The Sun. — London, England, 1833-09-28 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS• It Was an object of some surprise with a part of the public, that in the compte rendu ascribed to Ministers, called " The Reformed Ministry and the Reformed Parliament, in which each departri ent exhibited its claims to public grati tude, founded on the recent improvements which it had introduced, the Noble Postmaster- General was silent. Everybody was disposed to do justice to his Grace's admirable private character, and to his assiduous attention to official business ; ever3body knew that he was desirous of doing more than he could actually accomplish—that he was controlled in his efforts at a melioration by influences which he could not immediately resist—and that, if the Post-office arrangement has become an exception to the general march of reform, it was not owing to the Noble Head of the department. The readers of the pamphlet, therefore, ascribed, no doubt, the absence of all allusion to the Post-office to what we should have imagined to be its true cause—namely, the benevolent modesty of the Noble Duke in shrinking from personal praise, where his personal eulogium must have been a satire on his subalterns, and his consciousness that great improvements had been rejected, when demanded by that very public to whom the appeal of the pamphlet was made. Some indiscreet subaltern of the Post-office has seen the defect in the original publication to which we have adverted, and has thought of supplying that defect by giving a list of changes about which the public can feel but little cu riosity ; which were, in general, the creation of circumstances, and not the result of reflection, and which demanded no sacrifice of time or in- tPrest, and required no exertion of ingenuity on the part of the establishment. Like all the other labours • of the Post-office, this supplementary statement has been delayed as long as possible, and forms a proper emblem of those post haste improvements which it records, by appearing for the first time in the fifth edition of the Minis terial pamphlet ! We can, of course, find no fault with the announcement so far as it goes— with the establishment of coaches on so many new cross roads—with the acceleration of so many existing mails—with the erection of so many new twopenny posts—with the engage ment of so many additional letter carriers— with the opening of so many new com munications, or the improvement of so many old ones, in any part of the three kingdoms. These were all, perhaps, necessary ; but they are not all that is necessary. They have all, more- over, been extorted from the establishment by complaints, and were resisted as long as it was possible. They, besides, impose no additional trouble on the Post-office direction, while they confer additional patronage on its officers. We need only ask how long, for instance, the Post office resisted the employment of steam-boats in its service between Calais and Dover,—how long they resisted the regular transmission of the mails by steam between Dover and Ostend, —how long they continued to send the mail bags by sailing packets to Holland and Ham burg after a regular steam-boat communication had been established,—and how long it is since they agreed to send letters to Lisbon and the Mediterranean by steam-carriage ? We rejoice that these arrangements have at last been made ; but we owe no more gratitude to the Post-office establishment, which at length reluctantly sub mitted to them, than we owe thanks to the bo roughmongers for the speedy accomplishment of Parliamentary Reform. Among the bene ficial innovations for which the Post-office takes credit from the public in the Ministerial postscript, we find the establishment of a daily post between France and England. It certainly required considerable powers of gravity, and strength of nerve, to put down this item of reform or " good works" without something like an hysteric laugh. We formerly exposed the w hole mystery of the reluctant negotiation of which this is the only fruit. We showed that the arrangement was, in a manner, forced upon the Post-office in England by shame at the superior liberality of that of our neighbours— that the directors of the French Post-office, who came here, found the greatest difficulties in accomplishing this single object—and that, with regard to four or five other unequivocal im provements, which they proposed and pressed, they could obtain no favourable consideration, far less any willing acquiescence. They pro posed that franking of foreign letters between the two countries, should be optional, and that the two Post-offices should reciprocally ac count to each other for the postage. This would have occasioned trouble, and, there fore, was resisted. They proposed, that the Journals of the two countries should be carried free of expense, or for the same expense, so far as their equality in number corresponded. This would have destroyed an English post-office monopoly, and was, of course, rejected. In short, the French Commissioners retuned home with feelings of disgust at the obstacles which they had met, and the treatment which they had received, having undertaken their mission with the prospect of benefiting both countries, and in the erroneous conviction that the sentiments of the English officials would accord with their own. We had subsequently occasion to cele brate the exploits of the Post-office establishment, in alluding to the petitions presented against its clerks by the newsvenders, and we do not observe, in the supplement to the Ministerial pamphlet, that the monopoly complained of has yet been abandoned. We therefore presume to think that on all these grounds the said " fifth edition would have been better without its Post-office k‘ appendix."—Tintes. The Standard continues to profess alarm at the searching inquiry into the existing state of the Corporations of the United Kingdom. We shall not depart from the propriety of the con duct of this Journal by condescending to notice oncourteous or unusual observations on the composition of our articles, however unfounded, as in the instance of the Standard last night. Our contemporary may not, perhaps, be aware that be is himself somewhat open to ridicule. But our object is with the subject matter of a contro versy. We fully admit that Corporations have been valuable bulwarks against Monarchical tyranny; but it was in the days of their more primitive constitution, before the elective prin ciple had been usurped by local oligarchies ; and we are now desirous of seeing their eman. eipation from party an . d aristocratic usurp a ti ons for a new infusion of popular power will termi nate abuses, the existence and wrong of which no impartial or liberal person can deny. W e conclude that the existence of abuses is not dis believed or disputed, but that tv,- are now to understand that the evils of the present Cw porate system ought to be perpetuated as a barrier " against democratieal tyranny in the nineteenth century," and as a remedy for the " mad impolicy of habituating the unthink- ing vulgar of the country to the work of de struction and change." If, by the " unthinking vulgar" the middle classes excluded from all mu nicipal power are meant, we should think such language might be more appropriately applied to the self-elected Corporators, who vulgarly and ignorantly fancy that they can maintain their political monopoly. We shall patiently wait the result of this important inquiry, when the country will doubtless learn the real merits and defects of these local institutions. The parchment votes of the Scotch county franchise, and the costly borough-election possessions of the aristocracy, might be more justly designated as an attack upon property. But it is a strange perversion of reasoning to excite this prejudice against the inquiries of the Corporation Com mission. What inroad or dispossession of property, for instance, has resulted from the recent reform of the Scotch Burgh contstitu tions? The only " revolution" consists in the number and character of the administrators of the public revenues, and in the substitution of popularly elected for self-elected magistrates and municipal officers. These affected alarms only further prove the necessity and value of inquiry ; and, as in the instance of Leicester, stated by our correspondent, they create a just prejudice against corporators. If these autho rities are thus blindly and doggedly opposed to the admission of light on their past deeds, what value can they put on their public reputation, and how can they be astonished at the public suspicion and disgust at their secret proceedings? We suspect that all wise Corporators and Town Councils of Scotch Burghs will not thank their partisans for this present mode of defence of self-election and municipal monopoly.— Morning Chronicle. Though it is impossible to say anything new respecting the investigation which the different Corporations of the kingdom are at present undergoing, there is a fair excuse for repeating what we have said before, so long as our politi cal opponents avail themselves of the same pro cess to favour their peculiar views of the subject. The last word is of some value in every dis pute ; it may operate rather mechanically than intellectually, but still it is of some value. We do not promise to contend for it with those who may have more constitutional ardour or more urgent motives than ourselves, but we are not, therefore, less cognizant of the fact, that even a bad cause is not wholly exempted from the re ward of perseverance. All the Conservative Journals have joined in raising the cry of " Stop thief !" against the Commission. This is rather premature, seeing that no property has been touched as yet, and that none can be touched without inquiry —nor, therefore, it may be pre sumed, without sufficient reason, if it be touched at all. The only question that can be said to be fairly open as yet with respect to those in vestigations is the question of the right of inquiry. Now the persons who contend most vehemently for the purity of corporate bodies are the very persons who ought to be the fore most in asserting this right, and in demanding the application of it to such bodies, as the best an swer that can be given to false and malignant charges. They cannot deny that Corporations have fallen into bad odour with the public ; that they have been accused of appropriating funds to other purposes than those for which they were originally granted ; that they have been stigma tised as corrupt and dishonest stewards, who ought to be made accountable for the wrong they have done. Those charges are either true or false. In either case they ought to be in vestigated, and the more searching the investi gation the better for the ends of justice, which cannot be satisfied with any thing short of the most full and complete inquiry. It is well known that Courts of Law are tied up by tech nicalities, which frequently operate even in the case of individuals against the doing of substan tial justice. How much more likely are such tribunals to fail against privileged bodies, wrapped up in all the mysteries and trickeries which a long course of misgovernment may have moulded into something like authority and prescription. You may meet the wolf in the thicket, but if you go into his den you should go well armed, not only because of the fa mily you may meet inside, but because of the dark turnings which they understand and you are ignorant of. It is to the power of the Commis sion that the Conservatives object, for as yet there has been no abuse. The justification of that power is, that nothing short of it would be adequate to the undertaking. If Corporations be the strongholds of corruption, it is only a strong arm that can deal with them. But the strength of the Commission is not an irrespon sible strength ; it is not a blind and headlong power which, once put in motion, cannot be modified, controlled, or retracted. Like other powers, it may do wrong ; but what we say is, let us see the wrong ; it is unfair to argue from presumption. Besides, it should be borne in mind that the Commission cannot of itself de termine finally on the fate of any Corporation. Those who are so much alarmed for the rights of property, will do well to reflect upon this se curity, that the Ministers and the Parliament, and the community at large—in short, that all who have property will be witnesses of those proceedings, and that public opinion will exer cise an important influence over the result. Surely the alarmists do not mean to arrogate all the property of the country to themselves, toge ther with all the reason and all the virtue.— Morning Herald. Lord Palmerston has made up his mind upon. Portuguese affairs, and is now pursuing the policy which lie has fixed upon with all sails set. That policy, in a few words, amounts to this, that England having acknowledged Donna Maria, the eldest daughter of Don Pedro, a son being still living, as Queen of Portugal, it is in cumbent on the Portuguese people to accept her as such, as well as to consider her as their right- Jul and lawful sovereign, otherwise they will incur his Lordship's displeasure, and render themselves liable to all the penalties which, as an M.P. and Minister for Foreign Affairs, he can cause to be inflicted upon them. The Portuguese contest has thus assumed a new character. It is no longer brother against brother, but Lord Palmerston versus the Por tuguese people, and a few weeks will probably bring us to a decision. But should Lord Palmer ston be worsted—should his deep and extensive u combinations f a il—what w ill b e our position, and what will ot h er nat i ons say o f our magnanimity and jstiee mind After us , s a i ing allde deriving n resources o from f the comprehensiv e political reformers of every b nation in Europe, should hi s Lordship be eventually defeated, by the energie s o f the P a,,r‘rhoezt i d t to our selves be opinion will be form e d of us peop l e , w h at e sion of another kingdom, of actually made apparent that we have arrogate appointing selves the exclusive right of settlin g the succes the Sovereign of Portugal, and giving to the object of our choice the advantages of all the treaties made with the Portuguese nation within the last 350 years ? The volume of the true and national history of Portugal, since the death of King John VI., does not lie open to every eye, because it was never written,and the utmost care has been taken that it should not, in a correct form at least, appear in print ; but when ever it does Lord Palmerston's name and the agencies of the wily, we might almost add visionary and aspiring, Palmella, will form lead ing features in its pages. Should it ever pass through the press it will not there appear that it has been the policy of the Grey Cabinet to preserve peace and amity with all nations. When it is asserted that it has. been the wish of the King's advisers to respect the rights and independence of all Sovereign States, the instances of Portugal and Spain ‘N ill rise up in judgment against them. If a word is said on the impartiality and fairness with which the British Government have acted, towards the belligerents in the Portuguese struggle, proofs innumerable will be adduced to show the contrary. Whenever the moment of reflection comes, and come it must, the conduct of our Government towards Portugal, we repeat, will be found marked with acts of the most cry ing injustice and ingratitude. Fortunately, they are the acts of our rulers, and not of the nation; but when our oldest and best allies have by the present war been deprived of nearly halt' a cen tury's growth, the consequences will inevitably affect us to a large extent. This infatuation is unaccountable ; and, when matters are known with more precision, the strongest detestation will be excited at that species of secret interfe rence in Portuguese affairs, as well as the great est contempt for a Government that can so far mistake or betray the real and substantial inte rests of the country as to lend itself to the wild and ambitious projects of such a weathercock as Don Pedro. Lord Palmerston must have for gotten the history of this singular man in Brazil. We beg him to refresh his memory, and merely to look at Don Pedro's mani festo of August 1, 1822, and then say whether he or his issue can or ought to reign in Portugal. This is the paper that first brought Don Pedro into public notice. After enumerating the irregularities and misconduct of the Lisbon Cortes, the same Cortes which a party in the capital, but not in the provinces, now wish to re-establish—after declaiming against the Constitutional leaders, who had ruined Portugal, and were driving Brazil to the brink of a precipice, some of them the very men who are now at the head of his councils—in a word, after calling down upon these same Constitu tionalists the most bitter imprecations, as being the authors of all the calamities which at that period befel the two countries, Don Pedro de clared the two kingdoms severed and separated for ever, and, choosing Brazil as his adopted land, and abandoning Portugal, he told the Brazilians " that he was their countryman and defender, and that the honour and prosperity of Brazil were to be the only reward of their united labours !" " Proceeding in this path," adds he, " you will always find me at your head, and in the post of danger. Be convinced (said he emphatically) that my happiness consists - in your happiness — to me it is a glory to rule over a gallant and free people like yourselves." On the very same day he declared war against Portu gal, and on the 12th of the ensuing month of October he was proclaimed Emperor of Brazil by the title of Don Pedro 1., and his successors, when, as the Act recites, his daughter Donna Maria was with him during the ceremony, and then, and until the birth of her brother on the 2d of December, 1825, she was always consi dered by the Brazilians as the Heiress Apparent of their throne. Don Pedro reigned in Brazil till April 12, 1831, that is, nearly ten years—in Brazil, a sovereign and independent kingdom, and consequently foreign to Portugal—and after being thence expelled, and for the best reasons, is it consistent with the honour and justice of Great Britain to force this same ex - B razili an Ruler, or his issue, upon the Portuguese, in op position to their laws, their interests, and their avowed sentiments? We cannot plead ignorance of these facts, for they are too recent to be for gotten, a circumstance which materially aggra vates the insidious conduct of the British Government against Portugal. Lord Palmerston, however, says that Don Pedro's issue shall sit upon the throne, whilst he himself is arranging matters, with the aid of his old friends the Constitutionalists of 1820, to obtain the Crown for his own portion. The Portuguese people declare that neither shall have it,and the question, ,t may be expected, will soon be brought to issue. —Morning Post. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. DEPREDATIONS IN CHURCHES, CHAPELS, AND MEETING-HOUSES.—Yesterday the Justice-room was crowded by churchwardens and other parish officers, anxious to hear the charges against Charles Mason, who has been in the habit of taking his round of the places of worship in London and its environs, and plundering them of Bibles and Prayer-books, the boxes containing which he opened with a chisel at the same time that he appeared to be joining in the service with the most pious concern. He had been apprehended by an officer in consequence of an inti mation from a parishioner in Aldersgate church, that he was robbing and praying at the same time, arid the plunder and the chisel were found about his person. Sapwell, the beadle and assistant overseer of St. Peter's, Cornhill, stated, that having s een a paragraph in the newspapers relative to the rob bery committed by the prisoner, arid knowing that a great number of churches and other places of worship had been robbed of books, he deter mined, for the sake of the beadles, who might, Irr some inst ances , b e suspecte d, to ma k e a ll neces sary inqui r y, and he certainly succeeded in find ing out innumerable cases of robbery committed under the cloak of religion, which the prisoner could put on whenever he pleased, in the most dex terous manner. Witness dogged a woman who had been talking to the prisoner at the Compter, to an obscure house in Spitaltields, to which she went in a very roundabout way. Upon entering, he saw the walls covered with pious prints, and upon re moving one of them, he found on the pasteboard to which it had been stuck, the name of the very parish of which he was beadle. On a closer exa mination lie found a small book, containing a list of churches and chapels, in number between seventy and eighty. Many of the names of places of wor ship are ticked off, and it was evident from the ac count, which was kept with the regularity of a ledger, that those places had been visited and plun dered by the prisoner. Appended to the items in the list, were the worde, " B ble completely new — for self;" " Prayer-books, three, morocco bound, a little used, may go to the public ;" " good ; Two Prayer-books, new, well gilt—for the public," &c. &c. From this list it appeared that upwards of forty places of worship had been suc cessfully visited. The visit to Aldersgate church was not ticked off, and probably, with the excel.)• tion of the church in which the gaol chaplain °lli ciates, that would be the last church in which he would have an opportunity of exercising his trade: The prisoner said he had nothing to do with the ticking-off. Sapwell said that the woman had told him she was the prisoner's wife ; and it was evident from what the neighbours said that the wretched woman was very badly treated by him, for they said he fre quently knocked her down and kicked her, and then he'd begin to sing psalms and, hymns with a loud voice, to drown her complaints.—(Laughter.) The prisoner used to visit church sometimes in a camlet cloak, with powdered hair, and was remarkable, upon going into a pew, for keeping his head a long time in his hat, as if in deep prayer. He must have been in the habit of going to work with his chisel daring the most solemn and impressive part of the service, for he never was suspected before the day he was caught; and his face was just the thing for the deception. The prisoner with difficulty suppressed a laugh. The LORD MAYOR—I dare say he has not con fined himself to stealing prayer-books. Sapwell said that was soon ascertained. A poor feeble old man, who was on the verge of the grave, happened to live in the next room to the prisoner, and having heard so much psalm singing, thought that the best way to heaven would be to follow the advice of so pious a person. The prisoner showed him the way, but did him out of a mourn int, ring at the same time, and pawned it for 12s. —(Great laughter.) The officer produced the duplicate. The LORD MAYOR—Why, prisoner, you have made good use of your piety ? The prisoner shook his head, but said nothing. Sapwell—He called at a church in the neighbour hood to make some inquiry about administering the sacrament, which he appeared anxious to take, and I found in his room a ticket of admission to the gallery of Rowland Hill's chapel, where he no doubt intended to go. The ticket was numbered 72, in the name of Jenkins, and admitted up to Midsum mer, 1834. The woman, who said she was the prisoner's wife, was asked by the LORD MAYOR whether she was married to the prisoner, and if she had been ill treated by him ?—She admitted that although he sung psalms and prayed aloud, he often beat her severely, and she declared that she was his true and loyal wife. Mrs. Elizabeth Coomes, a lady who has a seat in Aldersgate church, identified the three prayer books as her property, which had been stolen out of her box in the church ; she also identified a pair of clogs, which, when the prisoner was apprehended, were found on the seat near him. Sapwell said, that he had learned that the pri soner had been a hackney coachman, and an attor ney's clerk, and it was believed that he used to go to preach in the outskirts of the town. In his paper list he had noted down the lecture days at the seve ral chapels. With respect to his wife, if she had done anything wrong, it must have been by com pulsion from her husband, who had the knack of quoting Scripture and cursing her at the same time. No doubt, if the prisoner was remanded, a number of palish officers would come forward, for heavy imputations lay upon some on account of the active villainy of the prisoner. The LORD MAYOR ordered the witness to be bound over, and said that the parish officers of the metropolis should have an opportunity of bringing forward any charges against the prisoners on Fri day next. REMARKABLE CASE OF AFFILIATION.—AIr. Innes, the Churchwarden of St. Pancras, Soper-lane, caused to be brought before the LORD MAYOR a butcher, named Frederick Corneley, in order to have him sworn to as the father of the child of Miss Mary Apfold, a lady who came to town upon a visit to Mrs. Keats, of Cheapside. The case was a very odd one. When Miss Apfold, whose brothers ate very respectable farmers in Kent, came to London to visit Mrs. Keats, she complained of ill-health, and on meeting with the sympathy of that lady, and many kind inquiries, designated her complaint as an in ternal tumour. As the young lady had passed her 32d year without any taint upon her reputation, no body suspected that the tumour was one which time would dis.dpate without the assistance of any thing but the hand of nature. She made a variety of applications, with the advice of her hostess and the surgeon of the family, but the tumour, instead of diminishing, visibly increased, and Mrs. Keats, ap prehensive that the consequences might be fatal if strong embrocations were not used, sent for Dr. Ramsbottom. The doctor was not long in the pre sence of the ladies when he gave notice that a stranger would give them a call in a very few hours; upon which he took his hat and stick and walked off. Sure enough a stranger did give them a call in about three hours, and with the vigorous lungs of a large male baby, and Miss Apfold, immediately upon his appearance, resumed her original size and ap pearance. The LORD MAYOR, upon being informed that the lady appeared to affiliate the child to the de fendant, expressed surprise at such a proceeding, in a case where the friends of the female were of such undoubted respectability. Mr. Innes said that the family had totally cast her off, on account of the disgrace which she had cast upon it. The lady at whose house the unfor tunate mother had been taken ill had acted with the greatest benevolence and compassion, but inter cession was quite useless. - Miss Apfold stated that the defendant had been two years in the habit of calling at her brother's farm to buy calves and lambs, and that in December last he succeeded in seducing her, after having pro mised her marriage. Defendant—December ! July you mean. I never had anything to do with you till last July, and then you was suffering under your tumour, as you call it.—(This was uttered in a very brutal lone.) The LORD MAYOR—You admit, at any rate, that you have visited her in this familiar way ? Defen dant—Yes, but not time enough. I was not at her brother's at all near the time she spoke of. It was somebody else. She mistook some one else for me. The brother of the mother of the child stated that the defendant certainly had called at the farm in December, and had no doubt at that time accom plished the ruin of the unfortunate and now totally deserted woman. The Vestry Clerk of the parish in which the child was born, said that plenty of evidence could be produced to prove that the defendant visited the house at the period specified. The LORD MAYOR—Did he promise marriage ? Miss Apfold—Certainly he did. Defendant—What to marry you! Oh, you mis take, I never did; you never asked me.—(Laughter.) The brother—We can never receive her; its the last thing our family could have thought of; she has disgraced us. The LORD MAYOR—It is natural that her family should feel for themselves; but it is natural also that they should feel for her, for she is now altoge ther helpless and unprotected, and it is evident that this is her first error. I hope you won't abandon her to the miseries of prostitution. The brother shook his head, and seemed coolly determined to forget that she was ever his sister. The butcher, who made a joke of the matter, possible, s , a as id h he ie was ilad only reason a jjourneyman.T t th e e V d e efn hoped, if the Lord Mayor would have him to be the father, that the figure for the expenses would tia e ] ashsrnalls e tary dn sp a oss Clerkt was worth from 1,5001. to 2,0001. LB , uI,T A R _ h 0 0 71 R i a s O s U yre G S was T yesterdayß E E T. brought ASSA The Court then ordered that the butcher should pay the full sum awarded in such cases. 11 before Messrs. CHAMBERS and CONANT, charged with having assaulted a p o li ce man of the C Divi sion, whilst in the execution of his duty. The policeman stated that the defendant on Thursday afternoon indecently attacked a young female, who was walking with her mother, in Re gent-street, and this conduct having been resented, with proper indignation, by the mother, the de. f endant struck her with considerable violence. A passenger who witnessed the whole proceeding in stantly interfered, and as he was expressing his re probation of the defendant's unmanly conduct, the defendant struck him a violent blow, which knocked him through the nearest shop window. Witness, having come to the spot, was about to take the de fendant into custody, when he was also attacked and knocked down. After considerable difficulty, wit ness succeeded in bringing him to the office, but as there was only one Magistrate present at the even ing sitting, the defendant was obliged to be re manded until the next day. As witness was re moving him from the bar into the lock-up room, he was again assaulted and knocked down by the defendant, who, however, was soon secured, and placed under proper restriction. The parties who had been assaulted did not come forward to prose cute, and the reason assigned by the old lady was, because she wished to spare her daughter's feelings by the indelicate detail of the origin of the assault. The defendant, in explanation, said the elder of the two females asked him to give her something to drink, and in order to get rid of her importunity, he gave her a shove. The broken window he had paid for, and his reason for assaulting the person who interfered and the policeman was, because he consi dered they had no business to meddle with the affair. To an inquiry from Mr. CHAMBERS, the defen dant answered that he was a labouring man in the Hon. East India Company's service, at the wages of 18s. a week. Mr. CHAMBERS was about to fine him 10s., but Mr. CONANT observed, that he did not think the sum large enough, when the nature of the assault was considered. Mr. CHAMBERS then advanced it to 155., which the man paid, and walked out of the oflice. Mrs. Hampton, the wife of Colonel Hampton, ap plied for search-warrants against several respectable pawnbrokers. Mrs. Hampto►►, in support of her application, stated, that since the committal of Mr. Barnes for receiving the 50/. note which had been stolen from her, she had discovered that a quantity of very valuable wearing apparel, besides plate, had been stolen. The warrants were made out, and placed in the hands of Schofield to execute. Mr. Phipps, a solicitor, applied, on the part of some of Mr. Barnes's creditors, for summonses against several pawnbrokers, for the purpose of compelling them to show plate and jewellery which had been pledged at their respective places, the property having been merely sent to Mr. Barnes for the purpose of showing it to some customers of that person. In support of this application, Mr. Phipps produced the opinion of Mr. Bullock (as we under stood), the barrister. The Learned Gentleman, at some length, entered into the case, and concluded by giving it as his opinion, under the very singular and extraordinary proceedings, coupled with the termination of the investigation which had taken place, that the pawnbrokers were compelled to show the articles upon a summons being issued. This led to a long discussion, which was ended by it being successfully proved that the opinion of the Learned Barrister was wrong, inasmuch as a case of felony ought, in the first instance, to be made out and brought before a magistrate. Had that been done, then a summons could be issued, ordering the pawnbroker to produce the goods; but as such a course had not been adopted, a magistrate could not comply with the application. Subsequently, some of the pawnbrokers who had been informed of the nature of Mrs. Hampton's application, came to the office and informed Schofield they had no objection to let him and Mrs. Hampton see the property which was suspected to be stolen; but they certainly would not produce that which had been pledged by Ann Vickers, and another female, in the name of Mrs. Hampton, which had come from Mr. Barnes, after that lady had declared, on the exami nation of Mr. Barnes, that she had not seen the articles mentioned in the bills which had been found in the boxes of Ann Necker. It was then arranged that the warrants should not be executed. We understand it is the intention of Mr. Barnes's friends to apply, either to-day or on Monday, to one of the Judges to allow him to be bailed, and that very strong affidavits in favour of the accused have been prepared. Should the learned judge refuse the application, Mr. Barnes will have to remain in Newgale for some time, as the Old Bailey Sessions will not commence until the 17th of next month. UNION-HALL. Yesterday Samuel Smith was charged with having forged a bill of exchange for 1201. in the name of Colonel Wyndham, and James Smith, his father, was charged with uttering the same. It appeared that sometime ago, the prisoners, who resided at Maidstone, had given Mr. Davies, a saddler, at Maidstone, a promissory-note for 1001. On the 10th of July, the elder prisoner brought him a bill for 1201., purporting to be accepted by Colonel Wyndham, and, by enlarging upon the goodness of the bill, induced Mr. Davies to agree to give up the promissory -note, and take the bill, at the same time returning in cash the difference be tween the two amounts. Mr. Davies gave 41. and a saddle and bridle worth four guineas. The pri soner was to call for the remainder of the difference, but he never did, and Mr. Davies afterwards ascer tained that the saddle and bridle had been sold for 30s. He also found that the two prisoners were in Whitecross-street prison, where he lodged detainers against them. It appeared from other evidence, that the bill and acceptance were in the younger prisoner's hand writing, and that Colonel Wyndham knew nothing of the bill, and that tha elder prisoner had been a tenant of the Earl of E4remotit's, the relative of Colonel Wyndham.—Fully committed. NEW BRUNSWICK AND NOVA SCOTIA LAND COMPANY. Yesterday a meeting of the Stockholders in the above Company was held at the London Tavern, for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of assenting to, or dissenting from, the terms offered by Government for the grant of land to the Company. J. LABOUCHERE, Esq., took the chair, and stated the object of the meeting. The Colonial Depart ment, while under the direction of Lord Goderich, had consented to a grant of 200,000 acres of land to the Company, at the rate of 2,. 6d. per acre, with the privilege of preemption, should the Com pany require an additional 200,000 acres at the same price, if applied for within twelve months. Lord Goderich having gone out of office, and hav ing been succeeded by Mr. Secretary Stanley, the Directors had had communication with the latter relative to the charter, who had made it a sine qua non that the responsibility of the shareholders should riot be limited. Mr. Stanley, after consult ing the law officers of the Crown, stated he could not agree to the former arrangement, which gave the Company full control over the moneys in the grant. As, however, the Government had been committed in some degree, he was ready to offer a new agreement. Instead of the Company paying 2s. 6d. per acre, he proposed that the land should be had at 2s. 3d. per acre, the Company having the right to raise 20,000 Newcastle chaldrons of coals (equal to 53 tons) free of any expense, but that for all raised above that quantity a royalty of an)perc2hs.ai ( p i r e o r n currencybe(epqauida.l to iels. (theB hsatierrml con sidereding) Mr. Stanley's plan more favourable than the former terms. The Directors had endeavoured to obtain the land at 2s. an acre, but to this Mr. Stanley would not consent. In order to close with the terms offered it was necessary that a verbal or written assent should be given by all the stockholders, and the Directors had already obtained signatures for 50,000/. out of 73,000/. already subscribed. The Directors recommended the shareholders to close with the terms, as there was a certain gain of 3d. per acre against the condition that if more than 20,000 elialdrons of coals were raised, a royalty of 2s. per chaldron should be paid. He also thought it would be advantageous to raise - the whole capital, when the surveys could be taken at once, and much expense saved. After some discussion, resolutions were then proposed, empowering the Directors to accept the terms offered, and empowering them to obtain fur' ther modifications if possible, and for the ptirPT e of raising the full amount of capital to complete t " e whole engagement. The CHAIRMAN said capital was subscribe d and, complete the fi rst purchase of 200,000 acres, in reply to questions, stated that the Dire ctor s served gratuitously until a dividend was made 1 - of profits, or until the Proprietors passed a res t ' Lt tion rewarding the Directors for their services. a , The resolutions were then put seriatim and c— ried ; after which the meeting adjourned. EXTRAORDINARY DEATH OF A MIS: On Tuesday last an aged man, whose sppearl, betokened the most abject state of human wretch e ness, was brought to the London Hospital Jabot!" ing under a sudden and violent attack of her o ; When led to the ward, and stripped for the pored of being put to bed, he took the greatest pains elf caution in taking off his clothing, if such a parcel% the most filthy rags could be so called, and ex preo e ., the utmost solicitude to have them placed under b i t i pillow. Shortly after his admission he was visi te ! by Mr. Scott, one of the surgeons of the hospit il " and that gentleman, after examining him, and P i er. ceiving the serious nature of the injury, at once u e ' tided, as the only chance of preserving life, that, ll , /i , patiento ais ntg p a e ett rheaoetfoi most tm n hoboeso s std h t yp o s;kv u t l ii el l fsinunwl b tg be manner;ys well a3as ssyehen aiassented, immediately sd), but andpf r performed. o t r tt m hwe e o d e . o:l:l : o.o,e v in the afternoon Mr. Scott performed the o perant ) ; he gradually sank, and expired shatteredinana Just as the operator had finished, the deceased, finding himself much weaker, expressed a nl es A d fe h w i cs hoursone st emaciate coal ttoeenr-: anxious wish to ,ee the clerk of the institution, a n d ': on his being brought to the bed-side, he request ed that the gentleman would get pen, ink, and paper' as he wished him to write out his will. This fi g° dose, and on the clerk a second time approaching the bed-side, the deceased drew from his &gn u ! e nine half sovereigns, which he must have had 0 1'5 during the performance of the operation, and han ue d them to him. He then appeared very uneasYr ari h ; though the act must have given him great paint raised himself to nearly an upright position in t"; bed. He theta commenced searching through had bed clothes, and after some time seeing a teeth ne'd sovereign among them, and which it appeared O. bl . fallen from his mouth, he made a dash with ; hand at it, and caught it with the same avidity thil a hawk would a sparrow, and handed it to the clerk He then called for a knife, and cut from his tatter and filthy garments ninety-six more half-sovereigl,ll4l. making altogether 531., and acknowledgments 'et nearly 4001. placed to his account in the Ban k ai ° England, and a bond of annuity for 671. per annti.t: A will, according to his . dietation, was then W il e , ten. In the first place he bequeathed three sof reigns to the nurse of the ward in which her:: and two servants of the Institution who ha d ' o f tended him ; he left a sovereign to the beadle i; Bethnal-green, who brought him to the HnsP its bio he directed that 501. should be expended on funeral, arid the remainder he left to his nephefhit young man named Mathews, a gardener, res iding 0 Cardiff, in Walee. When told that .501. weagbe large sum to spend in funeral expenses, and that. could be very decently interred for much less 01;11 half that amount, he replied, that he had mad e s' his mind that the sum mentioned should be!eti pended, adding, that he did not wish to be burl o as he had lived—a vagabond. He said that it wa s to first his wish to have his body sent for intermentho Lincolnshire, but to do the thing as he wished , 4 felt satisfied that 501. would not be sufficient for 1 .4 purpose, and therefore ire had determined on be i i if buried in Whitechapel church. When PI o a f, there was any person whom he wished, or 0 „ t . name to follow him to the grave? he replied, that any one who wished might, and if no one 'Ara it was his wish that in lieu there should be 1' 1 1 1 e of horses, so that the 50/. might be expended. oej only part of his history disclosed by the dece3ilii was, that lie had formerly been a sailor, thaticoo name was Samuel Draper, and that for his ser / vt he enjoyed a small pension of 71. per annum, I to body of the deceased still remains at the hooPitlicrir wait the arrival of his nephew, who has bee n ;0 ten for by the Governors of the hospital, wil° him to be present at his interment. turn to be present at ins interment. a Ndl s WHY THE OURANG-OUTANG DO ° SPEAK. on I have been asked by men of the first e— and talents whether any thing really deficieeti Joe been discovered in the organs of the ourang; o t , to prevent him from speaking! The ret e b - ef% give me leave to place this matter correctil certv( him. In speaking, there is first required e a leo?, force of expired air, or an action of the tritrdo l ; respiration l ; in the second place, the vocal c : - to 0 :11 the top of the wind-pipe must be drawn ie cordance by their muscles, else no vihrfatiloPelj take place, and no sotuld issue; thirdlY• i th ti, c° l ,; passages of the throat must be expanueelegfil tracted, or extended by their numerous mus " correspondence with the condition of the '10; chords or glottis ; and these must all arlot t t before even a simple sound is produced• per articulate that sound, so that it may bec onte a d of a conventional language, there must b e a t tb: ed an action of the pharynx, of the palat e ' • 0 0 (,°-# tongue and lips. The exquisite organi o ';,ice all this is not visible in the organs of the IT "er t they are called; it is to be found in th e n il i ie fi f which combine all these various parts i° oer multaneous act. The meshes of the spid e A r's sio lllo ; or the cordage of a man-of- war , are few eel nest, compared with the concealed fil a ments 0 s l.° o which move these parts; and if but one blight e d ing, or its tone or action disturbed ill th e li ott e : o f degree, every body knows how a ro rl fi V a nd ',17; with his mouth open, twisting his tnfiefi n O t ion in vain attempts to utter a word. V„'' s soci ti t ,"•tie pear that there must be distinct lino 0 ' suited to the organs of voice—different tilhiog them in the bark of a dog, in the o e i g f ,`; ; t he horse, or in the shrill whistle of the hot there are wide distinctions in the stre° : ",c i iii; re different classes of animals is most e er `ihet e independently of those which are appare et n g secret and minute varieties in the associatl wit eo d, The ape, therefore, does not artictilP!te7.slls lj eee cause the organs are not perfect t° ;at e t Secondly, because the nerves do not as is o , organs in that variety of action which is zte riP r t of to speech. And, wer e all th e e t b a t t i " paratus perfect, there is no impulse to speaking.-4ell's ..lriclgewater Treatise. V ° . Of ° IRTH. lad)" 0- AO° On the Bth April last, at ß Secunderabad, the orter James Bell, 28th Regiment N. 1., Assistant General of the Hydrabad sub.Foree, of a On' MARRIED. nyrn , e d d On the 23d inst., at Hoscoat, N. 8., Richar d the t. Liverpool, to Elizabeth, youngest daughter of „, Mr , Stavert, Esq., of Hoscpat. 9n inat,, at Upper Brixham, Devo"Augnsltest, Tredway Clarke, of Lamb's Conduit-street, t ° ,, e pith eldest daughter of Lieut.-Colonel Tilt, late ef t . % st ore,, or o , : j On the 2lith inst., at Heyford, Nortlianal2!our"ri,, or_ vo, Norris, Esq., son of the Rev. Henry Handll street, Hackney, to Ellen, daughter of th 0 1 ' Crawley, of Heyford. id' 0 Grs tre e DIED , George ' On the 27th inst., in his 4th year , jug,. ge t, youngest son of Mr. Rogers, Stage"' dentist, Ole POrtlaTlO-pIaCP. the _ .,,re tan the 24,th most , A t Midhur st, Mary, if Charles Candy, Curate of that place. 0 .neneral On the 27th July, the infan t son of Maj r ,0 1 ° Woodford. „ r 4 PRINTED AND PUBLIS HED BY h. g/JUDO Yo SUN °Fries, 112, STROM tin, M I Edi Re,