The Sun. — London, England, 1831-06-20 00:00:00

OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Belgic Papers of Saturday, and of the two evious days, which we received yesterday, are tto•ally destitute of news of interest. The National Congress languidly contintlee its sittings, and such of its members as can be collected by invitations or - threats, try to help each other in doing nothing ; but the people look rather to the Congress of Lon don than to that of Brussels for the decision of their fate. The President and the Ds-penes who are here seem to have trensported the scene of po-: Utical interest to this 'country, and to have fixed it for a season roun d Doevsoing-street and Marlbo. rougll-house. Accordingly, every stemier that ar rives from E ng l an d occas i oe s. a host of conjectures, arid gires ground for eseelless speculation. to t h e meats time the Jerobin and war paety s since the stage has been cleared for them e nrie attempting to get up a little under-plot of then. own to embroil the chief action of the pieces Their jourrele, like weachmen half intoxicated, half asleep, call out " fire, fire ;" and their undiseiplined volunteers do all they can to break the seemistice, that they ma - accomplish more ex; eirsive mischief. The Propa gandist emissaries from Paris, and the tettriotic agi tators of home 'growth, perceivine e that their ccoc cupation would be gone" vrere Prince Leopold to accept of the crown, and the question of been deries to be settled, provoke to hostilities with all theie. might. The letter of the Regent to Prince Leopold is just such a production as must have been expected from a man of the Regent's goo d sense, and in the Regent's eimation. He himself, on being promoted to his pre sent exalted rank, swore to meintain the limits and integrity of Belgium, as settled in the coasti tirtional act ; and he could not ask less from his suc cessor than to exert his influence to obtain them without a war. The Regent is a warm Belgic pa triot, but at the same time he is a man of moderate views and satisfied ambition. Though he stands in the same relation to Ponce Leopold as Capo d'ls tries did last year, he has not the same ficilities rear the same motives for preventing a final settle ment of his country, by frightening away his suc cessor elect. Nor has he the same disposition, for he knows too well the uncertainty, toil, and danger of occupying his present situation, with Europe against him, and a turbulent faction clamouring for war, to desire the postponement of the ultimate transfer of supreme power into other hands than his ' own. This was neither the disposition nor the prospects of the wily Greek, full at once of ambi tion arid craft,----who requested the Prince not to come at all unless he came with a new map of Greece in his pocket, well aware that the limits could trot be easily changed, and that so long as the question was 'unsettled he could occupy the President's chair. The Regent has done wisely in establishing a journal over which his Government may have limited controul. Never was there a periodical press so uncandid, factious, false, and fickle as that of Belgium. The chief peen. of Brussels, for in stance, without knowing -wry thing of what is doing in London, thus begins a tirade against the .Belgic Government, against Prince Leopold and the Con ferences of London :—" For several days the Belgic deputation has been in London. Ten represents-- (ryes of the Belgic people, with the President of the National Assembly at their head, arc in the ante clzainbcr af a foreigner, whom 1,000,000 of free. men call to reign over them. They knock at his door in vain !" What moderation can be expected from a people whose sources of ieformation are poisoned by such perverse libellers ?—Times. A report is in circulation that the Lords mean to oppose the Address to his Majesty, on the opening of the new Parliament, by moving an amendment. We are inclined to think that this rumour has sprung from some who are no friends to the hereditary legislators of the country—perhaps not even to a still higher authority in the Sate. A Sovereign in unison with his people is too important a personage in these times , 0 find himself subjected to any mark of disrespect from those whose honours most re semble his own, and who are next in dignity to him self. A new Parliament! Almost a new King, with all the gloss of novelty untarnished about him, and all the real substance of worth in his nature!. A new era! All these are too important personages or personifications for the second body in the Con stitution to shut, the door upon them, without at /erst hearing what they have got to say; arid the early avowal, before it can possibly be known whet the speech will contain, that it is meant to move an amendment upon it (should that avowal be verified by the event), is, in truth, shuttine the door upon the King and the newly-elected House of Corn mons, and tire fresh era in the world. It is true that, constitutionally speaking, the speech of the King is the speech of his Ministers : none more fully acquiesce in that doctrine than ourselves ; but still we are of opinion, that so well-ordered and dignified an assembly as the British House of Peers may be disposed, at least for a while, to listen to those whom their King has chosen as his servants, anti in whom be confides as the depositories of his will. The Mi nisters make the Speech, but the King makes the Ministers. Nor should we even plead thus far in common times ; but the slightest flash of disrespect, even by reflection or refraction, from a constituted authority to a constituted authority, is what we cannot bring our minds to expect at an epee:ft like the present. There is another point of view also in which this matter deserves consideration. It is dear that the House of Peers cannot oppose the Address but with some view to the important ques tion to be brought on first before the other House of Parliament. Now we are eure that the Upper House will keep itself clear and unfettered for that I question. The Bill may come up to them in the most proper and unquestionable shape possibl e ; but in what a position will they be then placed, if they should have pledged themselves to a pre mature condemnation of it, by opposing the Ad dress ? They will have shut the door not only against the King and his Ministers, but also against themselves, excluding themselves from the free con sideration of that which will be freely offered to their decision. We shall make but another remark upon the subject at present. Those eminent persons, on whose imagined proceedings we presume to reason, have each of them, no doubt, a very just and proper influence in the several counties where their proper ties lie, and which they themselves inhabit. We do net say that they have interfered improperly in the late elections ; on the contrary, we know that they have been more than usually cautious during the various contests which have taken place. But still their property must give them consideration.-- Hare they found that obedience and acquiescence has attended on their wishes among the people,— nay, even among their own tenantry,—in favour of Anti-Reforming canddares If not, the whole body, we presume, would not prematurely, or ex cept upon the absolute impulse of duty, oppose the whole people on a subject on which the individuals were found incompetent to influence their several localities.. From these considerations we hope we eonelude that the Address will not Ire opposed In the House of Lords.—Tintes. Au Evening Paper, in discussing our abstract of the several creations of Peers as supporting or opposing the Reform Bill, sa y s , that we hare omitted all those Peers createdint a h:e l greater ' part of George M.'s reign, maki ng up ne y uld a f b o e ur f th of rite whole Peerage. Now, nothing co rule; we took an equ a l number from th r e h t i :a n d arid tail of every class of the Nobility,--Dee„ itei, ate quisses, Earls, Viscounts, Barons ; and we showed, beyond the power of contradicti on , that of the more ancient nobility of each class,—the heads,—the Reform had the majorities ; but of the more recent --the tails,—the Anti-Reform had the majority : and by the way, as every era has its names and appellations, it would not be a bad way thus to dis tinguish the friends an d enemies of Reform among the Peers,—the heads and the tails. But what in duced us chiefly to resume this subject teas to remark its on the adroitness of that j ournal, which . evinces respect for the Upper House of Parliament . hy 'howiag that nearly a quarter of it consists of Pi t t '8 Pairs. , Inert are, bowev'&, sane observations in a Payer tif yesterday on which we shall bestow a few words. Our dominical opponent, we perceive, and certainty not with surprise, was unable to understand the pith of our argument in Saturday's Paper. For 'lre benefit of all those-, if any there be, less ulind than those who won't see, we repeat, that our • argument wii- simply this. Seeing that the old aris :neroty support the Bill . by a lar-T Majority,—see. , ing, also, that anoth'er portion of the House of Lords (Of whoin w' Mean to speak with no dis'respeet), whore more recent honours have been rzree,vect from A Government of anti-popi.ilar 'principles, and long in possession of t'•.Y.'er, are hostile to Reform,- - - - -we asserted-, aird re -assert, that under these tironm stances, to insure a fair decision of ti,le question, the influence in the Hone of t., orris of the class of Peers 1 ; whom we hr,ve just described ought to he counter acted. if that be done, the question wilt b 2 fairly left, as we would have it ter': to the decision of the aristocracy of one country (the most en lightened ettd independent aristocracy in the world) tint_kired by the accidental influence of party feel ings ; and then, as the lists we published on Satbr day abundantly prove, by that itistocracy the ques tion is carried, and rArried by a large majority. We are reproactrad for not having inserted the names of certain Peers—such as Tyrone, Abereorn, and Dor chester, who are minors -,-, of others—such as Aber deen and Downe, e:bioh did appear in our lists; and of many, the insertion of whose names was trgrreoes silty to our argument,—viz., the .th-iwing the differ ence of opinions between the older and the more re cent Peers.—Tifie4 , It is understood to be the intentie of the oppo uents of Reform in both Stousei of Parliament, to move an Arn.cltanent to the usual complimentary Addn , ..n - s in answer to the King's Speech ) ::;td that this Amendment is to follow the tt.!,tits that which is understood to hove been drawn up by the pre sent Premier ; then Lord flowick, in !!',01; and which was to the following off,.-,et " That this measure of the dissolution of the late Par liament, advised by his Majesty's Ministers, at a time who:; there existei rto difference between any of tft.. , btitiaches of the Legislature, and no sufficient clans': fora fresh appeal to his Majesty's people, was .lustilea by no public necessity, or advantage. That t,y the interruption of all private business, theta depending in Parliament, it had beet int dutttire n't great and needless inconvenience t‘A expence, .v . y b thereby wantonly a ddi ng t o the.treaurdens which the necessity of the times reraite . a. That it had retarded many useful laws, for she internal improvement of the kingdom, and for the elitouragernent and extension of its agriertlait, manufactures, and commerce. And thet iS had either sktspentled, or wholly defeated, ttatayliaost important public measures, and had preteteled much of the mot weighty business of Pas liatti;nt, to a season of the year when its proseceAoti atu-t be attended with the greatest puhiic arta privite inconvenience. And that they feli themselves • bound still farther to submit t' bl.s Maj.-sty, that all these mischiefs were greattr aggravated by the groundless and injurious pretensions on which his Majesty's Ministers had p , Alicly rested this their evil advice ; pretences Efrord ini; no justification for the measure, but ealcitiated only to excite the most dangerous anittzsiiies among his Majesty's subjects, at a perior! Viben their united efforts were more than ever ntteSsary for the security of the empire ; and whet, 'co promote the utmost harmony, and co-operttiott among them, would have been the first objet t of arise and prudent Ministers," According to the wzA notions of the persons now engaged in thwarting the wishes of the great body.tf the nation, this manwtivre, which, at the ' most, men of sense must regard as a very paltt, personal attack, deserves to be considered it pro digiously grand coup d'etat, But a 'little considera tion of the circumstances of the two periods, will show how shallow is the pretence on which it is attempted to impute to any members of the present Government the inconsistency of doing in the year 1831 that which they reprobated when done by their adversaries in the year 180;, Most of the in corireniencies occasioned by a sudden dissolution of Parliament in the spring, as stated in Lord Howick's amendment, are the obvious and constant results of stath tt step ; they are true alike of the tli . ssolution in 1831 and that in . ItKV? ;'but the gist of the ' question—that is, the yustifiability of the dissolution —lies in the first paragraph of the amendment, arid comes shortly to this, whether or no a difference I existed between any of the branch' of the Le gislature, and a sufficient rise to justify the appeal to the people As to the lira and cardinal point—the difference between the several branches of the Legislature—the case, as regards the present epoch, is clear enough, The King had recommended, by the mouths of his Ministers, a certain measure cf nerorm in the corstittition of the House of Commons, on which that House was, upon a first division, equally divided ; and which, on a second division, it negatived by a considerable ma , jority. Here is a great and manile:st difference be tween two branchea of the Legislature, upon a question of transcendent importance in its results, and in its nature, precisely such as was most proper to be submitted to the judgment of the nation at large, and least proper for the House of Commons (because a party interested) to decide definitively upon. Far different in all reapec!s was the question agitated in 1807. That question was the expediency of admitting Catholics into the army and navy, or more ittrnediately the propriety of the Sovereign's exacting from his Ministers a pledge against the proposition to him of certain measures, however those measures might recommend themselves to the conscientes of such Ministers. In neither aspect of the question, whether viewed as a branch of the de licate subject of religious toleration, or as an abstract constitutional doctrine, was it one upon which the mass of the people could be supposed capable of ex pressitiga judgment the least entitled to consideration. So much for the nature of the question; now to make out the difference of opinion between two branch, s of the Legislature. Why, there was none. Three several distinct motions condemnatory of the change of Administration made by the King had been suc cessively negatived ; one in the House of Commons made by Mr. Brand, another by Mr. Lyttleton, and a third in the Lords made by Lord Stafford. In the Upper House, Ministers had a majority of 81, and in the Commons a majority of 46, on the last of those motion.. Here, then, was indeed "no dif ference;" here, indeed, their existed " no sufficient cause" for an appeal to the people, "no justifica tion of public necessity or advantage ;" at least, none to justify the making such an appeal to the people at such a crisis,_and under all those circum stances of inconvenience and interruption to the public business set out in Lord Howick's Amend ment, and then, as now, flowing from a dissolution at such a period of the session. But the last and the greatest distinction remains to be noticed. At the period of the dissolution in 1807, the country was engaged in a war, properly characterised as a great and momentous contest, by the King, in the speech delivered at the prorogation previous to the dis solution of his Parliament ; in a war, for the successful conduct of which the Sovereign is made, in that most extraordinary paper, to desire the united efforts of his people, while, in the same breath, he deplores the agitation, excitement, and distraction of their minds by the uncalled for agitation of the very question on which he proposes still further to agitate, excite, and distract them by a general election ! Let the oppo nents of the present Government, if they seek to identify the present Ministers with the Opposition of 1807, and themselves with the triumphant cham pions of No Popery in that year—let them explain the absurdities and contradictions of the measures of Lord Castlereagh and his colleagues, rather than impeach the undeviating consistency of Lord Grey and his associates. The war, the war makes the difference—plainly and broadly distinguishing the reckless ambition of men who did not scruple, amid its awful perils, to excite a sectarian quarrel, wherein the p re j u di ces of the King served as the i r own pass port poer, fro m the patriotism of those who, aimingto w at t h e establishment on a surer, sounder, and broader basis of the free ins titutions of the country, rtoesotrhteinnaatiosneafsoornreoifnfperorceemetenotrder an d tranquillity the faction which has usurped th e i r franchises s . Never, e the annals of England, did a sov ere i gn withn% in ere Fiery, nay , under a more cogent and urgent nag "- , . tion of royal duty, exert his prerogative. Regard ing the disorganized state of the House of Corn- Mons, which having wilidrawn its confidence from one set of Ministers, denied it'a suppoil to the mea sures Of another; the tranquil state of the Empire (with the exceptirsn of a small po r ti on o f I re l and, from which no mischief was to be expected, as none has arisen to the general weal), and, above all, the nature of the question; one incapable of being post poned or delaycd touching, as it did ; t h e very root and foundation of " the National Regiment ;" and involving the authority of Parliament itself .; surely, on such aluestiotr ; arid at such a time, if ever, was it the duty of the Sovereign to take the s. nse of his people.—Morning Chronicle. It appears now l:eyoild all doubt that the bodies .tr unfortunate individuals wh o were killed by the fire of the military at Merthyr-Tydvil have been interred without any inquest having been held upon them. An anonymous correspondent ) , who has sent us a communic•.tion, wrilten with the obviou» intcntioa of rescuing the local authorities t.nd the soldiers froth all blame touching this dread ful transtietion,adinit's the fiect that the bodies have been buiied withont that solemn inquisition of blood havit4g been taken which the law in such eases requires. But he states that it is the Grade of th e parties slain who have taksr,n away' their bodies, an d he acCon.ritt 'rot.- their having got posSe3sion of them `,;l the following manner:—" The first measure taken by the local authorities, after the ha's! 'oeen re pulsed, was to collect Coe dead and wounded. In this :". - irier eight dead bodies were found, and placed together in a stable or outhouse of the Castle Inn; but shortly after the comrrent!itig °Meet• an nounced to the nri g ,i'.4,ll-ales. that he felt it duty to rct!ra r:roth the Castle inn, N‘vhich is situated in the heart Of the town; in a narrow -street, end takt up the strong position of i l en-y-darran House„— There the Magistrates retired under protection of the soldiers, and the landlord of the inn has since informed them that the dead bodies acre taken away by the peeph, Witimiir a quarter of an hour after :in. , Magistrates had thus retired. It is a fact that when the Magistrates got possession of the town again, which was not until tile following Monday, eve ,y person known supposed to have been killed en the 'Friday had been buried by their fl itOds ; nor had it been discovered a few days ago, when the Coroner was sent for, who were killed, nor where they had been buried: The truth is, from various motives, the greatest pains have been taken by their unfortunate comrades and friends to Conceal who were killed and wounded among the people ; nor has a single application been made to the parish authorities ) ncr tb the Magistrates, to send for the Coroner." In this way our informant endeavours to account for the omission of holding invests—with what accuracy we cannot determine. It is strange, indeed, that he should take upon him that " persons sup,voser! to hate been killed" had been herizl, for such persons may be still alive. It is also strange that the bodies of those who were not only known to be killed, but had been actually collected and deposited in a stable, should have been taken away without any ptison ut their friends or commies knowing whither they were carried for in terment. If the statement be true, surely there could have been no objection to warrant it by some responsible name. It is a matter far too important to be satisfactorily explained by a statement resting only on anonymous euthorit.V. Our informant also obserVes ii that those who know best how strong the feeling is among the middling and poorer classes in England against disturbing a body which has once been interred, can hardly form an idea of the strength with which that feeling prevails in Wales." We cannot understand why this exeuse for not disturb ing the bodies of the dead should be necessary, on behalf of the local authorities, if the places of their interment cannot be discovered. Waiving the ap parent contradiction, it is certainly new to us to hear the popular reverence for the sacredness of sepulture plead; l in a case of homicide, as a reason for abstain ing from the mode of investigation which the law has prescribed as necessary to the ends of justice. Our informant doubts that so many as 23, or even 21 persons, were killed, but he does not state how many less than either of those numbers they were who were actually slain on the spot, independently of those of 60 or 70 wounded, who may have since died of their wounds. But this is not the question. He admits that eight dead bodies were deposited in a stable. Were not those bodies, or at least same of them, identified before they were carried away ? Why then has there been no inquest ? We adm:t • that the Coroner can only sit super visura corporis, and, if the body cannot be found, he has no juris diction. But the law does not allow a defect of justice in such a case, because it has expressly pro vided that " If the body cannot be found, or have lain so long before the Coroner had viewed it that he cannot in any way be assisted by the view of it on taking an inquest, or if there be danger of infects ing people on digging it up, the inquest ought not to be taken by the Coroner, but by Justices of the Peace, or other Justices authorised to inquire of, hear, or determine felonies, &c." But even the Coroner may be appointed by a special writ to take the inquest in such crises, or the Inquiry may b e made by the Chief Justice o f t h e King's Bench, who is, ex-egicio, Chief Coroner of all England. It has been decided that to inter the body of a per son who has died suddenly, cr by violence, or in prison, is an indictable misdemeanour; and, in the two former cases, it renders the township in which the death has occurred liable to be amerced, and in the latter the gaoler. It is also provided by the Statute 3d Henry VII., which is in aid of the Statute De Officio Coronatoris, that, if the Coro ner he remiss, he shall be fineable, and in each case, by that Statute, he incurs a fine of one hundred shillings; which though a small fine now, in consequence of the change in the value of money, was a very heavy one when the statute was made; but, in addition to this, it is provided, by an Act passed in the 25th year of George 11., that, if a Coroner be convicted of wilful neglect of duty, it shall be lawful for the Court before whom he shall be so convicted to remove him from his office. So careful has the Legislature been that a Coroner's inquest should be duly holden whenever a British subject came by death under circumstances of vio lence or suspicion. In the instance of the riots at Merthyr-Tydvil many lives have been lost, under circumstances which make the exercise of the Co roner's office, or of those Whom time law deputes to act in his stead, when the body;:eannot be found, imperatively neces-ary. Such an inquiry is as requi site to vindicate the conduct of the local authorities and the soldiers, if they are blameless, as to satisfy the country that the blood of English subjects has not been shed by military force but under circum stances that can bear the strict scrutiny of the law. It is true the friends of the parties who have pe rished may still present bills of indictment at the Assizes; but it is far more satisfactory that the established and constitutional mode of inquiry in such cases, before a Coroner's .Jury, should take place, for every instance of the death of a subject by military execution involves a question deeply af fecting the rights and liberties of all the subjects of the Crown of England. All history proves that nothing is more essential to the preservation of the very existence of a free state than a wholesome and constitutional jealousy of military power.—ltlorning Herald. The Ministerial Journals are labouring to con vince the world that Ministers, in their present desperate circumstances, may attempt, without any violation of constitutional principles, to keep them selves in office, and to carry their insane project of Reform into effect, by manufacturing a new House of Lords, which shall be more subservient to their views than the present is likely to prove. Of course the reasoning in support of this extravagance cannot be supposed to merit any very serious notice. What is really deserving of notice is met ely the fact that a measure so unconstitutional has supporters among the most strenuous advocates and most confidential friends of the present Administration ; and this Is itnpertant only as it affords some degree of evidence that the revolutionary expedient in question is or has been actually in contemplation. We beg that we may not be understood to offer the least ob jection to the Usual exercise of the Royal pre rogkive in the creation of Peers, or to insinuate even that any thing has yet occurred in the rise of it, since the preSent Administration came ;tit° power, which affords much ground for jea lousy or animadversion. The King was not to be deterred from the moderate and ordindry enjoy ment of his prerogative beitatOi we and others of his subjel!ts gee rrasOri to believe that the advisers who at the present moment surround his throne are disposed to urge him to its immediate extraordinary and unconstitutional exertion: But if ,the daily ore ens of thosi:i advisers etin he suppo , t , d to speak the sense of the King's Ministers upon the subject of treations, there is indeed abundant ground for alarm to all who believe the interests of Great Britain and the spirit of the British Constitution to ferbid that in any circumstances, or to promote any purposes of any Administration 14;hatcvbr; tit`e. 110nsis of Peers shall be finally and irrecoverably degraded, and rens dceed henceforth and for ever worthless and useless as an estate of the realm. We will state the argu ment of the Ministerial writers succinctly but fairly. " The Whigs have for a long series of yeah been in Zee very seldom and for very short periods At a time. Hence it has arisen that a great majority of the Peers created in modern times are Tories. It follows," say these Constitutional reasoners,— " that the Whigs b ing now in power, and having a great point to carry, ought at once to nominate a number of Peers of their party, sufficient to court: terpoise the Tory creations of a century." If this otight to be considered as the manifestation of a puts pose, it is, wt repeat, s'ufficiently alarming bttt if it be merely a piece of speculative reasoning, it is the most exquisitely absurd tee have ever had the fortune to encounter. Let the principle it involves he established by a single successful example, and it follows of necessity that until the Peerage be as cheap and as common as dirt—so cheap and coma mon that no man of average talent or respectability would degrade himself by accepting it—every Mi nistry that may henceforth be formed will have some great and popular point to Carry, of which the chief and only essential characteristic will be, that it is repugnant to the sense and feelings of the ex isting Peerage. Suppose Lord Grey to nominate his fifty Peers, and the House of COMmdtis (no im probable supposition) to be seized with immediate disgust upon so monstrous a transaction, or (which is equally probable) to turn sick of the stupidity of Lord Althorp, thefary'arronnada of Sir J. Graham, or the tricks of Mr. Powlett Thomson--s-what then ? It would ((Tow of necessity that the next Minister, upon some pretext or other, must nominate his fifty new Peers also, and so on, ad infinitum, or at least until it would be necessary for the House of Lords to meet in the open air upon Salisbury Plain. Why do not our contemporaries advise Ministers to abo lish the House of Lords at once ? This would be infinitely more creditable to their integrity and un derstanding, than the course now recommended. The Constitution of England supposes the House of Lords, as well as the House of Commons, to be a check upon the Sovereign in the appointment of his Ministers, and a very whimsical sort of check indeed the former would prove, if the doctrine now ad vanced should prevail. According to this doctrine, a King of England might select his Ministers from the hulks, and as the whole existing Peerage would have been appointed on the recommendation of Mi nisters of a very different description, it would fol low of course that the new Minister, in conformity with the spit it of the Constitution, should double at once, or rather more than double, the number of the House of Lords, by a plentiful infusion of con victs. We needed not this suggestion of the ft iends of Ministers to convince us that their situation is desperate, nor should we be much surprised by their adoption of the desperate counsel now offered them; but we hope and believe that the King will not per mit, and that neither House of Parliament would tolerate, so daring an experiment. The House of Commons is supposed to be friendly to Reform. It w;11 remain for it to show, whenever Ministers dis play any disposition to pack the House of Lords, that the Reform it is disposed to promote is not identical with revolution—that, in its judgment, the Reform of one House of Parliament, however de sirable, would be too dearly purchased by the de struction of the other. Earnestly do we implore the British public, the House of Commons, the House of Peers, every Member of the Royal Family in particular, to watch with vigilant jea lousy the proceedings of the present Ministers. There is much reason to believe that some of their oxn body prompt the writers, or are themselves the writers who affect to advise them. The advice now offered is to degrade the House of Peers from its rank, and to divest it of its whole power as an independent estate of the realm. Is not this in itself a ground of alarm ? Is it not a still stronger ground of alarm w hen viewed in conjunction with other notorious circumstances ? If the House of Lords may be debased at the pleasure of the present Mini sters, why should we expect the succession to the Throne to be held sacred ? The sacrifice of one constitutional principle enfeebles every °tin r.— Inroad leads the way to inroad upon established in stitutions. To perplex and stupify the public mind by a succession of bold and hazardous changes is the natural policy of those who would willingly pro mote the success of any illegitimate pretension. We do not say that it is intended to pack the House of Lords. Notwithstanding the ominous indications presented by the Ministerial Journals, we have some doubt whether the Ministers contemplate, and still greater doubt whether the King could be brought to lend himself to so desperate a course. But we would be understood to speak with all the serious ness which befits the occasion when we ask whether any man can be certain that the degradation of the House of Lords . 41 1831, should such a calamity take place, might not in less than two years be followed by the elevation of the Earl of Munster to the dignity of Prince of Wales ?—Morning Post. There is daily a great run for proxies in the House of Lords. Lord ROSSLYN is said to be daily car rying away pockets full of them. It is to be hoped that the Ministers will not forget the long experience, the disci pline, and the activity of their opponents. There may be such a thing as an amendment to the Address, and then proxies will be useful. An amendment is talked of, and is not improbable. We understand from gentlemen recently re turned from India, that the reply to the memorials of the Bengal officers, on the batta question, has excited a very indignant feeling among them, and that a great majority of them have resolved to appeal, by petition to the KING and the two Houses of Parliament, against the decision of the Court of Directors. It was the Marquis of CLEVELAND, and not the Marquis of BATH, as stated in some of the public Papers, who sent to Lord SLIGO the munificent contri bution for the starving Irish of three hundred pounds ; Lord BATH sent his donation of fifty pounds earlier in the season. Messrs. DEVAUX and NoTtiomß, the Bel gian negociators, with the ten Deputies who accompany t h e m, dined yesterday with Prince LEOROLD. Lord PON soNnY was also present. It was understood that some de finitive arrangement of the Belgian question would be made before the party broke up. PIN MONEY, BY THE AUTHORESS OF "MANNERS OF THE DAY."—" This is a novel of extraor dinary merit, and may rank amongst the very best of its d am The plot is exceedingly simple, and it developes an admirable mural. The system so universally adopted by fortune-hunting parents of settling upon a young lady on her marriage an income independently of her husband, is held up to ridicule in masterly style. The miseries which are the natural consequence of this ill-advised parental policy are judiciously pourtrayed. The characters are very well drawn, and the conversation of the different indivi duals is admirably suited to the habits and feelings of the class that are described."—Morning Post. On Thursday the Buffalo, late shore-ship, ar rived from Woolwich, towed by the African steamer, Lieut. HARVEY, to be employed with the Ramilies, 74, from Chatham, as temporary lazarettos at litangate Creek, during the prevalence of the cholera morbus in Russia and adjoining countries. The African returned the same day to Woolwich POLICE INIELLIGENCL, G UILDHALL. On Saturday Sophia Sellers, the young woman who *alked from Barking to Blackfriars-bridge to drown herself, w as aga i n brought before Alderman FAREBROTHER. Since the last heating ; Whining, the patrol, had fetched up from Essex her landlady, whO had the cafe of the child; and also her husband, an inoffensive-looking young man; who stated him :elf to be a basket-maker. XiThen they came before the Magistrate, he asked the husband how he at counted for his wife making up her mind to commit • hat enormous crime, suicide P---The husband was in a vk43/ painful situation, 14e felt it as a man should do, and was very sorry for it. Alderman FAREBROTHER—But how do you ac count for it ? Husband—lt is not done under the influence of liquor, for we have been married ne a rly seven years, and I never saw her drunk. Alderman FAREHROTHER—The offic er h as in q uiretl into he ryourgta statement, t ter and his repo r t confirms i thlven t o at tempt this dreadful act through your neglect, that you earn fiom 30s. to 2/. a week, and spend your Money and waste your leisure hours in playing at skittles. Do consider for a moment what would have been your feelings, if, entirely owing to your Misconduct, your wife had been brought home to you and your children a corpse! The picture evidently presented itself to his mind, and his face became flushed. Hanging down his head, he said, he knew she laid her conduct to his playing at skittles, but it was her weakness of mind, in truth, for she had offered to dtoWn herself before he married her, and she had made repeated attempts on her life. Once lie had to wrench two knives from her, with which she made successive at tempts to stab herself, and marks of violence might now be seen on Ler bosom. His earnings were from twenty to thirty shillings a week, and when they had but one child he had proposed to his wife to allow her 11. a week, and if he got a shilling or so over, then that he should be at liberty to spend it like a man; but she insisted on having eve!y shilling of his wages. Whitting, the patrol, said he now went to another extreme, and spent all his money at skittles at his employer's cheap beer shop. The Alderman inquired of the landlady, whether the husband neglected his family, or brought his money home ? She said she could not tell what money he brought home, but he had not paid his rent: The husband had to meet heavy expenses. Last week he had to pay twelve shillings to the doctor, on account of his little boy having swallowed a half penny, which he expected would cause its death in a few days. The wife should not complain if he would keep away from the skittles. The Alderman asked whether they had quarrelled on Thursday ?—The wife said they had ; the dis pute arose out of his losing 5s at skittles on Mon day last. The husband denied that he had lost that sum. Alderman FAREBROTHER asked why he lest any thing at skittles, recollecting that be had been out of work last winter, and might be out of work next winter, and would have occasion for all he should be able to save. Surely, he had an affection for the wife who had borne him two children. " Yes, I have," exclaimed the husband, quivering from emotion, " I love her as my life. Will she 33y I was ever unfaithful to her bed ?" Some person laughing aloud at this expression— The Alderman, raising his ioice to the highest pitch, said, if the heartless brute who had so inter rupted the Court, were pointed out to him, he would instantly commit him to Bridewell. The wife had no complaint to make, except that he squandered his earnings at the skittle-ground. The Alderman felt it his duty to write to the Magistrates of the &strict in which it Vt as situated, to acquaint them with the mischiefs which arose from it in this instance. He proceeded to impres sively lecture both the husband and the wife on the conduct they should observe to each other, and the affection and duty they owed to their offspring; and the couple retired, mutually confiding in each other's firm determination to live happier during the nest of their days. EDINBURGH MEA. M A RKET. 7 June 14 We had a small supply of Oatmeal at this day's market, v‘ hich met with a very dull sale at last week's p - ices. Per Sack of 2801 b. hop. Ver Stone ot 141 b. Imp. First Oatmeal £2 7 0 First Oatmeal ....• .£0 2 6, Second ditto 2 5 0 Second ditto Barleymeal 1 14 0 Barleymeal Peasemeal 1 14 0 Peasemeal Pot Barley—No. 1, per cwt. 145.--9.11. 165.—.3.1,20,—Pearl 245. MARLBORO UGH-STREET. Mr Harrison, the pawnbroker, of Wardour-street, on Saturday, made further interesting communica tions respecting Wheatley, the accomplished swindler, as he thought it important the Foreign. office should adopt proper measures to secure his apprehension. From a letter Mr. Harrison had just received from M. Bonny, of the Hotel de l'Europe, Place Royale, Brussels, it appeared that Wheatley was still practising a series of deceptions in several of the continental cities. At Dresden he had re ceatly personated the Marquis of Clanricarde; and at Brussels and other places, he had assumed the title of Earl Grosvenor, the boy Callow (no.v re turned to England) passing as Viscount Belgrave, his Lordship's heir apparent. The letter of NI. Bonny, dated the 14th inst., was here handed to Mr. Dyer. The writer said that having lately perused all account in the Morning Chronicle of his pre ceedings, in the shape of an application of Mr. liar icon to Sir George Farrant, he was led to believe that he was the same person who, in the early part of February, had defrauded him to a considerable amount, by representing that he was nearly allied to Earl Grosvenor, and was then on It's way to Hanover, accompanied by Lord Belgrave, whom he was going to place at a college in that city.— With so much cunning was every thing arranged, that no suspicion was excited of Wheatley's integrity, and he remained for a week at the Hotel de l'Europe, living in the first style. M. Bonny suggested to him, with great deference, that as Hanover was very unsettled in consequence of a revolution having broken out there, it might not be prudent to travel to that place. Wheatley, how ever, said he would set off for Hanover; and, as he represented he was short of cash, he would feel infinitely obliged if M. Bonny would accept a bill for 281. on Coutts's house. From the ease and elegance of his manner, he (M. Bonny) did not re fuse, especially as he was the relative of a nobleman so distinguished and opulent as Earl Grosvenor, Having received the money, Wheatley arid the soi eisant Viscount departed in a caleche. It is scarcely necessary to add that the bill was returned dis honoured, and M. Bonny was required to pay 21. more for expenses. Wheatley had also defrauded him (M. Bonny) of a travelling carriage, thus making five vehicles he had dishonestly obtained on the continent ; and he was therefore anxious that he might be apprehended. Mr. Harrison added, that he had communicated the purport of M. Bonny's letter to Earl Grosvenor, and it was therefore pos sible that his Lordship would consult with the Ma gistrates on the subject. Mr. DYER should be most happy to be honoured with his Lordship's commands, and also to rend( r Mr. Harrison any assistance to bring the swindler to justice. Q UEEN-SQUARE. On Saturday Henry Hunt, Esq., M.P., was summoned to this office, to show cause why he re fused to pay John Goddard, the driver of the hack ney-coach No. 390, the sum of 6d., the balance due for his legal fare. A person stepped forward, and said that he at tended for Mr. Hunt. The coachman stated, that on last Tuesday nine weeks Mr. Hunt engaged his coach about six o'clock in the evening in Palace-yard, and he drove him to his residence at No. 86, Stamford-street, Black friars, which was upwards of a mile, and his fare was Is. 6d., which he demanded, but Mr. Hunt would only pay him Is. The person who attended for Mr. Hunt said, that he had rode the same distan ce fift y times, and never paid more than a shilling. The coachrr an said that was very likely, and he would not dispute the point, for he had driven Mr. Hunt several times the sarne distance, and could never get more than a shilling from him. He should not have pulled him up now, only than when EDINBURGH CORN MARKET—June 15. We had a small supply of all kinds of Grain to-day, except Wheat ; sales dull. Wheat ss. up on the top, and 9d. down on the average. . Oats the same top, average up' d. Only two par cels of Barley returned; sold at 31s. and 325. Pease and Beans same top, and Bd. down on the average. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. Beane. First 73s Od 34s Od 34s Od 44, 01 44s Od Second tiOs Od 32s 6d 32s Od 42s Pd 42s Od Third PRICES OF PROVISIONS, &C. Beef, per 1b.... Os. 4d. to 0,. 6,1. Fresh Butter,lll.ot. 9.1. to Is. Od. Mutton-- 0 5 0 6 Salt 0 8 010 Veal 0 4 0 8 Ditto, per CIA t. 8.4 o 0 0 Pork 0 4 0 6 Eggs, per dos. 0 8 0 0 Lamb, per qr. 2. 0 4 0 OatStraw(kp'.) 8 0 8 6 Tallow, cwt.... 33 0 34 0 Wheat Ditto.. 6 6 7 6 Quartern Loaf 0 55 0 0 Barley Ditto 6 0 6 6 Potatoes, 17111). 0 5 0 6 Hay, per st...— 1 2 1 3 he demanded the ls. 6d., Mr. Hunt called him a fool, and that had determined him to try the point. Mr. GREGORIE advised the party to pay the fare, as the coachmen were invariably right in the die• tance when they took out a summons. The defendant's sub.titute said that he was sure Mr. Hunt would not be satisfied without the dia. tance being measured. Mr. Gir./ocutit.; said that he had no objection, but he had no doubt that the coachman was right. • The coachman said he was very willing to have the grcund measured. Mr. thaw°RlE—Come now, coachman, much is it over the mile ?—" Why, your worship," replied 6ow.chee, sMiling ; " have bettcr than thirty yards l spai6." The party Mill insisted on having the distance met' sured, and paid down the expenses, which will fall upon the losing party as usual. Count Stgnislaus Polowski, a Polish nobleman, who has only been a short time in this country, was charged with violently assaulting W.A. White, Esq. one of the magistrates of this office. Mr. White stated that as he was passing along the Strand, about two o'clock it; the aNlttoon, the defendant came behind him, and struck him t % vo violent blows t.n the back of the herd, and then rate away. D,:ring the time Mr. White was giving his ev dense the prisoner conducted himself in the most violent manner, and threw his glove; in the Malis• trace's face. Mr. White said that he had no doubt the prisoner was labouring under mental derangement. It may be recollected that a few months ago this unfortunate nobleman was brought before Mr. White by one of the inspectors of the T. division of police,- charged with presenting a loaded pistol at one of the sentries at Knightsbridge barracks. The Magistrates,after consulting together, directed the ofAcers to take the Count to Dr. Sutherland's establishment, in Blackland's-lane, Chelsea, to which place he was conveyed until Ws friends could be in• formed of his situation. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. DURING LAST WEEK. Wheat. , Barley. s. to s. s. to S. i <to 72 33 - 73 - ( 9 34 s. d. F. d. 73 83 70 90 100 106 70 93 100 106 80 93 b.<l. *.d. 44 54) 48 54 60 66 36 46 59 62 4 6 4_9 46 3-6 20 0 10 0 110 Pl 6 86 100 21 0100 106 IS 0 'JO 100 8, to s. "2:2 ‘Z) -- 23 ;.0 s. d. 8. d. 20 29 3f; 40 46 50 33 40 49 54 3 0 3.9 22 2f; 86 04 50 76 7 6 90 64 74 Oats. Per Quarter. Cat-lisle--- He x orpeth Penrith Skettield Winthester --, I CO Per Carmarthen* Coventry —.... Newcastle (StatE) Northallerton Swansea Warwick Per 8011. Barizardea,tle Durham Richmond Stockton -- !! Beans. ..... --..... S. to E. 36 50 5:3 38 I'2 42 46 s. cf. F. 4 ., 00 0 0 56 6 0 . 53 5 6 59 66 76 8 0 00 00 73 76. 00 11 0 10 0 11 0 110 I'' o 00 00 W A KEFI ELI) CORN NARKET.—June 17. The supply of Wheat this morning was large, but the trade has been exceedingly dull at a decline of 2s. to 3s. per quarter 01 1 the finest fresh samples, and other kinds are without demand. Oafs artl I( 2 d. per stone lower. No alteration in other Grain. Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Sufliilk 548. 60s. to 645. fine fib,. Lin. and Cam. sls. 603. to 635, fine 6.55. -- Yorkshire ;ss. &Ss. to 61s. fine 645. White 579. 625. to 68s. fine 703. Foreign, Red n. 525. 588. to 635. tine 675. White ',7s. ti" s. to tiSs. fine 70s. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk ' 27s. to 3tis. tine 38s. Lincolnshire :Nis. to 335. fine 33e. Yorkshire Wold 32s. to 345. fine 365. Foreign Beans, Small l7s to 408. fine 4:ls. Tick 365. to 395. tine 4ls Oats, Potato 2:it. to 295. fine 316. Poland 24s. to tns. tine 2fts. Friezland and Small —s. Vs. to 265. fine :Is. Mealing 124 to 14%d. per Stone. Shelling 356. to 3fis. Od. per Load. Malt 4ls. 455. fine 4e.s. per Load. Rapeseed SCO Wheat. Aberdeen Berwick-. Coldstream Cupar Dundee --- Elgin ----- I tiverness—,... Kelso Perth The size GLASGOW CORN Wheat is steady at the rates more doing in tine malting Barl dull of sale, and 6d. to 9d. per bo in sale. Beans are in good dema Wheat, per 2401 b. s. d. s. d. British, old 34 0 to 3:5 new 213 0 31 6 Canada, free 3O 6 31 7 Irish Barley, per 3201 b. English — 0 C Scottish 2B 6 29 0 Irish MARKET.—June 15. of last week. There is rather 'ley at our quotations. Oats are 01l cheaper. Pease are still dull Ind, without alteration. Oats, per 2t4lb. 6. d. s. d. Irish 226t024 British 23 0 25 ti Beans, per 26i01b. English Scottish Pease, Scottish 19 0 2.2 0 Oatmeal, per 1401 b. '22 0 ZI Flour, per '4olb 5l 0 53 CORNWALL MARKETS. TR 7Ro-Wh eat (average) 273.-Barley, 12s. 6d.-Osts, 103.6 d. ST. A. USTUL-Wheat, 2.15. to 275.-Barley, 123. to 135.-Oats. Os. to 9s. Od. BOOM IN-Wheat (average) 255. Od.-Barley, 11s.-Oats, 71. 0.1. LAtJNCESTON-W h eat (average) 2fs 6d.-Barley,l3s. Od -Oats, 8,. Od.-Beef, 6d.-Mutton, 6d. HNLSTON-Wheat, 265. Od.-Barley, 1.33. Od. PENzaxce-Wheat, 235. to 285.-Barley, -s. to 135.-Oats, Os. to Bs. 6d.-Becf and Mutton, sd. to 6d.-Pork, 31d. to 4d.-0 Butter, Bd. per lb. LisKgsan-Wheat, -s. Od. to 245. 6d.-Barley, 1 ls.-Oats, to 7s. Od. Sr. CoLumo-Wheat, 255. to 265.-Barley, 12s. to -s.-Beef, and Mutton, 4V. to 5d.-Veal, 4d.-Lamb, sd. A vessel has just arrived off Montrose harbour from Riga, the mate of which died of the cholera morbus before leaving. The Captain of another vessel loading for Montrose had also died of the same dreadful malady.-- Caledonian Mercury. THE LORD LIEUTENANT AND THE LORD CITANCELLOR.-Yesterday the Marquis of ANGLIMA, accompanied by his two younger sons, rode into town from the Park about four o'clock. His Excellency' stopped at the Four Courts for about twenty minutes, during which time he was engaged in a private interview with Lord PLUNKETT in the chamber of the Court of Chancery. It is supposed that the object of this inter view was, to make arrangements for the departure of the two noble personages for London, in order to take the oaths in Parliament before the 21st instant.—Freeman's Journal. BIRTHS. On the 17th inst. a t Stake Newington, the lady of S. Reynold., Esq., of a son. On the 18th inst. Mrs. Hinxman, of Great Russell -street, Bloomsbury, of a son. On the 17th inst. at the Grove, Hackney, Mrs. R. Wm . xc n nard, of a son. MARRIED. n G e t o h r e g e 9 ' s s , t h H R a Hanover-square, aarned second. M. o t t l wf , B t t i e : , h h : et Cl i m R A., to Louisa Marian, eldest *n l 'a :t te te ':tpat i t' t a e LiB " qt ..d. Plummer, Rector of North-hill, daughters ow s n tomf t a l ß i c e o county of Cornwa ll . On the 15th inst. at Stanford, Major G. Birch, of Clare, in the county o f Hants, to Lydia Dian a , e ld est daughter of the late Rev. • Dashwood, of St an f or d hall, Nottinghamshire. On the 17th inst. at Camberwelt, the Rev. Edward Young, of Whitchtirch, Hants, son of Captain Young, R.N., to Emma, d a ughter of the late S. Cattley-, Esq. of Camberwell. lED. On the ISth'inst. a t John-street, America-square, aged 71, W. Parker, Esq., a native of Kilmarnock, and one of the oldest Ca nada merchants in London. On the 16th inst. at Wood-end, Hampshire, Admiral Sir John Knight, K.C.8., aged Sa. On the 17th inst. Mr. J. J. Smith, of Clare-street, Lincoln', inn.fields, aged 46. On the 13th inst. in his 69th year, Mr. C. Creswell, printer, brother to the Rev. Edward Creswell, Vicar of Lento!' and Rad ford, near this place. Ilis father was formerly a printer at the corner of the Exchange, and founder and original proprietor of the Nottingham Journal. (Thetleceased was a compositor In the Journal office for a period of 33 years.) PR vcreo !ND 1 3 1;81,1311ED BY MURDO YOUNG, AT StN OFFICF, !.12, Si RANI), LONDON. CET MARKETS. Barley 50 C 5 4'2 43 43 4tl 51 CZ 50 CC 58 C 3 .Y 2 38 45 50 42 70 150 62 of the mi 30 35 2/4 30 Sti 27 30 32 al 34 32 35 3'2 34 '29 31 27 39 21 '-'7 'sure vai 23 27 19 22 20 24 28 30 27 29 20 26 22 25 23 25 25 32 20 23 ice throul Oats. 1 Beans. !Oatmeal. 37 40 2,9 30 40 44 29 3.2 40 41 -- 36 40 -- 19 21 -- 34 35 48 29 32 45 48 43 41 22 24 ;pout the country. 4WAI ;\ L)r fttrcet, NEW stud EX' for GENTLE to Sell at such those favours so Observe street. n, , ar St. H E GAME pleased to intro( eveningally I gentee i a tli m b: n i b era:e o , l ;: r krir, together e iodagr a il m e ;aa d t n bic .1 p i : ra)eno, J. ao . R e s ) Similar to a drat y man, Strand ; ; N . A go, trading to Val 13EAUT1Fli T. he DISPOI AMoser( with 1 3 1( the extremity of banding lifxurh ing country. ' with dressing-r morning -room, ground floor, I . lawn, two dram doorq, elegantly and exterior ofti part is newly el a most perfect fine water, and tion of a family To be viewed Agent, No. 5, stead, of whom THE BEST THEki Al the ngd hainent than an the styl e o f Pa tion of other rep The great size Times) enables it the whole New The Literary ar complete. The Music; and Musi on society and peculiar arra n ,Y through out t h e of the comprehi The ATLAS ing points of in the Weekly Pre than any other of a Popular Ne Published at Saturday a f ter n , est/wonders. On 15th J IS T ( 11 By P.F. Including* the 1 of the Reign of doetum Histor Printed for and Co., Londo 111 • B vo., each - , The PICTU a Ntw Edition, " Not only t panion!for the N Just published .ETTEI AL—d LIST, or THEOLOGY. By Profetisor of Printed for Li FIRST ST' price 9d. Just publisht JOURN/ MANY upon their RI Clarence (thei] their Visits to '.nd 1826. BN Member of the " We have f traye:s. Dr. "---one who hw sides the usui country, build anecdotes chat Titoes. Printed for This (1 wa T FI E The SzTond an Volumes alrex No. I. Contains Byron. and V I. History 111. Thorns Chemis I V. James' valry ai No. XI. (t LIVES Henry Coll) v reet, London sellers io tie 1 COMPAM In Monthly V. T A . •J No. IV. TER'S celebr Complete, u i Author. No. I. C( COOPER. No. 11. G( LIAMS, COO daughter, .7,11 No. 111. TI Lew Intrati, publication 11 No. V. to WIN'S celebi Henry Cot atrect. NE' LIFT Bart. Bvo. with a L "A. work Wect library Second Etliti " The9e V( by sportbiner history, Or wl --Edinburgh SIR JOIE In 2 vols. sv " This we European So eminent Stat 12 URCKIIA Octav o Edits " we long M ood sir. Henry ('ol street. 'l' II J