The Sun. — London, England, 1841-05-24 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION HUNGARIAN ROBBERS. In the midst of the steepest heights of the Krapach mountains, accessible but to the eagle, the roe-buck, and the mountaineer, has dwelt from time immemorial a mountain-tribe called the Opreychki. This tribe, in point of fact, is a mere band of robbers, living entirely at the ex peAse of travellers, and of the neighbouring countries, into which they make frequent incur sions. The Oprychki are all vigorous moun taineers born it the Krapachs, and are armed with small hatchets, cutlasses, guns, and espe cially pistols; of these last many of them wear no less than four pair in their belt. The organization of these banditti is quite mi litary; they blindly obey their Chief, and the least act of insubordination is punished with death. The Chief divides the booty, and settles all dis putes. Hungary, Gallicia, and Transylvania, are the principal theatres of their incursions, and woe betide the travellers who fall into their hands. The Oprychki are nevertheless jovial fellows, ready to do a service, very hospitable, and capable ,of great devotedness; but they are very cruel in their revenge, and recoil from no crime in attaining it. For some years back the Oprychki had been 'commanded by Alexis Djuk, whose energetic courage and prompt resolves had spread dismay throughout the adjacent districts. The authori ties of Hungary, Gallicia, and Transylvania had long malted their efforts, but in vain, to destroy DjuVe band, which consisted of from 400 to'soo Atfix a Considerable forces have been sent against nd, which, however, took care not to come to a pitched engagement, and carried on with sucetss a species of guerilla warfare. At length, 'by dieta perseverance, the Austrian Govern ment succeeded, last January, in arresting 26 of these banditti, and their trial took place on the 27th of Februarybefore the Criminal Tribunal of Peteravaradin. . The aspect of the Court, on this occasion, was highlypicturesqueandinteresting. The walls were covered with the olden portraits of the Kings of Hungary and Transylvania. Around an immense table, covered with black cloth, were seated 12 Judges and a President, wearing long floating scarlet mantles over their Hunga rian costume, and having on their heads the doctoral cap. Behind the President sat the impe rial Attorney-General attended by two deputies, and six lawyers, all in black gowns. Another table was occupied by the two clerks of the Court, while six heralds or judicial criers stood betwixt the tribunal and the bench of witnesses. The prisoners' bench was filled by the twenty-six Oprychki guarded by a detachment of pikemen, while the issues of the Court were occupied by three battalions of Hungarian infantry. Close to the witnesses' box was a stool, near which was seated a priest in his sacerdotal robes, for the purpose of administering oaths to each individual who comes forward to give evidence. The auditory consisted of gentlemen and ladies, admittance having been denied to tradesmen and peasants, lest some of the Oprychki might ven ture into the Court in disguise, to endeavour to rescue their captive associates. The first witness called in was a bel-esprit, an ex-hussar of Schekler's regiment, acting as steward to the Lord Kyraby (owner of the village of Hamka), when the poetical fit was not on him. '1 his singular personage expressed himselfthus " It was in the middle of the night of the 4th of October, with your permission, Illustrious Lords, the Noble Lady Kyraby was in the pangs of child-birth, and I was reposing after the toils of the day, when a servant came to tell me that the Lord Kyraby wanted me. I hastened to obey, and on entering the court I saw with surprise my noble master's carriage and eight arge waggons, horsed, and ready f)r starting. Baring been introduced into the bed-room of my noble mistress, I heard that noble lady say to her husband, while tears flowed down her beau tiful cheeks, You are determined on going-, Andrew ?" I must,' replied my Lord, it is our Fully chance of safety, for they are going to come, and if they found me, God knows what the consequence would be. In my ab benee, I am sure, you will receive no insult, pro vided they be received without hostility, and I have given necessary orders to that effect.' His Lord :thip then turned towards me, and added, Djuk and his followers will soon be here. I order you I.ct receive them, and to refuse them nothing.' This said, the Lord Kyraby got into his carriage and drove off towards Korol Bator, accompanied by the eight waggons, pnd a part of his servants. _His Lordship had not been gone an hour when w 9 heard a hissing noise. They are coming,' said a sisevant, who knew their signal. At that very moment, sixty Oprychki entered the main court. I vent instantly to meet them, and ap proaching their chief, Alexis Djuk, I saluted him respectfully, by touching his knee with my left land, as is usual towards persons of distinction. Lie appeared satisfied by this mark of deference, and ordering his men to remain in the court, he entered the castle, holding a pistol in each hand, rind saying as he ascended the flight of steps, ' Woe betide you if you have here a single schla pack' (this word means hack, and is ' a term usually applied to the Austrian soldiers). He hastily visited the lower story, and seeing the table of the vast dining-room well spread with eatables and drink, he called in his men. They all ate with good appetite, after which Djuk, caking from his cap a string on which were Ftrung a great many ducats, gave some of them to the maid servant, who had served him as cup bearer during the repast. In the meantime the noble Lady Kyraby had given birth to a male .child, and Djuk, hearing the cries of the babe Yrom the dining-hall, went into her Ladyship's 'bed-room, and taking the infant into his a rms with great care, said—' Madame, you have no thing to fear, either from me or my men. Per mit me to solicit a favour—it is to call this child Alexis, in remembrance of me.' H er l a dy s hi p promised that the child should bear the name of the chief, and the band departed, without carry ing off a single article." .The Lady Kyraby confirmed the preceding statement, and added that the child had been called Alexis, as she had promised the leader of the Oprychki. The Lord Kyraby deposed, that one evening as he was returning from visiting a friend, lie was accosted by a man on the high-road, who said, " Alexis Djuk and his companions will visit you to-night; mind you receive them well." The President addressed some remarks to the witness on his pusillanimity, but he was inter irupted by the prisoners, who exclaimed with one voice, " He would do well to go; Übe had re mained, he would not have been alive now." The savage shouts, the menacing looks and gestures which accompanied the words, made a deep impression on the Lord Kyraby, an old and brave captain in the Ausirian army; the old vete tan fainted, and was carried out of Court. The next witness called was a venerable priest called Philarete, attached to the ch urc h of St: Nicholas, situated on a steep rock, half a leag ue distant from Bolsche, a village bel o nginf to the e Lord Ravitchak, formerly a major in the iuzzars of Djulaj. The priest deposed as follows :- -" On the 15th of July I was returning from the Lord Ravitchak's, when I was accost e d b y a -man, who said, ' Alexis D j uk orders y ou to pre pare supper for him and thirty of his comrades.' 'When I reached home, I ordered the supper to be prepared, but at the same time I took care to inform the Lord Ravitchak, wile came with fifty buzzers and concealed himself in the environs of "Old ehore,li. An hour had not elapsed ere an im mense 412.aue was discovered in the direction of RoloseLe, castle is on fire,' exclaimed the -Cord Ravitcliak, and he started immediately with ail Ws mei), leaving me alone. At midnight Djuk arri-ved With his thirty followers. They supped famonslv, and withdrew, after having completely pillaged my house, putting a ducat into my hand, and telling me ironically to pray Vor the Oprychki who had been slain in the fight." Lieut. Rouhka deposed—lwas guarding, with s;x men, the castle of m y cousin Ravitchak, and 'cent up to a belveder to try and see what was t:. o 4ng on in the direction of the church, when I I;eheld a b an d o f O prychk i a d vanc i ng with blazing torches in their hands. I hurried down to place myself at th e h ea d o f my men , but was i.itortunately wounded at the first fire of the as sailants, and with great difficulty succeeded in taking refuge in the brushwood, whence I saw the ( aatle in flames. The Lord Ravitchak then came forward, and deposed to the following effect, mixing every phrase with a military oath to !give it greater weight, " Damn it," said I to myself, "shall I, who was not afraid of those devils of Frenchmen when led .on by Napoleon, recoil from a robber? Will hang him up before the windows of my Led-room, to teach him that bears are more ter 'ible than the Oprychki. You must know that hears form part of my family arms. I was con t3equently lying in ambush near the church of St. Nicholas, when I suddenly beheld my castle &i prey to flames. I soon hastened to the spot, iad securing my wife and children, allowed the t-astle to burn, in order to hasten after the rob beti. The rascals were supping at the Reverend Phelante's, while I was seekin.,7 them Alsewhere. Nevertheless, I swore that I would use my name of Ravitchak, or I would extermi ate the villains who had reduced my castle to r.ehes—but I have I%)pe enough left to hang them :;.;l. Knowing that the Jew, Abraham Lenoir, often somethin g to do with Djuk, I called 1,4 . .111m, and took him by his weak side—givir.sg 1 . , in money, and promising him more. I then learned that Djuk had a mistress, called Martha Marabak, living at Tijak, about half a league from the church of St. Nicholas, to which church her husband was attached, and that Djuk always visited her on Saturday night when her husband had left home to be ready next morning for his occupation at St. Nicholas. Having assembled sixty hussars, and forty peasants, and placed them both under the command of Djebaka, steward to the Lord Kyraby, I went to Irjak early on Saturday morning. We seized Martha and her husband; the latter on learning the in fidelity of his wife swore revenge, and promised to help us against the Oprychki. Convinced of his determination, I gave him a pair of pistols, which he loaded with silver bullets, assuring us that Djuk belonged to the devil, and that leaden bullets would not harm him. Our men being properly placed round the house, we waited—but, my Lords, the steward Djebaka had better tellyou the rest—he saw all that took place, and can ex , press himself better than I." The steward consequently came forward and spoke as follows :—The commandant and twelve men were concealed in the house with Marabek and his wife. Every part was carefully closed, with the exception of a window, near which Martha was placed, after having previously threatened her with the most dreadful punish ment if she made any sign to Djuk of the recep tion which awaited him. For my part, I went and hid myself behind a hedge. As soon as the sun went down, I heard several whistlings, and soon after heard Djuk's voice at a short distance, saying, " Here, my brave fellows, load your guns with two balls, and watch over me. We are going to pay a visit to the pretty Martha Marabek." When they were close to the house, Djuk said, "Remain here—l enter alone." He then approached the window, and said, " Good night, Martha—good night. Is supper ready? Martha, are you asleep ? why don't you answer your beloved Djuk?" Martha replied, with a trembling voice, 'I am not asleep, but I cannot receive a robber into my house." 4 lf you will not open the door I will force it open ;" and., suiting the acition to the word, he gave it a vio lent push, and the fastening gave way. A shot was immediately heard, and Djuk fell into the arms of two of his companions, who at the sound of the gun had run to his assistance. The whole of the band then came out from their place of ambush, and a desperate combat ensued, which ended in the capture of thirty-six of the brigands. Marabeck, on being called on for his evidence, declared that he felt no resentment against his wife, because Djuk was not a man but a demon. "It was I," he said, " who fired on him, but I certainly should not have killed him if I had not taken the precaution to put into my pistol a silver ball, which had been blessed by the reverend priest of St. Nicholas." Martha was afterwards called in. She was a woman of a most prepossessing beauty. Shecon fessed, with a blush on her cheek and a downcast look, that six days after her marriage she met Djuk in the forest, where she had been to gather a bouquet of wild flowers. She was then only 17 years of age, she was now 22, and, during these five years Djuk every Saturday night came to visit her. She added, in a timid voice, but still with an accent of firmness, that, if she could have cautioned her lover of the trap which was laid for him, she should not have failed to have done it. She retired, endeavouring to restrain her tears, which, in spite of her efforts, might be seen forcing their way through her black eye lashes. Marabeck, her husband, was perfectly unmoved. The examination of the witnesses being finished, The President questioned the prisoners, and demanded of them who were their accomplices. Their answers were to the same effect—" Our companions, our brethren, are in safety, in a place where none has ever penetrated save eagles, goats, and hardy and intrepid moun taineers." " You are very guilty," interrupted the Presi dent, " you might, however, gain the clemency of your judges by frank and unreserved confes sions." " No! take our lives; the Oprychki have an nclination to be silent—a neck for the hang man." A number of other questions addressed to them by the President were unanswered by them, and the jury immediately declared the 36 prisoners guilty. Four of them, Jean Goula, Ebenna Skiliba, Marie Doik, and Stanislas Sava, four lieutenants of Djuk, were sentenced to be hanged, and the other 32 to hard labour at the hulks tbr life. No sooner had the officer whose duty it was to read the sentence finished that ceremony, than the whole of the prisoners, with a spontaneous movement, commenced singing one of their beautiful mountain chorusses, which made the very walls of the Court echo. They were then re-conducted to prison. DR, LUSHINGTON'S WEST INDIA ESTATE. We are given to understand that Dr. Lush. ngton, though he has published no contradie tion to our statement " that he is the owner of an estate in Jamaica," denies that to his friends and acquaintance. We must, therefore, now state, that we had the statement from unquestionable authority, and that if the estate be not his, he is very unfortunate in having the reputation of ownership, without the profit, for it is generally believed in Jamaica to be his. It is situated in the parish of Clarendon, and a person engaged on the estate, writing home to his mother, says, " I have got an employment on the estate be longing to the celebrated Dr. Lushington, of London." He then mentions his salary, and all the particulars, with which neither we nor the public have any concern ; but his mode of de scribing the proprietor of the estate as the cele brated Dr. Lushington, of London, leaves no doubt whatever as to the individual he means, nor as to his thorough and complete belief, by what means produced we cannot say, if his mas ter and the proprietor of the estate be not Dr. Lushington. The letter which we have seen is a family letter ; it has no reference whatever to anything but family matters, and is such a letter as a young man, glad of a certain degree of success, would write to his friends. If Dr. Lushington deny the ownership :n private, it is the more incum bent on us to state our authority, and require him to give it a public contradiction. THE FREE-TRADE CRISIS. (From the Derbyshire Chronicle.) Rights of sugar, rights of coffee, rights of timber, rights of corn, all manner of rights we hear of except rights of man. But yet it strikes us, that amidst their profound regard for all sorts of rights, the T or i es m i g h t have felt a little regard for these. In pity also they are not deficient, compassionating the usurers of the West and East Indies, the monopolists of Montreal, and the negroes of Demerara, who live upon such bad fare as roast fowls, bottled porter, and Champagne ; and yet they have no pity for Englishmen, driven to live upon carrion. Their regard for our safety, too, is most sen sitive. The colonies are in danger, the farmers are in danger, the aristocracy are in danger, the Chureh—(we never remember a time when she was not in danger)—all are taken into the careful consideration of the Tories (worthy souls !) except the danger of general starvation and ruin. (From the Western Times.) The monopOlists started with the cry of humanity. The old slavemongers ; the men who resisted negro emancipation at every stage, who yielded not till they obtain e d t wenty m i ll i ons of our hard-earned gold, and even then tried to defraud us of the bond—we all remem ber the meeting held in this city to expose and resist their abuse of the negro apprentice—these jobbers in hu man flesh, the owners of the blood, and bones, and sinews of their fellow-men —ar e all at once seized with the ten derest concern for the poor negro, and they desire to promote the " great experiment" of emancipation ! even though they only get twopence per pound over and above the fair market prioe for every pound of sugar which they grow by this great experiment. The hypo crites! how dare they show their faces before the people of this country ! They have denied the negro a human soul—they have rioted amidst the fruits of labour ex torted from him by the lash and the goad—they have disregarded every natural tie of affection, buying and selling husband from wife, and child fr om parent and when the nation would no longer submit to this hellish system, and generously came forward with its gold, heaped and piled up in such a mass as to be the wonder and astonishment of the age--these men, thus convinced, yield to the impulse--they receive the gold, and become " emancipists ! Only give them a few millions more in the shape of a grinding monopoly, and they will con sent to carry on the " great experiment " of emancipa tion ! Was ever such a combination of greed and im pudence I It is barely possible to hear the case stated with patience, much less to prostrate the reason to argue with them. But it is not only the West Indian who fibres in this memorable debate. All others who live by b monopoly, or have vested interests to protect at the expense of the people, join them in the cry—that the great work of emancipation shall be fairly carried out. Why, who ever heard a Tory cry out against slavery be the nation abolished it ? Who stood by slavery till the horrid system was actually struck down by the indie•- nant people of this country ? The Tories. One and all, individually and collectively, they rivetted the fet ters of the slave. (From the Coventry Herald.) The question whether the Corn-law is an evil or a good, wants no discussion ; and the printing of the peti tion, and its circulatiOn among the inhabitants of Coventry, previous to laying it open at the hall for signatures, leaves the opponents of the undertaking without any pretext for saying there was any desire to obtain sig natures under false colours. Let the emissaries of the aristocrats we have before a 'tided to, who are, and have been prowling about all over he country with pocket pe titions, do the same if they Luc. Let them leave it to the free will and, choice of the poor creatures whom they PH E SUN, lead, drive, and cheat, under all manner of pretences, to sign petitions in favour of the Corn-laws, and the petitions would be little more than blank sheets of paper. If, how ever, those admirers of the Corn-law, who say it works well, and who taunt the repealers with not calling a public meeting—if these gentlemen want a public meet ing, we invite them, and we venture to do so in the name of the Anti-Bread Tax Association. We invite them— we challenge them to call a public meeting to petition in favour of the continuance of the Corn-law. There is plenty of time yet. The Duke of Buckingham, Stanley, Wellington, Peel, Sir E. Knatchbull, and other crack men, are all before them, with place in view. We, there fore, beg and pray of those who approve of the Corn-law —who say it works well, and who are diSsatisfied at not having had a public meeting—we entreat them to con vene. one to petition in support of the Corn-law. Let them try the tight coat of monopoly on, and see if it does not rip in the fitting. (From the Leicester Mercury.) There is no time to be lost. The Government measure—though far short of our standard—would pro duce great practical benefit. Repeal will not be carried at once. But, if we would obtain anything, we must ask for all. It is politic, as well as dignified and con sistent, to maintain the high ground of total and imme diate repeal. With a rapidly-declining . commerce, with a starving population—with woe and misery before us— these are no times for compromise. Let us attack the monopolists in their entrenchments—let us dispute with them, inch by inch, the ground they occupy. Let us shake off, once and for ever, the iron yoke of a tyrant aristocracy. (From the Staffordshire Examiner.) In point of argument, the monopolists cut a most des picable figure throughout. The pretext of humanity was so torn from them, that all hope of deceiving the people was destroyed. The grand disappointment to the mono polists, however, is the course her Majesty's Ministers have determined upon pursuing, with regard to the divi sion. The Government has wisely resolved not to allow the grand feature of the Budget—the Anti- Corn-law project--to be shirked by this event. They are determined not to dissolve Parliament until the Corn-question has been discussed. There is now an interval of ten days before the Corn laws will be broached : this interval should be actively employed in preparing and forwarding petitions expres sive of the national feeling on the subject. If we mis take not the signs of the times, too, the opportunity will not be lost. A continuation of the activity, which has already exhibited itself from one end of the kingdom to the other, for another fortnight, will suffice to furnish an overwhelming and irresistible demonstration of the will of the nation. (From the Hull Advertiser.) Great as is the enthusiasm against the Corn-laws ir England, it is much surpassed by the feeling which exists in Scotland. There is scarcely a town or district of the least importance that has not petitioned, prepared to petition, or taken other measures to accomplish the over throw of the landlord's monopoly. In addition to the immense number of petitions already presented to the Legislature from Scotland, many, very many, have been forwarded within the past week. (From the Dublin Evening Post.). As we anticipated all along, there will be a dissolu tion, but not, we think, immediately. The Tories have been too cunning for themselves. The Holy Alliance of the slave-owners (virtually so)—and the saints (so hy pothetically)—of the timber merchants and bread-taxers, have been, we admit, too much for Ministers ; but the character of the discussion, spread over the unprece dented space of eight days, has proved fatal to the com bination. That debate goes to the country, and • the country gentlemen who figured therein will have to ap peal in person in the course of a very short time. That the country will respond to this appeal in the spirit ir which it will have been made we entertain no manner c doubt. In Ireland we shall certainly add to our numberr We shall win back Carlow, Kinsale, and Newry. AV shall emancipate Bandon, and. in our opinion, founde, by no means on light grounds, we shall turn Emersoi. Tennent out of Belfast. But we need not, indeed we cannot at present, go into any particulars. We were never better prepared, and we may just add, for the sa tisfaction of the Orangemen and all concerned, that it iF the intention of the Irish Liberals to appeal to most of the constituencies in this part of the United Kingdom. FASHIONABLE INTE LLIGENCE ARRIVALS. The Duke of Rutland and Lady Adeliza Manners, in Bolton street, from a visit to the Earl and Countess of Verulam, at Gorhambury, Herts ; the Hon. R. Law, at Mivart's Hotel, Brook-street, from a tour ; the Hon. Stafford and Mrs. Jer ningham, at ditto, from the seat of Lord Stafford, in Norfolk ; Lady Shelley and Misses Shelley, at ditto, from Field-place their seat in Sussex; Mr. and Misses Holbeck, at at, ditto, from their seat in Oxfordshire ; Lord and Lady Rodney, and Sir Charles Morgan, Bart. , in Pall-mall, from Arlesford House, Hants ; Sir John Beckett, in Strafford-place, from Brighton ; Lady Beresford, in Portland-place, from the Continent; Sir Fleetwood and Lady Pellew, in Grafton street, from Paris ; Lord and Lady Thomas Cecil, in Eaton place, from Burleigh. House, near Stamford; the Earl o' Stradbroke, from his seat in Suff ,lk ; the Marquis of Salis bury, in Arlington-street, from Hatfield House; the Countess of Beauchamp, in Portman-square, from Sussex ; Sir George Talbot, Bart., and Misses Talbot, at Mivart's Hotel, from Leamington Spa; Mr. A. S. Douglas, at ditto, from Has tings ; Mr. and Mrs. Severn, at ditto, from Wales ; Mr. R. Pulsford, at ditto, from a tour in the United States ; Captain Twinlow, at ditto, from a tour ; Mrs. and Miss Vialls, at ditto. from a tour ; the Countess of Mountnorris, from a visit to Vis countess Valentia, at Brighton ; the Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter, in Grosvenor-square, from Burghley House, near Stamford, Lincolnshire ; Lord Walpole, in Grafton-street, from Paris ; Lord and Lady De Saumarez, from Cheltenham ; Lord and Lady Rivers, in Belgrave-square, from Brighton ; the Right Hon. Lord Viscount and Viscountess Dillon, at the Waterloo Hotel, Jermyn-street ; Captain John Vivian and Lady, at ditto, from Hampton Court. DEPARTURES. The Earl of Yarborough, from Arlington-street, from Brocklesby, his seat in Lincolnshire ; Sir Francis and Lady Lawley, from Grosvenor-square, for Brighton; the Rev. Ver non Harcourt and family from Mivart's Hotel, for West Dean House, near Midhurst, Sussex ; Mr. G. O'Moore, from ditto, for his seat in Ireland; Sir Thomas and Lady Whichcote, from ditto, for their seat in Lincolnshire ; Mr. J. Y. Burges, from ditto, for Lymington Spa; Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, Bart, M.P., from the Waterloo Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Ms seat, Killerton, Exeter. - CHANGES. Sir Wm. Ingilby, Bart., on a tour in Germany, from his seat in Lincolnshire ; Viscount and Viscountess Haberton, at Malvern Wells, from Cheltenham; the Earl of Donoughmore, at Dublin, from Knocklofty House, Clcnmell ; the Earl and Countess of Carnwarth, at Tonbridge-wells, from Brighton. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. CAMBRIDGE, MAY 22.—THE CHANCELLOR'S MEDAL. —On Wednesday last the Chancellor's gold medal for the best English poem was adjudged to John Charles Conybeare, of St. Peter's College. Subject—" The Death of the Marquis Camden." The author of the Exercise, with the motto " Non lugendam esse mortem quam immor talitas consequatur," is requested to call upon the Vice- Chancellor. INSTALLATION.—It is very confidently stated that his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge and his Grace the Duke of Wellington will ba among the distinguished company who will honour the installation of the Chan cellor with their presence next July. The Rev. Sutcliffe Sowden, 8.A., of Magdalen Col lege, in this University, has been presented to the perpe tual curacy of Mytholm, in the parish of Halifax. The Governors of Oakham School, at their late audit, were pleased to elect Mr. Thomas Field, of St. John's College, and Mr. John Lynes, of Christ's College, in this University, to two exhibitions of 401. a year engh,„ In the medical examination at Gonville and Caius Col lege, held on Thursday, May 13, the first place was ob tained by W. Wegg. The Rev. J. G. Cumming, M.A., of Emanuel College in this University, and Senior Classical and Mathemati cal Master in the West Riding of Yorkshire Proprietary School, has been appointed to be Vice-Principal of King William's College, in the Isle of Man. AN AMERICAN DOCTOft.—James Woodward, a somewhat notorious character, who went by the name of the " Negro Doctor," died a few days ago at Cincinnati. He was singularly successful in his empiricism, and had amassed a handsome property. His pretended manner of discovering the diagnosis of disease was by having the finger of the patient dipped in water, which was then inspected by him, and, it mattered little whether he saw the patient or not, he imme diately prescribed for him.—Philadelphia Ledger. It is a remarkable and awful circumstance that within a fortnight the hand of Providence visited with sudden or violent death the four following landowners, all extensive proprietors of land in the neighbourhood of Weymouth, and whose properties were consecutively ad joining each other, viz., Sir F. G. Johnstone, Bart. ; Isaac Sparks, Esq. (Laugton Herring); the Rev. George Gould (Fleet) ; and Joseph Hardy, Esq. (Portesham.)— Dorset Chronicle. CORSHAM.—We are happy to state that the Anti-Corn-law petition in this place has received 142 signatures, a tolerable proof that even in the purely agri tultural districts, and of these our neighbourhood forms one, the impolicy and injustice of restrictions upon the supply of food are alike felt and acknowledged.—WiltB Independent. TEWKESBURY.—At a special meeting of the Council of this borough, held on Tuesday last, petitions to Parliament, praying for the immediate adoption of the proposed Ministerial measures for an alteration of the Corn-laws and a reduction of the import duties, were unanimously agreed to, and have since been forwarded for presentation.— Worcester Chronicle. We are requested to state, that Mr. Hume did not dine with the Chancellor .of the Exchequer, on the Queen's Birth-day, as stated in the Court Circular. The Derby petition for the repeal of the Corn laws was signed in five days by 6,419 males, which is upwards of 2,000 more than signed the petition to the same effect last year.—Derby Reporter. We have seen the analogy between vegetables and animals in structure and function, as well as in ele mentary and proximate principles. The secretions of both may be innocuous or deleterious. The most re markable analogy in secretion respects milk. In South America, Humboldt saw a tree that, if wounded, yields abundance of rich milk, which the negroes drink and grow fat upon, and which affords a caseous coagulum. The tree grows on the barren rock ; has coriaceous dry leaves; for several months is not moistened by a shower, and its branches appear dry and dead : yet, if an inci sion is made in the trunk, the milk pours forth. This " sweet vegetable fountain" is most copious at sunrise, and the blacks and natives are then seen hastening from all quarters with b ow l s to t h e cow-tree.—Elliotson's Hu man Physiology. A GLORIOUS CHRISTENING.—Last week a woman attended the parish church at Wootton to have a christening, and when the Vicar was in readiness he was sur prised to find that the woman required him to baptize the whole of her children, eight in number ! Her reason given was, that such a proceeding saved a hood deal of trouble, and was" done under oae head. " , Cambridge Chronicle. ONDONT, MONDAY, MAY 24, le4l. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM 2HE YVENNIG rims OF THIS DAY. GLOBE.—The public were prepared for the an nouncement of Lord John Russell, as to the course de termined on by Ministers in the present crisis. That announcement has put the matter beyond all doubt ; and the question, which the Tory Journals for seve ral days urged with a tenacity indicative of the deep in terest felt by the party in the result—" Resignation or Dis solution ?"—is now answered in a way which has in creased their knowledge, without diminishing their anxiety, or relieving their suspense. The Government will neither resign, nor dissolve Parliament; but will— as we several days since ventured to predict—proceed with the essential business of the country. On Mon day next the Chancellor of the Exchequer will move, " That the House resolve itself into a Committee of ways and means ;" and in that Committee will move the usual annual resolution for the renewal of the " Sugar Duties." Will the Tories, with all their vaunted strength, and with their acknowledged desire to seize on the Go vernment, venture to obstruct the proposed course, by a motion of "want of confidence," or by moving that the House resolve itself into a Committee on the " state of the nation," either of which modes will be open to them ? Will they, we ask, by either of these, or by any other of the various plans of obstruc tion which the practice of Parliament prescribes, venture to refuse the supplies, and thus stop the machine of Go vernment ? We answer, No ! The Speaker will leave the chair—and the House in Committee will adopt the annual resolution, without any essential obstruction from the disappointed and impatient Tories. The Whitsun tide recess will intervene ; and on Monday, the 4th June, the whole question of the Corn-laws will be brought forward by Lord John Russell—not with an expectation that the House of Commons will affirm the Government proposal, but that the country may be fully informed as to the bearings of the proposed alter ation on the interests of the community, and be pre pared for the event which will immediately follow upon its rejection—viz., a dissolution of the present Parlia ment, and a consequent appeal to the constituencies. To the country the important consequences involved in the issue of the oonflict will thus be committed. The weal or woe of millions of our suffering fellow-country men will depend upon the result. The monopolists and the masses—the cupidity of the class interests, and the cravings of a suffering, despairing, hunger-bitten popula tion, shut out out from employment and thus deprived of bread—such are the clients which appeal, in the language which they are respectively capable of employing, to the electoral bodies. COURIER.—The Ministerial Press is most amusingly indignant, forasmuch as the " Tory Papers" will not be lieve in the reality of the sham agitation in which the country is asserted to be involved for the sake of keeping Lord John Russell in office, and the people under his grinding system of workhouse poor-laws. The Advertiser, which really takes the lead in rampant Whiggery, and which above all Papers used to affect to be the special organ of the working and lower trading classes, whose cause for some time past it has entirely deserted, is perfectly dole ful and desperate this morning at the scandalous ab sence of Conservative reports about the famous Anti- Corn-law meetings of the " three Tailors of Too ley-street," in the Borough—of the Westminster rump of two hundred Irish basketteors in Cabbage Garden—of the renowned ticket of leave conclave, held in some hole and corner at Manchester, where the hustings were impregnably fortified against any possible onslaught of the Chartists, and all other of the like most gigantic and grandiloquent gatherings. Our disinterested Contemporary should make some allowance for Tory silence on such occasions, inasmuch IS they at least are not among the recipients of Govern ment gold for these interesting advertisements of Anti- Corn-law sedition. " Among the artifices of the Tory Papers (says the Advertiser) at this moment, is that of withholding from their readers accounts of the meetings which are taking place in every part of the country in favour of the Ministerial measures. They affect to say the matter has made little stir, and the country is wholly indifferent about it. This deception will be all the worse for the Tory party, for the truth will burst upon them in a form so overwhelm ing, and so sudden, as to make the consequences far more disastrous than they might be if the prudence or the fears of the more considerate of the party were inci ted to avert or mitigate them." When this extraordi nary storm does in reality " burst" upon us, it will be mite time enough to reef every rag of sail and humbly to scud along under bare poles ; but, so far, the gales could not be more propitious, and all our anxiety is to catch every breath of them, with top-gallants gallantly flying as we make for the country to which our course is bound, if the New Poor-law Papers may be believed. STANDARD.—The violence with which a dissolution is threatened by the organs of Ministers causes us, we own, to doubt whether such a desperate expedient is really contemplated by the Cabinet. We have long been accustomed to interpret by contraries all announcements from the same quarter, and we have generally found reason to be satisfied with the interpretation. Besides, there is an obvious motive for such menaces at present, quite unconnected with any regard to the pro bability of their execution ; they serve to alarm all hesitating Members of the House of Commons whose seats may not seem to be very well secured, and to awaken to activity the busy, bustling persons throughout the country, whose ephemeral importance is born and dies with a general election, and to engage them in the service of the party in power to agitate upon those questions which it is supposed may have an effect at the hustings. Still it would be the utmost imprudence to neglect a vigilant and energetic preparation under the impression that no dissolution will take place. In poli tics, as in war, a feigned attack is sometimes turned into a serious one with decisive success ; and if Ministers find their opponents either negligent, or dispirited, or catch them committing any fatal mistakes, they will cer tainly dissolve Parliament, whatever may be their pre sent intention, supposing them to have any definite plan determined on. To us, however, it seems very apparent that they have no such plan. The agitation is, as we think, merely an experiment upon the fears of the House of Commons and the sense and intelligence of the people, with, of course, a reliance upon the chapter of accidents, which has so often opened in favour of the Cabinet. As far as the House of Commons and the people are concerned, the agitation has most miserab failed. CORN-LAWS, OR NO CORN-LAWS. Although as a step towards justice we should rejoice to see Lord John Russell's proposition for substituting a fixed duty of Bs. a quarter on wheat, for th e p resen t slid ing scale, carried ; yet, believing a tax on food, be the amount never so small, to be as contrary to humanity and to the welfare of the nation, as it certainly is to the Word of God, we should never have rested satisfied till the trade in that great necessary, without which man must die, was made perfectly free with every nation of the world. That it must, spite of every opposition, even tually become so, we have not, nor ever had, the smallest doubt. We are not in the habit of quoting the opinions of Tory Lords, and of calling upon the people to be guided by them; nor would we, on slight occasions, wish our readers to follow the standard of the Earl of Winchilsea rather than that of Earl Fitzwilliam ; but on so important a question as whether our bread shall be taxed—how ever lightly—or not taxed at all, we cannot allow the emphhatic declaration of the former nobleman—all Tory though he be—to pass unheeded, or to be lost to memory merely because he happens to be a Tory. It has already been extensively noticed, but we should not be doing the cause of the people justice, if we did not pointedly bring it before them, and call upon them to act on it. Speak ing in the House of Lords on the Government plan of substituting a fixed, for a fluctuating scale of duty on Corn, the Earl of Winchilsea thus expressed himself : " In God's name, let us all rise, let us rise in this House and in the country to a man, and let the higher classes do their duty to those who are beneath them, to the lower and poorer classes—let us allow any tax to be placed on the land, but never let us submit to a tax on bread." We trust his Lordship's advice will be followed, not only by the Lords, but by the people, and that they will "rise as one man," and show the monopolists that they will no longer " submit to a tax on bread." The people have not forgotten that so odious was a tax on bread considered, that in 1815, when it was imposed, the Houses of Parliament were surrounded by soldiers with loaded muskets and fixed bayonets to prevent the people from wreaking their vengeance on those who vo ted for the accursed tax ; nor have the people forgotten the Manchester massacre—that it was at a meeting called to petition against the bread-tax that the field of Peterloo was dyed with their blood. Let a dissolution of Parliament come when it will, in a day, a week, or a month, the cry of the people must be—No bread tax. Let them assemble in front of the hustings, and tell the candidates, whether they be Whigs or whether they be Tories, that they shall not be returned to Parliament unless they will pledge themselves to oppose any and every tax on food. Let them do this and the day is theirs.— Wilts Independent. DEAR CORN AND HIGH RENTS.—The farmers in this country are beginning to suspect that something like selfishness may have prompted their landlords to support the Corn-laws. They have found out that they are not satisfied with the rents they have been receiving for some time, but are determined to take a little more on the strength of the high prices at which corn has been lately selling. The Marquis of Ailesbury, the Duke of Marlborough, Mr. Walter Long, M.P., and the trustees of Mr. Watson Taylor's estates have served their tenants with notices to pay an increased rate of rent ! This, as would naturally be expected, has caused a good deal of dissatisfaction, and has set the farmers asking one another—" What do we get by the Corn-laws? As soon as prices have risen and seem inclined to con tinue high, our landlords come down upon us, and ad vance our rents. We should be better off with uniformly low prices than we are with these fluctuations and ad vances of rent," &e., &c. Their eyes are beginning to be opened, and the Corn-laws will not serve as a rallying cry at the next election as it would have done had not their landlords shown the cloven foot quite so soon. In deed many of the more thinking of the farmers begin to intimate that they been altogether deceived about the operation of these laws, and that they have been acting the part of tax collector s for their landlords.— With In dependent, A wonderful specimen of the Green Brocoli is now growing in Mr. Tilly's garden at Grittleton, which is now in b 1 .-tom, and moasures eight feet round and ten feet high I— Wilts Independent. We have it from excellent authority that the Court will visit B r i g h ton in the autumn, w hilst certain repairs ar e going on at Wi n d sor. —Brighton H er ald. A STRAN GE I MPRESSION. —" Dr. Conyers dissected a person not long since, that died for love in Lan don ; and they found (at least they fancied) the impression of a face made upon his heart."—Diary of the Rev. .1. Ward. The Queen h as been pleased to appoint the Rev. Archibald Bennie one of her Majesty's Chaplains in Ordinary in Scotland. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEENS BENCH, May 22. THE QUEEN V. THE CORPORATION OF NEWBURY. This was a rule calling upon - tit 6 Corporation of New bury to show cause why a writ of mandamus should not issue, commanding them to pay to their late Town Clerk of the borough an annuity of 1071. a year, which had been awarded to him by the Lords of her Majesty's Treasury, as a compensation for the loss of his office by the passing of the Municipal Corporation Act. The de fendants refused to obey the order of the Lords of the Treasury, on the ground that the claimant had miscon ducted himself while in office. Lord DENMAN now delivered the judgment of the Court. His Lordship said that the power of the Lords of the Treasury only. extended to defining what sum would be an adequate compensation to certain persons for the loss of their respective offices, and they had no power to inquire into any case of alleged misconduct. Under the circumstances of the present case the Court were of opinion that the rule ought to be discharged. Rule discharged. CHEYNE V. PAYNE. This was an action against the defendant, a Magistrate of the county of Essex, to recover damages for false im prisonment. The defendant had committed the plaintiff to prison, having convicted him of " continuing in charge of a ship after a licensed pilot had offered to take charge of it." The plaintiff brought his action for false impri sonment, and the Jury gave a verdict in his favour, with 641. damages. A rule nisi for a new trial was afterwards obtained by the defendant, on the ground that the con viction was bad in point of law. There was, however, a second conviction, and the question was, whether a Ma gistrate had a right to put in a second and amended con viction as a bar to the present action, the first convic tion having already been recognised and acted upon by the Court above. Lord DENMAN, in giving judgment, decided that the defendant had not such power, and therefore the rule for a new trial must be discharged. His Lordship then stated that the Court wquld give judgment on Monday in several cases in the new trial paper that were argued during last term. BAIL COURT, Mai 22. This being the first day of Term, his Lordship did not take his seat on the Bench until half-past one o'clock. IN THE MATTER OF WILLIAMS-HABEAS CORPUS. Mr. JAMES, in the absence of Mr. Thesiger, applied to Mr. Justice Wightman to state what had been the re sult of his examination of a young man, named Wil liams, who had been brought up by habeas corpus, to be examined by the Learned Judge, who was, ac cording to arrangement, to report the result of that examination to the full Court. That report had not transpired, and as at the time the writ was moved for, serious imputation had been cast on the character of the o ffi cer of that Court, which he believed that exami nation had proved to be groundless, he should be glad if his Lordship would be so good as to state the result of his examination. Mr. Justice WIGHTHAN-It appeared to me that Mr. Williams was perfectly competent to take care of him self, and knew what he was about ; he distinctly told me that he was not under any distress whatever. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, May 22. Being the first day of Term, the Judges, Barons Parke, Alderson, Gurney, and Rolfe, did not take their seats till half-past one o'clock. Mr. Baron PARKE then delivered the jndgment of the Court in SMITH V. ROYSTON, - - Which was argued last term. The plaintiff brought his action for trespass, he alleging that the defendant had built upon his freehold. The proparty in question was a ring, to the extent of four yards, round a park, called an ancient "Buckleap." The question at the trial was entirely . for the consideration of a Jury. The fact of possession being deposed to in a most contradictory manner, the Jury then found for the defendant, and the Court were of opinion that there were no grounds to disturb the verdict. The rule was therefore discharged. The Court then took the new trials standing over fi:om last term. Only one was partly heard, and it presented no feature of public interest. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. A young man, named Arthur Woodruffe, was brought before Alderman Wilson, kn the custody of Daniel For rester, the officer, charged *ith having forged a promis sory note for 100/., dated Bristol, 18th of April, 1841, signed George Ancell, purporting to be accepted by the firm of Messrs. M`Calmont, Brothers, and Co., of Philpot lane, and made payable at Sir R. C. Glynn's banking house. John Knight, a porter at Lincoln's-inn, stated that the prisoner called to him as he was under the gateway of Lincoln's-inn, at half-past three o'clock, and asked him to go into the City on a message. The prisoner then walked down Chancery-lane about twenty or thirty yards, and then told witness, who followed him, that he _ _ must go to Glynn's bank with the promissory note and bring away the amount in gold to Mr. Farren's offices in Lincoln's-inn. Witness obeyed the directions, and called at the office in question, but did not see the prisoner. He went back into Chancery-tane, having in his hand a handker chief containing a bundle of halfpence, which he carried as a blind by the direction of Daniel Forrester. The prisoner who, no doubt, had been watching for the wit ness at some private place, at once ran up to witness and seizing the handkerchief, said—" Have you got the sovereigns ? lam glad of it." Witness then followed the prisoner to chambers in the neighbourhood, and just as the handkerchief was opened Daniel Forrester told him that his presence was required at the Mansion house. The prisoner stated that the note had been given to him. Mr. T. Williams, cashier at Glynn's banking-house, statod that the bill was brought at four o clock to the counter. He entertained no doubt whatever as to the fact that it was a forgery. Messrs. M'Calmont kept an account at their house. Mr. William Johnson Newell, a partner in the house of M'Calmont and Co., stated that the acceptance was a palpable forgery. The prisoner said that he had received the bill from a party who would be much inconvenienced by being made responsible at that bar.—He was remanded. The London and Westminster Steam-boat Company, the Directors of which firm long suspected that they were extensively plundered by some of their servants, have at last detected a robbery. A young man, named Poole, was charged with having defrauded the Company of a considerable sum of money, under the following circum stances : Mr. A. Leith, the Secretary and manager of the com pany attended, together with some of the directors, and stated that the prisoner had been connected with the company for two or three seasons as receiver of tic kets at one of the stations. To commit robberies the concurrence of another of the servants was necessary, and luckily for the concern the prisoner proposed the mode of appropriation to a new comer, who favoured the deception, while he informed the Company of the meditated plan of depredation. The prisoner was paid 30s. per week, and robbed at the rate of eight pounds. William Tyrrell, inspector and check-taker at Hun gerford-market, stated that he received checks from pas sengers who disembarked at that station. The prisoner went to him on Tuesday week and proposed to meet him in the evening after business was over, and when they met, said, " Our wages are but little, and we can, if we please, increase them. So, if you give me five or six dozen cheques a day of those you receive, I'll pay you a shilling a dozen for them." Witness asked whe ther that was all, and prisoner then said, "I'll give_you seven shillings_ for six dozen." Witness said he must have time for consideration. He then went to the Secre tary and informed him of the proposition that had been made to carry on the system of plunder, and arrangements were accordingly made to 4nsure detection. Witness having subsequently expressed his concurrence to the scheme, supplied the prisoner with three dozen cheques on Friday, all marked privately. Afterwards he gave the prisoner everal more dozens of cheques, for all of which he received at-the rate of•seven - Shillings for six dozen. The prisoner said that Tyrrell was the proposer of the plan to him, and he joined in it and paid Tyrrell, who disclosed the circumstance from the fear of detection, as it was known that the Secretary suspected dishonesty somewhere, and was active in making investigation. The argument used by Tyrell was, that they might as well be guilty as suspected. In fact, he (prisoner) considered that the only person to blame was Tyrrell. The Secretary said he had no doubt that the Com pany was plundered of 1,0001. a year at least by the sys tem just exposed, and they were determined to prosecute in every case. The prisoner was committed for trial. BOW-STREET. William Browne and Richard Goodheart were charged with stealing a knife and a tobacco box from a sailor, in a public-house. The facts of the case were of no public interest, but it appeared from the statement of the policemen . by whom the prisoners were apprehended, that on the road to the station-house, the prisoner Goodheart constantly put his hands in his coat pockets, and appeared very anxious to dispose of something in them • this induced them to watch him narrowly, and prevented his doing so, until he was placed in the dock at the station-house, when he was seen to drop a bundle. It was immediately picked up, and found to contain Spanish bonds to the amount of 2,8001. The prisoner when questioned on the subject, denied all knowledge of the bonds, and Mr. JARDINE questioned him as to how they came into his possession, but he per sisted in denying that he knew anything about them. The worthy Magistrate discharged Browne, and re manded Goodheart until Tuesday, in order to give the officers an opportunity of making an inquiries relative to the bonds, which he had no doubt had been stolen. MARLBOROUGH -STREET. Edward Matthews was charged with picking pockets at the illuminations in honour of the birth-day of her Majesty. A policeman of the D division, in plain clothes, saw the prisoner put his hand into the pocket of Mrs. Ann Post, a lady living in Camberwell, and draw out her purse. He seized the prisoner with the purse on him., which luckily did not contain more than a few shillings. The prisoner was committed to Newgate. Thomas Cleary was charged with having stolen a hand kerchief from a gentleman in Pall-Mall, name unknown. A D division policeman saw the theft, but owing to the crowd lie was unable to do more than take the prisoner into custody. Fully committed. James Kirk and Thomas Herbert were next charged with having picked the pocket of M. A. Jane, Esq., of Lower Eaton -street. The prisoners were seen by two policemen in plain clothes to rob the prosecutor of his handkerchigf. Both fully committed. Samuel Cotter and Ellen Cayley were charged with having picked the pocket of a person named Norman, in St. James's-park. The woman was seen to put her hand into the prose• tutor's pocket and give the handkerchief to J ^r , ompa. ❑ion. Both committed. Three other pickpockets were remanded, and three more discharged for want of sufficient evidence. John Speechley, a bill sticker, was charged with having plastered the shutters of an empty house in Oxford street with placards. Having been detected in the act, the policeman took him at once into custody. When called upon for defence, the bill-sticker assumed a tone of lofty indignation, said, " I'm a free-born Englishman, and I've a right to stick bills where I like." Mr. LONG.—You have no right to stick bills on people's houses. Defendant —I say I have a right, as one of the people to stick bills. They did not put up a notice to stick no bills, so I'd a right to exercise the privileges of our pro fession. I've a public duty to perform, and in these times "England expects every man to do his duty." Mr. LONG.—And I've a public duty to perform also, to prevent the laws from being broken. Defendant. —l'm bill-sticker to Mr. George Robins, Mr. Phillips, and Mr. Simpson, and all the great auc tioneers. I'll do my public duty, or I'll sacrifice myself on_ the altar of my country. We are all equal ; you are my brother, and I can prove it. Mr. LoNa.—Well, but I wish my brother would behave with more moderation. Will you promise not to offend again. "Defendant. —l'll stick to my rights. Mr. LONG.—Then I fine you a shilling. Defendant.—l won't pay a farthing. The defendant retired from the bar with the air of a political martyr. An hour's confinement in the back cell altered his patriotism. Having consented to sur render his rights, he was released. THE CORN-LAWS. On Saturday, a deputationbetween thirty and forty gentlemen waited upon the Lord Mayor with a requisi tion signed by upw ar d s o f 500 names , th a t hi s L or d s hi p would be pleased to call a meeting of the constituency and inhabitants of the city of London, to take into con sideration the pr o p r i ety o f petitioning Parliament for an alteration in the present Corn-laws. Amongst the de putation we noticed Mr. Travers, Mr. Fearon, Mr. Dillon, Mr. H. Taylor, Mr. Ashurst, Mr. William Pritchard, Mr. Foster, Mr. Hutchinson, Mr. Greig, Mr. Heppel, Mr. Norris, &c. Mr. FEARON having presented the requisition, the Lord Mayor went into the next room to consult the Town Clerk, and soon afterwards 'returned, and stated that he was happy at all times to afford the greatest facilities for the expression of the public feeling and sentiments, and that he would grant the request of so large and respect able a body. He thought he was bound to say, how ever, that his view on the great subject of the Corn-laws was decidedly opposed to those gentlemen who waited upon him. He was the farmers' friend, and he appre hended that if the Corn-laws were repealed, that exten sive class of persons would be actually driven to the workhouses. He fervently hoped that the meeting would not engage in anything calculated to pauperize so meritorious a body of their fellow-subjects. Mr. FEARON declared, that if the gentlemen present contemplated any such result as the reduction to pauper ism of the farmers, or any other class of their country men, they would use all their exertions for the adoption of a course directly opposed to that which they were now pursuing; but he apprehended, without meaning to give any offence, that his Lordship took not only a mis taken, but an exceedingly narrow view of the question. They (the deputation) were the friends of the farmer in the best sense of the word. All interests were necessa rily linked together, and one interest could not be de pressed without inflicting injury upon all. He looked upon the question to be one in which the entire trade of the country and the support of the existing popula tion were involved. Peace was said to be the great civilizer of mankind—it was the great equa lizer too. The continuance of monopolies and the continuance of peace were wholly irreconcilable. Eng land had taught other nations in manufactures to fight her with her own weapons, and unless she relaxed in prohibitory laws they would cease their commer cial intercourse with her. Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, and even France, were in some degree becomin g her rivals. He mi g ht a dd th e U n i ted States. The trade of England with the old countries of Europe had greatly declined in consequence of her re fusal to take their produce, and her exports kept up their present amount by the increase of her colonies, the open ing of the Brazil connection, and' other new markets. Now, he begged to be informed by the Lord Mayor how was the deficiency in the revenue to be supplied without increased pressure upon the people. His Lordship had said that the shopkeeper depended upon the farmer, and the farmer depended upon the Corn-laws. He begged to remind his Lordship that the whole depended upon our trade. England could not shut up herself from foreign connection, and if the Lord Mayor's views were carried out, the millions of workmen who were called into existence by our manufactures would place the property of his Lordship and the property of all other men of substance in the greatest pos sible jeopardy. The shipper was the customer of the manufacturer ; the manufacturer was the employer of the workman ; the workman was the customer of the little shopkeers, and the little shopkeepers were the customers of his Lordship and other large dealers, and the whole were the supporters and customers of the agricul turists. As a man having a stake in the country he felt the deepest interest in the success of the measure to which the requisition called his Lordship's attention, feeling assured that its denial would tend to impair the national energies, lessen the spdtairity of property, and place the masses of the working population in a position alarming to every friend of his country. But if it was carried we should not only sustain our present position, but a new course of greatness would open upon England. It was well known that in the great cotton manufac tories the men worked no more than four days in the week—his object was to enable them to work the whole six days. The LORD MAYOR—YOU must not misunderstand me ; lam not hostile to the manufacturers. I have had a great deal to do with the manufacturers, and supply thent with the oil which they use in the prosecution of their labours. His Lordship then appointed next Tuesday week for the consideration of the question of the Corn-laws in the Guildhall, and the deputation left the Mansion-house. SIR ROBERT PEEL'S VICTORY. Another such victory, and we shall be ruined."— Duke of Wellington's Despatches. The long debate ended at last in a majority of thirty six monopolists against the Ministry. Rights of sugar, rights of timber, rights of corn, all sorts of rights were respected, except rights of the people; and all sorts of dangers were deprecated by the alarmists, save danger of starvation and ruin. Sugar-men, coffee men, timber men, corn men, all sorts of horse-leech men, joined in the cry—" Great is Diana of the Ephesians!" and, for a time, they have triumphed. But we are mistaken if Lord John Russell is the man to be put down by a coalition of class-interests, however for midable. The country have waited, and waited in vain, for an exposition from his rival of that grand scheme of policy which was to heal the wounds of the State, and to throw into the shade the unstatesman-like remedy of the Ministry. Sir Robert Peel avows he has none to offer. This he tells us in language so equivocal, that the most opposite sections of his party are each persuaded that he has pledged himself to their particular views • while, in rea lity, has contrived-to leaveiree on all the points of sugar, timber, and corn. The time for alter ing the sugar duties is not yet come, according to his notions ; but he thinks slavery is no impediment in the way. A fixed duty on corn he will oppose, but some alteration might possibly be made in the sliding duty. These admissions, with many protestations of adherence to the principlelof free trade, leaves him, as he presumes, at perfect liberty to trim his sails to any wind that blows, and to claim to be the man on whom the mantle of Mr. Huskisson has descended, or the bosom friend of the Duke of Buckingham, just as the popular feeling may show itself more o r l ess strong l y in the interim. There can be no great wisdom or ability in conduct like this. On a momentous occasion like the present, we did not expect a statesman to cavil at the inconsist encies or official errors of his rivals—to turn to account the arguments of the wrong pamphlet relied on by his opponents, or to put his whole trust in Hansard—but to grapple with the mighty reality of things. From many smooth-shaven Respectabilities and Plausibilities, Nye might expect such things, but not from a " proximat e premier," called upon in a great crisis to decide a ckange in the whole policy of the empire. Not only did the monopolist leader not meet, the ques tion like a statesman, he did not meet it at :LP,. As Lord Palmerston reminded the House, he did not, utter a single word about the Brazilian Treaty, or the - United States of America, and G erman y. H e argue d the question as if our foreign trade was flourishing, a` if our deficit were purely temporary, and as if there were little or no dis tress in the country, although 'in certain districts the people are glad to eat carrion, to sustain life. Sir Robert Peel cannot shut his eyes to the fact that we must either sacrifice our monopolies or our foreign trade. The lives of our surplus milhons depend upon the latter ; and as we can neither expatriate our people, exterminate them, or pass the ploughshare over London, Manchester, and Birmingham, as prayed for by the Quarterly Review, we must find employment for them. There are some ques tions, like those of the Sphynx, which a statesmen now a-days must solve on pain of being devoured, and he will find the corn monopoly one of these. If the Tories re fuse to speak out there is a way to make them by mo tions, as Mr. Charles Buller hinted. Let Ministers once force their slippery antagonist to commit himself in fa vour of direct taxation or against free trade, and he is lost. The country is in no mood to put up with a Mr. Facingbothways as its ruler.—British Queen. FUNERAL OF THE LATE J. T. B. BEAU• MONT, ESQ.—On Saturday the remains of the late John Thomas Barber Beaumont, Esq., F.G.S., F.A.S., were removed from his late residence in Regent-street, for interment in the cemetery constructed by him at Mile end. The mourning -coaches contained J. A. Beaumont, Alfred Beaumont, and Henry,' Beaumont, Esqrs., sons of the deceased ; Sir Henri!. l'ym, M.P. ; Sir Richard King, J. G. Booth, Esq. ; and other immediate friends.. For nearly two hours previous to the interment, Beau mont-square, Mile-end, and Alfred-street, &c., along which the funeral passed, were lined with well-dressed persons, anxious to pay a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased gentieman, who was highly esteemed by the inhabitants of the district, in which he possessed large property ; and the shutters of most of the shops and houses were closed upon the occasion. On arriving at the cemetery the body was conveyed into the chapel, and the coffin was consigned to the tomb opposite the chapel, prepared by order of Mr. Beaumont previous to his death. The Hon. and Rev. Edward Southwell Keppel has been appointed one of the Deputy Clerks of the Closet to her Majesty, WHAT HAS THE CHURC DONE TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—ln case the present plan of Ministers 'for in creasing the revenue should not be carried, I have a Val! to propose fou n d e d on th e f o ll ow i ng reasons , w ith which I believe three-fourths of the inhabitants of England, Scotland, and Ireland will agree. The Church as by law e s tabli s h e d, was es t a blished fo r increasing Christianity, producing uniformity, the de: struction of Popery, the expelling of ignorance; and that in every village in the kingdom there should be one from his knowledge, wealth, and office capable of assisting the poor and oppressed against the oppressor, a man looked up to as the father of his flock. That in the Legislature of the country there shell d be a body of learned men to defend the interests of reli gion, of peace, and of the poor. Has it increased Christianity ? Who visits the miners of Cornwall, the colliers of Kingswood, and the ignorant vill age population of Eng land generally ? Certainly n o t th e c l ergy , b u t the Dis: senters ; the clergy in many villages preaching only ono , in three weeks. Has it produced uniformity of religious opinion ? a It found England with only two sects, Papists an Lollards, at the time it was established ; now there ar e nearly two hundred. Has it destroyed Popery ? The Catholics have considerably increased in Irelan d '. and the Protestants decreased. Has it expelled ignorance ? • 'sell It is notorious that in thosefew villages which DO has not reached, the ignorance of the people is gr.al than anywhere else. Could Tom, alias Sir W 1; Courtenay, preach with such s uccess anyw h ere b u t in t d? neighbourhood of the principal cathedral in Engla n a The clergy have adopted Sund a Y sc h oo l s on l y t o clefen themselves from the Disse n t ers , w h o h ave use d th e.° successfully for years. Are the clergy looked up to a 3 friends ? The most unpopul ar man i n a country village is the parson, who is generally overbearing to th e p o or, an subservient to the great. Are the interests of religion defended by the BisheV They never speak of religion in the House, but tre quently of their temporalities. Did the Bishops ever attempt to prevent war ? Never ! ! ! Did they ever attempt to prevent want ? No ! Look at their votes and speeches on the Cow' laws. Did they ever raise their voices for the abolition .° f slavery ? Never ! ! ! As the Church has failed in all the things expected ° I her, and as she is the cause of much disturbance a n u unchristian feeling throughout the country, an d of me e t, obstruction in the Legisl a t ure , s i nce not a public A c t and scarce a Rail wa y Bill can b e passed wh i ch d oe s Il be ° meet with obstruction from her, I propose that she o$ abolished, and all her property, as soon as the prese o f life holders die, be paid into the funds for the pu rpose reducing the Natio na l D e bt, w hi c h i t wou ld h a lf acee nr plish. I think John B u ll ma y now say to h er —MOO/ 1 1 i have no further nee d o f your i nstruct i ons, and asi° have totally failed i n y our agreement w i th me, a nd 0 4 you cannot rule your own f am il y at O x f or d , I s h a ll er pay you: salary any longer for instructing mine. , DISTANT THUND" Frome, May 16, 1841. THE MARKETS. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS, Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. P" ° .f... , L',r Quarter s. to s. a. to s. s. to s. s. to s. t° tarlisle — 30— 46 40 Hexham 52 f 6 28 32 20 24 4 4 Morpeth 5O 64 24 27 22 24 34 36 a , Penrith 6B 32 2t 63 ••••• 44 Sheffield — 65 31 23 44 Winchester 52 62 28 11 20 26 40 42 3 5 d. Per Bushel. s.d. s.d. s.d. s.d. s . d. s. d . s.d. s. d 5. , 5, 0 Carmarthen t, 6 7 8 0 0 3 7 0 0 2 3 5 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 Cowbridge 79 80 00 4C 00 30 50 53 ot , 0 0 iwansea 7B 8 8 4 0 4 8 2 8 3 0 5 6 6 0 5 6 Per 8011. JO Barnardcastl 15 0 18 080 93 64 76 9 0 100 97, 10 Durham 'l3 515 8 0 90 6 3 7 0010 6 9 . (I Richmond I 0 ISO 70 86 56 R 3 0 9 6 190 9 0 • I Stockton I4 0 16 (i 9 0 9 0 5 0 6 6 8 0 10 0 8 0 WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET. Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Suilblk —s. 53e. to 61s. One mi. Lin, and Cam. 150 18 0 8 0 93 90 10 6' 136 166 ti 0 . 90 00 106 1 , 0 IS 0 70 86 96 190 140 166 90 90 80 100 WAKEFIELD G. ..111kET. 1, Norfolk and Suilblk • Lin. and Cam . Yorkshire white ~. Foreign, Bed --- a s s: ... . — 6 5-5 2 9 1 t ic: : 5 6 tbi ; ; 0 9 ; s: : I. : g i E d en i n ng, fine 67;;;;::: White --s, —a. to 60s. rine f , . Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk --a. to 2.is fine o''..; ' Se ' ----.- Lincolnshire •-- Yorkshire Wold --- Foreign --o. to 3t3s fine ~ Beans, New Old •• Oats, Potato ---- Poland --- vriesland and Sinall :: : : 7.... . 3 7 asg s g ..... t t 4 t tt 0 0 00 4 3 9 2 022 1 sa s: . ... floa t 11 e e L . 4 O rsos :1:" . axealing ..... -.... 1241. to 1234ds pet , ...,), Shelling 2Bs. to 295. Od. pet J •`"'" i i,, Malt .. ... a L. O .- _ ...L.-924_ fine_42 . • P . , .... r Lo t Rapeseed . —J. Os. 321. Os. 341. Os, per NEWCASTLE CORN EXCHANGE. Bed. White.. Wheat, Northumberland s4g s CO. 6 4 '. .--- Norfolk and 5uff01k............... 655. C 73 Cs. 6 9, . -- Berwick and Scotch... ......... ... Ols. 1135 --s. 67 1 . --- Foreign 62s. G 75....... f3s. 63 3 • Rye, Norfolk and Suffolk BSc 405 --.• — l* -- Foreign 29s. 333 —s• —." Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk... 355. —s — s. 36s ' Grinding and Feeding 2Bs. 30s. -s• —4 ; Malt, Norfolk and Suffolk... ........... .... 54s 60s ...41. -- s• Beans, Small 33s. 401....... ••• 4 . --s. ---- Tick ....... -10 s. 423 ---s. Pease, White 4os. 425. . ... --I. ___._ ' t2s. 44s -- 5. ----. Oats, Northumberland, P0tat0e......... 255. 26s —4. --se .----- Feed . 549....... .... 4 .....44 Foreign ........ ............. ....... - 4. . • m•ii....... .11.,..4 Flour (per sack). 4ss. 404......_ • __L ITCH MARKETS. Wheat. Barley. Oats. EVENING EDITION- Beans. .08tali, A bcrdeen ter wick Coldstream Cupar (Fife) Dunbar Elgin Inverness Kelso 50 to 60 38 44 4. 50 48 65 59 65 55 56 49 60 40 50 62 67 60 67 size of the HADDIt Wheat. 67s Od Od 59s Od 24 to 26 18 22 24 26 26 31 25 28 26 27 23 26 18 22 36 30 40 measure vs GroN cc Barley. 35s Od 32s 6d 31s Od ••••••••I ****** I Kirksley ::: Perth 1 Tho First Sedondm.i Third 19 to 22 17 22 17 'lB 18 92 21 24 20 24 21 24 15 18 33 25 3. 4 tries thrr i a l )RN .IA 2 Ora:. 26.6 6d 2 , 1 s fid 22s 6d .. 31. 2s. Id to 24 26 30 22 Pd 37 33 4P by 22 33 9j 33 45 48 gl4l 44 hout the c t KET. Beans 49s Od 38s Od 36s Od 9.l2tbs. DALKEITH CORN MARKET. Wheat. Earley. Oats. Pease. 66s Cu 338 6d 28s Od 424 Od 60a Od 32s Od Os 4d 403 Od 4Cs Od 2is Od 19s 8d 35t Od GLASGOW CORN ALS.RKET. Wheat, per 2401 b. s. d. s. d. Oats , per 26419. I Vritish, old 32 6 t035 0 lrish new •..•...•. 26 0 31 0 British .•... 0000000000 Canada, free 0 0 Beans, per 2601 b. Irish Earley, per 3201 b. Scottish English 27 0 28 0 Pease, Scottish ...... i Scottish 23 6 25 6 Oatmeal, p er 1101 b.... I Irish 33 to 23 S 7 r. _ 4 - 3 Past ',mond Third .... until. 9j 0d 371 361 CIJ 13 : ' Ol t 40 ia od 35' 4 t, d ' °. 40 0 6 W qo 6 ]9 0 - 0 2 ai 6 o 10 0 6 6 I s 17 0 4 1'4 4 0 SILVER WATCHES, LONDON.NIADEP",. B. SAVORY and SONS,iWatehmakers, No. 9 , Corahill , s don (opposite the Bank of England), submit for seise; o f ver 7 „, large STOCK o f SILVER WATCHES, the lin wb ich are ma d e an d fi n i s h e d un d er t h e careful i nspec tion et to t pe rienced workmen on their own premises, and each wariP ft . ir correct performance. ?line Vertical Watches, jewelled, with double-backed 0 engine -tur ne d cases, warranted... £4 Fine Vertical Watc hes, jewelled, hard enamelled dial, with seconds' hand and double-backed cases, 0 b 5 warranted Patent detached Lever Watches, capped, jewelled in four holes, hard enamelled dial, with seconds' hand and double-backed engine -turned cases, 0 0 warranted 6 Either of the ab ove i n s il ver h unt i ng -cases, 105- 6(l ' s e gi v; A large v a ri e ty o f S econ d - h and Silver Watches, which ;11, been carefully exam i ne d , an d can be warranted, at 21. 2 1 . "„."" N.B. Second-hand Watches purchased in exchange' PAPIER MACHE TEA TRAYS, 60s. the dos of FULL SIZED GOTH IC SHAPE. Superior 1.040, Table Knives, with ivory handles, 14s. per dozen; T o t ; Poles for Window Curtains, 1i inch diam e te r , I s . 3d. per 2 inches, ls. V& per foot ; bronzed fenders, 4 feet long, Catalogues rratis, containing the prices of stoves, fendesSo, o . irons, kitckien utensils, and every article in furnishing '- mongery. RIr.VON and BURTON, W e ll s -street, Ox f or d-street' Established 1820. BIRTHS. ra On the 21st inst., at South Weald, M rs . F . W . Nash, °"--y. On the 21st inst., at Southgate, th e w if e o f the `Sale, of a daughter. w i re, On the 22d inst., at Uppe r Bedford-place, Russ°ll..sq Mrs. Major Usborne, of a daughter. On the 12th inst., in Or c h ar d- street, Portman-stl er Robert Sutherland, of a daughter. On' the 15th inst., at Hamburgh, the l a d y o f T. G. Me lsslier' Esq., of a son. On the 19 inst., at Barnes, Surrey, of a daughter, the wif e ., 4 Owen Flintoff, E sq ., th e l a t e Chi e f J ust i ce of Sierra Let' . who perished by the upsetting of a b oa t i n t h e River Gareb i s 6 ' on thu coast of Africa, the 12th of last March. 0.,1 the 20th inst., at Shirley, Southampton, Mrs. B. Greenfield, of a daughter. On the 21st inst., at Trevor-terrace, Knightsbridge, 020 11141 n'f J. Douglas, Esq., surgeon, of a daughter. On the 21st inst., at Highgate, the wife of John L. Tatham' Esq., of Lincoln's-inn, of a son. MARRIED. 11. On the 20th i nst., at Clifton Church, the Rev. W . Browell, R ec t or of Beaumont, to Emm a Matilda, e"' s daughter of T. T. Walton, Esq., of Bristol. On the 20th inst„ at St. George's, Everton, J. T. W. nail, Esq., of Standen Hall, Lancashire, to Elinor, yowl" - daugbler of Nicholas Aspinall, Esq., of Everton, Liverlmt a l Or, the 20th i ns t., G. M. K ett l e, E sq., of Blades ' se . Horlse, D er by, t o Eli za b et h, on l y d aughter of the late T. ur brook, Esq., of Dallycott House, Salop. On the 22d inst., at St. Pancras, th e R ev. Willi a m park r o f A.. M., Curate of riern Barnet, to Eli za , secon d daughte Thomas Fowlis, Esq„ of Guildford-street, Russell-squar e. On the 17th inst., at St. Brelades, Jersey, John Wa e lE a dy Esq., fourth son of the late Th omas W a lp o l e, Esq., and e , 1 4 6 r of ft largaret Walpole, to Har r i e tt e , on l y surviving daugu!' ee R Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Browne Smith, of the Bth Rega' of Light Madras Cavalry. Don the lath inst., at f.,akenham, i n N or f o lk, M ar "v third son of William Dacres Adams, Esq., of Bowdon, : t er shire, and of Sydenham, K en t, to Anna Maria, el d es t daug of the late Major Edward Hodge, of the 7th Hussars. 0,11) , On the 20th inst., at St. John's, Lambeth, Mr. „„ rs of Liverpool, to Eli za , e ld est daughter of Mr. S. K. ."" of Upper Stamford -street. D I. On the 19th inst., at Whit ED tlesea near Peterborough' Sr' Ainger, aged 84.' Mr' On the 20th inst., in the Old K en t- roa d, M ar y, relict of NC illiam Kimpton, aged 96. v rick On th e 20 t h inst ,at Park-road, Regent's-park, . 1.--e Fr ancois, thi rd son. of Joseph Sacre, Esq. Chi le' On the 20 t h inst., at the Vicarage, Kinlet, Salop, W illiam, th e infant son of the Rev. G. W. Murray. D og On the 21st inst., Mr. Francis Page, late of the Sick IJurt-office, Somerset House, aged 80. il" t At Wickha m , J o h enn e, relict of th e l ate Captain Burnell Greene, R.N., aged 74. —.re London ; Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, No. 112, Strand, at ne Sun Offic e , N o. 112, Straud , ;„the coanty of Dliddlesex.—Monday, May 24 ! 1841.