The Sun. — London, England, 1834-10-22 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We have abridged from the Dundee Chronicle a report of the dinner given to Sir George Murray at Perth. Sir George is a distinguished man, and it will be naturally expected that we should take some • notice of his exhibition on this occasion. Sir George is entitled to the distinction of having violated a clear and distinct pledge, in a more barefaced man ner than was ever before done in Parliament. On the 28th of April, in an election speech, at Perth, he expressly declared that free admission into the English Universities ought to be given to all sects ; and he had hardly well taken his seat in Parlia ment, when he voted against the second reading of a Bill allowing all his Majesty's subjects to enter and matriculate in the Universities of England. The shock to decency was so glaring, that men of his own party were ashamed of him. Politically as we are opposed to the Right Honourable Gentleman, we could not help regretting that he had afforded us this triumph. It is a melancholy spectacle to see a man of Sir George's talents (to say nothing of his well earned military reputation) exhibiting in so reckless a manner his disregard of reputation, and, for the sake of a paltry advantage, giving countenance, by his ex ample, to the most shameless breach of public faith. In his speech at the Perth dinner he only makes matters worse, by a paltry equivocation. " The non-admission of Dissenters," he says, " to the Universities has been represented as i great injustice to Scotland. I cannot see the question in this light ; for let us observe the real amount of the grievance in reference to Scotland. How many individuals in the county of Perth have been deprived of admission into either Oxford or Cambridge? Is there 50 ? 20 ? 10 ? 5 ? 2 ? or even 1 ? No ; there is not even one connected with the county who suffers in this respect." This is evading the question. Sir George did not pledge himself to procure admission for the inhabitants of the county of Perth into the English Universities, but to vote for the admission of the English Dissenters into the English Universities. The Scotch Dissenters are admitted into the Scotch Universities ; and the question of their admission into the English Universities is too remote to be of any in terest to them. But, as British subjects, the inde pendent portion of the Perth electors could not be in different to a question involving the great cause of religious liberty—namely, the removal of a humiliating degradation to which their English brethren were sub jected by law. The inhabitants of Perth, like the inha bitants of Middlesex, have their local concerns, which are interesting only to themselves. But it is the proud distinction of this country, that we are not a mere ag gregate of unconnected cantons, but we are a nation possessed of public spirit, and keenly alive to all public questions. The reform of a single borough—East Retford, Liverpool, or Warwick—is a national question. The removal of the disabilities of the Catholics is a national question. The admission of Dissenters to the English Universities is a national question. If the Perth electors were to take no interest in the fate of the English Dissenters, they must be the most besotted fools ; and if an English Dissenter were not to resist the slightest encroachment on the privileges of the Scotch Presbyterian, he would disgrace the name of Englishman. But Sir George has the British public to deal with as well as the in habitants of Perth ; and as a public man we have no hesitation in saying that he has ruined himself beyond redemption. We never knew a case of more deli berate insult to public decency. The rest of Sir George's speech may be easily disposed of. He steps forward as a champion of the House of Lords, and tells us that there is no such superiority in the Com mons, judging fr om th e d e b ates , as to t h row t h e Lordsinto the shade. The objection to the Lords is not that they cannot muster up speakers for a debate ; but that they do not vote in the interest of the nation, but to serve some separate interests of their own. The best debates in the House of Commons were when perhaps not more than a dozen Members took part in them. We have quite enough of debate in the House of Commons now ; but that is not the question. The House of Commons is responsible to the nation, and identified with it. The House of Lords is not only not responsible to the nation, but has the power of paralysing the House of Commons, so that the nation is deprived of all the advantages it might otherwise derive from Reform. One of the great arguments of the Lords, however, against the Reform Bill, affords a curious commentary on Sir George's tribute to the talents of the Lords for debate. " What shall we do," said they, " if, before entering this House, we have not served an apprenticeship in the Commons, from which we shall hereafter be ex cluded, in consequence of the loss of our boroughs and the greater independence of counties ? All of us who cut any figure in this House owe this advantage to our haying been trained in the Commons." Sir George cavils at the allusion made by Earl Grey to the spirit of the age : " Every Government (he says) ought to regard the spi rit of the age ; but then when men profess to govern by the spirit of the age, it implies a capacity to guide that spirit.— (Applause.) What would you think of that pilot who would leave the helm, and trust the safety of the vessel to the wind and waves ?—(Cheers)---or to take a more homely comparison, what would you think of the coachman who told you that he would just allow the horses to take their own way, without his interference or guidance ? For my part, I would be disposed to place very little reliance on him. But what is this same spirit of the age of which there is so much talk ? Did it leave the Cabinet with Mr. Stanley, or remain with Earl Grey ? or did it go out with Earl Grey and Lord Althorp, and return to office with the latter Hon. Gentleman ?—(Laughter.) Was it the companion of Lord Brougham at Inverness, or did it meet his Lordship again at Dundee ? Did it hang on the lips of the Lord Chancellor or Lord Durham at the Edinburgh festival ? . Did it travel with Lord Durham from Camper down to Dundee ? or did it sit on the lips of Bailie Christie on that occasion ? If the Ministry professed to rule us by that principle, it is but right that they should explain what it really is. There is another reason why I place little reliance on the present Government. Ido not like their mode of moving about, more like itinerant agitators than great statesmen—giving an account of their steward ship to promiscuous assemblies, instead of resorting to the proper place for such explanations—the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It would seem that their explanations might be liable to misconstruction there ; and they are, ac cordingly, aiming at raising a host of friends out of doors su perior in power to both Houses of Parliament." Sir George has asked us what the spirit of the age is ? We can tell him what it 'is not. It is not up holding the boroughmongering system, which enabled the community to pillage the rest—it is not opposing the reform of all ecclesiastical abuses—it is not sup porting municipal corporations in their perversion of their powers to the oppression and ruin of the commu nities over which they are placed—it is not resisting all attempts to settle the question of Irish tithes in such a manner as shall remove a source of perpetual irritation that wastes energies which, if well directed, might render the country happy and prosperous, in per petual strife and feuds—it is not outraging the English Dissenters, by excluding them from national institutions for education, forcing them to contribute to the support of churches to which they do not belong, and connecting acts without which society could not exist, with reli gious rites in which they cannot conscientiously par take. We hav e t o ld S ir G eorge w h at t h e spirit of the age is not ; and we may observe that his leader, the Duke of Wellington, had once a demonstration of what it is, when he declared that he conceded Catholic Emancipation, not because he was satisfied of the jus tice of the claims, but because it was no longer pos sible for him to resist them. The Duke did not y•uit the helm, to borrow his illustration, but he was obliged to change his course. His Grace had, also, a glimpse of the spirit of the age, a little before he outraged it, when he declared at Manchester that it was impossi ble for any man to govern the country without having with him the opinion of the intelligent middle class ; and it was because he set aside the opinion of the in telligent middle class that he was hurled from power, and doomed, with his associates, to remain for ever strangers to office.—Morning Chronicle. Another peal on the tocsin of Irish agitation startles the elumbers of Lord Duncannon, and gives new im pulse to the Agitator's " rent." As the collection-day of the tribute-money approaches, the patriotism of Mr. O'Connell burns more fiercely. The flame, which scarcely two months ago was fanned very gently, at the moderate degree of " Whig and Ministerialist" tem perature, became hotter as the time drew near for soft ening the Irish heart into the melting mood of gene- rous donation. Now it rages at an intense heat, which promises glorious combustion at no very distant time, and ensures a large collection on the 26th instant, when the pence is to be gathered in from the gaping " seven millions," who stand aghast at the wondrous performances of the Katerfelto of the scene, in whose presence all other jugglers and showmen with their hocus pocus tricks—their wheedling, diverting ways—their balancing poles— their antics, and their fireworks, sink into insig nificance. When the repeal-agitator commenced his series of epistles to Lord Duncannon, the latter was every thing that was amiable and great—not only a public officer of unblemished political character, but a Minister and Statesman of the very first order. Alas, before the revolution of two moons what a change has taken place. ! This virgin purity of character is sullied beyond redemption—this reputation for exalted wis dom and Statesmanship is gone for ever. But what has Lord Duncannon done to work a forfeiture of that certificate of character which Mr. O'Connell so ge nerously gave him—a passport to the affection of the seven millions, who, to the prophetic eye of the Trea sury Evening Journal, were about to be placed in hormonious connection with the new Whig Minis try ? Let it not be told in Gath. The Secretary for the Home Department had the audacity to de cline to register the decrees of Daniel, the Dictator, touching the new law appointments in Ireland. Was it o be tolerated that a Minister of the British King should refuse to become servant of all-work to the Kerry autocrat, who holds the hearts of seven - millions in his hand, and who only asks the British Ministry to assist him in the work of extirpating the Irish Church, and dismembering the British Empire ? Lord Dun cannon has broken his fealty to the Agitator : prompt punishment has followed the " glaring crime." Mr. O'Connell, in himself a compendious representative of justice, performs the part of prosecutor, judge, witness, and executioner. The sentence of political extermi nation has gone forth against Lord Duncannon ; no hope or mercy is left to the delinquent ; his character is " gone for ever I " Thus does Mr. O'Connell take up the characters of public men to admire, to fondle, and to caress, like a child with its toys, and then dashes them to pieces with a child's im pulse, and tramples the fragments under foot. His ad miration was once as great of the virtues and talents of Lord Plunket, of the Marquis of Anglesey, of Marquis Wellesley, of Baron Smith, as that which he lately expressed, touching the almost matchless ex cellencies of Lord Duncannon's character and mind. The change in all those instances, and many others, was as sudden and capricious from the most fawning adulation and fulsome panegyric to hatred, contempt, and bitter defamation. They committed in turn the unforgiveable sin against Mr. O'Connell's vanity, by choosing to preserve, as far, at least, as he was concern ed, their own independence. The " liberal" who will not be Mr. O'Connell's slave will always find him ready to treat him as an enemy, and in proportion to the affected warmth of his former admiration in the bitterness of his hostility. Thus Baron Smith was "It Judge endowed with superhuman talents and virtues," until he deprecated the agitation of the repeal of the Union; and then no language of contempt could satisfy his notion of the demerits of the functionary whom he dragged as a delinquent on the floor of Parliament. After the disgraceful consummation of the intrigue by which Lord Grey was got rid of from his Majesty's Councils, so long as the objects of Mr. O'Connell's epistolary agitation were only the demolition of the Irish Church—the defamation of the Irish Protest ants—the repeal of the Union, and consequent dis memberment of the British empire, his letters were not only gently criticised, but actually puffed and praised by the Government Press. It was even dis covered that he was a superior statesman to Lord' Grey, in a quarter where Lord Grey in office was the object of unbounded panegyric. But it was dis covered that Lord Grey had shown a lamentabla want of wisdom and capacity in not having so formed his Cabinet and framed his measures as to deserve and ob tain Mr. O'Connell's patronage. But when the Agi tator, to secure an ample supply of the rent, attacked the Whig Minister, and spared not the dignity of the Woolsack, it was found by the Government Press that the Ethiopian had not changed his skin nor the leopard his spots, and that the friendship of Mr. O'Connell was more pernicious than his avowed hostility. Now the Agitator threatens Lord Durham with his especial patronage. Let Lord Durham be fore-warned by Lord Brougham's fate, who had scarcely swallowed his own words on the Coercion Act, and essentially altered the provisions of that Act to please him, when he suddenly saluted him with a copious stream of that abuse which he has always at command. If Lord Durham be not prepared to pioneer with mattock and pickaxe the work of destruction, first on the Protestant Church and next upon British connexion, he will not be at a loss for language as expressive of his scorn and derision as in the case of Lord Brougham, or Lord Anglesey, or any other of the distinguished persons whom he has exalted as political idols one day to dash them to the ground the next.—Morning Herald. Mr. O'Connell, in a fourth letter to Lord Dun cannon, takes leave of his Lordship with a broadside of abuse, and announces his intention of confiding the fate of his country to a more candid and energetic Nobleman, and of placing the destinies of the " Green Island" at the disposal of the " yellow Earl." The eulogies which Mr. O'Connell bestows upon Lord Durham are most righteously deserved, and there can be no doubt that the agitator will find his Lordship fit and apt for his purpose unless any Cabinet could be formed willing to admit his Lordship to participate in the administration of public affairs. We have fre quently noticed the mischiefs arising from the accession to office of a party for years in Opposition. During a long and irresponsible career men go on pledging and professing, in order to exhibit theoretically their infinite superiority over their Ministerial antao nists, reckless of consequences, and, perhaps, in credulous as to ever being called upon to realize their own extravagant propositions. In order to obtain a character for consistency, and to redeem those pledges, it became necessary for such a party to alter and subvert (according to their irresponsible promises) all the institutions the control of which falls to their lot upon accession to power. Very soon, however, these persons find it absolutely necessary to alter this ultra-liberal system ; and this necessity is made evident to them by their own feelings, by a knowledge of cir cumstances, by a just apprehension of results ; and, under the influence of a responsibility of which, before they had incurred it, they had no adequate notion, they are compelled to adopt the principles which they had previously denounced, and disappoint the expectations of those who believed their professions sincere and their theories practicable. 'While Lord Duncannon was an irresponsible Minister of the• Crown, his advocacy of O'Connell was notorious. He used all his efforts to in- duce Lord Grey to give him a high legal office in Ire land, and literally besieged the door of the Cabinet in order to carry his point. Whether this solicitude arore from personal regard for the agitator or from the belief that buying him was a wise measure it matters not. The fact is as we state it, and whether his Lord ship's efforts were stimulated by partiality or policy signifies little. The moment Lord Duncannon, by one of those extraordinary jumps which have latterly been somewhat less extraordinary than in other days, be came Secretary of State for the Home Department and at the head of Irish affairs, Mr. O'Connell was in his glory. The friend of Ireland—that is, of himself—was where he ought to be, and liberality and O'Connellism were to be the order of the day. No time was to be lost in levelling and calumniating everybody who had preceded Lord Duncannon, upon whom all Ireland relied with hope and confidence. The scene, however, was changed. Lord Duncan non, no longer on the outside of the door, feels all at once the " responsibility" of a Cabinet Mi nister. In his hands are the appointments of which Mr. O'Connell, upon the strength of his Lordship's former support, directs the disposal. Nay, in plain terms, and in a published letter, he distinctly points out how Lord Duncannon may soothe him, and, through him, soothe Ireland. The attempt fails--Lord Duncannon finds that when it becomes his duty to dis pense instead of recommend honours and rewards, it is incompatible i with his duty to adopt the system or put into execution the measures which he so urgently pressed upon his predecessors. There can be no doubt that Lord Duncannon has now acted judiciously, and if there were any the censure heaped upon him by Mr. O'Connell would now dissipate it. Lord Durham will now be his favourite for a time, and we have no hesi tation in saying that if their friendship is only to be broken by that Noble Earl's accession to responsibility, we trust it may continue for the length of both their natural lives.—Morning Post. It is a day or two since We mentioned that a new epistle of Mr. Daniel O'Connell to Lord Duncannon (he calls it the fourth) had been transmitted to us, and that if we had time we would notice it. But the truth is, that our attention has been called away by the an• tits of another and more diverting performer than O'Connell, which compelled us, much against our in clinations, to send poor Daniel to the wall. The for mer printed exhibitions of this worthy were all fraught in one respect with the same spirit as the present ; they all said in plain, though not the most civil or modest, language—l, O'Connell, am " the people of Ireland ;" and if you don't put the Government of the country into the hands of the " people of Ireland," you shall be d— everlastingly. In the same sense, though with some slight variety of form, does the fourth letter to Lord Duncannon come on, to strut its hour. The late legal appointments are the burden of the agita tor's 4th communication. He abuses them for no intel ligible reason but that the functionaries named are not of the repeal clique. To that Moloch he would sa crifice not merely all the freedom and discretionary power of the King's advisers in their present and fu ture nominations to office ; but, to multiply the vic tims of his ferocious idol, he would, without the sha dow of equity, decency, or apology, dismiss from his situation every man who has not been bap tized in the waters of bitterness and hatred against the existing Constitution, and against the connection of Ireland with Great Britain : for that object he would outrageously discard from their trust the present Crown lawyers—against whom no taint of offence or malpractice can be asserted—upon the lofty allegation that he forsooth, the noun of multitude—O'Connell-- does not think fit to like them ; and on the same plea he would depopulate the bench of magistrates through out Ireland, without so much as affecting to charge them with delinquency, beyond that of not being Re pealers. Having thus given the scope of his tirade against Lord Duncannon and the Government, it may s not be worth while to do more than touch upon two or three examples of the manner in which he executes it. He who looks for any attempt at sober or intelligible reasoning in the unprincipled effusions of this bad man, had better at once turn to some less unprofitable em ployment. Deep mortification, barely skinned over by the festerings of rage and rancour, characterizes the whole body of the work. Even the commonplace com mand of abusive epithets fails him. The slop-bucket of Irish oratory had been already drained to the bot tom, and one wretched note of mixed menace and re proach recurs in every paragraph ; as thus--No. 1, " You never enn deceive us again." No. 2, " You are gone for ever." No. 3, -" You never can, my Lord, redeem your first false step." No. 4, " Alas, alas ! what wretched impolicy is yours !" Nothing but the iteration of the one parrot note—and for what is all this? Because Mr. Blackburne has not been dismissed from the office of Attorney-General, without even the imputation of a crime, and because Mr. Cramp ton, who was Solicitor-General, has been made a Judge. We can say nothing of these gentlemen, but that we have heard Mr. Blackburne is a most able lawyer and a most estimable man, with the reputation of being in his opinion what is termed a moderate Tory ; but who has ever accused Mr. Blackburne of betray ing his official trust for th e sa k e o f hi s s p ecu l a ti ve po litics As for Mr. Crampton, he is' a liberal Whig. Such, then, is the mighty grievance which_is to enlist recruits every where for the repeal of the Union, and to kill the Melbourne Administration stone dead, not withstanding, be it observed, that Mr. O'Loghlin, a Roman Catholic, and a hearty Liberal, has succeeded as Solicitor-General to the vacancy left by Mr. Cramp ton. Now; is it possible that any man, nay, that any mob, but one of credulous and infatuated Irish peasants, should not see the drift of all this artificial turbu lence ? Can any man be blind to the fact, that as O'Connell's consequence hangs upon the excitement of the people, so his prime grievance must ever be a state of national repose. Among the many fortunate chances which the Irish agitator pretends to have been heaped upon Lord Duncannon and the Melbourne Ministry, and thrown away by them, we shall bring forward one only, because it is in itself a curiosity, and because it has been got up by O'Connell to furnishhim with an opportunity of vending his bile against this journal. He says to Lord Duncannon— " You had acquired much additional force in England. The bigotry of the Peers, the sordid hate exhibited towards the Dissenters, gave y ou s t reng th an d secur ity ami▪ dst that active and most intelligent class of men. Even Lord Brougham, who had fallen into some contempt, and no small disrepute, by reason of his passion for making foolish and contradictory speeches, was raised into renewed popu larity by the ruffianism of the manner in which he was as sailed by the mean and mercenary myrmidons in the pay of old Walter of the Times. The reaction in the public mind, by th e p u bli c sense o f th e v il eness o f the motives and the ba seness o f th e di spos i t i on o f t h e li terar y mi▪ screants who conduct the Times, have not only made Lord Brougham share once again the public sympathy, but have consoli dated the support of the entire Ministry, by many and many of the most decided friends to the thorough reforming of all existing abuses—a class more numerous in England than is generally known, and most valuable for the energy of their political honesty." We need not waste a word on the vulgar impudence of this personal tirade ; we need not repeat the dis claimer which we have often published, that the gen tleman whos e name i s use d in a manner disgraceful only to him who so uses it, has no connection with the direction of this journal. We need not, we suppose, assert that we are not people likely to be influenced by anybody's pay to do what our sense of honour and duty should point out to be wrong. We wave, therefore, all remark upon this passage, in reference to its ruffianly and calumnious spirit, and address our selves merely to the argument. How does that stand ? Even thus. The exposures inflicted on Lord Chancellor Brougham by the Times have wrought favourably for the reputation of that Learned Lord, by virtue of the notoriety thus affixed to what the agitator terms his " foolish and contradictory speeches," but what we make bold to designate as his unbecoming and not creditable deeds. This is a counterpart of the Learned Lord's own hallucination in the Edinburgh Review, when he charges the representatives of the people of England with having corruptly voted for the Poor Law Bill, which in their hearts they condemned, out of spite to a Newspaper which had too fiercely censured it. So it appears from O'Connell that the learned procreator of the Poor Bill is now as much in debted to our supposed hostility as his offspring was last summer; and that t o p ro d uce a react i on w i th Englishmen in any politician's favour, no more is ne cessary than to prove how little he deserves it ! Does this most flatter the people of England generally, or that portion of the Press to which such singular effects have been ascribed ? If we are the objects of such universal enmity, one might presume the fact to be capable of a less contradictory demonstration. The way to defeat us would be not to read us. Has Lord Brougham yet advanced many steps towards that desir able end ; or would O'Connell, had such evidence of our unpopularity existed, have been goaded---ay, tor tured, frenzied into the respectable exhibition which he has made of himself in the phraseology of the above paragraph ? Behold his logic, in allusion to our re peated and argumentative, and yet unanswered, because they are unanswerable, detection of his juggler's tricks, in the treatment of the wretched dupes whom he lives but to plunder, and without whose plunder he would to-morrow have no alternative but a return to that daily industry which he has long abjured, or starvation. ." You are a set of vile mercenary myrmidons, basely disposed ruffians, literary miscreants," &c. Does the robber of the poor conceive that abuse like this will serve him for a mask to screen his selfishness, or for an ally to his mock policy of repeal ? But let him beware of the issue of the dangerous enterprise he is engaged in. Let him dread the evil passions o f th at mu l t i tu d e which lie is eternally stimulating. Let him know his own nature, which will surely fling him int o th e ver y front, not of the battle, but the flight, from the mo ment in which the war of words shall ripen into a more manly conflict.— Times. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1834. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. A young man, named Garrett Cotten, the' son of Irish parents, but of English birth, was summoned before the LORD MAYOR for having broken three pipes and three of the teeth of an old Irish clothes dealer, named Dennis Carthy. Dennis 111‘Carthy said that he went into the kitchen of the Three Compasses public-house, in Harrow-alley, Petti coat-lane, on Wednesday evening to have a whiff. The moment he clapped his pipe in his mouth, however, the de fendant, who was enjoying his own pipe, gave it a dash and broke it in pieces. Witness supplied himself with another pipe, but he had scarcely taken in a single blast when the defendant played him the same sort of trick. The expense of the damage amounted to one penny by this time, but still the defendant did not allow his anger to get the better of his judgment. He got a third pipe, thinking that the joke could not go any further ; but the delicious cloud had scarcely risen an inch from his jaws when the defendant gave him an elbow in the face, and dashed the source of his pleasure to the earth a third time. The LORD MAYOR—And were you idle all the time ? Did you give him a thump ? Dennis—ln troth I believe I did give him a little slight sort of a wipe, but whether I did or no he ups with his fist and he knocks three of my teeth bang out of my mouth. Look here your Worship (opening his mouth). Here they are, where he knocked them out. The LORD MAYOR--I see where teeth have been, but not where teeth are. Do you happen to have them about you Dennis—The devil a one of them I have. How could I, when he knocked 'em out ? The LORD MAYOR—Your mouth does not appear to me as if they had been lately removed. Perhaps you make a slight mistake as to the exact time when you missed 'em. Dennis—No, your Lordship. I had 'em at dinner time yesterday I'll be upon my oath. Hadn't I, Paddy Byrne ? A bricklayer's labourer, with a curly rod head and a re markably wide mouth full of teeth, cried out, " By my sowl if you hadn't you'd never a got through such a piece of an ould bull as you had yesterday for your dinner, Dinnis.—( A laugh.) The LORD MAYOR—But where are the teeth ? If they were knocked out you would naturally have looked for them on the floor. Dennis—The devil a know 1 know where they are ; and where's the use on 'em if I had 'ern ? I couldn't ate any more with 'em. The LORD MAYOR—Perhaps you swallowed them 1 Dennis—Faith, then, may be I did, my Lord ; but I re• member perfectly I had 'em at dinner. The Defendant—Please your Lordship, I hope you'll order him to be locked up, and we'll soon know whether he lost 'em or not.—(Laughter.) The bricklayer's labourer—Plaise your honour its too late for that, for Dennis came into my place quite sick this morning and says he, Dennis says he— The LORD MAYOR—Very well you needn't give us the particulars. The bricklayer's labourer—l only say, plaise your honour, that if you were to keep him locked up for a twelvemonth you wouldn't find his teeth in that way if he swallowed every tooth he had in the world.—(Laughter.) The LORD MAYOR—Pray Mr. M'Carthy were you quite drunk or half drunk ? Dennis—Half drunk plaise your Lordship Defendant—By the virtue of my oath, my Lord, he was all drunk. He not only broke my pipe but he took a poker to do it, and then down he fell. I wouldn't strike him, for he was so disguised in liquor that he was able to knock out his own teeth without anybody's assistance. The LORD MAYOR—I think there must be some little mistake about the precise time of the disappearance of the teeth, and would advise you to make up this matter. Dennis—Why, my Lord, though he's not out and out a countryman of mine yet he is about half and half, and we lodge in the same house, and I think it great nonsense for people so nearly related to quarrel and fight about two or three old snaggles. The LORD MAYOR—Then you had better shake hands. Dennis—With all my heart, your Honour, but I hope he'll pay me for the pipes he broke.—(Great laughter.) The LORD MAYOR—You are much the older man, and have shown him a very bad example by getting so drunk as not to know the difference between breaking a pipe and wrenching your jaw asunder.—(Laughter.) GUILDHALL. Yesterday Robert Stocks, Wnz. Broom, and Thonzas Carey were brought up before Sir JOHN KEY and Mr. Alderman BIRCH for final examination, on suspicion of having entered the silk warehouse of Mr. Liggins, in Wood street, on the night of the 17th instant, and carried off silk goods worth 1301., and valuable securities to the amount of upwards of 1,500/. Mr. Robinson watched the case for the prisoners Broom and Carey. The prisoner Stocks was the prosecutor's porter, and was left in charge of the premises, but he neglected his duty and amused himself at a neighbouring public-house till one o'clock in the morning, and in the mean time the property was carried off. He at first said he did not take a light into the premises when he returned, and therefore did not miss the property till daylight ; but he afterwards admitted he discovered the robbery at one o'clock, though he gave no alarm till six o'clock, and this prevarication was the ground of suspicion against him. The other two prisoners were surprised in a room in Turnagain-lane, with all the silk goods spread out before them, apparently engaged in removing Mr. Liggin's marks. Roe, the Guildhall officer, who with the assistance of Vann, made this capture, enumerated the goods he had seized. Broom flung himself into an attitude of despair, and exclaimed, " Oh, what shall Ido ? You know I only came here to put up a bedstead." Mr. Alderman BIRCH asked Mr. Ligging if he had re covered the bills ? Mr. Liggins said the officers did not find them at Carey's lodging. Mr. Alderman BIRCH - repeating his question again, Mr. Liggins said he had received them back, together with his goldwatch, done up in brown paper as a parcel, that morning. Mr. Alderman Bsacu forbore asking any further expla nations. Carey, under the advice of his solicitor, declined making any defence. Broom repeated the story of going to help to put up a bedstead. Stocks' defence was that he was absent from the ware• house when Vie robbery was committed, though blameably, yet not in concert with the thieves. The Magistrates committed Carey for stealing the goods, and Broom and Stocks on strong suspicion of being con cerned therein. The two last-mentioned therefore are bailable. HA TTON- GARDEN. On Monday evening, a little after seven o'clock, when Mr. LAING took his seat on the bench, Miss Stuart, the daughter of a respectable master builder, residing at Lime house, entered the office in a state of excitement, accompa nied by Mrs. West, a washerwoman, residing at Baldwin's place, Baldwin's-gardens, Gray's Inn-lane, Holborn, who held a child about six weeks old in her arms, when they made the following most extraordinary statement to the Magistrate : During the last week Miss Stuart had been sojourning at the house of a friend residing in Park-terrace, Clapham, which she quitted on Monday afternoon last for the pur pose of returning to her own home. She accordingly took her place in the Clapham stage-coach, and on arriving near the Horns tavern, Kennington, a woman fashionably attired, having a child in her arms, got into the coach, and entered into conversation with her, and was very affable to those around her. They proceeded as far as Oxford-street, when Miss Stuart alighted for the purpose of repairing to the house of Mrs. West, who was an old friend, where she intended to sleep that night, in preference to going to her father's house at Limehouse. The moment she quitted the stage-coach the woman with the child also immediately alighted, and walked and conversed with her until they arrived in Holborn, when her new companion complained of being very much fatigued, and, begging to be excused, requested her (Miss Stuart) to carry the child a short distance for her. She immedi ately acceded and received the infant in her arms, and car ried it as far as Gray's Inn, when she met a female friend with whom she stopped for a short time, and they had not exchanged more than a dozen words, when on turning round to look for the supposed mother of the child she was gone. She instantly made inquiry and searched every. where for her, but she was nowhere to be found, and she became distracted, and did n o t k now w h at to do w i th the child, and she ultimately took it to the house of Mrs. West, who on hearing the particulars took Miss Stuart and the infant to the above office. Mr. LAING thought it a most extraordinary proceeding, and closely questioned Miss Stuart, and Mrs. West, who both adhered to their original statement in every respect, and the child having been deserted in the united parishes of St. Andrew, Holborn, and St. George the Martyr, he instantly sent for the parish authorities, and ordered that the child should be taken into their workhouse until proper i n quiries could be made into the matter, and the child was a ccordingly received by them. In answer to questions, Miss Stuart stated that the woman, the supposed mother of the child, appeared to be twenty-four years of age, five feet four inches high, rather fair complexion, dark eyes and hair, with a long and narrow visage, ladylike address, her language indicating that she had received a liberal education. She lisped, had on a dark green or brown silk gown, a dark-coloured figured shawl, silk gloves, a guard round her neck made of black velvet, and beads ; rings on her fingers, a Dunstable straw bonnet, lined and trimmed with pink. The infant, six weeks old,. had on a long l awn s hi r t, di aper ro ll er , fine flannel, shirt, calico bedgown frilled around the top, new dmper afore, cloth napkin, muslin under cap, and flannel upper shirt. A spare child. Mr. LAING inquired as to the probability of the supposed mother of the child losing Miss Stuart and the infant by accident, and not intention. Miss Stuart thought it a matter of impossibility for the circumstance to have arisen from the effect of accident. It was instantaneous, and the party must have ran away inten tionally, and concealed herself as soon as possible. She inquired of the porters of Gray's Inn, and every person ad jacent to the spot, whether they had seen such a woman, but she could receive no satisfactory information. She did not perceive anybody along with her when she got into the coach near the Horns Tavern, Kennington. Mr. LAING directed the parish officers to take the child and Miss Stuart to the workhouse, and receive from them every information, and to use means to discover the mother of the infant, or the woman who gave it to Miss Stuart, and the whole of the parties quitted the office for that purpose. Every inquiry was made during the whole of yesterday by the officers ; but no tidings could be traced of her, and the child still remains in the above workhouse. THE PLUNDERERS AT THE LATE FIRE Yesterday being the day appointed for the final examina tioh of those persons who were apprehended by the police constables for committing various depredations at the late disastrous fire at the House of Lords, Queen-square Office was crowded to excess by the friends and relations of many of the prisoners. Mr. Ley, Chief Clerk of the House of Lords, was in at tendance, and had a long conversation with Mr. WHITE previous to the examinations. Several other gentlemen at tached to the House of Lords were in attendance. James Leech was placed at the bar charged with having stolen a silver sugar basin and milk ewer from the fire. The property, it will be recollected, was found on the prisoner, who said he had taken it for safety. On the property being produced it was identified to be long to Mr. Howard, of Howard's Coffee-house. The prisoner was fully committed for trial. Samuel Cox, a private soldier belonging to the Foot Guards, was again remanded, charged with stealing some flannel and other articles belonging to the housekeeper of the House of Lords. Francis Palmer, charged with having a quantity of brass work and locks in his possession, was discharged. William Atkins, a gardener, in the employ of Messrs. Elliott, charged with stealing a number of memorandum books and other articles, received a most excellent character and was discharged. John Young was finally examined, charged with having in his possession an inkstand and wafer stamp, on which were engraved his Majesty's arms. The prisoner said that he had only been a few months in London, he had no father to protect him, and assured the Bench that he had no intention of stealing any thing. He was fully committed for trial. A very respectable-looking young man, whose friends re side in the Kent-road, named George Phillips, was charged with having in his possession three parchment bodkins, value one shilling, which had been stolen from the fire. Th e pro perty was found upon him. The prisoner said that he had not the slightest intention of stealing them. They were not of the.slightest use to him, and if he had wanted such things he could have pur chased them himself. He was fully committed for trial. A number of very respectable persons came forward who had known the prisoner from his infancy and gave him a most excellent character. One gentleman said that be was quite incapable of such an act. He would now, at the pre sent moment, trust him with untold gold. He was positive that he had no felonious intention. Mr. WHITE said that he was happy to hear he had such an excellent character, and at the Sessions he had no doubt it would have great weight. An elderly respectable woman who cried bitterly, and appeared to be almost broken-hearted, stepped forward and said that her son was one of the best of characters. She begged that she might be allowed to see him. Mr. WHITE—You can see him at any time. The Mother—They won't let me see him, Sir, without an order. Mr. WHITE—I will give you an order to see him any day you like. You can see him now, if you please, or at any other time. _ _ Several respectable persons here stepped forward and offered bail for his appearance at the Sessions. Mr. WHITE said that he could make no distinction between rich and poor, and refused to take bail. John Stringer was next placed at the bar, charged with having in his possession a very handsome wafer stamp of considerable value and a piece of lace. On being stopped by the police constable he said that he had got nothing about him, but on being searched the above property was found upon him. He was fully committed for trial. William Guest was finally examined, charged with having picked the pocket of Joseph Lee, of No. 6, Hyde-place, Vauxhall-road, of a pocket-book. The pocket-book was found upon him, together with three snuff-boxes and six pocket handkerchiefs, some silk and some cotton. He was fully committed for trial. Tonz Oliver, the son of the well-known prize-fighter, was re-examined, charged with attempting to pick pockets at the fire. Mr. WHITE inquired whether any of the constables knew him ? Police constables Elliott and Wilkins, of the B said that the prisoner was well known to them. He was a most notorious smasher, and had frequently been in custody for uttering base coin, and was the constant companion of the most reputed thieves in Westminster. Mr. WHITE committed him for one month to the House of Correction. William Cramp was fully committed for trial for attempt ing to pick pockets at the fire. Several other prisoners were discharged for different offences, the evidence not being sufficiently strong against them. All the prisoners, about fourteen in number, who were charged with having divers papers in their possession picked up at the fire, and for whom bail was refused in the first in stance on Friday last, were brought up after the business on that day and discharged, as it did not appear that they had any felonious intention. THE RIVERS OF INDIA. Every person throughout the civilized world is fa miliar with the names of the Indus and the Ganges, those holy streams which seem to the superstitious Hindoo, as the Nile appeared to the Egyptian, to be of divine origin. They are, certainly, among the most precious gifts which nature has bestowed upon Hindos tan. By their means, and that of numerous tribu- tary or inferior rivers, an amazing degree of fertility is maintained in the country, which, from time imme morial, has not only supported a vast population with its own produce, but been enabled to satisfy the wants of the rest of the woad with its superfluities. To us in England it is difficult to form an idea of those " ocean streams," which, in a course, in some in stances, of nearly 2,000 miles, collect the waters of a thousand rivers, and at length flow in channels of se veral leagues in breadth to the sea. In the level lands of Bengal, rivers cannot, of course, possess very lofty banks ; but palaces, temples, and palm-trees of gi gantic size, shoot up from the water's edge, and are visible from a great distance ; yet, in sailing up or down these majestic streams, the eye is frequently unable to descry the opposite banks. Except in the rainy season, the surface of the rivers, rarely ruffled with winds, is as smooth as a mirror, and beautifully reflects the glorious hues which dawn or sunset spreads over the tropical skies, with the lazy, lingering sail floating over it. Towards the mouth, however, this tranquillity is twice a day disturbed by the tide, which, particularly in the Indus, rushes with great violence against the stream with what is commonly called the the mascaret or bore, endangering the barks which encounter it. It was this phenomenon that astonished the soldiers of Alexander, who, accustomed to the tideless wave of the Mediterranean, knew not how to account for this war of waters, which even moderate travellers have described with wonder. FALSIFICATION OF WRITINGS. —A medical student was recently convicted and punished in France for forging a will, by altering the handwriting, and it is said that frauds of this nature are becoming alarmingly frequent in that country of late. We should not be surprised it similar at tempts were made here long by some of our chevaliers d'industrie ; but, fortunately, the mode of detecting falsifica tions of the kind is not difficult, if suspicion be once awakened. Old writing is removed, and place made for new, either by erasure, by the applicatio n o f mur i at i c ac i d, or b y b ot h . A supposed erasure should be examined by a magnifier, and if it seem to have been touched with size or sandarac, as a ground for the new writing, these substances may be dissolved with water or alcohol respectively. If muriatic acid have been used it is not unlikely that all the acid may not have been washed out, when the excess may be readily tested with litmus paper. But whether chlorine or muriatic acid have been em ployed, it is probable that some traces of the oxide of iron of the old ink may still remain, and these may be rendered visible by washing the part with a camel-hair pencil dipped in diluted gallic acid. The latter process may have to be repeated several times, and on successive days, allowir , the dilute acid to evaporate slowly each time. We are indebted to a paper by M. Chevalier, in the last Annales d'Hygiene, for these brief but valuable suggestions.--Medical Gazette. eesters DESTRUCTION OF HARMLESS ANIM How continually are the nurserymen and , of this country complaining of extensive damag e to their crops and their fruit trees by the differer cies of insects ! Yet these very insects, from called by vulgar names, are almost totally unkn naturalists, who cannot, therefore, supply the tion which is desired. It is surely not too expect that a gardener should be able to tell t, rence between a beetle and a fly ; between a n with four win gs an d one w i t h ou t. Yet so , this information been thought of among the of this profession, that not one in twenty knowledge on the subject. Country guntlem plain of their fruit b e i n g dev oure d by birds, an' are given for an indiscriminate destruction 0. nests ; the sparrows more especially are without mercy, as being the chief aggressors; robin redbreast, conceived to be the most inn , habitant of the garden, is fostered and pr otectei a little acquaintance with th e na tural history 0 ' two birds will set their characters in opposit e The sparrows, more especially in country si.t l very rarely frequent the garden ; because, gra' l their chief food, they search for it round th yard, the rick, and the stable ; they resort to tuations accordingly. The robins, on the othel are the great devourers of all the small fruit:s come from the nest just before the currants fa, berries are ripe ; and they i mme di a tely spread selves over the adjacent gardens, which they quit so long as there is anything to pillage. appear strange, as it certainly is, that no writ e ' native birds should have been aware of these but it is only a proof how little those person' are, nevertheless, interested in knowing such attend to the habits and economy of beings g before their eyes. In like manner weprotect for their song, that they may rob us of our standard fruits with impunity.—Swainson History. 7t2h4t3ill'aearelsa:l9: ffl --' ------- •arti $ Willi itit li MA RR IA GE S. all. ,to 3 , 0 0 On the 21st inst., at St. Giles's, Carnbe` - a t-La v e i Cha t ' Channell, Esq., of the Inner Temple, Barri s t er sq. , ,ioe, Hawkes, youngest daughter of Richar Moseley, Job , - 0 Hill. i lin e, L9 f h it Pg . ' On the 16th inst., Mr. John Cross, of R0 0 u7,, SO - ' is merchant, to Sarah, daughter of the late ''°- S i 14cd ef r Ampleforth, Yorkshire. fc C. 'p l eb . t , A ' of On the 20th inst., Captain John Ross, __, ll-14. s.•''' ir se ld 2 Mary, the only daughter of Thomas Jones, kiSq .? rt 9 street, Portland-place. Robe r y On the 21st inst., at St. Mary's, Islingt en e ; o f go C. Wainewright, Esq. to Charlotte, eldest daugla t sbe t Pist t Stutzer, of River-terrace Islington. /. Bloo o3 ‘ t he On the 21st inst., at St. GeOrge-the-MartYL..'„hter °' A l J. C. Johnstone, Esq., to Mary Ann, only 0 ' 1 "" TV," John Andree, Esq., M.D. evsq uare as t eg bt. , On the 21st inst. at St. George's, Hanover 011 1 Y OP • , f Colyer, Esq., of Southfleet, Kent, to Mary An ti ' f r ede t o Joseph Somes, Esq., of New-grove, Mile-end. the Bev. Jo e, On the 15th inst., at Christchurch , Hants'Throop, t°..,111), Waldo, Independent Minister of the chapel at of the fore ieg i f e " youngest daughter of tke late J. Olive, Es;l_•' ese o f J. °; l3 paler On the 10th of Ail; at Agra, at the r!°ajor, of sele Esq., Coel, Captain Robert Wyllie, Brigade _ E .„ . , o goo d Lucy Martha, eldest daughter of N. DennYs , ' 7, 00 1 11 park, London. Mar Carlisle. DI. 0 Jackson, the cks 02nOt, Esq.,h in t o . f , D a t ullearsytlreebeot,ne Ci7irt:lalt:er..sguar Augus tus ', , ..........., /o 1% 1 youngest daughter of J. Armstrong. 0 DEATH S ' rth i ge hr e n e 9 oo 4 sir _, jel ris ft 0 .r po O w n na t i te K l7 . t i h gh i t n , s p t. r , m o .o n st th i‘ e ia G rs r h an al i - I G P e a n r e a r cl a e fe ß f in his 79th year. J o hn i Finch, th t e hi l i th da in ughter t of h the te late vid I " Launde Abe, Leicestershire . On the 20th inst., in Judd -place, Or e . go . Esq., aged 44. Lower Phillimore-plae , _as, Samuel Everingham Sketchleye, f o n-street, in her 74th year' ere, E s q., in his 77th On the 21st inst., in Hal -m On the 20th inst., in Char widow of Mr. Thomas. Euston-siqncuhareS,imDPas°l3' °s‘l:s, On the 20th inst., t . K in gston-on-Thames , 80th year. tr ot of Red Lion-square, in his at his estate, Chateau de ffer ei 0 On the 12th inst., France, Char es o his 48th 1 • IP Nemours, in Cuff,K l i 1 l saGtt:ndo-ffrinCi-surrrTzhr°aenmu- t se t t e : l e , eC E t h. gl' ' L e als:. -- Esq.,: Ipswich,ttnd R th i e ch ß te e r v ) : in Edward ves, 79th year. inst., at Cla don Rectory, Bucks, On the 17th the on fir wife of the Rev. 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Lockh a 03 0 serving that his old friend never proposed f or gave him a hint in a whisper, knowing wel l . c oo°' tiality for a certain class of society in his nati`', / ,g i try. On receiving th e hi n t th e s h e pherd sP r ie t lO his feet and threw hi s pl a id over hi s shoui" i ' e srk homely countenance gl ow i ng w ith ar d ou r, whil e n ' oill e " dressed Sir George as f o ll ows . Th e s p e ech isg e rte l# word for word ; and as it has never been relr te d° give it for the first time, and expect to see it letters of gold in the Northern Papers :---" George, you have given to-night the healths ° o o ) b of of the first nobility of the United Kingdom , 0 8 11 these who are connected with this society, 11 ' others who are not. Y ou h ave , more over, s l them in scores, u n d er cer t a i n great l ea ders;, il suppose, you think y ou h ave i nc l u d e d them 8 1 5 11W ii never were farther mistaken, Sir George. , r ePi no • therefore, with y our p erm i ss i on , toast a bilitV xe°lt , superior to them all. I'll give you, Sir, prosperity to th e on ly l egit i mate no bility in I. t les'' / dom, nay, in th e world--a nobility wiina e joi,i King or Government can bestow, and n° h o tels ° l Government take away—the Chi e f s of the ' vl ;s o Clans.' Their's are patriarch a l titl e s, ten t tb s , l, times more venerable, and of higher resr courtly ones, which can be obliterated at t he cor P '; caprice of a Sovereign. But no attainder , "° l ,bere l , cation, can affect the Highl an d Chief s in their rights of nobility. They have their chart ers .o higher source than the lordlings you have 1 51 0 They hold them f rom th e Ki ng o f 1 - lea re t il" ) j I say again, that no power or influenc e . 4 1 k , , can either best ow th em or take them Etw il Y) tv,r now, Sir Georg e , w h en I am on m y feet, a n t , ing on this subject, I cannot help a ppeahl e fori, whom I know to b e a s t er li ng Highlander in t 10 1 A l sense of the term, an d t o have all the p a triare o picr o f ing of that brave or i g i na l p eo pl e —i s it not a ' li ter, / thing in society not to give the ladies and (lag j 10, Highland chiefs honorary titles ? I think' Opt proved to you that they are the highest o f our 110 ps so that the title of l a dy i s not gratu i tous , h ut r e 5i 51 ,1 1 4 . tural, that I wonde r an y we ll-b re d person 0" s ". O It is true they get these titles among their °lbela and people, which is beautiful ; but to hea r cr elf to London, and eve n i n Edi n b urg h, a dd re ssed 0 1 5 if they were the wives of grocers and butch A e 7old me perfectly insufferable a n d di sgus ting. Th t i v ise I am, and rather infi rm t oo , I wou ld not be i° nian to call Lady Glengarry Mrs. Mactio o „ — e e c i r e me, or any of them all. I once sen t a cha-u e oss li, lo , very particular and esteemed friend of my he Chief of Macleod, for ca lli ng hi s o wn lady the tes t cleod before me. He a pol o gi se d, by Sar ri ll by' ' lf to deemed he had a right t o ca ll hi s o wn wife, wro te ,, title he pleased. I denied the po s ition, an Ifac je a l him again, that it was not the insult to Lad , c lai sl ,rl that I resented, but it we n t t o i nva lidate t he• • h u n t f all the wives and d aug ht ers o f th e other nt o Chiefs. He thought hims e lf o bli ge d to aced, challenge, at whi c h I was t err ibly alarin e esr ' ICC ° $' always thought h e wou ld recan t an d yield, d to $: as Lady Macleod sent me a note to star' o f system, for I w as r i g ht. W e me t i n a r e p. t jnol; the back of Gr ea t C um b er l an d- s t ree t. of fo r; Argyll was his secon d, an d M r . Davids° fte rir bf loch was mi ne . W e fi re d I k now no t how' ° foo al l , o , e t got so frightened I l os t m y senses , and jus t boo" random, as if I had been an automaton. t he I ',#e stood to him, till at last he wounded me in, pOt i F te fs and I fell ; but even when lying flat I woo do g of up the genuine claim that the wives and the i t itle ibe of acknowledged Highland Chiefs have ot i sil lady. " The Highland Chiefs,”---2 honours—three times repeated. ree l, crc „aggocc e BIR H S On the 18th inst., at Brighton T , the . Lady Jan e 1,0 u rs• of a daughter, which survived its birth only a few la dy of On the 20th inst., at Kensington Palace, th e l3. Barrow, Esq., of a son. f tit er' , On the 20th inst., at Br o k en hurst, th e lady ° Esq., of a son. f a of J 3 On the 18th inst., the Lady Louisa Whitmore, ° th e /a On the 16th inst., at Ambleside, Westmorela nd ' a ' ° t he of dell Frederick Noyes, E sq ., o f a son . . rri of tbe 10 On the 20th inst., Mr s . Cheer, of Finsburr, ° ',43 4, On the 19th inst., i n Y or k-t errace , Regent t' the Rev. Wm. Dodswo r th, o f a d aug ht er . fhq