The Sun. — London, England, 1837-08-14 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF' THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Reformers have gained-- In Banffshire—Duff for Ferguson. This we did not anticipate, so that the Ministerial ma jority will be greater than we stated on Saturday. Sir James Graham, in his farewell address to the electors of East Cumberland, complains of broken promises. " I have redeemed my pledge," he says. " Every elector has had an opportunity of recording his vote ; and when I consider the number of those who have honoured me with their undivided support, and surn up the promises of split votes between me and one of the candidates, I still feel that I was justified in my an ticipation of success. These promises have been broken ; I have been deceived, and am defeated." Sir James has been deceived by himself, and not by the Cumberland electors. After the appearance of the requisition, with the list of signatures to it, he had no excuse for anticipating success, and we do not believe he went to the poll with the slightest hope. Why he went is, like many other parts of his conduct, difficult to understand. " The charge against me (says Sir James) is, that I relinquished office and left my friends in power because on a great principle I differed from them." The charge against you, Sir James, is that you relin quished the opinions which obtained for you your ap pointment to office, and that you not only changed your opinions, but on all occasions displayed the ut most malice towards your former colleagues. Whether you were always a Tory at heart, and affected Radi calism, or were really a Radical, and now affect To ryism, is a question which those who know you best seem at a loss how to answ er , as th ey d o not ap pear inclined to give you credit for having ever been sincere in any of the parts you have acted. This, however, is certain, Sir James ; you are a clumsy actor. Having been so fortunate as to be made First Lord of the Admiralty, an office so much beyond your de serts that the appointment excited some surprise at the time, you have contrived to thrust yourself out of office, and to manage matters so that neither Whigs nor Tories will ever place any confidence in you. The Tories seem hardly less satisfied at your rejection by the yeomen of East Cumberland than the Re formers. You have no friends in any quarter. Your doom is sealed. Never was political annihilation more complete. The Leeds Mercury has some sensible ob servations on the subject of the general election. It justly remarks that the two grand blots on the Reform Bill were foisted into it against the wishes of its au thors, by the cunning and strenuous efforts of the To ries, but that the mischief from this cause has exceeded all anticipation. " Where," says our contemporary, " have the principles of Reform most signally triumphed at this general elec tion now on the eve of completion ? In the largo cities and towns, and in a few of the counties—East Cumber land, for example—where the original constituency has been least changed. And where have the Tories defeated the advocates of those principles ? In most of the English counties, and in the boroughs where the old freemen still anxiously wait to sell a national trust to the highest bid der. Look at Leeds, Bradford, and all the influential bo roughs of the West Riding, noted for the intelligence and patriotism of their inhabitants, for illustration of the former assertion : look at Liverpool and South Lancashire for proof of the latter. Well may the thousands of high minded and independent Reformers in the first port of the kingdom reflect with bittern'ss on their evil fate in being linked to a body of drunken hirelins; freemen ; and well may the thousands of high-minded and independent Reformers in the first commercial and manufacturing district in the kingdom exclaim indignantly against the clause which puts it in the power of a couple of hundred landlords to stifle, by their serfs, the true voice of an immense and liberal constituenc‘:." The Leeds Mercury adds, that time and various causes w.ll diminish the numbers and influence of the freemen ; but with the tenantry-at-will the case is dif ferent. Two modes are pointed out by our Contempo rary as resorted to by the Tory aristocracy : Ist, By emitting up land into separate tenancies of 50/. annual v:due ; and, 2d, by nominally, and only nominally, subdividing existing tenancies of larger amount ; so that, for example, if a father of a family rent a farm of 1501. yearly value, they place his name, and those of two of li.s sons, on tlie registers as tenants-at-will for 501. each. It used to be said of the Irish 40s. free holdere of former times, that they were driven to the poll like flocks of sheep. This description now ap plies to the tenantry of England. They are bereft of all independence, and compelled to vote as their land lords plume. " Is not the fact. notorious," says the Leeds ilierenty— " have not the Reformers of this very borough of Leeds Yen, within a week after the victory won by the exercise of their own unbiassed suffrages, Tory landlords and stewards leading tenantry to the poll more as if they were a flock of sheep than men endowed wiih judgments and wills of their own ? Who ever heard of the residents within any particular town or uninfluenced district being unanimous in their opinions on any subject ? Can it, then, be believed th a t without the exercise of a power which is ,not less felt for being unseen, every 50/. tenant of one in dividual will have precisely the same political opinions as his fellow -tenant? No, this unique unanimity must be attributed to one of two causes—ignorance and indifference to polities in the tenantry, or real, though veiled, intimida tion on the part of the landowners." The Tories may well boast of the county elections, for they are the result of the skill with which they contrived to nullify the Reform Bill. In consequence of the 501. tenantrr-at-will clause, the county Members are really returned by the landlords ; and it will only be necexsary hereafter to know who possesses the land in a district, to tell the result of an election. For this evil the only remedy is the ballot. The ignorance of the agriculturists is no doubt an evil; but their de pendent situation is the great evil. Something must be done to remedy it, or a county election will be a complete farce. There seems to be now no difference of opinion among Liberal men respecting the ballot. This general election has made every Liberal a con vert to it.—Morning Chronicle. On Saturday night, a Ministerial print, which lays exclusive claim to the knowledge and management of S_:otch affairs, insinuates, by means of a quotation from a northern associate, that the people of Scotland have returned precisely the same number of representatives to support Lord Melbourne's Government as they did two years ago to oppose that of Sir Robert Peel. Of course, we need not say that such an insinuation (for the coiner takes care not to give it the stamp of absolute assertion) is wholly unfounded. At the last general election the number of Liberals returned by Scotland was exactly 35 ; whereas, even on the doubtful as sumptions that the Whi g s shall retain Argyleshire, and that Mr. Howard of Sutherland, is a thorough Mi nisterialist, we find that on the present occasion the utmost they can muster is only thirty-three. The shabby nocturnal to whom we allude, finds it necessary to forget that, during the last session, we relieved the Whigs almost simultaneously of the two counties of Renfrew and Ross, both of which we still retain. On the other hand, previous to 1835, the seats pos sessed by the Conservatives in that country were no mote than nine. When Sir Robert Peel asked the nation to give a verdict upon the formation of his Go vernment, Scotland, concurring with the majority of the English constituencies, sent 18 Members to his support. Two, as we have said, were afterwards added : and now, when the Right Hon. Baronet is out of office, she has already returned 19 Conservatives in opposition to the Whigs, with the absolute certainty of adding Banffshire, to complete her former comple ment—and very probably Argyleshire, to turn the scale. One or two instructive remarks rise out of these facts, to which we would call the attention of our readers. It is often alleged, and with much truth, that in ordinary cases the issue of an appeal to the people ' may generally be expected to he highly favourable to the Ministry by whom it is made. No doubt, such a result is often modified by circumstances. Had Sir ,! Robert Peel's Parliament been called together in the common course of affairs, there is every reason to believe that its views, as supporting those of the then Premier, would have formed no exception to the usual rule. At that precise juncture, however, it so hap pened that the appeal was made to the country under every possible disadvantage to the Conservative cause. Lord Melbourne had been abruptly, if not caprici ously, dismissed from office, for reasons which, though highly satisfactory to the King, were neither appre ciated. nor even distinctly known by the country at large. Accordingly, while the discarded Whigs were warmly sympathized with by a vast proportion of the constituency, there were multitudes of the more vio- THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1837. lent Reformers, who, resenting the sudden interruption of their favourite projects, not only resolved to resist a Constitutional Administration, but formed an exten sive and successful organization to restore Lord Mel bourne to power. The consequence was, that though Sir Robert Peel had brought to the new House of Commons a great accession of Conservative strength, yet not possessing a sufficient force to combat the formi dable opposition which men's sympathies rather than their judgment had sent to the assistance of the Whigs, the Right Hon. Baronet resigned. It was then found that if the Constitutional Representatives were not suf ficiently numerous to effect much good, they were at least strong enough to prevent a good deal of mis chief ; and it is here, in our opinion, that the nicely balanced forces of the last Parliament have been pro ductive of incalculable benefit to the country. The Radical theorists and the Whig mercenaries have been kept in check ; the Established Church in this king dom has been preserved from spoliation, and the Pro testants of Ireland have been saved from being swamped for ever by an ignorant Popish rabble. In our conscientious judgment, the Peel Parliament has, in a negative sense, been the salvation of the Monarchy. It was a breakwater to resist the surges of democracy, and to preserve the bulwarks of the 'Constitution. It was an intermediate dispensation, weathering and mo derating the tempests which had preceded it ; calcu lated to give men time for calm reflection, and happily to introduce that better order of things on which we are about to enter. Now, in no part of the empire has the Conservative influence of the last House of Commons been more profitably appreciated than in Scotland. And the people there have just shown this, in the most remarkable manner, we will not say by in creasing, but even by not diminishing, the number of their Constitutional Members. Speaking from what we know of the facts, we avow, as we formerly did, in re gard to the Renfrew and Glasgow contests, before the dissolution, that the vast majority of the Scotch consti tuency arc much more favourable to liberal principles than even the electors in this country. For the most part, they are Church Reformers to an extent that here would not be listened to. They hate Ecclesiastical disparity, rich livings, and cathe dral sinecures. This is true even of the Con servatives in that country. In short, the predilec.. tions of the great body of the people arc in favour of the most thoroughgoing and searching reforms in every department of our national institutions ; nor have we a doubt, that they had been as unable as the Kilkenny voters to distinguish between Reform and revolution, they would have been strongly predisposed to send all their members to the support of a Liberal Ministry. The mere circumstance, therefore, of 19 or 20 Conservatives having been returned by the Liberal constituencies of the north, for the express purpose of exterminating the Melbourne Administration, affords perhaps the most emphatic condemnation of the Whigs which the faction have yet received. To what is this owing ? Partly to their treatment of the Church of Scotland, but chiefly to the O'Connell alliance and O'Connell domination. The Scotch, whether Whig or Tory, cannot endure the Agitator's name. He is universally regarded as a blustering and unprincipled knave. The copartnery whereby my Lords Melbourne and Mulgrare are mixed up with him, is viewed with , one common feeling of indignation and disgust. If his vile chaffering can give the Whigs a dozen of of seats in Ireland, their flagitious connection with him has lost him fifty on this side of the Channel. In short, it is O'Connell that sinks the ship. But to think of throwing him overboard now is wholly out of the question. It is a day too late :so down they all go.— Times. A fair opinion may now be pronounced on the corn - position of the next House of Commons. The elecl tions, with the exception of some in Ireland, have aol terminated, and no doubt is entertained of the result o f such as yet remain to be decided in that country. There fore, however consonant to the practice of good Gen/ - mishits it mie:ht have been, during the heat of hatt e, to keep up the ardour of the Liberals, by repeating the shouts of triumph raised by their fellow Reforme rs in some parts of the field, and restraining the cry of defeat in others, it is now advisable to look calmly and dispassionately to our losses and gains, and ascertain the relative strengths of parties in the next House of Commons, and the amount of forces which each of the contending hosts will be able to muster in the ensuing carniAign. Without wasting time in expos int, the absurd exaggerations of the Tories with respect to their gains in Emgland, it nifs7,- at once he admitted, that the successful manner in which they contested the representation in this part of the United Kingdom, is a subject of deep disap pointment and regret to the Reformers. This result is clearly referable to Tory vigilance and activity in attending to the registration—to the Chandos clause of the Reform Act—to corruption, intimidation, and the absence of the ballot ; but a knowledge of the causes, unless as indicative of the evils to be guarded against in future, affords no palliation to the mischief of the present result. This palliative must be sought elsewhere, and cheeringly we direct attention to the powerful quota of auxiliaries which Reform receives from Scotland and Leland—especially from the latter country, and which will at least prove amply sufficient to neutralise the effect of the reverses sustained in England. To the many well and hard-fought fields won by the indignant and oppressed " aliens" we have to add Cork and Youghal, which, as was announced in our second edition of Saturday, are secured to the cause of justice and good government. On the whole, therefore, the Reformers will be about as strong in the ensuing House of Commons as they were in the last; so that whatever turn events may take, there need be no apprehension of a Tory Administration. But it is not sufficient to check Toryism—it must be crushed. In the last Parliament the faction was able, with a mi nority not stronger than it is likely to possess in the next, and with the help of the hereditary Senate, to defeat the most important of the measures proposed for the improvement of our laws and institutions. The great question for general consideration now is, the mode by which the perpetration of similar outrages may be prevented in the approaching Parliament. We have with surprise, not to say indignation, perceived some of our liberal Cotemporaries assume a tone most decidedly pernicious—we trust not traitorously so—to the great cause of popular Government. One recotn mends the people to be content with, and enjoy the good they have already achieved, and not disturb them selves in seeking that which cannot be obtained with out harassing excitement. Another recommends the Government to make its measures more moderate— that is, to grant to the people maimed and defective reforms, and thus conciliate the despotic and oppressive yearnings of the Tories; others, again, in the exuberance of self-complacency, seem to consider that, because the return of the Tories to office is impracticable, there is nothing more to be accomplished. This is not a time for congratulation on negative advantages. As we have said, Toryism must be not only checked, but crushed. The good of the Reforms which we hare already obtained can be enjoyed only by the accom plishment of other Reforms. If the progress of good Government be suffered to stand still one day, it will retrograde the next. The Reform Act, though carried in our time, drew the nutriment which brought it to maturity from the preceding generation—let its efficacy not he impaired in our hands, but rather let us bequeath to posterity proofs of our having also assisted in developing the great and holy principle of civil and religious liberty amongst all men, and consolidating our laws on the basis of equality and justice. W e yield to none of our cotemporaries in exultation at the prospective stability of the present Administration ; but little will be gained to the nation, if that Administra tion he marred in the good it meditates by the malevo lence of a faction. To prevent this is now the first object of solicitude. For Ministers to follow the advice so injudiciously—we will not say insi diously—offered to them—to prune and cut down their policy to the Tory taste and standard, would be equivalent to an abdication of office. They might by such a course strengthen themselves—though this is doubtful—i n the House of Commons; but they would be lost in public esteem and confidence, and both their influence and reputation would be irretrievable. On the contrary, in proportion to the want of strength in the House, Ministers must seek support out of doors, and this is to be obtained only an unswerving adhe rence to the popular cause, and by affording to the people tangible evidence of a desire to give a full 'and fair acquiescence with all their just and feasible de mands. A bold and decisive policy must be pursued —there must he no swerving to the right or the left— the straight road is the only safe one. Ministers have the confidence and approving wishes of their Sove reign ; let them unite with this—which they can do most easily, by merely adhering to the principles which bore them into office—the confidence and support of the people, and what power can resist such a combina tion.—Morning Advertiser. . Well have the counties of England and Wales done their duty in the recent elections to the Crown and the Constitution. They remembered the words of our youthful Queen she said, " I have learned from my infancy to respect and love the Constitution of my na tive country. It will be my unceasing study to main tain the reformed religion as by law established, secur ing at the same time to all the full enjoyment of reli gious liberty"—they remembered these words, and, re membering them, they were resolved to send to the great council of the nation representatives who should firmly and faithfully assist her Majesty in uphokling that venerated Constitution which she professes to love, and maintaining in all its integrity that " reformed religion, as by law established," which she has sworn to protect. Had the counties of England and \Vales in the late elections given the preference to candidates wearing the colours of a Ministry who are harnessed to the chariot-wheels of the Irish agitator, and who have by the mouth of their nomi nal chief admitted their intention of " inflicting a heavy blow and great discouragement on Protest antism," they would have sealed the doom of that Constitution to which the Queen has avowed the deep est attachment, and they would have surrendered to its implacable enemies the citadel of that reformed faith vrhich she declares herself as anxious to main- tam as any of her illustrious predecessors of the House of Brunswick, who derive from their connection with the Protestant cause their title to the British Crown The counties of England and Wales have, indeed, spoken out—they have spoken in a voice which sounds the knell of its approaching fate to the most incapable and unprincipled Administration that ever lowered the character and betrayed the interests of a mighty em pire. Wholly destitute of those claims upon the respect and confidence of a people which intellect, honesty, and statesmanlike talent confer, the Melbourne Minis try rely for their support and continuance in office upon what,? Their disgraceful coalition with the man whom they had previously denounced in the speech from the Throne as the enemy of his country—the bigoted and rancorous foe of the Protestant faith—the avowed hater of our ancient institutions—the licentious disturber of the peace of Ireland—the declared advocate for the dis memberment of the British empire ! It was by the aid and co-operation of this brawling demagogue that the " loyal Whigs" were enabled to 'drive the Ministry of the late King's choice from office. It was by his many-jointed " tail" that they clung to place during the last two Sessions, in which their promotion of his revolutionary schemes entirely stopped the progress of safe and salutary Reform. Will they still endeavour to hang on to power by means of that " tail," to cling to office in defiance of the practical condemnation of their dishonest and contemptible policy by the people of England at the late elections ? That is the ques tion now to be solved. We believe they will attempt to do it ; but we as firmly believe that the indignation of the loyal and constitution a l people of England will be too strong for a Government that dares to sway the country by means of Irish turbulence and popish priestcraft. Incapable of standing by their own strength, the " tail" will eventually facilitate their downfall—a downfall as ignominious as their con duct has been unprincipled and their career disgsace ful. The most populous constituencies are those of t!le counties, as they are also the most peaceful, moral, and loyal of the population. Unstained with the vices that flourish in such deadly rankness among the rabble of great towns, and undcbauched in their loyalty to the Crown and Constitution by the wild and debasing due • trines of crazy philosophers and fanatic revolution mongers, they have exercised the elective francise with the discriminatiqz juslgment and sober good sense which are characteristsn of the unvitiated English understand ing. They have beaten the Ministry, though using its Government influence in the most unscrupulous manner, more than two to one. Can any Ministry set at defiance such an expression of opinion on the part of the English counties ? Impossible. But, taking cities and boroughs along with die counties, a de cided majority of Conservatives has been returned to Parliament by the electors not only of England, hut of Great Britain. Will the Ministers dare to appeal from the Protestant and constitutional electors of Great Britain to the priestridden and ferocious slaves of po pery in Ireland ? Will they dare to appeal from the decision of the enlightened constituencies of Great Bri tain to the result of the " skull and cross-bones" sys tem of electoral intimidation, fraud, superstition, and violence, in Ireland ? Let them do so if they dare ; though the late " rejected of Middlesex" has become a joint of the " tail," he will not be able to avert their doom, or even break their fall. We care not a single straw whether Lord Melbourne has or has not declared that he will obey the voice of the English constituen cies, and resign. He has done all the mischief in his power to the vital interests of his country, though not all the mischief which he intended when he spoke of " inflicting a heavy blow and great discouragement upon Protestantism." Let him resign or not resign, it is enough for us to know that the next Parliament will be even more Conservative than that which was chosen tinder the auspices of Sir Robert Peel, and that with such a Parliament it will be as idle an attempt for the Melbourne Ministry to overthrow the Church, or subvert the Constittition, as to think of pushing the sun from its course.—Morning Herald. The partisans of the present Ministry, admitting, as they are compelled to-admit, that the English elections are adverse to their party, seek consolation and confi dence in the result of the Irish elections. We do not deny their right to resort to this source of consolotion and of confidence. The vote of an Irish Member in the House of Commons is a good vote. Upon all le gislative and administrative questions it will go, and ought to go, as far as the vote of an English Member'. It will, as we have seen, assist as much to keep a Mi .nistry in place. It will, therefore, as we have also • seen, contribute as powerfully to get a tide waiter or exciseman's appointment, or even to procure the less • mercenary and more exalted honours of the Baronetcy • or the Peerage. We own very frankly that there is no Constitutional reason to be given—and we should be sorry if there were—why an Irish is not as good as an English vote in the House of Commons. Making these admissions, as we do make them— most unreservedly and frankly—we are, nevertheless, inclined to suspect that any Administration, counting in the House of Commons, as the present Adminis tration may, perhaps, be enabled to count, a majority of not less than eight, and not more than sixteen would, if it had the choice, prefer that the eight or the sixteen should be composed in part of British and in part of Irish Members, rather than that it should be found in a decided minority in one part of the Union, and in a majority a little more decided in the other. We are proceeding cautiously here, as in a matter of such grave importance we feel bound to proceed. What we venture to assert is no more than this, that any Ministry imbued with a constitutional spirit would rather have in their favour in the House - of Commons a little majority of Irish Members, and a little majority of British, than a majority considerably larger composed exclusively of either class of Members. In this mode of stating the case we do not intend that there should be, and we hope there is not, any dispa ragement to either country. Excepting in so far as the two countries are distinguished from each other by the comparative number of representatives which they can respectively send to the Imperial Parliament, there in a constitutional sense, no difference between them. And there is no man, of whichever side of St. George's Channel he be a native or a denizen, whO would rejoice more sincerely than ourselves that, in a moral and a social sense, the same equality could rea suont fe ab ig l n y ed be satisfactionasserted if It w w o e uldb be couldtoi us a ti source of there is not, morally and so c i a lly, any more honestly say nptohlai-t poli tically and constitutionally,' a difference between the value of an Irish vote in the House of Commons and that of an English vote. Nor do we entirely despair that the time may . come when this, one of the most fervent of our aspirattouspwill be realised. It were & CoSIISUM. mation devoutly to be wished ; but it is one which can only be contemplated in conjunction with certain condi tions obviously and absolutely essential to its accom plishment ; and we must fairly own that we do not sec any probability of the immediate completion of these conditions. Before Irish votes in the Impe rial Parliament can be of equal moral and social value to English votes it must have ceased to be in the power of any single individual, however richly en dowed with the gifts of nature or the advantages of fortune, to dictate to the people what Representatives they shall elect. This condition is absolute and un qualified. The patronage of an individual, however distinguished, can never be placed in competition with the suffrages of a nation. It is natural, indeed, and inasmuch as it is natural it is right, that in every country there should be persons to whom the people look up as to their counsellors and guides in all social and political emergencies. But to give moral and social importance to the legislative Representatives of a people it is another essential condition that those to whom that people habitually resort for counsel and guidance, should be men who do not habitually set all moral and social obligations at defiance. There is a proper and natural reluctance to yield legislative autho rity to a people which makes to itself a merit of resist in t- , the law, and gives its confidence exclusively to one whose only or whose greatest merit is that he has frequently taught it how this might be done with impunity. It seems necessary, also, before any consi derable moral weight can attach to the legislative re presentatives of a people that the latter should be capable of electing representatives without exhibiting any peculiar predilection for perjury, or any distinguish ing' aptitude to violence. Fraud, or perjury, or brute force brought systematically into action should not be predominant in, electing the representatives of A people upon whose exercise of their elective franchise the fu ture Government of the United Kingdom, and of its dependencies in every quarter of the globe, is to de pend. To the people of Great Britain these yeflec tions will not be new, nor, however, trite, will they be generally deemed either unseasonable or unimportant. They are forced upon us by our Ministerial contem poraries, who, acknowledging that their patrons no longer enjoy the confidence or respect of the electoral body of Great Britain, make their success in the Irish elections a subject of arrogant boast and a source of triumphant exultation.—Morning Post. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT.---Cx ornom,: - lo r. 12. MACNAMARA V. THE SHERIFF OF' SURREY. This was an action brought by the plaintiff to recover damages from the Sheriff of Surrey for false arrest. Lewis Levy, as Sheriff's officer, had been instructed to execute a warrant of arrest against Mrs. Hirley, in consequence of certain debts which she was alleged to have contracted. The sheriff's officer had gone to Mrs. Hirley's houso in Euston-place, and there took into custody Miss Macnamara, instead of Mrs. Hirley, her sister. The plaintiff was then taken to her own attorney's office in Red Lion-square, the officer compelling her to walk all the way, notwithstanding her request to be allowed to go into a coach, in conse quence of suffering from a sore in her foot. After being about an hour in custody, and the sheriff's officer being as• tistied that he had arrested the wrong person by mistake, the plaintiff was allowed to return home. Several wit nesses were called to prove that Miss Macnanaara was the wrong person arrested, and that she suffered severely from being compelled to walk to Red Lion-square. Morris Levy was the party who arrested the plaintiff. Went to her house one morning about nine o'clock ; told her that he had come from the solicitor of one of her cre ditors. She said she knew all about it, and that the party, the solicitors, and witness were all a set of rascals. He asked whether her name was not Hirley, but she said she would not answer that question. Witness then asked the servant what the lady's name was, but the plaintiff desired her not to say what it was. He then said she must go with him. She said it was all wrong. He repeated that she must go with him, on which she said, " If you take me you'll do it at your peril." Witness said that if plaintiff satisfied him that she was the wrong person ; he would not take her. He proposed she should go to the solicitors of of the arresting creditor, but she refused, saying she would only go to her own in Red Lion-square. He then agreed to go with her there, on which she requested that she might have a coach. He told her she might have one, but if 80, she must pay for it herself. This she would not do, and then they walked together to Red Lion-square. Plaintiff did not complain to him of a sore foot. Did not say she might hare a wheel-barrow if she chose. On their reach ing the plaintiff's solicitor's office, on asking one of the clerks the name of the lady she desired him not to answer. Being at last satisfied that he had taken the wrong party, witness said he was sorry for the mistake, but that it was entirely her own fault, as she refused to give him her name. He then told her she was quite at. liberty to depart. He afterwards sent a person in his employ to plaintiff's solicitors to say that he was willing to make her any reasonable com pensation for the loss which had occurred. His LORDSHIP summed up at some length. If the Jury believed that Morris Levy committed the trespass the ver dict must be against him. If, on the contrary, they thought it was committed by Lewis Levy, then the verdict must be against him. It was for the Jury to assess the amount of damages, whichever might be the party against whom the verdict might be returned. The verdict must be for the plaintiff, as it was admitted that a trespass had been com mitted. A short conversation then ensued between his Lordship and the Counsel for the defence, when his Lordship said that if the Jury found a verdict in favour of Lewis Levy they should give nominal damages ; but stating what they considered the real damages should he, which would give the Sheriff an opportunity of paying those damages without another action being brought. If, however, the verdict should be against Lewis Levy, the party charged in the in dictment as having arrested the plaintiff, then they would give the right amount of damages at once. The Jury, after having retired about a quarter of an hour, returned a verdict against Lewis Levy—Damages 651. CLEVER V. BEEMAN. This was an action to recover the value of thirty-five pockets of hops from the defendant, who is a factor in the Borough. The plaintiff and several other persons were co trustees in two farms, known by the name of Stande❑ and Hope 'Farms, at Bennington, in Kent. A person of the name of Every, as well as several other of the co-trustees, had become insolvent. Mr. Case, an attorney at Maid stone, was called to prove the plaintiff's case, and he pro duced a number of letters which had passed between the plaintiff and the other trustees and the defendant. The same witness also produced a number of bills of exchange which had been drawn on and paid to Mr. Beeman. After hearing evidence for the defence the Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff. KENSINGTON PETTY SESSIONS. THE HIPPODROME.—On Friday Mr. Drinkwater, the landlord of the Coach and Horses, at Notting-hill, ap peared before Messrs. CODD, BARLOW, and PILKINGTON, the sitting Magistrates, to answer an information laid against him by Daniel Byrne, the common informer, under the 9th George IV., c. 61, s. 18, for selling beer in an un licensed booth on the Hippodrome race-course on the 19th ult., by which he had incurred a penalty of 201. Mr. Under-Sheriff Wire, Solicitor to the Licensed Vic tuallers' Protection Society, attended on the part of the defendant. On the information being read, Mr. CORD, addressing Mr. Wire, said, you are required to produce the defendant's license. Do you do so 7—Mr. Wire—No ; it is an allegation in the information which re quires to be proved. Edward Street, the informer's witness, on the day above mentioned went to the Hippodrome race-course, on which were several booths. He went into one of them, which was kept by the defendant, and called for a quart of beer. The defendant asked if he wished for the best, to which he replied in the affirmative, when the defendant drew it for him, and he gave him a shilling for it, out of which de fendant took eight pence for the beer. Several other per sons were drinking at the time, and the defendant's name was on the pot in which he was served with the beer. The booth had no connection with the heuso for which the de fendant is licensed. Byrne said that was his case, and called upon the defen dant to produce his license. Mr. Wire—l consider it no part of my case to produce the license. The informer is bound to prove that the defen dant is not licensed. Mr. CODD—What authority have you for that? Mr. Wire—l contend, on the general principles of law, that where there are averments to be proved, it is the duty of the informer to prove all the allegations of the information before he can obtain a conviction. When primary evidence cannot be obtained then secondary evidence is considered to be sufficient. In this instance the informant could have called upon the magistrates' clerk to prove that the defen dant was not licensed, or have called persons connected with the Excise to prove to that effect. The Learned Gen tleman then cited a case recently tried at Croydon, where it was considered necessary to prove that a person was not an attorney to bring down persons from each of the Supreme Courts of Judicature in London. The BENCH, after conferring together, could not adm the objection, Wit must diva, ott the inerite . of the -can. Mr. Wire—Then I shall appeal without calling any wit nesses. The Learned Gentleman, after conferring with his client, however, determined on going on with the case, and after cross-examining the informer's witness, during which he elicited from him that he had twice been indicted for per jury, called witnesses to prove that the defendant had not been out of his house during the day in question, but that his brother, who much resembled him, had a booth on the raceground, as had been stated. The Bench then said the informer's witness had evi dently made a mistake, and dismissed the information. Mr. CODD—This is one of the advantages derived from the races. There was a similar information against Mr. Britton, of the Duke of Clarence, at Shepherd's Bush, but he not being ,n attendance, a second summons was issued. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. A man with a singularly-constructed visage, the mouth turned up under the right car, was brought before the LORD MAYOR under the following extraordinary circum- stances : Mr. Pritchard, the manager of the 'vessels of the Com mercial Steam-boat Company, stated that the prisoner, John Winrite, who was a stoker on board the Duke of S ussex steamer, which belonged to the Company, was suspected of having injured the engine in such a manner as to endanger the lives of upwards of 150 persons. On the preceding day, in consequence of the illness of the engineer, a new engineer was employed, and the vessel arrived from Graves end at the wharf all safe. Twenty minutes after her arrival, however, as she was about to set off to perform the voyage back, it was found that the engine would not work, and the deck was covered with steam. Witness ob served that something serious was the matter, and in stantly ordered that an examination of the engine should take place. It was then found that the injection lever pin had been removed from its proper place by some body. That pin performed so important an office in the machinery that the consequence of its removal might have been the bursting of the engine, and the most dreadful mis chief might have ensued. The engineer did not allow any person to enter the engine-room except the prisoner and another stoker ; and the prisoner being in a state of ine briety, and having been heard to make some threat on coming up the river, there was every reason to believe that he had thus exposed the lives of the passengers to im minent peril. The Loon MAYOR—Did he owe any one a grudge ? Mr, Pritchard—We have reason to believe that he wished to do the new engineer an injury, as lie probably expected to be appointed to the situation in the absence of the old one. This is the second offence he has committed. George Howell, engineer on board the Duke of Sussex steamer, was responsible for the engine department on board, and that the vessel came from Gravesend to London in good order. At twenty minutes after four o'clock, lie saw that all was in proper order. The steamer was close to the wharf at London-bridge taking in passengers after that hour. and the boll announcing the departure had done ringing, when he found that there was an alarming impediment in the engine. Upon examination it was found that the injection pin was removed, and that the weight of the steam pressure was becoming immensely great. The allowed pressure of steam was four pounds and a half per inch, and at the moment he went to ascer tain the impediment it had reached seven pounds per inch. The removal of the pin had prevented the condensation from taking place, and great risk was necessarily incurred. He succeeded in stopping the engine ; and the condition of it might be guessed at from the fact that the hand of the man who fixed the pin was burned in the act. The LORD MAYua—Might not the pin have been forced out by any mechanical power of the engine itself? Wit ness—That was quite impossible. It must have been done by some person. The engine might have been smashed to pieces. The prisoner and the other stoker were the only persons I aliowed to enter the engine-room. Mr. Pritchard—The captain and some of the crew had mentioned to the engineer that the prisoner would play him some trick. The Loan MAYOR-It was the duty of the captain to put such a man away, after having detected him in a former offence. Mr. Pritchard—Nobody had any idea of so desperate an act - of villainy. The LORD NIAYOR—Was he drunk ? Howell saw him take only a glass of spirits, but he seemed as if intoxicated. The prisoner denied most solemnly that he had touched the injection-pin. He had merely done his duty as stoker, and had not meddled with the engine. The LORD MAYOR (to Mr. Pritchard)—Did the pri soner understand the mechanical process of the engine work ? Mr. Pritchard—No ; he was not acquainted with the details of the principle, but he was perfectly aware of the effect of removing the injection-pin. We have been ex tremely cautious upon all occasions, I assure your Lordship. The Lore MAYort—There was no proof of caution in this instance, at any rate. The lives of the multitude on board were evidently in jeopardy. Remanded till Wednesday next. UNION-BALL. J. Stevens, an artist, residing in Webber-lane, was charged ►with appropriating to his own use 75/., dropped in the streets by a Mr. Holloway, and picked up by the pri soner's daughter. The prisoners were remanded till Wednesday. MARYLEBONE. A little girl, named Charlotte Thompson, aged fourteen, the daughter of a respectable housekeeper in Rutford-place, Edgeware-road, was charged with having stolen from her mother a gold ring and other articles. It appeared from the evidence, that about twelve months ago the prisoner was seduced by an elderly gentleman, under whose protec tion she has been some time living, in a house of ill-farne, near Drury-lane. Some time afterwards she returned home to her mother's house, which she had since left with the property in question. On Friday last she was discovered by her father in a house in Shire-lane, Fleet-street, and given in charge to a policeman. The parents expressed a wish that she might be leniently dealt with ; and on a gen tleman who was in the office undertaking to get her into some asylum, where her morals would be well looked after, she was discharged. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) PORTSMOUTH, AUGUST 10. MALTA, JULY 19.—The Medea steamer, Captain Aus ten, left this place to join the squadron on the 15th ; the Bellerophon. 84, Captain S. Jackson, and Hind cutter, Lieu tenant Codd, recently employed at Tunis, left also on the 18th. for the same station. The Russell, 74, and Blazer steamer, arc now at anchor off the port. Admiral Sir Jo sias Rowley, with his flag in the Caledonia, arrived off the port on Saturday last, but did not enter the harbour. The health of the squadron, which is gone on a cruise, is slightly affected by the prevailing epidemic ; but there was every appearance of a change for the better, from the favourable winds and clear atmosphere which have for several days predominated. This desirable result may be no less looked for, under the blessing of Divine Providence, on shore. The Princess Charlotte, 104, with Admiral Sir Robert Stopford's flag, arrived at Port Mahon on the 10th ult. ; he immediately took the command on the Mediterranean station, The Caledonia, 120, was to leave for England, with Sir J. Rowley's flag, on the following day. The Hercules, 74, arrived on Sunday from the experi mental cruse, and remains at Spithead, with the Melville, Pique, and Sparrow, and Isabella, Spanish steamer. In Harbour—Britannia, Victory, Edinburgh, Excellent, Royal George, Alligator, Hyacinth, Seaflower cutter, Mes senger steamer, Cracker and Gipsy tenders. The Pearl, '2O, Commander Lord C. Paget, arrived on Tuesday from the north coast of Spain ; "and on Thursday she proceeded to Cowes roads, where she now lies. The Columbia steamer conveyed 300 men, late of the British Legion, to Scotland, on Tuesday last. The Parmelia transport is in dock at Cowes. Rear-Admiral Sir E. Brace, we regret to find, has been obliged, by the advice of his medical attendants, to resign the command on the Lisbon station. Captain E. Boxer assumed the command of the Pique on Wednesday. She will shortly be ready for sea. APPOINTMENTS.—Lieutenant Marriott of the Edinburgh, and Lieutenant Hocker of the Alligator (both of the Royal Marines) have exchanged ships ; Mr. P. Comrie, Surgeon, to the Hercules ; Rev. John Marshall to the Pique ; Mr. E. D. Ache, Mate, to the Excellent ; Messrs. J. Paul, Michael de Courcy and B. Cator, Mates ; and Messrs. E. Bremer and A. M. Baker, Midshipmen, to the Alligator. The following Midshipmen passed for Lieutenants at the Naval College, on Tuesday and Wednesday :—Mr. J. H. Sharp, Bertie C. Cator, James Coutts Crawford, Henry Oakeley, George Giffard, George Kerr, William Ford, William Butler, Henry Bainbridge, James J. Mitchell (Castor), Rowland Bateman, E.W. Vansittart (Wellesley), and Arthur Cumming (Melville). A striking proof of the good feeling which has subsisted between the ship's company of the French frigate Dryade, and that of the British line-of-battle ship Malabar, both at Lisbon, may here be mentioned. These ships have been nearly fourteen months together ; and the crew of the Dryade having heard that the Malabar was on the point of returning to England to be paid off, sent an invitation to the crew of the latter, or part of them, to dine with them on board the Dryado. The invitation having been ac cepted, a splendid repast in the true French style, with an abundance of wine, was provided, and at two o'clock spread on tables on the main deck ; and after an inte.rellange of the most friendly expressions, and an afternoon of much enjoyment, at half-pat sem o'clock the party broke up. In return for this hospitality, and to mark thai. r sense also of the cordial feelings that had existed between the crews of these ships, an invitation to dinner from the s !amen f the Malabar, was given to those of the Dryade, o.a) accord ingly on the Bth ult. three hundred of the crew o f the latter dined on board the Malabar, on which occasion all t. he main deck guns were run in, and fore and aft, the tables',//er,g; spread the length of the main deck, which was screen 401 with flags, the French and English ensigns being folde m valance and placed at the head of the table. The vian dS consisted of beef, mutton, poultry, &c., and plum puddings. After these had been heartily partaken of, at the request O the seamen of the Dryade, they were shown round the . Malabar, and during their temporary absence from the main deck, the remains of the substantial fare was removed, And replaced by fruits of every kind and wine ; nor was grog in^ troduced until a late hour. Each party separated delighted at the mutual display of cordiality between them. A magnificent piece of plate, weighing 200 ounces, wag presented to Rear-Admiral Ross, on the 3d inst. at the Royal Hotel, Devonport, at a public meeting, E. St.. Aubin, Esq., in the chair, as a memento of the esteem which the inhabitants of Devonport and its vicinity held the gallant Admiral " for the ass:stance which he at all times afforded the inhabitants in case of emergency, and of the kindness and urbanity which invariably characterised his conduct in private and public life, while lie held an impor tant official situation in that town. The recruiting party of the Royal Marines, recalled some time back from Lewis, is again ordered there again, and Captain R. B. Galloway is to take charge of it. The Lords of the Admiralty have awarded to John Lark, Quarter-master of the Volage, a pension of 291. 10s. with a medal, and a gratuity of upwards of 151., for upwards of 21 years service and uniform good conduct. STATE OF TRADE. LEEDS TRADE.—We are glad to state that on Saturday . and Tuesday the demand for goods in the Halls was briskeir than it has been for some weeks past, and that considerable• business was done at the old prices. In the warehouses, too, there is a marked improvement ; so that both goods and wool may be fairly said to have reached the lowest point. An immediate advance is expected. HEcxmoNowicKE. —The blanket market continues steady, with but little variation in prices. BRADFORD MARKET.—There was a better attendance of buyers at our market on Thursday, and more goods were sold than for many weeks past, at a trifling advance in price. There was likewise an improvement in the demand for yarns, particularly in the finer sorts, for which better prices were asked, but not in all cases obtained ; wools were also in more request for combing, but the terms obtained were pretty much the same as of late. HunnEasnELD.—There was an improved demand for goods here on Tuesday, and better prices were obtained. HALIFAX MARKET.—There was no material change in this market on Saturday ; business almost wholly suspended on account of the election. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, AUG. 7.—There Las been a good demand for goods to-day, especially for flannels of the finer kind, but the manufacturers complain much of the extremely low prices offered by the buyers. Though Wool has been advancing in price for the last four or five weeks they have been able to get very little more for their pieces. Wool to-day has been difficult to buy at the last week's prices. LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, AuG. 12. We have this week had a very extensive demand for Cotton, and the sales have daily been heavy and at improving rates, establishing a further advance of 1 4d. per lb. in the middle and lower qualities of American. Brazil has participated fully in the demand, and may be quoted I %d. higher. Egyptian is more saleable, and the lower qualities are sparingly offered, and have advanced 1 /d. per lb.. In Surat large vales have been effected, - and they are 1 3d. higher. Dur ing the week 4,500 American, 150 Surat, and 70 Egyptian, have been taken on speculation, and 2,100 American, 700 Surat, and 225 Bengal, for export. d. d. I d. J. 230 Sea Islands l3 to 24 ' Demeraras .... 0 to 0 80 Stained ditto 6 9 150 Peruvians ... 7 0 5,790 Uplands 5 7?-,' 560 Laguayras 5 7k 5,730 Alobile, &c. ... 5 7i 3,620 Surats .... 2l 5i 17,480 New Orleans 4b Si . 360 Bengals ... 1,890 Egyptians 7b —lO ; 260 Cart.hagenas ... 5 5b 1,720 Pernams, &c 7b W A ' Manilla 0 0 500 Bahias 1 880 na Alaranhas '7 9i Ilarbadoes , / Sawginned 6i 6 Smyrna o— 0 We have had a good demand for Cotton to-day. The sales reach 4,000 bags to the trade, at the highest prices of the week. Bales. Taken on speculation this year Same in 1836 Forwarded to the country unsold this year Same in 1836 Increase of import this year compared with the same date last year ... 03,236 Increase of stock Decrease of quantity taken for consumption 6,000 Decrease of quantity taken for export Comparative View of the Imports and Exports of Cotton into and from the whole Kingdom, from the Ist •t Januery to the sth inst., and of the Imports and Exports for tile same period lest year : Into the Kingdom this year. American South American West Indies, Demerara, &e. East Indies Egypt, &c. Bags. 887,128 82,309 3,698 99,829 21,093 Total of all descriptions Sairie period last year. Bags. American South American West Indies, Demerara, &c. East Indies Egypt, &c. Increase of Imports as compared with same period last year Exports in 1837. American, 31,855; Brazil, 2,195; East India, 40,162; 'Vest India, —; Other kinds, —. Total in 1837 Same period last year Stock 74,212 53,961 Aug. 11, 18.37 .. Same time, 1836 334,800 274,900 GAMING IN CHANGE-ALLEY.— Another diffi culty presents itself in striking at the root of gaming ; it is hard to draw a line between games of chance in this country_ Many share, joint-stock, and commercial speculations of late years have been little better than gambling adventures, started to dupe the inexperienced . The public funds f orm another wide field of gambling, in which hundred s o f per sons are daily engaged, and in which the chances of loss (except to the brokers) are as certain as at D enn i s ' s or Crockford's. It would be quite preposterous to drive at the hells" of th e . west end—to legislate mere ly aga i ns t thimble-rig and little-go, while the giant Pandemonium in 'Change-alley is tolerated in all its ramifications of iniquity. --Fraser's Magazine. SILVER SNUFF BOXES, of all sizes, and of a great variety of Patterns, either Plain or richly Chased, are offered, price from Ten to Eighteen Shillings per Ounce, at T. COX SAVORY'S, Working Silversmith, Goldsmith, and Watchmaker, 47, Cornhill, London. N. B. —A Pamphlet, containing a List of Prices of Silver Spoons and Forks, Silver Plate, Plated Goods, Watches, Clocks, &c., may be had gratis, or will be forwarded in answer t o a post-paid application. BIRTHS. On the 9th inst., at Singleton, near Swansea, the lady of T. II Vivian, Esq. ; M.P., of a daughter. On the 31st ult., at Swansea, Glarnorganshire, the lady of Win. Walters, Esq., solicitor, of a son, On the sth inst., at Tooting, Mrs. R. Obbard, of a son. On the 10th inst., in Upper Woburn-place, the wife of Mr. J. Towne, solicitor, of a son. On the 10th inst., the lady of S. Arbouin, Esq., of a daughter. On the 11th inst., at South Lambeth, Mrs. J. Russell, of a son. On the 11th inst., at Richmond, the Marchioness of Lothian of a son. On the I I th at Hessen, Lady Harriet Clive, of a son. On the Bth inst.. at Montpelier Parade, near Kingstown, Ire land, the lady of G. Morant, Esq., late of the Grenadier Guards, of a son and heir. MARRIED. On the 10th inst., at St. Mary's, La m b e th , M r. William Dull,Dull,to Catherine, fourth daughter of the late Captain Grayson, of Li verpool. On the Bth inst., at. St. George's Church, Barnsley, Robert Noades, eldest son of the Rev. R. Newton, of Leeds, to Sarah Ann, eldest daughter of James Cocker, Esq., of Keresforth House, near Barnsley. On the Bth inst., at St. John's Chapel, Edinburgh, John Kin loch, Esq., of that Ilk, and Kilric, Forfarshire, North Britain, to Agnes Garden, only:daughter of the late Francis Garden Campbell, Esq., of Troup and Glenlyon. On the 10th inst., at St. Marylebono Church, Christopher Mar deubrough, Esq., to Louisa Frances, eldest daughter of the late A. Wilson, Esq., of the East India Company's Service. On the 10th inst., the Rev. Henry Boys, youngest son of John Boys, Esq., of Lewes, to Mary A nn S ara h, y ounges t d a u g hter of the John Penfold, Vicar of Steyning, Rector of Pyscombe, and Chaplain to the Duke of Sussex. DIED. On the lOth inst., at Hayes, Middlesex, in the 85th. year of her age, Mrs. Hannah Hinton. On the 7th inst. , in Charlotte-street, aged 20, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late W. RadclytTe, Esq., of Darley Hall,'Yorkshire. On the 10th inst., aged 15, Sarah Rebecca, second daughter of Mr. G. P. Howes, of Church-street, Paddington. On the 10th inst., aged 26, Mr. Thomas Brazier Arnott, eldest son of Mr. T. Arnott, of Bennett-street, Blackfriars. On the 1I th inst., at Peckham, Hannah, wife of Mr. John Brown, of Old Broad-street. On the 12th inst., in Delahaye-street, Westminster, Mrs. James, formerly of Regent-street. On the 1 lth inst., at Abbott's Ann Rectory, the infant gm of the Hon. and Rev. S. Best. On the llth inst., at Cowes, aged 22, Lord Stavordale, eldest son of the Earl of Ilchester. On the 12th inst., in Eaton-place, Rosa, infant daughter of 3f. T. Smith, Esq. - - - Vriutemi gad PuUll,llO4l Uy MU al/0 YV UA of 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Stread,in the cemoti of Middlesez.—Aiondey, August 14, 1837.