The Sun. — London, England, 1828-05-29 00:00:00

SPIRIT' OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Having now made known to the public the names I of those who retire from office, we must breathe awhile. It is a work of longer time to recompose than to dislocate and dissever a Ministry ; and such is the number of those who have retired from office, —Lord Dudley, Mr. Huskisson, Mr, C. Grant, Lord Pahe.erston with Mr. W. Limb, and others that are not of the Cabinet,--such the consequence. of those Whom we have mentioned, for their talents, and the several stations which they held, that their seces sion must be considered as a dissolution of the MiL pistil's It is also a proof of the formation of a hew Ministry, and that nothing less than this hi the work to be accomplished, = that: a new plan of policy must even of necessity, f r inn henceforth be a d opte d ; f or, however extensive may be the approbation of Mr. Huskisson's measures,—with whatever rapidity they were consummating our commercial grandettie—there is no one left behind who is at onee capable of. car rying them on in the office, and defending them in' the Senate. So that a different tone of corn ercial policy must be assumed ; and this being the case, how can a House of Commons which has sanctioned all the projects of the late Colonial Secretary turn round And appreve of their reversal? Hence the by quency and positiveness of the reports that Parliament must be diisolved. If anew Ministry and a new system of policy are not sufficient to draw on the netemity of a dissolution of Parliament, it is asserted, that the consternation produced in a variety of quarters by the investigations of the Finance Committee, and an apprehension of the retrenchments it. may advise, in the preient state oldie country, render it extremely desirable to get rid of so troublesome a monitor; and the dissolution of this body would, of course, follow the dissolution of Parliament. Its truth, there must haVe been some very strong motives for snatching up Mr. Huskisson's conditional proposi tion to resign the seals of his office, and•interpreting it into a, positive resignation,. That gentleman did not, as the public will have learned from Mit pre ceding hints,—he did not, we say, resign :he only told the Duke of Wellington, by letter, that he was willing to resign, if the Duke thought it a necessary consequence of his vote in the' affair of East Retford. This, as we •have just said, was snapped up in an instant, and misconstrued into a posi tive resignation. But the presumed Misconcep tion was- Soon after set right, and that when the affair was not kriOwn to more than three or four of the . most . important per sons; so t h at t h en, h ad it not been an object to break up : the Ministry, there Was no occasion to persevere in forcing Mr. Huskiss9n's absblute retirement from - office. The fault, if it be one,—as we think it is, —of dissolvin g the Ministry, rests with tho se wh o declared by their actions that Mr. Huskisson's resignation was a ne cessary consequence of. his vote in the East Retford business. Mr. Huskisson himself did tint esteem it such, though, had even that cciiviction been tipon his mind, he would still, no doubt, 'have voted as he did. The consequence of thus breaking up the Ministry must, as .we have said aboVe, be a change of measures; and if the new system, whatever it may he, shall not be approved of by the Parliament which has sanctioned' the Ohl ) then we presume the present rumours will be confirmed,—a new Parlia ment must be called (fearful.as the step may be) to approve the new system. But what will foreign States and foreign Governments think of these in cessant changes amongst ps ? They will almost suppose us on the verge of a revolution. In their negotiations and dealings' with us, they must be perplexed beyond measure. A foreign Envoy may receive his instructions to communicate with one Ministry, and on his arrival find another to.' tally opposed to it. " Renuis quod In , jubel alter." The thread of his negotiations will be broken. The prospects of the empire under this falling off in the character and construction of its existing Go-' vernment, require to be looked at with firmness, but with temper. - There could at no period, even under an Administration the most distinguished for states manlike ability, have been a question raised as to the grievous loss sustained by the seeession---:we fear ' we must say the dismissal—of four such Ministers as those whose names have been recently blotted out from the Cabinet. They are all men of talent, all men of experience in public affairs, who have de voted, industriously and habitually, the efforts of well-gifted minds to the attainments necessary for political service in a free and great community. They are all individuals who have attested their sin cere attachment to certain principles, which, in the opinion of most enlightened then, have:become land marks of the cause of public liberty, and bulwarks of the prosperity of this nation. Mr. HuskisSon, their senior in the service, is, from his successful super intendence of one mighty division of the nationtl interests, the most celebrated commercial statesman of his time. Besides, if we come to qualities less in trinsic, hut, from the working of our political system, indispensable to a British Minister, every one of these servants, now lost to the Government,—though not, we trust, to their country—had the power of commu nicating his knowledge to others—of enforcing his views—of dissipating error from the minds of a throng of hearers, and of settling opinions upon ob jects of essential though disputed policy. They were all speakers in Parliament, infinitely valuable to those who have suffered or caused their retreat. We ask, then, first, with respect to statesmanlike capacity and power, who remains in the Duke* of 'Wellington's Administration in any degree fitted to direct and promote the foreign relations, or the policy, whether colonial or commercial, of the•empire ? And, se condly, who is there capable of discussing, before an enlightened or adverse assembly, the measures which the Government either adopts or rejects ? The question which arises' out of the two former is this—how can the. Duke of Wellington expect (how can he possibly desire, we might add) to go on for three menthe at the head of such a Cabinet ? If we take the mode in which a successes has been ap pointed to Mr. kluskisson for a sample, what, in the name of wonder—what military exploit was ever so desperate, as the attempt t o govern t h e B r i t i s h em pire on ie notions of its existin g Prime Minister ? To Sir George Murray we have already paid, with truth and candour, Alm homage which belongs to him. But Mr. Huskisson, a m an o f uncom mon ability. from nature, was no otherwise fitted . for the Colonial Department, but b y i n . t ense, long-continued, and various study,__ The art of moving troops over the widest surface in the shortest time, is somewhat dif ferent from that of discerning the complex interests of multifarious communities over, the whole su r f ace of the World,—of strictly applying or rel a xing e th e f application of principles, or suspe n d in g the watching the wants, and d iscree tly consulting thm o spirit and temper, of distant an d d iver sely constitut ed settlements,--e-an obligation, indee d, the force of which has not•always been respected if} the history of f our colonial. system, but the contempt for which has f requen tly be en productive of the most alarming consequences. Can it be, that Lord Aberdeen , or Lord Ellenborough ! stands candidate for the seals of Foreign Secretary ? But whither, then, can the gallant Duke betake himself; or is it really out of . ch materiali that he hopes to construct an Adminis tration, underthe present perplexing circumstances of the country ?• If his Grace be determined, it is equivalent to announcing that he will hive no Ca binet—no colleagues —none to differ from him = none to deliberate with him —none to succour him; that he will command-s-that he will vign—alone. This, indeed, is the " monarchical prineffile;" this. is, likewise, the t , military principl e : "—Wh at re spectit may show for the habits and constitution of England is another qu estion. ,„But 0 1 even , a. common Tory Cabinet, it would 1114ph hehov i the people to keep guard over the publicsafetyhTlmei, The resignation of Earl Dudley took place on Tuesday afternoon, so that the Ministers best known to the public as able and experienced Statesmen, and men of business, have all resigned. We alluded yesterday to the behaviour of the Duke of. Welling ton towards Mr. Huskissen, which necessarily led to the resignation of the latter. Our readers may recollect, that in the Debate in the House of Com tnons on the 21st of March last, on the East itet ford Oisfranchisetnent Bill ) M. Huskisson distinctly deClared ) that " if on the present occasion they had only, to determine the case of one delinquent bo rough he,certainly should recommend and support• the measure of transferring the franchise to some great commercial town; but it was riot with tine, but with t\Ve that they had at present to deal ) and tltlev had to deal with both at the smile time," Mr. Huskisson here declated, that a only-voted for the transference of the tratithilse of East . Retford Co the hutidted of tassetlaw, beenuse . Penryn was.,to be ttalisterred at the same time to a commercial town ; but that if there were only Otte berough td be dis franchised, he should rte fiat the transference to the commercial tewn: It so happened, that on the very night last Week on which the disetission re spftting test Retford took plate in the House of Commons, Earl Carnarvoti detlated, in the House of Lords, that the eVldence having failed in the case of Penryn, it was not his intention to proceed with the Bill for the disfranchisement of that bo rough; and this result was communicated to Mr. Huskisson, in the House of Commons, .by Lord Sandon who reminded him of his pledge on the 21st March, and called on him to fulfil it, as there Was only one borough now to be dealt with. Ap pealed to in this direct manner, with the knowledge that his recent declaration was fresh in the memory of the House, Mr. Huskisson had no choice but voting for the transference to Birmingham, if he did not mean to have himself held up to 'the country as a man who was utterly regardless of declarations or pledges. If he had even felt any, disposition to temporize, .the severe castigation which Mr. Peel received from Mr. Stanley, and the manner in which that Statesman writhed under it, afforded him but slender encouragement to escape from his pledge by a subterfuge.. Mr. HuskiSsoa has not, however,iived so long in the world, not to know that, even ill such - a trying conjuncture as that to' Which we have alluded, some explanation was due to the head of the Administration for dividing—in order to preserve his character—against his eel leagues. He therefore instantly wrote a letter to the Duke of Wellington; stating candidly the reasons "Which had weighed with, him as an Inducement to vote in the Minority; and adding, that if, after tak ing such a step,-his holding office should be felt as an embarrassment to the Administration, he should be ready' to resign; Mr. Huskisson cannot be igno rant of his own superiority, not only to the Duke of Wellington (who, If he pretend to any profound ;knowledge of State Affairs, must be the most impu dent man ever dipped in the Shannon), but,to all his colleagues; and it was natural that (if it were not determined to abandon the moderate system of Ad ministration pursued of late years) he should con clude his services must be of too much value to his colleagues to admit of their deeming his vote, cir cumscribed as lie was, a sufficient reason for his . resignation. The Duke, however, so far from put ting this liberal construction on the letter—which, in fact, made the resignation dependent 911 the opi nion of his Grace as to its necessity—lest not a - moment in laying the letter before his Ma jesty, as amounting to a resignation ; thereby, of course, declaring that such a measure had become necessaryTby the vote in the affair of East Retford. When Mr. Huskisson, who could hardly have been prepared for such a brusque proceeding, endeavoured afterwards to explain to 'his Grace that . his resignation was made to depend on his Grace himself, he cut short the Colonial Secretary in his usual blunt way, with the observation, which he re peated several times, " You have resigned; you have resigned." And byway of heightening the insult, he coolly informed the Ex-Secretary, that if he would consent to withdraw his letter, the subse quent proceedings should also be considered as not having taken place. In that it was obvious, that without forfeiting all claim to self-respect, andallow ing himself to be subjected to indignity, Mr. Htiskis son could no longer consent to hold office under_ his Grace. This system of dragooning a man so much his superior as a Statesman, and so deservedly look ed up to by his colleagues as a guide in these times of difficulty, was naturally felt as an indignity to all Mr. linskisson's ftiends and as naturally resented by them.. They felt that his Grace had altogether mis taken the relation in which he stood towards the . Members of his Cabinet, by supposing that the decision on which he plumed himself implied the treatment of experienced Statesmen, as he would his Aid-de-Camps in the- bustle of a campaign; They saw that there could be no place for them in a Cabinet with such a head. They might be willing to excuse his ignorance, and to supply his deficiencies as far as possible, but not having been trained to the blind obedience of aoimp, it was not to be ex pected that, besides winking at false steps occa sionally made by his Grace in his short cuts to the height of political science, they should be obliged to brook indignities from him. But this, we suppose, is what is called transferring the discipline of the Staff to the Cabinet; Sir George Murray will un derstand this peremptory system, as will Sir Henry Hardinge, if he succeeds Lord Palmerston (which, however, seems yet uncertain.)' The Lord Chan cellor Lyndhurst, like a sensible man, is preparing for the new regime, for we observe he wears a blue Wellington frock, blue trowsers, and a black cravat. This is as it should be, and proves that his Lordship can read the signs of he times. He is certainly in the right way of preserving the Seals, if there be not some soldier as fitted to succeed him as Sir George Murray must be to succeed Mr. Huskisson. The Country Gentlemen, if appearances may be trusted, are not altogether so enamoured of this dra gooning system as his Grace, and indeed do not he sitate to express themselves as exceedingly disgust ed with what has taken place. The liberal Tories keep aloof, and his Grace has no choice but to fill up his ranks from the High Tories.• Mr. Peel, we understand, is not so sanguine as his Grace as to the success of discipline without talent or experience in a Cabinet. Indeed, we under stolid that alarm for the stability of this new de scription of Administration is already paralyzing the civilian part of the Cabinet. We have already al luded to the plan organised by Mr. Huskisson -for the administration of the Colonies, on a plan equally beneficial to themselves and to the Mother Country. With the loss of Mr. Huskisson we must abandon all hope of colonial improvement. During the short time Mr. Huskisson presided over the Colonies, he had succeeded, through the intimate knowledge he possesses of the commercial affairs of the nation, in rendering these available in a variety of ways to Bri tish interests, not formerly anticipated. The Colo nies had hitherto been abandoned to Governors, and considered merely as the means' f affording' sinecures to Lord Johns, Lord Charleses,&c., and it wasleft to Mr. Huskisson to point out the means by which due advantage of their resources might be taken to the country. Lord Wallace, who by means difficult to explain, enjoyed at one time , some' reputation for business, is, it seems, to be put into requisition in the present dearth of Alinisteri. In all the offices he is voted one of the obtusest men that ever held place in an Administration.—lllornieg Chronicle. Our readers, we doubt not, are an x i ous t o h ear further information respectin g the Ministerial move ments, and we will of course cotnimmicate every thing that is know n u p on the subject. In the firstplace, we have to co ngratulate th e public upon the hi g hly gratifying; fact, that the whole o f t h e Liberal party, principals and understrappers, are to be dis missed, and that their pl aces arc to be ti lled by more • honest, and more trustworthy officers. The Duke of Wellington has at length become fully conv i nced of the worthlessness of these insidious Liberals, and has in, consequence determined to rid the G overn . ment altogether of their hateful and dangerous pre sence. Now, one word with the vanquished. " The Tories - are in ecstasies," say's a Radical Print; and - heartily do we agree with it. Yes, truly, they arc in ecstasies—and why not ? Their enemies are , defeated ; and shall they not rejoice ? The Liberals are overthrown, and shall they not shout over them The Tories have always venerated the • tutions Of their country, and have long fought in their defence ; and wby should they. not feel gra tified in this moment of triumph ?. Why should not their hearts gladden within them, when the men whose baneful principles have too long reigned paramount in the Cabinet, who would overthrow the noblest portions of our Constitution, and who have Crippled the energies of the country by their mad schemes otinnovation,—why, we ask, should not the Tories rejoice * " when • such men are driven from the Councils of the Nation ? Surely there can be nothing unnatural in this ! Surely, after -having battled through so long and arduous a struggle; after having been represented as weak, bigotted, and despicable; after having borne, with- Out flinching, the revilings of a desperate faelion— sttrely after having passed through such an awful Ordeal, we may be allowed a little sober joy on the occasion of ,our triumph—especially when that triumph is gained over the great and mighty of the nation—the powerful, the talented, and the patriotic Whigs ! ! He is no Tory who does not rejoice at the present momelnt ; and all that we can say is, that when we cease to express our gratification, and that loudly too, .at the failings of the faction, then may our friends forsake, and our enemies revile, us. But we can easily account for the anger of - our contemporary. He sees his own men dismissed with indignity, and their numerous plans of innovation frustrated—and by whom ? By men wheleve that Constitution which his friends, are seeking to mutilate—who have been represented by him as semi-traitors and impotent idiots, and who have caused the country, as one man, to point the finger of scorn and derision at his party ! Such is the situation of our worthy contemporary; and can we wonder at his peevishness ? Certainly not. As we, the Tories, have cause to rejoice, so, pari rations, the Radicals have cause to lament. -We will not, therefore, upbraid our enemies ;—no, we are too light-hearted. Within these few days, the milk of human kindness has so materially increased in our disposition, that we could even look upon that nasty thing, a Radical, without feeling a very great desire to crush it. .We repeat, therefore, we will not upbraid our contemporary, but we will admonish him. We would seriously urge him to be more placid, and more dignified in his lamentations. We would refer him to 'the wholesome advice of the Poet— /Equal') memento rebus in arduis Sertrare mentem--- For, saith he— Omnss eodem cogimur : (minium Versatur urns; series, mitts Sors exitura---- Morning Post. Various opinions have been broached on the con duct Lard Dudley would pursue with regard to the Ministerial arrangements. There is; however, no doubt that his Lordship has resigned, although lie .was transacting business as usual yesterday.' The Noble LoM, it is supposed, communicated his ulti matum to the Duke of Wellington, in the interview which be had yesterday. After this, a gentleman, very high indeed in the confidence of the highest personage in the realm waited on Earl Dudley to endeavour to persuade him to alter his determina tion ; but was not successful, as it is understoodhis Lordship took his farewell of the Foreign Office yes terday. It is generally understood that Sir George' Murray succeeds Mr. Huskisson. It is not at all unlikely that Mr. Calcraft, M.P. takes office in some shape or other. The' riegociatious are still pending: indeed there is Ilf) douht but that he has had several interviews with the Premier on the subject. This gentleman held the office, in the year 1806, of Clerk of the Ordnance (succeeding Lord Mary borough), under Lord Grenville's Administration. Mr. Calcraft was succeeded by Lord Shaftesbury when the Whigs went out. What office Mr. Cal craft will hold under the present'Administration has not been hinted at. It is generally, supposed, how ever, that it will not be one of any great import -once. Whether he will have a seat in the Cabinet is a matter-of doubt.—Morning Herald. Though the first impression be generally the cor rect one, yet those who act in haste as often repent the precipitancy of their conduct.: We have good reason to know that, on the night of the East Ret ford debate, a good deal of jarrinc , took place, on the Treasury Bench, between Messrs: Peel and Huskisson, while the result of the division (which, in sporting language, left the Government winners " by only a neck "), of course, did not tend to soothe. The affair, however, as between Mr. Huskisson and Mr. Peel, if it had abed alone,. admitted of being easily softened down and accommodated; though it would hardly partake of that quality which ascribes to the quarrels of lovers the renewal of love. Mr. Huskisson, however, by what we cannot but describe as precipitancy, rendered accommodation more im probable ; for, according to general report, in stead of going home and sleeping away his wrath, he retired to his study, and, without consult ing his pillow, sent in his resignation to the Duke of Wellington ; but couched, as it is said, in equivocal terms, which admitted either of its ac ceptance or rejection. There are those who consider this as a ruse de guerre on the part of Mr. Huskis son, in which,. as might be eXpected, the Duke out generalled him. Many persons imagine that Mr. Huskisson had net the most remote idea of his resig nation being accepted, but that, on the contrary, his proffer of it, on so trifling an occasion, would have been met on the part of the Duke with a soothing reply, which would strengthen and confirm' his im portance to the Government. If such were the case, Mr. Huskisson must have calculated ill upon the character of the person he had to deal with, and has most egregiously deceived himself. The Duke, it may, be readily conceived, has no turn for chilli's play in important. matters ; and having been already teased, past all endurance, by the bickerings and want of cordiality which he found to subsist between one part of his Cabinet and the other, thought' this a good opportunity of getting rid of the evil, without being himself, in any wise, the aggressor; and, therefore, with a decision peculiar to bis character, seems to have taken the matter in a much more prompt way than was expected. We cannot say that the result surprises us; on the contrary, we have rather bean surprised that a Government composed of such dis cordant materials should have hung together as long as it has done. As for the terms Whig and Tory, Liberal or Illiberal, the country, we believe, cares little for them. A British Ministry bent on con= suiting British Interests, both at home and abroad, is what the country at large wishes to see. But the best exertions of a Government can never be suc cessful if it be composed of persons pulling against each other, and whose minds are necessarily occu pied -rather in attempting to reconcile and satisfy each other's differences, than in bending the. whole weight of their abilities towards one paramount, object. It is more essential, therefore, in our esti mation, that a Ministry should be united among themselves, than that they should be composed-even . of the flowers of all parties, but, as such, unable to amalgamate. We would even sacrifice some share of talent to ensure this unanimity; for it cannot be' denied that weaker hands, drawing all one way, w ill effect much more than more powerful instruments tugging in opposite directions. However, therefore, ' we may regret, in some respects, the loss of Mr. Huskisson to the Government, yet, if his secession produces a greater union of sentiments among its members, his loss will be in a great degree compen sated. In the Duke of Wellington, as the head of the Government, the country, we are convinced, re- posesthellest confidence: and his Grace, pas fullest sessing that confidence, has a right to see about him those who will second his views-with alacrity—not embarrass him with their trifling differences.--Ibid. The resignations which were anticipated in our last have •since taken plaec. They embrace, we re gret to say, Earl Dudley, Lord Howard de Walden, Mr. C. Grant, and it is even added, but not yet of ficially, Mr. Planta, a gentleman who, having been brought into public life under the auspices of the late Marquis of Londonderry, could not possibly be deemed an intruder in a completely Tory Admini stration. that such will be the' character of the Ministry when're-composed;is now a matter of cer- ~"~ Wray. The Avhole of what has hitivrto beet-callo the libera , it tetites, its-p lac szall.be stiVied• by men_ w principle raled the state when it reached the pin cle of prosperity and glory, from which it has now for some years been slowly descend ing. , None of the successors to the vacant offices have yet formally received their appointments. The Earl of Aberdeen, however, it is believed, will take Earl Dudley's place, and from his long acquaintance with foreign Courts in the capacity of British Coni 'missioner and Minister abroad, his qualification for the task may , be duly inferred. Lord Stuart of Rothesay is also mentioned for the same situation but with a less degree of probability. The appointment of Sir Henry Hardinge to the War Office has not been confirmed. Lord Palmerston's successor is to be the Right Hon. Vesey Fitzgerald. At least the situation has been offered to him, and no doubt is entertained of his acceptance, though sufficient time has not yet elapsed to receive his answer from Ire land. Sir George Clerk hadalso been mentioned for the same office, but erroneously. The other arrange ments are not less easy than satisfactory. Lord Lowther takes the Woods and Forests, Mr. Arbuthnot goes to the Mint, and Mr. Harks returns to the Ex chequer. The situation of Colonial Secretary is placed, for the present, as we stated yesterday, in the hands of Sir George Murray : but though the gallant officer is a man of business; whose talents are not yet known to their full extent—a ready speaker, and has a per fect knowledge of the Colonies—it is thought that when all the other arrangements shall be completed the office will be transferred to Mr. Goulburn, who, after resigning the Exchequer to Mr. Herries,would otherwise find• himself unemployed. It was confi dently asserted yesterday that the Marquis of Anglesea would return from Ireland : but the re pot arose from the fact that Mr. Lamb had resign ed the Irish Secretaryship, and that his Lordship having desired to have Mr. Lamb, on going there, would probably not continue if he was deprived of his services. Nothing, however, has yet been heard from the Noble Marquis himself on that point ; but as he took the appointment directly from his Majesty, and is therefore bonnd to no party, it is believed that he will remain at the head of a country where he has already done so much good, and acquired so much esteem and popu larity. No one has yet been spoken of as President of the Board of Trade, because, ix consequence of Mr. C. Grant's absence from town, his resignation has not yet been officially received, and till it is, the vacancy cannot be filled up, which, the moment its existence is known, . will be done instantly and usefully. His Majesty is understood to have sent a message to the Earl of Eldon, and to have already had an interview with that acute and experienced Statesman. The result, however, has not yet trans .pired. The report of an early dissolution of Parlia ment continues to gain, instead of l'osing ground. Such are the otitlines of the arrangements which have been made up to the latest hour. It is probable that they will undergo some fresh modifications be fore they are completely settled; those modifications we shall announce as soon as they occur. With an Administration constituted as ours now promisee to, be, all will be unanimity and zealous co-operation. Neither will its course be perplexed and difficult. It is clear, straight forward, and easy. The new Ad ministration must sustain all the great interests of the country, so deeply alarmed even where they have not been shaken and injured. by the conduct of its predecessori. It must keep in view those prin ciples which raised the Empire to a height of pros perity and power unexampled in the history of na tions, and it will then meet its reward in the esteem, the •good will, and the support of all classes. We are entering upon in era full of menace and peril abroad: nothing can maintain us even at the point we are, but union, activity, and energy at home.— New Times. LAW INTELLIGENC.E. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAY 28. The adjourned sittings in London, after Easter Term, commenced this morning, before ,Lord Ten. terden and Common Juries. The list contains 373 causes, 75 of which are marked for special juries. Among the latter is the second indictment against Robert Taylor for blas phetny.l The indictment against him and some of hii late associates of the Areopagus, for a conspiracy, which was expected to be tried in January last, but went off on account of the non-attendance of a suffi cient number of special jurors, also stands for trial at these sittings, but it is not likely to come on until the sittings after next term. , MACDONALD AND ANOTHER. V. DALE. This was an action to recover in damages the amount of a loss which the plaintiffs had sustained in consequence of"the non-delivery by the defendant of a quantity of spirits of turpentine sold by them. The plaintiffs' clerk and another witness were ex amined ; but in consequence of the absence of a person named Brown (who was called on hic subpcena), the contract for the sale of the turpentine to Messrs. Tucker and Hunton could not be proved, and the plaintiffs were therefore nonsuited. SALMON V. HART AND WIVE. This was an action for slanderous words, spoken by the defendant's wife concerning the plaintiff. The parties resided in Duke's-place, Aldgate ; one of them was a furrier, and the other an orange merchant. The CoslatoN SERGEANT, for the plaintiff, stated that the words uttered by the female defendant were, " that the plaintiff was one of the worst of charac ters ; that he was a thief and a common informer.'•' A witness, named Lee, was called to prove these words; but having, on application to the Court, procured payment of his expences before he was examined, he stated that he could recollect very little of what had transpired in the conversation between him and the female defendant, as he had on the day in question been discharged from the Fleet Prison, and got intoxicated. The only words he deposed to as having been spoken of the plaintiff were, that he (the plaintiff) was, or had been, an informer. Lord TENTERDEN, in directing a nonsuit, ob served, that a witness who required payment'of his expences before giving his testimony was seldom worth having. The modern prophet, whose guessing-cap directs the forebodings in " Moore's Almanack," has this year again succeeded in making some lucky hits, as the war between the Russians and Turks, the elevation of the Duke of WELLINGTON to the Premiership ; and this menth he says that " much •contentiOn and division is likely to break .out amongst us." FORECASTLE.—The origin of this nautical term may probably be found in the following curious historical fact :—M. LEGILAND D'Aussv, in the second volume of the " Memoirs of the National Institute (1800,)" gives an account of the state of the French Marine at the beginning of the 14th century (extracted from a history in rhyme, published in 1306), in which he observes that " the ships had parapets and battlements at the sides, similar to the land fortifications, and that they had small castles built fora and aft, and on the round tops." On Thursday, as a young man and his sister were proceeding in a cart along the Canal bank from Kil syth to Kirkintilloch, he allowed the horse to lower its head so as to drink, at a place where the bank is flattened fur that purpose. No sooner had the horse quenched his thirst, than in endeavouring to bring the horse back to the road, the reins broke. Being left to its own guidance, and perhaps rendered less tractable by the want of an eye, the animal advanced straight forward into the canal. The young man and his sister were thus placed in a very dan gerous situation the body of the cart floating, while the wheels were under water. 'With considerable difficulty, man leapt ou t o f th e car t and gained the bank. sister, encouraged by his example, made a, similar at :11111r: p e yng butat tempt, as not so successful—she remained floating, but made no progress to the bank. The horse, in the mean time, having reached the opposite bank, and finding no egress, prudently turned about, and half blind as he was, directed his course to ,he place where he came in—swimming in his passage quite round the woman, but cautiously avoided touching her. She had already sunk once or twice, and was yet struggling in the midst.of the canal—when her brother having procured a piece of paling, reached the end of it to his sister, which she seized, and thus was rescued from her perilous situation, after having been several minutes in the water.-- Caledon icy; Mercury. vitio,,, ,klk, -, v.' 4t P-W.ICI INTELLICIBNCE. * GUILDHALL.--John William Worboys, an appren• tte to a paper -stainer, was brought before Sir PETER. LAURIE yesterday by the Officer at the head of the East India Company's recruiting establishment, to be punished for. having entered the Company's service, swearing that he was not an apprentice legally bound, when in fact he was an apprentice, bound according to the custom of London, for saved years, from November, 1825, and duly enrolled. . _ The officer stated that this was an unusual ease, inas much as the Mutiny Act; which extends to the East India service, provides that no apPrentice claiined by his master shall be taken from the regiment with which he shall be, but under the warrant of some Justice residing near the Place where such apprentice shall happen to he when so claimed, In this instance the apprentice, was on board ship at Gravesend ; . but,- instead of being seized under the war tint of a Magistrate for. Kent; . ancL dealt- with upon the Vat,. he was taken under a warrant from the Lord Mayor, and brought to. London. Fester, _the marshalman, explained that the application for a warrant had been made in London, instead of Kent, because it Wasinown that the Lord MayOr has an un doubted jurisdiction down the Thames. The officer said his Lordship's concurrent jurisdiction with the Kentish Magistrates bad not been contemplated by the Legislature, and it would be impossible to carry the Mutiny Act into effect according to the letter. He was about to pray that if. the master's claim was allowed, the apprentice should be forthwith committed to hard labour for two years, or committed for obtaining money under false preterices ' • and this commitment ought to have been to the gaol in Kent, according to the law. But the first question was, if he was legally bound, the apprentice be ing 17 years old at the date of his indentures; and the Mutiny Act expressly providing that no Master shall claim an apprentice unless bound for seven years, not having beerrabove 14 when so bOund. The master said no apprentice could be bound according to the custom of London (LT binding to a freeman is termed) until be is ft:1114 years:of age, and as these bind- ings ordinarily take place on . the monthly Court Day of the Company to which the Master belongs, unless that Court Day occurred on the very day the lad attained his 14th year, which did not happen once in a hundred in•• stances, the apprentice could never be claimed after en listing—a circumstance which mull not be credited. Sir PETER LAURIE had no doubt the privileges of the citizens would ride over the Mutiny Act in this instance. and said he would send for information on the point to the Chamberlain's-office. In the mean time Mr. Payne, the second clerk, observed that there was no doubt the binding was a good one, there being no restriction in the city as to the age heyond which as apprentice might riot be bound. Soon afterwards Mr. Sewell arrived from the Chamber lain's. He was not aware of any case precisely similar to the present; but produced the opinions of the late and the present Recorder and Serjeant Watson, on the question whether au apprentice by the custom of London may vacate his indenture upon - arriving at the age of 21, and they held that he was . not at liberty to do so, but must serve the full term of seven years. The officer said many apprentices bad been given up to the service at other police-offices, upon proof that they were bound wheu above 14 years old. Sir PETER observed, that, as in these cases, the appren ticeship might be voided when the youth came of age, they were essentially different from the ease before him, where the apprentice could not, on attaining 21, dissent from the agreement he made while an infant. He should therefore decide that the apprentice must return to his master. The officer said he was desired by the Colonel to press for punishment, by way of example to others; and after be had served the two years in gaol, and the remainder of his term of apprenticeship, the Coloriel *mold claim his ser vices for the rest of his life, and would on no account allow him to purchase his discharge, which would not be obtain ed from the Commander-in-Chief without his sanction. The father had visited the young man at Chatham, and if he had then intimated that ',e wished to purchase his dis charge, but desired him to remain three or four months with the depot that he might get sick of soldiering, (which the father had since stated), the matter would have been allowed so to go on ; but the father had allowed him to be shipped, and had taken him away just at a time when he could not be replaced. Under such circumstances no lenity could be shewn. When the young man heard his course in this world thus chalked out, he changed colour and his lip quivered. Sir P. LAURIE entirely agreed that he deserved severe punishment for, committing psi jury in swearing that he was not an apprentice ; but after some further conversation between the complainant and the fatber and the, master, the former went to the India House and consulted hie su perior, who agreed to wave the punishMent, on condi tion that the apprentice should be committed, at the in stance of his master, for absenting himself from work ; and it was filially agreed that he should be committed by the Chamberlain fir one month to a cell is Bridewell, where he would have no other companions than a Bible, and a log chained to his legs, to prevent him from clambering to the window. The officer gave notice, that he should claim his services in lgoirember, 1832. BOW-STREET.—Yesterday, Giovanni Majorani, the third party described by the boy, Michael Tagliano, as having been concerned in stealing 470/. from the house of Signor Schutz, was examined before Mr. Ilinsuur..L. Signor Schutz, through his interpreter, said that the pri soner was wholly unknown to him, and he had no other grounds for suspecting him than the description of his per• son received from the police authorities at Milan, founded on the confession of the boy Tagliano. From the descrip tion of the prisoner, and his own admission, it appeared that he is by birth a Neapolitan, and had served as an officer in the Spanish army, under General Mina. According to the confession of Tagliano, it appeared that on the night of the l 9th of April, having left his master , and mistress at the King's Theatre, he went to a neighbouring coffee-room, where he met Vigano, now in custody, and ,the priioner Majorani, both of whom be had previously known.. He told them that his master was very rich, that he and Madame Schutz were then at the theatre, and that he (Tagliano) had the keys of their apartments, one of which contained cabinet that held a considerable sum of money. It was soon agreed that they should go to the house of Signor Schutz, and possess themselves of the notes and sovereigns described by the boy. They went accordingly, and while Tagliano went up stairs and possessed himself of part of the money, his companions kept watch at the streeb-doer. By a subsequent confession, it appeared that Vigano and Majorani having learned from Tagliano that be bad taken only a part of the money, agreed to re turn for the remainder, and while they went up stairs fur that purpose, Tagliano remained sentinel below. They continued a long while above stairs, and having 'ad journed to a house'• in the neighbourhood, they pre_ ceeded to divide the spoil, Vigano and Majorani reserv ing' to themselves all the bank , notes, and Tagliano tak ing the sovereigns ? about 70 in number. They then part ed, on the understanding that Vigano, as soon as he should change the notes which had fallen to his share, should fol low Tagliano to Paris. Mr. MiNsuur,r , was of opinion that this species of evi dence would hardly warrant him in detaining the prisoner., Upson, an officer, deposed, that from the description he had received of the prisoner, he took him into custody in the morning, at a shop in the Quadrant. The prisoner lodged in Carnaby-market, Oxford-street. The officer added, that Without telling the prisoner what charge there was against him, he immediately, on being taken into cus tody, said that he knew he knew he was apprehended about Signor Schutz's money, but that he had none of it, as the boy Tagliano had taken it all. The prisoner, in broken English, protested vehemently that he knew nothing whatever of the robbery. be L i the had dpargiagainst se considerable tr elvimf zt,rdioialug.b veryt whether limiter] te ll/l o t n t: l detainsyii evidence u a letter from ought rio l : r t . 0 Milan, containing the confession of the boy Tagliano. if, however, Signor Schutz would take upon him to say that he e erily believed the prisoner to have been concerned in robbing him, he should he detained until evening. Signor Sclinte said he had to attend a concert, and begged to have the prisoner remanded until this day, which was done accordingly. A respectable -looking man, named Jenkins, was charged on the evidence of a young man named Taylor, an appren tice in a wholesale house in the city, with embezzling 200/. from his father, who resides in Bristol. The prisoner had been employed as shopinan to Mr. Taylor, at Bristol, and absconded fro m that p lace a few days ago, taking with him the amount of some cheque3, a nd leav ing a large sum unaccounted for. The prisoner endeavoured to show that be bad aid away Re admitted, how_ m the money on his employer's accou nt. ever, that he was still in arrear, an d said that he came to London on purpose to raise the deficiency, to hand to Mr. Taylor. . Mr. Mwsoutt , said, that under these circunastances, it would be better for the prisoner to go at once to Bri ;tot.— He should issue no warrant, however, for the purp-e; but if Taunton, the officer, wished, he might convey the pri soner to Bristol upon his own responsibility. The prisoner expressed his consent to this arrarieement. Edward Janes, a young man lately employed as shop- V- man by Messrs. Gratam,linetklrapers and silk. pierce* No. 294, Holborn, was charged by them with stealing' piece of Bandana silk, Obtaining five handkerchiefs. He was fully committed for trial. MARYLEBONE-OFFICE. —Yesterday morning fashionable young farrier, wile lives in North-street, Mar chester-square, ca.me to this office and told Mr. I.l.swtt?' sox lie expected, minute after minute, to be charged w 0 feloniously stealing, taking, -and carrying away a pair' c boots, the property of another ; and as, it would be dre g fill to be taken up under a warrant of felony, he wished t` r be present in parson to answer the charge. Mr. Reweixsoie asked him what extraordinary circulo' stances had brought him into so improbable a situation ? He said he went to a ball the night before in S t , John's:Wood, anti while dancing some one took away n boots, which were very good ones, and left a pair bek not worth 55. " And you walked home in them, I suppose," said 10 Ilsivenesorr.—" I did, Sir; I was obliged," replied tl young farrier ; " and now another gentleman claimatbe; and if you say he is to have them, I shall lose my boo t altogether." Mr. RAWLiNSON told him, if the other party us good fir e h i t s o c k la ee ito p hi.a ,theybae must t besart when h e iv eitup and d en ad t t ri o se a d lial l ; dancing in them ; " for," said he, " officers of the army 0 " and why should not blaaleemiths?" - HATTON-GARDEN.—Henry Saunders, who b° been in custody on suspicion'of 'having 'robbed the Gam' nock bank, was yesterday brought before the Sitting I‘l t ' gistrate, Mr. ROGERS, and discharged. A young man, of the name of Thomas Flight, 'AI placed at the bar for final examination, on a charge house-breaking and robbery. On the night of the 21st inst., the residence of a Mrs' Scott, No. 80, Nelson-terrace, City-road, was broke' into by cutting out the panel of the back kitchen windolfr and forcing the iron bars with which the shutters we ft bound. Having by this means gained admittance into the house, the prisoner proceededto the ball and front parledl' whence he took away the following articles :—.Two wet 10° :i lin dresses, twohats, apair of boots, apair of shoes, (impair gloves, two volumes of " Blair's Sermons," and a p.:AY et ; book. The shoes and one of the hats he immediately P t :, on himself, leaving his own, which were considerably worse for wear, behind him, and tbea taking his &ye' tore, proceeded along the banks of the New River, as as Colebrook-row, where he was met about half put fe° in the morning, by Brown, a constable of the parish of SI Mary, Islington. Brown, observing that he carried bundle, stopped him, and took him into custody on O r picion of robbery. The prisoner upon, this somewhat pe t ' tishly asked the constable, why lie had dared to arrest bit on his journey, and held out to him a threitethat e wok' teach him how to discharge his duty better . in future.' With much reluctance, he was conveyed to the watch' house, where, as soon mire had entered, he put himself it? a fighting attitude, and challenged the constable. On I'l° person being searched, the entire of the above property ola; found partly tied up in a handkerchief, and partly cramtn e into his pockets, together with some bacon and cheese, piece of soap, and a razor. The property being produced, several lodgers in tr, house came forward and identified w a s then fit" committed to Newgate. John Monkhouse, keeper of White-conduit-house, F eu ; tonville, was brought up under a warrant to answer to charge of assault preferred against him by a brass-forasi er : of the name of Sinclair, residing at No. 9, Orchard-A O " St. Luke's.—The charge was dismissed. UNION-HALL.:—Yesterday, two men, mimed eMi t r, and Jackson, suspected of hiving been 'OOOO4 r o breaking into several honies at Peckham, were broer before the Sitting Magistrate, under the following cirt3 l , ll3( stances : Lewis, a constable of Peckham, stated, that on the Ir e ceding ceding a ft ernoon, as an inhabitant of tbat vill a ge was past along the road, at a short distance from his house, ha 6 , v i served the two prisoners in a field together, busily togsgA'r in concealing something near the hedge. Having watched some time, they left the field, wheo the individual cr l '" perceived their motions approached the 'spot, and en turn' ing up some of the mould, he discovered a complete se t , housebreaking implements, together with a phoephery bottle and matches. On this discovery he immediately ceeded to Lewis, and gave him information of the eircu; to stance, when the latter, persuaded that the parties who b hidden them would no doubt visit the place again for purpose of taking the implements away, placed a watchtna! within view of the place, who had not been lo ng at his P. before the isoners made their appearance. On arrivio. at the spot, where they had previously concealed the impl y meets, they commenced to look after them, and just as tiler were about to leave the fi eld they were taken into tust o4- Lewis stated that several gentlemen's houses at. Peckbbi l had been recently broken into and robbed. Both 0 8 prisoners were identified by the officers as reputed thieve , The Magistrate committed the prisoners for three month' each to Guildford gaol, remarking that their friends woulil not have the facilities of seeing them while they were that prison. The drivers of several go-carts were brought ne, fined in the mitigated penalties of Si. each, for plying - _,' passengers to Greenwich during the fair, without the pre p' license. A squalid-looking Flemish boy, ragged and half-starY ed ' was brought up by a street-keeper, who stated that be obi served the defendant that morning going up to see° females in the streets and thrusting forth from under lappets of his coat a disgusting monkey, which terrified B°.. veral of them. The street-keeper added, that since the 6 0 weather had set in, great numbers of those boys were r m f ported into this country, and were employed by som e their countrymen, who sent them out during the day: - perambulate the town and gather money by the exhibitive of monkies, tortoises, white mice, &c. Their emplpT er !' however, took care to secure all the cash, and allowed oc boys barely a sufficiency to support nature. The MAcibraArc observed, that the above deseriP o l of nuisance had increased to such an intolerable degree , w e it was high time to put a stop to it ; and the only v l4 l accomplish that, would be by prosecuting some of the fellev o who employed the poor boys, and encouraged them. to l ee" their own country. It having been ascertained that the .defendant's 400°, lived in Leather-lane, Holborn, the Magistrates directed irl"." to be taken to Hatton -garden. A FELINEMONSTER.—On Thursday morn,' ing last, a cat belonging to Mr. ScHor. rnELD , of w e Golden Fleece, Pavement, in this city, brought forth tb,! ° A kittens, two of whi c h were per f ect l y f orme d, b u t:the tn"r exhibited, in a s i ngu l ar d egree , t h at ma l- cos f orm atinn ;- which the f e li ne race, per h aps more t h an any ot h er bran% of the animal creation, is subject. Between tke fore-ifg: grew four other legs and a tail, and from the belly, 100k', 13 .'; towards the hinder quarters projected another heads L.,, kitten, which was dead, seemed to have been, to the of iti production, in a healthy, state, its size being eflun', t, the which were alive, And when placed upon its le e . ; its head and back did not Present, anything uncommo n L I , their 'appearance. Its hair was smooth and sleek; and t"" colour grey striped with black.—Edinburgh -Fretting Courant. - BIRTHS. ' . , ',mean On the 26th inst., at Barham-wood-cottage,. Slim , ' Herts, the.lady of William Douglas,,Essp of a eon. , ' i On the 26th inst, in Devonshire - platy, Old Kent -0° ,' Mrs. Wood, of a daughter. ' .Af 'On the 28th inst., at Islington, Mrs. itebert Older' ia jun., of a son. Esq., of Monmo u th. MARRIED. On the 26th inst., at Monmouth, by the Rev. Tb ol l: Price, Edward Peppercorn, Esq., a t h e H on. . Eastp a ; o Co f m h p s a e n p y h 's p m ri i t l .e it:ry service , to Charlotte, third dagg h On the 10th inst. , at St. George's lianoverrsquareo by the Rev. --- Glann, M. Chamberlain, of Broad-stre e Bloomsbury, to Mrt. Charlotte Pearce, late of Hauf ll Y: street, oxfoiii-street. DIED. st A t Clifton, on the (ith of May, Caroline Jane, young f daughter, and on the 26th of May, Harriet, the wi l°° William Henry 131aauw, Esq. On the 28th inst., a t h er h ou se in Upper B r ook-str ee t G r osvenor-squar e , th e H on . A nne S e ym our D arner , thes e c hild of the l a t e Ri g h t H on . Fi e ld-M ars h a l H e nry ° e l t i . moor Conway (brother to Francis, Earl of Hertford) the Lady C aro li ne C a mpbell, daughter of John, co urt ' , Duke of Argyll, and widow of Charles, Earl of AilesburYo On the 28th inst., in New Bridge-street, Blackfrizn* seed 60, Warner r hipPs, Esq., Secretary to the Albion, Fire and Life Insurance Company. shire,Ot j tl oTin 2s w t r l e i b i b u , st E ., 4. t , hinishirses74l4etnhcve.e,aLr,eet-ohuacllh, rSetgaill'entt:l;l j by his afflicted family and numerous friends. On the 25th inst., in Lombard-street, Robert Service, Esq., aged 69. On the 28th inst., at Lower-Clapton, George , third 0. of Isaac Sewell, Esq., of Salters'-11111. On the 19th inst., at Nockdrin Castle, county of West' meath, the Dowager Lady Levinge. O Inrtean :l2 hle `,., Esq. l ___.. 3d s riat., at Morningside, near Edinburgh: John . 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