The Sun. — London, England, 1820-11-09 00:00:00

TIIE LONDON JOURNALS. [DAILY EXTRACTS FROSI THE MORNING PAPERS.] [New Times.] The DIVORCE CLAUSE has passed the House of Lords by a majority - of 129 to 62 ; and according to a list which has.been published, •it should ap pear, that most of the Ministers were % on this point, in the Minority. On the expediency of this clause, under all the circumstances of the case, we shall offer no opinion : on its legality, e have elsewhere stated nur sentiments under the head of the Christian .Law of Divorce. The question-of the Queen's guilt or innocence may now be considered as finally decided. While not one of the Members of Opposition grounded his vote upon his moral . conviction of her limo—, ence—and while numbers of those who opposed the Bill, at the same time pronounced her Guilty, : .the has passed by a majority of twenty e•ight voices. Her Majesty's hired writers.: have already begun a clamour at this majority. It is composed, - say they, of the Ministers themselves, 'who prosecute—and of the Committee " who found the Bill." The ,false Mod of these asser tions is-manifest on the. face of them. The num ber.. of the Ministers who sit in the House of Lords is nine. The-Secret Committee contained four of these Noblemen (whom these sapient Gentlemen readily count twice), and several of the other Ministers have voted against the Bill. But should the Ministers have voted at all ? On this question we would offer a few observatiops. It, is obvious that the only reason that can be offered against their voting i 3, that upon the suc cess of the prosecution may be thought to depend their continuance in °Jae.' But does not the same argument go to exclude equally all those, to whom the failure of the Bill would be tanta mount to an accession to office) Supposing Lord Liverpool to be forced to resign—does not every politician in London feel himself able to say, who would be likely to supply his place? And is it likely that the individuals themselves can be less dear sighted ? O,• is it probable that their thirst for office should be a less - active and propelling motive of action than another man's fondness for place and power Is an attack generally con ducted with less keenness . , and vigour, and per . tinacity, than a defence ? In fine—are there not commonly three expectants of office for one pos sessor ? Seeing then that it must be utterly im• possible to banish all feeling of this kind frotr the tribunal, we must conclude that all partial .attempts, and all plans for excluding any . . bias towards one side, and for leaving it in existence on the other, must be worse than nugatory. [The Tines.] The proceeding; yesterday With respect to the Queen will afford amusement at the end of this dull play. After various intimations from the .Lord Chancellor and others, that if the divorce clause were thought to harsh, or if it were con ceived untenable, upon religious grounds, from the conduct of the other party to the marriage contract, some other less objectionable enactment might be substituted—after various, deprecatory hints of this kind, we say the divorce clause was carried by the general enemies of the Bill, by the Queen's friends, and those convinced of her innocence, with a view to the final frustration of the. measure ; and what is most absurd is, that nine Cabinet I,linisters, who had themselves placed, the divorce_ clause in. the Bill, voted against it, and were, with their friends, greatly outnumbered-; thus, -to use a homely phrase, "having their own measure ." forced down their -throats," when the taste of it had' become ,grievously unpleasant. We are ourselves friends to the Church of England—we are members of it—and we do, therefore, most sincerely wish that our Bishops had made a different figure. Good God ! what a disposition there was in the House to listen to them! and how it was repaid. The emoluments of the Church (which we grudge not), if they had been duly bestowed, must have pro-. duced men of more abilities. It has always been said that Ministers were afraid of Watson, on ac count of his talen'ts„ And. the. uncontrollable mjnd which the consciousness of them -engendered. 11as that fear paralyzed every attempt to put a man of even ordinary powers upon the Bench from the first moment of Dr. Watson's consecra tion ? What have the present, men. read ? Where even have they been ? Their virtue we do not dispute ; and, upon their general inclination to sustain the powers that be, we are not now com menting. But, to be useful allies, they should possess some attainments of learning, some range of intellect, some.expanse of ,genius. Sincerely do we wish, merelrfor the permanence and re spectability of the establishment, that a Warbur ton, a Watson, a Sherlock,' or .a. Hoadley, bad. been .upon the Bench, even though thOse Prelates had employed their .talents to the ruin of ,that cause which we so sincerely advocate. If it were to fall, we should wish it not to fall, like a hero of the Old Testament, " by : the • hand -of a woman," or by those of men weaker than women. {Morning Post.] TIIE QUEEN.—The Bill of Pains and Penalties yesterday passed through the Committee. On a division there appeared a majority- of 67 for_the Divorce Clause, which it will be remembered the Earl of Liverpool had said it was not his in tention .to. press, if the feeling of the House should.be against it. From its being known that Earl Grey.wished to retain the Divorce' Clause; considering that by withdrawing from the sup port of the Bill those who did not approve of that clause, lie might stand - some chance of de feating the measure altocrether,. the factious have begun already to shout for an imaginary triumph. The Bill has passed through the Committee as it came into the, House, and this is a victory! Per haps the third reading will furnish thetu'with a still more delightful treat, and complete their felicity. On this we may possibly have-to con gratulate them before the. close of the present week. For some time . it has been quite the fashion to declaim against throwing out the Di verce Clause. 46 What," it has been—asked over again, " will you say that her Majesty is unworthy to be the Queen of England, btit is still good enough to be the wife of the King ?" and the individuals who favoured such a proposition were honoured with the usual tribute of abuse and ridicule. Those who wish to judge of this great question impartially, will do well to recall' what was the favourite topic of reproach before that to which we have just alluded was broached. The cry then was, that the King wished to marry some young Princess, and it was to enable him to do this; that -the Bill was brought into Parliament to divorce him from his Queen. For this purpose, and for this alone, it was 'pretended that perjured witnesses had been brought over to swear against the delicate innocent creature now residing at Brandenburgh House. At that time none of the rabble who tarried up their Addresses thought of complain ing of the punishment that would be inflicted on the King if lie were not divorced from tkte good Queen Caroline ! 'But the moment the Earl of Liverpool refUted the popular slander, that it was for the personal gratification of the Monarch that these proceedings were instituted, by offer ing to give up the Divorce Clause, from that ma meat the cry was raised, that of air things in the world that clause ought to be retained. This is very consistent—consistent with that mischievous, calumniating-, and perverse spirit, which has been all along manifested by those have come before the public as friends and defenders of her Majesty. [Morning Chronicle.] We are glad, that' by the carrying the Divorce Clause this odious Bill remains in its original form, having lost nothing which can in any way diminish the odium which all classes of the com munity bear towards it. When we consider that all those Peer 'who voted against the second reading - retain their 'objections to the Bill, that several Peers declared they could not agree to the Divorce Clause, and particularly that some of the Bishops declared, that no consideration on earth would ever induce them to adopt such a Clause, we entertain a confident hope that the Bill will yet be thrown out. We know that it is by no means unusual with the Members of that exalted body to receive suddenly a new light on any subject ; but we would fain hope that nothing of the kind will happen on the present occasion, and particularly that those of the Fathers of the Church who objectel to the Divorce Clause, will retain their objectio..-- 7 We have little doubt, from what we have heard, that the facility with respect to the Divorce Clause displayed by Ministers, had in view the more effectually securing that object at last. We know with what feverish anxiety they have al ways looked forward to a diminution in the warmth of the zeal of the people in favour of her Majesty; and we know that, though they have hitherto been disappointed, they calculate on wearying the people out at last. Upon this prin ciple it may have been deemed advisable to let the Bill go iuto the Commons without the Divorce Clause, in bopes that a more favourable conjunc tion would enable them to introduce it, in a late stage of its progress through that House. We trust that this Machiavelian policy has been de feated, and that the Country will speedily be re lieved for - ever from this worst of all curses. [Morning Herald.] The Proceedings in the House of Lords yes 'te'rday were extremely curious. The Bill of Pains and- Penalties has passed through the Com mittee, with an overwhelming majority upon one of its main provisions—the divorce clause ; and upon this result the opponents of the measure out of doors are singing lopean. The solution of the difficulty is understood to be this—Several Peers, spiritual and temporal, who, voted for the second reading, did so upon an understanding that the Divorce Clause should be omitted in the Committee, whilst another mass of the advocates of the Bill are strenuous to. retain the whole.—The Opposi tion Lords, in order to procure the rejection of the Bill on the third reading, voted for the divorce, thus preserving the Bill in such a state, that those who oppose. the divorce clause must vote against the Bill in toto in the next stage ; and thus, by a Parliamentary manauvre, would the measure be got rid oraltogether. Whether any counter-effort of Parliamentary Generalship will be played off on the other side, does not yet ap pear. The Right 'Rev, Prelates in the House were equally divided on this embarrassing point. [British Press.] The question for the House this day will be, whether the Report of the Committee shall be received ? Upon this question the House ought to be nearly unanimous in rejecting the Report, which would have the effect of throwing out the Bill altogether. Those who voted yester day against the clause, ought to vote this day also against it on the bringing up of the Re port ;. and those who opposed the second reading of the Bill, ought also - to vote - against the Report, to express their hostility to the principle of the measure in general. Happy would it be for the country if such an union were to be/formed ; happy would it be for the King, for the Royal Family in general, and not less so for the character of the Lords themselves! Should this union, however, not take place, and the Bill unfortunately proceed to the third read ing, it is still our decided opinion that the disso lution of marriage ought of necessity to accom pany the measure of degradation, and share its fate. This, we think, is due to the honour of the King; it is also due to the safety of the Queen. The measure must be viewed by Parliament in its collective shape, and be entertained in discus sion with a direct reference to its several parts. Degradation of the Queen, without dissolving her Marriage , with the King, is an anomaly most in jurious to the feelings of the Sovereign and to the character of the country. The Queen, however, has a right to complain, that at an early part of the proceedings she was led to entertain a belief that the Divorce Clause would form no part of the Bill ; for it not only gave on the second read ing an increase of numbers to the ranks of her enemies, but prevented her Counsel on the trial from addressing themselves to this part of the Bill. We certainly should not countenance the application to this case of the principle recog nised in ordinary cases of divorce, of admitting_ proof on the part of the defendant to shew that the plaintiff was not rectos in curia, and in consequence of the errors of his own life not en titled to the relief he prays. But undoubtedly, if the question of divorce were agitated, it ought to be permitted to the Queen to lay open to Parliament the long course of sufferings, injuries, and insults, to which she had been exposed in this country, even from the hour of her marriage, and which at length, in very bitterness of soul, drove her to seek for refuge in foreign lands, reduced her there to the necessity of forming her household of individuals not entitled by their personal respectability to so high a distinction, and subjected her to mingle in scenes which her enemies have with cruel ingenuity perverted into pretences for accusation. The House pos sibly might in a measure fora divorce have suffer ed what is somewhat incorrectly called recrimi nation ; but from every attempt of this, nature her Majesty was effectually debarred by the pression which she and her Counsel were suffered to receive at the very commencement of the pro ceedings: FOR THE SUN. CURSORY THOUGHTS, &c. If Etnosstt had appeared to account for keeping guard over his Mistress. be might have been tried upon thu Articles of War, for slrepiug ?pun his watvh! An Hibernian Wag, talking of the Tent Scenes and the Chivalric ()Mrs, said, that it was only a new Edition of the Arabian Nights. with the adventures of Mrs. " Sin-had, (he Sailor," It was observed, that if Sumnsonv was the Genius i;f Mourn, IlEaumut ought to have been there as the Guar dian Genius—" Och ! by my shout," exclaimed PAT, " then we should have had a second Edition of the Tayls of the Jayni ."' It is said,, that Palestine is close to Arabia Felix; but St. Onter's is compared to Arabia I)eserta! NEW PEERAGE.—Lord Hairskin, to be Viscount Turn'em Green ; Lord Thistlewood,, to a Hanoverian title of Baron Thundertentrunck ; Lord Underwood to succeed to the barony of Hunt-tiddy ; Lord Diaper, to be Viscount Hollow Head; Dr. Flushentown, to be Lord Bamtoten; and Baron BER GAM!, to be Viscount Tent-er-den ; Earl of thnigicen, Mar quess of Ambleside, and Duke of Beddington. I. G. N. FOR THE SUN. CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY. Mu. Ent reia—l am perfectly aware that it may he Justly .argued, in an abstract point of view, that to plead against the accused is neithei fair nor liberal.. lam perfectly dis posed to allow that, where such abstract view can be justly applied to practice, it comes with infinitely stronger force in the case of HER 111a.rEsTy than in any other we can possibly imagine. But. Sir, the case now before the ,Tribunals of the Parliament and of the Public is not an abstract case. Unhap. pity HER MAJ v STY'S Advisers, or Prompters, or whatever they may he called, hare brought it to such a crisis that She is but a secondary object. It is now a question of loyalty—of pub lic tranquillity—of good morals—of the present happiness, and of the future welfare of Britain ! That, Sir, is too awful a consideent ion to permit any man who loves his Country to sit silent, or in apathy, when mo tives of action are urged and justified which, whether HER MAJ res conduct shall be found irreproachable or not, must strike at the root of female dent,- nod decorum, and con sequently-at the root and source of real English patriotism ! Sir, I must, therefore, urge that .• the Custom of the Coun try " cannot, most not, be a palliation of the adoption of practices which iu themselves are wrong or indelicate.— Italian Ladies may admit Gentlemen into their bed-chain bers—but that can never be a justification of such conduct in an English woman, or in a British Qtieen. If we once admit that, tse Must also, by parity of reasoning, admit the propriety of the Italian system of 'C'icis4ci.im, and of many other-points of laxity of decorous and of morals ! Nay, we must also ad mit,that the customs of other Countries shall have the same license. But what'a dilemma would this plaCe us in t I myself have seen the wife of an. Indian Prince walking behind her husband, stark staked, through the streets of an European settlement in broad day light ! It was the eustom of the Country! I have seen Ladies sit at breakfast with a lad of sixteen or eighteen, naked tts all intents and purposes, except a hannerchief, attending the tea-kettle t - Do snch cases require illustration ? They are extreme cases Larant—but they are. the " Custom of the Country,"—and, I trust,.shew clearly that such a plea can neverjustify—though in private idea it .may slightly extenuate—any practice con trary to English decorum, or to good morals.—Yom's,„„,.. IGNOTUS. LAW INT ELLIG ENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. 8. A t the rising of the House of Lords, this day, all the Judges took their seats in Court. THE KING V. GLOSSOP AND OTHERS. Mr. Anowi s moved for a writ of certiorari, to bring t he proceedings, by information, against the Proprietors of the Co-' hours Theatre, into the Court of King's Berich. The informa tion, it will be remembered, was laid in Surrey, against the Defendants, for performing the play of " Richard the Third," contrary to the spirit of their license. The Learned Counsel stated that several motions had been made to the Court on this subject, and his object was to hat•g the question fairly brought under the consideration of the Learned Judges. Ile was al lowed to take the rule for a certiorari, and the matter will be argued on Saturday. TIIE RING V. SIR F. 'BURDETT. The Sot.tct•rou-GENERA[., in this case, moved the Court to fix a day for proceeding, with the argument relative to the motion for a new trial, when the Court appointed Thursday week. LAW APPOINTMENTS. DULIUN, Nov. 4.—Some important changes are likely to occur in our judicial establishment at the approaching Term It is believed, that Mr. Justice Mayne will not resume his funclions as a Judge, and . that Mr. Justice Daly and Baron George are likely to "retire. Sergeant Jcy has already refused the situation of a Puisne Judge on the occasion of the last vacancy. It was understood that he reserved himself for a higher object, and that, calculating on the support of Lord Castlereagh, he aspired to the situation of a Chief Jtistice. This advancement would take away a rival from Mr. Thisbe, amid a promotion from Sergeant Burton. If Sergeant Joy decline the situation, he may be considered as standing out fora Chief Justiceship, and in that case Sergeant Burton will probably be the Judge. If there he (and it is probable) more vacancies on the Bench than one, Mr. Henry Denim Grady. Mr. Lefroy, and Mr. Vandeletar f are considered as candidates. Mr. H.l). Grady has much to give up; his present situation of Chief Counsel to the Revenue, being one of the best of our law appointments. A new set of King's Counsel is expected; Mr. French, Mr. Flanailton (the son of the Bi shop), Mr. Blacker, and Mr. Keninsis, are included in this arraugement.—(Frcema?l' s Journa I .) INFLAMMATORY PLACARDS.--On Monday, Mr. Stokes, of Lombard-street, appeared before the Loan MAYOII, on a penal information t i nder the Act for the pre vention of seditious meetings and inflammatory and seditious publications, charging him with having refused to obey the order of the Magistrate to produce the copy of a certain placard printed by him, inviting the Citizens of London to a general illumination. Atter is short hearing the consideration of the case was adjourned to a future day. Several of the hills in the northern parts of Wales have their summits already tipped with snow, which is said there to portend an early and severe winter. BILLINGSGATE MARKET. NEW REGULATION'S OF BILLINGSGATE M AROr' t A series of regulations have recently been in force, at the instance of the LORD MAYORI'II Billingsgate-market, by which the flagrant no" nopolies that have existed there for so ma i l years have, in some measure, been put an end t ° ' The whole business 'of the market has hither° been in the hands of a set of men called shore° or bobbers. No person was formerly allowed t° go on board the fishing-boats and make purch ase s himself, but was obli g ed to employ a bobber °r shorer to go on board the boats, and make ti le purchases desired. The poor were not 0n id obliged to pay a considerable toll to these f e l t lows for services which they did not want, 10 were entirely at their discretion as to the Vail of the fish with which they were served. T b r however, was not the' only grievance, for the purchasers had no security whatever for the 111 ” nesty of these men, who could with impun it ii rt charge whatever price their conscience Iv ° allow them for the fish which they purchased. ,`" commission was also taken by them from the 0 1 ' 1 . 5 ; ters of the fishing-boats, who, however inle t ''' . might be the quality of their fish, had only to pal a higher, premium in order to ensure the great Tliii.vr§tem, which was particularly gri n be ing in other respects upon the poor, and t if dealers in fish generally, has been almost enti re ,, l i done away with by some regulations made 'l e the Lord Mayor, by which the fishing-boats a r ll so arranged as to afford an opportunity tO s r , persons to go on board them and make their !li g chases themselves, without being obliged to V i c an extra price for an inferior article, or to ernP l° ; any of the bobbers. The lauding of oyst er : which was formerly a source of much co nfusie i r,; is now' so regulated as not to interfere with t...„" business of the other part of the fish-naarle t , o Measures have also been taken to prevent tPat sale of shedder salmon, or salmon inspawn, t i the market, by seizing and burning publicly 3,, that could be found, and by inflicting heavy Pei nalties on those who were detected in carrYi ll :i on this abominable traffic, the suppression ; which is likely to be of incalculable benefit; i t h o c already been felt in an increased • supply wholesome salmon, which has in consequel4l been sold during the present season as low as per pound. COUNTRY NEWS. CANIBRIDGESHIRE. AGRICULTURE.—At the Meeting of the ti"' o , bridgeshire Agricultural Society, the proll ie given by the Earl of Hardwicke of 501. 1 0 5, ' l ,, best cultivated farm, was presented to ". 14 Beales, Esq. The first premium for plotiO t r, was awarded to Robert Darnell, servant to Beales, Esq. and the second to Jos. ,Cowell, s : ef vant to R. Withers, Esq. ; after which the Pie ehe of plate awarded at the meeting in June, for exhibitions of stock, were delivered to the 5u cessful candidates. SURREY. SINGULAR AND FATAL ACCIZEST,.....-Tr ials i o morning the following extraordinary circurns, ° e took place at the hous e o f Willi am T ur ner, t, s ;:, at Reigate, Surrey :—Mr. Turner was in the ` ) or nevolent practice of giving away milk to the inhabitants of the place, and amongst theses t e the family of a man named Yeomans. ° B morning in question, this manes daughter, a go about twelve years old, went to the hors e usual to fetch her milk; the maid-servant took, , 1 vessel, with which she proceeded to the da ir l o , leaVing the girl standing on the stone pavernel lt e j the scullery. Presently afterwards she was alas° 1 , by a noise, which seemed to come from the sc' j e t lery, and, on looking into the room, she mi ss th e the little girl, and observed that a part of ,f flooring had given way, discovering a vast subl'o, ranean recess of very great depth. She CO il e , not then discern the girl, but she gave an diate alarm, and ladders were procured t° scend, for the purpose of exploring 1 10 vault, which, however, was for some t il ti j found impossible, owing to the strong fc effluvia that issued from the place. This ha' l :s in some degree abated, a person v enturi o , down the opening, and found the body of of girl at the bottom, a distance of thirty or O r a , feet, quite dead, apparently'from suffocati°, The account this person gave of the place 113 13 " / that it resembled a cess-pool, or well (for wh ic o f it probably had been used); but what is s' e s singular, the existence of this dangerous hole n s`' altogether unknown to the present family, ro a more than ordinary number of persons P, passed and. re-passed that spot (hiring the go lo d lug. The rafters under the pavement were f° l 4, much decayed.—A Coroner's Inquest Was on '' re turday held on the body. of Ann Yeomans, be f° , C. JEMMETT, Esq., at the White Hart l'ave"" of 'Reigate, and the Jury returned a verdict " Accidental Death.' SCOTLAND ryi 1 1 °Y al Tim ARMY.--On fuesday the 4t, Veteran Battalion, quartered in Ayr barraci',:c; . were spected,by Major-General Reynell, '," o t expressed his marked approbation of their 0: 55 and military appearance, and of the steaß, le r , and precision of their evolutions. The 1 11° ,., 5 , General likewise inspected the barracks, pital, and military school-room, and seerneil ly pleased with the neatness, good. order, a lt ., cleanliness which prevailed in the establishi nc ir On Saturday his Excellency Major-Genera' „ c , Thomas Bradford, the Commander-in-Chic l,, companied by his Staff, reviewed the 7th „ goon Guards, commanded by Colonel DiloP e ' v e a field near Piershill Barracks. This very e 5, regiment executed all its manoeuvres, ch ar goe &c. with admirable precision, and much to , e a satisfaction of his Excellency, who exPr es d himself highly pleased with its appearance 3 disci pline.--L(Edinburgh Courant, Nev. LONDON: Printed byJ. B. 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