The Sun. — London, England, 1834-09-12 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Lord Melbourne is too honest a man to have un dertaken the administration of the country with col leagues in whom he could not confide, and towards whom he did not intend to act with the most perfect good faith. It is not necessary to tell those who know the character of the Premier, that he is the yr a y last man to countenance any attempts to coun try with suspicions of the good f-jit irrJ e ress the ti of a colleague, in order to lower him in publ;e e estimation, and thereb:;'„, pave the way for gett;,ig r id o f hi m t h e fi rs t favoura bl e opportunity. Nrve do not believe that Lord Melbourne would have consented to become Premier on the resigna tion of LOrd Grey, had he not been thoroughly convinced that the composition of the Administration of which he was to be the Chief would enable him to conduct public affairs with advantage to he country and honour to him sell'. The obvious aim of the Times, for some time past, has been to Create an impression that Lord Mel bourne and some of his colleagues, and more e,parti cularly the Chancellor, do not co-operate cordially ; that Lord Melbourne suspects the Chancellor of wish ing to become Premier himself, and that he would get rid of him, if he could ; w hil e t h e Ch ance ll or, again, will never be easy till he has broken up the present Cabinet, and joined a Tory Administration. As the Times is at present in a difficult position, not yet daring openly to advocate Tory principles, while it would fain remove the obstacles to a Tory Ministry, it is obliged to go indirectly to work ; but it does not require much penetration to understand the game it is playing. The Tory journals are in a sort of conspi racy with it. Th us , f or i ns t ance , t h e St an d ar d hav ingits cue, praises Lord Brougham's speech at rnver iness, and affects to consider his Lordship as being in a fair way of becoming a good Con servative. Our Evening contemporary is suffi ciently crafty to be aware of the use which would be made of this in Printing-house-square. The Times lay in wait for its prey, and inqantly pounced on it : " The supposition (exclaims the Times of yesterday), that Lord Brougham may be laying himself out for the Tories, and he has already succeeded to some extent, as we showed yesterday by extracts from two organs of the party (the Standard and Albion), may be met by the remark, that he cau. not contemplate anything so wild as the stability of a Tory Ministry ; but those who have marked time late wildness of the learned Lord, will s ee no f orce i n that argument, for his views may easily bo supposed as wild as his language and his conduct. His wish is to be Premier—he is disatisfied, and not without reason, with his judicial office—and his wishes fa shioning his judgment, he would, never mistrust any ground that presented the darling object of his ambi tion." To this the Standard reioins :—" We certainly should not be sorry to see LOid Brougham a member of the Conservative party ; his w,lrm-heartedness— his pertinacity in cetain fundamental principles, though the principles are wrong—his candour to poli tical opponents, wl'.ere temper does not interfere—his contempt of sordid gain—and his private kindliness of nature, are all good Conservative instincts. We should not, therefore, be sorry to see Lord Brougham a mem ber of the Conservative party, to which, but for acci dent—a ,bad education (we mean his education of middle lee in the school of the Edinburgh Review) — the noble and learned Lord would certainly belong. We will go further with the Times, and say, that we should not regret to see Lord Brougham a member of a Con servative Cabinet. Neither do we think the one or the other is very improbable." Our evening contem porary was but a few days ago on another tack in the case of Lord Brougham, vituperating his Lordship at a good round tate ; but, like a skilful mariner, he shifts his course according to the wind. The Times will, no doubt, this day acknowledge this handsome admission of Lord Brougham's Conservative tenden cies; and the two journals will chuckle at the supposed cleverness of their attempts to hoodwink the public. Surely no person with a grain of understanding will believe that Lord Melbourne can view with any satisfaction the game the Timet and the Conservative journals are now playing. Under the colour of sup porting Lord Melbourne against the machinations of Lord Brougham, the Times is doing all that it can to injure both. Neither Lord Melbourne, nor any one under his influence, can possibly encourage this disin genuous warfare. We can see, however, that the Times wishes to have it thought that it is counte nanced either by Lord Melbourne or some one who enjoys his Lordship's confidence. How deep the in terest it takes in Lord Melbourne l—how anxious that his reputation should stand high with the country ! As if any sensible person could for a moment sup pose that disuniting the Cabinet would benefit Lord Melbourne or give stability to a liberal Whig Administration. " To what purpose (asks our Print mg-house-Square contemporary) can this ill-omened declaration of the Chancellor have been made, that too much rather than too little has been done,' and that if little was done in thelast session, less is to be expect- . ed in the next ?' To what purpose, we ask, can this declaration have been made, unless to damage the Ministry of Lord Melbourne in public opinion ? And it is to be observed, that if Lord Brougham can in jure Lord Melbourne's Ministry by assigning to it a Conservative character, and preaching despair to the people, lie can do this safely to himself, for the Tory language by which he discredits Lord Melbourne's Go vernment accredits him with the party that would rush into power upon the ruin of the present Ministry. If Lord Brougham can sink the bark by the odium of Conservatism, he will not sink with its crew, but swim with the Tories. The doctrines which operate to the damage of his present colleagues recommend him to their successors. W 7 hile he makes the Whig Govern ment appear too Conservative for the support of the Reformers, he may make himself appear sufficiently Tory for a cordial coalition with the rival power. In the appropriate language of the turf for such jockeyship, his conduct bears a strong appearance of hedging, and he seems to be laying his stake on the horse opposed to that on which he is riding. It looks like a Newmarket-trick, or a trick for a new market. .The Chancellor may be honester than lie seems ; but it will be well for Lord Melbourne to look to his escapades." The Times cannot here be mistaken. It tries to damage the Ministry in two ways ; first by endeavouring to twist Lord Brougham's language into a meaning which it does not fairly bear, in order that Suspicion may be entertained by the public of his sin cerity, and they may, in consequence, despair of an. q good while he is in power ; and, secondly, by erea'a rig a persuasion that, as the Ministry suspect each ether —and Lord Brougham is indispensable to thei r exist ence—they will not hold together long. There is not the slightest ground for their insinuation, that Lord Melbourne and Lord Brougham are dissatisßed with and plotting against each other ; but this is. the last thing the Times cares about. In attri;crating to Lord Brougham the intention of fighting the Tory battles under Whig colours, the Tim2s is describing with tolerable accuracy its own coarse. It cannot yet join openly the Standard, and Albion, and John Bull; but under the mask of lltberalism it is clearing the way for a fresh attack on 'ate "Whigs. The article is per haps ready in which the Whigs are once more held u p to the scorn of the country as demagogues in opposi tion, and , haughty ar i stocrats in power ; and the country told that the Tories alone can save them from anarchy and civil strife. But the Times in its cunning over-shoots the mark. The public know its motives, and treat them with contempt. It .would be strange, indeed, if Lord Melbourne and the Lord Chancellor were to form their estimate of each other from the Times ; and still more strange if they were to be at a loss to account for the warm sympathy manifested in Printing-house-square for the one, and the indignation so loudly expressed in the same quarter against the other.—Morntng Chronicle. The Irish repeal agitator raises his tone of insolent menace and intimidation in proportion to the subser viency of the Whig Ministers. He has always swag gered or wheedled, bullied or cajoled, as he thought best suited his purpose, according to the spirit and temper of those whom he addressed. But in his letter to Lord Duncannon, recording the " crimes and fol lies" of Lord Grey's Government, he does not think it necessary to disguise his contempt for his new Whig allies, or in the slightest degree to conceal his sense of their disgraceful versatility and moral cowardice, and their readiness to sacrifice any principle to a base and dishonourable expediency. As to Lord Duncan iloll-the Home Secretary of the Melbourne Cabinet —he palpably plays him off for the amusement of the " repeal boys" and the intimidation of his Whig col leagues, as a showman plays a wooden Polichinello, jerking it with strings and wires into any grotesque at titude he pleases, and making his own mastery in the fantastic motions of his s---- - - - ' , ~_,..p y arent a cruel thing of Mr. rs' T appet. — lt is Indeed terly sarca . ~ connell, and shows how bit -.a: he can be Aim his best friends— oven in the moments of kindliest intercourse—to de scribe kW Duncannon as a great Statesman, on whose conduct the destinies of the empire depend, while he exhibits him as the principal automaton of his Wing and Repeal puppet-show, and sets him up in burlesque dignity for the purpose of knocking down the political character of Lord Grey, and making the , late Premier, while y e t smar ti ng wi th the treacherous 1 acts and Judas kisses of his late colleagues, a sport to the " seven millions," who shout at the heels of the Repeal juggler, while the hat goes round for the pence, and Papal priestcraft fondly anticipates the utter root ing out of the Protestant faith and the dismemberment of the British empire. The following passage in Mr. O'Connell's first letter to Lord Duncannon exhibits his combined powers of sarcasm, cajolery, and swag gering insolence in an eminent degree ;—" I call em phatically on you (Lord Duncannon), in the name of your country, either to procure redress and a change of system for Ireland, or at once to resign, and not to allow your hitherto unstained character to be tinged with the duplicity and abandonment of principle on the part of the leading Whigs of which the Irish peo ple have been hitherto the victims. Prompt, imme diate redress is what I demand on the part of the people of Ireland. Do not talk to us of waiting awhile—that has been the cant used in this country by the hirelings of the Whigs until it has actually sickened public indignation. We will not, I tell you, wait. We ought not - to - wait longer. You cannot safely postpone us. You will lose the popular sup port of Ireland if you attempt to procrastinate relief. We will not be baffled. We cannot be deluded. All we a,-,k is that you should put out of qffice our enemies azid yours." Every body must see that in the above passage the repeal-agitator addresses the simple Lord Duncannon as if he regarded him not only as a States man, but as the Statesman whose conduct must deter mine the future destinies of both countries. Having thus carved and painted the political idol, ex quovis ligno, and placed it on a pedestal for adoration, he instantly treats it as some Indians do their wooden gods—he prays to it, and then threatens it with his displea sure if it does not comply with his wishes. " I will not wait," he says. He might as well say, " I have exalted you as an idol, and will coerce you as a slave. Grant what I demand, immediately, which is nothing more than to place myself and my ' tail' in all places of political trust and emolument, to the extru sion of all the Protestant friends and supporters of British connection, or I shall no longer supplicate you as an idol, or even condescend to dance you a puppet —but you shall be politically broken up by the same hands that faehioned you into the image of a states man, and be thrown into the lumber-room, or among the faggots with which repealers light their fires." " I only ask," says the Whig repeal demagogue, " that you should put out of office our enemies and yours"— which, being interpreted, means, " Give me and my creatures—all the O'Connells—all the tail—all the stanch and stedfast slaves and sycophants of my demo cratic despotism—all the enemies of British connection —all the friends of Papal domination—all the ad mirers of that brazen patriotism that carries the thun ders of reckless agitation in one hand, and the beg ging-box of sturdy mendicancy in the other—give to me and to all,these the political government of Ire land. Let us lord it over, and trample upon the Pro testant people and the Protestant Constitution." Such are Mr. 0 Connell's modest demands—such are the terms on which he promises not to annihilate his Whig allies.—Morning Herald: A statement appeared, the ether day, in a paper called the Hull Advertiser, and like every other which has a tendency to lower the character of the. Lord Chancellor, was greedily copied into the Times. Of this article we have some right to complain, on more ' than one ground. Speaking of Lord Brougham it says— " Among the whole of the London press, the championship of his Lordship against his vigorous opponent has been under taken, and that with little apparent heartiness, by only two journals--the Morning Chronicle ane The Sun. These, with the Companion to the Newspaper, which is published :under his own patronage and direction, form, we believe, the total of the Learned Lord's metropolitan corps of defence. The Chronicle and The Sun, be it remarked, are thorough paced Ministerial supporters ; their testimony, therefore, to the merits of a high officer of the Government is about as valuable as the lofty asseverations of a lawyer on behalf of a • client whose purse outweighs his reputation. These pro- Brougham papers, in order to make a show of strength for their rickety cause, have collected the stupid sycophancy of • the Ministerial tag-rag-and-bob-tail, thinly scattered over the provincial press, and, with affected exultation at the beggarly display, exclaim, ' Behold the reverence of the enlightened for the patriot prodigy of the woolsack !' Now this statement is false on the one hand, and unjust on the other. It is false that among the whole of the London press the Chronicle and Sun are the only journals which have espoused the cause, and de fended the character, of the Lord Chancellor against the malignant aspersions of his enemies ; and it is a manifest injustice towards the Noble Lord to represent him as receiving no support from any other quarters but those pointed out by the Hull Advertiser, and condemned by it on account of their ministerial lean ings. If our recollection fail us rlot, we think that the Noble Lord has enjoyed the advocacy of the Globe, as well as of The Sun and Chronicle; and, if we mis take not, also, more than or e article has. appeared in the Morning Advertiser denouncing the base incon sistency and total relinquishment of honest principle, by which it has been P.Ctempted to sacrifice him, and ex hibiting with no spring hand the great and numerous claims which he has upon the respect and gratitude of 1 , 2, s countrymen. That we have not been more lavish (2 1 ; com mendation, is because the Noble Lord ste:nds in no need of it at our hands—that we have notbeen more w persevering i n ex po s i n g the calume s which have been daily poured forth upon him, has been because we knew, o';t the one hand, that they must ultimately prove more fatal to their authors than to their ob ject ; und that, on the other, the good sense of the cortntry would ultimately repel with merited indigna var.' and scorn the base attempt of an unprincipled coalition of Con servat i ves , R a di ca l s , an d non d escripts , P to bear down the character and to decry the talents of a man whose services in behalf of the people have been as numberless as they have been great, and whose acquirements in almost every branch of knowledge bid defiance at once to rivalry and comparison. Bear down the character of the Lord Chancellor of England indeed ! Destroy first the records of the past—make the English public forget the his tory of the last twenty-five years—throw a veil of oblivion over the advance which the present age has made in all that tends to raise the intellectual and moral character of a country—and the name of Lord Brougham, and the services which he has ren dered to the State, and the country, may also be num bered among the " things that were not ;"—but while such things are remembered as the repeal of those Orders in Council, which went well-nigh to de stroy one of the most important branches of our in ternational commerce—while the inquiry into the management of the great and greatly-abused charities which exist in England and Wales—while the abolition of the traffic in slaves and the destruction of slavery throughout the British dominions—while Reform in Parliament —refor m in our corporate system—reform in the law, and in the mode of administering it— in all of which great and important acts Lord Brougham may well d ec l are quorum pars magni fui —we say, while - th ese , things are remem b ere d and form part and parcel of the political, intellectual, and moral history of the country, his Lordship may laugh to scorn the malignity of his enemies, and bid defiance to every attempt to lower him in the estima tion of his countrymen. .As for the motives which have been, and are influencing the Tory press of the country to decry him, they are as obvious as they are in some measure excusable. Their opposition to him, however wrongful, is an honest opposition —a n oppo sition to his principles, which are diametrically opposed t 6 theirs, and which is not liable, in consequence, to the suspicion either of corrupt motive, personal disap pointment, or personal mali gn ity ; but the oppositi on which " oometh like a thief in the night," after fifteen THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1834. years of admiration, of praise, and of boasted support, " through good report and through evil report," is liable to every foul suspicion, and, while urr--- 1-• may fairly enough be attribw- 3 than a pure sP-- - _ 'any other motive orinstice, or a patfictie desire to ~itiote the public peck Sikh pretences may be, and have been put forth ; but they have deceived no one: The thin, though specious veil, has been seen through—the ugly and distorted forms of petty malig nity, and personal disappointment, have been clearly descried behind it—though the voice has been the voice of Jacob, the hand has been proved to be the hand of Esau ; and the authors of the base malevo lence and deception have accordingly met with their due, though unexpected, reward, in the disappointment of their wishes, and the frustration of their malignant ends. The character of Lord Brougham has been raised, if it possibly could have been raised, instead of being lowered, by'the attacks which have been made upon him—his merits been made more widely known, as well as more distinctly recognized—and his honours multiplied by the acclaim of every city and town through which he has recently passed in the course of his northern journey. With such testi monies in his behalf, what need he care for the calum nies with which a few unknown libellers have dared to assail him ?—Morning Advertiser. The Reformers of Edinburgh are not the men we conceive them to be if they give more than a civil re ception to the Conservative burgess of Inverness. They will say to him in the words of Scott's Highland heroine, " What are you that have the tongue and the " habit of the hound, and yet seek to lie down with the deer ?" The mere courtesies of hospitality they cannot be expected to withhold even from an unee• sired guest, but anything more will be a sanction of the backward policy avowed at Inverness, and treason to the cause of justice and improvement. Lord Brougham will appear before the Edinburgh Reformers branded with his declaration, that too much rather than too little has been done, and that less than the little of the last steril session is to be expected .in the next. Why what parsimony of justice can he propose ? What scheme can he have in view for making the little less ? To what pauper al lowance does he design subjecting the mighty mil lions of the United Kingdoms, craving the redress of grievances and the correction of abuses ? Has he a plan like that of the wiseacre in the old Greek story, who diminished his horse's meal from day to dly, in the hope of teaching him to live without food, which rational expectation was disappointed by the death of the starved beast ? But the Chancellor makes a worse beginning than the above experimen talist ; for, commencing with granting nothing, he promises to do less. The Poor Law, the Old Bailey Extension, and the Beer Bill, are the three graces of the past session I With these we had our halcyon days it seems. Fining away from these proportions, " small by degrees and beautifully less," to what are the Ministerial boons of Lord Brougham to come ? Reform, like Echo in Ovid, is to be attenuated till it disappears. It is to be put on pauper allowance, and made to feel the irksomeness of: the support it receives at the hands of such Ministers as the Chancellor. This, forsooth, is a cheering prospect, and the people of Edinburgh will know what gra titude is due to the worthy who opens it to them. We are not without hopes that they will invite their guest to explain both how he proposes to do less than the little in the last session for the public contentment (as hair-splitting "must have its limits), and also in what sense lie asserted that too much had been done. Has too much been done to relieve the Dissenters from their grievances in respect of registra tion and church-rates? Has too much been done for the reform of the church ? Has too much been done for the abolition of impressment and the scourge ? Has too much been done for the purification of the Pension L'st ? Has too much been done for the repeal of the Septennial Act, and the prevention of corrupt practices in election's ? Has too much been done for the aboli tion of the injurious corn monopoly ? Surely the friends of Lord Brougham at Edinburgh should ask him whe ther his words have not been misreported, and whe ther, instead of " we have done too much," the public should not read " I have done too much." The ques tion may be the more easily answered at a dinner, at which Earl Grey will be present, for the ex-Premier is a ready example of the excess of the Chancellor's meddling. If Lord Grey be candid, we are certain that he will plainly declare that Lord Brougham has " done too much," and that by " doing too much," he has procured for him (Earl Grey) the retirement from political life which his friends deplore. At public dinners a song after toasts is customary, and should the name of Lord Brougham be proposed, we would sug gest after it the little nursery sang, "Who killed Cock Robin." The parody will not be difficult—for example, it may run thus : " Who killed Earl Grey? " I, said Lord Brougham. " To be Chief in his room, "I killed Lord Grey." We admire the modesty of Lord Althorp in keeping away from the Grey entertainment ; and there is some thing very appropriate in his preferring to it the turf society of Doncaster, in which the jockeyship is doubt less learnt of which he has given so very dexterous an example. The scene at Edinburgh will be curious enough without the presence of Lord Althorp, and the eyes of all the Reformers of great Britain and Ire land will be (upon their brethren of the northern me tropolis. They will not forget their princinles for the smiles of. a' man -. high in station, al-„it bolding the temptations o f patronage.—Tires.—Tires. POLICII INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOU USE. , Y'..isterilay a poor w oman , name d B ut l er , app li e d t o the i.ord Mayor to direct the police to render her assistance in searching for her child, a little girl about five years of age. The mother was evidently in an almost distracted state. She stated that the little girl was small for her age and backward in her speech, was rather pitted with the small pox, had blue eyes, and was of a fair complexion, and had on a half-mourning cotton frock, much washed, a blue pin afore, half-boots, but no stockings, and would answer to the name of Fanny Butler. The LORD MAYOR said that probably the newspapers would, from their well-known humanity, take notice of the application, and he should give instructions to the police upon the subject. Mrs. Butler said that her child had been missing since the 23d of August, and must have wandered from the house of her parents in Pear Tree-court, near the church, Shore ditch. The most horrible forebodings possessed the minds of father and mother, who had searched everywhere in vain, sent about handbills describing the child, and incurred other expenses, which they were unable to pay. HATT ON-GARDEN. Yesterday Mr. darke,a master baker, residing at No.l, Baker-street, Bag,nigge Wells-road, was brought to this office on a warrant, charged before Mr:-Rogers and Mr. Sellon, by Mr. Thomas Starling, of Wilmington -square, Clerkenwell, the Foreman of the Leet Jury for the manor of St. John of Jerusalem, with having assaulted him in the execution of his duty. _ Mr. ROGERS said that the duty of the Leet Jury was a very disagreeable duty, though an important one to the public, and he for one would not suffer them to be molested or interrupted in the lawful execution of their duty. An assault had been committed, and he should order him (the defendant) to find bail. MARYLELIONE. Thomas Humphreys was charged with assaulting Mr. Ash Abrahams, a parish constable of St. Pancras. The complainant stated that on the ..previous evening, about nine o'clock, he saw the prisoner, who was rather tipsy, haranguing a mob of person s i n Osnaburgh-street, Regent's-park, on the subject of the New Poor Law Bill. Witness, conceiving it to be a tissue of nonsense, went up and advised him to move away, upon which he caught hold of witness's collar, and would not release it till a policeman came up, who took him to the station-house. The prisoner, who said he was sorry for what he had done, was allowed to make the complainant satisfaction for the assault, which he did in the shape of the current coin of the realm, and the parties then retired. MARLBORO UGH-STREET. Mr. Cooper, a master butcher, residing in Newport -mar ket, appeared on a summons before Mr.CHAMBERS, charged with having infringed the Lord's-day Act. Sergeant Walsh, of the C division, stated that having re ceived orders from the Superintendent of the division, he proceeded on last Sunday morning to Newport-market, and gave the different tradesmen orders to close their shops at ten minutes past eleven o'clock. Ho went round again and saw the defendant selling. He again cautioned the- de- fondant. At half-past eleven o' ,3 --t nucd sellin , - ' tne - defendant conti said," He would sell as long as he had a pound of beef remaining," Stmratit liartl O } .ii'fdli9iatt;d.tlle Statelil6rit Waigli: r. Cooper, in reply, said all his neighbours kept their shops open as well as himself. Mr. CHAMBERS said an end must be put to the nuisance of Sunday trading, and fined the defendant .ss. and costs. William Webb, another butcher, was summoned for tIA same offentti Sergeants Walsh and Harrison gave similar evidence as in the last case. _ _ Mr. AMBERS—From whom have you received your orders ? Walsh—They have issued from the churchwar dens of St. Anne. Mr. CHAMBERS—If the churchwardens are sincere, and as they have the management of the market, they should make the defendants close their shops by the proper time; or else forfeit their leases. _ _ Mr. Webb proved that the police had made a mistake in the name, and the summons was accordingly dismissed. LAMBETH- STREET. Yesterday Joseph Storsea, a Swedish sailor, who has been in custody for a week on a charge of passing three Swedish notes of ten rix dollars, or ten shillings, each, which are alleged to be forged, was brought before Messrs. WAL KER and TUBBS for further examination. From the evidence it appeared that, on the morning of Monday week, the prisoner called at the shop of Mr. John Frederick Ullitz, a Norwegian, who keeps a haberdasher's shop in Broad -street, Ratcliff, and purchased some articles to the amount of 4s. 6d., inquirinc , at the same time if he (Mr. Ullitz) were in the habit of taking Swedish money, and was answered in the affirmative. On the same morning he again called. Having represented himself as the mate of a Swedish brig, he purchased two silk and two worsted shawls, for which he gave in payment the three notes before men tioned, which are alleged to be forged, and one genuine one for o ne r i x d o ll ar . It was subsequently discovered that though three of the notes were dated January, 1829, the water-mark on the paper upon which they were printed, and which bore a kind of fac-simile stamp to the genuine note, was 1833, and this at once led to the conclusion that the notes were forgeries. An officer was at once sent in pursuit of the prisoner, and on his (the officer) entering a house in Ropemakers'-fields, where the prisoner lodged, he found him concealed in a cupboard. The prisoner denied passing the notes as described, though he was positively identified by Mr. Ullitz and a friend of his. Mr. Gray, an ironmonger residing on Tower-hill, had notes offered to him by the prisoner similar to those pro duced ; but he could not take it upon him to say that they were so. Mr. Walker said he had no doubt that the prisoner was the person who had obtained the goods from Mr. Unita ; but in order to prove and establish a case of fraud (as a case of forgery committed on the Swedish Government could not be entertained in this country), it would be neces sary to prove by legal evidence that the notes in question were abutely forged. There was a prima facie evidence on the face of the notes, from the water-mark on the paper being 1833, while their date was 1829. Still this was not, in his opinion, sufficient, as it might be pleaded that the plate, which was dated in 1829, might by probability be used subsequent to 1833, and that the discrepancy might be reconciled. Mr. Hobler, who attended on behalf of the consuls for Sweden and Russia, said it was the wish of both gentlemen that the most scrupulous investigation into the circumstances should take place, as the present was the first instance in which a prisoner had been apprehended for the circulation of forged Swedish notes in this country. After some consultation between the Magistrates, Mr. Hobler, and two gentlemen from the offices of the Russian and Swedish consuls, the prisoner was remanded until the 6th of October, to give time to forward the notes to the Bank of Stockholm, and the production of legal evidence that they are forgeries. QUEEN-SQUARE. Mrs. Charlotte Webb, one of the most desperate women in Westminster, and so a constant visitor at this office for the last nine years, that she might be almost said to be attached to it, was brought from the station-house, before Messrs. BURRELL and WHITE, charged by a police constable with being very disorderly in the public street, and with certain acts of indelicacy. Mr. BURRELL being a new Magistrate, and the first time she had ever been before him, Charlotte commenced a long account of the respectability of her father and mother, and her family in general ; she then lightly touched upon her own respectability, and which, she said, she had greatly improved, as she was quite sick of being in prison, and had thoroughly reformed, She concluded by lamenting the establishment of the new police, who, she said, would swear anything, and her deep regret at the extinction of the old Charlics, which had completely ruined the country. Mr. BURRELL.—But what have you got to say about exposing your person ? Charlotte—Me expose my per son 1 . the villain to say so. Nobody ever heard of sich a thing. There now ; there sits Mr. White, the Magistrate, alongside of you, and I'll call him as a withess to prove I never did sich a thing in my life.—(Loud laughter.) You knows my kracter, Mr. White, pretty well, and you knows as how I've been afore you more than one or two hundred times ; and many is the time you have sent me down to ".Cottle Downs for weeks and months, and I axes you as a a genpan, was I ever charged with sich a thing afore? Do be my witness, Mr. White. This appeal quite disturbed the gravity of the Bench. Mr. BURRELL said that he must commit her for 14 days tothe House of Correction. Charlotte—Very well. (Turning to the constable.) — Now, you lousy vagabond, you said that you would get me three months of it this time, but you see I've only got 14 days. So help me G—, I only wish I was a little stronger, and I would lick you and all your division, you sneaking scoundrels. Charlotte Webb was then locked up, venting curses on the police. THAMES POLICE. Yesterday, Mr. William Youngson, the chief officer of the Flora West Indiaman, was brought before Mr. BRO DERip, charged with wilfully and maliciously shooting at Daniel Ferguson, a seaman belonging to the ship Ludlow, with intent to murder or do him some grievous bodily harm. The investigation created must interest, and lasted several hours. The office was crowded to excess. - Daniel Ferguson, the prosecutor, deposed that on the 13th of May both ships were in Annatto Bay, in the island of J ama i ca. A b oat race too k p l ace t h at d ay , i n which the Ludlow's people were the victors, and they had a dance and merrymaking on :board, and their Captain gave them leave to invite the seamen of the other ships in the bay ; and he was sent by th e secon d ma t e o f th e L u dl ow w ith his com pliments to invite the second mate of the Flora. Another man accompani e d hi m i n th e b oa t t o th e Fl ora , a nd, on his arrival alongside, he saw Mr. Youngson standing at the gangway, and told him his errand. The prisoner said that he did not allow any of his men to go out of his ship after eight o'clock, but, as they were going to have a bit of fun, he might speak to the second mate, and he could go if he thought proper. He went forward and spoke to the second mate, who, after going aft and speaking to his chief officer, declined the invitation. He then got into the boat with the intention of returning to the Ludlow, when the prisoner said " Stop a bit ; who is that in the boat ?" While he was on board one of the Flora's men had got into the boat, but he was not aware of it until that moment. The prisoner then told him to stop on the gangway. He remained there five minutes, when he got tired, and said he was not going to stop there all night, for he intended to go back to his own ship. He got down the side of the Flora, and put his foot on the fender, on which William Taylor, his shipmate, caught hold of his leg, hauled the boat alongside, and they shoved off for the Ludlow. The prisoner then sang out, " Who's that in that boat ?" John Oliver, belonging to the Flora, made answer, "It is me? The prisoner called out, " Bring that boat alongside directly, or, d--n me, I will fire into you." Oliver replied, " Fire at us ! I suppose we are not on board a man-otrar yet ?" The prisoner instantly w ent aft, and returned with a gun, which he presented at them, but it flashed in the pan. H e p resen t e d it a secon d time, and it again flashed in the pan. The third time it went off. He did not know for a mi n ut e th a t h e was s h ot , but he felt something like a wound, and felt the blood is suing from several wounds. He told his shipmate and Oliver to give way, for he was shot, and they pulled as hard as they were able for the Ludlow. He had just strength enough to get up th e s hi p ' s s id e, w h en h e f e ll b ac k into his shipmate's arms. He was quite insensible all night, and remained under th e d octor f or e l even d ays. Ei g h t shots entered his body, and only one, which was taken out of his shoulder, had been extracte d . Th e ot h er seven wer e still in his body.—(Th e w i tness, w h o appears to b e s till suffering from the effects of the wounds, produced a shirt saturated with gore and perforated with eight shot-holes. It seemed that three had entered his side, and four his thigh.) Mr. BRoDE air asked th e w i tness if h e now f e lt any ill effects from his wounds ? F ergu son—Yes, Sir, I feel great difficulty in climbing the rigging, and when I get aloft I am obliged to wait two or three minutes to recover my breath. I shall never get over it. In answer to further -- questions by the M A GISTRATES, Ferguson said that the steward touched his chief officer on the shoulders, when he presented the gun, and told him he was doing wrong. Mr. 13 -. , li."‘IRODERIp • d you hear him say that ? Fer guson—No, Sir ; brit the steward told me so. Mr. BRODERIP- —Did you actually see the gun fired? Ferguson—No, Fir ; but the flashes came from the spot where Mr. You , igson stood in his white jacket. William Ta: i l or , the prosecutor's shipmate, confirmed the evid@nee of the last iidtries§ in eVory respect. They were trying to get pot of the way itfeeti tlid sat Ito fifed 11 the His shipmate fainted three times after he was shut ffdrh eihatiStien and Ipss of blood. Joseph Knight, stevi;ifa Of +loi Flom said the chief officer hailed th e b oa t th re e several times to come lUa'cl tifid put the man out. They did not return, and the prisoner threatened to fire. Some one in the boat said, " Fire and be d='-= d 3" and the pritoner went below for his fowling-piece, which he had loaded the day. before for the iiiirpno of shooting birds, and after snapping the gun twice it went off. He afterwards told the prisoner he bad done very wrong ; but lie did not say so before he shot the man. The prisoner, on being called on for his defence, entered into a very long history. of the whole transaction. He said that Ferguson and his shipmate took several men out of the ship New Phoenix, lying alongside the Flofd, but they were compelled to put back by Mr. Fisher, the chief mate, who was on board the Flora. They then returned to the Flora, and in defiance of his orders, took three men out of the ship. He ordered them to return, and two obeyed his di rections, but the other went away. He did not intend to fire into the boat, but over it. The night was, however, dark, and he could not see clear. The steward, on re-examination by Mr. BRODERIP, said the gun was loaded with small swan shot. The man Oli ver returned to the Flora on the same night. Mr. BRODERIP said this case was one of a very peculiar nature, and he did not recollect one like it to have occurred before, nor could he find such a one in the law-books he had referred to. The question was, whether the crime would have amounted to murder or manslaughter, if death had ensued. Taking all the circumstances into consideration, he wasoof opinion, that if the man had died it would have been manslaughter, not murder ; and that if he was to commit the prisoner for the capit4 offence under the 9th Geo. IV., he would be acquitted. He thought the ends of jnst . i,ce would be answered by holding him to bail, himself in 2001. and two sureties of 1001. each, to take his trial for this very atrocious and aggravated assault, for less it could not be called, at the next Admiralty Sessions. The prisoner put in the required bail, and was liberated, Mr. BRODERIP observing that the prosecutor could indict for the capital offence if he pleased. UNION-HALL. Yesterday Mr. John Stead, the engineer belonging to the Greenwich Railroad Company, was charged with assault ing John Bull, one of the waiters at the St. Helena Ta vern, at Rotherhithe. _ _ The waiter stated that on Sunday evening last a gentle man was brought to the St. Helena, having been taken out of a ditch, into which he had fallen in the vicinity of the house, and within a short distance of the railroad. The gentleman was nearly smothered with mud and duck-weed, and while the servants were engaged in cleansing and mak ing him comfortable after such a disagreeable accident, Mr. Stead walked into the house. He gave vent to expressions of reproach to Mr. Howard, the landlord, whom he blamed as the principal cause of the accident in not joining the Railroad Company, and gettini , the ditches filled up, in stead of leaving them open. The words at length became so high, that Mr. Howard requested the defendant to leave the house, but this refused to do, and still continued to abuse the landlord, who had given directions to the ser vants to attend on the gentleman who had fallen into the ditch. The defendant at length became so offensive, that his departure from the house was insisted on, and he then attacked John Bull, hit him right and left, and, being a powerful man, soon got him down, and, falling upon him, nearly bruised him to death by his weight. John Bull said that he acted as constable as well as waiter on occasions, and although he took out his staff, yet that he did not use it, not having a chance to do so. The defendant said that John Bull struck him on the head with his staff, and made it bleed. Mr. Howard confirmed John Bull's evidence as to the assault committed on that person by Mr. Stead. The defendant admitted that he complained of the im propriety of leaving a ditch open so near a place of such resort, and he was told that he deserved to be put into it himself. He felt indignant at the expression, and might have used some warm language, but he had no sooner done so, than John Bull commenced a furious attack upon him, and broke his head with a bludgeon. The magistrates inflicted a fine of 10s. on the defendant THE MURDERS AT PENTONVILLE. FURTHER PARTICULARS. Between two and three o'clock yesterday morning, the bodies of Steinberg, the woman Lefevre, and the children, were removed from the house in Southampton-street to the Clerkenwell bonehouse. A considerable crowd was assem bled, which vented execrations as the body of Steinberg was carried along. A subscription has been opened to defray the expenses of the funeral. The young man Bruneis, Steinberg's workman, who was taken into custody, it appears was left by his master, the deceased, in an awkward dilemma when the family went to Germany. About three weeks ago, not hearing from Steinberg, and being in want of necessaries to proceed with, he came to Hatton-garden police-office, to apply to the ma gistrates for their advice how to act. On that occasion he stated that his master, Mr. Steinberg, had gone to Germany with his family, leaving him to transact his business during his absence ; he complained that his master had not left him sufficient funds. He was embarrassed, and he wished to know whether he would be justified in parting with any thing in the house. The Magistrates, however, could not advise him, and he quitted the office, and was not seen until Wednesday, when Duke, the officer, immediately recognized him, and mentioned the circumstance to the Magistrates. INTERMENT OF STEINBERG LAST EVENING. Last night, at eleven o'clock, pursuant to the Coroner's warrant, the mortal remains of Nicholas Steinberg were in terred in the poor ground of Clerkenwell parish, in Ray street, Clerkenwell. Immense crowds were assembled round the north entrance of St. James's Church. _ At the above hour, Bugg and Mountstevens, the beadles, Mr. West, the master of the workhouse, Townsend, and other persons connected with the parish, entered the vault where the body of the deceased lay, by the side of an old woman who had died suddenly. The indignation of the populace was so great, that it was anticipated the crowd would attack the body of the deceased. Bugg and Mr. West concocted a plan to prevent this, and caused the men to carry the shell containing the old woman to the eastern end of the churchyard, which was a contrary direction to that in which they were to carry the deceased man. The crowd thinking that this was his body, ran round to the eastern part of the church, and during their absence the body of the deceased was brought out. The trick, how ever, was soon discovered, and people were seen running with speed towards the poor-ground, groaning and hissing as they went along. The bearers soon ar rived at the gate of the churchyard, where a party of police were in attendance, but so anxious were the mul titude, that numerous persons, in a tremendous rush, ob tained admission. A party of men with lighted flambeaux led the officers and the bearers of the deceased's body to a deep hole or grave about 18 or 20 feet deep, and after ex hibiting it to public view, it was taken out of the shell and pitched headlong into it ; and the hollow sound of the body when it went to the bottom, was shocking, and excited a feeling of horror, but not a soul seemed to sympathize for him. When in the grave the men with the links shook them over the body, and made contemptuons remarks with the greatest levity. The windows looking into the church yard were crowded by persons, who cried out, " Why . don't you burn him ?" " Hang him up on a sign-post," " The wretch, the brute," &c. The earth was thrown over him, and the crowd quitted the churchyard. The wretched man had on the same clothes as those which he was found in after he perpetrated the acts. Se veral persons, however, had cut little pieces of his drawers as curiosities, and one man on the ground regretted that he had not cut the deceased's ear off before he was buried, so that he might preserve it in spirits of wine ! GANG OF THIEVES. OLDSTOKE, NEAR SALISBURY.—A considerable sensation has been excited in this town, in consequence of the disco very of a gang of thieves, who have for some time past com mitted various depradations in the immediate neighbour hood. There is scarcely a farm, mansion, or garden, on which midnight contributions have not been successfully levied. Last week, as one of the keepers on Lord Radnor's estate was surveying a portion of the property, which lies in a most unfrequented part of the Downs, bordering on the forest, called " There Great and Little Yews," he disco vered a column of smoke issuing from the umbrageous foliage of one of the largest trees, and anxious to discover the cause, he penetrated the wood, and following a narrow winding track, suddenly found himself intr o d uce d i n t o w hat may, without any impropriety, be called a sylvan apartment. This was formed by cutting away the lower branches of the tree, under which the bushes were stunted and decayed, while the hazel, holly, and wild thorn, which flourished in wild profusion around the extremities of the yew branches, formed an admirable defence, with the tree itself, both against sun and shower. The trees are of themselves of such magnitude, that it would appear they must have braved the " winter's churlish tyranny" from the days of the conquest. Of these sylvan apartments there were three, and it is supposed that the marauders were at the time of the discovery in the inner apartment enjoying their siesta, as the keeper (Dow ling) was suffered to make his retreat unperceived, though, as he says, expecting every moment " a bullet through his head," to arrest his flight. His apprehensions were quite natural, when it is known that among the various articles of plunder with which the ground was strewed were fire-arms, two muskets ready cocked standing as uprights, ornamontal as well as useful, against the time-fluted column of the • ancient tree, which seemed the support of the dwelling. Dowling, having communicated his extraordinary is to ttlithorities, went the following da y , accompanied by some equestrian assistance, who succeeded in capturing tr of the gang, who were comfortably seated before their , t t•ooking the repast for their brethren , w ho were no dou on some l'Orttgin; expedition. On s earching the place several curious features presented themselves. The ments were admirably arranged. In the which was formed by twin trees, a hole was dui a bout t a ; feet deep, end twelve or fifteen in circumference, ra d 1. 1., as sloing to the centre. Here the caldron waS bUb li " ll-3 e , effectually as ever it bubbled for the northern ' av o f while the ground was covered with all descriptions r, ntre of the M*3.7 . property, useful as well as ornamental, servants' and car, riage lace livery, working utensils, pans, fire-arms, hools• sheep-skins, &c., forming the staple commodities o_ traffic. The sheep were supposed to have been stole_.: from Earl Nelson's domain, close adjoining„ but as marks were carefully obliterated, tioy could not be readll ,as identified. The larder formed an inner apartment, and ° el perhaps the most curious. This being still more felb, against wind and weather, and cool and dry, was adm ira ar , adapted for the purposes intended. It was, inoreoViait. well provisioned. Here were pans of fresh meat in re b 4 • as much as two men could carry—bacon, cheese, , vegetables, and fruit of all descriptions, and a bare , es d, dently showing that a lengthened campaign was anticipate On perceiving the strangers, the two fellows, who aPPe 6r , ,„ rather drowsy over their culinary operations, attempteu make their escape by flight, but in vain. On being OP; tured they informed Dowling, that had their gang b een rri a e home, the whole parish would not have taken them. two men have been committed for trial at the ensu a l Marlborough sessions. No further disclosures have 851 '., ticipateca been made, and although several suspicious characters Was been seen lurking about, no further apprehensions have yet taken place. The " Great and Little Yews" is a 61.- f n gular plantation, chiefly yews, and covers about 100 aere s ar :d ground, situate in a most romantic part of the Pow' s ' „; n g seldom frequented except by the sportsman when Pur s , ; ( l o " his game, and is so intersected with underwood as to re bay almost impervious by the foot of man, and is ado's fitted for the purposes for which it has been selected. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, SEYT• 11' Richard Salter, a messenger to the Treasury,: 05 (1 ,1 posed by Mr. Nicholls, on the part of Messrs . A y ling; Peck, upholsterers, of Knightsbridge, and by Mr. Ge, wick Jones on the part of three creditors, name M'Gegor, and Bate. He was supported by Mr. LA° (with whom was Mr. Woodroffe). The' insolvent was appointed one of the Treasury 01.17: senders by the King's patent in 1805. His salarY 21 , 11. besides perquisites. They had amounted to 1501. a )„.`-",: but bad latterly fallen off. They accrued from iraireni°o°; He denied that he had much posting when Earl GreY W e ts ,, out of office. His duties were now performed by det The insolvent had been valet to the late Duke of l Pao o who left him his wardrobe. It was not, he said, W i, „ n 1,0001. That Noble Duke had le ft him an a nnuit y of luv., a year, which he had mortgaged on account of an estra/81 ° gant son, whose follies had cost him about 1,1001. °elf! four sons and one daughter, neither of whom we re suPP'" by him. He had an indisposed wife. r tior The object of the opposition was to obtain an a P P°. ment of the insolvent's salary for the benefit of h is eredit° He had made an offer some time ago to them. the The Court directed 801. a year to be set aside { 0 T ren t creditors, and the Chief Commissioner knew the in6°,lin'' had been a meritorious servant to the Duke of For' He was discharged. Edgar William Dow, late of Tavistock-street, CovOrt garden, tailor, was opposed by Mr. Woodroffe on the 5., of Mr. Whitbread, a cattle-dealer, and in person by ! d r . Timberlake, a coal-merchant. He was suppo rted by Cooke. greater The case lasted the whole of yesterday and the portion of to-day. Sentenced to eight calendar months' imprisonment; a f o r Richard Sayers, a stage-coach driver, was remen", i e w ith eight months, for contracting a cit:bt by means of fra u d Mr. Dixon, of the Horse Repository, Jiarbican. i e , ) ts Thomas Weaver, a wholesale cheesemonger, whose amounted to 2,0001. and upwards, contracted since ' 1833, was opposed, and sentenced to twelve months '—' sonment for a falsification of his books. 11 . MIDDLESEX ADJOURNED SESSIONS , Ssrt' 01' Captain Richard Grant, of the Royal Sovereign 9.-3 . boat, was indicted for wilfully and unlawfully steerill r nivigating the said vessel on the River Thames , O a ning down a boat in which were Mr. Thos. Masterrnan Messrs. Edward and John Heath, and endangering tbee-1 lives thereby, on the 16th of July last. There were 501 ral counts in the indictment. Mr. Thomas Masterman was a brewer, residing at P t ; cliff. On the evening of the 6th of July, at o'clock, he went on the River Thames, accompanied; by tl, gentlemen named Heath. They were in a s kiff. f ir .. Heath stripped and bathed while the boat was off G tb with, and opposite the Isle of Dogs. While Mr. TA was in the water, the Royal Sovereign came in sight, tola e j ness, on seeing her, threw a rope to Mr. Heath and t o t o r him to the boat, and then made for the shore, but the stoelia bore down upon them so rapidly, that they could not a v° oo her, and in an instant almost the boat was upset. Wi tr !i u ti 74 , clung to the chain cable of the steamer and held on boat came to his assistance and released him from his P e t he about nin bons situation. His companions, after remaining in„..hei water some time, were also picked up by a boat. tha t were within about forty yards of the shore at the time f o il the accident happened. The steamer was going at . speed, and the Captain might have avoided the ir boat aiti had used proper endeavours to do so. He w i tne ssL i , all in his power to avoid the steamer , but without u` of Mr. Heath lost his clothes and money by the upsettil!gent the boat, and they were all placed in the most unini° ( danger of their lives. Messrs. Heath confirmed the above evidence , „y e t of The jury, after a short consultation, returned a -ertsi Guilty. A been Mr. Adolphus suggested that, as an action bas '„ sr. brought to recover the amount of the loss sustained u/ nt oo Heath, it would perhaps be better to postpone judgite-„piti the defendant till next sessions, to give him an opPc -- of coming to some arrangement with the parties. a the After a long conversation between the Bench 613 ors Bar, the Court ordered the defendant to enter into h is t he recognizances in 201. to appear and receive judgmen t °° ,,dei first day next sessions, and in the meantime recointne.one the defendant to make the complainants a reasonable pensation for the loss and injury they had sustained . 5 0 The defendant entered into the required su retieg, was then discharged. SURREY SESSIONS, SEPT. 11. (Before R. HEDGER, Esq., Chairman.) . 1 , EMBEZZLEMENT BY A CONFIDENTIAL SEILVAr: John Morris, a respectable-looking young ma n, a"%i pf years of age, was indicted for embezzling the su 91. 155., the property of his employer. a nd )tr . Mr. DUNBAR appeared for the prosecution , t CHAMBERS for the prisoner. Mr. CHAMBERS contended that the indictment otl 0: 1 be sustained ; inasmuch as the offence was cornett, d . Scotland, it came within the pale of the law of ScotAi•op.,, Mr. HEDGER (the Chairman) overruled the obie c ‘ l te t The prisoner made no defence, nor did he call a° ) nesses to character. ear s t The Jury found he risoner Guily. The CHAIRMAN sentenced the prisoner to fourt een transportation. a n d 1 • u The prosecutor asked how he was to act. m e f o r ta nesses were bound over to prosecute the prison er to gery in Scotland ? te The CHAIRMAN said the better way would be to frl the Secretary of State or the Attorney-General' - Court could not part with the prisoner. of ......---___— BIRTHS. 131'cff On the 11th inst., in Wilton-place, the lady o f 111(41 ‘ 49 Esq., of a daughter, still-born. Ai, ° f f as'. On the sth inst., at Hilsea, near Portsmouth, the lady A , Harte, Esq., of a son, being her 12th child. On the 10th inst., at Camberwell, the lady o f the Bel. I. Giles, M.A., of a son. 11P MARRIAGES. „ • olc ,' te r On the 9th inst., at St. Mary Redcliff's Church, i'ir b i dor John Grant., of Redcliff-parade, to Elizabeth Ann, eld es Aette_4o of the Rev. M. R. Whish, and Authoress of ,‘ Originr in no On the 9th inst., at Oakley, Suffolk. Captain 13 ,e l t o i Cgille Walker, R.N., to Mary Catherine Sinclair, only ehtin ~ of John Worth, R.N., of Oakley-house, and grancldaughte" e late Captain Patrick Sinclair, R.N., of Duren, Caithnest.,oo!„: On th e 11th inst., at All Souls', Portland -place, 3-It'"Airilsw Francis Odling, Esq., surgeon, Oxford-street, to Elizabetn eldest daughter of James Wilson, Esq., Greek-street, S°". pil' DEATHS. i v t o Fo3' On the 4th inst., at York-row, Kennington, W.4° .4.(11: 0 ' aged 64. P P-- On the 4th inst., at Cookham, in his 69th year, kie b u is otb i l . ( 1. On the 9th inst., at Clapham, John Linton, Esq. , R i c h. n 31sY tt :re On the lOth inst., at Upper Stamford-street, Mr. ioi b ore" Lately, Marianne, the wife of Mr. James Blake, eV ° ditch. ~ s ad. ci lf, At Harwich, Essex, Sarah, wife of Mr. Francis tl an _.... get On the 9th inst at Great St. Helen's, Mr. Thorns' e l, aged 37. • ' SalOt e t On the 25th of June last, at Rio de Janeiro, .fosh e ua o ., of ti " Esq., one of the firm of Messrs. Samuel, Phillips, a nd lot te ' city. ,kev Ch ar On the 10th inst., at Abbey-house, Bert n°ll ' ' , „lit °. wife of Mr. Thomas Legg. • n f a nt O A'.. ` of On t ß h i e ,v 6 . th ß. lll D St : , i a j t ae lV i a i lmer, Marianne Ellen the i ouse. nnO YOUNG, ---- London : Printed and Published by AIIJ- - d. at The Sun O ffi ce, No. 112, Strsn