) at 265. 6d. per cwt. The business done in (tof fee consists of a few lots to the trade without any alteration in prices. The sales of runs are 150 puncheons strong Demerara at 38.13 d. to 4.5. per gallon. ' The demand for notton his boa► steady this week at our last quotation; the sales amount to 10,020 bags. The tobacco market Las remained without alteration this weok and only a limited business has been done at full prices. The business dupe in dyewoods since our last has been altoget z b el o n a li m i ted scale. . SCOTCH MARKETS. HADDIN oToN CORN Al A lIKET:—.Jau. Y. Dull markets today. Barley down Is. 6d. on the top, but the average is the saute as that of last day ; 125 sold, and 4 unsold. Oats brought the same top price, but the average is down 9d. ; 263 quarters sold, and 61 un sold. Wheat has de‘lieed conxiderably to-day, on the top 25., and on the average Is. 6d. Pease a trifle up on the average, and Beans down. Wheat. First 79s Od 72 od Third "I'laere wen 808 qrs Barloy. &la Oct &Is Oct 31s Oti of Wheat 22 Unsold.. Oats. I . Pease. ileum. 99 * OA 34a Od 86s O 1 25s id Ms Od 84 Od We Oct 81e Oct 81s Od n market. g where° were sold —24 G rey. —N. Me. bd. 11.12th0 Avi DALICEITH COHN klAuKer.—Jaa. 1. There was a large supply Di all kinds of Grain at thig, day's markut, which sold heavily, and at rather iolyea prices than last week. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First els Od 39.3 Od 2tk , Od Second 75s Od 37s W 258 Od l'hird this ed 34s Od 23s Od re.ose. Beans. 136 s Od Od 81s Od 35s Od 303 Od 334 Od CORNWALL. MARKETS. Tavuo.—Wheat (average) Ws. lOs. 3cl.—Oate, 1,2 a. Ilacrrox—Wheat, We. Bd.—Barley, Ha. Bd. ST. A WITS ix—Wl:mat, 28s. to Sls.—Barley, 14s. te Od. to I la. BuoeitN—Wheat average) 294. 0.1.-1;arloy, 113.—Oate, 11.. LA xc ESTON—Wheat (average) OW. Od.—Barley, 14 e. fel.—Oata • lls. 01—Beef, Rd.—Mutton, 541. LINCEA RD—Wheat, 27a. —s, 0 , 1.—8ar1ey,159. CJ—Oates, We. 'o O. Oct Sr. COLUNB—Wheat, SO t. to No.—Burley, ISt. to 14 , ....-Beof, and Mutton, Sd to &la.—Vaal and Lamb, Od to sd. PoNzat.roa—Whoat, Y7s. to 29s.—Barloy. 13a.—Oata, 03. to lla. W.—Beg( and Mutton, bd,. to Od.—Pork, Rd. to pd-- Butter, 12d. per lb. MINING INTELLIGENCE. Taw. Cwt. Quantity of Copper Ore sold at Redrnth Last Thursday 8.335 go Average Produce i 7X ti Quantity of tine CoppTr .. • 251 3 Amount of Sale. 10 • 635/. Itis. W.—Average Stanitard, 1131. 11s. Od. BIRTHS. On the Sd inst., Mrs. Charlea John Blozana, of Lin colds-inn-fields, of a daughter. On the 2d inst., at Peabara-rye, Mrs. KtLaggs, of Law rence Pountney-lane, of a.son. In Chester-terrace,. Regent's - park, the lady of Lieut. - entis Mrs. S. R. Colonel Becher, of her 10 th son. Om Friday, the 2d inst., at K h-town, Block, of a eon. MARRIED. On th e 20th alt., Mr. W. Freea►an, of tht, Eaet road, to Miss Helen Mary Seale, of Gay-street, Bath On the let inst., W. J. Conolly, E sq., Bengal Civil Service, eldest eon of the late V. ConoHy, Esq., of Aug ley, Kent, to Matilda Frances, third daughter of the Rev. P. Le Gevt, of Marden rectory, near Maidstone. On the let inst., at St. Pancras Church, John Badams, EN., of Birutinghato, to Lonikt Holcroft, of fl!unstvick square. DIED. On the 27th nit., at Assetably-row, Mile-col, Mrs. Mary Taylor, aged 64. On the 26th ult., John Desearieree Ballance, son of Mr. John Ballauce, of Clapton, aged 21. On the 2d inst., et Tottenham, Middleeex, Mr. Jol.rt Flaven Brooksbank, aged 82. On the Ist inst, aged 76, Pl ilip Meadows Martineau, Esq., of Fracondale-lodge, near Nom ich. On the Qd bast., at Buxton-square, F..mella Fa melinda,, the infant daughter of M. J. Soures,Esq.,aged four months, and 13 days. On the 2d inst., Jane, wife of Jeremhdi Pitcher, jun., or Southwark. PRINTED and Punrasnatn by MURDO YOUNG, at the SUN ()ince, 112, LTRAIIII, LONDON,. , e