The Sun. — London, England, 1836-09-29 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS After giving the point mature consideration, we are almost converted to tie opinion of a correspondent who says that Baron Lyndhurst deserves our warmest raise, and not censure. Unquestionably the Learned ord has done the cause of reform some service. A more effective agitator by far than Mr. O'Connell, the ex-Chancellor has forced even moderate politicians, who would prefer to hold, on in the even tenor of their way, into the arena of a bold and stern agitation. By fliagiog insult upon the people of Ireland, while he— we speak of him as the leader of the Obstructives— refused them justice, the Learned Baron has collected into a focus all the previously scattered rays of liberal opinion ; he has made the advocates of Reform zealous agitators—he has united in a compact phalanx men who, since the Catholic Relief Bill rent the bond of former union, differed with each other upon almost all public questions, and pursued different paths in poli tics—he has brought the Protestant and the Catho lic, the Unionist and the Repealer, the Whig and the Radical, the peer and the peasant, once more into close contact and active co-operation. The Noble and Learned Agitator has done more; he has aroused a spirit in Ireland that will scare Toryism from the hustings. The " General Associa tion' is the work of his hands, the natural result of his insolence and injustice ; and the " Justice Rent," as well as the exertions made :by that society to enlarge the registered constituencies, will, whenever a general election shall take place, reduce the Tory representa tives of Ireland to miserable paucity. We do not wonder, therefore, at the ferocity,with which the cor ruptionist press assails that Association. Neither does it surprise us to witness the soreness which has dic tated some taunts that have been recently thrown out against the Marquis of Conyngham, Mr. George Evans, and other liberal Peers and Commoners, who have wisely and well acted upon the patriotic Sugges tion of the Association,. and taken effective measures to increase the number of Irish liberal representatives whenever the opportunity shall occur, at the cost of their seats to several of the present Tory misrepresen tatives of that section of the empi re . The faction already begin to feel the ruinous effect of their own malignity and turpitude. They see—in sad perspective,—Dublin City, Carlow County and town, Athlone, Kinsale, Drogheda, Belfast, Sli go , and Donegal, represented by - thirteen Reformers, instead of so many Corruptionists. They, also, behold, in prospective, Longford, Cork county, and the Queen's county returning—the second two Re• formers instead of one—and the other two displacing a Tory each, perhaps two, but one certainly, a change which, on a division in the House of Commons on any question as between Ministers and the faction, will cause a positive gain of thirtg-two to the liberal side. We should not be in the least surprised if of the thirty eight Tories who now represent Irish constituencies twenty were struck off at the next general election ; for, by proper arrangements and activity, Bandon and i'ortarlington could, we are sure, be rescued out of the hands of the Corruptionists. But that sixteen of the Lyndhurstites—such is the nom-de-gun-re which, it seems, the love's of abuses have chosen as their be fitting title—will be permitted to attend to their do mestic affairs in future, there can be no question. At tention to the registries,—funds to protect the honest electors from the perils attendant upon open votins— granting of leases by Liberal landlords to their te. nantry,—energy, combination, co.opeiation—these alone were wanting to lay Toryism prostrate ; —to hunk the back of the interested abettors of corruption in Ire latd ; and all there have been produced by the Geller,' Association, proximablv,—by Lord Lyndhurst, re motely. It will at once by believed that we acquit the Learned Baron of all manner of intention to effect so much good for the cause of Reform ; and we are sure his partisans will forgive 'inn for ail the mischief he has unwittingly done to their anti-popular interests. If time guilt of an act consisted in the intention of the actor, Lord Lyndhurst would be at once entitled to a full acquittal at the hands of his party. Fired with revenge, maddened by the conviction that lie played a losing game, when, abandonir, the lucrative certainty of the Court of Exchequer, he again grasped at the fleeting honours and momentary emoluments of the "Woolsack—rendered giddy t oo , perhaps, by the ele vated position of leader of the lordly host of Corrup tionists—to which, however vain the man may be, he never dared to aspire—the Learned Baron knew not what he did, when, by the intemperance of his speech, the violence of his advice, and the recklessness of his conduct, he exasperated Ireland, and made Great Bri tain think ; ruined Toryism in that island, and pre pared the way for a reform of the House of Lords in this. But is it in Great Britain alone that the question of Peerage Reform has attracted public attention and won adherents ? Are our Irish fellow-subjects so ab sorbed in the contemplation of their own wrongs— are they so engrossed with the Tithe question, which the factious Lords would not permit to be amicably adjusted, and with the rottenness of the cor porations, which the same factious body have fac tiously preserved for a season—as to take no notice of the mischievous constitution, the monstrous privileges, the insufferable irresponsibility of the present House of Peers ? By no means. They accurately comprehend the cause of their own thraldom—of the injustice under which they are now suffering—why Ireland is not legislated for as an integral portion of :he British Empire—why her pop u l a t ion are i nsu l t i ng l y ca ll e d aliens," and iniquitously treated as such—why the peasantry are outlawed and hunted as rebels—their property confiscated—their houses broken open— their liberty taken away, and their persons condemned to imprisonment, in order to the maintenance, in re volting splendour, of an ecclesiastical establishment in its present ruinous magnitude, the bane of society, the parent of strife and immorality —which breeds constant and unseemly contention and vindictiveness between the clergy of the Established Church and the people—puts social harmony to flight, checks the march of civilisation and improvement, and impedes the progress of Protestantism—of that form of faith which it is professedly intended to uphold and to propagate. The cause of all this the Irish people are sensitively alive to : they trace it easily and shortly to the irre sponsibility of the hereditary legislators—to the sel fishness of that body, and to the vice that is inherent in, and inseparable from, irresponsible power. In proof of the truth of our statement, need we do more than point to the report, which we copy with great pleasure into this day's Chronicle from the Irish papers, of the proceedings at the public entertainment given at Waterford to Mr. Villiers Stuart ? We would recommend the Tories to study the admirable speech delivered on the occasion by that en lightened, high-minded gentleman. Lord Lyndhurst will there learn what is thought of him by one o f the first Commoners in the United King dom ; for such Mr. Villiers Stuart is, whether we consider his splendid fortune —his immense terri torial possessions—his noble and ancient lineage— his talents—his acquirements, an d the high sta tion he occupies as Lord-Lieuten ant o f the county of Waterford, of which nearly one-half of the fee has descended to him through a long line of illustrious ancestry. The opinions of such a man cannot be con temned ; and in this country they will have additional weight when it is recollected that Mr. Stuart i s One of those who risked his well-earned popularity in resisting the Repeal Agitation a few years ago. The ins o l ence of the Obstructive Leader, and the corrupt and fac tious conduct of the Tory Peers, !mist have, indeed, sunk deep into the Irish heart, when Mr. Villiers Stuart—who, though ever anxious for the welfare of his country, has been ever mod e rate in the expression of his feelings—was induced to denounce in scathing language the injustice that has been done to Ireland in the last Session of Parliament, and the authors of that Blass of mischief. Nor was he the only speaker who Floured his burning indignation upon the Obstructives. Mr. Barron, one of the Representatives of the city in which the festive meeting took place, was still less measured in his reprobation of the hereditary mischief makers, and of their upstart leader. In fact, the feel ing in favour of Peerage Reform appears to have been as prevalent in that great assemblage of rank, wealth, and intelligence, as the determination to obtain " equal justice" for Ireland. One voice, and only one, was raised, not in defence of , the Ho use o f L or d s — suc h a thought entered no mans bead—but, it would seem, against any chAnge in the present constit u ti on o f that !7‘ Legislative Assembly—and it was instantly drowned in the universal shout of disapprobation. The im portance of this fact will best,be collected from the list of names given at the head of the report, and the in troductory remarks of the local journalist. When next the Quarterly Reviewer adverts to the conduct of the House of Lords during the last Session, and ts) the winding-up speech of Baron Lyndhurst, in which are paraded the ghosts of slaughtered Bills, we would re commend him t o recolle c t this fact. It will be good " increment" for his imagination. Meantime, their Lordships would do worse, infinitely worse, than pon der upon the incident ; it is full of instructive import, from which they may gather wholesome information, provided they form not a portion of the fore-doomed. —Morning Chronicle. Our Irish correspondence presents nothing new : if it did, we might begin to attach less interest to the facts which it communicates. There is no paradox in the declaration, that the most important and impressive circumstance belonging to the state of Ireland seems to us to be the never-varying complexion of her poli tical history for these last 18 or 20 months. The regular, continuous, and unbroken tendency of the transactions which take place in that death-doomed country towards a consummation at once terrible and simple—viz., the triumph of systematic falsehood over unteachable credulity as itt instrument, and civil and religious liberty as its victim—has something awful in :the very singleness and uniformity of a movement to be terminated by such a result. Within these three or four days we have signalized the abuse of language now prevalent among the anti-British fac tion throughout Ireland, as a curious weapon to be selected by men on whose banners are inscribed the words " toleration, liberty, justice," &c. But an abuse of language in this case ends not in mere deception : it amounts to and embraces every one of the crimes which it is employed to instigate. Where it is designed to cover the characters of individuals with undeserved reproach, it becomes malignant slander ; where it meditates the excitement of the poor to tur bulence, contempt for, and hostility to, the laws, the abuse of speech becomes insurrection. Where it en courages violence which provokes to the shedding of Mood, abuse of speech ripens into murder. The O'Connell practice of misapplying words does not, therefore, stop at mere verbal fraud. It is what it pro duces; it is whatever evil springs from it—persecution, insurrection, religious rancour, civil war, brutal massacre, and social ruin. Every man who serves the O'Connell cause receives the O'Connell brand upon his spirit, and degenerates into the likeness of his unprincipled and degraded master. Men grow into that with which they sympathize, and adopt the vocabulary and circu late the deceits most in use with them at the head of the faction wherewith they form an alliance. How else can any rational being account for the senti ments delivered on a late occasion by a Mr. Villiers Stuart, to whom a set of people in the interest of the Popish movement gave a public dinner at Water ford not very many days ago ? We suspect they want this personage to enact some part which requires some qualifications in its representative different from either absolute wisdom, or the power of distinguish ing between the most elementary truth and the most palpable and puerile falsehood. 'What says the report of Mr. Stuart's speech ? In turni ng th e e d ge o f his leaden sword af.;ainst the House of Lords for its as sumed " hostility to Ireland," he not merely invents the hostility, but in a manner the most gratuitous and generous, proceeds to account for it. It was, says he, by the instrumentality of Irishmen," (meaning O'Connell and his tail, which one assertion, strange to say, is true, and we hope the people of England will never lose sight of it), "by the instrumentality of Irishmen, that the favourite Administration of that party" (to wit, of the majority of the House of Lords) " was overthrown, and the country saved from the grasp of those who were on the point cftrampliqg its liberties under foot." Coming to Lord Lyndhurst, this respectable spouter of contemporary history goes on to allege that " he (Lord Lyndhurst) is known to feel a deadly and unappeasable hatred against every man wino has stood in the way of his ambition." Moreover, " that the Learned Lord hates the Irish be cause he has injured them ! Now, to begin with the last number of this unfounded and senseless diatribe, we believe that if there be a man on earth whose infirmity it is that he actually cannot hate, that his mind is incapable of lasting resentment, even towards his bitterest personal foe, that individual is Lord Lyndhurst, perhaps the most placable and the least malevolent of all created beings. But "he hates" those whom "he has injured." Now we beg leave to ask of Mr. Villiers Stuart how he means to justify this charge of " injury inflicted upon Ireland" by Lord Lyndhurst ? and which, besides, the after-dinner orator asserts to have been inflicted before the last Session of Parliament, stimulating the perverse and rancorous heart of the Learned Lord to those unjust votes with which, throughout the Session, his Lord ship followed up the previous bad acts ascribed to him ? Lord Lyndhurst had for many years, as likewise had the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel, enter tained strong objections to the abolition of Romish disabilities. His Lordship, then Lord Chancellor, concurred with the illustrious Duke and with the Right Honourable Baronet in their sacrifice of those objections during the year 1829, and with them assented to the introduction and enactment o the Bill of Roman Catholic emancipation. The most execrably rancorous and worthless of the Papists (O'Connell at the head of them), as stated the day be fore yesterday by Mr. Eneas IVlacdonnell, were loud in their expressions of delight and gratitude towards the Tory Ministry by which that Bill was passed ; and, indeed, had Whigs been Ministers, the Papists might even at this hour been " whistling for" admis sion to Parliament. Well, then, when the whole Wel lington Government has been praised as a benefactor to Ireland for that measure, is Lord Lyndhurst to be excluded from his fair portion of that praise ? Did he alone make no sacrifice to .the hope (the vain hope we admit it has turned out) of establishing tranquillity in Ireland ? We recommend Mr. Vil liers Stuart, if be have candour or right feeling for such an effort, to read the excellent letter of Mr. Eneas Macdonnel], and the frightful exposure made by that gentleman of the mean inconsistency and heartless ingratitude displayed by the Radical Papist crew towards the Statesmen by whom they were lifted from otherwise hopeless degradation. Let this weak-minded or callous partisan of the Papist movement see, in the clear narrative of our Cor respondent, how shamefully he has calumniated the Conservative party, when he calls them the enemies of Ireland. Let him look to the acts of the Session 1835, and to the pledged intentions and notices of Sir R. Peel and his colleagues, for an un answerable and humiliating contradiction of his own foolish words—that the Conservatives were, when compelled to give up office, " on the point of tramp ling on the liberties of Ireland." Why, there was not an act or principle promotive of the national liber ties, or favourable to the redress of real grievances, which the Peel Ministry had not promised. and been prepared to incorporate with their policy. The Irish tithes would have been long ago commuted, an d a solid and satisfactory, not sham, state of quiet, would have been maintained throughout the country, had not the Conservatives felt bound in honour to release themselves as a Government ; though, alas ! they could not relieve their country from the assaults of a tyrannical majority—the first fruits of an experiment in legislation,, which, so far as that majority went, was assuredly no " reform." Another functionary of t n h o e u pro nouncing sam e feast, a Sir Somebody Keane, redeemed in a gre at measure the credit of the meeting, by pro an ironical panegyric on O'C onne ll, th e bit terness of which must have sorely vexed the agitator B hi a m ro se n l e f l hadhe b een th ere t o h ear i t . Th e wort h y reproached O'Connell with b e i ng a statesman I —a philosoph er moralist I—and a MAN ! Ay, a modern Pitiacus. Shade of the mighty Lesbian, how art thou dishonoured I—Times. We referred yesterday to the article in the number „ publi s h e d , h ea d e d "Th e L ast of the Quarterly jurt Session of Parliament. We recur to i t, not because of anything vigorous in its conception, or striking in its illustrations, for there is a manifest absence of both these qualities, but because of the Wei g h t an d influ ence which the organ in which it appears possesses singular with the Co nserva tive party. Among other positions which the reviewer advances—singular, we mean, as regards his own argument—is the very ex traordinary one, that it would be unsafe, as well as un constitutional, to have the legislative functions vested practically in only one of the Houses of Parliament. This is, indeed, a passing strange position to be ad vanced at the very moment that the writer is vindicat ing the conduct of the Peers last session, and stre nuously resisting the slightest reform of that body. The Reformers may lay down such a proposition— it is, indeed, the grand basis on which they ground their advocacy of Peerage Reform; but that it should ever have entered into a Tory mind, or pro ceeded from a Tory pen, is only adding another to the many proofs the Conservatives have lately given that they are not overstocked with the commodity of common sense. The Tory, who would, with any de gree of plausibility, resist a reform of the Upper House, should at once boldly lay down the position that one branch of the Legislature is, practically, enough for all useful purposes. We would not ask him to name the House of Lords as the branch to which he refers. That would be sufficiently understood. His opposition to a reform of that House would then be perfectly intel ligible—at present it is the very reverse. It is precisely because, as already intimated, we hold both Houses of Parliament to be essential to sound and salutary legis lation that we assert the necessity of Peerage Reform. At present we have practically only one branch of the legislature, though theoretically two. The Lords have of late been everything—the Commons nothing. Whatever measures now become the law of the land are the exclusive workmanship of the hereditary legislators. The representatives of the people have virtually nothing to do with them. It now becomes a question whether it was prudent to expend a single farthing in fitting up a new House for the Commons after-their last place of meeting was des troyed by the fire of 1834. The people, as the event has shown, were egregious simpletons in making such extraordinary exertions, and submitting, in many in stances, to individual sacrifices of no ordinary magni tude, to return Liberal Members to the House of Commons, in the beginning of 1835. Not less ma nifest is the folly of the Members so returned, in at all crossing the threshold of St. Stephen's ; for as Mr. Hume very justly remarked at the close of last ses sion, there was no use whatever in their having at tended in their places in Parliament. If the Lords are to remain unreformed, and to monopolize in future, as they did last session, the legislative functions, the Members of the House of Commons may henceforth as well remain at home, attending to their individual interests.—Morning Advertiser. Among the many new and curious axioms of politi cal truth which, through the progress of " enlighten ment," have burst upon the mental vision of Ministe rial writers, that which proves the excellence of Lord Muigrave's Governthent in Ireland is perhaps the most purely original. It consists in this—to abstain from carrying into effect the sentences of the King's Judges upon robbers, murderers, and other spirited criminals, who have exhibited their sense of Tory oppression by practical contempt of those laws which unenlightened Tories hold in bigotted respect. The Tories while they held power were so blind to the proper course of Irish lustice—so stupidly neglectful of their popularity—nay, of the ardent affection of the Irish peasantry which they might have acquired, that they punished crimes, and the more dreadful the crime the more prompt were they in bringing it to judicial investigation, and the more stern in executing the legal punishment. But the Whig-Radicals, of whom the mild and milky-hearted Mulgrave is the fitting re presentative in Ireland, saw at once that this was not the way to the affections of the Irish peasantry. With a piercing sagacity, which could alone be ex pected from Whig-Radicals, they saw through the difficulties of the Irish character, and of the posi tion of British government with respect to that cha racter. By profound study, such as the indolent aristocrats of the Tory party would never have un dertaken, they discovered that the Irish peasantry did not like. to be hanged, even when they had done that to which the law awarded the punish ment of hanging. Upon this grand discovery is the policy of Lord Mulgrave founded, and a most po pular policy it unquestionably is. In a country less abounding with those who postpone their respect for the criminal law to the gratification of their pro pensities to robbery and murder the policy founded on such a discovery would have been of less im portance ; but in Ireland it was everything. In no direction could Lord Mulgrave turn without find . ing a great many who were interested in the highest degree in his new policy. Everywhere—at all events in the Roman Catholic part of the island—there was an abundance of persons to whom it was a matter of life-and-death concern. A Government that would act upon the impropriety of thwarting their prejudice against being hanged was to them a Government of heaven-born wisdom. Lord Mulgrave was received by them with shouts of applause which rent the skies ; and there can be no manner of doubt that these ap plauses will continue so long as any one that the pea santry consider worth robbing or murdering shall re main in the country. For years upon years they have indulged in these practices to a considerable extent, notwithstanding the restraint put upon them by the unenlightened Tories, who are daily and devoutly cursed for the same—cursed as much as Lord Mulgrave's Government is blessed. The " finest peasantry," robbed and murdered a good deal-- though tolerably sure that (through Tory prejudices) the season's amusements in that way would conclude with the hanging of some of them, and the exile of others, a termination which they, with all their hearts, abhorred. Who, then, can wonder that their gratitude should be great as their delight, to find they have a governor who will neither interfere with their favourite pastimes, nor make himself unpopular by consenting to the punishment of offences ? Who can be surprised ,hat the memory of Tory rulers is associated with sen timents of hatred when it is taken into account that these unreformed Tories went upon the system of exe cuting the penalties of the law upon those who violated its precepts—who were so neglectful of the applause of the multitude as to apply the powers of British law to the repression of popular Irish habits ? That the Government of Lord Al ulgrave is extremely agree able to the Roman Catholic Priests and peasantry of Ireland no impartial observer can deny. The reason is obvious, and we have stated what it is. But when we consider the different way of viewing crimes, and the different feeling with regard to the propriety of punishing them which prevails in this country, we should have thought that his Excellency's peculiar mode of popular Irish Government would hardly have been made the theme of panegyric in England. We were, indeed, prepared for general terms of eulogy—.such as, with equal mo desty and moderation, we are accustomed to see poured forth whenever Whig-Radicals speak of themselves or their agents ; but we should have supposed that, out of deference to our prejudices here, the principle of the popular Government of Ireland would have been kept out of sight. We should have thought that, though vanity might have led the friends of Government to affirm that it was very popular among the wild Irish, prudence would have forborne to inform us that the shouts of applause for the Administration were inspired by gratitude for not being hanged according to due course of law—that the way which his Majesty's Repre sentative takes of protecting the liberty of the subject is to turn all the criminals out of gaol. The Ministe rial prints, however, not only admit this, but make a boast o f it, and contrast this—which they are pleased to call th e " merciful" Government of their patrons — with the hateful, monstrous, law-executing policy of the Tories IW e need not say-that we prefer the Tory method of Government, though it must, of necessity, be very unpopular with the Irish peasantry so long as they remain subject in mind and body to the present race of Radical Roman Catholic Priests. But it is our misfortune, in many things as well as this, to pre fer the oid political light s to the new. We believe that there is 110 people un d er t h e sun whose improve ment more depends upon strict discipline—upon a steady and firm enforcement of all the rules laid down for their g uidance —than the Irish people. We say it to the shame of British Government of Ireland, that that kingdom never has been ruled with the steady uniform strictness which is alone fit for such a people ; and we are now suffering the consequences— such as parents suffer from the conduct of spoiled children. In the army and navy, where strict disci pline is preserved, no men are more valuable than those taken from among the Irish peasantry. It is not precept, it is not example, but the force of disci pline alone, which breaks their bad habits. Look at them in St. Giles's, look at them on Saffron-hill, look at their habitual riots and habitual filth, though they must every day see examples that should teach them better. Or see them in the country ; let any man who is strong of nostril and stout of shoe venture into the lanes which they inhabit about Chiswick, or turn into a passage which leads from about the three-mile stone on the Fulham-road, towards the market-gardens, which lie upon the right hand. There will be seen the habits of the lower order of Irish, where no coer cive discipline interferes—there will he behold, exhi bited in all their filthy deformity, habits which example from without will not alter, nor shame from within amend. There must be coercive discipline ; but try that, and there will be no shouts of popular applause —none of that preposterous adulation—which Whig- Radicals look upon, or pretend to look upon, as evi dence of good government.—Morning Post. THE LIDLINGTON (BEDFORD) MURDER IN 1809. Reports have been circulated during the last fortnight which have caused the most intense excitement throughout the whole county, that a butcher named Kingston, residing at Apsley, and who died about three weeks ago, had be fore his death made a confession that he was guilty of the murder of Mr. Crick and his housekeeper at Lidlington, in the year 1809. The particulars of that barbarous act are still fresh in the memories of many old inhabitants. On the morning of Saturday, the 21st of January, 1809, the body of James Crick, a dairyman, was found about half a mile from his house with several stabs in his side and his head, and his throat cut from ear to ear. The body of Rebecca Read, his housekeeper, was also found with the head nearly severed from the body, lying at the top of the stairs at Crick's house, and with one leg through the bannisters. The sensation created at the time was great in the extreme. Several persons wrre suspected and examined before the Duke of Bedford, the Earl of Upper Ossory, &c., but the real murderer remained to this day undiscovered. Our reporter has made inquiries at Apsley, near Woburn, where Kingston died, and both the medical man and the nurse who attended him deny that any con fession was ever made to them. Nor does it appear that at the time of the murder Kingston was suspected of it. The report, which seems to have gained credit from Kingston's known bad character, originates from an observation made by a man, whose name we cannot learn, at the Bell Inn, at Apsley, to the effect " that be fore Kingston died it would be known who murdered Crick and his housekeeper." Thus, then, is the main foundation for the report that Kingston hail made the con fession. A man named John Bollard was taken up on sus picion, from the circumstance of a watch being found in his possession, which was supposed to have belonged to the murdered man Crick. It appears, however, that the identity of the watch was difficult to prove, as nobody lived with Crick but the housekeeper—Bollard was therefore dismissed. In 1811, he was taken up for sheep-stealing, and at the Bedford Lent Assizes, in 1812, was transported for life for that offence, aged 40. Since his transportation, the man who lived in the house previously occupied by Bol lard had occasion to take up some bricks at the sink, and underneath them found a long bladed strong ease knife, very carefully and effectually concealed. By whom this knife was placed there, and for what reason, or for what purposes it may have been used, are facts which probably may never be made known. On the morning of the mur der the ground was covered with snow. Footsteps of two persons were traced from the house to where Crick's body was found, and the footsteps, marked with blood, of one person only were traced back to the house. Such numbers flocked to the scene, that these footmarks were soon com pletely obliterated. It is, indeed, extraordinary that 28 years should have elapsed without any clue being found to the perpetration of this diabolical and inhuman murder.— Cambridge Independent Press. At the Hull police-office on Saturday a child of eight years of age was examined on a charge of stealing wool from the dock warehouse, in which a scene of the most revolt ing depravity was divulged. There is a man residing in Os born-street who was in the habit of seducing children of a tender age from their homes, and sending them out to thieve, and bring the proceeds of their robberies home to him, The miscreant has his house full of young thieves, from six to ten years of age. The child in question was given up to its parents, and a warrant issued for the apprehension of the hoary tempter, who has absconded.—Hull Observer. A few days ago, a fellow calling himself John Scaife, who had just migrated from Wakefield House of Cor rection, where he had been confined for a month for vagrancy, bent his course to Ripon, where he was consigned by his own desire to the " new lock-up," and next morning sent out of the town ; but during the day he again returned, and appeared to invite a second committal, by begging, in front of the resi dence of the Mayor. His worship, however, recognised him again, and committed him to the House of Correction, for fourteen days hard labour on the treadmill ; but when about to be placed on the wheel, he became indisposed, and com plained of shortness of breath, &c., &c. The Governor told him as he had cured two notorious deaf and dumb fortune tellers, and a Scotch cripple, he was determined to effect a similar cure upon him, as he perceived that his complaint, if any, arose from being too fat, and want of bodily exercise. The fellow, however, refused to work, although urged to do so by a visiting Magistrate, when the Governor had him lashed up by double hand-cuffs to the racks above the tread-mill, where he had the choice of keeping step, or bearing the con sequences ; finding all his schemes had failed, he declared be would give in—his working and bodily health daily improved to the satisfaction of the visiting surgeon and magistrates—and at the expiration of his commitment, on Friday, he left the prison in an excellent and improved state of health, with an assurance that he would never again pay a visit to that district. —Hull Observer. AMERICAN WOMEN.—" The women of our own mountains excel them altogether, being a more true medium between strength and coarseness. Even Mrs. Trollope ad mits that the American women (perhaps she ought to have said the girls) are the most beautiful in the world, whilst they arc the least interesting. Mrs. Trollope had written a vast deal of nonsense, putting Cockneyisms into the mouths of Americans, and calling them Americanisms, but she has also written a good many truths. I will not go so far as to say she was right in the latter part of this charge ; but if our girls would cultivate neater and more elegant forms of expression ; equally avoiding vulgar oh's and ah's and set phrases s be more careful not to drawl ; and not to open the mouth so as to call hot" haut ;' giggle less ; speak lower ; have more calmness and more dignity of manner, and think instead of pulsating—l would put them, for all in all, against any wo men in the world. They lose half of these defects when they marry, as it is ; but the wisdom of Solomon would come to our ears with a diminished effect, were it communicated through the medium of any other than a neat enunciation. The great desideratum in female education, at home, is to im part a graceful, quiet, lady-like manner of speaking. Were it not for precisely this place, Vevey, I should add, that the women of America speak their language worse than the wo men of any other country I ever was in."—Cooper's France. HERNE BAY.—The ceremony of laying the foun dation-stone of the new clock tower, which Mrs. Thwaytes has volunteered to erect, at her sole expence, at this fashionable watering-place, is to be performed on Monday next, and the benevolent lady having consented, at the solicitation of the in habitants and visiters, to assist in the performance of the good work, a grand festival is to take place in commemoration of the event, so important in the annals of Herne Bay. It is in tended to form a grand procession of the inhabitants, which is to leave St. George's Baths at 11 o'clock, and proceed with the children of the charity schools (towards the foundation of which Mrs. Thwaytes has so munificently contributed), and meet her on the site of the intended building, with an address, expressive of their feelings on the occasion, and present her with a silver trowel. A platform is to be raised round the excavation for the accommodation of the ladies to view the ceremony; a military band will attend, and the plantation and pier are to be decorated with flags. The charity children and their parents, to the number of 500, will dine at the expense of Mrs. Thwaytes, in the St. George's Assembly Rooms. After the ceremony, boat races and a punt chase will take place, and the day is to be devoted to festivity and amuse ments. The town will be illuminated in the evening, and a model of the clock tower (which is to be upwards of 80 feet in height, and illuminated after sunset), is to be exhibited in fireworks. WHALES ATQUEENSFERRY.—On Monday morn ing, about 10 o'clock, two whales of the bottle-nose species, the one measuring 25 feet, and the other 15 feet in length, got embayed near the shore at North Queensferry. When first discovered, they were disp or ti ng i n e i g ht f ee t wa t er , an d preparations were instantly made to capture them. Few peo ple were present at the time, but the Perth coach happening to come up, the guard stopped the coach for a few minutes to allow the passengers a sight of the " distinguished strangers." Two gentlemen on the coach got so interested in the sport that they joined the adventurous party at sea, and lent their assistance in the nauti ca l war f are , w hi c h was tru l y ac ti ve and spirit-stirring. Th e l esser w h a l e was attac k e d fi rst , wi th sticks and table-kni ves , t h e on l y weapons at h an d, and after being stabbed and cut i n severa l p l aces , a rope w as passed through one of its fi ns , f rom w hi c h t h e poor an i ma l liberated herself by a bound, and dashed into deeper water ; but soon re turned to the same spot and was killed. The attack en the larger fish was n ex t commence d, b ut st i c k s , oa rs, and knives were of small a va il, un til t h e assa il an t s wer e supplied from shore with a stout broad-sword, with which they managed to inflict several desperate wounds on the poor bottle-nose. A hole was then cut in her back fin, and a rope passed through it ; but, like her ne i g hb our , s h e a l so b ro ke off seaward in gal lant style, lashi ng th e wa t er p ro di g i ous ly, and dragging three boats after her through a track reddened with the blood from her wounds. After cruising round the bay, she also returned to the spot where she was first struck, and was killed. it i s calculated the fish will yield upwards of two tons of 0i1...-. Scotsman. PRINCE METTERNICH. (From a Correspondent of the Morning Post.) JOHANNISBERG, SEPT., 1836. We stop near this magnificent residence of Prince Met ternich, one of the many rewards of the signal services of this great statesman, to endeavour to finish the sketch we gave you of his earlier life. Unfortunately, in countries where a constitutional regime and a free press do not exist the most important actions of statesmen are not only passed over in silence at the time, but will probably be buried for ever in oblivion. Hence the little that is known of the intellectual powers of Metternich. We have, how ever, purloined facts wherever we could, and, where these fail, we have the consolation of remembering that the his tory of statesmen of such paramount power is found in that of their country, whose features are too great to have escaped record. From the moment M. de Metternich was expulsed in the violent manner we have described from the Court of Na poleon he had to adapt himself to a new and higher posi tion. In Paris he was only a diplomate. The movements of diplomacy are characterised by delicacy, and not by power—they may be compared to those of a watch when deprived of the dial and hands, so that its working is only known to the adept. Diplomacy consists, like this me chanism, of wheels within wheels, of springs seconding springs, and steadied by the nicest balance. M. de Met ternich was satisfied for a time to imitate the bright and impassable diamond that serves as a centre to such me chanism. But all the machinery of diplomacy acts within a confined sphere and, on leaving his embassy in Paris, M. de Metternich, created a Minister of State, was at on ceraised to that exalted situation wheret he boldest and most enlarged views are required. How responsible daily became his situation the events that followed his expulsion from the French territory will prove. During this crisis the newly created Minister was attached to " Quarliers Generaux" of the Emperor, whilst tho Minister of Foreign Affairs fol lowed the Archduke Charles. In the terrible war Napo leon then waged the latter displayed distinguished General ship—and staved off for a time the invasion and conquests of the French—but, after the well disputed battle of Esling, which had been lost by the French had it not been for the prodigious exertions of Massena, surnamed the lucky General, came the battle of Wagram, where the ge nius of Bonaparte triumphed with that all overwhelming success so long attached to his arms. Austria was struck to the earth by this blow, and loft at his mercy so com pletely that the Moniteur, the sententious record of the thoughts of its master, went so far as to say " that the House of Lorraine had ceased to reign." The Emperor of Austria sued for peace in the most imploring terms, and remembered but too late the arguments of Metternich against the renewal of that ominous war. He was at once called to head the department of Foreign Affairs, in the place of Count Stadion, whose warlike opinion had so un happily prevailed. By raising Metternich so that important office the Em peror had in view to exalt a person agreeable to Napoleon, and,invested with such high power, he sent him to treat for peace. United with Count Bubna, he went to deprecate the anger of the conqueror. It was only by the extreme liability and the most unremitting exertions of Metternich that such conditions were obtained from Napoleon as pre vented Austria from being altogether annihilated by the fierce soldier with whom she had so imprudently played fast and loose. A peace was, however, effected ; but Metter nich, now made Chancellor of State, as well as supreme manager of the foreign relations, found the country much impoverished, devastated, shorn of immense provinces, sur rounded on all sides by interested rivals, to whose keeping the Conqueror had delivered it up. Out of this web of difficulties a genius like Metternich could alone extricate the country. He ascertained by his emissaries that Napo leon was determined on divorcinc , from the childless Jo sephine, and he immediately exerted his powers of persua sion, on the one hand to prevent an union of the Corsican with the daughter of some rival potentate of Austria, and on the other to cement peace and obtain concessions of territory from France by the propitiation of a daughter of Francis. What followed is well known. One of the most extraordinary occurrences in modern history ; for it is more easy for a schoolboy to understand how Agamemnon sacri ficed his progeny at the altar of the sanguinary God, or the stern Roman sheathed his sword in his daughter's breast, than for a man of the world to comprehend how Metter nich succeeded in persuading Francis to offer his daughter to an upstart Corsican usurper, sitting on the throne be clued by the !blood of that unfortunate Austrian Princess Maria Antoinette. But Metternich knew how to persuade Francis at all times that the interests of his Crown were above the consideration of his ancestral rank and affections. This was singularly exemplified when he abandoned the rights of Maria Louisa and her progeny, in 1814. The immense advantages to his master Metternich saw from this marriage are - well known. How he united with Bonaparte against Russia—how he became neutral when the warring elements laid him open to disastrous defeats— how he ultimately waged war against him—appeared with the conquering armies twice in Paris, and there confirmed his downfal : all these facts are no less familiarly known. But it was at the great Congress for the partition of Eu rope that, by the immense accessions his triumphant diplomacy obtained to his Sovereign's dominions, that Met ternich prepared for himself duties of so difficult and ex tensive a nature that he alone could be capable of dis charging them. To judge of the capacity of that man's mind one must cast a glance on the immense extent, the varied and peculiar characters, of those many kingdoms he governs. On reflecting, one must feel the utmost asto nishment from amidst so many revolutions of the human mind of recent years—so violent a propagandism—lie has been able to hold together in his grasp not only the great hereditary dominions of Austria, but Lombardy and Ve igtnhaenttuprabturlieontst s nic pir e its in o v f ad th ed e States of of' G i l n o I n ' Giovanni I t t h a e l ia i n ; ' d ' of the Austrian share of Poland, &c. Besides, Metter nich is the great champion of the aristocratical principle ; and, in order to cambat with advantage against the spirit of unmitigated democracy, Metternich has been obliged to unite with Russia (Austria's natural rival towards Turkey), and at the same time to keep the colussus at bay in its giant strides to encompas by its conquests the provinces of the Danube. The result of Prince Metternich's supreme and all pervading politic sway is, that the Government is at peace in all those many antipathic provinces, or rather kingdoms, forming the heterogeneous mass of its dominions. The Emperor of Austria, the soi disant despot of demo cratic dreamers, walks about unattended in his capital, whilst Louis Philippe, watched by an army, is menaced by the dagger of the assassin at every step. It is not to be denied that there are some victims required by nature of the sway of Austria's Praire du Palais. But if we shudder at the thoughts of the manacles of the Spielsberg—if a Gon faloniere, a Porro, a Silvio Pellico move us to tears when they relate the sufferings of " I miei Prizioni"—still we must acknowledge that they are unfortunately men immea surably above the general standard of mind and virtue in their degraded country ; and that if they could establish the free Government they aim at we should have ten times the tyranny, bloodshed, and horrors, which characterised the republics of Italy even in their palmy times—in the age of Dante and of virtuous patriotism. At the present day Prince Metternich, to the astonish ment and dismay of his enemies, enjoys as supreme a power at the Court of Austria as ever he did. The new Empe ror, who during the lifetime of his father played the game of Opposition so often followed by the eldest son of Royalty in England, and who showed a most decided hostility to him for a long lapse of years, appears to have taken him into his favour. It is rumoured that, from the hatred to wards him of the Emperor's special favourites, this will not last ; but we imagine Ferdinand will never attempt to re move the keystone of that arch which is the very foundation of the Austrian empire. The only man who appeared for a time a dangerous rival to M. de Metternich was Baron Wessenberg. This statesman is well known at the Court of St. James's. A man of an encyclopedia mind, deeply versed in all the secret sprin g s of modern govern ment, with an inclination to a liberal line of politics, and universally beloved, M. de Metternich's influence, it is said, kept him for ten years in seclusion from the affairs in which he had performed so important a part. He then drew him from his retreat, to become an unwilling member of the Conference, to bury his fame beneath the dead weight of protocols. He is now in retirement. We believe that the story of the political antipathy of these two men is well founded, but that M. de Metternich never dreaded the rivalry. We avoid following Prince Metternich into his private life. Always possessing himself with a lordly presence, a graceful and chastened wit of rapartee, he does not invite scrutiny and animadversion, like another great statesman we have spoken of—Judas impenitent : ever revelling in the eccentricity of his unblushing wickedness. The exam ple of Prince Metternich will save younger diplomates from dangerous imitations, and from thinking that to be efficient in their sphere of duty they must throw overboard good faith and honour—the charities and affections of pri vate life. SPANISH LANDSCAPE.--There is something in the sternly-simple features of the Spanish landscape, that im presses on the soul a feeling of sublimity. The immense plains of the Castiles, and of La Mancha, extending as far as the eye can reach, derive an interest from their very nakedness and immensity, and have something of the solemn grandeur of the ocean. In ranging over th ese b oun dl ess wastes, t h e eye catc h es sight here and there of a straggling herd of cattle, attended by a lonely herdsman, motionless as a statue, with his long slender pike tapering up like a lance into the air ; or beholds a long train of mules slowly moving along the waste, like a train of camels in the desert ; or a single herdsman armed with blunderbuss and stiletto, and prowling over the plain. Thus the country, the habits, the very looks of the people, have something of the Arabian character.— Washington Irving. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE, ___........-48.--_ DEAL,the Mary Eliza, o—Wind 0 —Wind f W rom . S. s E o . o , r fi ay n b e a w ya elth t er a . d — y Tuff, from Jamaica; Elizabeth and Jane, Hart, DAuv e s" ll l Pallat, and Mary Laing, Shearer, from Honduras. Arrivfeor from the River, and remains, the Ipswich cketv M e le, r r Bahia; put back, and remains, the Jame'S Cruickshank, '° Demerara ; and Georgian, for Africa. ,i •als PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 27.—Wind S.W. fine.—No arr or sailings. PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 26.—Wind S. S. W.— Grant° ll ' Sailed his Majesty's brig Partridge, • . fora cruize , Jarvis, for Lisbon ; Amy, Lawler, for ditto. the FALMOUTH, SEPT. 26.—Wind S.E. to. S.—Arrived, ab Seagull packet, from Vera Cruz, sailed 7th ult., from Hiv all b i n 26th ; Adventure, Yule, from Bahia. Sailed, his Majesty's° r Hornby, for Plymouth. TaYl° r, MARGATE, SEPT. 27.—Arrived off, the Samuel Forman, from Jamaica. 4' oin WIGHT, SEPT. 27.—Arrived off, the Catharine, Rose, •r, if Calcutta ; Protector, Buttenshaw, from Madras ; s °l 3m— ' Barclay, from Jamaica ; St. James, 9 S b New York. e or,Top SWA NAGE, SEPT. 27.--Arrived off, the TopleY, from Calcutta. ----, from LIZARD, SaPr. 26.—Arrived off, the William, Rio Janeiro. . t to BRISTOL, SEPT. 27.—Arrived, the Elizabeth, Cundy, .r ° Jamaica ; , Hercules, Cherry, from Antigua. f ro m MILFORD, SEPT. 27.—Arrived, the Margaret, Gufford, Alexandretta ; Fenwick, Brown, from Sierra Leone. ~ ~, DUBLIN, SEPT. 2.s.—Arrived, the Trinidad, Johnson, n °— Acriarirleed, S.S.W.—"NO arrivals. Trinidad. CORK, SEPT. 25.—Arrived, the Orleans, Midwinter , . r t Jamaica ; Mauposa, Oli v i er , f rom Vi r ginia ; Nancy,l° from Leghorn. NEWRY, SEPT. 25.—Arrived, the Velocity, Davis, Lond°eT AYR, SEPT. 25.—Arrived, the , Henman, Archa n g HULL, SEPT. 25.—Arrived, Amelia, Hombrow, Archangr LYNN, SEPT. 26.—Arrived, Hippogriff, Arebange BLYTH, SEPT, 26.—Arrived, Cupido, Speed, Gottenburg' The Allies, from Drogheda to Quebec, was abandoned 26th ult., lat. 42, long. 46. N C USS ENTERED INWA - INWARDS AT TI - IN - TOM-HOUSE, SETT. 27. The John Bull, Corbin, from Hamburg ; Joseph Fen b; Hendsley, Hambur g h ; C a l e d on i a , Whittingham, Hamburrti, Emilie, Muscat, Calais ; Sovereign, Twiny, Guernsey;Aer; len, Broces, Jamaica; Nacional, De Bershagen ' San ta l,l Union, D'Arana, S ev ill e ; R u th, C orrayan , S t . Petersbuffer4 Mary, Ross, Jamaica; Tods, Block, Oporto; Varink Archangel; Calypso, Forster, Jamaica; Albion, ', if — A /- Smyrna; Betsey and Sarah, Bloom, Leghorn; Union, suld, Sydney ; Perseverance, Gobert, Calais; New Pk i ce t ;t, Burton, Jamaica ; Vep e e r , C urser , J ama i ca; Dart, D. j; Madeira ; Allison, Bull, Jersey ; Retrench, Bounty, Ja inal i c s; John Wood, Woodr u ff, H avre ; Af r i ca, H amson , Ja lna- st. William, Woodcock, St. Vincent's ; Prompt, Lodge , Petersburgh. or 26. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING, Ss y- ' The Br:gnnia, Downie, for Aamburgh ; John, Stand erring. St. Petersburg ; Juno, Leirsbey, Stockh o lm ; Sover i e t g Fergussnn, Riga; General Kydd, Aplin, Bombay; Preagar, Calais ; Emancipation, Burrow, Trinidad. o f, CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO, Strr.: Ao . 9 , The Jean Steuart, Thornton, for Lima; Ramona, 13 ,,, er , Rotterdam; Britannia, Dow n i e , H am b urg h ; Louisa 1 " % % e , Baltimore ; Emerald, Hought on , B ou l ogne • King • Gurner, Ostend; Ontario, H u t c hi nson , New Brunsw'' Java, Todd, Mauritius. CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST, SnP r i , ; „ 2 te t Hirondelle, Craighead, for M e d em blik • E m ilie, Baltic ; Copernicus, Lanners, Memel ; Mathilda, Kra sineur; Emma, Hudson, Malta. ARRIVALS AT LIVERPOOL, San. 24. The Potomac, Smith from Virginia; Lyons, nave l *" New Orleans ; Thomas Walker, Hutchinson, Pernambtlo: Philips, Wooley, Valparaiso ; Laura Ann, C ase ly, P °" Republic, Williams, Ne w Y or k ; G rena d a, S wa ll o w, ; bay ; Fermosa, Mitchell, St. Andrew's ; Birmingham, P atte e, eon, New Orleans; Fairfield, Clark, Jamaica; Cath& rill Elseira, Amsterdam. ENTERED FOR LOADING, SEPT. 24• sr The Victoria, Williamson, for Charlston; Glorat, Brazils; Betsey, Iburlin, Jersey ; Antmus, Coulson, foundland. CLEARED OUTWARDS, SEPT. 24. in g, The Phoenix, Heartley, f or D emerara; J o h n Lil y , ToPP ber , Africa ; Zone, V a lp ara i so ; C ec ili a , M aa f , D antz i c ; Blue Heron, Berbice. SAILED. The Reward, Goss, for Algiers; John Taylor, Ince, Cr e . r' leston; Thalia, Graham, Calcutta; Selina, Dantzic; „P e de , lust, Mik, Dordt ; Great Britain, French, ew York • 111 „• pendence, Nye, New York ; Frisk, Whiteway, Buenos P AY r ` o : Abercromby, Ure, Cape Breton ; Swallow, M'Kean, Copeo. hagen ; Parker, Resien, Demerara; Sarah Hudson, Pi lll ,, A ; Helen, M'Gregor, Jamaica; James Bailie, Oliver, Jarel7. o :. Calcutta, Reid, ht. John's, New Brunswick ; Mary, 0.1 ',: - e e, ren, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Meg Merrilies, Pe t nr n ee Africa ; Valiant, Bragg, Barbadoes; Isabella, Campbell , merara; Frederick, Pillau; Barbara Catharina, Antwe; Duncan, Cowley, Bombay ; Rubicon, Rogers, Boston; ward, Beazley, Mauritius; Ann Pelley, Champion, Me,..,5 5 `. 1/ ,,e Johanna Gegina Schur, Rotterdam ; Ni g h t i nga l e , tor Trinidad ; St. Andrew, Garrison, St. And rew ' s, New 13r'-; — j. wick ; Nyverheid, Scam, Ostend; David Cami on , 13 0 foot, New Orleans; Tacitus, Russell, New Orleans. TELEGRAPHED. Wind at Holyhead, S.—Off Point Lyrics, inward Wr i ; the Ganges, fr om M aran b am ; R oo k e.ry, from Jastai c- Carina, from Palermo. BERWlCK.—Tuesday a f ternoon t h e inhabitants r te siding in the vicinity of the Town-hall were thrown into telt of great al arm , i n consequence of a violent explosion ° o da took place un d er th e p i azza. Th e people were for some at e . rec t. at a loss t o con j ecture w h at h ad occurred, but were soon di ed to the scene of the explosion by a dense cloud of sTA to filling th e area o f t h e mar k et-place, which was discorel'ilall proceed fro m th e s t eam apparatus l ately erected under t he for warming- the Council Chamber. Qutuatities o f burn oo s coals and embers were ejected from the mouth of the fu r ot to the houses on the opposite side of the street, which ts have end angere d th e li ves o f persons who might have, to A be passing at th e momen t, b ut f ortunate l y no one happene d on the spot. It i s b e li eve d t h e h eat i ng b oiler has burs and the pipes in the interior of the stone framework ar e ol as , troyed; the precise ext e nt o f th e d amage cannot be :ft certained till a portion of the building be taken down. .T' e be the beadle, had a narrow escape, for but five minutes befe r s pa had been narrowly examining the state of the furnae e _; e looking in at th e fi r epl ace . P ersons w h o were at the 1:1,eell the hall a b ove d escr ib e t h e report of the explosion to have sal as loud as the discharge of a large piece of ordnance, se 00 that the whole house was shaken as if by an earthquake. der expense of repairing the app ara t us w ill no d ou b t b e co .. ' able. On Thursday last a young man met with an 9 _ fte r. dent at L ong t o f t , w hi c h term i nate d fatally very shortly so w wards. H e was amus i ng hi mse lf by leaping his hale eV the sheep netting, when the foot of the animal be.csra e l io. tangled in the same, and he was thrown off with great lence. He only survived a few hours.—Lincoln - o '.- 7— ,,,s Agri HORIZONTAL FLAT WATu '''ffor& with accurately finished jewelled movements, warranted, are e! : pil in Silver cases, p r i ce Fi ve G u i neas each ; or in Gold eigelee. Nine Guineas each, at T. COX SAVORY'S, Watchmaker , leaf and Silversmith, 47, Cornhill, London. _......ei MARRIED. . , %ay. - • On the 28th i ns t., at S t. M artin ' s- i n-the- Fi e l ee , jai)" Brooke, of Featherstone-buildings, Holborn, solicitor , t" ) .1 0. youngest daughte r o f G. A . S tarl i ng, Esq., of Leicester-Tapol On the 24th inst., a t S t. J o h n ' s, Isl i ngton, Mr. WAD' hter Groombridge, of Hornsey-road, to Elizabeth, second &lig the late J. Parsell, Esq., of Islington. Da, On the 27th inst., at St. Luke's Church, John Ebene zer _ii L- 0 7( ___.,, , Esq., of Basinghall-street, and the Irish Chambers, Liu' sii.o don, to Susannah, relict of the late William Chambers , of Kensington. 02,, d On the 26th i ns t., a t S to k e, Mr. Francis Jackson, sur r .• Guildford, to A nn i e , d aug h ter of the late John S h a rpe ' r" 94 Newark. 0 1 ,1 Shelton, Esq., of Glanwilliam Mae 1 , nt wrog, North On the 26th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-squar e ' f.- -11 waclees, t° ji. Maria, eldest da ug ht er o f J . Ch ad b orn, Esq., of Gl o ustera s pts On the 27th inst , at St. Mary' s , B r y ans tone-square , ore, to Francis Augustus Gould, of Gloucester-place, Portman - sqEsq'' Agneta, youngest daughter of the late W. H. BeauchaMP' .. of Forthampto n , Gl oucesters hi re. r pew On the 13th inst., at Grange Hall, Morayshire, Althe Grant, of Inver erne , t o M ary A nn, on l y surv i v i ng child ° t , 11 0 ,,, James Peterkin, Esq., of Grange. WO On the 15th inst., at Badsworth, Yorkshire, the Rev tio rie , ` - ' ings Kelk, Rector ofOsgathorpe, Leicestershire, to Lucy -..,, f jodr R e ctor ' _.---- w el o d r e t s h t . daughter of the Rev. William Champneys, ! DIED. o 50 On the 23d inst., at Torquay, Frederick William, fou rth J. Laurel], Esq., of Frimley-park, Surrey, aged 26. . Tho o l On the 21st inst., at Galashiels, North Britain, 31 " Phipps, the elder, of Liverpool-street, London, in conseqi sonce injuries received by the overturning of a coac h on the lOta ° ,,,i be On the 25th inst., at Gellywerner, Carmarthenshire, 'lb Morgan, youngest son of R. G. Thomas, Esq. Ai ie ara ll S ' On the 26th inst., in Albany-street, Regent's-park, 'Ater of G. Butler, Esq., of the Ordnance Office. dag , On the 25th inst., at Roehampton, Anna Maria, second of the Hon. T. Leslie Mel v ill e. FAT' of On the 26th inst., M rs. Scarman, relict of T. ScarrnanP George-street, Hanover -square, aged 91. d r i ,r Ti l ' On the 16th inst., at Chatton, Northumberland , age — ' 0 Davison, Esq., of West -square, London. On the 26th inst., in Newington-causeway, aged. -x., - Cannon Stevens, having survived his wife only nine da '" ys. l4 ;rase j4 : 2l. On the 28th inst , in Tavistock-s uare, Jas. A? w ander ton, Esq., ag e d 48 . . q igtor,' On the 20th i nst., Mrs. Aris, of Cla l - em ont-terrace, 1.• 1 .n London : Printed and Publishes; by MURDO YOUDI ' c og i l of 112, Strand, at The Sun 'Office, No. 112, Strand, in the of Middlesex.—Thupday, September 29, 1836. _________------ , of BIRTHS. , On the 27th i ns t., in Woburn-square, Mrs. „lap, Charles Baye r , a son. r On the 24th i ns t ., t h e lady of George Basevi, jun., °f &O row, of a son. 5 0( l s On the 25th inst., at Grantham, the lady of Lely Ostl er ' of a daught er . On the 25th i ns t., a t C om b o S t. Nicholas, Somerset, the Wil° the Rev. W. G. Barker, of a daughte r . L ieut. On the 24th i ns t., at Benj Cott age , H er t s , th e lady of Col. Baker, of a son . _.--' THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1536. _~'