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

'PIRIT OF TIM PUBLIC JOURNALS. (moat THE TIMES.) The public generally, whatever might be their apprehensions of the designs entertained by the Duke of Wellington's government with respect to any useful system of retrenchment, were not prepared for such a vote as that of Friday evening.. They had uot e imagined that the desertion of pledges would have heen—we do not say so profligate, but—so eager and ao hardy, as that which has actually been displayed 'lna the Military and Tory Administration. But the veil has now been rent asunder, the cloak thrown aside, and we see what is likely to befall us. To any body who will be at the trouble of examining the several speeches of the Ministers who opposed the abolition of the office of Lieutenant-General of the - Ordnance, we are not afraid to say that we defy him to eatract from those speeches a single ar gument in justification of a vote for retaining - it.— There is, indeed, no argument attempted, but that of sin unwillingness to give up the office. Allusion is made by a gallant Secretary at War to his evidence, and to that of the Duke of Wellington, who both, it seems, informed the Finance Commit-tee that it would be inconvenient to the public service to dismiss the Lieutenant-General. •But this opinion, and the grounds on which it had been formed, were fully communicreed to the Finance Com mittee, who decided, upon a sober consideration of both, that the office ought not to be kept up. It was said by the efficial gentlemen, that if a Master-General,or, on the other hand,a Lieutenant- General of :1)0 Ordnance, should be called away taison a distant, though temporary service, the indi yidaal of the two who remained at home must be in srusteel with the duty of the absentee ! Why, was there eves heard a plea like this for continuing a duplicate placernan ? • The-clear common sense of the matter is, that the Government which sends away a public officer front Lis department s anal still continues' to him hi salary from that department, aemmits a rank robbery alp') the nation. If the 'Lieutenant-General of tLe anivance was a necessary eadice, why did the Government aserMit Lord Beres- Joe& when be held it, to sail away Iste ?Drowse! (for ie) good, we feur) during three or kw 1.--. 4 .pas, be fore he was eomeseiled to resign ? Why, anise ahe °dice was considerede-what, in fact, it has been .wade- sinecure, why sea Away Sir W. Clinton, e-ho still ho:ds it, and let him 'remain for 16 or months at Lisbon, drawing his 'fray from the piblie Treasury all the time ? it tab not ,„,,„„ try t h at t h e „t a ienitenant- General of the Ossinatice should reeaivss the pay of Comman- • iikr 4 the Forces in Portugal, over and above isis salary in ; nor, on the other hand, asas it requisite to a proper discharge of t't,e duties of Commander of the Forces at Lisbon, that his excellency should have, in addition to his al)7 aorl staff allowareoss as such, the salary of Lieut. +Geiser-al of the Ordinance in England'. We have s,ever heard that either office singly was under paid. I( the Lieut.-Generalship was to be an efficient office, it uuglir to have been taken from arc absentee east given to affective officer.. If it was held by row ;sho did not dis,eharge its duties, it was a sine care, lead ought to be swept away. There is no ar a aina eot of this dilemma, But• Sir . Henry Hardinge .43ys, that though not inconvenient to the public service, it was mat inconve itiun to Lord Downes and to himself, that they should have the burden of Sir William Cliefon's duties as well as of their oaear to embarrass them. That may be very true, because tLey were not pre pared for the extra duty by any systemaCse modifica sien ado) department generally, or by such a fixed al;etrilartioti of the business of tieolenant-General as would of ne,Jeisity take place at a final abolition of ate office. llsseeover, although no one ear: be t act unreasonable as to wish that public ftme sionaelea should he overwhelmed by an unremitted business, we do m o st feel that a mere eomplaint of inconvenience by one: Pffieer, when ob 4ed to diaelsotege duties which tome (;regularly upon him,•ought to weigh against the public i4te;:est whew a question of economy is suggested. It seems plait) that all Masters-rleneral of the Ord nance, and indeed most hezdv of high departments in this country, ate loth to reduce the stajf of their establishments, aithoegh they' often wake havoc among thts. rank sad file. Who urea toe I,ord 'allatcaro's opinion in tisvour of retaining Coo siereeed office ? 'The idlest and most indolent ren existing was pretty authority against a redaction, would have thrown more -work UpOn hi mse lf! As for the instances given of absence ftom,duty, in the case of Lord Cornwallis, Sir Arthur Wellesley, ear., as apologies for following such examples, we etiy that such instances were examples of gross abitse, and to be reprobated instead of followed. Altoge slier this was tine most hardened act that we could lave aoneeived possible in any Government. We yefer awin to the speeches of Mr. Caderaft, who seem: ashaened of his situation (we give him joy of that sign o ( ware), and of Sir J. Graham, which latter gentleneatt,;sf be maintains the high tone and arrati, which h e t lisitlapd on Friday, may yet give snore than niaa j o aajog 3.li,s4ster the heart-ache. (V 11034 THE AIOWSItiC ETISER.) The ultimate result of the Clare eleafisan becomes daily more and more doubtful. ''fWt Mr. O'Connell will not be returned no one entertains Ole slightest suspicion ; but, what is of still greater importance, understand that the highest legal authorities, not only in Ireland but also in this. country, have ex pressed their decided opinion that there is now - no law in existence which can possibly prevent him from sitting, speaking, and voting in the House of Com mons. Even Lord Eldon, we are infortned;- whose opinion, on a matter of this nature, is, of all others, the most important, congratulates himself that he . aa , s ,not concerned either in the framing or in the p ass ing of certain acts, which aro eousideted capable of being , savisted into a license for Roman Catholics to heroine Members of the British Legislature—we say hvisteJ, i142474115E, however the letter of any Act ma y b e ca pable of such construction, the spirit of every Act which Iris over received the Royal Assent, is decidedly hostile to sixth an interpretation. As Parliament, hoWever, is sitting, it can - of course putt sahat construction it pleases on th.e former acts of the I.e;tislatnre; and, after all the eosntasation to which the affair will naturally give rise,. we iselievelittle fear need be arasartained that Mr. O'Connell, os . any other Cetholie, will hold fur any length of time the honour of being a Memhee, (PROM' THE MORNING tt/RAT.TO Ay we have feequently advocated zpower to be . given to Magistrate; to dispose sunco hits .4.-f com inuia as:sault.s, We feet hound to regret, now that ;t is passed into a law, that it is VW the reverse of what we intended. or what, we believp, the public wished or expected, An assault, generally .;peaking, a private grievanee, and therefore a matter of pri ate recompence. Indeed the essence of all law ic ,o punish the Wrong-doer, toed to make sa tisfaction KO' him to whom the wrong is done; and if, for in ice, in a wanton affray, it appears that a man has got his head broke, it is much better that a Magis trate should at once have the power of awarding one 4.•rown. for the fracture of the ether, than that the in itwed party- should he driven to the slow and ex. pensive process of. an indictment, when the lawyer get., 'the oyster, i. , aving the plaintiff an. de letidant to contemplate find choose hebteen t h e s h e lls. But what. has Peel's clause done ? Why 4 gives to two M4strates the power of adjadiratin,o; between the optics and of assigning damages to the extent of 5/. ;!kg. /which' damages are to be given, not to the party in jured, but to the prior of the parish; or in other words, in effect, to eke Out the dinner bills, R.T.id other extravagancies, of select vestries. Besides which, it makes the certificate of the Magistrates bar to any other remedy. Now this may or may • not be an improvement in the law. We humbly conceive that it is none. It may act as a punish ment to the wrong-doer, but toward the injured party it not only gives no redress, but absolutely tliuts him out from any. Nor is it any boon, or im provement, that this power is confided to two'Ma- E istrates instead of one, seeing how difficult a thing it is, in many parts of the country, t. 19 get two Ma gistrates together, or, when together, to see them agree. One great benefit of this alteration in the law would have been, its enabling a single Magistrate to reconcile priVate injuries, more especially those in his immediate neighbourhood, without being hampered with the loss of time, and the fee-paying, which belong to the Petty Sessions; and when it is considered that a single Magistrate has, by the Trespass i Act, a power much more ex tensive than this—andthat, in fact, a thousand laws give him a thousand powers to the full as arbitrary-- we regret that this alone should be the exception, where it was so little called-for. We shall regret exceedingly if that which was meant to be an im provement turns out to be none; but we fear that beyond easing the Chairmen of the Quarter Sessions of part of their trouble, and perhaps preventing a few persons from being sent to- prison (an advan tage certainly not to be overlooked), this alteration in the law is calculated to work mote injustice than it is likely to be productive of good. (NEW TIMES THE QUARTER'S REVESUE,—We have not for the last two years had so gratifying a statement to lay before our readers on the subject of the Revenue, as that which we give to-day in the account of the Receipts for the Quarter just expired. On previous occasions, while announcing the increase in one branch, we bad to re g ret the falling off in another. On this we have uodraWbacks . ; for the only defi ciency is so slight 'and uncOnseqtiential, as not to merit notice, nor require explanation. There is another point of view in which the present Quarterly account is exceedingly gratifying. We have had a regular increase for, a considerable time past in the item of the Customs a proof that Commerce was reviving. But it . was long, - hOwever, before the Excise gave indication of improyernear. Qn the contrary the tide of our national prosperity had ri;.;en high before its turn was perceptible umong our ti- Arta god labourers. Indeed, the one branch had not reaehatil ids Jpwest depression for a considerable time after the.otber )44 ipg.de great progress towards the highest pont from whiny; r 110 fallen. Now, the ratio of their progress is c.nd during the last Quarter the Excise has greatly outstripped the Customs. While the latter have remained nearly s,44.pnary the former - has improved more than two hnnit' thousand pounds, which, if the year keep pace t , ; - ke e i tterter, as we venture to anticipate it will, is at Inc: rav of about twenty-five per cent. per annum. As thtc giot trKL.c.s pf the Excise Revenue arises out of articles w4i,c,cl ere subservient to the comforts and little luxuries o he Athouring classes, it may he easily seen, front this . statAct.spt, how much these has' increased within these lust . tke,;; mc i ntlo i And from that fact, which speaks a langoagi pagiai noc local embarru,.sment can for a moment contradict, p'ay be satisfactorily deduced an answer in full to all thirst 30 - kg would persuade us that there is at this moment either Aido7 , 6preud or deeply felt . distress in England. SUNDAY PAPERS. (Yu Piz CAPITAL ruNiSlibiEN73.,--nANCINCI. " First Envy, eldest born of Hell, embrned tier hands in blood ; and taught the sons of men, To make a death which nature never made, Pod abhored : with violence rude to break The thread Wife, ere half its length was run, And molt a wretched 4rother of his being. To *rest from God's own hand the sword of justice, And be your own avengers."—Dr. PORTEUZ. " Su e 'tis a serious thing to die ! my soul ! What . * strange moment must it be, when near Thyjounkty's epd, thou bast the gulph in view ! That awful ghlp t h 46 pan eie repass'd To telt what's doing op t,e 4q4er side."—BLArß. What bast thou dope ? the voice ni Thy h;.2,tker's blood et ieth unto rtrA from the ground : And now art thou cursed from the earth, which bath opened, her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand. .‘ Wiwi; ,tk,ois idlest the ground, shall not henceforth yield unto th 4,2 hs f r strength. A fugitive and a ,vaga bend shalt thou be ;a tke gaj#,"—,Genesie, chap. iv. There have been a great pertist; or mankind, in all ages, who have never concurred in the justica pr in the necessity of capital punishments. If we go baeti to Ate origin of society, and the first case of mi 7der (a e - .4;r4er of the most unnatural kind) we shall finu i : h4 "" ci;il ThQt I.ose even his t i z vaR and :" liberty; he ,p was simply denounced a " fogitife 414 and here, Cain name,: 1115 P unis h inuclit e/r; g " greater than he could bear: " "14 among the causes of his grief he held that " an/ ' one that Indeth me shall slay toe;" the reply to this by ":'!' Creator 'is, " 'Whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him - sevenfold." The ‘f mark" was set upon him in order that he might be distin guished: and " lest any finding him should slay him." Cain's great grandson Lamech, murdered or slew two persons, and claimed to be avenged in pro- . portion if he were slain ; and thus did the crime of murder commence with the infant state of human society, without the example of death as a punish ment. During. the two thousand years prereding the deluge, as far as our records go, we have no : instance of death. as a punishment; but, after the Flood, we have a Law proposed in the spirit of the Le.r Talionis, which became so common in suc ceeding ages, viz., " Whosoever sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed," It is the custom of the Christian world, not so much to re ga4 the Laws of the Ancients as an example for the Mo t iepis, As the maxims and precepts of Christ : the ante and p 04,1, diluvian worlds (to. the birth of our Saviour) arr- thus . both put aside in this respect ; but, if we appealed to them; their authorities were only of a - ecnilicting nature. We see in the death of Christ himself, an ewample of the capite/prmishnicat of the Roman Empire. But the great rule of thp life of the divine founder of our faith Was to set forth Ole Pue province of his doctrine, as not 'interfering or conflictin - with temporal af fairs. The basis of his pure rode was t ,c t ".ovefgpme evil wi.th good." If there be any Christian prisept ordained ,to he like guide and maxim of , all times, It is this r —the great substratum of our Creed. The Laws anti Customs of the world have continually varied through ad , stages of history, from the days of Adam to the pre- Sea boar; the change has been continual; and . there is no ;pjunction, moral or divine, to the con trary.- Indeed itoi:hi,g, were more obvious than that the character of the times 04 1 40 for, and gave birth to, laws ,adapted to their ends. Ex.. Op t, in Eng ! land, capital punishments have fallen into disuse, iiiir less pm very particular occasions ; and imprisonments of long ti.e,!.:!s are substituted.. But how does this san g u inary coda af ours operate, in respect to the prevention of crime? (fur zl,l, views beyond preven tion are absurd and irrational.) liwr . are to judge by the public records, there is more crime it; gng-, land thaii. there is in the whole remaining portion of Europe. There tippeara, in Great Britain, to be an a verage at the present ps:i.o,i of about 5,600 criminal riiarges to every million or peopig. ,in the year ; OF, in the ..Ai hole population of the empire, neatii asjuarler of a million ! The 'great mass of these cases, in any other country at,: the world, would - neverbe made an Object of judicial prof.Teding's. They are solely a sort of business to Lawyers and 4agistrates ;- and . 40,0) . o. tolerable proof that under the jimid4 of Law there js 4nitely more injustice inflicted than redressed. Capital senlez:pc, are in the same pro portion ; but the disgusting dect;,; pf hanging men kitilif n t - , cla, on a public scaffold, is a citota;aqh indi genous wail inbred English ignonomy.# There Li the Priest, with ti. 4 Qospel of the meek and mild rend beneficent Saviour of thp human race is his hatah-Vollowing up the Judge, 'who tags his victim that he must ,loots for pardon to God, f?r thak. As' cannot receive it 1 4 . -re) pursuing the criminal to the * The dreadful Ale* of ,Captain Nontgornery, one of the *tilos appointed on• Friday last to expiate, by ''liang inr; by the neck until he was dead," the crime of isolgipg Purged bank- cotes, proyes the ;goo - minims sense enteqaine4 lay inen of any feeling, of tioia diTratlink , mode of passing out of life. verge of eternity, with singing holy ballads ; and intreating him to feel comfortable and happy; until amid the mental weakness of despair• and horror, men are worried into a sort of con fession that they would rather die than live. • All parties appear then to be satisfied ; and the hugging and shaking of hands, and singing, and kind .fare wells,—give such a picture of strange and monstrous inconsistency, with the sying-up,rd throttling of the poor victim in the next minute, —as makes the heart and the imagination sick ! • " What a piece of work is man!" " So I atn hanged for sheep-Stealing," said .a cri minal to his counsel s . "-No !" retorted the man of Law, " you are hanged in order that ,men may not steal sheep.'.' Here . there is no mortal injury dune to society to be repaired; but a mere fraud is com mitted, which we would prevent in future. Now the injury done to society by the violent and voluntary death of one of its members, is much greater than that sufferedin the •fraud,—which involves an ab surdity. Spartan justice would consist of an adapta tion of punishment to the offence; but what moral metre have we by which' this quantum of punish ment can be mearnred out ? none; and therefore punishments have grown up. regulated by the most absurd pretences. • Breaking into a village cottager's house in the day time,—the owners being out ern, ployed on husbaudry work, is held to be an aggra vated crime, because Me parties are under Me neces sity of leaving their p ro p er ty com paratively unpro. tected ; and sheep stealing, because it may be almo4 committed with impunity, is another class of the same kind of offence; and all ate punishable with dssth,. But upon what consideration is the (fence to be greats,-, because the istimpity is apparently greater ? "I his we never could .Understand 7 nor can all the casuistry of the Lawyers make .the case out. The temptation to crime is 'increased with the apparent impunity; and the greater tie temptation the LESS Me moral his e. , e'iair.s to be undisputed and indisputable. In ..„ this class at' there iY ne plausible defenee for the punishment of death that can be OfferA, worthy of our country or of the age.; for we adapt the expe diency of such a violence to the capricious, fluctuat ins', and uncertain aspect of human affairs; instead ,of being governed by the principles of equity which are co-st i esna; truth. The offence of Forgery is in the seine sitnataiti, s ti 7 g iirPr i:hr;?l"qrSs to the marked, and widelY-separated crime of nnaer the greatest in the catalogue of human . wrongs. If the object be by a disgraceful „and most ignominious death to prevent the crime, how lamentably short 44 its !,44 . a; t iippRt is this signal and horrible punish ment, If we 44 oiir.seiye; prejudices of education, and of the fancied authurittes . -61 . `;iicriii. tare, we shall find on how narrow a ground we have placed the authority to take away life. We will put aside all the gratuitous ignominy with which the tirScOpitnied. in this country; and of which nations inf,nitN - le s si civilized he, t ourselves are ashamed. Why was it accounted rela4 MO to destroy himself? .Because the first laws of the human compact regard man, as not made for him self but for society. When, therefore, one member or twis t s" is destroyed by another, the question is, how we shill b 4. repi t if eone. Can that be effected by voluntarily desirayini 4otherneiii, ber, and thus making the injury double, This is a species of suicide, committed by society on itself; assd issmother kind of Felony, perpetrated with the less exelisei th,;;Q;4l iu the absence of all the passions. We have before Ntiaea; t;l6r. ii } Wh- chillG : 7, 4P we have no truce of death as a punishtriee4-wrieh the world was so rife of the principle of population; and when the average ages of men ranged from six to eight hundred years ; mankind then slew one another; wpro left to the punishments of their own consciences; ai . .d ;gal oF . tl:e dp.testation and abhorrence•of their species. In our d4stheredre'ss for the wring of murder would- naturally present itself in imprisonment and hard labour for life ; here the injury might in some measure be compensated, the strongest possible terror - would operate to deter others . ri.i.;m the crime, in the wasting strength and living example of slavery and toil, witheiss otbsr end than the grave ! Such a punishment would, we I conceive, be more influential ; and were defensible on the. soundest principles; because such an abuse of liberty as the murder of man by his fellow, war ranted the - prieation of it, in the clearest light of rea son. ji v e P pvernment of qv country shall hive liberty, .in the lepoSiOl nations, so direst is attentions to the Criminal Code, the lightond know ledge of the age will lead to a revision of the prin ciples by which the punishments of men are award ed. At present the whole Babel of Law is one of the glptpSt OflV4pCp3 of the Empire; not avail able to the ptior;and pOy piuiuiesing the amid all.this Stygian rlurhi,ess, there n, sorxietli ng in the ri"niShille;it of death avrr repugnant to the suind and irreconcilable with its natural sense of justice of right. This right alone were enough to call for 144 was rsgt inquiry.. On a future opportunity, we shall ta,;:e sow notice of the present forms of the sent euee of death, and of the ptherattaudinv customs at the scaffold. They presenr an 44av0ur01,.... en nest to the French manner of putting their criminals out of the world. (FROM THE "SIJNDAY HERALD.) jjoteßeepers' Bill passed the House of Lords on iFriday 1,4 q, twt without having received any of those emendate:lU • which we deemed to be essentially necessary for the protection and .s.'eguT4y of the .Licensed Victualler. •The Retail Brewers' Bill, is likely, we think, to prove exceedingly mis chievous. We allude, in particular, to the last vlause4 pf the Bill, in.which it is.prorided that " all pentillks shall 4o aired fgr, and recovered only by the Commissioners the': ilcartt of Excise, or 71 one of their officers,"—that is, according IR opre hension of the matter, they will not be prosecuted at all. Now it does seem somewhat hard, that while the Licensed Victuallers are liable to informations from ali qua,,tters, and on the most frivolous grounds, the Retail Brewers f.lold be screened fiom similar annoyance, and placed under due siieciel protection of the Commissioners of Excise. It would be idle, however, to expect consistency in St. Stephen's, thoi li gh we do hope that before the Bill passes into a law, this HO unjust distinction will be (alone 4way with, as wA) as eyerai other amendments nr)4(te in it. (yule ti2tp.s.v.7.p,tg.) Of all the aetiona which have been commenced for libel, we think the one tried in the Court of King's Bench, on Tuesday, brought by a Mr. Her nett, who has been called " the celebrated attor ney,' is decidedly that which is most distinguished by tngeanity and original genius. An account Was give': ..bi.4p„ 41urping He ra ld o f a caus e in the Court of Requests, in Ni - P.,•h the following line oc curred :—" Verdict for the eelebrateci 44 - ,terpey Mr. Harnett ;" and this Mr. Harnett thought it right to prosecute as a libel.- We have b een surpr i se d at t he e xhibitions of barristers, attorneys' clerks, bailiffs, bip 4t ri6ts : &e. in this way, on former occasions, but we b uve itit ;t, 9 , 41; er,thing,enual to iVlr. Harnetel4 affair. In other ease 4, ate edinpi 4 ini n b !). P2jt t : es have been able to show that something had been done the Judges and Juries which must irritate their feelings, however little those (‘ f il e ti e j it l oi i e 7i,c,sseatti mightxt, wise b se; e I: al S n i t :<.' t r; C lit: t . j e g d ch b toe y ,otriti su undressed. d dischargeres s e d of u theirll we cannot reaily Gee any thing thatA'lr. H co a u r l i d te most. sensitive so itAg tie boast of England, should not 4,,,„,,, i i t 7 ) t h e:e j i x i u b p e r ilt expected t anxiouso r ruffle stHthat t h t t e . ~ sustained, ► , es ill-informedadben persons have the Presie freedom of be wholly trampled under toot, instead of giving a wfarrotheing,i b n u j t u r y heretofore tit;ar- took the manly course of returning a verdict for the defenda• ? ;;., That decision, which leav „:wk, Harnett to pay his own c‘islsov al pr o, well-meaning whereno pably ^ teach . future attorneys to endure the oblo quy or bi;ing " celebrated" with more f ort it u de than i, has..evineed, , r . ;For that term of reproach should be broitght . .in contact with their modest names. }fad this gentleman succeeded in getping as demagog the smallest sainple of the coin of the retain, it would Pave had the effect of taltingtseveral bur:tired pounds out of the docket of a defendant, who was declared to have done but one farthing's worth of mischief; and the costs, Mr. Harnett being his own attorney, would have made - the whole- affair an exceedingly snug, comfortable thing for him. Hence springs.our exultation. It is by such ver dicts only that, the freedom of the Press can be vin dicated and defended, and parties who have done no wrong protected against professional speculators . in litigation. SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clod IM TRIAL PARLIAMENT (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. The Alehouse Licensing Bill was read a third time. Lord IJELVILLE presented a petition from the College of Surgeons in Edinburgh,. praying for the removal of the ditlicnities in the way of dissection. Lord .GWYDYR presented petitions from Horn castle, Market Raiser), and Boston, against the im portation of Foreign Wool. Mr. DENT presented a return from the Northern Circuit of Wales, of the number of causes left rentanets in the Court of Great Sessions, from $23 IMO JEW/. The House went into a Committee upon the Cities and Boroughs Parliamentary Poll Bill, and received the Report, _ _ _ Sir A. GRANT,. and others, brought up the Longitudinal Piseoyery the Regent's F o rk ment Bill, the New South Wales and Van Dieman's Land Justice Bill, and several. private Bills. The Marquis of LONDONDER RY presented a petition from the Merchants and Traders of Dublin against the Bill now in progress to compel the bankers of Ireland to pay their notes at the - place d . w . hpre they ipqo, Lord NVIIARNdLIFFE gave notice that be should bring in a standing order on Friday, to be primed, and remain over till the next Session for their Lordships' consideration, upon the question, whether a person subscribing to a given work was bound by the acts of a majority of a catnproly with • •••. •..,.• rtspeet to sonsegoent worit',. • The Earl of ORMOND wished to know from the Noble Duke at the head of his Majesty's Go vernment, whether it was his intention to bring in any measure to regulate the butter trade in Ireland. The. Duke of WELLINGTON said there was a .roet - 4nfea AtOy jli i'ij - iogtrl 9.04 f douse foX settling this question. it. Was a subject of great difficulty in consequence of the various interests it Involved. There were interests under charters, Weigh Masters, Tasters, and so on, the rights of all whom were to be ascertained before any measure could pe . wssA. • Thetaii4 LIMERICK thought this a subject of vital importance to Ireland. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE had had his at tention called to the subject last sessions, and consi dered that free trade might be at once allowed, re.: . , serving tiff sppix t itrptiy taj 4sFplaipifig in cne of next session, the amount of compensation that ought to be awarded to those persons whose private interests might suffer from such a measure. The Duke of WELLINGTON said, no one could be more desirous than himself for a refprm of i 4 laW nn ti t at all ;;;linuitl 1) t by his Majesty's Government, with as little delay as possible, to accomplish an end so desirable. The Duke of WELLINGTON moved the third reading of the Irish and Scotch Promissory Note NIL " .The Earl of CARNARVON opposed the Bill s but declared that he would not divide the House upon it. Lord ELLENBOROUGH, and the Earl of ROSSLYN; defended the Bill. • The Duke of WELLINGTON said, he intended, 411P1 - Op shp - old b rg44. n ;NO tijag, to propose an additionaL clause by way of rider, which would allow parties either in Scotland or Ireland to draw drafts on their bankers in this county for sums under 5/. Lord. CALTHORPE opposed the Bill, and was left speaking. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. JOHNSON brought up a return of the number of prisoners confined in the Four Courts Marshalsea, Dublin. Sir HENRY PARNUL brought up the Tk ; port oo the Holyhead Road Act. The committee t ,o yted that the . ) , were of cpinion that the sum of 3 00.1. ShoPM' tie advance 4, to enable the Commis sioners icy irnpro‘e the road between Holyhead anti London.—The Resolution was read a second time, and ordered to be committed to-morrow. Mr. Alderman WOOD moved for returns of the quantity of spirits and malt in the warehouse. Mr. J. GRATTAN presented a petition from the barOni*Of forth, aguipst the Constabulary Act. 11118fc'vti'vtat AcT." • Mr. H. HUTCHINSON presented a petition from the county of Tipperary, praying that no altera tion should be made in the law for the regulation of the Butter Trade, without further injury. The Non, Member said there were several individuals Oc t ' had Ottityr,:; for cempensation. mid he trusted the Eight IlOnpGsntlpiOn•*Oiiiq (let 4 ow ;i p34 Session. Mr. H. GRATTAN hoped the Hon. Gentleman would not postpone the Bill until next year ; if he did, it would be utterly destructive to the butter trade. COpii,TENAY said that the represents-- titans which had been mode, indned his Tgajesty Government to postpone the Bill for a ft ir days. lie hoped that his Right Hon. Friend the Chan cellor of the . Excheyter would shortly be able to state whether he could proceed with the Bill this Session. Mr, S. RICE was sorry there was any delay; private interest oughi, npt to stand in competition with the interest of the public. Sir H. PARNELL said, the matter had been be fore the House three years ; and if they went on this way, there would never bean end twit. ,: • gr. V. STUART said the butter trade would be ruined if something was pot done quickly. The petition was then ordered Co lie nn the table, and to be printed, • Mr. W..PEEL presented returns of the number of prosecutions by the Mint for coining. Ordered to lie on the table. Mr. BOYLE presented a petition from Clonakitty for the abolition of slavery. Mr. HUSKISSON presented a petition from the shipownews pt . Li yerppol against any alteration in the duty on staves imported from Ame iita. Mr. COURTENAY said it was intended to leave the duty as it stands for the present year.. Mr. C. BARCLAY moved for an account of the quantity of beer brewed during the last year. Mr. KKK. pre s ented a petition from Exeter for the abolition .of slavery. Sir C.. HASTINGS presented a similar petition from Leicester. . Mr. OTWAY .CAVE supported th e prayer of the petition, which was ordered to be printed. Mr. STANTWV brought up the Report on the Poor f.aws. • 444 Lord EDwAttp SOMERSET presented petition from Stow on the %Volde, against the s:op_ prcssion of the Small Note circulation. Sr G. :..A.lll{E presented a petition from the Solicitors,: of Edinburgh, against the. Attorney T 4 4. On the inotion.of i}fr. W. W. WYNlV.tite Cri minal Justice. India Bill went through g C6 mm i ttcw and seyeralamandments were made.. . Mr. W YNNE proposed some verbal g mel o me „ ts which were -agreed to. The House resumed, Ihe report was brought up and read, the amendments were agreed ta,:and the BM was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow, . lI"{SOLYENT DEBTOR'S (INDIA) BILL. The order of the day, for the further considera. SUPPLY. The Order of the Day for the House going into a Committee of Supply having been read, Mr. HOBHOUSE asked whether the intention of the Government to persevere in pressing the Additional Churches Bill. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he should give an answer to the question to morrow. , . The House having resolved itself into a Com mittee of Supply, Sir 11,- HARDINGE moved that the sum of 18,0001. be granted for defraying the salaries of the Civil Establishment of the Office of Ordnance. Mr. LILME said, all the statements of the Right Hon. Gentleman were perfectly clear, but he (Mr. H.) could not agree with the .statement of the Right Hon. Gentleman on a former occasion, that the mi litary service. was reduced to the lowest possible scale. In saying so, the Right Hon. Gent. probably proceeded on the notion that this country ought to keep an army always ready to take the field ; but he (Mr. H.) thought that this country ought to avail her self of her insular situation, and make a reduc tion of our military force in time of peace. He complained that the recommendations of the Finance Committee had not been attended to, and he believed that the vote of a former night showed what re gard his Majesty's Government intended to pay to those recommendations. 'He thought the estimates on the • table were for a force which this country did not require in time of peace, and they in fact ex ceded similar estimates for the year 1828, which were greater than similar estimates for 1792, al though the Finance Committee had recommended that our Military Establishments should approve all as near as possible to the establishment of 1792. In 1792. the Officers of Eng4icers were 72Hin 1820, 202,--and in 1828, the number was 268. A Qiitiilitv increase took place in the Royal Artillery and Horse Artillery Establishments. Such the case, did not know upon what grounds the Right Hon:' Gentleman had stated that the military establish ments of this country were reduced to the lowest possible scale. The increase of charge for the artil lery establishment, since the year 1822, was not less . thin 50,0004 and the Artillery force now in time of peace, exceeded the strength of that force during the American war by no less than 2000 men. The whole force of this country in_ the year 1792, w as 66,000, in tha year 1822 3 inoaa, and in 1828 that force ingmod to 129,000/. He considered we were keeping up a' force wholly unnecessary, and the expenses of which prevented Government from reducing the burthen of taxation which pressed so heavily upon the industry of the country. TATFERSALL's THIS DAY In consequence of the July Meeting at Niewmavkot, oe front some other e4usv, very fr,y , of the MeMbers attended to-day, to,id 9? I,l . e4itii took: place. In the case of the CORPORATION of BRISTOL V. Bust', tried in the Court of King's Bench this day, a verdict was returned for the Cotriltku— Pamages, Otie DREADFUL MURDER. . • tion of the report en this Bill, having been read, the Bill was ordered to be recommitted. The House i resolved itself into a Committee on the Bill, the I On Saturday night last, Mr. STIRLING, the ea miler, and a very respectable Jury, were occupie' six hours i n t h e Board-room of Middlesex H nsp inil Bill as amended, went t h roug h t h e Committee. The Report wa s b roug h t up, and ordered to be received to-morrom. in the inveltigatio n of the circumstances attended On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the I the death of Mrs. Ann Silver, whose husband *0 charged with wilfully and maliciously seating her.o EXCHEQUER, the W ar d en o f t h e Ci nque P orts Bill was read a second time, asul ordered to be fire. committed. The Jury took a view of the body of the tutor tunate woman : it was burned about the breast si back in a horrible manner. She appeared to hav been about 40 years of age,and had evidently bee ) a good-looking woman. Thomas Quelch, lives at No, 3, Hanover-street Long-acre, and occupiers an aptutment on the this! floor. He knew the deceased. And a man 1414 4 Joseph Silver, a tailor; thay: lived 41 the baelh i c ; 0 0 ou the second floor of the said house and *ere con sidered by all the tenants to be Men nad Sh' was a remarkably well behaved fetintle,.and laa r tico larly s o b er , but ha on the contrary, wat:verydisei patcd, which caused them to have repeatettnartill About three o'clock in the afternoon of thts9th he left home, but had not proceeded far ithetilli' wife overtook him, and "begged' of him to retain,,i' Mr. and Mrs. Silver were fighting. Witnesswee' back immediately; and as he was ascending thaitsie he met the deceased screaming, and Iler'cloth° on fire. She exclaimed, "'Oh, for GA'S Salo help rne, help me: . he has set me on fire-7J° has set me on fire." She then, in the burniill state she was in, attempted to gain her own iiio o but her husband shut the doer against her, and re fused let her in; she then attempted to go int° his (witness's) room, but before she could do 0 Mr. Cocks, another lodger, rolled her in a' blanket and the fire was extinguished. . She was :then t* sisted up stairs towards her own rocitn. Witness just before the fire was put out, saw , :the'dOor opt° and Silver standing against it. Ho had no :ma handkerchief on. He heard Mr. Cocks tell him 0 run for a coach to take his wife to the, hospital, 0 • she was dyin g . H e coo ll y replied, ,"•re . i.lbelptt 0P My togs (clothes) first : then deliberately put - 0; his coat and hat, and went out for that . putpose, tu o as lie was going doWn stairs he met his wife, NO' was being assisted up, and as he passed; be gave het the key of the room without saying a word, welt out, but never returned, and he had never ben see' since. A coach was shortly afterwards fetched bl a little boy, and the deceased Was 'carried' to tlo hospital. Jury : Could the husband hear• what his said ?—He must have heard her; she repeated it several times. 1 Eliza Quelch, the wife of the last witness, de' posed, that just before three o'clock on the afteriiio in question, the deceased was in her twitnesSY, loom, looking out of t h e w i n d ow. Her huebat° was then coming in at the street door. up stairs into the room, and . asked her ror tfie' key' which she gave him, and then he struck her Thai times with his double fist, witlrgreat,violence,pn tilt eye. She bled very Much, mid they both went int( ) their own apartment, Where is - atfew 'minutes 'silo heard a great scuffling between them. She, they rats out and fetched her husband,..,,aud when. the' came back, which was in abOatfoar or five minute) they met her on the stairs in flaines. :She called nut, " Help ! help! he has set me on fire —he hue set me on tiro! for God's sake help l" Sarah Davis, the purse of the ward in 'Whielvtbi deceased was, deposed, that on the day after's) , was brought in, she told he r th at h er husband had said to a l o d ger w h o told hi m s h e was netititi.b.urnt to death, " Let her burn and be lif t & 'll6 clothes had seen set fire to with some 0141'010 had been thrown into the fire in a passion. . William Cocks was next examined. H e . h ea d the screams of the deceased, and heard "be t SO " He has set me on fire," several tiineß, 'lre rAo sawn stairs and threw the ironing blanket over bet' The upper. part of her dress only was on, o fe , ,ar al jets of flame were bursting forth all over .her, body' and had the appearance of 'Variegated f leijapa, fire had been placed amdetnetith her cloth e s . t de eff s St never saw s - aoh an ext raor di nar y appearance as AV whresented. He de s i re d the man, to go for a coach ich, after much delay and heitatien, he'did; but he nor th e coac h e ver returned. He had Iris Coated laitkrelde rlf•e a a t m t f h o e id time. mr, oha Halford, tine' of 'the hoist surgeons, proved the adaission.of the dieeiiieitad her death, which took place on Friday 'lase, ri duced by the injuries sh e had received by the bussimg! The evidence bei ng concluded, a }Ong dfseuisioo observed, drat crime, p e C a h oner'ollieleta. do. never had 'Eri c h o c a se bef ore. e4tsued between the Coroner and-Juty:;itponkhe ex' e t th d e ur n in a g tu . ce ila 'o l f acme enormity of The Jury the n returned • a verdict 'of Wilful p w e a rT s i eh u :e n Murder" against Joseph Silver, and a warrant .wat' issued for his apprehension. The whole of the 'Wit' nesses were hound over to prosecute. The in‘ir:f lasted till 12 o'clock at night. . . 7 pRE C s sO.IPORAL COBB E Tit% opiNioais There is one favour that I ask of you, ;.,ore Duke, and I never before lurked a favour pf any minister that is, that yN will have a law passed' tO'cilisiej•aft For P* l ; 4'olZtorsi and Reporters, (of both se;es) of Re' views, Magazines, and Newspapers, to be drawn up, rank entire, in Hyde P er k, (Mee in'eVeiY'rhanti ."o lilac) and once in every month of September.' • ditatell up, and to be kept standing there fox two hours. ,-on.iy let the people see them; 14 31 g rho Mori! For the Caw' thence of the public, !hey might be formedirttna s t t o. hollowiep fiats,e(A 2,,dP.nfeedt,tlsietorenesiniagulidt brootateagnaegigt.frfoin.aoldthet: Tltp pOre sight of the aSatioalago would be quite eno ug b peeple would go bopsst: banging their heads tor'shime, the the) had thrown their money away upon tnatter proceediug froth the brains of such a bang-dog crew. FUNERAL OD MoNTGOMERY‘--,Alt half' past nine o'clock on Saturday night the,reintixis of this ill , fated individual were rothovt4 privately from Newgate a corurnort ood conveyed to the 'burial : 4round at' 4f4ed tp christ's Church, .Newgate-street, ,where they Were deposited in a grave pre\;iously prepared:Witlic;ut an!' of the usual rites of the Church. Several friends of the deceased were in attendance to witness. the interment, s • were also the Under-Sheriffs, Foss and RICUARDSON.-1, The co ffi n was deposit e d'i n the startle grave 'with , that 0 1 the person wh o °outwitted' sniiidoe thii• Salutation io Newrate,etrect, three weeks since, awl. was notimoretbso three ket under ground. . , . OLD BAILEY, JULY 5. Jane Smith, aged 17, a young girl of respectable appearance, was indicted for stealing a watch, value 18s., the property of Jo4u Tellbutt. The prosetnnor, a stout-built, hearty-looking old man, was a brick-maker, and lived at Kensington; on the morning of the 16th of June he went out early, leaving the watah in question hanging over his ntantel-piece ; on his return home it was , gone the prisoner's sister was in the habit 'or ci.mtfig to his lodgings to make hi; 4d; he suspected the prisoner 4n4 liiirged her with the robbery, which she imme diately confessed, and told' him where the watch was; he then sent for an officer, and gave tAvk iAto custody. _ _ _ The prisoner, on Ting asked if she wished to put tiny ues:fions to the witness, said that her sister lived with'him as his wife, and that she gave her the watch to take to' be repaired; that she took i,t ac cordingly, and left it with 4 matchlwaker; she did not sell it s or ob,;ain any money on it. The prosecutor Was recalled, and Mr. Sergeant AiwllN him ar w a i s fe k . ed \ h ‘ i 7 rn if the itness._ prisoner's wha is t,live stel livedwith e, w i i li t y h Lord—an old man like me—it's all nonsense. don't want any suckliassay 7 —l had rather - have shoulder of mutton at any time, gurgiailt ABABIN—Then you never lived with her? Witness—No; and I'll swear to the truth of what I have said ? th . m ro l u t g p l e i ss thi T th i :k x ::: v d ?b o a o t r in Newgate. Mr, Sergeant ARABIN—Have you ever been in a Court of Justice before you mean. 4 ,` doss'*," to PH *FP gs 4011 est a m i a 1 5,S ey in tlie .wcirl4, 'ancl defy th e wor ld WWI I 'leave this place, to call after me" Stop thief." Seijeant ARAIIINT--,H4Ve you never been at Clerk enwell ? Witness— What, you want to make a thief of me whether sr no, but it won't do—it's no go. lam quite surprised at you my jr i ocl noting .these ere F i ufwiooB o c i oi t z ti ybu 4nowi , tlrt;el.—(lZ'oafs oflaughter.) • Mr. Syrgeatit AitAtitN—Were you ever at C 4 r l c griwell—you hripyy what I ;riva l) ? Witness—lf you come to that, I was there once for "face making" (bastardy) but that is. a matter of forty years ago— (renewed laughter) —You will make mesquite angry with you, if you go on in thin ere way. You want to make me out it thiffi 4'o a any 44 .. tf 12.4 'like a thjef. • Mr. Sergeant ARABIN—You may stand down. Thomas Young, a watchmaker, roved that tie prisoner left the watch with him to 14e repaired. She did not ask for any money on it. - - The Jury immediately expressed themselves satis- Ped, and acquitted the prisoner. The prosecutor, as he was leaving the Court, said, I had rather work hard for twenty-four hours than be in such a ' queer place' as this for five minutes." John Troll, aged 37, was indicted for unlawfully marrying Mary Whitten, his former wife, Sarah, being then living. There was 4 sec6nd indictment, charging him with marrying . Elizabeth sims, The prisoner when brought up in the morning to plead and make his challenges, expressed his deter mination to challenge every Juror who was ira panelled to try him, because he had heard that they were composed of parochial i t s . s Leonard, be n e a d i: se d ot , eor S i.l l: i o n r a e t d i t n cl t i 0) officers, 4ra.l it had been corranunicaied to him t h at the dicers of the parish who coiiv ipertoeimci:tesdh,ouhladd theex expensee - } Mr. CO3IMO N S ERGEANT then told him he was mistaken ; b ut t h e prisoner actually challenged the .jury en masse. Itt consequence of which he V 143 re moved from the-bar. Whep the CommOv SEROEANT e ntered the court in the evening he ordered the prisoner to be again put to-the liar, Thomas Ouster, 'the the regist er o f marr i ag e of December, 1819, a iu th e county o f Devon l :? ri it . s in that parish, andpeint out whether, an the 21st man of the name of John Trott married one Sarah. Stems. Wm. Low, the parish clerk of Speen, in Berkshire, produced the register of the parish, which proved that the prisoner, whom he knew very well, was • married to the proseeutrix on the 26th of February, 1814,—The Jury found the prisoner Guilty. BIRTH. On the Ith inet. the lady of Charles Mastlsle, L g . of Tohners, of a eon. 11IARRIED. On the t,th inst: at Kensington, by the Rev. T. if , Elwin, Rector of East Barnet, James 111aleohneon, Esq., to GeOgiana Cecilia, eldest daughter of George Batty( , Esq., of Canuleo=hill, Kensington. On the 30th ult. at St. George's, Hanover square, bY, Blakealey, toNcoarttlhaairninpetosnsahriariel: the Vice-Provost of Etuu , the Rev. George Sivewright, vi Brighton,.and St. Gecirge's CL l pelt youngest daughter of Lad Morreo Gore. y' DIED. On the sth NO. the infant son of Viscount Dunconnov , Caveudish-square. On the sth in.t., in the 62d year of her age, Mrs. sw, ld , sannah La ne , W i dow of the late John Lane, Elu l ., of Lower Tho rn l taugh-street, Bedford-square. On the sth i nst., at L i atnPatet Major D. R. Park( r, formerly of the I Ith Light Dragoons. ' __ tl. On the 3d inst., at litanstead,Thi her 12th year; Lavinia , youngest daughter of Arthur Willis, Esq. On the 27th ult. at 13ersham, in the e ounty o f P t rbsob Fratices,'y ounges t daughter of the late Joseph Croser, Es) of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. On the 2d inst., at his residence, Southgate, MiddleseP Thomas Sowerby, Esq., aged 62. On the 2d at Beauvoir, Guernsey, Wm. 'Kersliao r, Esq., late of King's Arms -yard, Column-street. On the 28th ult., Mr. John Turner, jun., surge' 0 , Charles-square, Hoxton, in his 26th 'year. Lost, on the 4th of March last, at the Manritiu9, 011 board the George Cun)thig, in the 22d year of his are , William, only son of W. W ad d , Esq., of Park place, St. James's-street. PRINTED and PtlntemEo by M. YcoliNci, at the SVN (Oki"' No. 12, Stratid, Londou, THE FA THE . 1 Belsh TU azzar's 4 "P, Old Deluge are "auge are ri 30, Alletop-t4 INOTIC EITIC C l Olll. 4n S SEVEN o'C Atimi n i on 4hining. Exhibitors Tuesday. the; EA, ENGLAND give' Notice, That a Ge at their How next, the 9th uata,Six in t tinned Propri TiNILY Al J. THORN] RAIK) W. WIGR) 11. T. PAW J. BMW] 17Y 2 ~E Ol l£ GE To Banc " That the Innacures ado th e 1 olaeof an and although Lltaiously and the Verdict of and the Prop' aCtaated hy.a withdraw the Executive Bo EAR'. THE UNIT ENGLAND, give Notice, That the writing, on from the Owl tone, and upo Formed their c Pany's regular which they m additional Vo The Court rave proposal of the burth ei surement, wh formed Nine ' the Rate of F e ach Ships f a upon a reduce The Tender C over, to be e at or before T beyond which The partici the Ships Wil service, ma y 1 Clerk t o t h e tlay, the 19th THE E . MAIN: ad, trill be ag Tv ESDAY the Exchange Col nukes previon Apply to Dallas and In Stionehaven,, Jnie 19, 11 MERCI ( can .be accomr roost responsil after date, or cept e 4, and all cePtota are cal Nacurity will h are dne, the tankers in Lc As honour, requested that address, in the 0 . A. Y., No. 'nest iinmediai (AN the A Sold by R 1 change. I lia day Iva( illustrate( tions ot v arieties of the Printec This NOTES of MOE to Nome pug 'War in the Napoleon. „ Lievt.-Co Secretary ai the Can2paij Printed 44 A R Nov] " A mon Sont .le pl Point de Est des h Quand le Des senti Serre ces Que l'An • P P IE • Reininis A broad and at These vein; ketch,l3ook: , rarious ea l e L llce hie predec proportion ,7 1 * book us eful h: l° lvever, freqi Ivhieh he co 1411 with a hig Printed for THEN i.,,ii, l vr ' a a h r ie t T l sh .— emut T g.g h l' l l i /loard—Lifi 4 Pin-..Batt Nt Line—Cocl I; , , a nr. ''''eutenant—Tl 'Leyte at the 14 " Y• Part I or tivrnouth-1 Part iii_ Th Tsßoatswain's G viteovery—Th C n ruisi..4. in th h 'aY•day—The k "sager" at I %hip in Harb ~ t 4' rl:--Logini ranee—Seem. ' 1 'ml:1-the Memo Orbited for H