The Sun. — London, England, 1831-06-15 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS Yesterday metahe Parliament, upon whose deci s7ons such important results depend'. It bag been chosen, we should think, as much as possible, accord• ing to the principles of the Constitution —that is, wherever freedom of election prevails to any degree, the efforts of the people have been crowned with sue. ce;s, and they have returned their own men. Nomina tion members, and members by purchase, there must still be, under that system of. which we hope we shall soon have to announce the fall ; but the honourably elected must prevail to a degree that was never before knonn. The country, therefore, has a right to be full of hope. We have heard va times calculations of the a mount of the expected majority : we shall not repeat them ; but the people being one and all for Reform, and contests having —with no other important exception, we believe, but that of the University of Cambridge —turned out favourably to the popular cause, we do not see that the minority can consist of many besides the tools and agents of those Peers and wealthy Com moners who make this last struggle for their rotten boroughs. The Speaker was re-chosen without op position ; and it is remarkable that the Right Hon. Gentleman was proposed by Mr. C. Wynn, his competitor for the chair when he was first proposed as Speaker, some 14 years ago ; and that the no mination was seconded by Sir Matthew White Ridley, the gentleman who had seconded the nomi nation of Mr. Wynn on that long -past occasion. Lord John Russell and Mr. Stanley, as we long ago sta►ed would and ought to be the case, are made Cabinet Ministers. While their merits deserved such a distinction, their real power in aid of the Bill remains unaltered : it rests in their reasoning and talents. Lord Sefton, Lord Kinnaird, Lsrd Fingal!, Lord Leitrim, and the Right Hon. Agar Ellis, are to be created British Peers. Mr. Bernal, the mem ber for Rochester, will be proposed as Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means.—Tines. Two very interesting documents have lately issued from the National Government of Poland, and are mow communicated by means of the Journals to the European public ; the first an address " to the in habitants of Lithuania, Volhynia, Podolia, and Ukraine," and the other a circular to all its diplo matic agents abroad, on the circumstances and con sequences of the battle of Ostrolenka. The former exhibits another proof of the exertions making by the National Government to incorporate all the Russian Polish provinces with those now under its sway, and of the perfect identity of feelings and in terests which exists between portions of a nation so long separated. The latter was necessary to counter act the misrepresentations which the Russians were expected to make of the retreat of the Polish troops to Praga, and to explain the full effect and result of the sanguinary engagement by which it was occa sioned. We yesterday adver'ed to the vast im portance of those acts of the National Government, those decrees of the Polish Diet, and those opera tions of the Polish army, which are intended to bring all ancient Poland within the circle of the present revolution—which have overturned the partition wall raised by anti-national despotism between diffe rent portions of the same people—which have re established a conducting medium between the inhaLitants of Wsrsaw and \Vilna—of the banks ofthe Vistula anti Dnieper, and which are destined to unite the Poles all under the same standard of indepen deuce, or the same doom of slavery. If the nobility, citizens, and peasantry of Lithuania, Volhynia, and the other less celebrated districts of the ancient king dom which Russia seized upon within the last GO years, were again united under the Polish eagle, the struggle might still be long, but it could scarcely fail to be successful. If, on the other hand, they are deaf to the voice of their heroic countrymen, or lukewarm in the national cause, the hordes of the Czar may prove too powerful for the small body of noble minded patiiots, whose exploits have added new glory to the Polish name. Poland, constituted on its late narrow basis, could neither secure its own independence, nor answer any good purpose in the balance of European states. It would be too weak for self-protection, and too dissatisfied with the con traction of its limits to allow the repose to its neigh bours. On the other hand, the Emperor, if be suc ceeded in separating its cause from that of the other provinces which it had invited to revolt, would be disposed to curtail its rights, in order to punish its hostility, if not to make it a dependent province of his vast empire. The game at which the parties are now playing is, therefore, one which involves art extension of the Polish kingdom or an annihilation of the Polish name. The address of the National Government to their brethren is an extremely noble, dignified, and spirited production. It describes the victoria; already gained, by the almost miraculous bravery of their troops, with a becoming pride ;---it recounts their oppressions like men who felt the in. dignity more titan the suffering of their wrongq— eind it does not disguise the fellowship of toil and danger to which it invites their brethren. The cir eider of the National Government about the battle of Ostrolenka does not disguise the extent of the Polish loss, but gives a lower estimate of it than the accounts which we had previously received. It states that the retreat which followed the battle entered into the original plan of the Generalissimo in mak ing the advanced mo vement--that it was effected in the best order, and that the enemy obtained no real advantage hy his continued occupation of the field which the Poles had abandoned. The loss of the Polish army did not exceed 2,000; and it occu pies its old quarters at Praga, not because it is dis abled from action, but because it has need of re pose, and because the principal theatre of war is not now on the banks of the Vistuls, but on the plains of Lithuania. The extension of the war into than and the other Russo-Polish provinces is equivalent to a victory. If the Commander-in-Chief had thought that the winning a battle would have been as fruitful in results as the sending of succours to the insurgent provinces, he would have concentrated his forces instead of dispersing them—he would Have attacked the Russian army with all his troops, and would certainly have been victorious. Then follows the great object of the circular. " Explain , this state of things," says the Polish Government, and add, " that if we had won a victory over the army of Diebitsch while the Lithuanian insurrection gained force, and spread into Podolia and Volhynia, the triumph of our c•iuse would have been secured without foreign aid; but if foreign Powers take any interest in our fate—if they aspire to the glory of euccouring the most righteous and noble of causes— they ought no longer to delay in pronouncing in Our favour. A conclusion so just, and an appeal so moving, cannot be heard in vain by the free and enlightened Governments and people of Europe.•— Timer. --- Among the modes by which considerable and easy additions might be made to the fund for the relief of th e starving poor of Ireland, it is reccr rn. ended that every Irish Bishop should be called "Pon, each individually and separately, and formally h fs y i t t he tn C le om th m at it t te h e, for some distinct contribution. 251. ? about 3s. for Bishop of Derry gave the sum of come f. 2. Thata t r h every hundred pounds of his in come sum subscribed for a piece of plive to poor Caroline—after the termina tion of the proceedings sin b which nothing has against her—and about c. e m e ii n tse h t,i eu n t o •el t , appropriated to this other cause, should now be less interesting to British humanity. re commended, that the fund whicr been warmly seriptiots after the passing of the ix e . a a s o t i ltised by sub called a fund for completing " The NV eollli g c niii' and Tes timonial near Dublin, about which fund no Tes has since been heard (although we believ e amounted to 2,0001. or 3,0001.) than of the " e g u e ee i , t , Caroline Fund," should now be demanded by th,' subscribers, and applied to this sacred purpose of feeding the hungry poor. If there be good sense or usefulness in any of the above suggestions, there is not a moment to be lost.—Times. The feeling in favour of the Poles is becoming every day stronger and stronger throughout Europe and it hardly requires the gift of prophecy to foietell that the French Government w:11 be c ompellod to take a more decided part in their behalf than it has hitherto done. Even the journals the most devoted to the Ministry are no longer able to remain indif ferent when Poland is spoken of. We confess, we wish most devoutly that it were possible to inter pose some respectable Power between Russia and the west of Europe, and we are almost inclined to think, that at this moment Great Britain and France have it their power to effect this grand object with out much risk. Austria can have no wish to see Russia mistress of all Poland; and, besides, she has too much at stake in Italy to hazard war for the Czar. Prussia cannot afford in these days to set public opinion at defiance. The moment is, there fore, peculiarly favouratile for wresting Poland from the barbarians of the North. If Poland were restored to independence, a common interest would probably lead to such an understanding between that country and Tut key as would secure both against the future attacks of Russia. But the main advantage to Europe would be the exclusion of Russia from interference with the affairs of the nations of the West, with which she can have no sympathy. Her power, as has been proved both in the case of Turkey and Poland, has been greatly over-rated; but her posi tion secures her from attack, and enables her to choose her time for mischief. She may thus be said to he a permanent nuisance, which all civilised na tions have an interest in abating. The gallantry of the Poles has rendered interference now, not only less hazardous, but also more beneficial than it would have been some months ago. At the beginning of the contest the independence of the kingdom of Po land is the most that England and France could have demanded ; at present nothing less will satisfy the Poles than the restoration of ancient Poland. With respect to one point of great importance, a fresh Russian loan, we know the difficulty of combating successfully the love of gain ; but yet we question whether a strong manifestation of public opinion in England and France might not deter capitalists. Stock Exchange morality is not very nice we are aware; but, after all, the idea of lending money to aid in the extermination of a gallant and much in jured nation is so infamous, that capitalists might be frightened from encountering the odium of it. We shall see.—. Morning Chronicle. The committal of a poor Turk by a Queen-square Magistrate for inability to find security to prosecute the person who robbed him, would almost lead one to believe that the Essex Squire was not so far wrong when lie said that the best Magistrates were they who knew least of the law. There can be no doubt that the committal is according to law; but there can be as little doubt that such a law is unjust towards the sufferer, and injurious towards the com munity. But, like many other absurd laws, it sub sists because the poor alone suffer from it. To de tain a poor man who derives his subsistence by tra velling about the country, in order to prosecute for a trifle, may Le to him of the most serious conse quence. In the case of a rich man the hardship would be trifling; lie could easily obtain securities, whom he would indemnify, if more than his personal recognizance should be demanded. The moral is obvious to all who read any account of the proceed ings. It is bad to be robbed, but still worse to be sent to prison to secure the punishment of the robber. The thief, of course, calculates on this un willingness to prosecute, and he is not far out in his calculation. Such is the dread of being obliged to prosecute entertained by the people engaged in bu siness in London, except the loss be serious, or the thief has particularly provoked them, that they are exceedingly anxious to keep the matter quiet. A man who has once been so unfortunate as to be dragged into a prosecution, takes especial care to escape that calamity a second time. The whole of the hardship is unnecessary in nineteen cases out of twenty. What is wanted is evidence of the crime, and it often happens that the evidence of the pro secutor is of no importance. What is wanted is a public prosecutor to take charge of the proceedings, and give no more trouble to individuals than the in terests of justice demanded. We need hardly re peat that there can be no more infallible way to en courage crime than to deter sufferers from complain ing, by subjecting them to great and unnecessary hardships.—Morning Chronicle. We are glad to see that the conduct of Lord Thomas Cecil is generally viewed as a most un warrantable assumption of a right to interfere with freedom of opinion in matters of public interest. The practice of duelling is, at best, of questionable propriety, but its most extravagant admirers must admit, that it would become a most insufferable nuisance were any man to consider an opinion ex pressed of his public conduct a justifiable ground of challenge. If this objection applies to the right of challenge of the party himself, it applies with ten fold force to the right of his relations and friends. A noble boroughmonger might become a truly formid able personage, if the Lord Thomases and Lord Charleses, and the rest of the fry of the younger brothers and dependents, who look up to him for support and advancement, were to be allowed to compete for his favour and patronage by seeking the lives of his political opponents. The pretensions of Lord Thomas Cecil are so outrageously absurd, that it is only astonishing he should have found any one to countenance him in them. The English are too much alive to propriety to tolerate conduct like that of Lord Thomas Cecil ; and we are sure that the admonitions of his friends must have, by this time, brought him to a due sense of his folly.—Morning Chronicle. The revolutionist Press continues its ineffectual labours to keep up that furious excitement of the lower orders of the people by which the result of the election of Members to the present Parliament was in so many instances determined. They work against nature, and their failure, therefore, cannot excite any surprise. Even the rabble in time get sick of clamour, and the moment that they do so, which usually arrives with a rapidity proportioned to the violence of their previous frenzy, the object in pursuit of which they have been running mad loses a great part of its value in their estimation. We doubt whether, at the present moment, a tole rably formidable mob could be collected any where in England in favour of Reform. The notion which his Majesty's Ministers and their tools have exerted themselves so indu , triously to propagate among the rabble, that they are not only justly entitled, but fully carnpetent to decide upon the most difficult and complicated queraipns of policy and legislation, is no doubt prdducing its natural effects; the supremacy of mob law has not been pro claimed ip vain; but the persuasion that they are especiaiiy w 4,1 peculiarly fitted to decide upon the merit of poected constitutions is somewhat too extravagant to be long maintained even among the lowest and most ignorant of the vulgar. Let aD one, however, conclude rashly from this, that mob supremacy, once acknowledged, will ever be willingly surrendered, for inctead of this it will roe , 'fiiy, by the hydra potentate, be directed to other objects—to objects more within the compre hension of mobs. Thus thp. rioters in Wales care nothing about Reform, but are bent upon exercising their new-born authority in the suppression of eel's rain local courts of justice, which happen to have offended them ; white the mobs, in the county of Monmouth are quite indifferent to the inequali ties of tbta rational represeotwien, but absolute, intractable, pet feet ii spots indeed, in their aver sion to new inelo4iures, When we hear it pre-1 tended that the temper manifested by certain portions of the people during the late ,p, , netal election ought to govern the votes of Members of Parliament upon the question of Reform, we are tempted to ask whether all local courts ought to be ab o li s h e d b ecause o f- the tumults in Gla mrgrrsahett ofthee Legislature re, and every enclosure asa public by anuisance, Forest of Dean ? noef these to gratify the humou, • the rioters at the that we are at a lo'srshLfocins3rmoneefsgriare so nearly parallel, said thaCesme a o n pin m tons and reasoner can adopt the any accurate . reject the latter. If it be of the House of Commons have pledgedytherrseblveress their conttitnents to suppeit the Reform 'OM of his Majesty's Ministers, and that whatever change may have taken place in the public mind or in their own, they are bound to the literal fulfilment of their engagement, we answer that the man who, in un dertaking the duty of a Legislator, promised to act the part of a slave, contracted one of those unfor tunate obligations which it would be a greater crime to fulfil than to violate ; and that the electors who extorted such a pledge have little right to expect that faith should be kept with them, since by that very act they violated the trust reposed in them by the Constitution, and in vaded the rights of all the non-voting por tion of their fellow-subjects, by electing, not legislators for an empire, but delegates of a coterie. And we further answer, that no principle can be more pernicious or absurd than that which permits a nation, in a fit of temporary deli rium, to consign itself to certain and irretrievable ruin. Were we even to admit the Reform Bill to be the perfection of human wisdom—were we con vinced that the electors of Great Britain and Ire land have been within the last two months in the soberest and most deliberative mood, still we should deem the doctrine of pledges, as it is advanced by the bigots of Reform, a mischievous absurdity, since nations are not always wise, and it leaves to the na tion. no locus penitentice—no refuge from the effects of its own occasional and tihnsitory folly. But at least the members of the Upper House of Parliament are not fettered by pledges. This august assembly is not self-condemned to the humiliating mockery of discussing a question which it is at liberty to decide in only one way. The country has still the advant age, and at no former period of its history has this advantage been so conspicuous as at the present mo ment, of possessing one legislative body which can not divest itself of its deliberative character.—Morn ing Advertiser. The " Holy Alliance," thanks to the assistance and co-operation of the Governments of England and France, thinks itself, no doubt, in a fair way to realise its dangerous and degrading ascendancy over the affairs of the Continent. When Mr. Canning found it his interest to court the support of public opinion, he shook its power by separating the councils of England from an unnatural coalition with the Cabinets of despots, who have a common and deadly hatred against the liberties cf all man kind, which is proclaimed in their protocols, and en forced by their bayonets. But the policy of the Holy Alliance received the shock of a greater power than tl.at which Mr. Canning wielded against it- It was the French revolution of last July—that reaction of public feeling against oppression made the fabric of continental despotism tremble to it.: foundation. Its consequences threatened it with ruin. The despots made a common cause to avert those consequences by military force. France, threatened by the armies of Russia, Austria, and Prussia, was saved for the present by the revo lution of Poland and the insurrections in Italy— the latter have been put down by Austrian bayonets, in the face of the delusive declarations of the French Government to prevent all despotic interference with the internal affairs of independent States. Under the protection of Austrian legions, who have trampled liberty and the declaration of France into the dust, the executioner has shed the blood of the high-minded Menotti, the distinguished Borelli, and hundreds of other patriots, whom the secret promises of France lured into resistance, and whom her shameless treachery left to their fate. The despots, in their triumphs, show no disposition to profit by the example of mercy in punishing po litical offences which the French people gave them in sparing the lives of the blood-guilty Ex-Ministers of their late Bourbon tyrant. Ferocious, vindic tive, arid sanguinary, they consider the power of ex termination as the chief privilege of conquest. From the scaffold they proclaim their merciless doctrines by the voice of the headsman, and show that all generous examples, all lessons of humanity, are lost upon the regal conspirators against the freedom and civilization of the human race. Poland still sustains, by its own unaided bravery, the shock of the armies of the vast empire, under whose sufferance the successor of the Amuraths and the Solymans now occupies a tributary throne. She is prodigal of her blood in the cause of independence. She fights her own battles, the battles of France, and of the civilized world, upon the soil, and amid the scenes, where Kosciusko and his warriors left the inspiring ex amples of their heroic virtue. In this—to use a phrase of Burke, the " agony of her glory"—no friendly hand among the civilized and enlightened Governments of Europe, is extended to save her from the malignant fury of the barbarians that pour upon her plains the lava-flood of desolation. To save her, do we say ? There is riot a single hand put forth to clear the lists, within which she fights, of the busy partisans of her colossal enemy. On one side the malicious Government of Prussia, deeply sympathising with the ferocious Autocrat of the North, supplies his troops with every thing of which they stand in need, while it offers every vexa tion arid annoyance short of the open hostility o f arms to the Poles ; on the other side the crafty and perfidious Austria grossly violates the law of nations to reduce the strength of Poland, and to gain by treachery and violence those advantages for Russia which the valour of her armies could not ob tain. If Poland fell, the barbarities that would be perpetrated would be viewed with as much indifference as the dungeon massacres of the patrirres cf Italy. But we hope the Almighty Power that humbled Belshazzar in his glory, and smote Herod in his pride, will wither the strength of other oppressors while they raven for slaughter and vengeance, and afford the world the instructive spectacle of a day of awful retribu tion for the wrongs of Poland ! The Belgic ques tion is an experiment of the " Holy Alliance," to ascertain how far they can, in the present state of Europe, restore the principle of the tyranny which would dispose of the rights and territories of inde pendent nations, as if they were the chattel-pro perty of a confederacy of Sovereigns. They assert, upon a small scale, what they put, in practice exten sively in the Congresses of Vienna and Verona. There they curtailed, Lillgmented, and portioned king doms as they pleased. There they transferred whole tuitions, or parts of nations, from one ruler to another, without asking the consent or regarding the opinion of the people, and insolently called this spoliation of national rights the " settlement of Europe." Bel gium arid Poland formed part of diet settlement which followed what the same regulators of the des tinies of mankind designated, in bitter irony, the" de liverance of Europe." The nations want neither " de liverauce" nor settlement" at the hands of the Holy Alliance. This arrogant power, that impiously SW" slimes a divine appellation, will never, by its offi cious interference with the internal affairs of other people, produce any thing but confusion, discontent, revolution, and war. The " Holy Alliance," with the assistance of Lord Castlereagh, the political tutor of Lord Palmerston, " settled" Belgium and Poland sixteen years ago, and therefore they are at the pre sent day more unsettled than ever. It is a melan choly subject of reflection that the Governments of England and France, which left Poland to its fate, on pretence of avoiding the most remote chance of foreign wili', should have eagerly plunged into the vortex of the angry politics of Belgium, and that too not on the side of freedom, but of tyranny—not on the side of an oppressed people, but of a combination of despots. Is our Government prepared to support the iniquitous rescript of Lord Ponsonby by arms ? If so, what becomes of its professions of peace and non-irate.vention ? If it is not, and the Belgian' should resist that rescript, what becomes of the dignity of its decrees and the thunder of its Proto cols? Whatever some of our Ministers may thin); of the honour of being associated in Council with Metternich, and Billow, and Leven, the people of England loathe the connection as much as they detest the doctrines of the Holy Alliance.—Morn. Herald. LONG SERVITUDE. ---Died, at Cirey House, on the 21st May, after a short illness, Mr. Jon GRAY, overseer there, aged 82. He had been a servant to the Noble family of ClittY for upwarde of 00 years. —Perth Cos rier. IRELAND. GALWAY SPECIAL COMMISSION. FRIDAY, JUNE 10. The Judges arrived here on Thursday night, and opened the Commission at twelve o'clock on the next day. The array of gentry was very great. Sir John Burke, Marble-hill, foreman. John Ryan was put to the bir, charged with hav ing feloniously, with others, by threats, robbed John Burke, Esq., a Magistrate, on the 20th of May. John Burke, Esq. deposed, that a party of thirty had come to his house at 'rendrim ; the party were armed; and had taken away six carbines, a blunder buss, and a pistol. Some of the arms were loaded, and some not ; and when he looked for powder and ball, which he had, and could not find the ammu nition, he would not surrender his arms; but did so at the suggestion of his wife, after the window , had been smashed, and the door broken. Had gone out among the party, and remonstrated with them upon their bad conduct; they told him that they wanted the arms only for a little month to effect a particular object, and would return them again. The witness noticed the prisoner at the bar, he hav ing worn a pair of light blue jean pantaloons, which enabled him to identify hitn. Witness had him ar rested. He was found Guilty. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL gave the Magistracy gentry generally a sound rating, for the very few in dividuals who bad been made amenable to the laws in a county where so many extensive outrages were committed, and reprehended this culpable apathy in tv firm and energetic strain. SECOND DAL-SATURDAY. Thomas Kelly was put to the bar, charged with having set fire to the house of Michael Glynn, on :he 29th of May. . - The prosecutor caught the prisoner, who had two coals of fire in a wooden mug, when he put the fire under the thatch in two places. This was the third attempt at burning the house over his head. The prisoner said, when taxed with the crime, he meant the witness no harm whatever, but the burning was directed against another person—the proprietor. The prisoner received a most excellent character. —Guilty. It seems the commission will terminate on Tues day or Wednesday, as it is apprehended that wit nesses will not come in to prosecute, so afraid are they of being assassinated. Many jurors were called on fines of 50/. The Judges adjourned the Ennis commission to he 23d instant. DISTRESS IN MAYO On Friday a meeting of subscribers to the fund in 1822, for the relief of the distress then existing in Ireland, was held to consider the expediency of authorizing . the trustees to that fund to appropriate a portion towards the relief of the distress now ex isting in Mayo, and other parts of Connaught, the Lott") MAYOR in the chair. Mr. N. P. LEADER proposed a resolution to the effect that 5,0001. of the money placed in the hands of the trustees should be given for the relief of the wretched people of Mayo. Such an allocation of the fund of 1822 had been sanctioned by an unani mous resolution, at the last meeting convened for calling the attention of the public to the existing distress on the western coast of Ireland. That such distress should be relieved was one of the ob jects for which the fund of 1822 was collected, and a committee was then appointed to see that there was a due application of the money. This, he (Mr. Leader) trusted, was the last meeting that would be held in Ireland for the relief of such mi sery as now existed in Mayo. He hoped that the Government would attend to the internal improve ment of the country—that it would do for Ireland what former Governments had not done—look to improve the condition of the people, by opening its inland communications either by roads or canals. If such a communication was now established, the price of potatoes would not be three-halfpence farthing in one part of Ireland, while the wretched people on the coast of Mayo could not get them at a less price than sixpence. If Ireland were in the situation she ought to be, she would not be exporting 11,0001. in provisions, while Great Britain did not export a shilling's worth. Mr. J. D. LATOUCIIE seconded the resolution of Mr. Leader. Mr. BLAKE (Chief Remembrdnckr) gave it as his opinion, as a lawyer, that there could not be the slightest legal d fficulty in the appropriation of the fund of 1822. Mr. PORTER suggested that a legal difficulty might be experienced on the part of the trustees. Mr. BLAKE said, if he were one of the trustees, he could not reconcile it to his conscience to make the difficulty. In a question of life or death, like the present, were he trustee, and a man had in con sequence died, though he might not call himself a Terry-Alt, he should, before God, regard himself as a murderer. Mr. HUGH O'CONNOR, as one of the trustees, did not see any objection to the proposed allocation. Five pounds, the subscription of MadaMe Vestris for the relief of the distressed peasantry, was handed in.—The resolutions were then passed. We may state upon unquestionable authority,that tranquillity is being restored to the county of Clare. We are pretty certain that we shall hear of very few disturbances for the next eight or ten months. Now we trust that this interval will be taken to make a radical inquiry into the causes of the late disturbances, with a view to radical remedy. That remedy, we tell the landlords, must be a legal pro vision for the poor.—Dublin Evening Post. Murtagh Donnelly, for the murder of Colour serjeant James Robinson, of the sth Regiment, was executed yesterday at Ballynacally, county Clare, pursuant to sentence at the Commission. The cul prit denied his guilt at the place of execution, and never did there attend so few spectators to witness an execution of this sort. None of the peasantly were to be observed near the fatal scene, and a group of women and children formed the only spectators, with the exception of the military guard. On re turning to Ennis with the body, a prisoner was ar rested on the road side, suspected of Whiteboyism. —Limerick Chronicle. There are twenty prisoners yet in Ennis gaol un tried, and charged with being directly concerned in the murder of Serjeaut James Robinson, of the sth Reg imen Au encampment of troops is immediately to take place in the county Clare. • Tents are preparing for the sth Regiment, to be posted in the barony of Burren. Friday several cars laden with camp equi page left Dublin for the county Clare. We understand that an offer was made to the Ex-Emperor DON PEDRO and his illustrious consort of the beautiful mansion of Grove-hill, the residence of G. C. Fox, Esq., hut was declined in consequence of our Government being unacquainted with DON PEDRO'S return to Europe, and consequently unprepared for his reception ; be had no desire to occasion them any embarrassment.— Falmouth Pacl.•et. CURIOUS ACCIDENT.—On Sunday evening a young man of respectable appearance, and who, we are g i ve n to understand, is a medical student, met with rath er a singular accident on Waterloo-bridge, but which, must providentially, was not fatal, although it proved very serious. It appears that the young man, while sitting on the top of the ballustrades, smoking a cigar, all of a sudden over-balanced himself, and the consequence was, that he was precipitated into the river, near the pier of the third arch on the Surrey side of the bridge. Several persons Slw him go over, and thinking that he intended to destroy himself, immediately ran to LEWIS, the toll.collector, and informed Lim that a man had committed suicide by jump ing off the bridge. Assistance being handy, four or five persons proceeded down the steps, and wading through the water, which was low at the time, to the place pointed out as the most likely for the young man to have fallen, they discovered him lying on a bank of gravel at the foot of the pier. He was conveyed to the Feathers public house, and the injuries he has received are of so serious a nature that it was deemed prudent not to remove him ; and he lot night still remained there. It was exceedingly fortunate that it was nearly low water at the time, or most likely he would have sunk to rise no more alive. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JUNE it. PLANCHE v. COLBURN AND BENTLEY. Mr. Serjeant WILDE (with whom was Mr. Kelly) stated that the plaintiff, a literary gentleman of attainments, was engaged by Messrs. Colburti and Bentley, the defendants, to write a volume on Costume and Ancient Armour, for the Juvenile Library, a work which they commence d l as t y ear . He was to receive 100 guineas for the volume. Mr. Jerdan was the editor of the Juvenile Library, and made the engagement. Three volumes only of the Juvenile Library appeared, and in November it wa , discontinued. The plaintiff had bestowed consider able time and exertion on the work : he had visited Dr. Meyrick, in Herefordshire, to consult his library and make some drawings from his collection of armour, and it was a great hardship to be told that the work was discontinued, and his preparations to go for nothing. Mr. Jerdan proved the contract made with the plaintiff for 100 guineas for the volume. Many other contracts were made with literary persons to write for the work. He thought the sum which the plaintiff claimed, 50/., only a fair remuneration for his trouble. He had never said that 25/. was suffi cient. A paper was, however, produced in Mr. Jerdan's writing, in which he put down Mr.Planclie and three other contributors, who he conceived might be satisfied with 100/. amongst them. Mr. Jerdan said this was on the footing of an arrange ment personally with himself, as a frigid of the parties, but lie thought the plaintiff's claim against the booksellers, of 50/., was quite fair. Mr. Webb and another witness gave the same opinion. - Mr. Se►jeant SPANKIE (who was assisted by Mr. Dodd) addressed the Jury in a very humerous speech for the defendants. Far from complaining of Mr. Planche's labours, the defendants only wished they had been completed; for, although the Juvenile Library had been given up, Messrs. Colburn and Bentley were perfectly ready to take the plaintiff's book when written, and pay him the 100 guineas; and this they had offered to him. And he would show that the plaintiff had admitted that costume and ancient armour were very embarrassing subjects to write about for little masters and misses, in an abridged shape, and much better adapted for a full grown: volume for full growr► readers. Costume was a peculiarly interesting topic, almost, though not quite, as old as the world ; and all its varieties, — whether the Highlander's kilt, or the f►ne ladies' brocade,—were only expansions of the renowned fig-led, the first effort at costume. Mr. 'Manche had no doubt studied Albertus .Magnus de re vesti ariii velem: and Sal,nasius, and all the other au thorities collected in the chapter on dress in Tristram Shandy; and that all this interesting learning should be lost to the world, on account of this unhappy misunderstanding with the booksellers, was much to be regretted. He trusted, however, it would still appear, to delight the Jury and the adult public. Mr. Oilier was then called and examined by Mr. DODD—He proved that in November last Mr. Bentley had expressly told Mr. Planche, that if he would produce his book he should receive whatever sum had been guaranteed for it by Mr. Jerdan. Mr. Planche said, he certainly felt embarrassed at writing for juvenile readers on the subject, and that the work would do better in a separate volume. On cross-examination by Mr. St-rjeant WILDE, he said nothing was said as to the form or size of the separate volume, and he had never heard Mr. Planche converse any more on the subject. Mr. Serjeant WILDE replied, contending that the defendants' offer to take the book and publish it se parately was no performance of their contract. The plaintiff had written a work for children, and it was impossible it could be published as a separate work without injuring his fame. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE summed up the evi dence, and the Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff —Damages 501. Leave was given to the defendants' Counsel to move the Court, on a point reserved on the pleadings. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. A man named James Waters, and a boy named James Willows, were charged with having stolen a great quantity of property, consisting ofbooks, wear ing apparel, wine, plate, &c. belonging to Mr. Willows, a fishmonger, in the Strand. The boy, who is the prosecutor's nephew, was subsequently allowed to give evidence against his accomplice. It appeared that for the last ten months depreda tions to a considerable extent had been carried on in Mr. Willows's house by his nephew, who dt:clared that he had been instigated and assisted by the prisoner. A quantity of wine, which had been saved from tbe fire at the English Opera House, and de posited in Mr. Willows's cellar, had also been stolen. This wine was described as the property of his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, as President of the Beef Steak Club, whose cellars were situated under the English Opera-house. The prisoner denied all participation in the vArious acts of robbery with which he was charged, and en deavoured to throw the whole weight of gdilt on his young accomplice. Mr. MINS HULL observed, that the prisoner's con duct was bad enough, but that of the boy was still worse. The prisoner was then remanded for further examination. ------ A complaint was made by Mr. Bradbury, ac comptant and professor of writing, against a con stable belonging to Drury-lane Theatre, whose name is Anthony, for having illegally detained one box ticket, value 7s. Mr. Bradbury stated that on Saturday last a friend of his purchased two box-tickets, and paid Mr. Burke, the box-keeper, the full price— namely, 14s. for them. The gentleman subsequently found tha• he could hot go to the theatre that evening, and he gave him (Mr. Bradbury) one of the tickets. Conceiving that he had a right to dispose s of the ticket how he pleased, he directed a person to sell it for him for 5. This person gave it for that pur pose to a woman at the box entrance, from whom the defendant took it, saying that he would be answerable for the consequences. File defendant, in reply to the charge, bad merely acted under the direction of his superiors. In con sequence of a practice which had been carried to a considerable extent, of selling the tickets of the theatre at prices considerably below their value, the proprietors had given directions that tickets so offered for sale should be seized by the officers of the house, and it having been proved in this in stance that Mr. Bradbury was the owner of the ticket in question, the proprietors directed that he should be dismisssed from his situation as check taker. Mr. Bradbury insisted on his right to sell the ticket for whatever it would bring. Mr. Missuum, was of opinion that Mr. Brad bury had taken a correct view of the subject, and without making any order to enforce his claim, he advised that the value of the ticket should be paid to him, either by the defendant or the treasurer of the theatre.—The parties then retired. MAR YLEB ONE. Yesterday Mr. Inn. Marlton, who stated that he kept his livery-stables in Park-street, Camden-town, was brought before Mr..GamtuTits, by the police man 70 of the D division, to whom he was given in charge, for furiously driving a horse and gig a b out eight o'clock that morning. Mrs. Elizabeth Jones, who keeps a sort of coffee cabin at the northern end of High -street, Maty lebone, deposed that the defendant came driving so furiously as not only to upset her small establish ment, her little all, but also to overturn his own gig, by which accident he was himself thrown quite under it, and it was a miracle that he survived it. Defendant was fined in the penalty of 10s. for his furious driving, and ordered to compensate Mrs. Jones for the damage she had au table, MARKET INTELLIGENCE. LONDON MARKETS. (From the London New Price Curren! of Tuesday.) SUGAR.-The Sugar market wes very dull last week, notwithstanding the small supply of good new Musco vades ; the holders evinced an increasing disposition to force sales, and the prices were in consequence 6d. to Is. per cwt. lower ; the estimated sales 1,400 hhds. and trs. The stock of West India Sugar is now 15,812 hhds. and trs., which is 2,446 less than last year. The stock of Mauritius 73,413 bags, being 37,722 less than last year. The delvery of West India Sugar last week 2,916 hhds. and trs., being 138 less than last year. The delivery of Mauritius 7,451 hags, being 4,929 less than in the cor responding week of 1830. The estimated sales for the ,day are 990 hhds. and irs., including 115 hhda. 98 brls. Trinidad, and 128 hhds. Barbadoes by public sale this day; the prices are Is. a Is. 6d. lower than on Tuesday last, very good Trinidad 455. ; we are not aware of any Jamaica sold under 465., but according to other sales the brown in proportion would be 455. The request for Re fined for shipping has been very limited, and the ordinary descriptions are again a shade lower ; the demand for the fine for the home consumption of the country has also been on the most confined scale, and at rather lower prices. The market this afternoon is without variation, brown Lumps offer at 625. EA•T INDIA SUGARS. —The Mauritius Sugars, towards the dose of the last week, fell 6d. to Is. per cwt., and the Market was heavy at the reduction ; Bengal and other Erst India Sugars were also very dull, and rather lower. This day 4,966 bags Mauritius Sugar sold at a further re• duction of 6d. to ls. per cwt. FOREIGN SUGARS.-Large parcels of Pernambuco Sugar have lately been brought forward, the prices are 6d. to Is, lower, white 255. a 275. brown 15s. a 16s. ; some good strong white Havannah sold 355. a 355. 6d.-- Average price of Sugar, 11. ss. 211 per cwt. COFFEE.-The Coffee Market has been very languid ; there have been inquiries for low East India descriptions, but the buyers expected to purchase on lower terms, which the holders have not accepted. The Mocha lately offered has been nearly all taken in ; no buyers. The only sale of Foreign is some Brazil at 40s. The demand for British Plantation Coffee for the home consumption hag not been brisk, yet it has been sufficient to clear the Market of the few parcels offering; the prices have been maintained. This day 66 casks mid. quality Jamaica sold Is. 6d to 2s. lower. The Market is very dull. RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.-There have been 500 to 600 puns. of Jamaica Rum sold ; the prices have not transpired, but they will be high, as the chief pur chases are very fine tsar ks, taken exclusively for the home consumption of the country. In Leeward Island Ruin we have heard of no purchases. Brandy continues heavy. Geneva is still neglected. The deliveries of Rum are ex tensive, principally former purchases for shipping, A nd parcels for the Government contract. The delivery last week 936 casks, of which 565 were reported for export. Hemp, Fr...tx, AND TALLOW.—There has been very little business in 'fallow, arising in a great measure front the holders declining to sell, waiting the event of the late severe quarantine, and also the great naval armaments of England and France ; the prices are nominally higher than last week. Hemp and Flax are in a similar situation. IRISH PROVISIONS.—As we anticipated in our report of the Market under this head on this day se'nnight, the import of Bacon during the past week has not been only equal, but has exceeded the deliveries from the what Ise being 4,028 bales, with 7,756 firkins of Irish, arid 4528 casks of Foreign Butter. There is a regular and stradY demand for Bacon, but we cannot quote the price of the primest singed Waterford landed over 475., though in some partial instances 48,. may have been obtained , and 465. a 475. on hoard may be nominally quoted ; Limerick 425. a 445., and bale middles as to weight and quality 455. a 4Se. landed. Waterford, Cork, and Limerick But ter, 843. a 86s. landed ; and 78s. a 60s. on board ; parcels now shipped can be purchased. Dutch 925. a 944. at the quay. For both Hams and Bladder Lard 'IL •re is a better sale, and a trifling advance is demanded. In Beef and Purk very little doing. COTTON. —There is no alteration in the Cotton Market. The sales are 230 bags Surat, qd. a bd. Fiturr.—There is no alteration in the Fruit Market. TOBACCO —There are no sales to report, hut the inqui ries are continued. sod at li g. °ll o B l, SPICES.-This day 1,664 bags Pepper 21d. a 2id., which is again lower. TEA.-Twankays are a little cheaper than last sale, as well value.a as Hyson Sk ins. Campoisd, to to p 2 re s se . n 2 t 4d m . ain T ta w i a n a t a h y ei s r , common 2s. lid. a 2s. IV., good 2s. 41 a 2s. &W. , fine 2s. 6d. a 3s. ld. Ilyson Skin 2s. 3:ld. a 3s. gid• Hysons have began at 3s. 9d. a 4s. 3d. The private trade Teas are now selling: they are going at moderate rates. Congous ls. 1144. a 25., ditto in boxes, 2s. OP. a 2s. 2d. Cimpoi 2s. 34d. a 2s. 8 : 1d. Pekoe 3s. 11d. a 4s. 31. Orange ditto 2s. 1 lid. a 2s. 11 id. And a great many of them refused. The sale will not finish tilt Thursday. TaLLow, ASHES, &e..--On Friday the public sale, 316 casks Trieste Tallow sold 3Ss. ; 33 tons loofa Spanish 13a rills, 10s. ; 137 brls. New York PeFrl Ashes, first 4, 30s. 6d. ; a 31s. ; seconds, 28s. 91 a 295. 6d. ; 137 brl-. Canada Pot Ashes, firsts, 23e. 6d. a 28s. 91. On..—At a late hour Oil ic• higher ; Gallipoli, good, ; ordinary, 401. ; Linsecd 10i. advance. INDIGO.—There is no N'teration in Indigo, the declara- tion f.r next sale about 4,100 chests ; it is supposed the quantity will be abort 7,000 chests, but no correct esti mate can yet be giyvn. Particulars and estimate of Com pany's Indigo is be offered :-133 ordinary and middling consumers 48. 91. a 3s. 6d. ; 923 good consumers to middling shippers, 3s. 91. a 4s. 6d. ; 652 middling to good ditto, 4s. 6d. a ss. 3,1. ; 93 good to fine do, ss. Sd.. a 6a. 3d. ; 43 very fine ditto, 6s. 3d. a 7.. SALTPETRE.-There is rather more inquiry after Salt petre, but there are no sales of any extent. Hoes.—The accounts from the Hop districts continue favourable; the duty, which on opening was stated at 105,000/. is now 135,-000/. ; the market is in consequence dull, and rather lower. _ RICE.—The late depression in Rice has attracted the attention of the buyers; considerable sates are repotted in Bengal white at 135., and in cargo Rice at lls. NORWICH, June 11. . . We had a good supply of Wheat, but being held at higher prices than the Flour trade will warrant, our millers purchased reluctantly, and much Wheat was left unsold, yet we must quote an advance of Is. to 9.5. per quarter. There is so little doing 0 1 any other description of Grain, that we quote prices as last week. Flour is held at an advance of Is. per sack. 1 Wheat (per qr.) ~625. 68s. 725. Beans (per qr.) ...... 38s. Vi. 8ar1ey...,,.......,.....,. 30s. 40s. 424. Pease, 0rey........ 40s. 445. Oats ........--,...—.... 2.65. 324. 345. Flour, fine (per sack) 50s. 52i. CANTERBURY, June 11. At our Corn Exchange to-day we had a fair supply of Wheal for the season, but the farmers holding the Wheats for higher prices, and the millers not being disposed to give it, caused but little business to be done. In other kinds of Grain no alteration worth noticing. Wheat, white— 70s. to 723. Old-- —s. to —s. 665. to 60s. Old— —s. to —s. Barley, Malting 38s. to 48s. Grinding.. 30s. to 365• Oats 2,5. to 323. ...» Old—. —s. to, —B, Beans ..no , ••,••••••vv, ...ow. 325. to 405.....,. Old-- 365. to 468• Pease - 383. to 425.....,. Grey-- 355. to 40s. MANCHESTER, June 11. The show of samples no being large, fine Wheat was held at better prices. Grinding Barley is as last noted. Oats were Nd• to Id. per bushel above last week's rates. Boiling Pease are scarcely inquired atter, but Beans are ready sale at 6d. per guar. ter higher. Other articles unaltered. Wheat, per 70Ib. 10s. Od. to 10s. fid. Red 9s. 91. to 10s. fd. Barley, per 6011) 5 0 5 4 Oats 4 3 4 4 Beans; per Imperial quarter Pease, White, per Imperial bushel 5 0 5 t; Malt, per 6 Imperial bushels 4B 0 5'2 U Flour, per Saak t,f 2801 h. 59. 0 56 0 BIRTHS. On the 14th inst.' Mrs. Oriel, of Alfred-place, Bedford square , of a son. On the 12th inst. at Brightelmstone, the lady of the Hon. gernon Herbert, of a son. m O ne n qu t e h o e n, l o 2t f h a s i o n n st . . at Cheltenham, the lady of Captain J. MARRIED. On the 14th inst. having been previously married at the Roma! Catholic church, St Marylebone, C. P. Cooper, Esq., LL.D. Lincoln's Inn, to Henriette Amelie Josephine, Viscountesse 0 ' beslin, only daughter of Monsieur Duhesme, ancien Comerv. , ' tear des Forets, and niece to the late General Count Duhesnl e, Pair de France, killed at Waterloo. On the 14th inst. at Clapham, Mr. W. Owen, of Haverford west, to Martha Hall Stevenson, third slaughter ; and Mr. Rol f ' Wollaston, of Clapham, to Jane Stevenson, youngest daughte r, of the late G. Stevenson, Esq., of Clapham. At Bombay, in December, H. H. Hobson, Esq. of th e gill , regiment, N. 1., to Isabella, youngest daughter of the Rev. p r. Morgan. G / ( 0 vie T" "on Fnino • esien Tend istiiply,of I Majesty's . ' Art ic; , OATMEAI WHEAT, virro; PkiS' Samples • b sProduo . the Cusitra, Each Te and be • deli and the Pe oii his bOii T HE Ur ENGLAN hereby giv, That th be appropr the REDS PER CE] Court will 1831, to per Cent. 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BUTLEI SAR Scurvy, a the most • best Me has nude] by what Fluid Ea eoncentra the Deco , Sold it Butler, ( Principal BIITL This r e i.g from class of I has steal . 6d and 5 DIED. K O H n a tr ifo l r O d tl: E. in sg st . . at King's-road, Ch e l sea, J ane, w if e o f 3: At Demerara, on the 9 th of March, Mr. G. Robertson, ag 45 ; and on the 2lst of April, on her passage home, on board 01 Captain Merritt, whil e becalmed off Dominica, whe re ti slre n w a ma asin n terred, Elizabeth, wife of the above, aged 87. On the 12th inst. at 11lill.hili, Hendon Elizabeth, widow the late J. Moseley, Esq., of Mill-hill, and ' of New-street, c °.. vent-garden, aged 59. On the 29th of April, at sea, by accidentally falling overboa°" Edward, fourth son of W. H. Holt, Esq. of Enfield. On the 13th inst. in the Ci • Greenwich,Pryce, F 414 Circus, I'. in his 76th year. On the 13th inst. Mr. I. G Da Costa, of Clapham-road-plac e ' aged C,6. On the 14th inst. in Portman-square, aged 46, the Rev. itohti Hammd, of Swafrhatn, Norfolk, Rector of Harpley and 1" Bircham, in the same county. On the 7th'inst. drowned by the upsetting of a boat in l'?„ , mouth-roads, Thomas Willoughby, younge,t son Or the late A. Miles, Esq., of Heath, Hants. PR INTL: A NI) PUIIII3II FI) HY MU Itl) 0 Y 0 UNO Al . `IAN OiTiCti, I RAND, I.ONDC:i, i ‘-!" P