The Sun. — London, England, 1835-09-16 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Well might Lord Melbourne protest against the rash conduct of the Peers, when they determined to force on a collision with the other branch of the Legislature. Speculative writers had indeed pronounced that a Re form in the House of Commons must be followed by a corresponding Reform of the House of Lords ; but throughout the country there was a strong indisposi tion to put the best construction on the conduct of the Peers ; and nothing hut the dogged spirit of hostility to the nation, evinced by their Lordships throughout the last Session more especially, could so far have weaned the people of England from their old partiali ties and predilections, as to induce them to enter seri ously on the consideration of the question in what manner a second House can be obtained to act har moniously with the Commons. The patience of the people has become fairly exhausted. They perceive that legislation must be at a stand, till the House of Lords should receive such a modifi cation as may make it a national institution, which it has ceased for some time to be. Like sensible men of business, the people apply themselves to the question of the composition of the House of Lords ; because no other question can he entered on with hopes of a successful issue till this be disposed of. The most enlightened and moderate journals. of the empire, however reluctant to recommend further organic changes, have become convinced that the time has ar rived when to hesitate would be to betray the best in terests of the country. As a specimen of the preva lent feeling among the most respectable of our provin cial contemporaries, we have extracted an article from the Scotsman, and another from the Edinburgh Chro nicle. The Scotsman, which again and again endea voured to moderate the ardour of some of the metro politan journals :on this subject, and urged the pro priety of giving the Peers a fair trial, now declares, with a resolute and determinedspirit, " We should have been better pleased if the great organic question, as to the use of a House of Peers, its constitution and functions, had remained in abeyance for some years, because, while it is under discussion, a thousand minor practicalreforms of the most necessary kind must he postponed, and a dangerous impulse may be given to the passions of the people ; but the folly of the Peers has forced the subject on the country, and it must be taken up and settled, at whatever hazard." During the recess, the representatives of the people will be in direct communication with their respective con stituencies, and they will then have abundant oppor tunities of ascertaining the intensity . of the popular dissatisfaction with the House of' Peers. The reform of the Lords will, in fact, be at every meeting, and every public dinner, the peat topic of discussion. This is the doing of the Lords themselves. They have literally driven the people into a corner. They have determined to leave them no alternative between the conversion of the house of Commons into a non entity, and the remodelling of the Upper House. It may always be assumed as incontrovertible that before a nation can be inspired with such an all but unanimous wish for a reform of an ancient institution, the necessity for such a reform must have been abundantly demonstrated. This sort of unanimity is never obtained from the influence of mere speculation. But though mere speculation is insufficient to produce a conviction in the public mind against a national institution, it is satisfactory to know that speculation and practice are not in this instance at variance. We believe there are few writers of much reputation for political discernment, who have not long ago repudiated the theory of the three powers of the British Constitution. These three powers never existed at all events in the British Constitution. The history of the theory is curious enough. Cicero had regretted that a government could not be formed, com bining in itself the excellences of democracy, aristo cracy, and monarchy. On this Montesquieu, un questionably a most brilliant and witty, but at the same time by no means a solid writer, imagined that he had been more successful than Cicero. He found the theory in the woods of Germany, whence it had crossed over to England. Blackstone copied Mon tesquieu, and .Blackstone has been set down as an incontrovertible authority. The Commons and the Lords are supposed to balance each other, and the Crown to turn the scale. An acute writer very hap pi;y observed that, by this theory of the balance, the Crown could never act ; for if the one House ba lanced the other, there was no room for the interfe rence of the Crown. Burke long ago showed that the House of Lords possessed no separate power— that there was but one and the same power in both branches of the Legislature. He again and again showed that the Lords could have no power but in the House of Commons, and that a reform in the Commons would alter the whole frame of the Con stitution. The arguments of Burke - , and of Bentham (in his Fragment on Government, published in 1776, in which Blackstone is handled without mercy), were frequently used by the Tories in the discussions on the Reform Bill in 1831 and 1832. A series of able ar ticles, in the early numbers of the Edinburgh Review, opposed Parliamentary Reform, on the ground that there could be only one paramount power in a na tion—that that power was, by the Constitution of this country, in the House of Commons—that the Lords had no power but that which they pos sessed through their nominees •in the Commons, and through their influence in elections as great proprietors; and that, therefore, Parliamentary Reform would ren der other changes necessary. Though all these writers differ essentially as to their objects, they all agree as to the impossibility of a House of Lords, independent of the people, maintaining its ground in a collision with the House of Commons really representing the nation. The Standard of last night, alluding to an article in the Chronicle of ysterday on the affairs of Spain, ob serves—" Even the Newspapers most favourable to the cause of the Qiteen see, in the democratic proceedings in the capital and the provinces, the elements of ruin to her Government ; and the Morning Chronicle of to-day laments over the anarchy which prevails in Spain. It is somewhat instructive to perceive that our Whig contemporary attributes the main cause of the mischiefs to be apprehended from the Con stitution of 1812 to the want of a second Cham ber, which might control the Representative House. In this we agree with our contemporary, whose arguments' on this subject might , w ith advanta g e, be applied to a country of more importance to us than Spain." Our contemporary. draws inferences from our observations which they do not justify. We have never contended for a single Chamber. But there is a material difference between the existence of two Houses, and the constituting one 'with inde pendent irresponsible power. The fault of the ptanish Constitution of 1812 was not that it was "without an irresponsible House of Peers, but that there was no medium whatever between the determina tion of the Deputies and its execution. The ad vantage of double stages of debate in separate Houses, must be obvious to every one. In the fiest heat of discussion the calin voice of reason is not always heard. Were no other advantage gained, that of time would be a gr eat one. But make one House irresponsible, and constitute it in such a manner as to give it the least possible apti tude for l e gislation, with the most powerful motives for abusing its powers in order to satisfy the cravings of the great majority of its members, etinfessedly paupers, and 'you deprive a nation of the advantage which might be derived from a second House. The Peers do not ask whether a measure is beneficial to the nation or otherwise, but can we pre vent the nation from being benefited at all—or what is the smallest possible amount of benefit which the na tion will consent to receive at our hands, without rising up against us ? The remedy is pointed out by the nature of the evil. The idea of one House having a control over the other, is absurd. But each power oNitt to have the privilege of independent discussion, and ;".'o measure which has not the concur to become law. H ten, rence o ough! collision tboth o be avoided ? By an appeal to ow, the nation, which must always decide, in one way or other, in the last resort. Let a certain number of Peers be chosen by constituencies identified in interest with the nation, and a collision, should it arise, may be terminated in an easy and natural way. It may be possible, surely, to vary the qualification from that for returning Mem bers of the House of Commons, and to extend the range so as to produce consitlerable variety in the con.:' THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMEER 16,' 1835. order to gain time, and see how the office may be finally disposed of to the best advantage. A Commission to execute the office of chief member of another Commis sion would be a startling novelty, but we are not yet quite sure that the Administration may not in its dis tress be compelled to resort to it. It is no wonder, by the by, that the Whigs are so fond of Commissions of all sorts. It is a fine expedient for frittering away the importance and dignity of any office in the State, so as to reduce it to a level with the capacity and reputation • of the kind of men whom this party can find in its ranks. In the article of the Commissioners the party can boast of countless numbers, but when the affair in hand is to appoint to an office which attracts the attention, interests the feelings, and engages the thought of the country, then it is that the miserable poverty of the party becomes visible to all eyes—then it is that the party are driven to resort to all sorts of discreditable shifts and contrivances, in order to postpone or evade the risk and responsibility of a final and effective ap pointment. It is a month at the least since the office of First Lord of the Admiralty was in effect vacated by the appointment of Lord A uckland to be Governor- General of India, and the office still remains vacant. We certainly should not have expected that so mud difficulty would be found in providing an adequate sue cessor to Lord Auckland, who, when he held a.subor dinate situation under a Tory Government, was not, to the best of our recollection, considered as a genius of the highest order. But the case is altered now. Lord Auckland among the Whigs is quite an " Admirable Crichton," to occupy whose vacant chair no compe tent man is to be found. Never was the adage so completely verified as at the present day. " A very small man as a Tory Is a very great man as a Whig." The difficulty, great as it is, of finding a successor to Lord Auckland, must, however, be overcome ; and the idea has for some time prevailed that Lord Minto is the person whom the Administration. has selected as the Whig of all Whigs best fitted to sustain the hazardous comparison to which the successor of Lord Auckland must necessarily be exposed. Lord Minto has not only a brother, as we stated the other day, but a brother-in-law also, already at the Admiralty Board, so that the country has the greatest reason in the world to feel confident that, in a snug family party of this description, nothing can possibly go wrong. With the great advantage of having.his family about him, it is thought that Lord Minto may manage the affairs of the Admiralty almost as well as they have been managed by the admirable Lord Auckland himself. This consideration, combined with the difficulty, or rather we should say the impossi bility, of finding any other Whig who is at all presentable for the office, has, we understand, in duced Ministers to overlook the dangerous anomaly of having an important Board like that of the Ad miralty, whose various members are supposed to exer cise a constant control over the conduct of each other, composed almost exclusively of persons intimately con nected by the ties_ of blood or marriage. When we say that Ministers have determined to overlook the im propriety of having three members of a family at the same public Board, we are, however, perhaps in error. This was their determination yesterday morning—it was their determination up to a late period of the day yesterday—it was announced in their evening organs of yesterday, with the addition that the appointment of Lord Minto would appear in last night's Gazette—but Ministers, having led their organs into the rash asser tion that deliberation, or procrastination rather, was at an end upon this subject, re-resolved, it would seem, after all, to deliberate and procrastinate yet a little longer. The Globe of last night says that " the appoint ment of the Earl of Minto to the important office of First Lord of the Admiralty has been decided within the last few days. It will be gazetteel this evening." There must certainly be some hitch in the affair, for the promised announcement did not appear in the Ga zette of last night. What the Globe asserts to have been decided within the last few days has, it appears from the silence of the Gazette, not been as yet de cided at all. We do. not doubt that Ministers will eventually give the appointment to Lord Minto ; but the hesitation which they have shown to do so is any thing but complimentary to his LOrdship, and proves that Ministers have no great confidence in his ability to discharge the duties of the office with honour to himself and satisfaction to the country, although his Lordship have the assistance of two near relations, who have had some experience at the same Board. It is really lamentable that the party which has ob tained possession of the reins of Government in Great Britain, should be compelled to represent itself before the world in a state of such utter destitution, as to be unable to find among all its friends and connections an unobjectionable First Lord of the Admiralty.— , Morning Post. We published yesterday the conclusion of the article from the Journal de Frankfort, in vindication and eulogy of the policy of Russia in the East. This de fence was professedly called forth by an made in the Journal des Debats, wherein the writer took his text from an erroneous translation of a phrase, (in the pamphlet entitled, " England, France, Russia, and Turkey,") " The defence of Turkey must precede occu pation ; ' which was rendered—" Pour dOendrela Tur quie occupier." " To defend Turkey you must occupy it." Though defence by occupation has long been an established principle in Russian diplomacy, its asser tion by the Journal des Debats, on behalf of France and England, drew forth from the writer of the Frank fort article, evidently an official tool of the Kalisch conspirators, an elaborate panegyric on the forbear ance and self-denial of Russia ! ! and a denunciation of the hostile designs of which the Press would make Russia the object. " Let us speak out," says the writer, " What would become of the repose of the world, if, to maintain the independence of nations, we should begin by subjugating them ?" Occupation and subjugation, it appears, are synonymes in the Russian vocabulary ; it is, however, for Russia herself to answer the query. How did she maintain the independence of Poland, when the repose of the world, for which she now affects so much solicitude, was preserled, not by Russian forbearance, but by the disgraceful dereliction of public duty, and an atrocious abandonment of public faith on the part of France and England ? How, we ask, did Russia maintain the independence of Po land ?—By its subjugation. On what principle, but that of conquest and aggrandisement, has she ever acted ? Is there one point of her vast dominions that does not bear evidence of her tyrannical aggressions on the rights of nations, and would it not be worse than madness to suppose that after pursuing for centuries an undeviating course of despotic encroachment, she would change the tenor of her policy when Turkey lies so invitingly before her ? No, no, Russia professes and feels a desire for peace now, while she is perfecting her organizations ; but when these shall be completed, the independence of Turkey, like that of Poland, will be maintained by sub jugation. The Frankfort concoction alludes to the peace of Kaiduardgi, 1774, which extended the Rus sian frontier to the borders of the Black Sea, including the Crimea ; the peace of Yassy, 1792, which gave her possession of Bessarabia, a considerable portion of European Turkey, and the fortresses of Bendar, Is mael, &c., and laid her boundary on the Dniester ; and the peace - of Bucharest in 1812, which gave her the richest portion of the Principality of Moldavia— that between the Pruth and the Dniester. These are termed in the Russian A ft e r boastingvocabulary, o fbath ing "the civilization walls blood," the Journal de Frankfort ob ofisaelwith ob serves :- 411 fhpe conquests of civilization have been made by Russia. It does n6t dept' *M. We repeat, it was a con queror in 1774, 179, and 18 12 ? bPF4H3P it 1 ,94 Its interest Iq ye w, Nog , it is ho longer so, 4114 fqr the Mlle TP4VM, be. cause its interest, well understood, commands it not to extend its conquests, but to preserve in peace the advantages it pos sesses. And Constantinople, it will be said, will Russia bo content not to seize it ? It will not seize it, it cannot desire it, because it desires to preserve entire all the elements of its strength ; and, to Iv strong, it feels the necessity w ty reataiiAing • • • k :ts 1.••:. .ry P. 9490 employ a sitigu)ar pht4seology,, w 45 401nonced to Teigli at W4I*S4IY W4ll it wa,s de poplilated apd inTqins 1 " Alfkr.tf#7lcl" elf lltltioll~ is ifg4tPd of as is eritio4 l _ with sutmus,swo to Russia! --nd the forcible appropriation of whole territories is 4 .f t 4 . 1 : 1 t ' n o ß o u e t , b th e e called " the c . of civilization ~., avowal that Russia will no cause she desires to admission that her strength, Is tmt4PPRO progve entire the elements of situencies, with sufficient concert in the bodies re-' turned to insure harmonious action. But the subject is important, and we have already exceeded our We shall have ample opportunities for returning to it —availing ourselves, in the mean time, of the ideas thrown out by , intelligent contemporaries.—Morning Chronicle. The good people of Scotland have at all times had lie credit of being much more wary, worldly-4ise, and ,rudent than their brethren of the south. This qua- lity they do not seem to have lost, and it extends, as might be expected, to their renresentatiies in Parlia ment, of which we have recent proof in a fact we be lieve at present but little known—that while in Eng land the harsh laws authorising imprisonment for debt remain in force in all their rigour and deformity, an Act was passed during the late Session, and received the Royal assent on the 9th inst., intituled, " An Act for abolishing in Scotland (why in Scotland alone?) imprisonment for debts of small amount." The pream ble to this Act—which is as remarkable for its bre vity as its humanity—states that the Law Commis sioners in Scotland " have made a Report, from which it appears that great hardship is frequently suffered by poor persons, in consequence of imprisonment for civil debts to a small amount, without producing thereby any adequate benefit to their creditors." It goes on to enact " That from and after the Ist day of' January, 1836, it shall not be lawful to imprison any person or persons on account of any civil 'debt which shall not exceed the sum of 8/. 6s. Bd., exclusive o interest and expense thereon." There are severa, other useful clauses in the Act, especially one to prohibit the buying up of small debts, so as to render the debtor by their accumulation liable to imprisonment. This then is now the law`of Scotland, of one part of the United Kingdom—how united, while such dis crepancies take place in its Legislature, we are at a loss to understand. In a running commentary upon the preamble we have already asked the question which we now repeat, " Why is this the law of Scot land alone ?" Why are English small debtors to con tinue to linger in prison, and suffer what this Act justly describes to be " great hardship," while on the other side of the Tweed such hardship has thus ceased by law_ to exist ? Where were our English re presentatives—where the metropolitan and other bo rough Members—where our professing patriots and spouters of humanity at Exeter Hall—when this hu mane law is allowed to pass for one part of the empire, while the other is excluded from it? Where, may we not ask, were the Noble persons who have during the whole Session been paying such laborious atten tion to prison discipline, when they let pass this op portunity of doing for England what its representatives have done for Scotland, and by so doing unload our gaols, especially those of the metropolis, of a host of their most pitiable inmates ? Can any of the persons we have alluded to be ignorant of the number of per sons annually incarcerated for debts less than one-half, nay, one quarter, of the minimum named in this Act ? If they are, let them inquire in Whitecross-street, the Borough Compter, or any of tbe many other recepta tacles of wretchedness, and they will there learn that more persons are in one year imprisoned on judgments from our Small Debt Courts alone than are incarce rated in all Scotland for debts of all amounts in five. Have not, then, the people of England, we repeat, ample reason to complain of the supineness of their representatives, especially of those who, with huma nity and patriotism constantly on their lips, let pass the best opportunities of reducing their professions to practice ?—Morning Herald. Those of our readers who have perused the Frank fort article copied into yesterday's Times may probably remember the following passage :—" The principle of closing the Dardanelles against foreign ships of war is laid down in the treaty of Hoonkiar Iskelessy, without making an exception in favour of any Power. Russia has not stipulated any privilege in her own favour in this respect." As the whole treaty, including its se cret article, has long been before the public, those who have read it were already aware that it contains no stipulation granting to Russian ships of war, ex clusively or otherwise, the privilege of admission into the straits of the Bosphorus from the Black Sea, or those of the Hellespont from the Dardanelles. It is even notorious that the stipulation in former treaties relative to the exclusion of Russian ships of war has remained unrepealed to the present day. But while Russia assumes credit, in the north of Europe, for having suffered that stipulation to exist, her acts in the East show that she does not intend it shall hereafter stand in her way. On the 9th of last month there arrived at Constantinople a Russian brig of war, coming from the Archipelago ; and on the same day there was a Russian corvette quietly moored in the Bosphorus, facing Bujukdere. No firmans were demanded for the admission of these two vessels, nor did they stop to ask leave at the castles which defend the two opposite straits through which they came. Russia, therefore, thinks herself at liberty to violate the treaties, or considers the " principle of closing the Dardanelles "as not applicable to her. But she re quires a rigid application of it to every Foreign Power besides herself. On a former occasion we stated that no doubt could exist about the right of the Porte to close the straits of the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus to ships of war of all nations. A formal acknow ledgment of that right was embddied in our last treaty with the Porte (1809) in the following words : " As ships of war have at all times been prohi bited from entering the canal of Constantinople— viz., the straits of the Dardanelles and the Black Sca, and as the ancient regulation of the Otto man empire is in future to be observed by every Power in time of peace, the Court of Great Bri tain promises on its part to conform to this princi ple." But although claimed in former times by the Turkish Government, the right of exclusion had never before been enforced against, nor respected by foreign ships of war, many of which went up and down quite unmolested, not excepting whole squadrons of Russian ships of the line. At the negotiations which led to the treaty of 1809, however, the Turkish Pleni potentiaries insisted upon the stipulation acknowledg ince the right in question, as a sane qua non for the conclusion of peace. What had then made the Turks so tenacious on the point eras the hostile visit they had received two years before from the-squadron under the command of Sir John Duckworth, whose sudden ap pearance before Constantinople showed how com pletely their capital was at the mercy of any naval force which might come up so far with the intention of dictating terms to its inhabitants. Three years after a like stipulation was introduced in the treaty with the Russians negotiated at Buchorest, and the exclusion, in fact, of foreign ships of war became an universal rule with the Porte. In our treaty with Turkey, however, it is agreed that we shall be entitled to every right and pri vilege extended to the " most favoured" nations with whom the Porte was, or might be, under any engagements of commercial anzi Political intercourse. The nation "most favoured " just now by the Porte is evidently the Russian nation, for we'find that her two ships of war have come up to Constantinople from the two straits in opposite directions, and their right of doing so has not been called in question. It appears, then, that the passage of the Pluto Government steam-vessel need not have been made matter of negotiation between the Ambassador of the Porte, for she has acquired the right of going through the Dardanelles and the Bos phorus. Will it be contended that the passage of the two Russian ships of war last month was a violation of the treaties, and therefore cannot be rude by us the ground of any proceeding to the same effect ? If i bp, nothing remains for us but to acknowledge that the rights and privileges of Russians in Turkey are to ex tend to violations of their treaty, while we are bound by puts in such a way as it may be most agreeable to Russia that we should be. It may not be desirable that we should require the free admission at all times of any ships of war of uur gym within the Dardanelles --but . if Russia do not herself gQllkirrp to the ff prip 7 ciple' which the Frankfort writer professes On 116 1.)- t-nlf. it becomes expedient th4t W obtain e should the 1,„;• ant% from that " priPcipi9" Kirgelm, --Av_ router each 4 COW 44: faculty of w... whenever circumstances ... visable.—Times., The appointment of a First Lord of the Admiralty seems to be as difficult to Lord Melbourne as that of a Lord Chancellor. It is a pity that the Noble Premier cannot in the case o f th e Admiralty as in that of the Great §.eal resort to the expedient of a Commission, in when these elements are consolidated, there can be neither obstacle on the part of others, nor objection on her own, to take possession of that capital. This we have often endeavoured to im?ress on the minds of English Ministers ; and would that the warning be taken in time I - The withdrawal of the Russian army in 1829 was solely attributable to the apprehen sion of certain annihilation by the Turks, who were ready to rise en masse, and not, as is alleged, to the magnanimity of Nicholas, who, on the assurance of the English and French Ambassadors, that "if his armies marched to Constantinople, the Sublime Porte would cease to exist," is represented to have given orders for their recal, or, as it might be more properly termed, their escape. In reference to the secret article in the treaty of Unkiar-Skelessi, for closing the Dar danelles against foreign , men -of-war, it is asserted to be purely a " defensive precaution ; as the writer in the Frankfort Journal calls it, " a maintenance of the independent position of the Porte, as the Dardanelles are considered the line of separation between the East and West T. " How the independence of the Porte is respected by placing this line of separa tion in the hands of Russia, can lie explained only by the general perversion of words in the Frankfort phraseo logy. The " Dardenelles are the key of my house I" said the Emperor Alexander; and the Journal de Frank fort adds—" Woe to him who should be the first to touch this key, which a great Monarch has called the key of his house I" Is not this an admission that Russia at present considers herself in virtual possession of this key ? Can it be supposed that a great Monarch would allow the Porte to keep possession of the key of his house ? We imagine his desire of preserving Turkish independence would scarcely extend so far. We are as sured that were the Dardanelles opened to all nations, the Ottoman empire would infallibly be the victim, so that at present we may consider Turkey as existing only by protection of Russia—that is, " such pro tection as vultilres give to lambs—covering and de-. vouring them." The article bears too undeniable evi dence of Russian origin to admit a doubt of its paren tage : a guileful and despotic spirit pervades it from beginning to end. The writer admits the Dardanelles to be, the key of Europe, and concludes, in allusion to any attempt to gain possession of them, in these words : " Useless efforts I Vain words I The Dardanelles are open to the commerce of the world.. This is all that is re quired by civilization and the real interests of all nations. What do you want more ? Do you want the keys ? Rather do homage to the wisdom of the Governments which have for ages found means to spare Europe all the blood that would have been shed if they had alternately had to occupy this strait, to hold and then lose possession of it." Insolence unparalleled I Is Russia to be arbitress of the commerce of the world, and to dictate what is best " for the civilization and interests of all nations ?" Is she to hold the key of the destinies of Europe, and are we, when demanding restitution, to be told to do homage to her wisdom ? The whole question hinges on the solution of these queries, and th# longer that solution be deferred, the greater will be the danger to the general rights and amelioration of mankind. If English and French Ministers have not sufficient astuteness to settle the problem by discussion, like the Gordian knot, it should be at once fearlessly solved by the sword.--Morning Advertiser. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHAL L. Yesterday William Twisden was brought up for re-exa mination respecting his acquaintance with Barnes, a burglar, who, being disturbed in a warehouse in Lawrence-lane, which he had broken into, attempted to let himself down from the roof of an adjacent house by clinging to the water spout. Losing his hold when he was half-way down, he fell upon the pavement, and sustained so much injury on his head that he is not expected to survive. Twisden was detained merely because he was the first person who applied at St. Bartholomew's Hospital to see Barnes ; and as no account of the affair had appeared in the newspapers, it was thought strange that he should know where to find him, without knowing what enterprise he had been engaged in. Mr. Forton, one of the occupiers of the warehouse, who was robbed of about W., admitted that nothing had been discovered to connect the prisoner Twisden with the of fence, but he should like him to prove where he was from twelve o'clock on the night of the robbery till three in the morning. Twisden called his son, who swore that his father was at home. Air. Alderman Timex discharged Twisden, who said be should be forthcoming at any time. MAR YLEB ONE. Yesterday Sarah Hart was brought up, on a warrant to answer the complaint of her husband. It appeared from the evidence that he resided at No. 8, Marylebone-lane, and worked at Mr. King's floor-cloth manufactory. The defendant was in the constant habit of annoyinc , him at his work, and wishing him to return home wit Cher, threatening to murder him if he did not, On the previous morning he returned home to breakfast, after which he was going away again, and about bidding her good-by, when she immeiately ran to a drawer, and seizing hold of a razor, ran up to him, and saying " We shall never sever again," attempted to draw it across his throat. He, however, caught hold of her wrist and prevented her. He feared that his life was in danger, and procured a warrant, and only wished for a separation. He attributed her vio lent conduct to jealousy. The defendant in reply said she loved her husband, and would not part with him, but did not offer any explanation for her strange conduct. The warrant was then ordered to stand over, to see if they could arrange matters ; if not, the defendant will be held to bail. MARLBORO UGH-STREET. William Hands, a journeyman blacksmith, and John Jones a travelling trotter-merchant, were brought before Mr. Chambers, charged by the police with having been found cuffing each other on the pavement in Bear-street at a late hour the over night. . . _ The policeman said that he interposed on witnessing the scuffle betwixt the defendants, who were lying on the pave ment. The pigs' trotterman had evidently got the worst of the bout, as be was bleeding profusely from the nose. Mr. CHAMBERS—WeII, what do you say in defence ? Jones—Please your Lordship, I'm the man wot sells the werry best pigs' trotters, and I'm uniwersally respected cause my character vil bear the strictest explanation. On Sunday night I goes into Mr. Pickno's public-house, viol) . I always sarves, and yen I got into the tap-room I seed this here criminal and another lady sitting one agin t'other. I axes the lady if she wanted a prime trotter, and she axes me how I sould 'em ? Vy, marm, says I, sorne's a pe nn y, marm, and some's two-pence, marm, perwicling I perwides mustard and pepper." " Vell," says she, " Pll try a twopenny von ;" so I sarves her vith six vhoppers, von arter t'other, be sides three penny busters, anda whole kit-f u ll of Winegarand mustard. Ven she'd done I ax'd her • for the money, quite natural ; but instead of forking out she swore my wittles stunk, and then she cotchea hold of this here nose, and lugged me round and round the table. I'll candidly own I kicked up a gallows dust, but she wouldn't let go till she giv'd it such a hawkard tvist that I thought it vos all up the spout vith my conk. Howsomever, I'd no sooner got avay than up comes this here t'other, and hits me a rum'un, which sent me bang into the street. This statement being in part corroborated, the Magis strate directed that the trotter man should be released, and brought round to make his charge against the blacksmith. The trotter man re-stated his grievances, and added, by way of climax, that his basket of trotters had been kicked into the mud. Mr. CHAMBERS called on Hands for his defence. Hands—l'm quite unaccustomed to public speaking, and I never had the pleasure of being in sitch a onpleasant si tivation afore ; but I beg leave to say that the gemman has wery much egshadgegrated the matter, for the lady only eat four and not six of his trotters ; so as he wanted to hirnpose I hinterfered, as yes quite proper. The defendant was ordered either to arrange the matter with the trotter man, or to find bail. WORSHIP -STREET. Yesterday, Maria JVeggett was placed at the bar before Mr. BROUGHTON and Mr. STOCIS, a country M ag i s t ra t e , o ? rt cl y of W Mrs. il t.4lg 'a pair of bl ac k s ilk stoc ki ngs, the Julia Cohen, N o . 9, Cambridge-heath road, The investigation exhibited the extraordinary in trepedity of a child, named Esther Wadden, twelve years old, , who pursued the prisoner t wo miles. a. 4 1 -,i;44ViC.A3 of nearly Thv, #ll4 wike was of diminutive form, on being sworn, sa ktlbat Ste was servant to Mrs. Cohen. On the previ ou..,tl.. en ipc, the prisoner came into the shop while she was, previ s OV tn, there. and snatched a pair of black Pik sl.oekingA ofd the e9,llneT , ail I '9 dell 41, 1 TAO folictlved by witness, On ' 1,1.. r iviii-gpci 4 AM.PI,Ie, witnesi asked her for the req ilv , ifhen she said she would not give them. She iO wi Whiteobapel Church, where, on her speaking stwto:ncal:man, witness came up and again asked her to deliver them up. The man tried to persuade her to do so, but she still refused. She went into two public-houses, still pur sued by the witness, and at length entered the Pavilion Theatre, in the gallery. Witness there followed her, and on the check-taker stopping her, she said that she belonged to the man and woman. She kept close to the prisoner, bothering" her for the stockings. After staying there an hour, the prisoner came down, witness going after her, when she went into the house next door, and shut the street door. Witness knocked at the door, which was opened by a man with a light, whom she told what she wanted. On looking for the prisoner, she was found in the act of con cealing the stockings. Mrs. Cohen said that the stockings were sent to her by a lady to be grafted, and that they were worth ss. Sergeant M'Kee, H 4, deposed that he found the stock ings concealed. Mr. BROUGHTON remarked that it was as extraordinary an instance of perseverance and intrepidity as ever came before him in his situation as Magistrate.—Committed. UNION- HALL. On Saturday last an application was made on behalf of Lord Langford for a warrant against Mr. Nathan, the mu sical composer, for demanding a certain sum of money from his Lordship, by threatening to publish a certain paper, tending to degrade and injure him, unless such sum of money or security was given. It will be recollected that, a short time ago, Mr. Nathan was summoned to this office for detaining five paintings, the alleged property of Lord Langford. On that occasion an assault was committed - on his Lordship by Mr. Nathan, who was then compelled to enter into his own recognizances to answer the charge at the Sessions. The Magistrate (Mr. Wedgwood), on the above application being made on Saturday, did not grant the warrant, but issued a summons against Mr. Nathan to answer the complaint, observing, at the same time, that he had every reason to believe that the adoption of that course would be the best, and that the party against whom the application had been made would attend there to meet the charge. _ _ _ Agreeably to this arrangement, Mr. Nathan, accompa nied by Mr. Gceson, his solicitor, was in attendance at the office yesterday, and, after having waited for a considerable time without Lord Langford making his appearance, or any person in his behalf, Mr. Geeson addressed the Magistrates and requested that the case might be called on, as he and his client had been in attendance since eleven o'clock, and were perfectly prepared• to answer the alleged charges brought against the latter. Lord Langford was not present, and as the case had been appointed for twelve o'clock, he therefore trusted that the Magistrates would dismiss the summons. Mr. WEDGWOOD said that as Mr. Nathan was present it would be incumbent upon him to wait longer, until it was seen whether Lord Langford or his solicitor wouk attend to substantiate the charge alleged against the de. fendant. Some time elapsed after the above application had been made, when Mr. Nathan's solicitor again addressed the Ma gistrates, and said that he had just received an intimation that a true bill had been found that day at the Newington Sessions House against Mr. Nathan for an assault on Lord Langford. It was therefore evident, from this last circum stance, that his Lordship had taken out the present sum mons in order to compel the attendance of Mr. Nathan at this office, while he went before the Grand Jury himself, and obtained a bill of indictment. The object in this pro ceeding was to procure a bench warrant against Mr. Nathan, and have him taken into custody on leavinc , this office, without his Lordship appearing theie to prefer' the charge for which he took out the summons. The MAGISTRATE said that he knew nothing of the cir cumstances just related, and that a sufficient time would be given to Lord Langford to attend and prefer his charge be fore the summons was dismissed. We understand that at the conclusion of the business o f the day the summons against Mr. Nathan was dismissed owing to no prosecutor appearing. HATTON-GARDEN. Yesterday Sarah Meyers, a good-looking female, 22 years of age was brought before Mr. BENETT, charged with having attempted to poison herself. It appears that about three years ago she was seduced by her own father-in-law, who three weeks since took her into the country, and she came to London on Friday last, when she wandered about until she met with a sweep named Fountain, whom she accompanied to a house of ill fame, and subsequently met him on Sunday last, and walked about with him until the evening, when, on proceeding along Holborn, she complained to him of having a head ache, and said she would go and purchase something to relieve her. She entered a chemist's shop and purchased six-pennyworth of arsenic, and they then went together in the direction of the New-road, and on their arrival in Chad's-place she proposed having a pint of half-and-half, and they entered the Star public-house. On being served with it, Fountain drank the half of it, on which the pri soner mixed the arsenic with the remainder of the half-and half, which she swallowed, and shortly after she was seized with pains and fell down in a state of insensibility. She was brought then to the North London Hospital, where she remained until yesterday, when she was sufficiently re covered to be brought to this office. On Fountain being questioned, he gave a history of her case, and after proper inquiries had been made he was liberated. Mr. BENETT asked the prisoner what could induce her to make such a rash attempt upon her own life ? Prisoner (in a tone of melancholy)—l left my mother, and lam ashamed to go back to her. I went away with a man into the country. I came to London, he left me, and I deter mined on destroyinc , myself,. Mr. BENETT—Who is the man, where does he live ? —He is a blacksmith, and resides in Lambethmarsh. Mr. BENETT—Where does your mother live ? Pri soner—At No. 32, Lambeth-marsh. An officer was sent to this address, and on his return said he had been informed that the mother and father-in-law of the prisoner got drunk and fought the night before, and were taken to Queen-square Police-office, where they were both locked up for fines. Mr. BENETT—Ii is a most lamentable case, something must be done to protect the unfortunate girl. Serjeant Campbell stated, that in the course of a short time the prisoner would be entitled to 2,000/., in the funds, upon the interest of which the prisoner's mother was living, and he had no doubt but they would be glad to get rid of her for the sake of the money. He bad seen the mother, who expressed ,a wish that the girl was dead. The prisoner, in reply to the Magistrate stated, that she had an uncle named Sweetman, a jeweller. The prisoner was then removed from the bar, and a a messenger despatched to desire Sweetman to attend at the Office. THAMES POLICE-atprcE. Yesterday three y oung sweeps, nwied Connell, Chapman, and 2'uft, were placed at the bar 'with Ann Smith and Mary Burns, two young girls, ber':.)re Mr. BALLANTINE and Mr. COMBE, charged with the capital offence of assaulting Robert Lewis, a 'sailor, on the King's highway, putting him in fear, and 'robbing him of his hat. If`. sailor stated, that about two o'clock on Sunday tr.orning he was on his way home along the Back-road, St. George's, when he saw the three sweeps, and the girls in company, standing on the pavement. He had just passed them, when the two girls came up to him, and they each laid hold of an arm. Directly afterwards two sweeps came before him, and another behind him, who struck him and shoved him down. He was severely beaten, and in the scuffle he lost his hat, which was taken away by one of the girls. The master of the sweeps bore evidence to character, and another sweep attempted to prove an alibi for the prisoners. Mr. COMBE said, the prisoners had not helped their case, and committed them all to Newgate for trial for the capital offence of highway robbery. A boy named Henry Shepherd, aged 15 years, was brought before Mr. COMBE on a charge of stealing fourteen sovereigns, and some silver, the property of Captain Wil liam Pinfold, the miter of a trading vessel bound to Con stantinople, .in.the London-dock. The captain stated that in the early part of last week the boy came on board, and said his mother could not keep him and had turned him out of doors, and he was willing to do anything for a living. Witness said that sooner than the lad should starve he would keep him, and engaged him as a cabin-boy, although he was really not in want of one. The boy went on very well until that morning, when he absconded, during his temporary absence on board another ship alongside. Soon afterwards he had occasion to put on his waistcoat, which had been hanging on a nail in the state room door, and missed the money from the pockets, where he safely deposited it on Monday night. King, a Thames police constable, stated that he received information of the robbery from the last witness, and recol lecting that he had seen a boy answering the prisoner's de scription cross the water from Wapping to Rotherhithe, he went in pursuit, and overtook him at Deptford. On search.- irg, him he found 14 sovereigns and 9s. 6d. in silver, corre sponding within a few shillings with the amount stolen. The prisoner had on a new blue jacket, which he had just pttrobased with the remainder of the money. Captain Pinfold said he did not wish to prosecute the boy. Mr. COMBE said the robbery was attended with such ag gravated circumstances, that the case must go to the ses sions, and committed the bay. for trial. Tho ikew species of hard labour lately introduced at the borough gaol, Colchester, is found to be most effective, several old offenders who have been the round of all the treadmills in the kingdom, with a few exceptions, have de clared at the end of their day's walk that the tread-mill is pleasure compared with prison pedestrianism. The silence compelled to be observed is also very unpleasant, and as a punishment, if any prisoner on his waU shall speak or rest without permission, he is to I?,e iplaxisoned in a solitary cell for three days, on la-gaol allowance per day.—Essex Standard, SURREY SESSION S-TUESDA • Mr. JEMMETT made an application to the Court on the behalf of the parochial authorities of St. Giles, Camber well, to compel a man named Thomas Dunn, one of the beadles cf Lambeth parish, to maintain an ille, , ritn" ate enqd born since the passing of the New Poor Law Bill. t, On the 17th of July last a woman named Matilda It" files was delivered of a child, of which the beadle above named was the father, and she-was not in a condition to contribute to its maintenance, being, in fact, a pauper her: self; and now an inmate of the workhouse. By the 7 26 section of the New Pour Law Act the defendant usval liable as the putative father of the child to support it ntD it . arrived at an age to provide for itself, and after app li on to the next General Quarter Sessions after such elm' t shall have become chargeable, the Court had the power to make an order on the putative father for its maintenance' The Learned Counsel trusted that, under all the circinn' stances of the case, the Court would exercise the lln wer vested in it, and compel the beadle to support the c hild. , Mr. CHAMBERS, on the part of the beadle, cont endea that the Act had not been complied with, inasmuch a s t h e application had not been made at the General Quarter Seo" sions, an omission which he submitted could not be got over, unless the present motion was renewed at the next General Quarter Sessions for the county. In fact the pro' per time had been allowed to slip over by the parish offieo l —inadvertently, no doubt. The Learned Counsel then cited that part of the clause in the Act to bear out th e construction which he put upon it, and said that if the Cou rt were of a different opinion his client was there prepared enter into the case. The COURT, after a short consultation, decided that the application should be made at the G e neral Quar ter t Sessions ; and the case was, therefore, postponed for that purpose. James ilfoor, a young man in the employ of a farm er near Kingston, was indicted for stealing a gander, the Pr?: party of Abner Kelly, a shopkeeper, in the vicinity of Of above town. It appeared that, late on the night of the 12th of AllO 4 , the prosecutor, hearing a noise in hi s p ou lt r y yard, got..-00' of bed, and on going out found that some persons had beeak within his premises, and had taken a gander from the fl ue s , of geese. He immediately repair e d i n t o th e roa d., and sT e the prisoner, and on going towards him he threw down tu gander, whose neck he ha previously twisted, and attempt ed to run away. The prosecutor, however., caught I l i ; and a struggle ensued, during which the piisoner made t most vi g orous efforts to escape, and sw am that if he e° o; get out his knife he would stab him if h ,►le did not le t d go. He at the same time endeaver.red to put his l i L; into his waistcoat pocket, as if with , t h e v i ew o f ge tting T oi knife, upon seeing which' the prosecutor directly struck Ile on the head with a stick and. If.nocked him down. 1 1 l the prisoner was on the grotr a d h e cr i e d out f or m ereY, e that he killed the gander k'or a lark, and offered the Pl e a tutor 51. if he would let him go. The prosecutor ref ° 04 to accede to any term,,, and left the prison e r for a n lo s l ,,. e tt do in order to go for tilt dead gander, which was lying a' o f distance off in the road. The prisoner took advantage to the moment, started upon his feet, and tried once rmar e , co . get away. He was, howeve r , b roug ht d own aga in 11 - _... 0 w . ther blow of the stick, a n d was a ft erwar d s l o d ge d i n the Evidence was adduced, on the part of the prisoner.. o6 show that he had be en d r i n ki ng f ree l y a t the Fig liti be Cocks, on the night in question, with others, and that i, and another young fellow for a spree, as they ternal eto twistingproposed twistingthe neck of one of M r . Kelly's ga ll a j o o to make a pie of it, as they passed his house. It wa s, er stated that the prisoner h a d b een i n th e emp l o y o f a f a r - dl for several years, and that he had never been in a' before for felony. A constable of Kin gs t on s t a t e d th a t th e pr i son er 1 t; lazy indolent fellow, and was always considered one of loose characters about that part of the country. I v ied The Jury found the prisoner Guilty. He still as o his innocence, declaring it was only done out of a 'lark. tb i The CHAIRMAN senten c ed th e p r i soner t o t we l v e 1n °11 , 0 %, imprisonment a nd h ar d l a b our i n G u ildf or d . gaol, obse r/- c e that the case was clea r ly ma d e ou t, and. th a t the offe n the was aggravated, owing to the resistance he had m ade t° prosecutor, and the threats he bad held. out to him. „ to r. John Smith was indicted fo r st ea li ng a poc k e t -ha°' chief; the property of a person unkn own. ba d Evidence was adduced to prove that the prisnne r ao been given into custody by a ge v al l eman at Itichmond;"jt had his pocket picked of a silk pocket-handkerchief. _ subsequently turned out that the gentleman's name Dawler, but he declined Coming forward to prosecute. The prisoner was acquitted. In the course of th e d ay t h e G ran d J ury f oun d n,.. trtie o o bill against Mr. Nath an , th e composer, f or an assaul t Lore Langford. BRENT]'ORD PETTY SESSIONS' Yesterday H enr y Cleede, a farmer, and keeper of a bibs shop, at Lower-place, Willesdon, appeared before' bs , Bench to answer an information preferred against hil l ' a t an informer named James Carver, for selling beer Wi ti ' ° having a magistrate's license to sell the same. The information was l a id un d er th e 35 t h G eo. III" cap. 113, sec. 1. t ° II George Bowley, the inform er ' s witnes s , state d, 113 t ile the Ist inst. he went to the defendant's premises, over de, entrance to which were painted th e ' wor d s " H en ry G ie tUa licensed to sell beer by retail, 'not to be drunk ° premises." The premises were surrounded by a wall, and on %, e l, 11 in; the ga t e , w it ness proceeded across a yard to a ,l i lie at the entrance to which. was a wicket-gate, over iv n l' A i c It was served with a Opt of beer, for which he paid 74 " . j to was served him in Pal earthern mug, and he was allo ve d r iolc sit on a stool or 'deficit on the side of the wicket to o ra the beer. He also treated two men who came in th e 'ijea with a pint 'of beer. The mug in which it was s° l ,"the was unsta•mped, and the place where witness dra w ' beer wP;s within the wall surrounding the premises. the TI-. 0 d e fe n d an t, i n hi s d e f ence , p l ea d e d h e had Ie " t he far' n to a Mr. Brown, retaining only a right of waY. t° boa fpied in question, for the purpose of selling beer, wh i , c ,. h therefore been drunk outside of the premises licenseu.ilioth The Bench, however, entertaining a different 0 11:04 fined the defendant in the mitigated penalty of 10 ' costs, which the defendant paid. An inquiry is about to be instituted into the ca re' s of those officeas of the Royal Marines who are in ttid ceipt of pensions for wounds from the effe c ts of vvlu c " t c Oo' have entirely recovered. Those who arc found to be - t ile valescent (excepting always such as have lost limbs ' l l, o ff service) will, as is now the case in the army b e str ~ir the list, or be allowed to retire o n half pay:retaining t pensions. ADVERTISEMENT.) r,lo s The NEW FLAT GOLD WAI are offered in double-bottomed engine-turned cases, with ac cuT— „tel Seve' l finished' vertical movements, jewelled and warranted for, Guineas each, or, with highly-finished horizontal ruovetneVo'rui4 ranted at Nine uineas each, at T. COX SAVORY'S , onc loo' Goldsmith, Silversmith, and Watchmaker, 47, Cornliill j e MARRIED. or' , On the 15th inst., at St. Marylebone Church, Sir John i c le h arlL:, of Whitehall-place, to Selina, youngest dau g ht e r of the la te j a „gh t ` e Garth Colleton, Esq., of Haines Hill, Berks, and gran d ", 11 0 °' of the late Right Hon. Reginald P o le C arew , of Anthony Cornwall. oo On the 10th inst., at Bathwick Church, Bath, Henry A , Esq., of Sully, Glamorganshire, and Lhvn-madoc, Breel, 1 1 r Clara, only daughter of Thomas Thomas Esq., of Penk err-°' norshire, and Lanbradach, Glamorganshire. n ewer the 12th inst., at Keswick, H arve y G e m, Esq.; street, Lincoln's Inn, to Caroline, daughter of Samuel Tia If of Wim th pole-street. ,teroo rl On e 26th ult., at Carphen House, Fife, James Wi ll Wii ite t , Esq., lion. East India Compa n y' s S erv i ce , son of Sir Jo'njole., foord, to Louisa Jane, youngest daughter of the late CaP t ' of Ashford, Kent. alas ; lig , On the 14th inst., at St. Alph age , Greenwich, IL" 3 , well Fox, Esq., of Fox Hall, county o f L ong f or d, to S us l .- /C L)•- of second daughter of Admiral Sir Lawrence Wm. Halstea(9ooo, On the 10th inst., at Hammerw.nith, the Rev. Wrn. 0. Enfield, to Grace Charlotte Coo - oer, el Hammersmith. -DIED. 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Previous to his collation to that benefice I den t Primate Stuart, he was nearly 20 years a constant r', n , oue " - i t active Magistrate in the c ou n t y T yrone , an d on more t ' — o tia l ,o casion received the thanks of the Grand Jury for his of 11 . 0 t upright conduct, more rarticularly ( l ur i ng t h e tr oubled peri! ) , '' On the 13th of Apr i l, at Ah me d a b a d, i n the East loa ll 3100" T. D. Morris, of the B om b ay A rmy , e ld es t so n of Tit iw' as - . 4 se Esq., Collector of the Customs at Bristol. On the 3d in at Stourficad House, Mr. Robert D Vas 87, the faithful upper servant to Sir Richard Colt Hoare' for the term of 56 years. On the 13th inst., at Bayswater, aged 71., E(l , car d Owe 'S:e t. ' late of tho firm of Messrs. Wilcoxo ' n's and Co., Loinharti•pliobe On the : 80th Ye ar ' relict of Francis Kemble, Esq., of Clapham-commo n. Ivc• NG, London : Printed and Published by MURDO Y° l-/ he 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, o. N 11 2 Strand, ill * of Middlesex. In new Acr OFF] on S A A ment. varyini tible el brifren Chann and coi dieidei ineado i be four it the its iriU trcduce It i s s i t inoristi Fa rina t 'which 1 Ti "need h a most i n , oei ng liarket to Li vei not be in vest, seasons, aad the T TI ine lai Th„ e a eitl3ivel. ~hieh is PrefCrei: Parti hill s h o ~Castle' 44 1 , ewly - "uuc a - t ; A uctio n Staft, Il tirel l Ihlrt, .' 'ttt i na.unl le P o und 0 T 1 PrS ent . t endi ttn Feri a p Ch ave i 4 RAi to nve..i - Wh o I A for a utle till . Old ent urk . Jaulai.v ~ ---- / • " A' . 13 .of '4 "~' BIRTHS. glde r ' On the 10th inst., at Suraffham, Mrs. Walpole, of a t'3l4', Ale" On the 14th inst., in Upper Seymo ur - s t ree t , Mrs. Steri, Hankey, of a daughter. On the 14th inst., at Weymouth, the lady of Captain S te'. of a daughter. Wa ts° On the 14th inst., in Fenehurch-street, the lady of Job" Borradaile, Esq., of a son.