The Sun. — London, England, 1835-10-03 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Tories, as every one knows, are accustomed to assume for themselves a monopoly of loyalty, and also put forward pretensions of the most unbounded per sonal devotion to the Sovereig n ; it generally happens, however, th a t i n th e f east i ng :and orgies of " Conser vative" Societies the loyol toast which proclaims re spect and attachment to the Prince, is coupled with another term which is to include the loyal and patriotic drinkers themselves, and which is most carefully and loyally put first in the partnership—" The King" coming afterwards by way of postscript or appendix, as it were. It is not deemed proper for Tories, in their exuberant loyalty, to drink the health of " The King," as first magistrate of the country, and representing by his exalted splendour and high functions the majesty of the British nation ; but it must be coupled with 44 the Church :" it must be " Church and King." —Now 46 the Church" means, in one sense, the members of the Church, and in another and a narrower sense the Ministers of the Church ; and in Tory eyes, moreover, it includes the maintenance of the system of Baronial Bishops and well-bred Pre bends--of " fat Rectors and lean Curates," which carries about it such internal evidence of its heavenly origin, and clearly evinces its direct apostolic descent. But however this may he, the toast of " Church and King" means either " our noble selves" and " the King," or it means Bishops, Deans, Prebends, Rec tors, Curates, and King ; and in either case " the King" stands last in the firm, and can lay claim but to a small portion of the devotion which is so largely and so courteously divided. So much for Tory devotion, which toasts " Ourselves and our Sovereign," under the name of " Church and King." With respect to Tory devotion to " the Church," we all know how de termined the whole body of Tories are to " maintain the Church ;" " to die, if necessary, in defence of the Church ;" to shed their blood in support of " the Church," whether it be of England or of Ire land. Very commendable these sentiments, no doubt ; but only, when the thing comes to be examined, it will be seen that they really involve no practical or tangible meaning. The Tories do not say, we will spend the last shilling of our incomes in contributions for Church purposes, in subscriptions for ill-paid ministers of the Protestant Establishment in Eng land, or unpaid ministers of the Protestant Establish ment in Ireland. Oh, ho I It would be manifestly undignified, and be too degrading to the clergy, to think of such a common way of proving their devo tion to " the Church" as that of pecuniary sacrifice. Blood they will shed—their own or that of others, it mat ters not ; but money is not to be forthcoming, except in the shape of forced contributions from other people. Upon these, levied upon the poor, and collected, per haps, with violence and bloodshed, a Christian Church may subsist with all dignity ; but voluntary contribu tions from its own wealthy friends it would be as in sulting for the latter to offer, as degrading for the for mes to receive ; and the destitute clergy of Ireland are told, "We cannot subscribe, but we '. ill die in your defence. Spare our pockets, we beseech you, and we will shed our blood, if necessary, in supporting your your vested interests in the pockets of other people." In short, the whole of this affected devotion to " the Church" and the King is a mere cloak to conceal sen timents of the narrowest selfishness ; put it in what way you will, it means nothing more than " the Church," as the patrimony of Tory aristocracy—the King, in so far as his prerogative may be employed to advance Tory interests—both, therefore, only as iden tified with Toryism, which expresses, in one word, the real meaning of the toast of " Church and King."— Morning Chronicle. Need we remind our readers that to-morrow will be the third centenary of the great and glorious event of the Reformation, it being that day three hundred years ago when the deliverance of Great Britain from the dark yoke of the Papal dominion was consum mated by the completion of the translation of the Holy Scriptures into the English language ? Let it be ,re collected that it was to obtain the knowledge of the pure and unadulterated word of God, as transmitted through the oracles of the Christian redemption, that the Reformation was effected—at least that was the main object, and all the other advantages followed of course.. It was Miles Coverdale who perfected what Wickliffe and Luther began. The Church of Rome had built the gloomy fabric of its superstitious and persecuting faith upon the ignorance and credulity of the human mind. To perpetuate the system of religious delusion, it was necessary that the light of the Gospel should be carefully excluded. The sub lime and saving truths which the Divine Founder of Christianity ordered his disciples to teach all nations were prohibited to the people for whose salvation they had been intended. The sacred volume of scriptural wisdom was sealed and deposited beneath the footstool of him who, while assuming . the modest title of the " fisherman," and the style of " servant of servants," wielded the thunders of the Vatican on the throne of the Cmsars. The Christian oracles were silenced, while the oracles of priestcraft spoke. The precepts of re vealed truth were forbidden to be learned, while the le gendary tales of pious fraud were laboriously disseminated. The human mind grovelled in religious darkness and terrors until the Reformation dispelled the sorceries and the charms of superstition, and brought the Scriptures to light. The translation of the Bible into English, though not a miracle, was next in point of usefulness to that great miracle of the " gift of tongues," because it began the great work which has since prospered, of translating the Bible into the various languages of the earth, that the people of all nations might hear " each in their own tongue, the wonderful works of God." Is it not, then, an event deserving to be held in ever lasting and hallowed remembrance ? There is no na tion on the earth that has so much reason to be grate ful for the blessings of the Reformation as England. With the possession of the civilizing and elevating influence of pure Christianity, her greatness and un exampled prosperity among the nations of the world commenced. From the severe scourge of war and conquest which within living memory has passed over other kingdoms of Europe, which is, even now, afflicting some of them, she has been wonderfully de livered ; but it cannot be denied that, of late years, national thankfulness- to Divine Providence, has not been commensurate with the Manifestations of Divine protection. Modern Statesmen are, in general, but too ready to sacrifice religious principles on the altars of political expediency. The Senate is tainted with a liberalism which is not an enlightened liberality, but a culpable indifference to religious; truth or error. Mammon is the God of the idolatry of our most vehe ment patriots—men who would depose Divine Provi dence, and set up the golden calf in its stead. The emissaries of the Papal system, ever vigilant and ac tive, have taken advantage of this state of things. They have all but succeeded in destroying the Church of the reformed faith in Ireland, by the assistance of British Statesmen and British legislators. Is it not time then for all who deserve the name of Protestants and Britons, to show that the spirit is not dead which kindled the altars of the Reformation, and laid upon the foundation of the Scriptures the magnificent system of civil polity of this great country ?—Morning Herald. O'Connell has got back again to Dublin at last, having been escorted to the house he rints there by an assemblage of ragamuffins, which are supposed to have disgraced even the streets of that city. To show his power, and, we suppose, to give a lesson to his Lord Lieutenant, he forbade the use of banners in his pro cession--he was obeyed, and all the labour and lacker ing that had been bestowed upon the superannuated pocket-handkerchiefs, and tattered tablecloths, which were to have served for flags, were thrown away. He addressed his ragged audience from his first floor win dow in no other than his wonted strain, only that, like all cocks whose feathers are of the same colour as his own, he crowed loudest on his own dung hill. Abuse of the House of Lords, and the ne- cessity of reforming (that is of destroying) it, uni versal suffrage, vote by ballot, praise of the Ministers, the extirpation of the Orangemen, and the " volun tary principle," were the chief topics of his speech. We have already exposed Daniel upon all these points, and especially the latter, the " voluntary prin ciple," which is the most remarkable, for one would have thought it must have required more insensi bility to shame, and more want of principle, than cha racterize even him, to enable a Papist to stand up in • public and gravely advocate the voluntary principle in 1 religion. No one can doubt that if Daniel, being a, 1 Papist, was sincere, or supposed to be so, in this, he I would be driven with ignominy from all communion 1 with his intolerant and tyrannical church.. Every well informed child knows in what miserably abject bondage the authorities of that church hold the minds and con sciences of its slavish worshippers ; and it is equally notorious that for a Papist to dare to form an opinion for himself upon any, even the most indifferent, point connected with religion, is nothing short of high trea son against his spiritual Sovereign the Pope. Is Da niel an exception to the rest ? That question will be best answered by a reference to the scene in Ennis, when he went down upon his knees in the gutter to the priests. The sole object of his preaching up the voluntary principle is clear enough ; it is to establish Popish supremacy in Ireland, in the first instance, and, by introducing the principle in this country, to sacri fice the establishment to the sectaries, thus accomplish ing a late but sweeping vengeance for Britain's greatest glory--the overthrow of Popery, the foundation of the Protestant reformed faith, and—what is still more galling to the Papists—the maintenance of that faith, which never could have been effected as fully, if at all, but for an Established Church, any more than half-a dozen straggling, undisciplined, and unofficered bands, acting independently of each other, can be as efficient for attack or for defence as a regularly organized, con centrated, and well-directed force. Daniel's object, we repeat, is clear, and all men who value Protestantism more than schism, and who rank religion higher than politics, will cheerfully join heart and hand to defeat him. He told the deluded mob under his window, that " every man should pay his own parson, as he pays his own doctor," that "he was for allowing every man to do as he pleased in this respect." " There is," he said, " common sense in this principle, and I will tell you who told me so. The people of England told me it was common sense, the people of Scotland said ditto, and the people of Ireland say Amen." And it is with lies such as these, which are, " like the father that begets them, gross as a mountain, open, palpable," that this man feeds the greedy gulls that swarm about him. Because his stuff about the voluntary principle (the voluntary want of principle would be a better expression) was cheered by the va gabonds who crowded from mere curiosity to see him at Manchester, Newcastle, Edinburgh, and Glasgow, he declares that the people of England and the peo ple of Scotland assent to the demoralizing and unchris tianizing doctrine I There has been nothing equal to this since the three tailors in Tooley-street began their petition with " WE, the people of England." Daniel and his backers, especially those of the Ministerial press, will find that both the people of England and the people of Scotland—all that is respectable in both parts of the empire—hold this doctrine in utter abhorrence, as indeed every sincere Christian, whether Churchman or Dissenter must hold it. But there is no falsehood too gross for O'Connell to utter, or for his dupes to cry " Amen" to. Let us track the Jesuit-juggler more nearly, and the motive of this falsehood, and of some others, will be apparent. He has evidently had some mis givings whether the Irish, whom he has for so many years past been schooling into disaffection to all Govern ments, would suffer themselves to be coaxed into sup porting this Government as he supports it. Hence this false lure—this barefaced deception. It suc ceeded—for the time, at least. See how he follows it up W :— e have the King's Ministers with us for everything' useful. I have been rallying the Whigs of England and the Radicals of Scotland, and endeavouring to effect a con solidation between both, with tolerable success. Having promised a gentleman in the House of Commons I would do so, he said to me, " but the people of Ireland won't go with you now." To which I replied, only wait awhile.' —(Loud cheers and laughter.) I told him the people of Ireland would support the King's Ministers. Did I not say right ?—(Loud cheers, and cries of " You did.") Those who have marked the recent journeying and the jabbering of Daniel need not be told that, so far from endeavouring to effect a consolidation of the English Whigs and Scotch Radicals, and " with to lerable success," he never hinted at any such consoli dation either to the Radicals of this country or of Scotland. On the contrary, in one place he said, speaking of the support given by himself and his " tail" to the Whigs, " We had but a hang-dog choice of it, certainly, for it was a choice between the Whigs and the Tories." But has not Daniel here " let the cat out of the bag ?" Has he not inad vertently admitted that his mission was planned in London, and that its object was to effect that junction between the Whigs and the Radicals out of doors, which has already taken place between the respectable representatives of those two parties in the House of Commons ? And in this case, may he not have been really commissioned to propose the sacrifice of the House of Lords as a sort of propitiation and peace offering ? If these questions are to be answered in the affirmative, there is no longer anything inexplicable in the panegyrics which the Ministerial press are bestow ing upon Daniel, for he certainly felt the pulse of the Radicals with the view to effect the junction, though, finding it beat unfavourably he had not courage enough to propose anything of the kind. In another place, too, Daniel seems to have allowed the truth to escape him accidentally. Among other reasons for supporting the Ministers he enumerated this—" because the Ministers are determined to draw the fangs out of the police." So, then, this is part of the game, is it ? The " fangs of the police are to he drawn," that the Whitefeet and Blackfeet may pike and plunder the Protestants with impunity. Oh I no wonder the Lords are abused for refusing to pass the Bill which was to effect this mighty improvement in the condition of Ireland. There is nothing else in this new display of Daniel which is worth notice, nor should we have said a word about it, if we could have supposed that it would pass as gospel only among the Merrion-square mob to which it was addressed. We know, however, that it will be read and believed by all his followers in Ireland, and hence the necessity of exposing its falsehood, that the people of England may know by what base and dishonest means this bad man manages to keep up his power in that country. We dare say that we shall be again reproached with " making too much of him," with " giving him undue importance by noticing him." This is might - 3r fine talking, but reduce it to practice;and it will be-found as absurd as would be an attempt to obviate the danger of a threatening fire by putting a screen before it. The flames would soon mount above your screen, and when you commenced your process of extinguishing, you would find that you were a little too late. What the Duke of Wellington said of O'Connell is quite true r —. namely, " that he has more power than any individual has possessed since the Revolution." It is true also that that power was obtained, and that it is sustained, by a course of.wickedness equally without parallel during the same period of English history ; and we believe it to be not less true that if his selfish and destructive schemes, his utter want of principle, and his habitual mendacity be but sufficiently exposed in this part of the empire, his ill-gotten influence will become neutra lized and of none effect, and that he will be driven from the stage of public life with all the scorn and indigna tion he so richly merits. For these reasons we shall not cease to hold up the conduct of O'Connell to the public, in all the unsightliness of its deformity and its depravity, as frequently as occasion may require.— Times. There is an article in the Quarterly Review, just published, which, we perceive, is obtruded on notice by the proneurs of that decayed Conservative depo sitory of bigoted and unclean things, as its tower of strength. It is entitled " Robespierre," and it pro fesses that its treatment of the subject is called for by a growing inclination among the French people to palliate the acts and measures of that great leader of the revolution. The foundation of this necessity is as supposititious as the entire tenour of the paper it self is fallacious and perverted. The French people, looking at the monstrous acts of the apostate of Orleans,--who affects to close the crater of the revolution while every act tends to widen the gulph and inflame the combustible materials of revolution beneath,---are naturally disposed to compare his acts with one of the most marked characters of the revolution, on whom political calumny and party prejudice have emptied the whole quiver of their arrows. Robespierre gains by the comparison with Louis THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOEL Philippe, and who would not ? The execrable acts and measures of the mock Citizen King would be calculated by contrast to make white the blackest character. We know not whether the French people have taken this natural view in the comparison, as the Quarterly Review professes ; we only know that all rational people must be driven to this same inference ; and our readers will recollect that a fortnight or three weeks ago, before the Quarterly print in question was published, we alone, we believe, in the English press, did take this view in a leading article, expressly drawing a comparison between the characters of Louis Philippe and Robespierre, and awarding the superior palm of political enormity to the Citizen King. It is now, indeed, three months ago, since, adverting to the same subject, we took occasion to make some remarks upon the character of Robespierre in what an Even ing Paper, copying them, called a defence of that Revolutionary dictator. Perhaps, we may take upon ourselves to say, that we stood alone in our argu ment. It was, however, no defence, but a short statement of facts. But whatever it may be called — mitigation of judgment, or defence of character — we stated then and repeat, that we know little of the moving causes of Robespierre's acts and measures. From whence do we derive the common opinion which, like that of the Quarterly Review, paints him as the blackest of monsters ? From the suspi cious source of party feeling, interest, and passion. From the writings of jobbing Tories, interested in ex citing rancorous feelings of hostility between the, two nations, out of which hostility their jobs and plunder grew. As far as France is - concerned, we have indeed Thiers's History of the Revolution, which describes Robespierre in the most disadvantageous colours—a description copied into the only decent history of France which we have. Now, who is Thiers ? A minister of the apostate of Orleans, who is giving an account of the man who brought his father, (Egalite), to the block. What could be expected from such a source ? It may well be said, in the words of Demosthenes, that the " Oracle Philippizes." In the failure, therefore, of trustworthy biographical and historical guides, what ought men of common reflection to do ? Look at the proved facts, and judge and infer for themselves. Now, there are unquestionable facts with regard to Robespierre, which must give us pause before passing a too hasty judgment on the alleged monstrosity of the revolutionary Sylla. Though we know little of Robes pierre, as we have said, we know this, that he com menced his legislative career by a motion for the abo lition of negro slavery, and remained the steadiest and most effectual supporter of that cause of humanity to the end. We know that he refused one judgeship, and divested himself of the functions of another, be cause he could not bring himself to award the punish ment of death. We knov , that in a competition essay by which he gained the prize, he advocated the neces sity of abolishing the punishment of death ; for which purpose he brought repeated motions forward in the National Convention. We know that his living sister, Camille Robespierre, attests that he was not only a man of punctilious honour, but of remarkable humanity in private life. We know that the whole of the trading middle classes—the whole of the Common Courier! of Paris—the very same class who elect and support the Members of our metropolitan districts—supported him to the last, which was not likely if he was the monstrous character represented. We know, and Thiers admits, hiS extraordinary power in influencing and making friends—s-that several of his friends insisted on sacrificing their lives in conjunction with him on the 9th of Thermidor—and that his bro ther Augustin, a military colleague of Buonaparte who speaks in the highest terms of him, voluntarily offered to die with him, and did, in fact, die with him. That he was a disinterested man is quite clear ; for even al though he was three times unanimously elected Presi dent of the French Convention—(a pretty strong proof, we should think, of the estimation in which he was held)—he lived in a most unostentatious and temperate manner in lodgings which we have not long since seen, at the Hotel Debri, Rue St. Honore. That he was a man of high talent and convincing elo quence is quite clear from the results of the latter in the Club of the Jacobins, the Parisian Com mon Council, and the Convention ; notwithstanding the sneer of Thiers, at his systematic and studied imi tation of Rousseau, which, by the way, only proves his tact in recognizing genuine eloquence—that of the heart. His scientific talents cannot be arraigned ; for the circumstance which brought him into notice was a cause which lie gained as a barrister at Arras, in which he defended the right of erecting electric rods against the popular prejudice ; and stood forward as the clam pion of the newly-invented science of electricity by Dr. Franklin. We have said enough for our purpose for the present ; we shall in another article take an oppor tunity to refute the remaining fallacy in the Quarterly Reviewer's article, respecting the Girondists, which will show to what extent Robespierre was concerned in the sanguinary collision which took place between them and the " Mountain," and which produced the " reign of terror."—Morning Advertiser. The reception of Mr. O'Connell in Dublin, although the Whig-Radical party made an attempt to give an eclat to the scene, must have been a source of considerable mor tification to the agitator, and cutting rebuke to the silly people in the towns of E n gl a nd a nd Scotland who have been degrading themselves by running at his heels. His procession through the streets of Dublin is described as far more miserable even than those which a few years ago the London Radicals used to get up in honour of Mr. Hunt. That it was such as justified this do scription we have no doubt ; but to do so it must, in deed, have been a deplorable affair. No horsemen— no carriages—were there ; the only assemblage, as our correspondent informs us, consisted of a sprinkling of the dirty and ragged rabble of the gutters. This is a falling-off for which it is not difficult to account. The populace is proverbially changeable in its temper, and opinions ; but the turnings and twistings of Mr. O'Connell are too rapid even for the mob of Dublin to follow. They do not understand the joke of commending and supporting this year the same men whom they were taught last year to despise and detest. It might have been urged, and urged truly, in vindica tion of the apparent change in Mr. O'Connell's senti ments, that it as no more, iry 'reality, than a change in his position. Last year he. did the Whig Ministers of the Crown were political antagonists ; at present he bears the trophies of undisputed victory, and drags along in abject captivity, chained to the wheels of his triumphal chariot, his former opponents. But he did not present Lord Melbourne, Lord John - Russell, and the rest of his Ministerial slaves, with his chains upon their limbs and their necks under his feet, to the material eye, the gross corporeal sense, of the Dublin mob, and it required this to enable them to understand his new position and his new language. When he next enters Dublin in triumph he will probably avoid the risk of a similar failure, by peremptorily requiring the personal attendance of his servants and the King's. —Morning Post, Thursday morning, as Captain Huntley, a gentle man residing in Gower-street, was driving in his gig with his groom, along Parliament -street, the horse, having been frightened, started off, and, falling, threw them both out. The Captain was much hurt, but the groom escaped with little injury. On Tuesday last, about 10 o'clock in the evening, a singular, and indeed serious illusion, occurred to a la bourer named Shaw, in the employ of John Holland, Esq., of Carrington House, near this town. He had drank a pot or two of beer, but was not intoxicated, at a public-house in New Bolingbroke, and was on his return home, when having passed the chapel, and walking along the shrubbery of the above mentioned gentleman, he fan.; tied that one of the trees started out of the hedge, crossed the ditch, and to his great horror, placed itself directly be fore him. In vain did he cross the road, the shrub still fol lowed, and was, he thought, so near him, that bending down his head, the poor fellow put forth his hands, and with one effort endeavoured to rush through it—he fell on his back, violently knocked down as he imagined ; he succeded in getting up, and ran off, alarming the neighbourhood with his shrieks. He reached the bailiff's door, in a pitiable con dition, speechless and trembling. So convinced, indeed, was he of the reality of the apparition he had seen, and so great the shock of fright he had received, that for the whole of that night, and the greater part of the following day, he remained in nearly a similar state ; and, although previously never suspected of cowardice, he now affirms that nothing on earth could tempt him to pass the place again in the dark, no, not even if there were twenty men with him. — Boston Herald, LONDON SESSION3.-FRIDAY. -----40.--.. On Thursday a case came on lefore the Recorder and Aldermen, at the Adjourned 9Arter Sessions, which / ex cited considerabl e interest. - Upon the 22d of June emale child, about two years old, was found s t an di ng - ' the parish of St. Mary, Ethel burga, and was not awned. A policeman took the child to the station-hou•; of Bishopsgate without, there being no place of protection or refuge in the former parish, and pub- licity having been given to the circumstances, it was ex pected that the parents would be forthcoming. No appli cation, however, was made for the infant, and she was lodged in the workhouse of St. Botolpb, Bishopsgate, the parish officers of St. Mary Ethelburga having refused, by the humane advice of their vestry-clerk, to have anything to do with her, although there existed no doubt that it was in that parish alone that she was seen. The facts hav ing been stated to the Lord Mayor at the Mansion House, his Lordship and a brother Magistrate immedi ately made an order upon the parish authorities to main tain the child. At these sessions the order was appealed against. Mr. PAY NE appeared for the respondent, and, having detailed the particulars of the case, said that the parish officers of St. Mary Ethelburga, upon being applied to, in the first instance, were willing to support the child, as they were bound to do, but refused, upon consulting the vestry clerk. The expense was thus thrown off the shoulders of a parish upon which there were very few claims, and upon those of a parish which had a superabundance of pau perism in it. Mr. BODKIN, for the appeal, contended that there was nothing to prove that the child had a claim upon the parish of St. Ethelburga. No settlement had been proved to have been established. In fact, the child was what was called casual poor. She was first seen by a fruitwoman in the street, apparently coming from Bishopsgate Without. If she had been at once taken to the overseers of St. Mary Ethelburga they would have been obliged to provide for her no doubt ; but the officer took her into the parish from which she seemed to have come, and the question was, where she first became chargeable. He could not see how the parish of St. Mary Ethelburga could at all be made re sponsible. The RECORDER—The child ought to have been sent to the overseers the morning after it was found, and if they refused to take it under their protection an indictment ought to have been tried, and that would have settled the question. I certainly should recommend an arrangement, for the parishes must not play at shuttlecock with the poor infant. Mr. BODKIN—There is no pretence for sending the child :o us. We shall have nothing to do with it. Mr. PAYNE—We say that where the child was dropped, he parish is obliged to support it. After some further observations from Counsel, The RECORDER said that good. sense and good feeling were certainly in favour of the order of the Lord Mayor and his brother Magistrate, but no authorities had been produced in support of the decision of the Magistrates. He should, therefore, quash the order, subject to a case. The order was then, but much against Mr. Payne's wish, quashed, and the overseers of St. Mary's Elthelburga, will be proceeded against by indictment. The poor child has been christened in the workhouse of St. Mary Ethelburga. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Yesterday a gentleman attended to make oath to an affi. davit of debt, to be used in the Royal Court of the island o' Jersey. Mr. Alderman T. WOOD said this was one of the cases in which he could only take a declaration. The gentleman said a simple declaration would not be ad mitted in a court of law. It would not think of grounding proceedings on evidence not taken on oath. A declaration might, after the passing of the new Act, be received in English courts, but the King's writ did not run, nor did the English law prevail in Jersey. The Courts there acted upon the old Norman law, which would not recognise any other evidence than that confirmed by oath. Mr. Alderman T. WOOD said there was a clause in the Act which met this particular case. After reciting that two Acts had been passed for the easy recovery of debts in his Majesty's colonies in America and New South Wales, and that it was expedient to substitute a declaration for the affidavit on oath required by the said Acts ; it went on to enact not simply that a declaration should be substituted for an oath as to the colonies named in the said two Acts, but as to " any of the - territories, plantations, colonies, or dependencies abroad, being within and part of his Majes ty's dominions." The circumstance that the old Norman law prevailed in Jersey did not affect the case. The Spanish law prevailed in Trinidad, and the French law in the Mauritius, but they were within the operation of the clause he had just read. So Jersey must be deemed a depen dency of the Crown. The gentleman said he was apprehensive this Act would cause him some difficulty. The authorities of Jersey would be indisposed probably to abide by the new system. Mr. Alderman T. WOOD said he would not be the only person the Act would put into difficulty. By the eighth article, the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and other corporations, were empowered to substitute a decla ration for an oath. This related to oaths of office ; and, as the form of declaration was prescribed, a person, after beginning, " I, A. 8., do solemnly and sincerely declare, that I will faithfully perform the duties of the office of —," must wind up with this nonsense—" and I make this solemn declaration, conscientiously believing the same to be true." The gentlemen retired to prepare his affidavit in the new form. MARLBORO UGH-STREET. Yesterday three omnibus proprietors, named Hillton, Burton, and Blore, were summoned before the sitting Magistrate, Mr. DYER, to answer to an information laid by the New Police for causing an obstruction in Ox ford-street. Mr. Robert Blore was the only one of the three defen dants who appeared. Policeman C 27 stated that he saw three omnibuses, one belonging to each of the defendants, following close to each other and stopping altogether in such a manner as to form a serious obstruction in Oxford-street. He desired the ve hicles to move on ; but the middle one which was con ducted by Mr. Blore, was the only one inclined to take any notice of his request. Mr. Blore, though was however unable to comply, as his omnibus was blocked b up before and behind, by the two omnibuses of the other defendants. Under these circumstances he thought it best to summons all the parties, and to leave it to the Ma gistrates to determine the question as to who was the of fending party. Mr. Blore admitted that the statement of the police man was true. His omnibus certainly was one of the three vehicles which obstructed the road, but it was entirely with out his consent, and it occurred only in consequence of the system which was pursued by the omnibus committee, who had determined to run him off the road, because he re fused to become a member, and to pay a large sum to them for a time. He had obtained a very fair connexion by taking passengers considerably beyond the usual place of stopping which: the- other omnihuses used ; but, fio sooner was this-'diseovered,'than the minibus' committee gave orders for their vehicles to continue their opposition throughout the extra distance. A Gentleman named Hudson came forward, and said that the present case was similar in its features to the one lately tried in the New Court, Old Bailey, in which 20 persons out of 22 indicted for a conspiracy against Aaron Bray, had been found guilty. Mr. Blore would not join the Committee, and consequently he had been marked for ruin. In proof of the pertinacity of the omnibus Com mittee, he would only state that, notwithstanding the large expenses, and the heavy penalties they had been subjected to, they had, up to the present time, continued their efforts against Mr. Bray with unabated vigour. Mr. DYER said that it appeared clear that Mr. Blore was the aggrieved party, and had been included in the sum monses through mistake. He should order fresh summonses to be issued against the other two defendants, and allow Blore to appear as a witness. QUEEN- S Q U ARE: Mary Ann Evans, a middle-aged female, was brought up in custody, charged with illegally pledging a vast quan tity of valuable linen, the property of ladies who had en trusted her with it for the purpose of washing. The prisoner, in her defence, pleaded distress, and the sickness of her husband and family, but acknowledged pledging the whole of the property. Mr. Graham, the prosecutor, (who is a magistrate, and sat upon the bench),trecommended the prisoner to mercy ; and, in consequence, she was only fined in the mitigated penalty of 51. ; in default of paying which to one month's imprisonment. UNION- HALL. Yesterday, William Lake, a shopman, in the employ of William Amor, a pawnbroker, in the Lambeth-Walk, was brought before Mr. WEDGWOOD, charged on suspicion of robbing The prisoner who had great confide nce repose d i n h i m b y hi s em ployer, was sent to p urc h ase a quantity of unredeemed pledges from a pawnbroker nam e d N ew b ey, in Drury-lane, and for this purpose a sum of money, a mount i ng to 501. was entrusted to him to effect that p urc h ase. The goods were selected, packed up in bundl es , an d placed in a cart which as ordered for the p ur p ose ; b ut the prisoner, in aye having the property conveye d at once to his em- 1v his employer. s ent the carman to a h ouse at N ewington, where he in stead prisoner) intended to have set up i n b us i ness for him self.(psheottl Out of five large packages containing unredeemed pledges of various descriptions, the prisoner had one of them taken to his own residence, and upon a subsequent occa sion, when he was suspected of dishonest practices, a search warrant was obtained at this office, and a portion of the goods purchased on account of his employer were dis covered. The prisoner denied the charge, and said that he had purchased the goods found at his house on his own and not on his master's account. He also endeavoured to show that be received a per centage from his employer on the profits of the sale of goods. This latter statement was made with a view to make it appear that he was concerned with his employer in the business in such a manner as to exempt him from a charge of the above nature being established. He was fully committed. Burrage and Newcomb, the two officers who were di rected by the Magistrates to make inquiry into the circum stances respecting the communication of an anonymous writer, addressed to Lady Grey, the wife of Sir Charles Grey, threatening to set fire to his property, have returned from the Oaks, near Carshalton, without being enabled to trace the offence to any individual. The affair has created a considerable sensation in the neighbourhood, more espe cially as it appears from the uniform kindness and liberality with which every person in Sir Charles Grey's employ has been treated, his servants and labourers feel the utmost in terest, and have all lent their aid to the officers in endea vouring to discover the person or persons who wrote the letters containing the threats of setting fire to the property. A strong feeling of indignation has also prevailed that such diabolical threats should have been addressed to Lady Grey in the absence of her husband, Sir Charles, now abroad ; more particularly as her Ladyship, since her residence at the Oaks, had displayed much generosity and benevolent traits in her character, which are well known, and. estimated in the neighbourhood, where she and her family have taken up their abode. r~ 3, 1835. WORSHIP- STREET. Yesterday Stephen Hambley, a weaver, aged 49, was placed at the bar before Mr. GROVE, the sitting Magistrate, and charged by the parish officers of Bethnal-green, with secretly confining his child, a little girl, eight years of age, in the cellar of the house No. 104, Hare -street, Bethnal- green. It appeared upon inquiry that the child had been for two or three weeks a tenant of the cellar, unknown to the people of the house, when a female discovered her there, and called in two police constables, named Lermon and Huddy, who found the poor little thing in a most miserable condi tion, with only a bit of straw bed in the cellar, the floor of which was ancle deep with wet mud. The constable imme diately sent for the parish officers, who took the child into the workhouse, and gave charge of the prisoner, who was found at a public-house, where he had been the greater part of the day. The girl, who had been cleaned, fresh clothed, and fed, at the workhouse, said that her mother was dead, and about a fortnight ago her father took her to the cellar in which she was found, and brought the bed there, (for which he had given half-a-crown), and he sometimes came there himself, and slept there. She never got anything to eat while there but bread, which her father brought her, sometimes the half of a penny loaf, but he had sometimes also taken her in out and given her a little beer at a public-house. He had never beaten or ill treated her. The Constable said that when the child was discovered she seemed almost starved, and some bread and butter being given to her, she snapped at it, and devoured it in an instant. It was a wonder that she had not peristeEl in the wet and muddy cellar. The defendant said that he was turned out of a lodging, and had all his things seized for rent some time ago, and had now no settled place of residence. The Parish Officers said that he was able to earn a very sufficient maintenance, but he was a lazy drunken fellow, and had for three years past been drawing occasional relief from the parish on account of his child. A manufacturer who employed him had been applied to, and stated him to be a capital workman, who could always have more of the best-priced work than he could perform, but after working for a few hours in the morning, he would set off to a public house, and remain there until turned out at night. It was ascertained that his employer gave him 9s. last Saturday, and lie had but 9d. in his pocket when taken into custody. The rest he had spent upon himself, leaving his child in the famishing and miserable condition in which he was found. The relieving overseer, Mr. Christy, said that on Tues day week he relieved the prisoner, and the same night found him lying in a kennel, dead drunk. The prisoner could not deny that, but he said that if the parish officers would give him a trifle to purchase a few things, he would get a place, and should be able to do bet ter for his child in future. The Churchwardens, however, said they would trust no more to him, but leave him in the hands of the Magistrate, and take the girl into the workhouse. - Mr. GROVE, after a minute inquiry, spoke in severe terms of the defendant's conduct in exposing his child as he had done to the danger of perishing.—Committed to hard labour in the House of Correction for one month. THAMES-OFFICE. Edward Gardiner, a lighterman and waterman, was brought up for re-examination, charged with stealing a quantity of wine. The prisoner was fully committed, and the parties bound over to prosecute. M. THIERS. (From the .Nouvelle Minerve.) M. Thiers has reserved for himself only three of the nu merous dependencies of his Administration—viz., the fine arts, the public works, and the secret-service money. For the present, we shall speak only of his closet and his draw ing-room. It is there that the character of this statesman displays itself in its truest colours. M. Thiers' deportment towards the employes of his de partment is obliging. He is nevertheless detested ; the reason of this is, that M. Thiers cannot appear obliging without being impertinent. In our days it is neither a misfortune nor a reproach not to be of high birth. We have no longer any grand seigneurs. We have only certain heads of society whose superiority of station is allowed or tolerated on condition that they take care to avoid making others feel it. In our days the title of a parvenu is an honourable one ; but it is essential that he should not justify the say of former times—" insolent like a parvenu." If the heads of society are, by great ser vices or distinguished talents, to hold the place of the grand seigneurs of the old regime, let them at least also possess the politeness and urbanity which were peculiar to that class of persons. The Minister of the Interior has two closets of his own— the room in which he writes himself, and the room in which the ministerial attributes are divided. The former is like an elegant museum, in which there is an abundant display of rich bronze work, small statues, &c., carefully spread out on mahogany tables. If M. Thiers has bought all those things, be must have laid out an enormous sum of money in the purchase. M. 'Thiers generally repairs to his closet at 7 o'clock in the morning. When he comes after that hour, it is because he has previously gone to inspect the improvements and em bellishments which his private house in the Place St. George is undergoing. He finds on his table the news papers of the day with notes relative to their contents, and the correspondence of the previous day. He never fails reading the papers, but he often forgets the correspondence. M. Thiers has heard M. de Talleyrand say that he had made it a rule never to answer a first letter, and only some times a second. The Minister of the Interior does better • he sends no answer at all. He thinks it beneath him to break open the seal of any letter, and scolds the huissier who has had the audacity to bring him one. Letters ad dressed to him are to go to the confidential secretary, who reads them, considers their contents, and only lays before the Minister those which are deemed worth his notice. With such habits, M. Thiers was right in ridding himself of the police by leaving it in the hands of his under secretary, M. Gasparin. At about nine o'clock the confidential friends begin to arrive. Between this and the breakfast hour the time is spent in mere talking. This, however, is sometimes inter rupted by the arrival of some Peer or Deputy, to whom an audience has been promised in consequence of repeated solicitation, and which audience, however, is always of a minute's duration. Some of the chief clerks also come in to require a signature which had been promised a week before. All these audiences are extremely short, and occa sion only a few minutes' interruption of the Minister's cau series with his intimate friends. On the subject of delayed signatures, a curious fact may here be mentioned. When King Leopold was last coming to Paris, toiiig rhilippe sent to the Minister of the Inte rior a note written in nif; own hand about the measures that were to be taken on the occasion, The note was imme diately forwarded to the chief o f the police, who prepared every thing according to its tenour ; he waited four days Lhe I . nterier, for the necessary orders from the Minister of and when these came King Leopold had already take departure for Brussels. The breakfast is properly the Minister's levee. It is usually of a dozen covers.* Mrs. Thiers and her mother do tlse honours of the table. It is forbidden to speak of business. The conversation relates to literature, the opera, and horses. It is a time of rest. The division of the Cabinet includes matters relating to the municipal guard, the firemen, the private correspon dence, and the telegraph. The telegraphic despatches are delivered to the Minister himself in a locked portefeuille, of which he has the duplicate key. The chief of this di- * Our English readers are, of course, aware that a French breakfast is as complete a dinner as the ene so called which is taken in the evening. The usual hour for breakfast is from 11 to 12 o'clock. - ..,1..... vision has at all times to answer , without hesitation!, following questions :—" Where am I engaged to dine A' 9 " day ?" "Is any one engaged to dine with me to-day r However important and urgent the object which may duce any one to desire an audience of the Minister, it i 5 quite impossible to obtain access to him w ithout first goin and making it known to the Chief Secretary, who promises to take the Minister's directions thereon, and to return an answer in two or three days. It is well known that the wife of a General Officer in active service complains that she had written ten times in six weeks to the Minister re questing an audience, and no notice whatever was taken of her applications. She did not state in her letters the busi ness she wished to speak to him upon, and the Chief Se- . cretary could therefore obtain no orders from the Minister on the subject.t After breakfast, M. Thiers proceeds either to the coun cil board or to the Chamber, where it is unnecessary to follow him. He is in the habit of giving two great dinners in the course of the month. During his first ministry, costs him not a little pains to get a sufficient num are by no means unexceptionable, people generally attach scan u e importance to outward forms, and there were not a few rni° chose to find it strange that a lady who was known not tO be connected with M. Thiers by any ties of relationship pre sided at his table. Things, however , are otherw ise at the:, present clay. It is in his drawing-room, during the days 01 general reception, that M. Thiers renders himself most ri diculous. He is flirting for hours, turning on his heel in cessantly, salutes no one, does not listen when spoken to, , and returns answers when no question was asked. The e e grand receptions are grievous occasions for M. Thiers. acquits himself in them with the worst grace in the world-, He displays in them all the morgue and airs of importance of M. Sebastiani, without having the latter's power of as' suming a suitable face to his pretensions. Madame Nel l passes as an affected and vain woman ; but she is certainlY a good-natured one. She is yet too young to understand exactly the import of what she may say or do. If she uncivil, it is because her husband is impertinent, and be cause she has received the education of the people of the Petite-bourse, in whose circle she was brought up. M. and Madame Thiers are out of their element in the Ministerial drawing-room, because they never knew how t° take their stand there properly. Madame Thiers has I). l °' bably heard her husband speak with disgust and a version, of solicitations, and her heart has therefore been foun d closed to all feeling of pity whenever her intercession with her husband for the relief of some distress had been a pp lied for. In her own drawing-room, and because she is the icife of M. Thiers, who M. Gisquet has assured her is a great man, she does not condescend to rise to any Duke, Peer, or General ; - -.311e even hardly returns their salute. Madan° Thiers has no quickness of intelligence ; and with the pos session of that quality her husband wants good sense. Dl' 4 1 Thiers has reached his present station very rapidly ; he descend from it quite as fast. t She was served right. It is a pity that this proceed" regarding her is not made a general rule in France; a vast deal of time thrown away might thereby be saved, and tosol has t families would not be the worse for it. What business he wife of any general o ffi cer in active service to require a privat` audience of the Minister of the Interior? Could not her hu g ' band go to him or write ? SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. ADVICES, ARRIVALS, AND DEPARTURES A' THE SCOTCH WHARFS, OcroBER 2. Dow Na' s WBARF.—Advice the Peterhead and Lon on Shipping Company's smack Eagle, Creighton wast er ' sailed from Peterhead 26th ult. for this Wharf. No arriva ls ' Departures: the Inverness Shipping Company's smack 1 1 °P e ' A. Hepburn master, for Inverness ; and the Montrose Sh i r r ping Company's smack Hawk, David Murray master, I° Montrose ; but with general cargoes. MILLER'S WHARF.—Advice : the Aberdeen and Lonclo° Shipping Company's smack Nimrod, James Phillip mast e r : arrived arrived at Aberdeen 29th ult. No arrivals. Departure: %PI London - and Edinburgh Shipping Company's sma ck R° _ „e Sovereign, John Hall master, for Leith, with a gene ral Calr ; ABERDEEN STEAM WHARF.—Advice : the steam-ship Qu ee n of Scotland, John Pearson commander, arrived at A berdes" 29th ult. -VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT THE CO TOM-HOUSE, OCT. 2. The Ramona, Bridge, from Rotterdam; Belfast, Mitile: ton, Calais; - Batavier, Dunlop, Rotterdam; Britannia, rt! Ostend ; Tourist, Ling, Antwerp ' • Charl o tte, Wills, Cala' ' : Dispatch, Davidson, Odessa; London, Pearson, Rotterdain Richard Watson, Hoskin, Bahia; Palmyra, Gill , N a p les. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING, Gcl'•,2:, The Cherry, Partridge, for Hambro'; Unicorn , Elsineur and Petersburg; Neptune, Haacks, Ostend • P`' of Liverpool, Lomax, Ostend; Trinidad, Crosby, Berba'doe,9l Cater, Whitnall, Dunkirk, St. Croix, Bradley, Hondut Juaquina, Cabuses, Cadiz • Henry Tanner, Ferguson,My Sy d• Batavicr, Dunlop, iotterdam; Dispatch, Smit h, sterdam. CLEARED OUTWARDS IN CARGO, OCT. 2' t The John Bull, Corbin, for Hambro'; London Merchso ' Wittingham, Rotterdam • Earl of Liverpool, Lomax, °s tend; Dart, Ormston, Madeira; Mermaid, Jansen, Bomb a y' Perue, Graham, Trieste; Cherub, Scott, Bermuda; J u p iter, Herick, Stettin. CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST, °cr. 2 ' The Georgiana, Steabler, for Sierra Leone. FlRE.—Great excitement prevailed on Thurso:lN afternoon in Holland-street, Blackfriars - road , in consecja. e of a fire breaking out in the drying - room belong in g to r' a Wilson, hat-manufacturer. The alarm rapidly spread , ti v in a few minutes the engines of the parish and Lon i , l , establishments, with firemen, were in attendance ; and, the assistance of Mr. Wilsos workmen, the fire was sub' Wilson t deed, but with considerable loss of property, thoug h :l i to such an extent as was at first anticipated, Mr. W il3° ... is insured in the British Fire-office, to whose consid eratio : is recommended the intrepid conduct of the workmen the, commencement of the fire, through whose judicious arraogea ments some thousand pounds worth of property have escaP b y destruction. The accident originated (it is:be lieved) overheating the drying-stove. • (ADVERTISEMENT.) V. 5, PATENT LEVER WA T C 0 With silver double-bottom cases 46 - ,6 6 16 With silver hunting cases ls hich This celebrated construction (the most acc urate on " to th watch can be made) is now offered, with the latest i m provel° ne cl, i. e. the detached escapement, jewelled in four holes, caPror hand to mark the seconds, hard enamel dial, and maintaining Vol to continue going while winding up, at the above price, by T ' n aori• SAVORY, Working Silver and Goldsmitii; Cornhill BIRTHS. 0 On the Ist inst., at Barton-upon-Humber, the NV -f DOI" Elves, Esq., of a daughter. (. 0 . On the 30th ult., at Clifton, Mrs. T. de la Condam:ne' daughter. , lite r. On the Ist inst., Mrs. Daniel Stokes, of Banksid of d MARRIED. „, to, On the Ist inst., at Runcton, Richard Bagge Esq., of LP"; 0 Pleasance, daughter of the late Rev. Edward'Hulton, Rect°- Oftvwood, Norfolk. f bevi 4 f On the 29th ult., at Histon, near Cambridge, Richard Mat -- 0 1, of the Middle Temple, Esq., barrister-at-law, to Hanna h ' ° daughter of Mr. Henry Day, of Histon. , Salt On the Ist inst., at Hadley, Middlesex, the Rev. G. Sa l t alp late Fellow and Tutor of Jesus College, Cambridge, to P• - youngest daughter of Alexander. Drury, Esq.; of Hadle y • of On the Ist inst., at Plumstead Church, N. P. Willis, ....,cl:' f the United States, to Mary, daughter of Willia m Stace, D 5 ; 1 ;0 • the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich. Mrs. and Mrs. Willis star mediately for Paris DIED. On the 19th Sept., after a short illness, Mr . Robert hgate, ged 30 Ca rtel :o' d Hig a, much lamented by all who knew him: th ol e 0 ,0 rectness of his principles, sincerity of friendship, suavity of 11 ' e at and a cheerful and generous disposition, commanded the resP a large circle of frien. Og le° On the 28th inst., ds at the Spa, Gloucester, Admiral Sir Tyler, U.C.8., of Cottrell, Glamorenshire, aged 7 5 . Cb sr On the 30a: ult., at Southend, Essex, in her 24th Yea r ' ta ge e ' lotte Mary, eldesi. daughter of H. C. Berkeley, Esq. , °f I% ' ° " - street, Russell-9quart:: Or On the 29th ult., at alpham, Surrey, aged 18, Mall , • v ° of daughter of David Davidson, Esq. Egl' ;0, On the Ist inst., at Norwood, Surrey, Thomas Myers , ,,„ g h Tilney-street, Mayfair, London, and of Gray's, Sible lied Essex, in his 724 year. r P e° On the 26th ult., at Leamington, Miss L eonora Drape r. job° daughter of the late Rev. W. Jones, and niece of the late D ISt e Ewer, Bishop of Bangor. f th e At Grove Cottage, Twickenham, Catherine , relict 0 we d 73: A Rev. Charles Proby, Rector of Stanwick , Northampton, se c On the Ist inst., in Montagu-square, Catherine Matild a ' f , 1 daughter of the late Walter Young, Esq., of Welbeek-stree e ,i(e 5 On the 2d inst., at Grove-place, Hackney , Frances, the o f Mr. John Gaisford, of Basinghall-street. lad' On the 30th ult., at. Wokingham, Ann Powell Bac 0 0 George-street, Grosvenor-square, aged 14. relict o On the 21st ult., at Hindon, Wiltshire , Kit t y , the late Thomas Lawford, Esq., aged 7 3 . _stre et ' On the 2d inst., 11r. George Gibbons Elwall, of Charlo e City-road, late of Wolverhampton, in his 56 th year. aged at, On the 27th ult. at Dunoon, Rosamond Pakenharn, 7orge' months, only child of T. M. M. Weller, Esq p of St' " road, Glasgow. , Frofe ss°f On the 28th ult., at Brighton, in the apartments °' of Badham, his mother, in her 85th year. w icloW l , On the 29th ult., at Margate, in her 68th year, Ann% Chet te e. the laic James Edward Ryder Magennis, Esq., of Gee D o ''. ford, Essex, MI. 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