The Sun. — London, England, 1830-10-06 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP TIM PUBLIC JOURNALS. The arrival of Dutch papers to the 4th instant does not put us in possession of any important in telligence of a later date than that which we com municated yesterday. It is admitted (how, indeed, could it be denied ?) that the insurrectionary spirit has acquired an extraordinary vigour by its success at Brussels; and that it every where overpowers the efforts of the Dutch to repress its violence or to arrest its progress. Meanwhile the proceedings of the States-General have ceased to be of any more interest than those of the Council of Trent. It is quite evident that any effectual step which can now be taken,—in the present moment of excitement, and with the present consciousness of success on the part of the Belgians,—to bring about an accom modation, or to arrange preliminaries of peace, must begin with the Belgic Deputies, or the other parties which represent the Belgic people—not at the Hague, but in Brussels. The reported request of 40 Belgic notables to the King to allow his son to proceed to Brussels, may be very well intended on their part, but may be what is called " a reckon. ing without their host." The de Potters, and their republican partisans, are now at the head of affairs in Belgium, and their " high mightinesses" of the States-General are only the subjects of the new Government which de Potter directs. Their invite don, therefore, to the Prince of Orange to proceed to Brussels, may be of little value. had his Royal Highness been as popular as he once was in Bel gium, and had his merits, us the advocate of the project of separation, not been counterbulauced by other eonduct to which we need not more particu larly advert, he would naturally have occurred to the insurgents as the proper person to be placed at their head. But we defer to a future oppor tunity any farther remarks or speculations on this subject. The Brussels and English papers seem, since the repulse of the Dutch troops, to have taken a particular pleasure in dwel ling on the atrocities which they are alleged to have committed during their fruitless at tacks. The accounts which they give are either entire fictions or gross exaggerations, and we feel not a little mortified that any respectable Eng lish journal should have allowed itself to become the 'vehicle of such incredible calumnies. We shall not go over the catalogue of alleged excesses one by one, and point out their gross improbability in the cireumstances of the parties, but shall content our selves with one sample, which ought to have opened the eyes of our contemporary to the character of his authority. After ascribing to the malignity of the Dutch against the English, some misfortunes (such as the death of Lord Blantyre) which are known to have been purely accidental, and some acts of cruelty which, either never occurred or were perpetrated by the Brussels rabble, this inventory of crime has the following most appalling article of intelligence :---- •' An English servant, living in the faubourg of Schaerbeck, was crucified at the door, burnt by a slow fire, and his body pierced with balls and bayonets," We shall not allow ourselves to make a scene of real calamity the subject of profane merri ment; but if we could be tempted to such an act, what a rich treat we should find in the bill of fare here presented by our contetnporary I We are aware that he might have been misled at first by the reverend character of his correspondent, from whom the public may afterwards learn further details, under the captivating title of Dutch Atrocities " Il lustrated," but he should have inquired whether that correspondent might not have the little judg ment which be possesses so perverted by partisan ship, as to make him the dupe of any impostor who personates the character of a Belgic patriot. If be had so inquired, he would have found that his letter writer not only has adopted the side of the Belgians against the Dutch Government—not only has worn the tri-colour of independence—but has actually shouldered the musket with the Burgher Guard. Far be it (tom us to suspect him of exposing his life during the battle, when perhaps he was only 'Welt lug of sap owing the character of his enemies, but the very circumstance of his joining the insurgents invalidates hie testimony on those points in which his Belgic friends had the greatest interest to deceive him. Let him say that he himself saw the cruci fixion and conflagration of an English servant, and we will believe the story, but not till then. In a former age, when our jealousy of the Dutch was to be wrought upon in order to exasperate us to a slecla ration of war, Dryden accuses them of a disposition to "pickle" John Bull,—but never to crucify him. " he Straits, the Guinea-trade, the Herrings too, " Nay, to keep friendship, they will pickle you." It would not have entered into the imagination of the satirist, who has recorded the massacre of Am boyna, and who always allows his enemies a suffi cient portion of revolting cruelty, that a Dutchmen would " crucify, and roast and riddle with bans," the subject of his English ally out of mere pastime, when be might have been so much better employed in killing his Belgic foes. But it would appear now, that with every motive to treat our ancient Allies with kindness, and with none of the ancient rea sons for jealousy, we are to heap upon them every measure of calumny, exclaiming with the satirist whom we have above alluded to:-- 1e Think on their rapines, falsehood, cruelty; " And that which ;motley were, they still would be We beg leave, in conclusion, to point the utter ties of the reader to a most interesting narrative of the conflict between the Royal troops of the King of the Netherlands and his revolted killdeers of Brussels, by a hand very different from the coo. c ontemporery. The narrator per respondent of our tielpated in the scenes which he describes; and as from his known character he may be implicitly re lied pion, his account will tend to correct many errors and misrepresentations. We need scarcely request attention to the Coincidence betweemi the fact. stated by our correspondent, end the estimate which we have given front time to time of the character and strength of the Brussels insurgents.---Timee. It cannot, we imagine, have escaped either die notice or the disgust of many of oar readers, that, shock the death of his late Majesty, (Trent persons, and those, strange to say, professing a more than ordinary high torte of loyalty, have been imlefati gable in the sneers and Omits which they have heaped upon his successor. Nu Oa of our excellent King sad Queen appears to suit the taste of these persona, whose standard of both King and Queenly excellence senate 10 be, that such personages should h ave r ee tiega, and habits us little as possible in unison with those of the reit of mankind. One of the tricks which these persona resorted to, to gratify their spleen, is to allude to reports which they pre feas to discredit, anti then to deal with them es true. Of this we have a striking specimen in a Sunday Paper remarkable fur its taste in Kingly matters, and which, in the saw colonel that it assails King William and Queen Adelaide, holda up its idol, Don Miguel, to universal sympathy mid applause. Among other proofs of her Majesty's excellent on. derstending and correct view of things, she is said to have set her face against much of the tawdry finery which she has found in sonic or all of the Boyel Palaces : and the Kiter, instead of paying high prices, and taking immoderate credit, it is ma, wishes his household to be ses veil upon reasonable terms, and his tradesmen's bills paid whim punctuality. Who can be Hared by these sets—and what reasonable person can find in them nosy but a ground of approbation, we are at a loss to conceive. That they are more in the old English fashion than borrowed from the Migimelite school We " 1 readily imagine, and as tomb are culieduted to please every John i/mull but one. But is it not, we would ask, either the grossest blindness, or the most yarrow) diatortioo of mule right feeling, and com mon woe, for any public writer, who professee to bat a friend to established institutions, thus to per, Vert what he ought to admire into a subject of blame ? Is it, not notorious to every but the most blighted and jaundiced vision that our present King an d Queen are a real ee Gott-seud" to the coinl tr ? And is it not, beyond measure, base and ebsurd, Y iti those who pOSSeaft a more than ordinary sh ame „i loyalty and attechment to crowned heads in general, thus to assail, by unmanly taunts and insinuations, the individuals who have done more to exalt. Royalty in the eyes of the people, and to endear themselves to the hearts of their subjects, then this or any other country has experienced for a long time past ? We will not undertake the invidious task of drawing comparisons, either at home or abroad, but this we will fearlessly affirm, that if, in the present new and uncooked-for state of things in other countries, a man had been asked to suggest a counteracting feel ing in this, he would have prescribed just the course which the personages in question have, in all re spects, adopted.—Morning Herald. We would fain persuade ourselves that there is exaggeration in the accounts of the outrages to which the English at Brussels have been subjected, but we fear that there is too much foundation for them. The letter which we inserted yesterday is from a gentleman who gave us his name, and we have seen no contradictions which were not anonymous. The following letter, on the subject of the death of Lord Blantyre, sufficiently disproves the statement in the Courier of last night, that it was accidental. Our correspondent is a respectable gentleman of this metropolis, and his authority is an officer just returned from Brussels, whom we know to be of unquestionable character : "TO THE EDITOR, OF TIM MORNING CHAONICLR. " Sra,-1n reference to the statement of the Courier in reply to your correspondent, that Lord Blantyre was killed by a random shot whilst in the act of closing a win dow,' and the inference that the death of this excellent Nobleman is not to be attributed to the fury of the Dutch troops, I beg to inform you, that I have just learned from an officer of unquestionable character, who was at Brussels at the time, that Lord Blantyre's house wesfired into by the ferocious Dutch troops, and that his Lordship re ceived the fatal shot on the staircase, as he was descend ing to the ground floor. So much for the Courier's veracity in this particular. " I am, Sir, your humble servant, "London, Oct. ti, 1830." " TRUTH." We insert also the following letter on another point on which we may have been misinformed. The writer has not given his name to us, so that the letter is but anonymous. We can only say that we had heard from several quarters that there were jealousies between the English and the people of E3russels " TO TOR EDITOR or TUE MaENING CHRONICLE. Sza,—Having resided for many years in the Nether. lands, I can positively deny the statement contained in your respectable Paper of this morning, viz.—' That in Brussels it was understood if any English family visited in a Belgian family they:were excluded from English society.' " On the contrary, many of the most respectable Eng lish were on terms of the closest intimacy and friendship with some of the principal families in Belgium, and re ceived the most marked hospitality at their seats in the country, whereas in Brussels they were not in the habit of entertaining. So far from the English despising their acquaintance, they were but too anxious to be permitted to become members of the ' noble balls,' exclusively Bel gian, and were generally admitted with the greatest po liteness. " As a sincere friend to the Belgians, as well as to the House of Orange, from whom the English experienced the greatest kindness and favour, I request you Will con tradict a paragraph so utterly devoid of truth. " The conduct of the Belgians during their late struggle has been most kind and considerate towards foreigners, and more especially to the English. " I remain, Sir, your most obedient servant, "N. 11. W." After all that can be said for the King of the Netherland► and Prince Frederick, we confess we are at a loss to see bow their conduct can be jus tified. The pence-maker Ducpetiaux was treache rously seized while exerting himself to prevent the effusion of blood—u circumstance which certainly wears a most suspicious appearance. Indeed, the whole conduct of the King and his hopeful sons seem► to have been base and inhuman. Allowing even that there might be a diversity of opinion in Brussels, does that justify the employment of a large army to spread havoc and destruction throughout u whole ;city, subjecting all the inhabitants, old and young, to the misery incident to nn assault ? The truth we suspect is, that it was supposed the tle structior► of Brussels, and the horrors consequent on it, tt mild strike terror into the rest of Belgium. This conclusion► forces itself on us when we recol lect the insolent speeches of the Dutch Members of the States-General, and the extent and mode of the preparations for the attack.—Morning Chronicle. Montesquieu, in his " Persian Letters," has a passage which has left, we believe, a disagreeable impression on many a mind : " I have beard (says one of his fictitious corresimmlents) that the sole invention of bombs bad deprived all the na tions of Europe of their liberty. The Princes not being any longer warranted in entrusting the keeping of places to the citizen., who at the first bomb would have surren dered, fam,d a pretext for maintaining large armies of regular troops, with which in the end they oppressed their subjects. Thou knowest that since the invention of gun powder there are no longer any impregnable places ; that is to say, Ilsbeck, that there is no longer any asylum on the earth against injustice and violence." The recent events on the Continent form a very curious commentary um this passage. When Kings and Nobles were the masters of territories, wars were sufficiently intelligible, because the greater the territory the greater the King, and the greater his power to reward his favourites at the expellee of the human cattle in the territory. But in our days Kings are deemed merely the first Magistrates of it people, and not their masters ; and a Government, whether a hereditary or elective King, or a Presi dent for life or it term of years, be at the head of it,• ought to have the people and the people alone in view. Whatever Kings may think, the idea of what belongs to a King is now almost universally entertained. One consequence is ; that the people c annot see hose they can have any interest in making war on any other principle, whereas they see that in almost all cases they may be materially injured by war. it is of no advantage, for instance, to one of the people, that the territory of his country should receive any extension beyond what is necessary for its security. An Englishman may, in that point of view, feel the aecession of Scotland a benefit; but it would have been an injury rather than a benefit to him, had his Kings retained Normandy, Gillum's., end other possessions in France. The people of any one country, too, have an interest in the pros perity of every other country, because one courstry cannot prosper without adding to the prosperity of others. The people, therefore, begin to look on war as uhnost injurious to their interests, and Go. vernmente will soon find it difficult to peri.nede their subjects that a war on any of the grounds on which wars have hitherto been waged in Europe, me either just or necessary. Sovereigns, as Montes (pike observes, obtained armies to make war on , neighbouring nations, fuel with these armies they were enabled to keep down their own subjects. But here a new light has been thrown On human affairs by the recent events on the Continent. A regular army ' can form but a small part of the population of any given country; and where a Government chooses to employ an army against the people, the latter, in large towns, without the aid of discipline, can over power the former. The F rowth of towns, in con sequence of increased civilization, has , thus added to the means of resisting oppression. We may now, therefore, take a more cheerful view time that opened to us by Montesquieu—there are now num berless asylums against Governments which abuse their trusts, It may be true that no place would he r oof against a large army which should regularly invest it, and open more powerful 'metics than those of the defence. But in any given country the people are greatly the majority, and before a Government could assemble a large army round any one place well provided with the materials of de struction, the general indignation would rouse the inhubitants of every other town to assist the threatened town. it is only, therefore, when an invading army has beaten and dispersed the oppos ing army, and directs an overwhelming force against a particular place, that it can be in much danger. But the people ought to secure themselves still fur ther. But before noticing the security to which we allude, we shall hay a word or two respecting the great criminals at Lulworth Castle, and in the pri sons in France. The King, as well as his Mini sterol, are unquestionably violators of the law. But what is the object of punishment? To deter by example. We question, however, whether any man, who has made up his mind to attempt to eb rain the absolute mastery of a kingdom, would be deterred by the consideration of failure involving loss of life. Neither do we believe that there would be any want of ambitious men to second him in this grand game, because failure might be attended with capital punishment. Ambition is not so easily turned from its projects. As far, therefore, as example, the only justifiable end of punishment is concerned, it is thrown away in the case of Kings and .Ministers whose lives are taken. But there is a case in which lives may be taken with benefit, in the way of example. An Officer execut ing the orders of a Minister is but a very inferior actor, and he cannot, therefore, take so deep an in• terest in the drama of ambition that capital punish , ment should not have its influence on him. It might, therefore, be not amiss to have it understood that every officer who acts against his fellow-citizens should pay with his life the blood that is shed. As it is, the people have everywhere instinctively the good sense to pick out the officers, viewing them very properly as the great criminals. Were this consequence to follow attacks on the people, Go vernments would not so easily find tools for their criminal designs against the people, and would be under the necessity of attending more to the wishes and interests of the people. It is highly gratifying to know (and we can rely on our authority) that in the struggle in the Netherlands the Belgian soldiers refused to fire on their countrymen, and that even in regiments in which Dutchmen were mixed with Belgians, the former were awed by the latter, and also refused to fire. The Dutch regiments alone, therefore, yielded obedience to the bloodthirsty man dates of the Government. Much pains have, we know, been taken to keep this information out of the ipers, but it is correct. 'Whenever, therefore, a Government abuses its trust, and uses the means committed to it for the protection of the people for their destruction, there is room to hope that it will not be seconded by the soldiers. We said, on the outset of the French disturbances, before the result was known, that we were sure the soldiers could easily be gained over. Indeed it is almost impos sible that soldiers should not share the feelings which are common to a whole nation. We foresee in all this great good to the world. A weak Mi nistry is a good Ministry; a weak Government is a good Government. We would allow of no power able to controul a nation.—Morning Chronicle. A public meeting was held yesterday (Mr. Owen in the chair) on the subject of the Press of England, and for the purpose of devising the best means of giving knowledge to the people, which calls for a few observations from us. Of the cha racter given of this Paper at the meeting we have little cause to complain, and shall merely observe that however its profits may be destined, it has always maintained a straight forward and honest course, and that while, it has never been the ad vocate of any party, it has never failed in making those observations on the conduct of all which a sense of their merits or demerits prompted. With regard also to the statement which was made by Mr. Richard Taylor, that " only one Paper in the metropolis had advocated the abolition of the News paper stamp duty," (we do not know to which Paper he alluded) we must enter our caveat as to its in accuracy. The abolition in question has been ad vocated, not by us only, but, we believe, by the Press generally, and we may mention as a fact, of which no doubt need be entertained, that our evening cotemporary " Thc Sun" has exerted same o h r e points ot. itselfw e however, strenuously tliese m i t in t disagr P ee a m ss e in n g t, b le y e cheerfully. give our consent to the proposal, that all taxes on newspapers, and on printing materials ge nerally, should be abolished; and we do it not solely on the ground that we are not liable to suffer by the change, but on that of the benefit which would accrue to the community from the greater diffusion of knowledge, and of the great increase of employ ment and revenue which would result from it ; for weie the taxes which affect newspapers in all their departments reduced even one-half, there can be no doubt that the quantity of them con sumed would be doubled—that the revenue would be benefited instead of being injured—that more employment would be found in every depart ment; and, lastly, what no doubt will appear selfish consideration, that twice or thrice the num ber of papers that are now sold would be demanded by the public. The taste, in fact, for newspaper reading is universal, and it is only the pressure of the taxes imposed on newspapers, and the materials of which they are composed, which prevent them from being more generally circulated. Similar ob servations apply to the transmission of literary pub lications in the shape of pamphlets. It would take nothing from the revenue to render the passage of such articles to and fro as free as the air we breathe; while, from the increased number which would be published in consequence of the facility, it would gain indirectly to a great extent, and the commer cial end working community he at the same time greatly benefited.—Morning THE TREATY OF VIENNA. The Russian Ambassador has had several in terviews with the Earl of Aberdeen and the Duke of Wellington. Th e Duke, we under stand, has been strongly urged to interfere in behalf of the King of the Netherlands ; and the Ambassador has declared that he is bound to do so by the treaty of Vienna. A Cabinet Council assembled this afternoon after twelve o'clock, and remained in deliberation until nearly seven. The result did not transpire ; but it is believed the question has not been decided. Messengers were despatched to the Continent, but for what purpose we do not pretend to say. it is asserted in the best informed circles, th a t in terference, on King has declared against any on the ground of impolicy, although he wishes good faith to be kept. This evening, a mes senger was sent off to the King at Brighton ; and the Duke of Wellington intends to visit his Majesty immediately. The opinion of the Duke, three weeks ago, was, that the separation of Belgium from Holland should not be per mitted ; but circumstances have changed, and so, we trust, has the Duke's opinion. As the treaty of Vienna (25th March, 1815) has been again alluded to, although we have suf ficiently stated our opinion on the subject else where, we Wall give the substance of that treaty here, that our readers may have an equal oppor tunity with ourselves of coming to an imp ar tial ,judgment on the subject of so much importance. The parties to the treaty are the King of Eng land, the Emperors of Austria .and Russia, and the King of Prussia. The preamble states, that the treaty had been entered into in con sideration " of the invasion of France by Napo leon Bonaparte," and the danger to the safety of Europe which might ensue " from the actual situation of that kingdom ;" and expresses the determination of the Allied Powers to apply to the case of France " the principles consecrated by the treaty of Chaumont (Ist March, 1814.) By the first Article, the Allied Powers engage to unite their arms, " for the purpose of maul ing entire the treaty of peace concluded at Paris on the 30th March, 1814," and " the stipula tions determined upon at the Congress of Vie 'nat to " preserve th em aga i nst all infringe iT►enit,ri,tiid particularly against the designs of Napoleon Bonaparte." By the second Article, the contracting parties agree to keep each in the field a force of 150,000 men. By the third, they agree. not to lay down their arias " until the objects of the war, designated in the first article," shall be attained. Article 4th runs thus :—" The present treaty being prin cipally applicable to the present circum stances, the stipulations of the treaty of Chaumont, and particularly those contained in the 16th Article of the same, shall be again in force as soon as the object actually in view shall have been attained." Article sth refers the ar• rangement of details to a separate convention. Article 6th relates to the appointment and powers of the Commanders of the Allied forces. In Article 7th the other Powers are invited to join in the treaty. Article Bth, which we have noticed elsewhere, we shall here give at length.—" The present treaty having no other end in view but to support France, or any other country which may be invaded, against the en terprises of Bonaparte and his adherents, his Most Christian Majesty shall be specially in vited to accede hereunto ; and, in the event of his Majesty's requiring the forces stipulated in the second article, to make known what assist ance circumstances will allow him to bring for ward in furtherance of the object of the present treaty." His most Christian Majesty, it is well known, declined the invitation through the Prince de Talleyrand ; and the refusal of the latter to ad here to this treaty was one of the must popular acts of his political life. 41, The 16th Article of the treaty of Chaumont, to which allusion is made above, is as follows : " As it is the object of the present treaty of defensive alliance to maintain the balance of power in Europe, to insure the repose and in dependence of the different Powers, and to pre vent the arbitrary violations of the rights and territories of other States, by which the world has suffered for so many years together, the con tracting Powers (the same as in the treaty of Vienna) have agreed to fix the duration of the present treaty for twenty years ; reserving it to themselves, if circumstances should require it, to proceed to the prolongation of it three years be fore its expiration." Perhaps it would be difficult to frame an arrticle that more expressly prohibits all interfe rence than this does, unless when an " arbitrary violation of the rights and territories of other States," is attempted. If Prussia enter Holland, we might, by strict interpretation of the treaty of Chaumont, be bound to resist her troops. There was another treaty of Vienna, besides the one of which we have given a summary. It was never published, the cause of its being en tered into having been of a temporary nature. It is only worth noticing because of the curious fact that the Emperor of Russia was not one of the contracting parties. It was indeed framed with a view to hold him in check. So much for the strength of that bond which united the four Allied Powers, only ten short months after the treaty of Chaumont I The second treaty of Vienna was dated January, 1815.—Spectator. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. ?dANSION.HOUSE. Yesterday Mr. Hunt's charge a jainst Mr. Tickner was formally brought before the LORD MAYOR. Mr. Hunt stated to the Lord Mayor that he had applied at the office of the Commissioners of Sewers on the preceding day, to know whether • the 321. which Mr. Tickner said he had paid had or had not been paid, and he had received an answer in the negative, with, however, a request that he would call in the morning, when he should be answered more particularly. He had called accordingly, but he could get no information. Mr. Tickner would, however, most probably be able to explain. Mr. Tickner—The books are here, and now what is your specific charge against me ? Mr. Hunt—l charge you, that being one of the public officers of the City, a Common Councilman of the Ward of Farringdon without, you appropriated to your own use a quantity of pavement belonging to the City of London. lam prepared with evidence, and I con tend that it is a great act of impropriety in any public officer to be concerned in the purchase or sale of any property so circumstanced. He then proceeded with his proofs. John Dwyer, a labourer, had been employed by Mr. Dupree twelve years, and had left him on the 28th of lust September. He now worked for a Mr. Barton, in Bartholomew-close. (Here he pro duced a written character from Mr. Dupree). He had worked for Mr. Dupree during the new paving of Fleet-street. Part of the old pavement had bees taken to Mr. Tickner's tan-yard, at Bermondsey, and part to the City stone-yard. The LORD MAYOR—Did you see the stones taken to Mr. Tickner's yard ? Witness had assisted in loading Mr. Tickner's cart with the atones, but be had not seen them conveyed to Bermondsey. Mr. Hunt--It is admitted that the stories are there ? Mr. Tickner—Certainly I admit the fact. Witness could not on his oath say how many toes of the stones had been carried to Mr. Tickner's yard. He thought there were about 250 tons.— Fifteen or sixteen men were laying them down for five or six weeks in the yard and the entrance to the premises. Mr. Tickner addressed the Lord Mayor. Ho was prepared to prove the gross falsehood of the imputa tion against him. It was true that Mr. Dupree had been employed by the house to which he be longed to repair the pavement of the tan-yard, and that that gentleman had purchased of the Commis sioners of Sewers 60 tons of the old granite which had been taken out of Fleet-street. That stone had been purchased at the highest price, and there were clerks and vouchers present in proof of the correct ness and integrity of the whole proceeding. In the bill furnished to the house, the item of 32/. 3s. 9d. appeared for the old pavement furnished by Mr. Dupree, which sum Mr. Dupree had paid to the Commissioners. He should prove by the evidence of i surveyor that the value had been given for the material, and if Mr. Hunt was not satisfied lie would pay any other surveyor most willingly for ascertain ing that fact. Mr. Tickner then said that it appeared to be a humiliating thing to be the subject of a charge of fraud, with which he would certainly have been ceihtayrgtocalliiiise if f w h r u he trail llasde ;ppropriteed the p r op er ty o f th e but he would most willingly, if it was found that he had given one farthing less for the material than it was worth, admit the justice of the imputation. He had conceived that it was quite as fair for Mr. Dupree to purchase the atone from the Commissioners for him as for others, but an evil and injurious construction had been put upon that transaction, Mr. Hunt—You stated that some of the stone had been sold to Mr. M'Adam. Tickner should prove that it had been sent to the city-yard to be broken up for Mr. NPAdain, to whom it had bean d►sposed of. He had the books of the Com►nissioners of Sewers, which were evi dence by Act of Parliament. After . a great deal of unimportant matter was stated upon both sides, — Mr. Hunt said the transaction appeared to him to b e quite as extraordinary Et 3 he expected to find it. lie was happy that he had brought forward the case. Mr. Tickner bad acted improperly, and, he thought, ill ega lly. The Members of the House of Commons, which the Court of Common Council imitated, dared not to act in sock a manner. The Loup MAvort—l have heard all, and I must sa y, Mr. Hunt, that your charge is not sustained. Mr. Hunt---I don't say it has been sustained. The parties then left the Justice-room. BOWATRIttr. Larry Heiman, Jerry lieernan, and Timothy Barrow, three sons of the sister kingdom, whose features had been made to bear a striking resemblance to each other by the application of divers and sundry black eyes, broken noses, and other " marks," too numerous to mention, were yesterday brought before Mr. MINSHULL, by Police-serjeant Rogers, and some of his " privates,' charged with having done serious damage to the head of John Murray, a friend of their's, with a quart . pot. Murray was said to have received so much injury as to render his removal to the hospital necessary, and to make the time of his appearance before the Bench, to give his evidence, a matter of uncertainty. In the mean time there was no testimony forth- I coming to bring home to either of the prisoners the commission of the assault with the pot; but there was abundance to prove that they were more active and sprightly in the " skrimmage ' than any of the other boys engaged in it. The scene of the row was a public-house, situate in More -street, St. Giles's, where the defendants, their friend Murray ' and many others, their " friends and countrymen , ' had assem bled for relaxation, after the exercise of their import ant and fatiguing duties at the King's College during the day. Whether it was a question of mathematics or theology which led to the breach of the peace none of the witnesses could tell, but the majority agreed that in the midst of " the taalk" some jontle man gave the lie to another jontleman, which jontle man was not Mr. Timothy Barrow; but that never theless Mr. Timothy Barrow " up with his crutch" and knocked that jontleman on the head, " which of coorse" was the signal for a general skrimrnage, and as they all " took and gave" according to their abi lity, it was only Jack Murray's bad luck that he got so much of it, " and no fault of their's." The defendants, one and all, declared that they " took it the airiest of any of 'em," and that in fact " they was not in condition to do much that night in regard of fightin." Mr. Timothy Barrow solemnly averred that "the crutch went to work, assisted by the quart pot, but nobody could see who held 'em 1" He was quite sute he did not, and so said his companions. Mr. MINSHULL, notwithstanding, ordered them to be detained in custody until John Murray shall be well enough to appear and give his evidence. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Yesterday Mrs. 8- C-, the lady who has been some days in custody, charged with stealing a piece of lace from the shop of Mr. Warde, a linen draper and haberdasher, in Piccadilly, and in whose possession, when searched, the sum of nearly 8000/. in Bank of England notes and India bonds was found, was brought before Mr. Ron and Mr. Draa, the presiding Magistrates, for final examination. From an early hour in • the morning the office was crowded to excess, so great was the interest excited by the already published account of the prisoner's apprehension under such circumstances, and amongst those present were several females of fashionable ap pearance, but who they were or what, if anything beyond curiosity led them there, we could not learn, for there seemed to be a good deal of well-arranged mystery wrapped round the prisoner's history, her connexions, and friends. In the crowd, too, we ob served a pretty thick sprinkling of men of the law, induced thither, no doubt, by the most disinterested and benevolent feelings towards the prisoner, and with no consideration whatever to the published ac count of the lady's wealth, and we understand, in deed, that some of them had the great humanity and kindness to visit her in prison, and offer her their gratuitous services. The prisoner, who appeared to have suffered much from mental anguish since her imprisonment, was placed before the Magistrates in custody of the gaoler of Totkill-fields prison, where she has been conned. The first witness who was called to have his de position taken down by Mr. Fitzpatrick, the chie clerk, was Mr. Page Warde, who deposed that he was a linendraper and haberdasher, residing at No. 51, Piccadilly; that on Tuesday the 28th of September last, about half-paat three o'clock in the afternoon, he went up stairs to his ware-room from his shop, leaving no one in the shop but a young lad, h is ap prentice. A short time before he went up stairs he had sold several articles of goods to a lady, one of his regular customers, which he was to send home, but he had not yet packed them up, and they lay on the counter. He had not been up stairs above half an hour when the apprentice rang the bell for him to come down, and when he did, he found the pri soner with the apprentice in the shop, and she said that she wished to see Mrs. Warde ; but Mrs. Warde being just then engaged, he told the prisoner she would be down in a few minutes, and be then set about packing up the articles that lay on the counter, and which were to be sent home. In doing so he missed some yards of lace that had been rolled up, and he searched about in every direction, but could see nothing of it, and he questioned the ap prentice respecting it, hut the latter told him he had not seen it, and said that no one had been in the shop since he (Mr. Wards) went up stairs, except the prisoner, lie (Mr. \Verde) then questioned the prisoner, but she denied all knowledge of the lace, and seemed very indignant at being suspected. He however told her that the lace was gone, and that the apprentice and herself were the only persons in the shop since he had placed the lace on the counter ; that he could not suspect his appren tice, and that, reluctant as he was to adopt such a proceeding, he must insist on her being searched. To this proposal she immediately assented, and said she had not the slightest ob jection to be searched, and asked him to search her then on the spot where she stood. He told her that he could not think of either searching her him self, or having her searched in so public a place as th e shop, but begged of her to step up stairs and that Mrs. Warde would there search her. To this she strongly objected, and on Mrs. Warde being called down she wished again to be searched in the shop, but Mrs. Warde would not do so, and at last, after a great deal of difficulty, the prisoner was in duced to go up stairs, when witness shut her into a private room with Mrs. Warde, and left them toge ther. In a few minutes Mrs. Warde rang the bell, and on his going up stairs she told him that the pri soner would not permit her to search her. He then told the prisoner that he was quite satisfied she had die lace in her possession, and that if she did not submit to be searched quietly he should send for a p o li ce constabl e and give her into his custody. Upon hie saying this the prisoner put her hand into her bosom arid drawing out the roll of lace threw it down upon the table, saying " there it is." He then sent for a police constable and gave both the prisoner and the lace into his charge. The lace now produced was the same that the prisoner had taken, and was worth only 13s. although it contained five yards and a half. Mrs. Mary Warde confirmed the evidence of the lust witness. Police constable No. 16, letter C, was called in by Mr. Ward° to take charge of the prisoner and the lace now produced, which he accordingly did, and on examining a reticule, which the prisoner car ried in her hand, he found a very large roll of lace and a lace cap, which he also produced. Mr. Ron said that he was not aware of this latter fact, that any other lace was found on the prisoner. It was not stated on the former day, as it ought to have been. If it had, the fact might have got be fore the public, and an owner might have been found for this lace also. Mrs. \Verde said that as to the cap she really be lieved it was one the prisoner was bringing to her as a pattern to make others from. This being the whole of the evidence, the pri soner was fully committed for trial, and all the wit nesses were bound over to prosecute, but the Ma gistrates gave directions that the unfortunate lady should not be removed to Newgatc until the lateit day before the Sessions that the law required. The police inspector, who had charge of the large amount of property found by him on the prisoner, asked what he was to do with it ?—Mr. 'WE desired him to give it all back to the prisoner, and to he very sure that he gave it into no other bands than her own. To take her alon'e into a private room, and count it alt over to her. See that she wrs tisfied it was right, and take her written acknow• ledgment for it. TOWN-HALL Mr. George Willson, of the firm of Willson and Bankchoffer, tobacconists, Toolerstreet,was charged with assaulting Francis Baukchoffer, , the son of bis partner. Mr. Alderman AmEY—You must find bail tO keep the peace. Mr. Willson immediately put in bail, the Who of the complainant expressing bis determination to indict him at the Sessions. THE BEER TRADE. Several licensed victuallers in different parts of the metropolis have already reduced the price of porter, some to 4d. per pot, some 3d. and some 3d. No reduction has, however, yet been made by the London brewers, nor have they . agreed upon the price which they intend to charge the licensed victuallers after the 10th inst., when the New Beer Act will come into operation. The publicans complain loudly of this reduction in their profits, but they console themselves that the consumption will be greater. The small brewers, living in London and ite vicinity, have forwarded circulars to the P r ' prietors of different oyster shops, eating hoots, coffee shops, and other places in town , where it is supposed beer will be sold under the n ew Act, soliciting orders, and promising that t h e beer shall be cheap and of a very superior quality. This must hare the effect of greatly injuring the trade of the principal brewers, and compe l them to reduce the price of their beverage , p robably much lower than they contemplated. The p rice of a butt of beer at this time to the publicans is about 71., and the profit they calculate upon as fair remuneration for the heavy outlay necessary to cover their expeuces, and y ield a chase of a house, is about 35 per cent. , or price 04 butt in their cellar, guineas a butt. In lowering thein the put' of porter to 3d. r pot the y complain that they l ose 30s upon each ance will be made to them by the brewer. goy hssfo heurlshops selling couldn, publicans gohuaste: houses have bfo e deno b tehr e t ah e ot n e ewxdaheenei contrary,sc x pc h i troi atput t lico t y i ngi our giant d greatly tt v dispose ee a s u i des end ed cow 071 n ::r houses before the new Act came into operate' v s t a a t t a e a tthtahte reduced in value, and rather large sums The dents' lass r euycedwpilrlices.usta:rnheyle C erta inly abt wi ll in e ut as cold weather is coming on, beer sustain loss in the diminished sale; they will not have occasion to brew so much i s they have been in the habit of doing. is derstand that some of the principal brews s h i s h declared that they will not supply houses / P 1 ,, e are to be opened under the new Act; Pt' apprehend, therefore, that the small brewers wm step in and have a most excellent trade. The Act provides that any householder ei-J retail beer, ale, and porter, on obtaining alice, l 3.! from the Commissioners of Excise, for wn*_ two guineas is to be paid ; but that license wr. not authorize the party to receive any liecnee will keep, an d sell or retail wines or spirits. No license 15 be granted to a Sheriff's officer or nona ls. holder. The . party requiring a license is went into a bond with sureties for payment of pe: o ties. No person licensed will be competanYi be a surety. Persons licensed to retail heo to put up boards stating their Christian surname, and that they are " Licensed 1 0 Z o beer by Retail." Twenty pounds pons ai 7 ' selling beer without licence. The stand al.s Retailers permitting sures are to be used. drunkenness or disorderly conduct in their hntt hi st: are to be fined, for the fi rst offence lot le r an d 40s. : the second offence not less than 5 : ; The for the third offence not less than "t• eer y penalties for adulterating beer are As° heavy. The Act also provides that jnf ri l in houses shall not b e open before fou r 01 7 0 r on the morning, nor a ft e r ten at nig ht 's - fivo Sunday between ten and one or three an ion the day. The penalty for selling beef t ory these hours is 405., for every offence ; anu usic a. separate sal e i s t o b e declared a separate 01a ;; Jer Licenses to retail cyder may be granted, ion° the regulati o n s o f thi s Act on parnen'tho Ml guinea ; the p rov i s i ons and penalties of te.rust with respect to the sale of beer to a PP IY of cyder.—Observer. --- -- Tine TURKS.--The mystery wh ich Tint die' hitherto shrouded the Moslem character, lo tt l e ng th eari pelled by the publication of Dr. Alannetea estrath--,-0,0 Tale entitled " The Blussulnian, or Life ill, L sr i i - rit ' l which exhibits a glowing picture of this eatri"--0,00- people. It is not a little sing l that the °tr l e s t sight by Dr. Man i -u ,art, togs Alt?f, his slYllos 1.• i d toe g of, uto the period of his death. It titlnp." dot e D v r er, xi without the risk of his life on various .-- ..113DEN was enabled to perfect his design. nit e nbet oul .t . Under the date of the liague, ScP t io , e— i i4i r i r.v k n statt..(l that the troops who had isle pru. ' °111441- tig at Ostend, pulled down the oi-coloured fiskori,r, they found displayed there, and restored the leg al °°l° . The h i e as cal. weather still continues as favotirsu F umy. be expected, andthe is day adding considerably to the grain alreadY ht of de yard,_ ce and the late gloomy apprehensions a * girl t O. hi t harvest are beginning to he forgotten."'"Pc° s f The hops grown at Crondale this yea are O f them sosuperior a description, that the growers are asich t s tn the extraordinary price of 14/. the cwt. h ---------.....------- of BIRTHS. . I J. Pettigrew, rm On the-4th inst. th ville.row, of a daug e lady of T. hte a (halite+ theli'll Sa On the 3d inst. at Underdown , Derefor ' a u ardh of Lieut.-Colonel Drummond, of ll'e C°ld6tryain or a daughter. rook, flantss -.1 of Sir C. On the 2d inst. at Milh the 14 Dalrymple, of a son. l r. y r second (laughter of Lord , MA RRIED• s, v. i On the sth inst. at Tooting , %hi -- 11 ; f ' Y.OI•P ° D.D.,Emily, to F • t iYw' "' Upper Tooting. . the volt In. the 7th of April, at Gurrsti: al u tlia llj ent l6l.l l v! li t ' : d_itl, Lieutenant Wm. Alston, 6Stn '' fantry, to Penelope Chrichton, Or a d ' u tt gb t t ; r la u g fe ' '''eu ' Colonel S. P. Bishop, coinutanding ld t h a t E a/cefr On the 4th inst. at 13irmitigharn, theigel'coorinit sail, second son of J. Eckersall, E* 4 1.!.. °1 —t. 1 thl u g lP. Lodge, Somersetsbire , to Mary Ala Wallis, sin f ter of the late R. Wallis, Esq., a sirmingh.Tl: copeops On the 30th tilt. at Ilishopsgate, Car i° 1 to ffia ° ' youngest son of N. Contop, E.g., of Eolith ~ da u g hter of W. Bargeas, Esq., of the sam e P l° ‘ °. DIED. f ISO'. 5 " Ou the 3d inst. Elizabeth, eldest daugbtor °- Hayward, of Claptou. ~,,,Aw o rths On the 3d inst. Mr. John rtitsou, late a .- aged 74. . 000 4 On the Sd inst. Mr. J. Chappell, of Wino.. Leieester-square, aged 65. tea' 10 pi On the Ist inst. at Brighton, D. Shirley, Lime street, in Lis 71st year. Polt e°6‘ On the Ild inst. Mr. J. Morrill, of Little street, Gulden-square, aged bl . tid led W iii On the 4th inst. Mrs. Rebecca Corp, the -- i -° I: of Mr. W Lieut W. Corp, of Peckha m. I). Ca litl On the 22(1 ult. at Hammersmith, . R. N, aged 36 . On the 2 6 th ult. the infant daughterof the Irott* l'id°' t e nant-Colonel Seymour Malaga. Malmo, L o t . . 0010 On the 50th ult. at Chelsea, E. Middle Temple, aged 76. ....e. -- Patistan Aall ) PUHLPIHED as' MURDO Yotn 4 ' Ttian S U N Ovies, 112, STRAND, LOW'