The Sun. — London, England, 1836-01-21 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We recently noticed the excellent addresses to his Majesty' from the Town Councils of Oxford and Newcastle-on-Tyne, expressing their gratitude for the important measure of Municipal Reform, and declaring their.confidence in the present Liberal Administration. We rejoice to see the example followed by other im portant cities and boroughs ;• and in another column we have collected some further proofs of public opinion, which cannot prove very acceptable to the Tories. Canterbury, Norwich, Coventry, Colchester, Ludlow, Maldon, Walsall, and Dartmouth, have each demon strated the predominance of Liberal principles in towns hitherto, we believe, without exception, under the sway of Tory Corporations. These simultaneous expres sions of gratitude to the Sovereign and of confidence in his Ministers must he gall and wormwood to 'the it Conservatives," who, to do them justice, fought hard, though in vain, to maintain the old Corporators—fore seeing the consequences of the emancipation of the bo roughs from the tyranny of the Self Elect. We cannot extract the copious comments of the Liberal country Press on this " revolution" in the government of the in . - co rporated populous communities of England and 'Wales. The Oxford Address, a Corporation claimed by the Tory journals, was unanimously agreed on at the first meeting of the Council, and it distinctly re cords the feelings of its members in favour of a Libe ral Administration. In Coventry it appears that a miserable remnant of the old body is left to weep over the loss of Tory supremacy. The Address at Mal don was also unanimously voted. Norwich will now be in vain revisited by a Scarlett and a Stormont. Walsall, which appears to have been formerely a " keep" of the Ultra-Orange Tories, is wholly sur rendered to the Reformers ; and it is confidently stated, in a local paper, that a wavering Representative in Parliament must either become more decidedly Liberal, or he must abandon all thoughts of being again re turned. Twenty-four " good men and true" are seated on tlie benches of those who recently occupied " for life" (as they thought) the seats in the Walsall town hall. In Ludlow, " Lord Powis's Corporation" is all erone, and Liberal substitutes unanimously voted the Address from that borough. Mr. Charlton will wish them " good bye" on the first opportunity, and the last half of the "family borough" of the Clives is in a dangerous states In Colchester the Tory Councillors, after a bitter opposition against the Address of the majority of Liberals, were beaten by a majority of three to one. Dartmouth, after a dreary period of misrule, has escaped from Tory thraldom, and its new Town Council voted unanimously an address, assur ing his Majesty of a "firm and entire confidence" in the Cabinet of Lord Melbourne. The language of these documents proves the almost universal feeling throughout the country as to the great advantage which the Liberal cause has gained in the last Ses sion. We do not doubt that examples so creditable to the newly elected Councils will be generally fol lowed. The Tories condemn the political demonstra tions of the new Corporations ; but when monopolists of municipal influence, their cliques scrupled *not to prostitute the " common seals" to every party pur pose. These Liberal Addresses represent the intelli gence, the character, the property of the great majority of the resident tax-payers. We challenge the Tories to a comparison of the polls and rate-books of any single borough now governed by a Liberal Council, when we will undertake to prove, that the balance of " pro perty" is not in favour of Toryism. The Reformers have had to contend with a most unjust and unconstitutional assignment of a disproportionate number of Councillors to many wards with the smallest constituencies, and yet, notwithstanding, they have signally triumphed ! With scarcely an exception, as far as we have heard, the electors have chosen men of reputation, in telligence, and pecuniary independence. Local feuds and jealousies have been sacrificed to union, to ensure a triumph over the common enemy. Thus have the predictions of the Conservative opponents efMenicipal Reform been falsified, and thus has the " Lyndhurst led majority of the Peers" been shamed and punished. We have never advocated this great national question of municipal regeneration exclusively for its political advantage, though we do not under-rate its importance in that respect. But we daily see proofs of its mani fold benefits in the searching spirit of inquiry, and pub licity of proceedings everywhere displayed—in the sub stitution of a qualified and liberal Magistracy for un popular and party-coloured " Justices" (for the people everywhere entertain the confident hope that Ministers will nominate only intelligent and liberal Recorders, in place of the " Noble patrons" and nominees of self elected Corporators), and in the complete termination of the system of misrule and scandalous misappropria tion of the public property, which disgraced ~the old Corporators of the first cities in the Kingdom." Well might - the Tories mourn over their loss, calumniate 'Ministers and their political supporters, and virulently oppose a measure big with the certain destruction of Toryism. They have just reason to curse, as they do in their innermost thoughts, Municipal R'eform.— Morning Chronicle. Every now and then the Tories unwittingly betray the secrets of the Carlton Club, and the hopelessness of succeeding, through their old arts, in corruptiing the Parliamentary constituencies. One day we are gravely told that a dissolution of Parliament would send back to private life every Liberal Member of the House of Commons, and re-instate the " Conserva tives" in their former monopoly of the representation. Another day we arc assured that the last registration was fatal to the Reformers, though the contrary is no torious ; and that at least the counties will be swept clear of every Liberal representative. The Standard is now cunningly seeking to " catch flats," •by an nouncing that if Sir. Robert Peel condescends once more to sanction the ultra-Tories in seizing, pro tem pore, the Government, lie will not dissolve Parliament And to mis-inform the country, our unscrupulous con temporary insults the King by the assertion that his Majesty will not allow a dissolution to Lord Mel bourne under any circumstances ; and belies the Premier by the still more impudent fabrication of the " fifty times reiterated complaint," that by Lord Melbourne he is denied the privilege of an exercise of the Royal Prerogative, for which he is re sponsible. Thus, in 1831, the Standard, day by day, misled its dupes on the same point, till the guns of St. James's Park announced his Majesty in person on_ his road to send home the last base represen tative assembly of his people. The miserable Times fa voured its readers, yesterday, with the following elec tion morceau:— " NUMERICAL STATE OF PARTIES. The following calculation has been made as to the probable result in England and Wales 'of the changes attendant upon an immediate dissolution : CONSERVATIVE GAIN. St. Alban's CONSERVATIVE LOSS East Cumberland Rochdale Halifax Leicester Yarmouth Brid port Norwich Colchester Knaresborough Middlesex... West Kent East Surrey Radnorshire Guilford Newport (Isle of Wight) I West Somerset Wigan W ItershF East , orces. Wakefield ire Poole iVeyfnouth South Nottinghamshire 1 • Modnoutk Lewes Peterborough Total l9 Total 12 The chances are Lord Lansdowte will lose Calne ; Scar borough is not safe for the Tories en revanche ; the race for West Surrey will be neck-and-neck ; South Hants will de pend upon what Government is in, with its appendage, Ports mouth ; and it is possible North Nottinghamshire may be contested with our Knight of the Dilly. Such casualties being born e i n mind, the gain on neither side would justify a disso lution. There is not a shadow of foundation for the parti culars in the longer column, and the items of loss in the smaller one are seventy per cent. below the real calculation of the shrewder Tories. Nevertheless the rumour of an early . dissolution of Pailiament is as gr, (mindless as the report yesterday propagated by the Tories, that Ministers were negociating a coalition with Lord Stanley. Since the Conservatives have abandoned all hope of the Government, they have in vented this ' 6 lie of the day," as a good trick to sow suspicion and undermine public confidence in the Ministry. We shall, however, have fresh falsehoods served up daily, and it will be our task to expose thenu—Morning Chronicle. Our Irish letter of to-day confirms that of yesterday in representing the deep interest attached to the forth coming election for Clonmel, occasioned by Mr. Ronay ne's death. There seems to be every reasonable prospect that Mr. Bagwell, if he act judiciously, will unite in his favour all respectable men, Roman Ca tholic as well as Protestant, and thus break one im portant joint in the tail of the worthy agitator. One of the most frequent Malpractices of the priest and O'Connell faction has been to describe all Irish gen tlemen, who did not (in the American phrase) " go the whole hog" of repeal and Popish supremacy, how ever liberal they may have been with regard to every previous measure of State policy, as being " vile rene gadoes," " tyrannical Orangemen," "infamous Tories," &c. The audacity and villainy of this species of. slander has long been felt by every man with a grain of understanding, yet has it seldom been distinctly ex posed. At each period of passing-some fresh Act of Parliament for the relief of the Papists from the penalties affecting them, that party were equally lavish of their declarations that they had nothing more •to ask, and of their assurances of " eternal gratitude" to those by whom they had been protected. It was notmany weeks after Catholic Emancipation became a law, that the Irish Papists then in London, and, if we don't . mistake, O'Connell was one of them, put their names down for subscriptions to erect some lasting monument to the great author of the bill, the Duke of Welling ton, who was extolled as the most illustrious of man kind. The Duke of Wellington is the same man still. His Grace has never intimated the least inten tion of moving to repeal that Magna Charta of the Pa pists. The Conservatives of England, those of tfiem who supported the measure, have not yet attempted to retrace their steps. Why, then, has the language of the Popish priests, and of O'Connell the Agitator, towards the illustrious Duke and the Conservatives, changed since that time from grateful admiration to bitter, bru tal, and rancorous abuse ? The benefit remains—why has the sense of obligatiOn evaporated, and given place to cries of malignity and vengeance ? It is because the Popish priests and agitator never meant to. keep their word ; because, when they declared, in their evidence before both Houses of Parliament, and in their speeches at public meetings, that they were and would be satisfied with the privileges then bestowed upon them, and which raised them to a footing of perfect equality with Irish Protestants, they did not speak the truth ; because it was one of those (many) occasions on which, according to their here ditary creed, they dreamed not of keeping. faith with heretics ; and'because neither the political ambition of O'Connell, nor the corporation spirit of the Popish church, was of a nature to be content with equality to Protestants, or with anything short of absolute supre macy over them. It is not, therefore, the Duke'of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, and the liberal Conser vatives,. who have changed their principles, but it is the Romish priests and demagogues who have impudently and flagitiously broken their faith. Who, in. that case were the " renegadoes ?" Again, in the same spirit of abandoned falsehood, these mean and faithless ca lumniators proclaim every Irish gentleman who wilt not be their tool in the work of destroying the Pro testant church—that church which the Papists, one and all, so solemnly renounced every wish or thought of weakening---to be an " ascendancy " man, a bloody " Orangeman," a narrow-minded bigot, and all the rest of it, making no shadow of distinction between Protestants, no matter how much their re spective opinions may differ. The design of this arti fice is easy to be seen. By impressing upon the minds of the Popish multitude that all men who fall short of the O'Connell schemes of revolution and con fiscation of property are alike, and that no shades or varieties of political sentiment are worth taking into ac count but the one between thorough-going O'Connel lism and complete and unmixed assent to the doc trines of extreme Orangeism, it is intended to destroy every vestige of moderation and clia . rity in the hearts of those upon whom O'Connell relies for support, that all may partake of the same exasperation against the whole mass of Protestantism without ex ception, that all may burn with the same fury, and by ceasing to exercise any habit of discrimination which might require and encourage some power of self-control, they may rush headlong into what ever gulf of desperate violence that calculating in cendiary shall have ' prepared for them. It has, therefore, been O'Connell's trick to confound, un der one unmitigated curse, all Irishmen of every colour of politics who do not enlist themselves un der his personal banner, and become his servile in struments, as was exemplified in one of his election addresses, when he held up to the hatred of the people the " Orange Knight of Kerry ! " a man whose whole life had been devoted to Roman Catholic eman cipation. This wholesale falsehood ought to be calmly met . on the part of such Irish gentlemen as can do so conscientiously, by a public statement of their willing ness to concur in certain measures of Church or other reform, and by a plain disavowal of the specific charge of being Orangemen. We believe that some useful effect may even now be produced by such announce, ments of liberal opinion within the limits of the con stitution, and embodied with a reference to their own preceding history as members of Parliament. At the same time, there is no concealing the truth, that vio lent and offensive imputations, proceeding from fac tion, are apt to realize themselves, and that nothing is more likely to persuade all Protestants of the neces sity of taking refuge in the same garrison, forgetting their accidental differences of opinion, and even em bracing each other's errors, than daily proof of the injustice done the most conscientious and temperate among them, the incessant abuse poured out upon them all indiscriminately, and the emphatic menaces of a savage persecutor that they all shall perish alike. And an outrage precisely similar has been per petrated here against that whole vast body of liberal and constitutional Englishmen who have not disgraced themselves by swearing allegiance to a Ministry be stridden by O'Connell, as upon Irishmen who have always befriended political and religious freedom, nor have ever taken the Orangeman's oath. As O'Con nell calls himself " the people of Ireland," so none are worthy to be included among the " people of England" who do not bow the knee to the calf of worn-out Whiggery. Those who were ever foremost among Englishmen in maintaining the cause of reli gious. and civil freedom, those who were most strenuous in their appeals for the abolition of colonial slavery, for the repeal of the 'rest and Corporation Acts, for the repeal of the Catholic disabilities, for the reduction of taxes, for the reform of Parliament, for the purifica tion of our municipal bodies men with whom we glory to have co-operated for all those great- national objects—they are now slandered and maligned as Tories ! Why ? Because they entertain a profound contempt for the whole texture of that wretched thing miscalled a Cabinet, to which the grand interests of liberty and property—of church and state—of English power abroad, anti of the British monarchy at home, are now, by an evil and fatal influence, intrusted ; because they and we understood froin the outset the vile and unnatural position in which this Cabinet was placed, foreseeing and foretelling that it must lick the feet of the unprincipled stranger who chanced to hold the balance between two English paities almost weighed within a feather of each other, and thus that the sceptre of Great Britain would, by the sordid and degenerate Whiglings of the hour, be practically swayed by a worthless adventurer, whose interests, as well as his positive declarations, bound him to ca , t down the church, and to . break up the unity of the empire. Not a week has passed since these menials of Popery and anarchy came into office, without their diverging more and more from those principles which the great majority of constitutional ,Englishmen h a d heretofore cherished, nor a moment has gone by without affording fresh proof of that inso lence and exultation with which the Popish enemies of England and the democratic assailants of her institu tions are filled, by the mere continuance'of an imbecile and low-minded Ministry in office. Yet they have' the • monstrous „impudence to charge the abandonment in which they are left by all thinking men as an offence which they have received, instead of a just punishment which they have provoked, and have shifted upon the intelligence and honour of the nation the shame of t their own unworthiness, But their h ours are reckoned —we feel a conviction that their doo,n is sealed, and that in a few weeks from this 21st of January, 1836, the British man-of-war, now upon her beam-ends, will be righted.— Times. We have received a copy of the Sixth Report of the Committee for managing the affairs of -the North American Colonial Association ; but though the press of other matter will not admit of our laying this docu... ment at length before our readers, it touches upon points so important to a very large portion of the Bri tish community, both at home' and in our extensive North American colonies, that we cannot let them pass in silence. Our opinions as to the importance of all our numerous colonies to the parent State are too well known to. requite present definition ; it will, therefore,. be sufficient to say that in principle they are the same, whilst we shall continue vigilantly to witch and expose every abuse that prevails in any one of them. The first portion of this interesting commercial document 'ad verts to the introduction of a Bill into Parliament by Lord Ashburton, . then President of the Board of Trade, which put an end to the suicidal practice that had prevailed for several years, of importing European timber by way of the North American colonies, for home consumption, on payment of the colonial 'duty. We take some credit to ourselves for being foremost in forcing upon the public attention this disgracefully anomalous evasion of the strict interpretation of llie law, that benefited a few mock free traders at the expense of the British revenue and the interests of the colonies ; and we have before congratulated those in terested in this alteration upon the result. This report, secondly, adverts to Mr. Poulett Thomson's notice of a motion for the appointment of a Select Committee to consider the present state of the timber duties, on the Ist of June, after that gentleman had succeeded to the Presidency of the Board of Trade ; which truly, would have been a Select Committee, had it not been for the united exertions of the Colonial Association and the General Shipowners' Society. All, however, that they effected towards procuring an impartial Com mittee, was a change of so trifling a nature as to. be entirely nugatory; for, although they brought forward impartial and practical competent witnesses (some of whom were not heard) from the outports, as well as from London, whose evidence as given did not warrant any alteration whatever in the existing duties, the Se lect Committee adopted certain resolutions, which they' reported to the House of Commons on the 14th of August, recommending a reduction to the extent of 15s. per load in the protective duty on timber, and an alteration in the mode of taking the duty on deals, which would approach more nearly to a payment according to their cubical contents. We heard a great portion of the examinations ourselves, and we confess that in the general character of the evidence pro and con that was adduced, we could discover nothing to warrant/the conclusion that our Colonial wood growers and dealers should be sacrificed even to that extent in favour of the Baltic timber growers, with whom we have no reciprocal trade whatever; but per haps the embryo Report, which we believe has been • printed foilr months, with the exception of a certain Appendix (the reason for. delaying which, perhaps, Mr. Warburton will some day explain from his seat in the House of Commons), will give us the reasons by which the Select Committee arrived at so extraordi nary a conclusion. The Colonial Association in their Report support our opinion ; they say they felt no alarm at the promulgation of the resolutions, being satisfied that they were so much at variance with the evidence upon which they professed to be founded, that it was impossible they should receive the sanc tion of a legislative Act. But this Committee very justly express their astonishment at' finding - that, although - five months have elapsed since the evidence was reported to the House, and although we are on the eve of another Session, the evidence has not been circulated for the guidance of any Hon. Member ex ceptthose who were on the Select Committee. The Committee of the Colonial Association then conclude, .from this unprecedented circumstance, that his Ma jesty's Government cannot intend to propose any mea sure in accordance with the resolutions of. the Select Committee for the consideration of Parliament during the ensuing Session ; but very properly they earnestly entreat the vigilant attention to the subject of all the Members of the' Legislature who feel an interest in the prosperity of British navigation and British colo nies. This singular suppression and delay of the Se lect Committee's Report reflects no credit whatever on the Board of Trade and the advocates for a reduction in the protective duties on timber, particularly as we have before said and believe that it has been completed so long a time with the exception of some documents, that two or three days would have been sufficient to revise : a fact that we understand will be confirmed on application at the office of the Parliamentary printer. Therefore the sooner it -is ushered into the world the better, unless it is to be d e l a y e d un til the Ca-'nadian Commissioners have arrived at the conclusion of their Herculean labours ; if so, why has not the President of the Board of Trade the tact (to say nothing more) to give us the hint through one of his ever-ready organs of the Press ? As to any alteration in the mode of levying the duties on deals, we believe that, in the opinion of, many practical men, it is very problematical that attempting to ascertain the cubical contents of deals more closely, will conduce very little, if any, to the augmentation of the revenue, unless the schoolmaster is first let loose upon the subordinate sur veying officers of the Customs, in order to increase their present stock of arithmetical knowledge. This, however, 'would be an economical though rather Whigish mode of rewarding that able man, Professor Babbage, for his past labours, unless Lord Brougham could be induced to forget the Speakership of the . House of Lords, and make himself useful by thus pro moting the economical views of his late colleagues. However, to be serious, the question is an important one to the interests of our North American colonies, and we have merely discharged our duty to our fellow countrymen by drawing public attention to the matter, before Parliament assembles. There are other points on which the report of the North American Colonial Association touches of - much impoitance, but we must postpone our remarks upon them until another oppor tunity.—Morning Herald. The task of remodelling the Court of Chancery and the Court of ultimate resort is one which the people of England cannot, without considerable alarm and dis may, see attempted by the present Ministers of the Crown. It is not merely the danger of unsuitable and improper appointments to the new posts which the Melbourne Cabinet would not fail to create in the re-construction of such important parts of our system of jurisprudence as the equitable and supreme appellate jurisdictions, that the nation must see reason to appre hend ; though some notion may be formed how for niidable even that comparatively inconsiderable and transient evil might become, from the circumstance that general and uncontradicted rumour has ascribed to Ministers an intention no less absurd and mis chievous than that of placing Lord Denman at the head of their new appellate jurisdiction—of conferring, that is to say, upon perhaps the most unfit man in the three kingdoms, the important function of " rejubincr the justice" of every Court, whether of equity or common law—of every Court, civil, criminal, and ecclesiastical, .in England, Ireland, and Scotland. This, so far 'from being a slight or momentary calamity to the nation, would be an evil of suc h magnitude and probable duration as fully to justify the determination of the country to do without any reform of its tribunals, how much soever a reform may be re quired, rather than accept the best reform that can be devised, if it is only to be had upon terms so extrava gant and injurious. But the evil, great as it would be, of bad appointments to any or the whole o f t h e new offices, is nothi ng i n comparison with the greater and still more certain evil, for which, if the MelbOurne Government are to have the management of the affair, the country must prepare itself, of having a new sy s t em of jurisprudence contrived, with a view not so much to the due administration of justice as to the multipli caa and the incre a s e o f Ministerial p atro : ng ti eo.n P cs offices, possible that 44 intelligent an d t prudent ' nation can so belie these qualittea as to permit t i lt , i m ts ost jurisprudence important to be pulled to pieces and recon structed by a body of men, whose numerous antecedent reforms or alterations in various departments of th e State, the Law, and the. Church have evidently had no other foundation, motive, or guide, than the spirit and principle of jobbing? Do the people of Great Britain and Ireland wish to behold such another exhibition of profli gate jobbing as the Bankruptcy Court Act, upon a larger, scale, in a more magnificent theatre, and with more distinguished and more costly, if not more able, actors to fill up the dramatis persona ? Are they anxious, above all things, that new opportunities should be afforded to enrich and dignify, at their expense, some half-dozen of Whig lawyers, who understand the value of a good income from the Treasury of the State much better than any point in the practice, or any principle in the science, of the law ? Are they con scious of an irresistible desire that means should forth with be found, by the creation of countless subordi nate but well-paid offices, to gratify the patriotic devo tion ef some Whig-Radical statesman, eager to emu late the fame of Lord Plunkett, by offering up his broml of British Hannibals upon the altar of his country ? And, having such unaccountable feelings and wishes, are they content to sacrifice for their gra tification, if need be, the character of the national juiisprudence, the only effectual guarantee for the safety of every man's property, reputation, and life ? Those who calculate on the people of England exhi biting such a degree of stupidity or infatuation will h speedily di scover s we imagine, to their cost, that they ave fallen into a grievous and fatal error, and that the nation will not be satisfied to commit to the hands of practised and inveterate jobbers, a trust of such in calculable importance as that of re-modelling its judi cial institutions.—Morning Post. An article appears in the current Number of the Edinburgh Review, founded on Reports of two Com mittees of the House of Commons, app9inted last Session; to inquire into the origin, nature, extent, and tendencies of Orange Associations in Great Britain, the Colonies, and- Ireland. The article itself is written with great vigour and eloquence ; but the ex tracts given from the Reports, especially those relating to Ireland, expose such an atrocious system of secta rian cruelty, that it would be difficult to accord them belief on ;any less credible authority than that whence they emanate. It has been proved by indisputable evidence, that not only officers of high rank in the army, but also magistrates and clergymen have been most active members of these most illegal, persecuting, and bloodthirsty combinations. Nay, those very parsons, entrusted with the preservation of the peace, and the preaching of goodwill amongst men, ministers of the laws of God and man, have headed armed processions, with banners flying and music playing party tunes, and encouraged wanton and sanguinary attacks on the lives and property of the Catholic population. Murders have been fre quently committed, houses have been burned, and all manner of abominations perpetrated, and through the influence of those entrusted with the execution of the laws, and the instrumentality of " packed " juries, the criminals have escaped with impunity. Let one case serve as an example. _ An officer marches into the town of Dromore with his own com pany of yeomanry, armed with guns and bayonets, and assaults several Catholic persons; they arrive op posite a public-house, a halt is called, and without any provocation an order is given to prime, load, and fire into the house, where several persons were taking re freshment. .- Many are wounded, and one man killed ; a ,trial is demanded by the people—the chief criminal is allowed to remain at large, and flies the country, his subordinates are tried, and it being proved that they fired by the command of their officer, they are, found guilty only of manslaughter. The principal offender returns, and what is his reception ? He is made a , Justice of the Peace ! This simple fact, which we take from amongst a variety of others of a similar de scription, speaks more than a voluntary of commentary. We shall merely ask a question : When such proceed ings have been sanctioned by a Tory Government, could peace be preserved in Ireland were that faction to return to power ? They make resistance virtue.— Morning Advertiser. CHANCERY COURT-WEDNESDAY, THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. BRENTWOOD SCHOOL. ➢lr. WIGRAM applied for an order to restore this case to his Lordship's paper. The matter 'had been fully argued before Lord Brougham, but at his Lordship's suggestion it stood over to allow the parties an opportunity of coming to a compromise, that being in his Lordship's opinion the course that would prove most advantageous to the foundation. Endeavours had been made to comply with the wishes of the Court, but no plan had been proposed to which the Attorney-General, in the strict discharge of his duty, could give his sanction, and it therefore became necessary to have the case re-heard, so that the Court might pronounce its decision on the points it issue. The LORD CHANCELLOR suggested under such circum stances that the parties should take the judgment of 'Lord Brougham, and save the time and expense of a rehearing. His Lordship had no doubt that Lord Brougham would decide the point if he was required to do so. Mr. WIGRAM was content.to abide by Lord Brougham's decision, if the other side consented. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, JAN UARY 21, 1836. LOCKE V. COLEMAN. This was an appeal from a decision of the Vice-Chan cellor in favour of the plaintiff. Mr. JACOB said the case came before the Court under rather singular circumstances. The bill was filed by the plaintiff, as the representative of Robert Marks, the tenant, according to custom, of certain lands in the manor of Taun ton Dean, in the county of Somerset, to recover certain messuages purchased by the defendant from the heirs of Grate Turner, who claimed to take the property under the custom of the manor. A gentleman named South ton, and the Lord of this manor, had purchased a much larger portion of the same property ; and the plaintiff having filed a bill against him obtained in 1829 a decree in her favour from the Vice-Chancellor. That decree was appealed against, and the question again argued before Lord Brougham. His Lordship af firmed his Honour's decision ; and the matter being then carried to the House of Lords, towards the close-of the last session, the House of Lords finally decided in fa vour of the judgments of the Courts below. In tile Vice- Chancellor's Court, and before Lord Brougham, the cause was called Locke v. Southton ; but in consequence of the death of Mr. Southton it was known in the House of Lords under the name of Locke v. Bushe. The question now raised was, with a very slight alteration, the same as that decided in the case of Locke v. Bushe. Sir W. HORNE, for the defendant, said, the great hard ship of the present case, whatever might be its fate, was this, that the defendants, who had been bona fide purchasers of this property, under the advice of eminent counsel, approv ' ing of the title, and who had, since the period of the pur chase, expended much capital in improvements, were now called on by the plaintiff to give up possession, and to ac count for all the rents and profits since 1819. He con tended, however, that the settlement made by Robert Marks applied merely to his own issue, and was intended to cut down for their benefit the rights of his wife, but that, after the failure of issue, these rights were intended to re turn to her unimpaired. This was the true construction of the settlement ; and, read in that way, her title to bequeath it to the children of her second marriage was unquestionable. Judgment postponed. ROLLS' COURT.-WEDNESDAY. The MASTER of the ROLLS was engaged during the day in hearing the arguments on one side in the case of the Attorney-General v. Cullum, which related to the adminis tration of certain charities in the town of Bury St. Ed mund's. The information prayed an account, and several references, for the purpose of ascertaining the state of the charity property, and for the appointment of new trustees. VICE-CHANCERY-WEDNESDAY. RUSSELL V. BUCHANAN. In this cause the Court had - directed a case for the opi nion of the Court of Exchequer upon the construction of the will and codicil of Robert Brown, by which he devised certain estates at Streatham to his nephew and heir Robert Brown Russell, for life, with remainder to his children as tenants in common in fee ; but the codicil declared no child should have a vested interest till the age of twenty one. The will and codicil were very intricate. The Court of Exchequer certified in favour of the heir-at-law. Mr. BARBER argued against the certificate. Mr. KNIGHT appeared to support it ; but His HONOUR confirmed the certificate of the Learned Judges. TIMELFALL V. LUNN. Mr. KNIGHT appeared in of this demurrer. The bill as originally framed prayed specific performance of an agreement, which the plaintiffs alleged they had entered into with their creditors for a composition, and to restrain proceedings at law commenced by the defendant, who was one of their creditors, for the full amount of his debt, and by amendment it prayed the return of a particular sum of money which had been paid under protest, and for the de livery of a bill of exchange to be cancelled, Mr. JACOB supported the bill. His Holouli said the demurrer must be allowed. KING'S BENCH.-WEDNESDAY._ CRAVEN V. SATINDER,ON. This was a proceeding instituted by the plaintiff to obtain a prohibition against the Ecclesiastical Court proceeding to levy certain church rates upon a place called Hawbrey, and the object of the proceeding was to ascertain whether Haw brey, which was within the local limits of Wakefield, was not bound to contribute to the church rates of Wakefield not only for the church rates of Wakefield, but for the new churches built under the provisions of the last Church building Act, 3 Wm. IV., c. s. The cause was tried at the York Summer Assizes in 1831, before Lord Lyndhurst, when the Learned Judge thought that there must he a verdict for the defendant, and his Lordship re served leave for the plaintiff to move to set aside that ver dict, and to have a new trial, or to enter a nonsuit. A rule for this purpose had since been obtained. Sir F. POLLOCK showed cause against the rule. The Court took time to consider its judgment. BAIL COURT. HUDSON V. JOIINSTONE. Mr. ADOLPHUS applied for a rule to show cause why the costs and damages which the plaintiff had obtained against the defendant in this action (tried before his Lordship during the present Term) should not be set off against the costs and damages of ati action for libel betwee❑ the same parties, tried in the Sittings after last Term, and in which the de fendant in the present action had obtained a verdict. The Juries in both cases returned a verdict of 80/. damages. The present motion was made on the part of Johnstone.—Rule nisi granted. EXCHEQUER COURT, WEDNESDAY, KENNET V. FITZGIBBON, M.P. This was an action for an assault, brought by the butler of the defendant, who is a Member of Parliament for the county of Limerick. In August last the porter of a coach maker, having brought some articles to the house of de fendant in Belgrave-square, was assisting the servants in putting them away, when the defendant told him to go away, as lie had servants enough to do the work of his house without any such aid. Nothing further was said at that time ; but shortly afterwards the defendant, addressing himself to three of his servants, of whom the plaintiff was one, said, " You are three idle, lazy blackguards." The plaintiff immediately made answer, " I don't think you can say that, Sir ;" whereupon the defendant struck him forcibly on the eye, exclaiming, " D—n you, am I a liar then ?" This was the assanit complained of. Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 25/. ADMIRALTY COURT. THE KING, IN HIS OFFICE OF ADMIRAL, V. FORTY-NINE CASKS OF BRANDY. This was a case regarding the right to the possession of certain casks of b ran dy found derelict near Poole, in the county of Dorset, which were claimed on one hantl by the King, in his office of Admiral, and on the other by Mr. William John Banks, by right of letters patent of Queen Elizabeth, granting the manor and castle of Corfe, in the island of Purbeck, to Sir Christopher Hatton, his heirs and assigns for ever. The circumstances were detailed in our report on the last Court Day, when Dr. Addams was heard on behalf of Mr. Banks. The KING'S ADVOCATE now rose to address the Court on behalf of his Majesty, as Lord High Admiral, with re spect to several casks of brandy, found flotsam within three miles of the shore of the island of Purbeck, and the ques tion was, whether the King, in his office of Admiral, was entitled to them, or Mr. Banks, as grantee of the Crown. There were two points raised on the case—the right to the jurisdiction and the right to the property. Now it was known that with respect to grants from the Crown, the general rule which guided the Court was to constrqe such grants strictly against the grantee- and in favour of the Crown ; upon that point there was the authority of Lord Coke, besides which it was laid down in Cummins's Digest that if two meanings could be attached to a grant, that must be taken which was strictly in favour of the Crown. After going through the facts of the case, the Learned Counsel said that Mr. Banks had not only failed to make out his claim to Admiralty jurisdiction super altum man?, but failed also to establish the claim which he had set up to the particular property in dispute in this case. Sir J. NICHOLL said the only question remaining was, what part of the property was to go to Mr. Banks, and what part to the Crown ; and he should decree to Mr. Banks those four casks that were found on land, together with the five that were found first washed by the waves, for the reason that, though not " high and dry," yet they had touched the ground, together amounting to nine casks, and to the Crown the remaining forty. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARYLEBONE. COMMITTAL OF AN ASTROLOGER.—Yesterday, Charles Paddon, a young man of shabby-genteel appearance, and who for a considerable time past has obtained a livelihood by " looking into futurity," was placed at the bar, charged with having obtained half-a-crown from Sarah Hemington, the wife of a policeman, of the D division, under the fol lowing circumstances : It appeared, from the evidence of complainant, that a short time ago a card with the address of an astrologe r was given to her by a female friend, and as she was desirous of becoming acquainted with the nature of the happiness or perils which she might have to undergo, she, on the previous afternoon, went to the cunning man's house. The following is a copy of the card alluded to :—" The Astrologer of the nineteenth century, No. 32, Grafton-street, Tottenham court-road ; by knowing the time of birth we are enabled to read in the Heavens the story of our whole lives. N.B. All letters must be post paid. Please to ring the first floor bell." She accordingly rang the bell, and as quick as lightning the door was opened by a boy, who, on being in formed ofthe nature of her business, introduced her with all due solemnity into the first-floor front room, where she beheld the prisoner, who was enveloped in a large dressing-gown, seated in an immense arm - chair , with a number of books, cards, &c., before him, and in the act of making various figures of an extraordinary description, on a sheet of black-edged paper. On seeing her We bowed lowly his head, and re quested her to take a seat, which she did, and made known to him her wishes. He then, after looking steadfastly in her face, asked her if she was married ? She replied in the affirmative, when he directly demanded of her half a crown, which was paid. He next examined her hand, and thrice passing his finger over the various lines, turned his atten tion to sonic hieroglyphics on a slate by his side, an d, ad dressing her, said, " Madam, your husband will soon die but you'll shortly after marry again, go abroad, have a nu merous family, become possessed of large property, a n d, if the stars tell truly, live to a good old age." He then mys teriously waved his hand thrice, and told her that she might depart and be happy. She then went down stairs, and on opening the street-door, her husband and a sergeant of the same division came up, when the former asked her what business she had there ? to which she replied, that she had had her fortune told. The prisoner was immediately, to his great surprise, taken into custody. Sergeant Marriott, No. 5 D, said that Hemington (hus band of the prosecutrix) informed him of his suspicicn that his wife was about to be duped in the manner stated, as he had seen the card alluded to in her possession. Witness's attention had previously been called to the pri soner's abode by Mr. Dyer, jun,, the Magistrate, and he, therefore, accompanied by Hemington, kept watch at a public-house opposite, and saw presecutrix enter ; on her coming out, they went up stairs and seized the prisoner, who exclaimed " I'm ruined, oh ! I'm ruined," and after. much resistance, he was brought away. In reply to the charge, the prisoner said; that he had studied the science of astrology for a number of 'years, and that in no one instance had his predictions proved false ; he had no wish nor desire to impose upon any one, and was of opinion that his calling was as legitimate and fair as that of any persons in the realm. . He was committed as a rogue and vagabond for six weeks' hard labour at the House of Correction. TILE EMPEROR NA POLEON.—The republication in so cheap and beautiful a form, of " Las Cases' Account of the Life, Exile, and Conversations of Napoleon," seems to have revived with double force the interest and curiosity excited on the first appearance of that work. Those who formerly were only able to obtain a hasty perusal of it, will, undoubtedly read it anew with the greatest interest, now that it can be cheaply purchased and studied with atten tion ; while those who now see it for the first time will do so with strongly-excited feelings of admiration and pity for the captive warrior. Here the reader is brought into do mestic acquaintance and society with the modern Themisto, cies. The man whose fame filled the world, and whose arms had nearly subdued it to his dominion, sits " shorn of his beams," and baring his inmost heart to the faithful com panion of his fallen fortunes, So complete, indeed, is the development of Napoleon's character, thoughts, plans, and acts, afforded by himself through this medium, that the work may fairly be regarded as constituting his Autobio graphy. THE DANCE OF DEATit.--At a ball given by the millers in one of the granaries attached to the town mills on the evening of Friday last, our townsman, Mr. Cruickshank, as usual led the music. At two o'clock, during the in terval of some of the dances, the deccaaed retired for a short period, and being very near-.;k i ted, he diverged from the proper path, an d . spot l 'finu . the kiln, a height of at least seven f. 4: a, He never spoke f rom t h e t i me the accident occurmi , and died, we regret to say, at a little before ten tau Saturday night.— Dumfri cs courier, INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT. The Matters of the Petitions tahl Schedules of the Prisoners hereinafter named (the same having been filed in the Court) are appointed to he heard 'at the Court-house, in Portugal street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, on Monday, January 25, 1836/ . at Nine o'clock in the Forenoolt Mitchell, J., Lower Sloan-street, Chelsea, earthernware-dealer. Joynes, W., Wexf or d C o tt age, Hill- roa d , Abb ey-roa d , St. Jo h n i r Wood, labourer. Carter, W., Newington-causeway, Newington, draper. Clarke, J. 0., Bradmore Farm Hammersmith, teacher. Call's. T., Hodson's-green, Hammersmith, seller of beer. Smith, T., King-street, Hammersmith, stone mason. 'Bolton, .1., Bradmore, Hammersmith, greengrocer. Bloom, W., George-street, Hammersmith, painter. Morgan, I'., Garden Cottages, New Bren'ford, wheelwright. Smith, J., Strutton's Ground, Westminster, hatter. Johnson, S., Addle-hill, victualler. Pollett, T., Greyhound Row, Kensington Gravel pits, shoemaker, On Tuesday, Jan. 26—Same Hour and Place. Sutcliffe ' J., Great Dover-street, S ou th war k , b at-manufacturer. Fenden, G., Little Saffron-hill, fur-skin dresser. Sansom, 8., Pracd-street, Paddington, butcher. Angle, J. Shepherd's-walk, City-road, assistant to a cab proprietor. Abel, J., Great Saint Andrew-street, Seven-dials, Manchester warehouseman. Berry, J., Theobald-street, Harper-street, New Kent-road, servant. Warrington, J., Orange -street, Loman' s -p on d , S out h wark, grocer . Bates, J. W., Queen's Head-row, Newington, Surrey, hawker. Somes, J., Wendover, Bucks, farmer. Seager, J., Hornsey, victualler. Searle, 11., King's Bench Walk, Briar-street, Blackfriars-road, hat-manufacturer. • Cannan, J., Exchange-alley, North Liverpool, merchant. Davis, N. T., Hertford Cottages, Kingsland-rbad, dealer in timber. Adjourned. Price, R., Tokenhouse-yard, City, dealer in Foreign Stocks. Adjourned from the 2d of January, 1836. Gibbon, J., Limehouse-hole-stairs, Limehouse, mast-maker. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT THE CUS TOM-HOUSE, JAN. 20. The Unity, Stevens from Terceira ; Samuel and Julia, Bachate, Jersey ; Viscount Downe, Hart, Hamburgh ; Grey hound, Knell, Fayal ; Nonpareil, Allen, St. Michael's ; Blu cher, Brendt, Konigsburg ; Tam o'Shanter, Davies, Jamaica; Ann, Petley, Laguira ; Reform, Selkirk, Rio Janeiro; Thompson, Gardner, Hamburgh ; Redport, Gibbons, Oporto; Isabella Cooper, Currie, Calcutta; Euphrates, Buckman, Bombay. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING, JAN. 20. The 1 - lebe, Hoghton, for Naples ; Osprey, Pain, Santander; Ethelred, Hood, Jamaica; Angim, Miller, Jersey and. New foundland; Royal Tar, Symond, Santander; Dunvegan Castle, Parsons, Santander. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO, JAN. 20. The Alexander, Elder, for Madeira; Fidele, Morwiclt, Trieste; Tamerlane, M‘Kellar, Calcutta; Jane, Jackson, Cape Coast. CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST, JAN. 20. The Elizabeth, Currie, for the South Sea Fishery. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. Blandford, Bristol to Newfoundland, 27th ult. lat. 44., long. 52. 30., with loss of boats and bulwarks. Europe, of Hull, St. John's, New Brunswick, to St. Kitts, 22d ult. lat. 31. 7., long. 57. 50. ; and the Venture of Lame, for New Orleans, 12th inst. lat. 49. 9., long. 15. 40., by the Pericles, arrived at Liverpool. LIVERPOOL—ENTERED FOR LOADING, JAN. 19. The Pantaloon, Peel, for Africa; Martin, Martin, Barba does ; Constantine, Berry, Bremen ; Alciope, Bennet, Buenos, Ayres ; Konohassett, Wood, Boston ; Ripley, Lloyd, Cal cutta ; Chatham, Gill, Jamaica ; Sophia, Humphreys, New foundland ; Nymph, Williams, Ostend ; Mary, Stephenson / St. Thomas's, Nassau ; Superior, Tyson, Virginia. CLEARED OUTWARDS, JAN. 19. The Elizabeth Bentley, Robertson, for Savannah ; Ingle borough, Ricks, for Bombay ; Robert Barnes, Messenger, for Savannah ; Edmond, Stays, for Oporto ; Montezuma. Barr, for Philadelphia ; Frank, Harrison, for Kingston ; Montecello, Lawton, for new Orleans. SAILED, JAN. 19. The Planter, Smith, for Jamaica; Sh a nnon, Mobile; Prince Regent, Burt, New Orleans; Sarah, Sadler, Singapore; Maria, Cabe, Sierra Leone ; Constant, Antwerp • Rosalind, Letely, Bombay; Dalmati a , Child s , Boston; Lynher, Kerswell, Cape of Good Hope ; Nobie, Pratt, New York ; Florent, Antwerp ; Strathisla, Johnson, New South Wales ; Orpheus, Bunlay, New York; Boston, Barbadoes ; Minerva, M'Kenzie, Charleston; Harkroan, Rose, Jamaica ; Rein Deer, Strick land, Valparaiso ; Brutus, Clegg, Africa ; Minerva, Gowland, Philadelphia ; Intrinsic, Quick, New Orleans ; Lord Glenelg, Potter, Savannah; Cessnock, Jones, Africa; Sportsman, Hutchinson, Monte Video ; Racer, Sawyer, St. Michael's ; Lapwing, Osborne, Buenos Ayres ; Nithsdale, Grayson, Rio Janeiro; Inde, Oborvoir, Canton ; Dorothy, Newbold, Cape. of' Good Hope; Rebecca, Williams, Demerara ; Henrietta, Spence, Demerara; Clentiance, Neale, Demerara. MARCH OF INTELLECT.----Scarcely three weeks since, one of the itinerant dealers in future 'events, a ma tronly gipsey, paid a visit to this town, and in her peram bulations, called at the house of a respectable individual, who, after listening to a rhetorical description of the Sybirs wonderful knowledge in the occult sciences, were prevailed upon to consent to have his fortune told. The person alluded to is-not a simple and unlettered rustic, but a man who, from education and habits, ought to have knoi better than for a moment to have given an ear to such non sense. The' artful Weird Sister, after having obt a ined permission, commenced by attentively scrutinising the linea' merits of the gentleman's countenance, then deeply perus ing the lines in the hand, artfully divined that a compliance with certain rules which she would specify could not fail to insure to him a large sum of money. His cupidity once warmed, he easily became her dupe, and was actually im posed upon by an old stale trick often practised on the ig norant and superstitious. He 'was induced to place in her hands the sum of thirty sovereigns, which she tied up in a piece of brown paper, during which time she repeated in an unknown v ton n oe certain wor d s as an i ncantation, and finally ended the farce by depositing the parcel, with her owl hands, in a drawer, the key of which she was to keep for a fortnight, when it was to be restored to the owner, who, on opening the drawer, would find his property increased sevenfold. The fortnight 'elapsed, the votary of pl u tus dreaming of nothing but golden showers, till the time ar rived for the restoration of the key. It need scarcely be observed, that the key never made its appearance, but that the unlucky wight, after waiting hour after hour, and his patience exhausted, broke open the drawer, and discovered that the absent alebyinist, who had no doubt long practised the art of converting the baser metal into gold, had inyer tedly operated for the benefit of her credulous victim. On examination of the brown paper parcel, it was found to con tain thi r t y p i eces o f lead. We forbear giving the name of the individual, as we consider the loss of his money a suffi cient, though a well-merited punishment. —Hereford Times. (A \ ADvERTIsEmENT.)-----EIGHT-DAY • CLOCK , FOUR GUINEAS each, warranted. FOR THE DRAWING ROOM, they are made under a glass shade, It inches high, the whole of the Mechanism of the Clock showing. FOR COUNTING HOUSES, SHOPS, AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS; they are made in round or octagon Ilahogecl cases, (to hang,) 14 inches diameter. FOR HALLS, &c. &c. They are mad. in Rosewood Gothie pattern cases, to stand on a bracket. T. COX SAVORY, Working Goldsmith and Silversmith, 47, Cornhill, London. ....---- BIRTH. On the 19th inst., in Dorset -street, Portman-square, the lady of the Rev. G. H. Hasker, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 20th inst., by the Rev. Dr. Hirschel, George W. Tobias► second son of M. I. Tobias, Esq., of Liverpool, to MatiVia, second daughter of David Levy, Esq., of Woburn-square. On the 19th inst., at Burgh, Suffolk, the Rev. J. T. Round, Rector of St. Runwald's, Colchester, to Louisa, second daughter of the Rev. George Francis Barlow, Rector of Burgh and of Sot terlf.y, Suffolk. On the 16th inst., at St. Marylebone Church, Cornelius Edstill Fallon, of King William-Street, Strand, to Miss Francis Artis, of Wigrnore-street. On the 16th inst., at St. Mary's, Buckland, Portsea, John Alex ander Drought, Esq., of the 65th Regiment, to Caroline Susannah, daughter of the late Lieutenant-Colonel John White of the 80th Regiment of Foot. On the' 19th inst., at St. Giles, Camberwell, Mr. James New berry, of Bridport, Dorset, to Jessy, second daughter of tly e late 'l'. Miller, Esq., of Peckham-rye, Surrey. On the 16th inst., at Cuddesdon, Oxon, T. Brown, Esq., o f Dor chester, Oxon, to Eliza, third daughter of W. Bussey,Esq., o f the Park, Cuddesdon. D ED. On tie 17th inst., at Hornby Castle, Yorkshire, Lady Charlotte Lane Fox, aged 34. On the sth inst., at Boath, Captain Sir h.:nes Dunbar, of Boath, Bart , R. N. On the 19th inst., at Kentish Te,wn, Mr. Ralph Lonsdale, of Regent-street, aged 73. On the 29th ult., aged 86., Mary, relict of E. Barker, E sq ., of Burre House, Bakewell. On the Bth ult., at Hollowell, Blaine, United States, Benjamin Vaughan, Esq., ff;ernerly of London, aged 85. On the 170,-., in s t., at Harford Cottage, Walworth, in her 67th year, Emma, relict of Mr. Robert Kay, of Rotherhithe. On the 19th inst., at Ewelme, Oxfordshire, aged 42, the Ref. Edward Burton, D.D., &c. • On the 18th inst., in Somerset-street, Portman-square, aged 72, Jane, widow of the late Joseph Whitfield, Esq., of Farri - ngdons Berkshire. On the 15th inst., at Strasburgh, aged 23, late of the T Zast India Company's Service, Rowe, fifth son of the late T. Jones, Esq., of the Grove, Highgate. On the Ist of September, at Calcutta, Harriette, the wife of Captain Joseph Graham, of the 50th Native Infantry, and only daughter of Major-General Watson. On the 19th inst., at Ashford, Kent, aged 77, Elizabeth, relict of J. Haffenden, Esq., of that place. On the 18th in s t. , at Ken-, Elizabeth, widow of J. Nooth, Esq of Bath. On the 30th ult,, Busk, F. , •-• h.t St. Petersburgh, in his 68th year, Robert ou the 16th inst., aged 25, Constantia, wife of Henry Manistys Esq., 3, King's•lroad, Bedford-row. LoonfdoAntd: d P ie r s i e n z t . ed and Published by MURDO YOUNG , of Ng -112, St ran d , at The Sum O ff i ce , N o . 112, Strome', I'.l the outing ZA \