The Sun. — London, England, 1835-04-25 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. It is no reproach to Lord John Russell that he may not be sufficiently wealthy to bear at his own cost successive contests for a seat in Parliament ; or, if he were, that he should decline crippling his future means by such a kind of outlay. But it does, we think, no credit to the Whigs as a party, or to the Noble House of Russell as the head of it, that they should allow a begging-box to go round for the purpose of soliciting solitary shillings from their Radical allies. Still less creditable is it to the Whigs to hand over the whole affair to the Radicals, for such seems to have been the case at the " ways and means" meeting on 'Wednesday, at which not a single Whig of any note is stated to have attended, or to have sent a single sove reign, or even shilling, towards the good cause. In one sense, to be sure, there may on the one hand be a degree of justice in this, which is not so obvious on the other ; for he must be blind, indeed, who does not perceive that the game which Lord John Russell has been playing, and the partial success of which has placed him in his present position, is much more that of the Radical than of any class of the community, be they Whigs, or what not, who are interested in the preservation of existing institutions ; and it would be worse than folly were the greatest holder of what Mr. Burke emphatically pronounces to be " the plunder of the Church" to contribute any portion of its present revenues to an object, one of the ultimate, if not first, results of which must be the restoration to their pri mary objects of all those grants to which we allude. If the surplus revenues of the Protestant Church, either in Ireland or England—for they are one—are to be appropriated to the re-establishment and ad vancement of Popery, surely even-handed justice will not be long in reclaiming and appropriating to the same pious uses those enormous grants of Church property which are now vested in so many lay hands. Well then may the most influential among the Whigs, well may the head of the house of Russell itself, shrink from opening their purse-strings to such an object. But then why court the paradox—why solicit the aid which this begging-box project implies ? Why accept the pay of those whose work the Whig leader, it is to be hoped, cannot seriously mean to perform ? The dilemma which it involves is an awkward one, which the com monest foresight would avoid. The time must come, and probably is not far distant, when the Whigs must disclaim, as they last year did, the motives, the asso ciation, and the influence which are now, as then, im puted to them. But with what colour of common honesty or fair dealing will Lord John Russell, if re turned to Parliament by the shillings of the Radicals, cast off the masters whose livery and whose wages he consents to take ? At any rate he must, we imagine, deeply lament that in the great measure of Parliamen tary Reform, with which his name is so honourably associated, the cost of elections had not been so cut down as to have rendered subscriptions, either in his own case or that of others, wholly unnecessary. This, we have little doubt, might have been done, and of course may still be effected ; nor will the full benefit of the Reform Act ever be obtained till the expense of elections be so reduced, as to become no longer a serious burden to any one.—Morning Herald. The Tories, to do them justice, are good tacticians : and as they have it much at heart to weaken Ministers in Parliament, we may be certain that they will spare neither exertion nor money in the approaching elec tions. In some cases the opposition may, perhaps, be considered as of the nature of a feint, that the attention of the Whigs may be distracted. We cannot, there fore, yet speak with certainty as to the places which will be seriously contested. But we can be at no loss in affirming, that South Devonshire will be the princi pal scene of contention. They will stir heaven and earth to be revenged on Lord John Russell, for the distinguished success with which he led the Oppo sition that drove them from power. The Parsons are in the field early and late, and do not scruple to avail themselves of pious frauds in support of what they call the Protestant cause. Among other falsehoods they have been, we understand, circulating, that Lord John Russell has become a convert to Ca tholicism, and that the late Lady Ribblesdale is a Ca tholic. Lady Ribblesdale is, and always has been, a Protestant ; but if the falsehood serve a present pur pose, that is enough. Bribery and intimidation will be extensively resorted to. These are the means on which the Tories place their principal reliance. Indeed the effrontery with which they announced that the sub scription would be headedby Lord Rolle for 1,0001., is not the least singular part of the business. It was deemed politic, we suppose, to publish betimes the amount of the funds available for bribery, that the more merce nary electors might know where they could find a good market for their votes. We are much amused at the assurance of an Evening Contemporary (the Standard) in asking why the Reformers of Westminster, Man chester, and other places should subscribe towards the expenses of Lord John Russell ? Not a word against the subscription of 1,0001. by Lord Rolle, and the contributions of the Tory Aristocracy and Clubs Lord John Russell has not solicited subscriptions, but the People, who consider the cause of his Lordship their own, are determined that that cause shall not be lost for want of funds for the necessary expenses. The Tories have not subscribed all their money for nothing. All who have had experience of elections must know that, independently of direct bribery, clever election-agents, with money in abundance at their disposal, can greatly weaken another party less liberally supplied with funds, by monopolizing the means of conveyance, S:c. The Reformers have, very properly, thought that no gentleman ought, in fairness, to be called on to sacrifice his private fortune in the cause of the public ; and that they would be without excuse if, after such note of preparation by the Tories, they were to leave Lord John to be overwhelmed by exertions purchased by lavish contributions of Tory Aristocrats. We understand that Lord Morley has been very much belied in this case. So far from coun tenancing his steward in canvassing in his name, for Mr. Parker, he has, we are assured, promised all the assistance to Lord John Russell which he can give con sistently with his duty as a Peer of Parliament. His Lordship has left to Lord Rolle the task of explaining how a Peer can reconcile with his obligation to abstain from interference in elections for Members of the Commons' House, the subscription of 1,0001. for Mr. Parker. Lord Morley has declared that his steward, who, it seems, is an agent of Mr. Parker, was not authorized to use his name to influence any of the electors to vote for that Gentleman. With respect to the other elections :—We believe that Mr. Ord, who is to be opposed at Newport, has not much cause of alarm. Appearances, too, are greatly in favour of Sir Thomas Troubridge at Sandwich. Mr. Robert Steuart, before reaching Jedburgh, was met by a great body of the inhabitants, who had stationed scouts to give warning of his approach, and he entered the town in procession. The feeling throughout Scotland is excellent ; and there is not the slightest chance of his not being returned for the Haddington District of Burghs. The Lord Advocate's election for Leith is, we believe, quite sure, though an opponent has taken the field against him. In Cambridge, Mr. Spring Rice will, we believe, be returned without opposition. The Tories will do what they can to prevent the return of Lord Morpeth for the West Riding ; but we trust his Lordship is safe. Lord Seymour is quite sure of Totnes ; and though Mr. Rolfe will be opposed in Penrhyn he is supposed to be safe. Hitherto no opponent has started against Lord Howick, in Northumberland ; but the Tories speak of sending down Me Coiling wood. A Mr. Braidley has a second time taken the field against Mr. Poulett Thomson, for Manchester ; but we cannot believe the enlightened inhabitants of our great manufacturing capital will hesitate this time, any more than the last, between the enlightened Pre sident of the Board of Trade and an individual who, however well fitted for teaching in a Sunday-school, ought not to think of representing a place of the im portance of Manchester. We will not libel the in habitants of Manchester, by supposing that their sen timents have undergone any change since the last election, or that their desire to return a liberal and enlightened representative is less evident now, in con sequence of the successful exertions of the Reformers, than it was at that period.—Morning Chronicle. We have been urged by several correspondents to put clearly and plainly before the public the actual na ture, and the probable effect, of Lord John Russell's • resolution relative to the Irish Church. It is said, not without some show of truth we think, that while one class of persons abuses the resolution, merely because it is Lord John Russell's, and another praises it for no better reason, the real merits of the case are wholly overlooked. We will, as shortly as possible, give our readers the means of judging in this important matter. Lord John Russell, then, assuming that the revenues of the Irish Church were twice as great as in reality they are, and taking it as certain that the Irish Pro testant Establishment was so rich that, without making ducks and drakes of their money, the Clergy could not possibly get rid of their superabundant wealth, moved a resolution that the surplus revenues of the Church should be appropriated to purposes of educa tion. It was in vain to tell Lord John Russell that many of the rich and bloated Clergy of his imagina tion had received no tithes for three years past, and that they and their families were well nigh starving. Even the following passage from a letter of one of these unhappy persons, who Lord John Russell will have it are as rich as Jews, read in the house, and urged with all the fervid eloquence and manly feeling that cha racterized the speech of Sir R. Peel, had no effect up on the ruthless spoliator :—" I effected," says the poor parson, " the composition in my parish (in 1832), at a sacrifice of 1501. per annum of the income I was for years in receipt of—namely, 5801.; thus voluntarily re duced by me to 4301. By the proposed bill (Sir R. Peel's Tithe Bill) this will be farther reduced to 3221. 10s.; out of which I should pay 501. insurance, 43/. rent, 291. first fruits ; leaving a balance of 200/.los. to support my beloved wife, ten children, and myself, after being above 40 years an unworthy labourer in the Christian vineyard." 49 How strange it is that an appe tite for plunder, even whetted with Woburn, should still crave and long for the pittances that poor ecclesiastics are content not only to live upon but to labour for ! But why should we complain of Lord John Russell, when a House of Commons, an assembly of Christian and Protestant men, was found to sanction the scheme, and pass the resolution ? We come next to the man ner in which the resolution is to be carried into effect. Sir Henry Hardinge pressed Lord John Russell upon this practical point. He reminded the mover of the resolution, that any Tithe Commutation Bill must materially reduce the revenues of the clergy ; that according to one proposal they would get 70/., and according to another 751., in lieu of every 1001., which they have now a right to claim for tithes ; and he therefore begged to know how Lord John Russell proposed to make out the surplus which his resolution appropriated. This was The language used by Sir H. Hardinge :—" When the Church Temporalities' Bill was introduced to the House, Lord Grey, then at the head of that Government, stated in the House of Lords, in very distinct terms, that after all the clergy had received what was due under the plan proposed, there was to be a portion of the Church revenues set apart for the augmentation of small livings, and for the building of churches and glebe-houses. Lord Grey said this was a matter of so much importance, that in his opinion no distribution, no appropriation of church revenues, should take place until small livings had been augmented ; and in the speech by which he introduced the Church Temporalities' Bill he estimated church cess at 60,0001., the augmentation of small livings at 46,0001., the building of churches at 20,0001., and of glebe-houses at 10,0001., making in all 136,0001. a year to be appropriated to those important purposes after the clergy had been paid. It was natural, then, to ask whether the Noble Lord (J. Russell) meant to ad here to that view of the matter, or whether lie intended to begin to reckon his surplus before making provision for the augmentation of those small livings, and the erection of churches and glebe houses, or what was the precise course he meant to pursue on the subject ?" And what was Lord John Russell's reply ? Whi, that lie would have nothing to do with Lord Grey s plan ; that if he found in any given parish so small a number of Protestants that, in his opinion, either parson or church was too great a luxury for so few souls, he would take away the eccle siastical property of the parish, and devote it to pur poses of education,—no matter how many other pa rishes there might be thronged with Protestants and in want of funds to provide for their spiritual nurture. The essence of Lord John Russell's scheme therefore is, that souls are not worth saving except in batches of a given number ; that no Protestant should be taught the way to heaven unless he lives in a district suffi ciently populous to afford what the late Paymaster of the Forces considers a Christian company. And this is what Lord John Russell calls reforming the Church ! It is, however, neither more nor less than taking the surest means of destroying it, and of extirpating Protestants and the Protestant religion from the Irish soil. The time is at hand when his Lordship must descend to particulars—must tell us whether 5, 50, or 500 souls arc in his chandler's-shop view of religion, worth looking after ; and so soon as he has determined that interesting point, the White -boys will take very good care to reduce the amount of their Protestant fellow-parishioners below the parson point. If Lord John Russell should be so good as to allow fifty Protestants in a parish the means of wor shipping God after the fashion of their forefathers— but wisely, religiously, and righteously, resolve that any less number are too few to be taught the perform ance of man's first duty, and to enjoy the highest privi lege of mortality—then there can be little doubt that the difference between forty-nine and any other num ber of Protestants will afford too tempting subjects for the Papist's pike to need farther care in this world.— Times. places, at the whole of which they will find Conserva• tives ready and willing enough to appeal to the opi nions of the people, and strong enough, as we con fidently believe, to bear off the prize of popu lar favour from their Whig- Radical competitors. — The right-thinking and fair-dealing people of Great Britain, as the approaching elections will show, have no sympathy with a body of statesmen who have obstructed, and delayed at least for one whole year, many legislative measures of admitted usefulness, some of them being measures of evident, indis pensable, and urgent necessity, for the single and undisguised purpose of forcing themselves into office. Neither have the rational and honest people of Great Britain any sympathy with a body of statesmen who, for the above selfish and sordid purpose, have put themselves absolutely in the power of a disloyal, reckless, and unprincipled agitator, for the description of whom, up to the very moment of their base coalition with him, they could scarcely find in the English language terms of reprobation sufficiently severe. Nor can the people of Great Britain have any sympathy with a body of statesmen—and, we repeat, the approaching elec tions will prove the fact—who have sought to pur chase for themselves a way to power by delivering the Protestant Church of Ireland, defenceless and in fetters into the hands of its most bigotted and implacable foes. The real tendency and object of the principle for which Lord John Russell, acting in conjunction with Mr. O'Connell, has obtained the sanction of the House of Commons, and which Lord Melbourne, speaking in the House of Lords under terror of the same dangerous and profligate agitator, declared his resolution to adopt and carry forward to its practical consequences, will soon be thoroughly un derstood by the reflecting and intelligent people of Great Britain ; and from the moment that it is so Lord Melbourne, Lord John Russell, and all who have taken office along with them will become the objects of a deeper abhorrence and a more unmitigated scorn than is yet felt towards them, while the honourable, up right, and discreet members of Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Wellington's Administration will obtain a station at once more exalted and more secure, in the affection and esteem of a grateful peo ple. What is the tendency and object of that Parlia mentary pledge by means of which the degenerate Whigs purchased the aid of the Repeal and anti-Pro testant Irish faction, and with this aid forced them selves upon the country, in the degraded and contempti ble character of an Administration without power, of an Administration with no other function in the State than that of expounding and promoting the objects of a faction, no single member of which it has dared to pre sent to the country as an avowed colleague—of an Administration disqualified for the honourable exercise of thought or reflection in relation to the common weal, and having its duties and powers circumscribed to re ceiving its quarterly pay, and obeying the daily corn mands of Mr. O'Connell ? The present Ministers of the Crown have agreed to the destruction of the Protestant Church in Ireland, to the extirpation of the Protestant religion in Ireland. This is the price they have been contented to pay for the assistance of Mr. O'Connell to help them into place. The accusation is a heavy one ; but if Statesmen are justly chargeable with whatever must flow of necessity from the measures they adopt, and the principles they acknowledge and establish, the accusation, grave as it is, is fully war ranted by evident and notorious circumstances. The principle which Mr. O'Connell has purchased, by his Parliamentary services, or extorted by the menace of his Parliamentary opposition, from the present Govern ment, raises in every parish in Ireland the question, whether the Church revenue is or is not greater than is necessary for the spiritual wants of the Protestant part of the population of such parish. And this ques tion, in reference to each particular parish, will have to be decided after an inquiry which, as every man who knows any thing of Ireland must know, will neces saril) assume in each instance the character of the most exasperating and envenomed litigation be tween two conflicting parties. Oaths will have to be administered for the purpose of these inqui ries ; and we need only refer to the last Dublin election, or, to cite an instance more recent and nearer home, to the Parliamentary votes and conduct of the Roman Catholic Members of the present Parlia ment, every one of whom has sworn not to seek to im pair the rights and privileges of the Protestant Church, in order to show that in the conflict of swearing the Protestants—the defenders of the property of the Pro testant Church—are sure to be in every instance de feated. Then, by whom will the principle of appro priation, as it is called, have to be administered ? By persons nominated expressly we may be sure, if the present Ministers continue the advisers of the Crown, by Mr. O'Connell. It is clear then that there will be no want of suitable witnesses, or of convenient Judges, in the great Popish process against the Protestant Church. Is there any one so stupid or so insane as to contemplate such a process without perceiving that it must end, that it is meant to end, by those who have in stituted it, in the complete overthrow, the utter destruc tion, the entire sweeping away of the Protestant Church of Ireland ? And is it possible to imagine that such a process as this can be carried on in Ire land without deeply aggravating the discord and the agitation, political and religious, which have hitherto distracted that unhappy country ? Will the Roman Catholic Priests, with the Protestant Church held out to them as a prey, permit the smallest portion of its endowments which any amount of perjury, we fear we may add any amount of murder, can secure to elude their grasp ? Lord John Russell and Mr. O'Con nell's principle of appropriation is, in fact, a sentence upon the Protestant Church of Ireland, that it and its congregations shall be destroyed together by the combined and simultaneous action of chicanery, of perjury, and of murder.—Morning Post. We know no duty, at the present moment, more in cumbent upon the Reformers of Great Britain, than that of unanimously meeting for the purpose of re turning, free of all expense, those Members of the present Government who have been obliged to vacate their seats. The Tories, with their usual fallacious expectations, calculate that they will be able to defeat more than one-half of the Ministerial candidates ; and, assuredly, if the wish could effect the intention, they would oust the whole. But if the people will only do themselves justice, the Tories will find themselves in the same minority of which they had the pleasure of being on every occasion since the meeting of Parlia ment. It is most important, however, that every man of public spirit—that every Reformer—that every one who hates Toryism in all its phaSes, should give his mite towards the election of Lord John Russell for Devonshire. We give ours with all our heart ; and it affords us infinite pleasure to say that in almost every house of public resort, where the people have an op portunity of speaking their sentiments, subscriptions are on foot to forward the election, and to defray the s e u xp bs e c n r s i e p s tion L e et v e er vy house, y er landlo ho rd atwe treasurer—every be a house of seurer_everyß Re former a contributor—and the expenses will be paid at a shilling a head. With regard to the merits of the qu the i e o f n o , r innot Bill? a w L o rd or d i s tooh John Russell. said. W si. Whoh o introduced supported it ? Lord John Russell. Who fought the battle of the Dissenters ? Lord John Russell. Who, by his wisdom and prudence, drove the anti-national and anti-reform Ministry from its hold of office ? Lord John Russell. Need we say more ? Need we, after stating these facts, call upon all true Reformers to use their utmost endeavours to ensure his return for Devon shire—his highly honourable office as leader of the Opposition—and to tell the country, through his re turn, that it is still true to the principles of Reform, and that it will die in the breach rather than yield to those who have been invariably opposed to the interests of the people ?—Morning Advertiser. The character and position of the new Administra tion are not such as to inspire the nation with the least respect for the men who constitute it, or the least confidence in the measures they are likely to introduce. And the low estimate which is formed by the country of the present Ministers of the Crown is doubly mor tifying to their adherents, from the contrast it presents to the general, we may almost say the unanimous, tes timonies of popular esteem, confidence, and affection which have been afforded to Sir Robert Peel. The Whig-Radical journals labour, we perceive, to depre ciate these manifestations of national favour, believing naturally enough that this would be the most acceptable and valuable service they could render their employers. It is intimated, for example, that the numerous addresses to the King and Sir Robert Peel, the lists of which were sufficient to crowd our columns for several successive days, are of no value, inasmuch as they were not agreed to at public meetings. Let our contempo raries content themselves. There will be lic meet ings within the next month more than enough to satisfy them and their patrons, and attended, probably, by consequences not the most agreeable to either. The Conservatives are about to shew that they do not shrink from public meetings when it is necessary or useful to attend them. There is very soon to be a public meeting, from which we can assure our Minis terial contemporaries, the Conservatives will not absent themselves, in Devonshire. There is to be another in Yorkshire, and another at Manchester, and others of the same nature at Harwich, at Taunton, at Berwick upon-Tweed, and we know not at how many other * The whole extract, which cannot be too often read, ran thus : " I entreat you, if practicable, to create a fund to provide for the widows and orphans of clergymen, which the contem plated reduction of their incomes would render peculiarly well timed, as many must now be disabled from partially attaining that object by effecting insurances on their lives. And, lastly, to relieve them from future instalments (together with arrears now due) to the Board of First Fruits, for loans advanced them to build their glebe-houses. I sincerely wish mine was an isolated case, but if many are similarly circumstanced with myself, they have great difficulties to encounter. I effected the composition in my parish (in 1832) at a sacrifice of 1501. per annum of the income I was for years in receipt of—namely, 580/. ; thus voluntarily reduced by me to 4301. By the pro posed bill this will be further reduced to 3221. 10s. ; out of which I should pay 501. insurance, 43/. rent, 29/. first fruits ; leaving a balance of 2001. 10s. to support my beloved wife, ten children, and myself, after being above 40 years an un worthy labourer in the Christian vineyard. A murmur, how ever, shall not escape my lips, for I feel convinced the welfare of the Established Church is the object you and the Govern ment are most anxious to promote. Were the second measure adopted (which I have humbly suggested), I should regard as trivial every pecuniary difficulty I might be destined to en counter, for it would console me under them all, and pluck from the pillow of death the only thorn this world could plant there. As a small atonement for thus presuming to trespass on you, permit me to offer the accompanying poem, for which my eldest son obtained a Vice-Chancellor's prize. He was equally successful with two other poems, but the enclosed is the only one published." In the year 1778, just previous to the French war, the Mayor of Dublin was in a Coffee-house, when a gentle man was reading hi a newspaper, among other items of news, that the French had " taken umbrage." The wise man who believed that " umbrage" was some fortified town, when he went home, consulted his gazetteer, and failing in his search, asked one of his friends where " Umbrage" was situated. The story got abroad, and the caricaturists immediately rook advan tage of it. A droll picture appeared,—" Castle Umbrage," situated on an eminence, and the Mayor, with the police and the posse comitatus, marching in procession to invest it This story, as is the case with all good stories, lived on the Mayor till the day of his death..—JV'ew York Knickerbocker. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1835. COURT OF KING'S BENCH. HARRIS V. IVE. Mr. HUGGINS moved for a rule to show cause why the verdict for the plaintiff in this case should not be set aside and a nonsuit entered. The plaintiff was the administrator of a sailor who had been engaged to go out in a vessel be longing to the defendant on a voyage from London to Van Diemen's Land, and to any port or ports in the Indies, and to the final port of discharge in England. The voyage to Van Diemen's Land was performed, and the vessel sailed to return to Europe, but on its approaching England was driven on the coast of Holland and there wrecked, when all the crew perished. The ground on which he applied for the nonsuit was, that in the articles of the ship's company there was the following stipulation :—" It is hereby agreed that no officer or seaman belonging to the ship shall be enti tled to or demand his wages or any part thereof till the ar rival of the ship at the above-mentioned port of discharge." At the time of the wreck the papers of the vessel were lost and evidence was given to prove that this was part of the articles of the ship's company. The case was tried before the Secondary of London, who "told the Jury to find such verdict as they might think that the plaintiff was entitled to. This was a misdirection, for he ought to have told them that as the vessel had never arrived at the port of dis charge, and had earned no freight, the sailors were entitled to no wages, for that freight was the mother of wages, and the freight being lost, the wages also were lost.—Rule granted. DOE DEM. SMITH V. SMART. Mr. ERLE moved for a rule to show cause why the ver dict given for the defendant should not be set aside, and why a new trial should not be had in this case. This was an action of ejectment, and the question to be tried was as to the validity of a will. The Learned Counsel contended that the verdict was against the weight of evidence ; and he went at considerable length into a statement of the cir cumstances of the case, with a view to show that the im becility of the testatrix, which was the great point at issue, had been clearly established. . _ _ The COURT would communicate with Mr. Baron GuE NEY, before whom-the case had been tried. BAIL COURT. THE KING V. PETER BOLTON STRETCH. In this case the deferidant had been indicted for keeping a common gambling house, but on the trial, in consequence of the absence of a witness, a verdict of acquittal was pro nounced. Mr. WHITE this day moved for an attachment against the witness alluded to, " whom," said the Learned Counsel, " I will not name," for contempt of Court, in not appear ing to give evidence on the trial of the indictment.—Rule Nisi granted. MAUNDER V. FRANCIS BIGG, ESQ. The plaintiff, a gamekeeper, sought to recover 501., as wages for one year, from the defendant, the Lord of the Manor of Iver, in Bucks, viz., from the Ist of September, 1832, to the last day of August in the same year. The de fendant had pleaded that he did not make a contract in the manner alleged in the declaration. Mr. White, the actual Lord of the Manor, leased the manor to the defendant, and received 30/. for the lease for the term. The usual pay to gamekeepers was fifteen shil lings a week, with a house to live in rent free, or one guinea without a house. Richard Maunder, son of the plaintiff, swore that the de fendant agreed to give his father 501. a year, a suit of clothes, and rent (viz. house), and that when his father made the proposition the defendant said " Very well." The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, for the defendant, denied that any contract had been entered into, and called witnesses to prove his assertions. William Pocock, groom to the defendant, went by orders from his master down to the plaintiff in August, who said there was plenty of game on Mr. White's land, that he would ensure him that his master would kill twenty brace the first day, that his master might shoot till the gun burnt his hand. But on the Ist of Sep tember not a bird was started, and they only procured two hares. Indeed, some of the tenants on the land warned the defendant off. On the sth of September his master sent him down to pay the plaintiff off. When the latter saw him, he said " I have been waiting for you two or three days." " Have ou ?" said the witness. " Yes," said the plaintiff ; "is your master come down ?" " No," said the witness, " he is not coming any more ; he has sent me to pay you off, and there is your week's pay," tendering him a sovereign, which the plaintiff accepted, and gave him his master's gun and some powder and shot ; but observed, " It will be all right when master comes down." Witness said, " But he is not coming again ; if you have anything to say to him, you must write." Plaintiff then went to the Catherine Wheel Inn, at Cole brooke, and produced the following epistle, which the wit ness identified, and which the Clerk of the Court read : " Sept. 5. " Mr. Bigg—l'm sory it so apened, but I've sit Mr. Vowls of Winser upon him, who will cut him up like a feather, when he gits him into Cort ; while he has a sheling he'll niver leve him Aut when he sese his face it will be all up with him.— Yours, RICHARD MAUNDER, Colebrook." It did not appear to what person he alluded in this eru dite epistle, nor whom Mr. V. was to cut up. Mrs. Pocock confirmed her husband's testimony. Mr. Justice WILLIAMS said the question for the Jury to consider was whether the hiring was a yearly or a weekly one. The Learned Judge read the plaintiff's letter, which, he said, it was difficult to make out, but which created some amusement in the Court by the irresistible manner in which he read it, laying the exact emphasis on each word as written by the plaintiff, and explaining its literal mean ing, and ac coun ti ng f or cer t a i n hi a t uses i n th e manuscript. The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff of 49/. PREROGATIVE COURT. ARMSTRONG V. ARMSTRONG. This was a question on the admission of an allegation offered in opposition to the last will of General Armstrong, tendered on behalf of the brother and sister of the deceased, on the ground of an alleged undue controul exercised by the widow of the General in obtaining the will. The deceased died in the November of last year, possessed of very consi derable real and personal property, the whole of which by the will in question he bequeathed to his widow, with the exception of 1,0004 given to his brother. The deceased, it appeared, at an advanced age had married a young wife, dying after a coha bitation of two years. By a previous will as is alleged, the deceased had made ample provision for his wife, leaving her 20,000/., the remainder of his property being disposed of among his next of kin. Dr - . LUSHINGTON, on behalf of the widow, objected to the admissibility of the major part of the allegation. Dr. ADDAMS on behalf of the brother and sister of the deceased, should contend that every tittle of the allegation was admissible under the peculiar circumstances of the case. Sir HERBERT JENNER said the general substance of the allegation was admissible, but directed the allegation to be generally reformed. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Two girls, named Anne and Charlotte Smith, were brought before the LORD MAYOR, charged with robbery by Mr. Joseph Sorrell, and old gentle Man, who evidently laboured under the effects of an extra glass of gin. The complainant stated, but in a very circuitous manner, and with an expression of countenance which it is impo!st ble to describe, that on the preceding day as he was going along the borough he met the two girls, and treated them as affectionately as if they were his own children. He had a bundle in his hand, containing a purchase of bedclothes which he had made, and he asked the girls whether they had had anything to drink? When they said, " No," he told them they should have a drop, and he walked with them into a shop of the right sort, and said to them, " Now my little dears, take what you like." They had some gin, and one of the girls said, " If I don't have some bread and cheese I be blowed." " Well," lie said, " have it my little dears," and he called for the wittles ; but the landlady was a screw, and she charged a hawpenny more than was the right thing, and so off they went to another crib. As they were going along he says to one of the little dear s , w h o of fered to carry his bundle, " Take care of it, for I have just paid for it, my dear, and she did take care of it for she handed it to the other little dear ; and away the other ran, just as if it belonged to herself, although she never laid eyes upon it in her life before."—(Laughter.) The LORD MAYOR—My good Sir, who are you ? You must be a very good-humoured, bard-drinking, old gentle man. Mr. Sorrell—Oh ! you're fit to be a Lord Mayor. Who am I ? I am well known - at the West end of the town. I am stamp-maker to the King, and I do a great deal in that way among the first merchants in the City. I don't wish you to be very hard with these little dears, but sentence 'em both to the same punishment, for one is every bit as bad as the other.--(Laughter.) The LORD MAYOR—When the girl ran away with your bundle, did you follow her ? Mr. Sorrell—Follow her ? How could I ? W When I went to f o ll ow h er, a chimney sweeper comes right in my way. " Holloa !" says 1 ; nolloa!" says he ; and he throwed his arms bang around m y waist, bags and all.—(Great laughter.) The LORD MAYOR--Oh ! then he was one of your com pany ? Mr. Sorrell—l suppose from that he was. Well, he would stop to talk to me, but I called out " Stop thief!" and the policeman there that h as my b un dl e turne d roun d, and she ran bang into his arms, bundle and all. The LORD Mayon--Then he had the girl in his arms when you had the sweep in yours ? M r . S orre ll—E xac tly. i There now ; I'm d—d f you a'ut just fit to be a Lord Mayor. Come, pass judgment upon 'em. They're a pair of --, for I treated 'em to gin as if they were my own children.—(Laughter.) A policeman while nn duty in Devonshire-square, at half-past four o'clock, saw a crowd running, and heard a cry of " Stop thief." One of the prisoners was the first person he observed in the race, and he got hold of her. She had nothing about her, but she told him where the other girl lived, and he succeeded in apprehending her and reco vering the bundle. The girls said that Mr. Sorrell gave them the bundle to carry for him, and raised a hullabulloo after them because they happened to walk a little quicker than he was inclined. Mr. Sorrell—Don't be too fast, my little dears. The LORD MAYoR—Did you ask the girls to carry your bundle ? Mr. Sorrell—To be sure I did : I'll tell you what ; mitigate their sentence ; give them a few days, and make them be silent, and let them have no gin. I dare say they'll ask my pardon afterwards, and I'll forgive them and no mistake. The LORD MAYOR—Perhaps you'll forgive them now, and we can despatch the business at once. Mr. Sorrell— To be sure I will. You just took the words •out of my mouth. The LORD MAYOR—Then they are discharged. Mr. Sorrell—Ah, you're the right sort. Give us your hand. The LORD MAYOR—Don ' t mind that ceremony. We can shake hands when next we meet. Mr. Sorrell—You're all right, I see, and (turning to the sword-bearer, who laughed at this singular exhibition), I say, my old cock, God be with you. GUILDHALL. Yesterday John Worseltine, who keeps an oyster shop at No. 128, Chancery-lane, was brought before Mr. Alderman Atkins, charged with being concerned in carrying on an il licit still upon a large scale. The still was capable of hold ing fifty gallons, and as a charge may be worked off in four hours, it might, under able hands, have been the means of defrauding the revenue of 50/. a day. Mr. Alderman ATKINS committed him for three months, in default of paying a fine of 301. BOW-STREET. On Thursday Sir Robert Shaw, Bart., and banker, of the city of Dublin, came before Mr. MiNsHuLL, for the purpose of making a statement which he hoped would have the effect of guarding the public against the repetition of a series of frauds that had been practised under the colour of his name and sanction. Sir Robert stated that his general residence was in Dub lin, but that he sojourned here two or three months every year. During his last stay here he occupied apartments with his son, the M.P., at the house of Mr. Corderoy, a cheesemonger, in Sloane-street, Chelsea. Since his return he had learned from Mr. Corderoy that about five weeks ago a man in the garb of a coachman came to his shop, and asked if Sir Robert Shaw lived there ? Mr. Corderoy an swered in the affirmative, and the man then said, " Sir Robert is now in town, and he has desired me to order two of your best hams, a Stilton cheese, a kitchen cheese, and one for toasting ; and if you will pack them in a bag, I will call for them in three-quarters of an hour." The goods were packed, and at the appointed time the pretended coachman called, and they were deli vered to him with a bill. ,He (Sir Robert Shaw) was in duced to believe that this was a solitary instance, and con tented himself with cautioning Mr. Corderoy not to be duped again. On Tuesday evening, however, he received a letter from Coombes and Addison, the wholesale drapers on Ludgate-hill, stating that they had received his " obliging order," for four pieces of linen for the Freemasons' School, but not .recollecting what quality of article he had pur chased on the former occasion to which his order alluded, they had sent to the matron of that institution for a pattern, but had received for answer that she knew nothing about it. The letter concluded by respectfully requesting him to cause a pattern to be sent that the order might be at once executed. He directly made further inquiries, and ascer tnined that in the two instances already mentioned, and in others, the impostor was dressed as a coachman, and repre sented himself as being in his (Sir R. Shaw's) service in that capacity. He very much feared that the fellow bad succeeded to a considerable extent in .his fraudulent prac tices. Mr. MirrsHum, asked Sir Robert Shaw, if, when he last left London, he had discharged a coachman ?—Sir Robert —No, for I never have one 6f my own here. I always have a job carriage. The fellow must, however, be well ac quainted with my family and my movements, for I find be has, in several instances, described very accurately at what time I last arrived in England, how long I had been ab sent, and how long I was likely to remain. He has also got hold of my present residence, for the letter from Mr. Coombes was addressed to me at Gothic Cottage, Twick enham, which I now occupy. Mr. MINSHULL suggested the employment of an active officer, to endeavour to bring the fellow to justice. Sir R. Shaw would spare no expense to accomplish that object for the sake of the public, and Ellis the officer was directed to go about it. Ellis yesterday morning brought a man dressed like a coachman, who gave his name George Bailey, and he was identified as having driven Sir Robert Shaw, who, however, was not now present, when he was last in London. The attempt to defraud Coombs and Co. having taken place in the city, Ellis was directed to convey the prisoner to Guild hall, but the Alderman having quitted the bench, he brought him back, and Mr. Corderoy having been sent for, he iden tified him as the man who had obtained the hams and cheese from him in Sir Robert Shaw's name. Upon this evidence he was remanded till Tuesday next. HATTON-GARDEN. Yesterday a fine little girl, who stated her name to be Caroline White, and that she was in the 12th year of her age, was brought before Mr. ROGERS under the following most extraordinary and mysterious circumstances ; Mr. Dixon, superintendent of the G division of police, being sworn, said, that about 9 o'clock on Thursday night, the girl was brought to him by Mr. Banks, a respectable inhabitant of Clerkenwell, who represented that he had found her sitting on a step in Aylebury-street, and that in answer to his question she said she had no home, and was without the means of obtaining food or lodging. He (Dixon) interrogated the child, and her statement being of so peculiar a nature, he thought it best to have her charged as a vagrant, and bring her before a magistrate, in order that her history might be inquired into, and shelter afforded her, should her distressing tale prove true. She told him that during the last five years she had subsisted by begging —that her father and mother, who were both dead, ob tained their living by burglaries and picking-pockets ; that three weeks ago she was found destitute in Ilford, and con veyed to the parish workhouse where she was clothed, and after being there a fortnight was sent to Birmingham, the authorities of which town sent her to London a few days ago, desiring her to make her way back to Ilford. Mr. ROGERS observed that Mr. Dixon had done per fectly right, as it was a case that required sifting for many reasons. He then asked the defendant where her father resided at the time of his death ? Girl—ln Thomas-street, in the Borough. Mr. RoGEßs—How long has he been dead ? Girl—Five years. Mr. ROGERS--What trade was he ? Girl—A brick layer and plasterer. Mr. ROGERS—Did he do anything else ? Girl—He was a housebreaker. Mr. ROGERS—What became of you after his death ? Girl—l lived with my mother. Mr. ROGERS—How did she get her living ? Girl—By picking pockets. Mr. ROGERS—Now, child, are you telling me the truth? Girl—l am, Sir. Mr. ROGERS—When did your mother die ? Girl—Soon after my father. About four years since. Mr. ROGERS—What became of you, then ? Girl—l had no home, and I begged. Mr. ROGERS—Where did you sleep ? Girl—Some times in a bed, at other times in a barn or in the open air. Mr. ROGERS—You do not look like a girl accustomed to begginc , : you look fresh and well, and have good clothes on your back : where did you obtain them ? Girl—They were given to me at Ilford Workhouse. Mr. ROGERS--What brought you there ? Girl—Three weeks ago I was put there for begging, and they sent me from there to Birmingham. Mr. ROGERS—Why did they forward you there ? Girl—l don't know ; but I think it was because I told them that my mother used to say I was born in Brum magem. Mr. ROGERS—Did they send any papers with you (meaning orders of removal) ? Girl—No ; they placed me on the Greyhound coach, and gave the guard '2s. 6d. to take care of me until I arrived in Brummagem. Mr. ROGERS—What was done with you then ? Girl— I was found in the streets and taken to the workhouse, and last Tuesday I was put in the waggon and brought to London. Mr. RoGEns—Who put you in the waggon ? Girl— Some one from the workhouse. Mr. ROGERS—Did they give you any money ? Girl— No ; they said I must come to London and return to Ilford. Mr. ROGERS said it was a case he could not unravel, and inquiries must be made about it without delay. Mr. Dixon was of opinion the girl was not so old as she had stated. Mr. ROGERS—I should say she is not more than nine or ten, at the outside. Mr. Dixon--Even supposing her to be twelve years old, it is not very likely she could know so much of her father and mother as she has related when of the tender age of seven. Mr. ROGERS concurred with the superintendent. The worthy Magistrate then ordered that the girl should be taken care of, Mr. Dixon undertaking to ascertain whe ther she had been telling truth, and, if possible , to fi nd out her settlement. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. General Sir Hilgrove Turner yesterday appeared beta! Mr. CONANT and Mr. DYER to show cause why he objected to pay Mr. Mayhew, the district-surveyor of St. Jauless' the sum of 305., the amount claimed by him as his f ee superintending, certain alterations recently made by Sir 11 Turner in his stabling. Mr. Mayhew attended professionally during the p ro g ress fF i r of the alterations made by Sir H. Turner in the stables at the back of his dwelling-house in Argyll-street, to see that the Act of Parliament was properly complied with, fo r which duty he claimed the sum of 1/. 10s., being the fee ap pointed by the Legislature to be paid for superintending such alterations in second-rate buildings. • Sir Hilgrove Turner in reply by means objected to pa): any sum which the surveyor might fairly be entitled to, hub in the present instance he did object to pay a sum of 1/.10 0 . as a fee for the trifling nature of the duty which he eon' ceived had been required from the surveyor. All the u lt. ; ration which he made in his stables was adding a sraa chimney to one of the rooms over them, and he certaiTY did think that he ought not to be called upon to pay same amount to a surveyor for merely building a 5111 _ ll chimney as would be demanded for considerable alterations in a second-rate house. Mr. Mayhew said it was quite as much trouble to sue_ intend the building of a stable chimney as it would b e th alterations of a house. He had attended on Sir Bilge" premises about half-a-dozen times while the stables wer e being altered. Sir H. Turner replied that surveyors might attend needless number of times in order to make a case for their fees, and in this instance he thought there could ha ve bee no real necessity for so many visits. Mr. Mayhew handed the Magistrates the Act of Parl idP ment under which he laid his claim. „, On perusing the clause relative to the fees, the lu,egi ten trates found that the words . " not exceeding one po und shillings should be paid to the surveyor." • " Mr. CONANT considered the words " not exceeding, gave the Magistrates a discretionary power with respec t t° the amount of the fee. Mr. DYER remarked that the view taken by sir . . /4. Turner appeared to him a very fair one, but as it wac I t; possible for Magistrates to know the amount of troo ;a. sustained by surveyors in such cases it would be more .„ 8 visable in his judgment for the parties to come to sc " H. ac S reement Turner betwixt themselves. , ve r ir was ready to pay a sovereign to '- the surveyor's trouble. Mr. Mayhew declined taking it, conceiving himself 01" titled o the whle . of CONANT said amount the question was quite novel , an d r, some importance ; he should therefore adjourn it, t o asee tain what the usual practice was in other parishes. c o - Joseph Moseley was yesterday brought before lq. s .r• ido NANT and Mr. DYER charged by a milkman named 1 10 with having assaulted him without provocation. no .: The charge originated in the following ludicrous roan —At the corner of Farm-street Mews an industrldif, cobbler, by name Edward Wills, carried on his w c 7: o gli calling in a moveable wooden tenement, just large e ll w„,ir to hold himself and his stock of tools. Having til e :Je fortune to possess but one sound leg, the other being 1 " - be . of timber, he found in his egress and ingress that the, r t rizontal segment of a circle described by his wooden kulr i '6 o so much embarrassed his movements, that he was fon e 6 such occasions to unbuckle the unaccommodating meta. and to wear it only when a necessity for locomotion ex; y The cobbler was busily employed in this defenceless h an d tion on Thursday afternoon when the defendant the another person, happening to come by and spY v situation of matters, determined to have what eoch called a " lark with old Waxend." AccordinglY, , s seizing a corner of the stall, they lifted it uP o b, jilt which capsized the cobbler under his l' e uc i.• and his ideas being somewhat obfuscated by the 5 ea t denness of the shock he began to bellow with L i. to emphasis. Two or three other shakes giving him catily fear for the solidity of his wooden edifice, like s Bottom," he " roared" for assistance, but as nul. he " sucking dove" as possible. The strange outcry wul e t be made having attracted several persons, among t he tion' complainant, he was released from his perilous sit u a l s , of burning with indignation at the invasion of the sanc tity os his castle. The complainant remonstrated with thqlepa their conduct, upon which oae told him that his 1110.8 should fight him for 51. Complainant was about to de7,o the challenge, when he received a violent blow on t he s ad from the defendant. As the assault was quite unfa ir hi unprovoked, he determined upon punishing the offender means of a warrant. • 11. ° The matter was arranged by the defendant paying satisfaction of the assault. THAMES POLIC. Yesterday, John Jo n and hnso Joseph Pornzaso, se at ri.; belonging to the Hythe East Indiaman, from Chin a ' ' e ll s• charged before Mr. BRODERIP and Mr. ComBE, on 0 /15 tom-house informations, with smuggling three crape sh: ty , and three India silk handkerchiefs, which had not p aid The treble value of the goods, 8/. Bs., was the P ei ' sued for. Blyth, a surveyor of the Thames Police, stant, on the arrival of the Hythe, saw the defer at , leaving the ship at Blackwall, and his attention 151,01 tracted to a patch on the trowsers of Johnson, which "tot out, and he searched him, when he found a crape ti : of between the patch and the cloth of the garmant. "Lev terwards overhauled Pormaso's chest, in which h e ,.;, - glr vered a jacket with two thousand ' patches on it.- - (njir ter)—and under some of them he found a Piec e c°ll ing three silk handkerchiefs and a crape shawl. i h j g-'' on the 8th l : Mr. BRODERIP—This is a new system of smugg - $ O ll where was the other shawl found ? Blyth—Under 3 P t i m e• in the trowsers which Pormaso was wearing at 68 40 1 He said he thought the devil could not find a there.—(A M laugh.) ir e r. B RODERIP—Why, it must have taken him',i s ire at least to patch the waistcoat. Blyth—Yes it deed, Sir. 13 ° The Magistrates then told the sailors the Cust m r. tbef might have proceeded for the 1001. penalty. l 'to 2 1 ' had a power of mitigation they reduced the fi nes each and costs, which they paid. - - IL 23(f, OurIVERPOOL COTTON MARRET, The „., Cotton Market has continued steady thoughou t „7o and holders are firm. The sales may be quoted at 3Yu'orte' of which speculators have taken 400 American, and n el lab i i i/ A ' 600 ditto. 200 Ceara's fetched 15id. a 17id. ; 5 ," a or' 15-ad. ;30 Egyptian 20i; and 3,220 America Horse ()port inGtati N. and Clot Ilalan c -Amia Pot ( o ffie Soci, C ithE Fee, Ay Of .11 41 1' 4 1 T, 41 aY di n t urg _.,..,. BIR TH S. t .goe • 3 ' r On the 16th inst., at Tulloch Castle (N. 8.), tu e Davidson, of a daughter. Obi • Seej On the 24th inst., in Bernard-street, Russell - square, i ,, Davies, of a daughter. A .tley On the 23d inst., at Northchurch, Hens, the wife of .s , ' ..A. Cooper, Esq., of a son. Caste SW On the 4th inst., at Dresden, the lady of Philip LAD - o fd Esq., of a daughter. On the 20th inst., Mrs. James Carr, of Everton, - L ive re' daughter. i 1 3. MARRIED. be I rte.. ill' t t On the 23d inst., at Trinity Church, Marylebonet aO4O s o , ro t , John Harrison, Rector of Beaumont-cum-Mose, Esse x ' second daughter of Richard Hall, Esq., of Portland -place , a teridge, Herts. a S °1 1: On the 24th inst., at St. John's Church, Robert Edwe r me r of Esq., of the East India Company's service, to Rosa , lou d, of B. Stanbridge, Esq., of Haberdashers' House, Middles°. Egl'e, On the 22d inst., at Swansea, John Wyndham Bruce, e ore o j Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-at-Law, eldest son of John Br ec , , see°, Esq., of Duffryn, Aberdare, Glamorganshire, to MarY Ae n ; c oll,,e': daughter of Colonel Cameron of Dane-y-Graig, in the see l t - te , r ,41 : On the 23d inst., at Gaverslam Church, Sidney Baze l g e d Ca ° to Caroline, third daughter of William Montagu, Esq.' - ham-hill, Oxfordshire. DIED. t D r " On the 18th inst., the Hon. Mrs. Sackville Germain, a House, Northamptonshire. LOY On the 27th ult., at Antibes, on her way to Nice, OO, gerald, relict of the late Sir James Fitzgerald, Bart. 0 102, 0 . On the 3d of February last, in Philadelphia, Le a l or ; the once the celebrated Miss George, pupil of Dr. Arn e , ia o "I' She had long retired into private life, and become a e''' - iis United States. . xi . 0 / I°6 On the 22d inst., at the house of her mother, , A rs ' „,0,13t Highbury-place, Mrs. Dawson, in her 54th year. in th, '" On the 19th inst., at Stepney-green, Arabella ib e h daughter f Mr. C. N. Sughrue. 0 'l'. leilli On the o 20th inst., at Windsor, Hephzibah, N' tj ' , a f 0 aged 47. ag e 4 f ti p o On the 23d inst., Mr. Wm. Gingell, of Mortimer-streeel 0,1 On the 22d inst in her 39th year, Mrs. Max)' ii all f l g q• ~ rd, ' - s r Mr. W. Howell, of Welling, Kent. p r 'cba r i : l'e j On the 20th inst., in Northwick-terrace, C. 0- -, -1 , gOt- , i 'isq - On the Bth inst. at Whiston, Staffordshire, in l' e ' s h o sat o ' de , Penelope, relict of the late Joh Wood, Esq., who ter of 6e- r i'it h more than half a century. She was the eldest lough 0 011 4to the only brother of Dr. Hector, of Lichfield, (contetall og, se Dr. Johnson), and first cousin to the late Dr. Withe like a$ o ho the late M rs . Pearson, of Tettenhall, who. attai ned the ~,,r, On the 21st inst., in Fishergate, Hull, in his 87th ) , of the ote Prince, Esq. On the 21st inst d 24 , Hannah , second •, age sec ugda ht.. . q . ~,,, of Y . , a f Mr. Thomas Stodhart, of Hull, brazier. Lately, in her 99th year, Mrs., Sarah Snowden, mother Benjamin Snowden, and forty years the much -reap ec f I.l° rt b the Hull M ercan til e A ca d em y. late ° On the 16th i ns t., M r . S amu el Barrowcloug h, o ts' Hall, near Leeds, aged 83. Rich sra On the 16th inst., at Balby, near Doncaster, Mr. eci gry, derson, tanner , aged 83. 'i i e oleo s ' jg A On the 16th; inst., Mr. J. Reynolds, of -- e , fri . s . bricklayer. o h 13 11° On the 16th inst at the Prior Chichester, Joel in his 81st year. • , y, ...,--,,, --- - r o f l' --- -----_-_-.---,--------.---_________---- London : Printed and Published by MURDO ° ~ in the C° 112, Strand, at The Sun Qffice P No. 112, Stant' of Middlesex.