The Sun. — London, England, 1833-05-24 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. " One of the People" inflicts upon us agocci deal of well -meant, no doubt, but somewhat vague, and, so far as it is intelligible, we flatter ourselves, rather needless counsel. We are not going to chop opinions with this gentleman, who seems to abound in dicta as much as be falls short in the power of supporting them by argument ; but it may be allowed to us to differ from him, and even to use his own privilege of throwing overboard our reasons for dissent. He is entirely wrong, therefore, as we conceive, in his notion that " the Whigs are at heart as despotic as the Tories." Look at the Reform Bill, and the Church Bills, and the Law Re form Bills, and wonder that any upright or candid man would risk so daring a paradox. That the Whigs are men is true, and therefore, being men in power, as exposed to some temptation. they do unquestionably require to be " watched by an independent press." This is a mere truism. So, our correspondent complains that the construction of Parliament is still decidedh " aristocratic." What does lie mean by so em ploying the term aristocratic ? If it mean nothing more than that the bulk of the House of Commons consists of men of fortune, family, and education, we are at a loss to find materials for censure in such a description of Parliament. The vice of former Parliaments was, that the majority of their Members were not sufficiently " aristo cratic"—that is to say, not independent enough in fortune and situation to enable them to with. stand the wiles of corruption, or to vote and act according to their own consciences. With cer tain votes of the present Parliament, we have ourselves quarrelled, and do quarrel, and with ream , of the measures proposed, or perhaps it would be more just to say, acceded to, by the Whig Ministers. But it appears to us that both Parliament and Ministers have erred more through ignorant selfishness than evil or anti popular design. They have not yet acquired the habit of observing and understanding the wants of the intelligent part of the community, or discriminating between them and the wolfish appetites of the rabble. Nevertheless, we do not abandon the belief that both Parliament and Government are sound at heart ; and that their intrinsic staple will show itself to advantage, ac that of most other orders of Englishmen is wont to do, when the crisis comes to test them. The natural course of things in this country at present, is not to give rank and property an undue preponderance in all our institutions; it is, on the contrary, to give them just that weight which public opinion (the su preme guarantee of all our most precious rights and enjoyment) assigns to them,—that public opinion to which our correspondent appeals, and which he talks about without seeming to com prehend its irresistible force. In yesterday's Times we said enough to indicate what is our feeling of the necessary result of a prolonged opposition between the higher classes and the great bulk of the nation. It must end in a col lision, an overthrow of the aristocracy, and a tremendous revolution, but such an opposition can never practically be prolonged to such a fatal period. Opinion must and will recall the most inWtiated aristocracy to its sense —that same opinion which scared and chasea away ever the Duke of Wellington's championship of the borough system, and which finally crown ed its own series of victories by carry ing the Reform Bill through the House of Lords. Our correspondent thinks fit to ask how comes it Ministers contrive to go on in such smiling harmony with the Peers, of whom 12 months ago there was a large majority against them ? We will tell him—because the Peers are now fully sensible, that to repair a defeat in their legislative assembly the Ministers woule need only to fall back, first upon the national indignation, and next on the prerogative of the Crown. This the Peers know, if " One of the People" does not, and it may furnish the inter rogator with some clue to the late good beha viour of their Lordships. As for the repeal of the corn law, and the enactment of Irish pool laws, let but one simultaneous and general cry be raised throughout the kingdom, and em bodied in petitions, on either or both of the great subjects referred to, and see how long the Eng lish corn law will exist, or the Irish poor law be successfully opposed in Parliament. On these two points we believe the fact to be, not that the balance of opinion is at all doubtful, but that it has not yet formally and energetically pronounced itself; the attention of the people having been rivetted else%s here, upon objects supposed to be more pressing. As for our sympathies in rela tion to the Spafields meeting, our correspon• dent is unjust in saying that they were con fined to the police. They were not, indeed, like those of some of the jurors, fanati gay engaged against the police ; but it was on ly on Wednesday that we condemned the latter for having acted with extreme intempe rance and outrage. That the materials of the police are defective in what contemns their cha raster aagitizens we have already stated. The peace and confidence of the great cities of the kingdom never will be so well secured as committing the executive duties of a conservative power to armed householders of the largest property and most entire independence through out the respective distric's, commanded by their own friends and neighbours as officers, ant: under the direct guidance of the magistracy. Still the police is, in principle, and in its general demeanour, an efficient and excellent institution We treated the last Birmingham meeting, as a political experiment, with far less contempt, or :Fitat " One of the People" terms " contumely," than it really deserved. It was a good and merry fair ; but for aught else it was nothing. As for our correspondent's pretending to connect such a holyday mummery with an expression of " public opinion !"—if it be not hypocrisy, it is arrant folly. We have now replied to " One of the People," at a length and with a degree of forbearance for which many others "of the people" will perhaps be but little obliged to us. Threadbare common-place and dogmatic bubbles are, indeed, on both sides rather troublesome custom.— Tones. We never were converts to that favourite po litical axiom of the Whigs, when out of office, that representatives were bound to obey im plicitly every instruction they might receive from Their cons tituents. Such a ru l e , d ogmat i cal!) exercised and rigidly complied with, ren d ers a mber of Parliament a mere automaton, with. out a soul be can call his own ; and w e nee d baiti!y add, that talent of every kind is Seared') necessary, but rather an encumbrance, i n such 1 man, but that the less of it he possesses the more likely he is to be moved by the wires vihieh are to direct his movements. Occasions, for instance, may frequently occur, when the interests of a man's constituents may be whoily at variance with those of the country w large. There may be places where, from peculiar cir cumstances, a state of war a ay be partially ed vantageous to the inhabitants, and others, where they may have no particular dislike to contra band trade; yet no one will be so insane as to contend that the representative is, in the one case, to do all he can to plunge the country in war, that his constituents may be enriched by ir, or, in the other, that lie should encourage smug gling, by voting away the coast guard or revenue schooners from the neighbourhood. But though we repudiate this out-of-office doc trine of the Whigs, we are still less ena moured with the new dogma which they appear to have laid down as a standard for themselves and their followers, now that they are seated in power. Their new rule seems to be this, that it is the duty of a representative to place implicit faith in the judgment of a Mi nister, and none whatever in that of his consti tuents, however indisputably they may express the general feeling of the country. That we do not, in the smallest degree, distort or overstate this new Whig canon must be apparent to every one who has watched the conduct of Ministers and that of the representatives of even the most populous and influential places, on the subject of the house and window duties, the repeal of which has been resisted by vast majorities of a reformed House of Commons, apparently on no other ground than because it is the will and pleasure of Lord Althorp to maintain large establishments, and to repeal only such small portion of the public burdens as people in ge neral are indifferent to. And let it not be for gotten that this is done by many who, only six months ago, were as loud in their pledges to follow the instructions of their constituents, ac cording to the old Whig rule, as they now are reckless in disregarding them, according to the new one. Though we were not so sanguine as to forbode success to Sir Samuel Whalley's motion, still less were we prepared for the large majority by which it was rejected. It is true that there were more absentees than would have given a larger majority the other ;'ay; but on such persons little reliance can be placed ; there is little, if any, difference between the soldier who deserts his post by falling into the rear, and he who openly goes over to the enemy : both are alike untrue to their colours, and unfit for the service. We regret the fate of Sir Samuel Whalley's motion the more because it took that moderate middle course which we were ourselves the first to suggest—viz., a pro spective repeal of these partial and odious im posts, by which time would have been given to the Finance Minister to make such arrange ments as so large a defalcation in the revenue would naturally call for. Yet, were we inclined to prophecy, what, we should say, will, after all, he the consequence, that Ministers, having pledged themselves and their too-willing ad herents in Parliament again and again to resist this call, will, at length, yield to an influence they have themselves called into action, and cannot resist ; thus establishing arid confirming that most mischievous of all notions, that the people can obtain that by clamour and agitation which is denied to their calm and reasonable de-. mands ?—Morning Herald. Our contemporary, the Standard, thinks the !itne is fast approaching when the Tories may again become Lords of the Ascendant. The late oposition of Ministers to Sir Samuel Whalley's motion (which we cannot but consi der a political blunder), and the deci , ion of the House of Commons against it, have, in the opi nion of our contemporary, so damaged both with the country, that a dissolution might in safety be attempted. "The fact is (he sap.), the present Ministers and the present House of Comniona are united in their fate by a igature much more vital than the congenital link of the Siamese twins ; for the Ministers and the present House of Commons must live or die together —a change of Ministers wou:d send three fourths, at least, of the present Members about their burin. see. They know this, and, therefore, no matter how much more their conduct may offend their constituents, whom they have already offended beyond all hope of forgiveness, they will not allow of any measure Ilkely to unseat the Ministers. True, the Ministers are the most incompetent, unpopular, and odious that ever were in England ; and the House of Commons must incur a very considerable share of their ortpopu!arity by supporting them ; but their removal would sound the death-knell to the political existence of three fourths of the House of Commons. Do we want, therefore, to get rid of the present Ministers? Apprise the King of the feeling of his people. We may get rid of the present House of Commons, or reform its conduct by get ting rid of the present Ministers. The first course is the preferable upon all accemsts. Let the King be thoroughly assured that he has a House of Commons that will support whatever Ministry he gives it, and has also a Ministry so generally hated and hateful, that every man, of whatever opinion in Eng'and, would take their dismiss,' as a per sonal favour conferred upon him . . This information can tee best and most r4spectfully communicated to his Majesty try ' Ilobh ou sing' every Minister or ministerialist who shall dare to exhil , it himself upon any popuhr hustings. We tope that the electors of South Stafford will act upon this principle, and that all polit'cal distinctions wiU be for gotten in the determination to turn out the ministerialists.', Well, thin, we will supriz•e the present Mi• nisters out, and the. present flouse of Commons sent about their business, the Tories in office, and a majority of Tories returned. It, is pos sible that the Tories, in order to quiet the great owns, and in order to acquire some popularity :it the expense of the Whigs, would repeal the house and window tax. But they could not live ong on the reputation they might acquire from this source. What would they do next ? Would they go beyond the Whigs—nay, would they at dl approach them in a disposition to satisfy the public demands at this time ? What says the Times of yesterday ? " There never was dissatisfaction more gravely expressed by the town and commercial population of the country ti an that which has been excited by the protecting duties on corn. flow came the majority of the House of Com mons to differ with the majority of their constituents on that important question? Was it that Hon. Members de sin d indirectly to r ropogate an eagerness for revolution? Again, was there ever in this world a mere striking onr itnity front North to South of England, than in praying a repeal of the assessed taxes ? Then, what could 'ie the hope of that majority of the House of Com mons, which declared against their constituents, and in favour of the house and window tax, but to inculcate upon , he minds of the middle classes that they must look to •onie mighty change, far beyond the boundary of a r re firm, d ' Parliament for relief? The public murmurs at lie rence of Parliatrent, and of the upper ranks of Englishmen, to Ihe feelings of their poorer brethren, have recently grown to a frightful magnitude, and betoken , orne tragical result. The institutions of the kingdom share the dislike so genera 1y entertained towards the higher orders by the lower, from a belief that those insti tutiees have been framed and adminirered in an unfair spirit. The bad odour in which the aristocracy are held arises from the arrogance and selfishness too fee pent!) , imputed to ?hem, and of which, if we be bound to .peak truly, they afford no niggard proofs No real &fir'. euby could base prevented Lord Abbot-pis acquiescence oi the public wish for a repeal of the corn laws and the issesseii taxes. We fear there is an habitual, nay almost conventional, distaste in some quarters to appreciate th e national desires, or to concede at all, save only in the nibbling, peddling manner which has been exhihited to the Noble Li.rd's unhappy budget. The centinuance f such a temper will •not do. it can lead to nothing but a crisis which must end, so poweilal are the democratic elements every where, in a downright over ,vhelming revolution. Th e verdiet in Spafields, and the ondisguised dispositions of th e j urors, may be taken as indices of the sort of instinct which actuates large bodies lit Well against the public functionaries and the (hitherto) ruling classes. How were such feelings engendered amone Englishmen ? 'l'lrey are the reverse of natural. Let look car , -itilly into III! origin of them, and they may draw from the source a salutary lesson for thtir ow Guidance, and for the course to be recommended to Parliament, as well in finance as in other branches o,f legislation. _ . " Mr. Harvey's motion for a return of Civil List Pensions, as well as those charged upon the consolidated fund, was carried without amendment. The object is gine of incalculable value—namely, a disclosure of the especial services, or other grounds, on which each individual pen sion has been granted. But we question whether the investigation will lead to much practical good, unless— l st, the name be inserted in the return of each Minister by whom each particular pension was recommended to tho Sovereign, or applied for ; and 2d, unless a Committee Le appoint e d to conduct the inquiry, and to cross-examine a certain class of witnesses." Would the Tories at once remove the pro tecting duties on corn ? Would they abolish all pensions granted without an equivalent ? Would they honestly endeavour to purify the corporations of the country ? Would they analyse the expenditure of our army, in order to confine as much as possible the payments to equivalent services ? Would they, in short, dis play-a tithe of the honesty of purpose evinced by the present Ministry to root out abuses wherever they exist ? If they fell far short of the public expectations, does our contemporary suppose that the democratic elements which, according to the Times, threaten a downright overwhelm ing revolution, will he powerless against the Tories ? They might attempt to stem the tor rent, but they would miserably fail. If the Whigs have lost much of their popularity, from a want of tact in one or two cases rather than from a want of sincere desire to benefit the public—if the people abuse the Whigs, who cannot remedy all possible abuses at once, and wish to inquire before they decide, lest they may decide wrong, will the Tories, who hate the people, and wish to prevent all remedies which go to the root of abuses, be less unpo pular? Assuredly not. They might attempt to coerce the people—they might once more convey arms and stores to Fort George, and other secure depots, with a view to strike at the great town populations. But this would only throw the whole United Kingdom into a flame. " The institutions of the kingdom share the dislike so generally entertained towards the higher orders by-the lower," says the Times. If the hatred of the higher orders induces even a hatred of the institutions of the kingdom, will the Tories consent to sacrifice the higher orders to conciliate the lower to our institutions ? We yesterday gave a specimen from the account of the meeting at Sheffield of the manner in which the gentry of the country are spoken of by those with whom the Whigs are unpopular. The Whigs are now the objects of the invectives of these people, because they are -in power, and stand between them and the Tories. But do not let the Tories believe that they are forgotten. One of the achievements on which the people at these meetings dwell with most satisfaction is, ! the driving the Tories from power. Mr. C. Alcock, the chairman at the Sheffield meeting, said, " he would advise the people, at the present gloomy crisis, to act firmly and peaceably, and they need not despair. They had before driven the greatest Captain 9f the age from his place, by the peaceable exhibition of their united energies and mighty power." This conveys a hint, from which the Tories may derive some profit. The King may, as we have said, change his Ministers ; but if his Majesty were to do so in order to be served by mote popular Ministers, by whom the country would be tranquillized, his Majesty would find out his mistake. We have ad mitted that the persisting in retaining the house and window tax, is a great blunder. Every Ministry should endeavour to stand well with th e great towns, and especially London. Opinion manifests it self in these places with tremendous force. It has been decmcd generally good policy to keep capitals quiet. Bread used to be provided at an under rate in times of scarcity, for the Pari• sians. The Romans were quieted with distri butions. No Minis:ry can afford to he unpo pular in London. A majority of the House of Commons does not mend the matter. No argument, however ingenious, will satisfy the people of the metropolis that it is good for them to pay the house and window tax. With respect to the corn laws, it is admitted that a change is necessary ; but Ministers could not possibly have entered on so extensive a subject with any advantage now. They have already inure important questions on their hands than they can do justice to this session. After all, wish the exception of the dissatisfaction caused by the determination with regard to the assessed taxes, we do not believe that, with the middle classes generally, there is any dislike of Mini sters. By repealing the house and window taxes, they might conciliate all who have any material influence. A very small number of people, who have nothing to do but to cry out, may make a very great noise. We are quite satisfied that the great bulk of the people wish no change of Ministry; and that the present effervescence is more of the nature of a family quarrel than otherwise. Let it be only believed that the Tories were about to come into power, and the members of the family would soon march against the common enemy. Those who deal out invectives against Ministers at meetings of political unions, and elsewhere, are but a small fraction of the people, and by no means represent the general feeling.—Morn. Chronicle. We propound to-day a little arithmetical puzzle, which his Majesty's Cabinet, now that it has sent a Secretary to Dublin and concluded a convention with the Dutch, may perhaps have leisure to investigate. Mr. Stanley assumes, lino., that the whole annual profits derived from the West Indies are 1,500,0001. 2d0. ; That the whole number of slaves employed, is 800,000. 3tio., That the average value of each slave is 601. He proposes to enable the slave to declare himself an " apprenticed la bourer" for a term of twelve years, after which period he is to be absolutely free. He proposes that the slave shall give to his master three four►hs of his labour in return for his house, his clothes, and his food, which his master, as at present, is by law to be bound to provide. He proposes that the slave shall have at his own eisposal the remaining one-fourth of his labour ; and that if he gives it to his master, or compels his mas er (for he ntay compel him) to accept it, the master shall pay him annually 1-12th of his whole value as wages for I.4th of his labour. We shall probably not err very widely, if we anticipate that, of the 800,000 slaves, 400,000 will elect to be " apprenticed labourers." These of course will be the stoutest labourers and most skilful artisans of the estates, for the young and active will shake off the yoke of slavery, w hil e the weak and aged will hold its privileges tenaciously. If then the average value of the 800,000 slaves be 60/., the average value of the 400,000 "apprenticed labourers" will be some thing more. We will assume, however, as we suppose Mr. Stanley means to assume, that the average value of the 400,000 ",apprenticed labourers" is only 60/. Upon this hypothesis duel wages to be paid for one-fourth of the labour # of each " apprenticed labourer" will be 51. per annum, and the wages to be paid for one-fourth of the labour of the 400,000 " apprenticed labourers" will be 2,000,0001. per annum. Now let us examine the conclusions to which we have come. Mr. Stanley, premising that the annual profits derived by the planters from the whole labour of their slaves amount to 1,500,0001., provides that for a part of that labour they shall make annual pay ments to their " apprenticed labourers" to the amount of 2,000,0001. Or, in other words, Mr. Stanley expects Parliament to enact that the planters shall cultivate their estates at a loss of 500,0001. per annum. It is true that Mr. Stanley proposes to advance a loan to the planters; and that a portion of the wages he will compel them to pay to the " apprenticed labourers" will be paid by the " apprenticed labourers" to the Government, in liquidation of the interest of this loan. This part of the scheme appears to us so ludicrously impracticable that it is scarcely worth while to examine the effect its operation will produce upon our calculations. However, if the slave pay to the Government, in liquidation of his master's debt, the half of the wages which he receives from his master, we must take the payments made by the planter to amount to 1,000,0001. instead of 2,000,0001., In this case Mr. Stanley, premising that the annual profits derived by the planters from the whole labour of their slaves amount to 1,500,000/. provides that for a part of that labour they shall make annual payments to their "apprenticed la bourers" to the amount of 1,000,0001. Or, Mr. Stanley expects Parliament to enact that the planters, who cultivate their estates now, if he is to be believed, at an annual profit of 1,500,0001., shall cultivate them in future at an annual profit of 500,000/. And he calls the deduction of 1,01 0,000/. from their annual profits by the in genious nickname of " compensation. It is difficult to attend to figures of arithmetic, while one is studying figures of speech ; and many orators can strike the imagination of a hearer more readily than the balance of an account. We are afraid that Mr. Stanley's computations will. not rival Bonnycastle's, till Lord John Russell's tragedies surpass Shakspeare's.—lllorning Post. The feeling of admiration, and of gratitude, towards the immortal Jury that, in defence of the people's rights, brought in a verdict of " jus tifiable homicide," in the case of the slain po liceman, Cully, exceeds even all that we be lieved it to be. Letters pour in upon us not from the several parishes and districts of this great metropolis only—not from the avowed and well-known friends of the people only—not from quarters where public spirit, and due sympathy with upright dealing might be expected—but from all quarters of the country to which intel ligence of the verdict of the Jury has reached— from Whigs, from Tories, and from Radicals, of every hue, and of every complexion. There is but one voice, one sentiment, one wish—one feeling on the subject. Would to Heaven that the Government or the Legislature would take due note of it, and shape their con duct accordingly ! We fear, however, that both are lost--that both are ignorant of the public mind, and that they will pursue a course of conduct which will inevitably bring about the very revolution which they dread, and know not how to check. However, to the subject of the inquest jury. Many local committees have been already formed— many more are in the course of formation, and we have reason to believe that a local meeting was held last night for the purpose of forming or appointing a general committee. With re gard to a public meeting, the matter is In full train ; and on Monday morning we trust to be able to announce to our readers, not only a satis factory place of meeting, but a chairman, whose public conduct will guarantee the attendance and the confidence of all well-wishers of the people. To revert once again to the inquest. It is im possible for the most careless observer to glance over the peculiarities of the scene of conflict in Calthorpe-street, with the stations, the line of march, and the localities occupied by the police, without being convinced that a mili tary eye had surveyed the ground previous to th e conflict ; that a military head had preconcerted the whole order of attack ; and that the crowd assembled were, in true military spirit, cut off from retreat, or " turned," as the phrase is, at the moment the main assault was made. It is to be hoped that the warning of the Inquest Jury on Robert Cully will prompt those whom it concerns to divest our English civil force, in future, of their obnoxious mili tary character—a character quite alien to the principle and habits of a constitutional consta bulary body. Look at the evidence of Baker, the Waterloo man and superintendent, and of Major De Roos ! The whole of their statement is thrice dipped in the tranchant dye of military habits. Major De Roos "examines the streets, and avenues, and ground," as if he were pre paring for another battle of Waterloo. Instead of taking steps to disperse some twenty or thirty idlers, the greater part assembled to laugh at the harmless speechifying of half a dozen politicians, they are enclosed on all sides, as if for a sport man's battue, or for a massacre like the Turks at Al Arish. With what burlesque importance the Major next places a military officer in the win dow of Collinridge's manufactory to watch the proceedings of the " field of battle." This ma iimuvre effected, he places himself in circum spect ambuscade at the " back window of Bur bidge's stables." The military scout at the ad vanced post shortly returns, and apprizes him (awful news !) " that he saw a waggon"—round the corner. Titburnia could not see the Spanish fl ee t, " because it was not in sight." On this the Major girds up his loins, hastens down to the portals of his secret fortress, and accompanies the Gough-street " division," till it forms a junc tion with the Calthorpe-street " division." He proceeds, like Bonaparte at Waterloo, at the head of the united '' column," till " within sixty yards" of the awful objects of the attack, viz. h a lf a dozen rags on poles. The attack of the• police Russians (not " ruffians") is made on t h ere Poles, with all the fury of Don Quixotte attacking the wine-bags, or the windmill. The people are knocked down like a flock of sheep in a pen ; and the Major has the pleasure of assist ing to gatlier li t e rp „ ti fi re nd " s ° t l9 w i o n l a a s r P tces li , a " " b b ut without victory among which any " lance-heads" thereto attached, which is pretty much the same as calling a watch chain a watch, or a horn-handle a carving-knife. It resembles the tragedy of Hamlet with Hamlet omitted. Again, hear Baker's evidence—the Brigade-General of another of these civil " He receives orders from his " superior officers. tie orders " his men to march," right shoulder forward." The columns 4 , march" and halt " simultaneously ; one attacks the front—the other turns the left flank; and another encloses the rear. The people are the " mob," the " enemy," " ruf fians," and " rebels." But the policemen are " my men," ig my force," 44 my lads," 44 my division." Before the attack is made on the ragged paling, anti the ragged flags are taken by storm, the speeches of Nelson and Bonaparte are imitated : " Every man is to do his duty nobly,"—" Now, boys, we shall have some warm work,"—" Go it, my lads ;" and again, before the capture of the headless lances and " -air-drawn daggers," Wellington at Waterloo is parodied. " Now, my boys, have at them." No wonder that great disap pointment should be expressed by the " force," that they were not " covered" with all the " glory" they expected. No wonder that after knocking down their own wives, and assaulting porter-pots, bread-baskets, and baked shoulders of mutton in their loyal determination to " clear the ground," as well as every head and hat their truncheons could uncrown or encounter, they should lament as Alexander did that there were no more worlds to conquer—that there were no more heads to break—and that, in fact, the affair " was not hal f a spree." So ended, to quote Byron, this " tragi-comedy of bloodshed and burlesque—of ferocity and fun ;" and we trust, in the spirit of the concluding remark of the jury, that such " disgraceful transactions will never again be suffered to occur in this metro polis."—Morning Advertiser. ROLLS' COURT, MAY 23. HUGHES V. WYNNE. In this cause, which has so frequently been before the Court, a petition was this day presented by Miss Emma Wynne, for the purpose of having a reference to the Master to inquite what charges had been pro perly incurred by certain valuations which had been made prior to a sale, by the order of the Court, of the devised estate of which the petitioner was tenant in tail in remainder; and also what proceedings should be adopted for the purpose of compelling the purchasers of some of the lots to complete their contracts by payment of the purchase-money and interest. Mr. BICKERSTETII appeared for the petitioner. The prayer of the petition was granted. HIS HONOUR rose at three o'clock, having to attend the Lords' Committee on the Chancery Regulation Bill. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, MAY 23. BROOKES V. PIRIE AND ANOTHER. This was an action of trover brought by the plain tiff, as assignee of an insolvent, against the defen dants, late Sheriffs of London, to recover the value of certain goods of the insolvent sold by the de fendants under an execution. The execution had been issued at the suit of a creditor on a judgment entered up on a warrant of attorney two days after the insolvent had gone to prison, and the Sheriffs sold the goods for 181., notwithstanding that the property in them had become vested in the provi sional assignee by the operation of the Insolvent Act. This, the Court decided, the Sheriffs had no right to do, and consequently the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for the value of the goods, which they estimated at 80/. In the course of the following term, after the trial, Mr. Sergeant Jones obtained a rule to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside, on the ground that the action was not maintainable against the Sheriffs, who, if liable at all, were only liable in an action for money had and received to the plaintiff's use. The question was argued to-day by Mr. Sergeant ANDREWS in support of the verdicu, and by Mr. Ser. geant JONES and Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD in reply. Rule discharged. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, MAY 23. PENNELL V. THOMPSON This was an action for a libel against the pub lisher of the Satirist Sunday newspaper, which was tried in the Court of Common Pleas, when a ver dict was found for the plaintiff, with 1001. damages. Mr. Hutchinson now moved in this Court, on be half of the plaintiff, for a rule to show cause why proceedings should not be directed against the stile ties given for the defendant at the Stamp-office, to recover the damages and costs.—Rule Nisi granted. EMANUEL V. E3IANUEL. Mr. Hu'rcifiNsoß, on behalf of the defendant, moved for a rule to show cause why the verdict fur the plaintiff should not be set aside, and a new trial had in this action, tried before Mr. Baron Gurney at Guildhall. It was an action by a mother against her son for 501., money received on her account, to which there was a plea of a set-off. The motion was made on the ground that the ver dict was against the weight of evidence. Lord LYNDHURST, after conferring with Mr. Baron GURNEY, said--" As the plaintiff lives under the protection of the son by whom the affidavit was made, she will have the benefit of the verdict."— Rule rrfused. - - POLICE INTELLIGENCE. WoRSHIP STREET. A BRUTE.—A tall, robust fellow, named Standish, a working jeweller, at Clapton, was brought before Mr. TWYFORD, on Tuesday night, upon an assault warrant granted to his wife Jane, apparently about 25 years of age—the same age as her husband, the prisoner. The complainant, after detailing to the Magis trate a series of ill-treatment ,t Inch she had for a length of time received from her " brute of a hus band," added that, on Sunday last, he teat her so severely with a cane that her whole body was a mass of bruises; that he afterwards gave her, for the support of herself and three children, only Is. Gd., out of 245., which he bad received on the Saturday night previous, which paltry sum was to last her (she sa:(1) a whole week. Not being able to endure any longer such neglect and ill usage, she applied fur a warrant. The prisoner at this moment called his wife a --, and, although in the presence of the Magistrate, declared his intention of having his re venge on her, or on the children, accompanying his threats by thumping his hand on the desk with such violence as to call for the interference of the officers. Mr. TWYFORD (to the officer)--Let him alone. We shall soon see what his disposition is. Scarcely had the Magistrate uttered the words when the prisoner seized hold of one of the office candlesticks, the candle of which was lighted, and, with all the violence possible, threw it at his wife's head, although she had an infant in her arms at the same moment. Had it hit her it must have killed her on the spot. Fortunately, however, it did not, but struck against the wall behind her, carrying away part of the plaster. The Magistrate instantly ordered the prisoner to find good bail, and give 24 hour,' notice. PUBLIC BATHING —A young man named Martin Hurley was charged by police constable William Hawkins, of the N division, with being found bath ing that morning in the Regent's Canal. The only interest attached to this case was that the officer had taken extraordinary trouble in cap turing the prisoner. The officer, who appeared to be ill, said that at half-past eight o'clock that morning he saw the pri soner in the water. He immediately went to the water-side and ordered him out. He complied, and dressed himself; witness told him that he must take him to the station-house, preparatory to his ap pearing before a Magistrate, as he had committed an offence for which he was liable to be punished. The prisoner begged that he would only just allow t;im to wash his hands ; but, instead of doing which, he plunged, head foremost, with his clothes on, into :he water, and commenced swimming in fine style t) the opposite bank ; witness, knowing that one of his fellow offices had before been discharged for Mowing a prisoner under the same circumstances ro escape, plunged into the water after him, dressed as 'he was, and, being the be,ter swimmer, he brought him safe ashore. In doing so, aciu— AA e w ho ness, I have suffered most severely, being at ' the T s h n e m Worthy o r i t o h s y ., moment completely wet through. M or ag s is ev r e a Committed. seven e d fi a n y e s d , THAMES-P OLICE. v . I er bf MUTINY AND ASSAULT AT SEA.--" 1 e, 5- 4 , 0 ,1 William Jefferson, William Brown, and " oili Indiaman, from Bombay, was brought Davis, seamen of the ship Lady Rees, an ijk,r before oot : BALLANTINE, charged with mutiny and rio t ~ conduct. 'A Mr. BALLANTINE, after hearing evidence2.slll4 was his duty to commit the prisoners to N et l iri for trial at the next Admiralty Sessions for 0 1 and mutiny. itrnhepriPsorins:lieentt."lll, RUSSIANS AT CONSTANTINOP LS ' The Austrian Observer contains the following e _ d b said to be copied fr o m th e l as t num b er of the O Moniteur, but without date : d ot " His Majesty the Emperor of Russia, in eonV l ,4 - . 0 0 of the iendly relations subsi s tin g b e tween the Ll. " -' its` Porte and the Imperial Russian Court, as well as to t to the Sultan Mahmoud a proof of the candour an d op diality of his sentim e nt s , an d a t t h e sa me time to inobi, known the high disapprobation with which be regsr i hl b. proceedings in Egypt, h a d, as a l rea dy mentioned y.. former number of this Gazette, recalled the Rossi° Consul at Alexandria from his p.,st, and ordered him, r es. visionally to Constantin o pl e . I mme di a t e ly after, 1 ", l e nant-General i'iluravieff was despatched by his 11° 0 : ` Majesty on a special mi s si on t o Al exan d r ia. The ,1 7. roe of Russia, who saw with regret that the EgYP o isli affair was procrastin a t e d, an d who, in accordance ob.. his friendly disp os iti on , contemp l ate d the isi llP ote, events resulting from that state of things, as if theY a gitil, occurring in his own d om i n i ons , was pre p a red in if of, the Sultan all d es i ra bl e su p port , as we ll by the 97-;000 negotiation, as by military aid. Hi s Higbee! . j e found himself in a sit ua ti on to c l a i m the proffe"-„ara' sistance. A Russian n ival division, under the f. mand of Rear Admir a l L azare ff, then entered the 133,1; Bujukdere, d e stined to p ro t ect t h e person o f the S a. nc et to lie there prepared for whatever orders circtin 34 , 2 l ; o l,l' might render necessary, until the Egyptian question tib, be completely, and to the satisfaction of the Sultan '"„„id mood, settled, and to remain until his Highness ",'T a s himself express his wish for the return of the said die l ' i t - iy to the Black Sea. A second squadron, u nder & r lot mend of Rear-Admir a l K umany , h as s i nc e vn t r„ g Bosphorus, escorti ng a convoy of transports, he y 7, or board, em tr h o a o r p k s e , dsoflicited by his Highness.orthiscapital,ana Russian auxiliary cm.'"ltee Wbe° Sl5 I the a h m landou d troops, winformedwihing t o ho of the arrival the w of t this division , Adt°iralb r ye commander of the troops, General BluravieffP b,r Brigadier-General, the two Colonels, and th e °: Imperial Russian officers now here, with an illuetr'ed,, welcome, he repaired on Friday last, nottvitbsts°4 ing the stormy and rainy weather, to the Ps l3ee o ia Therapia, where, in presence of the Seraskier Pael'anceb Ahmed Feuzi Pacha, who were invited to the alw they all experienced a most distinguished and extrae":4 rily gracious r e cepti o n. S u l tan M a h mou d g ave te e . t 7 o hiP of the high satisf ac ti on h e filt at the generous t e f ho lss and anticipating sympathy which the Emperor N t ig a• had on this occasion manifested towards him. Il is j: ic a'r ness asked them whether they had suffered • monk 1 , 0 - , r edt venience during their voy age , t o w hi c h they au" - that as they were n ow i n t h e h an d s o f t h e Sublime die f rte ' and were, in pursuance of the upright and benevn iel ' t n o of position of th ei r S overe i gn , sent to protect the Per s v e All 3 his Highness, their joy sufficed to completely overcanlo, the hardships of the voyage. Sultan Mahmoud reP bit that as they were destined to protect his per SOP :obe will was that they should be placed in every respect ° leis same footing as his ow n regu l ar t roops , partake ° sub' same advantages, and enjoy a ll th e h osp it a lity of the lime Porte. T o t h ese grac i ous express i ons his flignaa added the assura nce , t h at a f ter t h e sett l e ment T . t .to Egyptian business he w ou ld spare no pa i ns still fartlle"the consolidate the bands of friendship which now 00 „ ite d isti ' Sublime Porte with th e C our t o f Russia. The AcreJ Generals, in return, observed that it was to thou a 113 duty, in obedi ence t o th e i r E mperor ' s conamsr ml„. t bs manifest the most ardent seal and inflexible integrity 'Loa service of his Highness. Wher e upon they wi th— t be with the permission of the Sultan, who returned to Palace of Chiragan." THE MARKETS. COUNrity CORN MARKETS DURING THE Wheat. Barley. I Oats " to t Per Quarter. s. to s. s. s. s. to s. Blandford 51 25 20 g 52 60 36 40 19 2 2 -- .... Cambridge I 55 23 14 30 91 Chard 44 54 21 '26 16 2 0 9 5 Huntingdon..,,,,.. 58 63 21 24 15 2 2 4 4 Long Sutton•—.... 56 64 17 2 2 sg Louth 5O 55 27 32 19 20 31 Lynn .. 48 58 21 26 14 20 Newark 50 61 33 14 2 2 30 05 Nottingham 48 63 25 30 15 Peterborough ... 46 60 23 33 14 22 Plymouth 50 64 30 34 20 2 .... Pontefract.. 67 43 41 0 3 Sleaford 65 70 36 38 22 5 2 1 Uppingliam .000.0 50 59 20 29 16 `2;,, , c1g Wisbech--0— 42 56 20 33 12 :zu ~„. ri LEEDS CORN MA RKET.—May 21. tO 1 0 Wheat, Norfolk and Suffblk, tiOlb. 41 „, 61i. York. and Lincoln. 601 b. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk Yorkshire and Lincolnshire r 2 ' ; to 2 35. Grinding Beans 63lb. t. Oats Potatoe 18 „, to ti. peoo rt , Sealing, For. 12d. to 13d. Shelling Rapeseed, English, 231. to 24. ForeEignng,2*-1195j.. t.0t:0214......°5. 39,1:per r 1 •"0 ----- /I 4 0 MO • 9 4 . LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.--- tO 0 WHEAT, English, White, per 70Ib. Red __ _ 8 g I 'l‘oil l 4 Pt;t 4 4 ~LE, I\l 4 01, A ‘ tt st : , 4 l Scotch, Welch, and Manx Irish, White 7 5 i ; k:,,IIN t --- Red 7 0 9 , .1,741, Foreign 8 6 g / V, t l ll e • o 6 g - li OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b - 5 ', Vtv 2 6 g 0 :,, o a u Foreign 2 2 5 0 g 0 4 k sti : tt N 4 BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 26 9 ) IN Scotch and Irish, per 60Ibs. Feeding 3 7 : 31 0 .. 11 1 ; V BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter 33 ° 5 4 i ' 1 ,,,V 4 44 - Irish, &c. Foreign PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter 4O 0 4 0 0 ! „ Fwreign FLOVR, English, per 280Ib. 43 0 ° 4 6 , 0 \ l .,. tk : t - Irish . 3 9 sp. 0 kit (r. 3 OATMEAL, English and Irish, - 0 INDIAN CORN, per 4401 b. 0 . EVE, per Imperial quarter MALT, per Imperial quarter IMPORT Or GRAIN for the Week ending Dial 'l/1 1 4 , , 41, / Wheat. Oats. I Barley Flour. „ 1 ,.. To t) u et Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Foreign, Brls.llrish,&c. •.'"-- ..." k r , , q 5, - )57 :5,673 15 5, .00 I 3,273 1 :(1' ali It HEALTII.—We regret to state that and fluenza has for some time past visited Yeovil, °aft° spread its influence to a considerable extent. Out tor whole population of rather mare than 6, 000, It; b"gf posed that not less than 5,000 have been attzeke lien we we are happy to say, none, or but a few, have 13 tims to the disease.— Sherborne Journal. Cyh MURDER AT WADDINGTON, NEt a ll THEROE.--011 'I hursday last, a murder wa s - i ll' bert at Waddington, by ROBERT CHATBURN, a 1 1,:ke e l le h that place, upon WILLIAzt SountwonTir, r " $l 4 l , under the following circumstances • —The Pr' w .. - , e itia),* o been drinking at SORTHWORTII'S house . for sev e ' - „sed and on Thursday last he left the house of the deceigitilf", kill a calf, and requested him to go to assist bira,', o f t ; tnere, some one told the deceased, in the heaniTceans prisoner, that he (prisoner) was jealous of the e d Of The deceased replied that if thought lie en tertala ie bi , to r" a ridiculous notion resp•cting him he would g o y r i p (the prisoner) a good thrashing. Soon afte r n lt j a prisoner came out of the slaughter-house wi t ' an d (1 0 :A, in his hand, and went up to the deceased otri him to give him the thrashing which he had Or e l! or The deceased at sight of the knife steppe.) backw!' b 'bor f the prisoner kept following after, until a cart, eibicfortst pened to be standing in the yard, arrested their. progress. The prisoner then seized the deceaselletee4 throat, pulled his head down and stabbed him in t ot atP lo The knife went into his heart ; and he was a I S° sol d in several other places. His body w as ° p ond, id boo doctors found three wounds, each of which We ° . dr y , ciused instantaneous death. Th e verdict of the t•; 5 t' investigating the c ircumstances, before Dixort %41. Or/ Esq., who ofEciated for the coroner, was " 1 1 : n 4 0 der,'' and CIIATBURN was thereupon commi it4o Castle to take his trial for the offence." BIRTHS. s. On the 20th ins t . , at Paris, the lady of the Hon' Cho PI f B urn h a m, of a daughte r, still-born. On the :22.41 i n st., in Dover-street, the lady of Charles T Leigh, Esq., of a daughter. DIED. ° 00 0• 11. 01 ,01 On the 3dinst., at , . Frederic sec ond son of the late Florence Thomas Lieut Lacy Diaonso k nDic of , itetford, Notts., aged 49. p RI NTER Aso Putuu9tiE9 fly MU ROOYO U SUN OFFICE, 112, STIOINN LONDON!