The Sun. — London, England, 1834-01-31 00:00:00

BRIGHTON, JAN. 30. ----- Yesterday afternoon the King, accompanied by bi, dau ghter, the Cou n t es s of Errol, and the Hon. Miss Hay, drove out as far as Shoreham, and returned to the pavilion about 5 o'clock. The Dowager Marchioness of Cholmondeley, Mr. F. a nd Lady Augusta S r Hon. Mrs. Burrell, Sir H. Half d 'Y mou ' , and the Misses Burrell, were the invited guests to the Royal dinner table last evening. The sixth Almack's ball took place last evening, under the patronage of the Marchioness of Downshire, the Coun tesses Listowel, Bosse, and De Sails. Nearly 200 persons Vete present. Lord Marcus Hill arrived at the residence of the Mar eluoness of Downshire on the Old Ste)ne, last evening, from Ireland. The East Sussex fox hounds will throw off on Saturday at H urstmanceau, and on Monday at Exceat-bridge. COURT CIRCULAR. The Duke of Cumberland went to Kew on Wednesday, a p n a d ia i e n e. the ev en i ng returned to his residence in St. James's The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria walked and drov e in Hyde Park yesterday. t. A Cabi ne t C ounc il was summone d t o mee t y es t er d a y ""ernoon at the residence of Viscount Althorp in Down_ t ug -street. It was attended by the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Eal of Ripon, Earl Grey, the Duke of Richmond, Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Pal rjrBton, Mr. Secretary Stanley, the Earl of Carlisle, the Ab e „llt Hon. C. Grant, Lord Holland, and Sir J. Graham. Coun c il sat a b out three hours. Prince Esterhazy transacted business yesterday, at the Foreign Office. Irlr. Burge, the Agent for Jamaica, transacted business the Colonial Office yesterday. The Marquis of Lansdowne had a dinner p ar ty l as t even °B' et his residence in Berkeley-square. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Mr. and Mrs. Lei h, at the Sackville Hotel, Sackville atr eet, from Bath; M g ajor and Mrs. Hall and family, at ditto, from i tall; the Rev. H. Mayers, at ditto, from Brighton ; Mr. and Mrs. J. --n lea O'Brien, a t ditt o, f rom Suffolk; Miss West, in Upper Grosvenor -street, from the Old Steine, Brighton. L on aoviLord and DEPARTURES. ad Alb ert Conyn g h , from Hamilton-place, . J . Denison, c cim p at Denbies, Dorking ; Sir Josias Rowley, Bart., for Po . rtsmo . uth ; the Earl ;of Sand wich, from Mount-street, for Brighton ; the Countess of West- Moreland, from Mivart's —l3 'el, Lower Brook street, for the Continent ; W. L. Gihnour, Esq., from Hill street, for Melton Mowbray ; Lord Forester, f rom Charles -street, for ditto ; Miss Courtesy; Boyle, from Berkeley street, for Burghley House ; the Earl and Countess of Wilton, from Heaton Park, for ditto ; C apt. Alves, from the Sackville Sackville-street, to tdinburgh ; Mr. and Mrs. Fox and family, from ditto, for Denbigh. ARRIVALS AT BATH. Admirals Sir C. Boyle and Sir J. Slade, Lord G. tennox, L adies L., H., and E. Waldegrave, and Hoy Lord Gen. KU. bo,..urne, Baron Ompteda, Cols. Gibson and De la Motte, Majors Aing,ton, Mackey, and Wallis; Capts. Thewles, Clement, John sone, Peachey, Routledge, Dennis, Erskyn, and Colley ; Revds . toulton, Jeff, Kin g , L ew i s, Luce, Merest, Peacock , Richard_ tort, Taylor, Turner, Armitage ; Mr. and Mrs. Jackson, Parker, Abraham, Holford, Lyons, Blathwayt, Chippingdale, Clarke, Collett, Dewdney, Kerby, Kay, Peake, Sawyer, Springfield, Tale, Wellford, Williamson, Young, Gallop and family; Messrs. ° rearms, Poole, Welch, Quantock, Kidd, William, Wilson, Choice, Vincent, Sturgess, Dashall, Nixon, Simpson, Farrer, might, Buller, M.P., Delaneash, Lax, Morrison, Prendergast, ' te urbridge, Steart, Throgmorton, Vowles, Wathen, Allison, tearcroft, Clare, Davidson, Gabriel, Hardy, Manners, Nadler, Stockport, Upton, Wiltshire, Bethel!, Chichester, M.P., Luxton, . na tchbull, Mitchell, Bowdler, Caldwell and family, Denby; Mesd ames "; Wells, Portman, Jeffries, Wollaston, Quantock, Ar -Lage; Misses Jones, Moore. MADNESS AND DEATH FROM JOINING ?int TRADES' UNION.-Last night at inquest was hel d ro the City Compter, Giltspur-street, on the body of P. Moore, aged fifty, a painter and glazier. William Bar ay, of Barlett's-buildings, Fetter-lane, Holborn, said the deceased had, for sixteen years carried on business as a Painter in St. Clement Danes but he some time since jnlet with misfortunes, and was reduced to work as a ourneyman for Mr. Dickens, of Marlborough-street. For the last few Weeks he had been out of employment, but he did not want for anything. He became very excited in consequence of joining the Trades' Unions, and evinced e YroPtonts of insanity . On Mo n d ay wee k h e broke all his lit t l e furniture, and . left his home. The deceased was found runnin g in Holborn, and screaming out some political opinions. He was taken to the Compter, Where it appeared that he was raving mad. Mr. M'Murdo, the surgeon, ordered him under restraint. He went on very well till Wednesday, when he sunk rapidly and died in the evening. —James Heaviside, a re lation, stated that the deceased, being an influential man amon g the trade, had, a few weeks back, been prevailed °Poll to join the Trades' Union, and he was accordingly mHe arls a " Grand Brother" with much pomp and ceremony. aPpeared afterwards to labour under much excitement, end his condu c t, w hi c h was h eretofore peaceable, became ' t ry much altered and violent. He took a conspicuous Par t in all questions relating to p o liti cs , an d seeme d alto gether completely changed, and so much did the Union abs orb his whole thoughts and attention, that he neglected t ° look out for employment, and frequently declared that be would live up on bread and water to support the Union. He h a d not seen him for some days previous to his death. , Ju r"--Are y ou o f op i n i on t h at t h e U n i on turned his °rain, then ? Witness—Decidedly lam ; I have not the least doubt of it. Juror Was he a sober man ? Wit ness—He was before he joined the Union, but afterwards he took to thinking. Verdict—Died by the Visitation of God. THE HIGH TIDE. —.The inhabitants of the houses on the banks of the river were, during the whole lo' yesterday, actively engaged in clearing their cellars and ower premises of the water which had flowed into them ; and the streets near the waterside were rendered almost Hn Plalable for foot passengers, in consequence of the large q un ntities of w a t er di scharged, * by means of pumps, from every house into the streets. The tide of Wednesday evening was only nine inches lower than that of the srto rning, a n d another high tide was anticipated yesterday ; but, fortunately for the residents along shore, the wind again shifted to the south-west, and kept the tide from ris ing above its usual height. The marshes on the Kent a nd Essex shores are overflowed, and will be some time before the lands are cleared of the water. A very curious circumstance happened on Wednesday morning. Two stacks of reeds, in a field on the Kent shore, near Wool wich, were carried away by the flood, and actually floated to the Essex shore. On the tide receding, both stacks Were left on the bank near Barking Creek, and the owner had the trouble of reconveyin g them across the river to his own field. We understand that a public meet ing will be called by some influential individu a l to relieve the poor families on the banks of the river, who have suffered by the extraordinary high tide. AMERICAN SLAVE TRADE. --We record the fact with deep regret, that the Legislature of Loui ana has repealed the laws of the prohibitin g th troduction of slaves within roseate'bodae We e m ust confess that we can perceive but little difference betweenm the African slave trade and that carried on between the shores of the Chesapeake and the Delta of the Missisippi. The principle is the same, with the only difference that, in the former traffic, the free are stolen and sold into slavery, while in the latter the slave is transferred from a co mparatively mild to a worse state of bondage. But i n both, the holiest ties of family and relationship are brutally torn asunder. A fearful responsibility rests upon this nation, in regard to slavery ; and that responsi.. bility must be shared between the slave dealers and those at the nort h who are aiding them b y opposing t he on l y r ational an d pract i cal sc h eme o f era di cat i ng t h e evil, with out entaili ng upon t h e country a f ar greater calamity than th at Which ez i sts.—Poulson ' s Amer i can Ad ver tiser, Jan. 8. h ROB BERIES.--Ott Thursday evening, about - ,'lf-Past 6, as Mr. William Hurst was returning home about Leeds to Gomersal, he was stopped by five men, "", °l4 100 yards past the Waggon and Horses Inn, and ! ° °bed of his poeket-book, containing three bills, amount ' 2 ° , 15 to 4 30/., of the following description, viz. :—One for hitte°4, drawn by Messrs. Stephen Mitchell and Son, on r 1 00 1". Glyn, the bankers, at two months ; ano th er fo ja— tin._ b y ores Allport on Messrs. Esdaile, bankers, at p ay ': months: and a third for 1301., on Messrs. Smith, at t w ' a nd Co., bankers, by Tbotnas Nelson and Co., names Months. Also a gold patent lever watch, makers' goidel," Anderson and Co., London, No. 623;" with T cu aira and key, having "W. H." engraved on it. wen t .. . the pa:cella:leas reward is offered for the apprehension of tar t "---On Saturday were stolen from IS, Albemarle , ati 4 silver table-spoons, 2 dessert-spoons, and 5 taUe tli The ntre crest a ducal coronet, with a tree growing in the er .ree e of it, and a cross-cutfsaw through the trunk of , with the word " Through" on the saw. The p a rty of Sir John Hamilton, --police Gazette. LITERATURE. EDTVARDS' BOTANIC 4L REGISTER, OR ORNAMENTAL FLOWER GARDEN AND SHRUBBERY. Continued by Dr. LINDLEY. No. XII. OF V 0 1 .,. 6.—New SERIES. The number before us completes the sixth volume of this work, since Professor Lindley has conducted it, and teems with beautiful rari ties. The three following will be appreciated by Botanical readers :—" Clustered Calanthe" (Calanthe Densiflara), " Loy Oncidium" (Oncidium Altissimum), and " Powdered He liconia" (Heliconia Pulverulenta). This last is presented by Sir A. Hume, at whose esta blishment it flowered. All the Plaintain tribe is remarkable either for the beauty, or size, or singularity of their foliage ; but this, although inferior to many in the magnitude of is parts, yields to none in beauty. It is impossible to imagine any thing more delicate than the blue bloom which thickly covers the underside of the leaves, or more brilliant than the vivid scarlet of the flower leaves or spathes ; among which nestle, as it were, a few bright-green flowers. The following will receive, perhaps, more gene ral attention :—The Quince-leaved Wayfaring tree (Virburnum Cotinifoliutn), a hardy shrub, native of British India, very similar in appear ance to the English Wayfaring -tree, that unless the flowers were seen, one would feel persuaded it was a mere variety; the flowers are much larger, more coloured with pink, and neither flat nor slightly bell-shaped, but of a distinct funnel-shaped figure. According to Mr. Royle, this plant is common in the Himalayas, at eleva tions of from 5,000 to 7,000 feet, in 30. N. lat., and is called by the hill people Juwa ; its fruit is occasionally eaten by them. Smooth-branched Scottia, a new species of the rara genus Scottia, from New Holland, will prove an ornamental addition to the English Greenhouse, as will also Slender-stemmed Nierembergia* (Nierembergia filicaulis), a new species of this genus, of grace ful growth, pretty, easily multiplied by cuttings, and requiring but a moderate degree of protec tion in winter. o I. E. Nierernberg, a Spanish Jesuit, to whom this genus has been dedicated, is said to have written a Na tural History, in sixteen books, of which nothing is now remembered. RELIGIOUS ESTABLISHMENTS OF THE ANCIENT ROMANS. We are too little acquainted with the sacred poetry of the Ro mans to un d erta k e to show, by a comparison of them with Grecian hymns and the oldest lyrical poetry, that religion had been from the earliest times a political machine, for the skilful use of which the few families to whom the care of the state was committed had formed a firm union. We shall, therefore, only briefly remark, that the whole affairs of religion stood under the direc tion of the practical understanding ; and that, though it is true that entrance was thus effectually barred against priestcraft, yet, on the other hand, science and imagination could not, as amongst the Greeks, employ the popular persuasion, in order to raise even common souls above daily life and its oc cupations. An Aristocratical College, which filled up its own Members, and consisted of four Members and a President (pontifex maxims), all of them men who occupied, and had long occupied, public offices, presided over all ceremonies. At a later period, indeed, four plebeians were added ; but these were all chosen from amongst men who, as senators, had already entered the body of nobility. It was not till a very late period (u. c. 649) that the people acquired a share in the election. All the other priesthoods were subordinate to this col lege, which depended on the senate and the people. Every ceremony, even the fearful devotion, de pended on formulas, of which, like those of the English courts of justice, the observance was en forced with minute accuracy. Thus, a state order regulated every banquet and sacrifice; music and dancing were prescribed with equal precision as the formulas of prayer. Here it may well be imagined that no room was left for poetry, still less for devo tional songs or sacred dramas. This college of the superior priests was flanked by that of the augurs, who were neither priests nor jugglers, but States men, whose age and consideration in the State maintained the old superstition, and made use of it for the advantage of the Government. No myste ries, no rites for the excitement of the fancy, not even for the subterranean powers—for the solem nities of the Bona Dea were merely a female festi val. Even the business of the vestals did not rest on secret tradition, or on legendary tales, which had been solemnized by popular songs. The priests of particular deities were, indeed, fettered by cer tain rules; but even the three of the fifteen priests held in highest respect, those of Jupiter, Mars, and Romulus, were in public offices, and their influence was more properly secular than spiritual. We could easily demonstrate in a similar manner of the so called Salii, of the Epulorts and Curions, that they were restricted to definite, merely out ward forms, and subordinate to the senate and the people; by consequence, that they were civil of ficers, destined to reinforce the popular morals through superstition, feasts, and offerings, or to guide them by these - means in the direction desired by the civil authorities. No new ceremony, no temple, no altar, festival, or solemnity could be introduced without sanction of the senate and con sent of the tribunes.—Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopw. dia : History of Rome. On Saturday morning, at a quarter before eight o'clock, whilst Colonel St. Clair was in bed, at his residence at No. 6, Rue Neuve Monthabor, he heard the door of his sitting room open, and some one enter, whom he conceived to be the servant, cowing to make his fire ; for about ten minutes he was employed walking about, and handling several articles on the table and drawers. At last he put his bead into the Colonel's bed-room door, and the latter seeing a strange face eyeing the apartment, Sprang up and seized the intruder. 1-1 e told a story of being a ciirn-doctor, sent to attend a gentleman in the house ; but the name he gave was false, as there was no s Oclr person. It was then found that he neither knew tinarrie of t h e street, nor the number of the house, in whithe w as try i ng his adv en tures, and therefore was given into the custody of the police.—Paris Paper. Durin g the thunder-storm on the night of Friday se nnight the electric fluid penetrated the chimney of the house owfell:ler. Watkin Watkins, at Glanrhyd, while 12 persons were, by the violence round the fire. The company but e r of the shock, thrown about the room in all directions , able ortunately no serious injury ensued, though consider Wasdamaget was done to the house. The top of the chimney down ; in one room the mantelpiece was knocked thrown n o b f its place, and thrown forward on a bed; in another t , w a a j o i nt half the paper and a great deal of the plaster of the were rubbed off; the clock-case and the window s of the besides several minor losses. bar were broken, and 2-1 , panes of glass were broken, —llereford Journal. OXFORD, JAN. 29.—At a meetin g of con vacation holden this day, which w as very ittended, his Grace the Duke of Wellington mously elected Chancellor of the University, i n the room ani of Lord Grenville, deceased. The utmost enthusiasm prevailed prevailed among all parties. The Duke, according to the etiquette observed on such occasions, was of course absent. The attempt to get up an opposition was a complete failure. The installation of the new Chancellor will not, it is believed, take place until next June, when there will be a grand commemoration, and it is expected to be the &mist splendid ceremony, ever known on any similar occasion. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JAN. 30. THE KING V. GRANT AND OTHERS. The defendants, Patrick Grant, John Bell, and J. Ager, the proprietors and printer of the True Sun newspaper, who had been convicted at the sittings after last term of a libel upon Mr. Alderman Winchester and Mr. Briggs, an attorney, came up to receive the judgment of the Court. The transactions out of which this prosecution arose have been so often and so fully before our readers, that it may be sufficient to state, that Mr. Winchester having been appointed one of the as signees, and Mr. Briggs the solicitor, under Mr. Grant's commission of bankrupt, they were charged in a pamphlet, and afterwards in various articles in the True Sun with gross misconduct in the manage ment of the affairs, and particularly with fraud and falsehood, in disposing of Mr. Grant's three-fourth shares of The Sun to Mr. Murdo Young at a very inadequate price, and refusing the offer of 13,0001. made by a Mr. Lomax and the defendant Mr. Bell. It was alleged that they had acted from corrupt motives, in order to obtain the property for Mr. Young, and that Mr. Grant had been totally de prived of all benefit from the capital he had embarked in establishing The Sun, and the creditors had not received any dividend from the estate. It will he recollected that in the present term a motion was made by Mr. Kelly, of which we gave a full report at the time, for a new trial, on the ground that the Lord Chief Justice had excluded cer tain evidence at the trial which was necessary to make out the averment in the information, that the libel was published of and concerning the transac tions alluded to. The Court on the occasion re fused the application, on the pound, that although the evidence might have been admissible if it had been offered with a view to prove or disprove that particular averment, yet as the object in going into such an inquiry was substantially to put in issue the the truth of the libels, it had been properly exclu ded by the Learned Judge at the trial. Mr. KELLY now stated, that as he had under stood the decision of the Court to have proceeded upon the ground that the evidence had not been offered with a view to inform the jury of the nature of the transactions, from which they might judge whether the libels related to those transactions or not, he was now furnished with the affidavit of two persons, and also with the notes of a short-hand writer, which confirmed his (Mr. Kelly's) recollec tion that he had distinctly put it upon that ground at the trial, and he trusted, as the judgment of the Court had proceeded upon a misapprehension in point of fact, that the defendants would not now be precluded from taking the objection, for it was clear that evidence which might have had more or less effect upon the minds of the jury had been rejected, and that in a criminal case in whieh he had never known a new trial refused under such circumstances. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said he had a distinct recollection of what passed at the trial, and he should not allow his statement to be contradicted by that of any other person. He stated at the time the rule was applied for, that if the evidence had been offered with a view bona fide to prove or disprove the necessary averment in the information, he should not have rejected it, but he was quite sure that no gentleman at the bar could get up and state that that was the object; on the contrary, it was quite plain that the intention was to enter into a general inquiry as to the truth of the charges against the prosecutors, which could not be allowed by law; and unless the rest of the Court entertained a different opinion, be would not permit any affidavits to be read on such a subject. Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE and Mr. Justice TAUN- ToN expressed their concurrence in the opinion of the Lord Chief Justice. On the part of the defendants affidavits were then put in of Mr. Thornton, the co-assignee, and of Messrs. Hill and Logan, two of the other principal creditors, stating that they were extremely dissatis fied with the conduct of Messrs. Winchester and Briggs in managing the affairs under the commis sion, and particularly in their refusal to accept the offer of Messrs. Bell and Lomax, which they consi dered was bona _fide and for the benefit of the estate. Mr. Morphet, the solicitor of Mr. Lomax, also made an affidavit, stating that that gentleman was possessed of property more than sufficient to pay 13,0001. at the time he made the offer. An affidavit of Mr. Grant was also read, stating the various transactions which took place under the commission, and that he had been reduced from affluence to a state of penury from what he consi dered to be the misconduct of the prosecutors in the disposal of his property. Affidavits in behalf of the prosecution, were then read. Murdo Young, of the Strand, in the county of Mid dlesex, part proprietor of the newspaper, called The Sun, states, that having been advised by his counsel, Sir Ed ward Burtenshaw Sugden, to refrain from noticing the libels hereinafter mentioned, pending the proceedings adopted by this deponent in the Court of Chancery, touch ing the said newspaper, he, deponent, did not interfere, or take any proceedings himself in this Honourable Court, or assist by his affidavit in the application of Henry Win chester, Esq., and Thomas Briggs, against Patrick Grant, John Bell, and John Ager, respecting such libels, con tained in a certain pamphlet and a newspaper, called the True Sun, printed and published by some or one of them ; but deponent saith, that having been present in this Court on the 28th of May, 1831, and heard the observations of counsel respecting his not making any such affidavit, he, deponent, upon his oath, now saith, that he had not any knowledge of, or ever saw, the said Thomas Briggs, until after the commission of bankruptcy issued against the said Patrick Grant, nor has he now, or ever had, any intimacy or friendship with the said Thomas Briggs; and that he never had any collusion with the said Thomas Briggs, or with the said Henry Winchester, in the issuing of the said commission of bankruptcy, or to defeat the interest of the creditors under the same. That his offers to purchase the three-fourth parts or shares of and in the said newspaper, have been bona fide, and without fraud or collusion with the said Henry Winchester and Thomas Briggs, or either of them, or any other person or persons whomsoever ; and that it is the firm belief of deponent, that his said offers have been the only real and bona fide offers to purchase the same ; and that the several offers to purchase such shares by other persons were only intended to mis lead and impose upon the assignees of the said bankrupt. That his only knowledge of the said Henry Winchester arises from his having been a large creditor of the said Patrick Grant's previous to deponent becoming the co partner of the said Patrick Grant in the said newspaper ; and that he has not any intimacy or friendship with him whatever ; and that neither the said Henry Winchester, or the said Thomas Briggs, is interested, or expects to be interested, directly or indirectly, in any manner what,o ever, either with deponent, or with any other person or persons, for or on his behalf in the said newspaper, or in any other manner to secure the purchase of the said shares and interest of the said !bankrupt in the said Sux newspaper, with a view to assist deponent, or to defraud the creditors of the said Patrick Grant, or with any corrupt view or motive whatever. That long pre vious to the issuing of the said commission of bankruptcy the difficulties of the said Patrick Grant became so great, that he, deponent, was under the necessity of communica ting the same to the said Henry Sykes Thornton, the co assignee of the said bankrupt, who has for many years been, and is a very particular personal friend of the said bankrupt ; and deponent received from the said Henry Sykes Thornton a letter in the words and figures following : "' Birchin-lane, July 17, 1829. " ' Dear Sir,—l have heard from Mr. Charles Grant on the subject of Mr. P. Grant's affairs, and he tells me that he and his brother have come to the determination of leaving things to take their own course. As we cannot get the deed signed, it is impossible for Mr. Winchester and me to act under it, and I have, therefore, told Mr. Bartrum that I see no alternative but a commiss•on of bankruptcy. Ido not intend to stir in the business myself, and I mention the circumstance in order to put you on your guard, and that you may see Mr. Bartrutn, and confer with him in what manner a bankruptcy may take place with the least injury to the property of The Sun newspaper. " ' Believe me, yours truly, "‘ H. S. THORNTON.' Addressed to 'M. Young, Esq., 11 --" Teat he has at all times used his utmost exertions to promot e the interest of the said Patrick Grant and his said assignees in the said Sun newspaper, without favour to himself beyond the rights and interests he has in the same. That at the meeting which took place at the counting-house of the said Henry Sykes Thornton, in Bircbin_laee, on Thursday, the 17th of March, 1831, the said three-fourth shares of and in the said Sun newspa per were agreed to be sold by the said Henry Winchester end H. S. Thornton to deponent for the sum of 9,0001., in which was to be included a balance of 4,0001. and up wards, due to deponent in respect of the said partnership, and exclusive of a sum of 2,0001. and upwards, in respect of liabilities of the said partnership, if upon investigation of the said accounts by persons to be appointed for that purpose, the said debts and liabilities should amount to those sums ; but, should the same exceed those sums, then that deponent should in any event pay the full sum of 5,0001. for the same ; but that if they did not amount to the sums of money before stated, he deponent, was to ply the excess. That at suet] meeting on the 17th of March aforesaid, the :aid Thomas Briggs was directed by the said Henry Winchester and Henry Sykes Thornton to prepare a proper agreement for carrying the same into effect, and an ap pointment was made to meet on Saturday, the 19th of March following, to execute the same, and which the said H. Winchester and H. S. Thornton agreed to do, provided in the mean time no better offer should be made by any other pers,n ; and deponent Faith, that he did accordingly attend on the Saturday following, being the said 19th of March, at the counting-house of the said Henry Sykes Thornton, at Birchin-lane aforesaid, for the purpose of carrying into effect the said agreement for the said pur chase. That no concealment whatever was made of the terms or conditions thereof to any person or persons whom soever, but, on the contrary thereof, the principle of such conditional agreement, that the same was agreed to be sold to this deponent, provided no better offer was then and there made, was avowed and openly acted upon. That the said Thomas Briggs did not, at such meeting, make any offer of 5001, or any other sum, for and on account of this deponent, otherwise than he might have repeated any offer that had been previously made to that effect by deponent to the assignees. That in his judgment and be• lief, the sum of 5,0001., which, in any event, he had agreed to pay, exclusive of the sum of 4,0001. and upwards due to deponent, in respect of the said partnership, and the sum of 2,0001. and upwards in respect of liabilities of the said partnership, was a better offer than any that has yet been made for the purchase of said shares in the said Sun newspaper. That on the 30th of December, 1831, he received from the said Patrick Grant a letter, in the words and figures hereinafter next mentioned, and to which he replied as is also hereinafter mentioned, that is to say— " 30th Dec.,1831. " Sir,—Having at length obtained my certificate, I am strongly urged to adopt measures of a decisive cha racter, which may, or may not, benefit me and my cre ditors, but must inevitably affect your interest. Before, however, acceding to the suggestions of friends upon the subjec , , I have no objection to meet you. " Understanding that you are confined to the house, I will call at The Sun office, if you will name an hour. " ' Ynur obedient servant, " PATRICK GRANT. " Private and immediate—M. Young, Esq., Sun office.' " Sun office, 31st Dec. 1831. " ' Sir,—l have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter yesterday. I should be sorry to interfere with your acceding to any suggestions of your friends, for adopting any measures that may benefit yourself or your creditors, although (you state) they must inevitably affect my interests. " ' If you have any communication to make, and will send it through my solicitor, it will receive due attention. Yours obediently, " P. Grant, Esq.' " 'M. YOUNG.' " That from his refusal again to unite with the said Patrick Grant in the concerns of the said Sun newspaper, he believes the hostility of the said Patrick Grant arose and has continued towards deponent ; and that the said Pat,ick Grant has united himself with the said John Bell for the purpose of injuring deponent in his char..cter and interest. That lie has reason to believe that the hostility of the eaid John Bell arose in consequence of deponent having refused to employ the said John Bell in the con cerns of the said newspaper, when he tendered his services to deponent in the words and figures following : " ' Saturday Evening, Spectator-office, No. 4, Wellington-street, Strand. " ' Sir,—As I understand that you are about to be come proprietor of The Sun, I beg to offer you my ser vices to write leading articles for that paper. " I have for eight months past been one of the prin cipal contributors to the Spectator; I have had charge of the political department, have furnished leading articles and collective wisticm,' besides papers on political eco nomy, and others on topics of general interest- The reply to the Standard in this week's number is mine, and the notice of Mr. Sadler's law of population,' in the number of last week. It will give me pleasure, however, to submit to your notice the whole series of papers which I have written for the Spectator. " From some statements which have lately been made to me, I have reasons to believe that you, Sir, and I have been labouring under mutual misapprehensions as to the nature of the arrangements which Mr. Grant contemplated when he engaged me to write for The Sun; I should be glad, therefore, at any time when you shall be at leisure, to talk the matter over with you.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, " 4 (Private.) " ' JOHN BELL.' 444 -- Young, Esq.' " That the said John Bell is not, as deponent believes, a person of any property, or had the means of becoming the purchaser of the said three-fourth shares of the said Sun newspaper, for deponent caith that the said John Bell was only, up to the period of his uniting with the said Patrick Grant, an occasional writer in the Court Journal, and other papers of that description. That the said Henry Sykes Thornton has repeatedly declared that he would never consent to the sale of 'the said three-fourth shares of the said newspaper to deponent at any price wha'ever, and that he did not care whether he ever got any dividend upon his debt, provided deponent was not the purchaser thereof. That the hostility of the said H. S. Thornton has arisen towards deponent from his refusal again to unite his interests in the said newspaper with the said Patrick Grant. That Mr. Bartrum is, and always has been, the solicitor for deponent, and that he has never employed any other solicitor since he was connected with the said news paper; and that the said Mr. Bartrum attended the said meeting, on the 19th March, 1831, as his said solicitor, and that the deponent, never directly or indirectly, em ployed the said Thomas Briggs as his solicitor, or other wise, concerning the same, or in any other matter what ever." AFFIDAVIT AS TO THE AGREEMENT AND MR. SEARLE. " Thomas Briggs, of Lincoln's Inn-fields, county of Middles'ex, Gent., saith, that having read the affidavit of Samuel Searle, of Fetter-lane, in the city of London, Gent., made and filed in the matter of this information, and wherein the said S. Searle deposed that the agreement therein mentioned was subsequently returned to the said S. Searle by the deponent, without any note or comment whatever, and wherein the said S. Searle positively denies that deponent did make any such objections as had been stat d by deponent in his said affidavit, upon which leave to file this information was granted; and as evidence thereof the said S. Searle annexed to his said affidavit a copy of an agreement which be alleged had been so for warded to, and subsequently returned by, deponent to hint as aforesaid, he, deponent, saith, that he called upon the said S. Searle, and represented to him the mistake he had made in such affidavit, and showed him the said copy of agreement with the said objections so made therein, and as it stated in the affidavit so made by deponent, and the said S. Searle was thereupon convinced of the un truth of the allegation so made by him, and wrote and sent to deponent the following letter thereon, that is to say, " The King v. Grant.—Sir,—Having made two copies of the agreement in question, one for you and the other for Messrs. Alliston and Co., Mr. Thornton's Soli citors, I have reason to believe that the one annexed to my affidavit in the above, was returned me by Messrs. Alliston and Co., and not by you. I regret that the error shoal have arisen, but having written you the 31st March to return me the draft, and finding it indorsed, returned by you on that day, will, I trust, after such a lapse of time, account for my falling into the error. I have handed Mr. Grant's Attorney a copy of this letter. " I remain yowl obediently, " S. SEARLE. " Fetter-lane, Fleet-street, 30th May, 1832.' "ro Mr. Briggs.' 6 "rhat the said objections so made by deponent to the said agreement have been subsequently decided to be legal and proper objections, and the opinion of deponent thereon confirmed by the decision of the Right Hon. the Lord High Chancellor, in the suit instituted against the said assignees by the said Murdo Young, who, by the decree made and pronounced in that suit, directed that the pur chaser of the said shares in the said newspaper should take and hold the same in like manner as the said Pattie]; Grant had held them under his deed of copartnership with the said Murdo Young. And deponent saith, that if t advice of deponent to the said assignees to sell the ail shares to the said Murdo Young, pursuant to the ,aid agreement he bad prepared, had been carried into effect, we estate of the said Patrick Grant would have bee❑ henefitted to the extent of 5,0001., which, by the refusal of the said H. S. Thornton to do, has been wholly lost to the said estate ; and the said H. Winchester and also de ponent were ready and willing to have sold the said shares of the said newspaper to the said John Bell and James S. Lomax, until it was di.covered that they were not persons of respectable character or of responsibility sufficient to complete the said purchase." AFFIDAVITS AS TO CHARACTER OF LOMAX AND SUTTON. " James Lucett, of Harleston-terrace, Albany-road, in the county of Surrey, Gent., saith, that he is well ac quainted with and personally knows James Samuel Lomax, the person who made and filed an affidavit in the matter of this information on or about the 3d day of Mac, 1832, and who is in such affidavit described as late of Brompton Villa, in the county of Middlesex, but then of Jermyn-street, St. James's, in the said county, Esquire ; and has been informed and believes that he is a person of low extraction and character ; and bath been informed by him that he was some few years back either master or assistant to his father, as master of the Racquet-ground in the Fleet Prison—a situation which is allowed by the Warden to be filled by such persons only as are prisoners there, and in the most reduced circumstances ; and that the said James Samuel Lomax at,erwards, and in the month of March, in the year 1831, lodged at deponent's house, called Brompton Villa, in the county of Middlesex aforesaid ; and during his residence at this deponent's said villa was visited by one Samuel Sutton, the person who also made and filed an affidavit in the matter of this in formation on or about the 22d of May, 1832, and who is therein described as of Curzon-street, May-fair ; and deponent having been informed and believing the said Samuel Sutton to have been the keeper and proprietor of a common gaming-house in Jermyn-street aforesaid, and to have been tried in this Honourable Court and con victed of fraud and conspiracy, and afterwards imprisoned for that crime, he, deponent, objected to the said Samuel Sutton visiting the said James Samuel Lomax at depo nent's said villa at Brampton aforesaid, and afterwards fre quently informed him of the character of the said Samuel Sutton, and represented to him that he was a disgraceful acquaintance for him to a,sociate with ; but that the said Samuel Sutton having obtained an improper influence over the said James Samuel Lomax, they both afterwards, as deponent bath been informed and believes, joined in low gambling transactions, and frequented the gaming booths at different fairs and races, and led a most disgracefnl and degrading course of life, and the said James Samuel Lomax having insisted upon continuing his connection with the said Samuel Sutton, and also endeavoured to introduce low and improper characters into this deponent's said villa, deponent was compelled to, and accordingly did, give him notice to quit the same, which he thereupon did some short time prior to making his said affidavit filed in this matter. That he attended the trial of this information for the purpose of giving evidence of the above fact, but was not examined to prove the same." " Phineas Davis, of Red Lion-square, in the county of Middlesex, Sheriff's Officer, saith that he knows James Samuel Lomax, the person who made and filed an affidavit in the matter of this information, on or about the 3d day of May, 1832, and who is, in such affidavit, described as late of Brompton Villa, in the county of Middlesex, but then of Jermyn-street, St. James's, in the said county, Esq. ; and also knows, and is well acquainted with, said Samuel Sutton, the person who also made and filed an affidavit, in the matter of this inftrmation, on or about the 22d day of May, aforesaid, and who is therein described as of Curzon•street, May-fair; and deponent saith that the said James Samuel Lomax and Samuel Sutton were the associates of persons of known bad character; and that, from his knowledge of them, the said James Samuel Lorna: and Samuel Sutton, and their connections, he does not believe that either of them, the said James Samuel Lomax and Samuel Sutton, were persons of responsibility, or are such as he would take for bail. That he has been informed by the said Samuel Sutton, that he was con nected with, or concerned with, other persons, in the keeping of a common gambling-house, in Piccadilly, and deponent has heard and believes that he, the said Samuel Sutton, has been tried in this Honourable Court, and con victed of fraud and conspiracy, and afterwards imprisoned for that offence." " Philip Cotton, clerk to Messrs. Praeds and Co., of Fleet-street, London, bankers, saith, that James Samuel Lonaax. late of Brompton Villa, in the county of Middlesex, and of Jermyn-street, St. James's, in the said county, kept an account with the said Messrs. Praeds and Company, as his bankers, from the month of July, 1828, to the month of June, 1t,31 ; and that the amount of moneys which passed through the hands of the said Messrs. Praeds and Co., during that period, was of small amount, and that particularly from the Ist day of January to the 17th day of June, in the year 1831, the tots' amount of moneys which passed through the hands of the said Messrs Praeds and Co., on account of the said James Samuel Lomax, was only 1161. 7s. 15 , 1„ ; and that the said banking account of the said James Samuel Lomax was closed with them on the said 17th day of June, 1831. That the opinion of the credit of the said James Samuel Lomax was such, that if any draft had been presented for payment without having effects, they would not have paid the same. That he attended the trial of this information for the purpose of giving evidence of the above facts, but was not examined to prove the same." Mr. HUMFREY and Mr. KELLY addressed the Court on behalf of Mr. Grant and Mr. Ager, and after remarking upon the hardship of the evidence alluded to having been excluded at the trial, they entered at some length into the facts stated in the affidavits, and contended that although Mr. Grant had used intemperate and unjustifiable language with respect to the prosecutors, he had received what he considered a sufficient provocation from them, and although he might be mistaken in the motives he attributed to those gentlemen, it was too true that he had suffered the deepest injury, and that might be considered sufficient punishment for the offence of which lie had been convicted. The defendant Bell then addressed the Court at considerable length, and urged very strongly the oppressive nature of the present law of libel. He stated that himself and Mr. Grant regretted that they had been led to use language which was intem perate and indefensible, but they still felt that the conduct of the prosecutors had been so injurious to them that they could not retract the substance of their charges against them. Sir JAMES SCARLETT, on the part of the prose cution, observed upon the hardship to which per sons were subjected when they came with the highest characters to claim their Lordships' protec tion from a series of the most violent and unpro voked attacks upon their reputations. In this case, as in many others, the defendants, who had been convicted of the grossest libels, had assumed the tone of complainants, and persevered to the last in reiterating their charges, although they had been disproved upon oath, a n d the great subject of com plaint, the sale of the paper to Mr. Young, had been the subject of litigation in the Court of Chan cery, where it had been approved, and his right of pre-eniption established by the judgment of the Lord Chancellor. These defendants, however, who felt themselves personally ag grieved in the transactions, had thought proper to charge all the parties opposed to them with the grossest misconduct, and had even attacked the late Lord Tenterden for the decision he had given; and he (Sir J. Scarlett) supposed that their Lord ships would be subjected to the same sort of treat ment for the judgment they were about to pro nounce. He trusted, however, that no terrors of what these defendants might say in their newspaper would prevent their Lordships from passing such a sentence as would prevent the publication by them of similar libels in future. Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE, after commenting on the intemperate language of the libels, and stating the general nature of the transaction, said that the sentence of the Court was, that the defendants Grant and Bell be imprisoned for six months, and the defendant Ager one month, in the custody of the Marshal of the Marshalsea. DO V appoii he cowl orn at a to natni ight Ica icatioa na had le bad I 'mart, I ter for ' rview 1 , Pe] in to' Lordsl trends left hli t, to co )nly in tiffs, Al 1g trustrill of if boil our °I • 'lmmo Iv raise IC W ill and I DAY' be Vic inter° row, s OW e to 'sere Ltrol 1 did be g e Ham" inw. duP 1g II vith il ° A isvo flO.l Cot guisr i ler , sb 0 on% o all it of 'll' Id i 1 PjisM THE KING V. HERNAMAN. In this case, which was not concluded yesterday when we went to press, the rule was discharged. TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLlN.—Saturday was an examinatio❑ day in C 'liege, and the young gentle men amused themselves the entire of the evening in parading College-green and Grafton-street in groups of tour and five. At eleven o'clock the gentlemen became particularly riotous; they divided themselves into parties and assumed a political character. Two sets occupied Grafton street for a short time, the one huzzaing for Papists and the other Protestants; they were clad in white shirts and white caps. Peace-officer M'Evoy, with a few of the College-street gentry, appeared on the ground and gave battle to tile blades, securing a couple of them, in order that they might stand a second exami• n stion before Alderman Fleming and Mr. G.ll bet.— Stewart's Despatch. CHURCH PROPERTY. It is much to he deprecated that church reform should become, in the Legislature, merely a ques tion between the established sect and the non-esta ; lished sects. Should that happen, the result will most likely be a stopping short in, turning aside from, the course which ought to be pursued in order • o obtain f om change the greatest amount of national good. It is very possible that matters may be com promised between the clergy, who, practically, arc (he church, on the one hand, and the leading deno mination of Dissenters on the other. " Holy Or 'ers," and pre.ended " Holy Orders," may be made to stand ( with the exception of the money dif rerenee, arid of the preference of fashion) on the -ame step of the social platform ; dissenting lovers may be allowed to join hands in the unconsecrated chapel; and the dissenting dead be allowed, with the benediction on their bones of the voice which in life they loved, to rest in the consecrated burial ground. Nay, tithes may be no longer levied, as at present, and church rates can be receipted by r. pas tor's certificate of membership. All this, and more, may happen, even until insolence and grumbling shall be hushed together, and the " righteousness" .)1 the church and the " peace" of dissent shall have " embraced each other;" and yet the people remairt destitute of advantages to which they have a right; and the prospect of obtaining which imparts ird 'Ugliest value, its properly national interest, to the . subject of church reform. All consideration about rival parties, sectarian rights, and ecclesiastical ine qualities shrink into comparative insignificance be fore the great question—Shall the huge mass of pro perty, which is now unworthily held by the hierarchy, continue to be so perverted, or be applied to its legi timate purpose, the intellectual and moral culture of entire population ? This is the question which, in proportion as the people understand their rights and interests, they will require of the legislature t(' answer. This is the question which every patriotic legislator should moot. This is the question which the press should unceasingly agitate and discuss. It is the " case" of the people, and should swallow up' the case of the Dissenters.—Monthly Repository:, BURNS. In the morning of life, Burns met lords with gyre and embarrassment ; in the afternoon of etigtentei he encountered them with suspicion or scorn. Those who named a lord, or alluded to a persan of rank in his company, were instantly crushed in an epi gram, or insulted by some sarcastic sally. The conduct of the Scottish aristocracy had sunk to his heart, and the neglect of the Pitt administration was seldom away from his fancy. The more he saw of the world, and the more he reflected, these unwel come thoughts pressed the more upon him. lie could not but know that the high-born and the well-connected prospered; that thousands less worthy than himself were fastening on posts and pensions, and elbowing the sons of genius out of what he reckoned their patrimony ; he had also been made to feel his dependance, in that insulting mandate from the Board of Excise, that his duty was "to act and not to think." It is true that his dislike might have been expressed with more cour tesy, and his wit might have had less ferocity, with equal keenness of point. Yet, when he proposed to , drink the health of Washington instead of Pitt, it was a less matter of ill-breeding or republican feel ing, than a burst of anger : he considered the Pre mier as one of his oppressors, and perhaps the want of courtesy belonged to him who invited the poet to dinner, and greeted him with this unwelcome toast. In the company of ladies, Burns was quite another being : for them he calmed down his im petuous temper, and allowed all that was winning in his nature to shine out. He was fierce as Moloch among men; among women he was a Bella], soft, insinuating and eloquent : his eyes, which before sparkled like those of the serpent, becume meek like those of the dove : the love of contradiction died within him, and he courted his way to their hearts and their understandings at the same time. In this his letters differ widely from his conversation: the presence of beauty inspired him ; when it was no longer before him he seems to hunt for thoughts and hesitate for words, and, amid much natural emotion, is affected and cumbrous. Nothing more untrue was ever uttered than that his female pa tronesses shrunk from the vehement familiarity of his admiration ; there is no proof to he found of this: Margaret Chalmers, indeed, scrupled to have a song published in her praise; and Miss Alexander chose to resent by her silence the song of the " Lass of Ballochmyle ;" but there is no instance of ladies shrinking from the audacity of his admiration. His most constant correspondents were ladies of birth and talent; the ladies of the north, much to their honour, sympathized with their poet to the last; and the day after he was buried some of the proudest dames of Dumfriesshire shed tears as they scattered flowers over his grave. In truth, he did not express the rapture of an enamoured peasant, as Jeffrey as sures us he did, but the admiration of a man : he preferred the good breeding of nature to the iced civilities of polished life.—Cunningham's Life of Burns. CAPTAIN WATHEN'S SERvIcE.---Captain A. Watben was appointed a Deputy-Assistant Commis sary-General in December, 1814; be served with that department in Flanders in 1815 ; at Corfu in 1817 ; a Malta in 1818; and afterwards in the lonian Isles till his appointment as Cornet to the Bth Royal Irish Hussars, in July, 1820; in June, 1823, Lieutenant in the Ist Dra goons ; 1824 be was removed to the 15th Hussars ; Sep tember 1826, a Captain in the same corps. _ _ FORCE OF HABIT.—It is related by an eye witness, that many of the soldiers, during the retreat of Sir John Moore, actually fell asleep on the march, yet still ' continued walking on, and it has occurred to ourselves more than once, after a long and fatiguing day's sport, to walk, after nightfall, a considerable length of a road—we shall not say exactly in a state of somnolency, but clearly without any continued act of volition on our parts, or any consciousness of what we had done or passed. Nor is this at all difficult to explain. Every one knows how many actions, begun voluntarily, are continued alter the will no longer influences them, and the attention is drawn away to another subject. It is in this way that people ac quire those habitudes called tricks, and an alderman, who originally twirled his thumbs for diversion, and employed :t distinct act of volition in setting his thumbs going, will continue to twirl them after he has lost all consciousness of the matter, merely from the force of habit. In march ing, too, the soldier exercises a distinct act of volition at his first setting off, but lie does nut require that this should be renewed for every succeeding step ; the itnpul•e once given, the motion is continued without his further attention to the matter ; and, if he be impressed with a general feeling of the necessity of advancing, more particu larly if he find himself in the centre of an advanci ig holy, lea will continue to progress, whether his mental ficulties lie engaged, as we all know they may, in some far distant speculation, or are withdrawn equally in another manner, by being laid to sleep.—Atheficcunt. PRIVATE LIFE OF THE ANCIENT RO NIANS. —The Roma❑ family life was entirely Samnite ; in other words, rural, simple, moral, and moderate. The residence of a Roman, that of the senators excepted, was, in earlier times, in the country; be only resorted to the town on business, and returned as soon as his business was finished. Round about him lived his children, grand children, and clients, who stood upon a similar footing ; he was at once father and judge, and the state did nut concern itself about whst passed in the interior of the fa mily. Such a constitution seems to involve horrible ty ranny, as the husband was lord over the life and death of his wife, the father of his son, whom he could even sell as a slave three times successively. L is well known, how. ever, that the feelings of nature, when cherished, are su perior to all ordinances. Exatnp!ea of the abuse of the paternal power are rare, though it cannot he denied that such examples do here and there occur. The government of families rendered it possible to dispense with courts of justice and with law books in the earlier times. When, however, the inhabitants of the town increased in number, ind were more mixed, other regulations became necessary. The Roman housewife was not severed, like the Grecian, from political life and social intercourse, confined to her own chamber, and excluiled from the circles ofahe mascu line sex, which, amongst the Greek , , could only be visited by a hetaira. The Raman matron was educated, honoured, land admitted into male society, and a divorce, easy as it was, continued, in the times of which we treat, a thi ng ,inhear I of.—. Lardner's Cabinet Cyelortedia.