The Sun. — London, England, 1837-09-07 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The hish people have been sometimes reproached by their - calumniators for the preference they are said to give at elections to candidates of an inferior class and station in society. The choice they have recently made of representatives is not liable, even in the opi nion of their most reckless traducers, to such an ob jection ; but. on the contrary, they are charged with a conspiracy to impose upon the British public by going out of their way for Members of high birth and qua lifications. Until they agree to bestow their confidence upon Orang,!men—and in that case they need not fear censure for descending too low in the scale of social respectability—it will not be easy for them to select representatives of a degree that would exactly please these fastidious critics. But once let the votes of the I\lembers for Ireland be agreeable to the Tory party, and their mere personnel will break no squares. Though the whole hundred were composed of men as low in rank as Mr. Emerson Tennent, and as equivocal in other and more material respects, it would excite no apprehension nor provoke any depreciating observa tions. But it is neither just nor true to allege that the predilections of the Irish electors are in favour of plebian candidates. If anything they are too partial to the pretensions of birth and station, even to - the disregard of distinguished abilities and proved integrity. And it is wonderful how they retain that prejudice in the face of numerous and glaring breaches of faith on the part of persons in whose derivative ho nout they had relied. There is Lord Donoughmore, for example, who professed the most liberal opinions, and gave the. most unflinching votes on the popular side. When he was Member for Tipperary he pro posed the following resolution in praise of the man whose support. he now affects to consider a scandal and reproach to any, Government which accepts it : " Proposed by John Hely Hutchinson, Esq., M.P., se conded by Thomas Wyse, Esq., M.P. " Resolved, That Dsniel O'Connell, Esq., M.P., pos sesses our entire confidence and esteem,aad that we hereby tender him our warmest acknowledgments for his able sup port of the great question of Reform, and for his unceasing exertions for the welfare and happiness of his native land." Mr. Hutchinson continued to maintain these sentiments while he was Mr. Hutchinson and the favour of. the people was necessary tdo keep him in Parlia ment. But as soon as he became a Lord and Legis lator by descent, and immediately after a Whig Go vernment had Made him Lieutenant of the County he had represented, he hauled down his sham colours of Reform and showed the Orange flag. We turn next to his Noble Friend and Compeer, the Earl of Glen gall, one of the earliest champions of constitutional agitation in Tipperary. He obtained the representa tion of that county many years ago by bidding higher for the support of the democratic party than any Lord or Commoner had ever dared to bid before. He wore the mask, indeed, somewhat longer than the deliverer of Lavalette ; but nobody was surprised at his defec tion when it came ; for even at the zenith of his pa triotism the world never gave him credit for sincerity or political integrity. Another Peer who has lately taken a conspicuous part against the people is the Lord Downes. His political career has been obscure ; but, in a small way, no person has afforded a more striking example of the danger of putting confidence in great men than this Lord. His conduct with re spect to the Catholic question out-Dawsoned Dawson; for he changed twice upon it, and each time in obe dience to the word of command. Whilst, as Sir Ulys ses Burgh, he sat for Carlow county, he always voted for emancipation. This lasted as long as he required the support of an Irish constituency. But having be come an Irish Peer and the representative of an English nomination borough, he voted directly against the mea sure and in contradiction to his Irish vote of the pre ceding session. He had served under the Duke of Wellington in the field, and now followed his fortunes and his orders with the same implicit alacrity in the Senate. While the Duke opposed emancipation, Lord Dowries opposed it, and when the Duke judged it pru dent to surrender, Lord Dowries was one of the glo rious majority that carried the question. Jim Crow could hardly wheel about more nimbly. His Lord ship is now a representative Peer, and should the Duke be " mad " enough to seize the helm once more, and decree the repeal of the Emancipation Act, as his re spectable friend, Mr. Oastler, has intimated, without doubt the Noble Lord would be found as pliable as before. Why should we name the Lords Ossory and Oxmantown, who, without being tried, were trusted out of confidence in their high station, and who were untrue to the professions they had made, and the party which relied on them ? These and many other in stances prove that the weak point of the Irish people is too great a deference to titles and dignities, and too implicit a reliance on professions which proceed from such 'quarters. —Morning Chronicle. Slight as is the impression which the essays of the Ministerial journalists are likely to make upon the public mind, it probably may not yet be quite forgot ten that during the last and the present week they have been employing themselves in soliciting public atten tion to a pamphlet, entitled " Domestic Prospects of the Country under the New Parliament," and an nounced and puffed by them as being official. It was, without exception, the most barefaced piece of pure Whiggery ever attempted. We say of pure Whiggery, because the essence and characteristic of the really pure Whig principle is, that everything is unimportant —peace or war, economy or extravagance, the Con stitution or Republic, Protestantism or Popery, reli gion or infidelity, all is immaterial, provided the Whig party but remain in office. That is the one thing needful. Their acts had ever proved their steady consistent attachment to this theory ; and words were hardly wanting to confirm that proof. But when ttae pamphlet called " Domestic Prospects" came forth to say, in direct terms ; What oft was thoaght, butoe'er so well express'd," it found an instant echo in the breast of every Whig. It inculcated, in round, s:nooth paragraphs, the great maxims, that Ireland, with her seven past centuries of wrongs, might be left without a single new enact ment for a century to come, provided she could " but maintain there such a Viceroy as Lord Mulgrave, such a Chief Secretary as Lord Morpeth, such an Attorney-General as Woulfe :"—that as to the demands of the English Radicals, their Church rates, and their ballot, and their extension of suffrage, and their other topics of agitation—all these are " se condary to the great object of maintaining Lord Mel bourne's Cabinet free from every species of embarrass ment." The reader who has not seen the pamphlet may imagine that we are rhodomontadin , , but we as- • sure him that we are quite serious , and we have no doubt the pamphleteer is so to. We have stuck to tile dull truth, and quoted the words literatim as they are. The practical inference from these en lightened opinions was, of course, that the Minis ters would throw overboard all their projects of re form, and would, by favour of the Radicals, he permitted to escape collision with the Conserva tives. " Don't force them to bring forward appropria tion clauses, and municipal enfranchisements, and church-rate abolition," said die pamphlet, " because, if you do, those nefarious Conservatives will beat them, and then they must either keep their words by going out, or swallow their words to stay in." No matter that you get nothing done by the Whigs ; no matter that from the Conservatives there might be something obtained : still the great point is carried of keeping the Whigs in office, and beyond that what can any reasonable man desire ? Incredible as it may seem, these reasonings have not obtained with the English people an accep tatam at all proportioned to their ingenuity and bold lICSS7` or to the great importance of the object for which they were devised. At first, the public doubted whe ther the I%•riter were in earnest—whether the pamphlet were not the woik of a wag, disposed to raise a bitter joke at the expanse of the official fraternity. But that suspicion was dispelled by the grave assurances of the newspapers in the interest of Government, that the performance proceeded from authority. Upon this declaration a burst of contemptuous indignation broke forth from the public, tempered only in the cases of a few mirth-loving frequenters of the clubs, by a sardonic horse-latieh. The feeler had failed. 'There was no time to I.)e lost by the Ministers, and it was at once resolved to turn round upon the Poor pamphleteer and disclaim him. The Ministerial journalists of yester slay have taken upon themselves this truculent task, nna put him out of the way of embarrassing great men any more. "On further inquiry," says one, "we find TUE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1837. senters may become legally united by going first to a poor-house, and then to a police office, and so on. We do not pretend to recollect what- the precise pro cess is, but we know that a Poor-law functionary and a magistrate can manage the affair, and the delicate and conscientious Dissenter may become legally united to his female without entering a church at all. But arc they content with this? By no means. They want to be " united" accerdio , to the forms of the Act of Parliament in that cAse made r and provided, and yet to havn credit for having been married according to the forms of the Church. This is the only conclusion we can draw from the extreme anger which they manifest at the world being informed of their having been " united 1 ' in conformity with the Act of Gull. IV. If there be in the marriage service of the Church something repugnant to the principles and unpleasant to the- feelings- a - Radical Dissen ters, how happens it that they are averse from it b. ing, made known that they have chosen the Act of Parliament process instead ? What advantage can it be to them to be classed indiscriminately among the group of less scrupulous or less delicate per sons who do not prefer the offices of the Poor-law man, or the registrar, to those of the clergyman of the parish and his clerk ? Is it not very prepos terous that, after having striven for a legislative sanction ~of a new process, because the old religious service squared not with their philosophy," they should now murmur, and rail, and spit forth venom because it is related that they in some cases take ad vantage of this new process ? If we had calculated upon Radical Dissenters being reasonable creatures we should have expected exactly the reverse of all this ill humour. We should have anticipated much thankfulness on their part to all those who should take pains to record their " united" triumphs, in pursuance of the Act of Parliament, r.nd through the assistance of the Poor-law man, and the Magis trate, and the Registrar. It seems hut natural that when any one has striven to accomplish an object, and has succeeded in it, he should be glad that all his neighbours and fellow-men are aware that he had not con:ended for nothing, but was actually in the en joyment of all the advantage of that which he had so long endeavoured to obtain. The Radical Dissenters are not, however, to be judged- by rules which apply to the natural and the reasonable. They are far too " enlightened" to be the one, and far too ill-natured and tyrannical to be the other. Seeing the very great objection which they have to the public being made acquainted with their " unions" under the Act of Par liament it is clear that, for some reason or another, they are ashamed of them. We have so objection to this, for so we think they ought be ; but who could have concluded this from the pertinacity with which they demanded the new law ? There is, as it appears to us, to be but one rational judgment now upon the matter, and that is, that they strove against the old law, and for the new, merely out of a groundless spirit of discontent, and now they find that what they have chosen instead is a nasty revolting thing, of which even they cannot help being ashamed. So much fur Dissenters' reforms. As for the grand " re gistration" by Act of Parliament, whether of births, deaths, or marriages, we believe that it turns out, like most Whig schemes, to be a complete failure. It has enabled Lord John Russell to provide for Lady John Russell's brother at the public expense ; and, for all the rest, it turns out to be sheer nonsense. Such a law was not wanted, and the Ministers, knowing this, and being well aware that they would not be allowed to abrogate the existing law, have produced an Act of Par liament which is, and must be, ineffective, except in so far as it enables the LordJohnitussell to provide for his poor relations. We see handbills put forth from the Re gistrar-General's Office (which, indeed, the Registrar is cautious enough not to sign), soliciting business, much after the fashion of a quack doctor's advertisement, and containing a variety of statements not a whit more true than the statements in such advertisements generally are. There are very few so foolish as to be taken in by these silly placards, although they are posted upon every door of every little Dissenting conventicle in the country. The Registrar-General has in consequence nothing to do—which was perhaps intended ; but there is a Mann in his office, who writes absurd letters to the Clergy, telling them that they are to do so and so, without considering that the Clergy are men who will obey the law, and not the silly mandates, uncour .e Judy conveyed, of the Registrar-General's clerk. We hope that, when Parliament meets, some Member will move for copies of the correspondence between the Registrar-General's office and the parochial Clergy o f England. If that correspondence be produced, the public will see that, in nine cases out of ten,"the Re gistrar's clerk demands that which no Act of Parlia ment gives him any right to demand, and desires to be done that which no Act of Parliament empowers him to desire. As to the registration of deaths, nothing can be more absurdly vague than the language of the Act, and, consequently, nothing can be more absurdly erroneous or defective than the registration will be. Tie Registrar derives his information, or rather hi s misinformation, of the facts which he records from the undertaker, who thinks it his business to pro. vide himself with a Registrar's certificate, or from the Clergyman efficiating at the funeral of the deceased person, when the undertaker has not brought such a certifiate to the churchyard. In neither case is there any pains taken to test the accuracy of the statement given, and it is perfectly obvious that neither the un• dertaker nor the Clergyman can be possessed, except by accident, of a precise knowledge of the facts which the Registrar is bound to record. The grand check against the omission of due registration of death is a penalty upon the Clergyman if he buries without the Registrar's certificate, or without giving notice to the Re s ,i,trar of having buried the body. If the corpse comes without an accompanying certificate no Clergy man likes to suspend the interment, or to offer any such rude shock to the feelings of sorrowing friends. lie, therefore, takes the alternative of giving notice to the Registrar. But what notice can he give ? The law does not empower him to ascertain the precise age, the cause of death, &c., which the Registrar ought to re cord. All he can say with certainty is, that, on such a day, he buried a coffin, purporting to contain such or such a deceased person. And this is the grand amendment which the new Whig law provides to the old system !—Morning Post. A melancholy occurrence took place last week near the Half Moon public-house, in the (vodatane-road. It appears that a number of Irishmen and women had been employed by Mr. Mills, the landlord of the Half Moon, to assist him in harvesting, and on Tuesday, the labour being completed, they were paid up their wages. A num ber of then' assembled, and were drinking together in the evening in Mr. Mills's house, and among them were two men named Michael Hennessy and Patrick Cahell. The party were very friendly together until about nine o'clock in the evening, when Hennessy brought in a plate of !meat for his supper. Cahell cut off a small piece of meat, and this greatly incensed Hennessy, who became very violent, and Callen then said, rather than have a ny angry feeling, he would buy him another plate of meat, which he accordingly did. Hennessy, however, who had been drinking rather freely, would not be pacified, and made use of most violent langoage, and ultimately ran out of the house, across the road, taking with him a knife and fork belonging to Mr. Mills, the landlord, who insisted upon having his property restored to him, and Cahell, it appears, went after Hennessy for the purpose of taking the knife and fork away from him. In a few seconds Cahell was heard to call out, "he has murdered me." On pro ceeding to the spot, he was found on the ground, in an in sensible state, and bleeding profusely from a dreadful wound upon the head. Near him was found a large hedge-stake, a most formidable weapon, with which it appears the injury had been inflicted. The unfortunate man Cahell was re moved to the public-louse, where every attention was paid him, and a ..urgcon pent for, who at once pronounc:d the injuries he had received to be moi tal. He lingerel until Thursday evening, in the most dreadful agony, when he expired. Immediately after the fatal occurrence, Hen nessy absconded, and InIC not since been heard of. An in quest was held by Mr. Carter, the Coroner, upon the de ceased, on Saturday, when the above facts appeared in evidence, and the Jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of " Manslaughter against Michael Hennessy." The local constables have taken active steps to secure the offender, but ho has hitherto eluded their pursuit. Lib is like a game at cards : we know the cards educati on , an d e u - fttil - I P w ill beat every one ; but he who plays them care f u ll y w ill do more with the ganati at 1;:,',41; then he who throws them o l t ift u s r o h f a n n a d t s ur ; c a , ll we have to do is to put rr into manage them WO, !!. t4eady adherence to th e di ctates of j ; g t z thext random.t,ards religion and sound reavou, MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. The Court sat yesterday for the purpose of hearing ap peas. Several parish appeals relative to the removal and settlement of paupers, were disposed of, none of which were of the slightest public interest. MILLER AGAINST A CONVICTION OY BOYCE COMBE, ESQ., FOR RECEIVING, AS THE CONDUCTOR OF AN OM NIBUS, MORE THAN HIS FARE.—This ettse . arose out of the numerous complaints that arc constantly made of the conduct of the drivers and cads of omnibuses• . The complainant appeared in person, and stated that lie was a watchmaker. On the night of the 17th of July, about ten o'clock, he got into one of Chancellor's Chelsea Omnibuses at the corner of Coventry -street, and proecaded in it to the turnpike at Mite End. When he alighted he, finding- he had not got a sixpence about him, gave the con ductor a shilling, having previously desired him to give him Gd. change. The conductor appeared to be trying to find the 6d. until he got complainant's shilling, and the moment lie had got the shilling he said " That's right ; you got in at Chelsea." Witness told him that was a mistake, as he got in at Coventry -street. The cad then appealed to the driver, who said, " To be sure, it's all right ; he got in at Chelsea." Witness, finding he could not get his change, took the num• ber of the omnibus, 2,330, and the next day applied to a magistrate for a summons against the conductor, whose name he obtained from a policeman the next morning. While waiting at the turnpike-gate to get defendant's name the same omnibus came up. Tho man who drove it the previo us n i g ht was th en ac ti ng as ca d, and it was driven by the m an w h o ac t e d as ca d the night before. The witness said to th e l a tt er , " D o y ou reco ll ec t me ?" a nd he said, " Oh, yes ; you're the person that got in at Chelsea last night ; but rather than have any more bother about it —there, take your money back again (offering him a shil hng), and you may have your ride for nothing." Witness refused to take the shilling. It was after this that the po liceman gave him the defendant's name ; but it appears that he made a mistake, and gave him the name of the one then acting as cad instead of that of the man who acted in . that capacity on the previous night. The defendant was fined 51. by the magistrate. The witness added he was satisfied now the defendant was not the person he ought to have summoned, and was sorry he had made a mistake in swear ing to him. Mr. CLARKSON—And you have put the defendant to the trouble and expense of calling witnesses to prove he was not the man. The CHAIRMAN—What if he has ? You could easily have set him right before the case came here. Complainant—l was only anxious to perform what I ceasidcred a duty I owed to the public. The real defen dant is here in Court now. CHAIRMAN—I am not at all surprised at that. I see box this thing has been managed. Complainant—The night was so dark that really I could hardly tell the cad from the driver. They are both here now, though. The CHAIRMAN—I think your conduct does you credit. Complainant--After the treatment I have met with I am resolved to follow up the case, cost what it may. This manoeuvre shall not prevent me from punishing the party. You (the Chairman) are not aware of the difficulty there is in getting at the names of these fellows. The CiIIAIRMAN - I am ; I have prosecuted some e': them. They know me now, and are, if anything, over civil to me. Another time, Sir, summons the owner of the om nibus ; you will find no difficulty in ascertaining his name. Complainant—l will do so. The case lam determined shall not rest here. The CHAIRMAN—We can give no advice here as to your future proceedings. The appeal was then allowed, and thus the defendant will recover the .51., which he was fined by the Magistrates against whose decision he appealed. The Court then adjourned. that the production cannot exacly lay claim to the character which we deemed ourselves warranted in be- stowing upon it." Ministers " will not abandon- one of the principl2s to which they pledged themselves : the writer of the Pamphlet has allowed himself to give expression to sentiments not exactly in accordance ze;th this firm and decided conduct." Another, more brief, but equally peremptmy, speaks thus :—" Let.us take the opportunity of saying that the author has ' formed a very incorrect notion of what the future policy of Ministers is likely to be—so incorrect, that we fed confident in asserting that his work does not deserve the wairant qf authority which has been hastily and unidVisedly ascribed to it." So perish all who en (11-.nger the official existence of the Whigs. But we hope they will he generous enough to remember how the writer has allowed hi►nslf to be sacrificed in their cause. It is very well to disclaim their agent, but they must not forget to reward him. Will they make him a Commissioner of something ? Or has l►e made sure of his recompense beforehand ? Of all the many iniquitous and various attempts made to shake the stability of Ministers, there is none more calculated to impair their hold on public con fidence than the insidious insinuation made even by parties whom we supposed to possess more honesty and good sense, that they intend, in the next Session (f Parliament, to pare and prune down their measures to the stunted standard of Toryism. This is the most dangerous suggestion of all ; and whether made through folly, ignorance, or malevolence, cannot be too strongly repudiated on the part of Ministers, nor too strongly and indignantly denounced on the part of the public. The enemies of Ilinisters are ingenious, active, and inveterate ; but they have no foe more dire and dan gerous than he who would advise their adoption of, or insinuate their intention of pursuing a policy less liberal, and consequently less congenial to popular feeling than that wi►ich they have hitherto maintained. In defiance of a pamphlet attempted, under false pretences, to be foisted on the public as stamped with a demi-official authority, we stated, and reiterated our firm conviction, that Lord Melbourne would immovably adhere to the principles with which his Government iys so honourably and patriotically associated. Other Journalists wavered, and, to adopt a simile of the greatest modern poet—" like a wave about to break," seemed to hang pausing •on the " curl" of apostacy. But the breath which ruffled their consistency and in- tegrity has already died away, the semi-official pam phlet is discovered, upon further inquiry, to be of ra ther an anti-official character. The speculation on our " domestic prospects," proves to be what in the lan guage of the craft is termed " no go," and those creatures who tucked up their cuffs and slit a fresh pen in preparation for the performance of any dirty work which circumstances might place before them, find that they have no better chance than to abide by the cause of the people—that honesty is the best po licy—and that tergiversation from Reform promises to be neither a productive nor profitable concern. Not to speak of the solemn obligations which bind Mini sters to the amelioration of the national institutions —not to allude to the repeated proofs given by Lord Melbourne of his unswerving determination to stand or fall with the principles upon which his Govern ment was originally based—not to dwell upon the experience which, from Lord grey's Government down even to the present time, proves that doubts on the part of the Liberals beget confidence on the part of their opponents, that forbearance provokes aggression, and that the less the people or their advocates be dis posed to ask, the less their opponents feel inclined to give—not enforcing these considerations, we would ask, is-it possible, in the present state of public feeling, that any Ministry could he so demented as to hope to hold office in defiance of the national desire for Re form ? Knowing the great difficulties against which Ministers have had to contend, we are unwilling to ad vert too strongly to the efforts which, on some occa sions, they have made to conciliate their Tory oppo nents. But we think it advisable to keep constantly before the public and the Ministers the fact that con cession to Toryism was the bane of Lord Grey's Mi nistry, aid that since that partial acknowledgment of popular rights, the Reform Act, every concession or tendency to concede to Tory iniquities has encouraged additional encroachments on the part of the faction, damped the ardour of the Liberals, and decreased the Ministerial majority. The impolicy of the conciliatory system being thus so cogently manifested, and the time for its application being long since passed, when ever we hear the pretended or unreflecting friends of Ministers recommend their adoption of a less exten *sive Reform policy, we cannot hesitate to pronounce such recommendation to emanate either from the most rank stupidity, or the most abandoned knavery.— Morning Advertiser. In the various remarks to which the composition of the new House of Commons has given rise, little or no reference has been made to the fact, that the utmost majority claimed by ministers falls considerably short of the actual number of official persons connected with the Administration who have seats. This, in former tunes, the W gigs would have considered a virtual defeat; and in the columns of more than one of their present defenders would if diligently smelled, be found, we have no doubt, many long and animated tirades against the absurdity and unconstitutional tendency of a Mi nister presuming to carry on the affairs of the country with a majority of the House of Commons composed solely and entirely of his own creatures. Lord Mel bourne's position as regards a House of Commons elected under all the weight and influence of his own administra tion is doubly unusual and objectionable. Not one op posed vote can he hope to carry in that House, but, on the one hand, by the vigilant whipping-in of his own official dependents, or, on the other, by means of the auto mata whose motions arc dictated by his Popish master, whe holds the wires. Taking one of these bands at 20, and the other at 30, which may very fairly and safely be done, and in what a woeful minority without them would the Queen's Ministers be found in a House of Commons called under every advantage to them, and of the contrary to their opponents ! How ever carefully and sedulously these facts are concealed or glossed over by the Ministerial press, it is impossible that Lord Melbourne himself can be blind to a state of things unparalleled in the history of any Administra tion that has ever preceded him. To suppose that such a state of things can last, or that the affairs of the country could go o;i under such circumstances, even with a House of Peers favourable to the Minister, would be to assume an anomaly unknown to the Con stitution ; but when, in addition to a House of Com mons in which no one favourable vote can be expected but through the means and channel which we have pointed out, the Prime Minister finds himself occupy ing a seat in an assembly of which two-thirds, at least, are opposed to all the leading measures ef his Go vernment, what wi!l history say of a man who, at the head of a popular Government, attempts to govern in the very teeth of public opinion so unequivocally and decidedly expressed as it has been by the results of the uninfluenced part of the constituency ? Urged on and backed by the needy persons by whom he is sur rounded, Lord Melbourne may attempt to do this; but the hardihood and hopelessness of the attempt will only the more speedily work his own downfall.-- Morning Herald. Some new apologue is necessary to illustrate the peculiar perverseness of discontent and eross-grained ness which distinguishes the Radical Dissenters of the present day. Hitherto " the dog in type of has been considered a sufficiently strong of g i r stupid ill-nature ; but the discontented Dissenters are much more perverse than the dog in the manger. That truly Whig-Radical quadruped merely usurped a place iii which he conk! do no good for himself or anybody else, and snarled and snapped at all who, with a rea sonable claim, and for a reasonable purpose, a p. proached the position he had preposterously taken up. But the Radical Dissenters having been granted that for which they growled, now growl again, because the world takes some slight notice that they have what they asked for. For example, so long as they were by law cempelled to marry in Church, like those who were not Dissenters, or to remain unmarried, they growled most grievously, and made even the honeymoon hitter with their complainings, In consequence of Ocir complain s the law wis altered—we think most unwisely 6.4 red, because any concession of this kind to Dissenters is merely annoying ourselves, without satisfying them—but it . nri altered ? and now the Dis- MARLBORO UGH-STREET. A couple, of sawyers were charged before Mr. CHAM- Buis with having aided and abetted each other in the felo nious ab , traction of a loin of mutton from a Tom and Jerry shop in Carpenter's•buildings. The landlord of the house had received directions to cook a loin of mutton for some of his customers by twelve o'clock. At the appointed hour the hungry guests as sembled, but their chagrin was indescribable upon the dis covery of the disappearance of the joint. A little girl, who was at play in the buildings, gave such evidence as led to the apprehension of the mutton purloiners. Mr. CHAMBERS—WeII, my little girl, what did you see? Girl—l see the prod gentleman in the ragged coat put the mutton up his back. Mr. CHAMBERS—Up his back. Why, how did he manage to do that ? Girl—He pushed it up under his coat. Mr. CHAHBERS—How ' do you know it was the loin of mutton ? Girl—Because when he walked away, the tail was sticking out behind. The landlord proved that the loin rejoiced in a very long tail, and moreover that the carrier of the mutton on becoming aware that an evidence of his delinquency was sticking out, shifted the meat into that part of his garment which was suspended on his braces. On reaching a neighbouring public-house, the meat was removed from its savoury situa tion, and converted into chops, which were consumed with remarkable celerity. Mr. CHAMBERS—What do you mean by going into a man's house in this way, and stealing his property ? Pri soner—We were tipsy, and did it only out of a lark. Mr. CHAMBERS—A lark, do you call it ? I can tell you that a great many such larks are tried every session at the Old Bailey. If you do not pay five shillings for the mutton, and the fine for being drunk, I shall make you find bail. The needful having been raised, the loin fanciers were discharged. THAMES OFFICE. Term; or SMASHERS.—Yesterday John King, a young man, commonly called " Snubnosed Jack," and William Strutford, a remarkable-looking man, with a sal low complexion, long visage, and black whiskers, were brought before Mr. BALLANTINE for re-examination, on a charge of attempting to utter a base half-crown at the King's Arms public-house in Shadwell Market. It appeared from the evidence that on Tuesday evening, the prisoners entered the house in company with King, and called for half a quartern of gin to drink between them in small glasses, and tendered in payment a good half-crown. Miss Havend, the daughter of the landlord, was about to deposit the money in the till, when King said " Stop, I have halfpence enough," and put his hand in his pocket as if feeling for some. She gave him back the half-crown, and he then said he had not sufficient halfpence, and the girl must give him change, at the same time putting down another half-crown, which Miss Havend took up, and im mediately discovered that it was a base one. She called her father, who detained the prisoners until Parker and Dailey, police sergeants, Nos. 10 and 2.5 K, arrived, who recognised the prisoners to be notorious smashers. Two pence only was found upon the prisoners, who contrived be fore the police arrived to put away whatever money and base coin they had about them, with the exception of the halfpence. Miss Havend, however, was positive the last half-crown tendered by King was a bad one. Dailey, police-sergeant, No. 23, K, stated that the pri soners had disclaimed all knowledge of each other, but he knew them well, and had frequently seen them in company. The prisoner King was brought to that office on the 30th of January for uttering a counterfeit halferown. He then gave the name of George Williams. In March he was before the Lambeth-street Magistrates on a similar charge, and was again dismissed, because more than ten days had elapsed between the two passing. The man who was with King on the two last occasions had since - been convicted by a jury, and was now serving his two years in the House of Correction. Stratford lied also been in custody before. Mr. Powell, the Mint solicitor, said he knew both pri soners, but be should decline prosecuting in consequence of the failura.of the attempt ; besides which the law required two acts of uttering within ten days to ensure a conviction. King—l have been at work at shoemaking, Mr. Powell, since I saw you last. Mr. Powell—You had better continue it, or you surely will be imprisoned or transported some time or other. Mr. BALLENTINE said he was reluctantly obliged to dis charge the prisoners, who had taken great care to disclaim each other. If they were brought before him again he would certainly commit them as vagrants for going about the town cheating the public, which he had no doubt they had been doing for some time. THE PRESTON PRODIGY.—We once on a former occasion brought the bay Daniel Hartley, son of John Hart ley, New Preston, flagger and slater, before our readers, and ws now present him again to satisfy them that he is in a thriving condition, and likely enough, if his life be spared, to be "a man of weight in the county." Daniel was twelve years old on the 16th ult., and weighs sixteen stone. That he is a descendant of the race of giants may very safely be inferred from the circumstance of his having on each foot six toes, and on each hand five fingers and a thumb. The im mence weight of flesh with which he seems to be encum bered appears not to have abated any of the feelings of vi vacity and spirit that lads of his age are wont to enjoy, but, on the contrary, his capacious paunch and rubicund cheeks make him " look time character" of contentment and good humour "to the life." And as these appearances have in London been at all times considered indisputable indica tions of aldermanic claims we doubt not that they will he irresistible in.gaining for Daniel great corporate distinction. We shall only add the mother of Daniel, about a month ago, presented her husband and the world with another six fingered son, but it is no rival in possessing also a multi plicity of toes. There are other children in the same fa mily, but they are not remarkable for differing from the common run of mortals. Daniel will, therefore, be par ex cellence," the great man of the house."—P;eston Pilot. On Friday last about one o'clock, Mr. Evans, the Chief Surveyor of Thames Police, was going down the river in a galley with three river constables, between Water loo and Blackfriars' Bridges, when they were hailed by a. great number of persons on the craft off the Old Barge house-wharf, on the south shore. The men rowed as hard as they were able towards the spot, and the bystanders in formed them that a boy had sunk a few minutes previous while swimming. The men immediately put down a boat hook and an oar in that part of the stream pointed out by the people, and soon brought the body up uninjured, which they carefully laid in the boat and instantly conveyed a shore to the Old Bargehouse public-house. Mr. Pate, a surgeon in the Commercial-road, directly afterwards ar rived, and the boy was then to all appearance dead. Mr. Pate, however, lost no time in applying the usual means to restore animation, and directed the river constables to rub the body. The men persevered in their humane efforts under the direction of Mr. Pate, for nearly an hour, when they had the satisfaction of observing that the lad again breathed, and continuing their efforts, the boy soon recovered and was conveyed to the house of his parents in Cottaga grove, Lambeth ; his name is Henry Holland, and on mak ing inquiries yesterday, we heard that he is doing well. Not less than 200 persons awaited the result of the successful exertions of the medical gentleman and the Oflicors, with the most intense anxiety ; and, on ascertaining that the boy was recovered, gave vent to their feelings by cheering. The names of the three constables who were with Mr. Evans and who saved the boy's life are, John James Jones, Samuel Cromarty, and William Everest, and a petition on their behalf has been forwarded to the Royal Humane Society, who will no doubt reward them for their praiseworthy conduct. DEXTERITY IN DIVING.—A visitor to the S rvirn ming Baths recently erected near York, accidentally lost a shilling above five feet deep into the bath, and for several days a number of veterans in the art of diving attempted in vain to recover the coin from the watery element ; a young gentleman, however, (Master W. Smith) about fourteen years of age, who resides with his parents in the suburbs of this city, and who was accompanied by a party of his schoolfellows, apparently with the greatest ease, restored the lost shilling on the second attempt. And what makes this feat appear more remarkable is that, in consequence of the length of time the shilling had lain, the sedim en t o f the water had settled on it, which rendered the sight quite useless, and consequently this young son of Neptu ne h a d nothing but the activity of his hands to assist in thehin search. The new baths are admirably calculated tolgratif the taste of the Operienced swimmer, and are extremely well adapted for learners.—Yorkshirenzan. Past OFWICE.—The inconsistent charge bf one peNny for the conveyance of a new:paper /tiro miles, by a bag made up at the getartri rust here, whilst a paper is conveyed iCII OW 66 the same road free, we had flattered irursolves and our subscribers had b een re loved by the We Ist Victoria, cap. 34 .trqst sqcli a tax will not long m continue after the eail:44 of gthe new Parliament I for, independent of the nnf4irness of the imposition, it will prove, if ctintiiNed, irlwiQus the Ttvqouth— . 41se; _Mercury. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION -HOUSE. There have been of late numerous complaints made to the Lord Mayor on the subject of coach office extor tions, which increase daily in consequence, no doubt, of the disinclination upon the part of those who are imposed upon to take the trouble to prosecute. The Lord Mayor has, in answer to written and oral ap plications as to the course necessary to be pursued to abate the evil, made some statements and remarks on the subject, to show his readiness to do all in his power to af ford a remedy for an evil which has grown up to an alarm ing size, but which his Lordship believed, with the assist ance of those who are subjected to the extortion and the dread of exposure, he may be able to check very effecually. Susannah Green, in Buckinghamshire, by whom he had three children, and then deserted her. II; subsequently married Elizabeth Grafton, a young woman residing at Islington, who is pregnant by him, and it was ultimately ascertained that his first wife was living at Acton, to whom he had been married in 1837. The prisoner described him- Self as a single man and a farmer, In only being a gentle man's servant. The wives are in needy circum-lanees; and the 111.g. , :s trat es suggested that it was the duty of the ['lrish to sup port the prosecution. Keys, the overseer of St. Pancras, said that he thought it was the duty of the parish, but he could only suggest it to the Board, and advise with them to do so. The prisoner was remanded. HATTON-GARDEN. Yesterday Joseph Lawrence, who has undergone several examinations on charges of swindling, was again brought up, when the office was excessively crowded. Mr. John Cain, proprietor of the Queen's Head Tavern, Red Lion-passage, Red Lion-square, having been sworn, stated that on the 23d of August last the prisoner called at his house, and asked whether he could have a bed. He slept there that night, and on the following morning had breakfast and dined, and agreed to continue the bed ; but witness suspecting him, asked him for his bill, 10s. The prisoner said he was waiting for money by the post. Wit ness being aware that he had brought a carpet bag with him, he proceeded to his apartment, and on searching it, found that it contained merely two duplicates for harness and bridles, and an unexecuted agreement on a stamp for 31. Witness told the prisoner that he thought him a swindler, when the prisoner left the house, leaving the car pet bag, &c. Mr. Thomas Lloyd, coach manufacturer, of No. 13, Worship -street, Finsbury-square, proved that the prisoner called upon him on the 18th of May last, and hired a two wheeled chaise for two months. He gave his name Joseph Lawrence, of Lloyd's-row, and left his card of address, re ferring him to a gentleman in Old Broad -street, City. He traced the chaise to have been sold by the prisoner to Mr. Deacon, of the Horse and Groom, St. John -street, Cler kenwell, for 151. Mr. James Deacon, of the Horse and Groom, proved that on the 19th of August last the prisoner dined with a party of friends at his house, after having put up his horse and gig in adjoining stables. The prisoner applied to him for a loan of 31.; but, on declining to lend it, he told him that his gig was at the stables, and he would leave it in his possession, if he would advance him the money. Witness advanced 71. 155., and the prisoner subsequently agreed to sell it for 151., whick witness advanced him, and the pri soner gave him the receipt (now produced). Mr. ROGERS inquired the value of the gig? Mr. Lloyd replied 201. The prisoner ordered it to be sent to Platt's Livery-stables, Clerkonwell-green. Mr. Ithosits asked the prisoner whether be wished to say anything to the above charges ? The prisoner care lessly replied, " I shall reserve my defence for another Court." He was fully committed for trial on the charges. Mr. Robert Braggie, gun-maker, of No. 3,3, High Hol born, was then sworn, and proved that the prisoner ob tained a gun, value 18 guineas, from him, which was pledged for eight guineas at Young and Luxmore's, in St. Martin's-lane. The circumstances of this case have already appeared before the public. lie was fully committed for trial on this charge. Mr. Smith, coachmaker, of No. 8, Little .I;tnes.street, Gray's Inn-road, proved that the prisoner hired a chaise from him for two days, which was traced to the possession of Mr. Ball, of Ball's-pond, Islington, who refused to de liver it up or allow it to be identified. Mr. RoGEfts asked Mr. Ball his reason for so doing? Mr. Ball ,replied that the prisoner had obtained a horse from him, which he had traced, and he had parted with 121. for the return of the animal. He had possession of the gig, which he thought he was justified in detaining. Mr. ROGERS—I shall remand the prisoner until Friday next, and unless you then produce the property I will cer tainly commit you. You are bound to throw every light upon a felony, and not to throw impediments in the way of justice. Mr. Ball—But the chaise is broken. Mr. ROGERS—No matter, you must produce it on Fri day next. lie inquired whether there were any other charges against the prisoner? Nesbit, the officer, said there were more ready. He had traced the prisoner to have sold numerous duplicates to a Jew named Lazarus, of No. 148, Houndsditch. Lazarus proved that, on the 25th of March last, he ad yanc .d the prisoner 31. for 31 duplicates (now produced). The prisoner, who listened to the evidence with the utmost indifference, and took notes prior to his being taken from the bar, requested Mr. Rogers to allow some of the duplicates which were marked, and which belonged to other persons, to be delivered up to them. Mr. Roc - A:as—l have nothing to do with it ; he must a pply to the officer. Prisoner (with say fi vid)—Vory well ; that's all I wish to know. He was then taken from the bar, followed by numerous individuals who recognised him as having swindled them. Mary liarivin, aged 57, and Maria Harwin, aged 19, her daughter, who had scarcely any clothes to cover them, and were apparently starving, were brought up by Fuller, 15,5 E division, charged with being houseless and destitute, Mr. itout:as ordered him to take them to St, Giles s parish with his compliments, and explain the circumstances of their case, in order that they might be speedily and pro perly passed to their legal parishes. The unfortunate creatures thanked hit W9ll,ll l Pi ltd P9t. qf thp PfliPP, • W. H. Atkins was charged with having intermarried with two wives, his first wile being alive. It appeared that the prisoner in the ear 1831 married . ' PARIS POLICE. THE HUNCHBACK COUSINS. A peasant appeared to prefer a complaint against three journeymen tailors of having robbed him of his raspberries, If there were a ny f ru it thi s y ear I'd say nothing ; bu t there's none or next to none ; and if the Parisian is to come and ravage my la n d, I h a d b e tter leave the tax .col.. !cctor to get in the harvest. President—The accused have stolen your raspberries ? Peasant—Here's my receipt for my tixes, seven francs and seventeen sous. That's not a liard, you see. Then why don't the Government leave me - to enjoy my own. in stead of letting the Parisians pillage me ; above all on 8 , Sunday, when there's a deluge of them, worse than a clo ud of locusts. You caught the delinquents in the act, and they beat you? Just so ; and yet I had no right to be beaten as it was my own property and my own raspberries, and here's Oh receipt for my taxes. Without, troubling our readers to the whole of the dia logue, as given in the Gazette des Tribunamr, see °Ttl cut short the peasant's story by saying that one of the three he was more particularly enraged against, becau se ' being his cousin german, he ought to have respected Itioh Oh, you are cousin german' and you ? Yes, you see I have a hunch upon my right shoulder. True ; I do see it. Oh yes, it's visible enough ; I've had it from my birtb. Now, this vagabond, you see, has one twice as big as !Ili"' and it's atrocious for one hun c hba c k n o t t o r e spe c t anothe r : The Cousin—Upon my honour, I never noticed you 110 a hunch when we had our little chamaill er i e . Peasant—Perhaps you nev er saw m y rasp b err ies eithe r ' while you were stealing them ? Cousin—Stealing is no t a p ro p er wor d t o us e ; if Yo u please, call it maraudi ng , an d I h ave no objection. An honest man may allow himself a trifling act of marauding but stealing—fye---no, that's dishonourable. President--And where's the difference, pray ? Whet you call marauding appears to me to be neither more o °' less than stealing. Cousin—Your pardon, Sir. A man steals if he puts the thing into his pocket ; but if he puts it into his mouth , Kay of refreshing himself, he is only guilty of marauding., This delicate distinction was overruled by th e tribuna l ' the three tailors were found guilty of the double offence ° theft and assault, and severally condemned to a month's 411' prisonment. A FREEktAN'S PRIVILEGE. President—You are accused, Phalambot, of having P drunk, of having beaten y our w if e , an d o f h av i n g insulte d the agents of the public force who attempted to prevent You' Phalambot—l have only a dozen words to say i n reply Do I live in a free country—yes or no ? That has nothing to say to the fact with which you lira charged. The deuce it hasn't ! Who has a right to' meddle wit h my drink, if I paid for my wine, as the song goes ? did You did quite right to p a y f or your w i ne , b u t you wrong in insulting the guard, and beating your wife. How ! Is it conic so far that a man has not a right now to beat his own wife ? He never had any right of the kind. Oh, there you must excuse me, M. le President ; as Montesquieu says, a man may beat his wife, provided b e don't knock her brains out. We must hear the witnesses. A Municipal Guardsman—On going, with one ( 4 , 1 1 comrades, at midnight, thr oug h th e F au b ourg d u TetuP' e ' perceived in the dark something lying on the grounds an another threshing upon it. On approaching I saw this i"" dividual murdering a woman. •'Hollo,"'say s I, " 1 1 : 1 Y ra ' n ' what are you doing there?" " D on ' t you see ," says " that I am explaining myself to my wife ?" " You ha u le t a droll way of explaining y ourse lf," says I. What's tu 3 / to you ?" says he. So, seeing h e was d run k, i n stead e losing my time talking to hi m , I l a id h o ld o f hi m , f o r he °I threshing away at his wif e a ll th e w hil e h e was t a lking. - 13°t it was impossible for m e t o get hi m awa y, f or h o stuck t o his work, and his a rm w as go i ng a ll th e w hil e lik e a steam' engine. So I c a ll e d m y comra d e , an d b e t ween us we m ss tered him. B u t h e h a d n 't spent all his wrath on his Wil e • for he said all sorts of impertinence to us. What impertinence ? He called us Bobeche, and gingerbread soldiers. Then why did you interfere in my family affairs Were we to let you kill the poor woman ? Poor woman! Come now, wasn't she d ea d d r unk, O il poor woman of mine? Why, yes, she was, M. le Pre s id en t, f er she seiuled to feel none of the blows that her man ga•;e her, though were hard enough to break the heat, of Henry the Fourt h horse. What a disgusting thing a drunken woman is! I v 1; 4 , 1 in the act of approachi ng h er b y way of showing 111"" satisfaction. l o a President—lf you r w if e d oes get d run k i t seems she - follows the example set before her. • Quite the contrary, M. le President. Whenever ~, have a presimentiment th a t I s h a ll get sowe d up, I her in the morning, Marie, do you stop at home and ma% some onion broth . for me, for I shall have so m e s nuff ri"" evening. Well, instead of that, I find her lapping eau (brandy) with one of her gossips. Now, if both drill k there's an end t o a ll h armony i n a man ' s h ouse . I O_ hard all the week, b u t a man may re f res h himself on " Sunday. But the affair in question seems to have happened °P Thursday. Did it ? May be it did. What'i your trade? I'm a cooper ; and if a man h as to tete-a-tete a ll dal with a wine cask it does put certain notions into his head. a Phalambot was sentenced to 1.5 days' imprisonment, a° a fine of 20 francs. Phalambot—As to the prison, needs must when the devil drives ; but as to the fine, en once le gouvernment, I havn't a sou, but that's all as one. ° as the sow , goes, or as Montesquieu sala--. _ULL'iI BLOOD AND COW BM:att.—it 1ia,:631; opinion of th e anc i en t s th a t L u ll' s bl oo d i s po i s on. r"' o , affirms this, and says that the physician Agatboclee Pr,i. scribed the juice of white sow-thistle as an antidote to The antidote was no doubt infallible where the P O4°° '4 of imaginary. Herodotus says that Psammenitus, Ki n g be Egypt, was condemned by Catnbyses, Ki n g of Persia, tea poisoned for in c iti ng th e Egyptians to revolt. Bull's bl . 0% was the mortal d ra u g ht s el ec t e d ; an d P samrnen itus, ha l o swallowed his dose, immediately died. It is very Pr °l "' that Cambyses added a little o f somet hi ng e l se t o th e bloc 8 to make his work mor e cer t a i n. A ccord i ng to the PS historian, the cow was wors hi pped by the Egypt i a ns it more profaturd reverence than any other kind of cattle. r is still rev e r ence d b y t h e Hindoos, and to use i ts flesh: a, even the wate r i n w hi c h i t was boiled, would be an ab°r,; tion. A compendious method was adopted by 'l ' l4 :li t : Saib of convincing these people of the errors of their ism, and p ersua di ng t h em of the truth of Idahomet4un:l; He sprinkled th em w i t h cow- b roth ; they were forL"' Ito shunned by their own sect, and had no l terna sive bu t become subscrib ers t o the Islam.—Do:ovater M niestte. Econoiny—Hunian Food ; being V o l. 94 of Dr. Lo dge(' Cyclopeedia. er' On Friday evening la s t th e effects of the tlitl u i r d d.. storm was severely felt as it pa s sed over Blackheath, Rjry brooke, Scc., taking a south-easterly dir ec tion. A v i4. id.. valuable cow, the property of Mr. D. 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