The Sun. — London, England, 1837-08-11 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, By the accounts received yesterday the ltd . ( r.nirs have gained— In Kinsa l e—Mahony for Thomas. And they have losi— In Carmarthenshire—Sir J. Williams tor Jones.. In Cornwall (East)—Sir W. Trclawney C' Lord Eliot. In Durham (North)—Sir H. Williamson for Liddell. In Yorkshire (East) —Thompson for Broadley. We find that the Dublin Morning Register misled us with respect to Carrickfergus. Kirk, the Tory candidate, was actually returned. We find on a care ful analysis of the returns, that 306 are Reformers, and 304 Tories ; that of the remaining returns there will probably be 1 Reformer for England, 2 Reformers and 3 Tories for Scotland, and 31 Reformers and 11 Tories for Ireland, making in all 310 Reformers and 318 Tories. Sir Robert Peel's estimate of Tories has been exceeded by 8. In Cumberland the greatest exer tions have been made by Sir James Graham ; and, even after the Right Hon. Baronet was satisfied thatbe must lose, he expended considcraY.i3 sums in procuring votes to reduce the majority. A cor respondent has supplied us with some curious details respecting the London voters :—They were proinised from 151. to 201. to go down, but only received 71. and 81. on the nail, the remaindeir to be paid after voting. About twenty-two men went from the me tropolis, partly for the bribe, for in most cases they were to vote against the principles they had always professed. One of these worthies declared, in the hearing of our correspondent, that if he could get 15/. paid down by both parties he would take the money and vote for both. In another column will be found a sarcastic placard in the border dialect of Cum berland, which may amuse those who are acquainted with Scotch. We understand that this squib is fmin the pen of the Cumberland farmer, who, on being hard pressed by Sir James for a vote, and declining, was again urged by him on the ground that if he were not returned as Member for East Cumberland he would quit the country and reside on the Continent. To this " John I'the Gate" replied, he (Sir James) Would do wisely to go and visit' the King of Ha nover, as stated in the squib. This honest Cum berland farmer seems to take a tolerably accurate 'measure of Sir James's character. He tells him that he had been "an actor all his life time." "It is true you sometimes rather forgot yourself, and almost let the cat out of the bag. For instance, at London in 1831, when you pettishly exclaimed, a You could not take Blamire to Parliament on your back,'—and at Penrith in the same year when you damned the Blue committee,'—and when at Langtown you hoisted the broad yellow flag, edged with a small border of blue—a true emblem of yourself, Sir James--blue without, yellow within—you nearly lost your grip alto gether. But when at last you consented to let Willie Blamire take you to Parliament on his back, and you abused your present friends, both old Tories and re creant Whigs, with such hearty seal, nine out of ten thought you a true staunch Reformer, not very far re moved from a Rad." This is severe, because it is true. Sir James may visit the King of Hanover when he pleases. The Tories turn up their noses at him, and the Reformers despise him. He has tried too many parts, and after all he is a clumsy actor. , Ho nour to the stout yeomen of Cumberland for the spirit they have shown on this occasion ! They have read a lesson to all England. Long may the race of Cum berland Statesmen exist among us, to be a pattern and example to Englishmen. EAST CUMBERLAND—PLACARD IN THE CUM BERLAND DIALECT. TO THE EIGHT HONOURABLE SIR JEAMS GREAME, BARO- NET, OF NETHERBIE. Reason contents me."—Your ain motto. I weel remember when your respected father was twee travelled south'ard, a dirty daub o' a painter added "not" to your motto. The :inkier did wrang. Auld Sir Jeams wasna' a man ane could ca' just that unreasonable. But had it been ye'rsell, airt couldna' invent—industry couldna' seleek ain mair appropriate t'ye. Ye were the pride and the pct o' Cum berland—ye were the first Lord o' the Admiralty—and ye were associate wi' Earl Grey, and the best Ministry that ever held the reins o' this country. Ye were a laddie o' some talent, and ye had cultivated it gay wed. Ye had neathing to do but gang canny on wr the 'hale country at ye'r back. But 1301 "Reason contented ye not." Ye might be intreguing, ye and that thimble-ring Derbyshire Dilly Boy, wi' ye'r auld fav'rites thee sneck-drawing Tories. Ye uparet the guid Government—ye kicket ye'rsell out o' the Admiralty, and mad to kick ye'rsell in ag ain, ye lost a' patience, and, a t th e hi n ' eren ', turne d the dirtiest, maist peevish, officious tool 9' the 'hale plundering gang. And then ye'r excuse was sic a pitifu' ane ! The Irish Kirk, fQrsooth! The Kirk o'Rathcorreac, that, after a fair trial of nearly three hundred years, has been found warse than guid for neathing. Fie, Sir Jeams, fie ! ye'r no the " cock o' the north" now—y'er just a gusc, and the . honest electors o' East Cumberland, as a reward for ye'r meanness and folly, will kie!c ve out o' the county to cackle and cant whenever ye (ran fin' fules to listen. But this is na what I was mainly thinkin on. A brazen face scamp (I ken him) has had the impudence to ,forge my name to a very unceevil letter to ye Sir Jeams. It appeared in your auld frien's paper—it they Ca' the Journal. The body tried to persuad ye and the country that yc'er but actin' wi the Tories at this time—and that ye'r real object's their downfa'. He mann be a fallow of no under standing this —at ony rate he kens little o' you Sir Jeams. Had he luik'd a handsbreadth deeper than the skin, he might hae seen that ye've been just an arto;• a' ye'r life time, but never riat'ral till now, and a bit by gene. It's true you sometimes rather forget yoursell, an:l amaist let the cat out o' the wallet. For instance, at Lunnon, in the year &grace 1831, when ye pettishly exclaimed " ye could n.it tak Blamire to Parliament on ye'r back"—and at Pearith, year the same, when ye " demm'il the Blue Committee" --and when at Langtown ye hoisted the braid yellow flag edged wi' a sma' border o' blue—a true emblem n' yersell Sir Jeams—Blue without, Yellow within,—ye nearly lost ye'r grip a'together. But when at last ye con sentrd to let Willi e Blarnire tali ye to Parli amen t on his back, and ye ahu-ied ye'r present friens, haith auld Tories and recreant Whi j s sic' hearty zeal, nine out o' ten thought ye a true, staunch Reformer, no verra far re moved fra' a Rad. Oh, lad, ye were right then, but " Reason contented yc riot," and ye tumbled overrthe Irish Kirk, the only ane i' tl:e Christian warld that, while it's moistened iv' human bluid, professes to bring peace and gook! will towards men. Still ye lute mair substantial rea sons for ye'r vagaries than many lock gie ye credit for. The leevings arc rich, and the country fertile ; and if ye hae twa lads mair than ye'r ain pasture carry, ye can send ane ower, i' the shape o' a Priest, to provoke the dirty bog trotters to rebel, and anither, i' the shape of a dragoon, to let a little sup Papith bluid out o' them—ani thus bait') lads will be usefully, honourably, and Ivry:Mb& employed. But heark ye, Sir Jeams, hac ye read the Proclamation o' )e'r fricu the Sultan o' Hanover? Has, Ile no sent ower an in vitation ? Gang till him man, gang till him ; never mind whether ye're invited or no. Ye'il just fit him. He'll mak ye First Lord o' his Aare: malty, if be hae sic a thing about t'c town—may be his Czrund Vizier 1 At ony rate he's sure create ye bashaw some distant Province, perhaps a Beg lerbeg, and tber.., ye ken, ye can tack three horse tails to the bonny geae feather ye carry yer ain tail. Gang. far Jeams, gang, " let reason content ye," and yell o'Jtige yours maist devotedly, JOHN I' THE GATE. Roans T, ees, Aug. 3, 1837. (James Steel, Printer, Peaiencl's-lane, English Street, Carlisle.) —Morning Chronicle. Whether Ministers have any suspicion of the dis sathfaction with which the public regard their total indiffcrenc e to all political interests, except those which tsoeifuch their own sta bili ty i n o f f i ce, or w h et h er, i n t h e i r complacency of power, they think their country deems it honour enough t o have t h e name o f a Whig Administrati on witho ut any of its promised fruits, we have no means efaccuratel accurately knowing. But this Much no know, though our circle and theirs are not con centricthat . to any purpose of g ood the are do nothin4s, or, as th e l awyers sa y our Conti:Antal neighbours withfamiliar malice term ' norasants ; or, as it. fit;Abins• Negatives in general ar e difficult of proof, but thi s i s a negative which we shall have no difficulty in proving. The Session of Parlia- Inent which has just concluded was opened, on the 31st of January, with great note of preparation. On that day the Ministers of the Crown, in the House of Commons, gave formal notices, entered in the order book, of no fewer than seventeen legislative measures to be introduced by their Government into that House ; and, before_ the Easter holidays, thirteen others were added to the list of promised enactments. In this total of thirty new Bills, it was not unreasonable for the people to require, that provision should be made fore some at least of those objects in which the coun . Witt substantial interest. Any honest, ./ I, o regril ' entitled to expect that the Whig ,f4 v , , -31n - istii intrusted with the functions of , 7'l 461 S NAget4ei )I),lip t a st egtr:t-gor c was istity4 at#aPt s T. .41 7- 1 •-• Government—not for the glory of Brookes's ) but for', purpose of carrying out their own professed principles I of improvement—would address themselVes tO settle or the great subjects on whieb welte of the com munity at large ro_7, - ,Vistinguishea from the mere gain of reeculiar classes) demands that there be au . atttelits' ration, or a relief, or at ltjatt A heltleilleilt. The state of commettiel seeurities, and of the currency, taken in toultexion with the banking system—the ponitien of Canada, half-loosened by an htilbitiotis Faction from its`fealty to the Crown of tn m olandthe reliAiovlt destitution of many large and 'doweled districts of this kingdom, where the growing swarms of the population are left without churches to receive, or elogyeeeit to instruct them—the long-vexed *Mt vetkiuo dispute be n. tween the occupiers Atlvi tithe-owners of Ireltio(1) the sore of 'het people and the blight al' Chuich— these are the qnestiees ttpn some of which a plain would natnrally expect that tt Ceebiiitt patting with 1 thirty-bill movement would exert its force in the session of 1837. A rain thought 1 The Session is over; the twelfth Parlialueut of the United King dom is no more c the people knock impatiently at the door of its vacated chamber, to fled the wholesome enctments left behind 131 , its departed wisdom : the public voice is heard loudly through that great and now empty space, inquiring for the expected legacies of useful legislation, and demanding " where are they ?" And echo answers, " where are they ?" One sa lutary principle was indeed advanced into prac tical form—the principle of the acts for the mitiga tion of punishment in cases of felony. The series of Bills by which that good was effected were generally approved, and carried with scarcely any adverse dis cussion, And scarcely anv less or time. They were framed by lawyer!, with little labour to Ministers in their offices, and perused and settled by the House of. Commons in about three evenings of debate. Here the list of Ministerial services begins ; and here, in the same instant, it ends. But was there not the Bill to abolish imprisonment for debt ? Surely that great ques tion of the law of debtor and creditor was not preter mitted by Government. The Attorney-General gave no tice of it on the very first day of the session; it went through all its stages in the House of Commons, and if it was ultimately lost in the House of Lords, the Mi nisters, who have been slender influence in that depart ment of the Legislature, are not to be made responsible for its failure there. We will not affect to argue that at any period of the session a Bill so adverse to the wishes and interests of the commercial world, so obnoxious to the just censure of every experienced lawyer, of every fair trader, and of every rational Legislator, would have been likely to receive the sanction of an assembly composed of the most eminent judges and largest pro prietors of the country ; but it is enough to say, that though introduced into the House of Commons on the 6th of February, and kept in motion till the 21st of March, it was not forwarded one single step from the 21st of March to the 29th of June, between which date and the date of the dissolution there intervened just 18 days to serve for the report and the third reading in the House of Commons, for the transmission of the Bill to the Upper House, and for the whole series of the stages in which it was to be considered by the Lords. The dates, by themselves, are conclusive. So much for an assumption of merit by the Govern ment on the score of their attempt to settle the main question . of debtor and creditor; but of the two evils (the non-settlement of the question, and the enact ment of the recent Bill) we are bound to admit that the Ministers have chosen the less. The trade of the country may go on tolerably without any new enact ment ; but with a new enactment, such as that which was threatened, it could not have gone on at all. The commercial disorders which, in the autumn of last year, shook the credits of so many substantial houses in Manchester, Liverpool, and London, and forced throughout the kingdom a sacrifice of property scarcely credible in its extent, and intolerable in its ruin, had been foreseen by several cautious and far-reaching men so early as the previous spring ; and a commit tee was appointed for the examination of the system of joint-stock banking, as connected with the then grow ing difficulties of commerce. The Committee met and reported ; but the Session of 1836 ended without a remedy. As the year wore on, the pressure increased. The winter brought no relief ; the Treasury afforded none ; the new year began as gloomily as the old one had ended ; the House of Commons met ; the Chancellor of the Exchequer moved the re-appoint ment of the Committee ; and the demise of the Crown at Midsummer overtook the Government without a measure on the table of the House, or even a proposal in the order-book. Meanwhile, in spite of difficulty and neglect, the Money market has rallied ; and, ex cept as far as relates to the policy pursued by Govern ment last winter in respect of their Exchequer-bills, the monied interests may congratulate themselves on having got through their distresses with very little more damage than if there had been no Government at all. Now for our Colonial affairs. These, for the most part, are matters of little interest at home ; not because they are of little importance, but because they are little understood. The public dots not usually take the pains to inform itself of what happens afar off; the interest is inversely as the squares of the distances. But there was one colonial matter which formed an exception even to this very general rule, and that matter was the political position of Canada. The mother country was not prepared to submit to the mutinous and uneonstitutional spirit of a petty faction, which too long had fretted both the local and the Imperial Go vernment. Ministers themselves were of the same mind. They were highly Conservative upon Canadian affairs; what was patriotic and praiseworthy in Mr. O'Connell was revolutionary and intolerable in Mr. Papineau. On the very first day of the Session Lord John Rus sell gave a notice for bringing the affairs of that Colony under th e co n sid era ti on o f the House of Commons on the 23:1 of February. He put it off to the 28th, and then to the 6th of March. He was prevented on that day from discussing it by an amendment, and it caine on for debate on the Bth. It stood again for the 15th, but was postponed ; again for the 21st, but was post poned ; and then no more was heard of it till after Easter. On the 14th of April it was once more among the orders of the day ; the resolutions, necessary to found the Ministerial Bill, were carried within a fort night, and reported on the 28th of April ; and from that day to the hour of the dissolution the Ministerial Bill has never been produced. It is irksome to follow failure and neglect through their slow and slovenly 'notions. The task has wearied us ; but we shall re cur to it.—Times. The Tories are boasting, not only in their club houses, but in their journals, that, in consequence of one or two elections having gone against the Re formers, it is the intention of Lord Melbourne to re tire from office, and to resign the Queen's Govern ment into the hands of the -Tories.' There never was a greater mistake, or rather, we should say, there never was a greater falsehood propagated. Lord Melbourne neither does or ever did entertain any such intention. With the firmness which has invariably characterised him, he will stand to his colours to the last ; and with the support of her Majesty and the confidence of the people, will scatter to the winds the 'hopes of the Tories. Why, indeed, should he resign ? Sir Robert Peel held office with a decided majority against him for nearly two months, and in a Parlia ment of his own choosing ; and are Lord Melbourne and his colleagues to surrender their places to their opponents, when there is not only a majority of the representatives of the people in their favour, but when also, as is well known, her Majesty, the friend of the people and the people's rights, is determined to give them the most ample constitutional support. Shame upon the audacious liars that dare to propagate such a report !1 1 Shame upon their recreant lips which give utterance to the falsehood, and still greater shame upon the Reformer who could b e so senseless as to entertain the idea for a moment t hat Lord Melbourne would strike his flag, and, without firing a shot, sur. render to the enemy ! Lord Alelbourne is not only the Minister of the Queen, but of the people ; and a more atrocious act of treachery td both could not be conceived than that of betraying both by the resigna tion of his office. However, to close our allusion to this stupid fabrication on the part of some of our Con temporaries, we may state at once, and we state it upon authority, that Lord Melbourne has not the slightest intention of deserting either the Queen or the people ; and that so many of the. supposed Tory Members returned to the present Parliament have THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, AVGITST 11, 1837. given in their adhesion to his Government, and the prhsciyl,4B tiiion whith it is cot►dtictecl, th s at there can hot be entertained the flighted doubt of his having a large majority in the ensuing Sesi'on.—Morning meat vauntings are made by the Tories of their gains in the recent elections, and we have DO heSitatiOr. M 4011146 Pa . that althOUgh oh the ge.teral result their stiece:sa in u 'Etiglatid-the Only poitidii tit the empire where baffle 11ws hot been decidedly against them' —will be found to fall far short of their misrepresenta tions; yet the aft CasCh, it tow, iii which i tht'ir trtitiipli.is a subject of regret: We may instance Liverpool, M;ddl , .sek, East Stirrqi and Marti: prom the tedillgg or the electors in those places.beino known to preponderate immetrs.ely iii favour of giving effect to tht+ principles of iterottn, it is Well to aStertaiti by *hat machinations, " drtigs, or cOnjiiratiiiis," they haVe ban sty egregioi,isly betrayed , into the desertion of candidates, " good men and true, ' identified with these principles . , and the election of l'erifgehtaitres who make their opposition to nef`orm the chief claim on the general suffrage. Of course bribery and intimidation by, the Tories stand forentost amongst the causes of these reverses : these are their :nain instruments of action, and most effectively have they worked them ; but we cannot think any of these constituencies—not even Liverpool—so thoroughly de- based as to yield up the interests of the country a prey to Toryism, unless other and potent causes contri buted to the degrading and lamentable result. No, it would not have been sufficient to corrupt and threaten, it was also necessary to call in the aid of falsehood, duplicity, and vilification. Of this character is the outcry which the faction have raised about the Church and the New Poor-law Act. To the sim ple, the enthusiastic, and the fanatical, the Tories have alleged that a deep and diabolical scheme is laid for the overthrow of the Church, and asked the credulous elector " Will you vote for the de struction of your religion ?" And even there are many instances—had we not the fear of that absurd law which makes truth a libel before our eyes—wherein we could adduce the names, day, and place, of the pulpit hawing been desecrated by the promulgation of this falsehood, and, the exposition of the Divine word superseded by political appeals. And yet the parties thus guilty of desecrating the Church would ar rogate an exclusive interest in the maintenance of that religion which their irreverend conduct is so much cal culated to bring into public disrepute; Of those whose unreflecting sympathy misleads their judgment, the Tories ask—keeping all circumstances collateral to the New Poor-law Act studiously in the back-ground— they ask, " Will you consent to punishing poverty as a crime ?" " to immuring the poor in bastiles ?" " to separating man and wife ?" The alarm about the Church is so despised by all reflecting minds, that we need not farther expose its absurdity. The Poor-live fallacy is more 'likely to mislead, the question being of a more complicated nature. But it may be met by one plain question—" When did the Tories ever show themselves the friends of the poor ?" To suppose them:such is a contradiction of trims. It has been wisely observed, that the injured may forgive, but the injurer never ; how, then, can the Tories be the friends of those whom their enormous and misapplied exactions from the industrial wealth of the country have been the chief means of reducing to destitution ? So much for the undue misrepresentations of the Tories l Now a word on the omissions of the Re formers ; and, first, their neglect of the registries ; next, their overweening confidence, which led them to expect success without an effort for its accomplish mznt ; and, lastly, their misapplied parsimony. We admit that it could not have been expected, nor wished, that they would have had recourse to bribery. An honest man will not pay so much for a trust, flowerer honourable, as the rogue who meditates by the abuse of such trust to secure an indemnity ; but there are le gitimate expenses incidental to elections, which the Liberals have most injudiciously refrained from incur ring. We shall not at present pursue the subject farther, than to urge those qualified for the suffrage, in the words of Sir Robert Peel, to " Register, Register, Register ;" and to appeal'to every man in either House of Parliament who does not wish to see the representa tive trust made the subject of as gross corruption as prevailed previously to the Reform Act, and seats in the House of Commons sold in the highways and market-place to the highest bidder, to secure to the electors the protection of " The Ballot, the Ballot, the Ball ot."—Morning Advertiser. While we regret, on general grounds, the exclusion of Sir James Graham from Parliament, and we agree with such of our Contemporaries who have attributed his defeat-mainly to the part he took on the Poor-law Committee, in support of that odious, unconstitutional, antichristian, and un-English law, in our estimation, no talents possessed by any man, however useful awl commanding, can compensate for this one drawback— a drawback which must deprive him of the confidence of the humane, the honest, and right-judging part of the community. No man, according to the published evidence, took so warm and uncompromising a part upon that Committee as Sir James Graham. Like every enthusiast in a bad cause, he was ready "with every quibble to support his mistaken opinions. In so doing it now appears (of which there could be no doubt) that he was misrepresenting the sentiments and the feelings of the people of East Cumberland ; who have now had an early opportunity of telling the Honourable Baronet so in a way that cannot be misunderstood. Though S.r James Graham's talents, then, cannot well be spared to the Conservative cause, and though norm can lament more than we do the political suicide which he has thus committed, it is to be hoped that his fate will prove a warning to others, and that we shall not see so many othcrw ise excellent persons fallin g into the error, which has thus proved fatal to one of the ' otherwise most eminent of the present race of public men. Let it teach men of all parties that public opi nion is not to he trifled with ; and that however emi nent the persons who have hitherto attempted to jus tify and bolster up this inhuman enactment, it cannot be maintained against opinions-and feelings so unequi vocally expressed.—Morning Herald. We wish our excellent contemporary the Standard would not indulge in fancies till it believes them to be facts. Thus we have in that journal on Wednesday night along speech attributed to Lord Melbourne, which our contemporary states he " firmly believes to hare been repeated by the Premier more than a dozen times," ending with the words—" I will, therefore, resign office." Now, as no authority but that of an anonymous Whig is given for this declaration, the Standard must forgive us if we wholly disbelieve the statement, and express our opinion that he has been imposed upon by one of those many dealers in the marvellous whose news is generally alleged to be authen tic in proportion to its want of all authenticity whatever. That the doom of Lord Melbourne's administration will be sealed by the result of the present elections, there can be little doubt ; but that its retirement will not be a voluntary one, is, judging from our past ex perience of Whig tenacity, equally certain. Besides, such erroneous statements as these only tend to put the Conservatives off their guard, and to cause them to relax in their exertions. What would be thought of a general who, while preparing for battle, listens to a story of his adversary's intending to retreat, and, spreading this rumour through the camp, disarms, in a great mea.ure, his own followers, and unfits them for the combat ? Equally objectionable is too ready faith in such rumours in pol►tical warfare. Let Lord Mel bourne's resignation come when it Will, it will be a work of compulsion and of necessity. The Whigs have no such word as resignation in their vocabulary. If they had, they would have resorted to it long ago —seeing how entirely inefficient and powerless their services have long been ; but the only way to force them from their posts is to follow up the blows which they are now receiving—to ,credit no rumours of their voluntary retirement--and to be assured that the cita ' del will only be taken sword in hand, by the over whelming force opposed to it. To that conflict no division of the forces is more important than the tried and veteran columns of the Standard ; and it is that it may not be instrumental in neutralising in any de gree its own power, or in any degree diminishing the efforts of other assailants, that we throw- out these observritions.—Morning - Herald. If any man, being the appointed and sworn governor Of a fortress, were not only to give some Qt the most important e oi„tsotacfopoe into the ,keeping 'Avowed - enemies, kit were tci - tilke - rt rcwar.l - for so do;tig, and with that rewatti encotiik , e arid a;d those the not - mince vvho were most. disposed to T.:volt—such a . „ uerfictoili goVeytiCir would, as far - as regard,: morality, act rely trideti id die viTtAtf - t=tt the present Ministers of the Crown have acted. iney used the power of the Crown to bestow honouiS emoltittieiik lip ort potsons whose principles arc, ever have been, and die ciiet li l t dy hi lid to the Protestant Monareltiftl Goverritnent otthiS country, of whidli they are (hi ofileial eitirdiaris ; and having, done this, they then avail themselves or th trii;diirs Which the persons so appointed are capable of confer ring in RAIN !i - il 4 .dOrscre l and reward the most abandoned among the most liacical coi - ktitticu , ties. In this way they obtain the election of Members to the House of Cdttitlidtlti otWe {avowable to them (the Ministers) and hostile to the constatiliunal princlolve upon which the Protestant Monarchy is based, Beaten as the I.l4Misteria!isbi pia litoen in the pregtrit election, their defeat would have been much more decisive, and indeed overivliehriiitg, if the very grossest means of obtaining victory in certain plaen had not been used in the most lavish manner. Were it not that in several places where Ministerial candi dates of the most considerable importance were consi dered to be in dander orders were given that a victory should be obtained at any cost, and by any means— were it not for this, and the measures resorted to in consequence, there would be at this day certain lead ing men out of ParliaMent who are now in it. How they got in their Committees can tell, and how the means were ptovidcd which were at the disposal of their Committees they themselves can tell. They will not do so, however, if they can help it—but one thing they cannot help, and that is the conscious ness within their own" breasts of the real footing upon which they stand, as peculiarly the chain pions of freedom of election..-And honest repre sentation in Parliament. We do not believe it possible that, however accustomed they may now be, to the nefarious practices of the party in whose hands they are so miserable as to be placed, they can steel themselves to the bitter sense of self-degradation which must attend upon their recollections of the last three weeks. They have not escaped detection—as they must well know ; and they will be lucky if they escape exposure. What, suppose it should appear that the patronage of the Crown has been virtually sold, to find means of corrupting the people ? There are patriots who would think all this a very adroit exer cise of the power of Government for a public pur• pose—they would call the favour on the one hand a . merited distinction, and the consideration, or compli ment, or expression of gratitude, on the other, '" a subscription." But these words. do not disguise the real nature of such transactions as we allude to. It is not yet the time to say more upon this subject. — Morning Post. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, Aua. 10. PORTMAN V. MILL. This case was again spoken to this morning, and on the production of the register-book and the minute of decree, as delivered out by Lord Brougham, the LORD CHANCEL- Lon was of opinion that Lord Brougham, in saying the de fendant was to have the costs of the suit, did not intend to include those costs of the exceptions which he had disposed of by the order of 1832. TICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Auo. 10. LOSH V. HAGUE. Mr. KNIGHT moved for an injunction to restrain the de fendant from infringing a patent granted in 1830 to Losh and George Stephenson, for an improved mode of making iron wheels for rail carriages. The improvement consisted in uniting in a solid manner the spokes to the felly by making each spoke with an elbow to it, so that the elbows locked together formed the felly. Mr. JACOB opposed the motion, and contended that the invention was not novel, and had been previously the sub ject of a patent granted to a person named Paten. His lloNoun said there was no question the defendant's wheels answered the description of the plaintiff's, and there fore the injunction should be granted ; but as a question was raised by the production of Paton's patent the plaintiff should be put upon terms of bringing an action at law, for the infringement, which action would test the validity of his patent. CHAMPNEYS V. ELLWANDS. Mr. WAKEFIELD movod for the plaintiff, Sir Thomas Champneys, to continue the common injunction upon the admissions of the defendant's attorney. Some years ago Sir Thomas Champneys, being very much in debt, entered into a ncgociation, through one Yewens, a conveyancer, who was his agent, with the defendant Ellwands, for the pur chase of an equity of redemption at a sum exceeding four thousand pounds. No formal written agreement was entered into, but Sir Thomas gave to Yewens his bills for the pur chase money, which were to be delivered to Ellwands when the deeds ware completed. Sir Thomas afterwards took the benefit of the Insolvent Act, but, as nothing further was done about the proposed purchase, no notice of it was taken on that occasion, and the business apparently dropped. However, in 1835, Yewens, the holder of the bills, deli vered them somehow to Ellwands, who had lately com menced actions upon them against Sir Thomas. The bill was filed to restrain these actions. His HONOUR continued the injunction. BANKRUPTCY COURT, AUG , . 10. MEDLEY AND SON'S BANKRUPTCY. A meeting of the creditors under the fiat issued against Messrs. Medley and Son, bankers, of Uxbridge, Windsor, and other places, was held to-day, for the further proof of debts and the declaration of a dividend. Mr. Attwood, the Secretary of the British North American Banking Company, applied on behalf of the Directors of the estab lishment to enter a claim as against the firm of Medley and Co., for 2,0001., on account of some shares in the under taking held by one of the parties. The COMMISSIONER said the claim could not be allowed in its present form, and it was withdrawn. The proof of the debts was then continued, chiefly on notes in circulation at the period when the bankruptcy took place. A dividend was ordered to be declared, but owing to the multiplicity of proofs, and the extensive transactions of the bankrupts, time was required to nrake the calculation pre viously to declaring the amount of the first dividend. Lvsq,LVENT DEBTORS' COURT—Au°. 10. After a case or two of no public importance, a distress ing scene occurred in the Court. About two o'clock an insolvent named Thomas Newman was ordered to be dis charged, and within a few minutes afterwards was a corpse. His case stood on the cause list of Wednesday, and Mr. Commissioner Bowen called the list, in order to hear the cases unopposed before two o'clock, that the parties might obtain their liberty the same day. Newman was not op posed ; he was ordered to be discharged. The excitement had evidently affected his mind, and before lie could leave the Court he was seized with a fit, and expired in the im mediate precincts. He was bled by a medical man, but breathed his last in a few minutes. He had been confined some time in Horsemonger-lane. The surgeon gave it as his opinion that he died from apoplexy, no doubt•hastened by imprisonment for debt. The body was conveyed to the public-house opposite, for a Coroner's inquest to be held. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME ClRCUlT:—Cztornox, Auto. 10. NISI PRIUS COURT.-DOBSON AND OTHERS P. DENNE AND ()THE It S. This action was brought by the plaintiffs, to recover damages from the defendants, for running down the Gipsy, a Greenwich stean\er, by their vessel the Royal George, a Margate steam-boat. Charles Down, the master of the Gipsy, stated that the Gipsy left Greenwich at ten o'clock on Saturday, the 3d of last June ; the tide was flowing. When she reached Pitcher's-point she met the Royal George coining down to the southward. A Trinity lighter and a coal barge were also floating with the tide. He called out to the pilot of the Royal George to ease her engine and stop. The Royal George was three times as large as the Gipsy. Th e pilot on board the former took no notice of what the witness said to him. Witness directed the engine of the Gipsy to be eased, which was done, and she remained perfectly still. The Royal George continued her course and her speed, and very shortly ran foul of the Gipsy, and knocked in her starboard paddle-box and disabled her. There were twenty passengers on board at the time, who were obliged to get into other boats, the Gipsy being towed into the Union Dock _at Limehouse to be repaired. Had the Royal George taken a southerly course, the collision would not have occurred. Other witnesses proved the same facts, and stated that if the Gipsy had gone to the southward she would have run down a coal barge. The bill for the repair of the Gipsy came to 831.55. On the part of the defendant, Mr. Allen, the master of the Royal George was called. On the morning in ques tion he left Fresh Wharf to proceed to Margate. The Royal George pursued a mid-channel course ; when she met the Gipsy, the latter boat was nearest to the south shore. H e waved 4is hand to the pilot of the Gipsy to goi to the gctich‘tard. There was plenty of room for h,:r to do so. The Gipsy, however, instead of going to the south, endeavoured to pass between the Ro y al Gcor,"nd a coal haaTre. He cried out, .a Douce, for God's sake stop her, and turn her engine astern." He desired the engine of the Royal George to be stonrd, and reversed. Hed that not been done, the Royal Ge,r,e would have sunk the Gipsy. The Gipsy ran foul of the Royal Geo. ge, aryl caused the 11Ory, Other witne._. - - ----- board the Gipsy. -‘) The ;Tory returned with a verdict for the patltint , , for • 83/. 55., ire ritticilfrA cf the bill for repairs ; but they ati lowed no further sum for 66 ;ON of time when the Gipsy in (lock. They attributed the act:idea in the defend ants, but thoy not altogether exculpate the plaintiffs, CitOWN SIDE.—THE C1107"All BURGLAIIS.—Cha . les Reiser, alias Wood, aged !?.4 ; John 3S ; Edwa.d Pa 01;, an , ! Ilirrief Sims, 18, were ear/telly in dicted for linrgiarcrialty breaking and entering the dwell ing-house of William Walker, at Cobham, on the 10th of Aptni tml stealing therefrom four harnt awl divers articles of plate, .jewtAery, 4c., his property ; and Sarah Biyeys, .! alias Wood/cy, (the reputed of Biggs) was charged with feloniously r eceiving part of the said property, knowing it to have been stolen, In consequence of the celebrity of the first named Tyr:- goner a " Surrey cracksman 4 the case excited greiit, ""A attribute;; the accident to the parties oi! interest. W i n. Walker—This witilegg described himself to be a harness-rnakcr at Cobham, and his t hree daughters, as co partners, keep a linen-draper's shop undee his roof. On Sunday, the 9th of April, he i'c. , tired to bed, the doors and windows having been properly secured. About foul - on the following morning he heard an alarm, and when he went be low he found a window had been broken, and the lower rooms in it state of confusion. The intruders, whoever they were, decamped hastily, and they left a smock-frock, a hat, end a cloth cap behind them ; ea also part of a pie and a bottle of wine, with which it seems they bail regaled them selves. On the same morning he went with a constable to Fairmill-common, where he saw ail the prisoners in and about the tent. The woman Biggs was in bed. Bedser lay near her, upon some hams. Partridge, the officer, at tempted to take him, but ho resisted ; and Warton and Biggs ran away. Knows that the hams found under the body of Bedser were his by the broad W. W. on the rhind. Mrs. Mary Walker, the wife of the prosecutor, was called to prove the fastenings of the doors, &c., and subsequently to identify articles found in the possession of the prisoners, particularly a steel, a table-cloth, and her husband's snuff. box, which she saw just before she went to bed. Miss Mary Walker early on Monday morning was aroused by a noise below. She listened for three-quarters of an hour, and being convinced that improper persons were in the house she called to her father, and put up the window, and cried " Murder !" At the time she did so it was too dark to distinguish objects. She had 'since seen various articles which she knew to belong to herself and other members of the family, and among them a pincushion in the shape of a shoe. A hat had,been left in the pantry, which she believed she had seen Biggs wear six days before. By Mr. Esetteassx—She said before the Magistrates what she says now, that the hat was uncommonly like it. By Mr. CHAMBERS—The hat was put on the head of the prisoner, and then I felt more convinced. William Partridge, a constable, went with Mr. Walker, the prosecutor, to the tent, and he was induced to do so on account of the frock, which he knew to belong to Charley (Bedser), whom he had known all his life. Bedser was lying at the mouth of the tent, upon a bag and cloth, with the knife produced near his breast. He started up and was about to " bolt" when witness said " Stop, Charles, don't run away, you are my prisoner." He replied, " Then I'il be d—d if I dont fight for it." Upon that witness pulled out a pistol, and said to him (Bedser), " The first man that offers resistance I'll blow his brains out." The other male prisoner then made off, and eventually Bedser escaped. Frederick Corisbee, a constable at Cobham, stated that he lives near the house of the prosecutor, from which, on the morning named, he heard the cry of " Murder." He went forthwith, and found the family in a state of conster nation, and the house in disorder. The window had been broken, and he found the hat, cap, and frock, now pro duced. He knew it to be Bedser's frock because the but tons were put on outside instead of inside. That circum stance led him to go to the tent where the property was discovered. He was not there with Walker and Partridge. Several other witnesses were called, in order to prove the capture of Bedser, who on one occasion ran away hand cuffed, and to prove the possession of other property not al luded to by the witnesses. The case for the prosecution having closed, Mr. ESPINASSE addressed the jury for Biggs and his al leged wife, and submitted that the woman must be acquitted, as in law she would be supposed to act under the controul of her husband. Besides, she was indicted as being a re ceiver. If she was an offender at all she was a thief. Mr. GASELEE addressed the jury on behalf of Bedser, and submitted that the property being found in a tent, the owner of which had not been shown, was at the best only a presumptive proof that that prisoner was a guilty possessor. The jury retired for nearly half an hour, and then re turned with a general verdict of Guilty against all the pri soners excepting the girl Sims. This announcement appeared to surprise every one, his Lordship not excepted, and he recommended the panel to retire and re-consider, especially as to the woman Biggs, for unless she was viewed as a guilty receiver she could not be convicted. The Jury, after a further consultation, returned with a verdict of Guilty. After much consideration his Lordship ordered the officer of the Court to call upon the male prisoners to state any reason they might have why judgment of death should not be recorded against them.—They all stood mute. The Learned Judge then told Bedser that his life would be spared; and with respect to the other male prisoners, although the same judgment would be recorded their ulti mate punishment would be duly considered. His Lordship then sentenced the woman Biggs to be transported for seven years. The trial occupied nearly the whole day, and, with the exception of one case, terminated the business of the Crown Court. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-110USE. A few days ago a Weidman, namrd John Davis, was brought before the LORD MAYOR, on suspicion of having violated a little girl named Sarah Somers, aged twelve years. It is known that in some parts of Wales couples, previously to the performance of the marriage ceremony, before the - light of civilisation glimmered upon that portion of the island, were huddled together in bed, but not before some very necessary arrangements were made to prevent mischief. Perhaps the existence of some practice of a similar description at the present day may account for the remarkable facts stated in the evidence on this occasion, if, indeed, evidence be given to the statement which ex cited so much surprise. The little girl had been servant in the family of the brother of the prisoner, and attended to the children. The prisoner slept in the house. On Friday week the prisoner entered her room at night, and slept In the bed, but she had no reason to complain of him, except that he merely shared her bed, which she determined he should not do agai►r. On the following night she fastened the door with a cord, and went into bed and fell asleep. Sl.e was, however, . awoke by the prisoner, who disturbed and alarmed her, and she screamed, but nobody appeared, and the prisoner left her, hying assured her that if she said a word about what took place she should be beaten. The Loan Mavoa—llo you mean to say that he forced open the door ? Girl—He must have done so ; fur I fas tened it with a cord. The LORD MAvoß—And are you positive that he did as you have described ? Girl—l am, my Lord ; and I screamed as loud as I could, but nobody came to my assistance. _ _ Pumplett, the constable, who took the prisoner into cus tody, stated that the medical gentleman consulted upon the occasion did not wish to give evidence without calling in another of the profession, and the prosecutor had been denied to him, and had kept out of the way. The LORD MAYOR. directed that the required assistance should be given, and that an examination as to the extent of the alleged injury should take place. After the examination the prisoner was put to the bar, and the LORD MAYOR desired that the surgeons should state the result. Mr. Edward William Richardson, surgeon, of Chiswell street, deposed that it was decidedly his opinion that no such offence had been committed. Another medical gentleman said it was quite impossible, Mr. Richardson begged to be allowed to add, that he had examined the door, and the cord by which the girl said she had fastened it, and it appeared to him that no force whatever had been used to open the door. The LORD MAYOR said that the case was a very ex traordinary one, and asked the girl whether the prisoner had ever taken any liberties with her previously to Friday week, to which she replied that he had never taken the slightest. The LORD MAYOR—And did he go to bed on the first night you mention when you were in it ? The girl— He did. The LORD MAYOR—And what did you do ? The girl—l went to sleep. The LORD MAYOR—And you don't complain of his conduct on that night ? The girl—No ; he did nothing to me. He slept there all night. The LORD MAYOR--Were you treated with cruelty in the family ? Did your mistress treat you harshly ? The girl—Not very cruel. 'fbe LORD MAYOR—When did r4::m tell your 91.r0 fa- roily of this circumstance ? The girl—On SaturAay morn ing, the moment , I saw the►►►, for my mistress would Cot let m , go before. fiont.En, junior, appeared for the prisoner, andl stated that the whole story was fabricated from beginning to rod. Lottn MAYOR—I cannot see what motive shc could have for telling a be. It i.; certainly evident that the utrenee With which the prisoner is charged was not com p-lilted, but it is not quite so certain that the prisoner did no out in the other respects as has been described by the girl. M-. NOBLER (tN , Chief Clerk), being consulted by his Lordship, said that the cue was one in which ordinary bail might be taken for the ap i .; , arance of the prisoner at the Sessions. _ _ His LORDSHIP then required iiz - j l , which was ;mute iliAtely tendered and accepted. Thweas C'estelle, an elderly Irish tailor. was charged witls having begged in a most importunate style, although he ut tered not a word. • A policeman stated that the prisoner had been for years about the streets of the metropolis, and that of late he had fastened particularly upon the city of London. His way was to fix himself, shivering and shaking, against the wall, and his deplorable appearance, for he could make his very eyes start almost out of his head, soon brought customers to him. Witness, finding that entreaty would not prevail upui; the beggar to remove from the most populous neigh bourhoo:_l about the Bank, took him into custody. The Loa MAYOR—Now Costello, we have often told you to leave the Ciiy, Why do you persevere in annoying us ? Costello—Oh, then, please your Honour, I'm all over pains and aches. I'm afeard never get well. The LORD MAYOR—You are sick with idleness. I am told you are a man of much bodily strength. Costello—So I was, my Lord, till I got a fall. The LORD MAYOR—From what ? A. simpboard ? Costello—No, from a horse. I'm not able to s:t on a shop board, God help me ! on account of the tumble. Besides, my eyes are very bad. lam almost blind. The policeman said that there was not a beggar in the City, able and active as they were, who bad better use ,t:of eyes and limbs than the defendant, who could see an officer at any distance, arid get out of sight in the twinkling of an eye. Costello—Oh dear, yes. They ought to put me up as a tollygraph. You'd swear that I could read the newspaper from this to Portsmouth in a fog.-4A laugh.) The LORD MAYOR—How long is it since we sent you to Bridewell from this place? Costello—How long ? an age, I'm sure. Let me see ; it's just three years. Policeman —lt can't be more than six months, my Lord. The LORD MAYOR—I dare say you have been in a dozen jails within those three years. Costello—No, my Lord, not so many. Inspector AV Lean—He says he will not leave the City at a ll. We have besought him to go, but he shakes his head. and says as the City is his home it would be ungrateful in him to quit it. The LORD MAYOR—WiII you promise me to go if I discharge you ? Costello—Go where, your honour ? The Loan MaYoa—Anywhere out of our jurisdiction. Costello—Oh, dear no, I wont disgrace myself by going out of your jurisdiction. I've no parents, God help me, but yourself and the like of you. The Loan MAYOR—You say you have not been here these three years. Will you promise me not to come for three years more ? Costello—Can't afford to be out of the City, your Honour ; I'd do it with pleasure, but I really cannot manage it.—(Laughter.) The Loeb MaYon—Then you must have a go at . the treadmill for a couple of months." Costello—l know where the mill is precious well. It an't out of the City, is it, my Lord? Committed to Bridewell. HASTINGS.—FETE AT FAIRLIGHT P L ACE, Auc. B.—Our worthy representative, Mr. Planta, a few days since, issued invitation cards to his constituents and friends, to partake of a cold collation on Tuesday last. The day was beautifully fine, and by ten o'clock in the morning there was a general movement in the town. The favourite colours, blue, were again hoisted ; e ver,' one sporting a blue favor, and many ladies appearing to dresses entirely of that colour. On arriving at his seat, Fairlight Place, the ticket was produced at the entrance , and the visitor passed down the walk through the beau tiful grounds, beneath an arch, with the inscription " Welcome." The house and grounds were thrown open , and flags were hung out of every window. In the dif ferent paths were placed numerous tables profusely loaded with every thing good, and here and there a flag waving he the wind, with the following inscriptions :---" Th e Quell Victoria," " The Mechanics of Hastings," " Success to Trade," &c. At the head of the table of the first row sat Mr. Planta, who, after the cloth was removed, rose eficl, gave as the first toast, " The Queen, God Bless Her, which was drunk with three times three, and loud cheer , ing. Several other toasts having been given, Mr. Ranp, the Mayor, rose and proposed the health of ki Mr. Planta, for which that gentleman returned thanks, and also for the proud station they had placed him in. It was the only honour he ever wished to aspire to, and he bad now by their kindness obtained it. He felt so delighted with his company, that he hoped he should often have the enjoyment of it. He again thanked them most ki ndll for the honour they had conferred on him, and partico-, larly the Ladies, who were friendly to his cause. In con cluding the Hon. Gentleman proposed the health of the Ladies, with three times three. The toast we need hardly say, was drunk with loud applause. Three bands of m usic were on the ground, and dancing immediately commenced it soon become general at different parts of the plantations , and was kept up till a late hour. It gave us great pleasure to see all classes joining in this never to be forgotten enter tainment ; every heart seemed to gladden at the sight of the promoter of so many pleasant hours. Each person rc turned home with happy countenances ; and thus ended one of the most pleasant days ever remembered at Hastings. There were within the grounds nearly 2,000 people. GREEK FEMALE BEAUTY.—After I had been thgre (at Mount Hymettus) an hour, I was joined by t" English travellers, the Hon. Mr. C- and Lord 11-- - • The first was a very good artist, and with his pencil 11( sketched a pretty little Moreote woman, the wife of It Greek captain, who was with her. Not wishing to rouse the ire of a Greek chieftain, and particularly after he had imbibed a tolerable portion of wine, we covered the artist a little in his operations by placing ourselves between him and the husband in such a manner that the former might not be seen. He had not worked more than five minuto, when the lady perceived what he was about, and was evi• dently not displeased at it, for she shortly afterwards place(' herself in a better situation for the artist to finish his w ork- Her head was not dressed like the Athenian women in general ;'she wore only a red cap with a large curl of a uburi: hair on each side of her face falling behind her cars, it"`; contrastiog with her fair complexion on the one hand, and her dark red cap on the other. The middling class of ‘`'°" men in Greece, the wives and daughters of the farmers e°" . small landholders, are as fine a rice as I have seen in a n y country in the world ; and I have no doubt that one re 3" son for this is the double fact of their marrying at the PO' per time of life, and almost always from inclinatio n. Cuchrane's Wanderings in Greece. SETS OF PLATED DISH COVERS, va, „, STRONG SILVER EDGES, may he selected from PAtterns, price 201. the Set, at T. COX SAVORY'S, Workinn: Goldsmith, Silversmith, and Watchmaker, 47, Cornhill, Loud` eo The Set consists of one cover of 20, 18, 16, 14 and 12 i n c" diameter. N.B.—The three Show Rooms contains a large variety of supeeig Silecr.edged Plated Goods. A Pamphlet, containing a Li s t Prices and Drawings of Silver Spoons and Forks, Silver P la t e? u Plated Goods, Watches, Clocks, &c., may be had gratis, or will 1# forwarded, in answer to a post-paid application. ------- I? I R7ll S. On the 7th inst., at liamptoz.l Lodge, near Farnham, the ladi Catherine Long, of a son and heir. On the 4th inst., the lady of Sir E. Antrobus, Bart., of a W" a n' On the ttth inst., at Boxwell Court, Gloucestershire, Mrs. " Shakespear, of a son. MARRIED. OM the Bth inst., at Kington , William Urcriek, Esq., O f C V; h a m, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of E. Walker, Esq., of O. mer place. of On the Bth inst., at Bromley Church , M r. G eor ge CocT e "ao - - of Greenwich, surgeon, to Eleanor Henrietta, eldest daughter late Rev. Dr. Smith, of Bromley, Kent. to On the 9th inst., G. Lee, Esq., of Garratt House,Surr e l c ' t he T Margarette Anne, the second daughter of T. Brown, EA/ °` Ncw Grove. On the 9th inst., at Limehousc Church, Benj am i n Buck Greseert. EN., of Woburn-place, e lde s t son o f B. Greene, Esq., of h ot square and Bury St. Edmund's, to Isabela Elizabeth, only Os" of T. Blyth, EN., of Limehouse. O S 11 On the 9th inst., th e R ev . R. D. Lagden, late of —boils House, Cambridg,eshire, to Mary Anne, daughter of John Esq., of Fisherton Delamere, Wiltshire. . , DIED. f On the 9th inst., William Henry, son of Wm. Maclean, Vtl'' o Denmark-hill, Camberwell, aged 10. d 76+ On the 9th inst., at Surbiten, Kinl:ton-on- Thames, *e. A 0 Mary, widow of the late T. Fassett, Ele,., of Hildershain Cambridgeshire. 1%-° f rtio cigfr On the sth inst., in Regency-square, Brie.ton, Jilin Esq., late of Oxford-street, aged 61. 0 1 01 01 On the sth inst., at Kingsland, Joshua, son of the l ate It Leicester, Esq., of Croom's-hill, Greenwich. On the 7th inst., at Trelegar-square, Mile - end , Mrs. gal. Arthur Mitchell, aged 68. , i dri On the Bth inst., at Remenham-hill, Henley-upon-Thaargsgwed Thomas Squire Stapleton, formerly of Cork-street, Bun ° ga rdens. vor foik On the Bth inst., Samuel Sew3ll, Esq., of Thurlion, in his 80th year. -----, ---- #llk 0 0 London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG' otf 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, 4,, No. 112, Strand, in ke- 4 of Mic.ldlem,,„..Friday, August 11, 1837. i