The Sun. — London, England, 1828-10-23 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS, The Brunswickers throughout those parts of the country which tolerate them, are basy in their seve ral workshops. A dinner meeting was held at Aylesbury on Tuesday, where the Cumberland Life Guards admitted only members of the corps, arid therefore managed matters just as their own good taste and charitable dispositions directed. When we say that Lord Chandos was in the chair, the rest will occur to our readers without difficulty, The heir to a dukedom,—and to a patronage, poli tical and clerical, which promises to have the distri bution of some dozen or so of benefices,—will be sure to command a certain tribe of partisans in his politics, and of bottleholders in his revels. There is one class of candidates for church preferment, who seldom fail to illustrate their piety by a pro fession of such sentiments with regard to things temporal, as must perforce convince the aristocratic dealers in such commoditins, that things eternal may be safely int ruste d to dieir keeping. What description of candidate Parson Fry may be, or from what source he seeks the advancement to which he evidently aspires, it is not our busi ness to answer ; but we do know that the part imputed to him by the reports of the proceed ings at Aylesbury, is enough to make other cler gymen of the Church of England hold down their heads with shame and mortification. For despicable folly, alternating now and then with beastly ribaldry, indicating in every sentence a mean, malignant, and ferocious spirit, undis guised by any one of the outward incidents or pretensions of an educated gentleman, as it was unredeemed by the smallest inward spark of Christian charity or forbearance, it has never been our fortune to read any printed speech professing to have insulted the ears of an English audience, so disgusting as that which is given by the reporters to parson Fry at the Aylesbury dinner with the Mar quis of Chandos. And is it, we ask, from such materials that the Cumberland Regency would be satisfied to recruit their intolerant host ? Is it from feelings, or opinions, or arguments, like those ascribed to the above reverend " bolter" of religious' bitterness, that Lords Winchelsea, or Chandos, or the cognate lawgivers Newcastle and Kenyon, are ready to be judged by the generation which • they adorn, or to be saved from the oblivion of posterity ? Alas ! it is all of a piece. This is, in fact, the same in nature, though in degree perhaps more extrava gant, as the rubbish wherewith the honest men of Kent are likely to be entertained to-morrow. The outcry of " No Popery" has no.meaning in it at the present era • and after the extinction of the House of Stuart, no shadow of meaning but sheer unmitigated tyranny. The field of right, of liberty, of industry, of ambition,presented by this magnificent Empire,has long been too spacious to be occupied by two-thirds only of the nation. We require our whole strength and all our hands to cultivate that moral surface which time and the progress of society has exposed to the eye of every politician in the realm who deserveS the name of statesman. The Cumberland Committee would treat the constitutional privileges 'and capacities of England, iu this season of multiplied natural re sources, and of innumerable though destitute claim ants, as the greedy dealers of Billingsgate act with an extraordinary supply of fish, annihilating a large portion of what Providence vouchsafed for the use of all mankind, that the monopolists might be ena bled to hold up their established prices. It is thus that your ascendancy-men are wild at the notion of placing the power which they monopolize, but which, by their monopoly, is cramped and para lyzed, within reach of that class which hungers and thirsts to enjoy a fair portion of it. Ireland, in 1779, as we are informed by the accounts of that period, was reduced comparatively to a desert; op pression had broken the heart of the people, and withered the sinews of the State. The first relaxa tion of the penal laws created and then developed new powers in the nation; the Irish took a more lively spring—they became more industrious, more active, and more affluent; the country grew more prosperous, as her chains were turned into plough shares. Now, again, the progress of the surrounding world has produced for us a political emergency, ana logous to the physical and statistical one of 1779. The political soil of the empire requires a mere extended cultivation. We have a demand for the whole of our in tellectual and moral power : the food of that power is constitutional liberty. Let us not throw away, like the rapacious monopolists above alluded to, that share of the blessing which our fellow-subjects crave after, because we cannot ourselves consume it, and because we will not lower the Protestant monopoly price. With respect to the great meeting appointed fur to-morrow, a report is abroad that the amend ment to the Cumberland resolution is to recommend a reliance on his Majesty's Ministers, as well as on legislative power. We would almost as soon rely on the Duke of Cumberland himself. With the empire almost in the agonies of convulsion—with a perfect knowledge that they have, by one syllable, the means of silencing all disaffection,—of appeasing all anxiety, of showing every man in the kingdom what is really before him,—with so much misery under their eye, and so much alleviation in their hand, these Ministers breathe not one word to re assure a trembling community.. Reliance, therefore, on such men, it would be childish credulity to place; and we trust that no such silly-proposition will be made on the respected authority of Lord Camden. This Cabinet, which may well be termed, like Trinity College, Dublin, " the Silent Sister,"—this Cabinet must either have decided 'on emancipation, in which case, not to say so is inhuman, or not de cided at all, is which case it ought to be condemned for imbecility and utter incompetency to appreciate or controul the crisis now at hand.—Times. Thank God, we are now arrived at a crisis in what is calied the Catholic Question. It is now univer that som e thi ng must be done of a de sally admit ted cisive nature in Ireland. Th e ascendancy men say 0 safetytC,_an any man:. for Prot estants in the present that there is T 1 state of things. said Captain. Swabey, at the Brunswick.. Club at Aylesbury, I " possessing and exercisig Msdreason, d deny y that the return Roman Catholics of relan may „ w nearly the whole hundred Members representing that the Morning Journal) country ?" A contemporary ( maintains even that the Government unt b h !vine' unable to protect the people, the latter must 1 y_ the ver nment aside and take on themselves the Govern ments self-protection. '• Had (he says) the wea k . with which this country h as been cu rsed for many years done their duty, or a tithe of their duty, there would have been no occasion for these Pro testant meetings. But they have not done their duty ; and, therefore, the people have no resource left but to rally in their own defence, and i n de fence of the religion and the Constitution they re vere, and which their fathers swore to transmit to their children inviolate and entire. An Irish mob has ruled Ireland, and the King's. Lieutenant has had no more authority than a Chinese god. His sword slept in its scabbard, and a faction administered the law, exercised the rights of the Vice-Royal pre rogative, isued proclamations, levied head-money, and boasted that they had the power of peace and war, of tranquillity and disturbance, is their own hands. I n England we have been pestered with a similar but less powerful faction." . We now find, then, that the Irish have too much political power to allow of the farther duration of the existing state of things. The share of political power w hi c h th e y already possess places the Government under the necessity of adopting a nesv system. They have too touch political power for the safety of the Protestant ascendancy ; for the share which they possess se cures to them the acquisition of m ore. The Go vernment must, therefore, either giv e them what they ask, or throw itself into the arms of the Pro testant ascendancy, who contend that they ought to be deprived of all political' power. Of course it is not an easy task to strip seven millions of subjects, or about one-third of the population of the empire, of the elective franchise. But why must we reduce one-third of the population of the British islands to the.condition of bondsmen ? Why must we establish a system which will perpetuate abjectness of mind, disaffection, and all the vices which follow in the train of political servitude, to the lateSt times, which will entail on the, one island the expence of main taining a numerous garrison in the other to coerce a population of degraded serfs, filled with hatred to tvards those who hold them in subjection ? Why shall we perpetuate a system which must be ruin ously expensive in peace, and pregnant with danger to our very existence as an independent nation in war ? The most besotted of the thralls who bellow out " No Popery !" must admit, that even allowing the Protestant Ascendancy to trample on the Ca tholics, we should be placed in a situation of con stant danger, and that we shall have in prospect the perpetuation of,an evil of mighty magnitude. Much obloquy has been cast on the Rev. Mr. Horner, who directly pointed to the utter extermination of the Catholics, and to several of his Clerical Brethren, who longed for a similar result, though their aspira tions were not so distinctly expressed. But there is, at all events, some sense in the issue which they advocate. If we cannot admit the Catholics to an equality with ourselves, as far as civil rights are con cerned, and if they will not be satisfied with less, it would be much better to rid ourselves of them at once, and thereby rid ourselves of the perpetuation of a servile population, and a constant source of alarm and danger. We really can see no safety in half treasures, because, so . long as Irish Catholics will beget Irish Catholies, the very progress of population must constantly add to the apprehen sion mid danger of PrOtestant Ascendancy. The Brunswickers, therefore, who wish to be up to their knees in the blood of Catholics, and not to stay their hand so long as a Papist remains in the land to upbraid with their desertion of God, are the most manly and consistent. The expense would be great but it would be borne once for all, and the interest of the loan required for the war of extermination would be nothing compared with the annual expellee of garrisoning. and coercing Ireland. Political eco nomists tell us that any gap in a population, how ever wide, is almost instantly filled up, because the annihilation of human beings not being accompanied by the annihilation of ,the stock and capital of a country, the population, however thin, would rise instantaneously to the former level. The landlords would, it is true, obtain from the remaining *Pro testants but scanty rents compared with what the present competition for land gives them, for a score or two of years, till the million of Protestants mul tiplied themselves into six or seven millions; and a sudden fall of rents might lead to what might be called an universal forfeiture of estates in favour of creditors; but then, as there would be no Papists in the country, there. would be this satisfaction, that the estates would be transferred to good Protestants, and the ascendancy would be stronger than ever. As to the practicability of the extermination, that can hardly be a matter of doubt. The Catholics are now withoutirms—the country affords them no safe retreat against cavalry and galloper guns, and light infantry, and all that would be necessary would be, to provide a sufficiency of powder and shot. Besides, from the practice in killing which this ex termination would give, we should have a number of men trained to a dexterity in homicide which would render us formidable to all Europe. This would make the Protestant religion become the theme of universal admiration. Surely it is better to get rid of one generation of bail subjects than to have bad subjects for ever and ever or: our hands. We say, then, if the choice is to be between servi tude and extermination, give us extermination, be cause servitude will not only corrupt the Catholics, but corrupt us Protestants. But why must we have either slavery or extermination? The Catholics will never be contented, even if they obtain eman cipation; because every concession hitherto, has only emboldened them to make futther demands. The reason of this is, that they have never yet ob tained that which they are entitled to. First let us do justice to them, and then we may object to their dissatisfaction. We should then put them in the wrong. At present we are in the wrong. It is rather too much in us to be unjust to them—to yield one claim to them after another, instead of being just to them at once—and yet complain of their unreasonableness in seeking more.—Morning Chronicle. In our report of the proceedings at the dinner of the Brunswick Constitutional Club of Buckingham shire, the Marquis of Chandos is stated to have used the following expressions :—" We war not with in • dividuals or their opinions : we profess no hostility to any religion. Every man, we say, ought to be allowed to please the dictates of his conscience in the choice of his mode of worshipping God. But that is a very different question from that of grant ing political power to a party in the State, which party, when they before had it, exercised it not to the advantage, but the destruction, of the rights and liberties of ie country." This is a distinction which every reasonable and judicious opponent of the " Catholic Claims" will always keep in view. It is not a question of religious controversy, but of political dispute. It is not a question whether Roman Catholics are to be free to believe in transubstantiation, the invocation of Saints, the worship of images, and other dogmas of their faith ; but it is whether, obeying a power not amenable to the laws of a Protestant realm, they are to become legislators of a Protestant State. To say that Roman Catholics come forward . to ask freedom of conscience is a misrepresentation —they do not come to ask for that which they have obtained in the fullest manner already. Let any one read the Act of the 31st Geo. 111., and he will there find that the religious worship of the Roman Catholics is as amply protected from molest tation or disturbance as that of any Protestant sect whatever. Their altars dare not be profaned, the ceremonies of their religion dare not be intruded on, without subjecting the offenders to the penal pro visions of that Statute. Their civil rights as indi viduals, their personal security and rights of property, are also on the flame footing as those of Protestants. Therefore it is not toleration they want, for they have it ; but it is political power. When their " orators" complain of " religious persecution" .and " denial of freedom of conscience,' they use words only intended to mislead and inflame the ignorant mul titude. The "liberal" Spanish Cortes, indeed, showed what religious persecution was, when, upon the esta blishment of their boasted " onititutional system," they ena c t e d a l aw, that any person who preached in Spain any other doctrine than the Holy Roman and Apostolic Faith should suffer Death ! This was persecution in its proper sense. The " liberal " Cortes not only denied political power to Protest ants as such, but declared that any who openly ' preached their doctrines were unworthy to live ! The Roman Catholic priests may preach in their c hapels what religious opinions they please, and the laws of England protect them, but the Roman Ca tholic Priests are not content with this. They once had the rich livings, the offerings, the tithes, &c., which are now possessed by the Church of England, and they wish to have them again. The proposi tion which Mr. O'Connell made in 1825, to take about 600,0001. out of the pockets of John Bull to whie for the it had pension the Romish Priesthood, that th e i r a ll eg i ance, as he said, m i g ht be bound to the throne by a go ld en W orldly first step treasures n lir o i nn , i N s v i a l s c h h t u i t rc t h h e t the lost in these realms. The Priests ma d e use of Mr. O'Connell to feel the pulse of John B u ll ; and Mr. O'Connell, having no objection to a s il k advocated their cause as one gown or a Judge's wig, advo interests was hi who felt that the promotion of thei r c bbett said in own. Very justly, then, -has Mr. 0 _. _i his letter to " the Men of Kent," " Catholic Eman cipation taxes to the cipation means the giving a share of th e , Catholic Nobility and Lawyers, who, bei n g em p t y , would come upon us so sharply, as not to leave a drop of blood in our bodies. We know well what these men mean. They have once Already offered that the forty-shilling Catholic freeholders of Ireland should be disfranchised, if England would let them into Parliament, and give them silk gowns, and would pay salaries annually to the Roman Catholic Priests." In fact, no man of sense believes the Catholic Ques- , tion to be one of unprofitable theology or of specu . - lative opinion; but a plain, downright struggle for political power and clerical riches. Whether it is • expedient that the Roman Catholic aspirants for the good things in Church and State should obtain what they seek or not, it is, at all events, right that the question should be placed on its proper foundation.— . Morning Herald. The Meeting at Maidstone to-morrow begins to assume an importance which a were county meeting on the subject of Catholic Emancipation, or indeed on any other subject, never yet had. _lts result, in fact, is looked forward to by all parties with as much interest and anxiety, as if its decision were to be final on the great question which will form the subject of its discussion ; and the preparations which are making by all parties in order to have such Resolutions passed at it as are agreeable to their own views, exceed any thing which has ever been known, except in the case of a strongly con tested election. The Brunswick party, on the one hand, have not only sent forth their emissaries into every town and hamlet in the county, in order to rouse the spirit of intolerance in the people, but, actually hired every post-chaise, chariot, and horse, on which they could lay their hands, in order to bring up their supporters to the scene of action; ' and the liberals, on the other hand, have been busily engaged in disseminating tracts and pamphlets to convince the " men of Kent" that the Catholic re ligion is not so wholly bad as the former would re present it, and that the granting of Catholic Eman cipation would not, in any way, endanger the Pro testant Constitution. Every effort, in fact, is making by both parties in order to turn the scale of votes in their favour ; and, from all that we can yet learn, the chances of victory are still doubtful. Mr. Sheil has arrived from Ireland to be present at the Meet ing, and offer what resistance he can to the passing of resolutions unfavourable to the Catholic cause.— Two freeholds, it is said, have been purchased out of the produce of the Catholic rent, in or der to enable him and another to appear at the Meeting. All the Noblemen of the county, in cluding Lord Holland, have likewise signified their intention to be present; and, to conclude, Cobbett has declared that he will be there to say something of tithes and taxes, and Hunt of Parliamentary Reform. Were there any certainty that this Meet ing of the " Kent men" would represent fairly the sense of the people of England upon the all-im portant question of Ireland, it would be hailed by all parties as a God-send. The. Brunswickers would then know what they had to dread, and the Ca tholics what they had to expect—a uniform policy either of coercion or concession would be pursued, and the minds of all set at rest, as to what was necessary to be done. But it will not e and cannot, have any such effect. The people of England will no more allow the men of Kent to dictate to them on such an im portant subject, than they will allow the Catholic - Association of Ireland to frame laws for them. They will think and act for themselves; and we cannot therefore but look upon those ho have busied themselves to get up the meeting, as disturbers of the public peace, rather than friends to the public tranquillity—as insulting the Government by doubts of its adherence to the principles of the Constitu tion—and declaring unto the Parliament that it has no faith in it. This Kent Meeting, in fact, was . intended by its projectors to exercise the same sort of influence upon the deliberations of the people of England, that the Catholic Association has exer cised on the actions of the people of Ireland. Both are an insult to the GoVernment, the good sense and the peace of the country—all of which would pro ceed more satisfactorily were they suppressed.— Morning Advertiser. To-morrow is the day appointed for the meeting on Penenden Heath, and intense anxiety as to the result is universally felt. For ourselves, we have too much confidence in the judgment and patriotism of the freeholders of Kent to imagine for an in stant that the sense of that enlightened body, fairly taken, could be found inimical to the constitutional measure proposed for their adoption. But it is well known that meetings of this description are liable to abuse from the machinations of evil designing persons, who by annoyance and tumult may seek to throw discredit upon the proceedings, or by the introduction of irrelevant matter obstinately urged, may endeavour to create embarrassment, and ex clude the legitimate object in view. We trust that measures may be taken to baffle, as far as possible, any such contrivances on the present momentous oc casion ; and then indeed we may look forward with unmingled confidence to the result. That the great majority of the Kentish freeholders entertain senti ments hostile to any further concessions to the -Ro man Catholics, there does not exist a shadow of doubt. The fact is equally apparent to the friends and enemies of the Constitution; and while the former view it with exultation, it is to the latter a source of dread and apprehension. Accordingly , there is no effort left untried on their parts to mis represent the objects of the Meeting, or to excite opposition to it. With this view an Assembly con vened for the purpose of expressing the popular opinion on a subject of the highest importance is de signated a conspiracy ! A conspiracy to support the Constitution in Church and State ! A conspiracy to enable the Government more effectually to resist the encroachments of an usurping faction ! But the ab scence of better argument which could alone prompt such an accusation, furnishes another and yet more shameless example of effrontery. The " friends of religious freedom" are called upon to come forward on the Liberal side, and oppose the ex pression of Protestant opinion. Can so shallow, so false a pietence as this impose on any person ? Des perate indeed must be that cause which could stoop to resort to it. What, we naturally ask, has the matter in agitation to do with religious free dom ? What laws exist under our Protestant Con stitution directed against the liberty of conscience ? Freedom of religious opinion is the essential cha racteristic of Protestantism ; and it has been well observed, that in order still to maintain this free dom it is necessary that Protestantism should con tinue in the ascendant. It has, however, been of late argued with considerable earnestness that all our apprehensions are visionary, that should Catholic Emancipation be granted, the Catholic Laity, having obtained all they desire, would make no further efforts to advance the interests of the Clergy, who are strong and to be feared only as they have the united strength of the Laity to assist them, that thus deserted, they would become powerless and de prived of the means of further hostility. This ar gument, which is addressed to Protestants with the view of lulling their vigilance, appears altogether futile, when we consider that the very first princi ples of the Catholic religion bind all who profess it to advance its interests by every meals in their power. But supposing for a moment that Catholic Members of Parliament would so far forget this im perious duty as to remain quiet and contented under a Protestant Government, would the Priests, though they lost their influence over the Gentry (for such an absurdity has been broached)—would they, we ask, also lose that noxious influence they have ob tained, through craft and superstition, over the de luded electors of Ireland, through whose means the choice of Members would be in their own hands ? We should scarcely have deemed this foolish strata gem worthy of notice; had it not been pressed for ward with so much perseverance. It is enough to show the miserable shifts to which a bad cause has reduced its supporters. The men of Kent are not , to be deceived either by the unwarrantable abuse or ii those them i in the abortive reasoning of the enemies of or d er . Let them d o their duty—let them show to th e i r no ble broth er P rotestants of the Sister island that there are in England the p t r v e h s o e r v c a a t t i r o andn of willour liberties.— t p i e e s r . a_t e Morning post. We believe that the manifestations of an opposi• tion to the proceedings on Penenden Heath, by Lords Camden, Holland, and others, amount to little more than empty swagger on the part of the liberal press. Thew Noblemen may be courageous I enough in a cause where victory is certain, but they are too politic to embark in one where discomfiture is sure. The gasconade of the newspapers amounts to nothing. The rabble of St. Giles's cannot con • veniently be let loose on a working day; and, even if they could, the men of Kent are not of that class who are to be silenced by riotous shouts or defeated by flimsy oratory. Their hearts are in the cause— the question at issue is Protestant or Catholic as cendancy—and their verdict will decide, so far as they. are concerned, 'whether the last stone of the political edifice is to be removed, the Protestant church made the handmaid of the Pope, and whe ther the splendid and impious mummeries of Papal Rome are to be sanctioned by the constitutional laws of England. It is said that Lord Bex ley is to move an amendment to the resolutions, the tendency of which is to check the expression of any decided opinion, under the conciliatory dis guise of leaving the decision of the question to the Cabinet. We cannot believe this. Lord Bexley is incapable of making himself the instrument of any such experiment. lie would only dishonour himself in the eyes of the people of Kent, and expose him self to public scorn. The effort would be unsuccessful; he 'would compromise his consistency; he would be laughed at even by his enemies, and despised by his friends. The motives for such conduct would be self apparent, and he would be hooted down as an impo tent friend too feeble to be trusted, and as a concealed enemy too weak to be feared; but we cannot believe the rumour. It must be a base slander invented to injure Lord Bexley in public estimation. It is an in sidious blow aimed at its political consistency—a de vice of the enemy—an attempt to excite against him public reprotth, and wound his personal feelings. But that an attempt will be made to defeat the object of the meeting is, nevertheless, exceedingly probable. It will not be an open er manly at tempt—it will not appear in the shape of -a sta)tion to petition Parliament for the concession of the Catholic claims—but merely to suppress the opinion of the meeting on the question, and leave it in abeyance. Need we say that such an attempt will be defeated? The men who) meet on Friday , have been rallied in defence of the national institu tions, of the religion they hold dear, of the sacred rights handed down to them by their ancestors; and are they likely to surrender to finesse what they can not yield to conviction ? They have not met a mo ment too soon to save the Constitution—they have not met till every hope they had in the Government had been extinguished—they see that in the moral force of public opinion is their only safety, 'Mid that if they waver now all is lost. They cannot turn back; they must either make a successful defence, or lay down theirarms, on any conditions the liberals and the Catholics may choose to impose. But it is not the Catholics alone whom they have to combat. It is apparently for them alone that the warfare is waged, but there are other parties deeply interested in the result. They have opposed to them an immense -host of Dissenters—not the most respectable, we admit of that body--but the most bitter and inveterate of the enemies of the Church of Eng land. • Among these we comorehend the entire body of Unitarians; a numerous, a powerful, and an ambi tious sect. These persons are, to a man, decidedly opposed to the Church, to its doctrines, to its discipline—to its tithes, which press upon them—to its revenues, which they assert oppress the country. They are, to an extreme, relentless in their enmity to our ecclesiastical institutions, and, if the Catholics were in power, would be the first to join them in levelling them with the ground. The one party would act from a spirit of mischief—the other from policy. If the Catholics could not share in the church revenues, they would seek their aboli tion; the Unitarians would not seek to share them, but they would demand their abolition also. The two forces united would be powerful, perhaps resist less. It is for the friends of the Established Church, that church which is the only strong hold of religious liberty in Europe, to prevent the junc tion of those hostile factions. If they were once met in Parliament, every link of the chain which connects our civil 'with our religious establishments would, one after the other, be broken, till secta rianism and Popery had obtained the supremacy.-- Morning Journal. LONDON SESSIONS, OCT‘ 22. After some common assault cases had been tried, the Court heard the appeal of Michael Scales, of No. 44, Aldgate-square, butcher, against a convic tion by the Lord Mayor, under Michael Angelo Taylor's Act. The COMMON SERJEANT, who appeared to sup port the conviction, stated, that the defendant occu pied a shop in the place mentioned, and that he and a number of butchers had pent-houses before their doors, which overhung the public pavement. On the particular day stated, the Commissioners of Pave ' ments placed a quantity of new pavements under the pent-houses, and this pavement Mr. Scales had removed. He had thereby rendered himself liable to penalties of .5/. for each foot of stone removed, and also to 101. penalty for having broken up the pavement without having given notice to or received permission from the Commissioners. The Lord Mayor convicted the defendant in two mitigated penalties. It was (the Learned Gentleman believed) contended by Mr. Scales, that the ground under these penthouses was private property—that the public bad no right over it, and the Commissioners therefore no jurisdiction. The question was one of considerable local as well , as general public im portance. The assistant to Mr. Acton, the surveyor to the Commissioners of Sewers, and several other wit nesses, proved the fact of the removal of the stones, and the disturbance of the pavement, without notice to, and permission from, the Commissioners. The COMMON SERJEANT put in the record of the conviction of a man for stealing a sheep from Mr.. Scales's premises. In that record the premises were set forth as being in the parish of St. Botolph, Aid gate. Mr. ALLEY objected to the reception of this record. The RECORDER overruled the objection. Mr. ALLEY made a very spirited speech in behalf of the respondent, in which he contended that no proof had been given, either that the ground in ques tion was where the venue was laid, or that it was public property. The CoMMoN SERJEANT, in reply, said, the Act authorized the Commissioners to remove all en croachments on the highway, but made a special exemption in favour of the butchers' penthouses, thereby intimating that they were built over the public road, and might be pulled down, but for the special exemption. • It was not•to be listened to, that the butchers who received the permission to hang out their meat over the public road, might build up to the very edge of the space now covered by the penthouses, and deprive the public of so much light and air. The RECORDER said, the Court were of o .i vnion that the appellant had not made out his case. The conviction was confirmed. Mr. ADOLPHUS applied for a license to allow the performance of music at the house of Mi. Mayne, called the Golden Lion, at the corner of King-street, in Smithfield. The Court granted the license, which ♦vas imme diately filled up according to the prescribed forms ; the result of Mr. Hillary's delay having afforded a wholesome lesson. The work people -on the Castle Hill have, within these few days, cut into a subterraneous gallery.— It appears to ascend from the Gras.sinarket, and to termi nate within a few yards of the half-moon battery, which it was probably the intention of some besieging army to undermine. The breadth is from two to three feet, as is usual at present in galleries constructed for purposes of this kind, and it is probable the height must be about five feet, although it is considerably less near the upper extre mity, owing to the work people having allowed the earth to roll into it. Although excavated in earth and rubbish that has been evidently thrown from a higher part of the hill, it seems to have undergone little change since it was formed...• Edinburgh Evening _Courant. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL. TUESDAY, OCT. 21.—Wind South.—High water 49 minutes past nine.--Arrived the Harriet, Mitchenson, from Miramichi ; John and William, , L'Orient ; Friends, Scott, from Rotterdam ; Dart, Old, from Ilor deaux ; Jaffe'. Zetra, Schtun, Harlingen ; New Hope, Reece, Newport. CLEARED OUTWARDS. —The George, Goodwin, for Malta ; Ceres, Davies, Savannah ; Lord Wellington, Ker reugh, Ramsey ; Aspasia, Bennett, New York ; Lady Combermere, ---, Africa ; Christian, Christian, An tigua ; Fortuna, Behrends, Elsineur ; Mary Ann, Waugh, St. Thomas ; London, Garrett, Isle of Man ; Elizabeth, Nelson, St. Domingo. THE MARKETS. COAL MAR] Adair's ass. PA. Burdon Gray's Steam t oal 31 6 Heaton .36 0 Heblsurn Main Holywell- _ 33 0 Kenton West Killingworth 34 6 Percy 2S 0 Pontop Windsor 31 0 Townley 32 0 Willington Wylam 32 9 WallsEndßewicke&Co. 38 3 Ditto Bell Robson &Co. 3.5 9 Ditto Brown's--.... 33 9 Ditto Carr and Co. --- 31 9 Ditto Clarke and Co. 32 6 Ditto Hilda 33 0 Ditto Motspur.---.-.-.. 33 3 Ditto Northumberland 33 0 Ditto Perkins and Co. 34 6 .Hips at market, 107 —Shit ET.—Oct. 22. Walls End Newmareh— 355. 3.1 Ditto 35 9 Ditto Russell's 38 0 Ditto Walker ----. 36 6 Eden Main .--.-- 34 6 Harraton ••••••+........•.••••,.... 30 0 Neskans 35 0 Walls End 39 3 Walla End Lyons...—. 36 9 Walls End Stewart's 39 6 Russell'sHetton'sW.E. 38 6 Blyth Cowpen 29 ti Hartley 31 0 Stene Coal Small & Co. 3S 0 \V. E, 27 6 Ditto Bean Cf aL.- 26 0 Tanfield 32 3 Old Etherley small Beamish S. Moor small . 23 0 Lambton small 24 0 ips ' °1(1 6234...U11601 Id, 4514 COUNTRY COHN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK, Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. s. to s. 68 84 58 8I 62 '76 60 84 48 75 44 84 50 '76 64 86 62 80 60 86 56 70 69 103 80 94 52 76 65 80 56 '76 65 84 59 '7B 56 84 56 104 68 80 s. to s. 35 42 32 36 22 ' 39 35 40 36 39 36 45 22 43 46 50 . 30 36 3S 42 30 20 26 40 38. 42 3'7 40 32 36 40 42 SO 42 28 32 34 45 36 43 36 48 Per Quarter. Ando . ;rer Bridport Cirencester -- Faringdon- Guildtbrd Henley Hereford Highworth Maidenhead - Oakingham Reading Salisbury Southamptou Stroud Tewkesbury Uxbridge W antage~—......". Warminster Windsor Worcester---- CHELTENHAM Per Bushel. • s. d. to s. d. Wheat Barley Oats Beans 4 9 6 6 Lamb Pease 5 0 8 0 Pork Hay 3l. 10s. to 4/. Os. per ton. MARKET.—Oct'. 21. .1 _ _ Pet lb. HULL MARKET.—Oct. 21. The supply of wheat to this day's market, although not so large as last week, is fully equal to the demand, the mil lers being the only buyers, and a further reduction has been submitted to on new wheats, of 6s. to Bs. per quarter, and ss. per quarter on old. There has been hut a trifling business done, and the farmers not anxious sellers at the decline; the late animated demand we were experiencing for all descriptions of bonded grain appears for the present to have ceased, and we have now little or no inquiry after it. Beans, peas, and oats, are each exceeding dull sale, yet on the trifling business done, last week's prices were main tained ; we do not therefore alter our quotations. Barley, of good malting quality, is wanted, yet the maltsters are shy buyers at the rates demanded, and hold off, anticipat ing lower prices; a parcel or two of Norfolk was offering to-day at 445. per quarter, lout we did not hear of any sales. Linseed without alteration. Rapeseed 1/. per last dearer.. Wheat, Old 765. 80s. —5....... New —s. 68s. 70s. Foreign —s. 60s. '751....... In bond ... —s. —s. —s. Oats, Poland —s. 245. 265. Old —a. —s. 30s. Small or Feed.... —a. IBs. 21s. --- Foreign —s 245. 20s. Barley, Norf. & Sut ... —s. 40s. 445. Line. & Vold —s. 40s. 435. Foreign Beans 425. 4 ts. 455. Foreign ...... ... —s. —s. —s. Pease, White 4Bs. 50s. Grey — —s. 40s. 425. 'fares —s. 40s. 50s. Foreign 34s. 40:z. —s. Rapeseed, in bond none. Free, per last... —l. Zi. 231. DUMFRIES MARKETS.—Oct. 15. The news of the fall of Wheat at Mark-lane, had some effect on our market to-day; the shippers were anxious to buy, but the holders fought shy, and but little business was done at the following prices s.d. s. d. s.d. s. d. 8 0 to 8 6 Butter, 160 z....... 0 0100 9 42 4 6 Eggs, dozen OO 07 26 28 Beef, per lb. Wheat, Imp. Bush Barley ...... .......... ....• Oats Flour, 141 b. Oatmeal Potatoes, cwt. 03 04 84 00 08 00 CATTLE MARKET.—This was our first show for Hemp . ton Green fair, and of course the Sands exhibited a very full complement of all kinds and sizes of cattle. To gain an entirely correct account of the numbers exposed during the course of the day would be impossible, but we may venture to give the following as a pretty sure statement of the number upon the Sands betwixt the hours of one and two—viz. 863 three-year olds and upwards ; 804 two years-olds ; 763 stirks ; 240 highlanders ; 134 queys and heifers; 31 cows and 2 bulls—total, .2,863. From this it will be observed that the number exposed was not even so great as last week ; but We can thus account for it—the market at an early hour in the morning was considerably thronged with small cattle, and by the regular time for the show being at its maximum in point of numbers, the greater part of these had been sold and driven off; therefore we think that we may safely state the numbers exposed throughout the day at 3,600. Galloways, as usual, con stituted the majority of the cattle brought forward, and taken as a whole, they were certainly a most excellent show; hitherto the show of Irish cattle at this market tas generally been confined to stirks of th , t poorest description, but to-day the case was altered, and we observed on the Sands a few lots of Irish queys and drove beasts in excellent condition. Deal ing in drove cattle commenced early, indeed we may say with the appearance of the first lot in the market, and continued briskly throughout the day, and by four o'clock in the afternoon, with the exception of a lot of Irishers, and two or three small lots of Galloway's, all were sold off. As to prices it is quite a different question, we must be content with stating those of only a feW lots, but from these we are generally able to form a pretty cor rect criterion of the rates of the rest. The second best lot in the market sold for a few shillings better than 121. ; another, 11 guineas ; a third, I 11. 4s. ; two-years-olds sold at from 101. to SI. The small cattle formed a most excellent show, and at least three-fourths were dis p o sed of ; the best lot of two-years-olds brought 71. 17s. ; another, which was reared in this neighbourhood, sold for 71. • from this they varied to 41. 10s. Stills sold at all prices from 61. to 30s. Queys and Heifers met with an equally quick sale, and prices were fair; a lot of Galloways brought 71., and one of Irishers sold for 109. less. The transac tions in small cattle were evidently satisfactory ; some job hers semed to be displeased with the rates of the market, but this is a constant practice with them, and they would do so under any circumstances. On the whole, the mar ket, for all kinds of cattle, may be considered an excel lent one. p ics .—W e had an excellent supply•of Pigs, sales we're good, and prices the same as last week. HAAIBURGH CORN MARKET.—Ocr. 17. Such of our arrivals of Wheat during the last week as were of a quality fit far exportation, have been of ready sale at the prices quoted ; in consequence of the state of the London market, our own consumers continue back ward. Of Rye we received but little—that little, how ever, was readily taken by our own consumers. Barley continues in demand, but with few arrivals. In Oats our arrivals have been considerable,, prit,cipally, however, of this year's growth, and too light for exportation ; heavy samples are scarce, a n d o f rea d y sa l e . P ease , Bean:, Tares, and Rapese e d, con ti nue i n demand.—During the first ten days of the present' month 66 cargois of Corn passed through the Sound ; of these thirty were bound to British, twelve to Dutch, and twelve to French ports ; one to Bremen, one to the Canary Islands, and otr ix to d o Z I l a a n r e Dantzic Wheat of the weight of 124 to 130......180 to 210 Pomeranian 125 to 132 ...... 175 to 190 Anhalt, white llB to 128......180 to 205 red 122 to 132 180 to 195 ---- Danish 120 to 130 120 to 160 118 to 122"•••• 95 to 100 Dantaic Rye M agdehu rgh Barley 100 to 108 75 t o 9 0 to 80 .... Upland Oats Holstein Rapeseed Yesterday Mr. COPELAND was sworn in at Guildhall as one of the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex. He was much agitated upon entering the hustings, and seemed to suffer pain ; but he recovered his spirits before he bad been in the hall five minutes, and he loudly repeated the oaths after the Town Clerk. It was considered a dar ing thing to venture upon such an exertion after a thirty five days' fever. When the ceremony was at an end, Air. COPELAND appeared to have rallied completely. s. to s. 15 42 23 22 36 26 23 23 32 24 33 22 50 20 34 23 34 28 38 21 23 2.2 35 28 32 30 32. 28 92 92 38 24 32 21 28 28 36 22 36 28 36 ~ a. -- 611 -r• 46 -• 60 - SO - 50 - 45 - 53 d. to d. 6 8 6 7 1 6 8 9 6 '7i SURREY SESSIONS.--Oc•r. 2Q• a , John F re d er i c k M e y ers , a G erman , 36 pi - 4 age, was i n di cte d for feloniously intermarrying vi " Sarah Ballard, his former wife being then alive.. !Ad. Mr. BACON c on d uc t e d th e case f or th e prosec° l se ') He stated to the Jury that the prosecutrix 0,4 delis daughter of an humble but respectable tradeol, ~for residing at Brixton, and th e p r iso ner was by ti ll • o a i tailor, living in the same neighbourhood. He be" r o d gill acquainted with her about a year and a half WI be t representing himself to be a single man, solicited r i, ,a in marriage. The extraordinary piety which . t 11: . 6 4 soner a ff ected, and the regularity and propriety. ° tr i, lip demeanour, induced her to consent, and the 111 : c h, 1180 monial ceiemony took place at -St. Peter's Chri i . a t • Dry Walworth. When it was afterwards ascertaine d `,41 Cot his former wife was living, to prove which b e , a " - t, witnesses in Court, her friends insisted on pr° K ;tat ing him, and he was accordingly now place be bar to await the decision of the Court u pon ss offence he had committed. The Learned Gent lo called e William Smith, who stated that he was 0.°""otel Km maker, residing at Clapham. He was acqtlo, — " lt ° with the pris oner , w h o , on t h e 2l st o f May, I t hs , married Elizabeth Elli o t, hi s w if e ' s s i s ter, • o t ; t e.' •' f a ! was parish church of L ew i s h am ;h e ( w i tness ) F ' 14; sent at the time, and was a subscribing w ioesii• ' Sarah Ballard, an interesting young gr° l3l a s o i bet becameocquainted with the pris o ner a b ou t aye'L-pa of a half ago, whil e s h e was i n serv i ce at Levi' t 'of. He represented himself as a master tailor re Sidilif Brixton, and a single man. He was in the Cl,O . I ._ habit of visiting her, during which period . be p fessed towards her the strongest attachment!, t he solicited her to marry hi m . Sh e c onsen t e d, gn u :, marriage was solemnized in April last at St. P%i. 2, Church, Walworth. They were married by.ltds S. She afterwards asc erta i ne d t h at t h e pr i sone r , P• 44 0" wife living. She (wit ness ) h a d one c hild 1)1; 0 1 6 . prisoner. During the courtship the prisoner aff": 2 4 to be very religious, and was in the -habit of PM! her poetry, expressive of his love and a tt ac hniel!!'• was se The Jury found him Guilty. He nO ce 0 I titti to twelve months' imprisonment and hard lab°°! e ! be the House of Correetion, Guildford. Henry Parry, aged eight, was indicted for 6 t f ing 771. 45., the prop er ty o f M r . .Stephensol l ': li . tCc Deptford. _A tua He was ordered to be priv a t e ly. w hippeP, St a liberated. . CORONER'S ISQITEST. THREE CHILDREN BURNT. 11 11 Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held Coopers' Arms, Shoreditch, on the bodies of 1 - 1 „,: 01 . line Amelia, Elean or Eli za b e th, a n d G eor ge r „, i t Balls, who fell a sacrifice at a fire which broke "' et , on Monday night last, at No. 11, in the above str e . The Jury proceeded to view the bodies, iv- hie b e presented a most shocking appearance • t w o of . children were burnt in a ll p arts o f ;heir 11 00 ' while the third was reduced to a cinder. I , e t David Lee, a n a pp rent i ce to M r . B a ll s, t h e 1.1 1); of the little sufferers, deposed that on Mondaintt last his master and mistress went out, having put the children to bed, and locked the ,loom ; ciw, when he hea r d one o f t h e c hild ren ca ll " Davil o he went en the stairs and inquired what was t o . matter, but no answer was returned; he again to thestreet door, and shortly afterwards discO% the curtains of th e room w h ere t h e c hild ren s le pt a blaze; he gave an 'alarm, and, with another yell man, went up stairs and broke open the door. b o the flames and sm o k e were s o great that-they W e / compelled to retr ea t, an d h e was near l y s tilled.," His master and mistress were often in the habi, t fi t going out, locking the door, an d l eav i n g Ito burning in the room wh ere the children slept, l l ' putting them to bed. ha.lasoehNnviViicahllellstdaetaetdr,aytehz andhe 'hlievaresd fire, while in bed on Monday sight; he instil got up, dressed himself, and rushed up stairs the room where_ the children were in bed; he 16 ] , hold of two of them while enveloped in flames, 0 , 1 rescued them, but they were so much burnt they lingered in great agony for a few hours, 01 ( then they expired; he did not observe th e °th e ( child, which was taken out of the ruins the ne s morning. Led The witness was severely burnt about the -- 0 ( and face. The jury expressed their approbation d O t p h p e o a s l i ar te o tll d: his conduct, and promised to procure him a re° for his exertions. 10 • Mr. Balls, the father of th e c hild ren , s aid, t t he left home at half-past e i g ht on M on d a y tog a "; after putting the children t o b e d, an d l e ft a ' ll- 11 light burning in a candlestick, which he placed -011 4 plate ; the two eldest were asleep, but the youtief was awake, and he cautioned h er not to get oOt - bed, and then locked the door. • „i This being the whole of the evidence, the to returned a verdict of; " Accidentally Burnt Death." • BIRTHS. fo b On the 21st inst. in Thornton-row, Greenwich, Robert Parker, of a daughter. a sr On the 10th inst. at Bardney-hall, Bart o n.upon-0 1 ber, the lady of the Rev. George Uppleby, of a daught er 'd On the 2 let inst. at Camfield-place, Herts, the WI the Hon. Baron Dimsdale, of a son. On the 15th inst. the lady of John U. Grahuro, ri? of Barton, of a son. MARRIED. gr o On the 22d inst. at St. G eorge ' s , H ano ver-0111"d Major Henry Cock, of the Hon. East India Con3Pit e Service, to Mary, third daughter of the late John - Di Esq. of the Rectory, Great Marlow, Rucl9, On the 21st i ns t. at H aver i ng L atte -B ower , b y the may, John Byde, James Ellis, Esq. of Darning, in the countL, Kent, to Caroline, eldest daughter of Edward R o bit , '" - - Esq. of Havering-atte-Bower, in the county of Essex. 1 1, On the 20th inst., at St. Pancras Church, Mr. Phillips, of the Ancient Concerts and the Theatre gala, English Opera, to Miss Godfrey, daughter of Mr. 6 frey, of Bow-street, Covent-garden. Lately, Mr. Nicholls, of the Savoy Palace, Savoy-st r Strand, to Miss Holyland. r' On the 21st inst. at Kingsdon, Somerset, Thos. Pai to4 ° l e , Esq. Barrister, second son of the late James Paynter, of Boskenna, Cornwall, to Ann, ,only daughter of Aa' Moody, of Kingsdon, EN. t be On the 21st inst. at Leadenham, near Grantham, bY g oe: Rev. William Key Reeve, Lieut.-Colon e l Ch a plin ( o '„ r , Coldstream Guards), M.P., to Milli cen t M ar y, only 11 :. i r viving daughter of th e l a t e W m . R eeve , E sq . o f the for place. vev. On the 22d inst. at Ch r istchu rc h, Surr e y, by the 4 ,, Mr. Mapleton, Richard Grave 'Hindson, of Penrith , to Miss Rachel Cannon, niece of JOsepli Cowper, °I apt,, thank, and John Cowper, of Carleton-hall, in the co of Cumberland, Esqrs, DIED. u On the 22d inst. the 34th year of his age, P e-r o f Thomas, youngest sou of the late Mr. William Rich' Ludgate-hill. irood• On the 18th inst. at Tonbridge Wells, E. Jukes gate, relict of the late Mr. Henry Woodgate, of Bryall 9 " - street, Portmal-equare. st On the 22d inst. Frederick, infant son o f Aro. Carnac, Esq, On the 21st i ns t. a t Alf re d-pl ace , N ew i ng t on , after 14 painful illness of nearly three years, Mr. John S. 43/2Y ' aged 36. On the 20th inst. at the house of her sontin-lanis „ 4 ° P7 Binns, Esq. West-end, Hampstead, Ms's. Rebecca PI mont, relict of the late Joseph Beaumont, Esq. in her 7 9 year, deeply and deservedly lamented by all her relativi and friends. • On the 13th inst. at acted, in Surrey, Mrs. Eizahe/ts King, relict of the late Mr. Thomas King, in the year of her age. On the 7th inst. at Cheltenham, deeply lamented, $l/1 lady of Edward Barrett, Esq. of Hope-eiui, near !Abut! Herefordshire. On the 19th inst. at Bridlington-quay, Hull, Thoth Ward, Esq. ship-owner, aged 68. , Lo f On the 12th inst. aged 4,5, Catherine :Elias, thelfir. Edward Belfour, Esq. late of the 111avy,oiRce, Sonier7 . l( house, in a rapid decline, chiefly brought on by the tie!, of her eldest sun, the Rev. H. T. 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