The Sun. — London, England, 1830-07-09 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TIM PUBLIC JOURNALS. Mr, Hurne's speech on Wednesday evening was 'compared by Sir Robert Peel to the " admonitory :address of o neighbouring foreign Potentate" to the electors of his Monarchy on the eve of the election now going on. The two addresses, however odd it esey appear, had doubtless this quality in common, that they urged the constituent bodies of France :tad England to return members who would be in dependent enough to support the Government of the respective kingdoms. Mr. flume, indeed,, seemed envious to 'combine . a justification of the measures of his Majesty's Mittieters with an asset. don of the actual, though little suspected, power ie eactit in the democracysof England, lamenting that many wholesome acts of Government had been re jected or resisted through the vicious composition of the House of Commons, and warning the chic- tors of the United - Kingdom,—freeholders, bur gesses, freemen, householders, potwallopers, and all the rest of them,--that notwithstanding what the ' lion. Gentleman himself and others had been re peating for so many years, in respect of the mo- nopoly exercised over the House of Commons by a taw great families and their dependents, there did ' and does really exist at this moment in the constituent body of Great Britain and Ireland, Krength'enough, if they choose to .employ it, for the nomination of a majority amounting to 369 , :vtemberti out of the 668, of which the Lower tiouse is composed. This is encouraging news for patriote, and we trust will be strenuously acted on by tlie voters. There are, nevertheless, one or two , points worth considering, as it seems to us, in con . neetion with these observations as to the facility of sending independent men to Parliament. The counties are particularly describes' by Mr. Hume as being in possession of this enviable power. But will the Hon. Gentleman affirm that an English county eltetion, as at present conducted, is likely •a ro end in the return of the fittest and most lade- s pendent Member of Parliament? Let the lion. - ‘,.ieritlerrian look at the frightful expense of en elec. tion contest. for any, but especially for a large county,. and then soy that a county is in general a less strict monopoly than the closest borough ? If by the word " most independent," the richest indi , sidual be meant, then we agree with the position of Mr. Hume, that st .county member will, in nine cases out of ten, be the richest person, or rather some one member of the richest family, in the county 6or which he is delegated. But is a county member, so elected, --namely, through his faculty of spend "Otte an immense sum of money, or rather through the affluence of his knot of relatives and fiiends,— the more free for the magnitude of the 'alliance :to which he owes his return ? We are far from thinking so. Such a member is generally—we do not allege always—but the creature of a junta, ;hose particular interests, prejudices, and instrue (ions he must obey, or he will be abandoned by h torn. The fact is, that there are two evils to con s; tend with, and that the remedies under the present , ;yetem are incompatible. The constituency is too small for independence, and too large fey the pockets ;of any but the wealthiest candidates. Should the . t constituency be increased, additional expense would be incurred by the candidate : yet without such in ' crease there is no chance of an independent ma. vise of the elective franchise. To obviate this evil, ' Arnie eminent Members of Parliament have recent mended the collection of votes in districts; but then the great characteristic, the paramount ad . vantage of ,bringing the elected and the electors ewe to face would be lost. The subject is full of s ,!illiculties, toad the problem is not to be solved by 1 1 ,he hacking arguments of some of our contempora ies, who think a ballot a remedy for all the milt ',, chiefs of, our representative system, Sir Robert Peel , tweeted, that unless the electors can be purified, i ~ he good to be, accomplished by watching the' representative will be at beat but partial. He was right, but this purification must' extend not snerely to the corrupt avarice, but to the gross ig s uorance of the electors. Thu Scotch and Irish Members came in for their share of the lion. Gene demun's animadversion. There is, however, this thfference between their respective capabilities. The Scotch Members pretend. to nothing beyond the spirit of selfish jobbing, which is the very genius and essence of Scotch representation. To act other wise than as buyers and sellers of patronage would lig a gross abuse of their power, and a daring breach if compact with the dozen or two of voters by whom they are sent into Parliament. The back benches, therefore, behind the Treasury bench, are the un derstood stations of such Senators,--the only places • for which they think it worth the while of any man endued with common sense to sit. The Idols Mem . hers are far less excusable. They court popularity to get their seats; they bawl out lustily for redress .tf grievances; the whole theory of patriotism is fa miller to these gentlemen, and their shuffling deca defuse into the arms of the Minister, towards the second Session or so of their Parliumentary exist s mice, maths the career of the Irish courtier with a t ' perfidy which it would be unjust to charge upon the doweright, consistent, straightforward vassalage, of s his unblushing, because unconscious rival from be yond the Tweed.--Tines, , When the question of superannuation was decided against Messrs. Dundee and Bathurst, we were not iii any great idiom that these two young gentlemen would suffer lung from neglect. Mr. Dundas, we } tee, has at all event* been uttended to in good time. ' fie hits been appointed to succeed Mr. Legge as Deputy Comptroller of the Navy. The friends of MialUtera will say, no doubt, this is as it should be. There are some things, however, connected a ith this business, tespeseing which a little information might be desirable. It is not long since Mr. Legge feet wed an augmentation of 2001. a year to his selary. What we want to know is, whether this _tegmentation of salary was not settled at or about the time when,hlr, Legge had intimated that it was ' flits intention to resign m June. Be this as it may. 'dr. Dundas is utiquestionably a lucky fellow to have Ii the benefit of an augmentation, which his pre : ts.lessor so soon abandoned to him. It looks much ostler that the augmentation took place before the 1 . ,ppointment of Mr. Dundas than after it. It is Ned that such haste was made, otherwise Mr. Legge might have escaped this good thing altege ther.—Morning (Amuck. In our publiestion of Monday hilt we inserted he following paragraph tese" It has been suggested hat it most popular Act of William the Fourth 1 ,eotzld be immediately ordering an entrance to b e 3 firults into the Park from Regent-, street. It would ,ratify all clarifies of his Majesty's subjects." In (he House of Commons, on Wednesday following, .t conversation took place on the subject of that ' [invalid', between Mr, flobhouse, Mr. Ilume, aid two of his )lejesty's Ministate which was thus i . reported in our publieetion of yesterday , t .... ...; Mr. nonagons% teak ibis opportunity of asking the e - , ; Right Hon. Gentleman opposite whether or not it was the i i .ntention at the King's °moment to give that passage , 1,0 , the Path which a great number of his stout - items, if, irnktasl, the public at large, thought of au great in , ;Istssittage. 'the CiIANC3I.I:O4 of the Excuse/use—l ran eve the ilea. Mei/Ater an sssuramte Which I, believe will be per t.' stely sittitfart or y t o h u nt, I ha i re received his Majesty's !il g oturnands fo r o p en i ng t h at passqs,....(flear, hear, ) 41 est Mr, Hulot /tepid not allow the occasion to pass with. v, , I,if t n;tirsging his thinks This Witte A preof of a desire. .n , the frAl, id th,,reximonsc, to meet the wishes of the ' 44. ' i'' all teethes wiiitth, although - trivial in itself, be - . /poi. a ioiver • emol o, on which the public would duly sp f- ssc's , eot. si ,„,.. g s ' f .. . i n tr.!.."- 1 1. ' _ "1 : .-- . 11:1 M 4 P" $4 - ' 3 Government Caartat 41 1 . wi l i ii, ; i to ' g r ov jY t 7 i. : ll i r r a til in iti'ilibiett the Hem Member is tt i fir spontaueous set i,f" hi % li i ,l: ' ir ty i 41%4111141 the Lahis was ! aloe by Any M'inister ‘I I •,!' • 914. ' .413 Mig' p, , ,*." Blear. ~ I r a AA act of aqui. cootteseension, wiitel t b se s a ss , OIP neatest attention r,n t e e . ow oaf thee Kiwi'' ;fir Wishes of t„ tr! 4 4 atibjecto, ~,,,„, lu : dr : Sir Itiibreit reel guys, pe t f m g v i by i ' l l : i, ! i .ni, , sty, without the " lratt suggestio n " f ' ~iy Minister—hut it is equally c er t tirs " : 1 u ..' I nye bliotvii above, dust there was a ii ' as . - - -uggesiles so also, circa front the Prom That suggesti on wit, - T Al',..ter"rig,;:r.::.- i l l s° , !,4"" tr iLiHrl e i 4 ."'Ei: • ....rt,„„.;"1,1/11 ,4— ,,,;,, ; . . . '4*l*,l made,`not to the King's Ministers, for that would have been in vain, but to the King himself—and it has been received in a manner becoming a Sove reign who takei a pleasure in promoting the happi ness of his people. It is worthy of observing that neither Mr.' Hobhouse, nor any other " patriotic" Member of Parliament, introduced this 'matter to the attention of Ministers until we had first ad dressed ourselves to the King on the subject. From the above report it will be seen that Mr. Hume, who has thrown aside, of late, the sturdy rudeness of a tribune of the people , " to affect courtier like suavity of manner in addressing the dispensers of the " loaVes and fishes," tendered his thanks to the 14inisters of the Crown for this " proof of a desire, on their part, to meet the wishes of the public." His gratitude Was as misplaced es his compliment was out of season. Over and over again did we formerly cull on the Ministers to pro care for the public that accommodation which has now been obtained on the very first intimation of its necessity. We called cn them in void—theft/xi had gone forth against the humble and reiterated petitions of the inhabitants of this great metropolis, and there was to be no reversal of the sentence of dictatorial exclusion. Sir Robert Peel and his coadjutors not only did not advise the late Sove reign to grant this convenience to his subjects, but they hardly even condescended to notice the ex pression of the public wishes on the subject. The request which was then sternly refused is now politely conceded. Sir Robert Peel and his friends may say tempora mutantur et 'WS mutainur cam Wis. This benignant change has been wrought by the King alone, who values, above all the splendours of Royalty, the love of a free and generous people. The concession is, indeed, a small matter when com pared with questions of national interest; but the conduct of men in comparatively trivial questions indicates character and disposition ; and horn the ready and gracious acquiescence of William IV. with the desire of the public on this point we may augur a liberality of feeling in action in matters of higher import, which will encircle the throne with ill the strength which it can derive from the popu lar virtues of the Monarch,—Morning Herald. The ensuing General Election, if.we are to be lieve reports, is contracting itself by anticipation into very narrow limits, Mr. A. we pre told, is to be returned without opposition for this place, and Mr. 13. is secure of his election for that; while the whole tribe of close boroughmongers are ready, of course, to hand over their pure share of the national representation to whoever is nt hand with the re quire(' price. All this is bad enough as far as it goes; but still happily the whole representation of the country does not present such a farce as these instances imply. That there is much too little of what cart be fairly called choice, or election, cannot be denied ; but still there are same places, and those not a few, where something like popular election exists ; and the more that right is narrowed, the more it behoves those who really possess it not to barter or disregard its exercise. In Ireland, we are told, in some of the few places where freedom of choice remains, the electors are busily scrutinising the conduct of their present Members ; and, to enable them to do so, have possessed themselves of those useful lists of P arliamentary majorities and mi norities which the Press is in the habit of supplying the public with, and are resolved to try their Mem bers by this unerring test. There is, however, be sides what these lists contain, another still more use ful kind of information, which is to be gathered from their silence; we meats the names of those who have not voted at all. The coward who shrinks altoge ther from the ranks is a much worse soldier than he who ranges himself on the wrong side; and the electors throughout all parts of the kingdom cannot he better employed than in hunting out and mark ing this band of (hoards. With little exception these stayers-away are influenced by indolence, by fear, or interest—and, whichever of these may have been the motive, it equally unfits a man from being again intrusted with a charge which he has so much and so grossly abused. In short, the time for a rigid scrutiny is now arrived. Let those who can fairly pass muster be enrolled in the new regiment; but those to whose hands the ((minion of the mus ter-roll is intrusted will have only themselves to blame if they allow the halt, the lame, or the blind (in a political sense), again to disgrace the colours which they have either tarnished or deserted. Above 011, it is in vain for the electors to complain of the elected, unless they themselves are free from the selfishness and impurity which they impute to the latter. This, we fear, is too often not th e case; and, indeed, it not ur:frequently falls to our lot to see the bawling patriot, the man who professes moat, and expects the most from others, an example himself of sudden tergiversation and shameless vont lty.—.2lforning Herald. We fear that we may now take leave of the Beer Bill as a measure against which any successful op position cannot be mustered. The most important amendment to it, moved by that. patriotic nobleman the Duke of Richmond, was last night negatived in the Lords by an overwhelming majority ; and with regard to the remaining clause, intended to be moved on the third reading, it is so unimportent, as we stated on a former occasion, to those now in the occupation of public-houses, as not to deserve no tice ni any other light, than as exhibiting the reek. less indifference of - the Government in destroying private property, and ruining an immense body of respectable and industrious individuals_ The pro perty in publichouses is now depreciated at least fifty or sixty per cent.; and the delaying of time operation of Vie Bill can effect no essential improve meets Before taking leave of the measure, how ever, we cannot help adverting, en the one hand, to the idea generally entertained of some brewers hav ing been temptedi by the reduction of the duty on beer, to give their votes to the Government, and, on the other hand, to the folly of the calculation by which they were induced to pursue such a line of conduct. On the former point no doubt is new entertained. The Licensed Victual lers, as a body, consider themselves to have been said, and many of them, we have been in formed, have shewn their sense of th e trans action in the moat feeling manner; and with regard to the second, it appears to us truly astonish ing how the Brewers could think for a moment of sacrificing their rights in public-houses to the bare , and 'wedeln speculation of selling more beer in beer-shops than, with a reduced duty, they would have ,slone through the regular and accustomed channels of consumption. They will soon find out their mistake, we are confident ; and the public also, we auger, will not be long in discovering that the best beer is to be procured from those who have laud the greatest experience in managing it. But in the mean time the mischief will have been done— many respectablu and industrious individuals will have been ruined, and a shock given to the feeling of security generally entertained on the score of private uuperty, which neither thu present Ministry, nor Is next succetewr, will be able to get over.— Vora.. 'tig &yank?. • The conduct of same pirents in coercively enrieavouring to get their datightera settled in the world," has often been the means of getting settird out of it. One consolation remains—the parson Comes in for a fee either way. The following extract of a letter from a gen tlentan raiding in Congleton, chews the improvement in the silk trade I hear from respectable manufacturers that the silk trade is rapidly recovering in this part of the country, and that there is at this mantra employment in this place for at least two thousand per4ons,- and at Macelofidd for three thousand, if they were to apply; in short, that there is considerable demand far labour in that branch of business, which has been gradually improving 1 . -4 , the last three months." PROLIFIC 13IIITII.—Yesterclay the wife ©f Mr . J44ESf(nttfttr, wood-merchant in Forres, mis de hvtreti of three fine ; two girls and a boy, who ate tliririog soil likely to live. An interval of twenty houta ilequred 'between the birth of the rivet child and tht. birthe of tht, two others. The mother is &mg well. She hull four elattlren before, but alt by sin' le hit tbs.-.-Inner nets Courier. LAW INTELLIGENCE. HIGH COURT OF DELEGATES, JULY S. WYATT AGAINST INGRAM. This case has been so often before the public, that it is only necessary to say that it is an appeal from the sentence of the Judge of the Prerogative Court, by which the will of Mr. John Clopton, formerly Ingram, of Clopton-hall, Warwick, made in favour of a stranger in blood (Mr. Henry Wyatt, son of the testator's solicitor and agent), to the prejudice of his next of kin, was set aside on the Fround that it was obtained by fraud and circumvention. The appeal was some time pending in this Court, and on the first day of Hilary term last, the Court, after a long consideration, came to the resolution of withholding their decision, without naming► a day to deliver it, throwing out a suggestion that the parties might come to some arrangement. This day the Court assembled to give its sentence. After nearly an hour spent in deliberation, strangers were admitted, and the registrar read the result, namely, that the Judges being divided in opinion, the Court gave no judgment. The Commission consisted of Mr. Justice LIT TLEDALE, Mr, Just ice GAMER, Mr. Baron VAUGHAN, (the three Judges from the common law Courts,) and Dr. DAUBENY, Dr. BURNABY, Dr. GOSLING, Dr. DODSON, Dr. ADDAMS, and Dr. BLARE, Surro gates from Doctors' Commons. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Jim' S. John _Maley Lawrence, solicitor, late of Howard- treet, Strand, applied Cor hia discharge. It ap ieared that he was a bankrupt in April, 1829, and 'is debts now amounted to 9,068/. Ile attributed his situation to losses by had debts and expenses in curred in defending actions. To Miss Graddon, late of Drury-lone Theatre, he advanced 1601., and to her father 2604 none of which was returned. Other persons be mentioned had left this country considerably in his debt. The insolvent gave Hs evidence in a very candid manner, and it did not appear that he had concealed any property.—He was ordered to be discharged. OLD BAILEX, JULY 8. TRIAL OF ISAAC, ALIAS IKEY SOLOMONS. At five o'clock the RECORDER took his seat on the bench, when the prisoner, Isaac Solomon:, was arraigned upon five indictments, to which he pleaded " Not Guilty." He was then put to the bar on an indictment, charging him with burglariously breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Richard Grow cock and others, about the hour of three oclock on the morning of the 6th of January, in the 7th year of the late King, and stealing therein 77 pieces of lace, 43 handkerchiefs, 28 veils, 43 cups, 367 other caps, 30 collars, 468 cap-crowns, and other goods, the property of the said Richard Groweock and his partners, within the city of London. _ _ _ Mr. eIARKSON appeared as Counsel for the prose cution, and in the course of his address to the Jury, cautioned them not to suffer the very great notoriety which marked the character of the prisoner to weigh with them. The Learned Counsel then called the following witnesses : Harry Patches deposed, that on the day of the robbery he was in the employ of the prosecutors, and secured the premises in the evening, When he left the property enumerated in the indictment safe. On the Monday morning following he went to the warehouse, which he found ransacked, and the pro perty gone, amounting in value to about 5001. The prisoner was taken into custody in the month of April following. Mr. C. Pittaws appeared for the prisoner.- 1 Witness was not the last person up on the night of the robbery. A female was up af:er him. 'Witness timened the outer door. The amount of the goods found in the possession of the prisoner was about lOU in value. Jane Modes was a housekeeper in Lower Queen street, Islington, at the time of the robbery. The prisoner rented a room of the witness, and used to sleep at the house and have his meals there. The officers came to the house, and found a quantity of property, which had been placed there by the pri soner, which they took away with them from the prisoner's room. The wife of the prisoner did not live with him ut the house of the witness. The pri soner went by the name of Jones while he lived with her. James Lee, an officer of Lambeth-street police office, went to the house of Mrs. Llodes, where he found a quantity of property, which was afterwards claimed by the prosecutors. The property was tied up in bundles under the bed. The prisoner was then committed to Newgate to take his trial. It was fully three months after the robbery that the property was found in the prisoner's room. There was a great quantity of other property, but no in struments of house-breaking were found. Robert Davis, also an officer, deposed to the fact of finding the property in the room of the prisoner. The property now produced was a part of it. There was a coach►-load of it found. Sampson Copestack, one of the prosecutors, Wen iGed the property produced as part of that which lad been stolen from their warehouse. Benjamin Cockermouth deposed, that at the time of the robbery he was u traveller in the employ of the prosecutors, and saw a part of the property pro duced in their warehouse on the day before the robbery. Richard Smart—l was one of the under gaolers of Newgate in 1827. The prisoner was in custody of the Governor. Witness took the prisoner to Westminster on Holy Thursday, 1827, for the pur pose of being bailed in the Court of King's Bench. On the following day the prisoner was again taken to the Court of King's Bench, but ho contrived to escape. The witness then described the manner in which the prisoner escaped, he (the witness) having been stupitled by some liquor given to him. The prisoner, m his defence, declared that be had no share whatever in the robbery, and bad put chased the articles at various sales and in the regu lar way of his business. The RECORDER lIIMMed up the case to the Jury, in-the course of which he strongly remarked on the facts of the prisoner going by the name of Jones— secreting the property under his bed, running away from the charge, and, although three years had elapsed, not having made any claim for:the property. The Jury found the prisoner Not Guilty. SECOND TRIAL OF ISAAC SOLOMON% The prisoner was again put to the her on an indictment charging him with burglariously breaking the dwelling-lolnoutslem o7stheiVirli and entering k or F z e ie b i rt a i l a i r d y, st i e n al t i h n e g B th th ° re y i e n a ' r of the reign of his late Majesty, 174 table•cloths, 6 dozen of napkins, six ether napkins, 16 hats, three other pieces of linen, a quantity of bed-linen, six pieces of silk handker chiefs, and divers other articles, the property of David Law. The prisoner again pleaded « Not Guilty," and was indulged by the Court with a chair. In this case the evidence adduced to bring the charge home to the prisoner in whose possession the property was found, was that the property pro duced had been stolen from the warehouse of ai r . Mackenzie, of No. 71, Wood-street, and about three months after found at his lodgings with the other property. In this case the premises had b een en . tered by a crow-bar and centre-bit, and property to the amount of 2201. end upwards stolen. Evidence was adduced as iu the last ease, of the locing and fi nding a part of th e Property, but no feature of interest arose in the case different from the previoue one. The Jury found the prisoner Not Guilty. The Court was crowded to excess during the whole of the trials, the dock being crowded with ' ladies and geistlernert. The prisoner did not evince that agitation on hearing the verdict, whi c h h e ma., nifeted on being first placed at the bar. The two cases upon which the prisoner has been tried urn considered weak, in point of proof, as com pared with the other indictments; o il 01 - 1 „ f wh i ch it is said a conviction must inevit a bl y i,o ce place, owing to the recent possession of the property by , . e prisoner. Hs will take his trial upon the re- Lairiing six indictments in the course of This day. The object of having the prisoner conveyed from New South Wales to take his trial on these respec- tire charges was, that the property in question may be delivered up to the prosecutors, which could not be done until the prisoner had been tried. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW.STREET. Yesterday a woman, about 50 years of age, named Deborah Millon, was charged with having felo niously intermarried with Richard Sweetland, her former husband, John Milton, being still living. Evidence of the second marriage was given, by which it appeared that the prisoner was married, to the witness Sweetland in 1824, at Chingford, in Essex. The prisoner was then remanded, to give time for further inquiry. A young man, named Willitnn Everitt, was brought in custody by Ledbitter, who charged him with having been concerned in a robbery which took place at Manchester on Monday last. The prisoner was remanded to give time for the witnesses to arrive from Manchester. George Smallwood, a builder, was charged with feloniously receiving, a quantity of timber, the pro perty of Messrs. Chatfield, Arnot, and Mercer, tim ber-merchants, Battersea. The prisoner, after a lung examination, was COM rnitted for further examination. Information was given at this office in the after noon of Wednesday, of a robbery at the house of Mr. Adolphus, the barrister, No. 30, Bedford-square, It appeared that during the temporary absence of the servants from the kitchen, a thief slipped down the area steps and stole two dozen of silver table spoons from the dresser. Salmon, the officer, hav ing been sent far, made every exertion to trace the property, but without effect. This is the second time that the Learned Gentleman's house has been robbed. A young man of very respectable appearance was, late in the day, placed at the bar upon a charge of forgery. The examination, however, was strictly private, and neither the name of the prisoner nor the extent of the offence transpired. WORSHIP.STREM Yesterday two boys, named John Dixon and John Lilly, were finally examined before Mr. BROUGII• TON, charged with stealing two sovereigns from the person of Peter Daley. The prisoners were corn. mitted for trial. AGES AND OTUER PARTICULARS OF TILE EUROPEAN SOVEREIGNS. The following statement, the authenticity of which may be relied on, will no doubt prove interesting to our readers at the present time, as showing the pro bability of life of the principal Sovereigns of Europe, and the length of their reigns:-- The oldest Sovereign is " Charles X. of France, who is 73 years of age, tall in person, and very hale ; it is said he hunts and rides constantly, and is much . in public. The Pope, Pius VIII., is 68, about the same age as his late Majesty, and in tolerable vigour. The Church is usually considered favourable to longe vity. The next is our own gracious Sovereign, William IV., who is 65, and has long been troubled with an asthmatic complaint. He is at present, how ever, in tolerable good health, and does not appear to be more than 50. His temperate habits, and practice of early rising, are too well known to need any further mention. Felix, King of Sardinia, is of the same age as our own Monarch, and enjoys good health. Bernadotte, King of Sweden, is 66, and has recently had a severe illness, but la' a strong and healthy man. Frederic VI. of Denmark, 62 years old, is a very healthy man. Frederic William 111., King of Prussia, in his 60th year, possesses a tolerably good share of health, and bids fair to live to a good old age. The King of the Netherlands, William 1., is 58; he has the appearance of a wea ther-beaten soldier, as he is; and, although subject to chronic complaints, is robust. Francis, Emperor of Austria, Is 52, and healthy. His affability and condescension in listening to the complaints of the meanest of his subjects, and redressing their griev 'owes, has rendered him the most popular Sovereign in Europe. Francis, King of Naples, is 61, and gouty. His character is quite the reverse of his namesake of Austria, Malimoutl IL, Sultan of Turkey, is 46, and possessed of greet vigour of body and mind. The Turks, however, grow old prematurely, and Mahmoud may be therefore reckoned as 60 years old at least. His countenance and his eye are particularly striking and impressive, and he is naturally a very superior man, having alone been the means of causing ex traordinary changes in the Turkish system.— Ferdinand VII. of Spain is 45 years old, and has long been a prey to diseases. He has the gout con stantly, and it quite incapable of any active exer tion; he has, however, lately married his third Queen. His character is said to afford an unfavour. able specimen of the Bourbon race. Louis, King of Bavaria, is in his 45th year, and has suffered from indulgence, and has but lately recovered from a long illness. Though his gallantry has been excessive, his merits as a Sovereign and as a rim of letters arc acknowledged to be very high, and he has been Rerhaps justly, styled the most enlightened King in Europe. He passed many years in study, and his mind is of an enlarged and liberal cast. The publi cation of a volume of poems has recently obtained him much fame as an author, in addition to that de rived from the wisdom of his Government; and the longer he reigns the better for his country. Nicholas 1., Emperor of Russia, is 34, is tall and handsome in appearance, hardy and active, and accustomed to laborious exertions. A few months since lie had a very dengerous illness, from which he is now quite recovered. He is considered as a very ambitious Monarch, and an enlargement of territory appears to be his ruling passion. The youngest and only femalt Sovereign is'Donna Maria de Gloria, the le gitimate Queen of Portugal (Don Miguel not hav ing been yet recognised), who is in her 13th year. She promises to be very beautiful, but her heath is delicate, and she is so lame as to be obliged to use crutches. She is now at Rio Janeiro, with her father, the Emperor of Brazil. From the above statement k will appear that most of the European Sovereigns have arrived at an advanced period of life, and a few years will pro. bably bring about many change.. A New AMUSEMENT DISCoVBRED.--The Editor of the Sydney Gazette has discovered a treat in newspaper literature, of which we had no idea. Alluding to a severe castigation from a contemporary:he says, " We consider it a real iatelleouttl treat to be put into the thrash. big mill of an honest logical opponent." PRAYER.--Prayer does not consist in the art of kneeling, nor In repeating certain words in a solemn manner. Devotion is tl►o affection of the heart, and this I feel; fur when I view the wonders of creatino, I bow to thu Majesty of heaven; and when I feel the enjoyments of life, health, and happinos, I feel grateful to Goo fir having bestowed these upon me.—Lord .Dyron'a Con versations. FAIR ROSAMOND.---POpOlar traditiOUS as cribe the Quovi's offencee to jealousy of Rosamotin Cur roan, the daughter of a gentleman of Herefordshire, to w hom these traditions also ascribe all bodily attractions, and most good finalities of mind. The KING is said, or rather fabled, to have provided for the safety of his lovely mistress by building a house for her at Woodstock, of which the appronehes formed a labyrinth intricate thatit c ould not ha entered without the guidance of a thread, which t he Kitio alitays kept in his own bands. The Cloneti, ac cording to the same legend, gained possession of the thread, And toy means of it destroyed her fair and amiable, though not spotless, rival. DANIIM, who has handled these romantie eircionstancea in verse with elegatice and tender nous, omits them judiciously in his history, where he con tents himself with giving her the epithet of " Fair," which popular affectation had made part of her name. If Fixation, was guilty of this crime, it had no palliative from recent jealowy, since the younger son of IlittiftY, by fair Res./atom>, was twenty yeare old at the time of the rebellion of the Prince".—Dr. Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopodia.: LORD BYRON'S DEFENCE OF HIS CAIN AND DON JUAN. ‘‘ They have all mistaken my object in writing Cain. Have I not a right to draw characters with as much fidelity, and truth, and consistency as history or tradition fixes on them ? Now it is absurd to expect from Cain sentiments of piety and submission, when he was a murderer of his brother, and a rebel against his Creator." " That is true," I replied," but they blame you, not for putting such sentiments in the mouth of Cain, but for not putting such sentiments into those of Abel and Adam as would have counterbalanced the effect of what Cain said." * * " Even in Don Juan I have been misunderstood. I take a vicious and unprincipled character, and lead him through those ranks of society whose high external accomplishments cover and cloak internal and secret vices, and I paint the natural effects of such characters ; and certainly they are not so highly coloured as we find them in real life." " This may be true ; but the question is, what are your motives and object for painting nothing but scenes of vice and folly ?" " To remove the cloak which the manners and maxims of society," said his Lordship, " throw over their secret sins, and show them to the world as they really are. You have not," added he, " been so much in high and noble life as I have been ; but, if you had fully entered into it, and seen what was going on, you would have felt convinced that it was time to unmask the speci. ous hypocrisy, and show it in its native colours." " My situation, " I replied, " did not naturally lead me into society, yet, I believed, before the publication of your book, that the world, especi ally the lower and middling classes of society, never entertained the opinion that the highest classes exhibited models of piety and Virtue ; nay, from circumstances, we are naturally dis posed to believe them worse than they really are." , 1 It is impossible you can believe the higher classes of society worse than they are in England, France, and Italy, for no language can sufficiently paint them." " But still, my Lord, granting this, how is your book calculated to improve them, and by what right, and under what title, do you come forward in this under taking ?" "By the right," he replied, which " every one has who abhors vice united with hypocrisy." * * "It is the plan," said his Lordship, " to lead him through va rious ranks of society, and show that wherever you go vice is to be found." " This is a fact already known," I replied: " and it has also been known by experience, that no satire, how ever witty, poignant, or just, ever did any good, or converted, as far as I have heard, one man from vice to virtue. Neither Horace, nor Ju venal, nor Persius, could stop the torrent of vice, and folly, and crime, which inundated Rome, and which finally overthrew it, notwith standing all the declamation of these satirists. Nor have I heard that Donne's or Pope's sa tires ever effected any good. Your language is not so gross as that of Juvenal or Persius, yet this is owing to the manners of the times; and while your satire is useless, it will then call down on your head the exclamations both of the virtuous and the vicious ; of the former, because they du not perceive in you the proper qualifica tions of a reformer of morals, nor believe that you have adopted the means calculated to pro mote such an ob ject, but rather the reverse; while the latter wi ll` naturally hate him who un masks those vices, more particularly if he be stained with any himself." " But it is strange," he answered, " that I should be attacked on all sides, not only from magazines and reviews, but also from the pulpit. They preach against me as an advocate of infidelity and immorality, and I have missed my mark sadly in having suc ceeded in pleasing nobody. That those whose vices I depicted and unmasked should cry out is natural, but that the friends of religion should do so, is surprising ; for you know," said he, " that I am assisting . you in my own way as a poet, by endeavouring to convince people of their depravity ; for it is a doctrine of yours, is it not ? that the human heart is cor rupted, and, therefore, if I show that it is so in those ranks which assume the external marks of politeness and benevolence,—having had the best opportunities, and better than most poets of observing it,—am I not doing an essential ser vice to your cause, by first convincing them of their sins, and thus enable you to throw in your doctrine with more effect ?"—Kennedy's Con versations with Lord Byron. On Saturday night an old woman was left to w a tch the corpse of a child, lying in Strand-street, whili the mother and father went to purchase a coffin. The old woman fell asleep; the light of the candle, coming In contact with the straw in the cradle, set fire to it, and in a short time the corpse was nearly reduced to ashes. Dublin Register. RYDE.GOLDSMID, a name celebrated for immense accumulation of wealth, is now here, attended by about twenty domestics; and a report is prevalent that a house has been engaged in the immediate neighbourhood fir the accommodation of part of his present Malawi's household..llants Chronicle. SOMETHING BETTER THAN THE SWAN RtvEa.—The countries of Tavoy and Tenasserim, with the archipelago of Merqui, on the east side of the Bay of Bengal, will no doubt be speedily colonized under the re newed charter of the East India Company.--See an ac count of their delightful climate and choice productions in the Picture of India, We have authority fur stating that the Pavilion has been left to his present Marzsrr by the late KING; mid that WILLIAM IV. intends to pats much of his time Brighton. His MAJESTY will, according to present arrangements, be bore in September next, sad will pass roar months every year at the Pavilion. We cannot make •ueh a statement, without congratulating our townsmen upon it most cordially.—Brighton Gazette. SCOTCH LAW TEnme . .—ln England the mystic words of the law are inapplicable to any thing else; but, one can guess at the meaning of a rule nisi, a demurrer, end a rejoinder, though the fi flea and eu sac are more titan sufficiently enigmatical. But in Scotland the language is perfectly oracular, end 1, would puzzle thllipus himself to interpret it. When 3 Judge intend, to be peremptory in an order, he qedains parties to condescend; when be is disposed to be mild and monitory, he recommends to box their pleas ! Witnesses must he brought into Court upon a diligence, and before they can be examined they must he purged ! When a man leaves his estates to the poor, be is said to mortify them ; and when you lime your des...null elder brother's estate, it is called a conquest ! EXTRAORDINARY CAVERN,...-11l Argyle, 120 miles from Sydney, and three or four from Shoal Haven, there is a curious cavern. Although it has long exalted the curiosity of persons travelling in that quarter, nn one had undertaken the curious task of exploring it, until Mr. Vltutast SIM'S, of Parramatta, lately vet). tared to pry into its " depths profound." Ile went down about 1,200 feet, and would have gone farther hail the rope by which he descended been long enough to admituf it. He describes the appearance as gloomy and awful in the extreme, abounding with stupendous crags, ins thou sand romantic forms. When be entered its mouth, the cold was I) intense that the ground was covered with hoar frost; but it grew warmer as he descended, end, at the deepest point lie reached, the heat was scarcely Klippen. aide. There is a similar cavern at the distance o f s w at a quarter of a Mile, but not so formidable in its eppe ngtoce as this. The Shoal l!aven Gully, shout two miles to the eastward, is supposed to be 1,100 feet deep. Mt. Stattux intends to resume his researches with better preparation% determined not to give up until he buds the bottom.... Athenaeum. BIRTHS. On the 7th inst. in York -terrace, Itegent e i lady of F. Janvrin, Esq. of a son. On the 4th inst. at Brighton, Mn. James a son. On the 7th inst. in D orse t- squa r e , Mrs. 0 ,if a son. MATIRIED. On the 6th inst. at Ho!beton. Captain G. lii` of the Grenadier Guards, to Louisa, younged of the late J. Harri', Esq. of Radfiird, Devon. On the Bth inst. at West Moulsey, Charles & Esq., to Elisabeth, second daughter of the late J. gale, • Esq. On the Bth inst. at Kennington, Mr. G. J. - of Gray's Inn, to Elizabeth, widow of J. Livingstone/ I.4es of St. Domingo. ly On the 6th i ns t. a t Lambeth, William , 'Ends EN., of Upper Stamford-street, to Mont youngest daught er o f A. 0. B auc h * , Esq., of Cd" 1 , 4 u, Lanibeei. D1E1). jaael O ndee n 6sA t . h i e len s , t o h f inst. aged 67, Sir T. Legod, 133° Canton-hall, Yorkshire. a l II OnOn the Bth sth inst . it. A in ia C ry lap o t t o t n t - v a i g s 7 t r b e e , betheinßveriev.tv.:B::,l }ear of her age. a 0 00 On the 6th inst. at Wands h lir " n l ' a otott ,- isa i .1., , ,e,i 55. of pll Oa the 6th inst. at Bonet, Mr. T. Gray, late - I 1, • , • 1 , ce, Gray a.iati-luir, aged 78. of On the Ist in4t. at Bath, Win. DaW*oll, tiq' Ittrasbury-terraix, Islington, in 8.- Leonard's-hill, Ilerka. ... j PAINTED AND PU3I3BIIEO B Y jkillitDO YOV 7u: Sus Orlitoc, 112, *mow, WOO: THE MARKETS. ISOUTIIALL MARKET.-.July 7. This day's supply of Beasts, Sheep, and Lambs, warp mited, of Calves and Porkers moderately good. The Iti- semblage of both London and country buyers having to' limited, the trade was rather dull, at the following prig' per stone of Sib. to sink the o ff al,' :- Boer 35.51. to 4s. 2d. Veal, , 30. &I. to t 4 Mutton 3 4 4 4 I Pork 3 4 Liimb ..... 41. 4d. to ss. 4d. , t The foregoing quotations are, Beef and Mutton 9 1 ., and Pork Ai. to 4d, per stone higher than on this clay s e nAI . , in prices of Veal no alteration.-Beasts, 160; Sheep a.nd Larr, ; Calves, 90; Pigs, 121.-But a small proporttoo supply left the market unsold. LEWES Id A RKET.......1u1y 6. Si. 4d. to 4s. CkL Veal 3s. dd to Mutton 3 4 44 I Pork 0 0 0 Lamb ...... ~ . 4s. Od. to oil. Od. Supply moderately . good, and trade very dull. RUMFORD MA RE.EI'.-July '7. a. d. to s. d. s. d. 210 310 Veal .1116.• ... ON ... 3 0 • Mutton 3 0 4 0 Pork ........N.«...... 3 0 ' Lamb 3s. ltd. to ss. Od. Suckling Calves ftom 141. to 335.; Quarter old I'igsl2l.tol 6 s 46l ' A moderate supply, and a dull trade. • , COUNTRY CORN stAnKgrs DURING THE AVE Wheat • Barter. oats. 110 "' Per Quarter.' s. •to s. a. s. to s, 5. te Blandford 59 29 .....M3 ; 65 70 30- 33 18 24 !a Chard 70 32 23 - 5624 30 49 ~ Huntingdon....... 58 69 23 ft 2 •• 19 •24 30 r, Long 5utt0n........ 59 a) 37 38 20 95 3 8 ; Louth 60 71 '3O 33 20 93 Lynn. . 70 28 33 90 20 1, 4 6 Newark fri3 74 28 32 24 30 Nottingham 61 73 28 34 96 30 Peterborough..... 56 70 37 40 18 35 ,$7 Plymouth 58 72 28 33 22 27 3 1 Pon 69 32-. 25 Sleaford ........-... 60 70 25 36 20 28 D i 0 Uppingham 68 74 3I 34 .00 34 Wisbech ,58 72 - 23 93 3 1 _,,,„„, • LEEDS CORN MARKET.-3uly 6 , We had a smaller supply of Grain to this day's vao than last week. Fine fr e sh Wh e at . being awe, 14 , 11 , maintained its price, and there hu been a tellerahleto ° t for the middling qualities that are fresh at hat price ; but the stale and inferior samples are quite neee'w, In Barley no alteration. English Oats full as Foreign without any material variation. Shelling fug It per load higher, being scarce. Beans and Pease oil' rather better sale. Malt and Rapeseed, the same allio 4 week. Wheat, Norfolk and fitiffhlk, 601 b.. 470. to 70s. t York. and Lincoln. 60113. Barley, Norfolk and Suflblk - Yorkshire and Lincolnshire - Grinding . 3 Beans ........».».».......»..... fOh. Oats, Potato° ......».d .. .. , 2ss, to 9 4 ., oreign 1 . 91. to ................... ilk. to 13W,41.11„."1. . , .... ....... .......... to 355. per ""j„, Rapeseed, ............... 971. to 291. Foreign,-1. to --I. LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE. -July 6. This morning's market was thinly attended by 01 '7; town or country millers, and the business of the day W", on a very moderate scale; rather higher prices were, WI; ever paid for all descripti o n s o f Wheat, and Oeto m u ' l noted full Id. per 451bs. dearer. Prices of Flour 0 , 1 , unaltered, but Oatmeal bro u ght an a dv a nce of Gtl. to per , load. No sales reportcsl in locked Corn. at. WIMAT, English, White, per '7olb. Red .. .. 0 ;n" 5 -- .. Scotch, Welch, and Mara " 10 0 ,~ - Irish, White "*".." 9 0 It ) g 10 9 0 - Foreign lO o Oars, Enxlish, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 h 4 9 „I I - I r i sh Foreign 3 10. $ . 4 0 Bt nay, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter Bo 0 5 Scotch and Irish, per 60114. Feeding • 4 0 Beans, English, per Imperial quarter O9 e 4 v G io tti ce as o i f , the ha c t onc p u l s a sp 7 oiro. : vne ---- tiro. - Foreign Pease, English, per Imperial quarter 41 0 43 --- Foreign FLoua, English, per 2801 b. 54 0 0 -. Irish OATMICAL, English and Irish, per 9401b5. !soars Coax, per 4401 h. Ilya, per Imperial quarter ...... MALT, per Imperial quarter 59 0 „ L Neon. or Gnats for the Week ending July . ,o" 031. a Wheat. Oats. I Barley, Flour. ds Qrs. Qrs, Qrs. Foreign, tirls.llrish, &c. 1 1 5 1,853 3,816 317 30,217 I UM al) It currently reported that Sir EDwAf hic O'Hantta will stand for the county Clare in pile° son, the present Meraber.-.Dublin Morning About a fortnight past a young man, 1110 ! 11 1 his d tl ia lig v h ,o b i Y iuff :: TttOXAs Witmer-2r, of Island Magee, fell down of t2I feet, from one of the highest head buds a t I , t on H t e he br w o a k t e er iip stance tl a alo b n: at he an elea c ribs were also broken by the rocks, which were lib"' at• y he ed ing h d o ro me w , n w et ei ....H h e e w o l o ' l i f i lu es ti feet under water, it being low water, from whielt wonderful to say, in a fair way for retovery.----- • chronicle. in several districts of the Queen's Cowl t y rfpg; lower orders are actually p rishing . from famine. byi have been tempted into the munnunion of °u tr3 , g „ co i n u tti their distress. and their proceedings are now xrJ most dangerous character from a secret system 01 0r57.01 lion which seems to regulate them. Should their 101 logs not be mitigated by some speedy reliefs there pill no safety for property, perhaps for life, in this count/; of t .D it is, the state of things is frightful.--"blin gars Advertiser. i t ilw A now work has just appeared, tinder t wi of the llietorical Miscellany, which, though written_o] schools, deserves a higher and more general cirn?ll:,o, rigors will find it a serviceable work-a work witi c :: l ds". supply, in a great degree, a vacuum long sensibly those to whom the education of youth is entrusted, ,41, general scope of this work will be seen at a g lenet admirable, and our readers wilt flnd,:on closer examios":4l that the details are managed with a faithful, aceuratrogit; able pen. The Introduction is written forcibly, o nd , , bits the study of History in a light which hitherto , unnoticed-but which will, hereafter, we are sure , generally'adopted and attended to. The author ot°, , be a tnan . of sound observation, whilst, in the ba n dl ' his, materials, he has displayed much intelligenc t i o n /kale not with violence or aggravation. He is novel instructioa. His style is agreeable-and, , to schools, of a very popular nature, • ; 2 -, • _„ DEATH NEAR KILLARNEY BY141:1 1 w,i A man about forty years of age, driven by Won! home, celled late in the evening of hut Thdratnl house of TIMOTHY MATIONY, ill comfortable farrnersi-2.: on the Upper Lakes, and b egge d f or a lodging . 13 ' '• sustenance; both of which were charitably given' •••• morning, Mattonx's wife, seeing her guest to be r and exhausted state, detained him until her cow• 01 thne, and with that genuine Irish hospitality, . 11 " still, thank God, to be found with the peasantfi L native glens, gave him generously and plentifully I° of the best she had, her new milk. But the poor man cams too late into the band of this cog' woman-his strength was gone; .-.and, leaving intent to proceed to Killarney, he had net journer° wlen, overcome by the quantity of strong nourish' had just tak e n, he sunk on the road , and was br o '4 lll , to the house he had only left one hour before, it corpse.-- Trake Mercury. BIRTHS. F art ' On the 7th inst. in York -terrace, Regent's . par of F. Jsavrin, Esq. of a son. On the 4th inst. at Brighton, Mrs. James 11 11 •-• a anti. On the 7th inst. in Dorset-square, Mrs. et s.r. I ,if a son. MARRIED, rn ic • On the 6th inst. a t H o lh eton , C a pt a i n G. Filg'-'"4 of the Grenadier Guards, to Louisa, youngea t of the late J. Harris, Esq. of Radfin-d, 1/evon. ' „.,•• .4; On the Bth inst. a t W est Al ou l se y, Charles S. .P. 77,1, EM., to Elisabeth, second daughter of the late J . gale, Esq. Nieb On the Sib i ns t. a t K enn i ng t on , M r . G. J. t.• • of Gray's Inn, to , Elisahetli, widow of .1. Livingsteoe, Iste of St. Domingo. On the Att. w;ttietn Iles .