The Sun. — London, England, 1830-08-12 00:00:00

all;IR1T Tllll TIMM SOUTINAT:S. As the affairs of hence proceed, we certainly obtain more and more confidence in their issuing in a happy and permanent result. We see nothing yet to blame, and much to praise and even admire, la whatever has taken place. The articles of the etil Charter, which it was determined to alter or modify, were discussed with great temper and judg ment in the Chamber of Deputies, and in general the recommendations of the Committee which had been appointed to take them into previous consi deration were adopted. Article 0 of the old Char ter, which declares the Roman Catholic religion to be that of the state, is omitted; but the Ministers of ell Christian forms of worship are to be supported by the public treasury. The initiative of laws, which before rested with the King, may now spring from anyof the three bodies—the King, the Peers, or the Deputies, with the exception of the money bills, which are to originate with the Deputies. The Parliaments are to be of. five years' duration ; 30 instead of 40 is the age at which persons may be elected into the Legislative Body; and at 25, a man in other respects qualified is entitled to the exercise of his elective franchise. These are the 'hie changes in the body of the Charter, but in tlie preamble of the new one it is declared that all power springs from the people. It is known that strong debates arose upon this vital topic *Own the two Houses of Parliament at the English revolution, and conferences took place, in which Mr. (afterwards Lord) Somers was the chief speaker on the part of the Commons. The Lords succumbed, and the principle, which is founded in human na ture and common sense, was established by law, end made the basis of the British Constitution. In the French Chamber there is no debate upon the aprineiple itself, but simply upon the means which bid been taken to avow and secure it. The Con stitution thus modified, IS accepted by the Duke of Mears, to whom it is offered. (We have already described the ceremony.) We have only to add our sincere wish " eslo perpetua ;" for as rational freedom is possessed and enjoyed by France, so will it be communicated and insured to other na tions. We hope (arid have little doubt) that an Ambassador of highly respectable character, calcu listed by his previous respect for England to cement the friendship which now so happily subsists be tween the two nations, will be sent to this country. Marshals Mortier and Macdonuld have been men tioned. Either of them would be received with great respect : so would aldifint. We are glad to see these three Marehals prominently supporting the sew King. They are men whom any nation would esteem—Times. The debate in the Chamber of Deputies on that part of the French Charter which relates to religion, and which is slightly alluded to in the preceding article, hee not been so well reported as its import. *nee seems to require. From the Paris Papers which contain the most detailed accounts of what passed, it appears that after the Chamber adopted the sth article, which is thus expressed,..-" Every individual professes his religion with equal liberty, and obtains the same protection for his worship,"— the President stated that the Committee had pro posed the suppression of the Gth article. The words of this articlecre,—" However, the Catholic Apos toile and Roman religion is the religion of the State." The proposition of the Committee, with regard tretwe article,, appears to have been agreed to without much. debate, though it is stated that when, the question was put, about 30 Deputies who composed , the whole of the right and part of the ware right voted against; it. Article 7,which created a warts discussion, the Committee proposed to ex press thus seem" The Ministers of the Catholic Apc etolie end Roman religion, prrfessed by the air jo..rity of Frenchmen, and those of the other Chile dau soots only receive salaries from the Royal Tree wow." The whole of this article was opposed, but the words In Birks Wire particularly objected to. It Wet - obleividthat 'there . was no necessity for pro. amino% Whind/ that the Catholic religion is pro. hind by the majority of the people of France. To derides in the Charter, a fact—and a fact, too, which is in its nature variable, which might, in a certain soMberef years, be altered—was, in the opinion of several of the speakers, extremely absurd. The justice of this opinion was not disputed, but it was contended, that the whole article ought to be re• bitted, en the grimed merely of expediency, be cause there wee rewire) to believe that its rejection would enable the enemies of the new order of things to miaow] the ignorant population of some of the departments,-..the Chamber would be represented as intending to suppress religion altogether. M. Koury stated, that in fact the committee had been Wormed by this consideretion in making their re port. They, felt it their duty to expunge the ar e title which declared' the Chtholic , religion the reli gion of the State ; but having done that, it was sonsidered neceitury to retain the next article. lie was convinced it ought to be retained on account of the western departments, where the Chamber had many townie., who would like nothing better than to have the opportunity of representing the Depu ties as hostile to morality and religion. After seve ral amendments had been proposed arid rejected, the discussion terminated by the article being retained with two amendments. The word only was left out, and the words Royal Treasury were changed to Public Treasury.—limes. The paramount interest and importance of the triumphant progress of freedom in France has, in some messure, diverted public attention from scenes at home, which otherwise could not have failed to arrest it. But we must not suffer ourselves to lose sight of the elating prospect, which so many of the late Elections have opened to the friends of liberty in this country, and in our Colonies. The return of Mr. Brougham for the first county its the empire, is in itself a guarantee for the moral influence which will be given in the' stew Parliament to the cause of general liberty, and eminently and avowedly to that of Negro Emencipation. The success of Mr. :Robert °rent at Norwich, And of numerous other liberal candidates elsewhere, is a further earnest of that triumph which freedoms and humanity must ere long wrest froM selfielmese, bigotry, arid tyranny. Is one Tartar, only can the Anti-Abolitionists pre tandto a seeming and short-lived victory. Mr. Protherote Iris been defeated at 'Weird. But how delisted? In that emporium of the West Indian Interest, after art outlay indirect peecodery means of influence, not filling short, as we are credibly in formed, of 20,000 L—alter recourse, on the part of the great merchants, to au almost universal system of coercion and intimidation, wherever their power of patronage and dictation could make itself felt— a men majority only has been obtained against the canse of humanity, and Mr. Prothcroe has retired from a victorious defeat, after polling 2,843 votes--- a number never before approached at Bristol by an unsuccessful candidate. We moot but regard this as an omen of final success, scarcely less anis smiting than minor victories. Our only regret is, that a goldenl) who, whilst he was in Parliament, AO nruleviatingly pursued time course of liberal whose nisdie is found in nearly every mi nority with that of Mr. Hume and time other udvos 41 44_0( freisaitio, retrenchment, and reform, should, tvett ter. a time, be excluded by a fuetioo, whom: ° 4l r argument is their purse, from continuing his useful and meritorious lulemrs.--ilfarning The meeting yesterday of the parish of Maryle boue f , t 4 a tia s i traog l e i re . ctily it is nrce . ssary to say that this 100,(6)ilaigtitgii!tte popshrtion of upwards of into se tt tik en bsti irelf4l4 hie proof of the deep De n in the lut y sr . 1- 1* great bo dy of the English imt one feeling.... t r u , ( ' t ,4 4 l4 l s Vralwe ° T a imere is great battle of the rational ": have it ey f,ou-ht flooredcon the Messina of gooi t themselves only, but toe ell a ritti ot - ,;: u 7; e l : l :' nuL "". reflecting have been led to italotry, by mostl man' ease with which a great netton shook uteitm-)Arellit oppressors, and vindicated the meiority o r t e hr i peopir. The French have commullicated to rice people of every country the consciousness of their pwrt orengthse.thet they who wish good 00,,,m, meat may always obtain it, Of the largo morn. blage of citizens in the rooms of Messrs, Marks, there was not one man who did not join heart And soul in the sentiments expressed by the different speakers. Mr. flume commenced by obserVing, that "the Revolution which bad just taken place was not only important in itself—was not only fraught with consequences of the highest moment to hnglisbmen, and men of all countries, but it' en joyed the proud distinction of being a Revolution, carried on to iti completion—he hoped he might say without any extensive destruction of either life or properly. Thus would many of those ; ob. jettions to change be removed which were founded on the supposed danger of revolutionary move ments. Here nits an example, attended with re best results, and marked bar a modem-, tion and forbearance that must lull the fears of the most timid." There is another point of view in which we view the late proceedings in Paris as of immense importance. it is impossible not to be struck with the anxiety of every man embarked in the great cause, to abstain f►om all unnecessary vio knee, to shed as little blood as possible ; in short, to avoid whatever partook of a vindictive or san guinary character. Now this proves that san guinary conduct is everywhere unpopular, and that whoever wishes popularity must above all things strive to regulate his conduct by the dictates of humanity. Such are the fruits of increasing know ledge and increasing civilization, The same prin ciple which everywhere leads Judges and Juror; to shr►nk from sanguinary punishments, leads the people in their movements to sheathe the sword the mo ment victory has declared for them. We all know of what prejudice it was to the cause of the Greeks in this country, that, in imitation of their cruel taskmasters, When the rage of battle ceased, The victor's soul was not appeased ; The naked and forlorn Must feel Devouring flames, and murdering steel." In vain was it urged, that it was because tyranny debased men, and rendered them cruel and san guinary, that we owght to remove the cause which produced such disastrous effects in the case of the Greeks ; that, under a protecting Government, the milder virtues would take root ; the sympathy with the Greeks was greatly paralysed by the accounts of their cruelty. We thus see that the conquests of civilization are permanent, and that the good seed which is sown among the nations is never thrown away. The First French Revolution excited alarm among many virtuous men, from the enormities which followed in its train ; the late Revolution gives, on the other hand, to the nations a con• Hence in the ascendancy of virtue—popular movements had become synonimous with outrage; they will now be associated with whatever is most elevated and honourable to our species. Let us hope that the number of those who share the sen timents of the Clergy alluded to yesterday by Colonel Jones, is but small. "He hoped," he +laid, " that his fellow-countrymen would not be deterred from expressing their sentiments and holding public meetings for that purpose, by any of that sort of hiflueoce which he feared would, in some quarters, be set on foot for the suppression of public senti ment, for there were so many, and those so active and persevering, who had an interest in the main tenance of the corrupt system, which disgraced, and, if allowed to continue, would ruin this country, that he feared means would be resorted to for the pur pose of concealing, or, at least, neutralising the spi rit which he believed to pervade the bosoms of Englishmen from one end of the kingdom to the other. 'l'hnugh he should rather have avoided the subjec►, he found it impossible to speak of the recent events in France without expressing his deep abhorrence and contempt of the wretch who had said ' Let blond flow,' but who himself had fled from the eight of it when it did flow. Ile had recently encountered a country clergyman, who in his own way, made some very shrewd observations upon the late Revolution, Ile seemed to regret that not more blood had been spilt—it was for him too harmless a Revolution—it was too tempting—it would give too much strength to Mr. flume, who had already spoken of the church." They who from selfish views regret that mere blood has riot been spilt, as bloodshed would ind►spose the mild and humane from attempting extensive reforms, will, we trust, be disappointed. The French will not allow themselves to be hurried by the warmth of temperament into excesses—they are a clever as well us brave people ; they have paid too much for their ignorance of the truth► with which all were impressed on the late memorable occasion. It cannot be too often repeated, that the French have conquered for all the nations. Colonel Jones supposes that the higher reeks of this country would discourage the expression of the sentiments which pervade the people. We are unwilling to believe that they can he so weak and so foolish as to suppose that a movement like the present can be iipressed, or that any ap treasure on their part of want of sympathy with the general feeling will not accelerate the consequences which they wish to prevent. It never can be the interest of the great to allow the people to perceive that there is a marked line of separation between them and the people; that there is a class whose importance depends on keeping down the people—. that there is an order, who seek to establish their own greatness on the weakness of their fellow-citi zens. But we have hitherto seen no decided want of sympathy with the general feeling among the higher classes. At all the Elections, even the Tory trakers have applauded the brave resistance of the Prowl), and joined in the general congratulation on their prospect of obtaining the blessings of good government. We have not, indeed, heard that the Bishop of London intends to publish a Charge or a Pamphlet on the subject, but we expect, when Par liament meets, to hear the Archbishop and Bishops dilating on the blow which Popery has received by being separated from the State in the greatest of the nations of the Continent. We expect to hear the Clergy generally as eloquent on the downfall of the Jesuits in a great country as they were in the expressions of their upprefiensions from the Jesuit. twelve mouths ego. Those men who derive conse quence from the possession of power irreconcilable with good government, may melte up their minds to theloss of that power ere long. The late election has proved to all who are not quite blind that the cor rupt system is giving way. Before the late glorious events in Paris had served to exhibit more strik ingly the political degradation of the great body of our countrymen, the bonds were in many places giving way. The Squires have in ninny places been routed, and evi) when successful, they have had little to boast of, in Yorkshire they merely dis played their malice towards Mr. Brougham—they could not injure hint. The example of Franco will lead good men in this country to combine, ill order to secure the triumph of the cause of the people. See what the Anti.slavery Society hue been able to do by combination. We conclude with repeating the word. of Mr. Savuge ut the meeting—who " trusted that the example of Prance would have a salutary effect on all the world, and that when Parlia ment, met again, Mr. Hume, who had often been would find ninny supporters; and that if they made no efforts to ameliorate our condition, nor to amend the representation, we shoold break our chaios."— 'Writing Chronicle. In our Private Corrospoodenee of Tuesday stated that, " amongst the papers taken ;dale Tuderieg, a project of an ordinance bad been f oun d. which WI been submitted to the last Council of Mi nisters, for the establishment of Courts Martial, and that the journalists who had signed the protest were to have been handed over, tried, told executed within 2 , 1 , hours." To try a refractory journalist by a drum-head Court-martial (11111 hang him up, as Jack Cade did the cleik of Chatham, " with his ink-horn at his button. wle 11 within hours after the my midons of the Dia()hes Regis hibi um by the heel, I+«uld bo a indeed, milking short Work with the liberty of the Press. The Whig Attorney-General Of admit the French mode of settling 1 1 liountr between the clovertiment mid the news pews to be rti great Improvement en the mere WI« ous and troublesome process of ex-officlo InferMa tion. To be sure the ox-officio machinery works with tolerable certainty in crushing an independent and uncompromising public writer—and, besides the fees of the lawyers, it may have this advantage over the drum-head Court Martial, that it destroys :the victim selected to appease Ministerial vengeance by slower process of torture, and makes him feel the agony of ruin with more protracted suffering, and, consequently, afford a more luxurious treat of revenge to his destroyers. A journalist arrested, tried, con demned, and executed within twenty-four hours for questioning the wisdom of the Minister's opinion, 'or objecting to the " cut of a courtier's beard," though an extremely convincing proof of the energy of a Government, would, on the other hand, have its disadvantage by putting the victim too soon out of pain. We are told by Suetonious that the Emperor Tiberius—a Statesman eminently skilled in that part of the craft and mystery of Govern. ment which pertains to the art of the executioner, was one day petitioned by a condemned person for the favour of a speedy death, when he answered, with that pleasantry of manner with which he could always grace the refusal of a boon, " I am not on such good terms with you yet," enidam paenae ma turitatem precanti respondit nondum tecum in gra tiam redii. It is therefore clear, upon historical evidence, that Charles X. was not in all points ex actly a Tiberius, for he was willing to grant to all the opposition journalists in Paris, even without a petition, the favour of a speedy death. It was un fortunate for this intended exhibition of united moderation and despatch, that his reign terminated before the Court-Martial could be organized, and the guillotine, or the triangles erected on the ruins of a free Press! Thus did the Editors of the Oppo sition papers lose a fine opportunity of closing their literary labours with the glory of martyrdoman opportunity the like of which it is not probable will fall in their way for some time to come. They must now return to the sedentary labours of their "lead ing articles," instead of manifesting their powers of ex iempore eloquence in " last dying speeches." Whether the King of the Netherlands will act upon the hint of Charles X., and, instead of ex._ terminating the Press by the slow process of State prosecutions throughout his dominions, cut it off ut once by the compendious operation of the drum-head Court-Martial, it is difficult to say, though there is a prevalent opinion that other work is cut out for him, which will Interrupt his literary pnrsuits, for a season at least. It is curious enough, and worthy of all observation, that the free dom of the Press should be doomed to destruction about the same time by the Government of England France, and the Netherlands. In England, the bat tery of ex-officio informations, under that direction of the veteran advocate of " popular rights," Sir James Scarletr, had scarcely ceased to play, when the more raking fire of a battalion of gars d'armes was opened upon the refractory newspaper esta blishments of Paris, and at the same time some of the 'Belgian journalists were expiating in prison the crime of expressing an independent opinion upon political affairs, and other were waiting to receive the stern sentence of the political Ithadamanthus, for not saturating their " broad sheets" with the virtue of courtly obsequiousness, and giving to their columns the charm of Ministerial panegyric. It is, no doubt, u shocking offence to wound the feelings and irritate the sensitive nerves of those high func tionaries who are liberally paid by the people for mismanaging their affairs---but still we must say that, if some Governments took the pains to de serve the approbation of the people which they do to silence the just censure of public opinion, they would not find it necessary to their repose to bind the Press in chains, either by ex•officio informations or by military force.-112ornins herald. The Prime Minister must, by this time, we should think, have discovered, what his " parasites" appear hitherto to have been but too successful in concealing from him, that the principles of 'his,Go veroment are not those which accord with the wants or the notions of the country at large. The country has been appealed to, and, wherever its true senti ments hare been fairly put to the test, the result has been unequivocally expressed in the rejection of every candidate who has ventured to ground his pretensions upon a thick and thin adhereoce to the Ministry. Even the just and unexampled popularity of tl►eir new master has not i►► the least aided the Duke of Wellington and his colleagues upon the oc casion : but the people everywhere, though proud and anxious to pay every due homage to the King, seem not less determined to convince both the King and his Ministers that the measures of the latter have not hitherto been such as to render them or their satellites the men of their choice. The ablest man upon the earth cannot long attempt to wield the sceptre of a popular Government in opposition to public opinion. flis Grace has made the attempt, perhaps unknowingly—at any rate, he and his col leagues can plead ignorance no longer. Public opi»ion is now speaking " trumpet-tongued" a lan guage which cannot be misunderstood; and we trust iliac, even before the assetnbling of the slew Parlia ment, the Government will have given such an earnest of its intentions to meet the wishes of the people as will spare the Legislature the apparently ungracious task of placing the unpopularity of the Ministers in still stronger contrast with the just po pularity of the King.—Morning Herald. In our yesterday's impression we communicated to our readers, by an extraordinary express from Paris, the fact of the accession of the Duke of Orleans to the throne of France, under the title of Philip 1., King of the French, and not of Louis XIX., King of France, as it ought to have been had the regular order of succession been main tained. What were the reasons which prompted this change in the titles and style of the first magistrate of France, we are not informed in the Paris Papers; but the ptobability is, that as the nation had determined to change the dynasty, it thought it advisable at the same time to efface as much as possible from recollection, every indivi dual belonging to it who had ever presided over the destinies of the country. Instead of Louis XIX, or Philip VII.--one of which titles the reigning Mo narch would have borne had the regular order of succession been preserved—we have Philip 1.; and, instead of the " King of Prance," the future Sove reigns are to be designated " Kings of the Fr enc h." For this difference in the titles and styles of the fu tare Sovereigns of France, there is no small ground in the extremely different circumstances under which the past Sovereigns and the present Monarch of France attained and exercised the supreme power. The former claimed the Crown under the now finally exploded plea of divine rights—the latter has received it as the free gift of the people. The former did not consider themselves as bound by the ob servance of any conditions with the people over whom they reigned, but rather considered the people as made for them—the latter receives the crown, and is to held it only so long as he, his heirs and successors, shall fairly and honourably dis charge the conditions of the contract into which he has entered with the people. The former could suspend, alter, or annul the laws and ordinances of the kingdom whenever it seemed to them meet to d o so—they were responsible to no one for their acts, and their Ministers were only responsible to them in the case of the latter the King has not only no power to alter or suspend the laws, but ceases to have tiny right or title to the exercise of the supreme power whenever he ceases to observe them ; while his Ministers are responsible to the nation for the advice which they give to the Sovereign, and not to the Sovereign himself. This colonist, brief as it is, between the condition of the former Kings of France, and that of the present Sovereign, will have the effect perhaps of showing to our readers, that there has not only been a change of d ) nasty, but also a t o t a l and utter change of the principle of So. vereignty. The foolish notion of divine right has been exploded and set aside for ever, and the So , vereign very plainly informed, t h at as he derives his power from the people, so he is totmd t o exer ci se it for their benefit, and that when he cosset . to do so, 110 401461 4i the IMMO time to have say legal et just title to its possession. The change is just and rational, and will prove, we hope, as auspicious to the permanency of dynasties, as to the happiness of nations.--Zforning► Advertiser. The Duke of Orleans is now King of the French, and whatever we may think of the blemishes in herent in his title to that dignity, or of the national delusion which has enabled him to reach it, we should be glad, nevertheless, to indulge the hope that his reign may conduce to his own satisfaction and honour—to the prosperity and happiness of his new subjects—to the peace and security of the world. But this is out of our power. The further the French Revolution proceeds, the more are we convinced that this hope, however gene rally it may be entertained, would be no more than a glittering and transitory dream. The King of the French has accepted the conditions upon which the Crown was offered him, and has sworn faithfully to .observe the Constitutional Charter, with the changes and modifications ex. pressed in the declaration of the Chamber of Deputies. What, then, is that declaration? What support does it offer to the throne ? What gua rantee, or rather, we ought to ask, what gleam of hope of its stability? It can scarcely be pretended that the Charter of Louis the Eighteenth left in the hands of the Kings of France any great excess of legal power or constitutional influence, after we have seen the last of these Monarchs, unable, by all the means they afforded him, to assert with effect a Royal prerogative common to every Crown, and one of which the direct attempt to deprive any Mo narch would be so monstrous, that it has not been made even by the Lafayettes and the Constants of the French Chamber, when engaged in the hopeful task of a creating a King, as a concession to tem porary convenience, and an experiment to show mankind bow weak and defenceless a King can be made. But by the declaration to which Philip the First has sworn, much of the constitutional power which Charles the Tenth enjoyed and exercised is taken away, while new and formidable powers are given to other bodies in the State, between whom and the Sovereign diversity of objects and opinions may arise any day, and are morally certain to arise at no distant day, some of these bodies being ex pressly designed to superinted and overawe the Throne. We cannot therefore disguise our appre hension that this diminution of the independent powers of the Crown, combined as it is with an increase to that of several rival and antagonist bodies in the State, will be fatal to Monarchy in France. The means and the temptations to attack it are carefully prepared. The power of resistance is wholly taken away. By the mention of a few of the more important alterations of the Charter, we shall amply v►ndicate ourselves from the imputation of ind►►lging in vain or chimerical apprehensions. The Crown is in the first place to be deprived of whatever support it could derive from the connexion of the Church with the State. Then the initiative of laws is no longer to be exclu sively a function of the Crown. In the third place, the King is no longer to possess the power of restraining the members of his own family from attending the Chamber of Peers, and making themselves if they please the leaders of factions in that assembly, although every Prince of the Blood is to be a Peer by right of birth, without any grant of that dignity by the reigning Monarch. But these alterations are trivial compared with some others which are not yet .4tifficiently matured for actual adoption, but to which the King has, nevertheless, been required to pledge himself, and has pledged himself. An im• mense military force, the National Guard, is to be constantly kept up in the country, the command of which is not to be placed in the bands of the King, as the men are to choose their own officers, In the command of the regular troops of France the authority of the King is to be circumscribed to some indefinite extent, by a new military cods, establishing in a legal manner the condition of offi cers of all ranks; and finally, a new mode of elect ing the Deputies of France is to be adopted, in order to render the constitution and character of the Chamber of Deputies somewhat more democratic than it has hitherto shown itself. The effect of each of these changes is to weaken in some degree the power of the Executive Government; the united operation of the whole of them can scarcely fail to cripple it altogether, or render it incapable of a vi gorous or salutary administration of public affairs— to draw down upon it by degrees the contempt and hatred of the nation—to prepare its final over throw—to produce a new series of civil convulsions. —.Morning fort. SUMMER ASSIZES. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.-DURHAM, Aug. 9. The commission was opened on Saturday by Mr, Justice BAYLICY, who this morning proceeded to dis. pose of the few causes (eight only) which are en. tered for trial ut niii prius. The Loan CIIIEF 3u9TICE of the Common Pleas sat on the Crown side, and got nearly through the calendar, leaving only three out of eleven cases which are on the list, for disposal to-morrow. There has, however, occurred a crime of a dreadful nature, the murder of a servant-maid, on suspicion of which five men are in custody,—four Irish labourers and the mart-servant of the house where the murder was committed. A Coroner's inquest has this day been held on the body, but the result is not yet known in Durham, as the scene is some miles off. The Grand Jury, it is supposed, will be detained. None of the cases on the Crown side merit any particular mention. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW.STREET. Information having been received by Sir R. BlR mg that a young man, named Knife, had died in his lodgings in Little Wild -street, Long-acre, in conse quence of some injuries which be received about a fortnight ago from a shoemaker, named James Lee, a warrant was issued for the apprehension of that person on the charge of murder, and the prisoner was accordingly apprehended by Kingham, an officer of this establishment, who conveyed him, by direc tion of the magistrate, for safe keeping, to the police station in Covent-garden, where he will remain in custody until a coroner's jury shall have inquired into the cause which produced the death of de ceased. It was stated in evidence before Sir It. :filmic, that on the 25th of last month, the prisoner, and a man named Cobb, quarrelled and fought, when the deceased, who was a friend to the letter, took part against the p; huter, and received a blow, by which he was knocked down with great violence against the step of the door of the house which he lived. He was removed nearly insensible, and lin gered until Monday last, when he died. The co roner's jury is to sit upon the body to-morrow (this day). LAMBETH-STREET. A young woman, named Ann Darby, who resided with her friends in Silver -street, Whiteehapel, was brought before Mr. WAtim, charged with having attempted to destroy herself by poison. Failing in h e r purpose by this means, she next tried to hang h e rself, but was prevented, tier conduct is attri buted to her having been seduced by a young man while at service. Mr. WALKM remonstrated with the unhappy girl, but finding that he did not seem to prevail with her in persuading her to abandon her evil ;Jur p e he sent her to Mile-end Oh -town workhouse, svith directions that she should he watched, and taken proper care of. ifATTON , QAItDEN, Samuel Croadand Was yesterday brought up for final examination before Mr. Rootas and Mr. Ser. jeant Sut.oN, on a charge of obtaining money by false pretences. The prisoner was fully committed for trial. A person of the name of Thomas Afetealfe was charged under the following circumstances :- 1 policeman of the E. division, while on duty. at a late hour the night before in George•street, Broad- Wen, found the defendant mounted an a itiMplaili and suspecting that his intention was to extingu►sh the gas, he took him into custody. Night after night, notwithstanding the vigilance of the police, those lamps are extinguished, and on one night, only a short time before, sixteen of them had been put out altogether. The inhabitants complained very much of the nuisance, and it was thought that some persons, inimical to the gas-company, had set to work agents for the purpose. The defendant said he was in liquor at the time, and after a suitable admonition from the Magistrates he was discharged. VNION.HALL. Yesterday Wm. Harris, hairdresser, was brought before Mr. HONE, charged with assaulting his wife on the preceding night. The complainant said that she unfortunately con tracted a msrrriage with the defendant, after the death of her late husband, by whom she had 13 children, six of whom were still living. The poor dear man, her former husband, she said left her in very comfortable circumstances at his death, having bequeathed to her by his will thirteen houses, besides a thriving shop in the hair-dressing line. In an evil hour she took the defendant, who it would be per ceived was several years younger than herself, into her service as foreman or manager of the business; he conducted himself well at the first going off, and not only gained her esteem, but also her love, for his dose assiduity to the concern; and when decency permitted, subsequently to the decease of her former spouse, she gave him her heart and her hand, and they were accordingly married. Few weeks, how ever had elapsed, before Mr. Harris began to show his real character and disposition; he received the rents of her houses, spent it in dissipation, and when she reproved him for his conduct, he attacked and beat her in a most shameful manner, asserting that all the property was his own, and that he should spend it as he thought proper. The business of the shop he also totally neglected, and drove away the customers by his insolence to them, de claring that he was a gentleman of freehold property, and that as long as he lived he should neither cut, curl, or frix, another head of hair. In this manner he was in the habit of acting towards her, and the was confident that he would ultimately kill her out , - right, if an immedi a t e s t o p was no t p u t to hi s pro ceedings. The complainant then minutely related the nature of the last assault committed on her by the defendant. Mr. BONE said, that she had brought the misery she described on herself, by marrying a man so much her junior in point of years. The defendant said, that his life was a misery to him, ever since he had married a woman old enough to be his mother. He admitted that he married her more for a comfortable home than love, and for that, after such a sacrifice, the least he expected was, that he should not be prevented by her from enjoying the society of his friends, and inviting them occasionally us his guests. This, however, the " old lady" would not permit, and actually treated him more like a boy than a man and a husband. On the night in question she exasperated him to that de gree by her insolence, that he struck her, and she returned the bl►w, and they had three rounds after wards, and she being the more powerful of the two, got him down and banged him until h. was com pelled to cry out for quarter. He added, that by right she ►hould have been standing there in the character of defendant instead of him. The Magistrate said, that by the defendant's own admission, he had committed the first assault, and he must therefore find bail. ANECDOTE OF CHARLES X. OF FRANCE AND HIS SUPERIOR HORSEMANSHIP. During the celebrated siege of Gibraltar, about half a century ago, the French sent a large army into Spain to assist their allies in taking that fortress from the com paratively speaking handful of English, under General Elliott, afterwards Lord Heathfield, the Governor, and'as he was often subsequently called the " Cock of the Rock." So certain did Frazee and Spain reckon upon the reduc tion of Gibraltar, that some of the Bourbon Princes were attached to the French army, in order, no doubt, to share in the honour of such a capture. All those acquainted with the history of the time know the result of the com bined efforts of France and Spain against the Rock sod its Cock. Among others of the Bourbon family, who served in the French army, were the Count d'Artois, afterwards Louis XVIII. and the present Charles X. of France.— They remained at Cadiz and the neighbourhood until after the peace of 1783, when the utmost civilities anti marks of hospitality were interchanged between the British awl French and Spanish officers. The former visiting Cadiz and the neighbouring country adjoining to Gibraltar, and the latter in their turn partaking of the hospitality of General Elliott, and inspecting the fortifications, &c. of the garrison. On one of these occasions semi of the English officers were at a party given at Cadiz in honour of the French Princes. Flattery and adulation was, to use a military phrase, " the order of the day." Among other brave accomplishments ascribed to belong ex clusively to the Count d'Artois and hie brother Charles, and upon which these Princes prided themselves, was their being the best horsemen in Europe. A blunt British officer (Captain Gordon, of the 72d Regiment of Foot), who was present, di►sented from this unqualified praise, anti said that there were a score of as good riders among the officers of Gibraltar garrison alone as the whole army of France could produce. The Frenchmen were astonished at the freedom and want of courtesy with which Gordon expressed himself iu the presence of two Princes of the Blood of France. To which he coolly replied, he , had no doubt that a dozen of the garrison officers would ride their own home for a sweepstakes, against an equal number of French officers and horses, giving them the Count d'Artois and his brother to boot ! This was too much to be borne without coming to swords, which, but for the timely interference of the host, would have been in stantly appealed to. The dispute, however, led to an ar rangement that 12 French officers, including the Count d'Artoia and Charles, riding their own horses, awl an equal number of liritish officerson their chargers, should meet on a plain between Cstlia and Gibraltar, end ride for a con siderable sweepstakes ; the best of three beats over a two mile course. A few days only elapsed when the belligerents met ; and to all appearances every thing was in favour of the French, front the fine condition of the horses, com pared with those of ►heir competitors, which had only very lately arrived from England, or had been for years cooped up on the rock of Gibraltar. The first heat commenced, the French taking the lead, the Count d'Artois and his brother foremost. But with such judgment did the English manage their steeds, that eleven of the twelve were at the winning-poet before even the two French Princes arrived, the twelfth Englishman and the other ten Frenchmen bring • ing up the rear. The second heat was more disastrous to the French than the first, for the horse of Charles fell under bins, and he had a narrow escape frem a broken neck. Here the race ended, the British gaining the sweepstakes. Some days afterwards the Spanish officers proposed to the French and British to have a day's hunting a l'Ang. Ca iz could ja t e i ntsdhp eareG i br a ltar. f mountains o in du ot Everyyf and pn Andalusia, c:duettuirrialerieoio a arftt o e, nimtlnnhoe:arevondeegyria garrison ia n fist c ,:h e ni )1 ye e f t wn r f nootemor, who t d : i e ls, l r l t t i e sn d ignuc tl ei i s e bs i edu n e v i i ir t a tit an i kn o u, n t , nb a be r i i ,iar d n , og p fi e ni r ng h t a i perha ps , n ttiri T S e.) french ntr i Eaow i ten t okcid , ;:iigatt w nuaalliaiun l ,si l ins,d : didneaolEc m srmitiphc e ncemaa t hg, on a friendly footing for a day's hunting nesrab r ; drer: who,i la n nk b e y ondnn, r ei e eih e fentoe F ikgawiw e ln u otellg t willevaeea w etr oprtfi s it:ithr s elisettii p anerrni a wi onpd i d d esri "aontetwgtet enterprisingiotreFet, ns r e t wi a dn l dni andeal e c yl y s e e tt pe in a p u nt i n oio n geoi dner.t d'A .f s o In one of theee leaps Charles and his horse came down to gether, in trying to clear a leap completed by a garrison officer. A great part of the field came to the assistance of th e Prince, who was taken up in an insensible state, anti from his bruises, which were severe, was confined for the following three weeks. The French officer«, as well as the Spaniards, present on the two orcasions, admitted that the English were the best riders in Gibraltar.—Aforning Paper. THE RATTLE-SNAKE.—It Wotlid seem this reptile is a cousiderable article of commerce in North Ame rica. There appeared lately in an American paper, a notice of an agreement for supplying a certain number of gond merchantable live rattle , snukes. We are informed that there are now, or were lately, not less than a hundred of these destructive creatures in the Tower of London. It is surely dangerous to keep so many deadly poisonous animals in a country differing but little from thrir native climate, far they exist as fir north as Caaada....Liverveil Jearniel. CHARACTER OP Aunap; In any age or country such a Prince w„..._ a prodigy. Perhaps there is no example of int man who so happily combined the magnsainion. with the mild virtues, who joined solluck energy in war with so remarkable a cullistion. of the useful and beautiful arcs of ima,cepsna whose versatile faculties were so happily in. sorted in their due place and measure as tell?. port and secure each other, and give'sfildig and strength to the whole character. Thlt4° a miracle should occur in a barbarous age, nation ; that study should be thus purtbaci in the midst of civil and foreign wars by a Monireh who suffered almost incessantly from painfultar ladies ; and that it so little encroached on:lbs duties of government as to leave him for apt the popular model for exact and watchful justsce, are facts of so extraordinary a nature, that they may well excuse those who have suspected that there are some exaggeration and suppresso_ lll the narrative of his reign. But Asset wrr' with the simplicity of an honest eye-wholfr' o r ha The Saxon Chronicle is a dry and undeeirdeg compend. The Norman historians , w ho - , to have had his diaries and note-books in !I r . hands, choose him as the glory of the ,' le" was become their own. There is no *000! which unanimous tradition is so n early,sAlt evidence, as on the eminence of one non e l " others of the same condition. The bright false may long be held up before the n ati o hslinl . an. This tradition, however paradoxical the insvOen may appear, is in the case of Alfrodlotber Or ported than weakened by the fictions which I's' sprung from it. Although it be an intir rnit Y i b i $) every nation to ascribe their institutions to. t contrivance of a man rather than to : the„ c , action of time and circumstances, yet , 11 !• , 1 t h e lion of Alfred by the English peor_ ' , l 'l l . founder of all that was dear to them is sige tti r on strongest proof of the deep itspressierk'- - ant i the minds of all of his transcendent wisdlr to virtue,—Juries, the division of the island ! 11 6 counties and hundreds, the device of It vemsoenirmtnHeitinelsactedordeaf.tiotHl of f w pledge, the formation of the common or cu li d , many law itself, could have been tragical:o. tributecl to him by nothing less than got o ! w si h n i g ch ul t a h r e rn r u e s ni t e h m av bra e b nc e r t it i l: procured for him the character of a lawei r m li o which his few and general enactments s° 1 7 a h t i s h m t o ro s i e ng c e h r ar li a g c h te t r b is e t e i n c throvvs on his : 1 14 1; we should have undoubtedly discovere d . f 101 l though always defects, and ge P n e :r u a l l i ly ari f t s l o es h e : 4l o l: i they T h e disadvantageare not vices, f yet e belonging known to ee t e ,.0 9 r p? " , 11 . ; : f. being, and distinguish him from his feli°r,M;; by general commendation, instead O f diter;;th nating description, is common to Alfred„Zi Marcus Aurelius. The character of both w no ornaments of their station and their speciessee about to melt into abstraction, and to be ee l much portraits of man as models of ides' r, , , fection. Both furnish an useful ell 11 orii. that study does n o t di s qualify for ig r nistration in peace or fur vigour in , La and that scrupulous virtue may be cotly simplicityis itliiagil withhi s eoigluisom r vigorou s Bybpiuete;otrrsibekliiicesiel p uott olicy. The lot of Alfreall, , o i , him to rival the accomplishments of the ion v w i a rt s ue pi w o a u s s m w o it r tio n u a t tu a r u ld pe ; c a lth i l er h w i oe l r e ld d ._e g li e vne w rr a eir s Laismaw:edairniteeadrs w,stibutitaido of his country ; and he escaped the unilsill: rr of . sufrering his authoriv to be employe d . ~ Cyclopeedia, Vol. VIII. rouli 134 .sass GEORGE a AND HIS QUEEN.-' 4l . Sept. 2, 1729, went to town. The next day"wt , Quire); at court; from thence we went to Sir gl a isyi ror..x's in his chariot, and dined with him and, 'o' only. On this occasion he lot me into several 11, : o t;pill.i lating to the KING an d Quirts—that the Klea_, wrote to her by e very o pp or t un ity l ong letters 01 .011 three sheets, being gener a lly o f a ll hi s actions-.l g #l did every day, even to mi nu t e thi ngs , and parti 4 ,7oo his amours, what w omen h e a d m i re d, and tngt, vuurites • ; and that the Qintex, to continue bra position to de what she desired, returned al ;1 015 .' llll and approved even of his amours, sad Of the I took ; not scrupling to say, that she was but o tts loierd and an old woman, and that be might W ft 4 O ~.-ixel younger women, and s h e was very w illing thel7 r have the best of th em . B y w hi c h me ane r P' ,i r i ta.,,F subserviency to his will, s h e e ff ec t e d whatenoViiiiri sired, without whi c h it was impossible to keep ri Or i any bounds.—[s The word, use d in stating t 6 R . able fact are such as compel us to corrupt the Lord King's Journal. tplld A newspaper, dated January, 168 1 1 700 the following account of some of the atuuseolotif Hyde-park was then the field :—" This do , a t i a % fr. (CHAIM/LS II.). with most o f t h e Court, wont "501.°: park, wh ere th e G uar d s exerc i se d b e f o re the Ambassador. His Excellency se emed high!, f u l jos 116 ; our manner of m ili tar y discipline. The "1 d 1y.,; gallantly accoutred, and the officers meg e 1 676,1 At er return, the Amb assa d or ' s f o ll ower; e xercised 1 " -- ci manner, ,c h ea i s c a n dw , ewtrhietoitiuhginrhooaws moat admirable r t is o b u i e s, s w g a i l i c b r e e i ci ng ible ver s y w t i r f a t c n t e i s b o le an a d nd a i n v ag e; t l o m t a ah n nec a : g . s e w t owt i nfi r:i sw : te g h lai lislierv ` l !:. ) before they fell to the gro g und. yi They did, 11— ,.. t i1 ,rer,4 full speed, take off a ring (being hung up far!" — S upon th e en d o f t h e i r lances, very rare ly Mill:00; ever was seen in th e p ar k so grea t an appears". rato' l sd A gentleman, whose country-hou se sio - k very uncomfortabl e by rats, and who had tried modes of getting rid of them without soy ' ll ,, JO° id was at last s u dd en ly an d unex p ec t e dly freed fro, 0 4 to I the following means :—" In a garret, whi ch 14 "tll the favourite place of assembly, he one eg e ra ll • ti o number of lin es w ith fi sh-hooks suspend che, couples. The h oo k s reac h e d within a felt 1 : 04 fto floor, and were baited with bits of meats, et d 0 1 10 On the following morning nearly every honk 0450 partly susp en d e d b y i ts mou th, a nd partlY re ' t t . hi" feet. It would appear from the result tiot o t b i tr infused a gen e r a l t error i n t o the coltny's fr° no rat was seen in any part of the house. 1 9/, personsjly hoffic i alav have emigrate d docu men t ;from Colonies of Great Britain, from 1821 to ISO ,: 1 01, ls A fellow is mentioned in or Cortat d 0 ,64 who had acquired so complete a comm_ 6 : o4l Sid e muscles of his face, that he could cry laugh on the other, at one and the same time. I - BIRTIIS. s h e On the 9th inst. at Blyrnhill Rectory, os t i i t ie al u ii ii ie it a m rs ic t h in a?: f re ir o Hon. and Rev. H. r.. Britigernan, of a 1° ;; 0 100 1 1;it is ! On the 9th inst. at Edgebaston , near o r al . lady of the Rev. W. F. llook, Chapl3ie IP theOn Ki t n, of a duhter. Esq., liel a l r t k h .p it i a a ls e t g e., Brixton, theladyof O. op; " of g p 111ARRIED. the On the 1I th inst. at St. James's Cl !0 o non Augustus Dawson, of Edwardston.hall _ • o , rakitls third daughter and co-heiress of the late Sir Bart. of Chevet, Yorkshire. lfaoloorOf C . On the 10th inst. at St. Gear a '. of square. John Henderson, Esq., to Miss ;I"' of row :a l: o l n i: v en DIED. nd, On the 10th init. Afro. "W`to. CriPPt ori ebif: the 9th _ init. at Clapham , Eli" belh ' D Cl a a ti ir .:l: vi t l h le e , S e l ig:4 1 113 1 8. " twa 13'11'4 811rit'era fire of PI ,yOVS ° LI PRIN7ID AND PeIIIHND 31 .lO VIII SUN Ofnit, Sraatio , LoP