The Sun. — London, England, 1830-12-13 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. REVOLUTION IN POLAND. The Poles have risen. The Russian garrison of Warsaw has been overpowered, after a determined resistance, and the Grand Duke Constantine with difficulty effected his escape. This intelligence, Which has been some time looked for, and of which Ministers first received intelligence on Saturday, may be confidently relied on. The French Paper,. w hi c h arrived last night, give some particulars of the insurrection. According to the Journal des Debats of Friday, " a letter from Berlin, of the 3d De amber, announces the breaking out of a violent it:- surrection at Warsaw on the 29th November, in Which the Polish army took part. Four Ru‘siae Generals were killed; among them the Minister of War of the Kingdom of Poland." Mince Ctarto rinsky has been named Chief of the new Polish Government. This is indeed most important intel ligence. At the very moment when the despots of Europe are meditating Fresh aggressions, and cut , letting their strength for a desperate effert egainst the Great Nation which has so gloriously broken its fetters—the victims of that strict el acts of injustice, the most flagrant of modern times which remains yet to be atoned for, suddenly appear oil the scette to furnish employment for the armies of the despots at home. The prayers of every man, in whom all sense of justice is not obliterated, will be offered up to Heaven in behalf of the Poles. May Russia, Aus trite, and Prussia, be compelled to abandon the spoil which, in the day of Poland's divisions, they so ini quitously shared ! What a lesson will be read to man kind, if, at the moment whets despots, in the insc hence of their might, are meditating further invie. &ions of the rights of nations, their arm is parnlysed by the consequences of former injustice i The re establishment of Poland would he uI immense con sequence te Europe. From its extent of fruitful ter ritory, and the number of its inhabitants, now tip wards of twenty millions, Poland, with anything like an effective Government, will be able to main tain its independence, From its position between Russia and Germany, the noxious influence of the former on the latter will be at an end, and the semi barbarians of the North will no longer be a bugbear to civilised Europe. The struggle which the Poles have to maintain before they snare their independ ence, is most serious. Russia, Austria, and Preemie, will pour their armies into the country, without delay. France is now in a very different state from that in which she was when the former great par tition took place. The question is full of difficulties.. ft is not to be supposed, that if the Great Powers direct their forces aguinst Poland, the other Nations, stow suffering under oppression, will remain passive spectators of the strife. The combustibles are every. where prepared ; and the Po find the Rhine will, rerhapa, more than sympathi se w i t h t h e Vi stu l a . 'urther intelligence from Poland will be looked for with intense anxiety.—Morning CArvidele. The demand for reform in the Church cannot bag be withstood, without endangering the labile which abuses of long continuance have disfigured and defiled. We are , advocates of that reform, be tense we are anxious not to destroy, but to renovate.. —not to throw down, bat to repair. Religious in ititutions, above all others, should rely for their sue. port upon the moral force of enlightened opinion, or else their foundation is not upon a rock, but in the sand. Almost from the era of the prosperity of the system of national worship those corruptions began, which have terniebed its beauty, end iMpaired its strength. The time has come when those defile- Ments must be turn away, or the venerable edifice which they desecrate will have to resist the shock, met ofjudicieus reform, but of that violence which time at subversion. With hostile opinion without, end the principles of decay undermining its stability within, how can its resistance be long or effectual It is 'vein to deny that the constitution of the Church is bad as to the unequal distribution rf wealth. It is equally vain to deny that its govern ment is bad PS to a corrupt system of p a t ronage . TheOint gives to the favoured few, who eat, of the fruit which they scarcely tend, riches, and pomp, and worldly glory, and sends the labourers in the vineyard empty away. The other butlesquee the duties of a Cluistiati Pastor by pluralities, livings, tin cornonendam, and other inventions, devised to pamper the indolent and hamlet's favourites of secular ambition, at the expense of the dearest in interests of religion. The necessity of a prompt and effectual reformation in the Church IS strongly shown in en able little pamphlet, which has just emanated from the press, under the title of a "Let ter to the King,' from a country Curate. Its proving the inadequate payment of the hard.wolk : Clergy i , which is. the. necessary consequence of the unequal distribution of wealth in the Church, he states that there are in the several dio terse of England and: Wales 4,954 Curates, of whom three receive under 2004 per annum; five under 1001. 15 under 1801.; 26 under 1701.; 162 proder 1601.; 32 under 150/.; 52 under 140/.; '207 under 130/4 69 under 1201 ; 500 under 110/ ; 150 under 1001.; 458. under 90/ ; 415 under 80/ ; 300 under 701.; 892 under 1301.; 441 tinder 501. ; 173 under 401. ; 59 under 301. ; and six (horesco referent) under 20/.! .0n looking at this side of the picture of the Church of England establishment, we would take it to be the poorest in Europe, or rather the poorest that had ever existed in the civilized world. Hut when we look to the other side of the picture, that which pourtrays the glories of Prelacy, and enchents the eyes of the children of patronage, we would be induced to draw the very opposite venclusion, and consider the Church of 'England as the most wealthy ecclesiastical establishment that had ever raised its proud pinnacles in the sunshine of worldly prosperity. Can such a state of things stand ? ' It is tors repugnant to mien, to eommos justice, and, above all, to the pure principles of Christianity, to be secure for any length of time against th e a s sa ili ng eneigy o f public opinion. The constitution of the Church and its government must undergo the changes which the welfare of society and the interests of pure religion demand. These changes must take place either with the acquiescence of the high Clergy, or in opposi -14444414m, If they resist, 4 Reformation will come; ilk* that which drove the money-changers, mit of the temple; end it will throw down the altars of Igarimmo, and, the shrines of ambition, which hay, defiled the , sanctuary of the Christian faith. Out of the superabundance of the Princely re venues of Prelates and Dignitaries, the working Clergy must be paid what is sufficieot for the descent and respectable maintenance of men of liberal edit cation, who, to enable them to discharge faith fully end effectively the functions of their holy office, ought to be as tree from the vulgar rte. tickles of sordid want as from the templet. Cons of luxurious splendour. The Chur c h has opu lence enough to provide well for all its priests in every grade Its riches only want a proper distribution to be converted to the advantage, instead of the re proach and desecration of religion. fl o w ee l. dom," . says the author of the if Leiter to the King," 44 tIO we hear of a pious bud hard-working Curate, Ivo although his life hss beets a intim of exert) piety. toads'st and rigid self-denial, being rewarded by preferment—and how seldom is it ever bestowed on those' who do not possess either political claims, intern', or ptirelease-metier P"These are not the qualifications that Christianity requires in her mis nisters-- 7 ond if the Church continue at variance with Christiesity, which must fail ?-11/Orning Herald. W. recommend the subject of inquiry suggested at the Newiegton &Woos, to the Magistracy throughout the kingdom. It is desirable that the moat altansiVis investigation should be made : in no other way can we expect to produce , any permanent advantage.. A. body of leformation might be oh tained, with respect to egricultund and other rural leboutere, as well as respecting the poor in general, and t h e pauperized pert of it to particular, which, it proper l y weighed end ennsideri4, might mainly cou doe,* to the weig hed tranquillity of the Wiwi . . The wound must be courageously probed, in order to be cured, otherwise political gangrene will follow, and thence political disAolution 1 The Magistracy, as a body, appear to have confined themselves rather too much to general and somewhat menacing declare. t AnItiCULTURAL LABOURERS. At an Adjourned Special Petty Session, held at the Ses sions -house, Newington, on Thursday, the 2d day of December, 1830; present, Robert Hedger, Esq., in the Chair; John Rave:Mill, William Nottage, John Jtffery, J. T. Al±en, Thomas Puekle, Charles Baldwin, Benja min Shaw, Florance Young, Samuel Elyard, John Woolley, William Hohner, Randle Jackson, Jesse Cur- ling, and Henry Weston, Esqrs ; Itesolved,—That it be rerommended to the Magistrates of this division M form themselves into Committees, for the purpose of making, in person, the inquiries recom mended by the resolutions of the Petty Bession held on the 25th ult. That such Magistrateti be recommended to make the fol. lowing among other inquiries lot thwith, viz. : As to Agricultural and other Labourers on the Soil, as Road-making, Drainage, &c., via.— POOR. Number of male poor. Ilow far employed. In what way, At whikt rate, If according to any, and what scale. If the parish can Li nd employment for its male poor, In what degree, and of what dckription. In what way are the other poor provided for. What poor-bows., and visit the same. The amount 'Z)f the poor's.rate. Its comparative increase or decrease during the last five years. ;lOW and by whom collected. Supposed population of the pariah. Number of inhabited houslis:rated Itt and under 10/. per annum. What number between hr. and' 0/. per annum. If proprietors of hr,tiles under 201. per annum, or any given sum, are °bilged to compound under any local Act. corittitkition of the parish. f ()vaned by a general or select vestry, and now chosen. Number of uninhabited houses. What proportion fifth= have been inhabited. As to those who are employed by Farmers, Gardeners, &e. in Agricultural Labours or any kind of work conneetTl with the viz.— Their rate of wages from fanners, gardthers, and others. If according to any, and what sc.ile. If such wages are paid in 'Art by the employer and partly by the parish. . _ _ . - Opinion as to the effect of such mixed mode of payment. If complaints are made by such agricultural and other labourers upon the soil, and of what nature. If acts of riot and insubordination have taken place, and of What kind. The Army, owing to the internal state of the country, is irnitiediately to be increased. Every regiment in the service is to receive an addition of 80 men—that is, the whole are to be completed ' from their present reduced establishment of 660 ' men each, to 740 each; which will make the total increase about 8,000 men. The necessity of this increase will not for a moment be disputed by any real well-wisher of his country's happiness and pros perity; and for our own part we regret that in com plisnce with the continual outcry of the present Mi nisters, whets in Opposition, the reduction now to be repaired should ever have beets conceded to party clamour. Another fatal error, the result of Whigism, was committed by the Marquis of Lawdowne, when serving theoffice of Home Secretary, in almost totally • disbanding the most useful of all bodies on oceasions similar to the preseor, the loyal and patriotic yeomanry cavalry—the want of: whose efficient services in such a crisis is a consideration the most painful that the count!) , for ages has had to deplore. The excl.• tions of these patriot bands would have restored tranquillity to the nation its a very few days. We are happy, however, to find, that the severe loss thus sustained is likely to be shortly repaired by the loyal activity of the leading gentlemen in our prin cipal counties, who, purely of their own accord, without any inducement held forth by Government, are enrolling yeomanly volunteers in great numbers, to the prompt embodying and arming of whom Mi nisters, we hope and trust, will lose no time in giv• ing every possible encouragement and support. In the mean time the necessary ordets for increasing the regular military establishment have beets issued Irons the War-allice ; and the recruits thus obtained, there is reason to expect, will at once serve to in crease our strength and N eoken the force of the do mestic enemy, whose frightful bulk is known to have been considerably swelled by disbanded soldiers in most of the disturbed districts.--Morning Foal. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, DKc. DAM V. SIR W. BRISCOE, BART. This %vas an action brought to rucover for good. sold ►►nd delivered to the wife of the defendant. The ATTiMINEV.GENEUAL stated the plaintiff's case, fiom which it appeared that the defendant's wife, being separated from hire resided in Alha ny - street, Regent's Pink, which neighbourhood the plaintiff carries on the trade of a corn-chandler. - Josiah Gregory—l was shopman to plaintiff in 1829 and 1830 ; I know Lady Briscoe, and re member goods being furnished to her; the pas— book is chiefly in my handwriting; I should think what I put down amounted to about 401. or 504 Lady Briscoe need to come to the shop, but I don't think I ever saw her there without her sons with her. Mrs. Ann Sedgrave—l was a servant in thede feridant's family in 1808, as nurse; he was living at Crofton-hall, in Cumberland; I left his service in 1809 or 18W; there was a servant of the name of Sarah Blanchard there ; she was lady's maid to Lady Briscoe, and came there the February idler me; I came up to •Loudon with the family ; they lived in Witnpolc-street ; I remember Lady Briscoe going nut one day ; I went up stairs fora handkerchief to the nursery : both dome were fast, as was that of Lady Briscoe's bed-room ; I looked through the keyhole, an Auw the defendant and Blanchard to gether in the room (witness here described the aims non, which was quite sufficient to prove the inti macy that had taken place between them) ; another time 1 went suddenly into Blanchard's room, and found her and the Baronet there behind the door ; I have tumid the Baronet tell her Ladyship that he was going to the stable to look after the horses, end instead of doing so, go into Blanchard's bed-room ; 1 have heard Lady Briscoe crying out for her life ; 1 met her once on the stairs covered with blood on her mouth, and she complained of her hu.band's treatment ; she was frequently in the habit of shed ding tears ; this was about three weeks before she was brought to bed of her second son ; the de fendant's general behaviour to his wife was very cruel indeed ; a little time (trier she was brought to bed of that child, I saw marks again on h er f ace , and briiiies4 one night, when her Ladyship wa% going to sleep with me, Sir W. c a m e an d d ragge d her out by the hair of her head; I don't think that she was always fully supplied with . victuals ; have known her locked up in rootns,and get nothing to eat. • ArabeWs Newman—l lived as nurse in defendant's family for about three months, It was in NI Defendant behaved very ill to his lady during that time. Sir W. has come at night to my roam, and wished to be admitted when I vras in bed with the children. Has asked her Ladyship before me why she did not come to his bed, and she said that his state of health was not such us to permit her to do so. Mr. William Little—l was defendant's steward for some time—(A, letter wits here_, read from Sir W. Briscoe to his iudy, dated IlthCember,'lBl:3, expressing hi, sorrow that he had suffered himself to beirritated to strike her, and entreating her to re turn to him, and come withoulupbraiding him. A second letter, bearing the same date, from th e de fendant to Mr.i Ladbroke, complaining of his nerves, and deploring that his Jetty did ,not work on his heart instead of his nerves, and entreating him to intercede, so that on his coming to town he might 4nti his wife at home to receive him.) I know Mrs; Stow, she lived at Crofton Hall, and was supposed to, be the housekeeper; when I was first there she had her meals with me. This was afterwards al tered, end she took her meals with the defendant, sitting at the heed of the table. I have seen them both of a morning looking out of the window of Sir W.'s bed.room with their night..clothes on , • the Baronet hes : told me that 1 was to ob e y h er orders, whatever they were, and he would back her through thick and thin, iere were several children, who tailed Mrs. Stow, mother, and Sir W. Briscoe fa. titer. Sir-W. Brisooes'esnitoo, in Cumberland pro duce 6,0001. a year. He has other property, but I was not steward to that, and therefore cannot say the amount. Ann Ching, another servant at Crofton Hall, knew Mrs. Stow, and oh going into the Baronet's bedroom to light the fire has seen them in bed to gether. She heard Sir W. say that he understood his eldest son was coming down to Crofton Hall, and that if he came there she was to shut the door in his face. Mr. Robert Briscoe came shortly after, and he was never adtnitted further than the hall. Mr. Serjeant WiLiA said that however bad Sir W. Briscoe's conduct might have been, be was not yet so abandoned as to desire to expose the dis graceful 'conduct of his wife. With respect to the female testithoity of peeping through the key-hole, he should leave that to the Jury's consideration — though, no doubt, scenes of impropriety and immo rality had taken place at Crofton hull. But with respect to the violence pretended to be exercised by the defendant towards his wire, it was impossible to believe that the evidence had not been exaggerated. The Jury had heard that this case had been in Doc tors'Commonsthat Lady Briscoe had taken it there; and yet she was still Lady Briscoe—his wife to all intents and purposes, as was evident from the very form of this action. Let him then ask, what butt her Ladyship's own conduct should have still kept her in that character ? On her marriage a sum of money was settled upon her ; and since her separa tion she had Leen receiving the interest of that money, to the amount of 2001. a year. He should show that since that time she had been living with one man after another; and the law was clear, that if she became an adultress, from that time she ceased to have any charge upon her husband. Mary Quinian—l remember Ludy Briscoe living in Tunbridge -street, in 1827; there was a person of the name of Wylie, who used to be with her fre quently ; when she removed from Tunbridge-street she went to Lisson-grove ; Wylie went with her, and at Lisson-grove they lived together as man and wife, going by the name of Mr. and Mrs. Wylie ; after she lift Lisson.grove she went to live at Al batty-street ; Mr. and Mrs. Wylie used to sleep in the front room, second floor; I and my husband slept on the third floor ; Mr. Wylie bought a brown horse, and used to ride it ; it sometimes went in a phaeton ; I remember Lady Briscoe living in the Kent-road ; there was then a Mr. Wimmington who used to come backwards and forwards; I have seen Mr. Richmond in George-street, Hampstead road, when Lady Briscoe lived there ; Mrs. West kept that house, and Lady Briscoe went by the mime of Mrs. Richmond ; Richmond was a clerk at Bow-street. Patrick Quinlan, the husband of the last witness, corroborated the evidence of his wife. Cross-estmined—lie knew Mr. Wylie very well; he was a good fellow, and kept Lady IbiFcoe now ; the Learned Setjeant might keep her if he would ; he also knew Mr. Richmond ; he was a capital fel low, and many a pot of porter had the witness taken with him ; witness had formerly been a gentleman's gentleman—now he was a gentleman himself, and independent ; he was living on his means—his little savings—and had been independent these eighteen years, hut he spent all his property seven-and-thirty years ago. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE summed up the case, and told the Jury that the law quite determined that in the event of a wife, separated from her hus band on any grounds whatever, forming a connec tion with another man, the husband wal not liable for the debts she should incur. The Jury re►ired, and, niter an absence of three quart era of au hour, found a verdiet.for the defendant. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILIMIA LL. On Suturdaf a respectably-dressed middle-nged man, who had given his name at the watch-house Samuel Fmd,was brought before Sir Pwritu LAURIE on a charge of stealing six black silk handkerchiefs from the shop of Mr. Bradley, a linen-draper in New.gate-street. The prisoner went into the shop, and desired to look at some handkerchiefs, which were in the window. Three of them were shown him, and on his desiring to look at some of a different quality, three of those were also put before him, when he immediately took the whole six oil the counter, and coolly saying " These will do very well," walked out of the shop with them ; but witness imme diately followed and brought him back. The prisoner was for many years clerk to a mer chant in the country, and left his situation about ten weeks ago, during which time he had supported birri.elf partly on a few pounds he had saved, and partly by selling his things. Ile must decline enter ing more into particulars, and when the Alderman told him he must answer the question, lie said if that was the case, it would be necessary to place him on the rack. lie admitted that he had taken the handkerchiefs, because he wished to be sent out of the country. lie was remanded until Tuesday. MARLBOUOUOILSTREET. 11 ELIO C ONTROVERST.—On Saturday, after the business of the dice was finished, a female of the most respectable appearance, whore name we understood to be Preston, applied to Mr. CONANT for assistance, under the following circumstances As the lady advanced to the table, she stated that she wanted protection against the violence of her husband—on which a gentleman of a very military appearance rose from one of the seats, tad said he was the husband of the complainant. A rs. Preston, on being desired to state her com plaint, informed the Magistrate that she and her children were in danger of their lives from the vio lence of the defendant. lie had been out of iown, and had only returned in the course of Saturday. The instant he had entered his house he sent up one of the children to bring down a gun, for the purpose of beating out her brains. She was under the necessity of locking herself in the room for pro tection. Finding he could not get the gun, lie then asked for a dirk, which he swore he would plunge into her heart ;—end, had it not been for the interference of the new police, she had no doubt that the most dreadful results would have followed. The defendant, who appeared to labour under considerable irritability Of temper several times, while his wife was stating her fears ' interrupted he r by observations which only t en d e d to widen the breach between them. Mr. CONANT—If you are fearful that he will carry his threats into effect you must be sworn, and then I shall be able to render you some assistance ? Defendant—lf you swear her, let it be on the Cron, otherwise she will not mind an oath. Mr. CONANT—You have been here before, and, if I recollect, the differences between you arose from maintaining contrary religious opinions. Defendant —That is exactly the case. My wife is a Roman Catholic, and 1 am a Protestant. The complainant denied that religion had any thing to do with the present quarrel. Mr. CoNasm.--I recollect that your religious tenets were mentioned as the cause of all your un happiness on the former occasion? Defendant-- She is a bad women, having refused to l e t me i n t o my own house. Upon the accounts arriving in London that disturbances had broken out in hemp shire, I went down to protect my property, rind next week I shall be on the Bench with the Special Cotnmission at Winchester, but I w i s h to know whether I am to be prevented from entering into my own house, after having done so much service towards my King end country. During the tehel. lion in Ireland I did the most important services to the Gomm , or, and for that I have a pension, w hil e th e dirk which that woman has taken from me was my sole protector there, as welt as in other parts of the world. Mr. Plank, the chief officer---you have heard your wife state that she is afraid that . you will do some mischief with the dirk ; will you consent to leave it with the Magistrate for the present ? De fendant—Most certainly. Ort which the complain ant banded to Mr. Conant a large dirk, which she bad secreted- beneath her cloak. The defendant, on seeing hie favourite dirk, burst into a passionate exclamation upon its loss, having repeatedly saved his life by using it. Mr. CONAN't again asked the complainant if she intended to swear that her life was in danger ? " I will not swear at all," replied the wife, " but I shall be killed, and you will then regret that you did not protect me !" and, having said this, she rushed out of the office, and shortly after she was followed by her husband. ELECTION BY BALLOT. (From the Nott I?evietr.) Of all questions connected with Reform, none have made so much progress in so short a time as the Ballot ; this indeed, with sensible men, appears the sine qua non; without this, all other measures of Reform will be fallacious and inoperative, but this will secure that freedom of election which is so desirable in all Countries where there is a shadow of liberty, btu more especially in a country like Eng land, where the power of money and influence has so long reigned with unopposed sway ;—the ballot alone can oppose this power effectually, and render elections in their result what they ought to be, the clear expression of the people's will. No persons have done half so much for the ballot, as the Duke of Newcastle, Earl Grosvenor, and those other Peers, who have served notices to quit on their tenantry, for their open votes at the last elec tion, and yet the Duke, in his strange attack on Sir T. Denman, in the House of Lords, on Friday night," claimed the benefit of independence for him self, and therefore would allow it to others." What must his tenantry think of such a monstrous asser tion! Independence indeed 1 yes, but is it not punished in all those of his tenantry who asserted it. by ejectment from their dwellings? " Ile would do to others as he wished to be done unto himself! What would the Duke of Newcastle say, if, taking him at his word, the King's Ministers should give him notice to quit all the Crown Lands, on the ground of his voting against Ministers ? and yet, would this not be equal justice ?—would this not be treating him as he has treated his te nantry?—would this nut be treating him as he has done to others ?—and what right would such a noble ma i have to comphain ? The Duke afterwards in troduced the question of ballot, which he said he hoped would be scouted by all men. And %%hy ? because it would take from him the odious power which he claims, of doing what he will with his own; in other words, it would take from him his power over the borough of Newark, where the po pular feeling, if uncontrolled by his influence, would at once elect honest and independent men to repre sent them in Parliament, and refuse to be any longer saddled with any nominee which the Lord of Clum ber sent amongst them. The chief objection to the ballot urged by the Duke was, that "it would be disgraceful to the country; now an Englishman fought openly, spoke openly, and acted openly." The Duke should have added, and was ruined for so doing. But us this is an argument used by some whom we much respect, we will answer it; yet not in our own words, but in much better than any we eats use, from the able article in the Westminster Review, to which we have more than once directed the attention of our readers:— " Among the opponents of the ballot in Parliament are some who cannot so much be said to argue, as to groan, and use inarticulate cries against it. Of this kind are those who say, they hope that they shall not live to wit ness the time, when Englishmen shall not have the spirit to deliver their vote in the face of day. It would be as honest, and about as wise, to say, they hope not to live to witness the time when every Englishman shall not have his carriage and pair. If they were to say, which would be the only thing to the purpose, that they hoped not to live to see the day when an Englishman would not go to the hustings, and fearlessly vote for the man of his choke, without regard to the dictation of any person upon earth ; the falsehood of the prt text would be too glaring to be successful, even in a country where as much is done by hypocrisy as in England. It is matter of fact, notorious end undisputed, that a great majority of those who vote for Members of Parliament in England, proceed to the hustings under the influence of what they either hope to receive, or dread to suffer, and prostitute themselves in the most infamous manner, by voting not according to the dictates of their own minds, but like crouching slaves, at the will of another. Are these the circumstances in which votes are commonly given in England, and are men found who say they hope not to live to see the day when English men will be afraid to vote openly? Patience would be found to heir them in no assembly, we think, upon earth, but one ci inposed of the very men who suborn such votes. Courage to vote as Englishmen vote, at the command of those by whom they are bought, or driven, is the courage of the slave, when lie lends his body to the lash. Are there men, who pretend a horror at the prospect of parting with this, and receiving in exchange for it the protection of secrecy, because secrecy would degrade the people? " A wish for elevating the minds of the people is an admirable wish, and the profession of it is truly a pretty profession; but the true dimmer of the profession is known by the character of the things which follow. Is the wish not to see Englishmen vote secretly, a wish that Enhlishmen should have sufficient independence of mind to vote as they please though all the world should know in what manner they vote ! We also entertain that wish most fervently. We have another strong wish ; that all Englishmen were above being paupers. We apprehend, howiver, it would little answer any good purpose for us to use the formula of those who level their wishes against the ballot, and say, they hope not to live to see the day when Englishmen will live upon charity. Poverty makes the people of England willing to live on charity. Dependent circumstances makes them willing to prostitute their voice. Your choice lies between prostitute ♦oting and secret voting. There is the deepest degradation in prosti tute voting. Not only is there no degradation in secret voting, but it saves from all the degradation inseparable from prostitute voting ; all men, therefor, who deprecate the degradation of the people, not with hypocrisy, but in eat nest, are of course the ad►ocates of the ballot. " But on what authority, we shall be asked, do we make the apertion, that there is no degradation in secret voting? On the authority, we reply of those very men who may there is. What ! do the seine men, who say that secret voting is degrading, say also that it is not degrading ? They do ; as you, and as they, and as all men, are perfectly aware. You see them con stantly practising the ballot, and introducing the use of ballot without a thoueht of self-degradation, wherever it is really their wish that the vote should be protected from external influence. In order to protect themselves from the trifling inconvenience of displeasing somebody, by black-balling an impropvr candidate for admission into a club, they themselves take the benefit of secret voting. Can there he a snore perfect proof that they do not regard it as degrading? Can there be a more perfect proof that when they refuse to the honest voter fur a Member of Parliament the same protection against far more serious consequences, on the pretence that it is degrading, they are not sincere? Ob serve, too, the difference of the ends. That improper member, may not be admitted into a club, the secret voting is needful in the one case. That improper members may not be admitted into the Legislature, it is needful in the ot h er . D o you dare to say, that the use of it is not de grading in the former of these two casts, that it is degrad• ing in the latter ? 'That the end sanctifies the means in the former case, not in the latter ? I cannot abide muffling up,'" says one Honourable Gentleman ; and by such an appeal to sentimentality, manfully proposes to decide one of the most important outs. Cons of legislation. If a groat end is to be obtained by muffling up ? The nature of the pretext is so manifest, that it would seem not to be worth exposing ; and yet t here are persons for whose Like it may he proper to at tract a little attention to it. If there were any argument in these woods, it would rest upon this, that all secrecy is b.ol. If some .ecrecy is good, the man who says he does not like it, renders us one good service; he gives us full warning against taking him' for tr gnide. Every body knows, this Honourable Gentleman knows, that, in itself, secrecy is neither good nor bail. It is good, when it is the means to a good end ; bad, when it is the means to a bad end. It is not hese in the General, it is mer i tor ious, to " muffle up" his designs from the enemy. The more perfectly be can, by conceahnent, atra tagern, dissimulation, guil e , d e l u d e t h e i r expectation, the mor e be is admired. It is not base in negociation for the st,itesrnin to conceal with the utmost sire the extent of the concessions he would make, rather than fail in the at tainment of his object. Every government makes a point of concealing such a part of its proceedings, and, as far as I' mssible such particulars in the national aff a i re as it would be detrimental to the natio n to let other nations know. If it be detrimental to the nation , _ that the mode s ho u ld be known in Which a man g i ve ' his vote for a; Member of Parliament; that also, for the same reason, ought most as ,mredly to be kept frock being known. One is ashamed to feel oneself obliged to contend against such puerilitiesi. LAW REFORM. The late popular Member for this county, (Lord Brougham) now elevated to the highest situation in which even his Sovereign could place him, has not forgotten all his promises, but has taken the earliest opportunity of bringing into Parliament his pro mised Bill, to render law in certain cases cheap, and to bring the administration of justice near to every man's door. In our Parliamentary report will be found a tolerable outline of this excellent measure,' which precludes the necessity of our entering into any detail here. But there is one part of this mea sure we must not pass unnoticed,—a part, the esta blishment of which, if unaccompanied with any other beneficial enactment, would entitle its author to the everlasting gratitude of his countrymen. We allude to that part of the Bill where the Noble Lotd proposes to establish what he denominates courts of. Reconcilement, and to invest his Judges with a power of calling the litigants together, and examin ing them before each other: thus putting each of them, us it were, in possession of the ease of his adversary. We are fully persuaded that such a meL- sure would put a stop in /indite to a majority of law suits, especially when the conciliatory advice of the Judge is added, to calm the passions of the litigants, and inform their judgment ; and when the ignorat c s or selfishness of an interested attorney can have t o power to lead them on. But while we give to Lord Brougham the praise his talents and his liberality so loudly claim, let us not deny to another Noble Lord his deserved share of commendation. Lord Wynford, in his retirement from the bench, has also turned his attention to the gross defects of usual law proceedings, and en deavoured to devise a remedy for one of its most flagrant absurdities. We allude to the system of special pleading, the only use of which, as far as we could ever understand it, appears to be dreadfully to lengthen, and strangely to mystify, every law-pro cess—to envelope a plain ,case in a dark cloud of technicalities, and overwhelm poor common sense with a world of hard and half-unmeaning words. We heartily wish him success, as he would then not only save time and expense to the suitors, but reduce the process of law more to the level of common under standings, and prevent much of that chicanery which often defeats simple justice, and gives to cunning iniquity a lamentable triumph over honesty and right. We should rejoice to see him go forward in the same useful course, and endeavour to rid the practice of the law of those multifarious fictions which insult common sense, and render that an un intelligible mystery, which all are supposed to know and understand : for no man is permitted to plead ignorance of the law in extenuation of his error, though even its most celebrated professors are sometimes obliged to confess they do not clearly understand it.— Wakefield Journal. MEETING OF PRINTERS. On Friday evening a meeting of the Printers of the Me tropolis was held in the Theatre of the London Mechanics' Institution, convened for the purpose of petitioning Parlia ment fur the repeal or reduction of the duty on paper, newspaper stamps, and advertisements. The meeting was numerously an 4 respectably attended. Mr. Fay was unanimously called to the Chair. The CHAIRMAN briefly explained the object of the meeting, and congratulated the trade on the propect before thei of deliverance from the oppressive taxation by which their industry had been long oppressed. The SECRETARY read the Report of the Committee, (h• tailing their proceedings. The Report contained a copy of a letter from Mr. Hume, expressing his warm approbatilin of their proceedings and recommending their petitioning for a total repeal of the tax, by which their industry was im; effect, and that petitions should be presented from the Printers of the Metropolis, and all the towns of the kingdom, where there were any number of Printers, which would greatly strengthen the hands of those who meant to use vieir best exertions in Parliament for the repeal of the oppressive taxation.—Mr. flume also requested the Corn. mictee to use their exertions to remove the prejudice that existed against machinery, and referred them to Mr. Place, of Charing.cross, who would folly explain to them the great utility of machinery, as well to the workmen of every trade in which it was emplryed, as to the community at large. The Committee bad, in consequence, waited on Mr. Place, who entered into elaborate explanations of the immense advantage of machinery, which he considered beneficial in every case without exception. The Committee recommended that a renewed application should be made to Parliament, and that the Primers all over the country should be recommended to petition the Legislature, and to forward their petitions to the Committee, to be given to Members for presentation, as if they gave them to the Members of their own districts they would probably be merely presented and forgotten; but by forwarding them to the Committee they should be given for presentation to men who were the pride of the country—who gloried in the diffusion of knowledge si the most effectual means of promoting the happiness of the people. The Report was received with great applause. Mr. PA mizarf. said, the report they had heard gave him greater satisfaction than any he had ever before heard. Still he could not concur in the opinion that machinery was in every instance immediately beneficial to the indi viduals into whose business it was intreelueed. He could not concur in this opinion when he saw so many in dustrious pressmen thrown out of employment, and mat y of them reduced to the sad necessity of becoming inmates of the workhouse. There could, however, be no doubt that machinery was beneficial to the community in its results, and they, as compositors, had no reason to com plain of it on their own account. It was by grinding taxation they were oppressed, which had caused the an nihilation of four daily newspapers within the last five y ears , a nd prevented that extent of printing business which would certainly otherwise take place from the growing desire of knowledge in the community. It was taxa tion which at that momeist caused four hundred com positors is the metropolis to be out of employment. He approved of the Report, though he should prefer peti tioning for the total repeal of the taxes affecting their trade, to petitioning merely fur a reduction. He moved that the Report be agr ee d to. The motion having been seconded, was put front the Chair and carried, two hands only being held up against it. The Cu...mum stated to the meeting, that the Com mittee had prepared the draft of a petition to the Home of Commons for a reduction in the existing duties, by which their business was injured, which, if they pleased, should be read fur their consideration and adoption. Mr. PAILIEIt said there was such a material improve ment in their prospects since the Committee bad been ap pointed, that he thought they should now follow the ad vice of the working man's friend, Mr. flume, and petition for a total repeal of the obnoxious taxes. Their petition, last Session, presented by Lord Morpeth, had excited great attention ; and the liberal Ministry now in power, many of whose Members had already declared themselves is favour of the repeal, should encourage them to increased exertion for the repeal of th.t oppressive load of taxation which deprived so many Members of the profession of the means of living, and operated injuriously on all. lie moved that a petition be presented to the House of Commons for the total repeal of the duties on paper, on newspaper-statnps, and advertisements. . • Mr. O'LEARY seconded the motion. The tax on knowledge was probably originally proposed as a means of preventing the people acquiring political information, and, assuredly would not be persevered in by a Ministry whose highest glory it was that they sought support from public opinion, and were desirous to be judged by the tendency of their measures to promote the public welfare. They could not continue taxation that was driving indus trious men out of employment for the purpose of prevent ing the diffusion of knowledge among the people. While ever Mr. Hume was in Parliament the working classes of the people might be certain of having an able, honest, and indefatigable friend—(Applause) —and while the won derful man now at the head of the jurisprudence of the country retained a place in his Majtisty's Councils, the conitnunity might rely on having a friend to the diffusion of knowledge. The resolution was agreel to, and a Committee ap pointed, alter which thanks were voted to the Chairman for his excellent conduct in the chair, and a subscription entered into fur defraying the necessary expenses. MArivELL.—The pointed and sparkling style of the Author of " Saying and Doings," wilt be *bun dantly recognised in this latest creation of the same spor tive pent it has been with truth observed that this writer possesses id an eminent degree, the talent of employing the minute diurnal realities of life, with the happiest t ffect for comic purposes. The productions of Mr. HOOK, like the scenic personation' of LisTrar and Manumit, are rich 41 the ludicrous to a degree that defies resistance to laughter, and may be read aloud is the domestic fire-side cireN" with all the joyous result of a fitravor 4 comic interlude at the theatre. MR. SYKES'S VISIT TO LEEDS. ) - 1 (From the Doncaster Gaulle-) Pursuant to notice by placards, .Daniel Sykes, Esq. M.P., addressed the freeholders of thermal?, at the Cloth Halls, Leeds, on Saturday last. He repaired to the Coloured Cloth Hall, attended by a number of friends, and was received by the assembly with vehement and continued cheering. The Ito. Gentleman was introduced to the freeholders by John Marshall, Esq. (late M.P. for this county) in abrief address. Daniel Sykes, Esq. then stood forward, and the cheering was renewed. He remarked in the course of his address with respect to the vote, by ballot that—" Without pretending to give a de cided opinion upon the subject, he was free to con fess to them—and he did so without the least design to court their favour—that he thought voting by ballot wrulil be favourable to the freedom of election. —(Hear, hear, and cheers.)—Two. considerations induced him to think so. They all knew that in open boroughs and large towns the system of bribery prevailed, in consequence of the present mode of , election, but which the vote by ballot would entirtly put down—( Hear, hear, hear) —because it Wa s almost impossible to suppose such an absurdity as a candidate or his agent giving money, to a man for his vote, without knowing which way he actually would vote. That Would be like " buying a pig in a poke." This ass the fist consideration, and affected the system representation ac it at present stood. 110 (P' Sykes) referred to the recent election at Liver/4 01 0 where, amongst 4,000 voters, it was said that no less t!) a shame) so,ooo. had The been second spent in bri (Shame , braced the supposition of an actuslci:Bles°idrerm'stilheein."' supposing the inhabitant houstitolder paying taxes had a right to vote, and was allowe d to give his vote b a y ballot, he would act on his own sound judgment, and nor, as was the case at present, under thaintne underd o;his the landlord, m orl o d r i dictation is own good sen.se, ence k of hy eep ti e i r e s i; u e n u d p e e r rio tl r r e e . f ( e T set ru it e :y i s r t u e e m . l i emar ' ff e'ri fil n l uS e e c n i t them to look at the boroughs of !Newark and Stem- ford. There the right to vote was vested in the inhabitant householders, who, one would think, were inclined to be virtuous--but what va i fact ? Why, their intention w as obviated by d:. ence. Persons were under pecuniary oblig attonth: but had they to go otherwise than sped to not whom poll, they would give an independent a they rote as they now did, for me mbers could not conscientiously support. lt COUNTRY CORN' MARICETS. DURING LAST DUttit ..... ._____ 22_.."A5Lv:::;:..............,„_...m. raw- - . Wheat. Barley. 0 0 * „........" —.----. ................. ................. Ter Quarter. 15.t04.15. to s. s. 10 11. ;II , 0 Catliale.---.--... -- 72 I .... Se Carmarthen........ 65 140 .- 22 _, ; ,bo' g Hezhara....-----. 1 52 73 ;33 3 1 ‘ ,.. 30, • 26 00 M0rpeth...........--.: 50 el 30 SA ~, .4 ..• •1. Prnrith —.........-..1 -- (fr I. 37 ..... ' lit Sheffield ...-----. :-- 70 -- 42 •-• „„'• 4 0'. 46, Winchester i V V3l 30 2 1 ''''' 0. ail* Per Bushel. le. d. s. d . s. d , s. d, s. A. s.d. 4: ~6 0 Coventry ..........-1 7 0 90 4 8 54 39 40f X 0 p Newcastle (MOE) !109 II 360 66 3 4 3 fir, 6 6 Northallerton......l 7 0 9 3 3 6 4 6 S S 4 0 :1 80. StAfford .---..-.1 9 0 9 4 5 9 6 2 3 6 4 : I, 00 Swansea ..-----..1 7 9 9 4 4 8 3 0 9 9 3 . 0 $ g 0 Warwick ............1 90100465 9 2 9 2 a • , Per Doll. 1 06It 6 Rarnardouitle.--115 0 18 6 1 7 9 9 0 6 0 Durham .......-...-.. ils 0 180 90 10 6 3 0 87 g 1,1 6 ° it, 1 Richmond .....---115 3 10 0 8 6 9 0 6 0 8 0 ty, a 00 3t0ckt0n..............:05 9 17 6 9 0 ID 0 7 4 8 i :" ------ - .-,,0v aIitRKET,4244. what's. W AKI:FIELD CORN id ARKET.--Dec; 10 ... 1 There is A good supply of Wheat, Barley, and Beans. hu_ s c""a moderate of Oats to this day's market Tne beet oy-stall's-rm. Nov and fresh Old Whelt go Jff slowly d u last Friato PnTi..., U secondary and inferior Lids are veryll Sale. 041 eli , quired After, and rather dearer Good Norfolk And Suoo.o is In fair demand at the rates of last week, but other down _,„4 are heavy sale. Old BOMB. o f good quality, are searc r O LieF dearer, but New, being chiefly to tender condition, sell o without alteration in prices. Wheat, Red, Nuonr.folankdacosand 5uiTti1....k........re.. 64, 044 . . t o o Lic . 1111:774bi5. -------- Y0rk5hire............ .. Ws. 61s. to oft. one's* --- White .. : . „...............:«01a. Ma. to 71c one pa -- Foreign, West ........ ..........tins. M . to fiSs. tine? ---------...... Whits., ...... ..... et3s. 117 c to 7"1 One 7* Barley Norfolk And Sahli. ......... . ..... 3U. to 4.24, rine 414 ----' Lincolnshire .. .... «......... ........ 345. to 375. One 4ilo. --- Yorkshire Wold .................».. Slil. to 37c One VI. ----. Foreign . T---15):::;r:.:50.iitrninta1.:0,1....1n....*.d............a.....11....:....d......::::........m..............iii..............................................1...........................«:.4.1.4.:......... Mizic: titi:42k5940::.... Anew Poland.. -- Mealing ....... ... .......... .........1114d. to 1 3 ,1 Pee,Ta Shelling ..... ...... ...... ............. «. . ....Vic to 3gs. ‘,... ir- . Malt . ... _. . „.74.25. 475. fine 43 14 Per 10, RePosetd ................... ......Dgi. Os. 401. Or. 411. %Pee --,----._----.---_......--... CORNWALL MATIKETs„...O,OO.OI. l'lttnto—Wh eat (average) 045.--Ilarley,l2o.o",r.ok.«,o3tes ST. A cars ta.,—W h eat, 2 ls. to 245--Bglgi r# l6 :"'' ' m. 7s to P 4. Od. 010.416 c ."- :°l3 l °I 6.1. -e-Wl:thegiea."-t(a,;;;lst73d.")i --24:111:aildr1:7124.1.11141 11::4711.41,14:2 Lavaccaroa—Wheat (average) 275.011.-- , W .,,, ' Pax zawca—'Wheat, 216. to Sis....Barlol. ~,,,,- 1 , $0„ la el" -- na. to Ss. Od.—Beef and Mutton, sd. to fai.... , `" - ' Butter, lid. per lb. 1 ,1 SOLNA ao—Wheat, ..-4. Ott. tO %O. ett....Pl—.* to 9., Od. Sr. Cobuma—Wheat, g2s. to 240.-Z rle ck and Mutton, sd. to 6d.—Veal, 4d.—Liunb, isii 1:.:411,;091.4, Quantal or Coppe l l tom* Clr o f Aversive Produce ...... ..................A.... : Quantity of tine Copper ................ An o tt.t of Sa!ts, 1304/. 48 . fd..--____ rcr 10_ brought STORIES h ll Ag f aist t lnn r eec r e ; fr a o ef n r . se -- la l e l s c ao re l i, t t is a . f r o y A r ?t the : as the rica, but we can ' hie footstep s. ll founder of a class of o Titers, who follow c Alas _ liTrogn ha s in the war...- L....yip, Reminiscences i"neh 1 l Or' awl humouroub in WOO . 6 sketches, in ea together a series of fresh pictures, crig•°.s for any of which t . he r l fintnt nisi Isl.. r , e ,r , ,4 of _ pathos of lien i I ~, b e uivstritfied the Sketch Book. 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The cog e ,",,,,:ii la °' Clifton, in a short but rather steep pitch in 7. ~- f i o ' ne pi t c a t t t ho ve n eer ae d y ct m b ho ns e n at co ' r d a e w s y t t a e l ii n i t t e t n a t e a c ru n os e c :l : ll ce a t a r l f u n n it' l a w i t a i n ci i i ' proceeded when d X in r r ci ii n T qn s , °4l4:lPiq ri ve ; 11 ;; : 111:18 Ohio coo Plough public-house, and threw 111° c° afthoolfb till Pi' trxigisn..ldcs and one out, besides the guard l • bet pooloo is so severely injured that his ' Wits' ° IV , '0 V. s o ion t t head with such force that not otar di , d : 1/0 111 of the brain take place, but a VOW' ''',....ivilifitiL protruded through one of his tam.- Oxford du"' MARRIED. Oillig h l f j i On the 11th inst. by special licence's 11 _! colbtoi' Church, Kent, by the Rev. Dr. Page, CePa'rioeso; 17th Regt, t o Elizabeth, widow of the lota te 4 , - r. 00" Harding ., 99th Re g t., and niece or the la is ' fail' dale, of Bristol. A Milollol le On the 11th lost. at Putney, F. W. y, 45 _,.,,ik - ..trer c w eldest son of Sir F. M. Otnmanney, of r 4 ° lw- lif ti P'" Mary Ann, thirst daughter of W. Joneot P i V 1 4 of the King's Bench, and of Putney. ii oret 0 On the 11th inst. at St. George's, ileno ver-C , parr' Freeman , Esq., of Guildford -street, Begr, "Ji of O W Henrietta, daughter of R. S. Illiogwortk, r."4l' ter-lltect, Belgrave-square. On the 10th inst. Mr. T. Holt, DIED. a but,' , thl Finsbury Circus, aged 40. , „,pgt.-' On the 10th inst. at Camden Terriats re' e—t - so d Rev. R. Kennett. f Ne vi On the 11 th inst. Mr. C. Rilbentet ° „ e . ',tract, age d 54. 011 0,. On the 10th inst. Wm. Mudge, Eli" l ' i ,-, Aged 40. .----- A t ------------------------,-""qi'vr4C; PRINTICD MID POSLISIOD ST ItIVRD°,, 011, Tart SUN OfrICS, 112, StAANUI - ° Of Alderoll Sill