The Sun. — London, England, 1833-07-08 00:00:00

',SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The trumpets of the Ultra-Tories—the con servative Journals, and the runners of the Carlton Club, announce that the Tory Peers have rewed their courage to the sticking place, and hat they are resolved to Burke (their own slang phrase) the Lord Chancellor's Local Courts, Bill. The subtle political craft of an Ex-Chan cellor, who cannot control his hankering after the lost Seals. and who deceives himself by the expectation of re-possessing them, is rumoured to have prevailed over the good sense and straight-forwardness of the Duke of Wellington, and his Grace is reported to have assented to a general muster of the Opposition Lords to-mor row. The unblushing admission this day fortnight, by Lord Lyndhurst, in the Com mittee on the Bill, that if it had been pre viously known that the Bill was a " Govern ment measure," it would never have reached that stage, but " the result would have been very different," was a broad hint that his Lord ship would do his utmost to whip up a nnljority against the third reading. Accordingly, vast preparations are making by Lords and Ladies, and Foreign Ambassadresses, to perform this notable act of suicidal legislation. Every noble cripple is to be brought up to the scratch ; and an avalanche of proxies is intended to destroy the " Government Bill." No one will believe that the Opposition Lords care a straw about the merits or demerits of the Bill. Lord Eldon (during whose Chancellorship hundreds died of the delays and expense of suits and the pro crastination of judgments) will doubtless shed a few of his crocodile tears, and pathetically lament the sacrifice of the interests of the poor ; Lord Wynford will express his remarkable ca pacity and excessive anxiety to reform the law ; Lord Lyndhurst will abjure all interested trio tivea, and disavow all personal hostility to the Lord Chancellor—and who will credit them The country will believe that party feelings alone influenced the Peers to oppose the " Local Courts Bill," and the people will see that those modern law lords, who, when in power, upheld every legal abuse, and opposed every proposition of judicial reform, have now elected themselves arbiters of the reformation of the law ! A strange revolution must indeed have occurred in the minds and moral feeling of these technical lawyers, if they can either comprehend the principles of le g al reform, or sincerely desire to promote their ad vancement. Three distinguished public men, more notoriously ignorant in their private capacity, and as legislators of the principles of jurisprudence-- more thoroughly unacquainted with the laws and judicial establishments of other countries —never flourished in the same age. It is not pretended that a Local Courts Bill is not greatly needed in England—it is not affected to be questioned that the principle of the Lord Chancellor's Bill is excellent—it is not denied that its provisions are additions to, rather than alterations of, our legal system. Its first ap plication is to be limited, and is palpably expe rimental. None of its opponents bring forward a substitute—no alteration is suggested to ob viate the alleged objections to the measure'; but the whole Bill is condemned, because it is christened with the odious, ill name of "a Govern ment measure." The majority of the Opposi tion Peers will vote it out on this enlightened objection ; and some there may be who have personal motives—who cannot endure the Lord Chancellor's present station in the House of Lords—who can have no peace of mind while Mordecai sits at the King's gate ! How the Right Rev. Prelates will comport themselves on the coming occasion, after the Royal broadside fired into their hulks, is a matter of public curiosity, and is difficult of conjecture. They may make another desperate plunge, and " neck or nothing," stake their last ha zard at the table of the 'Tory Lay- Lords. We should, however, rather imagine that they have seen the error of their ways, and that the voluntary and decided support given by the King to his Ministers will convince the Bishops that they have no hope of translation by adhesion to the politics and factious plot of the Carlton Club. 'Hey must now be convinced that they cannot " trip up" the heels of Lord Grey ; and these discerning Priests will probably act accordingly. The political wonder of the age is that the old Tory and wealthy Nobility of this country should sacrifice their judgment to a mushroom and needy aristocracy. The late plodding John Eldon—the late radical John Singleton Copley—the late Jacobin Sergeant Best—these are the new Peers, who, making their politics a ladder to their offices and titles, are now leading on the Tory Peers, and running them, as the Scripture swine, to the ocean pre cipice ! Too late the British Peers will discover their folly and ill-directed astuteness. We dis tinctly see that the Upper House is determined not to work with the Lower ; the shock must come—the sooner the better—and let " the weakest go to the wall." If this anomalous state of the National Legislature continues, it does not require the gift of prophecy to foretell that there will be " more Peers or none."— Morning Chronicle. The Whigs are still unhappy. They have power, place, and emolument; they have a trac table Wuse of Commons, a lenient Peerage, and, as they aver, a confiding and patriotic King ; they say moreover that they have peace abroad and reviving prosperity at home ; but still they are anxious and distressed. What can the matter be ? Why palpitates so wildly and deeply the gentle bosom of triumphant Whigism ? We will let the public into the secret of this myste rious affair in very few words. " England, Scotland, and Ireland, attend" (as the Times once said when the Reform fever was getting to be a decided brain case), for we have some thing worthy of note to communicate. The Whigs are practically rejected, not by the House of Lords only, but by the entire country. With a decided majority against them in the Upper House of course they cannot go on, save upon contemptuous sufferance, without a swamping measure. But it seems to have been recently discovered that the boasted scheme of swamp ing, the sheet anchor of Whig assurance, would not now do, were it even possible, which is much doubted, to get a cer tain sanction for that impudent species of treason. If Grey and Russell were to procure patents of nobility to-morrow for sixty or a hun dred tailors or footmen, the Ministry might be as far off as ever from a majority ; for the other Peers, the Whig Peers, the very newest crea tions, might be expected to protest against this last insult, and would probably go over to the Tories rather than allow it to be successful. So the wiseacres, who wished to carry this point, are obliged at length to eat their ov% n words, and to lisp their innocent recantation, by admitting . that there are practical difficulties in the way of this mode of " bringing the Peers into harmony, which ought not to be encountered, save at the last extremity. Difficulties indeed—difficulties far greater, perhaps, than even now stand in the way of impeaching the Incapahles for entertain ing the proposition. But this is not all, nor is it the worst part of their case. They might still keep on, for a time at least, with an adverse House of Lords ; for that House could only throw out their Bills, and they care not a straw what Bills are lost, if they can only retain office. The great thing is, that the country sympathizes with the opposition of the Peers, and we think that in this, as in many other instances,the Upper House is found in practice to be a far better representative of the permanent sentiments and feelings of the people than the House of Com mons. We are quite sure, however, that we run no risk of exaggeration, when we say that the great majority of the country would infinitely prefer the swamping of the Whigs as a M inistry to the swamping of the Peerage, in order to establish and perpetuate Whig ascen dancy. And this is after all the practical point. The Lords oppose the Whigs ; does the coun try wish the destruction of the Lords in order to save the Whigs ? We think that not one Englishman in a hundred would vote in the affirmative on this question. Then we say that the country . :ejects the Whigs—ask for the formation ol a 'Ministry in which not the Com mons only, but the Lords also, may confide. The Times asks with great simplicity, what is to be done when the whole nation says one thing, and four hundred Peers another ? We answer, first show the fact of such an extreme collision, which can scarcely by any possibility take place more than once in a thousand years, and then we will engage to provide an appropriate remedy. The country, we repeat, rejects the Whigs. It would, indeed, be something odd if it did other wise, for the Whigs have long ago rejected the country. The Radical mob, we contend, so far from being the country, is an antagonist power, and the Whigs rejected the country when they pandered to the base passions of the mob, in order to carry the Reform Bill. That mob now turns against the Whigs with per fect propriety, the Whigs having merely used it as a tool which they always intended to throw away with contempt when their own si nister purpose was served. What public in terest has not deeply, not to say incurably, suf fered under their wretched management ? What says the internal trade of the country, depressed as it has been beyond all former precedent by the agitation of the mad reform scheme ? What says the foreign trade, whether Dutch, Portuguese, Turkish, East India, West India, or Chinese ? What says the shipping interest, and that dense mass of population lately so ac tive and improving which depends for its exist ence upon the prosperity of the port of Lon don ? What confidence can moneyed men place in Ministers who, on so simple a matter as the renewal of the Bank Charter, which all admit must be renewed, alter the most ho portant parts of their own measure with a le vity and wantonness of caprice perfectly unexampled ? Upon the vital subject of finance Lord Althorp confesses that 'Mi nisters do not possess the confidence of their boasted Reformed House of Com mons. But even their blunders in domestic legislation, startling and most injurious though they be, shrink into insignificance when com pared with their extreme, and we might almost say treasonable, mismanagement of our foreign affairs. The people of England ordinarily take a deep interest in foreign policy, and are very susceptible on all points connected with the maintenance of British interest and honour abroad. Public attention has been recently di verted from this subject by the unnatural excite ment of reform ; but the people are now fast recovering their usual good sense, and will soon ask what has been doing on the continent by those liberal and enlightened statesmen the Whigs. The great and obvious business of our foreign policy is undoubtedly to keep France and Russia in check ; but what if it shall be found that France has been insidiously and suc cessfully encroaching upon Belgium, besides taking up a formidable position in the Mediter ranean, and that Russia has been crushing European Turkey, and actually obtaining military occupation at Constantinople ? Du ring the memorable period at which citi zens Grey and Russell were correspond. ing with Jacobin Unions, and holding nocturnal colloquies with tailors and apothecaries, the enemies of English greatness were on the alert, sapping the very bases of our influence and prosperity, Grey and Russell, it would seem, knowing nothing at all about the matter. Do these infatuated men think that their country will call for no reckoning for such gross mis conduct ? The Whigs may well wish to swamp the Peers, that is, to pack the tribunal before which they must be conscious that they ought to be impeached. A pretty business, too, the Conservatives will have on their hands, when they conic into power, to undo the enormous mischief of the last three crazy years ! Upon ordinary principles of calculation it ought to take years of war, and some hundred millions of money, to bring back the country to the state in which it was found by the Whigs—that is, to wrest Belgium and A;giers from France, and protect Turkey and Greece from the iron yoke of Russia—and this sacrifice would pro bably be required but for the awe in which the name of Wellington is held throughout Europe. We have not now space for the full discussion of this great subject, but we must add that every hour's continuance of the Whigs in office beyond what may be needful to com plete their exposure in the eyes of the public is a manifest addition to the calamities and dangers of the country. Not one of the questions with which, according to Lord Brougham, Ministers did not shun to grapple has been satisfactorily settled, nor can one of them be so settled as to command public confidence without Conserva tive aid. All is doubt, difficulty, and confusion, except so far as the known strength of the Con servative interests prompts and impels to mea sures more conservative than revolutionary, and lays a temporary arrest upon the progress of de structiveness. This is clearly an unnatural state of things, and cannot long continue. Now, if the position of the Whigs be untenable, and if there be no middle term between a constitutional and a revolutionary system, we beg to ask whe ther the time be not fully come in which an attempt at least should be made to form a Go vernment able to offer something like security to the first empire in the world against the horrors of anarchy and dismemberment.—Morn. Post. It would be seen, by the report of the pro ceedings on the Bank Charter last week, that Lord Althorp has postponed the consideration of the two resolutions relative to joint-stock banks. The fact is, that they must not only be postponed, but altogether abandoned, or at least so modified as to appear nearly new. Their chief provisions involve absurdities. It will be recollected that joint-stock banks of issue were, by these resolutions, to be required to invest in Government securities " the half of their sub scribed capital." This was to be done without any reference to the quantity of notes which they had actually issued. Now, such a proportion might often be too small to give the public a perfect guarantee for these issues, and might often be too large for the liabilities of the bank. One bank may have three times the amount of its subscribed capital in circulation, and another not a fourth part of that amount, yet they are thus made equal in their necessary investment, while their liabilities are so disproportioned. The only rational regulation on the subject would be to proportion their investment or guarantee fund, not to their subscribed capital, but to their actual issues, by making them give security for the whole or any part of those issues. This is well put in a statement or memorial which was sent us ten days ago, purporting to be from " the Directors of the 'Manchester and Liverpool Banking Company" : " The memori %lists contend, that, admitting it to be right to exact security from banks of issue, that should not be done by the compulsory investment of a portion of their capital. The issues of one bank may be more than twice or three times the amount of its capital; while those of another, placed in a different situation, or conducted in a different way, may be under a third or fourth part of its capital. What, then, could be more unequal as respects the banks, and more illusory as re spe.qs the public, than to oblige both establishments to give security for their issues by vesting half their capital in Government stock? Were the first bank to stop pay ment, the security in the hands of Government would not afford the holders of its notes more than from 3s. 4.d. to ss. in the pound ; while, were the latter in the same predicament, the holders of its notes would be paid in full out of the Government securities, and there would be a large surplus over. It is clear, therefore, that the se curity to be given by a bank of issue ought to be pro portioned to its issues, and not to its capital. The former mode will effectually protect the public from loss; the latter gives little, or rather no protection whatever." Their objections to the project of making banking companies " which do not issue notes" give security to the amount of the one-fourth part of their subscribed capital are equally irresistible. Unless a bank issues notes, Government has no more to do with its management than with that of an insurance office, or any other mercantile establishment. The state, in conceding to com panies or individuals the right of coining money, should always take steps to prevent their frauds on the public which takes their notes, but with their other transactions it has no right to inter fere. The same memorialists make a just obser vation on this subject ; they contend " That, except in so far as the issue of notes is con. corned, banking is essentially a private business, with which the state has no more title to interfere than it has to interfere with any other description of mercantile agency. If A choose to deposit money in the hands of B, who lends it to others, why is the interference of Government more necessary than if A had deposited it in the hands of C, who employs it in manufactures or agri culture ? It is the duty of Parliament to take care that coins, and the paper notes issued as substitutes for them, be always cf their professed value; but assuredly it is no part of its duty to inquire into the solvency of those into whose hands coin or paper may come." . . It would be better that all banks of issue gave security to the amount of their issues, but surely this regulation will not be imposed on joint stock banks if not likewise imposed upon other country banks, from whose failures the nation has suffered so much within the last 40 years. But what the Noble Lord required on one hand, in order to confer stability on these joint-stock banks " not of issue," he took away with the other, in proposing to grant them a charter on limited responsibility. No banking or mercan tile company ought to enjoy such a privilege, either on their own account or on that of the public. When a man allows his name to be mixed up with the concerns of a trading associ ation, he ought to be made liable not only for the sum which he invests, but for the whole of his fortune. He cannot otherwise be supposed to take that interest in its management which shall be a security to the public that it is ma naged well ; and the public, having thus reason to doubt of its stability, will not repose in the firm that confidence which is necessary to insure an extensive and beneficial employment of its funds.— imes. A pamphlet has been published under what we suspect to be the false signature of " An Attorney and Solicitor," in the form of a letter to the Lord Chancellor, and professing to be occasioned by his Lordship's late " s upercilious" allusions to the independence and disinterested ness of attorneys, &c. The real purpose of the letter is to injure the Lord Chancellor, and to aid the project, still entertained by the Tory Peers, of throwing out the Local Courts Bill. The manner of it is an appeal to public corn passion on behalf of that helpless and ill-used body, the attorneys (of a large proportion of whom, however, we are bound to say, in a parenthesis, that more upright, honourable, or valuable men, do not exist in the whole corn munity). It is insinuated that one of Lord Brougham's objects in bringing forward the Local Courts Bill has been to " advance a few gentlemen of the bar to the new offices which he would fain provide for them." This is a sample of the writer's spirit, who, if he be a soli citor, is, we conjecture, one of the political-fag school,—one of the followers of that honest and enlightened junto which, day by day, and night by night, during the debates on the Bankruptcy Bill, raised the same outcry against the Lord Chancellor almost in the same words. His conduct on that occasion ought to have silenced his calumniators for ever. He allowed the judges of assize to nominate all the country commissioners of bankrupt ; these commissioner ships (no bad prize to an intriguing Minister) being not less than 600 in number, and yielding each from 6001. to 200/. per annum ; and he referred the choice of the official assignees to a committee of the principal merchants in the city ; thus entirely divesting himself of the patronage which had afforded such a fertile theme of obloquy. It is the fate of every real Reformer to encounter imputations on the purity of his motives, but experience ought to have taught a man like Lord Brougham to disregard them, especially as no one is better qualified to strip from faction and selfishness the hypocritical mask under which they would disguise their object and their origin. The present pamphlet is obviously no better than a case of Solicitor versus People." The whole grava men of the charge against the Lord Chancellor is, that he is relieving the poor from the miseries of costly law and often unattainable justice ; he has reduced, though not in an equal proportion, the emoluments of the solicitors; that lie has, in short, preferred the interest of the client to that of his attorney. What sort of national sympathy with attorneys, and proportional hos tility to the Bill, an accusation like this may provoke, we shall not now inquire. We recom mend the Tory Lords to pause before they take any irrevocable step in support of their new allies. They have no credit themselves to spare for liberality or disinterestedness, and this addi tional scandal may tell heavily upon them. The attorneys, however, have this superiority over them--that, unlike the Lords, they are not op posed to all reform ; and as the author of this pamphlet, with an amusing simplicity, admits, the corporation to which he belongs is in a state very far re,noved from perfection. The passage being singular we subjoin it:— " I must write more, I find, than I at first intended ; and I may as well allude, before proceeding further, to one or two of the well-founded and most frequently reiterated complaints against many of the members of that branch of the profession to which I have the honour to belong. Many among us are truly accused of incompetency ; some of unworthy and disreputable practice. I call these well founded complaints, for with shame and sorrow do I ac knowledge my conviction of their justice. But where lies the fault? Necessity, my Lord, has no law; and so un bearable is the poverty of some of our number, that their choice lies only between a species of practice indefensible and most dishonouring, and a residence within the walls of a prison. It is a fearful alternative, but the Legisla ture has imposed it. All the world cries out against the increase in the number of attorneys, and yet we hear of no judicious enactment to limit or diminish their number— and why? Because they bring money into the treasury, and enrich the exchequer. All that men in power do towards checking the evil consists in continued encroach ments upon the guaranteed rights of the existing body ; but this is hardly fair, and experience has shown it to be inefficient. " I will name one or two very simple means by which the complaint [night in some degree be obviated. If severe means must be resorted to, I would say let their influence he felt by those who merit them, and not by the entire mass. Parliament is now legislating for the ruin of us all. I would say, visit more frequently upon delinquents the just reward of their malpractice., and prevent men who•e names have once been struck off the rolls from continuing to practise in the names of other attorneys, or in those of their employers, as they now notoriously do, and to assist them in which would seem to have been one of the chief objects of a recent reforming statute. " This is practicable enough, my Lord, and it would at once diminish the number and increase the tespectability of the profession. " Another remedy, equally simple and equally effica cious towards the removal of the two evils which I have admitted to exist—our general incompetency and our overwhelming number, is this; examine applicants for admission as attorneys before you suffer their names to be put upon the rolls. The advantages of a recurrence to this system (for you know, my Lord, its non observance at the present day is only an abuse which has been suffered to creep in with time), I am persuaded, would be found to be incalculable. Articled clerks would be stimulated to exertion ; the profession would become more intellectual and high-minded ; its numbers would be diminished; and that too by the rejection of the most ignorant, who are generally, from causes which might easily be traced, found to be, at the same time, the most illiberal and un principled. " If I speak merely of an injustice done to ourselves, I can hardly in fairness expect to attract much of your Lordship's valu able regard. If I show that the come quences of that injustice produce injurious effects upon the other branches of the community, I may hope to be somewhat more successful. There is a class of men (of whom one or two out of almost an innumerable body I desire to be understood as redly believing to he respect able) termed certificated conveyancers, who, upon the payment of about 81. per annum at the Stamp-office, are furnished with a license to carry on the trade or profession of a conveyancer ; and the gentlemen in question thereby acquire, or at any rate they exercise without control, the privilege of advising on titles, and preparing deeds, wills, and other important documents, and thus assume to them selves all the profit to be derived from the most lucrative branch of a solicitor's practice. My Lord, it may be quite unimportant whether or no attorneys are injured by this ; but is it of no consequence that the state should be defrauded of its duties? that the public should be sub jected to the impositions of a class of persons such as these certificated conveyancers far the most part are, alike free from responsibility, anti unprepared by the five years, or indeed any, of that antecedent study which the Legis. lature has deemed necessary in the case of an attorney ?" Times. SECOND EDITION. SUN-OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. IAI PERU LPA LIAME NT THIS EVENING. HOUSE OF LORDS. The Alteration of Markets'-Day Bill was read a second time. Lord ELLENBOROUGH said that it was important that their Lordships should have the same papers laid be fore them relative to the Irish Church Bill, as had been laid before the House of Commons. The Duke of RICHMOND said he would make in quiries upon the subject. On the motion of the LORD CHANCELLOR, the third reading of the Limitation of Actions Bill was post poned till to morrow. Mr. BERNAL and ethers from the Commons brought up the Engineer and Artillery Pension Bill, the Militia Pen sion Bill, and the Sea Apprentice Indenture Bill, which were read a first time. The House then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SIEAKER resumed his seat at a quarter past five o'clock. A message from the Lords announced that their Lord ships had agreed to several private Bills. Colonel DAVIES presented a petition from Heathfield, in Sussex, complaining of the mat-administration of the poor laws, and praying for their amendment. Mr. O'CONNELL said, on the Bth February he moved for certain returns connected with the charities of England and Ireland ; those relating to England had been duly returned, but those relating to Ireland had not; and he, therefore, moved that the returns be made immediately.— Ordered. Mr. GILLON presented two petitions from the burghs of Falkirk and Ayr against certain parts of the Scots Burghs Reform Bill. Sir Et FERGUSON moved that the Warwick Bo rough Election Committee have leave to sit on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, notwithstanding the sitting of the House. _ _ _ After a few observations from C. W. Wynne, Mr. Cur tele, Mr. Hume, and Mr. Warburton, the motion was agreed to. Lord ALTHORP laid before the House returns of the salary and emolv.ments of the Master of the Rolls, and also of the Vice-Chancellor. Upon the motion of Lord ALTHORP, the order of the day was read on the Church Temporalities (Ireland) Bill. On the motion that the Bill be read a third time, Mr. O'CONNELL rose, as it was understood, to make some observations and to move some amendment, but Mr. STANLEY informed the Hon. and Learned Gen tleman that there had bee❑ a distinct understanding that upo❑ the third reading there should be no discussion, but that the debate should be on the question that the Bill do pass. Mr. STANLEY moved that two riders be added to the Bill. —Agreed to. Mr. SHEIL moved that a rider be added to the Bill, to the effect that the income of the Arch bishops of Ireland be fixed at 4,5001., and that of the Bishops at 3,0001. a year. Although the income of the Bishops was proposed to be reduced, yet their patronage would be enormously increased. It was proposed that the Bishop of Armagh should, for instance, pay over to the Commissioners, from his income, which was at present 14,944/., but which would be increased by the amount of 6,2601., and if it were to be augmented to 20,0001., he would still only have to pay 4,500/. to the Commissioners, and be at liberty to pocket the balance. This surely could not be the intention of Government. According to the provisions of this measure, while there was a deduction from the income of only one Bishop (Derry) there was a most enormous increase of ecclesiastical patronage give❑ to the others. Was this proper ? There was no fixed standard ; the payment should be adapted to the services performed ; but instead of the standard of service, they took, what was no criterion at all, the standard of ,locality. It was upon these grounds that he wished this clause, which he proposed as a rider should be agreed to by the House, which would have the effect of reducing the revenues of the Archbishops of Armagh and Dublin to the yearly sum of 4,5001., and of the Bishops, to the sum of 3,5001. Mr. HUME seconded the motion. Unless the House agreed to such a proposition, ❑o efficient Church Reform would result. He thought the amendment should be adopted, even if there were no other advantage to be de rived from the equality of income which it would establish, than the prevention of translations, which were so incon. venient and disadvantageous to the best interests of the Church. The clause was then brought up and read a first time. Mr. STANLEY rose—There was only three ways of disposing of the patronage of the suppressed bishoprics, vesting it in a body of Commissioners, vesting it in the Crown, or vesting it in the Bishops; Vesting it in the Commissioners was certainly the hest way to remove jobbing, for they would be sure to play into each others hands.—(Hear, hear.) As to vest ing it in the Crown, he thought the patronage of the Crown in the Church of Ireland already sufficient, and the Ruse must give Ministers credit for not having wished to take it themselves.—(Hear, hear, hear.) They well knew, however, the charge which the candour of some Hon. Gentlemen would have raied, had Ministers thought the Crown the best deposi tory of the patronage of the suppressed Bishopricks. —(Hear, hear, hear.) With respect to the Bishoiis, although they might, like other men, be influ.nced by particularly their friends and relations, yet in spite of all th it was said against them, he would maintain, that if they wished the patronage of the Church in Ireland to be bestowed according to merit, and not from political motives, though if they wished ohscure merit to be rewarded, they could not do better than vest this patronage in the I3ishops.—(Hear, hear.) Does the Honourable Gentleman believe the public would obtain the benefit of the difference in the in comes of the Bishops ? What would then be to pay into the public Treasury ? It would be the tenants and not the public that would benefit.—(Hear, hear.) If this rider was carried, it would be contradictory of the rip ciple and enactments of the Bill, and lie should therefore oppose it.—(Hear.) Mr. A. JOHNSTON moved the previous question. The Hon. Member alluded to the oath taken by Members on assuming their seats, which he contended was diame trically opposed to such a motion as that the Hon. and Learned Member had made. (LEFT SPEAKING.) POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARLBOROUGH STREET. O❑ Saturday Amelia Saunders, a young prostitute, well known to the police, Sarah Thompson, and William Oxley, the latter a journeyman butcher, were brought up, charged with having robbed a gentleman, named Brewster, of 40/. in bank notes, a check for 10/., anti four sovereigns. William Noble Brewster, Esq., of Titchfield-street, stated that on Friday night, being rather inebriated, he was induced to accompany the two females to a low house, where he fell asleep, and on awaking, found himself alone, and that his purse, which contained the above sums, had bee❑ taken out of his pocket. He gave information to the police, and in a short time the three prisoners were taken into custody. . . 11I'Donnell Irish, police sergeant, was informed of the robbery, and having received certain information, he went with the prosecutor to a house in Lisson-grove, and there found the prisoners Thompson and Oxley. The prosecutor immediately identified Thompson, and witness told her of the robbery. She denied all knowl.fdge of it, but being told that a search must take place, the male prisoner called the prosecutor outside of the room, and in the presence of wit ness, he said that the girl Thompson had come home and told him of the robbery, at the same time showing him the purse, containing ail the money, except two sovereigns. The prisoner said he was very angry at what was told him, and he took the purse from her, intending to seek out and restore it to the owner in the morning. The prisoner then pulled out the purse and gave it to the pro secutor, who remarked that he had acted like on honest man, and he would present him with a sovereign. Witness would not let the affair be arranged in this manner ; and he then took both prisoners into custody. The prisoner Saunders was found in another house, and she gave up two sovereigns to the policeman.—Committed. MAR YLEB ONE. TIIE LOVESICK CARVENTE ft.-An elderly decent looking man was charged by Mrs. Adsey Thompson, a sprightly widow, about thirty years of age, carrying on the business of a dress maker in the neighbourhood of Manchester-square, under the following circumstances : The complainant said that, about ten months since, the defendant, who was a carpenter, was her tenant ; since the death of her husband, he had annoyed her with his addresses, and she could not get rid of him, as he had got her street-door key, with which he obtained an en trance whenever he chose. Mr. HOSKINS said, if the widow did not choose to receive his addresses any more, he must not annoy her. —He was then discharged, with a caution not to offend again. HORIUBLE DEATH OF AN INFANT.- On Friday evening as FREDERICK PARItETT, a fine child about two years old, the son of a cheesemonger in Ton bridge-street, New-road, adjoining Mr. LORD'S soap boilery, was playing in Mr. LORD'S warehouse, he fed through a small trap into a vat underneath, containing boiling tallow. Mrs. LORD ran to the poor child, who was up to his chin in the boiling fat, and rescued the poor sufferer, whose screams were agonizing. On removing the fat the skin of the poor child peeled off, and he died after six hours' agony. Mrs. LORD was severely burnt in res cuing the child. A PERILOUS SITUATION.—Captain CROW in his memoirs, relates the following perilous adventure : ---" One afternoon, when we were ten to twelve hundred miles from any land, and were sailing at the rate of seven or &girt knots, the alarm was given that the ship was on fire in the afterhold. I was in the cabin at the time, and, springing upon deck, the first persons I saw were two young men with their flannel shirts blazing on their backs; at the same time I perceived a dense cloud of smoke issuing from below, and looking round rne, I found the people in the act of cutting away the stern and quarter boats, that they might abandon the vessel. At this critical juncture I had the presence of mind to exclaim, in an animated tone, " Is it possible, my lads, that you can desert the at a mo ment when it is your bounden duty, as men, to assist me ?" and observing them hesitate, I added, " Follow me, my brave fellows, and we shall soon save the ship." These few words had the desired effect, for they immediately ral lied, and came forward to assist me. To show them a proper example, I was the first man to venture below, for I thought of the poor blacks intrusted to my care, and who could not be saved in the boats, and I was determined, rather than desert them, to extinguish the fire, or perish in the attempt. When we got below, we found the fire blazing with great fury on the starboard side, and as it was known to the crew that there were forty•five barrels of gunpowder in the magazine, within about three feet only of the fire, it required every possible encouragement on my part to lead them on to extin guish the rapidly increasing flames. When I first saw the extent of the conflagration, and thought of its proximity to the powder, a thrill of despair ran through my whole frame ; but by a strong mental effort I suppressed my dis heartening feelings, and only thought of active exertion, unconnected with the thought of imminent danger. We paused for a moment, struggling, as it were, to determine how to proceed. Very fortunately for us our spare sails were stowed close at hand. These were dragged out, and, by extraordinary activity, we succeeded in throwing them over the flames, which they so far checked, that we gained time to obtain a good supply of water down the hatchway, and in the course of ten or fifteen minutes we extinguished the flames. Had I hesitated only a few minutes on deck, or had I not spoken encouragingly to the people, no exer tion whatever could have saved the ship from being blown up, and as the catastrophe would most probably have taken place before the hands could have left the side in the boats, perhaps not a soul would have survived to tell the tale. I hope, therefore, I shall be excused in assuming to myself more credit (if, indeed, credit be due) for the presence of mind by which I was actuated on this occasion, than for anything I ever did in the course of my life. The acci dent I found was occasioned by the ignorance and careless ness of the two young men whose clothes I bad seen burn ing on their backs; through the want of regular officers, they had been intrusted to draw off some rum from a store cask, and who, not knowing the danger to which they ex posed themselves and the ship, had taken down a lighted candle, a spark from which had ignited the spirits." The human remains discovered; at Kirton Holme, a few days since, have excited extraordinary at tention in the neighbourhood ; and the following is a more detailed statement than we were able to obtain in sufficient time for our last week's publication :—A person was dig ging a pit in an orchard near the road side, when, at about a foot below the surface of the e-irth, he discovered a hogshead, which, on rising, he observed had been puddled round with clay, nearly three inches thick. On of it there appeared to be about three or four sacks lime, in which the s e was a distinct impression of the skull ut a human being ; there was also a part of the back-bone lying in the lime. When the hogshead was opened a dreadful stench issued from it, which lasted for several days afterwards, to the great annoyance of the neighbour hood. An old man, wh o resides at Kirton Holme, re members that during the Fen riots, on the enclosure t f Holland Fen, a man named NORRIS LINEIIAM, a village poet, who used to write songs on the subject of the riots, and was supposed to be well acquainted with the persons and proceedings of the rioters, was suddenly missed about that time; and as he had a house on the spot where these remains were discovered, there is a great probability that the unfortunate poet was murdered for fear of his betray ing the rioters, and buried in this spot.--Boston Herald. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAST WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Per Quarter. s. to s. I s.to s. s. to s. s. Carlisle 57 - 24 - 16 - 40 Hexham. l4B Si! 21 28 18 20 - gl Nlorpeth ! 45 61 26 28 17 19 30 Pen ri t h - 25 - 19 - Skettield .„ - 25 --19 Winchester 50 - 58 22 26 22 24 42 44 / Per Bushel. 8 . d. s . d. • 8 ..1 . s . d. s . d. s . d. d. ( Carmarthen....-.., 6 0 6(3 2 6 2 9 1 4 1 8 0 0 9; Cowbridge .. 8 6 01 2 9 36 2 6 30 5 6 Newcastle (Staff.) !8 0 8 6 4 6 5 0 2 9 3 3 4 9 Northallerton ;7 0 931 3 6 46 33 40 56 Ili Stone. ,80 881 4 0 48 30 36 59 S i „ Swansea -.-- .-.. 69 72, 3 0 39 19 22 00 1 Warwick ;9 0 10 9' 3 0 46 20 33 56 01 Per 8011. Barnardcastle ,11 6176 8 0 86 5 8 6810 0 11; Durham 120 14 61 7 0 80 49 63 76 9! Richmond 10 0 160 ;76 96 50 66 76 9; Stockton 111 3 12 3! 9 6 100 46 50, 76 '! WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.-July 5 Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Sufiblk...-s. 475. to 595. fine 61a. - Lin. and Cam. -- Yorkshire -s. 365. to 50s. fine 5.56. White -s. 465. to Ills. fine 64 5 . ---- Foreign, Red. -s. 425. to 545. fine 588. White -s. 525. to 60s. nne 64 6 " Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk - Lincolnshire 24s. to 257, fine 222 1 ' - Yorkshire Wold 2ls. to 265, fine 240. - Foreign - s. fine - 4 ' Beans, Old -- New 31s. to fils. fine 30 , • Oats, Potato l9s. to its. fine - Poland -5. IBA. to 21s. fine 22 5 . - Friezland and Small -5. 17s. to 20s. fine 21 6 ' - Meal ing 9d. to lid, per Stone. Shelling "Is. to 21s. 6d. per Load' Malt 3ss. 395. fine 425. per Load. Rapeseed "2.1. Os. 231. Os. 241. Os. per Last. SCOTCH MARKETS. Wheat. Barley Oats. Beans. Oatnle; Aberdeen 40 48 22 26 16 19 - 25 ,* 1 Berwick--; 35 37 18 20 13 15 Is 20 26 9 11 Coldstream - 36 38 IS 19 13 14 19 21 - d upar ---.., 48 56 26 31 18 22 22 20 d Dundee 50 60 30 33 20 25 30 31 Elgin ~.,.,.,,,•,,,,, 40 49 24 26 16 20 23 30 - Inverness..,... P 3 48 25 t.; 18 20 23 27 45 d , Kelso --..- al 42 19 21 13 15 20 23 - 48 61 23 29 16 20 45 48 43 4' Perth 50 23 26 20 '22 22 25 - The size of the measure varies throughout the ceun . s EDINBURGH CORN MARKET.-July 3. We had a large supply of all kinds of Gran to-day, excel" Barley, and the sales were rather better for Wheat and Oats. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. Bean='; First 6ls Od -s Od 21s 4d 32a Od I 32s t Second s6s Od -s Od 19s Od 59s Od 21s Od Third 4Bs Od - s Od 16' 8d 29s Od 29s Od PRICES OF PROVISIONS, &C. Reef, per lb._- 0 0 s. 4 4 d. to 0 08. 7 7 d. s F a r l e t sh n ß it u to ttLr,ll3. 0 05.9 6 d. to 5 0 . 1 1 9 ! Veal -- 0 4 0 8 Ditto, per cv.t.7o 0 0 ',', Pork 0 4 0 6 Eggs, per doz. 0 7 0 0 ° Lamb, per qr. 2 0 4 0 OatStraw(kpi.) 5 6 6 ~ Callow, cwt.... 35 8 37 6 Wheat Ditto., 5 6 6 1 „' Quit - tern I.oaf 0 8 0 0 Barley Ditto - 4 6 5 ° Potatoes, 1711 b. 0 4 0 0 Hay,per 0 8 0 EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET.--July 2. There was a moderate supply of Oatmeal et this day's mar/a ( ' and the sales were dull, at last week's prices. Per Sack of 2801 b. Imp. Per Stone of 141 b. Imp. First Oatmeal Second ditto 1 8 0 Second ditto Barleymeal 1 6 0 Barleymeal 0 I Peasemeal Pot Barley-No. 1, per cwt. 125.-2 d, 145.-3 d, GLASGOW CORN MARKET.-July ? Our Grain market is steady for all descriptionss. Wheat, per 240113. s. d. s. d. Oats, per 2641 b. s. d. British, old 23 oto 29 0 Irish l3 6to 151 - new °so 27 6 British l4 0 Canada, tree 27 0 30 0 Beans, per 2601 b. Irish English l Barley, per 3201 b. Scottish Scottish 22 6 0 24 - 0 0 Irish O Pe a a tm se e , a S h c p o e tt r i i s i h m . b ... 14 6 0 11,644 CORNWALL. MARKETS. TRURO—Wheat (average) 21s.—Barley, 9s. Od.—Oats, Bs. g 4 O, ST. AUSTEI.L—Wheat, —a. to 21s.—Barley, —s. to 94.-0 8 7, to 7s. 6d. PENZANCE—Wheat, 20s. to 2.ls.—Barley, 9s. to 103..—.0 ~ .; ils. to 7s. 6d.—Beef and Mutton, Od. to 6d.—Pork, Od. to 4 . Butter, 81d. per lb. LAUNCESTON—Wheat (average) 19s. 6d.—Barley, ss. 3d.—Beef, scl.—Mutton, 6d. LISKEARD—Wheat, —S. to 20s. Olt,—Batley, Bs. Od.—Oats , to 6s. 6d. BonNtlN—Wheat (average) 2 Is.—Barley, Ss. Od.—Oats, 6s 0 HELSTON—Wheat, 6d.—Barley, 93 tid. Sr. CoLuMß—Wheat, 20s. to —&—Barley, 7s. to 100.-- 13g° and Mutton, sd. to 61—Veal, Od.—Lamb, Od. 111 I NI,, , TC INTELLIGENCE. Tons. CI Quantity of Copper Ore sold at Redruth last Thurday 3,419 0 Average Produce ---- . 8 1 4 0 Quantity of fine Copper. Amount of 5a1e,21,995/.lls. ocl.—AverageStandanl, 11'21. 1)5. HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH GENTRY/ The F.urtb Part (completing the First Volume) of BURKE'S " History of the Commoners of Great Britaio is intended for publication early in July. The follovi li , are among the distinguished families whose g eneslog'' and rsisting sate are recorded in the forthcoming portiO of the work :—ConwErr of Workington, TYRififirr Kettlehy, &c., EvANs of Ashhill and Miltown Castle, A l nEwrox of Euxton, PALMES of Nahum, WILLIAM Herrington and of Bridehead, MoRAY of Abercairol FETHERSTON-HAUGH of Bracklyn Castle, C HUT E of Vine, WILBRAHAM of Rhode, ARDEN of Longcroft SIVETTENHAM of Swettenhatn, DUNDAS of Dundee, siNGBERD of Ormsby, ROCHE of Limerick, BEcitrolfg° ' Fonth ill. OPENING OF THE NEW PIER t ' GRAVESEND.-The projection of the Pier into the ri ; at Gravesend, which was partially destroyed by the W 3t , men a few days ago, but has since been repaired, w ill opened in due form this morning (Monday,) at eig f o'clock, by the Mayor and Corporation, when the visii / to this favourite watering-place will be enabled for 1 :6 first time to embark on hoard the steamers without the if convenience of small boats. The watermen are in a of great excitement, and the Mayor has, therefore, recur, the attendance of a large body of Thames Police office i and adopted other precautions against any disturbance the occasion. The New York packet of the 16th ult. Ir j off Liverpool on Saturday night, but she could not, f P " the state of the wind, reach port before yesterday. The number of persons employed in °l i ; depat tment of the Customs in the year 1819 was 2,oober their salaries, 277,913/. 10s. 2d. In 1832, the nuo l t . employed was 1,654; salaries, 243,678!. 14s. 11 w i i making a reduction since 1819, of 346 persons ,e) 34,234/. 15s. 3d. The gross receipt of revenue co lfee 4 in the port of London for the year 1819, was 7,749, 46 ;t0 at a rate of 3!. Ils. Sid. per cent. In 1832, j. revenue was 9,434,854!., at a rate of 2!. 119. 13 per cent. MIGUEL'S NEW GENERAL.--Theitiessag gives the following :—" No one is ignorant o f the I', pointment of Marshal BOURMONT to the command of t troops of Don Macum., but the terms upon which it 01 ' ccgenerally known. We have be en : a sure epte dt d re not so haatthe following are the three principal C OP, cockade. 2. That he shall during his service in 1 1° r r gal continue to preserve his title of Marshal of nit tions:—‘ 1. That he shall w e a r none but the 3. That a legion of foreigners shall be formed, to be e s e the Legion of Henry V.' Nothing can better serve dl cause of Dun PEDRO than the compliance of Don lkflc i with these pretensions of M. DE BOURMONT, f or d I French Government will thereby feel itself warra nte interfere, and indeed it would be gu ilt y of treason Wer e not to do so. It, however , appears that the frie o l, M. DE BOURMONT are acting as if all this was ,0 and it is said that the Miguelite committee at Pare engaged in enrolling as many officers and soldiers of 0 , ex-Royal Guard as they can prevail upon to engag e : o f [We hope Captain E LLIOTT h as ma d e s imilar condi t 'o , and that he will sail with none but a " Charles-stree y ? at least a " Conservativ e " crew. We should have th t ' d oi that the Carlists and the Conservatives had been Orl i, enough in their own countries, without going abroad beating.] BIRTHS, o lf On the 3d inst., in Blandfor d- p l ac e, Regent's-park, 0" of T. J. Thompson, Esq., of a son. fl- On the 6th inst., at Upper Clapton, Mrs. W. 11. Tils o i i a son. I° • On the sth inst., at Nottingham.terrace, Regent'S - P 3r lady of A. Green, Esq., of a son. ' _____9l MARRIED. On the 6th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, Po' Conyngham, second son of the late Marquis Conyngha o '6 Hon. Henrietta Maria, fourth daughter of the late Lord f . On the 6th inst., at St. Andrew's, Holborn, Mr. C. J. I V to Betsey, only slaughter of M. Hale, Esq., solicitor , garden. DIED. s tC l '', On the 4th inst., at Epping , Mr. D. Cole , of Little F. 340 On the 3d inst., Mr. J. Siinkin, of Redeross.street, ' gate, aged 38. /• '' On the 6th inst, aged 41, Mary, wife of T. Price, of gate-street, Bloomsbury. ' o ' , On the sth inst., Isabella Jane, aged 6 , daug hter of Waugh, Essex-street, Strand. lA lijr' On the sth inst., 'I. Esq., T. Ferguson, o f George-yard , inst., at King's-road, Chelsea, vlif s i t 3 r a e ov e en t y , t,ala,ge h Mrs. aged 71. """ 71 . . On the 6th inst., Mrs. Sarah Pryer, of Sloane-street>) PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BYMURDO YOUtia° SUN Orneil 112, STsisPo, 100.10°14 _ . It A F _ „ _ , afford The a July i goo Ilair eft receii however rem no A. rge • TO TTIEN LADIES I HAY Directi announcing, appeal to yol 'at in that l That ever Mr. Smith toy Intentionoccasion ; 1)1 the next tha earnestly to In the cofriendq, and exertions, to grou nde I ten .' i ttn , I 1 q)ect to wl 28 , B r y a TO THE P iirutet: AVI my{ tc . ) t he Ba:11 c !ton of your equally my and the eon 80. 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