The Sun. — London, England, 1834-07-02 00:00:00

COURT OF KING'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Guildhall, befere the CHIEF JUSTICE and a Common Jury.) COOPER V. REEVE. This was an action for slanderous words spoken by the de fendant of the plaintiff, by which the plaintiff had been injured in his trade and character as a coach proprietor. Messrs. POLLOCK and BALL appeared for the plaintiff, and the ATTORNEY-GENERAL and Mr. tocnAans for the defendant. It appeared by the statement of Counsel that the plain tiff was the proprietor of several coaches plying from London to Bristol, and the defendant, a horsedealer, re siding at Marlborough, by whom the plaintiff's coaches were horsed. In the year 1802 the plaintiff had, in consequence of losses in trade, become a bankrupt, and subsequently paid 6d. in the pound. After the bankruptcy the plaintiff resumed his business, and the defendant continued to horse the coaches un til the month of March, 1833, when the defendant sod denly took off the horses, and in the presence of several persons, stated that the plaintiff was a rascal, and that he would spoil him from doing business at Robinson's and Dixon's (other horse dealers), and would ruin him. These words were repeated to several persons, and the defendant stated also that his reason for taking off the horses was, that he could not get a settlement of the accounts from the plaintiff, who he alleged owed him 4 or 5001. Seven or eight witnesses were called to prove the slanderous words made use of by the defendant, The ATTORNEY-GENERAL addressed the jury for the de fendant. He contended that no proof of special damage had been given, and the mere circumstance of a man having called another a rascal, who owed him several hundred pounds, and would give him no settlement for his account, could not be considered slanderous, or entitle the plaintiff to damages. One of the witnesses, Dixon, had stated that the plaintiff owed 7791., and that in consequence of the representations of the defendant he refused to sell Cooper any more horses until he had reduced his account. The plaintiff had two days afterwards paid Dixon 3601., and he was then supplied with the horses. It was therefore quite evident that the plaintiff bad sustained no damage in his trade. Lord DENMAN said the jury would decide from the evidence the had been laid before them whether the plaintiff had been i n j ur esd in his trade by the slanderous words that had been spoken, and to what amount, provided they were satisfied from the whole a the evidence that these words had been used by the defendanZ. They had nothing to do with the taking off the horses front the coaches, as, if that had been done unjusti fiably and in breach of a contract, it might become the subject of another action. The jury returned It verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 5/. The fruit crops upon the banks of the Clyde in the Middle Ward may this year be considered a complete failure. The only exceptions are plums in some places, and some cur rants, especially the black. The cause of the deficiency is as cribed to the frosts in the spring, and the warm sultry weather in the beginning of summer, affecting the blossoms, which were from the open wet winter, so early out. The apples will be far from being an average crop. The pear crop will scarcely be so bad. In some orchards there appear to be few or no gooseberries, while in others they promise to be a middling crop—Edinburgh Chronicle. BERWICKSHIRE. --We perceive that in conse quence of GoFernment and the House of Commons being re solved upon the ,reformation of the Irish Church, and to in quire into whatevt'r abuses there may be in the expenditure of its revenues, a number of the Tory gentlemen of Berwick shire have become infeseted with the cry—" the church is in danger," and have called a meeting, which is to be held on this day week at Greenlaw, to address his Majesty upon the subject. We would never have thought of mentioning the Church of Scotland in connexion with the Church of Ireland. The Church of Scotland is not in danger,—but on the con trary,by the abolition of absolute patronage, has acquired greater stability. Neither is the Church of England in danger,—but its abuses are in jeopardy,—they are shaken and will be swept away. If the address from Greenlaw pray for the preserva tion of what the country justly considers the abuses of the Irish and English establishment, it will be as " feckless" as the petition from Holy Island against the claims of the Dis senters.—Berwick Advertiser. EFFECTS OF SCENERY ON IMAGINATION.—A dull, uniform life lets the imagination sleep and become tor pid. I have no doubt that scenery and climate have a great effect upon, the spiritual part of the imagination, as well as on the material. Johnson, I think, became more imaginative after he had visited the fiebrides ; at any rate when our minds contemplate him carried about on the waves of the stormy ocean in which those islands are placed, and sleeping with the northern billows beating at the feet of the castellated rock where he is hospitably received, we have a pleasing idea of him, which revolts at the disputatious dreariness and vulgarity of Bolt-court.—Sir Egerton Brydges' Autobiography. COMPARATIVE GRAVITY—WATER versus A LEARNED PROFESSOR.—The following singular, and certainly use' mode of trying the gravity of water is related by the Glasgow Argus to have been adopted by the renowned Pro fessor of Chemistry at the Glasgow University :—" A cele brated humorist of Glasgow, being a fellow-passenger in the steam packet from Helensburgh on Monday last, with the learned professor of chemistry in our university (Dr. Thom son), maintained the rather singular opinion that the water is of less specific gravity in the centre of the estuary than near its shores ; and prevailed upon the professor to draw a bucket full from the slippery stage behind the paddle-box, in the view of experimentally testing the accuracy of the opinion. The packet was at full speed, and when the ship's bucket, which was lowered by the professor, reached the water, he was thrown off his balance by the resistance he suddenly encoun tered, and plunged, like a well trained Newfoundland dog, headlong into the foaming surge of the paddle wheels. This was more than the humorist had reckoned upon, and he in his turn was overwhelmed by the screams of the professor's wife, who stood close by, and most unceremoniously tumbled in a dead faint into the humorist's arms. The packet, crowded with pas sengers, shot full quarter a mile a-head the swimming profes sor, before the engines were stopped and her boat lowered. The professor, however, proved the superior gravity of the water, and his perfect familiarity with fluids, by keeping his head in sight, and when picked up he was found to have fast hold of the bucket rope, and to be more distressed lest the muriate of soda should corrode his watch wheels than in any way alarmed for the consequences of as thorough a ducking as ever scientific enthusiast received, or annoyed at the shouts of laughter, which none could repress when the passengers got him dripping among them.—Aberdeen Chronicle. HORRIBLE MURDER.-011 Thursday, the inhabi tants of Beck-lane, Nottingham, were alarmed by cries of " Murder." A concourse of people immediately collected, and soon afterwards a man dressed in a fustian jacket, light striped waistcoat, and corduroy . trousers, with a white shirt open at the collar, saturated with blood, was brought out of the house in custody ; he appeared much agitated, and was conveyed to the House of Correction. His name is William Hinckley, and he resided in Bold-lane, Derby. He was mar ried eleven years ago to the unfortunate woman whom it was soon discovered he had just murdered. They had lived un happily together, and six years ago she left him, came to Not tingham, and cohabited with a man named William Bull, who, we are informed, was acquainted with her previous to her mar riage. About Christmas last, the deceased returned to her husband at Derby, and the latter set up a small eating-house, but on Monday last the unhappy woman quitted him, taking with her money and property, and returned to Bull, who lodged on the first floor in Mr. Peck's house, in Beck-lane. The husband, greatly irritated by the conduct of his wife, went to Nottingham by the coach, and having gone into a house oppo site that in which his wife was, bitterly complained of her pro ceedings. He then went over to Peck's, and walked up stairs. Both Mr. and Mrs. Peck went up to them at different times, but there was no violent language or high words used. Soon after one o'clock, as Mr. Peck sat down to dinner, he heard a heavy fall upon the floor above, which was instantly followed by shrieks of murder. He instantly hastened up, and saw Hinckley, with a clasp-knife in his hand, cutting at his wif e ' s throat. Peck immediately grasped him by his collar, and in his efforts to disengage him dragged them both towards the window, but so desperate and determined was the infuriated man, that he would not quit his hold, but kept stabbing and mangling the throat of his victim till she ceased to exist. Mr. Burrows, a constable, came in and struck him several times on the arm, and at last stunned him by a blow on the head, before he would relinquish the knife. He was then secured, and a Coroner's jury having returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder," he was committed for trial. THUNDER STORM.---BOY KILLED.—On Friday last this town and neighbourhood were visited with a storm of thunder and lightning, which is here a circumstance of very rare occurrence. The air during the whole of the morning was close and sultry, and about three o'clock a few loud peals of thunder, preceded by lightning, were heard. At Alturlie point, near Culloden, on the shores of the Moray Frith, the storm was severe. Between three and four o'clock, the lightning was uncommonly vivid and the thunder tremendous. The affrighted villagers fled for safety or ran about in the ut most terror and confusion ; and a boy who was herding cattle in a field was struck down by a flash of lightning, and instantly expired. Another youth was standing about twelve yards distant, and was struck to the ground, but was not injured. The cattle also fell, either from lightning or the effect of the thunder. Several persons ran to the spot where the body of the boy lay, and found it lifeless. The electric fluid must have struck about the head or neck, which was disfigured ; one of the ears was cut off, and the collar of the deceas e d' s coat burned away. It seems to have passed downwards between his clothes and body, causing deep gashes in the breast and in one of the legs, and burning his skin and under clothes. De scending the earth at his feet, the nails in the boy's shoes were driven out, and- a large hole formed in the earth, part of which was scattered about to the distance of seven or eight yards. The unfortunate boy was i 4 years of age, his name was John Burgess, and he was the son of a fisherman at Petty. About the time of this melancholy occurrence, the lightning also en tered a house near Campbelten, penetrating it by the gable end, when it shivered the bed to pieces, and broke the windows with the exception of a single pane.—lnverness Courier. - - THE TENDER HEART.-<--" Although I'm the finisher of the law," said Johnnie Milne, Qv hangman of Aber deen, , c I'm the tenderest-hearted man in a' be:Aland." In proof of this assertion, Johnnie, being once called on to exe cute a woman at Arbroath, whilst he was adjusting the rope round her neck, she began to shrink, and manifest other symp toms of terror. " Diana be fleyed, my dear," said the feeling hangman, " Dinna be fleyed, I'll be as canna wi' you as ever I can . Aberdeen Herald. PRICES OF STOCKS THI: Bank Stock 0 16 1554% 3 per Cent. Red. 91304 54 3 per Cent. Cons -- M.i per Cent. 98% Ditto Red. 98Vi New 3% per Cent. Assented 99Ve 3 W 4 per Cent. 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From the additional facilities which the increased size of the paper afibrds, together with new type and superior machinery, we hope to render THE SUN still more worthy of general support, for we appeal not to any party, but to the public at large. It is our intention, as opportunity permits, to devote a fair share of the paper to Literary and Scientific, as well as to other purposes ; but as " doings" are better than "sayings," we shall leave it to the public to judge THE SUN according to its future deserts. *nit. gribe /.7‘4,0::40,-=• 1454 &254 Due. LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 2, 1834. The Tories must now, we think, be satisfied of the ruth of the declaration we have often made, that they can gain nothing by any change which would render a new appeal to the country necessary. The present Parliament is far more conservative than a new one could by any possibility become. If the Duke of WELLINGTON and Sir ROBERT PEEL were to sacrifice the last shilling of their fortunes, and Lord ELDON and Sir J. SCARLETT were to add all the rewards derived from their long and estimable services in the Courts of Equity and Law to the contributions of the Conservative Club ; and were they to have a thousand such active agents as those employed by Sir E. SUGDEN and Mr. HAWES, distributing money to bribe the electors, the whole of the money and energy would be thrown away. A Tory Parliament can never more sit in this country, and therefore there can be no Tory Government. His Grace of WELLING TON must turn a Reformer—a Church and Corpora tion Reformer—if he would again preside over the destinies of England. Neither his military character, nor the debating powers of Sir ROBERT PEEL, even though they should be joined to those of Mr. STANLEY and Sir JAMES GRAHAM, Will serve to secure i the restoration of Tory misrule. The Reform Bill has, and will, destroy all their bright prospects, and every new election will, like those of Edinburgh, Cam bridge, Chatham, and Finsbury, increase the power of its framers. All they have to do is to use it well. The Church must be thoroughly reformed—th e cor porations thrown open, and the surplus revenues of both, made serviceable to the nation. We congratulate Mr. DUNCOMBE on the result of his election. It is a great triumph for him, but yet greater for the electors of Finsbury, and the amended government, which the people of England have now proved their determination to support. As we anticipated yesterday, the Poor Laws Amend ment Bill was read a third time in the House of Commons last night, and passed without a division. Those hon. members, who, like the lawyers rebuked by the Redeemer, will neither do good themselves, nor suffer others to do it, were, as usual, loud and deep in their denunciation of a measure which, according to them, will have the effect of reducing the labourers of this country to the condition of the pauper population of Ireland. These gentlemen must either not have read the Report of the Poor Law Commissioners, or their only reason for opposing the Bill must be a desire to embarrass the Goveinment. Looking at the Report, we find that such was the degraded, demoralized condition of the labourers in various districts in Kent, Essex, Somer set, and Gloucester, that they were regularly herded together in the market places, and their labour for weeks and months subsequently put up by public auction, and sold to the highest bidder, as if the beings who were to be employed were mere beasts of burden. In other places the burden of poor rates had become so oppressive, that the lands were com pletely thrown out of cultivation, and the agricultu rists obliged to emigrate, in order to preserve the wreck of their property. Much of this misery was doubtless occasioned by the dishonest practices of farmers and manufacturers, each of then regarding the other as a hostile interest, and endeavouring to fix upon each other the burden of supporting their own workmen : but the real source of the evil was—the out-door relief system. Thus, for example, for several miles round Nottingham and Coventry, and other manufacturing towns, it was the constant practice of the wages of artisans to the manufacturers to lows. seek relief from the such an ebb as to oblige them t o parish, well aware that the burden won. 1 fall on the agriculturists, who would be compelle d to make the minimum of wages by paying the poor men a few shillings weekly out of the rates. By this scheme, the manufacturers in these towns were enabled to un dersell those of Leeds and Manchester, who were themselves constrained to pay their workmen the whole of their wages out of the profits of their labour. On the other hand, wherever a village of shopkeepers had the misfortune to be located within the vicinity of three or four extensive fanners, the latter were sure to discharge their workmen or lower their wages, after the fashion of the manufacturers, certain that by so doing the charge of keeping them, or of making up the deficiency of wages would inevitably be wrung from the shopkeepers. Such dishonesty could not fail to pollute every spring of moral action, to poison every principle of justice. Immorality prevailed to the most frightful extent ; and such was the extent of recklessness that many respectable witnesses avowed that perjury and fornication could not be dispensed with under such a system I Now, good heavens, if all this be true, how is it possible to reduce the peo ple•of England to a worse state ? Is it proper, or is it not, to put an end to a system which enabled the ma nufacturers at Coventry to ruin the manufacturers at Leeds, and the agriculturists in Hampshire to starve the same class of persons in Essex ? As to the poor themselves, can they be worse off—can they be more degraded,—can they be more injured in their feelings by being obliged, when compelled by want, to seek shelter in the workhouse, than they were by being driven like cattle into the human-labour market, and there put up and sold by auction at so much a head, a dozen, or a score, as suited the con venience of the purchaser ? For our part we have but one answer to the question—we think the thing im possible. As to the bill itself, we consider it, on the whole, as perfect as a measure so complicated can be made, previous to our having any experience of its working. That it may require some alterations in its application to certain districts, we are prepared to admit ; but its general principle is sound ; and if there be anything which, together with a liberal system of national edu cation, will raise the moral feeling of the British labourers to that height which induces men to look forward to the fruits of their own industry for inde pendence, it is the Poor Laws Amendment Bill. How it will be received in the Upper House remains to be seen ; though we feel confident that their Lordships will adopt it without materially altering any of its provisions. The appointment of the Irish Church Commission has, as we observed in a short article yesterday, roused the religious zeal of our northern neighbours—the Tories beyond the Tweed—who are preparing to de monstrate the fraternal feeling which exists between religious legitimates, united in nothing but hostility to the present government. We should be very sorry to detract one iota from the real merits of the respect able portion of the inhabitants of Scotland ; we ac knowledge ourselves under obligations to them for services innumerable, in clearing the great charter of our liberties of some of the foulest blots with which Time and Toryism had defaced it ; we admire their prudence ; respect their love of order, industry, and in telligence; but notwithstanding all this, truth obliges us to confess, that in all questions respecting the sacred or civil polity of the Church of England, we regard their interference as singularly inauspicious. We may be wrong ; but in our opinion the members of the kirk must have most accommodating con sciences, if a desire for the greater glory of GOD impels them to wage war against the Government in defence of a system in Ireland, which it would be an abomi nation in the eyes of the " Holy One of Israel" to dream of extending across the Border. In taking any steps relative to an institution wholly secular in its nature, we would listen with respect to whatever the canny cautiousness "o' the guid fo'k o' Edinbro' " would suggest ; but when the question is one deeply affecting the interests of the Pro testant Church a church which our Northern neighbours had no compunction in driving, sword in hand, out of their country—we cannot help think- ing that there is either a great deal of hypocritical in sincerity, or an abundance of political time-serving, at the bottom of all their movements. But the Scotch Conservatives are not the only per sons who rail against the government for the appoint ment of this commission ; and say our contemporaries, who side with them, " The ministry must be wrong, for their measures are detested by both parties,"— meaning the disciples of Messrs. SHAW and O'CoN NELL. Whenever we hear of any measure which the two great opposition parties in Ireland unite in denouncing, though we may not have paid the least regard to it before, from that moment we are all but convinced of its being beneficial to the country. Talk of conciliating either party, indeed I Why, yes, the mini stry might certainly do much to conciliate one of them ; but entire success would only follow the extermination of the other. Let the government beware of the praises of Mr. SHAW and Mr. O'CONNELL. When Mr. SHAW rises in the house to pronounce an eulo gium on-the Irish Secretary, we recommend the right hon. gentleman to ask himself what injury he has in flicted--what insult has he heaped on the Catholic po pulation ; and in like manner when the learned mem ber for Dublin hails him as a pattern of liberality, we suggest he would act wisely in consulting with his col leagues as to whether he has not taken some step which threatens the overthrow of Protestantism in Ireland. The opposition parties in that country are the Scylla and Charybdis clear of which Ministers must steer, if they would save themselves, and increase the prosperity of the people ; the majority of whom neither look to the Council Chamber of Dublin, or the state-rooms in Denynane for a redress of grievances. On the whole, the appointment of the Irish Church Commission is only denounced by a clique of disap pointed place-hunters on the one hand, and an equally disappointed faction of fierce demagogues on the other. Moderate men, who desire our institutions re formed without endangering public tranquillity, and without injustice to any party, see in the appoint ment of the commission an admission of the great principle That Parliament has a right to deal with the revenues of the church, conjoined with a scrupulous regard to the rights of the present incumbents. We have received a return made by the House of Commons, on the motion of Mr. TENNANT, of the number of Acts of Parliament passed from the year 1800 to the year 1833, both inclusive ; and the gross total, public and private, is eleven thousand one hun dred and eighty,A—.-;7• wfiese 10 i7 1 17--. --- -than four thousand one hundred and forty-six are public ; leav ing seven thousand and forty-three entirely belonging to places and persons. Here, then, we have in the fruits of thirty-three years legislation as many Acts of Parliament alone, as would occupy nearly a whole life were it spent in their perusal. Now what is the use of four-fifths of these proofs of the industry of our representatives What are they but mere in cumbrancies—rolls of waste paper, which would be twice as valuable without them. In the whole science of legislation there is nothing more puerile —nothing more puzzling—to plain men, desi rous of making themselves acquainted with the law of the land, than a bundle of subsequent acts, passed to amend and explain a statute which ought either to have been abolished or embodied, as far as might be judged necessary, in the one recently passed. There must be an end put to the system of piling laws upon laws ; as if, like the Titons, we intended to scale the heavens by means of them, whereas, in reality, we are in danger of being crushed beneath a mass of shape less, unintelligible rubbish. On the motion of Earl GREY, a Bill for the re newal of the Irish Coercion Act was read a first time in the Lords last night without opposition , and from the mildness with which it has been enforced, and the omission of one of its most objectionable clauses, it will probably not meet with any serious resistance in the Commons. That clause, allowing trial of of fenders by courtsmartial, which, in the discussion on the Bill of last session, was most generally op posed, is to be withdrawn, and all misdemeanors are to be tried by the ordinary tribunals. It is credi table to the Government and to the Lord Lieutenant, that though this Act gave them such extraordinary powers over the whole of Ireland, not more than four districts have been proclaimed, and in these the law has been executed in such a way as not to have called forth one complaint, as far as we are aware, from the most violent opponents of the measure. In all these districts a great decrease of crime has taken place. In Kilkenny, for instance, which was first proclaimed, and when the disturbances were greatest, the number of offences in 1834, as compared with 1833, had decreased from 1,550 to 331. In King's County, the number of crimes committed in the month of March, this year, had been 73, and in the following month after those baronies were proclaimed it was reduced to eight, though the number afterwards rose to 29 ; and in Westmeath the decrease had been nearly in the same proportion. No returns had yet been made from the two baronies in Galway, proclaimed at the beginning of last month, but there was reason for believing that the amount of crime had there also materially diminished. This is all satisfactory, and little opposition will be made to the bill as applica ble to nightly outrages and riotous assemblages of the people. The great bone of contention will be that clause of it which applies to agitation, which gives the government the power of putting down as sociations, and empowers them to prevent the formation of such a society as that called the " Cen tral Association," the objects of which are to commu nicate with branch associations, and in some measure assume the functions of Parliament. This, indeed, was the only sound reason advanced by Earl GREY for the renewal of the act, and the author of such a plan have themselves only to thank for it. However much the people of this country are disposed to remove every grievance, and place Ireland on a similar footing with England and Scotland, they will ever oppose any measure which may lead to a repeal of th e Union, or the establishment of any society which may interfere with the rights and privileges of the Imperial Parliament. It might be well, therefore, for the concocters of such plans to consider whether they are the friends of Ireland in taking such steps —steps which only have the effect of exciting an unanimous feeling against them, and forcing on the Legislature for the adoption of measures of extreme severity. That is not the way to obtain redress, and Mr. O'CoNNELL and his party are much mistaken if they think they can effect their object by such means of Intimidation as was resorted to in 1829. The eman cipation of the Catholics was advocated generally by one half of the Cabinet—by a large majority of the !louse of Commons, and by a vast pro portion of the people of Great Britain, and with such a general feeling in their favour, no Coercion Bill could have passed the Legislature. The Duke of WELLINGTON knew that well, and he yielded to necessity. But between Catholic Emancipation and a separate Legislature----in other words, a repeal of the Union, the difference is so great, that it is only a waste of words to describe it. The Government have shown every disposition to redress the grievances of Ireland, and have been stopped short, or thwarted only by the Tories. Is it prudent, therefore, by end less opposition to increase the power of a party .ho say that concession has been carried too far ? The clergy will feel great obligations to his Grace of CANTERBURY for his late exertions on their behalf. lie is for a strict conformity with the provisions of the bill to prevent non-residence. He will not accept the boon offered by the LORD CHANCELLOR. The ninety days absence, not one less, not even a night spent at an assize town is to be deducted from the number (of which the farmers will, -of course, keep a strict ac count) specified in the bill. This is doubtless as cribable to the full conviction which must by this time have been firmly established in the mind of his Grace, that the LORD CHANCELLOR'S bill is not at all too severe ; that those who receive the state-pay are bound to do the work, and that they ought not to claim an exemption, which neither the judges of the land, nor its generals, would ever think of cl a iming when the servi c e of th e i r coun t r y ,re quired their unceasing energy. That the Church needs the services of its ministers, cannot be denied ; and we hope to see the day when the Lords Bishops themselves will feel the necessity of residing constantly on their sees, that they may set as good an example to their c lergy, as the LORD CHANCELLOR does to the lawy er s who belong to his Court. In the House of Commons last night, Lord PAI. N tEnsTo N mentioned that he h a d f oun d, among hi s official papers, the letter which Gen. MORENO de spatched to Torrijoz for the purpose of b etray i ng him. In a note sent a few days si nce t o t h e e di tor o f an evening contemporary, MORENO ex p ress l y d en i es havi ng ever sent such a letter. The se are hi s own words—" You accuse me of having been the decoyer of Torrijoz and his party, adding that a letter of mine informing them (in the way of encouragement) that the district of Malaga was ready to rise with them was in existence. You are wrongly informed. I never wrote such a letter, and fearlessly challenge the pro- Cadiz DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK, New 5 per Cent - India Stock - Ditto Bonds 23 21 pm. South Sea Stock IU3S Old Annuities - - I New Ditto 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1151... - Exch. Bills, £l,OOO 49 50 pm. Ditto 500 49 50 pm. Ditto Sthall 49 50 pm. . _ Ditto Commercial Ditto Advertised — Bank Stock for Account India Stock for Account Eonsols for Account '92% 11 THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds 27X Dit'o Account 27 __...... 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We take leave of him in the word s of CONGREVE, never before so worthily applied—" Ferdinand Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee, thou liar of the first magnitude on CARLos has been advised to drop the title of King of Spain, which has prevented the Diplomatic Corps, with the exception of M. de LUDOLF from waiting on him. He is to take, it is said, the name of CONDE DE BARATARIA. _n looking over the lists of the new Deputies of the French Chamber, and their various addresses to their constituents, it is a great gratification to observe how many of them rest their claims on their being known advocates of commercial reform, and opponents of the prohibitory system. The Chamber will now possess many of the most energetic leaders in the late struggle for the emancipation of trade, and some of the most distinguished members of the Free Trade Committees. We see with much gratification tke President of the Bordeaux Commission (M. GESTIER) among them. We regret that M. DEL AUNA Y, of Havre, to whom the deputation was offered, should have declined the honour. The French Papers of Monday contain no particu lar news. FRENCH FUNDS.—Pants, JUNE 30. Five per Cents., 1061. 35c. 40c. Three per Cents., 771. 85e. SUc. Bank Actions, 1,7901. Rente de Naples, 1:41. 95e. Roman Five per Cents., 96, Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 38%. Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 47%. Royal Spanish Loan, 83%. Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 75%. Belgian Loan, 1831, Five per Cents , 98%. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25f. 32 C.; money, 25f. 30c. Three months, paper, 23f. 22%c. ; money, 25f. 20c. —Coors Authentique. LITERATURE. BURKE'S WORKS. 2 Vols. Holdeworth and Ball, Lyndon, 1834. We have been long anxiously expecting a republication of the works of Burke, and at length our hopes are grati fied to the fullest extent. The present edition is one that must satisfy the most fastidious taste. It possesses every recommendation that such a book should possess, being cheap in price, commodious in form, beautifully distinct in type, and prefaced by an introductory memoir, which, though somewhat slight and crude in the quality of its cri tical remarks, yet, from the numerous stray facts which it has amassed, relative to his political career, will furnish the reader with a very fair insight into the nature of Burke's public services as a statesman. Hitherto this great man's works have been, in some degree, shut out from the majo rity of readers. He has been defrauded of half his fame by the extravagant price (six guineas and upwards !) de manded for his sixteen volumes. It is now high time that this veto—for such a sum amounts virtually to a veto with one-half the community—should be taken off ; and Burke, like Shakspeare, bet allowed fair play at the hands of his countrymen. This is the more to be insisted on, because there never lived a writer whose works are calculated to interest a larger class of readers. Something may be found in him to please every taste—to instruct every order of intellect. His writings are vast store-houses, in which are deposited a thousand various treasures. He is not one, but Legion. He is a philoso pher—a statesman —an essayist—a rhetorician—and in each and all of these departments of mind, is at the head of his class. In an age of Titans, he is the greatest. As a master of style, in all its varieties, he stands unrivalled. " His lan guage," says Hazlitt, " has all the familiarity of conversation, and all the research of the most elaborate composition." It unites every extreme—terseness with copiousness —the simplicity of nature with the subtlest and most ornate em bellishments of art. There is nothing set, or formal, or affected about it. Throughout, we see the strong impress of earnestness and sincerity. Hence, though he sometimes repeats himself, multiplying metaphor, and piling epithet upon epithet, yet be never wearies. So long as he has anything to say, we are always ready to attend to him. Burke has been called a tawdry writer. Never was a greater mistake. His diction, even when most luxuriant, is always full of idea—always conveys direct and entire, and in the fittest manner, the meaning it is intended to convey. His amplifications are oftener those of thought, than of words. Perhaps he is the greatest master of metaphor the world ever saw. In his love of illustration he has recourse to all sorts of analogies, not disdaining even the aid of the sham bles. His fancy is truly Protean. It assumes the form of satire, of epigram, of arch irony, and broad humour ; now it attires itself in the homely quaker drab ; now it walks abroad, robed like some stately Caesar, in Imperial purple. It is singular that, like the wit of Rabelais, it burned brightest in his old age. The " Letter to the Duke of Bedford," the last, we believe, ever penned by Burke, is a perfect blaze of imagination. Strong personal feeling here lends its sharpest spur to genius, and the two combined, carry all before them. Melmoth has described this production as the most lavish display of intellectual wealth that the world has known since the days of Shakspeare. Few, we suspect, will venture to impugn this dictum. If we except Jeremy Taylor, there is no prose-writer whose splendid passages leave such an indelible impression on the mind as Burke's. They lay a giant's grasp on the memory. To have only a dim recollection of them, is the sure test of a vulgar intellect. Who forgets his comparison of the British Constitution with the " proud Keep of Windsor"—of the native troops of Hyder Ally preparing for their descent into the lowlands, with " a black cloud hanging on the heights of the Carnatic"—or of Marie An toinette, with " the morning star, just above the horizon, full of light and life and joy ?" The second of these il lustrations, is perhaps the exactest and completest in the whole range of literature. As was said of Goldsmith, so with far greater propriety may be said of Burke—nullum tetigit, quod non ornavit. He diffuses grace over every thing he touches. The homeliest and dullest topics discussed by him, teem with life, splendor and beauty. His speech on Economical Reform, possesses all the enchain ing interest of a fairy-tale. The same may be said even of his Addresses to the Electors of Bristol. With the sole exception of Johnson, there was no man who had such an effect on the mind of his age as Burke. He was its great propelling power, though for many years his influence was rather felt than acknowledged. His" Reflections on the French Revolution" gave a new impulse to the mo narchical principle throughout Europe, and did more for it than all the swords that were drawn at Waterloo. In this vast reach of moral power, Burke reminds us of Brougham, though in most other respects they differ like light and shade. Burke's intellect is of a Shaksperian, Brougham's of an Encyclopaedic, character. The eloquence of the one is that of the man of the world ; of the other, that of the poet. Brougham can rouse a senate ; Burke carries con viction to the heart of the secluded student. Brougham's knowledge is of a rugged, practical, stern, and somewhat repulsive stamp ; Burke's is calm, conciliatory, refined, and profoundly meditative. The ruling power of the one is imagination ; of the other, satire. Brougham's sarcasm, indeed, is like a blister. It takes the skin off. In grace, originality, feeling and richness of invention, Burke as far excells Brougham as he falls short of him in all that con stitutes the every-day, business part of knowledge. As re spects that power of mental application—that Herculean energy of purpose—that ravenous, ever-craving thirst for knowledge, which thinks that nothing is learnt while any thing remains to be learnt—and that (to quote the empha tic language of Mr. Sharpe) " there is time enough for repose in the grave," both stand on an equal footing. Perhaps, however, in this instance, Brougham may claim the superiority. His mind's eye never sleeps—its wing is never folded—whereas Burke had his lazy fits, though they were " few and far between." It is somewhat curious that both have fullest displayed their stupendous mental and physical energy on the same subject. Burke's speech on Economical Reform, is rivalled only by Brougham's on Le gal Reform, and both orations had the same effect ; they astonished the world, and—cleared the House ! It is to Burke's immortal honour, that he was as good a man as he was a great one. His benevolence was only equalled by his capacity. A thousand proofs are on record of his liberality; his amenity of heart, and the utter absence of any thing like parade, or petty jealousy in his disposition. Being a king in intellect, without a rival, he could afford to be generous and condescending, without derogating from his dignity. He was the friend of Barry, made so by ad miration of his genius, and supported him during his resi dence in Italy, while he himself was compelled to study household economy in London. He was 'also among the first to encourage the dawning talents of Fanny Burney ; and to rescue Crabbe from starvation. To his wonderful conversational, powers, Johnson, Fox , Gibbon, Parr, Lord Charlemont, and a host of others, have borne abundant testimony. The former expressly mentions that he was the only man of his day who always put him on his mettle—always compelled him to talk his best. Of the persuasive character of his publications, Sir Egerton.Brydges, who had seen him "in the flesh," has said, in his recent Memoirs, " I never could read a page of Burke without fully concurring with him in almost every word he said ; indeed I can recollect no passage in which I differed from him." It has been generally supposed that Burke was unpopular in St. Stephens. This is not the case. In his meridian he was listened to with the deepest and most willing attention, and it was only in the decline of life, when he took a fancy to make long-winded speeches, in favour of prerogative, that he gained the nick-name of the " dinner-bell." It remains to say a few words of Burke in his character of politician. We regret that we cannot here speak so warmly in his praise as we could wish. Burke the friend of the American, and Burke the foe of the French revolu tion, appear like two different beings. In the former case, he launched his fiercest Phillippics against prerogative ; in the latter, he tasked his utmost powers in its favour. In the one instance he was all for the people ; in the other, he would forbid them even to whisper. In the year 1776 he held up Kings to incessant ridicule ; in the year 1793, he reverenced them as divine abstractions. The truth is, Burke was less a man of principle than impulse. Though his sagacity was great, his feeling always obtained the mas tery over his judgment. That he apostatized from merce nary motives, we will never for an instant believe. Such considerations, however they may influence the majority of mankind, were not likely to operate on a mind like Burke's, who was the most munificent and disinterested of states men. If he played the part of a changeling, it was from conviction—from the same conviction that from being a staunch reformer, induced Pitt to become an equally staunch anti-reformer. But granting that he was to blame, still let it be borne in mind, that he was brought into public life at a time when corruption and apostacy were as com mon, as they now are, rare, among public men. The malign influence of Walpole and the Pelhams was still felt— still tainted every branch of the political community, when Burke made his first speech in the House. In those days, apostacy was so far from being considered a crime, that it was actually accounted a proof of sagacity. So far then from wondering at Burke's inconsistency, we ought, rather —considering the school in which he was reared—to wonder that he so long preserved his integrity. THE BRITISH FARMER'S MAGAZINE (pub- lisped Quarterly). J. Ridgway. This periodical differs from most others in one particular, namely in giving with most of the articles, the name of the person by whom it is written. This is wisely and well done. A farmer's interest is too deeply involved in any changes which he may be induced to make in the cultiva tion of his fields to expect that he will risk an experi ment on anonymous authority conveyed through whatsoever channel. Neither is there the same reasons for seeking concealment in writing about the growth of larches, or the sowing of turnip seed, that there is in attacking_ abuses in the government of the church or the affairs of the state. So far we approve' very highly of this departure from the usual form. In other respects we can say but little of this periodical, as our knowledge of agriculture is altogether extremely limited. We must not omit, however, that many of the articles are from the pens of clergymen, and all of them from those of large agriculturists in the rural districts throughout England. MONTHLY MAGAZINE. Cochrane and Mc Crone, London. We always - turn to this periodical with pleasure, in the full conviction that we shall meet with something worth reading, such as a light essay, a humourous poem, a piquant tale, or a still more piquant criticism. The pre sent number contains specimens of all these varie ties. The article entitled " Presumptuous Poetry," is a somewhat acrimonious, but, so far as we can see, impartial notice of Mr. Heraud's late poem, " The Judgment of the Flood." The author's frequent plagiarism s from Milton, are laid bare with a very unsparing hand. " Ode by Sir Egerton Brydges," is a stiff and formal production, not un like, in manner and matter, the irregular lyrics of Aken side, which we believe are now universally given up. " Leaves from a Log" are lively, gossiping reading, though we fear these marine sketches are overdone. " The Songs of Rookwood" is a puff on a romance of the raw-head and bloody-bones school, whose flash lyrics are the most dis gusting samples of coarse buffoonery we ever read—a vapid and clumsy imitation of the (nearly equally tasteless) songs in " Paul Clifford." Mr. Ainsworth degrades himself by such trash. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE 0' CL 0 CK. Tho" prevailence of easterly winds has again prevented arrivals, with the exception of a French mail and the express from Paris, which are the only foreign arrivals this morning. By the former we have the following, from Brussels :—The concentration of the Dutch army, we can state, was kaown to our Minister of War for these several days past, and measures of precaution have been taken to guard against its operations. The Dutch army is so stationed that it can take the field in two days' notice, but our Government do not believe it will venture on an attack. At the Hague they are expecting some important, event. The Dutch are recommencing their arrests : several farmers have again been arrested at Moerbroke, on the Belgian terri. tory, and were conducted to Zeland. We learn that the in habitants of that province have received arms, and it is their intention to oppose the Dutch. Accounts from Marseilles state that some disturbances have taken place there during the election : the troops were obliged to clear the streets, and arrange themselves in order of battle before the house of M. Baynard. Charges of cavalry took place, and several women were overthrown by the horses, after which tranquillity was restored. Accounts have been received from Algiers to the 14th June, which is very satisfactory. By the express from Paris we have accounts from Madrid to the 21st. All was tranquil there at the above date. The Queen had reviewed the army of Rodil, and was well received by the troops, who were to march for the northern provinces the following day. Rodil was appointed Commander in Chief of the Army of Operation in the four insurgent provinces. Quesada was called to Madrid to command the Royal Guards. The accounts from Bayonne state that no engagement had taken place between the Queen's troops and the insurgents since the 18th ult., and that affair, although sanguinary, ter minated without result. An individual had arrived in Navarre from Don Carlos, charged to assure his faithful adherents that he would speedily place himself at their head. The Gazette d' Augsburg has an article—a letter from Con stantinople of the 6th of June, which, after noticing the con centration of the British and French squadrons in the Levant, states that considerable disquietude prevailed in consequence, and the letter concludes by observing that Russia has no de sign on India. - French Funds, 77 80 ; Spanish, 381. THE FUNDS, The express from Paris this morning is of more interest than usual. From Madrid it appears that the army of Rodil is hastening their march to the insurgent provinces, where we should imagine they are much required, as the late battle of the 18th ult. had no result, and both armies remained in sight of each other--a proof that the Carlists were not defeated, and were still in great force. The next is the alarm which prevailed at Constantinople, owing to the assembling of the French and English squadrons in the Levant, as well as the Russian fleet in the Bosphorus. Although Russia wishes to persuade us that her intentions are pacific at present, it is nevertheless the policy of England and France to watch her movements. Russia would not keep so large a fleet in the Bosphorus, and at so great an expense, if she had not a something in view. Consols which left off yesterday at 92i for the account, opened at the same price this morning, with little doing as yet. Spanish and Portuguese stock continue the favourite specu alattisooni, and are again on t h e i mprovement, the former done are at present 50 to 4. Portuguese 834. Brazil Stock has considerably improved, about 3 per cent. No arrivals as yet from Portugal. W HALF - PAST ONE. We still contin ue without any fresh arrivals, consequently we are very barren of intelligence in the city. Consols continue stagnant at 92i During the whole of the morning the chief operations were in the foreign market, in the Spanish and Portuguese stocks, the former reached in the early part of the day 50i but the Hebrews having banged th e Market, Spanish receded ma to 49i 11, since which a reacti on h as taken place, and they y be quoted at present 50+; Portuguese reached 83k, and have receded to 83. HALF-PAST THREE O' CL CK. Consols for the Account, 921 4 4 , I A n hee t k i' 4l )° l l 'l O OPe ter, _ lAy. "41 1 t 4, ,, Of 1'44;1411 Tr-1E SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1834