The Sun. — London, England, 1831-07-25 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC_ JOURNALS. Those who are in the habit of reading Par mentary reports cannot have overlooked the com parative frequency with which the daily Press wa , alluded to by Hon. Members in the course of last week's discussions; nor will it be forgotten with what species of notice the political character of the Press was honoured, or by what side of the House. The " venal" Press—the " tyrannical" suggestion, of the Press—the " shameful and audacious me naces used by the Press to deter Members from the conscientious discharge of their duty the im pudent dictation of an arbitrary Press, which, base as it was, had acqnired such an ascendancy in tht country, that there was now no resisting it,"—the " violent persecution" cf the Press against Mr. Baring, &c. There is no question (and we de voutly trust there riev! r will be any) that the News paper Press of England, regarded as a whole, does exercise a great ascendancy over the nation. As Englishmen, no less than journalists, we fee; a deep interest not only in the immediate pre servation of that moral influence, but in ifs continuance and extension for ages after we and our labours shall have been alike forgotten, because our firm persuasion is, that tile Press of England concentrates, represents, and distributes that power by which a civilized community can best be held together—the force of opinion as contrasted with that of the bludgeon, the firebrand, and the l o d e . When Members of l'arliament get up in their places and employ strong terms of reproach against the Press, because of its hostility to their party objects, does it never occur to them how un :viee they are to confess their own little estimation it, that quarter with which the Press must, by the very nature of things, be identified—we mean the whole reading body of the people ? 'We affirm, that the portion of the Press which sways in arty sensible degree the mind of political society, cannot en- joy such influence but through honest and sa lutary means. If a newspaper, or any periodi cal production, were to insult its readers by state ments which were generally, or indeed more than very rarely and accidentally, untrue,—with appeals to feelings which were not warranted by justice,— by a resort to arguments not founded on reason, or a subserviency to interests which were not broad and national, but on the contrary, selfish, mean, and narrow,—what would be the consequence to the proprietors of such Journals? Why, they would excite against themselves the disgust and contempt of the great mass of society, whose welfare it was their aim, or at least their tendency, to impair; and they would leave a victorious field for the sagacity and ambition of rival Journalists to act upon; and thus their efforts at mischief, or their incapacity for good, would cease at once to be lucrative to them selves, and injurious to the rest of a community. We regretted to see Sir Robert Peel, the other evening, expose himself, as he certainly did, to ridicule, by the mode in which he attempted to reta liate upon the hostility entertained and expressed towards his present line of conduct by the Times. But if Sir Robert Peel lost his temper, we shall take warning, and not follow the example. We may help to explain what it is that constitutes the real power of the Press, and what would assuredly and almost immediately effect the downfall of its most prosperous members, by alluding for a moment to the relatim between this gentleman and ourselves, since the cause of Reform so fiercely contested within the walls of l'arliement has been the object .of unanimous approbation throughout the country, and more especially with regard to the mode of our attack upon him. and his reply to us in Thursday night's debate. Had we been so iniquitous and ma lignant ac to mix up with our attack upon Sir Re bert Peel's guidance of the Anti-lieform opposition in the House of Commons, any such aspersions on his private character, as the weekly (and we are ashamed to say the daily) prints, which affect to be the present organs of the Tory party, pour out everlastingly against the Miniaters and other reforming Statesmen, the brutal wickedness would not have injured riir R. Peel, but would have recoiled upon ourselves. Had we accused the Terry Baronet of being an unkind mastee, an oppressor of the poor, an inhospitable neighbour, faithless friend, a heartless brother, an undutiful son, a pro fligate husband—or liar! tire, like the miscreants above alluded to, barbarously :laddered the vir towns females of iris family—nay, even oe points of smell comparative importance, had we denie.q. Sir Robert to be a scholar and a gentleman, or a multi , a - Icent encourager of the arts—what again would have followed ? Should we have exhibited the re sit:gess power of the Press ? Should we, in any cue sense, have justified the foolish theory of those who ascribe to the daily Journals a sort of black magician's force, neither capable of opposition nor explanation ? No, no '; The Times would have then been a traitor to the Liberty of the Press, All ifs own contemporaries would have con demned it to the same infamy As that into which the weekly rereiles have . feller). No Member of the House of Commons would Kaye owned to reading such ignominious rubbish, and Sir Robert Peel himself, instead of being worked up into a fury of " ind titfence" at our sudacious lan guage, would have enjoyed silently that "con tempt" with which our real " baseness" and iglue ranee of the ceiling of. honourable journalists must have inspired him. But private character is held sacred by this Paper. " Contempt," however, is an ugly term, and that appears among the reported expressions of Sir Robert Peel, in alluding; to the Press in genera!, and as it would seem intended snore directly fur the Times. It is impossible for Sir Robert Peel to entertain contempt for the Time:, and his affectation of the sentiment only got him laughed at. It is impossible, we repeat, for any intelligent man like Sir Robert Peel to despise a power which acts so vigorously, but which crumbles into dust the- moment in which its moral foundations of truth, pod sense, and general integrity, sink frorrr under it. Where has the Press any other than forces like these to rest upon ? Where arc to be found its bayonets ? Where its predatory boroughs ? The Press is called by some babblers, venal! What is the evidence for such a charge ? If venality be imputable to any cla-s of Englishmen, look not to the columns of newspa pers for your proofs,—tool: to the red book,—to the reports of Parliament,—to the lists of pensions and sitiecures,—to colonial functionaries twenty deep, — to mercenary Lords, to pamphleteering, jobbing, mitre-bunting dignittries of the Church,—to the in numerable tribes of vermin, bred within the folds of that poisonous mantle, which has wrapped for ages, and gradually numbed the Herculean might of Eng land, Even on any Aristocratic prineiple, Sir Peel lute no right to take airs in talking of azt isitel 'cease! power, wielded in malty instances by me. - r who, accordiug to the drawiegaeoorn sense o f t h e word, —a sense which he no doubt despises as e do, but better undastood, and more fond!) , che rished, by some of the aight Hon. Baronet's 'fore friends,—miglit call thereee:res " his betters!' Sir Robert Peel owes his wealth to the homeli nese of his origin. There are gentleesee, we be lieve, cennee:ed with the Press, proprietors of ;tend writers for it, who might have. been as rich as he, if their fathers had not been, to use ;:,he silly language of that day, too well born to condescend to the condition of weaver.:' Is that to their coedit? - B a h!, Or a reproach to #fir Robert Peel's history The rational world honours Nal and iris immediate ancestor tin. more. But it is a bone to gnaw for thoge wretched puppies who yelp out theier t eerulous insolence from day t.o. day, as if English jourrtai;sts might not be found win: were, even in their own cliddisli view of thing., ae ells other respects, " their betters." Will any of thes individuals pre person, a geestleman slime to ad'dr'ess by nasees or in conn ected in any depa r tmera of . the Presa, the dut . itea ! of which requi re liberal educat i on:,lai.riguage_ \Tr plying disparagement .to him or his prosession ? e suspect not. 't' not There ig, however, another eider of libellistr, for it is plain that the ass can be libelled, who speak of it as being " a thing of straw' " 7 -as thing without "prop erty," without a stake in the country,"—as here to-day, arid migiatory to-morrow These men may not be reprehensible for more than a total ignorance on the subject. A London news paper is not " a thing of stia , ,v." Uur contempc raries, and thousands of other well-informed persons, tvill hear us cut in saying, that there is nothing more difficult to establish, no property more impossible to remove or to transfer, without at once destroying it. Mr. Baring may have warehouses all over Europe, for aught we know, or in the United States, with the commerce of which his house has been as much connec!ed, whether in peace or war,— that is, to the extent to which the law allowed of,—as with English commerce. Mr. Baring's partners, or those who were his partners, might transport themselves and their clerks, and their bills of exchange, and sell their counting-houses, and be off next week to any part of the habitable world, and there carry on a trade as flourishing as here, and create new interests and imbibe fresh sympathies, and feel no more concern for England than if they had never seen her,—no more than any partnership of Jews. In that sense, merchants hare no country. Is it so with that species of property which we manage, and which (considered as property) supports us in return ? No stake in the country ! Drive a London newspaper from England,—nay, from London itself,—and what be comss of the 1 , hole concern ? It is extinct. Mr Bating might as well freight a sh'p for New York with his borough of Callington, as we move our establishment to any other spot upon the globe. The Times office is as much fixed and rooted here, as is Lord Fitnvilliana's estate in Yorkshire. Carry off the types if you will ; but what becomes of the connexion ?—what of the readers ?—what of the 100 families and upwards which it here maintains —all in decency, many in comfort, some in a liberal independence, a few in considerable affluence? No stake in the country ! Deprive England of her in ternal peace, her order, riches, intelligence, and prosperity, and see what class of professions or of property will experience a more signal downfall than the successful portion of the now existing Press; and if such be our stake in the public weal, has the nation no stake in ours ? What may be the pre cise case with some of our respectable brethren we know not, but the receipts at the Treasury can tell that this single journal pays per annum more than 70,0001. for stamps! Which of the small coxcombs who torment the House of Commons, but who will never more find access there, has so con tributed to the necessities of his country? We shall probably not notice further the mock-heroic decla mations against the daily Press. They are not ut tered, except in the single case of Sir Robert Peel, and that in an angry moment, by those whose judg ments or general character need give us or our bre thren much uneasiness. The value of the Press as a moral power is, that it cannot live af t er it ceases to be approved by the reason of an enlightened people ; and that when any member of it wants Reform, that member must reform itself, or if not perish— sink into hopeless misery and contempt. If printing and publishing were all that is required to form the " power" complained of, Carlile, Taylor, and Cob bett, would have as much influence over society as this or any other journal. What has become of them, we demand, and what are the causes of their ruin ?—Times. It has long been the boast of our constitutions, writers, that all the privileges of Parliament which obarruct the course of public justice are abolished and at end; and yet a Committee of the House of Commons has been occupied the greater part of the past week in hearing the argument of some of its own Members in support of one of the worst of those privileges, and which, if established, will, be yond all doubt, annul by far the most useful branch of the jurisdiction now vested in the Chancellor. This is to us no small matter of surprise; but our surprise is, we own, immeasurably increased when aria men as Sir James Scarlett and Mr. Serjeant Wilde are found leagued with the P—ls and the C—hs in arrogating for a guilty Member of the body to which they belong an exemption from that punishment which the law of the realm has most wisely awarded to other, but less exalted, offenders. Sir James had, indeed, already impaired his cha racter as a friend of public liberty—but not so his learned coadjutor; and yet, prole pudor ! the first act of hint whom the nobie-minded electors of Newark have sent to Parliament as the champion of a free and equal participation and enjoyment of civil rights, is to claim for himself and colleagues an im munity which would render null a large portion of the authority of a Court, than which, as he well know:, ;one is better adapted to protect the per sons and preserve the properties of the most help less part of his Majesty's subjects—by frustrating the heartless scheme of the fortune-hunter, and detect ing and punishing the secret fraud of the guardian and trustee. Lord Broughanr's order for the corn- Initial of Mr. Long Wellesley to the Fleet was obtained upon the application of Sir Edward Sugden, and v;ei: consequential upon an order made by Lord El- • don, and subsequently affirmed by the House of Lords (so that the contempt was two-fold—of the highest Court of Judicature as well as of the ,Great Seal) ; and no Judge who ever sat in a Court of Equity, no advorate who ever practised in it—not paid to argue ditierendye--ever doubted that such a power is inherent in the Chancellor. His right is derived from the Clown—the general and supreme guardian of c',l infants—and lie is still entitled to use the same sumeoary and coercive means for the protec tion of the persop of his wards as were formerly exercised by the King, and aftenyards by the tJuncii or the Parliament. Several Statutes have made the offence of Mr. Wellesley a criminal offence ; but no lawyer, • u nialtireneed by faction or by vanity, w ill venture to assert that it was not such by the corn. aeon law—or that before the jurisdietion became tested in the Chancellor, the Serjeant at Arms, who, althougla he attends 'the Chancellor, is still the officer of the House of Lords, was hot com monly employed by the Parliaeereot arid the Council to seize and incarcerate those who withheld the persorie of wards, although Peers, Knights of tbu Shire, or bt:rg,2.sses, and in despite of a privilege which, indeed, was ', e ver heard of until now. In truth, all those conversant with the history of the Court of Chancery are aware that the only means which that tribunal formerly possessed of enforcing is decrees ws by imprisonment, arid those who affirm the existence o f this privilege should be prepared to show in what way the Court, at .that period, executed the numerous decrees against Peers ari4 Commoners, which are still preserved at the Tower and the Chapel of the Rolls. The jurisdiction is, from x,he nature of it, a mixed juris tion, partly criminal arid partly civil. No order is requisite to constitute an infant ward of the Chan cellor. It is sutilelent that such infant be a party to a suit; and then, although the object of the suit be altogether foreign to the administration of the inisaa property, and the existence of the suit be unknown, re..cent to the parties and their solicitors, yet all persons' aa.;;;:tiog in carrying off the ward have always been punished oe, guilty of a gross con tempt., That punishment is close i...-pprisoninent; nor are there any fixed limits to its doration, A lthough it has I:aro:My terminated upon the execu in.)n of a settlement of the iiefapt's property, expressly framed to prevent the wrong doe: from deriving any peei,toary advantage from his offence. This is the law of the IL:ourt of Chancery, and this for cen turies has been tire general law of the land ; from which neither Peer or Comtpotic; has been hitherto exempt. 7t would be strange indeed, if Acts ex pressly passed to restrain the privilege of Parba ment, which derogated fecrn the common law, were construed to create an immunity Elia, wee previously unknown. We trust, however, that the Commit. tee has.: teeo much sense to report in favour of tire exemption conteo4eof for; but should they be mis led by the miscalled ft;e;;d: of liberal itistitutiorP, there can be no doubt the House repudiate and re:,,e.ct a privilege that. would only serve io open its doors tow host e of adventurers against whom a writ of sequestration c..euld be of no avail. Since writing the above it occurs to us to inquire what will become of the summary jueiadietion of the Mort° over c•trorner, should the pernicious priyilege in Tics - don 133 established ? Attornies, who are Members of the House of Commons, may set all the tribunals of Weattninstet-hall at defiance. Does Mr. Seljeant. Wilde, who has the advantage of h more intimate knowledge of solicitors than most of the gentlemen of the long robe, desire that Parlia ment should exempt all such solicitors as may fi n d their way within its walls from the wholesome punishment with which tile law and usage of the courts visit fraud, prevarication, and other species of dishonourable practices, that are cognizable by no other jurisdiction ?-111orning Chronicle. - Sir Robert Peel talks of the " menaces" which are held out against him by the Press, and of the " total disregard" with which he treats them. Sir Robert Peel, in fact, has been spoiled by the Press, and like other spoiled children, he has been petted till he wants correction, but when the hour of cor rection comes, cannot submit to the,slightest rebuke. A. long as the Press humoured arid flatter rd, arid cried up Sir Robert Peel, it was " the people's best instructor;" but now that the Right Hon. Baronet is. doomed to hear a few wholesome, but unpalate able truths, from the same quarter, nothing can be half so bad or mischievous as the Press. But what Sir Robert Peel means by " menaces" we do not at all understand. If any thing of the kind has been exhibited, it must have been in a part of the Press which has never come within the reach of our observation. The truth is, though the Press has lately beet, under the necessity of telling the worthy Baronet a few home truths, which are calculated to take down h's self importance " a pc! or two," yet both, as far as we are concerned, or have seen, cor rection has been inflicted with a sparing hand, and in a temper partaking much more of kindness than of " menace." The truth is, Sir Robert Peel has, from want of foresight, placed him self in a false position. This the Press has discovered and pointed out; but this Sir Ro bert Peel, puffed up by its former praise, cannot bring his mind to endure, or even take in good part, but winces under the lash, however gently applied, calling advice calumny, and rebuke menace. The most extraordinary thing, after all, is—what Sir Robert Peel, blinded by flattery, seems uncon scious of—that the part of the Press which still lauds him occasionally to the skies is the organ of the only real bitterness against him which, in fact, exists. The high Tories and Anti-Reformers are the persons who really hate Sir Robert Peel from the bottom of their hearts. They never can for give his versatile conduct on the Catholic question. They find it convenient, nevertheless, in an hour of emergency like this to retain him in their ranks at any price, arid to lay the most flattering unction to his soul, though gall and bitterness is ill their cup and in their palate. All this the Hon. Baronet takes con amore, while the wholesome reproofs of those who have no sinister object in what they say is not, es he would have us believe, disregarded, but looked upon as menace and intimidation.—Morn. Herald. The Reforming Ministers, with their trained band of pledged Members, seem extremely anxious to con vince mankind that an asset - 111;1y may be no jot the less a deliberative body although a larger proportion than usual of its Members are expres.ly bound not to exercise the faculty of deliberation. II ,d this very reasonable proposition been announced during the prevalence of the Reform mania it would proba bly have been accepted by the mob, to whom of course it is exclusively addressed, with all imaginable alacrity. But the time for such extravagancies has gone by. They are nauseous even to the lowest vulgar. We shall next no doubt be told that the best possible legislature for the British Empire would be a single body, consisting exclusively of men not only chosen by, but sworn implicitly, and from day to day, to obey, the voters of particular towns and districts sin Great Britain and Ireland. This is the naked proposition which Ministers must intend to establish when they attempted to defend the conduct of Mr. Alderman Thompson and that portion of his constituents be fore whom he was reduced the other day to whine, and cry, and prevaricate, and fib, and protest. And to what does this proposition lead ? So clearly and inevitably to unirersal suffrage, and to the admission of all the inhabitants of the British Colonies to their full share of the representation, or to their release I from their allegiance, that no man with the least 'pretension to sense and honesty can attempt to main tain the proposition and elude the consequence. That Aldermen or other popular delegates, when reduced to the lamentable condition of the City Mem ber, should excite the lively sympathy of his Ma jesty's Ministers, can excite no surprise ; for have not the latter been themselves reduced in like manner upon the occasion of their hale-yearly rent clause to whine, and cry, and prevaricate, and fib, arid protest, before their masters of the Revolutionary tress. The cases are as nearly parallel as may b e . The foolish Aldermen only wished that Appleby should have a fair hearing, not that there can be a bias towards any thing fair in the mind of a pledged and predetermined man, but because he ltad some kindly affinity or other to the devoted borough. The re volutionary Ministry only wished to subtract some thing from the power they had promised to MM. bers, in order to subtract less than they had threatened from the influence of property; not, that there can be any leaning towards public s•ifety in the minds of a revolutionary Ministry, but because the Ministers as individuals have each some affinity or other to the cause of property. Thus far the parallel is pretty close, and it may be pursued to the end. The Alderman and the Ministers h ave been alike compelled to crouch beneath the lash of the tyrants whom they had respectively contributed to enthrone. Arid are they not tyrants, those voters especially, who, being entrusted by the Constitution with the power of selecting representatives for themselves and the whole of their fellow subjects, for the beggar who sweeps the crossings in front of their shops, for the Indian who weaves the silk, for the negro who cultivates the sugar in which they traffic, for the colonial proprietor, for the merchant and the ship-owner ; for the !manufacturer, for the workman, whose capital in money or in toil creates or conveys the stock which they live by retailing, as much us for themselves, employ the power so confided to them as an instrument of usurpation, and instead of a national representative send to Parliament a per sonal delegate, a bound and fettered slave of their own, a creature incapacitated for argument or thought, the opprobrium and the obstruction of an as sembly which is deliberative or nothing ? Yet this its what the. voters of London have done, this is what their Members have abetted, this is what his Majesty's Ministers have supported and ap plauded. There is reason also to fear that the Menu bens sent by the city of London to the present House of Commons are not the only persons by many in that assembly who, if closely pressed, would be com pelled to confess that they are not free to vote upon subjects of the highest importance from the consci entious convictions cf their own mind, but are, on the contrary, as much as Alderman Thompson, and the other Aldermen, the blind tools and abject slaves of those who have no legal or constitutional right wlostever to introduce such commodities of their own into the Farliament of the United Kingdoms. — Morning Post. An Evening Cotemporary has expressed his este, niehment at the excess of ire and indignation be trayed towards the Press by such persons as Peel, Hunt, Valletort, et id genus 97?ine—but for our part we see wining astonishing in the matter. It is quite as natural that these parties should endeavour to vilify the Press, as a convict irs the hulks the ads. ministration of the law ; fer what the law has preyed to the sore in matters of fact, t h e P ress has i been to . the other n natters of political conduct. And )' will b w e i at foundis s t to ndoeraeolt,thr;b::eioctft,i aresa instru mentsmoefotalfsl h 2, soie punishment,: lvtler en acquittal technicalitiese e c s i c s l e p l o y efs a tp f rieleir late the il he ment because it is only proved that he had stolen mare, and not a . horse; as laid in the indictment, he is loud in its praises, as the safeguard of the innocent, qlhuatitirtiiheei their these respectivec l ases of 3c ie ' n vet even looks up to it with delightful admiration, as a sure asylum against those whom he considers his persecutors; but, on the other hand, should lie be caught in its meshes and sentenced to dangle at a rope's end before Newgate,—the law will be bad in his estimation, and the a dministration of it most cruel and unjust. So also with Peel, Hunt, and the tribe of our accu•ers generally. All of them were wont to speak loudly in favour and in praise of the Press, and for the plain reason, that the Press at that time had no occasion to do other than laud them; bat now that they have, by their own con duct, incurred its indignation, and that it scruples not, from a sense of public duty," to paint them as they are," there is nothing " so foul, beastly, snd degrading as the Press." Such is their mode of speaking of us now—such it was not some months ago ; but let them beware—the Press made them, as it can unmake them ; and we would exhort them, before they indulge in any more remarks of the same tenour to bethink themselves whether it would not be better to make sure that there are not " beams in their own eyes," before they undertake to extract those that may happen to be in their neighbours'. —.Morning Advertiser. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. Wiliam Strickland, broker and appraiser, of No. 6 Crown-court, Soho, was charged by Mr. William Wright, surveyor and land-valuer, with having made excessive charges under a distress-warrant. Mr. Wright stated that on the 28th March last he was residing at the house of a lady named Abbott, situate at No. 3, Moscow-row, Bayswater, when a distress was put into the house for arrears of rent amounting to 201. The broker's man remained in possession from twelve o'clock on the Monday until ten o'clock on the Saturday following, when a van drove up to the door, and he (witness) was told that if he did not immediately pay 251. the goods should be carried away. Mrs. Abbott, who was a widow lady, being at the time 40 miles from home, he hardly knew how to act, but sooner than her goods should be sacrificed, he paid the money, having first demanded a bill. The bill furnished by the defendant was here put into the hands of the Magistrates, and it appeared by it that the goods on the premises had been valued by an appraiser (called in by the defendant) at 221. The appraiser then purchased the goods at his own valuation, and demanded 1/. Is. Gd. from Mr. Wright as his commission en the re-sale. This latter demand was altogether illegal, and besides that there was an overcharge of 63. for the man who remained in possession ; and another charge of 21., for which no ground whatever could be assigned. The whole amount of the overcharges was 3/. 'is. Gd. Mr. HALLS convicted the defendant in the full penalty allowed by law. The defendant was then ordered to pay 101.2 x. Gd., being treble the amount of the overcharge, Gs. ex penses, and is. Gd. for the hearing, making in all 101. 10s. His solicitor having advised him to allow his goods to be seized under a distress warrant sooner than pay the money. The defendant said be should certainly adopt that course, and was walking out of the office, when Mr. HALLS told him he must remain in custody until an officer returned from his house and reported to him if there were sufficient goods on the premises to cover the warrant of distress, which should be immediately issued. The defendant, who appeared greatly surprised, was then locked up, and in a few minutes he sent to acquaint the Magistrates that he was willing to pay the money. The money was paid accordingly, and Sir R. BIRNIE expressed a hope that the legal ad viser of Mr. Wright would not suffer the matter to rest here. TITHE CATTLE.—In a former number of our Paper we mentioned that several head of cattle which bad been distrained for tithes due under the Composition Act to the Very Rev. the Dean of St. Patrick's, were sold at Castlecomer on the 4th inst. The cattle were allowed to remain at Castlecomer until Thursday last, on which day Captain TRENCH, C.C.P., received instructions to forward them to that city, accompanied by a police force sufficient to protect them. They were accordingly sent from Castlecomer about twelve o'clock on Thursday night, on their way to Dublin, the owners having refused to re deem them. Another tithe sale is to take place at Castle coiner, we understand, on the sth of -next month.— Kilkenny Paper. FALL OF A CHURCH.—On the 12th inst. the roof of Woodchurch, near Dewsbury, suddenly fell, and duried the nave, pulpit, pews, tcc., in the ruins.— Time bad impaired the roof, and some men had gone up to examine and restore it ; but just as they commenced removing the slates, the whole roof fell in with an astound ing crash ; but we are happy to state that no persons sus tained injury. The walls are so shaken by the concussion that they must be taken down. This is a lesson to church wardens. Had they attended to the edifice in time, it would probably have weathered another half century.— Leeds Paper. EFFECT OF IMAGINATION.—The following case is an illustration of the operation of mental causes on the bodily frame :—" A short time since a female pre sented herself to Dr. WARREN of Boston, with a tumour, or swelling of the submaxillary gland of the neck, which bad become what is commonly called a wen. After this she called again, and, with some hesitation, begged to know whether an application recommended to her would, in his opinion, he safe. This consisted in applying the hand of a dead man three times to the diseased part. At first he was disposed to divert her from it; but, recollect ing the power of imagination, he gravely assured her she might make the trial without apprehension of serious con sequences. A little while after she presented herself once more, and with a smiling countenance informed him she had used this remedy and no other since he saw her; and, on examining for the tumour, he found it had actually dis appeared."—Lancct. A r t it t he ' C o n s br w l( a ig s e s e n A t e s n s c i e z d e s to , d o e l a i th W fo T e r d a l s l s e a s u c l i t a2 i ' g , Rois Mrs. BETIIIA WOODMAN with a poker, and giving her T NNoo many blows, with intent to kill and murder her. The prisoner is a young man of most respectable family at Aylesbury, and the person whom he assaulted is the wife of his brother. It seemed that in the course of the last winter the prisoner had had a typhus fever, and Mrs. WOODMAN would not, when Le came to her house, allow him to sleep there, for fear of infecting the children. Th is appears to have caused an ill feeling in his mind ; and on the 14th of March he went to her house, and during her ab.ence took the poker. When she entered the room he struck her on the head a violent blow which felled her, and repeated it. A neighbour made his appearance fortu nately, or he would have beaten her to death. As soon as 11rs. WOODMAN recovered her senses, she asked the pri soner " What have I done to deserve this ?'' he replied, ‘, That's for your charity that you've acted to me, and I have now returned the same to you! I think and hope I've done for you !" Ile said " lie wished Boa (the husband) was at home, that he might serve him the same." ..--The prisoner received a good character for humanity. THE PROPOSED GREAT NORTHERN AND EA,s;TERY JUNCTION RAILWAY.— , We understand that it is in contemplation to open a direct communication by railway from London, through Cambridge, Sleaford, and Lincoln, to Retford ; and thence through Bawtry and Doncaster, and forward nearly in a line with the peat North road, to Edinburgh. The distance measures upon the map 340 miles, and will be accomplished in 14 b oors . All the water communications out of the West will meet this line of railway. The Eastern junction will be merely a continuation of the Liverpool and Man choter, and the proposed Manchester and Sheffield rail. way, from Sheffield to Retford, where it will form a junction with the Northern line, and proceed throug Lincoln, Sleaford, and Cambridge, to London, measuring C o n the map 1 60 miles. The distance will be effected from i Sheffield in six hours and a half; from Manchever in hours and a half; and Liverpool to London i n eleven e h ou rs, with a branch from Retford through G a i ns h orougl m os i rig ham, and Brigg, to Grimsby, thus Opening a di reel communication betwixt the Eastern and Western Oceans, measuring 161 miles, and will he accomplish e d in seven hours. This, it is said, will be the most direct and expeditious line which can be found from Liverpool London. The black cattle out of the North, and fat cattle ' from Lincolnshire, will make their transit to London, Sheffield, Manchester, and all intermedi a t e places, with , great rapidity, and at little expense , compar e d with the • present slow and laborious process.— Ml! Pat ket • THE LORD MAYOR'S GRAND DINNER AT TWICKENHAM. Oa Saturday the Right lion. the Lord Mayor gave a grand dinner on board the navigation barge at Twicken- I ant, to his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, Lord John Russell, Lord Nugent, and several other distinguished persons. There were several ladies of rank of the party. A very extraordinary fracas took place between the Lord Mayor and the Recorder, at the Court of Conservancy, held at the Swan, at Westminster-bridge, before the na vigation barge went up the river. It had been observed, before his Lordship and the high city officers left London, that the Recorder appeared, contrary to the usual practice, in the dress of a private individual, while the Lord Mayor appeared in full dress. Of this circumstance no notice was t (ken. The Learned Gentleman, however, exhibited very decided symptoms of displetsure before the Court of Con servancy, held at Southwark, broke up. The short pas sage through the water to Westminster bridge, instead of cooling greatly aggravated his sore feelings, which at length gave themselves vent in the presence of the Conservancy Jury at the above mentioned tavern. The Learne I REcortnEa., addressing himself to the Lord Mayor, said, "My Lord Mayor, I can no longer disguise from you that I feel your Lordship has most grossly, and beyond all endurance insulted me." " Indeed," said the Lord Maros, "in what manner ? ' "I feel the indignity most poignantly, my Lord Mayor; I shall, while you are 'Chief Magistrate, act towards you with respect, because respect is due to the office you hold ; but as soon as you have passed the chair, you must look to experience dittrent sort of treatment." " I am sure you are very kind and very candid," ob served the Lord Alas ox, " but what have I done to sub ject me to so great a misfortune as your displeasure?" The ItEconnEn—" You cannot be a stranger to the fact, that my wife, Lady Knowlys, has been passed ovc r on all occasions in your mayoralty, on which ladies have been entertained. The magistrates who have not passed the chair, and who are of course considered my juniors, have all been treated with becoming respect as regards the invitations to the ladies, but I have been singled out for insult. I shall, my Lord Mayor, accordingly, while you are in the chair, act respectfully towards you to considera tion of your office ; but the moment you leave it, the mo rnent your year is out, our acquaintance is at an end." " Very well, Mr. Recorder," said his Lordship, '' I shall between this and that endeavour to reconcile myself to the loss." Here the conversation, we• understood, dropped. Those who heard the particulars, and who know that in the Learned Gentleman's house the grey mare is the better horse, are of opinion that the Recorder was actually corn pellei to reproach the Lord Mayor thus publicly, in order to escape a reproach of a inure serious and striking de scription himself: The higher order of his Lordship's guests met him at Kew, where they embarked en board the barge. From thence the barge proceeded to Twickenham, where she was moored, and the dinner was served up to 130 persons. Several of the Nobility sent apologies, which reached his Lordship at Westminster-bridge. After the cloth was removed. The LORD 31Avon. gave, " Our gracious and beloved Sor,reign." The King, his Lordship observed, grew more and more dear to his devoted people us his reign advanced. Ilia Lonnsme next gave, " Her Majesty," ani pre faced the toot with a high eulogium upon the virtues of the Queen. The LORD MAYOR then bid to propose the health of an Illustrious Prince who had honoured the Chief Magi strates rural entertainment with his presence. The Duke of SUSSEX, after he returned thanks, pro posed the health of the Lord Mayor. He felt happy in the conviction that the time would very speedily arrive when he was confident the Lord Mayor would receive the just reward of his distinguished merits in that quarter front which it would be duly prized. Ths Lott]) MAYOR stated that to know that lie was honoured with the approbation of the Royal and - illustrious Duke, was an ample recompense to him for all the calum nies which had been heaped upon him solely because of his public conduct. The Loren MAYOR had now the gratification of pro posing the health of Lord John Russell, and felt convinced that not one word more was necessary. Lord JOHN RUSSELL returned thanks. The Loan 111Avoit then proposed the health of Lord Nugent. Lord NUGENT returned thanks, and proposed the health of the Members for the city. The day was spent delightfully. Lord and Lady Mun ster and several others of the nobility sent apologies on account of the state of the weather. Dancing commenced at eight o'clock, and continued till ten on the deck of the barge.. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Portsmouth Herald of Sunday.) PORTSMOUTH, JULY 24.—His Majesty's ship Mersey, 28, Captain G. W. C. Couttenay, which arrived on Saturday from the West India station, came into harbour on Monday, under orders to be paid off into Ordinary. His Majesty's steam-vessel Messenger, Lieut. Aplin, proceeded for Plymouth, on Saturday, to convey his Majesty's ship Ocean (fitted as a laza retto) from that port to Sheerness. His 'Majesty's steam-vessel Columbia, Lieut. Ede, proceeded on Friday with his Majesty's ship Albion (fitted as a lazarette), for Leith, and will return to this port with the men who have been hired to na vigate the Albion, when this service shall have been performed. His Majesty's cutter Sylvia, Lieut. Spark, re turned from Plymouth on Tuesday,whither she con veyed 7,000/.in silver for the use of that Dock-yard. She is ordered to keep guard at Spithead in conjunc tion with the Cracker cutter, to enforce the quaran tine regulations, The Swedish men of war which have been for some days at Spithead, sailed on Friday, on a cruise to the North Sea. During their stay at this port the Captains and officers visited the Dock-yard and other public establishments, with which they ex pressed themselves much pleased. The Surrey male convict-ship sailed on Monday for New South Wales, with two hundred male con victs, under the superintendency of Dr. Browning. His Majesty's ship Samarang, 28, Capt. C. H, Paget, being ready for sea, went out of harbour yes terday. She will be paid advanced wages to-mor row, and sail on the following day for the island of St. Michael's, for the protection of British interests in that quarter. His Majesty's ship Galatea, 42, Capt. Napier, C.B. will return to Spithead, on the arrival of the Samarang, it is believed, to try her qualities with those of Sir E. Cudrington's squadron, for which purpose she will proceed to their destined latitude. The Duke of Br►►ganza and suite,'- are expected here this day to embark on board the Lightning steam-vessel (which arrived yesterday afternoon from the river) for Brest, to convey to this country the young Queen of Portugal, attended by the Duchess of Braganza and suite. The Naval and Military au thorities at this port, have received instructions to show due honours on the occasion. At Spithead.— In Hathour.—Spartiate, Winchester, Royal George, Tweed, Victor, Rittlesnake, Imogine, Re cruit and 'Messenger steamer; Sylvia and Emerald tenders. PROMOTIONS,. APPOINTMENTS, &C.—Captain J. e f ie luz e n ; dy L e ic i u s t a c p u r n i t n s te F d . to i his 011 Majesty 's a the well H. Kepple, are also appointed to that ship, as Mr. J. Taylor (6) Purser. Lieutenant E. H. Fitzmaurice is appointed to his Majesty's cruiser Nimrod, vice White. Lieutenants G. Read, B. Mainwaring, 11. L. Parry, W. Luce, I'. Francillon, C. B. Westbrooke, R. Napper, and W. Hay, are appointed to the Coast Guard Service. Lieutenant C. Tilby, of the Ordinary at Devonport, is ap pointed to the Out-pension of Greenwich Hospital, vice Pringle, deceased. Lieutenant M. Tritton is appointed to the Ordinary of Devonport, vice Ttlby, Mr, A. W. Milward, Mate of his Majesty's ship Asia, is promoted to the r ank of Lieutenant, Mr. R. S. Stokes, Clerk of his Majesty's ship Winches ter, is appointed Supernumerary Clerk of his Ma jesty's ship Imogene. Mr. W. Smith is a pp ointed Supernumerary Clerk to the Winchester, vice Stokes. L'eut. Nolloth, who has lately been appointed to his Majesty's ship Galatea, will . take a passage in his Majesty's ship Samarang, which will sail for the W i Western Islands on Tuesday, in order to join that ship. Ilk Majesty's !hip Winchester, 52, Grain Lord Wm. Paget, will ba unlocked during die week, and will be succeeded in dock by the Mer sey, which has damaged her false keel by running ashore. The Duncan, 74, in ordinary at this part, ha been ordered to be fitted forthwith with jury trams as a lazarette, for Leith: The Salisbury, 58, and Jupiter, 30, which a re now being fitted for lazarettes at this port, will pre ceed to their appointed station in Portchester Lake about the middle of the ensuing week. His Majesty's ship Alfred, 50, Capt. Robert Maunsell, attached to the squadron under Sir Edward Codrington, put into Plymouth on Thurs . - day morning last, in consequence of her having damaged her rudder in a gate. The fleet was at that time cruising off the Uzard. We learn by a Revenue cutter which came into the harbour yesterday afternoon, and which left the squadron under Sir Edward Codrhigton, off Fal mouth, on Friday morning at nine o'clock, that the fleet would continue out until Friday next, when they would put into Plymouth for orders. The influenza was still prevalent among the seamen. The ships are represented as having made wonderful pro• gress towards perfection in their evolution. It was currently reported among the fleet that they would shortly return to this port to meet his Majesty. The following East Indiamen have arrived here, during the week, from the river, and ate merely waiting for a wind, viz.:—The Duke of Bedford, for Calcutta; the Duke of . Northumberland, for Bmgal ; the Lady Raffle , , the Victory, and t he Malcolm, for Bombay. The fine armed ship Margaret, of Bristol, arrived at the Motherbauk on Monday, to embark Major General Bourke, the new Governor of Sydney, and his staff, and eighteen soldiers as a body guard. She will take out also Mrs. Bourke, two sons, and one daughter, Captain Westmacot, Aide-de-camp, and Captain Hunter, Assistant Military Secretary, with their ladies and families, the Rev. G. Innes, arid Dr. Stevenson, as well as a large number of highly re spectable steerage passengers, consisting of archi tects, farmers, and artisans, to settle in the colony. General Bourke, accompanied by Sir Robert and Lady Kennedy, arrived here yesterday. The Lord William Bentinck, transport, Liete• Grigg, agent, will shortly leave Deptford, with stores and convicts for the island of Bermuda. , His Majesty's brig Onyx (tender to the Royal George), Lieut. Dawson, which sailed from Olio port on the 4th of March for South America, in rived at Rio de Janeiro on the 6th of May, after boisterous passage (all well). Her return may be looked for in the early part of next month. The Monkey (tender to the flag ship On the West India station,) was wrecked on the bar of Tumpie° on the 13th of May last. Her crew were saved. His Majesty's ship Ariailne, 28, Captain C' Phillips, is hourly expected from Lisbon, and the Falcon, 10, from the West India station. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. DURING LAST WF.EK. Wheat. — Barley, Oats. Bean s . Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. s. to 0 '• Catlisle 56 33 31 36 52 70 33 31 22 29 50 Morpeth 33 40 22 30 38 Penrith 62 39 32 Sheffield 69 Winchester 60 69 34 41 23 30 42 5- Per Bushel. s.d. s . d . s. d . s. d. s. d. s. d. 8, d. t,t 6, , 0 Carmarthen 7 3 8 3 4 4 5 9 2 0 '2 9 0 0 ,u 0 Coventry .--. 70 90 48 54 36 40 56 :40 Newcastle (Staff.) 10 3 99 6 0 66 4 6 4 9 7 4 6 Northallerton —... 7 0 9 3 3 6 4 6 3 3 4 0 9 " a 0 96 100 59 62 46 49 78 0 Swansea 86 96 46 49 30 39 00 0 6 Warwick 9 0 10 0 4 6 5 0 2 2 2 6 7 3 Per 8011. Barnardeastle....... 16 6 19 0 ,10 0 0 0 8 0 9 0 0 0 11 0 Durham. l6O, 19 61 90 10 0 50 76 10 0 1 1 0 Richmond — Stockton 1170 18 31 9 0 100 66 76 0 WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.—JuIy Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Sufrolk 525. 58s. to fits. fine 675. Lin. and Cam. Yorkshire White Foreign, Red. White s. s Barley, Norfolk and Suflblk - Lincolnshire 55 5 5 5 65 (21): , a e 6066. 2 : 1;1 ... 7 t i tt 0 0 0000 66 4 t 64c3 ; 40,2 1• fifi fi fit e eeeee Or t s 234. to 3 , 5. rine 325. Yorkshire Wold 29s. to 30s. fine 5 4 2 , . - Foreign —S. to —s. fine --s• Beans, Siai' `l7s to 40s. fine 4 2 a . - Tick ^ lt;s. to 395. fine 41s Oats, Potato 24s. to %g. fine 30s. Poland Wis. to 2135. fine 04 , Friezland and Small —s. 21s. to 255. fine 27& Mealing l2O. to 14d. per Stone. Shelling 3ss. to 334. (3d. per Load; Malt 19s. 445. fine 48e. per Load: Rapeseed SCO' Wheat. 'CH MARKETS. Barley Oats. Beans. ()attn.—, 25 27 38 46 4. 20 23 30 32 42 20 23 30 31 :0 40 42 -- 27 29 38 40 -- 20 213 19 21 -- 22 26 34 35 48 : 0 20 23 29 32 -- 25 32 45 48 43 ,„ 20 23 22 -- ies throughout the counttl.:„ Aberdeen Coldstream 17upar Elgin .----.. Kelso Perth The size 52 C 2 40 40 44 47 44 72 50 60 53 6:3 40 52 42 47 42 47 46 58 of the In, EDI NBURGH We had a large supi hich met with a Small d Per Sack of kb'Olb. It First Oatmeal X' Second ditto l3arleymeal Peasemeal Pot Barley—No. I, per 28 34 28 30 24 28 27 31 32 34 32 35 32 34 28 29 27 39 21 27 I sure val MEAT ply of demand 2 4 0 2 2 0 I 14 0 1 14 0 cwt. 14s MARKET.--July 19. Oatmeal at this day's mar ti at last week's pricus. Per Stone of 1411 a. First Oatmeal £o 5 Second ditto Barleymeal 0 1 to Peasemeal 20s.—Pwa i 1 EDINBURGH CORN MARKET.- 20- lip; We had a very large supply of Wheat to-day, July and a mid . l e o supply of all other kinds of Grain, which sold readily. W o c down 2s. on the top, and up tki. on the average. Barley top as last week, and up 50. on the average. Oats up Is. 4 "' a p the top, and I Id. on the average. Pease and Beans down 2• the top, and Is. on the average. Wheat. Barley. First Otls Od 37s 0:1 Second Third Oats. 34s Od 34 , s 0(1 23s 6d Pease. 42s (k 1 411 Od 39s (Ai 1 4 3 S 4 ai gi - 0 ,1 4ii Ips tio ~,, PRICES OF PROVISIONS, &C. Reef, i-er lb. N. 3d. to Os.7d. Fresh Butter,lb.P.lo,l. to 10., 0 Mutton - 0 4 0 6 Salt Ditto.* 0 9 o 'o Veal 0 3 0 8 Ditto, per ciA t. 78 0 0 0 0 3 0 6 Eggs, per dos. 0 8 0 0 Lamb, per qr. 1 0 3 6 OatStraw(kpl.) 7 0 8 • 6 Tallow, ewt....35 0 37 6 Wheat Ditto., 6 6 • 6 Quartern Loaf 0 8 0 0 B ar l e y Ditt o 6 0 Potatoes, 1711 b. 0 8 0 0 Hay, per st.—. 1 4 ±„, GLASGOW CORN MARKEL—JuIy t.'o. 10 1 l Wheat is held firmly at the rates of. last week. Barley i , . I,t'r of sale at our quotations. Since our report last week Oats r 3, t ile gave way in price, and a large quantity were so ld ; this (13),,t/41 holders were asking about ed. per bull a d vance, whic h preve' 6iii any extensive business being done. Beans and Pease rei n without alteration in price, but the latter are dull of sale. „if: Wheat, per 2401 b. s. d. s. d. O a t s , per 2041 h. 5. d. W British, old 3l 0t032 0 Irish IS otonl I new 26 0 30 0 British l9 0 Canada, free 29 0 30 0 Beans, per 2001 b. 21 6 6 Irish Barley, per 3201 b. Scottish English — 0 0 Pease, Scottish ... 19 0 :' - ;,1 1 1,. Scottish 2 OO 28 0 Oatmeal, per 1401 b. IS 0 5 5 Irish CORNWALL MARKETS. e‘t TRURO—Wheat (average) '2sB.o(l—Barley, 12s.—Oats, I% l ' o o Sr. AUSTELL—Wheat, to '26s.—Barley, Ns. to 135..-• Os. to Ss. Od. Bonmix—Wheat (average) 24s.0.1.—Barley, 10A.—Oats, LAUNCF.STON—Wheat (average) 275. Od.—Barley, I Is. 7s. o.l.—Beef, 6d.—Mutton, 6d. HELMTON—Wheat, 265. 3d.—Barley, I3s. Od. PENZANCE—Wheat, 255. to 26s.—Barley, —s. to 145.--• L, Os. to Os. 01—Beef and Mutton, sd. to 6d.—Pork, 30, to' Butter, Si. per lb. (F . LisKEARD--Wiseat, --s. Od. to 235.--Barley, I Is. 6d.-. 04.- ' oee p to 98. Od. Sr. CoLumn—Wheat, 245. to 23s.—Barley, I Is. to and Mutton, 4d. to sd.—Veal, 4Y 2 d.—Lainb. 3d. MINING INTELLIGENCE. Tons. ''' . o Quantity of Copper Ore sold at Itedruth last Thursday 3,30 4 0 Average Produce...- 94 1 Quantity of fin e C opper Amouut of Sale, 17,9951. 259 of , 991. :3:.:%1 PRINTED AND PIALI3IIIkD 11Y MURDO YOUNG , 41' *UN - 151:7;i:u . ;11:I; A - 1 , 47. 1,0;13-0N. B Jo ?ou c h to b e . given ‘°nda Tb pro ve , whick fo und are fii Cip&l COmr, ill °Y tri th e , c give t carria Moiler BIRTHS. Ci# 6 , On the 22d inst. at N e w-street, the lady of the Hon. of a son. On the 22d inst. in Devonshire-place, Mrs. Lapel Curet Vl . daughter, MARRIED. On the 21st inst. at Compton Dando, Somersetshire, t; e 4 T. Collins, Rector of Timsbury, and lat e F e ll o w of Ball;pP lege, to Elizabeth Ayliffb, youngest daughter of the late Boodle, Esq., n of Brook-street, Gro sveuor . square . al e if On the 23d inst. at St. Geor ge ' s , Bl ooms b ury , F. ---• Esq., of Basing-lane, and of Cheshunt, Herts, t o Olive, .. of the late Wm. Turner, E sq . t On the 20th inst. at Clift on, M ar k p r i ng N , the latp John Pringle, Esq. pf ‘pakende44l; Sussextt°o O 10 Fanny, D only daughter of the late J. II Irwin, Esq. C 4 l his MajestY's 103 d Re g i ment, 01 On the 23d inst. at St. Andrew's, Holborn,lj Mr. Hugh o to Margaretta, fifth d aughter of Mr. John Cross, la t e Golden Cross, Charing-cross. i s DIED. parr' On the 24th in s t . after a short but severe illr.ess, Mrs• or wife of Mr. Parrish, Surrey-street. I • t On the 21st inst. aged 72, W. Browell, Esq., Lieu he vernor of Greenwich Hospital, and retired Captain of t " Navy. ine Pr ; On the 20th inst. - at Hurst-house, Molesey, Caro l ~,ht wife of Colonel Sir Dudley St, Leger Hill, and third a."" R. Hunter, Esq., aged 33. , f / the met rece th at Gla rat e Haul . Year a re, VEI Ho] guar. RIC redu havii . ciety QUI • petre WO; away N am str eel • of th AR/ 11 P r i l' tAl 4,0,k Te n 0 I'dsB e G 0 1 ofli e, th e ,i, Pas n arkec] .11vikE (lay CLi gra) At N, Au k Ad, Al t "ry Dar t , tr j et a