The Sun. — London, England, 1834-08-27 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. It. is not expected of a journalist, who is often . obliged to write on the spur of the occasion, and to decide on what may turn out to be partial statements, that all the opinions respecting men and things which he may deliver in the course of a series of ye ars, should so strictly harmonize with each other as to leave no opening to an ill-natured opponent. He must be judged by the general scope and tendency of his labours, and to him in a particular manner a liberal allowance must be made for the failings-- Quas aut incuria fudit, Aut humana parurn cavit natura." But there are inconsistencies so gross that no extent of charity can possibly reconcile them with honesty, and and that must be set down to a downright settled in tention to deceive. The Times newspaper is noto riously now, and has always been, utterly reckless with regard to principle—except the principle of supporting whatever opinions its conductors suppose may be accept able for the time, and that of destroying, no matter by what means, whomsoever they deem it their interest to destroy for the time. It was said by Rochefoucault, that there is something in the distress of our best friends that we are not grieved at ; and perhaps the Times, in continually looking out for victims, is guided partly by a wish to impress the world with a high idea of its power by the constant displays of its ferocity, and partly by catering for the supposed ma lignity of our nature, in which the French philoso pher believed. Like everything else, however, wicked ness may be carried too far ; and we are much mis taken if the utter disregard of all decency lately shown by the Times, ever since the Ministry chose to disregard the oracle of Printing-house-square in the case of the Poor Laws, the malevolence displayed towards the men whom, but a day before, they had lauded to the skies, will answer the purpose of our contemporary. Every man of any mark in the pre sent Ministry, with the exception of Lord Melbourne (and to be exempt from the censure of the Times, under such circumstances, is a distinction of which his Lordship ought not to be covetous), has been assailed with a coarseness of vituperation unequalled by any thing in Cobbett. Lord Althorp has obtained grace for a few days ; but the Lord Chancellor is victimised day after day. The readers of the Times cannot, surely, be so indifferent to the reputation of public men, and so malignant in their nature, as to receive gratification from these repeated attacks of a writer actuated, most unquestionably, by the basest motives, and indifferent himself even to the appearance of hav ing any regard for truth. The Times of yesterday has an article commenting at some length on the Lord Chancellor's speech on the Poor Laws. On that speech we made some observations when it was delivered ; and judging from the extracts from the revised copy (for we have not read the whole), we should say we differ from the Chancellor in many of his views. But criticism is one thing, and abuse another. The Times, quoting his Lord ship's remarks on the presumption of ignorance, ob serves, " We have never seen a remark so strongly supported by example as in the speech before us. The speaker has hit himself off with singular truth. Per haps the portrait may be a little strengthened in like ness, by substituting quackery for ignorance, though persons acquainted with the furniture of Lord Brougham'a• mind, know that it is like the specimens of an upholsterer's show-room—some piece of every set, but nothing in completeness and arrangement—a lumber of fineries, odds and ends, at once more and less than necessary to the fitting of any one mansion of the understanding." On Saturday last the Times spoke of Lord Brougham in these words :—" The Times for fifteen years praised, supported —or, if you will, patronized his Lordship. So long as we sup posed Lord Brougham to be actuated by honourable and elevated motives—guided by fixed and enlightened principles—aspiring to power through none but direct and manly means--disposed to use it virtuously, and capable of using it wisely, we did by every possible exertion, through evil report and good, zealously, boldly, and indefatigably,—nay, if we had said affectionately—it would be no more than the fact—strive to maintain, and extend the influ ence of Henry Brougham, throughout all classes of society ; we supported the man whom we believed to be true, upright—whatever we might sometimes have thought of his discretion." The Times is either here sincere or it is not. If sincere, what are we to think of the judgment of a journalist who pretends to this high degree of intimacy with a public man, and sup ports him for fifteen years as a man possessed of the utmost elevation of character, of the most enlightened principles—as a man aspiring to power through none but direct and manly means, and capable of using power wisely,—and all at once discovers that he is a knave and a quack—that he knows nothing as he ought to know it—that the furniture of his mind is like the specimens of an upholsterer's show-room, some piece of every set, but nothing in completeness ? By the showing of the Times, if it is sincere, its opinion is utterly worthless ; for Justice Shallow himself would not have confessed to holding the same man a high- Minded sage for 15 years, and discovering him in a single day to be an arrant quack. We do not think so low of the penetration of our contemporary as to suppose that truth has anything to do with the pre tended discovery of Lord Brougham's quackery, after a delusion of 15 long years. What, then, are we to think of the matchless effrontery—the utter indifference to all that is even in appearance honest and honour able, that could allow a writer to turn round to-day on the idol of yesterday, and thus rudely attempt to dash it in pieces ? Is England so lost to regard for prin ciple as to tolerate this barefaced attempt at moral assassination ? Who is safe if literary bravos —men, who from sordid and selfish motives, for honourable motives are out of the question—are to be tolerated in thus endeavouring to destroy public characters ? If the Times now lay claim to a regard for truth, it must have been in a conspiracy to exalt Lord Brougham beyond his merits. This would equally be unprin cipled. If we are to suppose that during the fifteen years intimacy with his Lordship, during the preva lence of the strong affection entertained for him, the Times acquired the intimate acquaintance to which it now lays claim with all the pieces of furniture of his Lordship's mind, and qualified itself to pronounce him on Saturday last, an arrant quack, the incessant eulo gies bestowed on his Lordship were necessarily an im pudent and barefaced attempt to dupe the people of England. To the moment the Lord Chancellor gave the umbrage to the Times (respecting which the public are are in the dark), the Lord Chancellor was with it all that is noble and estimable, and wise, and experienced. In the Times of no longer ago than 18th March, 1834, we find it speaking with reference to a state ment made by Lord Brougham in the House of Lords, in these high-flown terms :—" That statement exhibits to the public what is already known to that branch of the profession practising in Chancery, that a more in defatigable—a more pains-taking—a more punctual judge never presided in any court, in any period of our legal annals. His Lordship, by his persevering assi duity, and his unexampled regularity, has afforded a striking proof that talents of the highest order, and eloquence of matchless power, can descend with cheer fulness and ease to the monotonous duties of the most ' laborious and painful drudgery. The dullest fag who ever plodded, without a thought beyond the pale of the technicalities of his profession, never worked so hard and so constantly as the man whom even his ene mies allow to be endowed with the most comprehensive and brilliant intellect of his age and country." The lightning's flash is not more rapid than the conviction which seems to have been wrought in the minds of the Times with regard to his Lordship. He was a demi god with it to the very day that he became a demon. These doings are enough to sicken men with the press. The p a t ronage o f so unprincipled a paper is really a severe libel on the people of England.—Morning Chronicle. The persecuted liberty of the Press in France has obtained a new triumph by the heroic conduct of the Editor of the National--the able, eloquent, and indefa tigable lover of his country and opponent of despotism —Armand Carrel. There is no man in France to whom the regal persecutor of the Press—the ungrate ful Bourbon—is so much indebted for the Crown he wears as to this gentleman, who, many times since his elevation, has had to pass through the fiery ordeal of a State prosecut i on . If we are not m i staken, M. Carrel was foremost among those editors whose resist- ' ance to the violence of the gendarmerie who came to the printing offices to enforce the absolute ordonnance of Charles X. brought on the crisis of the revolution —a revolution of which the " brave " Orleans faced none of the dangers, but of which he contrived to steal all the fruits, leaving the duped Lafayette to lament in the evening of his life the octogenarian credulity which made him again entrust the destinies of France to the hands of a Bourbon, though promising " a monarchy surrounded with republican institutions." What was the imputed crime of the Press in the case, which, through that old English institution of the trial by jury—the only protection against the centralizing despo tism of the Tuileries—has so signally triumphed ? It was the daring act of commenting upon the King's Speech as if it were the speech of his Ministers. But the ' French Charter, in imitation of that antiquated English Constitution, which some of our own Doctrinnaires are so anxious to subvert, proclaims the political maxim that " the King can do no wrong," which is, of course, grounded, as with us, upon the constitu tional principle that always supposes the King to act by the advice of his Ministers, who are responsible for all his acts. This principle, however, Louis Philip has set at nought ever since he found himself, as he believed, firmly seated upon a throne ; he has acted, and continues to act, as his own minister, or as the President of his own Cabinet. This may, some day or other, involve him, or some equally obstinate successor, if the Monarchy should survive himself, in a very awkward responsibility ; for a King who acts without the advice of his responsible Ministers in a represen tative Government, disclaims the impunity which the Constitution throws round him. N. Carrel, in his powerful address to the jury, more than once invoked the principles of the English Constitution, and ap pealed to the great commentator on our laws to ex plain the true meaning of regal inviolability, and to show that it did not extend to interdict strictures on the acts and personal influence of the King. This inviolability has been carried to a ridiculous length in France ; and speaking of this extravagant perversion of a good principle, M. Carrel said, "In Eng land those who pretend to understand the Constitution shrug up their shoulders when they hear of ours. In England the principle contended for dispenses the Crown from replying to a judicial accusation. There are parties in England who admit no more than that as to Royal inviolability ; but on its side the regal power has the good sense to observe an absolute neu trality, and to keep within the limits of its prerogative. Here the pyramid is reversed, the King is the chief of a system. It is the Crown seizing upon prerogatives which do not belong to it. Deplorable agitations have been the result of this." Such is the consequence of the King of the French making himself the centre and apex of a system, but that system cannot stand many such shocks as this, arising out of intemperate and foolish collision with the press. Such prosecutions of the Press may one day produce a re-action as terrible and instructive as the ordonnances of Charles X. If the " Citizen King" be not as infatuated as some of his Bourbon predecessors, he will take warning by his past discomfitures. If he be not as destitute of reflec tion as he is regardless of all political principle, he will avoid those conflicts of the Royal power with the great engine of opinion, in which defeat is so humiliating and victory itself ruinous.—Morning Herald. The Whig scheme for making the negro population in our West India Colonies happy and contented is just beginning to work, and precisely in the way we long ago predicted, by producing a determined refusal on the part of the freemen to labour as apprentices, unless compelled to do so by some rigorous measure of coercion unknown to him during his existence in a state of bondage. As our friendly admonitions, how ever, were unheeded by the Liberals in Downing street, who yielded most unwisely, as we think, to the humane legislators of Aldermanbury, we will now fur nish them with a little information which may perhaps be useful, and induce them to take the necessary steps for preventing or repairing the mischiefs that seem likely to arise from the rash and inconsiderate measure which they adopted merely for the sake of hollow and ephemeral popularity. Minis ters are chargeable with gross neglect of the most important interests of the empire in omitting to reinforce the garrisons of the West India Islands, after they have been repeatedly warned that the number of troops already there is totally inadequate to the preservation of tranquillity. We have received advices to the 15th of July, and from sourcer on which we place the utmost reliance, that in St. Kitt's the negroes had refused to work. They had openly de clared their determination not to submit to the system of apprenticeship, demanding not only to be made free unconditionally, but also to be left in full possession of their houses, land, and all other indulgences as here tofore. This is pretty well for a beginning, and fully accords with the " spirit of the age." Our intelligence unfortunately does not end here, as we find that the representative of his Majesty, the Lieute nant-Governor of the Island, had been compelled to submit to a severe pelting with stones, dirt, &c., by the well-ordered and subordinate popula tion in several parishes of the island, and that he had a very narrow escape from witnessing the appalling spectacle of a foul and atrocious murder committed by an infuriated party of blacks on the person of the ma nager on one of the estates. A vessel had been dis patched to Antigua and Barbadoes for assistance, but we have reason to know that the Commander-in-Chief has it not in his power to answer all the calls that will be made on him at this crisis, the more especially if the negroes in the other islands should follow the ex ample of those hi St. Kitt's. We now earnestly call on the Executive to be prompt in their arrangements if they are at all anxious to preserve these dependencies of the Crown, which they cannot but value as productive sources of revenue, however they may disregard the safety and the rights of their white inhabitants. — Morning Post. We cannot help calling the attention of our readers to the very extraordinary articles which have recently appeared in some of the leading papers. Who, a year or two since, would have expected to find the Standard, the ultra Tory journal, complimenting, and receiving compliments, from our contemporaries the Herald and the Times? At first these " sweet words" were con ' fined to their respective opinions upon the merits of the Poor-Law Bill. Now they are moving on, and the Herald and Standard are quoting one another's opinions on the Police Bill, and all three are abusing what they are pleased to call the principle of cen tralization, which the Tory, on the one hand, and our " Granny" (as the Times once facetiously called the Herald,) on the other, . state to be creeping over the land, and threatening the total subversion of the liberties of the country. The Times is too cautious and too wary to allow itself to be run away with, as its contemporaries are. It affects to be virtuous, honest, and consistent, and endeavours by the violence • of its language, to prove the sincerity of its writings. Not so with the Herald— no one can tell its principles, if it has any—it affects not consistency—it knows it not in the leading articles of one day, much more for a longer period—and in this respect both of our morning contemporaries are infi nitely inferior to the able and consistent Tory journal, the Standard. It manfully declares its purpose and object. It leaves no stone unturned to uphold reli gious bigotry and Tory politics. We like such an adversary—w e can understand it, and can clearly see through its anxiety to applaud any principles in the Herald or Times which accord with its own, and by supporting which, it imagines that it can divide the li beral interest, and thereby weaken the determination of the public to uphold religious liberty and liberal politi cal opinions. But our morning contemporaries are sadly, in our opinion, mistaken in the course they are pur suing. By their inconsistency —by their want of candour and honesty, they are lessening their influence over the public mind—they are written as they might have been twenty years since, when the public had no other means than through the daily press, of obtaining knowledge. The cheap literature of modern times has, however, raised the class of readers above the influence of the violent writing which has of late distinguished the journals to which we have alluded. The mandates of the Times are no longer attended to. Its abuse of the public men whom only a short time since it lauded to satiety, falls harmless. It may send forth its thunder against Lord Brougham ; but it scathes not THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1834. the Noble Lord any more than the breechless urgin who never heard of the existence of our able, but not very consistent, contemporary. Nay—the continued re petition of its attacks upon that illustrious nobleman — the next best friend of the people, after Earl Grey, whom this country has ever known—have already produced an effect the very reverse of that which appears to have been intended by them—it has disgusted, by its incon sistency and personality, all sound-thinking persons, and actually induced the enemies of the Noble Lord to think more favourably of his qualities of head and heart than they had previously done. But this is a digression—a digression, nevertheless, which our readers will excuse, when we assure them that it has been made simply for the purpose of enabling them to value properly the writings of the journals we have alluded to, upon that which they endeavour to stigmatize as " the principle of centralization." But whatever has caused the Times to adopt the course recently pursued, it is perfectly dissimilar to to that which influences the Herald. We hardly know how to express our dislike of the conduct of that journal.—lt has scarcely had manliness enough to praise or dispraise decidedly any measure for the last three or four years:—lts support of Reform was equivocal—sometimes blaming for its approximation to Toryism, and then alarming the fears of another party, by stigmatizing it as an ultra-radical measure. Look again to its articles on the Police, Church, Poor Laws, Tithes, and last, though perhaps the most im portant, its articles against Free Trade, and in abuse of the principles which are now happily regulating the reduction of taxation. What is this principle of cen tralization? If we are to judge from the application of the term by the writers in the columns of our con temporaries, we should be inclined to say, that it is that principle of Government which places the execu tive power necessary to enforce the provisions of its various statutes in the hands of a board appointed by the Government, and responsible to it and to the Parlia ment of the country. Our readers must recollect that it is only the executive power: the power to enforce the provi sions of particular statutes. The authority of those who form and enact these statutes is not, and cannot, be in cluded in this principle of centralization. Now this power has been recently given to two boards, viz., to the Commissioners of the Metropolitan Police, and those just appointed to superintend the amended system of Poor Laws. This is the extent of the recent applica tion of the principle which has so frightened our con temporary of the Herald and his coadjutors. Now, before we enter into the question of whether this appli cation of the system is useful or not, or whether it tends to increase or diminish the liberty of the subject, we will just ask our friends whether it be a principle of recent introduction, and if we can show that it is not, it will be difficult to account for their alarm. But we will show more, we will prove that other Boards exist with almost irresponsible power—Boards contain ' ing within themselves Courts of Record, from which there is only a very slow and expensive appeal. Are not the ' Boards of Customs, Stamps, and Excise very superior spe cimens of the application of this principle of centraliza tion to those recently constituted ? Where do you find in the constitution of these Boards the necessity of reporting their proceedings annually to Parliament ? ; Are the salaries of the Commissioners annually voted? [ Is any publicity given to their proceedings ? Look again at the Court of Excise Commissioners sitting with closed doors, and hearing appeals, and passim.- sentence upon those. who have been previously con demned by their officers. Who examines the bill, or inquires into the vexatious proceedings of the Solicitor of Excise ? What appeal is there against any har rassing proceeding Which he may choose to originate ? and all who are uder this Board well know the haughty, and consequential demeanour of that import ant functionary. Every small trader knows that if the penalties in the Acts under which those duties are col lected were to be enforced, he would be ruined, and he is therefore allowed, either in consequence of BANKRUPTCY COURT, AUG. 26. (Before Mr. Commissioner HOLROYD. ) LAWS OF JERSEY. JAMES LE COUTEUR'S BANKRUPTCY. his liberality to the inferior officers, to carry on his business as near to the letter of the law as he can, and subject at all times to the threats and annoyances of every officer, from the assistant to the Commissioner.. Here, indeed, is a principle of centralization in its most hideous form,--an irrespon sible Board, with enormous powers—one which can, under an excuse of suspicion, send its officers into any house in the kingdom—one which can expose the im provements and knowledge of one manufacturer to all his competitors. Why are not our contemporaries frightened at the existence of such a Board ? Those of the Customs and Stamps have also great power, but nothing to be compared with the Excise; and they have always been conducted with much more enlight ened principles than the former, almost as if the re volting nature of the duty in the one case prevented men of liberal opinions from accepting the office of Commissioners to such a Board. To-morrow we shall revert to the subject.—Morning Advertiser. The Chancellor is the very opposite of that philo sopher of old who went about with a lantern at noon day in search of an honest man. Lord Brougham discovers perfection at every turn. If he wanted a phoenix, he would find one waddling and cackling on the first common. For the Central Board he pro claimed that three paragons would be required, men as great and extraordinary as their powers—" not politi cal persons--members of neither House of Parliament —men belonging to no party—men unconnected (po litically speaking) with the administration of public affairs, and unmixed with the contests of the State. If," he pompously continued, " I should be consulted as to the choice of the individuals, I would only say, show me a person (and I think I know that person) whose opinions on party matters differ most widely from my own, and if he be a man of firm mind, of ex tensive experience as to the working of the Poor Laws, of conciliatory manners, of sound discretion —if he be a man whom I can trust for his temper (one of the prime requisites in such a work), and that man I prefer before any of those with whom I most agree in politics." He then proceeded to promise that there should be no favour in the selection, and that qualifications and desert should be the only consideration. Let us see how the appointments cor respond with the rule. First, Mr. Fran Hand Lewis is appointed to the chair, according to the canon that the Commissioners should not be political persons, or selected from among the members of either House of Parliament l Secondly, Mr. John Lefevre is ap pointed in as strict conformity with the above rule, and also with the next, that the Commissioners shall be men unconnected (politically speaking) with the ad ministration of public affairs I the aforesaid Mr. John Lefevre having filled the office of Under Secretary of State for the Colonial Department. The quibbling answer will be, that these gentlemen are not now in Parliament, and that the latter is now discon nected, politically speaking, from the Administration ; but the promise of the Chancellor was clearly that the Commissioners should be persons unaffected with political bias, though, with his late inability to observe consistency in any dozen words he utters, he proceeded to say that he would choose a man politi cally opposed to him, if in other respects a paragon. The third appointment, that of Mr. Nichols, comes under the rule so far as politics are concerned ; but from what we hear, he is not quite the prodigy which the Chancellor had described as required for the office. The Board is now composed, and if the Chancellor has acquitted himself according to his design in the choice of its members, we may, at this instant, look upon three wonders of the world, found without the aid of a lantern at noonday, and kept at the small cost for such virtue, of 6,0001. a-year ; 2,0001. a year being the present price of an improved Cato, skilled withal in the management of the poor. They don't make Bishops so. The recipe of the Chancellor for Poor Law Com missioners would be too severe a test for a Primate. But there are more than three wonders of the world sitting somewhere in 'Whitehall. There are three wonders and a half, for in the Secretary, Mr. Chad wick, we have half a wonder, and an amazing half it is, by the Chancellor's showing. In cases of propor tion, the unknown may be discovered through the known ; and, ex pede as it were, from the qualifica tions of Mr. Chadwick we may measure, if merits so great allow of mortal measurement, the exalted quali fications of the Commissioners. The question may be put in the form of the rule of three Mr. Chad wick is worth so much, how much is Mr. John Le fevre worth, and so on. Let us then first see how SHERIFF'S COURT, AUG. 26. CLOW V. FIELDE. much Mr. Chadwick is worth, and from his value we can find the value of those placed over . him. It' has been said, that every kind of excellence is to be found in Homer, but Homer did not write about the Poor Laws, and it will be easy to show by the high critical authority of the Lord Chancellor, who must be admitted to be the very first judge in the land —that Mr. Chadwick has surpassed Homer, and that his report should supersede the Iliad, with those who would improve their minds by the contemplation and study of excellence. Having paid some high com pliments to the other Commissioners, Lord Brougham proceeded :—" Most of them I before knew, but Mr. Chadwick I never had seen, nor have I now more than once or twice ; but I confess I have risen from the perusal of his papers, admirable in all respects for ex cellence of composition, strength of reasoning, sound ness of judgment, and all that indicates the possession of every species of talent—l say I have risen from the perusal with a degree of admiration that I find it diffi cult either to suppress or to describe." The only marvel is, that he ever did rise from the reading of such papers, admirable " in all that indicates the possession of every species of talent." He might reasonably have been expected to exhale in the rapturous contemplation of such unrivalled, such superhuman perfections. Talk of Homer, indeed 1 Homer was a fool to Chadwick: Many and hyperbolic as have been the eulogies on Homer, there is not one of them to compare with the above praise of Chadwick ; for though indications of every species of talent have been discovered in the Iliad by its enthusiastic admirers, yet no one can pretend that Homer evinced any talent for the collection of Poor Law evidence, and there fore, other things being equal,—for there is no ex ceeding ever y species of excellence,--Mr. Chadwick is the superior. The poetic or inventive talent dis played in the Report the Chancellor has not par ticularly observed on, but of course it is included in the praise of " every species of talent." When we see Mr. Chadwick, then, filling the comparatively humble station of secretary, according to the Chancel lor's rule of choice, which admitted no consideration but quilification and desert, and declared a preference for men out of Parliament, and unconnected with the ad ministration of public affairs,—when we see a man of such matchless endowments, a man of a report indi cating every species of talent, and who was eligible by the Chancellor's rule to the Board,—when we see him, we repeat, filling a secondary place, what are we to think of the men who have been preferred to . the first posts for their qualifications and deserts only ? As 1,0001. a-year is to 2,0001. a-year, so is Mr. Chad wick to Mr. Lewis,' Mr. Lefevre, or Mr. Nicholls. Thus, wonder of the world as he at first appears to be by Lord Brougham'weport, he is yet, as we have al ready remarked, but - half a wonder compared with the prodigies over him, and those full wonders deserve double the praise which the Chancellor endeavoured to bestow on their secretary, and an endeavour only it was, for he frankly confessed the difficulty of de scribing his admiration. We recommend all persons who would see perfection before they die to hie them to Whitehall to look at these paragons. No one can now say that the poor are not well served. Their ma nagement is in the hands of demi-gods ; and parish officers will have the privilege even in communicating with the Secretary, of corresponding with a writer of excellencies and talents more varied than those of Homer and of Shakspeare. This is indeed, in the theatric phrase, a superbly mounted commission. Even for Secretary it has one praised by a great judge as Milton was never praised.— Times. IMPORTANT COMMERCIAL QUESTION RESPECTING THE This case has caused some excitement among the com mercial interest. The bankrupt, a draper at Guernsey, came to England some months ago and purchased goods to a large amount, and then became bankrupt. A fiat was obtained against him. The jurisdiction of the Court of Bankruptcy was denied by the bankrupt, as he had been proceeded against by his Guernsey creditors, and this ques tion has been the cause of much conversation among those interested in the trade to Guernsey, Jersey, and the Isle of Man, as in case the Court of Bankruptcy has no power over the traders in the islands named, it will cause incon venience to the trade between England and those places. The creditors at Guernsey refuse to acknowledge the vali dity of the proceedings of the Court of Bankruptcy here on the ground that they are entitled first to have full payment of their claims, having registered the debts, and proceedings having been begun in the Royal Court of the Island of Guernsey. The final examination of the bankrupt was fixed to take place this day. The Commissioner understood that in this case the bank rupt had not surrendered. A letter received from him it would be better to have read. Mr. Bousfield, the Registrar, read the letter. It was addressed to the Honourale the Acting Commissioners of the Court of Bankruptcy, and was dated the 22d of August, of the present year. It stated that the writer had been informed that his presence would be expected at the Court of Bankruptcy on the 26th inst., and wishing that his absence might not be considered as contempt of the Court, he took the liberty of observing that while in Lon don last May he was arrested, and on his return to Guernsey he found that his effects had been seized, and, together with his books, were in the hands of the Sheriff of th Royal Court. He now understood that the British creditors were proceeding against him in England, and that the Guernsey creditors, with the agents of some of the Lon don houses, were proceeding also against him in the Royal Court of Guernsey. He stated that he was utterly unpre pared with means to proceed to London, where he could be of no service without his books. The letter concluded as under : " The privileges of this island do not admit of the juris diction of the Coat of Bankruptcy. I have consequently had no legal summons to attend your Honourable Court. I trust therefore that you will not permit any default to be taken against me, as you perceive I am not amenable to your Hon. Court. All•my English creditors have agents _representing their interests in Guernsey, and here also are all my assets." The 'Commissioner thought the bankrupt had been ill advised upon the matter, and reg retted that he had not surrendered. There was f u ll proo that he had traded in England, and had rendered himself liable by committing an act of bankruptcy to the Bankruptcy Laws. The principle was established by many cases, that persons arriving in England to purchase goods only were liable to the Bank ruptcy Laws. Mr. Whitelock then referred to a decision given by Lord Tenterden, in which his Lordship decided that an Isle of Man trader had rendered himself amenable to the Bank ruptcy Laws of England, and said the matter was of great importance to the commercial world, as upon the decision depended the fact whether Guernsey creditors could, by registering their debts in Guernsey, participate in pro perty which had been purchased in England by a trader of the island, and to the loss of English merchants. It was intended by the London creditors, if the bankrupt was pro claimed in the usual way, to obtain office copies of the pro ceedings before the Court of Bankruptcy, and to raise the question whether the bankrupt had not been guilty of felony, by a prosecution at the Old Bailey. The bankrupt not having made his appearance at three o'clock, he was declared an outlaw, with the usual forms. The proof of debts having been finished, it appeared that the London creditors hadproved for nearly3,ooo/., and the debts in Guernsey were calculated at about 4,0001. more. There are some other claims in France, &c., but not to a great amount. Further proceedings were then adjourned. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. A Jury was empannelled and sworn to determine what lands, goods, chattels, and tenements were possessed by Mr. Henry Fielde, who owed Mr. Clow 8001., and, having fled the kingdom, had had proceedings of outlawry instituted against him, in order that the said property might be escheated to the Crown. Mr. Charles Phillips, Counsel for Mr. Clow, called Mr. Richard T. White, an attorney, of Lincoln's Inn-fields, who produced a deed of settlement, dated March 12, 1818, from which it appeared that the outlaw has a contingent interest in 7,5441. and 4,0321., 3 per Cent. Red. Bank An nuities, and also in 6,666/. 3 per Cent. Consols. The Jury returned a verdict that the outlaw had no ap praiseablq and escheatable property. We understand, and very reluctantly credit, that a memorial is getting up by a party in this town, to be presented to the King, for a complete remission of the sentence against John Webb, of York, imprisoned for manslaughter in the ignorant administration of Morrison's Pills ; and that this being obtained, a subscription is to be entered into to present the prisoner with a piece of plate, to compensate for the injury he has sustained from the law in his endeavours to do good.— Hampshire Telegraph. BO IV- STREET. CUTTING AND MAlMlNG.—lllichad Sullivan was charged with having inflicted a wound upon the head of Jeremiah Dalton, whereby he endangered his life. The prisoner was remanded until it was ascertained from the medical attendant of the prosecutor the nature and ex tent of the wound. HATTON-GARDEN. ROBBING A GAOL.—Yesterday Samuel Banks, the steward of a ship, was examined before Mr. Sergeant Sellon, charged with having stolen twenty-nine sovereigns. John Summersall was head turnkey of the House of Correction, Coldbath-fields. In October last the prisoner, an inmate of that gaol, was employed in making the beds i and keeping clean the sleeping apartments. His term of rnprisonment expiring on the 22d of that month, he was s et at liberty, but scarcely had he left the building ten minutes when witness discovered that his trunk, which was kept in his bed-room, had been forced open and plundered of twenty-eight sovereigns and two half-sovereigns. With the exception of witness's brother officers - the prisoner was the only person who had access to the room. He was found and brought back to his old quarters. When taxed with the robbery be protested his innocence, and nothing being found on his person to criminate him, he was again set free, after promising to come forward at any time he was required so to do. Witness had since received part of the money from the Governor of the prison, whose deputy had succeeded in finding where it was hidden, and the manner in which it was stolen. John Flood, a gardener, living at No. 22, Charles-place, Chelsea Common, last October, was a prisoner in the House of Correction for an assault. The night before the prisoner was discharged he slept with witness, and during the night he was so restless that on the following morning he was induced to ask him the cause. He replied that he was sorry he was going to leave the prison, as he had lived there as well as he wished, and added that the principal cause of his fretting was in consequence of having in his possession some money, which, being contrary to the discipline of the gaol, he was fearful of severe punishment, knowing it would be impossible for him to secrete it from the turnkeys, who would be particular in searching him before he was suffered to depart. At that period witness was managing the prison garden, and thinking he should be doing no wrong he con sented, at the earnest solicitation of the prisoner, to con ceal a packet, which he was given to understand contained the money, promising to throw it over the north corner of the prison wall precisely at half-past nine o'clock the same morning, at which time the prisoner undertook to be there to catch it. The prisoner received his liberty soon after wards ; and just as witness was about to perform his pro mise he received intelligence from his overlooker that Som mersall had been robbed of a quantity of soverigns by the prisoner, who would soon be re-apprehended. Witness became exceedingly alarmed, and feeling convinced that he should soon be questioned upon the subject and searched, he buried the packet as he received it from the prisoner in the garden. According to his anticipations he was taker! before the Governor, to whom he denied all knowledge of the transaction ; and it was not until April last, when he was closely pressed by the Deputy-Governor, and pro mised that if he made any confession he should be pardoned, that he stated where the money was deposited, and what he knew respecting the matter. Mr. George Hoare, deputy Governor. of the House of Correction, when the robbery was effected was convinced that the prisoner and the witness Flood were concerned in it, and he kept harassing the latter until he induced him to confess. Witness saw Flood dig up the packet, which contained no more than 271. 10s. 7d. The prisoner sur rendered to witness yesterday, saying he had just come from a voyage, and his conscience had so pricked him that he was determined on giving himself up to justice. He told wit ness that he had entrusted the money with Flood, but what he had done with it he was unable to say ; and further, that twenty-seven sovereigns and a half sovereign was all he took, the ievenpence was his own money. The prisoner, who admitted his guilt, was fully committed to Newgate for trial. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. The Rev. Samuel Bradshaw, of No. 2, Ferdinand-ter race, Hampstead-road, was yesterday brought before Mr. CHAMBERS by the police, he having been found blind drunk, and totally incapable of taking care of himself, in Regent street, on Monday afternoon. The rev. defendant had been discovered by a policeman of the C division, sitting at a door in Regent-street, about six o'clock, so overcome by the potency of his spirituous devotions, that he had made shift either to lose or mislay his coat and waistcoat. The rev. gentleman was then con veyed to the Vine-street station-house, and allowed the benefit of a nap by the inspector, who conceived that this indulgence would have the effect fso far reviving him, that he would be able to give some account of himself to the magistrates at the evening sitting. It was found, however, when the time came, that the rev. gentleman was totally unpresentable, and his introduction to the Bench was de ferred until the morning. When placed at the bar, and questioned as to his station in life, the rev. defendant merely said he was a " gentleman," and as the charge was not de nied, he paid the customary fine of ss. and walked away. LAMBETH-STREET. LOVE, JEALOUSY, AND ATTEMPT TO MURDER.-.Yes terday, George Bell, a journeyman shoemaker, was charged. before Mr. WALKER with having made a desperate at tempt to murder a young woman named Martha Clements. William Steele lodged in the same house with the pri soner, in Turk-street, Bethnal-green, and on that morning, at about 11 o'clock, the prisoner came to him and asked him for the loan of a penny, which he gave him. The pri soner then asked him for another penny, observing at the same time that he was aware he should die in his debt. Witness told him he could not spare more than a penny. The prisoner then took from his pocket a sharp pointed knife, such as are used by shoemakers, and said to him, " Bill, I mean to put this into some female before night. I have ground and sharpened it for the purpose." Witness thought the declaration very odd, but he was afraid to fol low the prisoner, or say any thing about it in the presence of the prisoner, lest he might stab himself. He, however, told it to his landlady, who had mentioned it to the pri soner. He had met the prisoner again shortly afterwards, who, addressing him, said, " What a deceitful fellow you are !" This was in reference to what he had mentioned to the landlady. Id' a short time after he was informed that the prisoner was in custody for stabbing a female, and he, in consequence, attended to state all he knew of the matter. Joseph; Saint, of No. 4, Cheshire-street, Bethnal-green, stated that Mrs. Clement, as she was called, lived in his house for about four or five weeks, and had always con ducted herself with propriety. On that day, at about 12 o'clock, while in his own room, he heard a violent scream ing in the room occupied by Mrs. Clement, which caused him instantly to rush down stairs. Just as he had reached the bottom of the stairs he saw the prisoner come out of the room of Mrs. Clement, and run into the street. Hear ing Mrs. Clement at the same moment say that she was stabbed, and, seeing her on the floor, he instantly followed the prisoner, and, after giving him chase for about 200 yards, he came up with him, and caught him by the shoulder. He then asked the prisoner what he had been doing ? and he replied, " I have stabbed her, but I fear not effectually. If I had, and she was dead, I would be a happy man." Witness then took him back to his house, where he found Mrs. Clement weltering in her blood ; and, on seeing her, the prisoner again expressed his regret that he had not accomplished his purpose effectually. Mr. John Butwhistle, a surgeon in the Mile-end-road, was called on to attend the sufferer, and on going to the house, No. 4, Cheshire-street, he found her deluged in blood ; he found a wound on the left side of the abdomen, about an inch in length in length, through which he could introduce a probe into the abdomen. There was also a large wound on the fleshy part of the thigh, about six inches in length, and another on the left breast. He was not able to say that the intestines were wounded, but con sidered the patient in very imminent danger. The woman appeared to be very sensible and good looking, and about twenty-six years of age. She said that the prisoner had rushed on and attacked her while she was cleaning out her room. He gave her the first stab, she said, in the abdo men, the next in the thigh, and the third in the breast. On going to the station-house, after examining the patient, he, in reply to a question put to him by one of the con stables, said he had not brought good news as to the state of the sufferer ; upon which the prisoner remarked, that the best news he could bring him was that she was dead. Prisoner—Yes, those were the very words I said, and I wish from my heart she was dead, and I regret that I did not accomplish my purpose effectually, then I would be satisfied. The prisoner, when asked by the Magistrate if he had any thing to say, replied that it was a love affair, and hoped that he (the Magistrate) would make some allowance for him under the circumstances. He then proceeded to state that in early age he had formed a strong and lasting at tachment to her, and had always cherished the hope of making her his wife. Twelve months ago he returned from India, with the full determination of realizing his long wished-for hope ; and about three months ago had the bans published, but after that he found himself falsely betrayed, and he had in consequence made up his mind to sacrifice her life and forfeit his own. With this view, he had anxiously sought her for nearly two months, and he had only to lament that he had not effectually accomplished his purpose. During the delivery of this statement the prisoner appeared much excited, and towards its conclusion wept bitterly. John Clement, a silkweaver, brother to the woman, be lieved some attachment existed between the prisoner and his sister, and that it was with the consent of the latter that he had put up the bans for their marriage, about two months since, at Shoreditch Church. After the bans were published, the prisoner went to live with his sister ; but his conduct was so bad, that she determined not to lia‘e He had frequently pawned the linen with which she was intrusted to wash, and had nearly ruined her before she left him. On the night before the prisoner c alled at his house and expressed much anxiety to know where his sister lived. The prisoner was then remanded ; and on his way to the strong room, addessing Mr. Miller, the princial officer, said, " I hope by r this time she is no more. If I p co uld onlY hear she was dead, I would be happy." UNION-HALL. APPLICATION OF A CHIMNEY-SWEEP.—Three chininer sweepers waited on the Magistrates for the purpose of 5 0 ' liciting their advice under the following circumstances :--- One of the applicants, who was spokesman on the oeca' sion, addressing the Magistrates, said—Your Vortships, since the new Hack of Parliament corned into hopperatio , o we can't make the two ends meet now how, and W e base corned here to.make our grievance known. MAGISTRATE—What have you to complain abou t ; 11 0 w are you affected by the new Act ? Sweep—WbY' y ou r Vortship, the Parliament people have made a ne w law 'r whereby we poor sweeps arn't allowed by no manner boe means to go about the streets crying " Sweep," as was t r f o fashion ever since Lunnan was Lunnan ; and I as k y ou r Vortship, how is it possible we can get bub and gr ub our children, and besides pay the taxes? 11 as The MAGISTRATE said that the whole trade, as well the applicant's, must conform to the Act of Parliament' otherwise they would render themselves liable to the r nalty attached to the offence. S , Ve d. ---"" o ld way if .3weep—We doesn't want to sing out in the it's disagreeable to the town, but how we are to 1113 0 people know when we goes along the streets and what vie 0 . their chimbleys swept, if we don't cry out, or do some worse ? The MAGISTRATE said that they must find out some new plan to get custom without breaking the law. Sweep—Suppose, your Vortship, we was for to get bell ! and ring, instead of doing it up in the old way. Would that be infringing the Hact, I should wish for to know ? The MAGISTRATE had no power whatever to give th an, permission to use the bell instead of the human noise in nouncing their calling through the streets. The sweeps, finding that their application was usele 11 began to grumble, and claimed the right to carry a the along the streets to announce their calling as well as dustman. They were, however, told that if they had , course to such an expedient, after the advice given totbc; they must be answerable for the consequences of their Pe r verseness. DISGRACEFUL OUTRAGE. re We are sorry to hear that a gross and serious o utr a was committed on the morning of the 18th instant , in t,,e parish of Clonleigh, about two miles from Lifford. A m },; named Tinny, a Roman Catholic, had been, a few since, employed as a servant by a widow named W7, e . whose husband, a Presbyterian, a farmer of the inn s '„; e r spectable description, died some time since. A Yn u i ,7o daughter of the widow, aged only 15, was induee a ,;fiv maid-servant resident with the family to elope with li„npo. on Friday last. Her flight having been immediately cus:d vered, she was pursued by her brothers and friends, j oi e recovered. Such threats were used by Tinny at that toe that some young men were induced to keep watch in a y widow's house, and prepared with fire arms to res ist - t be attack that might be made. About 1 o'clock on:t 1 morning of the 18th, the house was surrounde by , ,:, 1 5, conjectured, 50 or 60 men, many provided with fire 3";iltli Previous to the party reaching the house, having inetAsstile a neighbour of the Wilkies, named Atcheson, they ha " hi" precaution to make him a prisoner, in order to prev ent de alarming the neighbourhood. Tinny, their leader , ba t manded admittance, which was refused. Being ask ed tili s he wanted, he replied, his wages. He was informed that biro would be paid, as there was no wish to withhold fro ra , il V any thing to which he had a right. He then required no t the wages, but the girl. He was informed that they were Po pared to meet an attack, and would fire on them in the leo name, if any violence should be used. The house haviagiarge then assailed on all sides, the windows broken in with u gh stones, and the muzzles of several guns presented th ; ;, g ea them, a shot was fired through the door by one of the be s ',„ . " party, which was immediately returned through the 1 door by one of the assailants, and a fine lad, altbobtoPt the girl, desperately wounded. The wounded boy, only able to use one arm, returned the fire, but Wi t . c io The sci re . effect—the ball having lodged in the door-post. (having put to bed her wounded child) finding furtherilich sistance useless, opened the door, and with feeling's v ‘ v f t° may be conceived, but not described, gave her dauA i te ' o r the ru ffi an band, which, with yells of savage triunizsl3lb ried her away. A few hours after the occurrence? 3 1 1 0 not of condolence, but of business, was made a t the NcLu; s o, house, by the Rev. Mr. —, Roman Catholic clergYofr and a proposition made by him, that the consent of the o s mily should be given to the union of the parties, which, for indignantly refused. In the course of the same daY , of mations were lodged before Captain Humphry, Jn, a stl p c o ri the Peace, by one of the brothers of the girl. fri for Nixon and Dumas, chief constables of police, visit. lea' family, and obtained such information as we trust nee' to the apprehension of those concerned, and thereby e ient 4 a brothe the importation of this southern - system of brutal into a district hitherto peaceable.—Londonderry seal' SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. 1. 16 :1 VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT THE CUSTOM-HOUSE' The London Merchant, Mow 11; from Hambro' ; Morfee, Antwerp ; Waterloo, Stranack, Dunkirk ; Pe tri' Paul, Tarragona; Brilliant, Parker, Guernsey ; tinion,t;roier' Gravelines ; Charles, Hayes, Teneriffe ; Commerce, F°l3, Calais ; Struggle, Hay, Griswold; Mersy, Bayley, does ; SusseaCßoxley, - Demerara. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING, Aug. 96 ' Wil sc r il ; TheJonge Joanna, -, for Antwerp ; S e archp 4 1`; 0 r , Rotterdam; Mary, Gunstan, Lisbon ; Sir E. Bari f o st wood, Rotterdam; Gusina, Taddy, R o tt er dam an' so oe. dam; Branch, Currie, Teneriffe; .Christiana Packets Christiana; Liberty, Pain, Boulogne. ot CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CAR GO ES, AUO• ,26, p The Dove, Meaby, Guernsey; Diadem, Airth , d oiro: Good Hope and Algoa Bay; Columbine, Corbin, ir a s l ; . „,l Sir E. Banks, Norwood, Rotterdam; Commercia l oo o l 2 King, Rotterdam; Manly, Davis, Rio Janeiro; T b ..; t itil r Ann, Stevenson, Ostend; Eleanor, Stavelock, Mao" Ceylon ; Highlander, Lei-s, Sierra Leone. CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST, Aue• r- s #ol The Emporium, Taylor, for St. Petersburg; Ma ri loc` Baltic ; Johanna, Callossen, Baltic ; Archangels prol i ot i, Archangel ; Grof Cauerin, Kase, Archangel ; l i ret s d , Cock, Norway ; Othlee, Schultz, Baltic; Baltic ; Kirstine Maria, Raunisen, Baltic ; Neptune: nn hart, Cherborg ; William, Nazeby, Medemblick ; e ' win, Crawford, Liverpool and a foreign port ; Grand Canary. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. 00,1 The Mearns, Mearns, Drysdale, from th e Clyd e t o Quehe e 'clya e inst. in lat. 54. long. 22. ; the Faside, M'Athur, iii) Quebec, the 20th, in lat. 50. long. 11. ; Eliza, Gr a % # pool to New York, the 15th, in lat. 51. long. 18. ; 0 48 )/ Island, Liverpool to New York, the 20th, 16. ; the Columbine, getting up a foretop-mast , th e the Saltees, by the Hull, Knox, arrived at Liverpool. ‘i ! 1 " h b eg O e° i n lat. od, Several persons are now going about Wit ) .;og boxes, under the pretext of collecting money for `o r "; d o ll who have struck and are out of employment. l‘lniilce be mendicants are impostors, and are unauthorised to I ' os o be such collections. They generally frequent public -ho 015 intrude into shops, and often use threats if their de e > not satisfied. L e Se, ,0 14......__.. R aul Vie. ah,' ~, t' th eir th ee() 1, t -____,----- „ p of • BIRTHS. the ~ On the 26th in s t., a t N ort h B an k , R egent ' s -part" ~,,,„ , so n• C umm i ng, o f a s n i'" On the 23d i ns t., at B roa d O a k , K ent, t h e lady Is' of tlie J)''' l H. Arthy, of a son. ~....2 1, y On the 21 s t i ns t., a t B us h y L o d ge , near Staninore, Arthur Fr e d er i c k, E sq ., o f a daughter. d el ll V MARRIAGES. W*ll o° Asti On the 23d inst., at Romsey, Hants, the Rev. , 1 „e - 0 0 Wyatt, M.A. Brasen-nose College, Oxford, to Peoe' ° r ' • of the late Thomas Pitt Stead, Esq. a c'S,• On the 22d inst., at Totness, Weston Aplin, Escl'' of Norton, Oxfordshire, to Jane, the youngest daughterA. Rev. Arthur Farwell, Rector of St. Martyn's, Cortom VI DEATHS. for 0 lo At Wiesbaden, in Germany, where he had gone gills, I of his health, John Crompton, Esq of Farnworth ' ot f l ~ hir 56th year of his age. • A IeIP- le , On the 26th inst., at his house in Duke-street, i'` ylthd o is long and severe illness, Mr. Flather Apleyard, in th an d Ir r 1 his age, deeply regretted by a large circle of relations ear , SI. On the 25th inst., at Windsor Castle, in his 64th Y elfe Barton, Treasurer to the Queen. FlO ni 't.O r' On the 24th inst., at Brighton, aged 16, Mail. AO , of daughter of William Ormsby Gore, Esq., of Por k I l k.' shire. es tef'lp On the 23d inst., at Horkesley Hall, near .ir le a b rr 1/ 1 Warren, relict of the late Rev. William Hamilton r . , 130 i , , ` 'r ea „ lII', Rector of Greenstead, Essex, and Vicar 0 , --e i)V Cheshire, in her On the 20th inst . 7ls , Mrs. Long, of Hurts . g a ll, „u,, e , r ar . W 1 0 ham, sister to the Lord Farnborough and the ri` 0 , Can On the 24th of Windsor. v;land, (''' pl'' , t i l e Y .0. inst., Mr. George Ralph Go office. Va il oi l'° ' On the 24th inst., at Harrow, the infant son d (re i Esq., of Montagu-square. so licitor , On the 24th inst., Mr. Charles Ashton , : is , lane, aged 46. Richar ei , Chlr 10 e 24th inst., aged 65, the Rev. of w e Rector of Ashen Essex, and for 36 years one tio, : the On Chelsea Hospital'. y 0 CS °a O r London : Printed and Published by M TT v RD an d. str at The Sun Office, No. 112,