The Sun. — London, England, 1829-11-06 00:00:00

it to • the Portuguese nation to fix upon their SOvereign ; aud so soon as a decided majority of the nation shall have indicated unequivocally their adherence to .a King de facto, to puzzle ourselves no longer with abstract metaphysical subtleties, • but at once proceed to re-establish things upon their former footing. The great difficulty will, in the present instance, be, to as certain what portion of the population should be entitled to have their expressed opinion taken as declaratory of the general sense of the nation. That the present occupant of the Portuguese Throne has th good wishes of a vast numerical majority -ol' tbe.inhabitants taken generally, we hold to be incontestable; but that majority does not include the greater portion of the enlightened classes. This state of things, the inevitable re sult of the spiritual domination under which Por tugal and the adjacent Spanish Monarchy have so long groaned, adds considerably to the diffi culty of those Powers who are anxious so to proceed as to avoid the appearance of officious interference in the internal concerns of an hide pend•zet State.--Morning Chronicle. In England, all power is in the Aristocracy • 9 and the class of secondary proprietors, and the middle class in general, are strongly impelled, by a variety of considerations of interest and am bition, to lend themselves to the upholding the system. The intelligence of the country receives, therefore, a wrong direction. The interests of the ruling class are not the interests of the community ; but still the interests of the ruling class powerfully influence the conduct of the most energetic part of the community. The consepience of this state of things is excessive immorality, and the prevalence of hypocrisy and cant. Men in all countries are governed by cir umstances, and in this country the force of cir cumstance's compels men to play with proles si.ms and principals as so many counters. Hear, t'or instance, - the opinion of a man who has had certainly a pretty extensive experience of what are called religious people in this country, the nev. Edward Irving, in his late publication on the Last Days : " There is a hard scepticism, which hath indurated men's hearts, so as they will not feel the impression of a truly spiritual consideration. .They either will not, or they cannot, believe a thing, unless common opi nion sanction it, or immediate advantage attend Lpon it. You may try your utmost—at least I w I have done it oft—with religious people, but it was in vain ; no truth for its own sake cmcld I get them to believe." This coincides with the view respecting the choice of a religion delivered by Alderman Brown; are meeting connected with the retirement of the Rev. Mr. Clayton ; namely, that a young man entering the world would find his success promoted by join ing the Dissenters. Some men, more honest than many of their neighbours, admit that they .dissimble, but, like Dr. Paley, they urge in .their defence that they cannot afford to keep a .conscience. The Revolution of France, by tutting up the large properties, and throwing .open all offices, civil and religious, to all men, whatever their birth and whatever their religion, and substituting no oligarchy in the place cf the former regime, to monopolize political power under a pretended representation, laid the axe to the root of that which necessitates immo rality and h)pocrisy in England. The cir cumstances in which an Englishman is placed compel him to a constant observance of prudence in the malifestation of opinion, to watch the quarter from which the wind blows, and to praise or blame according as praise or blame will be most likely to promote his advancement. The Fr, nchman is placed in circumstances which fe t.r him much less. Hence, where the lower orders are ignorant, superstitious, and prejudiced—as they are, according to the con currin,4 accounts of visitors, in. three-fourths of the country—the ignorance and prejudice are comparatively harmless, from the absence of the circumstances which enable one class of men to turn the deficiencies of another to a bad ac cona•:. There are many towns, for instance, both in France and other countries, where there is more ignorance among the lower orders than there was in Birmingham and Manchester in the beginning of the war ; but then in no coun try is there any party, having an interest in mischief; possessed of one-tenth of the power which our High Church party had then, from various circumstances, to work on the lower orders. But the prevalence of immorality (using the word in a higher sense than that given to it in England, where it is confined to arThirs of the sexes), from the overwhelming I)rce of circumstances, is not incompatible with the possession of intelligence. The English of the middle and higher classes do not choose to see what it would be inconvenient to see. Truth is often like a friend in a thread-bare coat —it must be cut, to use a word for which there is no synonyme in a foreign language, and which alone indicates the god of the national idolatry. Were circumstances to dissolve the connection which binds the talent and energy of the country with the system of the Aristocracy, many an eye which now seems half shut would instantly be wide open. We do not believe that there is any country in Europe that could on the instant pro duce so many able and intelligent men. It is at present clearly the interest of a literary man in this country to profess such principles as are in accordance with that system to which power through all its ramifications, is attached. When we know what is the interest of a man, we may in nine cases out of ten anticipate what his con duct will he. Hence the dread of many good men in England lest the extent of their good intentions should be known, and lest the princi ples they really entertain should be proclaimed. In the article in the Chronicle to which our Contemporary alludes, we had said with refer ence to this—" OCcaSionally even in a canting and hypocritical country like this, an individual, no doubt, will be found, who frOm indifference to the ordinary objects of ambition, and the acci dental determination of his inquiries to the good of his fellow creatures, may occupy himself with speculations,, of which the object is the ad vantage of the people. But even such an indi vidual dreads nothing so much as to be knoWn for ainan who has any other than selfish and vul, ear aims. He knows _that his only chance of being able to do good must depend on his ob jects not being too clearly revealed, and that numbers of the very people whose good he seeks, from the ignorance and prejudice insepa rable from their degraded condition, would be among the first to tear him to pieces, if set on by their enernies." On this passage our con temporary remarks :—" We leave it to the, Chronicle to explain in what sense, or in what spirit, it asserted the superior intelligence of a people, whom it thus describes as in the worst blindness and brutality of ignorance. ciently clear, thatno civilized country in the world could take rank in the scale of intelligence below the condition attributed in the abOve passage to England." s The passage is , we. admit, strongly expressed, and is written under the influence. of a little too much impulse. But substantially it is home out by reality. The interests adverse to the people are peculiarly strong in England ; and, as we have said, these interests dictate, and too often ensure dissimulation. No man re proaches Galilei for having first said that the earth moves round the sun, and then, to pacify ' the Priests, that the sun moves round the earth. But numbers of the people may, from ignorance and prejudice, tear to pieces, using the words not exactly in their literal sense, their best friends when instigated by interested enemies, and yet greater numbers, propbrtionably, of the people in question may be enlightened, than of the people of other countries. Towns as we have said, indicate the civilization of a country. Eng land is studded with great towns ; and though the agricultural labourers are yet in a most degraded condition, the inhabitants of our towns are be coming rapidly enlightened. What a desire for in truction is manifested in the spread of Mechanics' Institutes throughout all our large towns. A great deal of talent has been called forth in these places. We had the other day an opportunity of conversing with an intelligent civil engineer, who has visited professionally a great part of France, and he describes the artisans as far be low those of England in general intelligence. We conclude with repeating our belief that more information and intelligence are diffused through out the lower orders in towns in England, than throughout the lower orders in towns in other countries. As these, however, are not the classes to whom men. anxious to promote their wordly interest can devote themselves, our fashionable and periodical literature is generally aristocratical. But the lower classes are enabled to command suitable books, and more and more pains are taken every day to provide for their mental wants. They are now indeed so far ad vanced, the love of knowledge having struck deep root, that they may be almost said to be able to dispense with assistance. Still numbers of Englishmen are ignorant and prejudiced and degraded, and still the worldly wise will not ad vocate the removal of the chief causes of the ignorance and degradation—the political abuses in the Government of the country.—lbid. The state of opinion in Ireland, or among those at least who represent and guide the popu lar feelings of that country, upon the subject of the recent trials, is deeply to be deplored. They assume a tone of triumph and exultation on the failure of the prosecutions for the Doneraile con spiracy, which would have been justifiable and natural enough had the investigation afforded any grounds for doubting the existence of such a crime ; but which can be accounted for, as the case actually stands, only upon the sup position that they have so much sympathy for the real criminals, be they whom they may, as to consider their escape a fit subject for national rejoicing; or so much hatred of Go vernment and Law,. as to exult in the proof these trials present to us .of the feebleness of both. If it could be•denied that Messrs, Low, Creagh, and Admiral Evans, were devoted to death by a murderous conspiracy ; or that the members of this diabolical confederacy attempted to carry their sanguinary decree into execution ; or that similar plots exist in other parts of Ire land ; or that in many instances, and some very recent ones, fatal success has attended their designs—if any of these things could be de nied, then there might be some rational and humane pretence for the joy which is so extensively manifested in Ireland on the result of the late trials. In triumph and delight springing from such a source, who is there that would not participate ? But the occasion on which the Liberal party in Ireland exult so much is of a very different cha racter. The effect' of the trials is not to show that Ireland is free from the deep stain of such odious and revolting guilt as was imputed to the individuals charged, or that Irish society may now enjoy the sense of security which would arise from the persuasion that similar guilt is not extensively diffused among the people. The effect of the whole proceedings is, on the contrary, to show the actual existence of this guilt to an appalling extent—to show that it is so strongly rooted in popular favour, and so effectually screened by popular sympathy, as to render the utmost vigilance and zeal of Government ineffectual for its detection ; or if these are exerted with success in the discovery of any of the real criminals, to render the pro bability of their conviction by a Jury very small. We are presented with a view of society equally terrible and alarming by these trials, whether we believe that the persons under accusation were innocent or guilty. Yet this is the state of society that affords joy and triumph to a political and religious . party, which has for centuries been the bane of Ireland, and which is likely, if we may judge by these :symptoms, to be her bane for centuries to come. With respect to the wretched men who have been pronounced gully by a Jury, we hope and trust that the Irish Government will act upon its own deliberate and conscientious convictions, without any regard to clamour or any anxiety for popularity. 'lt is now stigma tised by the party which is loud in its expres sions of sympathy for the whole of the accused, and of triumph on the escape of some of them, because it has entered on a prosecution which the party affects to believe unjust. Nor can there be the least doubt that the censures of this party, with whom it is evidently the main object to depreciate Government, will be re doubled, let the decision of the latter be what it may. On the other hand, the wise and good, while they must universally lament that a state of society should exist in which the Most abominable crimes are shielded from justice by the.impene trable veil which popular sympathy draws around them, could certainly derive no consolation from the sacrifice of victims, of whose criminality any doubt might rationally be entertained.—Morn ing Post. THE NEW LONDON BRIDGE APPROACHES. —An especial Session was held on Wednesday at the Town-hall, Southwark, before Mr. Serjeant ARABIN, several of the Aldermen, and the High Bailiff, when Mr. BROUGHAM and Mr. THESSIGER, on behalf of Join.; Watour, the occupier of the Three Crowns public-house, High-street, Borough, claimed the sum of 2,5531. 7s. 10d. as a compensation for the lease, good-will, and fixtures, and the other losses he was about to sustain by the build ing of the new bridge. Mr. Cosutiiii SERJEANT, Mr. ROLLAND, and Mr. MIREHOUSF, on the behalf of the cor poration of London, resisted the claim, and after eight hours' discussion the Jury returned a verdict of Is. for the lease, and 6031. 14s. 6d. for the good-will, &c.—Yester day the Court again met, for the purpose of enquiring the compensation to be paid to WILLIAM SENTANCE, carrying lon the trade of a tea-dealer, being Nos. 299 and 300, in High-street. Mr. BROUGHAM, Mr. Trussroxit, and Mr. PLATT, appeared on the part of the claimant, to sup port the claim of 303/. for his lease, good-will, &c. .Mr. COMMON SERJEANT, Mr. BOLLAND, and Mr. MIRE HOUSE, appeared on the part of the corporation to resist this claim. After hearing evidence_ on the part of the cor poration and the claimant the Jury retired, after a short absence a verdict of 100/. for the lease, and 1,2481. for good-will, &c., was received. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, Nov. b. CURTEIS V. CLARK. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL, with whom were Mr. Wigram and Mr. Bacon, appeared in support of a petition presented by the defendants in the cause, who are also persons interested in the borough and harbour of Rye, praying that the decree formerly made for removing certain obstructions in the navi gation of the river Rother might be carried into execution by the plaintiffs. Mr. HORNE, Mr. KNIGHT, and Mr. PEMBER TON, opposed the petition, and took some prelimi nary objections for want of parties, which were answered by Mr. WIGRA3/. Some discussion ensued, when it was intimated by the plaintiffs, that an application was about to he made to Parliament for a new Act, which would render the further prosecution of the petition un necessary. The LORD CHANCELLOR intimated an opinion that it would be better to wait the result of that application. At the same time he thought that the petitioners should be placed in no worse situation if they should afterwards find it necessary to resort to the jurisdiction of the Court. The matter was therefore ordered to stand over, with the understanding that the petitioners should be at liberty to amend their petition if they should think fit, and that no technical objections should he taken at any future hearing. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. 5. SMITH V. HARTLEY. This was an action against Mr. James Hartley, an attorney of Bridge -street, to recover damages tinder the following circumstances. In February, 1827, the defendant was employed by the plaintiff, who resided in Yorksbire, to bring an action against a person of the name of Davis, for debt. Bailable process was sued out, returnable in Hilary Term, 1827. Notice ofjustitication of bail was given for the first day of the next term; but in the interval be tween the two terms, the plaintiff's father, acting as his agent, made an arrangement with Davis for put ting an end to the action. The defendant, Mr. Hartley, was informed of this, and requested to stay th e proceedings ; but, notwithstanding, in the fol lowing term he took au assignment of the bail-bond from the Sheriff, in default of justification of bail, and proceeded against Davis and the two bail. An application was then made on their part to the Court of Common Pleas, and the proceedings: were ordered to be stayed. The costs of the application were taxed at 8/. 145., which sum the plaintiff was obliged to pay, arid now sought to recover it as da mages in this action. Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 8/. 14s. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 5. MITCHELL AND WIFE V. HOWELL. This was an action of assault. The defendant, at the time in question a constable, and now one of the new police, called upon a Mrs. Cuet, then stay ing with the plaintiffs, who keep a public-house in Oxford-street in the East, and demanded some rent, which she promised to pay as soon as her husband, who was a master mariner, returned home from his voyage. The defendant then, according to this woman's account, abused her, and called her by improper names, upon which Mrs. Mitchell inter fi red, when the defendant said that she (Mrs. Mitchell) was quite as bad as Mrs. Cuet, for bar.: bouring such a woman. Mrs. Mitchell replied, that she would harbour whom she liked, whereupon the defendant shook his staff in her face, and, declaring he would take her to the watch-house, seized her by the arm and dragged her from the bar to the street door, when she succeeded in extricating her self from his grasp, and returned to the bar. Another woman, named Mrs. James, not the most feminine in appearance, who swore she was preSent at the time, bore testimony to the same facts, and when cross-examined by Mr. Serjeant WILDE, on the part of the defendant, added that Mrs. Mitchell was so much affected by the defendant's ill-usage that she fainted. Mr. Sedeant WILDE—Of course you endeavoured to rescue Mrs. Mitchell from the defendant's vio lence ? Witness—l am not in the habit of inter fering on such occasions. Mr. Seijeant WILDE—But you say Mrs. Mitchell ;vas in the family way at the time : now women ge. nerally come to each other's assistance in that situa tion ? Witness—l did not interfere. _ . Mr. Serjeant WILDE—Pray how:long did the affair last? Witness--le was using very absurd lan guage to her for an hour and a half. Mr. Serjeant WILDE—What was the " absurd " language he used ? Witness—lt was desperate language. Mr. Serjeant WILDE—Too bad, I suppose, for you•to repeat ? Witness—Almost.—(Laughter.) Mr. Serjeant 'WILDE—And how long was he dragging her about? Witness—From five to ten minutes. Mr. Sleant WlLDE—Where did he take hold of her? Vitness—By the thick part of the arm. Mr. Serjeant WILDE—But I don't know which is the thin part.—(Laughter.) Witness pointed to the 'middle of her arm. Mr. Serjeant WILDE—Pray, have any serious consequences ensued from this violent assault ? Witness—Yes; she has not exactly recovered from the effects of it vet. Mr. Serjeant WILDE—What doctor attended her? Witness—No doctor. I attended her. Mr. Serjeant WILDE— What ! did you call in no doctor? VVitness—No ;an old woman is some times of mote use than a doctor. Mr. Serjeant Wm:on—You say she has not yet recovered; pray, how is she affected at present ? Witness—She feels great pain. Mr. Serjeant WlLDE—Where, in the thick part of the arm ?—( Great laughter.) Witness—Allover her, from the great fright she received. Mr. Serjeant WILDE—Oh ! she was dreadfully frightened, was.sle ? Witness—Yes; she sat down in the bar, and cried until she came round to herself again, and then fainted.—(Laughter.) Mr. Serjeant WILDE—Then it had not occurred to her to faint before ? Witness—Yes it had ; but she was too much terrified. Mr. Seljeant WILDE--At what time did • she tell you it occurred to her to faint ? Witness—She did not tell me. Mr. Serjeant WILDE—How long was she in this faint ? Witness—For two hours, off and on. Mr. Serjeant.WlLDE—How long was she off, and . how long was she on ? (Great laughter, in which his Lordship heartily joined.) Witness—About every five minutes. Mr. Serjeant WILDE—What ! she fainted for two hours every five minutes ? Witness—Yes. - Mr. Serjeant WILDE—Did you call to inquire after her health the next morning ? Witness—Of course I did. 11r. Serjeant WILDE--Did she faint then? Wit ness—Oh ! i should not think it proper for her to faint then.--(Continued laughter.) Mr. Serjeant WILDE--May I ask, ma'am, when you think it proper for a lady to faint in that part of the town ?--(Great laughter.) This information was not furnished to the Learned Serjeant. Two other witnesses were called on the part of the plaintiff, who swore that all the abuse proceeded from the ladies; that the defendant never touched Mrs. Mitchell, but was pushed out of the house by her; and that Mrs. James was not present at all on the occasion. • The plaintiff being thus sworn out of Court by his own witnesses, his Counsel chose to be called, and he was nonsuited accordingly. - HIGH PRICE OF PROVISIONS.--A Corre spondent a. ,, its why beef is 91-d., muttoa Bd.,.butter..l6d., cheese ls. a pound s , and bread five-and -twenty percent. dearer in some , shops than others, when it is quite, noto rious that neither the farmer, the grazier, nor thOairy. man are getting prices Which can,in any way iustify the coOnnahce of euch_charri to Zhe cOnagrgyeti,,, POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL RELIGIOUS TRACTS AND IRRELIGIOUS TRICKS. — James Wilson, a sleek little personage on the Wrong side of fifty, his hair combed smoothly down over his forehead, as beseemed those who " labour after the things of the sprit," his white neckcloth twisted round in plain folds and tied behind in the same saintly fashion, and his countenance beaming with all the celestial serenity of one who had subdued the lusts of the flesh, was charged with administering beer and biscuits to two female children about ten years of age, the said Leer and biscuits being admi nistered as aforesaid for certain very wicked and naughty purposes. From the evidence adduced it appeared that the children belong to Sr. Patrick's charity school, and between nine and ten o'clock on Wednesday morn ing were sent together to school. On Blackfriars bridge they were met by the prisoner, whose " bowels yearned with compassion towards the little innocents' at seeing them exposed to the wet, and he, in consequence of the said " yearning," took them under his special protection to treat them to some coffee. He took them from public-house to public-house for the greater part of the day, substi tuting beer and biscuits for the promised coffee, until at length suspicion was excited that the " flesh" had more to do with the good man's humanity than the " spirit ;" and at length, after he was snugly moored in the parlour of a public-house in Giltspur-street, one of the witnesses saw through a window which gave light at the top of the parlour to the stairs . . . . Ia delicacy to the saintly feelings of our Clapham and Camberwell readers we must hang out what a modern poet terms " dead lights" over the remainder of the evidence, and merely add that it was such as'called forth expressions of disgust and abhorrence from the Alderman, and excited a cor responding feeling in every one who was prrsent. " Where are you from," asked the Alderman, " and what are you ?" " I live at Camberwell, and sell books," responded Mr. Wilson, in a slow and solemn voice, accompanied with the usual twang heard in conventicles. " Religious books —tracts, I suppose ?" rejoined the Alderman. " Yea !" twanged forth the godly sinner at the bar. " What a monster you must be," said the Alder man, " engaged in a work of a seemingly religious character, and commit this infamous attempt upon two children, whose grandfather you might very easily be !" " I did no harm unto them," replied the sinner with all the self-righteousness of his sect. " Did them no harm !" indignantly exclaimed the Alderman, " and this is all the compunction you feel for the offence ? It is matter of much wonder to me that nothing will teach these book-distributing societies the folly and inutility of their pursuits in employing such as the prisoner, the only effect of which is, that under the pretence of disposing of their religious tracts they find their way into private houses, and turn the heads of every female servant in it. The nuisance in my neighbourhood is intole rable. (The worthy Alderman resides at Clapham.) The prisoner was ordered to find bail, himself in 404 and two sureties in 201. each; he was locked up until the same be forthcoming. BOW.STREET. Yesterday William Case, landlord of the White Lion public-house, Wych-street, appeared to answer to an information for having, on Sunday, ;he Ist of November inst., permitted persons of notoriously bad character to assemble in his house during the hours of divine service, contrary to the statute. The information was preferred by direction of the Police Commissioners. Henry Robert Jervis, a police serjeant, on Sun day last, at a quarter past 12 o'clock, while divine service was performing in the parish church of St. Clement Danes, n•as turning the corner of New castle -street, for the purpose of relieving his men, when he met a man half tipsy, with his mouth bleed ing, who complained that he had been knocked down at the house of the defendant. Witness immedi ately accompanied him to the White Lion, the door of which was closed. Witness demanded admis sion, and the door was partly opened by the defend arit's wife, who held it in her hand until some per sons in the tap-room were enabled to escape to the rear of the premises. She then opened the door, saying, " You are welcome to come in, there is nobody in the house." Witness upon entering saw several pots and pints on the tables in the tap-room, and, proceeding backwards and looking through the window of a shed or outhouse, he saw about a dozen persons concealed there, some of them sitting down smoking their pipes. The serjeant added, that the Police Commissioners had given orders to clear the streets of drunken and disorderly characters who should be found there during the performance of divine service on the sabbath. It was clear that those orders could not be executed if public-houses were kept open on Sunday mornings, and characters of every description supplied with drink. Two of the patrol constables, Ivho had accompa nied the serjeant to the White Lion on the occasion in question, corroborated the statement which their officer had made. The landlord, in his defence, declared that there was no company in his house after a quarter before eleven o'clock, when he caused his tap-room to be cleared. The defendant tray then sentenced to, pay 40s. fine, and costs. Susannah Budd, the woman who was charged upon► suspicion of having been accessory to the death of a man whose name was unknown, and who ex pired in the shop of Mr. Burrows, the surgeon, of High Holborn, on Saturday evening last, was brought before Sir R. BIRNIE, who inquired if a Co roner's Jury had sat upon the body of the deceased. Dodd, the gaoler, stated that, by direction of Mr. HALLS, he conveyed the prisoner to the King's Head, Broad-street, Bloomsbury, where an inquest had sat on the body of the deceased in the course of the morning. The name of the deceased was William Young. He had been a snuff-manufac turer, and was in the act of carrying a table upon his head.when he fell down, and having been re moved to the shop of)lr. Burrows, expired almost instantly. Sir R. BIRNIE asked if any evidence had been adduced before the Coroner tending to prove - that the deceased had died of poison ?—Dodd replied in the negative. The deceased was supposed to have died from the distension of the vessels of the brain and heart. The verdict was, that " the deceased died by the visitation of God." No blame was at tributed to the prisoner. Sir R. BIRNIE—In that case she is discharged. LA MBSTH-STREET. Just as Mr. WALKER was about to quit the bench an odd-looking little man, with a comical obliquity of vision, bustled into the office, and begged the Magistrate, with the utmost earnestness, to despatch an officer to his house that night for the protection of himself and wife. Mr. WALKER said officers were for the protection of the public generally, and not private individuals, and requested to know from what cause the urgency arose. " Why," said the applicant, " I go in bodily fear ; I'm in danger every moment of being knocked on the head." How so ?" said Mr. WALKER-" Why this is the day on which the annual recurrence of the out rages on my person oblige me to put myself under the protection of the laws of the country." " Explain yourself," said Mr. 'WALKER, who seemed puzzled how to receive the complaint. Shelswell, the officer, here stepped forward, and stated that some mischievous urchins were in the habit of playing their tricks upon the little man, whose bodily fear seemed to have been aroused by the threat of " smugging" him for a " guy," of which he actually seemed afraid. _ " Me afraid," said he, cocking , his comical eye fiercely at the officer, " I never was afraid in my life. Shouldn't be afra;rl a a giant. No, your Worship, the truth is, 1' wade myself, obnoAiot.ts by sticking to my principles; and a number of my neighbours are Catholics, that's why I know I'm a marked man, Here's a parcel of these children have been holding out threats all day—and as I have lived to witness their conduct last Guy Faux day, to an old gentleman and his donkey, which I dare say your Worship recollects—" Mr. WALKER professed ignorance. " Well, but as respects myself, I'll only state what happened last year. I kept a bit of a shop, and while me and my Missus was in it, in the even ing one of the ringleaders came bolt in and asked for ha'porth of mustard. While my hack was turned he took the opportunity of throwing alighted cracker behind the counter. Now, this is a specie of fire work I've an unaccountable antipathy to, though I'm naturally as bold as a lion; and my wife, in her fright, jumping on the counter upset the treacle jar right into the bag of mustard, I, in my hurry to get rid of the danger, run my nose spank against the door-post of the parlour, and got capsized into the treacle and mustard, by which I spoilt the seat of a new pair of black breeches. These, your Wor ship, are the outrages—the repetition of which I wish to prevent." It was here intimated to Mr. Walker, that the applicant for a number of years i►ad made a periodi cal visitation at the office, wi!lt the same request, and a few months back was so troublesome with complaints against different boys, that Mr. Wyatt had forbid him the office. Hearing this, lqr. WALKER dismissed the little man, recommending him to go home and attend to is business. VAUXHALL-BRIDGE COMPANY. Yesterday a meeting of the shareholders in this undertaking was held at the George and Vulture tavern, Cornhill ; Mr. Davis in the chair. The Clerk to the Company read the report of the Committee of Management. It stated that there were 1,5004 in the three per cent. consols; that notes to the amount of 7031. were in circulation by the Company. The report further stated, that the action brought by the Company for damage done to the bridge by craft had been decided against the owners, and that the amount of the verdict in fa vour of the Company, viz. 4481, had been paid by the defendants. Comparing the receipts of the half year just ended with the corresponding period of last year there was a decrease of 2181. After the report was read, the finance account was exhibited. The tolls collected for the last half year amounted to 4,1951. There were other items or receipts, such as rents, dividends, &c. The account of dis bursements was read, and shared a balance in fa vour of the Company of 1,1104; upon this balance a dividend of 10s. per share, payable in Jan. next. The report was adopted after a few remarks rela tive to the present comparatively unproductive state of the tolls, which was ascribed in some measure to the bad condition of trade. The plan for issuing tickets to allow horses and carriages to pass and repass the same day at one toll was warmly applauded. Ultimately a resolution was carried recommend ing the Directors to consider the plan and report. The meeting then adjourned. MELANCHOLY SUICIDE. A melancholy act of suicide was committed on Friday night, by a tine young woman belonging to Calton, said to be the natural daughter of a gentle man who had the same fate. On Wednesday even ing, she and her lover accompanied a happy pair who were so impatient to get married that they went to a Justice of the Peace, and on the way, the two damsels being together, the one that was going to be married proposed to her comrade that if she and her lover (a baker) were willing, they might all get united at the same time. This was joyfully as sented to ; the deceased, on giving her hand, say ing " There is my hand and heart along with it." After the conclusion of the civil contract, friends were reconciled to the irregular ceremony, the usual festivities arid jaunting took place, and all seemed to go on well; but several slanderous tales being circulated prejudicial to the character of t he deceased (said to be the invention of a disappointed rival), she, being a proud spirited girl, was much hurt in her feeling; arid on Friday was very sad and pen sive. In the evening, her husband carne home, when the disagreeable subject was resumed : she burst into tears, and sobbing aloud, said she could not live under such imputations ; and rushed down stairs with her hair dishevelled, and in a very agitated state. On going through the shop of her mother, she said to her little cousin, " Notice the shop; I'll maybe return in a little, or I'll maybe never be back." After some time, her absence created re mark; and her mother became apprehensive when she heard that she had used these expressions, and was seen going hurriedly through Well-street to wards the green. " Dear me," she said, " whar can that lassie ha'e gane; its raining hard, and she's nae hap on her, nor onything on her head ;" and in much anxiety she cried to her son-in-law and niece to proceed with a lantern to the green, anti examine the water side, to see if there was any trace of her, for she was sure she was in the Clyde. Her impatience increasing, she went to the door to see if the mes sengers were not returned. While standing in this situation, she says something gave an alarm in the shop, as if the counter had split in two, when her whole frame trembled, she convulsively clasped her hands, and instinctively said, " my Eliza's gone ;" and she fancies that was the hour her daughter had thrown herself into the river. Her son-in-law and niece came back, but no trace of Eliza co u ld b e found. Next morning she learned that two masons in passing through the green the preceding night between eight and nine o'clock, met her daughter with her hands rolled in her apron; and having a melancholy look. They jocularly said, "my lassie, you'll no see him to-night," thinking that she was going to meet her sweetheart; but she neither moved her head nor made reply, but went forward with a hurried step. The Clyde was dragged on Saturday for her body, but without success. Yes terday morning, the dragging was renewed, when a young man who accompanied her in her marriage jaunt, had the melancholy satisfaction of finding her body nearly opposite the Humane Society House, about five yards from the shore. On carrying her body to the green bank, her hands were in the same position across her waist, firmly wrapped in her apron, as when she left the house. Her hus band was so much affected, that he had to be helped home. On learning her untimely fate, the feelings of her mother and all her acquaintance were most acute. She was a handsome girl, twenty years of age, and was remarked for her modest, careful, and industrious conduct. She was an only child, and assisted her mother in her business.— GlasgotO Chronicle. ARTIFICIAL EYE-LID.—We learn by the "New York Medical and Physical Journal for July" that Dr. A. HORTON has succeeded in forming an artificial eye lid for a black boy. This important operation was per formed in a short time ; and in a few days afterwards the boy had a very sightly eye, answering all the purposes of a natural one. The ball of the eye had been gored by an ox, awl several attempts had been made to unite nr restore the detached eye lid by other physicians, which all proved abortive. We regret to state that, within the last few weks, the number of typhus fever cases has considerably increased, both in the city and suburbs. This has been particularly the case in Gothals, where a number of indivi duals have already fallen victims to the malady. In one instance, a surgeon, of some eminence, felt himself unwell on Friday; and so rapid was the operation of the disease, that he died on Tuesday morning last. His funeral took place on Friday; and the s reet from which his remains were removed was literally crowded, principally by females lamenting his premature death. Another surgeon in Gor bale is confined ; and accessions to the number of Infirmary patients are almost daily taking place. It is to be hoped, however, that the cold of winter will soon have the effect of checking the progress of the distemper.— Glasgow Chronicle.. THE MI MLESEX MAGISTRATES. A numerous body of the Magistrates of the county of Middlesex yesterday as s embled at t f Sessions House, Cl er k enwe ll, f or t h e despatch !I general business. FRANCISCONST, Esq. in the ha ir ' in consequence of the increased expenditure the erection of a Lunatic Asylum, the enlargant of the House of C orrec ti on , an d t h e re pair of Sessions-house, the county rate for the visor quarter was raised from one halfpenny to three things in the pound. - MR. STIRLING'S BILL. Mr. Setjeant PELL inquired whether Mr. Stirling had yet sent in his account ? Mr. HALLS answered in the negative. Mr. Serjeant PELL should not wish to proceed harshly against so old a man, b u t th e Magistrat' owed it to the county not to suffer its business toil' trifled with ; and he should therefore move that th! Clerk of the Peace be instructed to obtain an a ttirr . merit against Mr. Stirling. After some discussion, at the sugg e stion of t h : CHAIRMAN, it was agreed that the proceedit should be commenced de *ow, and carried, if neg' t sary, through the various st age s u p t o a n a ttachog s in the course of the ensuing Term. Sir PETER LAURIE inqui re d w h e the r Mr. Qt•rlitqf held any other situation at present than that Coroner? Mr. HALLS—Yes, he is Clerk of the Visiting' 70' gistrafes. • 41 0 Sir PETER LAURIE—Then all I can say is, the duties of Coroner are quite heavy enough old a man ; I could wish to see him relieved ff m " those duties. I'll say no more. STATE OF THE COUNTY HOUSE OF CORRECTIOrtit Sir JOHN GIBBON moved that the sum of l o i he granted to Mr. Vickery, the late Governor the House of Correction, as a gratuity. Vie he 'testy and humanity of Mr. Vickery were tor l o i tioned, and his services extended ov e r a peril' 33 years. The motion was carried by a large majority. Mr. PLOWER moved a grant of 1,5001; for the erection of a boundary wall on the northern eicie_,, t the gate of the House of Correction. It w ould; only make it uniform with the other side, make the prison more secure. The Visiting Mme, strates had it in contemplation to erect an additm ward for females on the ground thus enclosed. hi Sir PETER LAURIE disapproved of increasing t o number of gaols. He liked short imprisonment else transportation. Long imprisonment only tee t 'l, to confirm men in habits of vice. No Police 1 4 . gistrate would deny that the most humane m utt , was to send such a person out of the country, 1 " - A. ever might be the opinion of a few amateur Ikli* t i salves. He liked to speak out, and was not efrs i c : even although attacked by the Learned Seri e° , He never saw any one that he was afraid to atta r Mr. Serjeant PELL—MaIe or female ?--(B I of laughter.) t ot at the ' Sir PETER LAURIE was quite shocked _ _ . of decency displayed by the Learned Serjeant. After some further discussion the motion s" agreed to. DUBLIN.-THE COMMISSION. (From the Dublin Morning Register of TuesdaY)fa Robert Reid and Bridget Kelly were indicteo,d an assault on Ellen Power. Reid for violating p person, and Kelly for assisting him. In anot, io count the prisoners were indicted for robbing B P Power. lig The CHIEF BARON said it was a very Pec_to case, and it would be well for the Jury to take "`".' ofit--(tAtighter.) 4011# Ellen Power-1 am a single woman ; I re:TN going down to Kingstown on the 15th Setto bar; I went down there to hear of my brother , 7 A , was in Liverpool ; on returning from Kinge t° , 9- e the female prisoner came up and knocked me & hot " - she then trampled upon me; she tore off pi - ;ef net ; when she robbed me, two boys came up I °,;i l and asked her, was that Biddy, and she desire d prisoner, Reid, to have his will of the the prisoner then came up, and . . . the other boy came up, and did the same; the male prisoner stood by all the time; I did not long where to o ; I went into a covered car, and svr ; i, there till the peep of day; my bonnet and 601", were all torn ; the next morning I found the .f eli prisoner with my cloak, and I took it, arictihe iA nothing to me : the police afterwards arrested her a field, about half a mile from the house. Stephen Byrne—l saw the prisoner, Brik e : Kelly, in my own room in September Mot; ' O 4 came in in the morning, and had a handkerchief lo cloak tied up; it was a plaid cloak; she Is idl o , cloak on the bed ; she wanted my wife to d° 99 " . thing with the cloak. str Patrick Saint—l am a police constable; Wg ef r ion o cloned at Kingstown ; I apprehended the p on 16th September; I asked Kelly was Sh ° b o g Kingstown that night. and she said she We! , iO % there was no one with her; she' firs't denied tr i , l l the cloak; but she afterwards said that she tap cloak belonging to a girl she knew, and intends return it. DEFENCE. 1 e William Fennell—l keep a public- house; ,s,fstsilt Power on Tuesday evening, 15th Septembe r • a few young men ; she had spirits with thern m s danced with them ; before that she dan ced 9 .l pipe, and a very good dancer she is.--(Laugh —She came in with Reid. Ellen Power said she never saw Fennell be f g re; and did not dance a hornpipe that night. •,a t o Mary Bitchman—l know the prisoner ft e ' t ipli °ee him go tip the road; I saw rower 1 4 0 0 0 leaning up against the rails; this was between 14 and eight ; I saw Reid trying, to fasten her j 0.6° and she would not let him ;. she wanted R ec d with her for " twopence.":' CHIEF BARON—Was not that cheap r ter.) Witness—lndeed it was, my Lord. " Examination continued—Reid said .he 09:iy b 1! to his master, and she said, to the it r Master, " one night with me is better than l e or. all the masters in the world ;" I then went' °id CHIEF BARON—It was time foryou.—(La u z . iiol John Gartland- - -I saw Ellen Power ehf_ee,, in Kingstown ; I saw her one night' pi ne inside railings, and off the road; She was that .i! dead drunk. ! p Peace-constable Hall deposed to , his baYin e o r Power ten or twelve times in . Kingstown ;; peared to him to be a prostitute. tk i After a brief charge from the CHIEF Bartl o 4 Jury returned a verdict, finding Rober t guilty of the ripe, and Bridget Kelp +, gul l J, stealing. 1 BIRTHS. caoll On the 4th inst. at Bromley-palace , the Poi Murray, of a son. fr On the 4th inst. in Russell-square, the lady of S. Esq. of a daughter. (1 4 MARRIED. v On the sth inst. at St. Lawrence Jewry , Henfl' 11, son of T. C. Porter, Esq. - of Liverpool, to 3101001 r third daughter of the late Wins Goodman, Eml• house, near Leeds. On the sth inst. at Christchurch, Maryleho ne, ord second son of R. Bunn, Esq. of Ipswich, Suffolk, `firier garet Elizabeth, eldest (laughter of the late ; Esq. of Charles-street, Cavendisl -square. el 01 0 On the 3,1 inst. at Cheekley, Wm. Martin, P son of the late Rev. C. Martin, and nephew' CO 8 . C , of Athol!, to Sarah, eldest daughter of the Charlewood, of OA-hill, Staffordshire. sO t ' DIED. 6 .,: r At Aix-la-Chapelle, Lieut.-Colonel Colqui'°° son of the late Duncan Grant, E.,q. of Lingostevii;oifri4 of disease contracted at Arracans, where he O n ', d" r o brigade of the army. This distinguished of6ceo,',oPB,.ere the Peninsular war, and subsequently in Belgiun tet.oa head of the Intelligence Department of the iti lD; ;el' is his invaluable services frequently attracted the -3179 p4' of the Duke of Wellington. is° 4 ' On the tst inst. at Ostend, Longford British Consul for that port and district. raIlgED AND PUBLISHED BY MURDO o lb rlsz BVI , I Ormx, 112, STIAICEO, i t 1124 •