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

• SPIRT .T OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS We; have closely watched the progress of Russian polif..:y in the East for years past, and have repeatedly WP.rned the British public of the gradual advances of that Power to a pitch of dominion wholly incompatible with the security of British interests. The Russian ascendancy in the East has already destroyed our poli tical infly.ence in Turkey, and threatens at no very dis tant dzy the annihilation of our Commerce in the Archi pelago, the Levant, and along the shores of the Medi tereanean, unless more talent, decision, and energy akiould be brought to the administration of our Fortign Department than it has had the benefit of during seve ral years, but more especially during the time that the present Secretary for Foreign Affairs has given to Eng lish policy rather an undignified and somewhat ridicu• gnus character in the eyes of Europe. Poland sacrificed to Russia, despite of the treaty of Vienna—Belgium re duced to the condition of a province of France by the AT:tglo-Gallican Convention, and Spain delivered up to anarchy by the effects of the quadruple alliance, are works of which the admirers of Lord Palmerston may boast ;—but we suspect that impartial history will re cord them among the evidences of an imbecile Govern ment, if not the portents of a declining empire. In re lation to the alarmingly-increasing power of Russia, we made some observati•Ju s yesterday founded upon facts furnished by a most intelligent and active corre spondent in Turkey, whose statements are fully con firmed by the correspondence of a Morning Contem rary, from wilich we copied an important passage, re lative to the truckling policy pursued by our Govern ment towards Russia, which has had the effect of closing the Bosphorus and the Black Sea to all vessels of war except those of Russia. More particularly did we refer to the refusal of the Porte to allow a firman to a British frigate, the Volage, to enter that sea, be cause the Russian Minister insisted that no such fir man should be granted to a British vessel of war, and actually caused the Porte to recall the finnan which it had granted to a French sloop war, the Me range, to go to some place on the Euxine, there by inflicting an insult on the French flag and nation, which we need hardly say the Russianized King of the French has taken as quietly as our own Government have taken the insult offered to the flag and honour of Great Britain. A Ministerial Journal of last evening made a weak attempt to impugn the accuracy of our statements, but which goes to confirm our charge against Ministers for their pusillanimous subserviency to Russia in all im portant points. The statement respecting the refusal of the finnan to the Volage at the instance of the Rus sian Minister remains uncontradicteil, as also the des cription of the manner in which Mr. Ellis was " smug gled to Trebisonde." The Treasury writer, indeed, informs us, as an answer to the charge of submitting to the dictation of Russia at the present moment, that three years ago, the Barham, Actaon, and one or two smaller vessels, lay for a length of time in the waters of the Bosphorus. That strengthens our case, seeing that they dare not lie there now, or at any time since Russia insisted upon the fulfilment of the conditions of the treaty of Hunkiar Skelessi. A Ministerial Morning Paper stated the other day, as a re-„ son wh y the Barham, which carries our 'Ambr..ssatlur, Lord Durham, should not seek to enter the Bosphorus, that 46 the construction of the treaty of 1809, as practi cally understood between the two Governments, does not permit of ou r s hip s o f War go i ng up the Bospho rus." A Ministerial Evening Journal alleges the existence of the very opposite practice, not only since 1809, but down to so late a period as 1832, when " the Barham l Actccon, and two smaller vessels of war lay for a, length of time in the Bosphorus." Thus the two Ministerial prints are at issue as to the prac tical interpretation of the treaty of 1809. Let them settle the point between them as they please, it is suffi eknt for us to know that Russia is resolved no practi cal mistake shall arise touching the stipulations of the 64 secret treaty," and, therefore, at her insolent dicta tion, English and French vessels of war are now pre vented from proceeding uip the Bosphorus and entering the Black Sea. Lord Durham sails for Odessa, and be takes this course as if he wished the humiliation of our flag to be placed beyond a doubt. It is now ad mitted that this Nobleman—the representative of his Britannic Majesty, who, though affecting democratic principles at home, is a great admirer of the Autocrat, must not dare to enter the Black Sea in the vessel of war in, which he had embarked for Odessa. Our Evening Contemporary says that the Barham will again "pass the Dardanelles, and proceed with Lord Durham to Therapia, on the Bosphorus, above Constantinople." Why stop there ? Why not sail through the Bos phorus and enter the Black Sea ? We will tell the reason. It is because, as our Turkish Correspondent has stated, " The Black Sea is now a mare clausum to all nations, Russia excepted." The Morning Mi nisterial Paper which vve before quoted says, " It is our interest that the law (of exclusion from the Bos, phorus) should prevail universally with respect to fo reign nations, and, therefore, no firman has been or will be solicited for the Barham to ascend higher than Constantinople." Here again those two Ministerial journals are at issue, though both speaking with an equal tone of at least demi-official authority. Let them reconcile the diffr.xence. Whether the Barham be allowed to go no farther than Constantinople, or whether it obtain permission to go a little above the city to await the steamer into which the person of his Majesty's representative is to be transferred, it is quite clear that neither the Barham nor any other British vessel of war can now enter the Bosphorus, much less the Black Sea, without the permission of Russia, whose flag now rides triumphant in those waters, while by holding the Porte in abject thraldom, she may be said to keep in her possession the keys of the Medi - terranean.—lVlorning Herald. The Legislative Session is now in a manner finished, and with it the war of Bills, votes, and amendments, for the present year. But a campaign in another quarter is on the point of opening, and one which, we have little doubt, will be carried on by the party whose business it has been to assume the offensive in these political matters with a skill and activity no whit infe rior to those of the Parliamentary belligerents. It is announced as the characteristic apology of a well known Revolutionist for accepting the Municipal Re form Bill from the House of Lords, that though the Immure still retained some good in it, the amendments of the Lords would furnish plenty of fuel for " agita tion." This tallies well with the promises of Lord John Russell to the House of Commons, in his speech on Monday evening, that the Bill in the state wherein it then stood must not he regarded as a " final measure." It may then be taken for granted that England, the month of February next, is to be the theat re ,sys tematic and indefatigable "agitation." 'lrish agitation is for th e present laid aside, becau se its watchword must at all times be such as would signify a deter mined hostility to whatever forms or confirms the bond of connection with Great Britain. This, it is obvi ous, might be somewhat inconvenient, whilst the same ruler is in full practical sovereignty over both, seeing who and what that ruler is. Since, however desirable for the schemes, financial and political, of Mr. D. O'Connell it might be to dissolve the union between Great Britain and Ireland, so long as the United Kingdom acknowledged the sway of His Majesty William IV., we acquit the shrewd agitator of any such disloyal or rebellious inclinations, taking for grant ed only one proviso —t o wit, that the power of the con joint Government should be withdrawn from the hands of the said hereditary Monarch, William IV., and com mitted, as there are those who say it has been committed, to the hands of Daniel 1., a self-elected and Whig anointed despot. A repeal of the union would in the one case give Ireland to O'Connell—in the other case it would take Great Britain from him. He likes "but tering his bread on both sides " a great deal too well for that. If repeal, therefore, the main topic of Irish agitation, be now of necessity relinquished or sus pended, it follows from the position of the Whig Mi nisters, and of their patron who condescends to take the name of " ally," that agitation must be transferred to this country. It cannot be given up; •that must not be thought of. If the country were once suffered to enjoy repose—if the intrigues of the Movement were every where to cease, and the chimeras of speculative Democracy to be removed from before the eyes of the people, the Whig Radicals would soon be made seri gibia that their occupation as governors of the king- dom was for ever gone ; that a sober disgust towards wanton change was rapidly superseding the passion for it which had been produced by the opium -eating ex cesses of the last twelvemonth; that Conservatism, in other weds, contentment with o ld nat i ona l in stitntions, and with those statesmen who Stoed forward in their d e f e nce, was 1 esienning , its 'ac customed ascendancy over tlhe Minas t'ytglisli men ; and that the at .r rot 'MIA li'li-eac4 working its way into the foundatiets of the Movement power. This, we tepee* Yt*ist not be. The Whigs and their masters are aVviite of it. They have even now, befere tte ac tual prorogation of Parliament. dieez:Neil their game. We are to be kept in boilietr ; Water until the session of 1836 commences t the popular craving for promiscuous innovation is to be spurred and stimulated hay AR Van 'ter of knavish devices—the insufgeivettvid the Muni cipal Reform Bill—the bliOtal promise of the Irish Church Plunder Bill--that birth-strangled babe the Irish Corporation Bill—the numberless delinquencies of the House of Lords—the. guileless inneitence and angelic purity of those celestial beings the Popish priests of Ireland I —upon these, upon one and all of these, the changes are to he rung without ceasing ; reatg, mark you, in the ears of Englishmen, thretighout the towns, the public halls, the big-rooneed taverns of this island, and echoed through the pot-houses and alleys, and other conduits of ~dition, by its basest and most low-priced hirelings. This, this is what we mall be told is getting knowledge cheap ! This is the diffusion of wholesome knowledge among the labouring classes of Great Britain.. Through this kind of knowledge the best and bravest men in the country are to be diurnally defamed. The intemperate among the Conservatives are to get no credit for their honesty, nor the saga cious aiid far-sighted for their wistiom. All ate to be alike slandered and made odious to their country , men. Was there ever any thing more unprincipled or atrocious than the attacks made in the same column of the revolutionary prints, upon the Lords for their hateful tyranny in amending the Municipal Reform Bill—and on Sir Robert Peel, for his hypocrisy an hundred times more hateful, in declaring his calm condemnation of some of those amendments. Is it the spirit of the new system that no politician from, whom we differ can by physical possibility be an honest ' man ? Because Sir Robert Peel enumerated in his speech at Tamworth the liberal and beneficial measures which lie had been prepared to bring forward as Minis ter, and stated his confidence that they were such as would have carried with them the approval of the other branch of the Legislature, he is charged on one side with a cheap ostentation of purposes which he never entertained, and on the other the character of his mea sures is maligned, because of his belief that the House of Lords would have passed them, as if that or any other assembly of reasonable men might not honour ably, as well as justly, place more reliance on one Minister (even a Conservative) whom they esteemed, than on another (even a Red al-supported Whig), whom, from experience-, they feared as a tamperer with the foundations of the Monarchy ! We warn our friends and plain dealing countrymen of thes e wicked practices by whi c h th e y are about to be as san'ited. We tell them that all the quacks, the ruffians, the cheats, the desperadoes in the kingdom, are shar pening their weapons and tucking up their sleeves for this work. We tell them that O'Connell is in the field, a new field, for Ireland is already full cropped with tares and brambles of his sowing. The fresh ,around H to be broken by thi s f at h er o f m i sc hi e f l i es here. e has got up invitations, or his creatures, the Whigs, have for him, from many chief towns in the north of England and in Scotland, to public, that is, political dinners. Liverpool, Manchester, Edinburgh, Cillegow, are each to be so honoured —towns, the richest and most intel ligent in the empire, after, though we see by the names and other particulars mentioned in the programmata of these threatened orgies, that property and intelligence will have little intercourse with them, and that the outeourings of slander and malignity will be the most copious libations of the high priest whom they have called upon to officiate. Yet such disgraceful cere monies will of course be described by the organs of the Movement everywhere as indicating the true poli tical faith of the country, and will serve the Whig partners in the humbug for a pretext whereon to justify the most prostrate subserviency to the facti tious clamours of the Radicals thus leagued with and led by O'Connell. However, let them beware—lre land, in the language of the police reporters, is lq this time pretty well cleaned out - of her O'Connell tribute. She has had almost enough of it. Perhaps the Agitator is of opinion that she had better lie fallow for a year for the sake of the next years's pro duce—perhaps he may try the operation of.money making, as well as speech-making, on this side the water. Have a care, Sawney, that this Irish marauder does not levy black mail upon you. He is an unto' chiel. We hope the public have paid a due tax of admiration to the steadiness and independence of those confidants of the Ministry who so late as Saturday last denounced them to the infernal gods, if they should disgrace themselves and outrage the people of Eng land, by accepting from the hands of the House of Lords a Bill of Corporate Reform so mutilated, that it was worse than no Bill at all, and therefore called upon Ministers peremptorily to reject it, but have, since Monday last, when they found " which way the wind blew," been vexing the ears of the public with assu rances that it was the wisest and most patriotic thing in the world to make the best of the bargain, bad as it was ; and that Ministers deserved great praise for the moderation and good sense of their temporary submis sion to their Lordships I And these are the men who abuse the Times for inconsistency I—Times. We sincerely hope that the retainers of Ministers will ere long be instructed, if it be only for the sake of decency, to refrain from their present morning and evening song about a Reform of the House of Lords. Have not the Whigs already given us a Reform of the House of Commons, which, according to them, was to correct every abuse, to remove every anomaly, to silence every complaint in relation to the practice and operation of the British Constitution ? And are they to be trusted with the execution of further reforms who, by the very fact of seeking such a power, confess that the changes they have hitherto accomplished have not attained the purposes which they professed to hayti in view ? Why should the House. of Lord; be IT, formed if the reform of the House of c:inmons hti not a failure ? Why, if the latter l ue a tailure, should its authors be any longer ► t . : - . . stec t by t h e peop l e ? i t is said that the He Lords ,ase of is trot hi harmony with the He-,- se of Commons, and that it is neces sar y for welfare of the country that these two powers in the Constitution should be in harmony. The lat. tet proposition is a permanent and essential truth. The former may, for what we yet know, be only a temporary and accidental fact. But, supposing the proposition that the House of Lords and the House of Commons are discordant bodies to be necessarily and permanently true, it by no means follows that the House of Lords ought to be reformed—it by no means follows that the House of Lords, as at present con stituted and endowed, is a body less necessary to the general welfare of the community, or less anxious or capable to produce it, than the House of Commons. All that can logically be deduced from this fact is, that the authors of the Reform Bill were so stupid as to misconceive, or so dishonest as to conceal, the natural consequences of their own measure. Before the Reform Bill we heard nothing of collision. Until that measure had passed, the three branches of our harmonious and constitutional Legislature governed the country, we do not say with perfect wisdom, we do not say with perfect virtue—for what human in stitution was ever perfect ?—but we may be permitted at least to say with so much of wisdom and of virtue as secured to the nation the advantages of internal peace ; of as large a share of happiness as has ever fallen to the lot of any people ; of progressive and, to all human appearance, boundless, prosperity. Why, then, we again ask, when dealing with matters so im portant as the peace, happiness, and prosperity of a nation, did not the authors of the Reform Bill tell us when they were prosecuting that .measure that their reform of the House of Commons must of necessity be followed by a reform of the House of Lords ? Is it fit that a nation should be defrauded of a Constitution under which it has for many generations enjoyed a degree of peace, happiness, and prosperity seldom afforded to the inhabitants of any region upon eartl , by a series of manoeuvres artfully cuutrived so its to produce each other in predetermined succession ? Or, assuming that the Reform Bill was not artificially constructed, with the intention that it bhuuld pterge the way for revolution s is it It bri thtt the At stiinies 14\riiY, M t. inh to fekr AriA lat i re hißie 6.61'n . Illy possible change, should be eWtiikstM to the h an d s o f mensol)lilni,, , and ignorant, as not t o k now t h e cousmuenCeS of dicer own measures, or s o ..reCklA Nr! unprincipled as to proppse I.WiA . L•‘‘': - es of organic ch ange without hav inf; ueliberately weighed their probable effects ? We might leave the present Ministers of the Crown and their organs o f th e P ress ettinte themselves from this dilemm4A as they can, but we will' be getter Cal enough to point out the mode in which we incline to think (and we own " our wish. P.' ‘",a'liier to the thought") they may_es , , , ..l".i leom it. A democratic reform of the INVise o f L or d s w ill not appear f rom anyth4.4 'drat has yet passed to be necessary to restore that Noble Ass em bly t o h armony w i t h the teaailed House of Commons, unlesl it b'e a 'Permanent and essen tial ehardeteritlitiottlie latter, in consequence of the Re form Pt, lhat its majority is for ever to consist of, or to be guided by, such men as Mr. Hume, Mr. Mr. Wakley, and Mrs R.Cebiie l lti. It is clear enough that the Reform Ministers cannot be extricated from the dilemma above described if these Hon. Members, or others of similar disposition and capacity, MT per= manently to sway the councils of the Lower House. In -this case, indeed, the House of Lords must be reforined —reformed with a vengeance—so refohned that it shall assimilate in disposition and akpaoity with Mr. Hume, Mr. O'Connell, M. Wakley, and Mr. Roebuck. A thorough tdorm will then, indeed, be necessary to make dye other institutions of the State harmonise Veitii the House of Commons—a reform, not ofthe House of Lords only, but of the House or Lords, and the Crown and the Church, and the colonial system, and the public debt, and the bench of justice, and the laws of property, and the sense of integrity, and the sentiment of honour, and of everythin g , in s h ort , that ~tapes Eng land - England. The reform reqUired ill such circum stances and for such h purpose must be c om pl ete , radical, univers a l ) sparing nothing, respecting nothing, effacin sil the moral, and intellectual, and social landmarks of an old and distinguished nation, or dis locating in the vain attempt to efface ? providing rot the British people, if its success sll4Sillt be partial or imperfect—inextricable nAisiiin in the place of order—civil strife as c 1 41113gitute for the internal tran quillity we hate hitherto enjoyed—a general scramble for the possession and enjoyment of whatever men desire, instead of that security for the fruits of his industr his talent,or his enterprise, which, under the tiominion of eqnal laWs, now the birth-right of every individual ; and if its success should be complete, pro curing foi ti,, as its highest and proudest achievement, in selichange for the evils of our present condition, the valuable privileges and immunities of tiew settlers in an unknown land. rot so extensive a reform the British people are not yet, we believe, quite prepared. They are so far, indeed, from thinking it worth their while to incur so much injury or danger, for the sake of securing the Parliamentary services of those whose presence in the House of Commons alone renders it difficult for the House of Lords and the House of Commons to agree, that, among all the Members of the latter assembly who have breathed a wish for any change in the constitution of the former, there is scarcely one who is not an M.P. upon sufferance—a Representative of whom his present constituents are •f all things most anxious to get rid—a transitory and evanescent senator—a politi c i an dist rus t e d and despised, and sure, whenever it becomes necessary that he should again solicit the suffrages of any body of British elec tors, to be scornfully rejected. Has Mr. O'Connell so secured a seat for Dublin, or Mr. Hume for Mid dlesex, or Mr. Wakley and Mr. Duncombe for Fins bury, or Mr. Roebuck for Bath, that for sake of assi milation to them the House of Lords should be re formed ? It is doubtful, at the best, if any one of the persons we have mentioned will ever again appear in the House of Commons as the representatives of the constituencies whom they now disgrace. It is doubtful, with respect to the majority of them, and of all who share'their opinions, whether, after Thursday or Friday next, they will ever again be seen in the House of Commons. To say, then, that the institu tions of this country should be changed to suit the temper and intellect of beings so ephemeral is, in effect, to contend that the Constitution of England ought to be as changeable as, her climate. And this we apprehend even Lord Melbourne and. Lord John Russell, dabblers in Reform as they are, and living from day to day by the Movement as they are com pelled to do, will scarcely venture to assert.—Mornzng Post. It is quite natural that a great sinecurist, like Lord Ellenborough, should be attached to the preservation of sinecures in the Church of Ireland ; but we think his Lordship's partialities must have obscured what little reason he may possess, when he declared last night, with reference to the Resolution of Appro priation—" It was one, he said, of a most unfor tunate kind, whether he looked at it as one to which there was no hope that this House would ever accede, or in any other view. The Noble Viscount, when he undertook the Government, must have known,that that House would never accede to that Resolution. But that resolution was the more la mentable, as it had created -a fatal obstacle to that union of public men which was essential to the good conduct of the public service. While this Reso lution existed, there never could be a Govern ment which could conduct the affairs of the country usefully, beneficially, or firmly, between the two Houses of Parliament. He repeated, that there was no hope of this House ever agreeing to the Resolution." His Lordship here assumes that the determination of the Lords ought to be considered like a law of the Medes and Persians, and that the Reso lution of the Representatives of the people ought to be considered as dust in the balance. The Lords may, through Lord Ellenborough, hold wh a t lan guage they pl ease . B ut th e public may be less anxious to convert the Lords than his Lordship supposes. Per haps his Lordship may have read the paraphrase of a Greek epigram—. 1 ' an you by your physic Take from me my. old pthysic -No, I cannot by phyiiic itlitb from you your old pthysic Dui / ran by physic Take on frOin yetir W may not be able to take obstinacy front thti Lords ; but we may take the Lords from their obsti nacy. The cool assurance of Lord Ellenborough, who assumes, as a matter of course s that when the Lords differ front the tiatittri ) the tiatinit must give evay, re minds us of the Scotch servant, who, on his master, the laird, telling him, either you or I must quit this house, exclaimed " Where cati our laird be gaain ?" No, no, Lord Ellenborough, the nation is somewhat mote than two httndfed individuals, many of them pau pers, and many sinecurists like yourself. You cannot do without the nation, but the nation may do very well without you. The Standard boasts of the victorious career of the Lords throughout the last session,and, with reference to the acceptanc e of the mutilated Corpora tion Reform Bill, exultingly tells us that " the House of Commons, in the late contest, has eaten the leek with many wt'y mouths, with much swaggering, through a correctional process, by amendment not greatly dif fering from the operation of Fluellen's staff, and with just about a groat's worth of concession. The threats of revenge are identical in the mouths of the elder and the modern Pistols." Softly, good Standard. You may undervalue as much as you like the import of the Corporation Bill, and you may think the Lords won derfully clever in opposing every liberal measure sent to them from the Commons. See, exclaim the To- ries, we told you the Lords would not allow anything to be done--and nothing has been done. Indeed I Nothing? Is it nothing to have a moderate prudent man like Lord Ebrington, who must soon be himself in the Mon day ilouse of Lords, state in his place on Mon nig,ht, with evident feelings of pain and re gret, tl ~at "He could not shut his ears to the words that had been used by a large portion of j, not of extreme opinions, but, on the cor ,Mary, removed from the turmoil of party poli ti. and who were accustomed to judge not from party ieetiings but from facts. He could not shut his ears tq the opinions expressed by the people, of the impos sibilit, • of the two branches of the Legislature continu ing a - i r tt, 'ey were. #e was persuaded that the venera .,:, THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 183. tion which belonged to the House ,of Lords, in the eyes of the peopre of England, woul ii cl pint continue, ‘,inleSg the ..pOple taiind that the I of tolits' tietfer, fir roc Un'Veiiiiiiieht: What lie liad 1-0(1. dliteSt3al •_• • sc., • ,‘ • • opinion Sincere . an conscientious opinion—an I • ti • . rinAn ec not only,tipon the 1 gr , ounds: , he ha,Chniis.elf. sttliici, tcCM' what lie llad hcarti. tferil 14.1a4 sons who were far from being the advocates of ex treme measures." Lord Ebrington knows the world —he knows that the necessity of getting rid of the not br tom% iii . 88tii.e Aity or dilief; i§ assnined as , ;Settled hi, et , efy rditlli i. Somethinz illerersr; geed dcine=4l Bleat tiedl ha:S heei dC.iiii•-:;l , by the Lords themselves. They have supplied the proof of what had long been affirmed .by speculative writers, that an irrespon sible House of Lords caritiOt %+itli a House of Comaim tier* fetilhied H tile iiedpie. Eft:o the moment the Lords were deprived of the powei the Commons with their nominees, they ceased to have interests in common with , t,liat .Hotise; The Com mons 1530.1 t Wtlial liter tHA liltPieati dt the rta nation. The Lords have interests of their own, at variance with .the interests of the nation. They live by peculation and phinderthei have an ititefest ltl the inalidetiailee dl' tillecilrei lii elitlfell .and Btate; and a hed.iiy national 64)61s:tante gild for the sake e 1 these edfrilpt interests they *ould at ally impede the business of the nation. Nothing can be done with them. "If the people really dish like the House of Lads upon principle (says the Standard) the people will get fid of that House, howeVei it §:hail ae Tile people Hall"; Ells , : like the House of Lords upon principle, and that principle is its irresponsibility. It is not fitting that to any two or three hundred mew should be com mitted the pover of opposin g th emse l ves t o the nation. The people see that this irresponsi bility due§ In reality destroy the connection with the nation, 'which alone can render it supportable. Lord Grey, from partiality towards his Order, did all that he could to hide from the nation what is now seen by all who are not absolutely blind. He shrunk from placing before them such Bills as they would boggle at, and thus put dfr the evil day. But the nation could not long submit to the indignity of having the House of Commons a nullity, merely because the Lords would pass no Bills of searching Reform. The moment it was seen that important Bills sent up to the House of Lords stuck there, that moment the people became convinced that there was but one way of get ting rid of the obstruction. Much has been done therefore during the Session now at an end, in the way . of sealing the doom of the House of Lords. But opinion is yet divided as to the means of supplying a substitute. The general opinion is in favour of two liaises. But the mode of giving to the second House an identity of interests with the nation is the point to be settled. We have heard of several schemes for this purpose ; but the importance of the subject entitles . it to a separate consideration. —Morning Chronicle. The Tory Journals are running wild in exultation, not at the passing of the Municipal Reform Bill, such as it is, by the Commons, but at the "submis sion" of that body to thes-insolent aggression of- the House of Peers. It is even urged by the more fasti dious, that this "duty" was performed with unbecom ing and censurable reluctance, and not with that un qualified respect which the conduct of the Sovereign Lords should have commanded from the mere repre sentatives of the people. We are much pleased to witness these insults following the injuries which the Upper House has been the means of perpetrating against the rights of the British people, the dictates of justice, and sound policy; they show what is to be expected from the oligarchs and their organs, and must sooner rouse the people to exertion, by proving the necessity of hurling their insolent op pressors to the dust. In what a pitiable position have premature concessions placed the Ministers and the Commons, when their best supporters must hear them designated as " base truckling cowards," without be ing able to spurn the. charge as a falsehood ; nay, be ing, even compelled to subscribe to it as a truth. How ever, in point of fact, the Tories have little cause to triumph. Bad as the Bill is, it will give to thepeo ple the means of choosing at least thirty representa tives, instead of as many nominees, who are now re turned to uphold aristocratic and corporate abuses. And when it is considered that Ministers are pledged to bring forward another Corporation Bill next Ses sion, and that several notices for reforms in the House of Lords arc on the books of the House of Commons, and that the insensate and insolent conduct of the Peers has convinced even moderate men of the neces sity of their reformation ; we fancy that the present triumph of corruption and mal-legislation will ere long be changed into defeat and desolation. It may not be agreeable to the braggarts to learn, that in the best informed circles there are bets and odds being laid, " that Bishops do not sit in the House of Lords after next Session," and " that before two years hereditary legislation will be no more." Even some of the Lords themselves lay the odds in favour of reason, justice, and the people.—Morning Advertiser. The sapient authorities of the Horse Guards have no feeling in unison with the people, and they act a s though the lives of his Majesty's subjects were of little or no value. We ar© not surprised at any order that proceeds from this haunt of Toryism, nor do we write with the hope of convincing those who have power there, that the demand of the people has a higher authority than their orders. But we write to show the necessity of a firm determination or. the part of the people to resist the military despotism under which it is desired to place them. We have often referred to the impropriety of the order which com mands all soldiers to wear their bayonets. Many requisitions have been forwarded to the Horse Guards praying the revision of this custom, which not only endangers the lives of the unoffending citizens, but has been frequently the cause of most atrocious murders. Not long 'since we gave an account of an affray at Chatham, which terminated in the death of a sailor by a bayonet. Last week the life of a gen tleman was threatened on the highway by a soldier armed with a bayonet; and on Thursday last a sol dier of the 87th regiment was bound over to the Quarter Sessions for stabbing a corporal of marines with a bayonet. It is surely too great a demand `Upon the people of this country that they should be called upon to support a standing army, by every individual of which their lives are endangered. The people already feel the necessity of taking from a class of men, not celebrated for their sobriety, a weapon given by the country for the defence, and not the murder, of its members. We hope that the attention of the House of Commons will be directed to this subject in an early sitting of the next session.— Morning Advertiser. DREADFUL ACCIDENT BY FIRE.— Monday morning, between seven and eight o'clock, a dreadful accident occurred to a remarkably fine young woman, of the name of Hannah Quickley, 18 years of age, residing at No. 12, Gray's buildings, Manchester-square. From the statement of the unhappy sufferer, it appears that she was engaged lighting the parlour fire when, by some unforeseen occurrence, her dress caught fire unobserved by her. Almost immediately on her attempting to go to the window, she discovered herself enveloped in flames. In this dreadful situation she ran out of the room screaming for assistance, but before any could pos sibly arrive her clothes were burnt from her person. She was immediately conveyed in a coach to Middlesex Hospital, enduring- most excruciating sufferings. On her arrival at the h os pital, on examination of the injuries she had sustained, it was discovered that her left side, from the foot to the head, was burnt in a dreadful manner. Surgical skill was promptly rendered, but to such an extent are the injuries she has received that the unhappy sufferer lies in a most precarious state. DWARF FAMILY.—The freaks of nature are sometimes most extraordinary, and become interesting in pro portion to the degree of aberration in her general laws. The rarest instance of her frolics we have ever witnessed is exhi bited in the family of Michael Walters, a poor but respectable citizen of this county. His family consists of eight children, four of whom are the most highly-finished dwarfs we have ever seen or heard any authentic account of. There are two males and two females; the height of the eldest who is a male, and in his 2.5 th year, is threb feet six inches, and his weight 341bs. The other male is in his ninth year, and is two feet seven and one-fourth inches high, and he weighs 211bs. The eldest female is in her 18th year, and is two feet eleven inches hi g h, and weighs 271bs. The other female is in her 17th year, is two feet eleven and a quarter inches high, and weighs 271bs. They are of fine proportions and handsomely formed ; the heads, hands, feet, limbs, and bodies, all corresponding with the diminutiveness of their sze....4.merieaniyiper. ! ..411: 45. of tin. T ;—"v" ENZ Sc- 1 A.....rwaC.11 , . Law. HOUSE OF LORDS—TetaDAY. APPEALS. (ftetore Lor i ct's Dmr.ran and Lyndhurit, the Earl of Devon, MAC! .F.!,!rli) IiAMSEY V. COWAN. Lora, 1111414 q .,.: criving judgment in thi s ease , said if ; 110, been arued IYetie b re WO and his Noble and Learned 'r end Lgrd M;quOam); who PA's; then present ; but hg Vt;44. big' Noble and Lealtica. Friend before he left town, 1.4164ie4 with him in opinion. The Noble and Learned Lord thqii- particularised the ft.‘,4s, of the case, wit;, the law bearing upon dim jthigitidnt afilms4 with costs. , Eat*llinFrflrf MID (Ulnas. THiii eas44 ctilhtclr BeeVp'ieff is o' 4ays' eati:r on again to-dAy. it diiPWal tt will he - reeelketed ,from a decision of Lord Chancelidf Iniditharni dismiss a petition of appeal and re-hearing, pregetHe'd on be half of the talt; appellant against a decree of his no flour the Vice-Chancellor, filed by the respondents ftli• payment of a legacy of 10,066/., r. 441 interest, be queathed vy the late General Lambton in favocr Wharton and her chlidftn; and which decree the Noii'ist.' and Learned Lord affirmed. 'The tt.".9 then went before the, Master, whose report was afterwards eGrl4rmed ; and against ad tic'erfe and subsequent orders of the Ceurt this cause was now brotigti W tbs.) HOuse of Lords. Lord LYNDHURST said that the effis bad been elabo- Mt* argued at their Lordships' bar, and tithe had been taken id eamider the question raised. There was a dif ference of opinion upon the question between those Noble Ltfird§ who heard the case. Under these circumstances, therefore, considering the nature of the questinn—consi defing the arnottnt of property at stake, it would not be fit ting that shy &dein should be now given in the absence of the Noble and-Learned Lord who had heard the question in the Court.below. htigthent was consequently postponed till next session. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE: An elderly man of tePpeetable appearance, named Richard Wichstead, was brought before the LORD MAYOR charged with having on Sunday last disturbed the congre gation of a church in Lombard street. One of the parish officers stated that, in the forenoon of Sunday, during church time, the defendant entered the aisles and threw printed bills, which were headed " A so lemn address to the British public in accordance with Holy Writ,' into the pews. The condition of the mind of the poor man might be inferred from the fact that, along with a number of quotations from the Old and New Tes tament, was the following intimation : " I do hereby give notice that that which is called the Church Establishment in this nation is not Christianity, but that which is represented as that woman Jezebel,' which is a snare to the people, and is the grossest idolatry on the face of the earth, it being founded on covetousness which is idolatry, and built up and upheld with perjury and blasphemy, and is a perversion of all good; and its tendency is to worship the devil and his imps." Upon a former occasion similar bills had been dropped Into the pews of the same church, but the person who cir culated them could not be found. The LORD MAYoll—What do you mean by interrupting public worship ? Defendant—l don't interrupt worship, I only wish to chasten it. The thing as it is done is not the right thing. People are doing all they can to acknowledge the work of the devil. The LORD MAYOR—Have you anybody here to say who you are, and to be answerable for your good conduct ? Defendant—Nobody. I want nobody ; 1 am master of my own actions. The LORD MAYOR—But I know that you are not fit to be master of your own actions, and I shall not allow you to be at large without some security that you will not conduct ppm& in this way again. Defendant—What harm have I done? I have printed these bills with my own money, and I haVe interrupted nobody. The LORD MAYOR—Why is not the printer's name to the bills ? Don't you know that there is a penalty of 201. for the distribution of every one of these bills ? Defend ant—l know there ought to be nothing of the kind. That's part of the system of Satan, to curb the liberties of mankind. The Lone MAYOR—I shall cause you to be locked up, until you produce somebody of a rational sort. The defendant was then remanded. A provision broker applied to the LORD MAYOR for his Lordship's assistance in getting the Greenyard penalty in the case of the seizure of 120 Irish pigs remitted. The applicant said that the pigs had been sent over to this country in a steam-vessel, which ought to have reached London on Saturday, but which by some accident did not arrive until Sunday morning. It became necessary, in order to prevent a mortality amongst them, to drive them to the place provided for them in Smithfield the moment they were landed, and they were accordingly driven through the City during church hours. This was, no doubt, a vio lation of the existing regulations, and the pigs were accord ingly seized and driven to the Greenyard, where they were detained for the payment of the sum of 181. 12s. As, however, the case was one of real extremity, and as the owner of the pigs was a poor man, to whom that penalty would be a bitter loss, it was hoped that the Chief Magis trate would eause it to be remitted. The LORD Hinge regretted that he could not comply with the request of the applicant. The Irish derived con siderableadvantages from sending pigs to the London mar ket, and must submit to the disadvantages arising from non-attention to rules, the infraction of which to the pig owners of this country was punished uniformly by the fine of the Greenyard. BOW STREET. Yesterday Mr. Goodge, a housekeeper in Arundel-street, Manton-square, Haymarket, was charged before Sir F RoE with assaulting Mr. Stafford, an eminent solicitor re siding in Craven-street. Mr. Stafford having received instructions to serve a gen tleman named Batton with a copy of a writ, went to Mr. Goodge's house, where he had ascertained Mr. Batton lived and asked for him, but was told he did not reside there. He subsequently, however, found that his information was perfectly correct, and that Mr. Batton was a lodger in the house, and was ill. He went again, and said to the ser vant, " I have called to see Mr. Batton---I hope he is bet ter," The servant said he was better, and witness walked forward to the foot of the stairs, observing ti, at he would step up and see him. At that moment the defend,ent came from an adjoining room, told him he should not go up s tairs, and upon his persisting in his right to go, and explaining the nature of his business, Mr. Goodge seized him round the waist and forced him out of the house. He went again the next day and found his way to the apartment which Mr. Batton had oceupied, but it was then tenanted by ano ther gentleman. The fact was not denied by Mr. Goodge, but he pleaded that he had a right to eject Mr. Stafford, inasmuch as the latter had no proper authority for forcing his way into the private apartments of his house. Sir F. ROE was not at all clear upon that point. The best way, however, to settle the matter, so far as he (Sir F. Roe) was concerned, was to hold Mr. Goodge in his own recognizance to appear at the Sessions, if Mr. Stafford chose to try the question. Mr. Goodge gave his own bail, and thug the matter termi nated. MARLBORO UGH-STREET. Yesterday Mr. Fisher, cbina=warehouseman, Regent street, accompanied by a number of tradesmen, came be fore Mr. CHAMBERS and Mr. HALL to make inquiries as to the best mode of dealing with a female who. had swindled him out of some property, and who had for a length of time lived by imposing on tradesmen. Mr. Fisher said the female in question called at his ware house, and selected goods to the value of 60/., at the same time requesting that a portion of them, amounting to 6/. 135., might be sent to her residence, in Cleveland-row. The shopman was sent with them, with strict orders not to leave them without the money. The shopman, however, did leave them, and when he called the following morning he discovered that his master had been duped. Mr. Fisher added he had found out that the female in question was a married woman, and that her name was quite different from the name on a handsome card which she had given him as her own. Mr. CHAMBERS remarked that the present application formed one of a number which were continually being made to the Magistrates at that Office, and to which the answer was invariably the same, that the affair was a debt in the eye of the law, and therefore no assistance could be rendered. The applicant thanked the Magistrates, and withdrew. A man, who gave the name of Edwards (not his real one), was charged with having been found loitering about Hanover-square under suspicious circumstances. The policeman gave as his reason for taking the defend ant into custody that he knew him to be a very bad cha racter. He had been tried and transported, and since his return he had been again tried. Defendant—Well, if I was a thief once, its no reason I should always be one. I've reformed myself, and now I get a very honest livelihood by hard work. Mr. CHAMBERS—What do you work at ? Defendant-- I belong to Astley's Amphitheatre, and I go on the stage in different pieces. Mr. CHAMBERS—I suppose you walk as one of the ele phant's leers, or something similar, don't you ? Defendant —N o . I act the soldiers and constables, when they are wanted. Mr. CHAMBERS—WeII, if you really get your living ho nestly, I should be sorry to scud you to prison. I'll give you one more cilatke ; but if I catch yorr here again commit you.—The actor vas• then discharged. Q UEEN- S Q UARE. Yesterday Lli3ro office was much crowded in consequeal of the examination via young man, named Th o mas Sap more, who was charged the murder of Susan Halo* a re•trial, with whom lie lived. David 14Aington was intimately acquailrited with the prisoner, who wti h glass-blower. Witness also koo' cs ' SUS ,r, Hillary, who lived with the prisoner .as his wife.un ri ptvvioos evening, a little titer nine o'clock, witness )"'l' into the Dover Castle wine vaults, at the cornet: of tt. e New-cut and Wegtroinster-road, where he met the prisohlth th, young woman Hillary, and scme other acquaintan ces, The prittor asked witness to take some of the be er they were drinking. The female Hillary appeared ineb riated, 4o (t, without any apparent provocation, abused the Pr' song in the grossest manner, who endeavoured t° pa , * her, but she still continued to act in a v er i v , riotous and indecorous manner, and eventually struck hint ‘Scidmore) a blow with a p e wter measure sh e took of *e counter. Witness endeavoured to make peac e ' but the female continued her violent conduct, when the pisoner in self-defence pushed her off, the result of w hich was tlll4 she fell with great force against the edge of the counter, 1 , 0)/gib was cased with pewter. The blow appear, e , to have seriously injured her, as she fell on the ground VP'. ins.,qnsible. Witness and some other p erso ns lifted her uPj but she was quite unconscious of what was passing aroun d her. She wita then conveyed to the house of Mr. Ceverook' a surgeon in the neighbourhood, who endeavoured byY means to restore artitsiation, but without effect. Several person's who were in the public-house at the same time were examined, whose evidence was a corrobo- ration of the above. The prisoner was remanded for further examination until Thursday next, and in the inter vat the inquest on the 01- fortunate woman will take place. It appears that the deceased had lived with the prisonear nine weeks, and the banns of marriage between them actually been put up. MAR YLEB ONE. Yesterday morning, at the early hour of nine o'clock, thf avenues leading to Marylebone police-office began to g" crowded with spectators, anxious to obtain a sight o f the unfortunate Mr. Henry Stanynought, the perpetrator of tiite, tragical transaction at his residence, No. 84; Connaught, t terrace, Paddington, by killing his son. Mr. Stanyn oug • I 1 when placed within the dlck, appeared to be labouring under severe mental affliction, and looked extremely The depositions were read over, and the prisoner (r l, l O had sat in the chair with his eyes shut) was ask•ed lf n a wished to sayanything. - He silently shook his hei,d,,are was led away and conveyed in a coach to Newgate, W` le he will be tried at the ensuing Sessions. CORONER'S INQUEST. DISTRESSING CASE OF DEATH FROM INTEN" EXCITEMENT AND SUDDEN FRIGHT. ; „ 1 , Yesterday morning, a highly respectable Jury w B5 pannelled before Mr. STIRLING, at the Masons Arn o; Titchborn-street, Edgeware-road, on the body of Mr. Ge,l9ri, Bales, who died of apoplexy, brought on by sudden frn, while in a high state of mental excitement, from the dr4 ful murder committed by his next door neighbour , Stanynought. a 1 0 The deceased was only twenty-six years old, and been married but a few weeks. The situation of the st is rendered particularly distressing, from his business, ,coi of an auctioneer, and proprietor of a general perki cb to auction room, being one she can hardly hope beneficially 0 , carry on. He was an intimate acquaintance of the uis fortunate Mr. Stanynought, and was one of the few friel, of that gentleman called in and consulted when the dr° o ful affair first trapspired. He it was that went dool l „, e . Dorking to apprise Mr. Stanynought's brother of th e lancholy occurrence. Mr. G. Webster, surgeon, of 78, Connaught - te rra fit Edgeware-road, was personally acquainted with the dece whom he saw on Saturday evening, when he was hl me . health and spirits. Witness never saw him afterwards "",0 About half-past three o'clock on Monday morning he be called up, and on proceeding to the deceased's house , .4 found him lying in bed, undressed, and dead. He oP en ro f a vein in the arm, but it was of no avail, for no blood lowed. He had since made a post mortem examination.:, the body. It was in a state of excessive congestion of iserp brain, the heart , and likewise of the lungs, with a consl a . o , able effusion of blood into the ventricles of the 10 2 0 These were sufficient to account for his death. There c i ir no external mark of violence. The deceased was Pr e posed to apoplexy. He was a very short-necked map) a p of a full habit of body. 0 By a Juror—He considered he died of apoplexy, and tl3 be the tendency thereto h a d b een grea tl y h e i g htened by excitement he had lately b een un d er f rom th e dreadful 41 , fair at the Hou se o f hi s nex t d oor ne i g hb our . A peP A lel n i f did not produce a change in the quality of the blood. „.1,, powerful pressure on the mind would act upon the l' e- t he and cause it to throw a greater quantity of blood ill t° Ac i el i head. The popular notion that f r i g ht cause d a sil" change of the mass of blood was erroneous. Mr. Henry Tidd breakfasted and dined on the Silo d Z, l , with deceased at his house, and did not leave him ti n 11 1 1 o'clock in the afternoon. He had b een we ll a nd Ole,' a throughout. The melancholy affai r a t hi s ne ighbour's :r e p t produced a stron g i m p ress i on on hi s m i n d, as wa s e""lof from the frequent allusions to it. Witness was sent for Mrs. Bales early on Monday morning, and on. arriYt , found Mr. Bales dead. Mrs. Bales told him that her band had been suddenly woke about two o'clock 1 ° morning by the house-dog, which forc e d it se lf into the b 7, room, and the door falling back against the wash -139 11f stand caused a loud noise. That the deceased instr , t l i c jumped up in bed, and pointing to the extremity w ise , room, exclaimed, " Ellen, Ellen, see, see, how be S upon me." He then fell back, and instantly expired. o f, By the CORONER—The deceased did n o t drink win e ith ter dinner on the Sunday, but merely had some bee r wi a cigar he smoked. 101 The Jury returned a verdict that he died of ap°r brought on by mental excitement and fright. (ADVERTISEMENT. P A TENT LEVER WATCI I `" Price, at T. COX SAVORY'S, 47, Cornhill, London. SILVER. CASES. With double-bottom eases With hunting cases 0 166 0 £6 6 COLD CASES. 6 Size for ladies, with elegant gold dial Size for gentlemen, with enamel dial ...... This celebrated construction (the most accurate on w, h , l , the watch can be made) is now offered at the above price, wra in latest improvements, i. e., the detached escapement, jew e l,, le i n ia fn; it holes, capped, hand to mark the seconds, and main"' power to continue going while winding up. do T. COX SAVORY, Working Silversmith, Goldsmith, 3 Wair.hrrk`ker , 4'l, Cornhill, London. ,clce N . g . , ';he price of the flat, gentlemen's w aistcoat - roisl, Watches, on t;ie same construction as above, is, with en allie wit) Seventeen C. 4 uin..'as, with silver dial, Eighteen Guineas, or gold dial Nine;een Guineas. _____.,.....% BIRTHS. Thcrnh? Suffolk tdv' if Sir MP° On the 3d inst., at ~.., r nham, Suffolk, the lady m B. Henniker, Bart., of a sc. rt• Vous' On the Bth inst., Mrs. Nehry Quin, of Pulboiough-plac e, hall, of a son. 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