The Sun. — London, England, 1834-08-19 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The views we took of the object of the Conserva tives in rejecting the Irish Tithe Bill, are embraced by the best-informed Journals of Ireland, the conductors of which have opportunities of seeing more closely the motives of these creatures : " War is declared—(says the Dublin Evening Post of Saturday last)—war to the knife ! Read the proceedings of the meeting on Thursday. Above all, and before all, read the denunciation of the Beresfords. His Grace the Primate, called by the providence of God to preside over the Irish Church, has spoken by his deputy and near relative, and brother in the faith, the Rev. Marcus Beresford. These men are anxious for war—these Beresfords are ready again for the riding•house—ready again to erect the triangles —ready again to score the characters of their loyalty upon the lacerated backs of the King's subjects. Let the monsters be met—let the dogs be muzzled. " Marcus, take care ! The people of Birmingham have given up burning Dissenters, and the Government of Ireland will not allow you or your like to cmbrue your hands in the blood of Catholics. " Take care, your Reverence ! Do not believe that you or the sanguinary brutes you would halloo to slaughter, will be treated hereafter with the mistaken lenity and impolitic for bearance with which, heretofore, their insolence and disloyalty were sought to be soothed. Pat a Beresford on the back—pet a she-wolf. " It will be for Lord Wellesley to adopt immediate mea sures—ne respublica quid detrimenti capiat. " We tell his Excellency that it is threatened. We tell bim that he is threatened. Of his energy we have no doubt. Of the clearness and accuracy of his perception his enemies en tertain none. In his wisdom and his experience the country confides with as much security as a British army would confide in the military talents of his mistaken brother. " It will be quite necessary that the Executive should be on the alert. Every effort is already making to exasperate the feelings of the population. They have imported madmen from England fe l t the purpose of adding fuel to the flame. " It is a mistake to imagine that the Beresfords and their gang would have incurred the tremendous responsibility of con signing the Protestalit clergy to starvation, without some other object than that of merely spiting the minister or embarrassing the government of the country. " The war, indeed, is already declared; and it will be for the Attorney-General seriously to consider whether a Pande monium is to be opened in Dublin, for the sole and exclusive purpose of organizing a resistance, perhaps an armed resistance, against the King's peace, his crown and dignity. " Of this we are satisfied, that if prompt measures be not taken, we shall hear, in the course of the next week, from the North of Ireland, a response to the speech of the Rev. Marcus Beresford. Or, without a figure, we shall hear a tale of blood. " Do we fear rebellion? No—not at all; but outrages and murder we fear. "In the mean time—for the satisfaction of all parties—it is right it should be known that Government is resolved to act with promptitude and decision." We have no doubt that the Government will act with promptitude and decision; that they will not allow themselves to be bullied by the madmen whom the Dukes of Cumberland and Wellington would let loose in Ireland. Whoever is mad enough to attempt an armed resistance to the King's peace, his crown and dignity, will assuredly come to an ignominious end. We know that the Conservative Peers dare not openly abet the miscreants who are longing to begin the work of carnage ; they know there are, scaffolds and execu tioners ; but they do all they can, without committing themselves, to set the work a-going. In the mean time, they who have influence with the Catholics, ought, above all things, to impress on them the necessity of leaving to the King's Government the duty of chastising the viola tors of the law. Let them reflect that all that their enemies want is the opportunity of raising a cry of mas sacre, that the feelings . of the people of England may be interested in their behalf. The Rev. Marcus Beres ford, who calls himself a Minister of the meek and lowly Jesus, utters these Christian sentiments—" We twill get rid of the bloody Popish rebels from amongst us.—(Loud and continued cheers.) We will stock our lands with honest Protestants. * I would, and I declare it most solemnly—(Here the Rev. Speaker raised his arm and his voice)—l would rather eat a potatoe and salt with a good Protestant, than live like a king in the midst of Papists.—(Cheers, and a cry of ' The true blood 9fa Berefford !') Some of our Clergymen wish to put Protestants on our glebes, but some conscientious men to whom I have spoken said, ' Oh, we get our tithes from the Papists, but now the Papists pay us no tithes, and shall we not get rid of them ?' "—(Cheers.) How this Reverend Minister disgraces the name of Protestant I The brute talks of driving from their native country five or six millions of men with as much indifference as if they were so many insects. Such an idea never entered into the conception of an Attila I The nations of the Continent must be astonished that there should, in the British dominions, be found an assembly in which a person uttering such language would notin stantly be hooted down. In England, the Rev. Marcus Beresford would assuredly have been kicked out of any room he should pollute by his presence. To think, too, that the Marquis of Downshire, Lord Roden, and Lord Winchilsea should encourage such revolting language ! Why do we speak with indigna tion of the Inquisition, when a man calling himself a Protestant, coolly talks of sacrificing a whole nation merely because they are Catholics ? The expul sion of the Moors, cruel as it was, would sink into insignificance compared with this. But the Rev. Marcus Beresford does not tell us how he is to get rid of the bloody Papists. He would not, surely, cut the throats of all them—England could not receive them. Giving him, therefore, every credit for the murderous intention, the threat is a mere brutum fulmen, from the utter impossibility of any men or set of men reducing it to practice. Before fifty thousand Papists were got rid of in one ye ar , a ll E urope wou ld be agitated at the recital of the cruelty. The people of England, they may rest assured, will not abet the To ries" in any of these pranks. The moment any crack brained Orangeman raises a hand against the peaceable subjects of the King, he will be coerced. They are great boasters---mighty men to hear them talking of what they intend to do ; but their first movement will teach them a humiliating lesson ; and the English people will, in the meantime, profit by what takes place, and be better able to estimate the merits of the House of Peers. We may judge, from the samples of bigotry and ferocity displayed at this meeting, how much' Ireland owes to the circumstance of having a sinecure Church—a Protestant Church—in a na tion of Catholics. At this meeting Colonel Verner exclaimed, " What can we expect from this pre cious Ministry, and this Reformed Parliament ? As a specimen of what some of the Members of this Reformed Parliament are, I will state to you what I heard an English Member say a few nights ago in the House of Commons. He stated that it was his opi nion that tranquillity could never be established in Ireland until that dreadful and abominable nuisance, the Church Establishment of Ireland, was totally abo lished 1" Colonel Verner will find that the sentiments of this Member of the R e f orme d P ar li ament are shared by many persons in this country ; and the lan guage of most of the speakers at this meeting is not certainly calculated to make them enamoured of a Pro testant Church under such circumstances. The Standard, indeed, states that the Protestant Church of Ireland being the true Church, ought to be maintained without reference to the opinions or wants of the people :- I.,The Ministerial doctrine (says our contemporary) assumes, as its hypothesis, that in the eye of the State all religions are, or ought to be, alike—that which we believe to be false—that which we swear to be "damnable and idolatrous"—that which we know to be anti-social, tyrannical, and cruel—no worse than that which, if we are Church of England Protestants, we believe to be the religion of the Gospel. The State, says the Morning Chronicle, is unjust if, i n prov i d i ng the means for dispensing what it believes to be saving truth, it provides not also the means for inculcatin g w h at i t knows to be, temporally and eternally, ruinous falsehood. This is the Ministerial doctrine—this, we doubt not, is the Ministerial faith, political as well as religious, and this very j ust l y concludes in the inference of the Morning Chronicle, that the maintenance of a - Protestant Church in Ireland, even upon i ts own resources , is'a monstrous stretch of toleration. In oth er words, that the Protestant Church of Ireland must be extinguish e d, and its re venue* transferred to the Roman Catholic priests of that king dom." Whether the Catholic priests should in any case be paid by the State is a question we will not discuss. I he Catholics themselves do not wish their clergy to be so paid. But before we speak of what religion the State ought to inculcate, we must first ask what is the State ? The State in this country does not entertain one creed, because all religious bodies have their re presentatives in that body which is the great and pre ponderating power in the State—the House of Com mons. The House of Commons consists of Scotch and Irish Presbyterians, British and Irish Catholics, English and Irish Episcoloalia ns an d Di ssenters, in cluding even Quakers. The English Church. is net established because it inculcates true religion, but be cause it teaches the religion of the majority of the people. The Presbyterian Church of Scotland is established not because it inculcates the true reli gion, but because it also teaches the religion of the majority of the people. If we take any other ground we insult all those who profess different religions from that established. The people of these islands are all at liberty to choose their re ligions ; and no one who professes one religion is entitled to say more than that he himself believes it true—he is not entitled to say his own is the only true religion, and his neighbour's is false. To claim par ticular advantages to the professors of one religion, because it is the only true one, is a degree of persecu tion which can have no other effect than stirring up a counter-persecution. We must come at last to fire and faggot. The Papist will burn the Protestant for in culcating what " is temporally and eternally ruinous falsehood ;" the Protestant, in thin, will burn the Papist for " inculcating what is temporally and eter nally ruinous falsehood ;" and the Presbyterian, be lieving both to be in error, will burn both. Toleration was forced on all these sects ; but toleration would be absurd if we allow one sect to possess advantages be cause its creed is true, andsubject another to privations because its creed is presumed to be damnable and idola trous. The admission, however, of all sects into Par liament must necessarily lead to equality of treatment. They who do not respect others cannot expect to be themselves respected.—Morning Chronicle. The reform of the Chancery system was of the reforms which the Whigs zealously advocated before their accession to office, and of which they seem to be now perfectly forgetful. Does the system, which they used to describe as radically vicious, now work so well that there is no cause of complaint ? Have delay and expense been so diminished to suitors that a legislative reform of the system would be superfluous ? Any man who has a fancy for a Chancery suit may expe rimentally satisfy himself that it must be a long purse which its bill of costs will not drain, and a very lid .oi us constitution indeed which its delay will not wear out. The amateurs in litigation of the school of Peter Peebles, who are never so happy as when hunt ing, or being hunted through the mazes of a legal la byrinth—who have the unspeakable enjoyment of wor rying and perhaps ruining others, while they are consci ous that in the worst event they have themselves nothing to lose—all such inveterate amateurs in litigation, we say, will find the Court of Chan cery as pleasant a paradise to them as it ever was. To all others it still is, and, until reformed root and branch, it will ever be, as painful a purgatory as any that was ever devised to punish the sins of mankind in this world by an ingenious system of equitable torment. But though the expenses of a Chancery suit may still be very great, how can there be any consider able delay, we are asked, seeing that, according to the Attorney-General's statement, there are now no ar rears of causes in Chancery ? We fear the Attorney- General, in making this statement, has been imposed upon, or that the statement itself is bottomed upon a quibble not unworthy of a special pleader. Let us see. Upon this important question of Chancery arrears, which one would think could be easily set at rest by documentary proof, the Attorney-General and the Hon. and Learned Member for Galway, M r . Lynch, are at issue. The former, who, be it observed, is not in equity-practice, stated in the House of Com mons, the night before the close of the Session, that there were at the present time no arrears in the Court of Chancery. The latter, who is an equity lawyer, and in considerable practice, not being present when Sir John Campbell made that statement, contradicted it in his place the next day, and said that the arrears of causes in Chancery were little short of what they were at the time when, in order to clear away an accumula tion of arrears, and to prevent any such arrears from accumulating in future, the Vice-Chancellor's Court was established. Previously to the establishment of that Court in 1813, the Lord Chancellor had to dis pose of motions, causes, and bankruptcy business, be sides appeals. At present the Lord Chancellor's Court is confined almost exclusively to appeals. It has a con current jurisdiction with the Vice-Chancellor's Court, which is only a branch of itself in causes, but, in point of practice, the causes are on the list of the Vic e Court. They are 200, or within a few of what the amount of arrears was in 1813. It then may be asked what the public has gained by the esta blishment of the Court ? It is important that the pub lic should be correctly informed on this subject, be cause, if the statement of Mr. Lynch be correct, the necessity for that Chancery Reform, which was so often promised, but the promise of which has been always evaded, is as strong as ever. If the present Lord Chancellor has to do exclusively, or almost ex clusively, with appeals, that was not the case with his predecessors. Since Lord Brougham was raised to the Bench, the bankruptcy business has been sepa rated from the other business of equity. Lord Brougham has consequently more time to attend to causes than Lord Eldon or Lord Lyndhurst had. Why then should there be 200 causes in arrear ? The Attorney-General says they are not in the Court of Chancery. Mr. Lynch says the Court of the Vice- Chancellor is only a part of the Court of Chancery, to' facilitate the despatch of the business of that Court. It matters not, as far as the public is con cerned, whether the arrear of causes is in the one Court or the other. The fact that there is such an arrear of Chancery business cannot be denied ; and the public may ask why all the business except ap peals, why the causes and motions are all driven into the Court of the Vice-Chancellor? There has been a Chancery regulation Act within a year or two. The object of the Act was to facilitate proceedings and di minish expense. Mr. Lynch says that so far from af fording greater facilities to the proceedings, greater de lay and greater impediments are interposed ; and as to diminishing expense, this object was, by the new table of fees, entirely frustrated. Is there not, therefore, sufficient to make the public doubt that anything has been yet done to supersede the necessity of a thorough reform of the Court and system of Chancery?—Morn ing Herald. During nearly the whole of the last Session a Com mittee of the House of Commons has been sitting on the subject of the Metropolitan Police—sitting, we believe, with closed doors ; at any rate, either by acci dent or design, little or nothing with regard to its pro ceedings has been allowed to transpire, its witnesses having been entirely of its own selection. At the close of the Session it made its report, a copy of which has found its way into the Press long before the Parlia mentary print, with the evidence, is likely to reach the public. It is quite clear, from the whole tone of this document, that the Committee sat out and sat down—nay, continued its sittings—with but one ob ject, which was to extol the new police system as one of perfection, which has answered every ob ject, without eliciting any thing, so much as one word, in the shape of objection. That this has been the de termination of the Committee, per fas et nefas, is clear from the boldness of an assertion, more than once re peated, that had there been any objections they were sure to have had them presented to them ; the real fact being, as we have already stated, that no one had access to the Committee but witnesses of their own selection, selected of course to suit and forward their object. That the new police system may have done a great deal in the way of prevention, as well as in the detection of crime, we do not at all dispute ; but that does not at all meet the objection to the unconstitu tional nature of the establishment, or in any degree prove that the same results might not have been brought about by more legitimate means. The ob jection to the system is, not that it ,has been con verted to bad purposes, but that it is capable of being. Nemo fruit repente tulpissimus ; and it is the nature of tyranny to make its approaches by degrees, by sap and mine, rather than by open manly assault. We remember the time when such a system as that of the new pollee would have been made a dangerous State engine —when it would have done the work of the Castles and Olivers of those days, or of days not long succeeding them. Nor is there any security, that, if the opportunity offers, it may not be converted into a similar engine of hateful espionnage.; but which would not be the case, or at any rate be so liable to be the ease, had the nomination of the constables remained with the parishes. Toa boast, as this - Committee in its report does, of this force as now cotiatituted being a more constituti ona l f orce th an a military one, is a species of special pleading and of trifling unworthy of grave assertion or of serious discussion. It cannot, to be sure, be said to amount to a distinction without a difference, for the difference is great enough. In the ,suppression of a mob or tumult one troop of Life Guards is of more use than the whole of the police force ; while, emanating from the same authority, having heads broken by truncheons, or rioters dispersed by the quiet means of well-trained horses, offers a choice in which there can be, we imagine, no difficulty in deciding. Whether the report in question is in tended as a mere feeler, or ultimate measures are to be grounded upon it, we know not ; but it behoves not only the metropolitan: parishes, but those which the system has not yet reached, if not to be up and stirring, at least to be on their guard, lest, under the colour of civil protection, civil liberty does not become a mere shadow.—Morning Herald. The great Protestant Meeting in Dublin has excited, as might have been expected, the anger of all the ene mies of the Protestant Church. It would have been a worthless meeting, indeed, had it failed to do so. The Ministerialists or Revolutionists, for the terms appear to be convertible, affect to consider this important meeting, and the bold sentiments it uttered, and the solemn resolutions it adopted, as the unmeaning ebul litions merely of heated minds, as the insignificant effusions of party violence and rancour. It is evident however, that this affectation of contempt is entirely assumed. Nothing can be more certain, and of this our contemporaries are fully aware, than that such a meeting cannot be convened, and such language uttered and universally applauded, unless society has previously been brought into a state into which it is the chief business of statesmen to prevent society from ever being brought. The Protestants of Ireland .at this meeting held a language which is important from the number, the weight, and the influence of theirassembly, but which is still more important when regarded as the natural and just expression of the feelings of a very numerous and influential body of men labour ing under the consciousness of oppression, the sense of injury, and the apprehension of danger. The vio lent subversion of the Protestant Church is to them an insult, an injury, and a danger, and the subversion of the Protestant Church by violence is not merely threatened, but is actually commenced. The admis sion of this fact forms indeed the very basis of all the Ministerial reasoning which have recently heard or read upon the subject onNeland. This reasoning may be thus succinctly repeated :—The House of Lords ought not to have rejected Mr. O'Connell's plan for the abolition of tithe in Ireland—the Pro testants of Ireland ought not to have met to express their honest sentiments upon the present situation of affairs—because the policy of Government has cre ated a state of affairs in Ireland in which it is im possible to collect the tithe ; in other words, the Church should be abandoned by its friends because its ene mies have succeeded in placing it in a position of ex treme danger. This reasoning may suit the unprin cipled partisans of an unprincipled Ministry, but it is not thus that the Protestants of Ireland or of Great Britain will reason in regard to the affairs of the Church. The friends of law and order, as such, all who have an interest in the maintenance of law and order, must unite their forces upon the question of upholding the rights of the Church with the Protes tants of Ireland, were it possible to imagine that any of the former exist who are not already upon other and higher grounds the allies of the latter. This is a ques tion which decides the very existence of the British Government in Ireland. The power and disposition to enforce the law are essential to the very idea of a Government. Without them there is no Government. Those who in defiance of the law to-day refuse the payment of tithe, with impunity, are at liberty to morrow to refuse the payment of rent or taxes, and to refuse the next day any other act of obedi ence to the civil magistrate. The Protestants of Ireland foresee clearly enough that the course now pur sued by Government must terminate in this result. In the non-payment of tithe they see the extirpation of British power, and the cessation of that effectual protection which they require, and have a right to ex pect. Every pretence even for the refusal of thistist and legal payment is a menace, or att ac k rat her, directed against the British Government and British connection. The tithe, it is said, is collected for the support of a Church which is not that of the majority of the people. Whatever of truth there is in this pre tence points distinctly to the separation of the two countries, for the Church, on account of which tithe is collected in Ireland, is that of the majority of the British people. But it points also to a speedy re sumption by Roman Catholics of the land in Ireland of which the present owners are Protestants, and so far as it is permitted to succeed effects in some degree that resumption ; for the tithe in Ireland as elsewhere is really paid by the landowners, and the majority of the actual landowners of Ireland are members of the Church to which the tithe legally belongs. The Roman Catholics of Ireland have just as much right to say that they will separate themselves from the destinies of Great Britain, as to say that tithe shall not be paid in Ireland b ecause i t is paid to a Church to which they do not belong. The tenantry of Ireland have just as much right to say that they will hence forth occupy the land as their own, as to say that they will not pay tithe to a Church which is that of their landlords, although it be not their own. And there can be little doubt that if these parties be permitted to act in the spirit of the one declaration, they will soon begin to act in the spirit of the other. The British people, if they wish Ireland to be preserved to the em pire, or would avoid a protracted and sanguinary civil war for the dominion of that country, must unite with their brethren of the Irish Church to discountenance and put down the present tithe rebellion, which is evi dently only intended as the precursor of a political and social rebellion.—Morning Post. We look forward with considerable curiosity to the appearance of a Ministerial manifesto, such as that which was p u t f ort h l ast year, i n wh i ch the measures of the ses sion may b e surveye d as t h roug h a so l ar microscope. C amp b e ll, i n hi s lif e o f Sidd ons , a d v erts to the anecdote of a stage-struck brewer in a riot, who, in set theatrical phrase, expressed his hopes to a mob.clamouring for liquor, that as his strong drink was exhausted, they would show their usual indulgence to the small beer, called upon at so short a notice to fill the part of double stout. Doubtless, without the candour of this apology, we shall see the small- beer brewage of the session served up as double stout; and, flat and sour as it is, with the small beer the nation must needs be content, for there is nothing else, and marvellously small it is, and withal, as Foote said of the Constantia, " very little of its age." Quantity, in the case of certain things, makes up for poorness in quality, but in this instance of the legislation of the season we shall have small-beer in a liqueur-glass. What human being has reaso n t o t h an k t hi s Parlia ment for its year's labours ? In order to feel an obli gation to it, one must have the fortune to be robbed in the. Surrey suburbs, and thus be made to benefit by the convenience of the Central Criminal Court. The relief from the house-tax was no act of grace---4 was ex torted ; but the Chancellor of the Exchequer has spontaneously taken off some taxes, and the author of the IVlinisterial manifesto will doubtless do full justice to his services in respect of shepherds' dogs and stone bottles. But these are times to make men thankful for what they can get, and we are grateful to a proper degree, we trust, not only for shepherds' dogs and stone-bottles, but also for the reduction of the duty on currants, a notice of which was strangely omitted in the King's Speech. However, we make no question that full justice will be done to that beneficent act in the concoction of the expected manifesto. Each Mi nister will in that document take in hand the praise of his own performance. The Chancellor will hug his Old Bailey, which the King is made to hope will fur nish a useful example to the kingdom, but not, we trust, in the common sense of the phrase, with refer ence to executions. Mr. P. Thomson, who like little Jack Horner put in his thumb and pulled out a plum from the subjects of fiscal oppression, will cry, "What a fine fellow am I," upon the currant relief ; another will pour the praises of the Ministry into stone bottles ; and another will make the country sensible of the prodigious blessing of untaxed shepherds' dogs. By the way, we look upon this as a most important act of the session, for it is the only performance in THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1834. which any accordance can be traced with the promise of the King's Speech. His Majesty upon opening the session said, " I have to lament the continuance of distress amongst the proprietors and occupiers of land ;" an d, as he made no allusion to the matt3r in his speech on the prorogation, it is but fair to sup pose that the abolition of the tax on shepherds' dogs has been the measure precisely fitted to the relief of the landed interest, and so the remedy having been ministered, it was unnecessary to say more about the evil. It is for quacks to glorify their cures. The modest skilful practitioner sees the patient, says " You are suffering much," and writes a prescription to remove th e pain. The Government laments the oppression of the poor landed interest which is so un able to help itself in its afflictions, and it takes the tax off shepherds' dogs. The evil is cured, and what more need be said ? The fact that the distress of the landed interest had not struck the public is explained by this circumstance—that it was so fine, that the removal of the shepherd's dog im post just relieved it. It was like the Sybarite distressed with a doubled rose leaf : but so much the greater is the credit of the Government, which has so keen an eye for the discovery of annoyances, and so nice a hand for the appointment of remedies, so that they shall be no more and no less than sufficient. If Apollo were again, to be hurled from the skies, he would, on looking round him and surveying the various bur dens on our various classes, make his election as in Midas— " What shall I do 7—turn shepherd ? " For his dog—thanks to our generous Chancellor of the Exchequer—would be untaxed. These things will, however, be all better handled and better ho noured in the manifesto which we are impatiently ex pecting. The authors will not fail to show, that if people "do not see the wood, it is by reason of the trees"—that vast things have been done which our weak optics cannot comprehend. If they will throw in an ac count of the battles which have been fought in the Cabi net, the value and interest of the production will be much enhanced, and in contention a field of great ac tivity can surely be shown. Men cannot do all things, and it was not possible to fight the battles of the people and colleagues in the Cabinet at the same time. The art of doing nothing with the greatest possible noise has certainly been advanced to a matchless height in the past Session, and it will be well to note the princi ples upon which the success has depended. Some thing of the same kind we have observed on board of French ships, in which every man has his notion to propose of what should be done, which is seconded, if seconded at all, only by his own pair of hands, the effect of which is an admirable confusion, which would b e yet further improved if the man at the helm were as ignorant of his business as the crew of discipline. Preparation and order are the grand essentials to suc cessful progress, and therefore we find the absence of both at the root of the talking-tree of many leaves and little fruit which has branched out to such overwhelm ing extent in the House of Commons. Ministers have brought their measures before _Parliament as women try on their caps, to see how they will look ; and when they found the thing unfit, or awkward, or unbecom ing, it has been stitched or pinned up into another shape. Nothing has appeared with the marks of pre paration, or nothing in which the public felt concern ; and the bungling and botching of Ministers gave opportunity and encouragement to the praters and charlatans in the House to hold forth on their schemes, and advertise their various nostrums. A Government has immense means available to the best preparation of measures, and if it made wise use of them, so as to present examples of more perfect projects of law, the u n qualified would be very much deterred from thrust ing their clumsy schemes upon the attention of a House accustomed to look at workmanlike plans. But now, all the bills that are shot upon the table are pretty nearly on the same level in point of aptitude for their objects, and an Agnew project only shares after all in the ridicule which also attaches to an Althorp scheme. An able and diligent government might do much to raise the standard of legislation ; and electors may do something towards checking the intrusive crudities and idle speechifying of their representatives, who, when called to account for their stewardships, should be asked not only what they have done, but what they have attempted, and what they have impeded in their attempts. Some discretion is to be required of mem bers in proposing things which may be desirable. A representative who has no understanding of the season able and the opportune is a nuisance, however good his intentions, and his interruptions serve as most con venient cover-sluts for the negligences and omissions of the Government. The method and internal ma chinery for good legislation is indeed yet to be sought. Our members have not advanced so far as to have an understanding of the faults and the deficiencies in their present mode of proceeding. We had intended some observations on the 102 notices of motion for next session, but the 102 are now as much too many for us as they will prove too many for the progress of business in the next session.—Times. THE MURDER OF MR. ASHTON. FURTHER RESPITE OF THE MURDERERS. CHESTER, SATURDAY EVENING.—An order has just been received by Mr. Dunstan, the Governor of the Castle (an office which he holds by patent, independently of his situation as keeper of the county gaol,) for the further re spite of the men, Garside and Mosley, convicted of the murder of Mr. Ashton. This respite is from Monday next, the 18th inst., to the 18th of September. It comes from Lord Duncannon, " by command of the King," and directs that the culprits be informed that there is no hope of the Royal clemency to be drawn from these respites. Both continue to deny that Schofield, now in custody at Stockport, charged with being the man who paid the wages of blood, know s any thing o the transaction ;-and as there was no thing elicited on the trial of these Mien to implicate Scho field, except the evidence of William Mosley, the accom plice, the ends of justice will be frustrated, unless he can be connected in some other way with this diabolical and most un- English murder. It is hoped that Schofield may be induced to name the parties who employed him as the medium of communication with the assassins. His re-examination takes place at Stockport this day. MURDER OF MR. HENWOOD. (From the Devonport Telegraph.) Since our last publication, the son of the unfortunate man who we then stated had been assassinated under ap palling circumstances, has been apprehended. The state ment as :published by us last Saturday was substantially correct. The following are more detailed particulars of the horrid crime :—Mr. Henwood occupied a farm called Trelay, in th& parish of St. Martin's, near Looe, which he had nearly .50 pears. His family consistFd of his wife, se veral daughters, and an only son, who was in the habit of attending the market at Kingsand, as a butcher every Sa turday ; the remainder of his time was occupied on his father's farm. It appears that on the morning of Thursday se'nnight, the deceased, who was about 72 years of age, and much respected by his neighbours, left his house as usual to look after, and give directions to the workmen. In one of his fields he found his son preparing some manure con trary to his directions, for which he remonstrated with him, and his not receiving what he thought a proper answer, told him that if he would not attend to his directions he had better leave the field. The young man immediately threw down the shovel he had in his hand, and looking angrily at his father, said, " you are like a young bear, all your troubles are to come"—and immediately left the field. The son shortly after returned to the house, when he was met by his mother, who, surpri se d t o see hi m come f rom h i s work in the mi▪ ddle of the forenoon, asked him " what he had come for ?" To this he replied, " That owing to the rain he had left his job, and was go i ng to ma k e some straw bind for thatching• ." He then took a j ug f rom t h e ki tc h en and drew himself some cider, which lie drank, and replaced the jug on the dresser. He was afterwards heard at his chest in his bed-room, from whence it is suspected he took the powder, as it was not known to be in the house. From thence he must have gone to th e ox - c h a ll , w h ere h e k ep t his gun, and loaded it, as the shot-belt was left in the chall. From thence his footsteps were traced by the hedges of the fields to the corner of the orchard, the spot where his father was shot. A quantity of rain that had fallen the night before rendered the footmarks of the wretched man more distinct than they o th erw i se wou ld h ave b een ; and s howed that in his prog ress h e crept a l ong b y th e hedges to avoid being observed. At the inquest a medical gentle man who had examined the body stated, that he found the chest, upper part of the abdomen, the left side of the neck, and the left cheek, shoulder, and arm thickly covered with marks of the shots, lodged in them ; that the cavity of the chest, was filled with blood ; two of the ribs on the left side were shattered' several shot had perforated the lungs, and that four shots had passed through the heart, and two were lodged in it ; he said that he thought death was instanta neous. Several shots had entered the neck of the horse he was riding, which, taking fright at the discharge of the gun, fled full speed down the lane, where it was met by one of the deceased's neighbours, who, fearing some accident, hastened up the lane till he came to a spot where he found the victim weltering in his blood. Having obtained as sistance the body was taken to the house, when the ago nised wife exclaimed " where is John ?" meaning her son, whom she instantly suspected of the crime. . A person was sent on the farm in search of him, but without avail. The suspicions were increased when it was found that the son's fowling-piece was gone from the ox-chall, and his shot-belt had been discovered on the spot. The footsteps marked as above stated, were further traced from the spot where the murder had been committed to the banks of the Seaton River. No further trace could however be obtained until the afternoon of the following day, when the son entered a field of Mr. Jewry, adjoining his father's estate, where Mr. J. and his men were engaged in cutting barley, and asked for some cider as he was very thirsty. After he had drank, he expressed a wish to go to see his mother, from which Mr. Jewry dissuaded him, and took him to his own house, where he partook heartily of some tea. While there Mr. Jewry asked him where he had secreted himself, when he replied, " in the copse close by," about a quarter of a mile from the spot where he had subsequently confessed he had shot his father. A constable, who had been sent for by this time, arrived, and the prisoner was asked where the gun was, when he described the spot, where it was found together with a powder horn. He was subse quently asked " why he had done so to his poor father ?" to which he replied, " I ought to have done so long be fore."—A coroner's inquest was held on the body on Fri day last, and a verdict returned of Wilful Murder against the son, for whose committal a warrant was made out, and he has been removed to Bodmin, to take his trial at the next Assizes.—He is believed not to be in his right mind. EXECUTION OF PAT. MEANY. About half-past five o'clock on Tuesday morning, Pat. Meany, who had been found guilty at our last Assizes of having conspired to murder the late Mr. Joseph A: Leo nard, left the county gaol, escorted by a troop of the 9th Lancers, under the command of Captain Williams, for Shanbough, the scene of the murder. They were to be joined at Ross by two companies of infantry, and a body of one hundred of the constabulary was ordered to meet them at the place of execution. The unfortunate culprit appeared very penitent, but did not, we understand, make any confession of his guilt before leaving the gaol. He was conveyed in a chaise and was accompanied by the Rev. Mr. Greene, R.C.C. Meany was about five feet eight inches high, a strongly built man with a very broad chest and shoulders, and short thick legs. Just as he had entered the carriage, the pistol of one of the Lancers ac cidentally exploded, (when he was in the act of returning the ramrod, which required some force to push it down) and the ball passed through the centre of the poor fel low's right hand. He was instantly conveyed in the Sub- Sheriff's gig to the regimental hospital, where he now re mains. We regret to learn that it is thought amputation will become necessary. This unfortunate accident delayed the departure of the cavalcade for about half an hour._ Kilkenny Moderator. EXECUTION OF BUSTIN. This melancholy event took place at Warwick yesterday at one o'clock, to which hour it was deferred in order to allow time for the arrival of any reprieve which his Ma jesty's clemency might extend. At twelve o'clock yester day the whole of the prisoners, male and female, attended divine service at the chapel. Bustin walked - from the con demned cell to the chapel with a firm step, an d w i t h an ' appearance of unconcern ; he held a prayer-book in his hand, and was attired in a common labourer's dress. At one o'clock, when the service was concluded, he was at tended to the press-room by the Chaplain, Mr. Adkins, Governor, and other officers of the prison, where the usual process of pinioning his arms was performed. The Go vernor then entreated of him, if he had any thing to com municate, to do so immediately, as he had but a short period of time to exist. He calmly replied, " I have no thing to say, I only wish to be buried at home, and I never set Mr. Sheldon's or Mr. Baker's ricks on fire." The pro cession then moved towards the scaffold, and in the room adjoining it the Chaplain read the usual prayers, to which Bustin seemed to listen with attention. The Rev. Gentle man here parted with the culprit, who walked towards the place of execution with a firm and unmoved step. On making his appearance on the drop some person in the crowd called " Bustin," whom, it appeared by his nodding his head in return, he recognised as an acquaintance. The cap was then placed over his face, the rope was adjusted, the bolt of the scaffold was withdrawn, a struggle, with considerable tremor of the muscles, followed, and in a few moments he had ceased to live. His voice was heard in prayer till the last sentence of the law was carried into effect. The crowd was not so great as on many former occa sions, but the melancholy sight drew a considerable number of spectators from the neighbourhood of Brailes.—Lea mington Spa Courier of Saturday. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BO W- STREET. A MOTHER'S VENGEANCE.—Yesterday two girls of ten der age, named Ryan and Nicholson, were brought up, charged with being disorderly and using obscene language in the streets. Mrs. Ryan, the mother of the first-named prisoner, was also put to the bar, charged with a violent assault upon the prisoner Nicholson. The policeman, after proving the charge against the girls, stated that as he was bringing them from the station house to the office Mrs. Ryan seized the prisoner Nichol son, knocked her down and kicked her, swearing she would murder her. In her defence Mrs. Ryan said the girl Nicholson had enticed her daughter from her home and induced her to go upon the streets, and when she saw her child in custody she could not control her rage. Sir F. ROE said her vengeance must be restrained, and committed her for a month. The girls were committed for fifteen days. . The three prisoners were locked up in the same cell to gether, and in a few moments the most piercing shrieks were heard to proceed from the lock-up place, and the gaoler, on going to ascertain the cause, found the girl Nicholson lying on her back, and Mrs. Ryan kneeling upon her chest, and beating her head against the stone-floor. The gaoler had great difficulty in rescuing the girl from her infuriated grasp. Mrs. Ryan, who was in a frightful state of excitement, said she would never rest until she had murdered the young wretch who had been the means of bringing her fatherless child to destruction. Her sentence was then increased to three months. MAR YLEB ONE. Yesterday three men, who gave their names Samuel Jac kson, Thomas Abbott, and James Abbott, were brought up by police constable 32 S, charged with selling unstamped newspapers in the street. Thomas Page, of No. 23, Francis -street, Chelsea, who described himself as a labourer, in the employ of Mr. Col ley, holding a situation under the Commissioners of Stamps, deposed that about ten o'clock on Saturday night he was in the Tottenham-court-road, when he saw the three prisoners selling various numbers of the Hue and Cry, the Police Ga zette, and the Twopenny Dispatch. Witness having pur chased the Hue and Cry of Jackson, and the Twopenny Dispatch of Thomas Abbott, called the policeman above named, and gave them all three into custody. A great bun dle full of the above publications was here handed to the Magistrate for his inspection. The prisoners being asked what they had to say, Jack son incautiously admitted the fact of his having sold the papers in question, and thought there was no harm in so doing. I\fr. Edmonds, who appeared on behalf of the prisoners, contended that there was no positive or legal proof that the publications in question contained real facts to bring them under the denomination of newspapers. They might, for anything which appeared to the contrary, be made up wholly of fiction and romance, the work of the imagination. Mr. RAWLINSON observed that prosecutions of this kind ought to be instituted against the proprietor of these publi cations by the Commissioners of Stamps, or some respon sible persons acting under them, and not against the poor venders. There was some weight in the last point urged by the adviser for the prisoners, and he should give them the benefit of it. They were accordingly discharged, and the papers all restored to them by the magistrate's orders. QUEEN-SQUARE. HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—Yesterday James Preston was placed at the bar before Mr. GREGORIE, charged with rob bing Mr. William Griffin, of Beal's Wharf, Tooley-street, of a valuable gold watch and seals. It appeared from the evidence of the complainant, that on Saturday evening he was returning home ; when near the Elephant and Castle, at Newington, he saw the pri soner, who put his arm round him. He asked him what he meant by such conduct, when he replied, " I see you are a gentleman," and went away. Witness walked on a short way, and stopped for a moment where two persons were singing, and on turning round he saw the prisoner standing 'close to him on his right hand. He almost instantly snatched his watch out of his fob, and ran away. Witness followed him, and never lost sight of him until he was secured. On searching him the watch was not to be found, and it is _supposed that he must have thrown it away during the chace. The prisoner was ordered to be remanded. THE ITALIAN Boye.—A young Italian boyoyith a cage of white mice, one of those unfortunate lads. who are brought over to this country by the Italian vagabond ma! ters, was bro ug ht b e f ore M r . Gregorie by one of the °leec e of the Mendi c it y S oc i ety, c h arge d w ith begging in : t public street. The officer stated that he saw the defendant w ith — 11 " 6 white mice begging of several persons in Cockspur-stret.r. The boy on bei ng ques ti one d re f use d to give arq. ansvie o One of the Society's officer s said that a short time the boy was at Marlborough-street, and gave his name 1331- charmi ; he could speak English as well as he c ould. The boy still refused to give any answer, " and Mr. G GORIE committed him for t en d a y s t o the House of 02 : r " rection. COUR d'ASSIZE de la SEINE INFERIEURE' ROUEN. i .~ ~1 ASSASSINATION OF A WOMAN BY HER HUSBANO• A man named Delestre, an agricultural labou rer, w as placed at the bar charged with the murder of his wife under the following circumstances : in On n e tfiheeldls4tohf o i‘ f i J e a s n n u ll a_ p ry an la n s e t v a iil d e, ea w d hi b c o h dy tu w rn a e s d d o i s ti c t or to er . be that of a woman named Delestre. She appeared to ba c ! , been dead only a few hours, and was lying with her arms crossed on her bosom, and her legs n F ie ; straight, being only a few inches from each other. Her clothes were not in the slightest degree disordered. ba d right her petticoat was slightly stained with mud, and d the appearance of a knee having been placed upon it ;, 5 ;; Ii on the same side her leg bore the impress of a foot, 01 4 had evidently been placed upon it. On the right side her head the handkerchief, four times double, which be ° OO her head-dress, presented several marks of blood, and 04 the middle of the left shoulder there were several sta l i ed on her h e al_ and at one side of the body a spot of ground was satur n .:,,., with blood. There was also a large bruise on the left ri le and on the neck ; and two other bruises -a-one near , right ear, and the oth e r on th e l e ft thi g h, and a little Stol on the right cheek. Th e b o dy was a t o nce remove d I re , • neighbouring hous e , th e grea t es t care b e ing taken to P o , serve the position in whi c h it was first discovered. I n J r l e ing it, however, it was found that the back of the carn l6 l th (an under waistcoat) which she wore was much oile d mud about the shoulders, while th e p e tti coa t was sca re " soiled at all. On the following day the Juge de Paix, attended by P e r ; Mondeville, went to inspect the body. The first opt of the medical gentleman was, that the deceased 1101,7 a e of pulmonary apoplexy, from which she appeared to 70e. suffered some time previously to her death. Has n ee qucntly acknowledged that his exam i na ti on , in conseql!e. oo, of being pressed for time to send in hi s w ritten depositaol / was not sufficiently minute to bear out his statement, ud y that he was also led away by th e mis - s t a f em ents of her4 oo 4 band as to the state of her health ; th a t th e drops °f b o rne on her garments and on the ground wer e not likely to Ocir, from her spontaneously, and he afte rwar d s s ent a Tr ) , he cumstantial statement to the J uge d e P a i x , in wine-fo gave it as his firm belief that the deceased had been betW° °° cated, and that a violent stru gg le h a d t a k en place hel l w her and some second person, and th a t s h e h a d receiv e rious injury by compression of the right breast. A befor e The most active investigation was c on tinued, an uto the medical gentleman had drawn up hi s seco ndrepor t fa c t of cient evidence was obtained cl ear ly t o es t a bli s h the fec ar ed Delestre not having come fairly by her death. It aPPe i et b, that she had been seen a few minutes only before her ue her and that she was then in perfect health. M o reove r ' A r arms, as they remained cro sse d on h er b osom , had the pearance of having been f orce d i n t o t h at position, the on the camisole, as if to attest p ressure on the bre„...rrtS knee mark on the clothes, the contusions on different viol of the body, the scar on the face—all proved that sh e dro t become the victim of violence, and the blood, drop by • car spilt on her clothes and on the ground, sufficiently Inor, cated the severe struggle that she had had with her 111 90 derer ; she had also inflicted some slight wounds 00 when he was in the act of strangling her. one. Such was the conclusion that the public opinion at be d came to, that Delestre was inst a ntly accuse d o f having the assassin of his wife. With an i nconce i v able sang .1 0 4 he witnessed the examination of the body, and endeal to s to deceive the medical men by hi s m i srepres entations 0 , 1 ,4 . belief that she died a natural death, an d a fterwards s t ' o p .• that he had heard her several tim es d ec l are she WO — Ad mit suicide. The deceased was 50 years of age, and c onsiderahlY i n than her husband. Mi ser y an d h ar d wor k had ma de o p , appear still older th an s h e rea ll y was . H er husband , peared, had become tired of her, and spent all he eartl e " : t other women, and re f use d hi s own w if e even the 0 ,0 1- necessaries of life. She lived with her children in th e alf mune of Bouville, and h e li ve d a b ou t t wo l ea gues °lhts 9- 0 premises o f th e Si eur B eranger , an agr i cu lt uri st of ville, by whom he was employed as shepherd. t'" ttnr . Every time h e wen t h ome t o hi s un f or t una t e wife or t formly beat and ill-t rea t e d h er i n t h e most b ru tal Ine n „;is: and he had thr ea t ene d h er i n a way t h at cou ld n ot be PO understood. He was also overheard, shortly befr e ss id, tragical death of deceased, talking with a woman, who to " No, you are m arr i e d." Hi s rep l y was , " I k no w b 0 dispose of my wife in such a manner as to be able to M ore l you." The poor woman, it appeared, had long ,; 0 P what would be the en d o f hi s crue l ty, an d to ld an aecll7 er , ante that she would some day hear that he had kille d ivett The last time Delestre went to see his wife was 0 ° t ale nesday, the Bth of Jan uar y. Wh en h e wen t a way, h e est her she had better send him some clean linen the n ail Sunday by his son, Alph onse D e l es t re . O n the S„ LiP t a of Alphonse went to M o tt ev ill e accor di ng l y . The laneneiyar the house which deceased and her children occupied at jolt wills mentioned about this time the payment of th e , Tag which was overdue, and the prisoner said to his son, pc your mother that she must come and get some !O ne/ or the landlord, and that she had better set out for it talo row afternoon at four." Here, then, we discover tiled of the prisoner to car r y i n t o e ff ec t th e di a b o lical Pr n i,,,s , o o murdering his wife. Telling her to come for the rn° ll 7,f the a mere pretext, for a few days before, on the occa sion of big Fete des Rois, he h a d s p en t i n t h e company o f one pon e mistresses all the money he possessed, and there wnL re be due to him from hi s mas t er . Th e h our f or h er del:P erk- 0 C purposely fixed, that he might have the cover of th e d,s l for his dark deed ;it was in the month of January, do t she had two leagues to walk, it will be seen that he ‘ w c ial)' act without conside ra ti on . O n t h e d ay name d Pl e a t° fearing to dis o b e y h er h us b an d, a l t h oug h s h e dreg sl oe, see him, she set out ; she dared not, however, to g e . fi li.l n but was accomp an i e d by a woman name d L a urent: tba t she had so pitiably ent rea t e d w ith t ears t o go with ve n ven i ' she at length consent e d, a lth oug h muc h t o her ine e fi ti gn e ence. When they had arrived within a quarter of a pro' of the farm of Sieur Beranger, she, not wishing te e d sn l yoke Delestre, requested her companion not to proee Ja' further, adding, " that he would not be pleased if be aloe that she (Laurent) had accompanied her." She 61 j oie directed her steps towa r d s th e f arm , w hi c h was if p eire r than three quarters of a mile distant, but the farm s',l n gfe r reached ; her murder ous h us b an d was d ou btless wal h bon , ; her not far from where she parted with her kind nen it inu (Laurent), and she was never again seen alive , hut te d; assassinated at the time and in the place above describacid The evidence as to the cries of a female voice, / been heard—of the absence of the prisoner from t' o f de; at the time—the drops of blood being on the clothesaret° ceased—and the fact of the prisoner having been ° b X 619 to have two or three deep scratches on the face, p r . Pe' inflicted by his unhappy victim in her struggles eed Up were all very circumstantial, and having been 00 1111 0 (0 in a most able manner, the jury, after three-quart es i 000 5 hour's deliberation, retu rne d a ver di c t o f " Guilty, b ut o palliating circumstances." thi n g What could have induc e d th e j ur y t o add anY the mere verdict of guilty in this case, where th e r o elit was clearly convicted of mur d er i ng his wife with p re g 01 _ tion, it is difficult to concei ve , unless it was the str' n k n e llor jection which most juri es h ave to ta k e t h e life of a pin oti e : creature. Delestre, w h o did not man if est t h e least be P was then sentenced to hard labour for life, and t° licly exposed. HS. On the lath i ns t., the Lady BIRT Caroline Peelle% so n•' a s' CO (.11' On the 18th i ns t., at Camberwell, the lady of Robert Ph. 1 Esq., of a d aug ht er . ebb , On the 16th inst., at Chatham, the lady of Captain of 0 Royal ngineers ,of a dauhter. ad' On the 17th inst., at g /W Highbury, Mrs. John daughter, __....._..--------------- iii, MARRIED. .6. 0 0 1 )_?..dr On the 18th inst., at St. John's Church, London, , .r" 0 Esq., of Liverpool, late of Bombay, to Miss Sarah 1 1 1,00 0- ford, the sixth daughter of Edward Mumford, Esq•' ° Job late of Sawbridgeworth, Herts. .. 0 ,4 % ton, On the 16th inst., at St. Matthew's Church, J-' SO SD° Priest, Esq., of Chapel-place, South Audley-street., to 4 Brown, of the former place. ltla rd lif' On the-16th inst., at St. Luke's, Chelsea, Mr. Wol• ute r of South-square, Gray's Inn, to Sarah Anne, eldest &Ai" „ 0 0, Alex. Black, late of Leadenhall-street, London. . ~., F. Pp' On the 16th inst., at St. John's, Hackney, Mr. . 1 °,7 li ter of the Hackney-road, to Elizabeth Amelia, only wi1 1 . 2 .............. ../ mund Homersham, Esq., of Kingsland-road. drhs tf • r ___l f the DIED. On the Bth inst., George Palmer, Esq., Admi ral °- Ig. qt r at his residence near Esher, Surrey, of a paralytic atta A tr r oth. ' On the 16th inst., Mary Ann, the wife of paralytic lit er Esq., of Doughty-street. On the 15th inst., at Hastings, Sophia Mary, eldest Ilatig- tr P" • Mr. James Darby, Ludgate-street. sother.- - - late Captain of the Ross and Sutherland Militia , H. ra On the 15th inst., Rebecca, wife of -- , wad , In Westminster-road, Lambeth, Alexan der ~. :01 Mr- ;10 . Grange-walk, Bermondsey.- At Oakingham, Berks, Mrs. Ballard, in her 8. 5 a,„0, 4 On the 16th inst., in Upper Gloucester-plateY h oi I, his 23d year, Edmond Athy, Esq., eldest son of P P Esq., of Renville, county of Galway, Ireland. London •. 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