The Sun. — London, England, 1830-09-28 00:00:00

nits, their internal administration, their correspon dence with the authorities at the Hague and at Brussels, have always been and are still conducted • . in French. In Limburg, and Antwerp, and the two Menders, the language is Flemish,—so much so, that during the twenty years of the French do minion, when justice was administered in French, interpreters were constantly in attendance at every tribunal to make the businees intelligible to the par ties and to the witnesses. Flemish and Dutch are, however, so closely allied, that there is not the least difficulty for any one who is familiar with one of those dialects to understand the other. The re maining province of South Brabant, of which Brus sels is the capital, is almost equally divided between tkeWalloonorFrench, and the Flemish or Dutch. This being the true state of the case with respect to lan guage, it may be asked whether there is any greater in compatibility between the north and the south than between the southern provinces themselves ? And if it has never been deemed expedient to separate the Walloon from the Flemish, why should it be impossible to keep both the Walloon and the Flemish united with the Dutch ? As,however, so much has been said about the irritation produced by the King's measures relative to the language, and party spirit has really made them the theme Of in cessant reproach and invective, we cannot suffer this opportunity to pass without explaining, that those measures intended to favour the Dutch and Flemish, never affected the four Walloon provinces, as we have already stated, and that they never could ap pear objectionable to any of the other provinces or towns, except Brussels, which, by an oversight, most unfortunate as it has turned out, was included in the Flemish portion of the kingdom, the use of the French being prohibited in its courts of law, its civil administration, and its public schools. Hence the outcry raised by so many lawyers, journalists, literary and other influential members of the com munity (not forgetting the Frenchified fashionables), all of whom it would have been easy to neutralize by leaving the question, as far as Brussels was con cerned, undecided. Government would then have spared itself the trouble of numerous and just com plaints, and, finally, that of retracing its steps. As this latter has been done in the first months of the present year, the odious matter has been finally set at rest, nor has it been lately mentioned by any of the Commissioners who were sent to make the King acquainted with the grievances of the Belgic nation. The use of more than one language in the Assembly of the States-General is, undoubtedly, inconvenient, though is a less degree than it bus been represented. A few sturdy Hollanders certainly refuse to speak French, but all are known to understand it. Con sequently, the discussion in the Chambers, as well as in the Sections or Committees, is generally car ried on in French. The King's opening speech is, indeed, in Dutch, but a French translation is always distributed among the members the moment after it has been delivered. The messages, the minutes of Bills, and other formal acts, are printed in the two languages. The President, in opening the business of the day, pronounces a few sentences in Dutch, in order to keep up the honour of the official language, but the Ministers, with scarcely an exception, have expressed themselves in French, not only out of courtesy to the 'Walloon members, who understand neither Dutch nor Flemish, but also because it is their obvious interest to persuade and convince the greatest number possible of the Deputies. The number of those Deputies, as divided into north and south, has been incorrectly stated in the statis tical accounts which have lately appeared in the English Papers. The numbers are not 62 and respectively, but exactly equal for each of the grand divisions of the kingdom—viz., 55. The com plaints that these 55 Belgians are oppressed by their equinumeral colleagues of the north—that the Dutch are subservient to the Court—that the Go vernment has an undue ascendancy, and other such grievances, can be refuted by the fact, that in the course of a few years we have three or four times witnessed the rejection of the Budget, notwithstand standing the strenuous efforts of the Ministry. In feet, there is no exclusive lollantler who cannot produce, against any exaggerating Walloon, a list of cases where he has been defeated in the attempts of promoting his provincial interests. The King's impartiality and wisdom had, in a great measure, overcome these reciprocal prejudices, at the moment when the occurrences at Paris created a new era for the whole of Europe.—Times. The intelligence front the Netherlands is contra dictory. There has been much hard fighting at Brussels; and the accounts generally agree in re presenting Prince Frederick as in possession of the heights which command the city. Whether or not, however, on Friday he succeeded in gaining posses sion of the whole city, is not so clear, though a statement to that effect has been made. The ac swum, from the Preside Papers of Brussels having fallen on the 22d, are now known to be unfounded. If it have fallen, this must have been on Friday.— But the whole affair is involved in much doubt. Of one thing, however, there can be no doubt, and that is, that if the King of the Netherlands have pined possession of Brussels, after days of hard lighting and much slaughter, his sovereignty is not worth many years', perhaps many months , put. sham The middle classes, though naturally anxious to preserve their property, and anxious to put a stop to a state of things from which they must be great sufferers, share nevertheless the hatred of the Dwell G o vernment common throughout Belgium. The Belgian Members of the States-General always voted against the Dutch, and the opposition to the Government, which ha s a t last displeyed itself in open resistance, was encouraged by the in. fluential classes. It is contrary, therefore, to every principle of our nature to supp ose that a p eo p le like the Belgians, known to be brave and reso lute, and who have shown on numberless occasions that they are obstinate combatants, will be rendered submissive by the forcible means to which recourse has been had against them. We may rest assured that all will not he over with the occupation of Brute. eels, even followed by the occupation of the other towns. The foundations have been laid for jealousies and hatreds which must end, and that ere long, in the overthrow of the existing Government. Some of our eotemporeries have supposed that the chances against the ultimata success of the Belgians are greatly increased by their having not merely to struggle with the lExecutive, but with the Executive supported by the whole of the Dutch. We doubt, however, whether this circumstance is not really in their favour. The Belgians cannot divest themselves of the consciousness that they ure both numerous and more warlike than the Dutch, and their hatred to the Government is fomented by their viewing the King as the instrument for aiding their neighbours to retain them in a galling subjection. The King, on the other bend, depending for support on the Dutch alone, dared riot be just towards the Belgians for fear of thereby losing his hold of the former. The in. stinct of self-preservation will, in many eases, lead a Government, w hi c h cannot count on foreign supp o r t, to aviid all measures which tend to irritate and provoke the people. But this check is removed when a Government can emint un any other re sources for coercing a people than those furnished by the people themselves. It hag always been found in India, that the moment a native Govern ment earns under the proteietioee of the East India Company, it was under a sort of inevitable neces sity of hurrying on to its ruin, aced became infinitely worse then the Governments that could not count on our assistanc e . Th e O ran gemen of Ireland could not resist the temptation of oppressing the Catholics, because th e y could countthee English nation; but if Ireland had I on independent Government, the instinct of ggifg-pli au have preserved the Orangem: 4 rnurvu"" wuld ex cesses that could only lead to t t g he r o i g r ) f u ti g l f t a ir i t g l i a u t g e ttruo.tion. in like manner the the r. Netherlands may be said to be ruined by gg his Dutch, It is generally supposed in la ir ' on sirs: that the insurrection in the Nethertunds ligg ` "Ju ra the fruits of the late French I.l.uvolutiomis one re-; (rpm this being the ease, it, would appear that the kielSielia were only Ll:omitted heel ming tong ego from the fear, in the then state of Europe, of the occupation of their country by foreigners. In the Westminster Review for October, in an article on De Potter's trial, there is cited a letter from Tiel mans to De Potter, which throws a valuable light on this subject " The next extract (says the Reviewer) is a consider able portion of a letter from Tielmans to De Potter, dated Jan. 1, 1830, No. 20. It is interesting at this moment, now that we understand pretty well the course events will take, as the speculation of an able individual a few months back. There is no prophesying in politics. The subject chiefly turns upon a question of great moment to the Bel gians —whether in case of the people expressing openly and loudly their wishes, the Government would call in the aid of foreign Powers. " Dare they call in the foreigner? Yes, they dare ; and I believe, moreover, that the Prussians, on account of their Rhine provinces ; England, on account of Ireland ; Russia, because of its political troubles; Austria, on ac count of its Italian provinces; and France, from fear of its liberal party, will consent to agree with our King in occupying Belgium for a certain space of time by Prussian troops. Observe, my friend, the motive of the interven tion. A small state, the happiest in Europe, rebels against its Prince, turns upon him the very liberties it was enjoy ing, and proves that the people only want liberty to abuse it. This is the reasoning of Charles X. when he replaced the Martignac Administration by that of Polignac. Eng land maintains similar ideas, because of the troubles in Ireland, which continue in spite of the emancipation of the Catholics. Prussia and Austria, which have as yet done nothing for the liberties of the people, take the same view of the picture. The interven tion cannot, therefore, disturb the general peace, and it will serve as a warning to all discontented countries. But, it may be asked, will the French people suffer it? Do not deceive yourself ; if the French Government wills it, and engages itself not to yield a step, as its interest would command it ; in one word, if the four or perhaps the five great Powers decide in common accord, that Belgium shall be occupied by Prussian troops, the French people will not stir. It is impassible for a people to march unless the Government pleases. France could only de it after overturning its Government. Now that is not done, or so near being done as is thought. The occupation of Belgium may precede the dethronement of the Bourbons; and if it precedes it, it is favourable to them, ♦ince they in their turn may have to apply for foreign intervention, and call the Prussians to their frontier.' "It is curious to observe the familiarity with which the dethronement of the Bourbons was talked about on their borders rix months ago. It is upon their continu ance in France that the whole of M. Teilman's letter turns, and their exodus has utterly changed the aspect of affairs. The French now would not permit the Prussians to enter, and the King of the Netherlands is compelled to settle his own affairs. It is melancholy to find England along with Austria and Prussia held up as the enemy of public liberty: but who can say that it is without good cause? They who speculate on the cause of events have said that the existing insurrection of Belgium has arisen out of an imitation of France:• some have called it a moral con tagion. The fact is, that had not the power of the Bour bons destroyed all hopes of assistance from them—had no t previous to their departure the certainty of foreign inter vention existed in the minds of the people of Belgium— this rising for a redress of grievances would have taken place long ago."—Morning Chronicle. There has been a great deal said and written as to the necessity of filling the office of Coroner by a medical man. We abstained from entering into the merits of the question during the late election for an obvious reason, but left the discussion of it to our correspondents—for a few only of whose lettere we could find room. Having freely expressed our opi nion upon most questions touching the administra tion of the laws which have been publicly agitated of late years, we have no desire to pass this one over in silence. We are sure our readers who re collect our exertions to expose the, defects, and ensure the improvement, of the administration of justice, will give us credit for being free from all desire to prefer the interests of lawyers to the advantage of the public. But all alteration is not improvement. A defective system had better remain untouched than be subjected to the experiments of absurd in novation. It would be, according to our notions, as preposterous to appoint a medical man to a legal office, us to appoint a legal man to a medical situ ation. Medic i ne and law require very different sorts of education. An excellent physician or sur geon would find himself as much out of his ele ment in summing up evidence in a Court of Law, as a good lawyer would be in delivering lectures on morbid anatomy in an hospital. We suspect that the one would be as little conversant with the rules of evidence, as the ether with the nice and complicated arrangements of the animal machine. It is impossible for any man, whatever natural ta lents he may possess, to know the rules of evidence by intuition—on the contrary, it requires long years of study and close attention to practice to acquire that weed acquaintance with this branch of the law, without which a man cannot be a lawyer, and certainly ought not to be a Judge. It is true the office of Coroner is not a judicial one—but still it is the duty of the Coroner to know the distinction between legal evidence and that which is not—to admit the one, and exclude the other ; and this he cannot do, any more than u surgeon who is ignorant • of anatomical science can be a skilful and safe ope rator, unless he is conversant with the rules of evi dence. When the late Mr. Huskisson introduced his principles of free trade, he overlooked th e pre liminary part, which was to bind down other nations to make that freedom of trade reciprocal. We hope those medical men who wish to " emanci pate" the office of Coroner from legal trammels, will prove that their liberality has no taint of selfishness, by throwing open the honours and emoluments of the medical profession to legal men. Would it not be a splendid example of the " reciprocity system" in professional matters, to see Lord Tenterden— who is, by virtue of his office, chief Coroner of the realm—writing a prescription for the King, and Sir Henry 'Telford taking an inquisition of blood on the body of some great man! The ad vantages which this sort of interchange of profes sioeal qualjications would produce to the depart ments of medicine and justice we need not expa tiate upon ; for every person who has the least me. derstending can, at once, apprehend them. But if it be necessary, for the right administration of jus tice on Coroners' inquests, that the officer, who has to sum up the evidence and state the law to the Jury, should be a medical man, how much more ne cessary is it that the July should be composed of the disciples of Galen ? The Coroner can only give his opinion as to the cause of death, whether it be by poison or . pistol-shot, or whatever other of th e " ills that flesh is heir to," may, according to his opinion, have performed the work of fate. But it is the Jury who have to decide the question, and by their decision to say whether the Coroner's opinion is erroneous or not. If the Jury were not entitled to have an opinion of their own, it would be super iluous for the Coroner to summon a Jury. And if it be necessary to the right formation of the Co roner's opinion that he should be a legal num, it is of still more importance that those who have to csrifirm or confute that opinion by their verdict should have taken out their diplomas before they were summoned on the inquest. Let us look at this subject in another point of view ; and if, from what we have already stated, it appears ridiculous that the Coroner should be mi medical Mae insteud of a lawyer, the cause of ridicule will not be diminished. The " verdict" of 'the Jury, or, as it is properly called, the " ' must be drawn op, in all cases where it charges a criminal offence against any person, with great tech- Meel accuracy and legal precision. it is in the nature of a bill of indictment, upon which the person accused can be arraigned without the intervention of a Grand July, and whether the crime be murder or manslaugh ter, it must be set forth with all the legal accuracy of a bill of indictment, and therefore must be drawn up by a technical lawyer, or else it will be found on the day of trial that it will he quashed for some infor mality, and all the labours of the Jury—all the fruits of the inquest thrown away I This frequently happens at present, not from Coroners being lawyers, but their not being lawyers ; for though they are nominally legal men, they are but too often ignorant of the law. Instead of being able to dispense with legal men as Coroners, we say that, to prevent the office front being nugatory, as fur as it concerns in quisitions of blood, it should be always filled by a sound lawyer, and also one well acquainted with technical forms. We say a sound as well as a tech nical lawyer, because it frequently requires great knowledge of the principles of criminal law and nice legal discrimination to draw the distinction between cases of murder and aggravated manslaughter. What medical man can do this ? The inquiry of the Coroner, with the verdict, constitute but an initia tive proceeding of justice. If it be necessary, in order to put a party on his trial, that the Coroner who sums up the evidence to the Jury and instructs them in the law should be a medical man, how much more requisite for the ends of justice is it that the Judge who filially tries the case should be a medical man ? If a Coroner be wrong in his medical juris prudence, what is the consequence of his error if it mislead the Jury ? It has the effect of either caus ing a guilty person to go free, or of putting an in nocent person on his trial. In the former case there can be a bill of indictment preferred to a Grand Jury, which, if returned " a true bill," the mistake of the Coroner is of no consequence. In the other case, the superior Judge guards the interests of the accused, and, by a more solemn, deliberate, and intelligent investigation, puts the Jury in a si tuation to correct the error; but the mistakes of the superior Judge, in criminal jurisprudence, if they mislead the Jury, what consequences have they ? They either cause a guilty man to be acquitted, or an innocent man to be convicted. In either case the mischief, as there is no criminal court of appeal, is irreparable. What, then, should the twelve Judges who try the cases of crime of which the Coroner has, concurrently with a Grand Jury, the initiative process, be medical men ? If the argu ment for having a medical Coroner be valid, the twelve Judges, the Recorder of London, and all the Recorders and Criminal Judges throueout the kingdom, should be either surgeons or physicians. Does the argument stand the test of this reductio ad absurdum? If not, let us hear no more about the necessity of appointing medical men to the office of Coroner.—lllorning Herald. SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock. THE LONDON GAZETTE OF THIS EVENING. War Office, Nov. 28, 1830. 14th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Cornet E. S. Curwen to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Kennedy, who retires; C. Thornhill, Gent. to be Cornet, by pur chase, vice Curwen, Sept. 28. et or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards--Lieut. and Captain J. 0. Honeyman to be Captan and Lieutenant- Colonel, by purchase, vice Clarke, who retires ; Ensign and Lieut. J. Dunlop to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice Honeyinan ; P. A. Freke, Gent. to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Dunlop, Sept. 28. 3d Regiment of Foot—To be Lieutenants—Lieut. W. Thorpe, from the 14th Foot, vice Johnstone, ap pointed to the 33d Foot ; Lieut. A. T. &gime, from the 14th Foot, vice J. Carr, who retiree on half-pay 14th Foot, Sept. 28. 6th Foot—Lieut. W. Greene, from the 6th Foot, to he Lieutenant, vice C. Cumberlege, who retires upon half pay of the Ist Foot, Sept. 28. 6th Foot.—Captain J. Atherton, from the half-pay, to he Captain, vice Campbell, appointed to the 47th Feot, Sept. 27. To be Lieutenants—Lieut. M. 0. Dennis, from the Royal African Corps, vice W. Curteis, who exchanges; Lieut. J. G. Wilson, from the Ist Foot, vice Greene, ap pointed to the oth Foot, Sept. 28. To be Ensign, by purchase—J. E. Young, Gent. vice Egerton, appointed to the 18th Foot, Sept. 28. Bth Foot—Lieut. S. H. Cox, from the retired list of the late 4th Royal Veteran Battalion, to be Paymaster, vice M'Dermett, who has retired, Sept. 28. 18th Foot—Ensign A. Boddum to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Reed, promoted ; Ensign T. G. Egerton, from the 6th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Boddatn, Seat. 28. 10th Foot—Ensign J. Semple to be Lieutenant, by par chase, vice Burns, promoted ; R. A. M. Franklin, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Semple, Sept. 28. 20th Foot—Lieut. J. Kennedy, from the half-pay of the Royal West India Rangers, to lie Lieutenant, vice C. W. Comhe, who exchange►, Sept. 28. 33d Foot—Lieut. J. Johnstone, from the 3d Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice J. 0. Rogers, who retires upon half pay 14th Foot, Sept. 28. 37th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon F. APDonogh, from half-pay Ileepital Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, Sept. 28. SHth Foot—Lieut. J. Watson, from the 14th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Vernon, appointed Paymaster, Sept. 28. 41st Foot—To be Lieutenants—Lieut. R. Jenkins, from the 14th Foot, vice C. A. Sheppard, who retires on half pay 14th Foot ; Lieut. J. M. Ross, from the Ist Foot, vice A. W. Horne, who retires upon half-pay 14th Foot, Sept. 28, 14th Foot—Lieut. T. Collins, from the 89th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Crowther, appointed to the 80th Foot, Sept. 28th. 47th Foot—To lie Captains—Captain J. A. Campbell, from the 6th Foote, vice Clarke, appointed Paymaster, Sept. 27 ; Capt. Hon. S. Hawke, from the 94th Foot, vice W. Eccles, who retires upon half-pay 6th Dragoon Guards, receiving the difference, Sept. 28. To be Pay master—Capt. J. Clarke, vice Mitten, deceased, Sept. 27. 48th Foot—Lieut. J. Brown, from Ist Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Hull, appointed to the 69th Foot. Sept. 28. 57th Foot—Brevet Lieut.-Col. T. Shadforth to he Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase ; Brevet Major R. Hunt to be Major, vice Shadfortb ; Lieut, J. Brown to be Captain, vice Hunt, Sept. 28 To he Lieutenants, without purchase—Lient. R. Ball, front half pay 59th Foot ; Lieut. W. F. Putnam, from half-pay 101st Foot, Sept. 28 ; Lieut. W. J. Saunders, from the '7sth Foot, Sept. 28 ; Ensign W. Loekyer, En. sign E. Lockyer, Ensign It. Alexander, and Ensign C. If. Darling, Sept. 29; Second Lieut. W. J. M'Carthy, from the Ceylon Regiment, Ensign F. Baynes, from the 88th Foot, Ensign R. Bevan, from the 77th Foot, and Ensign T. C. Loft, from the 92(1 Foot, vice Brown, Sept. 80. To be Ensigns—Ensign J. 0. Blythe, from the I st West India Regiment, vice W. Lockyer; A. T. Allan, Gent., vice E. Lockyer, Sept. 29; J. Spence, Gent. vice Alex ander, Sept. 30; S. F. De Saumarez, Gent., vice Darling, Oct. I. 60th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon W. S. Weredie, from the 65th Foot to be Assistant-Surgeon, Sept. 28. 65th Foot—Assietant-Surgeon J. Miller, from half-pay sth West India Regiment, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice APOretlie, appointed to the 60th Foot, Sept. 28. 69th Foot—Lieut. A, H. Hull, from the 48th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice J. V. Vernon, who retiree upon half pay Ist Foot, Sept. 28. _ . - - 71 th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon NV. Stewart from half= pay 6th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Hughes, whose appointment has not taken place, Sept. 28. 77th Foot—J. S. Atkinson, Gent. to be Ensign, with out purchase, vice Bevan, promoted in the 77th Foot, Sept. 80., ilOth Foot—Lieut. F. Crowther, from the 44th Foot, io he Lieutenant, vice Thornley, whose appointment has not taken place, Sept. 28. • 83d Font—Ensign 11. Howard, from the 68th Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Watson, appointed to the IrBth Foot, Sept. 28. 88th Foot—Ensign W. Stuart to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Grant, prom o t e d ; J. Dowman, Gent., t o be Ensign, by purchase, vice Stuart, Sept. 28. 88th Foot—E. A. Hawker, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Baynes, promoted in the 57th Foot, Sept. 30. 92d Foot—D. Stewart, Gent. to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Loft, promoted in the 67th Foot, Sept. 39, 9liti Foot—Ensign J. M. Grant to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice 01lead; promoted; W. B. Ainslie, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Grant, Sept. 28. 94th Foot—Capt. W. Mackie, from half pay 6th Dra goon Guards, to be Captain, paying the difference, vice Hawke, appointed to the 41st Foot; Ensign T. Cun ningham to he Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Workman, promoted ; J. T. HO, Gent, to Ire Ensign, by lamber t! vice Cunningham, Sept. 28. , 99th Foot--Lieut. C. S. Bunyon, from lialf-pay 30th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice J. Canny, who exchanges. Sept. 28. let West India Regiment—Lieut. J. Palmer, from half_pay loyal York Hungers, to be Lieutenant, vice A. Alelotyre, who exchanges, Sept. 28 ; G. Itawstorne, Gent. to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Blyth, ap pointed to the 57th Foot, Sept. 29. Ceylon Regiment—Lieut. L. Clare, from half pay 60th F oot , to be First Lieutenant, vice W. K een , w h o ex changes, Sept, 28; J. Ileyliger, Gent. to be Sevond Lieu- tenant, without purchase, vice MlCarthy,'pronsOted in the 57th Foot, Sept. SO. BREVIT. To be Major-Generals in the Army—Colonel A. Be thune, half-pay 16th Garrison Battalion; Colonel W. A. Johnson, half-pay Sil Ceylon Regiment, July 22. To be Colonel in the Army--Lieut.-Colonel Sir D. St. Leger Hill, half-pay unattached, he having repaid the dif ference he received on exchanging to half--pay, July 22. To he Lieut.-Colonels in the Army—Major Colin Pringle, on half-pay 6tb Line Battalion King's German Legion ; Major H. Bristow, halt-pay 38th Foot, July 22. To be Major in the Army—Captain G. Pinckney, of the 11th Foot, July 22. lIIMORANDUM. The titles of the undermentioned Officers have been slanged, in conformity to his hlajesty's warrant of the 29th July. To be Principal Inspector-General of the Army Medi cal Department—Principal Inspector Sir W. Franklin, D. To be Inspectors-General of Ho4pitalB—lnspector W. A. Burke, M.D., A. Baxter, 111. D. To be Deputy Inspectorb-General of Hospitals—De puty Inspector J. Eily, M.D., T. Draper, J. Straclren, M.D., J. Purina, M.D., J. Skey, M.D., H. Bone, M.D., D. Macleod, M.D. To be Assistant-Inspectors of Hospitals—Physicians T. Gordon, M.D., J. Weir, M.D., J. Clarke, M.D., A. Stewart, M.D., J. Davy, M.D., and W. Sibbald, To be Assistant Surgeons—Hospital Assistant A. H. Cowen, D. Pitcairn, J. Edmondson, W. Reid, B. G. Webb, J. Shipls, M.D., R. W. Scott, A. Campbell, M. Nugent, J. Johnston, T. C. Gaulter, M.D., J. D. Grant, J. C. Minto, A. H. Hall, P. Baird, M.D., J. Y. Skelton, G. H. Gordon, A. S. Macelonell, J. Jackson, M.D., J. Clark, M.D., J. Leitbead, H. Thompson, R. Prime rose, H. J. Hunt, 111. D., R. Allan, A. T. Jackson, S. M. Hadaway, S. Lawson, J. Caw, M.D., G, 111 4 Gregor, W. C. Robe r ts on , J. St ewar t, J. W. Moore, T. G. Lo gan, 111. D., W. Robertson, R. Bell, M.D., J. Tully, M.D., P. D. Murray, M.D., W. J. Fagg, and J. Fox, M.D. Commission in the Royal Radnorshire Militia, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Radnor. IL Fitzgerald, Esq. to be Adjutant, with the rank of Captain, April 10, 1829. Commission in the let Somerset Regiment of Militia, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of So merset. P. Methuen, Esq. to he Captain, Aug. 8, 1810/. Foreign-office ' Sept. 28. The King has been pleased to approve of Ifr. Robert Myths as Consul at Malta for his Majesty the King oi Sardinia. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. Valentine Willis, Lutun, Bedfordshire, scrivener. John East Dix, Lainb's-Conduit-street, tea-dealer. Edgar Carter, Walbrook•buildings, London, money. scrivener. BANKRUPTS, John Cross, Turnmill-street, Clerkenwell, pawnbroker, to surrender Oct. 1, 12, and Nov. 9, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. Fawcett, Cripplegate. Thomas Elliott, Southampton-row, Bloomsbury, grocer and tea-dealer, Oct. b, at ten, 12, and Nov. 9, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Matland, Almon-street, Stamford-street, Surrey. Richard Hudson, Birmingham, currier, Oct. 5, 12, and Nov. 9, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Bailey, Ely-place, Holborn. Pierce Morgan Pierce, Liverpool, common.brewer, Oct. 14, 15, and Nov. 9, at one, at the Clarendon Rooms. Bebb and Gentling, Great Marlbrough-street, London ; Armstrong, Liverpool. Richard Rees, Swansea, Glamorgan, ironmonger, Oct IS, 16, and Nov. 9, at twelve, at the Globe Tavern, Bir. mingbam. Bonrdillon, Winchester -street, London ; Sim cox, Birmingham. Edward Lunation and Roger Lumsdon, Monkwear mouth-shore, Durham, ship-builders, Oct. 18, 14, and Nov. 9, at eleven, at the Monkwearmouth-shore Hotel, illonkwearmouth•shore. Bell, Brodrick, and Bell, Bow church-yard, London ; Allison, Monkwearmouth. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PROMOTIONS ' APPOINTMENTS, & c. .—Capt. S. Rowley, Lieut. G. Woodberry Smith, Mr. Thomp son, Master, Mr. G. A. Acheson, Surgeon, Dr. C. Alison and Mr. John M'Kitterick, Assistant-Sur geons; Captain S. Sayer and Lieut. Williamson, Royal Marines, are appointed to the Wellesley.-- Lieut. Francis H. Anson, of the Pylades, and Mr. J. Hulse, Purser, are appointed to the Racehorse, commissioned at this port. Lieut. R. Robinson is appointed to the Pylades, vice Anson. Lieut. J. Anderson is appointed to the Rainbow. Lieut. S. H. Liston is appointed to the Kent Blockade. Lieut. J. M‘Domiell is appointed to the Ariadne, vice Pitts, promoted. Mr. Walter Cosser is ap pointed a Second Lieutenant of Royal Marines, at Chatham Division, vice Baker, whose promotion we some time since noticed; Mr. Armstrong, Master, to the Pallas. The schooner Bideford, Jordan, Master, of and from Falmouth for Wales, in ballast, foundered on Monday morning between the Blackhead and Lizard. The brig Stephen, Henzeil, of and from New castle for Pictou, put into this port on Tuesday, having experienced very bad weather, and obliged to bear up from long. 18 W. with loss of bulwarks, staunchions, rails , cabouee, and one man, both lower masts sprung, and in such a disabled state they were compelled to abandon the voyage. POLICE INTELLIGENCL BOW.STREET. Yesterday a tall, fine looking man, of gentlemanly appearance, who gave the name of Charlet Newton, was brought in custody before Sir ft. lIRNIE, by Taunton, sen., charged by Captain Thomas Hipkins with having threatened to do him some personal injury. Captain Thomas Hipkins having been sworn, stated that be resided at No. 5, New Ormond-street. At an early hour that morning, the prisoner came to his residence and demanded money, which he (wit ness) refused to give him. The prisoner then grew violent, and made use of language of a threatening description. Captain Ilipkins added, that he had reason to apprehend, from what had occurred, that the prisoner intended to do him some personal violence. Sir It. Bums—You are, I believe, related to the prisoner, Captain ? Captain Hipkins--I am, and I have reason to believe that he is of unsound mind, and unfit to be at large. Letters to that effect have been forwarded to me from two physicians residing in New Yolk, and I have also received a letter from his Grace the Duke of Wellington stating the same fact. Prisoner—l request that the clerk will take down what this gentleman has stated, and 1 hope the Ma gistrate will:inquire into the truth of the charge. Thu witness has sworn falsely. I did not come to demand money of him, but merely to claim the sum of 6084 now lying in the hands of Mr. Wiley in the city, and which sum this gentleman has thought proper to attach. Captain Hipkins explained that the prisoner had left his wife and family in New York, and that in consequence of his having squandered a consider able sum of money since his arrival in this country, it became necessary to put a stop to his extrava gance. His wife and children were so far reduced that they had been obliged to set up a school in New York; and it was ;n order to save the family from a further loss that he (Captain Ilipkins) had deemed it prudent to attach a sum of money now lying in the hands of Mr. Wiley, in the city. Sir It. Irlintsig—And you have done this, being the nearest relative of the prisoner in this country. Captain Hipkins—l am not his nearest relative, for he has a sister worth 80,0004, to whom I wrote respecting him ; bat as she has declined to inter fere, I must. - Sir It . BiuNlE—You have done very right, Sir. I happen myself to know something of this gentle his proceedin gs at Windsor and e l sew h ere. gentle man, , —That bus nothing to do with this busi „,,N. I hope you will hear evidence to rebut the statement of this gentleman. I am ready to swear that he has stated that which is not true. Sir R. BIRN!E—You are ch arged before me with threaning to injure this gentl eman. I cannot there fore administer an oath to you, but I urn ready to hear your witnesses. Prisonet—l have no to bring forward, but I d en y t h at Captain Ilipkiusne has the slightest reason for apprehending personal vio lence from me. I never used any threats towards him. Captain Hipkine—You have not only threatened me, but the Duke of Wellington has declared that he considered himself in danger also, in consequence of your conduct, and it is well known that his late Majesty went in bodily fear of you. Prisoner—l deny that :it is ridiculous to suppose such a thing, and at all events that has nothing to do with this charge. Sir R. BIRNII3—I have a letter here signed " Charles Newton," dated New York, and forward ing several certificates of medical gentlemen residing there who concur in declaring that you are of un sound mind, and expressing an earnest desire that you might be taken care of. The letter is written by your son, in the name of his " distressed mother, Elizabeth Newton." The prisoner requested to see this letter, and, when it was shown to him, he said that it was not in the hand-writing of his son, and added that he believed it was a forgery. As to his family being in a state of poverty he denied that also, and de clared that he transmitted 0,000 dollars to New York for their use, besides which he gave his eldest girl 1,200 dollars previous to his leaving America. Captain Hipkitrs regretted very much to be under the necessity of appearing against the prisoner in this public manner, but the fact was, that it was for his own good he had done so, and in order to rescue what little remained of his property for the benefit of Iris family. Sir R. Thum told the prisoner that he must call upon him to find sureties to keep the peace towards Captain Hipkins. Prisoner-•-I know of no persons to go security for me. Sir R. BIRNIE—Then I must commit you to prison. The prisoner was accordingly removed in custody. The prisoner is the same individual who annoyed his late Majesty at Windsor, by endeavouring to obtain a private audience, the avowed object of which was to restore his Majesty to the perfect enjoy ment of his health, and also, by some supernatural agency, to make him as young and vigorous as he was at the age of 25. This wonderful result the prisoner declared could only be effected at a private audience; and so urgent was he to fulfil his loyal desire, that he went to Windsor for the express pur. pose, and applied personally at the Castle to demand an interview of the King, which was of course de nied him. He then hired a private carriage, and followed his Majesty about from place to place until at last the annoyance became so intolerable, that an application was made upon the subject to Sir R. Birnie, who proceeded to Windsor, and had an in terview with " the mysterious stranger, " as he was called in the town. The Magist ra t e having told him who he was, represented to him the utter hope lessness of his being enabled to obtain the desired in terview, upon which the prisoner, after explaining the object which he had in view, said he thought it very hard that he should not be allowed to render so signal a service to his sovereign. Sir R. Birnie pro posed that the experiment should be tried upon him, and observed, if you succeed in restor ing me to youth, I will not only engage that you shall be immediately admitted into his Majesty's presence, but I hereby undertake to give you 5,0001. as a small token of grati tude for the favour conferred upon myself. The stranger looked somewhat posed, and was silent for a few moments, but turning quickly upon the Ma gistrate, observed, " You are not of the blood royal, and therefore my specific would have no effect upon you." Sir R. Birnie having thus ascertained the real state of the prisoner's mind, placed Taunton and another officer to watch him and prevent his in truding himself upon the royal presence. The officers, according to their instructions, followed the prisoner about from place to place until at last, find ing it impossible to obtain an audience of his Ma jesty, either by stratagem or otherwise, the prisoner left Windsor a short period prior to the decease of the King, and was frequently seen in the neigh bourhood of Downing-street, for the purpose of ac costing the Duke of Wellington, in order to make known to his Grace the wonderful secret he pot sessed. He also lay in wait for Sir Robert Peel, and on one or two occasions addressed both him and the Duke in the street upon his favourite topic. The interference of the police was again deemed necessary, but the death of his Majesty having put au end to the solicitude entertained by the prisoner for an extension of the royal life, the prisoner sud denly disappeared, and, we believe, bad not since been heard of by the police, until his appearance yesterday at this office. QUEEN.SQU AUL Yesterday Mary Mika, Elizabeth. Laycoek, and Mary Parker, three girls of the town, were placed at the bar before Mr. GRUGORIE, charged with stealing from the person of Mr. Abraham Alexander, the proprietor of the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, the sum of 411. 15e., under the following circumstances:— _ It appeared from the evidence of the prosecutor, that on Saturday last he bad been at a dinner at the Horns Tavern, at Kennington; he left the house about eleven o'clock in the evening in company with a friend, and at the door he saw the three prisoners drinking some gin. He pulled out his purse to give the waiter sixpence, and he noticed that the pri soner Hilton watched him very closely. His friend walked round the corner of the house, and while he wns waiting for him the girl came near to him, and he could scarcely keep her from him. In a fey► minutes he put his hand into his pocket, and to his surprise found that his purse was gone, containing on one side four 101. Bank of England notes, and on the other four sovereigns and some silver. The prisoner Hilton was gone, and be called a police constable and told him how he had been robbed. Morris, a police constable of the L division, No. 186, deposed to taking Hilton into custody, at her lodgings, in Fox's -court, Kent-street. On telling her what she was charged with, she replied that she had only 6s. 6d. about her. She then put her band into her bosom, and pulled out a sovereign and Ss. 6d. ; finding she had made a mistake, he saw her slip the sovereign away, and throw it under the bed, which he afterwards picked up. He found no other money on her person. Mr. GREGORIR ordered Hilton to be remanded, and discharged the other prisoners. Mr. Alexander said, that the numbers of the notes had been stopped at the Bank. The police constables were directed to make every inquiry to obtain further evidence against the prisoner. H ATTON.GA R DEN% A fellow of the name of William Itlehony was brought up, charged with assaulting one of the po lice of the G division. The complainant stated that at half-past two o'clock that morning he was on duty on Saffron-hill, when he found the defendant supported by two women, and so drunk as to be unable to walk. Be immediately lent his assistance to the women to convey the fellow home to Caroline -court, where he lodged, but they had not proceeded many yarda,:w ;when recovering himself a little, and getting on his legs, he struck him a violent blow on tho face, which had very nearly tumbled him, and was only prevented from repeating it by the interference of a brother officer of his, who was standing by at the time, and though heavily intoxicated as he appeared to be, it was with a great deal of difficulty that they could both get him to the watch-house. He (the corn plainant) had always known him to be a notoriously had character, ever disposed to quarrel, and one of the principal champions of a party of Irishmen on the hill. The complaint was corroborated by the evidence of the other policeman, and the defendant not hav ing any thing to allege in his defence, but that he was drunk, the Magistrates fined him lOs , and, in default of payment, ordered that lie should be com mitted to the House of Correction for 14. days. As soon as the case was disposed of, one of the policemen complained to the Magistrate that there were a number of very disorderly houses in Saffron bin, which gave them constantly a great deal of an noyance and trouble, but particularly Oa Wards, and Sunday nights, when they were sure to be filled with persons of the worst and most abandoned characters of both sexes, who, after getting drunk '' in them, towards the morning reeled into the streets, fighting and creating the most alarming disturbances, and it was sometimes more than they could do for hours together to clear them away, or take some half dozen of them to the watch-house. tottbst:houo,eTet sitenci child ' t e. carry Yorkshire hcri w d enyi pi e o hicydrtou r e ° l n i Mr. LAING asked what description of houses they were—whether they were private housii or public ?—Mr. Busain, the inspector, It that the houses alluded to were all private houses, situated in the most retired courts and alleys, in which it was a common practice to hold dance on Saturday nights and Sunday nights, where faW others besides reputed thieves and prostitutes cora 1 gregated. The mode they took to remedy the shut. ting up of the public-houses after twelve o'clock, was to provide themselves with a number of gallon cans with large quantities of beer and gin before that hour, and, thus supplied, they were enabled to keep on singing and dancing until morning, and by that time, the liquor being exhausted, all were become intoxicated, and their revelling for ever * tided in L i general row in the streets. The existence of sus°, houses was an intolerable nuisance; and h o lON to know from the Magistrate whether am ?I li " could not abate it. . men the r we smess rh i Mr. LAING observed, that it was indeed a verl great nuisance ; but as the houses were Oral° houses, the police bad no right to interfere to absteit MARYLEBONZ „A Yesterday Martha Adams, a young worns°, e e l:: very much with the small-pox, was chaff "..- Mr. RAWLINSON with stealing a little WY. it , Mr. James Matthews, of Augnstroc"g e t -- t - 0 gent's-park, builder, stated, that bang Osr ic t - d go into the city that morning, be ro9lr- i ns e l ,l, with him for a ride. He stopped to look niter '"- of his men, who were on a job its the New -rnido and while his back was turned the child Wile it°llll - from the garden -gate. He applied for inforrollisS George Ball, a policeman , No. 21, of the &MI, e prisoner, she told him she had taken uP 1 ', b a be , i gr t t e . ya o h i l v s e d ee t a l h h i or l i eli misrina?ermytuouliwiertil:°;lv. , and it was crying in the New-road, and she o ip tleman for some clothes at No. 3, North Pfll t t a ke r m . a ß f A o i r r a m street, and take care of it until it was adv_sr a t i. t r . „ it home, after she had called uP0n.°,1 6 „.. , Mr. RAWLINSON asked the child whirr u'll - be iatnscaidwiht when d n he loa it t " itr , "t man said to him—He answered, "Ski esl I walk:' irasked Mr. Mao" whet osnoctoiiathrnbiekdaae:ruotfPgoow:aetvraey,neanedrndnitnosahmohtpekehpae direction ot h i covered it P—He answered, Yes, very I muc " - 41 em s rdfac o ra ner was remanded that furthe r ing 1 appeared to be distressed witintil,, might be made respecting her. THE GERMAN OCEAN. The bed of this sea is encumbered in An el' traordinary degree with accumulations of debris, especially in . the middle or central peg& One te, the great central banks trends from the Frith,ol Forth, in a north-easterly direction , to a distaite of 110 miles; others run from Denmark,lllll Jutland upwards of 105 miles to the no th-wao while the greatest of all, the Dogger Beat tends for upwards of 354 miles from north to south. The whole superficies of these enoro loll L. shoals is equal to about one-fifth of the " 11 7, ` , extent of England and Scotland. The slelltg; height of the banks measures, according t0,1'16 Stevenson, about, seventy-eight feet; OA :L . suming that the mass is uniformly,nololo.l"hri this depth of the same drift' matter' t 5 would cover the whole of Great Whin to th! , depth of twenty-eight feet, supposing 0°1484 of the island to be a level plain. A grett yogi of these banks consists of fine and coarse siliceou!, sand, mixed with fragments of corals and shst ue , ground down, the proportion of these 01 41 '1 1 matters being extremely great. As we kiw i , to what distance our continents forslterfa4. tended, we cannot conjecture, from any u — u , present obtained, how much of th e space a 1.., pied by these sands was formerly covered strata, subsequently removed by the e ncr teri o m r e ig ig i t n s al o iy f t o h f e g se r a n , toiriewpltihe,thacirldcehrtaavine tr s r o c ce t e L Tien converted into shoals by matter drifted by: it h rents. But as the sea is moved to and fro tot , every tide, portions of these loos e sends Step from time to time, be carried into thc'se,,,,,ool parts of the North Sea where they are the reach of waves or currents. he ld .O .r So great is the quantity of matterdo pension by the tidal current on our sha e ‘trd• the waters are in some places ar tificitill, h f oo l duced into certain lands below the leletei h sea; and by repeating this operali ° "' e°- eis called warping," for two or three yeare' on dor y siderable t rac t s h ave b e en raised, ill th e of the Humber, to the height of about sus feet• —Lyell's Geology. i t ' he N T H at i i i m if o l :a o a ry l l3 L o i i f a br L t a h r e y7 ll " subject of greater i nterest rii he„__C 0 1 I s ; i t ble e a , P r f P : e a tn r an t l h i d e t f i?e ,l 4 l l : o ° ° f b . f e t i4 b : set W a vf l r i l iv:r eo rr i f i l . ' vutps a v u oon:t d edgi idl h oo a tnse p ea; i rpon n nl e sratenase reception not examinationpat I i hc e o v oni s e o r y nureci e ett r l oa a lfsau s a ttdehh a tres n e dt.a d di i : (60; ie n dwvi d oi i hspr t i ia i s i t or : a olif7 00 : 1 01;: : • d:r.las g oi de b f aa ; oss ti t r i: : illy have been elected. Mr. Gotta, w• L; „ l :tbe 61 , 4 _,_ gether, by sketching vided the work into chapters, of each of Itu h ' i — L o s is d r Empires, with whi g ch the Israelites c al rThne deW" — .l6. l etaurreesi,manlideesnlsotakvea BIBLE.--T he thatSecoinnotrie Notual ,ot 9. the sects and parti n r e i s o into contact. There will be an latrodo c " -- 1 0 of tive of the authenticity and divine autboritYo`o;torel level to every capacity. A. BIRTHS. On the 215th inst. in Cad I on, O. P' ogan-p 4 tlic French, Ecti.i of a son. ,„. dc otart On the 26th inst. at Stanley Iloilo/ L''''' lady of D. Maclean, Esq. of a daughter. t o so o.l f On the 26th inst. Mrs. J. C. Hunter, of that ins nt I': the eej eWetnxialPthist:GrsroirrctYhbau? alOl.l-14-617"71: of a daughter. Norse - s h oe, the h 26th i MARRIED. °o v f o f ios O lC : o i n or uG r. t fs n o h E t l e :. o d. 2 f 7 t arT i th ie dow is in il'e i s r t -t. . kh d l eil f l: o l : l : ll C.: se e T rie D or4.f at y lC4a :v r ir efu l ,:inAElieninig. : ll.::::::iii!attlij:llll74lll3l:::::ll ofg 0011. n no utgh n ie, a to r 2 d ns s , , t He len hia to iuncsk,,, a tos ci Sailtrirrabi Miriam, t ni ,i,g y e a ,u youngi: et e e : RI e da;;;: it rt : 01 ,1 1 0 041 : (-1 "Of E.g. of Chandoe- stre et , t, Caveatlish4l°°l6 late J. Browne , Esq., of Milner's-hall, Earitht l illug* ED. On the 26th inst. MajoDrl Edvvard Jourdan, of °even' shire-street, Portland-place. ' le l On the 26th inst. at Greenwi 11, Mrs. E. 5° 114 ,,,, d 72, widow of the late Mr. Wrn • Smith, of Lant's"--." Southwark. Clove s, On the 26th inst. at Delsford, Dark. , '', °nt t he Bob relict of the late Charl es Clowee, Evi'l year of her age. d Mr. l'. On the 25th inst. Ca tharine Dorothea, wife Spanjer, of Tower - bill , a g ed 60. k street, On the 25th inst. G. Wells, Foy • of i%,'"11, ` c - C.verolibh-square, abed 49. fitolei LOSPOS. yoUP IO7 '` l Pular]) Axv 2UBLISIIICD BY Muatx,.., VIZ Bus OrrlCS, 1 Igo atJIASLI,