The Sun. — London, England, 1837-08-15 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Irish returns equal our most sanguine expecta tions, and reflect great credit on the inhabitants of that portion of the empire. They are now reaping for the first time since the commencement of the connection uith this country the benefit of an impartial admi nistration of Government and the laws, and they are grateful for the justice which is done to them. That the policy of Ministers towards Ireland re ceives the approbation of the people of England and Scotland is sufficiently proved by the return of Li beral Members from all the independent and en lightened constituencies of these two countries. The few exceptions of Liverpool and Norwich, and one or two other large towns, are easily accounted for without any impeachment of the respectable inhabitants of those places. With the known inclinations of our So vereign, who is understood to repose the most entire confidence in her Ministers—with the support of the inhabitants of the great towns, and the devoted attachment of the people of England— they have nothing to apprehend from the Tories. The enormous expenditure of money by that party, and the disgraceful practices resorted to by them, only item to prove how impossible it is to conduct the Go vernment of this country against the wishes of the people. They may rest assured that they never will succeed in usurping the Government of this country by fraud or force. What the Tories can mean by encou raging their journals to make invidious distinctions be ween the Irish and English representatives we are unable to understand Do they wish to furnish the Irish neople with arguments in favour of repeal ! There are fanatics in this country, we know (for the proposi tion was made in the Quarterly Review), who would dissolve the connection, in order to re-conquer the country and convert the inhabitants to Protes tantism. But these wild vagaries cannot enter into the heads of any sensible individuals of the pity. No rational Englishman would wish to dissolve the connection between the two coun tries, because he knows that the power of Eng land would greatly suffer from Ireland being under a separate Government. But the Irish are a spirited and generous people. They are at least the equals of the English in all natural qualities. They are the bravest of our soldiers, and in all exigencies a mine of wealth to this country. All that is wanted in Ireland to develop its abundant resources, and render it the abode of industry, is a continuance of good govern ment, and the aid of such beneficial laws as Ministers wish to introduce into that country. How insane it is, then. to insult the people by speaking contume liously of their religion, and holding up the represen tatives sent by them to the Imperial Legislature as less entitled to respect than the representatives of England I The law has declared that religion shall be no bar to the enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of a citizen, and, front the day that Catholics were entitled to a place in the Legislature, justice as well as good feeling de manded that no invidious distinction should be made between one religious persuasion and another. Who ever thus seeks to excite religious animosity, by holding language insulting to the feelings of the creed professed by any large portion of the people of these kingdoms, is an enemy to his country. The Tories may rest assured that if they hope to attain power by seeking to promote dissensions between the two islands, they labour under a grievous delusion. The people of England are generally Protestants, and naturally more attached to their own religion than to Catholicism ; but their good sense tells them that the Catholics being equally attached to their own religion, a good under standing between the two can only be maintained by observing mutual forbearance. The low abuse con stantly levelled at the Irish and their religion in the Tory prints is deserving of the utmost reprobation.— Morning Chronicle . , We are now in a condition to lay before our readers, which we do in another part of our paper, a complete and accurate detail of the Scotch, eturns, both for the counties and for the towns. On the balance of these elections it will be. found that the respective forces of the two parties in Scotland remain precisely as they were at the close of the last Parliament ; the numbers of the Whig-Radicals in that kingdom being 33, and those of the Conservatives - 20. We explained on Sa turday that the computation of town returns in Eng land and Wales, which was taken at 150 Conserva tives and 191 Ministerialists, ought to have been amended to 151 and 190, by deducting the name of Mr. Cripps, the Member for Cirencester, from the Ministerial, and adding it to the Conservative list. Add to the 151 the 114 county Members returned by the Conservatives in England and Wales, and the 20 Scotch Members elected in the same interest, and the total of Conservatives in the entire district of Great Britain, exclusively of Ireland, is 285. On the other hand, add to the 190 Ministerialists their 45 county Members from England and Wales, and their 43 Scot tish Representatives, and the total of Ministerialists in the entire district of Great Britain, exclusively of Ireland, is no more than 268. Deduct the 268 .Ministerialists from the 285 Conservatives, and the Conservatives are in a majority of 17 on the entire district of Great Britain— that is, throughout the whole dominion of England, Scotland, and Wales. This is the result which, from the beginning, we have hopefully anticipated and confidently foretold ; and having gained this height, we pause for a moment to survey the prospect it com mands. We see an extensive and populous region, stretching through almost eight degrees of latitude, rich in all the signs of industry and civilization, and in the tokens of a venerable antiquity, diversified with noble mansions, and busy towns, and broad golden corn-fields, and towering cathedrals, and white spires gleaming through village-trees—we see the people of that wide and fair country threatened with the over throw of all that has reared, adorned, and sanctified it, and, at once, over hill and valley, by river and plain, we mark them uplifting their voices and their hands to guard their father-land and their Mother Church, and they have won their triumph tranquilly ; nothing of heat, nothing of excitement in their demeanour—no mania—no cry— " At once they rose ; Their rising all at once was as the sound Of thunder heard remote." But we are admonished not to halt too long in the survey of this grateful scene ; we are warned that a different demonstration is preparing itself in the neigh bouring island, where the people have not yet com pleted the record of their adverse feeling. " Wait," it is said, " only wait till Ireland has told you her mind, and what will then become of the British majority ? Ireland will send 70 O'Connellites for 35 Conserva tives ; and so much for the majority of Great Britain." Do you think, then, that the Ministers of the Queen will dare, or daring, will be able, to conceal from her knowledge the nature and ingredients of her Parlia ment ? Or do you believe that when her Majesty does become acquainted with its composition, and learns that the only counterpoise to the legitimate and moral weight of the returns for Great Britain is the mere numerical power of the Agitator, who, at this moment, is actually shaking her throne as he clings to , it—do y ou b e li eve th a t the grand-daughter of George 111. will want the spirit to stand with her peo ple. for her C rown ? D o you t hi n k s h e w ill be afraid of the Ministers, or of their giant colleague ? She has nothing to fear, and we b e li eve s he f e ars nothing. Like her high-minded predecessor, the courageous Elizabeth, she holds in her hand the destinies of the Protestant Church ; and like her, may rely on the loyal energies of a Protestant people.—Times. All the provincial papers received yesterday and last night exhibit one remarkable feature of identity in opinion. A large proportion of them concur in urging the necessity of the vote by ballet. They regard its acquisition as imperative—considering the scandalous scenes which have been exhibited in their peculiar loca lities—and especially in consequence of the three dis „ataceful murders which have been perpetrated by the Tory " brickbat and bludgeon system" at Wakefield, Eirminghum, and Canterbury. It is not unworthy of notice also, that many of the editors of these liberal papers (we may mention the Leeds Mercury as a prominent example), have up to this time been oppo newts of the ballot, but are now made converts to the necessity of that measure. The most manifest injury which the want of it has occasioned, next to the de moralization of society, —now that the Ministerial majority may be considered safe,—is the exclusion of a number of the friends of the people, identified with certain classes of popular opinions, who have been exposed to the shafts of Tory hatred from behind the assassin-like shelter of the undue influence, corruption, and intimidation connected with the present system. We suggested some time ago our hope that these victims of an anti popular faction—and who ought to be rendered dearer to the popular party by that very circumstance—would be .brought into Parliament for some other places of the United Kingdom while the opportunity still re mained. The suggestion has been adopted by the friends of freedom in Ireland, who have done great honour to themselves, and great good to the common cause by returning Mr. Hume for Kilkenny, and by proposing to bring forward others of the excluded po pular candidates (Mr. Ewart, for instance) for other places in Ireland. With a view of repairing a severe loss to , the Liberal ranks in Parliament, as well as with a view of defeating Tory malignancy, we should like to see an effort made, while there is yet time, to return Mr. Evart, Dr. Bowring, Mr. Buxton, as well as Mr. Hume. These men, equally with Mr. Hume and Mr. Grote, have been selected for Conservative vengeance. Let the people ask themselves why, and they will find in the true response to that question, the strongest reason why they should prevent the sacrifice. The reason is that they have rendered themselves too formidable to the popular enemy by their consistent championship of the people,—by their honesty in urging Reform,—and by their talent and industry in giving effect to their opinions. An affected sneer, or rather a sardonic laugh, now makes its appearance on the mortified features of the Tory conspirators. They see the " engineer hoist with his own petard." They see Mr. Hume returned to Parliament from Ireland, ready again, as he predicted, to be a " thorn in their sides ;" and they do not now sufficiently know how to digest the venom of their disappointed spleen. They have no other resource than to calumniate Ireland and Irishmen in the lump, and to speak of Irish representa tion as if Ireland bad not a right to " a voice poten tial" in the Legislature as well as England and Scot land. In the spirit of Lord Lyndhurst's anathema, the Irish people are " aliens in blood." They have been regarded as helots by the Orange ascendancy, and as helots they are to be deemed and retained as long as they can be kept down. The Union, like a German left-hand marriage, is to be all on one side. We may judge what impartial justice to Ireland would be, if it were to be administered by such a partial faction. The madmen employ an argument ,which, if carried out, would warrant the separation Of Ireland from the Union. This conduct is in pernicious conformity with their whole line of calumniating argument on the same subject during the last session. Ministers, forsooth, depended upon Irish Members—upon an Irish majo rity—upon the tail of Mr. O'Connell. They were to reject justifiable concurrence of opinion, because it was stigmatised as Irish. Disappointed machination may be anticipated to vent itself now in outcries of still more vehement , vituperation. Ireland has done her duty nobly in the great struggle. In candour and in honour we are bound to say that to Ireland now, as heretofore, is due, in a considerable degree, the merit of having saved the ark of liberty from falling into the hands of the Philistines. Honour to the country, and honour to the Patriots who have successfully laboured to effect that glorious object ! " Honour to whom ho nour is due !" —Morning Advertiser. The last and only hope of the Melbourne Ministry, in consequence of the disastrous result of their appeal to the people of Great Britain, being placed upon the Irish and Popish alliance, of which the compact was ratified at Lichfield House, they must become more servilely dependant than ever upon O'Connell and his faction. Not Mr. Joseph Hume himself, though now a palpable and avowed joint of the " tail," is in a state of more abject dependence upon the patronage of the Agitator, who has made the destitute denier of Divine Providence the nominee of one of his rotten boroughs, than the Melbourne Ministers, who cannot expect to survive the first week of the opening of the new Parliament, unless the ci-devant denouncer of " the base, bloody, and brutal Whigs" can bring up a suf ficient force of Popish auxiliaries to their rescue. We suspect, however, that the Irish legion of " repealers" will be able to effect as little for the sinking cause of the Melbourne Whigs as Evans's well-rigged grenadiers did for the cause of the stock-jobbing democracy of Madrid. The British lion is now roused. The manly spirit of English patriotism that moved away the links of Papal tyranny in the seven teenth century, will not tamely crouch to its iron yoke in the nineteenth. The nation that, in defence of its threatened independence, smote the mighty Napoleon in his pride, will not submit to the degrading domina tion of O'Connell. Mr. Spring Rice, in his quasi Conservative speech to the electors of Cambridge, was dishonest enough to disavow the intimate connection between Government and the insolent demagogue to further whose electioneering projects Lord John Russell wrote the discreditable epistle in the Queen's name to the vice-regal vassal of that demagogue—Lord Mu!- grave. At this moment the Ministerial journals endea vour to console themselves for the losses which their employers have sustained in the elections of Great Britain, with the vain hope that they will be able to beat down English opinion, and reverse the verdict which England has pronounced against the Whig Government, by the aid of a few additional joints which Government influence, popish priest craft, and mob-law have added to the agitators " tail." We may take it that the Ministerial journals express the opinions and wishes of the Ministry. Those journals not only confess, but boast of the de grading connection with O'Connell, which Ministers are so false and so mean as to deny. Thus did they pre tend to disclaim the mission of the demagogue to " preach down" the House of Lords two years ago, while their journals were loud in their praises and en couragement of the audacious incendiary, and his re volutionary project. The destitution of talent which characterises the present Cabinet is their misfortune. Ministers cannot help the incapacity which God and nature have inflicted upon them—but their dishonesty is both a crime and a blunder, and sinks them to the lowest degree of contempt. They seem, indeed, anx ious to earn for themselves that sobriquet of " the thimble-rig administration" which Lord Stanley fixed upon them. They practice all that is odious in de ception without the power of deceiving anybody. But since the ministerial journals boast that there will be in all 75 of O'Connell's faction returned in Ireland, let us say a few words .on that subject. By the course which Government have pursued in throwing all its pa tronage and undue influence into the revolutionary scale, and enlisting the popish priests in its service, this effect is produced. It is true that if there be any jus tice to be obtained in Committees of Parliament, seve ral of those " joints", will be struck off—still there will be but tees many elected under the dictation of O'Connell, and mbre. or less pledged to his opinions— those opinions strike not only at the existence of the Protestantsiiifigion',. but the power of the British Crown, andlend to the•dismemberment of the empire. So large- a portion of the Irish representation being thus pledged to the policy of O'Connell, and conse quently opposed to the opinions of the English repre sentation, as emphatically expressed at the county elections, we shall thus have the two nations opposed as nations in the House of Commons, and this is the doing of Ministers ! The Ministers of our Protestant Queen, who derives her title from the Protestant set tlement of 1688, have done all in their power, and in that respect not unsuccessfully, to render the representation of Ireland in general a Popish representation, whilst that of England is decidedly Protestant, and chosen for the defence of our Pro testant Institutions by a people awakened to a sense of the pressing danger that assails the altars of the Reformed faith. We shall thus have the two religions in conflict in the House of Commons, not withstanding the unqualified concessions made to Ito man Catholics by the ill-omened 1301 of 1829, and this also is the doiug of Ministers. But the two an tagonist principles which have been thus brought into action with a fierceness of hostility unealled siie that struggle whi c h cost t h e S tuart f am i ly the erowl, will increase in bitterness of strife and acrimony of feeling, while influencing the sentiments of the popu lation of both countries. The Irish priests, encou raged and rewarded by the Government, or stimulated with the hopes of its patronage, will render the future THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1837. elections in that country, if possible, still more Popish. The counteracting feeling in England will become, from day to (lay, more excited and more strong, and the next elections in this country will turn. deci dedly upon "No Popery." _The Ministers will then, for the mere selfish object of retaining place and power, have brought on a national and reli gious struggle between the two portions of the empire, and devolved on their successors the proba bility of dealing with a civil war. They have evoked all the bad elements of society in Ireland, and.called them to their aid. They have armed brute ignorance against knowledge—superstition against intelligence— priestly fraud against Christian truth—Popery against Protestantism, and have raised a storm which they are too weak to control, and which mightier spirits than the pigmy politicians of the Melbourne Cabinet must be called upon to allay. That constitutional Con servatism will eventually triumph, _and that the Pro testant religion will come stronger than ever out of a conflict so wantonly provoked by a destructive faction, cannot admit of a doubt ; but, in the mean time, much evil will be suffered—much real improvement pre vented ; nor will it be any great consolation to the lovers of their country to know that the Whig authors of the sufferings and crimes of this national and reli gious struggle will not be allowed to escape into oblivion from the ignominious celebrity of their mis deeds.—Morning Herald. The public journals which support the Queen's present .Ministers devote themselves almost unani mously to the most outrageous slanders on the Minis ters of that Church of which the Queen is the head, and to which she has upon the most solemn occasions declared her attachment. This is not the least hate ful among the anomalies which arise out of a system of Government like the present—a system in which the ostensible servants of the Crown have leagued them selves with the enemies of the institutions that the Crown is bound to support—a system which entrusts democracy with the defence of monarchy, and puts the guardianship of our religious Establishment in the hands of those who are slaves to an infidel confederacy. This wretched system, which would almost seem to have been devised by the enemy of mankind for the promotion of every sort of wickedness and baseness, is evidently reeling towards its fall, and they whose hopes were founded upon its success are full of fury against the men who have been mainly instrumental in bringing it to its present condition. No doubt—and to their honour and their praise be it ever mentioned—no doubt the clergy of the Esta blished Church have been greatly instrumental in causing the minds of rational and thoughtful men in this kingdom to regard with due abhorrence the political machinations of those foes of virtue and of piety—of the happiness of mankind, both here and hereafter —the men of that party which falsely calls itself " Liberal." On this account they are exposed to the malignant attacks of the persons who support the Queen's present Ministers : but let them remember, for their comfort, that such attacks are the sure evidence of the good they have done. They are the reproaches of the wolves against the faithful shepherd—the denunciations of thieves against the vigilant watchman—the murmurs of the cowardly deserters .against the commander who has detected their perfidy, and exposed them to their more honest companions. It is, however, not in the least true that the Established Clergy have mingled in the strife of party politics. That mode of assisting a political party they leave to the ecclesiastical memberi of that " Church without a religion" which usurps absolute political authority in Ireland. These mock ecclesiastics, who rush through the country at a general election, more like incarnate fiends than the Ministers of peace—who bear in their hands not the Bible, but a whip, to scourge reluctant voters to the poll—whose mouths are full of cursing, and under whose tongue are vanity and lies—they receive the praises of the advocate of the Queen's present Mi nisters. They are commended as the diligent and praiseworthy promoters of political good ; and here indeed it must be allowed there is no inconsistency, for such efforts as theirs are very meet service for that party in England with which they are allied. " Evil be thou my good" seems to be the motto of each active individual of that party, and eagerly do they work for the abolition in men's hearts of every principle whose fruit is a dignified and tranquil mind. To make man what Lord Bacon so forcibly calls " a busy, mischievous, wretched thing—no better than a kind of vermin"—seems to be the object of their poli tical labours, and no doubt it is so ; for when men are in this state of impotent self-adoring vanity they are the fittest instruments of tyrants, and the least likely to make a dignified resistance to the presumptuous en croachments of a merely human authority. Whatever other errors we may make in our political speculations, of this one thing we feel most confident, that the people who in these days call themselves " Liberals'' are not only in fact, but in intention (at all events the leaders of them), conspirators against the liberties of mankind. " License they mean when they ery liberty, For who loves that must first be wise and good." But how have the Clergy of the Establishment been instrumental in that great work of virtuous patriotism, the defeat of the present Administration in the general election ? Why, simply by the inculcation of good principles, and by the earnest direction of the minds of honest men to testify against the moral guiltiness in volved in the statesmanship of the present Ministers. What do the " Liberals" suppose should have made the Clergy of the Establishment, high and low, rich and poor, refined or simple—what should have made them so generally hostile to the Government ? It is not the interest of any Clergyman to be opposed to the chief dispensers of Church patronage, and the sole dispensers of its highest dignities. It is not the habit of Clergymen to oppose themselves to the existing administration of political affairs, or to the party which supports Administration. Why then is it that the rural districts which most indicate the effects of clerical guidance are so generally opposed to the present Government—why have they beaten the Government in this election ? Why does it appear almost universally, from the val leys of Devonshire and Cornwall to the hill-sides of Caithness, that a mighty reaction has taken place in the minds of the electors, and that the very districts which sent Members to support the Reform Bill now range themselves in determined opposition to a Go vernment which pretends to be a continuation of the " Reform Government?" The religious and moral instruction which these electors receive resolves the question. When the " Liberal" party shall have succeeded in doing what has been done in Ireland— when the minds of the electors are brutally enslaved by bigotry and superstition, so that no independent tribunal to decide between right and wrong exists in each individual's breast—then such a Govern- merit as the present may succeed in obtaining British support, as it does Irish support ; but not until then. It is ridiculous to suppose that the distinction between 'Whig and Tory—between Ra dical and Conservative—is that which affects the people, who .take their instruction from the Clergy. They go upon higher grounds. They are shocked at the monstrous infidelity of the present Ministers to their oaths of office and to their former professions, in the alliance which they have made with Mr. O'Con nell, and in their desertion of Protestant principles, in order to further the ends of that alliance. Look at the proof. When Sir Robert Peel dissolved the Par liament, Lord John Russell was elected for Devonshire without opposition. Within three months he went back again to ask for a renewal of the confidence of the electors; but within that fatal three months the league with Mr. O'Connell was made, and its condi tion extorted. Lord John Russell had debased him self to be an O'Connell slave, and how did he fare in Devonshire then? A Conservative a comi• try gentleman, of whom the London public had never heard bgfore.._--beat him out of Devonshire, by a majority of between s 4 ana seven hundred, and his Lordship has taken good ears not to show hi® face there since. The Parsons, it was said, did this—yes, but why did they not do it before ? Simply hepays,c the Parson power—the power of religious and virtuous prnoopips pypr vice and profliga c y, w h e ther political or personal , did Pgt I)PF upon Lord John Russell until then. He cast himself upon &lie s , p4E.ps which the Clergy have set up in the way of the wicked', and he was wounded as he deserved to be. The same thing it is which still operates. Still it happens that the principles which the Clergy teach, and which are most effective among country people, tend to the over throw of such as acknowledge fellowship with the O'Connellized Administration. This will continue, and its effects become more and more marked, unless the Government changes in its character. If Minis ters wish to win back the favour of the Counties, there is but one way—they must themselves come back to the conduct of honest men.—Morning Post. At the Pottery Races on Tuesday a curious scene presented itself, in consequence of a set of fanatical people, calling themselves the Hanky Christian Society, holding a camp meeting adjoining the raceF, and going in bodies round the course, consigning to damnation all those who joined in those " ungodly sports." In the evening these people formed themselves into a long procession, and went in front of the play-booths and shows, where they sang hymns, and prevented the people from going into the places. The authorities were called upon, and insisted on their leaving the spot, as they were determined to protect those who had paid for the right they possessed. The religionists then took up their station across the avenues leading to the booths, and again commenced singing, when the work ing people and rabble, finding they were determined to interrupt their amusements, commenced a regular attack, which the others sustained for upwards of two hours. Dur ing the affray they continued to sign psalms, and (lid not retire until many a head had been disfigured. During the races Alderman Copeland had his pocket picked to a large amount.—Stafford Examiner. The town of Stourbridge has been thrown into a state of great excitement during the past week by the per petration of a murder of a somewhat mysterious character, on the person of Mr. John Orchard, landlord of the Wool staplers' Arms, in that town. It appears that on the night of Thursday in last week the deceased was in his own house in a state of intoxication, when a quarrel ensued. His wife stated that she found him, about ten o'clock, lying across a tub in the yard, but did not snake it known until between n and 12. Several persons were drinking in the kitchen at the time the murder is supposed to have been committed, as about a quarter past ten the eldest daughter of deceased entered the kitchen, and desired the company to make haste and drink their ale and withdraw, as her fa ther was very ill in the yard, and they wanted to put him to bed, which they could not do without bringing the body through the kitchen. The request being again re peated by the same daughter, the company departed. About an hour after this had ,taken place Mr. Hillmann, the surgeon, was called in. The deceased was quite dead, and had been apparently so for some time. A wound was discovered on the breast of the deceased. The surgeon asked whether he carried a knife. The wife replied no, but perhaps it might have been inflicted by a nail sticking out of one of the tubs which he stumbled over. The sur geon said it could not have been inflicted by a nail, and there was no evidence to show how it had been inflicted. An inquest has been held, and a verdict of" Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown" returned. A direct communication is about to be opened be tween Cologne, the West Indies, and North America. The first of four vessels, constructed at Ruhrort for this service, was expected at Cologne on Sunday last. The vessel is to sail first for London, where she will be sheathed with copper. Extract of a letter from Malta, of the 25th ult.:— " We consider the cholera as being now on the decline, but can scarcely expect to be quite free from it before the equi nox. The aged and indigent have been as usual the greatest sufferers ; few people of note have fallen victims hitherto to the disease. There have been in all, since the 9th of June, 6526 cases, 2,917 deaths, and 1,945 recoveries." THE , GIN PALACE.—lnstead of the compact and comfortable look of the old ale house, the open windows exhibiting the labouring part of the community carousing within at noon, or emitting the joyous chorus of an even ing song, there is now a tasteless display of extravagant architecture over the whole exterior ; the doors are studded with brass, and the windows composed of splendid plates in ormolu frames, while the exterior resembles a Grecian temple of former days. You see an arched lighted roof, s upported on fluted Corinthian columns, classic designs thickly sculptured on the walls, chandeliers of crystal and lamps of bronze suspended by richly-gilt chains, and stately mirrors on all sides reflecting the mock grandeur of the scene ; and all this costly show is wrung from the hard earned wares of the poor. It dazzles th e i mag i na tion from without, while . the poisonous draught operates on the brain within, so, in time, like the fanatics before the car of Jug gernaut, they become the victims of the idol they have con tributed to set up.—London as it Is. A misfortune occurred at Carlton on Saturday evening last, which ended in the loss of the life of a little girl. A fellow in liquor was play ing antics is one of the streets of the village, and a numb er of children were look• ing and laughing at him ; amongst these was Elizabeth Ellis, a girl six years old, who, on seeing the man come towards her, started and ran away. She happened to have a stone in her mouth at the time, which, while she was running away, she unfortunately swallowed ; the stone ap parently remained in her throat, and caused great pain, medical assistance was obtained from Nottingham, when the windpipe was cut open, for the purpose of extracting the stone. This, however, could not be effected, as the stone had buried itself in the lungs. The child lingered till Wednesday morning, when it died about two o'clock. On a post mortem examination the stone was found in the lungs. TWO-PENNY AND THREE-PENNY POSTS.—It is not generally known that this important benefit to the com fort and convenience of the inhabitants of London and the environs, and also of the revenue (believed to be between 2,0001. and 3,0001. per annum), was the invention and pro perty of a private merchant, a Mr. Docwra, who, about the year 1680, seeing the deficiencies in this respect of the ge neral post, established an office for the conveyance of letters to all parts of London and the environs for ten miles (more or less) around, at one penny each, purchasing a great num ber of horses, and engaging steady men, who it may be sup posed, were in those times armed. It almost instantly ob tained universal approval and acceptance. The Govern ment soon cast an anxious eye on this powerful novelty, and finally took it into their own hands. What license or patent he had is not fully known ; but it is understood he had some, besides a moral right ; but he imprudently made no demand for compensation. The public expected that he would have been appointed superintendent of the new institution, with some benefit to his descendants, but no reward or compen sation was afforded ; on the contrary, his family suffered injury. Thus, as in the case of Sir Hugh Myddelton, and in one of little less benefit, permanent public good was effected by private expense and loss. It is a singular fact, that to another of the same family London is indebted for one of its principal ancient relics, viz., St. John's Gate, built by Sir Thomas Docwra, the last Grand Prior of Malta in England, who sat as an earl in the House of Peers. His family arms, derived from Palestine, are carved on the outside, and painted on the roof. This was a noble and very generous family originally in the North, afterwards in Herts (vide Chauncey), and in Ireland, where they ob tained lands and a peerage for distinguished services, 1621. They were allied to many noble families, and, through that of the first St. John of Bletso, to the royal stock. Of their own name, between 1,100 and 1,650, they reckoned about twenty knights, English and foreign. A grand memorial is seen in Lille) , church, Herts, and two houses, styled Docwra Hall, remain at Kendal and Penrith. 'On Friday morning a novel but interesting sight took place at the Serpentine River, Hyde Park. Agree ably to notices which had been previously issued, a great number of persons assembled to witness a swimming match. Eight or ten persons entered the lists as candidates ; they plunged in at twenty minutes past seven o'clock, and exe cuted their task with extraordinary rapidity. One young man caused no inconsiderable degree of amusement. He performed the task with one hand, and in the other held a flute on which he played several tunes. The person who came in first was rewarded with a guinea ; the three next with a silver medal each. On Thursday a fine young man, the son of Mr. Pepler, of Bromham, was accidentally killed as he was re turning from the election. Mr. Pepler, sen., the father, at tended the inquest on Friday, returned home, and was sitting in his chair relating to his neighbour the manner in which his unfortunate child had died, when he suddenly s t o pped his relation : on asking several times what was the matter, and receiving no answer, they found that he had died in his chair. A post ',torten: examination was held, and it was found that he had died of apoplexy.—Devizes Gazette. You are a great deal better, are you not, my dear ?" said the doctor to Oliver Twist. " Yes, thank you, Sir," re plied Oliver. " Yes, I know you are," said the gentle. man ; " You are hungry, too, arn't you ?" " No, Sir," answered Oliver. " Hem," said the gentleman. " No, I k no w you're not. He is not hungry, Mrs. Bedwin," said the gentleman, looking very wise. The old l a dy ma d e a res pectful inclination of the head, which seemed to say that she thought the doctor was a very clever man. The doctor appeared very much of the same opinion himself. 0 you feel sleepy, don't you, my dear ?" said the doctor. N o , sir," replied Oliver, "No said the doctor, with a very shrewd and satisfied look. You're not sleepy f nor thirsty, are you ?" " Yes, Sir, rather thirsty," answered Oliver. "Just as I expected, Mrs. Bedwin," said the doe tar, leo very natural that he should ba thirsty perfectly natural, You may give him a little tea, ma'm, and some dry toast without any butter, Don't keep him too warm, ma'am ; but be careful that you don't let him be too cold ; will you have the goodness?" The old lady dropped a curtsey ; and the doctor, after tasting the cool stuff, and epr,qp,N; apnrnyal thereof, hurried boots creaking, in a very' important' and wealthy manner as went down stairs.-0/iver CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. TRIAL OF THE SPANISH DWARF, DON SANTIAGO DE Los SANTOS.— Yesterday, this strange person, who is only twenty•five inches high, surrendered to take his trial upon a charge of having committed an assault upon Ann Boston, his servant. The prisoner was carried into the dock enve loped in a large cloak. He was placed upon the floor, but he could not be seen even by the Learned Judge. The RECORDER directed the Don to be placed on the ledge of the dock. This was done, and the appearance of the little man excited considerable merriment. His head is extremely large, and his mouth wide, with thick protuberant lips. The cheek and jawbones were exceedingly prominent —the forehead flat and receding very much. The chest, arms, hands, and feet were those of a child of five or six years of uge. His eyes were quick and intelligent. He was attired out wardly in a pink linen tunic, or a sort of child's frock, with full white trowsers and black velvet shoes. His age was stated to be forty. An interpreter was sworn, and explained to the prisoner the nature of the indictment, to which he pleaded •' Not guilty." The RECORDER then desired the interpreter to ask the prisoner if he would be tried by a jury composed equally of Englishmen and foreigners. Mr. CLARKSON, the prisoner's Counsel, advised that the prisoner should consent to be tried by a Jury of Englishmen. A female here exclaimed—" All English - , to be sure." - - RECORDER—Let that young woman stand up ; she ap pears to be the best interpreter. The young woman in question was here placed in the wit ness-box, and she declared herself to be the wife of the pri soner, and un English woman. She was a plain-looking person, considerably under size, and seemed well suitod to be the partner of the " Don." She, in a tone half persua sive and half commanding, advised the prisoner to be tried by a Jury of Englishmen. The " Don" assented, and the trial proceeded. The prosecntrix, a little girl, nearly 15 years of age, had lived servant with the prisoner and his wife, who resided in Holborn, four doors from Museum-street, where the pri soner exhibited himself as a dwarf to the admiring multi tude who delight in this species of entertainment. The prosecutrix slept in a bed on the floor of the room in which the prisoner and his wife reposed, and on the night of the 4th of July she was awoke by the conduct of the prisoner, whom she felt creeping into her bed. She made a noise, and the prisoner then returned to his own bed, where his wife was lying asleep at the time. The next day the pro. secutrix told her father of the circumstance, and he had the prisoner taken into custody. The prisoner admitted that he had acted in the way described, but said that he had the permission of the girl in the matter. The father denied that he had endeavoured to make money by the affair. Mr. CLARKSON addressed the Jury for the prisoner, and the Jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict of Guilty of the common assault, but recommended the pri soner to the mercy of the Court. The RECORDER said that the Court was disinclined to send the prisoner to prison under the circumstances, and thought that the ends of justice would be obtained by a fine being imposed upon him. The Learned Gentleman then, tkrough the medium of an interpreter, warned the prisoner that if he were again guilty of "such pranks," he would be sent to prison for six months. The judgment of the Court was that he pay a fine of 51. to the Queen. The prisoner bowed his head when the sentence was pro nounced, and when told that he was not to " repeat such pranks," he shook his head significantly, intimating that the admonition of the Court would not be thrown away on him. The prisoner was then carried from the dock by a turn key, to his wife, who instantly paid the 51., and then cor dially took her " Lord and master" by the arm, and con veyed him in a coach to her domicile in Holborn, declaring that " she would make more than 51. by him before that time the following day." No other case of the slightest consideration took place. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. A boy, about 12 years old, named Michael Ilfenahan, and a girl of nearly the same age, named Mary M'Alister, were brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with having stolen a silver fork. His Lordship committed the prisoners to Bridewell. The next case was that of a woman aged 77, who was charged with having picked the pocket of a gentleman of a handkerchief. Every one in the justice•room was astonished at the accusation. The complainant stopped for a moment to look at a picture-shop, and missed his handkerchief. As the old woman was the next person to him he looked beyond her for the thief, but caught a glimpse of his handkerchief in her hand. Gooch (the Compter turnkey) said that the old woman was one of the most inveterate pickpockets in London. He knew her these eighteen years, and he believed she bad been most of that time in prison. The police said that if she was discharged she would pick a pocket in her way out of the Justice-room, and nobody suspected her she looked so solemn and steady. The LOltD MAYOR (to the prisoner)—Why do you call yourself Sarah Jones when we know it is Moll Forrester ? Prisoner—lt's all the same what name I take to prison. The Loan MAYOR—WiII you never drop this sort of life ? Prisoner—lt's a natural propensity I have, my Lord. I can't help it. . The LORD MAYOR—You seem to me to be upon the brink of eternity. Prisoner—That's the way with every one of us. The LORD MAYOR—You have been in several of the prisons. ..... . . _ . . .. .. Gooch—She has been in every prison within ten miles of London. I never had such a troublesome old pickpocket, my Lord. _ The LORD MAYOR—Which of the prisons do you like best? Prisoner—l've no particular liking for any. I'll leave the choice to your Lordship. The Loan MAYOR—Why don't you go to the work house ? Prisoner—Don't send me there now. Send me to prison, good luck to you. The complainant—l can't swear to the handkerchief that was found upon her. It had no mark upon it. Prisoner—To be sure you can't, and you wouldn't do such a thing as swear to any handkerchief that's mine.— (A laugh.) You're too good a gentleman to say anything else. The Loan MAYOR—Now you have another chance. Will you leave this sort of life ?—Prisoner—Now, believe me, I will. • I'll never rob no more. The Loan MAYOR—Read your Bible—the 51st Psalm, and the third chapter of Luke. upon my conscienc e , if you g i ve me a Bible.'visoner—l will, The LORD MAYOR—I am afraid you would send it to the pawnbrowker's. Prisoner—No, I won't spout it,'selp me Goa. The LORD MAYOR—WeII, you bhll I have one, if I hear a good account of you in another week. Prisoner — l'm afraid I shall be y bad ug lin if I'm sir long without a Bible. Do let me have one, good luck to you.—(A. laugh.) BO W-STREET. William Welch and Thomas Connorwere brou;ht up by policemen Pocock, who stated that on Saturday night, about eleven o'clock, he observed Connor attempt to pick the pocket of a gentleman in Wychstrcet. The other pri soner was in his company at the time. Witness followed them to Temple-bar, and after a scuffle succeeded in taking them into custody. Sir F. Rou committed the prisoners for three months. HATTON-GARDEN. Yesterday Ursula Dunetare, a well-looking girl, nineteen years of age, was placed at the bar, charged by Mr. Lloyd, cornehandler, of No. 66, Gray's Inn-lane. The prosecutor stated that the prisoner was his servant, and she had been so three months. Yesterday morning, about two o'clock, witness and his family were awoke out of their sleep by a police constable, who informed him that his doors were open, and on searching the house, the prisoner was missing. The witness remained up, and in the course of the morning the prisoner returned to the house, and was taken into custody. Radley, 165 G Division, had frequently seen the prisoner walking about the streets at three and four o'clock in the morning. • Mr. LAING asked the prosecutor whether he had missed any property ? Mr. Lloyd had not. The prisoner was an industrious servant, and he had received her into his service on the strongest recommendation from the Rev. Mr. Tep ton, and other respectable individuals. He had taken her from the Penitentiary, Millbank, where she had been a prisoner. Mr. LAING inquired what offence the prisoner had been convicted of? Mr. Lloyd said that she was convicted •, )( 1 sentenced to death for robbing a church in Northampton shire, bother sentence was commuted, and she was sent to the Penitentiary, where her exemplary conduct attraetttd attention. He had given her the greatest encouragement, and took her out with his family on the Sunday afternoon. The prisoner cried, but said nothing its her defenc e . Mr ' LAING' said it Wai evident that the prisoner pre ferred a life of dissipation to one of industry ; and told the prosecutor that he ought not for his own safety to retain her anlongeri certainly in c h e iss ainly crvice. Mr. Lloyd should hot ; and the prisoner was discharged. MARY 1,,k,9 SEDUCTION AN N*. D iMUV*IA IClDE.—Yesterday, a ' , faun w9nAn 0,4 interesting appearance, who gave her flame Martha Fitzge i ald, and stated that she resided At No. 21, Charles-street, Lissou-grove, was brought before Messrs. Rawlinson and Theselton, charged with haring, under the following distressing circumstances, attempted to commit suicide. Sergeant Tate, 1 1 D, on the previous night, as he was going his rounds, was called into the above-named house by the landlady, who told him that a female below stairs was endeavouring to strangle herself. He went in, and on entering the apartment discovered lying on the floor the prisoner foaming at the mouth and black in the face ; her eyes seemed ready to start from their sockets, and she was polling with all her might the ends of a silk handkerchief which she had tied round her throat. Being unable to un tie it, he cut it in two with his penknife, and after the lapse of a considerable period, the prisoner in some measure re covered. She was at length, for security's sake, taken to the station-house, when she stated that she had been se duced and was enceinte by a young man in the neighbour hood, who a few weeks ago had promised faithfully to marry her, but had subsequently told her that she must shift for herself. She had been for a long period out of a situation, and as she had no friends to whom she could ap ply for support, she had come to the determination of put ting an end to herself rather than endure the frowns and scorn of the world any longer. Mr. RAWLINSON, after pointing out to her in a very feeling and forcible manner the heinousness of suicide, dis charged her on obtaining from her a promise that she would not repeat the attempt. The celebrated Joseph Parkins, ex-sheriff of Lon don, who was famous in the Rowland Stephenson affair, and who has for the last four years been confined in tho city prison, New York, in consequence of his irascible tera nerament, is suffered to go at large, if he wishes to do so. Like the man in the Bastile, however, he knows not where to go, and therefore still resides in the gaol. He is a man of large fortune.—Aniericart Paper. On Saturday it was very generally reported in Lon don that Mr. Stirling, the Coroner for the western district, had been found dead in his bed tl at morning, at his resi dence in Battersea. Many were the parties who cons's quently visited the venerable gentleman's residence, and also the cffice in Chancery-lane. The rumour was soon put an end to by the information that Mr. Stirling bad that morning left his house in his usual health, to attend to his professional duties. Among the most anxious inquirers into, the truth of the report were several gentlemen, who, it is understood, would have no objection to be his suceessor,..... Observir. Mary Cooney, for the revolting murder of Mrs. Anne Anderson, was executed at Gallows Green on Mon. day last, pursuant to sentence. So vast an assemblage of women was never seen collected upon any public occasion in Limerick, and they outnumbered the other sex at least ten to one. The condemned culprit was taken in a covered cab to the place of execution, which saved her from the in quisitive stare and distracting comments of vulgar curiosity. Before leaving the city gaol she freely acknowledged, in the presence of the Rev. Mr. Brahan and the Governor, her guilt, and the justice of her sentence, avowing the most perfect sorrow and penitence. A strong guard of th e Queen's Bays, 25th regiment, and city police, formed the escort, and the streets were crowded while the procession passed. The executioner followed in a car, wearing a straw hat and large mask, which effectually concealed his fea tures. 'So deeply sensible of her crime was the wretched woman, that she kissed the rope which encircled her neck, and humbly implored for me rc y. Sh e spo k e not a word at the place of execution, and died quietly. The military returned to the prison with the body in a coffin for inter ment within its walls. This has been the first executiou in the city of Limerick for the last'seventeen years.— Limerick Chronicle. On Friday last the wife of k very poor man, named John Jackson, residing in a cellar in Market -street, Middle ton, was brought to bed of three very fine children, two girls and one boy. The same day about a dozen of the Egerton party, who had been to vote at Rochdale, and who were at the Old Boar's Head Inn, Middleton, having heard of the above, commenced a subscription, and in a few minutes upwards of 1/. 10s. 6d. was collected and for warded to the poor family.—Stockport Advertiser. We regret exceedingly to learn, that the renters or tenants of St. Ann's Yards, Holyrood, have thought it proper to interfere with the long-enjoyed privilege of the workmen and other inhabitants of this city, of playing at games in this park ; and that, for this purpose, they have applied for and obtained an interdict from the Bailie of the Abbey of Holyrood, " prohibiting and discharging all per sons whomsoever, from playing at cricket, quoits, foin or hand ball, or any other game whatever, in said park."-- Scotsman. Great excitement has for the last few days taken place in Taunton, in consequence of Robert Bill, a tailor, having stated that he was the person who murdered Eliza beth Trump, in 1823, on Buckland-hill ; he also impli cated two other persons, who were taken into custody. The murdered girl was very beautiful, and the dreadful atrocity which accompanied the murder excited indignation and horror at the time the foul deed was committed. A. farm servant was taken up nine or ten years ago on suspi cion of this murder, but the grand jury threw out the bill against him. On Monday, Hill and the men he accuied as his accomplices were brought before the magistrates at Taunton, when he denied all knowledge of the transaction. The two men were discharged, but Hill was remanded. The prisoner, who has long borne a bad character as all idle drunken fellow, presented the most haggard and care worn countenance. Since lie has been in custody he has refused to eat his food with a knife, and trembles on ono being shown to him. He told the persons who gave infor mation of his supposed confession that he had committed the murder with a dinner-knife.—Tauntou Courier. The corn fields are looking remarkably well, and give every reason to hope fo r an a b undant crop. Neartf all the hay in this neighbourho o d is housed; the weather during the last week has n o t b een very propitious, but We believe very little har m h as b een done, and the bay is . generally good conditi on . I t was feared the late heavy falls of rain might have had the effect of beating down the crops of grain, but we believe they have caused very little damage.—Stockpoi /Advertiser. All business m Alexandria is at a stand, and public confidence annihilated. Such is the scarcity of good paper that large remittances in specie have been lately made is Leghorn and Marseilles. The Pacha will not sell his lave stock of cotton, consisting of 90,000 bales, for less than 10 i ,L, dollars, while nobody thinks of offering him more th an eight d o ll ars . Th ere h as not b een a transaction for a month past, and every other branch of trade is equally dull.--- Malta Gazette of July 26. PLATED CORNER DISHES. with Strong Silver Edges and Handles.—A. Set of Four Plated Corner Dishes and Covers are offered, complete, for Eight Guinea. era set with richly- ornamented Edges, Handles, &C., for Te■ neas. The Handles take off the Covers • the set thus ferns Ei&lt Dishes when required. T. COX SAVORY'S, Working Goads' mith, Silversmith, and Watchmaker, 47, Cornhill, London. N.B. A variety of Secondhand Watches may be selected fo r " all price Two Guineas each. Warranted. ITH S. On the Bth i ns t ., t h e lady B of James Lyon, Esq., of Line Beach' Sussex, of a d aug h ter, which only survived two days. On the 12th inst., at Merton, Surrey, the lady of James HencY Mandeville, Esq., of a son. At Goldsbrough Hall, YoE:shire, the Lady Louisa Laseelles, of a daughter. On the 9th inst., at Brighton, the ley of Major Cla:k, 54th Regiment, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 10th inst., at Boulogne-sur-Mer, the Rev, Burges bert, M. A., of Fritwell, Northamptonshire, to Mary, eldest dauou ter of Sir A. Ramsay, Bart., of Balmain. y u O n n g s h t e so l2 n t h of i ns the t , H a o t n . S t c .. G T e o o l r i e g n eLs , c ti ll er t o o v e t r n an- s i q l u i a a , r e e 1 , d H es e t n d r a y u , the ter of Sir G. Sinclair, Bart., M. P. On the 9th inst., at Eltham, tent, Frederick Constant Badint of Orleans. France, to Josephine, slaughter of John Kennedy, Esq.' of Eltbam, formerly of Hammersmith. On the 9th inst., at Risley, Derbyshire; the Rev. Richard 'Me i !' for Hope, of Duffield Bank, Derby s hi re , to A nne Christiana, clang"' ter of the Rev. J. H. Hall, of Itisley Hall, in the same county. On the 12th inst., at Allhallows, Bread-street, Robert 'Vre 4 Hyde, Esq., third son of the late It. Hyde, Esq., of her 111ajestl' * Customs, to Mrs. E. East, of Abbey-hill House, Bexley, Rent. On the 10th inst., at Olveston, Gloucestershire, the Rev.' ° }lll Kynaston Charleton, Vicar of Elberton, to Georgians Henrietta' second daughter of George Gordon, Esq., of Oak Leaze, Tockirr ton, in the same county. g s t d . 7 l - i s r t r . t . On the 15th inst., aged B,oster, second ,1, ----- on of mr .---- . p. Jams 1 1 2 7a th rri i i n i Bu o tl n er t , h o e f enwell, aged 56. Thos. Keys, of Great Bath-street, Cler:- On the Ilth inst., Edwin Gordon,flebde n youngest son of G . Gray, of Kin.-- ~ street, aged 4. On the 10th inst., aged 18, William John, the eldest son of 11 '• Hopkins, Esq., of St. Peter's College, Cambridge. On the 11th inst., at Epsom, Isabella, third and only remainil daughto e o f John Calenove, Esq., and rand-daught e r of Jain' Wow), g w), Esq., o f th a t place, aged 13. Ou the 10th i nst., at Apollo -buildings, Walworth, Sarah, tb. wife of Moults Clark, Esq., aged 76. essaP On the 10th inst., Lucy .Margaret, third daughter of Mr. II Uf liantptead, aged 6. of 31 ' On the 12th in s t., i n E a t on - p l ace, R osa, i n f ant d aug hter T. Smith, Esq. ll°l 3' On the 22d ult., at St oc kh o l m , Eli za b e th Mary, M wife of the . _ we t J. a Bligh, her Majesty's Env o y Extraordinary and i n Plenipotentiary at that Court. On the 14th inst., in Portm an - square , th e E ar l o f Cardigan' !at , On the 12th inst., at Warwick, James Marjoribanks, Esq•' of the Bengal C u ivil Service. pall' On the 31st lt. at Kingstow n , near D u bli n , Dominick Esq., formetky c 'es Chie (fit the Wit ult., at Barn s t a pl e , age d 10, F re d er i c k Ch!_ a rles lso es, ~,ter, youngest son o f Si r A. Chi c h ester , Bart., of Y u Devon. W C. ter' On the Bth inlet.,, Charlotte Frances, wife of the Rev. Be and eldest daughter of L. Holland, Esq., of L an gl e y Farm, ' 3 I.lnt, siva 2,4. London : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG , of at% 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 119. Strand. ;n the c° of Aliddlesex.—Tuesday, August 15, 1#37.