The Sun. — London, England, 1828-07-11 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. It was on Saturday last, in the Committee of Supply, that a variety of important observations were made on the government of the ColonieS; 4id the difference was then pointed out betwetu Crown Colonies and others which have Legisla tive Assemblies. We are certain that under whatever denomination our Colonies come, there never was a time at which frugality and concilia tion were more necessary in the government of them. Sir Ralph kVe-,r,lford, whose death has occasioned so intieli regret in Trinidad, was a Civil Govenror, and we cannot understand why military ones are thought the more ptoper in time of peace ; at least, we are sure that, un , der existing circumstances, the former are most easily rendered amenable to legal process at home if thr,ir conduct be doubtful. The state of Ca riag!ia is one of peculiar interest, and we would strongly recommend a letter, in this day's jour nal, to attentive perusal. It well develqes the importance of the Colony, and the necessity of binding it strongly by affectiolt to England ; the means of self-defence, and the inefficacy of all methods of attack, it the hearts of the inhabit ants be but with us. We hope we shz,:i hear no more of giving up this important possession, till, sander our parental and fostering care, it shall have become a great nation, capable of support ing the balance of power among the naticns of the American continent. Then, indeed, we may turn it adrift with the most amicable feelings. It will thank us for having protected its infancy, and we may look for aid in its mature and full grown vigour. —Times. There is no thinking person whom we have - 2CCI3, insensible to the new aspect of public af , fairs in Ireland exhibited by the events at Ennis. The priests have withdrawn the people, it is said, from their primitive and natural connection with their landlords. The priests have " dealt damnation round the land" on each miserable being who she old, in the discharge of a conven tional dut';, or in a tender consideration for the weP:arc of his family, render himself liable to be judged a foe" to the interests of that candidate whom the priests espoused.— We dread the consequence of this enormous hypocrisy, and if it be pursued much further, the consequence will be sure to follow, namely, a re-action in the public mind of England, fatal (for fatal we know it would be) to the hopes of peace, and to the course of freedom, during hall a century to come. Once let the p e opl e o f thi s country but suspect that emancipation is the measure of the Popish hierarchy, and not a measure for the ultimate overthrow of that body, and the 'ray Catholics of Ireland may assure themselves that it will be as well for them to transfer themselves and their self-earned disap pointmcnts to Upper Canada or New South Wales. At present the Catholic priesthood cetns to be a power no less capable of applying itself to any other political object than to this of returning an unqualified representative for Clare. If the threat of damnation can influence a wretched peasant to raise his voice for one Member of Parliament rather than for his adver- slay, the same blind confidence in the priestly denunciator will, it is imagined by many well-meaning Englishmen, seduce him to raise an arm where a voice may fail—to overturn property, as well as desert its hitherto well-re cognized relations, and to restore to its lost wealth and splendour the church which, in its poverty, 'he at so terrible a sacrifice obeys. The case we feel to be bad enough, but we stop far short of any such extreme conclusions. The force at this moment in action throughout Ireland, though dreadful, appears to us vulnerable from its discordant elements. The priesthood is mixed up with the aristocracy, of which it is jealous, and by which it is, wider ordinary cir cumstances, despised : it assumes to command the multitude, by administering to their previous inclinations, knowing well that if it resisted the spell would at once be dissolved. What, therefore, the King's Ministers ought to do is obvious. Detach the laity from this pe rilous and unseemly league,—render it no longer worth the while of Catholic gentlemen to court these ambitious hypocrites, or to employ them as auxiliaries. Satisfy the instructed portion► of the laymen, and the ignorant will speedily cease at their instigation to turn for guidance to the priests. This is the only course that is practi cable, if the object he to govern Ireland, not to waste it. As for the restoration of the Popish Church to its former wealth, and fixed ascend ancy in Ireland, we are sure that, except as mat ter of compact for stipulated service, the Catholic gentry will listen to no such overtures ; and we feel to the full as sure that, without the gentry, the priests themselves are nothing.—Bid. Mr. John Wood presented last night a peti tion against the infamous Bill which has been abandoned—the Additional Churches' Bill— from the Borough of Leeds, signed by 19,712 inhabitants. In a Leeds Mercury Extraor ' clinary, dated Wednesday last, there is a full account of the Meeting held in that borough on Monday last, at which the above petition was agreed to. " The Meeting," says our Leeds contemporary, " concluded about two o'clock on Monday afternoon, and we must say, that of all of the Public Meetings we ever attended in Leeds, this was one of the most gratifying. It was interesting in the extreme to witness the gradual developement of those feelings which an exposure of the arbitrary and dangerous enact ments of the Bill called forth. Every mind seemed filled wonder that a British Mini- ster could ever have introduced, and a British Parliament entertained, a - measure so utterly at variance with the free institutions of this country ; and when the parishioners separated, it was ap parently with the unanimous determination to leave no legal means untried to avert the danger with which the country is menaced. This de termination manifested itself in a manner unpre cedented in this place, and in the short space of 18 hours, the names of nineteen thousand seven hun dred and twelve inhabitants were affixed to the petition. So decisive an expression of popular opinion would serve to show in what light the New Church Bill, when properly understood, will be viewed by the country. At this Meet ing Mr. Marshall, the Member for Yorkshire, was present ; and he observed—" It is not for me to say whether any effectual opposition caA be made to this Bill in time House of Commons, as that House is at present constituted ; but if it can, it must he through the public voice, strongly and decidedly expressed against it. —The Members of the House of Commons —of that House which pretends to repre sent the people of England, are, in a great measure, the mere nominees of the Aristocracy. 11 the great and populous towns like this, the seats of our manufacturers and commerce, which contribute so essentially to the prosperity and wealth of the nation, are entirely unrepresented. I hope and trust the time is not far distant when these great towns will combine together to de inand that share in the representation winch is so unjustly withheld from them.—(Hear.) — Gentlemen, I am afraid this Bill will require your opposition mi another ground ; for if it should pass into a law, there is great rtason to fear that it will be only one of a series of the same complexion: 'l'hc Noble Duke now at the head of the Government has succeeded in discarding from his Administration all the moderate and liberal men, who, under Lord Liverpool and Mr, Canning, were the means of introducing a better and more liberal policy both at home and abroad—and the Noble Duke has now the satisfaction of hay , ing fbrmed an Administration purely aristoera , tical—and it is to be apprehended that the iute• rests of the Aristocracy, rather than the welfare of the people at large, will be the thing princi pally attended to. Of this Administration, this Bill is a kind of first fruits—to be followed, if it succeeds, by many others.—(Hear, hear.)" — Few who have attended to the proceedings of Parliament of late will hesitate to subscribe to this opinion of the Duke's Administration, ex pressed by Mr. Marshall. It is an Administra tion purely aristocratical—the ready and devoted tools of the Aristocracy. it was observed in the Debate •-_•n Friday night, respecting the Lieutenant , Generalship of the Ordnance, by Mr. Baring, that the country depended more upon the will and pleasure of gentlemen on the Trea sury Bench than upon the House itself. This is, in other words, the same opinion as that deli vered by Mr. Marshall, The more corrupt a Ministry, the more popular it will be with Par liament; and the more honest, the more unpo pular, The Duke's Administration will be ffore popular in Parliament than any we have had for a long time, precisely because it is the most unprincipled. So long as he can keep his 'establishment strong in men, whose minds are like blank paper, on which any thing may be written that may suit the convenience of the moment—men who can coolly advocate Archbishop of Canterbury jobs, suffer them selves to be detected in smuggling through Ad ditional Churches' Bills at two o'clock in the morning, he will be acceptable to Parliament. What if' public indignation be occasionally rous ed, when the worst comes to the worst, it is only abandoning the measure. In proportion as public indigation is roused, Parliament is good humoured, because the indignation is incurred in its service. By returning perpetually to the charge, by making one job follow close on the heels of y another, the public will be fairly tired out, for is too heavy a machine to be moved lightly ; and thus the Ministry can very well afford to allow a job or two occasionally to mis carry when the odium becomes too groat. The experiment made by time Duke of Wellington hitherto with so much success, will probably be decisive of the future march of the Government. The liberal part of' the Liverpool and Canning Administrations, who attached some importance to principles as well as to their own characters, were necessarily unpalateable to Parliament, on the rapacity of which they were felt as a restraint. It may be truly said, that almost all the mea sures of Government for these seven or eight years, were odious to the two Houses be cause they evinced sonic regard for the public good. But the Duke has prudently fallen in with the bias of' the Houses, having discovered that the Aristocracy of the country form in reality but one body, and that by humouring that body, he will only have to 'encounter the opposition of tile few upright men who arc su perior to the considerations of the vulgar inte rest, and disdain to enter into any compromise with their principles. In all ranks of life such men will be found ; but they form a very small minority of' the aristocracy. By ministering to the prejudices and the desires of the great body of the aristocracy, the Duke will have the great body with him. Being in no uneasiness about the votes, he will give himself very little concern about the speeches• directed against the system which procures for him the votes. Without being the apologists of Mr. Huskisson's con duct in joining the Duke's Administration, we can never forget that for several years that Mini ster incurred the peculiar hatred of the aristo cracy, on no other account than his strenuous endeavours to promote, according to the best of hip judgment, the interests of all classes. That the Duke was anxious to get rid of him and his friends, in order to supply their place with men of blank minds, is the highest tribute which can be paid to them. The Duke did not wish cha racter or principles, but votes ; and he found the former in the way of the latter.—Morning Chronicle. There is a proverb among our northern bre thren,, who are most excellent judges in such matters, that " the King's chaff is worth other folks' corn." The meaning conveyed by this adage is, that the King pays high and exacts little. There are many who would endeavour to controvert the Scotch maxim, and make out Government to be a hard master, reaping where it has not sowed, and gathering where it has not strewed. But, somehow or other, it invariably happens with such people, that whatever be the hardships of the service, they cling to it most pertinaciously. It is a common practice to com pare and to contrast the situation of Government clerks with those in merchants' offices ; but, though we often see merchants' clerks shift from one master to another, we never find Govern ment clerks shift, unless from a good place to a better. Whatever, therefore, may be said on the matter, we hold that there is abundant prac tical proof that Government service is no despi cable affair. A Bill is at present moving through the House of Commons, on the recommenda tion of the Finance Committee, which has ex cited much displeasure among those gentlemen, yet for what reason we cannot well discover. — The object of the Bill is to create a super annuation fund out of the salaries of the per sons who are to enjoy its advantages. What can be more fair than this ? Were these gentle men in merchants' counting houses, they could only enjoy superannuation by submitting to a yearly tax for its purchase ; and why should they not purchase . it in the same way when serving Government ? The reductions already made have it is said, in a very well written pamphlet on this subject, been severely felt. No doubt they have—all reductions are. And does th e writer imagine either that reductions in salaries have been limited to Government offices, or that only the gentlemen there arc aware of the difference between luxury and competence ? Many have contracted marriages on the prospe c t of enlarged income, and have been disappointed And how many have contracted marriages, not with the prospect, but with the possession of wealth, since the commencement of the peace, and are now in the workhouse ? The great mass of the clerks in public offices we are told are in the receipt of salaries not exceeding three hundred pounds a-year. And the great mass of the Officers in the Army and the Navy, for services ten•times more onerous, arc in possessiom of incomes one-third of that amount. We grant that the clerks do the du ties appointed fiii• them. They do not eat the bread of idleness, and it is not fit they should ; but still their labours are light compared to the labours of clerks ha private counting-houses, and their remuneration is higher. We do not wish to say any thing harsh or unkind . on this subject. But, making every allowance for men who see in the Bill in question their present in come threatened, we cannot help calling on them to look round for a moment before they give their feelings utterance. Do they not see in every class of society, but more especially in the class of clerks, the utmost difficulty in ob taining even the lowestand worst-paid situation ? Do they not see every day establishments broken up, and old and faithffil servants thrown on the world, without fund or friends to succour or solace them ? Have they not, within the last twelve years, seen every description of labour fall in price twenty, thirty, in many cases fifty per cent. ? Let them consider this, and then ask themselves coolly, whether it is likely that the public will sympathise w ith men whose only ground of complaint is,that they must , out of their present superfluities, provide for their future subsistence when rendered by age incapable of labour ?—Neze Times. POLICE INTELLIGENCE• MANSION-HOUSE.—Eight inhabitants of the Ward of Farringdon Within were summoned by the Ward officers for •having refused to pay the rate called " the watch rate," levied by the ward. It was agreed up4;a both sides that the question should be referred to a higher tribunal. The defendants refused to pay the rate upon the ground, that as they are within the precinct of Whitefriars, they are entitled, by a charter upwards of 200 years old, to watch and light their own immediate neighbourhood; and the Ward authorities have thought it expedient to take that office into their own hands, and to make the said inhabitants pay. 110 W-STREET.—In consequence of a sworn informa tion made yesterday morning before Sir R. BIRNIE, that it was the intention of Mr. Long Wellesley and Mr. De Crespigny to fight a duel, warrants were immediately issued against the parties, and placed in the hands of Led better to execute. A man named William Lawrence, by trade a book binder, strangled himself on Wednesday night in St. Clement's watch-house. Three boys having accused him of an indecent assault upon their persons, the unfortunate deceased was locked up in the black hole until morning. The watch-house-keeper, Ingram, came before Sir R. BIRNIE yesterday morning to state the fact. He Paid that the prisoner told him he lived at No. 33, Stanhope-street, Clare-market. He did not deny the accusation, but said, when about to be locked up, " If I am brought before a Magistrate, I ens ruined for ever." Two wretched little urchins, the accusers of the de ceased, then stood forward, and underwent a severe ex amination by the magistrate. They confessed that they had often been ()Wird to stay in the streets all night, having no borne to go to. On the night previous, they said, they were accosted by the deceased, who said he would treat them to some gin, which, however, they re fused. The boys then said that the deceased offered them money to allow him indecent liberties, upon which they gave him in charge. A watchma❑ said, that he discovered the deceased in the cell where he was confined on his knees, with his back to the wall, suspended by two silk handkerchiefs to the bars of the window. Sir Ricii. 131n' An censured the watch-house-keeper for not visiting the deceased between the time he was locked up and when he was discovered dead. Both boys arc of bad character, and well known to the police. MARLBOROUGH- STREET. --YestA ay Thomas Webster, a footman in the service of Lord Lyndhurst (the Chancellor), was brought to this office before F. A. Rosa Esq., the sitting magistrate, under a warrant charged with assaulting Ballard, one of the officers of this office. About ten o'clock in the moruir, before the hour for commencing public business, the Cord Chancellor himself came to the efface in his carriage to see the magistrate on the subject of the charge against his servant ; but the ma gistrate not having yet arrived, his Lordship drove off again, without waiting any time. Soon after the arrival of the magistrate, however, Lady Lyndhurst came also t o the office in her carriage, and had an interview with Mr. ROE on the occasion ; and again, before the case was gone into, a gentleman came with a letter to the Magistrat e fiein his Lordship, then sitting in the Court of Chancery. The case being called on, Plank, the chief officer of this office, was sworn, and stated that on Monday night last lie was with Ballard and other officers on duty, to keep order and regularity at the Duke of Wellington's house, whete there was a grand assembly. It was the particular direc tions of the Duke that the steps of the hall door and the approaches to it should be kept perfectly clear, and no person permitted to stand there ; and there were seats placed all round the court-yard for the servants in attend ance to sit on until called for by the parties they b e l on ged to. In violation of these regulations, the defendant placed himself upon the steps of the hall-doer, and refused to move from them, although repeatedly required to do so, not o nly by hint (Plank) but by the Duke of Wellington's servants, who were in waiting at the door. It was repeatedly pointed out to him that there were seats near at hand where he might sit down ; but so, he would not stir, he said, an inch from where he stood, until he (Plank) pro vided a chair for him. This, the officer said, be did not think it part of his duty to de ; and he then laid his hank gently on the defendant to desire again that he would re move front a spot where he was causing much obstruction, but he no sooner did so than the defendant threw himself into a fighting attitude, but did not strike any blow, al though he showed every disposition to do so. Ballard now came up, and laid hold of the defendant to insist on his coming down the steps, and had dragged him partly down, when the latter struck repeatedly at the officer with some thing that he held in his hand, and Ballad,himself from the blows with his sta ff, cau g ht the defend ant, in defending more accidentally than otherwise, with the end of the staff across the eye, and in an instant he was covered with blood. He was then removed without further resistance on his part from the steps ; but from this time forward, the conduct of all the other servants, some hundreds in number, was of the most outrageous nature. Plank said that he did not think it necessary to have the defendant sent to the watch-house as others had been, because he knew the man very well, and repeatedly told him so, and that when Lord Lyndhurst should hear of his conduct, he would be highly displeased. Ballard said, that he repeatedly requested the defendant is the most civil manner to come down the steps before he laid a hand on him, and when he even did so, at first, it was quite gently, but the defendant said he would not move an inch, and then he (Ballard) dragged him down the steps ; upon which the defendant aimed several blows at him, not only with his fist, but with a pair of wooden clogs which he carried ; in defending himself from these blows the officer said he accidentally caught the man across the eye with the end of his staff, in a back-hand manner, which cut him severely ; the blow was not at all designedly give° , for if it had been, with such a staff, it w ou ld have laid open, if not fractured, the defendant's skull. The servants of the Duke of Wellington' s household at • tended, and stated that the Duke had given directions to keep the steps and approaches clear, as described by Plank, and that the defendant refused to move although repeatedly asked to do so before any force was used towards him. Plank spoke to him m the most civil manner, and told him that he knew hint, and that he would may ge t himself into trouble if be did not move; but he still refused until the other officer came up, who also civilly asked hint to come down the steps, and when he refus e d seized him by th e collar, and him down. The d e f en d ant then stru ck at the officer cut him in r e t urn w ith the the officer,t iragagnedd staff, but whether by design or accident they could not say. The defendant said , in his defenc e , that the reason be stood on the steps was, that Lady Ly n dh urst was j ust then coming out, went up to th e steps to meet her a and he Ladyship and hand her to her carriage. He admitted that but he denied entirely th at h e s t ruc k Bid he refused, for th e same reason, to move when desired to dlaordsodesbyigin'edlail'ake, On the contrary, he said, that when the Ps, he stumbled back owtlailcdear, d a r n a g d g ead pairhim down nf lad i e t s h , e d n s g t which he held in his hand, were lifted suddenly up, and chanced to touch the officer, who immediately struck him with his staff, and cut him in the severe manner he appeared. (Here the de fendant pointed to a large platter under his eye.) He now called as a witness the coachman of Count de Ludolf, the N e apolitan Ambassador, who stated that he saw the officers drag the defendant down the steps, when the defendant suddenly stumbled, and his hand rising accidentally struck the officer, who immediately cut the defendant across the face with his staff. The witness said that he had a full view of the proceeding, as he was on his coach-box at the time, setting down the Countess de Ludolf at the door. Plank said, that the defendant must be quite wrong in saying that he expected Lady Lyndhurst out at the time he was on the steps, because her Ladyship did not come out for four hours after that time, and indeed had only arrived a short time before. He (Plank) wished, however, to say of the defendant, that generally speaking he was a well behaved man, as compared with most other servants. In the present case Mr. ROE said that as the defendant seemed, by the officer's account, not to he generally an ill behaved man, and Lord Lyndhurst spoke very favourably of his character, and moreover, in consideration of the severe cut he had received, which mist be some punish ment to him, he should only be fined 20s. mid the costs, with a caution to be in future guarded as to his conduct on such occasions, and to impress on all of his class the penalties they were incurring by their scandalous and out rageous behaviour. The gentleman who attended from Lord Lyndhurst paid the fine, and the defendant was discharged. HATTON-GARDEN.—An elderly man, of the name of James Cocker, a Methodist preacher, well known at Barnet and its surrounding neighhourhood, was brought np by the parochial authorities of St. Pancras, upon the com plaint of Amelia Joyce, an interesting young woman, who deposed that he is the father of a child of which she is now enciente. Mr. Coulthart, one of the overseers of the parish, stated to the Magistrate that the means used by the defendant, to accomplish his purposes upon this inexperienced female, and lull to sleep all 1 - Kr apprehensions of the moral guilt at tached to her connection with him, as also to remove that delicacy which she naturally entertained upon the ground of her character with the world afterwards, were the most abominable and unholy that were ever practised by man. Me never knew a case, he said, of a more aggravated nature, for the sacred Bible was made the instrument by which all this was to he effected. Cocker, whenever he made his appointments with the complainant, always came armed with this book, selected out of it all those passages of the ancient scripture, and the law of nature, which he imagined were calculated to suit his views, and impressed them so forcibly upon her mind, that she at last yielded en easy victim to his importunities. The Magistrate heard this statement with a degree of unutterable surprise and indignation. He ordered the de fendant to find bail, and in default thereof committed him to the New Prison, Clerkenwell. ST. PAUL, COVENT-GARDEN. 'Yesterday morning, a few of the inhabitants of this parish, who had neglected to pay some rates, were summoned to the Bow-street police-office, in place of the vestry-room, where it had long been customary to dispose of this business, at the instance of the overseers, by Mr. Roche, who still acts as their clerk, to show cause why those rates had not been paid. There were only six or eight defaulters present. Sir R. BIRNIE and Mr. BECKETT having taken their seats on the bench, Mr. Roche opened his business by asking Mr. Corder, the vestry-clerk; who also atteraded, what business he had there ? I sa y," exclaimed Mr. Roche, " that as Mr. Corder is not a defau lter, he has no bus iness here. This is not a public office—(turning to Mr. Corder) —what tdoociyi Corder—l c o G believe, doMr. O hereabout bi oe vu ? et your business, you have Sir, you ar c no t a Magis trate, arid I shall not answer yo ur quest i ons. Mr. no right here. Sir R. BIKNIE—Now, Roche, arc you ready ? Let them come in one at a time. I'll have no mob here. --- At this time there were not more than 12 persons P e includin g t h e mag i stra t es , defaulters, col lector, ' oflicer, and watch-house keeper. no Si people R.eopel3ißtotNeillET l'li have parcelo no pushing a lies m ab o o b hutetrnc. I'll have man out of the chair. It is as -- a lie as ever was told.* (Addressing Mr. Corder)—Retire, Sir. Mr. Roche—lle has no business here. He Is not in the list. This is nut a public office. Go home, Sir —go home. Sir R. BIRNIE—WIIO is he ? What is that man ? , Mr. R oc h e —His name is Corder. We don't want him here. Sir R. BlRtilli-011 ! oh ! Get out, Sir. Turn him out. Mr. Corder—l am the vestry clerk of this parish. Some of the inhabitants are summoned on account of rates, aNd I attend at the request of several pa rishioners. Sir B. BIRNIE—Ha, ha! vestry clerk : Officer, turn that man out. Mr. Corder—l have not interfered in the pro ceedings, although I attend at the request of the parishioners, and I will not leave unless I am forcibly turned out ; and that, Sir, I warn you, you will do at your peril. Sir RICHARD BIRNIE (with great warmth.) — Obey my orders. Turn him out. Mash him out, I say. The officer in attendance then laid hold of Mr. Corder by both arms, and violently thrust him down the steps. Mr. Corder, turning round, " If the public press had been here, you would not have dared, Sir, to have acted thus. (The hearing came on an hour before the ordinary t►me for commencing business.) I shall certainly report it to the Home Secretary." Sir R. BIRNIE-Oh, I'll tell them (the Reporters) myself, the moment they come. In a few minutes, Mr. Corder returned with Mr. Phillips, his solicitor, and addressing the bench said, " This ii my solicitor, he wishes to ask a question." At this moment Sir Richard rang a small bell be hind him violently. Mr. Phillips—l attend, Sir, us Mr. Corder's so licitor, to request of you, in your magisterial capa city, to be furnished w►th the name of the officer who has just violently expelled my client. Sir Then Alto's ring having been answered by an officer, the worthy knight, without waiting to reply to the professional gentleman, exclaimed with great warmth, " Obey my orders—turn both these fellows out ; and when they were near the door, added, with vehemence—" Out with them—out with them." Mr. Corder and his solicitor were then both for cibly expelled the office. The Magistrate alluded, we believe, to an affair sonic months since, in the Vestry-room of St. Paul's, Covent garden, when it was alleged his Worship forced Mr. Dow from the Chair. It seems that the rage for new Universities is not confined to the metropolis. In Yorkshire an Univer sity is seriously contemplated.—Provincial Paper. DREADFUL THUNDER. .STORM.--A tre mendous storm, accompanied with thunder and lightning, commenced here last evening, at eight o'cl o c k, and con tinned u n til t we lve o'clock. The houses in Widcomb, at the bottom of Clavei ton-hill, were inundated by a land flood, to the depth, in some cases, of twelve feet ; and so rapidly, that JAMES MOODY (late a carrier of this paper) and his wife, occupying a lower apartment in Chapel-row, b w y a s t h drowned.—Bath sudden ed leading to the Canal, were drowned in their beds ! Th e n ._ rise v a t c h f soil and trees in several parts of Beechen Cliff h ave b een displaced by the violence of the tempest, and swept i nto thet N he b •a r l o l t e , y k, b a t n c e i a m tl i i rm ; a a n nd na a m t ne We s ton, ru es i ton x , T Chronicle, July 18. A German Paper contains the following strange story :—" Before Mademoiselle HENRIETTA SONTAG had made her appearance a week in London, a lady sought an interview with her, and requested her in the most courteous manner to spend an evening with her as both she and her daughters were devot e dly attached to mus i c, an d par ticularly wished to be able to bear Mademoiselle SONTAG display her distinguished talents. She accepted the invi tation, and on the appointed evening went to the resi dence of the lady, where she found a small circle of about six persons. After some songs she took tea, and was afterwards dismissed with thanks and euloginms. Mad. SONTAG was not disposed to number this among the least agreeable evenings which she bad spent in London, but thedbest was yet to follow. On the following morning Mademoiselle SONTAG received a note from the lady, with renewed expressions ofgratitude, and with a request that Mademoiselle SONTAG would honour her by accepting the inclosed as a small token of it—the small token was a note for LA/. sterling. Mademoiselle SONTAG considered that she could not with propriety accept of such a present, and instantly set out for the residence of the lady, fur the purpose of returning it to her. She then learned that the lady had come up from the country, had been residing at the house only a few days, and had early that morning set out to travel no ene knew where..: EXTRAORDINARY INQUEST. An Inquest, which occupied until ten o'clock laSt night, commenced yesterday afternoon, at five o'clock, before Thomas Higgs, Esq. and a respect able Jury, at the Workhouse, in Portugal-street, St. Clement Danes, to inquire into the death of William Lawrence, aged 45, a bookbinder, who hanged him self in St. Clement's watch-house, where he had been confined upon a charge of a nameless nature, preferred against him by three boys, named Wm. Cropley, John Heron, and John APCormack. Thomas Izlefair, a watchman of St. Clement Danes, about three o'clock that morning was calling the hour in Little Shire-lane, when he heard a call of watch. He turned round, and hastened in the direction of the call, and found the deceased with three boys opposite New-court. One of them, named Cropley, said, " I give charge of this man." M'Cormack said, " Yes, its all right ;" and the third said, 'lam a witness." The deceased seem ed confounded and half drunk, and was in great ter ror and a►arm, and said, " Its false ; its no such thing;" but he did not make any charge against the boys. He, however, said he was under Covent garden Piazzas with some females when they ac costed him. He was locked up on this charge. At ten o'clock yesterday morning, the witness came to the watch-house to take him to Bow-street, and found him hanging by a yellow handkerchief, quite dead. Mr. Samuel M`Dougal, of No. 33, Stanhope street, proved that the deceased lodged for the last 13 years in his house. lie was a very honest wor thy man, but was addicted to drinking, and when in liquor, in witness's opinion, he was completely insane. Juror—Was he a man of proper conversation Witness—Very much so. He was a man of very superior acquirements, and well read. William Ingrain, a constable, stated, that the de ceased was brought into the watch-house about three o'clock, charged by two boys, and another as witness. Mr. Clarke—Before be was charged, did you ask him his name or residence ? Witness—l did both, and he answered me directly. He appeared con founded, and said, " I know what will be the con sequence; if I . go before a Magistrate I am a ruined man." . Witness said, " This is a shocking charge." He replied, "Oh yes, I am innocent of it," and burst into tears. Witness asked him why he went with the boys. He said, " I met with the boys in the street ; but what they say is false." Witness then asked him why he gave them money. He said " I thought they were cold." Witness said, one of the boys said he had received two-pence halfpenny, and the other fourpence tiree-farthings. The de ceased said, "I gave them some halfpence." The witness told him he must take the charge before a Magistrate. A Juror here declared the deceased had been most disgracefully treated ; he had been foully accused by three thieves, and then was left in a state of the most horrible anxiety of mind to commit suicide. A person said it would be proved the boys were of extreme bad character. A gentleman who had Icnown the accused ten years considered him a man incapable of such conduct. The depositions before the Magistrate of the boys, Cropley, M'Cotmack, and Heron, were here read. . Cropley was here produced. He was in a most ragged condition, has no place of abode, or residence whatever. He commenced his statement by saying he had met the deceased at half-past ten o'clock, in Covent-garden Market—(Mr. Higdon proved the deceased was in his house taking his supper at that time.) Cropley was most rigidly examined by the .Jurors, and his answers left not the slightest doubt but his statement, as regarded the unfortunate man was false in every particular. Mr. Clarke to Cropley—Were you ever at the bar of the Old Bailey ? Cropley--Yes ; I have been there. Mr. Clarke—What for ? Cropley--For bacon. Mr. Clarke--What was your sentence ? Cropley --Sevenyears. Mr. Clarke--How is it that you have not passed that sentence ? Cropley—My father got me off. Mr. Clarke—Were you ever flogged in gaol ? Cropley—Yes ; for the same thing- Mr. Clarke—How often? ; but it was for the same thing. Mr. Clarke---110 you know this man ? (Wheat ley, the officer.) Cropley—No, Ido not. Wheatley—Why, you young scoundrel, you know me well enough. Cropley--1 don't, so help me God. John APCormack, the second boy, then detailed his deposition. He admitted that he had run away from a collier. He positively, denied having hatched up the charge against the deceased; but admitted he was acquainted with the boy Cropley. The de ceased, he said, was drunk. John Heron, the other boy, was next called. Being a Roman Catholic, he was put to a most extraordinary test upon being sworn; he was made to kiss a wooden cross on a desk, in addition to kissing the Bible, and then obliged to bless himself with the sign of the cross. This being done, a Juror (a butcher) observed, with g reat satisfaction, " Oh, its necessary, because he's a cross cove." This boy turned out, on a lengthy cross-examina tion, to be as little worthy of belief as his obdurate companions, and grossly exaggerated and contra dicted the others in many parts of his statement. After a discussion of great length— The ConoriErt charged the Jury upon the evi dence, and pointed out the admission of Cropley that he was a villain, therefore his evidence could not be received as at all worthy of belief in any respect. It was clear that the unfortunate deceased had de stroyed himself in a state of agony of mind produced by this charge, which he knew would blast his repu tation for ever. It would be the province of the Jury to come to a proper conclusion. g h a im ve se t l h f e infollowing a state of o The Jury-room w as th en c l eare d o f strangers, and verdictf. temporary The insa n deceasediafter a deliberation, w hi c h l aste d a considerable time, hanged The three b o y s are i n custo dy. t It is said that another explosion took place at the Tunbridge Powder Mills on Thursday morning last about five o'clock, and though the building (containing only about 421bs. of powder) was completely shattered, no lives were lost.—Brighton Gazette. As a proof of extraordinary instinct, it has been remarked of the hen ostrich that she will roll a few eggs some distance from the nest, and crack the shells; these, by the time her young come forth, being filled with mag g ots and other insects, form the first repast of her infant brood. ANECDOTE.—Not long ago, an h o n es t Gal se piety is more to be commended than hi s poetry, n the widow of ROBERT BURNS, and was intol‘looied whose piety comfortable little parlour in which wer e plueineltendrreiyeain those inimitable lyrics that promise to live as long as our language endures. A lengthened and dreary pause subscribing . , t e 1 % d ina prospectus the BURNS, u visits sNi ts; andof whoread the s n i is i used ens ued, broken on l y by the usual common-place remarks o n the weather , when the man, as if ashamed to sit longer silent, his forthcoming drew business from pocket volume ol aun pirein the names of a number of i n di v id ua l s w h o h a d agree d to patronise and wandering author s , requeste d t h at h er name might be added to the list, an d aga i n a ll was s il ent as th e g rave. At to the length the stranger, after repeatedly fixing his eyes, first on the ceiling and then on the carpet, stammered out, " Mem, did your husband repent on his death-bed o' the mony heavy sins he committed ?" Mrs. BURNS looked at the man with surprise, as if doubting whether he were in his solid senses, and hinted " more in s orrow than in angs t ' , that she was not accustomed to be asked any such imperti nent questions. This was what is called a damper, and if there be any truth in physiognomy, his hardship evidently felt it as such. Still lie was not to be driven from his pur pose ; fo r , on seizing his hat and rising to go away, he re turned to the charge in the following sbape— , 4 I own, Mem, I admire sonic o' your husband's poems, but there's ithers o' them I dinna like ava." " Awed," said the widow, as she saw the bardling out of the door, "take care that the public dinna say the same or maybe something waur a' y0ur5."....-Dumfries Courier. BIRTHS. On the 10th inst., in Portland-place, Lady Jane Peel' of twinm. On the 9th inst., in Gower-street, the lady of George Gregory, Esq., of a daughter. On the 9th inst., in Lower Perkeley-street, the lady of Edmund Charles Macnaghten, Esq., of a son. On the Sth inst., in Upper George-street, the lady of Major White, of the Hon. East India Company's Service/ of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 10th inst., at Westerham, by the Rev. Richard Board, B. L., Vicar, Alexander David Inglis, Esq., eldei son of David Dcas Inglis, Esq., of Maiden Park, Surrey, to Cecilia Wolseley, eldest daughter; and OR the same Jar , John Jones, Esq., of Portland-place, London, and of Deri,' Ormond, Cardiganshire, to Charlotte Elizabeth. @moo' daughter of Thomas Jesson, Esq., of Still Park, Wester , ba , n, Kent. On the 9th inst., at Ragland, in Monmouthshire , Michael William Hansby, Esq., to Mary Anne, eldes t daughter of George Sharp, Esq., late of Camberwell. On the 10th inst., at Bishopsgate Church, James Cor' rie, Esq., of Finchley, M.D., surgeon, to Rebecca, daughte r o f t h e n ee . John Humphrys, LL.D., of Spital-sqnare. On the 10th inst., at Woodford Church, by the Re''' H. W. Rolls Birch, Henry, eldest SOR of Robert BinglaY , R eq ., of the Royal Mint, to Hannah, third daughter of tbe i late Daniel Mildred, Esq., o f Woodford, in the county °' Essex. DIED. On the Ist inst., at Rothesay, Isle of Bute, Miss Cate line Engelhart. On the 17th of May last, on board his Majesty's pack the Duke of York, on her way bone from Jamaica, Excellency Sir Ralph James Woodford, Bart., Govero o ' of Trinidad, deeply_ and u niversally lamented. Onbietosbtehrt Slack, inst. inst., at house, Ardwick-green, Ma o ' Chester, On the 9th inst., at the Rectory, Mary, wife of the Re John Mnissop, reetor of Hothficld, Kent. On the .nth inst., at his chambers in the Albany, Cle ment Cartwright, Esq., aged 65. On the sth inst., Richard Curtis, Esq., of Clarendo°' street, Oxford, aged 85 years. 0 11 On the Bth inst. , at Woodhall, near Leeds, Joe' Tbackrab, Esq., in the 65th Year of his age. the On the 10th inst., at her house in St. James's-park , Dowager Countess of Suffolk. On the 3d inst., in Bermondsey, Mr. John JilltlCS Ie111” aged 60. PRINTED and Puousunn by '5l. YOUNG, at the SUN 01' No. 112, Strand, 4.,uncion. EDITC ACA. the e au nty carefully In Lan guages, bran c h es of nse of the , a tlY Cloatl other neeess P ar ticulars, a ti°n respect; to Ife, C ook non, Dtuoda Mr, 3 op, r oad, near '1 lett 'a-hu ildini Mr, ch ap= b ° ,l 4 from 'I A SYLI Fur Foreign ( AI Witli three 41 The H Colonel LUS Pouter Rey William P John Kym Pranei4 K 1 C• W. Hal Geo )t, tuca Conlithing Su (Aver Rat for Foreign al „EAST I _, - all - .V• 7 • , ! 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East Retford Freemen Bill—Second reading. 3. Roman Catholic Land Tax Bill—Third reading. 4. Leith Harbour Bill—Second reading. 5. Superannuation Allowances Bill—Second reading. 6. Liverpool Road Bill—Third reading. 7. General Turnpike Bill—Second reading. S. Bombay Marine Bill—Report. 9. Lunatic Estates Bill—Committee. 10. Pilotage Bill—Third reading. 11. Customs Bill—Report. 12. Customs Acts (Duties on Sugar) Postponed Resolu tion—Report thereupow. 13. Supply—Committee. 14. Ways and Means—Committee. 15. Beer Bill—Third reading. 16. Night Poaching Prevention Bill—Third reading. 17. Small Debts Bill—Committee. 18. National Debt Act—Committee thereupon. 19. Welland- Canal (Advance of Money)—Committee thereupon. 20. Military and Naval Pensions Bill—Second reading. NOTICES OF MOTIONS FOR. THIS DAT. I. Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer—To move Exche quer Bills and Surplus Consolidated Fund, and thy Budget. (In Committee of Ways and Means.) Mr. Estcourt—To repeal Standing Orders for fixing Notices on Sessions House Doors. 3. Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer—Bill to continue, for a time to be limited, an Act passed in the sixth year of his present Majesty, respecting deserted chil dren in Ireland. NOTICES GIVEN TESTERDAY. Monday, July 14. Sir James Mackintosh—Petition from certain Merchants of London, aggrieved to the amount of 3,000,000/. by breach of a Convention on the part of Spain. Nest Session. Mr. Stewart—Motion for Papers connected with the ad ministration of affairs in the Deccan. EXTRACT FROM RECOLLECTIONS OF A SERVICE IN COLOMBIA. While General Morillo and his forces re mained at Margarita the last time, Mad. Aris mendez, a very beautiful and interesting woman, the second wife of the General, then far advanced in pregnancy, while bathing at night* in the riv©r winch runs through La Ciudad, was captured by a detachment of the Spanish army, and car ried to head-quarters. Arismendez vowed a ten-fold vengeance when he ascertained his loss; and immediately sallied forth with a numerous body of men, at the head of whom he attacked the enemy, slew a great number of them, and took a Colonel and 160 soldiers prisoners.-- This Colonel, who was reputed the best officer in Morillo's army, and was that leader's great favourite, had proved himself the most merciless destroyer of the Margaritanians, which being known to Arismendez, the latter had been for a long time endeavouring to capture him ; and having now succeeded, his doom was instantly fixed. When - Morillo received intelligence of this disaster from the few who had escaped (as a Spaniard would have been killed by the piques before he could have reached the infbriated Ge neral), he d es p a t c hed a little native boy, one of his prisoners, with a note, proposing to restore Madame Arismendez if his officer were sent back. unhurt ; and declaring that she should be put to death if he were not. The soldiers had al ready been slain when the note arrived ; to which General Arismendez composed an answer, con formably to the following translation Gen. Arismendez wars not with women, but against the Spaniards, the enemies of his country, a nd the disgrace distill= nature. General Morillo may act as he pleases towards the wife of Aris mendez : dear as she is to him, he holds the safety of his country dearer; and before the bearer of this sets out on his return, the monster whose hands have been so often steeped in the blood of its unotfending inhabitants will be dead." The above letter having been written, the two sons of Arismendez drew lots to deter mule which should execute the prisoner. Chance. decided for the youngest, who separated the officer's head from his body with a machetti, in the presence of the boy messenger, who was then sent back to his employer. On receiving the answer of Arismendez, Morillo was on the point of putting his fair captive to death, when some of his officers, moved by her pitiable situation and tears, diverted him front his purpose, and she was sent prisoner to Spain, and confined in the fortreSs of Cadiz. 'non' this place, after an imprisonment of a few days only, she contrived to escape in the habit of 3 seaman ; and as she spoke the Spanish language equal to a native, she managed to get on board a merchant vessel in that capacity, which was Just about to sail. This vessel was soon after captured by a Venezuelan privateer, off the Western Islands ; and in it, as a prize, she now sailed in triumph to her husband. When she landed at Margarita, all the females of the Island assembled on the beach to receive her, and strewed, the path from the shore to the General's house, upwards of four miles, with flowers. A car was also constructed, in which she was drawn to her home, within view of the Spaniards, who could witness the procession from their posts. A prevalent Custom among the ladies of South Algeria'