The Sun. — London, England, 1829-02-05 00:00:00

SPIRiT OF TIIF LONDON JOURNALS. king's Speech, to be delivered at two o'clock this day. (and how memorable hereafter stair a day and how !) is expected by all eliteees with an anxiety, or perhaps we ought to say •an earentees, 'lever equalled within oer personal re collection. May that speech be the harbinger of internal peace in this country, of charity be , tweeo Cbristims men, of augmented power t England as a state, and of all the happiness that can be commueicated to any civilized people, by a system of legislation framed and executed in the spirit cif justice, wisdom, and humanity. Tit n•elet of Wellington, for is be to he ate energy toes oation is about to owe this n ew ant i ines „ . . trmatoe o „ uogetton, will, we believe, ere the even , in;_ donee, pledge his word for the introdenetian of st Bill tier abolishing le-hates-ea etill exists in the nattier: of a penal code against the Catholics of C= tenet Brion) and Ireland. That mighty object evltich Mr. Pitt failed to accomplish, eCwhiali Mr. Fox awl. Lord Grenville, ,jointly, bail not enough of slow - nem:nee from the Sovereign, mingled with confidence in themselves, to lay so much as the 1'01111(66(as, that the absolute preventioir or indee tioite postponement of which was the vital policy of the : British Government fitnn 1807, when Pereevai became Minister, to 1827, when Lord Liverpool ceased to be so—that which in directly produced the death of Alr. Canning, and lay next his heart ashen expired—that, •li Ina s, time etruggle Isar Oaiieli was every clay beconting national in Ireland, threatening revolt on her side and eventual re -conquest by foot orarias vii ;slat of England, the Duke of Wellington, strong only in native firmness, anti contempt for the paltry 'waist of men who see no greatness but in the eacritice of truth and conscience to a eort of partisan consistency, has succeeded in 6iogitig to such a point, that the aini-Catholic grandees of the kingdom hate, with few and insignificant exceptions, declared their willing nese -to leave its managemeut to his solitary skill—that the heads of the church have suffered him to take upon himself their spiritual flute tionse and exorcise for them the timid of anti- Papal terror, by which their episcopal imagina tions had been haunted ; and finally,. that the Court itself, dieelettsed of its traditional •prejtt dices, hat euthorised him to affix the su• prettie and crowning fat to whatever act the I,ther branches of the Legislature may • submit for Royal acceptance. This, we say, is an extraordinary, a wonderfid triumph, to be achieved by one man, hardly yet warm in his seat as Minister ; but a triumph which, when actually cousummated, time Ettglish nation and the Irish would be at once unwise and ungrateful ii they did not wish him many happy years to enjoy. Dismissing, then, such considerations as attach themselves to the person from whose hands the promised good may be an ticipated, and referring merely to the nature of the benefit itself, we can state_ with confidence that a Bill for the removal of Catholic disabili ties will at an early moment be brought forward, anti recommended to Parliament by his Majesty's offitial advisers ; the said Bill comprehending the admission of our Catholic fellow-subjects to eeats in both 'louses of the Legislature. As to the matter of securities, we have never ceased to heel that the best security for loyalty is freedom —the best pledge of devoted allegiance is in complete protection. It is unlikely .that the Duke of Wellington should stoop to require from Catholics, under the name of .guarantee to the State, any acts infringing on their religion er its discipline---either wounding to there pride al men, or to their sense of duty as Christians. What is given, let it be given freely and gene tiousiy—not betraying suspicion, nor provoking it. If it should be thought necessary by Mini sters to press for a restriction of the elective qua lification to individuals possessing a freehold of 104 instead of 40s , we shall, unless better in formed on the subject, see cause to lament such proposal. The extension of such a law to England would, we presume, encoueter insu perable difficulties, and its confinement to Ire land would introduce a revolting discrimination between parts of the same ;calm. The freehold qualification of Scotland, if different from that of England, has not been forced upon the Scotch by any act of the United Parliament. If' it be intended to correct the abuses of the 1)4 elective franchise, by excluding from the enjoyment of it all merely fictitious voters, let it be done without fear or hesitation. No honest public man can set himself against such a re form, and it may be pretty well insured by assi milating the Irish law upon that subject to the law -which regulates forty shilling freeholds here. But it is a serious thing to sweep away at one stroke a whole class, and that the most numerous in the country, who are actually in time bona fide exercise of a lawful right, from the pale of the British Constitution. We are, however, arguing on pure hypothesis ; thereenay be no such change contemplated in the nominal qualification of electors, anti it is but fair to wait. Another point touched upon in conversation within these few days is the neces sity of suppressing the Catholic Association. It may undoubtedly be politic to throw such a tub to the Whale, and to smooth down the mortified 'vanity of the BrunsWickets by making a peace offering of this much-vituperated bugbear. But the law which grants emancipation to the Catho lics, will impose nothing worse than a sinecure on the officers who may be charged with dispers ing their assemblies. We suspect that most of thenaare tired enough of the daily task of agi tation, and only long for some decent excuse to put an end to it. After the repeal of time dis abling laws, there wilt be a speedy riddance both of the Association and of the rent ; if one or the other of them continue 48 hours afterwards, it will be but " nomiuis umbra." In the mean time .we trust .that our next number will justify the cheering anticipations of which - this has been made. the channel ; and in that hope we for. the present conclude. Conversions ewe numerous: we bear of them every hour. Mr. Peel, has, we believe, written to .Oxford, offering his resigns-, ;ion of a seat which he had accepted tinder such different eircumstanees.-e-Timd. The Constitutionnel persists in maintaining stoutly that the arrival of the Prince de Polignac was the work of MM. de Metternich and Wel lington ; and that the object of these politicians is, by throwing the torch of discord - among the French, to prevent France from exercising any exterior influence, by which means England and Austria would alone give law to Europe, and avail themselves of French discords toc fortify and aggrandise themselves. With all deference to our French contemporary, lie_ has taken a world - of pains to avoid seeing what was before his eyes. Austria is, from a variety. of circum stances, the last power` in. Europe liable- tO the charge of a wish to aggrandise iier - elf. The o bj ec t is notoriously to preserve Europe as it is, without change, from an apprehension that she might suffer, but mid hardly profit, by change; ' and from the necessity of tranquillity to her fi• nanue:3, which have :icier been in the most flourish ing state. There is another power in Europe, of whose desire of aggrandisement we used to hear a great deal, thottO the circumstance steins to have eseaped the recollection or the Constitutionnet, HAI:101y, Russia ; anti we would ask, if it is not possible that Austria may have been anxious to obtain the conetirrence of Franeb • and Etigland • with her eitiVs, 'rather from a dread of the ag grandisement of her powerful neighbour Russia, than either the wish to cripple France or aggran , disci herself. We believe the thargt against Anstrie, ahtl I,ngland, especially the latter, of a wish to disturb France, to be utterly ground less. On the contrary, these two Powers have an object fir mnre at heart ; ilistiittly at Variance with any project, the effecting a reconciliation be tween Turkey and Russia, and without the con currence of France this would be iMpossible. The three Po eta fire ; We believe, at present in the 'vory hest understanding respecting this ob ject ; anti such has been the effect of their con " curreeee; coupled with the very unprofitable na ture of the last Russian campaign, that we learn from an authority on which we are disposed to rely .that Russia. has actually agreed to make over tures to the Porte for the opening of negociatiohs for peace, it being pretty certain that the Porte, froth its known obstinacy, would take no such step. We arc much mistaken if it be not found that the intelligence conveyed by the Gazelle de France, to be found in our extracts from Paris Paper. , -.—" Paris, Feb. 1 A Russian Diplo matic Envoy arrived at Paris the day befOre yes terday, and delivered to. the Ambassador of his Sovereign despatches, which are said to be im portant—have not reference to what we have said as to the compliance of Russia with the views of the three Powers. Nothing less, how ever, than the best understanding between France, Austria, and England, could have effected this inclination to peace on the part of Russia. The English Government is blamed by some at home for its indifference to what. passes on the Continent, and its meglect of its own reputation, in not interfering in the internal afrvirs of more than one country ; mud even the French Journals, not many weeks ago, lvere pleased to dwell with complacency on the loss of English influence. For our parts, this is precisely the part of the conduct of the Duke of Wellington's Government with .which we are best pleased. \\le only hope that, in his endea- yours to save Turkey, he may not embroil this country with It ussia. We jiistified, at. the time, the Duke, on the ground that it did not become a great country like England to. he perpetually on the look-out to discover affronts. We should find it much more difficult to justify our French contemporary, whose object, if at all intelligible to us, seems to be pointed to the. interruption of the present harmony among the. great Powers, by which alone Russia may he -awed into a disposi tion to peace. We may observe here that a cu rious case is copied by the Constitutionne/ from the Gazette de Tribunaux, of a marriage baring been declared null which was contracted at New York, in Pennsylvannia(?) on the 9th May, 1827, between the son of M. de Castlebajac and Mademoiselle Vautrez, on the ground that, by the law of France, the consent of parents is necessary to a marriage till the children are 25 that M. de Castlebajae, jun. had not yet attained his 25th year—and that a marriage contracted abroad cannot be valid in France, if it has not been preceded by the publications required by Law. An insinuation is conveyed in the Report that the Court had lent itself to the wish of parties, to manage this - matter improperly. How ever this be, it behoves the natives of other colt n- tries, and especially the people of England, to attend to the state of the French Law of Marriage, which is so different front their min, and « hick does not, indeed, seem easily reconcileable with any principle that would be approved of here. In England, and most other countries, all contracts, and mar riage among the res t , arc interpreted according to the. force they have in the place where, they - arc entered into, with some exceptions as to the Royal Family. Thus a Gretna Green marriage of a boy of 14 and a girl of 12 is recogiised on the return of the parties to England, however ab horrent such marriages arc to English notions. But by this anti-social legislation of France, no female of any country can be safe in marrying a Frenchman out of his own country : at least so long as he has a hair on his poll, or till his beard is grizzled. Englishwomen who arc solicited in marriage in this country by Frenchmen ought to bear in mind, that if the latter are not tolerably advanced in . age, they may escape from the tic whenever it is inconvenient, and bastardise the children. All Frenchmen should be considered as animals not confinable within the matrimonial inelosure.—Morning Chronicle. Looking upon the parish of Niarylebone, from s population, wealth, and locality, as inferior to very few of the largest towns and cities in the empire, we hare all along considered the struggle which exists relative to its government, and, above all, its taxation, as a subject of infinite concern to the whole community ; for if, in.a place of such importance as this, the principle of non-elective taxation be ultimately submitted to, such a precedent, will go far to fix similar fetters upon.other parishes, and Parliament itself may become in tire a self-elected Select, raising and . disposing of its Ways and Means at .its own good will and pleasure. In this view of , the matter, it is with no satisfaction, but, on the contrary, with much regret, that we observe what is passing in that parish upon this. sub 7 ject at present. We have no doubt but that the " persons to whom the parishioners coi►- tided their interests, at their last General INViting are " all honourable men," and have executed the trust confided .to them to the best of their skill and judgment, ; and we feel as little doubt that they have 'been outwitted in the transaction, and that, , if the parishioners . . . at large do not, speedily bestir themselves, the great principle for which they hare been contending will have been . not only Icsi, but actually conceded. That principle, we need 'scarcely say, is the one upon which all constitutional representation is founded—viz.; that the tax-payers shall choose the tax-makers. To talk of merging this principle in a Board of Auditors is a farce, of which the Paro chial Committee, we regret to say, appear to have been in some degree the'duilm . This is not a per . sonal inatter, - ilor does it depend in the smallest degree upon personal character for integrity, or the reverse. Tboiigh it be'true that much of the strong 'Ming which has arisen throughout the. country against the Select Vestry system has been brought about by the knowledge of its glaring abuses—were it otherwise, the strong and unanswerable objections to the principle of self-election would remain the same; and it is that principle which must be re sisted.. Any thing, therefore, which attempts to mollify and palliate such a principle,only renders it, in fact, the more objectionable. Poison may be .the sweeter, - bet - not the less 'fatal; for the liquid in which it is conveyed ; and if the great body of the rate-payers of Marylebone consent to swallow the pill, merely because their POLICE INTELLIGENCE. Committee contrive to gild it, they may find it less nattsemil at first,- hut, mug sure as they are alive, not t --- the less. certain in its op era tion. W e are aware of - cuiLDHALL. all that has been urge d a b ou t th e i nconven i e n ce o f On the night agile 28th ult., a lad, who gave popitiar elections, and that Noble Lords and Thin. hie name Moms Edwards, was brought into the Cieittlemen would never consent to be the objects of watch-house of Ahlersgate ward,foamingat the mouth, such a kind of choice. Lords and Gentlemen ma y and in a state of stupor, from having swallowed do as they please I but we do not see why the rights some laudanum. He was conveyed to the hospital, where the stomach pump was resorted to with the of the whole cominUoity should be sacrificed, merely rhea great names may grace an (Ace, to the duties usual success, and he was - brought before Sir PETER of which they so littl e a tt en d. A t a ll events , if an y LAURIE on Monday, to be disposed of, baying nei compromise be submitted to, let not the advantages tiler funds nor friends in London. Ile said he was be all on otie side; let the rate-payers at large (at. a foot-boy out of place, and distress had induced him least those up to a certain amount) have the privi- to attempt suicide, and that he had recently been lege of supplying vacancies as they occur, am! not supported by his uncle, named Edwards, residing at be handed over as still greater vassals to those who, Clifton, a clerk of Mr. Bayliss, the solicitor at we have no doubt, will know how to use their vie- Bristol. Sir Peter Laurie caused a letter to be ad tory, if they obtain its—Morning Herald. dressed to ibis gentleman, and yesterday an answer was received from Mr. Baylis, denying that he had Before we shall hare another opportunity of ad dressing our renders, the G rea t C ounc il o f the Na. any clerk of the mune of Edwards, or that any other solicitor in Bristol had, to the best of his knowledge. tien Will have assembled i n a S ess i on w hi c h every This only served to whet the Alderman's curiosity me eireutanee of the times serves to convin ce us will mi. the most important in Ettelish history. to ' learn his history, and Sir Peter pertinneionsly he continued to interrogate him above half an hour, till The Catholic Question has for many years agitated he at length extracted from him something like a the country, distracted and enfeebled the public councils of the empir e , been a stumbling block and rock of ()Grim among honest end enlightened c'" T is l i e te p ti r t is t o a r l i e e ' r said he did not know his parents; lie lied been informed that his mother was a Statesmen, and always a conveni e nt but , sometimes n powerful instrument in th e h an d s o f the. unprin-* daughter of Mr. Staples, of Brabourtie Lees, near Ashford, Kent ; and a nobleman (the Berl of cipied and ambitions. By means of this question, Shaftesbury) had directed him to be educated at political selfishness and traitorous disaffection have inflicted upon the state incalculable evils—hare Dr. Burt's school, at Canterbury, which he quitted converted Ireland, which ought to be a source of three years ago. lie was put in the school in the name of Henry Staples, and in vacation time was s:length and glory to Gr ea t into a cause of received and treated very kindly by his supposed weakness and a subject ofoppr o b r i tine —h ave poisoned mother, to whom the nobleman used to remit JO!. the thickly-sown seeds of prosperity in the bosom of the land, end nurtured them into a foul, and fatal, querterly. lie had himself seen his Lordship's franks upon letters to his mother. She ultimately and sample harvest of misery and dis con t eo t. These ci e eel ei es, it. is ennieiently • amid never married a person named Medhurst, now a stoker in a Calais eteam-boat, upon which his Lordship dis bare arisen from su c h a cause , h a d t h e con d uct o f the British Government and Legislature been uni. continued his allowanCe, and said the prisoner was old esteugh to shift for himself. lie was then about 15 formly under the guidance of lofty,steady, and 'con sisteet principle. It is abundantly clear, we st,,y, years of age, and was engaged by r. allies, a me dical gentlemen, who knew his h M istory, to attend that these calamit'es could never have attained owir present . nvignittide hum the restraintsUon hi pm and he would breve , been still in his ser vice if he haul not disliked leaving England to travel disqualificistiens m ere ly to w hi c h t h e R oman Ca upon the Continent. Ile haul Mitten to Lord belice have been or are now su l t h j ee r e d, h a d not the hitter b een wea k ene d f or a ll goo d and but his letters had - not been attended to. Ile haul strengthened for all evil, by the gradual adoption been told his mother was dead. of a system alike impolitic and willed— a system The prisoner was remanded till Friday. which treats r e ligi ous errors as if t h ee were i n t h em - BO W.. ST E EET. selves of no importance to the State—which leaves sett of the Catholic Question altogether, as if they could memo: or reason be sepirated from it, the blasphetniFs and idolatries of which eve ry adherent of the Chinch of Rome must necessarily and habi testily be guitty—whieh rests the necessity of their exclusion from political power upon grounds wholly secular—and which thus admits in effect that the minimum of disqualification necessary for the attain. ment of certain secular . objects, is the problem to be practically solved, and the object at which every libe ral and enlightened statesirrain ought to ;die. The con sequences of this system have been precisely such as it deserved and was calculated to produce. Con ussion after concession has been made - to the Ca tholics, Each of which, eagerly sol:glit by them, and received at first with expres,ion of boundless gra titude and satisfaction, has been followed almost immediately by new demand., to be urged with an impatience still nmre turbulent, with a violence still more ungovelmble, by artifices still more odious, and to be withstood with less and less of conscien tious and determined resolution than the demands which preceded - them, and which had been already weakly granted. The period we - confidently trust, has at length arrived when the principles are to for ever exploded, which reason and expe rience. have shown to lead to indefinite com pliance with the demands of Popery, and which threaten not to stop short of establish ing this degrading and pestiferous super stition, under the express sanction and patronage of the Stste. The time has arrived for the Protestant Legislature of the Empire to show that it van repel encroachment, and.even if necessary that it can take hack some of the gifts it has too prodigally and un guardedly bestowed, and which have been ungrate fully and perniciously used. To this effect the Bri tish Nation has already spoken, and the Legi4atUre will not fail to re-echo its yoke. When the moment is so near which must put an end to all iincertainty !aid conjecture, it would be idle to enter into any speculation as to the precise measures which the Legislature may adopt, at once to place the 40- man Catholic subjects' of the Empire in a posi tion in which they will be likely to acquiesce peaceably from the utterhopelessness of further aiteratioli, and the British Church and Constitution in circumstances of fearless and unassailable seni lity. Modified concessions of some description toly be resolved on, for there are irrrgularities and ano malies in the present state or the Catholics which perhaps it may require some partial concessions to remove. These, however, can be only of small im portance, if effectual measures are at the same time adopted (as we have no doubt they will be) to du piive the Roman Catholic niestE and Demagogues of the means which they Aare hitherto wielded so efficaciously for the purposes of dangerous and am bitious agitation.--Morning -Post., The Earl of Westmorland, Viscount Mel ville, Mr. Secretary I'rel, the Chancellor of the Excbefiner, and Mr. Vesey Fitzgerald, visited the Duke of Wellington on Tuesday at the Trea s ry. M. Bermudez, the Spanish Minister, trans aetetl business with the Earl of.Alierdeen on Tuesday, at the office of the Secretary of State for Forcign Affairs. We are informed that Mr. .oTonnell's fa mily, with friends, have engaged apartments at Baits' 'Hotel, Dover-street. Koan, the actor, arrived at the York Hotel, Liverpool, on Thu►sday evening last, on his way to his estate in the Isle of Bute, where, be says, he means to rusticate for the- winter. In the early stages of our Parliamentary his tory, questions were generally derided •by the aseeitained understanding of the Assembly—the Howe of Commons, at that period, never dividing. We are glad. to hear that tiip,l),ktlic 1116- mti, following the example of Lon] Radnor, has deter- Mitied to make a material reduction iti . the number of his . gamekeepers. Gtm•lcs Good/ m/ wits yesterday I►laced at the bar before Mr. Mtssnmt, charged by Iris late master, Mr. Arthur Geddes, with haviirg robbed him of •plate to the value of 101)1. and upwards. Mr. Geddes stated that he is it merchant, and lives at No. 6, Stafford-row, Buckingham -gate. On the 19th of last November he hired the prisoner as footman, and on the 22d of December following he absconded, taking with him 18 silver dessert spoons, four sauce-ladles, half a dozen of dessert forks, spoons, &r., amounting in till to upwards of 1001., according to a bill furnished to witness by Messrs. Rundell and Bridge, from whom the plate was pur chased. The prisoner had the charge of the plate in the day-time, and at night it was brought up stairs and put under lock :Ind key. The prisoner took with him curry portable article of plate he could xvith coureitience carry. Witcess never saw him from the morning he abSconded until he was taken by Taunton, the officer. Mrs. Charlotte Geddes is the wife of the first witness. Two hours before the prisoner absconded sire saw the p!ate safe in the pantry. At two o'clock the cook came up stairs and told her that Charles was gone, and that she could not find the plate. The cook of Mr. Geddes proved that on the day when the prisoner absconded he left the house at about one o'clock, taking with him a pitcher, saying that he was going to fetch some spring water. The prisoner did not room From the time of his go ing until the plate was missed, 110 other person could have entered the house. Mr. Geddes stated that this was all the evidence he wav embled to procure. Every exertion had been made to discover the plate, but without effect. Mr. 111INSPIt3ll asked Mr. Geddes if he despaired of tracing his property ; if so, there was sufficient evidence to send, the prisoner to Mr. Geddes replied that he had no expectation of It is now said, in Westminster-hall that the Law Commissioners - will report in favour of an increase of the Judges to the number of fourteen instead of fifteen, as originally' understood. It is the opinion, howe v er, of those who are not in the road themselves to Judgeships, but who well understand this subject, that no additional Judges are required in the Common Law. Some time ao a statement was published, by which it appeared that the . Puisnc Barons of the Exchequer are only employed 240 hours or 30 days at Westminster during the year, and that in the same period the Puiane Judges of the Common Plvas sit in their Court 320 hours only, or 40 days. This calculation will be found correct. All these functionaries receive salaries of 5,500/. per annum—that is, as much as their brethren the Pnisne' Judges of the King's Bench ; and perhaps in the whole rai, of patronage in the gift of the Crown, there is nothing better (except in the Church) than the PuisneJudgeships in the Exchequer and Common Pleas. It is proved •by the greater quantity of work done in the King's BenCh that the public have not as much service performed in the„other Courts of Common Law as might fairly be expected. - This observation 'is made with no intention to .disparage any of the individuals on the benches, of those Courts—the fact complained Of originates in no neglect imputable to them. But though this be so, this fact admits of the possibility of an arrangement by which the public may be spared the creation of new officers with these large salaries. It is 00 answer to'say that the Circuits require more Judges Those Jod ge , Rho ale now so many months unemployed might b e longer on the Circuit than the others, - for which purpose the Cir cuits might be altered ; or they might go into some counties where the business is greatest three times a year. At any rate, when six Judges, or half the number of the _whole, are so little engaged, it is monstrous to propose to augment the number. Should such a measure he forced upon ParliaMent, what a mockery will it be of that system of retrenchment, the imperious necessity of which has been alledged as the justification for cashiering so many subordinate and friendless officers in the various depart , meal of Government ;.— Morning Chronicle. • t,e;nv enabled to recover a single article. The prisoner declined to say anything, and he was fully committed to Newgate. MAKI,BOROUGILSTREET. Yesterday Sir G. FARRANT, Mr. CONANT, and Mr. SAUNIMIS, a county Magistrate, were occu pied from one o'clock until five in the afternoon in the renewed investigation of the case which invol , red an information preferred at the instance of the Marquis Camden by the district-surveyor, against the Earl of Belfat, which charged that his Lord ship had committed a breach of the Building Act, and caused a nuisance to his neigbboUr by opening a window from an apartment in the upper part of his Lordship's house, No. 22, Arlington-street, Picca dilly, through a hitherto blind wall, looking into the court-yard in front of the Marquis Camden's resi denre, No. 23, in the same street. Mr. Nash was summoned, and stated, that the wall in question, which he had examined, was, to a certain height from the ground, a party wall, because it separated the house of Lord Belfast for that space from a corridor belonging to the Marquis Camden's court-yard ; but that thence upwards it could not be called a party wall, as there was no other build ing abutting upon it, and a party wall was clearly only such when it separated two buildings; and, therefore, when the window was made, could not be a parry wall, but an external a' I. lie had no in. terest, he said, in giving evidence upon this matter, for both the noble persons in dispute were his pri ate friends. Mr. Nash explained further his view of the question by pointing out the situation of the premises on a model which had been prepared for the purpose of the ,investigationottal he did so in the most clear and satisfactory manner imaginable, with one slight exception, that although he declared that it was only the lower part of this wall that was a party wall, and that the tipper part was not so, he laid it down as an established principle, that if one it eh of a wall at its base be a party wall, the -whole wall to its utmost height bears the same character. In the end ale Magistrates declined coming to a►►y decision on the .point twill they shall themselves have had an inspection of the locus in quo ; but their present opinion decidedly seemed to be, that th e tvall was a party wall, and that Lord Belfast had no right to open the window. tiArrow.GARDEN. During the last five or six mc n ►ths the offence of exposing ehildren in the streets within the district of this office has become strangely prevalent, and its practice carried o:► to a degree of extent unprece dented at any former period. Such children are not i►► general admitted into the Foundling Hospital, and t h e b ur d en necessarily Fills upon the parish of St, eaecras, within which the Foundling is situ ated ; and this _produces, on the part of the parish, 'complaints almost every \\Tel( to the magistrates of this office of the increasing magnitude of the evil it is thug subjected to, and has fixed in the proper pa rochial authorities a resolution' to prosecute with the utmost rigour every individual detected - in au of fence, which to them must ,be productive of the most grievous consequences. Accordingly, a young woman, who gave the name of Louisa Hatukcs, apparently about 20 years of age, was yesterday brought up before the sitting magi crate, Mr. ROGERS, from the workhouse of St. Pancras, charged with exposing a . female infant, five weeks old, at _the gate of the Foundling Hospital on the evening of the 27th of January. This was a re-examination, from vidi;ch it appeared that ps. soon as it seas dark on the above evening, the prisoner deposited her. child in a basket at the lodge gate of the Foundling Hospital, and having knocked and rung the porter's bell, walked away ve ry i deliberately: She was observed bq a watch man of the name of Aldridge, who, as soon as the alarm was given at the Foundling, took her into cus tody. She confessed the child to be her own, and excused the deed by alleging that she was persuaded to expose it. She is u married woman, but her husband, who it appears is not the father of the child in question, is at sea, and she has resided in Kent-street, in the Borough. Since her apprehen sion she has been in the work-house of St. Pancras parish, where doubts hare arisen as to the genuine ness of the name she gives. She seemed to be deeply affected at her situation, refused at the inquiry of the Magistrate to deliver up the child to the parish, and was committed for trial in default of bail. SENSATIONS BEFORE AND DURING A BATTLE. I have heard some men say, that they mould as soon fight as eat their breakfasts, and others, that they " dearly loved fighting." If this were true, what blood thirsty flogs they must he But I should be almost illiberal enough to sus pect these boasters of .not possessing even ordi nary courage. I will lint, however, go so far as. positively to assert this, but will content myself by asking these. terrific soldiers to account to me why, some hours previously to storming a fort, or fighting a battle, are men pensive, thoughtful, heavy, restless, weighed down with apparent so licitude and care? Why do men on these occa sions more fervently beseech the Divine protec tion and guidance to save them in the approa-di img conflict ? Are not ail these feelings the re sult of reflection, and of man's regard for his j demest care—his life, which no mortal trill part with, if he can avoid it ?, There are periods in war which put man's courage to a severe test : if, for instance, as was my cave, I knew I was to lead a forlorn hope on the following evening, in numerable ideas will rush in quick succession on the mind ; such as, " for aught nay poor and narrow comprehension can tell, I may to-morrow he summonedabefore myMaker." " How have I spent the lif j C he has been pleased to preserve to this period ? can I meet that just tribunal ?" A man, situated as I have supposed, who did _ _ not, even amid the cannons roar and the din of war, experience anxieties approaching to what I have described, may, by possibility, have the courage of a lion, but - he cannot possess the feelings of aman. In action man is quite another being ; the softer feelings of the roused heart are absorbed in tl►e vortex of danger and the neces s►ty for self-preservation, and give place to others more adapted to the occasion. In these ►no ucents there is an indescribable elation of spirits ; the soul rises above its wonted serenity into a kind of phreniied apathy to the scene before you; a heroism bordering on ferocity ; the nerves become light and contracted ; the eve full and open, ►roving quickly in its socket, with almost ►naniac wildness ; the head is in constant motion ; the nostril extended wide, and the mouth appa rently gasping. If an artist could truly delineate the features of a soldier in the battle's heat, and compare them with the linea►nents of the same man in the peaceful calm of domestic life, they would be found to be two different portraits ; but a sketch of this kind is not within the power of art, for in action the countenance varies with the battle : as the battle, brightens, so does the coun tenance, .and, as it lowers, so the countenance becomes gloomy. I have known - some 'men drink enormous quantities of spirituous liquors when going into action, to drive away little in- . , truding thoughts, and to create false spirits ; but these are as short 7 lived as the ephemera that struggles but a moment on the chrystal stream, then dies. If a man have not natural courage, he may rest assured that liquor will deaden and destroy the little he may possess.—Menzoirs John Shipp. DAVY CROCKET, A TENNESSEE MEM- BER OF CONGRESS. The facetious. Mr. K., of Ohio, tells a good story, in which this congress man from the wild woods of Tennessee figures as the hero. The reader is to suppose Davy returned from the dist session he had the honour of representing the people in Congress. He is to suppose farther, that Davy has fallen in with a number of his constituents at a raising, and is giving them an account or his visit to the President. " The first thing I did," said Davy, " after I got to Washington, was to go to the President's. I stepped into the President's house, thinks I who's afeard ? If I didn't I wish I may be shot.' Says I, Mr. Adams, lam Mr. Crocket, from Tennessee. So, says he, How do you do, Mr. Crocket ? and he shook me by the hand, although he knowed I went the whole hog for Jackson. If I didn't I wish I may be shot.' Not only that, but sent me a printed ticket to dine with him. I've got it in my pocket yet. if I haven't I wish I may be shot." (Here tire printed ticket was exhibited for the admira tion of the company.) " I went to dinner," said Davy, " and I walked round the long table, look ing for something that I liked. At last I took my seat just beside a fat goose, and helped myself to as much as I wanted ; but I hadn't took three bites when I looked away up the table at a man they called TA) (Attache.) Ile was talking F renc h t o a woman on the other side of the table. He dodged his head, and she dodged her's, and then got to drinking wine across the table. If they didn't I wish I may be shot.' But when I looked back again my plate was gone, goose and all. So I jilt cast my eyes clown to t'othcr end of the table, and sure enough I seed a white man walking off with my plate.— Sa3s I, Hello, Mister, bring back my plate. He fetched it back in a hurry, as you may suppose, and when he set it down before me, how do you link it was ? Licked as clean as my band. If it wasn't I wish I may be shot. s. ,he, what -Jr• .s will you have, Sir ? And, says I, You, inuy well say that, after stealing my goose. And he begun to laugh. If he didn't I wish I may be shot.' Then, says 1, Mister, laugh if you please, hut'l don't half like such tricks upon travellers. Ido I wish I may be shot.' I then filled •My plate with bacon and greens, • and whenever I looked up or down the table, I held my plate with my left band. If I didn't I wish I 'may be shot. • When we were all done eating, they cleared every thing off the table, and took away the table-cloth ; 811(1 what do you think ? There was another table-cloth under it. • If theie wasn't I wish I may 1)6 shot.' Then I saw a man coining along, carrying a great glass thing, with a glass handle below, something like a c andlestick. It was stuck full of little glass cups, with something in-them that looked good to cat. Says I, Mister, bring that thing here. Thinks I let's taste'rn first. They were mighty sweet and good, and so I took six of 'ern.. ' If I didn't l wish I may be "—Lexington A remarkable instance of escape from the great earthquake at Lisbon is related by a recent Writer " A lady was at the time in one of the churches ;- while attempting to escapy, two falling columns coming in con tact by their tops caught her hair,• and detained' her safe beneath the pointed arch thus formed till she was the next day extricated. Every other person inside the church perished." SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL „ Tij.E4l)A !r E. R. E.-L.High water 14 mime,: past Arrived. the . Lloyd, from. New Orleanei ; & dein, Richardson, iron ditto; William, Weathrt held, Ifonduras ; Halifax. Fin - li3y, frown ; Agerioril, NVilson..froni ; Hunter, Shepherd, from Gallipoli ; Cansis, Magrith, Newfoundland ; Grovinger Welvaart, Lugles, Bristol ; M.srie Gabriele, Bergey, Nantes ; Margaret, Will6ins, Braun - wig; , Fowey, with ditto; Swift, Aitkin, Camplieltown. Sailcd—The Herald, Graham, for Baltimore ; Nep tune, Corlett, Africa; Orme, Clegg, ditto ; ,Georget3, Robinson, for Nov Orleans ; and Gem, Scotland, Ten San blear. THE MARKETS. COAL. MAit] • 11111,101 3?is. Charlotte -------. 35 0 Heaton 39 0 36 6 Ord's itedhugh --. 32 6 Tonfield : H 0 Wittioginit 36 0 W. I'. Clarke and C 0... 36 0 Ditto Itilda 36 9 Ditto Not thoit.herliotd 36 6 Ditto lt.u,,,cll's flt 3 Moil at market, K ET.—Feb. 4. &len Main • 31s. M. %Valk End 11e110n,..—.... 40 0 Walls End 14 37 6 Walls End Stewarre 38 6 Cowpen 35 11 W. E Henderson 34 (1 Llangeonecli Coal --, 4l 0 silkoone Field and Co. :ft?, Smillown Old IL Moor 31 0 IV. E. Clark Trader...—. 35 6 Walk End small 17 6 lips fold, Unsol tt, CO II NTli con ------- N MAREK 'S DUHINO THE WEEK. Wheat. Barley. I Oats. • Beans: Per quarter. sto R. s. -to s. s, to t s. f . s. A (21 • 84 35 41 35 42 • 5(1 AD•d.ov:sr.—...— 74 IliroUngliam.-- 72 82 32 36 24 36 4q, Bri,iport 5.6 14 32 39 28 31. • AP Ciretiet•ster 62 51- 33 39. 24 27 ringcsm.--. 34 80 36 -4 24 33 ..-• 41 4 Guildford 49 St 36 45 24 36 5.5 Henley— • • 55 SO 34 43 29 •31 48 Horprortl ---- 04 84 43 36 40 -- 82 80 22 42 28 34 Mai,!tallica4 80 8-1 39 42 28 SS • Oskinghtun tat 7th so 86' 18 32 44 Beading • • - •2 85 27 40 IN 92 84 0 , 1 St 4*) 24 36 1K• s:ot a t 3111140 a 34 78 37 40 29 32 5tr0ud..~.....,,.,.-, 66 80 32 36 28 • 31 4(1 Tewkesbury --. • 56 78 40 42 30 38 Uxhritixe 65 81 32 :18 let 49 'Want age 50 74 28 31 26 34 4(1 Warminster 52 VI :13 42 23 36 48 Windsor 5t 76 31 40 23 28 ftt Woreester-- 80 89 :36 40 26 Z 4 48 CIIELTENIIA3I - M A ItIKET.—Feb. 3. Per 11whel. s. d. to a. (1. I'ti lb: d to el. Wltrat Barley '4 6 11 3 " Mutton Oats Beans 49• 6 6 Latuh (1 0 Pease 5 0 6 0 Pork (3 71 Hay lss. to 4/. 4a. pet ton. Igo ton. LEWES MARKET.—Feb. 3. White Wheat (per punter) Xi 4 0 to Xi - 6 9 Red ditto ' 3 8 0 3IN 9 Barley OatA, New 1 2 0 1 4 ei Pease 0 0 0 2 0 9 Oil Cake, New , . 13 0 0 per thouAand. BULL MARKET.—Feb. 3. . 'The weather still continues very severe, and all inlan3 communications ore closed ; the farmers have supplied the. market fairly to-day with Wheat, which met dull-sale at last week's pikes. The holders of foreign are firm, and, when sales are made, 11.'4 week's priees have been paid. All spring Corn remains in a very inanimate state, having scarcely any inquiry for any description.. Rapeseed and Linseed support late prices, but neither article is much squirt:lk wheat, ON 71s. 763....5 NOW --s. 725. 745. -.----- Foreign ... ...... —5.745. 1i5....... In bond —s. —s. —l , . 0.111, 'Miami —s. 21s. 20s. Old —O. --s. SOs. Sinai! or Feed.... --T. 114::. 2ls - • —s. —s 21s. -- Foreign --. 21s. Vels. • Barley, Norf. & SOL --s 866. 335. Joe. & %Vold --s. ;,is. :Q r . Fokeign —s. 40s. 425. Beans Pease, White s. 48s bOa. Grey • ' . —I. 40s. 425. Tares —s. 4('e. SOS. Foreign Ms. 40.. --s. "itsposezil, in liond cone. DUMFRIES MA 6.4. All • ,___. __. is. (I. 1.0. Wlient, Imp. lush,.. 8 A toil 0 nutter, lllos 0 0400 7 Barley 4 8 4 8 Eggs, down 0 0 0 0 Oats 2 6 3 1 Beef, per lb. Flour, 111 b. Oatmeal ' 9 3 2 4 4'eal 4 1 -0 0 rotators. rut. CATTLY.—The - number of Cattle at our market this !lay wa,01.7.?., being less than . last ►reek, and they,were not in so good condition ; prices underwent a considerable depression, and 160 rrerc driven off unsold.. PORI: —There were only 143 carts at market , this morning, and prices were higher than they have been this fir3.4f,D, v 17.. from ss. 5,1. to 6s. rid. All business "Was concluded by an early hour. .11K ETS.—Jan. 29, COTTON WOOL. LIST OF rxrowrs AND EX/fORTR. latrOttrED• Same This riod last year. year. nags. &e. I 43,i10t; 1,1(11 5,9L9 tg'.29 I EX VOR ran. • Nevietis -13 this 3 ear. 1.16g1. lte, 1113ags, tic. &c. 41,163 !.41 I 1,65.7 0n,149) ;lasvw 990 109 87 Total exported in I', Same point! 1843 A Correstiondett informs us that Sir Charlei Flowcr has pnrchatcol 13:11ton House, in Russell-square. which tens for many 3 - ears the residenee of the Duke of Bolton, and of Lord Chancellor Loughborough. The return of so severe a frost. immediately upon the heel of the late thaw will, it is feared!, be inju rious to the young wheats. The people of Weimar are so fond of music, that an open concert is performed twice a week in the martret-pre, nm,ieians provid e d for that purpose by the civic anthorities• On .Monday last, at six p. m. the four-oared galley of the Mum revenue-cruiser, fell in with a smug gler standing into the sound, towards •Redding Point, with a strong breeze from the westward, having a quantity of tubs slung round her sides. The smuggler, when close to the land, descried the boat in full chase. - She instantly rut away her kegs, jibbed her main-boom, and stood opt to Rel. The boat puraced until the vessel disappeared from view, and the rowers were completely exhauited. On returning to the spot where they first discovered the smuggler:, which had been marked, they picked np 154 loge of sinnggled htandy and genera. Y es t er d ay , th e Yeetbn preventive boat, in conjunction with the Harpy'sgalley, crept or 120 casks of spirits near the 111iwstorte, which appeared to have been in the wat er - b u t a f e W d a y s . —r stecn Lumbutry. 13IRTFIS. On the 27th ult. at Knotslelionse, Dorset,. the ktly of E. de Pentleny °Maly, of 'bong' ory,"&q.'of a 'son: • On the 4th inst. tho..latly of William Pritchard; Esq. of Dot!..ors' Commons, of a danghter. On the 2d inst. at Park Cottage', near Fulham; tlittiatly of 'W. T. /kande, Esq. of a son. On the 29th ult. at Mapperton House, Dorsetshira, the lily of Sir . Altifynenx Hyde Nrpean, Bart. of a daughter. On the Ist inst. at Langleylntry; netts, the lady of G. Sol!ivati, Esq. of a son. On the Ist inst. at Wooton Mall, the lady of Sir E. Mtstyn, Batt; of Talacre, Flinteltire s of a titiiig•hter. At Freefield, the lady of. Sir Alexander Leith, of a thughter. _ • in Galway, the lady of Denis Bowes Potter, Esq. of a son. Th e l a dy of Randal F. Macdonnell, •Esq. of Athboy, Of a son.,. At Coley;Ile, near Clonmel, the lady of T. Roberts, Eq. of a datizliter. MARRIED. . . On the Rd intik. nt Stepney attach, Thomas Venahlem, Esq., of Whit ec h a p e l, tv .111 in Frances Glasseott, of the sane 'mer. L;triyhmk, neat Ayr, the Rev. .J Imes Mein, to Miss Ami,•4 , conch,laugliter of the I tte Mr. Matthew Paterson, A ikenbure. , DIED. Oa Oa 311 inst. at his honse in Stainferri-street, sifter a cew daps' it Thounaa Flat►, E•q. of Stamford-sbeet, and of (;:‘ill's 11111, Ilampstead„ in the : la!' year of hie age. Ilk end win' peace. On the 170% tilt. at Nash Court, Raymond Arundel!, Kenilworth, T•q. brother of tie late and 9th Lord Arun del!, of Wardour. •• .••• • • • • 1.• On the 3d inst. • Mr, Routledge, Itichrittl-tteet,, h lingtim, touch hmented by his 101114 and ( f i en d., aged st. . . . . . „.. On the S'9tll tilt, at Petwolth, Itirbaril Willis. Y...5q. Rear Admiral in Abe. Royal Navy, in Ate 74th year rif his age. (M the 4th inst..,at Streatham, Maty, Ann, eldest danzliter of the lase John Kyiner, Esq. On the SI st ult. Maty Elizabeth, the wire of L. I.oat, Esq. Paragon, 13Iarkheath, in the ;),4th year of her. age an irreparable lois to her, Atfllirkil husband, to whom abe - had hero mineilfof.toore than 3;i years. . _ PR IN en) and POIN.D3OKO by AIURDO YOUNG, et the SUN OFIVN, t I STRAND., LONDON.