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

PROPOSED MEETING OF UUSR AIEMBERS. - The following letter hasbeen addressed by Henry Grattan, Esq., M.P., to Lord Cloncurry : " Hotel du Congres, Rue Rivoli, Paris, Oct. 27. "My Dear Lord—l have just seen your letter to Mr. O'Connell, in which you state your intention to meet the Irish Members in Dublin, and confer with them preparatory to the meeting of Parliament. As the House of Lords have decided that there should be one law for Ireland and another for England—thereby condemning the union pro ject of Mr. Pitt and giving additional proof of its failure-- I highly approve of the suggestion, and should raters(' if illness in my family had not brought me to a milder climate. I, therefore, take this method of informing my c onstituents, who justly expect every attention to their interest', and to which they are entitled in a pre-eminent degree, for the county of Meeth ranks among the first in its successful opposition to a Toi:e aristocracy, who had neither power to command nor ability to onneiliatc, and over whom they have obtained for my colleague ( ;l e a. O'Connell) and myself, a majority of 700 electors. Such conduct . demands my thanks, and merits, on my par t, every a,:!_entlon to the in terests of our country. " These interests are devel o p i ng themselves ces:v day. The rapid communication and facility of intercourse w;:. l ' the Continent will open the eyes of all men to the state of Ire] and, and mankind will lift up their hands in amazement at her condition. Eight millions of people will become more and more impatient under their wrongs ; they will become more sensible of the miseries of their state, and of the folly of their intestine divisions. The Irish nation will unite ; a silent but certain revolution will be effected ; and then every man, whether Whig or Tory, will condemn the System by which Ireland has been governed. " What is the condition we behold ? Society cut up by tile roots ; poverty ; absenteeism ; cull discord ; religious Strife ; a partisan magistracy, and peculating bigoted cor poretions ; the churches of the Protestants half empty ; the chapels of the Catholics, in number and accommoda tion, s heneefully deficient ; the religion of 600,000 upheld by funds enarlY equal in annual value to a million of mone y ; the ee lLsion of six millions left to the chances of voluntary contributions, and the tithes of the established church collected at the point of the bayonet ; large tracts of territory held by a nobility and gentry who seldom re side, and who spend their rents in another country ; the most fertile soil in Europe but half cultivated, though the people are laborious, and labour got for sixpence a day, and human life sustained for three halfpence a day ; yet, notwithstanding these advantages, upwards of two millions of the inhabitants (as in the Report of the House of Com mons) are left in a state of absolute starvation for nearly six months every year !!! I exclaim that those evils must be remedied at every hazard, and I assert that mankind should execrate the Tory Governments who have reduced so fine a country to so wretched a state, and all mankind must wonder that the Jrish are so tame and so enduring. " It is our duty to prepare the minds of the people for that moral revolution which is fast approaching, and the subjects that you and the Irish Members have to consider should not be confined to the Tithe and Corporation ques tions solely, but should embrace all those that Ireland re quires. Our legislators are deficient in information, slow to acquire, tedious to amend, and incompetent to succeed. Three sets of Tithe Bills, of Election Bills, of Corporation Bills, successively proposed, greatly altered, partly adopted or finally rejected by the Lords, betray an incapacity to act or an unwillingness to legislate, show an indifference to the wants and wishes of the people, and mock mock Ireland with Vac forms of a free Constitution. " Let us turn to the Continent, and compare Ireland with these countries. The Tories will exclaim, The people there hove not a free Constitution, nor a Habeas Corpus Act, nor ties trial by jury as with us, nor the liberty of the press !' We can reply, They have more than the Tories gays to Ireland:. The Tories, forsooth, who packed our juries, tutored our shere's, prosecuted the press, persecuted an I sought to imprison the friend of the people, proscribed their supporters, promoted their enemies, and, notwith st Inclines the reported speech of' their leader, Sir Robert Peel, allowed religious and party feelings for a length of years to interfere in the advancement of almGst.every man in almost every office, civil, military, and judicial. They made it a curse to be born an Irishman, and a crime to Pf . baptized a Catholic—their system of plunder and pecula tion, tyranny and treachery—(Lord Fitzwilliam at one mo ment, then the torture at another)—civil war at one pe riod, secret hostility at another—murder and blood, havoc, and spoil, and ruin.' The result of the system which that party put in force in Ireland is a melancholy history, and affords a salutary lesson to British Kings and Continental Sovereigns to avoid a similar system of g overnment, unless they wish to live in the hatred of their fellow-subjects, and in perpetual dread for their own existence. " The Tories cannot, then, preach to the Irish what they never gave or permitted in Ireland—the blessings of a British Constitution. Turn, I repeat, to these countries —Belgium, Nassau, Hesse, Baden, France—no wars of religion, no tithe conflicts, no Bible battles, no akzentces, no necessity for poor laws—almost every one is educated, most of the people have land—all are well fed, eel! clothed, well housed —municipal bodies, selected by and from the people, regulate their local affeirs, and control the public expenditure—information is spreading rapidly—religious bigotry has vanished, and in the very town where Luther's defence of Protestantism remains, and signed by his own hand, these prejudiced Tories may see, in the same bui!d ing, Protestant and Catholic kneeling to their• God, and worshipping him as the common father of mankind, with out envy, hatred, or malice' towards their neighbours ! ! How different this from Ireland, where the Tories ruled for the last fifty years, and the cry of their hell hounds never-ceasing barked !' But there is, in ad dition, one distinguished feature in the French sys tem; which I press upon your attention—that is, the National Guard—a cheap defence of nations pre siding over and protecting the fate and fortune of their country. A people in arms are a tower of strength ; the armed citizen; conscious of his power, controls its exercise, casts a shade of moderation over all his actions, - and adds an embellishment to civic virtue. It is this that will secure to France her freedom ; it is this that has immortalised the name of La Fayette—a similar institution procured for Ire land her liberty—such an institution may be necessary again. The solunteers of 1782, led on by Lord Cherie tient, and my faller, struck off at a blow the chains that for centuries had bound the nation, and effected for Ireland in an hour what Parliaments took half a century after wards to do for the Catholic, so much more efficient is the straightforward proceeding of the people, than the double faced friendship and policy of the Ministers. Civilisation and liberty went hand in hand, and order and tranquil lity reigned around. The eyes of a nation may t e closed, and her senses stupified, even for ages—but it re quires only a moment to awaken them. The clan g of the national armour scuds its echo through the land and arouses all men from one extremity to the other. From the dissolution of that illustrious body in Ireland may be dated the return of violence and tyranny, the advent of Tories to power, and the long dreary night of commotion and calamity, religious persecution and domestic discord. " But why have the Tories rendered the establishment of such a force in Ireland hazardous though perhaps neces sary ? Because they put Ireland out of the pale of nations —they declare that she is not a to he united with Eng land on teens of equality—that one law is to exist for Euglen 1 and another for Ireland—and that a vicious and corrupt one. They rendered necessary 7,000 police and 22,000 troops of the line, with their expensive establish ments ; but the English will find at last that the hearts of the Irish, and their arms, are the best security for Great Britain, as the Tories now teach us that these are the only guarantees for Irish freedom ; and I maintain that if that party, upheld by the House of Lords, continue out of Par liement the system of abuse, insult, and calumny towards the people, the friends of the people, and the religion of the people ; and if they pursue in Parliament time system of again rejecting all popular measures, and nullifying the action of the House of Commons ; they recruit for the Val mtcers of Ireland—they decide that Ireland must be in arms if she seeks to be five, and THEIR RETURN TO POWER WILL BE THE SIGNAL. " I write in a foreign land. At heart an Irishman, con nected inseparably with my native country, and allied with time Catholic, I feel that just indignation which the in jured does when oppressed by power. Alive to the happiness which these countries enjoy, and anxious that such should be extended to my own, I also write in the hope that every honest Frenchman may be on his guard against the Tory party, and may protect his Government fio:n their contagion ; that a mark (as it were) may be put upon his abode, in order that it may be passed over and :;voided. In for mer d ays I re l an d appealedtethe arms of France. Frait enov , t h e I r i s h brigade,i ; tiiln and later events speak the policy pursued tow a rd s It;l o utnow she can appeal to the wisdo m an d rea s on of this nation. All their ea sopetaies are on our side ; there are none in common jar tire English Tory ; and more a ff ect i on i s f oun d h ere J ar people who are strangers than can b e met w i t h at tile C on servative . meetings of the British, who are allied to Ireland by ties of every kind. Their incessant and in creasing ribaldry, their abuses of the Iri s h, t h e i r h aug h ty insolence, their vulgar vi tuperation, and i m p otent t h reats, will make the Irish view them with abhorrence. All who .ten will come from the svest and pass England by ; t h ey will h a sten to a more genial clinic and to warmer bosoms, wh e ire they will meet with a response and sympathy in their sirrows, though they may not find redress; they will leave Old Englan'd to her Tories, and as Cicero said, 'they will overshoot Mitydene: " To guard ageinst this feeling of alienaCon and the dan gers that impend we should all contend. The French as well as the Irish should be on their guard ; for, if the Tories hate the liberty of the Irish, can they love that of , THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1837 £a3,800 'Which with the voluntary subscriptions of those pious persons who wished for the new church, and who, no doubt, subscribed in proportion to the sincerity of their wi.,-.hes, and also including a gift from the Board of First F ruits, cannot leave less than 80,0001. expended (?) in build ing a church which, 1 am informed, might be completed for 20,000/., ti ith a liberal remuneration to the architect. Yet the assessinent or imposition still continues, and no pa rishioner is allowed to hope that it may not continue for seven years longer, unless the Legislature interpose to re lieve the Establishment from such a stigma! It is unnecessary to state here the circumstances that made a Catholic parishioner, inhabiting a house built since 1814, acquainted with this state of things. Suffice it to say, that before he looked into the St. George's Acts, he paid the church-building cep, With the Minister's money, and other cesses imposed by vestries, because be believed himself bound by law to do sa. But after becoming suffi ciently acquainted with these Acts—namely , 33 G eo. 111., c. 53, Irish ; 46 Geo. 111., c. 123 ; and 54 Geo. 111., c. 78, Local and Pers.—herein-before stated sufficiently at large to convey a correct notion of their entire and full meaning, he considered himself not liable in law to pay the Church building cess, though he has paid and still pays the Minis ter's money, and other legal rates. He accordingly refused, ' and was sued by civil bill, in the Court of the Chairman of the County of Dublin, at last Easter Sessions. Ile appeared by Counsel, who denied the liability, under any law now in existence, or under any undertaking or agreement entered into by the defendant, or any person for him, to pay this rate. First—Because the Church Temporalities Act (3 and 4 W. IV., c. 37) had repealed the St. George's Acts (if ever binding on defendant) by its 65th section, which declares, that " from and after the commencement of this Act, it shall not be lawful for any vestry, called or holden in or for any parish, union, or chapelry, or place, in Ireland, or for any person or persons, to make or levy any rate or assess nzent for any Church purposes whatsoever." The language of this section is so plain, that no doubt could exist about the matter, had not Mr. Littleton (now Lord Hatherton), Secretary for Ireland, when this Act was passed, declared that the Legislature did not intend interfering with St. George's Church Building-rates ; and neither the St. George's Acts already alluded to are mentioned amongst the Statutes repealed by the Church Temporalities Act, nor is any provision made therein for the payment of the debt of the parish of St. George. These are the grounds upon which it is denied, that the Church Temporalities Act could have abrogated the laws of this parish. On the other hand, it was shown that that Act repealed altogether the, Irish Vestry Act (7th Geo. IV., c. 72), which Ves try Act had repealed and substituted new provisions for the Acts 3d Geo. 11., and c. 11, and 21st and 22d Geo. 111 , c. 52, on which two last-mentioned Acts the trustees of St. George's parish depended upon their powers of Ves try ; and according to which they were bound to account for the rates and cesses which they bad been authorised to make and levy, Ly 46th Geo. 111., c. 123. (See Section 10 and 20 of this last-mentioned Act.) Now, if the Sta tutes vesting in the trustees powers of a Vestry, and ren dering them accountable for the monies levied thereunder, have been amended, and new provisions substituted for them ; and if these new provisions have been since absolutely repealed and abolished, and other provisions made in lieu thereof, it is strange if the trustees can still continue to levy 2,250/. annually, and appropriate it without being ac countable ! yV Secopdly—Because the St. George's Acts are local and personal, that is Private Acts of Parliament, and as such only binding on those who were parties thereto directly or indirectly, but nonbinding on strangers. Several houses in the parish have been built since the passing of these Acts, and arc inhabited by persons who were not all inhabitants at the periods al:uded to, who could not directly or indi rectly be parties thereto, and w ere consequently strangers. The Acts themselves do not affect to regard them other wise, inasmuch as they contain no words, such as " here after to be built," like those to be found in the Minister's Money Acts, or the Acts intended to bind strangers or in habitants of new houses. And the doctrine as to the con struction of Private Acts is, that they are always regarded as contracts binding only on those who have sued for them, or been parties to their enactment. Conformably to this doctrine, both Ilouses of Parliament have certain orders, requiring all persons who may in the most smote degree be affected by Private Bills, to have notice thereof, before they are passed into a law. The inhabitants of St. George's parish, in the years 1806 and 1814, may have all had due notice of the passing of the Acts in question, and they, or the majority of them, may have actually assented, or be sup posed to assent thereto, so far as to bind themselves and their successors in the houses then in the parish. But how could individuals, perhaps not then born, without predecessors •in the parish, but now having houses not then built, or lia ble to any rates, assent to such laws, or be parties to them ? What say the authorities on this subject " Special or Private Acts," says Blackstone, " are rather exceptions than rules, being those which only operate on particular per sons." And D.varris on the Statutes says (page 750) "a power derogatory to private property must be construed strictly, and not enlarged by intendment." The 17th sec tion of 46th Geo. 111., c. 123, says, the trustees shall " from time to time rate," &c., " but that such rate shall not exceed such sums of money as shall from time to time be allotted," &c, and it is contended by the trustees, that the intendment of this section was, that the rate should attach and become chargeable on all houses, no matter when built, liable to Minister's money. But this money and the cess in ques tion are totally different—the former was imposed by public. Act of Parliament on all houses built, and " hereafter to be built ;" and the latter was by private Act of Parliament, without the words " hereafter to be built," or any words tantamount thereto. And though some of the parties might intend its meaning to be enlarged to suit their pur poses, such intendment, even if it could be spelled out of the Acts, is not binding in law. What says Dwarris fur ther on the subject ? " Private Acts of Parliament con ferring new and extraordinary powers of a special nature upon particular persons, affecting the property of indivi. duals, should receive a strict interpretation ;" and he refers to various cases, showing that " every presumption is against a company or body (like the trustees in question), and in favour of private property," and that " Acts of Par liament on behalf of such bodies were regarded as private contracts between the parties to them." I shall briefly re fer to one of these cases, because it bears upon both points of this question—that is the non-liability of all the pa rishioners, or of those only inhabiting houses lately built. In the case of Scales v. Pickering, 4 Bing. 448, a Company having the authority of a local Act of Parliament (for sup plying the inhabitants of the parish of St Mits, StraYbrd.le- Bow with water), for breaking up highways, pathways, &c., broke up a pathway in plaintiff's field, for which he brought his action, and obtained a verdict, with liberty to defendants to move for a new trial. They did so ; but it was refused on the grounds of the Company having no right without the plaintiff's consent ; " notwithstanding they could not carry oh their purposes without going to Parliament." The respectable Chairman of the county Dublin listened very patiently to arguments on both sides, the substance of which is set forth in the two preceding paragraphs—said the point relative to the houses recently built was novel, and should have due attention. After some days' delibera tion, however, he pronounced his decree against the defen dant. It had been declared in his presence, that whatever be decision of that Court might be, an appeal would be made to a higher tribunal, in order to settle the 'matter finally, as the majority of the parishioners had not been for many years past satisfied as to the legality of the demand ; and it was consented that an appeal should be had without immediately entering into recognizances. The plaintiffs, however, long before the time for trying the appeal arrived, had the defendant arrested, who, to avoid "durance vile," paid the money. But he is still of opinion that if the case were brought fairly and solemnly before a higher tribunal, his view el the law would be sustained. And thoueli he buuld bs mistaken in this point, it is still manifest from all the facts herein disclosed, that such a state of the law as is described is disgraceful to the nineteenth cantors', and could be enforced only by that party whose monopoly, haughty ascendancy, and unreasonable exactions, have b een so 'well calculated to foment disaffection, rebellion, and bloodshed in Ireland, - - the French, and would they regret that every shred should again be unravelled ? They who ridiculed the King of the Belgians and that re volution —they who contendd that Dun Carlos should reign in Spain, and Don Miguel in Portugal, spite of the Durango Decree end the Inquii tion (they have, it is true, te Duke of Cumberland in Hanover) ; but would they be averse to a new Holy Al. lance, or regret a northern irruption of Goths and Vandals, pouring down e,on the liberties and liberation of the south ? 44 We feel on these sul - jects great anxiety, because the approaching Session will decide the fate and the tramp:l-- 14 of Ireland, and may add security to Great Britain, or shake her to the centre. 1,t3 the Tories beware how they resort again to their dangerous courses and their rash leaders. Let them reflect that the National Association of Ireland comprises 25,000 members and associates—that we are united by a sense of injury and insult. Backed by the mass of the Irish people, and bound by a national oath of honour• never to desist lill we place the humblest of our Irishmen on a level in point if law with the proudest (f the English, this Asseciation, perhaps, may dissolve, relying on . the virtues of our gracious Queen and the good intentions of a Liberal Ministry : if we succeed, ' why then we shall smile ;' if we fail, meet we must, and met t we shall, to show to the world that Ireland may be injured, may be in sulted, but cannot be terrified into submission ; that Ire land may be disqualified, but cannot be degraded ; and that if she has hitherto had patience and philosophy enough t ., :ndure her wrongs, she still possesses spirit and courage to aver , ,; them. :4 I remain, my dear Lord, very truly yours, " HENRY GRATTAN. " To Lord Ci Ireland." oneurry, Dublin, DUBLIN.-TORYISM. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) The tide circulation of The Sun, and the value and effi ciency of its attention to Irish subjects for some years past, have procered for me the following statement, which I trans mit for publication at your earliest convenience. It is power fully illustrative of the spirit and practices of Toryism, and of the effects of the Ascendancy regime. It will also tend to elucidate the reasons why the Church Establishment, accompanied by its monopolies and impositions, as contra distinguished from a reformed religion, has become ob noxious to the majority of the people of Ireland. In no other country in the world could such laws have been enacted ; or, having been enacted, would they be submitted to, or allowed to be enforced, except in this long-neglected por tion of the empire, where the 'habitual domination of the jiev, and subjection of the many, have rendered boils insen sible to those just principles of justice and virtue which ought to prevail in the institutions of every community. The gentleman who furnished me with the facts of the case, believing the laws adverted to not binding upon all, if any of the parishioners, thinks this a fit and proper opportunity, at the commencement of an auspicious reign and a new Par liament, to submit them to the test of common sense and public opinion. In the year 1793, when the elective franchise was granted to Roman Catholics, and after a century of oppression, that class of Christians began to hope that all penal laws against them would soon be abrogated, a district adjoining this city, which had become populous, and in which several new streets had been recently built, was constituted by Act of Parliament into a new parish, named the parish of St. George. Provision was also made for the erection of a parish church, with suitable appurtenances ; and for rating and assessing all the inhabitants of the district towards the payment of the expenses of said church. See s3d Geo. 111. c. 53. Irish Statutes. In the year 1806, it being found that the erection of said church under the authority of the preceding Act, had not been completed, it was deemed necessary to apply to the Imperial Parliament for another Act. Accordingly, we find amongst the local and personal Acts of that year, "an Act for altering and enlarging the provisions of an Act passed in the Parliament of Ireland in the 33d year of his present Majesty, for making and constituting a new parish , by the name of the parish of St. George, and for erecting and building a parish church therein." (See 46 Geo. 111., c. 123, loc. et pers.) This is, properly speaking, the St. George's Act, as it contains all the extraordinary provi sions and powers, er supposed powers, hereafter referred to. It recites that the parishioners had proceeded to carry into effect the powers vested in them, and had applied the mo nio, received from grants, voluntary subscriptions, and the cesses felted and assessed by them for the building of the church, btu; that the same was " not yet completed "—that it might, however, he so, if the parishioners were enabled to bo'row a certain sua2 of money—namely 14,0001., on the c:ed t of the rates and cesses to be made there under. It then repealed all the previsions of the for mer Act relative to rating and assessment, and enacted new ones. These new ones were to the effect, that up wards of thirty persons therein named as trustees should be appointed for completing the erection of the church ; that seven of these trustees might constitute a meeting, at which any act agreed to by a majority of the seven, or of those present, should be valid ; that such meeting of trustees should be deemed a vestry for the purposes of the Act (see sections 7, 10, and 20), and of the Acts 3d Geo. 11., c. 11, and 21st and 22d Gco. 111., c. 52, Irish. (The importance of these two last-mentioned Acts shall be pointed out hereafter.) That they should have the power of appointing officers, making contracts, and have vested in them all monies received, and materials bought for build ing the church—and should have power, in each and every year, until all the monies to be borrowed shall be paid off (sec. 17) to rate and assess, "the several houses, offices, and ;rounds in said parish with such sum or sums of money as they shall think sufficient," not exceeding double the amount of Minister's money that, " shall from time to time be allotted," under 17th and 18th, c. 2, c. 7, and 13th and 14th Geo. 111., e. 19, Irish. It further enacted that the churchwardens should raiso and levy such cess, and be subject to such rules, fines, and penalties, and be accountable as under the public Acts already mentioned, namely, the 3d Geo. 11. c. 11, and 21st and 22d Geo. 111 , c. 52. And it directs how the rates are to be recovered, and how money on the credit of said rates was to be borrowed and secured to the lenders ; but in no part of the Act do words of the future tense, implying that houses THERE AFTER To BE BUILT should be rated, occur,—unless these words of the 17th section, " shall from time to time be allotted," can have that meaning. But, besides that the Legislature, as can be proved, never grants such powers by pl :ate Act of Parliament as against Fa rangers, it is respect fully submitted that these words refer to ministers' money only, which at the time had 'not been assessed on all houses then built ; commissions for such allotments not being by law allowed to issue oftener than every three years, and in fact seldom being issuad once in seven years. The Legis lature intended, in fact, by the words quoted, that when the new houses then built should, under the periodical Commissions, be rated for ministers' money, they should also become liable to the Church-rate, or new cess. In every part of tine Act, where minister's money is mentioned, we find those words ; but where the Church-cess alone is mentioned, they do not occur! Again, in the year 1814, we find the 54 Geo. 111., c. 78, Loc. and Pers.—another private Act—which, after reciting the titles and object of the two preceding Acts, and that the sum of 14,0001. had been raised and expended - in build. ing the church, &e., and in part completing the other pur poses mentioned, goes on to say, that the said 14,0001. was found insufficient, and that a further sum of 8,500/. would he required ; and that therefore the trustees should be empowered "to rats and assess the several houses, &c., in said parish of St. Ccorge with such sum or sums of money as they shall think sufficient fur the discharge of' the inte rest of tine money so to be borrowed under the authority of this Act, and of the necessary expenses of obtaining and carrying this present Act into execution, and such further sum as may be deemed expedient towards discharging the debt that may be incurred under this Act ; but no such rate or cess shall in any one year exceed the amount of the sum or sums of money as shall from time to time be so allotted, ascertained, and charged for the rector of said parish, as in the said recited Act of tine 46th year of the reign of his present Majesty is mentioned. And such addi tional rate or cess, over and above the rates or ceases HERE TOFORE laid on, under and by virtue of said last recited Act, shall first be made after the expiration of one calendar month after the passing of this Act."—(Sec. 1.) It then a p i r , c r c l i c e e d r: s a t n o pdoi host point t o u ho n e t s ,3 s the new 0 v 01.istoebl e r a a ub t so e er is to be borrowed, and % I , e e v levied and or d s im plicative the former Act, without a single of the purview of the Statute, or tine intention of tine Legislature to be to render houses hereafter to be built liable to this Church-cess. On the contrary the latter part of the clause just mentioned—namely, " And such addi tional rate or cess, over and prove aildadt. otehattilteheraptaeratieasndappcieysisnegs heretiiliwe laid on," c for that Act, and the Legislature in passing it, intended and expressly declared, that the additional rate was only to be imposed oa tine houses theretofore assessed. And this express deelera!ion on tine face of the last of the St. George's Acts, as to a cess " heretofore laid on," implies that the Legislature and the parties to these Aets at that time—that is, inn 1814, and at tine former period, 1806— never contemplated the liability of any houses to the first rates, than thou) built in 1806 ; nor to the last rate, than those actually rated in Ifs'l4. This clause, I repeat, clearly demonstrates that no house, not mated to this CCS3 in 1814, was to be liable to the additional rate ; and it as explicitly construes the former Act by implication, and shots thet the houses built in 1806, were alone contemplated by the Legieleture as liable to the assessment authorised by the Act passed in that year. But the trustees, immediately after the passing of that Act, imposed a rate, amounting to double the Minister's money, on all the or enpi,:yrriastwheia,ostni:aer therefore—say fto a i s re t t— h p e s y earyi l 0 , a d : a right to do. a rl: 3. l , n e e a r. Minister's he cl m m ,l a o t ol le . a a st ye s a s r o . l. amounted, during the eight years previous to 1814, to 8,8001. In the latter year the trustees were authorized to treble the Minister's money, which was then about 6001. a-year, and they did so on all houses rated, whether or not built in 1806. The assessment so increased to 1,8001, during the fifteen years intervening between that year and 1529, amounted to 27,0001. About the year 1829 the Minister's money had increased, and is still 7501. a-year, or thereabouts. Treble this sum, namely, 2,2501. yearly, fur the last eight years, gives 18,0001. I take average periods, and am sure I don't over calculate the gross assessments actually made since 1806. The sums of monies raised therefore are as fullows:— Double the Minister's money, £sso—say £l,lOO, from 1806 to ISI4, a period of eight years XB,BOO Treble ditto, £6oo—say £l,BOO yearly, from IAI 4 till 1829, a period of fifteen years Treble ditto, £7so—say £2,250, from 1829 to the present time, a period of eight years 27,000 18,000 Total.. POLICE OF THE METROPOLIS. The following letter from John Ward, Esq., one of the Prison Ini;peotors, to fienimin Hawes, Esq., AI.P., is ex tracted from the Report of the Committee or last Session : London, June 26, 1837. DEAR SIII,—In comp!ianea with the desire expressed by you , I beg to state in writing my answers to the questions put to me.. I.—AS TO THE POLICE VANS. Ha !ately inspected a number of priso ns i n the Home v A g istriet, under a special authority from Lord John Russell, I have bad occasion to visit officially the New Prison, Clerkenwell, and the Westminster Bridewell. I have seen the vans which bring the prisoners from the police offices, usually twice-a-day. Those which bring the pri soners committed at the morning sittings of the magistrates, arrive about four or five o'clock in the afternoon ; those From the evening sittings arrive so late as ten and eleven o'clock at night. The vans also come to the prisons in the morning, to convey remanded prisoners back for re-exsmi nation. The dimensions of the vans are eight feet four inches long, four feet five inches wide, and five feet six inches high. They will not hold conveniently more than twenty persons, but as one van calls at several police offices to take up, they sometimes bring twenty-five and even thirty prisoners and more. The eastern van, for instance. calls at the Thames Police-office, Lambeth-street, and Worship-street, so that it is perhaps three hours before it reaches Clerkenwell prison. Those who go back to the police-office for re-examination arc handcuffed, at the dis cretion of the turnkeys, in batches of two, three, or four. Men and women sit indiscriminately in the van when it is very crowded ; they are obliged to stand, or sit on each other's knees. Women sometimes sit on the men's knees. There is no light in the vans, although the Lae vans, and, in the winter, also the early vans, also travel in the dark. This leads to many irregularities ; for instance, I have heard of a man taking indecent liberties with a woman in the van, and giving her half a sovereign in consequence ; also of a prisoner being robbed of his watch, and of another prisone r b e i ng ro bb e d of his pocket-book and gloves in the van, when there were thirty-four prisoners in it, and they were found upon the person of the prisoner who sat next him. Such things are very possible now. The prisoners in the van are many of them drunk, sometimes so drunk that they cannot walk to the receiving-room without assis tance. The women are often so drunk, that when put to bed they are sick over the bedsteads. Some prisoners are not only filthy with vermin, but ragged to an indecent de gree. Prisoners of the more respectable kind naturally complain of the vans ; and I think they ought to be fitted with several compartments, in order to separate the more decent from the filthy and Erunken prisoners ; at all events, male prisoners ought to be entirely separated from females. 2.-POLICE CHAINS. Prisoners are not invariably removed from the police office in vans. Between Hatton-garden office and Clerken well prison they walk handcuffed, and fastened to a chain. Five or six men, and probably the same number of women, are thus fastened together, and exposed to the public gaze, in a manner which must be most painful to any decent prisoner. It has been stated to me, that persons have been known to give the prisoners drink as they passed along with the chain, which is the more likely, as there are a number of public-houses in the way. I understand that prisoners have been brought to Clerkenwell in this way from still greater distances, even from Kensington. 3.-ABUSES IN POLICE OFFICES. From the want of means of separation in the station houses and police-offices, prisoners pass the night, and a part of the day in the worst possible company. I have heard of a robbery committed in a police-office. I have reason to think that money is occasionally taken at the police-offices : my reason for saying so is, that the turnkey of the gate of the Westminister Bridewell told me he was .once offered a guinea by an attorney in great practice, and that on his refusing it as contrary to the rules, the attorney replied, " I am surprised the Governor should object—for our firm is in the habit of giving away 301. to 401. a year at different prisons and police-offices." 4. SYSTEM OF REMANDING AND Or BAIL. The number of prisoners remanded by the Police Ma gistrates for further examination has much increased of late. lam not able to account satisfactorily for this, but if the Magistrates remand by way of punishment only, such a practice is obviously improper. Out of 196 per sons whom I found in custody at Clerkenwell 52 were re manded for examination, and 122 committed for want of bail. The system of bail I think extremely bad. Per sons are constantly required to find sureties for as saults and petty offences, who have no means of finding them, and who have no alternative but to go to prison, where they remain without labour or corrective discipline, sometimes for very lon g periods. Again, respectable per sons, or gentlemen, who cannot find bail at the moment, arc thus placed in a prison, where they are obliged to mix with the filthiest vagrants and the most profligate offenders. It would surely be better to sentence for a short period to the House of Correction, with hard labour, or to impose a small fine, or even to take the personal recognizance of the party for his appearance, and run the risk of his forfeiting it. As examples of the erroneousness of this system, I give you the following within my own observation. J. C-, in Clerkenwell prison, aged 17, committed for want of bail, on charge of an indecent offence, with a man, who give bail, but it was expected would not appear at the Sessions. The boy, however, remained the meantime in prison. S. S—, committed to Westminster Bridewell—first to the House of Correction Department, with hard labour for three months, and afterwards to the gaol department without labour, for twelve months for want of bail. The absurdity of this is too glaring to require comment. H. S--, a female i❑ a state of derangement had been in A ) leshury gaol seven months for want of bail. J. A—, an idiot, in Springfield gaol for want of bail. D..A—, aged 50, has been in Chelmsford gaol 2'.2 years for want of bail to keep the peace towards his own father. He is regularly employed in the service of the prison with his own consent, and has even been sent on errands into the town. His situation is so comfortable that he ap pears to have no wish to leave it. S.—SUMbIARY CONVICTIONS. The expediency of extending the powers of Magistrates in regard to summary convictions appears to me to turn upon how far you can depend upon justice being properly administered by magistrates. I should not be afraid to ex tend the jurisdiction of the London Police Magistrates to all cases of larceny, but in the country there would at pre sent be a difficulty in arranging a proper tribunal. How ever, it should be remembered that the summary powers of magistrates are already very extensive ; indeed so much so, that a further extension of them would produce less charge than many suppose. The malicious trespass Act, the larceny Act, the revenue, game, vagrant, and police laws, give very wide powers of summary conviction. The following sum maries of the classes of prisoners confined in several large prisons at the time of my visits will exemplify this ; WESTMINSTER. BRIDE\VELL. Larcenies for trial ... Ditto for examination ll Convicted of felony For bail Convicted misdemeanants 3 Deserter 1 Debtors Pawners and damagers (summary) Assaults ditto 5 Vagrants......- ditto... llO Total NEW PRISON, CLERKENWELL. Under examination For bail For trial, &c Total 196 AYLESBURY COUNTY GAOL. For trial Convicted at Assizes and Sessions Summary convictions for poaching, stealing turnips, wood, &c., and petty trespasses Debtors Total ...... SPRINGFIELD COUNTY GAOL. For trial Convicted at Assizes and Sessions Summary convictions for p o aching, &c. Ditto bastardy Ditto vagrancy Tot al . 238 lIERTFORD COUNTY GAOL. For trial _ 55 Convicted at Assizes and S e ssions .. 2l Summary convictions, principally for poaching Debtors Total MAIDSTONE COUNTY GAOL. For trial 9 Convicted at Assizes and Sessions Summary convictions 132 Debtors Total SO3 You will see that. in these instances the inmates of the prisons consist in the proportion of from one-third to one half of summary convictions, to which I should add the follotving Total number of prisoners confined in England and Wales, in the year ending Michaelmas, 183.6, (except the King's Bench and Fleet prisons), ac cording to the last Inspectors' reports Deduct debtors ........ 11,882 87 245 Of which were summary convictions or about GO per cent. The committals to Assizes and Sessions according to the criminal tables for the last year were 20,95-1, which leaves a still greater portion of pri soners not tried by juries, being in the ratio of about 7 to 2 to those so tried. The preceding estimate is therefore rather under than over stated. 6 . —JUVENILE OFFENDERS• You are already so conversant with this subjects and it has been so fully treated in the First Repprt of the Inspec tors of Prisons for the Home District, that I will only here express my fear that juvenile delinquency in the metropolis is rather on the increase. The gross number of boys, aged 16 and under, who entered the six metropolis prisons in 1835, was 2,855 ; and, in 1836. it was 3,132. It appears by the criminal tables for last year, that of 20,984 offen ders committed for trial in England and Wales, 2,423 or 11.-3.sths per cent. did not exceed the age of 16 ; and of 3,350 so committed in the county of Middlesex, 404, or 12 per cent., did not exceed that age. I consider the total number of offenders, not exceeding the age of 16, who an nually enter prisons in England and Wales, to be about 10,000, being from 10 to 11 per cent. on the whole criminal population. This is a large proportion, especially when compared with France and Belgium. In the former of these countries the proportion of juvenile offenders is, I under stand, about 5, and in the latter 6 per cent. When the bad effect of gaol contamination is considered,.and also the very trifling nature of the offences for which young persons are committed, the necessity of a change of system in regard to them appears urgent. I found in Dover gaol three boys under seventeen, who had been nine weeks in prison, waiting their trial for stealing a handful of shrimps out of an open shop window, and four others, who had been waiting their trial several weeks for stealing 71bs. of lead. I trust that great benefits will arise from the intended Reformatory in the Isle of Wight. The plan and management of that institution deserve the attention of your Committee as a matter of great national importance. 7.—PRINCIPLE OF SEPARATION. I take the liberty of suggesting, in conclusion, the expedi ency of adopting, to the utmost practicable extent, in the po lice station-houses, offices, and vans, the system of separation, which, I am convinced, is the only sound method of prison discipline. Much misrepresentation has gone abroad irr re ference to the separate system, in reply to which I would refer the Committee to the Second Report of the Inspec tors of Prisons for the Home District, where the subject will be found very fully discussed. I fear that the public opinion has been in some degree prejudiced by the circula tion of loose statements respecting the mortality in the American penitentiaries. Now, I understand that, accord ing to Dr. Julius of Berlin, who has lately returned from a mission to the United States, by order of the Prus sian Government, the penitentiaries of Philadelphia and Pitsburgh have on a series of years been more healthy than any of the four penitentiaries of Richmond, Sing Sing, Auburn, and Boston. The official report of Dr. Julius will shortly be published, and in the meantime it is but right to suspend the judgment upon this point. At all events no objection founded on supposed injury to health can be ap plicable to the principle of separation as applied to police.— I have the honour to be, dear Sir, very faithfully yours, JOHN WARD. To B. Hawes, Esq., M.P., Chairman. THE GREAT CITY BANQUET. When her Majesty was passing from her dressing or re. tiring apartment into the Hall, in going to her carrial::„ the Ministers and Judges and other persons of rae2.i made an avenue from the steps leading to the di - awing-room, and were individually recognized by 122 r Majesty in the most affable manner. Amongst them stood the Duke of Wel lington, who was conversing with some of the members of the Corporation upon the skill displayed in the arrange-, ments ; one of the Common Councilmen, observing thift that the Duke was not in the foremost rank of those who lined the avenue, stepped aside to make room for his Grace, and respectfully asked him to take the situation. " No," said the Duke with much kindness of manner, " I fre quently have the honour of seeing her Majesty, and I think it but fair to let others have the high gratification here." The Duke upon entering the Hall was received at the door by Mr. R. L. Jones, the Chairman of the London-bridge Committee, with whom he shook hands most cordially, and l i although his Grace had been at the Hall on all the great entertainment occasions of the last quarter of a century, he confessed that he never beheld any banquet got up with such splendour and taste. The Duke of Cambridge was heard to express himself equally surprised and delighted at the scene to Lord Foley, the Captain of the Gentlemen at Arms, who attended as the Body Guard to the Queen ; and the Duke of Sussex repeatedly adverted to the subject in the course of the evening. Lord Mulgrave officially, we understood, informed the members of the_ Committee that the Queen felt the highest. gratification at the preparations which had been made for her reception, and which were in every point of view most complete: As for the great majority of the company--so great an impression did the sweet demeanour of a lovely girl upon the throne make upon them, that her Majesty's departure was a signal for the final close of the entertainment, and they left the Hall as soon as their ser vants could bring up their carriages to the porch. When her Majesty was in her retiring-room, after she had left the Hall, she took a cup of coffee, and, observing that the fire was very hot, pushed the screen close to it. This piece of furniture, which she had been admiring a mo ment before, and which was fitted up with plate glass in a richly ornamented gold frame, cracked with the great heat, and the Queen, with beautiful simplicity, Said to the Duchess of Kent, '° Oh ! that pretty screen, how sorry I am that I have injured it." In this room her Majesty looked with curiosity, and smiled at a likeness of herself when an infant, which was painted by Westall, and was hung up over her toilet by Mr. Herring, the upholsterer, in whose possession the picture is. She walked up and down, the apartment frequently, and expressed the greatest admiration of the beautiful style in which it was decorated. In the passage between the retiring-room and the draw ing -room was an object which attracted her Majesty's eye— a chandelier, lent to the Corporation by the Goldsmiths' Company, composed of solid chased gold, weighing 1,000 ounces. Although it was reported, and we believe correctly, that the Committee hesitated about inviting Mr: Byng, Mr. David SalomonF, and Mr. Charles Pearson, we saw them all seated 'at one of the four tables which the men of highest rank occupied. A great deal of unaffected pleasure was felt and expressed by Mrs. Magee, an American lady, the wife of one of the partners in the eminent mercantile house of Hagan and Magee, of Liverpool. This lady was the only American female in the vast assembly, and she attracted great admiration by the beauty and elegnee of her appearance ; she was introduced by Mr. French, one of the Common Councilmen of Broad-street Ward, of which Sir John Cowan, Bart., Lord Mayor, is Alderman. In the course of the evening Mr. Thomas Dighton, an artist, was permitted to enter to take a drawing of the scene, with the company as they appeared at the banquet, from which an engraving is to be taken, which the Queen has permitted to be dedicated to her. An odd sort of ceremony took place in the outer porch of the hall immediately before the entrance of the Queen. The Aldermen, who rode under the guidance of Sir Peter Laurie, in order to keep themselves clean during the dan gerous experiment, clapped upon themselves, over their breeches, a sort of buckram overalls. When they reached the Guildhall-yard, these outer kickseys were bespattered with mud, so that many who knew that they must be in readiness to receive her Majesty cried out, " What will the Aldermen do for clean breeches ?" Their Worships, how ever, as soon,as they drupped from their horses, soon settled the question, for Mr. Paul, of Bedfordbury, who fitted them with this useful garment, was in readiness in the porch, stripped it off of every man as if by the stroke of Harlequin's wand, and sent them one by one into the hall as clean as a whistle. The Entertainment Committee assembled yesterday morning at eight o'clock, before which hour their indefati gable Chairman was at his post to make regulations about the distribution of tickets to their fellow-citizens for a view of the hall. To form any idea, however, of the magnificent appearance of the building without the display of the art of gas-lighting would be quite impossible. Indeed, the ball by daylight has but a dull and heavy 'appearance. Those who are desirous to see it in a state of brilliancy re sembling the memorable 9th of November, must wait for the Polish ball, which will take place on the 21st instant, when a comparison may be fairly instituted. It may be proper en passant to state, that the apprehensions enter tained by some of the fashionable families of the west end of the town, as to an issue of tickets more extensive than may be consistent with the comforts of the visitors, are quite erroneous. The issue is limited, and Mr. Peacock, the Chairman of the Committee, is willing to be responsible for the slightest inconvenience to the company. It is but justice to take notice of the gas-ligl.t7 o Guildhall. Since the memorable day when so many of the crowned heads of Europe did honour to this ancient and noble Hall, by partaking of a civic welcome, there htt3 been no attempt till now of eclipsing the vast splendour then for the first time displayed by gas illumination. In order to accomplish this in the fullest manner, the Com mittee, determined to spare no exp,,nse, took time b y the forelock, and began . to sound the note of preparation so f a r b ac k as the middle of August, %%hen they entrusted the supervision of this department to the engineer of the Chartered Gas Company, who reported on the defe c ti ve state of the old gas - fittings , an d a r enovation, attended with considerable expense, took place. Th e c hi e f a ddi t i on made by the Committe e this year consists of chandeliers constructed ftom the classically-elegant designs and under the tasteful eye of Collins. They au gment i n no small degree the hitherto fascinating brilliancy of the Hall. Between the panels of painted glass which corn pose the body of these g i gant i c l amps are placed m ost scientifically some hundr e d s o f g l ass pr i sms, wh i ch by their refractive powers throw the rays of light into showers of rainbow illusions. The chandeliers were placed high enough to prevent any interference in the line of sight between the Royal table and the brilliant display of gas made at the west end of the Hall, where the star shone with . its wonted r e f u l gence f rom 1,500 gas -li g ht s , encircled with the motto of " God save the Queen.," The .......'-'''.............'.....'".".".."'".''''........''""..".'''....."...'... \ number of burners in these two devices (the star and is 4,509, arid the weight of cut-glass is toady one zit° The arabesque scroll, under each window, under the .... re of .. Welcome," and the initials ~ V. R," contains nw the than two thousand jots of light. But after all ' be brilliancy which we have attempted to describe as ue longing to the two ends of the Hall, it is ty the until it m otto , ). and most effective disposition of the lights, being' a s . were, in air, yet attached to the bold cornice and Gat hic campartments comprising the walls of this stately buildingd• that the almost overpowering flood'of light is obta iu !, l , It is here the magic art of gas-lighting is furnished wl_L!' an unrivalled opportunity cf displaying itself. The oral' tectural contour of the overhanging cornice and lofty ar"h a t a of the east and west windows is' made out iu lines d li e': ll e It scarcely requires the aid of Aladdin's lamp these jets of light as so many endless beads of be dl,a; monds. The number - of these jets was understood to a to ;ai!' 5.600, and each jet gives the light of three wax candlesd: Hence can be imagined the flood of light c ast all aroun yet so equally is it diffused as not in the slig htest degree io. weary the eye, and they contrast beautiful l y with the Si v er y b r i g ht ness - produced by the star and mot to in the wes tern window. if -to these we add the light p roduced s hall the various devices in the cast and west windows, we s find a calculation from the data before mentioned that, astounding as it may appear, there could not on the whole be a flood of light of less intensity than would be Int: duced by the combustion of 46,000 w M ax can dles. The a' purity and strength of light produced from the g as used ° this occasion was, we understand, partly owing to a iS: lure of Scotch with the most bituminous coal procurable from the Newcastle coal-field. It is evident from the de scription which *all must acknowledge who have seen 11 ' 6 night of the 9th not to he overwrought, that the c om Pa r a: tivea rknessofa day exhibition most be producti ve ofgrea disappointment. ' -..... During the Procession on Thursday last, we ce:ved in the balcony of the Adjutant• General, Sir Jo Macdonald, i n Pal-mall, a large assemblage of beatitY' i amongst others, Lady Harriett and Miss Paget , • Fitzroy Somerset and Daughters, Mrs. L. Fox, Ladyr!l,e, 1 harris, Lion. Mrs. Snlivan and Daughter, Lady ili Tanker y Lady H. Baring, Mrs. B. Drumm o nd, &c. &C. Colonel Buckley's management of the Royal Pr% cession on Thursday last to Guildhall deserves Blued praise ; his gentlemanlike and intelligent manner, an strong judgment, was of infinite use. National Loan Fund Life Assurance Society , C wli c i illuminated with gold-cr; icu red lamps 000 all the windows. During the progress of the Royal Procession o f Thursday last ft otn Bu c k ng h am _ p l ace t o P a ll-mall, ooe f o o r the Life-guards, in her Majesty'shir zeal and anxiety to clear the waY ber state-carriage, used his sword !a t , roughly -amor. g . the crowd. The glass of her Mai e . s4 ,l carr . tite:t was instantly let down, and her Majesty excial°l% to 'ene officer in attendance, .6 Tell that soldier to treat h, people with more civility !" The order was distTctilf heard by a number of persons in the immediate vicinity () ( 1 the Royal cortege, and was responded to by three loud a n hearty cheers from the delighted multitude. IRELAND. . ever ir.APPRESMO',46III QUEEN.—Th e largest meeting 155 t witndssed in thii great county (Meath) on Thur sdaY S. assembled at Navan, called by the High Sheri ff , Di r * ar v Winter, pursuant to requisition. L ong before the teli meeting, every corner of the Court-house was COmP. t o t crowded, and the building was surrounded thro n g ° in the daY by a Vast multitude who could not find lc within. [On Monday we purpo se p resen ting the Pa with a report of the proceedings.] MR. O'CONNELL.—On Satu r d a y n ex t Mr. O'C° llllell bon leaves Dublin to, attend i public dinner to be give n g o o in Stockport on Monday. The Hon. Gentleman has dsl. been invited to a public breakfast in Bolton the same r . The Bolton Free Press says—" A letter from the Cr v; man of the Reform Association was sent o ff on T ue r rl e 're but up to last night no answer had been received. can, however, be little doubt entertained of his accep ting the invitation. He had promised to di ne w ith the iteft/rsili or ers of Stockport on the same day ; so that he can ° a t e arrange to come from Liverpool to Bolton, and pass hours here before going forward to Stockport." its of MR. O'CONNELL AND THE TORIES.—The re Fon d the efforts to render the National Compensation to equal to the charges with which Mr. O'Connell is about o f be visited, promise to be most successful. The pecoe" t • Cork, Kerry, Wexford, Waterford, &c. show that the 00 most activity prevails in organising for the collection Sunday next, while we are, at the same time, ena bled announce the receipt by the Secreta r y a l rea dy of the , 511 0 , of 661. Gs. 9d. from Sligo ; 531 . f r om D u ngarvan ; I r° . Mayuooth, including Leixlip, 421. Us. 4d. ; Anna cur county of Wicklow, through Rev. Dr. Sinnott, of G ore/ ' M. 55., &c. Meanwhile D rog h e d a , T ra l e e, Killaro e S i Kinsale, Fermoy, &c., and all th e l ea di ng t ow ns in w hi p the contributions have not yet been got in, are pre paring to give a good example to the outstandin g rura l di s tricts, o i l, the precedents will be followed up unive rsa lly a nd liber i I r s We trust that we shall have to congratulate the Refortoeir of Ireland upon having exceeded on this occasion the n , former " well-doing." The exertions of th e Tory fac t ` ° o . to crush O'Connell by ruinous expenses, have been 5° lie , blushingly made since his recent victory in our metro's', that they ought and will have the effect of produci n f i h, re-action among the Liberals of a truly practical k t f, r . Our meaning is, that the pecuniary resou r ces will be wr„ nished in an abundance commensurate with the Pre s t i g to which Mr. O'Connell is exposed.—Dublin Epe * h is Post.—ln the same paper Mr. Crawford announces intention to resume his pen-political. a Vt l THE TWELFTH INSTANT.—We ha ve frequenw t„ b earnestly impressed upon the count y that every P sr , sB ° and person enlisted by sentiment; an d act i on in the C$ o f of Reform will be expected :co give practical evideo ce t be the feeling which acturi... es th em , by contributing t° t lel National Compen; at i on F un d on t h e a b ove d a y (S", n t be next). The in.t,elligence which has reached us thro n g ° " ro . Liberal Prclvincial Press, as well as numerous private l o g munications, indicate that the call upon the outsta n t he districts will be generally and nobly responded t o on id cecas:on. We conceive ourselves liberated from clo t be any thing more at this moment than congratulating bed friends of O'Connell, and of the great cause of whic, h , m p r the representative, on the prospects which await this tit polar operation, and we protnise ourselves the gratifica o f of cxhitJiting the success that has attended a eatalogo.cb receipts, the produce o f th e s i mu l taneous co ll e ction, 'e t i be will do honour to Ir e l an d, an d t h e o bj ects to funds are to be applied.—Pilot. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN: Sir—l have just been informed of the insertion or a r ot ragraph in the Tanes of this morning, headed " S en-P°l iP Affair," copied from the Dublin Evening Packet, ob e FT. it appears that a gentleman in possession of the nal" ba d W. Snape, and recently married to a widow in Ireland, sn j assumed, at Toni ng ' s H ote l, S ac k v ill e-street , Dub t"— li tpe franked letters in the name of Lord Forrester. or ragraph alluded in any way to me, I take this first ePP iv tunity, throu g h th e me di um o f your co l umns , with it t iet dignation to repel a charge which, if proved to be t 0 iis 'would pla ce me i n suc h a pos i t i on as to su bject We nomious punishment. I am, Sir, your obedient Serannt, T. W. ° it" Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, Nov. 9. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SU Sir—ln looking over my paper (The Sun of last PTJo it appeared to m e th a t I was t h e on l individual un 14 Zer gate-hill not noti ce d amongst t h ose w ho vi( d with each %gas to afford gratifi ca ti on to our l ove l y Q u een. I verilY $1 vain enough t o flatter myself I had eclipsed them the house was deco ra t e d w i t h f es t oons o f floweis encirclioved windows f rom top to bottom, even the shop window parapet, thre e f igs , large star, V. and 11 » in g ag ' "' I u ° ! Could o at pty of 70 dine and spene evening. m ar ore, or you to honour me less ? d Ith presum e charitably It • an oversight, and remain, Sir, OW' With every good wish for p eac e and a happ Y • Y trul Nov. 11, 1837. 0urs 9 R. yW9ILLIAAIS, 44, Ludga Air purpose ofattending to his Parliamentary Viscount Ingestre has returned to England 'rj, . e . E .,, l „,„ror ° c ship has been at Odessa Sebastopol,l e e- ° at the invitation of the r-.L. , t. Russia, to be at the review of the Black Sea 1 duti s. fort° I ENGLISH INVENTIONS.—It is no less si n g e - itt are oft ti;lei than true, that inventions made in England as well as the great review at Wosnesensk. tont be for o e f $ a operation in Russia, Germany, Prussia, Sze.' are here. Immediately the slightest hint is gice, ° „ kn oll , invention, information is conveyed, how, to the ever-wakeful agents of those countries. t _ e n iett ° we barVtrojilei th ntrY, the tions to the inventor arc procured ; and, ender " foreign curiosity to see all the varieties of the co° _ b e for e whole particulars of it are obtained, to l' e winging their'ocount. another sun has arisen, are rapidly or more of the above nations, to be turned to usefulon Edg e The Union coach was overturned at Sh,, e , l . o bargh t on Wednesday evening last, on its way from -v-', (11 brea king,: which, perhaPt'y' e Newcastle, by reason of ( the fore-axle Mr. Punshgn, s uddeny leis tbigi; ' - unshgn , music-master, of Shields, ha 0. 14 11 broken. Fortunately the rest of the Pas sel ?: was 00 0, number, esea I without in ; pec, j urv, and t he g ua -s Pr°°P. et scratched about the face. Mr. punslion rsrewcotleim, attended by two medical gentlemen from _ Y fuv oor e y. Mr. Parti s ' s (l a t e M r . Pil e s), and is doing veraceidenta 1 e underst an d th e occurrence w as Por el Y Barwick Warder.