The Sun. — London, England, 1835-05-09 00:00:00

Pir SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS The Whig arrangement relative to the Court of Chancery excites a general and deep feeling of dissa tisfaction both with the public and the legal profession. IsTo Administration, who had not a peculiar aptitude for bungling whatever they took in hand, could ever have thought of manufacturing a Lord Chancellor out of two Equity Judges, whose own Courts are full of business, and a Common Law Judge, who, though respectable and efficient in his own department, knows nothing of Equity I Can this be the work of a Re form nothing ? or has some power behind, but not of the Government, contrived this arrangement — the best that could be devised to bring Commissioner ships of the Great Seal into public disfavour, and to make suitors prefer even a political Lord Chancellor, not overstocked with a knowledge of Equity, to a judicial triumvirate so constituted that it cannot transact the business of one Court without neglect ing that of others? It is upwards of twenty years ago since the Vice-Chancellor's Court was esta blished, to facilitate the despatch of business in Chancery, and though it has been very useful in keeping down arrears of business in that Court, its own arrears have been, for a long time past, and sre now very considerable. In fact the business of the Vice-Chancellor's Court requires the constant and un divided attention of the Learned Judge at the head of it ; yet at a moment when the causes in that Court are greatly in arrear, the Vice-Chancellor is appointed a Commissioner of the Great Seal, and must necessarily neglect the duties of a Commissioner, or allow the business in his own Court to get more deeply in ar rear, to the great delay of justice, and the consequent increase of expense and vexation to the suitors. Is this vhat the Whig Ministers mean by Rcform in Chan cery I Then, as to the Master of the Rolls, the in crease of business in his Court having made it necessary a few years ago to convert the three day evening sittings into daily sittings, has left him no leisure to take other judicial work on his bands, without great detriment to the interests of the suitors in his own Court. But he also is appointed to take charge of the business in the Lord Chancellor's Court, and his office as a Commissioner must be either a nullity or a nuisance—a nullity if he give to the transaction of business in his own Court all the time which it demands—a nuisance if he delay justice to the suitors in his own Court to transact busi ness elsewhere. Such are the mischievous conse quences of this stupid and bungling arrangement ; but the absurdity goes further. The Court of the Lord Chancellor being a Court of Appeal from the two other Courts, either appeals in Chancery cannot be tried, or appeals from those two Courts must be heard by the Judges whose decisions are appealed against, or by one of them sitting under another roof ! Whether Mr. O'Connell was consulted upon this arrangement we cannot tell, but certainly it equals anything of Hi bernian blundering upon record. Had it emanated from Mr. Spring Rice's or Lord Duncannon's de partment the public might have supposed it was an Irish mode of appeal, and adopted to assimilate the practice of the two countries, and prove the reality of the Union. The " unlearned" have been in the habit of thinking that the appeal from the Lord Chancellor in his own Court to the same personage in the House of Lords was sufficiently ridiculous; but then in theory it is quite a different thing from what it is in practice, be cause the Learned Lord on the Woolsack is supposed to be only the organ of the whole House of Lords, sitting in a judicial capacity ; and in practice, too, it often happens that one or more law Lords, or re tired Chancellors take a part in the proceedings ;—but as to the appeal, as now established, from the Master of the Rolls and the Vice-Chancellor, in their own Courts, to the Master of the Rolls and the Vice- Chancellor in the superior Court of Equity (for the Common Law Judge must be left out of the question), it is nothing but a bare and naked absurdity both in theory and practice. The latest legal arrangement of the present Ministry is to make the Chief Justice of the King's Bench the Speaker of the House of Lords. In point of personal dignity of deportment and sauvity of manners, it would be difficult to make a better choice of an individual for that important office. The manners of Chief Justice Denman on the bench are those of a gentleman by disposition, habit, and education. The tendency to coarse and intemperate language and rude and personal col lisions which has, of late years, rather lowered the character of the House of Coramons, once so distin guished for its polished propriety, requires to be checked ; and for that purpose it is absolutely neces sary to have an example and model of courtesy and good temper on the Woolsack ; for politeness of man ners and propriety of language in that situation might become as contagious as the opposite qualities of in temperance and rudeness. Looking at the question only in this point of view, the selection of Lord Den man for the office is unexceptionable. But there are other points of view in which it must be looked at, and in which the fitness is not so apparent. The union of the office of Speaker of the House of Lords with that of Lord Chancellor has long been a matter of just and serious objection. " Well," say the Whig Ministers, " we will reform the practice—we will separate the two offices—we will seperate the judicial duties of the Chancellorship from the political ones altogether." How do they effect this reform ? By separating the Speakership of the House of Lords from the office of Chancellor, and annexing it to the office of Chief Justice I Surety this is supplanting one unfit and absurd arrangement by another. We doubt at present the power of making such an arrange ment legally without an Act of Parliament, but we must reserve our opinion upon that point until we have time to look a little more into the matter in a legal point. At present we speak only of the fitness or un fitness of the appointment, and surely if the Chief Jus tice of the King's Bench gives all the attention requi site to the business of his own Court, he can have no time to act as Speaker of the House of Lords. But then Lord Shaftesbury is to act for him as Deputy Speaker. Why, then, not make Lord Shaftesbury at once the Speaker, as it is quite certain he will have more to do with the discharge of the duties of the office than Lord Denman ? We do not like to see a Judge either placed in a situation where he must of necessity become a politician. We objected to a political Lord Chancellor. We object to a political Chief Justice. We would have the judicial and legislative powers per fectly distinct...-Morning Herald. The Gazette of last night confirmed our statement of the morning, that, at last, Mr. Littleton was about to be elevated to the Peerage, as some compensation for the affront offered to him by his late colleagues, in leaving him out of their official arrangements. Mr. O'Connell, albeit he likes not Mr. Littleton, did not attempt to interpose his veto to this exercise of the Royal prerogative. It is said that on the subject being mentioned to Mr. O'Connell, he contented him self for the present with expressing his decided opinion and deep regret that the number of Roman Catholic Members of the House of Lords is disproportionately small. To our announcement of the creation of Mr. Littleton we added that the Whigs intended to start the Hon. George Anson as their candidate for the county of Stafford, and that " a good man and true" was ready to oppose him. Both of these statements are verified to the letter. Mr. Anson is in the field on the part of Ministers ; and the whole Conservative party in Great Britain will ac knowledge that we said right in describing the consti tutional candidate as " a good man and true," when we state that the gentleman to whom we alluded is Sir F. L. H. Goodricke, the present Member for the bo rough of Stafford. The conduct of Sir H. Goodricke manifests a degree of zeal and devotion to the good cause which cannot be commended too highly ; and we hope and believe that his spirited enterprise will be crowned with all the success which it unquestionably deserves. There are circumstances in the position of political parties, and in the state of political questions, which naturally indispose gentlemen to encounter, at the present moment, the toil and the expense attendant upon a contested election ; and 'thee it is that so many of the Whig-Radical Members of the House of Commons who vacated their seats on accept ing office have been permitted to resume them without opposition. Sir H. Goodricke presents, how ever, a noble example of superiority to all selfish con siderations. For him it is sufficient that an opportu- nity presents itself of promoting the cause of wise and good Government. Magnanimously disdaining all thought of the inconvenience or loss which he may incur--disregarding all calculations as to the probable duration of the present Parliament—he follows at once, and without hesitation, the path of patriotic duty ; and, although really in possession of a seat in Parliament, resolves to afford to the county to which he belongs an opportunity of ranging itself on the side of an assaulted Church and a menaced Throne. Of the success of Sir H. Goodricke we have not the slightest doubt ; nor have we any that the vacancy which that success will occasion for the borough of Stafford will be supplied by some gentleman of sound political principles, and, therefore, worthy to be the successor of the high-spirited and patriotic Baronet.—. Morning Post. We have now before us the return made to an order of the House of Commons for " a copy of the pro ceedings of an investigation, held at Armagh, into the transactions which took place in the neighbourhood of Keady, between the police and country people, on col lecting an arrear of tithe due to the Rev. James Blacker, wherein one man was killed, and another wounded." A copy of the inquest, and all other do cuments connected with that encounter, are included in the return. The accounts which we receive from the Irish newspapers, of affrays between adverse parties, are, generally speaking, so much exaggerated on one side or the other—and owing, perhaps, also to the im perfect organization of the machinery necessary for the collection of authentic intelligence, are frequently so ut terly incorrect—that we seldom venture to reason upon their statements with any view to show the prac tical operation of the Constitution in that country. But here is a Parliamentary paper, containing a chapter from the living history of Ireland, upon which no shadow of doubt can be thrown. The investiga tion, of which we have here the result, was conducted by Mr. Sergeant Greene, a Tory lawyer of undoubted respectability in his profession ; and although discern ing readers must perceive that his political and religious bias has, unconsciously perhaps, led him to mitigate, as far as he could, the more flagitious features which the whole transaction presents to the contemplation of the Legislature, nevertheless he has furnished us with a record of ecclesiastical rapacity, tyranny, contempt for the Constitution, contempt for human life, con tempt for every feeling allied to the charities of religion, and to the preservation of order and the laws, the most revolting that ever yet disgraced a Christian Church, or degraded a civilized nation. The parish of Keady, near Armagh, is almost wholly inhabited by Catholics. The Rev. Jas. Stewart Blacker is the Protestant incumbent of the parish, and it appears that in November last he had a claim upon it for an arrear of tithes amount ing in the whole to the sum of twenty-five pounds I This was an arrear for the two years 1832 and 1833. If that wretched sum were really of any importance to the incumbent, he might have obtained it by way of loan—a loan never to be repaid—out of the million fund voted by Parliament for the express purpose of meeting cases of this description. But Mr. Blacker boasts that he never applied to that fund, whence it must be concluded that his secular circumstances did not imperatively demand the addition of five and-twenty pounds to his fortune. Moreover he states that nearly the whole of the parish had com pounded for the tithe—that in another year the com mutation would include every part of the parish-.--and that, therefore, after that period his claim would be only on the landlords, who would give him no fur ther difficulty on the subject of his income. But Mr. Blacker would have the pound of flesh stipulated for in " the bond." If he wanted the money, he might have got it from Dublin by return of post ; if he sacrificed the sum, he would never have missed it ; but he very much preferred attempting to collect it from the poorest peasantry on the face of the earth, at the point of the bayonet I There is a Minister of the Gospel for you ! It was necessary, however, to ms.l:2 C.:l r,i)- plication to the Government for the assistance of a police force ; and, in order to justify the application, it was further indispensable to procure affidavits proving some act of forcible resistance, or such other facts as would show that life might be endangered or the public peace disturbed, if extraordinary mea sures were not employed. The local magistrates would take these affidavits into their consideration, and act upon their own judgment and responsibi lity ; and, according to Mr. Littleton's express di rection, one of those magistrates must accompany any extraordinary force that might be ordered out for such a purpose. The latter condition looks something like a safeguard for the discreet use of the civil force. It was manifestly intended that a disinterested person, clothed with magisterial powers, should interpose his authority between the people and the claimant, and at the same time enforce the law in a manner not liable to suspicion. The necessary affidavits were of course easily procured, and an order was signed by two magistrates autho rizing the attendance of the police, who assembled under the command of their chief constable, twenty nine in number, on the Ist of December, a few days after the change of Government was known in that part of Ireland. The presence of a magistrate was, however, necessary to legalize their proceedings, and who, think you, was that magistrate ? The Rev. James Stewart Blacker, the claimant in the case— the party immediately interested in the recovery of the tithe ! Why, if such an outrage as this upon all legal decency, upon every thing like a constitu tional order of things, were perpetrated in England, the table of the House of Commons would be piled with petitions from every county, city, town, and hamlet in this kingdom, praying to have such a man dismissed from the magistracy ; and, if his Bishop did not discharge him from the service of the Church, the building in which he attempted to preach the Gospel of the God of charity, whom he had offended, would be pulled down about his cars by an indignant people. The image of an interested ma gistrate, directing, in the most tranquil way, the police force, for his own lucre, is detestable enough ; but, to behold a Minister of a Gospel, which abhors the effusion of human blood, ordering an armed body of men, attending there to direct them to fire upon his own parishioners, if they resisted the payment of his tithe, is a spectacle fit only for the precincts of that region where unpardonable crime is to undergo never ending punishment. When the people of England in their quiet homes, where their liberties are secured by law, read of these transactions, can they wonder that the Established Church in Ireland, filled as it is with such men as Blacker, is not considered by the mass of its inhabitants as a Church having any thing whatever to do with Christianity ? Can we be surprised that it is hated, that it is warred against, that it has produced nothing but discord, that it has generated the Orangemen—that it has created, by the discontent that pervades the whole island, the invincible, though irresponsible power now wielded with such matchless energy and skill by Mr. O'Connell ? But hear further. Every step we ad vance in this narrative has a horror of its own. "It does not appear," says Mr. Greene, " that any of the alleged defaulters had been personally required to pay, or even that any demand had been made at their houses." In the common course of things, even the most civil mode of legal process is seldom resorted to, except by very low attorneys, before the debt is at all events distinctly demanded : but according to the law of Ireland, as expounded and practised by the Rev. Magistrate Blacker, the only mode of obtaining the payment of tithe is to present a blunderbuss at the peasant's breast, and demand his money from him in the idiomatic phrase of the highway robber. The police force, headed by this exemplary clergyman, proceeded to action. A cow was seized. "No attempt was made to rescue it." Four or five distresses were taken, which " were removed to the cart without any molestation ;" although by this time a crowd had collected in the fields. Will an Englishman believe that the debt for which the cow was taken was just eight shillings ! that in the other cases of distress the sums demanded. were severally ss. 6d., 6s. 1 lid. (which the poor man, having by some accident lost his receipt, was obliged to pay twice over), 6s. 7*(1., and one or two other sums, still smaller in amount ? Although the whole arrear due in the parish is said to have amounted to 25/., yet the sum which Mr. Blacker actually proposed to collect by the aid of the police was not quite two THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1835. pounds 1 The distresses were made, and redeemed by the poor people ; no opposition was offered to the po lice : and the business of the day seemed to have been completed, when some of the police thought proper to get up in their minds an apprehension that disturbance was intended. The police party was divided into two detachments, one of which went to protect the drivers. The chief constable was anxious that the whole force should be re-united, and made a movement in double quick time for that purpose. The other detachment, who were already on their return, perceiving this movement, took the alarm, and loaded and primed their pieces. About sixty peasants had collected by this time, several of whom bore pitchforks and bludgeons in their hands. One man had a gun : " The constables having loaded (says Mr. Greene), re sumed their march, without any symptoms on the part of the multitude of a design to attack or molest them. Thornhill (who commanded the returning detachment) upon seeing the man with the gun, said he would arrest him, and desired a file of men to follow him for that purpose. He and two others then left the road, crossed the ditch, and proceeded into the field towards the crowd. The rest of his party went after them. Upon Thornhill's arrival at the rock (upon which the peasants were standing) he states that he called upon the man who had the gun to surrender. He went up to the man, seized hold of the gun, and attempted to wrest it from the country man, who struggled to retain it. An instantaneous attack commenced upon the police. Showers of stones were thrown at them ; repeated blows were given to them with sticks ; their carbines were seized, and two were forcibly taken from them. Two policemen were knocked down. Then, and not till then, a shot was fired (by the police) and was followed by several others (from the police). It is impossible to discover by whom that first shot was fired, but no order to fire was given. The men used their carbines, each as he could, without any command or regularity, and almost in actual contact with the multitude. One countryman named James Hughes was killed ; another was wounded." This narrative requires no commentary. It is mani fest that the police were the first aggressors. The people were at a distance, assembl e d on a roc k : Thorn hill, without any provocation whatever, set out upon a Quixotic (probably a drunken) expedition, to arrest the man who had the gun, and he brought on, by his gross imprudence, a general engagement, in which Hughes was killed—Hughes, who happened to be apart from the combat altogether; 'who took no share in it, and was merely a distant spectator standing at his own door ! Now all this took place in Blacker's presence He gave no order to the policemen to ab stain from this wanton attack upon the people. It was therefore made with his sanction ; and this, too, after he had in his pocket the one pound nineteen shillings which he came to collect We must return to this precious sample of Irish history, and show the people of England, without any disguise, and from the mouth of the Tory faction itself, the sort of incubus which it is summoning all its strength to force upon the Catho lic people of the sister kingdom—under the pretext of the Gospel I—Morning Chronicle. In spite of all struggles to the contrary, the return of Lord Morpeth for the West Riding of Yorkshire is almost certain. On this great—this glorious occa sion our compatriots of the North will do their duty —.will act like men determined to set the seal to their country's liberty. They will not disgrace themselves like the electors of Devon ; but, respecting their own patriotism and honour, will return the friend of free dom, civil and religious, to represent them in Parlia ment. This we assert with confidence, for it is im possible to suppose that so large and independent a body as the electors of the West Riding would vo luntarily sell themselves the victims of Toryism. Let them ask themselves what have they to gain from Toryism ? With what evils has not the base and ma lignant spirit of Toryism already overwhelmed the country ? What have Tory Governments been but a consecutive series of the most withering oppressions, corruptions, and crimes ? Since the name of Tory was first known with what has it been linked but arrogance, injustice, and their sequences, war, taxation, debt, and rancorous hostility to every interest of the people ? In their foreign as well as domestic relations has not the same squan dered British money, and spilled British blood, against the just claims of America ?......The Tories. Who squandered British money and spilled British blood in attempting to maintain despotic principles, and to up hold an execrable Bourbon dynasty in France ?—.The Tories. In both these instances the feelings of the English people were outraged by their tyrant rulers ; but in submitting to, they became the accomplices of, despotism, and an irredeemable debt is the just pe nalty of acquiescence in the barbarous and bloody policy. But we need not seek in other countries, or in history, the blighting operation of Tory principles ; sufficient evidence of their atrocities may be adduced in our own land and generation. Who sent emissa ries to Ireland to excite the people to rebellion, and exposed that country to the horrors of a civil war ? As appears by the Report of a Secret Committee of the House of Commons, the Tories. Who massacred the people of Manchester, for assembling to petition for that reform which they now profess to be their principle of action ?—The Tories. Who opposed Catholic emancipation with fire, bloodshed, and hor rors, that the mind shudders to contemplate ; and after. wards, to keep office, recanted their principles, and caned it through the Legislature ?—The Tories. Who at present prefer barbarism and spoliation and blood shed, in Ireland, to a just appropriation of Church property to the purposes of education ?—The Tories. Who upheld the extravagances of the civil list, of the army and navy estimates, of monopolies of every grade and denomination ?—The Tories. When they opposed Catholic emancipation, " No Popery and Church in -clanger" was their Shibboleth. When they opposed a Reform in Parliament' " no revolution" was their war cry. But now, with pharasaical cant, they attempt to mingle with Reformers, and uphold a bloated and hydropic Church, by returning to the ex ploded and insensate cry of " No Popery and Church in danger." Will they re-enact the penal code ? Will they abrogate the rights which the Reform Bill re stored to the people ? They dare not acknowledge such intent ; but, if they be consistent—and in villainy they have ever been so—such must be the cherished end of their hopes and principles. Men of Yorkshire, will you choose your Representative from such a party ? Will you betray the highest privilege that freemen can exercise, by turning the weapon entrusted for the defence of liberty against its bosom ? If there be any amongst you so besotted as to be duped by the false promises of a Tory---if there be any so base as to barter liberty for lucre—if there be any so ignorant and vile as not to appreciate his own liberty and his country's weal, may a righteous indignation put in every honest hand a whip, To lash tke rascal naked through the world, Even from East to West !"—( Morning Advertiser.) Sir John Byng was last night gazetted a Peer by the title of Lord Strafford, of Harmondsworth, in the county of Middlesex. This was less a tribute to the professional or other merit of Sir John Byug (albeit we are not among those who would disparage the ser vices of a brave and experienced soldier), than to that bitter party necessity to which so many other Minis terial acts have of late been ascribable, and which, in the present case, renders it indispensable that the rejected Whig Secretaries of State, Lord Palmer ston, dismissed from Hampshire, and the Lord John Russell, whom Devonshire has discarded, should have some place within the bar of the House of Commons whence they may address the Speaker. Poole, therefore, is the refuge for the destitute pro vided to meet the predicament in which one of these two Noble Lords at present finds himself— which of them we know not. But Lord Palmerston is the individual generally marked out as candidate for the honour of replacing Sir John Byng, and room is to be made for Lord J. Russell in the snug pocket borough of Totnes. But if the rumour we have heard be well founded, one or two of the party votes which were given by the late Member for Poole have so indisposed a large body of the constituency towards the existing Government, that Sir Colquhoun Grant, who stands upon the Conservative interest, will, with good management on the part of his friends, be very fLpt to smash whatever Whig shall venture to set up against him. There is another Peerage in last night's Gazette which will be variously regarded by Conser vatives and Whigs. Of the former some rejoice, though we do not, that the new Baron Hatherton was not created before his freaks in the Chief Secretaryship for Ireland had succeeded in helping to shove Lord Stanley and Sir J. Graham as well as Lord Grey himself out of office, and to lay the foundation of those subsequent occurrences which.have so matey and fatally broken 7,7 up toe whole Whig party, in its numbers, reputation, and political efficiency and: prospects—in our eyes a serious calamity to Great Britain. While, for the same causes, Lord Melbourne, and such of his colleagues as are not Conservatives at heart, must wring their hands with vexation that the Hatherton peerage is not at least a twelvemonth older. It is passing strange in Lords and gentlemen to complain that the cry of " No Popery" should be raised, and so successfully as to oust them from their counties, when, in fact, it is themselves who have raised it. We have been struck by the truth with which an evening contemporary treats this interesting subject. If Lord John Russell and his brethren, by all their acts, though not in express terms, proclaim war against the Protestant institutions of the empire, and embroider the word " Popery" on every banner, is it not too much for them to express surprise that the people of England should meet them with " No Popery ?" Is it for Whigs to murmur at the prevalence of an honest fear throughout the country, lest their own good work, the work of Lord Somers and his enlightened associates, should be destroyed, and the abominable tyranny which James lost his crown for struggling to perpetuate, should be revived amongst us ? Let us bring to the recollection of our Whig Protestant brethren, that the sting of Popery did not lie in James, or in the House of Stuart, or in any layman. The inherent vice, the peril, the venom of Popery, were in its collective mechanism, not in its individual agents. An hundred Stuarts could not of themselves involve us in the slightest danger from Popery, but the re-establishment (not the formal, for that is out of the question, but the substantial re establishment) of Popery would soon raise up a myriad of Stuarts to enforce its principles and realize its pro jects. We, in this country, are perhaps too near to the political movements among which we are placed to take in a comprehensive survey of their relative propor tions or of their conjunct tendency. We are driven by our contiguity to look at things too much in detail,—a bit here and a bit there.---a speech—a letter—a murder—a vote—.we see them in their separate shape and occur rence, but seldom venture to pronounce upon their ne cessary and harmonious connexion. Truths the most obvious are therefore denied, because we cannot bring, a sufficient number of intelligent and authoritative per sons to contemplate them at a proper distance and from a fitting point of view. The inhabitants of other countries can do that for us. As the eye cannot see itself, nor a man without some artificial appliances paint his own portrait, so are the greater number of unaided Englishmen incapable of perceiving those operations of which they are themselves the instru ments. But see how intelligent foreigners construe what is in progress here. They who can meditate us and our proceedings in masses—they who can fol low the outline, and trace its collective character—. affirm plainly that we are now drifting towards revolu tion. We do not blame the intentions of the Whigs, we blame nought but their position : our censure of them goes no further, than that they have blindly placed themselves in that humiliating position, with out heeding to what results it must inevitably force them. A Paris Journal, of strong political bias it is true, but of vigorous ability, contains some remarks upon the political state and tendencies of England, which are too important to be withheld from our readers—insisting that Lord J. Russell must profit of his Devonshire " victory," (the victory which it was quite understood at Paris four days ago that his Lordship must inevitably gain I)---the Gazette de France—the priestly and Popish paper tells us, that the mode of deriving profit from his victory is by " extreme measures." On the House of Lords re fusing to obey the Ministerial mandates for the extirpa tion of the Protestant church, " the Parliament is to be dissolved" (more than one word, we believe, to that bargain), the candidates are to be commanded at the hustings how to proceed with that refractory assembly ; and then, says the Gazette de France—and so we say— Cron, coaL3 a " through out the whole of Great Britain !" Next folio rs Lorl John Russell's philosophical dictum, which we pre sume will become one day or other as famous through out the world as any saying of the seven wise men of Greece---" I find England placed between despotism and anarchy, and I have preferred anarchy" ; which his Lordship, as quoted by the Gazette de France, regards merely as a state of transition, a half-way house to the grand consummation of all things, the millennium of Popery throughout this mighty empire. We repeat, therefore, that the cry of " no Popery" is not, as it used to be, a bigotted and senseless watch word. It is a note of self-defence. It is the " vox Dei" which now alone can save us. (From the Gazette de France of Wednesday.) " The sole question in the political circles now is the Devon shire election. The Tories have expended upon it more than 50,000/. sterling ; nevertheless their candidate, Mr. Parker, has no chance. The re-election of Lord Russell is certain. This is a blow which the Conservative party will long feel. " To triumph, however, is not enough ; one must know how to make use of the victory. "We shall see how Lord Russell will profit of his. His plan of reform for the Church of Ireland is looked for with impatience. It is much to have adopted the principle of it, but the application in practice must present difficulties of more than one description. Probably these difficulties have been foreseen by the Noble Lord and his friends ; at all events, they cannot be long before manifesting themselves. But, however this may be, though the plan of reform should be the wisest and most prudent possible, the House of Lords is fully re solved to reject it. Every measure contemplating the appro priation of Church property is irrevocably condemned before hand in the Upper House. " It is then asked, what part will be taken by the Melbourne Ministry ? Doubtless an extreme part, but still a necessary one. The Parliament will be dissolved, and the electors will receive at the hustings the members charged with a special command relative to the Peerage. Thus you have good rea son for saying that this question of the Church of Ireland in volves the germ of arevolution, extending through the whole of Great Britain. You are agreed upon this point, with the opinion which Lord Russell has lately expressed in the follow ing words " I have seen England placed between despotism and anarchy, and I have preferred anarchy ; but anarchy is neces sarily a stage of transition—it will bring back England under the sceptre of a religious legitimacy—the Roman Catholic faith, for it is in the restoration of this that all revolutions end. Before the lapse of a few years the bond of union amongst the three kingdoms will have been severed; and nothing but the hand of Catholicism will be sufficiently powerful for its resto ration ; that is, if such a result enters into the mysterious views of Providence respecting this country.' " " To obviate a suspicion that we misrepresent the Gazette de France's version of Lord John Russell's speculation, we re print the original text «' J'ai vu l'Angleterre plade entre le despotisme et l'anar chie, et j'ai prefer 6 l'anarchie ; mais anarchie est necessaire ment un etat de transition ; elle ramenera l'Angleterre sous le sceptre de la legitimit6 religieuse—le Catholicisme Romain, car c'est a restaurer que toutes les revolutions aboutissent. Avant peu d'annees, le lien de l'union entre les trois royaumes aura ete rompu, et la main du Catholicisme sera settle assez puissante pour le renouer ; si ce dernier resultat toute-foil entre dans les vues mysterieuses de la Providence a regard de ce pays.' " Times. A few days since, the tumulus known by the appel lation of " Peppering Burgh," about three miles from Arun del, was opened under the direction of George Augustus Coombe, Esq. A cyst was discovered two feet six inches below the original surface of the ground, which contained a male skeleton in good preservation, six feet one inch in length. Below the hand on the left side were the remains of an iron sword, and above the head on the right a piece of the same metal, conjectured to have been the point of a spear. The resting place of this warrior of a distant age is not far from the ancient camp of Burgham, or as now called Burpham, a work attributed by antiquarians to the Belgic Britons. Other tumuli in this neighbourhood are about to be opened by the above-named gentleman. These interesting relics are in the possession of J. Drewitt, Esq., of Peppering.—Hampshire Telegraph. DEATH OF DICKY GOSSIP.—A grey horse, known by this name, which had belonged to the different occupiers of the Bear Inn, Devizes, for the last five-and-twenty years, and had taken a share in almost every matrimonial ex cursion from the town, during that period, was last week shot, in consequence of its great age, and " increasing infirmities." —Devizes Gazette. A POLISH REFUGEE.--A weather-beaten look ing person, Dombrowski, who wore a medal of " the Legion of Honour," solicited the pecuniary assistance of the Lord Mayor, first inquiring " parlez vous Francois." An explana tory dialogue took place, from which it appeared that the ap plicant had fought and bled for his unfortunate country, and had received a sabre wound over the left eye, (a tremendous incision three inches in length was visible); that he had made his escape from Poland to this country ; he had also been an officer under Buonaparte. He had travelled with his wife and two little ones, since his arrival, seeking aid from the charita ble. He came from Liverpool to Newcastle, and from thence to York ; it was his intention, if the means could be raised, to proceed to Hull, and by sea to London, where he intended to embark for Philadelphia, on a visit to one of Buonaparte's brothers, who, he was sure, would receive him kindly. The Recorder, on hearing the tale of the unfortunate man, put his hand in his pocket and gave him some silver—the Lord Mayor did the same, and he departed apparently with gratitude.— York Chronicle. PRICES OF CANALS, DOCK STOCKS ASSURANCE COMPANIES, &c. &c. LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 8. Number Dividend of per Shares. Annum CANALS. Price per Paid. Share, 1,700 61 per cent. Ashton and Oldham....Average 971. Ms. sh. 157 1,182 N. Ashby.de-le-Zouch Average 113/. sh. 65 /,260 .... ..... Basingstoke lOO/. sh. 5j 1,005 51. Brecknock and Abergavenny 1504 sh. 85 1,000 ish. 12/. 10s. Birmingham, j share 171. 10s. 241 4,000 Ditto and Liverpool Junct....1004 sh. all pd 1 ] 600 Bridgewater and Taunton -.IOU sh. all pd 64 it ~ 0 :'. l. Chelmer and Blackwater 1001. sh. 102 WOO 421. Coventry 1004 sh. 4,546 ..... Croydon Average 31!. 2 s . 10d. s h . 2 1 2,0604 31.105. Dudley lOO4 sh. '74 7 600 61. Derby •• 100/. sh. 120 R 3,5751 ...... ... Ellesmere and Chester Average Ma sh. 98j 13 231 43'. Erewash 1001. sh. 515 1,2(17 291. Forth and Clyde Average 4001. 16s. sh. 600 11,504 121. Grand Junction lO.l. sh. 238 2,844 Grand Union 1001. sh. 23 1,521 Grand Surrey lOOl. sh. 120,000!. 41. per cent. Ditto (optional) Loan lOOl. 73 3,096 Grand Western 600 13/. 12s. Bd. Glarn , rganshire, Average cost 1721. 13s. 4d. 280 I,IXIO Gloucester and Berkley 1001 sh. 15 749 10t. Grantham 150/. sh. 202 6,239 1/. lOs Huddersfield Average 571. 6s. 6d. sh. 33 100 Kensington 10.1 sh all pd. 10 25,328 1/. Kennet and Avon, Average 39/. Bs. 10d. sh. 21j 2,997:-1 20/. Leeds and Liverpool lou sh. 533 515 124 Leicester l4O/ sh. 149 907 4/. Leicester and Northamp:on...Aver 834 10s. SO 550 5/. per cent. Liskeard and I.ooe Unio. , 251. sh. all pd. 25 7i) 144/. Loughborough Average 142/. 17s. sh. 1,600 2,409 01. Monmouthshire lOOl. sh. 180 250 94 Melton Mowbray 1001 sh. 191) 500 251. Mersey and Irwell lOO4 sh. 561 3,000 Macclesfield 100/. sh. all pd. 52 247 15/. Neath IGO Nene Navigation Bonds -.1004 sh. 151. ptl. 100 1,786 321. Oxford 100/. sh. 615 522 21. Oakham 130/. sh. 58 2,400 4/. Peak Forest Average about 781. sh. 104 21,418 14s. Regent's (or London) Aver. 331. 16s. Bd. sh. l 6 5,669 5/. per cent. Rochdale Average 85/. sb. 123 500 81. Shropshire 1251. sh. 140 800 10/. Somerset Coal 150/, sh. 163 45,000/. 61 percent. Ditto Lock Fund Stock l2l. 10s. sh. 12 1 700 36/. Stafford and Worcester l4O/. sh. 690 500 DI. Shrewsbury 125/ sh. 242 k, 300 Pi. Stourbridge 3,647 11. 10s. Stratford-on-Av,m ...Average 791. Os. Sd. sh. :l8 533 13/. Swansea 100/. sh. 205 3,7112 1/. Severn and Wye and Railway...Av 35/. sh. 19 2,600 ish. 321. 10s. Trent and Mersey, .1 share tool. sh. 625 8,159 Thames and Medway...Aver. 191. ss. Bd. sh. 2 1,000 sh./ 15/. Warwick and Birmingham 1001. sh. 280 1,000 ish. 600 12/. Warwick and Napton lOOl. sh. 218 (1,000 3/.los. Worcester and Birmingham...Av.7B/. Bs. sh. 87 1 1 21,000 ss. Wilts and Berks .. Average 161. 17s. Sd. sh. 5 800 6/. Wyrley and Essington ' 125/. sh 75 jai , . Wisbeach 903 Wey and Arun llO/. sh. 22i DOCKS. 1/. 2,600& }3D c. Commercial lOO/. sh. Cl 1,065,15 h. .' ....... 498,6(R/. 3,238,3101. 21. 55. p. ct. London Stock 59 Ditto Bonds lO3 1,350,000/. 51. per ct. West India _ ..... __ . 2,‘..0:1 3/. 6s. 4d, Bristol Average 1471. Itis. sh. 70 1 at 68,3241. 5/. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts 1,352,752 3 per cent. St. Katharine Stock 70 500,000 41 per cent. Ditto Bonds lOll 200,000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 yea rs lO 1 Shoreham Harbour 2571 BRIDGES. 1,6f0 1/. Hammersmith 5Ol. sh. 221 7,231 Southwark, Old Av. 631. 2s. Bd. sh. 21 1,700 11. 15s. Ditto, New, of 7; per cent. 5Ol. sh. 15 5,000 Waterloo lOO/. sh. 31 5,000 1/, 2s. Ditto, Old Annuities of 8/ 6Ol. pd 25i. 5,000 198. 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71 401. pd 221 60,000/. 51. per cent. Ditto Bonds ll6 6,000 11. Vauxhall Average 701. 10s. 3d. sh. 2'2 ASSURANCE COMPANIES. 2,000 Si lOs Albion 500/. sh. 50/. pd 76 t 1 50,000 15 IT , r d csTt.i Alliance, British & Foreign 100/. sh. 10/. pd 12 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 100/. sh. 5/. pd 51 24,000 10s. per sh. Atlas 1,200 }sh. 4/. Birmingham Fire 20,000 4/. per cent. British Fire 250/. sh. 50/. pd 40 12,000 0/. per cent. British Commercial 50/. sh. 51. pd 6; 5,000 5/. per cent. Clerical, Medical, &c. Life...loo/. sh. 21103 pd 3i 4,000 21 lOs County 100/. sh. 10/. pd 42 6,000 __ ss. _ Eagle 50/. sh. Si. pd 51 . - 200 r 5 per cent" Economic Life lOOOl. sh. 2504 pd 315 tand 30/ bs. 2,271 511. per cent. European Life °Ol. sh. all pd 22 50,000 2s. Ditto, New 2O/. sh. 2/. pd 1/ 1,000,0001. 71. per et. Globe Stock 1551 20,000 11. Guardian 100/. sh. 20/. pd 331 p H ope 501. sh. 5/. pd 6 r Fire 5 p et./ • 443 .`"'" /Life 8 ct. 3 2,400 5/. 7s. 6d. Imperial Fire 5001. sh. 50/. pd 117 7,500 9s. Imperial Life 100/. sh. 10/. pd 91 5/. per cent. Indemnity Marine NO/. sh. Si. pd 12 2,020 31. Kent Fire 50/. sh. all pd 85 10,000 16s. Law Life 100/. sh. 10/, pd 26 3,900 1/. London, Fire 25/. sh. 111. 10s. pd 231 31.000 IL London, Ship 251. sh. 1.2/. 10s. pd 231 30,0 )0 12 per cent. Palladium Life 50/. sh. 2/. pd 215 s 250,00) Is. 6d. Protector Fire 2O/. sh. 2/. pd 1/ Os 6d 2,500 1/. Provident Life lOOl. sh. 10/. pd 191 100,000 ss. Rock Life 20/. s h. 2/. pd Si 16 s 659,220/. Si. per cent. Royal Exchange ......... ; . ................Stock... 186; Sun 2lO 50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 2/. pd 2/2s 6d JOINT STOCK BANKS. 5,000 Auqtralmia 4O/. sh. 26/. pd 29i 10,000 10 per cent. Bank of Birmingham 5O/. sh. 10/. pd 12i 10,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank 5O/. sh. 51. !xi 12 18,000 2 per cent. London and Westminster...loo/ sh. 151. pd li dis. 3,000 Lancaster 100/. sh. 201. pd 30 25,"( 0 6 per cent. Liverpool 100/. sh. 101. pd 15 20,000 7 per cent. Provincial Bank of Ireland 1001. sh. 25/. pd 47 10,000 National Provincial Eng. lOOl. sh. 25/. pd 25 10,000 10 per cent. Gloucestershire 50/. sh. 5/. pd 11 0,000 GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 1/ 12s Bath 2O/. sh. 161. pd 26 5,000 61. per cent. British 4Ol. sh. 161. pd 23 ~,, c5/.percent."l s .`"'" land Bs. ss. j Ditto Provincial 20/. sh. 12/. pd 24 844 5/ lOs Birmingham 5Ol. sh. 100 4,250 '2l Os Bristol 2O/. sh. 391 1,500 Brighton 2Ol. sh. 14 750 ...... ... Ditto, New 20/. sh. 181. pd 12 2,471 5 per cent. Brighton General 201. sh. all pd 19 4,000 3/. Continental Cansolidated lOOl. 51f/. pd 76 1,000 104 City of London lOOl. sh. all pd 1921 1,000 6L Ditto, New lOO/. sh. 601. pd 115 4,000 41. Equitable 15/ pd 31! 6,000 61. per cent. East London 51. sh. 4/. pd 41 10,000 5/. per cent. Imperial 5O/. sh. 43 800 5/. per cent. Isle of Thanet , '25/. sh. 20/. pd 211 2.350 6/. per cent. Independent 3O/. sh. all pd 50 9,000 44 per cent. Phoenix 50/. sh. 39/. pd 24 1,000 41. per cent. Ratcliff 100!. sh. 601. pd 4,000 South Metropolitan s '+l. sh. 13/. pd 141 8,200 5/. per cent. United General 5O/. sh. 44/. pd 40 240 51. per cent. Warwick 50/. sh. 50 1/ .- 400. ,15s Wakefield 251. sh. 221 !2,000 3/. Westminster Chartered 5Ol. sh. 46 6,000 I2s. Ditto, New 5O/. sh. 10/. pd 9ex d 800 WATER WORKS. Birmingham 251. sh. 251. pd 27 5/. East London lOOl. sh. 1:s81 2/ lOs (strand Junction ....Average 411 13s. 4d. sh. 58 2/. Kent 100/. sh. 46a47 101. Liverpool Bootle 2201. sh. 2/ lOs New ltiver London Bridge Water Annuities 1/. Manchester and Salford lOOl. sh. 4 per cent. South London 100/. sh. 31. West Middlesex ....Average 63/. 12s. 9d. sh. 1/ 14s York Building Co. Lessee Prop 100/. sh. IRON RAILWAYS. Cheltenham 100/. sh. Clarence lOOl. rh. 100/. pd Forest of Dean 5O/. pd Grand Junction 100/. sh. 30/. pl Ilartlepool 100/. sh. 1001. pd Leeds and Selby 100 sh. ......—. Leicester and Swannington ....5 0 1. sh all pd 9 per cent. Liverpool and Manchester...loo/. sh. 1001. pd Ditto Quarter Shares ~51. p d . ..... ... London and Greenwich "0/. sh. 13/. pd London and Birmingham ...1001. sh. 35/. pd Preston and Wigan 2Ol. pd ... ...... Durham Junction 1001. sh. 101. pd MINES. 350 2,000 2,500 2,000 2,100 1,500 5,100 20,000 25,000 2,500 800 8,000 4,000 10,000 2,000 10,000 6,000 11,000 9,000 10,0 0 0 20,000 6,000 1,500 2,850 10,000 20,000 11,500 5,000 30,000 5,C00 1,000 1,500 700 10,000 1,030 19s. Albion Copper 5/. sh. 2/. pd Alton 151. sh. 101. 10s. pd Anglo Mexican, iss. 5/. pin.... 100/. sh. all pd Ditto Subscription 25/. pd Bolanos l5O/. sh all pd Si. ts. Brazilian Imp. iss. 51. pm .35/. sh. 201 pd Macaubas & Cocaes United....2s/. sh. 20/. pd Ditto St. John Del Rey 20/. sh. 741. pd Cata Branca 441. dd Candonga 5/. pd Bolivar Copper Company ...... 201. sh. 20/. pd ..... .... Ditto Scrip 9l. pd British Copper 5/. sh. 341. pd Columbian, ins. Si. pm. ......55/. sh. 5441. pd 1/. English General Mining Association...2ol. sh. 151. pd Mexican Company 100/. sh 494/. pd ....„.., Polberou Consols 101. sh. Si. pd Real del Monte, Unregistered Ditto Loan Notes l5O/. pd United Mexican, iss. 2oh ....40/. sh. all pd Ditto Subscription 2l. pd Ditto New Scrip 5/ pd Union Gold, iss. 21. ss. pm.... 224/. sh. 441. pd ........ West Cork 501. sh. 25/. pd LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. London, with Bronze Ticket 75gs. sh. Lond , n University 100/. sh. all pd Itussell 2sgs. sh. King's College 100/. pd MISCELLANEOUS. 10s. Australian Agricultural....loo/. sh. 2C41. ph 1/. Auction Mart 501. sh. 6,0 British American Land Company t'/. pd 10,000 61 per cent. Canada Company 1001. sh. 20/. pd 200,000 54 per cent. Upper Canada Loan City Bonds, 4 per cent 15,000 11. per cent. General Steam Navigation ...151. sh. 131. pd 101. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock 14 London Corn. Sale noon, Av. 751. sh 300 58 47 85 79 34 2,754 4/. per eent. Reversionary Interest Soc 100/. sh. 1001. pd 2,633 41. per cent. Ditto New 1004. sh. 45/. pd 4,000 10,000 Van Diemen's Land 100/. sh. 161. pd 15} 44f 2 10 pm LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES, APRIL 1, 1835. BANKS. 1,500,0001. Si. p. ct. Bank of Scotland B3l. 6s. Sd. sh. all pd 200 p. ct. 2,000,0001. 5# p. ct. Royal of Scotland 100/. sh. all pd 1701. 500.0001. bp. ct. British Linen Company 100/. sh. :Al pd 2404 3,000,000/. 64 p. ct. Commercial 5OOl. sh. 1001. pd 1701. 5,000,0004 5 p. ct. National lOO/. sh. 101. pd 1415 s 2,001,0001. 2il. p. ct. Glasgow Union 250/. sh. 501. pd 601. 4,000,0001. 6p. ct. Western of Scotland 2OOl. sh 30/. pd 321. INSURANCE COMPANIES. 250,0005 h. sp. ct. Scottish Union 2Ol. sh. 1/. pd 11. 7,500 .5 p. ct. Hercules 100/. sh. 10/. pd 11/. 100,000 sp. ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland....lol. sh. all pd 7110 s 50,000 6p. ct. North British 2001. sh. 101. pd 15/. 1,000 5 p. ct. Caledonian Fire 100/. sh. 10/. pd 13/. 5,000 6 p. et. Edinburgh Life 100/. sh. 10/. pd 13/. 100,000 4 p. ct. West of Scotland lO/. pd lot. MISCELLANEOUS. 4,810 Edin. and Glas. Un. Canal 501. sh. all pd 8/ lOs Ditto Allocated Oh!. ,h. all pd 60/. 5,400 5 per cent. FAlinb. Joint Stock Water 251. sh. all pd 331. Carron Iron Company 250/. sh. all pd 4501. 2,0005 h. 15 per cent. Shotts Iron Foundery 5% sh. 3 , /. pd 181. 10,000 3 per cent. Edinburgh & Leith Glass 2Wsh. 161. pd 71. 4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas 254 sh. all pd 61/. 4,450 10 per cent. Glasgow Gas 251. sh. all pd SQ/. 730 6 per cent. Led!), Coal Gas 20/. sh. all pd 33/. 1,200 5 per cent. Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway...so/. sh. 781. 3,000 5 per cent. Equitable Loan Company...2sl. sh. 10/. pd 101. COURSE OF EXCH Amsterdam C.F. 12 4 Ditto, at sight l2 2 Rotterdam 2U. 12 4 Antwerp lO 4t , Hamburg M.B. 13 12 Altona l3 12 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 (;0 Ditto 2 Us. 25 90 • Bordeaux Fankfort on Maine, Ex. M. 152 Petersburgh, rub1e......3 Us lO% 3erlin Vienna, effective fl 0 M lO 3 Trieste ditto lO 4 Madrid 37 Cadiz 37IA Bilboa 1 7 14 Barcelona S•viile i►ibraltar . 48 2,000 NGE, YESTERDAY. Leghorn Genoa Milan..,,, IN 25 :15 ~ . Venice 47}6 Naples 4O Palermo per oz. 120 k Lisbon 57Si Oporto Rio i Janero _. .. Ili , C —..: Bahia Buenos Ayres _ Dublin, 21 days' sight Cork PRICE OF BULLION, PER OZ. Portugal Gold, coin £0 .0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars._ 3 17 9 New Doubloons New Dollars Silvers bars, standard 0 4 11% CORONER'S INQUESTS. Last evening, at seven o'clock, an inquest wa s held at i ll : Bell and Crown Inn, Holborn, before Mr. Payne an°el very respectable jury, on view of the body of Don Mil tb Gudolle, aged twenty-four, a merchant of Per u, in S° America. ed, tll o deceasedlary Hararlil‘,,ecdhabmebtwere-emnaiedigahttthaendhontienle, o,deposedeleek °tall nesday morning, by the Exeter mail. He ordered kr(r at fast, which witness provided, and afterwards requested. that a bedchamber might be got ready, which being done, h!, 1 , 9 tired to it, and witness I not see him again the rest of the day. On the following morning (this day) witness loo ked at the deceased's door, but receiving no reply, she ' — b e cl• through the keyhole, and distinguished blood on the aster clothes ; this alarmed her, and having informed her t o o of the circumstance, the door was burst open, a nd a was sent for. (i Mr. Edward Dale, surgeon, of Holborn, was sot {ca sed Thursday morning to this house, and found the dee e d lying in bed, partly dressed, and quite dead. A v ow° o tid inflicted across the throat, w hich had divided the carlo and all the principal arte r ies. Life had been extinct apv six or eight hours. oslo Don Matthew Bergara, a Spanish merchant , haue ra yed passenger from Cadiz in the same vessel that th e dee rt; reached England in, which touched at the above P e ol d during the passage the deceased appeared very gh' el l ' e lleJ was generally reading a religious book ; witness to ,I c e with him to London from Exeter, and he scar eelY9r" the whole way. Alr. Ridley, the proprietor of the tavern, after the.clogegtll o i of the deceased, took c ha rg e o f hi s property, ee n log r some British specie and bills of exc hange to a cons' lA , to amount, some of which were on the Treasury , Pala is to his order, dated from Cadiz ; a n d o thers upon merehgevi, the City. The said d ocumen t s , a t th e request of t he ) t he were produced, and Mr. Stooks, at the suggestioo,oo Coroner, undertook to take a n i nven tory of the unirreal, gentleman's effects, and hold c h arge o f the same doclee,tiosi until he could communicate with the deceased's e o°° " - in South America. t ie ' The jury returned a verdi c t, " That the deceateear stroyed himself in a state of t em p ora ry mental d er ment." The inquiry lasted some hours. CORONER'S INQUEST.—Yesterday, at two° old' an inquiry was mad e at th e H orse Sh oe an d Mag'Pl e ':oo l6 bath-street, Clerkenwell, before Mr. Stirling and are as effii Jury, as to the death o f J o h n C ar p en t er , w ho there / l ot , ' reason to suppose had breathed his last through th e v oittl e ' the common necessaries of life. Mr. Henry Ra w° l l" surgeon, of Myddleton-st ree t, Cl er k enwe ll, said, that e - e ov day afternoon, about two o'clock, as he was pass i g the e ro be stand in St. John-street, he saw deceased lying en s eul ,iegb e bish, surrounded by a number of arsons. "Witness _ io s e- il o was in a state of exhaustion, gave directions for big tit,l the station-house, whence, by order of the inspec tor re 0 7, he was conveyed to the parish workhouse, wher e , „tc'', directly. The deceased was apparently 70 ears 0104 A ; ces sea' ness thinks he was labouring under epilepsy. I n u f Vo l t s basket there were some matches, and a fews bits °- H ofn bread. Witness could not state the immediate cltost' man's death, as he had not opened the body, b a : t lie opinion it was caused by over exertion. Elizabetrost hd of James Carpenter son of the deceased, depese t4 cr itb lived at No. 5, Loggerhead-lane, Bethna ll- g ree i ri lb tbi cie Tot husband, who was a poor man, and got his living The deceased left his home between twelve a nd one! re d re r l o Tuesday to sell some matches, and he then alcirea; feeble from a cough which had lately very mach l as, e f constitution. Deceased was form er ly a sea-farhig Ack: never was accustomed to dri n k, an d genera lly bad athe iriso" of food. The Jury returned a verdict.—" Died by tion of God." f°e INTENDID NEW TOWN, GRAVEsEND•': : ye 01 ,, e6 lowing property was sold y es t er d a y, by M e ssrs• r,n , „ trV at Garraway's : —A most v al ua bl e f ree h o ld e state, Pw t deemed, consisting of about 24 acres o f l an d, situat e a o d, adjoining the new church and th e t own of Gra ves offe r 3 bounded on the North by the turnpike-road to Dover' c o a most delightful situati on f or b u ildi ng v illa res ic toleA, houses; a part of the ground havi ng b een judicionsviieo7i with choice shrubs, an d th e v i ews b e i ng va ried and e pe r) including the floated scenery of the river Thames...** down at 20,000/. Extract of of a letter from Mars e ill es , dated A r oilici " The total disappearance of the cholera having b ees p aire,, announced, thanksgivings wer e y es t er d a y o ffered 1 . 1 11, 8 6. 0 010 cession took place through th e s t ree t s , w hich laste,toid in the morning until eight o'clock at night. It COn s° 0, 116 ;1 enormous multitude bearing banners, garlands, strean i ...ber A with several bands of music, an d a considerable nsilibt, dancers. It was on the wh o l e a ver y plefts in g_vepl ict s pc• procession of this nature, howe ver , cou ld not well tart o de Paris, where the lower orders are two centuries It 001 Y of civilization compared with those of Marseilles. tte a * o f ; puted that nearly thirtee n th ousan d persons clu l They seilles during the first alarm of the cholera. id, 0 d nearly all return e d. Th e weat h er i s rainy en the vines within a di s t ance o f more than thirty Ilij ou rsik i ti entirely escaped the frost. The corn crops look ?ft the hay harvest has commenced—the quantity is th il e l i e ittv i o letters from Algiers speak of an arrangemen t with ;00 11 1 0 0 by which civilization may be materially promoted. but s has given great satisfaction, as nothing is wanting r o g connection with Algiers to sec ure th e prosperity of ; c es. 0 The steamers ply regularly between Toulon and A'g w iebelbe charge is only fifty Francs, so that the traveller I '4 add Africa to the count r i es w hi c h h e h a s visited. '7,l,e'orl i t y happens to be at Marseill es or T ou l o n, cast big,;beli.l eyes on the grave Turk, and th e f eroc ious Arab) I. oe 0,11 veiled form of the fair Mahometan, drink his sherbe t ro e, coffee in a Turkish coffee-house, and return to gu of expenses included, for about six pounds sterling. sco l: erl ' NEW PROCESS OF EMB A L MI NG..--. , ,- d dit a singular kind has lately been made at Naples , mises to be of great import anc e t o th e sc ience of an s n „ 10, 0 , consists of a new method of emb a l m i ng dead bodies,oilij without removing any of th e con t en t s o f the dlr.!: oia . putrefaction is entirely prevent e d, th e colour of 91 oft' every other part is preserved, as also the softnessiooj, ofrv s ie' bility of the muscular fibre, the fluidity of the 1) . et re°oo in short all the appearances of the recent suhi. e vio , tb unaltered. The process is not yet made knu..of ye t first public exhibition of the extraordinary effeolrea new method was made in Sicily. Five body t hat n il sons were present at the opening of a by"fl'be (1 0 0 been embalmed two months and four days' lone' ?ter ° external sign was an incision, about an /nen f e co, neck, through which it was supposed the earn - 4 eV 0, injected. There appeared a little shrinking u,l 3 " no gge e i e to toes, and eyes • in the latter the cornea was darsq, - I t e 00 a little wrinkled. The rest of the body retainell ersinAPß colour. Red fluid blood was found on opening to e ha jrl ,re p the dura mater was white and shining, the e hee b P eing i b eed . he in its 'natural state, the cortical substanceed the medullary white, and all the blood-vessels filfieeivtroo The thorax was then displayed : th e heart and 11 0 ;c n l i et 41 ; 0 0 1 the usual appearances, and wh en cu t r ed blood r e 1° 0 .4 them in abundance. In the a bd omen the boviel,-A Aore eel s unaltered, white, humected with serum, shining an;d lorii although containing the faeces ; the liver, spleen, jolt I 4 had undergone no change ; the gall-bladder was", of bile, and the urinary bladde r con t a i ne d' about 1 ' that seemed unaltered. l y BIRTHS. s quar e ' Cavendish' - On the Bth inst., in H ar l e y- s t ree t, Cavenui.' - ' Lewin, of a son. POI i ff On the 6th inst., a t th e R ec t ory , W e ldon, t h e y Finch Hatton, of a d a ughter. 10 1) ' On the 6th inst., i n Ch ar l es - s t ree t, th e wife of the Craven, of a son and heir. thoot/ On the 3d of January, the lady of John Alves Arb:>./ of a daughter. 0 0 0 . MARRIED. r 0 4 '1,0 On the 4th inst., the Hon. and Rev. Thomas - 311 ,„ e SoP je i the late and brother to the present Lord Waterpark, bin,son, daughter of the late Sir John Robinson, Ba r , t ' e rn, fr",,ej On the 6th inst., at the Abbey Church, Great ItU` st e des,,,t" - c er i Morison, Esq., Surgeon, R.N., to Margaret Wallaet:AJAP: e folv ter of the late Colonel Hugh Houlston, Inspecting the Forces in the counties of Worcester, Gloucester, 5135.,,it1i,,d On the 7th inst., at Honingham, the Rev. William of East Tuddenham and Honingham, to Mary, eldest b pd Richard Craw s h ay , E sq . fo On the 7th inst., at St. Luke's, Chelsea, lie n "' Richard Cre mer , E sq ., o f Ch e l ms f or d, E ss ex, to Alt r -Gres only daughter of the late Mr. Morgan, of Mount-street' loaf square. W I. 00°4 _ On the 7th inst., at Trinity Church, Islington,. i i nI- A Esq., of Lewes, Sussex, to Amelia , l daughter of L' e-r- O A P Rensaw, Esq., of Islington. on - to 5i 5 ..; or, On the 3d inst., at Bonsall, Mr. Thomas Haynes , . 7t i l ye io 'lo'i Rulland, both of Bonsall. The bride room is in his b ",:i c ie 15 _,„',0 °. was dressed on the occasion in a smock-frock ; the bb' i CI ' 56th year. The happy pair were attended to chore , ' "' $54 4 persons. cor k, of On the 7th inst., at Isleworth Church, John Ja-gl e ivillio of Sion-place, Islewo r th, t o M ar i a , e ld e st daughter of ,' shall, Esq. itr IP DIED. 11, a' ll. el On the 30th ult , at Hammers smithaged 86, '''''' 9 formerly of Twyford . Farm, Middlesex. mi' ag gur , t ht , On the 4th inst., aged 73, Susanarelict of Char i l r livil i g OF of Wirksworth, and daughter of the late Sir Richard /' g Atk Y t he in her 0, - On the sth inst ., at Wanstead, Margaret P.aroiass, I m os of On the 6th inst., at the Rectory, North Me I I ''' .rtil b Rev. Gilbert Ford. G. 10:..hoto' On the sth inst., Hester, the wife of Mr. R ob ert li ce 'I , - Frieslands, Dagenham, Es s ex, and only c hild of th e , srjo ° Surridge, Esq , of Rainham. On the 6th inst., at Edmonton, Chas. Campbell, Asotilteler At Lancing, near Worthing, aged 7 years andj 3 n f Or' ~, to On H el a d m es - t co so m n m o o f n. Captain J. W. Roberts, 1 1 . 11 •' - _ d lt P. , a 0 . neer ' a l On the 7th inst , Mrs. Olive, of Park-place , L ' e " e i c losf her 68th year. . r t, 0 On the 6th inst., in Bloomsbury-square, Mrs. Er , a or the late John Manship Ewart, Esq of Broome-Pars" rk• DP of the High Beeches, Sussex. ” eel' 0 ° On the 2d inst., Mrs. Baillie, Dorset-place Reg en t o f fr. ... _On the 6th inst., in her 67th year, Susannah , ' 6l ' e s olliv French, o the Downs, orthfleet, Knt. On the 7th inst., in N e Baker-street, Portman-51'W°' f r' ' Kerie, Esq. " 7-_______ ..' ,10.1.11.11r2-.1•••—..., war I.,..fflatengsrMlN.Orialoil........ „I TN, , i o p . London : Printed and Published by MURDO 'i n OP ° 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 1 1 % st ran of Middlesex. . 1 caw Gi l th e the of _ uoi W x , P or . e •..., At itan, kid Ptet ~. "Are, co tf tre w Ad