The Sun. — London, England, 1837-11-14 00:00:00

LITERATURE. B y the TBE A BENCH AND THE BAR. ~~thor of " Random Recollections of the House of The Great Metropolis," ti-c. In 2 vols. London, Colburn, 1837. v o i u lt"t of the bi ograp hi ca l s k etc h es o f w hi c h t h ese a, mes are composed having recently appeared i n the coi r s o f the Met ropo lit an M agaz i ne , an d h av i ng in the arse of their fi rst pu bli cat i on o b ta i ne d t h e 'need of th ur e cordi a l commendation, nothing now remains but expression of the pleasure with which we hail o'ect appearance in a connected form. In these goodly p a i, 74 ) as in a mirror, the general reader can catch pe of `inPse of all the leading members of the Legal t e r rri -essi " ; for though few of the portraits are at corr,,Pted to be given at full length, enough is done to 'eY a tolerably correct impression of the personal ap p e arance,li r and mental calibre, of all our most eminent ing Lawyers. The task is one of such overwhelm btrgt 4iffi enity—is surrounded by so inii many obstacles all , to insur mountable—that not utterly to fail in its ac teiisbment, is to arrive at a tolerable degree of sue• o f ' ' This our aut h or h as more t h an a tt a i ne d in most his Sketches ; and where he falls short of it, the p a P , e , rfe etien arises from his desire to be strictly im to.l--or rather to present the subjects of his pencil t i r th e world i n t oo f avoura bl e a li g ht. His constant l e e4l of being supposed too favourable to the leading 4 841 Ref ormers, has led him to attac h un d ue import ri ee to the second and third-rate talents, and the poli t:al honest y , o f t h e Ul tra T ory L aw y ers . W e d o tof gr eatly blame hi m for this. On the part of an anne st Reformer, who proposes to estimate the talents i t ,professional gentlemen opposed to him in politics, is an error on the right side ; but as it is an error, hathink i t calls fur some notice. Several of the et ches th at are h ere g i ven — t h ose o f L or d s Broug ni El don, Abinger, and Lyndhurst, Sir Frederick eilei ck, and Sergeants Talfourd and Wilde, for 4 4 : 1 1 , 1 P1e--have likewise appeared in the " Sketches" 1, 0 ; 1 7 e Two Houses of Parliament. Nevertheless the gi i ,T 13 highly i n t ere sting, and will circulate exten ere:Y amour, readers of every class. The anecdotes f o V ve ly, characteristic, and happily introduced. The °W ing one o f L or d Eldon is perhaps the best ever , A of that di st i ngu i s h e d leg a l functionary ; P o ; tn „Ci n g his greatest personal friends was George the d big i r `u• That sovereign, it will be remembered, f made ;hi 4 .inagnificent present as a proof of his private rie Ch r .' i mmediately after the Noble Earl ceased to be Lord Cvetuacellor through a change of Ministry. He used, how at.r. when Prince Regent, to have many harmless jokes his ._ Lordship's expense. One of the best of these—at - ta ) t, ' rate, the best of several which have been commu . ni to ; 1 :1 rne—was played off on him soon after et h p re e Chancellorship. That was in the early M art te f iifesent century, when the Prince was in the . n o 4 ,nd Passionately fond of fun and frolic. Having pre wersZY instructed all the subordinates in the parts they 1 ,. ° Play, the Prince and Sheridan one evening engaged i o w ".e'neY-coach, and went down to the House of Lolls . to 1 .4 43 the rising of their Lordships. The House having I) en ' the Prince desired one of his - servants, whom he had %1 1 ;°ght with him for the purpose, to intimate to his Lord i° P h '. as he quitted his robing-room, that he was waiting t ia is carriage opposite Westminster Abbey for him.. Lord 1.1 1 having informed the servant that he would be with w a e rti :nee presene.y, hurried down stairs immediately after hi was with him nearly as soon as the servant t v se 'f• The night was unusually dark, and the streets add e then but imperfectly lighted. These circumstances, 4 0 ed to that of having just left ,the brilliantly lighted . 4S . e of Lords, very naturally account for his Lordship 1313 , 1 ng into the vehicle without discovering that instead tne Prince's own carriage, it was only a hackney-coach. h u ingetting inside, Lord Eldon found Sheridan with the w a e " 3 "en• The latter mentioned to his Lordship that he anxious to get his opinion and advice on some - " at ter of personal importance to himself, and that for rea- p o ns which he mentioned, they would go to 1 0 . "neighbouring hotel instead of to the palace, to talk l 'er the matter. Most certainly, your Highness ; wherever your High ness pleases," said his Lordship, with that thorough devo. ir to Royalty for whi c h th e N o ble L o rd ever was through and still is, distirguished. ria A " ‘'iliat the coachmen call a three or four minutes' Me nt n rd Eldon found the coach stop, and in a few mo ? Ida: after wards he was conducted by the Prince and She- Th e / ° ; to a h an d some apar t men t up one pair of stairs. qUest• ea, in the first place, asked a few conimoa-place }f eu 1 "s of t h e Ch ance ll or , as to th e p r oceedings in the of general e e t hat evening, and then introduced some other topics dew, conversation. " Eldon," said the Prince, sod fsbu 40 Pping short in the midst of a rather lively co.n thinulti°n Eldon, I'm sure you'll excuse me for a few es, 0, most certainly, your Highness." a I Y abo u t ten m i nutes , h owever , had elapsed, when toso Lordship, notwithstanding the wit of Sheridan, began ."Press a longing. for home. " 1 wish," said he , " the rt n n of ‘-e were returned, as I have some matters to attend to Press ing emergency at home." Perhaps I h a d b etter go ou t an d see whether I can hearn auytbing o f hi m ." ti t : I should f ee l part i cu l ar l y o bli ge d to you if you would, Sheridan " answered his Lordship. up his Sheridan to o k hat and quitted the apartment. tiot '' l4 's Lord s hi p was now l e ft a l one i n his glory, but was kasubffered to remain long in his solitary state. A re eptrit IY ugly-looking female, about forty years of age, lettered th e room a b out h a lf a m i n ute after Sheridan had lo it, and advancing towards his Lordship, inquired , with em,„ning bet ween a grin and a 'smile, how he did. ti s :'",ow do y ou d o ?'' growled his Lordship, looking the at e —se t in the face, with a most marked expression of iinness and astonishment. kilt Your f r i en d s h ave l e f t you , d ear ," sa id th e nymph, hi„, l .ng her se lf on a c h a i r b es id e hi s L or d s hip, an d l o oking "ila he r most coax i ng manner i n t h e f ace. iq suddenly pushed back his chair, and without utter a",, a word, stare d at h er as h ar d as if lie had meant to Who are you ?" of "rhaps you'll accept of my company instead of that ,44our friends who have left you," e. observed the female, %if: e nlY seatin g h erse lf on his kne ' Get out, get out , you h ussey ," exclaimed his Lord icireibly jerking her off his knee and starting to his 4 4° He ran g th e b e ll th a t instant with tremendous vio 410_°t. The w a it er ma d e hi s a ppearance, but manifested the provoking coolness. ot ti 9et me a coach this moment, Sir, that I may get out ti ceots, 118 Ouse imme diately," said his Lordship, in indignant 4. no n 1 1 1 eB / Sir," said the waiter, with the same provoking Si p e crionce as before. " Yes, Sir ; only, you are aware, too 4 , 3 : ° s tl ir b . ,,ave to pay, in the first place, for the use of the f eu li tl er the what ?" said his Lordship, evidently as con .. '0 as he was enrage d. With r the use of the room, Sir," answered the waiter, hi d ; un diminish e d coo l ness , and putting a towel he held in , r ight ha n d under his left' arm. I ha ve not used the room, " said his Lordsh i p, stern l y . Pav e :hat is y our own f au l t, " o b serve d th e other ; " you -.O e en in it, and that's all the same to us." f or 4 1 ~Was brought here, and have only been in the room minutes." 1 14,"° matt er to us : you cannot lr-ve the room till you / 1 3aid for it," sa id t h e wa it er , a dj us ting his collar. tgra b ,, ° You kn ow w h o I am ?" said his Lordship, losing all delC r _,at what he conceived the combined injustice of the It and the consummate effrontery of the fellow. kali makes nothing to us, Sir, though you were the Lord sam e oancello r o f E ng l an d," answ ered the waiter, at the 4. / t une snuffin g one of the candles. a n& the L or d Ch ance ll or , Si r ." Th e „ v "7 well : you are t h e same to us as an y other m a n. who li ve i n Rome must do as R ome d oes ." L e ; d Well, Si*, and what is your demand?" inquired his 4ti r a 8 s ;'. seeing there was no chance of being suffered to ~uot until he had paid it. %PiiPi n t "' - guinea, if you please, Sir," answered . the waiter, dust o ff t h e b ac k o f one o f the chairs. oe, h el l here it is, Sir," said his lordship, tossing down Ate pound note and a shilling on the table ; " re " w Sir, you shall hear further about this matter. 411 ,, r x il}:! b t e a f k o e re o . ur chance o f th a t," observed the waiter, " y Sir, will you call a coach ?" 4 . l Or ryi ° ll ° shall h ave one in a moment, " answere d the iv aiter, 4 a f el B' out of th e room f or t h e pur p os e of bringing it. at th e ( i v :cm - Id s h e returne d, sav i ng a coach was waiting 1 ,, or for his Lordship. Pro Particular coachman had been engaged before , an d aft d i ri bYydtr,ielle%l into the part he was to perform in the t Lor n i Prince . and Sheridan. take I • u sluP entered the coach, and ordered the driver at: L °4l " i n Russell-square. On arriving at eeessiosu'lo's residence the coachman alighted, and gave a of totremendous rat-tat-tats. St op !" exclaimed his Lordship, putting his head out at the coach-window ; " you'll alarm the house—you'll break the door." Jehu knocked still louder than before. " Let me out, let me out, you fellow What do you mean, Sir ?" shouted his Lordship, half suffocated with rage. Another series of knocks, of the most violent kind, was the only answer. By this time Lady Eldon, preceded by a troop of ser vants, hurried down stairs in breathless haste, with a candle in each hand, exclaiming, " What's the matter? what's the matter ?" The driver now opened the door of the coach, and down stepped his Lordship. " There's your fare, you unman nerly fellow," said he, putting eighteen-pence into the coachman's hand. " Eighteen-pence ! only eighteen -pence !" exclaimed the driver, holding out the one-and-sixpence in his hand, and looking at it with an affected air of supreme contempt. " Vell, who ever heard of such a thing? Only eighteen pence for driving the Lord High Chancellor of England from the --- - in Chandos-street to Russell-square ?" It was now that the fact of where he had been flashed across his Lordship's mind ; and hearing the coachman still singing out the name of the place coupled with his own name, be put a one-pound note into his band, saying, " There, there, Sir, take this, and say no more about it." Jarvey put his hand to his hat, pocketed the pound note, mounted his dickey, and giving a sharp smack to his horses, drove away as mute as the adjoining statue of the Duke of Bedford, which he had to pass on quitting his Lordship's rc sidence. THE LONDON AND EDINBURGH PHILO SOPHICAL MAGAZINE. " The London and Edinburgh Philosophical Maga zine" of this month is enriched with many articles of great excellence. Among the names of the contribu tors, we find those of Mr. Lubbock, Professors Lindley and Megan, the late highly accomplished W. G. Hor ner, Esq., and Mr. Silvester. Mr. Reade continues his very curious and interesting researches into the chemical composition of vegetable membrane and fibre. Mr. E. Solly, jun., has a paper on the pal° de vaca, or cow-tree, of South America, which, when pierced through the bark, yields a copious supply of excellent milk. It is twenty feet in circumference at five feet from the ground, and grows to the height of more than a hundred feet. THE CHRISTIAN REFORMER. Sherwood and Co. " Letters from Boston, U. S." are written in a lively gossiping manner. The capital of New Englat.'l, in its various aspects, physical, literary, and religious, is described, and seems to have made a highly favourable impression on the writer's mind. The account given of Harvard University, the first seminary of learning raised by the pilgrim fathers, who sought and found a refuge from Church of England persecution in the wilds of America, is extremely interesting. The anni versary of the foundation, which took place in 1636, was celebrated during the author's visit, and seems to have passed off with great eclat. Of the other articles we were most pleased with " Herder's Seventh Letter relating to the Study of Theology ;" " Considerations respecting the Reception and Propagation of Chris tianity ;" and " German Universities." THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1837. THE QUEEN'S VISIT. There were some particulars connected with the entertain ment to the Queen and the ceremonies observed upon the occasion which, in consequence of the variety of impedi ments that presented themselves on the day of the Royal visit, were not accurately detailed. The following state ment corrects any errors and supplies any omissions which have been made. The Lady Mayoress came from her residence in the country in the second state carriage, and arrived at Temple bar at a little after two o'clock, from whence she was escorted to Guildhall by the Rev. Mr. Davis, the Lord Mayor's Chaplain, when intelligence was brought to Child's bank ing-house that the Queen was fast approaching Temple bar. The Lord Mayor left the banking-house in his magnificent new robes of crimson velvet, and the moment her Majesty entered the gates at Temple-bar, her carriage drew up to the spot where his Lordship stood with the sword in his bands. His Lordship then, bareheaded, held the handle of the sword towards her Majesty, and with bonded knee said, " May it please your Majesty to receive, with the humble homage and welcome of the citizens of London, the surrender of the City's sword, which the citizens of London have unanimously elected me to the honour of presenting to your Majesty—an ap pointment which your Majesty has done me the honour to sanction." The Queen smiled, and bowed to his Lordship in the most gracious manner, and, laying her hand upon the handle of the sword, motioned to him to keep the sword. His Lordship then bowed and retired from the door of the carriage a few paces towards his horse, which he imme diately mounted. He then preceded the Queen, the Al dermen and Common Councilmen riding before him. The Lord Mayor held up the sword in a continuous salute until the procession reached St. Paul's gate, where he turned round his horse in order to receive the carriage of the Queen, and during the reading of the address by the Blue coat boy his Lordship remained by the side of the car riage. The instant that ceremony was over, his Lordship fell into the procession again until it reached the Guild hall, where, upon dismounting, he met the Lady Mayoress, who was waiting the arrival o her Majesty in the entrance. The moment the Queen entered the porch, the Lord • Mayor took the Lady Mayoress by the right hand, and preceded her Majesty into the Hall, to the door of her Majesty's retiring-room. The Lord Chamberlain led the Queen by the hand to that room, and retired with the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress when her Majesty entered. . . The Lady Mayoress was then escorted into the ball to her seat, and the Lord Mayor, accompanied by Aldermen Sir C. S. Hunter, Birch, Seholey, Wood, Sir W. Heygate, and Venables, in accordance with the recommendation of the Court of Aldermen and Mr. Fletcher, the chairman of the entertainment committee, proceeded to the Queen's drawing-room, where the Royal Dukes., the Ministers, and the guests of highest rank were assembled, and where soon afterwards the Recorder read the address to Her Majesty, and the honours were conferred upon his Lordship and the Sheriffs. After her Majesty was seated at the table on her throne, and after the cheering had subsisted, the Queen turned round to the Lord Mayor, who stood immediately behind her, and said, " You will take your seat, my Lord Mayor." His Lordship bowed to her Majesty, and immediately went to his seat. Her Majesty was not long engaged in eating, when she sent one of her pages to command the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress to take wine with her. The Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress rose with their glasses full to the brim, and the Queen rose with a bumper likewise, and her Majesty bowed to each in an exceedingly graceful and dignified manner. Her Majesty then sent a page to the late Lord Mayor, and to Mrs. Croft, the late Lady Mayoress, to command them to take wine with her, and as warmly pledged them in a bumper. The Lady Mayoress, who was certainly one of the finest and most splendid-looking women in the hall, was dressed in green velvet, lined with white satin, and trimmed with gold fringe, and a border of Brussels lace. Her petticoat was of lama and gold, and her stomacher and breast orna ments were of large opals and diamonds, of which stones her tiara, and necklace, and car-rings were also composed. She bad on her neck an Elizabeth ruff, and on her head a superb plume of feathers. Every one was, in fact, struek . - wit' the magnificence of her appearance and carriage. When the Queen, upon retiring from the grand and fes ,ive scene, arrived at her carriage door, led by the Lord Chamberlain, she turned round to the Lord Mayor, Who stood at the step, and said with a smile, and in an earnest tone, " I as , sure you, my Lord Mayor, that I have been most highly gratified." Her Majesty then lightly stepped into her carriage, bowed most kindly to the Lord Mayor, and drove off to be received with rejoicings and other tes timonials of affection from her people in the streets. The Royal Artillery Company, who attended as a guard of honour to her Majesty, and who are commanded by the Duke of Sussex, were in the Guildhall-yard during the whole of the day, and until her Majesty, who did them the honour to notice them as they stood presenting arms, re tired, was formed from the Guild of St. George, which was instituted in the reign of Edward I. They were also known as the Archers of Finsbury, and Henry VII., in the :34th year of his reign, incorporated them, and granted them the first charter. His signature is on the great book of the Com pany, as well as that of all subsequent monarchs. The sove reign or heir-apparent has usually been the Captain-General of the Company. Queen Anne appointed her husband, Prince George of Denmark, to that office , and George 1., George 11., and George IV. held that rank. George IV., when Prince of \Vales, accepted the command, which gave him the rank of a General, although in the regular army he was only a Colonel. His late Majesty William IV. wa s graciously pleased to accept the title of Captain-General ; and Queen Victoria, upon ascending the throne, promoted the Duke of Sussex to the same rank, his Royal Highness having previously held that of Colonel in the same corps. Peculiar privileges and exemptions were conferred upon the Artillery Company by Henry VIII. The company have beon in former times in active duty. In the reign of Eli zabeth they had garrisoned Tilbury Fort at the period of the menaced Spanish invasion, and during the civil wars of a later date they were engaged in many of the battles, as is described by Clarendon and other authors. The last time they were in active service was during the riots of London, when they saved the Bank of England from the fun• of the populace ; but since that time, whenever any civil dis turbances have been apprehended, they have invariably been summoned to bold themselves in readiness at their head-quarters, the Artillery-ground, Finsbury. This vo lunteer corps has always supported itself from its own re sources, without having ever been chargeable to the Govern ment or the country. - - - It has been observed by all the most inquisitive persons who dined at the Royal banquet, that there was not one article in the immense variety furnished to the tables that was not of a very superior description. The plate has been already seen and described at other entertainments, but not in one-twentieth part of the quantity. There was a new introduction which attracted great notice amongst the other splendid ornaments of the Royal table—the magnificent dessert plates of enamelled glass. This exquisite workman ship is entirely the production of our native artists. The plates exclusively appropriated for the use of her Majesty and the Duchess of Kent, were expressly manufactured for the occasion, and are perfect gems of art. The centre of the plates for her Majesty have the armorial bearings of the Sovereign, richly enamelled in their proper colours, surrounded by our national wreath of the rose, thistle, and shamrock, and a regal star forming the border. The whole of these beautiful specimens arc the property of Messrs. Hetherington and Co., of the Quadrant, and will be sub mitted to public view. The extensive mass of plate at the Queen's table will be shown at Mr. Charles Bleadcn's Ta vern, in Bishonsgate-street. The Duke of Sussex wore a black velvet cap upon his head, and spoke of it two or three times during the enter tainment. He wears it on account of the delicate state of his eyes, and says that he has been offered what would, per haps, be more becoming, but he owns his partiality to his bit of black velvet. It put his Royal Highness in mind of a story about the Duke of Devonshire, who visited Guildhall during the mayoralty of Alderman Combe. His Grace was in the habit of wearing a cocked hat within doors, and applied to the committee to kdow whether he could attend the dinner of the 9th of November with a co vered head. The affair was discussed, and the committee respectfully informed the Duke, that lie might cover his head with anything but a hat. The Duke was not offended at the intimation, but took his seat, to the astonishment and amazement of all, in his coachman's wig! Between nine and ten o'clock on Saturday, a Mrs. Parsons, wh o k eeps th e t o ll g ate belonging to Dulwich College, situate in Lordship Lane, went to a small pond at the end of her garden for a pail of water, and observed something floating under the ice. She became alarmed, and called to a gardener named Thomas, who immediately discovered it to b e th e b o d y o f a new b orn f e male child. lie got it out, when, on examination, the little innocent's knee was found to be dreadfully fractured, agd a piece of white tape tied tight round its neck. Information of the horrid circumstance was instantly given to Heath, the beadle, who sent express to W. Cartar, Esq.. the Coroner. A variety of reports are in circulation, but as they may turn out to be unfounded, they are omitted ; but that a most inhuman murder has been perpetrated, not the slightest doubt exists. A Reverend landlord, who resides not a hundred miles from Morebath , met a te nan t o f hi s t h e ot h er d ay , a nd acc osted him by saying, " Well, Farm er , I did n ' t see y o u on my rent day ; your estate is a great deal too cheap, I must raise your refl . ." lam much obliged to your Honour," said the farmer, "for I assure you I can't raise it invsclf"—De voishire Chronicle. - - BRITISH AUXILIARY LEGION. Accounts received to-day from St. Sebastian, dated the sth instant, state, that the expected attack by the Carlists on the lines had not yet taken place. A communication had been received by General O'Connell from the Spanish Minister of War, in answer to a complaiat made by him (O'Connell) with regard to General Tenia having seized the last remittance of money sent down from Madrid for the especial use of the Legion, but which Tenia insisted upon ap plying in part (of course the lion's part) to the payment of the Spanish troops. For the delivering up of this sum of money to Tenia, by Ximenes, a Spanish Commissary, who brought it from Bayonne, Gen. O'Connell put the said Ximenes under arrest. In complaining of this flagrant injustice towards the Legion, General O'Connell very properly suggested, that under the circumstances it would be expedient to provide transports for the conveying of the Legion to England. The answer of the Minister of War to this complaint began by a kind of reproach to General O'Connell for having expressed any censure upon the conduct of Tenia, who was his superior officer, and the sole arbiter of the . . Legion in the absence of the Commander-in-Chief, or the Captain-General of the province, and that consequently in putting Ximenes under arrest for an act authorized and ordered by Tenia, he (General O'Connell) had gone out of his province ; and that with regard to the providing of transports to take away the Legion, the Minister added, that the Queen Regent of Spain would consult her own pleasure and convenience on the question of sending away that force from Spain. The communication termi nated by observing, that if General O'Connell deemed it right or expedient to resign, he had only to do so, end that the resignation would be accepted. Such is the conduct of the Spanish Government to the Commander of a body of British subjects, which, ill-treated and unjustly dealt with as it has been, has done more in a few weeks than the Spanish army was able to do in as many years—that is, open the long shut-up communication with France, and put into the possession of the Queen the towns of Ernani, Irun, and Fontarabia. This last act of the Spanish Government is a worthy crowning of their treatment to wards the brave, but unfortunate, British Auxiliary Legion. A fitting pendant to this picture will be found in the con duct of the same Government towards the equally brave and equally unjustly treated French Legion. E itßATum.—ln the first leading article in yester day's Sun, the following sentence is rendered obscure by the accidental transposition of the parentheses :—" With out such an outlet for their produce, the Scotch agricul turists would not be able to dispose of their lighter qualities of grain (in any other way than by feeding cattle and pigs with it), and even with this outlet they will, at the low rate at which they must sell their grain this season, realise very small profits." We regret to state that a very serious accident oc curred on Sunday, while the Watling-street engine was proceeding from the fire in Rider's -court, Southwark, to another fire report ed to be raging at Hoxton. It appeared that as the engine was passing up King William-street, two persons, an elderly female and a man, rather inebriated, were endeavouring to cross the road before the engine passed, when the pole knocked them both down, and the engine passed over them. Every attention was paid to the unfor tunate parties by Mr. Braidwood, who was on the engine with the firemen, and they were conveyed to St. Thomas's Hospital, where it was discovered that the female had re ceived a broken jaw, and all her front teeth were knocked out. It was suspected that she had received some internal injuries ; but no examination was made in the presence of our informant. The man sustained little or no injury. The water has been pumped out of the Thames Tunnel, and on Saturday night the body of Garland, the miner, who was at work in the shield when the irruption took place, was got out of the works, and taken into Rother hithe workhouse, where it now awaits the Coroner's Inquest. The Tunnel has received very little injury from the late bursting in of the Thames, and the chasm having been com pletely stopped, an immense quantity of clay in bags having been thrown down so as to form an artificial bed, the works will be immediately resumed. The projectors and share holders are now more sanguine than ever of the comple tion of the Tunnel. Time alone will show whether their calculations are rightly formed. The price of potatoes has advanced since our last, the merchants now giving 2s. 3d. per bag ; the price of cider has also advanced . to 275. per hogshead, and- the makers are holding back in expectation of a further rise.— Sherborne Mercury. Saturday a Coroner's inquest was held at the King's Arms, Smart's-buildings, Drury-lane, on the body o f Thos. Kitchen, aged 43. W. Fell, No. 20, Short's Gardens, deposed that the house deceased died in was under re pair ; each room was destitute of furniture, but was occu pied by poor persons, who were allowed to lodge there when they had no means of paying for a lodging. The de ceased was in that situation, and he and three others slept in the same room. On Tuesday night he came home shivering with cold, scarcely able to stand ; he, with the others, lay on the bare boards. Witness on the next morn ing left him there, apparently asleep ; he returned in the afternoon, and found that he was dead. By the Coroner — The deceased had no means of living but by the assistance he had from his friends. He complained of lying on the bare boards. lam of opinion that he was in want of the common necessaries of life. Verdict—" That the deceased died by the visitation of God, being at the time in want of the common necessaries of life." A young gentleman, named William Bond St. John, aged 13 years, one of the pupils of the Naval School at Camberwell, left the school-room with a large quantity of fire-works concealed about his body. By some means un known the fire-works became ignited, and the screams of the unfortunate youth brought several persons to his assist ance. Mr. Manico, the surgeon of the school, instantly attended, and a messenger was sent to Guy's Hospital for Dr. Calloway, who promptly arrived. Every possible as sistance was rendered, but he lingered in dreadful agony until Wednesday night, when death terminated his sufferings. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We cannot too strongly impress on Liberal Mem bers the necessity of their being in their places to-mor row (Wednesday) as well as on the 20th, as the Tories will be sure to attempt some manceuvre if they find the Reformers unprepared. We have heard of one or two Members who still remain in the country enjoying the sports of the field, in the belief that nothing of importance will occur until after the recess. We trust they will take a more correct view of matters. This delusion may be attended with serious conse quences to the cause. We repeat, that no Member who does not wish to place the Reform cause in peril ought, at a time like this, to trust to the forbearance of the Tories. Indeed, after the note of battle on the choice of a Speaker, given in the Times of yesterday, no Liberal Member can he justified in pleading igno rance of the absolute necessity for his attendance in his place to-morrow. " If," said the Times, " the Conservatives should be disposed to give battle at the earliest moment, they cannot want a pre text for it upon the choice of a Speaker. The ex ample of theii opponents, and the merits of the indi vidual whose authority in the Chair the members most wish to perpetuate, will furnish abundant grounds for a division." And this is the prelude to a long and vi rulent bill of indictment, drawn up with much indus try, with an evident view to stimulate Tory zeal on the occasion alluded to. If after this warning Liberal Members choose to absent themselves from their places great will be their responsibility. Whoever has a con stituency for whom he cares, may rest assured that the failure to attend to-morrow will on no account be for given him, if his absence should be the cause of the success of any Tory manoeuvre. Again, then, we re peat, be in your places to-morrow ; there can be no excuse for absence.—Morning Chronicle. We have already remarked on a veracious article in the last number of the Quarterly Review on Lord John Russell's speech to the electors of Stroud, and we now call attention to a letter from the Marquis of Tavistock on the same subject. The truth is the Tories are at their wits ends, and very savage. They cannot bear any reference to the past, and they despair of the future. Lord John Russell admirably exposed their misgovernment, and the consequences of their misgovernment of the country in this speech, which has been widely and most usefully circulated, and the Tories, therefore, wincing under its infliction, have summoned (unless report greatly err) their pensioned ex- Secretary of the Admiralty from his snug and rent free retreat in the Royal Palace of Kensington to draw up their defence. No one doubts the talents or Tory disposition of Mr. Croker, and he has ac cordingly done his best for his old friends and asso ciates. And if this be the best, how bad must be their cause ! How bad and hopeless must that cause be which can be defended only by vulgar abuse, juggling recrimination, and palpable mis-statements. We refer those who doubt to the article itself, where they will find ample proofs and examples of this Tory method of reasoning ; they will there discover that the Whigs are not only responsible for the war with France, but also for being Jacobins, and for having always opposed it : that it is Sir Robert Peel who has mitigated the penal code, and not the Whigs : that the Whigs did not abolish slavery and the slave-trade, but a certain Sir 'William Dolben : that the Tories are the true Simon Pure abolishers of places, and the Whigs the creators of them : that it is not to the Whigs, but to Mr. Sturges Bourne and Lord Castlereagh that the country is indebted for the best parts of the amended Poor-law Act : in fine, that the Whigs have not " common honesty; common courage, or even common sense ;" all these qualities, together with truth, can dour, and refined language, being monopolized by Mr. Croker and the Tories. This is further established by LordTavistock's letter, which convicts them only of mis quoting his speech, and misrepresenting all the facts respecting the borough of Tavistock. We will not attempt to add a single word to Lord Tavistock's clear exposition ; but the whole tale respecting the repre sentat.on of Tavistock and Stroud, with which Mr. Croker and the Tories have enlightened their readers, is so characteristic of the spirit and truthfulness of their absurd assertions, that it is a pity they should not be made more public, and the Tories, therefore, must accept our labours in their service. They are pleased, in the first place, to taunt Lord John Russell with " being reduced to the painful necessity of de scending from the rank of a county Member to that of a borough" (p. 519), and then, with a pleasing forgetfulness and consistency, to taunt him, within less than three pages, with Stroud being. only " a PRETENDED borough, extending over a space of country twelve miles long and eleven mile wide, con taining fourteen parishes, and a population of 41,000 , souls" (page 52 1 ). Surely the nearest approach to a cdunty, and the least " descent," is to an independent borough half as large as some of our counties, and which would cover some eight or ten Tamworths. They then misquote Lord Tavistock, and proceed to attack him upon their own misquotation ; but we leave this to Lord Tavistock's reply, and proceed with Croker the Candid, whose appetite for misrepresen tation, growing by what it feeds on, ventures to as sert that— " At the second Reform Parliament it was discovered that Lord John was not secure in the county (Devonshire) seat, and that if some timely precautions were not taken he might be reduced to the necessity of taking refuge in the abjured borough of Tavistock. But so early and so fla grant an instance of nomination was too much even for Whig audacity, and it was evaded in name, and executed in substance, with Whig dexterity. Colonel Fox was quietly removed from Tavistock, and returned for Stroud, where he sat for three months, as what is expressively called a toarming-pan, till the defeat of Lord John Russell in Devon obliged Colonel Fox, as had been foreseen, to make the convenient vacancy by which Lord John got into Par liament for Stroud" (page 521). Proud of this dexterous discovery, Mr. Croker goes on to say— ,' THESE FACTS, if there were no other proof, would satisfy our readers of the justice of those praises which Lord John lavishes on himself and his Colleagues as to the design and spirit in which the Reform Bill was framed, and in which it has been executed" (page 521). Now, these are Mr. Croker's and the Tories' facts, and thete their reasonings and imputations ; but what are the real facts—not the Quarterly Review facts— but the plain matter of facts of the case ? Why-1. That Lord John was returned for Devonshire in the second Reformed Parliament. 2. That Col. Fox had no thoughts of standing for Stroud until just before the elec tion, when Mr. liven, the late Member, unexpectedly declined standing. 3. That Colonel Fox was then in vited to stand for Stroud by a deputation from that borough, and had no communication whatever on the subject either with Lord John Russell or any of his family or connections. 4. That Lord John Russell ret did not lose hi s sea t f or D evons hi re un til a su b seque nt election, urmneodrefoiritasttz Stroud. 5. Thatmonths after Colonel Fox and was until neither the Russell family, nor indeed any other family what ever, have any controlling influence in the borough (county ?) of Stroud, and that Lord John has been twice returned for these 14 parishes and 41,000 inha bitants, free of all expense. These are the plain and notorious facts of the case ; and Mr. Croker and the Tories know them just as well as we do. But per haps we ought not to be too severe upon them, for with such a cause to defend as the Tory misgovern ment of fifty long years, who might not be driven to subterfuge, evasion, and invention, especially when Bishops Phillpots and Murray are at hand to give not only praise and absolution, but imitation and ex ample ?---Morning Chronicle. We have resumed in another column our abstract of the evidence given before the Committee on the Ficti tious Votes registered and polled in Ireland. As far as the district of Belfast is concerned, our former extracts will have shown but too plainly by what equivocal generation the rank heat of the registry has vivified these mud-born votes, and spread their pestilent swarms over the natural constituency. Our extracts of to-day will exhibit a very similar process in the smaller borough of Clonmel—a place where it appears (not withstanding all the struggles of the Radicals to show a smaller result) that a number of voters amounting to between 50 and 60—that is, more than a tenth of the whole constituency—were registered in 1832 as 101. householders, the value of whose houses ranged only from 31., 41., or 51., to 71., 81., and 91. per annum, independently of many freemen who, though ! perhaps properly admitted to register, as possessing the legal evidence of their freedom, had at all events been admitted to that freedom under titles which a lawyer would regard as questionable, if not absolutely invalid. The borough of Clonmel before the Reform Bill was under the influence of the family of Bagwell. They were Whigs, who kept up their power there for corporate and Parliamentary purposes by means which Whigs are apt to designate as peculiar to Tories. After the Reform Bill, however, the bulk of the Par liamentary influence appears to have been confiscated into the hands of Mr. O'Connell, and the struggle was then between a certain Mr. Dominick Ronayne, an Irish Counsellor, now deceased, who, while he inha b:ted this upper world, was a follower of the Agi tator's party, or, as it is commonly called, a joint of the Tail ; and Mr. Bagwell, the head of the old proprietary family, supported by the Conservatives of the town, who, the witnesses tell us, adopted him as the less of the two evils. The other and greater evil, however, was destined to oppress them in the election and return of Mr. Dominick Ronayne, who was twice Member for that borough, and whose scat, on his decease, was obtained by Mr. Serjeant Ball, another adherent of the same leader. As BelfaSt had its Mr. Fogarty to carry out Radical theories and register fictitious votes, so Clonmel had its Mr. Guthrie, not less deeply imbued with a popular zeal for the liberties of his " unhappy country." He set off at score by declaring his opinion " that it was the intention of the Legislature to extend the elective franchise to almost, if not altogether, univer sal suffrage ; that was his opinion, and he would do so." He kept his word like a man of honour, and re gistered the rubbish by cartloads. This was done upon much the same system as at Belfast. The voter was • examined, and stated a value of 101. On his cross examination, or on the examination of witnesses in contradiction, it was proved, and this in a vast num ber of cases, that if the house were vacant, no solvent tenant would give 10/. a year for it. Hereupon Mr. Guthrie used to ask the witness whether it was not worth 10/. to hint; which, by the aid of rooms to let to lodgers, and by other additions quite foreign to the intrinsic value of the house, the voter would easily make out. On receiving the poor man's answer, that • to him the house was worth 10/., Mr. Guthrie was usually satisfied to believe him, against the testimony even of experienced valuators, and c the fictitious vote was then installed in due form upon the registry. To put a narrow construction, Mr. Guthrie said, " would not be to carry out the meaning of the Act; and it having made the claimant a compe tent witness, he considered that he should place a good deal upon the person's own swearing." These words are from the evidence of a Mr. Lonergan, who is in politics a partisan of Mr. Guthrie, and by pro fession an attorney ; and thus, on the testimony of a legal gentleman, we find Mr. Guthrie, who is a bar rister, and who, from having been appointed to act in the registration and other judicial duties of the Quarter Sessions, might fairly have been supposed to know something about the principles of legal evidence—we • find this assistant barrister stating it as his opinion, that because an Act of Parliament has made a certain class of parties to the suit competent witnesses in it, a peculiar reliance is to be placed upon their swearing. A lawyer any where else than in Clonmel would have supposed that the competency of the witness was a matter quite unconnected with, and wholly uncondu cive to, his credibility ; that to render him competent was just barely to make his evidence admissible, and could have nothing in the world to do with the value of that evidence when admitted. Nay more, a lawyer would have argued, that any testimony which the man bears in his own cause, and which, but for the enact ment of the Reform Bill in this special case, must on principle have been excluded by reason of the incurable partiality of almost every individual of the human race to his own interests, was a testimony which, so far from being selected for especial credit, would require to be sifted with peculiar caution. Not at all. Mr. Guthrie's forte being theory rather than law, he takes a course of his own ; lie kicks down the rule, gets astride on the exception, and gallops his hobby rough-shod over all the rights and. franchises of the borough. Such an assistant-barrister as this must have been a real ornament to the General Association. He tells the people of Clonmel, that it was the in tention of the Legislature to extend the elective fran chise almost to universal suffrage. The intention of what'part of the Legislature ? If he means that the Whigs, who framed the measure, while they talked of it as a full, final, and fixed one, were many of them, well content to leave it so loose or so elastic that, when ever their party purposes might require its extension, it would stretch to let in any requisite amount of de mocracy, we may perhaps be of opinion that Mr. Guthrie has formed no very inaccurate notion of the views of his patrons. But if he means that any of the more intelligent and moderate Reformers had any intention of extending the franchise " almost to univer sal suffrage," or that any such intention was acknoze ' ledged even by the most violent members of the Whig Government who introduced that Bill, he commits a mistake almost as gross as the errors of his rcgistratio itself. It happens that there is an exposition, by audio rity, in his very teeth—an official exposition, upon the precise point which he has made available for the adMission of so many fictitious votes : that is, the refer ence to the value which the occupier of the house might be able to work out of it by the letting of lodg ings and other modes of employment, instead of a reference to the value which the house would fetch in actual rent if then vacant. The question, what was intended in this particular by the Reform Act ? had been raised on the registry for Londonderry during Lord Grey's Administration : and the following is the decisive answer of Lord Stanley, then Secretary for Ireland, to the question asked of Government on this subject by the inhabitants of that city, through the Right Hon. George Dawson : " The words of the Irish Act in this ease,' says Lord Stanley, are precisely similar to the English, and you are certainly entitled to my full testimony as to the intentions of the Gdvernment and the Legislature. It is understood on all hands, that the Householder Suffrage did not de pend upon the profit or advantage which the claimant de rived out of his holding, but upon the occupation of a house of a certain class, the being able to pay for which would appear to be the test of his filling a certain station in society which would entitle hint to exercise the franchise I have no hesitation, therefore, in saying that the intention of the Government was to give the right to the occupier of every house worth (not to him, but intrinsically worth) 101. a year." ' • Thus, then, we have it, on the testimony of one of the most distinguished Members of the Whig Government, that the Suffrage was " understood on all hands" to depend " upon the occupation of a house of a certain class, as indicating that the occupier filled a certain station in society which would entitle him to exercise the franchise." With reference to this definition, we only pray the attention of our readers to the evidence of Mr. W. Smith, respecting a house which the wit ness seems to consider a fair sample of its class : " Q. Is any part of the house let off? " A. In general, in all those sorts of houses, there are lodgers taken in, perhaps two or three families: I have seen six families lodging in a small room. Q. What is the usual rent—l speak of lodgers? " A. Some pay 4d. a-week, some perhaps 2d.,—just room for them to put a little straw and a little covering, and lie down in a corner." And the man who thins his miserable 2d., by the risk and wretchedness of harbouring all this squalid poverty, is the class of householders registered by the assistant-barristers at Belfast and Clonmel, as a person indicated by his occupation to be one " filling a certain station in society which would entitle him to exercise the franchise ! " Thus are sent to Parliament the knot of Irish Members, who, if the petitions be not wisely and liberally supported, must swallow up the represen tation of England and Scotland '—Tunes. A fair opportunity now presents itself of ascertain ing who are indeed the enemies and who are the friends of the Established Church, of distinguishing those really desirous of promoting that great and bene ficent intention of Christianity—the diffusion of " peace and good will amongst men "—from those who as sume the guise of religion, to facilitate the accomplish ment of the most selfish and base purposes. A cham pion for the Church has appeared io a quarter where might least have been expected, and such are the terms he proposes for the adjustment of the Church question, that, of Churchmen, at least, none but the most fanatic, or those seeking to make religion sub servient to political designs, can hesitate to second his proposition. The terms of adjustment to which we refer are those contained in a letter of Mr. O'Con- nell to the clergymen of the Established Church of Ireland,. published in yesterday's Advertiser. Our readers may start at our designating Mr. O'Connell as a champion of the Church ; but let his letter he drs passionately perused, and as the Learned Gentle man himself solicits, let it be judged by its , merits, i without reference to the party from whom t ema nates, and it will at once be manifest that the terms on which he proposes a settlement of the tithe question are far more favourable to the Churcir than, in the existing position of affairs in Ire land, and the state of public feeling in England, the most zealous friend of the Church could have possibly anticipated. The plan proposed is briefly as follows : —Under the commutation system the tithes of Ireland average about 600,0001. per annum. The expense of the Irish constabulary force, for the most part rendered necessary by the disturbance and excitement conse quent upon Church exactions, amounts to a similar sum-600,000/. ; of this, however, one-half is paid from the Consolidated Fund, and the other b) the Irish people. Mr. O'Connell proposes to deduct from the whole amount of tithes as commuted 30 per cent., and to pay the remainder 420,0001. per annum from the Consolidated Fund— , iving up the 300,0001., at present paid to the police establishment, as an equiva lent in part, and supplying the balance 120,0001. from the Irish 'Woods and Forests, and if necessary from the temporalities of the Church. In this mode the Church would receive 420,000/. per annum, paid with as much regularity and as little trouble as the salaries in any of the Government offices. And the Irish people would be relieved from an exaction most abhorrent to their consciences, from all the inflictions entailed in attempt ing to continue its assessment, and have only to pay for the preservation of the peace and order of their country—an expense which the removal of the great cause of discontent and discord would speedily and considerable reduce. Calculated, as this proposition is, to give a more ample and secure provision to the Clergy of the Established Church than the most san guine of its supporters could reasonably have dared to hope, yet we should not be surprised to find them, in accordance with their usual tactics, denouncing the plan as destructive of the Protestant religion. But we are averse to disturb the temperate consideration of the ques tion by anticipations of a fanatic or hypocritical oppo sition. The proposal of Mr. O'Connell is more than just, it is generous ; nay, more generous, perhaps, than would be consistent with the stern dictates of public principle, did not the desire of setting at rest a question which has caused so much dissension, strife, and bloodshed, induce concessions indefensible in the strict ethics of Government. Mr. O'Connell, in this proposition, may fairly be regarded as coming to the rescue of the Church. Tithes in Ireland, for the most part, are, and have been, for some time, virtually extinct ; a little while, and the statute of limitation and custom would operate against their collection, and they would become, like the obsolete enactments of the , penal code, effete from desuetude. If the clergy, therefore, clamour against the present pro position, on their own heads be the consequence. If they reject the substance in pursuit of a shadow, themselves only will be responsible for the catastrophe. They may boast of " standing by the Church" while clinging only to its money chests. They may make Pharasaical professions, while their thirst of wealth and ascendancy draws down destruction on the whole fabric ; but let them not deceive themselves, nor be lieve that the public are deceived by these pretences. While such men as INl‘Ghee and O'Sullivan are per mitted to outrage public sense and decency, there is no danger of the animus of the clerical agitators being misunderstood. The rejection of Mr. O'Connell's proposition would be one of the greatest favours which the Clergymen of the Established Church could confer on the opponents of State religions. If the present time passes, the proposition can never again be enter tained--like the case of the Roman sybil, if the bar gain be rejected the books will be burned, and in vain will be sought a vestige of their existence.—Morning Advertiser. LETTER FROM THE MARQUIS OF TAVISTOCK TO THE EDITOR OF THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. The Marquis of Tavistock has addressed the following letter to the Editor of the Quarterly Review : " a political article in the last Number of the Quarterly Review I find these words, relating to what is there represented as the preservation of Tavistock, "amidst the general destruction of nomination boroughs, for the spe cial uses of a patriotic family :"—" We remember that when seine surprise of this kind was expressed in the dis cussion of the Reform Bill, the Marquis of Tavistock in. dignantly repelled the insinuation, that his family would ever again exert any influence in that borough. It hap pened, however, that in the first Reform Parliament the members for this little town were Lord Russell, the son of the self - :denying Marquis, and Colonel Fox, the son of Lord Holland, a close ally qf the house of Rus sell." Why this attempt is now made to injure my public character, by perverting a faw words I spoke in the House of Commons more than six years ago, I know not, unless it is imagined that, by throw ing dirt at me, some part of it may possibly fall upon my brother, or upon the family he belongs to. Be this as it may, however, it can be of very little interest to the public, or to the readers of the Quarterly Review, what opinions I expressed at that time ; but it is of some importance to my own character to remove the stain which the Reviewer has endeavoured to cast upon it. I beg, therefore, that you will be so good as to inform him that I made no such declaration . as that which he has attributed to me. What Hid say, in answer to a remark of the preceding speaker, Mr. Alexander Baring, was, that I did not believe that if such a measure of Reform should pass, and the borough of Tavistock should be enlarged, and opened to 101. house holders, the Duke of Bedford would continue to return both its Members, or even to attempt it. Upon this opinion of mine, given hastily in the heat of debate, and without concert with him, the Duke of Bedford was in no way bound to act ; but so entirely did he participate in the feeling I then expressed, that he has never, since the Bill passed, exercised any influence, direct or indirect, in favour of a second candidate. The electors now made their own free choieo ;:and I feel persuaded that no influence the Duke of Bedford possesses would induce them to elect any man whose political -principles are at variance with their own. _ _ _ " Having been a Radical Reformer all my life , I should have been better pleased with the Reform Bill if the dis franchisement clauses had been extended to Tavistock, and to all other boroughs of the same size. I stated this in the House of Commons at the period in question : but the total abandonment of all fair political influence, arising from private property and identified with public character, was never declared or contemplated by me. Those who have been at all acquainted with my political opinions know that I have always considered it as one of the advantages of Reform that the just influence of property would be more equally diffused. " Suppose, however, that, in order to indulge the avowed principles of Radical Reformers, and to gratify the perso nal feelings of anti-Reformers, schedule B. had been ex tended to Tavistock, what must have been the consequence of that extension? First, that the Reform Bill, already considered far too sweeping by one of these parties, must necessarily have been rendered still more sweeping ; and, secondly, that while several scats now standing between that borough and the line of disfranchisement adopted by the Reform Bill would have been lost to the Tories, the one seat at Tavistock would, probably, have been still pre served (through the natural and legitimate influence of pro perty and character, with the elective franchise freely exercised) to a member of the Russell family. " I never observe this important circumstance noticed by any of those whose political jealousy appears to be so often excited by the preservation of that borough. There are other assertions in the same article relative to Colonel Fox's elections for Tavistock and Stroud, which must bo known to many persons acquainted with the politics of either of these places to be equally and utterly unfounded. " But the object of this letter is merely to defend my own character against the attack that has been made upon it by this attempt of the reviewer to fix upon me, after so long an interval, a declaration which I never made, and a senti ment which I never entertained. " I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, " Oakley, Nov. 7. " TAVISTOCK. The Editor of The Quarterly Review." Between eight and nine o'clock on Friday morning a very determined act of self-destruction took place on Waterloo-bridge, a gentleman having deliberately precipi tated himself off one of the centre arches on the west side in!o the river. Tyrrell immediately gave an alarm, and several boats put off to the spot, but the object of their search did not rise to the surface the whole of the day. The name of the deceased gentleman is Hopkinson, the son of an opulent coach-builder in High Holborn. '......