The Sun. — London, England, 1835-03-30 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS The question on the issue of which depends the fate of the present Ministry, comes on this day. Lord John Russell, in the eloquent and manly speech at the dinner given to him by the Reform Members on Sa turday, declared, " I am glad that we have reserved for this occasion the great trial of strength between ourselves and our opponents." Ministers have demon strated to the country, that without the confidence of the House of Commons, Government cannot be con ducted to any advantage ; and that confidence it is quite impossible men should ever obtain, who, as was forcibly observed by his Lordship, " are so bigotted to the old monopoly, that they could not even grant the small privilege of making Masters of Arts to the London University ;" and that the " removal of the smallest—the least—the slightest abuse—when the time really comes for tearing it away from them, is like parting with their heart's blood ; they cannot yield up abuses and live ; they cannot make up their minds to part with one." The most irresolute waverer must be satisfied with the ex perience which has been afforded, that good measures cannot emanate from bad men. Every pretext, how ever slight, for supporting Ministers, is now destroyed. They have had their trial, and the sentence must be no longer delayed. With respect to the great question of Appropriation, Lord John Russell, in noticing the allusion of Lord Morpeth to his exertions in the cause of religious liberty and reform, observed— " Gentlemen, I may now say, that among all my day dreams of ambition, there has been none which, after that con nected with those two subjects, I have cherished so long, or entertained with such perseverance, as the hope that I might one day or other be the means of subduing another great grievance—l mean the grievance of the abuses of the Church of Ireland—(Tremendous cheering)—abuses which seem to combine the political usurpation of our close boroughs with the religious intolerance of our Corporation and Test Acts. —(Renewed cheering.) It is my hope, Gentlemen, that on Monday next I shall be able to state such a case to the House of Commons—to that House of Commons which had been as sembled by a special summons from the Crown, and with the threat of another dissolution ; I say it is my hope that I shall be able to state such a case as will withstand the attacks of so phistry and the violence of declamation, founded upon evi dence the force of which our opponents will be unable to resist."—(Loud cheers.) The people of these kingdoms are looking forward to the issue with extreme interest—but not with anxiety—because they are certain that the good cause will be triumphant.—Morning Chronicle. The dinner in•honour of Lord John Russell took place, as will be seen by our report, at the Freemasons' Tavern on Saturday. It was said of a celebrated writer of the last century, that his text was only a peg to hang his notes upon, and on this occasion Lord J. Rus. sell's name appears only to have been used as the text from which a certain number of set speeches were to emanate, all having one sole object—the restoration of the Whigs to office. Never was Hamlet's advice to the players more strikingly exemplified and, with one exception, (that of Mr. O'Connell,) religiously adhered to than on this occasion ; and, indeed, lest any one of the numerous assembly should be induced to intrude himself upon the meeting who had not a part assigned him in the drama, or lest those who had should say more than was down for them, the Noble Chairman, Lord Morpeth, took especial care, in the outset, to re mind the company that the " notice paper being very crowded, he must request they would confine them selves to the toasts set down in the order of the day." And under this admirable regulation the whole perform ance appears to have gone off, as private theatricals generally do, to the entire satisfaction both of the audience and performers. After the healths of the Royal Family had been given and toasted with due honour, the Noble Chairman gave " The People—for whose benefit Government was instituted and ought to be exercised," a truism which no one can be inclined to dispute, but which has been strangely illustrated in Whig practice by that singular " boon' the Malthu sian Poor Law Bill. In apparent echo of this toast, Lord John Russell described the meeting as "an assembly for the great and solemn purpose of record ing those political sentiments which will tend to the welfare, the improvement, and happiness of the country." These are noble objects—objects even at the mention of which every patriot's bosom must glow with animation ; but what proofs did this meet ing afford, or what proofs have four years of Whig rule afforded, that there is any greater prospect of these leas being effected by the return of that party to ce than by the continuance of the present Ministers in power ? To all but the mere slaves of party it must be a matter of great indifference from what hand " the welfare, the improvement, and happiness of the coun try" comes ; and, therefore, unless Lord John Russell is able to offer us something which Sir Robert Peel withholds, we know of no fair ground of preference which the former possesses. Meetings of this kind are often as fairly tested by what they omit as by what they say. And though a great deal, in the way of generalizing, was said as to the state of England and Ireland, we ask any dispassionate man whether the two great evils under which " the people" of these two countries are labouring were so much as touched upon by any of the performers in the parts assigned them upon the occasion ? In one country the state of the currency ; in the other, the absence of all statutable means for the relief of the poor, the decrepit, and the aged. These objects are severally of infinitely more consequence to these two countries than whe ther the Whigs shall return to office ; but who would create the strongest grounds for that return, by adopting objects with which " the welfare, the im provement and happiness" of " the people" are so inseparably connected ? One word in relation to an other omission at this meeting, and we have done with it for the present. Where was the once celebrated Whig toast, " The Liberty of the Press—the air we breathe ; without which we die !" How came this toast omitted from the crowded " Notice Paper," from the well-regulated " Order of the Day ?" Must we say that it was because the inconsistency between the sentiment and the practice would have been glaring even for Whig gullibility to swallow ? For it must have been given in the presence of, and drank by the very Whig Attorney-General who had prosecuted the Press for only repeating what a Whig Lord and a Whig Commoner had said with impunity. It must have been given in the presence of, and drank by the very leader of the party in whose honour the company were assembled, and who had himself, within eight and-forty hours of their meeting, meditated an attack upon the Press, which prudence, not inclination, had compelled him to abandon.—Morning Herald. We refer our readers to the Common Council Re port which appears irk another column. From thence it will be seen that the city of London has done itself the high honour of anticipating reform, by adopting in its own case a principle which cannot fail to be ex tended to similar corporations throughout the king dom. The Common Council has declared that the election of aldermen shall in future be periodical— not for life. Every one who considers the question with an impartial mind will rejoice in this decision. The servility of aldermen is not a new complaint, nor is the prominent cause of that servility a new discovery. Election for life was in its very nature a discharge in full from their constituents, and accordingly we find that the aldermen, as a body, have never omitted to take ad vantage of it. Election for life is a delusion, a cheat ; it is representation without responsibility. But it is needless for us to argue here what was so well argued in the Court by Mr. Charles Pearson and others, and what, in point of fact, is written in the history of the Court of Aldermen, that the circumstance of their being chosen permanently, not periodically, cut off the bond between them and their constituents, and, by making them independent of the public, made them the slaves of Ministers or of their own sordid pursuits. As for the argument of Sir Peter Laurie and those who supported the existing rule, in favour of what they were pleased to call the independence of Magistrates, it amounts to little more than a play upon words. It is true that, in the sense we have just hinted at, elec tion for life has rendered that class of Magistrates in dependent of their constituents. But is such the only independence to be sought for in an Alderman and a Magistrate ? Is independence of the Crown or of the Minister of the day, or of the dictates of grovelling avarice or ambition, no object to be attained even at the risk of some sacrifice to popularity ? True indepen dence of mind is not the creature of irresponsible office; and let the adversaries of popular suffrage say what they will, the people are not yet so depraved as to ren der the honest discharge of one's duty a vain appeal to their understandings for support. But the question which was long since decided in the minds of impartial men is now decided by the vote of the Common Coun cil on the part of the Corporation of London. We congratulate the public on such a result ; and we hope that his Majesty's Ministers will not only receive the particular suggestion with favour, but will adopt the spirit of that suggestion in dealing with the whole of that extensive subject included under the title of Mu nicipal Reform.—Morning Herald. At the moment at which we write, we are not aware either what may be the determination to which Sir Robert Peel has come respecting Lord John Russell's motion this evening, or what may have been the complexion of the meeting of his friends, which was held on Saturday last, and which was called by Lord Francis Egerton, as well as held in his house in Cleveland-square. We have reason to believe, however, that Sir Robert Peel, though with a proud disdain of the bigotted party which gave him a place to disgrace him, and then deserted him—will " stand the hazard of the die," and be thankful to the Liberals for re lieving him from a burthen which he is not only unable to bear, but which he now finds to be intolerable ; while, with regard to the meeting at Lord Francis Eger ton's, it is distinctly understood—though we cannot vouch for the fact—neither to have had, nor to have de served, the countenance of Sir R. Peel—to have been feebly attended—and to have ended in nothing beyond a mere determination to make the strongest possible opposi tion to Lord John Russell's motion on the Irish Church. We have been informed, also, that the name of the Premier was " taken in vain" by more than one of those present at the meeting, and that the breach which previously existed between him and the more bigotted part of his faction, was anything but closed by the speeches which were made upon the subject. But, however this may be, it is quite certain that there is no unanimity in the Tory camp, and that its forces are merely kept together by a sense of common dan ger, and a consciousness that when they cease to act in con cert, they will share the fate which they have so richly de served.—Morning Advertiser. The meeting of the Opposition on Saturday last, at a dinner given to Lord John Russell, was meant for an ap propriate flourish of trumpets to the more business-like proceeding of this day. If the coming substance corre spond with the preceding shadow—if we may infer the de scription of political matter which is to be laid by the Noble Lord before the nation through its representatives this evening, from the prefatory notices with which he favoured his audience in the course of Saturday's speech—it is clear that Sir Robert Peel will not have much trouble in con vincing the Noble Lord himself, that, bad as was the din ner exhibition, the whole affair ought to have terminated with it, and not have been prolonged into a _second, and more signal, and far more discreditable and irrecoverable failure. We now make no allusion to that particular ques tion, of how the account may stand between Ministers and their assailants, as to the numbers on this night's or to- morrow's division, with a full assurance that the sole object of Lord John Russell and his followers is to render the discussion a mere peg, whereon to hang a division ; and to use the exposition of numbers, not as a record or an evi dence of the preponderancy of argument, but as a coun terpoise to it. With that persuasion strong upon us, we shall rather address the common sense and right feelings of the country, than the shallow selfishness of those who regard that country as at once a stage for their antics, and a prey for their cupidity. Lord Morpeth, in preluding to the health of the Opposition Leader, attempted to kick aside as scarcely worthy of notice, the subject of those " great and mutual differences" which he knew it was the custom of late to impute to the Whig-Radical party. And pray, Lord Morpeth, are there no great and mutual differences amongst that heterogeneous and in describable menagerie of animals, drawn from all quar ters of the earth, and invested with such an in exhaustible variety of habits, instincts, and constitu tions ? Is there no mutual difference between Lord Brougham, for instance, whose health was somewhat ironically toasted at the dinner, and who maintains the po litical impossibility of transferring any portion of the reve nues, now or any time enjoyed by the Protestant Churcl. of Ireland, to any but uses immediately connected witl, that Church—and Mr. Ellice, or others of the Uultra Liberal section of the late Ministry, who were notoriousl in favour of such an appropriation ? Is there no " dif Terence" between Lord John Russell, who now comes for ward as the champion of an appropriation of surplu , Church revenues to general purposes of instruction. whatever he may have thought, and to whatever con trary opinion he may have pledged himself (as we hay( shown he did) last year, and Lord Lansdowne, who declared himself in the House of Lords to be nearly of the same creed as the late learned and consistent Chancellor ? But Lord Morpeth's mode of dealing with his own allusion to " mutual differences" was as drop as the introduction of such a ticklish subject. His Lord ship affirmed that their principles were such as would never induce them to yield to the lure of temptation, or to the "facility of compromise." Then let us ask, how in the name of Heaven are these men to carry on their projected Go vernment ? If, as is admitted, and indeed unquestionable, they be split into almost numberless subdivisions of senti ment, how, by what miracle, can they form or conduct a Government, without agreeing to compromises in a dozen directions ? Lord Morpeth, to be sure, boasts that for a given purpose, and up to a certain point, they will settle their discords by swallowing them, inasmuch as, without departing From their opinions, they " will know how to marshal theit forces, and to present in front of the foe an unconquer able phalanx." We do confess that such, and no other, is the sort of concord which is likely to exist between these patriots. They can just manage so far to get rid of their abhorrence for each other's principles and persons as may suffice to bring up their troops to the attack, and to co-operate until the tellers shall have reported the ayes and noes. But with the division all harmony is at an end. Thence arise divisions of another kind, and in countless multitudes. The enemy is, beaten, but then begins the war of rapacity and plunder—then do the spears of the " unconquerable phalanx," and the joints of the multifarious. tails, turn inwards on each other, and a scene of disgusting strife and anarchy succeeds the fruitless triumph. They are not, we know, prepared for this ; but is the truth of the prediction doubtful ? Is it physically possible that materials so discordant should cohere for a single month Lord J. Russell, however, sings a note more peculiarly his own. He calls " measures not men, a piece of quackery." Beyond all doubt it would be difficult to determine whether " measures" or" men" would be the standard of opinion least favourable to Lord J. Russell. As for the Reform Bill, it was none of his work—don't let him flatter himself that he was the parent of that law. He was but the midwife who ushered it into existence, as it devolved upon Lord Althorp to be the dry nurse. Lord John Russell's real progeny was the Marriage Bill, followed up by his tilting match with the Bishop of Exeter, wherein his Lordship was so cruelly un horsed and immersed in mud at the first onset. When the Noble Lord therefore exclaims against the quackery ofjudg ing by measures, we can fully understand and feel for him. But then he will insist that if he mid his late colleagues had been tried by their measures, they would have done vast things for the people. Why, were there ever so many abor tive attempts at legislation made under such favourable cir cumstances, and with such multiplied and shameful failures? Was it not the laughingstock of the whole country, that session after session expired without any measure which presented the slightest difficulty being put into a business like or passable shape ? Yet Lord John Russell ventures to pretend that Sir R. Peel and his colleagues have dissap pointed the people, and done nothing. Is the appointment and completion of the English Church Report nothing ? Is the Dissenters' Marriage Bill—a Gorgon, doubtless, in poor Lord John Russell's eyes—nothing? Or the English and Irish Tithe Bills—measures so incomparably more States manlike and effective than any legislative effort of the late Ministers—are they nothing ? We aver in the face of our countrymen, that within three months after the Conserva tives acceded to office, there have been more satisfactory proofs afforded of their ability to give " good government" to England, than by the Whigs in more than that number of years ; nor was there ever anything more, we had almost said unprincipled, than the allegation of the Noble Lord, that the present Government displays a system of " undisguised oppression abroad." Whom has the Duke of Wel lington oppressed, whose tyranny has he abetted since he came into power ? Is it true, is there a particle of truth in it, that the Conservative Government has betrayed the slightest tendency to favour Don Carlos, Don Miguel, or the Dutch Court, in its relation with the King of Belgium ? The reverse of all this is fact ; it was known to Lord J. Russell to be positive fact when he employed such injurious language towards the present Ministry. He knew that all the free representative Governments have expressed the most cordial sense of obligation for the kindness and friendship exercised towards them by the Foreign-office since it came under the guidance of the Duke of Wellington, and that our alliance with the French Court, and our intimacy with that great power, are at least as perfect and as honourable to Great Britain as ever they were under the bland supre macy of the ex-member for Hampshire. Not one single charge could Lord John Russell produce against Sir Robert Peel and the Conservatives, but that they did not fight under his own factious banners ; nor was it necessary for the Noble Lord's purpose to establish any such ground of censure. His object was a muster, not a debate. The same will be this day's course of action. A bright prospect is for England, should such men and such motives gain the ascendant over her. But that part of Lord John Russell's speech which refers to the charter of the London Univer sity is more sneakingly and pitifully unfair than language can adequately describe. He reproaches the Ministers for not having acceded to Mr. Tooke's motion,—he puts for ward their conduct on that occasion as a crowning iniquity. Now, what was the motion? Why, a motion for an Address to the Crown for a Charter, "as approved, in the year 1831, by the then Law Officers of the Crown." Who were those Law Officers ? They were the Law Officers of the Whig Administra tion, and that Administration being in office in 1831, and continuing in office till November, 1834, had neverthe less not procured nor advised the grant of the charter so approved by their own law officers. Lord John Russell was one of that Whig Administration, and yet he has the face to prefer such a charge against his successors in the Mi nistry ! We recommend this to Lord Morpeth's notice, as a feature for his next " premeditated impromptu" upon the honour of the House of Russell. By the way, talking once more of Lord Morpeth, we must not forget his compli ment to Lord Althorp (now Spencer) which was almost an insult. Lord Morpeth insinuated by his quotation that the su preme pleasure of his Noble Friend was either listening to the bellowing of oxen, or wallowing in lazy sleep. And this is the eulogy of the " parfizit honznte" of the Whigs We have only time to turn the reader's attention to an in telligent letter, signed " An Englishman," which contains some pointed and just reproaches at the idleness or un manly indifference which the professed friends of Ministers exhibit in their lax attendance to support Sir Robert Peel. who is thus left all but alone to fight battles wherein they are more interested as a party than he has ever felt himself as a man. There are sonic further observations worth re flecting upon, as to the composition of the House of Com mons, and the relative strength, if duly managed, of Mi nisters and their opponents.—Times. It is with a feeling of sincere regret that we find our.. selves compelled by a sense of duty to notice in any other terms than those of unqualified commendation an article in the columns of our orthodox and conscientious contemporary, the John Bull. In his comments on the first report of the Church Reform Commissioners, that able and consistent advocate of our Ecclesiastical Establishment has, in our estimation, suffered his zeal to hurry him into a severity of animadversion, more calculated to injure than to advance the cause of which there are few more ardent or more able defenders than himself :-- ,‘ We no more doubt that the complete overthrow of the Established Church will follow upon the execution of the plan now suggested for its reformation than we ever doubted that the passing of the Reform Bill sealed the fate of the Mo narchy. A few years of uneasy existence both the Church and the Monarchy may drag on ; possibly, probably, the lat ter may endure through the present generation ' • but both the one and the other are now as certainly doomed as if a hand had written their downfall on the wall of our excellent Mo narch's banquetting-room." We hope for better things. That we have fallen upon evil times ; that the Church and the Throne are both threatened by a combination of traitors, schismatics, and infidels ; and that to the selfish and short-sighted policy, to the scheming ambition of the Whigs this state of things is in a great measure imputable, we are firmly persuaded ; and therefore it is that we rejoice to see the preliminary arrangements for that reform in the Church which has be come inevitable, advancing rapidly towards a consummation, under the guidance of men in the purity of whose motives, and in the soundness of whose views, we have the most un hesitating confidence. To us there is no proposition in Euclid the evidence of which is more incontrovertible than this—that if the Church be not speedily and effectually reformed by her friends she will be de stroyed by her enemies. With this conviction we ire prepared to receive with gratitude the recom mendations of the Commissioners, because we know that they are honest and enlightened ; because we have the su pererogatory security that their affections—that their inte• rests, temporal and eternal—are deeply engaged in the sacred cause ; and because we are, for these reasons, satis fied that nothing will be sacrificed that, in reference to the interests of the Church herself, ought to be saved. There is another species of moral evidence which induces us to re tard with confidence the first report of the Commissioners. ['he whole of the Radical press, from the sarcastic and facetious Examiner, to the vulgar Jacobin of the Specta tor, or, lower still, to the canting conventicler of the Globe, are unanimous in their reprobation of the report. ['his we hold to be decisive in its favour. That there are ;mmense inequalities in the relative value of the sees, as .vell as in the extent of their respective jurisdictions, and that those inequalities are practically productive of great inconvenience and injustice, is acknowledged ; Jut we cannot admit that, from the principle of the :neasures recommended by the Commissioners, to ob viate or diminish the evil any such inference as that which )ur respected contemporary has drawn can legitimately be leduced. The Commissioners have recommended that cer tain estates which have hitherto belonged to the wealthier iees, should, under certain restrictions, be applied to aug .nent the revenues of the poorer. _ _ _ " In plain language the people of England are informed that, whatever has hitherto been the case, it is desirable for the `uture that Church property should be regarded as a mass, of ,vhich the entire disposal is to be placed in the hands of the Legislature. Who, then, can any longer affect to doubt that Church property is public property ?" Now, without prejudice to the high esteem which we en tertain for the intellectual powers as well as for the prin ciples of our contemporary, we must enter our protest against the correctness of this inference. For what is the :ogical connection between the premises and the conclusi. n? The Commissioners have recommended that a partial altera tion should be made in the distribution of a small por tion of the episcopal revenues ; but by what logical process we are enabled to infer that therefore the entire dis posal of Church property is to be placed in the hands of the Legislature ? or how are we justified in concluding that because a part of the episcopal revenue is transferred from one Bishop to another Bishop that therefore all Church property is public property ? Had the possibility of such an inference being drawn from their recommendation oc curred to the Primate or the Premier, can our esteemed contemporary believe for a moment that they would have affixed their names to the report ? or can he suppose that the Commissioners conscientiously sanctioned a proposition involving a justification of sacrilege and robbery ? The conclusion which our esteemed contemporary has drawn From the rapidity with which the Commissioners have ac• complished thus much of their task appears to us equally open to objection, and hardly consistent with his usual candour and charity. Is there anything forced or un reasonable in supposing that the Primate, that the Premier, that their Episcopal and Ministerial coadju tors had severally and maturely considered the details Of the subject which the Commission called on them to investigate and report on ? And, if not, what is there so very " extraordinary" in the shortness of the period in which those zealous Commissioners have reported on one branch of their subject ? There is also another consi deration which, it may well be assumed, must have stimu lated them to accelerate the progress of their investigation. We must recollect, and the Commissioners could not for get, that any beneficial result from their labours would depend on their being completed during the continuance of the Conservative Administration in oiece, against which a herd of sordid and sanguinary Papists, of " Gentlemen from Ireland"—a different genius from " Irish Gentlemen" —had combined with the parties honteuses of England ; a leprous assemblage of swindling Greeks, of white washed convicts, of political quacks and political adventurers, of decoy ducks for gambling houses, of reputed thieves, notorious liars, and stigmatized cowards, were actively and incessantly engaged in exciting the passions of the people on this very subject. We have most reluctantly stated that we look on the opinions put forth by the John Bull of yesterday as unsound and inex pedient, and we have done so because we believe it to be of vital importance to the sacred cause that the impartial and dispassionate among ail denominations of Christians should be convinced that Church of England men in general, though affectionately and reverentially attached to the essential doctrines which she teaches, and regarding with the utmost respect the discipline which she prescribes ; though humbly trusting to live under her benign sway, and ready, if need be, to die in her defence ; are not, neverthe less, so blind or so bigoted as to refuse to amend or to correct those abuses or imperfections which the lapse of succes sive ages, the imperfection of all that is human as contra distinguished from that which is essentially divine in her institutions, or the passions and interests of infirm or per verse individuals may gradually have introduced. That the present Commissioners, ecclesiastical or lay, would sui cidally sanction, or inadvertently permit, any alteration tending to impair the efficiency of the establishment, we believe to be, under any circumstances, impossible. Under a Whig, or Radico-Whig, Administration our feelings and our language would be widely different. In the specula tive discussions and practical plans of those unscrupulous Legislators, they seem to assume that they are at liberty to commence the work of ecclesiastical reform, as they call it, as if no ecclesiastical institutions already existed. They would not repair and restore the venerable edifice of our Church, but sacrilegiously would over throw the sacred structure, and then indulge their presumption and caprice in erecting some tawdry mo nument of ignorance and impiety. Our own conviction is that by no class of persons is Church Reform more sincerely desired than by Churchmen, and that by no other class of persons are the great principles on which it should be ef fected so likely to be honestly and judiciously applied. The enlightened members of the establishment are impressed with a conviction that important changes ought to take place, and will take place, in our ecclesiastical polity ; and we have no doubt that, appreciating correctly the moral necessity as well as the moral fitness of the change, the pious and enlightened Prelates of the Church of England will spontaneously assume the initiative, as far as in them lies, and thus gracefully direct those progressive ameliora tions which it might be dangerous, were it practicable, to retard, and which it would be impious, were it possible, to prevent.—MorningPost. COURT tit? CHANCERY. EXPARTE FLETCHER IN THE MATTER OP JOBBERNS. _ -------- -- Mr. STUART in this matter applied to the Court for an order under the Act of Anne to compel Thomas Thomblin, of Stamford -street, to produce Esther Jobberns, the tenant for life of certain copyhold property to which the applicant Fletcher is entitled in remainder. Thomblin had been for some years in the habit of receiving the rents and profits for the benefit of Esther Jobberns, who resided with him, bu: the applicant having reason to believe that Jobberns was dead, applied to Thomblin to produce her ; and, on his refusal, now called for the interference of the Court. The statement with respect to the death of the applicant, to the receipt of the rents by Thomblin, and to the demand for the pro,:uction of Jobberns, was supported by affidavit. His LORDSIIIP thought the order might he taken, and they would then see what the other side said to it. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT. MILWARD V. ATKINS. Mr. KNIGHT moved that ctrtain books of account which had been deposited in the Mister's office in this cause should be dePvered out to the defendant, Alderman Atkins, to enable him by their examination to verify a charge he had carried in before the Master. The plaintiff in 1900 entered into partner ship with the defendant and his brother, Abraham Atkins, and a person of the name of Skottowe, in the provision trade at Waterford. In 1804 the partnership was dissolved. Skot towe, who kept the Irish books, and Abraham Atkins, had since become bankrupt. Upon the bankruptcy of Skottowe the books came into the possession of Milward ; but before the commencement of this suit, they were in the possession of Alderman Atkins. The bill was filed in 1816 for an account, Milward alleging that a very small balance of not mere than 2001. was due to Alderman Atkins. In 1818 Alderman Atkins, by order of Court, deposited the books in the Master's office ; and in 1819 he brought in his charge before the Mister, whereby he claimed a balance of above 26,000/. to be due to him. To substantiate this charge it was necessary for him personally to examine the books, the items in which were now in dispute. Sir'\'V. HORNE objected to the transfer of the books to the house of Alderman Atkins ; but His HONOUR was of opinion that not one single word had been advanced to invalidate the reasons assigned for delivering the books in'o the temporary custody of the defendant, and made the order. COOPER V. STEELE. Mr. KNIGHT moved to restrain the defendant from prose cuting a writ of fermedon, which he had lately issued for the recovery of estates at Finchley, worth 1,4001. a year, in the name of himself and his wife, against Dr. Cooper, in breach of a compromise entered into in another suit of Hampden v. Birch, relative to the same estates. His HONOUR said the injunction must be granted. COURT OF EXCISE. A great number of persons were proceeded against for bay ing sold spirits and wine without being licensed. Thomas Batt, the proprietor of the extensive eating-house No 19, Bucklersbury, appeared to answer an information charging him with having sold, on a. certain day, half a pint of sherry wine and three pennyworth of brandy. Two excise officers were, after having something . to eat, supplied with the exciseable commodity. They asked the waiter, upon being supplied with it. whether they should pay for it at the moment of delivery, but were told they might discharge the whole amount of the bill at the same time. Mr. Batt never sold a drop of wine or spirits. COMMISSIONER--You have sold the articles, and the fine on you is 5/. for selling the spirits, and 11. for selling the wine. Mr. Batt im , i,ediately paid the penalties. Those sought for amounted to 501. Mr. Izant, the owner of the eating-house. No. 21, Buck lersbury, was also charged on an information for having sold wine and spirits without being licensed. The defendant pleaded Guilty, and was fined in the miti gated penalty of 151. for selling the spirits, and 2/. for selling the wine. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. A REAL TEMPERANCE SOCIETY.—On Saturday, the pro prietor of a house in Cripp:egate Ward waited upon the Loan MAYOR, and informed his Lordship, that at the last L censiog Court he intonded to have applied for a license to sell wine and spirits, but being rather hard of hearing, he had not heard his name called out, and was consequently silent until the Court was broken up. The LOUD MAYOR—That was badly managed, my friend. How did it happen that you didn't -get somebody to hear for you ? Applicant—My Lord, there were plenty of publi cans in the Court that knew me, and I thought they'd have told me. The LORD MAYOR—Bless your soul, they were more deaf than you. There are none so deaf as those who will not hear. If I had a public-house myself, even next door to you I'd be as deaf as a post.—( Laughter. ) Applicant--I begin to think they meant it, your Worship, but I couldn't do them any harm, for my house is for a Tem perance Society. The LORD MAYOR—Oh, for a Temperance Society ! Then you may depend upon it they thought you would take away all their business. Applicant (not distinctly hearing his Lordship)—Please your Lordship, I was there upon the business. The LORD MAYOR—Ay, and so were they . ; and they did their business better than you did yours ; and they did your business for you, too.—( Laughter. ) Applicant—My Lord, it's hard upon a man that has always kept a quiet and sober house if he au't to have a license. The LORD MAYOR--TO keep a drunken and disorderly one —so it certainly is; but what can a Temperance Society want with spirits ? I thought they condemned and repudiated every thing of the kind. Applicant—They condemn the intempevate use of strong liquors, but the moderate use of them is good. They are used with great effect as medicines. The LORD MAYOR—And so they are. Medicine is a capital name for gin. I'd have you sell all your liquors by that name, and then the ladies can join your Temperance Society without a blush. Applicant (still misapprehendinr , his Lordship)—No, my Lord, it isn't to accommodate the ladies I want the license. You must know that many working men come in to drink beer, and they often wish for a drop of gin. The LORD Nla v oa—Medicine, you mean. If you call it gin, I am afraid the magistrates will think you want to make your temperance-shop an impure public-house, and refuse to oblige you. Apply, however, next licensing day, and let us see some of your society. For my part, I think if you don't succeed they'll quit your concern.—( Laughter.) MARLBOROUGH-STREET. „ James William Burgess was charged with obtaining money from Sir Thomas Baring, and other gentlemen of distinction, on false pretences, namely, by letter purporting to be from the Rev. Mr. Lindsey, the clergyman of Bethnal-green, solicit ing contributions for extending accommodation is the church of that parish. Sir Thomas Baring subscribed a sovereign, and upon making inquiry, with an intention to subscribe more, discovered the fraud. The prisoner V% aS committed for three mon:hs to hard la bour. On Sir Thomas Thomas Bari❑g's recommendation, the punishment was mitigated to six weeks. MAR YLEB ONE. A respectable middle-aged man, named Richard Stephen, alias Hill, alias W alien, was finally examined on a charge of committing two daring burglaries. On Tues day night the mansion of Nathaniel Kemp, Esq., of Rot tingdean, Brighton. was broken into, and a quantity of plate, jewellery. wearing apparel, &e., carried off. Suspicion having fallen on the prisoner, who twelve months ago was in the ser vice of Mr. Kemp ; he was traced by Solomon ; the chief -po lice constable of the town, to 5, Howland -street, Tottenham .court-road. Solomon and Mitchell, from the Marylebone office, entered the house, and in the first room, which was QC. cupied by the prisoner, found several large bundles, containing a massive silver waiter, upwards of four dozen tea and silver spoons, 'with various other artictes of jewellery, &c. which were identified as Mr. Kemp's property. 'a he whole property of any value was thus recovered. In another end of the room a quantity of plate, &c. was discovered, the proceeds of another burglary, committed about the same time, in the house of a Mr. Lowe, Preston Street, Brighton. The prisoner confessed his guilt, and was sent to Brighton to be tried. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT.—LzwEs,Raz 27. BARRON V. THE EARL OF ASIIBORNHAM. This was an action for a breach of contract. Mr. Barron rented a farm of the Earl of Ashburnham, and prior to enter ing upon his tenancy entered into an a , :reement with the steward of his Lordship, that as he did not keep a dog or carry a gun the keepers should, when required, kill the rab bits and game that might do an injury to the wheat, &c. It was alleged that there had been a breach of the contract, inas much as the keepers had not destroyed the rabbits and game when required, and that a severe loss had been sustained in consequence. There were a great many witnesses called on both sides. The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 80/. PHILPOTT V. SELL. This was an action brought by the plaintiff to recover cer tain penalties from the defendant, the constable of Dover C as tl e , which he had made himself liable to, under the 23d of Henry VI., by having demanded more than his fees from a gentleman named Hardy, whom he had under arrest. The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 1501. Mr. Hartley bad instituted a. similar action, but it was made a remanet. MIDLAND CIRCUIT.-WIRTVICK, 1114 RCH 28. ELECTION ASSAULT.-DAVIS V. BADGER, ESQ. This was an action to recover compensation in damages for an assault. The plaintiff is a whitesmith, living at Dudley, in Worces tershire ; the defendant is a Magisirate of the same county. During the last election the plaintiff was employed by the Re form Committee to go to Stoarbeidge, one of the polling places, for the purpose of ascertaining the state of the poll. While standing near the edge oi the booth a disturbance took place on account of some of the Tory party being admitted inside the booth by a back door, and in the scuffle that ensued a man, named Reece, was pushed off the steps, and his hat falling off, the plaintiff in attempting to pick it up, was struck with a stick over the leg, the blow being given by the de fendant, the effect of which was the opening a principal vein, from which tue blood Itovv,ll so piotusely as to cause the plaintiff to faint away in the shop of the surgeon.—The Jury returned a verdict in favour of the plaintiff—Damages, 301. WESTERN ClRCUlT.—LauxcEsrox, MARcH 28. JENKINS V. HARVEY. This case excited considerable interest in .the county of Cornwall, the question being whether the Corporation of. Truro be entitled to a toll of 4d. a chnldrou on all coals brought into the port of Truro - , the limits of which extend about 40 miles. _ The toll was claimei in two ways, either a fee for measuring the coals, or a port duty whether there was. any me..asure•ment or not. Evidence was given of a lease of the office meter, with the fee of 4d. a chaldron for mea:urin , coals, granted in 1752, and a similar lease ►ranted in 1795, and it was proved as far back as memory went a payment. of 4d a chaldrou was paid till 1831, when the merchants refused any longer. to submit to the demand. Mr Baron GURNEY s ummed up strongly for the plailuiff. The Jury retired, and have not yet returned their verdict. The trial lasted from nine in the morning till eight at night, and the Court was exceedingly crowded the whole time. NORFOLK CIRCUIT-BURY, MARCH 25-27 NISI PRIU, DOE DEM MUDD V. SLCKERMORE. This action was brought by the heir-at-law of Mr. John Mudd, who died in 1830. The property in dispute was esti mated, at the time of the deceased's death, at from 20,0001. to 25,000/. The trial lasted three days. The evidence produced for the plaintiffs principally rested on the statement made by a Jew attorney named Jacobs, whose examination occupied the greater part of the day on Thursday. On Friday witnesses were called to contradict the testimony of Jacob. Verdict for the defendants. This is the second trial of the above case, which ended in a similar manner. CRIMINAL COURT, MARCH 27. MURDER OP A GAMEKEEPER. Edward Chalker, and Jeremiah Keys, and three others, were charged with the wilful murder of Byam Laws Green, at Hinslesbam, on the 23d of November last. The prisoners had gone out poaching on the night in question, and being in terrupted by the keeper in the discharge of his duty the pri soner Chalker had fired at him with an air gun, which caused his death. The trial lasted the whole day, when the Jury found Chalker guilty of the murder. Lord Abinger passed sentence of death upon him, and ordered him fur execution on Monday morning next. POLICY OF AUSTRIA. Speech of Count Munch Bellinghausen, the Austrian Minister and President to the Diet, at the opening - of the Sitting, on the 12th instant. It is with sentiments of profound grief that I fulfil a melan- choly duty in communicating to this illustrious assembly, that on the 2d inst. the Emperor Francis I. died at Vienna. At the same time, I have the honour of laying before it new let ters of full powers from the reigning Emperor Ferdinand I dated Vienna, the 7th instant. I leave it to this assembly to appreciate all that the deceased Emp ror has done for Ger many ; with what perseverance and firmness the venerable Cliie . f of the Empire sustained the conflicts which have % arise in late unhappy times; how, after triumph, he co-operated one of the first to draw close ties to bind the Sovereigns and free towirs of Germany in one united body, and since the tormation of this union has directed all his efforts towards the preservation, extension, and consolidation of the Con federation, as I am persuaded that it participates in all my sentiments on these subjects. I haVe also, by the express command of the Emperor Ferdinand, to declare that his Majesty is determined to reign in the spirit of his august father, and after the example which he has given during a glorious reign of forty-three years, the path which his Ma jesty will follow in relation to the German Confederation, and in which he will continue to march faithfully, is therefore clearly traced out. The fulfilment of federal duties, the most active participation in the maintenance and consolidation of the Confederation, and co-operation with all the forces at his com mand in supporting the existing principles, in order to attain the common object—the internal and external safety of Ger many. and to protect the independence and integrity of these States—such were the views of the Emperor Francis, for the accomplishment of which he laboured with so much zeal. The Emperor Ferdinand will be constantly animated with the same viows and principles, and his Majesty will feel himself happy if that honourable confidence which his allies o f th e G erman i c Confederation have always testified in the late Emperor shall descend to him, who inherits the intentions of the deceased, and is, as he was, impressed with the conviction that the union which has been established between his empire and the other states of Germany cannot for their reciprocal interests be too close or too intimate ; the sincere wishes and imrriediate ob ject of the reigning Emperor will constantly be directed to wards the prosperity and towards strengthening the power of Germany. _ _ _ (This address was answered by the Prussian Minister.) AMERICAN DUELS. William S. Cowan and Washington Coffee, two intimate friends, had on the 17th ult., near Little Rock, Arkansas, a rencontre, in which the former was killed and the other mortally wounded. Mr. Cowan was shot through the body, and lived only two hours. His ball entered Mr. Coffee in the breast, and lodged near the left shoulder. Mr. Jarvis, member of Congress from Maine, lately challenged F. 0. J. Smith, also a part of the representative dignity of that State, to meet him in mortal fight. Smith, however, informed Mr. Lytle, of Ohio, who bore the chal lenge, that Jarvis was so decided a scamp, that he would have nothing to do in the premises. Whereupon, Lytle told Smith that he endorsed his principal's character, and would step into his shoes if it would be any accommodation. But the Hon. Mr. Smith declared upon his honour that he had no enmity to Mr. Lytle aforesaid, and no disposition to fight him, and here, after the customary discharge of" cow ards, paltroons, &e.," the matter rested. Dr. Johnson and Dr. Grisham, two warm politicians of opposite politics, encountered each other, a sh rt time since, in Nottaway County, Va., when the latter shot the former through the body—inflicting so deadly a wound that he survived but a few minutes. A rumour circulated generally throughout the city yes terday, that a duel had been fought between a distinguished senator of South Carolina and a senator from Missouri, in which the former was wounded and the latter killed. We traced the rumour to a letter received in the city from Bal timore ; but as the Washington mail arrived last night brings no information of the occurrence, we are happy to believe that it has not taken place. SCANDALOUS OUTRAGE IN A LEGISLATIVE HALL.—AS the p 3aker of the Louisiana Hou-e of Representatives, t' eHo A'ger Labranch, WAS entering the H4ll to take h s seat a►-d cJi the House to order, he was assailed by John R. Grymes, Esq., who raised a cane to strike him. Mr. Labranch, to defend himself, drew a small pocket pis tol and discharged it at the assajlant, but without effect.. Grymes then drew a horse pistol loaded with a hall and buck-shot, and fired at Mr. L. The ball passed between two members, and grazed, the forehead of one of them. while two of the buck-shot took effect, and lodged in the arm and band of the Speaker. The House immediately appointed a Committee to report the proper steps to Le taken to punish this gross indignity. Four trouts, weighing twenty-eipht pounds, were taken in a pool belonging to Mr. Morris, of Cacheilin, Mont gomeryshire, on Wednesday week; one weighed eight pounds, two seven pounds each, and one six pounds. The fish had been in the pond about ten years. On Monday Mr. John Stanley. sen., formerly of the Elephant and Castle Inn, Newt Own, Nlontgomvryshire, was going to Black Hall, about a mile distant, to visit his son, in company with two friends ; he had gone about half a mile, when he fell down and expired. He was in his 78th year. DUBLIN, MARCH 24.—(From a Morning Co temporary. )—A great deal of mystery is observable here re lative to the re-assumption of the Irish seals by Sir Edward Sudden. I have every reason to believe—my authority having been the very best—that the terms of the compromise are, the young lady or ladies of the family henceforth to be considered as privileged Castle visitors, the lady herself choosing London as her future place of residence. The Master of the Rolls has left us for London, anticipating, perhaps, that his presence m;ght be necessary, in case of any new difficulties springing up in the settling of the affair. Should such difficulty un fortunately arise, it is said that Sir William will certainly be Sir Edward Sugden's successor. Dr. Lefrov succeeding Sir William in the Rolla Court ; this would, of course, leave a vacancy in the ropresentation of the University ; in which Mr. Litton, K. C., would, I think, be returned without opposition, as he is extremely popular with the constituency, both on ac count of the high church tone of his polities, and his general abilities. The trial of the persons implicated in the fatal affray at Gortroe, will, I understand, be postponed till the Summer Assizes, as the prosecutors arc of opinion that justice could not and would not be done them, in the absence of their leading Counsel, Mr. Feargus O'Connor. SINGULAR REVERSE OF FORTUNE.--9 singu lar and distressing occurrence took place last week at Sligo. A gentleman there, named Archibald Fleming, who had been for some time in. declining circumstances, was obliged to have recourse to the Insolvent Act for relief. Mr. George Ellis, a solicitor, of this city was employed to prepare his petition and schedule. Mr. Ellis, however, was prevented by pro fessional engagements in Dublin from proceeding immediately to Sligo to take his instructions ; but a gentleman whom he sent for the purpose having had an interview with Mr. Fleming, some difficulty arose concerning certain deeds, of which Mr Fleming could not give a sufficiently-clear account to be placed on the schedule. Limier these circumstances Mr. Ellis was written to, and his personal attendance requeste d. H e pro ceeded to Sligo, and, after an interview with Mr. Fleming, succeeded in discovering that he was entitled to a property of between five and six hundred pounds per annum, of which he had not previously the slightest knowledge. The ease came on the following day before Mr. Commissioner Burt owes, and Mr. Ellis, to the no small astonishment of the opposing creditors, made application for leave to have the schedule amended, by inserting the newly-discovered property, and Mr Fleming was disct arged. He passed the evening in the society of some friends, and retired to rest at his usual hour. On his servant entering the room on the following morning he was discovered to be a corpse. It is supposed that such a sudden reverse of fortune, at a time when he could least have expected it, had such an influence on his mind as to produce the lamentable occurrence...Dub/in Evening Post. MURDERS BY 1-01S0NING. (Abridged f om the N rulich Mercury.) The town of Burn am Market, in Norfolk, and the at einity for some miles round, has, for the last week. been.ia the most dreadful sta e o ex 'itement, caused by the dis• covery of three diabol cal murders which have already bee ° comm.tte t, and a plan laid 4or taking away the lives o f se ' veral other people. The circumstance that led to the discovery was as . ‘ 11. " lows :—A woman named Mary Taylor, the wife of Pet er Taylor, a journeyman shoemaker, was t iken with a vial eat rutc:ling after dinner on Thursday, th e 12th instant , ° lld taoulai medical assistance was procured, she died at n re tlle same afternoon. Mr. Cromer, the - surgeon, a s soon as he saw her, pronounced her to have been poisoned. A n inquest was held on the body on the following Saturday when the Jury, after siting tiil eleven o'clock at nig ht ' adjourned the inquest till Monday. and then having n° evidence as to Low the deceased c a me by the ars enic whir.th had been found in the stomach, returned a v er ; diet to the effect that she died by taking arsenic , but that it was unknown by what means it was administe red. There, were certain ru. - nours that the husband of th e deceased had been connected with a married wani. named Fanny Billing, who 'lived at th e next door, and this connection seemed to have been a great cause of t u g' easiness Letween Taylor and his wife, and a week or 0 1 before the deceased had, it seems, taxed Billing with it , a n they had had a qUarrel. It was al s o di s covered that 13i 'i ing had a short time' before bo ug ht th ree pennyworth of arsenic of a druggist. Some flour that was in Taylari house was also found to contain a q u an tity o f arsenic, an from this the deceased had made dumpli ngs on the day s t e t died. These facts coming out the Magistrates tha, proper to hold a special meeting on th e W e dnesday for 01 further investigation of the matter, and Taylor and %I lia ! were brought before them, ex a mi ne d, an d remanded fai further examination. As Billing, however, was g oing' away a woman living next door, named F rar y, w h o was frequentlyt: in and out of Mrs. Taylor's, was heard to say, " hold 3 our own, and they can't hurt us." This led to fa; ther suspicion, and Frary was apprehended. It was th e t recollected that Frary's husband, a nd a c hild they ,k e P died about a fortnight before very sudd e nly. Orders we . ," , ' then given to have them disi n t erre d ; th e i r stomachs we 'il sent to Norwich to be analysed, and they also were fan ° to contain arsenic. On Tuesday, Billing was f u lly comm itt e d to take h e . e , trial for the murder at the f or th com i ng A ss izes. Sh e L nearly fifty years old, hiss had fourteen children, and 11 ,7, 4 are now alive. She has con f esse d t h e w h o l e , but says tr" , Frary gave the poison to Mrs. T a yl or . Sh e has also O a : fessed to other acts of the same ki n d w ith F ra ry, and li Tt there were several other persons that they had marked bee as their victims. She had made an attempt to poison, husband about the same time, but he did not take a 51/ cient quantity, and recovered Taylor is still remanded and Frary has been taken speechless since Tuesday, n e st cannot be recovered. The wife of her b r other, who livetut Burnham Overy, di. .d about the s ame ti me saddenlY , k his not yet been taken up. Ta 3 l o r s ay s h e was taken Si t on Thursday with his wife, but that he threw up an) r d batter. Mrs. Frary was sent for to a tt e nd o n Mrs, 44 1 ; and a witness of the name of Rowley says when he her at Taylor's to be shaved, he saw Frary, in making ° h i t some gruel, put something into it from a p a per on th e P.Nr, of a knife, white, almo,t like flour, so that in all probaht; to make assurance doubly sure, she poisoned also her g r e be e u lt was, too, the merest wond e r i n th e world that Le poisoned flour (for it had not then been found to ded ed, poisoned) was not taken to provide for the funeral--ia this seems to have been anticipated by the wretches, a bu t then the whole family would have been their victims ; the management was fortunately t a ken out of F ra l ' u a hands, and the flour proVidentially unused. Tayl or borne a good character for many years until he got 1 0 0 netted with this woman. His wife was a very indu str v : e v d rson, and although they had no family, they had o r very comfortably together. She was forty•seven Year s age, and he is about the same. CORONER'S INQUESTS. , „ AWFUL. VISITATION AT A WEDDlNG.—Saturaai ;Inquest was h e ld a t th e Pl oug h I nn , Cl ap h am , on t h e b or Miss Elizabeth Hussey, aged twenty-eight. g e, phia Blount, of 12, H(:mmin c ir's-row, St. Martinst r st,,ted that she a nd h er h us b an d, w h o i s a Sheffi w eld " ( I, houseman, had known the deceased from her ellil dh lir On Wednesday afte rnoon s h e accompan i e d them to C ` 3l o f .1) im, where she ac t e d as b r id esma id at t h e marring re, witness's son, with the daughter of Mr. W. Hand s ' ' I a n soectable stationer i n th a t t own . O n Th urs day 0 0 _,'" o st the deceased sp o k e o f h er n i g ht' s re p ose h av i n g been ' t i l e rereshing, 'and conversed with much sprightliness . 0 3 : si.b.:ect of the wedding. Aft er b rea kf as t s he Was si t r e' on the sofa, and several persons were conversing on n r p th e pcsA trip to Hampton Court, when the countenance 0 sr d ceased w as o b serve d t o b ecome very pa l e , an d the rern:d was scarcely made when blood issued from her mouth' f o r, completely saturated her dress. A surgeon was sent j, but befor e h e arr i ve d s h e exp i re d, h av i ng ru ptured b l°° o l v , ss.:l in the lungs.—V er di c t—Di e d b y t h e visitation - God. EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE ORA GlRL.—Saturday irg al inquest was ha tat the yal S,:aniard, p .ee, Bryanston-square, on view of the body of Sarah, 41 , 'KA •on, a fine girl, aged thirteen y ears . M r . John I‘ l `' L r e , a chemist, of Seymour-place, on Thursday evening W as r o , qu ‘sted to attend at No. 36, Seymour-place, and on rrss ee ling there he found the deceased suspended to hook at the back of the door in the first room first He immediately cut her down ; life appeared quite el''/joa, He had recourse to the usual means to restcre anima the but without effect. The cord was here Wilkinson, fo r ch inspection of the jury. Mr. Thom a s Wilki n son, °dr trimmer, at No. 36, Seymour-plac e , d e p o sed, that tb: inc e ceased was his sister, and be had bad charge of h er ; the death of their mother about tw o y ears since. °, l : o re' a very good girl, and all witness requi re d of her was ''" h f ( Id p ire tile meals. On Thursday wit ness an d his wife sc- fter the deceased for some triflin g o m i ss i on ; an d, in the A d bis noon of the same day, during the absence of witness Ost e r wife, the unfortunate child committed the rash act' d.c:—Temporary Derangement. - 1113 Per Satnr lay an inquest was held a t th e Wh ea tsheaf , Oa M tryh.b.me-street, on the body o f Willi am Sedly' a""live. y , ars. The_unlortunate child ran to his mother, o“ ) . ng to in Cleveland -street, with dist or t e d f ea t ures , an d lab°" ir 'ol s respire. His mother screamed, and medical as sistan ce , ) o l sent for, but the child died in a f ew momen ts. (1 1: 1 1; 11e modem examination it appe a r e d' th a t a ma rble v"i' n liP was probably rolling ab ou t i n hi s mou th h a d lodged - throA, and prevented the passage of air. UNIONIST'S PETITION: —A petition filo est e ' inhabitants of Nottingham f or th e re l ease o f t he 13°0''' Unionists is in course of signature. • Wif e ' A man this morning, at Boherbuy, cut itI S t heis' throat, in consequence of a dispute that arose betwee n on account of her not having breakfast r eady on hi s "d ° , so" home to that meal. The woman, we uolerstand, is d ea . 0 11 1 the husband in custody . — Li mer i c k Herald. e On Monday movingi' about half-pa st t ic il' e o'clock, as William T row b r id ge , a wor kman employ ed $ Slao4 works of the Imperial Ga,light Company, Battle-bride' endeavouring to move a large p i ps of the hydraulic Il i % di e handipike which he was using f or th e p ur p ose slipped if ° : o re , fulcrum, and catching him by a s h ort f roc k w hich 't e a : 01 threw him with great force on a h ea p o f o ld piping. ' - eY ev taken up in a state of insensibility, an d i mme diately el b t , to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, he remains w'tl, ' ,0061 little hopes of recovery. The unfortunate man has s ns ; e is a fracture of his thigh, has broken his jaw, and h is n-5 literally separated from his face. pU NORFOLK ASSlZEi.—There are nearly 1 11 c a vs soners foe trial at our Assizes, the business of Which " t hes e mence on Monday next. The most si n g u lar feature in i i,cr u ' Assizes will be the appea r a nce o f one o f th e Judges ea 041" Abinger) as a witness on a c h arge o f b r ib er y connee t i e ., co a l his election as M. P. fo r th e Ci t y. Hi s Lordshipsequence preside o n th e Ci v il s id e . Th ere are five e iscs bribery for trial.th e 'n On the evening of Friday last, two ostlers jr employment of a respe c t a bl e s t a bl er i n t h e wes t end,ll — a pitc nt in the absence of their m as t er , w h en o f t h em seise, gt fork and levelled it at the h ea d o f t h e ot h er . The ' n—r n d penetrated the socket of the eye, inducing immediate a . o re," e v lent inflammation of the brain. The poor man was e r ° r - n eic i , s o ' to the Infirmary, where he died in consequence 0 " ," morl`; morning. On Wednesday, Dr. Laurie held a P° s ` • P e ": examination in the operating theatre of the InfirmarP t i u li del sence of several professicnal gentlemen, and of the s fo n; ° . attending that institution, when it was found that the 1 : " - bol. the fork had passed upwards of three inches into thei The ostler who inflicted the wound absconded on 1 % e5 : 3 ;4 0 6 11 f has since been captured, and secured in gaol. 1 1 ",qiii s 0 f deaf and dumb, and is, we believe, subject to oceas' °. b - ibit insanity. His compani ms, it appears. were in the l ob f paying off practical jukes upon him, which had the 11 oae ye effect of exc i ti ng him to freilzy, and it is said tha t °; these occa s i ons the deceased had his face severely. b ' t y, 91 '1 quarrel which h ere en d e d so f a t a lly originated in this o n a ogr , sh )old read a solemn lesson to thOs e who sport wit h the tb er s p ele.,s as y sio s n_s , of:cionidth Guardian . ii/i:bialsvttre incapable of gove"ilig .1311?liS. On the 30th i ns t.. a t B roo k Gre T en, Mrs. Hearle , Of a ° lt; 13 , ur o f On the 28th inst., at h e r father's, H enr y Revell, EsfybariL" ton-crescent, the lady of Don Pascual de Gayangos , of a son. On the 2Sth inst., a t H ar l es d on H ouse , Willesden, the William Curtis, Esq., of a daughter. DIED. d ie late Jet° i ns t., On the 1 ith Janet Livingstone, (laughter 0. , Plenderleath, of Upper Seymour -street, and of Tw ee ck la ` e. ,1 112, Strand, a t The - San O ffi ce, London : P r i nte d and Published by MIJRDO Y"' l C °— of Middlesex. Nu. 112, strand. in 11/ • Vtar reet day, La , Brom Rest OW Your P . 4 . " .ortiedl v v ati Let `fir %on, ity , (.3pin ~'_Yv.~. A/ Try City, the •Pens Ar Paid, his fi C str \Vais T•nrif &Cr and b, /'hat „-- F I t „ to rs, • ven ° tteer . T o 14, 114 Ito ifht ali o 440