The Sun. — London, England, 1834-09-04 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. submission to the suggestions of a better wisdom, or a submission to those common rules, which are, in all societies of men, found to conduce to success, what ever may be the business in hand. From Babel down wards we have never yet heard of the enterprise that was forwarded by a confusion of tongues ; and it is a maxim of experience that too many irons in the fire do not expedite the works of a forge. But it is asked, would we exclude the motions of independent mem bers ? Or should the Ministry occupy the whole field of legislation ? Certainly, it is clear that the better the Government, and the better the management of the majority supporting it in the House, the less are the occasions or the opportunities for the motions of inde pendent members. If the Ministry were seen selecting objects according to their importance, and preparing their measures carefully, and pushing them on resolutely, men of judgment, who had projects worth listening to, would not interfere with the train of measures steadily proceeding in the order of expediency, and they would wait their time, or the adoption of their plans by an intelligent and active Government. And this brings us to the remark we have before made, that an able and diligent Ministry, that employed its various means and resources which no individual legislator can pos sess for the best preparation of the most necessary measures, would still the clamour of the Parliamentary projectors, as the men of sense and character, satis fied with what was doing, would forbear from urging their own proposals on the attention of a fully and usefully occupied House ; and the quacks and block heads left to themselves in the business of interruption, would soon be put to silence by the general senti ment of disgust at their obstructive intrusions. As matters, however, have been ordered, or disordered, the whole thing has been a scramble—every one snatching at his favourite measure—all balking and baffling each other—and feeling with too much truth that there was nothing balked, or baffled, that had claims to a more forbearant treatment. In remarking on the pitch to which the art of doing nothing with the greatest possible noise had been car ried in the last Session, we observed that something like the principle upon which this very undesirable suc cess depended might be traced in the mismanagement of those ships in which every man proposes his own manoeuvre ; and we added, that the confusion would be more admirable still in those cases, if the man at the helm were as ignorant of his business as the crew of discipline. We afterwards followed out the same illus tration, and the example is seized upon to show that we require of Parliament the submission to a Minister which the crew should yield to the captain of a ship. We need not observe how stupid or disengenuous is this reading of our instance. The Commons have been the most submissive, and noisy, and inefficient crew in the service of the country ; but who has held the helm ? —the Bear in the boat : " He ne'er suspects his want of skill, But blunders on from ill to ill ; And when he fails of all intent, Blames only unforeseen event : On other rocks misg uides the realm, And thinks a pilot at the helm." But nevertheless— " The beasts with admiration stare, We will endeavour, in fewer words than the Times employed yesterday, to put an end to our personal contest with that journal, having, as we believe, al ready sufficiently exposed its stupid attempt to turn against us the courtesy of our Madrid correspondent. The Times admits that we conveyed its parcel gratis, and that it only received one packet from us, and now insults the understanding of its readers by bungling attempts at wit, in an endeavour to sustain its previous absurd charges and the statement of its Madrid corre spondent, as though it were possible by such means to escape the ridicule of so contemptible a position. Any child would ask, what was the Morning Chro nicle to get by conveying the packet of the Times ? and the Times only would reply by such trash as it uses to elude the question. Who but the Times would require such an act of courtesy upon any other terms than those upon which it was actually performed by the Morning Chronicle? The Times now says— One point, however, still requires explanation. Our cor respondent says that he sent two dispatches—one by a courier of the Spanish Government, who started 24 hours before Mr. Maberly's courier, and a second by Mr. Maberly's courier, which was to be delivered to us from the Chronicle office. Our correspondent further 'states, that the second did not con tain the Queen's speech, whereas the first did. We received but one : that came to us through the Chronicle office, and it did contain the Queen's speech ; so that it would seem that by some means or other the dispatch which our' correspondent sent by the Spanish courier fell into the hands of Mr. Ma berly's courier, whereas that sent by Mr. Maberly's courier never reached us. The Chronicle either cannot or will not explain this little hitch in the transaction, so that we must continue our exertions to solve the mystery ourselves." Our contemporary is a rare glutton. Guilt gene rally leads to stupidity : if it has not in this case, the Times would have needed no more explanation on this point. For the benefit of the editor of the Times, for no other mortal man can need it, we will give a so lution of the remaining difficulty. If the Times, for once tells the truth, in saying that the parcel delivered by us did contain a copy of the Queen's speech, then its worthy Madrid correspondent Turn bull must necessarily have told a falsehood ; and after, his previous exhibition on the point, in which he is contradicted by his friends, Mr. Honan and Mr. Bueschenthal, it is only in Printing house-square that any difficulty could exist about it. We promise our contemporary that, hereafter, it is our intention to leave it, unheeded by us, in the enjoyment of all its trumpery insinuations against the individuals who are connected with this paper. The public may be safely intrusted by us to form their own estimate of such insinuations from such a source, and with equal safety they may be left to judge of the false and cowardly attack upon Mr. Maberly, who is pre vented from taking that summary proceeding which every right judging and good feeling man will be likely to think would be the fair desert of the party making such an attack upon a gentleman in misfortune not here, and therefore not able to defend him self. We cannot close these observations without repeating to our readers the sincere regret we feel at having again to , trouble them with matters so purely belonging to the " shop." They will not fail to ob serve that it has been forced upon us by our unprinci pled and arrogant contemporary, which could not re ceive a common favour from us without showing its spite at this occasional instance of our diligence hav ing surpassed its own. In a former stage of this con troversy, the Times charged upon us that we wanted to obtain some part of its circulation, and to share with it the publie favour. With the Times, to avoid con tamination, we would share nothing ; but we have the gratification of being enabled to say that we are quite satisfied with the progress of this journal during the last three months, and we are much mistaken if the Times do not know, from rather solid evidence, that we have good reason to be so.—Morning Chronicle. The Ministerial Papers are very desirous to make it be believed that the expression of Protestant feeling in Dublin lately, in consequence of the disgraceful com promise between the Repeal-Agitator and the Mel. bourne Cabinet, was a decided failure ; but, if they believed so themselves, they would not be so exces sively angry at so insignificant an exhibition, nor would they combat this " airy nothing" as if it were a thing of solid and enduring substance, and of giant strength. Surely that which exists not need not be so elaborately proved to have no existence. Why should the scribes of the Treasury wrestle so furiously with a shadow ? why aim such ponderous blows of their leaden truncheons at a phantom ? Are they not, upon their own showing, in the condition of the Knight of the Rueful Countenance, attacking a windmill t But the Knight acted consistently ; for he, in his chivalrous de lusion, mistook the machine of wood and wind for a giant ; whereas the Whig assailants of the Dublin Pro testant meeting confess that they are perfectly sensible it is no giant all, but a windmill, if not a mere shadow even of that ; and yet each of them sets spurs to his charger most furiously, and dashes at it, with couched spear and with the most desperate valour, resolving to signalize their prowess against the formidable " no thing" of an enemy, and, by damaging its " nonentity," carry off some glory I No ; the Ministerial writers— the . O'Connelite Whigs of the London Press—are not labouring under such a delusion as to mistake the power of Protestantism which has just spoken out its sentiments in Ireland for an idle phantom. They know better—they know that the surrender of the property of the Irish Church to the confiscating measure of the Repeal-Agitator has apprised the Protestants of Ireland of the treacherous return which they have to expect for their " desperate fidelity" to British connexion, under all circumstances, from the era of the Irish massacre down to the present day. The Whig writers know that their employers are embarked in the-same boat with the man whom they so lately accused of attempting that dismember ment of the empire, which they declared they would encounter all the blood and horrors of civil war to prevent. They know that their employers are now embarked in the same boat with the man whose in cessant and pernicious agitation they so lately denounced in the King s speech, and, knowing this, they dread the storm which the , reaction of such political tergi versation may bring upon the unholy alliance, if Pro testant feeling be awakened in time to a sense of the dangers which, through such a combination, now be sets the Protestant interests of not Ireland alone, but the British empire.—Morning Herald. It has been stupidly or uncandidly asserted that we have argued for the subjection of the House of Com mons to the control of Ministers. It is impossible to conceive anything more opposite to the spirit and pur _port of our remarks than this monstrous proposition : the only control to which we desired the representa tives of the people to submit themselves is the control of some modesty and common sense. A little modesty would forbid much babble with which the patience of the public and the time of the House have been ex hausted, and common sense would show the necessity of observing some order in the conduct of public bu siness, and the prudence of doing one thing with un divided attention before attempting another. So far were we from holding the slavish language im puted to us, that in our review of the session we reprobated the obsequiousness of the House of Commons, and protested against the new reading of the Constitution as composed of King, Lords, and Althorp. A leader or manager of the majority has been customary, as formerly there used also to be a leader or manager of the Opposition, and the leader of the majority is called the leader of the House ; but to recognize this title, and to criticise the fitness of the bearer of it for the business of the post, is not to argue for the subjection of the representatives of the people to the con trol of a M inister . Th e b us i ness o f the leader of the majority is to make a judicious se lection of objects, and to arrange the order of mea sures; and if he obtains confidence by his skilful performance of these tasks, his voice will always carry great autho rity in protesting against the intrusion of idle projects or unseasonable discussions, interfering with the pro gress of bills important to the country. But thi s would not b e the control of a Minister, it would be the control of the wiser counsel, the authority of approved skill. It is certain that there has been nothing of this in Lord Althorp's manage ment of the H ouse of Commons, and we have com plained of the grovelling servility with which the majo rity have followed him in his blundering course. And is this requiring a submission to the management of a Minister ? The submission that we call for is a And think him a prodigious bear:"— Times. were in direct violation of public law, and that they could not be carried into execution without exposing France to the risk of a war with several Powers, in which war these Powers would be clearly in the right according to the law of nations, and France clearly in the wrong. We have still another piece of informa tion to communicate to our readers in connection with this subject of the supplementary Articles to the Qua dripartite Treaty. Lord Palmerston, unchangeable in his faith in the infallibility of Prince Talleyrand and of himself, could not see any necessity for referring any question to the Law Officers of the British Crown. But Lord Melbourne thought it safer to follow the cautious step of Louis Philippe. And, contrary to all recent precedent, the Premier prevailed. The ques tion which had been submitted already to the Law . Officers of the King of the French was again sub mitted to the Law Officers of his Brittanni;Majesty, and we have the satisfaction of announcing their unani mous decision. It was a decision adverse to the addi tional Articles. It was a decision declaring in effect that the Articles which the Foreign Minister of England had signed could never be carried into execution without a violation of public law. It was a decision impeaching the judgment or the integrity of the Foreign Minister. What the result will be we cannot tell. Whether Lord Melbourne will succumb to Lord Palmerston, or Lord Palmerston to Lord Melbourne, is still doubtful. All that can be gathered from the foregoing facts is, that the Foreign Secretary must retire, or that law officers of the Crown must forthwith be found whose learning can better accommodate itself to the exigencies of the Foreign-office. Yet the whole embarrassment is not told. We have still further news to impart. The , Queen Regent of Spain, having a solemn treaty to pro duce, is by no means disposed to listen to the casuistry of doctors of the civil law, whether English or French. She has distinctly claimed the fulfilment of the bond. Ske has done more than claim the fulfilment of the bond, for she has declared a blockade of a large extent of the coast of Spain, which, unless that bond be valid, and unless its obligations be faithfully discharged, she has no imam to enforce. Lord Palmerston was driven to set Doctors' Commons and the Attorney- General at defiance, or to submit to the ignominy of having led his fair ally, the Queen Regent of Spain, into a very painful and injurious embarrassment. The disgrace of Lord Palmerston and the embarrassment of the Queen Regent of Spain might have been lamented. But better these than that the law of nations should be renounced and derided by the British Government. It is with great satisfaction therefore that we impart to the public our last piece of intelligence, namely, that an an swer in the negative has already been returned to the application of the Queen Regent for the maritime assistance of Great Britain to prevent the importation into Spain of arms and ammunition. The additional Articles of the Quadripartite Treaty have been signed only to be repudiated. Louis Philippe and the French Jurisconsults have vanquished Prince Talley rand. Lord Melbourne and Doctors' Commons have proved too strong for Lord Palmerston. The above narrative, which is strictly . and literally correct, shows with what consummate prudence and integrity the affairs of the nation are carried on. Upon the principle of non-intervention, we agree to furnish fleets and munitions of war to one of the parties to a civil war, in a country with which we have nothing whatever to do, and generously. omit any stipulation for payment. For the maintenance of our national dignity we become parties to a Treaty which, by our first inquiries respecting the principles of public law, we arc compelled to renounce. But we cannot reasonably complain. It is to the " spirit of • the age" and to the " march of intellect" that we are indebted for this novel method of upholding the cha racter and maintaining the interests of a great nation.— Morning Post. It is fit that the British public should have some information from time to time as to the position in which its Government really stands in relation to the other European powers. And, unless thay receive this information from us, there is, unfortunately, very little chance that it will be communicated to them at all. The Palmerston system of policy includes three essential principles which we thus enumerate :—Prin ciple the first, is to keep the British people in the dark as to every thing that is going on ; principle the se cond, is to yield in everything implicit obedience to the dictates of France ; principle the third, is to treat with perfect contempt the law of nations, whenever that law is appealed to by parties that cannot bring into play the precise number and weight of artillery which, in Lord Palmerston's opinion, is necessary to give to the law of nations any kind of value. From France and the other capitals of Europe, where there is less of mystification and dishonesty than in London, we have acquired informatiOn which enables us to place before the British public a clear and distinct view of the actual position of our own coun try with regard to the affairs of the Penin sula. We state this fact confidently, and a most disgraceful fact it is to the British Government, and the British people, that there is no nation in Europe kept in such utter darkness as the British with respect to the foreign relations of its Government. We state this fact with the natural boldness with which men state facts which they are fully prepared to prove, for we are about to prove what we assert by the commu nication of intelligence new to the British people, and not new, for we derive our information from no mysterious sources to the upper classes of society in any other Euro pean State. Why, we indignantly ask, should there be a mysticism in the foreign affairs of Great Britain which is unknown in those of any other country, unless it be that in the Foreign Office of Great Britain there is less of manly integrity and of straightforward honesty than in the Foreign ,Office of any other State ? The British people do not yet know, except from the . intimations we have already afforded them, what extension their Government has given to the Quadri partite Treaty, which, in honour of the principle of non-intervention, brought the united forces of France, Spain, and Great Britain to bear upon a domestic dispute in Portugal. Upon this part of our foreign relations we shall now shed an additional ray of light. The supplementary Articles to the Quadri partite Treaty, agreed upon and formally executed by the Representatives of France, Spain, and Great Bri tain are four in number, and, as we have already stated, are in substance as follows :—Art.lst, or the preamble to the Treaty, states that, with reference to the state of affairs which has arisen in Spain, the Quadripartite Treaty,is incomplete. Art. 2d binds France, by every means in her power, to guard the frontiers and the coast of Spain, in order to prevent the supply of arms and munitions of war to the insurgent forces. Art. 3d binds Great Britain to adopt the same measures of precaution ,with respect to the coast of Spain ; and further binds Great Britain to supply to the forces of the Queen Regent of Spain munitions of war, with the exception of arms, no stipulation being con tained in the Treaty as to the time or manner in which payment for such supplies is to be made. Art. 4th provides that the foregoing Articles are to be of the same validity as if they had been comprehended in the original Quadripartite Treaty. This intelligence, we believe, is news to the people of England, and, considering that the Whig Govern ment started with the principle of non-intervention as part of its stock in trade, this news is perhaps rather different from what might naturally have been expected. But we have another very important piece of intelli gence to communicate to the public, of which they have yet heard nothing. These additional Articles to the Quadripartite Treaty having, as a matter of course, been communicated to the Representatives of the great Powers of Europe not parties to it, the latter, with one accord, presented remonstrances against the addi tional Articles, upon the very intelligible ground that they could not be carried into effect without violating the universal law of nations. Upon this Lord Pal merston looked more - than usually silly, and even Prince Talleyrand was observed the next night at the Travellers' Club to inquire more frequently than is common with him, " What is trump ?" For the Prince is in this respect, as in many others, quite unlike Lord Palmerston. He generally knows what is trump. There was, in short, a gener a l consternat i on an d dismay among the diplomatists of the revolutionary school. They felt that they had overshot their mark. Caring little for principles of any kind, they feared that the time was not yet quite ripe for setting principles at defiance. We will now tell our readers another piece of news. Louis Philippe, the King of the French, listens to Prince Talleyrand, and makes use of him, but he re collects that the Prince is more famous for taking care of himself than of his masters. And although we cannot go so far as to say that Louis Phillippe had any conscientious scruples upon the occasion, yet cer tain it is that he had misgivings of some kind or other ; for he thought it prudent to apply to the official Juris consults of France as to the legality of the additional articles of the Quadripartite Treaty. And we can confidently inform our readers that the Law Ad visers of the King of the French told him th at the Articles which Prince Talleyrand had signed . PREROGATIVE COURT, SEPT. 3. IN THE GOODS OF MARY RAISE, DECEASED-CURIOUS DE. POSITORY FOR A WILL. Dr. CuRTErs applied for probate to the will of the de ceased party in this cause. The will, which gave the bulk of the deceased's property to her relatives, was witnessed, but neither signed nor dated. The residue was also undis posed of, nor were executors named in the instrument. The deceased had, however, made declarations that she had executed a will, and that she had deposited it in the tool house at the bottom of her garden. On her decease search was made, and the will was found in a jar among the other papers deposited in the toolhouse. As the parties inte rested were willing the probate should pass to the will, the Court was now asked to grant the prayer. The COURT said it was impossible a paper like the pre sent, neither signed nor dated, could pass probate. No executors were appointed, nor the residue disposed of, and he must, therefore, declare for an intestacy. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1834. ARCHES COURT, SEPT. 3. Dr. Daubenay sat for Sir John Nicholl both in the Arches and Prerogative Courts, this being the caveat day after the last term. THE OFFICE OF THE JUDGE PROMOTED BY THE REV. MR. WESTERN V. WATKINS. In this case the office of the Judge was promo ted by the Rev. Mr. Western, Rector of Kinghorn, in Oxfordshire, against Mr. Watkins, " for the correction of his soul's health and the reformation of his manners," but more particularly for having forcibly entered the belfry of the parish church, contrary to the wishes of the rector, and violently ringing the bells, and for chiding, &c., in the church. A citation having been taken out against the defendant and duly served, Mr. Watkins, an exceedingly simple -looking coun tryman, appeared in person. The Registrar having called the case, stated that the party cited was in Court, for what purpose be was not aware. The defendant said he had gone into the belfry to ring with the consent of the churchwardens. He did not mean to do wrong, and was sorry fir it. The Proctor in the cause said the defendant ought to be canonically censured for his conduct. The question of canonical censure was postponed, but further proceedings were stayed. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. A young man naredThon;asiirlerly, who has been all his life a pauper in Bishopsgate parish, and whose history has attracted the curiosity of other parishes, was yesterday brought before the Lord Mayor. Mr. Booker, one of the parish officers, stated that Kil lerly, who had an inveterate aversion to labour, called on him on the preceding day for money, but the new Poor Laws Bill having prohibited the allowance of money to able-bodied paupers who were unwilling to work, the appli cation was refused. ~the. refusal only had the effect of making Killerly follow witness through the streets, and threaten that if not sent to prison he should kick up such a row under witness's windows as would "murder sleep." The pauper acted accordingly, for he called at witness's house at eleven o'clock at night, and acted in such a man ner as made it necessary to send him to the Compter. Upon being expostulated with, Killerly said that it was his determination to see what the Poor Laws were made of, and whether he was to be starved or not when he could not get work. Killerly said, as the benefits of the poorhouses were de nied to him, he had nothing to choose to sustain life but to get to a prison, and the most innocent way of obtaining admittance to the latter place was by giving some annoy ance to Mr. Booker. He had done so unwillingly, as that officer had always acted with great humanity towards him ; but what was he to do if the Poor Laws Bill excluded him from a maintenance to which he could fly whenever mis fortune overtook him ? If he was to be told that he could not get bread without work, and he could not get work by applying for it, was he to lie down and starve? Mr. ooker—The case of this young man is most ex traordinary. The parish went to great expense some time ago in fitting him out for sea, and a ship was provided for him. After the first voyage he abandoned the ship and returned to his parish, declaring that he would not trust his body in a vessel that was not seaworthy. Your Lord ship then sent for Joshua Hudson, of Leadenhall-market, who has often procured ships for young men at your re quest, and that agent soon afforded an opportunity to the defendant of being comfortably provided for. Killerly, however, said that his feet were sore ; and when Hudson told him that a surgeon should examine him, he cried, " No, I'm if I go to sea any more. —(A laugh.) Killerly—l'm no use at sea. Although I've been three or four voyages, I'm not worth a straw on board ship. The LORD MAYOR—Nor anywhere else, I'm convinced. Mr. Booker—The parish will soon have additional bur dens on his account. I don't know how many young girls are likely to become mothers on his account, and not one of them is able to maintain herself, putting a child out of the question. When spoken to the other day about a girl, also a pauper, who said she should soon become a parent, he said, " The babe can't be mine, for I never fancied her but once, and that was the night of the day when my wife died, and that's eleven months ago." The LORD MAYOR—What can I do with such a vaga bond ?—Killerly—l am willing to work, but the parish won't get it for me. Mr. Booker—Nobody will take him now. Not one of the farmhouses will admit him. He is now a complete outcast. _ _ _ Killerly—l never did a dishonest thing in my life, and if nobody will give me work or food, to what may I be driven ? I'll see whether I am to be driven from the place of my birth by the new Poor Laws, when I am willing and able to labour. Mr. Booker—lt is all nonsense to say you are willing to work. The parish are determined to exclude you. The Lord Mayor remanded the defendant till Saturday, very much to the satisfaction of the latter. An old gentleman, named Daniel Price, who lived twenty years as a wholesale stationer in Walbrook, in great respec tability, has appeared at the police-room for the last four or five days, and conducted himself in such a manner as left no doubt on the mind of the Lord Mayor that his intellects were affected. The old gentleman walked into the police room each day with his hat on, and would not answer any question put to him. Sometimes, however, he took a fit of talking, and then it was difficult to stop him. Yesterday the proprietor of the Jerusalem Coffee-house stated to the Lord Mayor that Mr. Price had called at his house, and asked for a bed, and acted in such a manner as showed that he was not in his perfect wits. There was in his pocket 61. 165., which was very properly taken from him. There were also papers found upon him which proved that he was a man of property, but nobody seemed to know any more about him. The LORD MAYOR directed that care should be taken of him, and that inquiries should be made by the officers. It is believed that he came from Conway in Denbighshire. G UILDHALL. Yesterday George Chatterton was re-examined, charged with fradulently obtaining from several chemists and sur geons cases containing stomach-pumps. Two new charges were made out of obtaining instruments from Mr. Sanclon, of Newgate-street, on the Gth of August, in the name of Mr. Butler, of Cheapside, and from Mr. Pereira, of Picca dilly, on the 4th of August, in the name of Dr. Jewel, of Saekville-street. _ _ The prisoner, who offered no defence, was committed for uttering the forged orders. BO W-STREET. James Cook, driver of the Paddington omnibus, No. 216, appeared before Mr. MINSHULL to answer the complaint of Mr. Edward Payne,.of Great Queen street. Complainant stated that yesterday morning between nine and ten o'clock he was out in his gig, and being in Theobald's Road, where his son was apprenticed, he stopped to speak to him. He drew up close to the curb-stone, and had been there for a few minutes when an omnibus came up, the fore-wheel of which caught his wheel, and threw the horse on to the pave ment. He called out as loud as he could for the driver to stop, but no attention was paid either to his cries or to the perilous situation he was placed in. The omnibus was driven on, and the hind wheel then caught him, and again turned him right round, and threw the horse into the street. He again called upon the driver to stop, but still no attention was paid to him, so when he got his gig and horse in order he drove after the omnibus, and again asked the driver to stop. He was then treated with insolence, and the omnibus pole very nearly driven through his gig. He then took the number, and sum moned the driver. Mr. MINsuuLL said he had acted most properly in doing so. He called upon the defendant to answer the charge. Mr. Cook said the complainant's gig stood a good way from the curb, and the wheels were turned out. Mr. Payne called a witness who saw the whole transaction to rebut that. He fully corroborated the complainant's statement. Mr. MINSUIILL said that even though the gig had been stand. ing in the middle of the road, that would not justify such vile conduct as he had clearly been guilty of. He would be obliged to punish him very severely, in order to protect the public. He asked Mr. Payne how much he estimated the damage done to the gig at. Mr. Payne said he had not brought forward the case for the purpose of recovering the expense—he did it because of the insolent treatment he had received, and upon public grounds. Mr. MiNsaum. informed him that in order to make out the charge against the defendant he must estimate the damage at something. Mr. Payne—Well, Ido not want to be severe say 1 Os. Mr. MiNstium. said the defendant was fortunate in meeting with so lenient a prosecutor. He then fined him in the 10s. damage, and 40s. with costs. In default of payment he was to be committed for three weeks. He was locked up. Susan Thomas, a strong healthy young woman, was charged by the Master of St. Giles's workhouse with coming to the house (in which she was a pauper) very drunk and creating a disturbance, using very bad language. The prisoner, in her defence, said she had been 21 miles into the country to see her son, and had got too much to drink.. The master had been in the habit of ill using her for some months past, and most probably she had taken that opportunity of telling him so. Mr. MINSHULL committed her to the House of Correction for three weeks. The prisoner trusted, now that the master had got out his revenge, they would in future be better friends. A most respectable looking old woman, an inmate of St. Clement Danes workhouse, was .charged by the master with the same sort of offence. She was also committed for the same period. Patrick Larkin, a man having the appearance of a brick layer's labourer, was brought up, charged by police constable 103 F, with being drunk last night about seven o'clock, and annoying every person that passed him in the Strand, by catching at them, and striking those who were offended at it. lie took him into custody, when he instantly threw himself on the ground, and kicked him very severely. Witness got more , assistance, and he was with great difficulty got to the station house. The prisoner sa ij he was very sorry for his conduct. Mr. MINSHULL ned him in 205., and in default of paymen Committed him to the House of Correction for two months. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Francis Hayes and Michael George Blake were yester terday placed at the bar, the former charged with stealing some silver spoons, and the latter with feloniously receiving them. The prisoner Hayes had been for a short time in the service of the prosecutor, Mr. Alland, of 29, Gerrard -street, goldsmith. The property was missed about a week since, and, in consequence of suspicion attaching itself to the youth Hayes, he was dismissed on Monday. Subsequently it was discovered that he had bought a brooch, and other circumstances tending to prove that he was in possession of money, he was apprehended, when he admitted that he had stolen the articles and given them to the other prisoner to pledge. In defence Blake admitted having received them, but said he had given the money to Hayes. They were fully committed for trial. MARYLE B ONE. Yesterday Charles Gil y, butler to - Carruthers, Esq., 52, Upper Harley-street, was charged as follows Complainant on the previous evening, while at dinner, observed that the defendant was very inattentive to his duty ; he reminded him of it, and he went on very well till the meat was removed, when he brought in a fruit pudding, which he placed with such insolence and force before Mrs. Carruthers, that the syrup actually spirted in her face. Complainant said to him, " Charles, what do you mean ?" when the latter exclaimed with emphasis, and laying his hand on his heart, " I'm a free-born Englishman ; I'm no slave ; you've been used to govern slaves ; I'm not used to slavery." Complainant then desired him to leave the room, to which he replied, " I'm a man ; I've a soul ; you've a fleshy carcase and no soul." In this way he kept on for a long time, when complitinant sent for a policeman and gave him in charge. The prisoner had nothing to say in defence. Mr. Carruthers (to the Magistrate)--This oppressed Englishman, as he thinks himself, has 351. a year, and lives on the fat of the land. I shall now discharge him. Mr. RAWLINSON (to prisoner)—You belong to a class of persons who are too greatly pampered. You are too well fed, too well paid, have too little to do, and are the most i m pudent set of vagabonds on earth. I hope the loss of your situation will bring you to your senses. You are dis charged. The prisoner, who stood with his arms folded, then left the office. QUEEN-SQUARE. Thomas Jones, the driver of the cabriolet No. 296, was brought up in the custody of Joh n S m ith, a p o li ce cons t a bl e of the L division, No. 35, charged with robbing a Gentle man residing in Kennington-lane of a sovereigu.—Discharged. HATTON-GARDEN. Yesterday Alexander Cousins was put to the bar, charged w ith having stolen a quantity of lead, the property of the trustees of the Smallpox Hospital, Battle-bridge. The Prisoner was fully committed for trial. The following case will, no doubt, be a caution to the public against trusting such characters as the fellow charged with the following impudent robbery : Samuel Carter, attired as a costermonger, was complained of by Mrs. Phillips, the wife of Mr. Edward Richard Phillips, Solicitor, 76, Great Titchfield-street, Marylebone, for haviag stolen a sovereign from her under these circum stances On Tuesday the prisoner was calling " Rabbit 0" near the prosecutor's residence, when Mrs. Phillips hailed him, and agreed to purchase two rabbits which were hanging on a pole over his shoulder. Not having sufficient silver about her to pay for them, she sent one of her servants to endeavour to procure change for a sovereign, but she re turned unsuccessful. The prisoner then offered his services to obtain it, and the lady unfortunately entrusted the sove reign to him. He was seen to enter a public-house, and in half an hour afterwards Mrs. Phillips, hearing nothing of him, ordered her servant to go there in search of him, when she ascertained that he had left the house by a side door leading into Marylebone-lane, arid had not asked for change. About seven o'clock in the evening of the same day Mrs. Phillips happening to be walkin with her hus band in Tottenham-court-road, met with the prisoner, and had him taken into custody. Mr. ROGERS asked the prisoner if he had anything to say to the charge ? • • He said he had not sold a rabbit for upwards of twelve months, and protested that he was innocent of the charge. Mrs. Phillips said she hoped the Magistrate would forgive the prisoner. Mr. ROGERS replied that he certainly should not. Rob beries similar to the present were of daily occurrence, and now, as was very seldom the case, the thief had been appre hended ; therefore for the sake of the public be should make an example of him. The witnesses having been bound over to prosecute, the prisoner was fully committed to Newgate. THAMES POLICE. Yesterday Captain James Hunt, master of the Comet West Indianian, was brought before Mr. Ballantine, charged with assaulting and throwing overboard a seaman named James Nicholson on the 28th of February last, while the ship was lying in Green Harbour, in the Island of Jamaica. The complainant stated that he and several others, his shipmates, had been employed on the day in question in loading the ship, and after working all day they were at night ordered by the Captain to take the raft ashore. He (complainant) objected to this, being much fatigued, and told the Captain he could not go. The Captain, without any further expostnlation, seized him by the waist and threw him overboard into the long boat. He was very severely injured by the fall and was very ill for some time afterwards. Mr. BALLANTINE.—But you refused to work when Or dered to do so? Nicholson.—No, sir ; I only said I had done enough for that day. The Captain could produce witnesses to prove the false hood of the charges made against him. Mr. BALLANTINE said the defendant ought to have been provided with his witnesses, but he would allow the case to stand over until three o'clock, to give him an opportu nity to produce them. At the appointed time the parties again appeared, but the Captain producing no witnesses, he was ordered to find bail to answer the charge at the next Admiralty Sessions. The defendant not being provided with the necessary sureties was given into custody of the gaoler. UNION-HALL. Yesterday, Henry Hollis, a young tradesman residing in Prospect-place, Newington, applied for a warrant against a person to whom he entrusted a sum of money for defraying the expenses attendant on the publication of banns of mar riage, to have been solemnized that morning between him and a young lady to whom he was attached. The applicant had been paying his addresses for some length of time to a young lady, the daughter of a tradesman in the silk business. Three weeks ago yesterday it was ar ranged that the banns should be put up at Waterloo Church, and for this purpose a female, considered until now the mutual friend of both parties, was entrusted with the money to pay the expenses requisite for that purpose. In stead, however, of his friend performing the office which she had undertaken to execute, she never went near the church, neglected to put up the banns, and converted the money for that specific object to her own um. The appli cant then narrated the grievous disappointment which he and the young lady to whom he was to be married sustained, owing to the imposition practised upon them on the occasion. The MAGISTRATE inquired the amount of the sum entrust to the party against whom the complaint was alleged ? Applicant.—The money, your worship, is but a mere secondary consideration : it is the disappointment that we have met with that has occasioned me to come forward to the complaint. The MAGISTRATE asked how the applicant had disco vered that the money which was to have been appropriated for having the banns published was not expended for that particular purpose ? Applicant—l shall tell your Worship in a few words how the discovery took place. This morn ing we were to have, been married. - The bride, myself, and the friends who were to have given her away had a coach, and on our arrival at the church the parson declined solemnizing the marriage, on the ground that the banns had not been previously published. The books were re ferred to ;no entry of our names appeared, and - we were all obliged to go back as we came. The bride unfortu nately took, it into her head that I was the chief cause of the disappointment ; but `I soon convinced her of her error, and, after some slight recrimination on the subject, matters were finally adjusted between us by the exposure of the real offender. The MAGISTRATE asked the applicant whether he had seen the party to whom he entrusted the money to put up the banns since the disappointment ? The applicant re plied that her name was Mary Ann Dee, and that on his return from the church, disappointed as he was, he went to her house, and upbraided her for converting the money to a different use to that for which it was intended. She denied the charge, declared that she had paid the fees for the publication of the banns into the hands of Mr. Brown, the parish clerk, and he (applicant) insisted on her meet ing that individual face to face to bear out her assertion. She did accompany him to the clerk, but she prevaricated so grossly that it was• quite evident she had not been near the church before. The applicant added, that it was his intended bride who paid over the fees to the person against whom he complained. The MAGISTRATE said that if the applicant intended to pursue the matter any further, it would be necessary that the young lady should attend herself to prove the fact of her having given the money to Mrs. Dee for the specific pur pose of putting up the banns of their marriage. The applicant said that both himself and the lady to whom he was to be married agreed in the determination to punish a woman who had so deceived them, and that for his part he should spare neither pains, trouble, nor expense, in following up the matter. The MAGISTRATE recommended the applicant to let the matter drop as the sum was so trifling, to save the young lady the unpleasantness of appearing publicly at that office. If, however, her fe e li ngs did no t happen to be very sensi tive on the subject, and that she applied personally, any application that she thought proper to make should be at tended to. The applicant again reverted to the grievous disappoint ment experienced by him and his intended bride, owing to their having been sent back from the church without being married. They must now wait for three weeks longer until the banns were published, and there was, no telling what might happen in the interval to blast their hoees - ilf happi ness. He added, " Mrs. Dee is the whole and sole cause' of all this disappointment, and 1 can't forgive her foi. prac tising such a piece of gross deception upon two young peo ple ; she deserves severe punishment." The MAGISTRATE said that the applicant had better return to the young,lady and consult with her •on the subject ; that the better way for them to proceed was to have the banns put up; and not to leave it to a third party, but go to the church themselves, and then there would be no danger of a disappointment. The applicant expressed his determination to go himself to Waterloo Church next Sunday and put up the banns, and not leave so important a trust in the bands of a:other. He then left the office, having thanked the Magistrates for their attention to his application. SIIOCKING CASE OF DEPRAVITY OF TWO FE MALES.—Yesterday morning, about seven o'clock, two females engaged a cab from their lodging near Temple-bar, and or dered the cabman to drive to the London Hospital ; but as they proceeded they altered their minds, and ordered him to drive to the Chelsea Workhouse, and on their arrival there, the porter at the gate would not admit them without an order from a magistrate or overseer. After some hesitation, the cabman proceeded direct to Mr. Toby, one of the overseers of the parish, when one of the females informed him' that her friend in the cab had been taken in labour on the road to the workhouse. The overseer replied, " how could you be guilty of such barbarity and disgraceful conduct as to leave your home and permit your friend, who was in such a precarious state, to proceed through so many parishes, and not to have applied to any of them for surgical assistance ?" He immediately gave an order for her admittance to the workho use, and to -nlorm the parish surgeon on their way back, which they did, and on their arrival at the workhouse, to the utter astonishment of the porter, the nurses, and other inmates of the house, on helping the patient out, they found that she had been delivered, and the child lying dead at the bottom of the cab. It is supposed that both females knew of the circumstance, which, on their being accused of, they strenuously denied. It is understood to be the intention of the overseer, on her recovery, to take the mother before a magistrate, and have the case thoroughly investigated. - - WICK, AIJG. 25.—The last week's fishing was a little better than the previous part of the season, the boats averaging about five crans each, as much as the whole four weeks preceding. This is nothing, however, to what was ex pected, at the Lammas stream, which usually is so productive. Before this day last year, there were 170,000 crans caught here—this year scarcely 10,000. This is a great deficiency, and we have reason to fear it will not be made up this season. The boats have put to sea to-night, but most of them are now on their return, in consequence of a heavy sea from a strong north east wind. Thurso, and west of it, did little last week ; Orkney is also poorly fished. In short, there is not one-tenth of a fishing from Cape Wrath to Helmsdale. Some places on the Latheron coast have been so unproductive that the boats will not average a cran or barrel each, and even here there is a number of boats who have most diligently toiled five weeks, and not got a single cran. Oatmeal has fallen to 14s. per boll, and without herrings other things will be in proportion, but it is not yet so bad as a country man would seem to have had it, who gravely asked the other day, if it was true that the banks had shut and the jail was full ! Small pox has visited our neighbourhood, and proved fatal to one of the fishermen. — Inverness Courier. GREECE. ......_....„--___ (From a Morning Paper Correspondent.) to .1 NAUPLIA, AUG. 6.—One of' the political evolutions, ~ which G reece h as d ur i ng th e l as t 10 years been subjected, I now been completed. On Thursday last informationcl reached the foreign Ministers, that by order of the King e ' Bavaria, some alteration was to be effected in the RegencY: Early in the aft ernoon M. Von Kobell entered this to ss , accompanied by his suite, and as it was the fete when - Elias, the public thr o n ge d the ga te in the evening, .0 the news was freely discus se d. M. Katakasi, the Russia n Minister, who had long thre a t e n e d to take a cruis e, got es board on Thursday night, a s if he had lost the ba ttle, an sailed to find his lady at the Hellespont. On Saturday morning the Regency met, and NI. 11. Kobell, whose appearance is like a good-humoured Vdato shireman, and whose knowledge of business is suPP °se o f be extensive, as he for years had been the draughtsman..., all the decisions formed in the Royal Council in Basatalo attended there, and after M. Maurer had, with his W I former colleagues, signed the decree for his own remos;ae: M. Kobell took his place. M. Abel, the former suPP` _ mentary member of the Regency, was also recalled byre! simple letter from Munich, and may, as it is said, be reP t . seated, in case of need, by General Lesuire, the Ministe of War, whose past conduct is generally praised. The change in the looks of some of the intriguing ciates of the late majority was ludicrous, even as inu e “,s, t , the triumphant joy of their opponents. By one fell swoop wri, King of Bavaria removed the whole company of intrigile. ne who, but eight days before, were exultant in their suns prospects. Some of the few who, unmixed with party considerations' the are desirous of promoting the welfare of Greece, regret t he departure of M. Maurer, to whom the preparation of ea ,1 codes of law was intrusted, and who has alreedy Pa? l.lsb nt s. about two-thirds of several : the whole are said to vet„" c . pared; yet so jealous is he of the interference °f his 7 o f cessors, that he refuses to part with the concluding Pa r ": I his MSS. until Otho, to whom he has promised to gilt them, shall have assumed the reins of Government• t s c h attributes his recall to the machinations of Russia , ":1, 1- $ are stated to have imbued the King of Bavaria 0 i t .7, 0 belief that he was about to endow Greece with rePti bil- institutions. _ sa l, In the meantime, the battle of intrigue has began , a s It s f upon a new field. The Russian adherents, althoughttoon, their great chiefs, Colocotroni and Coliopulos, under a c I . s l demnation of twenty years' imprisonment, as well as se're4 subordinate persons, are still in prison, have dared to Pl tbe their heads proudly, for they affect to believe that t he late alteration in the Regency was but a victory o', Al English party over the French one, and they say a l " - they desire is but division among their enemies. Perf' The good sense and judgment of Count Arm a " t he who is now the prime mover of the Government, kee! g h attempts of the excited factions under control. A lto he has reason to be dissatisfied with the procce ua ''.et , some of the Ministers, he has not removed them a s i l ur being anxious to provide fit successors. There way 3 Or sian rumour circulated that he intended immediately t° er rate Colocotroni and Coliopulos ; but well-informed ti, sons assert that it is his intention to have fill other in" tba t duals now in prison submitted to a fair trial, in he may see the proofs of the conspiracy of Colocotroni an d properly before the world. The trial of Polyzoidgs the Terzetti, the two judges, whose conduct was so odd a t t p s e conclusion of Colocotroni's trial, in the beginning ° l m slei last, was about to take place on last Friday, but PuIY I L he contrived to postpone it on the pretence of illness, -be learned that morning that the Regency was about ! t° o 4 changed. An attempt having been made in the begi e rile t • of last week to influence the minds of the judges by ° lace ing one of them to take leave of absence, in order to P ~ e j order. laid a Bavarian in his room, Count Armansperg has en l P. l° Tel. the latter elsewhere. The trial of Polyzoides a nd in ; t o low-judge, which cannot be avoided, as the ind ict , ra , e lace are already laid against them, is expected to tak e i i, et' within a short time. The political prisoners will , it - petted, he also brought to trial speedily. ar' j Independent of the arrangements of the c odes ~ courts, the new Regency will have much to do in tbet:rt, rious branches of the Government. The Finance P l,Je i r ment is said to have been much neglected, and a re ling of that administration must be speedily effected . „es The party which has been forced to surrender the all into ment affect to believe that Count Armansperg will fa : s tate the snares of Russia, even more than they did. Th e 'd 11) that he will be led soon to liberate Colocotroni A P ant to associates, and that he will be induced to send an agrrbes Constantinople, in order to conciliate the Patriarch. 'we opponents aver that the Minister of Worship under tbileiti4 Regency was guilty of an absurdity in writing iris letters to the Patriarch, instead of soothing him, a t the Abe' when all the Greek bishops were agreed in Synod t° h ips lish his jurisdiction in their country. Instead of y o ° t i s tet, the old gentleman whose power was curtailed, this Ali an d added insult, thereby sharpening the religious aral' It i 5 arguments which Russia uses to obtain proselytes. O,J the same Minister, a relative of Katakasi, who is o il of leading the late Regency into many acts of folly, a' c eSl which was that of having a bishop,'.his cousin, intr`;of into the Synod, where he acted as a spy and embron,'tter the whole measure of the separation. It is a s trong a 1 ,` 1 1 ,,,e0 of suspicion among observers, that this Minister, he t ac isi whom and Katakasi there is a pretended quarrel, ha s . in a line of policy adapted to the views of the R ussi a The conduct of King Otho on the occasion of this ch at t o appears to give satisfaction to both parties. It svpas e t pled' be expected that a young man of nineteen should le: o ro‘ sure in losing the professors who had for some time innate ted him in the various branches of civil and politicat4 i s' ledge necessary for Royalty. The partisans of M . ' ' i l i el assert that Otho declared to him, on the receipt of tb,, , ,,s ° of his removal, that he regretted his father the r' i . l l . 3 illc Bavaria bad been deceived by intrigues ; and thej', l° s o (li _ pretend that M. Maurer is likely to return after a ' i t t iefli ten months, when Otho shall be fully King. Baran b oie n the French Minister at this Court, on Monday l ast - r ett lf. to Otho the decorations of the Legion of Honour , i t ' i t t` ) for the order of the Saviour which Otho lately se' Louis Philippe. II! 1 tio° fort e' Among the measures stated to be in contemP•3 fort the Regency is to discipline 2,000 or 3,000 of the u9 ,,po r/ j nate Palichari, who, after they shed their blood t 0 s e e r t si Greece, have been during two years left to neg i n e s ee,„ starvation. This measure will be useful in many r esr ldi e ' s c it will employ those who know no other trade than sa e serf and it will serve to consolidate Greece more tha n t `i, s e sensical expedition against Maina, by establishing 3 1 tf lji native troops to defend its institutions. do ab ol The removal of the capital to Athens is Ye t 0 11 * particularly as the want of money for that purp ose ai d, apprehended. The first plan has been found too , • cent, and has been abandoned. The architect of t , b l ,e er. of Bavaria arrived here with M. Von Kobell, f ar e "oree e '' pose of drawing up one suited to the finances 0 ' and the taste of his master. th e in m ut 0 1.1 Upwards of 160 steerage passengers ' e ir P packet-ship Independence, which arrived on Thurod v 4 New York.—Liverpool Albion, MARRIED. 13 i5 11 :a• On the 21st ult., at Florence, at the house of th e —rI l OS' ter, William Michael Wylie, Esq., of Merton College, I Ann, daughter of William Moffat, Esq. On the 2d i ns t., a t St. M ar k' s Ch urc h, K en ningtO; 11. IV Esq., to Agnes Charlotte, relict of the late Lieut•— DZ." George. . n .. too. f ..,.• ,S'l 9n the 23th ult., at St. Nicholas Church, D"§ h .a., 0 .., ,, Rev. Charles Bradley, Thomas Turner a-Beckett, A i r l o , ..- ,t aig Inn, Holborn, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of 31 ' , i0,, r 0, of Bloomsbury-square, London. , ~ Tri oth,. f. d i At Wingfield Lodge, the residence of the IaRY "1 ,s, `" 0 r county Clare, James O'Dowd, Esq., barrister -at-1 4 , el v daughter of the late Edward D'Altou, of Wood Par 'e ll' ? county. : Co'' 0 Franc • e On the 2d inst., at Weyhill, by the Rev. lie e t , Edward Harrison, Esq., of Southampton, to Miss ~ Oct , tenay, of the same place Willi'', of 01 On the lt inst., at Gainsborough Lincolnshire,c of 'he Esq., of the Inner Temple, barrister-at -law aSughte John's College, Cambridge, to Charlotte, see 4nd late Morehouse Metcalfe, Esq. • • P ig ---- DIED.so' of On the 2cl inst., at Beddington Park, Surrey, Admire use' Hallowell Carew, G.C.8., in his 74th year. o c4 . l b, ° of , On the 3d inst., at Bayswater, aged 45, Ibeh ar ,"_ 5 0 11° 0' 0 ) Bedford-square, and of King's Bench-walk, TernVel av F.,Cor On the 30th ult., at the residence of her son, Ba re ,Ilt Esq., in Charlotte-street, Portland-place, Jane , the jel- . 11)13 John r, George Mence, in her 68th year. p , Esq., in his 72d year. el C rv. 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On the 3d inst., in Craven-street, the wife of Pl l .- -, r• . Breton, Esq., of a daughter. On the 3d inst., at Camberwell, Mrs. Aveline, of 3 . (13 , 4 " itr5e : On the 3d inst., in Caroline-street, Bedford-scri`-e V St On traig he ht, of a daug. - 23d ult hter ~ at Bordeaux, the lady of Nathaniel John jun., Esq., of a son. . 0' 'il ,f ' to MARRIED. iq "ti sh r :rti , On the 21st ult., at Florence, at the house of th e —1.1 0 P) ter, William Michael Wylie, Esq., of Merton Col le g e, 4 1P e r Ann, daughter of William Moffa;,Esq. Fl. S r, On the 2(1 inst., at St. Mark's Church, Kenningo n lon e x•-- . —. ... .. -. . . C° 01 the Et