The Sun. — London, England, 1837-04-28 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TIIE PUBLIC JOURNALS. In the Morning Post of the 4th of April instant, appeared the following article : " The:other (lay lye read an account of the Phrenis steamer having souk a Spanish boat, because it believed the crew were Cal-lists, and because they did not, answer the signal that was mule. But what right bad tic effierr of the Phwnix to fire on that boat, supposing, it wcie CArlist, as Great Britain' has abandoned the blockat:o of the Can tabrian coast ? Speak of a Durango, indeed! which is the more savage—to shoot a man who has landed to violate the law' of the land, and hr sour father, mother, or son, lii Set tire to yg.ur cottage, or your wife or da:!glitcr : or to fire a hr,,lside into an unarmed boat, in which the n..tives of the coast wore engaged in their own lawful aeairs—perhaps, by fishing, providing for the wants of their families? We have not, caned public attention to circum stances of this cruel act before, because we were desirous of' ascertaining that it was an English sailor, and not it Chris tii adventurer, who is accountable for it. Of its truth ti ere can be no doubt, and ice ask the people of England if tl ey will tolerate the empicyment of the British flag on a service of such cold-blooded barbarity ?" Although we were certain that this statement could nt t possibly be true, It'e avoided all notice of it till our it quirics should place us in possession of the real cir cumstances of the case. We have made the necessary inquirics, and our readeis may place the most implicit reliance on what we are about to lay before them. In consequence of a representation made to Lord John hay by the British merchants of Bilboa, who claind tl:e protection of his Majesty's cruisers, that certain small vessels or fishing-boats belonging to the insur gents were armed, and in the habit of boarding and plundering merchant vessels navigating, that coast, he instruc!ed the officers con m znding his Majesty's stean:- vessels, who were more constantly at sea, to keep a vigilant 100k -out, and to render every possible assistance to British traders and to vessels belonging to the loyal subjects of her Catholic Majesty, in order to prevent, if possible, the commission of these depredations. It appears that Commander Henderson, of his Majesty's steam-ship Phcenix, while in the ex ecution of his Lordship's orders, a little after four o'clock, P.M., of the 18th March, perceived a trincadore running along shore between Bern eo and Machichaco, which he had passed considerably out side of him. This trincadore was reported to have bottle up for Bermeo. Commander Henderson imme diately put back with the view of cutting her off from the land, supposing her to be one of the enemy's ves sels reported to bet on that part of the coast. The trincadore persisted in crossing the bows of the Phce vix, and although the helm was put up, and the way of the ship stopped, the mainmast of the trincadore came in contact with the jib-boom -of the Phcenix, and, having considerable way on her, she imme diately upset and went down, when unfortunately the lieutenant !in command, with two of the crew, perished. The remainder, twenty-two men, were saved by the boats of the Phoenix, when it was ascertained that the vessel was her Catholic Majes ty's gun-boat La Reyna Gobernadora, probably standing into Berme° with the intention of recon noitring. Not the smallest blame can attach to Commander Henderson for this unfortunate con lision, which happened from the unaccountable blun der of the commander of the trincadore. The cox swain declared to Commander Henderson that • he had told his officer what would happen if he persisted in standing on across the bows of the steamer ; but for this advice he was rewarded by being struck with his spy-glass. However this may be, it is quite clear that had the commander of the trincadore or gun-boat kept as good a look-out as Commander Henderson.did, the accident could not have occurred. Having placed before our readers this simple statement of the facts of the case alluded to in the Post, on the truth of "which they may confidently rely, they can have no difficulty in forming an opinion on the conduct of the Post in uttering svgross a libel against our brave officers. Be fore indulging in such a strain of vituperation it was the duty of the Post to have satisfied itself that there was some foundation for the charge. But in this in stance the libel is founded on pure fiction. Not a shot was fired by his Majesty's steam-ship ; and if' three lives were lost, this was solely owing to the want of due vigilance or skill on the part of the commander of the Spanish gun-boat.—Mornifig Chronicle. In the list of notices of motions to be made in the House of Commons, we find the following standing for Thursday, May 4 :—" Mr. Baines.—Select Com mittee to inquire whether the full amount of the first fruits and tenths has been paid by the several arch bishops and bishops, deans, canons, prebendaries, rectors, and vicars, in England anti Wales, in respect of tire several archbishoprics, bishoprics, deaneries, canonries, prebends, rectories, and vicarages, which are now possessed, orlhave been possessed, by them ; or how much less than the actual and full amount of such first-fruits and tenths has been paid by them ; and whether any and what proceedings sh - oUld be adopted to obtain the payment'of so much of the actual and full value of the first-fruits and tenths as has not been paid by them ; and whether airy and . what proceedings should be taken to obtain the pay ment of the full value of the first-fruits and tenths which shall hereafter become due in respect of such . archbishoprics, .bishoprics, deaneries, canonries, pre- . bends, rectories, and vicarages, or any of them." It is known to every one who has paid the slightest attention to the sub'ect, that first-fruits and tenths were originally exacted- by tire Pope under the pretence of being the (Ecumenical Pastor and High Priest of the Christian Church ; and that when Henry VIII. threw off' the Papal supremacy, he transferred them to the. Crown. They had till then been paid according to valuations made under the directions of the Papal Le gates ; but in the Act 26 Henry VIII., c. 3, it was ordered that they should be paid according to the in quisition and certificate of certain Commissioners ap pointed to inquire into the value of all the benefices in the kingdom, and not otherwise. According to that valuation, which is generally called the valua tion in tire King's books, they are paid at the present day. With the exception of a short - pe riod during the reign of Philip and Mary, the re venue of first-fruits and tenths remained in the Crown, until Queen Anne granted it to be ap plied to the augmentation of poor livings. While it remained in the Crown, a review of the valua tion made in the reign of Henry VIII. appears to have been more than once contemplated, for the pur pose of increasing the Royal revenue. Fuller in his Church history informs us, that a prej3ct of this kind was submitted to James 1., who asked the judg ment of the Lord Treasurer Cranfield upon it. Tire Treasurer returned the following answer :—" Sir, — You have ever been beheld as a great lover and ad mirer of-learned men, and you know clerpmen's edu cation is chargeable to them or their friends ; long it is before they get any preferment, which at last ge nerally is but small in proportion to their pains and expenses. Let it not be said that you gained by grinding them ; other ways less obnoxious to just Censure will be found out to furnish your occa sions." The King, proceeds Fuller, commended Cranfield, adding moreover, " I should have ac counted thee a ve):11 knave ifencouraging nre herein." The project, however, was revived in the reign of Charles 11., whose necessities drove him to have re course to the most iniquitous expedients in order to raise money. A...practice had been introduced of re quiring the clergy to give four bonds for four half yearly payments of the first-fruits ; and even though they were ready to pay down the amount at once, of compelling them nevertheless to pay the fees for the four boncls. _ This was sufficiently harsh and oppres sive. But one of tire worthy advisers of Charles 11., in order, as Bishop Kennett says, to pave the way for a new valuation of the first-fruits, introduced the-prac tice of demanding a fifth bond, to be sued and reco vered whenever a new valuation should take place. It is true that no attempt was ever made to enforce this fifth bond, but it was kept suspended as a scourge over the heads of the clergy ; and in the reign of James 11., when the clergy were to be terrified into an acqnies cence in the measures of the Court, empress menaces were thrown out that it would be enforced. In order, therefore, to relieve the minds of the clergy from all future apprehension on the subject, the following clause was added to the Act by which the revenue of first f nits and tenths was applied to the augmentation of poor livings :—" And whereas four bonds for four half yearly payments of the first fruits, as the same are .ated, and also a fifth bond for a further value or pay ment in respect of the same first fruits, have been required end taken from the clergy-, to their great and unneces nary burden and grievance ; for remedy thereof, be it enacted and declared by the authority aforesaid, that from and after the 25th day of March, in the year of Oh r Lord 170-1, one bond only, shell in such case be or required for tile our payments of the said first fruits, which said first fruits, as well as the tenths payable by the clergy, shall hereafter ha answered and l aid by them according to such rates and proportions re:hi as the same have heretofore been usually rated rand paid ; and no such fifth bond already given, frMn and after the said 25th of March, in the year he sued and recovered." It was seal rely pos eihle for the Legislature to use words more expressly .eelaring its intention that the clergy should never be 1 d upon . o pay Ii t fruits and tenths ace n.ding to a new va nation ; and from the date of that Act of Queen Anne, to the present moment, no found proposal for making such a valuation has ever been sulenitted to Parliament. Church reformers, it is true, have occasion ally thrown out suggestions on the subject ; among the rest the late Bishop Watson. He, if we mistake not, proposed that first fruits should be altogether abolished, Gut that the clergy should be required to pay tenths ac eording to the full value of their benefices. He disclaimed, however, all intention of subjecting existing incumbents to the increased payment : that, he said, would be con trary to all justice. Mr. Baines, however, the Whig Member for Leeds, lies other notions of justice ; he calls upon the Reformed House. of Commons to do that '' which," in the opini6'n of James 1., "no one but a very knaae would think of doing," and which even the profligate advisers of Charles 11., though they thought of it, did not venture to do. The exist ing incumbents of benefices in England and Wales have pail in respect of first fruits, and are annually paying in respect of tenths, the sums which they are by law required to pay, and are in possession of legal acquittances for the several payments. But Mr. Baines 1 1 proposes that a Select Committee should be appointed to inquire what proceedings should be adopted to ob tain from them the payment of the difference between the actual and full value of the first fruits and tenths, and the sums which they have thus paid. Can they be legally called upon to pay this difference ? If so, why appoint a Select Committee ? Why not at once di rect the law officers of the Crown to proceed against them for the debt ? Mr. Baines well knows that no thing is legally due ; but he hopes out of the Members of the reformed House of Commons to select a Com mittee which will report, that though nothing is due, something ought to be due. When in France the National Assembly passed the resolution for the abo lition of tithes, which drew from the Abbe Sieyes the bitter sarcasm—" These men wish to be free, though they know not how to be just," it was at least accom panied by a declaration that provision should be made for the clergy out of the national revenue. The leaders of that assembly were novices in the science of spo liation ; the march of intellect had only just begun ; they thought that some regard was due, in appearance at least, to the principles of justice. Mr. Baines rises superior to all such narrow prejudices. Men actuated by only an ordinary feeling of hatred against the clergy would have been satisfied with requiring them to pay the full value of the first fruits and tenths in future ; not so Mr. Baines ; he is tent upon making the payment retrospective—upon carrying it back through the whole period of the incumbencies of all the existing beneficed Clergy—of applying it not only in the case of the benefices which they now hold, but of those which they have ever held. A fictitious debt is to be conjured up by a Report of a Select Committee of the House of Commons, for the purpose of gratifying Mr. Baines's malignity, by con signing half the beneficed Clergy in England and - Wales to a gaol. We have felt it our duty to call the public attention to this atrocious notice, as afford ing a sample of the sort of justice which will be dealt out to the Clergy of the Established Church, if the Government of this country should ever pass into the halide of Mr. Baines and his associates : he is not acting alone in this matter, but in concert with the political Dissenters throughout the kingdom. The Clergy have been already menaced with the agitation of this question of first fruits and tenths, unless they acquiesce in the reasonable and equitable plan of Ministers for the abolition of Church-rates.—Times. A Bill entitled " the Freemen's Admission Bill," the object of which is to admit persons, duly qualified, to the freedom of Corporations without the payment of the stamp-duty now exacted on their admission, was read a second time in the House of Commons on Wednesday night, and during the debate thereon Lord John Russell made the gratifying announcement that it was his intention to propose a relaxation of the rate paying clause in the Reform Act which makes it ne c.'ssary for ten-pound householders to pay up all their taxes to the 6th of April. The abolition of the stamp duty will put an end to much corruption, especially the practice which it is notorious prevails in many places, of Parliamentary candidates paying for the admis sion of freemen on condition of securing their votes in the elections. It is, therefore, on this account, as well as on account of the extension it gives to the elective franchise, a measure eminently deserving the zealous support of every honest Reformer. In the discussion which took place on the merits of the Bill, certain speakers on both sides of the House seemed most strangely to confound the present state,of the Municipal Corporations with what it was pre viously to their reform. Sir R. Peel, for instance, vaunted his own scrupulous regard for the rights of freemen under the Reform Act, and taunted those _DOW so eager in their praise with being at that time insensible to their merits. As we cannot suppose Sir Robot so strangely stupid as not to perceive that the freemen, under the present Municipal regulations, are a totally different race fi om those of the old system, we must attribute this gross confo6nding of things per fectly distinct to that habit of mystification in which it is his Wont to indulge. Mr. Wakley, too, in echoing the taunts of the Right Honourable Baronet, seemed equally urry,indful of the distinction, though it must be evident to all `possessing even a slight acquaintance with the subject, or even to all utterly unacquainted with the particular case under consideration, that it is no proof of inconsistency, but of the reverse, to attack freemen fraudulently enfranchised under a corrupt system, and to defend the interests ai,d, rights of those freemen invested with their privi leges after that system has undergone a process of purification. It must be recollected that there are !i -mitations fixed to the -admission of freemen under the Municipal Reform Act, which almost completely pre vent those gross invasions of the franchise which pre viously prevailed ; and therefore, wher_ai it was then desirable to restrain, as much as possible, the encroach ments_ of corruption, it is now politic to enlarge the Sphere of municipal freedom. With respect to the modification purposed in the rate-paying clause, Lord J. Russell stated that it might be eligible to adopt the plan proposed by General Evans, which was to the ef• feet that those on the lists of householders for one year should be exempt from its operation, and that, it would be well, instead of April, to fix the time of payment the October of the previous year. This would undoubtedly be a great improvement ; but it would be far better to abolish the clause alto gether, its preservation, even in the modified form, being a vexatious and harassing infliction on the house holder, without any equivalent to the other interests of the State. Independently of the other objections which forbid its continuance, the mere fact of its making the exercise of a political tight the instrument of collecting the revenue is sufficient to induce its abolition. The law is already sufficiently stringent to enforce the pay ment of taxes without calling to its aid any extraneous assistance. Is it not enough to deprive the defaulter of his goods and his liberty, without debarring him also of his elective franchise, which he has a cer tain opportunity of exercising only once in seven years ? And that opportunity may be lost to him solely from not having his taxes paid up to the speci lied day. We trust that Lord John Russell will not leave his work unfinished by preserving this obnoxious clause in any form. Its presence is a disgrace to the Reform Act.—Morning Advertiser. The Marquis of Downshire will present to-night to the House of Lords the petition of the Protestants cf Ireland, agreed to at a public meeting held in Dubl n some time ago, at which the Noble Marquis presided. It is not improbable that on this occasion a general discussion may arise upon the situation and prospects of the Protestants of Ireland, as both are affected by the system of the existing Administiation. Of the seasonableness tuid propriety of such a discussion at the present moment there cannot be the least doubt ; nor Is it difficult to anticipate the effect which it must odnce upon every mind which is not wholly inac cessible to the united influence of sound argument and unquestionable fact. The " heavy blow and great discouragement to Protestanti s m" which Lord Melbourne and his colleagues have been, or have seemed to be, prepating ever since the moment when it became necessary Eur them to amalgamate more per fectly than before with Mr. O'Connell and his tail, in order to secure their return to place, have not yet taken effect, thanks to the protecting energy and firinn-ss of the House of Lords. But the duty of the Pro testant and Conservative branch of the Legislature can scarcely be deemed complete unless it institute, front time to time, as occasions arise, inquiries, with a view to ascertain how far the multiplication of " blows" less heavy, and of " discouragements" less conspicuous, may have served as a compensation to the Ministerial and anti-Protestant confederacy for the failure of their principal enterpriz,!—the defeat of their - main attack. That the Executive Government of Ireland has the power of inflicting blows of no inconsiderable weight, and discouragements of no slight efficacy, upon Pro testantism in that couatry—that these blows and dis couragements may be followed up with such incessant and systematic perseverance as, in their aggregate effect, to equal, if not to surpass the utmost efforts 'even of le gislative hostility—arc propositions which none will venture to contradict. Nor could much doubt be en tertained that all the power which the Executive Government possesses—independent of that hostile legislation which Ministers purpose, and the House of Lords triumphantly resists, of striking blows, and offering discouragements to Protestantism—is exerted to the utmost in Ireland, although no other evidence could be produced of the fact than the unmeasured panegyrics which Mr. O'Connell bestows upon the Irish Administration, the popularity of that Adminis tration wherever Mr. O'Connell is popular, and the fulsome homage paid to the principal Members of that Administration in such districts of Ireland as are most distinguished for Priestly domination, and for popular ignorance, superstition, and servility. The Papist Agitator still lends his unabated support to the Admi nistration, although the " heavy blow and great dis couragement to Protestantism" which Lord Melbo urne ~ and his colleagues contracted to inflict, has not vet, after the lapse of two years from the date of the pledge, been inflicted ; but, nevertheless, this support is not lent gratuitously, for the whole patronage of the Irish Government is devoted to reward agitation and to encourage Popery. Mr. O'Connell and his tail are stil zealously Ministerial, although the appropria tion principle has not been, and will not be, adopted by the Legislature ; but, nevertheless, Mr. O'Connell and his tail show no unbought zeal ; for the Executive Government of Ireland does all that any Government can do to intercept from the Protestant Church the re venues which by law and right are its own. Rebellion is threatened more than ever against the British Crown and Constitution, as the necessary consequence of Lord Melbourne and his colleagues being turned out of office, by the men who ceased to be the political enemies of Lord Melbourne and his colleagues, for the sake of obtaining their assistance to destroy the Protes tant Church. And as no legislative enactment preju dicial to the rights of the Protestant Church has flowed, or seems likely to flow, from the continuance in office of these inefficient statesmen, the swelling menace would seem as unnatural as it is insolent and sedi tious, but that, to atone for the absence of legisla tive hostility to Protestantism in Ireland, the Execu tive Government in that country has placed Protes tants under a kind of social ban ; has practically inter dieted them from aspiring to serve their country in any public capacity for which a Papist, qualified or un qualified, can be found ; has cut asunder as many as possible of the links which have hitherto connected the State with the Protestant Church in Ireland ; and, in a word, has made rapid strides towards reviving against the Protestants of Ireland the mortifying and degrading exclusions of the penal code, from which the Roman Catholics of that coun•ry have been progres • sively relieved by the growth of Protestant liberality. When it is found that the alliance between Ministers and the rebel agitators of Ireland, of which the legisla tive robbery of the Protestant Church was the founda tion, and its spoil the anticipated subsidy, still subsists in all, and more than all, its original force, although the robbery is seen to be impracticable, the inference is not dish, that an equivalent, in some other form, for the pro mised bribe, must be in regular course of payment. It scarcely requires any better evidence to convince ally man who is an impartial and dispassionate observer of the position of the various parties, that the equivalent thus rendered is at the expense of the Protestants of Ire land, nor will any observer of this description feel sur prise that in such circumstances the Protestants of Ireland should appear before the Legislature to coin plain of injury and insult, and to petition for redress. The injury sustained by the Protestants of Ireland will, however, be substantiated before the House of Lords by proofs, direct, abundant, and umanswerable, showing that all, arid more than all, is matter of sub stantial fact, which, if nothin g ; were known but the close alliance betwe e n th e Administration and the bitter enemies of Protestantism, would - have been mat ter only of reasonab:e suspicion and legitimate infer ence.—Morning Post. As long as the fate or Greenacre remained to be finally decided upon by the King in Council, we ab stained from Making any observations. on the case, be cause, not being able to say anything favourable to the culprit, and not thinking it proper to make any obser vations that might be prejudicial to a human. being in his dreadful situation, we resolved to observe a chari table silence. The fate of the culprit being now fixed, presents the necessity of our remaining silent any longer. The crime of murder is bad enough under any circumstances—we mean of course the crime of pre meditated and deliberate murder ; but there are some instances of that crime, which occasionally occur, that, from their peculiar atrocity, and the horrible or dis gusting incidents by which they ar2 accompanied, throw all other offences of the same tarne into the shade. The murder of Hannah Brown is one of those cases, the circumstances of which are so revolting— so appalling to the imagination and the feelings, that it is calculated to fix the stigma of barbarism upon a civi lised people, for crimes of this enormity always affect. in some degree the national character. Such was the. crime of Cooke, who, a few years ago, ensnared and mur dered his creditor - Mr. Paas, cut the body to pieces, and endeavoured to get rid of the mangled memorials of his guilt, by consuming the remains of his victim upon a quick fire—a scene 'which seemed to realise even the diabolical horrors of German romance. For that crime Cooke was sentenced to 1 e hanged in chains, that his body, as it rotted in the sun and wind of heaven, might be a risible and terrible warning to deter others from similar crimes. We protested against the revival of the posthumous punishment of the gib .bet in the 19th century—a punishment unworthy of civilized justice, because it wreaks an impotent re venge upon the lifeless body of the criminal, and un der pretence of abhorring barbarity, practices bar barism l—spectacles of abomination committed in the name of justice, disgust the good and the humane, only serve to render . the temper of the cruel more cruel, and the passions of the bad more brutal. So we argued when Cooke was sentenced to be hanged in chains, and the result proved the correctness of our foregone conclusion. Scarcely was the body, with all the - disgusting preparation for making the spectacle en .dure, suspended upon the gibbet, when the lowest and worst of the rabble of Leicester congregated around it as a centre of attraction, and actually on Sunday established a sort of gibbet Air, drinking , gin and playing cards, while death in its 'most hideous form glaring down upon them only gave additional zest to their horrible revelry. The respectable inha b:tants of Leicester were obliged to memorialise the Hume-office to get rid of the abomination. The nui sance which a mistaken sense of justice had inflicted upon their city, public policy found it necessary to re move. The body was taken down and buried, the experiment of the Whig Ministers to revive a barbarous practice was as unsuccessful as all such experiments ought to be—verlying to the utmost of our prediction. In former times, or even At the later time to which we anode : Green acre would have been sentenced to rot upon a gibbet. Courts of justice can no longer express their ab horrence of an atrocious act of homicide, by so disgust ing a practice. The body of the murderer is now or dered to be interred within the preci►scts of the prison. We exerted ourselves to get the gibbet law repealed, and it no longer disgraces the statute•book. We were indebted to Mr. Ewart for successfully taking up the question in Parliament. Greenacre has had the be nefit of another law for which we struggled—the law which abolished the precipitate execution of the mur derer within forty-eight hours after judgment pro nounced. TO Mr. Aglionby the public are indebted for carrying a Bill to that effect through Parliainept. What was our object in proposing and advocating that alteration in the law ? We had a twofold object. We wished to give time for persons unjustly convicted, to adduce proofs of their intocence, and to afford to the guilty a little time to prepare for death, and to endea vour to make their peace with Heaven. The law which ordered the person convicted of murder to he executed within forty-eight hours, was a passionate and re vengeful law. In its eagerness to make the example as impressive as possible, by following closely on the sentence, it overlooked altogether the possible fallibility of human tribunals. It left no time for the reparation of a fatal mistake, and it was reck less of destroying the souls of guilty men, in put ting their bodies to death. We have said that Green= acre has had ,the benefit of this improvement in the law. Vie ought to correct that statement, and say he might have had it. 13ut we have reason to be lieve that the prolonged time has neither been devoted to obtaining proofs of his innocence, or bringing his guilty mind to a sense of its depravity, and preparing him for death. If any doubts had remained of his guilt after the evidence given upon his trial and own admissions, we should have respected the humane zeal of those persons who, entertaining such doubts them selves, endeavoured to procure the means of proving that the prisoner was the victim of a hasty and pre judiced decision ; but we have not heard that any part of the time which has elapsed since the prisoner's trial has been thus employed. If we are to believe the statements which have circulated through the Jour nals from day to day, and many of them have been put forward with an air of authority, the prisoner has been incited and encouraged to pursue a course which could neither tend to shake the public con viction of his guilt, nor prepare him for the awful change which he is about to undergo. Day after day has he been engaged in adding one sin to an other, by stringing together with much cunning, but with discretion, palpable and unavailing falsehoods. We fear that some officious, intermeddling, and not very wise people, have encouraged hopes in the prisoner which the fond love of life, to a person in his situation, would naturally exaggerate, and that he has neglected the precious moments which ought to have been given to religious purposes, in his vain efforts to make a per severance in fiction, tantamount to proof of guilt. Upon this subject the Globe of last night had some judicious observations, of which we cannot avoid quoting a portion, as exceedingly appropriate and de serving of extensive circulation. We adopt these sen timents with the more pleasure, because on the subject of criminal law reform, we had formerly a good deal of controversy with the Globe, butive believe our views on that question are not so much at variance as they formerly were. Our Evening Contemporary says : " The prolongation of the period which is allotted to a convicted murderer, between his sentence and the execu tion of it, was a just as well as a merciful measure ; as was fully proved on the first conviction (we believe) which took place after it was enacted, when the respite thus afforded enabled one of the accused to adduce such evidence sub sequent to the trial as has thrown very great doubt at least on his participation in the act. But if it continues to be misused as grossly as it now appears to be, under the authority and permission of official personages in the city of London, we shall be tempted to think the scandal and mischief attending it a serious counterpoise to its good effects. "We allude to the case of Greenacre, and-the disgust ing details which the press every day furnishes us of his conversation and mode of life, in that last and solemn in terval which is now allowed him. The Sheriff and his offi cials appear to-take vast credit to themselves for their strict surveillance over the unhappy prisoner, and the careful manner in which he is watched and guarded, in order that he may be forthcoming on the day appointed ; while at the same time they evince the most utter neglect (if the news papers are to be believed) of the solemnity, not to say the decency, due to his situation. They seem to keep him as a sort of monster to be exhibited as a particular fa vour, first to their private friends, and next to such persons of quality as may choose to honour them by applications for the purpose. And we are sorry to see that men of station and character are so infected by the vulgar appetite for horrors, as to profit by this most unjustifiable indulgence. While the mob without are gratifying. their own less unfeeling curiosity by gaz ing on hideous pictures of the murder, buying up dying speeches and confessions, and paying their shillings for admission to the real house' where the act was performed, and carrying away such relics as they can lay their hands on—noblemen and gentlemen are introduced one by one to hold long conversations with the prisoner, discussing with this consummate villain his religious opinions, and listening with vast satisfaction to his self-complacent details, full of all the vanity which always most strongly characterises the most atrocious criminals, respecting his former life and the horrible event itself. A list of the:names of these distin guished viiiters appeared in the Sunday papers ; we have ❑o wish to recapitulate them." In c ommenting the other day upon the trial of the French assassin Meunier and the persons whom he accuses, we alluded to the evil consequences which re sult from the monstrous taste that even in the metropolis of this great nation, makes great criminals the objects of extraordinary attraction, and lavishes a dangerous cele brity upon their crimes. The public folly has been carried in this respect to a most extravagant pitch in regard to Greenacre, and his miserable concubine Gale. In allusion to that public folly, and the Monstrous taste of persons whose station and education ought to induce one to expect that they would set better examples to the people, the observations of the Globe are not too se vre. lithe accounts of the interviews between Green acre and such persons which- have circulated through the press for some time past, are only partly true, we must say that to make Newgate a show-box like the menagerie of the Tower, where people go to see " lions" and " other monsters," is a great disgrace to the Corporation of London. We hope this is the last time the right feeling and good sense of the better dis posed portion of the pubic will be allowed to be shocked by niakino. the cell of a condemned criminal a sort of place of exhibition, where select patties are admitted by magisterial showmen to the privileged qualification of their curiosity at the " private view." Now let us advert to another topic—the-approaching execution of tile criminal—the public have not now to learn what our opinions arc as to punishments of blood and their demoralising effects upon the multitude, of which strong practical evidence was afforded in Pegs worth's case ; but this is not the topic which we are about to discuss. The intense and extraordinary in terest excited by the crime of Greenacre, and the mu tilation and distribution about various parts of the'town of the body of his victim, make us fear that some la mentable occurrence may take place at his execution, on account of the pressure of the immense multitude which, it is anticipated, will be drawn together, as to so-::e popular pastime of more than ordinary attrac tion. Need we remind the public that at the execu tion of two criminals in front of Newgate, named Holloway and Haggarty, about thirty years ago, the pressure of the crowd was so great that eighteen or twenty persons were suffocated or train pled to death on the spot, and a great number of wounded carried to St. Bartholomew's Hos pital, of whom many subsequently died, making the number that perished by that dreadful catastrophe not less, we believe, than thirty ? Thus did they who eagerly rushed, as to a melo-dramatic show, to enjoy the dying agonies of two of their fellow -creatures, in flict similar agonies on each other. Let us remind the authorities that Greenacre, being a criminal from Sur rey, ought to be executed at Horsemonger-lane, the proper place of execution for Surrey. It is not likely so great a crowd wou ld co ll ect t h ere as may b e anti cipated if the execution takes place amid the dense po pulation of the city. For our own part, we should not dislike, either, that those amateurs in the " pastime of hanging," of both sexes, who have hired panes of glass at the windows opposite the place of execution, should be disappointed of their expected " treat," and left to lament that they had paid their money and had not " seen the show." Such depravity of taste is very closely allied to depravity of rowels. They, whose pleasutes are barbarous and cruel, must set little value on the virtues of eivilizatiou.—illorning Herald. PROSPECTS OF TORYISM. ( From the Pilot. REPRESENTATION OF THE CITY OF LONDON- DERRY. That Toryism is generally corruption and deceit in its very essence, few who know the workings of that. party will be apt to deny ; but that it smut times, rarely to be sure, but still sometimes, is the offspring of fanaticism, or a de fective notio❑ of what really is sound principle, is equally true. If Toryism has its Peels and Lyndhursts, the Jona than Wilds and Ikey. Solomons of a political faction—it has also its Kenyons and Newcastles, who arc the dupes of designing men, and who, while 1 hey are treading the devious path of error in the shadow and darkness of a pitiable and are, in reality, the unitspoeting calamities of society, think themselves, good easy souls, the paragons of perfec tion—the benefactors of the human race. Who does not detest such Machiavels—such trading impostors as the Peels and the Lyndhursts, who, to attain their own objects of ambition or emolument, would (rise a people over to all the horrors of a civil war," and shut the gates of mercy on mankind Who does not pity such a creature as poor old Kenyon, the plundered dupe of a party—the cat's paw of the intriguing and unprincipled Fairman, when you be hold him, like Daniel in the lion's den, or to employ a better simile, like Humphrey in prison, preaching honesty and benevolence to an auditory composed of pickpockets and burglars ? , Peel is decidedly the most unprincipled political trickster —it would be an abuse of language to call him a statesman —of modern times. Deprive him of a frothy and sophis tical power of declamation, which no person of the least discernment would characterise as oratory when placed be side the glorious and soul-stirring efforts of a Fox, a Burke, a Sheridan, or a Grattan—take away from him that Sioface candour, the value of which is now tolerably well understood and appreciated by the sensible portion of the community of all sects and parties, and Peel sinks down to a very mediocre individual. Sir Robert Peel has a brother-in-law, and this brother in-law glories in being thought the double of his would-be illustrious relative. In some particulars we will confess that George Robert Dawson, the ci-devant Derry Dawson,whose reputation, unlike " the light of other (lays," produces no very pleasant reminiscences, has succeeded in many particulars in achieving the object of his ambition. Shuffling and insincere, a blustering bragadocia, with about as superficial a head as ever graced the shoulders of the most wretched red-tape man— " Judas Dawson," as the Standards and Mails used to desig nate him, is not a bad imitator, it must be allowed, of all that we diselver contemptible without a scintilla of the talent, slight as it is, of Surface Peel. At a time when the Irish Court was a scene of vice and frivolity that might have com pared with its Galilean rival in the days of Bourbon volup tuousness, and when the Lady Clares and Cahirs, and the Madame Dawsons, at an humble distance, endeavoured to imitate the Pompadours of another country, by amusing the leisure hours of the Duke of Buckingham and his gay com panions, with the relaxations of the "cucha-cuchoo," the light of day dawned upon young Dawson. Well trained up in the wayhe should go, in due time he appeared in pub.ic as the mock representative of the county of Londonderry, but in reality the nominee of the Beresford family. For years seventeen, with a slight intermission, did he sit on the Treasury benches of St. Stephen's, as the brawling advocate of all that was anti-Irish, the transplanted Sir Boyle Roach of all that was ridiculous, the bloodless Bobadil in assailing upright and retiring men, and pocketed some 60 or 70,000/. of the public money, in the shape of salary, without ever performing one act for the country in general or the locality which sent him to Parliament worth recording—without delivering himself of one speech, or rather rigmarole, that he himself and his friends ought not to wish to be buried in oblivion, a fate that most assuredly has already befallen all his senatorial harangues. During this period he has been a complete " Jim Crow," as a politician—leaped from one ex treme to the other, and with an alacrity quite amazing, save to one of his versatile powers, alternately took up and aban doned the same set of principles. Yet, gracious heaven, this is the very man (Ohl most consistent and honest Toryism) that at the present moment is seekinc , the sweet voices of a more motley group of e l ec t ors i n Londonderry, consisting of high Tories, lbw Radicals, Orangemen, Roman Catholics, publicans, and sinners, than ever figured on this " spot called earth," since the days that honest Sir John Falstal refused to march with the ragged regiment through Co ventry. But he is a most melancholy specimen of a Tory adventurer, a most cheerful index of Tory prospects—as a proof of which we have only to declare that our old friend the Londonderry Journal, which we suppose we must call a Whig, abuses him tooth and nail, while its antagonist, the Derry Sentinel, a Conservative print, throws him not one crumb of comfort ; and a third, the Londonderry Standard a personification of the " Little Pedlington Observer," whose peaceful motto was— Each party to please, and each difference to smother, What in one line we state, we deny in another-- Blows hot and cold, a happy illustration of the fable of the man and the satyr. We must tear ourselves away from this subject to-day ; but it will be only to return to it with renewed vigour, when we shall use our lash with an equal hand upon the base Orangeman and degenerate Radical, who, deserting all principle, could coalesce to support George Robert Dawson. Dr. Flanklin observes that the only animals created to drink water are those who, from their conformation, are able to lap it on the surface of the earth ; whereas all those who can carry their hands to their mouths were destined to enjoy the juice of the grape. Great distress prevails in the glove trade in Worces ter, a large number of hands being out of employ, and, with their families, suffering great privations. It is most honour able to the workmen employed by Messrs. Dent, that they have contributed 261. for the relief of their distressed brethren, and Messrs. Dent have given 301. for the same purpose. Since the introduction of French gloves the number of master manu facturers in Worcester, which in 1826 was 140, has declined to 68. Of these, with more than one-third, the demand is so limited that they cannot venture to employ any hands but their own apprentices. The distress of the case is infinitely height ened by the fact that, besides numbers who once, as masters, knew better days, and are now in the decline of life, a large portion of the sufferers are females, and have, upon every ground of feeling and morality, a strong claim upon the consideration of the public. There is no improvement in the demand for goods ; and the disastrous accounts received from America, within the last few days, almost exclude the hope of any shipping orders for this season. The home trade, although dull, is not in that stagnant condition that the London and shipping trade now is ; and those manufacturers engaged in supplying the home mar -1 ket, have turned off comparatively few workmen. We do not expect that we shall have much improvement before July or August. Little or nothing is doing in wool ; short wools are lower, but long combing wools maintain th e i r p resent pr i ces better. Cotton yarn, of the lower qualities, has been reduced n the past week 2s the 10Ib. bundle. —Leicester Chronicle. There are many physicians, it is well known, in Paris, who give advice to the poor gratuitously. One of them, of extensive practice, frequently noticed an individual among his patients whose dress and appearance bespoke the most ab ject misery, but whose manner of expressing himself showed that he had moved in a different sphere. The physician, having attended to his disorder for some time, at length told him that he considered it removed, and showing him a register, pointed out to bins two lists, one for those who paid, and the other for those whose poverty would not enable them to do so, and asked him on which he would wish his name to be in. scribed. " Good God," replied the apparent beggar, " you easily perceive that I inn not rich." " Sir," replied the doctor, you are M. X—; you possess an income of 100,000 fr. ; you owe me 50 Louis, which you may pay me or not, as you choose ; but if you do not pay me, the whole City of Paris shall be informed of your conduct. The next day the pretended beggar called at the doctor's house in a superb equipage. The Chodruc Ducks of the former day was now metamorphosed into a man of fashionable appearance and man ners. '• Doctor," said he, " here are two notes of I,ooof. each ; be discreet." On Thursday an extraordinary and distressing acci dent occurred at Lochrin Distillery, Edinburgh, by the giving way of a building which was of great extent, and supposed to be very safely and substantially erected. The premises were five floors high, and contained a large quantity of grain, viz., from three to four thousand quarters of barley arid malt. About one o'clock in the afternoon, the workmen in the distillery and the inhabitants around were alarmed by a report like thunder; but nothing could be seen for some time but thick clouds of ' dust. As soon as the persons about the establishment recovered from their alarm and confusion, it was discovered that there were four men in the building when it gave way—two on the ground floor, and two on the first floor, and that they were buried in the ruins. About twenty others hail only a short time before the accident left that to go to another part of the premises. About a hundred men were immediately set to work to remove the grain and rubbish, which lay in a confused mass upon the unfortunate sufferers, and one of the bodies was soon discovered, quite dead. It appeared that he had been almbst immediately suffocated, and two of the others were sub sequently found, but one is . i, still missi ng . Th e i r names arc Adam Garvie, John Balman Marcus Meiklcjohn, an d J o h n Cooper. The building, which in a moment thus became a heap of ruins, had all the appearance of being a most substan tial erection, and, like the other granaries on the premises, had a number of iron beams carried through the walls, and strongly bolted on the outside ; yet with a ll t hi s apparent security, and without the slightest indication, it suddenly yielded to the superincumbent weight, and fell to the ground, carrying with it devastation and death. Several small houses near it were crushed to atoms, and many persons had almost teiraeulous escapes, but no persons besides the four men mentioned lost their lives. The top of the wall in falling broke in the roof of a building containing several large copper boilers, and knocked in one of the largest of them, capable of containing 70,000 or 80,000 gallons. One man saved himself by taking refuge under a furnace fire, though in imminent danger of being scalded to death by the water which escaped from the fractured coner,—Abridged from the Caiedonion Affrofrk AMENDMENT OF THE MARRIAGES AND REGISTRATION ACTS. A. Bill has been in'.rodu;!cd into Parliament. It begin'r . in its enaeting part by e xplaining, that wherever ment ions ` made of any notice, or of the Registrar's certificate of ant notice, the same shall be construed respectively to mean the notice to be given to the Superintendent Registrar, and the certificate thereof tc be issued by the Superintendent 111' gistrar. entry ltfurtherofd a t e n n e a enacts, after e t ,. 11 the irth a certificate l b c o fseannty4dg t e i o a n e s! gistrar or Superintendent Registrar, as the case may be O s ° whom the Minister's certificate shall have been according to the provisions of the said Act) to the Reistra r ' General. It provides that Superintendent Registrars undulY;• i b s ; suing licences for the solemnization of marriage!, st' 3ll guilty of felony. • Clause 4 corrects a clerical err -, and gubstitutes in t he . Act " offence" for " o ff ender." By clau se 5, t h e Registrar-General's certificate of frivir delivered lous caveat is to be evidence in the recovery of costs. . Clause 6 fixes the c omm encemen t o f the marine ragas' ter-book after the last day of June now next ensuing. Clause 7 allots extra-parochial places in Registrars tricts, according to the direction of the Registrar-Gen era '. with the consent of the Poor-law Commissioners. By the Bth clause the Registrar-General is authorised t e unite distri c t s ; an d by th e 9th h e may di v ide par°eh i ' Unions. By the 10th, it is enacted that if Guardians neglec t form Registrar's districts, Poor Law Commissioners or form them. If the Guardians neglect to fill up vacancies, the Iteg A n trar-General (by the 11th c l ause ) i s au th or ised to " • them up. The 19. th clause empowers the G uar di ans to b° 1 1: money for providing Register Offices ; and by the clause;if they neglect to provide a Register Office, Re trar-General may direct it to be provided. By the 14th, the Registrar-General is to limit the oust' ber of Registrars of Marriage. The 15th enacts that the costs of Parochial garr h m Register, and other books and forms, shall be paid by churchwardens out of the moneys in their hands apP l i 6 " to providing the requisites for Divine Service. The certified copies of register books (are by the 1 0 directed) to be made quarterly ; and by the 17th, the nalty for neglecting to send certifiedcopies of registerb n° o for one calendar month, to forfeit a sum not exceeding to pounds. The 18th, and last clause, enacts that every person 11 , 1 , r fore whom, by the said Acts, or either of them, an oa . is directed to be taken, is authorized to administer tb same. " The leaves of the cactus-bush," says M Thomas Campbell, i n hi s i n t erest i ng l etters f rom t he Sor os " are thickly covered with p r i c kl es , w hi c h, w h en t h e y get Pif, animal flesh, are with difficulty coaxed out of it." " fecting story," he adds, " is told of a Dutch family who I ', f o country house near this city ( Al g i ers .) I n t h e house t he, , were five plump, interesting d aug ht ers , w h o , i n an ev il h ° w . . gave their garments to be washed to an ignorant Europ; laundress. She hung them them out to dry on these -Pr i bushes, and such evils were entailed on the lovely a we rers fog , them, that they could neither sit nor recline with comfort , a Week or two afterwards." To apply this tale. The Clef, arc fond of speaking of the Ch urc h un d er t h e similit u ee of a vine; for our parts, we think the cactus-bush a °di apt emblem. To a Dutch fatness our Divines generallY the peculiar sensibility of Englishmen as to discomfort, $ O , they seem all at this moment t o wear garments w i t h cl e at prickles plentifully concealed i n th em . E ac h o f t h em h a s °t o than one thorn in his flesh. Th e Bi s h ops s i t on t h orns in os House of Lords, and are every inst an t s t ar ti ng up to giv° leof to their irritability. The l e a nes t o f th em appears as une o as the mast fleshy : Dr. Philpotts, for example, who se e , bi possessed of the very demon o f di squ i et , to b e exorc i se d cell a summons to a richer see—Devonport Independent. COUNTY-RATES.—On Wednesday last, at 11 ° °° ' a well-attended public meeti ng o f th e owners an d oceuPiert of land in Leicestershire was held in the Nisi Prins Cour t the Castle, to take into consideration the propriety of P e i bo tionin,g Parliament in favour of vesting in the rate-payers: e l power of electing the parties by whom County-rates are le rl . and expended. A requisition ( s i gne d b y persons of 0pe",,,„ 10 politics) had been presented t o Si r A rt h ur Grey Hazzlerigv Bart., the High She r iff, p ra yi ng hi m to call the moll but the Hon. Baronet declined to accede to this request. lied the Committee appointed by the requisitionists then aPP:: c h to the County Magi s trat es f or t h e use o f t h e Castle, i n w"I to assemble independently of th e Sheriff. The Magistr ates . consented.—Leicester Chronicle.—[The object of the mee tiol i , was to support the introducti o n o f th at representat i ve P ig t ",, ciple into the management of the county fund which o ' o Hume unsuccesfully brought forward for adoption in the H Ol/ ' of Commons.] Our eastern county mem b ers , and some other m-0 r: ,., bers, waited oa the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturn to try to obtain a further postponement of the collection' the hop duty. The answer they received was, that the C 1 31; cellor of the Exchequer had l a t e ly re f use d s i m il ar app li ca tio a made by some of the gre a t i nteres t s o f t h e country, an d ; he could not consistently w ith hi s d uty assent to any fart, postponement ; but that h e was rea d y to enterta i n t h e quwo tion against another year as to whether any alteration 013 be made of the times of p a y men t, so as to ren d er t h e m 0)°0 , 4 , convenient to the hop plant e r, w i t h out r i s ki ng any l oss to t"" revenue.—Sussex Advertiser. A letter from Boulogne-sur-Mer says—c , The from England arrived here three days this week between 0 - 0 and ten o'clock in the morning. Vessels can enter bet the jetties five and six ho urs a f ter hi g h water, wh i c h s h o ws i t o, decided excellence of thi s p or t. I t appears t h at the Eng.,lll, mail-packets are no lon ger un d er t h e di rect i on o f t h e P"" office, but under the Admiralty, who have sent an officer t° 1 1; side at Dover to sup e ri n t en d t h em . Si nce t hi s changa tdi. packets always steer for B ou l ogne w h en t h ey f ear any illWeli ment at Calais. If this s y stem i s a d opte d , l etters w ill or - miss or be delayed." P HALF-PAY.---The following i s a sca l e o f the galf pay of military officers belonging to the vark,us Power' ° Europe : • Sub- Lieutenants.—F rance , m i n i mum 6001 . , rneal— dattO f 1;000f. ; England, 1,360 f. ; A ustr i a, 520 f. ; Bavaria, Spain, 840 f. ; Hesse, 7041. ; Netherlands, 756 f. ; pi ° 4451. ; Russia, 1,300 f. ; Wurtemberg, 1,315 f. no t; Lieutenants.—France, minimum 8001., maximum England, 1,825 f. ; Austria, 5201. ; Bavaria, 1,3001. ; 1`1341. ; Hesse, 8971. ; Netherlands, 8641. ; Prussia, o'r" Russia, 1,600 f. ; Wurtemberg, 9 ,495 f. „t pit Captains.—France, m i n . 1,50 0 f., max. 2,000 f. ; rANlig; 3,194 f. ; Austria, 1,560 f. ; B avar i a, 2,600 f. ; Spain, 1, 1.,j Hesse, 2,757 f. ; Neth er l an d s , 1,7 28 1 . ; Pruss i a, Russia, 1,700 f. ; Wurtenibur,g, 9,295 f. mot; Chefs de Battalion.—F rance , m i n. 1,500 1 ., max. A,--„tie England, 4,344 f. ; Au s t r i a , 2,0 80 1 . ; B avar i a, 3,380 f. • .ra iM - 1,944 f. ; Hesse, 3,871 f; N et h er l an d s, 2,160 f. ; 1,8551. ; Russia, 2,080 f. ; Wurteinbcrg, 14458 f. 400 t! Lieutenant-Colonels.—Franc e , min. 1,8001., max. ` 2,- na iti, England, 5,0191. ; A us t r i a , 2, 600 f. ; B avar i a, 3,900 f. ; 2,106 f. ; Hesse, 4,753 f. ; Netherlands, 2,592 f. ; P c " - 1,8571. ; Russia, 2,400 f. ; Wortemberg, 2,868 f. 111 04 Colonels —Franc e , m i n . 2,40 0 1 ., max. 3,000 f. ; 11:"„gr,sr,i 6,806 f. ; Austria, 3,1301. ; Bava r i a , 4,6801. ; S pa i n . 2, sli p Hesse, 5,521 f. ; Neth er l an d s , 3,2 40 f. ; P russ i a, 2,875; Kti" 3,200 f. ; Wurtemberg, 4,5901. sor Major- Generals.— F i ance , m i n. 3,000 1 ., max 4,000.. r ; Ho r s e, land, 11,407 f. ; A ustr i a , 5, 200 f. ; S pa i n, 3,250 1 . ; r,;5111 8,7361. ; Netherland s . 5,184 f. ; P russ i a, 4,173 1 . ; " B,ooof. ; Wurtemberg, 6,835 f. nog; Lieutenant- Gener a l s . —F rance , m i n. 4,000 1 . , England, 14,600 f. ; A us t r i a , 7,80 0 1 . ; S pa i n, 7,500 f. ; 0 " 0 ,5 - int 9,890 f. ; Netherlands, 6,480 f. ; P russ i a, 5,107 f. ; ' 10,684. ; Wurtemberg, 8,973 f, _ "f • PLATED CORNER DIS O 0 0 , with Strong- Silver Edges a n d H an dl es .—A S et o f Four . 0 02 Corner Dishes and Covers are offered, complete, for Eight qui 01 , or a set with richly ornamented Edges, Handles, &c., for leu gig neas. The Handles t a k e o ff th e C overs ; t h e set t h us f o rra, ol • Dishes when required. T. COX SAVORY'S, Workin?: u , mith, Silversmith, and Watchmaker, 47, Cornhill, London. , 400 0 N.B. A variety of S econ dh an d W atc h es may b e se lected ' all price Two Guineas each, Warranted. . C. ,tai „ BIR7IIS. On the 15th inst., at Sidmouth, Devon, the lady of C I O S. Maling, 6-3 th Regiment, N. 1., of a daughter. f . 111 On the 26th i ns t., i n N ort h ampton-p l ace, Canon b ur y • I ‘'" . Rotton, of a son. osr t, I On the 14th inst., a t llawkstone, the lady of Sir 11. Hil l ' , ALP., of a son. _...-/ MARRIED. Lo rd ' On the 27th in s t., a t St. P ancras N ew Ch urc h, ist° Esq., of Trinidad-place, Islington, surgeon, third son of the,s,.lo. Rev. Dr. Lord, of N or thi am , an d of Barfreyston, Ken t ' , g t° o. Garet, eldest dau g ht er o f J. B. Sh arp, E sq., o f Kentish -tow DIED. coy nl On the 2d inst., Eli nor , w id ow o f Th omas Nil s on, Or rn the Park Theatre, On New York. the Set. the 20th inst., at Tewke s bury Pa r k, Gl ouce stershire , pi Joslth Shapland. s On the 25th inst., He nr y D . 11 . W a k e fi e ld, age d two 1 11'1 of seven months, son of W. S. W a k e fi e ld, E sq., o f Hi g hgate' , w ife On the 22d inst., at C ar b on H a ll, N otts, M rs . Ramsde"• R. Ramsden, Esq. f Si t 11. ' On the 25th inst., at B a th. Lady Browurigg, relict °' biM Brownrigg, Bart., G.C.8., of Hilstone House, Monmouth' , , On the 26th inst., i n B rompton - square, Mi ss E. Shurr• 91 , " On the 24th in s t., i n A run d e l. street, P anton - s quare, ' George, third son of G. A. W ar d, E sq ., o f Wi s b e ch. ple p ° r , On the 21st inst., i n St owe, Gloucestershire, Mrs. 1 0 '. 7r Soo' Jenkins, elde s t si s t er o f t h e R ev. S . Jenkins, of Rocking' setshire. On the 22d inst., Mr. Wm. Cutts, of Woolwich. ; f iat #lls On the 26th inst., George Alexander John, only sur_ oo . f A of J. A. H ess i ng , Esq., olbion-terrace, Wandsworth-r...,01.,„. On the 6th imt., at Nice, Richard Byrne, Esq., of Lileiirt,7 On the 25th inst., at Netherton House, Andover, '" Henry Lance, eight days after giving birth to a d a ughter iovr 001 0: On the 24th inst., at Greenwich, Mrs. Williams, wit late John Williams, Esq., of that place, and of Bowls, , terham, Kent. a ged On the 25th inst., at Brighton, Johnston Darlot, "a' London Printed and PubliPhed by MURDO YOU- N the gO Ol 11j, Strand, at The Sun Office. No. IP, Strand, in of Middlesex.--Friday, Arra 183?. - fIIE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1837.