The Sun. — London, England, 1831-11-25 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. On Tuesday last, the 22d inst., on the evening of which very day the proclamation against Political Unions appeared in the Gazette, did the grand Po litical Union of Birmingham relinquish, at a public meeting, that only part of its composition which af fected its le g ality,—n a mely, organisation, with gradation of rank, officers, and titles : so that it was by the goad sense of the Union, and not in co ma . quenec of the proclamation, that the step now spoken of was taken. The proclamation, however, deseaved the utmost respect, and the previous law urea the sub ject implicit obedience. These matters were laid fully before the meeting by Mr. Peekes, a gentleman who, to the zeal of a reformer, appears to add the intelligence of a great constitutional lawyer. The brief abstract which he gives of associations, of their well-tried utility in effecting all the useful changes which the Constitution has undergone, and of the advantages which may still be derived from them till our rights are obtained and settled, deserves the utmost attentioet 'r`rom all who would desire to understand the Consti tution under which we live. "In f. 3 536 the people commenced associations and declarations in favour of 'William 111. The King and his Ministry not only sanctioned, but legalized their formationA tad a statute law was passed, the Bth Williatt kII., c. 27, reciting, Whereas, great nurnh.en of his Ma jesty's subjects have entered into and subscribed an association,' and then weeded that it was good and lawful.'—(Loud cheers.) Mr. Burgh, an able political writer, who treated of this historieseir cumstance, singularly remarked, that ece have here a model for an association for restoeing adequate re presentation and an unbribed licuse of Commons.' " It is evident, also, that associations may form rules for their own government, may name officers, and constitute ranks, as is done in the case of the lodges of Freemasonry; hut these can affect only persons who are voluntary members of the body. The gee neral peace of the country is called " the King's peace," and must be preserved by the king and civil officers appointed under his authority ; and however, its a too ardent zeal to carry a measure dear to his Majesty's heart, some of his subjects may for a moment have overleaped the rules prescribed to their patriotism by vxisting Statutes, there are none but would view with detes tation any attempt to interfere with those preroga tives of the Crown which we nee so generously ex ercised for the public good and the imparting of their just rights to the people. But let us cutlet' upon a fuller view of the question. There have been, as we have all seen, two stages of dishonesty and falsehood in the representations of Political Unions, their plans, and abettors, furnished by the Tories and their Press. They first proclaimed that the purpose for which these Societies were constituted had been to advance towards revolution through general' anarchy ; and in support of that shameful slander, the mob devastations and atrocities at Bristol and elsewhere, with an impudence of which faction itself affords no parallel, ascribed to the Unio n s professing reform for their object. The second step, after affiliating the crimes of brutal incendiaries upon the members of the Birmingham and Na tional Unions, was to trace up the parentage of the Unions themselves to no less a source than his Majesty's Government. The immediate effect in tended by these systematic calumnies was to poison the King's mind against Reform, and against the Administration which proposed it. The ultimate scheme was to throw back, irrevocably, the Sove reign and his people upon a Tory Cabinet and a ratten borough Constitution. It must have been acknowledged by every upright mind, that from the manner in which the parent Union of Birmingham, and its offspring the National Union, were com posed,—comprehending, as the first did, by far the greater portion of the wealth and intelligence of that central seat of British industry, and as the Lon- i don Union did, so much of that staid and solid re spectability, by which the middle classes of the me tropolis are distinguished,—it muse, we say, have been admitted by every educated and truth-telling man in the empire, that such associations could not have contemplated any object not entirely con sistent with the maintenance of the public peace, and the full security of men's lawful rights and possessions. The attempt to confound the en lightened lovers of Reform with despera does who hate the law which protects their fellow-subjects from their violence, was, on the face of it, sufficiently revolting. If any thing could have made it more so, it would have been the positive demonstration of that pacific and temperate spirit vt.: , ;ch not merely might have been expected from the classes of Englishmen composing the Political Unions, but which they have actually and eagerly exhibited on every occasion which brought them to gether, since the earliest moment of their institution. The memorable" meeting of 150,000," which took place some weeks ago at Birmingham under circum stances of the strongest excitement, when the King's name was pronounced with a degree of loyal attach ment not always witnessed in the House of Peers itself, when order and decorum was preserved in violate, when the noblest sentiments of disappro bation towards evil government, and contempt for sordid faction, and earnestness in prosecuting the great cause of Reform, were mingled with deep re verence for existing authority and law,—and when a countless multitude dispersed with exemplary har mony, not raising a shadow of disquiet in the mind of the most timorous inhabitant,—that meeting was a ruthless comment upon the calumnies directed against the industrious classes of Great Britain. Much more has ground for cordial exultation been afforded by the proceedings which were held at Birmingham on the evening of last Tuesday, and which ate minutely recorded in this day's Times. Mr. Attwood's speech, on opening the business, is worthy of some attention' from those Lords and gentlemen who denied the existence of any ardent Reform spirit in this country until after it had been called forth and stimulated by Lord Grey's Cabinet in their proposition of the present measure of Reform. Tr' ly does Mr. Attwood re mink, that the Union " had gathered up its mighty strength under the Administration of the Duke of Wellington," before the French revolution of July, 1830, which has been over and over again insisted upon as the first grand mover of the Reform power in England. Before that vast event, the Birming ham Union numbered 7,000 subscribing members on their books; and in October, 1830, one single ditiner company of the association amounted to 3,700 persons. "We will violate the laws," added Mr. Attwood, " to injure no one ; but woe unto the men that may violate the laws to injure us." That is the true character, the defensive charac ter, of every Political Union of Englishmen which the Constitution tolerates, and which no law congenial to a free society can punish. But these Unions have been charged with seriously me ditating a system of organization in open conflict with the laws; and the proclamation of Tuesday last, prohibitory (though not quite explicit) of what would be unlawful in the conduct of such voluntary bodies, was hailed by the enemies of Reform as a hostile blow aimed at them by the Government, and as a certain scurce of discord between the iAdmi nistration an d t h e p eo ple. Now the royal njunc tion was addressed as a paternal warning, net in angry denunciati on aga i ns t t he friends of his own generous policy ; and so far was it from being cal culated to indispose the Reformers towards the Crown or its advisers that, as we have before stated, even before the proclamation was printed, and a whole day before any man in Birmingham could have had the slightest conjecture of its be ing in existence, the great mmeeting ref erre d to h a d under the able and upright advice of Mr. Joseph Parkes, rejected of its own accord the seducing pro posal to organise itself under diverse gradation s o f leaders, bearing names well known to the mu nicipal constitution of the count ~,ry. And why d i d the meeting at once reject this plan . Because " Mr. Parkes very fairly told them, that it was decidedly illegal—contrury to the principles of the Common Law, and Ito distinct provisions of the atatute law." Mr. Parkes further reminded his hearers, that he had himself refused to enrol his name among theirs, because he had feared their affording pretexts to a bad government to create new laws against the public liberty,—because he feared the possible perversion of their avowed ob jects,—and above all things, he disapproved (and we Concur with him), the refrinarten:pr: of clubs of such a description ; which might be necessary to wards the pulling down a bad government, but with which good government could not co-exist. It appears that Mr. Attwood had declared from the first, that he never would lead or accompany the Union beyond what was permitted by the letter and spirit of the law. The entire speech of Mr. Parkes, as we have tlteady said, merits an atten tive perus4, tt is full of historical and legal rea - - scninr, and displays a combination of high pa triotic spirit, with a soUnd Perception of the re spect which is due to authorities and to legal insti tutions-. Mr, Parkes's view of the question was adopted by the meeting without a dissentient voice And the project of organization was unaniMously abandoned. We congratulate t!'.e people of Bir mingham, and the frit:"ltls of liberty throughout England, on t'ai:; wise and wholesome proceeding, by. a liberal Government has been saved from nuch perverse embarrassment, and the sacred cause of Reform has been relieved from the si7lt of ob loquy, and of much unnatural cp;;osition. These, then,—these P9litieltl tnion Societies,—are the desolators, thee 'plunderers, and incendiaries of which we irive heard so much ! There is an advertisement 'On the subject, to which we invite attention.—Times. We publish an addition to our previous new ver sion of that foolish business the late meeting at the city of London Tavern, for the purpose of forming au union between the friends and enemies of Re form. Mr. Horsley Palmer may have been ill-used by his Anti-Reforming friends, and no doubt he was so ill , used, if they pledged themselves, and he has any document to show that they pledged themselves, to support his declaration ; for then they deserted their leader, and him whom they had chosen as their leader, in the field of battle. But there was cer tainly nom! want of consideration on the other side, rsainely, on that of the Reformers, if they meant to give up any thing at the meeting. For who can oblige us, the people of England, to give up any part of what we have got already ? We have got the Re form,—it is absurd, and can lead to nothing short of rcvolution, to deny that we have got it. The only eensideration now, is the process and method by which it shall be conveyed to us. without violating the forms of the Constitution. We are disposed to bestow a few words upon a compromise of a higher nature than that to which we have above alluded. It has had—it could have—no result. Lords Grey and Brougham are far too deeply pledged to the Bill, and to the principle of Reform, to give up one tittle. So far from having any thoughts of giving up, their inclination would be to take mere, if they proposed any change. It was, of course, Lord Grey's duty, ifany disposition of compromise was manifested, to treat it as a prudent General is at any time ready to receive proposals for the surrender of a town from the besieged, which, nevertheles., he is sure of taking. But nothing further, we are assured, was meant on the one side by the negotiation, than to allow of a loop-hole or two for the more re spectable persons of the other side to escape at. Any change of a provision of the Bill, except it were for something more reforming, is totally out of the question. And now we do beseech the Anti-Re formers to consider for a moment what they are about. Do they mean, if they are able, to plunge ihe country into anarchy, and perhaps a revolution ? Will they raise the standard of rebellion ? Why has the King called the Parliament together at this most unusual time of the year, and after a summer's toil yet more unusual ? Because he is staunch to his purpose that the Bill shall pass ! ! The House of Commons is staunch to its purpose ; the people are staunch to their purpose, in supporting his Ma jesty,—aye, in supporting him, everlastingly, till the Bill, or something yet more deeply reforming, shall be passed! Does not every thing round the Anti- Reformers teach them that they are wrong—that they seek their own ruin and ours, if they do not give way ? They said the King would not dissolve the last Parliament if it opposed Reform : he dis solved it. That he would not prorogue the new Parliament, if the Bill were suspended; he pro rogued it. That he would not call it together again, and so commence a fresh session before Christmas : the Parliament has been called together again by his Majesty, and a fresh session will commence on Tuesday week. What can show unity of purpose, —undeviating, unalterable unity of purpose—in Prince and people, if these facts do not attest it ? Some men would not be convinced of the reality of a future state though one arose from the dead : blind and fatal incredulity ! And by whom is this grand measure opposed,—upon whom is it that we call to retire and cease from irritating by a fruitless and insolent opposition ? A handful of miserable sophisters, or criminal dealers in popular rights, who if their corporeal substances united could be placed in the way of that breath of millions now calling for Reform, would be blown beyond the reach of the earth's attraction. LATE ACCOMMODATION MEETING AT THE CITY OF LONDON TAVERN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Six,-One word, and only one word more, on the " accommodation meeting" at the London Tavern on Tuesday last. It is evident that Mr. Horsley Palmer has been excessively ill-used by those of his political friends,— namely, by Mr. Charles Barclay, Mr. John Drummond, and Sir Coutts Trotter,—who having previously seen and pledged themselves to sign " the declaration," suddenly, after the meeting had assembled, turned round upon him and opposed it. This valorous conduct may have added to the high opinion before entertained by their friends as to their wisdom and energy of character, but the world will he apt to consider it something like desertion of their friend, the Governor of the Bank. As to Mr. Henry Drummond, who was the most vio lent of all against the nomination clause, this very inge nious and amiable, but crotchetty and eccentric, gentle mar, had not been invited by Mr. Palmer to the meeting, and ought not to have intrui'ed himself into it. He was brought there very improperly by Mr. John Drummond, and be read to the meeting an address, published in the Papers last spring, in which he had designated the disfran chisement of the rotten boroughs as an act of "robbery and spoliation !" and stating this as a reason why he must object to that part of the declaration which referred to the " nomination" system. Mr. Alexander Baring was present, and in support of the declaration stated, that though by no means convinced that any public benefit would be derived from the disfran chisement of the nomination boroughs, he nevertheless must admit the public opinion in favour of such disfran chisement to be so overwhelming, that it could no longer he resisted, and that, sooner or later, it must be adopted. This admission is valuable, inasmuch as it is a sure pledge that this Hon. Gentleman, with that manliness and con sistency which have unilOrrnly marked his public conduct, will give his support in the ensuing Session, at least to that part of the new Bill which disfranchises the rotte❑ bmoughs, although he may thereby contribute to the de struction of the borough property which he has acquired Callingtun and Thetford. A. B. Times. Present at the Meeting. The Political Union of Birmingham have, by abandoning their plan of organization, acted with a sound discretion. Those who call for a restoration of the Constitution ought not to violate it ; those who ask for their own rights should not usurp powers that do not legally belong to them. To obtain Reform by legal means is well, but to attempt to carry it by other means than the law allows, would be to revolutionise the State, under pretence of relorming the representation. The " Reform Association" of Westminster have acted still better than the Political Union of Birmingham—that As sociation is dissolved ; so is the Political Union of Brighton. The prompt obedience shown to the l a w in those instance s will, we trust be generally imitated. The public know, by long experience, that we are not advocates for any n ee dl ess or re p ress i ve restrictions on the action of the people; but if we are to have civil society at all, we must have a regu lar and responsible Government; but we cannot be said to live under such a Government if irregular and self-constituted associations were to assert the direc tioh of political affairs, and to intrude on the func tions of Sovereignty. There is no higher and more responsible duty of Government than to protect the public peace, and to afford to all classes of the corn thonwealth that security, for the sake of which civil society was first instituted. If a Government be in competent to protect the public peace, it is unfit to govern ; for if it cannot command the obedience of th e people it does not enjoy the confidence of the country. Now the persons who have been foremost in obey ing the call of the intemperate portion of the Re form Press are the persons who, like that portion of the Press, have expressed an unbounded confi dence in the present Ministers—have, again and again, declared their conviction of the efficiency and success of Lord Grey's new Bill of Reform—and have also boasted of the union of sentiment which pervades the great majority of all classes of the nation, except the House of Lords, on this import ant question. But to resort to unconstitutional combinations, for the purpose of carrying a measure thus supported by the King, the Ministers, and the nation, is to belie their own declaration of confidence in the Government, and to express doubts of a general unity of sentiment among the people. Some of those unions, however, like that called the Na tional Union, at the Crown and Anchor, have avowed ulic-tior objects beyond the success even of an efficient Bill of Reform. One of their orators was heard with applause while he stated that such a Bill would be accepted by the Union in part pay_ nwnt of the political debts which are due to the people. Some of the members of the Reform As sociation of Westminster did not hesitate to charg e some of the promoters of this Union not only with extravagant designs, but with something worse. We believe the whole thing to be founded rather in folly than in any deliberate intention of mischief; but it is not, therefore, the less danger ous. Bad men often take advantage of the projects of foolish ones. We have it on record in the en sanguined pages of the history of more than one nation, that the platforms raised by political enthu siasts, for the presentation of their own farces, have been made use of by men of more criminal ambi tion to enact these tragic (llamas over which freedom and humanity have wept. Independently of the unconstitutional nature of political conventions, formed either to supersede Government in any of its functions, or to exercise a co-ordinate authority with the executive power of the State, we objected to them on the ground that they would be the means of sowing disunion among Reformers, and thereby dividing that strength of public opinion which, in unbroken union, could not fail to be resist less. The anticipation has been realised to such an extent that the immediate dissolution of all those Unions could not now repair the mischief which their existence has, in that respect, created. As long as the people expressed their sentiments on Reform through the constitutional organs of county, town, borough, and parish meetings, they expressed themselves content with the Reform Bill—scarcely a dissentient voice was heard, or, if heard, it was only to show how destitute it was of support. The scene is greatly changed. Since those political clubs have been called into existence, the banners of universal suffrage, annual Parliaments, fun! vote by ballot, have been unfurled, tind drawn off numbers from the ranks of Constitutional Reform. Thus in discretion and intemperate zeal have had the malig nant effects of treachery, and thus what may be called the natural, at least the spontaneous, union of the people, has, by forced and artificial unions, suf . - fered serious detriment. There are some men who are such busy and obstinate meddlers that they can never, to use a vulgar expression, " let well alone." They are always ready to encumber, with their overzealous assistance, any cause that appears moving on to success. Their attempts to accelerate its velocity are sure to retard its speed, if not to drive it in a wrong direction. We believe Reform to be too good a cause in itself nor to recover very soon the effecis of the wrong impulse which it received from its injudicious friends; but we hope it will be protented against the perils of such embar rassing assistance for the future.— Herald We have received a long letter from Mr. George Edmonds, of which the language is too unguarded for our columns, on the subject of a report of a ease at Marlborough-street Office, in the Chronicle o f yesterday. A youth, named Barber, had received for sale from Mr. Edmonds copies of a penny publi cation, entitled " English Revolution ;" and on a large placard, the heads of the different subjects ' treated of in the pamphlet were conspicuously set forth. On the allegation that the boy had attracted a crowd in Coventry-street, and obstructed the footway, he was taken by a policeman to the above office, when Mr. Roe held him to bail for the offence. ' We will not do Mr. Roe the injustice to suppose that the motive for sending the boy to prison was the obstructing the footway. The real offence was the selling a pamphlet which appeared to him of an objectionable character. But he did not choose to commit for selling the publication, as he said " it would be making it of too great consequence to hold the prisoner to bail for vending the same ;" so he chose to commit him for an offence of so vague, and, at the same time, so comprehensive a cha racter, that there is not an individual who walks the streets of the metropolis, who may not be held to bail for it whenever a policeman or a Magistrate wishes to put him to inconvenience. There was also in the Chronicle of yesterday an account of the dis missal of two burglars,charged with having entered an uninhabited house in Wading-street, with the inten. tion of breaking into the adjoining warehouses. The prisoners had entered the house with a skeleton key and dark lanthorn, and as there was property to an immense amount in the neighbouring houses, there could not be a shadow of doubt as to their intention. One of the men was besides a common thief. But the uninhabited house was not a dwelling-house, and the English law being yet as barbarous with respect to classification as the law of the Visigoths or Bur gundians, the breaking into each description of edi. flee requires a separate provision; and there being no provision against breaking into other houses than dwelling-houses, the two burglars were discharged as innocent. In these two instances we may see the immense advantage which a real criminal has over an innocent man. If the crime committed be one which has not in all its particularities found its way into a statute, it escapes punishment. But a Magistrate can, on some pretext or other, always contrive to punish an innocent act with as much se verity as a crime. Let us see the convenience of such a pretext as obstructing a footway. There is not a nobleman in London who does not fre quently cause very serious obstructions both to carriage-ways and footways. But the policeman Is too prudent to interfere with any of those nui sances called routes, and Mr. Roe has too much knowledge of the world to countenance any such interference. We could name five hundred places inn the metropolis, where men are crowded together for hours every day on the footways; but no notice is taken of such obstructions, because none of the individuals causing the obstruction are obnoxious to the Magistrate. A man may dress himself in such a ridiculous stile as to be followed by a crowd wherever he goes, but the Magistrate will not inter fere. Should a dwarf of three feet walk the streets, he would be followed by a crowd. It is difficult to tell what would not attract a crowd in London. This of course affords to Magistrates a latitude, of which we see how ready they are to avail themselves. We have lately, on more occasions than one, corn : batted some of the dangerous doctrines which have lately been promulgated among the labouring classes. We abominate all doctrines which strike at the se • curity of property. But, while we wish to guard f the poor.against the reception of doctrines which unjustly excite their animosity against the rich, we .will never so far palter with our conscience as to say that, while the laws are in this arbitrary manner wrested into means for oppressing the poor, they have not great cause for discontent and dissatisfac • (ion. by are criminals the only class towards which any tenderness is to be shown in Eng- I land ? Why are the poor to be made for ever the • victims of the caprice of the rich ? Does not the bosom of every working man in England who may read the report of this police case, swell with indignation when he sees that this poor lad is sent to prison, not for obstructing the foot way, but because it is not convenient to hold him to bail for selling the pamphlet ? The holding to bail is, in the case of any poor boy, equivalent to a long imprisonment. Would the offence of obstructing the footway, not obstinately persisted in, if sum marily punished by the same Magistrate, who holds to bail, be visited with one day's imprisonment? We entreat the higher classes of our countrymen to set their faces against these odious distinctions in the execution of the laws between the poor and rich, or we shall, ere long, have deep cause to lament it. Do not let us aid the disseminators of pestifer ous doctrines, by supplying them with so many real grievances to add to their catalogue of imaginary ones. Let the poor have even-handed justice, and the rich not more than even-handed justice. " Thou shalt not have in thine house divers weights—a great and a small. Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small ;—for all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the Lord thy God." How ad mirably Mr. Bentham in his work on Judicial Esta blishments, exposes the evils of the sort of justice which the people too often receive from Police Ma gistrates:— " Tyranny and anarchy are never far asunder. Dearly, indeed, must the laws pay for the mischief of which they are thus made the instruments. The weakness they are thus struck with does not confine itself to the peccant spot, it spreads over the whole frame. The tainted parts throw suspicion upon those that are yet sound. Who can say which of them the disease has gained, whichof them it has spared ? You open the statute book, and Iclok into a clause ; does it belong to the sound part or to the rotten? How can you say ? By what token are you to know ? A man is not sate in trusting to his own eyes. You may have the whole statute book by heart, and all the while not know what ground you stand upon undr the law. It pretends to fix your destiny ; and, after all, if you want to know your destiny, you must learn it, not from the law, but from the temper of the timrs. The temper of the times did I say? you must know the temper of every individual in the nation ; you must know not only what it is at the present instant, hut what it will be at every future one ; all this you must know before you can lay your hand on your bosom and say to yourself, lam safe. " 4 * What all this while is the character and condition of the law ? Some times a bugbear, at other times a snare ; her threats in spire no efficient terror ; her promises no confidence. * * All this mischief shows as nothing in the eyes of the tyrant by whom this policy is upheld and pur sued, and whose blind and malignant passions it has for its cause. 44 * His appetites receive that gratifi cation which the times allow of ; and in comparison with that, what are laws or those for whose sake laws are made? His enemies—that is, those whom it is his de light to treat as such—those weose enemy he has thought fit to make himself—are his foot-stool ; their insecurity is his comfort ; their sufferings are his enjoyments ; theit abasement is his triumph."—Morning Chronicle. We refer our readers to a full report of our pro ceedings at the Birmingham Union, on Tuesday last, before it was known to them that a Proclamation had been issued against their organization. Mr. Joseph Parkes, not a member of the Union, suc ceeded in convincing them that the organization to 1 1 " act as an efficient body of police, in die mainte notice of the laws, in the protection of persons and property," and in the appointment of Aldermen, Tithing-men, &c. for the purposes otherwise pro- • vided by law, would, at common law, be considered a conspiracy to assume the powers and offices of the law, and being against the law, Government would be bound to put it down. Mr. Boscoe Attwood, eldest son of Mr. Att wood, who followed Mr. Parkes, moved the abandonment of the plan for the orgiinitition of the members of the Union, and the mot ion was seconded by Air. Charles J:'nee, Secretary to the Committee appointed to draw tip the regulti tions for the organization, and the motion was carried unanimously. The Members of the Council bar leg fortunately taken a week to consider of the plan of organization, could then abandon it with a better g race, on discovering its illegality, than if it had been adopted by tht in. It is justice to Mr. Atr wood to admit, that from the first he has shown an extraordinary anxiety to keep within the bounds of the law ; and his moving the postponement of the consideration of the plan for a week, was an addi tional proof of his anxiety to adopt no measure till be could be certain of its legality. On obtaining a knowledge of the proclamation, they would of course at once have abandoned the organization, even if it had been adopted ; but it is better that they should have abandoned it of their own accord before adoption—before the proclamation could reach them. Mr. Parkes, in his excellent speech, alluded to sonic circumstances of great weight with reference to the question between the nation and the boroughmongers. " The boroughmongers (he said) could not overcome nature and the new elements of society. More persens, as was proved by the parish-registers of Birmingham, were now born in one day than in a whole year at the last settlement of the Constitution.' Only seventy years since, Dr. Priestley established in Birmingham the first voluntary association for popular instruction, and recently, in December last, 4 22,000 males of the town and neigh bourhood signed, in their own legible hand-writing, the Reform petitions. Let the boroughmoagers, if they could, deal with these altered times, and try to deny altered in stitutions. Let their arch-Secretary, Mr. Croker, read his Life of Johnson,' and see that ninety years since there was but otie bookseller's shop in Birmingham. Mr. Croker could not get us hark to that dark period." Mr. Attwood gave the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel credit for more fairness than they may now like to hear of:— " The Birmingham Union had (he said) received no favours from Lord Grey's Administration. They neither courted their favour nor feared their hatred—(Cheers) — for their proceedings and objects had been so entirely just and legal, that they felt strong in the power and confidence of the country, and had no occasion either to court or to fear the Ministers. The Ministers had shown them no favour, nor in any way had the Ministers treated them with more courtesy than they had received from Sir Robert Peel, when the Duke of Wellington was at the head of the Cabinet. The Union had gathered up its mighty strength under the Administration of the Duke of Wellington. Before the glorious French revolution broke out, they uum bered 7,000 subscribing members upon their hooks : and in the month of October last year, they had held a dinner of 3,700 persons in honour of the French revolution and under the Administration of the Duke of Wellington. :It was evident, therefore, that if any tacit patronage was ne cessary—which it was not—such patronage had been af forded quite as much by the Duke of Wellington as by Earl Grey."—Morning Chronicle. Some of the small fry of radicalism in the Surrey suburbs of the metropolis have been for some time concocting a " Union" to support the King Y. and his Majesty's Ministers in carrying the Reform Bill. On Wednesday night they had called a meeting at Proctor's Hotel, Bridge-road, when the aristocracy of the wharfs and the timber-yards of Lambeth mustered in great strength, with the rules and laws of their " Union" carefully cut and dried to suit their own views. The Chair was taken by a Mr. Moore; and Mr. Warburton, M.P. for the scheduled borough of Bridport, came forward to talk of his " peculiar interest in the welfare of Lambeth." Thus far things went on swimmingly : but when the first resolution had been moved and seconded, a Mt. George rose, and moved as an amendment, " That it is inexpedient to form any such Union." This speaker and various others, some of them known at the Rotunda, contended that the Reftwm proposed by the Government was calculated to monopolise political power in the hands of the middle classes, to the exclusion of those beneath them, who were much better entitled to it. Upon a show of hands being taken the amend ment was carried, and the Unionists were conse quently defeated. We are informed that the par ties, thus signally humbled, have been, for their own purposes, the habitual panders to the passions of this very class of politicians before whom they are now obliged to quail. Unfortunately for them they cannot, like their " great original," Earl Grey, put down the monster they have created by proclamation. Every where at their public meetings and at their vestries they are opposed and out-voted by the 101. householder—for here we have the practical working of the proposed elective qualification—and on that account the affair, otherwise contemptible in itself, becomes worthy of public notice. Can these infa tuated persons be so wilfully blind and perverse as to turn heedlessly away from signs and warnings ? Does Mr. Warburton—do the parties who are putting him forward to declare his particular anxiety for the welfare ( f Lambeth—do any of them believe that even he, political empiric and visionary as he is, would have a shadow of a chance for his election at the hands of the men who defeated them, and tram pled their projected " Union" in the dust, on Wed nesday night ? The general proposition that such a franchise must subvert the entire order of society, and establish the democratic upon the ruins of all the other interests, is clear and unanswerable ; but if general reasoning be not enough for the preju diced and the incredulous, let them look closely into facts like these, and they will find demonstration.— _Morning Post. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. HATT ON- GARDEN. On Wednesday John Nicol Walters, surgeon, was brought up for re•examination, on a charge of having enticed and solicited R. B. Steele, a medical student, to set lire to his house. The evidence given by Steele at a former exami nation having been read over to him, Mr. George Oakley, inspector of the E gave the following account of the manner in which he apprehended the prisoner, in consequence of the representation made to him by Steele :—I walked by the house an hour and a half, when I received a note from Mr. List, stating that he had charged Mr. Steele at the station-house, and advising me to take Mr. Walters into custody. I knocked at the door and rang the bell violently, and a person undressed came to the door, and inquired my business. I asked if Mr. Walters was there ? I was answered that he was not. I inquired if he lodged there. The person said he was not known there. I said his house was on fire, and if he was there, to let him know imme diately, and he had better conic directly. A voice of a female exclaimed," Oh my God The door was instantly opened, and I went up to the second floor, back room, where I found Mr. Walters, with a female. I said, " For God's sake, Mr. Walters, come with me, your house is on fire." He asked, " How did you know ?" I said, " For God's sake make haste, for the house is nearly burnt to the ground,—lose no time." The female was fainting, and a Mr. Reeves, the son of the landlord of Mr. Walters's house, was there. He endeavoured to recover the lady and appease her alarm, and he put on his cloak and came down with me and Mr. Reeves. He asked me whether I was sure the house was burnt ? I said, that I was, and that seve ral engines were there. Mr. Reeves asked me whether any lives were lost ? I answered, " There are not." Mr. Reeves asked him if he was insured ? • He said he was. I asked him where ? He said, he did not know where. I asked how it could have happened. He replied, we have not left it moo than an hour. He said Mr. Reeves left there ashore time before him. A repetition of these questions were put on the road. When he (Mr. Walters) ir quired who told me that he was in Wardour-street, I told him a tall, fresh-coloured young man. When he got into Oxford -street, he said, " I don't sec any flames." I said, " Oh, it is burnt to the ground by this time." I said, " I suppose you had a good stock." He replied, " Yes ; I had some fresh goods in the week before." At Hanway-yard, Mr. Reeves was anxious to go a short cut ; but I led them along Oxford-street, until they arrived at Meux's Brewery, when I addressed the prisoner, and told him that I was an inspector of police, and I had him in custody on a charge for attempting to set his house on fire. Up to this moment I did not make known to him that I was an officer. He expressed his sur prise and said, " I know nothing about it." In pass ing the house in Backeridge-street, I said, " Were you not in that house last night ?" He said he was. I took him to the station house and searched him. I found a watch and 7d. on his person. Mr. Steele was then in the Station-house under custody, un known to the prisoner. He denied knowing any thing of the ci►curnstance. The prisoner said he was insured for 2501., and that a Mr. Neill or O'Neill had insured for him. He believed it was in the Phoenix or the Sun. The prisoner asked who sent ►ne to Wardour-street. 1 told him a person named Steele. He said he knew no such person. Mr. List and my-elf inquired where he kept his policy of insurance. He said it was in a drawer in a back room of his re sidence. We went, searched the place, but could not find it. Mr. Harmer—You did not tell him that you were an officer, but you resorted to an untruth. Oakley—l can explain my object. I was told that the prisoner was armed with pistols, and I was in duced for my own safety to use stratagem to get him out of the house. Mr. ROGERS—lndeed I think the alacrity and in genuity of the officers has been unequalled, and de serves the greatest praise. Mr. Harmer—But they are not to tell untruths. Mr. ROGERS—I cannot praise their vigilance too much in bringing such a man as this to justice. They have done no wrong. Oakley—l thought the pri soner, who could be capable of such a diabolical act as that of setting his house on fire, would not hesi tate in shooting me if I made known to him who I was. I was not to blame for using a little stratagem. Mr. Wooler—But the prisoner had no pistols. Mr. ROGERS—He might have had. The officer was told so. Alfred List, inspector, accompanied Oakley as de scribed, and received a document (now produced) written by Steele, saying that he was solicited by the prisoner to set fire to his house. He feigned that he would do it, and informed the police to pre vent his criminal purpose. He (Mr. List) followed Steele, and saw him enter the place. There was a paper on the counter; the gas was burning; saw a drawer open behind the counter in one of the lower tiers half drawn out, containing gallipots with tur pentine, saltpetre, a two-gallen jar with turpentine, nitre, and a packet of cochineal, and small scales standing in their usual place. The articles were now produced. He charged him at the station-house. He said Walters was armed with pistols to guard himself. Mr. Harmer suggested that bail should be taken for the prisoner. Mr. ROGERS—If I take bail,it must be very heavy —himself in 1,0001., and two sureties of 500/. each, with proper notice. Mr. Harmer wished for less amount. Mr. ROGERS sail the prisoner, he understood, to have insured for 900/., and he could not order less amount of bail. The prisoner was then ordered to procure bail to that amount, and told that he would be brought up again on Friday next, as there were several other witnesses to be examined. All the witnesses, how ever, were bound over to prosecute him at the ses sions. Mr. ROGEtts remarked that there seemed to be an impression against the respectability and credibility of the witness Mr. Steele. He held in his hand a discharge from the army, and a character from his commanding officer, stating that he was a sober, honest, and efficient soldier. It was a gratifying character. Two gentlemen wished to know what the Magis trates' impression was as regarded Mr. Steele, who had requested them to become his bail if required. Mr. ROGERS—Certainly my impression is not un favourable, but I shall require bail for his appearance in 1001. each, but it was eventually reduced to 801. Several gentlemen from the insurance offices attended, and requested a copy of the depositions. MARY LEB ONE. On Wednesday a poor man, whose miserable ap pearance fully coincided with his tale of distress, ap plied to Mr. RAWIANSON for his assistance. The applicant stated that a child belonging to him died on Saturday last , and he was wholly unable to procure the means of burying it ; ho wever , a friend kindly him m e nowl" wherewith be purchaed a coffin, andg stood in need of towards the ave all h interment was a spot where to lay the little crea- lanai lure's remain;', but for which 93. Gd. was dern He lived in Marylebone parish, and applied officers to grant him the boon he asked for; they refused to comply with his request, uni consented to transfer the body of his child frog coffin, where it is at present, to one which would provide for it. Mr. IttwuNsoN expressed the utmost a merit at the poor 11131 I'S story, and, hoping must be some mistak,, sent for one of the officers. After some time Percy, the parish messes :ended. Mr.RAwuNsoN repeated to Percy what t man complained of, and requested some expl Percy said it was perfectly correct that fusal had been given, unless the conditions were complied with. The parish were ready !he lady and put it into one of their own when it should he buried. But there is a coffin already procured body ; all he requires of the parish is to be expense of the ground ?—We cannot take coffin; the body must be interred in a cc longing to the parish—we must perform the or nothing at all. What ! compel a parent to remove his chit a coffin which a friend has procured fur it, the parish will bury it ?—Such are our regu and we cannot depart from them. Most absurd regulations they are ! And so every other parishioner is to be taxed to the' of the price of a coffin for this child, who one, to please the regulations of the parish. you would eee Mr. Watts, or some ()liter cL person, and tell him my opinion on the sub; Mr. Watts has sent me, and can give no anf that which I have already given. • I would be glad to know what the Health would say to the parish authorities a body to lie without interment, merely parent wishes it to be buried in a coffin wit has procured ? Most preposterous !—We condition to bury the child this afternoon, father will comply with our regulations. You are in a condition to act very a, Witness (with great nonchalance) Very well. Mr. RAWLINSON (address;n, the applicant ) hear this answer. I have done all I could sending and demanding an explanation. I rescind their regulations, howeverabsurd t! T 0 WN•HALL. A little man, with a dolorous countenance Phelim O'Mara, was summoned by the officers to show cause why he refused to mai, wife,a lady with a vinegar aspect and an oily " Wny," commenced the man of sorrow, his forefinger and thumb into the pocket of his gallygaskins, and pulling out a pack of dirty caws, " what do you think of this for a rig ? half a sovereign, and that's only one day's no► my Sunday clothes to the frying-pan, all's " Popped !" said the Alderman, " what mean by popped ?" Husband—Oh ! gone uncle's—up the spout. Alderman THORP-" I'm as wise as ever arid, turniog to the wife, " Is it true you have this ?'"rhe wife was reduced by distress to and after some useless conversation, the 0 olliLevs promised that they would see justice between the parties as L.- as the parish wag cerned, and both husband and wife consenti l o, oil and vinegar of the case were kept as (.0 gether as such opposites would permit. S. tO S S. 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' r r i t loon, if f 7.. 4. ibsurllY/ ON I well. Lardyant)-) Publi could d° til t , Ice H ('- ' 3 :hey 014 t ting tl E a Al: trii:,,,l per.Di once, A 4,„ ' e re it In t ! the pi I' ke• ,r- .a, •in i maintre ad d to Pro oily to . isibeti, on 70W, por 111, 5 g ror n If his gr 4 . fo r tb, dirty 41 , 4 ! ig ? 1;1 V e 13, work. 11 441 vp itre .1 ,S at / 4 1 ,t 4 y hi Work , popr , in t , v I i do i::.;, f liesio, c gone 'to le tt ," tend : i. 0 ., 1 whi ch fiver I 1.01,1)1y); l'econi t have i ' ThMertsti ss to ti°lt4l4,t 'lien the Plli elated t justice °`ii )8 1 28 411 sh wa g ° this p .. sentiagi Account as close t_ainedntt di saa , e u y °ado ' t, n : Pi S c'ld b Ab e 1.., r n tri a THE MARKE' .EIS DUR COUNTRY CO. ,N MARK. NG THE IV IA heat. Barley. Oats. i'cr Blandford Brigg Canthridge . Chard s. to S. 25 20 25 Huntingdon—. Long Sutton—>.— Louth 18 22 18 27 20 24 20 24 18 26 19 30 23 2 8 17 9 0 20 2 3 28 20 29 20 24 Lynn. C , l - i,w ark. Nottingham Peterboroligh Plyinottth Pontefract—.--... Sleafon I --. Uppingham Wisbech- LEEDS CORN MA R KET.—Nov.22. Wheat, Norfolk and Sutfblk, 60Ih. York. and Lincoln. 601 b. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk Yorkshire and Lincolnshire ---- Grinding Beaus 631 b. Oats, Potatoe ---,llealing, For. I:2d. to 13,1 Eng. 121 W I to 13' Shelling Rapeseed, English, 161. to 24/ Foreign, —I. to ,--4. LI V ERPOOI. CORN EXCHANGE.—Nov WHEAT, English, White, per 701 b. Red Scotch, Welch, and Manx Irish, White 8 6 -- Red 8 4 Foreign 9 3 OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 3 2 Irish Foreign BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 44 0 Scotch and Irish, per 601bs. Feeding 4 0 BeANS, English, per Imperial quarter 42 0 ---- Irish, &c. Foreign PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter 42 0 Foreign ' , Lou*, English, per 501 b. Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401bs INDIAN CORN, per 4401 b. RYE, per Imperial quarter MALT, per Imperial quarter 1 . IMPORT OF GRAIN for the Week ending Nov. 9 , Wheat. Oats. I Barley Flour. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. (Foreign, Brls.llrish,&c. Sad 8,611 3,558 , 1,191 386 I 3,368 LEWES MARKET.—Nov. t o Beet Ss. Cd. to 33. 10d. Veal Os. Mutton I 3 10 410 Pork ,0 0 A good supply, and a sluggish trade. RUMFORD MARKET.—Nov. 23. e, R. d. to s. d. 0. 0 Beef... 2 8 3 8 I Veal 3 iq Mutton 3 2 4 6 Pork Suckling Calves from 14s. to 40s. ; Quarter old Pigsl2o , t o A moderate supply, and a dull trade. SHEERNESS.—Stangate Creek is C ri with ships and vessels ; and, at the smallest coral?' we should suppose that at least 300 are perfornill rentine. We have heard that four deaths have ° I on hoard of the shins, from which the yeller flying ; but, as no notice has been taken of tbr, stance, it is presumed that the men did not fall O c i any malignant disease. The Surly cutter has lei out of the basin, and sent to the Creek as an guard-cutter. The greatest vigilance is used t ° the strictest performance of the quarantine.— Gazette. EXTRAORDINARY DUCKS.— A fri i , ours sent up to our office, for inspection, on Fri' three ducks, which in size and appearance °'e doubtedly the very aristocracy of the quack They were of the half Muscovy breed, two the weighing five pounds and a half a piece, and ° lel nine pounds. This last was a most stupendo° 6 ,,, ,, until we saw him, we had no conception that is the shape of a duck could have looked NO " Though nearly as hig as an ordinary goose, he,Pir all the distinguishing features of his race ; an O ti no doubt, that if he had been offered to be pr°73o the dignity of a goose, he would have answered:6 i Carol, of Norfolk, when offered a Peerage, f f rather be the first of ducks, than the last , We have to add another fact, yet more 'r ef : we returned him to his owner ; but he had as n! escape as Ulysses frost the cave of Polypheu 4 virtue of the man who returned his neighbour . we..' nothing to ours.— Whitehaven Herald. BIRTH. • I ' On the 19th inst. at Bourdeaux, the lady of N atban'e Esq. of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 24th inst. at St. John's, Margate, Ge6ro ; e do - 1 4 , Esq. of Friendsbury„ Kent, to Sarah Tournay, v . ; t 7 late Sir Thomas Stained, K.C.B. of Dent de Lion, county. jp On the 24th inst. at Avcning, Gloucestershire, f" D.C.L., of Stamnore Grange, to Elizabeth Head, V e y, , of the late N. Lloyd, Esq., of Angerstone House, On the 24th inst. at Christ Church, T. titerS,jl G rea t Surrey-street, to Miss Lillo, only dau Esq., of Nelson-square. On the 24th inst. Helen So p p l h E i r 4 infant ef Basil Hall, R.N. hirer On the 22d inst. at Brampton, Huntingdon s Harriette, the wife of C. Seawell, Esq. daughter I'RINTED AND PUBLISHED BY MORD() youl46° SUN OFFICE, 112, &fruit), Loxpolf• . 01 felt 14 ' fir, %I d in Ai, 9,1 1 a P • , 4 8 y ~ tg Ig 2, i 4 14 , t v i c _b i th e ill be - - ........ _ A 0 t, „I, t , ma ~,0 uor, COUNTRY CORN 7.1 A T RKES DURING THE '' i ard, - - s t 15' ", Witt N'y heat. i Barley. 1 Oats. ......../ 0 1 , , ta )I, CH i'cr Quarter. s. to s. s. s. s• to t. '' t !II: 1 1 'f ' of CI '3landford --- - 53 - 40 - 2,3 --- I,' 'atly irigg , 53 60 35 40 20 25 00, 1 , mt au '.2ambridge.....----- - 64 - 39 - 22 4 Niti, aOf 22 ~, ~.."', dm ! Huntingdon 58 67 30 42 18 27 L t 'll, s i _ : Long Sutton ~..a.... 55 CZ 4 - - 20 24 • , .l'tr„,, ' 4 Louth ----- .55 64 35 38 20 24 °'' !'w, • Lynn.,--------,. 52 62 30 38 18 26 e t ,, teem S'ewark ..--....- 58 63 40 46 19 30 36 l ed evil', Nottingham K! Peterborough ...--... 52 (42 at 44 17 90 4 -414 rale Plymouth .--..-... 58 04 30 35 20 2 3 -- t„ "ry th; Pontefract-...---. - ti 7 - 43 - 27 1 1 , 7 t , tk - ileafon I .......-- 65 70 36 38 :22 28 ' "i 5 All. CannThe Uppinghain ...-...... .`,6 62 34 42 120 3 4 .141 ii the Wisbech—. 54 63 34 36 i2O 21 ed i' ll e !lea! - LEEDS CORN MARKET.-N0v.22. OA lithi 'upr Wheat, Norfolk and Sutfblk, 601 h. ~ „k ag,. York. and Lincoln. 601 b. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding Beans 63lb. . tt; ott Ilis h Oats, Stealing, For. 12d. to 131 Eng. 12d. to 13W• ain i t , Shelling Rapeseed, English, 161. to 241 Foreign, -L to --.• _ tit 4 ..„ ctoti, parts LIVERPOOL COltN EXCHANGE.-Nov WHEAT, English, White, per 701 b. Red -- Scotch, Welch, and Manx Irish, White 8 6 hfX,... -- R e d 8 4 h , Q4'S Foreign 9 3 51 qt p OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 3 2 5 lrish Foreign Yet BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter._ 44 0 ) t th L.,. --- Scotch and Irish, per 601bs. Feeding 4 0 45110t4„t1 on BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter 42 0 0 y af ter ..---• Irish, &c. Foreign PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter 42 0 41 4 6 tt prat Foreign - .c FLOUR, English, per 2301 b. 48 0 44,2 y , 'ate! lrish OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401b5. 27 o #Zth Y kr INDIAN CORN, per 4401 h. EYE, per Imperial quarter orb..ttee I MALT, per Imperial quarter Nov.. A %ld IMPORT OF GRAIN for the Week ending A... on r In t i Wheal Oats. I I Barley Flour. 14,!, Che.,., Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. (Foreign, Brls.lrish,&c. Sall 5,' It h , ' ,l st 8,611 3,538 , 1,191 386 3,368 ~........./ `'Peet / LEWES MARKET.-Nov. 2.2. C , 11 1).• 3 0 tt ' , ON., Beet --...-... 3s. ed. to 3s. 10d. I Veal -.. Os. Oa 4 Ilt i i,, ,S, ,) Mutton ............. 310 410 I P0rk............. 0 0 ~tler .; Mee( A good supply, and a sluggish trade. 44, 5 1A a pp!, RUMFORD MARKET.-Nov. 23. ,1. f i N \!, s. d. to s. d. S.. 0 _ • Beef... 2 8 3 8 I Veal i j a.i . o Mutton 3 2 4 6 Pork Suckling Calves from 14s. to 40s. • Quarter old Pigsl2s to QS' A moderate supply, and a dull trade. , it 9, SHEERNESS.—Stangate Creek is C r °, with ships and vessels ; and, at the smallest conte ‘ ei k I si `` 0 we should suppose that at least 300 are perforil/L i t on-b 1 =tine. We have beard that four deaths har t 04 0 Z 4 1 3 2 1 Ilt on hoard of the ships, from which the ye110 01 ;K ,4 47 , ful flying ; but, as no notice has been taken of the . :i, i'oth o i _ke., stance, it is presumed that the men did not fall 0 ' 0 14444 Se, any malignant disease. The Surly cutter has b ee ,jio, i' 4 ,, °..s out of the basin, and sent to the Creek as an P ei f'vl.i ttbs ` , ll.. guard-cutter. The greatest vigilance is used tail liy 1 the strictest performance of the quarantine.-J - ` s, ' J O: Gazette. ()1 11 4 lh f r ied it t, US EXTRAORDINARY DUCKS.— A .. .js' • Sin, ours sent up to our office, for inspection, on Fr) 4l 2 • '` Lk f three ducks, which in size and appearance '" tSAri k . Th e doubtedly the very aristocracy of the quanki eg fOiNll. l t fe at ; They were of the half Muscovy breed, two I, l' e 0 4 1 , 4 4 4 % , weighing five pounds and a half a piece. and t 01 1 ,. k t ltte4 nine pounds. This last was a most stupendo ug r e t ; rl ky c until we saw him, we had no conception that s o et ° lr t i t Vaint., is the shape of a duck could have looked 1 10 r ere r ,,Cii e ti on, I Though nearly as pig as an ordinary goose, be i ce, l 4 4 b oon i all the distinguishing features of his race ; an d otett t ; tl , b. to ili .- 7 no doubt, that if he had been offered to be pr ° l oo l :44 ty 1, the dignity of a goose, he would have answered:, 1 1° 4 , ~°,4ses it COKE, of Norfolk, when offered a Peerage, t O f '. . 'ttiof t rather be the first of ducks, than the last e r ' t oit le hlt ti We have to add another fact, yet more ifi c o - co ll i, I , : t ber we returned him to his owner; but he had as %, :, 1 16%;_ u t all o escape as Ulysses from the cave of Polypherri t '; i alrit 4 7 - rn,,, , virtue of the man who returned his neighbour '. k ni t, Edi was nothing to ours.— Whitehaven Heraldo t i ' larc l'e ", tri A e* ki 1 BIRTH. 1 • At • 41, t‘it A i , On the 19th inst. at Bourdeaux, the lady of Nathan t , ih . , .tt , Esq. of a daughter. 41, 4.4 d i MARRIED. , 1., Oli to r ,' . On the 24th inst. at St. John's, Margate, GeOrg!oi,0 1 01. s ' I Esq. of Friendsbury, Kent, to Sarah Tournay, w in tt i 1 ) . and ~, late Sir Thomas Staines, K.C.B. of Dent de Don, 1 ,,; k ,bte.,, r6 county. f•,, 1)1 '1,4 i t 1. 5' a; On the 24th inst. at Avening, Gloucestershire, - is - rittt, - 4, D.C.L., of Stanmore Grange, to Elizabeth Head, V i e'', rik. . I ° f tl; of the late N. Lloyd, Esq., of Angerstone House, or , I, loi n , On the 24th inst. at Christ Church, T. E. S t3 o l 1 " `itivi.. b l al Great Surrey-street, to Miss Lillo, only daughter 44 , .e an , Esq,, of Nelson-square. th, „. ' DIED. et . L ttro till b "." daug hter , e sec On the 24th inst. Helen Sophia, infant Basil Hall, R.N. ft .v ato n. On the 22d inst. at Brampton, Huntingdonshire' i i tt Goss , Harriette, the wife of C. Seawell, Esq. ~.„ i f ett) Piet __....-- ‘.-cirrbl,', S