The Sun. — London, England, 1833-06-12 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The . plan of the Government for the settle ment of the West India question, though it ha , encountered strong opposition from the two ex treme parties of unqualified abolitionists and interested planters, has hitherto passed through the Committee of the House of Commons with out any material amendment. Its third clause, which substitutes a species of compulsory labour, through the engagements of apprenticeships, and the authority of magistrates, as a transition state, or middle term (for 12 years), between the absolute slavery which has hitherto existed and the complete freedom which the friends of humanity hope shortly to see established, was adopted on Monday night, by the great ma jority of 282 to 42, after an ineffectual attempt on the part of Mr. Buxton to prove that no transition state was necessary, and that the offer of adequate wages would always afford a suffi cient security in the colonies for the continuance of the same kind of industry, and with the same results, as that in which the slave popula tion were now engaged. This anti-slavery tenet always appeared to us to imply a hazard too great to be encountered without the experience of its practicability, or of its safety, on a larger scale than the abolitionists can yet produce, and consequently on Monday we expressed ourselves strongly against its adoption. It gives us pleasure, therefore, to observe the state of the vote on the following evening, not because it postpones the hour of ultimate freedom, but because it assures us that due preparation will be made for the change which it must introduce. It need scarcely be added, that apprenticeship, on the conditions specified, is no longer slavery, and that the negro labourer, though obliged to work a certain portion of his time for his employer, is no longer the property of his master. After the deduction of one-fourth of his time, which he can henceforward spend as his own, either for the accumulation of gain or the enjoyment of ease, he remains for the other portion of his time, not under the cart-ship of a cruel or ca pricious driver, but under the authority of the law and the Magistrate. Though the claim of his master over his services be thus reduced, the claim of the apprenticed labourer upon his em ployer for sustenance in health and medical treatment in disease, for food and clothing while at work, and support in infirmity or old age, remains unchanged. This last provision should be taken into account in estimating the advantage of the apprenticeship system to the negro, -or the loss which it may contingently inflict upon the planter. It is on this ground, we suppose, that the Govern ment has agreed to alter the original terms of indemnity in the fourth resolution, and to ex tend their accommodation to the colonists from 15,000,0001. to 20,000,0001. But though dis posed to offer no factious opposition to a inea - sure on which we have hitherto exerted our selves to bring about conciliation and compro mise, we can by no means agree in the expediency or justice of this proposed change. The additional sum of 5,000,000/. appears to us extravagant on various grounds, and not to be tolerated on any pretext except that it may procure the co-operation, by bribing the cupidity, of the planter. It is extravagant, in the first place, as compared with the original plan of the Government, which only proposed to advance the sum of 15,000,000/. as a loan to the colonists, fur which they were to pay interest at 4 per cent., and which was intended rather as a means of enabling them to reduce ther mort gages and other liabilities (which cost them 10 or 15 per cent.), than as a free gift or an irreclaimable compensation. When the planters held their meeting in the city, and complained loudly ofspaliation and robbery, the Government consented to abandon the interest on this large advance, and to consider it as an indemnity granted by the nation to the slave-owner for the deterioration of his property. We agree to this change, both because we thought it not unrea sonable, and because we never had antici pated the repayment of the money, though it had been advanced as a loan. The 20,000,0001. will, no doubt, be expected on the same condi tions as the smaller amount, and therefore ought to be resisted as an excess. But, in the second place, the pecuniary compensation to the plan ters is not only extravagant as compared with the original and modified project of the Colonial office—it is extravagant when contrasted with the pike of slaves and the professed value of West India returns to the capital employed in the cultivation of sugar. The colonists have for years been petitioning Parliament to interfere for their relief, and have obtained committees to inquire into their calamitous condition. To these committees they have offered evidence that West India property was a losing concern; that they were, in fact, mere nominal owners of their own estates—and that, where they did not absolutely cultivate them at a loss, tiiev received only a very trifling or inadequate profit. In such a state of things, which they seemed to regard as hopeless, even with the retention of all their power over their human chattels, an advance of 15,000,0001. ought to have been hailed as a God-send. They were thus to receive so large—so enormous—an amount of English money to indemnify them for being rescued from a certain share of a los ing concern, to reconcile them to a change in a species of property which threatened them v. ith approaching ruin, and to bribe them to huma nity by ieducieg them to modify a kind of cul ture which, according to their own accounts, had nearly absorbed all their previous fortunes. If the sum of 15,000,0001. was too great a com pensation for their consent to be relieved from such a state of suffering and embarrassment, what shall we say of 20,000,0(10/. ? But even as compared with the value of the slaves— that value being measured by the average rinteket price of such " property "—the proposed ad vance is excessive and unjustifiable. Suppose we take the number of slaves in the whole of the British colonies at 800,00 Q, and estimate on an average each slave at 351. or 401., the sum of 20,000,0001. which is 251. for every indi vidual negro, young ant -old, amounts to 51: or 101. above half" the - price of each, though brought toe-the hammer, and sold pr disposed of to:ifie highest bidder, with out the least dang er Of tumult, insurrection, or servile war, whit bp : the Government plan of emancipation . :be master is only deprived of his slave labour for the fourth of the time during which he can now command it. In the third place, the inOnliiity of 20,000,000 i. seems to us extravagant, from the stnallness of the c h ange expected to be produced in the efficiency of the forced exertions of " the apprenticed labourers " during the proposed twelve years of the present arrangement, and the superior cheapness, in or dinary circumstances, of free over slave labour. If the West India resident planter alters entirely his system, as circumstances will compel him to do; and offers proper inducements to hii ,1)0...1 rated slaves to exert all their energies In his ser vice, he will rather derive a benefit than suffer a loss from their emancipation. The 20,000,0001. will thus become a mere surplusage of national generosity, to reconcile the colonists to a course of conduct which their own interests dictated as much as the humanity of the British Le gislature ; and though we might be disposed to make some sacrifices for their cordial con currence, that concurrence, like everything eke, may be bought too dear. We are as sensible as the most enthusiastic friends of immediate and unqualified emancipation of the vast importance to the cause of having the support of the colonial proprietors in favour of the measure ; we should not be disposed, on such a subject, to calculate by farthings or to drive a hard bargain ; but, surely, there are limits to national liberality even in promoting the most laudable objects, and the limit in this rase appeared to us to be the advance of 15,000,0001., without interest or liability to repayment, as originally proposed. Had the Government continued inexorable to any demand for more, we are convinced that the planters, in resisting their proposition last night would have been left in as small a minority as the extreme abolitionists in opposing on Monday the resolu tion for the establishment of apprenticeships. With St. Domingo before their eyes, and with the ascertained disposition of the United States rather to get rid of their own system of slavery than to accept additional slave possessions under their protection, our colonists must have agreed to what was just, rather than have hazarded their lives and properties by holding out for what is ectravagant and indefensible.-7 We can assure our readers, one and all, that we are serious in our recommendation to re move the Bishops from the House of Lords, and to make steady and useful diocesans of them, instead of Ministerial fags-of-all-work in Parliament. Nothing would be simpler than the mechanism of such a proceeding : it would be merely to move the repeal of the Act of Charles 11. (anno 1661) whereby the Rev. brethren were dragged back again from their re spective sees, and reseated on those lordly benches, whence, in the reign of Charles 1., and ' year 1641, for divers just and prudent reasons, one of which was their always " forming a party within the House of Lords," they were, by con , ' sent of King, Lords, and Commons ) expelled. But in the course of the same year, and previ ously to their entire exclusion from their seats as legislators, a Bid had been brought in (and was ultimately thrown out by the Lords), for restraining Bishops from meddling in secular affairs. On that occasion some good speeches were made, and among them one by Lord Say and Sele, from which we quote the following passage for the edification of our readers, and emphatically so for that of my Lord Bishop of Exeter. The country may depend upon it the Bishops will not be suffered to desecrate their clerical office, or to abuse the legislative functions:— " Did the Apostles, men of extraordinary gifts, think it unreasonable for them to be hindered from giving them selves continually to preaching the word and prayer, by taking care for the tables ef the poor widows; and can the Bishops now think it reasonable or lawful for them to contend for sitting at Council-table; to govern states; to turn statesmen instead of churchmen ; to sit in the high est Courts of Judicature, and to be employed in making laws for civil politics and government ? If they shall be thought fit to sit in such places, and will undertake such employments, they must not sit there as ignorant men, but roust be knowing men in business of state, and un daratand the rules and laws of Government; and thereby, both their time and studies must be necessarily diverted from that which God hath called them unto ; and this, sure, is much more unlawful for them to admit of than that which the Apostles rejected as a distraction un reasonable for them to be interrupted by. The doe. trine of the Apostles is agreeable to their practice herein; for Paul when he instructeth Timothy for the work of the ministry presseth this argument from the example of a good soldier:—' No man that -warred) entangleth him self with the affairs of this life.' Hence I conclude, that what is, by the commandment of our Saviour, by the practice and doctrine of the Apostles, and I may add, by the canons of ancient councils grounded thereupon, pro hibited to the ministers of the Gospel, and showed to be such a distraction upon them from their callings and func tion as will bring a wee upon them, is not reasonable for them to admit ot: and if they shall, notwithstanding, en tangle the mselves withal!, and enter into, it will bring a guilt upon their souls, and hurt them in respect of their collat.'. laces. In the next place, it doth blemish them, and strike them in their credit. So far from the truth is this position, which they desire to possess the world withal!, t‘ That unless they may have these outward trappings of worldly pomp added to the ministry, that calling will grow into contempt, and ' ba despised :' for the tenth is, these things cast contempt upon them in the eyes of men ; they gain them cap anti courtesy, but they have test them out of the consciences of men. The rea sou of this is plain : every thing is esteemed as it is emi nent in its own proper excellency; the eye in seeing, not in hearing; the ear in hearing, not in speaking ; the one would be rather monstrous than comely ; the other is ever acceptable, being proper. So is it with then, their proper excellency is spiritual; the denial of the world, with the pomp and preferment's, and employments thereof. 'This they should teeth and practise; but when they, contrary hereunto, seek after a worldly excellency, like the great men of the world, and to ru'e and domineer as they do, contrary to our Saviour's precept, It shall not be so amongst you ;' instead of honour and esteem they have brought upon themselves, in the hearts of the people, that contempt and odium which they now lie under : and that justly and necessarily, because the world seeth that they prefer a wordly ex cellency, and run after it, and contend for it, before their own ; which being spiritual, is far more excellent ; and which, being proper to the ministry, is that alone which will put a value and esteem upon them that are ef that calling. As these things hint themselves in their con sciences and credit, see have they made, and, if they he continued, still will make them hurtful tee others: the reason is, because they break out of their own orb, and in , ive irregularly, there is a curie upon their leaving of their own place. The heavenly bodies, while they keep within their own spi ere', give light and comfort to the world ; but if they stpat'd break out, and fall from tbeii regular and proper motions, they would set the wok Id on tire ;so have these dune. Weide they kept themselves to the work of their ministry alone, and gave them selves to prayer, and the ministry of the word, ac cording to the example of the Apostles, the world received the greatest benefits by them ; they were the light and life thereof ; but when their ambition cast them down, like stars from heaven to earth, and they did grow, once, to be advanced above their brethren, I do appeal to all who hate been versed in the ancient ecclesi astical stories, or modern histories, whether they have not been the common incendiaries of the Christian world ; never ceasing from contention, one with another, about the precedency of their sees and churches ; excotninuni eating one anoti,er ; drawing Princes to be parties with them, and thereby casting them into bloody wars. Their ainitieion, anti intermerieling with secular affairs anti State liminess, bath been the cause of shedding more Christian b'ood than anything else in the Christian world ; anti this no man can deny that is versed in history. But we need not go out of our own kingdom for ex implas of their insolency and cruelty. Then they had a dependency upon the Pope, and any foot ing, thereby but of the land, there were never any that carded themselves with so much swirl and insolency towards the Princes of this kingdom as they have done : tome of these4he Bishop th it last spake bath named ; but instances of .'many more may be riven, whereof there would be -no end. Although the Pope he cast off, yet n u o ie w k t i lntegrdom sr b eis-an y a other inconvenlene no less prejudici el to their sitting in this House; and that is, they have such an absolute dependency upon the King that they sit not here as freemen. That which is requisite to freedom is to be void of hopes and fears. He that can lay down these is a freeman, and will be so in cilia House : but for the Bishops, as the case stands with demo, it is not ltke'y they will lay asioe their bodes, greetr bishoprics being still in expectant. ) ; an d for their learn they cannot lay them down , since their places and seats in Parlament are not invested in them by blood, and so hereditary, but by an• nexation of a barony tt, their office, and depending tipol that office, so that they may be deprived of their office, and thereby f their places, at the King's pleasure. They do not so much as sit here dum bene se yesserint, as the judges now, by your Lordships' petition to the King, have their places granted them, hut at will and pleasure ; and, therefore, as they were all excluded by Edward I. as long as he pleased, and laws made excluso clero, so may they be by any King at bis pleasure in like m inner. They must needs, therefore, be in an absolute dependency upon the crown, and thereby at devotion for their votes ; which how prejudicial it hath been, and will be to this House, I need not say.°— Times. It seems scarcely possible that, in the present, advanced stage of the summer, Parliament should be able to get through one-half of the public business which awaits its decision. Tired and wearied out with endless talking, and little doing, many Members have already left town for the season, and, as we advance towards the dog days, it is more than probable that the sittings of Parliament, if persisted in, will be frequently confined to a small number of Members, just sufficient to make a House, and therefore far from sufficient to satisfy the just expectations of the people, who have not sent 658 Members to the reformed Parliament to see their most im portant duties devolve upon 40. Still the en. durance of human strength has its limits, and we might just as reasonably expect a tired post horse to undertake a fresh stage with its former speed and alacrity, as that Members of the Le gislature can attend, night after night, during all the hot months of summer and autumn, and perform their duties as they ought to be per formed. But what is now to be done? Many of the most vital interests of the country are still awaiting their turn of legislation. Some of them are even in such a state as to resemble a house which has been unroofed and half-pulled down, and which it is there fore indispensable should be covered in before the setting in of the winter rains. Much of the evil has arisen from the unprepared and ur.business-like way in which so much of the public service is attended to—much from the sad disposition of modern legislators to " talk away" the time, and in no small degree from the late period of the season at which Parliament has of late years assembled, that which used to begin in November, or even October, being now postponed till February. If the country wishes, as it naturally must, to see the public business properly executed, it must, we think, consent to see Ministers enter into some tacit or implied compromise upon the present occasion. That compromise should be this, that Ministers should be allowed, without unnecoss.ry interruption, to proceed to the completion of such measures as.will not admit of delay ; and that Parliament, having had a recess of three months, should positively re-assemble at the end of October, or the beginning of No vember, to proceed with its unfinished labours. We are aware that an inconvenience must arise from even this delay ; but it resolves itself into a choice of evils, if not into a state of impossibi lity ; and we cannot but feel persuaded that the public interest will, in the end, be best con sulted by the business of the Legislature being done deliberately and effectually, rather than in that crude and hurried manner which we hive too often seen, and which has generally ended in the time of the next session of Parliament being taken up in passing Acts " to explain and amend" the errors and haste of the last.— Morning Herald. . The question of the compensation to the planters, occupied the House nearly the whole of last night. Twenty millions is undoubtedly a large sum to be added to our national debt ; and a time may come when the public may not be so willing to submit to this burden, as they were eager to compel Ministers to enter on the course which led to it. There cannot be a doubt, however, that the planters are justly entitled to compensation for the loss which abolition will occasion to them. The nation is not entitled to turn righteous all at once, at the expense of the planters. Every individual in the Unified Kingdom must bear his share of the burden. But it happens oddly enough, that this fresh burden is incurred by the nation at the very time when the people are casting about in ail directions, to see how they can rid them selves of existing taxes. This was forcibly put last night by Mr. Pryme. " Where, he should like to know, was the money, to be paid to the West India planters, to come from ? kVas it to come from the pockets of the people of Eng land ? Why, the people were on every hand calling out for relief from their present burdens, from the house and window duties, from the malt tax ; in short, the cry throughout the coun try was for remis , ion of existing taxes, and not for new impositions." But yet, if abolition is to he carried, it ought to be carried in such a way as to insure the co-operation of the planters; and as they are swisfiedwith the twenty millions,and would not be satisfied with less, it would be anything but wise to hazard the plan for five millions. By the bye, Mr. Pryme was rather going too far when he disputed the recognition of this country of the present right of the planters to property in the slaves, on the ground that the laws merely recognised the property of the slaves they had imported. " With regard (said the Hon. Gentleman) to the question of property in slaves, which had been mooted, he denied that any laws or proclamations warranted the asser tion made by the planter, that the country has recognised the right of property in the slaves. He had examined the acts and proclamations referred to by the planters in support of their views, and he was bound to say that they did not bear out that assertion. He admitted that the laws had recognised the property of the planters in the slaves they had imported, but chose laws never recognised any such property in the offspring of those slaves." The laws never recognised the property in the offspring of the slaves, because it was always understood that the law giving the property in the slaves gave the property in the children the slaves might have. The slave is as much the chattel of the owner as his horse. All that proceeds from the slave belongs to the owner, as much as the lamb to the owner of a Huck of sheep. In all countries in which slavery exists by law, the child belongs to the owner of the mother, as a matter of course. Partus sequitur ventrem. Slavery existed by the law of the colonies, and there was no neces s ity f or it s re cognition by Acts of Parliament; an d i t on l y happened that the imported slaves are men tioned in Acts of Parliament, from its being necessary that Parliament should regulate the trade. Several ame:.dments were proposed. F. Buxton moved that half the amount of compensation should not be paid until the ap prenticeship of time negroes had expired, and until the negroes were put ni full possessioh of all the rights and privileges enjoy e d by a ll ot h er classes of his Majesty s subjects in the co l on i es . i-le was induced to move this amendment, that the planters might have a motive fur exerting themselves to prepare the negroes for freedom. " There was one point (said the Hon. Gentle man) on which they must all agree, namely— that the sconer the negro mind could be brought under the action of healthy motives the better. He was about to propose a mode, in addition to the compensation, which would induce the planters to exert themselves to produce that favourable impression on the negro mind." There is no doubt that the proposition of Mr. Buxton would add materially to the chances of negro improvement. But on the other hand, the planters would be dissatisfied with the chance. Ten millions at the end of the apprenticeships is of very different value from ten millions now ; and they contend that the Parliamentary measure will make the loss of property immediate. Several divisions took place. They were all lost by great majo rities. The House on this great question seems to share the feeling of Mr. Stanley, that having carried irrevocably the point of abolition of sla very, the only point now was, whether that abo lition should take place in a manner consistent with honesty and sound policy. Few men would wish to have the responsibility of having contd. buted to what Mr. Stanley affirms must inevi tably be the ultimate result of the present unna tural state of things in the West Indies—the effusion of blood. We are glad to perceive, from what fell from Lord Althorp, that the im pediments to the refining of sugar are about to be removed. " As to the restrictions, then, on the sugar market (said his Lordship) it certainly was his honest opinion, that the home consump tion ought to be continued to the West India interest, but that the refiners in this country should not be prevented from refining for ex portation." Upon the whole, we may consider this question as now nearly settled. What re mains is mere matter of detail, and that is to be left to the Colonial Legislatures,which have now a motive fairly on the consideration of them.— Morning Chronicle. The admirers of English intrepidity— of English impartiality—and of English justice— all those, in fact, who deem trial by jury to be the most important privilege, as it is the un questionable birthright of Englishmen will learn, with the same satisfaction that we have in making the announcement, that a public meet ing will take place at the Crown and Anchor, in the Strand, on this day week, and that Colonel Evans has consented to take the chair upon the occasion. The objects contemplated by those who have been instrumental in canine , this meeting are two-f o ld fir s t, to record,° in a suitable manner, the noble and indepen dent stand made by the Calthorpe Jury against the dictation of the Coroner—and, secondly, to render more sacred than it even now is, . that inalienable birthright of Englishmen— trial by jury. To these two propositions, no one can reasonably object. No Jury, either in ancient or in modern times, ever discharged its duty to its country more nobly than the se venteen who sat upon the body of the slain policeman, and gave, in spite of all opposition, the righteous verdict of "Justifiable Homicide ;" while, on the other hand, considering that the Court of King's Bench, according to a pre cedent, more to be respected in the breach than in the observance, has taken upon it to quash that verdict, it is now more than ever most important that the practice adopted by it should not pass unnoticed—that fair trial by jury should be upheld in its purity—and that the Government, as well as that Court, should be taught that the only object attained by the adoption of such unusual courses, is the very contrary of that at which they aimed. Both objects, we doubt not, will be amply accomplished by the intended meeting, at which almost every liberal Member connected with the metropolis had been invited to attend. The feeling of the metropolis is strong on both points, and it is loudly re-echoed by every independent mind throughout the country. Many of those, also, who were wounded in the unprovoked assault by the police, will, no doubt, attend to convince the meeting of the barbarity exercised towards them ; while in so far as regards the liberal inte rest of the metropolis, we feel confident that there is not an individual Member connected with it who will not give his attendance. Colonel Evans accepted the invitation of the Committee to preside at the meeting in the most handsome manner l and we rejoice in his acceptance of the office, because we are confident that no one could have been selected who would do greater justice to its objects.—Morning Advertiser. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JUNE 11. THE ICING V. W. J. BANKES, M.P. Sir J. SCARLETT applied for a writ of certiorari to remove the prosecution against the defendant fur a misdemeanor into this Court. The application was made on the affidavit of _Mr. Bankes, strongly denying any intention to commit the vile offence imputed to him. The affidavit gave a new charac ter to the disgusting charge. It also stated that he did not make any defence before the Magistrate, be cause he considered the accusation so ab-urd that it could not be enter'ained. He expected to be in stantly dismissed, but, to his astonishment, the Ma gistrate ordered him to find bail. He denied that there was any truth in the statement that his father came to the Magistra'e's office and would not look at him. He further made oath thdt he believed the prejudice was ,o strong against him that he could not have a f tir trial at the Sessions. The COURT granted the writ. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JUNE 11. DE BEGNIS V. ARMISTEAD. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, the . . Italian opera singer, against the defendant, who is proprietor of the Amphitheatre at Liverpool, to re cover 1681., the amount of a bill of exchange, alleged to have been given by the latter as security for certain advances of money made by the firmer on his account. The facts have been more than once before the public. The defence, it will be recollected, was, that the consideration of the bill was illegal, it having been given to secure pay ment of a balance or account in respect of a con- tract for the performance of singing and dancing at an unlicensed theatre. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for the fuliturionnt claimed, and found espeeially that the consideration of the bill consisted of the following three sums, viz., 30/. lent to the defendant to pay his hotel expenses while residing in London; 184 advanced to the ballet muster, to enable him to carry down his corps of dancers; and 120/. phi to a dealer in theatrical wardrobes for dresses to be worn by the dancers, and which, by the terms of the agreement bet .reen the plaintiff and the defendant, were to be provided for by the Liter. A rule Nisi for setting aside the verdict, or re ducing the damages to 301., having been obtained, the case was argued on a former day in this term ; and the Court now pronounced i:s deci•iou, that the rule for reducing the damages to 30/. should be made absolute. The distinguished Polish Patriot, General ROMAKINO, has arrived in :own from Paris. It is ex pected he inteLds sailing for Oporto to take the chief ennui:mod of the Polish Legion. PREROGATIVE COURT, JUNE 11. BOULTON AND SIMPSON V. ASH AND ANOTHER. This was a question involving the validity of the will of Mr. John Ash, a retired ladies' shoemaker, who died at the age of seventy-five years, having leasehold, copyhold, and personal property of the value of 8,000/. He executed a will shortly before his death, giving his housekeeper 5,000/., and after several legacies to his relatives, appointed her exe cutrix, and Mr. Simpson his executor, and residuary legatees. The will was opposed by his nephew and next of kin, in whose favour a previous will had been executed, on the ground that the will now pro pounded was obtained by fraud and circumvention. Sir JOHN NICHOLL, after heating Counsel, was fully satisfied that the deceased was a capable tes sator. As to the residuary clause, there was no doubt that the deceased knew its contents and ope ration, and the Court must therefore pronounce for the paper as the deceased left it.—Cists out of the estate. INSOLVENT COURT, JUNE 11. Edward and Jeremiah Shadow, late of Bouverie street, Fleet -street, trading under the firm of " Winch and Company," printing-machine manu facturers, were heard upon their petitions, and un• derwent an examination respecting a distress for rent, by Mr. Jacob, their landlord. In cases of partnership distinct schedtdesare filed, and the cases being defective were ordered to stand adjourned. John Hollott the Court put to proof whether his de , aining creditor's claim was a bona fide one or not, for which purpose Mr. Christopher Tooting was put in the witness-box, who deposed that he resided in Red Lion -court, Fleet -street, and was the printer and publisher of the Patriot Newspaper; he had lent the insolvent 27/. 10s. at various times, which he had made entries of in a memorandum book kept for that purpose, and had a letter from the insolvent soliciting his assistance, which were both put in. The letter was dated March, 1833, and was short and pithy, to wit : " Dear Sir,—l want to be accommodated with the loan of five pounds, to enable me to creep on a little longer. (Signed) " J. H." COURT —And you lent it ?—No ; I did not. COURT—But you arrested him ? Creditor-- Yes; 1 thought I should have got my money, but was deceived. The book produced contains items of the account. The insolvent's sister-in-law was next examined respecting a lease which she said she held for 321. (money lent), but failed to prove for more than 81. A creditor in Court had every reason to believe that the insolvent had sold his goods in order ro raise money to purchase the lease. The COURT—If you think so, pay the 81., and you shall have the lease. Creditor—l will. He immediately paid the money into Court.— The insolvent was discharged. Thomas Kent, who had petitioned and been dis charged by the Court, in 1828, was the next. The Court put the following questions, which :v ere answered in the most laconic manner:— CHIEF COMMISSIONER—You don't owe more than 1001. ?—lnsolvent—No. CHIEF COMMISSIONER—You have not any assets? —No. CHIEF COMMISSIONER—Nor any books 2—No. CHIEF COMMISSIONER--What ! no furniture ?- No. CHIEF COMMISSIONER—Let him he discharged POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. An elderly man, of very re4pec!able appearance, named Butterworth, was brought before the LORD MAYOR, upon a charge of very extensive plunder, which was stated to have been carried on for about thirteen years. Mr. tiobler, jun., for the prosecution, stated that the prisoner, who had been for several years in the employment of Mr. Francis Jones, of No. 62, Cornhill, watchmaker and jeweller, was, some days ago, found drunk in the streets, and lodged in Bun hill-row station-house, where, upon being searched, he was found to have not only many articles of value about him, but a very suspicious number of duplicates, which led to the detection of an enormous system of robbery. Mr. Francis Jones stated that the prisoner had been thirteen years in his employment, was foreman of the watch department, and had access occasionally to all the property of the establishment. No suspi cion whatever was entertained of the prisoner's in tegrity until his drunkenness led to the detection, and the greatest confidence had been reposed in him. The LORD MAYOR (to Mr. Jones)—And how long do you calculate that he has been robbingyou ? Mr. Jones, as we understood, said ten years, and that at the period when embarrassments pressed the house the depredations were going on. Mr. Atterbury, a pawnbroker, produced a gold watch which had been pawned at his shop for three pounds by the prisoner, who asked no more upon it. Mr. Barker's shopman produced two watches which had, at least one of them, been pawned by the prisoner, and asked Mr. Jones whether he had ever sold them. Mr. Jones replied that, to the best of his belief, he never had. Mr. Jones, jun., stated that the property upon which the pawnbrokers lent 2481. was worth be tween 8001. and 9001., and the Lord Mayor was informed that Mr. Jones estimated his loss at 2,0001. The prisoner was then remanded for a final ex amination. GUILDH.ALL, Yesterday Benjamin Gardiner, who was formerly a respectable butcher, was re-examined before Sir C. MARSHALL, charged with uttering a forged bin of exchange for 19!. to Mr. Halfhead, of the Broad way, Shoredi!ch. _ _ Sir C. MARSHALL was satisfied that he ought not to entertain this charge. It was a common thing to make a bill payable at a place where the acceptor was not known, but at which he might, neverthele,s, intend to leave . the money. He should presume that this bill had been accepted for the prisoner by his acquaintance Mr. Tubbs, and he should therefore discharge the prisoner. BOW-STREET. EARLY DEPRAVITY—ROBBERY OF A FATHER BY HIS SON.—John Lamb, a boy about 14 years of age, was put to the bar, charged with haling robbed his father of 2001. in gold, sliver, and bank checks ; also George Berry, for aiding and abetting in the said robbery. They were taken on Monday night, at the Dalphin public-house, near Westminster bridge, and there were found upon the person of Lamb seventeen sovereigns, two half ditto, and twenty shillings in silver. Upon their way to the station-house, Berry said he would rather be hanged than split. They were both quite drunk. In the station-house yesterday morning Lamb made the fol lowing voluntary confession :—" That he met Berry on Friday last in Exeter, and asked him if he should like to go to London, to which he replied he should. They met at the Baptist chapel in Exeter, and agreed to start far London on that evening, and were to meet again at the Baptist chapel in the al lei noon ; during the interim he had taken from his father's house a small cash-box, and, tying it up in a blue handkerchief, put it in his hat. They then agreed to go on the road, about two miles from Exe er, to a place called Heavitree; Berry was to go first. When they arrived at half a mile from Exeter, there was a bank, or hill, arid Berry remained upon the top while he (Lamb) went into the hollow and broke open the box with a stone. In it was 301. in gold and silver, bank checks payable at Exeter to the amount of 1701., and a silver medal. They took the Defiance coach to London, Lamb paying 1/.15.. for each, and all other expenses except refreshment upon two occasions, which Berry paid for. lie re rained all the money except S s ., w hi c h h e gave to Berry. Upon Oietr arrival in to wn t h ey went to dif• Brent places, and in the afternoon took a boat oil the Thames for about an hour. He wrote to his father, acknowledging his guilt, and enclosing the bank checks. The boatm an too k t h em to the public. house, where they were taken into custody! quite drunk, ar:d when .he awoke this morne himself in prison." A statement of the facts was then made out by the clerk, and both the prisoners. The medal was here by Inspector John Edes Rogers, and ides the father of Lamb, who had come u p to in search of his son ; the father is the dri Falmouth mail ; he stated that the chec' only interest notes, or acknowledgments f had invested in the Exeter Bank. The desired Mr. Thomas and a sergeant of police the boys down to Exeter, and deliver them I the confessions they had made to the authorities. MARY LEB ONE. Yesterday Robert Hollis, a youth about of age, was brought up in the custody of constable of the S division, No. 154, and I the bar before Mr. RAWLINSON, the presidii strate, charged with riotous and destructive in Mr. Woods' (his master's) house, No. 6, street, Camden -town, and also with assaulting Edward Faithful, an assistant to Mr. \Voodoo is a surgeon, by throwing at him various and physic, together with l eac h es , sauce p an s, an merous other articles, with the intention of him some bodily harm. Mr. Faithful, on Monday, ordered the who was the errand-boy, to refresh the by changing their water, which order he in a very careless manner, letting them all about the counter; for so doing he (compla' gave him a slight push, when he instantly some of the leaches and threw them at him, with various sorts of physic. Prisoner then down stair into the kitchen, and took up a "A pot, which h e a l so t h rew at hi m , an d followeu his outrageous conduct, by likewise taking tlP' pans, tea-kettles, and numerous other articles, he also threw at him. It being wholly imp' to pacify the prisoner, he (complainant) fa , him in the kitchen; but after a short time be ceeded in getting out at the window, and his way in at the shop window, by demolishiti, glass. The prisoner was then given into the tody of the police. Mr. BAWLINSON—Young man, this condur g yours is extremely outrageous and destructiv e. shall send you where you will not be supplied any great quantify of physic, but in lieu of you'll get plenty of justice—(Great laughter, I shall, therefore, require good bail for your • conduct, and in default of such security, Y° o be committed to the House of Correction. prisoner was committed in default. GERMAN PAPERS. AUGSBURG, JUNE s.—The Austrian Observer tains news from Constantin o pl e o f M ay 10, brOF , the regular post. It is on the whole a recapitulat the circumstances already known through other el Lord Ponsonby, who arrived on the Ist of May. first audience of the Sultan on the 9th. Count who arrived on the sth, as Russian Ambassador E; dinary, and Commander-in-Chief of the whole forces by sea and land, had his audience of the Grand pn the Bth, and of the Sultan on the 9th, by g'b' was received with particular distinction, and the marked attention and kindness. Count Wolf ho limited power, either in case of need to afford do all the assistance be may require, or when peace is and the Egyptian army h is returned beyond 11IouM to return with all the auxiliary forces to Russis. capital had enjoyed perfect tranquillity, and the troops observed the strictest discipline. The Austrian. Observer contains also the same, from Constantinople of the 19th which we give as Allgemeine Zeitwig yesterday (June 4). (BY EXPRESS.) CONSTA NTINOPLE, MAY 19.—Till yesterday authentic was positively known respecting the negot. with Ibrahim Pacha. Among the chaos of reports it impossible to discover the truth. It seems, however, the point whether Adana should be ceded by tvi farm or unconditionally was not the only one in dire but there were also differences respecting the bout of that district. According to the assurance of persons, whose many is deserving of credit, the Porte has now lie/ all the demands of Ibrahim, and consented to of that district with those previously ceded as s till , fief to Melienaet Ali without any farther and that every obstacle to the conclusion of the de , trea'y of peace is removed. Ibrahim Pacha has ,he retreat of his army, and will have returned ourteen days within the new boundaries of big dominions. As soon as this is done, that is, as Natolia, as fir as Mount Lulus, is evacuated Egyp ian., the Russians, according to the repeated rations ot Count Orloff, will akoquit the Turkish FRANKFORT, JUNE 3.--Desiring to furnish our with all the conflicting accounts of the unfortunate ,e at Hanibach, we borrow from the Gazette of & if , following narrative, to which it may be believed not give implicit confidence:— Extract of a letter from Neustadt, May 20:1. day before yesterday, being the an n i versar y of the, d ' et Ilastubach, about 1,000 persons assembled on the tain. Several songs were sung, but th e police w o o. tamed order without any difficulty. In the a fter 00 orders were given immediately to quit the mouistat, Ido not know for what reason. The crowd Wi 3 7;01 0 dispersing, when the troops fired, and wounded an 01 „' 00 1 . and two children. At Neustadt, notice had been giveAF the retreat would be saunded, not as usual at 11 0"., sit night, but at 10. However, as early as half past nts;bel. persons were to be seen in the streets but soldier- , f ° f had already been cleared in a terrible manner. derable number of troops had been assembled on 11 — O O O in and near Neustadt; infantry from Ei c hst a dt, F O, and Spire ; cay.lry from Spire, and artillery frotnota dau : these troops were partly quart e r e d i n Diens° o g e l iu the environs. The dreadful scenes begun befor e seil. o'clock ; the immediate cause o f t h em i s ne lt g a dl et Some insulting expressions may have been th e 00 0 ' but no seditious exclamations were heard. th e ever, at eight o'clock the soldiers fell up °° ,(bie; cavalry rode, occupying their whole breadth; people who were in the streets, through tot laver all that were in the way ; this Is tppened to ar,,est‘ persons. The adjunct of the Mayor M. Penner/4 0 1 ing the costume of his office, and who was exbd tl is - 0 00; soldiers to behave in an orderly manner, was , 111. in the face. A young man was run thrnel body, and died on the spot, and @ eyein,' Bred persons were, more or less, severely venu e ; ; 1 , citizens. Some say that one or two soldiers e Vire i r wounded. Nobody bad expected such scenes. t he fe.a'' not a street in which blood has not flowed. On %.' p ed" thel dt s o lowing day the troops from Landau and Spire retu bore hose towns with the artillery (three cannon and - poi ilzer which had beta placed in the s treet)-, g ot° 11 remained on the 4 , a company of the 15th Reg ° Foot, and a small detachment of light horse. In s t " The young man killed will b e buri e d to•alaY• ogr e Lion to these d e p:or a bl e scenes , we h ave no w e t° .110' , that nobody will now att e nd t o t h e public afrai rs ,.' n o a l eet the Mayor nor his a dj unct , nor t h e M un i c ipal ''' - igar"„ M. Pcnner, who was wounded, had already @ow The police is now exercised by a Major who c ° ‘ ° the troops.' "—Journal de Frankfort, June 4 . r BELGRADE, MAY 23.—We hear that the lolr reol ep s!: Bosnia has now a considerable corp s o f troops t° ltj to the rebels, which, even should he be forced t° ro d; on the defensive, will be very fortun a te, as the the insurrection in th a t a nd th e a dj acent Turk's' , r bee° is at least checked. not 0 Letters frow Orsowa say tl3at Nigodin ha s Iled taken by the Servians, but th a t th e y were cotoPribert retreat by the desperate resistance of the Turks. .is dJI much reason to hope that the incorporation of the GS , riots will meet with little further opposition , a nd t ot' lurks will quickly evacuate them, now they . "' r. Servian Government is resolved to act with vigto, BIRTH. in p en On the 10th inst., at Lavender-hill, the lady of CaPt:_ ......... " Grote, of a daughter, still-born. MARRIED. th P I On the 10th inst., N or wich Duff; F.sq., Captain ii , fil'd, Navy, to Helen Mary, daughter of the late J. Shoolbrec t i prisle On the 11 th 1.15 t., at St. Margaret's Church, Wr te r cd,d• Mr. William Harding, to Mary Ann, second datzg wine late Richard Joshua, Esq. , formerly of St. James's, ‘‘ 6 , o . e ? Pd On the tith inst., at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields , .. Groser, of Red Lion-street, Clerkenwell, to Elizab daughter of John Powell, supper, of Water-street, B la u DIED. 0 10119 On the 11th inst., William, only son of the late Mr. 0, Fox, of Islington, aged 25. On the 9th inst., at his house, Thornton-row, ore° Thomas Moses, Esq., aged 99. 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