The Sun. — London, England, 1837-12-29 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. " There is not, perhaps," says Goldsmith, " a more whimsical figure than a man of real modesty who assumes an air of impudence ; but a man of real impudence who assumes an air of modesty, seems to us to the full as ridi culous, and such is precisely the case with the Times of yes terday. Speaking of the pending election petitions against Tory Members, it observes, with a laughable affectation of candour and impartiality," On the merits of these, or of any other individual cases, or batch of cases, we are not pre suming even to hazard an opinion : the Committee are the only lawful judges of those merits, and of the fitness of costs." How extraordinarily, how commendably diffident! " We are not presuming to offer an opinion !" Oh, by no means : " the Committee are the only lawful judges." To be sure they are, and we do not wonder that the Times should hold; them up as patterns of disinte rested purity ; especially as Members of all political par ties are agreed that a worse or a more corrupt tribu nal could hardly be invented by the wit of man. Election Committees are left to their merited fate, as un worthy to be preserved the moment another mode of de ciding controverted returns is discovered : therefore they find a fitting advocate in the Times—the honest, consist ent, pure, disinterested, and unbiassed Times, which will not " presume to offer an opinion" on the merits of the pe titions against the Tories, but will leave them to Commit tees as " the only lawful judges." What is this, but in other words to assert that the Tories (for of such the Committees will assuredly in most cases be formed) are " the only lawful judges" of the merits of Whig petitions complaining that Tories have usurped seats to which they have no right ? Surely we need not go over the giound again to shew in what way it is impossi ble that an Election Committee, as at present con stituted, should be impartial, setting aside its total incompetence from ignorance of the law which it professes to administer. The reason why it was thought in 1770 that this species of tribunal would be suliciently unbiassed was, not that the Members would be without predilections, hut that indepen dently of men of no p trty, of whom there were then many, a selection would be made of individuals representing the sentiments of every political party in the House of Com mons. Thus those who were 40posed to be upright would • be kept so by the equal pressure Of props on all sides, which, if the pressure were not equal, would throw them out of the , perpendicular. This wasthe reason why theoperation of the Grenville Act in former times was not so glaringly objec tionable ; but now that there are only two parties in the State, each party struggling to obtain a majority on the Committee, and one or the other inevitably succeeding, no body can be satisfied with such a notoriously defective tri• bunal. We do not care, as we have before remarked, whe ther the greater number of Committees have been of Whig or To , y inclinations : our objection is to the system, and can there be a stronger fact to establish the necessity of a change than this, that of twenty-one Com mittees appointed after the election of 1834-, ten decided in favour of the Whigs, and eleven in favour of the To ri.-s, preci e'y according as the majority of Members on each Committee was either Whig or Tory. Now, the Times knows, as well as we know, that with a little good m inagement (and the exc.:, Ilence of the Tories et all sorts o trickery is universally admitted) " Conservative" Com mittees, as our worthy Contemporary c-1:s them, may be uh taieed in nearly every case, and here we have the secret of 'she deference of the Times to those laalics as " the only law ful judges," and of its diffidence in "n it presuming even to hezard an opinion" on the merits of the petition; fil, d on the Libsral interest. The Committees, to lie sure, are such admirable, incur. uptible, and imp .rtiai tribunals, thet the Tones, with all its los e of virtue and ltete2sty, can Sind no fault with them. petitions, toe, arc not to be prejudged by it. No ; it will " not presume even to hatai;! an opinion" regarding them. But let the reader note the consistency of our excellent Contemporary ; he cannot be consistent for ten lines together ; for if he did not int, nd to prejudge the merits of the petitions presented by Liberals against Tories, what did he mean by tilkiae, of so: 11 , ' which had been prepared by " the wholesale contractor for the electioneering work got up by the Reform Club." and of others " which still keep their heads wave wale; ," and " arc under the conduct of the same coe:prehensiye practitioner" ? Why, what brazen impudence is ! The l' a e.s, forsooth, will not prejudge petitions. I I casan fo rap nd that it should " resume even to hazari an npLi.m . ' upon their merits and their chance of success ! although it must say that some which " have been abandoned" were pre pared " by the wholesale contractor for the electioneering work got up by the Reform Club," and that others " which still keep their heads above water, are under the conduct of the same comnreliensiv.3 practitioner." When Judge Jeffries was in the West of* England trying those who had been concerned in Monmouth's insurrection he char e ed the jury in one case in these terms :—" Gentlemen, I shall not presume to ha:zard an opinion as to your verdict ; but this I must say, that if you al.ow this rascal to escape, y ou will leave unhanged the greatest rebel in the whole kine dom." The Times not only imitates Jeffries, but actually uses his very words.--dlorning C'hronicle. It is melancho'y to reflect on the expedients to which party spirit will resort with the view of promoting party purposes. The Tines of yesterday, with its usual disre gard of facts, labours to make a handle, for Tory objects, of the non-settlement of the boundary line between the United States and Canada. It seeks to make the circumstance an agar tvation, in so far as this country is concerned, of the qaarr,l between the Canadians and the British settlers, — just as if the United States were to seize the opportunity presented by the existing disorganization of Canada, to en force the adjustment of the matter in dispute by an appeal to the bayonet, instead of by an amicable negotiation. There is not oa Y no truth in the representation given on this sub ject by the Tithes, but it is even destitute of probability; and what is more, the writer must know as well as we do, that such representation isneither based on truit nor probability. The wish is father to the. assertion he Makes. He converts his wishes into facts with a recklessness and vio lation of truth, for which the apostate print in which he lucubr.,tes, has, for the last three yours, possessed an un enviable notoriety. The United States, putting out of view its declared abhorrence of war, and the practical evidence it has of late years afforded of a disinclination to engage. if it can be helped, in hostilities with any other power, can have no conceivable motive for the course which the Times represents it as having in its contemplation to pursue. Has it not an abundance of territory already ? Has it not more territory than it has yet been able to turn to that profitable account to which it doubtless will, in the course of time, be in a condition to turn it ? But this is not all. Not only would the United States gain no positive adiantage from an accession of territory in the quarter to which the Times points—even assuming that its appeal to arms would be crowned with suc cess—but it would be a loser to a very great extent by any hostile demonstration against this country. The ne cessa .y result of any interruption of the friendly relations which now happily subsist between the two countries, would be most injurious to the commerce of the United States; and its Legislature are too well aware of this, and have too much sense to make so great a sacrifice in the effort to gain so trifling a prize. But even were the Government of the United States, or that of this country, so self-willed, as to contemplate engaging in a war for so trifling a stake, the great commercial communities of both countries would at once frustrate their intentions. The people, both of Great Britain and of the United States, are duly alive to the vast importance, in a commercial point of view, of perpetuating the friendly understanding which now subsists between the two countries ; and in this .knowledge.of their mutual true interests, we have an un doubted guarantee for the preservation of peace.—Morn ing Advertiser. The London Ministerial papers have, within a day or two, given circulation to a plausible and pernicious docu ment, the authorship of which they assign, upon rumour, to Dr. Lingard. We have no doubt the rumour is a correct one, as the Doctor is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastic who has sufficient confidence in his literary ability to venture upon the public discussion of matters political ; and the document in question is just such as might be expected from a clever and unscrupulous man whose aim is to weaken the defences of Protestant Government in Great Britain. The document is in the form of a letter to the Lord Chancellor remonstrating against the solemn de claration made by her Majesty at the opening of the Parliament. It much offends the Romish Doctor that, in these days of political " liberality," when so many of the principles of the Whigs of 1688 are practically re garded as obsolete prejudices, the Sovereig n of the British realms should still make a solemn " decaration against Popery" before the assembled Parliament. We are not surprised that the political sensibilities of the Romish Doctor should be roused at this, and, without any dis position to give needless offence, we will add that we are not sorry there still remains in the practice of the Con sitution this opposing thorn in the way of Romish encroach ment. The Rev. and Romish Doctor—if it be indeed -.true, as the Ministerial papers hint, that Dr. Lingard is the aothor of this letter to the Lord Chancellor—thinks it not only hard, but most unreasonable that our Sovereign should " condemn in the most solemn manner the worship and pr,vtices of the greatest body of Christians in the world." This hoast of the largeness of their numbers is never °mitt( 'Si by Romish advocates, when an opportunity offers for int' educing it ; but we need hardly say in reply that the vastness of number by which error is professed, makes the error none the less, though it irak the consequences thereof snore grievous. Nor is there any arguntentanz ad verecun diam in than fact of the largeness of the number of those who profeee the: Romish doctrine, for the M 333 is an ignorant mass. In Frarlee, the religion of the people is for the most part a mer e ceremony, and though the Church of Rome may still, for the sake of policy, enumerate the French people among her children, they are most assuredly not of the faithful, and care equally little for Pope.or Presbytery, ex cept that the former is more given to gorgeous shows, of which they are fond. In Italy and Ireland, where the mass of the people are true and zealous members of the Romish Church, they are so exceedingly ignorant, that no respect is due to the judgment of the multitude, however great. On the contrary, we find that in Protestant countries, and in the Protestant parts of Roman Catholic countries, the people are generally well-instructed and intelligent. We maintain, therefore, that there is no such monstrous pre sumption in denouncing the superstitions of Popery with reference to the numbers who profess Popery. The Romish Doctor argues that it was " cruel and inde corous to e.ract from the Queen such a declaration and condemnation" as that which her Majesty made at . the opening of Parliament. The Doctor puts forth all his powers of plausibility upon this occasion. " Cer tainly," lie says, " it will not be denied, that before a man may safely and consistently affix the stigma of superstition and idolatry on any church, it is incumbent on him to make the doctrine and worship of that church the subject of his study ; to be satisfied that he understands them correctly, and to weigh with impartiality the texts and arguments by which they may be assailed and defended. But who can expect this from a woman of eighteen ?" May we not exclaim in our turn, " But who could expect this doctrine from an ecclesiastic of the ever-intolerant, ever persecuting Church of Rome ?" Is it not certain that even in the catechisms, out of which children are instructed in the first rudiments of religious doctrine, as maintained by the Romish Church, they are made to "declare" that those who are not of the Romish Church are heretics, and cannot be saved? Whether is it more monstrous to declarethe doctrines and practicesof a Church to besuperstitious and idolatrous, or to proclaim that all beyond the pale of that Church are heretics who are odious in the sight of God, and ought to be odious in the sight of man ? Dr. Lingard thinks he may safely declaim against all who affix a stigma upon a Church, because he and his sect acknowledge no Church but their own ; they indeed denounce heretics, but accord ing to their way of stating it, they say nothing against any Church. They pretend that it is most uncaritable to impute superstition, because they never impute that them selves as a fault ; but do they not impute something worse ? Let it be granted, however, that though it should stop the mouth of Dr. Lingard, it is no general answer to a charge of cruelty and ind'corum that the Romanists are more cruel and more indecorous. We deny that the declaration of her Majesty can justly be described as cruel or indecorous. As for the argument that the declaration must have been made without sufficient knowledge, we answer, that it is in the nature of an assent to that which has been determined by the know ledge of others, and neither does, nor is understood to intimate a deduction from such examination us that which the plausible doctor describes. The " declaration" is not to be held cruel or indecorous, because it is a measure of security for the Protestants of Great Britain that their Sovereign shall be Protestant. If an ePctual security could be obtained without including a condemnation of the Romish Church, it would, doubtless, be better ; but the most recent experience proves that, as yet, so other effectual security has been devised. We have seen, from the example of the oaths of Ro man Catholics on taking their seats in Parliament, and their conduct subsequently, that any declara tion of forbearance with respect to Protestantism is ca pable of being es ailed. So long as the British nation is determited to have none but a Protestant Sovereign on the throne, it does not appear th :t there is any Cffeellal secerity for this being so, except the exacting of a decla ration atra:est Popery. Tie Church will not excuse that contempt for its authority ; but anything short of that it will arrange for its ultimate advantage.—Mornireg Herald. Error in politics—or what we conceive to be error—we oppose with the best arguments we can, drawn either im mediately from considerations of what is most conducive to the happiness and nobleness of mankind, or immediately from considerations of what is due to the institutions which reason and experience prove to be worthy of support. But they who discuss political matters es they arise in the daily business of the world have frequently to deal with something much worse and more disagreeable than political error. We incan the creeping baseness and the low hypo crisy of those who go wrong lirom no error in political opi nion, but epou the miserable caLsideration of personal or factious edvaneere. Tilere are men who, while holding a certain position front an i tea held somewhere, and fostered by themselves, that they are devoted to certain political principles, do, nevertheless, show by their conduct that in reality and truth they care not me straw for these principles, but pursue only an advantage which has nothing to do with priticiple. It is our opinion that against such men as these —against such trucklers and traffickers in politics—it is right that sincere min of all sides should unite. We would have these creatures hunted from the political field to the obscure haunts which nature has prepared for such vermin, which only disgrace an honourable striving after political good. Our genuine political opponents we regard not as opponents at all, but as assistants, while they are maintaining the cause of sincerity and disinterested ness in political conduct. We readily postpone the battle while the pilferers of the camp, with no soul for honest fight, are receiving the scourging which is their due. These being our sentiments, we rejoice to avail ourselves of the assistance which our out-and-out Radical Contem porary the Spectator every now and then gives in expos ing the dishonest crew who work—not for that which politicians ought to work for—but for advantage to them selves. We hold our Contemporary to be not only wrong' but most perniciously wrong, in the political prin ciples which he strenuously advocates ; but as we believe him to be sincere, we respect the devotedness with which he labours, and as we know him to be vigilant in the exposure of pseudo-Radical subserviency, we thank him for his open exhibition of their meanness and their per fidy. Tice public are aware that though the political tone of the present Ministry has been, since the commencement of the Session, that of marked hostility to the English Radicals—and though it has been in this respect exactly the opposite of that which was maintained at the late elec tions, and expected by the Radicals to be maintained in Parliament at the meeting—yet but a very few Radicals have been honest enough to express openly and manfully their disappointment, and to act upon it in their public conduct. Instead of doing this, they have gone about whining and whimpering, and trumping up the lamest ex cuses for the Ministerial language, which, out of fear of their -constituents, they dare not to defend. While they pretend to Radical principles, and by this means get seats in Parliament from Radically dis posed constituencies, they in reality want nothing but Ministerial favour for themselves, and thereupon they become the apologists of the Ministers who find it for the present their interest to treat Radical prin ciples with contempt. The Ministers do this because they are sure of their men. Their object is to conciliate the Conservatives, who are strong, and as for the pseudo Radi cals, they know they may treat them as Spaniel dogs are treated. The Minister " may trample upon them, and again show them a piece of bread, and pat them, so that they come frisking to him." Of these pseudo Radicals perhaps the most conspicuously nauseous is Mr. Ward, the Member for Sheffield, and accordingly the Spectator takes him in hand for his apology for Lord John Russell and the Cabinet at the Sheffield Reform meeting, and flays him to the very bone. Mr. Ward wishes to represent that the contempt cast upon Radical nostrums on the first night of the Session was merely the result of some strong feeling of the moment, and that Lord John Russell was not declaring the deliberate judgment of the Cabinet. After showing, from an enumeration of authentic and notorious facts, that it is " no better than infantile credulity to imagine that the Ministers as a body did not concur with Lord John Rus sell," the organ of the genuine Radicals proceeds thus to dispose of the pseudo Radicals who are the supporters of the Ministry that has disowned them : " For the mere declaration of Lord John Russell, however tardy, the Ministers shall not be blamed by us. Their pre vious mystification of the Radicals was treacherous ; their avowal on the first eight of the session was sincere. Yet much Radical wrath was excited by the unwelcome announce ment that it is not on matters of detail, or questions of expe diency, but on principle, that the Whigs and Radicals differ. The inference from this vexation is that they only want a pre text for truckling—that if the,Whigs would have allowed them —if Lord John Russell had kept up the delusion—the pseudo- Radicals in the House of Commons were ready to follow him hoodwinked through another Parliament. But it no longer answered the ends of the Ministers to keep up appearances with their Radical allies. Having determined to look to the Tories, and stick to the landed interest, the aid of the repre sentatives of large towns became unnecessary and undesirable, at the expense of offending the aristocracy and the squires. Even the pension inquiry, which was extolled as a proof that the Whigs were yet better than the Tories, turns out to be a cheat—a bubble that has burst already." This is a good picture of the Ministers and their men of all work, the pseudo Radicals. As for the Tories, we would have them remember that as Lord John Russell never thought of expressing any partiality for the landed interest till he quaked for fear that he would be beaten in the House of Commons by that interest, so, if any change take place to make the town interest the strongest in the House of Commons, Lord John will not think of that which he now very conveniently, but rather surprisingly, discovers to have been the intention of the Reform Bill. The Conservatives who depend in the slightest degree upon the newly-found moderation of the Whig Ministers are men whom experience cannot teach. These Ministers have proved themselves to be thoroughly unprincipled, and no man who makes principle and common sense his guides will trust them. As for the spaniel Radicals, who lick the hand that patted them last Session, and spurned them this—and that out of no change of opinion, but a change of interest merely—we leave them to the honest scorn of all manly uninds.—illorning Post. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1837. ST. PANCRAS LITERARY AND SCI- ENTIFIC INSTITUTION. The above Society, which, though it has been esta blished not more than eight months, already numbers nearly two hundred subscribers, held their first conver zazione at their rooms in Fitzroy-street, New-road, last Wednesday evening. The entertainments were of that va ried character, blending instruction with amusement, which should always be characteristic of meetings of this kind. The walls were decorated with many excellent pictures, consisting of the works of West, Opie, &c. We also no ticed several of great merit by living artists. One by Gregg, of Sir Walter Scott, attracted considerable notice, from its resemblance to, and embodying all that intellectual vigour of expression, so peculiar to the bard of the North. Also one by Buss, called the Drum-head Courtmartial, was much admired, as exhibiting that real humour so con spicuous in all his paintings. The tables were furnished with a collection of curiosities, several remains of art from Herculaneum, various petrifactions, fossils, &c. Mr. Clax ton exhibited many amusing experiments with the air-pump which, with the different models of machinery constructed by him, formed an inexhaustible fund of amusement. The vocal and instrumental music was of that character which would not have disgraced a concert of much higher preten sions. The comic singing of Mr. Balls kept the risible muscles of the audience in play. In the course of the even ing Dr. Thompson, the President of the Institution, ad• dressed the members and visitors, congratulating the former on the prosperous state of the Institution, and recommen ding as many of the latter as could make it convenient to join it without delay ; as, by the expenditure of a few shil lings per annum, they could avail themselves of instruction superior to what formerly was exclusively enjoyed by those only in an elevated station of society. The company, after (strictly speaking)" enjoying the feast of reason and the flow of soul," separated with (no doubt from the gratifica tion expressed by all parties) a wish that a similar meeting might soon recur. TREATY BETWEEN SPAIN AND MEXICO. (From the Eco del Commercio, published at Madrid, Dec. S.) " In the name of the Holy Trinity, her Catholic Ma jesty, Isabella 11., be the grace of God and by the consti tution of the Spanish Monarchy, Queen of the Spail:s, and during her minority, the Queen widow Donna Maria Chris tina de Bourbon, her august mother, governing• the king• dom on the one part, and on the other the Mexican Re public, desiring earnestly to put an end to the state of separation and differences which have existed between the two Governments and between the subjects and citizens of the two countries, and to bury in perpetual oblivion the disputes and dissentious by which unfortunately for so long a time past, those friendly relations have been inter rupted between two nations naturally connected by old bonds of union, identity of origin, and by reciprocal interests, have resolved for their common benefit to re-establish and permanently secure their relations by means of a definitive treaty of peace and sincere friendship. " For which purpose they have named and constituted as their Plenipotentiaries—her Catholic Majesty, and in her name, the Queen governing, the Most Excellent Senor Don Jose Maria Calatrava, he r Secretary of State and President of the Council of Ministers ; and his Excellency the President of the Mexican Republic, his Excellency Don Miguel Santa Maria, his Plenipotentiary at the Court of London, and Envoy Extraordinary to her Catholic Ma jesty ; who having communicated their full powers, found in due form, have agreed on the following articles, viz. " Art. 1. Her Majesty the Queen governing the Spains in the name of her august daughter Isabella 117, reewnizes as a free, sovereign, and independent nation the Mexican Republic, composed of the states and countries set forth in its constitutional law—viz., the territory comprised in the viceroyalty formerly called New Spain, the captain generalship of Yucatan, the commandancies of the internal provinces to the east and west, of Upper and Lower Ca hfornia, and of all the districts and adjacent islands in both seas, of which the said republic is actually in possession ; and her M jesty renounces, as well for herself as for her heirs and successors, all pretensions to the government, pro perty, and territorial rights over the said states and countries. " Art. 2. There shall be perpetual oblivion of the past, arid a general and complete amnesty for all Spaniards and Mexicans, without any exception, who may be banished, absent, or hidden, or who may have been taken or confined without knowledge of the respective Governments, what ever part they may have taken during the wars and disi,en skins happily teemined by this treaty, and up to the time of its ratification. " And this amnesty is stipulated for, and is to be granted by, her Catholic Majesty, in proof of the desire to cement, on principles of justice and beneficence, the close friend ship, peace, and union which henceforth and for ever are to Le maintained between her subjects and the citizens of the Mexican Republic. " Art. 3. Her Catholic Majesty and the Mexican Re public agree that the subjects and citizens of the two na tions respectively shall preserve their entire and free right to claim and obtain justice and full satisfaction for all debts bona fide contracted between them, and that on the part of the public authorities there shall be no legal obstacle op posed to any claims they may set up, whether arising from marriage inheritances by will or bequest, succession, or any other titles to property recognized by the laws of the country in :which the claims may be made. Art. 4. The high contracting parties also agree to pro ceed with all possible despatch to adjust and conclude a treaty of commerce and navigation, founded on principles of teciprocal advantage to both countries. " Art. 5. The subjects of her Catholic Majesty and the citizens of the Mexican Republic shall be considered, in re spect to duties payable on produce, effects, or goods, which they may import or export in the territories of the high con tracting parties under their respective flags, as the people of the most favoured nation, except in such cases in which for their mutual advantage they may agree on reciprocal con cessions for the benefit of both countries. " Art. 6. The merchants and subjects of her Catholic Majesty, or the citizens of the Mexican Republic, who may reside in, trade with, or pass through any part of the ter ritories of either nation respectively, shall enjoy the most perfect security for their persons and property, and shall be exempt from all forced service in the army, navy, or national militia, and from all charges, contributions, or loans not paid by the subjects or citizens of the country in which they may be residing ; and as well in the distribution of all contributions, loans, and other charges, as in the protection and free exercise of their industry, and in the administra tion of justice, they shall be considered in the same man ner as the natives, subject always to the laws, regulations, and customs of the two countries respectively. " Art. 7. The Mexican Republic having, by a law passed on the 28th of June, 1824, by its General Congress, recog nised voluntarily and spontaneously as its own national debt all obligations contracted on its revenue by the Government of Spain and by its authorities during , their rule over the now independent Mexican nation, up to the cessation of that rule in 1821, and there.being in the said Republic no confiscation of property belonging to Spanish subjects, her Catholic Majesty, for herself and her heirs and successors, and the Mexican Republic, by common accord, desist from all claim or pretension respectively which might arise on the said points, and declare that both the high contracting parties are henceforward free and quit forever of all re sponsibility on this subject. " Art. 8. The present treaty of peace and friendship shall be ratified by both Governments, and the ratifications exchanged at Madrid within nine months from the pre sent date, or sooner if possible, for which all diligence shall be used. " In faith of which we, the undersigned Plenipotentia ries, have signed and sealed this treaty in triplicate, at Madrid, this 28th of December, 1836. JOSE MARIA CALATRAVA. " IVIIGUEL SANTA MARIA " The above treaty has been duly ratified by the high contracting parties, and the ratifications exchanged.... THE LONDON PARKS.—Who can estimate the blessings to London—who can calculate the bodily refresh ment, the animal enjoyment, the moral good, of which they have been, and will be, productive ? Suppose a case : You are elbowing your way up the Strand on a summer's after noon, through the dense crowd which daily throng that won drous thoroughfare ; the counter-currents of traffic are cross ing each other, and mingling in all directions, and you are un ceasingly whirled about in their strong and uncomfortable eddies ; the rolling of carriages, the rumbling of waggons, the rattling of cabs and omnibuses, the cries of business, the the oaths of blackguardism are in your cars—your eyes are blinded with glare and dust ; you feel hot, faint, feverish, weary, and a tavern suggests itself as a resting-place ; but the Park comes across your mind ; you make a vigorous push to the other side of Charing-cross, take the first turn, and in five minutes you lie stretched luxuriously on the cool green sward close cut and smooth as velvet—by the margin of a beautiful sheet of water, and with a noble oak or elm throwing its leafy branches protectingly over you ! Here is a goodly change Before you floats the stately swan—" the lady of the lake"_. in all the pride of conscious beauty ; while troops of waterfowl of less dignified demeanour crowd towards the verdant banks, to be fed with crumbs by the good-natured idlers loitering thereon, or get up pressure excursions, and visit the tiny islands with whicla the lakelet is studded. Around you aro shady alleys, avenues of noble trees, winding walks, plots of flowery shrubs and evergreens, and all the accessories which art affords " to great creating natur e ;" w hil e among th ese pleasant scenes, relieving and enlivening them, is heard the merry laugh and seen the play ful gambols of troops of happy healthy children. And all this is your's, or any man's, for as long or as often as you have leisure or inclination. These be your grounds—your walks—your shady recesses, without cost and without care. All that is required of you is to refrain from the indulgence of that very English propensity, to wit, in juring the shrubs, or carving your initials on the trunks of trees.--New York Mirror, HOW A ROGUISH HUSBAND BURNT HIS FINGERS. The Northampton (Masiachussetts) Courier of Wed nesday furnishes a very amusing account of a recent trans action in that village, involving several families residing in Northampton County; in which the matrimonial tide did not flow exactly with streamlike smoothness. The deve lopement of the facts was produced last week before the Court of Common Pleas, on the trial of James Pelton for an attempt to extort money from one Lyman Thayer, of Pittsfield. It appeared in the course of the legal investiga tion, that Thayer, having become tired of matrimonial servi tude, was casting about to find some one of the softer sex who was in an equally bad box. In an evil hour he learned that the "better half" of Osman Pelton of North ampton had found the hymeneal yoke somewhat galling, and would gladly back out of it. Well, Thayer, a sort of gay deceiver among the women, anxious to learn the exact bearing of Mrs. Pelton's mind, and whether she would like to leave her " bed and board" and cleave to him, dropped her ladyship a letter. This letter, it seems, fell into the hands of her husband's brother, James Pelton, who, in con junction with Captain Timothy Mather, cooked up a dish by which they intended to fleece Thayar out of some money. These two individuals, it appears, opened subsequently a cor respondence with Thayer, assuming the character and name of Mrs. Osman Pelton, and finally, after settling prelimina ries, an interview between them was decided to be held at Williamsburg. Thayer was punctually there at the appoin ted time and place, but not finding his lady love, he kept on to Northampton. He must needs pass the house where she resides, but he could'nt resist dropping in a moment, as he said, when cornered up by the counsel for Pelton, merely for " auld acquaintance sake." Well, after a little social chat with Mrs. Pelton, Thayer drove into the village. put up at the American Hotel, and when about to sally forth,. he was met by Mativr and Felton, who had scented his arrival. They accosted him with perfect apparent friend ship, and at their request he stepped with them into a private room. " Mr. Thayer," said Mr. Pelton, as he cloned the door and placed the key in his pocket, " you have done me a deep injury [hem] ; you have committed a state prison offence [hem !] and -- you, if you don't settle the matter, I shall send you there ;" and forthwith Felton produced the correspondence of Thayer with Mrs. Osman Pelton, whom he called his wife ! Thayer shook like an aspen leaf, and could hardly articulate, and as the injured Pelton poured forth his indignant feelings in successive " blasts," and his wounded affections flashed out like the sparks from his own anvil, our gay Lothario began to think he had " waked up the wrong passenger." A long scene of Yankee bargaining in relation to the satisfaction money succeeded, which re sulted in Thayer's giving the pretended injured husband of Mrs. Osman Pelton a note for 200 dollars and his watch. To finish up the matter and prevent suspicion, a receipt was given Thayer by James, who affected to be Osman Pelton, for ever exculpating him from further charges or danger of prosecution for having wounded him in his body and estate, in attempting to induce his wife to leave her household gods, thus injuring him in his tender affections ! Thayer, it may well be supposed, was glad to escape with a whole skin and a sound head, and after he had got liberated from his warm bath, he fled precipitately from Northamp ton. In the sequel the affair leaked out, but Thayer was ignorant of the joke, until Pelton was arraigned for some other act of dishonesty, when the whole subject was brought up for legal investigation. The jury found Pelton guilty of an attempt to extort money from Thayer under false pretences, but the case was carried up to a higher court for decision. The ‘s hole affair is an admonitory lesson to dissatisfied married g;:iitkinen !—Netv York Sun. SINGULAR PLEA. The following curious case came, last week, before the Court of Assizes at Beauvais. M. d'Amour, a native of Paris, long known as being in the habit of teach ing at schools in the vicinity, in October, 1836, went to Noyon with his wire, for the purpose of purchasing the geodwill of a ladies' school there, and of s .ttlilig themselves in that place. It is requisite in France that schoolmasters and schoolmistresses should pros ide them selves with certificates of competency to instruct (a good custom, which it would nut be amiss to transfer from France to England), and Madame d'Amour found it necessary to obtain one ; but being conscious of 11.7 r want of capaeii y, she was nfraid to present her self before the Board of Ex ;miners, and consequently in duced her husband to dress in female attire and appear as Madame d'Amour, which he did on the 3d of last March. Tire Board of Examiners did not see through the imposi tion. They received Madame d'Amour with true Univer sity courtesy, and Madame went through the ordeal in so brilliant a manner, that as an act of justice as well as cour tesy, the Board of Examiners passed a special resolution for making honourable mention of her unusual proficiency in the report of their proceedings. The certificate, more over, which was granted on the score of so triumph ant an examination, produced immediately after, from the Academy of Amiens, the presentation of a brevet de capacite of the first degree—only granted to the most eminent in the scho lastic profession. But luck too often creates; presurnp fon. D'Amour had the imprudence to write and sign a letter of acknowledgment in the name of his wife. The neatness and firmness of the characters caused suspicion as to the authorship. Madame D'Amour was politely re quested by the Board to copy her letter, and it was then made sufficiently manifest by the comparison of the writing, that the first letter had not been written by hcr. Mr. D'Amour was in consequence indicted before the Assizes of Beauvais, on a charge of fraud. M. D'Amour, upon being called upon to explain the transac tion, without hesitation, took upon himself to defend it. This defence was remarkable. He confessed every thing ; but he maintained that be and his wife being one person, he had the legal right to act both for end as his wife if he pleased. "To have been rejected," said he, " would have been the ruin of both of us. I felt persuaded of a bad result if she attempted an examination. On the contrary, I was certain of success if I underwent it myself. I consi dered it a matter of life and death to act as I did ; and more over I had legal warrant for it in the ecclesiastical canon, that a man and his wife are one and the same person." A short investigation followed on the part of the Bench and the Jury as to the moral character and reputation of the accused, which proved to be entirely in their favour. M. Dupont, the Procureur du Roi, opened the proceedings on behalf of the prosecution ; and then the counsel for the de fendant, M. Leroux, addressed the Court for the defence, in which he developed the singular plea of matrimonial unity maintained by his client with so much adroiteess, and urged the mitigating circumstances with so much ability that the defence was completely triumphant, and the Jury unanimously acquitted the prisoner, amidst the acclama tions of the audience. A PARISIAN ADVENTURE. (From the Gazette des Tribunaux.) Boulanger, an honest country farmer from Normandy, was not long since robbed of a thousand francs, in what the French journalists call the American fashion. It is the same as the well-known trick played here upon countrymen, by means of substituting farthings for sovereigns in the fob of the dupe, who is recommended by an apparently simple countryman, like himself, to take the precaution, in order to secure his property from the rogues of Paris. A few days since he met in Paris with a similar swindler, who had duped him oat of Lis property, and being a powerful man, he Immediately seized him by the collar, and dragged him, in spite of his resistance, before M. Monier, the Chief Commissioner of Police for the district. He exhibited great penitence and sorrow on his examination, and on being required to state his name, refused, alleging that he was connected with a distinguished family, which he did not wish to disgrace by the avowal of his bad conduct ; he told the Commissioner, however, he had no objection to give him Lis name privately. M. Monier, thrown off his guard by the penitence of the culprit, assented to the pro priety of the plea, and ordered him to be temporarily con veyed back to the Parisian House of Correction, under the guard of a police constable. On ascending the steps of the coach that was to convey him back, he suddenly turned round, knocked down the constable, and made his escape. The constable, as soon as he recovered from the blow, got up and pursued the fugitive. At last, after a l ong c h ase , he overtook him, Just as he was darting up a narrow stair case in the Rue Amelot. There a new struggle between the officer and fugitive ensued. The officer brought him down with a cut of his sabre on the side of the head, but he again escaped, and it was not until he severed the ten dons of his leg by another cut, that he was enabled to cap ture his evasive prisoner. Being re-conducted before M. lionier, his committal was made out ; but in conse quence of his severe wounds he was sent to the hospital of the prison. Ile had not been there long, however, before he contrived to change his dress for that of a guyan de cuisine in the hospital, and by the aid of that, be contrived to make his escape, and has not yet been re-captured. VALUABLE RELICS.—There are no less than 300 persons in England who boast themselves to be the pos sessors of the identical pen with which, in 1814, Napoleon signed his first act of abdication. Each of these 300 virtuosi has a written certificate from the Castellan of Fontainbleau that his and no other is the goose-quill with which Napoleon made the most irnpor ant scratch of his whole lire. These 300 Englishmen are like the three sons in Lessing's " Na than the Wise," each thinks he has the genuine talisman, and each is equally deceived. The Cmtellun of Fontainbleau, an invalid of the. Old Guard, religiously preserves the real pen of abdication as a relic of his Emperor; but he has sold for good round sums to the curiosity-craving islanders the old stumps with which his wife registers the names of all the silly gulls who endeavour, under the rose, to persnade him to part' with the memorable pen. WESTMIN STER SESSIONS. These Sessions commenced yesterday morning before Mr. Ballantyne (who officiated as Chairman) and a full bench of Magistrates. The calendar is a very light one, there being only 20 prisoners for trial, most of whom are charged with petty larcenies only. Eliza Cuff, whose case has before appeared in our columns, was indicted for stealing twelve yards of ribbon and a quantity of needles, value 45., the property of Joseph Raillon. She was convicted and sentenced to one months' imprisonment. An old woman named Lee was convicted of stealing three publicans' pewter pots, which had been left outside their customers' doors, until their pot-boys called for them. The Jury censured the conduct of servants in placing pewter pots outside the doors of their masters' houses until called for, as throwing a temptation in the way of poor per sons, which they often found it impossible to resist. This communication gave rise to a long discussion among the Magistrates, many of whore, although they acquitted the publicans of all blame, yet said that something must be done to put a stop to so reprehensible a practice. James Wilson was convicted of stealing a leg of mutton from a butcher's shop. He was seen take it, and an alarm being given, was pursued and taken into custody. He threw away the mutton in his flight. The policeman who apprehended him took a bag from under his arm, in which was a fine sirloin of beef, no doubt the produce of a similar visit to some other butcher. On searching him, ls. 9d. was found in his pocket. The Court sentenced him to three months' imprisonment in the House of Correction. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. HATTON GARDEN. Yesterday James Cameron, aged 19, was placed at the bar, charged by Thomas Croxford, aged 15, with having robbed him of 51. 6d. The prosecutor, on Tuesday night last, was with the prisoner when he fell down in the street, and the prisoner, on lifting him up, put his hand into his waistcoat-pocket and stole ss. 6d. Prisoner (blubbering)—The prisoner was dead drunk and I carried him home, but I did not rob him. A working man said—Will your Worship allow me to speak, and perhaps I may explain the business. Mr. LA nia—Pray who are you ? Answer (pointing at the prosecutor)—l am the father of that young scoun drel (emphatically)—there's not a greater scoundrel in all London. Mr. LAING directed that he should be sworn, when he gave his name James Croxford, brazier, No. 3, Chapel street, Clerkenwell. " Your Worship," he said, " this fel low has formed a connection with a gang of young ruffians, and he is constantly getting drunk. On Tuesday night last he was brought home in a beastly state of intoxication, when I was obliged to strip him and put him to bed. lam satisfied that he was not robbed of the money, and that the prisoner is innocent. He gave him in charge without con sulting me, and I think, as his father, he ought to have done so. Mr. LAlNG—Certainly, he had a right to do so. Father (considerably excited, and making a blow at his son with his clenched fist)—The drunken scoundrel, he is not to be believed upon his oath. I have a great mind to give it him—get out, you scoundrel. The son smiled, and was not at all affected. Mr. LAING—Don't commit any violence here, but exer cise your controul over him elsewhere. Father (pulling a strap out of his bat)—Will I not ? I have used this and a bit of rope to no purpose ; but be shall have it again. Why, he charged a boy once before with robbing him, and he was quite innocent. Mr. LAING conceived that such a fellow was not to be believed, and, after a severe reprimand, he discharged the prisoner. The father, with violence of gesture and tone, ordered the son out of Court, on which he aimed a blow at him, and sw, re that he would serve him out when he got home. Mr. LATNG smiled, and said there was no doubt, judging from the father's manner, that he would get a severe thrash ing when he got home. William Skeg and:James Parry, two drovers, were placed at the bar, charged with having caused the 'death of Benja min Lawrence, in a pitched battle. On Wednesday last the deceased and the prioners met at a public-house called the White Lion, at Holloway, when a quarrel took place between the deceased and the prisoner Skeg, and they agreed to settle the difference by a pitched battle, and they proceeded to a neighbouring field for that purpose. They fought several rounds, in which some heavy blows occurred, and eventually the deceased fell down in a state of insensibility, and on examination he was found to be . quite dead. He was an ostler, at Holloway. James Lawrence,. brother of the deceased, proved that the deceased and Skeg fought together, when the former fell down to rise no more. Witness endeavoured to part them and reconcile the matter ; but they were obstinate, and would fight. Mr. LAING inquired what part the prisoner Parry took in the transaction P—Witness—picked the deceased up. Mr. LAING asked whether Parry acted as second on the occasion ? Witness—He did not ;he merely lifted the deceased up after he fell, and rendered him every assistance. Mr. LAING would discharge him ; but remanded Skeg until Monday next, for the result of the Coroner's Inquest : and he ordered the officers to produce all possible evidence by that day. A young man was charged by Kirkman, waiter at Tom Spring's, the pugilist, of the Castle Tavern, Holborn, with having robbed him of 15/., &c. The prosecutor had amassed the property through the medium of his attention and industry, and he deposited it in a box at the upper part of the house, when some person entered the apartment by getting on the roof of the house. The prisoner, who was in the habit of visiting a public-house close by, was suspected, and given into custody. The prisoner had been twice re manded. Spring said that every effort had been made to trace the property without success, and the prisoner was discharged. MARLBORO UGH-STREET. John Sheath, a carman, in the employ of Messrs. Wheat croft and Co., Paddington Wharf, was brought before Mr. CUAMBERS, charged with having caused the death of Mary Stock. The evidence, however, clearly established that the melancholy event was the result of accident. The man was remanded until the Coroner's inquiry has been made. QUEEN-S QUA RE. J. Andrews, a private in the 3d Regiment of Guards, and Anne Andrews, alias Mary Freeman, were charged with stealing a quantity of wearing apparel, value 2/. Mary Carter, of No. 6, Castle-lane, Westminster, de posed that the female prisoner resided with her, and was in the habit of bringing home the prisoner James Andrews. Prosecutrix obtained her living by washing at the present time, though she had formerly been an unfortunate girl, as was the female prisoner, whom she had allowed to share her apartment through charity. On Tuesday se'nnight prose cutrix was obliged to sleep from home, and previous to her doing so she informed both the prisoners who were then in her apartment, of her intention. On her return home the next evening she found both the prisoners had decamped, taking with them the whole of her clothes, which she had left locked up in a box. On her discovering her loss, :pro secutrix gave information to the police : but though the prisoners had been taken, very little of her property had been recovered, and she was consequently left nearly destitute. Mr. GREGORY said that this was a most cruel case. A poor woman had, in the kindness of her heart, afforded re fuge to her former companion in crime and misery, and had reposed confidence in Ler, which she had most treache rously,abused by robbing her of all the little property in her possession. He did not see sufficient proof against the prisoner James. Andrews, but the female prisoner he com mitted for trial. LAMBE7'II- STREET. Yesterday Joseph Haward, George Penn, George Estill, and Mary Ann Jones, who have been in custody for sonic weeks past on a charge of uttering several notes of five and ten pounds each, forgeries on the Bank of England, were brought before Mr. HARDWICK for final examination. After hearing evidence, Mr. HARDWICK, under all the circumstances, consented to the discharge of Estill, and gave him a severe caution as to his future conduct. The other three prisoners were fully committed to New gate, to take their trials at the ensuing Session at the Cen tral Criminal Court, on the charge of forgery. UNION-HALL. Yesterday William Wilks, the driver of a cabriolet, was brought before Mr. JEREMY, charged with assaulting and robbing Mr. James Adams, of Russell-place, Bloomsbury square. The prisoner was remanded until his associate is taken into custody. TV OR SHIP-STREET, Yesterday, Wm. Hornsby, a silk-mercer in the employ of Messrs. Brydges and Campbell, silk - manufacturers, Friday street, was placed at the bar before Mr. CODD and Mr. GIBSON, a county magistrate, charged with stealing nearly 30 yards of valvet, valued at about 201. Th e prisoner brought some persons who were with him yesterday, and several persons came forward who gave the prisoner a good character ; but the Magistrates thougl.t there was sufficient to have another exa►nination, and he was remanded till that day week. - THAMES OFFICE. Yesterday, Samuel Buck, a tall young man, and Ebe nezer Andrews, a youth, were brought before Mr. BAL LAN TINE and Mr. BRODERIP, on a charge of committing a most unprovoked and savage assault on a boy nainea John Thompson, and breaking his left arm. The Magistrates should•not treat such a case summarily as it would be a mockery to fine two drunken ruffians only 5/. each. They felt it their duty to send the case to the Sessions. RUNAWAY DEBTORS. ,aeb. firm of Worthington and Coltman, drapers of Sto ck p ort, In August last Joseph Coltman, a linen-draper , of the absconded from England with about 900/. worth of pro perty belonging to his creditors. The inquiries which were made into the circumstances of his disappearance led to the conviction in the minds of those who were plundered, that he had for some time contemplated flight, but his crediters were not of the class to be swindled with impunity. They immediately set to work. A docket for a fiat of bankruptcy bad been struck to be worked in the country : but the cir cuity attendant upon getting powers under a fiat, determined the creditors in London to dispatch a gentleman after the fugitive with powers to arrest him, and attach the goods in America, to which country he had withdrawn himself. 11! was traced to New York, to Montreal, to Quebec, and other places with a shopman who had accompanied him on his flight, and it was found that, he bad sold the goods he had absconded with, through an auctioneer, immediately on his arrival in the other hemisphere. The intimate knowledge which the gentleman who, pursued Coltman possessed of mercantile matters , and the facilities rendered to him by the Americon authorities, enabled him to trace the goods, and to attach and se cure the whole. The fugitive, it was found, had changed his name to Evans, commenced a religious course, and in order, no doubt, to compound for the sins he had com mitted in England, set about the good work of correcting the evil ways of the people of America by preaching on the doctrine of Christianity. The agent for the creditors hav ing traced his hotel, made inquiries about him, and was ill formed that he had gone to a place at a distance of ab out twenty miles, to hold forth on the Word of God. A room next to that in which the preacher usually slept was allotted to the gentleman who was so anxious to mee t with him ; but, by some mischance, Coltman received hint from somebody that it would be prudent not to r eturn that night, and his luggage was put into legal custody, wh en it was found that he absented himself, the agent having left England for the purpose of acting with a sort o f deci sion that was not to be mistaken. It had been ascer tained that Coltman had gone to La Prairie, to g i ve the people a sample of his holy intentions, and he was pursue d thither—but he had previously left that place for Toronto or Buffalo, and, as no doubt existed that wherever he was he was bare of property, the pursuit was stopped, and th e agent applied his attention solely to the contents of the portmanteau, which was opened in the presence of a she riff's officer, and which contained, among other acceptable matters, two hundred sovereigns, with a list of the names and addresses of the persons to whom he had sold the goods. By the great activity and zeal of the agent for the cre• ditors, the whole of those debts were secured, an d the preacher was then stripped of the whole produce of the robbery. Several places had been enlightened by the holy zeal o , f , this orthodox preacher, who had wrapped up, along with the other valuables in his portmanteau, the heads o f the sermon which he was to have preached that day. The goods which had been delivered to the parties whose names had been found in the list, were re' linquished in duo form by the shopman who accom panied Coltman, and to whom the ag ent gave his wearing-apparel ; and Coltman himself did not ven ture to make his appearance during the interesting proceedings, with respect to the securing of the property. The presence of the latter wes, as he bad no more than a trifle of silver in his pocket, very readily dispensed with, although it would have been considered as a compliment, by the agent of Mr. Coltman, had he, in his new and venerable capacity of preacher, given him prayer or two to secure his safe return to this country. The shopman, upon finding that the speculation of his employer was in an awkward condition, was seized with fit of honesty, in which he stated, amongst other matters. that Mr. Coltman regularly kept his eye on tine list of ar rivals by vessels from England, and that it was surprising to both that the name of the agent, which was well known to them, was not, upon any occasion to be found there. It is unnecessary to mention that precautions were taken to guard against impediments from such a source. Mr. William Parenton, the agent for the creditors, having put into course the requisite steps for the final con version of the property on account of the creditors, arrived in England by a late packet. If the decisive plan upon which the agent conducted this business were usually adopted, and vigorously followed up, a vast deal of pro perty, which is considered as lost the moment it leaves this country, would be recovered, without the shadow of a doubt. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Arrival.—The Crusader, M'Donnell, from Van Diemen's; Land, off Dover, from Launceston, July 13. Arrival at Hobart Town.—The Susannah, Ridley, Aus• 18, from the Mauritius. Arrivals at Madeira.--The Morning Star, Linton, Nor. 29, from London, and sailed Dec. 2, for Ceylon. Departure, from Madeira. _The Edward, Cheynes, Dec. 5, for Calcutta. Arrivals at Bahia.—The Mona, Gell, Oct. 29, from Liver pool (put in with loss of bowsprit) and sailed Nov. 4, for the Main itius. Departure from Bahia.--The Sir Charles Forbes, Leslie, Oct. 7, for New South Wales. Arrival at Angier (Java.)--The John O'Gaunt, Robertson , Sept. 21, from Liverpool, and sailed for China. Vessels Spoken With.—The Mary Ann, Sarbatt, from London to Madras, Oct. 21, lat 4. N., long. 21. W., pe r Fanny, arrived at Marseilles ; the Roberts, Elder, from Lou don to Madras. November 28, lat. 5. 30. N., long. 22. 30 ' W. ; the 'llindoo, M'Gill, from Liverpool to Calcutta, Dec. 12. lat. 42. N., long. 12. W., per Violet, arrived in the Ri" ver. The Kennelar, Mallard, from London to Sydney, Ist. 48. N., long. 15. W. ; the Royal Admiral, Fotheringhamt from London to South Australia, lat. 3. N., long. 24. W.° per Alfred, arrived in the River. The Orontes, Short, from London to Sydney, Dec. 17. lat. 37. 38. N., long. 13.3 0 ' W., per William, arrived at Falmouth. Passengers per Barossa.—Captain Grey, from Ceylon to Cork, expected; Mrs. Twopenny, Mrs. M'Ph erson , an d fiv° children; Mrs. Bull and two children, Mrs. Shaw and child , Lieutenant- Colonel Douglas, Captains Twopenny, Vassal. M'Pherson, and Braham ; Lieutenants Hamilton, LalTlertr Collins, and Brown; Adjutant Bull, Assistant-Surgeo n Young, Quartermaster Gunn, of her Majesty's 78th Regiment,: Major Ricketts, of her M a j esty ' s 58t h R eg i ment; 449 rant' and file, 32 women, and 76 children of her Majesty's 7 8111, 61st, 58th, 90th, 97th, and Royal Artillery. In the severest winter, accompanied by heavy 019 of snow, the delivery of general post letters has seldom, if e vcr ' been so late as it is now. T. COX SAVORY, Goldsmith, &c., 47, C" nl 7, ll s l ' London, informs the Public, that he offers SILVR WATCH—, on the celebrated PATENT LEVER CONSTRUCTION , (i a l most accurate on which a watch can be made) for SIX OVIN E "' EACH, with all the latest improvements, i. e. the detached Wan ment, jewelled in four holes, capped, hand to mark the seconds, } na _ enamelled dial, and maintaining power to continue going while in up. N.B.—lf in Hunting Cases, 10s. 6d. extra.—Second -hand Watches purchased in exchange. BIRTHS. On the 6th inst., at the residence, St. James's Chapel, gal li r stead-road, the lady of the Rev. H. Stebbing, of a son. of On the 26th inst., in Oxford- street, Mrs. Henry Parkinson, a son. At Cromarty, on the 17th inst., the lady of Captain A. G: Graham, late of the Hanov er i an G uar d s , o f t w i ns , son and daugh ter ,, On the 25th inst., the lady of the Rev. F. Borradaile, of Clap ham-common, of a daughter. ett On the 24th inst., in Montag u - square , th e l a dy of Captain F"- R.N., of a son and heir. ,itrht On the 22d inst., at Cheltenham, the l a dy of James D. Esq., recently of the Bombay Civil Service, of a son, still MARRIED. 744 .L e ari On the 20th inst., at N o lt on Ch ape l, B r id gen d, Allan " of t he Skinner, of Lincoln's I nn , b arr i ster at- l aw, youngest On met late Lieutenant-Gener a l Ski nner, to C aro li ne Emily, on ly chit o f of the Rev. Joh n H ar di ng, of Glannagwr, Gl am organ, a Rockfield, Monmouthshire. . c o lin On the 21st inst., at the Abbey Church, Bath, Cap tl i te ac i k at e e nz .l i o e h John Royal drii, Engineers, Esq., a t n o d Ann grand-daughter Pet grave, s i o a f th the da t : Campbell, Esq., of New Milis, Jamaica. ____...---------" ulargtehtwerwof of O h n ismf t er h ni e morning of ChristDmlasEDDa..y, in the very summer of his existence and heyday of his usefulness, Robert Childs, of BungsP_ Few enendjso;yeadndinparngprnerattienrnadtengrtene that the esteem mm andand natttatacchteers will be their sorrow at the sad tidings . of his departure. 41J°11 On the 23d inst., at Aldingbourni,, near Chichester , a g ed Vaughan, second son of R. Hasler, Esq. On the 12th inst., at La Chasse, in Jersey , t he Very Re ' Rey , Cci" bet Hue, D.D., Dean of Jersey, and Rector of Braunston, NO thamptonshire, aged 6S. _ Vag in On the 20th inst., in Newman-street,i hales Fielding, --." his 44th year. On the 15th inst., John Hunter, Esq., of Greenhill, near Col s ' raine, aged 69. relict On ofth exv2.2d Newton,inst., a E t sg S . o , u f t n h r o m v a e r r iy n L ea ie r nt L . h Light Dragoons, and sister of the late Sir E. Knatchbull, Bart" of Mersham Hatch, Kent. London-road. n A el nn nf E t l h iz e ab i eth od ; On the 23d inst., the Rev. John Radford, of the Catholic Chapel, - " Gel ' and daughter of J. Wye, Esq., formerly of Coleman-street. d On the 24th inst., at Shenloy, Anne, relict of F. Muller, E54.' house, Suffolk, aged 39. On the 23d inst., Richard Percy Wilson, Esq., of Bil esto n " On the 6th inst., at Foulsham, Norfolk, Francis Thos. (2.usrLaniesl Esq., solicitor, and Corone r for the Libert y of the Duchy of caster in that county. ___—.... London: Printed and Publ i s hed by MURDStO YOUNG th e °°ll° 112, Strand, at The Sun Office. No. 11 rand, it/ of Middlesex. —Friday, December, 29, 1837,