The Sun. — London, England, 1835-05-23 00:00:00

Improvement, which, we are happy to say, Lord JOHN RUSSELL has given notice he intends to introduce into th e Rouse of Commons on Monday, the first of June. ovve have received the whole of the Paris papers of A hursday. Th e Court of Peers has pronounced itself "mpetent to sit in judgment on the prisoners .of April; but has dissented from the closing paragraph in the requisition of the Procureur-General, calling 'Von it to pass sentence upon the accused in their ab "nee. The Peers would have hesitated before hazard mg this declaration, had not the report of the Com ulittec of Dep u ti es , an d th e acc l amat i ons o f the Cham ber when the report was read, assured them that they mi g h t depend upon the cordial co-operation of the 4inisterial adherents in the Chamber of Re- Pres entatives. Th e C our t f urt h er pronounce d t h e b i e ntion raised against its jurisdiction by M. DESA U tit the advocate for the prisoners, to be in -111id• Th e i r L or d s hi ps might have spared them !elves a declaration which must cover them and their Plgarents with everlasting infamy. The objection r aised by the advocate of th e accus ed was , th a t th ey °light not to be tried by virtue of the operation of a Pu ' l .fitcto law. N o obj ec ti on cou ld b e more equ it a bl e , c or e valid, or more consonant with the ete rna l p r i n - P le s of justice than this. Tyrants only h ave hither t° acted in oppositi on t o it —th e mercenary crea tures of a corru pt Administration, are now resolved a ° imitat e t h em. Th e o ff ences of which thepri sonersers stand accuse d were comm i tte d on t h e I st, an d befo re ti the s t h o f A pr il , 1834 . Th e o ff en d ers were l i t en Only amenable to the ordinary tribunals ; nor was a Possible th at t h ey cou ld i ncur a h i gher responsibility, iz s i no higher Court of criminal judicature then existed On the 10th of the same month a law was passe d co ns ti tut i ng t h e Ch am b er o f P eers a supreme °t ut of crimi na l jurisprudence, in cases of conspiracies againstmust the St a t e . The common sense of every man tell him that this Court was incompetent em , s sir in judgment on offences said to have been that b e f ore i t h a d an ex i stence. I t i s l aw t h t it creates crime ; for where there is no law tie can b e no t ransgress i on . B e f ore a l aw i s enacte d e e cannot, b y any poss ibili ty, b e an i n f ract i on o f i t ; nor . nan th e comm i ss i on o f any cr i me, f or w hi c h a pu itimslient has been previously provided, place the ed it:al withi n t h e j ur i s di ct i on o f a tr ib unal subsequently ki titu ted• Every man who is acquainted with the thi nciple s o f eth i cal sc i ence must admit the truth of all ( t t s% On what pl ea , then, d o th e P eers o f F rance re to exercise judicial functions to the prejudice of d u w hose offences were anterior to their right to sit i n hogiltent upon them ? They have themselves given i nswer to this ques ti on . Th e y have rested their 4 t on th e only safe pedestal which presented itself— the countenance and support of the KING. They are t o minions. They believe he has the po wer wiPtect th em i n t h e un di stur b e d execut i on o f hi s l ook : and b e y on d t hi s t h ere are f ew o f t h em capa bl e o f rA„: look: and One of th e p r i mar y o bj ec t s o f a ll constitu -,41 to tti law —of the science of jurisprudence—is t o neract the pernicious principle that "might consti hularight." B ut i n F rance t h e course o f pu bli c events th e warrant us in affirming that might constitutes t ttnt en lY legal definition of right, known to the inhabi u s ince the access i on o f L ouis PHILIPPE. p 0.,, , trial of the prisoners will now proceed with all pr 4ib le expedition. The Message from the Chamber ~ ,,h.L P ee rs to the Deputies has established a fact of th eh there was previously some doubt—namely, that e majority of the Deputies have been bought over to 11 ? P'z'rt the G o v ern ment through thick and thin. Thi s 8 i nspired th e KING with fresh courage, and has 1 th ne wed the determination of Mini s t ers t o h unt d own wilt! ex terminate their opponents. Th ere i s no t a n i g h t i n *L . it h sotne f res h di scovery i s riot ma d e—not a night in ~a Oome pr econcerted sham enzeute does not take pl aces--in which, of course, the vigilance, the activity, and ( aevalou r of the police, e ff ec t th e sa l va ti on o f t h e tk It pital an d t h e Government. All this is well under e°,..d now ; alth oug h at fi rst t h ere were t h ousan d s ahe enough to believe that the Republicans were at te °°ttom of th ese r i otous out b rea k s. H owever, t h ey hem the p urposes of the KING, who, after instigating tite _ by every means at the d i sposal of the Govern -14'4, makes them serve for pretexts for drafting im th!" bodies of additional troops to Paris. is may well creat e as t on i s h ment , w h en i t )vi th ."wn that previously, the troops stationed 1 00 14 twelv e m il es o f P ar i s amounte d to upwards of tve ' ° °o men. Yet such is the fact. Regiments from t o P Y depart ment o f t h e ki ng d om are now marc hi ng 0, th e capital, to crush rebellions fomented by the 5.4 01, at te,rnment , and in which the l ea di ng cons pi ra t ors l iu. ne confid ants o f t h e Mi n i sters o f J ust i ce an d the 'rior k So nic misunderstandin g h a s ar i se n b e tw e en M ars h a l th re )u . LT and the KING, respecting the identity of the Wee:P i ctures whi c h hi s M AJESTY purc h ase d some s ince from the Marshal at 500,000 fran c s, il ea le in four yearly instalments. The correspon otle' on th e part of the KING, was carried on by MoNTALI VET, to whom SOULT has addressed : t er) stating that if the bargain be not approved of, th e ~,Prepared to cancel it, and he thereby authorizes rifOiniste r to do so in his name. The whole 1 1 4 ti i s hardly worth being noticed, although the flo e : Papers treat it as a matter of the first come that e ll e ' So uLT's irritation arises frem•his knowledge ‘Pp e . ' ° NTALIVET wrote the letter which previous ly kti o ar edin the Moniteur, according to the Royal dic „,.n. P r oc ee t ti C i namber of Deputies sat on Thursday, but its ink ri are of no general interest. FRENCH EU N etits, MAY 2.1. 11 , e pt .r Cents., 104. 25 1) S —P c. 40..% 20c. per Cents., 99f. 10c. hre e per Cents., 81f. 75c. 55c. 60c. National Loan, I%f. 20c. Bank Actions, 1,915 f. 1,970 f. —c. %elite de Naples, WE 30c. 9:if. Lictnan Five per Cants., 100 , 4CO PCspa i tne Five per Cents., ", ewe ( 48 'tit, Thre- per Cents.. t , Y4! s , ,,ni=h. Loin, 49. Relit, Pei F.v per 47 Relgian Loan,' e Five per Cents., IN. Portt4Nese lan, live F er Cents., 10(Pi IGO. Harlan Loan. 1221. ZOC. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. azie month, paper , 25f . 40e. ; m oney, 25f. 40c., T hree months,'paper, 251.25 c. ; money, 25f. 25r. , "...Cars duthenfirpw. 42€6,1;411, THREE o'CLocK.—The article in the Journal deB L`te e ' s , of this morning, by which a favourable turn . is Roy neth r`ed to be given to the situation of Spain, caused an nn -44467erit in the morning in the funds. The Three per "447,Were done at one time at 82 for the end of May, and Il tcy,„, lB q stock was in demand. But since then a reaction has - • g e t': the Three per Cents. have declined to 81f. 85c., 7 r ,rei s - ,P,., a niall stock falle back to the prices of yesterday. It • ed, and believed, that the demand from Spain to this an armed intervention has been made, but that this ihge 4 7 o , 4 has been positively refused. re o 2as To Foeu.—Five per Cents., 1081. 35c. ; Cents.,p e r Blf. 65c • Five per Cent. Spanish, 46i ; jufe, Cr' Cent. Spanish ' 29 1. 4 ; Cortes, 47:1 ; Coupons, 26 ; • ' . 20 k; New Loan, - 62 ; Definitives, soi ; Passive, itl• -11 ' cats 99 5 • Romans, 100 ; Belgians, 1011 ; Pedros, - Ipr — et rl iumi els . , 27 : Haytians, 4421. 50c. ; Brabant Bank, tellor 'e arriv a l s f rom every part o f S pa i n are pa i n f u ll y hi eh tan t ; and all parties are divided as to the steps ho rth, should be taken to put an end to the war in the olit. The cry among many is let them fight it het S 11 ° question of legitimacy is strictly Spanish, th e Pain d ec id e i t i n whatever way s h e p l eases. " H a d go Z, est inn not been already decided by all that can roaj et rtin the constitutional voice of a country—the Lttu re °f the people, and the solemn act of the legis tilaji.°llnded upon an d e mb o dying the will of that Qai m -- -"we : too, should be among the first to ex- Pi t ex (1 • 1 0 interf erence f rom w i t h ou tl Let the peo er°ise thei r own r i g h t i n th e c h o i ce o f their I.lll3l ellit---it is inherent in them." But Spain has decided the questions She has sworn allegiance to the Qt'EtlsZ, to the exclusion for ever of DON CA TILO6 and his heirs. Foreign interference, in behalf of the QUEEN and the Government, can therefore be no longer considered in the light of an attempt to dictate to the people. Spain has already re corded her judgment as far as regards the principle '; and other power than that of the mind of a nation— other authority than that derived from the suffrages of the people—we do not and cannot acknowledge. The time when mere physical force was sufficient to esta blish, or rather to rescind a right, is happily no more ; therefore, supposing that DON CARLOS was to suc ceed, by superior Generalship, in seizing upon Madrid, and capturing every member of the Constitutional Government, .we should be just as ready to denounce him as a rebel and a traitor, as we are at this moment. This is putting an extreme case—a case which never will, and never can occur, if the Great Northern Powers do not interfere in the contest. Spain ought instantly to call for the fulfilment of the quadruple treaty, in order, if possible, to save the prodigal effu sion of Spanish blood. Foreign interference is no longer dictation—it is mercy to the unhappy peasantry, whose lives are sacrificed to glut the fury of a dis organized soldiery, and to sate the ambitious cravings of a rebel to his QUEEN and country. The Paris Journals of Thursday contain some very satisfactory accounts from Madrid, bearing date the 14th instant—the date of the arrivals in London, of which we gave an abstract in The Sun of yesterday. The Journal des Debats—the great organ of M. THIERS and his party—embodies the subject of its dispatches, and the impression which these accounts have made on the French Ministry, in the following important article. We ought first to observe that it is written with reference to the attack made upon MAR TINEZ DE LA ROSA, when quitting the Chamber of Procuradores on the 11th, after having been defeated on the question of the treaty between VALDEZ and ZUMALACARREGui—which attack appears to have been wonderfully exaggerated in all the reports yet published : " The address voted by the Chainber of Proceres, the in terference of several honourable citizens, and the measures taken by the authorities for the repression of the agitators prove that the Cabinet of Madrid has derived additional force from the event of the 11th. The fears entertained for some days respecting the fate of the Ministry and of the Spanish Government itself, were exaggerated ; and it was of course very prematurely supposed to be reduced to the necessity of calling for foreign aid. Let us not overate the actual critical situa tion of affairs, and consider the incontestible check expe rienced by Valdez as a total defeat ; the five-sixths of Spain, it must be recollected, are tranquil and calm. Every where, except in a corner of that fine country, the laws of the Consti tutional Government are well received and respected. There is to be sure some agitation in several of the large cities; but that agitation has not heretofore manifested itself by any of those overt and serious explosions we have witnessed in our o.vn country. Spain has a more numerous army than that of the rebels, her finances are recovering, and Don Carlos is with out money ; our advices from the country do not besides be speak a Government on the brink of destruction, if left with out assistance. There is still much force in Constitutional Spain ; the old Castilian pride and honour are now as much alive as ever. With such resources, a country needs no aid from abroad ; it finds it within itself, and on its own territory. It is quite clear from the above, that France will postpone the fulfilment of the treaty to the last hour. Her reasons for so doing are stated to be the vast resources of the Spanish Government, and the justice of the QUEEN'S cause. Now that, so far from being a reason for non-interference, is pre cisely the ground upon which we insist upon it. Were the question of the QUEEN'S right doubtful, and were the country not in a condition to suffer injury from the presence of marauding armies, we should never think of interfering. But when we are previously convinced that the QUEEN'S cause is the cause of justice and humanity, we feel that it is our duty to espouse it actively, whe❑ by so doing we can prevent the slaughter of thousands of our unoffending fellow creatures. Mr. CHILDs's case did not come on last night. As the day for which the notice of motion was given passed without the motion being made— owing to Lord JOHN RussELL's not having taken his seat—it is uncertain when the discussion may come on. In the mean time the cry against Church rates and ecclesiastical oppression is re-echoed from every part of the country. We refer our readers to a letter signed ZENAS, for some interesting particulars respecting the sale of goods seized for Church rate, and sold at Bungay. The man who bought them was actually - proscribed by his townsmen, until he restored them, and made a pub lic apology ! Such signs of the times ought not to be disregarded. We have received German Papers of the latest dates. They state that Nassau has joined, or is pre paring to join, the German Commercial Union. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY. TWELVE O'CLOCK. The Isabella has arrived at Liverpool, bringing. letters and papers from Demerara to the 19th of April. The conduct of the Governor and his stipendiaries is still the subject of much unpleasant discussion. The refractory spirit of the appren tices bad been curbed by forcible means on some plantations, and affairs, speaking by recent comparison, look more favour ably. A report prevailed at Paris that orders had been sent to Toulon for a naval force, to sail for the coast of Catalonia. The Bayonne letters state that Zumalacarregui, at the head of all his forces, had marched in Vittoria, and that important events may be enpected. The ruinous gambling transactions which have been carried on for some days past, in the Foreign Market, by creating false alarms in respect to the dangerous state of Spain, and by which hundreds of persons who bare speculated in Spani-li Securities will be ruined, has caused a general excitement in the City, and in the Stock Exchange. This morning the brokers are afraid to do any further bu siness for their employers, until the Account is settled. The news this morning from Madrid, does not appear of that black cast as was stated. A correspondent of a morning Journal says, that Don Carlos can do nothing without the Queen's troops go over to him ; also that the events which took place at Madrid have beer, exaggerated. Thus we arc deceived from one day to another with contradictory statements for sinister purposes. THE FUNDS. Another most extraordinary panic prevailed during the whole of yesterday in the Foreign Market; and had it not been !or the operations of the great City capitalist, who purchased Spanish to the amount of two or three hundred thousand, the market would have experienced a further decline. At one period the above Stock receded to 49, but closed at 52. This morning the panic is beginning to subside, and the market is improving. Spanish Bonds opened 2 per cent. higher. The following are the quotations of the Foreign Stocks :—Chilian, 501; Columbian, 40 41 ; Spanish Bonds, 521 53 ; Spanish Scrip, 4 to sy discount; Portuguese, 971; 3 per Cents. 661 ; Mexican, 41 42. Consols, which left off yesterday at 911 I for the account, opened this morning at 911 ; little doing, the chief attention of the speculators being to the Foreign Market. Our arrivals this morning are only one French mail, one Hamburgh, with very few ship letters, most of old dates. The express from Paris brings the prices 5 per Cents. at 105 40 ; Three per Cents, 51 65 ; Cortes Bonds, 471; Cou pons, 261; Differes, 20k. HALF-PAST ONE. Consols have continued steady during the morning at 911 for the Account, and 91,-i for money, with little doing. Ex chequer Bills, 23 26 ; India Bonds, 5 7; Bank Stock, 2121 ; India Stock, 256. The Foreign Market still continues heavy. At one period in the morning they appeared to be rallying, and got up to 53 54, which puce was not long maintained, and they receded again to Ali 52. The report at the West End is that Zumalacarregui is in possession of Vittoria. We must wait for further information from Spain before we can credit the above account, as it comes from the Carlist party. _ . - The following are the Foreign Prices at present :—Bra zilian, 85 ; Colombian, 42 ; Chilian, 53 ; Spanish Bonds, 51i. 52; Spanish Scrip, 4 discount; Portuguese Stock, 961. We have no further arrivals. THREE O'CLOCK Consols for the Account, 911- 1. MARYLEBONE PARISH.—The election for vestry men in St. Marylebone terminated last night at ten o'clock, with a majority of 1,087 on the part of the Parochial Com mittee over the Conservative or Association List, being the fourth year of the election terminating in favour of the same party. : -<<- - -- „ /0 THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1835 PARLIAMENTARY SUMMARY. In the tioutE of Lon last night several petitions were presented, tothe Of them relating to the Church of Scotland, but the Rouse was principally occupied with a discussion re specting the late procession in Dublin on the entry of Lord MULGRAVE. An interesting conversation occurred respecting the resignation of the Marquis of WELLESLEY, who distinctly denied that he was induced to resign from any intelligen ce re ceived from Ireland, In the CommoNs an animated discussion arose out of a mo tion for the second reading of the Liverpool Police Bill. Mr. EWART moved, as an amendment, that the Bill be read " this day six months," on the ground that it wits an attempt to saddle the payment of the Liverpool clergy on all classes, and to frustrate municipal Reform. Lord STANLEY and Mr. SIIEIL came in collision. On a division the amendment was lost by 14. To M r . R OEBUCK ' S I nqu i ry, W h e th e r any regula tion had been m a d e t o preven t so ldi e rs off d u ty f rom carrying side-arms, no definite information was given. Some conversation took place on the subject of the Dissenters' Marriage Bill, the second reading of which was on the orders for the night. Lerd Join.; RUSSELL alluded to the objections which had been made to some parts of it; but it was thought better that the Bill should be altered in Committee. Lord JOHN RUSSELL declined giving any answer to the question whether Lord PALMERSTON was to be elevated to the Peerage. (Lord PALMERSTON is a Secretary of State, and has not, yet, a seat in either House.) Lord JOHN RUSSEL gave notice that he should on Monday the Ist of June, move for leave to bring in a Bill for the better regulation of Municipal Corporations in England and Wales. The notice was received with cheers. The Registration of Voters' Bill, on the motion of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, was referred to a Select Committee. Colonel SIB THORP asked if Colonel Fox was to be " transported " to Canada. Lord JOHN RUSSELL replied that the Government entertained no intention of appointing Colonel Fox a Cana dian Commissioner. The House then resolved itself into a Committee of Supply, when several items of the Army Esti mates, and some Navy Estimates also, were voted. MEETING.-(THIS DAY.) PARISH OF ST. GEORGE, HANOVER-SQUARE A public meeting of the rate-payers of the parish of St. George, Hanover-square, took place at the workhouse, Mount street, this day, for the purpose of electing thirty-three vestry men and five auditors of accounts. The Earl of EUSTON, Churchwarden, in the Chair. The CHAIRMAN said the first business of the day would be to appoint eight gentlemen as inspectors of votes, in the event of a ballot being required—four to be appointed by the rate payers and four by the Churchwardens. A RATE-PAYER proposed Mr. Morris. Mr. MORRIS begged to decline. He did not wi s h t o h ave anything to do with parochial matters. The CHAIRMAN said if the preliminary business was not got through, it would be impossible for them to proceed. Messrs. Houlton, Smith, Hanson, and Arbcr were then nominated by the rate-payers, and Messrs. Barclay, Baker, Smith, and Gooch by the Churchwardens. The names of the 31 Vestrymen who were to go out in ro tation having been read, Mr. ARBER proposed that these gentlemen be re-appointed, with the exception of five. He thought they were entitled to this compliment from the manner in which they had discharged their duty. Two were dead, Mr. Snodgrass and Mr. Went worth, and in their room he would propose Mr. E wart, the Member for Liverpool and the Marquis of Breadaihane. He was not authorized to name these gentlemen, but last year they had expressed their willingness to serve if they were qualified. Mr. Thomas Dun com b e h av i ng remove d f rom t h e parish was not now qualified, and in his room he would pro pose Sir C. H. Tracy, the Member for Tewkesbury. The fourth name was Sir George Warrender, who had been out of town for the last two years, and to his ( Mr. A.'s) certain knowledge was not likely to return for a considerable time. In his room he would propose the Hon. Robert Clive. There were two tradesmen, Messrs. Duttereau and Ball, who were anxious to retire, and in their room he would propose Mr. Nash and Mr. Stewart. The motion having been seconded by a Rate-payer, The CHAIRMAN felt great pleasure in submitting this propo sition to the meeting, as the Vestry had not made up any list, but left it entirely to the decision of the rate-payers. He wa!: sure that the Vestry would be extremely gratified by the com pliment which he certainly thought they had merited, and which had been paid to them, for the manner in which they had per formed their duties. He hoped, as Mr. Arbor had not nomi nated himself, some other gentleman would pay him the com pliment of nominating him. Mr. ARBER begged to decline the intended honour. The following list was then put to the show of hands, and carried unanimously : Hon. George Vernon, Thomas Wilson, Esq., Henry Noel Turner, Wm. Ewart, Esq., M.P., Mr. Thos. Cundy, Charles de Coetlogon, Esq., Mr. John Aitkins, Mr. Thomas Pos tans, Right Honourable Geor ge R o b ert Dawson, Edvirard John Stanley, Esq., John Frederick Pinny, Esq., Mr. John Gunter, Mr. John James Thornhill, Mr. John Smith, Mr. Stewart, Thomas Bilcliffe Fyler, Esq. Mr. Thomas Hodg kinson, Mr. Bynan Wilkinson, Mr. Charles Edward Clarke, Mr. John Leslie, the Hon. Robert Clive, Mr. William Gib lett, General Gascoyne, Mr. Nash, Mr. Giles Recineayne, Mr. Harry Phillips, Mr. Steven Lewis, Mr. William Gos lett, Sir C. H. Tracy, M P., Mr Thomas Gill, Mr. John Godlicut, Mr. Wright Ingle. The CHAIRMAN said the next duty they had to perform was the appointment of five auditors of accounts for the ensuing year. Mr. LESLIE knew a gentleman who was very willing to serve, viz., F. Beale, of Regent-street, but being a vestryman he was unwilling to propose him. Mr. MORRIS begged here to propose Mr. Beale as one of their auditors.—( Cheers.) In the room of Mr. T. Senior, of Bruton-street, deceased, W. Bailey, of Mount-street, was proposed, and the following list was then unanimously carried. Mr. Joseph Cornell, Mr. Thomas Metcalfe, Mr. Thomas Record, Mr. F. Beale, Mr. Bailey. TREATMENT OF PAUPERS. Mr. HARRIS would take the liberty of addressing a few words, and would preface his observations by craving their in dulgence, unused as he was to address public meetings, and consequently required favour. Doting the last two years there had been various rumours in the parish—he would not say they were founded in fact—that the paupers were not sufficiently provided with food. It was said that he brought forward this business as a factious means of opposing the election of those gentlemen who were now re-elected. We had no such in tention, and he did not conceive that there was any thing in his conduct to justify such an imputation. The cause he was about to advocate was the cause of humanity merely.—( Hear, hear.) It had been rumoured that the paupers of this parish were not so well treated as in other parishes, and he had, in consequence, made inquiries in other parishes as to the manner in which they treated their paupers. He had obtained a re turn from five parishes in Westminster, of the quantity of food allowed to those who were actively employed. It the meeting would permit him, he would read it. The speaker then made a long statement of the various sorts and quan tities of food received in those various parishes, showing that that received in this parish was less in quantity and quality than in any of the others, and of course cost less to the parish. The paupers of this parish had three meat days a week—with these days he found no fault ; but when he came to analyze the soup given on other days, he was obliged to complain. It appeared from the statements made in a pamphlet published by one of the vestrymen, that from the allowance of legs and shins of beef for the whole year, there were 321bs. made into soup for one person, and by his calculations he found that from the bones, &c., there was only one ounce contained in the picot of soup allowed for one meal—it was certainly thickened with peas, but after all it did not amount to two ounces of solids, which he certainly did not think was at all sufficient. In the 13th and 14th pages of the pamphlet to which he had alluded, that for the Master's Table, there was an allowance of 91-lbs. of meat a week for thirteen individuals, which gave 14 ounces a day for each person, after making every allowance for bone and loss by cooking—he thought that was certainly a very great quantity of provisions for that particular department. He was very sorry that the matter had not fallen into other and better hands, but he had felt it a duty he owed to his poor fellow parishioners to bring the matter forward.—( Hear, hear.) An other circumstance had struck him very forcibly. In the pamphlet he found it stated that the medical opinions were, that the health of the poor in the workhouse had never been in a better state. Now he would wish to ask whether an opi nion of a very different kind had been given, and whether that opinion had not been much abroad during the last few months. Lord EUSTON said he could say that it was the prevailing opinion in the Vestry. Another opinion had been given—it was examined into, and found to be entirely erroneous. He had himself been over the workhouse, and found it perfectly sweet and clean. Any one of the rate-payers were at perfect liberty to examine for themselves. He must take that oppor tunity of stating that, in his opinion, the discussion was very much out of order. A long discussion on the point of order ensued, many of the Vestrymen expressing their anxiety to have the charges inquired into in the most full manner. Mr. HARRIS resamed.—lt was stated the first year after Sir John Hobhouse's Act, that great waste and profusion had taken place in the workhouses of this parish, amounting to 19,6601b5. of meat, upwards of 16,0001b5. of bread, and 5,4451b5. of cheese. This waste must have been occasioned by endea vouring to supply the shortness and deficiency of the food af forded to the paupers, and all in twelve months. This it was which had first induced him (Mr. Harris) to take up the cause of the poor. He had, therefore, proposed something which, if the rate-payers present approved, it was in their power to recommend—it was to propose a revision of the present dietary, and substitute another in its stead. He would propose instead of having three meat days in the week to have four —and instead of three soup days to have one for pudding, one for meat, and only one for soup. The change would be a substitution of solids for lipids, which he contended were not snfficient to sustain an actively employed mar. He did not advocate the cause of the lazy idle vagabonds who infested the workhouses, but the honest working men who had been com pelled by distress to seek assistance.—( Hear, hear.) The quantity would then be for an actively employed man, bread 51b. 50z., meat 200 z., vegetables 21bs., rice pudding 140 z., soup 11 pints, broth 4 pints, and beer 6 pints weekly, for he did consider it absolutely essential that the paupers should have a little beer.—( Hear, hear.) At one time beer was allowed to the paupers, but they might guess what it was when the price of 36 gallons was only 4s.—( Hear.) If the vestry did not get it good, why had they not applied elsewhere ? He would classify his dietary as follows :—To the actively em ployed man he would give 101 b. 9oz. of solids, and 8 quarts lf pints liquids—to those not actively employed 81bs. solids, and a better supply of liquids, such as gruel, &c.--To the incorrigible, lazy, and badly conducted, bread and gruel for breakfast, bread and cheese for dinner, and bread and water for supper, fihiEli lid thought Yicitild be Vite it sufficient pu nishment, and would bring them to better manners. He did not mean by this proposition to attach censure to any indivi dual, and would conclude by moving the following resolution —" That this meeting is of opinion that the amount of pro visions supplied to the paupers iirida tlid head, of general dietary, is generally inadequate to their physical wants, And that we recommend a revision thereof agreeably to the an nexed table."—( Hear.) The resolution having been seconded, The CHAIRMAN observed that lie had at first thought that the proposition of Mr. Harris to address the ineeting was irre gular, and the resolution which he had now proposed seemed to him decidedly irregular.—( Hear, hear.) In the first place it would most certainly introduce division in the parish, and in the second, it would be impossible for the vestry to vote against their own act, and thereby cast a censure on them selves. If a resolution were brought forward recommending an inquiry into the matter by the new vestry, he thought that would be much more judicious.—( Hear. ) A Rate-payer observed that the object of the resolution was to recommend a revision of the dietary. The CHAIRMAN would support any resolution recommending the vestry to inquire into the matter, but he thought the pre sent objectionable. Mr. Ha nais—Unless we show that the quantity of provisions is inadequate, how can we bring forward such a recommendation ? Mr. DoNovAs, of Hereford-street, May-fair, was of opinion that if this resolution was proceeded in it would lead to division in the parish. He spoke merely as a rate-payer, and he dissented entirely from the propriety of putting such a motion. Even if they were convinced that the delay was insufficient, it would be im possible for a meeting casually assembled to find fault with what the vestry had found sufficient. He would support the resolution if Mr. Harris would alter it as proposed by the Chairman.—(Cries of " It is only a recommendation.") He contended that it 7 ,was not, and if it was put in the present form he would most decidedly vote against it. He was the advocate of enquiry, because whatever tended to stop enquiry. where suspicion existed, was calculated to do infinite mischief.—( Hear. ) Mr. LESLIE hoped the meeting would allow him to offer a few observations, as he had been alluded to. He would appeal to their good sense, by merely stating facts, and he would then leave them to draw their own inferences. They must be all aware that they stood in a very different position to what they did last year, both as regarded the amount of rates paid, and the amount of pauperism. 'lie question before them was one of great moment in the admi nistration of the poor laws. A small increase in the amount of food might be suggested from motives of humanity, but its positive result would be, to brink into the workhouse hundreds of paupers, who were determined to live on the honest industry of the people. Among all their enquiries, the Vestry had bestowed upon none so much care and attention as that under discussion. They had found aie workhouses crowded to excess, and the streets also crowded. There were six or seven hundred families living entirely on the in dustry of the people, in idleness. Such was the case three years ago. Now they had five hundred beds and ward rooms empty. — (Cheers.) He might be told that this had been done by starving the poor, and saving the money of the rate payers, but this as a mem ber of the poor Board, he denied.—(Hear.) They had exerted themselves more for the pauper than the rate payer ; and the proof was, that 1,200 were now beneficially employed and supported by honest industry, who, two years ago, were supported by the rate payers.—( Applau se .) He would ask Mr. llarris, had he been in the workhouses of St. George, Hanover-square ?—( Mr. Harris replied in the negative.) Then he (Mr. Leslie) had been there almost every day, and knew that the paupers were properly taken care of. He had always attended to their interests to the best of his power, and even during the time of cholera he had done so.— ( Hear, hear.) He was sure the other members of the Board were also most attentive to their duties, and yet Mr. llarris came to pass a vote of condemnation upon them, without ascertaining what had been the result of their labours. Three years ago they had 950 in door poor ; they had now something short of 700.—(Hear. ) Previous to their coming into office, two years ago, it was stated that the poor had increased over 100 in six months, and that it re quired an additional levy of 4,0001. to meet the distress out of doors. Up to Lady-day 1833, both in-door and out-door pauperism in creased, and 16,7501. were given away in out-door relief. To whom? No one could tell. That was not the case now. The reduction of an expenditure of 60,0001. to 8001., and which could still be reduced, was a matter of importance and gratification ; but still they were able to provide clean lodgings, good food, and comforts of every kind, but beer and tobacco were excluded, and the consequence was, that they had not now a single able bodied man in either workhouse. —(Hear. ) The Committee discussed the question whether beer should be allowed even to the domestic servants, but as they had extra diet and were allowed en couragement money, it was unanimously resolved that beer should not be allowed. The beer that had been allowed cost 4s. 6d. per barrel, that is about lid. for each pauper, which the Board considered an useless expenditure ; but very good beer was kept in the house to be allowed under medical advice. The diet table was six or seven weeks under discussion, and Mr. Hulsham, a medical gentleman, declared that dietary to be both adequate and judicious. Sir. Harris had made an attack upon the soup, but he had made a wrong calculation ; he had not allowed for the children who did not have soup — Mr. Ha RR IS—I did exclude the children from my calculation. Mr. LESLIE—WeII, this was soup day, and the better way would to taste it at once.--( Hear and laughter.) Sir. Harris, who ths..workhou,se., ought to have visited it, and taken the evidence. ft s the distress which was said to exist ofin his senses upon ovired parishes that were about to adoptveis e l s n 4-4 ew upwards s di et table,v h which cont.,ned no less a quantity than former diet tables, but the quality • Infinitely superior.— I l iZcar w ek , of 6,000 per sonsH e a o r o . t) of 'N I, : h o r e k n , . o h o e t y s k o n p p e Vit o ' r t t e h d a tbtyh there e e p w ar e r i e s h i: 'fonder tbsr they did not hear more complaints. A basin of the soup was here brought into the meeting ; several gentlemen tasted it, and declared it to be excellent. Mr. GRILLON, the hotel-keeper, said he did not give better to his servants. Mr. LESLIE hoped that Mr. Harris would withdraw his motion. G. R. PHILLIPS, Esq., M.P. for Kidderminster, advised him to pursue the same course, and to obtain more information upon the subject. . . . . Mr. s honnisost also recommended the withdrawal of the mo tion. He thought the best test was an inspection of the work house; but he found that some rate-payers had been refused. He could assure the meeting that he had seen persons enter the workhouse in the most squalid condition, and in a few weeks the diet produced a most extraordinary alteration for the better in their appearance. He deplored excitement, and hoped it would not prevail again as it did last week, when he was actually insulted while walking the street be cause he was supposed to hold certain opinions. Now, the calm, good sense of an Englishman would always bring him right in the end, and he did hope that a better feeling would in future be manifested by all parties.—(Hear, bear. ) The pamphlet (published by Mr. Leslie) seemed to imply that the dietary table applied to all the inmates ; he hoped that some regard would be paid to respectable individuals and rate-payers brought to beggary not by their own misconduct, but by the fault of our insti tutions.—( Hear. ) He concluded by repeating his request to Mr. Harris to withdraw his motion.—( Hear. ) Mr. Rain could scarcely conceive, after the manner in which the rate-payers had re-elected their officers, that they could pass any re solution that could throw censure upon them. He therefore hoped that the resolution would be withdrawn. He thought the vestry had not only increased the comforts of the poor, and added to the comforts of the rate-payers, whilst they raised the moral tone of the pauper. There was one point on which he differed from the ves try, and that was the treatment, as to diet, of aged paupers. When the poor man was descending into the grave, he received a crust of bread and cheese and water.—(Mr. Leslie—it is not so.) He knew that when the medical men recommended beer to be given to the poor, it was given, but he would ask whether the aged poor with no other disease than that of age received sufficient sustenance. Mr. LESLIE—In the opinion of the medical men, it was quite sufficient and judicious in its application. Mr. RElD—That is not sufficient, one opinion might be met by another. Mr. LESLIE—Has the Hon. Gentleman been ever over the workhouse? Mr. REID—I confess I have not. Mr. LESLIE — Then the Hon. Gentleman will not do his duty, if he does not take the first opportunity of doing so. He would find things so different, in every particular, as to the diet of the sick and infirm, as to induce him to change his opinion. It was a mat ter of the highest gratification to know, that in the present popu lation of the workhouse, there was scarcely six persons who were rate-payers of the parish.---(Hear, hear.) And when they consi dered that the remaining ninety-four gained their settlement by renting 4s. per week, or by servitude, it was highly to the credit of the ratelayers.--(Hear, hear. ) Mr. HARRIS then replied—He was much gratified with the reduc tion in the rates, but when they heard rumours of the poor being unprovided for, he considered it was the duty of some one to ask for information on the subject, and if the answers which he had elicited had put an end to any one of these rumours, he was per fectly satisfied. He had brought forward the question with the best of motives--(Cheers)—and as he saw the feeling of the meet ing was in favour of the withdrawal of the Resolution, he wouid at once do so. —( Cheers. ) Sir W. FREMANTLE said, that as an individual he must return his thanks to Mr. Harris for the manner in which he had acted. No one ever went into the workhouse who left it without being perfectly satisfied—one of the most humane men in the country, the Duke of Richmond, in consequence of the reports which were abroad, went unknown to the workhouse, and expressed himself perfectly satisfied. Mr. LESLIE, in corroboration of that statement, had to state that the whole of the 49 parishes of Sussex—the union of the parishes—had determined to adopt their dietary. A vote of th an k s to Mr. Leslie was suggested for his pamphlet, by Mr. Do novan , b u t as t h ere i s a su b scr i pt i on go i ng f orwar d f or the purpos e o f presenting him a piece of plate, it was not persisted in. Thanks were then voted to the Noble Chairman and the meeting adjourned. THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.) BEN MARKET. is morning's market, but the trade s. d to s d. Spinach (half sieve) 6 6 0 (.) Apples 2 0 5 0 Gooseberries Cabbage Lettuces 0 6 1 0 Onions 1 0 2 0 Sweet Oranges(loo) Seville Oranges 9 0 16 C Lemons 8 0 16 0 Asparagus French Beans 1 0 2 6 Span. Chesnuts (peck) 4 0 6 0 French ditto '3 0 4 0 Spanish tlazienuts 4 I) 6 0 Brazilian Nuts 2 0 4 0 For. G rapes (per lb.) 0 8 " English, Forced . I'ine Apples (lb.) New Potatoes 0 9 n 0 Cherries gt;;;;b — erries (oz.) COVENT GAR. There was a good supply to thi: ;vas dull at nearly last week's prie! TS: -- . s. d. to s: d. Potat,cs (cwt.) Ca' .bages, White (12) 0 9 1 6 Endive 0 9 1 6 ar•rse 11aclish(bundle) 1 6 2 6 3rocoli 0 4 0 9 Celery Rhubarb 0 6 1 3 Carrots ,121),inches) 3 0 6() I:',:rni- o Coleworts or Greens 1 6 3 0 Young Onions turnip Itaddishes II 9 1 (1 Le....i.1s • 1 0 1 6 Mushrooms (pummel) 0 9 1 0 Sya Kail 0 9 1 6' Small Sallad Itaddishe s (12 hands) 0 2 0 4 Cos Lettuces (per score) 1 0 161 (,reen Pease (quart) :l0 0 25 0 Cucumbers (each) HAY MARKETS.-(A CUMBE: Cons , heavy Lowland Meadow Hay C 1 5 to .£4 1( Tew I'vleadoW Hay 0 0 0 0 Useful OM Ditto Fine Upland :Meadow and Rye grass Hay Clover H a .• ;at Straw. ..., ......S2 oto f2____4_i Whea!Straw 2 6 2 S .t per Load of 36 Trusses. ) BLAND. SMITHFIELD - - Coar,e heavy Lowland Meadow Hay .... .::.4 0 t... XI I N . cw Meadow flay .................. . .............. ..........—........ 0 0 0 0 Use.f;d Old liitto 4 10 5 0 Fine Upland Me.tdow and Ilye-grass Hay Clover Hay :extra. fine ......t 60 . Generally ~ ~, .., 410 515 Oat Straw ...... .. ,2 0. ..4:2 2 • Wheat Straw ... ...... ~. 2 4 2 5 Lord and Lady Vernon, in his Lordship's yacht the Harlequin, have sailed on a voyage for the summer. On the sth inst. the Harlequin left Lisbon for Gibraltar. • • - -' COURT CIRCULAR. Yesterday was the anniversary of the birth-day of the Land gravine of Hesse Homburg. The Duchess of Gloucester visited the Landgravine at St. James's yesterday morning. At half-past twelve o'clock her Royal Highness, accompanied by the Princess Augusta, left town in a carriage and four for the Queen's Lodge, in Bushey-park, to meet their Majesties on their arrival from Windsor Castle. Miss Wynyard and Mademoiselle Styne (in waiting on their Royal Highnesses) followed in another carriage and four. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by Prince George and the Princes., Augusta of Cambridge, left Cambridge House shortly before one o'clock for Bushey-park. The Duke of Cumberland also left his residence at Kew to join their Majesties and the Royal party at the Queen's Lodge. The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria were at the concert of Mrs. Anderson yesterday morning, at the Hanover square Rooms, Mrs. Anderson being one of the Princess's instructors in music. Their Royal Highnesses were attended by a large suite. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George, and the Princess Augusta, attended by Baroness Ahlefeldt, Cup tain Hay, and Captain Knesebeck, honoured the performance at the King's Theatre on Thursday evening with their presence. A deputation, including Mr. Wilson Patten, Mr. T. Black burne, and Mr. Bootle Wilbraham, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, on the glass duties. Captain Pelly, Deputy Master of the Trinity House, and Mr. Dean, Chairman of the Commissioners of Customs, had interviews yesterday with the Right Hon. Poulett Thomson, at the office of the Board of Trade. The French Ambassador, the Belgic Minister, and Earl Granville, visited Viscount Palmerston yesterday, at the Fo reign-office. The Earls of Lichfield and Harewood had interviews yester day with Viscount Melbourne, in Downing-street. The Lords of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yesterday in the Council Chamber. The appeal " Malek Baboo Meyan v. Strevi Waleeb Nagardas," from Bombay, was concluded. Messrs. Miller and James Wigram were heard in support of the appeal " Pranjeiveen Dyavan v. Keslimedas Mulook Cluind," from Bombay. Mr. Serjeant Spankie and Mr. Lloyd replied for the respondents. Their Lordships dis mised the appeal. The Court then adjourned. WINDSOR. Their Majesties did not return to the Castle till late on Wednesday evening. On Thursday the King and Queen took their accustomed airings in the Great Park and Forest drives. Yesterday morning their Majesties left the Castle for Bushey park, to meet the Landgravine of Hesse Homburg and the members of the Royal Family assembled in honour of the Land gravine's natal day. Their Majesties and the Royal party dined at the Queen's Lodge. VAUXHALL GARDEN S. This delightful place of summer resort was opened last night for the season, and was attended by a respectable, and, consi dering the louring character of the evening, a numerous assemblage of people. Considerable improvements have been made, during the recess, in almost every quarter of the Gardens. The Rotunda has been newly decorated, hung with drapery, and lighted by a splendid new chandelier. The illuminations were brilliant and appropriate, particularly the " Welcome." In the Rotunda theatre, the three hunters of the Styrian mountains, Helwig, Meinfahet, and Melk, from the Austrian Court, made their first appearance, and performed several appropriate pieces, vocal and instrumental. The air, " Pria the l'impegna," so frequently performed by Paganini, was very beautifully executed by one of the hunters upon a pipe of peculiar construction, having only four vents. The dioramic scenes, painted by Mr. Cocks, consist of views of Dover and Calais, the former by moonlight, and the latter with the effect of sunrise, from sketches taken upon the spot ; Amsterdam, the Stadthouse-basin, with shipping, trickschuyts, &c., Hermitage, Napoleon, a group of soldiers at the siege of Antwerp, and representations of the Apollo Belvidere, and the Gladiator after Canova, which were most remarkable for accurate drawing. The concert consisted of songs, per formed principally by Misses James, Paget, and Bardole, and glees, by Horncastle, Mears, and Bedford, which were well received. The imitations of several performers by Mr. Buckingham, were greeted with merited applause. The last scene, entitled Fite of Versailles, consisted of three tableaux. The tirst was the Batas of Apollo, with a group of statuary, representing Apollo, attended by the Nymphs, about to enter the bath, composed of living figures. The second represented a colonnade in the gardens, decorated with flags, and silver dolphins, from which real water was discharged. The third tableau exhibited a perspective line of fountains, with the Pa lace of Versailles illuminated in the distance, and Neptune anj his attendants mounted on a splendid car. This scene further decorated with fountains, and a discharge 31 e ..c s r ao r n k s s . equal to any display we . have witnessed joie reat attrac- The unappr „,,i,e oachable of the men— e admiration _'the of lion.-``_ mum women. We never saw him bow in more faultless style, or smile with more honied sweetness. He looks quite as young, as when he took prisoner the Count de Grasse, and vanquished the French fleet, i 3 the glorious days of Rodney.— Floreat sternum CHURCH RATES. CASE OF MR JOHN CHILDS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,-Time was, when the interested Aristocracy to whom Henry the Eighth and his successors gave the plunder and spoil of the Catholic Church were able to work upon the ignorance and therefore upon the fears of the people, by shouting " No POPERY," and thus to make them tools for saddling themselves with plethoric priests and a crushing establishment. • Time was when public distress existed, produced by wicked wars and absurd and unequal laws—that the right divine au thors of the wrong could induce the people to pull down ba ker's houses, instead of looking to the authors of the misery and the boroughmongering law-makers. the tools of the Court and the Aristocrats. Time was when the people blindly thought they had an interest in the Church Establishment. Time was when the cry of the " Church is in danger" made the people think they should suffer if it fell. Time was when Tory priests could induce an ignorant " Church and King mob" to destroy the house and library of a philosopher, and compel him to fly his country, because he wel comed the first dawn of those principles of political liberty which received their advent amidst the throes of the French Revolution. But thanks to the spread of knowledge— thanks to the energy and activity of men like your self, the time is come when aristocracy and priestcraft, in all their selfishness and bitterness, stand exposed before the people ; and we behold as at Newhall-hill, the peaceable but mighty union of the masses who, by their quiet firmness in the prosecution of a great moral purpose, produced, on nearly the same spot from which Priestley had been hunted in the day of the people's darkness, that " pressure from without , ' which sealed the downfull of Tory dominancy, and has made them ever since chaunt the dirge of " the right divine to govern wrong." The time is come, and the people now know that the cry of the " Church is in danger," means not that religion is in danger, but that priestcraft, tithes, church-rates, spiritual persecution, and clerical magistrates, are in danger—that the political church is in danger—that that cry is made in the spirit of the Ephesian silversmiths, when they shouted in the ears of Paul, " Great is Diana of the Ephesians." The case of Mr. Childs is an instance amongst the many in stances of the progress of religious and political knowledge, since the days of the Gordon riots and the Church and King mobs, and of the progress of passive resistance, against which you wisely warn the slow sailing Whigs. The feeling against compulsory contributions to one sect of religionists from another, who think differently, has long been extensively and quietly progressing in Suffolk and Norfolk. In October last, warrants were issued against the goods of several of the rated inhabitants of Bungay, whose perceptions were not clear enough to see the duty of falling down and worshipping the image which our Henry the Eighth, of pious memory—like another Nebuchadnezzar—had set up. A Mr. Morris of that town chose not to resist the law—be that always borne in mind—but to allow his goods to be seized and sold, which is a constitutional and a most effectual way of getting a bad law repealed, by showing its true features in all their deformity. B e it known unto thee, Gripe-all and Co., said Mr. Morris and his friends, amongst whom was our valued friend John Childs, that we will not worship the golden image which thou hast set up. Whereupon Mr. Morris's goods were seized ; but Gripe-all and Co.. could with difficulty find any one to buy them. After some difficulty, a buyer was found ; but the state of social misery into which the poor man was brought, by touching " the unclean thing," is strikingly evi denced by the following humble apology, which he issued as a peace-offering to his neighbours : I, Robert More, grocer, desire publicly to express my deep and unfeigned regret that I should have thoughtlessly suffered myself to to be inveigled into the purchase of Mr. Morris's goods, which had been distramed for Church-rates. This was effected only by a represen tation that another person was waiting on my refusal to take them at the price asked, which was much below their value. I do not think I can better express my sense of my unfortunate error, than by publicly offering the best reparation in my power, and request ing Mr. Morris to accept his goods, and I have some satisfaction in being able to restore them to him uninjured and entire. (Signed) ROBERT MORE. Bungay, November 2, 1833. And they were restored publicly and by a peaceable pro cession. The placard and the procession, so strikingly evidenced the strong and deep feeling of the people, and their good sense in confining themselves to peaceable and passive re sistance, that the craftsmen held a council together, and though the speeches of the members of the Conclave have not been reported, what they have done shows us it is but reason able to suppose, that the 19th chapter of the Acts, commencing at the 23d verse, would supply a substantially accurate report of the very Christianlike and disinterested sentiments of these modern silversmiths. There is, from the treatment Mr. Childs has received at their hands, reason for thinking, that it was said of him, as it was said of Paul in a similar case— Moreover,ye see and hear,th at not alode at Bun gay,but at Beccles and almost throughout all Suffolk, this John hath persuaded and turned away much people saying, that they be no altars that are raised by acts of parliament, and supported by exactions " so that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought ; but also that the temple of the Greet Goddess Diana should be despised and her MAGNIFICENCE should be destroyed. And thereupon, the item necessary for the repairing, supporting, and cleaning of the Shrine, and of chaunting its service, was commanded to be read. And it was resolved that it was holy, just and proper, that Heretics should be made to support the Saints, and that it wa desirable that the saying " It is more blessed to give thin to receive" should be taught to the people, and that the practice of the saying should be enforced upon them ; for that other wise the people might in their simplicity suppose, that this. saying was meant to be observed by the teachers instead of the taught—the priests instead of the people. Now, we do not pretend to have heard the debate in the conclave, but we do know that the facts in the case of Mr. Childs, and the treatment which he has received, in this day, from those who. live by the Shrines raised by Henry the VIII., of pious me mory, is precisely similar to that experienced by the Apostl from the craftsmen at Ephesus. In my next, the history shall progress, and the acts of the craftsmen make their appearance in due order. ZENAS. PRIVY COUNCIL.-(THIS DAY.) The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat to-day at the Council Chamber, Whitehall. The Lords present were the Lord President, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord Brougham, the Vice-Chancellor, Mr. Baron Parke, and the Chief Judge of the Bankruptcy Court. SWIFT V. KELLY, OTHERWISE SWIFT. This was an appeal from the decision of the Arches Court, declaring the marriage of the appellant with the respondent null and void. The facts of the case were as follows :—lti , the year 1830 Mr. Swift, and his mother, the Countess of More land, were at Florence, where they became intimate with Mrs. Kelly and her daughter. The consequence of the acquaintance produced an attachment between Miss Kelly, then twenty years of age, and the appellant. That attachment, at the re quest of Miss Kelly, was concealed from the parents of both parties ; but a secret marriage was proposed by the appellant to Miss Kelly, with a request that she would seriously cota.-- sider the proposal before she gave an answer. Miss Kelly promised to give the appellant an answer in a week, observing that if she did not do so within that time, he must not look cross. In a short time afterwards Miss Kelly returned an an swer, in which she promised to marry the appellant. In con-- sequence of this promise the appellant took measures . for the purpose of effecting a private marriage, but during their stay at Florence it could not be accomplished. In February of the same year, Mrs. Kelly and her daughter, and also tiva appellant and his mother, left Fiorence together for Rome ; 01A their arrival there they took apartments at the Hotel Della: Gran Bretagne, and the attachment which had been formed: between the appellant and Miss Kelly continuing, that lady consented to his making a proposal of marriage to her mother. The appellant wrote a letter to Mrs. Kelly, requesting per mission to pay his addresses to her daughter, and in answer to that letter he received one from respondent's mother, declining his proposals, but at the same time expressing her sense of the gentleman-like conduct he had a d o pt e d, an d t h e regret s h e should feel if the friendly intercourse subsisting between the two families should be interrupted. The appellant having communicated to Miss Kelly the contents of her mother's note, she observed, that her mother's objections were trivial ones ; that she was ashamed to say they were so, but that she did not despair, at the same time ac.vising him to write again. The appellant again wrote to Mrs. Kelly, who, in answer, stated that she could not say more on the subject then she had for merly done. In consequence of this, the appellant and Miss Kelly determined to be privately married, and for this purpose they applied to the Abbe de Sair, an ecclesiastic of the Roman Church, who informed them that there would be no difficulty in the celebration of the marriage, provided the parties would abjure the Protestant religion and become Ca tholics. Miss Kelly consented to the abjuration, and a peti tion was presented to the Holy Office, to which answers were received from the Father, Commissary, and the Cardinal Vicar, bearing the approbation of the Pope to the abjuration and the marriage. The Cardinal Vicar, in consequence thereof, granted his authority to the Abbe Ludovico Lepri to receive the abjuration of the appellant and Miss Kelly. On the 24th of March, 1830, Mr. Swift and Miss Kelly abjured the Protestant religion and became members of the Roman Catholic Church, and on the evening of the following day, their marriage was solemnized by tlr -- Abbe Lepri. After the event the appellant and Mis! t r-- (then Mrs. Swift) carried on a clandestine intercosi. A T.l: known to the mother of Mr. Swift. On the jg e " M. e and her daughr leßome for liant, es' previous torslosin whic K h lley te Mrs. Swift wrote a note to the a kin ormin him tlfa a t l ock of her hair, calling herself his wife,..e. at ' the Hotel Vittoria her mother meant to stay at Na p l i n o - ther arrived at Naples, the Shortly after Mrs. Swift and appellant, who had followed i e d h i m liter appellant, received a note from her little l, a nd Mrs. Swift, in which s w eet soul, entreated of him to away as soon as he got the note, as suring him that s i7o - uld see him the next night, but not I(be fore twelve . S!:e also stated in that letter, that they were s , ol eep, sal remove to the Esterhazy Palace, and that, if slit!. he should throw a pebble at the window, to give , ‘. .' - ,.!ittice that he was there. On the 21st of April Mr. Swift wrote a letter to Mrs. Kelly, informing her of his marriage with her daughter, and of the reasons which had induced th em t o h ave it solemnized in private. Mrs. Kelly being adverse to the mar riage, instituted a suit in the Ecclesiastical Court to set it aside ; and after that suit had been fully heard in the Eccle siastical Court, judgment was given, annulling the marriage, and condemning the appellant to pay the costs. From that decision the present appeal was brought. Mr. PEMBERTON, with whom was Dr. Pifinnimoita on behalf of the appellant, contended that if the abjuration was a legal act, the marriage, to all intents and purposes, was valid. The case, which is one of great importance, and seems to excite considerable interest, appears likely to occupy a considerable time. Sir Charles Wetherell and Dr. Lushington are Couniel for the respondent. SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, MAY 22.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Fox, Chever- Icy, from Canton—sailed Feb. 1 ; Chaser, Ritchie, from Ha vannah ; Posthumous, Rivington, from Demerara ; Waterlily, Ritchie, from Havannah.—Remain for orders, the SUccess, Wheeler, from Stockton ; Reform, Bun; Stockton to Wey mouth ; New Ann, Kelly, Stockton to Exeter ; Alfred, Mills, \Visbeach to Liverpool.—Arrived from the River and sailed, the Lernia, Dale, for Guernsey ; Ranger, Smith; for Belfast. —Remain, the Black River Packet, Wright, for Jamaica; and Friendship, Rundell, for St. Domingo. PORTSMOUTH,MAT 22.—Wind N. E. to W., fine. HASTINGS, MAY 22.—Arrived off port, the Olympus, Cowl, from Ceylon. POOLE, MAY 22.—Arrived the Resolution, Meinckc, Memel. DARTMOUTH, MAT 22. —Arrived off port, the Slakesby, Doutby, from Manilla. PENZAN'Cii MAY 21. —Arrived the Towan, Cundey, from Gottenburg. LIVERPOOL, MAT 21.—Arrived off port, the Chandos, from Jamaica. HULL, MAY 21.—Arrived the Rhine, Thompson, from Pil lau ; Frau Christine, Miers, from Keil ; Frau Antje, Albers, from Griefswald. HUMBER, MAY 21.—Arrived the Milton, Meggett, Riga. BRISTOL, MAY 22.—Sailed the William Rogers, Crawford, for Bombay. CORK, MAY 20.—Sailed the James M'lnroy, Cleland, for Batavia and China. (PIZOM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PLYMOUTH, TIICIODAY EVENING, MAY 21.—Tho Arachnc, 16, Commander James Burney, which arrived in Plymouth Sound on Sunday evening ast from Portsmouth, has since gone up harbour, and will be paij off in a few days. The ship's company were exercised at the great guns on Tuesday, in the presence of the Captain of the San-Josef, the flag ship at this port. The Nimrod, 18, Captain M.Dougal, and the Leveret, 10, Lieutenant Trail, were paid off on Tuesday last. The former vessel was unmasted on Monday—neither the fittings or bulkheads of these vessels are, it is said, to be disturbed ; the probability, therefore is, that they will shortly be re-com missioned. The General Hewitt, freight ship of 960 tons burden, is expected to arrive here from the River, in order to embark a . detachment of the 66th Regiment, destined for Quebec. The Champion, Commander Fair, is, we understand, to proceed hence to Jamaica with the " Fountain" tank vessel, which has been fitted expressly for that place. There is no truth in the report, that it is intended to with draw Sir William Gage from the command in the Tagus. By letters received here from his Majesty's frigantine For rester, Lieut. George Gover Mial, we learn that on the 23d day of February last, she captured in the Bony river, after a chase of six hours, the Spanish brigantine, El Manuel, having on board 396 slaves, consisting of men, women, and children. The latter vessel was taken into Sierra Leone. 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