The Sun. — London, England, 1831-12-01 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We have before alluded to the suspension of 'trade in consequence of the suspension of the Reform Bill, and now, en specific information, have to express our regrets on that subject, and lay the griefs of the manufacturing population before the country. A gentleman of the best practical knowledge possible, in every kind of manufacture prepared by the loom, 1!A;,1 been tree. yelling through the districts most celebrated for its labours. He finds there a complete stagna tion of business, and says that it is universally attributed to the delay in the Reform Bill. " We do not know what will happen now," is the ge tiers! remark ; " we will wait and see the end." All, in fact, " wait." The warehoisseman does not order goods,—the manufseturer does not make then,—the weavers and all the operatives connected with the trade arc therefore discharged t whereas, in a healthy state of trade, they would now be employed in preparing for the spring and summer fashions. All this misery and mischief would have been avoided had the Reform Bill been passed. However, we may say, that we think the chiefs of the trade—they who put all business in motion—arc Cimid beyond measere ; for, Reform or no Reform, there is still suffi cient wealth in the country to enable its pos sessors to indulge in the luxuries of dress. Our Gracious Sovereign and his Ministers have done all they can to cut the state of suffering short. No sooner are they baffled, than they return to the charge again, with a new Bill and a fresh session. y What can they more ? If the same perverseness be recommenced towards the new Bill as was practised towards the last, and the most benevolent and liberal intentions be still suspended (ultimately defeated they cannot be), the effects of the mischief be upon the heads of its authors !—Times. The Bristol riots, and the menaces held out that something of the same outrageous and de structive character would take place in London, have neither shocked nor grieved the Anti-Re form junta. Unhappily, these events have in spired the faction with a sort of wild confidence and morbid exultation. The recent insurrec tion at Lyons—the battle of the famished against the well-fed—incredible as such a thing may seem, has been hailed for another God-send by the English boroughmongers ! And why ? Because, in the eyes of all these men, who seek not to render justice but to retain power—in their eyes the bloody scenes at Bristol and at Lyons are so many stains upon the robe of con stitutional liberty ; and, therefore, so many re suscitations of the half abandoned hope, that tyranny would not every where perish without a further struggle. It has long been the practice with English Aristocrats, who shrink from the most moderate attempt at redress of political grievances, to confound the amelioraters of so ciety, whose only instruments are reasoning and legislation, with its disturbers, who would attain their civil objects by virtue of fire and sword. When a band of lawless ruffians, not a tithe of whom are able to read or write, spent six-and thirty hours in works of devastation at Bristol, what was the outcry of the Anti-Reformers and their newspapers ? They called it a " Reform mob"--a '- Reform insurrection"—and ex claimed in utter fury, as they have ever since done on hearing that the poor Lyonese silks weavers preferred being shot to dying of star vation, " After this, will Ministers persist is their execrable Bill ?" Why should they not, we ask? Why should they not persist with still more eagerness in their Reform policy, which goes at once to amend the whole frame of our civil administration, when they find ill exist ence a brutal power which requires that the heart and hand of every honest man in the cotnmunity should be incorporated with the Government, and devoted to it for the maintenance of the public peace The first clamour of the borough partisans was—" re-action." That failed : there was no re-action, but tenfold energy in the cause of Reform. The next cry was—" Holland is lost, and Portugal is lost : if we don't make war, England is disgraced for ever. But war came not : the public mind was steadily fixed upon Reform. As the people experienced no " re-action," so the Ministers, wisely, would not run the risk of a "diversion,'' and the second project was defeated. What comes next ? The Anti-Reform grandees one and all declare that Reform, if it intends not anarchy, must produce it ;—that Unions for Reform are revolutionary associations ;—that for men to have defensive arms is to plot an attack upon the Monarchy ; that whether fellow-conspirators with the Jaco bins, or their dupes, the advocates of Reform, all classes included, are practicallg engaged in making war upon Church and State—upon exalted rank, hereditary privilege, magisterial authority, and lawful property ; and that the public force, meaning troops and yeomanry, must, ere long, be unflinchingly employed against them, for that revolution must, at all hazards, be put down. Now by whom are such denunciations tittered ? By those who formed a small excess of forty-one indivi duals (including twenty-one Bishops) over the moiety of the House of Peers. And against whom Against the King and his Ministers,— aLainst the whole body of representatives re turned to the House of Commons by the free constituency of the empire (about fifty persons excepted),—against nine-tenths of the property, nineteen-twentieths of the knowledge, and ten times that numerical amount of the entire Bri tish nation ! This is the third attempt, and, like its predecessors, it also is destined to exposure and defeat. If hopeless frenzy have not seized these unfortunate oligarchs, we would pray them to reflect in time what is that adventure which they meditate, invoke, and threaten. Upwards of 150 of them are neutralized, nay, overmatched by nobles of their own order, who have seen, with the rest of the people of England, that Re form is the sole barrier against revolution, not the path to it. The Bishops, as allies in a civil war, may, from the spirit in which society now, we ieve to say, sr c onsiders them, be st a ted as a ne s , gative quantity. They can do nothing b u t p u ll down a fresh weight of opprobrium on their h temporal colleagues, en what will b e t h e prospect of these same temporal ? When ce will they draw the materials for a con flict ? Englishmen for soldiers—unless incendi aries of Bristol —they will find none. h e Eng lish nation holds civil war in abhorrence : it con templates not the horrors of bloodshed, even for the promotion of the cause which it most worships; far less will it take the money or obey the commands of half an hundred dis hostility to th e nat i ona l affected jobbers, in will, and for the direct overthrow of its own most precious interests. What then ? Why, the forty-one majority Lords, lay and church militant, must go to fight without an army. Some few old family retainers may attend them ; they may equal altogether the strength of a single bat talion ! Yet they talk of civil war,—of cutting down " the reforming rascals,'—of bringing the people to their senses by a few " wholesome examples !" Lord have mercy on them ! Take up arms against the King and State and twenty two millions of their countrymen ! Be unsuc cessful rebels, and attabited traitors, and this to divert the minds of the British nation from a reform of abuses which, when accomplished, would effect more for the preservation of consti tutional rank—of unoffending persons and of legitimate property—than all that ever went be fore it, from 1688 to this hour at which we are writing. Once more, and finally, we warn these Lords. Let them not flatter themselves by iniagbdng that the moral power of the English mind will sleep while it ought to be watchful, or that the dregs of the populace will be suffered to molest the community, for the sake of afford ing the vindictive and sanguinary spirits of the time a pretext for smothering Reform by " mili tary law," or slandering it by false, however plausible, imputations. That extreme want, operating upon ignorance and depravity, may tend to endanger the public peace, no reasonable observer of passing occurrences will deny. But evil tendencies must be counteracted by rational means. We agree with the worthy author of a well-considered little pamphlet (" Observations on the Reform Bill, by Mr. Montagu Gore") that corps of volunteer householders, armed, officered, and directed by the Government, would be an expedient well adapted to meet most emergen cies which can arise in the nature of actual vio lence. It is a force with which the nation is familiarized, and from which no evil need be dreaded. The following passage of the short essay alluded to shows good temper and good sense " Yet it is asked, ' What good does this Bill effect ?' Let me ask, is it no good to revive the dormant energies of the Constitution ? Is it no good to do an act of great justice by giving the na tion that full and fair representation to which, by the statute law, and by the abstract theory of the Constitution, it is entitled ? Is it no good to sweep away the alleys and by-lanes, and to make the Com mons' House of Parliament accessible only by the broad way of public merit? It was said by Dr. Johnson, that every man who arrived at the temple of Fame by any other path than that of virtue, was a sully on hs country's annals ; with no less justice may it be said, that whoever enters the House of Commons by any other road than those of talent and merit, is a reproach on the representation of the country. " I, has been well remarked by Mr. Christian, in his Notes on Blackstone's Commentaries, that a great distinction ought to be observed between civil and political liberty. Civil liberty, as he observes, may be enjoyed under the most at bitrary despot ; under such a ruler it is very possible for excellent laws to be enacted, and for the strictest observance of them to be enforced. But does that prove that despotic are preferable to free States ? Assuredly not ! For without that political and conservative liberty which is the especial advantage of free States to enjoy, our civil liberty is dependent on the life, perhaps on the caprice, of an individual. " Again, it is said, that the Bill is a delusion on the working classes,—that they will gain no advan tage by it,—that it is designed for the sole benefit of the middle ch.ses. What daring effrontery ! What unpardonable misrepresentwion is this ! What! are we to be told that, in this country, where the interests of the middle and lower classes are so linked together, so inseparably united, that any measure can, by possibility, affect the interests of the one class, without in an equal degree acting on those of the other ? Of what, let me ask, does the happi ness of the working classes depend but on the pro sperity of those immediately above them ? If, by this Bill, the interest of the master-manufacturer or farmer be protected, is it not plain that he will be • able to employ more artisans and labourers ; and that hus not this or that particular order, but every class of the State, will derive benefit from it ? It will not, indeed, elvvate the labouring classes to any sudden and exalted eminence ; there is no magic in this Bill, by which gold may be showered upon them ; nor is there in it any charm by which the evils inseparable from humanity, and the ills neces sarily concomitant on such a state as our's, may be averted. The BM professes to effect no such quackery as this. " But the mode in which its operations will prove efficacious is simple and intelligible. According to its provisions, all property, whether manufacturing or agricultural, will be represented. There will not be an individual in the kingdom, possessing any pro perty of this description, who will not, through his representatives, have a voice in the Legislature of the country. Let us suppose, then, that a Minister should go down to Parliament, and propose any measure affecting the welfare of the agricultural in terest ; there is not a freeholder, or copyholder, or leaseholder to any considerable amount, who would not, through his representatives, have a voice in op posing it. " Again, let us imagine that a similar measure was proposed, injurious to the manufacturing inte rest ; there is not a respectable manufacturer in the kingdom who would not, through the representa tives for large manufacturing towns, have a voice in opposing it. " But I may be told, that from these conflicting interests great inconvenience may arise; that one of two evils must eccur,—either that such a variance must always prevail between those interests as con siderably to embarrass the Government; or that one of them must acquire an undue ascendancy over the other. But this danger is, I think, obviated by the creation of a third constituent body, distinct from the manufacturing or landed interests ; and which will form a counterpoise to either ;—I mean the in habitant householders of moderate sized country towns. " But, anxious •as I feel to see the permanent welfare of the kingdom established by this great measure, I cannot refrain from pointing out to you those hidden rocks which lie in your course, and on which your hopes may be shipwrecked. Influenced by the example of a neighbouring country, proposals for armed Associations, and National Guards, have been made to you by well-intentioned, but, in my mind, ill-juding individuals. To buck measures I see the strongest objections; first, because it is pe rilous in the extreme, to establish an armed force, independent of the executive authority ; secondly, because I conceive that the security of the public peace may be as efficiently preserved by other means. The real power of a State is, after all, its armed power; and what but evil can ensue if that power be transferred from the governors to those who are called the governed ? w 4 * 0 " Let me ask, would not a well-constituted police, or a regular trained volunteer corps, be the most safe and most effective power to maintain the public peace ? A volunteer corps, commissioned by the Crown, and subject to regular military discipline, would insure every advantage that could be desired for the public tranquillity. " During the late war many such corps existed in various parts of the kingdom ; Edinburgh had her volunt eers , w hi c h h a ve formed the subject of some beautiful and patriotic lines from the pen of that un rivalled genius, of whom I will not only say quod,,tetigit, non orizavit,' but that, by his pen , he has given immortality to every locality he has so beautifully described, and to every institution of his country he has so feelingly commemorated. In the city at Bristol, during th e war , t h ere was a r e g iment of foot, and a regiment of horse volunteers; and had such a force existed now, the property of that city would not have been exposed to the plunder and des truction it has recently suffered. In the city of Sa lisbury, a very excellent corps of this description has been already formed, which, under the command of one of the most respectable citizens of that place, has become well tiained, and has already rendered great service in the maintenance of public tranquillity. " I❑ the next place, Englishmen, let me advise you not to be mistrustful of the present Ministers. Can you suppose that the Noble Earl at the head of his Majesty's Government would, in his old age, abandon all the well-earned reputation of his poli tical life, and relinquish that Reform which, through evil and through good report, he has so long advo cated and defended P Can you suppose that another illustrious Member of the Cabinet, who has hitherto devoted his time, his vast talents, his amazing intel ligence, his unrivalled assiduity to your service and your welfare, will now forsake your interests ?" Times. We have copied from the Dublin Morning Register of Monday last the report of a meet ing of the Irish Political Union, on Saturday last. It contains some curious matter, to which we call the attention of our readers. It appears to us that both English and Irish are rather ex travagant in their demands on Ministers, wh o while engaged in so difficult a subject as Re form, may have reason for sinning both in the way of commission and omission, which i t would be difficult to explain. But with every allowance, there is much in the conduct of Mi nisters which it would be difficult to justify. With one sin they have been repeatedly charged, namely, the sin of bestowing their patronage ra ther on enemies than adherents ; and sufferin g to remain in power and naming to offices of power, men who use that power to countera c t the exertions of their friends in their behalf. In fact it looks as if they were only anxious for the good opinion of their most bitter opponents—of men who are not to be coaxed into good will to wards them ; but would, the very first oppor tunity, bring them to the block if they could. We have often alluded to the mischief sustained by continuing all the Tory Lord Lieutenants, and thus arraying against themselves the military and civil force of the country. If there is a de licacy in removing Tories who have long been in the Lieutenancy, there ought at all events to be none in keeping them out of new Lieutenancies. But in Ireland the blunder has been committed of passing by their friends, and making Lord Lieutenants of their most rancorous enemies. Mr. O'Connell, there is no denying it, has great, and deserves to have great, influence in Ireland. Mr. O'Connell delivered his country men from bondage, for the Duke of Wel lington admitted that the necessity created by Mr. O'Connell alone induced him to concede emancipation. No true Irishman, then, can forget his share of the national obligation to Mr. O'Connell. Possessing as he does the confi dence of the nation in an extraordinary degree, he ought not to have been slighted. In the Parliamentary warfare of last Session, he did on many occasions excellent service to the good cause. This ought not to have been forgotten. There was evidently a disposition on his part to forget and forgive ; but he has been coldly re pelled. Mr. Fitz-Simon, his son-in-law, has, he says, been struck out of the commission of the peace, merely because he is his son-in-law. " he Whigs," he says," " have made Lord Wicklow Governor of the county of Wicklow ; in that same act they have not only showed their own subserviency, but, I would beg to add, their baseness, by the promotion of those who have proved their enemies." He complains that the very first use that the Anti-Reform Lord Lieu tenants are making of their power, is to en deavour to turn out the Members who voted for them in favour of Reform. " I ridiculed (he says) Lord Wicklow in the House of Commons, for what he had said arid done in the House of Lords. I did so in his presence, for he was under the gallery while I was describing him, and showing what a paltry and miserable thing it was to oppose a great popular question.—(Hear, and cheers.) Lord Wicklow has, since then, taken his opportunity of revenging himself upon me .— (Hear, hear.) But who gave him that opportunity The Whigs.—(Hear, hear ! and cheers.) The Whigs, to whom I brought the aid, the assistance, the support, and the cc-operation of the Iri s h people—the Whigs ! who bad my support, with that of forty other Irish Members in the House of Commons—and many of those Members, I can tell them, would not have voted for their Reform measures, but that I urged them to do so, Yes, it was those very Whigs, who have given Lord Wicklow the power to do this.—(Hear, and cheers.) In the appointment of Lord Wicklow they have done these two things—they have offered an indignity to me, and an insult to my son-in-law ; and they have gratified the Anti-Reformers of that county. The power that has been given to the Whigs is now trafficking to put the Reform 'Mem bers out of the county. Mr. Howard, a high-spi rited English gentleman, would not be influenced by Lord Wicklow ; and Mr. James Grattan is as good and independent a Member as ever a county could possess. Mark, then, what the Whigs have done in Wicklow ; they have given power and influence to a man who is using that power against them._ (Hear, and cheers.)" In all the cases of Tory Lieutenancies, such as Lord Wicklow, Lord Lorton, Lord Forbes, &c. Ministers cannot gain anything, and must lose much, because they do not gain over oppo nents, but furnish the means of creating fresh opponents. They could have put forth no power against them before the appointment, which they will not still put forth. But possessing, as Mr. O'Connell does, the confidence of a large part of the population of Ireland, policy, independent of every other consideration, dictates the making a friend of him. The matter does not look. well ; for the public will naturally conclude that, in neglecting the popular Irish Members, Minis ters are not making the most of the resources at their command.—Morning Chronicle. An Evening Paper has announced that it is the intention of the Anti-Reform party " to try their strength on an amendment to the address." We have had many caut i ons o f l ate aga i ns t placing too much reliance on contemporaneous prophecy ; but as this may be a matter of intel ligence, not of prediction, and as a rumour of this kind has reached us from other quarters, we shall, at least for the present, assume it to be true. On such a supposition, then, what must we think of the Anti-Reformers ? Why is it that they have resolved to meet, on the very threshold of Parliament, not the Bill—for there will be no Bill in existence, when the address is moved—but the very name of Reform, which is almost all that the King's Speech can contain amongst the general allusions of such a docu ment ? It is true they may have a sort of im pression that the name of Reform can bode them no good ; that, be the measure what it will , it must present to their lips some bitter in gredient ; and upon this ground they may be anxious to oppose it by anticipation—that is, in the most ungracious and un reaso n a bl e manner in which it is possible for men to act. But what, if such be really their intention, becomes even of the bit-by-bit Reform which they were good enough to promise the public, in case the public would assist them in turning out the Ministers ? How will they frame their amendment so as to ' condemn Reform in the abstract (for they will have no specific measure to quarrel with), and yet promise it in substance as the first act of their policy on coming into power Will they throw off the mask, and acknowledge that it is not Reform, but a cure for Reform, they have in store for us ? or will they level their opposi tion against Ministers alone, approving of Re form, but maintaining that they themselves are the only persons who know how, and in what proportions, it ought to be dealt out to the people ? There may be, and probably there is, at the bottom of this notable project of amend ing the Address, a secret hope that they may be able to defeat Ministers without bringing them selves in direct collision with the Bill. But, however evasive their amendment or their speeches may be—however shy they may fight of the real question, every man in society will be aware of this, that to turn out a party pledged to Reform, in favour of a party who are pledged to resist it, will be neither more nor less than to give up Re form itself, and that too without waiting to know its provisions. The condhet of the House of Lords last session was cavalier enough. Is it intended that the approaching session shall com mence with a still stronger disdain of reasoning? --Morning Herald. The Journal des Debats observes—" We are not yet come, whatever may be said, to a time when property shall be overturned in the name of liberty, and when spoliation shall constitute equality. Labour has still need of property and justice. It is, therefore, by guaranteeing property and doing justice to all, masters as well as workmen, that the Government will be ena bled to introduce efficacious ameliorations into the lot of the labouring class." This sort of language leads the workmen to believe that it is in the power of the Government speedily to ameliorate firicaciously their lot, and conse quently leads them to believe, that as Govern ment can ameliorate their lot, it is criminal in not having ameliorated it till force was had re course to.. This is holding out an encourage ment to all other men suffering from vicissitudes of trade to rebel against the Government, and furnishing food for fresh disturbances, when the workmen of Lyons find that their lot has not been efficaciously ameliorated. Burke, in his " Thoughts on Scarcity," has admirably exposed the doctrine which would place all distress to the account of Government. A Government can only relieve the distress of one class by injustice to another, and that relief must always be of short duration. If the master is made to pay more than his profits will allow him to pay, his stock is thereby diminished, and his sources of future employment dried up. Society owes to all its members relief from absolute starvation ; but, as Burke well observes, charity and remu neration for labour are quite distinct. The French Government, for the sake of the peace of society, ought to relieve the immediate and more pressing wants of the distressed workmen ; but they ought at the same time carefully to guard against deceiving them into the hope that it is in their power to obtain for their industry say other remuneration than can be obtained from their masters when parties are free. The Prefect at Lyons, as was well observed by M. Casimir Perier, ought not to have prescribed to the masters the observance of any particular tariff, and his conduct has evidently had the most disastrous consequences. Less mischief has been done at Lyons by the capture and occupa tion of that splendid city, than might have been imagined. The French are astonishing ill all that relates to organization. They have wonder rul resources on the spur of the occasion. It is remarked by Mr. Mill, in his admirable History of British India, that we are indebted for all that constitutes the organization which enables a handful of men to retain a hundred mil lions in subjection to the French, who first set the example. These common workmen have not merely displayed great military ta lents in their mode of conquering and securing their conquest, but, according to private letters from Englishmen, great presence of mind in the means' resorted to for preserving the peace and securing property. Bravery the French have in common with other nations ; but we believe the working people of no other na tion have yet displayed the talent for strategie, which seems so very common in France. Segur, i n his History of the Expedition to Russia, when remarking the immense losses sustained by the French in their advance to Moscow, from the hardships of the march, especially in their Ge lrian Allies, who, he say s are l ess s i newy and less sober than the French, has the follow inge s passage para separated But it was not th e s i c k on l y that from the army ; many soldiers disgusted and dispirited on the one hand, and impelled by the love of independence and plunder on the other, voluntarily deserted their colours ; and these were not the least resolute ; their numbers soon increased, as evil begets evil by example. They formed bands, and fixed their quarters in the mansions and villages adjacent to the military road. There they lived in abundance. Among these there were fewer French than Germans ; but it was remarked that the leader of these little independent bodies, composed of men of several nations, was invariably a Frenchman." We suspect that no country under what Colonel Napier calls the cold shade of Aristocracy, will ever exhibit in its common people the qualities that strike us in the French. A Frenchman, how ever poor, is never abject ; the feeling of equality never forsakes him. A German, on the other hand, seldom looks as if he respected himself. He grows up under a slavish deference to his superiors in rank. The French peasant, when he entered the army, saw that the highest post was open to him, and hence it was not ridiculous in him to seek every opportunity of acquiring the higher military qualities. But why should an English soldier think of more than the manual and platoon exercise, when, if he possessed higher qualities, they could be of no use to him ? He has no equals to stimulate him to exert the powers of his mind in anything beyond drudgery. In commerce and manufactures, Englishmen from the lowest beginning rise every day to dis tinction and opulence. Arkwright, for instance, was a barber ; the late Mr. Rennie was origi nally a common millwright ; and we believe Mr. Telford, the engineer, was originally what in Scotland is called a common dyke-mason. Civil talents abound among our working people, because they are abundantly rewarded ; but our people will never display military talents, be cause promotion is denied to them.—Morning Chronicle. THE R lOTS AT BRISTOL.--Th e hurried and conflicting statements hitherto publish e d respect i ng these fearful disorders, have obviou,ly failed to satisfy the anxious interest so generally created by th e occas i on. T o re medy the deficiency, a succinct and dispassionate narra tive of the entire proceedings, founded on the testimony of unimpeachable eye-witnesses, and discarding every thing that is sup p li e d i n th e pre sent has h n a u s m n b o e t r n t f he ti s ie upy , o u rt n o it f ed facste s, rvice Journal." In this narrative, the services of the military, which are univer sally admitted to have alone arrested the disaster, arc re corded with professional clearness and precision, CHOLERA INIORBUS. FROM DR. DAUN TO THE MAYOR OF NEWCASTLE. " Sunderland, Nov. 27. " Alv DEAR Stn.,—The system of making reports which I had required has been changed by Dr. Barry, at,d the Secretary of the new Board of Health has been appointed to forward to Government the daily reports. I regret, therefore, I cannot send you the same as heretofore. " I fear that the cholera is beginning to make its ap pearance in Newcastle. " I have the honour to he, &c. " ROBERT DAUN." " Sunderland, Niv. 28. " At this eventful period, when a new and most alarm. ing disease has reached our shores, I conceive it to be the duty of every medical man to take up arms, as it he were going to oppose himself to a common enemy, and try every means in his power to arrest its progress, and lessen its mortality. " Whether the disease cared cholera now in activity here be contagious or otherwise,—whether it may hive been imported from the continent, or produced by the agency of unknown causes, it is scarcely worth while to inquire, as it carries with it evidently all the symptom, and appearances to identify it with the Indian spasmodic cholera. " I SAW some cases this morning in the temporary hos pital, with Drs. Barry and Daun, and with the parish surgeon, Mr. Embleton. The effect at first sight which a case of real cholera produces on the mind, can neither be described nor conceived. The whole body becomes torpid and convulsed, the eyes sunk, the countenance of a blue livid colour, the voice scarcely audible, and the abdominal viscera seem as if they were pressed in a vice. If patients recover from this stage of the disease, which seldom hap pens, typhus fever ensues : therefore a new character is given to the disease. " Various means of cure have been tried, but none have proved efficacious ; friction seems the best means to restore the natural action of the capillary vessels, which, if once effected, Dr. Dams thinks rec.very might follow. Ten new cases were reported yesterday, and eight deaths this morning. The disease is evidently on the increase, and three cases have been reported to-day in Newcastle. Lau danum and brandy, in large quantities, have been recom mended, but without much benefit. " The use of pork, vegetables of all kinds, and acid Emits, are forbidden, as they are considered injurious to the body in this complaint. " In what direction this scourge of mankind may bend its course from Sunderland and Newcastle, God only knows. " Drs. Daun, Gibson, and others here, say it is likely to take its quarters in these isles, as well as every part of the globe, and exist under similar laws as small. pox or measles. The post is just going out; I have not time to give you a more particular account. " J. GORMAN, M.D. " Formerly Physician to the British Factory at Cadiz." (From the Times Correspondent.) SUNDERLAND, Nov. 28. I have just received information from a source which renders the statement all but conclusive, that two cases of Indian cholera occurred yesterday in Newcastle, The symptoms, it is said, corresponded exactly to those of the foreign malady, and the identity was further established through the medium of an ex:ruination of the body after death. People in Sunderland are less surprised to hear of the disease appearing at Newcastle at this time than that it did not appear there long since, taking into their con sideration the unrestricted intercourse maintained by land between the two towns. But the circumstances under which the cholera has hitherto been chiefly developed in Sunderland, were not very favourable to its rapid diffusion through the neighbouring places. In Mill-street, Love lane, Sailors'-alley, Chancery-lane, and Warren-street, the ravages of the disease have been the most extensive, and the inhabitants of these localities are in general fixed resi• dents, who would live and die within the precincts of Sunderland and its immediate dependencies. These ob servations are made on the supposition that I 1 c.hera has been imported into Newcastle from Sunderland—as a re port to this effect, I am informed, prevails in the former town. In order to prosecute inquiries regarding the above cases of cholera, and the peculiarities in which they originated, I shall pay an early visit to Newcastle. My prognostics regarding the termination of the fiv e cases of cholera that occurred last week in the poor-house are now completely fulfilled. The death of the fourth patient was recorded yesterday evening, and the young woman who formed the fifth of the number, and of whose eventual recovery I expressed, at the period of her attack strong hopes, is at present completely free of cholera symp toms, and only suffers from the debility consequent upon the attack. During last night, however, another woman in the poor-house was seized, and owing to her constitutional weakness, and her delay (amounting to some hours) in calling for medical assistance, I do not entertain the least expectation that she can survive. At two o'clock, p.m., the symptoms rendered it probable that she would die during this day. The Corporation of Evesham were busied five weeks ago in concocting a hole-and-corner address, in opposition to one publicly adopted by the inhabitants. Within these few days it has been pits fished to the towns men. We quote, verbatim the following amusing para graph :—" That the corporation of Evesham has for up wards of 500 years formed an integral part of that glo rious Constitution which, in our times, has successful!: opposed the united world in arms, and has seen the Em perors and Kings of Europe pay homage on our shores to those institutions which had raised this kingdom to be the arbitress of the destinies of the nations around." (!) USEFUL WORKS.—We are requested to state that new and cheap editions of the following very useful works have been lately published by Messrs. Cor, BURN and BENTLEY, New Burlington-street ; viz. " Prac tical Economy," a new system, formed from modern dis coveries and the private communications of persons of ex perience; in which scarcely a single subject connected with housekeeping, from the care of the library down to the management of the beer cellar, is not t'eated of, and in a manner which will afford much useful information to all who are desirous of properly regul sting their establish ments, and of enjoying the greatest possible portion of the conveniences, comforts, and elegancies of life that their respective incomes will admit of: the fourth edition, in one thick volume, price only 6s. bound.-2. " Dr. Kit chener's Horse and Carriage Oracle," containing rules fur purchasing and keeping or jobbing horses and carriages in the easiest and most economical manner, with accurate estimates of every expence occasioned thereby ; a work which, in the words of the Reviewer " will serve to en lighten many people who are the prey of their coachmen and livery-stable-keepers." 1 vol. small Bvo. price 7s. 6tl, TILE BISHOPS.—Had it not been for the conduct of the Bishops upon the motion for the second reading of the Reform Bill, the public might have flinched from demanding a full and effectual Reform in the abuses of the Church : thanks, however, to the Right Rev. Pre lates themselves, all delusion on the subject has for eve r vanished. The people no longer behold in the heads of the Church the humble and benevolent teachers of the doctrines of Christianity, but, on the contrary, an inso lent and domineering faction, opposed to all rational and sound principles of legislation by which an enlightened com munity should be governed. Church property is public pro perty ; it is held by the Crown in trust for the benefit of the people, and never was intended to reward the labours of men who in looking to their presumed indivi dual interests, dare to direct a deadly blow against the spirit of a free Constitution. Exposed—notwithstanding their sacerdotal robes—in all the hideous deformity of faction, the Bishops—the present bench of Bishops—can never more enjoy either the respect or the confidence of the British community. Rather, if we mistake not, their lordly reign is destined to be brief, and their princely in comes will be reduced to a level consistent with what ought to be the characteristic humility of their calling.— Bristol Mercury. PAISLEY.—The operatives here, who are principally engaged in the manufacture of shawls and of muslins, are at this time unemployed, and in so low a state of distre,s, that a public meeting has been called, and a subscription entered into, to which several London houses have contributed. The want of employment is mainly attributed here and elsewhere to the delay in the passing eo the Reform Bill, which has opsrated to cre at e distrust in both manufacturers and purchasers, and thus p rev e nt ed their embarking with their usual spirit in makin g prepara tions fur the ensuing season. GL GLASGOW.—As of f S GevOeNrV in — night there were no fewer than f our p ersons l y i ng dead in one land in Havannah.street — a ll of whom had died of fever. In a tobacconist's es tablishment i n town, there were, in the course of the wee k, sixteen of the workers— .tAhiss a city, l3r o w proof o may ay the m alarming. tmention tha t pre valencelast men and boys—who left the work unwell, nine of them with confirmed fever, the remainder not decided. In Thistle-street, Hutcheson-town, four individuala are bed fast in one family, and so poor, that a subscription has been raised for their relief. Many such appalling in stances of disease, both in city and suburbs, have come tv our knowledge.— Glasgow Post. .) / ing to Mr. ABRAHAM HOWES, was discover fire ; but in consequence of timely assistance, and ful supply of water close by, it was quickly g:i without much damage. There is no doubt of it .s s„ f i work of some vile incen,liary.—Norwich East c. . 1 4$ LOSS OF TIIE ST. PATRICK 1( 1 vgssEL.—The St. Patrick steam-vessel, whicb ti o Custom-house quay, for Waterford, on Friday, l i d) goods, and having on board come passengers, st i fl Saturday morning, on the sand-bank near the Hn i lipl The accident was caused by the Captain mist l ' i o course by the dense fog with which the vessel o e rounded. We are happy to hear that the crew sengers are saved. There are some hopes ente r d getting the machinery to land, but none, we 135 : b il of ultimately preserving the v esse l. I t was 1° place that the St. Patrick struck that another ste m was lost some time since.—Dublin Morning peg , MR. IRVING, AND THE TRUSTEES ° I ; NATIONAL SCOTCH CII REGENT-scitr.l4 Trustees of the National Scotch Church b a j A , quested Mr. litvisc either to retract or resign , 'ler , fused to do either, on the ground that the tru 9 o / ) 1 cures to the minister the regulation of the public l ( In the event of any difference between the Itti ll ot: u the trustees, an appeal must, according to the t ee, be made to the Presbytery of London, whose a m tit i o final. The trustees mean, therefore, to submit P 'bil I to the Presbytery ; and, if Mr. IRVING refuses to t bd decision, which will, no ttoubt, be against him, apply fur an injunction to the Court of Chance r y' immediate expulsion.— The World. BURIED ALIVE.—At a respectaule .- o r Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on Saturday se'nnight, tvi / e assistants descend e d int o th e vau lt t o un tie the hf i which the co ffi n had been let down. The tv° rl ;ts I who officiated, dreading the effects of cont.g,; fo‘ i doubtless, f ee li ng hi mse lf not proper l y prepar'7 4 ,.' woi ld to come, immediately commenced the sert7;etti he read ov e r a ll th e th ree . Th e t wo living were therefore compelled to remain "plied) , 1 0 06 until all w as fi n i e h e d, w hi c h, h oweve r, was 00t OP' the clergyman rambled over the service with . g t race-horse rapidity, and then, winged by dad from the s p o t w i t h a h urr ied s t e p. The "u e- 0 4. 1 having thus received a funereal benediction, orlpti, visited th e li g ht o f d a y, d ou btl ess ly much rcli p i° ceremony they had undergone. —Norilturnberla: BIRTHS. On the 30th ult. the lady of C. Berkeley, Esq., ° f 14 ° place, Russell-square. 0 0 On the 30th ult. at Putney, the lady of F. V , Esq., of a daughter. , On the 29th ult. the lady of Philip Campion daughter DIED. ~ oier u t On the 25th ult. at Brighton, Capt. H. Murray, JO 11 ,- ...e Coldstream Regiment of Guards, youngest son 0 .'" i George Murray. .0 .0 14 On the 17th June, at the Ghauts, on his way to Bo f e recovery of his health, A. Seton, Esq , of the 1-1,) I AI Company's Civil Service, fifth and youngest son of P ( fl . Seton, Bart. of Abercorn. On the 15th ult. at Leghorn, J. Matthews, EsQLY town, Kilkenny, Ireland, formerly Captain in _tl . ' i / Dragoons. ___.....0%.1 . , PRINTED AND PUBLI:MIED BY )lUIWOYLJ L ) SUN OFFICE, 1111, STRAND, LUNUOF• ""e The Dis e Phi; nta. be 3 . Nt. Y 4 7z l ‘ l4 Y b e Grdit t 1, -41 t4 5 11 1 1."1, 1 t*l 'hatn ; 44Thr id ot 4 4 i dn 'tid bo—,!' et be 7644 3320 4312) 21 30 55(4 'irtio,:rivtienn. vlee triett e t el i 1 ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. VERAL Si r , 4I IED TE HERTFORD, TUESDAY, Nor. 29( ,tivultßODlß IV. C'. Bingham, a youth of about 18 lies or othe age, was indicted for stealing a faggot of the °NSIE of 2d. The circumstances of the case were, 4 cernil crous in themselves, and were rendered more` E'l' , BL( their antithesis to the decorum and solemnity C. tuii ` r e Patron - Professiona pro l c t e a e p d p in e g a s re i d n t a bt c a lim ar i l tia a l s c se o rn ur b r tober last, were expressing thleaigre"opfulbiloicysc:Piill'lrlinePib'illvnisi''fthreotn'usEt by burning the effigy of a clergyman. The derN cp ..... e.- •-DANE , \vas much dissatisfied at the dearth of fuel, aTolty o f . Lon( sisted upon it that a clergyman was a gentletr w h is ~ f . 0 4„ ret oin ought to lie burnt like a gentleman with a go o k heat, or i Full of ths respect for the profession, he pro Ai TIT, in a m to a pile of faggots in the neighbourhood of t il° ,LE or RA and was in the act of stealing one of the roclh: e l COßß m 2r i i s s i o n r g le , r ‘ i s l • a ll:r i i ng th b e e OLVl s le e r iz p e O d tl i l i l i ce fi d a tt g p m O i t z l it h . iM de , l ll : ti led iii.r4l34,a.tn.uii\svtiytiull vented the depredation upon his property itili answer before the faggot was actuary removed, the :hit,' ment, upon the evidence of the proprietor li.R . rt on t :f faggots, was technically lost. The lad himself ttt period, or the trial laughed as the evidence proceeded, 0 7Z 2 1, ek nien audience could not suppress their laughter i ii, 4 4 ,Y l , and case, though the Learned Judge addressed 1 111 .0`,11. soner most seriously upon the character 9 „-- ADE , offence, assuring him that his not having inter. NEw R( apply the faggot to his profit cr advantage d' , tl in any respect mitigate his guilt. The pris° ll" kj AltLl acquitted. tti satisfseti the Public, THE MARKETS. )SEAR Ami CAL MARKET.-Nov. 30. .0, replete ' %dales ----. --- 295. Od. Walls End Hilda ..." , ""5 et t Renshain Main.,,,...,,,,.,, 28 0 Walls End Hotspur., v rouble Hebhurn MaJi --- 30 9 Walls End Newitiarcb , Hoiywell Der} liberal 29 6 Ditto Peareth----.. , " , "q from his Kenton West . ' -30 3 Ditto Perkins and Ca , ' I, - to I{ illingworth —. 30 9 Walls End Riddell's... , f. "' a teful, he PeraW Pontop Windsor 24 9 Watts End Walker..,' Mr it „ , " 1 1' , a ) r ,A )li i e le kl y_ . ~.2 , 9 3 60 Walls End L i d L H y e 0 t n t0 5 n „...„.. ... , " Th e, "P n r o o t o e a l t i i: 31 6 Walls End Lasibtoo- , • :,kttral Willington Wylam 27 9 Ditto Russell's Lyre , ' - ' l O% of Walls End Bell & Co.- 32 6 %V.lls End Simpson. , 4 1 rooms Ditto Bell,Robson,&Co. 30 9 Cowpen ...........-.........",- , A bete apart Ditto Bewicke and Co. 33 6 Hartley --........---"" " roo m Walls End Brown's 3O 9 New Flockton, TIBIAS, t •d , k a Co m Wall. lin t Caller:en —27 6 and Co .."'"'" 'di t • " show( Walls End Carr and Co. IN 6 Old Haigh Moor ......"!' i " to thee Ditto Clarke and C 0... 3() 0 Silkstone Field and 0 I 811 Walls End Gosforth —33 0 Greenwich Hospital , ' 04,,. elegant -4,:ps at market, 78 —Ships sold, 42A —U nso l,l, , t ' o ll of G ( ~ ill trusts Cu) 1/ N TRY CO RN 111 A RKETS DURING TH6 /II t t ,PMIre a ge , 0 4 Gnat , Wheat. , Barley. Cate. , n T . .---- s, th "'. tan w Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. s. to a. „. e thoj e . Abingdon---. tit 81 31 43 22 30 , R . 1),,,, ea , Cirencester --.... Andover 4. 7 ,,6 : 80 37 41 - - ~ e 6 r ... select( Birmingham-- 58 (16 40 44 21 32 „. 1 , L ratte sr 13ridport Paringdon 54 86 36 40 26 38 , is I,' Inettrit Guildford Henley . 54 FI3 30 35 29 30 - , 411 11) °'• , y tot Hereford 84 92 44 48 - - ... L eh, . Highworth 62 80 32 42 28 3 4 , `Nti 'flPerit maidenhead Monmouth . 54 61 39 - - - , . nt' l ~ . a Reading Salisbury .. 44 67 34 42 23 30 , bi: i t. bg, Southampton -..... 54 58 37 40 28 3.2 , 4 it to his Stroud Tewkeshliry ......... 65 74 40 42 30 3 8 „. Ili, -e goo Uxbridge Wantage _ 58 80 30 43 21 30 , tde c' ''. Or Plug Warminster —.. 42 69 3) 45 24 29 -, 10, . Itlr Windsor..--. 59 - - - 21 22 ,i, Ad s gna , Worcester LEWES MARKET.-Nov. 29. ,I ' li r ._nrnar)( White Wheat (per quarter)—.£3 7 oto A 3 , iv . 'mingi jan Red ditto-- , 11 i." 11. c „ Barley— 1 6 0 ' 1 1 8gd • 11 Oats, New .._ 13 () !., 0 r from Pease— -- 116 o ~,„, 1 , ,„, Oil Cake, New--- 12 0 0 per t°" 4- "%- , 1 0 HULL MARKET-Nov. 29. Wheat, Old -s. 58s. 6.5. Now ...... --6*Algeil and v, Foreign -a. 50s. 51s. ln bond ........1' ..1 1 ,c; grati n ," Oats, Poland -a. 20s. 22a. ......01d.... ..... .... 4 :4 . 46 ., ei Small or Feed -s. 205. 21s Cold! Foreign -s..'s. 21s ___.. '.l, --.' ;At Wards, 6.7, eat, • Barley, Norf. & Sut.... -a' 40s. 425. Linc. & %Vold ---'• 1,4 Beans .::F0reign.......... 3 , 4. :P .l .s. 4°c. Foreign ''''' Ai o u'd- ltreet Pease, White. -a. 40s. 425. Greg .....4., 0 1 ' ~,d , Tares -s -s. -s. Foreign -... S ,',Q ,P lOtii .' 3 8. 6 last -- .. /yEt e will I, Rapeseed, in Isom] none.. ...... .. Free, per . Its 4 i, - -1 CHELTENHAM MARKET.-Nov. 29. ( 1,f.:!.5 Ll ." 1" Per Bushel. s. cl. to s. d. Per lb. 5 i?;--.:? 3 k for 6 0 9 0 Bcef Wheat tili T ß ,l-] Barley 4 0 5 6 Mutton Oats 4 0 4 3 Veal 5 • vt , P Beans Pease 5 0 7 0 Lamb the Hay 3/. lOs to 3/. 15s. Od. per t 0 2:„... 1 ,t0j n () ; his A DUMFRIES M A RKETS.-Nov. 23. ,) l ire ' 4 - „ )' , a C s.(t. s.el. 0 it( tt4 4 11 Vigr Wheat, Imp. Bush... 7 Oto 7 6 Butter, 16oz ....... • ..... 0 0 b i ..rt to m Barley ......... ........... 3 9 4 2 Eggs, dozen ..... ...... 0i w 'Ms's-, Oats Flour, 111 b. Oatmeal Potatoes. cwt. 1 4 41 'irit h8 ' Pa 10 1 4 Quarter!) Loa ......... ,t 144, ti Cl'llt s ' an d I TIIE BOARD OF HEALTH.—III - I / #1 th, t heir Ye , . • s t "l volume just published by Dr. GRANVILLE, enn or * e tor , °TNter,, ' Catechism of Health," the author introduces a ;0. 1 1 ,, 1ed - 1, 0 questions and answers on all subjects connected ` v iNct,., (l Alll , , , s_ greatest of Ilessings. The proper time of risiogll.g ru ?Vtb tiring to rest—the daily exercise to be observeiViiTt 0 .- :4 : a l ". Pres' some diet—proper clothing adapted to the "a9 l ° ll ik f4e llilv ti l, Sw elt ' year—suited to the various periods of life—are • ~,1 ~,t :, ..a,in g out. To the advice of the physician on these e 4, 0, 114'. I n / points appirent objections are urged, which are ,ite ot ill 'the D el at rest by the results of his experience. We tr` o it,, '..! over this admirable mode of eliciting a satisfactory k ti os4 Ab Ar of the best course to be pursued with a view to h e .0 ~ v IC never before been adopted. The work has beo e. disco, Proffl ..it f, er t in a plain and simple style to make it level to ..„f .1%. ti , he ties, in accordance with the recommendations of t ' ' , n eo,!`'ailin of Health. i ~ 4 , - 1, t h e , ,0 to 44 4, G Friday evening, about six, a barlelo ti, 4 41 1 41t e t h e standing between two wheat stacks, at BesthorP e ' It it, 5 5 t It to i , ing to Mr. ABRAHAM HOWES, was discovered . , pt t,,_ t00t0.2,,