The Sun. — London, England, 1835-04-23 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The surprise and alarm which the declarations of Lord Melbourne in the House of Lords on Saturday were naturally calculated to excite, appear to have in creased with the revelation of new, and the recollection of old, facts, but more especially with the observation of the bold carriage and the high tone assumed by the Irish destructives. Lord Melbourne, it will be recol lected, used on the occasion to which we refer, the following words in answer to Lord Alvanley :—" The Noble Lord (Alvanley) then demanded of him, whe ther he had taken any means to secure the assistance of Mr. O'Connell ; and if so, upon what terms ? He did not know whether he should have the assistance of Mr. O'Connell or not ; but he could state most dis tinctly that he had taken no steps to secure it ; and he should most particularly state, that he had entered into no terms whatever, nor had he said anything from which any inference could be drawn, in order to secure that individual's support. To the Noble Lord's question, therefore,. he gave the most de cided negative ; and if the Noble Lord had been told any thing to the contrary, he had been told that which was false and without foundation. There was nothing in the direct statement of the Noble Lord, or that could be drawn by implication from what the Noble Lord had said, that was supported by facts." It was quite impossible for Lord Melbourne to employ language more plain or more explicit than this ; and we are at once bound and willing to believe that Lord Melbourne is incapable as well of stating what is posi tively untrue, as of having recourse to evasion or equi vocation. It is admitted, then, not only that Lord Mel bourne has not himself tampered with O'Connell, but that no colleague, no agent of his Lordship, has done that office for him, with his knowledge, privity, or consent. But does any man who has eyes to see and ears to hear doubt that there has been dealing with the Agitator on the part of the Ministry ? And is it not true that no man who moves in the political world, whatever may . be his command of countenance, could possibly refrain from actually laughing in the face of any sim pleton who should express a doubt how, or even by whom, the evil spirit has been laid—for a time ? He who worked the spell was no conjuror, any more than there was aught of magic in the witchcraft that he used. When, however, we recollect the fact, which is known to hundreds, and of which there is abundant testimony, namely, that so long ago as Saturday week last, Mr. O'Connell declared in the Dublin Election Committee room, that all the Irish appointments were at his dis posal, that he actually named the Attorney and Soli. citor-General for Ireland, and that all the other offices have been filled to his satisfaction ; and when also we consider that he has since gone over to the Ministerial side of the House—the seats of the " bloody and the brutal," who denounced him from the throne—another subject of very grave reflection necessarily arises from the comparison of the strong declaration of Lord Mel bourne with the strange evolutions of O'Connell and his Tail. We repeat, that we believe, because we wish to believe, implicitly the assertion of Lord Mel bourne, and that we will not insult him by har bouring a thought that he could stoop to the petty vice of shuffling where he avoided the bolder crime of lying ; but then it must at the same time be true, that the exact foul play, the identical underhand movement which flung Earl Grey, has now been practised upon Lord Melbourne, though with what effect is not yet apparent. We find it, however, diffi cult to understand why any of the colleagues of Lord Melbourne should have given himself, or themselves, the trouble to take, so early, the same means of get ting rid of their Chief, which others of the Grey Ca binet had not recourse to, but in the last resort, for the purpose of ousting him who presided over their deliberations. Lord Melbourne, unlike Lord Grey, has, we think, at the outset sealed his own fate, and that of his Administration. For, when on Saturday last the Duke of Buckingham " begged to ask Lord Melbourne, distinctly and emphatically, whether he was prepared, as the head of his Majesty's Government, to bring forward a measure with respect to tithes, founded on the resolution of Lord John Russell, which would go to appropriate the surplus of church revenue, should there be any, to other than Protestant religious purposes ?" Lord Melbourne replied, " Ido not hesi tate to say, that I am bound, and consider myself pledged, to act on the resolution of the other House." It cannot be necessary to repeat here the terms of that resolution. It is in effect to provide for the Protestants of Ireland a sort of spiritual schedule A ; to declare that if there be not a certain number of Protestant souls in a parish, it shall be disfranchised of the parson and of all means of Protestant worship, deprived of the consolations of religion in sickness and distress, and of its control and counsels in health and prosperity— unless, indeed, the prediction of O'Connell be verified, and one of the consequences of Lord John Russell's resolution be—" that the Protestants become Catho lics, and return to the folds from which their fathers strayed." And why should not the prediction be made good rather than the excommunicating principle of Lord John Russell triumph ? If their own altars be destroyed, if they be driven from the bosom of their own church, if their own pastors be banished, will it not be better that Protestants should be take themselves to other spiritual guides, and bow the knee to God in some temple, however defiled by superstitious usages, than that they should live like the beasts of the field, without worship, or be shunned of Christian men as out casts from every religious community ? But we are wrong, perhaps, in comparing this resolution to schedule A ; for though that schedule deprived men of political privileges, as this resolution will deprive Pro testants of the means of religious worship, still the confiscated franchises were transferred to other places, where they could be turned to better account for the end for which they were bestowed ; while here the ap propriated surplus parson, surplus church, and sur plus means of paying adoration to the living God are as utterly removed from ecclesiastical uses, the end for which they were given, as Woburn-abbey itself is. The pretence for this outrage on feelings which, in this country at least, were never yet safely trifled with, is, that the Irish Protestant Church will thereby be re formed from abuses. We are told that the Irish Church is too rich, and therefore that this course must be pursued. It is utterly impossible that these posi tions can be other than subterfuges. Even Lord John Russell must know them to be alike absurd and false. Suppose it were said, and proved that the Corporation of London were too rich ; suppose that one had a right to :seize upon what a Lord John Russell might call its surplus revenues ; and suppose that it were proposed to make the seizure, not from the gross amount of the whole revenues of the Corporation, but to take from a few individual companies —say, the smallest in number —their entire funds, so that they should be left with out a farthing, and the other companies be suffered to remain as they were, would not the man who made such a suggestion be considered a fit subject for a com mission of lunacy ? And yet this is precisely Lord John Russell's mode of reforming the abuses of the Irish Church—of appropriating its surplus revenue—. that mode which Lord Melbourne thinks himself bound to attempt to execute I But the scheme is more re markable for its fraud than for its folly. The real ob ject of Lord John Russell was, as every one knows, to turn out Sir R. Peel's Administration, and he did not care at what risk to the interests of the State, or the maintenance even of the Protestant religion itself, he succeeded in carrying his point, provided only that he did carry it, and get himself once more into office. Well, so far he has succeeded ; and at this point we leave him for the present. To-morrow we may exa mine what prospects open to him from his new emi nence, whither he has dragged Lord Melbourne and his colleagues with him.—Times. It is much easier to look back than to anticipate, and when events have been consummated, to point out how unfortunate results might have been avoided. Looking upon Sir Robert Peel, with one exception—the unfor tunate question of the currency—to have been an almost faultless Minister, we cannot contemplate his removal from office, especially in the circumstances in which it has taken place, to be anything short of a national ca lamity. How that calamity might have been'avoided it is no* not difficult, we think, to see. The two events which have led to thin untoward state of things, were the too hasty dismissal of Lord Melbourne's first Ad ministration, and the premature dissolution of the late Parliament: With - reference to the first of these we do not at all deny, but have all along contended, that there was sufficient in the state to which that Ministry was reduced by the death of its principal member, by the eccentricities of another, by the secession of others, and its false position on the state of Irish affairs, to justify an impression on the Royal mind, that no patching up which it could undergo could enable it to carry on the affairs of the country with any prospect of success, and, therefore, with a promptness, a can dour, and a manliness not always to be met with in Courts, the King at once determined to rid the coun try of an incubus, which his Majesty rightly enough imagined was on the eve of self-dissolution. Still events have proved that the act itself was premature, and that it gave to that Ministry a renewed vitality, a certain degree of sympathy, on which it was fast ' losing all legitimate claim. In short, Lord Mel bourne's Government should have been allowed to die the natural death to which it was so fast approaching. The putting it out of its misery gave it the only new life it could ever have acquired. This done, how ever, and the new Premier placed at the head of affairs, it was not at all necessary or advisable that the Parliament should have been dissolved, till it had at least shown an unequivocal disposition to thwart the new Minister in his conduct of the public affairs ; and such a course seems the more advisable, now that it is seen what the measures of Sir Robert Peel have been. We apprehend the most sanguine among the Whig-Radicals does not imagine that if the dissolution had taken place in February, or March, instead of when it did, a very different result would not have ensued. In short, it was the obvious policy of the new Ministry to place the House of Commons in the wrong before they returned them back upon the judgment of their con stituents ; whereas by a premature dissolution, by turning the Members adrift, faultless and untried, a sympathy similar to that which the dismissed Ministers were receiving was created towards them, while Sir Robert Peel and his colleagues at the same time placed themselves in a false petition towards the country, by allowing it to be assumed and imagined that they meant to resort to anti-reform, instead of a reform policy, in their government of the country. We are not unaware of the arguments which present themselves on the other side; above all, of the inconvenience which would have arisen from so many of the members of the Government being without seats in the House of Commons. But our view of the matter only amounts to a question of time, and as such the difficulties in this respect would have been but of short duration. We do not for a moment imagine that the late House of Commons would have suffered Sir Robert Peel's Government to go on had his measures been those of an angel ; but it is the factious opposition which, we believe, it would have received, which would have sealed its doom with the country, and had an effect upon numerous constituencies, who, in the absence of it, re-elected to the present House men whom they would in the other case, in all probability, have re jected. These are the views, this the conclusion, to which a retrospection of the last four months leads us to come to. If they are correct, then the inference almost necessarily follows, that had an opposite course on both occasions been pursued, the present state of things would have been widely different ; and instead of seeing the affairs of the country delivered over to a Ministry which, disguise it how they will, are mere puppets in the hand of one who avowedly holds the wires, we should have seen the most capable man in the kingdom manfully and judiciously wielding its des tinies, supported by a majority of the Representatives of the people, and enjoying the entire confidence of the other two estates of the realm.—Morning Herald. The most intense interest is felt as to the issue of the contest in South Devonshire, where the great battle of protestantism, as it has been truly termed, is about to be fought. From all the information which has reached us, we cannot doubt that the electors will act nobly and independently on this trying occasion, and that Lord John Russell will be defeated. The returns of the canvass of Mr. Parker leave the Home Secretary without a chance of finding an extensive and respectable constituency to afford him the opportunity of confiscating the property of the Church. The pro phecy of Mr. Cioker in the House of Commons, dur ing the discussions on the Reform Bill, is about to be realized, and the proposer of that measure will be forced to resort to Tavistock, or some other snug bo rougo rough saved from Schedule A, for a seat in Parlia ment.—Morning Post. It is with pleasure that we refer to the proceedings of the meeting held last night, for the purpose of rais ing a subscription in London to secure the re-election of Lord John Russell, free of expense. We were sure that it only needed the formation of a Committee, in order to raise a subscription in the metropolis quito sufficient for this purpose. The praises awarded to his Lordship last night by Colonel Evans, Mr. Hume, and the other speakers at the meeting are not greater than he deserves. The " judgment," " ability," and " discretion" evinced by him during the last three months have raised him higher than ever in the esti mation of Reformers ; •and it is mainly owing to that " judgment," that " ability," and that " discretion" that we have finally succeeded in overthrowing the late Administration of " Delusives." Well and bravely has Lord John Russell fought the battle of the people of England—well and bravely has he led their chosen troops, driven their enemies from one defence to another, and, finally, carried by storm the very citadel of their cor ruption. He has fulfilled his duty ; it is now for the people to fulfil their's. He has identified himself with the cause of the people ; it now becomes their duty to support their own cause by supporting him. If the Reformers wish to make Lord John Russell an efficient champion in their behalf, they must them selves arm him for the fight to which they call him— arm him, by supporting him in his struggle with the combined forces, not merely of the Tories of Devon shire, but of the Tories of all England. The cause of British Reform is now to be fought amidst the green hills and fertile valleys of Devonshire. Not a stone will be left unturned by the Tories to accomplish his defeat—a defeat on which they hope again to raise with some semblance of probability the absurd and ri diculous cry of Re-action ! The Tories are on the point of despair, and they consequently fight with all the energy of desperate men. Their money is subscribed liberally; their exertions are given actively; no engine of corruption or intimidation is idle. They have actually had the astounding impudence to circulate a report that Lord John Russell had turned Papist—he who has proved himself the best friend of the Protestant Esta blishment, by endeavouring to weed out its abuses, and to regulate it in accordance with the true spirit of its own doctrines. They care not how they accom plish their object, so they but accomplish it. The end with them justifies the means. From the impor tance which the Tories attach, then, to the defeat of Lord Jord John Russell, Reformers may form a just estimate of the importance to them of his success. The Tories are not the men to give something for nothing. The money they have subscribed to defeat Reform in Devonshire is merely an advance to be paid with i usu rious interest out of the pockets of the people, f the cause of corruption should be unfortunately success ful. We have received letters from several corres pondents, assuring us that there is no fear of a de feat in this quarter—a statement which we are happy to find confirmed from sources on which we can place reliance. We have, indeed, no fear for Reform, if Reformers will but exert them selves ; but unfortunately it is the selfish and the corrupt who are usually the most active. They have motives for exertion in which Reformers who seek only the general good do not participate. We call on the Reformers of Devonshire, therefore, to be unremitting in their exertions against this inde fatigable and insidious enemy ; and we call on the Reformers of England to come forward and demon strate, in a way that cannot be mistaken, their un diminished attachment to Reform, and their increased respect for its chosen leader and champion. Even while we write, we find our call has been responded to. The Liverpool Address to Lord John Russell has been sent off with 10,396 signatures, which were affixed to it in three days and a half. The Liverpool Reformers have acted with equal Judgment and spirit. The Manchester Reformers, t oo , have shown a proper sense of what is due from them. It now remains for VICE•CHANCERY COURT. BAKER V. HARWOOD. COURT OF KING'S BENCH. THE SUN, LONDON, TITURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1835. • the inhabitants of the metropolis—that metropolis which owes its extended representation to the exertions of Lord John Russell and his colleagues—to prove their attachment to the cause to which his Lordship has, at their call, devoted himself, and to justify their claims to those great measures of Reform in Church and State which they have so long and earnestly sought, by giving an unqualified and intelligible sup port to him in whose success or defeat the success or defeat of those measures may at present be said to be involved.—Morning Chronicle. We predicted yesterday that the spirited example of the City of London in presenting a requisition for a Common Hall, for the purpose of addressing his Ma jesty on the occasion of his re.appointment of the present Ministry, would be followed by every liberal constituency throughout the kingdom. Scarcely was the ink dry with which we penned the article in ques tion, when a public meeting was announced to be held, for the purpose of returniug Lord John Rus sell for Devonshire free of expense. The details of this meeting, which are given in another column, will be found highly gratifying. Colonel Evans presided in his usual effective manner, and the manly independent sen timents expressed by Mr. Hume will find an echo in the breast of every man who wishes to see the triumph of Reform over the baffled Tories permanently secured. Resolutions for effecting the free return of Lord John Russell were unanimously carried. But satisfactory as the result was, in the just tribute it offered to an able and popular statesman, we are not less gratified with the anticipation of the wide diffusion of the ex ample thus set throughout the kingdom, and with the proof afforded by the meeting, that the patriotic bond which has to this time united all classes of Reformers in one indissoluble union against Tory domination, still remains as firm as ever. So end the self-delusive predictions of the Tories—their " wish being father to the thought"—that that battle once ended and the vic tory gained, the alliance of the Reformers would fall to pieces, or its component members would quarrel for a division of the spoil. Doomed to be proved anything but conjurors in their various prophecies, they have been lately trying another tack in their baffled cause of daily disproved prediction ; and their idle boast has been that the new elections to which their successors, on taking office, would of necessity resort, would enable them to make up the deficit of their numbers so as to give them the Parliamentary majority, for want of which they failed. Let them not " lay the flattering unction to their souls." A few days will convince them of their error. We understand that Mr. Spring Rice will walk over the course at the Cambridge election. There will be no opposition to his return. The Tories have put all their small manoeuvres in motion in order to bring a " Church and State" candidate into the field ; but their efforts have failed. They have " called the spirits from the vasty deep," but none have " come when they did call for them." In all the other examples of Ministerial election, a result equally favourable to Reform may with confidence be expected. Sir J. Cam Hobhouse, Mr. Poulett Thomson, and all their liberal colleagues in the Government are morally certain of their return. To what next 'sugared nepenthe of deter , sion will the Tories resort as an opiate to their bitter disappointments ? At present on the bill of fare of facts we have laid before them, we commend this most in ventive of parties " to breakfast with what appetite ' they may."—Morning Advertiser. This was a demurrer to a bill filed in aid of an eject ment which was brought to try the validity of a will. Mr. KNIGHT in support of the demurrer of the defend ants Harwood and his wife, stated that the bill alleged the plaintiff, Sarah Baker, and her sister, Maria Baker, who was made a defendant, to be the co-heiress at law of Thomas Edward Baker, Esq.. late of Kensington, who died in March, 1833, intestate, leaving considerable real estates in the coun ties of Somerset and Wilts. His widow, however, who afterwards married the defendant Harwood, set up a will under which she claimed to be entitled to all her late husband's estates. The validity of this will was disputed, and an ejectment was brought against her and her husband upon the joint and several demise of the co-heiresses. The bill then alleged in the most general terms that there were were some outstanding terms of years which, if set up as a defence to the action, would defeat the title of the plaintiffs ; and it is also alleged that Maria Baker's concurrence to join as plaintiff in the bill could not be obtained. Mr. GIRDLESTON, jun, supported the bill. The demurrer was allowed. GRINDELL V. GODMAI Mr. ALEXANDER moved for a rule to show cause why a nonsuit should not be entered in this case. This was an action to recover the sum of 1151. 10s., being the amount of an attorney's bill which the plaintiff had paid on account of the defendant's wife. The declaration alleged that this money was money paid by the plaintiff for the use of the defendant, and at his special instance and request. Now the fact was that the wife arid the husband had quarrelled ; the husband had assaulted the wife, and she resolved to prose cute him. She applied to an attorney for that purpose, but the attorney would not undertake the business, unless some person guaranteed him the costs. The plaintiff did so. The prosecution went on, and the husband was convicted and fined 501., and ordered to be imprisoned twelve months. The plaintiff was then called on to pay the money, which he did, and now brought the present action, alleging the money to have been paid for the use of the husband, and at his special instance and request.—( Alaugh.)—Rule, granted. BARROW V. THE EARL OF ASHBURNHAIf. Mr. LONG moved for a rule to show cause why the ver dict given for the plaintiff in this case should not be set aside, and a nonsuit entered, on the ground that there was no such agreement as would entitle the plaintiff to maintain the action.—Rule refused. DAVIS V. BADGER. Mr. Sergeant GOULBURN moved for a rule to show cause why the verdict given for the plaintiff in this case should not be set aside, and a new trial granted, on the ground that the verdict was a verdict against the weight of evidence, and against the summing up of the Judge This was an action against a Magistrate for an alleged assault upon the plaintiff at the last election of Stourbridge during a dis turbance there.—Rule suspended- BAIL COURT. BLADES V. LE SAUNIER. This was an action to recover damages brought by the plaintiff, the widow of a licensed victualler, against the de fendant, a shoemaker, at 272, Regent-street, for falsely im prisoning her on the 19th of November. Witnesses were called on the part of the plaintiff, from whose testimony it appeared that on the day in question some ladies, calling themselves the Misses Mortimer, had taken apartments at the house of the plaintiff, which was elegantly furnished, at 24, New Quebec-street, New-road, at the rate of two guineas per week ; that they said they expected their luggage shortly, and, in the interim, they went out, and soon returned, when a boy, in the employ of the defendant, brought four pair of boots and two pair of shoes for the ladies, which the defendant carried up stairs. They desired her to send up the boy, which she did, and he in a few minutes after quitted the house. The ladies also went out, and, as it seemed, carried the boots and shoes with them, saying they should be back to tea. They had not been gone long before the boy returned, and being told the ladies were out said he must wait till they came home, and the defendant invited him to wait in the kitchen, where he remained for a length of time. Between eight and nine o'clock at night the defendant came to the house, and finding the ladies had not returned demanded his property of the plaintiff, as it had been delivered to her. She replied she knew nothing of it. He then called her a swindler, and used other opprobrious epithets, saying it was " all a hook," called in a policeman and searched the apart ments for his property ; not finding it, he examined the chest of drawers, which, with the exception of one, was un locked, and this not being able to open with certain keys which he tried, he broke it open, expecting to find his pro perty, which he valued at 4/. 6s. Not finding it, he re peatedly, in a passion, said, " Oh, it's all a hook !" He then gave the plaintiff in charge, and the police officer, at half past nine o'clock at night, marched her off to the station house in Hereford-street, New-road, whither the defendant attended, and charged her with being one of a party in cheating him of the boots and shoes, and then departed. She was put into the general lock-up, and, subsequently, a woman, in a state of intoxication, was locked up with her. There she remained till six o'clock the next morning, when she was removed to another station-house in Marylebone lane, and from thence, at eleven o'clock, she was taken to the police-office in High-street, before Mr. SHUTT, the Magistrate, who, on hearing the merits of the case, dis charged her from custody. The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 101. JOHNSTONE V. LORD LANGFORD. The plaintiff, a milliner and drowmaker, sought to re- cover the sum of 221. 13s. for sundry dresses furnished to Lady Langford. The noble defendant had replied, and put upon the record that he was not liable, for that he was separated from his lady, that he allowed her sufficient for her maintenance, viz., 601. per month. There were several other pleas to show his non-responsibility, and among the rest one which, were he to state it, would be actionable, as, though the noble defendant pleaded in bar, he did not sus tain his plea by proof. Miss Sophia Perry proved the bill, and enumerated some of the dresses furnished. Among the number was a velvet dress, charged 101. 10s. ; a black and white muslin dress, &c. On her cross-examination by Mr. DAVID POLLOCK she admitted that application had been made to Lord Lang ford in Dorset-square, and that Lady Langford lived at No. 27, Green -street, Grosvenor-square. This was the case for the plaintiff. Mr. POLLOCK then said—My Lord, I submit to a ver dict this day. This is only one of many other cases of a similar nature against his Lordship. The Learned JUDGE then said—That being so, you will find, gentlemen, a verdict for the plaintiff for 22/. 13s. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. SCHULTZ V. ASTLEY. Sir WILLIAM FOLLETT moved for a rule to show cause why a nonsuit should not be entered in this case, or a new trial had. This was an action on three bills of exchange for 5001. each, and was tried at Guildhall, before Lord Chief Justice Tindal, at the sitting after last term. The defendant was the son of Sir J. Astley, Bart., M.P., and in consequence of an advertisement in the newspapers he had applied to a money-lender for pecuniary accommoda tion, with whom he had left ten blank acceptances, seven of which were afterwards returned to him. These accep tances were afterwards indorsed, two of them by a person of the name of Clissold, and the other by a Mr. Thomas Wilson, and purporting so be drawn also by the same par ties. On the 9th of August, 1833, a person of the name of Dimsdale, a corn-factor, wrote to the defendant, saying that application had been made to him to discount two of the de fendant's acceptances, and begging to know by return of post whether the acceptances were really his, and whether he would honour them when they became due ? Defendant answered the letter two days afterwards, saying that his acceptances had been improperly obtained, and that he knew nothing whatever of the drawer and indorser, and cautioning him, in consequence, not to discount the bills. Dimsdale bad again written to defendant on the 14th of the same month, when a similar answer was returned. The bills were, it seems, entered in the bill-book of Messrs. Rucker and Grote as having been received on the 13th of August, and were afterwards passed to Mr. Schultz, of Hamburg, the plaintiff in the present action. Under all the circumstances, Sir W. Follett thought he should be en titled to the rule. By the CoußT—Take the alternative, either for a non. suit or a new trial. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. HEMMING V. TREMERY AND ANOTHER. Sir W. FOLLETT moved for a rule to show cause why the verdict for the plaintiff should not be set aside and a nonsuit entered. Plaintiff was a brickmaker, and de fendants were sureties to the Admiralty on behalf of a builder of the name of Stretter, who contracted to build certain works at the Deptford Dockyard. For this pur pose the defendants gave an authority to plaintiff to deliver to Stretter 100,000 bricks, to be delivered in the Dock yard, and for the promotion of the works which he had in hand there, " guaranteeing that they, as his sureties, con sented to the price of bricks, 5601., being paid by the proper officer at the Admiralty out of the contract money, and further that such money should not be paid without satis faction in payment to the plaintiff." Mr. Stretter failed in completing his contract, and another builder was called in to finish his work. The plaintiff upon this brought his ac tion against the guarantees ; but he (Sir W. Follett) con tended that the guarantee was not that the defendants would pay, but that Mr. Stretter should not run away with the money without paying the plaintiff ; and that they did not become liable to pay until he had received the contract money from the Admiralty and failed to satisfy the plaintiff. The CouRT were of this opinion, and granted the rule Nisi. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-110USE. A woman, named Ann King, was biought before the LORD MAYOR, charged with having robbed a labouring man of two sovereigns. The complainant met the prisoner the night before in the Borough, and was asked by her to make her a present, a treat, in the shape of a drop of gin. Seeing that she had no money, and that she had a pair of terrible black eyes, he consented to divide a quartern with her, and after having treated her"with great liberality, he took leave, and pro ceeded,over London-bridge. Before, however, he got half over, he found that she was at his heels, and again he took a farewell, but thought she was uncommonly affectionate on parting, and upon putting his hand into his waistcoat-pocket he missed two sovereigns which he kept in a purse. His suspicion that she had acted an unkind part was confirmed by the rapid movement she was making towards South wark. He called aloud to a watchman of the old school, who was guarding the bridge, and she was speedily ap prehended. _ The Watchman, who was an Irishman, said, " Plase your Lordship, I cotcht hould of her, and she said she tuk no thing, barrin her own." The LORD MAYOR—WeII, you searched her, I suppose? Watchman—No ; plase your Worship, I did not sarch her. The LORD MAYOR—What did you do, then ? Watch man—Do ? Why, I searched him to be sure.—( A laugh.) The LORD MAYOR—Why, he lost the money. Why did you search him ? Watchman—Bekase I thought he might have it about him all the while. The fact is, your Lordship, I wont keep it a secret from you, I was duber some of him. The LORD MAYOR—You become more and more unin telligible. You didn't suppose that he robbed her, did. you ? Watchman—No, your Lordship, but he was tossi catcd with liquor, and I thought he might be wrong ; so I begins to sarch him, and I keeps my eye on the woman all the while. Well, she makes no more, but tries to chuck something into the Thames, and sure enough over goes the man's property. The LORD MAYOR—What ! the purse ? Watchman— Yes, your Lordship, the purse went . bang over, sure enough. The LORD MAYOR—Then what can you say about the contents ? Watchman—Oh, the purse fell down by itself. The sovereigns stopped on the parapet—(Laughter.) A person who was passing at the time said that such was the fact. The woman endeavoured to get rid of the pro perty, and was defeated in the way described. The Complainant—l told her if she'd give me the money I wouldn't say a word against her. The Prisoner—My Lord, I knew him these eight years, and he gave me the money in payment of what he owed me a long time ago, when I was a married woman. You know, Jack, you and I is old acquaintance. Complainant—No, we an't. I never seed you afore with my eyes, and my name an't Jack.—(Laughter.) The Loan MAYOR said it was evident the prisoner was a thief, and remanded her for further examination. UNION-HALL. Yesterday morning a considerable degree of excitement was occasioned in the neighbourhood of Gravel-lane, in consequence of the report of a pistol being heard in a house occupied by a broker and appraiser. Soon after the re port the cry of " Police" was heard, and a constable of the M division immediately repaired to the house, and on his arrival the wife of the broker was given into his custody for discharging a loaded pistol at her husband with the in tention of doing him some grievous bodily harm. She was taken to the station-house in the Southwark Bridge-road, and there the charge was entered on the police sheet in the usual way, and she was detained, in order that she might be brought before the Magistrates in the course of the day. From what transpired at the station-house, it appeared that the broker and his wife were not living together on the best terms, and that of late she had become excessively jealous of him. For a few days prior to Wednesday morning, her husband absented himself from the house, and under the impression that he was spending his time with another female, she armed herself with a loaded pistol, and went to the house where she thought that she should find them together. By some means or another which was not explained, the wife obtained admission into the house where her husband was asleep, and proceeded up stairs to the door of the room where he was in bed. She tried to open it, but finding it was locked, and no chance of her getting into the room, she placed the muzzle of the pistol to the keyhole and dis charged it at random. The noise of the pistol awoke all in the house, and the broker rose hastily from his bed and seized his wife on the staircase with a horse pistol in her hands. It was then two o'clock in the morning, and he called the police, and had her taken to the station-house. On examining the door it was found the lock was blown off, and it appeared that it was do ne w ith gunpow d er alone, no marks of either bullet or shot b e i ng percept ibl e. At the station-house the broker's wife seemed to be la bouring under extremely excited feelings, and while there she repeatedly declared that she had no intention of shoot ing her husband, and that h er on l y mot i ve i n di sc h arg i ng the pistol wits to induce him to ge t out o f b e d, so th a t s h e s hould see him if be was in the house. Yesterday the accused w as b roug h t up to U n i on H a ll ; she was accompanied by two female friends, and when the sheet containing the charge was laid before the Magis trate (Mr. Wedgwood) be inquired where the complain ant was? A policeman said that that the broker was outside, but that he was unwilling to come in to press the charge in the public office. Mr. WEDGWOOD—Then the prisoner must be dis charged. CORONER'S INQUEST. Yesterday afternoon, an inquest was held at the Three Kings, Clerkenwell Close, before Mr. STIRLING, and a respectable Jury, to inquire touchinc , the death of Amelia Parmel, a remarkably fine girl, aged 19, who committed suicide by throwing herself into the New River, near Sad ler's Wells Theatre, under circumstances of a peculiarly afflicting nature. The inquiry, which lasted some hours, excited a very painful sensation in thd neighbourhood of the above house, and the Jury-room was crowded to excess. Mr. John Taylor, surgeon, of St. John-street-road, be tween twelve and one o'clock on Tuesday morning, was called to attend upon a young female, who had just previ ously thrown herself into the New River, and had been con veyed to the Sir Hugh Myddleton public-house. On wit ness proceeding there, he found the deceased apparently lifeless, from the effects of drowning. Witness had recourse to the usual means of resuscitation for a considerable time, but without effect. Francis Foulgers, a young man, who described himself as a journeyman coachmaker, living at No. 11, Lascelles-court, Broad -street, Bloomsbury, had kept company with the de ceased for eleven months, and was with her about twelve o'clock on Monday night, in St. John's-street-road, near Sadler's Wells Theatre, where he parted with her, and did not see her again alive. By the Jury—About six months ago I promised the de ceased marriage, and the banns were put up by the deceased, but I subsequently declined to marry her on account of my not being of age. Since that period she has repeatedly so licited me to perform my promise, and has appeared very unhappy at my not acceding to her wish. When I parted with the deceased on Monday night we had no quarrel,but she again implored me to marry her. The above was elicited from the witness with great diffi culty ; and on the jury further cross-examining him he ad mitted that he had been on such terms with the deceased that she dreaded becoming a mother ; and at the time the banns were put up and he refused to marry her, so great was her anguish that she attempted to poison herself and the witness by oil of vitriol, placing it in a glass, and stating that it was gin, but he having some suspicion, and refusing to drink, she endeavoured to swallow the contents of the glass, but he prevented her rash design by knocking it out of her hand. The Coroner and Jury expressed the utmost disgust and indignation at the conduct of the witness towards the un fortunate young woman, and the former observed that the life of the unhappy girl had been sacrificed by his base unmanly conduct, in having effected her ruin, and causing her subsequent distress of mind, under the artful promise of marriage, and cautioned him as to his future conduct, and to endeavour to make reparation for the serious calamity he had been the cause of. John Ash, Esq., of No. 8, Cumming-street, Penton vile, deposed that the deceased was in his service at the time of her death. She was a very good servant, and, from her general conduct, witness was of opinion that she was particularly discreet. Mr. Ash, in reply to questions from the Jury, did not know the young man Foulgers. He was not aware that the deceased had any followers, and himself and family had never suspected that she was enceinte. The father and mother of the deceased, who are credit able people living in Green Dragon-yard, Holborn, were in attendance, and appeared deeply affected at their daughter's melancholy end, but the Jary refrained from paining their feelings by requiring their evidence. A verdict was returned " That the deceased drowned herself, in a state of derange ment, brought on by disappointment through the conduct of Francis Foulgers." LAST MOMENTS of MARY BURDOCK• (From the Bristol Mirror.) We have collected the following facts " sayings and doings," that occurred during the last hours of this extra ordinary criminal. On quitting the bar, after her sentence on Monday even ing, she was taken to the prisoner's room under the court, when, we are informed, she manifested the most perfect in difference to the awfulness of her situation. In seating her self upon the stool that was given her, she carefully pulled up her cloak to prevent its being rumpled, and observed that she might as well give it to her sister at once. She asked for a glass of beer, and having drank it, wanted ano ther, which was refused. She then rated her attorney, who had accompanied her, and accused her counsel, and all that were concerned for her, of mismanagement, particularising a number of points in the course of the trial which they had omitted to notice. She desired that she might see all her relations the next day (Tuesday), " for perhaps," she said, " I may not be alive the following night." Her at torney asked if the girl (meaning her daughter) was also to come to her—she answered, " No;" but immediately after said, " Yes, she may as well come ; and let her be well dressed, as she is to go to the lady." When she arrived at the prison, the astonishing firmness she had manifested throughout the whole period of her trial appeared to give way, and she experienced something like a fainting fit. According to her desire, she was visited on Tuesday by her children, her brother (whom she had appointed her executor,) her aunt, and other relatives. They were greatly distressed at the hardihood of her demeanour. She evinced no feeling whatever, except on kissing her children. Tears then appeared in her eyes, but which by an effort she sup pressed, and kept them from falling. Those around her being moved by the scene then passing, she desired them to be quiet, " and not to come there to make her low-spirited ;" and immediately turning to her solicitor, said, " Now let us to business—about the .500/. in the bank ? They can't hold it, that's all stuff. What will be left for the children when all the bills are paid ? Her attorney, to whom she addressed herself, having considered as to her financial question, answered her accordingly. She then turned quickly round to her brother, and said, " Mind, Jem, you tax his bill." On being pressed not then to think of this world's con cerns, she said, " I must attend to business." She then called Mrs. Vowles, the matron of the prison, and asked, " Who makes the gaol coffins?" On receiving an answer, she again turned to her brother, and desired him " to get a good, strong, plain coffin ;" adding, " but mind—you are not to give more than two pounds for it ;" at the same time moving herself up from the bed, and lifting her elbows, she said, " Mind, it must be full-sized, and let it be lined with flannel ; and mind that I have a warm comfortable shroud, and don't let the coffin be screwed down too tight : recol lect that it be brought to me this evening—l'll have it put by my bedside." We understand that, in addition to the reiterated ex hortations of the chaplain of the gaol to induce her to ac knowledge the justice of her sentence, her son made a most forcible and impressive appeal to his mother to confess her crime before she encountered the presence of her God, and not to mind what the world would say ; but all appeared to have no effect upon her. She asked for her pocket, and gave a biscuit from it to each of her children, and, address ing her friends, said, " I have not enough, or I would give you all one a piece." Turning to the matron, she said, " Where is that knife that was taken from my pocket ? I want to give it to my son." She was told it should be given to him when he went down. " But," said she, "it is unlucky to give a knife—you must give me something for it." Much was said on the trial about a nail-brush ; we have seen one, and also a clothes-brush, which she presented to her son on going to school, telling him they were the old lady's, and to take care of them. We were admitted into the gaol a little after eleven o'clock on Wednesday morning, and were informed that the condemned criminal with the other prisoners, one of whom was her own husband in confinement for debt, were then in the chapel. We understand she sat silent in a pew with two females, much in the same way as in the court dur ing her trial. She did not once rise or kneel during the service, which was performed by the Rev. Mr. Jennings in a most solemn and impressive manner, choosing Psalms for the occasion the 39th and 90th. Before the prayers were commenced, he desired very emphatically those of the con gregation for the unhappy individual who was that day to suffer the last penalty of the law. At this moment a slight sigh appeared to escape her, as also when the Rev. Minis ter repeated in a solemn tone the Commandment, " Thou shalt do no murder." After the service, the Rev. Gentleman ascended the pul pit, and every eye and ear, even of the convicts were in tently fixed on him ; he took for his text the 35th Num bers, 31st verse :—" Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death : but he shall surely be put to death." She appears to have betrayed little or no emotion while in the chapel, and left it with firmness. About one o'clock we saw her, preceded by the clergyman, who was reading the funeral service, and the usual officers, and leaning on the Governor's arm, leaving his house, and proceeding with a slow but firm step to the press-room. She was dressed in a black gown, coloured shawl, and a black bonnet ; her appearance and manner were appropriate and becoming. After they had entered the press-room, we distinctly heard her respond to the prayers, and we should say feelingly. In this place her bonnet and shawl were taken off, her arms pinioned, the usual white cap put upon her head ; and the rope adjusted to her neck. While the latter was doing, she asked if something soft could not be put round it. Here she lingered. much longer than is usually allowed ; and on being reminded that the time had arrived, she said, " Dear gentlemen, the time is short—it is hard to die." In passing along the passage from the press-room, she said, " Remember me to my husband and friends." In ascend ing the steps leading to the platform, on the Governor's endeavouring to assist her, she said she could get up her self, which she did. On reaching the platform, it rained, and an umbrella was asked for by an officer for the clergyman. This was at the top of the stairs, and the criminal being desired by the Governor to move on with him, she said, " No, I will wait for the umbrella." She was again reminded to pro ceed, but repeated that she would wait for the umbrella• The funeral service was here rasumed by the chaplain, and on the criminal being led to the drop, her face was without colour, and remarkably sallow. Her feelings were then evidently intense. The executioner, whose face was co vered with crape, fastened the rope to the gallows, pulledthe cap over her face, and put the white handkerchief into her hand. In less than- about a minute she gave the signal, and the fatal bolt was drawn. She appeared to die with only 3 slight convulsive movement of the hands. " Thus," as a contemporary observes, " has this woman furnished another memorable and striking admonitory example of the means by which the Almighty permits the guilt of the murderer, how ever secretly planned and perpetrated, to be brought to light, and eventually to meet the most appalling retribution , even in this world." MURDER IN ROSS-SHIRE. A communication in our last journal, stated that the body of a female, respectably dressed, had been found on Friday, concealed by turf and stones, in a planting on the Milbuie. The body was discovered within 24 hours after the murder was perpetrated, although, had it not been for an accidental occurrence, it might have remained where it was placed by the murderer for years unnoticed. Some persons employed in a plantation, near the fatal spot, passed the ruins of an old cottage, where one of them found a glove, another part of a shoe and a small portion of a veil ; this attracted their attention,- and on attempting to tear 11 1 ) the veil they found the body, and gave notice of the eirol°l - to the others employed in planting. Mr. Hugh Innes Cameron, Procurator Fiscal, Ding' upon being informed of the murder, repaired to the sP r ' and commenced a minute investigation. Two respectable medical gentlemen were at once satisfied that the unfortu nate deceased had met with a violent death. Handbills wer e circulated, describing the clothes and articles found on th e body ; upon seeing one of which bills two women, °° Sunday afternoon, called on Mr. John Macbean, an active and judicious messenger, and stated that a woman in ever' s ,/ way answering the description given, had liVed for sever weeks in a house in Chapel-street, which they mentioned; that while there her husband, who stated his name to b . e d Adams, frequently visited her, and then returned, as he sal to work in Ross-shire, where, according to his own acco unt, he was preparing a house for her reception, but he er plained of the delay in getting it properly completed. l e r terday se'nnight, however, Adams called on the decease u' saying. that the house was now ready, and they left Inver" ness together. From that time the family with which sh e had resided had not seen Mrs. Adams. Mr. Macbean stantly proceeded to Ross-shire, and after communieatin,g with the Procurator Fiscal, discovered that the person who had left Inverness with the unfortunate woman resided 11} Dingwall with another wife, and had assumed the name °. Anderson. The latter was consequently apprehended 1° bed on Monday evening. The prisoner having denied that he had ever seen the deceased, or that she was his wife, the following convers a ' tick, took place on his being brought to see the body f Procurator Fiscal—Anderson, put your hand in that e? the unfortunate woman, and say was it ever there beer% Prisoner—No, it was not ; I am not accustomed to se e sue awful sights. Procurator Fiscal—Anderson, put your hand on till bosom, and say before these persons, and your God, your head ever rest on it ? Prisoner—No, it did not. a Procurator Fiscal—Prisoner, touch those faded lips,! ° . say, did your's ever meet them in a kind embrace ? soner (after considerable emotion, during which large cl r°P of sweat were falling down his forehead)—No, no ! The witnesses frogs Inverness, in whose house the !'.t ceased resided, and who had frequently seen Anderson her, were then brought into the room, and instantly i den ve fled ' him ; still he persisted in his denial of any k° ° e a ledge of the deceased. Some furniture which the decea. s ,,, to;had brought from Montrose, of which she was a na after having been in Inverness for some days, was sen. t io Dingwall, and found in Anderson's house. A few arrt, c v . of wearing apparel, marked " J. B." and identified as Pad ing belonged to the deceased, were also found there, ti the clothes on the body are marked in the same naanner' les This atrocious murder was perpetrated about five north of Kessock Ferry, near the high road to Ding Wa' 1 3,5 Anderson is a good-looking man, apparently a bout for years of age. He bore in Dingwall, where he has been about twelve months, an excellent character. The P e ffh , who lived with him there as his wife, is a young E n g l :„ s woman, who accompanied him from the south. She is I" most distressed state. d The gaol in Tain having been some time ago destroY et by fire, and that of Dingwall being declared insu 6 ,Dp cie s; Anderson was escorted last night by a party of the L.° ; 0 shire Militia to Inverness, in the tolbooth of which he bo n remain sill the Autumn' Circuit Court of Justiciary, , he will be tried for the atrocious deed of which he cased. be [We visited the prisoner in his cell this morn int' w seems more composed than could be expeeted, coneidlie the circumstances under which he was apprehended. ,13 denies that he is a native of Montrose, but as, in his fp.ar words, "it would hurt the feelings of his f r iends t° h'sa that he stood accused of such a crime," be declines tee. to what part of the country he belongs."—lnverness e An extraordinary sensation has been excited bY th breaking up of the establishment of a certain wealth), c7ei moiler, whose rental in a very few years would have execs one thousand pounds per diem! SUSPECTED MURDER.—Between four an—, , t o o'clock yesterday morning police-serjeant Weaver , on gili'pect visit the beats, was informed that a woman had bee n droW in the Surrey Canal, about fifty yards above th e - b r a ,, Upon making inquiry he was informed by the wa te red' the bridge, James Sullivan, that he heard a noise on n b i t s barge about three o'clock in the morning. It appear ed t :0 1 to be that of a person vomiting. He then heard mea ° ,,, i iea proceeded towards the barge, but everything was then ` 1 s ev At day-break he again went towards the barge, and tbroeticorel the clothes of a woman resting on the rudder. He 13 fort / a boathook and raised the head of the deceased, but his e s tbe to rouse the bargeman were unavailing. When be t° ,,,d be man of the circumstance, he replied, " Let her drown •—rcbe d—d," he would not be disturbed from his sleeP.,,,coin' watchman then called police constable Reeves, vat° '" {the panied him to the spot. The deceased when tak en oat ° s od water had neither shoes nor stockings on. The watebnluou that no one passed the bridge from the time he relieve a sh e he heard the noise. The barge is the Mary Ann' B° oo left the bridge at half-past five o'clock for the Medway; f the in lime at Messrs. Sanders and Co's. The none bargeman is William Main. 1 BIRTHS. On the 22d inst., in Gloucester-place, Portman-square, of lag f V Brice Pearse, jun., Esq., of a daughter. t he 1 1-cI Y ° On the 22d ult., in the College, Doctors'- commons , 1 of William Pritchard, Esq., of a son. th e 13 ' 1, On the 19th inst., at Laurel-grove, Loughborough, E. C. Middleton, sq., banker, of a daughter. MARRIED. i , • ny sil ll3re i On the 21st inst., at St. George's Church, xial i i . e d g f- hte r Captain William Henry Shippard, to Elizabeth Lydia, i."' - '' ir the late Captain Joseph Peters. sot ' a ° f On the 18th inst., in the Parochial Church of St. x'erq., Bois, Juliana Louisa, eldest daughter of Edward Colli n g' co Amsterdam, to G. C. Poley Esq., of Romilly. re/ At East Hoddam, United ' States, Mr. Solomon Dot d d ' B 3 s , m i i ii tionary veteran, aged 85, to Miss Abigail Chapman, ag-. - to - At St. John's, Stamford, Mr. Wm. Hayes, of gpaldlng' t. 4., C. Ratcliffe, of the former place. - bie , '- .( 1 • On the 11 th inst., at the house of Ralph Abercrovai ,se cO o f Charge d'Affaires de Sa Majeste Britannique a Berlin, E 4 . l .o .l s trat',,i, daughter of the late John Dickens, Esq., Judge and I ‘ l 7oe' o ' Prince of Wales's Island, to Theophile Wysogother de Z ).' Noble et Chevalier de la Croix Militaire d'Or de PologneiVaresled On the 21st inst., at Reading, Thomas Simcox Lea, daug hter green, Worcestershire, Esq., to Lavinia Ann, third 0 ~ W. B. Tarbutt, Esq. f ?'" , a " On the 20th inst., at Brighton, James Mathews , x' s 's",.' Ca l ' pir liament-street, to Miss Emma Marlton, of Harley -stree , 00 dish-square. On the 18th inst., at Benares, Lieut. George Ellis, °f t t e he yiea l. gal Artillery, to Ann Charlotte, second daughter of the la . _ General Boye, of the Hon. East India Company's servi:e;,atberia" On the 21st inst., Mr. Rich. Nichols, of Aldgate, t _ , ;i re. only daughter of J. Prince, Esq., Balsham, Canibridges°l ie. DIED. arG ° On the 18th inst., in Gra ft on-street, the Rev. William gad,_ a of Rookesiu r y. Southampton. P- On the 21st inst., in Highbury-place, aged 74, Jw,John ` O Geo. ..,oe Esq , of Temple-bar. fo On the 22d inst., in M anc h es t er -square, the l igl Y es Fuller, Esq. , a rk, ' ll° On the 21st inst., in St. Andrew's-place, ti t er Maude, Esq., aged 77. e st al tor , ' On the 17th inst., at Dublin, Emily Olivia, young e a ot Regent's-r of P. French, Esq., of Fitzgibbon-street, aged eight Ye w sopeS, months. 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