The Sun. — London, England, 1833-06-20 00:00:00

SPIRIT 'OF - THE PUBLT .JOURNALS, • part of the public will see with = regret that the General Registration Bill, was lait•night thrown out by less than an eighth part of the House of Commons, representing, We hope, a still . sinaller proportion of the intel lect than Of the nuMbers of the whole. The " Country Gentleman"interest was alive, as on other occasion's; to opPoie this great amendment in laws affecting property. --We do protest that in our judgment the same arguments which jus tify the: courts..in providing custodes for infants, and Otter peons incapable of self-protection, m i g ic t. b e ' a pplied with much public and indivi dual benefit to the class of legislators above re ferred to; s'eulterly incompetent do they appear to the .Undersianding of the plainest and wisest regulations, introduced for the especial service of themselves and their - 'families. The Country Gentlemen have often displayed the like folly in their resisrahce to an abolition of the usury laws.-7 tines. . We hardly know whether we'shOnld'be justi fied in calling the report Of the Factory Commis sioners "a lame and impotent conclusion," being, as it is, precisely . the,same in effect which every person not interested in infanticide had come. to before thek gentlemen started on their, happily, useless expedition ; but that it is precisely the reverse of what those who called them into- ac tion intended it should be, no one who has attended to the matter can for a moment doubt. The magna est veritas, et prevalebit, never was more strikingly exemplified than on this memorable occasion, when, after every effort has been made to disguise and smother the truth, it has only shone forth in brighter colours, and in a more commanding and overwhelming aspect ; establishing a moral victory not the less valuable in the eyes of reason, justice, and humanity, for that it is gained on behalf of helpless innocence over heartless tyranny and oppression. But why, let us ask, were the Government so insane —they had no popularity to lose, and whose duty it was to throw a shield of authority over every injured 'subject of the Crown— why were they, .we say, so insane as to throw their weight into the opposite scale, and thus draw down upon themselves, first the odium of inhumanity, and then the dis grace of defeat ? Why were they, who were so anxious to unloose the far less galling fetters of the African slave, so unnecessarily alive to the disgusting task of finding an excuse for treat ment of British - nfants at the cruelty and injus tice of which the heart shudders, and the tint!) of which was established beyond the possibility of the remotest doubt ? And to the miserable tools of this mock inquiry, what shall we say, but that, desirable as money may be, reputation is to an honourable mind ten thousand times more valuable; and that to have been among the number of those who were employed to bol ster up this stain upon the age and upon our national character, will be, we should imagine, that upon which an honourable mind will look lack with very little satisfaction.—Morn Herald. We do not wonder to see the same persons in cne and the same breath counselling what they tom a swamping of the House of Lords by a large addition to its numbers, and its total extinction as a branch of the Legislature. It is admitted on all hands that it would require an addition of, at least, fifty Peers to that House to neutralise its present majority; and this accom plished, what would its decisions resemble but those of a packed jury, to whose verdict no weight or importance isor ought to he attached? Reduce the House of Lords to this state of vassalage and contempt, and the second step, if not a necessary consequence of the first, is, at any rate, a very 'easy one. But where, we would ask, are the fifty English, Scotch, and Irish Gentlemen to be found, who are ready to submit to the degradation (for such it would be) of being made Peers merely for the purpose of serving a party? And what becomes of that party's weight in the country, especially in the other branch of the Legislature, if 50 of its most influential adherents are thus withdrawn from their present stations in society? We doubt whether the Whigs have duly considered this point ; whether they really could find materials with which to add this wing, or rather this basement story to the Upper House. And even when they have done so, what security have they that their object would be accom plished, and that this half-hundred of swamping Peers will be the mere time-serving, compliant voters which it is intended they should be ? Is a test to be framed and administered to them, or are they to be asked for pledges? And, if RO, will they submit to this still lower degrada tion ? Will Sir John Hobhouse, for ins•ance, if he should be one of them, submit to give those pledges to Lord Grey as the price of a Peerage which he refused to give to his Westminster constituents at the hustings ? And, if not, what security has Lord Grey t hat his new Peers, or at least a sufficient number of them to turn the scale, will not leave him in the ?arch, and, under colour of " standing by their poker," reverse the very object for which they nave been created ? In short, in whatever point f or view this project is looked upon, the more it calis for unequivocal condemnation. In the first place, its necessity is more than doubtful, and in the next its practicability utterly impos sible. The House of-Peers, as at present con stituted, has shown that it is ready to yield to public opinion, clearly and unequivocally ex pressed ; and there is no just reason to fear that it will for the future do otherwise. At any rate, the Whigs have done nothing since the passing of the Reform Act to bring this point to the test, by putting the Lords in the wrong. On the contrary, they have themselves beet) gra dually losing ground in the eyes of the country, and there is probably few things that would be more gratifying to many among the warmest of their former adherents, than that they should 'ox , / receive their coup de grace from that very - louse }which others among them are proposing ;o annihilate.—Mo-ning Herald. The General Register Bill was thrown out last night. This reflects little credit on the Re formed Parliament. The arguments urged against the measure were either trifling or con tradictory. The Yorkshire Members opposed the measure, because Yorkshire possessed al ready a system of registration from which they derived great advantage. If registration be an advantage to Yorkshire ; it must be an advantage to other counties. The Members of other coun ties opposed the measure as generally disadvan tageous. The real secret of the opposition is, that were property more secure, country attor neys would have less employment and less influ ence ; and the Members are afraid of the country attorneys. The speech of Mr : Pease against the measure is quite a curiosity in its way. rule deeds must be sent to London, and parcels are sometimes lost, and when they are large ti.e con veyance is expensive ! And this is ill. guage "of legislators returned by popular constituencies Morning Chronicle. Mr. Cobbett explained last night in another ~epistle, and vehemently abjures all alliance with the Tories ; but avows that he will approve and support "anybody" for a whole year, at the least, "who will take off the malt tax and the house and window tax—who will repeal tile Whig Septennial Act—who will repeal Sturges Bourne's Bills, and drive all the Malthusian devils back to their native hell." He further liberally says, that he will give time for doing other things to any Ministry or Parliament who would do these commendable deeds. Mr. Cobbett is extremely liberal, and we would recommend him immediately to open a negotiation with the Carl ton Club. But he must be extremely credulous, if he really fancies that a Tory Cabinet will gratify his wishes in these respects. Indeed, Mr. Cob. bet knows better, and is only putting a little salt on the tails of the Tories in order to catch them. We have no doubt that the Conservatives will go very far to get back into office. Their re cent coalition in Staffordshire with the Currency Political Unionists proves their chameleon na ture, but they are notwithstanding little likely to give or redeem such pledges as Mr. Cobbett exacts. Mr. Cobbett's abuse is extremely harm less and consistent with his well-known habits of political vituperation. We only regret that it is not now accompanied with the usual por tion of sense and spirit which redeem his per sonalities. But the fact is, that Mr. Cobbett has committed a capital blunder. He should have kept out of Parliament, and has entered it too late. As an orator he gives the system an occasional blow in a soft place ; but the re formed House of Commons is not his proper theatre, and what the county gains by his speeches it loses in the Register. Moreover, Mar-plot never yet succeeded in the long run. He ought to have taken a lesson from the fate of Mr. Hunt, who, with all his cunning, was instantly seen through when he began to fight the battle of the Tories under radical colours.— Mo7ning Chronicle. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JUNE 19. GOLDEN V. LADY WYNYARD. Mr. C. PHILLIPS stated this to be an action brought by the p:aintiff, who was lady's maid to the defendant, for having given an improper character of her, by which she was unable to obtain a situation. The plaintiff had lived two years and two months in her former place, from which she had a good character; but after she had remained in the service of the defendant two months, the defendant told her she must leave. Upon the plaintiff asking for what reason, the defendant told her that one of the ser vants had received an anonymous letter,in which she (the plaintiff) was stated to be a bad character. The plaintiff wished to see the letter, but the defendant told her it was burnt. The plaintiff subsequently had procured a situa tion, provided her character suited. Application was made to the defendant for her character; upon which she wrote a letter to the party applying, stating that she be lieved her to be sober, honest, and clean ; that her reason ' for parting with her was from an unpleasant report cir culated among her servants that she (the plaintiff) was known to be a woman of bad character, which had been made known to one of the servants in an anonymous let ter, and having been reported to her (the defendant) she had felt it right to discharge her, and had recommended her, if the charge was false, to punish those who had injured her character. The Learned JUDGE thought the action was not main tainable, as no malice could be proved. The pliintiff would go out of Court without any stain upon her cha ricter. He should recommend a juror to be withdrawn. Mr. ERT. (for the defendant) immediately assented to this, and a juror was withdrawn. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, JUNE 19. HUNT V. RATCLIFFE AND OTHERS. This was an action by Mr. H. Hunt, late M.P. for Preston, against the defendants, the proprietors and pub lishers of the Liverpool Journal, for a libel. Shortly after the Preston election, the defendants published the following paragraph :- 6 ' RIOT AT PRESTON, " -and went on to state " that Mr. Hunt had pointed, in the course of the election, at Counsellor Segar, in the mob, and having said that is the black sheep,' the mob fell upon and murdered him. In the affray, Hunt had his nose cut off, &c." Mr. Hunt, whu conducted his own case, said, that this wanton libel had greatly distressed his family and friends. Such attacks, if allowed to pass with impunity, would bring ruin on the liberty of the press, which he revered as much as any man could. Mr. Hunt, in the course of his speech, commented on the conduct of his Majesty Mi nisters, in the framing of particular clauses in the Reform Bill, one of which seemed particularly constructed to af fect him. Mr. PoLLocx, for the defendant, treated the paragraph as an election squib, and said every reasonable man would have viewed it in that light. He commented on Mr. Hunt's conduct, in endeavouring, in a Court of Justice, to bring his Majesty's Ministers into disrepute. The CHIEF BARON, in summing up, observed that the paragraph was undoubtedly a libel, caleulited to prejudice the character of 111 r. Hunt in ti,e opinioAs of these who read it. It was, indeed, an aggravated libel, as the de- fendants could easily have sent from Liverpool to Preston to ascertain the correctness of the paragraph. _ _ The Jury, after some consultation, returned a verdict for the phintiff—damages, 40q. This carries costs. HUNT V. EARVEY AND OTHERS. This was an action against the Globe for a similar libel. Mr. HUNT said this libel was more aggravated than the former, as it was stated a verdict of wilful murder had been found against him. The following was the libel The following comes from a City correspondent ; we never heard of the paper before (the Liverpool Courant) from which it professes to be an extract; we doubt whe ther it is not a hoax on the Provincial Journalist : if so, it is cars ying election license somewhat too far."—( Then followed the libel stated in the above action, with the additional words respecting a verdict of " Wilful Murder" having been found against Mr. Hunt.) Mr: Hunt said, the Globe had not contradicted the libel, and such was the sale of the ropy in which it ap peared that a single paper could not be obtained at the office, though papers of the previous days remained on hand. Mr. TURNER, for the defendants, said, Mr. Hunt ought to he thankful to the Globe fir having sent forth the paragraph with a caution. The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Datnages, Forty shillings. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, JUNE 19. Jane Phillips was indicted for feloniously stealin_ a silver knife handle, value 2s. 9d., the property of her mistress, An❑ Philpot, widow. Miss Phi!pot lives at Turnham-green with her mother; the prisoner at the bar had lived with her mother for three weeks, and left on the 21st of May; the handle in ques tio❑ belonged to a knife in general use, and the prisoner had the charge of it. Mr. Robinson, a watchmaker and silversmith, stated that the prisoner came into his shop shout fourteen hours after she had left the knife handle to innuire about it ; he asked her how she became possessed of the handle, the word " stolen," he told her, was written upon it ? (This was a ruse he adopted in such cases.) The prisoner said she found it in the ash-pit; the blade had evidently been burned out of the handle, and the prisoner declared her intention of selling it. A former mistress of the prisoner gave evidence as to the weak state of her intellect, and said she really did not know right from wrong. The Jury returned avt•rdict of Not Guilty. The pri soner was then discharged, and given up to her father. SEVEN PARISHES WITHOUT A CLERGY mAN!—We believe there are few of our readers who would credit the bare assertion that seven parishes could be found in this nei4hhourhood " deprived of the advantage of a legally resident clergyman," in some of which, when an interment haw to take place, the afflicted relatives have to , c &liver the country round in search of an administrator of the " last Consolations" bestowed on this side the grave. Such, however, is really the case, and a petition, signed t i y the churchwardens of the parishes, was transmit•ed last week for presentation to the House of Commons. These parishes embrace a great portion of the district It. tween Sheffield, Rotherham, and Worksop.—Shejfield 11:s. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. B 0 W-STREET. Yesterday a woman of the town, named Catherine Murphy, was charged before Sir F. ROE with having stolen a pocket-book from the person of a gentleman named KPr, containing two hills of exchange, of the value of 1,4001., and other property of considerable value. The prosecutor, Mr. Ker, was at present residing at the Old Hummums, Covent-garden. On Monday night last, between 10 and 11 o'clock, as he was passing along the Strand, be was accosted by two women, one of whom wished him to accompany her to Kennington, which he declined to do. S'ae then asked him to treat her, and he went with her to a public house in the neighbourhood of the Strand, where he treated her to a glass of ale. They then went to the Ileathc,ck public-house, Heatlicock court, Strand, arid were shown into a little parlour close to the her, when he called for a glass of gin and water, which lie paid for. Before he entered the house be felt for his pocket-book, and found that it was safe, and he twisted the pocket which contained it to make it more secure. The woman began to pull him about in the parlour, and suspecting that she meant to rob him, he kept his back against the wall, but in stooping forward to reach the glass of gin and water from the table, she got her arm round trim, and immediately after she told t.irn that she wanted to go out, but that she would return again in a minute. As soon as she left the room, witness missed his pocket-book, and he instantly ran into the Strand in search of her, but could not see her anywhere. He then returned to the public-house, and informed the landlord of his loss, who told him that be knew the wo man, and saw her running in the direction of Maiden lane. The pocket-book contained two bills of exchange, of the value of 900/. and 5001. each, besides a number of receipts and other valuable papers. He had been drink ing on the night in question, but was sufficiently his own master to know what he was about. He was almost positive that the prisoner was the woman who robbed him. She was just such a figure, and wore such another bonnet, Ann Jeffery, landlady of the Heathcock public-house, deposed to her having been in her bar at 11 o'clock on the night in question, when Mr. Ker came in, accom panied by a young woman. They went into the parlour adjoining the bar, and were served with a glass of gin and water. In about ten minutes after, the woman left the house in a hurried manner. The prisoner was very like the person to whom she had referred. Sir F. Ros told the witness she must say positively whether or not she believed the prisoner to be the same person she had spoken of. The witness, after some hesitation, replied that she had that morning said at the station-house, in answer to ques tions put to her there, that she did not believe the prisoner to be the same woman, and she did not now wish to give another opinion. Sir F, ROE remarked upon the improper practice of examining witne , ses at the station-house, before they c to give their evidence on oath in the presence of a magis trate. Here was a witness who, if she had been brought at once before the magistrate, and sworn as to her belief of the identity of tt.e prisoner, would most likely have given a decided answer in the affirmative ; but, because she had previously given an opinion at the station-house, when unworn, she chose to abide by it now, although under the obligation of an oath. The prisoner declared she never saw the gentleman till she was taken into custody. She was remanded for a week to give time to procure further evidence. TIMES CHANGES-IMPOSSIBILITIES. About this time five hundred years ago, Anno Donzini 1340, gunpowder and guns were invented. Now the following (setting aside the mode of lan guage, which is not essential to our purpose) is the way in which one of these gentlemen, a few months previous to that event, would have expressed him. self in reference to some other impossibility. Some body would be speaking of alterations in the mode of welfare, upon which our contemptuous anti-vicis situdinarian would thus break out : " A change like tlvit ! Why you might as well say that people by-and-by will fight with fire and smoke, and that there will be arrows as round as plum-puddings, and made of lead, as thick as your skull !"—(A laugh among the Hon. Gentlemen of that time.) In nine months after this speech, gunpowder is invented, and the art comes up by which round leaden arrows are shot out of cannon, darting fire as they comp, and filling the air with smoke. 4nno Domini 1440—The great grandson, or other representative of the above gentleman, ex claims, on some fresh subject of innovation amidst the honours of the " laugh."—A change like that ! Why, you might as well say that brand -by there will be books without being copied out, and that we shall have a hundred of those impossible books in the course of a day." Next year the art of printing is invented, which was thought at first a thing magical and devilish, and by which we can now have a thousand copies of a book in a day. Anno Domini 1534.—The great-great-great great-grandson, or now representative as aforesaid, is treating some other novelty with the usual happy contempt of his race :—" A change like that! Why, you might as well say that people will all be permitted to read the Bible, and that nunneries, and even abbots will he put down ! !"—( Shouts of laughter, in which the Reverend Abbots present were observed to join.) The same year the Bible is printed and read openly, and upwards of six hundred religious hou,es suppressed. Anno .Domini 1666.—" A change like that !" quoth the representative, " Why, you might as well say that Englishmen will leave off taking a steak and a cold tankard for their hreakfast—( A laugh)— or that they will go to the other end of the world, to pluck it off a gooseberry bush."—(Great laughter.) The same year tea is brought into England, not indeed off a gooseberry bush, but off a bush of no greater importance, and (in common parlance) at the other end of the world. But this is a trifle. What must have been the feelings of the representative, or rather of his an cestor, of course a much wiser man than himself, arid therefore more peremptory, who, after bring ing storms of laughter upon the head of the poor fellow who spoke of some changes in navigation, and exclaiming►, " Why, you might as well tell me that ships will go blindfold three thousand miles over the water to the place they want to arrive at"—should he have seen the invention of the compass? What would he have thought, even if he could have seen no greater invention than balloons, gas-light, or the two-penny post? Or if he could have been " shown -in spirit." English gentlemen become sovereigns in Asia and America, or the French throwing off their ragged elbows, their corvees, and their Grand Monarque, arid choosing no longer to be the butts of the English for submitting to him ? Upon which the English do all they can to thrust him down their throats.—Tait's Magazine for June. THE HERRING.—They resemble in their habits the salmon-trout, hunting the keding•ground of the salmon, and, when fed on the peculiar food of the salmon, their flavour is excellent; but they take readily to coarser food, as small herrings, fry, sand-eels, and the fry of any other fishes. Their stomach and intestines get loaded with putrescent debris, their flesh loses its flavour, and their condition, as articles of human food, has changed materially. No two conditions can be supposed more op posite than the herring presents when fed on salmon food, and when fed on fishes. They differ, therefore, from salmon trout in this respect, that, when feeding on the food of the salmon, they attaid a l m ost the flavour of th e sa l mon , w hi c h the salmon trout never does. It has been ascertained that the herring resembles the vendace in its habits, as to food, more particularly ; and that, whilst feeding on the incre dibly minute entomostraceous animals, which it more especially affects, the condition of the herring is excellent, rendering it an extremely desirable food for man. In this state, the stomach seems as if almost altogether empty (as in the vendace), though at the moment full of minute anim iii, to be discovered only with the micro.cope, and on which the animal has been feeding. The intestines, also, seem as if empty; the tunics of the whole digestive canal are fine and se tni-transparent, and as free of intes tinal and putrescent debris found in the stomachs and in testines of animals, as if the herring actually fed on nothing but air and water. When he approaches the shores, thus quitting the proper feeding ground, he takes to other and coarser food ; his condition alters, and his flesh becomes soft and tasteless. The stomach and intestines are found and, gutt e d or ungutte d, t t )e re l l a i r 'u o i u n g s li t into th e mar k et as equallto:isdefidshw putrescent t i r l e e s v c e e r n to the product of the Dutch fisheries. THE AFFAIRS OF THE EAST. PARIS, JUNE 16.—The Ottoman Empire appears des tined to perish. The war between Mehemet Ali and the Porte has terminated ; and yet Russian troops arrive by thousands on the shores of the Bosphorus. The Sultan has entreated the Emperor Nicholas not thus to crush him with his" benevolence" and " consideration !" but his entreaties are wholly disregarded, and regiment after re giment, corps after corps, arrive to "defend" Mabmoud from an enemy who is appeased, and who has already retired ! The Divan beseeches Count Orloff to be less prodigal of these sort of favours! to keep the Russian troops st home I and to send away those who are already there ! preferring to be left to the protection of his own subjects, rather than be exposed to the embraces of so many kind friends from the other side of the Danube. But the Divan implores in vain. Count Orloff has received no retreating commission ! The Russian Ambassador is without instructions; and in the meantime the agents of the Court of St. Petersburgb are at work to cause it to be believed at Constanti nople that the Emperor only acts for the good of the Ottoman empire. We are bound, I think, to ad mit, before we proceed any further, that the Russian diplomati.ts, as diplomatists, are the most able and zea lous in Europe. Prince Lieven used to preach at Lon don over good dinners, and even at taverns, to Iris!: priests and to Irish Journalists, and the dui) , and neces sity for obtaining Catholic Emancipation. He urged this measure not because he loved the Irish—or loved the Ca. tholic faith—or desired the emancipation, which lie pro claimed to be so necessary ; but he thought that Ireland was the weak point of Great Britain—that by giving her the task of settling Irish affairs, he should fully occupy her and prevent tier from attending to foreign politics--. and that thus he should favour the designs of his Imperial Master. In like manner Count Pozzo di Borgo has paid for many a Carlist Eineute, and even supported the Re publican and Movement Journals, not because he hoped to see Carlisni succeed, or because he loved Republicanism and desired e success of popular principles—but simply because lie desired to occupy the French Government, and gain time for the Czir to crush Poland and crush Lithuania. I might continue my illustrations to a considerable length, and I should be able to show that wherever there have been disturbances i❑ Europe, Russian diplomacy and Russian money have been there ; and although the Court of St. Petersburgh is opposed more than any other court in the world to the progress of liberal principles, yet it can even preach pure democracy, when by so doing it can succeed in distract ing men's minds, and the minds of European Govern ments, from the real march and real policy of Russia. And during the continuance of these negotiations Russia moves on, never stops her course—sometimes deviates a little obliquely to the right and to the left, but the move ment is always " onwards" for her, and each month she increases her power and extends her influence. I say, then, that Russian diplomatists are the most able in Europe, and that we are bound to render this act of justice to the men who consent to labour in the interest of the Czar. I could fill a volume with facts—not opinions, but facts—confirmatory of these general observations; and France and England have therefore not to contend with any ordinary or inexperienced foe, in the course of their negotiations as to the affairs of the East. There is, how- ever, one circumstance which I must not omit to record, as it has an essential connection with the subject matter of this letter. I allude to the present troubles in Bosnia, and to the war going on between that province and Servia. Well, then, I assert in the most positive manner, and that not lightly, but knowing the truth of my state• merits, that Russian agents—Russian spies —Russian officers and Russian money have got up this Insur rection. Russia wishes to obtain possession both of Bosnia and Servia. Russia wishes to show that neither the one nor the other can be happy calm under Turkish domination. And then Russia wishes to be charged militarily with the task of reducing all to " order!" The military occupation of these provinces will be followed by their occupation as hostages! Russia will require to be paid the arrears of the old debt, the expenses of the late expedition, the charges of the fleet and the army, and compensation for the journeys and expenditure of Count Orloff, Russian emissaries, and the Russian ambassador; and as Turkey will be unable to meet these demands, why Russia will make war against the Porte to obtain them, unless new concessions are made. Turkey will be unable to defend herself against Russia, and must either accede to the terms imposed upon her, or appeal to France and England for assistance. If she accede to the conditions of Russia, there is from that moment an end to Turkey in Europe, as there is already an end to Turkey in Asia. If, on the contrary, England and France should encourage her to refuse, and even go the length of making war against Russia in her behalf, then the war will become European and general, and the com bat will begin, which must sooner or later be fought, if not about Turkey, at any rate about some other question of equal or even greater importance. Thus Russian diplo macy is at work to weaken Turkey, to throw Bosnia and Servia into the hands of the Czar, and to obtain the preliminaries and out-posts prior to the commencement of the general attack on Turkey, which will be made by Russia hereafter. And whilst Russia is thus proceeding in the affairs of the East in Bosnia, she is not less active, or less success ful at Constantinople. There the Sultan has been in duced by Count Giloff to believe that the conditions he has agreed to with Mehemet Ali are by far too liberal in favour of the rebel Pacha! Then be has been taught to think that France had a direct interest in obtaining fa vourable terms for Mehemet, because the French colony at Algiers has need of the protection and sapport of the Viceroy of Etypt! Then he has been told, and is said to credit the statement, that the British Government will only interfere nominally—that it has too much to do already at home with its Reform—Bank—East India— Slave—and Tax questions, to occupy itself really with the affairs of Turkey—and that thus, it is clearly to the interest of him, the Sultan, to amid' himself to . the dis- interested ! generous ! and faithful ! ally of Turkey, the great, noble, generous, and magnificent Emperor Nicho las ! ! The Porte has been told that France has purposely obtained such incomparable conditions for Mehemet Ali to suit the interests of France at .Algiers, and assure the protection and support of Egypt for her krican possessions ; and the Porte has believed all these statements, for i; has thrown itself without reserve into the arms of the Russian diplomatists. Admiral Roussin or Lord Ponsonby has no longer any influence at Constantinople ! A French vessel at the entry of the Dardanelles has been fired upon ! The French and the English squadrons have been ordered not to proceed up the Dardanelles, the castles have been additionally fortified, one of them is in the power of Russia, the Sultan lavishes all sorts of distinctions and honours on the representatives of the Russian Monarch, and the Porte refuses to believe that its faithful ally, the Emperor Nicholas, has any hos tile or invading intentions! Count Orloff points out to the Sultan, that the fleets and armies of the Russian Government were the first to arrive to his succour, and the unfortunate Mahmoud has the conviction that he should have been murdered by the Janissaries, had he not been protected by Russian troops. Instead of withdraw ing from this scene of conflict, new regiments from the Russian provinces each day, or each week arrive—and if the Court of St. Petershurgh shall have really come to the resolution of at once attempting the conquest of Tur key in Europe, and of realiz:ug the wishes and the mighty plans of Catherine, it cannot possibly take any line more certain of conducing to the result which was proposed. It is, then, high time for time Governments of England and of France to be up and stirring. Russia should be ordered to withdraw all her naval and military forces from Turkey. Not a single soldier or sailor should be suffered to remain. If she will not consent voluntarily to do this, she must be made to do so by force. If she will resist, then war must ensue. And let it take place ! Turkey will not lose by it. England and France will not suffer from it. The Sultan would gain, and the Czar would be defeated. But the Gazette of Augsburg contains an article written by order and in the interest of Russia ! It maintains that Russia has the right of giving her opinion as to the fate of Turkey, and on deciding upon the condi tions of peace between the Sultan and Ibrahim Pacha, simply because a Russian fleet and a Russian army ar rived before a French or English fleet or army In the Sea of M irmora. It claims for Nicholas the title of grand European Arbitrator—and it attacks those as insolent and unjust who do not feel disposed to leave to the Czar the exclusive right of adjudging this portion of territory to Ibrahim, or of taking another away from Mehemet. All who will not consent to such policy as this are pronounced to be lovers of war and anarchy, enemies to the peace of Europe, and firebrands and anarchists. The Gazette of Augsburg is: even a little sentimental on the occasion, and talks of the want of generosity of the Turkish Go vernment—of the want of gratitude of dynasties and princes--and of the straightforward and honourable po licy of the Emperor of Russia. It asks, who has so great a right to legislate for the future existence and alliances of the Porte as the Court to which the Sultan is indebted fOr having preserved his Crown ? and it winds up its long article by declaring that Russia will act as to her may seem tit, and Abet the Porte will do well to put its entire con fidence in the Emperor Nicholas. It tells us also that the Porte has given orders to prevent the English and French squadrons from passing the castles of the . Dar danelles, and that Russia will object to the appearance of any French or English ship in the sea of Marmora. This is really as insolent as even a German Russian journal can well become ; and if the Duke de Broglie and M. de Rigny shall permit a French fleet to be thus excluded from any sea or port in the world, they will deserve to be impeached by the Chambers, and subjected to perpe tual banishment from a country whose interests and honour they should thus betray. I have said enough to show you that the affairs of the East are not terminated—that Russia does not intend to withdraw her fleet or her army—that she has ulterior designs—that she is conspiring to take possession of European Turkey for herself—that there is no sort of real and true alliance between the Courts of St. Petersburgh, London, and Paris—that all is mere patchwork, to last for the time being—that Russia has not abandoned, even if she has adjourned, her long-projected plan—that nothing short of a war against Russia can really save the Turkish empire from destruction that all milk-and water, tepid measures, will be of no use—that France and England cannot maintain the ascendancy of coustitu. tional principles in Europe, and yet yield to Russian influence, and Russian diplomacy—that if England and France will not attack the Czar, he will ere long attack them—and that both the Governments and the people of France and Great Britain should at length open their eyes to the real question, and should be made to under stand and feel that Russian influence must be curbed, and Russian usurpation must be defeated. 0. P. Q. THE WEATHER.—After a long continua tion of genial and delightful weather, we had a complete change on Tuesday. About nine o'clock, the rain fell in torrents, and the vast size of the drops, and the hail with which it was intermingled, displayed the presence of elec trical agency. A little before two o'clock, a dense dark thunder cloud arose from the south-west, and slowly pro ceeded to the north-east, only the skirts of it passed by the town, but a few miles to the west and north the light. sing was surprisingly vivid and ince , sant, and the re peated claps of thunder appeared to shake the foundations of the houses. A most violent tempest of wind and rain, such as the oldest inhabitant has never remembered at this time of the year, commenced in the afternoon, and conti nued without intermission through the whole of the night. The course of the wind varied from W.S. W. to W.N.W. We anxiously wait for intelligence from the coasts, where we fear the damage done must have been immense.— Leeds Times. On Monday JOHN BROWN, who has been long known as an accomplished thief, was charged at the Mansion-house with having lounged amongst crowds in the streets, with the apparent intention of picking pockets. He solemnly declared that he had left off thieving for six months, and taken to his trade of a tailor. The Lord Mayor said he supposed the latter would now be more profitable, as he had long been advising people to wear guards to their watches, and as to handkerchiefs, they were not worth taking. Prisoner—Oh, your Lordship, I'll never thieve never no more. The Lord Mayor—What then, is thieving so unprofitable ? Brown—Unprofitable, my Lord ! It's gone to the dogs. It won't keep life and soul together. A thief's worse than a beggar now. The Lord Mayor—Now tell me one thing. Do you practise your trade because you prefer working to picking pockets, or because thieving is more unprofitable ? Brown—l won't try to deceive your Lordship, because it's no use. I'm a tailor now, because there's no good in being a thief. The Lord Maydr—l'll discharge you now, but take care not to appear here again. You are a regular " family man," and shall be watched. I believe your account of yourself, as far as regards your preference of the life of a thief to that of an honest, industrious man, and I believe, too, that the profits of the thieves are greatly on the wane. CONFLAGRATION ON THE MOUNTAIN.-- A grand and imposing spectacle, which language is inade quate properly to describe, was presented to our view on Thursday evening last, by the near approach of the fires, which for some weeks past have been ravaging and devas tating, with unparalleled fury, the surrounding districts of country. In the afternoon of the above-mentioned day, the close proximity of the devouring element was announced by dense volumes of smoke, which were wafted to us by an easterly current, and completely enveloped and overshadowed our borough. The thick and murky vapour assailed our eyes with such an annoyance,and hung our streets with dark, intense, and almost impenetrable folds. The blood-red disc of the sun descending in the west, and the empress of the night majestically rising in the east, with an equally lurid aspect, glared ominously from the firma ment through the impending mass. As the evening ad vanced, the Sharp Mountain exhibited the scene to which we have alluded, the broad acclivity of which, ascending to a lofty eminence, facing in an easterly direction the lower part of the town, became enveloped in sheets of flame. Crowds of our inhabitants, both male and fe male, flocked from their houses to witness the sublime and brilliant spectacle. At first, the mountain appeared covered with myriads of flaming torches ; anon the con flagration spread—the flames were seen kindling, leaping, and running in various directions—rapidly ascending the tall forest-trees, and encircling them with fiery wreaths— grarpling and enclosing the giants in their glittering coils—while the dense clouds of smoke over- head, the crackling of the boughs beneath, and the furious lion-like roar of the element, added to the gran deur of the splendid pageant. On Wednesday last, the active exertions of the inhabitants of Port Carbon were called forth to protect their houses and railroads from impending destruction. In spite of all their efforts, about 150 yards of the Mill Creek railroad was consumed, the whole of which, however, may be repaired in a very few days. —Miner's Journal, an American paper. LUDICROUS ANECDOTE. - THE DEAF LA DP. —Madame JUNO; in the sth volume of her "Me moirs," sketches, with admirable ease and grace, the household of Madame MERE, BONAPA RTE'S mother. There was one lady who, though not nominally belonging to the household, yet was so constantly an attendant in the private circle of Madame MERE, as to be fairly en titled to be considered one of its most efficient members. The name of this female was Madame de BRISSAC: She laboured under a defect of hearing which gave rise to some ludicrous consequences, very pleasantly de scribed by the Duchess. Madame de BaissAc was about to be presented to the Emperor; and, in order to guard against the inconvenience which would result from her infirmity, she zealously made herself acquaiuttd with the nature of the questions which BONAPARTE was in the habit of putting to those in her circumstinces, when they were presented. She was informed, that the Emperor, in the first place, never failed to inquire from what Department the party came; his second question, most commonly, was the age of the party ; and the third, bow many children he or she had. The day came, and Madame de BRISSAC was the best prepared in her lesson of any one in the palace. Having made her three curtsies to the Emperor, she saw, by the Monarch, that he was addressing her. The ques tion which he actually asked her was this :—" Is your husband brother to the Duke de Baissac who was killed on the 2d September, and did he not inherit his estates ?" The poor lady, little dreaming that any other interrogatory than that which was previously set down for her would be put, answered as if she had been asked from what depart ment she had come, " The Seine and Oise, sire !" The Emperor, quite surprised, said to her then, " I believe you have no children?" " Fifiy-two, sire," replied the deaf lady, thinking that BONAPARTE asked her age. The Emperor saw how it was, and, without further observa tion, continued his tour of the circle. The foliowing comparison between the cost of steam and water power is taken from " Blackadder's Account of the Strathmore Railway" :—" Of the great water-power thus available in the district, equal to that of 20,000 horses, there is not exceeding 260 yet occupied for the purposes of the linen trade. There can be no doubt that establishments at the port have certain advan tages over those in the country; but the great expense of steam power in Dundee, amounting to 401. per horse, when compared a ith the small expense of a water-fall, will ope. rate against the extension of steam-power for spinning establishments. A practical comparison cannot easily be made between the use of steam and of water-power for spinning linen yarn ; the mills depending on water-power already in use being all upon a small scale, and the power not being always applied with the greatest effect. But a parallel may be drawn between the expense of the two powers when applied to spinning cotton. The Deanston establishment possesses a waterfall equal to 400 horse power, which is in progress of being made available. Now, although these works have 36 miles of land-carriage, yet they compete with success against similar works which are placed in Glasgow itself, and have no part of that carriage, but are driven by steam-power. It is true that cotton is a light carriage as compared with flax ; hut, on the other hand, the transit to the Deanston works is a long com mon turnpike road ; and the steam-power of Glasgow is obtained at one• half of the expense which it costs at Dundee ; the expense of steam in the former being 201. per horse ; while, in the latter, it is 401. The Deanston power, inclusive of the carriage, does net amount to half the expense of steam-power in Glasgow. It is fully 101. per horse - power; that i s , not a f ourt h o f t h e cos t of steam power in Dundee." THE GRAND FANCY FAIR AND AT THE HANOVER-SQUARE Yesterday morning the fancy fair and above place, held for the benefit of the Society of Foreigners in Distress, was opened to the having been publicly announced that her Mt be present and would preside at one of the oat cumstance naturally attracted a very numerous of visiters :so great, indeed, was - the cons on the doors being thrown open at two &clot room in which the fair was held was immed while hundreds upon hundreds o f anxious besieging the doors and continually pressing admittance. The crowd at length became so scene of no ordinary description pre , ented itself. ladies, overcome by the excessive heat, fainted, carried out of the room; and it was at length lutely necessary to close the doors, and to refuse ther tenders of admission money for the day. be useless to attempt to describe is detail, bur the room as we were, the articles for sale various stalls ; no opportunity, in fact, was any critical examination either of the animate or attractions of the place. The fair was laid out in room, in which her Majesty occupied a box (the tra-box, we believe) immediately opposite the still bore her name. We observed among her train the of Wellington, but the hurry of the scene was too' permit us to distinguish the other distinguished, both male and female, who were in attendance Majesty. We sincerely hope the proceeds of th , fancy fair and bazaar, which is to remain open days longer, will exceed, if possible, the most sat pectation, for certainly there never was a society for the promotion of more unexceptionable and rested objects. We are inclined to think they a munificent harvest on the present occasion, for admission-money, independent of that which In' been expended on the various articles exposed for, the stalls, must have amounted yesterday only to considerable sum. Her Majesty left between tbr four o'clock. The following is a list of the of the stalls and of the names of the ladies WI them :—Her Majesty had three stalls—Nos. 1, 2 —for England, Hanover, aid Saxony• At the English stall, the ladies cl.dpmeo ,:ent the Col Denbigh and the Countess Howe; at the Hanover the Baroness Ompteda ; and at the Saxony stall her Majesty's Ladies of the Bedchamber, the M' of Westmeath and the Viscountess Beresford Hope), presided. The Princess Lieven (one of tl patronesses) forwarded to her Majesty's stall (the being obliged to leave for the continent) a beautifl tion of tapestry, the ingenious and tasteful prodik the present Empress of Russia, and also of the Duchess Helene of Russia. The other stalls were cupied.-3. Neapolitan stall, Countess Ludolf a► Acton. 4. English stall, Marchioness of Londi and Countess of Chesterfield. 6. French stall, 1 de Dino. 6. English stall, Marchioness of Tavist.- Countess or Albemarle. 7. Swedish stall, 0 0 ' Bjornstjerna. 8. English stall, Countess of Alortos Countess of Sheffield. 9. Swiss stall, Mrs. Sterl Mrs. Brands. 10. The Ladies of the Directors. Hans Towns stall, Mrs. Colquhoun. 12. English Baroness de Rothschild. 13. Ditto, Countess of and Countess of Wilton. 14. Russian stall, Lieven and Countess Cowper. 15. English ;tall, chioness Cornwallis and Mrs. Bates. 16. Prussilll . Baroness Bulow. THE MARKETS. .ET.—June 19. Per Ton. lS Walls End Nevnuareb. ,o 0 Walls End Perkins Sc C D. Walls End Riddell's Bells 0 Lambton's Primrose ."'" iS Tees Tanfield..,,.,.yw•" 0 Walls End Adelaide «••" )5 W. E, South Durban' 0 Walls End Tees 0 Hartley Walls End Elgin....""'"" ice last 7ket-day. S. to S. . 0 30 . - e. 38 C r tielea B :'fiery, tgy ti 11AT1 T. BET Irec e d en 30 32 .RKET.—June IS. 1 6 6 0 0 to g 120 1 = 0 0 16 0 0 / 7 1 13 1 14 .........12 0 0 per thots3 RKET.—June 18. got Per lb. 6 Beef 7 f Mutton Veal Pork 0 Lamb 'to 3/. 15s. Od. per ton. A t rD BAVf' - ~.; I, Roc _ i voNTR, O le : i bazsaciois rozpA. ciety eL r l ft the purl t Males tf I - 11 stalls, i t _ c roue a ILVRAL igregati ~ .etiITAII clock, , 1 1 1Vrtut mediate' sell be r specta V % to ear ng fo 1. hides i i so dente i ed, viz, 1 itself. ~;... 4 inter], a . s ull • ....... o a do kit t i gob fog 11... refuse Itix day. I t ' hisho o i hurried t ' li, The; exposed 441... vas affo elitt s Z . tte or iu I A na out in th (14;olestoi ex (the Its P etoe ' the still It th e p al train tbei The co, eras too gi . :o ek e. , led per t le d ay 0 ; lance Op.. ' t.., A pt lof the '.; til l ; i ':lio t tee h p: e Yeas y n:ndgf i tjlatril9. o / 4 ; 114941 : 414 th ' e hee' f a4 o ebee r ditil In, for the i te t r, an iich nlei„ , b med for 911 7 ,1 I'' o l% l only to e RE veen three be arrang e dies who_ A l %4 On e s. 1,2, 0 ' it the fit be Couo7 GY 1 anoverion p ant oy stall ttf e tit te March . ' The C A ford (late their p, ne of the, h '.elllend i 1 (the Pr jell is m . beautiful ,_„ ; c e.evet productr I, C harm of the G 4, D inin g I were the ° . lt. kiwi adolf and, ( 7 / ' Piat 8 ;....1 I Londew ,, , 4: 1 ? ) t2a01 i stall, M i. 4 y z d o . I Tavistoc", it Stov e tall, Co° 1 L g n etlic of Alortno 1 tirt, 4 Sterkei 1 : it Mitt el lirectore• . ,Let Eoglth i 1 1 1 1_0 pot NG IHE Oats. COAL MAR: Per Ton. s. d. Adair's _ Beaumont l3 0 Elebburn Main 13 6 Holy well l3 9 Ord's Itedhugh 12 6 Pontop Windsor 14 6 Cantield, .. l6 6 Townley l3 0 Walls End 13 6 Walls End Hilda l3 0 Ditto Killingworth 13 9 Ditto Northumberland... 13 0 No ships arrived sii COUNTRY CORN MARK Wheat. Per Quarter. Birmingham Bridport Cirencester —.v..... Guildford Henley Hereford , Highworth Maidenhead Monmouth..-.. Reading Southampton Stroud Tewkesbury Uxbridge Wanninster. Windsor . Worcester---,.... White Wheat ( Red ditt0.......... 8ar1ey.................. Oats, New ...... Pea5ew............. Oil Cake, New. CHELTENHAM Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d. Wheat Barley 4 0 5 6 Oats 4 0 4 3 Beans Pease 5 0 7 0 Hay 3/. 108 KETS.--June 14. d, L o g o Butter, 160 z........ ...... 0°•04 Eggs, 22 Beef, per score .... 8 4 0- 4 Mutton, per 1b... IVeal 0 „, 4 0 2-artern Loaf •• My A LOVE LETTER.—" June 4 ITA.7 or Mare I rit a fu Line heaping to find you well you .110. maid me yore unease i beef had Deal of uneasnisi you ever sin Wick a foari Wisenday it is no Y eu o ° # l etaing at horn to go to work for i c a nnot i % A ir unease if i do not mare you i shall Have no bn ag n ial! sliud lick to no youer Mind be Satorday i am g" ld Satorday to List For a shoulger and if i do it is threjit° pleas to send a later as soon as you gat this i w ill see i be t s all you things be foar i go good By mi Dere note, te tt tow gentell Man in E— will see m e th rou them i s / This a true copy of a letter written by a labourer of P ni , to his sweetheart, which by some means got opene d road.—Nottingham Review. THE WEATHER.—We h ave h a d vvlt h ih l l ' present week considerable changes in the weather;,,,, Monday there was m uc h ra i n , w hi c h exten d e d itself rally throughout Ireland; with the rain there Was strong and harsh wind, which could not by anf ros er A serve the crops which are advanced in growth. ~,4001 , and Wednesday were much finer, and though it r, was a beautiful day without intermission in tow i l ,b elf, r / curious to say that within a very few miles of Cle e the Eist side, there were loud and frequent peals 01 id 0 der, preceded, accompanied, and succeeded, by Yercitli, l rains. A young lady named POWER, who r esides o r, a few miles from town in the county of Waterford) ir sitting in her parlour, was struck with lightnil e f hair was partially burnt, but no further injury we 8 36 t a happy to state, was inflict e d. Th e e l ec t r i c fluid, 16 'd P', rapidity peculiar to it, ran through the house',. 3 , o , itrj locks of chests were t o r n awa y an d b ro ken Or,/ spectacle case which lay o n th e t a bl e a tt ra cted t'plir and was immediately split. It finally escaped W o , A having effected more harm.— Tipperary Free DUMFRIES MA s. d. s. d. Wheat, Imp. Bush 5 6 to 7 3 8ar1ey......• ........... 2 8 3 6 Oats Flour, 141 b. Oatmeal 1 6 1 8 Potatoes, cwt. _ - PRINTED AND PUBLISHED ByMURDO Y 4.)" SUN Omcg, 112, STRAND, LOW' '." ta % .not ful] - as pt ~ ,,4 1 , :ilh, A T N 't 4 gain ti!tlt: " the ill l' ' k tll !Y to d tt - Ithfi e l ' Ik t I f "r TI, ''''ti fur ,ETS DU It Barley. 50 57 :WES MA (per quarter BIRTHS. ol On the 17th inst., at Ashling House, Sussex, the 101 Fraser, Esq., of a son. On the 16th inst., at Norfolk-house, Hayling the lady of W. Padwick, jun., Esq., of a daughter. Of MARRIED. sok' On the 18th inst., at All Souls church, R. P. Latie .e ' g , #l , Harley-street, to Elizabeth, daughter of C. SparkeS• P.. o f On the 18th inst., at Bath, W. C. Merriman, 04 '' . 01, borough, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late F. ""Ie of Ourßton Hill, Malmesbury. Cb ee f re V the 18th inst., at Abbot's Ripton, the Rev. - • 1,.." Harriet Emily, eldest daughter of J. B. Hooper, the county of Huntingdon. DIED. On the 17th inst., at Burwood-lodge, Surrey, Eli`' 110-0 Shawe, widow of R. Shawe, Esq., formerly of Or' 'del Blackfriars. S nell, A On the 17th inst., at Windleshant, Surrey, of W. Snell, Esq., of Salisbury hall, Hertfordshire , On the 15th inst., at Brompton, Madalena, W ife o olfs r 01 0 4 , qr . noletti, Esq., aged 63. f On the 18th inst., at Lower Holloway, Ann, relic t e t! Willis, of Christchurch, Surrey, aged 79. Le if On the 18th inst., Mr. B. Smart, o f Princes-stre et, square, refiner, aged 77. the On the 17th inst., at Tatham Vicarage, Middlesex' J. Morris, aged 42. z, /