The Sun. — London, England, 1835-05-25 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We know nothing more disgusting in the wretched tactics of party warfare than the perfect recklessness with which refuted falsehood is put forward again and again as a staple commodity of the Tory press. Lord Melbourne's Minis try was not a day old when th e N o bl e L or d was c h a rged with having entered into a league with Mr. O'Connell. Lord Melbourne met the imputation with a direct negative. It is not safe to reiterate the slander in the hearing of those who can, on the instant, repel it. Foiled in Parliament, the faction fills its venal columns with a mass of fabrications, in the hope that those who read the fiction will never be taught to know its falsehood. Now the cry is that Mr. O'Connell is influencing the Irish appointments. The ex travagance of this assertion is known and felt in Ireland, where names and persons cannot be concealed ; and it is but fitting that the public here should be made aware of the course of firm, but temperate policy, which is happily developing itself in that country, where the first object of a British Statesman ought to be to create a liberal party in attachment to English connection and to the British Monarchy. The Sergeantcy, rendered vacant r! the appointment of the new Attorney-General, was ffered to Mr. Holmes, a gentleman who unites in himself a larger share of the estimation of all parties than perhaps any other individual at the Irish Bar ; a Whig of unde viating consistency ; a lawyer of the very highest station a Dissenter of unquestioned attachment to Protestant prin ciples, and certainly no well-wisher of the Church of Rome ; a man, one of whose earliest effusions, as a writer, was a treatise of uncommon power, written before the Legislative Union, demonstrating the utter impossibility of preventing that measure or repealing it. Mr. Holmes, for peculiar reasons, into which we have no right to inquire, though we lament their existence, declined the Sergeantcy. We trust his refusal will not prevent his early elevation to the Bench. It never had, in either country, a purer light or a greater ornament. Refused by an eminent Protestant, the Sergeantcy was offered to a Roman Catholic barrister of high standing, of acknowledged talent— one who was neither a Repealer nor an Agitator, but a de termined opponent of a repeal of the Union. Mr. Woulfe was not only not a member of what some are pleased to call the O'Connell party in Ireland, but is known to enter tain, on vital questions alleged to be advocated by Mr. O'Connell, opinions diametrically opposite to those of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman. He was selected for ad vancement, not because he was a Roman Catholic (as the previous offer to Mr. Holmes proves), but because he was an eminent lawyer, who has professed through life, with firmness and moderation, sound Whig opinions, which the present Government do not think should be rewarded by exclusion from official station. The offices of First Ser geant and of Advising Counsel to the Crown were thus cast upon Mr. Greene. A general impression prevailed that these offices were inconsistent. In that impression, we own, we fully concur. The First Sergeant, on the occurrence of any event, whether of illness or absence. which prevents one of the Judges from acting on cir cuit, becomes, in course, a judge of assize io he absence of the Solicitor-General. The duties of the Crown Coun sel necessarily and inevitably make him the adviser of cir cuit prosecutions. The mind revolts at the union of those functions. That a judge should preside at a trial of a case involving the life or liberty of a fellow-subject, with a pre vious knowledge of all the circumstances—and, still more, with a previously formed opinion upon the propriety and necessity of the prosecution, and of the evidence to be ad duced to support it—involves a direct violation of the first principles of jurisprudence, and necessarily leads, in the minds of the accused, to a distrust of the tribunal before which they arc arraigned. Sergeant Greene having va cated the post of Counsel to the Lord Lieutenant (an office by the way, which, in point of dignity, was considered by Lord Manners to be beneath the rank of a King's Counsel), his place has been filled by Mr. Maziere Brady. This gentleman is a Protestant barrister of considerable standing, of high legal eminence, a sound, well-read, practical lawyer ; a thorough and con sistent Whig. We believe he has contemporaries and fel low-students at the English bar to whom his talents and acquirements are well known. He certainly cannot be said to owe his elevation to Mr. O'Connell ; he never was a member of the Catholic or of any other political Associa tion. We doubt even whether these gentlemen have bad any other than a professional acquaintance with each other. A miserable attempt (among the lies of the faction) has been made, to circulate a notion that he is—what will the reader think ?—not the gentleman to whom his name be longs, but a Mr. James Charles Brady, a Roman Catholic barrister of great promise, who was a member of the Ca tholic Association, but who left the bar in consequence of ill health, and died upwards of a year ago! Mr. Maziere Brady is indebted for his appointment solely (we are in formed) to the opinion entertained by the Irish Attorney- General—his personal friend—of his perfect fitness for the discharge. of the functions of the laborious office intrusted to his charge. The death of Mr. Lloyd created a vacancy in the place of one of the Judges of the Insolvent Debtor's Court. This vacancy has been tilled by the appoint ment of Mr. Richard Farrell, a Roman Catholic barrister of the rank of King's Counsel, but having so little pretensions to being a favourite of Mr. O'Connell, that an Irish news paper (The Pilot ) which is generally supposed to be the able supporter of Mr. O'Connell's views of Irish policy, published on the 18th of this month a paragraph strongly condemnatory of Mr. Farrell's appointment, on the ground that his political liberality was of a temperature too tepid to make him a public favourite in Ireland. Of Mr. Farrell we shall only say, that he is not, and never was, a political associate of Mr. O'Connell ; and that we believe one rea son for his elevation, and we do not think it a bad one, was, that he stood high in the estimation of Lord Wel lesley, to whom, we believe, he in fact owes his own appointment. The second Judge of the Insolvent Court is about to retire ; his place is to be filled by Mr. William Henry Curran. We believe that the most bare-faced public slanderers who cater for the Tory press will not im pute this gentleman's elevation to the influence of Mr. O'Connell. Mr. Curran has been long known, both in this country and in Ireland, as distinguished even more for his temperate, firm, consistent course as a politician, than for his varied accomplishments. A Whig, and a firm one, he commenced his professional life at a period when to pro fess the principles of his party was, in Ireland, to ensure proscription from all advancement. The son of one of the most distinguished men his country ever produced, inhe riting the talents and the public virtue with the principles of the illustrious man whose name he bears, Mr. Curran has never for one hour swerved from the strenuous, consis tent, but temperate course with which he commenced his public career. He has long discharged the duties of an Assistant-Barrister, not only with acknowledged popularity and efficiency, but with a purity in his professional conduct with reference to his judicial functions of which we fear there are in Ireland but few imitators. From the time of his appointment to the chair of Assistant-Barrister, he is known to have inflexibly refused professional business from the attorneys who practised in his Court. His habits of business, and his many acquirements, early attracted the notice of Lord Melbourne, when he was Chief Secretary for Ireland ; and we believe that to his Lordship's convic tion of Mr. Curran's competency, the sister country will be indebted for his elevation to an office of great importance to the administration of justice, requiring assiduity, habits of application, and knowledge of mankind, even more than mere professional acquirements. The Assistant-Barrister ship, vacant by the appointment of Mr. Farrell, has been given to Mr. Moody, a barrister of long standing—not a Roman Catholic—not a friend of Mr. O'Connell—but a Dissenter—the son of a Dissenting clergyman, who, in times that ought not to be forgotten, stood by the Whig party in Ireland with unflinching fidelity—the tried and accom plished friend of civil and religious liberty. We believe (and it is with shame we state it) that Mr. Isloody is the first Protestant Dissenter who was ever appointed an Assistant-Barrister in Ireland. His fitness for the office is best attested by the universal satisfac tion with which he discharged, on many occasions, the duties of Assistant-Barrister in a populous and extensive county, in the absence of the gentleman to whom the office belonged. We have now enumerated the recent appointments in Ireland. To the friends of a Re forming Government they have given unmixed satisfaction ; by the enemies of that Government they are regarded with a disappointment not unmixed with despair. The Govern ment have performed with firmness, unawed by clamour, one of the very first and momentous of their duties : they have selected competent servants from amongst their friends. Already this vigorous policy is beginning to tell. It is creating confidence in the King's Government—it is multi plying their friends—it is dispiriting their enemies. We trust it will be undeviatingly pursued. Let the Ministry here and in Ireland act upon this principle, which is, after all, one of sheer common sense, and they may soon laugh to scorn the railings of a disappointed faction, and the fa brications of a shameless press.—Morning Chronicle. In the House of Lords the Prime Minister denies that there is an understanding between him and Mr. O'Connell. In the House of Commons Mr. O'Connell speaks of " the great measure of Corporation Reform which WE have it in contemplation to bring in." There can be little doubt which of these contradictory statements would, in the absence of all collateral circumstances, have the better claim to credit. Unfortunately, however, for his Lordship, it is too palpable that his Administration depends for its existence on the aid of Mr. O'Connell. Hence the inadvertent " WE" has led to a very prevailing belief, notwithstanding any assertion to the contrary, that his Lordship and Mr. O'Connell are " Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet a union in partition." This belief is, as a matter of course, accompanied by a feel ing that, in his endeavour T o mask the business from the common eye," Lis Lordship has made a sacrifice quite inconsistent with his character as a gentleman, and his station as the first Minister of the Crown. Now, his Lordship's denial of the " understanding" may be perfectly correct, and, in the con sciousness of his own innocence, he may refuse to take any steps in consequence of the authoritative " wE" of Mr. O'Connell. It is, however, quite possible that, from a too tender regard for his character, his Lordship may have re course to some very strong measure on the occasion ; and as that may, perhaps, consist in the throwing Mr. O'Con nell overboard, we beg to call to the recollection of the Noble Lord flee following almost parallel case, in order that he may form some notion of the almost certain result of such a [proceeding :—One day when a celebrated organist had greatly delighted his auditory, the organ-blower said to him, after the church was cleared, " Sir, I think WE' did rarely to-day."—" We, sir !" said the organist. " Ay, WE, to be sure," answered the other. " What would you have done without me ?" The next Sunday the organist, sitting down to play, could not make his organ speak ; and there upon, calling to the bellows-blower, asked what he meant ? Why he did not blow ? " Shall it be WE, then ?" said the other ; which the organist was forced to consent to, or there had been no music. The similarity of the two cases is complete, with one slight exception. The organist, impa tient of the " WE," could have discharged the bellows blower, and engaged another and a less unruly and ambitious person, to supply his place. But can Lord Melbourne dis charge Mr. O'Connell ? Alas ! no. Revolting as it may and must be to him, there can be no music if he will not submit to the " wE."—Morning Post. Nothing more satisfactorily indicates the hopeless condi tion of the Tories than the impish tricks of their malevo lence. Stroud was visited by a nondescript, that, like a guilty thing, shrunk from showing its face to the electors, and shunned the day of nomination. Stafford is annoyed by a similar nuisance, in the shape of a candidate, who starts up like Punch, and, after a little pantomimic gesti culation, drops behind the curtain. On every struggle of the recent elections throughout the United Kingdom— Devon and Inverness excepted—has victory followed the banners of Reform : in Stafford alone is the contest as yet undecided ; but the principles at issue,—the intelligence and independence of the electors—and the intrinsic qualifi cations of the respective candidates, can leave no doubt as to the final result. On one side is the principle of equal political rights to every man, and general ame lioration to all. On the other side is the principle of unjust exclusion and oppression of the many for the ag grandisement of the few. In connection with the holy principles of justice and freedom is their conscientious and able advocate Colonel Anson ; in connection with the ac cursed principles of injustice and oppression is a unity, a mere mummy, as incapable of forming as of expressing an opinion, and put forward by the Tories for the purpose, if elected a member of the House of Commons, of swelling by a silent vote, as faction dictates, the array of 'enemies to national prosperity. Freemen of Stafford, can you hesitate in your decision ? Look to York as your cynosure, and let a similar majority to that of the West Riding prove your abhorrence of the anti-national conspirators, and your indiznition at the impositions they would practise on you. The Liberals of the metropoliB and of the empire generally have their eyes upon you, and demand your united efforts in the common cause. Give by your votes a death-blow to the public enemy, and let Stafford have the honour to inscribe the hic jacet on the tomb of Toryism.—Morning Advertiser. SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFI CE, Seven o•'clock THE PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. His Royal Highness the Duke of CAMBRIDGE took the oaths and his seat. MESSAGE FROM THE COMMONS. Mr. BAILLTE and other Members of the House of Commons brought up the Honiton Church Bill and several Private Bills. Mr. Crafer presented papers from the Treasury. Mr. Campbell, from the East India House, presented the annual account of the revenues and charges of India. SCOTCH CHURCH. Petitions in favour of the Scotch Church, and also against any public grant, were presented ; by the Duke of Gordon, in favour of the grant, by the Earl of Rosebery, from Dalkeith and several other places, against the Grant, by the Duke of Su therland, from Caithness and the Synod of Ross, in favour of the Church of Scotland, and against the grant to Maynooth College, and by Earl Cawdor from Ayr. OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH. The Bishop of LICHFIELD and COVENTRY' pre sented petitions from parishes in Derby for the better obser vance of the Sabbath. ISLINGTON MARKET BILL. Lord YARBOROUGH presented a petition from the gra ziers of Boston against the Islington Market Bill. EDUCATION. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from Berkliamp stead, in favour of a more extended plan of education. CRIMINAL LAW. _ _ The Marquis of L ANSDOWNE, in laying on the table a return of the number of convictions in England and \Vales, according to an order of the House. stated that since the returns had been moved for, he had made inquiries whether or not it would be practicable to extend the returns to Scotland and Ireland, and letters had been despatched to Scotland and Ire land for that purpose. His Noble Friend would see when he came to examine the returns, that they had required great labour to bring them to the state in which they at present were.--( Hear, hear.) Information had not been received either from Scotland or Ireland, but if had been thought better to lay the returns before the House, as far as they related to England and Wales. GAOLS. The Duke of RICHMOND stated, that as the evidence that had been taken before the Gaol Committee had not been placed in the hands of many of their Lordships till the pre sent day, he was inclined to defer the resolution of which he had given notice for to-day, until a future opportu nity—( Hear, hear,)—but, at the same time, he was anxious to make a proposal to his Noble Friend at the head of the Government, which, if acceded to by him, would confer great benefit on the country at large, and give satisfaction to their Lordships. Every man now admitted that the Gaol Act required amendment, and he believed their Lordships would all agree with him that that task could be best undertaken by the Government, who had greater facilities than any private individual could have of bring ing it to a successful issue. The proposal was that, without loss of time, Government should lay on their Lordships table, without loss of time, a Bill for the amend ment of the 4th George IV., chapter 54, commonly called the Gaol Act, that that Bill should enact that one uniform system of prison discipline should be arranged for every gaol and House of Correction in the country—and also a clause that the rules and regulations for the government of prisons, which heretofore had been submitted to the Judges of Assize, should be submitted to the Secretary of State. He would propose that the Bill should be referred to the Com mittee on Prison Discipline, because, from the immense mass of information they had obtained from witnesses, as well as from their own visits to the jails of the metropolis, he considered they they were the best judges of the matter. From all that had appeared before them, it seemed that no one but one belonging to the class of the most criminal could, under the present system, be imprisoned in an gaol in England without conta mination.—( Hear, hear, hear.) He hoped his Noble Friend would agree to the plan he had proposed, for if so, one of the greatest grievances of the present day would be done away with—it was imperative that their Lordships should do some thing during the present session. Viscount MELBOURNE said from all his knowledge and experience upon the subject, and from the grounds which had been stated, he felt himself obliged to say that the recommendations must be carried into effect— ( Cheers)—and he had no hesitation in pledging himself on the part of the Government, that they would take a very early opportunity of laying a Bill on the tablg, in order to carry into effect the first three resolutions.—( Cheers. ) Petitions in favour of the Church were preseeted by the Duke of BUCCLEUGH and the Earls of RODEN and WILTON. Lord FARNHAM moved for a return of all the indictments preferred against individuals for being concerned in party processions, since the Bill regulating them had passed the House. He did so in order, therefore, that the doubt stated on Friday with respect to the meaning of that law should be set at rest.—Ordered. On the motion of the Duke of RIGIIMOND, it was ordered that the first report of the Gaol Committee be sent to the House of Commons. Lord BROUGHAM gave notice that on Thursday next (which was after altered to Wednesday) he would call their Lordships' attention to the subject of Marriages in Scotland, and the Law of Patents. The Duke of BUCCLEUCH presented a petition from the farmers, graziers, and others of the county of Bucks and neighbouring counties, against the Islington Market Bill ; and from the same places, complaining of agricultural distress. . The Marquis of WESTMEA FH wished to know from the Noble and Learned Lord opposite (Brougham), when it was his intention to proceed with his Ecclesiastical Courts Bill. Lord BROUG HAM said that a Learned Friend of his in the other House, the late Attorney-General, had introduced a Bill into the other House, which, if carried, would carry his (Lord Brougham's) intentions completely into effect. In the course of a week or ten days they would see the progress that Bill had made, which would determine him as to the course he would take. There were very great difficulties in the way, but he trusted they would be all overcome ; if not, he thought the better plan would be to leave out that part of the Bill which affected the vested interests which would be affected by the abolition of so many Courts. The question of adjournment havin,g been put— The Earl of RODEN wished to know if the Noble Vis count at the head of the Ministry whether he was yet prepared to lay before the House a copy of the dispatch sent to the new Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Lord MELBOURNE said he had not heard of any grounds for the production of the dispatch, especially as he conceived its production would be injurious to the public service. The Earl of RODEN repeated the charges made by him on a former night. For the benefit of those Noble Lords who had not been then present, he repeated that the Lord Lieutenant proceeded from Kingston to Dublin in a procession in which were carried the emblems of sedition—the harp without a crown— the cap of liberty, &c. He did not' i wish for the punishment of any of the parties present, but he wished to enter a claimer for the same liberty to those loyal Protestant sub jects who were members of the Orange Institutions the Noble Lord having refused to give a copy of the dis patch he (the Earl of R.) was yet ready to prove his statements at the bar of the House, and in that position he would leave the question in the hands of their Lordships. ®The Earl of LEITRIM—Ths Noble Lord has said that his statements have gone uncontradicted; they would do so no longer he would contradict them most unequivocally ; the order and decorum kept in that procession he had never seen exceeded, and he saw no banner but what appeared to be the emblems of the trades present. He had been informed that one banner had appeared with the " Repeal of the Union" for its motto ; but the character of an assembly of thousands was not to be taken away for the indiscretion of one individual. — The people of Ireland were of very enthusiastic temperament, and naturally expressed themselves is a warm manner, and as the Catholics bad looked forward to the present Government as one of a liberal policy, and expected that it would introduce a measure for the reform of the Corporation of Dublin, it was natural for them to express their feelings in an en thusiastic manner. But all the clamour that had been made in Dublin, and re-echoed here on this much misrepresented procession, was the mere effect of the hostility of certain parties to everything that was conducive to reform.—( Hear. ) Lord LONDONDERRY thought that what the Noble Lord had stated proved that there was some ground for in quiry into this matter. A Noble Lord on that side of the House (Lord Roden) had offered to prove at the bar of their Lordships, House, that the statements which the Noble had just contradicted, and if no judicial enquiry was instituted, the Government should at least produce the Lord Lieutenant's letter.—( Hear.) After a few words from the Earl of Wicimow and Lord MELBOURNE, the House adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the chair at 10 minutes to 3 o'clock. Being forty minutes before the usual hour, very few Members were then in attendance. Several reports were brought up and laid upon the table. TRINITY HARBOUR BILL. Mr. TOOKE brought forward his motion, the discussion of which was suspended by what he called " the untoward event " of Thursday last. He alluded to the mistake that occured in balloting for the Ennis Election Committee. The motion was to the effect that it be an instruction to the Committee to whom the Trinity Harbour Bill now stands referred, that they do not enter into the question of compliance with such of the standing orders of the House as was required to be proved before the Committee to whom the petition for the said Bill, was referred. Sir G. CLERK opposed the motion. He did not wish to go into the question as to whether the standing orders had been complied with or not—the question was, whether the House should interfere in this stage of the Bill, and he trusted that the House would not support the motion of the Hon. Member, which interfered with the progress of a bill in so very unusual and unprecedented a manner. Mr. WILK S, having no doubt as to the course of prac tice of the House, or to the line that justice and expediency recommended, would support the motion of the Hon. Member. 'She ATTORNEY GENERAL observed, that a large majority of that House had already Uecidcdt:,:_;air.st mod -.1 of the Hon. Member for Truro. The Bill was for the pur pose of making an harbour. The petitioners say that the grounds on which the harbour was to be built were theirs, and that they had no notice of the application for such a Bill. The petitioners further say that there is no bona fide list of subscribers, so that if the Bill should pass, the work would pause in lintine— they would be deprived of these grounds, and there was no fund out of which they could be repaid. The projectors of the Bill had been heard, but the petitioners had had no opportunity of replying, and he appealed to the House whether they should not be afforded an opportunity of proving their case. Was it not a monstrous injustice to take those grounds from the peti tioners without showing that there were any funds out of which they could be paid. They were now prepared to prove that the standing ordeis had not been complied with, and he was satisfied the House would not refuse them the opportunity of doing so. Mr. HUME said the House of Commons had never yet become the arbitrators in cases of disputed property, at least he had never heard that it had. It would be monstrous for the House to stop the progress of the Bill, because an action at law happened to be pending between two parties. Sir M. W. RIDLE Y thought, in allowing the Committee to go into the question of the standing Order, it would be only an act of justice, and would be consistent with the rule laid down by the late Speaker of the House in a similar case. He should therefore vote against the motion. M. A. JOHNSTONE hoped the House would enable the Committee to do justice to all parties. Mr. BROTHE RTON said, in his opinion, the Committee ought to have power to iniuire into the standing orders, for he saw in the share-list the name of Thomas French, of Man chester, for 5,000/. He had been long acquainted with Man chester, and did not know such a gentleman, but on looking at the London Gazette c,f last week, he saw the name of Thomas French, a bankrupt.—(Laughter.) He thought that substan tial justice could not be done unless the motion was agreed to. Mr. TOOKE rose amidst loud cries of " spoke, spoke." He said he had but a few words to say, and as he did not often trouble the House, he trusted the House would hear him, the more so as lie was anxious to save the House the trouble of a division. As the question was one of a technical nature, he would be bound by the decision of the Speaker. The SPEAKER had abstained from interfering in the ques tion, because it particularly interested a large portion of his constituents. As he conceived that those who had the honour to fill the situation he held, ought to be above suspicion, he would beg to decline to respond to the call made upon him. The motion was negatived without a division. - CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. . Lord JAMES STUART presented a number of petitions from towns in Scotland in favour of the Established Church of that country. Dr. BO WRING being requested to support the prayer of these petitions, would take that opportunity of correcting a mistake which, had gone abroad relative to the sentiments he had given expression to when this subject was before under discussion. He did not state, as was represented, that his constituents were generally against a grant for the Established Church of Scotland. He merely stated that a great portion of them were opposed to such a grant. MR. CHILDS' CASE. Sir W. FOULKES presented petitions from a number of towns in Norfolk, complaining of the punishment which Mr. Childs, of Bungay, had received for non-payment of Church rates. Mr. HUME presented six petitions complaining of the im prisonment of Mr. Chills, in which the petitioners stated their regret that any such harsh measures should have been resorted to, and praying that an alteration of such an oppressive and tyrannical law should take place, as that which incarcerated this gentleman in a goal. One of these petitions was from Bungay, and was signed by 810 out of the 900 householders of that place. The following is Mr. Childs's petition : "TO THE HONOURABLE THE COMMONS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED, " THE PETITION OF JOHN CHILDS, OF BUNGAY, IN THE COUNTY OF SUFFOLK, PRINTER, A PRISONER IN HIS MAJESTY'S GAOL OF IPS WICH, IN THE SAID COUNTY, " SHEWETH,—That your Petitioner dissents from the doctrines and ritual of the Church of England, as by law established, and holds it incompatible with Christian liberty that the expenses of a religious service, to which he is unable to conform, should be levied upon him. " That, during the last year, a sum of 17s. 6d. is charged to have been assessed on your Petitioner, or his property, in respect of Church-rate, and that the late Churchwardens of Bungay St. Mary, Samuel Scott, tanner, and John Bobbit, ironmonger, caused him to be cited to appear in the Episcopal Consistorial Court, holden in the Cathedral Chirch of Norwich ; but your Petitioner believ ing that the Sacred Scriptures do not confer on any religious sect the right to summon the members of any other sect to its own places of worship, or of determining questions in dispute between itself and such members of other sects, declined to appear at the specified time and place; but that a large and extensive establish ment, belonging to him, was at all times in the said town and parish, upon which the said rate might, by due eourse of law, have been " That, on the 12th day of May instant, your Petitioner was ar rested by an officer of the Sheriff of Suffolk, and was delivered, on the following day, to the custody of the Keeper of the Gaol at Ips wich, where he now remains. ‘. That the warrant for his arrest purports to issue from the office of the Sheriff of the said County, in obedience to a writ of his Ma jesty, and to authorize the imprisonment of your Petitioner, until he shall have made satisfaction for an alleged contempt of the said Episcopal Consistorial Court of Norwich, and is indorsed Take no Bail ;' that your Petitioner offered bail to any amount, but the same was refused. " That your Petitioner has committed no contempt of such Court, unless his non-resistance of its process is made by construction a crime deserving of imprisonment. " That, in the 53d year of the reign of his late Majesty George the Third, an Act was passed entitled an Act for the Better Regu lation of Ecclesiastical Courts in England, and for the More Easy Re covery of Church Rates and Tith es (C ap. 127) , i n pass i ng which Act. your Petitioner verily believes it was the intention of the Legisla ture wholly to abolish the power and jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical Courts in all cases of Church-rate, where the sum to be recovered did not exceed ten pounds, but that wh e th er t h at was or was not the intention of the Legislature, power is given by the 7th section of that Act to the Justices of the Peace, by an easy, cheap, and summary process, to enforce the payment of all church and chapel rates which do not exceed ten pounds, over and above the reasonable costs and charges to be ascertained by such Justices. " That the Prosecutors in the present case, the said Samuel Scott and John Bobbit, avoiding the short and simple and cheap, and therefore less oppressive, process, by the said A c t prov id ed, have taken proceedings in the Ecclesiastical Court, by whi c h th e costs of an expensive suit, and the pain and suffering of being cas t i nto gaol at a distance of forty miles from his family, and a very exten sive business,.of which he is the head, are inflicted upon him and his family, as a punishment for his conscientious refusal to pay a demand which he believes is not warranted by the word of God, and with the view, as he submits to your Honou ra bl e H ouse i t i s reasonable to believe, of deterring his Dissenting brethren, whose worldly circumstances may be poor, by the fear of imprisonment and ruin, from acting upon their own convictions of religious duty. " Your Petitioner therefore prays your Honourabl e H ouse t o take measures for the immediate abolition of the barbarous and anomalous powers of the Ecclesiastical Court, powers inconsistent with all principles of British Law, and capable of being employed, as in the present case, to effect the purpose and gratify the rancour of religious intolerance. " Your Petitioner further prays your Honourable House to abolish all those Laws which empower the members of the Church of England to levy the expence of conducting the worship of that one Sect from persons who are unable to join in it, and which inflict on loyal and conscientious subjects the marks of civil and religious degradation. (Signed) " JOHN CHILDS, of Bungay, in the County Gaol of Ipswich, Suffolk." Lord HENNIKER rose not for the purpose of making any observations generally upon the subject of Church-rates, but to vindicate the characters of two individuals who had made communications to him, as the representative of the county in which Bungay was situated—he meant the Churchwardens. When he made known the real facts of the case, the House would see that, so far from their exhibiting harshness on the part of those two gentlemen, that they had acted with great lenity. In making this statement, he disclaimed any offence to Mr. Childs, or any of the other gentlemen who had signed these petitions ; for he agreed with his Hon. Friend, the Member for Mid dlesex, in his opinion as to the respectability of Mr. Childs. He would state simply the facts of the case. In 1833 no public opposition was made to the Church rates, but the pay ment of them was objected to by two or three gentlemen, one of whom was a relative of Mr. Childs. Their goods were dis trained, which caused considerable excitement in the parish, but the rate was eventually paid. In 1834 again, there was another Church rate; it was not objected to at the time of making, but Mr. Childs objected to pay it afterwards.—( Hear, hear.) The reason why the Churchwardens took the course they had adopted was, first, because one of the two sit ting magistrates was a clergyman.—( Hear. ) Another was to prevent a recurrence of the excitement which took place in 1833 ; and the third was that they thought the case would be best decided in the Consistorial Court. The Churchwardens afterwards offered to give up all proceed ings against Mr. Childs, if he would pay the rate, without any payment of costs. He refused, and the Churchwardens therefore were required to proceed against him. These were the simple facts of the case, and they would be found to be so when the circumstances were fully brought before the House. Mr. HUME rejoiced that the Hon. Member bore testi mony to the great respectability of Mr. Childs, and to the petitioners who had signed the petition which he had just presented. Mr. Childs was an individual at the head of a large establishment, where 40 persons were em ployed. He had resided at Bungay for 30 years, and was the father of a large family, so that it was of the utmost im portance to him that his character should stand clear. It ap peared to him that the facts were simply these, Mr. Childs being a Dissenter felt conscientious scruples towards contribut ing to the maintenance of another religion, and there fore refused to pay the Church-rates. So the Quakers had done for many years, but the same course had not been adopted towards them that had been adopted towards Mr. Childs. When Mr. Childs refused to pay this rate of 17s. 6d., he said that he did not object to let the law take its course against him ; they might seize his goods and sell them, but he would not willingly pay the rate. All Mr. Childs objected to was, that the regular course had not been adopted to compel him to pay this rate. By the Act of 53, Geo. 111., which was passed for the purpose of preventing such cases as this from being brought into the Ecclesiastical Court, it was required that where the charge was under 101., it should be brought before two magistrates, who were to raise it by an ordinary distress. On looking over the Bill, he had some doubts whether it could bear that inter pretation.—( Hear.) Although there was a power to rate persons for sums of 101., it was not distinctly stated that they can be cited for smaller sums. Instead of calling upon two magistrates to sign a warrant, to enable them to make a a distress upon his property, of which it was well known he had abundance, the Churchwardens cited him to appear before the Ecclesiastical Court. Mr. Childs refused to attend on the same principle that ne hail :efused payment of the rate—his non-compliance was construed into con tempt of Court, and a warrant was issued by which he was dragged from his family a distance of 40 miles, whatever his state of health might be, and he was lodged in Ipswich gaol. He might Lave remained there to the end of time, if some individuals had not come for ward and made an entry by which he was purged of his con temp+, and paid the expenses attendant upon his imprisonment. It was against_ this system that the Dissenters complained —they admit that there is authority to levy the rate, but they say, and justly, that this was an act of oppres sion, and that the Churchwardens had taken the most vexatious mode of recovering the money.—( Hear, hear, hear.) He ( Mr. Hume) thought it a most tyrannical stretch of authority, and tending more than almost any thing, to bring the Church into contempt.—( Cries of " Hear.") Why was it that tithes were not paid in Ireland, after so many years of bloodshed and oppression ? It was the vexatious mode in which they had been levied against the feelings and wishes of the people. In this case there was a gratuitous insult offered to a respectable individual, and a disrespect in his , (Mr. Hume's) mind to the opinion of that House, where a Minister of the Crown had lately in his place declared that in many cases these rates ought not to be levied. He held in his hand the vestry ex penditure of last year, and it appeared by it that there were many items charged in it which Lord Althorp, a Minister of the Crown, had in his place declared, ought not to be levied. The present was an Act of oppression against which every liberal man ought to protest. The Noble Lord ( Henniker) stated that there was an excuse for these proceedings, and that it was necessary to have rec ourse t o th e E cc l es i as ti ca l Court, be cause the Churchwardens were unable to make any dis tress. He (Mr. Hume) held in his hand a letter relative to the statement made in the Ipswich Journal, upon which the Noble Lord had argued, and which clearly contra dicted the statement made in that paper.—( Hear, hear.) The letter was from Joseph Morris, the individual al luded to in the paragraph. The Hon. Member here read a letter of Mr. Morris, which appeared in The San a few days since, directly contradicting the assertion that it was impossible to to make a distress, or sell ; he would ask the House if ever there was a case of oppression more distinctly put before it, and the object evidently was by intimidation to prevent any resistance to the rate.—( Loud cries of " hear, hear.") If the treatment which Mr. Childs had experienced was held out as a threat against other house-keepers, would they - not be terrified into a compliance with whatever demands would be made upon them ? He trusted that this most oppressive and vexatious Act would not continue another session on the statute-book. He was glad to see the Noble Lord, the Secretary for the Home Department, in his place, as he was satisfied that that Noble Lord would see the necessity of introducing some change in the present system. He hoped the Noble Lord was prepared, or soon would be prepas ed, with some measure to prevent the possibility of any respectable householder being insulted in the manner in which Mr. Childs had been insulted. He trusted, at least before the termination of this session, that something would be done to preserve the order of society from such interruptions, and the supporters of the Church should remember that the best plan they could take to secure her from destruction would be to re move all that was calculated to make her hateful to the people. Supposing Mr. Childs to be out of prison, that would not alter the question at all.—( Hear, hear.) Was it likely that the people of England would submit to such treatment, when they saw that Church-rates were wholly abolished in Ire land?—(Hear). This case had come before the House at a Very opportune time, to warn the Ministry to do something towards the settlement of this question, and to keep peace in the land:—( Hear. ) Mr. F. KELLY entirely concurred in the observation that this question required the anxious consideration of the House. It was improper to make petitions to this House the vehicle for rabid, venemous and cowardly calumnies, such as this petition conveyed. He would beg to call the attention of the House to the strong words with which this petition concluded—the peti tioners prayed this Hon. House to adopt same measures for the abolition of the barbarous and anomalous powers of the Ecclesias tical Courts.—( Cheers from the Ministerial side of the House. ) He had heard that that cheer, and did not of course complain of such an expression of feeling respecting the power of Courts which he admittep were open to and guilty of abuses, but what he complained of was, the following improper lan guage of the petition, which stated that the power of these Courts was not only . inconsistent with the principle of. British law, but was in this instance capable of being employed to gratify the most vindictive motives, and appease the rancour of reli gious intolerance.—( Cheers from the Opposition.) He (Mr. K.) would beg to ask, Was a petition of that kind, containing such charges against a minister of the Established Church, to be received—alleging that the only object he had in view was the gratification of malignant purposes, and to satisfy the rancour of religious intolerance.— ( Cheers from the Opposition.) He did not mean to delay the -House, as he was aware that a very important discussion was 'to come on to-night, but he could not refrain from re peating, that it was a gross abuse of the right of petition ing to state, that the proceeeings in this case were prompted by the rancour of religious intolerance, and to im pute such motives to a Rev. Gentleman, ( Archdeacon Glover), who does honour to the establishment, and highly distinguished for the purity of his character, the amiability of his manners, and the most undeviating and strict integrity. He would now proceed to a detail of the facts of the case. In 1833 certain Church-rates were collected in Bungay, all of the inhabitants of which place, who were liable to Church rates, with the exception of two, no matter of what religious per suasion, willingly paid them. As these two refused to pay and as they assigned no satisfactory reasons for not paying—for they did not plead poverty—law proceedings were instituted and a warrant was itsued against. The proceedings resorted to were such as the statute prescribed. The goods of the parties were seized, and notwithstanding the seizure was made as quietly as possible, a tumult took place in the town of Bnngay. He stated this on the authority of men well known to many Members of that House, who were incapable of misrepresenting. A tumult took place, and was occasioned, not as the Hon. Member for Middlesex (Mr. Hume) had stated, because the goods seized were not sold publicly but privately. A false colouring was given to this matter by the statement of the Hon. Member, but was not that Hon. Gentleman aware that if the goods seized were not sold according to law (and the private sale of them was resorted to, to avoid public expo sure), the party had a sufficient remedy for the oppression ? In the last year the rates were, as usual, levied on the house holders of Bungay, and only three refused payment out of them —two of them were those who refused before, and the other was the individual (Childs) who now petitions. Applica tion was made to him to pay the rents, and if he was unable to pay indulgence would have been shown to him by those who regulate these payments. The two to whom he alluded did pay, Childs alone refused, not from inability, for he is a respectable man— a printer, and perfectly able to meet the demand. He claimed no indulgence, but presumed to set his scruples of conscience above the powers of the ,law. One of two ways of proceeding against him were then to be takan either in the Ecclesiastical Court, or as the Statute of George 111. already referred to, directed—( Hear.) The Hon. Gentleman then proceeded to state the reasons why the course that had been adopted was taken. The chief reason was to avoid the tumults that on a similar occasion had taken place. (LEFT BITTING.) PRI:V-COUNCIL. SWIFT V. KELLY, OTHERWISE SWIFT. (Continued from The Sun of Saturday.) In the course of the speeches of the Learned Counsel, the following letters from the respondent to the appellant were read to the Council, and excited much interest. They were written at Naples; .the first eight immediately before, and the remaining six immediately after the marriage : No. I. " You think I cannot be serious. I shall convince you how much you are mistaken ; your note is before me at this mo ment, and I have studied it attentively. But it would be acting unfairly both to you and myself were I to reply to your questions until you were made acquainted with the cir cumstances I mentioned last night. Yes, I have resolved I shall tell you all, and if then you feel disposed to repeat them, I shall answer them in any way you wish ; but you must give me a week, at least, for I have so few opportunities of writing that I cannot promise sooner. And even supposing I am not ready then, you must not look cross. " I shall write down everything as clearly as I can recollect, and you will then be able to judge whether I am Mgere or not. " You really frighten me when I think of all you said on Thursday night ; and can I give a greater proof of—what shall I say—than in making the disclosure I purpose, and re calling to my memory a subject which I never can look back upon without the bitterest feelings both of resentment and contempt. " Have I not written enough? I have had great difficulty in even doing this ; and now I shall expect to see you in good humour this evening. Adieu." No. 2. " Saturday evening. " You are unjust as well as ungenerous to me ; you ask me to write to you with sincerity and candour, and yet when I do so you object to all that I say. What would you have, or do you know yourself ? You are proud, capricious, and unkind. How have I merited such treatment from you ? You are angry because I did not meet !you last night. Upon my honour I could not bring myself to do so now, were I never to see you again. You do not know, nor can I tell you, what some of these odious Italians have said. I was with the young Mar chioness after I saw you to-day, and heard the whole story, and thought I should have died when she was telling me, and yet I could scarcely keep from laughing either. " Whether she suspected me or not, God knows ; but I am vexed and angry when I think of it, I really am so unfortu nate. I never did anything wrong yet that I was not found out, and the worst construction put upon it, and I see others go on sinning with impunity. " Ah 1 why did you look so angry to-day ? I could not ima gine what had happened, for it never occurred to me that any thing I had said in my letter could displease you. It may, indeed I am sure it did, appear to you cold, heartless, calcu lating. But do not judge me like others—l feel myself a dif ferent person from all young companions I have ever associated with, and so I am. My character is already in a great degree formed, for circumstances have thrown it far in advance of my years, and have effected the usual work of time. The senti ments arising from humiliation and wrong, namely, subdued anger and compulsory endurance, have destroyed the bloom and softness of mental youth, almost before they had time to appear in full existence. " No ! Mr. Swift, you do not love me, or you would not suppose I had deceived you with regard to that circumstance at Armagh ; and yet in yesterday's note 3ou tell me you sus pect that more has happened than I confessed. If you think me capable of a falsehood, and so unprovoked a one as that, you place yourself in a most extraordinary light in telling me, a few lines after, that you esteem me. In short, I am puzzled, and, still more strange, lam out of temper this evening. I shall see you at Borghese's, but then I can hardly speak to you, and then not till Tuesday evening. I had better write no more now—what need I ? you misconstrue all I say ; if I tell you the truth, lam cold ; if I conceal it, I am hypocritical ; if I don't come down to meet you it is a proof of my indifference ; if I do, I am to be literally shocked the next day at hearing what has been said. • " You think I am happy because I am always gay, but ap pearances are deceitful. " It is not joy, that, sometimes gay, I share the laugh in being light ; Too often smiles that play by day, Contrast with tears that fall by night." " Adieu--E. C. KELLY." No. 3. " Si la Mano Io ti_prometto. " Sunday morning, 44 o'clock." No. 4. " En verite cela ne va pas mal J'ai taut press 4, tent sermonne .ma mere Que malgre tout nous finissons l'affaire." --••-- - - - - • " Ah 1I wish - what I have written was true, but it is only a ' plaisanterie.' I have said nothing, as yet, because some thing tells me,—if I defer it a week longer—l should have more. " You tell me it would be cruel to flirt with you; you need not be afraid—l never flirted with anybody I cared for ; nor, indeed, do I think I have a spark of coquetry in my whole composition, but perhaps I am a little more etourdie' than most people, and that is what makes you think so. Besides, you cannot judge what . I am. You never see me but at a ball, and then even I can hardly speak to you, there is always some gentleman or lady near enough to hear our conversation. " Were it otherwise, depend on it I should not write to you these notes, for I know I could not take a surer method of lowering myself in your estimation, and also in my own, for I hate any thing that is hypocritical. " I thought, perhaps, we should have *remained after the Opera last night, and that I should have danced with you, but it was all in vain. When I went there, I had so much to say to you, but le bonhfur de tevoir, me fait tout oublier. " You thought I was quizzing you on Monday evening in the cotillon, but that was only because you were cross. " By-the-by, I hope you had a pleasanter one last night— I heard you danced with Miss H. " Now I have one request, which, though a very trifling one, I wish you would attend to, and that is, not to speak so very loud to me when you are next me ; for were the words letter' or ' -write' to be overheard, you know not how much I should suffer for it. " I shall give you this, if we are able to get out, to-day ; if not, when I see you to-morrow evening. Adieu. " Si je vous vois constant et raisonable C'en .est assez—Je vous vois trop amiable." Notarial Translation of such parts of the Exhibit No. 4, as are in the French language. " In truth that does not go ill ; 1 have so pressed, so sermonized my mother, That, in spite of all, we will finish the affair." " The happiness of seeing you makes me forget all." " If I see you constant and reasonable It is enough—l see you too amiable." No. 5. " I am almost sure some of our conversation was overheard last night. I beg, I entreat, you will be more careful in fu ture, or else I shall be forbidden to dance with you. " I have a great deal more to say, but dare not venture to write it now—perhaps I may have an opportunity on Friday evening. " Wednesday." No. 6. " Oh ! what agonies I have endured on your account. Wei.* you hurt, or did you get home safe ? I cannot tell you what lam suffering. Things have taken the most extraordinary turn, and you are not the peison suspected. I will explain all to you this evening ; but must come to Mrs. S--th, but don't attempt to see me before that. Indeed I hardly know what lam saying, my head is so confused. I hope there will be no ' brouillerie' while we are in Florence ; but, for God's sake, take care of not betraying yourself; and, above all things, keep away from this. I will explain all this evening, but I send this now at all risks, to set your mind at ease. Oh 1 when you came to the ground with such force last night, I cannot tell you what I felt. Adieu.—A Monsieur Swift, Palazzo Pucci." No. 7. " I should certainly advise your writing either this even ing or to-morrow, which you like. I told you the objec tions were all trivial ones, but I was ashamed to say what they were ; but yet Ido not despair. She does not seem displeased with me as I had expected, and perhaps she may relent in the end. Oh I I shall be miserable if something is not soon decided, for every moment almost I expect something to be found out ; I have not had one happy hour since I came to Rome. To-morrow, I believe, we change these apartments, and then I shall perhaps not even have an opportunity of giving you a note ; but I cannot ever change my sentirfents, therefore my not being able to write to you need tiot make you uneasy. It is better to run no risk, because mamma so completely acquits you of any deception. Ah I if I thought you still loved me the same as formerly, I could bear all the hopes and fears which I now have; but sometimes when I think of all the past, I fancy your opinion towards me is changed. I shall write you to-morrow anything more I can find out from mamma before we leave these rooms.—(lo o'clock.) No letter has come, and I suppose will not come now. Do not be angry at anything mamma may have said. I only heard part of the letter, and did not seem curious about it, because I knew I should hear of it from you. Adieu. Pensez a moi que je pense a vous. Once more, Ibe you to take care of F--- seeing you near these windows." No. 8. " Pray sing less, or some one may overhear you, and I shall be put out of this room ; and do not let F-- see you near the window for God's sake. I shall give you a note at a quarter past ten this evening, but do not take any notice until I speak first ; and it would be better to go round by the street than through the yard at that hour. Pray take care of F---, he is constantly there at the carriage." No. 9. "Je souffre extrament ; mais je ne sais lien encore. Ah ! mon bien aime ne sois to pas fiche avec moi, ce n'est pas ma faute ; mais encore je t'assure je ne suis pas certaine. I shall try to go to the B- Gardens at four. Ah 1 write to me, and I will send up in half an hour; and then walk past the window, darling, and I will see you." Notarial Translation of such part of the Exhibit No. 9, as is written in the French language. " I suffer extremely ; but as yet I know nothing. Aid my dear love, do not he angry with me, it is not my fault; but as yet I assure you I am not certain." No. 10. " The hair will be nicer in a few days ; I put rather too much oil on it after I cut it off. Don't attempt the balcony. M— is packing, and in very cross humour with votre petit 6.pouse.' Write me anything you wish to say by M— A—. We drink tea at No. 13 this evening, so shut your door when we are passing, lor fear of_ suspicion.- I will certainly see you after, and if I should not be able tO come out, come to the balcony by eleven o'clock—but I think I shall be OA. to come out as usual. Am I forgiven ?" No. 11. " I find we stop at the Victoria instead of the Gran 80, tagna—l told M— A— to say so, but I believe she cook not see you. Why did you look so cross when you saw me I t the carriage ? Once more I beg you to take care of when you come to Naples, and not try to see me until yo o hear from me. I shall keep your flowers till you come, let it be ever so long. I suppose it will be a week till we meet again—only fancy how miserable. Attend to my directions. Once more, my sweetest love, adieu." No. 12. " It really looks .as if you wished everything to be dig s* " vered. How could you think of coming when we were out to night? I am sure the people below will tell F—, and them will be only fresh precautions to prevent my seeing you. Ail dearest love, I have been miserable since I left, and so t °r ; mented about you ; but do not fear, nothing can ever isa% my sentiments change towards you ; all I can beg is, that g will do nothing rashly, nor write to mamma. I will ear' t s o l why again ;at this moment I have not time. It is in Va in t attempt seeing you this evening, or even speaking from tu e e window ; our rooms are in the very clouds. To-morrow vi move into the Esterhazy Palace, Chiaja; but do not, I _ ell ; treat you, my dear Will, think of coming near the Wu''' . until we are quite settled. Most likely we shall see r ti all to-morrow, and if I have time I will give you a o ti b ' but if you come near my windows you will be seen F—, and he tells everything to mamma, and then I 'l e be the sufferer. lam sorry to torment you always o n t . one subject, but you are not aware what caution is neces sar ' , , We had a tiresome journey, and one part of the note you g a l :" me at the carriage window vexed me very much. Bit: matter, we need not quarrel now. It is not like Rome, 11 ' 0 er 1 we had an opportunity of making it up. If you write to to-morrow, the only chance of your giving me the note 0,1. be the street ; but it is safer to wait a day or so, witboutNavie tempting to set you. We move to-morrow morning. d could not get rooms at the Vittoria, or Gran Bretagoso 11 : 0 0 could not send to the post, it is so far. M— "0, much like being in any scrape of this sort. Adieu—bur n t Ito or send it back to me. Not that I have a shade of doubt as your honour, your generosity. Adieu, ever yours." No. 13. " I write this on the chance of your coming this eveningi We are going to the opera, and shall not be at borne jig late. My love, I cannot see you this eveni n g, they are Ma' f a some alteration in the wainscot in my room, and I shall mamma's in consequence of it, but to-morrow I come here. Besides, I suspect F- heard something to day, as intends being on the watch, therefore I should like to dl n . i r u point him. So do, my sweet little love, go away when i fo , get this. I hear there is some talk of a• party for Mount o f suvius on the day after to-morrow, and that you are to be it. I hope it is the case. We have been twenty times pas i 7 your house to-day, but can never see you in the win" ° , l ,f, Adieu I mind what I say, and I will see you to-morrow nt but not before twelve. The street is not quiet until the n, n the gates shut here. Should Ibe asleep you can th A lr ed , pebble at the window. Bring this note with you. carino mio." No. 14. " You are a sweet little creature ; you shall have the niature this evening, and shall see a very pretty chalk (0 11 , 1 1 a day or two. I cannot believe your story of De SOdrei in any case make him hold his tongue." The hearing of the arguments of these' Learned Gentile: occupied. the Council from ten till nearly four o'clock , 1 . c, the further consideration of the case was adjourned. 55 Wetherell and Dr. Lushington are re t a i ne d f o r the r es ,f „ o t be dent. The case is one of the gr e at es t i m p o rtance s I t ie ' e ne it decision of the Council is looked forward t o with the interest by foreign countrie s , as th e v a lidity or "' 0 ° 1 3111' . many of their marriages of English s u bj ec ts will be es blished by it. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL• • Saturday a Court was hel OP d for the despatch of bu st° f The Lord Mayor summoned th e C our t i n conse quence o i . c . communication from the Smithfield Market Committee, the presenting that the Islingt o n M ar k e t Bill h a d ass ° dto House of Commons, and that if th e C orporat i on inteed i e wa yo continue in the House of Lords th e o pp os iti on it had te st given to the Bill in the C ommons , M on d ay next ware the I ni o day at which a petition c o uld b e rece i ve d f rom tae C °ll3 Council for that purpose. The minutes of the last Court were read, and Mr. FIGGINS then mo v ed th a t M r . Pritchard be re i n l u d e e t ° to postpone his intended m o ti on on th e matter o f privi' e v„ ar' t her the next Court, whi c h p ro p os iti on was secon d e d by member. 11 The Loan MAYOR would not put any such motion. an d Mr. FTOOINS, at the recommendation of Mr. Pritchard others, aopted te fol nes t lowing : " That d the question of privilege be adjourned to th e - Court." • gor y The RECORDER suggested th e i n t ro d uct i on o f 'the. be " without prejudice," aft er th e wor d " a dj ourne d ;" said, would probably make the motion unobjectio7.jable by party. had stir; The amendment was at first objected to by the memb er rounding Mr. Figgms, but the Recorder having comm a B p d i$ with the Lord Mayor and s evera l Ald ermen pre sent'.. e s" being understood that th e a d o p t i on o f t h e wor ds 0 6 would induce the Lord Mayor to put the mo tion !r ° t Chair, their introducti on was assen t e d t o b y all Par t the a isg the question being put, The motion was agreed to unanimously, and e„,', e-i re guil l , conciliation appeared to be generally entertained. 1 °1; e l business of the Court was then proceeded with, and deal done. Co ot Mr. By rrEnwowrn moved that the thanks o f the, should be given to the Rev. Mr. W e th ere ll , t h e L o rd 1 " . 14 o n Chaplain, for his excellent sermon p reac h e d at St. Ps""tatthe the 26th of April, and that he sh ou ld b e requeste d to Pr l of tbi same, and that a copy should be sent to each membe r Court. es° Mr. STEVENS moved, as an amendment; that th e s f the should be printed and circulated amongst the membe rs Court. indislic64 The Loan MAYOR fancied that if the Court were il• rec oo' to give the usual vote, his Chaplain would endeavour 1 0 . b e ." w i g cite himself to the dis a pp o i n t ment , bi tter as it ' ( A laugh.) mai , " The amendment was then negati ve d by a large and the origiiial moon carrie. Upon the motion for present d ing a petition to the of Lords against the Islington Market Bill, After some discussion the motion to petition the fx rci° agreed to by a very large majority. , BIRTHS. On the 17th inst., at the Ray, Maidenhead, Lady • Ril e't a daughter. On the 23d inst., in Baker-street, the lady of Captai ° os ° Carnac, a daughter. Thei On the 23d inst., in John-street, Bedford-row, Mrs' of° Styan, of a daughter, her eleventh child. eling , On the 22d inst., at the General Post-office, M. = re f daughter. ° On the 21st inst., the wife of the Rev. T. 0: Goodc daughter. of MARRIED. late ° i rs l On the 21st inst., at Bromham, Wilts, Captain Aga* , 16th Lancers, Mary Hood, third daughter of the late Peter Paget, C.B. W. P' ' bt er On the 21st inst., at Tooting Church, the Rev. T. — • liniere. A.M., rector of Kirklinton, Cumberland, to Jane, eldest ', lls l , r eP lie of Edmund East, Esq., of Leigh-house, Lower Tooting , of t he On the 21st inst., at Lewisham, Lieut. Herbert MaYna ;of Bengal Army, to Miss Jane Consett Bell, grand late Matthew Consett, Esq., of Guilford - street, Russell- si eV' On the 21st inst., at Pluley, Kent, th e Rev. Willi se! AO 6 Draper, Rector of Broke, in the same county, to Msr% fourth daughter of Barrington Price, Esq. t r, P.;11 On the 20th inst., at Hitchin, Herts, Mr. Oswald For f e jou of the same place, surgeon, to Martha, second daughter ° ird Margetts Pierson, Esq. th a b- On the 16th inst., at Cheltenham, Charles Saunders, cia son of the late Colonel Anderson Saunders, to Eliza, secor i r obir, e , ter of the late James Wilson, Esq., of Sneaton Castle, l r° , 01 of On the 19th inst., at the Earl of Listowell's, f ,a _4 : er Hedworth Lambton, Esq., M.P., youngest brother of e Durham, to Anna, eldest daughter of the late Gerli,te s % r a Bushe, Esq., of Kilkenny, and niece to the Countess of fi for I ; f as Immediately after the ceremony the happy pair set ° Durham's villa at Sudbrook. The Countess of Listowl" F. C. held an assembly, which was numerously attene.ed- be , On the 21st inst., at the Friends' House, Iligh Starbuck, Esq., to Miss Sarah Edmonds ; and HeurZ plro°o-ie of Uxbridge, to Miss Jane Edmonds, both daughters efl',o van grand- ugh te.fe, Esq. The ceremony, which was very interesting, Was 1- s os bl° rously attended ; and we are sure the Meeting-house biee°.,4,l more respectably filled, or graced by a greater number of f ' s e cettif belles than were present on this occasion. The ceremool b y fie*" nearly two hours, and the marriage contracts were sigve F red, all the per s o ns present. fte • tr eet' On the 19th inst., at Trinity Church, Chester, by th e Aykbroom, Rect or , M.A., William Clarke, Esq., of Cei v i i i r e• 4 0, to Jane, daught er o f Willi am J e ff er i es, E sq., o f Stafford° Willl t er On the 20th inst., at St. M ar y' s Ch urc h, Lanca s te r ' jog" eldest son of John Simpson ' Esq.. of Hackney, to Glac e i of the late Thom as M ason , Esq., of Lancaster. DIED.. 94, On the 13th inst., in hi s 72d y eary, Joseph S T *'''' big Hackney-road. ' it) On the 23d inst., in Saville-row, Robert Snow, 94 1... 0 0 81st yeir. 41 , of im. h On the 21st inst., at Tonbridge Wells, nary, W'" , flir t R. H. King, H.R.N., after giving birth te, a son. ..„ e riy, 0 o Recently, on the Continent, Sir Samwel Watken, fo"'`,.,,'o l° , of Sheriff of Gloucestershire, and many years in the Colg i ; 't f a the Peace for that county. Sir Samn.el attained the g?-,30 -100-87 87 ; his remains, aft er being embalmed, will be broug, l ey , t" land, to be deposited in the family vault at King's Sts , WO cestershire, the residence of his si m , Si r Paul Bagot. o f th e ( t he On the 13th inst., at Exet er; J o h n Neave, Esq., SO' t i l er ° Sir Richard Neave, of Dagenham-park, Essex, and Pr ° l ife present Baronet. ft, O le On the 2lst inst., at Tatchbury, Southampton, Suss.sr. o', of Henry Thomas Timson, Esq. ~.,. 0 4' 10 On the 7th inst., at Elli o t-pla ce , Bingham-town, th" - -colte' Hants, aged 84, Mrs. Rebecca V o k e , relict of Mr. Julio r f f purser, R.N. o On the 13th inst., at Edinburgh, William Alves, s'l'' o f ham-place, Hants. l36°' On the 19th inst., aged 59, M ar y, the wife of gr. -• hil o Great Tower-street, London, and Slinfold, Sassen. Ogle, O n t E h s e q. 2:l i t t its . t. , ei l' inst., On the 21st inst., in Walworth, Benjamin Clark, f' l ' e , 78th year. C•th inOgxafofradm, family of the ~,:a0 of Jam' to, On the 22d inst., at Southampton place, Ceraberwit wife of Joseph Ward, Esq., in her 82d year. 1 •< ( 12; of nine yooting childrsl: in ' Y --- OU N'Og London; P r i n t e d and Published lyy MURDO 3 4;1011 1 ' 112, Strand, at ?/se Sun Offico, No. 112, Straus(' 10 ' P.- Qf Middlesex. IN ril l , 14, trai "itt / , THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 25, 1835,