The Sun. — London, England, 1834-01-23 00:00:00

tack of the Republican armies, he wigevehtually and signally defeated, three-fourths of ! provided soldiers having perished in one cam paign. In 1805 with Austria, and in 1806 with what remained of the Prussian armies, to assist her, Russia never could stand before the troops of France , and within her own territory, in 1812, she was beaten in every action, until f' force of her invader sunk under the adverse elements. At sea the power of the Russian empire is little more formidable than that of Turkey herself. Why, then, should France and England dread to encounter her in defence of the freedom and safety of Europe ? A journal some days ago put forth an article of singularly puny and inefficient fabric, in a spirit of doleful dandyism, to apologise for the non-interference of France in behalf of the Poles during their last virtuous but disastrous effort to restore their na tional liberties. The justification of France, and by consequence of England, is made to rest on the answer to two questions. 1. Would Prussia have joined her arms to those of Russia ? 2. Would Austria have done the same ? And as the paper replies in the affirmative to both queries —ergo, France and England must be considered blameless -7. e. d. Now, we affirm in the broadest ❑canner that if France and Eng land had shown themselves determined to risk a war for the release of Poland, no power but Russia, already engaged, would have dared to oppose them. What did Mr. Canning pro nounce seven years ago, long before France had declared for constitutional liberty, and whilst England yet stood its solitary and unaided champion ? His fear, said Mr. Canning, was not of the weakness, but of the resistless and tremendous force with which this country would be armed for the first war upon the Continent. His conviction was, that under whatever name, or on whatever immediate provocation, war might be commenced, it would inevitably and speedily take upon itself the form and spirit of a war of opinion,--a war for civil liberty on the part of nations, on that of despotic rulers for the maintenance ofarbitrary power. What, then, did the acute and penetrating mind of Mr. Canning foresee to be the issue of such a con flict ? Did he dread the military governments ? Was it not the certainty, the completeness, and the possible results of their violent overthrow, which alone induced him to hesitate ? And is the principle of representative government less predominant now than when Mr. Canning spoke? Has the growth of liberty been less vigorous ? Is the accession of all France to England nothing ? Why should these two free countries but shake their flags before the eyes of the mi litary monarchies, the whole musket-ridden con tinent would on the in'tant raise the people's standard of defiance to arbitrary power. Even confining ourselves to the case of Poland, let us ask, would Prussia, with the Rhenish provinces hanging to her by so slight a ligament, and with her whole Baltic commerce at our mercy, would Prussia have dared to move but one single re giment to a battle with the united force of France and of this country ? Still less would Austria dare to exchange a volley. Italy is at this moment in the slips, and waits but a signal from the summit of St. Bernard to burst from the hands of her tormentors. The Hungarians were with extreme difficulty, as is well known, restrained from joining their fierce and gallant bands to those of Poland in the year 1831, and were kept in the mere show of obedience to Austria by no other means than the (reluctant) mode ration and forbearance of the latter Government towards that insurgent people. Would Austria and Prussia have stirred therefore ? Not they, not an inch : if they had, their thrones were not worth a twelvemonth's purchase. But as to Turkey. Is that vast and fertile country—is the command of the Mediterranean commerce, to be sacrificed by France and England to the will of Russia ? For w hat ?—for fear that she might seize them both in spite of us! Why then, if that be the worst that could happen after fighting, and that by fighting we have the only chance to prevent it, was there ever a course so stupid, so dastardly, so contemptible, as that of unresisting submission ? We are subdued and trampled on with our eyes open, and with grounded arms.— Times. The liberality which Whig patriots really cherish towards the Press is exemplified by the conduct of Lord Durham, who still pursues criminally a country Newspaper for a ridiculous paragraph, of which it gave subsequently, by way of reparation, a positive and complete Con tradiction ; but it seems no atonement can satisfy this patriot but a penal one, as if the vindication of character was not as satisfactorily attained by a retraction of the offensive statement through `le same channel which originally circulated it An anti-tithe meeting was held at Liskeard, in Cornwall, on Thursday, the 16th inst., when a petition was agreed upon for the abolition of tithes, as "being oppressive in their nature and unjust in their exaction." The most striking occurrence of the day was the perusal of a letter from Mr. Charles Buller, M.P. for the borough, but prevented by business from leaving London, explanatory of his sentiments on the tithe ques tion, and no less explicit on that of the corn laws. It is, we trust, quite needless for this journal to repeat the conviction, which it has so frequently and emphatically expressed, that it would be impossible for any Government to continue the tithe system against the universal unanimous feeling of the country, and that were such an object attainable, it would still be most iniquitous, in the teeth of those pledges which have been offered through Parliament to the nation. The people of England, generally, are not so reluctant to pay the amount of income lawfully demandable by the clergy, as to con tribute it under a form which has been made the cover for such infinite vexation to the tithe payer, which amounts, in fact, to a penalty upon the cultivator of the soil for the outlay of his capital with a view to its improvement, and has by necessary conseqttence impeded or greatly en feebled and retarded the increase of agricul tural produce, that produce itself being rendered so much more difficult of access to the consumer by the stupid and insufferable tax upon im ported corn. Let us never then, in arguing uron these closely related questions, the tithe law and the corn law, forget that the first is a direct discouragement to the active culture of the soil, whilst the second professes to indemnify the agriculturists for that injury, by half starving 1 the rest of the nation. That tithe must be commuted, therefore, no man in his senses can doubt. The method of commutation may be a fit subject of inquiry, or rather may have been so, for it is presumed that from the period which has elapsed since the Ministerial pledge on this important subject was promulgated, the principle of the measure has ere now been thoroughly sifted, and the plan of it prepared and completed ; that so the occasional error of a preceding session may be henceforth shunned, and Ministers, by a perfect understanding of the • remedy which they themselves propose for an evil which they have long ago admitted, may be enabled to justify it to themselves and others, and be under no necessity of substituting for it the crude and unconsidered suggestions whether of friends or enemies. Mr. Buller's letter above referred to is in our judgment, that of a frank, uncompromising, and clear-headed Member of Parliament, and of an honest man resolved to do his duty. - The Hon. Gentleman, though well aware of the opposite views entertained by the landholders of the West of England with regard to the scale by which a tithe commuta tion ought to he regulated, states broadly the injustice of assigning to the incumbent but one tenth of the average rent of land, when he is by the letter of the law entitled to a full tenth of the produce. The rent being taken by Mr. Buller at one third of the produce (and that we have reason to believe an exaggerated average), lie asks whether it be fair or upright to give the Church but a tenth of one third instead of a tenth of the whole —or, in other words, a thirtieth instead of a tenth of the gross produce. We have in former articles remarked that the revenues allotted to the whole body of the clergy were not often complained of by well-informed persons as exorbitant ; at the same time, it is undt*rstood sufficiently that the full tenth allowed by law never has been, indeed never could have been, exacted. The rational scheme would, therefore, be to calculate ji - )e amount which, in practice, has been received by the Church and by the lay impropriators, and settle the commu tation for both by the same rule, inasmuch as we cannot perceive why any one right or inci dent of property should be violated in the one case of tithe, and in the other held sacred. Above all, it must be obvious to the mind of every man, that a diminution of the fund set apart for the parochial clergy, that the difference might be pocketed by the squires —those squires to whom we owe the Game Laws, the Corn Laws, and the utter corruption of the Poor Laws— would be, of all the arrangements in this world, the most preposterous, iniquitous, and odious. This point is pint with great force and perspi cuity by Mr. Buller, with regard to the corn laws, which are dwelt upon in his letter at considerable length, and in a strain of reasoning with which we generally coincide, although the Honourable Gentleman appears more tolerant of the medics terminus of a fixed duty on foreign corn, than we should expect of one who felt the bearing of the main—the two-fold (and to us incontrovertible) argument against the existing tax on corn—viz., the impolicy and injustice of any tax whatever. The peculiar. grievance of the present impost may be that it is uncertain, deceitful, and ill framed, even for its ostensible purpose ; but as to a " fixed" duty, it is neither more nor less titan a fixed evil—a fixed discouragement of manufacture— a fixed robbery of the consumer by the pro ducer—a fixed bounty upon foreign industry, to the detriment of British--a fixed aggravation of the burden of the poor laws—a fixed mono poly of subsistence against the hungry multitude. Sir William Molesworth delivered an argumen tative speech against the continuance of tithe, and against the spoliation of existing interests ; but the Honourable Baronet expressed some sentiments adverse to the support of an Esta blished Church by other than merely its own communicants, in which we at least cannot con cur.—Tames. The irresolute and feeble policy disclosed of late by the French Ministers sin -what relates to the general condition of Europe, shared, as we fear, by some of our influential people, leaves us without any reasonable prospect that a check will be opposed to the aggressions of the Court of St. Petersburgh, in time to save the Turkish empire from her grasp, or the so-called b a l ance of pow er i n th e E as t f ro m its final overthrow and ruin. We have already said that the force of Russia, when exhibited otherwise than in self-defence, had been utterly unreal and imagi nary, until it was created by the improvidence of other Powers in looking tamely at her successive • encroachments on neighbouring and defenceless States, and improved by the slow but undisturbed consolidation of her conquests. We repeat, that she has never yet dared to grapple hand to hand with any great European Power beyond the limits of her own inhospitable soil, save only when supported by some strong alliance. In the seven years' war she leagued herself with France and Austria against the then secondary state of Prus sia, under Frederick, and was, on the whole, :- with such immense advantages in her favour, I''': lime frequently beaten than victorious. Even C .- . when Buw atraw h a d Austria to divide the at- as by any punishment. It cannot be said with any truth that Lord Durham now continues to proceed against the Durham Advertiser for the purpose of disproving the truth of the charge made against him by the verdict of a Jury. The rule for filing a criminal information has been made absolute, and after that is done there can be no further inquiry as to the truth or false hood by the Jury. No evidence need be offered by the prosecutor to disprove its truth, —no evidence can be offered by the defendant, even if the charge were true, to prove its truth. The only question for the Jury will be, the fact of publication, and whether the publica tion, without any reference to its truth or false hood, is a libel. The prosecutor has already denied the charge by affidavit—the defendant has, in his paper, admitted the charge to be un founded,—why then does a " Liberal," under these circumstances, prosecute the Press? Is it to afford an additional proof of the generosity and indulgence with which the Whigs view that organ of opinion to which they are indebted for their power, and the freedom of which they have not sparingly exercised in their remarks upon their political opponents? The Durham Ad vertiser says—" After the Noble Earl's positive contradiction of our paragraph, we are bound to believe it is not true, and we must, therefore, express our regret that it should ever have been received into our columns, our anxious desire being to exclude from them every statement which is not based in truth." Yet this is said not to be a positive contradiction. If it be not, we know not what is. The Editor expresses his belief that he had been led into error by a correspondent in whose statement he reposed confidence, but, upon the assertion of the Noble Lord himself, he says he is bound to believe the paragraph not to be true. This we should have thought rather complimentary to the veracity of the Noble Lord, as his otvn denial of the charge is taken as equivalent to all other evidence. But really a man is not fit fo r p u bli c life wh o appears to , be so irritable and thin skinned, and so prone to pit his dignity against silly paragraphs, as Lord Durham has shown himself to be. What greatness of mind in an English Statesman does this not display ? And a Statesman, too, who has sought popularity by something like ultra-Liberalism of sentiment. A genuine Statesman—a patriot of high-mi integrity would smile at the idea of having his peace of mind disturbed by such nonsense. Let this ultra-Liberal take example of the Duke of Newcastle, who has been libelled a thousandfold more than be has been, and has not resorted to the technical justice of a Court of Law for the vindication of his character. As to the conduct of the editor of the Standard, in offering him self to his Lordship's wrath, it is deserving of the highest praise : it gives to the Press a triumph of moral courage and moral worth which the British public will not fail to appreciate. As to Lord Durham, we think he should be better employed in giving the public an explicit narrative of that expensive embassy to the Auto crat of Russia, which is yet involved in so much obscurity, than in prosecuting newspapers for that silly trash which has called down his indig.- nation. England, it must be confessed, never stood more in need of high-minded Statesmen than she does at present —men capable of disre• garding the little considerations of self in ; generous anxiety for the salvation of their coun, try.—Morning Herald. The Times of yesterday pays the subordi• nates in office the compliment of saying that they are all Tories —or, in other words, that they are gentlemen ; from this naturally enough infers that they are unfit to serve under their present superiors, and recommends that they should all, without exception, be dismissed. Let the Times be content. The gentlemen in office would have been turned out long ago, had not the Whig Ministers been painfully conscious that they cannot carry on the business of the country without their assistance. That a large proportion of official men rejoice, - and do not conceal their joy, on any prospect of the present Administration being out, proves only their patriotism and their frankness. But the asser tion of the Times, that they make any distinc tion between Whigs and Tories, who have business to transact in their respective offices, is, of course, a mere effusion of impotent ma lice, goaded to desperation by the repeated and intolerable mortifications which, within the last few days, the Whig Ministers and their favoured Journal have brought upon themselves, - and upon each other.—Morning Post. We give insertion elsewhere to two articles which, we doubt no!, will he read with interest, and which assuredly paint in no very flattering colours the character of the Agitator, who, for years past, has been drawing an enormous rent from the poor people of Ireland, for no other appa rent service done or rendered than that of having kept them in a state of perpetual ferment. The first is a letter from " Thomas Steele," who now signs himself; " A Member of the Glorious Birmingham Political Union," but who is better known, both here and in Ireland, as a member of the Irish " Order of Liberators." This doughty champion does not declare war against the leader under whose banners he had formerly enrolled himself ; but when it is remembered of him that he said on a former occasion that "there is but one man in existence fit to be the leader of Ireland : to name him is unnecessary—it is he of whom I said in one of my speeches, read in the House of Lords during the discus sion on the Coercion Bill, that cif he were to order me, for the good of Ireland, to stand upon a mine which was to be sprung, I would obey the order, and await the explosion'"—it may, we say, be fairly enough asserted that no ordinary cause could have occasioned such a change in the sentiments of so ardent an admirer of the Agitator, and that, cceteris paribus, can be any thing but honourable to that personage. What that cause may, have been—whether it is that Mr. O'Connell has been found to exhibit an " itching palm" for office, or to display too strong a desire " to wring from the hard hands Of peasants the vile trash" which they can so ill afford to part with—does not appear ; but certain it would seem that the champion who, if an order had been given by O'Connell " to stand upon a mine which was to be sprung, would have obeyed that order," is determined no longer to preside over the Limerick Li berators, " sitting upon the treaty stone with an Irish harp suspended over his head !" When a house is divided against itself—but the saying is too well known to require repetition. The second point of Irish intelligence to which we alluded, is the sentence passed upon Barrett, the publisher of an Irish newspaper, and in which newspaper a most seditious letter, signed " Daniel O'Connell," and which had previously appeared, we believe, in several English journals, was inserted. That the said lever was not only most libellous, but most seditious, there can be as little doubt as that the publication of it sub= jetted the party who gave it circulation to all the pains and penalties which a Jury and Judge might award for such an infraction of the law ; but it was hoped foolishly hoped that the author of the letter would come for ward and boldly avow the writing and transmission of it, rather than that the comparatively innocent publisher should suffer for his indiscretion. The Government, however, waited i►► vain—the author of the letter shrunk from the responsibility from which his pub lisher could not, with editorial honour, retire— and the consequence has been that Barrett, after a most fair trial, and most just conviction, has been sentenced to reside within the priso❑ of Kilmainham gaol for the next six months — (Daniel O'Connell remaining very comfortably without, and living upon the " rint")—t o pay a fine of 1001. to the King—to . be further im prisoned till such fine be paid—and, finally, to give security to keep the peace for seven years, himself in 5001. and two sureties in 2501. each. Such are the fruits of agitation, and of placing reliance on the honour of those who have not enough of the commodity to save their own characters from disgrace. The sentence will be deemed by some to be severe ; but double the amount would be a lenient punishment for the author of the letter.—Morning Advertiser. DIVISION OF PARlSHES.—Yesterday a Vestry Meeting of the parish of Ealing was held at the Cross-house, to consider the propriety of petitioning Parliament to relieve the inhabitants of Ealing from cer tain rates and expenses peculiar to the town of Old Brentford. The Rev. Sir H. Oakley, Bart., Vicar of Ealing, took the chair. Colonel Simond moved the adoption of the petition in question, and contended that Ealing should not be obliged to support the poor of Brent ford, and pay for the lighting and paving of that district. J. T. Hope, Esq., Mr. Round, Churchwarden, Mr. Bond, Churchwarden, Mr. Rowe, Mr. Sleep, Solicitor, and Col. Clitheroe, spoke against the petition, on the ground that the separation o f t h e parish from Ealing would be most unjust. Several servants who had been in the employment of farmers at Ealing were now in the Brentford poor house. Besides, property in Ealing would be unfairly enhanced, at the expense of that in Brentford.—An amendment moved by Mr. Round was carried unani mously. Colonel Sitnond said the Vestry was entirely filled with parishioners of Old Brentford. The result of the meeting was hailed with great rejoicings in the town, and the church bells rang g merry peal. MANSION- HO USE. John Carter, an old fellow in the habit of levying distresses for brokers, and Charlotte Watkin, a young woman whom he seduced a few years ago, when she was no more than fourteen years old, were brought before the LORD MAYOR, charged with robh The prisoners were remanded. QUEEN-S QUARE. JUVENILE VAGRANCY.—Yesterday four little boys, named Thomas Savory, Edward Lennard, Paul Quinn, and Edward Hill, apparently from nine to twelve years of age, were brought betore Mr. BURRELL, charged with sleeping in the open air. A police constable of the B division on the pre vious night found all the boys sleeping in a shutter box in James-street, Buckingham -gate; finding they had no home he took them to the station-house. Mr. BURRELL inquired whether any of the chil dren were known ?—The inspector said that the eldest boy, Savory, had just come out of the House of Correction, where he had been imprisoned six months. Lennard had also been at the office before on a charge of begging. The boy Savory got his living by Sweeping the crossings, but not having got halfperice.enough he was afraid to go home to his mother. Mr. BURRELL ordered Savory to be impriso: three weeks in the House of Correction, Lennard fourteen days, and the others ten days each. The children all bowed to the Magistrate, ex claiming, " Thank you, Sir ; we are very much obliged to you." They were then locked up. Michael Langley and James Sankey, two boys about ten or twelve years of age, who sleep in St. Margaret's workhouse, and William Stone, the son of. a poor woman who receives parish relief, were placed at the b:tr before Mr. WHITE, charged with stealing half a cottage loaf, valued at 24d., from the shop of Mr. John Paragreen, baker, of No. .54, Great Peter-street, 'Westminster. Sarah King saw the boys lurking about the shop, when Langley snatched up the half loaf, gave it to . Sankey, who gave it to Stone, and they all ran away. Mrs. Stone, the mother of the prisoner, had applied to the overseers for some relief, and they had refused her, although she was in great distress. She would sooner have seen her child a corpse at her feet than he should have been guilty of stealing. The mother appeared dreg .fully affected, and shed tears:as she viewed her cliAd in the dock. The overseer had frequently .elieved Stone with orders for bread and with money. Last week she certainly sent her children to him for some relief, and he refused them, desiring them at the same time to send their tnother to him if she wanted any thing, but she never came near. Mr. Castall, the overseer, here produced a book to show the amount of relief furnished to Mrs. Stone, and added that a few months ago she applied fOr some money to purchase a donkey, and 30s. were given to her for that purpose ; but it was expended in some other way ; at the same time he was willing to admit that she was a hard-working, industrious woman, and did everything she could for her family. Mr. WHITE adjourned the case from the previous day in order that the parish officers might be present. He was quite satisfied with the explanation. Mrs. Stone—lndeed, Sir, I wish my boy was dead at my feet sooner than see him a thief. Mr. WHITE believed her to be a very good mo ther to her child, but that was no reason why he should thieve. The boy Stone said' that h was he that took•the half loaf, and not Langley, and they all pleaded hunger as the cause. The two boys Langley and Sankey said that they were allowed to sleep in St. Margaret's workhouse. Some bread was given them in the morning, and they were then turned into the streets, until the evening. Mr. WHITE committed them all for trial, and the parties were bound over to prosecute. HATTON-GARDEN. Yesterday Ann Shropshire, an elderly female, was re-examined by Mr. ROGERS, charged by the churchwardens of Islington parish with having stolen a variety of bibles and prayer and hymn books from Islington church, belonging to several respectable famifies'and the parochial schools. She was fully committed for trial on the above charge, and she will be brought up again in a few days to have other charges exhibited against her. THAMES POLICE. Thomas Mowatt. a biscuit-baker, and Thomas Lemore, a labourer, were brought before Mr. BAL. fiLoAuNrTaiNndE,bcishcairiigtes,d the w p ith r o s t p e e a r l t i y u g of a m large essrs quantity Fraser a and Hullah, ship bscuit-bakers, of High-street,Wapping The Magistrate fully committed them for trial. The COURT granted a rule to show cause. Mr. PALMER moved for a writ of habeas corpus bring up two prisoners from the Justitia hulk, for he purpose of assigning errors in the prosecution. The COURT ordered the writ to issue. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, JAN. 22 (Before Mr. Commissioner EvANs.) ➢IINCHIN, CARTER, AND KELLY'S BANKRUPTCY. A meeting of the creditors under the commission of bankruptcy issued against Andrew Minchin, William Groves Carter, and Arthur Kelly, of Ports mouth, bankers, was held to-day, for the proof of debts and the declaration of a final dividend. The commission of bankruptcy against this firm was issued on the 4th of September, 1819, and the proceedings have been of a very complicated and praiseworthy nature. The total number of cre ditors against the estate is between five and six thousand, and the debts proved at the many meet ings previously held amount to 161,2931. Os. 7d. The debts proved during the meeting of this day were very small, not exceeding 52/. The total amount of dividends already declared amount to 12s. 6d, in the pound. Mr. Goldsmid, the official assignee, presented his accounts, from which it appeared that, after deduct ing the necessary expenses since his appointment, there remained a balance of 2,974/. 7s. sd. appli cable to a dividend; and Mr. Commissioner Evans announced a final dividend of twopence in the pound, to be payable in about a month. There were not any proceedings to-day on the private estates. UNION-HALL. On Tuesday night a poor ragged little boy, with out shoes or stockings, was brought up by a police man, agreeably to the directions he had received from Mr. Wedgwood, who it appeared had fre quently observed him begging in the Clapham -road at late hours. The boy was taken care of in the station-house during the night, and yesterday morn ing he was brought before Mr. MURRAY, who sent for his mother on the occasion, and the result of the examination will exhibit the profligacy of her con duct towards him. The little boy stated his name to be Riley, and that he lived with his parents in Kent -street. He was nine years of age, and his mother was in the habit of sending him out begging every morning, and gave him strict injunctions be fore leaving home not to return back without bring ing a certain sum with him. He generally left home about half-past nine, o'clock in the morning, and sometimes did not return again until 11 o'clock at night, as he was afraid to appear before his mother if he did not happen to get the sum she expected. Mr. Wedgwood had frequent seen the little boy wandering along the Clapham-road as late as eleven o'clock at night, begging of all who passed him. He was certainly an object of compassion, having scarcely clothes to cover him, and without either shoes or stockings, during these wet and chilly nights. The Magistrate having found him in the road on the preceding night, directed a police man to take care of him for the night, and bring him up here in the morning to see if something could not be done in the case. Mr. MURRAY having made the boy repeat what he had previously stated in the presence of the mother, she was then questioned on the subject, and admitted that she sent her son out to beg, and accounted for the circumstance by saying that they were short of money at home. _ Mr. MURRAY—The poor boy has stated that you are in the habit of beating him if he does not bring home the sum of money you require each day, and I believe his statement. What have you as a mo ther to say in answer to that ? The mother said that it was untrue, and that she only beat him occasionally when he stopped out late. She added that she bad silt children, and that her husband was in the hospital. Mr. MURRAY asked her if she had applied for parochial relief, instead of sending the boy into the streets, and bringing him up to a life of beggary and wretchedness P The reply was, that she had not applied, upon which Mr. Murray said that he should commit her for one month to the House of Correction, arid in the meantime her children should be taken better care of than she was willing to bestow upon them. It is rumoure d that Marshal G erar d w ill shortly ma k e a tour to the strong towns of the Nort h , and will thenc e go to Brussels. Last w ee k two f ema l e servan t s of Willi am Jones, Esq., Clytha, on retiring to rest, imprudently left a brazier in which charcoal was burning for the purpose of airing the rooms. One of the girls finding herself unwell got up, but on attempting to walk to the door the air which she inhaled so overpowered her that she fell down, by which her forehead had a violent blow. She was some time before she could make an alarm, when another servant came to her assistance just in time to save her life, as well as the life of the other girl, who was althost suffocated in bed.—Hereford Times. CHELTENHAM Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d. Wheat Barley 3O . :3 9 0at5..... 26 33 Beans Pease...... ... . ........ 3/. lOs ..... jand2,:tideewilt::""'."- COTAHLEAI A N I Iu.A.(ER:ETS. ...._, SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. tack of the Republican armies, he was evehtuallY something like ultra-Liberalism of sentiment. A COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JAN , 22. 1 POLICE INTELLIGENCE. and signally defeated, three-fourths of his ill- genuine Statesman—a patriot of high-minded _______,_ with —___,......i. i 7 d,v;aaliliss Ennd rda,Tyo,n4.. The Court was occupied during the day i MA. N SION- H OUSE. 9 ar s rived sin:e last marke t- day, anti-tithe meeting was held at Liskeard, provided soldiers having perished in one cam- integrity would smile at the idea of having his Per Ton. g Heliburn Ma s ii h t 1 Cornwall, on Thursday, the 16th inst., when paign. In 1805 with Austria, and in 1806 with peace of mind disturbed by such nonsense. Let the Crown paper and cases of parochial settlement. John Carter, an old fellow in the habit of levyfn THE RING V. THE PARISH OF ST. NICHOLAS, RO- distreSSCS for brokers, and Charlotte Watkin, a young ~,N;aallglonddlizr,l Ships p k so e& Co • 19 6 I Walls End Gordon.,-,... petition was agreed upon for the abolition of what remained of the Prussian armies, to assist this ultra-Liberal take example of the Duke of CHESTER, . woman whom he seduced a few years ago, when she usse s y tries, as "being oppressive in their nature and her, Russia never could stand before the troops Newcastle, who has been libelled a thousandfold Ditto 11' 11. L n' ---- 18 This was a question for the judgment of the was no more than fourteen years old, were brought - st . lit] in their exaction." The most striking of France , and within her own territory, in more than he has been, and has not resorted to Court. It arose out of an order of Sessions for th e before the LORD MAYOR, charged with robbery. ---"*.--- ci-iiN FRY CORN MARKETS DURING "IHN VVI currence of the day was the perusal of a letter 1812, she was be a t en i n e v er y action, until the the technical justice of a Court of Law for the removal of a pauper from the parish of St. Angus. The prisoners were remanded. Wheat. i Barley. o a t s . B e )m Mr. Charles Buller, M.P. for the borough, force of her invader eunk under the adverse vindication of his character. A s to the conduct tine to St. Nicholas, Rochester. The pauper had QUE EN- S Q DARE. 1 JUVENILE VAGRANCY.—Yesterday four little Ab Le g r d ?, n uarter. to 4 ,. , ;i to , :c ;,2 to A A it prevented by business from leaving London, elements. At sea the power of the Russian of the editor of the Standard, in offering him. taken a house in Rochester at 40/. a year rent and empire is little more formidable than that of self to his Lordship's wrath, it is deserving ofboys, named Thomas Savory, Edward Lennard, Andover 50 61 24 28 - - planatory of his sentiments on the tithe goes' empire part of it to a person named Vaucher hh at 22 h . Quinn, i and Edward Hill, apparently from g r iZ o a r g t am."—* 56 r i g 3 40 !,? 22 _- Turkey herself. Why, then, should France and the highest praise : it gives to the Press a n, 6 and no less explicit on that of the corn t pe k r . annum. e a Th tt e l quetstioon On the ‘ a v tt e a t f ' tlie ap- nine to FeLvLe charged d of ,i a t f i e, l were tfro t u h ght betore vs. It is, we trust, quite needless for this England dread to encounter her 2 in defence of triumph of moral courage and moral worth which 1, V a ir r e iri n g ec , is o t n er ........-...., 44 4 , g ., 4 Fi , o 9 gi r t = Hereford ---- ept 68 32 :11 N -- Jrnal to repeat the conviction, which it has so the freedom and safety of Europe . A journal the British public will not fail to appreciate. peil n an g t g p e a v rish it was contended that the pauper, ac- Mr. BURT 20 cording to the provisions of the Ist o f William IV., A police constable of the B eep ai l o n n on e °dile air,en l 'e g t e i i i i i i d e t y b rd ----..„ 48 74 N o 3 32 26 35 - quently and emphatically expressed, that it some days ago put forth an article of singularly As to Lord Durham, we think he should be cap. 18, had not acquired a settlement. When the vious night found all the boys sleeping in a shu p tter uld be hnpossible for any Government to puny and inefficient fabric, in a spirit of doleful better employed in giving the public an explicit pauper took the house and let it out to Voucher it box in Jame-street, Buckingham -gate ; finding they kla i lrnlfe t a n d -- Z 4 32 1:7 n gil stinue the tithe system against the universal dandyism, to apologise for the non-interference narrative of that expensi ve emb ass y to the Auto- was riot in his actual occ u p at i on , accor di ng to th e h a d no home he took them to the station-house. i ll: a ir: g ut h- ........... ( 4 %; tx 0 3 36 24 28 - animous feeling of the country, and that were of France in behalf of the Poles during their last crat of Russia, which is yet involved in so much rtr u o t t h ic a t m words and meaning of th e s t a t ute o f willi arn IV, Mr. BURRELL inquired whether tiny of the chil- alisbury . 42 54 26 21 tcl 26 36- pton -...... 54 ( ..8 than object attainable, it would still be most virtuous but disastrous effort to restore their na- obscurity, than in prosecuting newspapers for and therefore it was said the order of the Sessions dren were known ?—The inspector said that the 58 33 40 28 32 - i 37 38 22 32 - in the teethof those pledges which tional liberties. The justification of France, and that silly trash which has called down his indict quitous, must be quashed. e ld es t hoy,. Savory, had just come out of the House Tewkesbury ........... 53 - 37 - 30 33 - ''' The judgment accordingly quashed the order of o f Correction, where he had been imprisoned .six Uxbridge .....„„..„-.. 48 74 26 34 20 26 - by consequence of England, is made to rest on nation. England, it must be confessed, never Wantage.....—_ 58 80 27 32 17 23 34 7e been offered through Parliament to the removal. months. Lennard had also been at the office before Warminster ....-....„ 48 58 25 31 22 26 34 ji1;, 2 . 4 ,41 :2 £2 the answer to two questions. 1. Would stood more in need of high-minded Statesmen Windsor--........ 59 - 21 22 - N p V e s r o E (I S t, . 1% ; 5 1:A e r 1 ) 1 3 I 0 i E 11 3 2 71 ion. The people of England, generally, are Mr. HILL moved fora mandamus, calling on two on a charge of begging. Wor w ee h st it e e r- z — ev( Prussia have joined her arms to those of Russia ? than she does at present —men capable of disre so reluctant to pay the amount of income Magistrates of Leicestershire to amend their return The boy Savory got his 'living by sweeping the 2. Would Austria have done the same ? And garding the little considerations of serf ill a t o a certiorari, issued to bring certain proceedings crossings, but not having got halfpence enough he I fully demandable by the clergy, as to con -14 as the paper replies in the affirmative to both generous anxiety for th e sal va ti on of their oun- against one Wilson charged with forcible deten- was afraid to go home to his mothr. Red ditto 24 0 211 ( ute it under a form which has been made Barley--------...., w I 7 6 110 ( queries —ergo, France and England must be try.—Morning Herald. lion of property, into this Court. The Learned Mr. BURRELL ordered Savory to be imprisoned Oats, !slew .----...-.............„*.....,. 01800 1g ( cover for such infinite vexation to the tithe considered blameless —T. e. d. Now, we affirm Counsel explained to the Court that the magistrates three weeks in the House of Correction, Lennard Pease .-.. - ........ 1 16 0 0 0 C er, which amounts, in fact, to a penalty upon The Times of yesterday pays the subordi- Oil Cake. New------..-..... 12 10 0 per thousanc cultivator of the soil for the outlay of his in the broadest manner that if France and En hates in office the compliment of saying that had not returned the evidence on which they can- fourteen days, and the others ten days each. T 1.,.. -La.)._ _ii i _ _ A - .1.., aff__!- land had shown themselves determined to risk a victed the defendants. tai wit h a view to its improvement, and has they are all Toripc—., 1.-. mi-i.,, ve,,e,l:• .1,... _ war fnr fh.-. ..-I____ r rw 1 I It:Pessary erir.,",.........- :—__"1....1 -.. _____.l__ A RKET.—Jan. 21. Per lb. Beef _ _ d. to 61 Mutton Veal Pork ............. 6 Lamb 0 to 31. 15s. Od. per ton HULL MARKET.—Jan. 21. Wheat, Old .............. . —s. 40s. 50s. ......New —s. 445. 4 Foreign ........ . —s. 50s. 545. ......In bond —s. —s. Oats, Poland ............ —s. 18s. 205.......01d - Small or Feed.... —s. 16s. 18s Foreign —s. lBs Barley, Norf. & Suf. ... —s. Bs. 203. Line. & Wold —s. 25s 2' Foreign ............................. ........... Beans —s. 325. 345. Foreign —s. —s. Pease, White....... ...... —s. 36a. 425. Grey 3 2 8. 3A Tares —s. —s. —s. Foreign. . . ..... —s. —S. Rapeseed. in bond none. Free, per last V3l Q7l. DUMFRIES :111 s. d. s. d. s. d. s. Wheat, Imp. Bush... 5 9 to 6 9 Butter, 16oz 0 Btoo Barley .. Oats ....... ........ ... 2 0 2 3 Beef, score 8 0 9 Flour, MIL .. 3 0 3 2 Mutton, per lb 0 4 0 Oatmeal Potatoes, cwt........... 1 6 2 0 Q. , artern Loaf 0 0 0 .RKETS.—Jan. 15. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL-STREET. (From the London Gazette.) TO-MORROW, G. B. Davidge, printer, New Cut, Blackfriars-road 2at 1 C. F. James, grocer, Paddington-street, Marylebone 2 J. Coward, linen-d ra p er, B ath F. and J. Mills, wholesale stay-manufacturers, Wood street, Cheapsid e 2 1 C. F. Trahn, jun„ merchant, Mark-lane 2 J. Dunkin, carrier, Berner-street, Commercial-road 2 I J. Gomersall, umbrella-maker Burlington-arcade 2 I J. Priestley, Ben. and jun., hop-merebanta, Counter-street„ Southwark ...... .. ......... . W. Howard, chyrnist, Down -street J. J. Routledge, silkman, High Holborn DIVIDENDS. F. Whitmore, brewer, Lambeth It. Hobinson, tavern-il r ee at per, Friday -street 'l'. J. Gibbs, wine.merchant, Eastbourne I G. Webb and J. Stewart, merchant, Threadneedle -street I ....... LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, JAN. 21. — The market is without animation. The sales reach 1,00( bags, and prices are without difficulty maintained. The tariff passed by the Congress of Nov Grenada last Session, is said to have completely paralysed foreign commerce, and dissatisfied the community at large• All the assassins of Colonel Woodbine and his family, who were slaves in his service, had been executed, with one exception. THREE HIGHWAYMEN DEFEATED.....A. daring highway robbery has been attempted in the Potte ries since our last. The circumstances are these :_OA Tuesday morning, Mr. Dawes, surgeon, of Stoke, a powerful and spirited man, was returning home from Lane End, between one and two o'clock, and when de scending the hi l near Fenton tollgate, he observed two men standing together on the footpath ; these be passed, and proceeding a little further overtook a third man, who, without speaking, struck him across the face, knocked him down, fell upon him, anti attempted to rifle his breeches pockets. Mr. D. fell with one hand under him, and with the other he held close the pocket in which was money to the amount of sixteen or seventeen shillings, at the same time crying out " Murder." The two men be had passed then came to the assistance of the assailant, who found he could not without help hold Mr. D. down, and at the same time make his way to the cash. O n e of tl e fellows put his left hand on Mr. D.'s mouth, to stifle his cries, while the other two proceeded in the attempted robbery. The odds were fearful—three against one, and that one the undermost, are not to be triflingly thought of. What was to be done? We have said that one of the men put his hand on Mr. Dawes' mouth. Mr. D. seized the fellow's forefinger between his teeth, and g ave it—not a nibble, nor a gentle squeezer, but a desperate bite, which made him roar with pain. The fellow pulled to extricate himself, but he was not to be let off easily ; Mr. D. kept hold, and in a very few seconds amputated the end of the finger. The wortby trio were panic stricken, and took to their heels, leaving behind them I hat and stick, the former of which is identified as having been stolen from Mr. Hollins, engineer, of Lane End. Mr. D. immediately rose, and putting the finger end in his pocket, pursued the rogues, with a view to their cap• ture, but they got over a gate and escaped. Mr. Dawes then gave information to Mr. W. C. Davis, head constable of Stoke, who promptly went in quest of the thieves, and, in company with Mr. B. Harding, constable of Lane End, sac( eeded i❑ apprehending two of them early the same day, at the Eagle Inn, in the latter town. They are cousins, and their names are George and Charles Evans. One of iliem is the fellow who was so judiciously marked on the finder by Mr. Dawes, and indeed this led to their detection. When first questioned as to what was the matter with his finger, be said he had hurt it in a coal-pit; afterwards that it had got injured in a scuffle; and a subsequent statement was, that in attempting to cut the gristly part of a leg of mutton the night before, the knife slipped and cut off his finger end. The production of the missing I portion, howover, disproved all these tales, besides which, Mr. Dawes could swear positively to the man. They were taken before R. Bourne, Esq., where they behaved with the most callous indifference, but were committed for trial. Mr. Davis, the constable, has put the finger end in a bottle of spirits for preservation, as evidence at the trial ; and such is the curiosity that scores, we might almost say hundreds, have been to see it.—Staffordshirc Mercury. BIRTHS. On the 18th inst., the lady of John Morgan, Esq., of Broad street-buildings, of a daughter. On the 16th inst., at Highgate, the lady of John Halcomb, Esq., M.P., of a son. Esq.On the 21st ult ., at Madeira, the lady of George Stoddart, , of a daughter. On the 21st inst., at the Rectory, Mickleham, Surrey, the lady of the Rev. Alfred Burmester, of a son. MARRIED. On the 22d inst., at St. Marylebone Church, William Henry Phipps, Esq., of Ramsgate, to Jane, daughter of the late Wm. Atkinson, Esq., of Nottingham-terrace, Regent's-park. On the 22d inst., at the Church of St. Katherine Coleman, Mr. tieorge Elliott, to Matilda Selina, only daughter of the late Mr. Beharrell, of Fenchurch-buildings, Fenchurch-street. On the 17th inst., at Teaninich, in Ross-shire, the Hon. Geo. Augustus Spencer, second son of Lord Churchill, to Charlotte, only daughter of Colonel Munro, of Teaninich. On the 21st inst., John Mathew Quantock, Esq., of Norton, Somersetshire, to Sophia, only daughter of Llonal Place, Esq., of Waddington Castle, Warwickshire. DIED. On the 21st inst., in Tottenham green, Christiana, relict of the late William Phillips, aged 48. On the 228 inst., at his house in Queen-square, BloornsburY, Edward Dew, late of his Majesty's Customs, in his 77th year. On the 21st inst., in St. James's place, Bethnal-green, Mr. Robert Simpson, aged 64. On the 22d inst., in Colehrooke-row, Islington, Mrs. Norton, widow of the late Mr. J. Norton, aged 63. On the 18th ult., at Madeira, in his W.d year, Robert Hib bert, scholar of King's College, Cambridge. On the 22d inst., in Kent, Mr. John Salter, many years gold. smith and cutler of the Strand, aged 58. On the 22d inst., at Peckham Rye, in his 73d year, Mr. John Millard, for 37 years clerk of the Worshipful Company of Cord wail' ers. On the Ilth and 19th inst., Cornelius and Whiston Whaley, sons of Mr. Whaley, of Kingsland. w a O ra n sten Ed tale inst. 0 , r a o t f t h p e l u lt m e b c i t a o n r d V d y : a N n o t r h k i i s n g p t l o ac n ;, t a h g e ed ß s e 9 v . . Ed On the 13th inst., George Mordaunt, Esq., formerly of the East India house, in his 80th year. On the 20th inst., aged 70, Mr. M. Byrne, of Grove-place, Windsor. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED By MU RDO YOUNG,ATTng SUN OFFICE, 1124 STRAND. COURT OF ADMIRALTY. JAN. 22. (Before Sir JOHN NICHOLL.) THE CLIFTON:" This was a salvage cause. The Clifton, on her homeward voyage from the Mauritius to Greenock laden with sugar, was placed in a situation of danger on her arrival on the western coast of Scotland, in consequence of sickness among her crew, eight men out of eleven being ill of the scurvy, which they had since they crossed the line. On making Loch Rue the wind became unfavourable, and signals were made for assistance. Lieutenant Kelly, of the coast guard, and four of his boatmen, put off and went to the vessel's assistance, and succeeded in getting her into anchorage. For this service the owners ten dered .501., which was rejected, and the Court was appealed to by the Lieutenant and his men for a greater reward, it being alleged that only two men were on board capable of duty when the vessel was boarded. Sir J. NlctioLL shortly stated the nature of the suit. The Clifton was nearly at the end of her voyage, and while off the southern part of the Frith of Clyde was in distress, owing to a principal part of her crew being unable to work, and the vessel having been boarded was taken ..to anchorage by Lieutenant Kelly, though the wind had changed and was fair for her to proceed direct to Greenock. Was there anything in these services which constituted the main ingredients of salvage ? Was the vessel in great danger, or had Lieutenant Kelly hazarded life and property in the service? The officer was in the public service, and it was his duty to have gone to the assistance of the vessel. Under all the circum stances the Court thought that the tender of 501. was a sufficient tender, and the Court therefore pronounced for it; and the parties refusing the offer must pay the costs incurred since such refusal was made. THE ARDINCAPLE. , This was another salvage suit, and was of some public importance, in consequence of the decision ' of the Learned Judge as regarded the reward given for salvage services to steam-boats in distress. The Ardincaple steam packet left Leith for New castle in September last, having forty-two persons on board, of whom thirty-two were passengers, with a cargo. When half way between Holy Island and Bamborough Castle, a storm having come on, she was struck by a heavy sea, which carried off every thing on deck, stove in the bulwarks, washed over nine men, of whom four were drowned, and among them the master. A second sea swept away two more of the crew and the boat, and the vessel was driving on shore, when the wind changed, and by putting up a jury -mast, she went to sea. The engines, however, were disabled, and destruction appeared to await all on board. Signals were made, but no boats could put out. The Renown, a fish ing•boat, which with other vessels was lying for shelter, slipped her cable and went to assist the vessel, all on board considering that by the Renown alone could they save their lives. With the greatest difficulty the passengers were taken into the fishing boat and put on shore, and with the assistance of the Favourite, another fThing•boat, the steam packet was towed into the Tyne river. The value of the vessel was estimated at 1,2651. The owners i had offered 2001.f0r salvage services, and 501. for damage done to the two smacks. This offer was refused, Sir JOHN NICHOLL said the Court could not help thinking that salvage services performed to steam vessels ought to be considered different to other ves sels. They were making profitable voyages, and as they carried many passengers, the interests of hu manity as well as the safety of the lives of his Ma jesty's subjects rendered it proper that higher rewards should be paid for salvage services rendered to them than customary. By establishing this principle owners would be rendered more cautious in the outfit of vessels, and compel them to place persons of skill in them, and also render them less hazardous in going on their voyage under dangerous circum stances. The Renown and Favourite had left a place of safety with spirit and alacrity ; had, at the danger of the lives of the crew, saved the passengers and the vessel; and the Court thought the tender Insufficient, and awarded 3501. to the two vessels, which would include the claim for damages, &c., with costs. ANECDOTE OF BURNS.—" Burns paid little deference to the artificial distinctions of society. Oo his way to Leith one morning he met a man in hoddin gray—a west_country firmer; he shook him earnestly by the hand, and stopped and conversed with him. All this was seen by a young Edinburgh blood, who took the Poet roundly to task for this defect of taste. ' Why, you fan tastic gomeral,' said Burns, it was not the great coat, the scone-bonnet, and Sanquhar boot-hose I spoke to, but the man that was in them; and the man, Sir, for true worth, would weigh you and I, and ten more such, down any day.'",—FromAllan Cunningham's New Edition of Burns.