The Sun. — London, England, 1834-07-04 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, Ireland appears likely to continue the apple of discord in this country. The discussion last night between Mr. Lit tleton and Mr. O'Connell—involving a question of conven tional honour always painful to decide—is a fresh symptc m of political irritation. We cannot long continue to govern Ireland by a system of coercion. The suspension of con stitutional rights, or the violation of the first principles of a constitution, may be always traced to mis-government. It requires no supernatural powers to detect the ca uses of this unhappy Social state of the sister kingdom. We do not say that the Protestant Hierarchy of Ireland is the sole cause of Irish discontents or the only evil of the nation. The grievances of the Irish People are various, deep seated, and of long duration ; and they are often so blended, that it is difficult to say to what particular cause any effect is attri butable. But the Church affords the handle for agitation, and mainly contributes to social disunion. The materials of agitation exist independently of Mr. O'Connell, who applies only the igniting spark to the fuel. He would be powerless without the popular discontent which gives him force to agitate ; and so long as the causes of dissatisfaction are allowed to exist, so long will there be agitators in Ireland. But it would be unreasonable to ex pect from the present Ministry an immediate remedy for Irish grievances. The cure is a work of time, and in the conflict of parties and legislative difficulties we see a long and gloomy delay. Nevertheless much has been done to wards alleviation, and agitation has in truth proCu :ed, with all its attendant evils, much that is unquestionably good. Catholic emancipation was forced on the Duke of Welling ton and the pliant Sir R. Peel. Church cess and tithes were modified by the same means. But the consequences of the com plaint, and the cure, were agrarian or predial evils, which re quired extraordinary laws for the protection of life and property. Such was the origin of the " Irish Coercion Bill," the " Act for the more effectual suppression of Local Disturbances and Dangerous Associations in Ireland," enacted in April of last year, for a period of 15 months, expiring in August next. The second reading of a partial renewal of this measure takes place in the House of Lords this evening. The new Bill is entitled, "An Act to con tinue, under certain modifications, for one year, an Act made in the third year of his present Majesty, for the more effectual suppression of Local Disturbances and Dangerous Associations in Ireland." As we stated on Wednesday last, it is a simple declaratory Bill, re-enacting till August, 1835, the old Coercion Sta tute, excepting only the courtmartial clauses. Now, with regard to the wisdom of this critical measure, it cannot be denied that extraordinary laws were required to suppress the outrages of the rural population of Ireland ; and we admit that the agrarian portions of the Coercion Bill may still be justified by the nature and amount of ex isting crime. But we confess, although gratified by the ex purgation of the clauses constituting courtsmartial, we see as yet no proved necessity for renewing what are denomina ted the political clauses of the Bill, affecting the great right of assembling in public meeting for the purpose of petitioning. We do not mean to assert that, in the agitated state of Ireland, some control may not be desirable in rela tion to public meetings and their proceedings. The summary and irresponsible power in the Lord Lieu tenant to prohibit and suppress any association, as sembly or body of persons which he may deem "to be dangerous to the public peace or safety, or inconsistent with the due administration of the law," is, however, a despotic power which can be justified only by absolute necessity. In any event this sweeping prerogative of the Viceroy of Ireland should be restricted to proclaimed counties. It might be expedient also to modify other clauses of the Bill. In the present state of Ireland, and under the circumstances of the important public questions which must come before Parliament next Session, is it wise to close up all the safety-valves of public opinion ? Is there- any present reason for the renewal of all these tremendous and dangerous powers ? We cannot believe that Ministers are actuated by any illiberal feelings towards Ireland, but it behoves them deeply to consider whether the perpetuation of this system of political restraint is politic or really calculated to effect its desired end. We are not of the number of those who defend all the acts and modes of proceeding of the agitators. They may not intend to excite to illegal acts the mi sera bl e people who outrage the laws of society, and yet their agitation may have the inflammatory effect which it is afterwards con venient for them to disown and condemn. We much question whether the intended renewal of the Coercion Bill will not increase the popularity, power, and rent of Mr. O'Connell. We cannot vindicate all the shifts and mercu rial devices of Mr. O'Connell to rid his country of the abo minable evils which oppress it ; but we do think that a little conciliation and concession would satisfy his party, and secure their ce-operation in the common weal. If matters, however, proceed in this way, we foresee evils difficult to cure—a revival of the impolitic question of Repeal of the Union—and differences almost irreconcileable between the two nations. While there is yet time for accommodation we ardently hope it will be tried. The Tories will unques tionably, profit by the unsettled state of the Church ques tion of appropriation ; and we doubt much whether this Bill will pass through Parliament so glibly as its prede cessor, notwithstanding the moderate and creditable con duct of the Irish Government in the administration of the present odious statute. No Coercion Bills will uphold a Protestant Church Establishment in Catholic Ireland. Any British Government must have Mr. O'Connell for friend or foe—a difficult but necessary election.—Morning Chronicle. Short as was the sitting of the Commons last night, it was the scene of an angry, and, we may add, an important dispute between Mr. O'Connell and Mr. Littleton, the Chief Secretary for Ireland. We call the dispute important, because the subject of it was important, inasmuch as it re lated to the conduct of Ministers in their dealing with that part of the United Kingdom, which has been, through all its long, dark, troubled, -frightful history a reproach upon the name of Government. As for the personal feeling, mixed up with the public matter of this dispute, every well constituted mind must regret it, were there no other rea son for doing so than its tendency to obscure the truth. Our readers are aware that, for some days back, reports have been afloat stating differences of opinion to exist letween the Irish Government and their colleagues on this side of the water as to the propriety of renewing the Coercion Act. It now appears that these reports had reference to conversations between Mr. O'Connell and the Secretary for Ireland, and each gentleman accuses the other of breach of faith, the one for having disclosed a confidential communication, the other for having held out expectations which have not been realised. Without en teri :g into the personal inquiry how far either or both gentlemen may have committed themselves on this occasion, it is enough for us and the public to know that there is evidence . of such indecision, of such weakness and vaci lation on the part of the Government as cannot fail to make a deep and lastingimpression. Nothing can be more evident, as we conceive, judging from the statements on both sides; than that the Government contemplated ori ginfilly 'a far more extensive qualification of the Act than the: speech.of Lord Grey has announced. It is to this vacillating policy, and not to any premeditated intention on - the - part of the Secretary for Ireland to mislead Mr. O'Connell, :that we ascribe the contradiction which cer tainly does exist between the expectation held out and the performance actually resolved upon. No person acquainted with Mr. Littleton's character will suspect him of intending originally to have deceived Mr. O'Connell and his part!. Even if we had no foundation for that belief in the character of Mr. Littleton, it would be difficult to suppose, giving him credit for an ordinary portion of under.,ta.nding, that he would voluntarily encounter, not the risk but the certainty of detection. We conclude, therefore, that Mr. Littleton (and we believe not only that gentleman, but the Government itself) was ignorant during his early communications with Mr. O'Connell of the course which it seems is now to be pursued. But is this wavering, hesitating, dilatory, contradictory mode of proceeding in reference to , a country so critically circumstanced as Ire land, consistent with good government ? Let the present position of the Ministry answer the question. Probably it was the increased sense of their own weakness in the Upper House of Parliament that led them to compromise with a powerful party, by giving up the alterations which they intended, .and which their own colleagues who had local means of judging recommended to their adoption. But however this may be, they ought to have known their own minds before, in which case we should never heard their Irish Secretary taunted, as he was last night, and put upon his defence against such a charge as deception. Our con clusion from the whole, at least in the hasty view in which we are now compelled to take of it, is that Mr. Littleton has acted a weak, not a treacherous part, and that the Go vernment of which he is a member not only participated in hit weakness, but by its conduct has created the difficulty front which neither he nor they can be said to have yet ex tricated themselves.-11forning Herald. That Mr. Littleton was indiscreet in making the com munication he did to Mr. O'Connell cannot be denied ; but it was surely not only natural, but laudable, in a constitu tional Government, sincerely attached to the principles of liberty, to defer to the last moment their decision on the question of the renewal of so painful a measure as the Irish Coercion, or, as it may rather be termed, Protective Bill. That Bill they must have felt as strongly as the loudest brawler against it to be the legitimate offspring of necessity alone, and if disclaimed by its parents, it would become a monster, without a feature of utility to redeem its defor mity. They would therefore certainly wait to the last mo ment to ascertain whether any, and if so how much, of so odious a remedy might be spared. They would naturally watch the progress or decline of the disease, and, with out doubt, indulge hopes that others of the nauseous drugs, as well as the courtsmartial, the most drastic and disgusting ingredient of the potion, might be dispensed with. But certainly Mr. O'Connell's own conduct would constitute no small part of the symptoms to which they were in prudence bound to attend. It is not unlikely that Mr. Littleton and others, weighing the rea sonaMe motives which would actuate an honourable, or even a judicious mind, might have indulged the fond hope that Mr. O'Connell would, with a sincere view of restoring to his countrymen the blessings of constitutional freedom and English law, have renounced all notions of reviving a mock parliament, and overawing the constituted authorities of the state, by perpetual agitation for the selfish and gro velling purpose of rasing supplies for himself. But it was equally reasonable to watch the Learned Gentle man's conduct and whatever their sanguine expectations of his forbearanc3 or amendment might be, his letter to the electors of Wexford was quite sufficient to dispel all such hopes, and not only to justify, but to call for all such precautions against his proceedings as the sup position of his most virulent and factious conduct would warrant. It was clear from that letter that his inclination to mischief can only be bounded by his power, and it would therefore have been madness to increase that power in the persuasion that he would use it either honestly or moderately. Indeed, the conversation of last night, whatever may be its bearings on the public estimate of Mr. Littleton's discre tion, is quite sufficient to show that no reliance is to be placed in the assurances of the great Repeal Agitator, and much less on a speculation that he would forbear to hazard the tranquillity of his country, and the lives of his followers, to his love of applause or his appetite for " rent," on the sole and precarious ground of some general professions. It is clear to the meanest understanding that if that part of the law which forbids mock parliaments, and prevents usurped legislation in Ireland, were withdrawn, we should have associations and seditious incitements to violence for the repeal of the union, and for every other species of outrage, immediately ; and we certainly must deprecate that policy which would visit the wretched kerns with fire, sword, and destruction, but would leave the Agi tator himself at ease, and allow him, with impunity, to incite them to crimes and to pocket the wages of that ini quity which he had the opportunity of stimulating, but not the courage to execute. The Ministers may, therefore, be commended for their determination to prevent the possibi lity of his continuing thus to act, although it is impossible not to lament the necessity of infringing on the natural liberty of our fellow-subjects, whether it be by confining the poor peasant to his miserable hut at night, or closing the mouth and impeding the brawling eloquence of the wily agitator by day. • To punish the one without checking the other would be alike foolish and unjust.—Morning Advertiser. THE ARMY. The 93d Highlanders have received a letter of readiness to march from Canterbury to Chatham. The head-quarters Of the 50th, at Chatham, expect to em bark in the course of a month for Sydney, New South Wales, about half the regiment having already sailed. On Wednesday that fine regiment the Scots Greys, now in Piershill barracks, was reviewed on Portobello Sands by Ma jor-General the Hon. P. Stuart, Commander of the Forces, the officers of the 68th regiment and of the artillery. The day being on the whole favourable, a great number of elegant equipages and gentlemen on horseback were on the sands, to gether with a great concourse of people from Edinb urg h and the neighbourhood. The regiment went through their various evolutions in a manner that excited the admiration of all pre sent, and at the close of the review Gen. Stuart expressed his satisfaction with the soldier-like appearance of the men, and the high state of discipline which they evinced in their various tactics. In the afternoon Gen. Stuart inspected the barracks, and expressed his gratification with the cleanliness and order that prevailed. (From the Limerick Chronicle.) When the new dress is adopted the 36th regiment will wear embroidered on their forage caps their regimental motto, " Firm," which was given them in consequence of a despatch of Lord Cornwallis, who eulogised the gallantry of the brave 36th, describing their resisting repeated attacks made on their post in India, as being " firm as the rock they stood upon." It will have a very good appearance. A letter from Kingston, Jamaica, dated May 5, says— " The four companies of the 56th regiment, now at head quarters in Spanish Town, will embark on board the Romney, about the middle of this week, for the Northside, to relieve the 77th regiment. The two companies of the 77th, which have been on board the Magnificent for the last ten days past, will accompany the 56th regiment in the Romney, when the whole of the 77th will proceed to England, after a service of ten years in Jamaica. Our best wishes will attend that dis tinguished and excellent corps. The Bth regiment goes to Spanish Town, the 22d to Fort Augusta, the 64th to Stoney Hill, and the 37th remain at Up-Park Camp." The head-quarter division of the 52d Light Infantry, under the command of Colonel Ferguson, C. 8., will march from Belfast on Tuesday, and arrive at Enniskillen on the Bth July, for the purpose of relieving the 27th, which regiment will .proceed to Mullingar. Tnv companloo and tho hood ciy.nrtora of tbo 7 (tit regiment, commanded by Lieut.-Colonel Mein, will leave Newry on the Ist July, and arrive at Belfast, to replace the 52d regiment on the 3d of that month. The 43d Light Infantry are now at Clonmel. Lieut.-Colonel Adair, with one half of the Marine Batta lion, and the company of Marine Artillery, are recalled from further service in the Tagus. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT THE CUSTOM -HOUSE, JULY 3. Giraffe, Denys, Bruges, Cherry-garden, Cooper; Magnet, Page, Riga, Watson's-wharf, Chapman • Abeloxa, Ibsen, Aarhuus, Limehouse, Tanner ; Nicolethes Minde, Molah, Aaborg, ditto, Dick ; Hoffnung, Engellandt, Neustadt, ditto, Sack ; Sir Edward ' Banks, Norwood, Rotterdam, Cdstom house, De Big ; Challenger, Alexander, Smyrna, Lond on Dock, Walker ; Ceres Bockieman, Gamla Carleby, Lime house, Ludgrove. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING, JULY 3. Columbine, Corbin, Hamburg, 242 tons ; Union, De Jonge, Ostend, 58 ; Alexander, Tucker, Bilboa, 108 ; Earl of Liver pool, Lomax, Ostend, 168 ; Halo, Dulling, Hamburg, 85 ; Brocklebank, Stranack, Antwerp, 125 ; Elizalteth Taylerson, Lander, Sydney, 242; Charles William, Trotter, Elsineur and Petersburgh, 311 ; Calista, Jewell, New York, 316 ; Thetis, Arnold, Hamburg, 240 ; Queed of Isl6s, Trail, Leg horn, 170; Jane, Sargent, Cape Coast Castle, 74. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGOES, JULY 3. Berger, Vercantain, Ostend ; Irwell, Holiday, St. Peters burgh ; Weichel, Laing, Stetting ; Catherine Ann, Norrie,. Cape of Good Hope and Algoa Bay ; Ferguson, Young, Cal cutta; Cherry, P. Lamburd, Hamburg; Matilda, Perkins, Bordeaux. CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST, JULY 3. Minerva, Egbett, New Harlingen, 59 tons ; Copernicus, Walter, Menal, 276; Else Marra, Schmidt, Dantzic, 90 ; Vrow Metta, Munertz, ditto, 66; Druid, Treadwell, Mont serrat, 249; Branch, Clourie, Neustadt, 86 ; Northam, Char rore, Harlingen, 115; Renown, Smith, Oporto, 92. REVIEW OF THE COLDSTREAM GUARDS.— Yesterday morning, after nine o'clock, a grand review of the Coldstream Guards took place in Hyde-park, before Lord Hill and a numerous stair of field officers. At eight o'clock the troops marched from Knightsbridge Barracks into Hyde park, where, after remaining a short time, Lord Hill , arrived, and the review commenced. The numerous evolutions, which they performed with great precision, gave general satisfaction. Lord Hill highly complimented Colonel M‘Kinnon, the Colonel of the Coldstream Guards, and also the officers and men, for their soldier-like conduct. To-morrow morning, at eleven o'clock, another final and grand review of the Household In fantry will take place in Hyde-park, before his Grace the Duke of Wellington, Lord Hill, and all the principal military officers in London, it being the final one for the present sum mer. The Household Infantry and Cavalry have never before had so many field, grand inspection, and review days, as they have had this summer. Accounts 'of the wheat from all the agricultural dis tricts are of the most flattering description, and should the present splendid weather continue an early and productive harvest may be confidently looked forward to.— Western Lu minary. Of the geography of Asia Minor very little is known. Colonel Leake has, perhaps, thrown more light upon this subject than any other traveller. A very valuable addi tion to our stock of knowledge is, however, about to be pre sented to the public in the forthcoming narrative of Mr: Arun del], British chaplain at Smyrna, a gentleman in every way qualified for investigating the remarkable remains of antiquity that exist in this portion of the globe. Many very interesting discoveries have been the result of his exertions. Among others, he has ascertained beyond dispute, the site of Antioch, the once famous capital of Pisidia. It was here that the apostles Paul and Barnabas sought, in pursuance of their high mission, to disseminate the doctrines of Christianity. The locality of several other ancient cities has also been now first discovered by Mr. Arundell. SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.-AS a person was shooting swallows a few days ago, at Osbaldwick, he fired at, and wounded one, which fell as if its wing was broken, to within a few feet of the earth, when another swallow flew directly un derneath, and bore it gently up. After having attained a con siderable elevation, the bird underneath withdrew its support ; but finding the wounded bird was sinking again to the earth, it resumed its station, and once more raised it in the air. This was done several times ; till at last the bird which was wounded flew away,—as if it had not been hurt at all,—its companion followed it. This is as remarkable an instance of attachment and sympathy in the feathered tribe as we ever heard of.—Hull Observer. REMARKABLE FACT.—On Thursday week, a mare, belonging to Mr. Dunwell, of Doncaster, died rather suddenly, and on being opened by Mr. John Newell, farrier, of Pontefract, two stones, each presenting the appearance of a flattened sphere, perfectly smooth, and marked with curious lines and figures, something like what is seen on polished spars, were discovered on the stomach. The smaller of these stones w as found stopping up the small gut, and the larger was loose in the stomach. They were of the weight of 41bs. 10oz. and 11b. 2oz. Though carrying this great internal weight, the mare had always been fat and well tilt,Ae day of her 'death, and had run almost daily for years ten in the mail from Pontefract to Thorne and back. THE SUN, LONDON , FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1834. WINDSOR, JULY 3 The Queen, accompanied by their Serene Highnesses Prince and Princess Hohenlohe, and attended by Miss Wilson, arrived at the Castle this day, at one o'clock. Her Majesty partook of luncheon, and left the Castle again at six o'clock, on her return to St. James's. The visit to Windsor was principally for the purpose of making some necessary arr angements i pre vious to her Majesty's departure for Germany, w hich ill take place on Saturday next. During the absence of the Queen the King will reside entirely at Windsor, with her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester. The Princess Augusta will be a daily visiter at the Castle, but her Royal Highness will not reside there entirely, her own residence,. Frogmore, being so contiguous to it. The 20th of August is the period fixed upon for the return of the Queen to this country. COURT CIRCULAR. The King gave audience, yesterday, to Monsieur Lichten berg, the Hanoverian Charge d'Affaires, and also to the Mar• quis of Ailsa. The Queen, attended by Miss Wilson, left town about half past ten o'clock, yesterday morning, for Windsor Castle. Her Majesty was expected to return to town last night. _ _ The Princess Augusta, the Duchess of Gloucester, the Princess Sophia, the Princess Sophia Matilda, and the Duke of Cumberland, visited the King yesterday. The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria drove and walked in the Parks yesterday. Prince Lieven, the Russian Ambassador, and the Princess Lieven, took leave, yesterday, of the Princess Augusta, at her residence, St. James's Palace. The Duke of Cumberland honoured the Duke of Welling ton with his company, on Wednesday evening, at the enter tainment given by his Grace at Apsley House. The Duke of Saxe Meinigen, attended by the Baron Sper sardt, honoured the performance of the Concert at the King's Theatre, yesterday morning, with his presence. The Duke of Sussex visited the Princess Augusta on Wed nesday. A deputation of Members of the House of Commons waited on Viscount Althorp yesterday, to present a memorial from Mr. Gurney, the inventor of steam-carriages on common roads. The deputation included the Right Hon. Sir Henry Hardinge, Sir W. Molesworth, Mr. Jephson, Sir George Cayley, Mr. Cayley ( Yorkshire), Sir R. Vivian, Mr. Benett (Wilts), Mr. Handley (Lincolnshire), Sir C. Lemon, Mr. Heter, Mr. Wallace, Mr. Tooke, Sir W. Trelawny, Mr. Pen darves, Mr. Buller, Mr. J. H. Vivian, Mr. Fellowes, Mr. Halcomb, Mr. Hardy, and Mr. Buckingham. Monsieur de Moraes Sarmento, the Portuguese Minister, visited Viscount Palmerston yesterday at the Foreign Office. Mr. Secretary Rice was expected in town, last night from Cambridge. Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to presen the Com mittee for the Restoration of the Ladye Chapel, St. Saviour's, with the sum of 251., towards the liquidation of the balance of expence incurred in preserving that ancient edifice. OPINIONS OF COUNSEL AS TO THE CRIME AND TRIAL OF MORENO. CASE. On Sunday, December 4, 1831, a body of Spaniards and Mr. Boyd, a British subject, were driven on shore, near Malaga, by armed Spanish vessels. Mr. Boyd was un armed. He jumped ashore to escape pursuit. The ob ject was, it is known, to attempt the subversion of the ex isting Government of Spain, but they had been assured of an immediate insurrection of the province of Grenada by General Moreno, commanding at Malaga. They were pursupd, surrounded, and captured. Moreno, on Monday, the sth of December, despatched an express to Madrid, with the 'intelligence that fifty-six Spaniards had been taken. His despatch made no men tion whatever of a British subject being taken. He him self admits, in a letter which he published in the London Courier, on the 26th of June, 1834, that " when he sent off his express to Madrid, he did not even know that there was an Englishman in Torrijos's party." The British Consul at Malaga, on Tuesday, the 6th of December, both verbally and in writing, warned him of the illegality of touching a British subject without the know ledge of his Government, or until he (the Consul) re ceived an answer to a despatch he had also sent to Madrid. Moreno, on the Saturday afternoon following, the 10th of December, received a warrant from Madrid for the ex ecution of the Spaniards. He then, for the first time, re plied to the Consul's letter of the previous Tuesday, telling him that he had received the warrant directing the prisoners to be shot. The Consul again remonstrated in the strong est possible terms against the illegality of the warrant, as regarded Boyd, a British subject ; but Moreno, although he respited seven of the Spaniards, caused Mr. Boyd to be shot next morning, Sunday, the 1 Ith of December. It is apprehended, according to this state of facts, that the warrant, having reference to the Spaniards only, was no warrant for the death of Mr. Boyd, a British subject ; and that the execution of a British subject, after such previous knowledge, concealment, and remonstrances of the Consul, was the mere act of Moreno, and not of the Spanish go vernment ; and therefore murder. Assuming the fact to be so, your opinion is requested: whether the crime, having been committed on the person of a British subject, is suffi cient to found a jurisdiction on the part of British Courts, notwithstanding the crime was not committed within the British realm, Moreno being now in England. The question, it is submitted, differs in no material res pect from that of a Spaniard assassinating a British sub ject in Malaga, and that Spaniard being afterwards found at large in Britain. In that case, would he not be amenable to British courts, or liable to be arrested, and sent for trial to Spain 1 MR. HOVENDEN'S OPINION. My immediate answer to this case being pressed for, I must reserve to myself the right of correcting or strength ening it, if, upon fuller investigation and reflection, I should see cause to do so. If Moreno, in his report of the sth of December, 1831, to the then existing Spanish Government, notified the cap ture of Spaniards only, and if the warrant which he re ceived was for the execution of Spaniards only, then I am of opinion that, by causing Mr. Boyd to be shot, whom he knew to be a British subject, Moreno was guilty of murder. The act was done on his own responsibility, not in obedience to the orders of his Government. Assuming the facts to be as stated, I incline to think that Moreno may properly be tried in this country, under a spe cial commission, but, as a serious question of international law is implicated, I am of opinion that the first step should be to address a petition to the King, praying his Majesty to refer the matter to the Judicial Committee of his Privy Council, according to the provisions of the statute of the last session of Parliament, cap. _4l,sec. 4. No other tribunal seems so fitted to consider the preliminary question, as to the propriety of issuing a commission for the trial of the alleged murderer, under the peculiar circumstances of this case. That his Majesty would graciously grant the prayer of such a petition I cannot doubt. The recommendation of the Judicial Committee it would be presumption in me to forestall, but I think, on the authority of Grotius, book 2, c. 21, sec. 2 and 3, and of Vatttl, book 2, c. 6, sec. 75, 76, and 77, it may be inferred, that if Moreno were in Spain, the British Government might call upon that coun try to try him, and that if he is here, he may be tried.— (See also Kaimes's Law Tracts, p. 248, and Foster's Crown Law, p. 188.) J. E. HOVENDEN, 5, New-square, Lincoln's Inn, June 30. MR. GORDON'S OPINION. Whether Moreno was guilty of murder is a question for a jury ; but I apprehend that to execute a man with the knowledge that the warrant is null, is one and the same thing as to execute him without a warrant, and I think that to do so in spite of notice and remonstrance from an official authority, raises so strong a presumption of that malice which is the essence of murder, as no jury could resist. It appears to me that Moreno is triable by a commission of oyer and terminer, under 33 Henry VIII., C. 23. Though not a subject of Great Britain, yet having put to death an Englishman, under the protection of the repre sentative of the British Government, and clothed with the defence of British law, he thereby placed himself within the jurisdiction of that law, and divested himself of that exemption therefrom which pertained to him as an alien. I think the case comes within the 33d Henry VIII., c. 23, which provides for the trial of murder committed out of the King's dominions. Temple, June 30. HUNTER GORDON. EXTRACT OF A LETTER DATED GENOA, JUNE 20.—" Ere this reaches you the arrival of Don Miguel in Genoa will have been known in England. Public curiosity was, of course, much excited, and crowds repaired to the harbour to catch a glimpse of him. You will see in what way it was gratified by the arch-hypocrite. When he first appeared on the deck, previously to going on shore, we looked, in vain, for the long and Patriarchial beard which we had been told distinguished him during his campaigns ! Two petite mous taches alone remained of the exuberant and frightful fringe that had rendered his countenance more than —. Mous taches alone remained of the profuse crop of raven hair that had rendered his countenance additionally repulsive. Immediately on landing, he bent his way to " the nearest church," that of the Notre Dame des Vignes. Arrived there he threw himself on his knees, covered his face with his pocket-handkerchief, and in that fashion, with out altering for a moment his position, he remained dur ing the celebration of Mass. After that ceremony he re paired to the Hotel de Londres—an um by no means of the first cl ass —and will there, no doubt, continue to enact the retiring, modest, unobtrusive, suffering son of the Church. Miguel is a consummate • He calculates on attach.. ing to him by this conduct all the devotees whom the violence of his brother's measures against the priesthood, and his confiscation of the goods of the Church, will have gone far towards detaching from the cause of Donna Maria." PREROGATIVE COURT, JULY 3, (Before Sir JOHN NlcHott. IN THE GOODS OF JOSEPH WOOD, DECEASED. Dr. LUSHINGTON had to make an application under ex traordinary circumstances. The deceased was extensively engaged in the cotton manufacture in Manchester. Before his death he executed a will, dated in 1831, which remained in the hands of the solicitor of the deceased, who had not produced it, having a lien, as was pleaded, upon it ; and the usual course having been taken by the Court to obtain its production, a writ of prohibition had been obtained to stay proceedings in the Prerogative Court until the interest of the solicitor relative to the lien had been decided. He (Dr. Lushington) said that as the stock in the deceased's warehouse was composed chiefly of fancy articles, and which, being to suit the fashion of the season, would be greatly deteriorated if it remained unsold, he therefore prayed the Court to allow a limited administration, for the purpose of selling the stock, and to pay and receive debts. Sir J. NICHOLL said the Court could not give power to pay debts, as an undue preference might be given. He should direct a limited administration to pass to sell the stock and collect debts. JONES V. WRIGHT. This was a case of greatdeliC;;;..lt related to the va lidity of a will of Mr. Wm. Jones, who was a jeweller and pawnbroker of Tothill-street. The bill was opposed by the widow on the ground that it was drawn up by the de ceased while in a state of insanity, the deceased having ultimately destroyed himself. The marriage took place in 1831, and the deceased died in 1832. In 1833 a child was born, the issue of the marriage. The provision made for the wife in the will was not such as it was considered would have been the case had the deceased been sane. Dr. ADDAMS, in support of the will, contended that though the deceased was exceedingly sensitive and very nervous, and was highly romantic and shy in his manners; there was not any proof that he was not sane at the time he executed the will in question. The deceased, he con sidered, was a jealous man, and he was sure the Court . would never consider a p erson w h o was j ea l ous as b e i ng ' insane. Sir J. NIcHoLL, without hearing counsel on the other side, pronounced against the will, on the ground that the whole of the facts in the case showed that the deceased had insane delusions with respect to his wife, and had ex ecuted the will under such false impressions. The deceased was a very nervous man, having become highly excited. He attempted to throw himself over Vauxhall Bridge, and ul timately committed suicide. Under all the facts the Court was bound to set the will aside. SHERIFF'S COURT, JULY 3. (Before Mr. BURCHELL, the Senior Under-Sheriff.) lIURE V. DE COURCY, OTHERWISE COUNT DE RONDEAUX. This was an action brought by the cook to the Oxford and Cambridge University Club, against the defendant, to recover the sum of 171. 3s. Gd. for dinners supplied to the defendant and his black servant, Panderge, for seventeen days, in April and May last. The plaintiff received the orders from the defendant for the dinners, but he being merely the cook to the club, was unable to supply them himself, and he therefore transferred them to a Mr. Fribourgh. The dinners were delivered at the defendant's residence in Berkeley-street, Berkeley square. The defendant objected to the charges in the bill as unreasonable, and offered to pay 161., which, he con tended, was all that the plaintiff was entitled to. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 16/. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, JULY 3. (Before Mr. Commissioner WILLIAMS.) JOSEPH STRANGEMAN'S BANKRUPTCY. The bankrupt in this case was an extensive flour-factor, and having proceeded to America without adjusting his ac counts, a fiat of bankruptcy was awarded against him, and he was declared in due form, not having surrendered in due time. After some time bad el a p se d he returned to this country, and surrendered to the commission, having, how ever, been previously declared in the usual way. From this declaration he was absolved, and he has since stre nuously exerted himself to furnish to his creditors a full and complete statement of his affairs. On returning from Ame rica he left deposited in the banks of the United States cer tain sums of money, of which he informed his creditors, and his final examination was postponed until information should have been received that his statements were correct. Since the last meetini , the official assignee has rece i ve d f ro m Ame rica 4891 . Is. 7d., " being the amount, less the expenses in curred in the United States of the sum deposited by the bankrupt. Under these favourable circumstances the as signees no longer objected to the final passing of the bank rupt's accounts, for which purpose a meeting of his credi tors was held to-day. _ _ _ The total amount of debts proved is about 10,5101., and the assets are about 2,3801. The losses sustained by the bankrupt in trade were very considerable, and there ap peared a deficiency in the accounts rendered of about 668/. on the transactions of the bankrupt, which were very exten sive. Against this deficiency the sum received from Ame rica must, however, be considered as a set-off, the expenses incurred forming the balance. The bankrupt said it had been generally reported that he had made a large purchase of land in Canada, which had greatly prejudiced him. He had obtained from Government a grant of 200 acres of land, to be paid for at the rate of 10s. 6d. an acre, the payment to be completed in ten years. This grant every Englishman who went to Canada was en titled to, provided they undertook to perform the regula tions imposed on the grant being made. This statement, therefore, that he had made a large purchase was untrue. The COMMISSIONER expressed his satisfaction at the statement made by the official assignee, and the bankrupt then passed his final examination. SOUTHWARK SESSIONS, JULY 3. T. Dawson, aged sixteen, was indicted for stealing two necklaces, a gold snap, and a gold brooch, the property of H. A. Dawson, his sister. The prisoner's mother stated that the articles set forth in the indictment were given by her to her daughter, and de posited in a box, which was locked, on the 13th of Febru ary last. The prisoner was released from Brixton House of Correction, and she gave him an asylum. He had been in the house but a short time when he broke open the box and absconded with the property in question, and when he was apprehended for another robbery the duplicates of the above property were found upon him. The witness (in tears) stated that her family were respectable, and every good example was put before the prisoner, who had been educated at a boarding school, but nothing would re claim him. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty. The prisoner was also indicted for stealing a blanket, the property of Mary Ross, a poor widow. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, andhe was sentenced to be transported for seven years. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. QUEEN-SQUARE. Yesterday James Phelps, a bargeman belonging to Ful ham, was charged with the following furious assault on po lice constable Exton, of the B division, No. 117. On the preceding evening the prisoner, in company with two other men, went into the shop of Mr. George Stacey, a pork butcher, Queen-street, Pimlico. One of the pri soner's companions made free with a hand of pork, which he was concealing about his person, when he was observed by Sarah Mills, who served in the shop, upon which he dropped the pork and ran off. A police constable came up, and the prisoner was given into custody as a person acces sary to the robbery. On going to the station-house the prisoner made a desperate resistance, violently assaulted the police constable, and got away ; but was eventually lodged in the station-house. On searching the prisoner he s eized the constable's hand, got the middle finger of the left hand into his mouth, and bit it so dreadfully that he broke the bone, and in all probability it will have to be am putated. He also got hold of the hand of Sergeant Bolton, and bit it in the fleshy part to the very bone, and with great difficulty he was secured. Police constable Exton wa s immediately taken to a surgeon's in great torture, and the finger was dressed ; but he is totally unfit for duty. The prisoner, in reply to the charge, said that in his lifetime he had received several violent blows on the head, and when he got a little to drink he did not know what he w as a bout. The Magistrates ordered him to pay the full penalty of 5/., in default of which he was committed for two months to the House of Correction. It is rather singular that within the last twelvemonth po lice constable Exton, when in the act of apprehending a pri soner, bad the middle finger of his right hand bitten in such a dreadful manner that he was under the necessity of having it amputated. HATTON GARDEN. _ _ _ yesterday Mary Bond, a respectable looking woman, was charged by John White, a lame man, who walked with a crutch, with having committed an assault, when the fol lowing disclosure of an atrocious attack upon an elderly fe male, who has nearly lost her life, was made : Th e complainant White, a shoemaker, residing in the neighbourhood of Rosoman-street, Clerkenwell, levied a distress upon the goods and chattels of a poor old couple named Coxhead, his lodgers, for rent due. On Friday night last Coxhead quitted home for a short time, leaving his wife to take care of the place, and on his return shortly afterwards he found the landlord, White, in his apartment, and his (Coxhead's) wife lying in one corner of the room, doubled up, bleeding profusely froi a dreadful wound on her, head, and she was quite insensible and unable to speak. There being no one else in the room but the man White, who appeared agitated, and having no doubt but that he had ill used his wife, Coxhead alarmed the neighbourhood with cries of " murder," when the defendant, Mrs. Bond, and a Mr. Travers, with several other individuals, entered the place, on which the prisoner tried to escape, but the police were called in and he was given into custody. Mrs. Coxhead was carried to St. Sepulchre's workhouse, where she was examined by the surgeons, and it was discovered that three of her ribs were broken, her skull fractured, and they pro nounced her life to be in danger. The man White was ultimately brought to this office, but no prosecutor appear ing against him he was discharged, on which he returned home and abused Mrs. Bond, called her opprobious names, which she resented by striking him, for which he had the temerity to take out a warrant and appear against her as a prosecutor. Air. LAING, on hearinc , the above particulars narrate d , in stantly discharged Mrs. Bond, and said that the case as sumed a very serious aspect. He ordered White to be placed at the bar as a prisoner, and Mrs. Bond and Mr. Travers were sworn, when they re iterated the above particulars, that they were attracted by the cries of murder, and on entering the place they found Mrs. Coxhead bleeding and insensible in a corner of the room. The prisoner and the injured woman's husband were the only persons in the place. The master of St. Sepulchre's workhouse here stated that the injured woman was in that establishment in a dreadful state, unable to move or speak from the injuries already described, and that she was unlikely to survive the effect of the injury. The prisoner denied the charge. Mr. LAING remanded the prisoner for a week. MANSLAUGHTER.—Joseph Martin, aged 32, was finally examined, charged with the manslaughter of Jeremiah Ma earthy, aged 68. The particulars of this case we have already. given. _ _ _ The Prisoner denied the charge, but he was fully corn. mitted for trial. INQUEST IN THE KING'S BENCH PRISON An inquest was held on Monday before Mr. Le Pipre, Coroner, on the body of Captain Marcus Samuel Hill, R.N., a Post Captain of 1802. Marcus Hill, son of the deceased, being sworn, said— Deceased has been ten weeks here last Tuesday. He had been staying at Clifton for the benefit of his health, being very ill and much swelled. Has heard the doctors say that he had drank a large quantity of spirits for the last ten years. He was in such a state as to be unable to move except in a carriage, and required two or three persons to move him. That is about seven weeks ago. He had no idea of being taken. He was arrested at Clifton, and taken to Gloucester gaol, where he remained from Friday to Tuesday, and was then brought here. He was 64 years of age last August. Was brought here by habeas, for if he had remained he would have died in a week. That is my opinion. He never had the gout. He was subject to ery sipelas every winter. When arrested he was taken ill out of his bed. The Sheriff or the Under-Sheriff told him that he must 'come to him, and took him to a lock-up house at Bristol, where he remained one night, and was then removed to Gloucester. He has had the ery sipelas ten years ; he became rapidly worse the last six weeks. Dr. Syder told me that if he was not removed he would surely die. Dr. Teeven thought he would die, and desired me to call in Dr. Whiting, which I did. He was more depressed after he came, and very irritable. He applied to the Under-Governor, at Gloucester, to be allowed to sleep on the road, which he refused, as it was never allowed to prisoners. We left Gloucester at three in the afternoon, and arrive 1 in London at seven in the morning, by the coach, when he appeared very much exhausted, and went to bed for two hours. He was then removed to Chancery-lane, where he became very irritable, fancying that he was charged too much. Since here everything was done to alleviate his sufferings ; he was allowed everything he wished ; for about a fortnight he drank brandy. His medical attendants were Dr. Cooper, Dr. Hooper, Dr. Whiting, Dr. Syder, and Dr. Teeven. Dr. Syder distinctly stated that if he was not removed to better air, he would not be answerable for his life. No ap plication was ever made to the Marshal for him to go in the rules. After hearing further evidence, the Jurors were of opinion " that the deceased laboured under a form of disease which must be ultimately fatal. The Jurors are of opi nion, also, that the fatal result was greatly accelerated by the fact that deceased was forced to travel all night, toge ther with the distress of mind caused by his arrest and con sequent imprisonment. The Jurors also find that deceased had every comfort and indulgence which the regulations of the King's Bench prison could extend to individuals in his unhappy situation." THE WIFE WITH TWO HUSBANDS. Some of our readers will recollect, that, some fifteen or eighteen months since, we published a notice of the mar riage of a Miss Phelphs to a Mr. Roswell M. Field, of Fayetteville, and also to a Mr. J. H. Clark, of Boston. The circumstances was the subject of considerable remark at the time, but the cause of this singular departure from the ordinary rules of matrimonial etiquette was not at the time made public. By the following, which we copy from the Montreal Gazette, the mystery of these almost simul taneous marriages is developed, and a satisfactory reason assigned for what, in different circumstances, would be con sidered unjustifiable and unmatrimonial conduct. "It seems that Miss P. possessed an ample fortune, besides every other charm that could make a young lady lovely in the eyes of a suitor ; she was betrothed to Mr. C. with the consent of all parties, he being a gentleman of medium cir cumstances and a merchant of Boston. In the mean while, in steps auld Robin Grey, in the form of a Mr. F., a rich gentleman from the South, rather advanced in years, but having ample store of the ready. The parents were charmed with the glittering gold, and, of course, used all their en deavours to break the lady's engagements with Mr. C. ; but she, true to her first love, resisted all their efforts, wrote to her lover concerning her situation, and planned an elopement ere the dreadful day of her union with Mr. F. should arrive. The sordid parents, suspecting by the cheerfulness of their victim, that all things were not right, ordered the marriage rites one day earlier than anticipated at first. The poor girl was, consequently, hurried to the altar more like a statue than any thing else—and the cere mony was performed. The Boston lover, in the mean while, had not been idle ; he stationed a relay of horses on the road—and arrived at Putney just in time to be too late —the rites had just been said. Not in the least dishear tened, he put his wits to work—and soon found out that the bans had not been published, and Miss P. was not a wife in the eye of the law. He consequently stole an inter view with her, and had an explanation of affairs. The hour for retiring had not yet arrived—and the groom began to be in fidgets about his bride ; she was sent for, but could nowhere be found ; and so poor Pilgarlic was left to make the best of it. Chase was instantly ma de, but the lovers were too fleet for their pursuers. They reached Boston and were lawfully wedded. Thus the mystery is explained ; and it is said they frequently laughed at the joke —a laugh which must be at the expense of Mr. F.—Salent. Mercury. The recent death of Admiral Manby, at South ampton, was occasioned by his accidentally taking an over dose of opium. He was in his 67th year, and was brother to Captain Manby, the inventor of the life-preserving apparatus. ROOKWOOD.—" The best and most conclusive thing that can be said of this work," observes Frazer's Maga zine, " is, that it has created a sensation. The filling up of the story is by general admission pronounced to be of great power and effect. The course of the narrative, like that of Dick Turpin's ride, never for a moment flags. The principal characters are sustained with a force and energy which shine forth in admirable contrast with the gentle beauty of the author's descriptions of " The outward shows of sky and earth, Of hill and valley"— or of the depth and delicacy of that love which " Dwells in deep retreats," sanctifying the " undistingtushable throng" of woman's hopes and fears. We are greatly deceived if " Rookwood" be not destined to have a run in the true Turpin style. The state ment with which we set out, namely, that the book has created a sensation is farther confirmed by a Ducrow entertainment founded on Turpin's ride."—Frazer's Magazine, June. HUNTING IN INDIA.—With respect to lions and tigers, hunting them is (for the gentlemen observe) one of the most harmless amusements in the world ; provided that you ride, not a horse, but an elephant. Every hunter is perched like a witness before an English Court of Justice, in a high box attached to the animal's back. He has a smell park of artillery with him, that is to say, a couple of muskets and a brace of pistols. It sometimes happens, but not often, that the tiger driven to bay leaps up on the head of the elephant, but that is no concern of ours, it is the proper busi ness o f t h e mohant (driver, or guide), ho is paid twenty-five francs a month for encountering these accidents. In case of his death he has at least the consolation of complete vengeance ; for the elephant does not simply trumpet with his trunk, when he dis covers his tiger head-dress, he works at his assailant with all his might, and the hunter finishes him with a shot point-blank. The mohant, you see, is a kind of responsible editor. Another poor devil is behind, whose duty it is to hold a parasol over your head. His condition is still worse than that of the mohant ; when the frightened elephant flies before the tiger, who charges his rear and springs upon his back, the true duty of this man is to be eaten instead of the gentleman. India is the Utopia of social order for men of rank. In Europe the poor carry the rich on their shoulders, but it is only meta phorically ; here it is done without any rhetorical figure. In place of the subtle distinctions of European policy between producers and consumers, the governors and the governed, &c., here the distinction is between the carriers and the carried :—it has, at all events, the merit of being more clear. —Jacquemont's Correspondence during his Travels in India. ALLEGATION OF LUNACY. (From Galignani's Messenger.) The Tribun a l d e P rem i ere Instance was occupied last week with a process similar to that of the English statute De Lunatico Inquirendo, by which it was sought to estab lish the unsoundness of mind of M. Adrian Hope, a son of the rich Dutch banker. The plaintiffs in the case were Mon , ieur and Madame Berthieux, the latter being the mother of the defendant, having been first married to M. Hope. The plaintiff's counsel stated that the defendant, M. A. Hope, to whom his father had left an income of 19.5,000 f., had from an early age evinced symptoms of weakness of mind amounting almost to imbecility, and added that such was his indolence and incapacity that, at eighteen years of age, he was ignorant of the most ordinary acquire ments of youths of his age. Amongst other instances of the defendant's want of the reasoning faculty, the counsel mentioned that, in 1831, being then eighteen years old, he passed a considerable part of the day in endeavouring to make two canes of unequal lengths touch each other by their four extremities at the same instant, not appearing to have any suspicion that the task he had undertaken was an utter impossibility. On another occasion the company in a room into which he entered rising to receive him, he slipped into the arm chair of a General, one of the guests, who, on re suming his seat, plumped down upon the defendant. S o me time after, M. Berthieux, his step-father, sent him to travel for five years, under a tutor named Landresse ; but the let ters of the tutor soon warned the family that there was lit tle or rather no prospect of any improvement being pro duced by travel on the moral or intellectual faculties of M. Hope. After coming of age, he returned to Paris to pre vail upon his mother to consent to a marriage he had pro jected for himself at Capua. In three months after coming into possession of his fortune, he squandered 58,000 f. in the purchase of articles which he might have procured for a much less sum. T o t h e o b servat i ons made to him on this subject he returned only harsh and contemptuous language ; and on one occasion, M. Dalloz, the family notary, h a ving sent to him a man to value some furniture, he wrote him back the following laconic note :—" Sir, I have no liking for domiciliary visits." The family having com menced proceedings, with a view to have M. Hope de clared incapable of managing his property, he was re quired to answer certain interrogatories, the answers to some of which the plaintiff's counsel stated to be as follows :—Having some property in the American Funds, he was asked what a dollar was worth ? Answer-- Five francs ; whereas it is really worth sf. 40c. Being asked what the capital represented by 'sf. of interest was —he could not tell. He was also unable to tell how many bushels were contained in a setier. This, however, was not to be wondered at, as it afterwards turned out that every person in Court was equally ignorant on the point, as, after' guesses being made, a b oo k was pro d uce d , when it appeared that no one had gue sse d r i g htl y ; on w hi c h a voi ce exclaimed, they should all be declared lunatics—(Laughter.Y The Advocate of M. A. Hope contended that no sufficient grounds had been shown to justify'the Court in depriving his client of the management of his property ; and added, that this suit had been instituted by M. Berthieux his cli ent's step-father, for the purpose of punishing him for havilig thrown off his authority, and taken out of his hands Ole management of so considerable a property. After hear'ing the King's Advocate, who stated- that he considered t hat there were not sufficient proofs of unsoundness of mind. to justify a declaration of lunacy, but that there were proofs 'of incapacity to manage his affairs sufficient to warrant the Tribunal in nominating a guardian under the Court, the judgment of the Court was conformable to the opinions ex pressed by the King's Adv oca t e , an d th e d ec i s i on o f t he question of lunacy was deferred for a twelvemonth. A messenger has arrived at Madrid, with irrtelli gence of the recognition of the Government of the Queen of Portugal by Don Aloar da Costa, Governor of the island of Madeira, where already all the authorities of the toulls and villages had taken an oath of allegiance to Donna Mari a. LIVERPOOL COTTON -MARKET, WEDNESDAY, JULY 2.—A much better feeling was shown am on gst pur chasers to-day, and about 2,400 bags were disposed of previous to ncon at prices previously quoted. THE TRUE COUNTRY GENTLEIVIAN,....ThOSe who would have their minds improved and their fe dings ani mated by a right exhibition of the finest old English qualities, may turn to a paper in the present number of the New Monthly Magazine, which, under the design of illustrating an important class, that of the " Squires of England," present , us with a strikingly-drawn character of him who, by a long and zealous devotion to the honourable pursuits of agriculture, and by a steady practice of the highest patriarchal virtues, has most emphatically and p ar exce ll ence d eserve d the title of " The Squire." Such a picture as this is not alone individual, but likewise truly national ; it is at once a faithful portrait and an interesting study. There is no foundation for the report that has been circulated of the projected marriage of Lord A. Fitzclarenee with the Baroness Wenman ; but it is said confidently that Mr. Canning, son of the Viscountess, is accepted by the daughter of Lord Stuart de Rothsay, who was presented at the Drawing-room this year ; also that Mr. Ellice, son of the Secretary-at-War, is to marry the daughter of General Balfour, of Carlton-house Gardens.—Brighton Gazette. A few days ago, as Lord Brudenell, who resides et No. 8, Carlton-gardens, was taking an airing in Hyde Parks on horseback, followed by his groom, who was also mounted* a large white dog, between the bull and mastiff breed, wag observed to run towards them foaming at the mouth from a distant part- of the park, and when close to Cumberland-gate' seized one of the hind legs of the animal (a high-spirited one) on which the groom was riding, and tore away a large piece of flesh; after some difficulty the doe- was made to let go itg hold; but it had no sooner done so than it flew, with the t nost savage fury, at his lordship, who, we regret to add, w as wounded, but, fortunately, not seriously, by the fangs of the animal in the lower part of his leg. By this time a great number of persons had arrived at the spot, in order to afford all the assistance in their power, and it was not until his Lord ship's trowsers were completely torn from his knee downwards that the dog, which every one imagined to be in a rabid state, and were therefore very cautious about approaching too closely, could be made to relinquish its hold, which it had no sootier done than it turned round and proceeded at a tremendous rate towards Portman Barracks followed by a large mob of people', who raised the cry of " Mad dog !" and at length succeeded in securing it in Portman Mews, when Sergeant Harrison and police constable Garnett, both of the D division, who were foremost in the chase, took possession of the animal and con.' veyed it to Marylebone-lane station-house. The owner of it is not known, although an immense number of people have visited the cell in which it was directly locked up for the pur pose of identifying it, if possible. The dog has now been in confinement several days, and we are happy to state that it doe* not at present evince any symptoms of hydrophobia. SWITZERLAND.—The Zurich Gazette of the 24t1r ult., in a second edition, dated 10 o'clock at night, states the the answer of the Directory to M. de Vignet and M. de Bona belles was delivered in the course of the evening to those MO ministers, and that a well-founded hope was entertained that it would tend to prevent the execution of coercive mes, a ures- The Gazette of the 25th says :—" The Grand Council of Zurich has decided that the last demand of the Pr, wers s h a ll be complied with."—These demands are for " Ile expulsion not only of th ose w h o t oo k part i n t h e expediti-on against Sa voy, but also that o f th e i n di v id ua l s w h o notoriously concur, in a manner direct or indirect, in disturbing t)•ie tranquillity of the neighbouring States, and an assurance to be given by the Confederation that measures shall be taken against every at tempt similar to that of the month of February last." Letters from Constance announce that preparations are making to exe cute coercive measures against Switzerland. Prussian engi 'seers are employed in the country in fixing the line that is to serve as bounds for the Prussian system of customs. The peo- ple look with an evil eye upon these preparations. At Mr i s• kirch they attacked the engineers, and the Prefect of the district having gone to the succour of the Prussians, was vio lently assaulted. The Neuezurcher Zeitung states that •the town of Constance is about to receive a Wirtembe,rg garrison sent to support tne coercive measures of the Powers; and adds, that Austria and Bavaria are about to send regimentS towards the S w i ss f ront i ers. T he Nuremberg Correspondea has the following of the 21st ult. from Frankfort The affairs of Switzerland form the principal object of the nego-- ciations of' the Cabinets at this moment.. Positive declarations have been made upon this subject, and we are assured the% the Cabinet of the Tuileries has just given to its Ambassador in Switzerland the instructions necessary for a mediation, by which the just pretensions of the neighbouring States may W admitted." MARRIAGES. Oe the 3d inst., at All Souls, Marylebone, Captain Howisonr Madras army, of Holmfoot, Lenark, • to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of F. C. Lewis, Esq., of Charlotte-street, Portland-place. On the 2d inst., at Twickenham church, by the Rev. Mr. Snow' Sir R. Shaw, Bart., of Bushy Park, c oun t y o f D u b lin, to Miss A ' Spencer, of T w i c kenham, daughter of th e l ate B enjamin Spencer , Esq., M.D., f ormer l y o f Bristol. On the 3d inst., at St. Mary-le-Bow church, by the Rev. Trollope, Mr. T. Deverell, of Aylesbury, to Sarah, younge" daughter of till> late Mr. R. Drake, of Baldwin's-gardens. On the 3d inst., at St. Margaret's Westminster, J. H. White' house, Esq., of Ipsley Court, Wirwickshire, to Grace, d au ghter of the late W. Smith, Esq., of Brompton Park-house, Kensington ' Gore. On the 3d inst., at Chester-street, Grosvenor-place, by the Rev John Jones, according to the rites of the Catholic Church, and► subsequently, at St. George's, Hanover -square, by the Rev. Francis Rivers, John 1114 Nab, Esq., Sherrabeg, Invernessshire, to Franco° Cosens, daughter of .the late John Newman, Esq., of Finmor° House, Buckinghamshire. EAHS. On the 11th ult., t o the inexpressible grief of his afflicted famili' and deep regret of all who knew his worth and many Christi''' . virtues, Warden, eldest son of John Flood, Esq., of Viewmount, in the county of Kilkenny. On the 26th ult., at his residence, Hackney, Mr. John Gambl e ' aged 70, of the firm of Gamble and Davis, Fish -street-hill. On Sunday week, at his house in St. John-street, West Stnitb" field, Mr. W. Russell, aged 63 years. On the Ist of July, Rebecca, relict of the late David Edward s ' Harleyford-ploce, Kennington, aged 72 years. On the 3d inst., at Hackney, Mary, the beloved wife of Mr. Jones, of 85, Aldgate. London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG. at The Sun Office, No. 112; Strand • • Fitt t oh d ept rn. C 4 ,1 Offie Rohe -,j