The Sun. — London, England, 1833-05-29 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, In looking again at the list of persons who on Monday attended the meeting of the West India body at the City of London Tavern, or who took part in the proceedings of the day, we find the names of very few who either are not generally stanch Tories, or who woul d not resolutely oppose the existing Administration ve any other given question as well as on that of West India slavery. We may therefore conclude. that in fact a political as much as a colonial object brought them together, and determined their united movements. In support of this inference, need we mention the political bias of the Noble Chairman, who is resolved never to honour the House of Lords with his presence, be cause it submitted to the public dictation in pass ing the Reform Bill? Need we mention the parts of Lord Comhermere, of Lord Selkirk, of Lord Colville, of Lord Saltoun, of Admiral Sir B. Martin, of Sir J. Reed, of Sir A. Grant, of Sir R. Vyvyan, of Mr. Irving, or of various other gentlemen whose names are inserted in the different reports of the meeting ? From such a classification of the assemblage we and only one or two exceptions, such as Sir M. S. Stewart, and these either supported their own colonial interests, or represented constituents so deeply involved in colonial property or prejudice, as to detach them, on this occasion, from their usual liberal principles of action. We men tion this fact without wishing to found upon it any charge of faction or dishonesty against those who are at once the holders of West India slaves and the professors of Tory politics. They have a right, if they think proper, to make the one character subservient to the other —to concentrate, on an attempt to preserve their human chattels, all the virulence of their party animosities,—and to advance at the head of as large a body of mortgagees, commission merchants, and shipowners interested in their estates or connected with their trade, as they can collect east of Temple-bar, to attack not only the Colonial-office, but the Treasury. Their evident rights and interests—whether well or ill understood--form a perfect excuse for their re sistance to the Ministerial plan, if by opposing it they can hope to obtain a favourable change of terms or a promising change of Cabinet. But the same apology cannot surely be pleaded In favour of the volunteer orators of Monday, who moved or seconded some of the resolutions, while they declared that they had not a sugar rane or a negro slave in the whole range of our West India plantations. What right, for instance, had such disinterested gentlemen as Mr. Young, or Mr. Horsley Palmer, the late Governor of the Bank of England, to figure at a meeting where the West Indians could so abundantly speak for them selves, and where any deficiency in their oratory, had it occurred, could have so easily been sup plied by the official agents of the different islands who were present on the occasion ? Mr. Palmer has only lately escaped from the management of an important trust,—solicited by himself, or imposed by his moneyed constituents,—in which he was obliged to be an adverse party to the Government, acting conscientiously in the name and for the interests of the nation, in regulating or abolishing a great monopoly. He has like wise been called, or has volunteered, to give evidence on questions affecting the renewal of the East India charter. Surely the success of his voice in the decision of two such mo mentous questions ought to have satisfied his ambition, if he is guided by ambition,—or the difficulties which he saw that Ministers had to encounter in their settlement, might have dis armed his opposition, if hostility to the Govern ment be among the motives of his conduct. At any rate, in going out of his way to join a new host of the adversaries of power, we might have expected that the ex-Governor of the Bank would _try to maintain his former characteramong his fellow-citizens, and to provide himself with a better assortment of arguments and principles than he produc- d at the West India meeting on Monday. His wish, he declared, was to sup port " the credit" of the country, and we ear, easily understand " credit" as applied to banking, to be supported consistently with the sacrifice of the rights of humanity and the degradation of the noblest attributes of our nature ; hut " the credit of the nation," as applied to our colonial interests, is synonymous with national virtue or honour, and implies the total abolition of colo nial slavery. To talk about " acting on prinri ple" for " the security and happiness of all," and yet of maintaining 800,000 of our fellow sub jects in degrading bondage, was worse than an abuse of terms—it was a solemn mockery of justice and common sense. But the ex-Go vernor of the Bank, it would appear, is never theless a friend to emancipation, when it can he carried into effect " with benefit to the popula tion of the West Indies, and a due regard tc the rights of property." Now what popsda. ion," and what " property," can here be meant ? Why. the great body of the population of the West Indies are the negroes,—and these same negroes are " the property" alluded to ; so that, if regard is had to this right of property, it is impos sible that emancipation can ever take place, as the two ideas are totally irreconcileable. But it would appear that the measure of emancipation is " totally uncalled for," though in this country the universal voice demands it, and though in the colonies the lives of the planters would be rendered insecure if it were much longer with held. Passing by, however, these and other absurdities of a similar kind, we shall only re mark, that the allusion made by the ex-Governor to the panic of 1825, and his comparison of the security of funded property to that of property in our fellow man, would excite our horror, if it did not provoke our ridicule. Because, forsooth, the British Parliament is about to decree the abolition of a great enormity,—because it steps in to protect the rights of 800,000 persons against the cruel oppression of less than a tenth part of their number,—because it says that the colour of the skin is no longer to debar the great majority of our colonial fellow subjects from the rights of citizens, and that their masters are only to have their services without the cart-whip, or compensation for the loss of a part of their services by a loan of money on advantageous terms ;—therefore, according to this high city authority, it enacts a scheme of plunder and confiscation which renders the te nure of all landed and funded property insecure I Because a planter can no longer authorize his driver to apply the cart-whip to the back of his fellows, and treat a gang of slaves like a team of horses—therefore he may tremble for hi , dividend at the Bank ; and because freedom 4 hence-forward to be the birthright of black as well as white children, therefore the English landed proprietor may be stripped of the in heritance of his family, or deprived of the title, to his estate ! It is in such perversions of fact and reasoning, or i n suc h stu pid exa ggerations as these, which heat the minds or increase the obstinacy of the interested parties at home,— which indispose both them and their agents in the colonies to listen to terms, or which prevent them from co-operating cordially with the Government, by representing it as their greatest enemy,--that the chief danger of emancipation lies. Were the colonists to concede willingly what they can no longer withhold,—were they to look upon their slaves with the feelings proper to the new relation created by the change of condition,—were they to expect compensation from the Government only, when they had as certained that their estates could not be culti vated by free labour, while order and discipline were preserved, and vagrancy suppressed, by a strong police and prudent magistracy, the transition from slavery to free industry would be comparatively safe and easy, and planters, mort aagees of West India property, and ship-owners connected with the colonial trade, might sleep in peace. But how can such a result be ex pected if West India proprietors are to listen to harangues, or to act upon views similar to those to which we have just alluded ? Times. The West India question is one surrounded with great difficulties. We cannot shut our eyes to the danger which presents itself in every direction. All parties are agreed that slavery is an evil. We remember the time when it was customary so to describe the condition of the slave, that the free labourer of Europe might wish to abandon his liberty for chains. But at the great West India meeting of Monday, a discreet silence was preserved on this point. Slavery being an evil, the question presents it self, how is that evil to be got rid of with the least danger ? The West India proprietors and mortgagees dwell only on the mischievous con sequences with which they deem the plan of Mr. Stanley fraught. Mr. Irving, for instance, un questionably an able man, adverting to the plan of Lord Goderich (and with Mr. Stanley's plan he is as little pleased as with thar of his Lord ship), says, " I hold the plan as valuable only on account of one admission made in it. It admits that colonial society cannot go on with out the aid of black labour—that the blacks will not labour without some degree of coercion— and that, therefore, coercion to some extent was necessary. Undoubtedly we differed as to the mode in which that coercion was to be employed. The Noble Lord, looking to the state of the society in Europe, and seeing that in this country labour was obtained with out any great degree of coercion, thought that the same principles would apply to the colonies, forgetting that there was a great difference be tween this country, from its crowded population, and the difficulty of obtaining food in the colo nies. We knew that the measure proposed by the Noble Lord, if carried into execution, must fail in its operation ; for we were aware that the necessities of man, in these tropical climates, were on too small a scale to act as incentives to labour, as they do in Europe." It is no doubt true, that a black man would not be such a fool as to work without any necessity, merely to enable a white man to derive profit from his investment, in a country in which his own wants could be satisfied with very little labour. The great object of all men, in all parts of the world, is to escape bodily labour themselves, and to throw it on others. Till, therefore, the black population of our colonies reaches the point when the difficulty of obtaining food shall place him in the power of an employer, coercion of some kind will be necessary. But when will this period arrive ? It has been proved that the slaves in most of the sugar colonies diminish in number instead of increasing, and that in a few of the colonies (in which the quantity of sugar raised is not great), though there is an increase, the increase is very trifling. An attempt was made to impugn the calculation, by placing the . decrease to the account of the bad habits brought by the blacks with them from Africa. Lists were given of the births and deaths of the Creole population, as compared with the African, with a view to show that on the former there was a great increase. But as the children of Africans are Creoles, in a given number of Africans and .Creoles, the excess of deaths, as compared with the births, must necessarily be greater in the former than in the latter. Besides, how does it happen that the population has in creased in the parts of Africa whence slaves are obtained, where, of course, African morality pre vails ? We thus find that if we wait for the period when the pressure of populaion on sub sistence shall put an end to slavery, we must wait for ever. Mr. Irving, therefore, views only one side of the question. lie states truly, that the circumstances which compel those at the bottom of the scale to labour in Europe do not exist in our colonies ; but he does no state that during the continuance of slavery the circumstances of Europe and the colonies ever can be the same. The question is simply this : —Nature, in the colonies, is a liberal mother. She gives to her children, with little toil, abundance of food, and enables them to dis- Dense in a great measure with fuel and clothing. But the European steps in, and says, you must toil severely—not to satisfy your own cants, but ro raise a commodity which is desired in Europe. This renders coercion necessary. The amount of labour necessary to enable the planter to invest money without heavy lose, must be ex torted either by the coercion of the planter him self, or by the coercion of a third party. Here comes the difficulty. We do not believe that the place of the slave owner can be supplied by another. The slave knows that when the master has absolute power over him, there is no use in resisting him. It is his interest to be on good terms with him. But when a third party inter venes, the will of the master is no longer the guide. The Magistrate, or by whatever name the third party employed by the State is called, must decide on evidence in disputes between the master and the slave, and the • slave, if he can only satisfy the Magistrate that he is in the right, need not care for the master. There will, too, be a temptation to overlook the slaves during the period of their apprenticeship, and this will be an everlasting source of disputes. We do not apprehend that there will be any disputes between different masters with regard to the time left to the disposal of the apprentice ; for we imagine that the planters will come to an agreement among themselves not to employ the apprentices of each other. Mr. Irving says that " as individuals, they (the Deputation of the West Indian body) stated their opinions, and that they, even at the request of the Colonial Secretary, gave a detailed plan, which they thought might suit the views of all parties ; but, ,orry I am to say, that not a single feature of that plan is to be discovered in the plan laid be fore the House of Commons by Mr. Stanley. We should like to see how Mr. Irving succeeds in surmoun►ing the difficulty of putting an end o slavery without putting an end to labour on a remuneratin g scale. The termination of slavery is the problem which the country calls on Mini sters to solve, and the West Indians do not show how Ministers can, if so disposed, oppose the demand of the country for emancipation. Mr. Irving charges Mr. Stanley with having held one linguage to Parliament, with regard to the money to be given to the West Indians, and another language to the Deputation. " I will draw no inference (he says) between the expressions used by the Colonial Secretary in speaking of that sum of money as aloan, when stating bis_plan to the .House of Commons, and speaking of it as compensation to the deputation." That difference may be accounted for. There is no man who will say that Ministers can avoid adopting some measures for emancipating th e slaves ; but we have hitherto seen no plan by which the slaves can be emancipated, without annihilating what is called West India property. The other effect—that of raising the price of sugar to the British consumer, by diminishing the supply—we say nothing of; but it is proper that the people of this country should be pre pared for such a result. If they take sugar from foreign colonies, it will be affording encourage ment to the slave trade and to slavery. We have already said, that this is a subject that Ministers should approach with great caution. It were better, perhaps, they should postpone the eon sideration of the plan to next session, that they may know well what they are about ; for the outcry from the number of people in this coun try, more or less connected with West Indian property, should matters turn out ill, will be tremendous. As in other cases, the rest of the community will be silent. They who signed petitions for the emancipation of slavery, will not relieve them from their responsibility. Lord Harewooil seemed to regret the destruction of boroughmongering as the only means by which the emancipation of the blacks could have been averted. He thinks that the decision of the House of Commons, whatever it may be, must be considered final. " If such a measure," he says, " is sanctioned by the House of Com mons under present circumstances, what other branch of the Legislature is capable of putting a stop to it ?" This renders it the . more neces sary for Ministers to be cautious how they pro ceed so far that they cannot retrace their steps. —Morning Chronicle. The people whose just rights we always ad vocate, whatever party, whether under Whig or Tory banners, may attempt to infringe upon them—will, we trust, listen to our advice when we counsel them to beware of those apostles of mischief who take advantage of their distress to instigate them to acts of outrage and violence. We gave them similar counsel before the dis graceful disturbances of Bristol and Nottingham brought on their heads military execution, and subsequently caused the blood of several mis guided victims to be shed by the sharp sword of the law. Do not the people recollect what de leterious potions were dealt out to them at that time by Whig Journals, until, maddened by excitement, they spurned the advice of their sincere friends, and rushed upon the follies and the crimes which tarnished the civilization of the country, and brought ruin on the heads of the perpetrators ? Do they not also recollect that when they abandoned the guidance of rea son, and gave themselves up to the lawless fury of their passions, the journals which stimulated their excitement into frenzy invoked vengeance on their heads ? Was it not in the same quarter in which significant allusions were made to the opposition of the Duke of Wellington to reform and the dreadful fate of the De Witts ? Was it not in the same quarter whence the advice came to " strike at the faces of their enemies," that the voice was raised to call down upon the misguided victims of the reform excite ment at Bristol and Nottingham the " sharpest edge of the axe of the law ?" We interceded then for the lives of those infatuated delin quents whose crimes our admonitions would have prevented, but that they unfortunately be lieved their most violent advisers were the most hearty in their cause. They discovered their error too late ; but their melancholy experience ought to teach others wisdom. We have been induced to make those remarks at the present moment, from seeing in a weekly paper—one of the cheap publications —one of the specimens of untaxed knowledge—which claims to itself the merit of being published " for the people," the most nefarious advice given to the working classes, to whom the cheap sheet is especially addressed. One passage begins plausibly enough, by advising an obServance o f th e l aw ; b ut i t . . carries in its tail a scorpion's sting—" Remem her, by violating the law we should only add to its rigour— by obeying the law we shall destroy it hereafter. Let us obey it for our own sakes— but let us obey it only for the sacred purpose of overthrowing it." This is attempting to obtain, by the craftiness of Machiavel, the political millen nium of Jack Cade, in which the destruction of all law was the commencement of all happiness! Surely an enemy has said this. Again, the same adviser goes on to say, " The fate of Cully and Brooke must have taught )ou, ere this, how the truncheon of the hired assassin can be most safely repelled." Then comes a communi cation, as if from a correspondent, in which wav the law is to be kept, is more particularly detailed, and which we give verbatim:— " But now, Mr. Editor, I have a little bit of a secret to tell you :—a word to the wise is enough, and—no mis take. The sports of the great unbolted would at once be put an end to, if these hired bludgeoneers were fully con vinced that, for the future, the working man always goes to public meetings with bread and cheese in his pocket,— a herd crust of bread, and a very small piece of cheese-- and also A KNIFE; that's of course : for surely you would not have the poor m.n break his teeth against the hard crust, or nibble at the cheese like a mere mouse ? No : the working man 'must have a knife. It need not ite made with a j int ; that wou'd be an unnecessary ex pen,e. A strong straight knife, carried in a sort of large scis.or sheath, will serve admirably for cutting brad and cheese, and also for any other incidental purposes. This cheese-knife rn ly be made very sharp at the point (in order that you may pick out any thing detrimental in your victuals, or &e.); but the back of your knife should in crease in size up to the haft, where it should be very thicx, indeed almost as thick as the hack of a sword ; but that's nothing to the purpos e ; I only mean that every working man should, at every public meeting, have in his pocket some bread ant cheese, and also whatever may be; for it is a pity he should run the risk of being starved, er &C." This letter is signed " Palafox," and the reason for adopting that signature is obvious to all who recollect that the war-cry of the brave defender of Saragossa against the French in vaders was " war to the knife !" There was, to be sure, this difference in the application of the phrase as used by Palafox to tnat given by the cheap knowledge" writer ;—the former used it as the signal of resistance to a foreign enemy— the latter alludes to it for the purpose of inch ing or ensnaring his countrymen into the guilt of civil blooshed. If his readers should be in sane enough to follow such advice, they will find that " cheap knowledge" may be most dearly purchased. We do not advise, like some Whig Journals, combination s of people of pro perty against those who have none. We would rather draw the rich and poor into closer union than raise up a wall of separation between them. I,Ve defend the rights of the people against all aggressors, and we denounce as the worst enemies of the people those who, under a pretence of redressing grievances, would tempt them into crime !—Morning Herald. The journalists who from principle, or from interest, or from compassion, continue to sa evil things of the Ministers, of whose measures no civil things can be said, have, by this time, with one accord, given up all hope of defend ing Mr. Stanley's scheme for enslaving the West India proprietors. It admitted to be wrong in principle, and wrong in detail ; wrong where it advances, and wrong where it stops short ; wrong where it inflicts loss, and wrong where it proffers compensation. The advocates of the Government, conscious of the impos sibility of maintaining the position which has been so unfortunately occupied, valiantly attempt the offensive. "It is very true," they say, that your arguments against our plan are con clusive. We cannot refute Sir B. Martin, nor contend with Mr. Horsley Palmer. But it is not the less clear that by one scheme or another your property is to he plundered, and Your rights destroyed. And since you do not like the scheme, which is the hest that Downing-street can devise for the purpose, we call upon you to ruin yourselves after your own fashion, and to suggest to us a scheme of your own." Cer vantes represents a band of robbers bantering after this cruel fashion an honest traveller whom they have tied to a tree. They mean to hang him ; of that there is neither doubt nor di.pute ; but they have but two ropes, one of them un questionably too long for their purpose, the other undeniably too short. It' the traveller should happen to have a rope in his wallet they will adopt it, kind gentlemen, with pleasure. We believe that the King's Ministers are deter mined to sacrifice the West India proprietor ; and we thi..k that he would gain just as much by the swzgestion of his plan as the traveller by the production of his halter.—Morning Poat. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, MAY 28. HODSON v. TERRILL. Mr. Sergeant CiOULBURN and Mr. HILL showed cause on the part of the defendant against a rule obtained by Mr. Humfrey for setting aside a non suit in this action, which was tried at the last Lent A-s;zes at Warwick, before the Lord Chief Justice Denman, and which was brought to recover 201. from the defendant, who was stakeholder on a cricket match between the Birmingham and Wa.- wick Clubs. The rule Nisi for setting aside the nonsuit was chiefly granted upon the 2d section of 9 Anne, c. 14. Mr. Sergeant GOULBURN and Mr. HILL now con- tended that tricker was not an illegal game, to which Mr. Ba on BAYLEY assented ; and that betting was not per se illegal, hut only made so by the stature, and that this section not mentioning the game of cricket, could nor be supposed to mean cricket. Mr. BAYLEY, without calling upon Mr. Hum trey, was proceeding to deliver judgment, and said —I cannot come to the conclusion I am forming with any peculiar comfort, because I am sorry any impediment should be thrown in the way of that which is a fine manly game; but if I find it comes within the statutes against gaming, and that the se cond clause of the statute of Anne comprehends all games, the result must be that the present rule must be made absolute. The clause, however, does not make that an illegal game, which in itself is not illegal, but it prevents betting on such game to an illegal amount. It is the excess of the stake, or the excess of the bet, that introduces the illegality. The Learned Baron then read the second section, " that any person who shall at any time or sitting." Mr. HlLL—This match was two days. Mr. Baron BAYLEY—The difficulty is whether the money was won at one sitting. Mr. Baron VAUGHAN—If dinner bad intervened, it would have made no difference, but here there were two days. Mr. HLTMFREY—If the company never part, that is considered as one sitting. Mr. Baron BAYLEY said this point came upon him by surprise, and therefore the Court would call upon Mr. Humfrey to maintain his rule. Mr. HUMFREY—Before the event was decided the plaintiff claimed his share of the stakes. He admitted that he had lost the deposit of .51., and claimed only 151. It does not appear that the game was decided, or that the Warwick Club had won the match ; and if they have not won it, the plaintiff is entitled to recover the 151. Mr. Baron BAYLEY—There is no doubt of that. We will refer it to the Lord Chief Justice to say whether it was proved that the match had been won. As to the other point, as it came upon me by sur prise, you may have time to argue that. EXCHEQUER CHAMBER, MAY 28. HULL V. MACKAY,. This case came on before his Lordship at the late sittings at Gray's Inn-hall. The plaintiff was the Rev. John Hull, one of two sons, ar►d residuary legatee tinder the will of Mr. Christopher Hull. The testator was a professional man, residing in the Temple, possessing also a house called Sidcup-house, in Kent, and other pro per►y. The defendants were General Robert Mackay and Jane, his w►fe. Mackay took on him self, during the minority of the plaintiff and his brother, to act as their guardian. He was also a -übstituted trustee under the will of the testator. Th►e other defendant was a Mr. John Miles Win nington, who was merely a trustee for Mrs. Mackay, under a deed which among others was sought to be set aside. The bill prayed that various documents and certain deeds and securities specified in the prayer might be set aside, and for an account of the estate and effects of the testator, Christopher Hull, come under the power and control of the de fendant, Robert Mackay, as well as other goods, the property of the plaintiff, come into the possession of Mackay and wife, and applied to their own use, al lowing Mackay such money as lie might have pro perly disbursed, and for an account charging him with certain sums enumerated in the prayer; and hat Mackay might be charged 1701. a-year as an occupation rent for the house at Sirieup, and such moneys as the plaintiff had paid to James Vosper, otherwise Rich, and other persons of that name, and that subsidiary accounts might be taken, and the ba lance due to the plaintiff ascertained and paid. The Learned Counsel (Mr. Simpkinson) then detailed, at some length, the facts of the case, after which, Mr. BIAGI' proceeded to read cer ain passages in the defe►►dant's answers and the evidence, which he continued to do, When his LORDSHIP postponed the case till Sa :urday. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MAN SI 0 N- H 0 USE. ApTlication was made to the LORD MAYOR yesterday upon an occasion of a very uncommon de •cription. Some time ago a poor woman, the wife of a per son who resides at Exeter, was delivered of two still-born children, united in the same manner as a•ere the Siamese twins. The parents of the twins being indebted to a surgeon in the sum of 171. or 18/., the bodies were placed amongst his curiosities, ,y e understood, as a sort of security for the amount of the debt. Some time afterwards the strange birth having excited a great deal of interest and in quiry, the surgeon sold the bodies for a more con •iderable sum than that which would have dis charged his bill. The purchase was made by a pawn who was also a professional man, and as the fame of the conjoined bodies increased, the new buyer thought it would be advisable to convey his bargain to London, where curiosity was often in dulged at a most extravagant price, and either to exhibit them to the public or dispose of them to one of the graat institutions of the metropolis. Thia,at least upon the part of - the - family, who might be supposed to have the highest claim to the profits derivable from the lusus naturce, was conjectured to •be the case, and up to town came the father and mother, and grandfather and grandmother, and uncles and aunts of the twins, in order to contend for the restitution of what they considered to be their property. They soon ascertained that the gentleman in possession of the bodies was involved in pecuniary embarrassments, out of which he was endeavouring to extricate himself by the sale of the 'remarkable kind of treasure, and they were most anxious to know from the Lord Mayor whether his Lordship could not adjudicate in such a case of hardship, and restore the twins to their hands. The LORD MAYOR begged to know who had been so kind as to consider him qualified to act as an intercessor or a referee on so unusual a matter ? —The applicants had mentioned the circumstance to a solicitor, upon whose counsel they waited upon his Lordship. They had reason to suppose that the curiosity was extremely valuable, for, upon inquiring at the College of Surgeons or, Physicians, they learned that the twins had been exhibited arid offered for sale to the members, and that the sum required amounted to some hundreds. The LORD MAYOR declared that the subject hap• pened to be at as remote (distance as possible from his jurisdiction. He had, however, an opinion upon the subject, to which the applicants were quite wel come, and that was, that as far as he could collect from what had been stated, the party by whom the bodies were placed in a state of preparation was the only one who could make a legal claim, and that he, of course, had a legal right to dispose of them. That party, however, was in honour bound to give up the difference between the sum he had received and the amount of his bill, the expense of the prepara tion being deducted. The applicants appeared to be much di-appointed at this intelligence. A very neatly-dressed old maiden lady, named Sarah &tales, was brought up, charged by a young gentleman, an indigo broker, under the following circumstances, the detail of which caused some laughhier : The complainant, who evidently pitied the object of his accusation, stated that the defendant had been employed by him to take care of his house iu the city some time ago, arid was respected by him. She, however, took it into her head to look upon him in a light not altogether agreeable to most masters, for she regarded him with the eye of love. The pour old woman fancied, too, that her love was returned, and she at length became so great a " bore" that he was obliged to dtspen-e with her services altogether, as the only means of getting rid of the painful incumbrauce of her affections. She, immediately after her discharge, commenced a paper war, which she soon turned into a series of hostili ties against his windows, and as the result of her misplaced arid unrequited attachment began to as sume the appearance of serious operations, lie thought that it was necessary to appeal to the strong power of the law, which had no gallant preference of the sex. She had just smashed four panes of glass, arid he believed she meant to give him the be nefit of the full "light and air of hesiven." he LORD MAYOR hoped that the complainant had not given any encouragement to the derendant. —(Laughter.) The deeniant declared hat she had reason to believe that lie preferred her to all the rest of her sex. She confessed that she had conceived for him a very tender regard, but she now considered him unworthy of her affection, for after he had" thrown a flame over her," and caught hold of her love, he suddenly grew cold and insensible. The LORD MAYOR thought that such conduct was extremely disrespectfulto a lady who had so much superiority upon the score of years.—(A laugh.) His Lordship expressed a wish to know the substance of the letters which the defendant had written. The complainant stated that the poor old lady generally commenced her epistles in the tender way, but tier style gradually ran into the violent and the vindictive. She accused him of sorcery—of having cast a charm over her—and of denying her the re turn of an affection which had become a portion of her existence. But what annoyed him most was, the smashing of his windows. The LORD MAYOR did not think that a man was at all to blame for not falling in love with his grand mother, and had no idea of censuring the complain ant for feeling dissatisfaction at the mischief done to his windows because he was deaf to the voice of love.—(Laughter.) His Lordship had no doubt that the defendant would be improved by a day or two's cool visit to Mr. Teague, the governor of the Compter. Tile complainant appeared unwilling that any thing like severity should be exercised towar Is her, and was assured that she should be treated with the greatest kindness. lie had a respect for her, he said, and could in no way account for her infa• tuation. The LORD MAYOR—It is indeed infatuation, and it is odd that no age is exempt from it amongst the lades. I remember a scene which occurred in the presence of certain parish officers. They were sit ting at their wine at the workhouse one thy, and they called the matron of the house, who was 96 years of age, before them, to solve a difficulty in wh;ch they were placed in the course of their con versation. The churchwarden said to her, " You must not suppose, my dear madam, that we mean any offence to you, but be good enough to inform us at what age a female drops all idea of being in love." The matron turned her back with ineffable scorn upon the gentlemen,and mumbled out through her toothless jaws, " How can I answer such a question ? Y,,u must ask somebody who is longer in the world."—(Great laughter.)" " Now," sail his Lordship, " I think the complainant would have no objection to marry you after all." Defendant—On dear, to be sure; I'd like him of all things.—(Laughter.) The defendant was then for a few days consigned to the care of Mr. Teague, who had directions to treat her very kindly, but to keep her very cool. BOW-STREET. Yesterday, police constable John Graham, of the A division, No. 32, was charged befure Mr, MIN SHULL with having committed a violent as-ault on Charles Whee•er, one of the officers employed by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani mals, at the meeting which took place in CAlrhorpe street on Monday, the 13,h inst. The complainant having been sworn, stated the circumstances of the assault, which have already been published. After a good deal of altercation between the parties, Mr. MINSHULL observed, that a case in which such contrary evidence appeared would be best dis posed of by a jury, and he should, therefore, offer no opinion either on one side or the other, but sim ply call upon the defendant to fiat bail for the assault. Two police inspec , ors, who attended the exami nation put in the required sureties on behalf of the de'endant. TV ORSHIP-S T REE T. STABBlNG.—Yesterday a fine looking young wo• man, about 20 years of age, named - Wood, was charged before Mr. TWYFORD with having stabbed atioi her young woman, named - Smith. The prisoner and the prosecutrix are common prostitutes. The latter had never seen the prisoner until the night before, when she met her in White cross-street, and, finding her of the same stump as herself, spoke to her. While they were conversing, she observed the prisoner draw something from her bosom, but, it being rather dark where they stood, she could not see what it was. In a few minutes after she received three stabs from the prisouer in the arm, who immediately ran away, and left her bleeding. A police-officer of the G division deposed to being called, and finding the prosecutrix bleeding. The prisoner, in her defence, denied the charge altogether. She declared that she had no knife, * This story was in print long before the Lord Mayor was born. 1 , r o but that the prosecutrix had insulted Peti grossly. The latter stopped her, a nd be h e l er 7,4 was a stranger, insisted on her Pl it l,,„l i csol doing them, so , and meaning ale," or to leave the street, as she s'v'' 1 ,I 1 . allowed to walk there until she had treste,refoi immediately girls o f h e her was close behind me. it ti a ti ticd Mr. Heritage, the chief clerk--P-, , your father follow you at night ? fie The prisoner made no answer, but Wi g 4 J milted upon the evidence against her for los! James Ward, a navigator, was chargedloilliel ing from a Mr. Joseph Miller a pocket 10 il of enjoyment," when on returning bonies t ' fi l l sKialiidineg:p,iraFotisrdei Friend, I'll r uia, : s ' l e fi n sg t t oh o pt u p t ye : du h . ; i d a y ‘t in b tei e t n fo re r s e s f sr . 01 01 j t L firiso% declined fighting a man nearly double ttn was n a la s n il ; k a h l a i n l tik , e ,a r n e t hir s strength of himself, and left him. 'Vella° o ill joci:endclina7d , g l , diately seized him and tore off the tail of hi s o o ' r t w o h h ic u h rt Prisoner—Your Worship, I mistook ° another man. A Witness—l am the prisoner's brolber'p Mr. TIVYFORD —By the same mother?"' foi Mr. TWYFORD —A d f het? IP ti the same to i iiii Mr. TWYFORD— You are the most ill . I.theltadiolno'i;el;) other I ever saw two brothers. e ¢ Witness—lt's all right, your WorsliiP'aiiiiii that man (th e com pl ainant ), an d he is 'yor wrong, for he pitched into me before 0 1 .., came up. lie began the row first. r I slr Complainant —All I want i s the tail 0 ' or else a new one. , d 00,5 Mr. . T WYFORD thought the prisoner Pa n iipi e tion of st ea li ng th e h an dk erc hief,an d s 'll ' latter to find a " new tail," or pay for th e he had done. Prisoner—l'd do that.—Discharged. FROM THE _ GAZETTE OF LAST C ' 0 y mss ~ WAR-OFFICE, MAY 28, / 83 %, 12th Reg:ment of Foi.t—L.aptaiir J. Barry, IV of. C of the 75th Regiment, to be Captain, vice r• who exchanges, receiving the difference, MaY T° 23d Foot—Lietit. W. F. P. Wilson, from the p .„ o °PI I t y be o L f t ie h u e t , e B n t a h nt F , o v o i t c , e 4a . y K s ..Elliot, f w h o retires up ° 39th Foot—Lieut. C. Bro w n, f rom the halr;P t a itner" Foot, to be Lieutenant, vi c e Wil son , appointed I May 28. ~„ p I 50th Foot—Lieut. P. J. Petit to b e C a ptain, ff . Wcstlai e, promoted ; Ensign J. B. B on ham 55t0 purchase, vie.. Pt-tit ; Ensign S. C am pbell, from or be Ensign, vice Bonham, May 2i. 55th Foot—W. Murray, Gent., to be Ensign, by 101 S. Campbell, appointed to the 50th Foot, MaY' 11 0.- Both Foot—Major C. H a r r i son , f rom the half- pay to be Major, vice Northcote, who retires, Mai U NA A CHE. Capt. J. Westlake, from the 50th ReDgiment, to De Infantry, by purchase, AI y of Commission M. l'hoas, ~ to be ditto. fo ghtii b o y n t . h F e . L j o . r Lo d Lieutenant raiiorison t o o f b t e he D C ep o u u t n i t . l o 4: soo s ll The Commis-i m on by Esq the Lord Lieutenant of the Countix. • %Vest Somerset Regiment of Yeomanry Cavan/ Gent., to Ste Cornet. 6 ti e .. pp oc ti n , k tk irit c 14;:*wrj' 41,44,1% eb eit , ly at . I , l lth 1 ,11 1 ,' At Pic t ht 1, DECLARATION OF INSOLVE- C ye thr FRANCIS HOA and JOHN WADEY, bin pect-place, St. George's-field.. BANRUPTS. ROBERT WOOD WARD, tailor, Lime...wet-1x to surrender June 4, at ten, and Jul. 9, at ele1;04/ of Bankruptcy. Corner, Canter. ur)-square, SOU` ington, official assignee, Basinghall-street. , ROBERT' COLLIER and HO ATIO manufacturers, Worsham-mills, Oxfordshire, • 9, at teu, at the Staple Hall Inn, Witney. 0 ' Inn, London ; Westell, Witney. RICHARD LLOYD, brewer, Liverpool, 9, at two, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liver Liverpool; Adlington, Gregory, and Faul London. CHARLES HUGH LINTER, grocer, and July 9, at two, at the Office of Messrs. lard, Portsmouth. Wimbury and Co., Chaos Callaway and Hellard, Portsmouth. JOHN TURNER, corn-factor, Langport setshire, June 14 and July 9, at eleven, at th , Inn, Langport Eastover. Warren, Po Lincoln's Inn-fields London ; Warren, LaL CHARLES MORRIS WILKS, innkeePer , landshire, June 11, and July 9, at eleven, Angel Inn, Stamtbrd. Parker, Horncastle. ris, Allen, and Anthony, Great urmond-st THOMAS THU{ L W ELL, wine-merch. June 21, at eleven, and July 9, at one, at the castle-upon-Tyne. Michael, Red Lion-square. don, North Shields. 44 JOHN KABERRY, leather-cutter, Court-house, Leeds, and July 9, at twelve, at Fisher and Sudlow, Chancery-lane, London; JOHN GARDNER, joiner, Preston, June eleven, at the Town hall. Preston, Lancashire. Inn, Holborn, London; mstrong, Pr es t on . GERVASE CRESSY HALL, money-se• Derbyshire, June ,0, and July 9, at eleven, Wirksworth, Derbyshire. Johnson and Wethel don ; Fearnhead and Campbell, Nottingham. ROBERT OAKES, painter, Liverpool, .1 , at one, at the Clarendon.rooms, Liverpool. pool ; B ackstock and Bunce, Sergeant's London. JOHN JONES and GRIFFITH JONES, cal Carnarvonshire, May t.)9, and June 28, at the hell, Carnarvonshire. WILLIAM GIB DON, broker, Pendleton, I I, and July :), at ten, at the Star Inn, Manch , Gregory, and Faulkner, Bedford-row, London; SETH BURGE GRANT, hatter, Bristol, 1 at two, at the Commercial-rooms, BristoL Hi ridge, Baraett's-buildings, Holborn, London ; IA IL LI A M WOOLCOTT, grocer, Exeter. 9, at ti.,, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Wilk lun; Clark, official assignee, St. Swithin's-lane, errell, Barton, and Small, Exeter. HENRY WYATT, boarding-house-keeper, vent.garden, Middlesex, June 4, at half-past o. eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Verbeke. nor-street, New Bond-street; Turquand, official hall-buitdings. DIVIDENDS. M. Pass, lime-burner, Nine Elms, Vauxhall, past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy—A. E. Abbott, merchants, Austin-friars, June eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy—M. Jones, ' Compton-street, Soho, June 20, at eleven, at the „, - ' 4 ( ruptcy—R, I'opham, linen-draper, Dock/les"' su 1. IN uEL l' o A June 20, at ten, at the Court of Bankruptcy--' c .'„urt ~t l. , ito eh chant, Abchurch-lane, June 18, at ten, at the %,", 19, '',ll.ll'#' , 'itt, e ruptcy—J. Luke, wine -merchant, Mark - lane, J"- col 7tD iS .,l ''. II, '1 r * the Court of Bankruptcy—B. Mege, merchant, o , " , O, 'q\.,, ings, June 19, at eleven, at the Court of BankttlY re J Ol l3 , i j i l, CRS T. S. Hall, and W. J. Hall, packers, Crosby-69V iider , ,o_,o . , ' eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy—S. Harvey, teal ' or/ t r i. Cornwall, June 21, at eleven, at the Queen's ,„ o utlY . ,ll, e Ilio n min—J. Atkinson, slate.manufacturer, Cock,..e r 'ilitcl',,Tel, 0 01 ,. at eleven, at the Globe Inn, Cockermouth--" 1 . '.-- o . "Vilr . . 4 York e 1 . ‘4 maker, Halifax, June 21, at nine, at theo,4o ! Ov chester—J. Botcherby, iron-merchant, DarlinB v oill ;e, tiAl June 18, at eleven, at the King's Head Inn* . .. 1 0 'Vio ,1 % IN Hall, jun., brushmaker, Walsall, Staffordshir' T 't, ~i"orse . 4 k ....t 'IT, eleven, at the George Hotel, Walsall—B. Kf:nt P I N u Bungay, Suffolk, June 27, at five, at the Raint.' r . t r: I ` qql Norwich. ilit( ll ° lll CERTIFICATES.—JuNE 18. di ire u'ijdv i it. ip, G. Mason, joiner, Fiskerton, Nottinghatn'7,oo, s ,' tfr OP, 4 k money.scrivener, Aylsham, Norfolk—J. L. Ovv, Or 1,:a1t,, Leamington Priors, Warwickshire—W. ParmetZtte' 4 . ( 1 o t h Gosport—G. Mitcell, miller, Trentham, Stafßo . "' A l ''i'' ,llt, 1 PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED„' n za sll'ir t iliC t T. and J. Ward, dyets, Doncaster—F. W. Bil",.": e ge,r,4l , "i,kk , A Bassett, merchants, Broad-street-buildings--C,% e 11, 1,,,, 1 1tr, ti Davies, block-makers, Liverpool—J. and M. l'''. ro s j ;4 , Ali, Altringham, Cheshire—W. Hague and E. Mi -I l 'l,cl 0 . .0f7 , ' 'llll t - Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire—J. HaIICOCk I.od , 0 Pio 4 k y 4. e. t millers, Leicester—G. Fielding and W. F. 143 '00 al, , it ios .11 f , goldsmiths, Nelson-street, Greenwich—P. A. OP f' , ,t, Metcalfe, attorneys-at-law, New-square, Lincoln's r ok;Dir t i r lt and E. Jones, silk-mercers, Plumber's-row, CitYborse, t e o ,„ ,‘I , 1 11, ~ way and Ce., net-line-manufacturers Bridport, ;' fg,, ,e l ,, 4 1 .14,ree and J. Almond, woollen-drapers, ' Wigan t n i tne r . ' tloic ~`Aot Alston and Co., Liverpool—J. Attree and 1 - , po 1, '. 1 Sompting, Sussex—J. Barnes and Co., coaLlnerc ..5, _`ply;' , i ., ham, Kent- D. Hodgson and T. Beal, corn-fse.,7Cle c JA l : #1: 0 , 1 ,1P, 1 11) Kent—B. Rooks and :.. Pearson, machine-triakeeti, oh il , , Vlk, 11 , Yorkshire—T. Blake_and C. Scales, meat-saleS.,,„le, .N : 4 . Surrey—R. Overend and Co., wire-drawers, 1 '!",;0 1 or" li,, 1 1,,' shire—K Yates and J. Jones, corn-dealers, Lly e 7, flit ', q t - ' 4 U gins ana Co., coal-miners, Oldham, Lancashire (s 4 r iff Irt S J. Eva 11 S) . ... 10 ,41 bis tip If Mr. THEODORE HOOKE, i ll %pe` 0 ," the e , P ti ° Til coming novel, should keep up at all to , or i , , r ' 0 e excited by the title of his work ( , The P 4l' elll'' d i 4 e, _ be fr h ter"), a very interesting story in his ow° ; i t'd ' i pero , t h 'itlki may be safely anticipated. It is in the sue° g ee° ,ill'.' ~.....t D if I . ' I , ' D e , of the two qualities of familiar humour a • 00. 'P o t U.ll ki lia 0' thos which are nowhere seen in such tutor s - 0 d -all ,l ' l l't k' Oh, CI as in middle life, that the author of " Saying!, an " at:oA ° n .ll 1 i (.41 has won for himselt such lasting celebotY% Of 1 1 'N,,, this is surely likely to occur in detailing the ()N t 0 tt career of a humble " Parson's Daughter . " . l' h -.................1 .......m..................••••, pq' I ,s itb 4 o4 BIRTH. rilio Oh, ' , ] t e Or Pkti e,P J 14" Ni 0 0, 0 , V t 'li ' MARRIED. On the 28th inst., at St. George's Hanover- I , t 1, ' ,, 1 11 % ,, t _ Henry Walpole Nevill, son of the Hon. tit7 o ungl i olS , l\N) " nephew to the Earl of Abergavenny, to France Ra se , ,` lll 'C . 4 l ter of Sir Edmund Bacon, Premier Baronet , of I ,‘1,, 1 Y „ / . 4 hall, Norfolk. f ", ,f , v L I , L pd, ,' I, , tf ( DIED. _ oo oo l ' ~, , ,v 0.0, 4 On the 28th inst., at Denham, John Dru ev ol, . i qi , 0 Charing-cross, aged (16. u e, V' ii.(k'ia ~), k 4 • U Berk e eY On ths, 27th inst., at his seat , Etfingham-h ° l -5t ~( YL 1 , 4,, 4 Thomas Hussey Apreece, Bart., ut Up pe r ~a 1, o r il ' , % k.,i man-square. ed D- e a ;( On the 28th inst., the Rev. John...lllals Smith! og .04g, Jr ,ti qith, On the 27th inst., at Chigwell-hill, M i s s., l ",,,tord' i p I S 41 / 4 On the 25th inst., Charms Day, Esq., of ria ie to 4 , i , r, %, Worcester, aged 60. • On the 22d inst., at _ Astbury ta 3 R 6 e . ctory, neat . C°116 0 ,,, e " 4 ' ! I I ,t ' 4l l Pk ‘ ,: ta ll Rev. Thomas Jones Crake' , ged Lower 130 f pf / ,k ti, l'N uit On the kath inst, at his residence, . of bl , h Rhodes Jonathan Rhodes, Esq., former* , v• p i 'i„ %, , , ri Ni It Navy, aged 44. on the 23d inst., Mr. Richard Rokes, undert" " oil l4 " ' , l 3'lN kt l : 4 ' street, Borough, aged 5. -rua re, k , tt, On the 17th trothr house, St. Andrew 4 A i slit, On :ails Scott, of M-lodge, Portobello. .ir On the 27th inst., the lady of William Hen Gumley Hall, Leicestershire, of a daughter. PRINTED AND PUBLISIIND BY MU R DO yoUS" SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND. 1.01,P01. t t. coLrits l4o o , oo 1_ ........ 1 et r d e s y h !i r l jtie l elders, . 1 1 June 15, r ht . rpool, O,, t. . ' LiverPooL , k .. 4_ . 1 Faulkner, ' jot ! w e i , oc r F l n rtses' S I 0 1 1 e• t ,,, e ;. callaw 3l essr ~,,e, P -01 Chan te 4.4 0. 4 ttil , 0 er A , e. ' igport Ea s t ~,;p0 .... ,at the . " ... .h C' ‘ l l llt uo Yortsn3nub - ‘.0 40.. t LangPn r r t,eth , ' 4 ill' o 'Hl ieeper. 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