The Sun. — London, England, 1831-06-06 00:00:00

distinctions," " wretched hankeringa after exploded monopolies," "vile attempts to create anew servitude." This is all exceedingly good as proceeding fom Mr. O'Connell; but what is mote to the purpose, a great deal of it is undeniably true. In supposing that the Irish 8.11 may be altered to the extent he wishes, without destroying the whole intended mea sure of Ministers, this gentleman evidently assumes that a system of Reform has never been in exist ence, since in any system the various parts must bear some definite relation to the whole and to each other. He appreciates here accurately enough the fitness of his Majesty's Ministers for the task they have undertaken. Mr. O'Connell has directed his peculiar or rather his exclusive attention to the Irish Bill, or he would not have faded to parceive that many of the same iniquities and absurdities of which he complains, are also to be found in the Reform Bills for England and Scotland. If, for instance a ten-pound rent in Ireland and a ten-pound rent in England are two very different things, are they, not also very different things in Devonshire and in Middlesex ? If Waterford, and Limerick, and Galway are to have an additional Member each from regard to the influence of Sir John New port, Mr. Spring Rice, and " the Remembrancer," is it forgetter that similar things are to be done in England ? Are the President of the Council and his Grace of Bedford to be blotted from our country ? Will not the Hon. and Learned Member for Kerry be consoled when he recollects that disfranchisement is to be effected in England to the extent of 168 Members of the House of Com mons, the places selected for disfranchisement hay ing heretofore returned 34 Whigs and 34 , also, but with the addition of an even hundred, of Tory Members ? The demands of Mr. O'Connell on behalf of Ireland—demands which it is easy to fore see will prove exceedingly troublesome, may serve as a lesson to his Majesty's Ministers, of the dan ger of laying down principles which it is either unfit or disagreeable, or impracticable to pursue to their legitimate results. The claim preferred by this gentleman of 250 Members for Ireland in the reformed House of Commons, may be viewed in reference to the whole Reform measure of Government as a reductio ad absurdunz. If the principle of that measure be just and wise, it f o ll ows of strict necessity that the claim of 250 Members for Ireland is perfectly consistent with justice and wis dom. In England and Scotland the scale of popu lation is every thing. It determines the boroughs from which the right of sending Members to Par liament shall be taken away—it determines the towns to which the right of sending Members to Parliament shall he given—it determines the counties that are to have additional representatives—it gives si.teen Members to London, and three to Edin bu-gh. Why, in the name of common justice and conunon sense, is this principle of population, which if it be good for any thing must be of universal application, abandoned by our consistent Reformers the moment they cross St. George's Channel ? Morning Post. We present, in another column, an address to Lord Palmerston, by the British residents at Oporto, expressive of their gratitude for the prompt and energetic measures pursued by his Majesty's Go vernment to curb the injustice of the petty tyrant of Portug al, and to punish his violation of their rights. Nothing can be more gratifying to a Go vernment than such a testimony of approbation from par ties who fee! the benefit of its interference in their behalf, and who, in the heart of a foreign country, are made to bless the protecting arm of their own. It is well known that under a barbarous despotism like that of Portugal, nothing but the apprehension of a speedy vengeance following proved insult or op pression, and the constant vigilance of our authori ties over the interests of their countrymen, could give them any security as foreigners, either for their persons or property. Before the Portuguese tri bunals they could expect neither law nor justice. Hence, since the time of Cromwell, we have always had a Judge Conservator for deciding in suits be tween Englishmen and the Government. But this Judge could do little, and would soon himself be come corrupt, unless his zeal was quickened or his injustice punished by means like those lately re,orted to by our Foreign Minister. A few British ships of war are Foas et imes as necessary to command respect and to secure justice in the Tagus, as on the coast of Barbary.—Times. The Brussels Papers of Saturday, which arrived yesterday (being ante-dated), do not contain the proceedings of the Be!gic Congress on Friday or Sa- Maley, which were expected to terminate in the choice of Prince Leopold to the Belgic throne. The fact of his election by a great majority, and of • his being at this nwaleut King elect of the Catho lic Netherlands, does not, however, admit of a doubt. Out of 160 Members who attended the discussion on Friday, when our letters were de spatched, die friends of his Royal Highness calcu lated on the majority of 160; and if the question of the limits were settied, the zealous adhesion of the remaining thirty. We may therefore confidently ex pect in London, in the course of the week, the De putation of the Congress, with the offer of the crown. This deputation is to consist of M. Ger lacf e, President of the Assembly (who will be at its head, and act as its organ, in the interesting business which it will have to perform), of Count F. de Merode, who has already been in London to consult the views and wishes of his future Sovereign, the Count Vilsin XIV., of M. Van de Weyer, who' was the Belgic Envoy to London in November last, and of a deputy from each of the provinces. The much-contested province of Luxemburg, arecng the rest, will send its deputy to London, as it has already done to the Congress, and Irobably M. Nothomb, who made the proposition for de manding such a prompt answer from the Prince, will be the person selected for that mission. M. Gerlache is a man of talent, an excellent speaker, and probably altogether the most respectable mem ber of the Congress. He seems deeply impressed with the necessity of terminating the present anar chical state of things in his country by a speedy deli nitive arrangement, and will therefore exert all his influence to remove the obstacles which may lie in the way of Prince Leopold's accepietice of the Crown. In this endeavour he will be warmly i.e. cunded by at least three or four members of the de putation. In the speech which he delivered in his elevation to the Presidency of the Congress; he made seine severe strictures on the conduct of the French elpvernment, to which we now allude—not with any praise (for probably it would have been more becom ing in the head of a Legislative Assembly to have avoided all irritating expressions towards a foreign friendly Government), but to show that, strongly dise liking a French connexion and republican politics, kie will be proportionally zealous to promote an ar rangement with Prince Leopold, and a friendly in tercourse with England. For the present the war party or the faction of republican agitators seems to nave met with a signal defeat. All their motions and amendments; have been rejected by a g rea t ma jority, notwithstanding the vehemence of their speeches, and the applause of their friends in the gal leries.. One of them, M. Forgeur, felt obliged to com plain that the " patriotism of ' the assembly b w . a h s dying, if not already dead," — an.. exp ' c re o ' s n sio i n s ‘: highly offended the membrs of the and called fcrth the applause of " the strang g er e s . ' , In s pite of these arts, the Congress decided' that t h e y would proceed to the im me di a t e e l ect i on o f King by a majority of 158 to 31. A nother atte mpt, which excited even a greater tumult than that created by the imprudent expressions of M. Forgeur, was made by M. Robaulx to throw ob stacles in the way of election. This Deputy left the assembly at the call of ,some granger, and soon returned with two new protocols of the London conferences in his pocket,—protocols which had not been communicated to the Belgic Government, cc which the Government had withheld from the Con gress. We are not informed who communicated these documents to this busy agitator, but the mis chievous intention of produeieg them at that parti cular stage oPthe discussion was manifest: . The proposition which he grounded upo n them, o f doning the election for the purpose of recommencing negotiations on other points, created such an explo• sion of zeal and noise in the galleries, that the Pre sident was obliged to suspend the discussion till order was re-established. Though the Belgian. have now elected their King, they have not ye lecided on the limits of his dominions. They have, in fart, left the arrangement of the boundaries, and the distribution of the debt, open to future discussion; and we have more than once mentioned , hat Prince Leopold cannot accept of the crown ' ll these points ar e sett l e d. I t wou ld, i n d ee d , indicate an impruderice little short of insanity to place himself in a situation where he mu-t en counter dangers and difficulties without a chance of over eo mirg them,—where, if he agrees to any con cession to Holland for the sake of peace, he will be resisted by his new subjects,—and where, if he does not, he will be attacked by the united . orces of the Germanic Confederation, and abandoned by the other Powers of Europe. As the present Government is, however, authorized to attempt the arrangement of the Luxemburg question by treaty, the negociationa may have arrived at such a point befoie his Royal Highness will be obliged to give a definitive answer, that he may be enabled to accept Of the crown with the certainty of pleasing all par ties. Though the deputation when in London will have no mission to settle the limits of their country, and though the Prince will not acquire the power of acting in tl:e name of the Belgic people till he has sworn to the constitution, their pre s ence here, re presenting as they do the Congress, combined with ' the influence of his exertions as presumptive sore reign, may go far to facilitate an amicable adjust , merit of the points in dispute between the con ferenc,!s and the new state. If the question of Luxemburg were settled, as it may easily be, the possession of Maestricht is the only other point on which any real difficulties will occur, as the Bel gians themselves seem not to be very confident in their right to the left bank of the Scheldt, which, ' unlike Luxemburg and Limburg:, has never joined the insurrection. It will be fortunate for Belgium if Prince Leopold should yield to the invitation of the Congress on this critical occasion. The unhappy people of that once happy country cannot afford to remain longer in their present uncertain condition, prosecuting discussions which agitate their social I,bric to its foundations—torn by domestic factions, and clamouring for foreign war—suffering from the want of credit and the interruption of industry—the prey of mischievous demagogues and interested in triguers—carrying their crown, as a Jew a costly trinket, first to one capital, and then to another, without being able to find a purchaser—wasting n. their resources in maintaining dangerous and useless military establishments, and changing their inefficient A dminist rti ions with nearly every change of the moon.—Times, It is always with reluctance that we advert to the conduct of individuals in private life. As, how ever, tic case of Major Dundas has made an extra ordinary i:npression on the public mind, and given rise to much comment on the part of our contem poraries, it will be expected of us that we also should say something on the subject. We do not exactly see how Major Duridas ought to be ex pelled the service, for conduct, hich, however base, has no reference to military duty. It ie true that, in many cases, where no breach of tnilitary duty is committed, an intimation to sell our, tantamount to expulsion, is given. But this is a questionable ex , ercie of authority. The best way, perhaps, would be, in all such case , , to leave the individual to the correction of the opinion of his associates. A man must be made of singular materials if he can long withstand the contempt of those with whom he every day associates. But then it has been observed, that in a case of seduction, however base, an indi vidual who moves in Major Dundas's circle would not fall in the estimation of his associates. A Sun day contemporary (the Exacthier) observes— " Such a man as Dundas—that is, a nephew of Lord Melville, and possessor of a handsome fortune—has noth ing to apprehend from the class to which he b Not the door of a fashionable mansion will he closed against him—not an invitation nor a smile the less will he receive fu- the ruin of Elia: theth Adams: ' The base affair will be a matter of badinage; and will obtain a rurient interest far the naughty man,' as he will be titteringly styled, as if in derision of morality. What libertine has ever been expelled from what is termed good society' for his profligicies ? We can mention, in t e other hand, a dozen, whose crimes have c,m stituted their eclat. Amongst the young vipers of the Aristocracy this vile case is treated as a joke, and only serves as a model for imitation. The fashionables, and would-be fashionables, of this country are the most de praved class in existence. The stain of every vice is upon them—fidsehood am! dishonesty possess them entirely, and their taste is not a whit better than their morals. The arts evenaredepraved by them." But if it be true that this base act will be deemed a ft at her in his cap in high circles (and we fear there is but too much truth for the observation), the opinions of such circles necessarily guide those who have the power of expulsion. This is one of the evils resulting from the division of a nation into castes. There can be no public opinion, in the true sense of the word, under the caste system, because the sympathy of the individual is with the caste, and not with the public. Where the public favour is an element of success, a certain degree of defe rence to it will be shown by prudent individuals in high life, w ho are desirous of standing well with the mass of their fellow citizens. But these men will be foiled by the caste in general, on account of the necessity of conforming with notions they despise. " What is the penalty (adds cur contemporary) in this case (to a man possessed of 55,000/.)?-3,500/. And whence does this come ?—from the public. That fortune, so creditably applied, has Leen carved out of the public mesns. Major Dundas is the nephew of Lord Melville ; and many a good job has contributed to that endowment of 55,000/. Observe, then, people of England ! how such properties are made at the expence of your industry, and squandered at the expence of your morahty. flow they have their source and their end in corruption. How they proceed from the dishonesties, and flow to them. But a Captain Basil Hell (the Basil of Figaro) will prate to you of the benefit of supporting a money-spending class—of support ing a set of people, without whose instruction, he argues, you would not know Low to spend your money. Here is the example—A Major Dundas is a thing of the system Captain Basil admires and advocates. He is a growth of the Melville stock, whose sap is gold, derived—from public employments, we must say, least Sir Thomas Domain, Whig Attorney-General the Second, should be at us. He is one of the class whose use it is to teach the co►stnunity how to spend their money. How do you like the fashion ? Three thousand five hundra d pounds fin- the sin of a night, the shame of a life, and the misery of a family ! People ignorant of ►ociety say, But the man will be punished, disgraced, expelled, shunned by his former associates.' No such thing. In this class there is but one thing which makes a man despicable, and emperi's his place, and that is, public virtue, If he wish well to his species, he is de spi,ed so a fool, or suspected to be a hypocrite of a dans getous sort : one paying tribute to a virtue which it is the policy of the clique to scout as unreal—to flout as a false god. '• Mr. No:tit asked, Dare a man, bearing the King's commission, who would act thus, present himself to so ciety ?' To good society,' to the society which takes to itself the distinction of ' good'—we say yes ; end when Mr. North asked the question, might it not hare occurred to him, that, while this very charge was hanging over the defendant (and with yet blacker suspicions about it). he, the bearer of the, King's commission, bad obtained a higher commission ? Ile was promoted pending the prosecution Of ungentlemanly conduct the milit try administration takes cognizance—but this is not unyentlentahl,y conduct, according to the mordlity of those who make rules. False hood and deceit are accounted not intrinsically ungentle manly in a country whose law is carried on through fic tion, and the constant expedient of whose Government has been false pretences, Falsehood and deceit, when they are ' the instruments of petty offenders, are held criminal ; and called, according to their application, swindling, fraud, perjury, &c. ; but when they come into uses common to the Lord as well as to the clown, they lose their terms of odium. There is no vice so low and petty that does not obtain strength by the corruptions of a bad form of Go vernment. A bloated Aristocracy—bleated literally by the corruptions of the people—is a conserve of poisons." The truth is, that where society is broken up into divisions, having separate interests, the individual will care only for the good opinion of those with whom he sympathises. It is with the low as it is with the high. In the counties of Clare and Mayo we see the high and the low in strong contia4 at this moment. In not a few dis.ricts of the south of England, we are assure I by those who have much experience of these matters, that an agricultural labourer who should abstain from pillaging his em ployer would be looked on as a faux Pere by the others, In the kitchen of a nobleman, an honest servant would be very uncomfortably situated. There is this difference, however, between Major Dundas's caste and the lower castes, that its members having had the making of the laws, and having the controul of the resources of the nation, have little to dread when their particular notions come in contact with those of the rest of society. But a ldbourer, who has adopted a morality suited to his necessities, knows that the law and society in general are against him. A servant knows that the mora lity of the kitchen will not avail with masters, and that he may, by losing his character with them, lose his employment. The high case alone may set the morality of the rest of the nation at defiance. We look to the Reform Bill for incalculable benefit in the way of breaking up this exclusive spirit, and making us all dependent on one another. Parlie mentary interest, by giving another criterion titan merit for admission to all offices of profit, naturally corrupted all those who possessed it, and gave the vices of meanness and subserviency to vast multi tudes who looked to them for advancement. But it is clear that when the people possess a controul over those who conduct their affairs, the morality which will prevail will be such as is accordant witlt the public interest. The man, who for the short indulgence of a sensual appetite, lays snares for the seduction of a child, and hesitates not between a momentary enjoyment and the ruin of a fellow creature, will be justly deemed as next in infamy only to the murderer, and far more despicable than the thief. We have no fear of the conversion of the higher order s to sound views. Na class of men dependant on the public, can safely treat with neglect the opinion of that publ c. Great inequalities of property in themselves have a most mischievous influence in demoralizing society. Now if we had a Reform in Church and State, one of the indirect effects of that Reform would neces- satily be the diminishing these inequalities. Indeed we take the existence of great inequalities of pro perty in a country to be alone symptomatic of bad government, to be a sort of evidence that one class has been living on the plunder of the rest. It has been often remarked that the peasantry of many parts of the Continent are happy, while the English peasantry are often otherwise; not so much because the physical enj , ,yments of the former are greater, as because he is not afflicted with the constant spec tacle of others wallowing in luxury. There is a curious illustration of the comfort arising from equa lity of property in the new edition of the Wave:ley Novels (Pirate), vol. 24, where Sir Walter Scott gives an account of his visit to the Orkney and Shetland Islands " I was, indeed," he says, "to go a generation or two further back, to find materials from which I might trace the features of the old Norwegian Udaller, Scottish gentry having in general occupied the pl ice of that primitive race, and their language and peculiarities of manner having entirely disappeared. The only difference now to be observed betwixt the gentry of these islands and those of Scotland in general is, that the wealth and property is more equally divided among our more northern country• men, and that there exists among the resident proprietors no men of very great wealth, and whose display of its luxuries might render the others discontented with their own lot. From the same cause of general equality of fortunes, and the cheapness of living, which is its natural consequence, I found the officers of a veteran regiment who had maintained the garrison at Fort Charlotte, in Ler wick, discomposed at the idea of being tecaled from a country where their pay, however inadequate to the ex- Fences of a capital, was fully adequate to their wants ; and it was singular to bear natives of merry England herself regretting their approaching departure from the melancholy isles of the Ultima Thule."—Morn. Chron. An Evening Paper of Saturday, notorious for its Anti-Reform principles, has put forth the following most appalling piece of intelligence:— " We are at length able to announce—and we announce the flat with infinite pleasure—that the Revolution Bill will be opposed promptly, uncompromisingly, and by a firmly united and Areisive rtrajerrity of the thifilre - iirLortit. The solicitations that have been employed, the bribes that have been offered, and the threats held out, would, if re . _ _ cited, pass the be:ief of the most credulous. Happily they have, in the great majority of instances—we might say in almost every instance—solicitations, bribes, and threats— been employed in vain. The Lords spiritual, about whom some doubt, we believe, existed, will, if we are not 'lds inlet med, in every instance do their duty by the church, in a manner to efface all memory of the part acted by some of them in 1829. Nothing hut a coup d'dat so outrageous as the mahin g of a new House of Lords, can save The of the Grey Administration." " Prodigious," Dominic Sampson would have exclaimed, on perusing this startling news ; and " prodigious," if true, we are all inclined to ex claim ; but we have lately had so many "prodigious" announcements of the same kind from the ssme quarter, that the cry of " Wolf, wolf !" has no effect upon us. First, it was announced by the same Paper that the King had not given his sanction to the Reform Bill, whereas, as immediately turned out to be the fact, he not only sanctioned it, but examined and commented upon every part of it, as a letter in his own hand-writing, of eleven pages, amply testifies—next, that the King was wavering on the subject of Reform—then that he would never consent to dissolve the Parliament—lastly, that the elections would turn out a majority against the Ministers, and which majority would, as a mutter of course, turn out the Ministers, and give back to the country the Peels, the Twisses, the Herrieses, the Scarletts, and the Dawsons, and all that tribe of politicians of whom it is so much enamoured—then that the Minister, were about to send the Guards about their business —and now we are informed by the same immaculate and veracious informant, that the Reform Bill will be opposed promptly, uncompromisingly, and by a firtnly united and decisive majority in the House of Lords ! To what credit the latter piece of intelli gence is entitled we leave our readers to judge ;but we cannot pass it over without remarking that, however anxious certain Noble Lords may be to give a " prompt, uncompromising, and decisive opposition to the Reform Bill, there is rather too much good sense and prudent discretion in the whole House to run the risk o f suc h a co llision with the people, and the people's represen t a tive s, as such conduct would n e c e s sar ily engen d er . I\ —no—their Lordships will pass the Bill as they have passed other Bills, which struck at the root of exorbitant and illegal power; arid when they have passed it, will find themselves in much greater estimation with the public, and in the enjoy ment of a much larger portion of legitimate and truly constitutional influence, than they' have po , - sessed during the last 70 years. As to " bribes" having been held out, it must occur to every one that his Majesty's Ministers must have a poor opi nion of the integrity of their opponents, when they attempted (if they did attempt) to purchase it. We wonder what Lord Grey and his colleagues would have said had Messrs. Peel and Co. attempted to bribe them ?—Morning" Advertiser. FORTUNATE ESCAPE FROM MURDER._ Two gentlemen, whose names, from precautionary motives, we fort,ear mentioning, from Newmarket, on their way to the fur of Loughrea, on Wednesday, were met by two fellows well armed, at this side of Gurt. Approaching their c.tr, they asked one of the gentlemen whether he was Mr. FRANK ? Being answered in the nega tive, they stopped short, and in a few seconds produced some spirits, and said, " Sir, you muse drink our health,' adding "it is riot you we want, but your brother." Tr.e gentleman, to please them, thank with them, what they turned back, and the friends proceeded on their journey taking care to return by Porturuna to Limerick, in order to avoid coming in collision with the fellows again. From this it is evident that a regular plan is concerted among the Terry Alts; as when they want to attack a man at New- 1 market, for instance, they engage fellows from near Gort to execute the deed of murder. Had the gentleman in question, who really was FRANK, acknowledged his name, he, his companicn, and servant, would, in all pro bability, have been murdered on the spot...—Limerick Herald. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JUNE 4. THE KING V. JONES. This was a question upon the construction of the Act of the 9th Geo. IV., cap. 41, for regulating the care and treatment of insane persons in England. The indictment had been preferred against the de fendant, Mr. William Jones, an eminent surgeon and apothecary in Mount -street, Grosvenor-square, for having " knowingly, and with intention to deceive," signed a certificate, upon which an order had been given for the confinement of one Elizabeth Woods, in a house kept for the reception of insane persons, without having separately vi-ited, and personally ex amined her, as required by the Act of Parliament. At the trial before Lord Tenterden, at Westminster, in November last, it was contended, on the part of the defendant, that the evidence negatived the fact of the defendant's having given the certificate, " knowingly, and with intention to deceive," and his Lordship having concurred in that view of the case, proposed to reserve for the opinion of the Court the question whether or not the indictment could be sustained. A verdict of guilty was there upon entered, subject to the opinion of the Court on a case. After Counsel. had been heard, the Court thought that the view taken by the Counsel for the prosecu tiun was correct, and confirmed the conviction. THE KING V. LUSIIINGTON. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL obtained a rule for a certiorari to remove into this Court, an indictment which had been found against the defendant, Dr. Lushington, for a libel on Charles Houlden Walker, an attorney, in a speech delivered by the Learned Doctor in the House of Commons, and afterwards published in the Mirror of Parliament. The case, it will be remembered, was tried a short time ago in the shape of an action against Dr. Lushington and the proprietors of the Mirror if Parliament ; but there not being sufficient evidence to connect Dr. Lushington with the publication, a verdict passed in his favour. The present indictment was afterwards preferred. BAIL COURT. Mr. RicHARDs moved for a quo warrant() to be di rected to a gentleman, calling upon him to show by what right he held the office of bailiff of the borough of Carnarvon. The Learned Counsel said there were two baliffs in the Corporation of Carnarvon, who were appointed annually ; on the 211 of May, one of them dropped down dead, and on the fol lowing day the Corporation held a Court, and with out any previous notice (which was contrari to the Charter) the gentleman against whom the quo war rant° was prayed, was elected. His LORDSHIP ordered the quo warrant° to issue. TILE KING V. TIIE MAYOIt AND JUSTICES OF CANTERBURY. Mr. PoLLocK moved for a mandamus directed to the Mayor and Justices of Canterbury, to compel them to take the examination of Eliza Goldsmart, who was pregnant, and a pauper in one of the parishes.. There were fourteen parishes in and about Canterbury, arid the management of the whole of the poor of those parishes was inrusted to an incorporated body of pei sons. It had been usual to take the examination of paupers before the Justices of the County, but for the fi,st time they refused to do so in this particular case having found out that they had no power to do so. The Justices of Can terbury were then applied to, and, as they had never taken an examination in such cases, they refused to interfere. The Learned Counsel said he was de cidedly of opinion that the duty belonged to the Canterbury Justices, and the object of this applica tion was to settle the question. The CouRT granted a rule to show cause. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MA. NS/ ON. HO USE. On Saturday John Frisby was charged with having assaulted Edward Cole with a live haddock. The complainant carried on the business of a fish monger in Darkhouse-lane, Billingsgate, for the bro ther of the defendant, who resided next door, and he constantly, but most reluctantly, received visits from the defendant. The first thing the defendant said in the morning was, " I say, bow is your tem per to-day, my old Grampus ?" To which he re plied, "It is even," and he acted uniformly with remarkable forbearance. The defendant, however, seemed to relish bad better titan good temper; for on Thursday last, a ft er h av i ng repe . ite d t h e old ques tion, he seized a haddock that was bouncing on the form, and flung it at his (complainant's) head. The consequence was fatal to the fish's head, and very near being so to the head of the person with whom the haddock came in contact. Sir C. S. HUNTER (who sat for the Lord Mayor) —Ay, it was easy enough to see whose head was the hardest. 1 pi'y the poor fish.—(Laughter.) Cotaplainant—l never got such a blow in my life. I am sure it was the man's intention to knoci my head off. Sir CLAUDIUS—To be sure it was. Do you think if it was not, that he'd throw a haddock at you ? Wel, I suppose he didn't succeed. Although you've very little brains, I see you've still got a skull large enough to hold plenty.—( A laugh.) Com plainant—l then struck him on the shoulder with a stick. Sir CLAUDIUS—Ay, over the left, I suppose ? (Loud laughter.) Complainant—No, your Wor ship; I hit him on the right. Sir CLAtimus—And the poor fish all this time 'was wi t h out ass i stance . Upon my hfe it must have been very unpleasant to the poor animal to be flung into such a face as your's.—(Loud laughter.) Weli, Frisby, come, what have you to say to this ? Com plainant—But that is not all, your Worship. Sir CLAUDIUS—That's quite enough—sure we knew all about it, my dear fellow. He knocked your head off your shoulders with a haddock, and you banged him over time left with a cudgel. It certainly was a most odious assault, to whack a man with a living inhabitant of another element ; but you are pretty event with him, for you have given it him over the left.—(Loud laughter.) You have no doubt established a raw with your stick, and that makes all square.—(Laughter.) Defendant—lt was all a lark, your Worship. Sir CLAUDIUS-111 swear it wasn't a sky-lark, at any rate; 1 dare say you never saw a haddock tly before in your life, as you made it tly in this poor fellow's face. Poor man, I'm sure he never heard such music from any lark before, either over or wider the water.—(Laughter.) Complainant— B u t, your Worship, he has threatened my life. Sir CLAUDIUS—Pshaw ! You don't think that he'd encounter the inconvenience of being There's one thing, I'll hanged cn your account, do you ?—(Laughter.) you, and l e t it b e a conso l at i on to he takes t' t t ak iet e l s away rout life with malice pre it's ten to one that he'll l ose hi s own; upon my Pense lif ! e he will. However, if h e goes on w i t h t hi s sortof game, you must bring hi m h ere aga i n , an d he shall lark It in a cage.—(Laughter.) Defendant— shan't do p him any an N y o, mischief, your Worship. I wou ldn't hurt tly. Mr. Frisby, but you'd hurt a fish though , and a fishmonger too. You have s how' a very g r e at con tempt for this poor man, or w hy wo uld you throw his trade in his t eet h ? T h' ere , go and make it up; but, Frisby, you must t h e expenses. And, I say, Frisby, y ou may ir (it ..1t pay _kylark as you please, but I'd have you not watei lark any more, Frisby.—(Laughter.) Manchester -street, Q UEEN. S Q UAR E. George Rose was heard in support of a charge sw"Yhoi of 5 n0 3 ; attend. He stated l'7ltlitelar'lltersn'Nt:lt:i:nZineiriedid' Dale applied to him for service, and produced an excellent character from Airs. Lindsay. Ile in consequence waited on Mrs. Lind ,„v, who confirmed every thing she had written,_ said Dale had lived with her fifteen months, ar i d was perfectly sober and honest; she had discharged him six weeks ago, in consequence of a domestic calami•ty • lt was afterwards ascertained, and proved before die magistrates, that Dale had not lived with Mrs. Lindsay ; that lie had been in the New Police since its formation till he was totally discharged fcr repeated drunkenness ; and also that Mrs. Lindsay was in the practice of giving fictitious characters. The Magistrate convicted Mrs. Lindsay in the penalty of 201. CHILD MURDER. IMPLICATION OF A SURGEON AND TWO 0 THER PERSONS. (Frarri the Stockport _Advertiser.) Another of those revolting casts of profligate im morality, calculated to undermine and des:roy the virtuous feelings of the rising generation, has oc curred in this town, and has led to a charge of wil ful murder against Thomas Goulden, a surgeon, John Hampson, the father of the child, and MarMa _Moors, a woman at whose house the child was born. The crimes of these people are of the moo horrible description—nothing less than cool preme ditated murder. We shall not go into the evidence a a p d b p y e appeared adjournment before the to Ttie Coroner's sda Jury o at the he n Nl7 Monday, i ids a,. Castle, in Edgeley, but give a brief outline of the transaction as it was borne out by the facts nar rated by the witness, because, were we to do so, we should commit the greatest outrage on public decency. It will be remembered that we last week stated the circumstance of a young child being found in Cheadle Morseley, near this town, in consequence of the earth over it being disturbed Ey the scratch ing of a dog. The child was removed to the house of John Hampson, as the nearest place ; the body was washed and laid out; and information given to the constable of the circumstance in order that an enquiry might be instituted. Subsequently the child was taken away unknown to the parties who had cleaned it and laid it out. Mr. Birch, the special high constable for this division immediately set about an enquiry, and from - information obtained, found that 'Mary Fddes, a young girl, lately a servant svi;h Mrs. Hampson, at Ads wood Mill, had been delivered of an illegitimate child at Mrs. Moors's house in Longshut-lane, in this town, which had been concealed and carried away by John Hampson on the Wednesday night the 25th of May (the day of its birth.) The following morning he took him into custody, and asked him what had become of the child he had rarr . ed away from Martha Moors's and mur dered r He immediately replied—" I did carry away a child, tied up in a handkerchief, at the request of Mrs. Moors, which had been dead a day or two be fore I saw it; and if you will go over to the mill, lyou wi.l find it buried in the shippon." He went 'accordingly, and at the place described by Hampson, the child was found buried under the bricks of the flooring. On the same morning (Thursday) in con sequence of what had been said to Mr. Birch by Mary Fildes, who had been apprehended previously to Hampson, he went to the house of Mrs. Moors, No. 30, in Longshut-lane, arid asked her if Mary Fildes had lain-in there a week ago. To this ques tion, she said she did not know Mary ; and that no woman except ker own daughter (who by the way was lying-in at the same time and on the same bed as Mary Fildes.) He then asked her if she knew Hampson, and if he had been there at all; she re plied she did not even know him. Mr. Birch then took her to the room in which Mary Fildes was confined at his house. She still denied any know ledge of her, and declared " she had never seen her in her life." Upon which the young woman ob served " she wished to God it had been so." Upon being brought before the Jury afterwards and con fronted with Mr. Birch, she recanted the above de cl .rations arid confessed that Mary Fildes had lain-in there, and that she herself had directed Hampson to carry away the body of the child. We shall next proceed to give an outline of the evidence of Mary Fildes. She was in a very deli cate state of health, and was unable to support her self through the enquiry without the application of stimulants. She is about nineteen years of age, and more than ordinarily intelligent. She stated that about seven weeks ago she left Mrs. Hampson's service, and went to her father's at J D a i b H u r a y m , be p e s e e a n u e s % s a l s ie i s e s t a i s ly th v e i n site p d re h rr e t i a t h , e r a e n . d The circumstance of her being so was unknown to her mistress. Hampson is a married man, and lives at another farm heid by his mother, near to the When she left, she was more than five months gone in Iwr pregnancy. At his request she came to Stockport about five weeks ago. He then asked her if she would submit to have that done to her which would produce miscarriage, and that she should then never want for any thing. She con sented, and after one or two other interviews, sub sequently she met him again in this town, and he took her again to No. 30, Longshat-lane, telling her that the arr angements were all completed for its being done, and the doctor would meet them there. Mrs. Moors received her as by prevous understand ing it would seem, and after waiting an hour and a half, Goulden, the surgeon, came, who asked her " if she was the young woman he had to meet."— She replied she was. Golden then said if he was to do that for which she came he must be paid 31. before it could be done. Mary told trim she had not the money, but would go to Hampson for it at a neighbouring public-house where he was waiting until all was over. Goulden sa'd he would wait her return. Site told Hampson this, and he gave her the money, first going out to borrow a part. When she reached Moors's house again, Goulden was up stairs and she gave him the money.—[Th e operation followed, occupying about five minutes, which the witness described very minutely.] He then told her it was done; that nothing could pre vent the miscarriage ; that site might go home to Didsbuty to sleep that night, but she must return the next day (Tuesday) and all would be right. She returned accordingly at four o'clock in the afternoon, and was strewn up stairs, with a strict injunction not to appear on any account at the window, or it might get her (Mrs. Moors) into trouble. She was soon after seized with labour-pains, in which state she con tinued until Wednesday morning, when Goulden, with the assistance of Mrs. Moors, delivered her of a child about seven months old. Goulden remained with her till the child died, which was in a quarter HampsonNi i e l r r ps.(a;d):lN 2sheroosrs Moors left of an hour after its birth. It c r i e d severa l t i mes. i t t 3o ea u a ld ld en a o a b t d live, ato Ns Ao r live, i " I ` lf if e it ti w me o d u e ld li be no support for it." G ou ld en continued to visit her until u a n t g i e l m t7 t aehdehneNerls Wednesday dhaeyfr father's o rt w d ig Ss.s : on veihe 6ei would house. for attendance upon her up to F r id ay, and her board to the as Moors took the child as soo n as born arid washed it ; and when dead put i t i nto a b ax. The Same evening Hampson c a ll e d , an d t h e body being tied up in a handkerchief by Mrs. Moor s , i t was carried child,away said ai ll he e hi c id alle b j ur a i g ed e again the t litenext on being asked by Mary what he had done with the thet i i ) g l o a f , and the garden near the mill. Mary Moors, daughter of Martha Moors, was next examined. Her evidence went chide to cor roborate the testimony of Mary Fildes as to the child being born alive ; the personal knowledge of her mother with Hampson and the gill; and the concert of the scheme between her mother and Goulden for Fildes to be delivered there. The evidence being closed, the Coroner addressed the Jury by pointing out to them, that the evidence before the inquest tended to establish two distinct eases of criminality against Goulden, as principal, and also against Hampson and Moor , , the two pet sons in custody, as accessories ; the one under the Statute Law, and ate other under time Common Law. That as to the former, by an Act passed in the late reign, called Peel's Act, it was enacted, " that if arty person with intent to procure the miscarriage of any woman then being quick with child, unlawfully and maliciously shall a dminister to her, or cause to be taken by her, any poison or other noxious thing, teent or other means what or shall use au macro ever with the like intent, every such offender, or every person counselling, aiding, or abetting such being con offender, shall be guilty of felony, and victed thereof, shall suffer death RR a felon." The Coroner then drew the attention of the Jury to the fact, as prove:l, that when Goulden operated upon the body of Mary Fildes, she was quick with child, inasmudl as the child appeared to have been born alive, and actually lived a quarter of an hour after wards, and was previously heard to cry, and that consequently his crime was, by the evidence, proved to be what that Act prohibited. Then as to the latter point—the illegal act of Goulden in forcing the child's birth at so premature a period of its ex istence, as to render it impossible that it could exist but for a very short period after its birth, and the consequent death of the child by such an illegal act of Goulden, tended to establish the latter point, and the facts on which it rested were very strong, and even not only the mother's evidence, but also that of Mr. Wright, the surgeon. Then as to the criminality of Hampson, it ap peared that he, the father of the child, had per suaded the mother to consent to the miscarriage being effected by Goulden, and had afterwards ar ranged with him as to the time and place where it was to be effected, and after he had made the neces sary arrangements with GottWen in this respect, he directed her to go to Martha Nloors's where Goul den had been appointed by him to meet' her, and that on such meeting Goulden demanded 3/. as his fee, and required it to be paid him before he would consent to act, whets he not having the money, and Hampson being in waiting for her coming to bim, after the interview with Goulden, she went to him when he gave her the money for the express purpose of effecting the mis carriage, and by means of the money so provided by Hampton, the miscarriage was effected ; and it also appeared that he came to Martha Moors's on the day after the miscarriage, and at her request he took the child away for the purpose of its being concealed. If therefore, the Jury gave credit to the evidence, there would be no doubt but Hampson was an ac complice in the guilt of Goulden. Then, in respect to Martha Moors, it appeared by the evidence, that the mother of the child went to her house, by a pre vious appointment made by Hampson with Goul den, and that although she was a perfect stranger to Martha Moors, she received lar as a person she had expected to come to her house, a•id was shewn into a chamber, when Martha Moors cautioned her not to be seen at the window, and that there she remained until Goulden came to her, and that after he had seen her and demanded the 3/., and that she had then gone away to get the money, he remained there till she returned, after giving him the money, he per formed the operation. The Coroner then observed, that it should seem from these circumstances as if a preconcerted plan had been fixed between Goulden and Martha Moors, that the miscarriage should be effected at her house, and if they should be of that opinion, it would be the duty of the Jury to charge her as an accessary to his guilt. The Jury were then left to decide on their verdict, and after a vary short deliberation, it was agreed that Goulden was guilty of the crime, as well that under the Act of Parliament, as also that of the Common Laws, and that ilampson and Moors were also guilty in both cases as accomplices. The two latter being in custody the Coroner issued his warrant for their commitment, but Goulden being at large, he issued his warrant for his apprehension. As the name of Goulden may not be familiar to ull our readers, we will just mention that this wretch MIA tried at our last Assizes, before Mr. Baron Rol land, for a similar offence, having caused the death of Margaret Sykes, on the 29th of October last, he having procuring her miscarriage by means of a sharp instrument. He was there acquitted because the evidence was incomplete to show sufficiently the cause of her death; and the Learned Baron then told him that enough had been disclosed to prove that he bad long been in the habit of using means to __- procure abortion, and he hoped the les , ln of that day would convince him of the danger of such a prac tice, if he were not before convinced of its wickedness. .. SUSPECTED MURDER OF A FEMALE. For the last week the village of Sydenham and its neighbourhood has been kept in a state of great ex citement, arising from the mysterious death of a young pregnant female, whose bldy was found in the Croydon Canal, near Sydenham, on Sunday morning. The unfortunate deceased was dressed in a fashionable striped cotton gown, a black silk cloak, and a white straw bonnet. On Friday, Mr, CARTTAR, Coroner for Surrey, held an inquest on the body, when the following facts were stated in evi dente, On Whit Monday evening the deceased, with another female about her own age, went into the shy of Mrs. Stacey, on Sydenham-common, and purchased articles for making tea, for which she paid tenpenee, and asked Mrs, Stacey if she could accommodate her with hot water in the course of the evening, which Mrs. Stacey promised to do. She said she was going te meet the young gentle man who was the father of the child 01 which she was pregnant, and would return to take tea, and then went away with her companion. About a quarter past seven she was seen in a boat in the broad water of the canal, and a young gentleman rowing her about; her female friend was in another boat with another gentleman. They did not return to Mrs. Stacey's, and the next mornin g the bows were seen floating on the broad water, deserted; no suspicion, however, was excited. But on Sunday morning Mrs. Stacey's son observed a woman's bon net and - veil on the surface of the water, and in stantly procured a boat and went to the spot, when he discovered the body of the deceased. There was fracture on the forehead, and both eyes were blackened by contusion, from which it was concluded Le hail been murdered. Inquiry was instantly set on foot for the young min with whom she had been seen, and for her female companion, but hitherto with out obtaining the least information respecting either. A policeman, named Geo, Newstead, about three weeks ago, late in the evening observed the same female walking in a desponding state upon the banks of the same canal, and questioned her, when she admitted, %vith tears in her eyes, that she meditated sell-destruction. He took her to the station-house, where she said her name was Mary Clarke, and that she lived at Highgate, but refused to give any fur, ther account of herself. The Jury returned a verdict—" Found drowned;" but expressed their hope that the investigation would be continued, as there was great reason to appre hend that the unfortunate deceased had been un fairly dealt with. The deceased was a very tine young woman, ap parently about 25 years of age. It is impossible to thscribe the sensation the event has produced at Sydenham, the inhabitants of which are firmly per suaded the hapless young woman was foully muu dered.—Observer. BIRTHS. On the 4th in s t. th e wife of J. A. Murray, Esq., of Meeklen burgh-square, of a son. On the 3d in st . ('h arlotte Ann, the Wife of J. Von der Heyde, Lower Thames.streer, of a son. On the 9th inst. in Margaret.street, Cavendish-square, the lady of the Rev. Dr. Roy, Senior Chaplain, Madras Presidency, of a son. MARRIED. On the 4th inst. at St. Pancras New Church, by the Rev. Joanna, fourth daughter of Thomas Udell, Esq., o f U pper Char- Charles Ed r id ge, H enry B eavan , E sq. , o f Sackville.street, to lotte-street, Fitzroy-square. On the od inst. at St. Georges, Hano ver-square, Temple West, Esq., to Andalusia, only daught er o f James Bruce Car. stairs, Esq. tin the 4th inst. at All Souls' Lan g h am-place, C. Jeaey, Esq. of Saafl'ham, y t_oH ee o t n . iSHonor, s econd daughter of CharlesSparkes, oN n f() t rii . gb a iark t iestr 'St. Margaret's; Westminster, Lieut. G. Mason, R.N., to Ann, eldest daughter of W. Whitehead, Esq., of hus E Teynh.n, K ent. The bride w as g i ven away by Lord Adol pitzelarence. DIED. ged 6 On t l he 4th inst. James W eatherby, Esq. of Oxendon-street, On the Ist inst. at the Vicarage, Whitchurch, Canonicoruni, Dorset, Susannah, wife of the Rev. Francis Goforth, Prebendary of Wells. On the Ist inst. at W e lf ord, Berks, John Archer Houhlon,. Esq , aged 58. On the 4th inst. in Gloucester place, P. Meade, Esq., aged `2B, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and son of the lion. and Ilev. P. Meade. iiirmED AHD PUBLIII/leu By MURDO YOUNU, AT "TIM ' SUN OFFICE:, 11'2, SIRAND,'LONDON. ..; ti SO ittli l I 'l -,: ", , .'i - I' up Cl tht 201 .—., sid Cot ani Tr 11l tho thi