The Sun. — London, England, 1829-11-13 00:00:00

serdity of the declamations in all the Tory Newspapers as to the ruin of the country. The articles selected are not consumed by particular classes, but by all ; and they prove to demonstra tion, that notwithstanding the occasional stagna tion in particular branches of industry—industry, as a whole, has gradually, even since the peace, been obtaining a better reward. What becomes, then, of the nonsense about the evils of free trade? The Quarterly Review always reminds us of Noah's Ark, in which all sorts of animals, clean and unclean, were crowded together. — The High Churchman (the very essence of selfishness) and the enthusiastic visionary repose together in its pages in peace and amity, like the lion and the lamb. We have in the above ar ticle satisfactory evidence that the reward of labour cannot have diminished since the peace. But in an article on Co-operative Societies in the same number, the working classes are repre sented as having been all but annihilated by machinery ; and we have all the notions of over production, which Mr. Owen has been so inde fatigable in communicating, over again thrust upon us. "In manufacturing districts," we are told by the Reviewer, " they are frequently overtaken by the horrors of a famine, not from a failure of the crops, but from a failure of em ployment, of which Manchester, Kiddermin ster, and Spitalfields, afford recent examples.— But putting aside these occasional distresses, the mass of the working population are, as society is at present constituted, placed in circumstances which preclude the possibility of attaining an independence, however small, for themselves, in case of sickness or age ; and if they die, for their wives and children. Hard work for a long day, and a long week, with no time for inno cent enjoyments, and for that improvement of the mind which would teach them to prefer in nocent to vicious pleasures, and so on through the whole active period of their lives, is barely sufficient to procure them common - necessaries; to succeed thus far is their best lot. They have no hope of rising above it into independence, and myriads sink below it into wretchedness. But misery produces crime, and the most severe and sanguinary laws are insufficient to oppose it. A hungry stomach, starving children, and in winter a cold hearth, are stronger temptations than the fear of punishment can counteract. And this is the lot of those who fabricate all the wealth of the country. The labour of every nation,' says Adam Smith, is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences which it consumes.' But time la bourers, those from whose hands issue all wealth, are themselves left with empty hands ; those who grow all the corn, make all the clothes, build all the houses which we see, are the worst feel, the worst clothed, and the worst housed part of the community ; those who contribute hands and arms, and skill and knowledge, and the al most incessant employment of these to the production of wealth—their lot is poverty ; they whose hands and arms, and skill and knowledge, are not exerted—their lot is plenty, indepen dence, ease, and often wealth. When the dis• covery was made that machines could be con trived which would increase to an incredible de gree the productiveness of labour, so that one man could produce as much as formerly re quired hundreds or thousands, a simple per son, who knew nothing of the mechanism of society—of the connection between the working classes and those by whom they are employed, and the way in which the former arc rewarded for their toil—such a person might naturally ex pect that the discovery of machinery would be the happiest of all possible events for the work ing classes : it is they who have discovered the machines in most cases, and have fabricated them in all ; and it might be reasonably expected that these lifeless but industrious children of their in genuity would become their useful slaves, who s'otild work for them, lighten their labour, and increase their abundance. But whatever the ultimate result may be, and we, for our part, doubt not that it will be good—the consequence to the existing generation has been very different, instead of serving them as the Fairies did Cris pin, in the German Tale, who had only to cut out his shoes at night and he was sure to find them made die next morning, machines have served them like the Monster in Frankenstein, who, when life was given him, used it only to persecute the giver, Machines, instead of being their servants, have become their most formidable competitors." If this be not abso lute wisdom, it is next to it. And pray, Mr. Reviewer, why should machinery extend pro duction, if the effect of it is to destroy con sumers ? Time goods moat be generally wanted, otherwise they would not be produced, and the ability to consume them must likewise exist. Production and consumption must go hand in band. But let us hear the Reviewer farther : The application of machinery to manufac tures, instead of being a blessing to the existing generation of the labouring classes, brought on them a new evil, called over-production ; the machines which had been almost always con trived, and were of course always fabricated by them, became the property of their masters, and worked for them, and not for the labourers. By the combination of labour and machinery, the master manufacturer was enabled to produce as many goods as he did formerly with a small number of workmen, and thus was enabled and -:induced to discharge hands; or if he continued to employ as many, these, by the Aid of machinery, produced such a superabundance of goods, that the master manufacturer could not sell them ; JOr a time, therefore, he ceased to produce them, and during the 'season of non-production paid off a crowd of workmen ; thus, either at first or tiltimately, the employment of machi nery in Manufactures diminished the demand for labour; and the consequences were low wages, diminished employment, and sometimes none at all, with its attendant horrors." If the Reviewer were at all acquainted with the state of society in this country, he must have discovered that the labouring classes who have deteriorated in their circumstances are those who use no machinery, as the agricultural labourers for in stance, and the hand-loom weavers. In the south of England, we believe tiw labourers are deteriorated, though not perhaps to the eatent imagined, because the same sum now commands more manufactured goods than it would have commanded forty or fifty years ego. When machinery is introduced for the first time into any branch of industry, hands are of course discharged, and this is an evil; but the diminished price increases the consumption, and more hands are gradually employed. Machinery, so far from causing employment to be unsteady, pre duces the contrary effect, because the capital laid out in the works, &c., compels the manus facturer to : keep on his hands. But those who employ . hand-loom weavers are under no such necessity of continuing employment, and dis charge their people when demand is not brisk, without ceremony. Machinery tends to equae We the demand for labour. Dut, indeed the whole of what the Reviewer says is absurd in the extreme.—Morning Chronicle. A Correspondent in a Morning Paper in- dulges in an indignant philippic against us for having freely expressed our opinion of the detri ment which the public service received on the last Western Circuit, in consequence of the lamented infirmities of Mr. Justice Burrough. It is not our habit to make remarks upon the conduct of any public man, except in his public capacity. In adverting to the case of the Learned Judge, we were actuated solely by an anxious desire for the effective wlministration of justice ; and we are not aware that our observations transgressed the allowable freedom of the Press. For the personal qualities, the moral character, and pro fessional abilities of Mr. Justice Burrough, we entertain the most sincere respect. We believe that a person of better intention and more un blemished integrity never occupied a judicial si tuation in a country remarkable for the high minded purity of its Judges; nor did we ever deny his reputation for learning and sound legal acquirements. It is therefore, no answer to our remarks for the writer in question to say that " he established the character of an excellent lawyer and special pleader during the time that such men as my Lord Kenyon, my Lord Ellenbo rough, Mr. Justice Buller, Mr. Justice Law rence, and other great men, presided in the Courts, and supported that character at the Bar, when it might justly boast of the most solid and splendid talents ;"—still less does it meet our objections to state that " I know him to be a man of the strictest inte- grity, and no one upon the Bench more up right or unsophisticated—and though, from age, his intellect may not be so quick and prompt as formerly, yet I believe him to possess as solid a judgment as ever; in private and social life no man is more justly and universally esteemed." It argues no small confusion of ideas in the writer who could suppose that these deserved enco miums on the professional and personal cha racter of Mr. Justice Burrough were an answer to our objections to the continuance of that venerable personage on the Bench. Our objec tions and the writer's statements are not con tradictory, but co-existent. The writer is accu rate in his premises, but illogical in his conclu sion. In order to disprove our argument- he should show, not that Mr. Justice Burrough was some ten or filteen years ago a most able lawyer and efficient member of the Bench, or that he is still a Judge of sound learning, solid judgment, and spotless pub is and private ohs ' racter, but that his excellent qualities of mind are not neutralised by the infirmities of the body —that he is neither inaudible, or deaf, or somno lent on the judgment-seat—nor at all seriously afflicted v‘ith those symptoms of years and de bility whitli interfere with the prompt and effec tive administration of justice. Far be it from us .o speak of old age with any thing bu, reverence; but nature has set limits to the active exertions of men.—There is no public station that requires both the mental and phy sical faculties to be in better condition than the office of a British Judge. The writer in ques tion admits that, " from age, the intellect of Mr. Justice Burrough is not so quick and prompt as formerly." Although this is an al mission that age has impaired the excellence of his mental powers, we consider his deafness and inarticulate mode of delivery more serious defects in a Judge. Is it to be forgotten that, at some town, on the last Western Circuit—we believe Bridgewater—on the Learned Judge having summed up a . case, he was told by the Jury they had not heard one word of his charge, and it was found necessary, if the report of that case be correct, that the Jury should leave the box, and stand close to the Judge while he went over his charge again ? As to sudden indisposition upon Circuit, the youngest and most vigorous member of the Bench may, of course, be liable to that, but we speak of defects which, when they attach themselves to men at an advanced period of life, are the warnings of nature to the human mind to retire from the troubles and cares of pub lic duty and ambition into the meditation and repose of private life. Solve senescentem, &c., is a maxim of sound wisdom too much neglected in practice ; and hence we often see men, who have acquired a deserved reputation in various walks of public life, lingering so long upon the stage as to el ace the remembrance of their better fame.—Morning Herald. We rejoice to find that the few observations which we made yesterday on the subject of music, and playing a " sober game of whist," in a tavern, have not only met with general ap probation, as a correct statement of the law in such cases, but that the opinion which we ex pressed coincides in every respect with that which has been given by Counsel specially em ployed to expound the law. We state this on the authority of a respected correspondent, who, we are glad to find, is about to call a meeting of those interested in the decision of such matters, for the purpose of forming an Association for their mutual protection against informations, and defending, or at least trying, such as may be brought against them. This is the only way in which the matter can be satisfactorily settled. Lct a friendly information be given, as was done two years ago by tho dealers in game, against one another, and have the merits of the case tried by sufficient judges, and the question, in so far as the constm uction of the present law is concerned, will then be set at rest for ever. The opinion of Counsel, as we have already hinted, is, that tavern-keepers do not ren • der themselves liable to any penalty by having music and dancing in their houses, when their rooms are let to private parties only admissible by tickets ; and this is, assuredly, also the common-sense view of the subject. What greater harm is there in music and dancing, or " a sober game of whist," in a tavern, than in the mansion of his Grace of Wellington ? If such amusements are innocent at Apsley House, are they not equally so in the London Tavern, or the Freemasons' Hall ? We know no reason why they should not, and we are confident that the public participates iu our opinion. The question, however, must not he left in this un decided state—the meeting must be called, and a ease tried before a competent tribunal, and then every one will be aware whether he is, or is not, liable to a penalty, for permitting such amuse- ITIOIIts in his house. It will be seen from our Bow-street report, that the Magistrates of that office have decided a case of card-playing, pre cisely according to the opinion which we ex pressed yesterday on the subject.—Morn. uidv. By private intelligence we learn that the Gil more, in which ve s sel Mr. TIIO3IAS PEEL and suite cm harked for the new settlement at Swan River, arrived Madeira on the 2 8 th of A u g ust. Jn the same vessel are also embarked the family o f Mr. SAiITUERS, who emigrated from this town as a settler on Mr. PEpt.'s domains. Mr. P. is represented as conducing in every possible way to the comfort and convenience of the passengers, whose num ber amount to nearly 300,--R .9 Gazette. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, Nov. 12. ATTORNEY•GENERAL V. PEMBROKE HALL. The argument in this case was this morning re sumed. The information in the suit was filed by the Attorney-General, for the purpose of obtaining the decision of the Court as to certain property pos sessed by the College. Archbishop Grindall, by his. will, bequeathed a sum of money, with direc tions to his executors to lay it out in lands which would produce a rental of 501. per annum, which he ordered to be divided so as to give to the school of St. Bees, in the county of Cumberland,. 211. per annum, and 24/. to Pembroke Hall, and the surplus of 51. was to go to augment the stipends of the scholars in each of those seminaries. It was after wards .agreed between the Bishop's executors and the heads of the College, that Pembroke Hall should take an estate in Surrey, of the rental of 24/. per annum, and that other lands in Cumberland, of the value of the difference, should be held for the school there. The value of the estate in Surrey had now far exceeded that at which it was estimated when this arrangement took place, and although the rent continued the same, a renewal fine of 1,000/. was obtained every seventh year. The value of the Cumberland estate was not by any means improved in a similar ratio, and the present suit was insti tuted for the purpose of equalizing between the two objects of the donor's bounty, the fund out of which it was to issue. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL having replied to the arguments of the defendants' counsel, The LORD CHANCELLOR should take some time to consider the case, and give judgment on a future day. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Nov. 12. •ROBERTSON V. THE MARQUIS OF LONDONDERRY. In this case, which has been frequently before the Court, a bill has been filed, praying for the specific performance of an agreement respecting some cod mines, and an order had been made for the defendant to bring into Court certain documents connected with the transaction. It appears that this order had not been complied with, and The SOLICITOR-GENERAL now moved that the defendant be peremptorily ordered to bring in the said documents within eight days. Mr. SPENCE (in the absence of Mr. Horne) said, that the Marquis of Londonderry was perfectly wil ling to produce all the papers connected with the transaction, excepting only the confidential letters which had passed between him and his solicitor. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said, that of course it was not intended to call for any papers of that de scription.—The order was accordingly mads. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. 12. The Grand Jury for Middlesex were sworn in this morning before Mr. Justice BAILEY, who ad dressed them on the nature of their duties. PHILLIPS V. lIOPWOOD AND ANOTHER. Mr. J. WILLIAms moved for a rule nisi for a non 'nit in this case, which was tried at the late sittings in Middlesex, before Lord Tenterden. It was an action of trover, to recover the value of certain linen-drapery goods belonging to a bankrupt of the name of Arton.—Rule refused. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 12. KEY AND ANOTHER V. SHAWN. Mr. Serjeant WILDE moved for a rule to show canse why the verdict found for the plaintiffs should not be set aside, and a new trial granted. It was an action for use and occupation, brought by the plaintiffs as assignees of Sherwin, a bankrupt, against the defendant, who occupied some premises in Derbyshire, which had belonged to the bankrupt. The defendant gave notice of his intention to dis pute the act of bankruptcy. The cause was tried before the Lord Chief Justice, in the last Middle sex sittings, when the Jury found a verdict for the plaintiffs, which verdict the Learned Sedeant now moved to set aside on two grounds :—lst, He con tended that where the title to the land was in dis pute, an action could not be brought in this form to try that title. Instead of use and occupation, it should have been an . action of ejectment. 2dly, There was not sufficient evidence - to warrant the Jury in finding that Mr. Sherwin had committed an act of bankruptcy subsequently to the existence of the petitioning creditor's debt. The Learned Ser jeant then commented at some length on parts of the evidence, to show that the verdict was not war ranted by it. The COURT said that, with respect to the point of law urged by the Learned Counsel, they were of opinion that the action was sustainable in this form; but upon the other ground—namely, that the ver dict was against evidence—their Lordships granted a rule to show cause. At two o'clock Mr. Justice GASELEE sat at Nisi Pries, and the other Judges went to the Court of Exchequer, to attend the ceremony of pricking for Sheriffs for the ensuing year. MIDDLESEX ADJOURNED SESSIONS, Nov. 12. William natal, a professor of music, residing in Osnaburgh-street, Regent's-park, was charged with an indecent assault upon Charlotte Rawlings. The prosecutrix, a remarkably intelligent girl, about 13 years old, lived with the defendant as ser vant. On the evening of the 16th of August her master had two ladies and a gentleman to supper. About ten o'clock in the evening he came down stairs for some pickles, when he told her she might go to bed, which she accordingly did. Her bed was in the back kitchen, and two of the children slept with her, one an infant, and the other about five years old. She had not long been in bed before the defendant came into the room and sat down on the side of the bed where she was lying, and proceeded to take improper liberties with her person. She did not scream out because she was afraid. He remained with her till there was a ring of the bell, when he left, and did not again return. The following morning she told the washerwoman what had taken place, and the same evening she told her aunt. Cross-examined by Mr. PHILLIPS—He never took any liberties before with me at any time. lam certain of that. I have often read the newspapers. I did not tell the washerwoman that I had 'read in the newspapers that money was to be got by pre ferring complaints of this kind, provided the young woman was under age. Mi. C. PHILLIPS for the defendant, dwelt on the improbability of the story told by the complainant ; and should be able to call witnesses to such facts as would leave no doubt but that that the charge had been trumped up for purposes of extortion. Catherine Mawby was a washerwoman, and was told by the complainant that she had read in the nawspapers, that if gentlemen took liberties with girls before they were of age, money was to be got by complaining against them. By the COURT—This conversation took place about two hours after she had complained to me of the manner in which her master had used her. Henry Stowell is an officer of the High-street po lice, Marylebone, and knows the father of the child. He had a conversation with him in Holborn after the complaint had been preferred, and when he told witness that he should never have taken out the warrant if he had not heard that Mr. Tuttell in tended taking out a warrant against him for defama tion. He told witness he would settle the affair for 10/. This was at the Marylebone-office, upon an occasion when Rawlings came to compla i n of his daughter's clothes having been detained by the defen dant. Witness told him that he dared say the defendant bad no ill will against him, and that he had better go to him and make friends, and no doubt he would give him up the clothes. Rawlings said, " How much will he give ?" Witness asked what he meant, and he replied, " Will he give 101. ?" Witness answered that he did not think he would give .5/. The complainant when at the office first stated the offence to have taken p lace on the sth of August, afterwards the 12th, and lastly on the 16th. Cross-examined by Mr. ALLEY---I delivered the Vet* in this case for defendant to counsel. lam not acting as solicitor as well as officer. The brief was brought to me by defendant's wife two day. ago. I don't remember I ever delivered any brief before. I will not swear I never did. I was never rebuked for doing so. Mr. Samuel Galkin--Is a professor of music.— The complainant's father told him that he would not have taken out the warrant if he had not been afraid the defendant would have proceeded against him. OUR GLORY IS DEPARTED. Vain have been the warnings frequently given .o the people of this realm by its pious Ministers, but not vain have been their predictions. The Millenium, foreseen by Mr. Irving, is come, though even he has' not observed its arrival. The glory of Great Britain and of her country gentlemen is gone for ever. It has glided so silently out of existence, like all the great changes brought about by Nature, who, it is now ascer tained, abhors violent alterations, as she formerly abhorred a vacuum, that it was unknown till the Chronicle published the discovery on Saturday. The pride of ages—the independence of our country—is destroyed. In spite of the remon stance of our pastors, and the paternal care of our land-owners, our gluttonous people have actually eaten up their birthright and inheritance. As a Papist swallows * * *, so have they bolted the great and the beloved idol of our national independence. They have actually eaten us into a necessity to import three million quarters of corn per year, as Mr. Whitmore remarked, whose voice, like that of every other prophet, was unheeded and scorned, and as we, echoing his statements, have shewn. This is the true key to the conduct of the Duke of Wellington. Any person who looks back to the debates of 1828 on the Corn Bill, will perceive that Mi nisters were then fully aware of our dreadful situation, and that they guarded the . secret as long as they could, Oily letting in half a million quarters of wheat by Orders of Council or tem porary laws, and doing what they could to induce our children in Canada to supply us without making our sad necessities known to the strangers on the continent. The • people, however, heed ing nothing but their belly, have persisted in eat ing, and Russia and Prussia hold us fast bound by the chains of our own sensuality. The Journals of the ancien regime may re proach the Duke of Wellington with having sacrificed the national honour, but his Grace knows that it has been eaten up by the enor mous appetite of the community. Those Jour nals may call on him to let loose the dogs of war, but he is aware that he cannot threaten Russia without running the risk of a " rebellion of the belly" at home. That he has saved Con stantinople in a state of degraded dependence shows his consummate diplomatic skill ; but he was too well aware of our unhappy situation to think of sending a squadron to the Black Sea, or an army to defend the Balkan. The great, the alarming fact, now that it is known, which has tied the Duke of Wellington's tongue, and Sir Pulteney Malcolm's hands, which has kept our soldiers only longing for the strife, and our sai lors from being impressed is, that in spite of the prudence of our Ministers, and the patriotism of our Country Gentlemen, this land, once great, glorious, and free, ,, is sunk so low as to be dependent on Russia and R ussia for bread. Nor does it require any Highland second-sight to pronounce that it must become more and more dependent. Our people will not forego beef, resign milk, and give up garden-stuffs.— Cattle and grass cannot, however, be imported to pacify the maws of our increasing town popu lation ; and grazing, and gardens, and meadows, gradually restrict the breadth of the country under the plough. Every man can probably re member how the corn-fields have gone away from around every town in the empire. No art, consistently with allowing the people to feed themselves, can prevent an increasing im portation of foreign corn every year. There is an end, then, to the glory of our Statesmen ; and here also is an end to all the arguments about national independence by m Inch they have sought to appease the hunger of the people. The gastric juice has been too mighty for them. The powerful solvent has even eaten into their system. The armies and fleets, under the name of trade, sent forth by the Prime Mover, have long ago trampled under foot the balance of power. They have beaten down all the fortifications of ancient policy, and are destroying, one after another, all the castles and citadels erected to strengthen and guard the Chinese wall it formerly placed between the dif ferent families of mankind, impeding their com munication and levying tribute on the wayfarers of the world. Since the calamitous event so long sought to be guarded against by our States men has actually come to pass ; since the intem perate indulgence of appetite in the community, against which, it must be ad miffed, both the Ministers of the State and of Religion have striven all in their power, has brought us into our present lamentable condition ; and since the nation, in spite of prohibitory laws, is actually become dependent on foreigners for bread—it will be wise to give this dependence as wide a basis as possible. The Ministers were com pelled, by the fear of famine, to give up prohibi tion and take to a protecting duty. Now, it unfortunately happens for our national indepen dence that this duty, restricting us for a supply to those countries in which corn can be grown at 30s. a quarter cheaper than in Britain—for it requires that sum in general to cover the ex pence of carriage and the duty—makes us ex clusively dependent for food on the half-peopled E LO PEMENT.—Deserted from me, D. BAS TOW, a few days since , a woman , who , for the las t fi v e ports of Russia and her ally Prussia. It is well years, has consorted with me , and has generally be en re- known that our chief supplies of grain are de puted to be my wife. The cause of her disappearing is rived from the dominions of these two powers. beyond the scope of my divining. She was always kind We should be disposed—on the principle that to me while we lived together, and I was occasionally good when a man's services are desirable, and he can to her. She is a middling sized woman, has black hair, .hoose between many masters, servitude is very and a remarkable winning leer in her eye. No a pp rehen- c light—to recommend the abolition of the duty on tropbe.—American Paper. sive difficulty has occurred between us till the late catas corn when imported, in order that we may obtain S EN SIBILITY OF GENIUS. When BURNS supplies from every country in which it is grown cheaper than in Britain. We would do this resided in Edinburgh, his company was eagerly sought ls, after by the ton vivants; who, under the ominous title on general principles ; but when we observe that of the Gin Club, yet continue to hold their meetings in j the effect of the duty on corn is to make us al their old retreat at the Canongate; they claimed him as 1 most exclusively dependent on that Power and the choicest spirit in their revels, and held out all the her principal ally which is coming down the temptations that pleasant society and a deep carousal could Black Sea into the Mediterranean, and sending afford, to induce him to remain amongst them. But out her feelers towards India, we feel ourselves Burns' temperament was as full of vicissitude as his life. He was sensitive to the first appioach of the disagreeably, called on to recommend that it be instantly done. and shrunk even from convivial intercourse, unless kis We do not give this recommendation because companions . were congeni a l t o hi s ta s te. When they found we would let our people have cheap bread, and him the vein," therefore, they knew his value, and increase our trade—because we would remove cherished him. On one occasion he dined with a confi- the bounty the grower of wheat now receives dential friend, who, finding him in a most sparkling and jovial mood, induced him to accompany him in the even- against the feeder of beef, and the cultivator of ing to the meeting of their companions at the Canongate. cabbages; nor because we would cultivate good Buttes' vivacity promised a rich fund of humour and fellowship with the most civilized and polished glee, and his friend, our informant, auguring from the delightful temper in which he had caught the poet, promised nations of the earth, who must make common the members an enjoyment of the highest order. Buans I cause with us against the Colossus of the North ; entered the roan, and took his seat beside his friend. The but simply on the principle of the Country Gen chair was called, and f e stivity began. An hour passed tlemen—because we would make our unhappy away and poor IluaNs was silent ; several attempts to ex cite his hilarity were made in vain, and during the re- state of dependence involve as little as possible nriinder of the evening he could not be roused even to a p At last th e disapointed assembly broke up, and the y the risk of famine. After all, the dependence smile. have talked of so much cannot be very the poet forming a little co t er ie of four or five of his ow n troublesome, since the people have slid into it immediate and attached friends, repaired to that little so easily as not to perceive its weight, and have sanctum, known by the name of Butt's's' Coffin—which, borne the yoke for several years with no other we are sorry to say, is on the point of being sacrificed to i wish apparently than, by bowing their necks to so me modern stre e t i mprovemen t s ! Here the repressed en thusiasm shone out—his heart was on his lips in a moment it, to fling off that of the landlords. It is but —and, forgetting the gloom of the preceding scene, he the dependence of one tradesman on another— charmed his own little circle with songs and recitations, o f the cotton-manufacturer on the farmer — Until the " peep,o' dawn." 'When. his friend inquired the which both feel to.be pleasant, and mutually cause of his silence in the club, his answer seas lcharac teristic of the susceptibility of his mind—" I dinna like amicable ; while nations independence, in the the face o' the earl who sat in the chair sense of Country Gentlemen / is / in truth the Mr. George Gregory swore that the bell was never rung on the evening spoken to by the com plainant. He was certain of that, as he was sitting in a room where he must have heard it. The CHAIRMAN, after summing up the evidence on both sides at great length, called the attention of the Jury to the deposition which had been returned from the Police-office, and from which it appeared that the girl had in her evidence there sworn to two assaults,—one on the morning of the 12th of Aug., when she said her master entered her room about six o'clock, and after behaving improperly towards her, went away, and desired her to get up and clean his shoes. The other assault was that she had spoken of that day. The Jury, after deliberating for about a quarter of an hour, returned a verdict of Guilty. Many persons appeared astonished at the verdict. Mr. BALLANTINE said, that now the case was over, he could not forbear from remarking on the improper conduct of the officer. It was a new fea ture in the conducting of the police, for an officer to act as the agent of the defendant. He trusted, when it came to the ears of the Magistrates of the Mary lebone office, they would not suffer the system to remain any longer a nuisance to the public. If the officer were attached to his office (the Thames Police), he should not remain there another hour. The CHAIRMAN, in pronouncing sentence, said that as the jury, after an attentive consideration of the case, and with the advantage of an elaborate ad dress and examination on both sides, had come to the conclusion that the defendant was guilty, all the Court had to do was to carry that verdict into effect. The sentence of the Court upon him was, that he pay a fine of 101. to the King. The money was immediately paid. A PUNDIT IN JEOPARDY. Not long ago a gentleman from England and a party of friends, while out coursing in a neighbour ing parish, encountered rather an ugly customer. — Amidst the ardour of the chace, they entered a field which report said was tenanted by a vicious bull; but the Pundit made very light of the circumstance, and talked of having a little sport with an animal that had got his name up from the fears of the timid, and that in all probability would either turn tail or stand at bay the moment a bold front was shown. — Speak of the devil," says the proverb, " and he'll appear;" and scarcely had the words escaped from his lips, when the shaggy monster emerged from the rear of a set of old offices, and, as if offended with the liberty taken with his name, singled out, and beset his lettered traducer. The moment was critical—the danger imminent—the assailant no re specter of persons; and as prudence in many cases is the better part of valour, the gentleman, though the very reverse of a craven, felt that the time, the scene, and the subject, were alike unsuited for the display of his powers as a senior wrangler. To his heels, therefore, he took, with a degree of speed that astonished his friends, and almost rivalled the fleetness of his own greyhounds, and not only dis tanced the furious beast, but cleared in his way, at one bound, a gate or fence that would have done no discredit to a first-rate hunter. The bull followed him to the extremity of the field, tearing up the turf with his feet, and bellowing forth his dissatisfaction at the boundary that hemmed his hostility in. But still there were other intruders in - the field, and on turning round he beheld half a dozen sportsmen, fixtures on the spot where they originally stood, and whom surprise, not unmixed with fear, had well nigh deprived of the power of locomotion. But their feelings, however amiable, were nothing to the bull. Down therefore he bore on them in gallant style, determined to break the enemy's line, as Nelson did at Trafalgar. Though the onset was furious, the assailant had the breadth of a field to cross, and be fore he arrived:at the old houses, there was luckily no line to break. As a stimulant to action there is nothing like fear, when► the feeling is not carried too far; and as the enemy approached, the gentlemen separated and got out of the way—that is with the exception of • one of their number, who, in place of following hs companions, scrambled to the top of an old side wall, where he hoped to see everything without being seen. But he had well nigh paid the forfeit of his temerity. When tired of other sport, the bull found him out, and pawed with such fury at the bottom of the wall, and tossed with such majesty his os frontis—a capital substitute for a battering ram—that he seemed in a fair way of bringing the fabric to the ground. As the prospect was none of the pleasantest, the climber left his perch, and -en deavoured to escape by some back door; but here he reckoned without his host, for as often as he peered round one corner, the enemy popped his nose past another. The contest at this time assumed the character of a regular game at bo-peep, and would have been highly laughable bad it not been so dan gerous. In this spec►es of warfare two legs were found preferable to four; and as the bull in turning, necessarily made a good deal of lee way, the gentle man saw where his advantage lay, and felt from the first, in the words of the poet, that he would be able to " turn a corner jinking, and cheat him yet." And it was literally so. Theban tired first of the jink ing sport, ar►d at last became so listless or exhausted that so far from compelling the enemy to surrender at discretion, he allowed him to march off with the honours of war.—Dumfries Courier. dependence of both, or of all the industrious classes, on as idle and useless a set of monor lists as ever sought, under the mask of patriotisni to plunder their neighbours. Our Rulers 1 1 4 be alarmed at the necessity for importing three t million quarters of corn annually ; we rejoice sa it, for it demonstrates that their efforts- 4° . how many of their efforts to curtail our ril l ; leges and enjoyments have had a similar res ult : —to fasten on us for ever the yoke of our lautr owners, have been fruitless.—Morning Chron. .NFANTICIDE BY A FRENCH PRIEST• We have received from Louhans some horrible details as to a crime of infanticide, in which a p rie° is implicated under distressing accusations : of " The Priest S—, curate of the co unnune Bellevesvres, in the canton of Pievre, has just bee" brought in custody to the prison of our town , se . ' cused of having put to death an infant, of which log female servant was delivered clandestinely. Pu bli j c report has charged him for some time with having 14 . , a criminal connection with this girl, and to hiln'wF imputed the state of pregnaucy in which she aPPe, ar ed to be, when a scandalous scene gave a nevi 9e; gree of probability to the suspicions that had bef° l / been conceived. On the 16th ult. it was perceill i el that the clergyman's servant was extremely : P e and had all the external appearance of a soma lately delivered. This observation gave rise it ° much thinking in the commune, and next mor nid the following couplet was posted in the market' place, which put every body in the secret Ma Claudinette est accouchee Vendredi dans la matinee." On Friday, in the early morn, My Claudinette's poor child was born. "No sooner did the curate get a knowledge 01 this fact, than he mounted a chair, and exclaitNeel against scandal and corruption. H e complair t , with bitterness that so little respect was,shown tv wards a minister of the altar ; left the village cretly, and went to the Procureur du to coin; plain of defamation. That magistrate, wh° ha b .en already informedof the facts, received him ire'd l . • Jolly, and merely replied that he would proceed to c harg e brought to examine the grounds of the ells% brought against him. This a nswer disconcerted ts complainant, who immediately returned home, cabers to his great surprise, he found a party of the gs" darmes installed in the parsonage-house. The P r ; cureur du Roi arrived soon after, and proceeded!, an examination. The delivery of the woman 07 at first denied, and afterwards confessed as a ifilej' carriage. It being ascertained that the infant bs been buried in the grave of a woman recently jot er ; red, it was dug up, and declared by the faculty t have been alive at the time of the birth. The r ; mains of a piece of cord round the neck, and a O r 1 corresponding to it, showed that the infant bil`j been put to death by strangulation. The prieg t , a t il t o his servant were taken into custody to be broug",,whe Louhans. After their departure, it became r t ' • that the rector had some time before writteneit letter to an inhabitant of an adjacent villages t° D i e him to buy for him such drugs as would p ro cli d abortion. Drugs of this kind, in fact, were N u o f in the parsonage house. All the circumstan c e s o s, this atrocious affair have having reached Lotiblthe the indignation of the inhabitants was excited t ° highest pitch, especially as it was reported tba t o, authorities intended to suffer the rector to es B et A vast concourse in consequence went 'out tomo the priest and his servant, and did not leave t is k till they were safely lodged in prison, when tbe of, fervescence that was excited subsided. Th ili r ot fender is said to have been the most into's" priest in the whole diocese. A remarkable Cir c a it stance in the affair is, that he was the authors. ;jot were, of his own ruin, in going to make a eomP which turned against himself. He is said to 11 be up his spirits in prison, under the vain hope t / i l . ll t t bs is not amenable to the civil authorities, and ts"ble will get well out of what he calls ' a disag ree ' affair. "—French Paper. THE TWO-HEADED GIRL• The Licephalous girl, of whom we have °l re4 A til t toad our readers, has been in Paris some days. tie last sitting of the Academy of Science 4, o Geoffrey de St. Hilaire placed her portrait be'°,,, the eyes of the assembly, and gave some expbw-i; tions of the observations he had alread y thade l e this singular phenomenon. This child is . doub ri from the head to the his ; her right par t has be baptised under the name of Christina, and the le i , under the name of Ritta. Christina is ob viously more developed than Rim.; almost the whole ofl,Pet upper portion of the body is on the other side• ite, on examining them, with the assistance of the °i, tthoscope, one cannot help thinking that Ritta posses the organ of the circulation, that is the be is Looking at them behind, the two vertebral coloOp are seen to continue in a manner very distinct Icd to the coxis (the hip bone), where it is confoti° hio? only in the lower part. There are two stoll''',tlie and there is reason to believe that the mixture o!od, digestive organs begins only in the small intes° The rectum is evidently single, though we ree r t r o d salt of hollow cut which seems to show a telorii towards doubling. This child was directed too dafar by Professor Rolando, of Turin; but it is siell enough that the police keeps back the licence the father solicits to satisfy the public curiositio,ool° refus.il of this kind on the part of I‘l. Mane, de la serve for a pendant to the ordinance of I‘ j ,: t 0 4 „ Bourdonnaye respecting Punch. Whateve r lo ng be, M. Geoffrey de St. Hilaire, who has ! ° ; ,,,6 11 " time been devoted to the study of monstrosi f n,o3 who has even founded on his observation s ° es°' system which has become classical in Bole; totet not believe in this refusal, and hopes, fo rt 11° ' rests of science, that the licence asked for ::,.,•-ti°tr be further delayed from the father of C'" Ritta.—Courier Francais. tio. l The challenge which produced the 10 13 te I g a o;/ in Waterford was from Lord BERESFORre M r. 4; i t had sent him a manuscript copy of his letter is'",,`f t er "`' sent to the newspapers, and a message was sool l let ter theio livered. This accounts for the circumstance r . of Mr. BARIION and the account of the doet thho same paper. --Dublin, Morning Registe: BIRTHS. of On the 12th inst. at P o rtsmouth, the wife -- Parriek, of a son and heir. CA'V rr On the 11th iust. Airs. J. Lightfoot, jun. o f road, Kent-road, of a son. o. jj. th "nst. at Shaeklewell-lane, Mu On the 11 th inst. at . - Harrison, of a son and daughter. f (1 4, On the Bth inst. in Camden-town, the 13(1Y 0. °‘ Key, E.q., of a daughter. On the 1 lth inst. at Brighton, the lady of Inibeft Bnrgh, of West Drayton, of a daughter. MARRIED. F o f On the 12th inst. at St. Pancras, B. B. Clarke," barrister-at-law, to Emily Maxwell, youngest dOg the late J. Spooner, Esq. of Upper Gower-street' A gr i ; On the 12th inst. at St. George's, Hoovers,/ Major Bruce, to Isabella, third daughter of C°ll' and niece of the late Sir R. Basset. fi thv,„‘", On the 12th inst. at Bishopsgate, J. T. ot second eon of T. Hart, Esq. of Lansdown -cotta rs g ney, to Sarah, eldest daughter of 'l'. B. llop , ro u ' A , Bishopsgate. vr itio lj bidf On the 7th inst. re-married at Paris, at the n ee po b is3ador's, J. Gordon, of Newton, Esq. Aber"viti” to Barbara, fourth daughter , of Mr. Alexander Aberdeen. DIED. In Paris, aged SO, Anue Baroness de Robet'k' f On the 12th inst. Sarah Amelia, the wife ° i jet Bracebridge, of Cloudesley-square, Islington' On the 11th inst. Mr. William Rolfe, a t ife aged 73. ti n s , , at At Bristol, Rhode Island, Mr. N. CarnPb c "' v ar t Y ,est of Malta, aged 97, and one of the fatuous " tr t ' o Boston when the taxed article was thrown ° ire and also a gallant soldie of the Revolution'''. • 1 1 Paper. S Cis t 3 PRINTED AND PUBLISUED EY MURDO 1( 4 0 4 TUE SUN OFFICE, 112, STAAND,