The Sun. — London, England, 1828-05-27 00:00:00

SPIRIT - OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. It was not until yesterday that all hope of an ad- I justment of the Ministerial difference could be said to have expired; and we confess ourselves to have been amongst those who felt enough for the Go vernment and for the country, to cherish to the very last a prospect, the fulfilment of which would be of • Ito much importance to them both. Let the matter be glossed over as it will, the resignation of Mr. Huskisson, and some of those colleagues who have been considered as representing the Canning por tion of the Duke of Wellington's Ministry, is an event most deplorable at the present crisis. There is no denying, that except among the mere dregs of the violent Tory faction, the existence of even a small minority of the friends and confidants of Mr. Canning,—the sharers of his councils—the approvers and executive agents of his policy,—must have been regarded as a peace-making circumstance be tween the Wellington Cabinet and the people at large. Whatever credit—and much was juatly given—might be due to the Prime Minister who succeeded Lord Goderich, for firmness, rectitude, singleness of purpose, and strength of judgment, still the presumed bias of his Grace's senti ments on some great questions of policy, fo reign and domestic, required a counterpoise in the eves of the nation; and that counter poise was perceived (or taken for granted) in the accession of Mr. Huskisson and his friends to the Government of which his Grace was to he the chief. Mr. Huskisson, we admit, had suffered some what in the general estimation, by some unfortunate attempts to explain on untenable grounds a course of personal conduct, of which the true, and perhaps sufficient, motives were not of a nature to be pro mulgated. But still, as a practical Minister, in trusted with financial, commercial, or colonial inte xests, who was equal to him, whether Whig or Tory ? Who had organized and directed,---who could unravel, discourse upon, and triumphantly defend, but he, the bold improvements in our mari time and commercial policy, for which we are in- debted for the salvation of whatever has been saved to the merchants and shipowners of Great Britain ? As a man of business in an empire of men of busi ness, Mr. Huskisson was invaluable to the Govern ment, and his loss very difficult to be repaired. Lord Palmerston has been accused of favouring one or two jobs in his own department of the War Of fice ; and with an impression of the justice of such accusations on our minds, we were not slow to censure him. But as a rigid accountant for the public, in the general administration of that unwieldy office, and as a judicious regu lator of complex and intricate transactions, his Lordship has rendered good service to the state, and ought not to be lightly appreciated. He, too, was an efficient member of the liberal party in a Cabinet predominantly Tory, and his value was enhanced beyond all calculation by the position which he thus kept hohi of. Of Mr. Grant, there cart be nothing said but that his conduct has proved him an enlightened auxiliary to the small force of liberal Ministers in the Cabinet, and his resignation, when consummated, will be an added subject of re gret. Lord Dudley, from high character for inde pendence and discernment, for sound sagacious views avithcalt prejudice or passion,—from a political con-, cutTence with Mr. Canning, on which no suspicion has ever lighted, and from the eateem and reputation - which, since Lis superintendence of our foreign af fairs, he has achieved for himself with the whole di plomatic world, withdraws (if, unfortunately, he should withdraw) from the Ministry a greater vo iume of public usefulness then perhaps all the rest who are seceding. And what is left behind ? The Duke of Wellington, and he only, in whom the country has the slightest confidence ; for who and what are Messrs. Peet, 6-loulburn, and Herries ? Mr, Peel's - — leadership, shoat as it has been, has ruiaeathim as a leader, and he kr.ows it. The others ;axe :Unworthy of the slightest notice. For the first flne, then, since the days of Mr.Percevab we have thorough-going Tory Cabinet, With deeper Toryism and Less talent, not redeemed by even a speck of any quality, so far as the House of Corn in ona i caancerned, to command, persuade, control, or authorize. With a Cabinet more Tory, we have, on the other hand, n nation far tee: so. The last 18 months, it they have unsettled the (. - ,'Foverninent, have broken the conthmity of the Tory doinVttion, and set public spirit free. This discordance between the people of England and tilt a Ministry, as left by the departure of the Canning ourahere, may, it is true, work for final good ; but 1! mio2 prev . iously ipair the force of the British Government /n the eyes of Foreign Powers ; the first effect therefore, I will be positive evil,—the benefit contingent or re- • mote. We throw out these opinions without favour or affiectiou, or hostility to any party. It seems to us, however, that if the Duke of Wellington left a single effort untried to re-establish the Cabinet on that footing from which the 'Trent quarrel had dis• placed it ; or if his Grace, in declining to make such efforts, was influenced by even a shadow of personal pique towards Mr. Huskisson and his friend:., he was guilty of a grave offence against the interests of the throne, of England, and of Lampe. We trust that the fault has not been his. %'e trust and believe thqt the interests of the nation have not been sacri ficed to a consideration of mere peraonat airpiette. —Timev. We have, in the preceding atviole, commented ra ther on the supposed than the actual state of the ease. All that is absolutely certain is, that besides Mr. Huskisson, whose resignation we mentioriA on Saturday, Lord Palmerston and Mr. W. Lamb have resigned. Whether the other meaihers of the Ca binet who are popularly supposed to represent the canning interest will follow their example, is not at this moment known. It is a point on which their d ec ision, whatever it. may be, cannot be taken with out pain and anxiety. It is somewhat curious that Sir George Murray, who has ` been observed lately to put himseif forward as a sup porter o f t h e pens i on for Mr. Canninv family, is appointed to the (Alice which Mr. Husiclaaon (the oldest friend of Mr. Canning) vacates. ge uccessor has been appointed to Lord Palmerston.—/b a, The Ministerial differences have at last termi nated in the resignation of the initial part of the Cabinet. The Court Newsman, in his 'Report, men tions that the Duke of Welling and Mr. 'JIB. ton had at , au di en ce of the h. ng yesterday when the latter resigneA his Seals of Office. But Earl Dudley, Lord Palmei stoni and , \lr.o ?iii, have resigned ; and so hat,we Believe, William Lamb, the Irish Secretary. The chau,? . es win " - „.x.. , departments. tend to several individuals in ii;ferior The affair of East Retford is,ncr ikzuht, the imme diate cause of the breaking up o f the lignistry ; but the two divisions of the Cabinet must have teen in a disposition which enabled them to make the ,r . 4i.:“; t of such an event as the transfer GC 3 rotten borough, when so apparently unimportant a cause gduld lead to such consequences. There is an adage, t h at it is ithe last feather that breaks the horse's back. Whe,4 there is war among the Irish in St. Criles's, no one thinks of inquiring into the immediate ewe of hos tilities., A foundation is always laid for a rupture, f or %Pelt one cause will do just as %veil as another. The pre,ent Ministry was newly broken up as S as forme d, The speech of Mr. Huskisson at Liver; produced that effect ; and though pool had iaar l y P that affair was h ushed up, yet on all the questions which have since igitated the country, t.v. , 0 distinct Onaiies Grant did not hesi sets of views have been advocated by different divi sions of the Cabinet. tate to deelar, that the Corn Bail was not such as he could have wished it to be; while in th e House of Lords, the Duke of Wellington seemed to regiwt Ault it did not go far enough to promote the interests of the aristocracy. The p:rant of a Committee ,of Inquiry respecting Wool, by the Duke of Welling `on, indicated a feeling towards the aristooraei whjtit was only repressed by the necessity of a compromise with the ether party, that the inquiry should have am result. The declaration of Mr. Huskisson, that we were indebted for the continuance of peace to the continuance of Lord Dudley in office, amounted, a all events, to a proof that the sentiments of Lord Dudley with respect to - foreign affairs, differed ma terially from those of the majority of the Cabinet. The explanations of Mr. Huskisson, at Liverpool, implied the consciousness of the existence of a suspi cion, on the part of the public, that the Cabinet into which lie had entered would not second his views. It is obvious that Mr. Huskisson must have felt an uneasiness on this subject, and that, whether he had demanded pledges or guarantees, or not, explana tions must have taken place respecting the extent to which the Duke would support his principles. (We are not now speaking of the wisdom of the experi ment made by Mr. Huskisson, but of the views with which he consented to make it.) It is equally ob vious, that if a regard for his reputation as a States man led Mr. Huskisson to endeavour to capitulate with the High Tories in the Cabinet, when he saw that the terms of that capitulation were not ob served, and that he was every day dragged deeper and deeper into the mire, and sinking in the public estimation, he must have been eager for an oppor tunity of retreating in time. Instead of asking on what subject Ministers differed, we should be glad to know what subject they were agreed on. They differed with respect to foreign affairs, as is proved by Mr. Huskisson's speech, and the expressions, characteristic of one party, which found their way into the King's Speech. They differed on the Ca tholic Question so much, that the speech of Mr. , • Charles Grant may be considered as amounting al most to a sentence of incapacity pronounced against Mr. Peel. They differed as to the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, and the Duke of Welling ton was said by some of his colleagues to have materially injured the Bill in the House of Lords. They differed as to the torn Bill; and probably, also, as to the Inquiry into the Laws regarding the Importation of Wool. And lastly, they have differed as to the sop to be thrown to the Duke of New castle to obtain a more cordial support from the High Tories. So far then from wondering, that a Cabinet so discordantly formed should separate, the wonder is how it has rubbed on so long. It is un derstood that the Duke of Wellington, before the affair of East Retford, would have been glad to supply the place of Lord Palmerston by Sir Henry Ilardinge. Lord Wallace and Lord Goderich are talked of as likely to supply the place of some of the others, but on this subject we are not possessed of any positive information. The High Tories are quite in erstacy. The expectations of the country give them very little concern. The public, indeed, very naturally ask how elo these people mean to go on in the present embarrassing posture of affairs, without a single man among them known to the country by reputation as a Statesman, with Mr. Peel in the House of Commons, now tried and found unpalateable even to those whom his hypocrisy pre possessed in his favour. But these considerations by no means disconcert our High Tories for a moment. In their joy they give expression to the most ex travagant language—language which implies their utter ignorance of the changes which time and events have wrought in this country. One subject of exultation with them is, the change of policy which they conclude will be adopted towards Ireland. The Duke of Wellington is known, they say, to have given way in the Cabinet to men of less decided views than he himself entertains with regard to Ireland, and now he will he enabled to give effect to his own views. The Duke, they say, has always been of opinion that Ireland ought not to remain in its present state ; but that the best and most lasting security would be derived from completing the con quest of the country. These are the hallucinations of an idiotcy approaching to insanity. It may be very true that there is no middle course to be adopted towards Ireland—that the Catholics must be emancipated or coerced ; but we apprehend that the sentiments of the people of England must form a very material element in estimating the practicabi lity of a measure. If there are men so quixotic as to believe that, in the present state of affairs, foreign and domestic, the people will be brought to acquiesce in such a course of policy as that which we have alluded to, they will soon be undeceived to their cost. We cannot bring ourselves to think so meanly of the Duke of Wellington as that he can believe this nation can be governed on High Tory principles. And yet we do not well see how, after losing the liberal part of his Cabinet, he can patch up an Ad ministration which shall not be a High Tory-one. It is obvious that the late separation in the Cabinet will instantly be felt in Parliament, and throughout the country. We shall have now fierce extremes opposed to each other. The resignation of Mr. Huskisson has raised him in the general estimation. He erred in taking office with men with whom he could not act with cordiality ; but his resignation has atoned for that error.—Morning Chronicle. We stated yesterday all that had passed up to the time of our publication respecting the differences in the Ministry. We pointed out Mr. Huskisson and Lord Palmerston, not only as the retiring Members, but the former as one who had lost the confidence of his Majesty, and would no longer forni part of Administration, even should the ultimate result be a total change of Councils. This fact is now pub- Rely admitted. Mr. Huskisson had an interview with its Majesty yesterday, at which he resigned the seals of offiee, and the country is now secure against the mann), cf e•.:periments, to which it has been too long subjected. Lord Palmerston has also terminated his official career. Beyond this nothing has igt occurred. Other secessions, or rather dis missals, li yr been talked of, but, we are assured, erroneously. The rest of the Administration will, we understand, remain Ys it is, and the places of the politically defunct Statesmen, will be fined up without any difficulty or delay, Vis count Ootterich is strongly spoken of as likely to return to office on this occasion, and an early dissolution of Peiliament continues to be regarded as a very pro‘dable es,-etit. The tempest, which broke so suddenly upon the Duke of WellllT:ton's Administration, has only served to confirm itc, strength, and to display in a clearer light the manly tirmneL:e and decision of its : chief, Straight-forward in all his acts and intentions, the Ni, , ble Duke could neither suspect nor permit doubly VieWS in others. He did not understand an offer to resign, NihiA was not meant as a resigna tion. He knew that if 4 y/4s not a resignation, it was a bravado and an insult, and he took the more charitable view of the case, when he Eerie. Mr. Hue lz_isson's letter to the King, for what it purpo rte d t o be, instead of' considering it as a piece of hypocrisy, which bore ;1. different meaning from that which it expressed. He ti,t,;.4. as he would have done for himself. He would have prefei.re4 honour to place, 04 naturally ascribed the same feeling is Hus kissou, He protected the honour of that Geniie f . man, at the ei:p,ense of its situation it is true, but at an expense more repaid by the homage thus done to h:s integrity his truth. That Huskisson will c om pl a i n , we therefore do not anticipate. He has been treated r.;.? ?> 1 ) honest man, .3.p,(-,1 ought, we think, to fe'el grateful. That be 4a% we will not assert. We l eavg that to those secrets a the bosom, with which a 4 , 4 -4;s own spirit a l one i s aequaintad. But that the country ovrs the de e p est gratitude' to the ha Noble Duk e, for ving 4:hewed her from the dan ger tir further expetiments qtrthe pro s p er i ty , an d even the ,e-i•liztence of her most irupdrtant interests, f ,ay her debt most ampfy, and that she wii4are not imaginations but ceetalpties. The country, like her Moniprli, places all her coni4mce on the clear understanding, ;lte I.ro:ng sense of right, the frank honesty, the total aPsie4i-s,e from guile petty p as _ sion9, art the ,unbesi tat] n *.c ,, .40n of the Leader of her Councils. Could she give a mote Aopvmcing • proof of the extent to vAi,eh she trusted his Grace, than her conduct on this occasioil ? Dinic,uKes had arisen which might possibly have led to greater changes, or indeed to the total overturning of the Noble I)uYes Admißistratiop. Was a wish m breathed throughout the land th;t wars not for the Fel:ope': ►A the of his Ministry ? Did a thought wnnaer Whigs, who so lately imagined that they had re gained the respect of the nation No : they were forgotten, as they deserved; or if recollected, only remembered as men who seemed studious, when in, power, to reverse all the promises which they had made when out of place. Every eye was fixed on the mind that made the Government a national, not a party object, and the continuance of the Duke of Wellington at the head of public affairs, was the uni versal hope, the universal prayer.—Xezu Times. MR. HUSKISSON, lIIS RESIGNATION, &C.—The following we last night received from a West End of the Town Correspondent There is no doubt that Mr. Iluskisson has ceased to be Minister for the Colonies ; such, indeed, has been the fact since last Thursday, from which time Mr. H. did not transact any business, and all communication be tween him and the Office was suspended. It has been whispered, by those who have been very close observers of the Right Hon. Gentleman, that he entertained a similar ambition to that of the late Mr. Canning : certain it is, that he has shown, in the various changes which took place a few months back, a great tenacity for keeping office. It was Mr. Huskisson's conduct, in the first instance, that led to the dissolution of the " Goderich Ministry." Li e , it would seem, has tried the same " ruse" again, but he has not found a Lord Goderich in the Duke of Wellington, who behaved in a decided manner; for, when he found a Member of his Administra tion pursuing such conduct as might lead to its dissolution, he resented it in such a way that that Member's resignation was inevitable. Mr. Hus kisson's speeches—the one made at Liverpool, and the other in the House of Commons, and between which there was so little coincidence —were, it is very likely, not forgotten. His (Mr. Huskisson's) removal from the Colonial Office, it is understood, does not cause the resignation of either of the Under Secretaries. Mr. Hay is con sidered a fixture ; Lord Francis Gower, the Parlia mentary Under Secretary, and who in general fol lows the Principal Secretary, will, it is understood, remain in office, as he was conductit ' s the business in his department during yesterday. Lord Francis was considered to be introduced into the office of Under Secretary of State for the Colonial Depart ment by the Duke of Wellington. It is expected that Lord Dudley does not resign the Foreign Se cretaryship, for which his late frequent interviews with the Duke of Wellington, and his Lordship's dining with the King on Saturday, in company with the Noble Duke, is a confirmation. Sir George Murray was yesterday spoken of as likely to suc ceed Lord Palmerston, as Secretary at War. Among the reports of yesterday, one was that Parliament is to be dissolved.—A. B. C.—Morning Herald. The expectation which we yesterday so confi dently expressed has already been fully realized. Mr. Huskisson, whose recent extraordinary conduct excited so much surprise, to give it no other term, is no longer a Minister of the Crown. He yesterday resigned into his Majesty's hands the Seals of Office as Secretary of State for the War and Colonial De partment ; and Lord Palmerston as Secretary at War, and Mr. Grant as President of the Board of Trade, are expected to resign their respective offices in a few days. These are necessary consequences of the unexpected presumption of the liberal portion of the Cabinet, in opposing their dark and insidious practices to the honest and straight-forward conduct of the illustrious Premier, and his no less honourable colleague, the able and respected Secretary for the Home Department. Upon this important event we cannot deny ourselves the pleasure of congra tulating the public, persuaded as we are that it will lead to the happy formation of a Ministry, upon the sound and safe principles of good old times, and to which the country may look with confidence for the preservation of the Constitution in Church and State—the maintenance of those 'blessings for which our ancestors fought and bled, and of those rights and privileges (now so seriously menaced) which it is our bounden duty to hand down unim paired to posterity. Some of our contemporaries will have it, that the East netfot d Question was the sole ground of difference which led to the rupture that has already produced such beneficial effects to the country. We have already, we hope, given ample reason for our difference of opinion with them; hut admitting for the sake of ar gument, that they are perfectly correct, we would seriously ask, whether a fair occa sion is not even in that case afforded to discuss the principles which ought to regulate and reconcile Ministerial unanimity and individual independence, —principles without a due regard to which the Ad ministration of England must he for ever insecure, and the policy of England for ever wavering. Any man who consents to form part of an Administration, clearly pledges himself by that consent to acquiesce irk ? tlie decision of the majority of the Cabinet (if fairly taken) upon all questions, with the exception only of those which are understood beforehand to be open questions, or upon which he has previously to joining them, made his colleagues understand that he holds an inflexible opinion. Upon the great princi ples of national policy it may generally be taken for granted that the men who form themselves into an Administration fully understand each other; it is upon subordinate questions only, therefore, or upon the application of the fixed principles of national policy to emergencies which mayfrom time to time arise,that they can differ. And we do not hesitate to say that the mi nority in a Cabinet which refuses to submit to the majority on such an occasion, or which does not sub mit until it has endeavoured in vain to excite the tuition in favour of its own over-ruled opinions, af fords by this single act the most conclusive proof that it consists of men, insensible to the obligations of good faith, incapable of understanding the value of a settled, in comparison with a devious and fluctuating course of public policy,—totally unworthy in short, in intellect, in temper, and in morals, to bear any share in swaying the destinies of a great empire. To illustrate the principles we have here laid down, let us suppose the majority of the Cabinet to have decided, that the privilege of return ing Members of Parliament, hitherto exercised by East Retford, ought not, in all the circumstances of the case, to be transferred to Birmingham ; but that the right of voting ought merely to be extended to the Free holders of the Hundred in which that Borough is situated ; and let us then ask, if there can be any doubt that the minority of the Cabinet were so far bound by this decision, as to be precluded from voting in Parliament in opposition to it ? We med dle not now with the question as to which party would have been right and which wrong, upon the ,original topic of dispute. We say nothing of the importance, be it greater or less, of the question at issue ; but we do say, that the decision of the ma jority of the Cabinet, upon such a question, ought to regulate the Parliamentary conduct of all its members; because it is clear that the pre valence of any other rule would throw the whole "sloyetntttent of the country into the hands of the House of Commons, yy con , ;tituting it a per manent court of appeal upon all Ministerial diffe rences of opinion. This consideration is so obvious, and at the same time so important, that any man, tvho ;!42 for a single moment been capable of over looking or disregarding it, may be safely pronounced unfit to remain a Minister of the British Crown ; may justly be suspected of the basest treachery tP ards his colleagues ; and must henceforth he con -- pent to take his place among those in whose estima tion neither personal itonsats nor the welfare of the State are of any value, in comparison with a women - F4ry aml vulgar popularity.—Morning In less thz,tn forty ye4r; so pornpletely has every bodily trace of Mpaa wr vanished from the minds of the pepple of Vienna, that there is not a spill there who can even tell the Flare where he was buried. The ansWer to every inquiry iS, Nobody knows,—the register of St. ' Stephen's must be consulted for the information." There is no ru d e memento — no scu l pture d s t one —t o indicate that the divine 11 91. A RT once sojourned in Vienna ; and as for the spot of his interment, it may not be thought too fanciful to suppose that earth, the general mother, .1" 1 “ 1° ' of her production, has hidden hint again in her womb, lest celestial beings should claim him as their own. This perhaps, a poetical apology for what is, in fact, neglect everla,tingly disgraceful to the Vi ennese , who, I am afraid, have Inoue joy in the pag ean t o f a f unera l than they have sorrow for the loss of great men.—A Ramble an!, the Musicians of Germany, a piece of Nuimemem At" 4t , 44. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.—Mr. GoWham, the superintend ent of Billingsgate-market, yesterday attended to report to the Lord Mayor that he Lad condemned 12,000 mackerel on board a vessel as unsaleable, and had ordered them to be destroyed. A Kentish farmer had offered a sum of money for them as manure. It was not the practice to permit bad fish to be used in any way after it had entered the market, but he (Mr. Goldham) saw no objection to the proposal, provided security were given that it was carried bona fide into effect. A specimen of the fish was exhibited, when the chief clerk observed, that it was scarcely conceivable that any one would purchase such trash as that. Mr. oldham said, there was scarcely any food, how ever ha , which the poor would not purchase if they could get it cheap. He was compelled to exercise his authority omptly, in order to prevent them purchasing this fish, though it was offensive to every one who had any smell. This, however, was four days' old fish, and he thought it proper to state, that the mackerel and other fish ut present supplied to the market was excellent. Cale had been taken to prevent any being taken out that could injure the character of the supply. Consent was given that the mackerel should be given up for use as manure, provided one of Mr. Goldham's officers saw it taken as far from the metropolis as Graves. end. GUILDHALL—GissoN v. LEE.----In this case Mr. Lee was charged with having tbump'd Mr. Gibson without either rhyme or reason. The parties are near neighbours, residing in the same court ;—Mr. Gibson—pale, pudgy, and past forty ; Mr. Lee—long, young, and about twenty. Mr. Gibson deposed that as he was returning from a walk on Sunday evening last, and just as he was passing the door of the house :in which Mr. Lee lives, Mr. Lee popp'd out upon him and began thumping him without either rhyme or reason—cuffing him, first on one side of the head and then on the other—until he made him ex tremely uncomfortable ; and therefore, as he would not desist, but actually followed him into his (Mr. G.'s) ow❑ house, still continuing his cuffings—he (Mr. G.) got somebody to fetch a constable, who " very candidly" took Mr. Lee to the Compter. " That is my case, please your Worship," said Mr. Lee, " and all I want is peace—for I think it very hard that I should be knocked about in that way, without either rhyme or reason." The Alderman (Sir P. LAURIE) thought se, too ; but, putting the rhyme out of the question, he asked Mr. Lee the reason why he had cuff'd Mr. Gibson in the very un comfot table manner above mentioned. Mr. Lee, in reply, gave both rhyme and reason —or, rather, a couple of reasons, rhyming with each other ; viz.—elevation and irritation ; —the one occasioned by liquor and the other by love. " Your Worship," said he, " I was devoted in liquor, and irritated at seeing Lint in company with a young woman that I—please your Wor ship—that I " " That you have been paying your addresses to ?"—said the Alderman—thertby very charitably "helping a lame man over the stile." " Exactly so, your Worship," responded Mr. Lee. "Aye, I thought there was either a lady, or liquor, in the case," observed the Alderman—" and it seem* there were both ; but, nevertheless, we must have the peace kept between you. Is it true Mr. Gibson, that you were in company with the lady ?" "Why—yes, your Worship," replied Mr. G. " we had been taking a walk together; but—" " Then you are a widower, I suppose?" said the Alder man.—" I am, your Worship," replied Mr. G. "And a housekeprr .?" inquired the Alderman.—" I am, your Worship," replied Mr. G. with a dignified and self-congratulatory bow. " Why, then, Mr. Lee," observed Us Worship, " you must give up the lady; for I ant afraid, though you may be a bachelor, you are no housekeeper, and an establish ment is a matrimonial desideratum with all prudent ladies, you know." Mr. Lee admitted that he was not a housekeeper—that, in fact, he was nothing but a poor bachelor porter; " but I shouldn't mind so much about the lady," said he, " Mr. G. was not always chaffing with me about it." " What, he taunts you with the preference which the lady gives to him?" said his Worship ; and Mr. Lee hav ing replied " in the affirmative," as the learned say, his Worship asked Mr. Gibson which the lady really preferred the bachelor or the widower? " That reposes in her own breast!" replied Mr. Gib son : " but, your Worship," be continued, " this has all nothing at all to do with it ; for lie was thumping me last Tuesday, and after it was over, he wilted my pardon, shook hands, and promised to drop all nonsense—for that the lady might do as she liked ; and I only want to know whether I have not a right to talk to her without being knocked about by him ?" " To be sure you have," replied the Alderman, " and he has promised, or I dare say be will, never to knock you about again." " Have you promised?" said Mr. Gibson—turning round to Mr. Lee.—" I have," replied Mr. Lee. " Very well—that's enough !" said Mr. Gibson—getting down from the witness box ; and there the matter ended. BOW-STREET.—Yesterday Win. Slaughter, a poor looking labouring man, was charged before Sir RICHARD RIRNIE with stealing a large quantity of iron, the pro perty of Messrs. Want and Richardson, the great building contractors at Uxbridge, who erected Covent-garden Theatre. It appeared that the iron in question formed part of a train-road from the canal at Uxbridge to the grand junction water-works, in the same neighbourhood. Since February last, the prosecutors have discovered that the`• lost of this iron no less than two tons arid a half, and they were at a loss to account for its disappearance, until they received information on the 21st instant that the prisoner was the thief. A quantity of broken iron was observed by a la bourer in a ditch, on the road leading to Hounslow, and a person having been placed to watch it, the prisoner was taken into custody on the following morning, when he came with a cart to convey the iron away. It appeared that the prisoner had previously sold 103 cwt. of the same description of iron to Wm. Christmas, a dealer in marine stores, at Hounslow. This individual came forward as a witness, but the Magistrate conceiving that he must have been aware, from the appearance of the prisoner, and the nature of the circumstances under which the iron had been offered to him, that the prisoner could not have come ho nestly by it, directed Mr. Christmas to find bail for re ceiving the iron, knowing it to have been stolen. The prisoner, in his defence, attempted to charge a clerk, named Jordan, in the employ of the prosecutors, with having sold the iron to him at the rate of half-a-crown per cwt. Nu belief, however, was attached to this story, and the prisoner was fully committed for trial. Mr. Schutz, husband to Madame Schutz, of the King's Theatre, who, it will be remembered, had been robbed by a servant boy, named Tagliano, of money to the amount of nearly 500/., appeared before the Magistrate, accom panied by an interpreter, to state that he had just received a letter from the Major of the yens trarnierie at Milan, intimating that in consequence of information received by bins, the boy Tagliano bad been taken into custody in Milan, and was about to be transmitted to this country to take his trial for the robbery. The letter added, that Tagliano had confessed the fact of his guilt, but stated that the young man now in custody, Francisco Viganio, and another young man, also an Italian, were concerned with Lim in the affair, and had reserved to themselves the greater part of the money. Not more thsn 100 francs were found upon the boy. Sir RICHARD BIRNIE immediately directed that a war rant should be issued to apprehend the third party, whose name was mentioned in the letter, and remarked to Mr. Schutz, that it was very well his wish had not been ac . , • , ceded to with respect to tne liberation of Viganio. lIATTON-GARDEN.—A young man of the name of Thomas Owen, a journeyman baker, residing at No. 29, Easton-street, Spa-fields, was yesterday charged before the sitting Magistrates, A. S. LAING and W. L. ROGERS, Esqrs., with indecently exposing his person. It appeared from the testimony of very many respectable and matronly females, and also from that of several of the police, to whom the complaint had frequently been made, that the neighbourhood of Spa-fields, and particularly Chapel-row, was continually, night after night, for weeks past, annoyed by a person answering the description of the prisoner being in th e h a bit o f comm i t ti ng th e a b ove o ff ence . As soon as th dusk of evening approached, and the lamps were lighted, he was sure to take his stand in some by-street or court, and i n t h at s i tuat i on wou ld suffer no femal e , whether yoo ng or o ld , to pass on, or even make their ap pearance, without offering them the grossest insults. It was impossible for a female to sit one moment after night bad fallen at a window, or stand at a door, without being exposed to insult. It happened, however, that for a long time no efficient steps were taken to restrain this outrage, for he succeeded it, perpetually baffling the keenest observa tions of the watch, till Saturday night last, about half-past ten o'clock, when Mrs. Surridge, a respectable-looking female, and an inhabitant of Chapel-row, Spa-fields, was insulted at her own door. Her husband rushed out at once upon the prisoner, seized him by the collar, and gave him in charge to the witch. Six female witnesses came forward, who identified the prisoner as the individual who had so long been in the habit of annoying their neighbourhood, and from whom they themselves had often received very gross insults, Some of them not having been able posi- ,~ ;~~ t-‘ tively to identify him in the garb he now wore, Mr. Laing ordered his residence to be searched, and the different dresses belonging to him to be brought to the office, which was accordingly done ; and he having made his appearance alter nately in three several suits, was sworn to by all the wit nesses. The prisoner's employer, a master baker, came forward to speak to his character, and informed the Magistrate that he was a married man, and a sober, regular, industrious workman. He knew nothing, however, of the offence with which the prisoner was charged, and consequently could not disprove the evidence of so many witnesses who came forward to prefer their complaints. The prisoner was committed to the house of Correction for three months. AIARYLEBONE OFFICE.—John Rickey and Cor nelius Henwright were charged before Mr. Rawratisosz with assaulting William Franklin and George Laws. It appeared that a little after six o'clock on Sunday morning, as the complainants, with a fellow servant, were returning from Air. Whitbread's brewbouse, with three waggons belonging to Mr. Wilberforce, jun., full of grains, for the use of his cows, the defendants, who had been ca rousing all night at an Irish wake, made a desperate at. tack upon them without provocation, and were taken to the watch-house by Williams the beadle, and Skinner a set jeant of the night, who saw the assault committed. Mr. RAWLINSON ordered the defendants to give bail for their appearance at the Sessions, but said the circumstance would not have taken place if Mr. Wilberforce's men had paid due regard to the Sabbath. MARLBOROUGII-STREET.—Yesterday a middle aged tnan, of very respectable appearance, named George Goalie, one of the principal assistants in the establishment of Mr. Kinneav, an extensive manufacturing goldsmith and jeweller, residing in Frith-street, Soho-square, was brought before F. A. ROE, Esq., the sitting magistrate, in custody of Westcott, the officer, charged with robbing his employer of quantities of gold, &c. on various occasions, and Rutert Fenn, also a respectable-looking man, a gold refiner, re siding in Gray's-inn-lane, was charged with receiving of Cooke the property su stolen, well knowing it to have been dishonestly come by. On Saturday last, a young man, one of Mr. Kinnear's apprentices, discovered some grounds for suspecting Cook's honesty, and determined to watch his movements after he should quit the warehouse that evening for the night; ac cordingly, without saying any thing to Mr. Kinnear about the matter, the young man followed Cooke when he left to go home, and traced him to the shop of the other pri soner (Fenn), where he went in and stopped a short time. When he came out, the young man also went into Fenn's shop immediately, and asked Fenn if he knew the person who had just then gone out. Fenn replied, that he did know him very well, that he was a working jeweller on • his own account, and, as he understood, a very respectable man, and that be had had frequent dealings with him in that trade. The young man then told Fenn who the pri soner Cooke really teas; that he was in the employment of Mr. Kinnear, and asked if Fenn had ever bought any gold of him. Fenn replied, that he often had, and that he had purchased some of him just then. The young man said that he had no doubt but that the gold so purchased hail been stolen from Mr. Kinnear, and asked to look at what Cooke had just then sold ; but Fenn positively re-', fused to show it, saying that he was prepared to explain his transaction to Mr. Kinnear or any body else at any time. On learning these facts from his apprentice, Mr. Kinnear had Cooke taken into custody, and procured a warrant to search the premises of Fenn, which was accord ingly done by the officer; but nothing was found that Mr. Kinnear could identify as his property, and Fenn was di rected to attend before the magistrate to give some explana tion of his conduct in the affair. The Magistrate now questioned Fenn as to his know ledge of and connexion with Cooke. Fenn said, that he had no wish to conceal any thing about the matter, and then went on to state, that he had known Cooke for nearly six months, and had, during that time, repeatedly purchased gold of him, sometimes in lumps, arid at other times in what are called by the trade cut tings," and some of this latter sort it was the prisoner sold to him on Saturday evening. lie always, he said, on. derstood Cooke to be a respectable man, working as a jew eller on his own account, but he never knew, nor did he ever inquire, where he resided. Air. ROE asked Fenn if he kept any hooks or regular en tries of his dealings in transactions of this kind ? Fenn re plied, that indeed he was very sorry to say he never had kept any books in his life. Mr. ROE asked him what he bad done with the gold he had purchased of Cooke on Saturday evening? He replied that he had since melted it into one lump. Mr. Kinnear was now sworn, and he said that he as fully believed Fenn to have purchased the gold knowing it to be stolen, as he did that Cooke actually stole it, and upon this both prisoners were remanded for a future exa mination, one to Tothill-fields prison and the oth i to the Hour of Correction, to prevent any communication between them. A young girl, named Sarah Laurence, was brought from St. Pancras watch- house, where she had been taken the night before, for shelter, by a watchman, who found her at an unseasonable hour in a state of exhaustion, lying on the pavement of one of the roads about Camden Town. On being questioned by the Magistrate, she said that she was a native of Abingdon, to which piece she had been for. warded about a fortnight ago, by the parish officers of St. James's, here in London, who paid her passage down by the waggon ; but the parish officers at Abingdon, when she got down there, refused to do any thing for her, or give her any relief, but seemed anxious to hurry her away again as fast as possible from the place. After remaining there for three days and nights without food or lodging, she was obliged to come away again, and beg her way back to London, where she arrived two days ago, quite exhausted, and had scarcely had any refreshment since. She had been, she said, at service in a good situation at Oxford, but she was seduced away from there by a student of Wadham College, who brought her up to London, and after living with her a short time, quitted her, and is now gone out to India. Mr. Roe ordered the parish officers of St. James's to take charge of the girl, and when they sent her down to Abingdon again, to give her proper instructions how to proceed there, to enforce her right of settlement. WORSHIP-STREET.—Yesterday two boys named Thomas Duffey and Henry Thirlwell, not exceeding 14 or 15 years of age, were examined before Mr., Bt.NErr, charged with stealing a cow from the premises of Mr. Irwin, in the Kingsland-road, a cow-keeper. The prisoner Duffey, it appeared, was in the service of ' another cow-keeper, named Stephenson, but ran away some time since. The cow in question, the finest animal of between 50 and 60 in Mr. Irwin's possession, was missed from a shed on his premises, where she was stated to have been secured on Wednesday eveni n g about eight or nine o'clock. Young Duffey was proved to have returned to his master's (Mr. Stephenson's) premises about ten that night, where he forced the lock of a cow-shed, in which he tied up Mr. Irwin's cow. Duffey declared he had found the cow straying in the road ; but it was stated on the other hand, that Mr. Irwin's cows were never turned out to gray, and that the animal in question was tied up to the manger that evening. The prisoner was well acquainted with Mr. Irwin's premises, having slept there several nights, and the prosecutor con jectured that he had merely taken the cow to Mr. Ste phenson's shed fur the night, intending to take her away early in the morning. There was another charge against them, of taking away a very fine goat from the premises of a Mr. Goodwin.— They were remanded. SAILORS TURNED ALDERMEN.--The schooner Tantivy, which arrived here on Wednesday, from Zante, while coining down the Mediterranean, had the good fortune to fall in with a tleet of Turtles, of which they secured twenty-five. Turtle soup became the order of the day on hoard. The crew fared sumptuously, until satiated with their new delicacy. Two of these fish, were brought home alive. The remainder died, or were eaten on the passage. —Devonport Telegraph. STATE of TRADE.—We hear many com plaints from the neighbouring county of Lancaster of dull trade, and a partial reduction in the already low wages of the cotton weavers has, in consequence, taken pla ce in some districts ; happily this depression has not reac hed the staple trade of the West Riding of Yorkshire, w here the woollen cloth and the worsted-stuf f business are in a 'whole some and thriving condition, though without an y extraor dinary briskness. Much praise is due t o Ministers fur having made it distinctly understood tha t the inquir y b y the Lords' Committee, relating to the price of wool, is not to end, at least for the present, in a dut y on the importa t"i,oonnboi f no t t ha: av a e r t e and uncertainty distress ° n this subject trade. We must guard our m anufacturin g readers against t f i a c i l led t o Any ti unsettle se t any apathy on this subject; an endeavour is making before the Committee to inculcate upon them the belief that the importation of foreign wool, o f a low quality, may be safely prohibited, or made s ubject to a heavy tax, and if this evidence is not rebutted by still stronger evidence on the other side, t h e consequences will be very injurious. It should always be recollected, that if the judges in this case have a bias, it is not towards the manuf • acturmg interest, and that the evidence in favour of that interest will re quire to be very strong to produce conviction.... Leeds Mercury, FRIENDLY SOCIETIES. (From the Trades' Free Press.) In consequence of an important -communieit from Mr. Portman, M.P., on behalf of many 1011 ,7, - hers of the Parliamentary Committee on Mr. Co tenay's Bill, a meeting of the Delegates was heir Friday night. Mr. RUSSELL in the Chair. Mr. G. R. COTTER begged to state, that het° received a communication from B. Portman, ]V M.P., addressed to the Edit o r o f t h e T ra d e s P ri t Press, requesting that he (Mt. Cotter) would 0 upon him in the course of the w ee k. A ccor ding'`' he waited on Mr. Portman on Thursday mortiifio: and was received by him in the m os t ki n d matil ie :; • He (Mr. Portman) said that Mr. Courtenay us s ' sick of the ill fate of his Bill, that he declared W , after he never would have any connexion with s other. Still, however, the Committee of the Hous e Commons thought there o ug ht t o b e somet , w il :, done for the p e opl e b e l ong i ng to t h ese S oc ietie'' and Mr. Portman was officially deputed to cotolf nicate with the D e l ega t es . H e to ld hi m t h a t Courtenay would move for the discharge of IL Committee on the 3d of. Tu n e, w i t h out h av i ng c° to any conclusion ; but th ose on t he C om mits' ' who had a kindly feeling towards the people,, t r ' 4 , anxious to meet them, to p re p are an d f rame a ' which might meet the views and wishes of all Pi t ', ties. He thought if Societies availed themselvee'; the opportunity during the recess, or if they deen 3 ' 4 l it proper to avail themselves of leg a l advice, til l Mr. Portman would give them every assistance, no only in framing the act, but in carrying it into a —(Hear, hear.)—Mr. Portman, observed Mr. was a Magistrate, and stood intimately connee; ( l , with the county of Dorset ; he had seen "'"; Courtenay's Jill in a very different light 1 " what he now beheld it ;• he was fully Colt vinced of the injudicious tende nc y o f M r . COL' tenay's measure, and was now willi ng lo assist the Societies to the utmost of his power. He (Me.i )• said, as a magistrate, that he deemed it imptoP", for magistrates either to interfere or have any P owe in the Societies' affairs, and in saying this, he spv the sentiments of several others on the Committee' —(Cheers.)—The only power with which a in, gistrate should be invested ought to be simply tit' after the articles of a Society were submitted to p: actuary appointed and approved of by themselv e !! then they should be submitted to a magistrate fOr b P sanetion,merely to give them an official character, ca that the Society might have all the protection of the law. But on no account should ma g istr a t e s have r responsibility, or odium, of judging of the rulea, ° e the sums to be contributed; they should merely . that the rules contained nothing opposed to the Di e of the land, or obnoxious to the country's interest"" With respect to the arbitration clause, Mr. Porta said, it was not the wish of the Committee to sus' gest any thing respecting it ; they would leave it el l ' tirely open to the Societies. He (Mr. C.) t e , marked, that, on one or two occasions, it had ho e ` treated rather in a c u rsory ma nner , b ut h e thougP the establishment of persons; as a Board in Lone' would be highly beneficial in all cases of arbitrate d '' Injustice had sometimes been done to a m a n. unde r the present system, in consequence of a p re jall i which may have been excited ag a i nst hi m ; but if c i disputed cases were referred to a prop er ly rec ogni s e, Board of experienced men, they not knowing parties, and being fully conversant with the V o l would be considered the most competent persons ft decide upon it; it would, however, have to be /e ll open to the parties, as to whether they would av il e themselves of it or not. Mr. Portman then said, tb Bill is abandoned, we leave it open to you to intro ; duce another; and we (the Committee) will 0 % you our assistance forthwith, if you require it, to r;;' , peal all the laws in existence.—(Cheers.) He ( 3 t , C.) replied, that though the existing laws were a tended with disadvantages, yet, if Societies we' l anxious for a general repeal, they would be o blie, to submit many to thead repeal of the, so that n 3 3dG i eo. 11 ICP contained I intervt between the prese.it time and the period at whic" they could introduce a new Bill, it would b e better for them to labour under the disadvantae of some Bills, than lose the advantages of other'' He (Mr. C.) begged to congratulate the Meetil upon their success. They had not only gained al they wanted, but a great deal more than they er pected.—(lmmense applause.)—lt occurred to hill') that as this was a subject of such great importance; it would be advisable that, in the course of a sho t time, a General Meeting should be convened, a t tb . e, Mechanics' Institute, to take into consideration th" subject, and to appoint some persons to form a lo io ' For let it not be said, that they were U na ble to da it themselves, after having already stated their caw' petency for the task.—(Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN thought they would do Well to attend to the hint given by Mr. Cotter; for aft e Mr. Portman had, in so handsome a manner, tenderi ed his assistance, they should not do right unle_: e they went forward and availed themselves of hill offer. He thought if they held a meeting at Mechanics' Institute, it would be most numerous attended. Mr. BOURNE exhorted the delegates to deiib era . t o ° well, now that the game was in their own hands; invite the co-operation of their country friends , 9 n t to endeavour to establish that, which centuries hen s might be looked on as the Magna Charta of the ii dustrious classes. After a long conversation sev era l reso l u tions W ei : e unanimously carried, and the Meeting separated. ELOPEMENT IN HUMBLE LIFE.-A 111 39411 1 , P named THOM AS G RAHAM, ran off a few days ago ,• the bar-maid at one of the principal inns in Sunderland's] The fugitives are supposed to have proceeded south sva b i; with a view to embark for America. GRAHAM, t°, e shame b e it s p o k en , h as l e ft b e hi n d hi m a w if e and t ` l-e children, entirely unprovided for.—Durham Advertistr. BIRTHS. On. the 2 I:10 sth inst., at his house in Manchester-square_ the lady of Oswald Smith, Esq., of a son. On the 24th inst., in John.street, Bedford-rov , Oliver Jones, of a daughter. f On the 23d inst., at Upper Stamford-street, the wi fe ° R. 'Terry, Esq. of twins. , of At Gortegrinane, in the county of Cork, the 134 Major-General Sir Robert Trals, of a son. At Cove, the lady of Captain ve Mason, 77th Regiment, of a son. At Beaufort, Rathfarnhani, county of Dublin, the Isdf of Robert Hodgens, of a son. ,her, In Gardiner's-row, Dub lin, at the house of her TO ' . the lion. Mrs. Montgom er y , the lady of James m ile, Beil Esq. of a son. MARRIED. late Fellow r. Rit 4 ' On the 2'2d inst , at Bishop's-T aw ton, by the very e dy, the Dean of E xeter, th e Rev. John Whittingtata I L ' ca r of BraWIWI!, in the co un t y o f D evon, an d o f Bi s boP o)- 0 , in the county of Wilts, eldest son of the Dean of F,xeter9 0 , J a ne, second daughter o f Ch ar l es Chichester, EN. t ° I. 113 e, in the cou nt y o f Devon. London, M.A. , of Exeter College, Oxford , 11 ,., On the 21th i nst . at Al l S ou l s Ch urc h , La n ham - I' 0 lace! Mr. Edward Smyth, of Newman-street, Oxford-streetlte, ;Hiss Martha Jack son , of Devonshire-street, Queen - ',.q uA s be Oa the 22d at Millb roo k , near S out h amp ton, O r o r , Rev. William Gardiner, of Exeter College, Oxford , m ti r man, youngest son of Thomas Lauga, Esq., of B a tik . ii , Eleanor Judith, eldest daughter of Sir John Pettistoc N banke, Bart. DIED. On Saturday last, at his residence Bratriblebury , ° do s Woolwich, aged 74, Captain Dickinson, R.N., "'h ° t i° superintendant shipiiing in the Ordnance servic e for four years. At Rome on the 12th of February last, the Dose' trot Lady Pae Turner. We understand she has left t he bulk of her large property to her daughter, the yo re , o f Henry Winston Barron, Esq., of Belmont House, em it:. 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