The Sun. — London, England, 1834-11-26 00:00:00

SriRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. There are two circumstances which, though equally important and undeniable, have not been adverted to 'upon the present occasion ; the one, that Sir Robert Peel is much more of a Reformer in his notions than the Duke of Wellington : the other, that for that, or some other reason, there has not been between the Duke and Sir Robert any great political intercourse or cordiality of late. Now, taking these to be facts, the inferences to be drawn from them, as regards the pre sent state of things, are most important. They prove hat the Duke of Wellington contemplates the ne cessity of an Administration formed upon more liberal principles than would be likely to emanate t fra m himself alone ; and that, to attain that end, he is not only willing to yield the palm t, another, but to forego all those feelings, if 'there are any, which might be supposed to ha ;e emanated from the want of cordiality which Y:e have assumed. This view of the subject affora's a tolerable answer to and refutation of those whq choose to assume that the Duke of Wel lington Licans to recommend to the King the formation of an ultra-Tory, and consequently an anti-Reform Administration, and who taunt him with the designa tions of " Dictator" and " Highness," as if he had taken the Government by a coup de main, and had - resolved to keep it to himself. If such were really the Duke of Wellington's intention, why should he of himseif resolve to await the return of Sir Robert Peel, before he makes any one arrangement could by possibility be dispensed with ? Or if his ambition be to assume the rank of Dictator, why has he, as is generally presumed to be the case, offered the Premiership to Sir Robert, agreeing him self to take office or not, in any capacity, as may be deemed advisable ? Surely, if the Duke's views were such as are imputed to him, the accidental absence of Sir Robert Peel would have been the Very thing he most wished ; nor would the Right Hon. Baronet himself have had any right to complain of having been overlooked in arrangements which might with great plausibility have been held to be of too urgent a na ture to await his return. Those, therefore, on the one hand, who are looking to the formation of a Ministry at once reforming and conservative in its principles, are entitled to consider the delay in question as highly fa vourable to their views ; while on the other those who are assuming that the Duke of Wellington is desirous to concoct an Administration on ultra-Tory principles have the best proof of the untruth of their suspicions, in the fact that the Duke is expressly and purposely avoiding the opportunity which Sir Robert Peel's absence gives him of so doing. Sir Robert Peel then, it must be admitted, holds at this moment —as yet, perhaps, unconsciously to himself—a very important station in the eyes of all Europe. On the line which he may adopt, both as to taking office at all, and the terms upon which he agrees to take it, hangs, perhaps, not only the present and future welfare of this country, but the peace of the world, and the progress of free institutions throughout Europe. Sir Robert Peel, like the Duke of Wellington, has been heretofore, in many respects, a mistaken politician. Witness the fatal measure which bears his name—a mea- sure which has inflicted more wrong and misery upon every class of the community but one, than a whole life of political penitence on the part of its author can redeem. Sir Robert, however, has proved liirnseli a statesman of a less obstinate and more yielding cha racter than the Duke of Wellington; and though, the Duke, he has been somewhat too late in his con versions, we are inclined to think that he sees their necessity more strongly, and is therefore likely to ad here to them more steadily. In a word, should Sir Robert Peel prove himself, as we suspect him to be, too much a reformer for the Conservatives, and too much a Conservative for the Radicals, he is the more likely to adopt that happy medium which the great majority of the right-juqgmg part of the country loci: to at the present crisi.d. At the same time, whether he will take office at all, under existing circumstances, becomes every dal more and more a question.—Morn ing Herald. All arrangements relating to the new Ministry are still in suspense, and are likely to remain so for several days, waiting the advent of Sir Robert Peel, whom one of our contemporaries has sent forward to Naples. None can question the embarrassment and inconveni ence of such a postponement of the national business, however unavoidable it may be. Rumours at the same time are busily circulated, that when the Baronet does arrive, and has an opportunity of looking about him for a little, he will at once decline the honour proposed to him. One authority for this rumour is said to be an old Staffordshire friend of Sir Robert Peel, who heard it from a relative of the Right Hon. Baronet, Whether Sir Robert, who has usually been reckoned a close and cautious person, is in the habit of communicating his secret in tentions, especially with regard to matters of grave importance, to those who would publish them when his back was turned, is more than we can answer. But such is one of the thousand reports now bruited. Had it reached us from a party source, we should not have deemed it worth the slightest notice. That the determination against coming into power, naw referred to, must have been formed long before the late events at Brighton had called for it, is sufficiently clear ; and moreover, that if it exists at all, it must have been founded on some repugnance to office, arising out of fixed and definite causes, either actually or imminently probable, having relation to the general state of poli tical parties, or of the country itself, and that before Sir Robert Peel left England. We very much doubt that the Right Hon. Baronet made any such reso lution. In the vigour of life, with strong poli tical dispositions —with tastes and habits moulded by long activity in Parliament, and by long pos session of power—with an opening for exertion produced by circumstances which, if not distinctly foreseen, must at least have been a subject of frequent speculation, and with prospects not the less interesting to a masculine mind, even for the difficulties and collisions which they presented —one can scarcely suppose that a man thu s s i tuate d , hav ing a strong and energetic party at hi s b ac k, wou ld have fled from a post so fairly assigned to him, and virtually abandon his profession as a statesman, with which was connected his social position, from any ge neral pressure of apathy or disgust. If that be a rea sonable conjecture, therefore, it is still more certain that the resolution ascribed to Sir Robert Peel cannot have reference to the special occasion which has been created since last Saturday week, and of which the existence could not have been known to him (if it vet is) while in communication with those who now assert his reluctance to act upon it by accepting office. Of course we cannot say that Sir Robert Peel will take part in the meditated Government, which without him it is obvious cannot be constructed at all ; but it is right to point out the great improbability of the grounds on which others allege that lie will not. In a letter signed " A True Reformer" will be seen additional motives for believing that 11,11 y Government of which the Duke of Wellington makes one must be a reforming Government. We could, if it were necessary, give the nairy..'-s of the parties to whom the declaration of the Noble Duke, as stated by our correspondent, was addressed, wherein we find him acknowle,iging distinctly that " no Minister can now conduct the affairs of this country without im mediately proceeding to the reform both ("the English mad Irish Churches, and also of the Corporations." Nothing can be more explicit than this recognition of the principle ; and the same sense of the necessity for admitting the principle, beca use th e pu bli c m i n d requires it, must operate in favour of such an application of the principle, and therefore of carrying the reform to such extent as will satisfy the national solicitude. In that case what will be wanting to complete the benefit looked for ? That it should have been conferred by a Whig Ministry instead of one hitherto known as IL Conservative ? We do from the bottom of our hearts believe that none but an idiot will care one halfpenny, by what hand the wished-for good shall have been secured for the people. Nay, there may be advantages in the accomplishment of extensive reforms by those who had heretofore opposed them, even greater in some respects than if they had been obtained through the earlier advocates of such measures. When an habitual stickler for " things as they were" has been brought round, it is not only like the conversion of an old sinner--a legitim a t e cause o f gladness to the faithful, but it tends to settle doubting and restless disputants—it tends to satisfy all objectors ' that the thing was right, or that it had become inevi table, and that further opposition was chimerical cr useless. If, for instance, Catholic emancipation had been carried by Whigs, against the sense of th e Duke of 'Wellington, Sir It. Peel, and the intelligent, as contrasted with the fanatical and unreasoning, Tories, no man surely will contend that the adverse portion of our countrymen (for such there were) would so easily or so speedily have sat down contented with the Bill, as when they saw that it was introduced by those who had been anti-Catholics, but who, in yielding to what they acknowledged to be a necessity, gave the most convincing proof to others that such necessity was of overpowering force. So will it be with other reforms, introduced and executed through the agency of old Conservatives. They will not only enact the law, but they will do more—they will settle the controversy, and silence the most inveterate objectors ; not merely en forcing the legislative act, but restoring the peace of society. All this will be railed at by party, we aro aware, but by party degenerated into pot-house fac:„ on —by those who are attached to names, as more than principles, and who see iothi',Jong worth ng in any law or Parliamentary motion,bi':. the means of gratifying some selfish, sordid, vindictive appetite. To such persons we see.,, to address ourselves ; we are not of them : object is the country ; our care is not this or individual Minister, but this or that measure of general or lasting reform. What will it signify twenty years hence, which is but a moment in the life of na tions, whether the Irish tithe question was finally dis posed of by the Duke of Wellington or Lord Durham ? It may indeed be a family trophy for the statesman, and the posterity of the statesman, by whom that and simi measures may have been achieved ; but what affair is it of ours ? How does it regard us—the people of Eng land ? Those who revile us may save themselves the trouble, for they will-not shove us one inch from our pre dAermined course. We are for reform. As reform Mi nisters. we esteemed and often supported—in their errors or weaknesses we rebuked—in their sudden fall we sincerely lamented Lord Melbourne and some of his colleagues. But can we now restore that Cabinet if we would ? Ought we to restore it, with the foul ad dition of Humc and O'Connell, and other dirty radi cals, if we could? No. Then how must we act by the Duke of Wellington ? Show him that he mrs reform, or write and vote him out of office ; for all or which we are well prepared; to the whole of which, in the face of England, we sternly bind ourselves and those, comprising three-fourths of the people, who do us the honour to be guided by us. The Duke says he will reform, and we believe him. If he breaks his word, on which we not speculate, away goes our support from under him ; and we pray that all our mi serable assailants may exhibit one half of our steady adherence to principles, disregarding persons. No challenge of ours have our calumniators ever dared to accept. That we have praised public men is true ; and afterwards, for good public cause, accused them. Is that inconsistency ? Let them point out one sys tem of policy which, once embraced by us, we hav, ever, to the last, abandoned, or one measure which we have once condemned, and ever afterwards ap plauded. There would have been real inconsistency —there would have been base or imbecile tergiversa tion. But of that he is a shameless slanderer who dares to impeach the Times. The Whiglings, or low Radicals, or Toryunculi of the day—what are they to us or the English nation ? The people look to us, and we support the cause of the people—may we perish if we abandon it !—Times. It does not require the gift of prophecy to foretel that " his Highness" will soon lose the countenance of the Times. Already we discern the preparations for hostility on the part of our contemporary : and we have not a doubt that as soon as " his Highness" quits his passive state, and affords such an indication of his • intentions as may give a pretext for assailing him, it will be eagerly laid hold of. The absence of Sir Robert Peel, which furnishes " his Highness" with an excuee for inaction, must be a source of great embarrassment to our contemporary. But when the Right Honour able Baronet arrives, and silence with regard to his policy can no longer be decently maintained by " his Highness," the occasion for which the Times longs will present itself. The speakers who, at the meetings in every corner of the em pire, now give loud vent to their indignation at the impudent attempt of the great enemy of Reform, and the champion of abuses in Church and State, to seize the Government, will all be outdone in their abhorrence of " his Highness" by our contemporary, who will wonder that a man could have been found in the British dominions so blind as not to perceive that no Tory could hope for success as a Minister without first openly abandoning his principles. But if he abandon his principles, he will instantly be aban doned by those for whose sake the late Ministers were dismissed. The case of the concessions to the Catholics is not in point ; for, as was happily ob served at the Liverpool meeting by Mr. Ewart, " there he maintained his original principles, but changed his measures ; whereas now, if he would sa • tisfy the people, he must not only change his sures but his principles." The people n::,urally sup pose that principles will be acted and their alarm in the case of " his Hie 3 -., fiess , ,, is caused by their knowledge that his principles are opposed to those entertained by ine great majority of the nation. Will he, can he,, abandon his principles ? The Times will say lie may at a moment's notice. But " his High ness" may not be able to follow successfully the example so often set in Printing-house-square. " His Highness" must cheat the public or cheat his party. " We might wait for the actions (observes the Scots man), as the renegade Times advises, of untried men ; but this is not the predicament of the Duke and his deep-dyed Tory associates. The mind has its irre gular movements and sudden illapses of new light, we can understand th e convers i on o f an individual at any time, and under any circumstances ; but the conversion of a whole squad of veteran politicians, at one moment of time, to opinions precisely the reverse of those they had previously held, is a phenomenon which utterly confounds our philosophy." The Times, no doubt, miscalculated the gullibility of the people. It supposed the people would remain quiescent, on the principle of the unfairness of exciting " alarm by vague and indefinite surmises and suspicions," till " his Highness" had succeeded in his purposes. Having, however, failed in his project, he must. fall back on his old High Church and 'Tory prin ciples,when the Standard will hold him up as a lofty example for all future ages, and the Times will find an other victim on whom it will take a full measure of vengeance, for its own sufferings. " His Highness," therefore, cannot long hope to enjoy the favour of our contemporary ; and he may as well make up his mind for the deadly hatred which will infallibly follow.— Morning Chronicle. In union is the strength of the Reformers. 'We re member with feelings of no ordinary satisfaction that when an invasion of this country was anticipated from the Dictator of Europe, all parties forgot their differ ences of opinion and separate objects, and united with enthusiasm in defence of their lives--their homes— their liberties. Now a dictator appears, and now more than ever the necessity of a similar union is apparent. If the Reformers are disunited, the Tories triumph—if they are united, the people must conquer. We, there fore, call upon all who are anxious to save their coun try, and to promote, extend, and secure for ever, th e dear-boughtliberties of Englishmen, to unite, and make one common cause against the establishment of a Tory Government. 'We have learned, and learned w: . i n Bret, that some Reformer s are diff er i ng i n 'opinim c i , and are thinking of exacting from R eprer, entatives who have always proved themselves true , and honest Reformers, pledges on different s ; ;ects. e exh or t th em to cease from such conduct, l W and l to exact on l y one p l e d ge, v i z. —a dettrmiw,;ton by all legal means to overthrow a Tory ."-s.dministration. When that is accomplished, it will be time enough to debate other q ues ti ons ; b ut un til 4 :oat is done, words,. meetings, pledges, for any other 'abject, only strengthen the enemy's hands, and retard the progress of liberty and reform. As Mr. O'Connell said at the great Dublin meeting, " Every man, then, who calls himself a Reformer is a hypocrite, a vile, paltry, base hypocrite, a man sold to corruption, who will not oppose himself to the new Administrate on." Let every reformer, be he Whig or be he Radical—be he moderate or ultra—combine,rr ow th at the energy is at the door, and by a common simultaneous effort overthrow and destroy for ever the hopes of an intriguing Tory tyrannical faction, whose only object is public plun der, and whose only desire is to enslave and press down the people. When the Tories resolved on the step they have taken, they calculated on a division amongst the liberals—their maxim is, divide and conquer; and we hold him to be an enemy to human happiness who does not therefore unite, and bid defiance to the declared opponents to borough, corporation, church, or any other Reform. We need not say how strongly we have advocated vote by ballot—triennial Parliaments —an extension of the suffrage—subjects which have been considered by many as theoretical, but which we consider of practical importance. These, however, are not the questions now—the only one is, whefl - we are to have a Wellington adininistra“.,,- n composed of the fiercest enemies and cc- - • rights of the ...cant opponents of the just or one in unison with their de clared wicl es cedillas and expectations. Men of , ..gland, awake—be united—be orderly, but decided, and the Duke with all his tactics and his power must bow before even the whisper of millions of men, who know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain them. —Morning Advertiser. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Nov. 25. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 18M. ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. BATEMAN. This information is filed concerning 30111 C recent diputes between the trustees and the clergyman and congregation of the Tottenham-court road Chapel. Sir EDWARD SUGDEN was about to more for an injunc• tion, when— Sir WILLIAM HORNE and Mr. WAErritan, for the de fendants, made a preliminary objection that the notice of motion was irregular, because it was served upon the par ties before appearance, without the leave of tile Court. It was then agreed that the notice of m,;tion should be considered as regular for the next seal. ROLLS' COURT, Nov. 25. CORNISH V. KEAN. This was a motion to restrain the defendants from invad ing the rights of the plaintiff, under a patent obtained for certain improvements in the application of India rubber to the manufacture of various kinds of fabrics. His Horioun allowed the motion to stand over until after the trial. COURT OF KING'S BENCII.—Nov. 23. HEATH V. BINDLEY. Lord DENMAN delivered judgment in this case. The plaintiff had entered up judgment on an old warrant of at torney, and the party was dead at the time the judgment was so entered up. There was a special stipulation in the instrument that judgment might be entered up, although the defendant died before judgment, or although more than a year and a day had elapsed. The question, in substance, was whether an agreement of this sort between the parties could bind the representatives of the defendant or the Court, so as to allow the judgment to stand, notwithstand ing the circumstances under which it had been signed. Their Lord,,hips were of opinion that they could not do so. The judgment must be set aside. THE KING V. THE JUSTICES OF THE CINQUE PORTS. Mr. HUMFREY showed cause against a rule for issuing a mandamus to four of the Justices of the Cinque Ports, to direct them to require the proper officers of Margate to levy a rate of above 2s. in the pound, assessed upon the house of a Mr. George Shew, an inhabitant of that town. Mr. F. Pou.ocK appeared in support of the rule. Rule absolute. THE KING V. FERRARA. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (and Mr. DUNDAS) showed cause against a rule for a habeas corpus to bring up the body of this defendant, in order that he might be discharged from imprisonment. The defendant was a passenger on board a vessel that come into the port of Plymouth. He had in his custody a quantity of pears, and in them was concealed a quantity of smuggled tobacco. By the Acts against smuggling the vessel itself was liable to forfeit, but there being every reason to believe that the Captain and crew were quite ignorant of the tobacco being on board, that penalty was not enforced, but an information was laid against the defendant, who was fined 100/., and was com mitted to prison in default of payment. The present ap plication was made on the ground that he had been illegally convicted. Mr. BUTT was heard in support of the rule. The rule to quash the conviction was made absolute. THE KING V. DEANE. This was a rule calling on the defendant to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against him for vaiting a letter to Lord Althorp, complaining of the County Commissioners of the district in which he Eyed, for having allowed certain individuals in humble life to take cut game certificates, instead of compelling them to pay the penalties they had incurred by shooting without having such certificates. The great point made in moving for the rule was, that the letter had been written in the name of the Collector of Taxes, who had given the defendant no authority to write the letter. Mr. FOLLETT now appeared to show cause against the rule, and the ATTORNEY-GENERAL and Mr. RICHARDS in support—Rule discharged on payment of costs. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 25. J , udgment in thi s case h av i ng ROBINSON AND ANOT HER V . GEDDON. AND OTHERS . 1 he LORD C HIEF "oeen deferred, ing attentiv,f,), T sTlci: this morning said that, hy looked over the evidence, without going nor;, into the matter, the Court thought that the Jury on tile last occasion might have been misled by some papers that were handed up to them, and, therefore, it was better it should undergo the consideration of another Jury.—Rule absolute for a new trial. ATTORNEYS OF THE COURT. In the course of the morning the Court issued a rule to the following cffect :—That inconveniences having arisen from attorneys admitted in this as well as in other Courts not having caused their annual certificates to be entered with the clerk of the warrants, and also from their having neglected to pay their termage fees of Bd., which formed the principal fund for the support of the criers of the Court, it was ordered that in future every attorney should do so before the first day of Easter Term, discharging at the same time all their arrears of Termage fees. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. HATTON-GARDEN. Yesterday Edward Collins, a middle-aged respectable looking man, was brought before Mr. BENNETT, in the cus tody of Sergeant Finlay, No. 4, G division, charged with having used seditious language, and creating a mob of per sons in the streets. Sergeant Finlay having been sworn, stated that on Mon day evening last he was going his rounds, and on passing through Greville-street, Hatton-garden, he saw the, pri soner, who was addressing a large assemblage of persons on political topics in a loud and violent strain. The late change in the administration he pronounced to be unwise and impolitic, and said that the King was of no use what ever ; the Duke of Wellington was a fool, and that Daniel O'Ccnnell was an agitator who ought to be taken to Smith field and hanged. He proceeded to attack the character of some other Peers and Members of Parliament, and spoke in the most contemptuous terms of his Majesty, on which witness felt it to be his duty to interfere, and he remon strated with him on the impropriety of his conduct, when he refused to desist, and witness, with the assistance of another officer, took him to the station-house, where lie was locked up. Mr. BENNETT—Pray what are you ? Prisoner--What am I ? Why, I have been moving about. Mr. BENNETT—That is not an answer to my question ; what are you? Prisoner—l can only tell you that I have been moving about. Mr. BENNETT—Your hesitating to tell me who and what you are will avail you nothing, for I am determined before YCLI part from me to discover who and what you are. If you are an honest man you can have no objection to give a satisfactory account of yourself ; if you cannot do so you will be sent to prison. isoner—l cannot give you any other account of myself. Mr. BENNETT—Where do you live ? Prisoner—l lodge at present at Hatchett's Hotel, where you may find my luggage if inquiry be made there. Mr. BENNETT—You may lodge there, but still that may not be your permanent residence. Where did you come from ? Prisoner—From 'Wolverhampton. I came to Lon don on Saturday last, and I have been moving about ever since. Mr. BENNETT—What were you at Wolverhampton ? Prisoner—l was a draper, and am known there as a re spectable man. Mr. BENNETT—Who knows you at Wolverhampton ? Prisoner—Mr. Coxhead, of Cox-street. The prisoner mentioned the names of the Rector, Vicar, and other persons who were well known to individuals in the office. Mr. BENNETT—Are you a married man ? Prisoner (hesitatingly)—Why, I am married, certainly ; that is to cay, I am married, although I did not take my wife to church to be married in wedlock ; but I am joined ac cording to the bonds of union and love. Mr. BENNETT asked whether he was sober at the time that he addressed the mob ? Prisoner—l certainly had been drinking. Sergeant Finlay concurred with this, and said that when the prisoner was at the station house he was searched, when a 5/. note, two sovereigns, and 12s. 6d. in silver were found in his purse and pocket-book. On being locked up in the cell with the other prisoners he harangued them and stripped himself stark naked, in which style he was found by the gaoler. Prisoner—l am very much astonished at the statement of the policeman, who attributes to me harsh language to wards the Duke of Wellington, of whom I entertain the highest opinion as a military officer and a statesman. Indeed, I think that he is one of the first statesmen in the country. . . Mr: BENNETT told the prisoner that it was --- improper to collect an assemblao-^ -r 0 .„ ui persons in the street, and address them in 0 under manner that he had done, but " circumstances he should order him to pay a fine of ss. and be detained until it was paid The prisoner bowed and thanked his Worship, and on receiving his money from the officers he paid the fine and quitted the office. Q UEEN-SQUARE. John Brown, a man with a wooden leg, was brought be fore Mr. WHITE, by Stratton, one of the officers of the Mendicity Society, charged with exhibiting a petition, and begging in the public streets. Stratton said that be found the defendant begging in the Blackfriar's-road, and saw him receive money from several persons. He was exhibiting an oil painting representing two ships, underneath which was painted in gold letters the following poetic petition : " The ocean I've crossed, And my leg I've lost, My hard fate you plainly may Eye ; Hard, hard is my lot, And no friend have I got, Kind Christian, take pity on me." The defendant, in reply to the cbarc i -e, said that be had lost his leg, and was quite destitute. Mr. \VHITE—Where did you lose your leg ? Defendant —At Guy's Hospital, about a twelvemonth ago. Mr. WHITE—What place do you belong to ? Defendant —I come from Wales. Mr. W HITS—You have had plenty of time to get to Wales since you left the Hospital. The officer said the defendant was a very old offender. He had apprehended him four times, and the last time he told precisely the same story, when he was committed for one month. Mr. %%Timm told the defendant that he supposed he found the trade of begging tolerably profitable, or he would not have gone to the expense of having such a fine paint ing. He stood committed for one month to the House of Correction. It was stated that all the painted petitions, boards, crutches, drawings, models. &c., used by the Beggars' Com pany, were regularly hired, at so much per day, of persons who make a regular trade of it. MARLBOROUGII-STREET. Yesterday WiMain John O'Connell, Esq., a nephew of the great 0., John Richards, Esq., and a Frenchman named Fermor Buisson, were placed at the bar before Mr. CoNnicr, charged with disorderly conduct and fighting in the Haymarket the overnight. Policeman C 183 said about twelve o'clock last night a " row" took place at the corner of the Haymarket between 'Mr. O'Connell and his friends and some Frenchmen. The parties began fighting:, upon which he went towards them, and endeavoured to separate them and to get them to dis perse. Mr. O'Connell, who was very violent, said the combatants should not be separated, and if he (witness) interfered he r•ould " bring him before the House of Com mons." Mr. O'Connell knocked two of the foreigners down in witness's presence, upon which he (witness) said he would take him (O'Connell) into custody, even if he was the King of England, for so behaving. Mr. CoNANT—Wh a t do you mean by the words for so behaving ? Do you mean that be was collecting a crowd ? Policeman—Yes. Afterwards I saw him knock two persons down, and I interfered ; he said he would bring me before the House of Commons. Policeman C 78 stated that he saw Mr. O'Connell and Mr. Richards quarrelling with some foreigners at the corner of the Haymarket. Witness separated the parties several times, and at last observing Mr. Richards strike one of the foreigners, witness took him into custody. Mr. O'Connell—Who did my friend strike? Witness— I could not distinguish on account of the crowd. There were upwards of one hundred persons, I should think, col lected altogether. Mr. COANT—NoIv, Mr. O'Connell, if you wish to ask the policeman any questions, this is the time. Mr. O'Connell—Yes, I'll ask a question. I unques tionably deny that I ever raised my hand against any human being. Mr. CONANT—That. is not a question. Mr. O'Connell—Well, then, I say I never raised myhand. Mr. CONANT—You arc not called upon for your defence. You are only to put questions at present. Mr. O'Connell (to the policeman)—Did you have any conversation with me before you took me into custody ? No. Mr. O'Connell—l say you had. What right had you to take me into custody? Because you were collecting a crowd. Mr. O'Connell—Thank ye very much for that. Had a cloak on ? No, you had not. Mr. O'Connell—You admit you had some conversation with me before you took me into custody ? I told you to go away, and you d—d me, and said if I took you, you'd have me before the House of Commons. Mr. O'Connell—l'll only tell you what it is ; most of the policemen know me— Mr. CONANT—I cannot allow any insinuations to be made. Mr. O'Connell—The policeman has sworn what I don't believe. What was the charge made to the superintendent ? Mr. CONANT—The charge was that you were fighting in the Haymarket at twelve o'clock at night. Mr. Richards—l wish to ask the policeman if I was not sonic distance from the other gentlemen ? Policeman—You were a little way off, but you had been in company with Mr. O'Connell and several others. Mr. Richards—Did you see any person strike me ?—No. Here Plank, the officer, made some observations, upon which Mr. O'Connell called out, " Is that individual a Magistrate ?" Plank—No, but it is my duty to keep order. Mr. O'Connell—He is a very officious officer. Mr. CONANT—He is only doing his duty. _ One of the policemen pointed to a Gentleman (Mr. Gardner), and said that he was very active in the distur bance, and if there had been force sufficient he should have caused him to have been taken into custody. Mr. CONANT—I asked if any charge was to be made against that gentleman, and I was told none. It is not fair to turn round on him now. _ _ _ Mr. O'Connell—Thank you for that. It's owing to the ignorant disposition of the policeman. Mr. Richards—Did I not accompany the policeman to the station-house quietly ?—Yes, you did. C 156, corroborated the foregoing evidence, and added tl at Buisson was making himself very active, which induced him (witness) to take him into custody. Mr. CONANT—What was Buisson doing? Policeman— He was " jawing " with O'Connell. Mr. O'Connell—l want to ask the first policeman if he saw me strike any one? Policeman—Yes, I saw you knock down two persons. Mr. O'Connell—And for what purpose did I do it ? Policeman—l cannot tell. Mr. O'Connell—Was it not in self-defence ? Mr. CONANT—That is an inference. Mr. O'Connell—l do not recollect striking any huma❑ being. - Mr. CONANT (to policeman C 62)—Did you see Mr. O'Connell strike any person. Policeman—No. I saw O'Connell push the constable, in order to get his friend away, who was fighting. Mr. O'Connell—Hab, that is right now. Order, Gentle men. And, policeman, will you just have the kindness to say " Mister" O'Connell when you speak of my again. Policeman, C 62—You called us d—d rascals, and said you would have us all before the House of Commons, and that we were paid by the gentry. Mr. O'Connell—By virtue of your solemn oath have you seen me strike any one ? Policeman—You were violent. Mr. O'Connell—Hah. I am always so when necessary. Now, by virtue of your solemn oath, did you see me knock anybody down ? Policeman—No. Mr. CONANT (to Policeman Harding, C IB3)—Did not Mr. O'Connell push you ? Policeman—Yes, several times. Mr. O'Connell—l deny it. Order, Gentlemen, now. Mr. CONANT—Pray, Mr. O'Connell, do not interrupt. Mr. O'Connell—l'll not do that. I know my situation just better tha❑ any other man on the face of the earth. Mr. Richards—Policeman, did you see my hat knocked off ? Policeman—No : I saw you in a fighting attitude. Mr. O'Connell—Now, policeman, by virtue of your oath, wa s you there when the row began ? I was there when you commenced. Mr. O'Connell—l went to my friend to protect him' against the foreigners, who were all on him. The Frenchmen who had been assaulted were called into the room separately. The account given by them of the transaction was that they were drinking in the Lemon Tree public-house, in the il a .vmarket, when the defendants with others came in also to drink. As they (complainants) were about quitting the house, one of Mr. O'Connell's party pushed the door by design, against one of them, and hurt the individual's knee. The person thus insulted turned round to remonstrate, upon which the reply was made of " Oh, d—n Frenchmen, let's have a row with them." A row accordingly commenced, and the defendant Richards was pointed out by three of the complainants as the person who had assaulted them. None of the complainants could state that Mr. O'Connell struck any person. What one of them observed concern- ing that gentleman was that he was " not doing any thing of consequence." Mr. O'Connell—There, hear that. I did not strike any body, but (very loftily) I could have knocked them all down had I commenced. Mr. CONANT- , ..-NOW ; Mr. O'Connell, I am ready to hear your defence. • Mr. O'Connell—Thank ye. Now then I'll prove I struck no man. No foreigner has made a charge against me ; consequently it clears me from the charge, inasmuch as no one s cuum fotiVard to say I committed a breach of the neacc, Mr. CONANT—Except the police. Mr. O'Connell—The police have sworn I knocked two people down. None of the foreigners have said so, and so help me God I did not. Order, gentlemen, now ; while rm speaking trouble you to be silent. Nov there's the oaths of three of the complainants against the oaths of two policemen, and that leaves one oath in my favour. Mr. CoNANT—We don't decide according to the num ber of witnesses. Mr. O'Connell—Don't you ? Then I'll tell you what it is. I've committed no assault, and I'll produce three gen tlemen who'll swear they never saw me strike any one. Its very singular that whenever a gentleman is brought forward one policeman is sure to back another on the charge against him. Mr. CONANT—The fact is not so. Mr. O'Connell—Look to the public press. Now I'll tell you what I think. No gentleman ought to have been taken into custody on such a charge. Here I stand at the bar unimpeached, and I leave my case with your worship. In defence Mr. Richards said, as he was leaving the Le mon Tree to go home, the Frenchmen followed, and applied some gross terms to him, which he resented, and a disturb ance ensued. Buisson, in defence, said the terms, " Rascal, blackguard, and tailor" were applied to him and his friends by Mr. O'Connell and his party, which led to the affray. Mr. O'Connell called two witnesses to prove that he did not strike any one, but the substance of their evidence merely went to show that they did not see Mr. O'Connell strike a blow, and that their belief was he did not. Mr. CONANT said he had not the slightest doubt that the charge of riot and assault had been proved against Mr. O'Connell, and more particularly against Mr. Richards, three persons having sworn to specific assaults committed on them. Mr. O'Connell had pushed the policeman, and, in addition, bad said many absurd things to them about the House of Commons ; and as a push constituted an assault, especially during the time of the riot, be should order both parties to find bail for the riot, leaving it to the three Frenchmen to go on with their charge for the assaults if they pleased. The complainants having declined to press the matter further, Mr. O'Connell left the bar, exclaiming " So help me God they've sworn falsely." Buisson was discharged. UNION-HALL. Yesterday Thomas Holt, the driver of a go-cart, known by the name of Yard-mouth Tom about the Elephant aril Castle, was brought before Mr. Murray, charged on sus. picion with being concerned in the outrage and robbery com mitted on the person of Edward Colley, a private in the Woolwich division of Marines, on the night of the :::€3th ult. Mr. MURRAY should remand the prisoner until, the men at large have been apprehended. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Nov. 25. Joseph Crannis, described as a commission poulterer, was opposed by Mr. Woodroffe on the part of a gentleman named Newton ; he was supported by Cooke. The insolvent who had formerly been a carpenter in the neighbourhood of Suffolk, had been convicted some years ago of poaching on the premises of Mr. Newton, who pos sessed considerable property in the same county. He after wards left the neighbourhood, but on the repeal of the game laws in 1832 he returned to his old quarters, armed with a gun and licence, and made great havoc amongst the pheasants and partridges. The estate of Mr. Newton was near the road side, and the insolvent, an acknowledged shot, strewed the road with game. He, however, picked none up, and in the evening put up at at a public-house ; he continued sporting from the Ist September to the 16th, to the annoyance of Mr. Newton and a party of noblemen who had been invited. He was offered to shoot if he would not disturb the party, and deprive them of their sport. He said be would make one of the party. When the birds were disturbed from the plantation he shot them in the road, and had all the sport to himself. In an interview Mr. Newton had with him he told that gentleman, cn observing that he had a hole in his hat, that it ought to have been made when the head was in it. He was found to be a troublesome customer. The keepers were set to watch him, to take advantage of any act be might commit for the purpose of getting rid of his company. It appeared that in firing he injured the bark on some trees, and an action was brought against him for a malicious in jury, the cause was tried at Bury Saint Edmunds, at the Summer Assizes, in 1832, and a Special Jury gave a ver dict for the plaintiff, damages Thirty-nine Shillings. The insolvent was then non est inventus, and his retreat had not been discovered until two months ago. The facts were de tailed by the Learned Counsel for the opposition. The record of the action was put in, and it appeared that the costs had been taxed at 781. 12s. The Learned Judge who tried the cause had certified that the trespass was wilful and malicious. It was now contended that the insolvent had rendered himself liable to a remand under the 49th section of the Insolvent Act for malicious injury. Mr. Commissioner BOWEN sentenced the insolvent to three months' imprisonment. METROPOLITAN CENTRAL COURT. OLD BAILEY OLD COURT. John Peter, a mariner, ryas indicted for stealing a jacket, the property of John Francis, and a blanket, the property of John Cohen, from the ship Sapphire, lying in the London Docks, on the 25th of October.—Guilty. Mary Ann, Allan, James Batchelor, William Elforci, Henry Benson, Robert Heywood, George Willis, Charles Willis, William Stocken, and Charlotte Morris, were found Guilty on various charges of felony, none of which possessed the slightest interest. Several other cases of a similar description were tried, in nearly all of them the Jury found the prisons guilty. At five o'clock there was some little delay in the busi ness in consequence of no Alderman being in the Court. A messenger was then despatched to the dining-room, and in a few minutes Alderman HARMER entered the Court. John Cartcr, alias William Thomson, aged 44, was in• dieted for obtaining, by means of false pretences, 281bs. of white lead, of the value of 305., the property of Thomas Barrow an oilman. The prisoner having pretended that he was sent by the Captain of a Newcastle trader, on the Bth inst. The prisoner was also indicted for uttering a forged request, knowing it to be forged. After th.. case had proceeded for some time, a long argu ment took place between Mr. Rawlings, Counsel for the prosecution, and Mr. Bodkin (anzicus curia), as to the construction of the Statutes 2d and 3d Geo. IV. The RECORDER said he did not think the forgery was proved. There might have been an uttering of a forged in strument, and an intent to defraud, but the charge upon which the prisoner was before the Court had not been sus tained. The Learned Judge said as there was some ditf culty in the case it had better go on. The testimony further adduced was not sufficient to sup port the case, and the Jury acquitted the prisoner. The prisoner was again indicted for uttering a forged order, on which indictment the Jury found the prisoner— Guilty. (Before the COMMON SERGEANT) Ellen Moreton, servant to a gentleman of the name of Carden, was indicted for stealing 31b. of mutton, the pro perty of her master, and Mary Steele was indicted for re ceiving the same, well knowing the mutton to have been stolen. John Pegham, a police constable of the N division, on the first of November was on duty in Shacklewell-lane, when he saw Steele walk repeatedly before the house of Mr. Carden ; he watched her, and saw her throw some gravel at the kitchen window ; shortly after he saw More ton come out at the side door, and saw her give Steele a parcel, which she put under her shawl. When she had gone the distance of two hundred yards, he stopped her, and asked what she had ; she replied she bad some bones ; he then examined the parcel, and found about 31b. of mutton. Mr. CLARKSON—Did you weigh the mutton ? Wit ness—No. Mr. PHILLIPS—Did you eat the mutton ? Witness—l clid.—(Loud laughtor.) Mr. PHILLIPS—So you are a receiver of stolen goods.— (Renewed laughter.) Pray did you think the mutton was stolen ? • Witness—l did. Mr. PHILLIPS—And after thinking it was stolen you ate it ? Witness—l did. Mr. PiiiLLirs—Pray do you not think yourself to be a receiver of stolen goods ? Witness—No.. Mr. PHILLIPS — Did you eat all the mutton ? 'Witness —No, my family eat part of it. Mr. PHILLIPS---Who gave you the liberty to eat this stolen mutton ? Witness —Mr. Twyford, the Magistrate, said I was only to take care of the cloth. Mr. Carden—The prisoner Moreton lived in my service since May. When before the Magistrate I expressed my dislike to prosecute, but was compelled to do so. Cross-examined by Mr. PHILLIPS—Moreton is very de licate in her health, and she has very often been unable to cat her dinner, and what was found in the possession of Steele might have been a portion of her dinner. The COMMON SERGEANT—Who is the Magistrate that sent this case here ?—The Learned Judge was inforo vas Mr. Twyford. • the Tile COMMON SERGEANT expressed his surprise prisoners were committed after Mr. Carden had his wish not to prosecute. Several witnesses were called' who gave Steel e BIS excellent character. ctlt Mr. Carden said he had received an excellen t chars with Aforeton. and "b The COMMON SERGEANT summed up the case , g ite served it was a common occurrence for servan ts to „, away 'broken victuals, although they had no right to j° o `, l The Jury, after a long consultation, found the pro Guilty, but not with a feloniou s Then intent. The COMMON SERGEANT— they are not g uilty if guilty, the intent must be felonious. The Foreman of the Jury-0 then, my Lord, th e Y " Not Guilty." NEW COURT, John Dixon, Williani Ingrain, and Jas. New" niani;es, were charged with stealing two shirts. f i c tion This was the first trial under the extended 1° for an offence conirnitteJ in the county of Kent. j t ie The case was very clearly Laade out agai nst two u! prisoners. Sea l° Verdict—Guilty against Ingram anti Dixon. was acquitted. FRENCH PAPERS. g b . oo: PARIS, Nov. 23.—The Ministers are expectingva.„, to impatience the arrival of M. de Talleyrand ; they sec": •;, extremely desirous that this old Diplomatist should agu,rriti cept the Embassy to London. Hitherto all 'has been eretest on by letters. M. de Talleyrand has refused, en the that being connected by his opinion with the Whig s - flo sili° al Administration of Lord Grey, he would be in a fals e r t . ti : by accepting the post of Ambassador to a Tory Cabiuef'Wei' he was indeed personally acquainted with the Duke ° 0 0 1 iington, but that political connections were wholly incletibe t iro of private friendship, especially in England, where t o ver' camps are as formally separated. The Court hope, t°llo coma this repugnance, and the King will doubtless APY-dio the devotedness of ;I, de Talleyrand, as he has to thstoto many political characters, to make them enter into his 6 ' and into his Administration. • 14i If M. de Talleyrand does not accept, de Breg;tt s been thought of, to take his place, as a compensZ i " pto c ! 1e post of President of the Council, which M. Guisot 00 been able to obtain for him. But the same obstacles cc:" this case a§ in that of M. de Talleyrand, : his e / connect - ion ith the Whigs .—Courier Francais. f The National speaks as follows of the appointment ° O lO miral Duperre to the Marine Department :—" The o° l o s .t e of Admiral Duperre which will astonish the public, bsforoi''r' are assured, cost him a great struggle ; his refusal ire o rtle and persevering. He enters the Council by supe ri°r ass igq and as a duty imposed by the service. M. de Mortiecce 0 no other reason for his resignation in accepting thee,w let Minister of War and President of the Council. In ' b ij plo P Admiral Duperre remain at the head of the Marine l e e merit, let him give it if he can, all the impulse, all the s? To e which we on our part, have never ceased to demand for it .f Bee t Milliard voted for the budget : he will do an immello n his country, by providing it with important means of cets.s! which the times that are approaching will render s one to it."jta l A letter from Bologna of the 11th says—" The fin v e ng liilP sky attracts a great number of strangers, especial l y CO" 0 ` but this year the number of entire English families wr.oto git to Italy is extraordinary. Several that bad even back to England have returned to Italy; and it aPPeci es is said, that some great event in their own count r y tO l pected." A ga Was it known beforehand in Italy that \Yelli n,- going to be recalled to power , ?-21feseager, Nov. 25' GERMAN PAPERS. at icr t he ALTENISCRO, Nov. 7._i ;ournal published here , e !r title of Alte-nburger Blotter, has tilt, following article Bp e wit" REMARKS ON A PUBLIC MISUNDERSTAN:ING to me to be a necessary condition towards the 1 0-- pu mutual happiness in a State, and of all useful o bjeet s ; the re; misunderstanding should arise between the Prince se°: a d tb s pie, and that the people should understand the Prille : "i s r o r; the Prince should thoroughly know his people. ge r , cially the case when an evil spirit of misunderstanch e g to el'; up. Malicious busybodies have then many ways °P e i r' relot' ri k; rich mistrust, and to propagate false and exaggerateo • pti• Thus I have heard these words lately spoken by till. ,node and which his Highness himself desired should be ul s ' e too'` o ( reported in public differently from what I heard thete: f t ia4 own mouth. When the Deputation of the City, consl9nres i. Members of the Senate and o th er p u bli c bodies, °Y e their condolence on the death of the l a t e Duke, and tb e 'A; ings of devotedness and fidelity on the accession of tb ° ,co le t t ing Duke, his Highness, referring to the two-fold es `4l° ° s t of their condolence and fidelity answered as follows fi t cordially thank you for the sorrow you express at s t e ' c loss. With respect, however, to the other e xpres s ,, at assurances, I can answer only bytadding the wish " D tofe` t may be soon followed by deed s . For lam 0°,4 . to found my belief in assurance upon facts, auu di S Qos deny that with respect to this city, I am the 'zil a rc ete . 6 0 ; to abide bv these principles, because. in these I hare sometimes been unable to understand it. I ."", ' l f ' ever, always ready to testify als o t o thi s c i ty , my Imac-i;0(111 dence, the same good will as to all the subjects wbon t ,L...lrf; entrusted to me.' Shortly afterwards th e Duke OP"' f t t gret that I must address these wo r ds t o the Spetier 0 j Al t Deputation, a man whom I most highly esteem. a"' c t, express, on this occasion what I think, and what. les l e b c is of the more importance to me that my words shoal _ A 0 0 rectly reported, as everybody ought to be acqualeTtbeis them, as they are intended for those who may fe locr . selves touched by them. Unfortunately the and faithful inhabitants of this city do not sufficiently sli °ll. o . selves in public life and towards me, by firmly holding t„r s e inr, counteracting the ill-disposed, so that I become l c , (17 i iii1 1 8 11 with them with difficulty, and only individually. '„” ia jori,','; take it for granted that the better portion is also the ol , "„ The more pleasure, therefore, will it give me to be e .,"isg made sensible of its existence. Nothing is more ple'- ti Pto me than to be able to offer a heart full of love and affe A e r :cei,, e every one who is sensible to such demonstrations, a n them with the same simplicity and goodwill as I give ",; ( e ptu* TaissTr, Nov. 7.—Yesterday an Austrian nierei'..„'",, the Ferdinand King of Hungary, Captain R. Glac e 'V o r chored in this port, after a passage of 125 days, fr ° , ll:l t be raiso. This is the first Austrian ship that navigate , ' " t cific, and doubled Cape Horn, and came hither dire e r c oc the rich province of Chili. It is encouraging t° ° n d a e o merce, extending to the remotest parts of the Globe; for the - t channels opened for our produce. We are indebted happy results to the paternal care of his Majesty's 0 5v , e ",• c itY rc which endeavours to make trade nourish ; to the our merchants, and to the intrepidity of our seamen' not to be silenced by any inclemency of the seasons' to dangers.—Frankfort Papers, Nov. 19. „ ive ° bi) MUNICH, Nov. 17.—His Majesty the King h as - f r oto the Department of the Interior a sum of s,ooolloT' us tire $ privy purse, for the relief of the sufferers by the la te Reishenhall. go' HORACE WALPOLE'S LETTERS TO Siß tbe t RACE MANN,—" Lord Dover observes in his preface to tgle'l delightful letters, that Horace Walpole's e pistolarY . have shown our language to be capable of all the g ra j e ,#‘ charms of the French of Madame de Sevigne.' He is edly the author who first proved the aptitude of our for that light and gay epistolary style which was suPP ° . pc ice fore peculiarly to our Gothic neighbours. Whe re ,' t d ra ' shall we find such a union of taste, humour, and gull-lee matic power of description and narrative, as in the col. secT,',l dence of Walpole? Where can we find such graPhicii, as the funeral of George II ? as the party to i r o is" , or si t , Lady Harrington? as the ball at Miss Cbudleighs o rb' some of the House of Commons' debates, and te a t ? i , e ; anecdotes of society ? As a living history, o f tbe 0 1 , W ,i f which Walpole wrote, it is not possible to hit upo°, B la l ci• that in the least approaches those fascinating fe' ll Atheneum. —.0%7 On the 21st inst - rf BIRTHS. f at Market Harborough, the 164 ° ShuttleworJi, Esq., of a son. n, „ f On the 220 inst., Mrs. William Ward, of Page-gr ee- ' 0111' ham, of a son. n .a On the 23d inst., at Springfield Lodge, the lady a .-s l ' t o Esq., of a son. urS reit On the 24th inst., at Ash Parsonage, near Farnha nh wife of the Rey. A. L. L am b er t, of a daughter. f d eliglite(;( On the 24th inst., in Newgate-street, Airs. Fenn , - ,i -,i6 L le d/ On the 19th inst., a t Th a i ns t on , Ab e rdeenshire , Duncan Forbes Mitchell, Esq., of a daughter. le lO C MARRIED. lio On the 25th inst., according to the rites of the Catb° l 4 Cb ., As' s° at Bellsize Park, the seat of her uncle, John Wright;„ 1,0 , 15, afterwards at St. George's, Hanover-square, Franco P iey, PP' Esq., to Marianne, eldest daughter of Sir Charles W°lee of Wolseley Park, Stors. th li Ck On the 9th of May la aff st, d by hire special licence, in New Sl t u ter of William Montagu Rothery, Esq., to Fanny, third daug mond Lockyer, Esq., of Ermington, in the said colony'. 0 1 DIED. u s pter On the 24th inst., Mr. Samuel Robinson , of C" al' passage, St. Paul's, Bookseller, aged 46. o f AR. g erirj Of On the 24th inst., Osmond, ' eldest son Little Tower-street, aged 10. f the On the 20th inst., at Totnes, Jane, only daughter ° 00 , James Harrison, Esq., of that place. ..e0 0319 0 1 ' On the 20th inst., at Hyde-farm late John fr o Betsey Palmer, eldest daughter of the late John Palme r ' .of Of e court, Surrey, aged 55. the On the 22d inst., at Chapel, Southampton , 3fary.l iends,.,„o, William C. Westlake, ag.:d 44, one of the Society of Pa VP On the 20th inst., at Aberdeen, Helen, w ife of ' jo o Esq., of Upper Gower-street. of fi. " d On the 18th inst., aged 22, John, the eldest son pg . ' Doughty, Brockdish, Norfolk. M o rris, On the 20th inst., in his 6St.h year, William Sevenhampton-court, 61,,neestershire. re lict On the 21st inst., Bolton-row, Mrs. Marton. l o t oS , On the 13th inst., at Nice , the Hon. Mrs. William of 00 1 ' of the late Lord Bishop of Derry. E ec l . ' On the 20t h inst., at Br omley, Bury Hutchins on, ..-5 ...,-:.%' sell-square. ..-,..5.- London : Printed and Published by MUR DO at The nos Office, No. 112, Saw!' C ONTRC H E tlal `'NITED kareb v text, at b , S ._ on as Pa FIANDpic A Perm will Le rot 4 ticetl ti *lip ccr b T Y a] S omers et to b eo 1 , r a p 4 ' i t• on ti, \ i'•lf " Q hrl Car C a j,rpe J p, e _ I.ln, r &end '• Fitz • D, 00,enon, ,o n BAN K 1. 8 01.1( Aot ice • 1611 elo se NO . ° r akinti; 'run