The Sun. — London, England, 1831-11-29 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We gave in our French express yesterday all the intelligence which had reached Paris from Lyons on Saturday, and we insert to-day all the additional facts which we can glean from the Paris Papers of Sunday morning, and from our private letters of Sunday afternoon. This ad ditional information is of no great value, as it details no events of importance, and gives no results subsequent to the 24th. It is of great interest, however, to learn from our correspon dent the slight effect of the news on the Paris agitators ; for though the starving weavers of Lyons have not yet git en their insurrection a political cast or aim, the factious in the capital might have been expected to supply the de ficiency, and to aggravate a revolt of the belly in a general rebellion. We know as yet but imperfectly the circumstances which provoked the explosion—the preparations made by the workmen to resist their employers, or to over power the public force—the amount of their demands, or the causes of their perfect organiza tion ; but we know enough to convince us that the crisis is of no ordinary kind, and that Go vernment is apprehensive of its acquiring a po litical character. The insurgents, after a struggle of two days, have got complete possession of the second town in the kingdom. They have driven out the civil authorities—overpowered with the arms of the National Guard their wealthier brethren of that civic militia, and beaten a strong detachment of the King's troops. To gain these advantages, they seem to have resorted to the most approved methods of Parisian warfare, by firing on the public force from their windows, by unpaving their streets, and by intrenching themselves behind their bar ricades. They appear to be acting under lead ers who are acquainted with the use of arms, and are perfectly aware of the advantages of their position. They occupy the heights above the city, and have intercepted all communications by the roads: or bridges which lead to it. The Prefect seems to be their prisoner or their hostage ; and even their susprising order and moderation appears dan gerous from the perfect discipline and resolute purpose which it manifests. The troops in the immediate neighbourhood, or within two days' march of Lyons, are evidently insufficient to make an impression on the insurgents in their present position. The Ministry, alarmed at the complete overthrow of all order, or at least aware of the gravity of the circumstances, not only make a communication to the Chambers on the subject, but despatch a Marshal of France, the Head of the War Department with the Heir Apparent of the throne, to the scene of confusion and rebellion. In enumerating these things we have said enough to show the magni tude of the evil in the eyes of the French Government : but other circumstances, less obvious to common notice, describe it in more alarming colours. The number of killed and wounded in the two or three days' tumultuous resistance at Lyons, is nearly as great as in the revolution of July, 1830, at Paris. National Guardsmen, of one rank in society, have used the arms entrusted to their patriotism by the State to combat National Guardsmen of another. The former have acquired the necessary discipline to be dangerous, without the spirit of submission which would make them safe. The greatest exasperation must have been generated between them and those whom they have been resisting ; and it is not likely that they will soon return to ideas of order or to feelings of confidence. They are under leaders who are the heads of sections, and those leaders are likely to be the boldest of their class. Suppose, relying cn their numbers and the strength of their position, they should attempt to resist the immense militar) f rce now directed against them, a great and I,seless effusion of blood must take place. If it were possible to suppose that they could beat off the military force, their distress would indeed be greater than if they were overpowered ; but Lyons is not the only city in the kingdom where a stagnation of trade, or a want of employment, is felt, and the example might prove contagious. Already Government has been obliged to disarm the National Guard of Strasburg and two other towns, on account of the mutinous conduct of that force. Will those of Lyons and other places like wise allow themselves to be disarmed ? Men who have gone so far, as under the pressure of distress to hoist the flag of rebellion, and to usurp the authority of the Government, are not likely to return to obedience without some pro mise of higher wages or some security against what they call oppression. And what promise or pledge of this kind can the Government give ? The workmen had a tariff of prices, which the masters, before the insurrection, were unable to pay without suffering a loss ; will they be more able to pay it, now that their ma gazines are pillaged, and their houses sacked ? Difficulties in the way of an adjustment present themselves on every hand; and Marshal Soult, to smooth his path, should have taken with him a civil commissioner of high capacity, instead of the inexperienced heir of the Crown. It is gratifying in these circumstances, however otherwise painful, to hear from Government, and to see it admitted by their enemies in the _ _ Chamber and the Press, that the insurrection bad not at first, and has not yet acquired, any political direction. The Prime Minister, in his apparently frank and manly disclosures in the Chamber of Deputies, declared that he had heard of no political dissatisfaction before tile revolt,—that the cries of pillage and murder were heard, but not those of trea- son , —that the rebels made war on property and civil order, but not on political institutions. He even cites a sentence from a most extraor dinary despatch on the 19th instant, the day be fore the commencement of disturbances, which announces that Lyons was never more tranquil —the still and serene atmosphere before an earthquake. With the support of the Chambers and the con fid ence o f the country, the new G o _ vernment will suffer nothing in credit or stability from a convulsion which it has done nothing to occasion or justify. All the Prefects at the head of the southern departments have left Paris for their respective posts, though there appears to be no evidence that the spirit of revolt extends beyond Lyons. With greater order and disci pline than the " heroes of July" at Paris,— possessed of more physical power. an d better arms—with as great success purchased by nearly as much carnage, what prevents the insurrec tion of Lyons from spreading even to a surround ing hamlet, while that of Paris, in a few days, embraced the whole of France ? Nothing but the total want of political object in the Lyons revolters, and the general opposition of every man of influence or property in the kingdom. No well grounded fear, therefore, need, we think, be entertained for the ultimate result, if the affair is managed with wisdom and discretion. —Times. The period during which English politics, turbulent though they be, have withdrawn our attention from those of Ireland, has been to us a season of comparative repose. But the daily letters wereceive from the latter island, and the reports which crowd every Dublin newspaper, recall us, in spite of habitual and extreme repug nance, to the necessity of once again, however briefly, glancing at the devices through which Irish faction is ever ready to intercept and frus trate the noblest national prospects. Mr. O'Connell has for some time busied himself in bolstering up the cause of Anti-Reform, under the cloak of a repeal of the Union. His watch word is " Ireland," but the thing signified is himsey. What can any reasonable man think of him who announces to the peOple of Dublin that he will not attend the House of Commons before Christmas, because his Irish Political Union is more worthy of attention than any pro ceeding of the Imperial Parliament can be ? ! Is this real enmity to Reform ?—No ; it is but indifference, and nothing worse—indifference as compared with that hungry passion, by which Mr. O'Connell seems constitutionally impelled to sacrifice every great and generous purpose to vindictiveness and selfishness. Who does not see through the project of another agitation ? We say nothing of what has been hinted to us, as to the certainty of its terminating in another " O'Connell fund," because we really conceire such a hope to be as frantic as the motive, after what has already happened, would be unutterably base. But we can well understand the dejec tion with which an ambitious and not very high minded demagogue might behold the near ac complishment of a mighty measure, which by opening a legitimate organ for the expression of every Irishman's complaints and desires, would supersede the Learned Gentleman in his vocation of official mouth-piece to Irish dis content, and thus compel him to canvass on a fair footing with other competitors for a share of that influence over the labouring poor of Ireland, which he has hitherto, from a con currence of accident anti ability operating upon a vicious representation and an ill-judging Government, been enabled almost wholly to monopolize. Part of Mr. O'Connell's present demonstrations are aimed against the machinery (or assumed machinery) of the Irish Bill. But the genuine and unaffected bitterness of his venom is spouted forth against the Secretary for Ireland, his hatred for whom the Learned Agi tator seeks not to disguise. We are not behind the curtain, so as to ascertain by what personal offence Mr. Stanley has secured to himself a freehold in Mr. O'Connell's animosity. That the Right Honourable Gentleman means well to Ireland, nobody appears to doubt; that be might have withheld a late mark of acknowledg ment shown to the Learned Gentleman's pro fessional eminence, is, we suppose, equally un questionable. Was any .thing more expected ? Was any overture on one side declined, or on the other omitted ? Was the coyness of the Learned Gentleman too languidly besieged, or did that of Government betray too much of virgin terror? These surmises have occurred to many people, on seeing what a vein of unfired personality Mr. O'Connell on all occasions indulges, when the name of Mr. Stanley rises to his tongue. Of that Right Hon. Gentleman we do not scruple to say that his popularity bears no pro portion to his character for talents. There is something in his temper, or at least in his offi cial demeanour, which has gained him as few friends here as in Ireland. We wish him well; because, amidst pretty extensive dislike, no im putation of more than skin-deep errors has at any time been laid upon him. But if he aspires o be leader of the House of Commons, Mr. Stanley must " mend his manners." To return for a moment to the subject with which we set out. Mr. O'Connell is now playing not only a worthless game, but obviously an absurd one. lie cannot defeat. the Reform Bill by his diver sion of his credulous dupes among the Irish people from it to other objects. He cannot carry the repeal of the Union by the Irish popu lace aloue,—no, nor with the priesthood for his Allies. Every upright and enlightened friend of Reform throughout the empire will abandon it man who is ready to sacrifice a great cause for selfish objects.—Tinies. Lyons being in the possession of the insurgents, is, of course, entirely at their mercy ; but if the insurrection do not extend to other manufac turing towns in the neighbourhood, as Tarrarc, St. Etienne, &c., they will be put down in time, though, no doubt, at a terrible expense of blood and suffering. The measures of the Go vernment sufficiently show the estimate they form of the difficulty of the enterprise. We may be sure, that as far as military skill is con cerned, the resources of the Government will be ably employed by the Minister of War. We subjoin the letter from Manchester to which we yesterday alluded, on a subject to which the events of Lyons give peculiar importance at the present moment, though, as may be seen from its date, it could not be written with any refer ence to that event. There is at this time great distress in many of the manufacturing towns both in England and Scotland, but more particularly Scotland. We have already alluded to the state of - . things in Paisley, and we perceive from the Scotch papers that great distress, from want of employment, is felt in Perth, Dundee, and other manufacturing towns. One extensive house in Dundee, which for several years has main tained in constant employment not fewer than seventeen warpers, five hundred winders, and one thousand weavers, has failed, and all these people are in a state of destitution. In the iron districts there are a great number of men un employed. We do not find that there is at present more than the average distress in Lan cashire, though the Bolton Chronicle men tions, among the signs of the times, that at an auction last week, of the goods and chattels of a weaver at Astley Bridge, several looms and other articles were knocked down for a few shillings, which, ten years since, would, in the same condition, have fetched ten pounds at least. But there is a feeling of uneasiness and appre hension throughout the manufacturing districts in general ; and the Manchester Guardian at tributes to a knot of agitators, anxious for riot and confuSion, a plan for holding simultaneous meetings throughout the country. " We find (says that Journal) that the little knot o f agitators who have been so long endeavouring to produce riot and confusion in this town, are at work again, and have apparently set on foot a plan for holding simultaneous meetings through Out the country on Monday next. A hand-bill made its appearance on the walls of this town yesterday, signed by Ed ward Curran and sixteen others, desi gnat i ng them selves householders of Manchester, and calling a meeting, to be' held in Camp Field, on 'Monday next, for the purpose of agreeing upon a declara i tiou of rights, embracing the interests of ill Wasses of his Majesty's subjects; also to consider the pro priety of choosing one or more deputies to assist the National Convention in drawing up a Reform Bill, to be presented to the King, his Ministers, and the Commons' House of Parliament, expressive of the just claims of the British nation.'" Ihe Wakefield Journal of Friday notices a communication from Manchester, recommending simultaneous meetings in Yorkshire, from which an inference is drawn that the plan has reference to all parts of the country. " This (observes the Manchester Guardian), we believe, will be the third or fourth attempt made within a few weeks to procure simultaneous meet ings in different parts of the country." We have no wish to create unnecessary alarm ; but we think we may, without exaggeration, say that there is at present much distress from want of employment in most branches of our manu factures, and that the distress appears to be on the increase. The population of France con gregated in large towns bears no proportion to the same description of population in this country ; and hence, if the distress of the ope ratives, as they are called, should induce them to break out into insurrection, the difficulty of en forcing order would be infinitely greater here than in France. Our Manchester correspondent says—" Do not let it be supposed that when the Reform Bill shall have been passed (which it will be) all things will go on quietly. No— the lower orders, the uneducated, and the unre fleeting, still struggling with difficulties, will be disappointed, because immediate relief is not af forded to them. There will be tumults, dreadful riots and bloodshed, such as it sickens the heart to contemplate." Our correspondent calls on the Government to institute corps of volunteer infantry on the plan of the corps at Salisbury, to the effective state of which he bears testimony, as the only means of guarding against the con sequences of distress and discontent. We are not fond of drawing invidious distinctions be tween middle and lower classes ; but it is obvious all who possess property have a strong interest in the maintenance or order ; and that confusion can have no terrors to men in a state of destitu- tion. The scenes at Bristol sufficiently show with what ease a mob can throw a great city into confusion, if there is no adequate organization of the respectable inhabitants to preserve order. A handful of soldiers can be of little use in such circumstances ; and as the yeomanry cavalry, or, indeed, cavalry in general, they can only be effi cient in an open country. Let us take warning by what is passing around us. The example of Bristol has shown us that if our mobs are not so sanguinary as the populace of France, they are more brutal and disorderly. We subjoin the letter-- TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE. Manchester, Nov. 25, IS3I. SIR S I was in Salisbury on the 2d of November, when your Paper of the Ist, containing a letter from " An Inhabitant" of the place, was put into my hands. It happened that this was the drill day of the corps of volunteer infantry therein alluded to; and Leing much pleased with the observations contained in your Paper, and having been myself formerly in the army, I strolled out in the afternoon, to see what sort of stuff this corps was composed of ; and 1 must confess, that if I was astonished, in the first instance, at the military appearance they presented, I was much more so at the extraordinary facility ett ith which they performed their movements. No man seemed to me to be at a loss. Every one knew his place, and I was particularly struck with the manner in which they performed the difficult ma noeuvre of street-firing, and with the wonderful or der they preserved in charging with bayonet in line. In fact, I have never seen a regiment of regular ~ 0 1 dins preserve better order. I was surprised to Lind that this corps had not bee:i embodied much mere than nine months, and that they had never had an Adjutant to instruct them. I learnt, on further in epliry, that their Lieutenant-Colonel, Mr. Brodie, though he had never been in the army, had a natu ral taste for military tactics, and that he had, during the last %vat., been an officer of volunteers, and that there was an intelligent setjeant-majur ; and that by these two, and by a few sctjeents and corporals, who had been formerly members of volunteer corps, the battalion hal been brought to its present extraor dinary state of perfection. I must not omit to add, that I was further informed, that the exer tions of these persons have been rendered in , re successful by the great zeal of the parties whom they had to instruct. The battalion, I was told, consisted principally (both officers and privates) of tradesmen—that the Mayor elect was a private — that many other privates were wealthy men, or the sons of wealthy men—and that the remainder were artisans, but all respectable, and all having a strong esprit de corps. My informant added, that the for. [nation of this little battalion had done more good than any one thing he had ever recollected to have taken place in Salisbury ; that it had united, " for a good purpose," men of different political opinions and of different grades in society ; and that he was quite sure that, under all eirctandaneey, every mem ber of the corps would do his utmost to preserve the public tranquiliity. I have been thus diffuse about this corps, because I am convinced that, with such a force, Salisbury is secure from all riots anti distur bailee. lied such a body of men existed in Bristol, that city would have been saved from the disgrace which must henceforth ever attach to her name. 'Now let me come to my grand point. You pertinently remark in your Paper, of the let of November, that " were there to be anything like a ,general ferment, the military alone would be found inadequate to the demands on them." Was there ever a remark - more just, and could I have supposed that a month would have elapsed without Government calling on the In habitants of, at least, the larger towns to come for ward to enrol themselves as volunteers, particularly as they must have known, or ought to have known, the good effects produced by the existence of such a corps at Salisbury ? Are they afraid to arm the middle classes ? or, are they afraid that the haughty Tory aristocrats will call them to account for doing so ? Let me give them one word of ad vice. Let them be wise while they can. If they are desirous of saving this yet happy country from all the horrors of the first years of the French Revolution, when, from the contempt on the part of the nobles towards the middle classes, the Govern ment of that wretched and devoted country was vested in the very scum and dregs of society. If, I say, they are desirous of saving their country, let them, at once, put their trust in all those who have property to defend ; let them place confidence in them, and I will answer for it that their power and influence will be sufficient to keep the rest in sub jection. Do not let it be supposed that, when the Reform Bill shall have been passed (which it will be), all things will go on quietly. No; the lower orders, the uneducated, and the unreflecting, still struggling with difficulties, will be disappointed be cause immediate relief is not afforded them. There will be tumults, dreadful riots, and bloodshed, such as it sickens the heart to contemplate. Yes, I re peat, there will be, if the middle classes are not armed. Ido not mean that they should arm them selves without authority from his Majesty's Government, but I do call on that Govern ment most earnestly, without loss of time, to insti tute Corps of Volunteer Infantry in all the principal towns of the kingdom. Let them be entirely under the controul of Government—let judgment and dis cretion be exercised in the choice of the Com manding Officer in particular, and of the other officers, and let no man be admitted, even as a pri vate, who cannot (as I understand has been the case at Salisbury) bring good testimonials as to his cha racter. With such a force, under the eontroul of the King and his Government, the nation will be safe. Without it—ligfoun of no Ream Bill—the nation will be ruined, and the lower orders, like the angry I lion who lashed himself to death with his own tail, destroy themselves, and, in doing so, will destroy us of the middle class, and all those who rank above us, even to the Monarch on the throne. I hope, Mr. Editor, that the whole of this letter will be admitted into your most valuable and patriotic Paper; and still more do I hope that the advice contained in it, however badly I may have expressed myself, will be followed, and speedily followed, by his Majesty's Government and by that class in society, which it so seriously concerns. I say to the Government, " Call on the middle classes to arm themselves— offer them arms—) ou have hundreds of thousands of muskets rusting in your magazines." To the middle classes, that is, to the people, I say, " Answer the call with one simultaneous voice—accept the offer of arms, and learn the use of them." Govern ment—" Be jealous, be afraid." People—" Be su pine." Then farewell to the Government, farewell, to the people, and let them prepare themselves for such scenes as took place in Paris in 1792 and 1793, and to sing "Io triumphe," to anarchy and confu sion. " I shall leave this place to-morrow on my way home, where I shall hope to find your Paper with this letter in its columns, and God grant that my ad vice may be followed. "I am, Sir, your obedient servant, ONE OF THE MIDDLE CLASSES." —Morning Chronicle. When Mr. O'Connell first intimated his in tention of introducing Political Unions into Ire land we expressed our regret at the prospect of their adoption in that country. We did so not merely because we objected to the principle of Political Unions, as calculated to supersede the functions of regular Government, but because we were aware that the state of society in Ire land—a state in which political differences are inflamed by religious animosities—was peculiarly unfitted for the avowed purposes of such Unions, the promotion of Reform by constitutional means, and the establishment of peace and order throughout the whole of the social confederacy. It is true the public were assured by Mr. O'Con nell that the extinction of religious animosities was one of the objects of the proposed Union, but there was an inconsistency, an incompatibi lity between the means and the end, which it re quired no stretch of penetration to discover, the association of large bodies and the delivery of popular harangues being calculated to produce any thing rather than repose amongst a sensitive people. Such, however, was the expedient which Mr. O'Connell resolved to try ; accordingly he proposed the formation of a Political Union ; it was formed at his bidding, and, though it is yet but a few days old, its effects are beginning to shew themselves. Amongst the first fruits of the experiment is the starting of a rival Union, an Orange—a Brunswick Union ; that is, a union intended to keep alive the animosities which Mr. O'Connell is so anxious to bury ; a►►d this rival union is fairly chargeable upon the original union out of which it has sprung, as directly—though for a different, and even for an opposite purpose—as any of the branch unions which profess the same object with their parent in Dublin. Another result, which has already manifested itself, is this, that the repeal of the legislative union between the two countries—a question invoking the most awful consequences to both—is mixed up with Reform and with re ligious considerations, so that the topics of dis content are multiplied in the new association by the wider range to which it extends its guardian ship, as compared with the late Catholic Asso• elation, where the unity of the subject prescribed something like a limit to the - sources of excite ment and danger. Time and the progress of knowledge, and the general improvement of so ciety, under a Reformed Parliament, where the instruments to which most men looked forward for the establishment of tranquillity, the over throw of prejudice, and the promotion of con tent in Ireland. But Mr. O'Connell pretends to have found a substitute for all these in the heat and urgency of inflammatory appeals to the multitude. He tells them that tithes cannot be collected in Ireland—that in certain parishes they have not been collected for some time back. His hearers shout with joy at the intelligence ; they receive it as from authority that tithes have been and can be refused, and thus a be ginning is made in the work of conciliation by which Catholic and Protestant are to be brought together, and all religious animosities buried in n e o common grave at the foot of the Liberator. Now what purpose can such statements effect ? Must they not rouse the people ? and must they not embarrass the Government ? This was not the course pursued by Mr. O'Connell himself during the last Session of Parliament, when he gave the most efficient support to his Majesty's Ministers. Mr. O'Connell could then detect and expose the inconsistency of Mr. Hunt, who, while he voted for the Bill, said and did every thing he could against it. And what is Mr. O'Connell doing now ? Pursuing the very same course which he condemned in another ; and pursuing it at the very moment when the Ministers are about to grapple once more with the enemies of the Constitution. Even if we thought the repeal of the Union were a measure. fraught with advantages to both countries, we would still say do not press it to the injury of Reform ; but believing it to be dangerous, if not ruinous to both, our astonishment is equal to our indignation when we find it, at such a moment, put forward to the detriment of the great cause, on the success of which depends the future happiness of the people, and, perhaps, the existence of the State itself.—Morning Herald. Rumours having reached us from various q uarters about a recent appointment at the Heralds' College, we have been induced to make inquiry as to the facts, and we are sorry to find them verified. The present Earl Marshal, to whom emancipation has been so lately and hand somely conceded, is the first Catholic since the Reformation who has exercised the office. We regret to find that on the death of the late Sir George Nayler not only Mr. Lodge, a gentleman so well known in the literary world, and espe cially so from his lives of illustrious persons, has been superseded, but likewise many more gentle men of the highest respectability and talents. And by whom have they been superseded ? By the assistant of the Earl Marshal, Mr. Woods, lately a clerk to Sir George Nayler, and Blue Mantle Pursuivant, on the score of his having assisted the late Garter for a very few years. We under stand there are other gentlemen in the College who assisted Sir Isaac Heard as Garter for nearly thirty years. Now supposing his Majesty were to advance an Ensign to the rank of Lieutenant- Colonel in a regiment, what would be thought byof asulclhraanks in n act tihnetlaiermHyr Thus it ev er i s withse of Parlia ment an d the Reformers, breaking the word of promise to the ear for the furtherance of their own sinister 7 purposes.—Morning Post. MARCII OF INTELLECT.--A labourer read ing the newspaper to his wife, came to the following pas sage His Grace was received with three huzzas"— which he read, " His Gracs was received with three h un i o ," " More thaw esid the good ITOWIO. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Mrs. Elizabeth Jackson was summoned by Mrs. Mary Jackson for committing a violent assault, and running away with a baked leg of mutton. The complainant is the first, and the defendant is the second wife of Mr. Jackson, who was some some time ago tried at the Old Bailey, convicted, and sentenced to imprisonment for twelve months, for the offence of bigamy. The second wife had been the servant of the first, and Mr. Jackson threw a sheep's (or rather a bull's) eye at her, in the ab sence of the legitimate claimant upon his affections, whose years were beginning to wax of a religious character. The virtue of the maid, however, was proof against all his coaxing. At last she consented to make him happy upon condition that she should change situations with her mistress; and the cere mony which made them one was performed in the very next church to that in which he had pledged to another the vows he thus was cruel enough to break. After Mr. Jackson was discharged from the Pu• nishment Hotel, he went again into the boom of his family, but not into that of his first wife, who, upon her part, scorned to become servant, the only situation her husband said he had vacant for her. She accordingly applied to the parish, and Mr. Jackson was told that he must support her. Here there was a conflict between passion and prudence, but the latter prevailed. Mr. Jackson took back his first espoused, to save expence, and soon after wards found that he had no occasion at all for the second, who was thus thrown upon the wide world for her bread. It happened that Mrs. Jackson the first sent a leg of mutton to a baker's on Sunday last, and Mrs. Jackson the second having got wind of it, and feeling occasion for part, slipped in and took possession of the joint. Just as she was leaving the shop her rival appeared and made a grab at the dish. Mrs. Jackson the second, however, although she held the china with one hand, held the leg of mutton with the other, and she gave Mrs. Jackson the first such a judicious dab of the latter in the mouth as was quite enough for her dinner that day. The LORD MAYOR asked Mr. Jackson why he did not support both wives? Mr. Jackson—l was punished according to law, my Lord, and I am bound to take advantage of the law, which took such advantage of me. The LORD MAYOR—But you have ruined this poor woman's prospects, and are bound in honour to give her some aid. Mr. Jackson—No, my Lord, the law says nothing of the kind. I broke the law at first. I now obey the law by taking home my first wife. Besides, the other woman ought, by my example, to take back her first husband.--(Laughter.) The LORD MAYOR—What ! was she married be fore ? Mr. Jackson—Oh dear, yes. If she won't I never would have married her, for I thought her offence nullified mine, for nobody couldn't be hurt by our connexion; but our law was bad, and I won't subject myself to no more werdites. The LORD MAYOR— Well, you certainly are right in your law now, and need not support this woman, but common pity ought to operate upon you. Mrs. Jackson the first—Please you, my Lord, she's such a wizen that I cannot shear her. I'd a given her part of the mutton if she had patience, but she began for to abuse my husband in sich a way. Mrs. Jackson the second—Abuse him ! Why you was worse a thousand times in your language be sides, he on;y keeps the life in you until sich time as you're fit for the surgeons, and then I'm blest if he don't sell you, and good lurk to him.—(Loud laughter.) Mr. Jackson—lt's a lie. I might give her, but I'm blowed if I'd sell her, as things goes now. The LORD MAYOR—I think the best thing you can do is to part in peace. Mr. Jackson is evi dently not worth fighting for, for his only motive for living with his wife is to save the expence of giving an allowance for her to the parish. Mr. Jackson—Please you, my Lord, its the law. ' I suffered by the law, and those as breaks the law ought for to get the benefit of the law as well as ►ne.—: Loud laughter.) There being evidence that the two women were at constant war with each other, the Lord Mayor bound them both over in their own recognizances to keep the peace according to law. HATT ON- G ARDEN. Yesterday Mr. John Nicol Walters., the surgeon, was finally examined before Mr. ROGERS, on a charge of having enticed Mr. R. B. Steele to set fire to his house. Mr. James Toplis deposed—l am a surveyor to the Sun Fire-office, and reside at 22, St. Paul's Church-yard. This morning I went to the premises lately said to have been occupied by the prisoner, No. 211, Tottenham court• road. There is an apothe cary's shop, aid a back sitting-room behind, and two rooms on the first floor. I examined the fix tures and utensils in the shop, which I value at 41/. 9s. The household furniture and apparel in the back sitting-room I value at 101. 15s. The rooms up stairs and the kitchen were quite bare of furniture with the exception of two chairs. Mr. List, the inspector, deposed—l way present with Mr. Toplis when he valued the property in the prisoner's place. I took possession of the prisoner's premises on the night of Tuesday, the 15th of November, and the articles then on the premises where the same as when Mr. Toplis formed the valuation. . _ _ Walsh, the constable, said, that when Mr. Steele first applied to him, he said, " You are the first constable that I have mentioned it to"--(meaning the proposition that the prisoner had made to him.) Mr. ROGERS asked him to be sure of that. Walsh said he was, and Mr. Milieu, the chief clerk, was ordered to put it with his depositions. It appeared that the prisoner insured for 3501. This was the whole of the evidence,- and the pri soner was committed for trial. John Holmes wits charged with stealing six valu able pieces of silk:bandkerchiefs,the property of some person unknown. It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Davies, hosier, of 19, Oxford -street, that about a week ago the prisoner called at his shop and or dered a quantity of goods to be sent to Mr. Watson, watchmaker, of Little Queen-street, High Holborn. On leaving the shop the prosecutor missed several valuable articles, and, suspecting the prisoner, he determined to call upon Mr. Watson to ascer tain whether he had deputed any body to make such an order. Mr. Watson informed him that a host of hosiers had been to make similar inquiries, and that it must have been the work of some im- postor or thief. On Saturday last, Mr. Davies was walking along Holborn, when he met the prisoner and collared him, knowing him to be the person who had robbed him. Inspector Oakley, of the E division, was passing by and took custody of the prisoner and conveyed him to the station-house, where he searched him, anu found several pieces of valuable silk handker chiefs of the same quality as those that were stolen from Mr. Davies. The prisoner, in his defence, said, I know nothing of the robbery ; I received the silk from " Long Bill," of Brick-lane. Mr. Oakley said he had no doubt but several tradesmen would come forward if the prisoner were remanded, as it was evident, from the many inquiries that had been made at Mr. Watson's, the watch maker, that the prisoner had practised his depreda tions upon others. UNION-HALL. Mr. Peachey, a whartinger, and his wife, were brought before Mr. MURRAY, charged with having► violently assaulted Mary Haylan, a young girl living in their service. The complainant had been for the last three months in the defendants' service, and upon a recent occasion her mistress desired her to bring up a clean plate, and that when she did, the latter, without further ceremony, " chucked it bang" at her head, and cut her in the face. She added, that she had been subsequently locked up in a room against her will and inclination. In her cross-examination by Mr. Harmer for the defendants, the complainant, after some besitat admitted that she had been carrying on an illicit tercourse with her master ever since she had 1 in the house, and that in the absence of her mist she was in the habit of taking her pla Peachey's bed. Mr. Harmer—Did you not wear th belonging to your mistress upon one of you took her place in bed ? Complainan t that I did, but then it was master made because he thought I looked more pret nice muslin cap with a deep border to i kind of night-caps I used to wear. Mrs. Peachey then stated that she h, discovered an intimacy of a most imp~, existing between her husband and the gi day in question she desired the girl to plate, and instead of bringing a cleat brought up one that was dirty. Whet on the subject, she said in a most insolen voice, " It's quite good enough for y' Peachey admitted that upon this pros., committed the assault complained of. Mr. Peachey, who stood next to his the examination, never once lifted hi, appeared quite abashed at the expose taken place. The Magistrates taking all the circumstances consideration, should inflict a fine of Is., the WI penalty, on Mrs. Peachey, in consequence of ' a 2 gravation she had received from the complaint As no case of assault had been proved against Peachey, he was therefore entitled to his discharge' ALLEGED MURDER OF MRS. WALS Yesterday a most minute ext, of the body of an aged femal, Walsh, who died at the Lond( tember last, and who was sum to have been the same who been " Burked" by Cook and on which charge they have u minations. The body was satisfactorily standing the length of time that as being that of the female who hospital from the poor-house mise given to her there, and w the institution, still remained the hips was found fractured, was that she was scut to the h , were perfect, and the two gran, line Walsh, the missing female ; and stated that they bore no to those of their relative. TI disparity between the ages of b at the hospital having describe% that of Caroline Wash was officer, who has the business gaged for some days , past in relative to the disappearance of of 14 years of age, and who, th, suppose, had been improperly Cook. It appears that twelve moi question, and who had been chapel- , chool, lived as servan named Daniels, in Little Pre: ing one evening a slight quarr she went out, leaving her cloti of property behind her, and w: to the present seen or heard that time lived in Whie Hors( it is said, was acquainted w habit of calling at her house. cumstance has come to his know' young Cook on the subject, ; recollected a girl calling on b about the time in question, could stop with her all nigh , gpilieod slept tliat on n e t h c e ou . l tr could not, or, and all that that he heard his mother say girl belonged to a school or w WINTER AS HERTFORD, The winter assize (for the opened to-day at Hertford, by SON and Mr. Justice PATTESO7 The calendar is very heavy cases; but only two of them ai character. Of the fifty-two p can read, and only twelve can under t wenty-five years of age, and six are above fifty years were committed in July, to September, thirteen in Octol the present month. James Butler, a2ed 33, wa feloniously entering the dwel of Verulam, near St. Alban'. ISth of October last, and at silver spoon., 61 silver forks,: of scissors, three silver ladlS! table-cloth. A second count of the in prisoner with feloniously Brea' after he had effected the robb Mr. MORE, for the prosec' case. The whole of the circi appeared in the public paper' no defence. Valentine Barker said the very well as a servant in Lor, cept that he was frequently toxicated, he used the most Lordship and to every body dered perfectly honest. The Earl of Verulam sat u not examined. The Jury returned a verdi Sentence of death was reo sorer, and the Learned JuD , as no violence was used in crime, he should feel it cons, recommend that the estrem' should not be carried into deemed it improper that sue; allowed to remain in this coo . LIVERPOOL, SATURD. merous and respectable meetini signified their readiness to becoi Union, was held at the Clarenm. lIAMS in the Chair. After so solved unan'mously, that it is f cistion in Liverpool, having 6, To obtain such a Reform in the liament as may ensure a real al of all classes of the people in thi peace, union, and concord amta jesty's subjects, and to guide at with unanimity to peaceful and of leaving it to waste its strew connected exertions, unguidel trolled. It was also resolved th " Liverpool Parliamentary Ref tee was then appointed to draw government of the Union. BIRTHS. On the 27th inst. at Widdial Hall, dolphin Osborne, Esq. of a son. On the .2.7 th inst. in Welbeck-street daughter. On the 26th inst. at Hatford Red Rev. S. Paynter, of a :on stillborn. MA lIRI On the 26th inst. at St. Georg) Esq. barrister-at-law, to Harriette H. Eyre, of Bedford-place. On the 2f,th inst. at Islington, Sa, Esq , of London, to Susan, eldest of Islington. On the 2Stb inst. at Christ Churc Peter Le Jenne, eldest son of Mr Ilegent-street, to Ewma Sophia late Mr. John Gillbank, of Picket' 1) I ED, On the 27th inst. at Kew, Freder of the Rev. R. W. Jelf. On the 2tith inst. the Rev. Win. College, Oxford. On the 26th inst. at Canonbury Young, aged 62. PRINTED AND PUBLISH ED HY AIURDO SUN °TYKE, 11.2, STRAND, i4141191‘. In Mon; i IVES of ne naa u Bj her miatr Being V lace in 1 1.'11, o f m l 1 • • h 'edNoi he n i g h mcasion ' riot for I ; ne ri t ao t t t: d i ni e et r l r e rheo vr a lc n d ena n ne i: : :. ' l ll:!‘, 4 4 : l4 ltlthx 7 2.ce W sLE.i a l ii girl. l i reis e n ros n ow n b ctuwaha t i rs .fn i t ; : he n ;c t a n oi g o ceod ke nish n , , .. ° ; . l , l eoht inb et: ' it i v i he n nv e na e rte e o r t.i L it t::: :ifo l e eyosull: : e to complai lv . zi t% u' s ' a e d t ga n h i st w , . A ---- tale am i ra named cb t; °n ` IN1) bEDI' idon Hospital in ` i posed by many pe ~ N r was alleged to ' k I the female Ross, *oil of undergone several ' 14 1 0 2 1 y identified, notn ,, TI; c at it has been irate 4 i , l e nitnatt: o had been sent 03 7rie of hi, of Hoxton, as a :,,' 'of th e co which bore the mar' ~ ,k, on it; . besides, 4 "4; 14 13 v and for this ink ' . t :'e e n br , d ho s p i tal.:st weredeh resembl anc e " b g h a h e i nnt person' e c ar:t T ice t s v o e f r i f s e a . t , a lt i til l i f t I 1 4her : 0 1 't 'k 1 Liter y °t h a ea l 'here was also a v:ith C oow, td her age as 61, 0 84 years. Leap % I o i fn Sarah y ,•_.. t o : h i t e ; E P t prosecuting into Sl it Is here is some resin' (1,,,, y disposed of by si gh book , 1 h„ ) : 1 1 41 114,01 onths ago, the 11 , '" , il eep !urabl e 1 taken out of 7 Colbu escort-street, a e e h t , a i r and Tel with her mie . li E TT , thes and other all and J r : vas not from that, , t ' ' EMBER' 'd of. Mrs. Coo k , , Riots at' se-court, and the Iva with her, and in I4 Incl' m at Lea, since the : 44 ' 'labu s wledge, has quest':' •'on (An( and he said that,. , tg m eth his mother one a n ' ti t e Shori an d asking her 0 I t_ ! and i bt, but his mother, •, b y Lie' dhe believed she t -: :,"Y Lie at night. He also A t ; t h of e Ro rat the time t 4 ' tone % workhouse. - tot Steam • OPia, ear n .......,.,.....„ Q 1 and SSIZES. " 'win "; the , Nov. 28. f ar l? -d for le Home Circuit) ,,,,."ltiasti , y Mr. Justice A f 1 4, 'th out %a u 3N. , , 'ti on l ° ',—it contains fifth q'eto j"'t ire of any extraord i ilt ‘tioa 3: prisoners, only ni"r ' tl e ?leler t write; thirty-6 0 7 CAlte n . ~ fourteen under 1 4 11",„ al o r old ; four of the _ 4 ' et :4.th. wo in August, se7 t , '1 tril k e of )ber, and twenty'''. 144 q Celb ti l 18 e tt. as capitally indict '' , t elling-house of thei l VIC 's, on the night o f ~ • Prof s , ;telling therefroal ' ot a e r th e n 24 silver knives,. . i 'illi ng 69, a B allad-fork, M e w h A blt ie l( ndictment charge:, 'tu n e' aking out of the P' 4 6, 0 y, , n `wat , tt! G le , bution, briefly sta g ! 4 1 ,-,tue :umstances haven '' t s'ateh a , re. The prisoner , te°, or a th e , ac L y e prisoner had . ',,, 01 1 ,71.ren rd Verulam's fanlig,' '. i ll Tleal y br d t r i u ti t s i h k i an a g n u d a i g v e ll. g ; , ' 4ll 4fi e lPo ili i l e ), p , ool e .di l l s e e tdi . l ea against in e ncs : t 7 bt: ' s ~,, I.. lt l i: tu t d h e rn4, f ll : l l, f " l atiy e_k)o i Ne a ,„ Pet let ll. G, lof Guilty. La ', 0 Para DGE stated to hitsr .. to t ' 1r the perpetrat i o ns ipi ti t e te sistent with his p of Med le sentence of the 4, , lul l 7 14 effect ; but he 0 'ili t , 1. 4 .111 a character 0 10 ' 4 oo li 'l IV ti ll f untry. Tract Itl et 4% . , , b , int, )AY.—To-day A l i r t h 1 .4 0 %to ur rig of gentlemen, ' ,' r e I me members oil' '.l ), h t , 2141 radon-roomy Colotr°,l • 7 11 1 4: tome disrus.ion, it yr ' 11 1 tl le l desirable to forth 111 ', 1 / 4 d i n be following objet eltr t ° ! l disc 1 Commons' House °' Nt ts i l4 flat ind effectual repreloote w e ko t ilece rat House. 2. 'l lo ,uo 0 f o l / 4 ty ZI: ongat all classes or v , • o th it, 6 eZei aid direct the pub P ' t f , t4 ethc d legitimate objects, ' a cut c e ei l igth in desultorl a° 0 •0 1 'r e n , ed, unassisted, ae d . d t ree h a eoi hat the society he ° P tail:Alit form Union " A a r e 1 11t1 • .. .ea 1- ' u a .......... 3 vup proposittoP. •r t i t , uty 4 to a , i HS. "Di a ' , 11° ' 1 tall, Hells, theta- , .. re Ji t o , Ab e reet, the Hon. MO' id i :% l litica, tectory, Berke , the' 1.6 th e . , i N s. k n. I ED. ' 3, 1 ,, 1, A ge's, Bloomsburg, PC !e_ '.G Sophia, only clang" - a bi tty zarnuel, second ° l6 el Gr a f t it daughter of 11-." ' l , e ilitc. ot rch, St. Marylebobe;; ll a "tld ' 4 / . 3 14 fr. Le Jeune, of the „ o f h ate ;Manic, eldest tialk 4% •; I tt-stseet, Strand. ridg e 's • D. 1 ki dob 44 I.e.srqi Cornelia , cßua a u r s e, cl Russell , F Islington, e g l tlooi infant , ; rid ;: C 0 77 1, 0 MURDO YOUNO, , v G CA