The Sun. — London, England, 1836-03-14 00:00:00

SPIP.I.T OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The prospect ri of the No-Popery coalition are cer tainly not very flattering. The progressive character of the majeirities against them is by no means calcu-. lated tri soothe the disappointed ambition of the high contracting parties to this new holy alliance : 10 votes Jost them the . Speakership ; 33 removed them from power ; a majority of 41 carried against them the ad 41ress declaratory of the principle on which Irish All - -nicipal Reform should be founded ; and a ittqjority of 64 confirmed the previous decision of the Representa tive Chamber, and put an end for ever to those plea sant illusions which haft, oten conjured up by their ima ginative partisans ; to conceal the real causes of their la mentable corKlition. Fortunately for the cause of real reform and good government, there were unpleasant remiti.:.scences connected with all the members and al- lies of the Peel Administration, which were so pro- foundly engraved upon the understanding of the public, that neither the professions of the conforming Mi nisters, nor the unremitting efforts of the rene gade scribes of the Press could succeed in erasing that Ethiopian tint which their arduous exertions ap peared, indeed, only to render more frightfully conspi cuous, and expunging those distinctive marks of Anti- Reform which are stamped on the brows of the present generation of Tories like the ineffaceable characters of Cain. In vain did these men, with one voice, proclaim theinsAves opposed to the venerable abuses which they so long cherished : in vain did they commence a new career of outbidding their liberal opponents in the march of Reform ; in vain did they proceed, step by step, in their eagerness for place, till at last the boasted Con servative party is become a rank revolutionary one— annihilating vested rights, destroying charters, sweep ing away immunities and privileges that have existed for ages among the most sacred institutions of the country. All would not do—the mark was too plain, the motive shone forth conspicuous in all their conduct : the people and the people's representatives preferred a more moderate course of constitutional reform, carried out by more consistent statesmen ; and the con sequence is, that not only place but power—real political power—ay, and they know it—is now vested in the hands of his Majesty's Government. That power is based upon political consistency ; it is based upon political character; it is based upon poli tical union ; it is based upon the affections and respect of a people who can appreciate the acts and the mo tives of their rulers. The stratagems of the defeated party, one after another, have miserably failed. The old war cry of " No Popery !" fell dead upon the ear of an enlightened people ; the squadrons of the M'Ghee and O'Sullivan bomb-vessels successively ex ploded with most impotent effect ; the attack upon 13rookes.'s was certainly an heroic undertaking, and Burdett for a moment stood forth the forlorn hope of his new associates ; but it would seem as if the Club was impregnable, and the invading army somehow annihilated, for of its movements we have now neither bulletin nor register. But the grand effort was the Fieschi-Raphael plot, which was to demolish O'Connell, and to be the signal for a general movement. This in fernal machine has exploded also in their own camp. Whether it was intended for our English Fieschi to destroy himself at the same time with his enemy, we know not. But the poor gentleman is certainly con siderably damaged, and his upper works were not cal culated to bear the same battering as those of his Gallic predecessor. But the Morey and the Pepin, and the Boireau, where are they ? can there be a Nina in the plot, too ? We shall see. In the meantime we congra tulate the country that this last puny effort of the reckless tools of the No-Popery coalition has so sig alltand utterly failed. Long may the congenial spi rits of the new alliance retain their present position, and whilst they alternate between anti-reform and wholesale destruction, may their efforts be as ineffec tive as they are at present in embarrassing a liberal Government, and impeding the course of sound and constitutional reform !-11/crning Chronicle. The Report of the Committee on the O'Connell arid Raphael " traffic and agreement," for a seat for Car low runs, we are told, in the following words.—(Here our Contemporary quotes a portion of the Report, the whole of which we have already given.)—We speak most unaffectedly when we say that we never read a public document with so much surprise as we have 'perused this. Let us not be mistaken. We are not about to imitate the disgraceful example which is set by the whole-hoggish scribblers of the Ministerial sties, who, as often as a Committee makes a Report against their views, or unfavourable to the most worth less of their party, invariably impute unfairness and bad motives to such Committee. Neither did we de sire to be told by Mr. R. Colborne that it is . possible for eleven members of the House of Commons, not agreed upon politics, to lay aside all party feeling, and concur upon a judicial question. We should be sorry, however, to find it true that the proof of that fact had not been furnished to the country until Friday last, and still mere afflicted should we be if we could bring our selves to believe that the proof of the fact depended solely upon this Report ; for it is only reasonable to suppose that among the tens of thousands who will coincide in our opinion, that a more unsatisfactory, incomplete, and even unjust Report, was never made, there will be very many who will refuse to join us in the expression of the belief we sincerely entertain, that the miscarriage of the Committee is attributable alone to error in judgment. For our own parts, we do not think so ill of the moral character of the Members of the House of Commons as Mr. R. Colborne is of opinion the country thinks ; nor have we any more hesitation in giving to the members who composed the Carlow Committee the fullest credit for fairness, than we have in declaring our conviction that their report exhibits a most lamentable failure in the performance of a very important, but not a very difficult, public duty. Let us, then, be clearly understood as not meaning to re flect in the slightest degree upon the motives of this Committee ; but, at the same time, as feeling it ut terly impossible to speak with any respect of their judg ment, except at the expense of copipromising our own. It is obviously impossible to review, in the limits of a single newspaper article, all the points of a case which has-been so unmercifully overlaid, almost to smothering, by irrelevant evidence. To the leading features of it, however, we must beg to call the attention of the reader without delay, reserving to ourselves, of course, the right of reverting to them as well as -of dwelling upon others, whenever opportunity may serve. The Committee say, that the whole tone and tenour of Mr. O'Connell's letter of the Ist of June was calcu lated to excite " much suspicion and grave animad version." Observing, by way of parenthesis, that this is the fullest and most complete acquittal of those who attacked that epistle and called for inquiry, we have to ask whether it is a fit description of the letter, coming, as this description does come, from eleven gentlemen who were charged by the House of Commons to in quire into the circumstances of the traffic and agree ment alleged to have taken place between Mr. O'Con nell and Mr. Raphael ? Mr. O'Connell's letter con tains this startling passage :—(Here follows Mr. O'Connell's letter about the two thousand pounds.) Naas, we contend still, as we urged originally, that this - oargain is an affair for a Court of Law to deal with whatever measures the House of Commons may, in addition, think proper to adopt with reference to it, in conformity with their own most solemnly paraded resolutions as to bribery and corruption. We say that the Statute 49 George 111., c. 118, h a s been v i o l a t e d by this " traffic and agreement," even as it stands in Mr. O'Connell's letter, and before it was aggravated by the proofs that portions of the sum o f t wo t h ousan d pounds were to go to Mr. Vigors in part payment of his expenses in unseating Messrs. Bruen and Ka vanagh, and in paying the rent of as many electors as would vote for Raphael and Vigors, and were in s uc h a condition as to be tempted to accept, or of such a character as to seek, the wages of corruption thus pro vided for them. The Statute 49 George 111., c. 118, declares— " That it is expedient to make further provision for preventing CORRUPT practices in the PROCURING OF elec tions and returns of Members to sit in the House of Com mons; recites that the giving, or procuring to be given, or promising to gi ve , or to procure to be given, any sum of money, gift, or reward, or any office, place, employment, or gratuity, in order to procure the return of any Member to serve in Parliament—if not given to or fur the use of some person having a right, or claiming to have a right, to act as returning officer, or to vote at such election, is not bri an Act p asse d i n t h e secon d fiery within the weaning of year or king George 11., entitled, &c. (2 George 24) ; but such gifts or promises are contrary to tit e ancient usage, ri4t, and freedom of elections, and contrary to the laws anciconstitution of this realm:" It then proceeds to mit:A as follotts t— " Be it declared and enacted, that if any per Son or Obi'L toils shall, from and after the passing of this Act, either by himself, herself, or themselves; or by any other person or persons e for or her, or their behalf, give or 1 cause tl5 oc given, directly or indirectly, or promise or agree to give, any sum of money, gift, or reward, to any person or persons, upon any engagement, con tract, or agreement, that such pers'on or persons to whom., to whose use, or on whose behalf such gift or pro mise shall be made, shall, by himself, herself, or themselves, or by any other person or persons whatsoever, at his, her, er their solicitation, request, or command, procure or en deavour to procure the return of any person to serve in Parliament for any county, stewartry, city, town, borough, cinque port, or place, every person so lavin g given or pro mised to give, if not returned himself to Parliament for such county, stewartry, city, town, borough, cinque port, or place, shall for every such gift or promise forfeit the sum of 1,0001., to be recovered in such manner as is hereinafter provided,, with respect to the sum of 5001. ; and every such person so returned, and so having given, or so having promised to give, or knowing of and consenting to such gifts or promises, upon any such engagement; contract, or agreement, shall be and is hereby declared and enacted to be disabled and incapacitated to serve in that Parliament for such.county, stewartry, city, town, borough, cinque port, or place, and that such person shall be deemed' and taken, and is hereby declared and enacted to be deemed and taken, to be no Member of Parliament, and enacted to be, to all intents, constructions, and purposes, as if he had never been returned or elected a Member in Parliament. " And any person or persons who shall receive or accept of, by himself herself, or themselves, or by any other person or persons in trust for, or to the use, or on the behalf of him, her, or then:, any such sun: of nzoney, gift, or reward, or any such promise upozi any such engagement, contract, or agree ment, shall for . kit to his Majesty the value and amount of such sum of money, at, or reward, over and above the sum of 5001. ; which said sum of 5001. he, she, or they shall forfeit to any person who shall sue for the same, to he recovered with such costs of suit, by action of debt, bill, plaint, or in formation, in any of his Majesty's courts of record at West minster, if the offence be committed in that part of the United Kingdom called England and Wales, and in any of his Majesty's courts of record at Dublin, if the offence be committed in Ireland, wherein respectively no essoin or wager of law, or more than one imparlance, shall be allowed ; and if the offence be committed in Scotland, then to be re covered, with the full costs of suit, by summary action or complaint before the Court of Session, or by prosecution before the Court of Justiciary there." The Committee take no notice whatever of this sta tute, and from that omission it is fair to presume that they consider (though they say nothing about the matter) that the bargain with Mr. Raphael was a legal bargain ; in other words, that to charge a man 1,0001. for nomination, a ceremony to which no ex pense legally attaches, is a lawful charge, and, fur ther, that there is nothing unlawful, nothing corrupt, nothing that militates against the freedom or the purity of election, in the manner in which, by the evidence before them, certain parts of the purchase money were to be appropriated—namely, in compen sation to Mr. Vigors for prosecuting a petition relating to a preceding election in which Mr. Raphael had no concern whatever, and in the payment of the rent of voters—the last a proceeding which, if it be not bribery, at least renders what has been called bribery unnecessary ; for what county or town may not be carried by any candidate who has money enough, and who is allowed to offer to pay, to pro mise to pay, or to advance (let the pea be under whichever thimble) half-a-year's rent to any elector who will vote for him ? Will any man who ponders carefully and dispassionately on these points tell us, that, let the Carlow Committee have been :ser so honest, they have been in the least degree just in their report upon the whole case submitted to them, espe cially when it is moreover kept in view, that while, on the one hand, the committee have been so polite as to believe all that was told them as to how the 2,0001. was really expended, and so charitable as to report that the expenditure was legal, they have on the other hand, carefully abstained from saying a single syllable respecting the terms of the traffic and agreement which settle the modes in which the cash was to have been disposed of, those.modes being pal pably and illegal In any case, it must be quite clear that if such a bargain, or the fulfilment of it—either, and, of course, therefore both—be not illegal, but . moreover proceedings which the House of Commons will suffer to pass without extreme censure and severe punishment, all the statutes against bribery and corruption are a mere dead letter, and the fol lowing resolution of the House of Commons a piece of most discreditable humbug, because operating a fraud and deception upon the country. " Resolved, that if it shall appear that any person bath been elected or returned a Member to this House, or en deavoured so to be, by bribery, or any other corrupt prac tices, this House will proceed with the utmost severity against all such persons as have been wilfully concerned in such bribery or other corrupt practices." We must defer till another occasion any further observations on this point, and on other parts of the case, but in the mean time we entreat our readers to bear in mind, that even if Mr. O'Con nell had acted (as the Committee think he acted) on this occasion, as an agent for others, the de merits of the transaction would not be varied either morally or legally, nor Mr. O'Connell's interest in the affair be, in fact, one jot the less : that the connection between Mr. O'Connell and the Mi nisters, through the medium of Lord Duncannon, is clearly mad e out in the evidence ; that Mr. O'Con nell proposed to make Mr. Raphael a Baronet ; and last, but not least, that if there be a strong desire to screen Mr. O'Connell personally, and a party powerful enough to gratify that desire, still that party is bound for decency's sake, for the credit of themselves and of their House, and in older that . the laws of the land and the resolutions of the people's representatives in Parliament may not be scoffed at and set at naught, to take care that the House of Commons as a body shall at least brand with their disapprobation the " bargain and agreement," even though a nolle prosequi be en tered against the Government contractor. If this be not done, then the gate's of Parliamentary corruption arc once more thrown wide open, and every Member of Parliament may set up with impunity the contra band trade of a boroughmonger.—Times. The public are aware that from the moment when the transactions between Messrs. O'Connell and Ra phael, touching the ,traffic for a seat in Carlow, be came the subject of Parliamentary investigation we abstained from all commentary upon it, in accordance with our invariable practice of desisting from all inter ference with judicial inquiries while yet in progress ; considering it to be necessary for,the pure and impartial administration of justice, that every tribunal in the country that takt s cognizance of alleged offences against the law should be perfectly free to give their verdict, or make their report on the evidence actually before them, without being constrained to turn aside from that evi dence by any external pressure. The Committee on the Carlow job having now made its report, that report, like every public document, and every judicial or Par liamentary decision, becomes the subject of public criticism. What Parliament may think proper to do upon the report of its Committee is one question—what public opinion thinks of that report is anothe# ; and we do not hesitate to say that in the annals of Committee proceedings, it would be difficult to find an instance in which the report of a Committee was so little sup ported by the evidence as to the main object of inquiry. When we say the ,main object of inquiry, we allude to the question as it affects the constitutional privileges of Parliament, and not the personal characters of Mr. O'Connell or Mr. Raphael. If Mr. O'Connell had defrauded the latter of any money upon false pretences, that was properly a subject for inquiry in a criminal Court—for although the .civil jurisdictions could give no relief to Mr. Raphael, in enforcing the terms of a contract which was upon the face of it illegal, yet the illegality of the contract would not screen the offender from the consequences of fraud, which is the subject of cognisance brsyatcabteiCourt of Criminal Justice. The g fi r n e w at fa g r uc th st eiontrafioiconsti tuted tuted a constitution-- oCnsonl.m betweenit teoftitiheo partiesCommoicios offence, and a breach of the privileges of Pa-" .uament. As to the personal ques tion, we ha- not only .e no difficulty in saying that the evidence ru noes not support the charge of personal cor pt. J . d o against Mr. O'Connell—not only does not go prove that he was to derive any pecuniary advantage (rog the transaction, but it entirely and completely THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, AIARCH 14, 1536, disprotes it: So far we must say Mr. O'Connell stands acqnitted.. On the Other and tide important question, that of a breach of the law and constitution of Parliainentary elections, We are as decidedly of opi nion that the offence is preyed: Our Leaders yvould not be tibl*d to us for dragging them through the mass of evidence„ with which the public mind is already wearied. We will, therefore, treat the question in as concise a man ner as possible. The law more particularly applicable to a cae of this soft-the 4th George fII., c. 118, which imposes penalties on persons giving or receiving money =.o procuring the election of a. Member to Par liament—provides that the Act shall not extend to any money paid, or agreed to be paid, to, or by any person, for any legal expense bona fide incurred at, or concern ing any election. Now, if the contract between Mr. O'Connell and Mr. Raphael went to secure only the payment of the bona fide legal expenses of the election, it is clear that no illegality would attach to that contract ; and for any breach of his engagement Mr. Raphael might have his remedy by an action for damages upon that breach in one of the ordinary Courts of civil jurisdiction. But was the contract confined to the legal expenses of the election ? Has it not been proved that there was to have been an application of the surplus beyond the legal expenses, to something else than the payment of such legal expenses ? If so, we ask how the Committee can, in the face of the country, negative the charge of illegality as to a con tract by which the parties contemplated the creation. of a fund for other purposes . than the bona fide expenses of the election ? It matters not what those purposes were—whether to compensate ejected voters, as it was said, or to discharge a debt arising out of a former election in which ' Mr. Vigors was concerned. Nor does it make any difference to show that the circumstance of a petition being pre sented against the return of Mr. Raphael caused the whole of the consideration-money to be absorbed in the expenses of the election, if the original contract were illegal, and would have been acted upon to the full extent of its illegality but for the circumstance of that petition having been presented, which was, at the time of the contract, a very doubtful contingency. The Committee, however, rely upon the facts alleged in the following paragraph of their report as exculpatory of Mr. O'Connell : " It appears that Mr. O'Connell addressed a letter, bear ing date Ist of June, 1835, in which the agreement for Mr. Raphael's return for the county of Carlow for 2,0001. was concluded. The Committee cannot help observing that the whole tone and tenor of this letter were calculated to ex cite much suspicion and grave animadversion ; but they must add that, upon a very careful investigation, it appeared that previous conferences and communications had taken place between Mr. Raphael, Mr. Vigors, and other persons connected with the county of Carlow, and that Mr. O'Con nell was acting on this occasion at the express direction of Mr. Raphael, and was only the medium between Mr. R. and Mr. V. and the political club at Carlow." Now, we ask, what difference does it make whether Mr. O'Connell stood alone in his transactions with Mr. Raphael, touching the traffic about a seat in Par liament, or acted, as the Committee say, as only the medium between Mr. Raphael, Mr. Vigors, and the political club at Carlow ? The ComMittee admit that the whole tone and tenor of Mr. O'Connell's letter of the Ist of June, 1835, was calculated to excite much suspicion and grave animadversion ; and how is that suspicion removed, cr that cause of animadversion purged, by the circumstance of Mr. O'Connell deal ing for the benefit of Mr. Vigors or the Carlow Club, in his traffic with Mr. Raphael, and not for his own ? Had Mr. O'Connell been an ordinary individual it might have made some difference ; but it must be always borne in mind that he is a person exercising great political influence in Irish elections, and that he is applied to by Mr. Raphael, not as a mere indivi dual to be the medium between him and Mr. Vigors or the Carlow Club, but as a person exercising such political influence, and having by means of it seats in Parliament at his disposal, and that to an extent which was unknown under the old boroughmonger ing system. It should also not be left out of that account that Mr. O'Connell did actually exercise that political influence, and with effect, for Mr. Ra phael. He was not, therefore, a mere medium for passing the money from the latter to Mr. Vigors, but must be considered in the light of one who, for a pe cuniary consideration (not indeed for his own personal advantage), sold his political influence in procuring a seat in Parliament for another, who had not the slight est chance of being elected without the intervention of such influence. Now, we ask, how does a traffic of this sort differ in principle from that which was alleged, and properly alleged, as a high constitutional offence against the late Lord Castlereagh in the House of Commons ? For our part, we cannot see the difference in principle, and we think the evil example and the mischievous consequences as great in one case as the other. We argue this question without any political bias whatever. There were Tories as well as Whigs upon the Committee that has exonerated Mr. O'Con nell from political as well as legal and moral delin quency in this transaction. Some persons may not be much surprised that Tories should agree with Re formers in thiS decision, but _we are surprised that Reformers could at all reconcile it with their principles to come to such a decision. We wish to see the Con stitution protected in its integrity, and more especially as far as freedom and purity of election are concerned, from the encroachments which may be made upon it to serve the immediate ambition of any party, and there fore we argue this question as one wholly disconnected with party considerations.—Morning Herald. We perceive among the notices of motions to be made next week in the House of Commons an inti mation that Mr. Thomas Duncombe is about to stand forward as a reformer of the Whig Reform Act. The Hon. Member for Finsbury is very anxious to remove that portion of the maxima charta, as it has been fa cetiously called, which requires the payment on a cer tain day in each year of all poors' rates and assessed taxes then actually three months over due, as a condi tion of registration. This senator seems to be of opi nion that three months is a very insignificant portion of time, scarcely worth 'mentioning, or even thinking about, for a payment of any kind to be overdue, and that it is the most oppressive, vexatious, and ungenteel thing in the world to be so nice for a few months, or even a few years, with liberal claimants of the franchise. We differ from Mr. Duncombe in this as in some other particulars. It seems to us a very proper and rational proviso, in, a measure which assumes the occupation of a 101. house as a test of social re spectability, that such occupants of houses as are unwilling or unable to pay the rates and taxes, with which their dwellings are legally charged, in three months after they become due should be deprived of the political privileges enjoyed by their more punctual neighbours. The regulation is admirable, besides, as a means of stimulating tardy paymasters and lightening the labour of tax collectors. Mr. buncombe regards this as an enormous fault in a measure of Reform. We hope there will not be found quite a majority of the House of Commons to sympathize upon this point with the feelings of Mr. Duncombe. From the terms of the Resolution which the Hon. Member for Finsbury intends to submit to the House of Commons it seems to be his opinion that the Re forming Parliament made a capital blunder in its estimate of the worldly circumstances or of the paying propensities of the class of persons upon whom it conferred the elective franchise. The re solution asserts that the proviso, requiring the pay ment, on a fixed day in each year, of the assessed taxes and poors'-rates, then three months over due, as a condition of registration, " has tended to reduce the constituency of Great Britain much lower than was contemplated by the Legislature." This is certainly rather an awkward compliment to the intelligence of the Reform Legislators, and to the respectability of the constituency which they intended to create. Mr. Duncombe, we recollect, was a staunch advocate for " the Bill, the whole Bill, and nothing but the Bill." We recollect also that some Statesmen, who are gene rally supposed to keep their eyes open to the state of society, in its various classes, in Great Britain, and -who were not entirely convinced of the infallibility of the authors of the Bill (we delight to mention the name of Mr. Croker, as one of the most eminent and able of the number), endeavoured to impress upon Parliament their own convic tion that the occupation of a 101. house is not so certain a symbol of propety as the Reform legisla tlys, in their wisdom, thought proper to consider it. I is edifying and amusing to _observe how soon the firmest believers in the dditcetiiess of Lord John Rus sell's'information and in the soundness of his Lord ship's judgment have seen reason to impeach both. We are vleAsed with the forthcoming attempt of Mr. Duncombe to put a resolution On the Journals of the House, declaring, in tams which cannot lie mis understood, that the Reform Ministers were wrong, and their politicril anjagonists right, in the estimate they severally formed of the 10/. franchise. Mr. Croker and others were of opinion that as the basis of a representative system, the 10/. householders would disappoint the Reform legislators. The resolu tion which Mr. Duncombe is to propose, in a night or two, and in favour of which a whole host of the liberal partisans of Lord John Russell and his Bill will probably vote, affirms that the 10/. householders have in fact done so ; that having been expected to pay their taxes regularly, they have refused or neglected to perform this duty ; that having been expected to at tach much value to the franchise offered to them by the Bill, they have really attached little or none. Mr. Duncombe, however, will probably fail in his attempt to convince the House of Commons to offer the fran 7 chise, unconditionally, to the occupants of 101. houses, unless he can adduce some better argument in favour of his new reform, than the fact that many of this de scription of persons have shown themselves either un willing or unable to pay their rates and taxes within a reasonable time.—Morning Post. We arc glad to sec, by the notice paper of the Com mons House of Parliament for this day, that Sir Stratford Canning intends to call the attention of the House to the late events at Cracow. More unjusti fiable proceedings were never had recourse to than those which have been recently enacted by Russia, Austria, and Prussia, towards that free and indepen dent Republic—free by the unanimous consent of all the Powers which were parties to the treaty of Vienna, and independent, by the same authority, of all inter ference, save that of mere " extradition" of convicted felons or traitors, upon their delivery being claimed by either of the protecting Powers. What were the re sults of the negotiations respecting Cracow ? Why, that by section 6th of the general treaty of Vicnna, Cra cow and its territory were declared to be ‘' free, inde pendent, and strictly neutral in perpetuity," under the protection of the three surrounding Powers of Russia, Austria, and .Prussia. This declaration," as is justly observed in Polonia, "is then further developed in the additional Treaty relating to Cracow, of the 3d of May, 1815, consisting of 19 Arti cles. Article 7of this Treaty begins--' The three Courts having approved of the Constitution which shall govern the free town of Cracow and its territory, and which is an nexed as an integral part of the present Articles, they take the said Constitution under their joint guarantee. By the avowal, therefore, of these Powers, the Constitution of Cracow forms an integral part of the Additional Treaty, which Additional Treaty was declared, as we saw before, to be an integral part of the arrangements of the Con gress, and to have everywhere the same force and effect as if had been inserted word for word in the General Treaty.' Consequently, the Constitution of Cracow stands under the same sauveguarde of England as any other article to which she subscribed in the Treaty of Vienna ; it forms an inte gral part of a whole system settled at the Congress of Vi enna, which no party dares to infringe or violate, but by common consent." _ _ _ What has since taken place is known to every one. Cracow has been treated even as England might with a fairer spew of justice have treated the lonian Is lands ; her neutrality has been declared null—bar in dependence set at nought—her constitution suspended —her territory invaded—her inhabitants seized and sent out of the country without proof or allegation of cr ime ;—and, finally, as we learn from accounts last night, her constitutional prerogatives invaded by the forced resignation of one President, and the forcible appointment of another I Were ever such proceedings known in ancient or modern times ? Was there ever a more flagrant violation of the most solemn trea ties? Was there ever a more barbarous invasion of the rights, and liberties, and freedom of a free and independent state ? Was there ever a more abject submission on the part of two such Powers as Austria and Prussia to the rampant ambition of a third, than that which has been manifested upon the present occasion, or did England and France ever ap pear in a more disgraceful guise than they now do in permitting these powers to break through all their sti pulated undertakings, in destroying the independence of Cracow ? The honour of England was never com promised to such an extent as in permitting Russia to ride rough-shod over the gallant battalions, which fought knee-deep in blood for the freedom and inde pendence of their country. It is the only stain upon the Government of Earl Grey—but it is a great and mortal stain ; let it now be wiped out, or England yield her supremacy at once to the barbarian of the North. Cracow is not only the last cradle of Polish independence, but with the desertion of her cause is also most intimately joined a long night of darkness fOr all Europe, and the lowering of England from the condition of the first State in Europe to that of a se cond-rate Power.—Morning Advertiser. WASHINGTON'S FAREWELL TO THE AMERICAN ARMY.—" At noon," says Judge Marshall, " the principal offi cers of the army assembled at Frances' Tavern ; soon after which their beloved commander entered the room. His emo tions were too strong to be concealed. Filling a glass , he turned to them, and said, ' With a heart full of love and gra titude, I now take leave of you : I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honourable.' Having drunk, he added, I cannot come to each of you ,to take my leave, but shall b e o bli ge d t o you, if each of you will come and take me by the hand.' Gen. Knox being nearest, turned to him. Incapa pable of utterance, Washington grasped his hand, and embraced him. In the same affectionate manner he took leave of each succeeding officer. In every eye was the tear of dignified sen sibility, and not a word articulated to interrupt the majes tic silence, and the tenderness of the scene. Leaving the room, be passed through the corps of light infantry, and walked to Whitehall, where a barge waited to convey him to Powles.hook. The whole company followed in procession. On arriving there, he entered the barge, and as it moved from the shore be waved his hat and bowed to the multitude in sil ence , while they stood uncovered and returned his digni fied salutation with every mark of affectionate respect. On arriving at Philadelphia, he delivered in his accounts for the whole war to the Comptroller."— Washington's Life. —Family Library, No. 54. just published. SHERIDAN.—The following story of Sheridan and the playwright, is vouched for upon good authority. The playwright had sent a comedy to Mr. Sheridan for perusal, and of course approval, and of course heard nothing more of his comedy. He waited six months patiently—the season was then over, and he therefore resolved to wait on till the next season began ;he did so—he then called at Mr. Sheridan's, who at that time lived in George-street, Hanover-square—lnot at home, of course—he then despatched a note—no answer —another—ditto—another call—still the same result. At last, however, the author hit upon the expedient of posting himself in the hall, on a day in the evening of which there was to be an important debate in the House of Commons. This was . a blockade which even the ingenuity of the wit could not evade ; the author was therefore admitted. His inquiries were respectful, but earnest. "My comedy, Mr. Sheridan —l—"—Yes—to be sure—clearly—the—?" " Fashion able Involuments, in five nets," said the author, helping his great friend to the name of his work, which he hoped might recall the work itself to his recollection—a hope most vain.—" Upon my word," said Sheridan, " I—l'm in a great hurry—l really don't remember—l am fraid your play has been somehow mislaid. Mislaid !" exclaimed the anxious parent of the lost bantling - . "My dear Sir, if it is, I am ruined—l have no copy of it."—" It is very unfortunate," said Mr. Sheridan, " very—l'm sure I regret—l—."—" But what can I do, Sir?" said the author. —" I tell you what, my dear friend," replied Mr. Sheridan, " I cannot promise you your own play back, because I don't know where any of the last year's pieces are ; but if you will open that table drawer, you will find a great number that have been Sent me this year; you may take any three of those in exchange, and do what you like with them."— Gilbert Gurney. ( A similar anecdote is re lated of Garrick and a dramatist. )—Mirror. A tomb of the ancient Gauls, which is of the highest interest to the science of Archeology, has lately been discovered at Porcheville, near Mantes, in the Seine et Oise. The sides are formed of six rough hewn stones. It is sir feet in width and nine in length, and is covered by another stone eight feet wide and ten feet long. The bottom is paved with flat stones, and the tomb contained 50 skeletons, some having their faces turned towards the North and the others towards the South. Among the bones, which soon became dust, there were some shells, ashes, bones of animals, the remains of pot tery hard in substance and of a blackish colour, stones perfo rated with holes, evidently worn as ornamentE, the iron barb of an arrow, a very fine hatchet formed of flint, and a pebble on which the profile of a man is rudely cut, similar to the spe cimens of the medals of the Gauls. LAWYERS.—Lord Burleigh, who was Lord Chan cellor in Queen Elizabeth's time, in his " Manuel," says, " I wolde never suffer lawyers to digresse or wrangle in pleadinge, always advising Counsellors to deale trulie and wyselie with theyr clients, that if the matter were nought, to tell them so, and not sooth them ; and where I founde such a lawyer, I wolde never thinke him houeste, nor recommende him to anie preferments, as not fitte to be a Judge, that wolde give false Counsell," PRICES OF CANALS, DOCK SI OCKS, ASSURANCE COMPANIES, txe.&c. LONDON, FRIDAY, AIARCII 11. tianiter Dithlend ?rice of rel . CANALS. per Ones. A Minn). Paid. Share. ,780. di per cent. Ashton and Oldham ..../..Ntrage 97/. 18s, sh. un 1,482 6/ Astrhy-de:le..Zoncla ... ...... Average 113/. sit. 65 1 , 96 0 - .....0n Basingstoke .., .......................... 1001. sit. 5.1 1,C105 51. Btc&teck and . A hergavenny ......... 159 . sh. 1 :0 1 .00 1 ,, , 5h. 12/. 10s. Birmifighairt4l.l6th share ............ 171 . 103 - 12 4 4,00 d . •••• - Ditto and LiVetpool Junct....ll 0/. sh. all pd 30i 6(1() •'. . " Bri4 , ev:ater and ' Taunton ....100/. sh. all pd 61 400 5/ • Clits.hrier and Black water .... ........... 100/. sh. 102 500 421 - Covet - IVY .. .: ... ii: .... ~. ..................... 100/. sh. PIO 4,5 1 6 ... ..... Croydon ..... .. ...... ..,AVcrage 31/..25. lad. sh. 21 2,060 z 3/, 10 s , D u dley COO 61. Derby . 100/. sit 120 .. ...... • 20,000 •• Danube and Mayne 111 . 1 ,.. 4d. 10/. tat 61 3,5751 '''// sh 85 Etirisl:•cre And Chester Arenlge 1...- '• , • 231 43'. EreWaSh 1,1;7 291. Forth and Clyde ....... it ter,ve 4cpl,:r,s. „b. 5 90 I ,' , O O 121. Grand Junctthr.. i',8491 Grand Union ' ' l6tl/. oh, 25 1,521 Grand Surrey MI/. sh. 10,0001. 4/. per cent. Diva (optional) Loan lOO/. 75 3,096 Grand Western COO 13/.125. Sd. Glam,,rganshire, Average cost 172/. 13s. 41 280 1,660 Gloucester and Berkley 1004 sh, 15 749 I Or. Grantham 15111. sh. 2 02 6.233 11. 109 14 udderstii. ld Average 571. Os. Cxl. sh. 30 100 Kensington 100 sh all pd. 10 25,328 I!. Kennet and Avon, Average 39/. Bs. 10d. sh. 2 I 2,8971 20/. Leeds and Liverpool 100/. sh. 510 515 IV, Leicester l4Ol. sh. 140 1 907 4/. Leicester and Nort hamp l 0n ... A ver 83/. 103. 78' 550 51. per cent. Liskeard and l.ooe Union 251. sit. all pd. 2,409 IX Monmouthshire 100/. sh. 120 251) 9/. Melton Mowbray 100/. sh. 200 500 25/. Mersey and Irwell lOO/. sh. 5711 3,000 Macclesfield 1001. sh. alt pd. 56 217 15/. Neath 100/. sh 300 100 Nene Navigation Bonds ...IN/. sh. 11W. pd. lOU 1,786 321. Oxford IOW. sh. COO 52/ 21. Oakham 130/. sh. 38 2.400 4/. Peak Forest Average about 781. sh. 105 21,418 Its. Regent's (or London) Aver. 331. 163. sal. sh. :5 5,1519 5/. per cent. It ochdale Average 500 Si. Shropshire / '251. sh. 140 800 10/. Somerset Coal l5O/. sh. 160 45,000/. 6-1 per cent. Ditto Lock Fund Stock l2 l. lOs. sh. I'2 700 36/. Stafford and Worcester lie/. sh. 690 500 11/. Shrewsbury 125/. sh. '245 300 N. Stourbridge 3,647 11. 101. - Stratfo-on-Av,n ...Average 79/. 9s. ;.(1. sh. 39 . 533 13/. 3 Swansea 100/. sh. 215 ,762 1/. Severn and Wye and Railway ...Av 35/. sh. 11 2,60 ,1 so. 32/. 10s. Trent and Mersey, I share 100!. sh. 62c 8,119 i,ooosh./ 151 Warwick and Birmingham . 100/. sit. 28( 00015h.3 910 ltd.. Warwick and Napton lOO/. sh. 221 6,000 3/. Ills Worcester and Birmingham...A v.78/.84. sit. 8! 5,000 255. Wilts and Berks .. Average 67/. 10s. Bd. sh. 1E 800 R. Wyrley and Essington 125/. sh 7! 126 . ..... . Wi s b eac h 905 1/. Wey and Arun llOl. sh. 2 DOCKS. ...1001. sh. 57 Stock 110 Stock 59 2,600 & } 3n. c. Commercial 1,06545 h - 194,66714 4 per cent. East India 3,238,31044 565. p. ct. London Ditto Bonds ,390,0004 Si. per ct. West India 2.20 I 34 Os. 4d. Bristol Average 147/. 10s. sh. 0 5 68,324/. 51. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts ll6 1.352,752 3 p^r cent. SL Katharine Stock 851 500,003 44 per cent. Ditto Bond s 200,000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years lol Shoreham Harbour 23 .0/. sh. 3/. pd 2£ 2.500 ........ Deptford Pier 4 BRIDGES. 1,000 11. Hammersmith 5O/. sh. 23 7,201 Southwark, Old Av. ti 3/. 2s. &I. sh. '2 1,700 IL 15s. Ditto, New, of 74 per cent. 5Ol. sh. 14 5,000 5,000 11. 2s. Ditto, Old A nnuities of 8/. •••••.•" 60/. pd 24 5,000 19s. 3d. Ditto, New D itto of 71 40/. pd 201 60,000/. 51. per cent. Vito Bonds 5,818 17s. Vauxhall Average 49/. Os. Od. sh. ASSURANCE COMPASSES 9,000 3/ lOs Albion 5001. sh. 50/. pd 761 woo 15 per and cent. Alliance, British & Foreign 100 1 . sh. 104 , 0 124 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine ~ ....10( 4/ . sh. 5/. pd 5 1 50/. sh. 5/. pd 131 24,000 II per sh. Atlas 1,200 Ish. 41. Birmingham Fire 2501. sh. 551. pd 105 20,000 4/ per cent. British Fire 250/. sh. 50/. pd 40 12,000 61. per cent. British Commercial 504 sh. 51. pd 04 5,000 51. percent. Clerical, Medical, &c. Life, ICOL sh. 12/10s pd 42 34 4,000 2/ lOs County 100/. sh. 10/. pd 10,000 ss. Eagle 5O/. sh. Si. pd 6 Economic Life lOO O l. sh. 2501 . p d 375 ~- `9O [an ds p3 o e / e b n st . .l 2,271 51/. per cent. European Li f e .0/. sh. all pd 1/. 124, 22 50,000 2s. Ditto , N ew 2Ol. sh. 2/. pd 1,000,000!. 71. per ct. Globe Stock 157 20,000 ii. Guardian 1001. sh. 20/. pd 361 CFire 5 p et. , 50/. sh. 5/. pd 64 4°,000 1.L1e 8 p ct. 3 Ho p e 1 2,400 Si. 7s. 6d. Imperial Fire 500/. sh. 501. pd 120 7,500 9s. Imperial Life 100/. sh. 10/. pd 91 13,452 10s.6d.'per sh. Indemnity Marine VOL sh. Si. pd 151 2,020 3/ lOs Kept Fire 501. sh. all pd 92 3/. Ditto Life 29 10,000 16s. Law Life 1001. sh. 10/. pd 28 3,900 ... ...... London, Fire 25/ sh. 12/. 103, pd 16 31.000 30,000 51. per cent. Palladium Life 501. sh. 2/. pd 2/ Ps N 250,00) Is. 6d. Protector Fire 2O/. sh. 2/. pd 1111 Od 2,500 14 Provident Life llOOl. sh. 10/. pd 191 100,000 ss. Rock Vie 20/. sh. 21. pd 64 689,220 i 5/. per cettt. Royal Exchange Stock... 202 Sun 2117 6,000 5 per cent. University Life lOO/. sh. 5/. pd 51 50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 2/. pd JOINT STOCK BANKS 5,000 Australasia 4O/. sh. 491. pd 591 10,000 10 per cent. Bank of Birmingham 541. sh. 104 pd 10 10,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank 5O/. sh. Si. pd 14 18,000 2 per cent. London and Westminster...lool sh. 15/. pd 211 3,000 25,000 6 per cent. Liverpool 1001 sh. 101. pd 17 30,000 74 per cent. Manchester and Liverpool] I tam -.. si.., . 101 pd 22 Discount 20,000 6 per cent. Manchester 1004 sh. 20/ pd 151 20,000 8 per cent. Provincial Bank of Ireland 100/. sh. 25/. pd 434 20,ft0 5 per cent. National Bank of Ireland 5 0 /. sh. 10/. pd 161 10,000 National Provincial Eng. -1004 sh. 251. pd 26 10,000 10 per cent. Gloucestershire 50/. sh. Si. pd 11 6,000 GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 500 1/ 12s Bath 204 sh. let pd 25 5,000 61. per cent British 4Ol. sh. 161. pd 214 s N ., r 51.percentl Ditto Provincial 2 01 . sh. 19 pd 224 •.""'" Land Bs. ss. 814 51,10 s Birmingham 5O/. sh. 105 4,250 21 Os Bristol 1,500 Brighton 2O/. sh. 131 750 Ditto, New 201. sh. 18/. pd 12 2,471 5 per cent. Brighton General 201. sh. all pd 19 4,000 31. Continental Cansolidated lOO/. 51)l. pd 95 1,000 10/. City of London lOO/. sh. all pd 1,000 61. . Ditto, New lOO/. sh. 601. pd 115 4,000 4/. 10s. Equitable 40/. pd 31 European Si. pd 4; 10,000 5/, per cent. Imperial 5O/. sh. 421 800 5/ per cent. Isle of Thanet 25/. sh. 20/. pd 20 2,350 61. per cent. Independent "10/. sh. all pd 50 1,500 74 per cent. Leeds .0f di. 20/. pd 25 50/. sh. 39/. pd 221 9,000 34 per cent. Phoenix 1001. sh. 604 pd 69 1,000 41. per cent. RatclitF 5./. sh. 13/. pd 4,000 South Metr o p olitan 8,200 5/. per cent. United Ge neral 5O/. sh. 4,51. pd 361 240 51. per cent. Warwick 501. sh. 50 400 1/ 5s Wakefield 25/. sh. 221 12,000 3/. Westminster Chartered 504 sb. 504 6,001 12 Ditto, New . .501. sh. 10/. pd 91 EGO Yarmouth 201. sh. 181. pd 9 WATER WaRKS. 4,800 Birmingham 25/. sh. 251. pd 26 4,133 5/. East London lOO4 sh. 1271 4,500 2/ lOs Grand Junction .... Average 41/ 13s. 4d. sh. 511 2,000 24 Kent 100/. sh. 46 3SB 10/. 'Liverpool Bootle 2201. sh. 310 1,500 2110 s New Rlver London Bridge Water Annuities 58 6,486 1/. Manchester and Salford lOO/. sh. 52 1,000 100 4 per cent. S.iuth London 100/. sit. 81 8 West Middlesex ....Average 634 12s. 9d. sh. '77 1,360 1114 s York Building Co. Lessee Prop 100/. sh. 351 IRON RAILWAYS. Bristol and Exeter 24 6 Bolton and Leigh .....,1001. sh. 100 (16) 2,000 2,500 1 9 s. 30,003 30, , 3a1 ......... 2,000 ......... .2,100 2,100 ......... 1,500 5,100 9 per cent. 70 1141. I n,noo 45,000 30,000 20,000 3 per cent. 25,000 20,c00 ...... 20,000 12,500 2,500 *2,009 1, 1 00 M. per cent. 800 8,000 4,000 10,000 • • 2,000 10,000 31. `s. 6,0 0 10,000 10,010 10,000 20,011 I/. 10s. 6,000 R,hoo 2,R M) 3/. 20,000 F,155 2,0(W) 11,500 30,010 5.0 00 1,000 1,500 Clarence Forest of Dean 5Ol. pi crand Junction 100/. sh. 40/. p 1 Great Western lOO/. sh. 10/. pd Hartlepool 100/. sh. 100/. pi Hull and Selby 5Ol. sh. 4/. pd Leeds and Selby 100 sh. Leicester and Swannington .....5 0 1. sh all pd Liverpool and Manchester...lool. sh. 100/. pd Ditto Quarter Shares 25/. pd Lough! orongh ' , Average 142/. 17s. sh. London and Brighton IOP/. sh. 5/ pd Ditto ditto (Gibbs') -204 sh. 1/. pd Ditto ditto (Rennie) London and 13Iackwall 50/. sh. 31 pd London and Dover 50/. sh. 1/. pi London and Gravesend 20/ sh 11. pd London and Greenwich .0/. Os. '2O/. pd London and Birmingham ...1001. sh.' 50/. pd London and Southampton ":0/. sh. 10/. p 4 London and Croydon pd Northern and Eastern lOO/. sh. North Midland lOO/. sh. Si. pd Preston and Wigan 3O/. pd Preston and Wyre 50/. sh. Si. pd 14 Stockton and Darlington lOO/. sh. 240 Durham Junction 100/. sh. 10/. pd MINES. Albion Copper 5/. sh. Si. pd 0 Alten 15/, sh. 10/. 103 pd 7. Anglo Mexican, iss. 51. pm.... 1001. sh. all pd 5: Ditto Subscription 254 pd 54 TIol,•nos Brazilian Imp. iss. 5/. pm ..... O5l. sh. 20/. pd 2i Macaubas ie Cocaes United...9s/. sh. 221. pd 1 9 3 Ditto St. John Del Rey 20/. sh. 73/. pd 43 tata Branca.... 031. pd 93 Candonga 7 ,41. pd 113 Copiapo 2O/. sh .121/ pd 173 Bolivar Copper Company 20/. sh. 20/. pd 10 Ditto Scrip... 4/. ptl 41 British Iron 501. sh. 50/. pd 39 British Copper 5/. sh. 33/. pd 53 Columbian, iss. 51. pm. English General Mining A ssociation...2o/. sh. 15/. pd 9 Mexican Company 10 1 /. sh 513/. p o-. .T. .. Polberou Consols 10/. sh. 8/. pd 03 Real del Monte, Unregistered 203 Ditto Loan Notes l5O/. pd 1:15 United Mexican, iss. 2 pm ....401. sh. all pd 31 Ditto Scrip 43 Ditto Subscription 2l. pd Ditto New Scrip 5l pd 43 Union Gold, iss. 2/. ss. pm.... 223/. sh. 43/. pd West Cork 50/. sh. 401. pd 37 LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. London, with Bronze Ticket 75gs. sh. 20 London ' University lOU sh. all pd '25 Russell 25gs. sh. 8 ' King' College 100/. pd 30 MISCELLANEOUS. '7OO 10,000 IN. Australian Agricultural....loo/. sh. 2fil. pd 421 1,0i 3 0 11. Auction Mart 501. O. 19 6,0 )0 British American Land Company l3/. pd 11i 10,000 61 per cent. Canada Company 1001. sh. 201. pd 36 200,000 51 per cent. Upper Canada Loan City Bonds, 4 per cent lO3 15,000 1/. pacent. General Steam Navigation ...151. sh. 13/. pd 25 101. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock 1/. London Corn. Sale Rooms Av. 75/. sh. 19 New Brunswick Land Company 9 21 pd 191 2,754 6/. per cent. Reversionary Interest 50c...100/. sh. 100/. pd 130) 2,633 5/. per cent. Ditto New 100/. sh. 451. pd 76 4,000 10,000 Van Diemer.'s Land 100/. sh. 17/. pd 16 2,000 LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES, FEBRUARY 8, 1836. BANKS. 1,500,00 V. 61. p. et. Ban% of Scotland 931.6 s Sd. sh. all pd 2041. 2,000,0)f /. 5; p. ct. Royal of Scotland , 100/. sh. all pd 1711. 500,0)(1. fs p. ct. British Linen Company 100/. sh. 2401. 3,000,00 e/. 6/. p. ct. Commercial 5OOl. sh. 1001 172/. 5,000,000/. 5 p. ct. National lOO/. sh. 10/. pd pd 1511. 2,00'x,0001. 41. p. ct. Glasgow Union 250/. sh. 50/. pd 60/., t,000,0t0/. 4 p. ct. Western of Scotland 2001. sh 3 0 /. pd 34/. INSURANCE COMPANIES 25( .000 sh p. ct. Scottish Union 20/. sh. 1/. pd 26/ - ,500 sp. ct. Hercules 100/. sh. 10/. pd 111 Os Inr,ooo sp. ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland....lo/. sh. all pd 7l Os 50,000 6p. ct. North British 200/. sh. 10/. pd 15/. 1,000 sp. et. Caledonian Fire 100/. sh. 10/. pd 13/ Os 5,000 6p. et. Edinburgh Life 100/. A. 10/. pd 14/103 100,000 4p. ct. West of Scotland lO/. pd 10/ lOs MISCELLANEOUS. Edin. and Glas. Un. Canal.. 550/. sh. all pd 22!. Ditto Allocated 961.. h all pd 65/. 5/.00 5 per cent. Edinb. Joint Stock Water 25/. sh. all pd 311. Carron Iron Company 250/. sh. all pd 450/. 2,0005 h. 15 per cent. Shotts Iron Founaery.... 5O/. sh. 39/. pd 25/. 10,000 3 per cent. Edinburgh & Leith Glass 2O/. sh. 16/. pd 4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas 9 5/. sh. all pd 691. 4,450 10 per . cent. Glasgow Gas 25/. sli. all pd 601. 750 6 per cent. Leith Coal Gas 9 0/. sh. all pd 35/. 1,200 h per cent. Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway...sol. sh. 75/ . 3,000 51 per ceat. Equitable Loan C0mpany..,,251 eh. 91. pd 101. 4,510 12,000 I 1 ,000 INTELLIGEN CE • GUILDHALL. A lad, named IVebber, in the employ of Iletheringfrh t;n? of unstamped notoriety, was re-examined. charged c arrying fifteen quires& of the Weekly Disp atch, a t" penny paper. Defendant was committed for seven days. John Smith, for a similar offence, was remanded. MAR YLEB ONE. In consequence of the extraordinary excitement which has prevailed with regard to the shocking cruelty said to have been perpetrated by the Princess Mulvi, Ambassador from the King of Oude, upon her female slave, Captain Grindly, of the East India House, acco panied by Captain Musgrove, of the Madras service, en t.ered the office, and introduced to the Sitting TVI —agistrate, „L. Shutt, the Ambassador in question: He is a man remarkaLlv intelligent features, about 40 years of age, tin was splenaidly-:ittired i n th e costume of his native country. Captain Grindley. began by stating that the female ser vant was decidedly riot in .her right senses. In India the re to were no lunatic asylums, it v%-.7s customary for families take such unfortunates under their . wife of the own care and protection; The young woman alluded to was rect:. ; ago into the family of the Mulvi anci. his wif e ' who l ° leaving their native country with presents oi great va brough: veil about 13 Yea r n from the King of Oude to his Britannic MajelitY , her with them ; for some time she conducted herscif i n t 0 ' quiet and inoffensive manner, but latterly it was with rest difficulty that she could be at all restrained or ke p t 0 danger ; ohe was in the habit of refusing any kind of nice rishment, and would frequently lie down an d claw in IL hands burning cinders from the grate. At other times ff"' would completely strip herself, then saturate her clo the with water from a tub, and immediately put thew e ti f again ; after which she would again divest herself o her apparel, and on a fine day would sally forth it the garden, lie on the bare mould, and there bask 'in t n , sun. For these and' other strange practices, coercion OE 1. very mild nature had been resorted to, but without effect/ and accordingly Captain Musgrove, of the Ben„_aul s e _r vice was . consulted as to the best course to be adoptetif when, just as their deliberations were going on, the petit chial authorities removed the young woman away. to Mulvi, who was given to understand that she was about placed in an asylum where she would be take n care of , r t e. ! , quested Captain Musgrove to say that was gre n se ° obliged, and that he should be happy to pay any G ri n dly esP which might be incurred on her account. Captain re added, that the distinguished foreigners in possessed with hearts overflowing with kindness, An d t the tale of cruelty was Utterly untrue. • 0 to Mr. SHUTT said that he had listened with attento of all that had been stated, and, as the proceedi n g s course go forth to the public, he imagined tha t the 74 purpose for which the Mulvi and his friends ca me for". would be thereby gained. The Ambassador; with Captains Grindly and Aiusgr° then left the office. queotion vlbetit THAMES POLICE. biP On Saturday Henry Turner, the chief mate of tb!,, j s st Jane Catherine, from the Havannah, now lying i n the /4:be India import dock, was brought before Mr, CLAugsel! sitting magistrate, charged with the wilful murder °,' 0 0 fred Charles Bevan, an apprentice on board th at e l "P' s t of the high seas. The inquiry was instituted at the requftsble the relations of the deceased, who are highly resPel; persons, residing in the neighbourhood of Houndsd it ' tbS Mr. CLARKSON having heard the evidence, th°ticlir case must go before a jury ; but, under all the The stances, be would remand the prisoner until Mond y , ivs y mate was then removed, and on being locked up g oYe to the most excessive grief. CORONER'S INQUESTS. too f An inquest was held on Saturday on the body. 0 - f j the Hullock, aged 20, who was drowned while ass i s ting ' ll _„ 4 , navigation of a barge in the Regent's Canal. The doe 7,01 was taken out of te water in less than four minute*, ad conveyed to the White Hart, Ratcliff. Messrs. 01:5for and Walkers, surgeons, immediately attended, an°, tab twenty minutes the usual methods for the recovery 0 ' 06 , apparently drowned man were resorted to. Mr. ffa c r t he a juror, said, after they bad left the deceased he rubbe soles of the feet for three minutes, and then water ce;e4 from the mouth and froth from the nostrils. Ajuror reln, ar b i o g that the man was recovering, and asked why the Intel was discontinued ? Mr. Raynor said he was e]katigno and he could get no assistance, every one thinking' tu e a it dead. The Coroner said the signs were favourable, an,the appeared to him that there had been great neglect. :Zip Humane Society recommended the rubbing to be the for three, and even four hours, and it was often the ils that no signs of life appeared until the third hour. is , hoped that in the Bill before the House of Comll° ns u re iir tive to the payment of medical men a clause would be troduced giving power to the Coroner to withhold pg,..° 3- ea when it appeared that they had not satisfactorily peri°'-re tchoerdiredd;uttyh.e jAuryv,erhdoiewtevoefr,"eixperceidsseinntgalanDeoath" toot t if proper means had been persevered • in, the ace have recovered. the An inquest was held at East Acton, Middlese%, 0 .0 body of John Lightwood, aged 24, who was found in a di A co° under circumstances that led to suspicion that he ha v -i i . o ,s unfairly by his death. From the evidence of Sr. ' e l . was . farmer, at East Acton it appeared that the dee 9 a.' e d oa in the employ of a builder in the village, and was TrO ss o rea Tuesday. On the following morning witness disc ° pot him in a ditch, at the side of the roa leading {row T oe tl Acton to Ealing. There was, however, no evicl e ', optio n a pd prove that the deceased had come unfairly by his cleat" the Jury returned a verdict of " Found dead.' 1-s. e tre et ' An inquest was held at the White Horse, Chera s 4. Chelsea, on the body of Mrs. Dinah Maddock% e i g e d by a Tho unfortunate lady went out on Thursday, atteac' e A a o sva servant, and while crossing Church-street was knoekeucybeel by a horse and cart, and so dreadfully crushed by,t he d , a rtY; passing over her, that she expired in an hour ote r " a na The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental deatb,;, th e the coroner severely reprimanded the driver, who i°' 1 1 ° employ of Mr. Faulkner, a builder, at Chelsea, keeping a better look-out. t h We regret to inform the foreign comrounityt.of, Hopun, the linguist of the British ship Fort la s t ,!, the is about to proceed on his way to his drearybanishree nms t oa tbil!, " cold country." We should be glad to arouse th e gri, rfelOw of all foreigners, but more particularly of Britons, ' II O OI IY , of this unfortunate victim to a tyrannical and lying fro" meat. He is pauper et uxul ; he has a wife and childrell'e whom he is torn, and their hopes that they will ae l ,,onh, i° meet are the weakest. The Hong merchants and lin,g;plS their individual ,and collective capacities, have ina° e „, o oft" for the sorrowful and far-distant way-farer ; and we t appeal will induce the foreign community of Cantonicalaar in aiding one who has been dragged into undeser ve u, a , the° . ties and punishment through his official connection ss"" —Canton Register, Nov. 4. of oa :12 120 (ADVERTISEMENT.) 11 d ,T , 0 The NEW FLAT GOLD WAx, — e tirs7 4 o are offered in double-bottomed engine-turned cases, wit" ll-c 8 0 , finished vertical movements, jewelled and warranted f°1.001!,, : e Guineas each, or, with highly-finished horizontal mover;jorltiPr ranted at Nine Guineas each, at T. COX SAVORV'I,OOO.4 Goldsmith, Silversmith, and Watchmaker, 47, C0rn122 . 1 . 1 . la d s f r• BIRTHS. On the 7th inst., at Derry Vale, Roscrea, Maria, the la"" ° S. White, Esq., of a son. n the 11th inst., On the wife of r. S. . Brgess , 0 1.3 ,; the 12th inst., at East Sheen, the W Ladyu Charlotte '. 11rl • of e of a son, still-born. EA ., On the 12th inst., the lady of Morgan Thomas , , daughter. __-•---- 0 , ' MARRIED. DW t, . , 0 On the 10th inst., at St. Mary's, Islington, Mr. i fon -., late of Norwich, to Emma, youngest daughter of T. ". to Esq., of Trinidad. d 5 " .' At Colviick Hall, Nottinghamshire, 11. N. Ila °g ' rief Sophia Caroline, second daughter of J. Musters, Escl,,' j. J°: 1 ( the On the 12th inst. at St. George's Bloomsbury, v'' • titer °' Esq., of Aveley-hall, Essex, to Sarah Jane, eldest (I°g of late Mr. Lawes, of Charl t on, Hampshire. i: On the 10th inst., at Spenni th orne, Francis Morie)(;'l t he 4o Marrick Park, Yorkshire, to Charlotte, eldest daughter J. C. Chaylor, Esq., of Spennithorne Hall. tf° ra DIED. of stl ei p On the 12th inst., suddenly, John Lowe, Esq." ~ I" r ve' Green, Essex, formerly of Great Queen-street, Lincoln, ca lth ° , ( l , On the sth inst., near Paris, the Hon. Arthur Gone . OP On the 12th inst., Mary Anne, wife of G. Millar,. bsq ' Arl o' terrace, Edgeware-road. A n 7 .11 0e5 On the 10th of September, at Gorockpoor, age* , - ' I;,° f strong, Esq., Bengal Civil Service. rc flub On the 10th inst., Lydia, eldest daughter of Mr. -. la borer Wapping. f 13e On the 10th inst., Eliza, wife of J. C. Clarke, Esq'' o .3-0' vi 0 Berkshire. Old Sll6 if. On the 21st ult., aged 50, Mrs. Smith, of the ~ i s Trench-lane, near Wellington. vol e, On the Bth inst. in Park-street, Islington, Elea nor . , 00 , of Mr. J. T. Smith ' , of Ramsbury, Wilts. i• gorl e / j ta On the 7th inst., aged 25, Caroline,wHe al is of Lower Clapton. Mow Of tl' On the 11th inst., at Brentford, Catherine, 0 or' Cr° .' Sieur Paul Emanuel St. Alphonse. Q i Mrs fi . , jet e lls On the 10th inst., at Turnham Green, aged --' a s r vos - On the 10th inst., at Edgcott, Northamptonshi,r ~ o f f the infant daughter of the late A. J. Hamilton, I A ' 5 00 ° Lanarskhire. ' •rre, eldest • On the 12th inst., at Brompton, aged 17, Ge ° '' vy -I t rao ,' Captain G. Roberts, R.N. A. On the 7th ult., at Madeira, Christian , widow 0f is' A°J6iV Esq., of that island. • n he On the 9th ult., at Vittoria, Mr. John Valent ri al er the c taut Staff-Surgeon 3d Brigade British Legion, 'A St of General Evans. : of ti DO Y" S t G ll: 36°li London: Printed and Published by MUR - ctr aiad,io 112, Strand, at The Sun O ffi ce, No. 112: of Middlesex. . r. - ; Will;. 11 17,;; J o i,,' • l'Leo