The Sun. — London, England, 1831-05-05 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Elsewhere, in the Times of this day, will be found a report of the Harwich election, which took place last Saturday, and of which the whole proceedings may be comprised in the speeches of those worthy gentlemen Messrs. Herries and Dawson, w orthy of each other, and of that free, and independent, and virtuous borough whose representatives we must, pro formes, consider them, according to the blessed principle of representation which at present prevails in England. The electors, by whom was conferred upon this pair of Right lion. ex-Clerks of the Trea sury, the power of making laws for the whole people of England, were in number just 16 ! So that,. when the Right Hon. Mr. Dawson assured ha hearers that he would go into Parliament a perfectly " independent man," we are afraid that there was a little lurking sarcasm in the expression; as if Mr, Dawson meant to convey, that he would be altoge ther unencumbered by that troublesome thing a eon . stituency. It is a pretty good joke of the same Mr. Dawson to talk of the whole series of co n d uct pursued by the present Ministers being " one continued trick to keep themselves in dace." This from the fag—the born tool of a f act i on, which had contrived to hold orrice for fifty years by one unvaried course of coercion practised upon the will of the people, by every conceivable " trick" and shuffle, for monopolising all the powers and patronage of the State,---for ext en di ng t h e pa tronage, that the enjoyment of it might be the more m valuable,—for excluding every m an i n E ng l an d f ro the least shadow of official influence at whose hands the remotest risk of resistance to the established pos soi es of the party of trading Tories might be appre hended. Yt t Mr. George Dawson, the fag-end of that Fame faction—a sort of second-rate Beresford by birth—a sort of subordinate Peel by allianre— a true epitome and personificatien of whatever is most office loving, most people-hating, and incor rigible in the worst of the two races, from one of which he springs as he merges in the other,—this Mr. Dawson presumes to charge the Whig Admis nistration of Lord Grey with shaping its measures for the sole purpose of retaining office ! Between the parties there is one striking difference. The old Court-party aimed at keeping office by putting down the nation, and governing in spite of it. The pre sent Minister 2 are siriving so to Reform the State, atid so to reinforce the people of England, that neither the Whigs nor their successors can occupy the Treasury bench even for an hour, after public opinion shad have declared that they are incapable managers of the national affairs. To desire office, therefore, on no other condition than that of holding it with the good will and approbation of the country, is not a crime, at which, although Mr. Dawson should succeed to the fullest extent in proving it, his Majeety's Ministers have very great reason to blush. To hear Mr. Herries rentasticating, for the sixteen elect of Harwich, the unsavory mouthfuls of Sir Cher'es Wetherell, touching the sacred rights of corporations, is really too !flitch for human sense to endure. Be forgers that these boroughs, once populous and important, were enfranchised by the Sovereign for his own specific purposes, in the pro motion of which the people of those ages had a concurrent interest with the Crown. But it tray be above the intellectual reads of Mr. Hurries to find out., that when both Crown and people agree in the condemnation of such boroughs, now decayed and subjugated, as being deeply injurious to the wel fate of both parties, for the sake of which t h e y had been at first invested with their franchise, no authority exists on earth, and no power in reason ing, to sanction their continuance for another day. Its the mean time, i nte lli gence crow d s upon us of a nature to induce an entire contempt for these mise rable doings at Harwich. Mr. Peel's brother at Newcastle-under-Lyme has declared himself a re former, and promised to support the 13 , 11 ! Mr. Palmer, the late Member for Berkshire, has retired, and two good reformers will be chosen. A Reform candidate, it now appear.,—and we publish the fact with an anxious wish to have it circulated, and promptly turned to account by all concerned,—has stood up for Huntingdonshire, in the person of Mr. Rooper. Lord Mandeville, son of the Duke of Man chester, late Tory Governor of Jamaica, and Lord Strathaven, a sou-in-law, we believe, of Lady Co nyngham, both adverse to the Bill, are Mr. Rooper's opponents. Men of Huntingdon, hasten to the poll ! Lord Exeter is fairly thrashed at Stamford ! Mr. Tennyson having thrown out Colonel Chaplin, the nominee of the tenant-ousting Marquis. The Duke of Newcastle has the tables turned upon him at Newark, the electors of that borough having " done what they pleased with their own votes ;" in consequence of which Serjeant Wilde has been returned at the head of the poll, and the successor of Mr. M. T. Sadler (or empty Sadler, as he is there denominated) in the Duke's good graces, having proved a positive failure. Messrs. Grant and Gurney have completely beaten the aforesaid (empty) gentleman, and his accomplished colleague, Mr. Attwood, in the great city of Norwich. Oxford city has returned two staunch Reformers as her representatives. Lord Chandos, its his much-talked of canvass through Buckinghamshire, has been overwhelmed with every mark of public distaste and opprobrium. At Newport Pagnell, and other places, the people would not listen to a word the Noble Marquis addressed to them, and the freeholders, in the proportion of ten to one, avowed . themselves in favour of Reform. But the crowning triumph is yet untold, arid let the broken remnants of the Tory faction give ear to it. Mr. Patten has formally re signed the contest for Lancashire, where Lord Stanley and Mr. B. Heywood have nothing now to oppose them ; an d t h e su bj o i ned state resent from Liverpool exhibits the redoubtable General Gascoyne in a minority of one to three. Hurrah !* His immediate resignation Was looked for. Where be your Tories now ? Where the stational convulsions with which, in their despair, they threatened us, " should Ministers dare to dissolve" the late virtuous Parliament ? Of Tory convulsion, indeed, there is enough,—their fury, their phrenzy, their agony :is obvious; but never were the people of England more disposed to good humour, and to overflowing loyalty ; never was a general election entered upon in a more tho roughly constitutional spirit. They are too unani mous for disturbance. We said many weeks ago that there were no materials in the country for any thing like a struggle. A few hundred angry bo roughmongers are unheard amidst the paeans of 20,000,000 men.—Times. The public will see with regret, but without sur prise, that the two Anti-Reform candidates for the representation of the University of Cambridge, have again kept a-head of their antagonists on the second day's polling. The battle, however, is not yet lost, and we trust that on the third and fourth day (for the poll will be kept open till Friday) the Uni versity will endeavour to retrieve its character, and rescue itself from the disgrace of being represented by Members opposed to the sense of the nation.— Zmes. The King's visit t o th e c i ty o f L on d on i s lik e l y to be „ gait - postp one d, but it is almost superfluous to add, that the postponement is totally unconnected with political motives His Majesty had not, as about six months ago, f consented to name a day for dinin g with h ' :s o fa r i h nn t a h a d f l u iy o l subjects of the therefore cor poration, and t d put p the citizens to a ny expense in makin g the necessaryte receive him. It was only ves reparations to Sheriffsaywhen the Lord and the Mayor, the Recorder, to proceed to the Palace, to invite him to the civic were about of his h p . leasur e banquet, that they learned his is it visit. not at present to fix the precise Majesty'say On looking at the proceedings in the King' s yesterday, it will be seen that the stupid and T ench c.umay forgery of the hand-bill, which was ascribed at - time to the Lord Mayor, and at another to Home Office, was proved to be the work of the enemies of Reform. It is more than probable, th at the windows of those who refused to illuminate a Livirp_ool, May 3,- 1384 fwart Denison 1374 GaHorne. tttttttt ~,..wm.,., ttttttt . ttttttt 40 • were broken by gangs of miscreants hired and em ployed by the fabricators of the hand-bill. The at tempted calumny against the civil power, of having eptcouraged outrage, which to all but idiots mus have appeared an absurdity, will now be crushed foi ever by the mace of justice.—Tinges. A report has been industriously circulated in the City that his Majesty has declined the invitation o' his loyal citizens to honour them with his Roya' presence, in consequence of certain calumnie , against the City authorities, lately published in the Morning Post. They who know any thing of his Majesty have too high an opinion of the soundnes and strength of his judgment, to believe for a too- meat that he would allow his judgment to be biassed against the authorities of his loyal City by the anonymous calumnies in a daily print. We are sure that no man would treat these calumnious attempts with more contempt than his Majesty. It is no doubt true that his Maicsty has intimated his wish that the invitation might be postponed for a time; hut the reason is a very different one from that so maliciously assigned. His Majesty is at present afflicted with the gout, and therefore unable to ac cept of the invitation. But we are sure, if he were not prevented by a cause (the , existence of which every good subject must lament), he is too sensible of the loyalty and devotion of his good citizens to wards him—of the gratitude they have evinced towards their benefactor, not to be anxious to make the gratifyincr return of gladdening them by his presence, and that he will not fail to announce his acceptance of their invitation as soon as he feeis himself in a condition in which he can receive the city authorithea. The accounts so industriously circulated to Which we have alluded have receive.: no countenance from his Majesty. We are certain nothing would give him greater pain than the knowledge that such a construction has been put on his lamented indisposition. These are the pitiful inventions of wicked men, anxious to produce mis understandings between the King and the most loyal and devoted of his subjects.—Morn. Chronicle. After the loss of a battle, there is usually a good deal of erimination and recrimination among such of the vanquished as have been spared to settle their respective shares of the faults committed. So it is with the City election. It would seem that the anti-reformers are angry that Mr. Ward, who, it seems, on the canvass, had not promises from more than 300 or 400 out of the whole Livery, did not sacrifice himself for the great cause of anti-reform, and drag the refractory crarlesmen of himself and his supporters to the poll, to vote aeainst their con sciences. The account of the meeting of the friends of Mr. Ward, at the City of London Tavern, yes- , rerday (in another column), is quite a curiosity in its way. M r . W ar d, w h o i s genera ll y reputed a gentleman of a straight-forward and candid disposi tion, seems to have felt uneasy, under the accusa tions heaped on him by the boroughmongers, who now wish to make him the scope -goat for all their disasters. "On the very morning of the election (he says) he was informed by Sir C. Price, the Chairman, and Mr. Timothy Curtis, the depu y chairman of h:s Committee, that he had not the most distant prospect of succeeding, and that it would be unwise to be put in nomination at all. He still persevered in his intention of eoing to the poll; but they re f use d t o nom i nate him." Mr. Ward, like a General with no great stomach to fight, called his council of war, and the Council, as is usual in such cases, dissuaded him. Woe to the Committee I. But the Committee again endeavour to throw the whole blame on Sir Charles Price and Mr. T. Curtis. The chief of the counts of the indictment against the Chairman is, that he talked bravely, hut did nothing—t hat he told good stories, and spoke of a long pull, a strong pull, arid a pull altogether, but did not pull at all. Mr. Turner blames the Committee, though he admits that Mr. Ward had no chance. Mr. Wm. Morgan, on the other hand, had never been an successful in canvassing on any occasion, and considered Mr. Ward absolutely sold by the Chairman and Deputy. Mr. Kerschaw had strong personal reasons for wishing that Mr. Ward had not resigned, for being a great constitutional gentleman, he found on reach ' ing Yarmouth that the news of the defeat in Lon don had given fresh courage to the Reformers! there, and he had not only great difficulty in effecting a landing, but was moreover exposed to well-directed discharges of mud all the way to the poll. We sup pose the boroughmongers would have left Mr, Ward to brave the expense of a hopeless contest, but now declare, that rather than the defeat should have acted with such electrical effect throughout the country, they would have indemnified him out of their stock purse. But, after all, is not this pure dti yelling 2 Would the protracting the contest have disguised the melancholy fact, that on the very first day the majority against Mr. Ward would have bten eight to one Would not the people throughout the country have drawn from this fact the inference that Mr. Ward would eecessarily be beaten. And might not the appearance of the first day's poll have deterred even some of the few who gave Mr. Ward prorni•es of support, because in dis graceful matters there is a great difference between sharing the disgrace with many associates and sharing it with a few ? When there is but one man in a street who votes for an anti-Reform candi date, that man must be more uncomfortable than if there were twenty neighbours in the street in the same unfortunate plight. Let, therefore, Mr. Ward and his Chairman, and Deputy Chairman, and the body of' the Committee, cease to reproach each other; for they could not have given any other turn to affairs than that which they actually took.— They are not by any means the cause of the defeat of the boroughmongers.—Morning Chronicle. Every day brings its triumphs. Mr. Wilson Patten has abandoned the contest for Lancashire. In the placard printed under the direction of Mr. Heywood's Committee it is stated that Mr. W. Patten honestly declares that he found the feeling of the freeholders everywhere so strong in favour of the Reform Bill, that a candidate not approving of it had no chance whatever. Will any one have the temerity after this to calumniate the people of Eng land, by declaring them indifferent with regard to the Ministerial plan of Reform ? Will any man have the hardihood to say, after such a rising en masse, as it were, of the whole population, rich and poor (with the exception of boroughmongers and their beggarly retainers), in the North and South, East and West, that it would he safe to disappoint them in their web-formed expectations ? That Sir Robert Peel, or any other hypocritical State Jug gler, who voted against all Reform whatever when a little might have pacified the people, could now fob them off (to use a low but an expressive phrase) by a plan of Reform " keeping the word of pro mise to the ear, and breaking it to the hope ?" But is it Lancashire only ? No. The (fending Member will be cast off. It was the Member for Liverpool who lent himself to a manooivre devised by cunninger heads than his own for defeating the Bill. It was a sham debate got up about issuing a writ for Liverpool, that enabled that hopeful scion of an old boroughmongering trunk, Mr. William Bank - es, to carry an teljournment before the business of the night could be entered on, by which means the orders for supplies became dropped orders, and the supplies were in fact refused. We are glad to find that the people of Liverpool kid as they ought the affront offered to them, by their representative's connecting the name of that splendid cotnmercial mart, with the loss of a Bill so deservedly dear to the English nation. General Gascoyne evidently thought he might take every liberty with his con stituents —that he had but to whistle, and they Nouid as h, h i e l be iei t ,t o t for e return him by a considerable shown majority. l i i e ke b h e is ki b m rothe f r anti-Reformers, which pervades.' the read him it , however an d the lEo‘thrhegeliws‘h.r acTontlie:l'itti.lo.eefnf Liverpool have He will now from which it is to be hoped they will er r s fia in due eps p r o fi t d e d d u i e I time. The following extract from , ion of the Liverpool Times of Tuesday, dated s.ven )'clock, P.M., shows the miserable plight of pour General Gascoyne : .‘ GLORIOUS MAJORITY IN FAVOUR OF THE REFORMERS. " This is the proudest and and the happiest day in the :dstory of Liverpool. The faction is humbled in the dust, ,nd the character of the town has been nobly vindicated. The freemen have proved that, whatever may have been 'heir past misdeeds, they are not indifferent to the fate of 'heir country, or insensible to their duties as Englishmen. A.t the close of the poll, at seven o'clock this evening, the numbers stood as follow : Mr. William Ewart 1:18-1 Mr. John Evelyn Denison 1374 General Gascoyne " The universal expectation is that the General will re tire to-night. 'Whether he does so or not, the triumph of Reform is certain. We congratulate our townsmen and our fellow-countrymen on this glorious victory." So that there is not one exception among our ,zreat towns—London, 'Westminster, Southwark, Liverpool, Bristol, Hull, Norwich, Newcastle—all, 411 devoted to the Bill, the whole Bill, and nothing but the Bill. Messrs. Morrison and Wason, at Ips wich, have also triumphed. Mr. Tennyson has de feated the Marquis of Exeter, at Stamford. For a hundred years the house of Burleigh has domineered over Stamford. The first blow has been struck by Mr Tennyson. This is something to be proud of. Another great Lord has found, to his cost, that it is somewhat dangerous even for a Ducal borough monger to avow too openly a property in human beings. The Duke of Northumberland and Duke of Newcastle, in avowing too openly that they have a right to do what they will with their own, lead men to inquire into the nature of the right of these would-be white slave-holders. To Serjeant t'ilde's talents and perseverance we owe the dis comfiture of his Grace in Newark. At his peril let him attempt what he has already attempted As a set-off against the success in every other quarter, we find that at the close of the poll at Cambridge yesterday, Mr. W. Y. Peel and Mr. Goulburn were still a-head of Mr. Cavendish and Lord Palmerston. The numbers were— Peel. .... ... 661 Goulburn 657 Cavendish 482 Palmerston Still we are told that strong hopes are entertained by the committees of Mr. Cavendish and Lord Pal merston, from the number of voters they have yet to poll, and the number remaining to their oppo nents, that they will make good their ground. For the sake of the University of Cambridge, which is now on trial with the country, we hope they will yet avoid the disgrace of such representatives as Peel and Goulburn, though the latter has, in the announcement of services rendered by him to science, and furnished by himself, no doubt, to our contem porary of the Morning Post, made a discovery which escaped even Sir Humphry Davy (if we may pin our faith to Dr. Paris's able account), namely, a new application of bazar caustic to purposes of astro nomy.—Morning Chronicle. We call the attention of our readers to our King's Bench report, in which they will find a curious light thrown on some recent proceedings in this metro polis. Cunning people are often caught in their own snare; and we apprehend the case of the Lord Mayor against a contemporary will furnish a confirmation of this maxim. The Anti-Reformers, who are great plotters, great intriguers, who in their divans have the benefit of the veteran plotters of 1807 and 1829, were overjoyed, it seems, at the prospect of advantages which they should derive from the illuminations of Wednesday week. They had many strings to their bows.— if the mob could be led to break the unillumi , nated windows, the Anti-Reformers could then have the merit of displaying their firmness at the expense of the hundred. The addition to the rates occasioned by the heavy demands on this score would incense tire householders against the Government. Then came the finale, a pretended " placard," in which the outraeeous conduct of the mob was countenanced by the City Authorities. And then the war-whoop against the future Marats, who, in their very outset, were doing enough to give up London without pro teciion to a merciless mob. Cunning Isaacs! Sir Robert Wilson, an old hand at partisan movements, jumped a little too hastily (as he has all his life been in the habit of doing) to a conclusion, for he con cluded, no doubt, that he should receive payment for his broken windows, but, to his dismay, found that Sir Robert Peel had cut off him, and the goodly band in the same plight with hint, from all indemtefication from the hundred. The glaziers' bills remain an affair for delicate arrangement with the tradesmen, so nothing more need be said on that score. But the attempt to throw the blame on the City Autho rities is as complete a failure. Our contemporary of the Post, for whom some allowance ought to be made, as he no doubt calculated on anything rather than a total loss in the case of his own windows, gave vent to his indignation in a leading article of Friday, against the liberal Lord Mayor, for alleged connivance with the ruffians who paraded the streets on Wednesday, and destroyed the property of its most peaceful inhabitants—as Lord Londonderry and Sir Robert Wilson for example. And then, in justification, appears a notice, said to have boen extensively circulated in the City previous to the illumination, in which a pretty broad hint is thrown out to the mobility, that if they feel inclined to break windows, tire police have other matters on their hands, and cannot prevent them. Unfortunately, the hand-bill not only was not circulated by the Lord Mayor, but he states on affidavit, that he had caused every inquiry to be made that possibly- could be made, and " was utterly unable to discover that any such notice or hand-bill had been circulated or stuck up on any wall, or published in any way ; that he never saw or heard of such a notice, till he saw it in the columns of the Aforning Post; and that he was verily persuaded it was w atrocious for gery, got up for the purpose of calumniating him." There is no such printer as Bourne (the name to the alleged placard) at Clerkenwell-green. We are far from supposing that the placard is the invention of our contemporary ; but he has been made the unconscious instrument for furthering a vile plot, from all connexion with which it will be wen if higher personages can clear themselves. Now what is the end of all this plotting--all this competition for broken widows—all this calumniation of the city authorit es ? Do these wiseacres think his Majesty so blind as to be the dupe of such clumsy trickery ? C adri a ost n epomor, i s r pi N ttv b isro e eroit Ei nc l l oih p yfe p td o hr e s de e cr o d pi vi el eos t rsetshcl h eoielt:aeto a lsteiverh t snoi t hat, like any old woman) he would listen to the absurd calumny that his Minis' t t ir e e u , l deo t b in e t charged country, the with tfho erg t ec h ti e ftuyl preservationaorfiti the c oudiei of the the peace of lity they are under as to strive to throw m tie sgPl rn selnr it ie r b o Yi - : mob to destroy propert polls into confusion ?—that they would stimulate a many in x s) esa ' oi l v ! o t i fphoetf give ou.r e P u l os m s e pl cur, The 1 gre s Tc h e e e e a: h a se ivh l ids v P rneyee e s d, disgraced fiends, themselves . of aeatwi t il o nsre:exeolfi a lmipr d ßopiniu m eere,:lsot i yi.o t ,y,ms o fe%to,t f dhhrrtieo t hva i oi: ' p n e ymi r gti okhesumeeterd)poue,rol r intriguing.kpte.olesoikatsotfpri euner vecgerknows hTsghbote thesetelohualpeaceably, hi obtainingoerstt; wed the difference between the Sovereig-n of a great and united nation, loyally devoted to their benefac that they . may - tyran tor, and the Sovereign of a cabal, who seek to Wretched plotters l .-- make him their tool—who seek to SOW jealousies t h , ektewee overn him and and oppresshis subjects,botli. Morning Chronicle. ''it-1-11 their handle King h n eta 1 enge Thediloi endanger life? Yesterday was the day on which the Civic Au thorities were to have had th e h onour of waiting upon the King, to invite his Majesty and the Queen to dine with the Corporation of London on the 20th instant, at Guildhall. When it transpired, as it did, in the course of the evening, that the Lord M a yor and Sheriffs had not proceeded to t h e Royal pre sence to execute this agreeable m i ss i on, the greatest surprise and anxiety were expressed, and loyal antici pations were succeeded by the most painful conjec tures. It was soon reported that his Majesty had changed his mind once more as to dining in the City, and that this was communicated to the Civic deputation previously to the day appointed for wait- Mg on the King, to spare them the mortification of an open refusal. We have inquired into the cir cumstances, and will lay before our readers such in formation as we have obtained. It is true that the Civic authorities did not wait upon the King, and that, consequently, no format invitation has yet been given to their Majesties for the dinner on the 20th. The reason is that the Lord Mayor received, as we understand, on the previous evening, a communi cation from the Secretary of State for the Home Department, informing his Lordship that the King having lately experienced some symptoms of the re urn of gout, to which he is subject, it was doubt• ful whether his health might not make it necessary to postpone his intended visit to the City to another day, and therefore it would be better for the present to defer the invitation. The Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, acting upon this communication, abstained, of course, from seeking the interview with which the Sovereign had previously signified his in tention of honouring them, and here the matter rests for the present. But public rumour will not let it rest here ; the fears of some, and the malignant invention of others, will be prolific of false reports relative to this unexpected, but, we trust, only momentary obstacle to his Ma jesty's second intended visit to his faithful and affectionate subjects the citizens of London. Severely indeed would the disappointment he felt, if at the present crisis, when his Majesty's popularity is boundless, and when the inhabitants of this great metropolis are most anxious to testify their heartfelt gratitude for his manly and energetic conduct in dis solving a Parliament which counteracted the wishes of the country, any thing should occur to deprive theta of the expected opportunity of receiving him with the honours, the gratulations, and the hospi tality which his personal and regal virtues so emi nently deserved. If such an event arose from indis position, it would, indeed, aect his subjects; for never was the health of a Sovereign more precious to his people ;—but, at the present moment as the King is still able to hold levees, and to make the jourueybetween London and Windsor, there appears no serious cause of alarm as to his Majesty's health. We cannot believe that any of the groundless and malicious publications which have lately emanated from a certain portion of the Press could have the effect intended—that of intimidating the Royal mind through the apprehension of tumults and disorder. It is not for a Monarch who prides himself in the name of a British sailor, and who has been the friend and companion of the immortal Nelson, to be so easily daunted, and driven from his manly purpose, by the " weak inventions of the enemy." When he acted upon the advice which unfortunately induced him to disappoint the loyal expectations of the citizens of London last November, he was surrounded by an incapable and unpopular Ministry, who felt that they had provoked the expreesian of public dis pleasure, and dreaded to encounter it. They did not wish the -Sovereign to see how strongly the current of opinion had set in against them, and they risked the King's popularity, in order to escape from having it unpleasantly contrasted with the degree of public odium they had brought upon themselves in the face of his Majesty and the assembled inha bitants of London. How different now is the King's situation With a popular Ministry, pledged to the great measure of Reform, and a nation not gloom y , vdesponding, and discontented, but full of joy at the present, and hope for the future, what cause can there be fur his Majesty again withdraw ing from his engagement, and declining to renew that sort of social and kindly intercourse which the Kings of Great Britain, until of late years, always made it a point to keep tip with the citizens of the capital of their dominions ? Surely there can be nu cause but that which we have stated—namely, indis position : but, unless that (which Heaven forbid !) were more severe than circumstances can allow us to believe, we are quite convinced it would not be considered by the people in general as a sufficient ex planation of a second disappointment. The anti-Re form papers, which published a copy of a hand-bill in the name of the Lord Mayor, stating that on the night of the illuminations y " the City Police had orders to confine their care to keeping (he carriage ways free, and that, therefore, they could not be expected to protect the premises of such persons as shall be so disrespectful to public opinion as to form an exception to tne general conduct expected from free citizens," intended, rio doubt, to excite an un pleasant feeling in the King's mind towards the Chief Magistrate of London, and to make him dis. trust all those whose duty it was to protect the peace; but it will be seen from our report of pro ceedings in the King's Bench yesterday, that this hand-bill is sworn to be a false and fabricated docu ment. Whether the Papers that published it did so knowingly, or were the dupes of some craftier contrivers, remains to be seen. It appears, how ever, there is no such printer in Clerkenwell-green as he whose name is affixed to it. We do not mean to prejudge a case which is now about to undergo the investigation of a Court of Jus6ce, and shall leave it at present in hands that will do no doubt sa tisfectorily dispose of it. Before we conclude we cannot avoid observing that if the King should, on any other ground than such a degree of illness us would make it Imprudent to go into company, post- • pone again to some indefinite time his visit to Guild hall, it may have the tnost disastrous effect upon the remaining elections. It may induce the people to lend too ready an ear to those traducers of their Sovereign, who even now do not hesitate to insinu• ate that he is not sincerely friendly to the Reform Bill! Such an impression would assuredly dis hearten the people, by making them suppose their hopes of constitutional redress were lost. They might suppose that the advocates of a corrupt and venal system of representation had found out the way of exercising some secret influence over the Royal mind. But we have a firm confidence that William IV. will be true to a cause on which depends the happiness of his people anti the prosperity of his empire. —Morning Herald. The election for the city of Winchester, on Mon day, afforded a striking instance both of the fickle nature of popular applause, and of the hazard of trifling with so fragile a possession, Mr. Paulett Mildmay having been the idol of the populace in the morning, et noon polling every vote, yet, in the evening being burnt in effigy before his own house. This happened thus. The ancient city of Win chester, which boasts of being the oldest chartered Corporation in the kingdom, has partaken for many years of one peculiarity of age, that of rottenness— its representative functions have been the joint pro perty of the Chandos and the Mildmay Some few years ago his Grace of Buckingham made a sly endeuvour to possess himself of the whole of this highly constitutional privilege, but failed; since which time a sort of hollow cordiality has been kept up between the Capulets and Montagues cf Win chester, which Mr. Paulet Mildmay, with somewhat too nice a sense of honour, seems to have evinced to t he last, and that unfortunately to his own cost. Th e good people of Winchester have been for some time rather restless under their state of vassalage, and determined to make an effort to break their chains, called in Mr. Bingham Baring to oppose the Anti-Reform nominee of the Duke of Buckingham. Some how or other it was suspected that Mr. Mildmay had no great disinclination to see the old opponents of his house discomforted, which was well nigh being the case, ther r it d im fo b r er m s a r. t B th a e ri e n l g o , se m ol . the poll being, for Mr. Mildmay, 69; for Mr. E ast 39; former and were returned d u l y ller t ethematter might have en d e d ; b ut for Mr. Mildmay, in returning th an k s , IIY deemedeit necessary to convinc e hi s o ld oppo . lie bad been true to his compact, an d, to ile(lutji refute enteephilfet :etrielDt d thatt .t ni 1 whicha kaee nominee),het%Yl2 idea that lie had been instrumental in bringing forward Mr. Baring, avowed that he had himself given a plumper for Mr. East. This was more than the populace or the electors would bear. They had willingly given him their votes as a re former, and therefore did not expect to see him atul-. drying their votes, as far as he could, by himself voting for an anti-reformer. They, looking at the main object, cared not for the boroughmongering pledge—the unhallowed compact, to which their rights and interests had been so long sold, and incensed at what they deemed, and rightly deemed, an insult to themselves and the sacred cause in which they were embarked, converted the idol of the morning into the burning effigy of the evening; and we cannot help thinking that their conduct may operate as a useful lesson in more respects than one. —Morning Herald. Even at the moment of certain victory, again we entreat, we most earnestly implore, the enlightened and disinterested electors of Cambridge not to relsx in their exertions for the triumph of the righteous cause. Our struggle is not the paltry conflict of party. We have no family interests to support—no Ministerial ascendancy to maintain. Ours is the fight of pure and noble principle—the rescue of our glorious Constitution from the grasp of an arrogant and tyrannical faction—the defence of our esta blished religion against the secret and overt attacks of insidious enemies. \Ve call, then, upon every friend of rational liberty, and its sure attendant, social order, to press forward to the poll. We call upon every Ali [lister of our holy religion—if he will but reflect upon the speeches, the writings, the promises of men who have now 11w whole powers qf Government to effectuate them, their half-uttered designs, and un disguised league with their worst enemies—if they will but consider well the reports of meetings, declarations of support, and promises of subscrip tion in favour of one member of Government, the acknowledged organ of the dissenting interest—to record by their votes their attachment to the best institutions, and their abhorrence of that unholy alliance which is now conspiring to uproot them. Our highest object is not the poor triumph of sup planting a rival candidate; we seek, by this one generous universal effort, to establish, amid the ildest tempest of democratic fury which ministe rial pokey can invoke, this convincing fact, that the learning, the wisdom, and the piety which our Universities nurture and disseminate through the whole empire, is opposed to and does repudiate that general measure of revolution which the late members for Cambridge stand pledued to support. Electors of Cambridge, that is our object : we leave with confidence our cause in your hands.—Morning Post. It has now, in reality, become a matter of some difficulty with us to determine in what manner we ought to introduce to the notice and gratification of our readers the victories daily achieved by the Re formers, and the consequent defeats sustained by the boroughmongering crew ; and, on the present occasion, it is mote difficult, in consequence of the greatness of the triumph, than we could pose-My have imagined, or the most sanguine supporter of the Bill could have anticipated. Messrs. Gurney and Grant, as we anticipated, have defeated the Tories at Norwich :and two staunch Reformers have been returned for Warwick; but who could have imagined that his Grace of Newcastle would not succeed in " doing with his own as he pleased," and returning his own candidates in preference to all others ? The fact, however, is, that he has not succeeded,—nay, that he has been de feated, and that Wilde has been returned, and re turned under a pledge to the Bill ! This is a tri umph, indeed ! Let us have but such another in the strong holds of corruption and aristocratic influ ence, and the minds of the wavering will be at once fixed. But this is not all. The Marquis of Exeter has also been beaten, notwithstanding the alleged hiring of pugilists to overawe the population, and that, too, in his own strong-hold. This day, also, we hate no doubt that Messrs. Denison and Briscoe will he returned for Surrey; and then we shall have a sure and certain mejority. But, at the same time, we are most anxious to impress upon our readers, that although there is a majority, there must be a still greater majority in order to insure the success of the Rill. The Anti- Reformere were never more desperate than they now are—never were their exertions more unceasing or determined—never were their tricks more mean or paltry—never did they attempt more forcibly to raise a power behind the Throne, greater than the Throne itself; but, thank Heaven, we have every reason to believe that they will be signally defeated. The people of England arc not now to be mocked with vain fears and apprehensions on the part of any one : and the King himself being for Reform, arid the leader of Reform, who will dare to say, than The Bill will not be successful? Let the country but do its duty, and all is safe—let it but falter for a mo ment, and convulsion and anarchy will be the result.—Morning Advertiser. A most malicious report was yesterday in circu lation in the City, to the effect that the King would not accept the invitation of the City of London for the 20th instant. It had its origin, we make no question, among the Anti-Reform party, who are adopting every expedient, not even short of the most barefaced lies, to influence the elections which are now going on ; but it must fail, like every other lie hitherto put forth by them. The King will dine in the City on the 20th inst., unit ss he should be pre vented by illness; and the only ground for the re port is, that his Majesty is at present so ill of the gout as to be unable to receive his visitors in a stand ing position. What, indeed, but illness should pre vent his Majesty from dining with the City ? Is he not the most popular monarch of whom England ever boasted ? Is not die whole population of London and Westminster ready to escort him to and from the Guildhall ? And would it not, except on the score of illness, be an insult—an insult never yet given to the city of London—even on the part of Majesty—to decline an invitation not only freely but patriotically tendered, and for which no future visit could possibly compensate ? But it is as useless to reason upon the matter as it is for the John Bulls and the Morning Posts to insert in their columns, fallacious accounts of disturbances and damages. The King will come !—he will be greeted with ten thousand times ten thousand huzzas, and then there will be an end, not to the lies, assuredly of these journals, but to every doubt which may have arisen on the part of the public, respecting his Majesty's firmness.— Morn. Advert. THe i TUILERIES.—This delightful romance, by the Authoress of " Hungarian Tales," relates to that important and soul•stirring epoch of French History—the Revolution. It details the adventures of the unfortunate Monarch Louts XVI., of his consort MARIE ANTOINETTE, and of those who, during the period of popular excite ment, still remained faithful to the Royal cause. Among these, the character of the fair Euphroisine deserves especial mention. Stimulated by her zeal in the service of her Royal benefactress, and reckless of personal danger, her heroism and devotion forcibly remind us of the Rebecca of " Ivanhoe." The following scene occurred at a fancy ball given at the Mansion-house, in Dublin, on last Friday night. Mr. M'DERUoT, of the county of RGSCOMMOD, represented a Connaught spalpeen, tvi.h an alpeen in his fiNt, a wallet on his back, his hat, or caubeen, bound by a band of tow, or borrowgh, treeheens on his legs, his feet encased, or rather mounted in huge brogues. This youth at one time came in contact with his Excellency the Loan LIEUTENANT, and accosting him with all the modesty for which his countrymen are remarkable, said, " why, thin, is't yer Honour, I see?" stretching out his hand at the same time, and doffing his caubeen. The Noble Marquis, amused with the fellow's address, gave him his hand, say. ing, "it is; pray what do you think of me ?" PADDY then said, " think of ye ? Is it ! Why what the whole world think of ye—ye're one of the neatest, decentest, and purtiest sort of a gentleman ever came across us." Every one around was convulsed with laughter ; but PAT, nowise abashed, continued his eration—“ Arrah ! may blessins smile upon ye, and may ye live a thousand years, and the rest ov yer nat'ral life of ye." “ Bud, continued PAT, its I that's sorry I was'nt at home when ye vor in my Marquis said—" Oh, yes, very well; but will you go a that,his then tossing up tell them to behave themselves." PADDY, csuntry. Did they thrate you decent?" The Noble go! only the d—l a use in sint yet. message shillelagh, anyhow r;epfloierdc-f— -on a dog's tail they'd atten d it . to PADDY then made his best bow and retired. y"erlshointomue, POLICE INTELLIGENCE. Q UEEN-S QUARE. On Tuesday Mistress Pcg lodger, the lady of a highly respectable costermonger in Duck-lane, West minster, was charged with stealing £s sovereign from Mistress Mary Doosey, a married lady of colour, and near friend and neighbour. " Des morning," said Mrs. Doosey, " I saw Missee Bodger nar Staing-cos:, wid her boy, and I said, of course, Missee Bodger I dreat you someting to drinkee; of course she say veddy well ; so of course we go in to de gin-shop, and I give her a glass of gin, and den I go to Westminster Duck lane wid her to her room, and den I feel her hand in my pocket, and den I say, somebody hab rob me, and den her husband he talk about hint honour, and him and her strip me all off clothes, and say I got de sovereign ; and den I cry out ten dousand murders for such liberty, and de police gentlemen come and take her de prisoneer." " Pray," inquired the Magistrate, " what is your husband, Mistress Doosey ?"—" \Vhat my husband," replied Mistress Doosey—" oh, he is a larpenter." Magistrate—" A carpenter; and where does he work "—" You not understand me," replied Mistress Doosey, " he talk de language for persons." Magistrate—" You mean an interpreter."— " Yes, yes, yes, dat is it ; your Honour know now. lie talk de Jarman, de French"—and Mrs. Doosey was about to enter into a long history of her hus. band's talents and qualifications, which was fre quently interrupted by Mistress Badger twisting her nose to the left, and exclaiming, " Husband, indeed!" when the matter was cut short by The Magis , rate, who asked Mrs. Peg Bodger if she herself was married ?—" I won't say yes," re plied Mrs. Bodger ; " I loves the truth, and am a respectable woman. I lives at No. 18, Duck-lane, and I've lived there for 18 years, in as respectable and vartuous a way as the finest lady in the land; but, though I'm a vartuous woman, I loves the truth, and I'm not married." The latter part of the sentence was delivered with a peculiar emphasis by the prisoner, who cast a furious glance at her sable prosecutrix. " But what answer have you to make to the charge ?" inquired the Magistrate. " Does your Worship love to hear the truth ?" asked Mrs. Bodger. The Magistrate nodded assent. " Then you shall have the real truth about the matter," replied Mrs. Dodger. " I met this good lady, wot I've noun this ten years—and, barring that si.ri!s black, she's not a bad cowl ; and she says to me, says she, Mrs. Badger, would you like to take a small drop of nothing this morning?' Of course your Worship knows I said Yes.' And so, you see, I WAS a going to market to buy some radishes, with my boy—a fine lad, your Worship, and quite altered since you sent him, you know, to the House of Correction ; he can larn any thing now—he's more cater than ever. Well, your Worship, so in we goes, and Mrs. Dooley, bless her, though I say it, she calls for lots of gin." " Well, go on with your story," said the Magis trate—" when the gilt came in, you drank it, I suppose."—Your 'Worship may say that," replied Mrs. Bodger; " but you will not believe when I tell you what Mrs. arosey has said is false; for I drank two glasses of gin, one after the other—shame to me for saying so, and I hope Heaven will forgive rue for so doing; but I like to tell the truth. It isn't often as I drinks one glass arter the other, for there always ought to be five minutes between each glass. So, your Worship, arter this I sends my boy to the market to get some ingins and radishes, and me and Mrs. Dooley goes into a house in Chandos street, and there we drank four or five glasses a piece mote, till I was so queer that I knew nothing more of the matter." The Magistrates inquired of the constable in what state the parties were when he took the prisoner into custody. _ " Both drunk, your worship," replied the constable. " Heaven bless you," exclaimed Mrs. Bodger, " we were both drunk, that's the truth, and no mis take. I w.rs terrible drunk." The Magistrate appeared to think that Mrs. Docsey had lost her sovereign in her gin.drinking gambols, and, after a little advice to the prisoner, she was discharged. " Heaven bless your Honour," exclaimed Mrs. Bodger, " all this trouble is owing to drinking one glass of gin close upon another. Always rest be tween the glass, and its far more pleasant."—Mrs. Bodger was about to give a dissertation on gin, when she was abruptly removed. THE MARKETS. COAL MAR: Adair's 255. 6d Ea,t. l'crey 23 6 Ear,don 25 0 Hebbuin Ma.n ---.. 28 0 Hoiy well 25 6 Killingworth .....---...,. 30 0 iddell's 51 in —......—.. 22 6 Vont op 23 6 22 9 meld 25 0 Williogton 28 0 W I2ln 27 0 %Valls End Bell and Co. 29 0 Walls End !Sew ick e& Co. 32 0 End_Boundary _ _ K F: l'.—May 4. Walls End Riddell's..-. 31s. Od. )itto 23 0 Ditto vValkin ----. 30 9 Eden Main 27 0 Walls End Hetton 35 0 Walls End Lambton--. at 9 Walls End I. 30 9 Walla Stewart's 35 0 W. F. Rtiss.ill's Hetton 34 9 Ditto Russell's Lyon's-. 31 0 Yorw..od's Hetton 27 3 Wills End Tees •31 0 Cowlien 21 9 H tale) 26 0 I.langeonech Coal 33 0 New Flockton, Milne and C 0.....—, 0 Silkstone '26 Stone Coal 34 0 Liddell's Trader,, 22 0 Walls End Tees Trader 00 6 ips sold, S'7%--Unsold, 67. Mount Moor mixed— 24 6 Walls EA 8r0wn'5....... 27 6 onto Itorraton 27 6 Walls End Gosforth,-- 31 6 Ditto Heaton-----., 31 ii Walls I!;ll(iNewmaren 29 6 Ditto Northumberland 27 6 ships at market, 9-I,,i—Shi CiWNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. Wheat. i Barley. (pats. Beans. Per Quarter. Abingdon-- Ando - ver. tlridport Cirencest:r Faringdon ~ Guildford Henley. Hereford --- llighworth Maidenhead -- Moninouth—,— Relding Salisbury __ !•.'outhampton Stroud Tewkesbury —.— Uxbridge Wan Warminster Worcester- to S. - 52 - 43 -- 90 - 51 42 45 38 46 42 4 6 - 40 HULL MARKET.—May 3. We had a large supply of Grain to-day, but the trade still continues dull, at lower prices than last week. Wheat, Old —s. (ss. 70s. Now —s. 655, 681. Foreign —s. 60s 66s ln bond.., —s —s . —s . Oats, Poland - —s. 245. :3s. Old —s. —s. 30s. Small or Feed.... —s. 245. 265 . —s. —s. —s• lo s re o i r g f l . l er,. su t ... : a s. . 4 24 05 5 . f.(is —s. - . 4. --. . Barley, 4`2s. Line. Sr %V o ld — l3 . 36 s 383. ---- Foreign Beans 365. 38s. 4‘,s. F ore i gn —s. 40a. 42.5• Pease, White —s. 465. 48s. G rey Part. —s 503. 70s. Foreign —s. 365. 50s. Rapeseed, in bond no ne . `sl. —s. CHELTENHA M MA ItKET.—May 3. Per Bushel. a, d. to s. d. Per lb. Wheat Barley 4 0 5 6 Mutton Oats 4 0 4 3 Veal d. to d. 5 6 5 6 5 6 5 6 0 0 Beans Pease 5 0 8 0 Lamb Hay 31. 3s. to 3/. 13s. €d. per ton. • 11l wills: On the 24th ult. at Gloucester-place, Portman-square, the lady of J. L. Scudamore, Esq. of a daughter. On the 4th inst. in East-place, the Lady Caroline Calcraft, of a son. On the 3d inst. in Iligh-street, Stoke Newington, the lady of IL de Chaumette, Esq., of a daughter. On the 30th ult. at Itavenhead, Lancashire, the lady of J. A• Lee, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIED. _ _ _ On the 4th inst. at All Souls Church, Langham_place, F: Hawkins, M D., of Curzon-street, Mayfair, Fellow of St. John'i , College, Oxford, to Hester, third daughter of the Hon. Baron Vaughan ; and on the same day, Le Marchant Thomas, Ee only son of John Thomas, Esq. of Brunswick.square, to Narita" ret, fourth daughter of the Hon. Baron Vaughan. On the 3d inst. at Henley-upon Thames, B. King, Esq. o f Grosvenor-place, to Georgiana Anne, youngest daughter of the Mus grave, g(3 L :t:o i eitou: Torrington -. u C ia,a o str l i oeesiy, e. e tn l oad ( LE 4 n. . hirn c og • nu a ei r :ase i j o so n : oinirngue,sgsi gßjht. dt H 7. igham, q: On the , Ith ult. of apop aged IeDIED. wick-hill, Worcestershire xy, 85 W years. m. Thomson, Esq. of Hen' On the:let inst. at Vacslough, Esq. aged 54. South Wales, W. Wilkins, PRIXTED AND PUBLISHE D ET MURDO YOUNG, AT /us SUN OFFICE, 112, STRA.ND, LONDON, ~_ ~ ~. LOYAL TIM tuna already SUE F rom a few W Nen fond Su• , scripti C. Sturgeon, Es D. M.Kinnon, District of St. ret's and St. Jo A Fortune A Friend to Ref , Daniel Furney s r r h r e i , l P l C is i C o F n a t i a ‘ n 4 . t a u e r e r d 1 W ti. Elliot Th.oiaa, lleddery s r °senh Bennetts Noble W. Wthroo J. P. Massey J. Cole A Friend in the I. Robinson Samuel Weather G. NV. R. A Friend to R . efi 14, J. C . W. Boustead By Mr. P Me. George Ette! Jame s Hattersle3 George Wbson,; Beazley R. Cox J. Williams C. B. p W. R. Paterson J. V W. S. and S. S " I Won't be put Collected in a M; tory to assist Men Workmen in Mr employ F• 0. K. ...... A._ few Jourr Tailors St. Mary, New Committee, t Mr. Palmer, surer, first St ti on aamuel Palmer Warwick Westo William Shirley Mr. Knott hlr. Burn Mr. Fryer Mr. Charles Fos Mr. J. Hinde Pa Mr. Mr. Holder . George Part Mr. Harrison Mr. Bradford Mr. Callaway Mr. W a tson . Mr. Watson, jur Mr. Grierson Mr. Friend Mr. Gillespie Mr. Crowley Mr. Castleman Mr. Charles For Messrs. Sims an, Mr. Base Mr. Canton Mr. Biggins Mr. Bicherton Mr. Southall Mr. Richardson Mr. Kidd Mr. Friend From the Jour] Hat.finishers employ of Mr. roW Subscriptions sel Morning Ad Peorge Pole • Eiloarte The men in LA and Co.'s P 0ffice............ The Propricto Ten young men of Wor Academy, in i ance of thei send Lord G. Cavern James Duke John Gurney John Nesham Bittles A few Friends form, meetin Wooke?s, U Martin's-lane L. H. Merivale. From the hoof Boultoni, No.l Dover-street, Mr. G. A. Star Dr. Starling , Mr. Edward Str First Subscript lected by 3 Ments, Haber Anns, Hoxt( Inhabitant Ho ers of Stepne3 Sergeant Pe subscription Wm. Crawford Fire Radical T KB. G. Woodfall T. B. F. P Mann and Sargi Charles Addis The Composite M. Intosh 's, • Great New-si John Hutt, No. dox.street From the Work n VrO Y a ed dwoo l d's factory, Gm ney-street Afew Friend: Cause of Ref J. Heath James Meadow founder His Workmen, G. T. Goodem One who wo more,but lac D arl Sefton W. L. W. Henry Thomr The Workmei Thompson's. tory. From the Jou Coopers and employed at Son's South' assisting the Cause... . Michael Sawa] Miss J T. W. ilrs. Ward's Lambeth Com Collison, Ti t John Moore, 1 John Collison Geo. Glasin John Austin Henrytl W. Col John Collison Wm. Mortloc/ Joseph Sw in wi Joseph Knight P. Clarkson 'W. Whitelock Richard Davis Patriot Mr. Sheilds, marsh Journeymen it ploy of Mes: lips, Wood, lison Females Wm. Wood, road Farey, Pri W. H. Cowarr Charles Dime Samuel Wise, ham.place Sheppard, Uni Fox Duset-pl, Davidson, 1 pla Thos Wheeler lace Wilton Lo' Abraham You nington-con tdwards, Itridi Henry Wright street Wirt. Wheeler Dorset-placc Mr. Orchard, street Mr. Richard Mr. Bain, Parl Thos. Nichols( ,Widow's Mite eelix Ladbroo Robert Walpo Vincent John By Messrs. I C. Beal ...... J. P., a Ref Church and A. L., ditto Workmen at Cooper's an ~,Per Geo. Br Hickson Thomas Jacon Robert s Tanne uavid Cox, se ‘ 4 4 cription nm. Coffin Reformer Wellbank, A. F. V Aug, Stigins Rrom a few I Mr. Downit 10, Redford vent-garden toyal Pots i( for Reform paresfoot • om a few employed it Factory at t ,end Uenry fitl / /(/