The Sun. — London, England, 1835-04-22 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. A careful examination of the list of the new Minis try must by this time have demonstrated to every well wisher of his country, that we have not-been prema ture in calling the attention of our readers to the fact that the affairs of the State must ever be conducted in an exceedingly unsatisfactory mannerbecause com mitted to the least efficient agents—so long as the sys tem of governing by party is tolerated. Until the wel fare of the community is made the first object of a Go vernment, and the administration of the public business is intrusted to the ablest hands, without reference to persons or to parties, our political system can no more be in a sound or in a safe state, than would be the phy sical condition of any district of the realm where the population suffered medical attendants to be imposed upon them, not on account of the skill, the learning, or the experience of the practitioners, but because of the connexion of those practitioners with certain families, or by reason of some adventitious distinction arising - out of the assumption or adoption of particular names. Nobody ever yet heard of a parish electing the worst doctor o_ ae vicinity to operate even upon the paupers of the workhouse (though paupers in these days are usually less thought of than the occupants of a kennel); and yet it would seem, upon the supposition that the new Ministry stands, that the House of Com mons, though reformed, does sanction—nay, does ab solutely insist upon—the appointment of the feeblest Ministers to make their crude political experiments upon the people. A select vestry might indeed job the doctoring of a parish ; but wherein consist the eu logised merits of the Reform Bill, if the House of Commons is to job the administration of national con cerns—to make the people" pay the same price for quackery as would command the exercise of skill ? Boroughmongering, had it been as infamous in practice as it was indefensible in principle, could have effected nothing worse than this ; and, in truth ; it never attempted anything so bad. Under that system unworthy and in efficientpersons obtained from the public purse what they neither deserved nor could earn ; but when did it, in the whole mass of an Administration, make Ministers of men who were scarcely competent to fill the posts of Secretaries to Ministers ? Do we therefore repent the Reform Bill, and pine after the resurrection of the old system ? God forbid I If we know anything at all, we know the temper of the people—their honesty, their discrimination, and their strong sense of justice ; and we cannot, therefore doubt, that however they may preserve silence, for a time, they will, we say not 'ultimately, but speedil . y show that they appre ciate to the full the things which are right, and the men who are able, discarding with indignation and with scorn the smallest as well as the greatest of em pyrics, the least as well as the largest of their nostrums. We have not the slightest wish—on the contrary, we desire most earnestly not—to say anything personally disrespectful of any of the individual members of the existing Cabinet. Its relative proportions—not of good and evil, but—of what is barely tolerable, and of what is absolutely intolerable—would justify us in speaking of it as a body as harshly as the worst personal enemies of any of its individual elements could wish to speak. And if-we sought merely to vent our spleen, here would be opportunity enough. For the sake of illustration, however, it is absolutely necessary that we should place in juxta-position the names and the pretensions of some of the Melbourne and of some of the Peel Cabinet. In the first place, then, let us take Mr. Spring Rice. That gentleman started three or four years ago as a joint Secretary of the Treasury : last year he conti nued to fill the same post, when suddenly he was promoted to the office of Secretary for the Colonies, in the place of Lord Stanley I and now we find him appointed to succeed, in the office of Chan cellor of the Exchequer, no less a person than Sir R. Peel I ! Were the sponsors of the new Chancellor of the Exchequer prophets when they named him Spring Rice ? In any case, nothing can be more ludicrously absurd than such a change, unless it be that the Duke of Wellington, the most experienced diplomatist in Europe, is made to give way to Lord Pahnerston, or that one . of the most celebrated lawyers at the bar, Sir W. Follett, is displaced for one of the least known, even by name—Mr. Rolfe ? And so runs the change almost throughout. Lord Lyndhurst, probably the first judge in the empire, is laid aside with a pen sion of 5,0001. a year, though Lord Grey publicly de clared in the House of Lords that there was no judicial office which Lord Lyndhurst would not adorn, and none, therefore, which he, as Prime Minister, could hesitate to urge him to accept. In Ireland the case is, if possible, still more lamentable than in England. Sit Edward Sugden, one of our best, if not the best, real Property lawyer, and a man of the largest experience of any practitioner in equity, is ousted in favour of the testy and offensive Lord Plunket, who, however his organs of acquisitiveness may be developed, has not yet given the least indication that he has possessed himself of the necessary qualification to administer, with satis faction either to the suitors or to the bar, the business of the court he is called upon to preside over. Last, but not least in foolishness past all description, is the selec tion of Lord Morpeth as the successor of Sir Henry Hardinge. The latter is an old soldier, well versed in state as well as in military affairs, from his earliest years—an absolute model of a man of business—expe rienced, shrewd, and firm ;—while Lord Morpeth, with the best possible intentions, doubtless, is never theless a mere schoolboy in mind, though he is a man in age and stature—without experience in business of any kind--and no more fitted to stem the tide of Irish turbulence than he is capable of swimming the Irish sea. We might pursue the contrast, but we abstain : and did not our duty compel us to protest against the business of this empire being intrusted to hands and heads so weak, we would rather have held our peace than spoken on the subject at all ; for when, as as suredly it will, the imbecility of our Government, and the wantonness or the wickedness of its election, transpired abroad, we at least should have had the con solation of reflecting that we were innocent of contribut ing to fix upon the country the disgrace which must attach to it from the existence, however short-lived, of such a Ministry.—Times. No sooner has a Whig Cabinet been formed, and it has been found necessary, in compliance with the law, to send several Whig Members, who have accepted office, before their constituents, than an endeavour is made in the Whig-Radical Press to persuade the pub lic that the law which makes such appeals to consti tuents an inseparable incident to the taking office is bad, and ought to be abolished. No doubt the Whigs on coming into power find the operation of this law very inconvenient ; but we do not, and we believe the public will not, think the law the less salutary on that account. It is said, as the great objection to it, that it produces inconvenience to the public service. If this be true, we may answer it by saying that all the checks and restraints which our mixed Constitution throws upon the exercise of power, are productive of more or less inconvenience ; but they are part of the price which the country pays for the preservation of its liberties. There is nothing so well calculated to facili tate the despatch- of business as the simplicity of despotism—there is nothing, at the same time, so dangerous to the social rights of mankind. Ab solute power has no complicated machinery of checks and balances to deal with, the operation of which is slow and difficult, while the effect is such a, to protect society against the natural tendency which power has towards abuse and corruption. In a free State, like England, the Ministry that cannot govern the country without the abrogation of the law which sends the patriots who accept place back to their con stituents for approval is unfit to govern a free country at all. The law is undoubtedly not as old as some of the laws which constitute the great landmarks of British liberty, yet though not as old as Magna Charta or the Habeas Corpus Act, or the Bill of Rights, it is deserving to last as long as we trust those noble works of enlightened and patriotic legislation will last ; for it was passed on a sound principle, to check and prevent the corruptions of power, nor from the day that it paseed until the present time have any of the parties that usually exercise power in this country become so exceedingly pure as to render the operation of such a salutary check unnecessary. l'iothing is mote fit than that a Representative of the people, who has been elected upon independent prin ciples—who is, at least, placeless when he solicits the. suffrages of the people, should be obliged to return to his oonstituents, when his political metamorphose takes place, and the wand of the Minister of the Crown, potent as that of a magician, converts at a touch the unplaced and independent patriot into a pen sioned placeman. The man who dare not face his constituents upon accepting office, must have forfeited their confidence by so doing, and that is a sufficient reason why such a man should not be exempted from the operation of this law. The Ministry whose pa tronage is fatal to the character of the patriots who enter its ranks, is a Ministry that has not the public confidence, and that is a sufficient reason why such a Ministry should not be exempted from the operation of this law. " But then," says the Whig-Radical Press, " this law causes very often an inconvenient interruption to public business." Be it so. Better that the arrange ments of Ministers of the Crown should experience some inconvenience than that the Representatives of the people should be delivered up to the temptations of corruption. If representatives barter their principles for place, it is right that their constituents should have the earliest opportunity of meeting them in their new cha racter. If they approve of them in that character, let them continue the connection—if they do not, let them resume the trust which has been unworthily be stowed. But if, in accepting office, the Representa tive abandons no principle and violates no trust, he will, of course, be able to give a satisfactory explana tion to his constituents, and both parties will, for the future, better understand each other, in consequence of the explanation afforded on one side, and the re newal of confidence on the other. The Whigs clogged the operation of the Reform Act, by connecting with a legislative measure for the regulation of the elective franchise the principle of a Revenue Bill for the col lection of public taxes. They now desire to counter act, as far as they can, the principle of reform itself, by removing from the Statute-book a law which has been found in practice a serious obstacle to the facilities for corrupting Members of Parliament subsequently to election, which Ministers of the Crown possess. If the law were of no efficacy, the supporters, of Mini sters would not have any interest in calling for its re peal. If it had no living force, no practical effect in preserving the purity and independence of Parliament, its merely formal and nugatory operation would not be thought worthy of any comment. It is because it is known to be to a certain degree efficient, that Minis ters and their minions call for its abolition. We admit that as to the necessity of Members returning to their constituents upon exchanging one office under the Crown for another, we do not see the same reason for it, though certainly cases have occurred in which the operation of the law even in this respect has worked well for the public interests. As to the al leged interruption to public business, what do the class of politicians who now urge the abolition of the law care for it ? Have they not, for the purposes of their own ambition, interrupted the whole of the business of the Session up to the present time ? Have they not wasted the two months of the Session during which usually most business is done upon trials of party strength, while they refused to meet the late Ministry and contend with them upon the merits of their mea sures ? But we care not whether Vhigs or Tories they be who propose the abolition of the law in ques tion, its abrogation can only serve corrupt purposes, and ought to be resisted by every friend of the Con st tu ti sn .—Morning Herald. The accession of some of the leaders of the late Op position to power has, as usually happens in such cases been attended by severe disappointments to many of those who have hitherto been among the most active and zealous retainers of the party. And, if we arc correctly informed, the feelings incident to a disap pointment of this nature are generally expressed upon the present occasion with considerably less of decorum and reserve, than can be reconciled with the ordinary rules and habits of political society. A very little re • flection upon the subject may suffice, however, to lead us to an adequate and very natural explanation of a peculiarity which does honour neither t o the com • plainants nor to the eminent persons whose partiality and ingratitude form the topic of angry ani madversion or querulous remonstrance. The whole system of opposition to the Administration of Sir R. Peel, from the first • vote—by which the House of Com mons determined to place in its Chair that candidate who of the two presented to its choice had been in effect de clared, by its own repeated votes, to be the less fitted for the situation—to the decisive vote by which it re solved to amalgamate two distinct and even con flicting measures into one to blend the disputed and nicely-balanced question of appropriation with a measure of public policy, the instant and urgent ne cessity of which no human being of any party in po litics did or could affect to doubt—from the day on which Parliament met, in short, to the moment when the late Ministers announced their resignation, the entire course of the Whig and Radical Opposition was dictated exclusively by a love of place, the most un disguised and the most intense that was ever exhibited by any political party or combination of parties in Great Britain. Why else incorporate into a measure of pressing and admitted necessity a contested prin ciple, alien, if not repugnant, to its nature ? Why else, by a series of votes not called for in the actual state of public business, and not requiring immediate decision, parade a majority composed of elements the most heterogeneous and discordant ? Why else ob struct and embarrass the progress of legislative mea sures, the usefulness and value of which the conspira tors never once ventured to call in question, by a series of motions, which those even who do not regard them as mischievous must admit were merely idle and vexatious? Why, else, put upon the records of the House of Commons vote after vote, to which no man throughout the country could ever attach any other meaning than this :—"We have the power to force the present Ministers out of office, and as we want their places that power shall not for a single moment lay dormant at our hands ?" Such as we thus describe having been the combining cement and the actuating motive of the late Opposition in every step of their Parliamentary proceedings since the com mencement of the session, it can excite no surprise that individuals of the party who thought themselves entitled to office, and have not got it, should break through all ordinary rules of propriety or decency in the expression of their rage. The „ender, in such circumstances, would be if decency and propriety were in the slightest degree obServed. Men cannot sell themselves very often. The traffickers are perfectly conscious that the commodity in which they deal is apt to acquire a taint, which utterly destroys its value. Hence it is that the non-payment of the purchase money in such transactions is of all offences the deepest and most galling, and that the seller, who either is or believes himself to be defrauded, is sure to be of all human beings the most ferocious and ungovern able. The above observations do not apply, it is fair to admit, or do not apply equally, to all the component parts of the confederacy by which the Administration of Sir Robert Peel was driven from office. Mr. O'Connell and his immediate adherents had a motive for wishing the overthrow of the late Administration, and the re-instatement of their competitors, indepen dent of and superior to the desire of office. They wished very naturally that the Administration should be essentially a base, grovelling, and sordid Adminis tration—an Administration in place merely for the love of place. This must, from their position, their character, and their objects, have been their first and foremost wish, and their second must have been that such an Administration should be indebted to them for its entrance into office, and dependent upon them for the permanency of its official existence. The Ad ministration by which that of Sir Robert Peel must of necessity be succeeded was sure to fulfil both of these conditions. The first was effectually guaranteed by the course which the Opposition had pursued.— The second was guaranteed by the fact that, after deducting the Conservative Members in the House of Commons, there is no party in that Assembly which can hope for a majority upon any question without the aid of Mr. O'Connell and his crew. With a low, grovelling, and sordid Administration, intent upon place for the sake of place, and wholly indifferent to the interests of the country, and with such an Admi nistration, dependent, as it must necessarily be, upon his support for its existence from day to day, Mr. O'Connell knew that he should be able to work his will without any obstruction from the Executive Go vernment, and without any effectual obstruction in ithe House of Commons. The Melbourne Ministry ' is precisely the Ministry which Mr. O'Connell must have desired. For such a Government, and for no other, was it worth his while to conspire, to sup press his talents for debate, to ape humility, to retract or qualify all that he had said, protested, or sworn. Why, but for this conviction should Mr. O'Connell have identified himself with the Melbourne party, which he had denounced, vilified, and ridiculed with out mercy six months ago ? Why, but that Mr. O'Connell saw, as every body else saw, that if the Melbourne Ministry returned to power now they would be wholly prostrate at his feet, whereas six months ago they possessed some indepen dent power—some capability and will to make head against his authority ? Why, but that for his purposes, they are now a better Administra tion than they were then, in precisely the same degree as they are a worse Administration for the interests, the security, and the welfare of Great Britain ? To remove any doubt, if any doubt be entertained upon this subject, it is only necessary to cast a glance at the change of relative position which has taken place within the last six months between Mr. O'Connell and his party on the one side, and Lord Melbourne and his party on the other. At the former period they were sworn enemies. Now we behold them fast and stead fast friends. It would be a contradiction in terms to affirm that this remarkable change of relative position has taken place between the parties, both of them con tinuing to occupy the ground which it occupied before. The single question, then, is, which of the two parties has changed its ground ? Is there anyboby who pre tends that Mr. O'Connell and his party have changed their ground ? Do they profess to have changed it ? Is there any symptom that they have changed it ? May not Mr. O'Connell take in his hand the King's Speech, in which he was denounced, with the full approbation of Lord Melbourne, as an enemy of his country, and, reading the passage containing this denunciation, may he not boldly and proudly say, " Such as I was then, lam at this moment. In cha racter, feelings, objects, position, I am wholly un changed. I am humoured, cherished, obeyed, now. I was denounced then. Yet I, at least, am the same." This Mr. O'Connell might confidently say ; and what, we again ask, could Lord Melbourne reply ? What do the people of England reply for him at this moment ? They say that of all the members of his Administra tion Lord Melbourne may be the least of a driveller, that he may be the least of a slave to Mr. O'Connell, that he may be the least of a traitor to his Sovereign and his country, but that when his present position in relation to Mr. O'Connell is compared with the posi tion he formerly occupied, he is still a driveller, a trai tor, and a slave. It is in vain that Lord Melbourne protests there is no compact in existence between Mr. O'Connell and himself. Their relative positions amount to a compact more binding than the most ex press stipulations. Lord Melbourne is bound to be subservient to Mr. O'Connell under the heaviest penalty that can be imposed. Let him in the slightest degree fail in the duties of submission and obedience, and the whole fabric of ambition and venality which his friends in the House of Commons have reared at so vast an expense of character, and with so reckless a disregard to the safety and welfare of the State, must crumble in an instant into ruin, or be sustained, if sustained at all, by the generosity and the patriotism of the statesmen against whom, and against whose efforts in the service of the country, the conspiracy between the Melbourne and O'Connell fac tions has been directed. In such circumstances what compact can be required ? There needs no compact. There is no compact. There can be no compact. Who ever heard of a treaty between the slave and his mas ter ? And from the -moment of his recent entrance into office Lord Melbourne assumes the badge, and bears the brand of bondage to Mr. O'Connell. The latter may indeed have granted terms. He may have assumed a moderation • which is foreign to his nature to lure the men whom he designed to employ coin ' pletely into his power. He may have fraudulently as ' signed a boundary to his own pretensions. But his • terms will be found delusive ; his moderation hypo ' crisy ; the boundary to his pretensions such as to admit at his pleasure of an indefinite extension.-- Morning Post. If we wished, which we did very seriously in the course of the late struggle, which has terminated so . successfully in behalf of the people, and 'of ail their staunch supporters, that some one had invented an en gine, not only for the demolition of Tory falsehoods, but for the prevention of their repetition—we do wish so still, with equal sincerity ; for, whether out of or in office—whether in prosperity or in adversity—the besetting sin of the Tories still meets us at every turn, and that sin is the determination to lie, for the sake of party and of place, and at a rate, too, which it is beyond the power of anything but a two or three-hundred horse power to keep pace with, and counteract. We demolished the other day some of the concoctions of this strange, and we may say, so far as the parties are concerned, destruc tive, mania ; but, the party still persists in its fa vourite, though disgraceful, course of political war fare, as will be seen in the following extract from an Evening Paper :--" Nearly all the new appointments," says it, " have been completed, but the removal *of Sir William Gossett, the Irish Under Secretary, insisted , upon by Mr. O'Connell, and demurred to 'by Lord Melbourne, creates a temporary difficulty. Mr. O'Con nell demands Sir William's dismissal as a sine qua non—Lord Melbourne hesitates. The Agitator is otherwise in an ill humour. He asserts every where publicly that, though in words not open to contradic tion, as there had been no direct communication, Lord Melbourne's speech of Saturday was in substance a tissue of untruths—inasmuch as the Noble Premier had indirectly communicated with him (Mr. O'Con nell) upon every promotion, receiving his fiat or veto, as final upon every proposed appointment. Having given the extract, we have merely to add, that there is not one word of truth in the assertions of our Contemporary. Lord Melbourne did not communicate, either directly or indirectly, with Mr. O'Connell—he never consulted him with re gard to any appointments, though if he had, we are not aware that any disgrace would have attached to such conduct—and, finally, the whole origin of the report rests, to our certain knowledge, upon the mere fact, that Mr. O'Connell, in a manner most honourable to him, intimated, or caused it be intimated, upon the very day after the destruction of the Peel Cabinet, to Lord Melbourne, that he was desirous that the latter should feel himself free and unshackled, so far as he was concerned, in the formation of a Liberal Cabinet, and that whether he should or should not be appointed to any official station, he was not only prepared, but determined to support his or any other Liberal Go vernment which should do justice to Ireland. Be yond this simple fact, there is no foundation for the malignant falsehoods of the Tory press.—Morning Advertiser. The partisans of th e l a t e T or y G overnmen t are put ting forth all their energies with a view to e x c ite oppo sition against the return to Parliament of the gentle men who have ac ce pt e d o ffi ce un d er L or d M e lb ourne . Having failed in sustaining the Ministry of Sir Robert Peel, by a set of apocryphal addresses, which they re presented as expressive of the public sentiment of the country ; having found that the sums of money which they squandered upon the last elections were unpro ductive of the fruits which they had expect e d ; h av i ng discovered, to their infinite mortification, that even the once popular clamour about " No Popery," and " The Church in danger," could no longer be found avail able for their purposes, they still abate no thi ng f or their cupidity for place, nothing of their f renz y f o r power, nothing of their hatred against the growing in fluence of the people. They are bitter and active enemies ; and although they have been decidedly beaten, in one of the fairest battles which have ever been fought for our liberties, nevertheless, such is their tenacious adherence to the belief that the State and the Church were created for their exclusive benefit, for the maintenance of their families down to the remotest generations, that they are still resolved on renewing the contest on every occasion, even when they are certain of their own defeat. Thus the people of the three kingdoms will find themselves called upon still to stand vigilantly at their posts, if they value their rights, and have no wish to see those men return to power whom they have just succeeded in expelling from the Govern ment. For; with all our respect for Lord Melbourne and Lord John Russell, we must take leave to tell them that the victory which has happily once more placed in their hands the destinies of this country, was won by the force of public opinion —literally speaking, by the general sentiments of the people, shown at the late elections—and not by the eloquence, however splendid that may have been, of their advo cates in the House of Commons. As the people gained this triumph, the people must maintain it ; and what is more, the Government must assist them in maintaining it, by all the means which are at their disposal. It is no time for trimming mea sures. The day for temporizing policy has gone by ; and if the new Cabinet, by any hesitation as to the course which it ought to adopt, fall once more into the track of aristocratic timidity, its days are numbered already, and it may prepare for a speedy downfal. The people have hitherto performed their duty in the most constitutional manner. Having returned a majority qf Reformers to the House of Commons, they waited with a dignified patience for the result, and the result has not disappointed their hopes. The odious Peel Cabinet has fallen in consequence of their inflexible hostility to its principles, but the people will not be contented even with . a Whig Cabinet in its place, unless they can satisfy themselves that in that Cabinet the reforming spirit of the times will be thoroughly felt and represented, and reduced into the shape of practical measures for the relief of the whole community. Perhaps the country would have seen with gratification the addition of other decided Re formers in the new list of Ministers. But whatever may be the composition of the Cabinet, its whole po licy must be the same as if it consisted only of the most decided Reformers. • They have acceded to power upon the pledges contained in Lord John Russell's Resolution, and they will find that the prin ciple involved in that resolution is one not to be trifled with by a mere verbal execution of its terms. 'We can not suspect that any attempt will be made to evade its entire spirit, for the sake of conciliating any votes from the Stanley section. We do not, we cannot appre hend that any measures will be introduced into Par liament, or omitted, merely for the sake of gaining over the less rancorous of the Tories ; or that any course of policy will be adopted by Lord Melbourne's Cabinet, which shall not clearly and unequivocally de monstrate a complete unison of feeling between that Cabinet and the people—the people, we add emphati cally, who are now the true rulers of the country. This is a fit and seasonable time for warning the Ministry that we are no longer to be governed upon aristocratic principles. Those principles have lost their former basis, which was to be found in the now disfranchised boroughs ; and any attempt to regain for them the ascendancy which they once possessed can lead, in our opinion, to no other result than a fearful and violent struggle, in which the strength of parties can only be decided by the superiority of physical force. At pre sent we are in the direct path for avoiding any such disastrous result. We have a popular majority in the House of Commons—we have overthrown a Govern ment which was opposed by that majority, and a Ca binet has just been constituted to which that majority will doubtless lend its willing support. But unless the Ministry show their determination to go with the ma jority as it is now constituted, without courting assist ance from any section of the present Opposition, they will find themselves destitute of power to carry on the Government. They dare not attempt a coalition with Lord Stanley—they cannot coalesce with Sir Robert Peel—they have no resource to look to but the people; and the people confidently expect at their hands the utmost extent of reform which considerate and sin cerely liberal men deem necessary to the well-being of the country. Upon this subject there must be no mistake.—Morning Chronicle. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1835. CORONERS' INQUESTS. Yesterday afternoon an investigation took place 'before Mr. BAKER, the coroner, at the Adam and Eve public house, opposite Hackney workhouse, respecting the death of a boy aged 13, named Geo. Withers. The inquiry produced a great sensation in the parish, va rious rumours being in circulation as to the cause of the youth's death. John Chapman, a lad residing in Union-buildings, New ington, at half-past seven on Saturday morning last, while fishing in the Lea, saw the body of the deceased floating on the surface of the water with the heels upwards. Deceased was dressed, and had in his pockets 3s. 6d. Mr. Thomas Hovell, a surgeon, was of opinion the body had been in the water at least ten days. There appeared no marks of violence about it. Charles Withers, Harford-street, Somers -town, brush maker, being sworn, stated that the deceased, who was his nephew, had, since the death of his parents, which happened some years ago, lived with his grandfather and grandmother, by whom he was treated with every indulgence. A brother of the last witness here started up, and ob served, that the deceased had been used well by his late guardians. In answer to questions, the witness admitted that the de ceased's grandmother is his (witness's) mother, and he had quarrelled with her about family matters. He considered she had not done her duty to any of her children. The grandmother was next examined, and it was very evident to every one present that she had performed a pa rent's duty to the unfortunate lad. While giving her evi dence, she was interrupted several times by her son, who was at length silenced by the cries of the jurymen of " Shame, shame, ungrateful child !" &c. The witness, Charles Withers, having requested to be examined again, said there were some very remarkable cir cumstances attending the history of the deceased, who, he had sometimes considered to be subject to fits of insanity, which was a family ailing, his mother having recently died raving mad. The deceased, about six months ago, when playing in a street where his grandfather resided, was forci bly thrust into a hackney coach by two men, who then blindfolded him, and conveyed him at a rapid pace into some obscure spot in the .Borough, where he was locked up in a kind of cell, the bandage on his eyes having previously been taken off, and threats made to him that he would be murdered if he made an alarm. The deceased continued there in the utmost terror until 2 o'clock the next morn ing, when he broke through the ceiling and effected his escape. A:juryman—Did he return home directly he escaped ? Mr. Withers—He did. He went with several officers in search of the place, but the poor lad was so alarmed that he had not the least idea of the spot. Juror—What do you suppose was the object of the men ? Mr. Withers—l have no doubt that he was forced there for the most revolting purposes, and that he would have shared a similar fate to the boy Paviour. (It will be recollected that this unfortunate youth was placed in a hackney-carriage by some ruff,ans and conveyed away, and that his body was afterwards found murdered, to most re volting acts having been previously perpetrated upon him.) Juror—How long has deceased been missing Mr. Withrs—Two weeks last Saturday. He was sent on an errand to the city saw-mills, and we never heard of him until his body was, taken out of the water. Mr. BARER, the coroner, said it was very singular that if the boy had meditated suicide he should have gone so far as the river Lea, when he might have accomplished his pur pose in many pieces of water about the city saw-mills. I: was a very mysterious case, but under all the circumstances the jury would do well to return a verdict of " Found drowned," and the matter would then still be open to fur ther inquiry, in case anything should transpire inducing a belief that the deceased had met his death by unfair means. A Juryman asked Mr. W. if he took any means to find out deceased when he was last missing ? Mr. Withers— I and my brothers instituted every inquiry, and we thought he had been decoyed from home again. The Jury then declared that there was no pretence for the charge of cruelty which had been made against the grandfather and grandmother of deceased. The disap pearance of the lad, however, seemed involved in mystery, but they should act under th e advice of the worthy coroner, and return a verdict of " Yound drowned." Yesterday an inquiry took place before Mr. Stirling, the Coroner, and a Jury, at the Elephant and Castle, King's-road, St. Pancras, relative to the death of a finely formed female, name unkn own, about 18 years of age, who was found in the Regent':;-canal, near the the Zoological gardens. She appeared to have been entirely destitute, her whole apparel being scarcely worth sixpence. No money was about her, and she had neither pocket, stays, bonnet, nor shoes. Her upper garment was a half-gown (cotton) ; and of a chocolate colour, while her under-dress was little better than rags. There were no marks of violence on her person. She had been in the water about five days. The body underwent a post mortem examination at the work house, by Dr. Willing and Mr. Eastcotte, but there were no appearances to indicate why the deceased should com mit the act of self-destruction..,—Verdict, " Found drowned." cc Jim, do you snore when you are asleep?" " No, neve r ; for I lay awake one nigh t, on purpose to see.", Am erican Paper. PRICES OF CANALS, DOCK STOCKS, ASSURANCE COMPANIES, &c.&c. LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 21. Number Dividend of per Shares. Annum. CANALS Price per Paid. Share. 1,482 ea. Ashby.de.le-Zouch .. ..... ..Average 1134 sh. 65 1,260 Basingstoke lOO4 sh. 51 1,005 51. Brecknock and Abergavenny 150.. sh. 85 4,00015 h. 121. 10s. Birmingham, i share 171. 10s. 237 4,00') Ditto and Liverpool Junct....1004 sh. all pd 600 Bridgewater and Taunton -.1004 sh. all pd 64 400 5/. Chelmer and Blackwater 1004 sh. 103 500 421. Coventry lOO/. sh. 790 4,516 Croydon Average 311. 2s. 10d. sh. 21 2,"60i 3/. 10s. Dudley lOOl. sh. 74 60 , 6/. Derby 1001. sh. 120 3,5751 Ellesmere and Chester Average 133/. sh. 86 231 43/. Erewash - 'OO/. sh. 550 1,097 281. Forth end Clyde .......Average 4004 16s. sh. 600 11,501 121. Grand Junct . .m l O Ol. sh. 240 1521 Grand Surrey llO/. sh. 120 , 000!. 41. per cent. Ditto (optional) Loan lOO/. 75 3,096 Grand Western 'o , sh. all pd 21 600 13/. 12s. Bd. Glamorganshire, Average cost 1721. 133. 4d. 280 1,960 Gloucester and Berkley 749 10t. Grantham 150/. sh. 202 6,238 11. 100 Huddersfield .... ...... Average 57/. 6s. 6d. sh. 338 100 Kensington 100 sh. all pd. 10 25,328 IL Kennet and Avon, Average 39/. Bs. 10d. sh. ..21 2,597 a 201. Leeds and Liverpool 104 , 4 sh. 520 545 121. Leicester l4Ol. sh. 170 907 4/. Leicester and Northampton... Aver 831. 10s. 79 to SO 550 5/. per cent. Liskeard and Looe Union 25/. sh. all pd. 25 70 1441. Loughborough Average 1421. 17s. sh. 1,640 0,409 91. Monmouthshire lOOl. sh. 180 250 9/, Melton Mowbray 1004 sh. 190 500 251. Mersey and Irwell lOO/. sh. 569 3,000 Macclesfield 1001. sh all pd. 52 247 15/. Neat h 100 Nene Navigation Bonds ...1001. sh. DWI. pd. 100 1,786 32/. Oxford lOOl. sh. 615 2,400 41. Peak Forest Average about 781. sh. 102 21,418 14s. Regent's (or London) Aver. 33/. 16s. ed. sh. 161 5,669 5/. per cent. Rochdale Average 851. sh. 121 500 Si. Shropshire 1254 sh. 138 800 10/. Somerset Coal 150/, sh. 170 45,000/. 61 percent. Ditto Lock Fond Stock l2/. 10s. sh. 13 700 36/. Stafford and Worcester 14.11. sh. 700 300 8/. Stourbridge 3,647 1/. 10s. Stratford.on-Av..n ...Average 79/. 9s. Bd. sh. 388 533 131. Swansea 1004 sh. 206 3,7-'2 11. Severn and Wye and Railway ...Av. 35/. sh. 191 2,600 Ish. 321. 10s. Trent an.: Mersey, -I- share 1004 sh. 620 8,119 Thames and Medway...Aver. 19/. ss. Bd. sh. 1 1,000 sh./ 15/. Warwick and Birmingham 1001. sh. 278 1,000 ish.3 980 12/. Warwick and Napton lOO/. sh. 220 0,000 3/. 10s. Worcester and Birmingham...A v. 78/. Si. sh 20.000 ss. Wilts and Berks .. Average 161. 17s. Bd. sh. 5 126 ......... Wisbeach lO3/. sh. 458 905 14 Wey and Arun llOl. sh. 22 DOCKS. 498,6671/. 3,238,3101. 21. ss. p. ct. London Stock 57 Ditto Bonds lO3 1,380,0001. 51. per ct. West India 2.20 1 3/. 6s. 4d. Bristol Average 147/. 19s. sh. 700+ 63,3,24/. 5/. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts ll6 1.352,7:,2 3 per cent. St. Katharine Stock '7O 500,000 4i per cent. Ditto Bonds lO4l 200,000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years lO4 Shoreham Harbour 254 BRIDGES. 5,000 5000 11. 2s. Ditto, Old Annuities of Si. 6Ol. pd 263251, 5,000 19s. 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71 401. pd 23a21 00,0001. 51. per cent. Ditto Bonds ll5 6,000 1/. Vauxhall Average 701 10s. 3d. sh. 2147- ASSURANCE COMPANIES. 2,000 3/ lOs Albion 500/. sh. 50/. pd 761 50,000 1 5 P a e u r d e ,„ e s n . t i Alliance, British & Foreign 100/. sh. 10/. pd 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 1 00/. sh. 5/. pd 5i 24,000 10s. per sh. Atlas 1,200 ish. 4/. Birmingham Fire ....2501. sh. 55/. pd 1021 20,000 4/. per cent. British Fire 2501. sh. 50/. IA 49 12,000 0/. per cent. British Commercial 50/. sh. 51. pi 61 5,000 51. per cent. Clerical, Medical, &c. Life...lool. sh. 2/ lOs pd 3f 4,000 2/ lOs County 'OO/. sh. 10/. pd 42 6,000 ss. Eagle 50/. sh. Si. pd 51 0 ,-„, f 'a pd 5 per cent. nt.] Economic Life lOOO/. sh. 2501. pd 315 ``"' 3/ 2,271 sa/. per cent. European Life 0 01. sh. all pd 32 50,000 2s. Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. 2/. pd la 1,000,000/. 71. per ct. Globe Stock 150 20,000 1/. Guardian 1001. sh. 20/. pd 33 [Fire 5 et.) 40,000 Bp t 3 Hope 501. sh. 5/. pd 6 Life pc . 2,400 5/. 7s. 6d. Imperial Fire 5001 sh. 50/. pd 116 7,540 9s. Imperial Life 1001. sh. 10/. pd pi Si. per cent. Indemnity Marine 1 0/. sh. Si. pd 12 3,900 I/. London, Fire 251. sh. Hi. 10s. pd 231. 31 000 1/. London, Ship 0 51. sh. 1.21. 10s. pd °ill 30,0 a 1 :it. per cent. Palladium Lift' 50/. sh. 2/. pd 21 5 s 25 , .,00 , Is. lid. i ' rotei tor File 2O/. sh. 2/. pd 1/ lOs 2,500 1/. Provident Life 1194 sh. lc/. pd 191 100,000' ss. Rock Life 20/. sh. VI. pd 5/ 9s I'd 6,0,2201. Si. per ceut. Royal Exchange Stock... 182 Sun l9B 50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 2/. pd 212 s 6d JOINT STOCK BANKS. 5,000 Australa,ia 4O/. sh. 211/. pd 10,000 10 per cent. Bit miugham Bank 5Ol. sh. 5/. pd 13/.4 18,000 2 per cent. London and Westminster...lool sh. 151. pd 13 20,000 7 per cent. Provincial Bank of Ireland...loo/. sh. 25/. p(1 46g 10000 National Provincial 1001. sh. 25/. pd 20 10,000 10 per cent. Gloucestershire 50/. s.h. 5/. pd 11 6,000 Hampshire 50/. sh. 5/. pd Ba 9 GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 1/ 12s Bath ‘ , O/. sh. 16/. pd 26 5,000 61. per cent. British 4O/. sit. 16/. pd 23 5,000 [ 5/.percent. " Ditto ftorincial and 138. ss. 20/. sh. 19/. pd 24 844 5/ lOs Birmingham 5O/. sh. 100 4,250 2/ Os Bristol 1,500 Brighton 2Ol. sh. 14 ".50 ...... ... Ditto, New 2O/. sh. 18/. pd 10 2,171 5 per cent. Brighton General 20/. sh. all pd 19 4,000 31. Continental Cansolidated lOO/. 514/. pd 76 1,000 10/. City of London +OOl. sh. all pd 1901 1,040 6/. Ditto, New 4,000 4/. Equitable ' l ol. pd :::2 . . 6,000 6/. per cent. East London 5/. sh. 41. pd 41 10,000 5/. per cent. Imperial 5O/. sh. 43 800 5/. per cent. Isle of Thanet 251. sh. 20/. pd 211 2.350 61. per cent. , ndependent NW. sh. all pd 50 9,000 4/. per cent. Phoenix 50/. sh. 39/. pd 25f 1,000 42. per cent. Ratcliff 1001. sh. CO/. pd 45 4,000 South Metropolitan 5 1. sh. 13/. pd 142 8,200 5/. per cent. United General , 502 sh. 44/. pd 391 ' 210 51 . per cent. Warwick 50/. sh. 50 400 1/ 5s Wakefield 25/. sh, 221 !2,000 3/. Westminster Chartered 5O/. sh. 46 6,000 12s. Ditto, New 5Ol. sh. :0/. pd 9ex d 800 WATER WORKS. 4,800 Birmingham 0 51. sh. 251. pd 27 4133 5/. East London lOO/. sh. 134 4,500 2/ lOs (Sr nd Junction ....Average 411 13s. 4d. sh. 58 2,000 2/. Kent 1001. sh. 40a47 3/3 10/. Liverpool Bootle 220/. sh. 300 1,500 2/ lOs New River London Bridge Water Annuities 58 6,186 1/. Manchester and Salford ....... ........ .100/. sh. 47 1,000 4 per cent. South London 100/. sh. 85 8, 00 31. West Middlesex ....Average 03/. 12s. 9d. sh. 79 1,360 1/ 14s York Building Co. Lessee Prop 100/. sh. 34 IRON RAILWAYS. 350 Cheltenham 100/. sh. 78 2,000 Clarence lOO/. ?h. 100/. pd 38 2,500 19s. Forest of Dean 5Ol 28 t , rand Junction 100/. sh. 20/. pl 231 5,100 9 per cent. Liverpool and Manchester 1001. sh. 100/. pd 193 Ditto Quarter Shares 's/. pd 20,000 London and Greenwich '2o4 sh. 13/. pd 15 25,000 London and Birmingham —lOO/. sh. 25/. pi 31f 2,500 Preston and Wigan 2O/. pd 2 800 MINES. 8,000 Albion Copper 5/. sh. 2/. pd 61 4,000 Alten 15/. sh. 10/. 10s. pd 10,000 Anglo Mexican, iss. 5/. pm.... 1001. sh. all pd Ditto Subscription 251. pd 2,000 80l .nos 150/. sh all pd 10,000 3/. .s. Brazilian Imp. iss. 5/. pm. 35/. sh. '204 pd 6,000 Macanbas & Cocaes United....2s/. sh. 20/. pd 241 Ditto St. John Del Rey 20/. sh. 711. pd 11,000 Cata Branca 411. dd Candonga 3/. pd 5 9,00) Bolivar Copper Company 20/. sh. 20/' pd 10,0,'0 Ditro Scrip, '3/. pd 54 'O,OOO IL 10s. British Copper 5/. sh. 3/. pd 6,000 Columbian, iss. Si. pm. 55/ sh. 541/. pd 1,500 English 2,850 1/. General Mining Association...2ol sh. 151. pd 4 10,000 Mexican Company 10.2/. sh 491/. pd 20,000 Polberou Consols 10/. sh. 81. pd 14; 11,500 Real del Monte, Unregistered Ditto Loan Notes l3O/. pd 5,000 United Mexican, iss. 2pm ....:01. sh. all pd 74 30,000 Ditto Subscription 2/. pd Ditto New Scrip 5/ pd 8 Union Gold, iss. 2/. ss. pm.... 221/. sh. 411. pd 161 5 3 (00 West Cork 50/. sh. 251. pd 25 THE WOMAN LATELY EXECUTED AT BRISTOL.. Airs. Burdock, the woman executed last week at Bristol, for poisoning, was born near Ross. Her relations subse quently removed to Kentchurch, on the borders of Here ford and Monmouth. At the age of 19 she came to Bristol to look for service, when she was hired as house" servant in the family of Mr. Plumley, poulterer, Nicholas street, where she lived a year and a half, and where she se misconducted herself, by pilfering and other improper acts, that she was suddenly discharged. Her conduct was s 0 reprehensible that her master refused to give he r a chs racter ; for which she employed a solicitor to bring an tion, and and laid her damages at 501. All parties prepared to go to Taunton, where the action was to be tried, but th e day before the assize her solicitor sent word that the plaintiff was missing. Between the time of bringing th ,,e. action and the day of trial she married, or said she w. 7, married, to a man of the name of Agar, a tailor, iltu whom she lived but a very short time, for soon after she was residing in the Ho:se-fair with a man of the na,ll l e e of Thomas, a gentleman's servant, who had a wile living at the time : by this man she has a son, ne,!v too e living, about 15 years of age. Subsequently 1 she formed a connexion with Wade, to whom she 1 not married. Wade kept a clothes-shop on the Quay,n e _ was steward to a steam-packet ; he also kept lodgid o houses in different parts of the city, ultimately Trinity. street, where the lamentable crime was com mittee After Wade's death she married the husband whose natee she bears. He had been to America, and having tekeeeed lodgings at the last-mentioned house, became aeclu ei f'b with the widow, who, in reply to an intention expressed oe him of returning to America, suggested that by a mars' de, with her he might be enabled to carry on the clothe s trail to which he had been accustomed. At this time she beof become possessed of Mrs. Smith's money, a great p i i art e which was paid to clothiers in exchange for goods. fitly however, her career was arrested ; the sudden and concealed death of Mrs. Smith, and the abstractio n of bet property, led to many inquiries ; the girl (Mary A °° is len) was traced out, and her information of various circa s_ stances which have been elicited on the trial led to the i i rs. humating of the body, and the result has been shown. luto Burdock was a stout, rather tall, and good-looking w° t e r She was deplorably ignorant, could neither read n or wri e, and appears to have received no religious or moral Las tre ao tion. It is not true, as reported, that she was of the il e a Catholic persuasion ; to a question put to her, she reP that she had never been in a Catholic chapel, or held cot nets, nion with a minister of that persuasion on religious of übj e t he Previous to the trial she made her will, devising , aft er t he payment of her debts and expenses incurred in defendid 0. prosecution, the remainder of her property to her two Cot dren, a lad about 15, and a girl about 8 or 9 years o ja g s' too the property, however, we understand there are no ei than four claimants ; her trustees, the creditors of her hu, s , of (to whom she would not advance a penny), the relatill' the murdered lady, to whom in equity it belongs' al t he lastly, the corporation of Bristol, who claim it und er 0. old charter. 5001. still remain in the hands of Se t ss to Stuckey and Co., who hold it under an injunction deliver it up to the trustees. The culprit groundr i , i bo, title to the said property on the will of the man Wo e ' r der. there can be little doubt, was accessary t o the n' u to We have heard it rumoured that she made a confessional, the nurse who attended her, with an injunction not ° not vulge the same until after her execution. We have ough the means at present of contradicting this stateme nt, th s cle we do not credit it ; but it is quite certain that s he , 9 ,00* no disclosures to the chaplain. As it has been thouglitfrtbe bable that she was implicated in the disappearance 008.0, young man, Clark, who was missed about two Yea rs orr and has not since been heard of; the trustees of the soner having found among her effects a watch-paper be the initials " E. C.," adthinking it possible that itrillt; . l eo cis have belonged to that individual, they w aited on hi s to to and communicated that fact, and they were pernnt'oci examine all the things in her possession ; but we unde rs , t bet not the slightest trace of any thing tending to cone' with him was discovered.—Bristol Mercury. THE ARMY. LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. 1,000 London, with Bronze Ticket • 75gs. sh. 19 1500 700 King's College 1001. pd 444 MISCELLANEOUS. 10,000 IN. Australian Agricult - u - ra1.....100/. sh. 261/. ph 381 LOSO 1/. Auction Mart 50/. sh. 15 6,0! , 0 British American Land Company HI. pd 8 10,000 6l per cent. Canada Company LOU!. sh. 20/. pd 200,000 51. per cent. Upper Canada Loan City Bonds, 4 per cent lO2 15,000 1/. per cent. General Steam Navigation ...151. sh. 13/. pd 101. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock 255 2,000 11. London Corn. Sale Rooms Av. '75/. sh. 18 2,754 4/. per cent. Reversionary Interest 50c...100/ sh. 100/. pd 1311 2,633 4/. per cent. Ditto New 100/. sh. Cil pd 70 4,000 10,000 Van Diemen's Land 100/. sh. 16/. p 4 7 LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES, APRIL 1, 1835. BANKS. 1,r.00,000/. Si. p. ct. Bank of Scotland - S 3/. Gs. 80. sh. all pd 200 p. ct 2,000,000/. 5i p. ct. Royal of Scotland 100/. sh. all pd 170/. 500,000/. Bp. et. British Linen Company 1001. sh. :.11 pd 2401. 3,000,0001. N. p. et. Commercial 5OOl. sh. 1001 pd 1701. 5,000,0001. 5 p. ct. National r 100/. sh. 101. pd 1415 s 2,00 ,0001. 211. p. ct. Glasgow Union 250/. sh. 501. pd GO/. 4,000,0001. (p. ct. Western of Scotland 9 001. sh 30/. pd 32/. INSURANCE COMPANIES f:so,ooosh. sp. ct. Scottish Union 20/ 1/ pd • •• . 7,500 sp. ct. Hercules 1001. sh. 101. pd 11/. 100,000 sp. ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland....lol. sh. all pd 7/ lOs 50,000 6 p. et. North British 2001. sh. 10/. pd 15/. 1,000 5 p. ct. Caledonian Fire 100/. sh. 10/. pd 131. 5,000 6p. et. Edinburgh Life 100/. sh. 10/. pd 13/. 10,000 4 p. ct. West of Scotland lO/. pd 10/. MISCELLANEOUS. Edin. and Glas Un. Cana1...50/. sh. all pd 8/10s lii:to Allocated .9 ! ./. sh. all pd 601. 5,400 5 per cent. Edinb. J o,nt Stock Water....c.ni. sh. all pd 33/. Carron Iron Cornoany 2501. sh. all pc! 4501. 2,000-h. 15 per cent. Shotts Iron Founuer, 50/. sh. 3,4. pd IS/. 10,000 3 per cent. Edinburgh and Leith G1a50...:2C!. sh. all pd 71. 4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas 251. sh. all pd 641. 4,450 10 per cent. Glasgow Gas 251. sh. all pd SG/. 730 6 per cent. Leith Coal Gas 1,200 5 per cent. Edinburgh and Dalkeith 13ai1way...50/. sh. 781. 3,000 5 per cent. Equitable Loan Company...2sl. sh. 101. pd 101. 4,810 COURSE OF EXCH, Amsterdam C.F.12 6 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam 2 U. 12 6 NUE, YESTERDAY. Leghorn 171,4 Genoa Milan.., . Venice 47 ! ,4 Naples 4O Palermo per oz. 120 i,i Li,bon 574 Oporto 57% Rio Janeiro 3(”4 Bahia ... 26% Buenos Ayres Dublin, 21 days' sight 1 Cork ll4 25 V 5 ............... Antwerp l2 5 Hamburg M.B. 13 14 Altona l3 14 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 fis Ditto . Us 25 95 Bordeaux F-ankfort on Maine, Ex. M 152yra Petersburgh, ruble 3 Us. 1N Berlin Vienna, effective fl 2M. 10 4 Trieste ditto lO 5 Madrid '37 Cadiz '37 Bilboa Barcelona PRICE OF BULLION, PER OZ. Portugal Gold, coin £0 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 9 New Doubloons New Dollars Silvers bars, standard 0 0 0 LI Cal,,••• Seville • -• 36 % Gibraltar ... 48 Mr. Augustus Verey, the gentleman who attempted to put a period to his existence on Waterloo Bridge, was after wards conveyed to Middlesex Hospital, where he was imme diately attended by Mr. Arnott, one of the principal surgeons ; but such is the determination of the unfortunate gentleman not to survive, that not any persuasions or force can make him take either medicine or food. _ . CURIOUS FISH.—In some of the rivers in Guiana, there is found a curious fish, about the size of a smelt, which has four eyes, two on each side, placed one above the other ; when swimming, it keeps two eyes above, and two below the surface. At h is 0 (From the Limerick Chronicle.) 86 1 ji" A troop of the Royal Horse Artillery is shortly exP e- t ior this garrison, to replace the Foot Artillery at present sta here. ce° The 4th, or Royal Irish Dragoon Guards, onion" the first week in May, for Bristol. A os The 43d Light Infantry sail from Cork in a few 34l' New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and on their arrival 0:00 proceed from that station to Halifax on their return he ll/ service. Head-quarters of the 14th Infantry, from IVlullingsr, C o lon el into Dublin yesterday, under command of Lieut.- Everard. The 27th (or Enniskillen) regiment shortly leav e n ,f O garrison for Cork, for embarkation for the Cape Hope, in order to relieve the 98th regiment. be iri s ! The 52d Light Infantry is the fifth regiment T hey t- go, establishment now reported for foreign service. 1 b is supposed for Ceylon, and replace the 61st regint en ' O e '' The 43d Light Infantry, at Cork, were inspected Yougref Sir Thomas Arbuthnot yesterday, in the Barraelt"l vt hen the men to form the depot were told off. t Cot" Lieut. Grogan, 3 2d, accompanies the draft now ¢ t to join head-quarters of the regiment in Canada. the 9r Lieut. - Colonel Arbuthnot will not accompany , Light Infantry to Ceylon. Lieut.-Colonel D'Aguilar, Deputy Adjutant-Genee go ol returned to Dublin, after being examined before th Commission in London, upon military punishments' „ A fe 1151711 0 . ARISTOCRACY.---The want of sense a.. -- oe ' e t which prevails in these circles is wholly inconeeiv aw- ;04 ignorance of all that the more refined of the middle , ° 1. . 00 17 1 the lower classes, well know, is accompanied by ar t , lthe A. contempt for any one who does not know any. only It o and worthless trifles which form the stamp of then . er 1° p ledge. An entire incapacity of reasoning is twin s ,: fi. t {Ord ready and flippant and authoritative denial of all, t "",tinef has taught others. An utter impossibility of lolu e ;f0 1 ;iti what men of learning and experience have bece t° , l ; g 0 01 ,ry with, stalks hand in hand, insolent and exulting, a r e di denial of truths which are all but self-evident, anu, treme importance. Of the press, they live in hab it i o ns,l,oo but it is a fear, which, being altogether void of vr ls ot igr duces good neither to its victims nor its objects.-:• - •"" the Aristocracy of England. SY ° g I FIRE IN RoTHERHITE.--Yesterday mora eei_9d4 one o'clock this neighbourhood was again alarme d b Ye t - te " Fire !" which, on examination, was ascer t a ined t 0 near from the ship-building warehouses of Mr. Ev atis h 'itant s ;er King and Queen, Rotherhithe-street. The in h nbe tened to the spot, and in a short while afterwards , o: is broie"oo sant application of buckets of water, the fire was el ' froe l , f ss and less destruction of property took place that l ' e - fife of alarming appearances, at first was anticipated. Th ;re e d occasioned through overheating a kiln used for the 1 3 - Af bending timber to build steam-boats and other vessel,,„s' K t oe g large steam-boat which has been some time builtrovre,,,st nately escaped with slight damage. The stock are insured in the Imperial and Protector Fire Offie e 'l o praise is due to the Thames Police for their exertiet's ing to stop the progress of the fire. .05 li d DREADFUL ACCIDENT WITH FIRE"`"" 0 Woamwoon SCRUBBS.-Yesterday afternoon, het we o usiliel, two o'clock, the following accident occurred to a ) o t.. 5" . ., tleman, between 15 and 16 years of age, of the lier ne r , - t lernibt Griffin, eldest son of Edmond Griffin, Esq., a ge they ° 'o l3s ' fortune, residing at Hammersmith. It appears thatoopsOu'ofr in company with three other young gentlemen, his resent D id who are on a visit at Mr. G.'s house during the P 4003.0. days, proceeded to the vicinity of Wormwood Sern`',,,il b i be if Dale ,Common, for the purpose of shooting s, e a t,. e et i; „ n toS.. sP , Their' success not being very great, they re,,de amusement, and commenced firing at a target, Ina. e a tO r i s e , of paper, affixed to a tree. Young Griffin imag l . a „ tbe E s he putting an extra charge into the gun he should isql w ile; r ile Accordingly, when it arrived at his turn, he fir e "' OP to loe gun burst close to the stock, carrying away the un fo rt i o s lower part of the barrell. By the explosion th e a 00,10 youth's hand was shattered in a dreadful manner , f! n e of his nose was literally blown off. A light elt a _ is vpti' procured, in which he was removed home, and 51 . ite i ance having been obtained the wounds were dress tation of the arm must immediately be performed. • t 4 BIRTHS. On the ..".'.oth inst., in Montagu-square, the lady'ride of a daughter. motif Ott 20th inst., at the Crescent, Claph am.° gber George Gay, of a son. rhar leS On the 21st inst., at Halliford, the lady of Ph ili p pard, Esq., of a daughter. ti )J Jo e, DIED. On the 21st inst., in Park-street, Grosvenor-squarei;tbs., only son of the Right Hon. Baron Parke, aged 2 . ° In° tiP On the 14th inst., Caain Charles Hope Johnstonbee, c e nlciat On the 20th inst., at Minestead, the Rev. J. C.. 1 0, 3 1 ° On the 17th inst., in Upper Gower-street, NY 11 " 00f , oth Esq., in his 72d year. ;fiber Sep t On the 20th inst., at Newport, Isle of Wight Era° o f Sophia, you n ge s t d aug ht er o f J ame s Turner and Ater , g,t Bostock, of Newingt on -pl ace , K enn inon, SurreY• r. W /3r° o f On the 13th inst., Mrs. Walter, relict of th e late oe, Purby Oaks, near C roydon, Surrey On the 21st inst., in her 55th year, Mrs. xifr Canonbury-square, Islington. on of On the 20th i ns t., Willi am J os h u a, the infant s 0,0 30' Cole Cole, Esq., of Exeter. „ of On the 19th inst., Henry Hanson Simpson, ' s $ 9l°P. place, Bath, i n hi s 62d year. Fa iotree' On the 19th inst., nilliam Purton, Esq., e" A° Div aged 73. On the 28th of November last, in the United Sr,tal;., i° Thomas John Neville, only son of Thomas Usslieoo-7tis'. r oft lis tannic Majesty's Vice-Consul at Hayti aged six . 111 c1 daug hte On the 20th inst., at Burton-street, thir late Richard B ennet t, Esq. fpt o• (4110:' ( :01.1 13 y London : Pri n t e d an d P u bli s h e d by MURD ° - 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 1 12, Stran of Middlesex. !