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PPRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Mr. O'Connell has addressed a letter to Mr. Beau mont, in answer to that from the Hon. Member for Northumberland to him, on the influence of religious divisions on the condition of Ireland. Mr. O'Con nell declares without hesitation, that " while he lives Ireland certainly shall not be free from salutary but peaceful and energetic agitation—that is, until perfect religious equality, without one particle of political, civil, or temporal ascendancy at either or any side, is firmly established." He next examines the various modes of establishing that equality, and expresses his conviction that " the peace, tranquillity, and pros perity of Ireland require the establishment of the vo luntary principle of religion." The answer wl:ich Mr. O'Connell gives to another question put by the Hon. Member for Northumberland, namely, " whe ther the sole cause of the unnatural state of Ireland lies in this—that religion is made a point of honour between the Protestants and the Ca tholics?" is not, we apprehend, strictly in ac cordance with the fact. He says to Mr. Beau mont, " You have discovered the true, the great, the - • gigantic, the all-pervading cause of the unnatural state of Ireland. It is indeed the sole cause—for it so ex- asperates and envenoms every other portion of misgo vernment, that although without it our evils would be considerable, they are rendered deadly only by the ad mixture of this fatal ingredient of ever-recurring reli gious rancour." We allow with the Hon. and Learned Gentleman, " that the English would deserve to be despised if they submitted to maintain in England a gorgeous Establishment for the English Catholics, who bear at present about the same propor tion to the Protestants of the Establishment in Eng land as the Protestants of that creed bear in Ireland to the Catholics." We allow that this badge of inferiority must be a constant source of exasperation to every Ca tholic who, believing conscientiously his religion to be the true one, cannot conceive why the profession of it should subject him to ignominious distinctions. But with all the explanations given by Mr. O'Con nell we demur to his affirmative answer. Reli gion is not the sole cause of the unnatural state of Ireland. Ireland was in a diseased state be fore religious diversity existed in it ; and were the voluntary principle to be established to-morrow, Ire land would continue in an unnatural state for perhaps a generation to come. One great cause of the unna tural state of Ireland is that the Irish were never tho roughly reduced to subjection to the Government of the King of England, and consequently could not receive the benefit of English laws. This is well shown by Sir John Davies, whose ad mirable volume is almost as applicable to Ire land now as when it was written in the time of King James the First. The original constitution of society in Ireland was vicious, and the people were in a most barbarous state when the English obtained possession of the country. From the imperfect nature of the conquest the English had sufficient power to agitate and harass the coun try, but not sufficient to ensure legal obedience, and the two races never amalgamated. Ages of injustice and confiscation laid the foundation of rooted hatred between the two races long before reli gion was brought into play ; but religious ascendancy no doubt aggravated all the pre-existing evils. We make these observations, not to impeach the conclu sion that Ireland never will be tranquil so long as the Catholics see themselves branded on account of their religion, but to prevent the disappointment which must be experienced were it found that the voluntary princi ple did not put an end to the unnatural state of that country. A number of causes concur to keep Ireland wretched. Were there not a Protestant in the island it would be wretched ; and were every Catholic to dis appear from it, it would be equally wretched. The re lations between landlord and tenant, arising out of the impoverished state of the inhabitants, and their exclu sive dependence for subsistence on the occupation of a piece of land, must be destroyed before an end can be put to predial disturbances. In fact, Ireland is dis eased in every part of her system, and she must be put under a course of violent medicines before she can become convalescent. The analogy with Scotland does not hold, because religion was the only cause of agitation in that country, while in Ireland it is only one cause.—Morning Chronicle. A meeting is to be held within these few days of the Conservative yeomen of West Kent, which we trust will be effectually organized and numerously at tended. The object, of course, is to ascertain and sti mulate the strength of the Conservative cause in that very interesting and important district before the meet ing, and with reference to what may be the consequence of that meeting viz., the probable dissolution of Parliament. The constituency of West Kent are far from satisfied with Mr. Hodges, one of their Members, Vk ho does not represent their political feelings, nor sup ': ort those great principles which they have never lost sight of—namely, the maintenance of the Constitu tion of England in Church and State—the mainte nance of those tried safeguards of the national free dom and prosperity—the immemorial institutions of King, Lords, and Commons—and the maintenance of the British empire in its unimpaired integrity by the uncompromising protection of that which con stitutes the British stake in Ireland, including therein Protestant liberty, Protestant property, and the Protestant reformed religion. All the vast inte rests which we have here enumerated, the Kentish yeomen are well aware, have been, and continue to be, brought into imminent danger by those men who call themselves Ministers of the British monarchy, but who, in fact, are mere tenants at will to a faction of des perate revolutionists and republicans, without whose condescending patronage the mock Ministry would, in one half hour, disappear from the face of the earth. The Kentish yeomen are too shrewd and sagacious not to see that the Whig rump Cabinet, which commands on all occasions the vote of Mr. Hodges, is itself com manded by Mr. Daniel O'Connell, whose whole life is spent in vilifying, threatening, disturbing, and in juring the entire British nation. The constituency of West Kent plainly perceive that the alliance of the Irish Papist and English democrat revolutionists has for its bond and principle this twofold project:-Ist. To destroy the Protestant Church, the settlement of landed property, and the operation of all lawful authority in Ireland, as an essential and infallible step towards the overthrow of Church and Monarchy within Great Britain. 2d. Should the actual powers and recog nized functions of the British Constitution here contain obstacles that cannot otherwise be surmounted, to the scheme of placing Protestantism at the feet of Popery in Ireland, the second part of the scheme is to begin with this country, to raze to the ground whatever im pediments may exist in the present nature or form of our political system, to the full execution of the Irish part of the plot, to let loose the democratic and senseless rabble by substituting a secret, and therefore irrespon sible, suffrage, for the fair, open, and manly method of declaring a man's choice of his representative viva voce, and to break down the hereditary branch of the Par liament, the sole guarantee we now possess for deli berate and long-sighted legislation, by making it the humble creature of an undiscerning multitude. This sacrifice of all that is best in Great Britain to what ever is worst in Ireland forms a grand contingent fea ture in the machinations of the revolutionary allies, and it must have deeply offended the loyal constituents of the realm, amongst whom none hold a higher or more honourable rank than the Kentish agricultural electors, when they found that the vote of one of their representatives was invariably recorded in fa vour of a Government which held office by no more respectable tenure than the indulgence vouch safed to it by such an unprincipled league. There is now before us a recent manifesto of the scheme of " good government" to be upheld by Mr. Da niel O'Connell, so far as the Church question is concerned. It comes in the shape of a reply from the Derrynane conspirator to the letter of Mr. Wiseacre Beaumont, published a few days back. The Agitator herein gives a gracious assent to the absurdities of the obsequious north of England charlatan, touching a certain Protestant and Popish " point of honour." As to what is to " tranquillize Ireland," Daniel evinces no small degree of merciless malice towards Lord John Russell and Co., not deigning even to glance with an eye of pity on their much-vaunted nostrum of the " appropriation clause," but declaring roundly that nothing will satisfy him and his accomplices in revolu- THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1837. CEN TRAL Of the many dangers whieh encompass this nation by the reason of the existence of the present mean and vicious Government, that of bad measures is not the greatest. It is the dishonest and dishonourable sys tem by which public affairs are managed which threatens the degradation of the national spirit and character. This is the greatest evil which we think it impossible for men of true British sense and feel ing to contemplate without indignation and grief. From bad measures we may recover with comparative ease. Experience may teach us the injuriousness of them, and if the mind of the nation be not vitiated — if its energies be not impaired—we may retrace our steps. But it is not easy, and, perhaps we might say it is not impossible, for men who have descenaed to paltry, disingenuous, and sordid habits in the conduct of great affairs to return to the plain highway of intre pid honesty and manly discretion. Error may be re formed, and the mind which blazed as a fire of destruction may become a glorious and salutary light to the na tions ; but the low knavery of no-principled politicians is as hopeless as it is hateful, and it is against this which we would warn all who love and revere the ancient character of our country. We are not indulg ing in abstract speculation. Would to God that we had no facts to appeal to, such as render our warning necessary ; but we have these facts to appeal to—they are but too apparent, too disgustingly and shamelessly prominent—and it is time that honest men, for the sake of honesty, should band themselves together against the impudent fraud in the spirit of which pub lic affairs are conducted. First, let us look at the King's Ministers. If they were honest politicians they would long ago have plainly declared what their principles are upon what are called vital questions, and there would exist a public certainty that by these principles the Government would stand or fall. But how does the matter really stand ? They have at one time declared themselves firm to certain views of things, and at another they have appeared to take very dif ferent views ; that which one day they appeared willing to protect they at another abandon to injury ; and there is not at this hour any thing like a public certainty of the course they will take in the next Ses sion of Parliament upon the very same questions which they solemnly delivered their opinion upon in the last. Instead of taking upon them, as British Ministers ought to take, the responsibility of accom plishing certain definite purposes, they meanly submit themselves to external influences, and profess their rea diness to accommodate their principles of policy to the humours of other people. If they have any permanent principle it is that which, with astonishing shameless ness, they avow, namely, that they will continue as long as ever they can in the situation of Ministers. To this principle they sacrifice every other, and no human being can depend upon their firm adherence to anyth in g else. `This is a course so mean, so grovelling, and so sordid, that until now we should have deemed it impossible that British Ministers could have punned it. Until now we should have thought that Ministers capable of this ostentatious degradation of themselves would have been driven from their position by the unanimous execration of the country. That this has not been the case affords a melancholy proof of the decay of the old spirit of honesty from among our people. To come a little more to particulars—does any man in his senses be lieve that if the Prime Minister had said to his Ma jesty, when kissing hands as First Lord of the Trea sury, that in the conducting of the Government it would be necessary for him to " strike a heavy blow at Protestantism in Ireland, and in the name of the King's Government to give " a great discourage ment" to the same—can any man, we say, believe that if Lord Viscount Melbourne had had the ho nesty to say this to the King, he would have been suffered to leave the Royal presence a Minister of the Crown ? No man can believe it. From the hands of the King he received power, and immediately he went forth to abuse it. As the servant of the King he was bound to support and encourage Protestantism, and upon this tacit con dition the authority of Government was put in his hands. As the million of O'Connell, he was forced to beat down and discourage Protestantism, and upon this expressed condition the majority of the House of Commons was put into his hands. Can this be con sidered the honest dealing which becomes a British Minister ? No man can honestly serve two such masters as the King of England and Daniel O'Con nell. Our Ministers attempt to do so, but that in stance forms no exception to the principle. In the last session of Parliament the King's Ministers dis tinctly and emphatically opposed the ballot, the pro position for triennial Parliaments, and the abolition of the general rate for the support of churches. if these men were honest—we use the word with reference to their political character—it would be a matter of certainty that in the coming session of Parliament they would do the same, or show that some new matter (other than their own intense desire to remain in office) has arisen to make them take a different course. But there is no such public impression. On the contrary, the uni versal opinion is, that if a change of policy on these questions be necessary to their continuance in office, they will make the change ; but otherwise not. It is not imagined that any alteration has taken place in their convictions, but it is supposed that an alteration may have taken place in the terms upon which their tenure of office will be permitted by the Radical party. Is it not miserably degrading to the British nation that a Ministry should exist, respecting which the country speculates in such a manner? The conduct of the Ministerial Radicals is almost every whit as dishonest as that of the Ministers themselves, and if possible more wretchedly mean. They seem to have no conception that there is any moral obligation upon a public man to declare his views openly, and to take no underhand advantage, arising from the weakness or worthlessness of those with whom they have to deal. Upon the sys tem which the Ministerial Radicals pursue, we are left no room to doubt, that if it were their policy to wea ken the finances of any foreign State, they would have no objection to league with picklocks, or any other sort of desperate vagabonds, who might undertake for their own benefit to rob the treasure of the State which it should be considered expedient to weaken. These Radical legislators seem to have no objection whatever to give their assent to what they believe to be false, provided the thing to which they assent appears to lead to what they desire—to be "an instalment" of what they demand ! When, for example, the Minis ter proposes to sacrifice a certain part of corporate property, in order to satisfy them, and to ensure the security of the rest, they give their assent, and say nothing at all against the condition ; but as soon as the sacrifice is made they boast of the advantage aained, as a blow against the security of the whole, and forget the condition altogether. This is not po licy—it is mere rascality ; but the days have come, even to Great Britain and Ireland, in which these two things are much confounded with one another. If we would survive as a nation an end must be put to this. —Morning Post. The undermentioned officers retired from the army last week :—Captain Loraine, sth Dragoon Guards ; Lieutenant Carrington, 15th Light Dragoons ; Captain Hamilton, 7th Foot ; Captain Gordon, 93d Foot ; Lieutenant Welch, 95th Foot ; and Lieutenant Russell, 97th Foot.—United Service Gazette. OLD COURT. Mr. Justice PARK directed that John Grove, convicted in the September Session, 1835, for embezzling a large sum of money, the property of his employers, Messrs. Master man and Co., the bankers, be sent for. On the prisoner being placed at the bar, Mr. Justice PARK observed that he had been tried and convicted, some considerable time back, of having embezzled a large sum of money (5001.), the property of his employers, Messrs. Masterman, the bankers, with whom he lived, and filled a most confidential situation, that of cashier ; and after a long investigation the jury found him guilty. The Learned Gentleman who defended him had raised an objection, which involved a point of law, and which the Learned Judge who tried the case reserved. Since then the whole of the Judges had assembled, and the point had been argued at great length. He was free to confess that a difference of opinion existed amongst the Learned Judges : some of them were of opinion that the objection was a valid one ; the majority, however, held the conviction to be good. Although the in dictment charged him with embezzling the sum of 5001., he believed it to have been originally 1,309/. ; but of this sum 3001. had been accounted for, leaving still a very large sum unaccounted for. As there were some extenuating circum stances in his case, and as the opinion of the Learned Judge who tried him was in favour of the objection, the sentence of the Court was that he should be imprisoned for two years, to commence from the time his trial took place. He would consequently have to suffer a further imprisonment of nine months. The offence of which the prisoner has been found guilty was committed on the 19th of August, 1835. The Judges tried several other cases, but none of them possessed any public interest. Shortly after five o'clock their Lordships retired, and were succeeded by the Recorder, who sat until nine o'clock, trying petty cases. SURREY SESSIONS-WEDNESDAY In the course of the day the Grand Jury brought in a true bill against James Jones, for an assault on Anne Lo vett, with intent to murder her. The complainant, an elderly woman, the wife of a farmer at Carshalton, went out on the night of the 12th ult., for the purpose of seeing that the horses were all safe in the stables, at the back of the premises. She had a lantern in her hand at the time, and on entering the stable she saw the prisoner standing behind the door, with a large club in his hand. On seeing him she ejaculated his name, upon which he raised the weapon and struck her with great force over the forehead, and knocked her down. He repeated the blow, and, on giving an alarm, the servants ran to the spot, and saw their mistress stretched upon the ground, bleeding profusely from a deep wound inflicted with the club, and at that time in a state of perfect insensibility. Jones, the man who had committed the outrage, made his escape, but he was discovered soon afterwards concealed in a haystack, at a neighbouring farm-yard, and from thence taken before the Magistrates of the district, who committed him for the misdemeanour. Since the offence was com mitted the woman who has been so seriously injured has continued in great danger. The Grand Jury, however, on examining the different witnesses, and from their evidence, considering that it was a case of a most aggravated descrip tion, found a bill for the capital offence against the prisoner, who will be tried before another tribunal. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. A man named Anderson, who stated that he had been a dealer in fish for many years, was brought before the Loan MAYOR, charged with having stolen a fowl, the property of Mr. Gill, a respectable poulterer in Leadenhall Market. The prisoner was seen, as he passed by the stall, to snatch up the fowl, and walk off quickly. No ingenuity was ex hibited by him in committing the theft, and he said, upon being apprehended, that be could get no work ; that he had a wife and four children starving ; and that his appli- cations to the parish in which he resided were completely scouted. The LORD MAYOR—Where do you reside ?—Prisoner• In Spitalfields. The LORD MAYOR—And you say that you applied to your parish?—Prisoner—Many a time have I applied for assistance and work, but it was quite useless. They would not give me a farthing. They turned me away. The LORD MAYOR—You seem to be able to work ? Prisoner—l am well able, my Lord, but there has been no thing doing in my way this severe weather. Nothing but misery could make me do what I have done. The policeman who apprehended the prisoner said the man's wife and family were in the next room, and that there was no doubt as to their deep distress. The wife and four children were then sent for, and the Lord Mayor learned quite enough from them to be con vinced that the offence was committed because they all wanted bread. Mr. Gill entertained no idea of prosecuting the unfortu nate man. The LORD MAYOR asked the wife whether her husband frequented public-houses ?—She replied that he was a most laborious and sober man, and had been always in the habit of taking home all his earnings. Mr. Hobler said it was evident, from the appearance of the prisoner and his family, that no money went in gin. The LORD MAYOR (to the prisoner)—This is a very desperate game you have resorted to. It is impossible that any parish-officers, who have hearts not made of stone in their bosoms, could resist an application from such a family. The prisoner —They care nothing about it, not if he were to perish before their eyes. The LORD MAYOR—You had better try once more. The Magistrates have the power to compel them to assist in so desperate an extremity. The prisoner —It is all useless, your Lordship. They've said they won't do anything, and they'll keep their word. The LORD MAYOR—WeII, I can't help it. But I shall give you a letter to Mr. Gregory, an extensive potatoe dealer, in the district in which you live, and he, I am sure, will do something for you. Catherine Purcell (and not Ann Horrigan, as she was erroneously named in the list of prisoners on the preced ing day) was brought up for re-examination on the charge of having left her two illegitimate children at the house of Mr. Isaacs, the father of their father, in Duke's-place. The Lord Mayor had issued a summons requiring the at tendance of the alleged father of the children, and Mr. Wilson, one of the overseers of St. James's, Duke-place, to whose protection the children were removed, attended for the parish. Isaac Isaacs, the reputed father, having made his appear ance, was confronted with the girl, who repeated what she had stated on the preceding day without the slightest varia tion, viz., that be had for ten or eleven months contributed to the support of his twins, but had within the last three months totally abandoned them and her, and threatened to use violence towards her if she persisted in applying to him. In consequence of all of which she had, to save the chil dren's lives, left them at his father's house. Isaacs most solemnly declared that he never in his life had such knowledge of the girl as she pretended he had. To be sure he was aware that she had been a servant in his brother's house. The LORD MAYOR—Why did you give her money when she was lying in, and for ten months afterwards supply her, if you were not aware the children were yours ? Isaacs— Well) my Cot, I never gave her a farden in my life. The Girl—Oh, Isaac ! how can you say so ? Didn't you often and often come to me with two, and three, and four shillings at a time. Isaacs—Never, s'elp me Cot. Please you, my Lord, if they was mine, I'd support 'em like a man ; but she can't bring nobody to prove I'm the father. The Girl—Oh, Isaac 1 and didn't you ax me to let the b o y be a Jew, and didn't I consent, and the girl was to be a Catholic, like me ? Isaacs—Not a bit of it. I'll swear I knows nothing at all of you. Please you, my Lord, she's bin touted to this by the Irish. The Girl—Oh ! it went against my heart to part with my poor children, but I couldn't see 'em starve. He knows as well as I do that he's the father ; and if he helped me ever so little I'd have strove to keep the life in them. The LORD MAYOR (to the Overseer) —What sort of character does this young woman bear in the parish ? Mr. Wilson —I always knew her to be a steady, sober, decent person. Elizabeth Wren knew Catherine Purcell about three years, and she lived as servant where that young woman had lived before the birth of the children. The Lord MAYOR—Did he ever say that he was father of the children ? Witness—l never heard him say so, but it was uuderstood that he was the father, and she told me he was. Mr. Hobler—Did he send money to her by you ? Wit ness—Often. He has given money to me for her when she was lying-in, and said to me, " Take this to Kitty," which he used always to call her. Mr. Hobler—Did anybody else bring money to you from him. The Girl—Nobody. This woman and himself are the only persons that brought me money, but I sent an other to him. Jemima Dobley, a married woman, stated that Catherine Purcell lodged at her mother's house, and at the girl's re quest she went to Isaacs to bring him to her after her lying in. At another time witness went to Isaacs when Kitty was very ill, for a little relief for the two children. Upon see ing him she said that Kitty and the children, who were ac tually starving, were in the greatest distress, and she begged ho would send them a trifle. He said he would consider of it, and walked away. Witness had one of the children in her arms at the time. The LORD .MAYOR (to Isaacs) —Will you say you know nothing of the girl now ? Isaacs —Nothing at all, my tion short of the establishment of the " voluntary principle" throughout Ireland—first, however, robbing the Protestant Church of her tithe, and turning it over to the Popish priesthood, for the pretended edu cation of Roman Catholic children, but in truth and reality for whatever purposes, be they the most selfish, profligate, and pernicious in the world, that the said priests may themselves approve of. " The people of Ireland," subjoins this audacious mendicant, " the people of Ireland (1) join me in this contemp tuous disclaimer of longer supporting out of our means that (Protestant established) Church," and " so long as any pecuniary ascendancy, so long as any power remains to a Protestant minister, to put his hands into the pockets of the Catholics, so long dis sension, dissatisfaction, and turmoil will reign para mount in Ireland I" Well, my Whig Lords and gen tlemen, what say you to this ? Will you dare to put another insult upon us Protestants, by bolstering up your appropriation clause as a means of " paczfifing Ireland ? But we are utterly nauseated by such vile chicanery, and it is not the West Kent electors only, but, if we mistake not, all Protestant Britain, that will share our resentment and disgust. Our columns this day contain a cheering proof of the correctness of our opinion. The animated proceedings of the Conserva tive Association in South Derbyshire will stimulate even the apathetic, if there be any such ; but still we cry—let our friends in Kent and everywhere be vigi lant, active, decided, and prepared.—Times. The signal defeat of the Tory faction in the contest for the county of Longford, is not well calculated to whet the appetite of the Conservatives of Glasgow at the feed about to take place in that city. That de feat has taken place at a most awkward time in more respects than one for the orators who may intend to exhibit at the Glasgow banquet ; for, in addition to depriving them of their appetite on the occasion, it will play sad havoc with some of their meditated speeches. There can be no question that many of the intended spouters, severally dreaming, of course, of earning for themselves an oratorical reputation, second only to that of Demosthenes himself, have already prepared their orations ; and there can he equally little doubt that, according to the approved fashion at all the late Conservative feeds, one of the leading topics in those orations was a Tory re-action. Alas ! the old story of re-action will not do just now. The issue of the Longford contest will put a complete extinguisher on all the nonsense on that head for at least some weeks to come. Those, consequently, who had con structed their harangues on the re-action principle, must task whatever little ingenuity they possess to dis cover some other materials wherewith to make an ora tion. It is amusing to see how the Tory journals of London flounder in their attempts to account for the " unfortunate issue "of the Longford contest. The Thunderer ascribes it all to the priests, and denounces them accordingly. They are a very singular set of persons, these same priests. They are very trouble some personages to the Tories, for somehow or other they always contrive to frustrate all their stratagems, and to defeat all their projects. At any rate the Con servative journals always attribute the reverses of their faction to priestly interference and priestly influence. It is, of course, highly improper, and is a most un sanctified exhibition, for Catholic priests to express their attachment to liberal principles ; but not a word of indignation has the Thunderer, or any of its Con servative contemporaries, to expend on another class of priests—the priests of the Established Church, who are, almost to a man, Tories of the first -water, and who are everlastingly labouring with a zeal, which it were well if they exhibited in their efforts to convert sinners, to fan the flames of Orangeism in Ireland. But the snow, has, according to others of the Conser vative journals, entered into a league with the Ro man Catholic priests to defeat the Tory candidate. The snow, it seems, is an inveterate enemy of Toryism. We all remember the unmannerly interruption is offered a year or two ago to a score or so of Conservative Members, when on their way from the country to vote on an important question in Parliament. We were apprehensive it. might put an interdict on the visit of Sir Robert Peel to Glasgow, but just now it seems inclined to let the Right Hon. Baronet and the west of Scotland Conservatives have their own way of it. Who knows but this may be from a certain presenti ment, that they will make such a ridiculous exhibition of themselves on the occasion as will prove of far greater service to the Reform cause than if it had prevented Sir Robert from stirring a foot from home. The Reformers are under peculiar obligations to Mr. Snow—he is a most efficient ally in their righteous cause, which equally shows his good sense and his desire to act according to the convictions of justice. But jocularity aside, the result of the Longford elec tion has quite confounded the Tories. They never dreamt of even the possibility of defeat. They made as sure of the return of their candidate as they did of the day of election. We hope they will learn wisdom from it, and be less sanguine in future as to the triumphs of their cause. They may rest assured that the Longford affair is only the beginning of their re verses.—Morning Advertiser. A great deal of whispering and some open speaking are going on, in various quarters, upon the subject of a new alliance, or union, or something of that kind, between the Ministerial party, and those who call themselves, by way of eminence, " the Philosophical Radicals." So far as we can make out the meaning of the rather obscure and verbose sayings and writings on this subject, which have come within our reach. it amounts to this—that the Ministers are to become ac tively and desperately radical, instead of being slug gishly and shufilingly radical ; and in return for this, they are to receive the support of all the Philosophical Republicans, Free-thinkers, and Infidels in the coun try. Whether any such compact as this have been made, expressly or impliedly, it is, of course, not in our power to say ; but it seems to be relied upon, in ome quarters of extreme Radicalism, and the in creased violence and indecorum of some Ministerial organs, lead to a belief that they have got a hint to go even further than they were wont. We art, however, very reluctant to place confidence in what we have heard upon this matter. There are some Ministerial prints which exult in what ought to be their shame, and are, perhaps, more eager than authentic in their proclamation that the policy of which they approve has been 'adopted. We are loath to believe, even of the present Ministry, anything so bad as that which some of their panegyrists put forth in their praise. For to wSat does this asserted new alliance come ? Is it not as much as to say that the Ministers of the Crown will purchase a continuance of office by exhibiting a great activity to eat their own words, and to push forward certain projects, which hitherto they have condemned as monstrous, or ridiculed as absurd ? This it must be ; for the quarrel of the violent Radicals with the Ministers was upon this very ground ; and if the former . have prevailed, without turning out the Ministry, it can only be by procuring pledges to such a revolting change as that we have described. Now if that should happen, it will be quite apparent to all men of common sense and ordinary observation that, in a political sense, these Ministers must be the very basest and most shameless that ever lived upon the face of the earth. There can be no motive to such a thing but the inordinate love of official pay and official power ; and if to make even slight deviations from an independent course, upon such a motive, be disgraceful, how heinously wrong must it not be, for such an object as this, to turn round and assault the Throne, upon the steps of which they may be said to stand, and, in doing so, to join with avowed and notorious Republicans, Free-thinkers and Infidels ? There may be many who will look on at these things and pretend that they see nothing wicked or vile in such conduct ; but it can only be pretence. Every one who acknowledges the truth—supposing he be not mad, or so prejudiced that in what concerns politics he is the same as if he were mad—must say that Ministers, if they become the active agents of the extreme Radicals, are, in a degree hitherto unparalleled, destitute of honesty and of shame. It should tver be borne in mind that the King's Mi nisters—that is to say, the men specially intrusted by the King with the guardianship of the various institu tions whereof the Monarchy is the head, cannot in com mon sense and fairness be allowed the same latitude, with respect to the opinions and measures they advocate in Parliament, as other men are allowed. Of course, we do not mean to say that their thoughts or actions as men are to be held i n or fettered, but wo mean this— that if their minds teach them that it is a good thing to promote the cause of Republicanism, and to join the band who howl for the destruction of the Church, they ought not to continue in the situation of Minis ters of the Crown. It may be said that no man can help the convictions of his mind ; but surely it will not be said that a man cannot help continuing to be a servant of the Crown, which he is labouring to de grade, or of the Head of the Church , the fou ndation of which he is assisting others to undermine. The obscurity of vision which afflicts Roman Catholic Members of Parliament, so that they can never make out the plain import of the oath which they take on entering the House of Commons may, perhaps, be attributed to some drug administered to them in the Confessional—but, as yet, we have no Ministers for whom this excuse can be offered ; and bad as it is, it is better than none at all. If Ministers do become extreme Radicals, as it is said they will, there can be no excuse—the thing may be accounted for, but it will be impossible to account for such conduct, without pronouncing an accusation of the most enormous per , fidy that ever was laid to the charge of public men.— b Mornina Herald. - - - L COURT Lord. I never see this last voman afore in my life, and spect lodgings. He also knew that there were a gang 0,/ as for the other voman, she was turned away from my fa- thieves going about town who watched gentlemen out of ther's house cause she stayed out two nights at Bartlemy their houses and immediately afterwards called and asked Fair. Who'd blieve a voman as would go to sich a place. for the occupant who had just gone out. On being re- I never gove nobody a farden to gove her. quested to call again they made a pretence that their busi- The LORD MAYoR then told the parish officers to take ness was urgent, and wished permission to write a note, and advice as to the course of proceeding they should adopt. on being shown into a parlour for that purpose carried off For his own part he did not see how any doubt could be a watch, some plate, or other valuables. Nearly all the entertained upon the subject. houses in Euston-square, where he resided, were robbed in The girl was again remanded. that manner some time ago. Mr. Hastings said that one of the men who called at his house wore a large cloak, under which he had no doubt concealed the trunk as he left the house. He had lost 121. in money, but all the papers, excepting the copy of a will, GUILDHALL. Yesterday Maurice Friedland was re-examined on sus picion of having, with his brother Henry, and their father, defrauded Mrs. Paur, who keeps a magazine for French toys at St. Helier's, Jersey, of watches, clocks, &c., to the amount of 125/. Mr. Alderman PIRIE remanded the prisoner till Friday. were safe. Leonard said he had strong suspicions that the trunk had been broken open at a notorious flash house, within 50 yards of St. Clement Danes Church, and after the money had been taken out the thieves had thrown the trunk and papers into the court, where his son found it. Mr. CLARKSON said the police should be directed to look after the thieves, and ordered the trunk and papers to be given up to Mr. Hastings. HATTON-GARDEN. Yesterday John Wishart, a ferocious-looking fellow, was brought before Messrs. LAING and ROGERS, charged by Miss Jane Abbot, a prepossessing young lady, residing at No. 27, John-street, Clerkenwell, with having feloniously intermarried with her, the first wife being still living. Miss Abbot was living with her friends when she acci dentally became acquainted with the prisoner at a private party, when he introduced himself to her as a single man, and professed great attachment for her. She received the sanction of her friends, and he continued his addresses, and ultimately married her at Islington Church on the 3d of September, 1836. Subsequently to the ceremony he treated her with apparent attention and kindness, until about three months had elapsed, when he commenced a series of vulgar abuse and violence towards her, which not being able to endure any longer she was advised by her friends to seek the protection of the Magistrates of this office, who granted a warrant of assault against him, when it was discovered by Mr. Dean, a private friend of the prosecutrix, that he had a wife living at Glasgow, and had married five other wives, two of whom he had married at the same church. The prisoner was ordered to find bail, and whilst confined in the New Prison every effort was made to procure evidence of his first marriage, but for the want of means it could not be brought forward ; but Mr. Laing determined pot to suffer the prisoner to escape with impunity, and ordered that evidence of some of his marriages should be produced, as in the absence of evidence of his first marriage it would form a prima facia case against him ; and after several examinations he was brought up finally yesterday, and two distinct cases of bigamy were proved against him. Whilst the witnesses were giving their evidence the pri soner conducted himself with the greatest levity, and laughed. Mr. LAING told him he seemed to treat the matter lightly ; and said " The wretch is smiling at his iniquity." Prisoner (sullenly)—l am sorry, if lam a wretch, that lam so much like you, lam smiling at the damnable lies that are told against me. Mr. LAING—You are a blackguard fellow. I never heard of a more infamous proceeding. Prisoner—l am not a fellow ;lam as good a man as you, any day. Mr. LAING ordered him to be taken out of the Court, whilst the evidence was being given. The prisoner acted with exceeding violence. A Mr. Petersfield and his wife then proved that, on the Bth of February, 1833, they were present at St. Mary's Church, Newington, when the prisoner was married to Sarah Collins ; and the parish-clerk produced the register, and identified the prisoner. Miss Abbot proved her marriage with the prisoner at Islington Church, on the 3d of September, 1836. The prisoner was fully committed to take his trial. Mr. LAING said that, in such an aggravated case, he would depart from the usual course, and allow Miss Abbot extra expenses ; saying that the prosecution was creditable to the parties concerned, and the conduct of the prisoner should be communicated to the Judges. The prisoner listened to the proceedings with the utmost nonchalance, and he was eventually conveyed to Newgate. LAMBETH- STREET. Yesterday Elizabeth Ryall, a young female, whose dress, though wretched and scanty, was yet comparatively clean, and who had a squalid infant, about six months old, at her breast, was placed at the bar, before Mr. HARDWICK, on a charge of deserting a second child belonging to her, by which it had become chargeable to the hamlet of Mile-end New Town. The prisoner, in reply to the charge, said that about ten months ago her husband, who is a blacksmith, left her with one child, and in an advanced state of pregnancy with ano ther, without a single sixpence, and she ha not since been able to find any trace of him. By procuring work as a silk winder, she had been enabled to make out an existence for herself and children until about two months ago, when the work got so slack that she could get no more to do, and the consequence was that she was obliged to part with her last article, even the miserable bed from under her, to pro cure absolute necessities. About six weeks ago, when in the last extremity of distress, she applied for some relief to the officers ,of Christ Church, Spitalfields, at the work house, and on representing her ease they observed that it was merely an Irish one, and they had nothing whatever to do with it, and the master of the workhouse, notwithstan ding her entreaties that her case might be inquired into, hurried her out of the place, and merely told her that she would be called on. She struggled on as well as she could until Tuesday week, when, being apprehensive that her child would starve by her side, she placed her at the work house door, but at the same time kept in view until she saw a policeman come up and take it inside ; and knowing it would be taken care of, she did, she would admit, leave it there. The prisoner here referred to some respectable person who knew her, and could speak to her character. Mr. HARDWICK observed that nothing could possibly justify the offence of which the prisoner had been guilty. Still, if her statement was true, the circumstances might form some extenuation for her conduct, and go in mitiga tion of punishment. A respectable female said that the prisoner had been employed by her for several months, and a more sober, ho nest, persevering, and industrious person she had never met w►th, and in fact it was to her (witness), at the time, a matter of much pain that she was not enabled, from the falling off in the trade, to continue her in the employment. On Friday last she (the prisoner) called on her, and then declared that for 21 nights previous she had not laid on a bed, and that for 46 hours neither she nor her infant had tasted a morsel of food.—(The witness here became much affected, so much so, that for a moment or two she was in capable of utterance.) On her recovery the witness ex claimed that her heart almost bled when she thought of the sufferings the unfortunate creature had endured. Mr. HARDWICK—Did she say anything at the time about deserting her child, and leaving it at the workhouse door ? Witness—She did, Sir, and spoke of it with much regret, saying she knew she was liable to be sent to prison for it, adding that a prison would be a paradise to her com pared with the misery she had endured. Mr. HARDwIcK considered that under all the circum stances the case was one in which immediate relief should be given by admitting the parties into the workhouse. Before leaving the office, Mr. Haapwick, with his ac customed kindness and liberality in cases of real distress which are brought under his notice, banded half a sovereign to Davis, the gaoler, to give to the poor woman, which she received with the utmost gratitude. UNION-HALL. Yesterday two men, named Wilson and Johnson, were charged with robbery during the late fire in Blackman street. They were committed. W R SHIP- S TREE T. Yesterday a man and his wife, of the name of Stainbridge, were placed at the bar before Mr. GROVE and Mr. SINPSGN, a county Magistrate, charged with assaulting Mr. Tucker, who described himself as a brewer. The male de. fendant had an adhesive plaster at the back of his head, and seemed very much injured. —Summons dismissed. THAMES -OFFICE. Yesterday Mr. Lewis Hastings, a gentleman connected with the Doughty estate, r esiding at No. 17, Upper North place, Gr a y' s I n n-road, attended before Mr. CLARKSON, the Magistrate, for the purpose of claiming a trunk which had been stolen from his bedroom in the above house on Mon day evening, which, after being broken open by the thieves, who took out IV., was thrown away, and it was subsequently found by a boy named Leonard, the son of a Thames-police surveyor, in a court leading out of Arundel -street, Strand. Leonard, the officer, stated that his son picked up the trunk on Monday evening, opposite his own house. It had been broken open, and afterwards slightly fastened with a belt. There were a quantity of papers, mortgage deeds, a will, and a banker's bjok, belonging to Mr. Has tings, in the trunk when it was found, and lie disco vered the owner through the banker's book, and now awaited the order of the Magistrates respecting the property. Mr. Hastings said he was a collector of rents and rates on the Doughty estate, and occupied apartments in the house in Upper North-place. On Monday evening, about five o'clock, be was sitting in his parlour, when two men called to look at an office on the first floor which was to let, and adjoined his bed-room. The female servant showed them the room, and while doing so one of them engaged her in conversation, while the other went into the bedroom where the trunk was deposited. After remaining a few minutes they left the house, and promised to call again the next day. He did not discover his loss until the officers called upon him, and he strongly suspected that one of the men who called to look at the office stole the trunk out of his bedroom. Mr. CLARKSON said he had no doubt the two fellows called for the purpose of stealing anything they could lay their hands on. It was a mode of robbery much practised in the metropolis, and servants and housekeepers could not be too much on their guard when strangers called to in- SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT THE CUS TOM-HOUSE, JAN. 4. The Endraght, Prims, from Emden; Neptune, Fayne, Leer; Cariolus, Rodgers, Oldenburg; Echo, Cornelison, Altona. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING. The Sabina, Chilcot, for Teneriffe ; Deros, Harvey, Smyrna; Vesper, Fraser, Sydney ; Charles Buchan, Avenson, Mar seilles; Exile, Avery, Cadiz ; Cater, Merrils, Dunkirk; Sir Edward Paget, Hall, Madras. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO. The Flora, Lamburd, for Tobago; Mayflower, Hadley, Hobart Town ; Bredalbane, Shilcot, St. Sebastian ; Oscar, Henderwell, St. Thomas's. CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST. The Christiana, Arthur, for Sierra Leone. ARRIVALS AT LIVERPOOL, JAN. 3. The Victoria, Nissen, from Copenhagen ; Independence, Nye, New York; Ann, Bay Chaleur; Konohassett, Davies, Charleston; Laura, Rickets, Memel; Henry, Le Vesconte, Jersey ; Actif, Idman, Jacobstadt. ENTERED FOR LOADING. The Harmony, Brown, for Marseilles; Shakspeare, New York ; Herald, Clark, Sierra Leone ; March, Genoa; Eliza Jane, Brown, ditto. CLEARED OUTWARDS. _ _ _ The Venus, Andrews, for Leghorn ; Amelia, Cholditch, Genoa; Boddingtons, Moss, Africa; James Dunn, Dunn, Lisbon; Friendship, M'Culloch, Trinidad; Anne and Jane, Cocks, Berbice ; Finley, Africa ; Bradshaw, Mulroy, Mo bile ; Isabel, Lima. TELEGRAPHED. Off port, inward bound, the Lancashire Lass, Tennessia, from Savannah. Off Point Lynas, outward bound, the Erin, for Charleston. Yesterday morning, between nine and ten o'clock, a runaway horse, with a gig, went dashing along the West minster-road at a fearful rate. Nearly opposite to Union street, the animal ran against a respectable married woman named Pollett, and knocked her down with tremendous vio lence, and the off-wheel of the gig passed over her breast. Mrs. Pollett was taken up in a dreadfully injured state, the blood gushing from her mouth, and was conveyed to St. Thomas's Hospital. The Governors and Masters of Harrow School, anxious to meet the wishes of the public with respect to ex pense, have agreed to reduce the terms for boarding 10 gui neas, and private tuition five guineas, which, with several extras, will make a difference of at least 20 guineas a-year. This will, of course, to many be an important object ; but what is still more so is, the improved plans of the new Head Master, the Rev. Mr. Wordsworth. He encourages ma thematics and modern languages, which will, for the future, form a part of the examinations, both for classes and scholar ships. Indeed he seems quite prepared to carry out a more general system of education than has hitherto been adopted in public schools, and to impress upon flat higher classes the necessity of their keeping pace with, if not going beyond, the middle classes of society, by a solid education. The tenants and feuars of Mr. Hamilton, of Sun drum, in Ayrshire, as a mark of the approbation in which he is held by them as a gentleman and a landlord, enter tained him at a sumptuous dinner on the 15th ult. ; afford ing another in addition to many gratifying instances we have to record, of the happiness it is in the power of landlords to create in a community, by giving their tenants not only the benefit of their fortunes by a residence amongst them but by their society and counsels. A few days since a 'simple country girl entered a haberdasher's shop in this city, and proceedting to the counter, asked, with the vulgar accent of the district to which she belonged—" Would :you, thin, Miss, have anything that would shoot a young, parson ?" The fair shopkeeper thus interrogated, looked exceedingly puzzled ; she thought at first, that the country lass bad mistaken the establishment for a gunmaker's shop, and uttered an exclamation of wonder at the question. However, an ex planation was speedily obtained, when it appeared that the rural fair" meant to ask for some article that would suit a young person.—Kilkenny Journal. During the whole of last week the Oxford-road between Newbury and Winchester was blocked up with snow, so as to be impassable by ordinary means ; and the only vehicle which reached the latter place by this rout was the hunt carriage of Colonel Hawker, well-known as an ac complished and intrepid sportsman, who, at the head of 12 men, cut his way across from his seat at Longparish to Winchester, and from thence passed on to the coast. Some of the principal cafes in Paris have just changed owners. The price for which they have been sold will give an idea of the increased consequence acquired by this branch of business. The Cafe Vilette, at the corner of the rue Montmartre and the Boulevard, fetched 250,000 f. (10,0001.) ; the Cafe de la Rotunde, in the Palais Royal, 312,000 fr. (12,4800 ; and the Cafe de Foy, 525,000 fr. (21,000/.) The ordinary meeting of the Entomological Society was held on Monday evening, at its rooms in Bond-street, the Rev. F. W. Hope, F.R.S., President, in the chair. Mr. Raddon exhibited two varieties of insects obtained from gum anime, the sinapis and camma moth, the latter of which feeds npon turnips, and is one of the endless de stroyers with which that root is infected. He also explained the mode of cleaning insects procured from turpentine, by washing them in a strong solution of ammonia, or several times successively in spirits of wine ; and exhibited a col lection of insects from Africa preserved in a bottle of rum, which he recommended as an easy and expeditious plan for transmitting insects from abroad. The President also re marked on the ingenious suggestions of Mr. Raddon, of breeding eggs found in turpentine, by which the cabinets of entomologists were enriched with the choicest varieties of North American insects with very little trouble and ex pense. A communication was then read from Mr. Sells, on the economy and habits of the cteniza nidulas, a spider met with in the island of Jamaica, which excavates its nest in the earth, affording a most ingenious instance of insect architecture, valves being placed at the neck of the cells to prevent the access of water. The conclusion of a paper by Mr. Waterhouse, descriptive of a collection of insects from New South Wales, was also read, including an account of one analogous to the turnip fly of this country. Mr. West wood read a paper on caprification, or the practice of ripen ing figs in the West of Europe and the Levant. In their natural state the fruit, before maturity, is attacked by a gnat, which perforates the parenchyma, and either by the - access of atmospheric air or stimulating the former, causes it to ripen more quickly. As these insects do not naturally attack the cultivated fig, it is found necessary to bring into the plantations some branches of the wild fig, or some other tree to which they are attached ; and they are also aided by artificial punctions, made by an awl, the time for doing which is suggested by the experience of the peasants, who are very dexterous in the work. The meeting adjourned to January 23, when the anniversary will be held. ----- PRIZE CUP S.—Nen , and Second-hand SILVER PRIZE cups are offered at very Reduced Prices, and selection may be made from a great variety, both of Sizes and Patterns, at T. COX SAVORY'S, Goldsmith, and Watchmaker, 47, Cornhill, London. A Sheet of Drawings of Cups will be forwarded by post, as a single letter, in answer to a post-paid application. BIRTHS. On the 26th ult., at Redcastle, Lady Fraser, of a son. On the 3d inst., at Winchester, the wife of the Rev. Dr. Mo berly, of a son. On the 3d inst., at York -terrace, Regent's-park, the lady of the Baron da Torre de Moncorvo, late Portuguese Minister at this Court of a son. MARRIED. On the 4th inst., at St. Pancras new Church, the Rev. H. A. Manic, M. A., of Huntingdon, to Mary Jane, third daughter of W. H. Maule, Esq., of Regent-square. DIED. On the 4th inst , at Aldgale, after an illness of three days, sin. cerely regretted, Mrs. Edlin, aged 61. On the 4th inst., John de Grenier Fonblanque, Esq., of the Middle Temple, King's Counsel, aged 77. On the 2d inst., at Enfield, Jean, relict of the late Charles Pas ley, Esq., of London. On the 20th ult., at Edinburgh, the lady of Sir John Nasmyth, Bait., of Posso, Peebles-shire, and on the same day their second son, Stewart Nasmyth. On the 2d inst., at Allerton Hall, near Liverpool, Margaret, the wife of P. Ellames, Esq. On the 24th of November (old style), at Cronstadt, Geo. Carr, Esq., late agent of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Branch of the Bank of England, aged 77. On the let inst., at Tottenham, aged 86, Tabitha, relict of John Bevans, late of Plaistow, a member of the Society of Friends. On the Ist inst., at Kennington-green, Thos. Tawney, Esq. London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the county of 111idd1esex.—Thursday, January 5, 1837.