The Sun. — London, England, 1833-12-11 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Tory party seem well aware of the im pression produced upon public opinion by the meetings in tie north, held as a tribute of esteem and honour to Lord Durham, but especially by the manner in which that nobleman improved the two occasions thus afforded him of explain ing his sentiments on the vast question of reform, and on those high principles of consti tutional liberty, by the assiduous and judicious enforcement of which alone can any measure bearing the name of a Reform Bill be made available to results of much practical benefit to the nation. No circumstance appears to hare stung the anti-constitutional factions on both sides more severely than the declaration of Lord Durham that the principle of reform must be laboriously followed out in its details, until the great end of solid good government shall have been securely accomplished. The Tories have been rendered desperate, because they see that not an inch of ground whereon to rally, and not an hour of breathing-time, will he left to them. The Destructives are dismayed at the full redress of constitutional grievances which has been recognized as inevitable by one so lately an important member of the Cabinet, and still the near connexion of its Chief,—a redress of grievances which must extinguish all pretence for the asaults of political mountebanks on the body of our institutions, and must thus cut away the whole influence of incendiary de magogues over the simple-minded, who might otherwise be deceived by the plausibility of their schemes, and over the unprincipled who might join in them from the possible chance of their succeeding. We observe that our contemporaries are perplexing their readers with statement and counter-statement upon the question whether any recent effort has or has not been made to re store Lord Durham to the Cabinet, and what has been or is likely to be its result. We cannot, of course, know what has passed within the walls of the secret Council Chamber, nor will the public be inclined to measure the credit due to the assertions of other journals by the loudness or pertinacity of those who risk them ; but, whether Lord Durham comes into the Cabinet again or not, one observation will meet with many approvers—viz., that the Noble Earl ought to be there. Lord Durham's health may not be vigorous, nor have we any materials for judging as to his Lordship's disposition upon the sub ject of returning to office ; but sure we are, that if energy, firmness, the love of liberty, political consistency, and sagacity, possess claims to power in a free state or to Royal confidence, Lord Durham is one of the men in England who ought most speedily to be invested with the insignia of both.— Times. We call attention to the well-tempered and well-reasoned letter of " A Lawyer" on the case of " Dicas v. Lord Brougham." It sets the matter at rest. We do not remember, in the whole annals of flictious malice, anything so base as the conduct of the Tory papers on this occasion. We quite absolve the Tory leaders from any participation in this dirty work. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—l know of no case in which there has been ex hibited such a total disregard of all attention to the real facts of the case, nor in which such groundless insinua tions have been made, as in the observations of the Morning Post as to the case of " Dices against the Lord Chancellor," copied also into some of the Sunday papers. Whatever the Solicitor General contradicted he is stated to have admitted ; but, not to refer again to the clear explanatory statemen► of Mr. Riley, I need only quote f.r the Chancellor's justification the finding of the jury, as stated by the Morning Post itself—viz. that they found for the defendant independently of the point of law. The Fold complains that Dims was confined for several months under the Chancellor's warrant, but it omits to state that that was under the second warrant, the accu racy of which is not questioned ; and, further, that he was charged with various other debts, and got released from all, not from any defect in the commitment, but from the operation of the lasolverit Debtbrs' Act ; but, what is of still more importance, and which, in truth, has induced me to trouble you on the subject, is the statement made, that if the law laid down by Lord Lyndhurst be correct, a man may be committed without cause, and without remedy. Judges may be impeached for misconduct, or be removed from their offices for that cause, or for incapacity, but if the Judges were to be liable to have actions brought against them by every insolent debtor whom, in their judicial ca pacity, •they may commit to prison, their salaries would soon be exhausted by costs alone. If wrong be done, however, there is an ample pecuniary remedy open always to the sufferer. The pary who seeks to have another committed is bound to have all the documents correct on which he founds his complaint, and if he fails to do so, he is answerable in damages to the party aggrieved, and no man knows better than Mr. Dices, that if he had had a case for damages, he would have had an easy and certain remedy against the creditors at whose suit he was com mitted, but his letters to the Chancellor show that he thought he might extract some money from him, although he was sure to fail against the only party who, as he knew, was accountable to him. Every one knows that by making an affidavit of debt, you may have your debtor arrested and sent to prison by process from the common law courts, and, as was dated by the Solicitor-General, it is the daily practice to have prisoners discharged iu consequence of some defect in such affidavits, but it never occurred to any one that the Judges by whose authority the at rtst took place, were liable to an action for damages. A LAWYER. Times. We have given an abridgment of a report in the Leeds Mercury of a meeting of the Indepen dents and Baptists of Leeds on Tuesday last, on the subject of their grievances. This meet ing, we are informed by that paper, has already excited a powerful interest throughout the coun try, and it may be taken, we believe, as a signal for a general movement thrOughout the coun try. " The Dissenters (observes the Journal to which we have alluded) are strong in their numbers, wealth, and influence ; but they are still stronger in the justice of their cause. We feel confident, indeed, that no Administration would venture to treat with lightness their ►►ell founded demands for redress ; but the Dissenters have a peculiar claim upon the favourable atten tion and zealous assistance of the present Minis ters, as they have always been the consistent and uncompromising advocates of those li beral measures, the profession of which placed, and the support of which has maintained, Ministers on the high ground on which they stand." Scotland is also in motion on Church' matters ; but there the object is to free the ~,Church from what the Church itself has always ..7 , p4otested against—namely, the thralbm of I )itttonage imp ose d upon i t by t h e T or y Minis iffif Queen Anne. The Dissenters in Scot :A l ik na.only so far differ from the Church, that the latter would wish to be as free as the Dissenters, WA, follow the Presbyterian standards of doc ' 'fflice and discipline, without being subject to AeParliatnentary impositions. At the annual ~,!meeting of the Society for the Abolition of Church Patronage, at the 'Waterloo H ote l, Edinburgh, on Monday, last, which was nume rously and respectably attended, Dr. APCrie, ,AIK, most learned man perhaps in Britain at this,day, gave the following eloquent description i , olthe Scottish Church : b 2. $l , Tite Church of Scotland is essentially the people's S•AClturch. It is not a Itoyal Church, nor 4 Parliitotnt ,, ry •Nlielititetii. • It is not,tite4shurch of the Aristocracy, nor of tgorPifirbtivoritotrsi tiwailitier.AA i tuba ntit:4l. ens 411 . 1 the people ; the Church would never bays survived Lir persecutions; after the last standard-bearer had fallen, the banner of Presbytery was kept waving on the mountains of Scotland by the people, when there was not a minister who dared to dispense among them her ordinances. When it ceases to be the Church of the People, it ceases to be the Church of Scotland—its establishment is under mined. This point the Rev. Doctor illustrated by refer ence to the words of the Act 1690. There was no need for alarm at the expression, the People's Church. The people of Scotland know that to preserve their liberty, it is necessary that they submit to auto rity—that authority they recognise as Scriptural. Presbytery they consider to be founded on the Word of God, and they have ever shown a spirit of conscientious and cheerful obedience to her office-bearers, whether within or without an Esta blishment. The restoring of the rights of the people did not imply that the-e were to be exercised without the control of regul , r authority, of 'the judgment of the Eldership,' which has it always in its power to lay down such rules as are necessary for the preservation of peace and good order, and for the preventing of injury to these ereat interests for which all rights are bestowed."—Morn. Chronicle. The Ministerial papers have lately been amusing their readers with a paragraph, copied from some Whig oracle of local intelligence, stating that the assessed taxes in Wiltshire, we believe, or some part of the West of England, have never been paid so punctually and with so much alacrity as at the present time ; and that this tax paying devotion manifests a decided de termination in the people of that part of the kingdom to support the present Government. The thing is strange, if true, and all who be lieve the statement can have no doubt of the " desperate fidelity" of the tax payers of Wilt shire to the Government under which they are so liberally taxed. It must be, indeed, a much more agreeable circumstance to Ministers to hear of combinations to pay taxes than cornbi nations to refuse them. For our own part, we have shown that we do not approve of the latter, and are glad to see that the ill-advised resistance to the payment of the assessed taxes in London has nearly died away. We also think that those people who combine to pay taxes, and are as fond of the visits of the tax collector as the eels are said to be of the ope ration which prepares them for the gridiron, should be allowed that pleasure as long as they please to enjoy it. We suspect, from what has happened within the last two years, that the tradesmen, the shopkeepers, and the middle classes in general of the metropolis, are not quite so ambitious of being flayed alive by the merciless hand of taxation as those of Devizes. They would gladly leave to the latter the proud satisfaction of the fiscal martyrdom to which they offer themselves with a more than Roman devotion—snore especially as they are of opinion that the enhancement which Peel'e Bill made in the currency, and consequently in the whole mass of taxation, to which it did not add less than twenty annual millions in value, has more than compensated for all the taxes which have been taken off since the war, and therefore the reduction has been by no means carried so far as the people in this the eighteenth year of peace had a right to expect. The illegal re sistance to the assessed taxes may, indeed, be considered at an end; but the constitutional battle against those war imposts will be strengthened in ttead of weakened by that event. The warof peti dons will succeed to the war of passive resistance. The promises of the reform representatives will be put to the test next session, and they must decide between the smiles of the Minister and the suffrages of the people; for we do not think, from what we have observed, that the candid Lord Althorp will give way until he finds that the " obstinacy" which beat the French at Waterloo becomes too strong in the field of constitutional confl ct for all the machinations of Downing-street. What a pity it is that Minis. ters cannot learn the art of conceding wi:n grace that which they must at last concede, when no body will thank then for the extorted surrender. As to the possibility of retrenchment, to an extent that will admit the abolition of the house and window taxes without substituting any other in their stead, nobody doubts it who knows the enormous scale of expense at which all our public establishments are kept up notwithstanding the fall of prices in many instances to what they were before the late war, when our establishments and all official salaries were on a much smaller scale. The grandeur of style in which the Whigs can job for their more favoured partisans may be estimated by one recent example—that of the place in India created for Mr. Macaulay, the 11' hig Member for Leeds—at a salary of 10,0001. a year. Here we have a gentleman, who, we believe, was called to the Bar, but not to hold briefs, sent out to legislate for India, without any of the knowledge or experience necessary for such a task ; while we venture to say there are fifty members of the profession, far his superiors in the essential requisites for such an undertaking, who would gladly perform the duty at one-third the remuneration. Mr. Macaulay, from being a maker of florid speeches, with far more rhetoric than wisdom in them, is appointed a legislator of India, with a salary exceeding by 2,0001. that of the Chief Justice of England ! Yet this is retrenchment and economy I—Morning Herald. The Parliament, as will be seen from the con tents of the Gazette of last night, is ordered to meet on Tuesday, the 4th of February next, " fur the despatch of divers urgent and important matters ;"—and most divers as well as urgent and important are the matters which will come before it, and upon which it must pronounce a definitive opinion. That it either can or will heal all the grievances under which the country labours, is an expectation not to be entertained. They were not engendered in a moment, nor will they be eradicated by any single effort. They are too numerous to be dealt with by even any one Parliament, whatever its duration, or zeal, or energy. But what the public does look forward to, and has a right to expect, is that Parliament will show more sympathy with the people than it exhibited during its last session—that their grievances will be more attended to—and that the routine business of merely voting away the people's money will not be the only thing thought of, or perpetually urged forward, to the delay of everything else. The expectations of the people from the Reformed Parliament may have formerly been tco high ; hut its short comings during the last session far exceeded them. Many popular questions met with a decided negative —many others were postponed, for no better reason than that it did not suit the views either of the Government or of the Parliament to at tend to them. We hope and trust that suc:i will not be the case during the ensuing session ; but on the contrary, that due zeal will be exhi bited in amending what is wrong—in attending to the prayers of the people—and in manifest ing a desire to render the Government and Le gislature of the country the objects of love and respect, instead of fear and hatred, suspicion and dislike. For what was accomplish e d during the last session there is unquestionably much ground for satisfaction ; but reforms are de manded now which were but little thought of 'thelcatid which Inuit be complied with, if it be meant that: the country shall be saved, by peaceful legislation, from a ruinous revolution. The church must be reformed--church-rates must be abolished, and all dissenters or sepa ratists from the church relieved from paying in any shape for the religion professed by others. It is but just that such a change should he made, and it will be insisted upon by the great body of dissenters with a zeal and energy pro portionate to the justice of their claim. The assessed taxes must also go to the wall. In our opinion they are not obnoxious in principle, but in consequence of the manner in which they have been assessed and collected ; but the public has determined that it will no longer submit to them, aid they must cease in conse quence, in whatever manner their place may be supplied. The army must also be cut down both in numbers and in expense. In the former respect it exceeds so far a proper peace-establishment, that it would be difficult to discover for what reasons, unconnected with patronage And power, it continues to be kept up to its present amount--in the latter it not only exceeds that of every European army, but in the case of the household troops it is utterly beyond all bearing. The keep of a horse actually exceeds in expense the sum on which many honest families are compelled to live. The sinecures and pensions must also be dealt with, and without scruple. There must be no sinecures while the people are unable to pay for them—nor any pensions allowed except where just services have been rendered for them. On this point there must be no squeamishness. The people will cheerfully submit to taxation when they are aware that its produce is applied to its proper object—the promotion of the public good—but they neither will, nor are they bound to empty their pockets for the sake of putting money in those of persons who can show no better claims than the Crokers, Arbuthnots, &c., whose names swell the pension list as state paupers and public mendicants.— Morning Advertiser. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, DEC. 10. CURIOUS CASE-THE KING V. OLIVER AND JAMES ANDERTON. This was an indictment charging the two de fendants, who are brothers, one being a barrister and the other a banker, with conspiracy, to cause it to be believed that the prosecutor, Freeman Anderton (their brot her), was insane, thereby to get possession of his property. _ _ . . Mr. KNOWLES stated the case. The defendants were the sons of a most respectable gentleman. One was a member of the profession of the law; the other was a partner in the house of Bosanquet and Co., the bankers. Both were men of high character previous to this transaction. The prosecutor, Mr. Freeman Anderton, ‘N as a younger brother, who had formerly followed the business of an insurance broker. In October, 1829, he was living in York street, Lambeth. He was a purchaser of pictures, of which he was a competent judge. He had in his house a large and valuable collection, and in money and bills about 14,0001.; and the charge was, that the defendants, entering into a conspiracy to get possession of his property, caused his person to be seized under a warrant of lunacy obtained from Dr. Burroughs. D. Burroughs, a physician at the Lunatic Asy lum, Clapham, knew the defendants. In the latter part of October, 1829, the witness had an inter view with them. On the 31st of October he re ceived a note from Mr. Oliver Anderton to meet in his house at Montague-street, Russell-square. Their object was to consult him about their brother, Mr. Freeman Anderton. Mr James Anderton said they considered Mr. Freeman Anderton had acted in a manner which induced them to think he was not of sound mind. They made many derails to him which induced him to think Mr. F. Anderton was not of sound mind. They said it was necessary to put him under constraint by Monday morning, or he would be ruined by a speculation in pictures. Atrivipating that he might have an interview with 'lr. Anderton, he sent to his asylum for two men, Hazard and Shelly. He was told to prevent the prosecutor going from his house, so that he might be examined in the morning. The witness desired Mr. James Anderton to give instructions. They accordingly gave their instructions. (PRODeCED.) " October 3, 1829. " We Lerch) , instruct Dr. Burroughs to place under restraint, with the greatest delicacy and caution, our un fortunate brjther, who is incapsbl;: of managing his affiirs" (Signed by the DeCendints.) The wi.riess ordered the - men to act with all pos sible delicacy, and, if he resisted, by no means to force him to leave the house. The prosecutor hav ing resisted, he went to Mr. Anderton at the bank ing -house, and told him what had taken place. He urged the bro hers to go to a PoFee-office. Mr. Anderton was advised by Mr. Freshfirld not to go. Mr. Freeman Anderton said he was the baother of the defendants. His father resided near Poole. Hi: father was a man of properly. In 1829 he kept an account with Bosanquet and Co. O n Saturday, the 31st of October, 1829, he went to that firm for the purpose of presenting a draft for sixty-two pounds. They refused payment. He then applied to the chief clerk to prove the balanc e of his account. He was told it was 1,0401. He drew a check for the amount, and they refused pay ment. He was shown a letter from Oliver Ander ton, the defendant, who, with James Anderton, had a security in their hands belonging to the wit ness to the amount of 14,0001. The witness exa mined the letter, arid said it was in the hand writing of Oliver Anderton. (The letter was a re quest that Bosanquet and Co. would not part with the money to the witness.) He some time after saw his brother, and expostulated with him on the tyranny of his proceeding. The disinclination of Mes:rs. Bosanquet to pay his money ~was but -light. They were influenced only by his brother James. Oa Sunday morning he was in his house, York-road, Lambeth. He went out to dine, al d returned between five and seven o'clock. On his return home he unlocked the outer door, when a man called to him and said he had a message to de liver respecting the purchase of some pictures. He opened the gate, and the moment be presented himself two men seized him, and said the witness must go with them. He refused to go, and re quested to know their authority. They produced a paper, which he read under the gas-light. He then knew it was from his two brothers, and that their object was the security of his property as well as his person. A watchman came up, and he gave charge of them. Cross-examined by Sir J. SCARLETT—He should never acknoe ledge his brothers. Their conduct in endeavouring to confine him in a madhouse for life had induced him to disown them. He suffered his beard to grow; kept his house himself; lie kept no servant ; he bad a Bramah lock on the door; he preferred living by himself ; went twice a day to an eating-house; breakfasted at home on bi•cuit; he dined at Hancock 's eating-house; he paid Is. 6d. for a dinner; the tompany were very respectable. He wore a straw hat to keep his head cool and comfortable. He wrote to his father for money, and if he received it be should not have gone on with the prosecution. He had given his father notice of his intention to indict him ; he heard of him a day or two ago; their intercourse had ceased many years. He had disposed of all his pictures but one of great value, namely, The Passion qf Christ, by Coriegio. It was in his opinion worth 2,0001. It was a picture little known in England. For his pictures he took bills of exchange. The bills were all over due. He had proceeded to out lawry against a Nobleman, Lord Stilling, for *,2001., which he expected to get. He had accept nce s of the late Lord Foley to the amount of 6,000/. The money irdiew out of the house of Bosanquet and Co. he had vested partly in Lord Foley's bills. Messrs. Wright and Underhill were his attorneys. Another attorney had a lien on his Corregio. No one advised him to cut off his hair. He did it for coolness. On one occasion he was exceed ingly distressed, and complained to Mr. John Hamp ton from what he considered the effect of burning glasses. He was then satisfied that he was wrongly impressed. He was quite certain that he was not going to indict his father for this offence. He was quite satisfied that the impression was erroneous. He removed from the house and went to the Lie of Wight, where he soon recovered. He did not think persons could produce the same effects when he was in the Isle of Wight. Mr. Henry, an underwriter, acted as agent for Mr. F. Anderton. Mr. F. Anderton enjoyed a profitable business. The witness, on the 30th of October, 1829, received a note from Mr. James Anderton, and he waited on him. He was told that himself, his brother, and father, had come to the resolution to rescue Freeman Anderton from a set of persons who would reduce him to beggary. He said he was satisfied his brother was insane. The witness said he should say Mr- Freeman An derton was not insane. He replied he had a mass of evidence which would prove the fact. He thought the advantage derived by Mr. F. Anderton as an insurance-broker in thirteen years was worth 10,0001. After the order of Dr. Burroughs the business was given up. He had always considered Mr. Anderton a shrewd man. Richard Walker, a tradesman residing at Lam beth, had lived near the prosecutor since 1829. He had frequent conversations with him. He con sidered him a shrewd man. Mr. Davies, a hairdresser in Lambeth, had known Mr. Andel ton seventeen years. His conversation was always rational. After the learned Judge had summed up, the Jury gave their verdict, and said the defendants were Not Guilty. INSOLVENT DEB TORS' COURT, DEC. 10. SINGULAR CASE.—Matthew Pennington, a mi seralde-looking old man, was opposed by Mr. COOKS, on the part of the Rev. Mr. Ellis, under circumstances of a singular nature. Mr. Ellis com plained of harassing conduct on the part of the in solvent and others who had been his parishioners, and who refused to pay his tithes ; he had been driven from his living by great oppression, and had been put to no less than 1,5001. expenses for law proceedings. The Learned Counsel said that the insolvent was one of that idle class who at the pre sent time denied the right of tithes; but he was sure that every properly-constituted mind consi dered that a clergyman was as much entitled to his tithes as any gentleman to his estate. In 1814 Mr. Ellis was colla'ed to the vicarage of Burton Leonard, near Knaresborough, in the county of York, and received until 1822 a composition of 601. per annum in lieu of tithes, when some of the pa. rishioners objected to the amount of the composi tion, and proposed that a survey of the parish should be made, and a fresh appraisement of the tithes took place, the result of which was that the composition was raised from 601. to 1201. a year. The parishioners then resolved not to pay any thing, and disputed his right, and Mr. Ellis, to try the question, commenced a suit in the Eccle siastical Court against one of them ; that pa rishioner was supported by the parish, but was at length committed for contempt of Court. Still the parishionerswould not pay,and proceeilingswere taken against another parishioner, upon whose application to the Court of Chancery a prohibition was granted, and an order made for an issue to be tried at com mon law, to determine the question of the jurisdic tion of the Ecclesiastical Court. The issue was tried before Mr. Justice James Parke, and a verdict was given, by which the jurisdiction of the Eccles;as tical Court was recognised and confirmed. This trial took place in 1830, but produced no beneficial results to Mr. Ellis, for the insolvent anti other parishioners had again raised the same question, had Atained another prohibition, and an issue was again tried at the York assizes in 1832, and the verdict confirmed the disputed jurisdiction, and the insolvent was in prison for contempt of the Court of Chan cery in not paying the cost, which amounted to newly 3001. Mr. Ellis was his only creditor, and had now, as was stated, left his living, having suf fered a ruinous loss. The insolvent had taken the benefit of the Act on two former occasions. Mr. COOKE was at a loss under what section of the Act to bring his case for the grievous injury si stained by Mr. Ellis. He could say that it was a vexatious defenc., as no judgment had been ob tained. The insolvent richly deserved punishment. Mr. C.cmrnissioner HARRIS observed that ter , was no doubt other persons were at the bottom be sides the insolvent, who had ruined himself and his Vicar. No case had been established, and he was therefore bound to discharge the insolvent. The insolvent was immediately discharged. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. 11031 E CIRCUIT.—MiIDsrozE, DEC 9. Mr. Justice GASELEE and Mr. Baron VAUGHAN arrived in Maidstone this afternoon, and after open ing the Commission attended divine service at All Saints' Church. DEC. 10.—Mr. Justice GASELEE took his seat on the Bench at ten o'clock this morning. The Learned JUDGE, in addressing the Grand Jury, could not avoid expressing his regret at the sate of the Calendar. The number of prisoners was greater than he had reason to expect, and he lamented it the more as it showed the great increase of crime in the country. His Lordship concluded by noticing the alteration in the law, which would come into operation at the .end of the month, when the punishment of imprisonment or transportation would be substituted for the punishment of death in cases of houselireaking. The cases tried to•day were uninteresting. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF ALLEGED BURGLARY AND ROBBERY.—A robbery was committed on Sun day in the banking-house of Messrs. Lawson, New ham, and Co., of Bucklerabury, the particulars of which were yesterday stated to the LORD MAYOR by one of the gentlemen of the firm. On Monday morning some painters, employed in painting the premises of Messrs. Lawson, Newham, and Cu., went to the house, and fur some time knocked at the door, but in vain. Nobody an swered. They suspected that some accident had happened to the porter, who they knew slept in the house for the protection of the property, and they agreed to get upon the premises from the exterior and look through the skylight. They did so, and were astonished at seeing the porter lying on the ground, with his hands tied behind his back, his legs bound to a table, and a pocket-handkerchief crammed into his mouth. They immediately de scended into the counting-house, and the first thing their feet encountered was one of the tin cash-boxes, which lay empty on the ground. When they pulled the handkerchief out of the potter's mouth he told them that the house had ueen attacked by two rob bers, who seized and tied him up, and threatened, if said a word, to murder him. Forrester,the officer, was, when the firm were made acquainted with the transaction, sent for, and he examined the premises. He found that the thieves, whoever they were, had gone to work with good tools. They had broken into the strong-room through the brickwork, which was three feet thick, forced open the iron safe, and ab stracted from thence a tin box containing from 1301. to 1504 in gold. It was extraordinary that although they could have possessed themselves of bank notes and securities to a very great amount, they did not touch anything but sovereigns. The officer, whose acuteness is well known, thought many little matters connected with the robbery very streege, and ques tioned the porter, who told the story in exactly the following style : I, Timothy Carroll, went to bed at about eleven o'clock on Monday night, and about half-past twelve, when I was laying down, in came two men. One of them, a big man, came up to me, and says he, " If you move a peg I'll blow your brains out." The big fellow had a pistol in his right hand, and held it up, but the other man said, " Don't shoot," or " Don't kill him." I never said a word to them at all, only asked them to spare my lift!. Upon that one of them took a handkerchief from his pocket and tied it tight round my eyes. They then took my own handkerchief out of my pocket, and tied it across my mouth to stop me from calling out, and they tied my legs together and my hands across. The big man had, before they gagged me, asked where the iron safe was. I said we had had never a one since we left the other house. The big man then said, " Where is the money kept ?" 1 said, " I don't know any thing about the money. I don't know where it is kept." There is a flap over the place where the valuable property is kept, and the big man asked me where the key of that flap or door was, and I told him Mr. Lasson had it. They then began to woik at the flap,and got it up in about ten minutes As the carpenters had been at work in the premises, and had left their instruments behind them, the thieves used those insrruments in breaking open all before them. They did not return to say anything to me again, only to remove the handkerchief from my eyes, which they did, and then they left me tied up in this way. Forrester said he supposed that the porter would keow the two thieves again. He replied that he should not. The big man was dressed in a fustian jacket, and the small one was in his shirt sleeves, but he should not be able to know them again, as their faces were blacked. They had, he added, taken his watch out of his pocket when they bound him, and he remained tied up eight hours on the floor. It appeared that very little effort could have been made by Carroll to release himself from the dis agreeable predicament in which he had been so long placed, and it seemed to those who looked narrowly at all the bearings of the case, and the manner in which the porter had been tied, that a vigorous exertion might have enabled him to extricate him self at least from the necessity of lying in the pain ful position in which he was found. The porter yesterday came to the Justice-room for the purpose of making his statement of the par ticulars of the burglary and robbery, and repeated the description given above. No comment was made by the LORD MAYOR, and the porter departed after he had given his account of the matter. Mr. Hobler, jun., applied to the LORD MAYOR for a warrant to detain John Minter Hart, who is now in prison in default of bail. Mr. Hobler, jun., said that he appeared upon the part of the assignees of an insolvent, who had been discharged under the Act. The insolvent had, when in happier circumstances, been engaged in some business which led to an acquaintance with John Minter Hart, who negotiated with him about the disposal of some wine warrants. The insolvent produced the war rants, and Mr. Hart ag►eed to give 140/. for them. -Mr. Hart, finding that his offer, upon payment of ready money, would be accepted, said be would just step out for change, and pay the insolvent without delay. Out he went, with the wine war. rants in his pocket, but he never returned. Mr. Hart had been applied to on the subject, but he wrote back an answer informing the assignee tha►, but for apprehension of the legal consequences, a horsewhip should be laid across his shoulders ; and, in fact, nothing satisfactory could be obtained with respect to the dealing. The LORD MAYOR asked when this occurrence took place ? Mr. Hobler, jun., replied," In 1832." The LORD MAYOR said he, of course, could not interfere. B 0 W-STREET. AN ABSENT MAN.—Yesterday a decently dressed man, named Maurice Horan, was brought up under very laughable circumstances. A young man named Connor was sitting in the Spotted Dog in Strand-lane about nine o'clock on Monday eveninz, %viler] he Feard loud cries of " Murder" proceeding from the water side. He ran down, and perceived the defendant floundering in the water, and up to his hips in mud, and calling out lustily, " Help, murder ! for God's sake help I" He was dragged out of his awkward situation, and the parties rescuing him were anxious to get him to a public-house, where he could be dried and ob tain something comfortable; but he refused to stir, and called loudly for the police. An officer came, and took him to the station-house. The defendant, when asked to account for his strange conduct, said he was much addicted to "abstruse studies," and on Monday n . ght,after spend. ing the greater p art of the day in the study of herattu e of the driest kind, he resolved, by way of tempo rary relaxation, to visit a friend in Hungerford maiket. He sallied forth from his domicile in Clare rryniket, and was on his way down the Strand, when he was so absorbed in thought that he unconsciously stepped nut of the direct path, and walked down Strand-lane, plump into the river Thames. He extricated himself as well as he could, and his motive for calling out " Police," was, that he was anxious to relieve himself from the imputation which might very plausibly rest upon him of having contemplated the dreadful crime of suicide. He thought that to call " Murder" and " Police" was the most concise mode of vindicating his character. Sir F. ROE—Are you of sound mind ? De fendant—Good God! do you doubt it ? Sir F. ROE hinted delicately that he had a sus picion of the kind, and Mr. Cosgrave, the surgeon of St. Clement's, examined him, and pronounced him sane, but very eccentric as to his opinions upon " abstruse matters." He was allowed to depart upon h;s promising not to deviate from the proper course in future. QUEEN- S Q UARE. Yesterday a fellow named Samuel Hancock was Drought up in custody before Mr. WHITE, charged with violently assaulting his wife Ehztbeth, and breaking her collar bone. Mr. WHITE, after commenting on his brutal usage, ordered him to find bail to answer the charge at the sessions. The prisoner not being able to find bai was locked up. ENGLISH HIGHWAYMEN AND PIRATES. y B u Liveslal natni aredb rd, C )riai h gw u h r nt t o fdr n oo . wmn T o lL e e —Few works are likely to become more popular than the " Lives of the English Highwaymen, Pirates, and Rob. thrbeaynotridci Messrs . n rec ord s,r the present time, by Charles Whitehead, E.g., the dis tinguished ar r tsi earliest and u s o t d publishedffmost ,7s teextraordinar y tinguished author of the " Soli:ara." The work is em liel:ished with numerous graphic illustrations of their roost daring exploits and remarkable adventures. GRAND CHALLENGE.—A short time since a challenge was put forth in the French Papers, offering on the part of a Parisian speculator to play either the Si. lon or Frescati's for 25,000 Napoleons, commencing at one Napoleon, and increasing, as fortune might decide, till the whole sum was won or lost. The French estaidish ments having declined, the Atlienwum Club in St. James's street, kept by Messrs. Bonds, have taken up the gauntle'. Au agent of theirs has just returned from the French ca pital, having tnade all the preliminary arrangements, it being a sine qua non on the part of the Messrs. Bonds that the affair should be decided on English ground. An umpire has been chosen on each side, who are to fix upon a referee, and on Ft iday next the contest is to commence at the Atheneum in St. James's-stiee , . The whole of the stakes are to be produced before starting —a tempting bank —and a certain time is to be fixed for commencing and concluding the pliy at each 'meting, till the grand event of who shall be possessor of the " capital prize " shall be decided. It is believed that the banks are formed by several contributors, and considerable interest is excited in the higher circles as to the result. It is nut stated whether the play shall be in public or private ; but this we hear is to be decided at the first meeting. RUSSIAN PEASANTS. ~A The Russian peasant may with p ro p r i e ty be calk' slave, for, notwithstanding the partial e r nancipstif; effected at different tim e s by Catheri ne 11. an d Alessnat this class of slav e s f orms i n R uss i a more t h an n i ne -tent' of the whole population. The reproach of this humilistil degradation of that portion of the human race which plunged in the most abject and debasing state of servili t l i ! attaches to those who g overn t h a t vas t emp i re . Not ° D I ) , is every means n e glected w hi c h m i g h t ra i se t hi s pear ) from that state of ba r b a r ous i gnorance i n w hi c h I present lie, but, on t contrary, every thing is done: , keep them in that state, and, if possible, to make th e worse than they are. The Russian empire is compometi g ninety-five different nations, who speak in more than fo/ different idioms. Thu s th ere are n i nety fi ve nat i ons wbic ought to be civilized at once—to be freed from their r e ' judices, their barbarous manners, and their superstitie t* This work would he indeed very difficult, if not a ltogeth er impossible. The R uss i an p easan t i s a s l ave b y natur e; h e has no feeling of his own existence ; he knows not that b e was a man before he was a slave, and h as no id ea o f 0 1, precious liberty in which all men have an equal right t° participate. He conceives himself born for others. 11 1 Government require machines which will obey the lA°, that directs them, and suc h m ac hi nes w ill th ey k e ep I' , leaving them in their present state of ignorance. It may be said, without even the slightest fear of CO tradiction, that the Russian slave is not yet ripe fl civilization. Before they shall be ca p a bl e o f rece i v i n g a° feeling its benefits a long period must elapse, an'i great change must take place. There is no such thing at present as education of the people in Russia. Th e pe.sant knows what his father ha s tau g ht hi m , an d wbs , „ he knows, as it were, by in s tinct—t o ea t, t o d r ink, suffer (if he knows what suffering is), and to obey' Curbed under servitude, he cannot raist his ideas to sof thing above the soil to which he is perpetually attachet He cannot call any thi ng hi s own . Th e no bl es on ly, 5° a few privileged bourgeois, can possess landed propeltl' His children even are not his own, they belong to bi t . , Lord, of whom h e i s th e d epen d ant , who can either O. or exchange him and his children, together or separately' as he may think proper. He is looked upon as a mer e piece of furniture or fixture, depending on the humonc and caprice of his master. The Russian peasant is a°, enemy to every thing new : he does what hi s f a ther did before him, ant therefore he brings nothing to perfection' Hence the mechanical arts are in their mere jasper' Their furniture, utensils, and vehicles are all of the safe kind as those used 200 years ago. Even the educatio n of the animals is in Russia in its infancy. In the mint" however, the Russian peasant is seen to a little more ad' vantage, both as regards industry and intelligence, than anywhere else. In these subterranean prisons labour A° infinite number of slaves, who are kept to work by th e fear of the knout, and other punishments, as terrible 0 they are infamous. The greediness of the Russian is extreme; but it is natural enough that a man who possesses nothing of li / own should wish to take something from his master s rapacity. As soon as he has saved a few roubles h e writ' them, and often dies without being able to enjoy hd treasure, which remains lost and buried in th e e arth' The use of water as a drink is almost unknown emote them. They commonly drink a species of hydrotnel, hot brandy takes the first rank; brandy drinking is their ruling passion ; as soon as they g e t any money th e y ge t drunk with brandy, The innumerable fetes of th e calendar are all days consecrated to intemp-rance. Al the morrow always feels the effect of the previous even' ing's debauch, it may be said that the Russian peasant 1, intoxicated three-quarters out of the whole year. TV effects of this course of life are felt at an early p e riod ; at 60 he becomes decrepit, and few attain the age of '7 o ' The poorness of the food taken, and the manner of pro' tecting themselves from the cold—namely, shutting the' selves up in their heated apartments, the air of which if sedom changed—also contribute to the depopulation ° the empire.—From tie Polonais. We observe it stated by the Kilkenny M o de' rator, that Louis Phillip, Kintr of the French, has recently written to Dr. Chalmers, of Edinburgh, for the pure e of being supplied with the plans of education which bs ve proved so eminently successful in Scotland, and also wi th the the best methods of conveying scriptural knowledge to b ig people. Scotsman. THE LATE STORM.-011 Thursday the wind blew very heavy front the S.W., with heavy shoWer i of rain. Towards evening it shifted to the S., and lei creased in violence, and finally settled in the N.W. un til Friday evening, when it abated. During the whole 0 Thursday night the gusts of wind were terrific, but it WO not until Friday morning that the storm attained its height. The tide was full about noon, and at that time the sea was covered with spray as far as the eve could reach, and the waves rolling full against the Western pie r broke on it with a violence impossible to describe. Dense volumes of spray were thrown up at least 100 feet high" and it is no exagg-ration to say that occasionally the whol e of the outer harbour was completely enveloped in th e showers. Even against the Old Quay the waves broke with s u ch violence as to send showers of spray quite t° the further end of the harbour. In the inner h a rbour th e agitation was excessive. Vessels lying at their tnoorirll49 were lifted six or eight feet by each wave. A little sloop which lay behind the We s t e rn Pier was every now a° then buried in the spray, and then emerged only to b e enveloped by the succeeding wave. Fortunately her ha ll ; sers held, and in the course of the afternoon she ventured t o run for the inner harbour, which she safely reached' Several laden vess,ls put back, and put into port 0 ° Thursday and Thursday night ; and on Friday at noon" when the storm was at its height, much interest tes, 9 . excited by three vessels descried through the storm, with most of their sails blown away, evidently making for tbi . port. The first, a sloop, ran in in good style. The s ecoudt the Sully, of Harrington, a brig, likewise rounded the pi r with ease, but owing to some mismanagement drifted ashore at the foot of Lowther-stri et ; she was got 011 wi•hout damage on Sunday morning. The third vessel was the Belleisle, of Belfast ; she was fortuna'e enough to get into Barrington. At about two o'clock on Friday afternoon, when almost every wave was breaking over the new lOndiouse on the Western Pier, a very heavy sea broke again , t it with such violence as to mike a clea r breach through the lanthorn, carrying away about fort,' squares of ghat, and one of the reflectors. The s quare+ are about ten inches each way, of plate glass, nearly use' fourth of an inch thick, so that their strength is very great' S much for the effects of the gale seaward ; landward e they were hardly less tetnarkable. Had the storm raged with equal violence during the night many lives must have been lost.— Whiteleaven Herald. a BY HE t AtY of Lom 'The Sch, %Qs, can £15,1 £lOO £5,1 The ♦alu is soon as d ......______ p ACI " Conde 1 /hicl; rej.( BIRTHS. On the 9th inst., the lady of Wra. Voulea, Esq., Park.street , Windsor, of a daughter. On the 10th inst, in Upper Gloucester-place, the lady ° f William Gostling, Esq., of a son. During the month of August last, a young lady at Schenee' tady, New York, was delivered of rive children at one birth The mother and children are all alive and likely to live. One thousand dollars were raised in the city, arid given to th e mother as a premium. The young lady has been since mar" tied to the father of the infants. On the 9th inst., Mrs. Charles Barker, of Birchin.lane, of 1 ' daughter. On the 7th inst., Mrs. M. Fothergill, Upper Thames-street , of a daughter. —., M diIiRIED. On the 10th inst., at Kennington Church, Edward Dixon' Esq., of Hartlepool, Durham, to Elizabeth, 'daughter of the late Mr. Langhorne, solicitor. On the 9th inst., by the Rev. A. Leo, John N. Hart, tsq., t° Elizabeth, only daughter of W. Lewis, Esq., of St James's street, and of Ivy Lodge, Barnes. On the Bth inst., at St. George's, Hanover.square, Mr. Bar ton Kewell, of Newington, to Susanna, second daughter of Mr. Bird, Pease hill, Cambridge. On the 10th inst., at St. James's Church, Charles Henry Pigot, Esq., of Great Marlborough-street, nephew of Sir Geo. Pigot, Bart., of Patshull, Staffordshire, to Leonora, second daughter of Sir William Russell, Bart., of York-place, Port. man-square, DIED. On the Bth inst., in Bermondsey-street, Mr. Seamen, aged 57. On the 10th inst., in her 17th year, Susanna, seconddaughter of the late Mr. Richard Baker, of Fore-street. On the 9th inst., at her mother's house, Walcot-place, Lam beth, Margaret Elizabeth, youngest daughter of the late Colonel Strike, 12th Regiment of Foot, surviving her youngest brother five days. On the 9th inst., at the residence of his son, in Connaught terrace, Edgeware-road, Samuel Grif fith, Esq., in his 69th year. On the 9th inst., in Wimpole - s treet, Lady Durrant, in h,:r 83d year. On the Bth inst., at the res iden ce of John Bishop, Es'l., at Sunbury, Miss Elizabeth Hewitt. On the 7th inst., in St. James's-square, Bath, Mrs. Anne Newcome. On the Bth inst., at his residence, Wellington street, Strand, Mr. John Mattocks, formerly of Taunton, Somerset, aged 54. / On the Bth inst., at Tunbridge Wells, Anna Endeka, youngest child of the late Daniel Fowler, Esq. On the 9th inst., at his residence at Clapham, John Lee, Esq., aged GO. On the 7th inst., at his house in Euston-square, WlMani Drake, Esq. PAINTED AND PuLLI N FI O IZ r ID v E I i c Y x, M I U I2, R si D R O AND Y ., O U NG, AT MK This [R. , The Ct LAND. THE Profe , This day A New E MI.E -I- By The Z 5 , 0., I/. JOUR This day and g 2 vols. A` * s o ' l Ind so 13 wwely rei Petted a Witte, it which 1 Edition. TE By " I 11 sir lecti flade ou tif Lond brith ao a udience them, ii Just Aget bargh ; 1. Age burgh E' to . « I expre: 44 I kind .....-i of stay T GEP Sum, Up tt Lc LoTig tarl >a: By t and copii the TUi RII bet ALL