The Sun. — London, England, 1835-02-06 00:00:00

PIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Lord Londonderry is, it appears, appointed in reality Ambassador: to the Emperor Nicholas. When the rumour of this unfortunate nomination first reached us, we spoke of it, and in sober earnest, as a hoax—in other words, as a step so ill-judged and reprehensible on the part of the hint's Ministers, that it could not be seriously meditated by any man to whom the histor:r and political character of the Noble Marq uis w e r e familiar. 'We staid by our first declarei.ion. It is an appointment which the whole z!ountry will condemn. Nothing can reconcile the people of England to the employment of a furetionary whose unfitness to repre sent the dignity and the civilization of England has been already demonstrated. If, moreover, the choice of a Plenipotentiary were to be determined by the con geniality of his political principles to those of the Court where he is to reside, instead of to those of the Government which sends him, the favour designed for the ex-Ambassador to Vienna might be more easily understood. As the case is, we cannot and will not defend or palliate this unbecoming mission. In what is here urged for the consideration of the King's Ministers, we say not a word as to the personal character of Lord Londonderry, whom we have always been taught to look upon as in his family and among his intimates a most good-natured and kind-hearted person. That he will convey to the Court of Russia, with regard to politics, just what his old master the Duke of Wellington puts down for him, and tinder such a chief will not presume to utter an unauthorized syllable, we are confident enough. But ought a Bri tish Minister at such a Court, and with so many deli cate questions pending, and such mighty interests at stake—ought, we say, our Minister at St. Petersburgh to be an automaton ? He ought, on the contrary, to be all eye, all car: the noble Marquis, like other Ambas sadors, must have feelers out, not, we hope, in all di rections, but in tie right directions. Yet we should like to be informed (and might then have every dispo sition to allow for it) under what extreme emergency or embarrassment of party connexion it is, that such au employer was forced to encumber himself by the ser vices of such an agent. Better save the salary, and depute a Charge d'Ailt'res.—Thries. The Whig and. Radical parts of the press appear to be completely " taken aback by the unexpected ap pearance of the Church Reform Commission. The cue given to them was, that they were strenuously to contend that no species of Reform was to be expected from the present Ministers, but what might be wrung from them by the actual votes and compulsion of Par liament, and that even then they would be found as far as possible to defeat its object. This part of their al lotted task, it must be admitted, has been diligently and faithfully fulfilled Not a line has been left unwritten which could tend to enforce this misrepresentation upon their readers ; and all this from the organs of a party, whose tergiversa ion, disunion, and incapacity, had become so generally notorious, that there can be no manner of doubt that the very first measure of re form which they themselves attempted to bring forward must have fallen still-born, owing to the dis cordant spirits of those from whom it emanated. In the midst of their vituperative dreams, how ever, forth conies this Commission—not a mere vaunt ing promise of reform. Not the mere " magna lo quens"of professing pretenders, but an actual com mencement, and that by anticipation, of one of those reforms on which the good sense and right feeling of the country are most fervently bent. There are some people, however, whom nothing will satisfy. Instead of kissing the rod, and for once giving credit to an op ponent, this proceeding, which carries upon its front the most marked appearance of earnestness and sin cerity, is deprecated as a mere tub thrown out to amuse the whale, and as, in fact, professing to mean a great deal, but intending nothing. And this inference is drawn, forsooth, frmn no other source than a dislike to the names of the persons to whom the initiative proceeding is con detl. To be sure, it would have been more in the Whig way of doing busines s h a d th e Com mission been dir ec t e d to half a score of briefless barris ters, who might have pased the ensuing summer in a va riety of agreeable journeys at the public expense, and whose inquiries, seconding to established precedent, would, in all probability, beyond expenses, have ended in mere smoke. In spite of Whig precedent, however, there probably are those who will be apt to think that this important inquiry has been confided to safer and more competent hands, and that the heads of the Church, the law, and the State, with the honoura ble adjuncts placed with them, are not very likely to lend themselves to a mere fallacy, but are of themselves alone a pledge and assurance to the country that Mi nisters are in earnest, both in the promptitude and spirit with which they are approaching this important head of reform. To be sure, what is now doing might just as well have been done by the late Ministers, at least two years ago. Had the plan which is now in embryo been then introduced, it would by this time have been at least in partial, if not in full operation. But to talk and to do are different things ; and so, at least, they prove to be as between the two Administrations upon this important subject. And ought not an overt act like this to strengthen the confidence of the coun try in these alleged anti-reformers ? Ought it not, must it not, have its weight in inducing the independent reformers in the new Parliament in at least giving Mi nisters that " fair trial" which, for the present, is all they ask ? Though the :spirit of faction may not be silenced, it should at least be rendered inocuous, for the present, by such a plod as this measure affords of a determination on the part of Ministers, rather to run before than disappoint the just expections of the country. In short, let but other topics meet with the same ready attention which this has, and the choice between Conservatives and Destructives will no longer be a question between any large portions of the community.—Morning Herald. Had the assurance of Sir Robert Peel to his con stituents required corroboration by the evidence of facts, that corroboration would have been found in the notification of the Royal Commission which ap peared in the Gazette of Tuesday evening. The promptitude and decision with which the Prime Mini ster has acted on this most important occasion, are not more creditable to his personal character, than the Christian and cautious, the complete and comprehen sive, character of the document itself are auspicious indications of his official policy. The measure is wor thy of the man—npcn, decided, and straight-forward— advancing boldly on the object, no shuffling subter fuge, no paltry evasion, no moving of the previous question—nothing which savours of Whigism, or be trays that he is either afraid or ashamed of his pur pose. This is as it should be. This will encourage the timid, confirm the wavering, and furnish a practi cal answer to the hvyer-sceptical few who really doubted the sincerity of ;S:r Robert Peel's attachment to a system of cautious and progressive amelioration, so far as that system could be usefully pursued without a compromise of principle. In the various points which are specifically designated as the objects of the Commissioners' investigations, as well as in the names of the individuals composing the Commis sion, the professional Churchman, those who are con scientiously attached to the Establishment as the purest form of Christian faith, those who are politically at tached to it as inherent in the very essence of the Con stitution, and who would, therefore, repair the injuries and correct the errors which the lapse of time may have occasioned, will each and all find matter of con gratulation and of hope. If there have been any who from the impending investigation, apprehended danger to the Establishment in reference to its interests, its privileges, or its usefulness, the consideration that it has been commanded by that Monarch who made the never-to-be-forgotten declaration to the Bishops, and that it will be conducted by men among whom are to be found some of the best and wisest that the land can boast, must surely remove every reasonable ground of apprehension. But to one class of those whom we blush to call countrymen, we can offer but little conso lation. We mean to that un-English and un-Christian faction which, to prolong the possession of power, would have plundered and sacrificed one branch of the Esta blishment, and have thus formed a precedent for the spoliation and ruin of the other. But the Power which formed and founded will preserve the Church, and con found the malice of her enemies. We feel a proud and a pious gratitude in reflecting that the mighty work will be effected through the instrumentality of agents most worthy of accomplishing so glorious a consummation ; and from this auspicious commencement we augur a triumphant career for the Conservative Administration. —Horning Post. ssed away since th e Though nearly an age has Edinburgh Review was begotten, it i s no t f orgotten, nor will it noon be forgott en , th a t i t vas b ot h a sharp 7:;Yord and a strong shield to the cause of freedom in perilous times, and, therefore, it is the more gratifying to find this veteran journal so forward in maintaining. that good cause when it is menaced anew. The ar ticle of the Review to which we are about to refer, is as calm and temperate as it is powerful and conclu sive, and is especially worthy of the careful perusal of those Members of the House of Commons who wish to do well, but who at the same time are wavering a little as to what may constitute well-doing on their part, especiallyon questions which have been studiously mystified by those who have an interest in deepening and prolonging the mystery. The subject of this ar ticle is Church Reform, and especially that most ur gent branch of it, a Reform of the Protestant Church of Ireland, together with the scarcely less urgent mea sure of a regular public or state provision for the Ministers of the Irish Catholic Church—a body of men who have great influence in that part of the United Kingdom, many of whom would deservedly have influence in any state of society, and all of whom it is desirable to have as the friends of the State, and not, as neglect, and not unfrequcntly contumely, if not persecution, has made thena—its enemies. There are three grand points taken up in the article, and treated with great clearness and ability :—First, the question of the appropriation of Church property to any other purposes than those of the Church. Sir Robert Peel himself, who is the champion of the in violability of Church property, admits that the time is come when we must consider, " Whether we could not facilitate the propogation of divine truth, and ex tend the means of divine worship, by a lliferent distri bution of thefitnds of the Established Church." Sit Robert does not define what he means by ." the Church," neither has he yet pointed out how he would alter the distribution ; but the Reviewer helps him out with the definition, and thence shows that the Legislature has a right to deal with the distribution as, may appear best for the interests of the whole people, just as it has in the disposal of any other public reve nue. Sir Robert himself does not deny the " legal right," but he doubts the moral and equitable right to ap propriate Church property to secular purposes ; and it is on this doubt that the reviewer is at issue with him; and he divides his argument into these two inquiries... " What is the Church ? What is Church property ? He shows, from the nineteenth article of the Church of England, that the Church means the laity as well as the clergy, in which sense it cannot be a corporation. Then he shows that the clergy are not, in any sense of the word, a corporation ; and that, though they are a distinct, and in some senses, a privileged body, they neither have nor can hold any property in com mon, or as a corporation, the only Nva v in which pro perty not belonging to individuals can be held. In other words, that the Church, taken in its general sense as an establishment, neither has, nor possibly can have, sny property. But every dean and chapter is " a corporation agesregate, and every bishop or par son a corporation sole." These corporations are as distinct and independent of each other as the corpora tions of citizen towns ; and therefore it would be as much an invasion of that right of property which churchmen can be in any way supposed to possess, to take away from the holder of a rich benefice, and give to a poor one, as it would be to take away from the corporate revenue of the city of London, and give to the most starveling borough within the four seas. We quote the summing-up of this clear and conclusive ar gument : " If Church property is intangible, and is, at the same time, not a single property, one and indivisible, but a collection of distinct, independednt, integral properties comprised in that general form, then each of those integral properties must like wise be intangible. The property of each seperate benefice must, therefore, be intangible ; and if so, then to redestribute is to spoliate." If this is not the fact, then there is no meaning in words ; and if it is, then the propoaal which Sir Ro bert Peel admits is an invasion of what he calls the rights of the Church, in the only way in which the Church can have rights to be invaded. Every holder of a Church benefice for life has his life-rent in that benefice inviolable, and however absurdly out of pro portion the emolument may be to the duties, he cannot be deprived of that emolument, or of any part of it, with out manifest injustice, unless a fair compensation is given him ; but, if such compensation is given—and if it appears, to the sober judgment of the Legislature, that the public good will be promoted by buying up the life -rent, or any part of it, then the legislature have not only a moral and equitable right to do so, but they are morally and equitably wrong if they do not. Advorvsons come within the same principles ; and de re is no right to deprive the owners of them without compensation ; but on compensation being given there is. Thus there can be no spoliation of the property of the church as one cor porate body, for in this sense the church does not exist, and consequently can have no property ; and the living, or the right of the presentation to a living, cannot, in justice, be taken away, or diminished, wa ca _ out fair compensati on to the party, paido • itof the public purse, the only source whence tile Legisl a t ure any give up a p r i va t e can obtain money to compensateindividual wh om they find it necessary to call, upon to conceive to be a b ene fit to t h e right for what they public. In everysuch case the p u bli c are t h e pur chasers, b'cause the purchaser is made with their money ; and therefore it follows that in any case of a realuction or abolition of any clerical office, the House of Commons, as conservators of the public moneys, have a right, and not only a right, but a solemn duty binding on them, to apply whatever thus results to the best advantage of the people, without any regard as to whether the application is to clerical or to secular pur poses. Sir Robert Peel, in admitting the propriety of a redistribution, admits, of course, the purchase of those benefices and other clerical revenues which are either unjust or injurious ; but in the second part of his scheme there is involved a a cross violation of the rights of the people. The purchased revenue is public property, bought with public money, and to say that it shall be applied to any purpose without a se cond deliberation on every application of it, would be be an act of gross and palpable arbitrary power. In the event of a reduction of the overgrown livings and profligate sinecures of the Church of England by a fair purchase of the existing interests, it may be found necessary to augment many of the poorer livings ; but that is clearly au after consideration, and one which ought in fairness to be entertained even though the abuses in respect of extravagant and unmerited livings were not corrected. The other points, and especially those which relate to Ireland and the Irish Catholics, are treated by the Reviewer with great clearness and ability ; but as this question is one which it is desirable to keep before the public for some time, we shall reserve our analysis of them to some future opportunity.—Morn. Advertiser. We were gravely told by the Times on Tuesday last that " they who would form an accurate estimate of public opinion must go beyond their favourite print, be it what it may, or they will fail of supplying their minds with sufficient data to judge from. A man who contents himself with the lucubrations of only one periodical, will soon begin to think all the world of the same mind with himself and that periodical on the great subjects of State policy ; and so will continue to think, till some grand decisi on , i n or out o f Par liament, a w a k ens him from his dream, by showing him that he is even in a small minority." A new light would seem to have broken in upon our Contemporary. When the Thunderer " guided the political opinions of three-fourths of the people of England," we have no recollection of its having ever recommended the practice of going bellow/ a favourite print. It is rather unusual in guides and leaders to throw out recommendations which may seem to imply their own fallibility. But the Times are changed. When people will no longer be guided, the language of intercession must be resorted to. The humbled tone sufficiently indicates that " some ;rand deci s i on in or out o f P ar li ament " h as awakened the Times, for one, from its dream of being able to transf er th e peop l e of England t o t h e D u k e of Wellington and Sir Robert, with as much ease as if they were its lawful pro perty. But even without going beyond his favou rite print, a man may derive much, benefit from THE SUN, LONDON, FRInA:x", MiIitUARY 6, 1835. extending his perusal bevoTo particular day. T • e the number for any • . J. 6 is because we have long been COn --ea that fur the sake of " supplying their minds with sufficient data to judge from," the readers of the Times ought to hear both sides of the question from the Times alone, we have often discharged a duty which that journal seems itself rather disposed to neglect, by transcribing from its files the diametrically opposite conclusions which it has drawn from the same facts—the contradictory judgments it has pronounced on the same men—and the condemnation and praise which it has by turns bestowed on the same principles. In the Times of yesterday, for instance, we are told— " That the members of the late Cabinet and their imme diate partisans and dependents, of which number we never were, though always wishing them well, and cordially support.. ing them when we thought they deserved it, cannot feel very con Portable on reflecting that they, from first to last, were four years in office, without even doing half so much towards a practical reform of the Church, as their successors have effected within seven weeks from the hour of Sir Robert Peel's arrival in England. When Lord Althorp was interrogated on the subject, he never f a il e d to ma k e hi s escape by pleading the difficulties which attended any such measure, and the conse quent necessity of delay. Let us ask, had Ministers not ap pointed this Commission—and pray recollect that it is, with a long list of others which we might refer to, a Commission which does not cost the State one, farthing—would there have ever been an end to the outcry against 'sham pledges,' • hollow assurances,' equivocating manifestoes,' &c., interlarded with no small allowance of scurrilous virulence against the Times, for having dared to believe a Conservative Administration upright in its announcement of a reform policy, whether in Church or State ?" We know not whether the late Cabinet feel very comfortable on reflecting that they were four years in office without effecting any practical Reform of the Church. But the Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, and colleagues, must feel very comfortable, of course, on reflecting that they during the whole of those four years, strenuously opposed every attempt to reform either the Irish or English Church, and by their pitiful intrigues persuaded his Majesty that the Whigs intended to subvert the Church. The limes cannot have forgotten its comments on the far-famed speech of the King to the Bishops, in which his Ma jesty was reported to have expressed the utmost satis faction with the present state of the Church. In the accounts of the causes of the dismissal of the Mel bourne Ministry, given by our contemporary, the alarm instilled into the King on account of the Church Reforms projected by the late Ministers is particularly mentioned. The con fort the Peel-Wellington Ad ministration can derive from reflecting on the intrigues by which the Whigs were thwarted at Court, and ul timately dismissed, and on their pretending to propose themselves what they before condemned, will not be envied them by any persons of common honour and honesty. We say pretending to propose, because we are inclined to believe that the new Commission is merely a manoeuvre to gain time. With respect to any reform of the Church proposed by the Prelates themselves, the Times, on the 26th of May last, scouted the very idea of it : ." Certainly (said our contemporary) it would be desirable that the Bench should be occupied by Prelates well-disposed to reform the Church, and not to throw obstructions in the way of measures calculated for its amendment; in which case there would he little difficulty about consulting their Right Reverend Lordships on the nature and details of such mea sures. But the Lord Chancellor gave a tolerable specimen of the effect to be looked for from taking the assistance of the Reverend Bench, by stating that after long (and seemingly at least) confidential communications between the Bishops and Ministers on the subject of the Irish Tithe Bill, Government found itself, at the end of whole months of discussion, pre cisely at the point from which it started,' and was forced to take that important measure into its own hands. This was not very encouraging, thought Lord Brougham, to a renew a l of the same e x p er i ment w i t h regard so another law having for its object any real reformation of the affairs of the Church." And on the following day, the 27th, the Times ob served, with regard to the Lord Chancellor's Bills on Pluralities and Non-residences, " that on surveying their contents, which we have clone with alinost unal loyed pleasure, we discover the best reasons in the world why the Bench of Bishops were not previously con sulted on measures of Ecclesiastical Reform, as bold as they are liberal and wise, to which they would have pro bably offered their strenuous opposition, or which at any rate they must have delayed by their interested criticism." Ministers, though they did not in the four years succeed in reforming the Church, yet con trived to effect such a reform in the State as even, ac cording to the confession of the Standard, necessarily led to the reform of the Church. If Sir Robert Peel be doomed to be a Church Reformer (of which we yet entertain doubts), the late Cabinet cannot, at all events, feel very uncomfortable on reflecting that they have, by their State Reform, made the Right Honourable Baronet, like Balaam, to do much good against his own inclinations. But then the Times has been abused for having dared to believe a Conservative Adminis tration upright in its announcement of a Reform policy in Church or State. Who has abused the Times? Why the Times itself. On the 6th October, 1831, the Times told us that-- " The Duke of Wellington made assertions, positive asser tions, and delivered distinct opinions, touching the meeting of the borough Parliament, which must or false whil e h e uttere d them. T A ; he conceived himself to be speaki ng t rut h, i t i s now ' ;tie reverse of true that he was not merely playi at that time pron , : incing _ 'nave been either trite his genuine senti m e n ts, but was ten do r King's Minister,' and spouting the lines writ foi'cliim. But if he was capable of affirming so .--mnly his belief in the absolute perfection of the old system, and declaring that the wit of mart could not improve it, being satisfied all the while that it was not perfect, and being con scious that he was stating, as King's Minister,' what, except as King's Minister, he would have confessed to be different from the fact, it amounts to nothing short of a desire to impose, both on Parliament and on the people, an unfounded represen tation of the merits of a most important public question, to serve the objects of the day. What reliance, then we with sorrow ask, can either Parliament or people place in the Duke of Wellington's most serious declarations? Or what conclu sion can they draw respecting his sentiments on the general subject of Reform, but that he assumes one principle this week as most convenient for a Minister wishing to remain in office, and a different principle next week when it suits his purpose to turn another Minister out? His Grace's desire that the House should reject this Bill, but should not pledge itself for or against any future Bill, was exceedingly entertaining. Force Lord Grey to resign on the question of Reform, and then you shall have as good a Bill from me. Admirable can dour ! Disinterested policy I" It is, thus, not always absolutely necessary to have recourse to more than one paper to obtain sufficient data for the discussion of the great subjects of State policy. A file of the Times alone will answer the purpose. We take credit to ourselves for some libe rality, in thus putting the public in possession of a plan by which they may dispense with our own lucu brations. It is quite certain that a reader of the Times need never travel far back to find a refutation of the principles advanced on any given day. Proteus himself never appeared in so many forms, as those as signed to every Statesman by our versatile contempo rary. We wonder some industrious gentleman does not supply the public with the opposite principles, and opposite characters of the same Statesmen, to be found in a few years in the columns of our contemporary, drawn up in a parallel form—it might be termed the " Liberal's Manual" —because credulity itself must become incredulous, on perceiving the most contradic tory statements affirmed with equal confidence and equal solemnity. It has been said that Bayle fur nishes always the most complete answer to Bayle ; but Bayle is outdone by our contemporary. We will an swer for it, that a dose of the " Liberal's Manual" will soon free a man from thinking " all the world of the same mind with himself and his favourite print ;" for one of the very first fruits of the dose will be, to prevent him from knowing either his own mind, or the mind of the print.—Morning Chronicle. ANECDOTE OF GEORGE lII.—It iS related of George 111., that he once came down to Blackwall to review the troops previously to their embarkation. It was in the middle of summer, the weather was very oppressive, and the sight an unusual one at this end of the town. The concourse of spectators, as might therefore be expected, was very great. A " jolly tar," a little more than " three sheets in the wind," but " brimfull of loyalty," and, consequently, regardless of all the rules of etiquette or decorum, designed to approach " his Majesty's royal ,person," with a full quart of h u mbl e porte:., which h e h a d just brought from a neighbouring ale house. Jack " tongued his quid," " unshipped his sky-scraper," " hitched up his canvass," and hoped his Majesty would not refuse to drink with a " true blue." The King, as may be supposed, was for a moment astounded at the impudence of the fellow ; but Jack was not to be " beat off," mid a second time importuned him to " take a sup." His Majesty finding that the remonstrances of his courtiers were useless, good_ humouredly took the jug from the hands of the tar, gave for a toast " the army and the navy," and " drank deep " of th e invigorating beverage ; then returning the remains .to Jack, with a " coin of the realm," desired he would go a;od buy more, that with his shipmates he might drin'L success to the campaign, and long life to the King and Quzep.—Thirooilial Magazine. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. The Marshal in attendance stated that he had caused to be pulled down from the walls a number of placards, which accused the Lord Mayor of injustice, and which had been exposed to public view by the direction of one Janzes Wells, a glass-blower. A few days ago Mr. Wells entered the Justice-room, and begged leave to have a little conversation with his Lord ship on rtn important matter. The Lord Mayor readily acquiesced, hut begged that the applicant would be brief, as there was a great deal of public business to be tran- Eacted. The applicant had been invited to a public dinner (and he handed the card of invitation to his Lordship), but at that dinner he found that there was a most desperate con spiracy carried on against him, and he thought it necessary to apply for a warrant against the parties, by whom he con sidered himself aggrieved. The LORD AIAYOR-•••What have they done to you ? I cannot send warrants after six or seven persons without knowing what for. Applicant—They have conspired to gether to do me all the injury in their power. Look at that card, my Lord. The LORD Nlnvon—lt is an invitation to dinner with the glass-blowers, or glass-sellers, I suppose, but I cannot grant warrants because they have invited you to dine with them. Applicant—Oh, you can't do me justice ? Then I must say that I shall look for justice in another way. The LORD MAYOR—I can't understand you. At all *vents I have no power to act in a case of conspiracy ; but if you apprehend anything from a conspiracy you can ap ply at once to the Grand Jury now sitting at the Old Bailey. Applicant—Th en I see that your Lordship refuses me justice. I shall apply elsewhere. Mr. Wells then left the Justice Room, extremely indig nant at the Lord Mayor's refusal to send off a batch of officers to apprehend a number of persons. The placard which the Marshal exhibited referred to the above application, and was as follows : " The Lord Mayor refuses justice to a liveryman in a case of cruel consciracy, touching his liberty and even his life." Copy of application on his card. The writer, James Wells, respectfully requests your Lord ship, the Mayor of London, to grant him a warrant for the due apprehension at a future day of some certain persons spe cifieo in such card. " The above application was refused this day, " JAMES WELLS, Glass-seller. " Windsor-terrace, Feb. 2." The LORD MAYOR observed that it was manifest from the placard that Mr. Wells's liberty was in danger, and im mediate danger too, but the poor gentleman's life was not in the least hazard. G UILDHALL. Yesterday Robert Clark was again brought up in the custody of Herdsfield, the officer, on suspicion of being concerned in stealing a bankers' parcel which was sent to Messrs. Boren and Swainson, warehousemen, in Cateaton street, to be inclosed with other packages to Manchester, so that it might be carried to its destination without sus picion that it was going to, or came from, a banking-house. The parcel contained 9151. in notes of the Manchester Bank. The solicitor for the prosecution had written to Man chester, expectinc , to be able t o o bt a i n ev id ence i n t hi s case, but he had'' not yet received an answer, and he therefore begged that the prisoner might be again re manded. Mr- Woor.En submitted that there was no ground for detaining him beyond the imputation that he was known to the police, and that was not a ground upon which it was probable a Jury would convict. The evidence of the pro secutor acquitted the prisoner of the theft, for he said he was conversing with him about the goods, and he did not go near the part of the warehouse where the missing parcel was stolen from. It was assumed that the other man, who walked up and down the warehouse, was the prisoner's companion ; but there was no proof of it ; and even if they were companions there was no proof that the other man stole the parcel. The solicitor on the other side said that, although there was no case against the prisoner singly, yet if both could be put on trial there could be no doubt both would be con victed. They both came in together just before the parcel was brought in, and went away together, the other man having addressed the prisoner, " Come, are you not ready yet ? I am in haste." This showed they were compa nions, and soon after they went away the parcel was missed. The other man might be detected in attempting to pass the notes. Mr. Wooler said it was inconsistent with the principles of English justice to detain one man against whom there was no proof of guilt upon a speculation that another man might be found against whom there might be proof. Mr. Alderman WILSON said that, as the prosecutor had already had sufficient time to obtain intelligence from Man chester, 1:e could not detain the prisoner on account of its non-arrival. The solicitor could lay a stronger ground ; and called Mr. Swainson, jun., who deposed that from private informa tion he had hopes the other man would be traced. Mr. Alderman WILSON said it would be improper to press Mr. Swainson closer upon this point, and, looking at the prisoner's character, as well as the circumstances of his visit to the prosecutor's warehouse, he thought it was his duty to the public to remand the prisoner again for a few days. BOTV- STREET _ . Yesterday Mr. Charles Purser, the gentleman who on Wednesday made the extraordinary application reported in our last number, was brought before Mr. MINSHULL, on a charge of being drunk and disorderly, and fighting in the public streets. A young medical student named Billings was placed at the bar with Mr. Purser on the same charge. It appeared that the two defendants, (between whom there was a striking disparity as to size, Mr. Purser's alti tude being short of that of Mr. Billings' by at least a foot), quarrelled at the night house called the Union, opposite Bow -street Office, respectinr , the right and title to a cert a i n fair nymph o f t h e pav e, and ' a fight took place. They were ejected from the Union, but recommenced the fight in the street, and were taken into custody by the police. The student of medicine, on being asked what he had to say in his defence, candidly admitted that at the time of the occurrence he was in such a happy state of oblivion from the quantity of wine he had taken, that he really had not the power to tell the Magistrate anything about the matter. Mr. Purser, however, said he could elucidate the busi ness, and, addressing Mr. Minshull, said—l was here yes terday upon an affair of public as well as individual impor tance, and it is rather unfortunate that I should so soon appear again, especially in my present character of defen dant. The fact is, that having particular business at the Union over the way, I called there, and in the course of the evening, in a squabble, I saw my friend there (as I now call him) lay violent hands upon a lady. Little as lam in comparison with my gigantic acquaintance, I felt my man hood rise—my spirit of chivalry was put on the qui vive— and I pitched into Mr. Billings. We fought, and manfully too, until the people of the Union put us out. We then resumed the combat, but the police impertinently interfered, and lugged us off to the station-house. TheTMAGISTR ATE observed that it was rather bad taste, he thought, for so respectable a man as Mr. Purser to visit such a house as the Union. Mr. Purser—l wish to explain that matter, your Wor ship. You are already aware that was an indefatigable canvasser for Mr. Wood, the Conservative candidate for Middlesex. So earnest was lin the cause, that I did not confine myself to working in the day, but wandered abroad at night, endeavouring to further the glo r i ou s obj ec t I h a d in view. I even knoced people out of their beds to solicit their suffrages, and on several occasions found my way upon the stage of the patent theatres on the same errand. Why, Sir, I canvassed Mr. Farren, Mr. Keeley, and other distin guished actors, upon the stage of Drury-lane ; ay, and sue. cessfully too. And, now, to prove how zealous I was in the cause, I went even to the Union, although I knew it was a house under the ban of your Worships, and there obtained eleven good s otos. My object in calling last night was to thank the gentlemen for their suffrages. Now, your Wor ship, this is " the head and front of my offending"—no more. The MAGISTRATE regretted that Mr. Purser's zeal in the Conservative interest should have led him into so many difficulties. It was his (the Magistrate's) duty, however, as a conservator of the public peace, to order both the de fendants to give bail. The two gentlemen were then removed to the iron apart ment attached to the office, and at the close of the business of the morning, were still inmates of that uncomfortable abode. QUEEN-SQUARE. Major John Holt White, of Grosvenor-square, West Pimlico, appeared before Messrs. WHITE and BURRELL, upon a charge of assault, preferred against him by Mr. Thomas Hoseason, of Grosvenor -street West, under the following circumstances : Last week, the Major charged Mr. Hoseason with an assault and provocation to fight a duel, and the latter gen tleman was bound over to keep the peace. From the evi dence of Mr. Hoseason, it appeared, that on Thursday last, between seven and eight o'clock, Major White, accompa nied by three friends, came to his (Mr. Hoseason's) house. They gained admittance into the passage, and Mr. Hoseason came out, when some conversation ensued, and Major White came behind him, and pushed him into the street, and there called him a blackguard and other opprobrious names. Mr. Hoseason said, that his obje c t i n bringinn- the prese nt charge was to prevent the Major from prowling him to commit a breach of the peace whilst he was under recognizances not to do so. He also said, that the Major creditors,had taken the troubl e t o go roun d to nuat;ng that he (Mr. Hoseason) was not worthy or trusted. Mary Poole, servant to the complainant, corroborated her master's statement as to the Alajor and his friends using very violent language towards him and Mrs. Hoseason, his mother. Major White, in reply, said that on Thursday afternoon he certainly went, accompanied by three friends, to Mr. Hoseason's house. He went at the request of a gentleman named Roach, who had some questions to put to the com plainant, in which he considered it might be requisite to refer to him. He had scarcely set his foot upon the threshold when his own brother, Mr. George White, a clerk in the House of Commons, who was at Mr. Hoseason's house, rudely pushed him on one side and endeavoured to shut the door in his face. Some conversation ensued in the passage, and Mr. Hoseason was pushed against him, but the Major strongly denied striking him, knowing that he was under recognizances to keep the peace at the time. Mr. Thomas Jones, of Newport-street, Leicester-square, was present with Major White on the night in question. There was to be a meeting between the parties relative to observations that had been made by Mr. Hoseason upon the character of a young lady, which, as they were injurious to her, it was necessary to disprove in the presence of wit nesses. The complainant pushed past witness, and ran against Major White. Some opprobrious words were used, but more against Mr. George White than the complainant. Mr. William Roach, of No. 7, Upper Eaton-street, Pim lico, and his friends had been dining together, and after wards called upon the complainant, relative to the words he had used with regard to the young lady. Mr. WHITE—Was it necessary to take the other three with you ? Mr. Roach—Yes. They were more or less involved in the matter in question. Mr. Roach proceeded to state that during the alterca tion the complainant rushed out of the house into the street, and that be heard high words pass between the com plainant and Major White. An expression was made use of, " That now they had got him into the street they would have an explanation." Mr. WIiITE asked the defendant Major White whether the allegation as to his going about to Mr. Iloseason's creditors, in a manner prejudicial to that Gentleman, was the fact ? Major White had been to the complainant's tailor, who was about to arrest him, but otherwise he did not think the question applied to the case. He begged leave to assure the Magistrates that upon the evening in question the party had gone to Mr. Hoseason's house im mediately after dinner, and before they had drank a single glass of wine. _ _ Mr. WHITE, after consulting with his colleague, observed that he was sorry to say that it appeared to the Bench that Major White and his party had gone to the house of Mr. Hoseason with a spirit of quarrelling. Nothing could ex ceed such imprudence, Mr. Hoseason being at the time under recognizances to keep the peace. He felt compelled to bind the Major over to keep the peace, himself in 501., and two sureties in 25/. each. MARY LEB ONE. Yesterday Mary Coply, a rather pretty-looking girl, about 18 years of age, was placed at the bar before Mr. HOSKINS, charged under the following circumstances : Mr. John Atkins, of the Lyceum Theatre, residing at No. 19, Salisbury-street, Strand, deposed that his daughter, an infant about two years and a half old, was staying with its aunt, whose name was Freeman, at her house, No. 39, Edgware-road. On Tuesday morning he received a note from the latter stating that the prisoner, who was her ser vanchad, on the previous evening, taken the child out, and neither of them had again returned home. He, in conse quence, gave information of the circumstance, with a des cription of the prisoner's person, to the police. Mary Charatt, a lodger in the house of Mrs. Freeman, about seven o'clock on Monday evening, saw Jane Kensly, another servant in the house, give the prisoner some money to go and buy for her a pair of shoes. The prisoner then said, " I shall take the child with me," which she did, and witness saw no more of either of them till about eleven o'clock on Tuesday night, when, hearing a knock at the street-door she opened it, and two men then alighted from a cab with the daughter of the prosecutor, whom they introduced by asking if she had not lost a child. She answered in the affirmative, and then elicited from them that they kept a baker's shop near St. Giles's church, and that on the same afternoon a girl brought the child, requesting that it might remain there for a short time. Some hours passed away, and the girl not returning they made inquiries, and having ascertained that a little girl had been stolen from the Edgware-road, proceeded there with it, and found out to whom it belonged. Witness added that on the child leaving the house with the prisoner it wore a very handsome coral necklace with gold snaps, which was missing when she was brought back. The pri soner had only been in Mrs. Freeman's, service a week. Police constable S 69 apprehended the prisoner in the Regent's-park barracks while she was drinking with some soldiers. The prisoner, in reply, met with a friend shortly after leaving home, and placed the child in the care of a girl while she went into a public-house to have a drop of beer, and on coming out again saw that the necklace was gone. She afterwards met with another person, with whom she stopped all night ; and hearing on the following morning that pursuit was making after her she resolved not to return again, and accordingly took the child to the baker's shop while she went in search of Mr. Freeman's washerwoman, who lived in that neighbourhood, and whom she should have requested to have conveyed it home ; she, however, was unable to discover her residence. The prisoner was then remanded till Tuesday for the at ;endance of other witnesses. MARLBORO UGH-STREET. William, Henry, and Thomas Beazley, and Henry Hewitt, younger branches of the honourable " order" of " chumies," presented their soot-begrimed " phi zogs " be fore the sitting magistrates, Messrs. DYER and CONANT, to show cause why they jointly and severally, at various times, and in various places, had broken the peace of Louisa Coleman, eldest hope of Mrs. Martha Coleman, the Lady President of a rival chimney-sweeping establishment in Chapel-street, Hammersmith. The complainant detailed a series of annoyances which she had been subjected to from the defendants, and stated that on Thursday and Friday last all of them pelted her with mud and stones as she was passing down the street. Mr. DYER—And why do they do all this to you ? Com plainant—Because we are in the same business. Mr. DYER—Oh, I see. You keep rival establishments. Well, William Beazley, what have you to say ? William— Vy 'at I never sot my hies on the young homan, nor never flung no mud, nor nuffin else at her for uppards of three months subsekvent to the present time. _ _ Mr. DYER—And what do you say, Thomas Beazley ? Thomas—Same as Bill. Mr. DYER—And what say you, Henry Hewitt ? Hewitt —I says this. I never changed no vords vith her votsom hover ; and as for chucking mud, I voudn't be guilty of sitch a dirty haction to von of the fair sex. Mr. DYER—What have you to say, little boy ? Thomas —I vas going over the vay for a ha'perth of vip cord, 'cause I'd chopped my top for Bill Harris's box 'un, wen, without a saying nothin' to nobody, up comes this 'ere young voman, vots svorn a werry false hoath, and hits me sitch a rummy punch, that in an hinstant moment I vas kivered over With a gore of blood from my top to my bottom. The complainant declared that the young urchin had not stated one word of truth. She was walking down the street, and when he came deliberately up to her, pulled off his cap, well charged with soot, and flung it into her face, nearly blinding and choaking her with the particles. A young woman came forward and corroborated the statement of the complainant, adding that on Saturday evening the three Beazleys, in order to annoy the Cole mans, came and knocked at their door, divested of that portion of their apparel which some married ladies take a delight in wearing. The " father of the flock," old Beazley, who was present, here called out, " Your Honourable Vurship, them there Colemans is always hiding my children ; and the poor cre ters can't go without me sending a guard with 'em, even for a haporth of matches ; for if I doesn't, they gets their brains knocked out, vich I can prove by werry 'spectable vitnesses. As for the boys here, they're as perfect innocents of this here crime as I am. Mr. DYER—That respectable young woman, the wit ness, has sworn the contrary. Old Beazley—She 'spectable ! Vy, vorn't von of her brothers transported, and isn't another in the House of Correction ; and didn't her grandfather hang himself arter he'd robbed a poor old gentleman ? Witness—Since you come to that havn't you and your relations been taken up ? Wasn't one on 'em tried for Mr. Wetherell's robbery, and warn't you had up for robbing Cooper's calico-grounds ? And perhaps you can tell his Vorship who it vos as vos cotched in Common-garden vith a box of chancy. Old Beazley—l shan't harnser no sitch hinsinivations. My family's respected in all parts of the globe, and if you vant to know my carricter go to his gracious Duke of De vonshire, and ax him. He nose me or its werry odd, for I've swept his chimbleys above twenty years. m r . DYER-Why can't you both agree together, and conduct your business peaceably ? Old Beazley—'Cause I'm the oldest sveep, and it aint right to set up in hopposi tion under my werry nose. " Your Worship," said a fat and fiery-faced old woman, coming forward. " This is my husband, and I am the mother of thirteen blessed babies, and three on 'ern are cripples." The Magistrates cut short the family history by observing that the defendant must find bail. Old Beazley (in a melancholy toue)—Oh ! your Wor ship, if they gets the wictry they'll Lbe dress't out in blue I ribbons to-night a t th e i r v i n d ers, danc i ng at my ch ild re n and haggravating the hinnomit bibbies out of their pre . CIOUS Set...— The Magistrates, however, refused to alter their deci sion, and the defendants were all held to bail. WORSHIP- STREET. Me. TVin. Dennis, of Lamb's-lane, Hackney, who wasod Tuesday charged before Mr. TWYFORD with having as' saulted Charles Farrant and William Franks, officers of the Sheriff of Middlesex, in the execution of their office , by firing a loaded gun at them, was yesterday brought Up for further examination. The prisoner appeared to be in a state of indisposition , and was much calmer than when at the bar before. A great many of his friends were present, some of whom he had not seen for years. He appeared very glad to see them, and had a conversation with them for some minutes, and inquired after his children. A Gentleman, who said that he was an officer from the Court of Chancery, produced to Mr. TWYFORD, the Me' gistrate, a warrant under the hand and seal of the Lord Chancellor, to convey the prisoner to the Fleet Prison for contempt. Mr. Dennis had been a solicitor, and of very extensive business. He now withheld valuable documents which they claimed. They had in consequence applied to the Chan cery Court for them to be given up, but Mr. Dennis, how' ever, thought proper to treat the Lord Chancellor's autho rity with the greatest disdain, and took no notice whatever of his precepts. A warrant had been out against his per son from that Court for some considerable time, but the officers could not manage to take him, as he seldom or ever made his appearance out of doors. The officer, who produced the warrant, said that if the prisoner was not committed on a criminal charge he ar plied to the Magistrate that he might be handed over to his custody, as the Lord Chancellor had a power higher than the Sheriff. Mr. TWYFORD looked at the warrant to see - that it was original, and said that he could see no objection to the officer's application, the Lord Chancellor having the highest authority. Mr. Spratt, a solicitor, of Southampton•buildings, who appeared on behalf of the two Sheriff's officers, contended that the Sheriff had the greatest claim to the prisoner in the event of the Magistrate discharging him, he being in the actual custody of the Sheriff when brought to this office , and charged with a criminal offence. Mr. TWYFORD, after considering the law under such Cir cumstances, coincided with Mr. Spratt. He was bound in his discharging the prisoner to give him up to the same cus tody as he was when brought before him. _ _ Mr. TWYFORD asked Tilt the gaoler how the prisoner had conducted himself while in prison ? Tilt produced a certificate from Mr. Wakefield, the surgeon of the New Prison, stating that in his opinion from the short time the prisoner had been in prison he was labouring under an aberration of intellect. Tilt said that when he took hull to prison on Tuesday evening he very willingly gave u p to the turnkey all the property he had about him, his g old watch, chain, and seals, and about a dozen sovereigns, se veral memorandums, and a bunch of keys, but said nothing• When asked a question he placed his finger at his mouth and bit it violently. Bedford, inspector of the N division of police, who kept possession of the broken gun, showed to the Magistrate one of the bullets that it had been loaded with, which 1 1 said be had extracted from out of the wall where the pri soner resided. It was as large as a small-sized marble. Mr. TWYFORD thought the evidence did not bear out the capital offence. He had, under the circumstances, made up his mind to discharge the prisoner from his custody, and hand him over to the Sheriff's officers. There was no doubt he would remain in prison for some time to come, and the com plaining party (the officers) might, if they thought proper , subsequently prefer a bill of indictment against him at the sessions. Prisoner—What are you going to do with me now ? Mr. TWYFORD—Why you are in the custody of the She riff of Middlesex. The officers will take you from here to Whitecross-street prison, and you will no doubt be after wards removed from thence to the Fleet, for contempt of the Chancery Court. Prisoner (looking steadfastly at the officers)—You are all a gang of unnatural beings, not fit to live in a Christian country. What will become of my children ? They have no servant to do for them, and they have nobody to look to but me, their father. Mr. TWYFORD—They will be taken care of and will be permitted to see you in prison. The prisoner then took leave of his friends around him, and was conveyed by the officers, Farrant and Franks, di rect to Whitecross-street. THE WOOL TRADE. Yesterday the sales of colonial and other descriptions of wools, which Commenced publicly on Wednesday wee k, ter minated. The total quantity of wools submitted to the manu facturers and others engaged in the trade was upwards of 4,800 bales. The attention of buyers from the manufacturing districts during the greater part of the period occupied by the , ales was pretty numerous. The chief attention of the buyers was directed to the wools from New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land ; of these descriptions about 2,500 bales were offered. Some of the finest fleeces offered during the sales were purchased as high as 3s. Id. to 3s. lid. per lb., being the best wools, and in finer condition than others offered at the sales. The second quotation of wools from Australia sold very evenly, and the demand was steady. The prices ranged !ie tween 2s. and 2s. 10d. per lb., and the low wools, including those in the grease, at prices varying between 10d. and ls. 4d. per pound. The prices realized at the sales for New South Wales wools equalled those given at the last October sales for the finer qualities. Inferior wools were in some instances quoted lower. The Van Diemen's Land wo'ls were not ge nerally of good quality, and fetched comparatively low prices. The best offered during the sales went off at Is. 3d. to ls. 9d• per pound. and the inferior qualities at lower terms. A small parcel of wools, consisting of seven bales imported from the new colony on the Swan River, was offered during the sales, and fetched the highest prices, as was stated, yet received from imposts from the colony, having realised ls. 9d. p e r lb. About 500 bales of German wools were offered during the sales, and sold pretty freely at full prices, the finest offered realizing from Is. Bd. to 2s. 0., and the inferior from Is. sd• to Is. 7d. per lb. The quantity of Odessa wools declared for sale was between 400 and 500 bales, and the greater part of It was taken readily by the trade at highprices. Washed Odessa wools sold at from 2s. 2d. to 2s. 10d. per lb. for the best qua lities, and at from Is. 2d. to 2s. per lb. for the other qualities• About 70 bales of Germanized Odessa wools realized from Is. 2d. to Is. sd. per lb. Of Portugal wools about 100 bales were offered, and realized heavy prices. A variety of wools from the Cape of Good Hope, Tuscany, Italy, Turkey, Smyrna, St. Helena, East India goat, and other wools were offered during the continuance of the sales, but their quality and condition generally was not sufficiently marked to require particular notice. The sales concluded with Spanish and Odessa wools. Of Spanish wools about 480 bales were offered, and sold with some ani mation at ls. Ild. to 2s. 4d. per lb., according to quality. The Odessa wools sold yesterday consisted of 210 bales, forming part of the total quantity of this description of pro duce noticed above. The wools went off at 2s. to 3s. per lb. for the finer, and at 11d. to Is. 11d. per lb. for the inferior and low qualities. The sales attracted considerable attention in the City, and the result is to establish a firm market for wools, especially for the produce of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land. STAGE TRICKERY.—In a little town in Germany the manazcrs of a theatre, seeking to draw a full house, lately advertised that in a melodrama which was to be performed they would exhibit the head of a noted robber. In order to effect this one of the actors was placed in such a manner that his head alone was exhibited upon a table ; but a merry wage wishing to raise a laugh at the expense of the poor manager► slily placed a small quantity of snuff in such a way that it came in contact with the nose of the reputed robber, which threw him into a violent fit of sneezing, to the great amusement of the audience. BIRTHS. On the 3d inst., at the ➢Mat House, Stockwell, the lady of Air• Alderman Farebrother, of a son. On the sth inst., the lady of John Lee Stevens, Esq., of Lam beth, of a son and heir. A few days ago, the lady of Frederick Gye, jun., Esq., proprie tor of Vauxhall Gardens, of a daughter. On the sth inst., in Connaught-square, Mrs. Spencer Heath cote, of a son. MARRIED. On the 3d inst., at St. George's, Hanovec-square, Pierce So merset Butler, Esq., eldest son of Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. Pierce Butler, M.P., of Ballyconra, in the county of Kilkenny, and nephew of the Right Hon. the Earl of Kilkenny, to Jessy Anne , relict of P. A. Warren, Esq., of Lodge Park, in the same count,' On the 3d inst., at St. Mary's, Dover, J o h n D ra k e Fli nc h, Esq., of Greenwich, solicitor, to Georgiana, youngest daughter of the Rev. John Maule, M. A., of Dover. On the 4th inst., at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, John Fairfa% Chinery, Esq., to Eliza Ann, eldest daughter of James Wyld, Esq of Charing-cross East. On the sth inst., at Enfield, Valentine Beldam, Esq., of Roy ston, Cambridgeshire, to Charlotte, youngest daughter of the late James Vaughan, Esq., of Enfield. DIED. On the 3Gth inst., at Leighton House, Leighton Buzzard, Bed s ' aged 87, Ann, relict of Edward Ashwell, Esq. On the 2d inst., in Queen-square, Bath, Mrs. Lyster, relict of the late Rev. T. M. 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