The Sun. — London, England, 1837-09-12 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS __- Nothing but the marvellous has attractions for the Standard. " The Ribbon conspirators," it Last night repeats, " have returned the Irish majority; and there is not a Member of that majority who does not know the influence by which he has been returned." The H ratian rule, " Nec Deus istersit nisi dignus vindice nodes," may be advantageously appealed to in this case. What necessity is there for a conspiracy to effect that which the people of themselves are inclined to do ? The Members returned-for Ireland are truly the representa tives of the peoples' choice. The Orange-Tories will not, surely, have the audacity to maintain that they are not detested by the great body of the people in three provinces at least. The most they can pretend to is to bribe 01 intimidate the electors ; and the Irish peasantry, knowing that their Orange landlords have no sympathy with them, and would punish them un relentingly for any refusal to obey their most tyran nical mandates, may, from a sense of common danger, have been strongly impressed with the necessity of making common cause in some cases against the combination directed to crush them. The rela tions between landlord and tenant, indeed, are such in Ireland, from the occupation of a piece of land being necessary to existence, that the peasantry are driven to combine for mutual protection. It requires no prophet to foretell that if the Ballot, or some equivalent, be not adopted in England and Scotland, the unjustifiable pretensions of the Tories will lead to combinations for self defence among the electors. " But," says the Standard, "we have Mr. O'Connell's authority for the fact, that in the very last summer Ribbonmcn as sembled in Dublin in vast numbers—in such num bers as to burst the gaols, and to load the trans port ships and the gibbets." And then it refers to the reports of the " Pacificators." Mr. O'Con nell has too much penetration not to be aware that a population constantly verging on extreme destitution is under a strong temptation to lock to secret societies for relief. But for that very reason no man has more earnestly denounced these societies than he has done. His language to the people has always been, "Do not suffer yourselves to be drawn in. The moment you belong to a secret society you are at the mercy of any scoun drel who chooses to swear against you. You cannot prevent spies from joining these societies, and what ever designs they choose to attribute to you, your mouths aro sealed." Mr. O'Connell, who is not defi cient in tact and foresight, has always, it appears, strenuously opposed that to which he is indebted for his influence. Surely Englishmen have too much good sense to be led away by such contradictory non sense as the Standard would palm on them. Mr. O'Connell 'is popular because his countrymen know that but for him they would still have been the slaves of their Orange tyrants. The instinct of self-preser vation leads them to confide in one whose heart they know to be with them, and whose power is their rock of safety. The Liberal Members returned for Ireland are believed by the people to be the honest and zealous cham pions of the Reform cause, and the opponents of Toryism areassociated in the minds of the Irish with all that is base and bad. Were we to see the Irish people return Orangemen, then we might say, this is unaccount able—this strange effect must have had some equally strange cause--what conspiracy has been at work ? But a conspiracy to cause Irishmen to vote for the candidates of their choice is like the splendid and complex machinery for cutting cabbages of one of our popular satirical writers. The late Mr. Wilber force observed, that England owed a large reparation to the people of Ireland for the evils it had inflicted on that country. Without attaching much credit to the highly-coloured pictures of Irish civilization previous to the English invasion, there is, we think, little doubt that if Ireland had not been oppressed by England it would not now contain the most destitute peasantry of Europe. Nay, Prince Puckler Muskau, who visited Ireland, declares that even the Fellahs of Egypt are much better off than the Irish. " I paid," he says, " constant attention to this subject, and became firmly convinced that the Fellabs here, in com parison with many others of their class, especially, for in stance, the Irish peasants, who, however, are subjects of the most enlightened Government in Europe, are in a situa tion which the latter might envy. " The houses of the Fellahs are small huts, built of bricks baked in the sun, or only of clay, for the most part without any opening besides the entrance. But these habi tations are. at least weather tight, and warm in the winter, affording shelter against rain and storms, giving shade in the summer, and roomy enough for the limited wants of these people ; whereas in Greece, even the better sort of country people have no roofs that keep out the snow or rain ; and the pigsties, filled with suffocating smoke, in which the poor Irish live, in a climate comparatively cold, scarcely afford any shelter. The Fellahs are poor ; but in the meanest villages that I visited, I always found bread, milk, butter, cheese, often vegetables, in abundance, and even poultry— in the larger villages even butcher's meat, all w hich were offered us at reasonable prices ; whereas, i❑ Greece onions, water, and maize -bread, which is scarcely eatable, are often all that you can procure, or that the people themselves have to live upon, as in Ireland they do on potatoes and whisky. Nor did I ever hear that a Fellah had died of hunger, which, to the disgrace of humanity, has been, and unhappily still is, nothing uncommon among the Irish pea sants. The Fellahs are scantily clad ; but here, too, the comparison is to their advantage ; for, in the first place, they need less clothing in their mild climate ; and, in the second, I have never seen the women here, like those in Ireland, without rags enough to cover themselves so far as decorum requires. On the contrary, you sea the wives of the Fellahs, though often in tattered garments, yet, like the other eastern females, covered up to their eyes ; for the most part, too, they have five or six pieces of gold coin sewed in a row from the face to the breast, which does not agree with the excessive poverty of which our philanthropic travellers draw so frightful a picture." Providence never surely could have destined the brave and high-spirited people of Ireland to be for ever the opprobrium of the civilized world merely to gratify the bad passions of the Orange Tories, who would willingly purchase the gratification of re-rivet ting their fetters by sacrificing all hopes of the im provement and tranquillity of the country.—Mornina Chronicle. It is generally understood, in well-informed circles, that Parliament will meet for the despatch of business about the second week in November, until which time the exertions of the people cannot be better employed than in the formation of Reform Associations, the chief objects of which should be to attend to the Re gistries, to call public meetings, prepare petitions, and serve as foci round which may converge the liberal and intelligent spirits of the community, whenever an emergency may arise for prompt, decisive, and ener getic action. We rejoice to perceive that a number of such societies are already in course of formation in several places around the metropolis, and earnestly hope that their example will be speedily followed by every county, city, town, village, and even hamlet, through out the empire. It is only by an extensive and well organised combination amongst the Reformers that he powerful demonstration necessary to counteract and overcome, by peaceable and constitutional means, the obstructions to the progress of popular rights can be effectually made. By a timely and decisive demon stration of public feeling the Lords may—though we doubt it —be induced to allow the enactment of such laws as are necessary to the public welfare, without fo . reir% t h e country to the necessity of those all but violent manifestations which carried the Catholic ,emancipation and Reform Acts. In the approaching Session t h e great struggle will be between the Lords' and the people. The Queen is favourable to Reform, the Ministry is pledged to principles and measures emi nently calculated to carry into effect the intentions of the Reforin Act, the House of Commons has already twicg ter thric e approved those nl.asures, and as it i s at present constituted, is •prepared again to s t amp t h e seal of its app ro b at i on to similar propositions. What, then, is the obstruction which prevents the acknow ledgment of laws sanctioned by such high and such general authority? The Lords. What is the power to overcome this obstructi on ? T he people. The Lords and the people are, therefore, the parties who must sustain the brunt of the engagement, and on whose exertions will depend the issue of the approach ing struggle. The other parties in the contest will have no alternative but to follow in the train of the victors, conquerors with, or captives to, the successful power. The House of Commons at present furnishes no indication of the state of public opinion, farther than a mere majority in favour of views of Govern ment, which, under a fair system of representation, TUE SUN, LONDON, 'MPS DAV, SEPTEMBEit 12, 1831. would he supported by at least four-fifths of the whole House. Therefore a collision between the txvo Houses i s b y no means an oeen crenee so probable as a collision between the parties we have alieadv designated—the Lords and the people. And as the Lords are a party who will never consent to any measure of Reform unless by compulsion) it is high time for those who do not wish to see the next Session pass tim uselessly as the two preceding, to take measures to secure the acquiescence of the hereditary despots.—Morning Aciverastr. The intimate union which subsists between harry= nave and Do‘vning-street is not the union which Daniel is anxious to " repeal," although his simple minded friend Mr. Sharman Crawfeed, who has under taken to perform towards hilb the thankless ffice of a political Mentor, earnestly urges him thereto. He might as well attempt to persuade Daniel to disen cumber his green uniform of the beggarinan's wallet, because the w r i ng in g f rom th e h a rd hands of the poorest people on the face of the earth, 20,0001. a year, is worthier of the mercenary impostor than the high-minded patriot. The union between Darrynane and Dosviiing-street is a union which has its recipro cal advantages for the parties concerned. The agi tor, by means of his Parliamentary tail, upholds in office the Ministers whom the electors of Eng land have repudiated, and Ministers in return place at the disposal of the agitator all the patron age of Ireland. While Daniel has his share of the profits no earthly consideration will induce him to dissolve partnership. A share in such a concern is probably better than one in either his bank or brewery, however flourishing they may be. The simplicity of Sharman Crawford, in supposing that Daniel has any other principle than his interest, or that any logic could induce him to prefer profitless patriotism to well-paid agitation, can only excite in this inexorable fleecer of the " hereditary bondsmen" a smile of con tempt as Abraham Jenkinson must have felt for the exquisite innocence of Dr. Primrose in mistaking his ingenious mode of "raising the wind for the ebulli tion of a heart overflowing with philanthropy. As to the honest English Radicals—the real Radicals, we mean—not the miserable shufflers and place-hunt ers known by the name of Whig-Radicals—as to the honest English Radicals, we say, whom the great patriot impostor of Ireland has " fooled to the top of their bent," they will have to look in vain for the " manna " of Radical measures while Daniel is richly regaling himself amid " the flesh pots of Egypt." The Radicals who have not like Flume and Bowring, et id genus omne, ratted to the Whig camp, who have not yet learned to admire or participate in the rankest of Whig jobs, on the " black is-white" principle, such Radicals may hunger long enough and pine in unrelieved privation, while Daniel and his dependents are pampered at the public expense, enjoying as comfortable quarters, and dividing as large returns from the trade of sordid agitation, as any ingenious contriver of " safe speculations" could desire. Discovery is the test of genius —then, what a wonderful genius Mr. Sharman Crawford must have, who has discovered at this time of day the in consistencies of O'Connell, and his complicated trea chery to what is called the popular cause, which cause he has always made subservient to the ravening de sires of his pocket-patriotism. What artist of the pea-and thimble would not prefer the patriot's game of " flat-catching" to any other, on the assurance that he could pocket thereby a tithe of the " rint" which Daniel has sacked I When Mr. Crawford sets out main on a voyage of discovery, we hope it will be to make us acquainted with something more novel than the selfishness, the treachery, and the baseness of O'Connell's ambition. The fact is, Mr. Sharman Crawford is only one of a number of silly Protese tants who, having allowed themselves to be made the tools of O'Connell's policy for a considerable time, have found, upon asserting an independent opinion, that the tyrant-demagogue can bear none but slaves about him, and that one must be either his sycophant or his enemy. All such Protestants—Protestants, at least in name—richly deserve the treatment which they receive from him. Those who have known him best and trusted him most have most reason to regret that they ever knew him at all, or that they did not know him sooner. The catalogue of his victims pretty nearly equals the catalogue of his friends. The Whig Ministers, who are now his friends, shall one day be his victims, and certainly the most unpitied of all that have ever trusted him and been betrayed. Still, as we have said, the agitator will not repeal the union be tween Darrynane and Downing-street as long as the Whigs allow him the profitable interest in the firm which he at present enjoys, while they leave two mil lions of his destitute countrymen to starve ! While Protestants and Conservatives support the charities of Ireland, and feed and clothe thousands of the Roman Catholic poor, O'Connell, an admirer only of that cha rity which begins and ends at home, takes the last penny from the wretched, to provide luxurious living for him self out of the taxation of Lazarus, and " fatten on misery, rags, and destitution." To the long bill of in dictment preferred against him by Mr. Sharman Crawford—a bill, consisting of almost c o u n tl ess " counts," the A g it a t or h as not condescended to put in a plea. Does he stand mute of malice prepense ? No—he has been preparing instructions for her Ma jesty's Ministers. He knows that his quondam tool and present accuser might as well attempt to refute the miracles of Hohenloe in the eyes of the superstitious flock of Dr. M‘Hale, as to expose his inconsistency and baseness to the ignorant and fanatic multitudes whom he has yoked in the drudgery of his turbulent and selfish ambition. He has more important work on hand than answering an accuser whose charges arc un answerable, hut who has himself been arraigned as a culprit for daring to publish unpopular truths I The Agitator had, if we may believe his own account, to regulate and direct the Ministers and the policy of the new reign. Accordingly, he has issued his first imperious edict or ukase, by which he in. structs the Crown and its responsible advisers in the course to be pursued. He also sketches the pro gramme of the policy which is not to be adopted, but only to be made use of for the present to blind the English and Scotch Radicals, and make it be sup posed that Daniel means to drive things to extremities, when he is only manoeuvring to keep as safely as pos sible, without any violent shock or collision, the plea sant and profitable position which he and the Whigs have acquired, He knows by the result of the late elections that that position, is a very uncertain and ticklish one, and that a direct collision with time loyal and constitutional people of England would unseat himself and the Whigs from the saddle of power and patronage, and unseat them for ever. Min is t ers will not p ro p ose , and Daniel knows it, the " total abolition of tithe in Ireland," otherwise the total robbery of th e Ch urc h , f or the b enef i t of the land lords—nor will they propose the lowering the fran chise to W., that Daniel, instead of returning some GO or 70 Members to Parliament, may return 80 or 90 —nor wilt they propose " universal suffrage" and ‘, the ballot," or, in other words, repeal their own Re form Act, which it cost almost a revolution to carry, when the Radicals, who now shower all sorts of abuse upon this law, which they called their second Magna Charta, would hear of nothing except " the Bill—the whole Bill, and nothing but the Emil." No; Daniel well knows the Whig Ministers will propose none of these things, nor does he mean that they should. The schemers who form the two parties to the Lichfield house compact understand each other well enough; but it was necessary to throw dust in the e,yes of the Radi cals, and it must be admitted that Daniel flings it in beral handfuls. He was always 4 ( the boy' for giving a good measure of abuse or blarney whenever it su i te d t his purpose. His friends in Downing-street, when they were " base, bloody, and brutal Whigs,"-and now that they are models of public virtue and wisdom, have experienced the liberality of his rhetoric in both kinds. In his recent manifesto the agitator has played the various parts of historian,politican, state limner, Whig trumpeter, and buffoon. In the last of those charac ters we refer to his passages " Hurrah, then, for the loyal Irish, hurrah !"--so like the style of Mr. Merry man on the show-boards at Donnybrook Fair. In the first of these characters we refer to such statements as the following The Irish carried the Bill to emancipate the Protestant Dissenters of England. The Irish carried the Bill to emancipate the Catholics of both countries." Here are two measures which were both the work of a Tory Government—a 4 Inueb s at least, as the Refohn Act Was the work of Lord tiiey's mutt—yet, according to this veracious historian, they were the work of " the Irish," and of the Irish atone. We admit that the latter of those acts was carried against the sense of the great niajdrity df the Finish people whose wiAddni illit ifiee.siire is rio* tolerably apparent. The conduct of the Irish Roman Catholics has completely justified their opposi tion. No other statesman than the Duke of Welling ton, aided as he WAS by Sir nobert Peel, could have carried that measure of unqualified Cathdlic ernantipa- Lion: Those two statesmen have experienced the fate of all Protestant politicians who have been hBnefactorA of the " hereditary bondsmen" of the Romish church —they have been promised, until the thing was done, a world of gratitude, and have received nothing but insults, revilings, and persecution. The Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel, in giving a new vitality to the half-extinguished power of the Romish church within the British dominions, like the man in the fable, revivified the frozen snake to enable it to sting themselves. In all the 658 Meml:ers of the House of Commons, none are so bitterly opposed to those distinguished statesmen as the Irish Roman Catholics, to whom they threw open the doors of Par liament—the men who are indebted to them for poli tical existence I As Whig trumpeter, Daniel puffs, with might and main, the virtues of the Whigs. Never was there before such a Ministry in this world ; and here we agree with him. We are quite willing to admit that in England, at least, there never was such a Ministry, and Heaven forbid there ever should be such a Ministry again. Great as this em pire had become under renowned kings, statesmen, and warriors, it has been too much humbled in its character, both at home and abroad, by its present incapable and unprincipled Ministry to be able to sur vive another Cabinet composed of similar materials. Daniel is right for his own objects in making the most he can by the present Administration ; for when that goes, and go it soon must, it is not probable he will ever see its like again. In his character of State limner the agitator draws portraits of the Queen, the Duchess of Kent, and King Leopold. He lays the colours on as thickly as any sign-painter, and makes them worthy of good places in the historical-gallery of Darrynane. We say nothing at present of King Leo pold and his illustrious sister, because they either have or ought to have nothing whatever to do with the Government of Great Britain. As to the Queen, we will only say, we sincerely trust that her name may never deserve to go down to posterity with such a re putation as O'Connell's praise confers upon it. We insert his last manifesto in another column.—Morn ing Herald. The " men in office" are " perplexed in the ex treme." The gloomy prospect before them has evi dently shattered their nerves, and deprived them of whatever reputation for energy, or decision, or show of principle they were ever able to acquire. It was never expected of them by the intelligent and reflecting por tion of the community that they should know what to do ; but since the recent general election their state has become so much worse than before that now they do not even know what to say, or how to instruct their authorised literary champions as to what ought to be said or promised on their behalf. They suffer alter nate fits of shivering ague and of burning fever--of prostration and delirium. During the period of con scious feebleness they, or, which is the same thing, their retained and instructed advocates, deprecate, in faltering and timid accents, all censure and reproach in the case, while they too plainly foresee that they shall not dare again to present to the Legislature the measures or the principles to which, as Minis ters and as men, they are most solemnly pledged—the measures and principles in virtue of which they forced themselves into office, in defiance of the distrust and dislike of the Crown, the aristocracy, the learned pro fessions, and a decided majority of the middle and upper classes of the community. But presently the fever fit returns, and then, in their delirium, they wax bold. All that they and their advocates have been saying, no matter how deliberately or elaborately it may have been said, is hastily and boisterously dis avowed. They confidently appeal from themselves in one state of mind to themselves in another ; but in their case the example of the Macedonian's appeal to Philip is reversed. Instead of declaring that they will attempt nothing because they know that they can ac complish nothing, they are now all for action and vigour. They have become all at once insensible to the danger of defeat, or resolute in their determination to brave it. They will still urge their measures and their prin ciples upon the Legislature, and if the Legislature, as all the world, themselves included, confidently ex pect, should spurn their measures and their principles more contemptuously than ever, why then they will bravely endure the defeat and mortification, and nobly console themselves by continuing to receive their sala ries quarterly, as before, and by labouring and contri ving, as assiduously as before, to provide well for their friends and partisans at the public expense. The pub lic of course cannot form any anticipation as to what will ly~ the policy of Ministers fur the next Session of . . Parliament from these irreconciloable official announce- ments; and, to do the public justice, we may confi dently assert that it cares little or nothing about the matter. Whether the final decision be made during the hot, or the cold fit, under the morbid vigour of fever, or the trembling timidity of ague—by Philip drun, or Philip sober—is felt to be unimportant, since it is plainly foreseen by all that the end will be the same. The country ought not to be, and can not be, satisfied with a Government that shows by repeated failures that it is utterly destitute of legislative power ; any more than it can or ought to be satisfied with a Government which, after pro claiming its own sense of the necessity of legislation upon a great variety of important subjects, abstains farm any legislative efirt, in the humiliating and acknowledged consciousness of such miserable desti tution. The country can retain no other feelings than those of contempt, suspicion, and hostility to wards a faction who prove themselves willing, for sake of the emoluments and other personal advan tages of office, to continue responsible for the con duct of public affairs after it has become evident that they cannot procure the sanction of the Legis lature to measures and principles the adoption of which they have repeatedly and solemnly declared to be, in their judgment, essential to the public wel fare and security. The end which the nation clearly foresees, and which renders the nation comparatively indifferent to the process by which it is to be brought about, is the removal of the present Minis ters from the offices which all men of reflection per ceive they cannot continue to hold without grievous in jury to the country, and the accumulation of disgrace upon themselves. Surely it will not now be pretended that one of the legitimate consequences of the Reform Bill is to enable a set of Ministers to remain in place after it has become clear that they must either endure a succession of disgraceful defeats in Parliament upon ineasures to which they attach the highest value, or abstain from presentin g to Parliament measures which they have repeatedly declared, and still pretend to think, of vital importance to the community. Minis ters and their partisans profess the opinion, and the most powerful of these partisans, Mr. O'Connell, has ostentatiously avowed it, that the paramount object of patriots, whether British or Irish, but more especially of ' the latter, ought to be to keep the present Administra tion in place. They do not scruple to tell us that to this object every measure, evety principle, every political maxim or project whatever, ought to be sacrificed or postponed. We will render them a piece of service by instructing them how this darling object of theirs may, for a time at least, be secured, and this with out placing, as all their plans of proceeding for the next session with which they have yet made us ac quainted, unless they utterly failed, would place, the legislative powers of the Constitution in abeyance. Let them carefully study the different speeches by which, during his brief Administration, Sir Robert Peel introduced to the House of Commons-the various legislative measures which his capacious and enlight ened mind had devised for the benefit of his country. Let them be especially careful to add nothing to these measures, to subtract nothing from them, but to bring them forward, clause for clause, and line for line, as they were framed by their eminent author. Let them do this, and do it faithfully, and e cen we can promise them an overwhelming majority i n both Houses of ti keep the Parliament. Upon this condition they t i • pliEeg th prio,e sd highly: And surely this cannot be considered a hard or htiniiliaiing echidition; by men who think their own occupation of office so imporiatii a public object that, if necessary to secure it, they are, by their own confession, and that of all their advocates and retainers, ready arid wiliingiii Sfltipentl the functions of the Legislature altogether.—Morning Post. MURDER AND ADULTERY. On the 7th d April last, died at Metidd; id thq depart rtient, of the Lozere, in France, one E. Rouquette, di w en t for proeuring substitutes in the army. Public opinion irn mediateiy attributed hit death to poison, and without hesi tation pointed out as authors of the dirtlt 4 the widow of the deceased and her paramour, Victor Almeras. efimi nal connection between these two persons had already been noticed before the death of the husband, and had led to scenes of extreme violence between the latter and his wife. On the body being opened, arsenic wag found in the stomach, and declared by the medical men to have been the cause of death, It appears that Victor Al neras had arrived at Mende a few months previously, to offer himself as a military substi tute, and with that view had applied to Rouquette. The latter had received him into his house, in expectation of a favourable opportunity of placing his pi oleic. From this domestic arrangement arose a guilty intercourse between Almeras a n d th e wife of his host. About a month before the death of Rouquette, the other inhabitants of the house were disturbed by a violent uproar in his kitchen. After this scene, however, Almeras con tinued to reside in the family of Rouquette, who either wished to hide his domestic disgrace or was unwilling to lose the chance of being repaid the expence at which he had been in maintaining the young soldier. Not long before the death of Rouquette, his wife had said to a girl of the name of Marguerite Marcon, ‘. You know they forced me to marry Rouquette, but I'll not live long with him ; sooner or later I will poison him." There upon she asked Marguerite to buy some poison for her, a request which she vainly repeated several times, without ever concealing the use she intended to make of it. In the month of March Rouquette had a violent attack of cholic, but soon recovered. On the 2d of April, after eating some rice soup, which he soon threw up again, he felt himself suddenly ill, but did not allow this to prevent him from going out on the following day. On the suc ceeding day he was decidedly worse, and drank some warm tisanes which his wife had prepared, and which were given him sometimes by Almeras. Almost always after having drunk he vomited. During the illness of her husband the wife did not forget her own pecuniary interests, but asked him whether he would not make his will. On the after noon of the same day she said to Madame Rouch—" The wretch 'll not die of it ! It would take leas to kill the ass of a poor man." During the night from the 6th to the 7th a girl of the name of Floret entered Rouquette's chamber. Rouquette had just asked for some drink, and his wife, turning to Al meras, asked—" From which pot did you take it—from the big one ? Did you put any of the stuff in the paper into it ?" Almeras then went down into the kitchen ; ➢ladame Rouquette followed shortly afterwards, and was some time before she returned with the tisane. On the following day, at ten in the morning, Rouquette expired. Victor Almeras declared himself ignorant of the cause of Rouquette's death. Acknowledged that ho had brought him tisane to drink, but had no hand in preparing it. Did not know what the ingredients were. Had never seen poison, and should not know it if he saw it. He most positively denied the existence of any intimacy between himself and Madame Rouquette. Elizabeth Renouare, the widow of Rouquette, is scarcely nineteen years of age, neither pretty nor ugly, and of a small make. Occasionally, in a low voice, she would ex claim, " That's not true," " I recollect nothing of the kind," ".The witness is mistaken," " I said nothing of the .kind." She declared herself unable to account for the .death of her husband. Believed him to have died a na tural death. Had prepared tisane for him. Did not know of there being any poison in it. Elizabeth Reneuard, it appeared on the trial, was a natural child ; had never been acknowledged by her father ; had lost her mother several years ago, and had never received any education whatever. Three medical men deposed to having discovered arsenic in the stomach of the deceased, and in what remained of the tisane of which he had been drinking. Several witnef:ses were successively examined. Their testimony left no doubt as to the adulterous intimacy of the two accused. A girl of the name of Verry stated that Madame Rouquette had told her that, tired of the ill-treat ment of her husband, and having conceived for him an in vincible antipathy, she had resolved, conjointly with Victor iAlmeras, to kill him. That Almeras had proposed to throw kim over a bridge during a journey which they were to take together. That she had rejected this proposal as , too dangerous, as she knew a safer way of getting rid of him. The prisoner had acknowledged, according to this witness, that she had twice failed in an attempt to poison her husband. The jury remained out of Court for about an hour, when they returned a verdict of Guilty against Elizabeth Re nouard, the widow Rouquette, but acquitted Victor Al meras. The existence of extenuating circumstances having been admitted by the jury, the widow Rouquette was con demned to hard labour for life, and to be exposed in the pillory. The crowd assembled at the trial seemed to manifest dis satisfaction with the sentence pronounced, as an insufficient expiation of a crime perseveringly committed durin g four days an d f our n i g ht s , t h oug h h er ex t reme yout h an d the total want of education may be supposed to have excited th e compassion of her judges, and made them unwilling to inflict the extreme penalty of the law. The dissatisfaction of the inhabitants of the department with the mildness of the sentence appears to have proceeded from the multitude of atrocious murders committed in the Legere within the last few years, and an idea has become prevalent there that their frequent repetition is owing to the circumstance that in none of these instances has the criminal been put to death. It is not long since another woman of the name of Ruin was convicted of poisoning her husband ; a man of the name of Lamandes of murdering a young girl to whom he had been appointed guardian ; and a man named Car lat, and his wife, though convicted of parricide, were con demned to hard labour for life, because the jury had ad mitted the existence of extenuating circumstances. The consequence has been the prevalence of en opinion among the country-people that the punishment of death has been abolished. The woman Carlat, before killing her father, is known to have said that the penalty of death had been done away with, and other criminals appear frequently to have made use of similar language. When a Dutch maid-servant wishes to go to a (lance, and has no swain of her own, she hires a cavalier for the occasion. A beau with an umbrella receives double pay. There are now living at Shawell, near Lutterworth, a man and wife, an aunt and nephew, a brother and sister, a father and mother ; in all only three persons. COUNT Bo Ro Lows lc L.-This once-celebrated dwarf died on the sth inst., at his residence near the Pre bend's-bridge, Durham, in the ninety-ninth year of his age. He was a native of the province of Pokucia, in Polish Russia, and was in early life patronised by the Countess Humiccka, a Polish lady, with whom he visited various countries in Europe. He resided some time at Paris, which he quitted previously to the Revolution, and came over to this country in the year 1782, and where he has ever since remained. Besides exhibiting himself at fairs, he was at one time a great favourite with the nobility and gentry, to whom he recommended himself not only by his diminutive stature, but by the vivacity of his manners, his general in telligence, and his frank and amiable disposition. Collins, the eccentric author of " The Evening Brush," was one of his host and kindest friends, and through his advice and assistance he realised a small property, which enabled him to spend the last thirty years of his life in case and tran quillity. The Count's height was exactly 351 inches ; his person was a model of symmetry. His remains are to be interred in the Nine Altars, in Durham Cathedral, near those of his friend, Mr. Stephen Kemble. On Sunday evening last great confusion prevailed in the neighbourhood of the London-road in consequence of flames proceeding from the premises of Mr. Stranger, stove manufacturer, No. 91, which stands at the rear of the Catholic chapel. The fire was visible in a very short time to the congregation assembled there for the perfor mauce of worship, who almost instantly left their seats. The flames were rapidly extending to the upper part of the building, and the destruction of the entire premises was fully anticipated. The firemen for some time could not obtain an entrance, owing to the dense and suffocating smoke which issued therefrom. However, after some time, the flames were got under, but not until the lower pastof the house had sustained great injury. The loss will fall on the County Fire Office. Throughout the whole kingdom the Tories seem to have specially directed their exclusive system against the always knownbeen ferh ia butchers. What their motive may have been, in so doing, prime successful. beef A and we are at a loss to discover ; but we are glad to learn that m town,his ainttatchliis ent to the principles of Reform, has been entirely deserted by his Tory customers, with one solitary exception. No sooner was the election over than orders were sent by the t h e y eq nai n l o y t we Tories that he should send in their accounts, as they no longer wanted " Reform beef." The Liberals seeing this persecution directed against one of their number, have given him their aid, and the result h as b een , th a t he now " kills a cow extra" every week. And this is all the Tories have gained by their attempt to punish a man because he voted far Ainsworth and Knowles..— Bolton Free Preis. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. lame; ti milkman, living in Thomas-street, was brought before thorged with the following offence : . . John Curtis, footman in the service of Lady lit. “er. 4+h. , " was charged by Spice with an assault, but who at the stnrgestidfi of Inspector Dewring was called upon to give evidenu, stated that he tfit.' as ending Lady St. Ger mains and two other ladies, on Sunday altettwon, and when in South Moulton-street the defendant, in a state cf in to*igation, with his milk pails on his shoulders, pushed rudely and designedly against Lady St. Germains. The defendant finding that his ruffianly conduct had succeeded in frightening the ladies, madti n second push against Lacy St. Germains,: and in a t o ne or vulg,..ir familiarity said, " How do you do, Sukey ?" Witness put his tine before the defendant and insisted upon his de sisting. The defendant, after aome abuse of witness, ap parently walked away. 'Witness had not proceeded [Tiny yards before he received a blow on the back of his neck, and perceiving that his assailant was the defendant, he struck him in return a blow on the face with his cane. The ladies became violently alarmed, but fortunately a gentleman came up who took charge of them, and placed them in the house of Lord Westmoreland. The defendant made a second attack on witness, and broke one of the ladies parasols over him ; but witness defended himself successfully with his cane, and managed to inflict a severe thrashing on his rntagonist. A policeman having made his appearance, the defendant gave witness into cus tody for the assault. The inspector, after having heard the statements on both sides, decided upon detaining both parties, one for the alleged assault, and the other for being drunk. _ _ _ Mr. DYER said the servant was discharged from the as sault. His conduct was perfectly justifiable, and such as, under the circumstances of the case, he was warranted in pursuing. As he had received the first blow, he was quite ready, if the servant chose to press the matter, to hear the charge against the defendant. The servant said he did not wish to m.tke any further charge, especially as he had already punished the defendant severely. In defence the defendant pleaded ignorance of the con. duct imputed to him. He was then fined five shillings for intoxication, anc discharged. MARY LEBONE. Yesterday John Marshall, a navigator, working on the London and Birmingham Railroad, was charged before Mr. RAWLINSON and Lord MONTFORD with violently assault ing and threatening to stab James George, one of the Com pany's newly-appointed constables, No. 19. The prisoner was fined 51., and in default committed to the House of Correction for two months, Yesterday.N.Carey, an Irishman, was charged with creat ing a disturbance and annoying the congregation of an iti nerant preacher who holds forth every Sunay at the back of the Bayswater-road. Mr. RawLlNsoN—l hope you were not drunk, the per son you were interrupting has as much right to give his re ligious opinions as you. I shall, however, put a charitable construction on the offence, and by your promising not to repeat it, you will be liberated. The prisoner gave the required promise, and was dis charged. WORSHIP-STREET. Yesterday a young female, of respectable connections, was brought up in the custody of police constable Wil liam Leach, H 97, and placed at the bar before Mr. BROUGHTON, having been found in the street in a state of stupefaction from liquor. It appeared from the evidence of the officer that she stated she left her father's home on the Sunday evening to go to the Rev. Dr. Fletcher's Chapel, in Moorfields ; that she had been there, and was on her way home through Whitechapel, when she saw a crowd round an itinerant preacher. She stopped to listen to his discourse, and while there she was addressed by a man, who entered into con versation upon religious subjects. He talked about the eloquence of the preacher, expatiated upon the spiritual agency of God, and quoted Scripture for his purposes. Charmed by his language, he at length persuaded her to enter a house, where by his persuasion she was induced to partake of some brandy and water. She bad no more than a portion of one glass, when, on getting into the air, she soon found herself senseless ; after which she bad no recol lection of anything till she found herself in the station house. A paper was handed to Mr. BROUGHTON, on which was an exact description of the person of the prisoner, and the dress worn by her ; and it was stated that a gentleman had that morning come to the office with the paper, that he had recognised the prisoner, and that he was gone for her mother. _ On the mother entering the office, she clasped her daughter in the utmost state of distraction. Mr. BROUGHTON then restored the prisoner to her parents. LAMBETH-STREET. Yesterday John Allen, a singularly looking old man, was placed at the bar, before Messrs. COOMBIS and HARD WICK, on a charge of stealing a watch from the person of Daniel Thomas Boorack, a sailor, in Stepney Church on the previous morning. The complainant stated that while sitting in a pew in Stepney Old Church, on Sunday marning, he looked at his watch and replaced it, as he thought, in his fob-pocket. In a few minutes afterwards, however, he discovered that he had lost it. The Rev. Mr. James, the curate of Stepney Church, here intimated to the Magistrates that the robbery did not take place during the service, but during the marriage ceremony, and that the complainant himself was in attendance to be married at the time. Mr. CooMBEs (to the complainant)—Why it appears you went to church to be married? Sailor—l suppose so. —(Laughter.) Mr. CoombEs—Why you left all that out. How was it that you did not mention it in your statement ? Sailor (after a pause)—l forgot it.—(Renewed laughter.) Mr. COoMßEs—Was it before or after you were married that you pulled out and looked at your watch ? Sailor — It must have been before, for I missed it as soon as I was married. Mrs. Brown, one of the pew-openers, said she saw the prisoner with a watch in his hand, and after showing it to a man who stood by him he concealed it in his hat, and hur ried out of the church. The prisoner denied the charge, and was discharged. The beautiful little town cf Taunton, which has been visited by many fatal cases of dysentery, is now restored to the former salubrious state for which it has ever been noted. MR•IRVING ' S NEW ROMANCE," THE HUNTERS or THE PRAIRIE. " —There is about these pages the same charm that belonged to those of the older trasellers—the charm of wild adventure and of novel scenes. Mr. Irving carries us completely along with him. In proportion as society becomes more and more artificial, and the pathway of every individual is chalked on in the beaten track, works like the one now before us have a delight especially their own. The Hawk Chief, the hero of the story, is a fine specimen of a race that will soon he only a tradition ; and he is surrounded by a group of hunters, trappers, rangers,—wild inhabitants of the wildest scenes. If Mr. Cooper will not give us any more of his Indian annals, we congratulate the public that the mantle has fallen on such worthy shoulders as those of Mr. Irving.—Literary Gazette. THE RIVAL No vELI sTs.—Speaking of Mrs. Hall's admirable new novel of " Uncle Horace," a clever contemporary says—" As far as our own reading is con cerned, this novel has stood a test of the severest order. To follow so closely upon the bold and varied delineation of character presented us in the Stokeshill-place ' of Mrs. Gore is to be subjected to as dangerous a comparison as any lady-novelist would willingly encounter ; and we con vey indirectly the highest praise by the admission that Uncle Horace' comes out of the ordeal without having so much as a single grey hair singed upon his glorious old pate.' He is a fine old English gentleman, and ought to live on till the present age has become the olden time. If he should not be alive a century hence posterity will be the loser by its ignorance. His character is the crown and flower of the work ; and truly he is worth a wilderness of merchants, such as sometimes worry us in hooks, or bore us in real life." CAPTAIN MARRYAT.—We observe that a new edition of Captain Marryat's new novel " Snarley Yow ; or, the Dog Fiend" is announced for Saturday next. This author well deserves the success he has met with. Every one must remember the interest he excited in " Jacob Faithful" by the history of the life of a mere waterman on the Thames. To his genius all places seem alike. What ever he touches he adorns ; and in " Snarley Yow" he has added another to his many literary triumphs. In all his productions there is displayed an almost Shakspearean knowledge of human nature, and his present work is such as none but a master-hand could have penned. A BLACK JOKE.—On Friday evening, about seven o'clock, a sweep of the name of Clarke, went into Mr. Denner's shop, pawnbroker, Long-row, to pledge a hat, and being told they did not take such articles in, he l inqu • ed what they did take. On being answered " What su itedr them," he hastened off, and in a few minutes returned with a bag on his shoulders, containing a a large qu an tity o f soot, which he threw on the counter, the same tim e ask ing what they could advance up on it. It was not until a constable had been sent for that the nuisance was remove d, and there being a large hol e i n the ba g (no doubt made in tentionally) the counter an d shop-floor were almost covered with the black " cream of the jest."---Nottingham Review. VAUXHALL GARDENS• These gardens gardens dozed for the season on SattrrdaY last ; but, in consequence of the unprecedented success which has attended the day fetes, the proprietors cline to tite deter mination of giving t wo a dditi ona l en t e rtainments this' week, the first of which took place yesterday, and the Ganle" were numerously attended. The principal object of attraction was the ascent of the Nassau Balloon, which took place at about a quarter to sir' Mr. Green was accompanied in his aerial excursion by Capt. Polhill, Mr. G. Webb, Mr. Beasley, and Mr. T. Hughes. Up to the time of the ascent the weather continued very favourable, and, there being a smart wind at the time, the balloon ascended with great rapidity, taking a north-easterly direction, passing directly over the metropolis, and in a verr short time was lest to the view of the spectators in the Gardens. About twenty minutes after the departure of the bal loon, it commenced raining very heavily, and continued the whAe of the evening, very much to the annoyance of the company' and to the detriment of the amusements, which were nume rous and varied. Up to twelve o'clock no tidings of the teronauts had reached the Gardens. Indeed, had they effected a safe land ing, the state of the weather, perhaps, prevented their return. HERRING FISHERY. ABERDEEN.—Bad weather has interrupted the labour s, of the fishermen at this port during the week. O n the nights the boats got to sea, they returned with a fair fis hingt but nothing to boast of. A good many had as high as tW crans on Thursday and Friday, but several had none. Th e average is now 127 crans. CArritNEss.—The fishing on the coast of Caithness has not been so successful as was anticipated ; and the bad weather which has prevailed during the early part of las t week has operated against the fishery. We have sutnme", up the number of crans caught at the different stations , a nd can see nothing to lead us to any other conclusion than that sales will be low. Reds are as low in London, this week' as 19s. gross ; but this was the effect of a glut or run on the market, which not unfrequently happens during the west seasons. PETERHEAD.—We have had a very poor fishing th is week, and our average, including this morning, for the season is 116 trans. FRASERBUR4H.—Our boats will average about 1 30 erans, and we have good grounds for supposing we are the best fished port on the east coast. BANFF.—During this and the end of last week, partly owing to the weather, the herring fishing on this part of the coast has nearly proved a failure. CLACHNAC UDDIN. (From the Inverness Courier.) We noticed in a former number, that the ancient Cladb' nacuddin—the palladium of the burgh—which for cent", ries has been regarded with veneration by the natives 01 this town, had been sunk to the level of the pavement at the Exchange, in making the alterations and repairs f, the new Reading Rooms. Although the stone *f oul° have been equally safe and well preserved in its new situa tion, some of the inhabitants looked upon this removal a c s t an evil omen, derogatory to the dignity of the burgh ; an a memorial was addressed to the Town Council, fluor; rously signed, praying that the relic might be restored to It t former site. Nay more, a handbill was issued, stating th e the " Clachnacuddin Boys" would assemble and raise th e stone themselves, if the local authorities did not undertake the duty before the 4th instant. Some time previous: however, the Council had unanimously agreed to procee d with the exhumaffbn, and on Saturday last the task wa s accomplished. A considerable number of persons assem bled on the occasion, and when the stone was fairly exe,n" vated, and placed in its " fair proportions" before the PO' lie view, the work was greeted with three hearty cheers--• William Fraser, better known by the name of Bill 1)11 "c: standing up with his hat off, " like a prophet in drink,. and giving the time with appropriate action and energY• bottle of wine was also broken over the stone, and a bless ing pronounced. We have made inquiries in vain as to any authentic tory of this relic. It is not mentioned by Captain Burt In his " Letters from the Highlands," written about 1730, sa which there is an excellent description of Inverness : but l e is supposed to be of grea t an ti qu i ty , an d i t d er i ve d its nam of Clachnacuddin, or " Stone of the Tubs," from the cis. ' cumstance that the women us e d t o res t th e ir pails ee it when fetching w a t er f rom th e r i ver . Th ere i s a traditiot that it was originally the seat of a famous seer or prophet' who predicted, that so long as the natives of Inverness preserved the stone, the burgh would flourish and be Pr° g " perous. When the town was burned, about the year l 4ll t after the battle of Harlaw, by Donald of the Isles, the na," tives are said to have been consoled f or th e i r l o ss, by fin d ' ing that the ancient stone was left uninjured by the ire ! In 1791, an extreordinar) uproar and sensation were pro' duced by an intended transmigration of the stone, by whic' the Magistrates of the day got into exceeding ill odour with the community. At the same time there was a ccr' taro Mrs. Campbell, an eccentric personage of some cele' brity in the town, being equally conspicuous as the ac' coucher and troubadour of the burgh—the midwife and minstrel of the day. This lady exercised her poetical pow' ers in praise of Clachnacuddin, in a lyric of great length. several stanzas of which, though not in the style of Can*: bell or Byron, still linger in the memories of the old tants. We give a few verses as a literary curiosity :--- " Twas on a Monday morning, The first of ninety-one; An ignoramus was employed To ornament the Stone. If any man insult the Stone, Of high or low degree, A galley slave in Africa I'd have him for to be. Although I'm low in station Pray do not censure me, For the independent sentiments Of a Clachnacuddin she I I" Mrs. Campbell's muse was as prolific as her gessiP, and like Verdun the Butler's, seldom allowed any occurrence of notoriety to escape without. an " invocation of the Nine' The volunteer patriotic mania of the period appears to 11, e . found all acceptation with her ; for the f o rmation of the Cal loden and Inverness Companies gave birth to an heroi c b.lllad of about forty stanzas, beginning— " Culloden the hero has risen his band, And the brave Invernessians will join hand in hand ; To their King they are loyal—t o t h e i r coun try they're tr uces They arc the brave fellows that wear the true blue I" The uniform of the " Inverness Gentlemen Volunteers ,/ was long blue coats with red facings, white vests and in ; expressibles, black leggings, large cocked hats with boa rs tails. So sensitive was th e troop, and so little inured .t 0 the tented field, that th e y on ly exercised and paraded n the Northern Meeting Rooms. The only "actual servic% they ever encountered, was the suppression of a Mea l Mob ' and killing a weaver. The NEW FLAT GOLD WATeft S _ are offered in double-bottomed engine - turned ease s, with vel't:_r_ movements, for Seven Guineas each, or, with highly• finished oh zontal movements, jewelled and warr anted, at Nine Guineas at T. COX SAVORY'S, Working Goldsmith, Silversmith , '"' Watchmaker, 47, Cornhill, London. N. B.—The c h u o ra ri cy. horizontal construction is strongly recom mended for its superior BIRTHS. On the 1 0 th inst. , at Ashle y Park, in Surrey, Lady etchers of a son. On the sth inst., at Ardwick-place, Manchester, Mrs. Charles de Berg, of a son. ----- MARIED. On the 9th inst., at St. Helen ß 's, Mr. M. M. Holloway, of Hen rietta-street, Covent - garden , to Anna, daughter of Mr. Morris, of Bishopsgate-street Within. On the 9th inst., ot Bsxley Church, Samuel S. T. Carlow, Esq., of Clapham, to Jane, 01(16! daughter of William Spong, Esq., of S Coftree House, Boxley, Ken t, On the sth inst., at Clapham Clinic:li,Surrey g John Fisher 111i1- ler, Esq., to Mary Ann, eldest daughter of .1. A. Z winer, Esq., of Albion-terrace, Wandsworth -road. On the 9th inst. at Christchurch, St. Marylebone, Win. Thos. Davinier, Esq., of 'South-bank, St. John's-wood, to Fanny, daugh ter, of the late W. Graham, Esq., of Portsmouth. , a On the 6th inst. , a t Baldock, the Rev. Herbert Randoleb Mitcham, Surrey, to Martha, second daughter of Vickris kfr r ' Esq., of Baldoek, Herts. On the sth inst., at Svvinburne, Northumberland, the marches(' Teodoro Carlo Strozzi, of Lavacchio, in Tuscany, and of Florenc e, to Georgiana, daught er of the late G. Strickland, Esq., of Nea" ton, and Chesnut-grove, Yorkshire. M. Polders, Esq., of West Baham, Norfolk, - On the 4th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, the late Viscount Ennisni_ore, and sister of the E seg a aa r i l a Light Dragoons, to the Lady Catherine On the 4th inst., at Asiergavermy Anne Hare, daught..r to Eliza, the eldest daughter of W * Win, Henning, ,E s at : : : i , aLifi:: Charlese: 1:_!, Captain K 11 way o • C.''' Dorsetshire. ~ o _...------4 DIED. On the 7th inst,, at Ch 1 e ten h am, after a long and Peter Edward Flanagan, F:sq belovedand lamented by his fansi rt • , aged 57. of On the 9th inst., in Albemarle.street, Lad W b ton relict y ar UT , Sir P. Warburton, Bart., of Arley Cheshire. s l o i ba On the Bth inst , at Scot's house: Riekrnansworth, aged_iv -: Is Stafford, Esq f. " - C • pbl me I f ~ or 3o years hief Clerk at the u ic painfi.il Mar Bow-street, and also Clerk of the Indictments for the c ounty 9 Middlesex. I On the 15th of July, on his passage from Sierra Leone, Pkilitt Thomas, second son of J. W. Spicer , Esq. , of Esher ?WIW Midshipmane 9th ins of H t., M. agedS. " Wanderer." f the On he 24, Lieutenant R. H. Chaplain, 0 so , Madras Engineers, eldest son of the Rev. R. H. Cha p man, of Be wont-street, and of Kirby Misk, Yorkshire. rt e phsee' On the Bth inst., at Cheltenham, Jane, wife of Hay •,, thd Esq., late in the Civil Service of the East India Compaq °- the Bombay Establishment. London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG,oc e ti ; 112, Strand, at The Sum Office , No. 112, Strand, in the a ced; 112, Middlesex. — Tuesday , September 12, 1837.