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spi.ltlT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. To what shifts must not Toryism be driven when its retainers ask credibility for mendacious assertions so astounding as the following impudent declaration of the Standard : " Twelve months ago," says the Standard," we regretted as premature the change that then took place (the dismis sal of the first Melbourne Cabinet,) and we saw in that change nothing but the success of a Whig stratagem to reconcile the Whigs to the revolutionary party by a last desperate effort. They had so often rallied the zealots of anarchy to their support by intimations that they must re tire, that the threat had lost its efficacy ; and how no thing less than an actual execution of the Menace could succeed. The straightforward, honourz:ole, and unsus pecting character of the Monarch chabled him to execute the stratagem with the utmost w:tvantage. They obtained the dismissal for which they intrigued and falsified, and, of course, retained their position in the corps of the disaf fected. So far the artifice triumphed, and we never con cealed the uneasiness which the triumph obtained for us at the time." So the Whigs procured their own dismissal, in order that they might be borne back again by Radical assist-. ance I The Whigs, who arc taunted perpetually by Tory organs with their love of place, intrigu e d to get out of place upon the contingency of regal..ning place by means of a closer alliance with the " Revolutionist party I" A most profound and ( I ..eep-laid scheme truly this I And the readers of the 'standard must have an amazing flood of new lint thrown in upon them on arriving at the discov-, ry of this new species of intrigue on the part of Ministers. We suppose we shall next hear that the - apostacy of the Times was an intrigue of the Ministry, and all the difficulties of the past session and the pertinacious opposition of my Lords the Peers were also contrived and managed by these most sin gular politicians. But we rejoice to perceive in these absurdities, which the cleverest 'Tory prints put forth to conceal their despair, the proof that things are not quite as they should, he in their own camp ; and that it is pretty wea understood that another manoeuvre, like that of November last, is not to be played off on the nation, nor likely to be sanc tioned in those high quarters where the selfish de signs and affected loyalty of Tory intriguers are, we believe, now appreciated pretty much at their true value. Hence all this wincing, all this perversion of ingenuity and employment oCparadox,, to account for a simple and obvious circumstance. The Liberal Mi nistry will remain in office, not because Tory in triguers have abated their enmity, or altered their tactics, but because the nation supports that Ministry, and the Sovereign is not insen sible to the important truth. Therefore take consola tion, gentlemen--pursue your travels to Rome or to Kalish, as you list. Should Sir Robert again visit Italy—we surmise that no courier will again disturb his classic researc h es — we s h ou ld as soon expect that a prospect of fulfilment would be offered to the ambi tious dreams of the Orange Duke by a hasty summons from Kalisch or Berlin. The Standard concludes with the charitable wish : " We therefore hope the Melbourne administration may continue without disturbance as long as any considerab] , , portion of the people do not abhor it to the top of it de serts ; but in perfect correspondence with this trope, we cherish a strong anticipation that its last hour at hand." This is the point upon which we are at issue. We maintain that the Melbourne Ministry has the confidence of the country. We imagine that confidence to have been shown in the return of a Parliament which re jected its predecessors in spite of the blandishments of Peel and his " conformin g " policy. When the confi dence of the country shall be constitutionally shown to be withdrawn from the Government, which it cannot be but from their own culpable negligence or a deser tion of principles, which even their bitterest enemies have not dared to charge against them ; then, and not till then, will the benevolent wish of the Standard be likely to be realised, and we also may be found among the number of those to rejoice that " its last bow is at hand." We may observe in passing, that the Standard pays a very sorry compliment to the penetra tion of the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel, in making them thus the dupes of their reforming op - ponents.—Morning Chronicle. Most of the Palis 'papers contain long articles in answer to the one published on the previous day by the Journal des Debats, relative to the state of affairs in Spain. It appears to us that a great deal too much importance Is attached in Paris to what that paper says regarding Spain its ability is unquestionable, but it is equally clear that in the many articles on that sub ject which have appeared in it within the last four weeks, it has not spoken the unanimous sentiments of the French Government. What greater proof of this could we point to than the reproaches incessantly addressed by the Debats to the Government, for not having consented. to the much-solicited intervention during the Ministry of Count Toreno ? Even in the article to which the papers before us reply, the pre sent posture of affairs, which the Debats looks upon as nearly desperate, is entirely ascribed to the refusal of the French G overnment to interfere. In its article of Tues day, however, that paper acknowledges that the time for interference has now passed, " for It would be ridiculous," it says, to think of taking part against everybody, as we should have to do, under present circumstances in Spain. The Debats despairs that M. Mendizabal will suc ceed in restoring order in Spain, and deplores what it ; conceives his weakness in having made concessions to the Juntas, instead of meeting them with energetic measures. The other papers express, on the contrary, the firmest conviction that M. Mendizabal will suc ceed in restoring order, and praise his good sense in having met the wishes of the Juntas, instead of plung ing the whole country into civil war, as he would have done had he persisted in the absurd course adopted by his predecessor, Count Toreno. What energetic measures could, in fact, M. Mendizabal have recourse to, supposing even that he had been so inclined ? had he an army of 100,000 men to send against the factious? A smaller one would have been of no avail in a country up in arms against the Government, and having besides to contend against the northern provinces, in obstinate 'rebelli on i n f avour of the Pretender to the crown. The few regiments doing duty in Madrid could not be spared for any such purpose ; even if they could, the consequenCes of sending them against any of the armed juntas would infallibly hare been twofold ; in the first place, the troops would have sided with the insurgents instead of fighting against them ; and in the second place, they would have left the people of Madrid free to rise against the Government, as wouldmost certainly }lager been clone had the capital' remained without any military garrison at all. And, after all, what disgrace could there be in yielding to the unanimous voice of the people of Spain ? Was there any thing unreasonable in their demands ? Did these go beyond the regulation of monasteries and the appropriation to the State of much of their immense, and to them, useless, wealth ; the establishment of a Constitution of which individual liberty, the freedom of the press, an..l the reign of laws formed by real represent; d i ves of the people, should be the • l principal abases ; and, finally, energetic measures for driving Don Carlos out of Spain, and putting down Carlism effectually ? A patriotic IVlirtister could not treat such just and mode rate demands otherwise than M. Mendizabal has done, even if he had had 100,000 faithful troops at his dis posal : if he had acted as the Mats regrets that M. Mendizabal has not, he would have been worthy of the severest punishment attached to the crime of high treason. The ill humour exhibited of late in the Journal des D'ebats against M. Mendizabal probably does not arise from any real conviction that the course he has adopted since his arrival in Madrid is not the proper one, so much as because he is not a •likely man to take advice from and act under the influence of the Doctrinaire Ministers of France. The situation of M. de Rayneval in Madrid has undergone a serious change. lie is no lon ger th e c hi e f counsel, and the souffiv - 42ileur of the Prime Minister of Spain, as lie had accustomed himself to be under the Administra tion of Martinez de la Rosa, and of Toreno espe cially. M. de Rayneval, and his friends of the D'ibats, therefore think that it is all over with Spain. To go on under a Prime Minister who is resolved to see things with his own eyes, and to act according to his own best judgment, appears a monstrous deviation from the most proper path to the would-be interlopers of the French Doctrinaire generation I Besides, M. Mendizabal labours under the reproach of having spent many years of his life in England, where he is Universally respected, That such a man cannot hint VV ,4 lk) the taste of people professing the doctrines or which the Journal des Debats is the eBpedal organ, we can easily conceive ; but we, in common With all kiveli wishers to Spain, and agreeing with all Ow indepen dent organs of public opinioA in Prance, who have so ably refuted on tlti Utcasion, and for the fiftieth time, the misrepi'et'entations and mistaken views of the Journal ties Debats relative to Spain, cannot express too strong an approbation of every step that M. Men dizabal has taken since his arrival in Madrid, and we have the best hope that the prosperity of Spain will be thereby secured.— Times. The Irish Government of Mr. O'Connell is placed in a position, or rather has chosen t position for it , self, such as the Governmnt of no civilized commu nity ever before occul i '.'ied. It is identified with the purposes, and conipelled to sympathise with the bad and destrintive passions, of a numerous class of its sub?cts, who are engaged in systematic, persevering, and inveterate opposition to the authority of the law, and pledged to an hostility the most implacable and ;leadly against the rights of property, and the peace and good order of society. The triumph of this law less band of conspirators is the triumph of Govern ment. Their defeat would be its discomfiture. Nay, so monstrous is the anomaly presented in the Sister Kingdom by the character and conduct of those who ought to be the faithful guardians and zealous protectors of the property and rights of all their fellow-subjects, the just and impartial administrators of the law of the land, that nothing could happen which would be to them a deeper calamity, nothing that would more effectually discredit and enfeeble them, than that the habitual law-breakers, the con !-Aant invaders of other men's property, the frequent as= sailants of the persons and the lives of the peaceful and loyal subjects of the King, should abandon their vi cious courses, repent them of the outrages they have ' already committed against the peace and safety of the community, and resolve to act for the future the part of honest men, respectors of the laws, useful and valuable members of society. The persons who compose or who control the Government of Ireland know that for the attainment of their purposes, and the maintenance of such reputation as they enjoy among their own par tizans, nothing is so indispensable as that the war in that country against the rights of property should con tinue to rage with unabated fury ; and it is quite evi- ' dent that they act under the full influence of this de grading and miserable conviction. Is it possible to give any other rational explanation of the pains taken by the organs of the Irish Government to intimate to the enemies of property and of the law that Mi nisters are not so much the friends of either as to em ploy in its support that force which the Constitution has placed in their hands for no other purpose ? We some days ago inserted a letter from Lord Morpeth to an Irish Clergyman, which was loudly praised by the Castle press, and 'enich appeared to us to have no other merit tliiran that of intimating pretty distinctly to the Runn Catholic assailants of the property of the Chn.:ch, that they have nothing to apprehend from the teal and vigour of the executive Government in its de fence. But, lest this official proclamation of impunity and reward to the enemies of the law, clothed, as it must of necessity be, in decent ambiguity of phrase, should not be quite intelligible to the capacity of the ignorant and illiterate persons for whose encourage ment it was apparently intended, the unofficial organ of the Government is set to work to expound the full meaning of the Noble Secretary's letter. The Dublin Evening Post accomplishes the task of explanation in the following very complete and satisfactory manner : " TITHES.—The provincial papers are crowded with no tices concerning tithes, and the tithe campaign which we mentioned last week appears to have gommenced with great vigour. We doubt, however, whether the belligerents will be successful ; for we confess we do not think it at all likely that the aid of the military will be granted, except on occa sions in which actual collisions have taken place, or the parties are on the point of coming to blows. In other words the tithe proctor or clergyman will not, as in the case of Rathcormac, be accompanied by squadrons of dragoons, or companies of infantry, to enforce the pay ment at the point of the sword. We do not pretend to speak authoritatively ; but we are sure, if the intention of Government be such as we imagine it, there is not a just man in the country that will not applaud their determination." The " belligerents" who are arrayed against property and law, and on the side of Mr. O'Connell and Lord Mulgrave, must be dull clods indeed if they need more encouragement than this. These " belligerents," strengthened and animated by the cheering signals which their high allies take care to display from time to time, as occasion requires, are not disposed, how ever, to confine their warfare within such narrow limits as the property of the Church. They very naturally say, " If the tithe be a grievance, rent is another, and a (Treater ; and the Government which encourages us to make war upon the one cannot take it amiss that we should extend our hostile operations a little towards the other." We find accordingly that a rent agitation has already commenced in Ireland, and that the Ro man Catholic Priests are, as in the case of the tithe war, already at its head. The " belligerents," we apprehend, will ere long be found more zealous and active than some of their allies at Dublin Castle or Whitehall would probably desire. The following pa ragraph which we find in the Globe of last night, bor rowed probably (though this does not appear) from some Irish Ministerial paper, is instructive " REDUCTION OF RENTS.—Maryborough, Friday.— Within the last fortnight two meetings have been held in the Queen's county, for the purpose of petitioning Parlia ment for a reduction of rent. At the first nothing deci sive was adopted. The second meeting took place on Sun day, in the chapel-yard of Killishen. There was a large attendance. Mr. William Cooke, of Rasenna, presided. The Reverend Mr. Hickey, Parish Priest, addressed the meeting on the exhorbitant rents, and the tyranny practised by many landlords, agents, and drivers. The Rev. Gen tleman contended that rack-rents were one of the principal causes of the miserable and disturbed state of the country, and that the farmer and labourer never could be happy until land was set at a fair value. Mr. Connor proposed that the land should be valued by a Jury of twelve honest men, in order that the tenant should have an interest in the soil he cultivates, and the means of supporting his fa mily. He announced that a county meeting wasin con templation, and he expressed his readiness to attend in the different parishes, and address the people previous to the general meeting. After the adoption of resolutions, th e Rev. Mr. Nolan was called to the Chair, and the meeting quietly broke up.".-3/lonling Post. Mr. O'Connell promises faitly to frighten the To ries out of the -litantetr..wits possess. The fear. of him is constantly before 'their eyes—they think of nothing else—they speak of nothing else—theY'write of nothing else. Take up a Tory paper, and you are sure to find O'Connell the beginning, the middle, and the end of the " leader." 171 f, used to be called the big "0" in derision lie is now the big "0" in the estimation of the Tories, in sober seriousness. Everythi;, g he now says and does is pregnant with im nor'tant consequences—is big with the fate of the British empire. He is said to have had some hand in getting a very deserving, but very humble, man, the situation of Postmaster in a village containing a few hundred souls, and at the princely salary of fifteen pounds a year. Of course there is something of frightful import in the bare fact itself. But the man, it further appears, is a Roman Catholic. That is of still more horrible augury. It is doubtless sympto matic of Popish plots—perchance, gunpowder treasons. But the worst of' all yet remains behind—the new Postmaster of Tetsworth is a collar-maker I It was not for nothing that of all trades in the world a collar maker should have been selected for so important a station. People may rely on it that this Postmaster is a thorough-going disciple of Peter Dens, and that there is a distinct understi;. - nding between O'Con nell- and him, that his handicraft may be turned to some account by the manufacture of collars, or halters, if you will—wherewith, when a fitting occasion ar rives, the necks of one and all of the High Church men of the neighbouring h University of Oxford may be encircled, and their persons led forth to undergo some species of martyrdom. Depend on it, that the next Government situation worth 151. a year which falls vacant in Tetsworth will be given, through O'Con nell's influence, to some.. carpenter, , because he may be made useful in the • erection of scaffolds, when the Popish plot for the martyrdom of the Protestant clergy has become ripe for execution. The fact that O'Connell's power is paramount in the Government of this country no longer admits of dispute. Were he not omnipotent—had he not an entire control over the Councils of the King—is it THE SUN, LONDON, rRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1835. to he fora intnitent siipposed . that he gOt the Sitnatitth 1 3 'fisitriasid of • Tethwoftli...-salary be it always remembered—for any man, above all for a Roman Catholic and a Collar-maker ? Those itinerant bigots, O'Sullivan and Co., will surely take care in their future exhibitions to " lag in" this null nous affair, as one of their long catalogue of proofs of an approaching massacre of Protestants in tlit;:- gland, infinitely worse than that Of It aitWoilierv. In the meantime our Tory conteiliporaries have incontro vertibly proved that a transfer of the of this country has been made by the _Melbonnie Ministry from T illing William to King Daniel. Mo '.2.lists have always told us that Crowns arc mere gew gaws. William the Fourth will now bear testiniony to the truth of the doctrine, for though the Crown still encircles his head, it is of no value ; all the power which was supposed to centre in it, is possessed by another. The order of things has been reversed—a subject has virtually become King, and the King a subject —so, at least, say the Tories, who are con fessedly the best judges in all matters pertaining to Roy al t:!,;-.----Mornzng Advertiser. What we stated some days ago regarding the meeting at Toplitz of the three northern, or " eastern" poten tates, as the Frankfort organ of one of them has lately designated the trio, has since become abundantly manifest. After a few days' stay in that fashionable watering-place of Germany, spent chiefly in country excursions and outdoor diversion, the three Sovereigns were about to take leave of each other during the first week of the present month, on their way each to his own home, excepting indeed the King of Prussia, who is in the yearly habit of staying some weeks at Toplitz for the benefit of the mineral waters, whose virtues have given such:great celebrity to the place. No Ministerial conferences were held, and if any political questions have undergone discussion, it must have been in that conversational form which is not meant to lead to any specific result. Messrs. Nesselrode, Ancillon, and Metternich, no doubt found abundant leisure to talk over matters which did not immediately concern the interests of Russia, Prussia, and Austria, and care fully avoided any allusion to questions which did ma terially concern the States in question. The affairs of Spain were probably the chief topic of diplomatic comment, and all agreed that Spain, all along so happy, prosperous and flourishing under the regime of the devouring monks, the Inquisition,-and monar chical absolutism, is on the eve of losing those bless ings through the fury of the constitutional mania, which has so unaccountably and suddenly seized the great majority of that portion of the population who are capable of exercising a thought. But however deplored were the principles of civil liberty which are gaining ground in Spain, it is impossible that the lesson afforded by the decay into which that country had rapidly fallen after the re-establishment of Fer dinand's naked authority in 1823, should have been lost on so practised and acute a statesman as Prince Metternich. He cannot be the only man in Europe who has not had eyes to see the withering effects of the thirteen years' restoration on poor misgoverned Spain. We think it quite impossible that Prince Metternich would be one of the advisers of a league for placing Don Carlos on the throne of Spain, and depriving the Spanish people of every chance of progress in the career of amelioration which a free and constitutional regime can alone open to them. As to the Ministers of the Czar, whether it is through the means of the Inquisition and an army of monks, or through the more energetic blessings of the knout, that despotism is to be upheld, it is not the less fit in their estimation to prevail among mankind. They are seldom at a loss for arguments to prove that the world will be going upside down if nations are to take it into their heads to be governed according to their own notions of what suits them best. We cannot forget an article which appeared some years ago in the Ministerial organ of St. Petersburgh, Le Conser. vateur Impartial, the object of which was to show that civilization can only flourish under , I ft, despotic monarchy, and barbarism is the lot of' the people whO" presume to maintain the right of governing themselves. As the paper in question is published in French, this precious article was evidently intended to enlighten the darkness of the barbarous populations of the west of Europe, and not to convince the philosophic minds of the Moojicks of civilized Russia. It happens luckily, however, that the single influence of Russia is of small avail in the balance of any great poli tical questions which may agitate the west of Eu rope ; so that, whether she desire it or not, we have not to fear that Spain will be brought back again to a retrograde system on her account. The Ministers of each of the three Powers, then, after an exchange of their sentiments, their wishes, and their hopes, in regard to any matters touching the north, west, or south of Europe, have parted without even so much as hinting that any necessity exists that they should confer together in a more formal way. The meeting both at Kalisch and at Toplitz was, as we said on a former occasion, brought about solely at the sugges tion of the Emperor of Russia. It is lie who had imagined the military spectacle at Kalisch, with the view of impressing the rest of Europe, or more pro perly speaking, England and France, with the close ness of the union between the three absolutist Sove reigns of the North, and displaying an array of the military force which it was in their power to bring into the field. Really England and France must have stood in great awe before the 30,000 or 40,000 bar barian hordes of Calmouks, Tartars, Bashkirs, and incomplete regiments of infantry, mho figured at the reviews of Kalisch T. It required three times that number of Russian troops to take possession of War saw, and once more to enslave unhappy Poland ; and even the 120,000 men had to fight desperately, and to go through the hardships of two campaigns, before they could make sure of ultimate success ; nor would they have succeeded even so soon without the abun dant aid derived through the manifest partiality of the King of Prussia in favour of his son-in-law. It is said in some of the French papers of Monday that the project of a matrimonial alliance between the eld est daughter of the Emperor Nicholas, Princess Olga, whose age is 18, and her cousin, Prince William of Prussia, a nephew of the King of Prussia, is among the fruits of the imperial and royal meeting at Toplitz; CARLISLE. and that the young Prince will, after his marriage, re (From the Cumberland Pacquet of Tuesday.) ceive the crown. of Poland. About the marriage we " - 7 ;t There were famous doings in the Barristers Court, a. have nothing to say, but as regards " the crotin o Carlisle, yesterday week. No fewer than 569 of the city Poland,' the French papers which speak of the pro : electors, 360 of whom are freemen, and 209 ten-pounders, ject of its. restoration have evidently been iinposeC.„o:ere disfranchised in consequence of the lists of claimants upon. The Emperor Nicholas would issue an iika - S not having been published, as the Act requires. The deci to-morrow, declaring the " late kingdom of Poland" sious of the Learned Gentlemen (Messrs. Maude and At incorporated with the Russian empire, were he not kinson) have very naturally created a pretty considerable tied down by a treaty signed at Vienna by all the sensation in ancient city, ai the Rads, by whom this wholesale disfranchisement of the freemen has been accom great Powers of Europe, England and France includ- Plished, are perfectly frantic with joy at so , hoppy a consum ed, by which certain provinces of Poland were raised oration of their handy work. into a perpetual kingdom, of which the Emperor of In consequence of these decisions the register for the city Russia was chosen the hereditary king. But what s tands thus Nicholas has not yet ventured to do in a formal man ner he does in effect, for the "kingdom" of Poland is treated exactly as a conquered province, having a Rus sian military Governor, who is besides Commander in-Chief of the Russian army in Poland, and the identical Prince Paskewitsch who conducted the last campaign against the unfortunate Poles, and took Warsaw. It is true that the title of Poland, as a kingdom, has been used by Russia since the fall of Warsaw, but it was on a single occasion, and for the very modest purpose of claiming of France a pre, tended debt, e ntered into, it was said, at the time that Napoleon had made Warsaw his halting-place, on his way to Moscow I We have not beard that the poor kingdom of Poland has appeared under its proper name more than this once since the ill-fated summer benefit of the Imperial trea• setof l u B p 3 i l n , it a s n n d a i t t ne is fu a r t l t e h a e st to be hoped that the claim sury of St. Petersburgh will ultimately fail.—Times. Disfranchised. Freeman .. Householders I Total ... 465 1 Total disfranchised 569 Thus it is that political matters stand in merry Carlisle at the present moment. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. James Prior, the Leadenhall-market porter, who, it will be recollected, was some time ago charged by Mr. Kemp, o f 43, Little Eastcheap, upon suspicion of having been concerned with a gang of thieves near the market in rob bing that gentleman of a pocket-book containing country bank notes to the amount of 351., was brought before the LORD MAYOR, charged with having stolen two heads of horns, the property of Mr. Lawrence. William Wisdom, a man engaged in the market, as he was at work saw the prisoner take two heads of horns which lay amongst a heap, the property of Mr. Lawrence, and lay them down in a secret place below a staircase. The prisoner acknowledged that he had taken the horns, but he thought they belonged to the person whose horns he was working at. He had, however, not hidden them, but merely chucked them amongst those of his employer. He then began to speak of the excellence of his character, and the total absence of all suspicion as to his integrity. The LORD MAYOR—Why, here you are convicted of robbing the very gentleman whom on your examinat.on for another offence you spoke of as ready to give you a most excellent character. I must send you to Bridewell for two — , onths to hard labour.—Committed. nn ,p , we( ' are informed, has obtained the property robbed of. As negotiation for the pur- . - -rty by means of officers is wholly counting-houses, &c., asses sed am ounts to from 1 8 ,000 to 19,000 ; f Leeds, am t e o r o the h relief 'o f w a the h p o o u o s r e i s n , 10,000 are cottages, the as and that of this number about thelttoi: n s o t h a ip ted ? that the number ses sments for 1 4- i 1„ to them by the parish officers, for certain allow ance mat,. - non sibility of the whole of the --a9; the same for each ii c h ar e paid by the landlords, who have a taking up on th emse l ves t h e it..., rates due from their tenants, and -, property i n one sum. Should pad_, this compogitL" payment be -. some deemed sufficient we shall have in this towlishlp alon v .. 16,000 voters for the Town Council ; but should the - pounding rate-payers not be allowed to vote the numbei will "". ig r . 4*— be redu ce d more than one-half_ probably t o 6,ooo.—Leeda which 'he hid Uevk•-• Paper. ' • poses of restitutie4 of eq., ~.., , THE REGISTRATIONS. (Before Mr. TAMLYN.) WESTMINSTER. PARISH OF ST. MARGARET'S. Amongst the persons attending for the purpose of having their names inserted on the registration for the above parish was. Mr, Joseph Parkes; late of Dirtuinghatn, but now of Mr. Parkes in support of his claim said that in 1833 he took 1.1., , 'nouse formerly occupied by Sir rawnyl Stra cey, at a rental of gOOl, per and ivhion he and his family occupied ; eketpt the ground-floor; which be let to the Corporation On - mission shortly ailet lid Vntered {l fif tnises. The overseer palled for the takes due by Sir Edward • StilieeST; find he thee itithrtfied that person that he *ould Write to Sir Edward, and, if correct, he would pay filet; This he did, and on paying them informed the overseer that for the future he should pay the rates, being the occupier of the house in question. Under these circumstances he thought he was placed on the registration. On examining the lists on the church door, he found his name was not there. His reason for not sending a notice to be placed on the list arose from the opinion that being duly qualified to vote, his name was inserted in the rate-books. This he found was not the case. Mr. Austin, the collector of the Poor-rate, corroborated the statement of Mr. Parkes as to his paying the rate ; but he was unable to say whether Mr. Parkes ever desired him to insert his name on the rate-books. Mr. TAMLYN inquired of Mr. Parkes if he had any ob jection to produce the receipts ? Mr. Parkes—lf I can find them I shall have no objec tion !here is the lease of my house. Mr. TAMLYN—I must take time to consider. Mr. Austin—Had I not seen the inscription of Corpo ration Commission on the door, I certainly should have in serted Mr. Parkes' name in the rate-book ; and when the list was sent to the vestry clerk I forgot to insert Mr. Parkes's name. Mr. Score was about to make an objection, when Mr. Parkes said, you have no business to raise an ob. jection. Mr. Score—l am here for that purpose. Mr. Parkes—You cannot be heard, for if you intend to raise an objection, you ought to serve me with a notice to that effect. Mr. Score was about to object again, when he was in terrupted by Mr. Parkes; who said he should ask the bar rister to decide by what right he objected to his claim. Mr. Score—l object to it on the grounds of his name not being on the rate-books. Mr. TAMLYN observed that the Act of Parliament did not prevent any elector from raising an objection, if he thought proper ; and in his opinion it was a good and healthy practice, for facts might come out which were not known to the Revising Barrister. Mr. Score then proceeded with his objections. The first was, he (Mr. Parkes) was not rated ; secondly, he had not claimed ; and thirdly, he had not complied with the provi sions of the Reform Act, by tendering all his rates. After some further discussion, Mr. TAMLYN said he should take time. If Mr. Parkes tendered any receipts for the rates in his own name he would receive them. After some cases of no importance had been gone through, Mr. Parkes again appeared in Court, and produced re ceipts up to April, 1834, made out in his own name. He contended that he was not to be prejudiced by the mistake of the collector ; and that, having paid his rates, he was fully entitled to vote. The decisions upon this point were numerous. The receipts made out subsequently to 1834 were also in his name, and he should be ready to produce them.—Judgment deferred. ST. GEORGE'S, HANOVER-SQUARE. In the course of the day it was intimated to the Court that, through mistake in the printing of the lists, the names • of 26 scot and lot voters of this parish were omitted. To remedy this omission the names of these voters were after wards placed on the church doors as claimants. Mr. TAMLYN said this involved a point that required some consideration. He would not proceed with the list at present, but would fix a day with his colleague for hear ing arguments in the case.—Adjourned. EAST SURREY. The Revising Barristers met yesterday morning for the purpose of giving judgment in several cases which they had reserved for consideration, and to hear other adjourned cases. The claims of three trustees of a chapel at Camberwell were disallowed, because it did not appear that they had any discretionary disposal of the freehold, or Of the funds arising from it. The claims of the Rev. Mr. Anderson, of Dulwich Chapel, and of Mr. Richards, a Baptist Minister of Wandsworth, were disallowed, because, although they had perhaps a freehold interest in their respective offices of minis ter, they had no freehold interest in land or in their chapels ; their receipt of the pew rents was not considered as a receipt of the rents and profits arising from freehold land or houses. In the case of the Rev. Melvill, where the Court had decided in favour of the claim on Wednesday, the facts were different. There the qualification arose from an endowment annexed to the office, over and above the emoluments derivable from the pew rents. (Before Mr. LENNARD.) Several Gentlemen, copyholders of the manor of Old Parisgarden, in Christchurch, claimed to vote. Mr. Meymott, jun., stated their case as follows :—ln Queen Elizabeth's reign this manor was granted to Lord Hunsdon. His successors conveyed the fee of the manor to trustees, in trust, for the then copyholders, their heirs and assigns. So that the present trustees hold the free hold of the manor, in trust, for all the copyholders for the time being, about eighty in number, who are virtually lords of the manor. There is a fund accumulated by the fall ing in of several estates for want of heirs, &c., which fund the copyholders consider theirs. They, therefore, claim to vote, not as copyholders, because the property is within a borough, and the occupiers have borough votes ; but, as cestuique trusts of the fee of the manor, each esti mating his interest in this fee at considerably more than 40s. a-year. Mr. LENNARD admitted the claims, remarkinr , that it was the most singular manor that he ever recollected to have heard of. All the copyholders had shown themselves to be Lords. POOLE. J. S. GRAVES and A. HAYWARD, Esqs., held their Court for the revision of the lists of voters for this borough on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday last. The re sult, compared with the old register, is as follows : Conservative increase 65 Ditto loss 2O —45 Radical increase Ditto loss 27 8 Majority for the Conservatives At the late contests for this borough the Conservative candidates were defeated only by a small majority, but b 7 this increase of strength little doubt can exist of their suc cess, should an opposition be attempted. at an end; Mr. Kemp hiniSeif Undertook to get an instal thent of v4iat he had lost: An elderly Mari called at his 'tense eri the first of October; and asked hitt hoot much be was willing to gi4rj tohabe his pocket-hook returned with all its contents. fie inittiediatels , offered 10/. The stran ger ARNO that 101. was too small a totheriission, and said that those through whose instrumentality the swag could be get back eontidared themselves entiil,A to 20/. After several inteniews it Was agreed thAt the diff a iAn t . ‘ ; should be split, anti 1 4 6, 14iittip cOnsetited td hark! otrer ilfteett sia vereigu;' on receiving the prortly of lticli he had been Had; the stranger said that Mr. kettfp iirttst ; if he wished for the festittifidn of his money, do more than iyiey mise—he must pay down the g•dld a* (nice and trust to the WWI of the person whom he talked with/ and that the pocket hook should be restored either on that of the suc eeeding day at farthest. Mt Remy, having been informed that heptiiators in this line acted naafi* with what is called amongst the 610 , a and housebreakers " high honour," paid down the money without the least hesitation. fla had for his authority upon the occasion the testimony of several parties who had paid the reward first, ankl received the whole of the stolen property afterwards. On the fol lowing evening, at half-past seven o'clock a stranger called at his house, and told him that a gentleman was desirous to see him at the Ship, in Talbot-court, on important busi ness. A few minutes afterwards lie went out in the direc tion of Talbot-court; at the corner of which a man met and accosted him, saying. " Your name, I believe, is Kemp ?" " Yes," said Mr. Kemp. " That parcel, Sir, is for you," said the stranger, handing to him something wrapped up in a piece of a newspaper, and walked away. It was the pocket-book with the two 101. and three .5/. country notes, and all the memoranda, as if it had never been opened since he had lost it, His gold pin, which he did not suppose he had lost at all, was amongst the contents. MAItYLEB ONE. Yesterday a tall, middle-aged man who gave his name James Harris, and described himself as a servant out of place, was brought up in custody, and placed at the bar before the sitting Magistrate, Mr. HOSKINS, charged with begging, and also with desperately assaulting William Hors ford, an officer in the , employ of the Mendicity Society. •• Horsford, on the previous evening, about nine o'clock, as he was walking along Wigmore-street, Cavendish-square, saw the prisoner go up to several persons and distinctly heard him solicit alms. He (Horsford) followed him, and observing him to enter a shop in Marylebone-lane, where he also begged, awaited his egress, and charged him with the offence. The prisoner at this appeared very indignant, and by his noisy and abusive conduct caused a considerable mob to assemble. He was then told that he must go to the station-house, when he resolutely resisted, and defied any one to take him away. Witness, finding that the ma jority of the crowd were disposed to take the part of the prisoner, drew from his pocket his staff, which, however, he did not make use of, and was in the act of seizing him by the collar, when a gentleman then in the office interfered, and, pushing forward through the mob, told witness that he was drunk, and that he was ill-using the prisoner ; who, finding that he was thus backed by a person of re spectable appearance, became more determined than he was before ; and—seizing hold of some iron railings, said that " He'd be d---d if he'd stir a peg." Wit ness, with great difficulty, at length succeeded in convey ing him to the station-house, followed by the gentleman in question, and, on the charge being made before the inspector, he (the gentleman), seeing the prisoner about to be searched, advised him not to submit to it, and if he (wit ness) persisted in it, to knock him down. The prisoner, acting upon this recommendation, directly raised his fist, and struck witness a tremendous. blow in the face, and an other on the back of the neck, which sent him reeling against the wall. (Witness here exhibited his right eye, which was much swollen, and concluded his evidence by saying that he was perfectly sober when he took the pri soner into custody.) Inspector Medlicoff, who took the charge, and policeman Johnson,, D 62, who was on reserve duty at the station house, bore, testimony to the assault committed on Horsford by the prisoner, who was urged to do it by the gentleman before spoken of. They believed Horsford to be quite sober. Mr. HosxlNs (to Horsford)—Where is the person who interfered ? Horsford—Here he is (pointing to a seat in the office). Mr. HOSKINS—Then let him come forward. A young man here stepped into the Witness-box, and gave his name William Henry Leggatt, and stated that he was clerk to Mr. Chitty, the Barrister, and resided at No. 24, Wigmore-street. On the previous night, soon after nine o'clock, he was returning home, when he saw a mob col lected at the corner of garylebone-lane, 'and in thirmidst of it was the prisoner, collared by the first witness, from whom several persons were trying to rescue him. Witness asked Horsford what the man had done, and not receiving a satis factory answer, told him that he should get some assistance ; in reply to which the former surlily replied that he should not, and directly after took his staff, which he flourished over the man's head. He was quite sure that Horsford, who was very much excited, had been drinking, and that he was not at all in a fit state to do his duty in a proper manner. Witness desired the prisoner to go peaceably to the station house, which he did, at the same time declaring most em phatically that he had not begged of any one. At the sta tion-house Horsford reeled about, and said to the prisoner, Now I shall search you," when witness told him that he conceived such a course was unnecessary and uncalled for, as the man was not charged with felony, and witness cer• tainly added that if a person under similar circumstances were to attempt to search him, he should feel himself fully justified in knocking him down. Witness subsequently questioned Horsford as to whom the prisoner had begged of, but the only reply he could obtain was, " I know he's a beggar, and I have done nothing more than my duty." Witness concluded that he should not have mixed himself up in the affair had he not considered that the prisoner was ill-treated. _ Mit c hell and Jones, officers of this establishment, met Horsford at half-past nine o'clock, and that he was then perfectly sober. Mr. HosmNs, having listened patiently and attentively to the whole of the evidence, told the prisoner he should detain him until Saturday (to-morrow), in order to afford time to obtain records of his previous convictions ; and, then, addressing Mr. Leggatt, with great warmth, said:" I am of opinion, Sir, that your interference in this case was not.only impertinent and unjustifiable, but also of a very mischievous tendency. I shall call upon you to find bail, yourself in 401., and two sureties in 201. each, to answer any charge which may be preferred against you at the Ses sions ; and I must say that I hope the Mendicity Society will, for the protection of their servants, indict you. Mr. Leggatt and the prisoner were then removed to the lock-up room ; and, in the course of half an hour, the for mer, who was bailed by Mr. Maslin, coachmaker, of Wig more-street, was liberated. Mr. Mivart, chief clerk in the begging-letter department of the Society in question, said he had no doubt whatever that Mr. Leggatt would be called on at the Sessions to answer for his conduct. '' r- Q UEEN-SQ UA RE. Mr. Robert Planner, a tradesman, was finally examined, charged with having caused the death of Nicholas Ken weld, well-known on the Brixton-road as a carman for the last twenty years. There was no additional evidence forthcoming, and the Magistrate committed him on the Coroner's warrant for trial on the charge of manslaughter at the next session of the Central Criminal Court. MARLBORO UGH-STREET. A gentleman belonging to the Alfred Club-house came to this office, to inquire of the sitting Magistrate if he could not have,a search-warrant against a pawnbroker, who had a valuable picture in his possession, improperly pledged by the secretary to the Club, who could no where be found. The painting, which was one by Carlo Dolci, and of course, of considerable value to coanoissieurs, had been brought by applicant from Florence, and given into the care of the secre tary to the Alfred Club, who had taken it to the pawn broker in question, and had obtained 50/. on it. When applicant went to the pawnbroker on the subject the pawn broker would not produce it, although he admitted he had received such a painting from the secretary. The pawn broker at first said the transaction with the secretary was a regular pawnbroking affair, but afterwards he said the mat ter was not a pawnbroking transaction. Mr. CHAMBERS remarked that the only safe course open to the applicant, in order to get back , his property, was an action of trover against the pawnbroker. Mrs. Jane Emerson, George Emerson, her son, and Jane Baker, were charged with having assaulted Thomas Richardson. Thomas Richardson, a tall, fashionably-dressed man, who described himself as managing clerk'to Mr. Vickery, solici tor, Chancery-lane, received a note from a person named Hart, asking him to come down to a public-house in Jer myn-street, kept by 11Irs. Emerson, but licensed to a Mr. Ford, and do what he could to assist a person who had got into trouble. He went to the public-house and was intro duced into a little parlour, kept for the accommodation of a select few, the house being (as complainant described it) a flash-house. In the room were several persons, male and female, and amongst them a person named Dyer, a female who lived under his " protection," and a Mrs. Fletcher. Some champagne was ordered, and just before the cork was drawn Mrs. Emerson came in, and said she did not think she would open the bottle for such a - as Dyer. MrS. Fletcher said Dyer was a gentleman, and words arose betwixt her and Mrs. Emerson. Complainant added, Dyer had money enough in his pockets to buy_them all. Mrs. Emerson called her son, and complainant fearing that Mrs. Fletcher_would be beaten, came forward and said he would suffer himself to be murdered rather than see any woman struck, A scuffle ensued, and complainant, with ~_ .---~" some difficulty, contrived to get Dyer out of the house, as he knew he had 4,0001. in his pocket. Mr. CHAmßEßs—What is this Dyer? Complainant-- A Custom-house clerk. Mr. CHAMBERS—A Custom-house clerk, And carry 4,0001. about him to such places ! Mr. CHAMBERS and the Rev. Mr. TIMMY, who heard the case, fined all the defendants 2/. each and costs: HATTON-GARDEN. it will be receected that about ten days ago Captain Robert De Bruce, who representeJ himself as a Swedish officer, was brought before Mr. LAING On a peace warrant, charginc , him with having threatened the lives of Mr. Bar' ber, Sherborne Cottage, Islington , and his daughter. whom lie, had r e c ently married, he having another `tire living. The Captain on that occasion produced documents td show that he had been divorced from his wife in the Ecclesiastical Court of Sweden, and Mr. LAING refused to entertain a charge of bigamy, which Mr. Barber was pre pared to substantiate, as he considered it was a legal divorce, entitling him to enter into a second marriage contract, and be discharged the Captain, with the advice not to annoy the complainant again. Captain De Bruce, however, sub' sequcntly proceeded to Tollington Park, where his last wife was placed for safety with her sister, and com mitted at; assault upon Mr. Barber, who gave him into custody, 0" he was ordered to find bail, in default of which he was nen; veyed to prison. During his confinement Mr. Barber et' Mr. Donovan, the father of his first wife, assisted by age tleman connected with the British Ecclesiastical Court, ha searched legal authorities, and in the course of the p ast week they had an interview with Mr. LAING, and it was decided that the Captain should be brought forward and arraigned on the charge of bigamy, in order that the jai' portant question respecting the divorce should be brougit to an issue before the Judges , and yeste rda y the Caput"' was placed at the bar before Messrs. LAING and Roosits• The office was very crowded, and the case excited the most intense interest. The prisoner seemed very much depressed, and looked at his second wife with an expression of tenderness. g e is a fine-looking man, with mustachios, and he stood erect, en militaire, while Mr. Laing questioned the witnesses. Mr. Flower, of the firm of Alderman Harme r and COO attended for the prosecution. Mr. LAING inquired of the prisoner his name ? Erion er —I am the Hon. Robert Edward De Bruce. Mr. LAING—Why do you call yourself the Honourable' Prisoner—Because in my own country I am a Noblemaa• Mr. LAING—When you were last here you gave your name Robert De Bruce. - Do you now mean to sty le yourself " The Honourable Robert De Bruce ?" Pr i " soner—l do. (He handed some documents to Mr, Laing..) Mr. LAlNG—These papers prove you were divorced is Sweden from your first wife, and I advise you to take care of them ; they may serve you at your trial. Iha my doubts upon the point, which is to be determined in $ superior Court. Mr. Donovan, jun., is the son of Mr. Donovan, an jun' keeper at Dartmouth, and proved that his sister Jane 1 1 ° - salind was married to the prisoner in October, 1826, at the parish church of St, "Saviours, Southwark. Mr. Donovan, sen., gave similar evidence. The prisoner here observed that his marriage with Miss Donovan was never solemnized by license or banns. Miss Henrietta Barber, an interesting young' lady, w h° seemed in very delicate health, was now supporte d to tbe witness box, and, being sworn, she stated that o n the 17tis of last September she was married to the prisoner by licens e in St. Clement Danes Church. • Mr. LAING asked her her age. Miss Barber—l 0 01 L ° my twenty-second year. Mr. William Boyle, the parish clerk of St. Cleme ° . t Danes, produced the certificate of the marriage of the po• soner -to Miss Barber, and indicted the parties. `Prisoner—l do not know what charge is against me. Mr. LAING—The charge is that you married Miss Do , novan and have not been divorced from her accordi n g to t?!.e English law, and you have taken to yourself another won during the life of your first. I still have some do ubts urn the matter, and am ready to take responsible bail for You r appearance at the Old Bailey to take your trial. Prisoner—Very well, your Worship. The witnesses having been bound over to prosec ute A' esf th e prisoner was removed from the bar, and taken to the Prison. WORSHIP-STREET. Yesterday Mr. Henry Dixon, trunkmaker, Commercial' street, City-road, was placed at the bar , before MesS;rsii TWYFORD and GROVE, charged with having in his p ossess° a bill of exchange not negotiable to him. , The prisoner, who denied all knowledge of the bill, was discharged on his own recognizance in 301. UNION HALL. who Yesterday two women, named Corbett and Wayland , , hawk pincushions and tape about the suburbs of the to were charged on suspicion with stealing a quantity of IP frorn a gentleman's house at Forest-hill. The prisoners were committed for three months. Win. Broad, a mechanic, was charged with maliciowleil destroying a tree on the premises of a gentleman nato Stone, residing at Brixton. The Magistrate inflicted a fine of 20s. on the defenda otl besides making him pay seven shillings, the suppos ed value of the tree he had destroyed. WESTMINSTER SESSIONS• After the Grand Jury had been sworn and charged , t il a application was made by Mr. C. Philips (with whom we'" Messrs. Clarkson and Bodkin) on the part of Peter Bolteo Stretch, who stood indicted for keeping a house for the purposes of gaming, in the parish of St. James , to foe the recognizances until the next Sessions, and that a n otic left at his attorney's office might be deemed good service' The CHAIRMAN, after some discussion, granted the ac plication, and ordered notice to be left at Mr. Hugest office, which would be deemed of good serv i c e at the ile% Sessions. The calendar contains the names of 101 defendants . o f John Johnson and George Jackson were convicted s picking the pocket of Mr. Prosser, of Charing-cross, off silk handkerchief', and were sentenced to be transported ° seven years. Patrick ItTkite was sentenced to be transported fors e v , es ; years for stealing some sheets, braid, and other Aie° from St. George's Hospital. Milton lies buried under the clerk's desk in Cr i P; plegate Church, whither his remains were con veyecl an the 12th of November, 1 674 , from his residence in 1 1,; ( 1 hill fields, and placed beside those of his father, vvh° '— in 1647 (A D v ER TisEmENT.)-- 2 T. COX SAVORY, Goldsroitn; &c., 47, Cornhill, London, informs the Public , that he 13c!s, considerable variety of SECOND-HAND GOLD WATOr t ve any of which he offers at EIGHT GUINEAS e ach. They P". all been carefully overlooked, and are warranted.—Watches P" chased in exchange. BIRTHS. 1 , 01 On *re 13th inst., at Mimwood, North Mimms, Herts, t..e of William John Lysky, Esq., of a daughter. the On the 13th inst., at Mapledurham House, near Reading, lady of the Rev. Richard Seymour, of a son. On the 13th inst., the wife of Mr. John Wood , of Nelson-streetl Aldersgate-street, of a daughter. 111 A R R Its D „ ~„c l oa O the 14th inst., at Oakle, Joooth, Es., r of u,"„ of Hall, Northamptonshire, to Auygusta hn de B Capell, fourth drug her the late Sir Richard Brooke de Capell Brooke, Bart., of House, in the same county, and sister of the present Boxonet..nock.. On the 13th inst., at Cross Cannonby Church, Joseph Hou se, lington, Esq., of Muskham, Nottinghamshire, and Barrovi u ser Cumberland, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Hum p hre y Seilu e Esq., of Nether Hall, in the same o county. On the 13th inst., at St. Helen's, Lancashire, the Rev. f the Magendie, Vicar of Longdon, Staffordshire , and third son r of late Lord Bishop of Bangor, to Mary Angelina, second daugb ir st• the late Michael Hughes, Esq., of Sherdley House, hear Helen's. f La a. On the 14th inst., at Bristol, J. Sidney Lesc her, Esq., 0,- ia„a don, to Sarah, only daughter of William Harwood, of I"' square, in the former city, Esq. Wes. On the 14th inst., at'the New Church St. Pancras, v' o ot' cent, of Sussex Cottage, Camden-town, and Old Hall, We' gc• laud, Esq., to Miss Elizabeth Bean, third daughior of the lat e Bean, of York. udier On the 14th inst., at Streatham, Mr. Potts, SotiPl `" oho r street, Grosvenor-square, to Anne Rice, youngest da u g hte late William Bishop,Basingstke Hants. o f, On the 14th inst., at q St. Margaret's o , ' Mr. George - O i l Wes t the Sanctuary, Westminster, grandson of the late De an of ifortlt minster, to Caroline, third daughter of the late Char les De" Esq., of Great George-street. rick, On the 10th inst., at Kilpeacon Church, county of George Green, Esq., of his Alajesty's 37th Regiment , tot Georg George fourth daughter of John Westropp, of Attyflin, Esq., to of Limerick. i be c Catherine, DIED. On the 14th inst., at Hamilton-place, Southampton , -- the relict of the late Lieut.-Colonel P. Maxwell, aged 65. in her On the 9th inst., in East-street, Lamb's Conduit-streett4ioo 84th year, Mrs. Ann Thompson, relict of the lat e Mr. " Thompson, of Devonshire-street, Queen-square. .4-010 111 ' On the 12th inst., at Gosfield-hall, Essex, Thomas o'l Esq., late of the Island of Jamaica, aged 81. TT Well' 10 On the 13th inst., in Percival-street, Mr. William --„ T e . c ho lsoP° his 72d year, many years confidential clerk to Messrs. ra St.. John-street.. Nelso n On the 12th inst., Mrs. Mary Nelson, wife of Mr. Joh n D o ha Deputy Water Bailiff of the City of London. r 11.1 r. On the 11th inst., Frances, the infant daughter 0. ; tis. ° Flint, of Kingston, Surrey. rhr ,9 . On the 12th inst., at Brighton, aged 62, Mr. John '-', e IV.. Mencke, for 40 years a distinguished member of King Ge °r D .4 S . celebrated band. Tho 0 0•"" On the 12th inst., Anna, eldest daughter of M r. 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