The Sun. — London, England, 1834-10-23 00:00:00

LONDON ADJOURNED SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) These sessions were held to-day, pursuant to adjourn ment, before the RECORDER, Aldermen Sir CHLTNIA3I MARSHALL, CowAs, and PIRIE, the Sheriffs, &c. Richard Danger was indicted for assaulting two police constables, named Percival and Collier, on the 6th of Oc tober last. It appeared from the evidence that on the 6th of October the defendant was discovered by the constables in Garlick-hill undressed, fighting with another man. The officers persuaded the defendant to desist and put on his coat, -which he refused to do, stating that his name was Danger, and Danger he :would be ; that he had got fifty pounds to spare, and did not mind a bit of law. He then struck Collier, kicked, and very much ill-used him. The defendant's conduct was so resolute that he was obliged to get the assistance of Per cival, whom the defendant ill-used in the same manner as he had done Collier. The prisoner in his defence said that he was so much in liquor at the time that he knew nothing of the charge. He expressed deep contrition for his offence. The Court sentenced him to six weeks imprisonment and hard labour. Win. Barton, a respectable middle aged man in appear ance, was indicted upon three indictments for assaulting Mary Preece, Allan Cunninghame, and Geo Hallam. George Hallam stated that on the 2d of August he was getting his supper, when he heard a great row in White street, Cripplegate, where a fight was taking place. The defendant, who was seconding one of the men who was fighting, struck him ; and upon the witness saying it was a cowardly act to strike the man whom he was pretending to be a friend to, the defendant knocked him down, and in jured him very much. Mary Preece stated that the defendant also struck her, and hurt her very much. On cross-examination by the defendant, she admitted that she kept a brothel, and that the person with whom she lived named Crowder, drove a cab. The Jury stopped the case, and acquitted the defendan upon all three indictments. ABSENCE OF ALDERMEN. In the course of the morning Sir Chapman Marshall having left the Court, and there being only two Aldermen present, the Recorder could not proceed with the business for some time. The Foreman of the Jury requested that the Recorder would discharge them, as it was extremely hard that they should be kept waiting, having nothing to do, in conse quence of the absence of an Alderman. If the Jury were to absent themselves they would be fined, and they did not see why the same measure of justice should not he dealt out to absenting Aldermen. Sir John Key shortly afterwards came in, and the busi ness was proceeded with. SURREY SESSIONS.-(THIS DAY.) William Jesse Sadler, was indicted for stealing 541bs of lead, the property of James Dummelow and others, on the 16th of September. Mr. Dummelow, the prosecutor's son, saw the prisoner leaving his work on the night in question. He saw that he was carrying something very heavy, and asked him what it was ? He said it was his basin, but refused to let lira see it. He gave him into custody, and then found it was the lead produced. The Prosecutor identified the lead as his property, from certain marks that were upon it. The prisoner found the lead when going to his work, and having no place to leave it at, he took it to the prosecutor's premises till he was going home. The Jury found him Guilty ; and the Court sentenced him to seven years' transportation. John Fraser, Moss Hart, and Samuel Davis were in dicted for breaking into the house of Thomas Smith, at Riegate, and stealing various articles of wearing apparel, &c. The prosecutor, on the morning of the 6th inst., left home shortly after five o'clock, leaving his wife in bed ; he shut the door after him. At one o'clock he went home, and found that an entrance had been effected by taking out two panes of glass from the window. He was informed of the three men having been seen in the neighbourhood of his house. He heard of them along the road, and got up to them at Crawley, when he saw his shoes and stockings on one of the prisoners, a pair of trowsers upon another, and the third one was nearly all dressed in things that had been stolen. Mrs. Smith left the house on the day in question about ten o'clock in the morning, leaving all the doors secured. On her return she found the house had been entered, and all her husband's clothes gone, bosides many things belonging to a man named John Stevens, who was both deaf and dumb. She met the three prisoners very near her house when she was going out. A boy named Burrell resided near Smith's house. On the 6th of October he saw the three prisoners at that place between eleven and twelve o'clock ; they stopped about till he went out of the way, and then they walked on. L. Stevens, father of the deaf and dumb man, identified his son's clothes. James Fussier, a shopkeeper at Crawley, said the prison ers Frazer and Davis came to him, and offered to sell him a bundle of clothes. While in his shop they were taken into custody. Richard Caffey, constable of Crawley, took the prison ers into custody, in consequence of information given him. He produced the property which he found upon them, which was all identified by the prosecutor. The CHAIRMAN summed up, and the Jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict of Guilty against all the prisoners, and they were sentenced to be transported for life. NORTH-WEST PASSAGE. Letters from Captain Back were received yesterday morning at the office of the Royal Geographical Society, the latest date being the 29th of April last, when the intel ligence had just reached him of Captain Ross's return. Their contents are of a mixed character. He and his party were all well, with the exception of Augustus, the Esquimaux interpreter, who had accompanied Sir John Franklin in both his journies, and was now despatched by the Hudson's-bay Company to join his third enterprise, but perished by the way. The winter had indeed been extraor dinarily severe. "We have had," says Captain Back, " a most distressing winter in this more than Siberian soli tude, where desolation reigns in unbroken repose. Even the animals have fled from us, as it were by instinct, and many, very many, of the unhappy natives have fallen victims to famine in situations the most revolting to human nature. The fish also, on which I in some measure relied, left us ; in places which we were told never before failed we have not caught a fish ; and during the whole season scarcely a living creature has been seen, except on one occasion a raven, which, in wheeling over the house, startled me with his croak, so uniform was the silence around us. I ran out, but when it saw me it screamed, and again made off to the western mountains, in the dark shade of which it was speedily lost. My party has been thus much dispersed in quest of food, and every mes sage has brought me tidings of their encountering severe privations. Mr. M'Leod (an agent of the Hudson's Bay Company, attached to the party) and his young family, are at this moment somewhere on the lake fishing ; and you may imagine what it costs me to see them also ex posed to the rigours of this severest of all winters, for the mean of three thermometers has been far below the lowest we ever registered in our former expeditions. After this narrative, yob may believe that, in spite of all my care and economy, some part of the provision laid up for our voyage has been necessarily consumed. The most experienced man in the country could not have foreseen this ; nor was there an possibility of avoiding it. My anxiety is immea surable on account of it ; but I still hope that the Indians may be enabled to procure us dry food, or in short some thing that may afford sustenance, so that the fondest wishes of my heart may not be frustrated. Of that, however, in one sense, there is no danger, for come the worst, I can always reduce my men, and go in one boat. Do not, therefore, let this affect you, for I feel confident of overcoming it. Another misfortune is, that pinched as we are for provi sions, we must drag our boats and luggage almost 100 miles over rocks and ice before we can reach open water. This we have ascertained through the winter ; but never mind, this also shall be done, and it will be a new feature in discovery. In our former expeditions we had none of these tremendous obstructions to contend with, though we had to take our bark canoes some distance in sledges. But I have perfect confidence in my men, and they, good fel lows, think that I cannot err." The above was written before the arrival of the express announcing Captain Ross's return ; and, pressed for time, only a few lines are added subsequent to that event. They are, however, so characteristic of the gallant writer, that they ought not to be omitted :—" I have this moment re ceived your despatch, with an account of Ross's return. I am all gratitude and happiness. My heart is too full to write ; but I shall pay attention to all that is recommended to me ; of this assure the committee. • 'What a triumph is this return of Ross's to us all who hoped against hope!' And syliat do the croakers say ? Will they acknowledge the lessoti afforded by it of the power of stubborn perseve rance ?" &c. From a privizO letter which we have seen, it may be inter esting to some to add the following scrap :—" My da y is chiefly spent thus—betiire breakfast I read a portion of Scrip /1J Ow afterwards attend to my observations, study, draw, - ty of pencil sketches), work up my survey, take •w. f dn-,44rora, &c. At the same time I keep my eye upon 'svhateVer;i% is going on, have an eveninc , school twice a 'iceek, and the service in French and ' English every Sunday. guitar is cracked, and jars abominably ; but You will no'ibe surprised at this when I add, that I have ~,! " j been obliged to grease my hands to prevent their cracking also, for such is the dryness of the atmosphere, that nothing can stand it." It may also allay the anxiety of friends and relations, to add that Hearne found abundance of game along the banks of the Thlew-ee-cho, so that, as the season advances, Cap tain Back's hunters may reasonably be expected to he equally fortunate. His prudence, based on a long experience, may also be relied on, as well as his enterprise. His buoyancy of temper, and the confidence reposed in him by his com panions, will support all their spirits. In a word, his task is arduous, more arduous than had been imagined, previous to the receipt of these letters ; but it could not be in better hands. And it is very satisfactory to know, from other letters received by the committee of the Hudson's Bay Company, that ample supplies have been since forwarded to him, which will support him during the ensuing winter. Early next spring he and his whole party will set forward on their return. PRICES OF STOCKS THII Rank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent. Cons. 91 % 90% 1 3% per Cent Ditto Red. ()IM, 9 8N New 3% per Cent. lOO 99% 100 4 per Cent. i.h. :e s,n r ed 98 1.1 Rank Long Annuities to expiro Jan. 3, 1860 l7 1-16 Oct. 10, 15,19 16 15-16 Jan. 5,186 t l7 5-16 Jan. 5, MO April 5, 1600 Jan. 5, 1870 1 DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. New 5 per Cent. India Stock.... Ditto Bondo. 22 24 pm. South Sea Stock Old Annuitios New Ditto 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1151.___ Exch. Bills, ..£l,OOO 4O 42 pm. Ditto 500 4O 42 pm. Ditto Small 4O 42 pm. Ditto Commercial p m . Ditto Advertised p m. Bank Stock for Account 221 India Stock for Account Consols for Account.— ........ 91 I PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Brazilian Idonds Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds THIS DAY AT ONk O'CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds Dino Account Portuguese Bonds.. Ditto Account Ditto New Bonds ii 374 3 Ditto Account Prussian Bonds 25!‘ 82V, 77 1, ,i Ditto Account Chillian Bonds Ditto Account Columbian Bonds Ditto Account Columbian Bonds, 1821 3O ti Ditto Account 3l Danish Bonds . Dittu 80nd5,1822 Russian Bends, 182 , 106;4 Ditto Account 106% Ditto Metallic Spanish Bonds 533; V - 4 Ditto Account 53 ,i M Ditto Bonds, 1833 — Ditto Account — French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Ditto Account , Greek Bonds Ditto Bonds, 1139.5 Ditto Account — Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent — Ditto Account Ditto, 0 per cent Ditto Account Neapolitan --1 4 per cent —f. —c. 3 per cent. —f. .—c. Exchange —f —c. Dutch, 2 .1. per cent. 52L4% Ditto Account Ditto, 5 per cent 981 X. Ditto Account PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Anglo Mexican Mining Company (iss. at 5/. pm.) Ito 7 I)itto Subscription Brazilian Imperial Mining Co. (issued at 5!. pm.) 2° 9.N. I)itto St. John del Rey .. 6 7 Redmoor Consolidated Mining Company Union Gold Australasia Bank l7 21 PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, OCT. 20. 3 per Cent. Consols 9014 Grand Canal Deb.. 6 per cent. 92 Ditto Reduced 89% Ditto, 4 per cent 02% 3!Y per Cent. Stock (tctX, Hibernian Bank Ditto New, 1830 Si. per Cent. Debentures.- 90% National Insurance Company 26% Batik Stock 224 City Debentures, 4 per cent... 80 Royal Canal Stock Grand Canal Stock MAILS. Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due. Arrived. 0 America 0 0 France 1 0 Lisbon 0 Brazil 0 Buenos Ayres... 0 0 Hamburg........ I 0 Mexico.— 0 Carthagena 0 0 Holland I Dublin 0 0 Jamaica 0 0 Sweden 0 0 Flanders Due. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning 53 minutes after 5. I Evening 25 minutes after 6. THE SUN IS NOW THE LARGEST DAILY PAPER IN LONDON. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 23, 1334. PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT. Both Houses met this day for the purpose of further proroguing Parliament pro forma. The Library of the House of Lords was fitted up in a beautiful manner, with seats and a bar in front, to which the Commons were to be summoned. Among the Peers present we observed the Marquis CONYNGHAM, Earls of MUN STER, WESTMORELAND, MULGRAVE, HARRING TON, Lords AUCKLAND, STRANGFORD, HILL, SEFTON, &c. Some delay took place in consequence as we understood, of the LORD CHANCELLOR having lost his way among the ruins. At a few minutes past two, the Commissioners, the LORD CHANCELLOR, Earl MULGRAVE, and Lord AUCKLAND, having taken their seats, Sir AUGUSTUS CLIFFORD, Usher of the Black Rod, was directed to summon the Commons. Mr. RICKMAN, the second Clerk, with two or three Members of the House of Commons who had pre viously met in No. 5 Committee-room, and followed by several strangers, appeared at the Bar, when the LORD CHANCELLOR announced the further pro rogation of Parliament to Tuesday, the 25th of Nov., in the usual form. It was observed that the wording of the Commission did not differ from that heretofore adopted, as the two Houses were directed to " meet at Westminster." The Commons then retired. There were only two Peeresses present, the Countess of MULGRAVE and Lady BURGHERSII. There were a great number of strangers present in the Library, as well as in the passages leading to it. When the proceedings had terminated, the LORD CHANCELLOR, and several of the Peers, proceeded through the Painted Chamber to view the ruins of the House of Lords. A very absurd report has been afloat the whole of this morning that Windsor Castle had been burnt to the ground. We have made every inquiry on the subject, and learn that the rumour originated in a house having caught fire in the Vauxhall-road, adjoining to the public-house called the 'Windsor Castle. The Worshipful Company of Merchant Tailors o: St. John the Baptist, as their charter very modestly styles them, must find themselves rather awkwardly situated in consequence of the evidence of Mr. FRANKS, a liveryman of their fraternity, before the Corporation Commissioners, the second part of which was given in The Sun of Tuesday. In commenting upon the first part of this gentleman's evidence, we had occasion to state that the conduct of the Company, in being the first to announce a contumacious opposition to the power of the Commissioners, had given rise to strange conjectures in various parts of the country ; and that by some their resistance was mistaken for an attempt to protect the liberty of the subject. The public was completely taken by surprise by the daring nature of the defiance hurled in the teeth of his Majesty's Commis sion. It was not conceived that men who led the way in braving the Royal authority, could be other than innocenb of the charges which were be ginning to be universally preferred against such institutions as that to which they belonged ; and their resistance to the power of the SOVEREIGN, em ployed in accordance with the opinions of the great body of his people, was judged to have arisen from a chivalrous but mistaken consciousness of their own immaculate purity, and the most effectual mode of manifesting the indignation with which they regarded a questioning of their honour. These were the mo tives which even several members of the Govern ment thought influenced the Merchant Tailors in pub lishing a protest, in which the KING'S Commission was treated as a mere shred of useless parchment ; and the gentlemen appointed to act by virtue of it, laughed at as a company of strolling imposters. But the evi dence of Mr. FRANKS has pulled down the walls of the " whited sepulchre," and the rottenness within is made visible. The talismanic spell is now known, and all who please may view the secret recesses of a labyrinth, the entrance to which was sealed by the signet of EDWARD the Confessor. The disclosures are certainly not such as we were prepared for. We knew that the Merchant tailors were a very rich, powerful, and politically influential body. We knew that they held immense property in Ireland, having shared largely in the grants made over to the Corpora tion of London by King JAMES, when that monarch was engaged in carrying on a project for colonizing the province of Ulster, and more particularly the city of Londonderry, and the adjacent country along the north western coast of the island. We were besides in full possession of the fact, that the .Merchant Tailors were the trustees for several public charities ; that they were the guardians of many establishments endowed for the education of poor children, and that moreover they were bound by their charter to devote a large portion of their revenue to the support of their poorer brethren. Knowing all this, we expected, should a discovery of their affairs ever take place, to learn how much the country was indebted to them for the incalculable extent of their charity, and the boundlessness of their benefactions. We imagined the pleasure with which we should announce, the enormous sum, the poor-rates in England were lessened, in conse quence of the munificent donations annually bestowed on the children of penury, and the heirs to house less wretchedness by the Wardens and Assistants of the Tailors' Company, Judge then our surprise on learning, on the public testimony of a most respectable member of the fraternity, that the whole power, wealth, and influence of a body—including within it upwards of a thousand persons—has been seized upon by thirty or thirty-five irresponsible individuals, who feast, and make merry, and otherwise dispose of the power and property of the Company as suits their own pleasure. He tells us that this junta act as suits their own con venience—that whom they will they enrich, and whom they will they impoverish—that whom they will they exalt, and whom they will they humble. In their • practices, in their appointments, in their feasts, in their language, they hold themselves everyway irresponsible, and act in everything with the same sense of arbitrary power. They call dinners public, but refuse ad mittance to all who have not the good fortune to share their friendship ; they announce public audits of ac counts, at which all are excluded but ;hose who are to share the spoils. In a word, the whole conduct of this junta is one of the most eltravagant farces ever acted in a public capacity ; the system they carry on is one which in private life would subject the parties assisting in it to a prosecution for swindling ; and under the shelter of an old, musty, and forfeited charter, a knot of irresponsible individuals are enabled to levy taxes, grant freedoms, and exercise some of the mos important functions of the Government. The evidence of Mr. FRANKS is extremely valuable at this particular time, as it completely upsets the schemes of this refractory body. The tailors may now come forward or not, just as they please, for in point of fact, their appearance is a matter of the most perfect indifference. The evidence of Mr. FRANKS places the Master and Wardens in this awkward dilemma—if ;hey come forward, they must produce the whole a their documents to disprove Mr. FRANKS' statements ; and if they come not forward, Parliament will legislate on the evidence before it, without regard to their peti- tions or protests, well knowing the motives which in duced the governing body to keep back the required evidence. We reserve our arguments in favour of a total reform of the Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, till a bill for that purpose is before Parliament. Those who are honestly in favour of such a measure, may not be all aware that one of the strongest pledges which the LORD CHANCELLOR gave to the inhabitantS of Aberdeen, on the occasion of his Lordship's late visit to the north, was that the bill for eradicating Corpora tion abuses would come forward early in the next Session of Parliament. The worst evils of an heredi- tary Aristocracy are nothing to the evils attendant on granting municipal privileges to those who have the good fortune to be born in a certain locality. The first are definite because the number of claimants are known ; the second are endless, as the persons who have been, are being, or will be born in this or that district, are innumerable. Their name is Legion, their physical consequences ruin, their moral ones an insiduous poison creeping through and destroying every vein of the social system. Advices from Rio de Janeiro of the 12th of August have been received, together with a copy of the follow ing speech of the President of the deputation of the Chamber of Deputies to the Emperor DON PEDRO 11., on presenting the Law of Reforms on the 9th o; August. The answer of the Regency is likewise an• nexed. The sentim en t s contained in these documents do great honour to the Brazilian Deputies, and to the Government " The Chamber of Deputies having completed the reforms of the constitution of the empire, sends us a solemn deputation, to present to your Imperial Majesty the fruit of their medita tions and labours. This benefit, long demanded by the pro gressive increase of civilization and knowledge for the grJw ing wants of the provinces—this benefit, is now placed with confidence in the august hands of your Imperial Majesty. Invested by the free suffrage of the electors with special autho rity to conclude the work of Reform, the Chamber of Deputies, conscious of the whole extent of their duties, of all the respon sibility that they contracted towards the nation, could never be more faithful to the law of the 12th of October, 1832, which traced the circle of their constituent power, nor more solicitous to obtain from the provinces all the aid necessary to their new political existence. The national capacity prevails here above all pitiful local considerations ; provincial objects have been carefully described and separated, in order to avoid, in this way, interminable conflicts and struggles, which might be fatal to the interests of the people, by compromising their peace and security ; the unity and energy of action, with out which the body social languishes and decays, are pre served in the general government, in order that it may discharge, to the advantage of the State, the various and difficult obligations with which it is entrusted ; the federal principle, fully developed, renews with difficulty in its applications those modifications which are the fruit of meditation, and the experience of the most cultivated na tions ; they respected, in short, religiously, the form of government adopted by the nation, and which has contri buted in the most difficult conjunctures to effect its salvation in spite of factions and parties, and the prerogatives of thelm perial Crown acquire new splendour and brightness. This work, Sire, truly that of a nation organized through it s repre sentatives to wh om i t d e l egate d this important task, offers the structure of a government which appears to have hitherto been in Europe the dream of a few politicians, but which is about to be realised in America-_a monarchy supported by popular institutions. These, however, are the most solid elements of the security of monarchies. They request, Sire, that your Imperial Majesty may deign to order the promul gation of this law of Reform, the pledge of the union of the provinces, the object of the wishes and hopes of the nation over which you preside, in order that its execution may prove how much it conduces to the general prosperity which it pro mises to secure. This act, Sire, in which the ideas of a sacred duty are interwoven with the desires and inclinations of the Constitutional Prince, who, under the most felicitous auspices, ascended the throne of this vast empire on the memorable 7th of April, will erect to the august name of your Imperial Majesty a monument of eternal glory, propitious to Brazilians who adore you, and to the liberty of all nations. " ANTONIA PAULINO LIMPID DE ABREU." ANSWER OF THE REGENCY. " The Regency, in the name of the Emperor, &c. &c., Don Pedro the Second, persuaded that the Reforms of the Constitution, concluded by the Chamber of Deputies, compe tently authorized, will answer the expectations of the great Brazilian family, greatly praises the decided zeal, patriotism, and wisdom, with which the Chamber has conducted itself in a mission, of so much importance and difficulty ; and partici pating in the sentiments of the worthy Representatives, pro ceeds to order the promulgation of the law, from which, un doubtedly, depends the union, the felicity, and the future gran deur of the empire. FRANCISCO DE LIMA E SILVA, " JOAO BRAULIO MONIZ." There is no foreign news of any importance. The following from a Morning Contemporary is dated the 16th inst. from Bayonne :,-- " The garrison of Elisondo continues to be blockaded by the Carlists. " Colonel St. Yon, the French Commissary at the head quarters of Rodil, is now laid up with the cholera in Pampeluna. " A letter from St. Jean Pied de Port, dated yesterday, states that considerable alarm had prevailed for the last three days along the frontier, in consequence of a report of the breaking out of the cholera in the vicinity of that place. It was said that two persons, a man and his wife, had died sud denly at Valcarlos, no doubt of cholera, and that this disease had carried off seven persons at Banco, and manifested itself among the soldiers of the battalion in garrison at Baigorry. " General Oraa being informed that Zumalacarreguy had ordered gunpowder and ball to be manufactured at Lodosa, marched in the direction of that town from Pampeluna, on the 7th, with a corps of 5,000 men and 500 horse. Generals Lo renzo and Cordova proceeded on the 11th to Tafalla. The former has published a Bando, or proclamation, offering a bounty of six duros to each Carlist who should submit, and six reals a day to those who would enlist in the Queen's ranks. . _ " The severe measures prescribed by Rodil relative to the Carlists have been considerably mitigated, no doubt by the orders of General Mina. " After the finest autumn ever remembered the bad weather has set in, and it is to be feared that, in a few days, the com munications with the capital of Spain, via Oleron, will be often impeded, if not altogether interrupted. " The cholera is making dreadful ravages among the troops of General Cordova's division. " The Carlists have arrested a number of women in Navarre, Whose husbands are absent from their homes, or suspected of attachment to the liberal cause. " We are still in the dark respecting the affair of Bilboa. Nevertheless, it is not to be supposed that our authorities did not receive ere now positive information on the subject. " It is reported that El Pastor has been appointed Field Marshal, and that his brigade is to be reinforced by a corps of 1,500 men." There was no truth in the statement circulated by some papers of Earl SPENCER'S illness. The state ment that Lord ALTIIORP was sent for was equally unfounded. The accounts received to-day from Northamptonshire represent the Noble Earl to be in very good health. We subjoin a letter addressed by Mr. LITTLETON o the Rev. Nfr. JOSEPH GABBETT, of Kilmallock, in reply to that Gentleman's question, as to whether it was the intention of Government to require the repay ment of the money advanced under the Tithe Million Act ? Mr. LITTLETON states that it is, and most judi ciously so, for we know of no claim beyond that of any other embarrassed class of the community, that the Irish clergy have on the pockets of the nation. They have been accommodated at the public expense, and it is their duty now to pay back the obligation they have incurred. The following is the letter in question :--- THE IRISH TITHE QUESTION. The following letter from Mr. Secretary Littleton, at Dub lin Castle, was yesterday received by the Rev. Joseph Gab_ belt, of Kilmallock, and will be read with vital interest by the clergy in general.—Limerick Chronicle : _ _ " Dublin Castle, Oct. 14 " Sir,--I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 10th inst., requesting to be informed whether it is the intention of Government to require the repayment of the money advanced under the Tithe Million Act ; and, if it is, whether you are to be furnished with returns of the money advanced, and also whether you can recover the first fifth from the landlords whose grounds are held by tenants at will ? In reply, I have to acquaint you, with regard to the re payment of the money advanced, that the Act of Parliament is imperative and must be complied with; and with respect to your being furnished with the returns of the sums so ad vanced, it is presumed those who have received such advance must be aware of the amount, one-fifth of which amount must be paid to the person appointed to receive it on the Ist of November next, which fifth is to be recovered from the person liable to the composition. " I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient humble servant, " E. J. LITTLETON." We observe in the Athencrum of last Saturday that the_ gentlemen of the county of Norfolk " have sen tenced Norwich Castle to be faced I" This castle is described by the reviewer as the " finest Norman castle, perhaps, in existence—larger, and every way grander, than its rival of Falaise—and of an architecture wholly different from the numerous feudal remains along the Rhine." The Vandal propensities of a large portion of the country gentlemen of England is no new topic. Having modernized themselves, Frenchified their daughters, and Russianized their sons, they begin to look around them, and find the appearance of the coun try excessively vulgar, and old-fashioned. It is well known that we are not of the number of those who abhor all change, neither are we admirers of the times in which a few feudal Barons possessed the whole power of the people of England—but we advocate no change for change's sake—neither would we destroy aught which is not positively injurious to society, much less would we raise an unhallowed hand against the uncon scious evidences of our historical records. It is there fore with feelings of disgust and indignation that we learn there are men, holding high rank in this country, who would deface every monument of past times--destroy every trace of the progress of civilization and the arts - among us. Our brave an cestors burst the bonds of baronial slavery, snapped the fetters with which the proud priest encircled their giant limbs, and they left us the old castle, and the deserted convent as memorials of the power of the mind—the energy of truth—over brute force on the one hand, and dishonest craft on the other. We would preserve these relics of the past—these memorials of the greatness of England, during the middle ages. The talk of modern improvement becomes idle and disgusting cant when applied to the renovation, by "facing," of such venerable edifices as Norwich Castle. We know there are persons whose minds never rise above the - contemplation of themselves, and the respectability of stucco, and plaster of Paris. These gentry would convert Westminster Abbey into a large bazaar, reserving Poets' Corner for a receptacle for WOMBWELL'S menagerie. The Elgin marbles they would convert into chimney-tops ; and the collection of minerals, shells, and fossils, which enrich the British Museum, into materials for macadamizing the road between Paddington and the Bank. However the patriotic and enlightened isimbit ants of Norwich have no community of sentiment cotaste with this class of Utilitarians. The same authority on which we state the contemplation of such a specimen of Vandalism by the " county gentlemen," enables us to announce that a public meeting of the citizens has been convened for the purpose of staying the dis c. graceful proceeding. We trust, for the honour of the country, that they will be successful. a V . • 10 it • Nks • - 7 - Zbt Fzula. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23 1 1834. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—Up to this time there have been no foreign arrivals at the Post-office. There are due the following mails :--1 French, 1 Flanders, I Dutch, and 1 Hamburg. The General Steam Navigation Company's vessel from Ostend, and the Batavier steamer, from Rotterdam, both due yesterday, still remain out. COWIE AND SON. Foreign Newspaper Office, Half-past one o'clock. LORD KINTORE'S LARGE BLACK Ox.—This wonderful animal was slaughtered on Tuesday, and the carcass exhibited. It weighed as follows :—Four quarters, 2,1951b5. ; tallow, 2311 b. ; heart and liver, 431 b. ; tongue, 141 b. ; kid ney and collop, 51b. ; hide, 1151 b. ; blood, 841 b. ; entrails, 1261b5. ; head and feet, 641 b. ; total, 2,8771 b. The solid fat upon the sirloin is six inches thick, and that upon the rump nine inches. The meat is of a fine colour and quality, and beautifully "marbled." The roasting parts were sold at 2s. per pound, and the boiling at Is.—Aberdeen Paper. FINE ARTS. NVe have just seen two engravings, one plain, and the other coloured, illustrative of the late Conflagra tion of the Houses of Lords and Commons. Both, considering that they must have been got up in breath less haste, are cleverly done, and convey a very accu rate idea of the magnificence and sublimity of the fire. The artist is Mr. Picken, son, we believe, to the late accomplished novelist of that name. THE ANNUALS. ILLUSTRATIONS TO THE KEEPSAKE. Hodgson, Boys, and Graves. London, 1834. The " Keepsake," if not the best, is at least the most aristocratic of the Annuals, for among its con tributors are always to be found the names of half-a dozen Barons, to say nothing of a stray Earl or two, and full twenty Right Honourables. Of course, with many people, such an " illustrious" array of writers, is quite sufficient guarantee for the intellectual excel lence of the " Keepsake ;" those especially who covet gentility, and have a lust for what is called high so ciety—and it is to the majority of these that the Annuals, with their glitter and their prettiness, and their small verse and still smaller prose, appeal— are exceedingly apt to be overpowered by the tran scendent merits of titled authors. In the opinions of such people, rank makes all the difference in point of intellect. Thus, they would pro nounce a poem written by a Duke, unparalleled in ability—one written by a Lord uncommonly clever— one by a Right Honourable, clever—one by a mere Commoner, cleverish or otherwise, just as might happen to suit the mood of the moment. A titled author has a wonderful advantage over an untitled one. The former may plead—and his plea is generally success ful—the privilege of the Peerage, in mitigation or ex emption of criticism ; the latter must submit to its blackest frowns, and most withering sneers. We look, it is vain to deny it, with an eye of favour on the one ; with the other, we are strongly tempted to be over candid and dictatorial. The reason, we take it, is this. We may possibly one clay be authors ourselves ; therefore it is expedient to sweep a rival from our path, or, at any rate, to prevent him get ting so far ahead as to monopolize public favour ; but we are never likely to be Lords, nor are Lords ever likely to do us any serious injury in the way of con tinuous literary competition ; they have so many pleasures to absorb their attention, that the odds are, they will never be anything more than occasional scribblers ; in their case, therefore, we have nothing to fear from rivalry, and when to this is added the dazzle of the coronet, who can wonder that the titled author is treated with more favour than the un titled one ? Pope has well described this feeling, where he says— " What woful stuff this madrigal would be In some poor, half-starved sonnetteer or me ! But let a Lord once own the happy lines, How the style brightens ! how the wit refines ; Before his sacred name flies every fault, And each exalted stanza teems with thought." But to come to the subject before us. The Illustra tions to this year's " Keepsake" are seventeen in num ber, the majority of which are engraved by Heath—an artist of great celebrity in his day, but whose star is now a little on the wane. The " Viscountess Beres ford," which has been engraved from the well-known painting of Sir Thomas Lawrence, is, so far as the countenance is concerned, skilfully and lightly touched ; the ringlets, too, have a graceful, easy wave, in perfect keeping with nature ; nor is the position in which the figure is placed, wanting in ease and ele gance ; but the dress is stiff and scratchy, and the folds of the turban look just as if they were fashioned out of buckram. In the " Discovery," by Rolls, the engraver has wholly failed to give effect to his most prominent object—the female figure who has just fainted in the arms of, no doubt, her lover. The poor lady, instead of looking interesting, as all ladies in such a condition do, or are generally thought to do, looks quite the reverse, inspiring sentiments rather of ridicule than pity. The whole figure is huddled up into a confused mass, and the arms, instead of hanging loose and flaccid by the side, are half drawn up, as if under the influence of a slight paralysis . Add to this, the whole engraving, to use a technical phrase, has a sooty appearance. " The Spirit of the I Wye" abounds in picturesque effects. In front stands the spectre figure guiding her boat along—and a more finely rounded, undulating outline than this form pre sents, or one more worthy to vie with Titian's Ariadne we have not lately met with—while the back-ground is made up of the still, majestic ruins of Tintern Ab bey, through whose ivied windows streams in the pale moon-shine. The painting from which this engraving has been executed, is by Stephanoff, and judging from the poetic spirit which lie has infused into his subject, we should say it was one of his best. " Lord Surrey and the Fair Geraldine" is a more carefully finished engraving than any we have seen in this year's Annuals. The richness and variety of its details— the singular depth of perspective that it exhibits— and, above all, the grandeur and harmony of its archi tecture, remind us strongly of Martin in his best mo ments ; while the light thrown in by the moonlight on the face of the fair Geraldine, who is alone in her bed-chamber perusing some favourite work, completes the charm of the picture. We question not but this will be the most admired engraving in the " Keepsake." THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Not only in the City, but at various parts of the town, it was currently reported that 'Windsor Castle was on fire at three o'clock this morning, which gained credit for some time. On an inquiry at the coach-offices, it was found to be a public-house, called the Windsor Castle, which was on fire. Thus ended the hoax. THE FUNDS. Owing to the boisterous weather which prevailed during yesterday, we are deprived of arrivals this morning. Four foreign mails are now due, with the Express from Paris, which has greatly disappointed the speculators in the Spanish Stocks, as they expected some information from Madrid, in consequence of which there is great dullness in the market, with little or nothing doing. Spanish Stock opened at 53 to 534 ; Portuguese, 824 to 83k. In the Consol Market they are amusing themselves like school-boys knocking off hats. Consols are 91 to k for the account. We do not hear as yet that the King o. Holland's speech has arrived, but it is hourly looked for. HALF-PAST ONE. We still continue without any arrivals of foreign mails or expresses from Paris to the present time, which causes a great dearth of news in the City. The foreign market as well as the British has been very inactive during the morning, and scarce six bargains have been done in the former market. The speculators are shy of acting, until they ascertain the price of Spanish from Paris, as well as accounts from Madrid. Spanish, .53i ; Portuguese, 83 to 834 Consols for Account, 91 to 91i. THREE 0' CLOCK. Consols for the Account, 91 to 91-,i. INCENDIARISIII.--Ne regret to state that a de structive fire broke out on Sunday morning on a farm situated between Southborough and Tunbridge town, which it is believed was lighted by the vile hand of the incendiary, as an attempt was made about a fortnight ago to fire the same pro perty, which was discovered in time to prevent a conflagration. The property destroyed consists of a barn containing an im mense quantity of corn, cow-lodges, stables, and a stack of fine meadow hay. The servant discovered smoke issuing from the barn, and on opening the doors the flames burst forth, the whole interior being in a blaze. Assistance was rendered immediately, but the buildings communicating with each other no exertions could save them. A Carlisle paper says it is in contemplation to take down one of the most interesting portions of Carlisle Castle, the tower in which were the apartments occupied by the unfor tunate Mary Queen of Scots when a prisoner there. There is a seri ous ren t i n t h e wa ll s , w hi c h ren d ers t h e remova l necessary. MIDDLESEX GENERAL SESSIONS. DAY.) (Before Mr. Ronn, Esq., Chairman.) This day th e Middl esex Magistrates me t, when Mr. ALLEN, the Deputy-clerk of the peace minutes of the last meeting, which was confirmed iingi The Co ur t th en came t o the decision resnoli number o f S ess i ons f or t h e ensu i n g year, UP" whic discussion took place. i rd J Sir PETER LAUR IE hoped that the que stion o i l withdraw n un til t h e Central Criminal Co urt Bill ca o il on the Ist November next. Acilln‘purnozcA:s was for the old systeni los o f CHAIRMAN thought that speedy justicelii , • 00 m otto g S ll‘b i lei r irse.t JOHN SCOTT LIELIB would withdraw nis the Criminal Bill came into operation. • 11 4 Mr. ORM E cou ld not agree to the motion be lg drawn. be come Sir JOHN G IBBONS th oug ht the Bench bad - come to any conclusion at present. in the dis Mr. TUPPS said, at present the Court was - upon the subject. After several other Magistras expressed their o i l the CHAIRMAN put the question as to whether t he 0 0 1 of sessions s h ou ld b e 12 or 8, when, on a divi sion, appeared.— • 11 , For 12 Sessions, 14— aga i ns t it, 2.—AleitY' GUILDHALL.-(THIS DAIS•) (Before Sir JOHN KEY, Bart . ) /lA" ' THE INHABITANTS OF FLEET - STREET V. SR' CAI ' L t , BROKER AND THE 13ISHOF. OSP' Mr. Carfile appeared thi s morning at tbe • th e answer a summons w hi c h h a d been procur ed wi t o f flee t. sent of Mr. Carlile, by cer t a i n o f the inhabi taets street, for a nuisan ce , h av i ng ex hibited in his ° er a bist i several placards, an d t wo e ffigi es , r eprese a t i tosedj and a broker, by w hi c h l arge crowds Werfetie t r " c e congregate together, to the annoyance neighbourhood. Mr. Hill, th e s il versm i t h, an d next doornejl,o Carlile, stat e d th a t h e h a d great ca use t o making that statement. He begged M s .Carli,le . l ii r ri th that he did so, not in consequence of any P° l ' l 7,:visg oe meeting that took place at the House, those 1 • t, so le; 4 given any annoyance to himself or family' " 1.1 0 - ssieg. 9l ;ti account of the figures exposed in the AO bibio crowds to asse m bl e . If th e l aw allowed the el st oo ke o such figures ( w hi c h h e h ope d i t did n ot) heg l e cre wd t ki his mind to shut up his shop altogether. ,'" to e t Tuesday l as t was so great , t h at h e was oblige,'" fr°,. A ! shutters o f hi s s h op s h ut up. He wished CO 01. ' I bibitro worthy Magistr a t e , w h e th er the law allowed such opal Sir JOHN KEY said it depended upon the Ore which the exhibition was male. (la y Icts Mr. Hill said that the frame of the Wi n— .41 out, and the figures fi xe d th ere i n . obt e y Mr. Carlile admitt e d th a t suc h was the cal ec tin% t that it was no t, h owever, a pro jection passers by. ga le ° gy p Sir JOHN KEY observed, that if Mr. Carl any other person pl ace d fi gures i n suc h a s'isdic' el cause an obstruction, they would be liable to be the parish authorities. se j c P l lO Mr. Carlile said that since the Lord mi a ": r ol' i d Butterworth had called upon him he ha" I ,, fli sbe e ; ',"l/ figures, upon the express understanding the,!:;'ogr, s t , summoned to that office , for the purpose 01 "" r1 e termined whether he had ' the right to W ee tb dod or not. e baddt Mr. BUTTE RWORTH a d m i tte d t h at Mr. Cerbete place them t elt b 9 p 4 most ser i ous i nconven i ence would be c ' e t be? neighbourho o d, an d t h e pu bli c pe ace e 'rthe • 0 4/ Th e would probably be di s t ur b e d. exposure 0 . but `t might afford great amu semen t t o passethe b a great annoyance to the inhabitants. t S f r ;oo 4 Sir JOHN KEY cou ld no t conceive what obje_,,,b consenting to the case lisle had in view i n co • bea's esf before him. i r es t Mr. Carlisle said th a t th e presen t was in eoftel'iy tinued case. In January last, while he was °et tee. 00 seizure was made on hi s prem i ses f or Churehros vi ot, young man who was a tt en di ng in his sh o p t he .60 from thence to th e C ompter , locked up for o A V and the next morning, on being brought 1 1 ter was fined 5/. This made him (Mr. Ca r " to e pP to try whether he had not the righ t ! pl pO t the figures, which in the first instance had ' 4- th e th e in his absence, and he determined, thereforei;coatisi seizure that was made to have them again „ P woj e ,;o oc window. The decision of Mr. Alderman sPL his young man Si., he contended, was against:b e ef: o letter of the statute. The question was, Ifr s -t a e nee w , tote referred to any projection that vcbec'auli P er o l o - ty: passers by, or whether the mere collecting stitutes a nuisance ? The latter, he coil' SOd eP7 were nuisance ; and if it was , th e crowd th e °P- e 9/ ' not him. ref Mr. HILL—But yo u are th e cause of the lecting. esloce Mr. Carlile—No, the church rates are of a D o et °. 13 1 (Laughter.)—l ac k n o w l e d ge th e com mittal t te l, e whatever. The la w , it i s t rue , h as been ' 404. t me, but to my injury. (Laughter.) 01 Sir J. KEY said h e did no t t hi n k, in the that Mr. Carlile w as fi na bl e ; w h a t might " - t ll e "' circumstances of the othe r i ns t ance he did 0°- was he called upon to inquire. e 14r " A parishioner stat e d, th a t i n th e fi r st inst sec b,", Tile i " had the figures suspend e d' p 0e „ . e "ste ° Mr. Carlile would d e f en d thuean a doptiOnof tr at ", be the statute. In what h e h a d d one be had not 'l;iibell'osi' by any disposition to do an injury to his fe l ;) had proceeded upon public grounds. . I h c iA sances, however, w hi c h h e w i s h e d t o a bate. -- - k Mr. Butterworth—Wh a t nu i sances ? Mr. Carlisle—Why the church-rate is hi" t itg , d and I seek f or th e a b o liti on o f the lalVi r have 61 th e spect. It is f or th a t, an d t h at a l one , that I"" . re f t ise l t bo the course I am now pursuing. I have nev er nt ion payment of any o th er ra t es , w ith the w ee p po church-rate. ;ties site i Mr. Butter wo rth sa id th e P ar i s h atith e „ r ' s vindictive fe e li ngs aga i ns t M r . C ar lisle ; -11 0,0 was the removal of the nuisance. relr e Sir J. KEY s a id, th a t as th e case was ne r, vi a rlit e ' s ty : to him, he did not feel auth or i se d t o fine Id r. the Mr. Carlile said th a t h e s h ou ld esPeekbo 01,0013 authorities t - ) satisfy the young man fi d h e : his employ for being imprisoned falsely, al as fitt e- je' P , also expect them to return the Si. which he_r nt to t s tt° Stu J. KEY said, that if he had a comPler n Aga"' consequence of that, he should bring an ac t' e " je t tile parish authorities for false imprisonment• a to Mr. Carlisle said that he was determined 11- r`: subject rest. le 0:3 or Mr. Butterworth hoped that Mr. C arlin se ta _ 44 0 1 1 move the evil, and th a t a ll ma tt ess would he e d s o I . '" cably between th em . H e was g l a d they p art ffiee r . terms. rish ° ss s Mr. Carlisle had no towards the p b a l . ;Ola f 0 0 1 but would assure them that although the mad e ;110 bob' ad , 0 5t, 1 . 1 . 0 0 came before the Magistrate, was terrnine ge - hear further upon the subject from biol. h i s a bsen ce a t he ever, say that th e aut h or i t i es h a d watched town to put in th e i r di s t resses . „ f Carl ile After some further observations, 01.1. '„d friendslf parish officers left the office apparently g °- —1 hs'.f BERKHANIPST a last night, at n c:o the ao7f Kin's r G r i :n t s t t e ao n tn d e l 3o loi , fg hd O ti fssu c t li distinguished i l s. - -- i se: -- v - dd e fashionat ) sAp ti t i r hoen : annum r : Div; with their a the attendance rows visitors we n itwas steward on the occasion, and w e " bad P i . li gik a mosthEo sAdt rt's t r and Ch I.waltzes were much:admired. nnwaggesrl o worth chioness of oticed with large parties th unriv A al rm led eix.cellence. tislBlb,eit:l:bs:sh;cilfuleil ter ' Salisbury,Countess of DridgeWa ' . A i Clarendon, & e. &c. V. I HASTINGS,'OO', I ' ir OCT. 19.—0 n Friday oven' r ) f eleven '' o 1). o clock, a tremendous • h heavy ga l e from S. W. y sea, with a yo t or White R , carried aw several small cottages the 'dell Rock • also ofthe • belonging to ~ Rock Brewer part y and great fears were entertained fo l os of the brewery '' wery itself, along with a new inn adjoining, a 2, erected. The 17thfai Narrateur de la Meuse of Bar of the - 1 , re s m s relates, that few at Villers-aux- Vents, near Bar-le -Due, had a di s pute fs 'or 0 son, a young man 25 years of ages who accused his 0 ob e ig having less affection for him than or his other childre 'coo. the father saying, " Well, I will at once settle all se a e; r i with you," went into his shop, returned with a load e c jiit, and firing, laid his son dead at his feet. Aubrey iron" 0 tP i fled, but was, about two in the morning, discovered °he; ground near a hedge in his own garden, bathed jaw Iry having made an incision in his throat with a knife. .;`' e Or, not dead, and in the course of the day was carried to . ta be io pital at Bar-le-Duc, but there are little hopes of his life saved. 0 0 1( rile e The farmers in the neighbourhood of • , --e t. Oh felt themselves compelled, from the low-price of wli e , 9 fro° week before last, to reduce the wages of their laboureV," 0 ts' nine to six shillings per week, in consequence o f whie' e tii multuous assemblage of nearly three hundred m et tog a ce• and proceeded to acts of violence and a breach of theif;or Nine of the ringleaders were seized and taken before t'i . , w ere gistrates on Wednesday week at Tewkesbury. Th e .' .%see o 0 • found guilty ; but previous to their being removed a vo tli the room in which the magistrates were sitting iNas Ole t o rioters, who succeeded in rescuing the confederates 'hoe " durance vile." We understand that search warrants a ill been issued against the ringleaders, who will b e lodg es: 6. Worcester gaol as soon as they can be secured..---61°1‘e shire Chronicle. Ti play volui tniii sket e Impo: the s , th e n In thi fret v give t Dublin good.