The Sun. — London, England, 1831-12-03 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The trial of the murderers, Bishop, Williams, and May, concluded last night in the convic tion -of all three. What a fearful picture does it present of the depravity of human nature Vie present is a new era in the history of crime —at least, the crime, if it before existed, was not known to exist : even a word has been intro duced into its nomenclature, which was but a Siort time ago unknown, and which is, as we should hope, doomed to wear out by the extinction of the flagitious offence which it designates. From Burke, the first deteete - d per petrator of the deadly deed, " Burking"—a term meant to express the destruction of a human being by a new method, for the purpose of sel ling the body—has been derived. Men have in all ages committed murders from the incitement of irregular passions,—from hatred, jealousy, envy,—for the sake of obtaining the property of the deceased, or for the purpose of personal se curity of the murderer after the act : but to de stroy the life of a fellow-creature from a calm calculation of the sum which the dead body would produce, is a degree of depravity which it has been left to the present age to con summate, and which we should hardly have conceived possible, had . not the fact b een placed beyond all doubt by legal investigation, and transferred to our legal records. Nay, the most hardened homicides have been generally accustomed to fly from those whom they had de stroyed ; they could not bear to look on the mangled members : an absurd, but perhaps an useful, superstition existed, that the body would bleed afresh if touched by him who had bereaved it of life. But here a close intercourse of the murderer with the murdered commences after life is extinct : he handles the rigid limbs—re commends them to the dissector—" It is a fresh subject : it has never been in the earth !” Oh horror of horrors ! Oh ! frightful degra dation of the human character i 'We do now hope that some rational scheme will be introduced for supplying the anatomical schools with subjects fitted for their purpose upon legal principles, lest scenes such as those we now deplore should again be presented to public notice, and should again disgrace our age and nation. It is, perhaps, not a reproach to us in the first instance, as a people, that we are, throughout all our ranks and gradations, particularly averse to consigning the bodies of those we know to the experiments of the anatomist ; but the consequences of carry ing this repugnance to an extreme de g r ee h ave been most hideous : and let it be recollected, even by the most prejudiced, that dissection does not destroy the body. The parts may afterwards be put together and decently conveyed to the earth, where, when a few years, or even months, shall have passed over them, there will be no difference between them and those bodies which shall have been consigned to decay in the most perfect form.—Times. Every true friend of his country must be more than ever anxious to see an end put to that question which has now agitated all ranks of the community for nearly a whole year, and which, from its exclusive and overwhelming importance, has actually thrust aside all the other important interests of the country ; and if this can be brought about by a mutual yielding on the part of its friends and opponents, we should, on be half of the whole community, hail it as a con summation most devoutly to be wished. That an attempt of this sort has been making during the present short recess cannot be doubted, and we are anxious to know the result. We never were among the number of those who joined in the absurd cry of " the Bill, the whole Bill, and nothing but the Bill." On the contrary, agreeing cordially in its prin ciple, and acquiescing in the greater part of its details, we, from time to time, took occasion ourselves to point out defects, discrepancies, and inconsistencies, which we wished to see cor r,'eted—some of which we succeeded in impres l..ng upon its authors ; and some of the rest we hope to see effected in the new edition of the measure now about to be offered to Parliament. But, whether this be the case or not, we have no hesitation in saying that we would much rather see the measure passed, even in an imperfect state, by compromise, than any longer delayed by conflict. What in the one case may be for the present imperfect, a reformed Parliament will itself remedy; whereas, on the other, if the country is to be continued in a state of ferment such as we have of late experienced, it may soon become a question whether there may remain any Parlia ment to Reform or interests to defend. Most certainly then would we call upon both parties to look to the real state of the question, and, above all, the real situation of their common country seriously in the face, and by a spirit of mutual forbearance and concession, accomplish that which a longer delay may render valueless. In private life we see people not unfrequently contesting so vehemently for property, that they do not open their eyes to the necessity of putting an end to their interminable disputes till the whole that they have been contending for has paned away from both into the fathomless pit of litigation. So it may be in this case with public rights. While contending about shadows the substance may haply disappear. The Anti- Reformers may be fairly divided into two classes—the interested and the honest. From the first no hope can be entertained ; but from the latter every reasonable expectation may be looked to. They may, and do, consider the measure of too sweeping a tendency.; but still, with most of them, their objections resolve, themselves into mere questions of degree; .and, if by humouring the honest prejudices ,, oir,such persons, a sufficient portion of them mar.be de_ tached from the ranks of OppositimOo become either the supporters or silent acquiescers in the measure, it will then be triumphantly carried, and that at a price which; no'-honest Reformer need regret, more especially if its accomplish ment, even in a slightly modified fo rm , ensures the tranquillity of the country, and enables the Government to direct: its attention to those vital interests of the State, both at home and abroad, Which have been too long placed in abeyance by 'this all-absorbing subject.—Moriung Herald. We are glad to find that even the Court of Aldermen have at last had their eyes open to the folly of keeping up a recluse dignity in their pro ceedings, by acting on a spirit of exclusion to wards the Press. If the late contested election for the office of Chief Magistrat e had no other result than to rub off something of the ancient prejudice which the civic senate entertain towards open and public discussion, it would tiot:hve been in vain. It is no small sign of. the spirit of the times that a protracted scene of civic agi tation has terminated in infusing an additional portion of wisdom into the Aldermanic body, and making them prefer, .the light of .day, and, the company of a free Press, to darkness) and closed doors. But let us not be too hard upon the Court ornertnen in this matter. The illumination which has flashed upon their minds within the last few weeks did not penetrate through the darkness in which the intellect of the House of Cot mons was long enveloped, until the celebrated era of the conflict between that popular branch of the Legis lature and the late powerful and intrepid dema gogue John Wilkes. There is still a standing order of that House Which makes even the most accurate reporting of the debates a breach of privilege. A messenger of that !louse having been sent to take the printer of a newspaper into custody, fc,"i' publishing a report - of the de bates, Wilkes, as a city Magistrate, either com mitted the messenger, or held him to ball for an assault. For this he was summoned to appear at the bar of the House, but declined, unless allowed to take his - seat as a Member. A second summons ;;as issued, which met with a similaranswer. A day was then fixed for a motion on the subject ; but as, before the day came, it was ascertained that Wilkes was neither to be persuaded nor intimidated from the original in tention, they adjourned over the da .. 9 ; in.conse quence of which the nutlee of motion fell to the ground, and the question was never brought to issue. The triumph for the Press, however, was practically gained, and from that time, al though the " standing order" continued on the Journals, it was, by connivance at least, sus ' pended, and the '' fourth estate" took its posi tion in the gallery. No public man or public body need fear the Press whose actions will bear the light. In all free countries every question of interest which is debated with closed doors will find its way abroad in some distorted or ex aggerated form. Those who complain of mis representation can only remedy the evil by admit ting the Press, and affording it the facilities by which alone accuracy can be ensured.—Morn zna Herald. The Rev. Dr. L. Carpenter, of Bristol, has communicated to " The Monthly Repository and Review of Theology and General Literature for December," a most instructive account of the riots in that city. We would recommend the perusal of it to Mr. Henry Drummond, and all those who wish the aristocracy to possess po iitical power through the corruption of the poor. We regret that at present our limits will not al low us to insert the whole of this communica tion, which, after all that has been said on the subject of these riots, will amply repay perusal. We see here the consequences of self-election, and of that system of government which enables the rich to plunder their fellow-citizens, on the condition of expending a part of that plunder in corrupting and degrading the instruments through which they are enabled to obtain it. " We have (says Dr. Carpenter) a self-elected Corporation, some of them men of considerable ta lent for their official duties, but the whole indis posed, generally speaking, to promote those pur poses of improvement which the exigencies of the times require; often impeding the efforts of others; :iving in little intercourse with men of general intel ligence ; very few residing within, and some even living remote from, the precincts of the city, whose peace and good order it is their duty to maintain; an the whole, distinct from the people; not possess ing, in their official relations, the confidence even of those who approve their politics; and long mani festing a supineness with respect to the police of the city, which has rendered it incomparably the worst place I have had the power of observing, in respect both to disorder and crime, and to the disgusting profligacy of our principal thoroughfares. 'We have further the anomaly of such a body occasionally se locting for the office of Mayor some one of more en larged and liberal views, but who can scarcely fail to find himself hampered and checked in any endea vour to carry them into effect." The Corporation have by their system en couraged riotous and disorderly conduct ; every election till the last has been disgraced by drunkenness, outrage, and violence ; purse-proud masters have punished their poor workmen when they attempted to vote according to their con science and refused the dirty bribe, by turning them out of work. The pitcher goes many times to the well, but it is at last broken. They who make mobs and outrage a part of their system of Government, must expect at last to have their houses burnt over their heads. When ever we hear of a low and degraded rabble, we know that the rich are neglectful of their dut). When the rich do their duty, the poor are re- Tectful and respectable. The poor never hate the rich, if' the rich do not oppress the poor. It is well to keep this constantly in mind, because there are no effects without their causes. But let us hear Dr. Carpenter a little farther : " On all questions calculated to oppose popular feeling, Bristol has usually manifested much turbu lence of disposition. Till the last election there ,vas usually not only disgraceful drunkenness, but outrage and violence—rarely, however, carried to any great degree of personal injury. At the com mencement of the memorable 1829 our senior Al derman, Mr. Daniel, a man of undoubted talent and official ability, took the Chair in Queen-square; and all the parishes sent their processions, with Clergy rat their head, to unite in opposing the claims of the Catholics. From fifteen to twenty thousand per ' sons were present, and the advocates for liberal measures were not listened to, notwithstanding the efforts of the Chairman. The issue was the break ing of the windows of the Catholic Chapel, and the destruction of the Pro-Catholic petition, placed in the public Exchange, •and under the protection of !he Mayrn's officers. Indeed, at that period the liberal Mayor was the object of popular insult, and • Sir Charles Wetherell's 'bitterness against the Re lief Bill made him the idol of the populace, and enabled him to be the .protector of the Chief Ma gistrate: • Since that. time the sentiments of men have much changed; and the mere. mob has been kept in check by the people. For the honour of Bristol _I must say, that I know nothing more noble in the history of the last general elec tion, than the calm,:determined, and self-controuled spir - t of the Reformers. I was only a looker-on.; for my assistance was not needed. Within a week from the dissolution of Parliament, the Anti-Reform Members had retired, and on the Saturday follow ing that when the news of the dissolution arrived, the two Reform Members were returned. The whole expenees of the preceding election were esti• mated at not short of . 30,0001. This time, on the pact of Mr. Protheroe, up to the day of election, they had not amounted to 2001. There was no open house ; no drunkenness or disorder in the streets. On the day of chairing I saw a crowd of not fewer than ten thousand persons awaiting for an lour the completion of the arrangements for the pro cession without a single peace-officer among them— without a stick raised by any one, dividing with readiness for the procession which they seemed to feel their own, and all who shared in which incurred their own expences; and what was still more, in the evening illuminations, after the excitement of the day, maintaining the greatest order, and not induced by the darkness of the Anti-Reform party, to com mit a single outrage. Even when the hopes of the people. were bitterly disappointed by the recent de cision of the House of Lords, there was no tumult; and the public meetings which were immediately held in Queen-square were marked by perfect order." We know that many of the Aristocracy flatter themselves with the notion that they will,be able to perpeiVite the system which tends to pamper one portion of the nation, till they become drunk with insolence at the expense of the brutalization of the other. That systein has received its death-blow. Never, never more will the Eng ish people consent to wear the chains which hey have begun to break: Do not let them magine that, in defeating the Ministry of Earl Grey, they will be able to stave off Reform. They may, by their intrigues and by delaying Reform, produce distren, and disturbance, and confusion ; they may convert the most patient, we had almost said too patient, people of England into vindictive revolutionists ; but they will never, never make them the pas sive slaves of the Aristocracy. w e have been told again and again, till the tale nauseates, that the system works well. Can a system be said to work well that has everywhere arrayed the poor against the rich—that has covered the surface of England with incendiarism, that has destroyed the charities of life, and estranged man from his fellows ? One trait mentioned by Dr. Carpenter speaks volumes to those who are open to in struction as to the working of the corrupt sys tem. " I went thence (from Princes-street) t o the Bishop's Palace, and found two or three young special constables keeping the ground, and a few persons (gradually increasing in num ber), who appeared principally influenced by curiosity. One woman, however, told me, that she wished she could find an old Bible for her son ; my head was full, and I did not tell her that the Bible would not, by the finding it, have been her's. The young men wished the ground to be cleared, and I spoke to a decently dressed workman who was furthest from the gate, telling him that I thought we should all do well to leave the place. As we were walking away, speaking of the vast devastation, he said, you all conspire to oppress the poor.' I told him I never had, knowingly, done a poor man any injury. All of you (he added) that are in trade ;' I replied, that I believed him quite in the wrong there too. He went on a little more, and concluded by telling me, that he Ltd himself been turned out of work because he would not vote as his master wished. It has been more common here for men to submit to the degradation of voting, against their judg ments, at their master's command ; but by both system the bonds which should unite the rich and time poor have been weakened. The fact seemed to me deserving to be recorded." This purse proud tradesman was, in his way, a Duke of New • castle. May not a man do what he will with his own ? And what is the consequence of at tempting to uphold laws founded on injustice ? The bonds of law are dissolved, and the poor retaliate on the rich, by violence, for the indigni ties they have suffered. Injustice always pro duces re-action. At the breaking out of the revolution, the French peasantry paid back to the Noblesse, with interest, the indignities they had borne from them. May the Aristocracy of Eng land take these things seriously to heart. The cup of oppression is full—if it run over, woe to them.—Morning Chronicle. The three wretches concerned in the murder of the poor Italian boy have been found guilty, and are ordered for execution on Monday next. Who knows how many other poor creatures have been destroyed by them ! The evidence as to one other case seems complete. If rich people were liable to be Burked, the wants o anatomical science would have been provided for long ago, without affording an incentive to murder. Had the child of a Lord been one of the ♦ictims of Burke, at Edinburgh, all other Lords would have taken the alarm, and an Act of Parliament would have soon followed. But it is difficult, if not impossible, to carry off the children of Lords, and easy to deprive the poor of their children ; and, therefore, Lords, knowing of course that the subjects must be pro vided, that the difficulty of procuring causes high prices,and high prices tempts the worthless men em ployed to procure them by murder— which is easier and safer than disinterment—instead of providing against this monstrous evil, endeavoured to in flame the prejudices of the poor. It is affirmed by physiologists, that life may be destroyed so as to leave no trace of the act. Anatomists may be able to detect murder when violence has been used, as in the case of the Italian boy ; but when no violence has been used, how can they tell that the subject has been unfairly ob tained? There is no difficulty in obtaining subjects in France—none in Germane—none in Italy—and there need be n►o difficulty in Eng land. Let the bodies of those who die in workhouses and hospitals, whose relations do not claim them for burial, be made available for the purposes of anatomy. To this remedy we must come, or the schools of the anatomists must be closed, or Burking will be continued. So long as ten guineas can be obtained, with less danger by Burking than by burglary, Burking will be preferred by the criminal.-111orning Chronicle. The temperate, we ought almost to say the frank and willing manner, in which the Political Unions now subsisting throughout the country have submitted to the order of the Royal Pro clamation, cannot be too highly praised. It is the best proof of the good sense and good feel ing which pervade the public mind, and the best evidence that not only is it a primary object with them to cause the public peace to be preserved, but that no attempt on the part of the Tories to cause a division among them will be successful. In noticing, however, the submission of the Po litical Unions to the Royal Proclamation, or in observing that these Unions, temperate, praise. worthy, and most laudable as they are, in ordinary times inconsistent with, and sub versive of the spirit of national Govern ment, it is not to be understood that we do not consider them to be both useful and necessary "at the present junctur e . Th e y are i n d ee d new t o the country and to the Constitution ; but necessity has called them forth, and while the necessity exists, they will and must exist also. Let that necessity be done away with, and no Political Union will be found in the land ; for English ' men are neither fond of violent changes, nor ha bituated to the adoption of new modes of action for the attainment of their objects : and when they have gained their objects they will gladly re turn to that domestic quiet, and those general habits of attention to their immediate affairs which are so characteristic of them. To those, however, who have either shrunk from joining Political Unions, or who conceive them to be dangerous to the public tranquillity, we beg to submit an extract from a pamphlet just published by Effingham Wil s on, on the advantages of Political Unions, which will go far to root out al ly prejudices which may possibly exist res pecting them. Every one knows that in 1790 certain secret societies were established in many of the chief towns in England, and also in Scotland and Ireland. The leader's of these societies were men of considerable talent; and being enamoured of the doctrines of equality, which the heroes of the French Revolu tion promulgated, they sought to transplant them into this country. Although the times were then gloomy enough, for at that period Mr. Pitt ruled both Houses of Parliament, and the nation itself, with a rod of iron, yet the societies did not long survive the punishment of some of their leaderS. Their rapid oblivion is easily accounted for. The plans of their leaders were vague and aimless ; and were irreconcileahle with the selfish interests of the community. The war mania had seized all classes of the people; the immense loans, contracted by the Government to reimpose the paternal sway of the Bout bons in France, caused a lavish expenditure of the public money; while the paper current; raised rents, wages, and profits of every description, to an exaggerated value. The people, therefore, preferred the realities of their situation to the ideal doctrine of Agrarianism. To the same cause we may attribute the decline and fall of other associa tions, which some sanguine spirits attempted to establish upon the embers of temporary discontent. " This apathy continued two years after the liber ticide war, when Mr. Pitt's splendid bubbles burst into thin air, and left in their room an enormous and overgrown taxation. The people then saw too clearly the iniquities of the system which had pro duced an appiuent plethora of wealth ; and its effects were not slow in realising themselves. The profits of every species of manufacture were diminished by at least one-half, and wages fell in an equal or a greater proportion. The markets were overstocked with goods, and the carrying -trade, of which we had enjoyed a monopoly during the war, was nearly cut up. This unexpected change in public affairs was felt with peculiar poignancy by the productive classes, who had basked ia the sunny hour of pros perity without ever dreaming of its being-overclouded, The consequence was, that there immediately occur red some painful ebullitions of popular violence. The Government,which had lost the support of public opi nion, saw revolution branded on the brow of every dis contented man ; but in their terror, they had recourse to the most arbitrary and oppressive measures. The Ha beas Corpus Act was suspended ; the Six Acts dis graced the statute book ; the armed force of the kingdom was increased; and landlords, cotton lords, and ship-lords, with the whole host of re iainers of Government, and pensioners, and sine curists, called out for the gag and the bayonet. But in spite of all the mad attempt of the Government, the spirit of outrage died away; and the onlylegacy it left was the brutal Manchester massacre. " From the suppression of these riots, we may date the origin of the modern Political Unions. That immense mass of people whose means of sub sistence were nearly absorbed by taxation, or whose industry could. find no field for its display, conceived the plan of uniting together for their mutual pro tection against the arbitrary career of the Govern !nem. Hence arose the " Reform Associations," the main object of which was to denounce the rt - - presentative system, through which the Minister of he day secured large majorities in favour of what ever measure he proposed, however loudly it might be decried by public opinion. The object was, in every respect, laudable and praiseworthy; but the result was not equal to the design. At first, the public meetings of the associations were well at ended ; but as the stock of arguments was ex hausted, the novelty wore off. Many of the Re !Ormers themselves sickened over the task of waging a hopeless warfare with firmly-rooted corruption, and as they saw no chance of bettering their condi tion, by assaiiirg Parliament with their complaints, they gave up the project in despair. " But although the Reform Associations fell into disrepute, and ultimately went to pieces, they did not exist in vain. The bold tone that had been as sumed by their members,—the manifestoes which they issued—the catalogues of abuses which they drew up—kept public attention in some degree alive to the question, and thus prepared the way for a more extended organization of the productive classes. The Reform Associations were, in fact, the pioneers to the Political Unions ; but between the two species of combinations there is the most marked dissimilarity. _ . . . . " The Reform Associations were limited in point lo the number of their members: and their grand prin ciple was to secure to every tax-payer his constitu• dorml right of voting for his representative. The sociators demanded univeral suffrage, annual Puha mews, and vote by ballot ; and they declared they would never be satisfied with less. Now, however earnestly this Radical Reform was to be desired, yet in the peculiar temper of the nation—in the distracted state of public opinion—and still more, in the strenuous opposition of the then existing Government to every, even the most modified plan of Reform, the most sanguine associator could scarcely have dreamt of having his favourite theories realised. In plying for disciples, therefore, he was obliged to confess the fearful odds against which he was contend ing, and the very dubious prospect of directing public opinion towards his views with a steady sin gleness of aim. Now, the Political Unions, so far from encumbering their operations with an unwieldly and at present impracticable, question, at once ad dress themselves to the business and bosom' of every Englishman. Their principle is this, that union can either mitigate or remove a certain num ber of acknowledged grievances, which are felt by that immense class in the community who are in vited to enter into this political combination."-- Morning Advertiser. According to a statistical table for the Depart ment of the Seine, the expenses of the education of children of all classes amounts to the annual sum of 31,285,000 francs. Towards the close of the llth century there were no more than sixty teachers in Paris ; forty for boys and twenty for girls ; awl it is not more than 40 years ago that the number of persons in all France who were able to read was not estimated at more than 7,000,000. At the pre sent day they may he estimated at upwards of 16,000,000. In 1779 four reading rooms were sufficient for the wants of the whole capital : now there are about 1,000. Lord Chancellor BROUGUAM, in a work of his, previous to his elevation, states upon positive evidence that, between the years 1818 and 1828, the schools in England had in creased in the proportion of from 10 to 21—that is, more than double. CHURCHES IN THE HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND.—The Commissioners have pub lished their sixth report. With an expenditure of 50,0001., granted far the purpose of the Highland Church Act, aided by the interest of Exchequer Bills, in which it was invested, thirty-two churches with manses, mie church without a manse, and ten manses, have been built under the superintendence of the Commissioners; the manses having well-fenced gardens attached to most of them The statutable quantity of ground (not less than half a Scottish acre) has every where been secured. Of the new erections, there are not less than fourteen in the county of Argyle, nine in Ross and Cromarty, and six in Inverness. The church of Lochgilphead cost 2,5001., and the manse of Kilmeny the same sum ; the cost of the others varies down to 4001.—that of Ardgour, in Argyle. Thirty of the churches are made to hold galleries, erected at the expense of the heritors ; and the churches in the aggregate will he capable of containing 20,000 persons when galleries shall have been erected in all those of the first class. The entire population of the districts attached to the forty-three churches is estimated at 48,000, of which number one-third are at present well accommodated, and this will be at an expense to the public not exceeding 141. for each person. - - A woman has been taken up at Landivisiau (Finisterre) for killing a child only three years and a half old, the daughter of her husband, and afterwards boiling the body in a copper, in order to destroy the proof of her barbarity !—French Paper. --- - ISLANDS OP THE PACIFIC.--Mr. STEWART'S account of bis visit to the South Seas, just published, graphically exhibits to us the strange manners and cus toms of the natives of these happy islands. The author, indeed, possessed peculiar facilities of obtaining informa tion, being held in great estimation by the KING and QUEEN of the Sandwich Islands, and by the various Chiefs. The high tone of moral feeling which pervades this work, and the keen observation of its very clever writer, his taste moreover in describing the sublime sce nery by which he was surrounded, will render the narra tive of his visit to the South Seas partieuhrly acceptable All who have perused the narratives of Co,,K, VANCOU vest, KOTZEBUR, and BEECIIEY, will find this work ne cessary to a due appreciation of the teal character and habits of these interesting people. NATIONAL POLITICAL UNION. A meeting of this institution was convened on Thursday, about eight in the evening, at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, to take into consideration the rules and regulations which the Council had pre pared and recommended for the future guidance of the Association. THOMAS MURPHY, Esq. pre sided, and addressed the assembly at some length with reference to the object for which they were met together. After earnestly requesting a patient attention to every gentleman who might wish to express his opinions, however different from their own, he referred to the recent proclamation relative to political societies as in no way affecting or apply ing to the body by which he was then surrounded, its in fact it merely embodied the same declarations which the Council had previously made known ihrough a work not long since published under their auspices, and emanating directly from them selves. He further mentioned that the Union would always meet hereafter in Sans Souci, Leicester square, and also that members would all be ad mitted to witness the proceedings of the Council, in order that by witnessing the public conduct of each member, they might be enabled to judge who were really best qualified to represent them. A trifling increase of subscription (only a penny a head) would become necessary to meet the addi tional expense which would be incurred in conse quence of the arrangement thus proposed for adop tion.—(Cheers.) Mr. DETROSIER (the Secretary), then read a long address from the Council, expreSsive of their senti ments as to the course of conduct which the Society should henceforward pursue with a view to the fur therance of the great cause of Reform, mnd likewise a series of rules connected with internal economy, which were received with applause, and eventually adopted without excision or alteration of any kind whatever. Mr. DE SANTOS came forward with an amend ment in favour of " Radical Reform," which occa sioned an immensity of uproar. After some half dozen speeches to order, it was ultimately rejected by an enormous majority, at the recommendation of Colonel Jones. Major REVELL moved the first resolution, com mendatory of the promptitude and prudence of Mi nisters in re-assembling Parliament before Christ mas, for the purpose of accelerating the success of the new Reform Bill. After noticing the general de pression of the commercial world during the present protracted and anxious interval of suspense, as a pressing reason for urging upon the Legislature an immediate settlement of the important question which had so long agitated the public mind, he ex pressed his conviction that the Anti-Reform Peer age would only yield when they found it was impos sible any longer to resist. The Rev. Dr. WADE (of Warwickshire), the i3econder, avowed himself a warm advocate of Re form in Church, Law, and State ; but trusted that the Right Rev. Prelates would eventually accede to the general call which had . been so earnestly made upon them by the great body of their fellow-coun trymen. This was merely the gist of an intelligent speech, which our limits will not admit of our in serting. The resolution was carried. Mr. SuFAL, M.P., then presented himself to move a resolution, recommending the adoption of ener getic measures for carrying the new Bill,and was re ceived with much enthusiasm. The Hon. Gentle man commenced by congratulating the meeting on their rejection of the amendment which a former speaker had attempted to introduce, as it proved that they confided in the discretion of the members of the Council, in whom they had confided the ar rangement of their proceedings. He strongly incul cated the expediency of obedience to the laws, and abstinence from all acts that could lead to a violation of the public peace, as it was on the Legislature only that Political Unions ceuld hope successfully to ope rate. Those who sought for more than the Bill, as well as those, who, like him, approved of it, ought to support it with all their energies ; for were the pre sent Ministers to be displaced, a renewal of Tory domination would be the necessary consequence. In conclusion, the Learned Gentleman took an elo quent review of the labours of Irish Catholics for the attainment of the Relief Bill, and recommended English Mormers to imitate their example. Mr. HAYNEs (of the Birmingham Political Union) seconded the resolution, described the prosperity of the Birmingham Union, animadverted on the Church, and advised a careful forbearance from outrage and turbulence of every kind that could endanger the tranquillity of the country. A Mr. GRADY, by attempting and persisting in his attempt to speak against the sense of the meet ing, here caused an interruption of more than an hour, but was at last, with considerable difficulty, prevailed upon to hold his peace. The resolution was then carried, as was also an other, declaratory of obedience to the laws, having been moved by Mr. Fox (a clergyman), and se conded by Mr. PERRY. Alit. Fox Sstrru was then appointed treasurer, and the meeting separated at a quarter to twelve. UNITED SERVICE CLUB.—FiVC members of the Junior Service Club, who conceive themselves to be individually satirised in the new Naval Story of Ca vendish," have, we understand, undertakeis to discover the author within one ,eek, and to bring him to personal ac count. In pursuit of this object numerous inquiries have been made at the publishers', who, however, are said to he themselves ignorant of the authorship. It were almost profane to encourage a feeling allied to wit, on a topic of this painful nature; yet, giving it a political turn, we can scarcely help thinking, that, had the late Edinburgh murders never been heard of, we might have found a better name for this new species of critre in that of its present chief perpetrator "13xstio?," than we formerly found in that of BURKE. To say that such a one was " Bishoped," would have been much more full of meaning than to say that he was " Burked."— Glasgow Free Press. On Wednesday the workmen commenced t Acing down the old brick wall which separates Bucking ham Gardens from the Green Park, preparatory to the projected improvements at the top of Constitution-hill. The new wall will take in the space between the old one and the present road, and is to be cased with stone, similar to that which was erected last year opposite to St. George's Hospital. There is to be a new entrance into the Royal Gardens at the lower end of Grosvenor-place, to be called Clarence Gate, and intended as a private en trance for the Royal Family from the great western road. Some of the colliers in this district have, we regret to state, assembled in tumultuous bodies for the purpose of preventing those who were willing to work from doing so, and have also resorted to other disorderly proceedings. The remonstrances of the masters have been answered by volleys of stones, and their endeavours yester day to persuade the men to disperse were unavailing. Their object is, we believe, to obtain an advance of wages ; but, whatever may be their grievances, we trust they will have the prudence to refrain from acts which, experience has so frequently proved, bring their own punishment, and seek redress by those means only which can be ef fectual.— Wolverhampton Chronicle. Earl BROWNLOW continues in personal com mand of the South Lincoln Regiment of Militia, at Stam ford. The advancement of the men in military attain ments is creditable to all parties ; and we regret to learn that there should have been occasion for two Courts martial this week. These were held at the house of Capt. SMITH, on two men named CHAMBERS and PHIL mos, of Stamford and S'. Martin's,—the one for being out of quarters after ten o'clock at night, for which he was sentenced to 21 days' confinement to hard labour in gaol,—the other, for absenting himself from drill, for which he is to be imprisoned 1 , 1 days. It is thought that there has been some party spirit displayed, which has made the men rather noisy and uncivil : the real offence of CHAMBERS is by some supposed to have been his at tending the Blue " free and easy" club on Monday night : under the excitement of company there, he did not, it seems, regard the tattoo, or night-call to quarters. Alto gether, it is considered tat as much good as can result front this year's assembling of the regiment has already been secured, and we u nderstand that the men will be dis missed on Monday next, which will complete 21 days' training : they had been originally called out for 28 (lays. he contractors for provisions were yesterday made ac quainted with the alteration as to time. Stamford News. (/ '111.1.t MARRIED. On the Ist inst. at Islington Mr. C. Strachan, Of e h li g acre, to Sarah, youngest daughter of John Gostling , "' - I'urnham-green. On the Ist inst. Mr. G. W. lladley, of GracechurchA tree' Miss Jane Saville, of Holborn-bridge. DIED. tct i ' On the 29th ult. after ashort illness, and much regre t Liam Leigh, of London, third son of the late Charles of Craddock Villa a , Craddock, Devon. . 15 1 On the Ist inst. t - Stratford, Mary Ann, widow of t he Kilner, Esq. aged 78. On ie Ist inst. in Sw, Cille-row, much lamented, I. Esq., aged 67. of° On the 2d inst. John Dixon, Esq. late of the firm - and Wire, St. Swithin's-lane. PRINTED AND PUBI.I3IIEO BY AIURDO YOUNG. h SUN 0 FIUR, 112, STRAND. LONDON. ( :z met} ` efl • Th — re 1;8 `• Ti tR I ry Sex. M ay h 72, Graf 9 ' Cah oi Duffield te n h am - , 4411 )r id 1 .44 41 a • j Platt n hald o t t b c'wdin i PriCeJ I EO f . not I lße l ts I t I F , FIRES IN THE COUNTRY. The country Papers which have reached tt . yesterday bring, we regret to perceive, statement FACT Tham fo e r s, tl incendiary fires in nearly all directions throughout from CUX country. Among those noticed we find that SLUTS, twic fordshire is the theatre of the largest . number. ' General Te Bedford Chronicle remarks " As the county of , t il l " , than 80 was last winter, it appears Bedfordshire is this. ' s o : would also appear that as in Kent at the tinl e are c o n feired to, suspicions, and apparently with softie' . o ffi ce " ma y b ( reason, are entertained that these tires have beer or s to be seal 4 Power of th work of strangers, two persons having been about the time of the fires at Lewsey farm last o' near the premises, making inquiry about them, "Pectiv e Ports under other circumstances of strong suspicion. Twelve o'cloc ' can hardly credit the statement in the local 10 - I that the fir(-;faces have not an engine in the w; n of Bedfordshire. The fires which we find not' "I I post-offs are at- A L EXCH Tottenhoe, Bedfordshire, where the whole of Z ei t ,YAL El farm buildings, and part of the house of Mr. G tiE o COUi Fossey, were burned. Kempston, same county, a large rick of hay, !, T 2 a hovel, the property of Mr. Robert Newland• t'ffr'oem., that Stump-cross, Yorkshire, on Saturday nigh b4l- , the H lot l stack of hay belonging to Mr. Samuel Black AL - GENERA the constable of Morley. 5e e f t ptendare ' holden at Colney, Lincolnshire, a barn full of unthre. tba xsoAr, t barley, and a bullock shed, the property of ' i l d t la the For Postle, on Friday night. te ed of at tl ce Die Great Bircham, near Dorking, a barley stack, tii produce of forty acres of land, belonging to ,1 1. 41, Will he Kitton, was burned on Wednesday last, about o'clock in the evening. The landlord is the M" r q• , God., of Cholmondeley. t ' °l' While bi Spalding, on Monday night, a hay-stack a 4140 f or the At rear of Mr. Bonner 's house, in High-street, consumed. Whapload, Lincolnshire, a workshop of Me ., b tN TAL 2 Astnidge and Black, carpenters ; the origin of fire only supposed to be wilful. tu il. M AR Ash, Kent, ten quarters of wheat saved from b, t u t boner recent fire at Ealing, the property of Mr. Que s ' , t may- be co origin of the fire doubtful. Pper Chariot Ifartlip, same county, a wheat stack, the pra'„ PP , I Y NATUF of Mr. IL Goord, fired; trains had been laid ft ' , - : (41 . principt it to several other stacks in the yard, but forto l4 tr:::Atee, R did not take fire. . La g, &cc. of t 4 le ter An alarming fire broke out about one °Yor e li se.,___&2 9_ -__ t tn ; , ,fssional Thursday morning at Messrs. William Rayn e tIIAL SU( Co.'s woollen manufactory, at Longfords,Glone . eotI) TEE , shire, and the flames at one time threatened the It i t 4IIO DIBL st- ‘';--PbANEI'.. struction of nearly the whole of those vet) , exit'' s ( .l :: ,,o wit o i t io h t e i r t premises, but by the great exertions of the 0 , Ilii:e ' ylt.i i N ives S tfr i oe E rsuip l e, toots of the neighbourhood, and the assistance 01 ,,, RE , 50n Dc fire-engines, one of which was stationed on the i te libi 1, DLO miser, the fire was fortunately confined to theV rp '''Patrons ing in which it commenced. We are happy t ° it is ascerta'ned to be quite accidental. The kh e l ° genert :vises are insured. Afire was discovered on Thursday, the 24,111 t,'ti TEEI i c n o u ve g n ro ey u , nd nea b r el E or l r y g , in s g itt t i o at iN e l i r n . BnyudlldaFl Fen. Th e tellitt of Load perry fired was a stack of hay and some loose 1‘ '4 44 ti or p The supposed perpetrators are discovered, and 4 0 , 1 i, in ame mitted to Ely gaol for further examination. le i;,E Or PA names of the prisoners are Thomas Crate, • , "CORRI elder, Thomas Clifton the younger, and John M e , answer the younger, all labourers residing at Covell e t eg. Cambridge Chronicle. , T he Facult y i v a On Wedesday evening the 23d ult., a sul c4 ll reetilt f oats, the pro n pt rty of Mr. Robert Johnson, of so°ll ;" 11 . One o o i near Wragby, was totally consumed by fire. a Period, on injury is attributed to an incendiary.-Sh y ,i 421, Clemen, were 4146 4- boun , Mercury. i 4)1, sad ~ On Friday night last afire broke out at Mr.TV D 46 ' 1 . Master's farm, Shernborn, near Lynn, whe {e ' is Worth b rim, six lasts of barley, a straw stack, two Nvoli 11 % d ity WasG U and harness, thrashing machine, dressing mac e qui tna, r u with sundry other utensils, and six horses, srroyed. Many persons assisted, but little coo l e ti E c saved. Mr. Masters has no suspicion of the P 1 • trators of this horrid deed, his labourers heial, ti, ( 1:)f --e That ;It well paid and contented.--Cambridge Chroniek'' , i„ - r(1, T he reade LONDON MARKETS. - - , St a n d to _ ' 4 °r t • ri i wo dil PRICE OF SUGAR. tt et 411 '}' Colbu , o it The average price of Brown or M uscova d o S ugar , cooli.,_li, from the Returns made in the week ending Nov. 29, is -• ----- per cwt., exclusive of the duties of customs p a id or payable ' T R on the importation thereof into Great Britain. o r) ~,,, E Alt tue d a , PRICES OF HO PS.-DcC.2. /D T % - ,..., - ,. Kent Pockets 4l 15s. 51. 18,.•tes ';',' ■ ''''' 'AAA SUESCX Ditto • F,,cx Ditto, . „....... 41. 15s. Si. Its. to l'' ff ALL N 0 Farnham Ditto. Fine 9l. Os, 12./. Os. to °.. 1 Ad, l AA'S, .......-- Seconds .--... 0/. Os. 71. Oa to ti' 1, ,,..". e ,' , and i r , Kent Bags.... ........ 31. 15s. 51. 15s. to :. 1 (• *. 4 the m uR Sussex Ditto Essex Ditto...-. 4/. 4s 51. Os. to e" th -st c , R • Duty laid at 174,5641. At "ti c ' ' _..., t. kesources PRICE OF OIL. 0 1 t'f th ' Eml It ye Oil, brown -..-321. Gs. .....-....., Retried ........- i't 1 e t.., 1 t. 44 Italian Linseed Oil Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, pct thousand ....--........ l i 4ett tal SU Rape Cake, per ton - !..- PRICES OF LEATHER. c iA, S o l d Au Per lb. d. to d. Per lb. V tli, by E darts 50 to t - A1b..... 15 19 Tanned Horse Hides.. it Iv . p h i 1)1tt0.........-60 to (Itilb... 16 21 Spanish Ditto ---........ ' q4l, r t, pall Dressing Hu1e5........-.... 13; 15 Per dozen, 0 i gf , ie rn. Fine Coach Hides --. i 6 18 Calf Skins... 36 to 40iti. I ' Crop Hides, 35 to 40Ih. 13 14j Ditto ...-. 50 to 71)11). T e DVI Ditto ---40 to 4511) 14 151 Ditto --.,-..70 to 801 b. ! , di C Ditto- l5 161 Small Seals. Grcenlati/, d,,, t() p rofes, WHITECH APEL HAY Si AR K ET.-Dec. r;,,,,,A1v 141. the n Hay -............. 50s. Od. to 755. Od. I Clover-- 635. 0.1. to i. - I tie erect Straw*. 245. Od. to 34f. Od. ' , .. 4 the h PRICE OF POTATOES.-Dec. 2. .„s 4, Nits ri. Ware............... 2/. ss. to 31. Os. per i'"' ~ 1114 • k.,‘ Kidneys ..- 01. Os. to 31. Os. ditto. ;kw. e the I Scotch Reds --....- 0/. Os. to 31. Os. ditlfY 1 41 . c titudy, ear• a / tit 410 ta PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, &c. per 11 • 6,..f re, ent Town Tallow -.505. Od. Yellow 50ap.................... , •0rt 4 4 and Gds Yellow Russia 445. Od Mottled .........--..........'e5i t„ effi, t White . 425. Od. White-..-.-...........,.. it ! Sto ,„ c ual " Soap Ditto 42s. Od. Graves .........--........, y. qi. 15 L /8,, it eetial Melted Stuff :3 6 ,:. Od. Good Graves .-----' /e ° m ates " Ditto Rough---..... 245. Od. ' C c! b y a ~, 4, the v RAW HIDES. i to; 1 ,. .orb a __ , Per Stone. 8. 4. to s. d. Per Stone. s. I ci . . '4 O , ~ uell , Best Heifers& Steers 2 8 3 0 I Ordinary ................... 1 ', i e I llt e ' "HIM Sliddlings.----.....-..2 2 2 6 Market Ca1f....-....... 6 ' ki. lit i,, 1 C'tAL MARKET.-Dee. 2. ' l e of " I P ( #l. kei t - debili , Adair's ...........-..-......-.. 30s. Od Walls End Newmarch.. 0 .... , I. i h earieful Bensham Main Ditto Peareth.......----• 0 I t leil t e Ilebburn Main -30 6 Walls End Walker.-•-• 96 NI the pc Elolywell, 29 6 Bell's Primrose ............. I Ili ail edu Killiogworth --.-.... 31 0 Lambton Primsose.... , . Of t ) a t , . d 8 • Shipcote ------.-. 27 0 Walls End Hetton ...... `5l i at e , Pe l'antield T0wn1ey..........---_._. 28 6 Walls End Lambton..... : 4 •L e ; tile parti 1 Wdlington 3l 0 W. E. Russell's Hetton Iby _ Wylam .28 9 Walls End Stewart's ~ , ttt l / 4 , a rni, Waits End Brown's-. 30 0 W. E. Stewart's (Sea' 1 4 i th e bed t o ' Wall- End Callerton ..... 27 3 ham) ..... 01 , t4 ely" . Walls End Carr and Co. 29 0 Cswpen . ^-" . 1 „7 4 14,;, t ,' • Walls End Gosforth - 33 0 Hartley-----...-... , .. 0 1 Nt t - "awe ` Walls End Ileaton- 33 0 Walls End Tees-.....- , al i It 4 of t„,,, r walls End Hilda -- 30 6 Greenwich Hospital...,:il ( N ik i s " `'' Walls End Hotspur- 31 0 Stobart's small-.....-. tr),,,, i fro Ditto Northumberland 31 0 5 .,!;' t4l nC e ani _ships at market, 83%--Ships sold. 48-Unsold, , .. Nlv otir. • ____ A tle,,, . _ ' 1 11, i " Rae - COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE 4 4 N I t • j/ tti, ilt Wheat. I Barley. 1 Oats:. _.... , p5ll ' With Per Quarter. -- - ..- ••••--„ • i y I v _ Ashburn...-.......' 62 72 34 40 26 31 4 ,'' ,' Th - ' 9 ll ' Basingstoke ........«.. 56 75 30 40 22 28 r n . 0 IL, e coc a ' • Bath ... 46 67 30 42 26 32 ." ' '"" 1 b es Pla• ' Y 5 , Bridgewater -...... 58 72 26 30 22 2 6 7 • 1 41% L l Bristol ---............ 62 36 42 18 24 •,'",, j heti uOl 3 Chesterfield --.... 64 70 - - 32 - ','A els '' t the Derby .- .. 66 70 45 46 25 29 n ' o - i.. t ;a n : Devizes --...-,-. 66 70 29 40 21 29 ,'"., i ' l ll4 -`• 1 • Doncaster .... 57 68 26 42 28 29 /St- " du ; Dorchester-. 52 64 36 42 22 23 33 I t t're cues 1 Exeter ... 60 '7O 31 40 - - 6 i. ,eared Gloticester--...... 48 68 26 45 20 28 „„:, r ue tr , e Hungerford -..... 60 74 33 40 24 84 .- ~I tt y 4 nOw, , Leicester ~ - 75 - 44 i - 29 --;‘, „, eat y Newbury........,.,,,.,, 40 70 28 40 120 34 '''' jI -1 bott, Yea. ' - Hornsey ....,-...._. 56 64 32 40 ,24 29 ''' p lin o , .. sex Shaftesbury - 56 - 37 1 - 27 '''' or , 41 be i '' Meth Shepton Mallet ... 55 CA ai 43 i 22 28 f, / 1 th0,,, - Sherborne (70 66 36 42 120 28 D , ..„, i advi ce' ,, eff - Taunton 58 72 , - 35 !20 :)., Yeovil --. 56 64 134 40 i2O 26 34 4 , ' . l , Tob e Per Bushel. s. d. s. d.l s. d. s.d.l s. d. S. ct. ly 'eet t , t , c 3 Shrewsbury 8 0 891 5 6 601 5 0 6 0 ° / te n , ,Yi de -----' il i singt4ll f r , BIRHS. r - On the 2d inst. in Tonbridge T -place, the lady of CaP lO t *EI eil d of „of ~ Beach ' of a son. ' On the 30th ult. at Babraham, Cambridgeshire, the law 0 , e J. Adeane, Esq., SI.P. of a daughter. m it No. a On the Ist inst. the lady of H. Merceron, Esq., of ...- T green, of a daughter. • .1 .1 1 . Th.