The Sun. — London, England, 1834-07-10 00:00:00

S~ii -et-THE-PUBLIC JOURNALS. We yesterday prepared our readers for the ministerial changes which have taken place. From our Parliamentary report it will be seen that Lord Grey in the Lords, and Lord Althorp in the Commons, formally announced their respective resignations. To a late hour last night, and, indeed, up to the time of our going to press, nothing cer tain was known beyond the fact of the resignations, except that the King, immediately after his arrival in town, sent for . Lord Melbourne, to advise with him upon the best course to be pursued in the present crisis. This step may be viewed as an indication of the soundness of his Majesty's judgment ; for, under all circumstances, Lord Melbourne will be the best able to form a popular Ad ministration. We are sure that Lord Melbourne would offer no counsel to the King but such as the present con juncture demands. The only members of the late Cabinet whO are said to have been yet in personal communication with the King are Lord Melbourne and the Lord - Or& cellor, and we think the public may rest assured that these Noblemen would give the very best advice to his Majesty. We are certain that his Majesty would not be so insane as to throw himself into the arms of a Tory Ministry ; and in consulting with Lord Melbourne and the Lord Chancellor, the King could only wish the formation of a Ministry acting on reform principles. Indeed the idea of any other than a Liberal Ministry conducting the affairs of the country at this time, is too extravagant to merit a moment's consideration. We are quite aware of the very great difficulty in reconstruct ing a Ministry of which Lord Althorp is not a member ; but the temporary difficulty, as respects his Lordship, may possibly be overcome. In any event he is essential to the stability of such an Administration, if not its natural head. Nor can a Government acceptable to the country. be formed without much popular addition. Lord Durham eminently enjoys the confidence of the re formers throughout the kingdom, and would give great weight to a remodelled Cabinet. Lord Radnor, Lord Mulgrave. Sir J. C. Hobhouse, and many other decided reformers might add much influence to the new creation. We can no longer move between two parties. The Tories must be routed out from all the diplomatic and official departments, or they will counteract every beneficial effort of a Reform Government. Nor should the Horse Guards be overlooked on this occasion. We would rather see; a rank Tory Administration than a weak, shuffling, and abortive Ministry. The country will view the acts of the King and Lord Melbourne, during the next few days, with the deepest anxiety and even jealousy.— Morning Chronicle. The disclosures made last night by the late and pre ,sent Ministers of the Crown, in the two Houses of Parliament, are, when regarded in all their variety, and all their contradictions, the most discreditable and •the most melancholy that were ever perhaps presented to a civilised community by any body of persons who had arrogated—to themselves, or been invested by others, with the reputation of being fit to conduct the affairs of a nation. The blunders of the Whig Admi nistration may now at least, without exaggeration, be said to have exceeded the simplicity of childhood or the fatuity of dotage. Such scenes as those of last night are, we ima gine, in spite of the proverb, entirely new to the world, and, notwithstanding the painful anxiety they must produce as to the future government of the country, the first and predominant feeling unquestionably will be astonishment that such men as we here see exhibited have ever been deemed, either by themselves or others, qualified to take even the meanest share in the management of na tional affairs. The folly, the imbecility, the bad faith, which have distinguished the late Cabinet are made indeed painfully conspicuous by the disclosures of last night ; but as to the actual position of the Government, the informa tion they afford us is ambiguous or contradictory, while with respect to the future prospects of the Government, we can only learn from them what appear to be the present wishes of some of the Members of the expiring Ministry. Lord Grey says that he and Lord Althorp have resigned. The Lord Chancellor completes what we must suppose to have been the meaning of Lord Grey, by stating that only two Ministers have resigned, taking, at the same time, especial care to intimate to the country, that a surrender of office is the last thing in his own contemplation. But, in contradiction to these state ments, we have the distinct assertion of Lord Althorp that not only Lord Grey and himself, but his Right Hon. Friends Mr. Grant, Mr. S. Rice, Mr. Abercromby, and Mr. Ellice, have retired from office, and the further assertion that the Administration is at an end, and that his Noble Friend the Premier was at that very moment em ployed in communicating this fact to the House of Lords. • From these contradictory statements it is impossible to infer anything conclusively, unless it be that, unchanged to the last, the Members of the Administration were last night p 4 ignorant or as regardless as usual of the intentions and feelings of each other. Irreconcileable, however, as the Ministerial statements are, with respect to the actual condi tion of the Government, enough is known to satisfy the public that the formation of a new Administration has be come necessary. How that Administration will be formed it seems at the present moment impossible even to conjecture, although the speeches of last night in the two House of Parliament certainly shed some vivid rays of light upon the wishes, and perhaps the expectations, of individuals and parties with reference to that subject. Earl Grey intimates pretty distinctly, as it appears to us, his desire that the Marquis of Lansdowne should be his suc cessor. The speech of the Lord Chancellor must, we suppose, be understood to mean, that he neither desires . nor anticipates the formation of any Ministry of which he cannot consistently and honourably be a leading member. Mr. O'Connell lays aside all his former hostility to Lord Althorp and Mr. Littleton, and indicates without much ambiguity his readiness to assist in the Government of the country, in conjunction with that portion of the late Administra tion which differed from Earl Grey and the majority of their colleagues with respect to the Irish Coer cion Bill. Perhaps it is not very rash to deduce the same-inference from the language of Mr. Hume. What all parties and every individual, however, who have • spoken upon the subject unite to proclaim is, that, by whomsoever the Government of the country may now be undertaken, the task will be one of unprecedented diffi culty. Such is the death-bed confession of the Ministry which has created the difficulty it deplores—such the epi -taph which friends and enemies unite to inscribe upon its tomb. The fact is, indeed, undeniable. And why, it will therefore naturally be asked, have the late Ministers of the Crown shrunk from the duty of sharing with their sovereign the appalling difficulties by which they have sur -rounded him ? We give simply their own answer, divested merely of its verbiage and mystification. They could not act in unison. They were incapable of understanding each :other. They fell by the mere effect of their own incapa city or bad faith, while no blow was aimed, no attack me ditated from without. Mr. Littleton, it will be said by superficial observers, by his thoughtlessness or his trickery, gave the death-blovi to the Administration. But the ,explanation is deplorably insufficient. Why should not Mr. Littleton have been removed on the proof of his intellectual or moral unfitness, and his place supplied .by a more competent man? Why, rather, since the an , ewer will suffice for both questions, was Mr. Littleton ever placed in a situation for which his incompetency was from the first notorious r 'Why, but that the King's Govern ment in the selection of its functionaries had been previously divested of the power of choosing the fittest men, and re duced" to the embarrassing and disabling necessity of choos ing the least unfit of the very few individuals who have the .good fortune to enjoy the fee simple of a seat in the House ,of Commons ? For this evil, among others, the defunct • ,Alninistration have to answer ; but if even this is less dig :Mogul to them than the alacrity . which they have shown ups& an occasion so slight that it is scarcely intelligible to von-away from the work of their own' bands. The speech . of the Duke of Wellington exposes in the most complete and masterly manner the general misconduct as well as the final delinquency of the late Administration, and to this ad mirable speech we mast now refer our readers.—Morn. Post. It is with a pain and regret which we have no powers of '"language to express, that we this day communicate to our readers the distressing fact of the resignations of Lords : Grey and Althorp, and of the Ministry of which they were the virtual as well as the nominal heads, being, if not ac tually dissolved, in a state of total paralysis. For an ac count of the causes which have led to these results, so Much to be deplored at any time, but more 'especially at the present moment, we need only refer our readers to what may be termed the farewell speech of Lord Grey, and the candid explanation of Lord Althorp. Irish affairs were, in some measure, the cause of the painful result ; but it is nevertheless clear, from all that has been stated on the. subject, that no difference of opinion of • any magnitude—at least of such magnitude as to cause , separation of its Members—existed in the Cabinet, and that but for the grossly imprudent revelations—considering the faithless quarter to which they were addressed—of Mr. Littleton, the Ministry might have been still in existence— Lord Grey been at its head, to the great benefit of the • country, and Lord Althorp guiding the decisions of the friends of order in the House of Commons. The fatal error of Mr. Littleton, however—the reckless conduct of a per , son whose political course there are no words in the Eng lish language to characterize—coupled with the silly adju , vancy of Mr. Hume, and others whom he contrived to en snare to the support of his designs, rendered the resignation ' of both the Noble Lords a matter of honourable, if not of imperative necessity. We have said that we deplore this result, and who is it that does not join with us in our re gret ? The very parties who were accessary to the pulling down of the edifice—the very men who recklessly hurried • on division after division in order to thwart his Majesty's ',Ministers, and bring about that dissolution of the Cabinet ~......„4",„ ; fijak,ju i t i rw unfortunately occurred—last night expressed ~1 their regret at the mischief which they had occasioned— even O'Connell shed his crocodile tears over its fall, and would fain, were he to be believed, that it had not occurred. But regret is a useless task ; and the'more use less in this instance, because there is every reason to be lieve that there is no inducement on earth to persuade Lord Grey again to take office. Peace be to him ! Let not his name be mentioned but with honour ! A political life of 50 years, and not a stain of inconsistency or absence of principle ! The possession of power, and the first use of it to enlarge the liberties of the people—to reform their Representation in the House of Commons—to reduce the taxation of the country, and, as far as with the means at his command it was in his power, to abolish all useless , places and pensions ! Such has been Lord Grey, and his like we are not likely to look upon again. In experience he exceeded all his colleagues—in talent he yielded to none of them—in domestic and public virtue he had not, and has not, his equal. While Englishmen cherish a love for free dom—while they retain a regard for political consistency— and have enough of 'virtue in them to honour virtue, the name of Grey will be cherished by them as the source of many benefits, and the beau ideal of an English Nobleman and an honest politician.—. Morning Advertiser. The explanations given by Lords Grey and Althorp last night, to the Houses of Lords and Commons respectively, were of a nature to surprise their hearers, in so far as the motives alleged by those Noble Lords for their resignations were concerned, although we had in our yesterday's paper prepared the country for the general result. It would ap pear that the proximate cause of this catastrophe was the conduct of Mr. Littleton in communicating confidentially with Mr. O'Connell, wholly unauthorized, as it turns out, by Lord Grey, and disapproved of by the Noble Earl as soon as the fact was made known to him ; unauthorized likewise by Lord Althorp, in the extent to which Mr. Lit tleton had carried his unfortunate frankness towards the Member for Dublin. After reflecting, however, on every part of the statements made by the two ex-Ministers in re lation to the above interesting matter, we are at a loss to discover an adequate justification of the retirement which their speeches were intended to explain. It is clear to us that the Irish Coercion Bill might have been argued on grounds independent of the confidential letters of Lord Wellesley, and that if the fact which was darkly shadowed out by the Noble Earl, of Lord Wellesley having been imposed upon or improperly influenced to a change of opinion relatively to the Coercion Bill, by considera tions submitted to him from this country, which bore upon the political state of England, not of Ireland, had been clearly and unreservedly communicated to Parliament by Lord Althorp, his Lordship would not have needed to feel himself under the slightest difficulty, or to dread the dis cussion fixed by Mr. O'Connell for last night, which appears to have been the immediate bugbear acting upon the Noble Visceunt's imagination. At the same time it is impossible not to be pleased by the simple and unpretending language of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in vindicating himself to the House—a tone of speech entirely in character with the general deportment of the speaker. But we for our parts can see nothing in the indiscretion of Mr. Littleton to compel the retreat either of the First Lord of the Treasury or of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, un less both these noblemen had been previously, and from other causes, so deeply disgusted with their situation, that the first pretext for escaping from it was seized upon them as a god-send. With respect to certain expressions in Lord Brougham's speech last night which seem to contradict a remark of Lord Althorp's, it may be proper to state that, in practice, the resignation of the Prime Minister means substantially and invariably the dissolution of his Cabinet, just as much as cutting a man's head off is understood to be the death of his body. As neither trunk nor limbs there fore can flourish after the decapitation of the natural sub ject, so neither have Chancellors nor Secretaries of State any real existence after the political annihilation of the Prime Minister ; and although a Lord Chancellor in such a case may not literally have resigned, it is enough that the Chief of the Government does it for him. To turn from events to prospects, it is no doubt a most anxious topic of inquiry who are to succeed the late Cabinet Ministers, and what is to become of us as a nation ? The only circum stance which can yet be relied upon is, we believe, that on accepting Lord Grey's resignation, his Majesty sent for Lord Melbourne, late Secretary for the Hone Depart ment, to ask his Lordship's counsel under the exigency thus created. What may be the attempts to form a new Cabinet, or reconstruct the old one, it is not for us to guess. It is easy enough to see that the only attempt which can have the slightest chance of prospering is one which shall have for its object the formation of a Cabinet---I, at least as liberal as Lord Grey's ; and 2, more united. There has been too much of the leaven of Conservatism in the Administration just expired, to admit of its enjoying any permanency, and what did happen to be liberal in it has been paralyzed by that which was not. The clearest of all inferences, therefore, is, that a coalition (or rather a distraction) Cabinet, comprehending either materials less of a reform quality than ever found admission into Lord Grey's, or of just that same calibre of reform which after being admitted was not long since expelled from it, cannot constitute any portion of a Government destined to endure for a single month. It is perfectly obvious, we would as sure the Court (we need not assure the Tory faction, for they are convinced of it), that Mr. Stanley, with his three ex-colleagues, are " not presentable" to the people of Eng land, and will not be accepted by them as Members of a liberal Cabinet ; a fortiori Sir Robert Peel and his bre thren cannot be successfully appealed to by the Court in its extremity. On that point we are sure that the good sense of Lord Melbourne will agree with us. As for a pure Conservative Cabinet! it is all " Buzz." The idea of one is utterly ludicrous at such a time. There is but one course—unflinching reform in all departments of the State, and to be carried on by concurring Ministers. Compromise of..sentiment, we fear, has already been car ried to an inconvenient and disastrous pitch, and we should grieve to seethe necessity for it in important cases imposed upon a new Ministry at its very first formation. The dif ficulties, however,. in the way of constituting any new Go vernment, are such as will unavoidably render it a tedious work. We trust that if the growth be slow, it will be fitted for endurance and stability.—Mtes. . That Lord Grey's Cabinet has been, for a considerable time past, in a course of dissolution, was visible to all per sons capable of exercising anything like a sound reflection upon political affairs. The precise shock by which it has been precipitated could not indeed be forseen by any mortal not gifted with prophetic ken, but it was obvious enough to sagacious observers, that it had not the principle of durabi lity within it, even before the secession of Mr. Stanley and Sir Jamas Graham, and that, from the moment they withdrew, it lay like a vessel without rudder or compass, at the mercy of the winds and waves of accident—a drifted hulk upon the political waters. For some time past the only question among all but the mere sycophants and place-hunters of Government was " Will Lord Grey's Administration be able to get through the Ses sion ? If so, it will be safe for the next six months ; but that it could get through another Session of Parliament, even with the obsequious majorities of the Reformed House of Commons at its back, no man who had a grain of understanding supposed. The lath-and-plaster patchwork, however, with which it was recently repaired, could but ill-conceal, and not at all retrieve, its crazy condition. So frail was its texture, in deed, that a scuffle between Mr. Littleton and Mr. O'Con nell shook it into ruins. The weeping and wailing of the servile organs of the Whig Administration at the first an nouncement of its inglorious fall was natural enough ; but when those same servile organs that have been assisting all the imbecile and unprincipled acts of the recreant Whigs, from the Russian Dutch Loan job to the Malthusian out rage upon public morality and the Constitution, affect a tone of lofty and virtuous indignation, as if the fallen Mi nisters had been the martyrs of principle, it is simply ridiculous. It would be almost impossible for Hera clitus himself to avoid a smile at the exhibition of excited servility thus mounted upon the stilts of mock patriotism, and flinging its wooden thunders like Jove's authentic fire. But the question that one is inclined to ask at present is, " Where is Lord Ebrington, the official pro tector or guardian of the Grey Administration, and his re signation repelling resolutions ?" Surely he must resolve once more that the King and the nation shall not withdraw their confidence from a Ministry of which the wisdom of an Ebrington approves, and the King and the nation must bow to the sublime decree. But Lord Ebring ton and a crowd of delinquent patriots, dreading a dissolu tion and a day of account for their political sins, may fulmi nate their resolutions to preserve to the country the ill-paid and disinterested services of Lord Grey and the inestimable talents of Lord Althorp ; but times are changed. The Whigs have not now the political unions at their back, which they cajoled as long as it suited their purpose, and then denounced; they have not the working classes to array themselves in their defence. The sentence of a felon's fate executed' in its utmost rigour upon the Dorches ter unionists, and the prosecution of the True Sun for re peating Lord Milton's advice to the people, showed what reliance was to be placed upon their gratitude when their turn was served. And the plan of governing Ireland, after passing the " tranquilising measure," by a succession of Coercion Bills, without attempting any thing for the amelioration of the wretched condition of the people of that country, proves that they have nothing to bestow upon that ill-fated land which used to be the object of their patriotic commiseration and sympathy, but the worst and most vi cious measures of Tory misrule. In the midst of this con fusion it is somewhat amusing to see how the slavish Pal merston Journal, while gently lamenting the breaking up of the Whig Cabinet, consoles itself with the prospect that a general election would place the Tories in a somewhat better position than they at present are, for, says the opti mist of the Globe, the Tories are not, according to their IHE SUN, LONDON, _TIMSDAY, JULY 10, 1884. their wealth i n t h e country, sufficiendy re; tiuse of Com mons; -W e cannot rea d t hi s presented in ifie" 't the protocol Mid as o f th e F ore i gn without suspecting tn... 'of his invaluable services to Office meditates a transfer • - ace: i ccpt of them, which his ancient friends, if they wu: oeeded n placing we very much doubt. He who has mould, . prostrate England and Europe, as far as he possibiF wou ld b e qual to beneath the ascendancy of Russia, sink any Cabinet in which he might hold a promm:nt sta tion to the lowest depths of political contempt. But from what occurred in both Houses of Parliament last night, it is evident that the nucleus of an Administration adheres to the place of what was recently the Whig Cabinet. The Lord Chancellor and Lord Melbourne remain in office for their country's good, and, animated with that chivalrous devotion to a great cause which makes all considerations of self yield to an absorbing patriotism, seem even disposed to undergo the disagreeable labour of constructing a new Administration. The Courier, indeed, has. discovered that no man enjoys the confidence of the country in an equal degree with Lord Althorp, and has kindly recommended him to his Majesty to be the architect of the new Cabinet. No doubt the abilities which Lord Althorp displayed as a financier eminently entitles him to the ardent wishes of the country for his higher elevation. Considering his celebrated "tile and taxed cart" budget, and " his boon to the female population," to say nothing of malt and win dow-tax exploits, the country owes him a large debt of gratitude. Still we think it will not unreasonably wish to drag him from retirement if he is particularly desirous of returning to the pastoral and bovine cares of his Sabine farm. He has fallen with dignity—procumbit lau boa, and it would be a pity to expose him to the risk of another and a heavier fall. The grateful recollections of " the shepherds' dogs" which he has just relieved from taxation, will follow him into his retirement, and some poet of the sheep-walks will inscribe pastorals to his name. It will b. seen by reference to the report, that his Lordship gave an account of the circumstances which led to his resignation in the House of Commons. He attributes all to the Co ercion Bill and the Littleton and O'Connell episode there upon. He has, no doubt, told the truth so far as he has gone ; but has he told the whole truth ? It is a curious coincidence that be did not tender his resignation until after the division upon the motion of Lord Chandos, when he found that the promise to relieve " shepherds and their dogs" from taxation, by way of relief to the agricultural in terests, did not save Ministers from a virtual defeat, for such it was. He does not say a word either about the odious Malthusian Bill, anticipations of the doom of which in the House of Lords had been entertained by the Ministry, but which the resignations for the time averted. It appears that Mr. Hume has just now been inspired with confidence in that Ministry in whom he has often declared he had no confidence, and in reference to whom he said, some time ago in the House of Commons, that he would prefer an avowed Tory Government •to a Whig Government con ducted on Tory principles. Besides, he voted for the motion of Lord Chandos, which, we believe, gave the finishing blow to the Whig Administration. For our own part, whether Lord Brougham succeed in forming a new Administration, or it fall into the hands of anybody else, we shall wait to see of what materials it is constructed, and what its princi ples are, before we praise or blame. Pursuing an indepen dent course, and looking only to the interests of the country, without caring for sect or party, we shall be ready to sup port the new Administration, if we think it honestly pursues the country's interest ; if not, we shall give it sincere and fearless opposition. If the Whigs had taken our well-meant advice when they first showed symptoms of backsliding from principle, they would not have met with their untimely and inglorious overthrow.—Morning Herald. HIS MAJESTY'S LEVEE. His Majesty, attended by Sir_Herbert Taylor, arrived 'in town at half-past one o'clock yesterday afternoon, from Windsor Castle. The Duke of Cumberland received his Majesty at St. James's. Before holding a levee, the King gave audiences in the closet to some of the Cabinet Ministers. His Majesty also gave audiences after the levee to Earl Grey, Viscount ,Althorp, Viscount Mel bourne, the Lord Chancellor, Lord John Russell, Sir James Kempt, and Lord Hill. Mr. Cutlar Pergusson was presented to his Majesty, on his ap pointment PS Judge-Advocate-General, by Lord Althorp. Lieutenant-Governor Aretas Young, from Prince Edward Island. was presented to the King, by Mr. Spring Rice. Lord Byron and the Hon. Captain John Campbell, R.N., were the Lord and Groom in waiting. Mr. Mayers, Agent for Barbadoes, present a petition to his Ma jesty, from the Council and Assembly of that Island. -At the entree levee there were present— The Prince of Hohenlohe Langenbourg, the French Ambassa dor ; the Sardinian, Neapolitan, Prussian, Hanoverian, Belgic, Netherlands, Danish, Bavarian, Portuguese, Brazilian, Greek, and Spanish Ministers ; the Austrian, Russian, and Swedish Charges d'Affaires ; the Councillor of the Hanoverian Legation, the Dutch Special Minister, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Steward, the Groom of the Stole, the Master of the Horse, the Commander of the Forces, the Master- General of the Ordnance, the Captain of his Majesty's Ilonourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, the Master of the King's Buck Hounds, the Master of the Ceremonies, the Master of the Robes, the Gentleman of the Horse ; Colonel Sir Charles Thornton, Aid-de-Camp to the King ; and Colonel Seymour, Equerry in Waiting. At the general Levee were-- D UK ES—Cleveland, Beaufort. MARQUISES—Exeter, Bristol, Ailesbury. EARLS — Burlington, Falmouth, Westmorland, Amherst, Caw dor, Grosvenor, Winchilsea, Aboyne, Lichfield, Carlisle, Grey, Verulam, De Grey. VISCOUNTS.—CoIe, M.P., Melbourne, Althorp, Palmerston, Kingsborough. LORDS—Saltoun, Prudhoe, Auckland, John Russell, Kenyon, Rolle, Ravensworth. Archbishop of Armagh. RIGHT lIONOURA BLES—E. J. Littleton, S. Rice, E. Ellice, C. Grant. Slits—T. Phillips, C. Cockerill, C. Hunter, E. Codrington. Rev. Doctor Tenfold; Rev. T. Cooke. Lieutenant-Governor Aretas Young. INlEssiEti its—Herbert, Mayers, C. Fergusson, W. Miles, Black stone, M.P., T. W. Allies, Basan, Borthwick, Crompton, M.P., Abercrombv. AnmiaAl.s—Tolleinaclie, Sir John Beresford, Sir T. Rodd. GENERALS-Sir Cohn Halkett, Le Mesurier, Saint George, Sir C. Dalbiac. CAPTAINS, R.N.—W. Perceval, R. Dickinson, Loring, Man. gin, Bowles, H. Carew. CoimNELs—Leith Hay, Fyers, Somerset, Ewtl. Walker, A. /V Maxwell, Sir H. Wyatt. CO 3 IMANDERS—IiI‘Crea, H. Carew. Major Radcliffe. Lieutenant H. Gait skell, R.N. CAPTAlNS—Colquhoun, Yates, Ainslie. LIEUTENANTS—Sands, Henry Fyers, Harbor. Cornet Mervyn Archdall, M.P. Ensign Surtees Cook. The following presented addresses and petitions to the King : The Archbishop* - of Canterbury--From the Clergy of the Deanery of Taunton ; the Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Salop ; the Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Derby ; the parishes of East Brent and South Brent, Hutton and Locking, Weston Super Weall and Huntspill, in the county of Somerset ; Eling, county of Southampton ; Coleshill, Warwickshire • Danley Wiske, north riding of Yorkshire ; St. Nicholas, Cork% St. Mary Shan don, Cork ; Abbey Stowey, county of Cork ; the Presbytery of Garrioch, Scotland ; Parish of Bewillochar, Aberdeenshire ; and the Parish of Bourtie, Aberdeenshire, humbly expressive of gratitude for his Majesty's determination to support the United Churches of England and Ireland, and praying his Majesty's continued protection. The Earl of Falmouth—From the Gentry and Inhabitants of Fal mouth and its vicinity, expressing their alarm for the safety of the Protestant Establishment, and assuring the King that his Majesty's Declaration, as recently delivered to the Prelates, has filled them with admiration and gratitude ; a similar address from the town of Penzance and its vicinity ; and a similar ad dress from the parish of Lawnhitton, in Cornwall. Lord Saltoun—From the Lord Lieutenant, Deputy Lieutenants, and landholders of the county of Aberdeen, in favour of the Church, as by law established. Mr. Herbert—From South Wilts, in favour of the Established Church. Viscount Cole, M.P., and Mr. M. Archdall, M.P.—From the High Sheriff, Nobility, Gentry, Clergy, and Protestants of the county of Fermat,igh, to thank his Majesty for his gracious De claration to the Bishops in support of the Established Church, and to declare their unshaken loyalty. Lord Prudhoe—From Chillingliam, county of Northumberland, thanking his Majesty for the avowal of his sentiments to the Bishops, and praying his Majesty to preserve the alliance between Church and State ; and from the parishes of Alnwick, Shillbottle, Lex bury, Longhoughten, llvington, Holystone, and Belford, in the county of Northumberland, thanking his Majesty for his gracious Declaration to the Bishops' prayer to his Majesty to preserve the rights and privileges of the Church, and to sanction no change which might end anger its efficacy. The Marquis of Exeter—From the borough of Stamford, to thank his Majesty for the Declaration of his Alajesty's determination to support the Established Church in its full integrity. The Earl of Westmoreland—From Thranston and its vicinity, in the county of Northampton, expressing thanks to his Majesty for his gracious Declaration of supporting the Church. Earl Amherst—From the Archdeacon and Clergy of Middlesex and Essex, expressing their dutiful acknowledgments to the King -for his Majesty's most gracious and repeated assurances of pro tection to the Church. The Earl of Winchilsea—From the inhabitants of Tenby and its vicinity ; Leigh, county of Stafford; Sebergham, county of Car lisle • and Ahenagh, county of Cork, expresing their attach men t to the United Church, thanking his Majesty for his reply to the address of the prelates and clergy of the United Churches, and avowing their determination to use every endeavour in their power to support his Majesty in the execution of those resolutions. Mr. Wm. Miles—From the inhabitants of the south-eastern part of the county of Somerset, testifying their deep sense of gratitude to his Majesty for the assurance of his determination to maintain inviolate the integrity of the Church. Mr. Blackstone, M.P.—From the Mayor and Corporation of Wallingford,thanking his Majesty for his declaration to the Arch bishops and Bishops in support of the Church. Earl of Cawdor—From the inhabitants of the parish of Narberth, thanking his Majesty for his gracious declaration in favour of the Established Church. Earl Grosvenor—From the town of Congleton, county of Chester, expressing their gratitude to his Majesty for his determination to maintain the established religion of the State. Lord Kenyon —From the magistrates, clergy, gentlemen, and inha bitants of Whitchurch and Wem, Shropshire, Malpas, Cheshire ; ' anti from the officiating Minn ter of Gresford, Denbighshire, from a public meeting there held ; thanking his Majesty for his decla ration to the Bishops on the subject of Church reform. Lord Prudhoe—From Chillingham in the county of Northumber land, thanking his Majesty for the avowal of his sentiments to the Bishops, and praying his Majesty to preserve the alliance between Church and State. Lid Rolle—From towns and parishes in Devon, Honiton, More tonhampstead, Bishopsteig,nton, Ipplepen, anti Lifton ; also from Sudbury in Norwich, Dronfield in Derby, and Rowley Regis in Staffordshire, in favour of the Protestant. Church, and against the admission of Dissenters into the Universities. Addresses to the same effect were also presented--From the Pro testant inhabitants of fifty-four parishes in the south of Ireland ; from the inhabitants of New Sarum and the southern portion of the county of Wilts ; from the parish of Hartlepool in the county of Durham ; from the several townships of Poulton in the Fylde, Thornton Carleton, Hardtown with Newton and Marton, in the county palatine of Lancaster ; from the Gentlemen, Clergy, and other inhabitants of the Deanery of Hawkesbury, in the county of Gloucester, signed by 1,200 persons; from several of the Clergy an d ot h ers res idi ng i n B e df or d an d t h e ne i ghbourhood. The following were presented to the King The Earl of Burlington, on coming to his title, by the Earl of Lieut.-General Sir Colin llalkett, late Commander-in-Chief of Bombay, by Mr. C. Grant. Viscount Kingsborough, by the Hon. Major-General King. Mr. T. W. Allies, by his Grace the Duke of Newcastle. Major Ratcliffe, 6th Dragoons, on being oppointed a Knight of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, by the Duke of Richmond. Lieut. H. Fyers, Royal Artillery, by his father, Col. Fyers, R. A. Captain R. Rickenson, C. 8., R.N., on return from foreign ser vice, by Lord Auckland. Colonel L. Hay, on being appointed Clerk of the Ordnance, by the Master- General. Captain Colquhoun, R. A., on his return from Mexico, by the Master-General of the Ordnance. Commander M'Crea, on appointment to the Zebra, by the Hon. Admiral Dundas. Lieut. Sands, Royal Dragoons, by Lieut-Colonel Somerset, Royal Dragoons. Lieut. H. Gaitskell, R.N., on appointment to his Majesty's ship Zebra, by Sir T. Hardy. Ensign S. Cook, 65th Regiment, on his appointment, by Major- General Sir C. Dalbiac. Lieut. Barbor, Bth Bengal Cavalry, returning to India. Captain Yates, Royal Dragoons, by Lieut.-Colonel Someriet. Captain W. Perceval, R.N., by the Hon. Rear-Admiral Dundas. Captain Carew, by Sir J. Beresford. The King gave audience yesterday to Baron d'Ompteda, the Hanoveria:Minister. --11is11.1ajesty, attended by Sir Herbert Taylor, left town at a quarter before seven o'clock last evening, on his return to Windsor Castle. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria, and the Prince and Princess Hohenlohe, rode in the parks at an early hour yesterday morning. The Duchess of Gloucester visited the King yesterday at St. James's. The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Hohenlohe honoured the performance of Anna Bolena, at the King's Theatre, on Tuesday evening, with their presence. JUDGES SALARIES.--We understand that the salaries of the Judges in the Court of Session are to be in creased—those of the heads of the two Inner Courts to 5,0001. each, and those of the other Judges to 3,0001.—a1l the Judges to do duty as Lords of Session, Justiciary, and Jury Court. It also proposed, we believe, that any Judge, of the age of 75, and who has done duty for fifteen years, shall be allowed to retire on full salary. We think the following Judges may, and very.likely will, avail themselves of this privilege, viz.:— Lord President Hope, Lords Glenlee, Balgray, Gillies, and Cringletie. This would make room for a famous seramble amongst the Whig lawyers.—Edinburgh Evening Post. THE LIFE OF A SOLDIER, BY A FIELD OFFICER. —This is a narrative of twenty-seven years' service in various parts of the world, and we suspect that there is not a veteran in the service who will not "fight all his battles o'er again" as he peruses it. The work is written with all the ease, simplicity, and gaiety of familiar colloquy ; and what the general reader will be most pleased with, there is a rich substratum of hu mour, frolic, and joviality, pervadi ng every scene w h ere th e y can be admitted without incongruity. A great recommenda tion to these volumes is, that they contain the actual history of events the most memorable in the annals of the civilised world, and that as all may read them from the purity and de licacy of the narrative, so all should read them for the valuable facts which they so agreeably detail. SURREY SESSIONS, JULY 8. ( Before R. HEDGER, Esq., and a full Bench of Magistrates. ) Leoni Scapiglione, Giovanni Parrisonotti, and Luigi Edon vardet the joint proprietors of an exhibition at the Rotunda, in Blackfriars-road, were indicted for causing an obstruction and nuisance; in consequence of the crowds which collected in front of the above building, by which many persons were plun dered by the thieves, who congregated there in great numbers. The Counsel for the prosecution detailed the nature of the nuisance which was occasioned in the neighbourhood of the Rotunda, owing to the exhibition of the three defendants. Ever since they had taken possession of the edifice the greatest disorder prevailed in its immediate vicinity : the portico was filled with trumpeters and big drum mers, the discordant sounds from whose instruments, per petually dinning in the ears of those who lived within the sphere of its influence, were of the most annoying description. The whole of those connected with the exhibition in question were either French, German, or Italian, and their continual jargon, added to the other nuisances, rendered it impossible for respectable tradesmen to carry on their usual avocations with any degree of comfort. An interpreter addressed the Court, and said that the De fendants pleaded guilty to the indictment, and that they had abandoned the Rotunda and should not exhibit there again. The Counsel for the prosecution said that the chief object to be attained was to root out the Defendants, and if they were adjudged to enter into securities not to appear again in charac ter in the district theprosecutOr would be satisfied. The Defendants gladly entered into the required securities, and were then discharged. MONSIEUR CURE-DENT. (From a Paper entitled " The Debtor's Experience„' in the New Monthly Magazine.) A little sexagenarian Frenchman, of Voltairian features, with whom I made an acquaintance soon after my arrival at Barrett's, was an amusing person ; he had been compelled to apply to the Court for relief from debts amounting to 241. only. This slender Gascon (for he was awfully nzaigre, and from that province which entitled him to be so styled), possessing, in a tenfold degree, a love for bavardism, be yond that of his countrymen generally, brightened up with delight at any opportunity_ of jabberin g away i n hi s ow n "lingo." He soon whelmed me in a torrent of talk upon a variety of subjects, but principally upon such as related to himself ; the tale of his woes which brought him to an ac quaintance with the Whitecross knights, was related with that degree of earnestness and energy for which his coun trymen are so remarkable, and from his manner of recount ing them must have had an effect upon any other man than a heart of stone ; he really excited my sympathy warmly, and I verily affirm occasioned me the stomach-ache for the remainder of the day. Monsieur Frederick Adolphe Auguste Cure-dent and his family had been persons of consequence and consideration " from before the foundation of the world ;" and some of his ancestors figured conspicuously in the Court of Charle magne ! "La Grande Revolution," which reduced so many of the " ancienne noblesse" to " dust and ashes," was par ticularly spiteful to the family of the Cure-dents. His fa ther having been ruined, Monsieur Frederick Adolphe Au guste was compelled to seek his fortunes in England, by teaching British youth a knowledge of the Gallic tongue. His fame extended far and wide. One bright sun-shining morning the twopenny postman brought him a summons, in the shape of a letter, bearing the coronet of a Peer, to attend forthwith at No. —, in Grosvenor-square. Monsieur Cure-dent arranged his toilette and his queue with more than usual care, attired his thin legs in black " shorts" and silk stockings, seized his cane, and departed, ruminating upon future fortunes and honours, to which he fondly be lieved this invitation was a prelude. A certain Marquis, hearing of Mr. Cure-dent's capabi lity, desired that his only and much-loved, spoiled and stupid son should be entrusted to his care for the purpose of acquiring the French language. The young gentleman being intended for the diplomatic department, his noble father at once made very liberal arrangements with the French tutor for his immediate reception, to the exclusion of all other persons ; this was a sine qua non with my Lord. Prated with the flattering confidence reposed in him, Cure dent assented to all his Lordship's arrangements, dismissed his plebeian pupils, and received hint, in whose veins and those of his ancestors high patrician blood had flowed during many past centuries. Monsieur Cure-dent had for a long season silently and secretly mourned over the dullness and heaviness of the young nobleman's intellects, and summoned all his patience to bear with him. Months, however, rolled on, and my Lord could not, or would not, be taught ; his density and incapacity were too much for the mercurial Cure-dent ; they had already worn him to a mere skeleton, and he resol solved to wait upon the Marquis and relate his sorrows. Arrived at his Lordship's house, he was received with that well-bred kindness and real politeness for which our true nobility are so remarkable, and which can but have an irre sistible effect upon those who have the pleasure of an acquaintance with them. His Lordship's obliging manners had so much influence over Monsieur Cure-dent, that he felt for a moment embarrassed, and wished himself away. After a pause, however, he thus began : " My Lor, your Lorship is vary koind to me ; your Lorship is one vrai gentilhomme. lam vary mooch obleeged to your Lorship for vary mooch koindness to me. I ask your pardon, mi Lor, but your fils, mi „Ur your noble son—l have great respect for your Lorship, pardon, mi Lor—mais his Lorship can no possible larn de French. If God Almighty was to say to mee, vhich vould you do, Monsieur, teacha dis boy de French or go to hell ? I vould tank God Amighty for his politesse, but I vould mooch rader go to hell." By this declaration he lost his Lordship's patronage ; his former scholars had found a new master, and poor Cure dent fell into difficulties which ultimately brought him to this place. LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, JULY B.—We have had less doing in our cotton-market to-day. The opera_ tious do not exceed 1,000 bags, all Americans, with the excep tion of 150 Surats, at sid. to 61d. ; and 150 Bahias at 10kd. to 11d. per lb. FRENCH SILK.—DOVER.—By the new Customs Bill it is intended to allow silks, the produce of Europe, which may be imported into Dover only from Calais, to be imported into the same port from Boulogne as well as Calais. EAST IN'DIA 9: • • (Concluded from The Sun of -Yesterday.) • The Chairman (li. St. GEORGE TucKr.tr, Esq.,) denied that the Court of D irectors had fallen into any error. They had been called on to give effect to the provisions of a new Act of Parliament, anti, as advised by their counsel, they had done so. He contended that they had acted legally and cor rectly. The hon. proprietor seemed to doubt the law of their learned counsel, and he wished to substitute his own ; but he must say, that with respect to the 7th clause of the act, not a single doubt had occurred to the minds of any of his fellow elirectors as to the perfect legality of their proceedings ; and lie must add, that in any question involving a point of law they were bound to act on the opinion of their professional adviser ; if they did not, they subjected themselves to great and heavy responsibility. He would say that if, in this instance, they had acted incorrectly, it was the law that was incorrect, for they had proceeded upon a sound exposition of it. He did not mean to go into the merits of the case. If it were the pleasure of the proprietors to call for papers, and to revise that which the Court of Directors had done, they must so proceed on their own responsibility. The wish of the Court of Directors had been to do justice to all parties interested. They were willing to receive any suggestion from the proprietors, but they could not allow their opinions, as directors, acting under the obliga tion of an oath, to be lightly overruled. Mr. FIELDER expressed his conviction that if the plan which had been laid before the Board of Control by the directors was confirmed by the former body, it would then be too late for the proprietors to take any measures. The CHAIRMAN said the plan had not been yet sanctioned by the Board of Control, and therefore the case was yet open. If the proprietors passed any resolutions, they must go to the Board. Mr. FIELDER then contended that, in point of law, as well as of common sense, no scale of compensation could be agreed on without the intervention of the Court of Proprietors. They had no right, he admitted, to interfere with the directors in mere matters of business, such as selling teas ; but he de nied that there was any restraining clause in the Act of Par liament to prevent them from calling the directors to account for any important step they might take under that Act, which was not strictly in conformity with it. He should support the motion. Mr. LOWNDES spoke loudly in praise of the Company's maritime officers. Mr. SWEET, after a few observations, proposed, as an amend ment, " That the Directors be requested to apply to the Board of Control to suspend their answer to the plan of compensa tion proposed by them for their maritime officers ; that the Directors, in reconsidering the subject, shall do so with a view to the length of service of the said officers, and also with refer ence to the retiring allowances granted to officei s of the navy; and that they shall lay the result before the proprietors previ ously to submitting the plan to the Board of Control." Mr. TWINING was anxious that on this occasion a proposition should be made that would insure unanimity instead of excit ing opposition. He wished the power and influence of that Court to be properly acknowledged, because he had often known it to be exercised with great public benefit. No man was more sincerely attached to their marine officers than he was—no man was more anxious to serve them ; but with re ference to the amendment proposed by the Hon. Proprietor (Mr. Sweet), he doubted whether it would not be better not to point out to the Directors the mode in which they should shape their consideration of the assistance that ought to be given to the gentlemen connected with the naval service. After eulogizing very highly the talent, skill, energy, and enterprise, which had been so often displayed by the Company's naval force, the Hon. Proprietor proposed, as an amendment, " That although the Court is of opinion that the Court of Di rectors were fully justified in acting in accordance with the law as stated by the Company's standing counsel, and is sa tisfied that their executive body entertained no desire to de prive the constituent body of the right of expressing their opi nion on the subject of the compensation to be granted to the Company's late maritime servants, this Court, nevertheless, thinks it expedient that the plan of compensation submitted to the Board of Control by the Court of Directors should be laid before this Court, and its decision had thereon, prior to its being laid before Parliament." Mr. SWEET expressed his willingness to leav e out o f h i s amendment the points to which the Hon. Proprietor objected, those which called on the Directors to come to a decision with reference to length of service, and to the retiring allowance granted in the navy. Sir C. FORBES said, and he used the word with all respect, that the directors had erred. He was no lawyer, but no man of common sense could deny, looking to the 33d, the 53d, and the 55th of Geo. 111., that all grants of money above the sum of 6001. should in the first instance be submitted by the Court of Directors to the Court of Proprietors. What was.the reason that Mr. Cutlar Fergusson, a director, and a great legal au thority, was not in his place to-day to give his opinion ? The CIIAIRMAN.-Nlr. Fergusson is sorry that he could not attend to-day, because he was obliged to attend at Court. Sir C. FORBES.-Oh ! he attends at Court to kiss his Ma jesty's hand, I suppose, on being made Advocate-General. I should not wonder, however, if he speedily kissed his Majesty's hand on resigning.--( Laughter.) He meant to say nothing disrespectful, but he must contend that the directors were bound to attend that Court, especially on such an important question as this. The Hon. Directors had procured an opinion on the law, and lie, in consequence, had felt it likewise neces sary to obtain an opinion. He had therefore laid before an eminent counsel precisely the same case, and put to him precisely the same question which had been referred to the Learned Sergeant, and his answer was as follows :—" Con sidering the former Acts of Parliament, the by laws of the Company, and the 7th section of the 3d and 4th of Wil liam IV., cap. 85, sent herewith as the only ground on which this question is to be resolved, I am of opinion that the Court of Directors cannot make a grant of compensation or gratuity exceeding the sum of 6001. without the previous sanction of the Court of Proprietors.—( Hear, hear.) The word in the second section of the said act of the 2d and 3d of William IV. is " Company," and in the former acts a dis tinction appears to be taken between the Court of Directors and the Company--( Hear, hear)—from which I conclude that the powers given by that section were not intended to be given exclusively to the Court of Directors.—( Hear, hear.) If the Company at large is intended by that word, I apprehend that the Court of Proprietors must be consulted, and the by laws appear to confirm that view of the question I confine my answer to the precise grounds laid before :me in this case, as the intimation which I received that my opinion Would be wanted to-morrow prevented me from givin g the question longer consideration." This opinion (continued Sir Charles Forbes) was signed, by whom ? Not by the Attorney or Solicitor-General, but by that acknowledged and most able lawyer who had been, and he hoped soon would be again, His Majesty's Attorney-General—Sir James Scarlett. —( Loud cheers.) The Hon. Baronet concluded with an ani mated appeal to the proprietors not to suffer their rights to be extinguished. If they suffered such a proceeding as that which was now under discussion to succeed, they would be come mere ciphers. Sir R. CAMPBELL defended the course pursued by the direc tors as being perfectly legal. Captain GowAN called on the proprietors to decide the question, guided by their own good common sense, and warned them not to be led away by the quibbles, and the tortuous twistings of mere words, to which lawyers often re sorted. Mr. WARDEN was of opinion that neither the directors nor the law officers of the Company were to blame in this matter. The difficulty had been created by the proprietors themselves, who did not take care that the pro% ision adverted to in Mr. Grant's correspondence, and which would have rendered their proceedings in cases of this kind perfectly clear, should be in 4..ted in the bill. After some further discussion, in which Mr. B. HUTCHIN SON, Mr. ROUTH, and other proprietors took part, Mr. WEEDING said he would withdraw his motion if the Court of Directors would agree to the following, which he would substitute in its place :—" That the Court of Direc tors be requested to reconsider the plan proposed for compen sating their late maritime commanders and officers, so as to adopt the twofold scale of remuneration,that of rank and length of service which had been acted on with reference to the home service." After Mr. WEEDING'S original motion had been withdrawn, The CHAIRMAN observed that the new motion proceeded on some " understanding," or some " pledge." Now he would not enter into the consideration of this or any other question upon any pledge, except that of conscientiously performing his duty under the obligation of an oath. After a protracted discussion, Mr. Weeding being deter mined to persist in pressing his second motion, and Mr. Sweet being equally determined to press his amendment (the part to which objection had been taken having been withdrawn), the question was put on Mr. Weeding's motion, which was negatived. The amendment of Mr. Sweet, in its altered form, " That the Court of Directors do request the Board of Control to suspend their answer to the plan of compensation proposed to them for the maritime officers of the Company, and that the Court of Directors do re-consider the plan, and lay the result before this Court, before they submit the same to the Board of Control," was then agreed to. The Court adjourned at six o'clock. NATURAL ACTING.—The sweet-featured Mrs. Boutell was a highly popular actress in the period from 1663 to 1696. Her forte was simplicity and tenderness. She was the original Statira of Lee's Alexander, and acted the rival Queen successively with Mrs. Marshall and Mrs. Barry. Once, when playing with the latter of these ladies, she was in danger of dying on the stage in earnest. Before the curtain drew up the two Queens—Statira (Boutell) and Roxana (Barry)—had a real rivalship about a lace veil, which was at last awarded to the former by the property man. This deci sion so enraged Roxana that she acted her part rather too naturally, and in stabbing Statira, sent her dagger, though it was a blunted one, through Mrs. Bouttell's stays about a quarter of an inch into the flesh.—Canybell's Life Mrs. Siddons. of ITALY.—" This work is from the pen of Mr. Beck ford, the author of the celebrated story Vatliek,' and the recent possessor of the magnificent abbey at Fonthill. It will be found unlike any book of travels in prose that exists in any European language. Some immortal p assages i n Gray's Letters' and Byron's Diaries,' are the only things in our tongue that come near the profound melancholy, blended with the picturesque of description, at once true, and startling,. of these extraordinary pages. We risk nothing in predicting that this work will henceforth be classed among the most ele gant productions of modern literature. It will forthwith be translated into every language of the Continent, and will keep Mr. Beckford's name alive centuries after all the brass and marble he ever piled together have ceased to vibrate with the echoes of Modenhas."—Quarterly Review, June, 1834. . . POLICE INTELLIGENCE, ~. - -•--- -... GUILD — HALL. . A BAD Joiri.—Yesterday John Phillips, a horsekeaper , was charged with stealing a German smoking pipe, value-1 5 .1 from a for e i gn Jew, named Swaisener, who had just arrived with a stock of such co mmo di t i es from the Continent. The Complainant yesterday morning went into a public house near Alderagate-street to offer his wares for sale to the folks in the taproom, when the Prisoner put the pipe above mentioned, which had been placed in his hands for inspentil only, into his pocket. He thanked the Jew for it as if he had received a present, but the Jew insisted that he would have the article again, or the value of it, and finding remonstrances were useless gave the prisoner into custody. The prisoner, who was smiling and enjoying the anxiety of the complainant to recover the property, said the Jew held the pipe out to him and asked, " Will you have this ?" to which he answered, of course, " Yes, and thank ye too:" It Was (1. - _..cidedly a free gift in the way it was offered, without all price marked on it. " You must understand a man by his words, and not suppose what he means." The Complainant declared his question was, " Will you buy this ?" - Mr. Alderman Lucas said the prisoner had better make the Jew some compensation for his trouble. Oh no," said the prisoner, chuckling, it was a gift, Sir." The Jew eagerly denied it, and the prisoner re-asserted it, thinking it was all capital fun, till he was committed for trial at the next Old Bailey sessions. INCENDIARISNI AT SPALDING.—On Thursday morning, between two and three o'clock, a stack of straw, on the premises of Mr. Webster, farmer, in the parish of Spalding , was discovered to be on fire. The Spalding engines and suf ficient help were quickly on the spot, and through the success ful application of the engines, the fire was confined to the straw stack, and one of faggots, which were wholly consumed. A barn (thatched), conta i n i ng b etween 40 and 50 quarters of newly-thrashed wheat was preserved, though the flakes of fire frequently reached both it and the dwelling-house. It is sup:' posed that the firing of the barn was the object of the incen diary. Mr. Webster is one of the overseers of the poor of Spalding for the present year.—Boston Hcrald. SINGULAR AND AFFECTING CONTRIBUTION WO THE MISSIONARY SOCIETY.-At the communion service which closed the recent Missionary Society Anniversary at Sheffield, a gentl eman o f t h at town put into the plate one o ,t the medals which had been conferred upon his deceased son by the London University. In providing for his education, it i 5 understood that the father had been at greater expense tits° he could well afford ; and just as the object of his fondest hopes. after acquitting himself with honour in his preparatory studies, was entering upon his profession with the most flattering pro spects of success, it pleased the Supreme Disposer to remove him to a higher and purer sphere. Every sum of money which . would have belonged to his son, Mr. A. now devotes to bene - , volent purposes. The real value of this medal was ten gui neas ; and it was the first that had been conferred, on any oc casion by the Council of the London University. On learn ing the circumstance, the members of the Literary and Philo sophical Society of Sheffield, not willing that a prize should be thus alienated, which th e y cons id ere d as an honour to t h e ir town, resolved to purchase it a t th e cost of b etween thirty an d forty guineas ; conferring a t once a b enefit on the cause o ( missions to that amount, and a n i mper i s h a bl e tr ib ute of respec t to the memory of their accomplished and lamented young townsman.—Sheffield Patriot. MURDEROUS ASSAULT AND ROBBERY.—On Tuesday night last, about nine o'clock, as Thomas Holloway , a young man, a carpenter, residing at No. 13, Stoner-street , Borough, was proceeding along Holborn, on his way home, h e was accosted by a female, who requested him to treat her to some liquor, and eventually invited him to accompany her to her lodgings, which he consented to do, and she conducted him to a notorious receptacle in Buckeridge-street, St. Giles' s o where they were introduced to an apartment ; after a short time he fell fast asleep, when his partner seized the opportu nity and left the room to inform her friends below that there was good game above, and they proceeded up stairs, when Holloway was awoke from his sleep by a noise, and he over heard the parties whispering, and distinctly heard one say " is he asleep ?" " Yes," was the reply ; on which a man's voice uttered, " Let us kill the —. let, bring us the knife and the wallet." Holloway was greatly terrified, and jumped out of the bed, when a dark tremendous looking fellow, the female who led him to the place, and two other women, rushed into the room, one of the women seized him by the throat, while the others held him behind, and they robbed hit°, of his hat, co a t, t rowsers , wa i stcoat, money, and shoes, and beat him unmercifully ; but being a powerful young fellow, he fought with them, and called out " Murder," until he mad° his way down stairs, but the parties escaped. On his arrival in the passage, the landlord of the house stood at the door, to prevent his going out to make an alarm, or pursue the thieves, on which he made a dreadful blow at his head .1.4 felled him to the ground, and rushed out in his shirt, making an alarm, by calling " Police," until Walker, of the E divi sion, came to his assistance, and took him to the station-house, where he was supplied with temporary clothing, and after strict search the man and two of the women concerned in the transaction were apprehended, and taken to the station-house, but none of the property was found. They gave their names Joseph Orford, Anne Jones, and Anne Reardon, all notorious characters, who have been in custody on various charges. They were yesterday morning taken before the Magistrates at Hatton-garden Police Office, and examined, wh en t h e prose cutor positively identified the whole of them, and ttry w ere remanded in order that the stolen property might be traced, and other parties apprehended. 7- . EXTRAORDINARY OUTRAGE AND ROBBERY.---- Between six and seven o'clock yesterday morning, a carpenter, timed Middleton, occupying the house No. 5, Crown-court, Dean -street, went out to his occupation, leaving his wife in bed in a back room on the ground floor. About three-quarters of an hour after this one of the lodgers heard a struggling and moaning, as if some person was in violent distress. She opened the door of Mrs. Middleton's bed-room, and there, to her great astonishment, found Mrs. Middleton lying on the bed, bound hand and foot, with a handkerchief tied over her mouth. Having released her, and given an alarm, Mrs. Middleton, as soon as she was able to speak from the fright which she was labouring under, gave the following account of the circumstances connected with her singular si tuation :—She said that her husband could not have proceeded more than a hundred yards after he went out before she heard some persons enter the parlour adjoining her bed-room, and pull down the window-blinds. She called out to know who was there, when her bed-room door was opened, and two men , having their faces concealed with black crape, came towards her. She was about to give an alarm, when one of them, laying hold of her, swore if she made the least noise he would cut her throat. One of them then asked her where her hus band kept his money. She said her husband had no money, to which the other replied he knew that Middleton was never without money, and therefore, if she wished to save her life, she must say where it was to be found. She then said it was in a box in the bed-room, but her husband had the key with him. The men then proceeded to tie her hands behind her back with a piece of strong cord used for window pullies, after which they tied her legs together, and concluded by fastening a handkerchief over her mouth, so as to prevent her cries for assistance from escaping, having first taken off her wedding ring. Having thus secured h er , one o f t h e men, w i t h a c hi sel belong ing to her husband, forced open the box, and took out of it two purses, one of them containing six sovereigns, and the other fourteen shillings, They also took out three Russian Bonds and then decamped with their plunder. She made all the efforts in her power to release herself, and it was owing to her groans and struggles that one of the female lodgers came speedily to her relief. The undisguised terror of Mrs. Middleton, and her agitation, which con t inue d f or a cons i derable time, together with the wounds on h er wr i sts ma d e b y the cords, which had been fastened so t i g h t l y as to cut through the skin, left no doubt of the truth o f h er story ; an d t h e facts were further cor roborated, by fi n di ng , a s h ort t i me afterwards, the three Ras sian bonds down the area, thrown there by the villains, who were probably ignorant of their value. It is conjectured that the persons who perpetrated this uncommon outrage must have been acquainted with the movements of Mr. Middleton; ana must have watched him out, and then let themselves into the house by means of a latch key. Jarvis, a policeman of the C division, was passing a short time after the occurrence, and ett learning what had taken place, immediately went to the house to get information, so as to enable him to trace the parties. One of them was a tall man in a dark frock coat, and the other a shorter man, stout, in a blue coat. BIRTHS. On the Bth inst., the lady of Richard Twining, jun., Esq., of the Strand, of a son. On the 9th inst., at llampstead, the lady of James G. Murdocb• Esq., of a son. On the 6th inst., at Milford House, Lymingtoni the lady of Lieut.-Colonel D'Arcy, late R.A., of a daughter. • • :I_, MARRIAGES. On the 4th inst., at Goodnestone, Sir Brook Bridges, But.. of Goodnestone Park, Kent, to Fanny, eldest daughter of thelitt° Lewis Cage, Esq., of Milgate, in the same county. On the 17th ult., at Guernsey, Major J. K. Chubley, to Ellenor, third daughter of Staff- Surgeon Paddock. On the 9th inst., at Trinity Chur c h, J o h n Laurie, Esq.,.. o f Harley-street. to Eliza Helen, youngest d aug ht er o f Kenrick ON' lett, Esq., of Harley -street, and Holerofts, Fulham. On the 21st ult., at Spalding, George Augustus Moore, Escll eldest son o f Li eutenant-Colonel George M oore, 59th. Regime,'" Native Infantry, i n th e H on . E as t I n di a Company's service, t° Anne Elizabeth, youngest daughter of the Rev., William Moore , D. D. , of Spalding. On the 4th inst., at St. Martin's Church, Guernsey, Captsia George Carpenter, 41st Regiment, only son of Gen. Carpenter , H.E.I. Company's service, to Mary, third daughter of Lieut. Colonel Cardew, Commanding Royal Enn.ineer in that Island. On the 2d inst., at Swanswick Ch urc h, near Bath, Lieutenant' General Sir William Cockburn, Bart., of Cockburn a i nd Ryslaw, the county of Berwick, and Lansdowne -crescent, Bath, to Martha Honora Georgina Jervis, of Rochetts, Essex, great niece to Joh°, Earl of St. Vincent, niece to th e presen t Vi scount an d th e E ar l °' Cavan, and widow of the late Osborne Markham, Eici. DEA THS. On the Bth inst., Susan, wife of the Rev. T. W. Carr, a nd oldest daughter of the late R. Woodward, D.D. • On the 6th inst., at Hastings, Eliza Selina, the wife of Mr. C' B. Bowman, of Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury, aged 3'7. ../ On the 6th inst., at Hythe, in Kent, Anne, second daughter James Watts, Esq. On the 7th inst., in Bedford-place, Russell-square, John SkYl l. ner, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn. On the sth inst., Thomas Kynaston Selwyn, 8.A., o f Triniti College, C am b r id ge , thi r d son of W m. S elwyn, Esq., Richt:ooo Surrey. On the 7th inst., at Kensington, the wife of Read Parson, Ear Landon; Printed and Published by MURD 0 YOUNO: The ,Sign • Office r Na.: 112, Strand. IF Sir cot ItC Str and bei ng ICingdt LAT H ,