The Sun. — London, England, 1831-06-13 00:00:00

S" RIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Tory Press exults over the fall of the late Emperor of llrazil as an event full of awful 'warning to !lve Monarchs who condescend, from the proud ele atinn of a throne, to pay any attention to the .voice of enlightened opinion, and are so infatuated as to attempt to combine the exercise of Royal po aer with the cultivation of the liberal virtues. A dethroned Liberal who, by his honest endeavours to establish his authority in the affections of a free p °pie, had subverted it altogether, would indeed *Tart' a fine theme for the declamation of the ad m'rers and sycophants of despotic power. If Don Pedro have, by an excess of liberality, and by too many and sincere concessions to the popular feeling, coajured up that spirit which has driven him an out cast and an exile from the empire, where his splendid crime was too generous a sacrifice of the preroga tives of power to the freedom of his people, he af fords a rare example of kingly virtue provoking a tyrant's fate. But if his liberality were but a mask asenined to serve the purpose of a crafty ambi tion, and to be thrown aside when he thought himself strong enough to play the despot in safety, his case is only confirmatory of the great truth, of which we have had so many recent examples, t' rat without moral power military force is but a precarious protection to thrones. The Tory Press informs its readers that Don Pedro, " the de throned and fugitive Emperor of Brazil, was a con summate Liberal, and a most zealous and indus trious manufacturer of Constitutione." His expul sion, according to the same authority, establishes the inference that a Sovereign may be a Liberal and a Consftution-monger, and may yet fail to afford sa tisfaction to his people, or to ensure the stability of his throne. Our opinion is that Don Pedro began by being a " consummate" hypocrite, and ended by showing himself an enemy to freedom. In the former character he certainly framed Constitutions, but in the latter be broke them ; in the former cha racter lie courted popular approbation, in the latter be relied upon military force. While he assumed the virtues which he had not his throne was firm, for it was supported by the people; but when he threw off a patriot's disguise he met a tyrant's doom. That he was capable of acting the hypocrite there ate sufficient proofs upon record. • One docu ment will be conclusive on this point ; it is the copy of a letter which he addressed to his fatlisr, the late King John, on the 4th of October, 1821, just before he (Don Pedro) proposed to the Braz;lians the es tablishment of a separate Legislation, with himself at its head, as Emperor; the letter has the following words :—" They wish, and they say they wish, to proclaim me Emperor. I protest to your Majesty that I will never be peijured—that I will never be false to you—and that if ever they commit that folly, .it shall not be till after they have cut me to pieces—me and all the Portuguese. By a solemn oath, which 1 lave written wills my blood, in the following words: I swear to be always faithful to your Ma jesty—to the Portuguese nation and Constitri lion. " This is one of his letters, which was printed, by order of Don John, for the use of the Members of the Cortes at Lisbon, and to a'sure them of his son's fidelity to the Throne of Portugal. In the October following the connection with Por tugal was severed, and Don Pedro was, on his own suggestion, elected Emperor of Brazil. It has long been but too evident to the Thazil'ans that Don Pedro considered the intere'ta of Portugal, whose Crown he had resigned, as of more importance than those of Brazil, over which he reigned. It was in pursuance of this Portuguese policy that the agents of the Emyeror seized upon the funds which the Brazilians had appropriated to the payment of the dividends en his debt, and applied them to the pur pose; of the claims of Donna Melia to the throne of Portugal, about which the Brazilians care no thing. They have a bitter recollection of the op pression which they suffered when Brazil was a de pendency of that kingdom ; neither do they forget the dreadful massacre of their electors by Portu guese troops in the year 1821, when convened in their Hall of Assembly at Rio, while both Don John and Don Pedro were in that city;—still less can they forget the inhuman satisfaclon with which the ace'unt of that massacre of their unarmed citi zens by the bayonets of a cowardly and ferocioto. soldiery was received in Lisbon. How then could they observe without disgust the policy by which Don Pedro sacrificed the interests of Brazil to his paramount consideration for the affairs of Portegal? Our readers arc aware that in the year 1828, ti e British Government sent Lord Strangford on a special embassy to Brazil, for the purpose of bringing about an unnatural alliance between Donna Nlaria and her perjured uncle, the is monster" of Portugal. This unnatural marriage wart originally a project of Don Pedro himself; and in filet the civil part of the contract had been exe cuted when Don Miguel was at Vienna, learning those lessons of policy under Metternich which he has since csrried into effect with such discusting tid,litv to the principles of his political Mentor; but when Lord Strangford arrived at Rio on his " honourable" mission, the Emperor was in such ill humour with Don Miguel that he would not hear any proposal for the completion of his own matri. monial arrangement, although a British Ministry had not thought the Msjesty of England degraded by its represen tative being deputed to provide the " monster" with a wife! Dr. Walsh, who attended that embassy as Chaplain, publishei as account of it in his wcrk on Brazil. In that work he has thrown some light on the character t f Don Pedro—that lie was a patriot by compulsion, and despot by choice. He says that this Prince " left, at a very early and inexperienced age, entirely to himself, and in a region where every State around him was revolutionized into republics, and the same spirit rapidly advancing through his own, lie with great sigacity saw the line of conduct left him to adopt, and with equal dexterity pursued it. He could not hope to r esist the public sentiment —but by appearing to lead, he has hitherto con trived effectually to guide it." He adds, that it was even at that time said in Brazil that lie was essen tially despotic in his principles ; that he wished en, , timely to lay the spirit of democracy that had been conjured up; and that his apparent design to esta blish constitutional freedom was merely a bait to crick popularity. He bad even before the time Dr. Walsh visited Rio suppressed, like Ferdinand of Spain, all freemasons' lodges, although he had originally put himself at their head as Grand Mas ter, A lover of freedom cannot be an enemy of knowledge : but Don Pedro dreaded 'the diffusion of knowledge, and set himself against the formation of literary and scientific institutions, which he once pretended to patronise, This historian was, there-i fore, justified in saying, three years ago, that " Don Pedro, supposing he had guided the enthusiasm of the people until it bad harmlessly exploded and established himself firmly on the throne, is now de termined to reign by himself, and dispense alto gether with troublesome popular assemblies, which he has twi ce f orc ibly suppressed. Thus had Don Pedro made a commencement of that tvranny before 118823. ~.s 1828 of which . we see the merited catastrophe in last act was a reliance on military power, which snapt like a reed. May such be ever standing the fidelity o f the arta ice of despots I So sha l l moral power triumph ii over butte force, and mankind ceas e to be sl aug htered as a pastime for tyrants.—Morning Herald. o It is understood, that besides the& men's t n ra l sure of Reform, in the success of which a feelings are bound up, no business except e that iv o e f ltest the most urgent and important nature will be transac t ed in the approaching early Session of the new Partia- merit. The new Bankrupt Bill is, h owever , to be introduced. It will be, we believe, supported by all the able practical lawyers in the Lower House; but nothing can be more preposterous or ignorant than the statement made by a contemporary (the Morn ing Post) as to the probable disposition among the profession of the judicial places to be created .by the 'Bill. Enlightened men of all iarieties of po litical sentiment must unite in advocating those inta:ioti a of legal Reform do long demanded 1.) ti.e nation, and to which, shape, consistency, and form, have now been imparted by one of the ablest men who ever filled the supreme seat of Judicature in this country. But it is alike unjust towards the Chancellor, 'awl to the expected sup 7 , orters of the Bankrupt Bill, to represent the pre ferments necessarily gro , .ving out of the new sys tem, to be of an amount or value capable of pur chasing, or, Which in his Lordship's hands, could be ipplied to purchase, the support of men in the fore most rank of their profession. If any question were o be raised as to the proposed emoluments of ;he Judges of the new Bankrupt Court, it will be the , nodeation, not the magnitude, of the scale on which those emoluments have been regulated, that must become the subject of remark. We may mention that it is•doubtful in the profession whether ' 'he scheme of creating official assignees may not be advantageously carried into effect ; and some modi fication of the Bill in this particular, is spoken of as not unlikely to take place before its re-production. —Morning Chronicle. The Anti-Reformers are in ecstasy on account of the riots at Merthyr-Tydvil, the Forest of Dean, and the disturbances in Ireland. Of course there never were any riots in this country before on ac count of wages and enclosures ; never any White boyism in Ireland. This is the working of Reform, and Reform alone ! So, at least, says John Bull, he organ, par excellence, of the Church : " But let us look at the real state of the empire under the healing influence of this liberal Ministry :—lreland is in a state of open rebellion ; Wales in a state of insurrec tion ; and the people of the Forest• of Dean and its neigh { ourhood are in a state of insubordination which threatens the matt serious consequences—already they have done nearly ten thousand pounds' worth of damage, destroying the plantations and levelling the fences in all -directions. Some of the military have been ordered from Merthyr to quell the insurrection; but the magistrates refuse to permit the troops to quit them. These are but the commence ment—the system is only beginning to work, and the blessed effects of Reform are just dawning upon us. What right have Kings to forests or to fences, and least of all l i oar King, who is, as Lord Grey has taught the people to believe, a Reformer? " But the impudence of the advocates of the Ministry is such, that it is impossible to hear them without laughing outright ; their writers tell us that the Reform measure, as far as it has gone, has prevented a revolution, when it is notorious that nobody was caring or thinking of Reform until these very Ministers set the cry alma ; and they refer t 3 Ireland, as a proof of the efficacy of the Government, while they exhibit England as a specimen of perfect una nimity and harmony. Can anybody be so blind as not to see the gradations by which we are daily advancing to destruction? We think not, and yet such is the infatuation, that time flies, gaiety and splendour are the order of the day and night, and everybody seems anxious to get rid of the truth by a feverish career of dissipation and recklessness." How lucky that these riots should have broken out at the opening of Parliament ! When we read the above trash (for it deserves no better name), we were forcibly reminded of the deseription'of the unhappy state of li , erury men given by another con temporary (the Eraminet.), " compelled by penury and dire despondence, which eat up so many minds fit for better things, to prostitute their noble calling by base compliances—to pander to selfishness and malignity, instead of wrestling with them ; to give utterance to the opinion which they hold not, to counterfeit the emotion which they feel not ; to find justification for the evil doer, instead of bringing him to shame—to become confounded with the meanest of mankind by sycophancy and base hypocrisy." We wish we were able to connect the disturbances in Ireland with the Reform Bill, for then the remedy would not be far off. But the social disease of Ire land is of long standing, and no administration, whe ther Whig or Tory, can hope from any measures a sudden or easy cure. To attribute the continually recurring disturbances of that country to any parti cular man, is therefore to display an utter want of principle. The Ministers who, so long opposed con cession to the Catholics, are so far chargeable with the disturbances of Ireland, that they opposed a her to all attempts to eater on the consideration of the social condition of Ireland. Had emancipation taken place twenty years ago, means might, ere this, have been adopted for preventing the glaring dispro portion which now exists between the supply of labour and the means for employing it. How much more becoming the language of a Huntingdonshire yeoman, at the Reform meeting at St. Ices, on Tue•day last : " Look at Ireland : I mourn when I think I belong to a country connected with Ireland : I mourn when I see blood, misery, plunder, persecution, transportation, and imprisonment in Ireland : depend upon it a heavy judg ment hangs over England on account of Irelind.—(Hear, hear.) See a set of beloved Bishops—(Cheers and laughter)--living on 20,0001. or 30,0001. a year each, .and the Irish at the same time dying for want of food.— ( Hear, hear.) England and her borougbmongers have eared nothing for Ireland : if they can make her a desert, they will then say, Look how peaceable she is !' " The disturbances in England, however much to be regretted, are not of a nature calculated to inspire alarm. The Forest of Dean affair has arisen out of misapprehension on a subject, respecting which the lower orders are peculiarly jealous, and not without reason; for every matt who knows anything of our domestic history, is aware that the higher orders of England have, by the mode of proceeding adopted in the enclosing of commons, been guilty of great injustice and great inhumanity towards the poor.— But this is not the suitable time to open so delicate a subject. We are not aware that during the Swing disturbances, or the riots in the manufacturing dis tricts which took place some time before, any at tempt was made in the Opposition Papers of that day, to attribute them to Ministerial tneasureq. We thought that the country had outgrown such pitiful attempts at misrepresentation. But the borough mongers take measure of the rest of the world from hemsel ves.—Morning Chronicle. We have often had occasion to deplore the want of morality, and the evil example given by men in high places in this country, and now fresh cause is given to us for regret, in the system of falsehood and misrepresentation lately adopted by the enemies of Reform, and the irreclaimable abettors of abuses and mis-goveinment. These, our Tory adversaries, finding that their chance of openly opposing the Re feint Bills was rendered hopeless by the unanimous expression of public opinion so clearly pronounced in the late elections, have had recourse to a system of fabricating malevolent reports of the intentions of Ministers with regard to our military establishments, in the main hope that by such means they might produce fear and discontent in the minds of persons, more or less connected with the influential portion of our aristocracy. For this pur pose they have, during the last fortnight, indus triously circulated in society, and in the circle in which they move, the absurd and unfounded ru mour, that it was intended to disband the House hold Troops. We were well aware of their mis chievous doings, but would not condescend to notice them, until now that we see in the John Bull of yesterday, the false rumour plainly stated, with the addition that the Cabiret meant "to propose the 'eduction of the pay of the Guards." Knowing, as we do, the sinister ends which the Tory faction has in view, by the propagation of this falsehood, we deem it our duty to declare distinctly, and from the very best authority, that no such measure has ever been coutiampleaed, and that there do, s not exist the remotest intention of making any change or alteration of any kind in the establishments of the Guards, either in the cavalry or infantry regiments..--Norn ing Chronicle. We publish in another column a moving appeal of the Commander-in-Chief of the Polish army to the Poles of the different Polish provinces incorporated with Russia. This add' ess, it is hoped, will be dis ributed by the corps of the Polish army which have already en t ere d t h ose prov i nces . I n spea ki ng of the p olisli c ause we have always movementsc a r fn l y separated it from th e other revolutionary within the last nine o fo r r te i n t months taken place in revolution in ( E )f ur t o h p e e r . Beig.tu i ni sta o n r ce ti may be thought Italy, nobody can compare them, elitleursuirnrechtion.in or the tneee4rslint eiples by which they are justified, by which they were occasione(.!, with the resistaneye of tFe Poles to the yoke of foreign barbarians!' The . Poles did not rise to carry into effect any nevo theories of Government, to change their institutions, to.alter the relations of society; or to establish a new distribution of power among the different orders of the state. They rose to assert their claim to a country,—to preserve and not to enlarge their char. tered rights,—to maintain the established laws of their land, and to drive away less civilized masters, who had peifidiously subjugated and barbarously oppressed them. Let Europe read their declara tion which we have printed in capital letters, and then a ly if they are to be confounded with Jacobins and revolutionists! While on the subject of Poland, we beg to call attention to a sworn statement of the manner in which the Russians treat British subjects, in that country.—Times. It has been correctly observed, that a lie uncontra dieted for a fortnight assumes the stability of a truth. About a fortnight ago somebody induced the most credulous and least discriminating of the daily journals to publish with great gravity the monstrous 'falsehood that " the King's Guards were to be di.- banded, or, at all events, that their pay Wai to be reduced to the rate of the line." We heartily acquit the journal in question of the ability to invent even an absurdity ; but the simplicity of its gullibi lity gave such a natural air to the fabrication which it announced, that even the knowing ones were some what staggered. The least reflection, however, showed that the report was a mere paltry invention of the Tory faction to annoy the King arid to frighten the female politicians of the Household and Almack's. The thing was too contemptible for refutation. Yes terday, however, a journalist, who if he has no other power of mischief has at- least shrewdness to we what is mischievous, thought he might take advan tage of this uncoutradicted falsehood to frighten the Lords and Gentlemen who meet to-morrow at West minster. With, therefore, the cool effrontery of a practised hoaxer, this writer coolly assumes that the Ministers had intended either to disband the Guards or to reduce their pay, and that though for the moment forced to abandon their intention, they will undoubtedly, at their own fitting opportunity, re sutne their project. Perhaps nothing can more clearly eemonstrate the utter despair of this baffled and beaten faction than the concoction and propa- gation of this gross falsehood. It has been whis pered at soirees, prattled about at clubs, and gal lopaded at balls, t:Il its very authors began to think there must be something in it; and yet the whole story is a mere invention without an atom of foun dation—without a semblance of truth ! Nothing of the kind 111.7. S ever for a moment contemplated!— Need the Reformers fear such puny enemies ? Times. In reference to the projected negociation of a Russian loan, we ought to mention, if only for the sake of producing a contradiction to it if not true, a report which is current of some most unfait pro ceedings on the part of the Russian Government towerds the batik at Warsaw. That establishment, at the breaking out of the revolution, held an in scription of Russian six per cent. stock to the amount of 30,000,000 paper rubles. OrdErs have, how ever, it is said, been issued to the 'treasury of• St. Petersburgh, not to pay any dividends on the stcck held by the \Vaisaw bank, and further not to allow the transfer of it, or any portion of it, to other hands. This proceeding is the more flagrant,, as there is, we believe,! au expres clause in all the Russian loan contracts (with the view of making them circulate more freely in foreign countries), that no circumstances whatever, either of war or othersvie, shall be made a plea by the Russian Go vernment for not fulfilling its share of the contract. No honourab'e capitalist throughout Europe, we conceive, will engage in a treaty for a new loan to Russia, until this matter is satisfactorily explained. —7'inzes. . A curious feature in the famous Reform Bill is this: with all its complicated levers and wheels— its double schedules, marked A. and B. for ancient boroughs, C. and D. for new towns—its one Mem- , ber between 2 and 4,000 inhabitants—its two Mem bers between 4 rind 10,000; one Member again, oddly enough, from 10,000 to 50,000 arid after wards two—its Privy Council division of counties, and Privy Council addition to towns, by which operations ninety-nine English boroughs lose the whole or the half of their privileges—the Ministers' three principles, fur as the rainbow has but three primitive colours, and Lord Milton's election fig has three also, so Lord John Russell's Bill has three principles—abolition, enfranchisement, counter. poise. These principles might have been to the same extent carried into effect, by transferring twenty-three charters from decayed boroughs' to new centres of business—by extending perhaps twenty-three more to the neighbouring hundreds. The simplicity of the operation would be some g a i n : the respect for ancient titles, local remembrances, old county attachments and ties, would be more gain. The diminution of the sweeping impulse of change would be gain also. There would be another ad vantage,—that the more simple Bill would per haps stand. How could our Ministers imagine that the twenty new boroughs they set down in their Bill each for one Member only, would not within the year demand a full representation for their ten or fifty thousand inhabitants ? The plainer proposal would give at once the two Members, which in the end they must have, to such towns as Halifax, Macclesfield, Blackburn, arid Kiddermin ster. There is indeed much au kwardness in both the one-membered schedules. The new semi-bo roughs must immediately ask, " If Horsham have two Members with five thousand inhabitants, why not we with fifty thousand ?" The old boroughs which have been shorn on one side may say also, " Your Privy Councillors throw us into neighbour ing parishes, some of them twenty miles off; arid, when you have thus made us thoroughly indepen dent, you take from us one-half of our privileges; for what ? That you may be enabled to give two Members to Halifax ? No. To the agricultural interest ? No. To trade or the colonies ? No. You cut our forty-four ancient charters in half, that you may expand the representation of the growing people of England, by taking sixty Members from their Pediment's actual compternent." 'Away, then, with Schedule D. and its half measure of giving; away with Schedule B. and its half measure of taking. Let not Great Privy Councillors ride through our corn while they divide our counties 111 twain, or Little Privy Councillors add to our bo roughs Whig parishes. If Halifax, Macclesfield, arid Huddersfield are to have representatives, let the boon not be granted by halves. If Dorchester, Guildford, and Huntingdon are still to be boroughs , let them return each two Members in peace. — Morning Post. It is again our painful duty to point the attention of our readers to the dreadful accounts of distress prevalent in Ireland, which we have inserted else where, arid to call upon them, in the name of huma nity and Christian charity, not to turn a deaf ear to the cries of the famishing and dying, but to come forward, as Englishmen have always done, and ad minister promptly and abundantly to the necessities of those who, if not relieved, will soon cease to crave their sympathy. These accounts we heart rending, and mast give rise in the bosom of every human being, not wholly divested of human sympa thies, to mingled feelings of deep pity for the suf.' ferers, and bitter indignation towards those who, by their carelessness, their negligence, or their reckless rapacity, have brought their fellow-men to such a pass of huff. I.rig. They state that the people are reduced to the greatest extremity of dis tress—that they are living on wild 'herbs —on the carcasses of animals which had died of disease, and which have been dug out of the earth in the hope of finding, in their half-putiified flesh, the means of averting a horrible death—on -animals which have hitherto never been used, except by savage s, as human food—that they are even neglect ing the care of the dying and the dead to atte nd to their own wants—and, in a word, that every thin g filthy and disgusting, in which the slightest nutri ment is supposed to be contained, is greedily de- voured ! And where does this excels misery and woe `exi-t ? In a place unapproachable by Christian men, or at too great a distance fur im mediate relief ? No, but, in a Christian land, alnong men calling themselves Christiana and not at the extremity of the British Tispire, but within a few days' journey from the capital itself! What we are to think of those who, know ing the distress of their. countrymen—their Irish countrymen—who having the means not only of foreseeing the calamity which has befallen them, but of preventing it ; or had it ha!)pened in conse q rence of some extraardinary convulsion of nature, unexpected and unforeseen, had the means of alle viating it, and yet have not afforded relief, but passed it by " on the other side," and left the " exercise of mercy," and the " sacrifice of charity," to the Samaritan English—neither we, or any one, (sin be at any loss ; but language is as incapable of giving expression to the indignation and horror with which we are filled, as to our earnest desire that relief should be speedily and effectually atimin'stered to those to whom life has become misery, and existence impossible, without a supply of human subsistence. For years past our ears have been dunned with ques tions re , pecting Ireland—the grievances of Ireland, —the rights of Ireland, &c.; and it has been con .tantly preached up, that every thing that is bad in Ireland has been caused by English misrule, and that nothing is wanting to Ireland but a repeal of the Union, to make her a land overflowing with peace, and prosperity, and plenty, instead of being the scene of rags, and filth, and wretchedness; but much, as, we are willing to allow, has been the mis chief done to Ireland by the misrule of that Tory faction which is now about to expire, there is no truth more certain, — no fact more capable of unan swerable proof,—tha n that full three-fourths of the real grievances and misery of Ireland are to be attri buted to her own heartless aristocracy, and that but for England, her population would have been, not once, but often, allowed to die from want. 'Even so would it appear to be now. There is abund ance in Ireland to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, and to minister to the sick,—but the hearts are few that are willing, and the hands but sparing among those who are able. Nay, so utterly insen sible are the majority of the Irish landlords to the distress around them, that the cry of distress is al lowed to reach our island, and the misery of those whom they ought to have supported, permitted to find the warmest sympathy in the British capita!! To conclude, however, let relief be given according to every one's means, arid when our Irish brethren have been rescued from the jaws of death, let a public meeting be held on the subject, that every one may have an opportunity of giving vent to the indignation and horror which is universally felt at conduct so reckless, and so unfeeling; so depraved end so barbarous.—Morning Advertiser. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, JUNE 11. Ex-PARTE INGE, IN THE MATTER OF CATHERINE. HALL, CAMBRIDGE. Sir C. WETHERELI„ on the part of the College, applied for time to make the affidavits which had been suggested by the Lord Chancellor at the hear ing of this matter. Sir E. SUGDEN had no objection, provided the time was limited. The LORD CHANCELLOR said, the case required to be well considered. He did not intend to give his judgment until the week al:er next, and he took this opportunity of saying, that if his opinion should be against Mr. Inge (not however meaning to say that it would be so), he thought it well for that gentleman to submit to the examination which he had before declined, on the supposition that he had aftight so to do. With respect to the evidence he had required, he wished it not to be of a general satire, but applying, as strictly as possible, to the peculiar case of the College Fellowships. COURT OF ICINc;a 4 RENCH, JUNE 11. 14..0$0 111 "? "EX-PARTMSKiLi. Sir J. SCARLETT moved for a rule to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against Mary Cropp, the printer and publisher Of the Bolton Chronicle, for a libel in that paper on Mr. Henry Gaskell, an attorney, of Wigan, in Lan cashire. The Learned Counsel said; that Mr. Gaskell had stated in his affidavit that he was a burgess of the borough of Wigan, and generally acted as solicitor for one of the candidates, some times for two, at the elections of Members of Parlia ment for that borough. At the last election ' May 4, the candidates were Messrs. Wilbraham, Hodson, Kearsley, Thickness, Potter, and Hardcastle. On the morning of the election a great mob, amounting to 10,000, assenab!ed, headed by a person who called himself Colonel of King William's National Guards, who compelled some of the burgesses to vote as they plea•ed, and beat arid bruised other , . One man had lost his life from the treatment he re ceived. The mob prevented Mr. Kearsley himself from going to the place of polling, tied threatened to tear him limb from limb, and he was obliged to keep within doors fur six hours afterwards. Some time after they proceeded to his house and broke the windows. They went to the house of Messrs, Price and Co., and broke open and entered into the house, and destroyed several articles, and stole others. On the 23d of May one of those who had stolen the articles was apprehended for felony, and committed to the borough gaol. On the 30th of May a mob again assembled and demanded the li beration of the person confined, forced open the gaol, took out the man, and paraded him through the streets. Mr. Gaskell had received intimation that his house was to be burnt next, and therefore he took the precaution to put it into as good a state of defence as he could, and he also employed people g ive timely information of the ap ptornsavcaitlchn, n f a last (the 4th instant) an article relative to this th d e mob to the house. Ott Saturda y outrage in a t n h d e o ma r n o y u borough n a p p l a p e c a r a ed an e c r t t the e i d Bo with ito th i e r borough, who had seen it, thought it related to Mr. Gaskell when it spoke of some person who had employed spies, and who had written an anonymous letter, having for its object to excite the mob to excesses, in order to give the old vies something to say against Riform. The Learned Counsel here read the article, which purported to be from a cor respondent. The strongest motives to excess had been held out to the people of %Vigor', that spies had been employed among them; and then, after talking . of boroughmongers and plundering the public, the correspondent stated that he himself had seen an anonymous letter, addressed to the men of the Scholes News-room, encouraging them to go on with their riots and excesses, and promising that they would be protected. This letter, the correspondent added, purported to be sent by a trader in %litigate, who was manifestly a traitor. The editor of the Paper commented on this supposed correspondent's letter, and after cau tioning the people against these traitorous devices of the boroughmongers, the editor observed, that the office of the tradesman of Mitigate might, perhaps, be found not 100 miles from the Three Crowns public-house in that street,—that what sort of a tradesman he was remained to be seen, and that lie Pn'giblY g Gaskell had stat e d i n hi s a ffidavit that his office 17hautsti believedons, and hia h t hettee h turn out a land-shark. Mr. he T Crowns, saopssive pointed alluded inlituneddl:at to ii g ltvee-rset theseret ne t bps a ee ri rl d : lik s m o n n h s , wh h o l whom he ofli t a n d e s y et sh to an w id at a c t h te t in he pt ap t p n roa a c tt h sckh the house, and th en t h e express i on l an e shark was a c ommon design a ti on o f attorney. The COURT grant e d a ru l e n i s i. TIIE KING V. JONES. might On the motion of Sir J. SCARLETT, the defendant, Mr. William Jones, attended to receive the judg ment of the Court. The indictment, it will be re collected, had been preferred by the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy, under the Act for regu lating the care and treatment of persons afflicted with insanity. The charge against Mr. Jones wa., that he had signed a certificate of the insanity of one 1 7 .Fiabeth Woods, without having separately visited .nd personally examined her. The facts which had Jed to the prosecution were these :—The defendant, Mr Janes, had for some •ime prior to February, 1830, attended Mrs. Woods; 'lid had given an opinion as to her insanity. At he beginning of February her husband determined o have her confined in a lunatic as) lum,, and Mr. Sheldon, the partner of Mr. Jones, saw her on the 9,h of February (haying frequently attended her before), and in the absence of .Mr. jones,4ho was confined to his house by illness, gave a Certificate of her insanity. The certificate was signed also by Mr. Jones, and under the joint certificate Mrs. Woods was conveyed to Mr. Warburton's house in Beth• nal-green. The COURT sentenced the defendant to the pay ment of a fine of 20/. COURT OF EXCHEQ UER, JUNE 11. Mr. F. POLLOCK applied, as a matt er o f f avour, for their Lordship=' interposition in the following extraordinary circumstances :—The object of the Learned Gentleman's motion was, to put off a trial which, if not prevented by the Curt, would take place at the sitting after the present term. The action was against an Insurance Company, by a gentleman who sued as executor of a young- lady, whose life had been insured at the office in question for a large sum of money. In support of his mo tion, Mr. F. Pollock stated, that the young lady had, in the course of last year, insured her life in different offices in London to the amount of 16,0001. or 17,0001. At the different offices she stated some different motives for effecting the re=pective policies. and upon one occasion admitted that she knew no thing of money matters, but acted in obedience to the - suggestions of her friends, who had recom mended to her to have her life insured. In these circumstances, the office in question declined to effect the insurance, and a report having gone abroad that a young lady was in the practice of proceeding from office to office attempting tf_i effect insurances upon her life to a large amount, and under circumstances which excited some suspicion, the offices to which she afterwards applied refused to accept her proposals. The lady, who was then about 16 years of age, resided at that time near London, with the plaintiff in the present action.— They soon afterwards removed into town, where they occupied furnished lodgings, and where the lady was one night suddenly taken ill on coming from the theatre, and silently afterwards died in convulsions. The insurance office had thought it due to themselves, to the public, and to the admi nistration of justice, to sift such a transaction to the bottom, and had therefore fi'ed a bill of discovery against the plaintiff in the present action. The LORD CIIIEF BARON inquired whether the deceased young lady had bequeathed her property to the plaintiff in the action. Mr. POLLOCK answered that she had left all her property to a sister, who now lived with the plain tiff. In answer to another question of the Court, the Learned Gentleman stated that the deceased was, at the time of effecting the insurances, in the most perfect health. He went on to say, that although the statement of such a case was calculated to pro duce a suspicion " infinitely horrible," yet he was able to rest his present application upon grounds which rendered it unnecessary in this stage of the proceedings to consider the probability of that" hor rible criminality," the apprehension . of which must immediately glance upon the mind of every person who heard such a story. It appeared that the young lady :was, as may easily be supposed, entirely igno rant of business ; that she was entirely under the controul of the plaintiff ; that she had no interest or assignable motive in effecting the insurances upon her own account ; that she had no money to pay the expenses of insuring except what was furnished to her by the plaintiff; and that, therefore, the in surances which had been effected in her own name were .in reality not tier's, but his. If this should proymikbOtie ease (and the object of the bill of d'aeci'very was to ascertain the truth in that matter), then the insurances would have been totally void, being in direct opposition to a statute, and the plain tiff would have no right of action at all. The COURT granted a rule Nisi. The names and tesidences of all the parties were mentioned, but we have thought it our duty to sttp press them for the present, as the party on whom the weight of imputation has been cast was not present for his defence, and cause may perhaps be shown hereafter against the conditional rule. THE KING'S SPEECH TO PARLIAMENT. (From the Examiner.) Before our next publication, the King's Speech will be " settled." We take this early opportunity, therefore, of laying before Ministers a statement of what the country expects that his Majesty will be advised to say to the new Parliament on the all-ab sorbing question of Reform. In doing so, we pre sume only on our acquaintance with the state of public opinion—nay, we shall but write down what comes to us from every quarter, our sole personal concern being to report faithfully. Out of the immediate aspect of affairs, two sets of men are forming hopes, which it behoves Ministers ro disappoint instantly. The most selfish and reck less of the old Tory party, and certain professing Reformers, whose object is a revolution, are indulging a hope that Earl Grey's Cabinet may be broken up by the House of Lords before, as we said last week, the House of Commons shall have time to pass Me Reform Bill. To effect this o!tject, certain Peers are engaged in forming a regular Opposition party. Opposition to the Ministry, on whatever point, means,just at this moment, opposition to the Re form Bill—both the wild Tories and the Con fusionists know it perfectly well. The resignation of the present Ministry means no Reform at all, ex cept by violent methods. The wild Tories are for no Reform at all; those who hope to see the wild Tories provoke Earl Grey to resign, are for the violent methods. The firm of Wharneliffe and Hunt represents the two parties,—Wharticliffe being the active, and Hunt, at present, the sleeping parner. If that should take place for which both parties hope—viz, the resignation of Ministers in consequence of harrassing opposition in the House of Lords—Reform may still come, and the anticipated fruits of Reform also, at the end of six years perhaps ; but what a prospect for the interval! The middle classes, therefore, who have most to lose by a series of convulsions, call on Ministers instantly to disappoint the list hope of the Wharncliffe and Hunt party. What are the means ? Happily, the faction about to make war on the King's Ministers in the 'lonic of Lords are placed in a false position. " Honour the King !" is their own cry; and they have always protested, moreover, against allowing marked distinctions be tween a King and his Ministers. When Lord Grey and Mr. Brougham used to attack the speeches of George the Fourth, these very men always showed " Shame! shame! thus to insult his most Sacred Majesty !" Here, then—we say to Ministers —here you have them ! The King wills Reform according to the Bill, and is he roily attached to his Ministers. Let his Niajesty but say so in his speech to the new Parlia ment ! Few words will suffice , if the y be p lain, strong, and to the point. Co bbett, with his usual egotism, hut uncommon sagacity, said, mouths a go , a ex d ce a p p t t b ‘ r y ords in th e King's inessgge f ront th e chat had he been Prime Minister, he would never i Kinaveg. p roposed Plain, s ß tr e o f r o l g r m, and specelt, will do as well as a special message. Those words tittered, the Opposition in the Upper House shrinks to nothing ; the purtner,ltip of Wharnclifie and Hunt is dissolve.]; aid the Bill becomes law promptly, peaceab:y, happily for all. This is not our opinion only, but that also, we are well assured, of the best and wisest in the ranks of , h e Reformers. The a mount of the articles sold and the 'none) taken on Saturday at the doors of the Irish 13..z•iar, EI *novel , 4,luare-room, eseveds, it is said, 1,106/. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. DURING LAST WEEK. VACAI Beane. in the Fai Twelve Miles fro factory references have been under limited to Six. - 40 Letters to be d 42 48 of Mr. Searle, boi '-d• s. d. London. 00 5:9 6 60 ;i f/ R evj E eun T stt ß fup O luyb S elisr E id ; i: 5 3 7 6 8 0 A NNUAL 0 0 oe 7 3 6 AFFA 10 0 0 0 111 "We should lc 0 12 $ Printed for Loi co o 8 Wheat. I Barley. Oats. rer Quarter. Hesham ‘i orpeth Ponrith Winchester to s. s. to 5. fk" , 40 52 72 :33 31 63 7) 36 40 65 41. 73 43 61 70 ;34 41 5. d. 5. d. •5. 6. v. d. 83 90 46 50 1 70 90 48 54' 100 106 60 66 , 70 93 36 46, 110 0 106 59 62: 86 9 0 4 6 50 90 100 46 50 s. to s. 36 22 29 24 28 a. to a. 36 -- 50 52. 38 4 Per Bushel. Carmarthen Coventry :ewcastle (Staff.) Vorthallerton Swansea ‘Narwick • Per Bull. Barnardeastle Durham Richmond Stockton 23 39 s. s. d. 29 36 36 40 46 50 33 40 49 54 29 36 22 26 160 21 0 10 0 110 16 6 19 0 13 0 10 6 170 21 0 10 0 106 1 7 6 18 0 9 0 10 0 80 90 50 76 76 90 •66 80 WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.-June 10. J ust publr The supply of Wheat this morning is pretty good, and the trade ODDS an has been exceedingly dull ; the millers generally having a little kly WILT stock on hand, evince no disposition to increase it to-day; fine fresh 'Wheat, which is comparatively scarce, nearly supports the Autin rates of last Friday, other kinds are excessively dull, and Is. to Illustrated by G per quarter lower. No alteration in other Grain. Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Suffolk 545. 625. to 655. fine 70s. Lin. and Cam. sls. 625. to 645. fine 675. ----- Yorkshire 52e. 675. to 623. fine 665. - White 58s. 645. to 68s. fine 725. 1 --- Foreign, Red 533. 30s. to Mt fine 708. ! White 583. 645. to 68s. fine 728.1 Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk 27s. to 3&l. fine 395. -- Lincolnshire o6s. to 335. fine 355. ' -- Yorkshire Wold 325. to 34i. fine 365. - Foreign -s. to -s. fine -s. Beans, ---- New 365. to 395. fine 416 Oats, Potato 26s. to 365. fine 32.3. - Poland -s. 253. to 28s. fine 36F. - Friezland and Small - -s. 235. t 0,275. fine 28e. -.-. Mealing , 13%d. to 15d. per Stone. Shelling 'Ls. to 368. Od. per Load. Malt 44r. 475. fine 50s. per Load. Rapeseed London Prir and Green. Just puhlished uLtiCT kJ l POETS, Biographical Ske By RI Printed for Lor SELECT WI JONSON to B 1 cal Prefaces. I 18mo. to mate' 10 vols. • post 18 SCOTCH MARKETS. Wheat. Barley Oats. Beane. lOatmeaL BURGES purposes the demand for GESS and SOI best acknowledgi of the same; its has recommende neetions, who 11; ti?n.--It is pre disappointment sorted to by eacl their firm and a signature, witho JOHN BUR much-esteemed to he prepared 1 given the greate Warehouse, London: The Aberdeen Coldstream Cupar Dundee Elgin Kelso Perth The size • 50 -65 30 35 40 44 23 26 43 48 26 . 27 1 50 76 29 :12 50 66 32 34 58 63 32 35 52 58 32 34 45 •50 t:8 31 42 70 27 . 39 50 62 21 27 of the measure vari 23 27 -{ 19 21 20 24 28 33 27 29 20 26 2'2 26 23 25 23 32 21 23 ies througl Its 30 29 32 40 42 3 40 19 21 31 35 29 32 45 49 24 ,bout the 37 40 40 4: - ... ... ..• 48 •-• 43 44 L MARKET:—June 7. Oatmeal at this day's market , at last week's prices., Per Stone ol 141 b. Imp. First Oatmeal ..... £0 u, Second ditto 0 1 1 0 Peasemeal e Ile —24. 16s 20. —Peat 124:. EDINBURGH MEA We had a small supply of hich met with a tolerable sale Per Sack of 2801 b. Imp. First Oatmeal £2 7 0 Second ditto 2 5 0 Barleymeal 1 14 0 PC3S elm eal 1 14 0 Pot Barley—No. I, per cwt. 14, EDINBURGH CORN MARIOE F.—June 8. We had a large supply of Wheat and Oats to-day, which, met a heavy sale. Wheat '2s. down on the top, and 9(1. on the average. Oats also Is. 4d. down on the top, and up sd. on the average. Barley down 6d. on the top, and up Is. 2d. on the ave' average. Pease and Beans same top, and Is. 6d. on the average : Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. Beat's. First 683 Od 35s Od 34s Od 44s Od 44s 0.1 Second Third 51s Oil 3!s Od 293 Od 403 Od 408 Od PRICES OF PROVISIONS, &C. Beef, per lb. Os. 4d. to Os.7d. Fresh Butter,lb.s.lod. to Is. lA 0 6 0 8 Salt 0-9 010 Veal 0 4 0 8 Ditto, per cu t. 74 0 0 0 0 4 0 6 Eggs, per doe. 0 7 0 0 Lamb, per qr. 3 6 5 0 OatStraw(kV.) 8 0 8 6 cwt...al 0 38 0 Wheat Ditto-. 6 6 7 6 Quartern Loaf 0 9 0 0 Barley Ditto 6 0 6 6 Potatoes, 17i1b. 0 0 0 6 Hay, per st.— I 2 1 GLASGOW CORN MARKET.—June 8. Wheat is rather higher since last week. Little doing in Bat ley. Oats have been in good demand, and have advanced Is. pe t boll. Beans are held at higher prices. Little change in Pease, Oatmeal Is. to 2s. per boll dearer. Wheat, per 2401 h. s. d. s. d. Oats, per 2641 b. s. d. 5: 4 6 British, old 34 0t035 0 Irish ....... ............ 23 oto 2 4 new 26 0 31 0 British / 23 0 25 6 Canada, free '3o6 31 6 Beans, per ....2 601b. , Irish - Barley, per 3201 b. Scottish ,... • 21 0 21 English 2.7 . 0 0 .29 00 Oatmeal, a t e n:l 4o h i . b ... 2 L9 1 0 0 2 5 ;2 3 1 t i o s t h tisli *-. 23 6 .25 0 Flour, per 401 h.... .51 0 53' CORNWALL. MARKETS. ' Tampa-Wheat (average) 275.-Barley. 12s. 641.-Oats, 10s. d ST. A usTELL-Wheat, 24a. to 275.-Barley, 12s. to 135.-OtstP N. to N. Od. Romani-Wheat (average) 254.6(1-Barley, I ls.-Oats, 7a. 6d.„ LAUNCESTON-Wheat (average) 275. Od.-Rarley,l3B. 011-00 Od.-Beef, 6d.-Mutton, 641. HELsTors-Wheat, 264. Od.-Barley. 13s. Od. PENZANCE-Wheat, 255. to 284.-Barley, -s. to 104.-Oath Os. to 8.. 6d.-Beef and Mutton, sd. to 6d.-Pork, 30. to 4t1. 1 Butter, 84. per lb. lasicrautu-Wheat, -s, Od. to 245. 6d.-Barley, 114.-'Oats, to 7s. Od. ST. Comma-Wheat, 254. to 278.-Barley, 12s. to 14..--Bee' and Mutton. 06c1. to 5d.-Veal, 4d.-Lamb. scl. MINING INTELLIGENCE. Tons. Cort' Quantity of Copper Ore sold at Redruth last Thursday '2,291 0 ' Average Produce 8 0, Quantity of fine Copper 182 Amount of Sale, 14,013/. 2s. 6d.—Average Standard, 100!. 13s. 00 Mrs. SIDDONS, as a private person, lived re' tired, and drew upon us for little personal sympathy' . " She, queen-like, from her state inclined not." The po' pular idea of her partook of the sovereignty of her brothel JonN KEMBLE, though with less stiffness. It was said o i ‘ an actress in former days, that in a fit of deliriutn s he e %' pressed herself in blank verse respecting the creation of° new batch of Peers " Ah, ah ! And so they make us lords by dozens!" We have heard it said of Mrs. SIDDONS (we know not WO, truly), that being told of a young clerk in an office, wlO had got shut up in it when his ffrother clerks went :ova'' , and was described by a foreigner as being locked up in till bureau, she exclaimed, with habitual dignity, " ALIA-a-day! Poor youth, how gat he there ?" We believe she did not say much in ordinary ; nor act tif in what she did say, to the expectations of her admirer'', Mrs. SIDDONS had a talent for sculpture. The head her brother CIIARLES, which is to be had in the s hop+, was of her modelling; and she made a striking profile e herself in a medallion.— Taller. On Saturday the anniversary of .the Societi in England for aiding the Parent Society in North Deitai o ' established for the purpase of extending education in tb l Highlands of Scotland, was celebrated by a dinner' at tbi i Freemasons' Tavern. His Royal Highness the Duke ° SUSSEX in the chair. Though only a few of the troll persons whose names were on the list of Stewards a 0 Vice-Presidents attended, the company w numerous, el spectable, and liberal. The Duke of SOMERSET, LOO ROSEBF.RY, Lord DUDLEY STEWART, the Vice-CHAT'' CE.LLOR of England, Sir P. LAURIE, the Treasurer of 10 charity, Mr. Wer.xiE, the painter, and several other 4 0 ' tinguished individuals, took a part in the badness of evening. • A special part - of the appointed duty o f tb' evening—namely, the vote of an address of thanks to h i° MAJESTY for condescending to become patron of the Si' t niety—was introduced with enthusiasm, and passed wi . . r j unanimity. His MAJESTY presented through his Roll brother 50/: to the funds of the Society. On the heals, of Mr. WILKIE being drank, that celebrated painter •rst y , fled the company with a speech, in which he showed tits' he was as much alive to the literary honour of his c ounti as to its progress in that art of which he is so g reat master. The subscriptiOns collected in the course of hl evening from the gentlemen present, or transmitted contributors who could not personally attend, amount to 700/. or 800/. A hand of music and a bag-pif played at intervals. The latter, whose strains seelne l better fitted to animate a clan than to enliven a dinner party, seemed to be no favourite with the English poeti°l of the company. The great a'traction of the e venil apart from the charitable objects of the meeting, ' vet ( several songs from Misi INvxuatturv, who kindly lent VI talent to aid the funds of the Society. On the 11th inst. Mrs. Jam M e ß 3 T Fr i e l s S h . field, New Bank-builitil le of a son. On the 10th inst. at East Barnet Rectory, the lady of the g e" T. On the 1., of a son. y Ith inst. at ii, SaVille-row, the lady of Dr. Brig /4r , of O a sn. n o the 11th inst. in Charles-street, Berkeley-square, the 1101'' Mrs. H. Ramsden, of a daughter. MARRIED. at On the Ilth inst. at Streatham, \V. J. Todd, Esq., of VP Tooting, Surrey, to Ann, only daughter of the late Mr. I. r, , yman, of Islington of At Weyhill t hurch, the Rev. F. J. Courtenay, Rectoyie North Bovey, Devon, to Emma Camilla, only daughter of Rey. Wm. Kilner, Rector of Weyhill, H ants . • ------- ( c . , ‘, rr. Oni o a oct h i a g ire I t tol • . . ' DIED. A • 11th inst. Charlotte Beim, eldest daughter of C. .1. of Great George-street, Westminster. ;% 4 Kith inst at Stoke, Surrey, Mrs. Simpkinson, V o ito :see te Rev. J. Simpkinson, Rector of Clitfe, county of . ~ v ial l, On the 10th inst. Charlotta Janetta, wife of Capt. a R. Ne East India Service. hila l f. te 10th inst. Sarah, the wife of Henry R. Bishop,. "1. 4 ' Cobham, Surrey. th 9 composer. On the 10th inst. at Wighill Park, Yorkshire, Lady )l3d York, sister to the Earl of Harewood. On the Ist inst. in France, Theobald Lord Walsh, 39 ye3l l os age ; he is succeeded in his title by Peter (now Lord) Wals h ' t he county of Kilkehny. On the Ifith of April, at sea„ on his paSsage home, Captaw ro is J:tckson, Bengal ' •" • Aide-de-Camp to AW-711' , - isenge.l Artillery, formerly ..,,te-de-Cam( Hastings, and late Commandant of Artillery at Hingonle e, the service of his Highness the Nlzam. late J. On the Bth inAt. a t S t. O mer , J ame s, youngest son of the Waite, Esq. of Old Ilurlingtou-street. "'ATM , AND Prui.t;nru uv hIURDO YOUNG; ,er' SUN OrVi,F 3 119, Si RAND. LoNtiox. Unifo into• CABINET M MR. TH Nobilit best. elected St; England, at tin Leadenhall-strei ably to Act of and eneoungen bine to produce Members in sic' at death. WORMS, THE Fits, of Appetite ; ante in th CHING'S as well as of where openi sally known, many persor unnecessary Sold in Butler, Chei and the pri may be had or SCALD has for the 1 gratuitou.ly that be feels the afflicted. 4s. 6d. IN the ments an evil mot vortex of di the laws of exaction fat as well as h as to requii whose time ressfully de debility, w proffer the has enervat which the without fni and he kin creation. dulgence, may learn atitution. from Lnes the q uac k , a certain r, of a mum to despair, which ahe Messrs. every day, parts of tl ing minut, Vice and A sine will 1 observatio • • 4 T. of Life, a The Syph 4ae.-3. Sex. M Porter, is gow ; at iningharn tenham ; Carribridg Leeds ; C Platt. nn, Hahlon Dowding