The Sun. — London, England, 1837-09-01 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We were prepared for the display of spleen which the visit of the King and Queen of elgium this co untry called forth in the Times of yes ß terday. to It is quite m accordance with the system of our Contem porary. There are no charities of life, no ties of relationship which the Times is disposed to respect. The same fiendish spirit which endeavoured to infuse into the late King suspicions of her present Majesty and her illustrious mother, which sought to sow jea lousies between parent and chid, and to excite dis sat;sfaction with both in the minds of the public by piWing the most uncharitable c onstruction on the actions of the inmates of Kensington Palace, is still at s.nrk. The object of the article in the Times is two-fold ; first, to give pain to the amen, and next to exi.ite indium a gainst the King of the Bel gians. The Tories ot dissemble the disap cann • pointinent they feel that the door to Court intrigue is now closed against thent. They see that her Majesty reposes the most pc:7feet confidence in . her present advisers, and that the'" policy re ceives her hearty and decided approbation. This has led them to dilate in their reviews on the advan tages of the Salique Law, and to fill the public mind with apprehensions of danger from a female reign. The article in the Times has its origin in Tory spleen arid disappointment. The grapes are sour. We should have heard nothing of the inability of her Majesty to act on the suggestions of her own judgment if she had chosen to bestow her confidence on Sir Robert Peel. But the advice of King Leopold is now, it seems, ur gently demanded. "It is idle to suppose," says the Times, " that the universal interest attaching to her Majesty's infant Councils will not be participated in by her Royal uncle, or that he will wholly abstain from giving his illustrious (royal?) niece the benefit of his experience." Again and again her early age is dwelt on ; and King Leopold is instructed as to the subjects on which he may and may not give advice to his Royal relative. He must not mix himself up with " negatiations and proposals touching her Majesty's personal happiness :" he must " see the propriety of withholding his interference as well in regard to spe cific questions of policy, as with reference to the persons who ought or ought not to conduct the Government of this empire." But on what is he then to advise his Royal relative ? He is to advise her to do no thing—to urge " the propriety of withholding any de cisive or premature exercise of her Majesty's confidence and prerogative." Her Majesty is to have confidential advisers in wham she is to have no confidence. How ever, the Times does not long remain within the limits of neutrality. King Leopold is to abstain from ad vising the Queen on subjects connected with her per sonal happiness, from interfering with regard to specific questions of policy, and from stating who ought or ought not to conduct the Government of this empire ; but for all that, it is more than insinuated that King Leopold ought to advise the Queen to throw herself into the arms of the " Conservatives." " Enough was seen and heard by his Majesty (at Ramsgate) to convince him that a high Conservative sentiment is at this moment proudly buoyant in all quarters of the kingdom. The signs of the times are manifest on every side ; and King Leopold, if we mistake not, is no bad judge of them." And as King Leopold will not read the signs of the times with the spectacles of our Con temporary, he may prepare himself for a series of the same vituperative attacks as those which were lately directed against his illustrious sister. We understand that the circumstances that took place at Ramsgate, which according to the Times will suggest important lessons for his Majesty's guidance, are altogether mis represented, in order to furnish this irrefragable evi dence of the predominance of high Tory sentiment ; so that even the support of fact is wanting to this fine superstructure. " The pier and the adjoining streets of that watering place," says the Times," which at present is crowded with visitors conveying an average specimen of national feeling, were thronged with an immense multitude of spectators. During his Majesty's short progress from the steamer to the Albion Hotel, he received many tokens of a respectful and highly decorous welcome. We do not mean to say that the total absence of any thing like popular enthusiasm on the occasion was at all intended as any disparagement to the Royal cortege, on the contrary, we believe that every other popular feeling was absorbed in that of a quiet, scru tinizing, and complimentary curiosity. But the moment that his Grace the Duke of Wellington was ascer tained to be present, as Lord Warden of the Cinque, Ports, the decorum of the well-dressed multitude gave place to the deafening shouts of exultation. Never was that illustrious Conservative more enthusiastically hailed. It was a noble and spontaneous tribute. The air literally rung with acclamations ; and though nothing could exceed . the delicacy wherewith his Grace hastily withdrew himself , hi order to leave the King and Queen of Belgium in sole and undivided possession of the admiration of the public, enough was seen and heard to convince his Majesty that a high Conservative sentiment is at this moment proudly kuoyant in all quarters of the kingdom. The signs of the times are manifest on every side ; and King Leopold, if we mistake not, is no bad judge of them." We have received from a correspondent the follow ing account. of what took place at Ramsgate, authen ticated by his name and address : " I beg to inform you that I was at Ramsgate on Mon day, and saw the landing of the King and Queen of the Belgians, On that occasion there was no particular display of popular feeling. There certainly was a very little cheering, and every wish to show a fair respect to. the King and Queen, but nothing more. As Ramsgate is at this time very full of respectable company, and as it was expected that the Royal strangers would arrive some time between three and five o'clock, no hour could be more fa vourable for promenading, and the pier was literal!y crowded from one end to the other. " I am sure that the Duke of Wellington will he much surprised at the statement of the Times, for he was in waiting at the pair-head from half past two until six o'clock, when the King and Queen arrived, and during that long time we did not hear any cheering at all for the Duke. It is true that many g entlemen and ladies walked up to have a sight of the Duke, whilst he and they were in waiting, but on these occasions there was no cheering. Again, when the King and Queen drove along the pier to the Al bion in an open landau, the Duke of Wellington walked behind arm-in-arm with the Hon. Edward Cust ; and, al though they walked up through the centre of the line of people, we must certainly say, with truth, that there was no political display whatever, and if there was a cheer it was from a stray voice. You may with great truth and justice distinctly declare that no individual so nearly con nected with our Queen, and of such rank, could have been received with less political feeling ; and that no individual could have been received with more cordial kindness, and with more calm respect, than was shown to Leopold and I.is Queen." But, after all, even supposing the statement of the Times to be true, what an idea of King Leopold must that journal have to suppose that lie would be so overwhelmed by the cheers of the loungers at Rams gate, as at once to infer from this display the predo minance of Conservative sentiment in England, and run °p.m mouthed to the Queen and warn her against the danger of continuing to repose confidence in her present advisers ? The idea is, after all, too absurd even for the Tilies. The truth is, its affectation of deference for King Leopold is merely a feeler. Having familiarised the public with the idea that the visit of the King of Belgium has for its object an inter ference Nsiti s t the Government. of this empire, on that assumptionthe Times will, without much ceremony, proceed to cover him with ribaldry and abuse.—Morn ing Chronicle. On taking a second glance at Lord Palinerston's address to the Tiverton, electors, we find that it is sus a more extended comment th an we h ave ceptible of vet bestowed upon it. The earnest thankfulness with which his Lordship speaks of his return to Parliament . . as a piece of " good fortune" indicates upon the whole a more modest estimate of his own deserts than we had previously given him credit for. That the Noble Lord should have been twice endured by the same constituency is evidently regarded by him as an unparalleled mercy. He is confounded to find, that in -in spite of the forebodings excited by a just apprecia tion of his personal and political claims, the purchase of Mr. Kennedy's interest in the Tiverton venality has for the second time effected for film a touch-and-go de liverance, such as can only be ascribed to sheer " good fottunej.'. But in truth Lord Palmerston his been a chlil of fortune from first to last, Play the fiddle who may, his Lordship is an everlasting dancer. He is under no necessity of giving any prospeetta of his principles. He i 3 privileged to hear what opinions the Premier for the time being pleases. He neither ap peals to past services, nor pledges himself for his future THE SUN', LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1837 procedure. In short, his re-election is a wece of pure good luck ; and as such he pours out his honest Irish heart in a libation of the lowliest gratitude that any proud-minded man could submit to. And how does his Lordship requite this favour? 'Why, by let ting the Tivertonians into a profound state secret, which is unknown to any other constituency in the empire. To their ektreme astonishment and delight, the eoble Lord informs them confidentially that " the recent elections give the Reformers a decided and sure nadority in the House of Commons, frilly seicient to secure the ascendancy of those principles of go vernment on which they desire to see the affairs of the country administered." There is here a good deal of diplomatic precision truly. The previous announce ments to the same purpose by his Lordship's evening oracle had been universally regarded as mere empty vapouriiig. But now, it seems, they are formally ra t:fled by her Majesty's Foreign-office, though not without the usual protocolic caution for which that department is supposed to be distinguished. Observe, it is not the Whig Ministers that have got a majority ; it is only " the Reformers ;" in other words, his Lordship discloses, rather unguardedly we fear, the important fact that fully 600 members of the new House of Commons are decidedly favourable to Reform. Whether they are all favourable to the reform pre tences of Lord Palmerston and his fellow stipendiaries, is a question which his Lordship finds it convenient to shirk. But that there is a majority "ully siffi cient" for the main purpose of the Noble Lord, he makes no scruple to declare. Now, all the world knows that his Lordship's purpose is simply to remain in office. To suppose that he has any hope or care to effect the enactment of any one measure formerly brought for ward by his colleagues, except as indispensable to their prolongation of power and pay, is what no experienced person will allege : and as there is no compromise, abatement, or accommodation which the Whigs will refuse to make in order to carry their main point, his Lordship presents us by implication with a satisfactory solution of the enigma, that whereas the Whig majo rity in the last House of Commons was not half suf ficient to achieve any revolutionary measure, it is " fully sufficient" in the present more Conservative Parliament to work out the tame proposals which, in case bolder ones should threaten their expulsion from office, will be submitted for adoption. But even this insinuation is not hazarded by the Noble Lord without a suitable proviso. There are certaln ifs indispensable to its realization. " If the Refor mers remain united—if they will persevere against difficulties—and, above all, if they will be patient under temporary delays, they will insure the steady progress of Whig ascendancy and legislative improve ment." Mark the stress which his Lordship lays upon the anticipated " difficulties and temporary delays." Whence, we ask, are these to arise ? Lord Palmerston tells us that the Reformers will have a " fully sufficient" majority. Of course they will be able to carry out their projects without either difficulty or delay. That the Whigs will resort to their old averment, that they have not had time to concoct and carry their plans, is hardly credible. That they will venture to blame the House of Lords for retarding measures which have never passed its threshold, is equally beyond belief. To what cause, then, are these difficulties and delays to be ascribed ? To this cause, and to no other—that the Whig majority in the new Parliament is not fully sufficient to expedite the pass ing of Whig measures ; and that if even ten righteous men shall be found unwilling to remain implicated in Whig iniquity, the country will yet be saved, in spite of Lord Palmerston and his accomplices. What a veracious and able calculator is his Lordship ! So much for his sure and decided majority ! What his • Lordship means by promising a " public amusement" to the good folks of Tiverton, who have been the in struments of his " good fortune," we cannot, of course, conjecture. But this we know, - that let him give the most splendid ball and supper he can produce, graced by all the Miss Figginses in the town, and enlivened with the best buffoonery that Devonshire can afford, his efforts at hospitality, considered as " a public • amusement," will fall very far short indeed of the letter which so ludicrously announces it.—Times. Having failed to excite any feeling of discontent or dissatisfaction against our youthful Queen and her il lustrious mother, by their scurrilous abuse and invective —which, coming from such a source, served only to concentrate around these distinguished ladies a more fervid feeling of respect and devotion—the Tories seem now to have changed their tactics, and labour to attach, by their eulogy and approbation, that obloquy which their slanderous invective failed to cast upon the elevated objects of their calumny. A most Je suitical specimen of this eulogistic inculpation, or in culpatory eulogy, was exhibited in the Times of yes terday, wherein the leviathan of apostacy, mergin g for the nonce all alarm about the " Kent-Coburg Mi nistry," the " back-stairs tyranny," and the " sordid female foreign tyranny," which on her Majesty's ac cession were so strongly and abusively denounced, now discovers that the visit of her Majesty's uncle, the King of Belgium, is both " natural and seasonable," that his presence is likely to render essential service both to the Queen and the country," that the " time of the visit is singularly judicious," and that he will " suggest important lessons for her Majesty's guidance." To make these announcements the more imposing, the usual falsehoods of Toryism are put in requisition —and the reception of King Leopold, at Ramsgate, which, though respectful, was far from enthusiastic — the manifestations of ordinary courtesy being for the most part confined to the Liberals, the Ramsgate To ries not having at the time received instructions from the oracle of Printing-house-square—this reception is represented as most strongly expressive of national feeling—whereas the fact was, the few Liberals desirous of giving a cheer to the Royal visitors were restrained by the lowering aspect of the Tories, which threatened to interrupt any extraordinary warmth of acclamation. It is highly ludicrous to hear the Times describe "the delicacy wherewith his Grace (of Wellington) has tily withdrew, in order to leave the King and Queen of I3elgium in sole and undivided possession of the approbation of the public." We should have premised that previously to this sensitive shrinking from applause—this maiden • modeety of the bash ful and retiring Duke, " the decorum of the well- dressed multitude," as the Times states, " gave place to deaf ening shouts of exultation." " Never was that il lustrious Conservative more enthusiastically hailed." To all this we cannot give a more suitable reply than that of our old friend Sir William Burchell, in the Vicar of Wakefield—" Fudge ! Fudge! I" The Times infers that the sole object of this visit is to persuade the Queen that the feeling of the country is " Conservative," and to advise her Majesty to cone form to the wishes of her people. When the wolf lies down in amity with the lamb, or the lamb seeks the protection of the wolf, the feeling of the British people will be Tory, but not before. We perfectly concur in the propriety of the Timci observations when it observes—" Of course all negociations and proposals touching her Majesty's personal happiness arc at present entirely out of our view. We take it for granted that the Royal visitant will have more judgment and consideration than to meddle with any such matter. Nay, we assume that he will evens e the propriety of withholding his interference, as well in regard to specific questions of policy, as with re ference to the persons who ought, or , ought not, to conduct the Govern ment of this empire. ' This is all perfectly correct, for though we consider that her Ma jesty's personal feelings should have all due weight in the disposal of her hand,•yet it would certainly be more desirable for the nation to form an alliance with a party whose existing portion would increase the national in fluence, nothing to the country, upon its bounty.—taming save a claim than with those who would brin g Advertiser. Every body recollects the declaration of the Whig upon.coming into office that they were to govern with , out patronage, and everybody sees that the y are more profuse and shameless in governin g by patronage than any Governme n t th a t ever went before thew. Their multiplication of commissions for the purpose of pro viding for their connections and dependents, and pur chasing Parliamentary support, has afforded a very etsee ee nractical illustration of the 44 !arena-anent" to which they were pledged, by saddling the country with additional and unnecessary expenditure—unnecessary, at feast, for all purposes but those of political corrup tion. Their unscrurlous mode of rewar.4ip I.hor R CORONERS' INQUESTS. SELF MLTIIDER AND CONFISCATION OF PROPERTY.— I Yesterday an inquest was held before Mr. CARTTER, the Coroner for Surrey, at the Queen's Head Tavern, Char lotte-street, Blackfriars-road, on the body of John Au gustus Lassale, a French courier, aged 50, who committed suicide by hanging himself. Mr. James Milliken, a tailor, of No. 6, Charlotte-street, stated that the deceased had lodged at his house for the last three months, and occupied the room in which he was found dead. He lived as a pntleman, and it was his usual custom to leave home about noon and return at night. On 'Tuesday night, in consequence of a statement made by witness's brother that the deceased had not been seen all day, and that on knocking at his door he could receive no answer, he procured the assistance of Mr. Pitts, a lodger in the house, and a policeman. They found the door fastened inside, and not being able to obtain an entrance or an answer the door of Mr. Lassalle's apartment was forced open. On entering the apartment they found the deceased hanging by a blue . silk handkerchief, twisted and sewed together into a kind of rope. One end of the hand kerchief formed a slip noose, Which was round the de ceased's neck, and the other end was seeisred to a pair of tongs placed over the cupboard door, which was made fast. The tongs were closely tied together with tape in two places to prevent their slipping. The deceased was instantly cut down, He had no doubt the deceased had destroyed himself. COR . ONER—How do you account for this act of suicide? Mr, Milliken—l can only account for it in this way. M. Lassalle was in distress. I believe he expected a remit tance from the Continent, in which he was disappointed. On Monday afternoon he appeared very anxious about a letter, and said he should go to Gravesend. He returned home about eleven o'clock at night, and asked her for the letter. On being informed that it had not come, he swore, and seemed vexed ; and before he went to bed he ordered that it should be sent up to his room directly it came. Next morning, soon after eight o'clock, the letter came by the twopenny post, and it was sent up to him. He had . . . since searched the room occupied by the deceased,' but could find no trace of the letter. He was not aware of the contents. Mr. Milliken, in his examination by the jury, said that the deceased had not a farthing of money at the time of his death. He found two pawnbroker's duplicates among his effects—one was for a gold watch, pledged on the .sth of June for eight guineas, and the other for some gold studs pawned for 9s. The deceased's apartment exhibited the appearance of great poverty. The--deceased was always remarkably cheerful and lively, and full of anecdote. Ha _ _ one day told him he had received several wounds, and that his head was affected in hot weather, but he never saw any thing in his manner indicating unsoundness of mind. The'ConoNEß said all the circumstances should be taken together. The deceased had received wounds in his head— he had been disappointed in a remittance, and was in want. This might have preyed on his mind. The very act of sui cide was a rash one, and in itself an evidence of insanity. The jury-room was then cleared, and after half an hour's discussion among the Jurors the Coroner was called in and the following written verdict was handed to lkm : " The Jury are unanimously of opinion that the deceased, John Augustus Lassallo, committed self-destruction by hanging himself, and that he was in a sound state of mind at the time." ComoNEß—Then the verdict is fel° de se. The Foreman—lt is so. The CORONER then issued his warrant for the interment of the body accordinc , to law, between the hours of nine and twelve at night, in the church-yard of Christ Church, Black friars-road, without the burial service being read over him. The Coroner said the deceased's effects had become for feited to the Crown, and it was necessary for the jury to make inquiry and annex their finding to the inquisition. Bridge, the beadle, produced an inventory of the de ceased's wardrobe and other property, in all its value was about 101., exclusive of the duplicates, the truth of which he was sworn to, and the jury returned that the articles mentioned were the property of the late John Augustus Lassalle. Mr. Curtis said he must return the inventory to her Ma jesty's Exchequer, and the property must be delivered to him as the proper officer of the Crown. The Court then broke up. Notwithstanding the suppression of the slave-trade in Europe, and the strong representations made by the European Governments to the barbarian Powers of Africa, this cruel traffic is still carried on by the Pasha of Egypt, of whose army no fewer than 40,000 are blacks, while in numerable other negroes, both male and female, are domestic slaves in that country. CATCHING A LAWYER.-Mr. 8., a notary of Avignon, lately fled, carrying away with him property to a great amount belonging to his clients, and sought refuge from his defrauded creditors on the territory of Geneva. One of his friends, an apothecary, who had become secu rity for him for a large amount, followed him. On finding him in Geneva the apothecary, instead of overwhelming the notary with reproaches, told him that he had followed his example, and was come to establish a pharmacy in Switzer land. " Very well ; I'll assist you. Come to my lodging." " But that's not all. I have my baggage at the Custom House, and cannot get it away without money." " Let's go and clear it ; I'll pay for you." They accordingly set off, and, after clearing the goods, they sat down to a social dinner. During the repast a friend of the apothecary's, who had received the necessary hint, arrived with four gens d'arms, who demanded the papers of the strangers, now just within the French frontier line. An eclaircissement ensued. The notary was arrested and conveyed back to Avignon i n a carriage which he had himself obtained under false pretences from the direcleur des dikiences of that city. STRAWBEHUIES.-The strawberry is a delicious fruit in itself, but, like every other good thing, it is sus ceptible of improvement. The addition of cream and sugar, for example, makes it exquisitely agreeable. Some people of refined taste have discovered a secret which renders it still more ambrosial. The simple process of giving each strawberry a gentle squeeze with the spoon produces as great an improvement in the flavour of this edible as boiling does upon that of the potatoe. Let the sceptical try, and all doubt will vanish. Now for the philosophy of the phenomena. A member of the Royal Society, who has devoted much attention to the subject and made many interesting experiments touching it, offers the following theory. When the unbrUised strawberry is put into the mouth, the pressure required to bruise it squeezes under the surface those nervous papillae whose office it is to detect the flavour of the edible, which is thereby made to s eem insipid in taste, though over so exquisite. We be lieve this to be sound philosophy, and heartily subscribe to it. On Wednesday evening great excitement was -caused in Clare-market by the discovery that the wife of a person named Hughes, a blacksmith in the market, had committed suicide by hanging herself. The deceased bad been seen about an hour previously, and nothing particular was noticed in her m anner at that time, except that she seem e d greatly depressed when reference was made to a quarrel which had taken place that morning between her and her husband. The husband is a man of dissolute habits, and bears but an indifferent character in the neigh bourhood. Immediately on discovery of the body several medical gentlemen attended, but life was totally extinct. The place in which the act was committed was a small par lour adjoining the shop, and the determined manner in which the poor woman must have contemplated self destruction is shown by the circumstance that she must have bent herself almost double to tighten the cord. She had used a line about the thickness of a sash-line, which. from the weight of her body and her struggles , hid cu t deeply into her neck. The - deceased was a young woman of very industrious habits, and might frequently be seen assisting her husband in the shop. She has left no family. A report was spread about that she had been murdered, but there is no doubt that she destroyed herself. SALMON.—No season, for many years past, has been so prolific of salmon as the present. Indeed, so plen tiful and so cheap has it been, that it has interfered very materially with the demand for herrings. Salmon begins to enter the rivers of Seotland and Ireland, more or less, about the month of April ; it is, however, in June, July, and August that the greatest quantity arrive. It is imme diately after its arrival from the sea that the salmon is in perfection. In fresh water it eats comp arativel y little, and its flesh becomes gradually less solid. Several of the salmon the Shannon, fisheries established on the Tweed, the Tyne, and the Eden, produce an annual revenue of 5, 0001 ., 7 , 0001 ., 10,000/., and 12,0001 to the proprietors. Near the mouth of the liver Eden, as many as 882,000 large fish have been taken in seventy-two days. About a week ago, a curious box was discovered by some workmen whilst removing some earth near to a stone,- q uarry in the neighbourhood of Burdon•mill. The box is s il ve r, and contains about 30 gold coins and a few silver ones. —Tyne Mercury. Considerable reductions are spoken of in the Prus sian army. The latest letters from Berlin give the names of seven Generals who are to be placed on the retired list. The new Minister of War seems determined to introduce every possible economy consistent with the military charac ter of the country. The King of Bavaria has ordered the monument of Latour &Auvergne, the first grenadier of France who was killed 27th June, 1800, to be repaired and surrounded by a plantation of trees. It stauds near the road foam Pans nattwirth to Neuburg, In bee husbandry the first and most essential requi site is the selection of sites for the skeps, at once properly sheltered, and possessing what is called a good "PP"' The force of the wind ulusL be b i . g 4 e4 e i t h er by houses o lofty trees in the immediate vicinity. th•ek and thin adherents at the public expense, by be wowing exclusively upon such persons every vacant office, &id sometimes creating new ones for their be nefit, exemplifies no less strikingly their purity of principle. At first the Whigs proceeded with rather cautious and timid steps in this course of venality and corruption ; but now the familiar practice of the thing has rendered them so bold and shameless that they no longer attempt to cloak their corrupt jobbings, but openly glory in their shame. The evening organ of the Ministry, in recording the other day two instances of public employments conferred up on disappointed Whig-Radical candidates at the last election,—one, the conferring a place worth 1,5001. a year upon Mr. Stock, the defeated candidate at the election for Trinity College, Dublin ; the other, the appointing Admiral Sir J A. °lnman ney to the chief commend of the fleet in the Tagus — the evening organ of the Ministry, we say, in record ing these two instances of public e mployments be • stowed on account of electioneering services, was not ashamed to add, by way of commentai y upon the " purity of principle" text, " This is the only true policy—reward, and you increase the number of your friends and supporters." So much for the " Govern ment without patronage" which the Whigs had pro mised to a then credulous and duped, but now an un deceived people I We do not pretend to say what are the qualifications of Admiral Ommaney for the com mand of the fleet in the Tagus, or those of Mr. Stock for the office of a Judge in the Bankruptcy Court. We confess ourselves to be profoundly igno; rant of the brilliant achievements of the one as a nava officer, and of the forensic character and exploits o the other, as a member of the bar—indeed we know not whether the one ever fought a battle, or the other ever held a brief ; but what matters it, if such appointments are to be the reward of electioneering services for the avowed end, not that the public ser vice may be well performed, or the country in any respect benefited by the talents or experience of the fortunate recipients of the patronage, but that the ad herents and supporters of the Whig Ministry may be increased? For aught we know, Admiral Ommanney may be as great a commander as the immortal Nelson, and Mr. Stock may be a Hale or a Thurlov:, e w G l l i o o b se e modest merit, except in the Trinity College election, shrunk from obtruding itself upo n p ublic observation ; but the principle of prefermen t laid down by t makes it quite unnecessary to take into consideration what a man's qualifications for any office are. A gal lant Admiral having gratified the juvenile Whig at the Foreign Office by contesting South Hampshire, from which the author of the non-intervention war was un ceremoniously kicked out, obtains the command of the non-intervention fleet in the Tagus, where, if hi s naval should not be better managed than his election eering tactics, it is quite certain the maritime glory of the country will not be much enhanced. " Reward," says the Globe ; " this is the only true policy ; and you increase the number of your supporters. So, then, the dispensing of patronage in the army and navy, and other branches of public service, for Par liamentary and political objects, which used to be a Tory crime, has become a Whig virtue I Verily the boasted purity of Whi,,ogism requires those who believe in it to have no smell, so strongly does it savour of rottenness and corruption. The Tories, even in the high and palmy days of their power, did not entirely exercise their patronage for the benefit of their political creatures and dependents. The glorious achievements performed by naval and military commanders, under Tory administrations, proved that qualification for im portant offices was not entirely disregarded. Among Tory appointed judges, too, we also find the greatest luminaries of the law. The Mansfields, Kenyons, Ellenhoroughs, Hardwicks, Thurlows, Eldons, and Tenterdens, with many other great sages of the law, were all of Tory appointment ; and to those we might add some living instances, showing that Tory patron age was not always bestowed merely to reward politi cal partisans, but that talent and ability for the public service were kept in view. To the Whigs belongs the disgraceful distinction of making the public service al ' together subservient to electioneering and other poli tical purposes, as their own journal has avowed. So much for Whig patriotism, and the Government with out patronage !—Morning Herald. That admirable disinterestedness which is the lead ing characteristic of Whiggery evidently extends to the journalists of the party. The Chronicle, which seeks the patronage of taprooms, and relies on the support of the town temples to the goddess of gin, has not a civil word to spare for the country. " Ignorance, depend , - e nce, and timidity," it decl ares, " dwell in villages. ' It is quite sure that, though the counties were all against the Ministers , yet still the Ministers might boast of having " all the independent and intelligent constituencies in their favour." It proves that plenty of intelligence and plenty of coals id a s r t e eam t ways found together , and tha t where coals and steam engines are not, there " the electors are to be bought or bullied, and cannot have an opinion of their own." This goes down mighty well along with beer and gin in the town taprooms, and nobody of course can suspect the Chronicle of being any thing else than quite disinterested in this peculiar view of the whereabouts of British intelligence. The Globe, on the other hand, goes out of town in considerable quantity by the afternoon coaches and the evening mails. Strange to say that, though in most things sympathising with its morning coadjutor, it is sometimes most affectingly rural, and frequently condescends to speak of country people as if they were something better than the dirt upon their shoes. Even the town patriotism of the Globe has a touch of su burbanity, and it is particularly great upon the wrongs which greengrocery suffers at the hands of intolerant Tories. It would of course be high treason to the Globe's disinterestedness, to suppose that in this will ingness to get out of town in its speculations, it had any eye to a freer circulation. We would, however, recommend even the rural and flowery Globe to keep to its market gardeners, and leave off all allusion to the ‘. farmers," unless it has a g reater fancy than most people or papers h av e for bing laughed at. " Greengrocers and farmers," as the Globe with 2 careful eye to the " order of precedence," thinks fit to class them, are a very different sort of people. The one class rise in the world, and ap plaud themselves, in proportion as they are adroit in passing off old cabbages for new, and in currying favour with cooks. Thus practised, they become emi nently fitted to determine upon the policy which Go vernment ought to pursue, and to have a lively sym pathy with the Whig party. Having much to do with leaves, they become literary without knowing it, and suddenly spring from the making of composts for vege tables to the manufacture of political manuals for Whi g Lords. Farmers are another sort of people altogether, and one might have thought that even the Globe would have made this discovery from the recent elections. We have heard, says the learned greengrocery organ—i , we have heard of indications of incipient rebellion in far mers." Have you, indeed ! We suspect this " rebel lion," as the Whigs call it, is nothing but the resistance of sound Protestant farmers to Whi g dictation. Ask Mr. Coke, of Norfolk—we beg pardon—ask the Earl of Leicester, how many farmers' votes he succeeded in getting for those who gave him an Earl's coronet? His thirty thousand pounds (merely a " subscription" re collect, nothing else) was available in Yarmouth, but it would not do Kith the farmers. No, no—they had no stomach for O'Connell Government, though it did confer an Earl's coronet upon Mr. Coke ; so the farmer; were voted at _Holkhain to be " rebellious." This is the story which the Globe . has got hold of, and, like the Chronicle in the case of the Bishop of Kilaloe's letter, haS got hold of it by the wrong end. Our greengrocery friend may save himself the trouble of trying to flatter the farmers into any parti cipation with that baseness which accepts a present convenience at the expense of sacrificing every sound English principle. The farmers are somewhat too tough to be humbugged either by the O'Connell blarney or the Globe's logic, There will be no " re bellion" on their part, either against the Protestant Constitution of the country, or the healthy feelings which uniis atom in one common cause with the Pro testant gentry. They are not MP) to lift on the O'Connell livery, la to ti s; y pp l ;:t: on M es i t_ nistty which is willing to le sustained in place by the Irish Priests. anti therefore tlhlemyeYaarree, an i e l i gi t i l 6 i i ey ' must be, hostile to such In m in i,. nistration As the present.--Hormuz- Post, POLICE INTELLIGENCE. HATTON-GARDEN. Yesterday Francis Harrison, a well-known smasher, and Mar . ;aret Newland, were brought before the Magistrates, in the custody of Thornton, No. 53, E division, charged on suspicion of robbery, and with a violent assault upon him in the execution of his duty. . Thornton, on Wednesday night last saw the prisoner Harrison, and another well-known thief, in High-street, St. Giles's, disputing as to which was entitled to a silk hand kerchief, and suspecting that they had stolen it he ques tioned them, when they assaulted him, and made off. He pursued them, when Harrison ran into a house, and his companion escaped. Witness entered the house and ap prehended the prisoner, who resisted, and the female pri soner attempted to rescue him, and beat witness over the eyes And face, and gave him a tremendous pair •of black eyes, and with considerable difficulty they were taken to the s tation-house. Witness returned to the Louse, and ascer tained that the prisoner lodged there ; and on sear-thing the room he found another man there, and a crucible for, melt ing silver and metals, moulds for coining, metal, plaster of Paris, and other implements—applicable to the purposes of coining, which he seized, and took the man into custody. In a cupboard he found several written papers in the flash language, and the following letter : Dear Frank—l should advise you to be very coitious, us you are in hawkerd prcdickiment. Beware and leave your lodgings as soon as possible, and take your traps with you. I send this here nonimouse letter as your friend, as I. nose that ere Mister Powell (the Solicitor) of the Mint is got sent and you are Lure to be caughthold, or if you docent take this ere friendly caition so agin beware, and believe as how I sin yours sincerely, " A FRIEND." Mr. LAING asked Waddington, the gaoler, whether he knew the prisoner ? Waddington said that he was a notorious smasher, and ho had been convicted of felony. Prisoner—Vy how can you say so ? I never vas here in all my life afore ; as for the hankerchief, it is my own, and I picked it up in the street. Mr. LAING committed him to the House of Correction and hard-labour for three months, and the female was con victed in the penalty of 51. for the assault, or to be com mitted to prison for two months. She was committed in default of payment. jValiana Jones, the man found in the prisoner's apartment, was then placed at the bar, and on--being questioned he denied all knowledge of the articles found in the place. The officers could not identity him as a thief or a smasher. Mr. LAING discharged him, but with a caution not to be brought there again, or it would be worse for him. He then ordered the officers to take the implements for coining, the letter, and other documents to Mr. Powell, the solicitor to the Mint, and inform him of the prisoner's conviction. MAR YLEB ONE. Yesterday Thomas Willis, alias the " rummy kid," was placed at the bar, before Mr. HOSKINS, for final examina tion, on the charge of having stolen a quantity of valuable plate, the property of Thomas Dowbiggin, Esq., Abercorn Lodge, Maida Vale. The prisoner, who repeated that he had found the property taken from him, was committed for trial. Q UEEN- S Q UA RE, Edward Longfoi d, a respectably attired young man, de scriped as a captain, was yesterday placed at the bar, charged on a warrant with haring illegally pawned a teles cope and other articles, the property of Mrs. Anne Bur rage, of Chelsea. The prisoner was remanded to give time for further inquiry. UNION-HALL. Yesterday an elderly man, of decent appearance, ac companied by a little boy, his son, made application for re lief, being, as he said, in great distress, and having been re fused parochial aid that morning. The Magistrate, per ceiving that the poor man and his child were objects of distress, directed the clerk to give them a trifle out of the poor-box kept in the office to relieve their present exigencies. W R SHIP- S TREE T. Yesterday James Prior, coachman of the Rocket Cam bridge coach, No. 4,455, was placed at the bar before Mr. Codd and Mr. Simpson (a connty magistrate), charged with running over a child nine years old. Police constable Dennis Power, 11 93, that about half past two o'clock that day he was on duty in High-street, Shoreditch, when he saw the Rocket Cambridge coach drawn by four horses, having eleven passengers, and heavily laden, on its way to Ca mbridge, proceeding at a rate of about seven miles an hour, when a little boy ran from be hind an omnibus, and was instantly knocked down by the leaders. The horses trampled on him, and, on pulling up, the hind off wheel rested on the child's chest for a few seconds. He was taken by witness into Mr. Edmonds's (a surgeon), in High-street, who said that he had some ribs broken, and who recommended that he should be taken to the London Hospital. Mr. CODD—According to the best judgment you could form do you attribute blame to the coachman ? Power—l do not. W hen aware of the accident he pulled up with all his might. Mr. Reece, of No. 248, High-street, stated that there was a sand-cart and an omnibus between which the prisoner had to pass. He had passed the cart, and at that moment the child came from the tail of the omnibus. The coach man was not to blame. The defendant was held to bail in his own recognizance of 501. The defendant said that his coach was waiting for him. LAMBETH-STREET. A very remarkable-looking Lascar, who gave his name as Wallace, was charged with being concerned with six others of his tribe in committing a most violent outrage at the Angel public-house, in High-street, Poplar, on the night of the 27th of last month. The prisoner, who spoke tolerably good English, denied the charge, but was ordered to pay a sum of 1/. 19s. 6d., the amount of his share of the dz.mage, or, in default thereof, to stand committed to the House of Correction for a month. KENSINGTON PETTY SESSIONS " LIFE IN LONDON," OR THE ADVENTURES OF A YOUNG SURGEON.—Yesterday George Eugene lligienzie, a young medical student, dressed in the first style of fashion, who was stated to be a son of the late Colonel M'Kenzie, was brought before Mr. Minnow, the sitting Magistrate, by police constable Dunbar, 'l' 155, charged with having been drunk, and creating a disturbance in Scarsdale-terrace, Kensington, on the previous night. Mr. Mate, of No. 2, Scarsdale-terrace, stated that the mother of the defendant had for some time resided at the adjoining house, where the defendant had been almost nightly in the practice of coming at a late hour in a state of inebriation, demanding money from his mother, and, on her refusing to encourage his extravagance, ill-treating her, and threatening her life. On a recent occasion he declared he would blow her brains out if she did not comply with his demands, and so fearful was she that he would in his drunken moments carry his threats into execution, that she had, unknown to the defendant, on Wednesday, left the house, locking it up, and proceeded no one knew whither. About cloven o'cloek on that night the defendant came as usual to thzt house in a state of intoxication, when, finding it secured against him, he commenced a great disturbance, descending into the area, and attempting to force an en trance by means of the kitchen windoW, the glass of which he broke, when the neighbourhood becoming alarmed by his violence he was given into the custody of the police. Mr. Tucker, of South Molton-street, and the Terrace, Kensington, stated that he was the owner of the houses in Scarsdale-terrace, the inmates .of which had frequently complained to him of the disturbances created by the de fendant. On Wednesday Mrs. M'Kenzie called on him, and earnestly requested he would allow her immediately to quit the house, her life being in danger from the prisoner's violence, and she consequently had left, as had been stated by Mr. Mate. The defendant, who, during the statements of the wit nesses, stood carelessly smoothing his white hat, staring at them all the time through his spectacles, said he was about twenty years of age, an declared that what had been stated against him was "'pun" his honour, " a lie? His mother was very fond of him, and would let him have anything he wanted. Mr. BARLOW said he believed all that had been stated. His conduct bad been most disgraceful. He was also fined ss. for being drunk and the amount of the damage done to the window. Not being prepared with the cash, he was locked up. It having been stated that the performers on stringed instruments live to a greater age than those who play wind instruments, a correspondent draws our attention to the late John Park, oboti-player, who lived to 82 ; his brother, William Park, also an oboe-player, is still living among us, and must have seen three score years and ten. Mr. Mar riotti, the celebrated trombone -player, is now in his 85th year, and has not left off puffing yet. We also have, " walking about in rude health," Mackintosh, the bassoon player, than whom no one has exercised his bellows more and he is upwards of 70. Hyde, the trumpet-player, is still alive, and very aged. Erskine, the northern oboe player, is 80 (or thereabouts), yet he took the oboe primo part at the Yorkshire Amateur Concerts last year excel lently well. So it appears that it is not a little puff that will blow the wind-instrument birds off their perch.— MigiPa? Mr, F, Wilding, of Shetton-fields, near this town, now in his 105th year, has been actively engaged during the hay and corn harvest in working in the fields, and taking his part in all the labours of the harvest men. Few coun ties could show such a sample of extreme old age, accom panied by so much health, activity, and mental vigour. — Shretusbur t y Chronicle, THE CLOCKMAKE AI4D THE POLICEMAN. Yesterday a policeman of the B division was summone« before the CommissionCrs at the Westminster Court of 13 : 4 - quests, for the payment of 1/. 10s. for a clock. The plain tiff( Mr. Farrier) was an individual of the Sant Slick s2F ties, who seemed to think th et blue noses ablunde 1 Westminster as well as in Nova Scotia. Ile wor e a to nation old blue colt, every button on which was as large to a dollar, and the sleeves were duplicated as far back as th cibo;vs. He had an eel-skin wuisicoat, the mater ials of h$ inexpr,ssibles were indescribable, the front of his shirt wail done up like lettuces. There was an antarctic bald circle on his head, and on the rest the hair was cropp ed like •a hard brush. He had evidently practised much the " soft sawder and human natur ;" but in the present caw) he had met with his match, for the defendant was Kerry man, a clas -kid scholar, , ml, moreover, a policeman. , COMNIISSIONIZRDid you get a clock from the pion' tiff ?—1 did. I'll nev er CommissioNEß—And how will you pay him ? pay him, your Worship. The clock I have is not t he clock he sold me, but a substitute, and it is worth nothing . Clockmaker—l sold and delivered the clock on the 4th of July, Sir. It is true I never gave him th e real one, but I gave him the one he has now as a subs titute, to teach him to keep time, and the way to wind up ; e nd he was to give me a shilling a week until he had paid down 305., and then I was to take the first clock and leave th e real one with him, which was worth 2/. at least ; but as for the 30s. ono it was the most regler goer that ever I seed nowhere. Policeman—Why I could never get it to go. Clockinaker WI you were always removing , a nd y ou made the clock go with y ou w h et h er y o u had iy paid the.r eut or no.—(Laughter.) Policeman—B u t it wou ld never s t r ik e the time punc tually. Cloekmaker—Why, Lord bl e s s me, I called three or four times as you were sitti ng d own t o y our wittles, and tt looked as if it had just stru c k di nner ti me .—(Laughte r q Policeman—That's b ecause 't was di nner time when Y eti brought it, and it never sti rre d h an d nor f oo t since. Clockmaker—Don't you r emem b er y o u said you sh oula be glad to pay a shilling a week ? Policeman—l did ; but you forget the elliptical Eng lish I used upon that occasion—that was, provided it wee well, and required winding no more than twice a week. g Now, I used to wind your clock every night, and I wa none the wiser. COMMISSIONER—How used you to know when the d"Y: was approaching ? Policeman—The cock used to roost and my wife of the fact in his native language. over the head of my bed, Sir, and used to inform rnys e ,_ is still sticking up right before the dresser, and if anY ene .„ of you gentlemen, or any tradesman in the street, shall sal what it is worth, 1 will pay it on the nail, even if it were 5 5 ., The clockmaker here went into a long speech in praise or_ the machinery of his timepiece, and the painting outside of it. He was afraid that the policeman had over-wound it:, The policeman affirmed that winding was all useless. He had the best of whip cord, but every time he wound it u? the neiglits pulled it down again of their own accord. 111 fact it was only fit for the hens to roost on, or the sPid ers to build a rookery in, and whenever he wanted to regula te it he was obliged to look at the sun first, and then push the Moreover. hour hand more or less toward the chimney. The clock the clock he bought and had to pay for he had never see ° at all, and as for the one h e h a d h a d u on trial the oviller was welcome to fetch it a wa y i n a wheel-barrow anY ties lie liked. The Commissioners th oug ht th e K erryma n bad the bee t of the logic, and they de c id e d t h a t t h e plaintiff had no r i g". to the money. He w as th ere f ore l e f t at lib er ty to fetch n home in a wheelbarro w , or l eave i t as a k ee psake with . defendant, if he thought p ro p er . the The discovery of a new application of water power' which is likely to be attended with most imp in this tow. ortant a tradesman conse quences, has been lately m a d e b y Like all truly valuable di sc overies, it is distinguishe d talke d for simplicity and efficien c y. I t cons i sts o f a c ylinder 2 , 1 1 '- c , a piston similar to thos e em pl oye d i n a steam - en gine* the cylinder there are t wo entrance an d two discharg e .. e pipes, one of each on either side of the stuffing-box ef the_ piston. The same tu rn o f th e coc k t h at a d m i ts the wi lter into the one part of th e cy li n d er , opens t h e di sc h a rge PiP e in the other, and thus a vacuum is formed. To work this, advantage is taken of the pressure of the Shaw's Water, th e height of the reservoir of which gives it a force of 60Ibs• tO the inch in the lower parts of the town. A short time Ago we witnessed an experiment with a cylinder two inches i ll diameter worked with a jet of water of somewhat less than ' quarter of an inch in diameter, and the piston, althoug h loaded with 1- •,vt., rose and fell 16 times in the minute' In this case the entrance and discharge pipes were e qua l :0 size, and the cylinder was placed in a vertical position. Since then the discoverer has had another model made w ith the cylinder laid horizontally, and with the discharge pipes nearly three times as large as the entrance ones, and by this means the motion was increased to 26 double s trokes in the minute.—Greenock Adverliser. STOKUSHILL PL Ica.—This new novel of lqr• Gore's is certain of becoming an universal favourte, if It• i Olt were only on account of the character of Barnsleys r Man of Business") daughter—as sweet and gracious !in(' lovely a being as over gave nature's own patent of nobility to the family of a parvenu. To show the beauty of Iq'r . - goret's character, it was necessary that she should paps/ through trial and suffering ; and accordingly she h as to en dure slight—a disappointment in the first bestow al of her a ffections—vicissitudes of fortune, with all the heart-wearing evils that follow in their train : but Mrs. Gore knows her vocation too well to allow Margaret Barnsley's history t end in adversity and spinsterhood ; the curtain does not fall till we have seen her happy marriage. We are informed by the owner of a Sr‘nderla nd ship recently arrived here, that there were, at tiiis departu re ', on the 10th of August, no less than eig l 7,ty-two ships, °I different sizes, building ; and that eve , :y Place at Sunder land, and also up the river, where a ship can be conve niently laid down and built, is already occupied. Such a number of ships building at one time in that port wng; it is said, never before known. It is not only a proof O' the improvement in the build and qualities of their ships, but also of an increase of commerce generally, since thesa ships are not all for the coal, but for other trades also Brighton Gazette. _ . SILVER WATCHES TWO GUINEAS E. An Assortment of Second-hand Watches, all of them warranted', and of various sizes, may be select e d f rom , f or th • a b o ve T. COX SAVORY'S, Working Silversmith, Goldsmith, and Watchmaker, 47, Cornbill, London. NAIL A pamphlet, containing a detailed list of the prices ' f Plate, Plated Goods, Watches, Clocks, &c., may be had gratis, or will be forwarded in answer to a,post-paid application. BIRTHS. On the 29th ult., at Holloway, Mrs. Thomas R. Kemp, of a sae. On the 29th ult., at Springfield, Upper Clapton, Mrs. William Marshall, of a daughter. On the 30th ult., the lady of H. P, Capreol, Esq., of Stamford' street, of a daughter. On the 27th ult., at Warham Rectory, N or f o lk, th e l a dy of th ° Hon. and Rev. T. Keppel, of a son. On the 2.9 th ult., at Woburn-park, Surrey, the Hon. Mrs. Lecke King, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 29th ult., at St. Mathew's Brixton, Henry John Keith, Esq., to Cicely, youngest daughter of the late A. Nelson, Esq. On the 31st ult., at St. Margaret's Church, Westminster, B. Marwood Kelly, Esq., Captain R.N., grandson of the late At thur Kelly, Esq., of Kelly, Devonshire, to Mary Ann, only child, of IL Price, Esq , of Highfields Lodge, Wythyham, Sussex, and Duke street, St. James's-park. DIED. On the 28th ult., in Great Cumberland-place, Louisa, wife of J. Hepburn, Esq., of Tovil Place, Kent. On the 26th ult., at Great Ealing, Peter Barlow, late of Token house-yard, aged 76. On the 27th ult., at Kennington, aged 70, Elizabeth, relict of Mr. J. H, Her. On the 22d ult., at Barton-umler-Needwood, aged 75, Sarah. relict of the late M. Bass, of Burton-upon-Trent. On the 25th ult., at Hammersmith, aged 64, Sarah, daughte r of the late Rev. W. Chilcott, formerly a Minor Canon of windsor, and one of the preachers at Eton. On the 28th ult., at Alitcham-green, Surrey, Edwin Y" 4 Bartley, Esq., of Buckingham -street Chambers, Strand, aged 4 On the 30th ult., at Ri ema n House, Wm - noon, Alfred Valen t • ne ' youngest son of It, B. Pollard, Esq., aged 17. Soli' On the 30th ult., at A c t on , J o h n, secon d son of M r . 11. I ay, Audley-street, Grosvenor-square, aged 21. MONTHLY MILITARY OBITUARY. Major-General —Si r J. W. Ad ams, G. C.l3• ' E. I. Corup• Serv. Bengal. Captains—May, 41 F., a t sea on passage f rom Madras ; Copley'altlß. Mr. Col. C., Gambi a ; M usca t, It. M a lta Fenc. Reg. , 3 • ~' White, h. p. 40 F. ; Wil mo t, h. p. Fi s h' s Corps ; Rumann , n 4 Line 13n. Ger. Leg. Lieutenants—Walton, F., Hurnee, Bombay ; Fleming' 26 ,.., F ; at sea ; M'Leroth, 38 F. ; F,-eemaii, R. Art., Coddisighani. Ipswich ;0. Scott, late of It. Mar. ; Jenkins, p. I Dr. , üb i l i n ; late of 4R. Vet. lin, Canada ; Lon worth, do. to do., F . ; Gooday, h. p. 18 F. ; Steele, do., Loughroa ; Baillie, h. P. Dumas, h. p. 82 F. ; Barker, h. p. R. Afr. Corps, Halifax: IL Cochrane, Unatt., Boulogne ; Schultz, h. p., 13runs. I „ n iser ke, Cornet and Ensign — Morris , 74 F. , Stirlin g Castle ; -11 h. p. Bruns. Cay. ; Grant, late of 6 R. Vet. lin. P a ymaster—Green, 57 F., New South Wales. Adjutant—M'Kinnon , h. p. 86 F., Fort William. Talbot' Quartermasters.—Webster, h. p. 11 Dr., Canterbury ; h. p. Somerset Fenc. Cay., Ileavitree. B a a.ekmaster—E. Mockler, Carrick-onShannon. ,_, ne- Medical Department—Surg. Broughton, 2d Life Gusirtomsist. gent's-park ; Assist. Surg. Patterson, 74 E. St. Lueiti, hun ter - Surg. Dr. Tongue, h. p. 3 R. Vet. Bn. ; Assist. Surg• mann, h. v, 3 Line Bn. Ger. Leg, ------ ,, ,r a London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOU•--'°,,uaitt 112, Strand, at T ho Sun Office, No. 11°. of Mistdl4ol,..erriday, Sertember 1 183" 4 I* Strand, in the e- - - --