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

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Lord Stanley has refused to join the Duke's Admi nistration, and the Tories now say that they will be better without him. This is the old story of the Fox and the Sour Grapes. The Standard, not having yet been instructed to abuse his Lordship, observes—" We have not heard how far his answer favours the hope that his Lordship will give to the Administration the aid of his great talents and noble character—we mean as a member of the Government, for of his zealously supporting Sir Robert Peel's Ministry, as a member of Parliament, there can be no doubt whatever?' We suspect our Contemporary will find that he has here counted without his host. It is understood that he will give his support in South Lancashire to the Liberal candidate. This is certain, that he has declined to favour the pretensions of Lord Francis Egerton (for merly Leveson Gower), to the great displeasure and mortification of the Tories. We do not wonder that Lord Stanley should be disgusted at the conduct of the wolves in sheep's clothing, now forming a pseudo- Reform Ministry. Whatever his faults, Lord Stanley is honest and straight•forward. He scorns to conceal his sentiments, and still more to profess opinions which he does not entertain. He may be proud, but he is ' not mean nor hypocritical. The Peel-Wellington Ad ministration is-to be purely and exclusively Tory. The Standard tells us that the Earl of Carnarvon is likely to hold the Privy Seal, and that Sir Edward Knatch buil will probably be a member of the Cabinet. The candidates for office are, it seems, numerous. " The Conservatives (says our contemporary) can easily af ford three or four every way worthy and competent to discharge th e d u ti es o f every C a bi net office. " They are quite perplexed with this embarras des richesses, as our contemporary phrases it. Sir R. Peel has only to say the word, and Mr. Goulburn, or Mr. Herries, or Mr. William Holmes, are ready to take his place of First Lord of the Treasury. Mr. Horace Twiss, or Mr. Praed, or Mr. Halcomb, are equally ready to re lieve Lord Lyndhurst from his toils. Mr. Croker can fill every situation., Four Statesmen fit for every office in the Cabinet, amount to about half a hundred in all a great source of embarrassment, no doubt. Why they should have done such injustice to these prime Statesmen, as to run about the country after Lord Stanley and Sir James Graham, is inexplicable. The Times, which has now gone fairly round to the Tories, in what the Standard terms " an admirable article, in which are presented with great force and fidelity the personal* characters of the Mi nisters who have already taken office," attempts to explain why the Duke of Wellington remained ig norant of all that a politician ought to know, till his sixty sixth year, and then suddenly became one of the greatest of Statesmen. On the 15th May, 1832, the Times asked—" Who is there that would now change places with the Duke of 'Wellington ? With a hardi ness of infatuation, of which there is no example, lie goes on doggedly in this miserable work of building up a Cabinet, without one sound material [ Sir Robert Peel, Lord Lyndhurst, &c. were in those days un sound]—a Cabinet, of which the first condition is, that every man who enters it must leave his good name behind him ; yes, let it be written over the doorway, ' Principle and reputation are the price of admission here." The Duke and Sir Robert and Co. were in 1832, according to the Times, men without principle and reputation, and no men of principle and reputa tion could join them. Down to the 23d June, 1834, after his Grace had entered into his 66th year, he was, according to the Times, " honestly and pro foundly in the dark as to almost everything that men thought and felt - throughout the larger portion of educated society," and " celebrated as a Minister for his ignorance of public opi n i on ." O ur C ont emporary's estimates of his Grace since his advancement to power have been very various ; but according to the latest, so highly extolled by the Standard, his Grace had seen so much cause in the Peninsula to regret the ex periments which subverted despotism and the Inquisi tion, that he only recovered from his hatred of innova tion on the dismissal of the Melbourne Ministry. " When the Duke of Wellington (says the Times) made his declarations against Reform, he did no more than manifest the repugnance of a States man who never had been an experimentalist in politics towards any great and vital change in the old institutions of his country. , He had seen in other parts of Europe, more of political experiment, or of its con sequences, and been compelled to meditate it more closely and anxiously, than perhaps any other man ex isting. He had witnessed its progress, and its per verse, wayward, and uncertain action in the Penin sula ; and in France, the effects of 28 years of inces sant change, which had been such that no fixed prin ciples of government were then relied upon, save only those of arbitrary, that is of military, power. It would be little wonder, if a man, long disgusted by the want of stable and respected institutions elsewhere, brought home a mind impressed above all things with the persuasion that repose must be a master-element in the political system of a nation desirous to be happy." The Times thus admits that the Duke was attached to the Holy Alliance principles ; that every alteration was wrung from him. But then comes the old song--" The Reform Bill is now the law ; the powers and privileges which it conferred are le galized." The powers and privileges which it con ferred have been legalized these two years ; and yet, during these two years, the Times has been constantly abusing the Grey and Melbourne Cabinet, for not availing itself more boldly of those powers and privi leges to obtain for the people the ameliorations for which the Reform Bill was demanded as a means, and abusing the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel still more for their blind opposition to the measures pro posed by the Whigs. If the Duke of Wellington, during two years, opposed himself to all measures of reform, notwithstanding they followed necessarily from the Reform Bill, he cannot propose the same measures himself, without confessing either that his ignorance unfits him for conducting Government under the Bill, or that he is a man utterly unprincipled, ready to oppose one day what he supports the next, like our contemporary itself. Really the Times ought to have some mercy on the three-fourths of the people of England whose political opinions are guided by it ; for there are contradictions enough in the single article to which we are adverting, to drive a thousand High Dutch commentators to desperation. First, the Duke of Wellington acquired his politics in the Peninsula and France, whereby he was indisposed to innovations ; —then the Reform Bill having become law, " the con stitutional action of our representative Reform, or the constitutional progress of those further reforms to which its enactment has given birth," cannot be defeated by him ;—then we have his Grace for two years seeking to defeat the constitutional progress of those further reforms, and arraying the Lords against the Corn mons ; then we have his Grace plotting the dismissal of the Melbourne Administration, on account of their proposing what it is imperative on himself now to do. What contempt for its readers does this journal mani fest ? The plain common sense of the people of Eng land cannot be ma d e t o com p re h en d t h e juggling tricks of the Tories, one day opposing all Reform, and the next affecting to be hearty Reformers. In vain the Times flounders on with its attempts to show that the Government, in now coming forward with measures of Reform, would not be guilty of political apostacy, be cause the people have at length made it feel, that poli tical dishonesty must inevitably destroy political confi dence. But unfortunately for such Janus-faced reasoners, they almost always furnish the wea pons of their own destruction. The Times says—". The plain truth is, that all derivative Reforms, ecclesiasti cal, municipal, and every other, stand upon the same identical foundation as the Reform of Parliament itself." Precisely, and therefore they who opposed reform in Parliament—to wit, Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Wellington —must, on " the same identical foundation," oppose these derivative reforms. If not, they are apostates. Why did they oppose reform in Parliament ? Not simply on its own account—not merely because it changed the Representative ma chinery ; but because they knew it would be the cause of an effect--a means to an end. If it had not been a measure calculated to lead to those very "derivative reforms," they would not have opposed it. These "de rivative reforms," which the Times treats so lightly, con stituted the whole question at issue between the Tories and the people of England. Had it not been to obtain them, the people of England would never have struggled for Parliamentary Reform ; had it not been to:prevent the possibility of their ever being carried, the Tories would never have fought so fierce and desperate a battle. Yet the Times would persuade us that they, who moved heaven and earth to destroy the cause, will now use every exertion to hasten the effect which they deprecated, and fairly carry out those ends, the means of accomplishing which they protested against, solely because they were means to those very ends. How strange that Sir Robert Peel and the Duke should become so suddenly clear-sighted as to the extreme impropriety of any attempt to, in the language of their new organ, " clog,' or vex, or impede the constitu tional action of our representative reform, or the con stitutional progress of those further reforms to which its enactment has given birth, and the completion of which it has necessitated !" How strange that they should still have continued to defend the corruptions of Liverpool, Warwick, and Stamford, to denounce Corporation reform, to resist the purification of the Church, and even yet to direct the thunders of their eloquence, such as it is, against the rash and daring innovators who propose these mere mat ter-of-course measures ! Strange that the pretext for turning out their predecessors should be the intention of those predecessors to do that which the Times tells us they are so exceedingly anxious should be done ! The plain English is, the Times is attempting to put a cheat on the people of Eng land. The Tories have come in, not to forward Re form, but to " clog, vex, and impede it." They will propose no reforms that will not be illusory ; they will keep no promise to the ear which they will not break to the hope. Whatever their promises of Reform, those very promises must constitute an act of apostacy —apostacy without parallel—treachery towards the .r party hitherto unequalled. We tell the Times that, despite of its special pleading, the people of England are too keen to be deceived, too cautious to be betrayed, too determined to be defeated, and too honest to place their confidence in those whose only claims upon it are base . treachery and sordid apostacy. This sub ject was admirably handled by Dr. Lushington at the Tower Hamlets meeting, of which we have given a report elsewhere. " When (said the Doctor) I hear people say, Oh, for God's sake, trust the Duke !—for heaven's sake, listen kindly to Sir Robert Peel, who' carried Catholic Eman cipation cannot help exclaiming against such fay and absurdity. The man who patiently listens to such stuff is an idiot—the man who avows his belief in them is a traitor.—(Cheers.) How do men act in private life? 'Do you confide in those you know to be convicted swindlers ?—(Loud cheers.) If you seek a woman to be your companion for life, do you take r s a wife, or as a mother to your families, a prostitute from the streets ?—(Hear, hear.) If then, men are governed in private life by such feelings, should they not feel equally jealous of the character of those wh . o govern them ? Every man of common sense is go verned in his dealings with an individual by his expe rience of his past conduct ; and what safer or wiser course can we pursue with regard to those men called to the councils of the Sovereign, than be warned by the past, instead of blindly trusting to hope for the future ? —(Cheers.)" We leave the Duke and Sir Robert, and their organ the Times, to digest this as they may. —Morning Chronicle. Here we are still I Whigs, Radicals, and Conser vatives ; all lumped in one heap, and without a Go vernment I We have got indeed a Commander of the Forces, and a Commander in Chief, in the persons of Sir R. Peel and the Duke of Wellington, but the troops are perfectly abroad, to use a fancy phrase, both for a Quarter-master and for Generals of Divi sion. The Conservative army, which has taken the citadel of reform by stratagem and fraud, can boast of chiefs—but of nothing more ; for although a con temporary print boasts that the " Conservative party presents this honourable contrast to the party which it succeeds, that while the latter was con fessedly unable " (this is a great lie, to say the least of it) "to find men decently qualified for the of fices of Government, the Conservatives can easily afford three or four every way worthy and com petent to discharge the duties of ever, Cabinet office"—yet we find that they are catching at every straw that floats upon the surface of the dirty water in which it is their province to angle--that they cannot keep within the verge of their own manors, but, for the sake of catching game of any kind, must poach upon un-tithed ground. What, in fact, can demonstrate more thoroughly the extreme poverty of the Tory party —their utter absence of resources, as well as absence of principle, than their begging letters to Sir James Graham and Mr. Stanley—their humble entreaties that they would allow themselves to be Gazetted as a portion of the Tory Cabinet —or, if not, that they would, at all events, allow it to be said that they would give their support to it ? Neither of these gentlemen are Tories in the true sense of the word—they never did belong to the Tory faction—and yet, although, as the Standard has it, that there are four Tories perfectly qualified for every vacant office in the Go vernment, the leaders of the party practically say that such is not the fact, and that they cannot either form, or exist, as an Administration, unless they receive assistance from the Whig camp—in the shape of such moderate and highly aristocratic gentlemen as Stanley and Graham I However, nothing is more evident than that a deadly blow is now aimed both at Whigs and Radicals—that it is the object of the new Admi nistration to extirpate both—and, consequently, that it is the policy of both to extirpate them, as the common enemy to both ! Thank Heaven, the union between the two parties is all but perfect, and against that union no Government can possibly stand. The Tories may concoct an Administration—they may meet, or they may not meet the present Parliament —they may dissolve,- or they may not dissolve it : let Reformers be united, and upon the first Ministerial motion, an amendment will be moved and carried which will destroy the Anti-Reform Cabinet, for once and for ever, before it has breathed one dishonest breath. Let the word be (to parody Burns), " Ho nest men and honest measures !' and the result is cer tain. Before dropping the subject, we beg to be al lowed to mention that every sort of rumour is sent forth from the Tory camp, to delude—to deceive—to ingratiate. The window tax is to be taken off! the malt tax is to be reduced one-half ! the Church is to be reformed a la Stanley I and many other reforms, are to astonish the natives of this island—in a word, everything is to be done, in order that no thorough reform may be demanded ! This is the object to be foiled by the new Cabinet. Reform is what they Irate, whatever guise it may assume—and to prevent Reform they will do anything and everything which can keep the lion quiet ; but if we know any thing of the people of England, .they are not the gulls to be deceived by this sinister policy. If they are wise and staunch, as we believe them to be, they will have nothing to do with these wolves in sheep's clothing—they will come forward as men of principle, of honour, and of integrity, and declare with one voice that they will have no reforms—no retrenchments —no reductions of taxes—from men who were always opposed to all these measures—in whom they can, in consequence, place no confidence—and who, if they bring them forward at all, do so only in order that they may shirk other measures which are infinitely more important to the future well-being of the country. 0, for the Sheridans and Foxes of former days How they would smash the pitiful creatures—the wretched and disgustful imps —whose only title to office is their hold of 'a lady's petticoat, and whose nightly prayer, if they have any conscientious care for themselves and their party, ought to b e , " Rid us o f o ffi ce " — " save us from Ministerial responsibility."—Morning Ad vertiser. On the subject of a dissolutio n of Parliament opi nions are at present considerably divided, which, in deed, must always be the case where no means of cer tainty exist. It is too much to suppose that any one can be acquainted with the intentiono of a Govern ment not yet formed, and that upon a subject which, even after its formation, will require muck. l l previous consultation to decide upon. As far as conje e t t ire m ay be allowed t o t a k e th e pl ace o f certainty, we. should I va inclined to imagine that the question of di.ssolving present Parliament is, and will be, one m' Hely of tin ie. To dissolve the Parliament before the v arious official appointments are made, would invc 4 l ve those wh o are included in them in the nr ie ecsity and the THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1834. risk of two elections,._ whereas by: waiting till they are completed, each candidate'lso.,; situated will go before his electors, clothed in the real character which he is to bear. There is an other reason, and in our minds a powerful one, why the dissolution of -Parliament should not be hurried ; and that is this, that it is desirable not only that the Administration should be first formed, but that something like an expose of its principles should be put forth, before the country is called upon by a -ffeneral election to sanction or condemn it. This is not only an act of justice which the new Administra tion owes to itself, but one which the country has almost a right to demand at its hands, rather than having to proceed in the dark to the most important duty which they can have to perform. We say this in the full confidence that such a knowledge would be highly favourable to the new Cabinet itself, whose general policy, we feel strongly persuaded, will be such as calls for no concealment, and , which, therefore, would probably in the end find itself greatly prejudiced by a contrary course. Let the dissolution take place when it will, it will place the new constituencies under the Reform Bill more decidedly upon their trial than the novelty and excitement attendant upon the first general election could fairly do. As warm friends of Reform, we are anxious to see many of these bodies rescue themselves from the disgrace which the results of the last election, in too many instances, brought down upon them. Surely it is not every upstart, talking adventurer who ought to be chosen Delegate of free and enlightened men, to watch after their dearest interests, and to decide the fate of nations. In choosing an agent, an executor, or a trustee—to look after their per sonal "interests—great caution is naturally used ; and why should not that man undergo a somewhat similar scrutiny who asks our confidence in matters at least as remotely, if not as immediately, important, as those entrusted to persons acting in any of the above capacities ? We are aware that in too many in.; stances the electors have, in fact, for a time, disfran chised themselves by an indifference (a criminal indiffe rence we should call it) as to seeing their names pro perly placed upon the respective registers where they are entitled to appear. This we have at all times de precated and its consequences will, in all probability, be but too apparent whenever a general election takes place. In many of the boroughs we have good reason to know, that while the members of the Established Church have shamefully neglected their duties in this respect, Dissenters of all descriptions have, on the con trary, been actively alive to having their names placed on tilt register, wherever eligible, a circumstance which we have no doubt will be seen and felt in too many in stances. Still electors, whether Churchmen or Dis senters, will be alive, we trust, to other considerations than mere differences of opinion on the subject of re ligion, and will. pause before they give their votes to candidates who, as in too many instances at the last election, have, if we may be excused the equivoque, no pretensions beyond mere pretension to their suf frages.—Morning Herald. Whig materials to keep lithem out- of office--The Whigs appear to have been, for most practical pur poses, in the vulgar phrase, " used up," as it was ; and 'during the last session the ultra-Radicals, when the fancy seized them, were in the habit of giving the Ministry a twirl round their thumbs, which set the whole Treasury Bench reeling for days afterwards, as often as their tormentors were in a sportive humour. Four times was Lord Althorp forced to tender his re signation, so barbarous and so formidable was the ultra -Radical squeeze. But we are charged with a new-bor►x " approbation of the Stanley section of the Whigs," by way of asking countenance for a false hood, impudent falsehood, that we " shall throw over the question of Church reform." Whoever says we shall throw over that great question, we will prove by our acts to be a liar. For Mr. Stanley's high talents and honourable character, when we most warmly disputed his opinions, we never failed to express our unfeigned respect. But neither from deference to him, nor to any man, will this journal betray an avowed principle, or leave a pledge unredeemed. As for the mention made of Lord Durham to insinuate a charge against us, we never identified ourselves with that Nobleman's cause or doctrines ; and this we state from no disre spect to his talents, his character, or the direct and uncompromising manner of stating his opinions,—from which opinions, however, as sometimes specified, we have repeatedly stated that we differed. If the Radi cals look speedily to a Prime Minister in Lord Dur ham, they harbour a vain expectation: We have but time to notice without answering a letter from a corre spondent, signed " An Old Subscriber," who seems to be swallowed up by a monstrous chimera,—viz., that the Duke of Wellington is, by means of a Tory Parliament, to repeal the Reform Bill, and play the deuce with the country after the old boroughmonger fashion. But, good friend, the Duke must first catch Ms Tory Parliament. He cannot conveniently, re ' peal the Reform Bill before a general election. Then, if the people of England know anything of business, they must be aware they have the remedy—we mean the prevention of a Tory Parliament—in their own hands, and are great fools if they choose anti-Re formers for their representatives. Is it not very easy for the electors to give their votes for stanch, and pledged, and known Reformers, as contradistinguisded on one side from the ultra-Radicals or Revolution ists, and on the other from those few fanatics who would, if they could, bring back the rotton borough dynasty ? As to the Duke, or any man attempting, to repeal the Reform Bill, he might as well (as was said on the occasion of some similar bugbear) propose the re-establishment of the Heptarchy, or that our countrymen and women, instead of wearing decent clothing, should walk about like their naked ances tors, with their flesh painted blue, red, and yellow. That is the only replication we can make to our own correspondent, the " Old Subcriber."—Times. COURT OF CHANCERY.—DEc. 11. CAMERON V. CAMERON. One of our contemporary prints is alike generous in supplying us with motives for our actions, and candid in construing those which we ourselves pro fess. The scribe has, it appears, " watched with some interest the gradual sidling of the Times, from the character of a Reformer, into that of a Conservative." Now, if this means that our lan guage indicates, or that our most secret thoughts contemplate, one inch greater divergence from the straight and broad and well-defined path of reform in Church and State, than was avowed by us twelve months ago, the writer alluded to does, for a grave per sonage, give utterance to an absurd, as well as an abo minable, falsehood. What shadow of pretence can be discovered in any one word or deed of ours for the use of such vulgar impertinence as follows :—" He" (the Times) " has now, in his own opinion, exhausted the, necessity of caution," &c. How does this jackanapes know what we have or have not, " in our own opinion," exhausted ? Did we ever tell him our opinion ? or have we, to the minds of the public, furnished any ground for crediting what this simpleton, aiming to be a conjuror, asserts to be passing within us ? The declaration we first started with we now adhere to. If the Duke of Wellington rules England on re form principles, he shall have our support of the mea sures.founded on such principles, and as much sup port from others of our fellow-subjects as we are able to procure for him. In so far as he deserts those principles and attempts to throw obstacles in the way of reform, he shall find in us a firm, steady, and inve terate opponent. What could we ever say more than this ? When have we ever fallen short of it ? When we yesterday expressed a doubt whether any Govern ment, failing the present, could be formed which did not present a large admixture of men, in whose hands " the property of the country and its religious institu tions, and the integrity of the empire," would be alto gether unsafe, we did not, as the conceited prig assumes, mean by property " the pension list," or the abuse of " the corporation funds." Our avowal has always been, that " the pension list" onet forthwith to be revised, and that " corporation funds, after being restored to their original uses, should be placed under the guardianship of the local community interested in their pure admi nistration. By property we did mean whatever comes under that name, whether ecclesiastical, which ought not to be transferred from the Church to the landlords, English or Irish,' while the ministers of religion went bare ; or lay property, which has been threatened with extinction by a banditti of projectors, who stand up for what they term the " rights of labour"—in other words, the right of indefinite spoliation ; or, lastly, the property of those, or of their representatives, who have lent money to the State, but who might, under certain circumstances, be . exposed to the tender mer cies of such a Finance Minister as Mr. Daniel O'Con nell, who was not hooted out of the House of Com mons, when he insulted it by laughing at the " cant of public faith." Again, by "the Church," the scribe is an ignorant or unprincipled slanderer, for asserting that we mean, or ever did mean, " pluralities or ecclesiastical sinecures, the starvation of curates, and the degradation of Dissenters." For years we have been pressing upon public attention the necessity of reforming the Church in all its departments, as the only means of having any Church at all; and the expediency of granting the in dulgences claimed by the Dissenters, as To whatever concerned the rights of conscience and the comforts of life in all their private relations—adding it as our strong conviction, that they ought to have a University char tered for themselves, as soon as that University, in stead of being a Joint-Stock Company, should have the solid foundation of permanent funds. But by those in whose hands the Church of England would be deemed unsafe, we did mean to stigmatize and exclude from public confidence, all—and a troublesome gang of brawlers they . are—who have made it their business to preach up incessantly a separation between Church and State, which, as these agitators understand it, means an abolition of both. Then, in fine, the " inte grity of the empire" is construed for us into an up holding of every enormous abuse which has driven " the oppressed people of Ireland" into the despe rate " but not unaccountable demand for a Repeal of that Union which has given them over to the domina tion of a foreign bigotry." Here is a tolerably frank confession, and a pretty large dose of something like " apostacy" also. How long is it since this small minded pedant has turned Repealer ? But this honest critic affects to leave us no alternative between the adopting all his misconstructions of our own terms, and " attempting to terrify the public with alarms the most fastantic ; and fastening on public men the im putation of designs the most abhorrent to their foel ings." Abhorrent to s whose feelings we should like to know ? Is it not a manifest truth, that every one of the designs we refer to has been entertained and puffed by those whom the calumniator of our sentiments describes by the mild epithet of " public , " instead of notorious, ' men ? Is it not true that an " equitable adjustment"—that an attack on " accumulated" capi tal—that a " separation of Church and State," and that a dissolution of the empire, under the name of Repeal of the Union, have every one been adopted by bodies of the bad or misled among the King's subjects, each as an infallible panacea for its own especial and correlative grievance? But then we are asked, how do you make it out that such people as these would of necessity make part of any new " liberal" Administration ? Why, because, as we have already stated, there are no Mr. COOPER moved in this cause for leave to serve a subpoena on the defendant, who at present resides in Scot land. This motion was founded on the 2d and 3d of William I V., c. 33, an Act which gave authority for that purpose, and which Act was extended by a subsequent Act of last Session of Parliament. There could be no doubt of the jurisdiction of the Court, for it was expressly stated to extend to Great Britain and Wales ; but the Learned Counsel thought it right to apprise his Lordship that Lord Brougham refused a similar application when made to him, because Lord Plunket, who brought in the Bill, had in conversation informed him that he did not intend the Act to extend to Scotland. The LORD CHANCELLOR—What does that signify, Mr. Cooper, if the words of the Act say so ? Mr. CooPEß—That's what I thought at the time, my Lord. The LORD CHANCELLOR granted the order as prayed. VICE-CHANCERY COURT.—DEc. 11. COURT OF KING'S BENCH. THE KING V. ROBINSON. In this case, which was not concluded yesterday when we went to press, the Jury returned a verdict of Guilty. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, DEc.ll. -„i GIBBONS V. LORD HILLSBOROUGH. This was an action on a bill of exchange for 5001. The plaintiff was a silversmith and jeweller in London, who had received the bill for the purpose of discounting it, and who had given full value for it. The defence was that in 1832, when the defendant gave the bill, he was not of age, that he had received no consideration for it from the person to whom he gave it, and that the bill was not valid according to the law of Scotland. The only part of the defence attempted to be proved was that the defendant was not of age in 1832. The proof of the fact was given by Lady Amherst, who stated that her daughter, the Marchioness of Downshire, was married in 1811, and that her son, the defendant, was born in 1812. The Jury returned a verdict declaring that the plaintiff had given full and sufficient consideration for the bill, but that when the defendant accepted it he was under age. Mr. Justice GASELEE directed this verdict to be entered as a verdict for the defendant. SURREY SESSIONS, DEC. 11. Mary Garry, one of the inmates of Bridewell House of Occupation, stood indicted for wilfully attempting to set fire to the above institution. Mr. Joseph Myall, the Superintendent of the Institution, on Sunday night, the 16th of November, was called down into the laundry between ten and eleven o'clock. Upon entering the place, he found two of the task mistresses there, who were busily engaged in endeavouring to extin guish the flames arising from three baskets of linen, which were on fire. He assisted also, and found some hot cinders in one of the baskets. A great quantity of linen was destroyed on the occasion, and the baskets which contained it were partly burnt. He added, that the Institution ad joined Bethlem Hospital, in St. George's-fields: Mrs. E. Simpson, the matron of the Institution, was also called down into the laundry on the night in question, and assisted in extinguishing the linen on fire. The next morn- ing she saw the - prii . one - r, and said, " What is this I have been hearing about you ?" The prisoner said, " Oh, Madam, has Brown told you ?" and added, " that if she forgave her, she would tell her all about it." Witness declined making any promise, and the prisoner then said that she put a shovel-full of hot cinders out of the fire-place into the clothes-basket to set fire to them, adding that she had been " gamed" to it. • Mr. Jemmett took some _legal objections to the indict ment, which, however, were overruled, and after an inge nious defence for the prisoner the Chairman summed up, and the jury returned a verdict of Guilty. The Chairman sentenced the prisoner to six month's im prisonment, observing that had the premises been burnt she would have stood at another bar for the capital offence. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Yesterday a case of rather an unusual kind came on be fore the LORD MAYOR. A Gentleman, named Hart, who resides at Brixton, made a complaint at the Mansion-house some months ago against a very respectable Benefit Society, called the Mutual In surance Benefit Institution, of which he was a member, in consequence of his expulsion from the Institution. The complainant upon that occasion stated that the society had thought proper to inflict upon him the penalty of dismissal from its benefits, because he and other members had taken the liberty of attempting to investigate the accounts, in which they apprehended there were some instances of mis application. The 50th rule, pronounces expulsion and exclusion from all advantages won any member, officer, or servant, who' should at any time prove himself an enemy to the institution by not accounting for, or by withholding any of its funds or property, or by eneda vouring to excite dissension among the members. There are several other grounds of expulsion mentioned, but that of having excited dissension amongst the members was the plea upon which Mr. Hart said he had been dismissed, although his object had been to guard as much as possible against misappropriation of the funds. The result of this complaint was, that the Magistrate who presided directed the case to be submitted to arbitration. This was accord ingly done, and the arbitrators decided in favour of Mr. Hart, who of course considered himself re-instated. He was, however, not quite accurate in his calculation. The officers of the society refused to restore him to his place, until he should produce the award of the arbitrators, the production of which would cost him the sum of three guineas, and not having a fancy to pay what he considered a most unwarrantable demand, he submitted the case once more to the Chief Magistrate, and yesterday the parties attended. The LORD MAYOR—I never heard any thing more mon strous or ridiculous. What ! inflict a:fine of three guineas upon an acquitted man, when all he is to forfeit if the deci sion had been against him would have been ten shillings. 1 never heard of greater nonsense. The officers then bowed to the Lord Mayor, and informed him that the society would pay the expense of the award. Mr. Hart stated that the expense incurred by the society by the proceedings against him amounted to 36/. There are, it appears, other cases submitted to arbitration. A young man, named Jack Williame, a costermonger, was charged under the followinc , singular circumstances : A woman who keeps a shop in Houndsditch was un lucky enough to take a base half-crown piece from one of the utterers with whom the city abounds. The prisoner, who was doubtless a companion of the successful utterer, finding that the counterfeit had gone off easily, was deter mined to try the poor woman's judgment with a larger sized coin, and went into the shop to buy a small saw, marked sevenpence, for which he tendered a pewter crown-piece. She had, however, ascertained that the half-crown was bad by this time, and she raised an outcry. The prisoner im mediately whipped up the pewter-crown, jerked it over the houses on the opposite side of the street, and afterwards snatched the base half-crown, which lay upon the counter, and said," Here goes for a guzzle," and instantly swallowed it. Upon being taken into custody, he said the lady must be mistaken, for he never had had the pleasure of seeing her before he went in to see what was the matter, when he heard her cry out. Mr. Powell (the mint solicitor) said that the prisoner was a notorious utterer of base coin, and had been con victed. The witness then incidentally mentioned that a quaker at Birmingham, who was a great manufacturer of pewter spoons and pewter articles of other descriptions, had found out a way of manufacturing goods in such a manner as to make it impossible for coiners to use the metal for the purposes of substituting the coin of the realm. The bene volent tradesman had determined to give up the trade alto gether,if he had not by his ingenuity been enabled to check as far as he was concerned the facilities for committing an offence of so serious a nature. LANGDON V. LEWIS.-INTUNCTION. Sir EDWARD SUDDEN applied for a special injunction to restrain the defendant from removing, or causing to be re moved, any of the implements or stock in trade from off the premises, No. 28, • Great. Russell-street. The business of manufacturing pencils had been carried on in the firm of Brookman and Langdon, but ultimately it veste.d in Mrs. Landor, who entered into partnership with the defendant, soon after which she died. Shortly before her death, however, she assigned part of her interest in the freehold premises in Russell-street, and a part of the busi ness to the plaintiff, whO she appointed her executor. The defendant, however, refuses to suffer any one to go on the premises, or to take care of any part of the property on the part of the plaintiff. His HONOUR granted the injunction. ROLLS' COURT, DEC. 11. TIDSWELL V. BOWYER. Mr. PEMBERTON, for the plaintiff, said that the bill filed in this case by the plaintiff, Mrs. Tidswell, was to set aside a release obtained from that lady of an interest which she was considered to be entitled to in the estate of her late husband, on the ground that such release had been obtain ed in ignorance of her rights. In 1792 a marriage was so lemnized between Mr. James Shrafnell and the present plaintiff, now Mrs. Sarah Tidswell. At the period of the marriage Mrs. Tidswell was about sixteen years of age, and unfortunately that happened which was often the case in such early marriages, that the parties became tired of each other long before 1798, and agreed to separate. It was stated in this record, that the separation took place in con sequence of the elopement of Mrs. Tidswell. That alle gation was not material at present to consider, but be (Mr. Pemberton) was informed that it was totally and en tirely false. On the occasion of the separation a deed was executed by Mr. and Mrs. Shrafnell, and two relations of Mrs. Shrafnell, Mr. Henry Haynes and Miss Prudence Haynes, which, after reciting that unhappy differences had arisen between the parties, provided that Mr. and Miss Haynes had agreed to indemnify Mr. James Shraf nell against all debts which his wife might contract ; that Mrs. Shrafnell, in case her husband should die intes tate, had agreed not to sue for or claim any part of his real or personal estate which he might die possess ed of, under or in virtue of the Statute of Distributions, and that neither of the parties would sue each other for a restitution of conjugal rights. He (Mr. Pemberton) should not enter into a discussion concerning the general validity of such an agreement. After the separation had taken place Mr. Shrafnell, who had been a silversmith at Charing cross, but had failed, went to the East Indies, and, having formed a connection with the house of Forbes and Co., en gaged in a speculation to Batavia, then in the possession of the Dutch. In 1811 this gentleman joined the expedition setting out to reduce Java, and soon afterwards established at Batavia a commercial house in connection with the house of Forbes and Co. Mr. Shrafnell continued to re side in Java till his death, which took place in January, 1815, and by his will dated the 2d of April, 1807, he con veyed all his personal estate and effects to his executors Robert Bowyer and Essex Bowen in trust, after paying all his just debts and funeral expenses, to remit the several sums of money mentioned in his will, and as for and con cencerning the residue and remainder of his personal estate the testator directed his executors to pay and assign the some to his sisters Elizabeth and Louisa Shrafnell, in equal shares and proportions. This will was proved by both of the executors. The testator thus having made his will, and disposed of his whole property by a legal be quest to his executors, in trust for a particular purpose, at law there was no intestacy as to any part of the testator's personal estate. The Learned Counsel then went at length into the facts of the case, after which— Mr. PAINTER, who was on the same side, proceeded to read the evidence, which occupied the Court till the rising. COURT OF EXCHEQUER.—DEc. 11. WHITAKER V. THE BANK OF ENGLAND. This was an action brough for the purpose of recovering damages from the Bank of England in consequence of dis honouring a bill. Mr. THEsSIGER said the plaintiff in this case was a flour factor, and had up to 1833 been in good credit, carrying on business to the extent of several thousands per year, and for the sake of safety banked at the Bank of England. On the 28th of January, 1833, the plaintiff had in the hands of the Bank of England a balance of 33/. 13s. Bd. The same day he paid in a cheque of 200/. and 1951. in money, making in the gross 428/. 13s. 4d. On the following day a bill became due for 425/., which the Bank refused to pay. Notice of the dishonour of the bill was sent down to Nor wich. The next day the Bank discovered its mistake, and sending to Masterman's Bank, that if the bill was presented it would be paid, which was done with Is. 6d. for noting it. The plaintiff thought nothing of the circumstance. On the 4th or sth of February, the dishonour of the bill be came known at Norwich. The result was, his credit be came stopped, and be was soon under the necessity of stop ping payment, and for this injury done to the plaintiff's credit, the present action was brought. The Jury found for the defendants. The case occupied the entire day, and lasted till half-past seven o'clock. GUILDHALL. Yesterday Samuel Rogers, a clerk in the service of Messrs. Slater and Coates, of Wood -street, fustian manu facturers, was brought before Mr. Alderman VENABLES, charged with embezzling various sums, amounting to 1001, and upwards. Mr. Alderman VENABLES remanded the prisoner to en able his employers to make further inquiries. LAMBETH- STREET. BEER-SHOP REVELS.—Yesterday Jerry llfarney,a lame Irish fiddler, was brought before Mr. HARDWICK and a county Magistrate, on a warrant, charging him with assault ing Mrs. Mary Denman, the keeper of the " Sailor's Home" beer-house in Ratcliff-highway. The complainant stated that she engaged the defendant, at 4s. a week, to play the violin, for the amusement of her customers. Mr. HARDWICK—Then you permit music and dancing in your house ? Mrs. Denman—There is no use in me denying it, your Worship ; Ido the same as all other houses of the sort in the neighbourhood. " A Sailor's Home would be nothing without a fiddle !" The defendant went on pretty regular with his fiddling for some time, but latterly he became very irregular, and inattentive and saucy, and refused to pay a trifle which she had allowed him to score up. On Saturday night two little broom-girls en tered her tap-room ; and because she permitted them to sing a few songs, and make a collection of few pence, the defendant became very abusive, and swore that, as soon as he had played a tune or two, he'd be certain to kick up a row. He was as good as his word, and on her requesting him to leave her house, both he and his mother fell upon her, and not only beat her most violently, but also tore the whole of a silk dress off her back. A witness swore that he saw Jerry and his mother "pitch into" the complainant ; and another witness swore to having seen several large contusions on her person. Jerry, when asked what he had to say. entered into a long defence. He said that though he had entered into an engagement with Mrs. Denman to fiddle for four shillings a week, the time at which he was to commence and leave off was not specified, and Mrs. Denman insisted on his coming at nine o'clock in the morning and playing all day. This he refused to do, upon which Mrs. D. flew into a great pas sion, and improper names for a musician. Mrs. Denman—Youcalled him veryknow, Jerry, there were several nights r that you never fiddled at all. J err y—That's very true, Ma'am ; but you know it was our agreement that I was to attend private balls and par ties. But I always sent a substitute, and gave him a shil ling and paid for a pint of beer, which is the regular rule among all musicians.—(Laughter.) Jerry then went on to s ay, that on Saturday night the complainant encouraged two broom girls to sing, and being herself not quite sobeci: at the time, had a regular " flare up," and preve nte V; playing, or earning anything. She subsequently strue with a piece of heavy wood, which she called her 1111,0 an instrument which she always kept to settle dowo Sbe unruly cust o m ers , an d w hi c h s he used to some purpose.b,o also bit hi s th um b near l y th roug h, an d o therwise injure d s ll (13) MAGISTRATE—D O you play at this place on c. -- n Jerry—No, Sir. I think I h ave h a d th e p l easure o f se eing you her e do , fore ?--Yes, Sir ; I was b roug ht here on last W I twelvemonth, and se n t f or a mon th t o the tread-nill' i to p, Yes, for playing on a Sunday, and keeping a POI at which a number of boys and girls used to assemble Yer Worship's right ; but I suffered the law for it. k for Do you get any thing but the four shillings a Vie l o go playing ?—Yes, your Worship • the ladies and gen" wot dances pays me besides. (Laughter.) of I t/s. The MAGISTRATE convicted Jerry in the penaltY s ill for the assault, or, in default of payment, to 14 d i / the House of Correction. THE MARKETS. --- GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN'orth. For the Week ended Dec 5, ;834, made up from the RetoZio, P er Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in Englan I and Imi,erial 52ilarter. 365. I°d ‘ Wheat -ils lid I Oats Barley ........ 32s 7d I Rye ... IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE SIX W ts}'9 PRECEDING. s3s, id Wheat......... 425. Id. 1 Oats Barley 3..:s 241 I . Rye 'i24 7d. Pcase ~ ...... 4'4'• Wheat. Barley . DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. 0 ed. . 44s Ni. I Cats 9.1. Lis. I.d. Rye Act DIIIING THE, COUNTRY CORN M NA heat. .1.3 , 4rie,. „. • Per Quarter. s. to s. s. Is. to I S. tO :40 52 32 , 22 43 4 , 58 36 41 , l5 2'2 30 • 3 • 5 39 31 23 5-2 40 ,50 24 32 16 56 40 4 i .54 26 ';.,3 19 21 30• Lang Sutton— 34 44 2'2 24 '35 ; i.outh ---- 38 45 20 32 •18 24, 34 40 ja 34 49 20. 32 0 :3 ."4 Q 39 46 28 40 19 2S 37 4t f., iigl lam 40 45 31 30 '2.2 35 41: Veterilf '34 42 28 35 18 28 38 42 Plymouth --- •40 50 30 34. 20 23 _. 67 4a i 27 r , ,r, I 1;5 70 30 38 (52 ((Cl 41 4 5 thwpingltion 34 40 24 33 24 30 38 42 I,tst,rh 45 -- • 20 3 LEEDS CRN M ARKET - Dec. 9 1..1 .1 Wheat, N.irlolk and Stand O k, dillh. 5 . 4 , 9 1 '' -- York. and Lincoln*. 60Ib. 4Ol to , , 1 0 Bailey, , orfolk and Siillblk —........ Yorkshire and Lincolnshire ...... .... -3 to 5" , rll - GC.ndttig ... Beans 63lb. . Oats, Potatoe . --Waling, For. I2d t 013,1 Shelling Eog. 9,1 to 10 2;28 4 46.: ; - ; :t: :: ; :' 2.25. to '2 sd. l': i t_ . ,•• • R n,e4e , .,i. English, 251 to 27. SOUTIIALL CATTLE M A llKET.—llec. 10 . f WI: The supply of Beasts to th s day's market was very great 12,0114, Calves, and Porkers, moderately good. There was rather a no',, (oil ° tendance'town and cot'ntry buyers, b. 4 the trade was dull, a t '' lug prices per atone ni 811 i. to sink the offals : 4s. fA Beef Nititton 3 6 4 6 I Pork V, 10 - two 11 Beasts, 726; Sheep, 2,118; Calves, $8; 1C)._..AL.... P°' ..........„... ,18 . . 1 the supply left the market unsold .. . ROMFORD MARKET.—Dec 10. - i. 4 MARKET.—Dec. ,, d• t° 4 6 s. 41. , 0s d. Beef 2 8 4 0 1 Veal 2 I ... • Mut ton Suckling Calves, 12s. to 2fis.; Quarter old Store Pigs, -'•,.., Mulch Cows, with their small Calf, 101. los. to 141. a' •.- _...„, Supply moderate, and ti ade rather brisk. " - - ,ed HAILSHAM MARKET—Dec. 10. •4i. Beef 34 lid. to 4s. ocl I Veal 3a. 6d. te 3 0 Mutton 3 It/ 4 4 I Por - o 8 ../ Supply tolerably good ;trade rather brisk ARUN DEL Beef 2a. 101 to 48. 4 d. ARKEeaI T—Dec. 9. I V 33. 810 1 3 i ' l i d Mutton 3 6 4 6 Pork 3 • • • -.0 Supply rather great, and trade rather:dull CHICHESTER MARKET—Dec. 10. 40 4 Beef Muttor... 3 2 4 6 1 Pork 3 1.1 Mn e ' Supply of b all fat and lean stock good ; trade with the brisk, with the latter somewhat dull, at about higher prices. MEETING OF. CREDITORS AT -THE C V , BASINGHALL-STREET, TO-MORROW' (From the London Gazette.) .. I C. M. Payne and Co., silk-printers, Wandsworth .................... t t"' When Queen Christina of Sweden heard 6 ' B get English had beheaded Charles 1., her answer was tote 0 T ot that it " served him right, for not knowing how to in of it." I i ll' mira al SOCIETY AT SEBASTOPOL.— A The titi vited us to sea, and we met a delightful pirty ; many young ladies and officers ; a highly cultivated Livoniarluif with four pretty daughters, a very beautiful and hig . " l ,o o , ° lished Greek lady, named Camenina, whose lively cov er ! ), ,0" we long remembered with pleasure, and some Gerinse,`,oo cians, glad enough to meet with countrymen. The e l , passed agreeably, amidst music and dancing. Delicat e , ot s meats and fruit were handed round ; but one only sPer: o , olle laid beside the liquid sweetmeats, with which the c omPv' Vol t SHOT.—This after the other, without previous cleaning, eat them."' Behr's Travels. aw E y 4c4R .AfoßßhDyldNygtrtrsy., pearSn o Carmarthen ( .00 w a e d ek? ss erv adoe t were in quest of water fowl, on the sands e belovi ti=e palea 0.1 near the sea-side. A crane took wi ng a consideratheir from the Captain, and as it was far beyond the range °f „ o nts fowling-piece, be hastily snatched his rifle from his 5 ,e. • erse hand, and brought down the bird with a ball, althoug. _ 1 1;: toi A then upwards of 300 yards distant from him. The u"'" both wings, breaking them at the second joint without ro ut) ing the trunk of the bird, which fell into the wat er ' biel; dogs immediately dashed into the river to secure ti l t ode but this was not so easy a matter as was supposed, for 1 . - se; several attempts to blind the dogs by picking at their . It was eventually secured and brought ashore alive•-•" . marthen Journal. 111 t° n THE METEORS.—The meteors came aceor I 5 04 0 the predictions of several scientific gentlemen, tun' •a e et Professor Olmsted, of Yale College, and a correspee of the this paper. Professor Olmsted and a large numb er o f the college faculty and students sat up during the high f fr o ject 13th, anxiously waiting to see whether the propheeY on the history of the meteors would be accomplish° o f the about 3 o'clock they were gratified with the beginning re o et shower, and it continued for an hour. The meteors wv „ear' so numerous as last year, but in all other respects the Wiwi. ante was the same. We have the statement fro% begs haven gentleman, and have no doubt of its accuracy. 'Asee not as yet heard of the meteors being seen in any othe r r o tb° Professor Olmsted has made a brief communteatiouleco. subject to the Newhaven Herald. He states that the P"iptho of the moon permitted only the larger and-more 51).,..,0 meteors to be seen. The number of them, though than that of last year, was much above the comma:.,lA They began to be frequent as early as 4 minutes p ot when a fire-ball of unusual splendour blazed forth 94 : un i err, t From this period they continued to fall, at a press te a to"" rate, until daylight was far advanced. It was estbn e or e re; 1,000 fell during the night. Their directions were % f oot: markable than their number, and afforded more' thular laP evidence of the identity of the phenomenon with thatcooon year. They appeared, as before, to radiate from . 1 ' Leo'' centre, and that centre was again in the Constel lation New York Journal of Commerce, Nov. 19. ._ ~ letina, aged Lower Baggot-square , 4r- On the Bth inst., in • of 6- f Carew 16, Carew Howard Smyth, youngest eil Sinyth, Esq., barrister at law. Henry 40' Dublin, ila G. On the Bth . * inst., in the 76th year of his age, ford, Esq., of Down-place, Berks. Mari , On the 9th inst., at Great Ealing, aged 65 Ye ar % gent' widow of the late Joseph Wilks, Esq., of Westerhanklb o f 29, On __ the Bth inst., atter a short illness, Edward So lt So" Haymarket, in the 49th year o f • ber of the his age, a mem ciety of Friends. ger' On the . c Fitzge r rion-square, Dublin, Lieut. G • - eneral Sir Augustin Bart •., universally beloved and respected. .. WO' On the 7th inst., at Clapton, in his 63d year, Ju r ; _ s or i P n arkinson, of 'Change-alley, universally respected not less all his ecl 's urbanity of manners than his integrity in through life.. Ca' of nlnt, On the • 6th inst., at Downing, in the county 1 ..,. 5 00 roline, wifeof Turville, Buckinghamshire. Cha t " Alexand er On the 10th inst., in Throgmort on-street, mers, Esq., arved 76. er' HenrylienrY On the Btlf inst., in the 76th year of his age, ford, Esq., of Down-place, Brks. , the On the Ist inst., at Grove edge, Winkfield, Berks, Agnes!trat wife of Richard Harrison, s NST 1 t near Stony q., o o ver on, for O d, Bucks. John J l. • Esq.' sc aly ' n the I6th of July, a t Lima, Sophia, wife of Ge or g e Esq., H. B. M. Vice-Consul in that city . On the 10th inst., at Denm ark-hill, Surrey, J o y ner, in his 80th year. On the 6th inst., John Woods, Esq., of Chilgrove. Wair , On the 6th inst., at the Manor-house, Bourton-on-the- ea 74. Gloucestershire, Frances, relict of the late John Rice, ES 6 l'' ag London : Printed and Published by 1111.111D0 YOUIN," at The and Office, No. 112, Strand. GENE' THE COll LAMBUI Saturdai ROTTE ,CI • and Sat e very Weitne A NTWEI e 'er! len (12 3 OSTEND bight. - CA:.LATS3 ui ' 2k:or:If?, t1:13:11-l o rn :n i :: ::i c i. u .t i1 4. 211(1 won, '2 kr. C: F3 ' tn..' at 1 Po vre „ 7 , , tiots. tARC for m , t he e ff ect , II :, PreVai ‘ 3 erVe the tuose wh o Sl,l to = n,; oacil tan at n 5 1 14(1. ' Each ' Observ e .0n,.. G_ l It F, bor.:10, Al' (11e t tit , J J-L ‘ } ' ;t7 v 4 ' %t e l.:. v.', 1 ii 111 :;tv 14 : 11 3• 11 IN't ttltrl t ' ll 4 % k %A tob • ,-,() O „UT EP, .. - -----------------..----- BIRTHS. u F c is At Stivic-hall, on the 11th inst., the lady of Art..° it/ Gregory, Esq., of a son and heir. B SI On the Bth inst., at Hatfield, the wife of the Rev' . G Pelle, of a daughter. deoe.7. On the Bth inst., at Highgate, the lady of D. Alex. Itsos of to Esq., of a daughter. 6 10 1 9 On the 7th inst., at Brook-green, Hammersmith , th Rev: Edward Wickham, of a son. 13ea faa' On the 9th inst., Mrs. Thos. Jarvis, of Gower - s treet, of A square, of a daughter. Reid' A At St. Clare, Isle of Wight, the Hon. Mrs. Nevin a daughter. wife ob , On the 10th inst., in Chatham-place, the Saward, Esq., of a son. o f ter MARRIED. A 14° 11. On the 11th inst., by the Rev. Dr. Sleath, He et, goss e a St. Paul's School, Dr. Spurgin, of Guildford-streesq., as_.., square, to Rose, only daughter of John Down , . c ' NIA.' grand-daughter of the late Richard Down, Est Esq' , Esq' g London. 0 0., ~,f On the 4th inst., at St. Martin's Church, Henry","; dog' late M. P. for Preston, to Catherine Maria Mn Vis ' of the late Major Vince, of Clift Hall, Wilts. .r.