The Sun. — London, England, 1834-06-16 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The intelligence received from Lisbon by the last arrivals is of considerable importance. The departure of the Usurper for Genoa had already taken place. He has further, it appears, entered into a solemn engagement to abstain hereafter from interfering directly or indirectly in the affairs of Portugal, or its dependencies—an engagement to which we should not attach the slightest value, if the fulfilment or the violation of it were ever, by any combination of circumstances, to depend upon his sense of honour. He has shown the world that he could despise the most sacred oaths, and trample under foot the dearest ties of family con nection, without hesitation or repentance. He sacrificed the peace, the industry, and commerce of his country to his unjustifiable ambition ; he persecuted the patriot, dishonoured the wise, exiled the wealthy, broke down the fair fabric of society at home, which had only been just rising anew from the ruins of the war, and severed the territory, which he afflicted by his rule, from in tercourse with all other nations—and for what ? To gratify a selfish lust for power which he knew not how to wield. There is something about usurpation firmly maintained by the aid of tran scendent ability, which renders it not only formida ble, but splendid in the eyes of mankind. But in the recent history of Portugal, we have had all the evils of usurpation without one of its redeeming qualities. There was not a single decree passed during the reign of Don Miguel to which he can now point as a favourable memorial of his transitory swa:,7. He can tell of many brave hearts which he 'has broken, of many princely mercantile establish ments which he has destroyed, of many families in private life whose happiness he has overthrown, but not one act done for the promotion of the public good, not a solitary tear wiped from the cheek of the wretched, attests the wisdom of the king or the virtues of the man. To Miguel, therefore, let no thanks be given, if, deprived of the crown which he gained by perfidy, he pass henceforth into the deepest gloom of retirement from public affairs. He had abundant time to blot out that stain from hi: escutcheon, had he been capable of listening to generous counsels. Had he granted the am nesty, he would have been recognized by Lord Aberdeen, who thought a perjured traitor a very good King for Portugal, and a worthy member of the monarchical con fraternity of Europe. We do not dispute his Lordship's taste, whatever opinion we may en tertain of his sagacity. But Miguel was impracti cable. His thirst for power was only equalled by his avarice of revenge. He refused to purchase the good will of England by even a small display of the attribute of mercy. It was a sacrifice which he could not bring himself to make ; and thus we have seen that in this, as well as in every other act of his life, he has proved his utter want not only of good feeling; but of common prudence. A blunder ing statesman, an unrelenting judge, a conquered tyrant, and a fugitive pretender, he quits his late dominions branded by every kind of ignominy, and therefore powerless to violate the last pledges which he has given, however disposed he may be to trea chery, and however practised in intrigue. The de rite for the total suppression of the monastic orders, and for the incorporation of their estates with the national domains of Portugal, is perhaps, under all the circumstances, perfectly justifiable. It cannot be doubted that those establishments furnished the principal_ resources, both in arms and money, by which the usurper was enabled to seize the throne, and to protract the contest into which he entered for its preservation. It is equally clear that by thus involving themselves in the vicissitudes of secular affairs, those institutions, originally intended exclu sively for the cultivation of religion and learning, dese crated their own altars, and surrendered their pro perty to the chances of a civil war. We know that it was from the recesses of those cloistered abodes that emanated the thousand abominable sophistries by which the advisers of Miguel at Lis bon and his friends in this country endeavoured to give an innocent character to his treason, and an appearance of legitimacy to his assumption of the crown. If monks will throw off their cowls and put on the helmet, they must take the conse quences. But it may be doubted whether a law affecting so large a mass of property as that held by the Portuguese monasteries, ought to have been passed by a mere provisional government. The subject will be considered by some persons as too vast for such hurried and undiscussed legislation ; and it may be said that, coming out as it does at this moment, it wears a complexion rather of anger than of policy. Let us not be misunderstood. Our settled opinion is, that Christianity never can prevail in the world, in all its purity, until the churches of every country shall be effectually separated from their concubinage with the State. The voluntary principle is the only one that can bind mankind to the cheerful and sincere observance of the pre cepts of religion, and bring home to their bosoms a thorough conviction of its importance. We should rejoice, therefore, at the decree which has divested the Portuguese monasteries of their wealth, had we not been apprehensive that the mode in which it is about to be carried into execution may be attended with inconvenience. The article which provides for pensioning the tenants of the extinguished con vents is followed by so many exceptions, that the great majority must be turned loose on the world without the means of subsistence. The Portuguese people have been accustomed to the ministry of these men and . of their predecessors, for upwards of 700 hundred years. The houseless pauper will have nothing to do but to foment resistance to the government of the Queen throughout the country. The cessation of the monopoly so long exercised by the Alto Douro Wine Company, will afford great relief to the wine growers of Portugal, who were entirely subject to the control of that corporation. No Portuguese could bring the produce of his vin tage to the market, or rather there was no market for it, unless he chose to submit to the prices and regulations prescribed by the junta, which managed the affairs of that anomalous institution. The be nefits likely to arise from this commencement of the free-trade system in Portugal will also be felt mate rially in our own country, where the monopoly has long been complained of, not only for its artificial regulation of prices, but also for the many annoy ances which were inseparable from its existence.— Morning Chronicle. From the very advanced period of the session, it being now the 16th day of June, much uneasiness prevails as to the fate of those important measures, viz., the tithe bills, chiefly that for Ireland, and the bill or bills for the relief of dissenters, without the speedy and satisfactory settlement ,of which, it is impossible to calculate on any thing like tranquil lity in either country. The commutation of tithe ought by right to have been accomplished before the end of the session of 1833. The principle was agreed upon and recognized, as well by his Majesty's speech as by the resolutions of Parliament, so long ago as in the preceding session. People have de manded ever since, why nothing has been done ? and when anything is to be done ?—and how long this urgent question is to be kept afloat in men's minds, and society disturbed by the passions con nected with it ? A million of money was last year voted to the unfortunate Irish clergy for arrears of tithe with it was impracticable to collect. Another shilling of tithe, it is notorious, can never be wrung from the parishioners of Ireland, and as no honest or humane man could require that the Protestant clergy should perish for want of common necessaries, the alternative is simply this —either a substitute for tithe under the proposed form of ,*Ax must be forthwith provided as a mein qa*-- rforlll6 existing clergy, or more mil lio 'lutist be voter vout of the general revenue of th kingdom to nieef-the further arrears of tithe,? le which are still hourly accruing by reason of these deTays in the promised measure of commutation. What. may be the shape, or amount of resistance about to be offered to these bills, so far as the House of Commons is concerned, we do not con ceive to be a subjee -of any great anxiety. Even ,‘ the conservatives are prepared to grant a commu- P tation ; and with regard to the appropriation of surplus revenue, we assume that the reason assigned by Lord Althorp for rejecting Mr. Ward's motion—namely, the recognition of the same object contained in the appointment of a commission of inquiry—will insure a large majority in favour of any clause which merely asserts the right of Parlia - - ment to direct that appropriation at itB pleasure. So in what relates to the dissenters, it is difficult to express the extreme and natural impatience of that nUtherous body to ascertain the intentions of Mini sters. Nothing has yet been completed of all that they have a right to look for. Mr. Brougham's bill for the registration of births and marriages is yet in an early stage ; and on the point of admission to degrees in our Universities, or on the grant of a charter for conferring such distinctions on a uni versity established by themselves, no assurance or declaration of sentiment has yet proceeded from any official personage of a nature to alleviate the dis contents of the non-conformist body, although upon this point we hope and trust that Ministers will use every drat in their power to satisfy all just expec tations. Even the projected boon of the church rate measure falls to the earth still-born, like Lord John Russell's Marriage Act. Now, we state plainly these facts, on which there exists out of doors so much painful, we might say dangerous, feeling, from no other wish than to turn to them the attention of his Majesty's Ministers, as subjects worthy of their most grave and earnest considera- The necessity for such counsel will be more tion. apparent, if we refer to the temper which has been recently manifested by the Opposition majority in the House of Lords, and to the violent and mis chievous, though spurious impulse, which has been given to the anti-reform spirit by the bigotted yells of the gowned multitude at Oxford. The Con servatives boast that Oxford speaks the voice of all England,—that " the • spirit of the age" has made itself heard through the fierce acclama tions by which the Duke of Cumberland, for example, was hailed at the theatre and in the Senate-house. Terrible delusion ! fatal credu lity ! as they who are insane enough to act upon it will too inevitably find. Yet act upon it, it is said, they will ; nay, deeply as they have pledged themselves, they can do no otherwise. And it is not in the vain hope of warning them that we speak, but to prepare Lord Grey and the Govern ment, and their supporters, for the part which it must then become their solemn duty to perform. There is not one of these bills for church reform, nor one of the objects at which they aim, that will not be frustrated by the Upper House of Parlia- ment. The Conservatives fancy that they can go vern England, because they have the support of the nonage and dotage of Oxford. That Univer sity is the seat of isolated barbarism amidst an ocean of wholesome knowledge and of useful action. It is generations behind the rest of the kingdom, and fitter to sympathize with the monks of the Escurial than with a free and reflecting people. Yet the oligarch faction will take Oxford for their guide : but in spite of all the concessions, all the manage ment of Ministers, the crisis will come ; it cannot be staved off by any compromise ; the collision must come, and come before the close of the pre sent session, unless the whole business of the session, save only the tyrannical and useless Poor Law Bill and the tax bills, be altogether thrown aside ; the elements of the conflict are in full and pregnant energy ; and the- care of the government and of the nation must be, not to restrain what is incompressible, to avert what is unavoidable, but to see it out, and elicit good from evil. We wait anxiously and with fear to see whether the ministers have courage enough to meet the crisis. Would to God that they had not expended so much of their energy and time in carrying through the house a measure which will render their administration for ever odious. Their dogged perseverance with respect to the Poor Bill is per fectly inconceivable. Why so eager to create an unconstitutional power which, according to Lord Althorp, is to do absolutely nothing ? for, according to him, no alteration is intended in the essential parts of the present system. But if the new cre ated power is to effect what certainly the commis sioners intended, and what the language of the bill itself permits, if not enjoins, why so eager to do that which must set the poor against the rich throughout the kingdom, and must lead to general discontent, perhaps to general tumult and insurrec tion ? Oh ! what folly, what blindness, to dedicate all their time and labour to such a bill, when they might have employed themselves in forwarding measures which would have insured, not only their own popularity, but general tranquillity.—Times. We trust that the accounts which we published of distress, amounting to partial famine, and a fail ure of the potatoe crop, in Ireland, are in some mea sure exaggerated. Indeed, the latter—the failure of the potatoe crop—must be so, as it is much too early in the year for such an event to be even cal culated upon. That the unusual drought of the season may have checked the growth, and dimi nished the produce of early new potatoes, we can readily understand ; but as great part of the main autumnal crop is often not planted till the first or second week in June (viz., the period of the year at which we are now arrived), it is rather too much to suppose that the general crop can as yet have given any very striking indications either of failure or success. But the most striking and anomalous circumstance connected with all this is, that to which we have frequently adverted, viz., that Ireland should be at one and the same time threatened with famine, and be a large corn-export ing country. Yet such, hoivever, is at all times more or less the case; and while great part of the popula tion is dependant upon potatoes for their subsistence, the real staff of life, which they themselves rear and harvest, is sent to England to pay the extravagant rents of untaxed absentee proprietors. Except that of the serfs of Poland, there is scarcely any instance of the produce of the soil not being partaken of by those by the sweat of whose brows it is brought to maturity ; nor can such be the case in any country except in one where false and mistaken notions of government guide the rulers. Ireland, though united to England, lives, especially as far as the great mass of its population is concerned, under different laws, which in the one case, binds the owners and occu piers of the soil to provide for all who are resident or have the remotest claim upon it ; while, in the others, the cupidity of the absent landlord is al lowed to sweep away the produce to obtain a better return at a higher market. While such a state of things continues it is in vain not to expect that great part of the population of Ireland will be always on the verge of famine, and that such fearful visitations must occasionally in reality occur. But, let the two countries become one and the same in their actual situation,—be governed by the same laws, — and, above all, give the Irish population a system of well-regulated poor laws ; and, while she would not cease to be, in ordinary seasons, a corn-exporting country, her landowners would be compelled to look at home first, and humanity and common sense would be no longer outraged by the singular and revolting spectacle of want, famine, and disease ex isting in the midst of plenty.—Morning Herald. It is reported that the discrepancies in the speeches of the different members of the cabinet in their respective places in parliament has produced a declaration, signed by a large number of the hereto fore adherents of the government, that an explicit statement of the policy of the new administration collectively, as respects the church, is an indispen sable condition to their continued support. A noble marquis, a member of the cabinet, is also said to have declared that his " personal honour" re quirei such a declaration, and that the recent and emphatic assurance of his Majesty to the Episcopal Bench made such a proceeding an imperative duty upon the part of the constitutional advisers of the crown.—Morning Post. " Shall I eat this loin of mutton saddle wise ?" said patleman." " No," said one of his guests, " cut i oridlewise, for then I may chance to get a bit in my mouth."—Mirror. LIVERPOOL POLICE. THE RAZORS MADE TO SELL.—Joseph Acerby, a rough but honest-looking tar, was placed at the bar at the instance of an itinerant razor vender, on a charge of felony, under the following circumstances : The complainant was a cunning-looking Patlander, named. Cornelius O'Hare, who said, " May it plase yer Honour, I dales in razors, and other matters of necessary importance for sailors, and it was last night that I was in a public-house near the Prince's Dock, a showing my wares, when that fellow with the big black whiskers stole two razors, the light of which I've never beheld since. MAGISTRATE—How did he do that? Razor-dealer —Why, I goes in, yer Honour, amongst a whole lot of sailors with my razors, what I buys to sell, when this chap bawls out, " Hollo, my shaver, lit's look at your tackle." So I pulls 'em out, and gives 'em to him, when he handed 'em to his next neighbour, and then they goes round the room till they escapes alto gether, and when I wants the property back, he kicks me into the street. He was the man that took the razors. Prisoner—That's a lie. Howsomdever, I'll tell you all about it, before you can lay Jack Robinson, your Worship. I was kicking up a bit of a rumpus among my shipmates, when in comes the razor merchant who did Bill Jones out of 7s. 6d. for a couple of hand_ saws to scrape his mug with, and Bill pipes out, " A land-shark a-head !" which showed us the way the wind lay. Well, he comes and jaws about selling his tackle, and puts 'em on the table ; but may I cross the 'Lantic in a leaky cockboat if I knows where they goes to. I sees him all 'em out, and I sings out, " Avast with your gammon and scud, or else I'll chuck you through the window. He scuds accordingly, an d presently come in with a robin-redbreast in tow, who says to me, says he, " You're the man what boned the man's razors." " You're a liar," says I, and offers to be searched on conditions that if they finds the ra zors I was to pay twenty times what they was worth (which was little), and if they didn't I was to pitch the shaver out o' the window. Howsomdever, your Worship, they wouldn't by no means agr ee to that regulation, so they tows me to the bilboes, and here I is with Bill Jones, Sam Andrews, and hallthe ship's crew, to swear the fellow's a liar. Bill Jones, Sam Andrews, and a number of other of Joe's shipmates, here came forward, and swore (even without the book) that Joe never touched the razors ; and Bill Jones complained in bitter and harsh terms of the torture he had endured by docking his chin's superfluous hairs with the complainant's seven and sixpenny scratchers, purchased from him six months ago. Several other persons in court gave the complainant a bad character, as being a person who lived by swin dling the sailors, and frequently assisting them to smuggle. The razors he dealt in, it also appeared, were something of the Pindaric quality, " made to sell and not to shave," and, under these circumstances, the Magistrate said that he should discharge the pri soner. The complainant seemed much dissatisfied, and was only pacified by a constable asking him whether he was a licensed hawker. The prisoner was then discharged, the Magistrate's clerk advising the complainant to bring 101. in his pocket the next time he came into court, as that was the penalty inflicted for hawking without a license. KILRUSH PETTY SESSIONS, JUNE 10. MARCH OF INTELLECT.—A half-daft looking little body, who rejoiced- in the name of Carroll, and the occupation of a schoolmaster, stated that he was un able to recover his wages from Mr. Dennis Disney, for " thutoring his childer who were to the fore with their father." Magistrate—You are a schoolmaster, I presume ? Carroll—Yes, your worship, my coorse of instruction comprises reading an' writing, English grammar, men suration, the coorse of Wosther ( Voster's arithmetic). Disney—lt does aygh, bad coorse ye wor putting my boys through then, Misther Carroll. Carroll—l stand in your defiance, my chrakther is better to be looked into than yours, any how. Disney—Arrah,yer Worship, here's Micky, the eldest ; swear him, and examine him, in regard o' the learning that ould sinner was given him. Micky, a rosy well-grown lad, accordingly made his bow, and entering the witness-box proceeded to state that Carroll, in place o' the use o' the globes, or in deed any other " learned lore," was buttherin him up as being a clane likely young boy, and that he Carroll would teach him to make drink for the girls, which, if administered, would bring the snuggest colleen in the country swarmin' to him. (Great laughter.) Carroll—Micky aroo, what's that your'e saying that way, is it me your preceptor ? I wonder at you, sure you're sworn to spake the truth. Magistrate—Silence, Sir, the witness must, be al lowed to speak without interruption. Micky--Yes, gentlemen, and moreover, he said, when he'd have his new clothes at Christmas, he'd instruct me to compose love-letters would sack Plato (whoever he was), if he was alive and well, to equal ; dear knows he was a dhroll masthur. Carroll (indig9antly)—Dickens a syllable of vera city in his affirmation. Magistrate—But, Disney, if he taught your other sons, and confined his love-lessons to the eldest, why not pay him? Disney—Your Ravarence, he .was no good for old or young, hard forthin to the thing he liked but a blast of the pipe. Here the gravity of the bench was completely up set, as was the temper of the pedagogue, who, on being awarded the half of the original demand, retired, re marking that great genius was ever a curse to its pos sessor.—lrish Paper. WITCHCRAFT IN 1834. That in the present enlightened state of society there can be prevalent any notions of the actual existence of witches, and of their power to inflict injuries on their fellow-creatures from a supposed demoniacal alliance, is really surprising, but sur prising as it may be it is a fact. We trust that the following statement will excite those who are in trusted with the moral education of the poor, to exert themselves to instil more correct and more Christian principles amongst people so infatuated. At Briston, in this county, there are at this mo ment two persons generally believed to be " under bad hands," that is, bewitched. One is a young man named Paul, and the other a girl named Dag less. Another young woman in the village named Bacon, with whom Paul was formerly acquainted, is supposed to have been the cause of the evil, by employing some competent professional witch to afflict them. Since Paul has discontinued his visits to the suspected damsel he has been " grievously tormented" with such violent fits as were scarcely ever before witnessed ; and having subsequently formed an intimacy with Dagless, she also has fallen a victim to the like visitation. A short time since one of these fits lasted her 24 hours, during which time she uttered the most piercing shrieks, and was in a state of utter madness. Paul hap pening to be on the spot, was also attacked. His strength seemed more than mortal. It took six or seven of the strongest men to hold him, with the greatest difficulty, and they did not escape without injury from biting, scratching, kicking, & c . It is affirmed by the spectators as a c i rcumstance strengthening the belief of su p ernatura l agency i n the case of these persons, that when they were both lying under the influence of the fits, though at several yards distance, their motions were pre cisely the same ; when one moved the little finger so did the other ; when one moved the head or shoulders so did the other in the same direction ; when one frothed at the mouth so did the other ; and so dreadful and distressing were the cries which the poor wretches uttered, that the specta tors said if they were related to them they would much rather see them knocked on the head than in such a miserable plight. It is certainly a fact that these poor creatures cannot be left alone from their liability at any moment to be attacked with the most distressing fits. Medical men have declared that they are unacquainted with the nature of their attacks, and application has been made by their friends to a " sorcerer" in Norwich, who promises to make sad havock with the tormentor, and eventu ally to restore the " demoniacs" to their " right mind," and these poor infatuated people are led to believe that one devil will cast out another if he is but paid for it. The suspected girl, too, is, we un derstand, threatened as the next victim of infernal agency. We trust that proper exertions will be made to remove these erroneous and injurious im pressions ; but we regret to add, so deep rooted is the conviction that the parties are bewitched, that a person by denying it would incur the charge amongst the poor deluded people of being an Atheist. We ought to add that the parties are Ranters, and that in this village, with a population of only 1,037, there is an Episcopal Church, a Methodist Chapel, an Independent Meeting House (the two latter have existed for almost a century), and a Ranter's Chapel, and that there are regularly six sermons preached in the village on the Sunday. —Bury Post. The simple solution of the mystery is, that the persons are afflicted with epileptic fits, which, like hysterical affections, are communicable amongst persons of nervous temperament. When Mrs. Billington sung at St. Peter's Church, in Norwich, a young gentleman fell down in an epileptic fit di rectly in her view. She was instantly seized with strong hysterics, and we have seen many similar in stances. SINGULAR FACT.—About three years since a young man, the son of Mr. Richardson, grocer, Beverley-road, had given to him a very small land tor toise, which had been brought to this country in one of the trading vessels from Portugal. It appeared to be in a very inanimate state, and slept the greater part of its time away in a recess under the shop counter. About twelve months ago, for the purpose of trying to revive it, the animal was taken to a small drain at Stepney, and put into the water. To the vexation of its owner, it immediately sank or dived to the bottom, and every effort to recover it, by means of a rake used as a drag, was of no avail, and it was deemed to be lost irrecoverably. On Sunday last, however, as its quondam master was walking out, curiosity or some other feeling induced him to visit the spot, and while looking on the water, to his astonishment, up came the tortoise, nearly at the very place where it had sunk a year before ! The creature was secured without diffi culty, and taken home. It is considerably larger than when lost, much improved in strength, and is even lively. It is not a little curious that this inhabitant of a warm climate should have passed one of our northern winters in such a situation, with apparent benefit, to say nothing of the singularity of its loss and recovery on the same spot, at so long an interval of time.— Hull Packet. SLANG when OF ARTISTS. - -The R a s T I s reference s t o he their profession,conversation of is .r artists, usually patched up with phrases peculiar to them selves, and which may not be improperly called slang of art. This jargon, when heard by persons unac quainted with its application, is apt to lead to awkward mistakes. A laughable instance of this kind occurred lately. A party of artists were travelling in a stage coach, in which, besides themselves, a sedate vene rable lady was the only passenger. The conversation among the artists ran on as follows :—" How playful those clouds are ! That group to the left is sweetly composed, though perhaps a . little too solid and rocky for the others. I have seen nothing of —'s lately. I think he is clever. He makes all his flesh too chalky. You must allow, however, that he is very successful with his ladies." The old lady began to exhibit symptoms of uneasiness, and at the close of each observation, cast an anxious and inquiring look at the speaker. Her companions, however, uncon scious of the surprise they were exciting (for she en tertained doubts as to their sanity) went on in the same style. She heard them, to her increasing dis may, talk of a farm-house coming out from the neigh bouring trees, and of a gentleman's grounds wanting repose. At length they approached an old village church. A great many observations were made about the keeping, &c., of the scene, which the old woman bore with tolerable magnanimity, but at last one of the party exclaimed, in a kind of enthusiasm, " See how well the woman in the red cloak carries off the tower." The lady screamed to the coachman to stop, paid him his fare, although advanced only half way on her journey, and expressed her thankfulness for having escaped alive from such a set of madmen.-- Sherborne Journal. Hussein, ex-Dey of Algiers, is about to un dertake a pilgrimage to Mecca. He is very religious, and by acts of devotion endeavours to reconcile him self to his loss of power. He takes his departure from Alexandria for the tomb of the Prophet. This town of Egypt has become his usual residence, he having fixed his abode there when he left Leghorn, which he did not find agreeable, as much from its not affording him sufficient accommodation for his nume rous family and suite, as from its enabling speculators to make use of his name in acting upon the Regency of Algiers against the interests of France. Fearing that he might be troubled from being supposed to take part in enterprises which were inimical to France, and not being sufficiently rich to live at Leghorn, Hussein applied to the Viceroy of Egypt to grant him an asylum. Mehemet Ali received him with great distinction, granted him a palace sufficient to lodge the whole of his family, and daily sends him the moussa or supply of provisions necessary for the whole establishment. Hussein is attended on his pilgrimage by one of his sons-in-law and some of his domestics. Although he is already advanced in years, and the fatigues of the journey are very great, his hoalth is sufficiently strong to warrant an expectation that he will be able to ac complish his task and return.— Galignani's Messenger. AN ENGLISH TOAD-EATER.—" In this hot-bed of sycophancy for the first time starts into life the English toadeater, an animal 'peculiar to the British islands. He is worth a moment's attention. He is indeed a singular little creature—a strange compound of jarring antipathies. He is essentially selfish, yet practises great self-denial. He is haughty and overbearing to his inferiors, yet cringing and sub missive to the great. He is dull, tiresome, and unin teresting in the society of commoners ; but he be comes witty, sprightly, and entertaining in the com pany of peers. He is habitually late in an engagement with an untitled friend; but he is punctuality itself at the table of a lord. He is a religious animal, and im plicitly follows the exhortation of the Apostle, in forgetting those things-which are behind, and reaching forth to those which are before.' He cannot afford to have odd friends,' and cuts all his old schoolfellows as soon as he has made more glittering acquaintances. He looks down with contempt on the untitled crowd when he has paid successful court to the youthful peer; and the coronet of the baron loses its lustre in his eyes when he can write himself the sworn friend and companion of an earl. Strange to say, he is often a person of large fortune, not unfrequently of good family ; but all these advantages he regards only as aggravations of misfortune, so long as he is excluded from the coteries of the great. He begins his career at Oxford, and goes through life unchanged—in the capital he is the jackall of fashionable life, the pur veyor of scandal for the boudoir and the drawing room. But peace be with him, and may your country soon be delivered from this noxious little animal and his whole race-"—Letter from Oxford. COMMISSION OF LUNACY.-011 Thursday afternoon a commission of lunacy was held at the Red Lion, Kilburn, before Commissioners PHILLIMORE, BLUNT, and MURRAY, to inquire into the state of mind of Miss Jane Eliza Crawford, a lady 53 years of age, residing at Abbey-place, St. John's Wood. Sir James Williams was the foreman of the jury. Margaret Brown had known Miss Crawford between 20 and 30 years, and they were upon the most intimate terms. In November, 1830, witness observed a complete change in Miss Crawford's manner. Before , they had been the best friends, but at that tim e she said witn ess had completely changed towards her, and did not be have with her former affection. At the end of February she entertained the fancy that every colour spoke its own language, and she requested witness not to allow her to go into a shop alone, as the colours spoke languages and confused her. Lately she refused to wear colaared dresses, as they spoke to her, and she particularly mentioned the colours of pink and green as those which spoke the most. She said she was en titled to the crown of England, to estates of her father in Scotland , and, as a widow, t o property in England. I n September she went to the residence of h er nephew,ee Sir W. Scott, but r e t urne d in October. In she took a dislike t o w i tness. She p l ays music delightfully. In con c l us i on , t h e w i tness stated h ' she was attacked with a b ra i n fever ; from h that Miss Crawf or d h a d b een of unsoun d mind since November, 1830. D r. S ut h er l an d a l so tivarns t dbie period siildn July, eef ci . 1832gl gave similar testimony as to the unsound state of Miss Crawford's mind. It having been stated that Miss Crawford was in that condition that would render her removal dangerous, the jury in consequence proceeded to the place of her residence. On their return, the foreman described the painful condition in which they found the unfortunate lady on their visit; and the jury returned a verdict, that Miss Crawford was a lunatic on November 20, 1830, and has continued so, without intervals of reason, to the present period. COURT OP KING'S BENCH, JUNE 14. NICHOLSON V. POPE AND ANOTHER. Mr. POLLOCK stated this to be an action to recover the sum of 161. ' in consequence of the defendants (who had agreed to purchase a cargo of coals of the plaintiff, the owner of a collier) having detained the plaintiff's vessel, inasmuch as they did not discharge the usual quantity of 49 tons per day. Evidence was given of the sale of part of the cargo to the defend ants, and that thirteen days were occupied instead of six. There was a written agreement, but it was not signed. Forty-nine tons per day was the quantity that was usual to be unshipped. There were printed contracts made, which uniformly stated 49 tons per day were to unshipped. Verdict for the plaintiff for 161. CAUNANI V. PERKINS. An action upon a bill of exchange for 851., of which the defendant was the acceptor. The cause was undefended, and proof of the hand-writing of the defendant having been given, the Jury found for the plaintiff. The Court was adjourned to Saturday, the 28th inst. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JUNE 14. ( Sittings at Guildhall. before Mr. Justice PARK and a Common Jury. ) CHUB V. FLANAGAN AND ANOTHER. ~ This was an action for a libel published in a perio dical work called the Horticultural Journal. _ The plaintiff and the defendants formerly were partners, carrying on the business of seed and flour merchants in the neighbourhood of the Mansion-house. In the course of the last year the partnership was dis solved by mutual consent. Upon the plaintiff with drawing from the partnership he opened a concern in the same line of business in Holborn, and carried it on under the firm of " Chub and Co." On the dissolution of the partnership the plaintiff took the stock which belonged to the Mansion-house concern at a valuation, and removed it to his new concern at Holborn, on the opening of which he issued advertisements thanking the public for the patronage he enjoyed while carrying on the business in the neighbourhood of the Mansion house,tsthhioeenconcern-sho loeau businessnsi proprietor r ocn po solicitingrosniiln concern rnuiot was tae a ihst :ddr eewsbsf huoy ilncuidefunct, ts idissolution wicontinuanceaunsadt wasinotn h f ogtac i tt at that at rhhareeti e thcdh t a sa h edo e emnb, new eafbeno r y the defendants in the usual way. The defendants, on seeing the plaintiff's advertisement, issued a handbill representing his conduct not only to be fraudulent but an imposition on the public, and denying in toto the truth of the statement contained in the plaintiff's bill. The charge of fraud and imposition was the libel com plained of, and was further contained in a monthly publil cation b called ca ton t b h e e n H g o r a t d i c m u i l t t t u e r d a : Journal. Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD addressed the jury for the defendants, when, after a few minutes' consideration, the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 50/. CHUB V. WESTLEY. This was an action by the same plaintiff against the defendant for certain libels, as the publisher of the Horticultural Journal. These libels were subse quently published to the one in the last case, and after the defendant was warned against the publication of any further attacks upon the plaintiff's character, and subsequent to the last action being brought. The libel in question was an extract from a work of Walton's, headed Angling Extraordinary, or how to catch a Chub." The learned Sergeant read the libel, which was as follows :—" A Chub (as friend Walton says) is a bold greedy fish ; therefore yourbait must be large and gaudy, and your tackle strong (Laughter), for he bites boldly and struggles hard. Moreover, he is a cunning fish ( Roars of laughter), and you must be vigilant lest he run off with bait, hook, line, rod, and the rest of it, and you lose the whole. He is a clumsy ugly fish ( Continued laughter), with thick head, red or yellow gills, and very capacious swallow. ( Renewed laughter.) When you angle for him keep out of sight ; he will, with all his cunning, be overreached if you are careful. The moment he bites, strike hard, keep your line tight, and your rod bent over him. His struggles to get out of his difficulties will only hasten his distress, and you will soon find that you can do what you like with him. We think some of our floricultural friends may ask, what has Chub to do with floriculture, or floriculture with Chub ? Our answer is, the less the better ; but there is no harm in describing a fish, or telling how to catch it." The learned sergeant stated that so ma lignant were the feelings of the proprietors, editors, and writers in that work that the libels were continued for several months subsequent to the last action being brought. Mr. Sergeant TALFouan proposed a consultation with Mr. Sergeant Wilde. The result was, a consent on the part of the plaintiff to accept a verdict for 405., which being intimated to the learned judge, he ex pressed his approbation. At the same time he observed that during a period of fifty years he never knew a more aggravated case of libel. In the case of Chub v. Whiting the same plaintiff obtained against the defendant for printing the libels a verdict of 40s. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, JUNE 14. MALICIOUS PROSECUTION.-ADAMS V. WEST. Mr. Sergeant BOMPAS, for the plaintiff, stated that the defendant had rendered himself liable to this ac tion for compensation in damages to the plaintiff for the wrong and injury done to him by reason of the arrest, indictment, and trial, to which he had been subjected at the suit of defendant on a charge of fe lony. In 1833 the plaintiff, who was a feather-mer chant, residing in St. George's-square, Spitalfields, arrested the defendant, a publican in the neighbour hood, for debt. The defendant vowed to be revenged. On the 30th July plaintiff and a friend called at de fendant's house, in passing, and took a glass of ale at the bar. Defendant offered several bets to plaintiff, which the latter declined, saying he had no money. Defendant then produced a bag, observing he had plenty. Plaintiff playfully snatched it from him, and kept it for a short time, but it was always in view. Nothing was said that night after he had restored the bag about any money being missed, but in a day or two after, plaintiff was taken up by a police officer on a charge of having stolen ninety sovereigns and two 5/. notes. The charge was dismissed by the magis trate. An indictment was then preferred and found, but on the trial plaintiff was acquitted, the verdict being marked by a cheer from the by-standers in court. The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Da mages 100/. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MA NSJON-H OUSE. charged with having, after a carouse at the European, acted rather unceremoniously to a lady, and to the gentlemen appeared before the Loan MAYOR s a w tno a d s r eo i in receive v h oe e f constable of the watch. The gentlemen, it appeared, after having swallowed a considerable dose of French wines on Friday night, foro knocking nw Beingaa l n ke ad in attempt eas o mtu r pet hht r rather comfortable o h od m e o r of or t stumbled,to keep afbhtlheeer lfather'suo a other hr t t ee o rr w s froma r hho d eu s b 8 eeßg falling,rwa Broad street. when e d t no - they h t r e e y e t w . e r eh l t her rel ppirnogt happenedprotection, oh, 1,0 thatother ne dr a t o y b oyguennt no means along, ml lady was happened to fall exactly into her arms, which she held bundle,dt\citafhoht fs nhohrr e uvi a crowd mei e t opt T ni v rmoehpkoy. votaries conduct them, , himself as if the situation was really intended but, the moment the smack of lips was heard, m ung lady showed that she had strength of lungs, of limbs, to use in her defence, for she called a of the police in an instant to her aid, and the of the god "of madness and opprobrious were bundled, that is to say, carried like a to the place Set apart for all night crawlers. seated on the bench in this receptacle, one of the defendants thought proper to undignify himself by speaking disrespectfully of the civic functionaries, and even omitted to do justice to the Lord Mayor himself, whom he had the audacity to describe as a gentleman not at all unlikely to supply the streets with night crawlers, as he had seen some guests issue from the Mansion-house a short time previously in the opposite direction, who appeared to be more fit for a bed than a battle. No notice was taken of this sally, and, after a few more introductory o bservations, out tiler , r ce however, i y l e o r f puthl soon le disease of watchmen. The weapon pulled pistol, a n d sw ore he would cure wrenched from him, and it was found that there was more fun than danger in the ac tion, for the pistol was minus a pan, as well as powder. Under all the circumstances, however, it was thought proper to oblige the defendants to appear before the Lord Mayor. The defendant who had had the pleasing accident alluded to, regretted much that the young lady bad been so much wounded in her feelings • but hV'etahllaYt had put so muoh of "the enemy into his msu e t Was so his brains were completely stolen away. ti ! much transformed by the " inticing devil" that he ac• I tually mistook her for one of those fair ones who had. ' their reasons for wishing to meet with drunken rather than with sober gentlemen. He did not think that he succeeded in his attempt to inflict a kiss, for theL moment he perceived that the little exordium Two unwelcome to the young lady he fell back into the , arms of the police. The young lady shook her head, an action which testified that her lips had been profaned. The de-1 fendant, shocked at this intimation, very heartilk' besought forgiveness. The second defendant most heartily begged pardon of the chief magistrate, of the lady, of the constable, and of the police. The LORD MAYOR was sorry to find that two per-. sons, who had so much the appearance and manners of gentlemen, should be of that caste whose conduct com pelled the legislature to rack their brains in devising remedies for curing the vice of drunkenness. His lordship thought that the gentleman who carried the: pistol would act much more prudently in trusting to his heels, which he would find would perform their office much better in case of attack than any other oft his limbs. (Loud laughter.) The defendants were then each fined ss. for being drunk, and discharged. BO W-STREET. John Mills, the driver of the hackney-coach No. 216, attended on a summons, charged with having on Wed nesday last, by wanton and negligent driving, run against a chaise cart, thereby causing a serious accident to a man named Jeremiah Woorston, who was driving the same at the time. He was remanded to the lock-up, and will be again brought up on Saturday next. Mr. Bush, the proprietor of the Adelaide steamer , a small vessel which occasionally plies between Hunger ford-market and Greenwich, and to which the water men at those places have evinced frequent hostility, applied on Saturday for warrants against certain watermen plying at Hungerford-wharf, for a violent outrage committed by them on Thursday. Mr. Bush on his return from a trip to Greenwich on the above evening with a number of passengers on board his boat, was surprised to find that several boats had been moored off the •end of a floating pile run out from the quay of the market, by which his passengers were enabled to land, so as to prevent any communi cation with the shore. He desired the watermen to remove their boats, to which, however, he only got an insolent reply, that their boats had as much right there as his. He repeated his request, and remon strated with them on their conduct, but was again edtdoo do it doing so them as g assailed with abuse. He then ordered his steersman to direct his vessel in such a way as to part the boats without cing en a t n l y y as po mischief,ssibie when d e h o e t h w e a prO e water men suddenly drew from about their persons a number of ironshod bludgeons, with which they made a violent attack upon his vessel, swearing they would sink it, and batter in its sides. He repeatedly ordered them to stand off, but without avail, and they continued to batter the sides of the steamer, until they at length succeeded in breaking it in in many places, to the in finite alarm of the passengers, and detriment to big boat. After a time he succeeded in landing his pas sengers, and the men dispersed. Mr. MiNsntiLL suggested that the better course would be to proceed against the men' for the wilful damage they had committed, by which damages to the amount of 51. could be recovered. Mr. Bush coincided in the opinion of the worthy m .gistrate, and warrants were immediately issued. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. An individual of military exterior, assuming_ the name of William Gibson, captain in the 31st liegl ment of Foot, who is well known at this office/ fro m f _ having been committed for two months on account 0 fraudulent practices, was brought before Messrs. OYER and CHAMBERS, charged with having defraudt Mr. Jones, linen-draper, No. 43, Piccadilly, r money Lawn by and goods, by means of an order for 51, General Mead, and made payable to t he real Ca p tain William Gibson. ; • -Mr. CHAMBERS being of option that a case of fraud n was made out against the prisoner, fully commit ted him for trial. was then taken; The evidence of policeman C 128, as, on searching the prisoner, a number of pPe.rt consisting of a certificate of character, and a begFin,_ letter to General Imhoff, purporting to have b e written ,by a Captain Belt, of the 2d Garrison Batta lion, was found on his person. To the certificate Was p attached a list of subscriptions, with the names of Lieutenant-Colonel Walsh, General IVl'Lean, General Imhoff, General Hinde, &c. The prisoner declined saying anything in his defence. • QUEEN-SQUARE. INFORMATIONS.-On Saturday morning the offiea was crowded by persons who had been summoned bY, Digby, the informer, for various violations of severe' Acts of Parliament. Among those against whom in had been laid were the following :-- The Duke of Northumberland was summoned for having his name on one of his carts covered so much with dirt as to render the letters unintelligible. His Grace's steward endeavoured to prove that the informer had misrepresented the facts of the case ; but having failed, a fine of 205., with 11 s. 6d. costs, was inflicted. The Marquis of Londonderry was summoned for not having his name in a straight line on one of his vehicles, as by the Act directed. The informer, in describing the manner in which the name was painted, observed, " that it was done in distinct curves, in ra ther a fanciful style." ( A laugh.) The person who attended for the noble marquis did not deny the statement of the informer ; and The MAGISTRATE mitigated the penaty from 51. to ss. and costs, which amounted to an additional ss. The next case was against Cou nt Cannizzaro. 01 Wimbledon, for not having his Christian and surname on one of his Carts. The word " Guilty" sponded to Digby's statement, and a averwe the one in the previous case was enforced. 1 and A cabman named Jones, residing at Shadwel , the owner of the vehicle 1,764, was summoned for having a side plate on his cab with white letters on.; black ground, instead of black letters on a wiz , ground. The defendant was convicted in the penalty of 205., and 9s. 6d. costs. n in to The special constables who had been swor n went in act on the 21st April, the day when the un ions penalty sto procession, attended, and received their five shilhor each. A parochial constable, who had also be : f sworn in on that day, attended for the PurP°-e e er receiving the above sum. The magistrate, hOlvolr__,: informed him that as a parochial constable he had ow done his duty, and refused to pay him. There is at present, in the garden at Man; derstone, the seat of Lieut.-General the Hon. W il t M. Maitland, an apricot tree which measures 61 nine inches in length, by 14 feet seven - in ches „; height, and covers 893 square feet of wall. I t is t he very prolific. The gardener has taken off; O r purpose of thinning the fruit, 8,810 apricots for tarts ; and as near as can be ascertained there are still l e e n ft.r, ripen 4,800 apricots. The tree has a most spl . appearance, both on account of its ,great a e at size . 1101tn 46 e . very tasteful manner in whi ch it is trained. It ~, years old.—Edinburgh________ B IR THS. OS borne,of 0 0 \‘n, n . t t to h ‘fe e ,aakl l 2l 4 seot t yhn h : i i on ns fs tta.. Eaton -place, e - row, r ac r e o , vv t , h e ch H e o is n e . a, ;r e s. , On the 12th inst., in Upper Gloucester-place*, the 10Y Lieut.-Colonel James Tod, of a son. ; On the 1 2 th inst. the lady of the Rev. W. G. BaPY , ' Master of Midhurst School, of a still-born daughter. On the j 3th inst., Mrs. Frederick Boulton, of Welling' ton-place, West Hackney, of a son, her 12th child. O n the 1 3 th inst,%, the lady of T. R. Bowling, r ' Sq" surgeon, Ilammersmith ----- MARRIED. road, to On the 11th inst., 31. Cohen, of the Do I ;; riess ter- Eli za , only daughter of M. Nathan, Esq., of On the 11th inst., at All Saints' Ch a .-... q ., place, Old Kent-road. upon-Tyne, William Hedley Anderson r" A'fatthew Wheatley, Lodge, Quebec, to Jane, daughter of lace. Esq., of Shieldfield, near the former I n enn i n gton, Richard On the 12th inst., at St. M a rk's , 1 ` ~ to Clara Resther. , Hallett, jun., Esq., of Woodford, Ess,',.. , o f K e nnington only daughter of Jonathan Hopkinson, r 6 B Church , - at e - On the 12th inst., at St. Mary Villa, Ex of Rose Bath, Robert Suxpi -0, Carter, Esq., of the late John ungest (laughter ter, to Maria Louisa, Yt) —ss e ,s:_ f Stratford -green, r., Milwart DIED. ;e l On the 12th ! . il : a s at Cerjat Spencer, of the 88th fl,o 27, Captain EchsOn of the late Lieut.-General Spencer, t. at Starston Rectory re , h is. ' "orfolk, went, youngest ,. , Yorkshire. Newcastle- On et I : so 7 , l o e t h: ei " ;l:2 l a t t n o h:i:ns ll t. u , n a t t in E g n d fi on el s t r G e eorge Goodman Hell ' ds VP London: Printed and Published by MURDO Y O at. the Sun Office ; No. 112, strand. I c 1 T