The Sun. — London, England, 1834-11-18 00:00:00

ill IP ~~' ~- , -"'-~ ~. . Y~~ 4e, ,at work to rouse the popular Y 4 In &weir of the Whigs. How far it eee ~:tePit is not for us to predict, but we to )lave not much faith in the efficacy of el a people upon whose expectations the have thrown so ,much cold water. Cerrespondent informs us that there is great -,eeerie;e4 in the City also, though the Funds do not eeen* lave been much affected by it. In fact, we 'e_eieve the excitement to be rather that of curiosity than of any stronger passion. Any change of Admi nistration in such a country as this, can never be a matter of indifference. Even the Whigs, with all their inconsistency, cannot go out of office without creating a sensation, such as it is.—Morning Herald. The worst fears of some of the friends of the peo ple, and the best hopes of others, who see somewhat farther into futurity, are realized. The Duke of Wellington is one of his Majesty's principal Secreta ries of State, and has kissed hands upon his appoint ment The remainder of the story need scarcely be told. He brings along with him the same military staff which four years ago extended from Somerset- Louse to the Horse Guards, and the same empty and unreforming brains which declared to the people that they should have no reform in their representation. Sir George Murray is to be Colonial Secretary (as before), Sir Henry Hardinge, Secretaryat War—Goulburn,the Chancellor of the - Exchequer—Sir Charles Manners Sutton to have a Peerage and a place—the Earl of Ross lyn, to be Master of the Ordnance—Earl Jersey, to be Loid Chamberlain—and Lord Cowley and Lord Mary borough to have places most suited for their respective capacities. Who is to be Lord Chancellor remains to be seen. Lord Lyndhurst is said, for very substantial reasons, to have declined the office, and Sugden has in consequence been mentioned ; but 'with what chance of success, having no sufficient access to Tory secrets, we have no means of informing our readers. Of one thing, however, we are certain, and that is, that in the event of his elevation, he will find the woolsack a warn: seat. The office of Secretary for Foreign Affairs will, we believe, be filled by the Duke of Wellington him self—that for the Home Department waits the acceptance of Peel, though, if we are not mis taken, he is too good a judge of the signs of the times to have anything to do with it. Thus the whole matter is arranged—the Whig Ministry kicked out with cause—without notice of exe cution—without warning, and for no reason that any human being can discover ;—and an iron bound, anti-reform—anti-popular—and conservative of abuse administration manufactured—(No —it was manufactured before) installed in their places I There is no mistake in this, and there can be no mistake either as to the motive or to the intention. But it is trifling with our readers to talk about an Administra tion which the people of England, if they arc true to themselves, will blow to atoms in less than three months. A Tory Government, and a House of Com mons pledged two-thirds deep against Toryism in any shape, or in any way ! It is the dream o 'a madman —one of the many wonders which mark the coming storm—and a thing only to be forgiven on the ground of the most profound ignorance of the state of public feeling and of the public wants. A Tory Govern ment pledged against all reform, and the Govern ment which it has superseded condemned by its friends for not having been sufficiently reforming f Verily we live in strange times—and the march of intellect has been slow indeed, as well as the spirit of the age dull, if the people of England have not sense enough to discriminate be tween their friends and their enemies--between men who are honest, though perhaps too weak and con ciliating, and those who are destitute of every princi ple but that of governing and domineering over their fellow subjects. But we have not mistaken the people of England—ethey are up and doing—and our business is not to rouse them to a sense of their duties, but to controul, to regulate, and to direct it. The meetings already held are proofs enough that the people sympa thize with us, or rather that we sympathize with them, and that combined exertion is only necessary in order to accomplish what all sincere Reformers desire to see fulfilled. Well, but what is to be done ? Our answer is, « nothing unconstitutionally." Whatever may have been the errors of the Whigs, they did that, during their time of office, of which the country ought ever to entertain the most grateful recollection—they gave us the Reform Act, and of its lever power we have only to avail ourselves, in order to overthrow the anti- Reforming Administration which has been formed— to undeceive his Majesty, who, we have no doubt, has been misled with regard to the state of public opinion —and to compel the dismissal of any Cabinet not accordant, both in principle and . practice, with the decided wishes of the people. It is not now, as it was previous to the passing of the Reform Act. The people had then no power —now, although they have not all to which they are entitled, they have enough to enable them to oust any Government, of whose intentions and principles they do not approve. The mode of procedure is as simple as it is constitutional. Let the people meet, and let them by their peti tions declare to the King the opinion which they entertain of his present advisers—and should their voice not be listened to, let them meet again, and call upon their representatives to pledge themselves against the grant of any supplies. If the representa tive be the representative of the people, he can have no objection to this course—if he be not, he will avoid the pledge, and, in that case, he should be called upon to resign. This is the only thing that is to be done, and the only thing that is necessary to be done. As we have already hinted, the times have greatly altered since the passing of the Reform Bill. Violence, at all times to be deprecated, is now out of the ques tion. It would be nothing short of treason to the cause of Reform. It would destroy it, and is there fore courted by the Tories. Union, firmness, determi nation, and constitutional proceedings, are the only and the successful requisites ; but we must have these qualities in perfection, in order to combat with suc cess the hydra of revolution, which now rears its ghastly and terrible features among , us. And be it remembered, that it is for no common stake that we are playing—that the point to be solved is slot whe ther we shall have this Ministry or tha •Ministry— but whether we shall have good or bad government — whether the principle of evil or the principle of good shall triumph—whether the people of England shall have practical, useful, and necessary reforms, or whether they will allow themselves to be trampled upon by a greedy and deceitful faction, which in its halcyon days gave the people of England the benefit of 800 millions of debt-30 millions of annual taxes—and which has seized the reins of power for no other reason but that of adding to, and girding more firmly the burthen upon their backs. Success to the trick, if the people of England are base enough to submit to it. To conclude, we are now arrived at a great and most momentous crisis ; and truly doth it rejoice us to find, from every account that has hitherto reached us, that the people are of one mind—that the reformers are uniting and united—that all minor shades of difference of opinion are disappear ing—and that they are about to make a resolute stand in favour of their rights and privileges. Let them but act in accordance with this spirit, and the Tories, as well as mis-government, will henceforth cease to be known. We wait but in a patient spirit for the news from Newcastle, Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow, and Edinburgh.—Morning Advertiser. We beg to point the special attention of our readers to the observations of the Lord Chancellor yesterday in his Court, respecting his resignation, and the attack made upon him by Sir Charles Wetherell. The Chancellor has been true in every respect to himself and to his colleagues. He resigns the seals, and thus gives the lie to his calumniators, as well as dashes to the ground the only cup , of hope which the Tories had held to th e i r li ps . He is, as he always has been, for the people of England. Their cause is his cause, and to his powerful and energetic care, next to that of the pe o pl e of England, we confidently confide it.— Morning Advertiser. Some of our Contemporaries are assuming wonder ful credit for sagacity in divining the probable allot ment of offices under th e new Administration. We trust that the public will not be deceived by any hy pothesis, however ingenious ; by any assertions, how ever audacious. At all events, we cannot compete with Our rivals in the richness of invention which they THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1834. foundation ; inasmuch as, if the Duke of Wellington had been prepared with a list of colleagues, he needed not to wait for Sir Robert Peel, or to have received (pro tempore) into his own hands the Seals of the three Secretaries of State. In point of fact no appointment has taken piece, except that of the Duke of Welling ton, who has kissed hands as First Lord of the Trea sury, and has been sworn in as Secretary for the Home Dapartment. His Grace also holds the seals of the Foreign and Colonial Departments, and will, it is un derstood, conduct the Government by means of several Under-Secretaries till the arrival in England of Sir Robert Peel. The Great Seal will also be held tem porarily by Lord Lyndhurst with his office of Chief Baron, till the final arrangements which are to be made in concert with the Right Hon. Baronet. It is under stood that the sharp practice, to which we referred yesterday, of calling for the immediate surrender of the various seals of office did not proceed from any in tentional discourtesy, but from a wish to prevent any repetition of the species of declarations put forth on a former occasion by some individuals of the then retir ing Cabinet, that " they had not resigned ;" that " they at least were still ready to serve the King ;" and other absurd puerilities of- a similar stamp.—Times. help it ; that he should be done in about another hour, as be had not many more to burn, and he would see everything was safe ; and that Mrs. Wright need not put herself out of the way about it. Neither Cross nor Reynolds recollect anything of the two first messages. Cross says that about eleven o'clock in the morning he was in the body of the House of Lords ; that he got in by knocking at Mrs. Wright's door, which she opened to him ; that he went to see whether there was any particular heat. Cross states Mrs. Wright had not sent for him ; that he asked her to let him go in, just to see how the flues were, as he was burning some tallies. She said she could smell the wood burning. He said yes, that they were burning wood instead of coal in the flues. He said there was no danger, or something Of that kind. Mrs. Wright wanted to know why he was burning the wood there, and he said it was by Mr. Weobley's orders. Cross further stated that he looked at the thermometer, and that that was partly the reason why he went there ; that he went and put his hand to the place over the flues to see whether all was safe ; that Le did not find it particuularly hot ; did not ga to the House of Lords a second time to see if all was safe ; did not see there was any occasion to go at all. It must be observed, however, that the state and appear ance of the House of Lords during the whole of Thursday were such as to create uneasiness in the mind of Mrs. Wright, and later in the day, and up to the time of her locking up the House, might have caused the most serious alarm. Mr. John Snell, a witness examined, says that about four o'clock be went with another Gentleman to see the House of-Lords, which was shown to Min by Mrs. Wright. He says that when he went into the House he observed what a quantity of smoke there was. She said " Yes, the work men are below." They remained about a quarter of an hour looking at the House and places adjoining, and were about to leave the House when, as Mr. Snell says, his notice was drawn to the Usher of the Black Rod's box ; that he went over to it and adds, " When I got very near to the box the heat was so great I said ' Bless me, how warm it is here ;' I felt it through my boots." Mr. Snell farther states that he put his fingers down to the floor, and held them there for about a quarter of a minute, and said, " I should almost be afraid this would take fire." " Oh, no," said Mrs. Wright, "it is a stone floor." That it was observed by the Gentleman who accompanied Mr. Snell, a Mr. Shuter, who was leaning over the box, that there was a suffocating heat ; that Mrs. Wright said " Oh, the workmen are below burning the Exchequer tallies, and I have known when the House was sitting that people who have stood at this spot have fainted." " And by her mak ing this remark," says Mr. Snell, " my observation was taken off altogether from it." H e says he was much grieved that thre was so much smoke in the House that he could not see the tapestry, and that he went and put his hand up to convince himself that it was tapestry ; that he could not see the Throne from the Bar. It appears, as already stated, that Mrs. Wright herself complaii.ed at an early hour of the smell of burning, and that she sent for Cross, as she relates, at half-past one. She says she found the House much worse, and sent for him again ; and once more, for the last time, about four o'clock, when the House was in the state just described ; that sho sent for Jukes, the foreman of the matters employed at the House of Lords, who has been examined, and that he was in the House of Lords on the Thursday last about four o'clock, and that he pulled up the bump (a sort of floor cloth), which was upon the stone against Black Rod's box ; that the bump was very hot ; he felt it through his shoes ; could not hold his hand upon the bump ; did not feel the stone ; that he told Mrs. Wright it was rather dangerous, and she said " Yes it was, and that she had sent to Mr. Weobley's men in the course of the day several times, and they had not attended to it ; and she further said she would write off to the Board of Works." Cannot tell whether she did se or not ; that the bump was wet under neath, or as it is called .sweating ; this was confined to the place near the flue. Mrs. Wright says that Jukes having been sent for she said to him, " Jukes, I do not like the appearance of the House, it is very hot below the Bar." She says that Jukes ripped up the bump, and that she put her hand upon it, and was obliged to take her hand away ; this was in Black Rod's box, just where the flue is. Mr. Jukes said, "It is very hot, for this bump is quite in a sweat." I said, " Then go again to Cross, for I feel very uneasy, they will set the place on fire." Cross then sent me word he should be down in an hour, and all was right ; but the boy David Reynolds said " The House is very hot, for it is five de grees higher than in the beginning of the day ; it was fifty five, it is now sixty." " I sent him to the men," says Mrs. Wright, " but they would go on with it." At five o'clock Mrs. 'Wright locked up the House in the state in which it has been described, and at six o'clock it was on fire. Mrs. Wright states distinctly that she never made any representation or communication whatever of any kind, or in any way, to any of the offices or public departments. It appears that the flue runs across the angle of the Black Rod's seat ; it further appears thut the flue had not been swept since the beginning of the last Session of Par liament, being the usual time of sweeping it. The circumstances above detailed, the heat and smell perceived in the morning, and the gathering smoke accu mulated in the House of Lords at four; the state of that part of the House near the Black Rod's seat as spoken to by the witnesses ; the situation of the furnaces and flue in reference to that place, and the manner in which the flames were seen bursting out near the Black Rod's seat ; all clearly prove the burning of the tallies, or the manner in which they were burned, to have been the cause of the .calamitous event which has happened. The opinion of Sir Robert Smirk, and others, inclu ding Mr. Weobley, whose admission is much to his credit, supports that conclusion, in which we unanimously concur. It is to be lamented that the plan of burning the tallies in the Exchequer-yard, which was originally proposed by Mr. Phipps himself, and agreed to by Mr. Milne, was ever departed from, and that an experiment so full of hazard as that which was resorted to was ever proposed by Mr. Weobley, or agreed to by Mr. Phipps, and that too without the assent of, or any communication with, Mr. Milne, the superior officer. It is to be observed that wooden tallies had ceased to be used in the Exchequer since the 10th of October, 1826, when that mode of accounting was abo lished on the surrender of the patent of Lord Guilford and Mr. Burgoyne. Except on one occasion, about twenty years ago, when they were burned in Tothill fields, the tallies were never, it appears, destroyed other wise than by being used (after being broken up) by the servants of the office as firewood from time to time, .as it was required. It is strange that the alteration of the plan of burning was agreed to, and with the utmost readiness, by Mr. Phipps, although, by his own account, he was not put in possession by Mr. Weobley of the objection to the burning in the Exchequer-yard. We are, however, inclined to be lieve the statement of Mr. Weobley, that the objection was made by him on the Tuesday, and that that circumstance, although now forgotten by him, and the entire confidence which Mr. Phipps seems to have placed in the care and prudence of Mr. Weobley, may have induct d him to con sent so readily on the Wednesday to alter the plan for destroying the tallies. It is unfortunate that Mr. Weobley did not more effec tually superintend the burning of the tallies, and see that his orders to burn with caution were carried into effect. He was there only three times during the ten hours of burning ; and he does not appear to have been there at all after three o'clock ; subsequently to which hour the symp toms of danger arising from the operation threatened and increased until the event took place. This can only be accounted for from his having entire confidence in the safety of the operation ; the danger of which never appears to have struck his mind at all, although he directed, as a mea sure of precaution, the slow burning. The same confidence and security appear to have been felt by the men at the furnaces, whom, under all the circum stances of the case, as they have been brought before us, we acquit of all guilty design, although justly chargeable with gross neglect, disobedience of orders, and utter disre gard of all warnings. It is unaccountable that Mrs. Wright, when she felt alarmed, as she states herself to have been, was not led by such manifest indications of danger to make immediate re presentation in the proper quarter. We think it right that we should here advert to the evi dence of Mr. Cooper, and of the other witnesses who were examined in reference to his testimony. Information having reached us that Mr. Cooper, a r:- spectable tradesman in London, and a partner of the firm of Hall and Cooper, iron-founders of Drury-lane, was ready to give evidence that he had heard of the fire at Dudley within a few hours after its breaking out, we thought pro per to direct that he should attend for the purpose of being examined, and he was examined accordingly on Monday, Oct. 20. He stated that he left London by a coach to Birmingham, for the purpose of proceeding to Dudley on Thursday morning, Oct. 16 ; that he arrived at Birming ham about a quarter past seven in the evening, and set out for Dudley about eight by another coach (the Tallyho), and arrived at Dudley at ten minutes before ten at night ; that he stopped at the Bush Inn, in that town, and went into the commercial travellers room, as he was accustomed to do, having used the house frequently ; that there were four other persons in the room, whom he did not know ; that they appeared to be respectable men (com mercial travellers) ; none of them had come with him from Birmingham ; that he (Mr. Cooper) called for tea, and while he was drinking it one of the travellers, who had his slippers on, went out to the door, and, having returned, after two minutes' absence, said, " I have just heard that the House of Lords is burnt down, occasioned by some carpen ters being careless with the shavings ;" that one of the other Gentlemen said, " Is it in the paper ?" He said, " No, it Cannot have got into the paper." The other said, " How did you hear it ?" The person who had, brought the intel ligence said he had heard it from a person who had come by the coach. Mr. Cooper being asked if the others heard this says that one of them did not, he was asleep ; the ethers did ; that there was nothing more said about it, and that he went to bed ; that he heard' nothing more on the subject either that night or in the morning. He thinks he could recognise the person who asked the question, but not the one wo brought the information ; that he left the Gentleman who had brought the information in the travel lers' room when he went to bed. In a subsequent exami nation Mr. Cooper says that he. did not bear any coach stop at the door. Next morning he states that he break fasted in the same room and at the same table where he had drunk tea the night before ; that he saw two. of the same Gentlemen in the room whom.he had seen the night before, but not the Gentleman who had brought in the intelligence of the fire. He says that one of the Gentlemen breakfasted with him. Upon his third examination, on the 29th of October, Mr. Cooper recognized a witness produced (Mr. Riddle) as one of the persons whom he saw in the travellers' room at the Bush on the Thursday night, but says that he was not the person who went out and returned, and said he had heard of the fire ; did not notice what sort of a gentleman it was that so went out and returned—whether be was of a fair or dark complexion, tall or short, or middle-sized ; whether he had a black handkerchief or a white one, or what was his dress ; but noticed that he had slippers on. He thinks that the gentleman (Mr. Riddle) was present in the room on the Thursday evening when the news of the fire was brought in, but he is not positive. Mr. Cooper further states that he left Dudley at 8 o'clock in the morning, or a few minutes after, and went to the But terfly and to the Netherton Iron Works, in the neighbour hood of Dudley ; returned to Dudley about eleven o'clock, paid his bill, and left Dudley about a quarter past eleven ; he thinks the mail-coach had arrived, for he saw the even ing paper on the table unopened ; the wrapper appeared to have been slipped off, but the paper was unopened ; he took took it up, and knowing that he had a good deal of business, he put it down again and did not read it ; he left Dudley in a gig, and went to Bilston and Wednesbury, where he was taken up by the Union Shrewsbury coach about half past two in the afternoon, and arrived at Birmingham about three ; he remained there till four, and was in the coffee room before starting, but not a word passed there on the subject of the fire. Mr. Cooper says be can account for this as the passengers were all from Shrewsbury, none of them from London ; states that at four o'clock he left Bir mingham for London by the same coach (the Shrewsbury Union coach), of which Thomas Stuckbury, a witness who has been examined, was the guard ; he states that neither at Dudley on the Friday, or at the iron works in the neigh bourhood, or at Bilston, or at Wednesbury, or at Birming ham, did he hear any thing of the fire, nor did he himself mention the subject to any one. The coach passed through Oxford, where the witness says he had heard the first intel ligence of the fire as it had actually taken place. He heard of it from the waiter at the Roebuck on Friday night. He told the waiter that he had beard of it the night before at Dudley. The waiter said, " Indeed! How could that have been ?" I said, "I am surprised myself, for I did not see bow it could come down." He told me the fire had broken out at seven in the evening. I told him I had heard of it at ten. On his second examination Mr. Cooper says, that upon this occasion an observation arose from himself (witness), that if it had broken out at seven o'clock it must have been the work of an incendiary, for he had heard of it at ten. On being reminded that he had omitted that when he was first examined, he acknowledged that he bad. -In the same examination he states, that when he said to the waiter that it must be the work of an incendiary, for he had heard of it in three hours, the waiter was going out of the room. He says he aftervords mentioned the circumstance of his having on Thursday evening heard of the fire at Dudley ; that he mentioned it during the night of Friday to the pas sengers who were with him on the top of the coach, and that one of the gentlemen mentioned it to the guard, who said he did not believe it. Witness said it was a fact, and that he had been informed of it on the Thursday night at Dudley ; is positive that he told the guard, or the person near him, that it was at Dudley, and not at Birmingham, that he at first heard of the fire. He says that he had no con versation with the guard or any of the passengers in coming frm Oxford to London as to the extraordinary quick time within which the news had arrived. Mr. Cooper, on his first examination, states that he ar rived in London on Saturday morning the 18th of October, at seven o'clock ; that he saw his partner Mr. Hall first, but did not mention it to him, being very tired, and wanting a little rest, nor did he mention it to Mr. Barron when he saw him on the Saturday at two o'clock ; says that he first mentioned the circumstance of his having heard of the fire at Dudley to a medical gentleman of the name of Jones, who was attending his family ; this was about two o'clock on the Saturday afternoon. States that Mr. Jones called upon him on the Sunday, and said he thought he (Mr. Cooper) was wrong in -not cownnuninating- what he had heard. On his second examination Mr. Cooper states that in his former examination he was incorrect in saying that he had first communicated what he had heard at Dudley to Mr. Jones. It was to his partner that he first communicated it. Not the first time he saw him, but afterwards. The above we believe to be a correct statement of every thing that is material in the evidence given by Mr. Cooper, in the three several occasions on which he was examined before us. Three witnesses were examined in reference to that part of Mr. Cooper's testimony which embraces the evening of Thursday and the morning of Friday, the 16th and 17th of October. One of them, named Sarah Taylor, waiter at the Bush Inn at Dudley, sais that she attended the commercial travellers' room on both occasions. She is well acquainted with Mr. Cooper ; served him with tea in the travellers' room on the evening alluded to ; states that when Mr. Cooper was there there were two other gentlemen (com mercial travellers) in the room ; she was there a consider able time out and in ; heard them talking too-ether ; there was no conversation about the fire when she was there ; did not see any person come in and give any information to them ; did not hear of the fire that night from them, or anybody else ; she heard first of the fire on Friday morn ing, about eleven o'clock ; she states that the London mail had arrived about nine o'clock. Mr. Cooper slept at the Bush, and came down in the morning about eight o'clock, and bad his breakfast in the same room in which he had his tea in the evening before, and at the same table ; two of the same gentlemen who had been there on the night before were in the room with Mr. Cooper at that time ; that at about eleven o'clock, a gentleman of the name of Downing drove in in his gig, and said that he had heard that the houses of Lords and Commons were burnt down, and he hoped that it was not true ; he said he had come from Manchester, and had heard of it at Stour bridge. That was the first intelligence that the witness had of the fire. It was on Friday morning, and not on Thursday night. Mr. Cooper was gone when the gentle man came. He paid his bill at ten, and went away. She says that the news might have come by the London mail, which came into Dudley about nine o'clock in the morning, but the witness did not hear it so early. The mail bad ar rived before Mr. Cooper paid his bill. The evidence of Mr. John Riddle we consider to be very material in reference to the point in question ; he is a commercial traveller, and was recognized by Mr. Cooper as having been in the travellers' room at the Bush, on Thurs day the 16th. Mr. Riddle says, he was there at about a quarter before eight in the evening. That he stayed there till nine o'clock, and then went out and returned in about half an hour ; that a gentleman whom he now understands to be Mr. Cooper came in about the same time that he (the wit ness) returned. He saw him have tea. States that he (the wit ness) did not at the time when Mr. Cooper had tea, or at any time on that evening, hear of the fire either out of the Bush Inn or in the Bush Inn. There were two or three other gentlemen there besides Mr. Cooper. That nothing was said by either of them respecting the fire. Is sure of that. Has not the least doubt of it. Witness did not bear of it that night. He was in the room as long as Mr. Cooper. He (witness) remained there until eleven o'clock at night. Slept at the Bush Inn, and breakfasted there next morning. Does not recollect whether he saw Mr. Cooper that morn ing or not ' • after breakfast he (Mr. Riddle) went out, and heard of the fire from Mr. Smith, the landlord of the hotel, who told him he bad heard it from Robins, the coachman of the mail, who had come from Birmingham that morning. 'Witness said he went back to the commercial travellers' room at the Bush between nine and ten. Being asked whe ther he then told what he had heard, Mr. Riddle says, " I believe I made use of such words as these—' Here is a pretty go ; here's the House of Lords and Commons on fire ;' " does not know whether he said that he had heard it from a gentleman who had come by the coach, but it is most likely he did ; he says be remained in the room five or ten -mi nutes ; that he may have had some conversation about it ; he thinks it probable, but does not recollect any ; there were four persons in the room, but does not know whether Mr. Cooper was one of them ; he says be is positive this was on Friday morning, and that he never heard of the fire till he heard of it at the hotel from the landlord of that house. Mr. C. Twamley, solicitor at Dudley, states that be made inquiries, first at the Bush, and afterwards at the hotel, the two coach-houses in the town, and found that the first, information of the fire was received at each of those houses on Friday morning ; that he also made in quiries at various places, but did not find the slightest trace of the rumour of the fire having reached Dudley on Thurs day evening ; that he made diligent inquiries for the pur pose of discovering whether there had been such a report. Mr. Twamley further states, that in consequence of an in quiry on the part of the Attorney-General. he (the wit ness) did write to him to say that a • rumour had prevailed on the Thursday morning, but he found that this was a mistake of Thursday for Friday on the part of Sarah Tay ior, the waiter at the Bush, and that he wrote to that Ow' by the following post. told Sarah Taylor, being again called, states that she, i n , Mr. Twamley of the report having reached the 13usaIt at Dudley, on the Thursday. That she then recollectecebe was Friday, and sent to Mr. Twamley and told him. do , says she meant Friday morning ; she never said Thu r° it h evening, but Thursday morning ; she confounded it ir Friday morning; she knew it was in the morning that they heard the report. t he It will be remembered that Mr. Cooper s tated th a- h heard of the fire on his journey for the first time from t_ e d waiter of the Roebuck at Oxford, where the coach stopred in the night of Friday •; that the waiter having infr in ", him that the fire had broken out at seven,in the evern ia cj Thursday, he told the waiter that he (Mr. Cooper) they heard of it the night before at Dudley at ten ; th at r ), both expressed surprise at this, and that be (Mr. Coope wn, said he did not see how the news could have come 63. and that it must have been the work - of an i ncendi, which words, however, in his subsequent examination, says were used when the waiter was leaving the re om floba We have examined the waiter of the Ro ebuck Whitbread), who states that he remembers the Unio n cv tha i it coming from Birmingham on the Friday e vening ; in stopped at the Roebuck, and that one passenger cfePegs) to cup, whom he attended upon ; that he (the w"s;ja asked him whether he had heard of the fire, an d he „ o g, r he had heard of it ; does not recollect that the PaE" - ii - er e e said where he had heard of the fire ; he did not saY w ", s . he had heard of it. Witness does not remember that the P o stinger said he heard it the night before three or four h, ° 00 ? ; after it took place, or at any time very shortly after it , ' I o f place. Witness never heard him say where he had I f" rt r,or the fire. The passenger said nothing about incendiare''fre, anything respecting his way of hearing of the de or the time at which he heard it, or anything Iv hich i° 9 „, it matter of wonder that he should have heard o f it SO SrOV or anything which induced the witness to expres s anY° its der that it should have come in so short a time, o r . a ce being strange that he should have received the int so soon after the event occurred. He (witness) is P c ; l aiir that he made no observations to the passenger on tbt r io; pet, and that certainly noting was said about incem°,abicb that there was nothing in what the passenger sii` l „,'Or particularly struck his mind, but witness asked I °`", t was flier he had heard of the fire, and he said he had ; 13 ` a ,; 00 ea all that passed ; • does not think the passenger m e t ilt tilt the name of the place where he had heard it ; only passenger by that coach who came into the 0°11 ,1;e1 3 was a middle-aged man, rather stout. He thinks ra,`,nows light complexioned man, but he cannot be sure. P. , e Air that he was rather a stout man (a description of t:11,, pearance of Mr. Cooper, who was not present at occ that emulation). The witness says that be does not secs he should know the passenger again if he saw hum' e ars at so many. He further states that there are two w a4 :tha t the Roebuck, but that the other does not attend nl)°- room. e" In considering attentively the evidence with refe i rl ar i4 Mr. Cooper's statement, we have no hesitation ill to we wholly disbelieve his story. We are w illir4 h° di ' Hove that Mr. Cooper has been mistaken, and thatj, but not intend in his evidence to deviate from the truth we consider his testimony to have been satisfactorily Tdeoce other evidence and disproved. Mr. Cooper's Ir te oli° stands wholly unsupported, and is positively c ontra due t e co all that is material to the point of inquiry. His en vuu ; s 6r' t his journey from Dudley to London—his silence 0 01 1," c oo' arrival in London, even to persons the most nea r c' a tioes nected with him—his inaccuracy as to his corninn wc ta tiee s when they did take place, and indeed all the circfla!° eor of his conduct throughout would leave the case in 0 0 trable mystery, if his evidence were to be relied ur n ' wit' the other hand the connected story told by the ° til e, a s nesses disperses all mystery, and leads us to o°l'lool we have concluded, that the fire was accidental---Wasnrelese f as have related it, and was wholly attributable to ness and negligence. ° Indeed it would be very difficult to point out bas c-beca fire which could be more clearly traced than t his wit b t to its cause without suspicion of evil design. All which is humbly submitted to your M a i e s " s * : ;eP' l ' this further recommendation that copies of if the th should be communicated to the Lord Chamberlain Household and to the Board of Works . (Signed) W. L. BATHURST. ideP t). DUNCANNON (for the reS display. Our answer to all inquirers must be the answer of Canning's knife-grinder " Story, God bless you I I have none to tell, Sir." In sober truth the appointments which our brethren represent as com pleted will not be so much as discussed until the re turn of Sir Robert Peel from the Continent. While we are writing these lines we have put into our hands a " second edition" of the Courier, wherein our wor shipful contemporary states at " five o'clock"— : " The following appointments are generally talked of, but we arefiir from pledging ourselves for their correctness, excepting for the Duke of Wellington being First Lord of the Trea- sury " The Duke of Wellington, First Lord of the Treasury and Home Secretary, until Sir Robert Peel's return. " Sir George Murray, Colonial Secretary. " Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Chancellor. " Sir James Scarlett, Lord Chief Baron, and to be created a Peer. " Mr. Barin g , Chancellor of the Exchequer. " Sir HenryHardinge, Secretary at War. " Sir Charles 'Wetherell or Sir Edward Sugden, Attorney- General. " Mr. Follett, Solicitor-General. " Sir George Clerk, one of the Secretaries of the Treasury. And these appointments are " generally talked of ! ' It is sad to think that people should be so lavish of superfluous talk. Excellent as many of these appoint ments may be, none of them have been made ; none of them will be made until the return of Sir Robert Peel from the Continent. Here is the Globe !—Admi rable I—Our friend not only announces the appoint ments some weeks before they can be made, bw. criticises their propriety, and exposes their iniquity. " Mr. Follett," says the Globe, " is named as likely to be the new Solicitor-General. And why have the Parliamentary popularity, the professional eminence, the sound principles of jurisprudence, the estimable character of the present Member for Huntingdon (Mr. F. Pollock) been passed over, with a view of securing the services of one, who, however respected in his profession, occupies a less eminent station at the bar, and not even a seat in , the House ?" The present Member for Huntingdon (Mr. F. Pollock) ought to be very much obliged to the Globe for an eulogium which he can scarcely have expected to find in its columns. We trust that the high character here given of him will stand him in good stead, when his title to professional advancement shall be considered. But for the present let us assure the Globe that there has been no " passing over " such as the Globe con demns,—the Globe must be contented to know nothing of the Solicitor-General until Sir R. Peel shall return to enlighten it. Once more we caution our readers affainst these silly attempts at imposition. What we stated yesterday was simply correct. There will be no appointments, except those which the immediate exigency of the time requires, until Sir R. Peel shall contribute to the consideration of them the aid of his experience and discernment. It would be easy for us to sketch fancy Cabinets as our neighbours sketch them. But we would rather be less amusing, and more ye racious.—Morning Post. " Measures, not men," as objects of attachment or opposition, is a motto which has often been severely censured, inasmuch as in a country ruled by party com binations, certain men are regarded as guarantees, and they are frequently the best guarantees, for particular measures. But when the reign of party is utterly at an end—when the whole "people," a name unknown, as Burke said, in his time, to any text book of the Eng lish constitution—when the public has become its predominating element—when the essential power of the State, the representation of the people in Parlia ment has devolved upon themselves, and on their own free choice, and when no given number of individuals or of families can by any concert, however skilful, or de termination, however fixed, present the least effectual barrier to the declared wishes and resolutions of the " people," names become, as we have already stated, in a comparison between the French and English Governments—names become as much a matter ap proaching to indifference in England, because of the real supremacy of the nation—as they do in France from the absolutism of the Crown. The Duke of Wellington, therefore, whose Conservatism has hitherto shown itself to be of a somewhat mitigated colour, in contrast with that of many of his supporters—the Duke, we say, must have the countenance of a freely chosen House of Commons for his entire policy, and for each separate measure by which it is illustrated, or he must from the hour at which that countenance is withdrawn from him cease to be Minister of Great Britain. .To imagine that the Duke of Welling ton, or that any man with a tithe of his sagacity, could understand the administration of a country so per vaded as this is by a universal consciousness that the application of the reform principle to many gross abuses of Church arid State still remains uneffected, and that without its further and systematic progress the peace and well-being of every rank of society must be altogether insecure—to imagine, we say, that the Duke of Wellington could undertake his present office in the expectation of being able to obstruct the regu lar advancement of the reform principle, and in doing so, to resist the whole intellectual and moral force of En gland, would be to stamp him for a maniac. The down fall of the Melbourne Ministry is now irretrievable, and the nation must determine coolly what is to be done. One course, and one alone, is possible : it is to support, under all changes of men and circum stances, the practical reform of every definite and ac cessible abuse. On this point there can be no re trogression, there can be no stagnation. Every grievance unredressed—every source of corruption un purified—every unsound speck in any one of her na tional institutions is a depository of the'seeds, and an assurance of the return of that malady which the Reform Bill itself was destined to extinguish—the pes tilence of unjust government. The Duke of Wel lington must be well aware that such is the feeling which animates the great bulk of the community, and in the teeth of it we are in our own minds satisfied that he will never venture to act. We stated yesterday, as the allegation of the Duke of Wellington's friends, that he is deeply impressed with the necessity of a thorough Church reform. If his Grace be so convinced with regard to the Church of England, how much more profoundly must he en tertain the conviction as to what concerns the Irish Church ? In persuading ourselves, however, that the Duke meditates " reform," we must wait for his actions before their sufficiency can be relied upon ; and if they fall short of what the evil requires ; if they touch but the surface and leave the roots unmolested, the country will soon display its sense of the failure by taking the remedy into its own hands. So, respect ing economy at home and in our distant possessions —so for reform of the manifold abuses of our Cor porations,—so with what is wantine , towards a bet ter arrangement of the Criminal Law, and the law of real property. If the Duke of Wellington pro ceeds with these, in sympathy with the people, and in a spirit of good faith, there is no man from whom Englishmen will accept a benefit more cordially, or gratefully, than from him who has already served them. If he abandons the duty pre scribed to him by his country, the result is clear— neither the people nor the press will maintain an alli ance with him, and his Ministry draws to an end. As relates to the affairs of Ireland generally—if there he standing grievances to be removed, so is there a law less and intolerable power to be subjugated—a power which aims at the public ruin, for the sake of selfish and unhallowed gain. That power, we say, must be crushed : neither Go rernment nor society can exist in juxta-position with it : the English nation, and the best part of the Irish nation, concur in announcing it as the master-curse of Ireland. The best mode, how ever, of crushing this monstrous evil is to remove the real grievances which oppress that misguided people, and above all, to check at once that frightful evil, the s tarvation of the poor, by introd uc i ng a system of com pulsory relief. Our own resolution respecting the Duke of Wellington is to deal with him as we have done with Lord Grey, and with . Lord Grey's successor-to watch him closely—to oppose him vigorously, though not factiously, when he deserts what we conceive to be his duty ; and when difficulties beset him in the faith ful performance of that duty, to help him with equal vigour. A Reform Minister he must be, or no Minis ter of William IV. His Grace will speedily find that lie has no longer a Borough Parliament to deal with. Upon one subject, though of inconsiderable moment, it may be well to remark, that the charge of pre conceived intrigue for the overthrow of Lord Mel bourne's Cabinet in this instance must be destitute of THE LATE CONFLAGRATION. REPORT OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL. Copy.) At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, Nov. 8, 1834. The Lords of the Privy Council, who were directed to investigate the causes of the late fire which destroyed the two Houses of Parliament and other buildings, have exa mined various persons touching the same, and report as follows : In consequence of an Order of the Treasury, directing the Board of Works* to destroy the wooden tallies and foils which remained in the tally-room of the Exchequer (which was required as a temporary accommodation for the Court of Bankruptcy), and which tallies and foils were un derstood to be useless, Mr. Mined- one of the Commis sioners of Woods and Forests, appointed Mr. Phipps, the Assistant Surveyor of Works and Buildings, to meet him on Tuesday morning, the 14th of October last, who accord ingly met him at the tally-room, and Mr. Milne then pointed out to Mr. Phipps such of the tallies and foils as were to be preserved, and directed him to take steps for destroying the rest, and, pointing to a chimney in the room, said, " If you burn them there, you must be very careful, as the building is only of wood and plaster ;" upon which Mr. Phipps said that he intended to have them taken into the yard and burnt. To this Mr. Milne thinks he made no reply, but gave some caution to be careful. This is the account given by Mr. Milne in his second examination, cor recting, or explaining in some particular, his first. Mr. Phipps states that Mr. Milne gave him directions to burn the tallies in the Exchequer-yard, or some other convenient place. Mr. Milne says he is confident that ho did not give such directions, nor any directions, otherwise than by approving of what Mr. Phipps said about burning them in the Exchequer-yard. Mr. Phipps saw Mr. Weo bley (the Clerk of the Works) the same day, and told him to have the tallies and foils burnt, stating that Mr. Milne had directed them to be burnt in the yard, to which it ap pears by Mr. Weobley's statement, although Mr. Phipps, to the best of his recollection, denies it, that Mr. Weobley ob. jected at the time, saying it would alarm the neighbours. Mr. Phipps states that, to the best of his recollection, Mr. Weobley said that the order should be obeyed, and did not suggest any place for burning them till the next day. Mr. Weobley is positive that he stated the above objec tion, and that Mr. Phipps then said, " You may do it where you can ;" " and it struck me," said Mr. Weobley, " that the stoves of the House of Lords would be a safe and proper place to do it in." He does not, however, appear to have mentioned the plan at that time to Mr. Phipps ; and both agree that it was not till the Wednesday that any plan was was mentioned, except burning in The Exchequer-yard. Mr. Phipps, in his second examination, again denies that Mr. Weobley made the objection mentioned by him to burning in the yard, or that he said, " You may do it where you can." The point on which they differ does not seem to be very material in the case, as they next day concurred in preferring the mode of burning the tallies in the stoves at the House of Lords, to burning them in the Exchequer yard. It appears that Mr. Phipps met Mr. Weobley, on Wed nesday, the 15th, in Palace-yard, when Mr. Weobley sug gested to Mr. Phipps the burning of the tallies in the flues of the House of Lords. Mr. Phipps acquiesced in the sug gestion, saying he thought it a very good plan. It will be observed that although Mr. Milne parted with Mr. Phipps on the previous day, in the understanding that the tallies were to be burnt in the Exchequer-yard, the change of plan that took place was never communicated to Mr. Milne, or his assent required to the burning in the flues, of which Mr. Milne remained entirely ignorant till after the fire had taken place. Mr. Phipps, in justification to his agreeing so readily to the proposal of Mr. Weobley, says that he considered Mr. Weobley as a careful man, and that he would see to and superintend the burning of the tallies ; and Mr. Phipps adds, that if they had been burnt in small quantities he is still of opinion no damage could have happened. He says, it did not occur to him at the time that he was running counter to Mr. Milne's orders : that he considered the furnaces as a safe place to burn the tallies in ; and that he did not give directions to Mr. Weobley to burn the tallies in small quantities because he had always known Mr. Weobley to be a very careful man. Mr. Weobley employed to burn the tallies two workmen in the service of contractors with the Board of Works, but who were in the constant employment of the Board, receiv. ing their orders from Mr. Phipps, and held to be at the disposal generally of the officers of the Board of Works. One of the men, Joshua Cross, had some years before been convicted of felony and sentenced to seven years transpor tation, but had only suffered imprisonment in the Peniten tiary, and had, after three and a half years' confinement, been taken back (with a certificate of good conduct from the Governor) by his former employer, Mr. Holroyd, then also a contractor with the Board for plumber's work, and had, in consequence, come into the employment of the present contractor, Mr. Clarke. Mr. Weobley directed the two men to bring the tallies from the Exchequer on Wednesday evening, which they did on a mason's truck, going several times for them. There were about two one-horse cart loads. Mr. Weobley desired the men to burn them slowly, only a few at a time. They began the operation of burning at a half-past six the next morning, Thursday, the 16th of October. They represent that they obeyed Mr. Weobley's orders, and put on only a handful of ten or twelve tallies at a time, damping them occasionally with water, and laying them three deep in the bottom of the furnace, and not adding a second handful till the first was nearly consumed. Richard Reynolds, a fire lighter, whose business is to at tend to the furnaces when the House of Lords is sitting, gives a very different account ; for he says that going to them between nine and ten o'clock, he remained for three or four minutes, and he saw them laying the tallies as fast as they could into the furnace, putting in five or six hands ful at a time, each handful containing ten or twelve tallies, and filling the furnaces up to three-fourths of their height ; that he knows the flues well, having fed them. There was an astonishing blaze going on, he could hear it perfectly. There was a great flame. They were filling both the flues with great rapidity. He says he told Cross that he was going on very rapidly burning the sticks. Cross made no answer, and Reynolds left them. The men, on the other hand positively state that they never filled the furnaces so as to make the fuel stand higher than three or four inches, and certainly not so high as six. By Reynolds' account the height of the fuel could not be less than nine inchess. Ms. Weobley says he came at an earlier hour, between seven and eight, to see the work going on, and he found the men following his directions ; that he returned twice again in the course of the morning, and made the same ob servation. His account certainly coincides with that of the -tnen ; but if, as Mr. Weobley seems fairly to admit, the operation of burning in the furnaces was the cause of the fire which afterwards took place, it is impossible to account for it in any other way than that the consumption of tallies went on much more rapidly, and that the furnaces were fed much quicker and filled much fuller with the fuel than the men represent ; and if Mr. Weobley's observation was correct at the times he saw the work going on, the men must have departed from his direction during the interval betwOen his visits. It it to be observed that Mr. Weobley did not go there after three o'clock, and that the burning continued continued till between four and five ; nor was any report called for or made to Mr. Weobley when the. work was completed. Before fives o'clock, or thereabouts, th e men retired from their work, and went to their homes. Mrs. Wright, who acted as housekeeper of the House of Lords in the absence of her clatt;hter-in-law, states that she had perceived a smoke and smell of burnt wood as early as ten or half-past ten, and that, having learnt that it was occasioned by the burnirg of tallies in the flues, she sent for Cross at that time, and that he came ; and that having asked him what lie was doing, he said he was burning the tally-sticks belonging to the Exchequer. She said, " That is very odd ; who gave you the order ?" He said, " The Board of Works." She told him if Mr. Pullman was there, he would not allow him to do it. She says she sent again to Cross about half-past one, and that he sent back a message that she had no occasion to be alarmed, all was right. At half-past three o'clock she states that she again sent to Cross the boy Reynolds, who represented to Cross that the House was in a complete smother, and that the throne could scarcely be seen. Cross said he could not POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. n 5 e ra On Sunday evening, the congregation atten- 1 w ere Dissenting chapel in et Hare-court, Aldersgate-Stye f greatly alarmed by a noise which resembled th e crac}roi. the rafters and supporters of the gallery One lad)" diately fell into an hysterical fit, others . screame, ‘}), much dismay and agitation pervaded the assemblagi, - 01/ e ` , With considerable difficulty the officers of bee c f obtained a healing to announce that all was s a ` e. lan e olde'' o irs act was, that a set of mischievous lads from had in the let off a large cracker at the foot of the Pi l l 01 5 the lobby, and the noise of- the explosion see°, e l , - , Olt louder within doors than it would have been in 3 t"" air. The boys were not content with enjoying in , ', I -e ste -- confusion that would arise from their prank, but Wei t berr at the door to be eye-witnesses of it, and they w ere ,,' e t ° 35 fore, easily captured, They all agreed that theJ a ipea ° perpetrated by a lad named Richard Pike, wh o ' 9 06 $ light at a chandler's shop, under the pretext of s°2Zi e ra o cigar, and he was accordingly taken before gr. J 5-1 ANSLEY, at Guildhall yesterday, for punishment•secute gentlemen connected with the chapel wished to V . ° 0 01 ! him at the Sessions, but the Magistrate thoughtil&b°' be sufficiently punished by being committed t° b 'off 61. ` " for a month, in default of paying 205., for letting works. MARLBOBOUGH-STREE T d 0 114$' 1 , An old man named Ruth literally en veloPe crvir" was yesterday placed at the , bar before Mr' charged with vending unstamped newspapers. risoeier A man named Poulston stated that he sa w theifie" on Sunday morning sell a copy of the 7'w opeung Se t b m : and one also of the People's Police Gazette. sP" took him into custody, and found half a dozen e' c i„d. papers in his hat. He had been before apprebeehicb e°-:f Mr. CONANT examined the paper, one of vbciewise e b , taind a second edition, wi th an account of the, tra e °, the Whig Administration. Th e worthy g a g' s ' a t oe' s t i served that there could be no doubt of its benig ‘ ,. , ba paper, and convicted the defendant to fourteen cl3'' labour in the House of Correction. MARYLEBONE. Me P` .- 'n Just as the Magistrate had taken his seat 00 - g'ai °s l l s A e l s b terday, an elderly Gentleman named Peri: P is r , e i - ce i ° Per Albany-street , Regent's Park, applied for his au the following circumstances : .:, do' a st 11 ' r: Applicant bad a young female servant 0 0 % "cl i o , P :( mestics who wished to " dive into futurity," f °r o b oio ', l '0 pose she had, on two occasions lately, visited a l l l , e rse",k! , in the neighbourhood, who professed to be tedw:e. t t the " mystic art." A third interview was aPP°t; : that place on Wednesday next, when he was aPPre'-‘o.l'lv the some ‘ plan for robbine , him might be proPes%ssis'Oce ' witch,'! and he therefore should be glad if a l l - . the o • could be afforded him. tg e er 3 11 13 Mr. RAWLINSON directed Franklin, an (7,,a-oke % ha t establishment, to pay attention to the case, ana .- ac liou,la il.business to be present at the "next interview," ° he s"°‘ the " fortune-teller" was brought before biir l ' - know how to deal with her. ____-- , Oh BIRTHS. l3O - On the 15th ins., at Rheola, Glamorgshire, t" e 4°' Vaughan Edwards Vaughan, Esq., of a son an a nd heir. 001 of a On da t u h g e hte l4 r t . h inst., at Wentworth, the Viscountess ape, son, still-born. d L 10 On the 15th inst., in South-street, Park-lane, 5 / wit' , , a . Cha rles On the 13th inst., in Spring-gardens, the lady of I. S. g rs. E s o q . n t o h f e 16th inst., at Chester-terrace, Brooking of a son, still-born. Regentsrar, A r O c b t al he d tahm Campbell, E at s4 2l SI tA. ofG Wentworth, of Wilton-crese ' ent. are, lot° er-sclu Chsr Re Wo /r gii;et Do, sn, Pffl aacnr, to Ali ss Cr 4t o l ,H:ee O lnl i ryE t ß h sa e o. l l 3 e th D i e n a s n t e . : E at s . g. Gillingham, Dorset, Arch i er t ja ti a ug s b ter - Esq., of Greenham Lodge, Berks, to Elizabeth, fl u ' On the 11th inst., at the Catholic Chapel, MoorS,elaßs'. kr ti l e e : and afterwards at Christ Church, St. Marylebone, Li• s of JJ gate-hill. of Sunwick, North Britain, to Miss Youen DIED. On the 15th inst., at Walworth, Mr. Benjamin Boo" , is er, 6 3 d year. ,;,,illtol'il On the 15th inst., at Ulster-placet aged 84, Mrs- Abigail widow of the late Richard Routh, Esq., Collector of his , On the 15th inst., at Hither Green, Customs, and Chief Justice of New foundland. I .ol ' tb e wife of Francis Atkinson, Esq., aged 49. lotte, ~ On the 9th inst., at Albourn e, near Brighton, Char i . cal youngest daughter of the late Thomas Templeton, Esq ., ° of cotta, in the East Indies. F ,64 '' Lewisham, Catherioe On the 13th inst., the infant sort of John Hayward, Dartford. God tisrd' On the 12th inst., at Speenhamland, Berks, Mr. Geo. in his 62d year. a lo i " On the llth inst., at Nethergate, Dundee, Mrs. Knight, , kerstone.lolo9' On the 14th inst., at Stamford -hill, Benjamin Hanson hip Ele nt• Esq., in his 81st year. the Lady Soph On the 16th inst. , at Fulham, Ili On the 14th inst., Mary, second daughter of Mr. Richal..d Berson, of Great Vine-street, Regent-street. On the 16th inst., Cecil, wife of John Carstairs, Bs+ ~.., 0 0 0 ' On the 17th inst., in Wilton-crescent, Lieut.-Colonl t,'e aged 45. -' -- •0 London : Printed and Published by 111URD0—;“0 at The Sue Office, No. 1.1% Strand. a II