The Sun. — London, England, 1831-05-30 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Although the discussions concerning the election of Prince Le,pold to the throne of Belgium have not y,t commenced, it is evident, from the preli- . nnianry proceedings and the express declaration of the Deputies, that his Royal Highness will have a grew majority of the Congress in his favour. Out of 122 of the members present, 96 declared them selves his supporters, and only two pronounced themselves against him, the rest reserving their votes. Some great delusion, however, appears to prevail among the members of Congress as to the conditions of his acceptance, and the result of his nomination. They seem to think that they ought to elect a King for the purpose of settling with Holland and Europe the extent of their territory, and the amount of their debt, whereas these points must be settled before the Prince can accept the intended honour. By taking the oath required on his accession, he must engage to maintain the in tegrity of the Belgic territory, as described in the Constitution, including Limburg, Luxemburg, and the left bank of the Scheldt. To this condition he could not subscribe while the Great Powers of Europe declared that those provinces or districts did not belong to Belgium. It is not to be pre sumed that he would accept of a crown and a war by the tame act, and it would be little else than absurd to swear the maintenance of rights which it would be his first care to renounce or modify. As to the selection of his Royal Highness for the pur pose of more vigorously prosecuting a war to the commencement of which he must be opposed, we need say nothing. The thing is too ridiculous to admit of reasoning. —Times. The Tory Papers are putting forth an immeasur able deal of trash on the subject of Lord Grey's ap pointment to the Order of the Garter, as a super numerary Knight. Now if the blue riband be a thing worth having,—and it would seem so by the various intrigues and manoeuvres which have fre quently been put in practice to obtain or defeat the grant of it,—we are sure that we but echo the opi nion of all England (save and except the miserable tools of the Tories) in affirming, that his Majesty could not have taken at this moment a wiser or more popular step, than by tendering this mark of Royal favour to Lord Grey. It is wise, because it suppresses at once, by a single touch of the Sove reign's finger, the wretched falsehood got up for the hundredth time by the boroughmongers, that his Majesty was "cooling" towards the cause of Re form. It is popular, because Lord Grey has won, by his conduct in the Reform Bill, the esteem and good wishes of the whole people of England, who will rejoice to see that Noble Earl distinguished by proofs of Kin.' William's considerate attention. As fur the Gar er'being " too high" an honour for Lord Grey ! is not Lord Westmorland a Knight of that most exemplary Order! and was not the Castle reagh a Knight? But the Tories have found out that it is " disloyal" towards George 111. and IV., for King William to invest Lord Grey with the blue riband. A fortiori therefore, it was most dis loyal in his Majesty towards his immediate prede cessor, to choose Earl Grey for the head of his Ad ministration ; and above all, it was horrible out rage and impiety towards the sacred memory of George IV., for the last Parliament to vote the Duke of Wellington's Cabinet out of office, and thus impose upon our present Sovereign the neces sity of choosing another Minister in the person of Lord Grey. What a cruel thing it is for a poor floundering devil to be driven to his wit's end, like this finder out of disloyalty to George IV. !--Times. The Pitt dinner, then, after so much preliminary boasting, has not been dressed at all. We at least have heard nothing about it, and can learn nothing. The Drawing-room ! the Drawing-room was to be in the way of it; for so many members of the club had announced their intention of being in such a fever of loyalty at the Queen's Court, that they could not think of abusing the King and his Government on the same day in any other quarter. Well, we should really enjoy a Pitt club dinner any where in the present state of the public feeling, that the worthy professors of that venerable school might have an opportunity of trying what they could make of it. Since this was written we find there was a dinner, but very few people to eat it. Among the guests were those venerable Anti• Reformers Lord Eldon and Sir Charles Flower.—Times. The Irish newspapers have been pestering the public, for some days past, with long histories of the savage ruffianisms mutually practised by a tribe of O'Mahons, and O'Gormans, and Macbotherems, challenging, and blustering, arid horsewhipping, and not fighting, and posting for blackguards, and the Lord knows what. We wish devoutly that one half of these living nuisances were shot by the other; and the survivors, as our Hibernian friends would say, " unanimously" hanged for the same. It would be a capital Irish Reform.—Times. The Journal des Debats, by way of dissipating any apprehension on account of the projects attri buted to Austria, shows that the grounds on which Austria is supposed to claim the Novarrais and the Simplon road, have no existence. " It is sufficient (says that Journal) to examine the political acts which consecrated the cession of Austria to the King of Sardinia to discover that the cession was complete,—absolute, without any reserve or condi tion of reversibility. The stipulations of the preli minaries of Vienna, of the 3d October, 1725, re produced in the definitive Treaty of 18th November, 1738, between France and the Court of Vienna, bears (Art. 4 of the Preliminaries), That the King of Sardinia shall have the choice of possessing the Novarrais and the Vigevanasc, or the Novarrais and the Tortonnois, or the Tortonuois and the Vige vanasc, and that the two districts clioaen by him shall be united to his other States.' " The Diploma of the Emperor Charles VI., dated 6th June, 1736, transferred the Austrian claims to the King of Sardinia and his descendants, male, and on their failure, to the Princes male, de scended from Princes males, collaterals of the House of Sat oy and their descendants male, according to the order of primogeniture established in that house. The designation of collateral Princes ie incontest ably applicable to the branch of Carignan, and the rights of that branch were recognised by all the Powers at the Congress of Vienna (Art. 86 of the Treaty of 9th June, 1815). The Austrian Ob server, in an article among our extracts from Ger man Papers, is very indignant at the incessant im putations of aggressive designs to the Court of Vienna in the French Papers, and it must be owned that the French Papers display a very unjustifiable levity in this respect. The approaching elections naturally occupy the attention of the Parisian jour nalists. " Where are we (says the Constitutionnel) —what has passed—what remains to be done ? It is evidently under the influence incessantly present of these three questions, that the suffrages on which, perhaps, the destinies of France and Europe will depend, w ill b e g i ven . O n t h e d a y o f t h e so l e mn scrutiny, w e k now not w h et h er t h e h ero i c P o l an d will be buried in her glory and her virtue, and whether barbarous hordes, trampling hereafter, without resista nce , t hi s m i racu l ous an d bl ee di ng land, will thenc e menace the free nations, and the imprudent inhumanity their Governments ; we know not whether Ilollan r d e s uc eco d n A ded by Prussia and the Congress, will have of ashes, and Belgium to the reduced Antwerp to aheap ra immortality of Poland; but we know that at this e o times fifteen r m m a i n n re u y i n g hun dred thousand soldiers are fighting on the Continent, and that the disarming em a nidst the conflicts of interests . and passion g s is Utopia beyond the reveries even of the good , Abbe de St. Pierre ; we know that the despots of legiti meey pardon with difficulty elected Kings, and that' the .Aristocracies which form only one family, separated by the limits of States and united by com mon prejudices and common dangers , never pardon nationg which have shaken off their yoke; weknow enough, thee, to be convinced that we must choose as Deputies citizens of a triedpatriotism, who have no iodination fcr L icistorraey, no weakness with re g,:rd to foreigners, and, still more, who have no old understanding or secret engagements with them."— Morning Chronicle. When we hear of the standard of a Pitt Club being raised as a rallying point for the staunch op ponents of Reform, we are led to reflect upon the ' influence which the political existence of Pitt had in making the public demand for Reform so general and resistless as it is, and it may be instructive to the fanciers of Pitt Clubs to learn that the great idol of their political worship and convivial libations —to whose memory they pledge posthumous fealty and flowing glasses, and whose name serves them for a political symbol and a perpetual toast—was the real though remote author of that Reform Bill a hick excites their horror and alarm. There are unconscious as well as intentional causes of great events—and sometimes the consequence of a states man's policy is exactly the contrast of what it was intended to effect. Wia do not say that because Pitt set cut in public life as a Reformer his memory is entitled to the respect of the friends of Reform. His advocacy of that case did it no good, because it never was sincere. He made the question a steps ping-stone to power, as others did since his time. When in power he at first gave it a feeble support, which was worse than open opposition, inas- , much as avowed enmity is less dangerous than an insidious allowance ; but when the question was vigorously taken up by the country, and when Lord (then Mr.) Grey presented the celebrated petition from the friends of the people, and subsequently developed his own plan of Reform, Mr. Pitt threw off the mask. He declared that innovations on the existing representative system were dangerous, though he had a few years before described Reform to be not the alteration but the revival, of the Con stitutien. lie opposed even the motion for re ferring the petitions in favour of Reform, in 1793, to a Committee, and carried his motion by the im mense majority of 282 to 41. Not content with such a victory over his old favourite question of Reform, he immediately set about to persecute the Reformers. He endeavoured to entrap Horne Tooke and his political coadjutors in the meshes of Crown law; and while they were rather eagerly pursuing the scent of Reform, and had the game in full view, he sent out his swift and subtle myrrni dons,who threw over the political sportsmen the wide spread net of constructive treason. Their speed was sadly entangled and impeded by this " unto ward event." At last, when they succeeded in breaking through, not without great hazard of being strangled in the toils, the game was gone, and ap parently for ever ! So far Mr. Pitt is certainly en titled to the gratitude and admiration of the Arai- Reformers. Still we say that to him we are in debted for the present Reform Bill, for his policy is as closely connected with it as cause with effect. At the commencement of the former revolution Eng. land was in a state of great opulence and prosperity —her debt was only about half what it is at pre sent, though that was a great deal too much ; but the flourishing condition of her commerce, trade, and manufactures, with the productiveness of all the arts of industry which gave full employment to the people, made her scarcely sensible of the existence of a burden which she had so much athletic strength to bear. The French war to restore the Bourbons, arid to gratify the horoughmongers, by crushing liberty wherever it raised its head on the continent of Europe, as well as to put down Reform effec tually at home, if ever it became troublesome again, doubled the public debt, and correspondingly in creased the amount of taxation required to pay the interest. But during the war the evil was little felt, because the immense issue of paper money kept up prices in proportion to the increased taxation ; and also because the activity of war, and the de struction, and consequently the increased consump tion, which it causes, gave a briskness to employ ment, which could not be sustained in the quiet time of peace. But ever since the peace the country has been suffering more and more from the calamitous and exhausting consequences of that protracted war. But, let us look at its difficulties on what side we will, if we would ascertain the chief cause of so much national embarrassment and di,content, we must revert at last to the public debt. It is that which causes the main part of the taxation that presses to the earth the productive industry of England; and as the people know that the taxa tion is caused by the debt, and that the vast accumu lation of that debt was caused by the war, and the profligate corruption which prevailed in all the de partments of the State under cover of it—as the people know also that Pitt plunged the country into the war to please the boroughmongers, and that the war and the debt, and the extravagant expenditure, were the work of unreformed Parliaments—they call, with more union, energy, and earnestness than ever, for a Parliamentary Reform; and not such a Reform either as they would have been satisfied with before the war, or a few years after the com mencement of the peace, but a full, efficient, and sweeping Reform—a Reform that shall for ever put down the supremacy of the boroughmongers, and give the people, who pay the taxes, a controul over their application;—in fine, a sort of Reform which " the Bill" proposes in its main principles ; and, therefore, for that Bill, arid the irresistible support which it receives from the tax-oppressed people of the United Kingdom, the Anti-Reformers have to thank Mr. Pitt.—Morning Herald. The meeting of the Pitt Club on Saturday was of a truly gratify description, comprising in the atten dance a large proportion of the most eminent talent, virtue, and influence arrayed on the side of the Con stitution. The admirable sentiments expressed on the occasion were worthy of the staunch patriots who delivered them, and will tend to instal - it and stimulate the Constitutional party throughout the country. These associations, established, as we hope to see them, ot only in the metropolis, but in , every quarter of the United Kingdom, will form the rallying points for all that powerful party who, adopting those principles in which England found her safety against the contagious example of revo lutionary France—the principles of William Pitt— are resolved once again to effect her deliverance, when, as in the former instance, the revolutionary ' system, the disastrous results of which are before their eyes, has extended its baneful influence to this country. To the Pitt Clubs we look forward with confidence at this trying juncture; nor can we de spair of the ultimate success of the good cause. The moment of delusion has nearly passed, and the people 110 longer misled by designing and outrageous faction, begin fairly to distinguish between Reform and Revolution—between rational improvement and certain destruction.—Norning Post. The vacant blue ribbon which his Majesty was pleased on Friday last to confer on Earl Grey as an especial mark of his Royal favour arid confidence, is another blue and bitter pill to the Anti-Reformers, wiresa daily and weekly periodicals arc now pulling and hauling, and endeavouring to tear it, as if the said ribbon contained the whole poison of the Reform Bill ! One of them asks what services Lord Grey had ever performed, to entitle him to a distinction only bestowed in cases of such rare merit arid extra ordinary talent as were exhibited by Lords Bathurst and Londonderry.—Another says, thut it " was a cast off blue ribbon,"—hints that the investiture was not worth acceptance, and that it was made in order to " get rid of the Noble Lord's importunities I for a Marquisate."—A third distinctly declares that " as a proof of she private estimation in which Earl Grey is held by the Tory Noblemen who are Knights of the Gunter, a meeting of the Knights of the Garter was called for the purpose, and took place on Thursdav, when it was put to the vote whether they should attend the installation of the Premier, arid carried by only one, (the Duke of Rutland) the nrajnrity there attending out of respect forth our r th columnsi o th : i io with to the S overe i gn. " —An d a fourth,—but i t i s use l ess i e th of tl t r a e r ‘ r • l e is lo i r r y g ot a rs d a i n s d ti l l y w i t n i g on trash, t p o ut fil con (erredby• his Mrr;esty (rpm the Prime Minister of the t country, and conferred, as A e are • t •nfo freely, arid without solicitation, but withr e d, not only extraordi nary expressions o f f avour rano r egar d, s,, t f, c e , t t,, say, that the blue ribbon is now as much an object of rage and hatred with them—if indeed not more so— (stile Reform Bill; and that if they could they would tear it to pieces with as much hearty goodwill as they would demolish the latter and its author. They :are both, however, pretty safe in the affections of a loyal and pa!riotie people; and that, no doubt, im one main ground of the impotent rage of their ene mies. If, however, the meeting, alleged to have taken place, did actually take place, and if certain • Noble Lords did actually misconduct themselves in :lie manner stated, we think his Majesty, as head of • the Order, will do well to call them to some account for their conduct. Such an instance of disrespect to the Sovereign by a Noble Order, of which he is the Chief, is not, we believe on record in the history of any country, and ought not to pass unnoticed.— ilforning Advertiser. The almost defunct Pitt Club, from which th e Duke of Wellington and Sir R. Peel retired two years ago, held a sort of anniversary meeting at the City of London Tavern on Friday; and a very sorry affair it was. The Earl of Harewood was in this chair, supported by those talented Noblemen Lords Redesdale, Grimston, Skelmersdale, &c. The Earl of Eldon was also present, and looked well and in good spirits; a compliment which we cannot in justice pay to many of his dinner friends. The Noble Lord has been consistent throughout the whole of his political career, and no one blames him for attending any Ant-Reform dinner, or Anti-Reform meeting; but in these times, one cannot help wondering what could have brought such men there as the Duke of Gordon, and some others that we could name. Can they not read the signs of the times ?—ilforning Advertiser. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. On Saturday John Regan, formerly a police-con stable, attached to the F. division, was brought be fore Mr. HALLS, at the instance of the parish-officers of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, for having left his wife and two children without maintenance, whereby they had become chargeable to that parish. The plea set up by the defendant was, that the com plainant was not his lawful wife, although he ac knowledged his liability as tar as the children were concerned. The parties, who are both natives of Ireland, had lived together for fifteen years, during which time they had eight children. The defendant had served as private in the 12:h Regiment of Foot, end wherever he went he was accompanied by the woman, whom he had always acknowledged as his wife. flaying been discharged from the arm 33 on a pension of 3s. 6d. a week, the defendant was ap pointed a constable on the establishment of the new police, and for some time be had the reputation of being a sober steady man, until he became acquainted with the mistress of a brothel, in Lazenby-court, Strand, to whom he represented himself as a single man; and the woman, having lately lost her husband, became the wife of the defendant. The unfortu nate woman with whom he had lived so long, toge ther with her four children, became, in conse quence, chargeable to the parish of St. Martin, who caused the defendant to be apprehended and brought before Sir R. Birnie and Mr. Minshull, who, at the request of the parish officers, ordered that the whale family should be passed to Ireland, under the belief that the defendant was the husband of the woman with whom he had cohabited, and who was the acknowledged mother of his children. The woman declared strongly that she had been lawfully married to the defendant in Ireland fifteen years ago, by a Roman Catholic priest, but addel that she had unfortunately lost her" marriage lines," and the defendant himself, in an affidavit which he signed at the time when the Magistrates made the order to pass him and his family to Ireland, ad mitted that the woman was his lawful wife. They were passed as far as Maidenhead on their way to Ireland, when the defendant gave his wife and chil dren theslip, and leaving them to prosecute theirjour ney how they could he returned to London, and hay ing thus, as he suppo,ed, got rid of his fist wife, re newed his connection with the second. The first wife, however, having obtained a certificate of her marriage left Ireland with her four children in the depth of last winter, and determined upon returning to London to claim the protection of her husband. She set out on foot, and so great were the ptirations which she and her children endured upon the road, that two of the latter died from the effects of cold and hunger. This and other circumstances delayed her return to Lon don, which she did not reach until about a fortnight ago. On applying for relief to her husband, he gave her a guinea, intimating at the same time that he expected she would never trouble him again. The principal part of the guinea having been expended in releasing some articles of clothing from the pawn broker's, the unfortunate woman and her two sur viving children again became chargeable to St. Mar tin's prish. The defendant denied that the complainant was his wife, and said he had been to Ireland to obtain a certificate to that effect from the Roman Catholic priest who was alleged to have married them. The complainant, however, produced another do. cement signed also by a Catholic priest, certifying that Mary Murphy and John Regan were married by him at Adair, in the county of Limerick, in 1813. Mr. HALLS commented in severe terms en the conduct of the defendant in thus abandoning his wife and children, and throwing them on the parish fur support, while he was living with every comfort about him. It was finally arranged that the defendant should allow his wife 7s. per week for the support of her self and children, the Magistrate having threatened to commit him to prison unless he should come to some satisfactory ariangement. The fellow would, we believe, have been indicted • for bigamy, but that the first marriage, having been performed by a Catholic priest, would not be consi dered legal in this country, a circumstance of which the defendant availed himself to get rid of an unfor tunate woman, who, as she herself said, " had kept by him in sickness and in sorrow, and thought that death alone would part them." Mr. ilau,s, we believe, consented to the arrange. ment entered into, from a feeling that, in the present state of the law, the defendant would not be liable to the support of the complainant, although he would of course be bound to support his children under any circumstances. The state of the law as regarding Catholic marriages has furnished many similar cases of hardship and injustice. SUPPOSED MURDER. About six o'clock on Saturday morning, a man came running to the Humane Society's receiving house, in Hyde-park , and informed Bastin, the superintendent, that he suspected some man had been drowned at the east end of the Serpentine River, as he had just picked up a hat on the cause way. Bastin got into a boat as soon as possible, de siring the man to follow arid p&nt out the spot ; he did so for a short distance, when he suddenly ran away across the Park, carrying the hat with him, and has not been seen or heard of since. Bastin, however, proceeded to the end of the river, where hecommenced dragging, and after considerable labour he succeeded in raising the body of a man to the sur face at the south-east corner, near the termination of the iron rails which have recently been put up as a guard at this part of the water. The body was lying in about six feet of water, and appeared to be that of a man forty year; of age ; both pockets of his trousers were completely turned inside out, and there was a black mark on his fcrehead, which led to the supposition that he had been robbed and then thrown into the water. On searching his other pockets, a silver watch, chain, and seal, were found secured to his person by a strong wire guard. A snuff box and sundry memorandums were also dis covered; but no money excopt a penny-piece and a small silver coin. INQUEST ON TUE BODY. Oa the same evening at seven o'clock, Mi. lIIGGS, the Coroner, and a respectable Jury assem bled at the Half-way-house, Knightsbridge. James Bastin deposed to finding the body in the manner already described, and had made every in quiry after the man who picked up the deceased's hat, but had not been able to find him. Edward Fordham, a young man 18 years of age, stated that the deceased was his father, and lived upon the happiest terms with his wife and family, from whom he parted about six o'clock on the pre ceding evening to go of an errand, and appeared at that time in his usual health and spirits. Joseph Frienberg, a Swede, deposed that the de ceased had been about ten years in the service of the Swedish Ambassador. It was customary with Ambassadors to pay their servaats monthly, and the deceased received his wages (501. a year) on Monday last. He (the deceased) had not left any money with his wife, and witness could not account for his having so little money in his possession when found, unless he had paid it away. The papers found on the deceased were here exa mined by the Jury; they chiefly consisted of trades men's bills, of small amount, not one of which, how ever, was receipted. A Juror said he thought the case, taken altogether, looked extremely suspicious, and suggested that the man who found the hat should be brought forward. The beadle conceived that to be impossible, as no one knew where to find him. The Jury after considerable discussion, returned a verdict of " Found drowned." PEMBROKESHIRE ELECTION. HA VERFORI) WEST, MAT 26. The polling commenced this morning at eight o'clock, and, in some of the booths, continued, with out intermission, till three o'clock. The numbers at that time were not ascertained, but 1 am informed, on positive authority, that the majority upon the polled and cased votes are decidedly in favour of Mr. Greville. A long argument took place this even ing, before the close of the poll, wherein Mr. John Evans, Counsel for Mr. Groville, claimed the return in his favour; even after allowing ten per cent, out of the case votes as rejected. I understand it is held out, that if the Sheriff make a double return, he shall not be implicated in the projected petition, otherwise that he will he held responsible : however this may be, a considerable hesitation is supposed to prevail on the subject in the minds:of the assessor and of the Sheriff. Mr. Greville has stood the contest in gallant style; and has proved himself, in all respects, an admirable champion of the cause. He delivered his addresses with great tact and point ; and I am certain that a little more habit will rank him highly as a speaker. The Orange mob appeared in great numbers in the field this evening, armed with clubs and bludgeons, and at the close of the poll instantly swept the blues, unarmed and unprepared for fight, off the ground. It was well for the peace of the town and the safety of the public that Mr. Greville issued orders that no persons who supported his cause should appear armed. A slight rencontre happened yesterday after I sent off, and a fire young woman fell down and died of fright. TRUE STATEMENT OF THE FINAL POLL. Votes. Cases. Greville - 1850 - 312 Owen - - 1949 - . - 175 Majority for Owen - - - 99 Greville 137 From these deduct 10 per cent. as an average of rejected votes from these cases - 14 Would leave after scrutiny - Then Greville, proclaimed votes - 1,850 Ditto, reduced queried votes - - 1-93 - - Itt3 Total for Greville - 1973 Total for Owen - . 1949 Real majority for Greville, - 99 In addition to this majority of Mr. Greville's, some fifty or sixty voters for him remained unpolled at the close of the poll, being shamefully debarred from - the exercise of their franchise by the wilful and frivolous delays which the Sheriff allowed to remain unchecked, while he at the same time re fused to extend the hours of polling, although peti tioned to do so by the unpolled freeholders them selves. The Sheriff has declared Sir J. Owen duly elected in the face of Mr. Greville's majority off —. By this act he has shifted the voices and votes of some 500 freeholders. It remains to be seen whether the English House of Commons will allow the elective franchise to be thus trampled on. Mr. Greville's friends will instantly adopt mea sures for bringing the whole conduct pursued at this election before the House of Commons—and the disclo,tires that will then be made will form a pretty exhibition of the working of our present glorious electioneering system. We trust the people of Eugland, and of London in particular, will join in assisting Mi. Greville and his friends in carrying on this most important but most expensive inquiry. LIVERPOOL ELECTION. MEETING to BRING FORWARD a CAN DIDA2'E in the PLACE of Mr. DENISON. (From the Liverpool Chronicle.) At the hour of two o'clock o❑ Friday, a most ❑umerous and respectable fleeting took place in the large room of the King's Arms. Mr. ASHTON YATES was called to the Chair. Mr. HALL, the barrister, stated that a combina tion of peculiar circumstances had induced Mr. Hyde Villiers to withdraw from an object 'which lie had very much at heart—the honour of representing Liverpool in Parliament. Mr. W. BROWN then stood forward and said, that having been called on by a Committee of Mr. Thornely's friends, to request that he would propose that gentleman to the meeting as one of their future representatives, he did not hesitate one moment in complying with their wishes. Mr. HENRY BOOTII seconded the nomination. Iris bjection to Mr. Thornely were two-fold : the first relating to the class to which Th N e ir g . r j o ° un li d N s T oAf Y h L is O OR rose to oppose the nomination. that gentleman belonged, the other of a personal nature, and relating to himself. The objection which referred to the dawn() which he belonged was this,—that he was an American merchant, z. e., a merchant trading with America. It had hitherto been the practice in the town not to elect a mer chant at all as their representative, and perhaps for very good reasons. He next came to that objection which he had mentioned as relating to Mr. Thornely personally. He bereved that it was the feeling of the majority of the people of this town, as well as other places, that their decided support of the Mi nisterial Reform Bill should be regarded as the grand principle to guide them in the choke of Mem bers at present. Now he did not find that inn the late elections Mr. Thornely had done any thing to forward the Bill.--(Expressions of dissent, and cries o f d' Yes,—at Chesttr and at Prestou.") On this ground there appeared to rest a strong o bj ect i on to Air. hornely:s eligibility, at a time when they re quired for their representatives men who were de cided and unflinching supporters of the Bill. Mr. Taylor concluded amidst a confused hubbub of ap plause and disapprobation. Mr. Thomas BOLTON came to notice the objec tion made to Mr. Thornely on account of his being largely concerned in the export of British goods to Americ r. So far as he had an opportunity of knowing, i and he w as hi mse l f pretty extens i vely en gaged in t, that was an honourable trade.—(Ap plause.) Though engaged in the American trade, h e was a British subject. Mr. Thornely was also a British subject. Though an American merchant, h e (Mr. Bolton) had not a vote in the choice of a representative for the town. The Bill which had been brought forward, however, and which the voice of the country had already declared "must pass"—(Vehement applause from all parts of the room) —that Bill would give to him and to many others who were similarly situated, their just rights in that respect, and he knew of no one to whom, whenever he should it more th e p r i v il ege o f suc h a vo te, he would give more readily, or with greater confidence of its being well bestowed, than to Mr. Thornely.—(Applause.) The resolution was put and carried unanimously, with much cheering. There were then loud cries for Mr. Thornely, but the Chairman stated that that gentleman was not present ; and three hearty cheers were given for Mr. Thornely, the King, and Reform. Mr. TIIORNELY, who had been sought for by soma of his friends as soon as the call was made for his appearance, was introduced into the room, and on ascending the platform was greeted with repeated cheers and rounds of applause. When silence was at length obtained, Mr. YATES read over the resolutions which had been agreed to : after which, Mr. TIIORNELY then stood forward and returned thanks to the meeting, which afterwards separated. BRUSSELS PAPERS. We received, last night, Brussels Papers to the 28th of May. It will be seen from the following extracts, that out of the 122 Members of the Congress, 96 are is favour of the election of Prince Leopold, 24 reserved their votes, and only two against him. NATIONAL CONGRESS, SITTING OF 24T11 OF MAY• This sitting was chiefly occupied with the discussion of a long motion by M. Pirson. In the speech with which be supported it he was called to order, for saying that " the King of England raises himself above the Aristocracy of his country ; the King of France stakes his crown, his fortune, Isis family, and perhaps his head, to reconstitute it." These words threw the whole Assembly into confusion. SITTING Or 24T11 Or MAY. A proposal, signed by M. C. Lecocq and a great many other deputies, was read ; it was that the Congress should pot the choice of a sovereign in the Order of the Day for the Ist of June. Another proposal is in these terms— " The undersigned have the power to propose to the Con gress the election of Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg as King of the Belgians, signed Ch. Lecocq, C. Rodeubach, D'Aerschot, Van de Weyer," &c., to the number of 94. M. C. Bodenbach said, his motion, proposing the Ist of June as the day of election, was laid on the table yester day, and should have the priority. Being seconded, he was called on to defend his motion, and ascended the tri bune. The substance of his speech was to the effect, that the chances of war being greatly increased, the choice of a Sovereign was indispensable. If war once begins, we shall not be alone in the contest ; the slightest pretext may lead to an intervention, which nobody can now foresee. I am persuaded, said he, that the moment the French set foot in Belgium, our political existence is at an end. If we choose a Sovereign before the struggle begins, we shall triumph or perish with him. M. Rodenbach then proceeded to combat the fears of those who thought that the choice of Prince Leopold would place the country under English influence. M. Van de Weyer, who was chosen to defend the pro- posal of the ninety-four members for the election of Prince • Leopold, observed, that the Prince of Saxe Coburg had been brought up in a Constitutional school, and having before his eyes the sublime example that the King of Eng land has just given, will undoubtedly govern according to the principles of our Constitution, and all their conse quences. After M. Van de Weyer had concluded, M. de Ger lache read the following proposal of M. Blargnies " The National Congress decrees, that before proceeding to the election of the Prince of Saxe Coburg, it will make known, with as little delay as possible, to the Congress at London, and to the Prince himself, the arrangements to which it thinks it could accede with respect to Luxem burg, Limburg, and Dutch Flanders." M. Blargnies having spoken in defence of his motion, it was resolved that this and the two preceding motions should be referred to the sections without deciding to which the Congress could give the priority till the Report of the Central Section on all three should be heard. M. Gerlache then read a motion of M. Robaulx to this effect :—Considering that the provinces of Antwerp, Flan ders (including the left bank of the Scheldt), and Limberg, having been declared by the Constitution to be parts of Belgium—that the Dutch troops, notwithstanding the ma nifest right of Belgium to those provinces, still occupy parts of them—that the suspension of arms, so often broken by the Dutch, has not produced the expected effect—that if Belgium owes it to its own dignity to resume hostilities, it also owes it to the neighbouring Powers to declare that it desires no conquest, and will he contented with driving the enemy from its territory ; that further negotiations are now impossible, unless the independence of Belgium, and the integrity of its territory, according to the Constitution are first secured, the National Congress decrees—" The Executive Power is immediately to take measures, even by force, to establish the Belgian laws and authorities in all the parts of the Belgian territory actually occupied by the enemy." M. Robaulx having spoken in favour of his proposal, it was ordered to be printed for the use of the Members, and referred to the sections. The Sitting of the 26th was occupied with the discus sion of natiorthl affairs. BRUSSELS, MAY 27.—Lord Ponsonby arrived at Brus sels yesterday afternoon at six o'clock. He passed great part of the evening with M. Lebeau. We do not know what news Lord Ponsonby has brought with him. P.S. to the Sitting of the Congress of the 26th—The Report of the Sections states, that out of 122 Members, 96 have given their opinion in favour of the election of the Prince of Saxe Coburg; twenty-four have reserved their votes ; two were against it. M. Lebeau has announced for to-morrow the communication of an official note which Lord Ponsonby is to deliver to him.—Brussels Papers, May 2S. [None of the Brussels Papers has the 22d Protocol published in the Dutch Journals.] HAMBURG PAPERS. We receive! last night Hamburg Papers to the 24th of May. On the 13th the Russians under Diebitsch attacked Gen. Utninski at Jendzzejow, but were repulsed with great lose. General Skrzyneeki has established his head-quarters in Ostrolenka. Diebitsch is directing his march towards Ostrolenka, with a view to cross the Vistula at Plock. The following are extracts : WaasAw, MAY 11.-The Russians under Diebitsch attacked General Uminski on the 13th, at Jendrzejow. Their attack was, however, executed with such languor, that Uminski had full time to receive reinforcements, and eventually to repulse the enemy. On our side the loss was trifling, not exceeding fifty men killed and wounded. The enemy, on the other hand, according to the accounts of the prisoners, suffered so severely that it required fifty waggons to transport their wounded. The first battalion of grenadiers distinguished itself on the occasion to such a degree, that General Uminski, in an Order of the Day, returned thanks to them for their behaviour, telling them that they reminded him of the old French Imperial Guard. Major Serkowi, who commanded the grenadiers, was among the killed. A general battle between the two armies becomes every day more probable. Official intel ligence has been received that the Generals Chranowski and Romarino had approached the fortress of Zamose, in the vicinity of which some obstinate fighting has taken place. One account says that General Runthrino has lost an arm. Many officers and privates belonging to Dwernicki's corps have succeeded in reaching Poland. Louis Stecki, who was at the head of the Vulhynian insurrecCon, was lately taken prisoner by General Davidoff, and shot in half an hour afterwards. At present the Lithuanian insurgents are commanded by Charles Zaluski, brother of the late Curator of the University of Warsaw. The poet Gorecki commands the Staff, and MartinZ lewski acts as Intendant-General. The day before yesterday Colonel Langermann, Aide de-camp to General Lamarque, arrived in Warsaw. The Prussian State Gazette of the 21st contains the following Pousn FrtoNnEus, MAY 17._Marshal Count Diebitsch appears to be directing his march towards Ostro lenka, with a view to cross the Vistula at Plock. A strong Polish detachment has, in consequence, been sent to the left towards Sierock, where a battle is said to have been fought on the 15th. " Letters front Konigsburg of May 7, say that the estrfette had been received from Tilsit, t, ith the intelli gence that the Lithuanian insurgents, closely pressed by the Russian troops, were approaching - the Prussian fron tier, and threatening to cross it. The first levy of the Landwehr has, in consequence, been called to march with out delay to the frontier." Private accounts from Warsaw to the 19th instant, have been received, on which day it was known in that c apital that General Skr)znecki had established his bead-quarters in Ostrolenka. BErterN, DLtr 21.—The main force of the R!issians . app . ! it to be concentrating themselve s in the Palatinate of Pluck, in order to enable the m to draw their subsistence front Eastern Prussia. Large purchases for Russian ac vomit have already been made by the - Elvsian Conml, V. Kanitt The cholera is gradually &appeartrig in War saw, only eleven new cases were reported on the 11th inst. HAMBURG, MAY `24.—BORSEN• HALLE, FOUR O'CLOCK. —A goad deal of business was done to-day, particularly in Austrian Stock, which was heavy in the early part of the morning, in consequence of some large orders to sell ; the sales were, however, soon effected, and the market closed firm. Discount at lf per cent. The End of May. Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cent. Anglo-Russian Loan Hamburg-Russian Loan Austrian Bank Shares 1%0 Ditto Metalliques New Austrian 5 per cent. New Hanoverian 5 per cent. —Hamburg Reporter. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. MANCHESTER RACES. FAIDAY, MAY 27 —The Broughton Stake; of 15 solar. each, 5 ft. with 30 added. The St. L. C. Mr. Honldsworth's Contest 1 Mr. R. Turner's Recovery 2 Mr. Arrowsmith's Orangeman The Lancashire Stakes of 25 eovs. each, 10 ft. with 100 added. Two miles and a quarter. Mr. 13eardsworth's }Liston Mr. Chapman's Perseverance Six others started. A Plate of 100 sovs. for all ages. Heats, twice round and a distance. Mr. Chapman's The Cardinal Mr. It. Williamson's The Earl 2 2 A Handicap Stakes of 10 sovs. each, h. ft. with 20 added. One mile and a quarter. Mr. Field's Pluralist Mr. Johnson's Jupiter 2 Mr. Hodgson's ch. c. by 'Framp THE OURAN OUTANG. We were favoured on Saturday with an inspection of two animals of this species, a male and a female, which have recently been imported, and are about to be publicly exhibited at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. One of them was captured in the Island of Borneo, the other was taken near the banks of the Gambia. Though they are both of the genus Simia, yet their formation and difference of colour prove that they belong to two distinct species of that genus. The male is very nearly black, the colour of the female is a dull tawny. We think that in height they are under three feet, but the position in which they place themselves renders it difficult to form an accurate judg ment on that point. The female is very ill supplied with hair upon the body, but the head and arms are not deficient in that respect. Her face is exceedingly forbidding ; the lower jaw remarkably large, the nose small, the [eyes deeply sunk in the head, and the forehead receding in a most remarkable mann,r. The expression of her counte nance is melancholy and discontented. Her arms are long, and wanting in muscularity ; her belly is protuberant, and her legs and thighs appear to be very weak. The coldness of this climate seems to affect her considerably, and she fixes herself as nearly as possible to the fire. The head, neck, and arms, and hands of the male bear a more striking resemblance to those of the human form than is observable in the female. He appears to be more lively and contented than his companion. They are both extremely , docile, and suffer themselves to be approached without exhibiting the least sign of fear or alarm. They are not confined by any chain or clog, but move about freely on a sort of counter, and receive with evident satisfaction such presents of fruit, &c. as their visitors think proper to bestow on them. We were informed that they feel much attachment to those by whom they are fed ; that they have sagacity enough to help themselves, and that when they are about to sleep they shake up their beds and draw a covering over them. The London Militia, instead of being broken up, assemble to the number of about 160, in the Artillery' ground, where they perform their evolutions, to the great surprise of the neighbourhood, once a week, in great style. On Friday evening a troop of Light Dragoons mustered at Waterloo-bridge. This troop has been raised by Alr. WESTON, one of the Magistrates for the county of Surrey, and consists of gentlemen and merchants of respectability, who are armed and clothed at their own expense, and attached to the Surrey Regiment, under Sir WILLIAm JOLLIFFE. The association is, we understand, similar to the late City Light Horse in every respect, except in the cost. The undress, which is a matter of taste amongst themselves, and not regulated by the regiment, is particu larly becoming. There was a report very prevalent through town yesterday, to the effect that O'GORNIAN MAnox had been shot in a duel with Captain M'NAMARA. We have reason to believe, from every inquiry we have made upon the subject, that the report is unfounded in fact,__ Dublin Morning Register. CITY—SATURDAY EVENING. Nothing has transpired in the City to-day, with the exception of some further evidences in proof of the signal defeat of the atrocious conspiracy which the boroughmongers and their adherents had entered into against the funds, and the credit of the country in general. There is not now the slightest doubt of the existence of such a conspiracy; and it is pretty evident that the outrageous proceedings i❑ the two Houses of Parliament on the day of the dissolution, together with the subsequent not less reprehensible doings of the same party, were connected with it. Never, how ever, were the enemies of the country more decidedly or more shamefully beaten. We admonished them in the be ginning not to proceed in their nefarious course ; frequently predicted that, both as gamblers and po liticians, disgrace and defeat stared them in the face. We admonished in vain. Some were blinded by their folly ; others by their passion, and more than either by their wickedness—all rushed upon destruction, and few, very few, are there who regret their discomfiture and utter ruin. We -have heard it said that the borough mongers have lost upwards of 100,0001. in endeavouring to depress the funds ; which sum, added to the money which they threw away on the elections, will amount pro bably to upwards of a million sterling. Every luver of his King and his country must rejoice at this result, but, for our part, we can not help feeling sorry for the dupes of the party in the Stock Exchange. It is said that nearly fifty brokers and jobbers have been obliged to compound with their creditors, or ask for time. We have not, however, heard of one whose conduct has been otherwise than fair and honourable. We wish we could say as much for their principals. The defaulters in the house, we believe, have, without one exception, unhesitatingly laid before their creditors the whole of their property. The greater part of the Stock recently thrown upon the market by the boroughmongers and their dupes has been for the most part absorbed by the public, who must have been immense gainers by the event. We understand that the gains of the members of the Stock Exchange have not been very considerable, even among the Bull party, while the Bears have been terrible losers.—Aforning Herald. Tuesday last, a young lady who was at school at Gainshorough (Miss N., from Louth) contrived to elope. The business appears to have been managed with un suspected skill and contrivance on the part of the lady, as the gentleman, the supposed partner of herflight (also of Louth), had waited upon her at school under the pretence of being a friend of her faller's, apparently (it is since understood, at the lady's desire) taking no further notice of her than as a perfect stranger, although there is little doubt the plan was then arranged. On Monday morning last, under pretence of a visit into the town, unknown to her gover ness, she contrived to leave the school, and the gentleman having a chaise in waiting, they were soon on the road to Hull, where they expected to get the happy knot indis. , solubly del—Sheffield Courant. AWFUL RESULTS Or THE FAMINE IN MAYO AND GALWAY.-It is well known that the tholic clergy have assiduously attended the poor starving people, amongst whom the famine is rapidly spreading contagion. We regret to annouhee that two Reverend gentlemen, ti.e Rev. Mr. Mau Es, of Crossmolina, and the Rev. MILES PRENDERGAST, P. I'. of Cliffden, have fallen vi, tims to their zeal and tie fever. Unless prompt measures are taken for the relief of the distress, we fear we shall have too many of such deaths to record.-41 7ti 0. rick Ch BIRTHS. On the '›otli inst. in Russell - square , the lady of S. Platt, Esq., of a son. of a daughter. MARRIED. BrOtiinist,,lieck‘,..Sst,liiuzianes,t. Mrs. J. W. Bromicy, Gr ea t Coram-street, On the 2.6 th inst. at Churchill,W Esq., of Painoor-house, Bucks, to Sarah, third daughter of the late James Hooman, E sq., of llabberley-110,,5e, Worcestershire, C. D'OylcY st e ph e nson, Worcestershire. the Red. On the 28th inst. U. Shackell, Esq. to Marianne Russell, only daughter of the lath NN'. K. Bayley, Esq., of Jamaica. LEa:,:ot.f. the 21st I k es , ft.. Baron i,,lexa , I , l d o e s r e , h il 1, only DIED. On the 38th inst. in his 74th year, the Right Hon. William On the 2lst inst. at Barton Mere, near Bury St. Edmund's, Mrs. Quayle, wife of Thomas Quayle, Esq. On the 2 , 3 th inst. Miss A. M. Moller, of Howard's-place, Hack ney-road, aged 82. and Inglisinaldie, G.C.B. and grave-terrace, Pimlico. son of Mr. A. Bryant, Bel- Pit I'VTED A VI) PUBLIMIEII i.r NURDO YOU NG, AT TB s SUN STRAND LON 007.1. Si Bracts Times . sense RevieN Edinb T Authc lea( and She 9. Mc gan 3. On bell 4. Re Cer 5. Th 6. Th 7. Rh 8. Th 9. tia 10. Th 11. . 4 t 12, Ar 13. Re 14. Po 15. Lei 16. Sot the( 17. Lit 18. Th Wit ART.S. Worn Put place, T' sary to Thi the 11., tlemen Provis Chain would It 1 inittee decides land, Propos able to thems It NI into t reflect Comm proper 1. ' laid b Cunne tnediat of fam the fa end of them i to sect Viseotr Lord I. Lord C Lori J, Si r G. Sir R. Caotair J. E. G The H 4 1 822 affords distres pyrien, recurr Sin Lien 1 follo w truth " I %etit sig 4n, are et ; aqd thous. 4, 42 4 tarvi i 4, anti pi t4l • tt.e