The Sun. — London, England, 1837-07-18 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Parliament was yesterday prorogued by her Majesty in person. The scene was unusually interesting. A young Queen sees her generous intentions towards her people rewarded by an enthusiastic loyalty which cannot fail to sink deep into her heart. The thought of what our condition might have been had the throne filled by our young Queen been polluted by the detested indivi dual from whom we have been rid by her succession, was uppermost in every one's mind. The Speech from the Throne in sentiment corresponds with the declaration at Kensington, and is distinguished by the beauty of its language :—" It will be my care to strengthen our in stitutions, civil and ecclesiastical, by discreet improve ment, wherever improvement is required, and to do all in my power to compose and allay animosity and discord." It must now be our business to enable her Ma jesty to fulfil her generous intentions towards her people. The country has an important duty to dis charge ; and that duty it will, we trust, properly dis charge. We do not address ourselves to the corrupt spots which have been left as blemishes in our great constitutional charter. But wherever there are are in dependent constituencies they must respond to the generous intentions of her Majesty, by returning to the new Parliament men wlip feel as they ought the blessing of living under free institutions, and who will legislate for the true interests of the people. Let the constituencies bear in mind that now is the time for the Reform Bill to hear its true fruits. We have now a Queen thoroughly in the interests of the people. Her MiniSters possess her confidence, and the powers of the Executive are at their disposal. If we have good men and true returned to Parliament, Ministers will be enabled to fulfil her Majesty's intentions, and carry improvement into our institutions. The opposition so pertinaciously given in the Upper House to all benefi cial measures lras left a heavy arrear of reform ; but let us hope for better times. Ireland must be placed with respect to municipal rights on the footing of England and Scotland. The distracting animosities which spring out of the anomalous condition of Ireland with regard to religion must• be terminated by an adjust ment of tne :Acne question satisfactorily to all par ti( s. The friends to civil and religious liberty must bear in mind that the question of Church rates cannot be satisfactorily settled if Ministers do not obtain a respectable majority in the new Parlia ment. In short, let no man who expects to see Re form introduced into our institutions, and peace and prosperity shower their blessings on the land, give his support to a Tory candidate. If the Tories obtain the least encouragement, we may look fot times of agitation and trouble. All who love their coun try and its institutions, who take a pride in see ing this empire free and prosperous, are bound to keep the Tories from power. They seek to trample on the people ; their hearts are set on resorting the old and vicious state of things from which we have been extricated by the Reform Bill. Look at the remarks The Quarterly Review published yesterday. 'rids Tory or*An !nay be taken as the current expositor of the wishes of the Tories. It speaks with regret of what has been effected by the Reform Bill. It seems we had too :nuch freedom be fore, and "it has only shifted a still more undue pre ponderance" to the side of freedom. It hopes to see '' the House of Lords resuming its constitutional ac tivite," which, being intrepreted, means that the Lords ought to govern the Commons as they did when the Commons were their nominees. Once more, let the constituencies of England do their duty. Their young Qaeen appeals to them ; let the rally round her._ Alorning Chrouicle. The Qtreen's prorogation speeel.!, ti:livered y,2sterday, is upon tie whole an inclre2:sive, ally,it an inane, do crment. In words, of course, with whi:di her Ma j,,sty's Ministers are familiar, the speech professes an anxiety " to maintain the Pmtestant religion as esta blished by law." It affirms, as being indeed the sole subject for congratulation, that some measures have been brought by Parliament to " maturity, and de scribes the most interesting of these to be amend merits of the criminal code, and the reduction of the number of capital punishments. It promises, accor dine to the recognised Whig fashion, " to strengthen onr institutions, civil and ecclesiastical, b,y discreet in:proveincnt wherever improvement is required." There is not another word in the speech, beyond the stay tape and buckram resorted to on all such occasions— there is no Radicalism in it, at least none discoverable by common eyes—although we do not mean to dispute that much constructive Radicalism may have been ine ditated by its authors, and may yet be claimed by the movement party as one of the secret articles, or latent pledges of the speech. When her Majesty is made to ex press her anxiety to " maintain the Protestant religion as established by law," we must either form the ir ieverend conjecture that a palpable delusion is put into the mouth of the Sovereign, or we must entertain the hope, that when that Church Bill shall be again brought in, which was admitted by her Majesty's Prime Minister to be in itself " a heavy blow and ereat discouragement to Protestantism in Ireland," '-Queen Victoria will refuse to it the sanction of her Royal assent. Out of this difficulty there is no escap ing. Either the Sovereign was advised to speak an uutruth, when she bound herself by her speech, which was but the repetition of her oath, to maintain the Protestant religion as by law established, or she must withhold her constitutional sanction from that system of policy which has been already condemned by the head of the Government that introduced it, as inflict ing a heavy blow upon that very Protestant religion. But what are we to think when we see the paraphrase put upon the above text (of maintaining the Church Establishment) by the Journals in the pay of Minis ters ? Why, one of the Evening Newspapers of yester day, in the next column to that which contained the Queen's speech, declared as follows—viz. " It is the merest delusion to suppose that by pruning or clipping, the Establishment may be rendered tolerable. Its exis tence is an insult to common sense, and contradicts the most obvious principles. The question is notone of more or less, of ten Bishops or two Bishops, but it is, shall a Protestant Establishment be maintained at the public cost, in a Catholic country, for the use of the few Pro testant gentry in it, while the Catholics, comprising nine-tenths of the population, and all but the entire peasantry, are left to provide themselves, as they best may, with religious instruction, or go without it ?" Now, the above extract (we say nothing about the stupid falsehood of the " one or two millions a-year" —the " few Protestant gentry," the Roman Catholics, 6,400,000 persons being nine-tenths of 8,000,000, Sze.)—the above extract, coring confessedly from the same equarter whence the speech declaratory of at tachment to the Church Establishment proceeded, affords a fair specimen of the sort of reliance which is to be placed upon the assurances of the Queen's Ministers. 'Well may Mr. Daniel O'Connell claim a perfect union of sentiment and principle with men thus convicted of the basest treachery on the showing of their own creatures. Well may he, who, in Lord Durham's wish to rally all the world round the in stitutions of Crown, Lords, Commons, and Church, pretends a thorough identity w ith his own (the said Daniel's) °Phltans—well may such a man, as we are sure he will, bl azon f orth his admiration of a Royal speech which combines an osten s ible " maintenance of the established reli g ion" with an underhand resolu tion to destroy it. T here in ere is thi s common between of the speech delivered t o th e Houses Parliament yes terday and the letter written a few days before—that as the first contained no precise meaning, an d t h e second a dozen meanings con t ra di ctory of each other, so any hearer or reader may_ find in eac h a p hi loso pher's stone—convertible itself, or converting all other things, into whatever metal is most valuable to the purposes of the finder. We do not discover in the Royal Speech any parallel passage to one in the last discourse delivered from the same throne by the kind and well-meaning King William, which boasted on be half of time mountebank Lord Mulgravc, that he had promoted the tranquillity of Ireland." There is little doubt that some such marvellous announcement would have had a -conspicuous place assigned to it in the spoken manifesto of Yesterday, but for those ill-timed and marp!ot exhibitions of the real state of Ireland which were laid before the House of Lords in the form of official documents. The last day or two has produced, besides the speech, no further appeal to public credulity on the side of Ministers, than a faint echo of the libellous nonsense of O'Connell, that he who votes for Radicalism at the ensuing election votes for Queen Victoria. Queen Victoria in her own person represents the Conser vatism of the country. Her safety is identified with that of the Peerage, which O'Connell and the Move ment have published their determination to pull down. Queen Victoria is identified with that church which it is the immediate object of all their schemes to overturn. The principle of stability is essential to all monarchical constitutions, and against that principle they have declared open war. Whence is it then, that these foolish and immodest disturbers of the peace of society dare to talk of an opposition to Ministers as if it were an offence to the Queen ? It is because the use to which her Majesty's servants have heretofore applied a majority in Parliament, which has not enabled them to carry on the public business, has, instead of the service of their Sove reign, been the bare retention of their official places, while the interest of their Popish partisans in the existence of ever so small a majority (and fir their views the smaller the better) has been the transfer of the whole patronage of Government in Ireland from the Aristocracy of the kingdom into their own sordid hands. But falsehood grows rank in a soil that suits it. The Whigs prove dexterous in their abuse of Royal names to evil and dishonest objects. They begin by twisting the name of Queen Victoria into a chaplet wherewith to decorate their own ungrace ful brows. They next press that of the King of Hanover into their service, as an engine of calumny against their political rivals in this country. The King of Hanover, better known as the Duke of Cumberland., has, it would appear, commenced his reign by an act which on the face of it is certainly very startling. Until, however, we know more of the in tentions of the King and of the disposition of his sub jects, we think it premature to enter into any discus . - sion upon the matter. When these shall have been made manifest, the Whig-Radical scribes will find no backwardness on our part to perform our duty without fear or favour ; but we will not pronounce upon an incomplete case, and we are as sure that every man of common sense will approve of this course as we are certain that every man of common honesty will scorn the contemptible hirelings of a still more contemptible faction, who, net content with accusing the King of Hanover of entertaining the worst projects—which they cannot know to be true—have the baseness to attribute to the political opponents of their masters the prompting and the counselling of those projects— which they must know to be false.—Times. Yesterday was a proud day for England. It was ' one to which the future historian of this great country will assign a prominent place in his pages. The youthful Queen of these realms proceeded to pro rogue Parliament amidst the heartfelt acclamations of myriads of her subjects. On no previous occasion, within the memory of man, did a British Sovereign meet with so cordial a reception ; and never perhaps did so large a concourse of persons assemble to testify their homage to the possessor of the throne. There arc circumstances connected with the proceedings of yeterday of a most auspicious nature for the destinies of this * empire. The Speech which her Majesty de livered when she ascended the throne is one of much greater importance than is usual on such occasions ; but what we re g ard as of still grea t er momen t was th e way in which that Speech was delivered. It were im possible to conceive anything more correct, or in better taste, than her Mejestv's elocution, in the delivery of the entire Speech ; but there were particular passages in it, and these the most important, which she pro nounced with an emphasis, as well as a propriety, which showed that she spoke froal the fullness of her heart. Whz!n she came to that part of it which re lates to the supreme satisfaction with which she hails the late amelicrations in our Criminal Cede. she spoke with an emphasis which it were impossible for any one to use leho did not really and most cordially entertain the sentine:nt which the words conveyed. Her 'Ma jesty stated that she regards this mitigation of the severity of the criminal law as an auspicious com mencement of her reign. Most cordially do we re spond to the Christian, the enlightened, and humane sentiment. It will, too, be heartily responded to throughout the width and breadth of the land. We re gard this special reference by our gracious Queen to the gratification with which she contemplates the re duction of the number of capital punishments as, in deed, a circumstance of most happy augury for the mild and benignant character of her reign. But this was not time only passage in her Majesty's Speech which she delivered with peculiar emphasis. Those parts of it which refer to her intention of improving the institutions of the country, and to her conviction that the affections of 'her people form the true sup port of the dignity of the Crown, were delivered with an energy which could leave no doubt that she only expressed the most cherished feelings of her mind. Here, then, we hare the most conclusive proof that Queen Victoria is sincerely and strongly attached to liberal, humane, and enlightened principles. And shall not the Reformers rally round her throne as one man, and enable her to carry out the great principles with which she has thus so nobly identified herself? Let but the people be true to their young Queen and themselves, and the death-warrant of an overbearing and tyrannical faction is sealed for ever. She has set the people of these kingdoms a most glorious example: be it theirs to follow it with corresponding vigour and decision. And there is not a moment to be lost in making this popular demonstration in support of the principles of her Majesty and the Government. A con junction of circumstances makes the present a most fa vourable moment for such a demonstration. We are on the threshold of a general election, and the question to be decided by the result of that election is one of infinite moment. It is nothing else than this—Shall the principl es es p ouse d by th e Queen, her Ministers, and the people, or those with which the Tory faction identify themselves, henceforth regulate the adminis tration of public affairs ? Need we say then that there never existed a more momentous conjuncture than the present in the destinies of this country ? Let the Reformers by one great and glorious effort only crush the faction now, audit will never dare to raise its head again. Let our watchword be—" The Queen, the Ministry, and the people I" and the great prin ciples of civil and religious liberty will be crowned with a triumph, the splendour of which will have but few parallels in time history of the human race.—Morning ililvectiser. Parliament was prorogued yesterday by the Queen in person, and shortly after its dissolution was an nounced in an Extraordinary Gazette. The speech delivered by her Majesty, on putting an end to a Ses sion more remarkable for words than for deeds, will be found in its proper place. It is short, and, as we un derstand it, not inappropriate. We say as we under stand it, because it is possible not only that some who read, but that some who had a hand in preparing the document may attach a different meaning to certain passages and expressions from that which they convey to our minds. We cannot except this speech from the imputation of indistinctness and generalisation which attaches more or less to all addresses from the throne ; but it is to be observed that a Session in which little or nothing had been done, left little or nothing to be said about it. The chief interest attaching to the speech of yesterday is the prospect which it holds forth, and the promise it announces as to the spirit of the new reign. Though, constitutionally speaking, the speech of the Queen is the speech of the Minister ; and th oug h, in ordinary cases, it is so in fact as well as in theory, we may be excused for attributing something more o f a personal character to the first address of a Sovereign to her Parliament than it would be allowable to do in the colrvtion routine Government proceedings. Under the influence of imptession we observe, with great sa tisfaction, that the very first pledge announced in the speech of her Majesty is an assurance of her Majesty's "determinatio n to maintain the Protestant religion as by law established." The reiteration of this pledge-- the first in order, as it is the first in importance under the circumstances of the present moment, when the Church is not only threatened in secret, but assailed in public, by every species of calumny, and hostile at tack, will he received with acclamation by the country. However Ministers may be suspected of hollowness and artifice in the announcement of this purpose, and whatever equivocations and mental reservations they m ay be supposed to lay up for the future pretation and evasion of this passage, consistently with the design 3 which they are known to harbour THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, J [MY 18, 1837. against the Establishment, it is impossible but to suppose that the pure and unsophisticated mind of our most gracious Queen uttered the words in their true and obvious sense, and will remember them, and act upon them according to their fair and literal interpretation. It is upon this promise made before, and now more solemnly and publicly repeated, that the hopes of the country—we will not use a party name to designate so universal a feeling—look forward to the salvation of those institutions which have made her what she is. The first paragraph of the Speech, con taining the assurance to which we have alluded, con cludes consistently with the following pledges :—" To secure to all the free exercise of the rights of conscience, to protect the liberties, and to promote the welfare of all classes of the community." We pass over the pa ragraphs in which her Majesty expresses her happiness at finding the country on her accession in amity with all Foreign Powers, and thanks the Commons for their liberal supplies. But the allusion to their interrupted labours, and the hope that " they will have the bene ficial effect of advancing the progress of legislation in a new Parliament," suggests an apprehension that the next Parliament have not much to gain from the late one, except in the way of caution and warning. Let them do, not as their predeces sors have done, but as they ought to have done, and the example thus applied, may be beneficially kept in view. The next passage in the speech is one that well became the lips that uttered it :—" I perceive with satisfaction," proceeded her Majesty, " that you have brought to maturity some useful measures, amongst which I regard with peculiar interest the amendment of the criminal code, and the reduction of the number of capital punishments. I hail the miti gation of the severity of the law as an auspicious commencement of my reign." An auspicious com mencement, indeed, and worthy to be hailed as such by the Queen of an enlightened people. Hencefor ward we may look with confidence to the effectual obli teration of that stigma which had long marked us out as a community disgraced by the most sanguinary laws in Europe. It is impossible to read the concluding part of the Speech without giving her Majesty credit for the gracious sentiments it expresses. No doubt the whole production will derive its chief value from the belief, irresistibly impressed by the manner and character of the Queen, that they came from her heart, and will be remembered and applied in her actions.— Morning Herald. Every transaction in which the Queen is called upon to take a personal share excites naturally at the present moment a very lively interest among her peo ple. Her Majesty's Speech to Parliament on its pro rogation yesterday, preparatory to an appeal to the opinion of the nation upon the course of policy re cently pursued by the British Government, and the wisdom or justice of adhering to that course, is a do cument, therefore, which is sure to become the subject of earnest and animated discussion. That the Minis ters of the Crown are alone responsible for the sins of time Speech, if it has committed any, whether of com mission or of omission, is a Constitutional truism which nobody will be inclined to call in question, hut its merit, if merit shall be adjudged either to what it says or to what it leaves unsaid, there will, no doubt, be a general disposition to trace to a more elevated source. We do not by any meane contend that this is constitu tional, or even that it is fair. The Constitution of Eng land recogn SCS a more equitable rule of judgment than the people, warmly as they are attached to the Constitution, can be expected in the circumstances of the present mo ment very strictly to regard. We will endeavour, however, to adhere as closely as possible to the Constitutional maxim that the words of the Queen upon such an oc casien are the words of her Ministers, and that the censure or the praise to whichever of these the Royal Speech may he fairly entitled, should equally he awarded to the latter. The task we impose u ? on our selves is an arduous one, and we are net sure that we shall be able to accomplish it so completely as we de sire. The temptation to depart in this particular in stance in some degree from the rule of strict justice is such indeed as might almost excuse the deviation ; for in truth, we find in the maiden speech delivered yes terday from the Throne much to commend, and little, if anything, to censure. The Speech is, in all its parts, a decidedly Conservative Speech; so much so, in deed, that we cannot but marvel by what process the present Ministers of the Crown could possibly have concocted it. After the few words of form and com pliment with which it commences, her Majesty pro ceeds —" I am very desirous of renewing the assurance of my determination to maintain the Protestant reli gion as established by law, to secure to ail the free exercise of the rights of conscience, to protect the liberties, and to promote the welfare of all classes of the community." We do not viniture to infer from these words that the Ministers who must be supposed to have put them together will never in any eircurn ' stances, reproduce their Church-rate measure or their appropriation clause, hut we are fairly entitled to con clude from them that if they entertain any such inten tion it is one which they are, above all things, de sirous at the present moment to conceal. The prin ciple of a Church Establishment, the expediency of maintaining whatever endowments and revenues are necessary or useful to its support, and the perfect harmony of this principle and policy with the free ex ercise of the rights of conscience by all the subjects of her Majesty could scarcely have been more clearly explained, or more forcibly asserted, than in the pas sage we have just quoted. The second important passage in the Speech relates to the foreign affairs of the country. It is conceived in so excellent a spirit, and couched in terms so entirely unobjectionable, that we cannot resist the temptation of transcribing it here : —" I rejoice that in ascending the Throne I find the country in amity with all Foreign Powers ; and, while I faithfully perform the engagements of the Crown, and carefully watch over the interests of my subjects, it shall be constant object of my solicitude to maintain the blessings of peace." Surely, we ex claimed on hearing it, the Foreign Secretary could not hare been present, either in person or in the minds and memory of his colleagues, at the Council at which this portion of the Speech was adopted. There is not a word of encouragement to the cause in which British troops, under the especial auspices of Lord Palmerston, arc at this moment engaged, fomenting and perpetuating civil war in a friendly State. Here is just such a declaration of the intention faithfully to perform the engagements of the British Crown as the Duke of Wellington might and would have recom mended had he been in office, and just such an intim mation also that, in conjunction with this maintenance of national faith, the interests of British subjects and the blessings of peace are diligently to be pursued. After the usual thanks to the House of Commons for the supplies of the year, and the usual p ro mise of economy in the several branches of the Adminis tration, two paragraphs follow, which, had any other men than the present Ministers of the Crown been their authors, would certainly have been un derstood as conveying a severe rebuke or a cutting sar casm on the legislative labours of the Government : " In taking leave of this Parliament I return you my thanks for the zeal and assiduity with which you have applied yourselves to the public buamess of the country. Although your labours have been unexpectedly inter rupted by the melancholy event which has taken place, I trust that they will have the beneficial effect of ad vancing the progress of legislation in a new Parlia ment. I perceive with satisfaction that you have brought to maturity some useful measures, amongst which I regard with peculiar interest the amendment of the criminal code, and the reduction of the number of capital punishments. I hail this mitigation of the severity of-the law as an auspicious commencement of my reign." Zeal and assiduity are ironical terms, and must so have been intended, no doubt, in their application to the legislative labours of a Session, un expectedlysef oxurip.telri,ensfgos forth le : sr t S ga o nr a le ce r i,o e interrupted i n t h e m iddl e o f J u ly, an d ef tn o h i e l er satisfaction.lvs j t e a s r t y subject on which to Majesty, that i e e s m s i a n y m be o e u could never have consented to praise the zeal and assi duity of the Attorney-General in reference to the Bill for the abolition of imprisonment for debt • or to express her trust that his labours in the past Session will have the beneficial effect of advancing the progress of legisla tion in a new Parliament, seeing that he has been em ployed upon this measure for several years, without mak ing any perceptible advance whatever towards its comple tion. How again, unless in mockery, could her Majesty have intended to compliment any but the Upper House of Parliament for the amendment of the Cri minal Code, since everybody knows that the Acts which had this amendment in view, as they passed from the House of Commons to the House of Lords, through the hands of the Home Secretary, were a mere mass of absurd and mischievous incongruities ? In the concluding passages of her Majesty's Speech time is no sentiment and no expression that is calcu lated to excite any other feelings than those of appro . bation and respect, unless, which is not improbable, Mr. Hume and some other supporters of the Adminis tration may be offended with the expression of a reli gious dependence upon the protection of the Al mighty. Should this be so, Ministers will, no doubt, at the next meeting of Parliament be prepared to make a becoming apology for having shocked the Li beral and enlightened notions of so many of their friends.—Morning Post. THE QUEEN. We copy the following queer story from a Sunday news paper :—" Mr. the gentleman whom we mentioned as labouring under the delusion that he was one day destined to possess her Majesty's hand, has, since the Queen's accession to the throne, occasioned her consider able annoyance. Every day, until her Majesty's departure for the new palace on Thursday last, Mr. has been a constant attendant at Kensington Palace, inquiring at the grand entrance the state of the Queen's health, and endea vouring to get in, for the purpose of writing his name in the visiting book. On one occasion ho succeeded in doing so, but the moment it was discovered a pen was drawn through the autograph, which, by some means, he obtained a know ledge of, when he became greatly excited against Sir J— C—, and uttered threats loud and deep' against the Gallant Baronet. On the day following his discovering it, he observed Sir J— C— crossing the palace-green, when he became so outrageous, that Shaw, the porter at the gate leading into Kensington-gardens, threatened to take him into custody. On several days, since the death of his late Majesty, Mr. has been actively engaged in assisting the workmen in weeding the piece of water in Kensington gardens, which is opposite the windows of the apartments occupied by the Queen and the Duchess of Kent, in the hope of obtaining a sight of her Majesty ; and on each even ing has he been waiting in his phaeton, in the Uxbridge road, her Majesty's carriage emerging from the private road in Kensington-gardens, when he would it in whichever direc tion it might proceed. On last Monday evening, which was the last time the Queen took an airing up the Har row-road, her Majesty, after proceeding some distance, alighted, with her illustrious mother, for the purpose of walkin g c , for a few minutes ; but scarcely had she done so, before Mr. 's phaeton was observed advancing to wards them, out of which he immediately sprang, apparently with the intention of accosting them. The Duchess of Kent, on perceiving him, instantly directed one of her pages to request Mr. would not annoy her Majesty, but again enter his phaeton and drive off. Mr. -- re fused to do so, when the royal party immediately re-entered their carriage, and returned to Kensington Palace, followed by the Queen's pertinacious admirer. On Thursday last, when her Majesty left Kensington Palace, Mr. -- was noticed being most vociferous in his demonstrations of loyalty on the Queen's entering her carriage, which she had no sooner done, than he rushed out of the court-yard, and running at full speed down the avenue, and, jumping into his phaeton, preceded the royal cortege to the new palace at Pimlico, since which he has deserted Kensington. " On the day following the publication of the 2d instant, a gentleman was sent by Mr. --'s connections, for the purpose of advising his return home, but he was unsuccess ful in his endeavours." A JEWISH METHOD OF BRINGING UP BOYS PROFESSIONALLY.—When the breakfast was cleared away, the me: Ty old gentleman and the two boys played at a very curious and uncommon game, which was performed in this way : The merry old gentlemen, placing a snuff-box in one pocket of his trousers, a note-case in the other, and a watch in his waistcoat pocket, with a guard-chain round his neck, and•stick ing a moci( diamond pin in his shirt, buttoned his coat tight round hint, and, putting his spectacle-case and handkerchief in the pockets, trotted up and down the room with a stick, in imi tation of the manner in which old gentlemen calla about the streets every hour in the day. Sometimes he stopped at the fire-place, and sometimes at the door, making belief that he was staring with all his might into shop-windows. At such times he would look constantly round him for.fear of thieves, and keep slapping all his pockets in turn, to see that he had'nt lost anything, in such a very funny and natural manner, that Oliver laughed till the tears ran down his face. All this time the two boys followed him closely about, getting out of his sight so nimbly every time he turned round, that it was im possible to follow their motions. At last the Dodger trod upon his toes, or ran upon his boot accidentally, while Charley Bates stumbled up against him behind; and in that one mo ment they took from him with the most extraordinary rapidity, snuff-box, note-case, watch-guard, chain, shirt-pin, pocket handkerchief—even the spectacle-case. If the old gentleman 'felt a hand in any one of his pockets, he cried out where it was, and then the game began all over again.—Oliver Twist, by " Boz," in Bentley's M.scellany. DESTRUCTIVE ACTION OF COPPER ON INK.— The Directors of the Bengal Bank lately refused payment of a number of bank notes, in consequence of their being without any signature. It appeared that they belonged to a Hindoo, who had kept them in a copper box. He asserted that they originally possessed the signature of the director, comptroller, cashier, &c., but that they had disappeared—he could not tell how. Mr. Prinsep, conjecturing that the ink had been acted on by the copper of the box in which the notes were kept, placed a paper written upon with English ink between two pieces of copper. After a short space of time, he found that the copper had decomposed the ink, and that the writing was completely effaced. He concluded that the statement of the Hindoo was correct, and recommended the bank not to refuse payment. The same destructive action is stated not to take place when China ink is employed.—Mechanics' Magazine. The number of visiters to the Horticultural Gardens during the three fete days, exclusive of members and exhibitors, was 15,270. Of these 550 were in May, 8,535 in June, and 6,135 last Tuesday. The number of persons present was con siderably less than in the previous year; the great deficiency in May arising from the extremely unpropitious state of the weather, and the present month, from the death of his late Majesty, and the necessary postponement of the fete to a less favourable day. GRIM ALDI.--In his provincial tours, Grimaldi was always fortunate. On one occasion, in three or four weeks, he realised about 1,0001. Oa his return to town he invested it in the funds in the name of his wife, presenting it to her for his " welcome home." On another tour he employed his profits in the purchase of the shares he held until his death in Sadler's Wells theatre. He was careful, it may also be said, penurious, in his habits ; he was like Bottom the Weaver, " slow of study," taking five or six weeks to mellow himself in one of his songs. Until he had become so, he used,to bring in a large sheet, on which the words were inscribed, and, to use his own phrase, " ax their leave to sing it to paper." This was his constant custom at the Islington, but he never did so at the Covent Garden theatre. He for many years played Clown, first at Sadler's Wells, and then hurried to Covent Garden in a hackney-coach, where he played Clown a second time ; and, on one occasion, he added to these two efforts the performance of the same character at the Circus on the same evening. No strength could have borne up against such assaults; and Grimaldi's early decreptitude was no doubt induced by too great muscular exertion, and by colds caught night after night, in transits whilst from one playhouse to the other. —New Monthly Magazine. On Monday last, while the people employed at Mr. Christie's brick and tile work, Shore, Stirling-, were digging some clay, they encountered something hard, which proved to be a deer's head and antlers in a perfect state of preservation. Each antler has six tines upon it, all as perfect as when they stood upon the animal. The height of the antler by the con vex line is three feet five inches, and at the top, the point of the outermost tines are distant from each other two feet eight inches. One half also of the lower jaw -bone, with the teeth attached, and in a state of perfect preservation, was found at the same place. The head seems to have belonged to the red deer species, once so common in Scotland, and not yet alto gether extinct, but is larger than those commonly seen now. It was found in the substratum of blue clay, ten or eleven feet below the surface, and the antlers were pointing downwards.—. Scotsman. Iu no town in the kingdom have the advantages of Municipal Corporation Reform been less felt than in Dover. It is now seven years since any thing in the shape of an account has been got from the old Tory corporators ; and that docu ment which was wrung from them almost per force by the in habitants, exhibited a fearful picture of profligate expenditure. It s howed that in the space of ten years preceding, the enor mous sum of 8,2451. had b een squan d ere d i n j o b s, t h e ut ili ty of which were more than questionable.--Dover Chronicle. On Saturday an inquest was held at the Royal Oak Inn Harrow, on view of the body of Miss Jane Page, a fine girl, aged 12 It appeared that the deceased was the daughter of a respectable farmer : on Wednesday evening last her pa rents left her in charge with the younger branches of the fa mily. Whilst getting th e tea, her clothes unhappily caught fire ; her screams brought some neighbours to her assistance, who, with great difficulty and danger to themselves, succeeded in extinguishing the flames, but not before the poor girl was so frightfully scorched as to cause her death in a few hours.— Verdict " Accidental death." Another inquest was then held before the same Coroner, on view of the body of Lucy Clay ton, aged four years. The deceased, who was playing, with other children, on the banks of the Paddington Canal, fell in, and, before assistance could be obtained, was drowned.—Ver diet, " Accidentally drowned." ROBINSON CRUSOE'S ISLAND SWALLOWED. — The Barbadoes West Indian, of May 11, received Saturday, states the following, which will grieve many a juvenile and other reader :—" Juan Fernandez. This lovely Island, on which Alexander Selkirk was cast away, and thus gave rise to the novel of Robinson Crusoe, was swallowed up by the re cent earthquake, which destroyed a great portion of Chili, in South America." NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) PORTSMOUTH, JULY 15.—The Volage, 28, Captain Richards, arrived yesterday, after a long passage of twenty six days, from Tangier ; she is ordered to the eastward to be paid off. The Hazard, 16, Commander Wilkinson, sailed on Thursday for the Senegal Coast, calling at Lisbon ; the Childers, 18, lion. Commander Keppel, is ordered to the same quarter from Malta ; and the Partridge, 10, Lieute nant Bisson, will follow from this port in a few days, with presents to the native Moors who trade with the gums from the interior. The Lightning steam-vessel arrived to-day, and imme diately afterwards proceeded to Plymouth and Ireland. The Alligator, 28, was commissioned this morning by Lieutenant Kuper, for services on the north-west coast of New Holland, where a new settlement is to be formed un der the inspection of Captain Sir J. J. G. Breemer, who is to command the ship ; Lieutenant P. B. Stewart, Mr. John Jackson, Master ; R. S. Rundell, Second Master ; W. Edwards, Purser ; and Francis Sharp, Assistant-Surgeon, are also appointed to her. The Edinburgh, 74, will be commissioned at this port in a few days by Captain Henderson. The Hyacinth, 18, was masted on Tuesday, and is re ported ready for commission. The Prince Regent, 120, on the same day was taken into dock, to be caulked and repaired. The Benbow, 74, was docked. The Cracker, tender to the Seaflower, commanded by Mr. Hood Mottley, brought up yesterday a Prussian gal liot, the Flora, about 170 tons measurement, laden with iron rails, from Cardiff for some port in the Baltic, which she picked up as a derelict off the Start Point, on Wednes day. No one was on board, and nothing is known of the crew. Admiral Sir Philip Durham, G.C.8., returned from Scot land last evening, and resumed the command of the port Rear-Admiral the Hon. D. P. Bouverie will take charge of the Dockyard, as Superintendent, on Wednesday next. Admiral D. hoisted his flag this evening. Rear-Admiral the Hon. George Elliot, C. 8., (one of the Lords of the Admiralty) is appointed to the command of the African station, and is expected to sail for the Cape of Good Hope at the end of September. PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS IN THE ROYAL MARINES.—Lieut—CoI. George Lewis to be Colonel Com mandant at the Portsmouth Division, vice H. P. Lewis, retired ; Lieut.-Col. Elias Lawrence, Colonel Commandant at Chatham, vice Tremenheere, retired ; Lieut.-Colonel Hornby to be Colonel Commandant at Plymouth, vice Abernethy, retired ; Lieut.-Colonel Adair to be Colonel and Second Commandant at Plymouth ; Lieut.-Colonel Bevians to be Colonel and Second Commandant at Ports mouth ; Lieut.-Colonel W. Connolly to be Colonel and Second Commandant at Chatham ; Major Aslatt to be Lieut.-Colonel at Portsmouth ; Major Sir J. Lee and Major E. L. Mercer to be Lieut.-Colonels at Chatham. The following Captains and Brevet Majors to be effective Lieutenant-Colonels :—M. Walker, at Portsmouth ; John M'Cullurn, Plymouth ; Charles Menzies, K.H. (R.M.A.), Portsmouth ; A. J. Murton, and W. Fergusson, Wool wich. The eighteen Senior First Lieutenants, commenc ing with R. W. Pascoe, and ending with Hugh Evans, to the rank of Captain ; the thirty-four Senior Second Lieu tenants, commencing with John Hawkins Gascoyne, and ending with Joseph Oates Travers, to the rank of First Lieutenants. Lieut. Henry Bennett to be Quarter- Master, and Lieut. Win. Wood to be Adjutant, at the Woolwich Division ; Lieut. Charles Miller to be Quarter- Master ; and Lieut. Thos. Stephens to be Adjutant, at Portsmouth Division, vice M'Keller, to Plymouth. APPOINTMENTS.—The following officers to the Coast Guard Service :—Commander Digby Marsh, to the Stokes Bay Station vice Layton ; Commander S. F. Harmer to North Yarmouth, vice Kingcomb ; Commander B. M. Festing to South End, vice Dobson ; and Commander Henry Bolton to Waterford, George Waller, Esq., of Kingston-cross, Portsea (who accompanied Sir John Hill on the part of Government for the relief of the destitution in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland), to he Secretary to Rear Admiral Sir Frederick Maitland, K.C.8., who succeeds to the command in the East Indies ; Mr. Au gustus Slight and Mr. John Gordon, to be additional As sistant Surgeons of the Britannia ; Mr. James A. Miller, to be additional Assistant Surgeon of the Royal George, to be employed in her tender the Partridge ; Mr. George Sinunonds, to be Clerk of the Victory ; Mr. W. C. Trip hook to be Second Master and Pilot of the Atholl, vice George Janes dismissed.—Mr. Rainback qualified as Schoolmaster, and is appointed to the Wellesley. Can our readers believe that Sir Francis Burdett is about to start for North Wiltshire, and that the renowned Tory, Mr. Estcourt, is to be Chairman of his Committee ? It is, however, but fair to add, that Sir Francis has declared his determination of paying any sum that may be required for re turning his nominee, Sir George Murray, for the City of Westminster. We are sorry to state, that the wearing► trade, in stead of getting better, rather appears to be growing worse. The number of men employed at breaking stones amounts to about 200, and the applicants for relief are daily becoming more numerous.—Perth Chronicle. At the dejeune given by the Countess of Essex, at Norwood, on Thursday, the daughter of the Queen of the Gypsies having found her way into the grounds, much amuse ment was afforded by the address displayed by her in marking out the future destinies of those who were rash enough to wish to dive into futurity. His LATE MAJESTY.—The following anecdote was told with great glee by his late Majesty, at a dinner party given by George IV., at the Cottage, Windsor-park, in 1827. It is to be observed, that William IV. when Duke of Clarence, used frequently during his residence at Bushy-park, to ride out unaccompanied by any servant. " I was riding in the park the other day," said his royal highness, " on the road between Teddington and Hampton-wick, when I was over taken by a butcher's boy on horseback, with a tray of meat under his arm. Nice pony that of yours, old gentleman,' said he. Pretty fair,' was my reply. Mine's a good u'n too,' rejoined he ; and I'll trot you to Hampton-wick for a pot o' beer.' I declined the match ; and the butcher's boy, as he struck his single spur into his horse's side exclaimed, with a look of contempt, ' I thought you were only a muff " On the recital of this anecdote, his Majesty George IV. and all who were at table laughed outright ; which was more than the King could do with propriety in the earlier part of the same day, when he, with the greatest difficulty, restrained his cachinatory emotions on beholding Don Miguel of Portugal in troduced between the Duke of Devonshire and the late Mar quis of Conyngham—the don being a dwarf mulatto, and each of his supporters something more than six feet high : " Egad," said the King, as he first caught a glance of the Portuguese prince and his conductors, " I always thought that Hercules' pillars had been the supporters of the arms of Spain."---New Sporting Magazine. The Gazelle contains an order that the following shall be additional polling-places :—Camelford, for the eastern division of the county of Cornwall ; Gateshead and Hatton le-Hole, for the northern division of tho county of Durham; Stratford, in the parish of Westham, for the southern division of the county of Essex ; and North Shields, for the southern division of the county of Northumberland. The adjudication of the prizes offered by the Melodists' Club took place on Thursday last ; Lord Burg hersh in the Chair. The silver, goblet, being the gift of the Duke of Sussex, Patron of the Club, was awarded to Mr. Hobbs for the best approved song ; and a premium of five guineas given by B. B. Cabbell, Esq., was awarded to Mr. Blewitt, for the second best song. Both the successful songs were sang by Mr. Hobbs, and accompanied by Sir George Smart. Medals were presented to Mr. C. B, Wilson for the words of the prize song; also to Messrs. Burgon, Inman, and Garwood for the words of songs written for the use of the Club. Braham sang a new song in honour of her Majesty, which was encored. Several glees, &c. were- sung by a host. of vocalists—De Begnis and Giubilei sang a comic duct with great spirit; Harley gave "the Nightingale Club" with great humour, and Labejre performed in a masterly ,manner on the harp. Some years ago an old woman became an inmate of Moulton workhouse, near Northampton, bringing with her the whole of her worldly goods, consisting of an old bedstead and a trunk. She died in the workhouse, and being buried at the expense of the parish these articles were not delivered up to her relations. When the Brixworth Union was formed the guardians rented, pro tempore, the Moulton workhouse, taking the property at a valuati on . Among this property were the old bedstead and the trunk. Last week a sale by public auc tion took place of the old furniture, including the bedstead and trunk. The latter was knocked down for 2s. 9d. to the wife of a labourer of the parish. On examining his purchase he discovered, to his own as well as to his wife's astonishment, a sunken drawer at the side of the trunk, closely packed with upwards of 100 pieces of gold coin of the reigns of James 1., Charles 11., James 11., William and Mary, and George 11. The parties into whose hands this long hidden treasure has so unexpectedly fallen are an industrious and very respectable, although a very poor couple, who will not misuse their good fortune.—Northampton Mercury. A letter has been received, by the Mayor, from Earl althorn, accepting the invitation of the Council to an inaugural dinner to be given to him as Lord High Steward of this Borough. In the most handsome terms his Lordship thanks the Corporation for the honour conferred on him by his nomination to the Crown, and the kindness evinced by the in vitation now accepted.—Hull Advertiser. With characteristic impudence the Tories of Hull make the New Poor Law Act an electioneering stalking horse to cover the unpopnlar qualities of their matchless pair of candidates. Thinking contemptuously of the working classes, they fancy it is an easy matter to mislead their judg ment, to effect a temporary purpose. But they will discover by and bye, if they have not already, that their chaff will catch no birds in this borough.—Hull Advertiser. A person describing himself to be a skinner, a na tive of Knaresborough, and named Thomas Hartley, has re cently been fleecing a number of shopkeepers, publicans, &c., in this town, by obtaining goods to a considerable amount.— x Express, POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. On Saturday a desolate-looking man, who said his name was Russell, was brought before the Lord MAYOR, charged with having acted in a disorderly manner in the neighbour hood of Billingsgate-market, at half-past one in the morn ing. The keeper of a greengrocery warehouse stated that the defendant walked into the shop, which was opened at an early hour for the accommodation of the market people, and after using a great deal of unintelligible language, threatened to smash everybody in the place. The LORD MAYOR—Smash ! This poor fellow couldn't smash anybody. Defendant—No, my Lord, I could not. I couldn't be smashed myself. You might blow me to pieces, but I defy you to smash me. The LORD MAYOR—What are you ? You don't seem to be in good plight. Defendant—l am a poor player, my Lord, and I had taken gin upon an empty stomach. The LORD MAYOR—You had no dinner, I suppose ? Defendant—Dinner ! What's that? If it's anything of occupation to the jaws, I know nothing about it. The complainant said he never was so much abused in his life as he was by the person who stood at the bar ; and who, although dressed in a suit of rags that would dis grace a modern pauper, called himself a perfect gentleman. Defendant—Pauper! You called me a thief. I frowned, but I disdained to articulate upon you. It was with some inconvenience to myself that I put on this suit of mourn ing ; for, the " times are out ofjoint." The complainant looked and laughed at the dress of the unfortunate player, which appeared to be a memorial of the loss of all his hopes. The LORD MAYOR—If you lead such a life as this, you can't be respectable in your dress. You Iola:: as if you slept in your clothes. Defendant—And so I did, my Lord. This (holding up his coat) is the only covering I have had on me for some nights ; so that I may say, with Lady Macbeth, that I peep through the blanket of the dark, or a dark blanket, which is the same thing.--(Laughter.) The LORD MAYOR—But you are not to disturb the peaceable inhabitants of the City for your amusement. Defendant—l was peace itself until this man accused me of dishonesty. He might have enjoyed my poverty if he pleased. In my turn I have my laugh at the wealth of fools, but he thought I would do what he would do in my situation. The complainant here declared, for the first time, that the player had struck him. Defendant—Not with my fist, upon my oath. I smote you with my eye, to be sure, and that would have been enough to shatter you, if you had not been such a poor ig norant hound. The LORD MAYOR—I do not believe that this poor fel low touched you. __ Complainant—He did though. He knocked me about, and swore he'd do for me, and he int e nd e d it. Defendant—His Lordship won't believe you ; Le th:Llks that you belong to the " Mendacity Society." Complainant—lf I did, I'm blessed if you wouldn t cut away like a good un, to stow your begging letters. The LORD MAYOR (to the defendant)—You Inty go, and I advise you, my good friend, to get into the Tempe rance Society as soon as you can.—(A laugh.) Defendant—l am the cardinal virtue itself. You may talk of the chameleon, a travelling tragedian can beat it hollow. The poet says that man wants but little to eat ; the player proves that man wants noting at all. The poor fellow then returned thanks in a very respect ful and grateful tone to the Lord Mayor, put his thumb to his nose on looking at the complainant, and, shaking his dark blanket, slipped out at the side door. A private examination took place before the LORD MAYOR in a case in which some mysterious correspondence was referred to. A packet of letters was by mistake taken to one house in the City instead of another by the servant of a gentleman of rank, who was the bearer of it from Germany to this country. The packet was directed to a forei g ner who lodged in the h o u se t o w hi c h i t oug h t to h ave been brought, and was partially opened and perused by an other foreigner who lodged in the house to which it ought not to have been brought. Several days elapsed before the party to whom it was addressed learned that an error had been committed in the delivery, and when an indignant ap plication was made for the packet the answer was a refusal to give it up, on the ground that it contained matter of a. very serious nature connected with the French Government. The LORD MAYOR, after having examined some wit nesses and consulted with Mr. Hobler, said that as the enclosures in the envelope alluded to some persons much better known at the west than at the east end of the town, and were at the same time quite enigmatical, he thought the most advisable way of dealing with the matter was, to refer the correspondence to the Secretary of State for L 1 Home Department. It would be improper to state the particular. of tin transaction at present, but it is necessary to mention that several ridiculously exaggerated rumours are dhg, ers ed about the hall and the police room. INSTRUCTION TO CORONERS' JURIES,---" Tem• porary insanity" is uniformly the verdict of your " crowners' 'quest" on such occasions (suicide); even a physician of any repute will honestly state on ordinary occasions, particularly when the patient has the benefit of his skill and experience in helping him to leave this wicked world, that ho died of such and such a disorder, and w ill manfully state the name of the disorder, and the world gives him credit for his skill and in tegrity. Would gentlemen serving upon " crowners' quests" imitate this heroic example, instead of recording the foolish verdict of " temporary insanity," they would say, " The de ceased didn't know what to do with himself!" This would be intelligible, and the faculty might stumble upon a remedy ; but " temporary insanity" is too transitory, too fugitive, to be grappled with, too vague and indefinite, in its very name, ever to do any good, and the patient is generally " past all surgery" before one suspects he is attacked with insanity, be it ever so temporary or evanescent ; but in honestly recording that " he didn't know what to do with himself, and thereby came by his death," it would be but doing justice to that interesting malady. Thus it could be easily observed in all its stages, from its in cipient symptoms at the gaming or any other well-garnished table, where it sometimes takes its rise, through all its phases and evolutions, till the malady comes to a head, and a man blows out his brains. The disease, through each •f these changes, might be stayed in its progress, and society might be benefited by the honesty of the verdict.—From an amusiv.g article in Bentley's Miscellany, entitled " What Tom Biuks did when he dilln't know what to do with himself." A young man of the name of Errington, a mason by trade, only about 21 or 22 years of age, and who had beent married only three weeks, after he had been drinking on Sa turday last with some of his companions, and got into a state of intoxication, said he would leap down the pit, meaning a col liery close by, called Broomside, belonging to the Marquis of Londonderry, and situate about two miles from the city of Durham ; and most melancholy to relate, after setting up three huzzas to his comrades, in token of courage and heroism; he • leaped down, to their utter consternation, and, as we under stand, was killed instantly. No reason has been assigned for his committing so monstrous an act. SECOND-HAND SILVER WATCHES. A variety of some dozens may be selected from, price Two Guineas each ; some rather more modern, Two and a Half Guineas each ; and an assortment quite equal to new, Three Guineas each. The whole have been carefully examined, and are warranted. T. COX SAVORY, Watchmaker, 47, Ccrnhill, London. N. B, Second • hand Watches purchased in exchange. BIRTHS. On the Bth inst., the lady of W. M. Berkley, Esq., Stockwell place, of a son. On the 16th inst., in Bryanston-street, the lady of John Selby, Esq., of a son. On the 15th inst., in Hill-street, thelady of John Wilson Patten, Esq., M.P., of a daughter. On the 15th inst., at Connaught-place, West, the lady of Sir H. Freeling, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 2.9 th ult., at Florence, at the house of the British Resi dent Minister, Edward Marcus Whyte, Esq., of Hotham House, Yorkshire, eldest son of Robert ',geyser, Esq. to Florence, third daughter of the l a t e C ap t a i n C . M . Walker, R.N.' On the 9th of April, at Sehore, Bengal, Captain Wm. Riddell, of the Hon. Company's 60th Regiment of Native Infantry, to Mar garet, youngest daughter of the late Captain John Wilkie, of the Bengal Army. On the 13th inst., at Henfynyw Church, Cardiganshire, Thom; s Watkyn Maddy, Esq., of New-hall, Mont gomerys hi re, to Jar.e, the eldest daughter of A. T. J. Gwynne, Esq., of Monachty, Car— diganshire. On the Bth inst., at St. Dunstan's Church, Stepney, Mr. Jan Crossley, London, to Sarah Mary, second daughttle tbf the late T. Glascott, Esq., Wreasbury, Buckinghamshire. On the 13th inst., at St. Andrew's Plymouth, Frederick Ked dell, Esq., of London, solicitor, to Rosa, daughter of J. P. Lock hart, Esq., President of the Council of the Island of Dominica. lED. On the 14th inst., at Chelse D a, Mary, daughter of Mr. Wrents. more, of Lincoln's Inn fields, aged 5. On the 14th inst., at Sterufield Rectory, Augustus E ru l e , age d one year, youngest son o f t h e Rev. J. D. Monfi. On the 13th inst., in R oc h es t er , G. P. Wyndeyer, Esq., of. the Ordnance-office, aged 43. On the 13th inst., at the Buckling, Norfolk, W m . Henry FeP,det Esq., of Netherfiel House, Herts, and late of the Ist Regimr.mt of Grenadier Guards. On the 15th inst., at Charterhouse-square, Charlotte, wid o w of G. Spey, Esq., aged 68. On the 11th inst., at Dorchester, Duncan APLare, d , Esq., a prO prictor, and for upwards of 35 years the commerfital traveller front London of the Carron Company. On the 16th inst., Samuel, the only child of J. Cowie, Esq., 01. Mornington-crescent, aged 6. On the 27th ult., at lalta, Henry Lister. L. Kaye, of the 47th Regiment, youngest son of the late Sir J. L. Kaye, Bart. On the 11th inst., at Leamington, Catharine Sophia Power, the eldest daughter of John P ower , E sq., of Berwood House, Erd.nir ton, near Birmington. On the 14th inst., at Highgate, Robert Isherwood, Esq. London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of Dle• 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, ;n the CM AistY of AI iddlesex.—TgeSday, July 18, 1837. I