The Sun. — London, England, 1828-11-24 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS. (FROM THE TIMES.) Our attention had been withdrawn for a few days from - the affirirs of Ireland, by the pressure of tem porary subjects-at home, when a piece of gratuitous, but very mischievous, violence was reported to us, as having formed part of a speech of Mr. O'Connell ; being a passage wherein he had announced his in tention of " resisting by force any law that might be passed for the abolition of the 40s. freeholds." From the more discreet, and for that reason more vigorous and efficient course of politics which the leaders of_ the Association had followed for some months past, we were loth to believe this story. We had trusted that the-fury of the Brunswick faction would act as a continual memento to the Catholics, and warn them against exciting any of that disgust among men of sense, or apprehension among the jealous and the timid, which unwarrantable swag gering never fails to produce. 'the language, how ever, appears to have been used unfortunately; and if we do not pass it by, as a mere bubble thrown tip by the heat and turmoil of declamation, it is because the general question which the very words _of the speaker have raised, of the introduction of " force" from any quarter into this constitutional struggle, is one which ought, for the benefit of our Irish fellow subjects, to be.placed before them in a steady and intelligible point of view. It is our wish to premise, that in many other particulars of their conduct, apart from this one of an occasional recourse to need less and futile bullying, we applaud the skill and spirit of the Catholics. If their enemies re proaeh them with the rent as a tax, the Ca tholic people have a right to answer that it is a tax imposed by themselves, as subscriptions to any public object . may be self imposed; and that if Par liamentary petitions are to be worked, or agents paid, or ;legal prosecution or defence against oppression provided for; or if, finally, election contests are to be, as we trust they will not fail to be, carried on with zeal and liberality, for the reinforcement of the Catholic cause in the House of Commons, the rent is an appropriate and most legitimate expedient. So, with regard to the Association itself, and that gene ral wnion amongst Catholics of which it was at first the creator, and is to this hour the liCind and symbol —when an effort was made, under the last irishAdmi .Aiatration, to gag and :oppress that growing bodY, we disapproved the enterprize, and foretold that it would fill. • Where a great pri;alie. grievance exists, there is no alternative between meeting, nt noon-day .eomplain of it, and a midnight conspiracy to re dress, sod, perliapa, avenge it. If the Association c powergal, it is, if not abused, a tiholesome power, • f o rmidable in the sense in which till aggregates of nat ional opinion tip;o2 3 question of public tight are formidable, --containing. in' itself that moral force which belongs eSSillituilly tia, the expression of popular sentiment, in a eotriiirnirky 'where free dom of speech .is,pertoitte4, but convertlble,.aS all freedom is, to purposes both criminal and footialt, So far as the Cathotie:.leatlers,have directed the power derived to them througiiitit„e above institution, to the excitement of a purely ponti44: - liirit in their icountrymen, far the furtherance by legal votas, re• cohitions, or yet-Mon:cotthe one great national end,of • Ematicipatioo,notte latat *thorough-bred Orange imam will reproach them.... 1.011 not be so where the Association is employed g Igver for the erection of a spirit of rancorous borailiqrao England, .wititoid regard to the immense proportion of arise and honest Eneightneii: whohavefor yews beerslabouring with devoted ft:a4l for the interests of Irish liberty; still less will it be.crO Where the same justrument is applied to the preparations p t ftrople tar an armed reheiiion against the law. . g tainif .do not fear the oearaarrence of any cause for oppositiOn to the. will of Priiiiezargrit as that which Mr. O'C'srre/1 has anticipated, 11,ep he tells his inwers that he will resist " to death" the volition oif tbe 40s. freeholds... Ministers are, we think, top pritelent to Undertake at.pta7scnt any measure so im politic; hut if they are deterre /tem proposing it, their motive las very different from aai i i dread of m idi:twee by Mr. O'Connell: liliany • weeVa kil.4 not gone by since we had reason to apprehend a coo"-, Ilia in Ireland from the phtenzv of the new Orange Association. The good sense of _body •of Pro testants has rect:nay relieved us from vi: „,'t danger. The more furious ()ray. men discovered that Azan those of their own COrilff4lloll who were adverse to the Catholic claims were 04' pore adverse to the maintenance of the ascendancy by a aavise of insult ingprovocatiort and aggression, and, as rna.- / lie seen from the excellent letter of our correspondent 4442, 2 Times of Saturday, the Brunswick spirit has ma nifestly cooled, The peril may :4-.311 come from an other quarter. Although the OraAgeznen should become more rational, ma are not yet seetia ..". the Catholics become less so. jf Mr. O'Connell coo? • tioues to indulge his pugnacious fancy a little longer, and to bring before the senses of afifiry and lo nger, multitti.i.e the repeated picture aAn appeal to aerns, in given contingencies of legislation, Nt t e 00 not say what the Kingie.- Government ought to doi but what they will do i.> ciroii4e unquestionable, pro vided they set the popular spith; f.yrought up by these orators tcr.in insurrectionary lewd, The sales populi will then to the sole object of dio lii:.akt; a pressing public :dangea• . will supersede the orttinari A technicalities of jitstice. The persons of those who are looked upon as incemiNatjes will be seized at once, and we ask any one who itraeoraa the temper of Parliament, whether a ,Bill of Indemnity to his Ma- Ministersond a simultaneous aoapeare,;:,nn of the Halmos Corpux A.e.t,• would not be passed, .s soon as tendered, by a traskity of four to one ? l here trouldaLe- q. , a great movre pent in conse olence,—" a relaeilion, of the Catiaolic.s." We t9lisik t posaibitoaaaa e ., , tear that a tebeltioo might f o ll o w. Now, as it is r!eressary to look exttenai4et in t h e face, and to caleultita as well as may be the :nilitary chances involved iri Mr, O'Connell's late effusion of an allied • .insurreetitsi .xio matter what the cause, soa Will consider Jaa a mo ment this deplorable slnd dreadful issue . 2 m any King's troops now in irc!and, in . round num bers, may le of who taken at 35,000 iT'a2n, 3,000 collected in one spo t would tlearoy any mo b of the peasantry that could, for a twelves nth to some, be brought against them. In the mean tang. reinforcements would be aent over. A body of 6,600 or 7,000 cavalry, the Dot in any service, are at this moment mou nt e d in the Malted Kingdom, and would, to a man, be employed in nettiog:down the unfortunate victims of demagogue tataar i dAtire and folly. Great Rritain could in the short spagea three months raise, A. 1731, officer from the half-pay aerviee, and transport to Ireland, the whole body of the old militia, eighty tbaatgond strong, her local militia not 'whaled. It is vain to .S..ongine that if a civil war broke out, assuming front corn 7 mencernent a religious charactis, the fanati.z ;Q:ri r t would be confined to ittltoljes, or even to thi. Irish Orangemen.. In such a Miaf, if unhappily pro voked, the hearts at ,nineteen-twenties of the Bri tish nation would be ,as fiercely engaged as tt,h6se of the most .outrageous Orangemen. Then, We alt 4 Ise naked, what would he the, grid of all this f Why, that in such a erisis of nati,aeisal exaspe ratioa, the sets of neither .party _coul4l i be re strsiited by ally ,sober authority or any OrtAien feeling. The coturrai i would wasted; the !bit bitations of Ma n - —tae nroduction s ; of his in. dastry—every refuge of lira, .niiaery; would be swept off the face of a desolated 'asjlroin e d r e g ion. at .once triawhant and The British army would b e ? demoralized; the middle class of Catholics, .a„ , ‘ ho . 50:lied the nightly Jebel anibtiecade s ,. would' be otripped of every shilling of their property; the Wreteheal peasants, with their families, weld be trodden down, or perish by the road-sid6 ;through famine. The' ratjests, without flocks, would shy ve no subsisteoce but V.,ke alms of Rome ; the present race of Assoefetors'wot4 )ae no more }leard of. Is this a dream of our imagine4on, or a calamity of our choice? God tOrbid! We 4,i'; follow up with feeble pencil the sleet a;,,z of that " ecto,?,4t to the death" Which a Catholic q t- extensive pereonal - faience, but void, we fix, of 'all .pretence to wisclOrti, has recommended as a irF,s illsastre;.as alternative than that of submitting to the ieyeal of a 47'.7 was passed originally from the most corrupt mo- I tives, and which but three years ago he himself was among the foremost to get rid of. Our policy is emancipation, not for the sake of the Catholics, whose religion we dislike, but for that of justice and of the Protestant faith itself, whose enemies would thus be weakened and disarmed. It is as an obstacle to emancipation that we deprecate violence on bOth sides, and its too frequent exhibition on that of the Catholic leaders. (FROM THE MORNING CHRONICLE.). We observe that a Public Meeting. of Manufac turers and Venders of Fancy Goods is tobehelti. this day at the London Coffee4muse, Ludgate-hill, "to consider the propriety of petitioning his Majesty, that he will be graciously pleased to curtail the pe riod at present customary in cases of issuing his com mands for general mournings." The complaints on account of the losses to which persons in trade are subjected by general mournings have long been loud and deep. Numerous individuals are, in fact, preci pitated into ruin on every occasion of the kind. - But the evil does not stop with the manufacturers and venders. We are assured that the last general mourning will have the effect of throwing not fewer than one hundred thousand workmen out of employ ment. This is really a serious evil ; and we are sure that the extent of it cannot be known in high places, or an end would at once be put to practices which entail on a large portion of the community so much misery. The people of this country do not begrudge the Royal Fad-lily what is necessary to their support in a style suited to their station; and the last accu sation which can be brought against them is, a back wardness in manifesting their respect for royalty on all occasions which afford them the opportunity. But they deem it bard that thousands of families should be sacrificed whenever a member of the Royal Family departs this life. To the caprices of fashion tradesmen must submit with resignation, and they prepare themselves, as a matter of course, for many changes in demand, from a variety of causes. But an order for a general mourning is not to be classed under ordinary contingencies. This sweeping mess sure gives a constrained direction to the demand of the whole country ; and, baffling all anticipation, the order appears at a time wl.en the preparations of the industrious classes are already made for a whole season. We need not observe, that whatever tends to add to the uncertainty of the operations of in dustry is a serious evil. It has been urged again and agent, that one of the greatest mischiefs occa sioned by the Corn Laws, is the uncertainty which • they introduce into the occupation of the farmer, • who is forced to become a gambler. These orders for. general mourning have in like manner the per nicious result of converting a large class into gam blers, whose occupation is as psecarioos as the ope rations at the hazard table. It is well observed 'oy Sunday contemporary (the Spectator) that " under a system of trade in Which commercial speculations are, to a, great extent, prosecuted with borrowed capital, it mai easily be - inferred what wide embar r4ssment must ensue the thipsort of preternatural interference with the ordinary souSina of business. Loss is inevitable; and wherever a return to the pf.al laid out is necessary within a given time for the purr;._; ,of meeting the demands upon it, em barrassment and iii;..sr,as !yin ensue—and all for what? —for Hecuba !-It seems as tisesi i ,-,h it were intended that some at least should be real mourners by haying cat<Ye given them to mourn. In very, very old times, it was a practice to immolate slaves or cap tives at the funeral piles of great individuals. The custom is modified—not abolished, We I;agrifis,e tq the shades of our departed Princes the interest of the capitalist and of those who depend on him for sisiss;sisnce—the mechanic, his wife and his chil i dren. 4i; ,7.,rliabie personage, who during life never deserved ought 'first of his fellow. men, becomes in death, by no faUis n f ir own, the object of curses not-loud but deep." We 'are sure ;.:iat when the extent of the calamity occasioned by these inaes..sins s sp.ees with trade comes to be known in high quarters, maasurss Milli be taken for putting an end to a mode of demonstrating fo r loyalty, which makes -so many thousands think of Slue Roy;; gply with fear and apprehension. The splen dour of thd - ti;r4.u. has for object, it is said, the be nefit of the people. the demonstrations of loyalty then be such as in the working 4s;, , s and their employers, to associate them a ki;','d ruin. It must 4 Je a painful feeling to a mind of any soai,laility, to think, that whenever he passes along, he is' easal with intense anxiety, by numbers whOm his death will ti i s;,s;ze of bread, and arc. compelled to think of hirn chie4y in connecioit the misery he will one day cause to them. Surely deassotrations of loyalty may be made compatible with tiieisse-4sj;q.iisg s+f the people. (FROM THE MORNING POST.) tt is 4,1 , 110 tn that we condescend to notice the I dirty harangues ,-livered by the Irish agitators, and for the best of reasons; t; , ,,57 are not worth noticing. They are deficient alike ill s.a;;e, and argument ; 4‘; are couched, too, in terms whiai no gsgepsan could ti;;s i ssl.: of using; and to conclude the deseriPs tion, they 4l* - e.dp up of the most violent invec tives, the most unlatusliox falsehoods, and the most disgusting calumnies. Nalwiti;i*Oincr, however, 7•1• aversion to the subject, we eamioi - scika;:;l from notici4 ,tt . he speech delivered, or at least reported to have been ticitiwed, by O'Connell on Tuesday last. —We shalt not 4e4. - a our readers long with this fellow's ravings, but mere( ,i4,r,s-,et their attention to one or two curious points. to t{rr.first place, ki(!onaell says, "During the 25 years flat inve attenae;:,to public meetings, the very mention uf se- 1 curities has . 0.14 ,b6en scouted Sooner than give up the 4 , 05, f i rgehpylers, I would go back to the penal code; they form a ps-s,s ; of the Constitu tion ; their right is as saceed as the and it would be treason, against the people, to attempt 4d' franchise fluent." Now, as we 100 consistency, we s. ttention to the following ex tract from the Hon. aentieuigii . l'i examination before the Committee of the llotiee of4',lol4;ssic.it, in 1825 : no you think the Catholics of Ireland wadhi telt to 04g,14,7,70 the indirect political power they now possess by meana ,tir, forty-shilling freeholders, for the direct advantage of the PLii:Lwil influence they would pos sess if admitted to the enjoyment rights?—There 1 414,7 be some little clamour on that subject, .:,)0!4(1 be an trr it c:::: f on z e, v a ,a u n d ; :;:n io k n easily, put down. t i Ji t i e nh there woul i ; ks any difficulty in coupling (hut with ; in my own judgment Mere would be none !" When our readers have compsas4 ,tisqs two Azt,f.w4ts, , t , liey will no d ou bt ,consider that i'he Ciiwc {errs k'' t aansistency, like his gown, is ste! A the t second have to notice an assertion, m:debythrsgm7g4g.,te„? hich has caused us no little astonishment. 0,0 t , 1 3 1 e man who has all his life r D ev a il iz e i d er tt i c cuntry-- - who has boldlYa who has the tt7rbers of the public assailed ilia 11,41 with the most unwarrantable abuse, and sYlio lussinfamously calumniated the Members of the G(wermirie 4 4 — sA,is man, now that years of infamy are drawing tsi 4 g.;4,35., comes 4." UM loyal to the, Throne fon7vArki Vld sap, roue arid v interests combine my dig . 111 . to I in my mind an - cilia:6 :l ; l4o f ti re ruTigpowere..— This, we imagine, is a pieac of 14";.;c ; ,7,1p ?Awn for w'hich ,osar readers were riot altogether prepaia, ' l si' ( ha third aril ast Rciin,t, to which we r efer is of a more se,a64s and important .ciiivacter; and We think it right t o direct the partieulaiasktaiaor of his Maj esty s Minis ters to the subject. Speilcl4, ,t ll e expected 'franchisement of the forty-shilling' f reo 4, 4 - !ai,srs ? the mos4,ebank says— " dail - atse; : ant were made to take from the forty shilling freehalers tae , i;;!•.tileges vested in them by the Constitution, I .. 11.1 to resist tha t at tempt by force, and in such resgtinC`e' 1 neon.',' !'e ready ,toper,4 ,field or on the scaffold. ,In awl .s4Ogsfe . , htitesta4t would join with Cathohe; a dd 'that excellent, opea4ea s t4 a zed patriotic Nobleman, Lord Cloncurry, would be wiroi , / Again we direct the attention OF 4 ; :piAteas to this paragraph. Here we find the leader of an illegal ,4ss , sociation, delivering his sentiments upon an portant ;rsieasure, and stating, that if the authorities dare to r fr - V.w1(:: l i e will resist it by face Some people may call this a rhetorical flourish ; but for our parts, if this he not seditious language, we know not what is. What ! is a reckless Dema gogue to he permitted to threaten the King's Go vernment with impunity ? Is he to be allowed to go unpunished, after having threatened the Ministers with rebellion, if they presume to perform their duty? It is useless to tell us that the -people are free to state their grievances, and to demand redress.— We know all this; we knotV that in this favoured country the liberty. of the .soject is great indeed ; but we know also, that - if a salutary restraint be not placed .upon that liberty, no man can be safe, no laws can„be effeethe, and no permanent tran quillity can lie-expected. We. should think our selves worthy"ol ineffable contempt did we for a moment attempt to support an act of oppression ; • but we must say, and we do say, in the full as surance that every honest man will agree with us, that public justice calls for the punishment of the demagogues for their violent and profligate con duct. Had a Protestant uttered the language im puted to O'Ci»mell, the voice of complaint would have been heard from one end of the kingdom to the other, and the strong arm of the law would have fallen upon hint. Why then should this man— an unprincipled demagogue, and an avowed enemy to the Established Church—why should he escape punishment ? We sincerely hope that such will not be the case. Let equal justice be dealt out to both parties, and we shall heartily applaud the act, whe ther the offender be a Protestant or a Roman Ca-- (FROM THE MORNING HERALD.) It is not to be wondered at that a Baron of the Exchequer shoUld decline to exchange his situation for aPuisne Judgeship in the Court of King's Bench, seeing that the former is almost a sinecure, compared with the latter, although•the salaries of both are the same. A Judge of the King's Bench is considered to be sufficiently compensated by a salary of 5,500/. a year for the performance of duties which keep him in Court from seven to eight hours a day, and some times more, during'Terrn, besides giving similar at tendance, under the King's warrant, for some weeks after the end of the Term—not to say any thing of the judicial functions which be performs at cham bers; while a Baron of the Exchequer is paid as much by the country for enjoying a sort of " learned leisure" that lasts the greater part of the year—his Term being, for the most part, vacation—and the longest day of business being usually a haUlholyday. It is, indeed, very common for the Court of Ex chequer to sit at len o'cic,4 and rise at half-past ten. When business lasts until eleven, it is a labori ous morning, and, should the Court not rise before noon, the tide of litigation must run Unusually high in that part of Westminster Hall. While such is the state of business in this Court, business accumu- Isles in the Cowls of pha u ery and King's Bench, and, with all the despatch used in the latter, where a Chief Justice presides whose intelligence and quickness, in the decision of both arguments and causes, has, perhaps, never been surpassed, there is always a considerable quantity of litigation in ar rear. One great cause of the unequal condition of business in the CpuFts of Icing's Bench and Exche quer is, that the latter is a close Court. 'Tie practic:e there is the monopoly of some few attorneys, no other attorney can bring or defend an action but in the name of one of these " Clerks in Court," but the public, not having any great confidence in this mono poly, do not choose to patronize it very liberally ; and hence it has become a place where four Judges, with salaries amounting altogether to ahove 2iooo/. a year, may, in course of time, levri to forget their law." On Wednesday, far instanee, while the Cowl of King's Bench was occupied with a trial at Bar, which is likely to consume several long days, to the great delay of the regular business of the Term, three Barons came into the Court of Exchequer ai the usual hour; the officers were all in their places, the tubro4p 7.yas, like Diogenes, in his tub, and one other gentleman 'With a' wig was lu the row of benches adjoining the tub. Mr. Baron' narrow, taking his seat, asked if there were any other motion —meaning, perhaps, that his movement into Court was'cpe rat:tion. he tubman and his brother bar-- rister near him bowed, ttyb otter Barony and—exeunt omnes. Now, it is not seemly that Court of Law, which costs the public so much, should be in this state of almost desuetude. We have .stated the principal cause of it—let that cause be reti)air . ed, let'tne unjua and most iniurious mono poly be done away with. 'The evil Cos been long enough apparent--reform is wanted. The COurt must be made an open one, or the public will ask why it costs so much ?" (OiCliq THE NEWS.) From Mr. O'Connell'Sveiy interesting speeo, at a meeting of the Catholic Association on deidiy last, we acquire the important information, that our Minist49 Irve been applying to the Pope, through the mediuM of the hanovei-,an Ambassador, for a Concordat to settle the que4ti'Ort of Cittholic o:rnitn cipation. Nothing, we conceive, could be more ill advised or ill-timed. We are continually blaming, the C4t;;c‘lies for their deference to a foreign an-: thority, aria yet hers -.Fe 47f... exposed to the world as claiming the support a that very a . 4thorily, we are censuring the Catholics for holding in re= verence. What need was there on our parts, ut h,';,o . iting to the Pope ? Why appeal to him as ata arbiter; xei.,?;-, it well known that the Irish Catholics woutd . pay'no te, - , - pez,:t to his decision, unless it squared with their wishes. ft is'a calumny; no less silly than false, to suppose that the Irish Catholics of the present day are retained 'in more sidijeclian ;:q tl:± Priesthood than our people to the Clergy of the L"• ; i.")a , i, we believe in much less ; inasmuch as in our yovinces a large portion of our Clergy are Magistrates, and as such hold the lives and fortunes of most of their flocks, in 'F:on.a ic77ee. of dependence—whereas, in Ireland, the Pricat is 4 ci.cppant on his flock, rather than a superior. The truili't tli4t 1-4,en the Priest's in junctions coincide with their wish6s, 'the obey him ; but they have of late assumed too ri.uch of the politician to allow of their being ISriest t die i. ne Anti-Catholics, on either side of the water, slidhlki" i hr 4 v4ipv.2;:, no longer complain of the respect paid by tttd tatithiics 4:6 tO,; rope, when they see the Ministers of the trio . stlPOiverilui T.'rctestant State in the world resorting to him for train a ;;;;:".I:cr where that aid is not invoked, but rather depre`e'deed; ity t'he ether party. It is well known that the Irish Catholids, th4ir hogs of emancipation, look not to the Pope,'bui to tfii p r ritish Government. They view the question as the Pope has no concern beyond that of .sacerdoia is in course should possess . no, influence. It tneretote sfirialige 4;t3 pg Minis ters should be found confessing an authority ;he Catholics disavow; while at the same time they •UWustity to the latter the very subservience tley uregiili t rof ..,L•; (PIWN THE Atifi When this country interfered in the affairs At the Peninsula, we inspired the Spaniards with a deep at• tachmeut for liberal institutions; their enthusiastic spiri t t j;; - 4i1....ed with ardour the precepts of freedom ; and tbei, %flask, ,4„ - i :hp influence of our example, became unfitted for siviery; 'We ..her, ;34. - ..:red Fer dinand on the throne; but our chivalroils'ixoFtiou! ,, while: they rescued that unhappy people from the grasp pf one tyranny, only flung them at the feet - of a worse. ''e4(4,itt.i.ttd, their legitimate Monarch, wa s no sooner seated th • paver, became all op pressor. Persecution in detail huttied'tha . ;iipi. - n;; , ,pls through every province, and in every condition of right e 4 Aete the dream of their Constitution and th eir :;iiiiihtkpl into air; and they were visited by their King with alt tits rt«i f a modern Inquisi tion,•for tke assertion of thesiveq•piinLip;:e, , preserved to him his kingdom. Their property i'at s i eonlisc;t,?,d—their lives perilled—their families cast' out info the etegi tiOriit; to atuitidort : fields of their native land— forcedand ii 4; :;,,;,canted associa tions of elder time and the kiesi`;- ,Voken refugees fled to England for 'that succour; .„lA,o l. e),..jpstrt,tctions in the less O ns o f liberty . had! ma i n ly enntraWt4 re,hAl.er necessary.' Many of these outcast strtillgni [erg kg, gikrtini ia emir streets, or uttering their last sighs is miserable ob scurity. The graceful daughters of a gallant people —once the inspirers of hope, the charmers of their admiring circles, who were born in the lap of afflu ence, and nursed amidst the prayers and blessings of domestic attachments—intellectual, high-minded, and delicate women —are now perishing, day by day, in opulent London. Their children, too, some of whom have not yet learned to lisp the beggar's peti tion on our highways, lift: their little arms in vain to the dear sources of their existence, and in their glazed eyes convey that harrowing request which is answered. by groans of despair. And the patriot fathers and husbands, where are they ? The nerves of forti tude are snapt, the vigour of mind and body is gone, they are emaciated and stricken down in anguish. — They turn from the partners of their terrible suffer. ings, and beseech of Heaven the speedy termination of their woes. The anticipations of youth, the promise of their dawning independence, have all sunk before them, they are friendless, exiled, house• less, and reduced to the last pangs of long enduring want. To call upon the people of England for aid is superfluous; that aid will be accorded by every one who feels the blessings of home, and in whom the charities of common humanity are not yet extin gukhed. Happy fathers, when they look on the joyous faces of their own children, will think of the poor exiles' offspring, and transmit a mite to snatch the little strangers from starvation. Mothers will feel the sympathy thrill through every vein when they clasp their infants to their breasts, and think what would their agonies be if such a lot hefel them. Daughters will intercede for help, and trem bling at the narrative of the misery that surrounds them, sweeten their own enjoyments by contributing to the relief of the wretched. Subscriptions have already been actively set on foot, bur to be available for any permanent purposes, they must . be universal. Every house, every family, can afford something— let that something be freely given, and given at once. There is one obligation that knows no dis tinction of colour or of clime, of sect or of party — that is not conventional nor conditional; that is not limited by prejudice nor dictated by interest; that is alike a duty under all circumstances and in all places, 'and that obligation is Charity. In England we claim it as a national trait; this is the moment to render it a practical virtue. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. On Saturday, Mr. King, gun-maker, Tavistock street, Covent-garden, appeared before Mr. HALLS, the sitting Magistrate, to answer to an assault war rant, obtained against him by Mr. Abel Hill, a per son connected with the manufacturing of guns in Birmingham. •The complainant stated that the defendant was his debtor for a considerable time past, in the sum of 3/. I Is., and although repeatedly applied to for payment, he (the complainant) could never obtain a settlement of the account. On Saturday morning he went himself to Mr. King, soon after his arrival in town, and again demanded payment, and was put off with an evasive answer as before, . Determined, howpver, to have his money, be sat down in the shop, and told Mr. King that be was resolved not to stir a step unless he were paid. Upon this Mr. King flew into a violent passion, and swore that the complainant should quit his premises instantly.— Suiting the action to the word, Mr. King toik the complainant by the collar, and forcibly pushed him from the shop into the street, tearing his coat in the struggle. Under thesp cirpipnstapces, an assault warrant was applied for and obtained. Mr. HALLS asked the defendant what he had to say in answer to the charge ? The defendant did not attempt either to .deny or defend the assault, but observed it was extremely hard that respectable tradesmen should be subject to be annoyed as he had been by the complainant. Mr. lim,.,Ls—" Respectable tradesmen" do you say a tradesman, you should pay yolly debts, Sir, before you set up a claim to be respectable.-- You shall find bail for the assault. Are your sure ties ready ? The defendant replied that he was un provided with 1 7 4 ." Then you are in custody," said Mr. HALLS.-- " Gaoler, lock him up until he finds bail." Mr. King was accordingly removed to the lockup room, and after being incarcerated for about an hour, he sent to acquaint Mr. Hill that he was may 1:.o satisfy his detpa i od. NC Mil: however; had in the interval obtained a Marshalsea writ against Mr. King, with a copy of which he returned to Bow-street, and caused it to be served upon Mr. King, who was not only obliged to pay the original debt of 3/. 11s. before he oh. taihed his liberty, but sip additional fsi., being the amount of the copy of the writ, epense of the warrant, officer's fees, &c. &c. 111AIYLEBQNE. 4t the desire of Lord I . F , eversham, the . *v. pr, Cootnber clime to the 'office on Friday night, to re quest the magistrates to make official inquiry re specting. William Holiday, a Yorkshire lad, son of his Lordship's coachman, who disappeared seven or eight we* ago, under cheprastances %illicit are very extraordinary."" He wanted to come to London, and his uncle, who is Dr. Herbert's coachman, of Grafton-street, Bond-street, brought him to town, and employed him 41 his master's stables, The lad possessed an active mind and t in obliging and pr. Herbert took a 'fancy to filin, and 'treated unusual kindness. One morning, after cleaning a pony which was under his care, tvithowt changing his stable dress, he drew on a pair of half-boots, and afterwards said to apthos servant, " WOlldq Whqt iiit'atese'bObts op for t ?!: He eheit'left plac.e„ and never since returned, and all inquiries and adver-: tisements have been useless. Mr. GRIFFITH sent Stowell, the officer, to fetch his uncle ; but he knew no more than has been al i'jadY I;tat'cd, ;or ti r e boi y;;;nt away in the morning before he was up. He . lett all' hik be t '' clotiles'L'e. hind, and had no money in his pocket. He might have had money if he had asked for it, and have taken his clothes with him ; but the only circum- M;T2? out of the usual course was his putting on the boots; and his appears involved in mystery. Dr. Cootulier Chan)ted theinagistrate for (pe pains he bad taken, and left a description df the 10. He is 13 years old, has a fair complexion,' light Lett brown hair, a rod colour, and speaks in: a 'Vaksflirg • • Emily Cox and two excavators were apprehended on Saturday by Webster, the officer, in Lisson grove, under suspicion of sheep-stealing. cfficer placed the prisoners at the bar, and proanc4.i4 the pints of a slie;:p; ~ /lticlt he found in their possession;'and Aieltievldent'ly had nof 'Oen skinned nor cut up by a butcher. I The' prisOnet'S gave no satisfactory account how the mutton came into their possession, and they were remanded till e.. 170114; ; - -11t! then. no owner appearing, they were rerutintretngen s rtiu thi •4, • I ?: THAMES POLICE. George Pickering alias Card, the person in cus tody upon the charge of being One of the crew en gacz4 in the navigation of the sloop called the 4"llfh t tlflioFror;, :;ei.:K.d in October at Gravesend, with a large cargo f'',celitt;ahainti:'spirits, t?, aT•4 silk, was brought on Saturday bdoreMesst.',Bitoi DERIP and RICHBELL, for final examination. Mr ' Shepherd appeared. as Counsel, and Mr. ThVelieray,,Qup,Q;J:uri colic;_tors to the. Customs, at tended for the and - sin ir t . lg L g a li n u g g ti ha tr m ai , s a a t e tel o id n ed for die' prigonerro t • : The inform at i on ex hibit e d against the prisoner for this was of great length, and was ui;(.;ei: NI and 7th of the present King. It charged thitilk battig 4 f.ilik s e;;l cf this realm, did unlawfully enter ai certain' ,yiver. :in retie county a Essex, not being driven by stress of Weather . or : uro. avoidable accident, with a sloop laden with contra &find spirits 0 brcoV, geneva, tea, and silk, to the valtie'a 6,00b1. V,;ell knowing the same to '4e stnrg7. gled, and' with intent-to cheat iand 'ilefrata his Ma:- ?esty's revehire, for which he wast liablel4o ;the for feiture of 100/., and under the Gth of the present King, to five years' service in the navy. The prisoner, who is an athletic and determined looking man, pleaded " not guilty." Mr. Shepherd stated to the bench the facts by which he meant to maintain this information, and directed their attention to the sections of the acts awarding for the offence the penalties described. He called Mr. Benjamin Donn, one of the customs' inspec tors of the port of London, who stated that on the 18th of last month he was on duty at Gravesend. At about five o'clock :in the evening, he hailed a large sloop then sailing on the wind towards the Thames. The man at the helm said, "We are from Southampton, with-corn." He directed his . men to row around her stern, and he perceived painted on it, " Nancy, Boston." He again hailed her, and got alongside, and requested to see the register, and may ter: a voice in the sloop said, " Noakes, you are wanted," and a stout man came alongside, and said he was the master, and had been 12 months on board. He saw the register and asked for the cargo book, but the man who was called Noakes said a boy had burned it. Witness boarded her, and went into the cabin to look at the Southampton custom papers. He saw the prisoner near the companion, and is of opinion that he could not avoid hearing the conversation. Some discussion here arose, upon the admissibility of the conversation, Mr. Kelly contending that as it was doubtful whether the prisoner heard it all, it could not be admitted. it was ultimately decided that the conversation should not be received in evidence. Mr. Donn stated, that finding some confusion, the master's name not being endorsed in the register, he was examining the papers, when he heard some one say, " Oh, they are off in the boat." He ran upon deck, and saw the three men belonging to the sloop rowing to the Essex shore, where they landed and ran away. He then seized the sloop, and brought her to an anchor. He eventually found that she was laden with above 1,000 casks of spirits, tea, and silk. The contraband goods were stowed below the main deck, under a strong platform of three-inch deals, which ran from side to side of the sloop, to the full extent of her width. The concealment was made perfect by sacks of corn five or six in depth, being placed over the platform up to the hatchway. The vessel was certainly not constructed for the fair trade, She was in ballast to the depth which a full cargo of corn might be supposed to sink her in the water. He took Noakes before the mayor at Graves end, who committed him to prison, but he after wards escaped. He saw the prisoner in the dock for about five seconds; he is quite certain he was the man. In his cross-examination by Mr. Kelly, the, wit ness said that although he did not fix his attention particularly upon the prisoner, yet he felt satisfied as to his identity. The cargo was not worth 10,0001., but perhaps 6,000/. He, under some circum stances, is entitled to a share of the seizure. He will receive a share in this, but that cannot in any way be affected by the prisoner's conviction or dis charge, In reply to a question from Mr. BROGERIP, he said he knew the prisoner when stationed at Hast ings by the name of Pickering, grandson of George Curd. Some of the Custom-house watermen who board ed the sloop with the inspector, identified the pri soner, and said he was one of the men who escaped in the boat. Evidence was then given as to the transmission of the sloop from Gravesend to the Custom-house, anti the appraisement of her cargo of spirits was described to be 6,0001. The tea was sent to the Excise. This was the case for the information. Mr. Kelly then took some objections to the infor mation, upon the ground that it never could be as sumed by the Act of Parliament to propose two modes of punishing one offence. He contended that the punishment of fly? year:; service in the Pavy could not be implied when the other Act gave a positive penalty of 1001, and directed detention in prison until it be paid. He urged at considerable length these objections, and cited the clauses of the Act in support of them ; therefore he argued that the information was not maintainable, as it ought to have been expressly laid under one or the other of the Acts of Parliament, the ayetrwtfi of both of which it set forth, Tha Magistrates declined hearing Mr.' Shepherd in reply, considering the information to have been properly laid. Mr. Kelly next submitted that they were bound to show the prisoner was a subject of the King, and also that he had incurred 4 penalty. This was also overruled, as a clause of the act threw the onus of that upon the ticeused. Mr. Kelly next addressed the Magistrates upon the facts of the case, and hoped, as the decision they must come to in this case wenld be Anal and irre trievable, they would give it calm and mature de liberation. They stood in the relation of judge and jury, and if, hereafter, upon more calm consideration, they felt they ought to revoke that decision, they had no power, no opportunity, or the most 'emote chance of reversing it, The witnesses for the Crown, he trusted_ it would h,e recollected, were deeply 'interested in this matter, because, upon con viction of the offender, they then came in for three fourths of the seizure, and under such circumstances, perhaps, leaned too Rie4 against the accused. The qnestion, he contended, now for their consideration ti a.s did the unfortunate man know of the smuggled goods being op board. It had been proved they were out of sight, so concealed that no person mold see them. It ought also to he shown that he WA have that knowlpdp., atld where he entered the slO.op. tie 'arifortunately was without the means of showing his innocence, because the very men who were his witnesses, and Who could prove when and where he entered on board, had fled to avoid the vengeance of the Crown. He urged that the evi dence of Mr. Potip we to sho i w the s' a oop . hac4 eveiy r,ppei2irau4c ti fair trader, and .fend;rit might be deceived into a belief that she was solely laden with corn. As to his running away, what, he would ask, could he do in the alarm and confusion of the moment, when he saw the others leave ? Flight was his only alternative. In the absence of all cogent evidence of this guilty knowledge, lie sub- Of t eit that to e9t rr t ort pliarit : y it lv . !as bpt right to assume lie bad been deceived into the vessel. Mr: Shepherd rose to reply. .Nr, Kelly objected i and said hp had no fight to reply lit itSes of this Kurd.' Mr. Shepherd contended that he had, and stood upon his right. After some deliberation, the Magistrates desired Mr. Shepherd to proceed in his reply. Tire parned p F ntleinan said, liad the prisoner been tinaWaie . of the nature 'Of Ihe , catio, 'hag full opportunity to show where he shipped from, and what his pursuits were. The guilty knowledge was manifested by him throughout. Why did he run from the sloop before the officers made the dis 'POVery 1 it wtoPid have keen a ocd 4rguiTter,t in favour Of his alaffit it he had fled:AA the (11146diery was made. He had said nothing which could ex culpate himself, .or show he was not the character deposed to. The evidence, he submitted, had con clusively brought the case home to the prisoner, and II upoa the #.44,gis;:Ngs, as tits Of thli Crown, to tititilkiP duty by cdnitietink hint Mr. BRODERIP, after 'constrlting. with Cipthin RICHBELL, said if they had any doubts, the prisoner would certainly have had the .benefit of them ' but they WI iiorte,,,. th p pittt-v had keep ''royptt..endthq tiwarded and adjudged the ' 1 prtsoder to'serVg Majesty's navy for five years as a sailor. The, prisoner was sent off in the evening to the Nore, and will be put on board the first ship of war going on a foreign station. UNION-HALL. • A few days agoi the' fihn ofl•ATessrs. Christy, the extensive hat-MarufactUters Of Bermondsey; disco vered that immense quantities of their property were stolen. •Qn the - discovery, every method was used fin the purposirof detecting the offenders, nridit'silis at length ascertained that a man named Bowkil e j warehouseman in their service, and who had 6 " the situation for a great number of years, Was c" caned in the robberies of his employers. Amongst the witnesses to give evidence a him, upon which he was fully committed, 10 " 0 they warehouseman named John Henry Fran'' had been in the employ of Messrs. Christy for i. years, and who had been taken at an early .1e .. ,„, a charitable institution into their service. t dividual, who was one of the chief witnesses or - i s i . Bowker, was himself suspected of having heeO e y gaged in robbing his employers, and on t rivest i l; e tion of the matter, it was also discovered tti o f was concerned with Bowker, and had aispos l , o o several hats without accounting to those by Ol e s he was employed, and on Saturday he was also ° into custody, and brought to this office. L As there were a great many cases a g ainst tri toner of his having sold hats belonging to the t ve and converted the proeeeds to his own usel'i o r out of the number were selected, by whick:oe peared th a t it was t h e p r i soner ' s d uty to take OP of, enter, and sell hats belonging to the firo 3 : 4 oP the 13th of September he sold a hat to Sri. or named Harding, f or w hi c h h e did not ac ed ,t' t he enter in any of the bo o k s o f t h e concern. ti;cir 16th of August he sold ano th er , un d er sirniroof cumstances, to a Mr. Molson ; and in the Hasp May he also disposed of another to Mr. I liO The individuals wh o h a d p urc h ase d th e hats!,, i bt prisoner attended, and,p rove d th a t th e y had ry, so d them under the circumstances above mention e d several witnesses belonging to the manntr o f were examined, who identified them as the plvr„,oe of Messrs. Christy, and that the prisoner had S; st no entry of the property he had thu s disposeit, accounted for the money he had received for Oro, The prisoner was committed on the three-001 the Magistrate (Mr. .Hone) remarking that s ,o useless to enter into all that had been alleged ir him. st• In the course of the day an elderly gentletep tended for the purpose of giving. information tog following robbery : —He described that be resifie Croydon, and that for some years past he hoo p Or engaged in making important discoveries in tbC sp d system, and also with respect to the north stsf o r polar istance, all of which calculations he had, ig cli mitted to paper ; and for the better safety 01 ,j o r experiments in the science of astronomy, he haopr ed them between the ticken of his bed. On ~1 . 1 . 1 r day last, having occasion to go to Ewell, on °St turn he found that his premises had been cooo' and the whole of the papers containi ng his ... .10 4 Y veries stolen. The applicant a dd e d, t h a t he . his discoveries at least at 2001., and would IP handsome reward if they were restored to him' ir Mr. HONE told hint that the robbery shouldh o lo serted in the daily report transmitted from this to Bow-street. Upon which assurance the applicant withdreft. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DuitlNG NW * Wheat. Barley. Oats. Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s.g• 74 39 26 'riot Carmarthen—. 75 32 -- 19 64 70 27 33 18 25 Morpeth 56 70 40 42 20 26 4 " Penrith 68 32 27 0 ",) Sheltield,---. 70 81 36 50 24 35 Winchester '76 87 34 41 24 517 F . 9 Per Bushel. s. d. s. d. s. d. v. d. s. d. s. d. s 0 d. 9 y Coventry '7 3 80 32 42 3 4 40 n Newcastle (Staff.) jl2 0 12 2 7 0 '7 3 4 8 5 0 596 Northallerton —.. 18 0 10 0 4 0 4 3 2 3 2 6 0 0 0 Stafford 11 6 11 8 0 0 7 0 4 4 9 Swansea 89 93 40 46 2 3 2 g . Warwick 90 10 0 43 53 33 50 3 , Per 8011. n Barnardeastle.-- 17 0 21 0 9 0 9 6 5 8 7% I ONO Darlington —l9 0 21 0 9 6 10 0 4 8 'X ' l ' I 'o 0 0 Durham 17 0 20 6 80 93 50 86 11 Wolsingham —,—;l7 0 20 6 8 6 9 0 6 0 7 6 ° ...1.10.......M....,T.11~/11 1 ••• ••••••.- WAKEFILII, Nev. 21. IY f4e T to h r: e Whea t i descriptions s generally uppll of offer 1 4s. per quarter, but the millers being strongly ivolLie with the idea that the Bonded Wheat will come freed the market, and having a limited demand for FlOO . l l O now, will only purchase at a reduction of 6s. per O r e c w lo h ße ich of ha t s he no m t a b r ee ke n t g t e h n e era l l u ly an co ti m ty p o li f ed bu W s lt n ik es, , , nlUi don u e l .) ,pli is not extensive. Thq beat heavy Raley is 2s. ptthiollasmaotranidnegcliisnelaorgfego;#ll 1j trifling. Oats fully maintaip late prices, but the de per 4 0 J ter lower, and there is no demand for the NOrf° 1 1•0 Suciolk light qualities, which are very plentiful. ," - e r are very dull, and le. per quarter lower. M 1 P tremely heavy sale, and prices are looking down. 0. Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Suffolk ~..... 665. to 742. fl e ,',6lP Liacolnshire.....y q , ......... 675. to 7 35. r!";15.• Yorkshire, &C . 69s. to 725. On 6.,* - White ,‘ 69s. to 795. 6 9 :r 4 1a. - Foreigr fi „ Old Os. to '72s. tio' ili. Barley, Norfolk and Suftblk 34s. to 3'13. 0n 8 ,.....0 . -,-- Lincolnshire 3'Zs. to 4 1$. 1.7,49 0 ' -----. Yorkshire \Vold ........... Beans, Tick 395. to 435. 45'' ---- Small 369. to 448.11,;;;;94 4 Oats, Poland and Potato 22s, to 31s. Il.';02 0 • - Friesland and &nail vs. to 2tis. tin s ipag,' Alc‘aliiis mi. to 16d. Per v o., 2heiling 36s. to -s. -s. to 395. Per ipe, Malt 44s. 48s. tine 50s. Pe r 4,Sor Rapeseed . tr CORNWALL MARKETS, . 1 0 ' Tatiao.—Wheat (average) . 3ls. Od.—llarley, 1451.-5,0 2 — , 0 llELaTox—Wheat, 295. Sd.—Batley, 15s. Od. 160. , ' Sr. AusTELL—Wheat, 30s. to s.—Ba.rley, 15s. to lt i " 134. Od. to lts. - °AO" 12 . , B L. 4 0 w p v i e l . Niii k e9 V )if , _ _h_ 6d o4 N. v t , . . . 4 ( ileai ,tlt average) t4oync : 3 0 5,a I s e .. ) 0 2 t . 7. 04 14 a LI o B a y , r r e y . ) .0 d i4 . 9 7 0„ ~ 0. Ai 00 / ' LisKcano—Wheat, 275. to 29:3. 31.—8ar1ey,145.,--' 0,0 0 . 0 to Os. Od. ST. CoLona.4Wheat, 303. to 345. —Barley, 13s. to PO' • „„ti, and Mutton, 5d to Ad .—Veal and Lamb, Od to sd. „,... 1 5, PENZANCE—Wheat, 275. to 29s, —Barley, —s. to I. , '' to lv 9s. to —s. Od.—Beef and Mutton, sd. to Od.—Purk, 31d• Butter, llid. per lb. . e .44 4 v 0 11111411 W INTELLIGENCE. 1 1, -- 5 ' 0 Quantity of Copper Ore sal at Itedruth last Thursday 2,-0 Aivgrage Produce Quantity of title CO4er Am , A;11 of Sale 160181. 5.4. kid.--Average Standard. 1 1 . 1 . :„.,./ / ii 13' H BIRTS On the 20th inst., the lady of . Henley Smith, E st i Kelsey-park, Beckenham, Kent, of a daughter. On the 10th inst., at Clifton, Lady Stuart, of a s°'• On the 22d inst., the lady of R. W. carded, Hunter -street, of a dan,gliteTt MARRIED, ag eS Qn the ntli inst., at St. George's, Ilanoverlifa l 'i Mr. George Ravenor, to Emily, eldest daughter o Graham, Esq., of Ebury-cottage, Pimlico. JO Ie4 On the 6th inst., at St. James's, Piccadilly, Sr. g Oe°'l Wagner, of Piccadilly, to Louisa, eldest daughter "` y . j Robson, Esq., of Trinity-square, and Clapham, , S °rre c. On the 19th in.st., at St. Botolph, Aldgate• f ide; Walker, R. N., son of Admiral Walker, to Ano,o , daughter of John M o yer,p a ., Aik atr „ b ,,0 qn the 20th jnsr., at St. Mary 'Woolnoth, street, Mr. M. Burrows, Poultry, to Margaret, da"S Mr, George 'igg, of Mansion-house-street. On ,the 22d inst., at St. Botolph Bishipsgafec oofer Rev. Mr. Tomlinson, Mr. D. Harwood, of Bish°,Y, to Miss E. Campell, of Islington. The parties be i 'l; f hers of the Church of God, usually denominated of thinking Christians," were attended by the Community, and presented their 44u4 pi ; 44eqt l o.4 marriage ceremony, as by liiw e's'tablished. Du ct 0 progress of the ceremony, the Minister, in referen c liOi own situation, exclaimed, " This is exceedinglY ace flt and whilst the parties fully participated in this fe e i ii directed the Minister's attention to the distressing 9' of t. icome which they by the law were placed—being co • do violence to their faith and conscience, DiEP: •' 5 94 ,' On the 19th inst., at Brighton, Stephen Rolle sw "' . o many years Assistant Under Secretary of S late ! I i 0) Foreign-office. His many amiable qualities, a nd ' l O °° and conciliatory disposition, gained him the estedeu,inf attachment of every one who had access to bim , long course of publif:, life, rail endeared hi a,; - . to a itg l i;}o. of private frienos; the 7 19th' inst. f' at Htsles; Lanashitle, tm e A his brother-In-law, Joseph Birch, E5q., , 31.1":, 13 * wood, Esq.,•of'Clareinont, near Mantthesteri :.On the 21st hist', aged 43, - Ilry . Ann; nc Frill, hop .fnet4; - 11ororag p, •al Sr man, Bart.i Captain' in the RoYal Navy.. , On the 16th inst., at her house, Carshalton, Airn* toun, widow of the late 11. Houstoun, Esq. 0 . / 1%1 On the 20th inst., at Blackheath, aged four r poi' thur, son of the Rev. Dr. Russell, of the Ch artec- On the 20th imt., at hie house in 111illtnaPIW!' ford-row, A l;s1) 012.' On the 16th Sherd, near Nortus Derbyshire,.aged PRINTD P.UBLisHgtTt7)Tiarki YOuriro, Styx OFFICE, 112, STRAND, LONDON. I / `~ ~ • . giV V S. I ) Abe 011 c iXp , 4 tanl the §os ' . 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