The Sun. — London, England, 1844-11-05 00:00:00

assassea SPIRIT bf the PUBLIC JOURNALS. s FROH THE EVENT2;G PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—We find the following sentences in the .?herald of this morning :—" Whigs and Tories are of accord that the allotment system at least deserves a fair trial. The Chronicle only doubts whether the landlords' intentions are sincere ; the Globe admits that allotments, or some better plan, ought to be im mediately brought into general use. The only re maining dissentients are the League, the Times, and my Lord Radnor. And as we believe that none of these parties possess much influence among the landed proprietors, we trust that we may expect the experiment to be fairly and extensively tried." We cannot but smile at the good fellowship with the landed proprietors into which the Ministerial organ brings us with our respected Contemporary the Chronicle; and the variance with them at which it places the Times, which, at the last general election, thundered against our party expressly in behalf of the agricultural interest. These are the " revenges" which the whirligig of time brings about. But, omitting these, it appears to us that the allotment question lies in a nutshell; and that the benefit of its discerning application is not, at this day, mere matter for experiment. The rationale of the allot ment system—so far as it does not profess to bring about a revolution in property—is simply that of a sort of agricultural truck system. It is part payment of the wages of farm-labour in commodities—or the use of the instrument (land), by aid of which commodities are produced. We call this the rationale of allotments. We do not mean to say that this is the shape they have always taken. But we say it expresses the principle on which they are to he defended, as a general benefit to labourers. Looking at allotments from this point of view at once strips them of the prestige, whether of exaggerated anticipations or exag gerated alarms. Lanurers' allotments, of them selves, would effect no sweeping change in the present rural economy. They would not (generally) affect the object, which we think highly desirable, of throwing smaller parcels of land into the market, for ownership or occupation, than our present propped-up system does. They would not, of them selves, replace the agricultural interest on its old na tural level. Rut the agricultural interest, willy-nilly, is rapidly subsiding to that level. The failure and re laxation of monopoly—colonial and foreign competi tion—are doing that business for it. And it seems to us that the allotment system may ease the pre sent epoch of transition. And we do not wish to disguise our hopes that while labourers' allot ments would give something of more stabi lity to the lowly footing of labourers on the lands they till—the extension of the system would also af ford opportunities to energetic members of the class to rise into a more independent yeomanry. Money has reigned long and exclusively enough in all landed calculations. We want restoration of the breed of men. The high pressure system has been tried and found wanting. The Herald observes—” Go through Lincolnshire ; observe how general the tenure of land by the labourer in that county is; and you will find also that it affords them that kind of independence which upholds wages, which in that county are com monly 12s. per week." We ourselves cited an instance the other day from the Journal of the Agricultural Society, of small beginnings in the Occupation of land leading to circumstances Gf independ ence. There are, no doubt, other things besides allotments wanted to place land on the beA footing, as the most important instrument of production of the prime necessaries of life. The undisturbed ownership of land is doubtless mainly essential to all improvement. But all the incidents and conditions of that ownership—all the regulations of its transmission, or succession, are within the competence of the Legislature. Property has its duties, as well as its rights ; and the State has the right to enforce its duties—so far as those duties admit of enforcement by general measures. A pro prietary class should never be allowed to lose sight of these axioms. If a garden to every cottage is universally conducive to the labourer's elevation, the State would have an unquestionable right to enact that every cottage shoul I have a garden. If game-laws, or any other laws, limit production in a degree nationally injurious, the State has an unques tionable right to devote game—or whatever else—to destruction. Otherwise, the nation exists for the sake of-property—not property for the sake of the nation. The nation might be doomed to decay in the sinews of its strength at the will of proprietors— whereas all reasoners of any authority are agreed that proprietors are amenable to the sense of the nation for every general effect the exercise of their rights may have. That the benefit of such general effects greatly outweighs their evil, is the sole broad and sufficient basis for upholding the right ofproperty. But wherever the evil outweighs the benefit,;the State, which sanctions, has a right to modify it. Such interference only becomes tyranny where it is exercised partially, or ,on other than general grounds. We have said thus much to show that no ulterior resulting change in the distribution of landed property would lead us to condemn allotments, merely as leading to it ; unless it could be shown that such ultimate change would be nationally injurious. Now we believe that con siderable changes might take place in the present distribution without being injurious, but much the contrary. Without denying the advantages of large farms, we see limits to these advantages. Those limits are found in the moneyed means of the tenants to keep their holdings in high condition. It is evident that when those means fail, large occupations become impracticable. It appears to us no less evident that the failure to support all the year round the la bourers wanted on the land, must be viewed as a failure of those moneyed means and as having produced a state o f things which Mr. Laing notes as existing on the, Continent. " Agricultural improvement," observes that writer, " consists mainly in the judicious economy of labour. But on the Con • tinent there is no outlet for surplus labour, or for a superfluous agricultural populati on , i n munUfacturing districts or colonies, The land must support the people either as labourers or paupers, so that large farms, with few hands comparatively living upon the produce, are impracticable abroad, as a general arrangement of the agricultural land." Now, is not this precisely the state of things which is taking place here, so far as we are told of a surplus popula tion in rural districts? We require to distinguish in talking of that surplus. It may be a surplus over the numbers wanted for the highest culture of the soil. Or it may be a surplus over the means of the farmers to maintain them throughont the year It is this latter surplus to which allotments alone are applicable—so far as those allotments are meant as merely supplementary to the wages of farm labourers. It is only the labourer generally employed who can well be expected to pay rent for allotments. It la only to the number of labourers, therefore, generally wanted on the land that the allotment system, at present proposed, can well be considered ap plicable. If there is a surplus over this number (as in some parts it would seem there is), other means must be taken to relieve it, in dependent of allotments conceded to labourers. And these allotments, as we began by stating, may be simply considered CS part payment in kind for la bour—or permission to pay itself in kind. For they result simply from the apparent inability of landed employers to pay their labourers sufficient wages in money throughout the year. This is the plain state of the case—continually recurring to observation. It blazed forth in the fires of 1830, and has smouldered or burned on since. The New Poor-law did not create, though it has made it more manifest and fla grant. For it has docked off (so far as enforced) the money aids to the money deficit of the farmers. All parties interested in the land must put their shoulder to the wheel to get over this rut. And certainly the state should aid them, so far as relief from fiscal burthens can be given. Certainly the State should aid them, so far as it can open new outlets or fields for labour. We have been too pre-occupied by these considerations to take up the Examiner's renewed challenge on the subject.sif "Labourers' Prizes" and our (so called) " defence " of them. We pay our Contemporary the compliment to believe that it is merely as bearing on public interests that he notices our supposed heresy. And it is in continuing our discussion of those interests and the matter of La bourers' Prizes, as well as Allotments, in due con nexion with them—that we shall find opportunity to answer, so far as needful, the challenge to ourselves. STANDARD.—The Morning Chronicle this day announces the retirement from the bench of the Common Pleas, of Mr. Justice Erskine. The universally regretted had health of the excellent judge is the cause of his retirement, about which there is, we believe, no doubt. Our morning. Contemporary, however, follows up its announce ment by an article which we think it must be extremely difficult to defend. Five or six distin guished members of the bar are named as can didates for the vacant seat, without ony one of them, as we are firmly persuaded, ever having been guilty of the indelicacy of preferring a claim ; and Sir R. Peel is lectured as to the choice he ought to make among the five or six presumed candidates. This is surely injustice to the bar, and injustice to the individuals named—inj us - tice to the bar in assuming that the gentlemen named are the only members of the profession qualified for the judicial office —an assumption wholly contrary to the truth. Were we disposed to imitate an example so invidious, we could name a dozen gentlemen as well qualified to fill seats on the bench with' honour to them se l ves and a aclvan i t 3 age to the coun try as any those named Contempo rary. Some of th ose un-named our gaernetlemen are well known to th e public, some experience tells that among the clas- itll°lt yet best judges may be, and f requently are We have heard that when th e late Lord found. terden, a great lawyer and an excellent judge, was called to change his stuff gown for the , judicial robe, the universal question wa s , w h a ' is this Mr. Abbott? And we remember that the like question was in every one's mouth, when probably the best lawyer among the fifteen judges, and one in acuteness, firmness, and uprightness, second to no judge that ever sat in a court of law, Mr. Justice Matteson, was elevated to his present rank. These examples, and we could multiply them to a large amount, prove that the very best judges may fre quently be found among members of the profes sion, of whom the public hears little or no thing. Let us not, however, be misunderstood ; we have not, at present, the slightest means of guessing the gentleman who is likely to succeed Mr. Justice Erskine ; he may belong to the class of the well-known or to the comparatively unknown. 'We have cited the examples referred to merely to show how unjustly the profession is treated by the publication of an exclusive list of candidates : how unjustly, indeed, the public is treated, for, as far as the publication is available for any purpose (and it is not made, we presume, without some purpose) the exclusive list must go to limit the selection of the best judge. The worst injustice, however, iw that offered to the published candidates, and the injustice is nearly equal whether the party is named for commen dation—whether be is successful or unsuccessful in the competition. If commended and successful, he is degraded to the condition of owing his success to newspaper patronage ; if commended and unsuccessful, a numerous body are interested in showing that the pretensions assigned to him are fallacious ; if de nounced, we need hardly say how unfair it is to make a man a candidate against his will, for the purpose merely of abusing him, his family connexions, and his friends. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 2.—At a Congregation, just held, the following degrees were conferred Masters of Arts—Joseph Walter Stockdale, Trinity College—John William Irving, Trinity College— Samuel Doria, St. John's College—Henry Fullelove Mogridge, St. John's College—Alfred 'Wrigley, St. John's College—Robert T. Porcher Broughton, Clare Hall—William Clayton Green, Clare Hall—Henry Staverton Matthews, Clare Hall, Grand Compounder. Bachelors of Arts—Raymond Blathwayt, Christi Corpus College—Thomas C. Childs, Sidney College. The Seatonian prize, value 401., for the best Eng lish poem on a sacred subject, has just been awarded to the Rev. Thomas Rawson Birks, M.A., and Fellow of Trinity College. Subject—Esther. This is the second year Mr. Birks has obtained the above prize. ANATOMY.—The Professor commences his course of lectures on the anatomy and physiology of the human body on Monday, November 18, at one o'clock, in the Anatomical School. THE CHURCH. The following appointments have taken place : The Rev. Josiah Pratt, M.A., of Trinity College, to the vicarage of St. Stephen's, Coleman-street. The Rev. Ralph Clutton, 8.D., of Egimanuel Col lege, to the vicarage of Saffron Walden, Essex. The Rev. Henry Foulis, M.A., of St. John's Col lege, to the honorary prebend of Welton Westhall, with Gorehall, in Lincoln Cathedral. STATE OF TRADE. FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, Nov. I.—The sales of combing and clothing wools this week have been limited to the immediate requirements of the manufacturers. Purchases have been made by them with caution. We do not quote any alteration from last week's prices. FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, Nov. I.—A co mpara tively limited business has been done in foreign wools this week, but, since it is so generally known that the continental markets are almost cleared out of wool, and that the importations into this country must necessarily be very scanty until next clip, no disposition whatever exists amongst the dealers to give way in prices, but rather on the contrary to hold their stocks with the prospect of realising an advance. WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, Nov. I.—We have no new feature to report in this week's market, which upon the whole has been a very quiet one; the few sales that have been made are upon the terms of last week. LEEDS.—The demand for fine and middle qualities of cloths has been very dull at our cloth-halls this week, but in heavy winter goods there has been a little improvement over the markets of the last few weeks. Prices continue pretty steady, and the stocks, although on the increase, are lower than usual at this season. In finished goods there has been but little doing. Few of the larger buyers have been at the market during the week, and the foreign houses are doing less business than for some months past ; on the whole, there. has been much below an average business done in the warehouses during the week. BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY.—There is not the slightest improvement in the demand for Wool since our last, and what has changed hands during the past week is only in very small quantities, and at about last week's prices. The disposi tion to still further decrease the production is progressing, for the spinners complain of the great disproportion in the price of yarns with the raw material, and unless the latter recedes to meet the spinners, it appears almost certain that the opera tives are likely to be only very partially employed, which is much to be regretted. If anything a little more business has been done in pieces to-day, but the prices are very discouraging, and will in no way tend to stop the progress of doing less, which is daily going on. MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—We have had decidedly less doing in cloth this week, arising, in some measure, from the high rates asked, and this arising out of all but a. general advance in wages. It is doubtful whether the manufacturers will succeed in realising an advance equal to that on wages. In that case the manufacturer will be in no enviable position. A large business is, nevertheless, doing, and generally at previous rates. Yarns are still in brisk demand, and prices, if anything, higher.—Leeds Mercury. ROMANTIC and AFFECTING TALE The Constitutionncl of Tuesday contains the follow ,ng, the truth of which it guarantees. The facts, divested of the embellishments of the narrator, are as follow :—ln the early part of the month a work man and his wife, returning to their lodgings at about ten o'clock at night, found a young female lying insensible in the street, and having a baby in her arms. Like good Samaritans they raised her up, and, after obtaining some refreshments for her, had the satisfac tion of seeing her fully restored to life and conscious ness, but, on addressing her, discovered that she was a foreigner, and unable to understand what they said. They took her home, and treated her with great kind ness, and then set about the means of ascertaining who she was, and what had brought her to the state in which she was found. In a day or two, amongst the friends of this kind couple, who, being acquainted with foreign languages, visited their lodg ing in the hope of being able to converse with her, came an old soldier who had been long in Spain, and spoke Spanish well. On addressing the female in that language, her eyes lighted up, and she told him that she was a native of Valencia—that about two years ago (she is now only twenty, and very beau tiful), she listened to the seductions of a young foreigner, and, loving him, had at length committed a fault which compelled her to quit her father's house, and fly with him to Madrid to conceal her shame. At Madrid she remained with her lover several months, who one day told her he was compelled to go to England on urgent business, but would be in Paris on the Ist of the present month, and, presenting to her a purse well filled with gold, gave her the address of the hotel at which he was to be found, and requested her to meet him there. She started for Paris, but before she had arrived had spent most of her money, owing to her inexperience in travelling and a delay on account of the illness of her child. This, however, was not her greatest mi s fort une ; she had lost th e address of the hotel, and had no clue by which to find her lover. As long as her money lasted she remained at a small hotel, devoured with grief, and when her pecuniary means were ex hausted, was driven into the street, where she had fallen from weakness, the result of hunger. It was in this state that she was found. Che worthy couple, after having heard her sad narrative, took her to the Spanish Embassy, where she was interrogated by M. d'Aguileira, the Charge d'Affaires, and in a few days, her account being confirmed by letters from Valencia, in reply to inquiries M. d'Aguileira had made, he presented her with a sufficient sum for her journey home, and the Chevalier Roubio, the Spanish Vice-Consul, accompanied her to the diligence, in which were two Spanish ladies, on.their return to Spain, and who, on hearing a few words from M. Roubio of the history, kindly undertook to attend to her on the way. Every inquiry had previously been made to discover her seducer, but in vain. The poor girl, although anxious to receive her father's forgiveness and bless ing, could hardly be induced to leave Paris, until it was suggested to her that her lover was dead. She would not allow the idea of herhaving been abandoned by him to enter her mind. MILAN, OCT. 24.—Among the personages of dis• tinction who have visited the city during the present month are the Dowager Viscountess Galway, Sir Fre derick Trench, Sir George Palmer, Lady Wilmot, Lord and Lady Worsley, Sir Wiliam Follett and family, Viscount Lewisham, General Napier, Captain Colville, Sir James Strong, Prince and Princess Doria Pam philea, Prince Aldobrandini, the Duke de Serra Ca priola, Prince Poniatowsky, Countess Woronzoff, Mar quis de Custine, &c. TUE SIIIRT-TREE OF AMERICA.—In the forest of Oronook there is a tree which often attains the height of 50 feet. The natives make shirts of the bark of this tree, which requires only to be stripped off, and to le deprived of its red and fibrous parts. The shirt is thus • formed without seam. Th e head i s thrust through one end, and lateral holes are cut to admit the arms. Natives wear these shirts in rainy seasons, which, according to Humboldt, are equal to any of our Macintoshes for keep ing out the wet. DUTCH MAIL, THE HAGUE, Ocr. 30.—Among the petitions pre sented to the Second Chamber, respecting the tariff of import and export duties, there is one from the Chamber of Commerce at Tilburg, in which it is affirmed that the woollen manufacturers are not in general sufficiently protected ; that they require to be powerfully supported ; and that it is of the greatest importance to the Netherlands that suitable measures should be adopted to make them flourish. It is stated that, in England, France, Germany, and Belgium, manufacturers are infinitely more protected than with us ; that in all these countries the importation of woollen manufacturers, if not wholly prohibited, is subject to such heavy duties that the importation is impossible. The Chamber goes into the subject at great length, and proposes an import duty of 34 florins for every 1001bs. of woollen manufacture. THE HAGUE, OCT. 31.—1 n the sitting of the Second Chamber to-day, the debates on the address ended with the adoption of that proposed by the Com mittee, but modified in some particulars, so that it was sent to the First Chamber. "VrERDAM, OCT. 31.—We hear that his Majesty the King may be expected in this city on Saturday next, to see the exhibition. We have received the following intelligence from Curcao, Sept. 8 : " We have had this year a very remarkable mete orological phenomenon in these countries. While in Cuba and other places to the north there has been no rain for several months, such heavy rains have fallen on the Continent, that some parts present the appear ance of the deluge. The valleys are inundated, the tops of the trees and the hills rise above the vast expanse of waters ; the cattle attempt to fly to the higher land, and perish in the flood ; the people are obliged to use canoes in some villages, and the crops are partly de stroyed. These heavy rains seem to have prevailed very far inland in the northeastern part of South America, for we read in a Venezuela paper that the members of the Congress have not been able to reach Bogota in due time, because the roads had been rendered impassable by the floods. A letter from Maracaibo, of the 24th of May, says—" The whole valley o f the Rio Cacho, from Cucuta to Maracaibo, a distance of more than 600 miles, is entirely inundated ; the planters have been obliged to leave their plantations and fly to the hills. All the coffee plantations in this valley are under water, and the cocoa is gathered by m eans o f canoes . The planters are very unfortunate with respect to the cocoa, for a few days before the rain set in, there was a prospect of an extremely good crop. In consequence of this disaster, the prices of coffee and cocoa have risen at Maracaibo." " The communication between Maracaibo and the interior is wholly interrupted, and many vessels have been long waiting for freight. The communication with Valencia, Caraccas, La Guayra, and Porto Ca bello, has long since ceased." HOSIERY AND LACE TRADES. (From the Nottingham Journal.) The state of the cotton hosiery trade in nearly every branch keeps gradually getting worse, the hands labouring under almost every privation. The cut-up hose branch is now equally dull with the wrought hose ; and, notwithstanding the extreme low price at which they are fabricated, it is now proved that even extreme cheapness will tilt force a market. The cotton drawer and pantaloon trade has not re vived, still it is in a much better state than it was two years since. The system of making drop-offs seems now abandoned, to the great credit of the hosiers, as well as the workpeople, the latter of whom have reso lutely opposed this hateful system of manufacture wherever it has appeared ; indeed, it is to them a struggle for existence, for if drop•offs were generally made, the public would soon drop off from wearing hosiery drawers. The silk glove branch is ' if anything, worse. A new description of gl ove has been made, termed plates ; these are fabricated of two threads, one silk and the other cotton ; these threads are conducted under the jack-sinkers, by two separate carrier needles, the inner needle conducting a silk, the outer needle a cotton thread. The gloves when made upon this principle have a coat of silk without and cotton within. We expect that the invention will be soon carried into Leicestershire, to make worsted and cot ton, and even worsted and spun-silk plated hosiery. The bobbin net trade is still in a tolerable condi tion ; though not brisk, it is, in our opinion in a much better state in fancy goods than if it was moderately so ; the machine-owner's profit is in most instances moderate, and the wages such that the workmen can live by their industry. A great evil still exists of night-working, which is extremely de trimental both to their comfort and their health. It is pleasing to state, that with the amended means of the machine-owners, they have, with a few excep tions, amended their conduct to the journeymen, who have in many instances now an allowance while altering, which some time since was strongly, and, we must add, rather cruelly denied ; but it is but can did to state, that in many cases the low state of the funds of the machine-owners were such that they had not the means to pay for alterations, and to pay wages likewise to the journeymen. The alteration of the times has enabled them to be more generous, and what is extremely gratifying, it has arisen, not from turn-outs, or a great demand for workmen, but from an innate principle of kindness and of friendly feel ing towards their workmen. The warp lace trade has not at present much im proved, but still there are great hopes of a renova tion, as several additional ne w manu f ac t ures are now making from this description of stocking machinery. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. A poor c_iuntrr fellow, who stated that his name was Charles Harley, and that he was servant to a brewer at Littleport, in the Isle of Ely, applied to Alderman Wilson on Saturday for a summons, calling upon the proprietor of the Bull Inn, Bishopsgate, to account for detaining three boxes, containing wearing apparel, directed to William Daniell, the property of the complainant. The circumstances under which the application was made were peculiarly distressing, and Alderman Wilson immediately granted the sum mons, upon the representation of inspector Wood roffe, who behaved in a very humane manner up= the occasion. Yesterday the servant of the owner of the inn ap peared for his master, and the case was investigated before Sir Peter Laurie. From the confused statement of the complainant the following particulari were collected:—William Daniell, a man about thirty years of age, was, together with his wife, without the means of support, in Ely, where Harley, who could not endure the sight of a man starving for want of work, gave him lodging and food. After some time, Daniel and his wife left Ely, but Daniel soon returned alone, and again threw him self on the humanity of Harley for the means of keeping life and soul together. Although Harley was in very narrow circumstances, having a wife and two children to support, he willingly consented to give the assistance required, and took his needy petitioner into the house, as a boarder and lodger, a second time. A bad return for the kindness thus shown was contemplated and accomplished by the guest, who, taking advantage of the absence of Harley at night, on duty at the brewhouse, seduced his wife, prevailed upon her to abandon and rob her husband and children, and caused the acting of a scene of unutterable wretchedness. While Harley was at a public-house to which his wife had sent him, she and her paramour contrived to remove all that was of any value in the house, and ac• tually left the poor children, one of whom was only a twelvemonth old, and had been weaned no more than a month, with nothing but the bare boards to lie upon. Distracted at such an event, and being totally desti tute, he represented the facts to some neighbours, who cordially advanced what they could afford to enable him to follow and trace the fugitives and his pro perty. He soon learned that the three boxes contain ing his goods were at the Bull Inn, Bishopsgate, and that they were directed to the very rascal who had so fatally plundered him. Under these circumstances he applied for the boxes of his property which he saw upon going to the inn, but the landlord refused to give them up, having received a letter from Daniel threatening to proceed against him if he dared to de liver them to any one but himself. Sir PETER LAURIE—What was the age of the woman who deserted you and your children ? Har ley—She was twenty-six years old, and we had been ten years married. H wh o i r e ur sh ; e an ni d Sir PETER LAUEIE--And what had been her pre vious conduct ? Harley—Very good indeea, your us s t he ha kind w ve as be p e a n rt p ic l u an la n r i l n y g g to oo l d eav a e nd me her children. I never in life for one moiaent. Sir PETER LAURIE --She was an attentive wife and mother until she met with the scoundrel you w ere ou so charitable to ? H ar l ey —H e was a scoundrel Honour (striking the t a bl e w i t h his hard hand). Ir gave him bed and board when he had not a morsel of victuals, though he was a stranger to me. She left word with the neighbours when she was going to leave her home to tell me that she was gone off in haste to a dying brother, and she took with her all my wages that I had given her, except the sixpence she gave me to get me out of the way. She has left me in debt, too ; for the money I gave her to pay for her clothes she never paid to the tradespeople. The porter of the Bull Inn here said that his master had received the following letter from the person to whom the boxes were directed : " Cambridge, Nov. 2, 1844. " Dear Sir,—l have seen William Swan and the police, and the boxes that are directed of my name at your Alice are under my command, and no other person has no business with them ; and I give you to understand that they were booked in my name at Ely, and if you give them up to any person except j me, I shall make you answerable for them; and please to send me a letter by return of post. "W. DANIELL. " Direct W. Daniel, Littleport, Cambridgeshire." Sir PETER LAURIE—I wish Mr. Daniell was here before me; his next appearance should certainly be at the Old Bailey. Such a compound of assurance and villainy is but seldom to be seen, and I am happy, my poor man, that you have come here for assistance. The porter at the Bull Inn said that his master would readily give up the boxes upon receiving Sir Peter L curie's order to that effect, as security against any measures Mr. Daniell might adopt, by the advice of some ugly professional. Sir PETER LAURIE—I shall give the order, cer tainly, to satisfy your master, but no danger of the kind is to be apprehended from villains of this de scription. He will never call for the boxes. You will not see him again ; but I hope that he will be brought to justice. Orders were then given that the expenses of the disconsolate man and of the carriage of his property back to the place of his employment should be de frayed from the poor-box, and he left the justice room much affected by the commiseration so unequi vocally expressed. The steward of the Ocean steam•vessel, of Rotter dam, was charged with being in possession of a great quantity of smuggled tobacco. C. Atkinson Davis, a Custom-house officer, who is frequently engaged in apprehending smugglers, stated that having been informed that a large number of packages of tobacco were secreted on board the Ocean, he went to examine that vessel, arid he found, secreted in a new and most ingenious manner, a considerable quantity of the article. The packages were all pre pared so thoroughly in lead, that the water could not effect the tobacco, and they were suspended by strings bet Ween the timbers in such a manner as to afford an almost complete security from detection. The case, which has excited much curiosity in consequence of the ingenuity and extent of the plan, was, appointed to be entered into in detail on a future day. A complaint was made by two respectable inhabi tants of the City of the success of the labours of a swindling firm, in which several victimizers are con cerned. We omit the details, as in all probability some of the Company will be brought up, an active officer of the City police force having received in structions upon the subject from Sir Peter Laurie. BOW-STREET. Yesterday Mr. George Robins appeared before Mr. Jardine, to prefer a complaint against George Millet, the driver of a cabriolet, for using abusive and insult ing language towards him. ' The complainant said for the last seventeen years he had not appeared before a magistrate to prefer a complaint against any person, nor would he have come forward in the present: nstance but for the pro vocation he had received, the cause of which arose from the windows of the defendant's cabriolet being broken, and he was surprised to find that no provision was made by the Legislature in such a case. He was in the ha - bit of daily riding in cabs for many years, and on leaving Lis residence on Friday last to proceed to his office under the Piazza, in Covent garden, he hired the defendant with his cab to drive him, but when he raised the windows, the morning being very cold, he discovered they were broken, and calling to the defendant, he ordered him to drive him to the stand in Oxford-street, to procure a more com fortable vehicle, upon which he said, "So you are not going to pay me, :tent you, what a pretty gentleman you are; I'll serve you out," and continued in that strain until a crowd collected about him. Mr. JARDINE said that a cabman using insulting language or even gesture to any fare rendered him liable to be summoned. Mr. Robins said he regretted taking such steps against the defendant, as he understood he hail a wife and children depending on him for support. Defendant, in a rage, "Don't say nothing of my family, for you are the person guilty, and not I." Mr. JARDINE said if the defendant had any com plaint to make he might have applied for a summons, instead of using coarse and insulting language to a gentleman in the public streets. The defendant said he had driven Mr. Robins for years, and he never had to complain of him before. The complainant declared that he never saw him before Friday, when he hired him. The defendant's wife entreated of the magistrate not to impose a fine, as it would be the means of de priving her and her family of the means of sub sistence. Mr. Robins said he would willingly not press the charge in compliment of the poor woman, to whom he would be happy if any assistance could be afforded, but it would be a pity to let such a fellow escape un punished. The defendant, dashing his hat upon the floor, said he would rather suffer death than plead guilty for the purpose of obtaining pardon. Mr. JARDINE then ordered the defendant to pay a fine of 205., er be sent to prison for fourteen day s . IARLBOROUGH-STREET. UNEXAMPLED BRUTALITY:—Edward Clarke, a one-legged journeyman tailor, lodging at No. 13, Peter-street, was charged with cruelly beating an infant two years of age. Elizabeth Ponton said the prisoner lived with a woman named Feehy in the same house as she did, and their room was next to hers. On Saturday night, while in bed, she heard the infant scream repeatedly, and feeling assured that some violence was being exercised towards it, she knocked at the wainscot, and the noise ceased, but in such a way as to con vince her that some one was stifling its cries with their hand or with the bed-clothes. As the prisoner had been in the habit of cruelly using the infant on former occasions, witness resolved to get a sight of the child to see its condition. She contrived to gain admission into the room with another lodger, and they examined the body of the infant. It was one masa of bruises from top to toe, and its eyes were both blackened. It was evident that the wretched infant had repeatedly suffered brutal violence, and that the prisoner, who was the only person in the room when the child was screaming the overnight, had inflicted the injuries, which were distributed over the child's face and body. Information was given to the police, and the wretch was taken into custody. Ann Feeby, the woman with whom the prisoner cohabited, who had the infant in her arms, came for ward, and said the prisoner was not the father of the child, she having only lived with him about three weeks. She knew nothing about the ill-usage in flicted on the infant, as she was engaged in nursing a woman in another part of the house. The witness Ponton said the mother must have known that the prisoner was. in the habit of beating the child. The prisoner was accustomed, when he beat the infant, in order to disguise his brutality from the other lodgers, to call out to it, " What's the mat ter, my dear ; are you frightened at the chairs ? Here's a bit of bread and butter," at the same time striking it a blow on the body or face. The mother of the child admitted that the prisoner had beaten both her children, and had also beaten her. The prisoner, in defence, with great indifference, said, "I was cross and the child was cross,iand so I beat it." Mr. HARDWICK said it was impossible to find lan guage sufficiently strong to express his abhorrence of the conduct of such a brute in human shape. A wretch who could find the heart to lift a hand against a helpless infant, deserved the worst punishment which the law could inflict. As far as the law allowed he would go in this instance, though the penalty bore no proportion to the offence, and he should inflict a fine of five pounds, or two months' hard labour. Mr. Hardwick then called the mother forward and warmly reproached her for her unfeeling conduct, in not re sorting to the law for protection for her wretched in fant. Her conduct, he considered, to be but one shade less infamous than that of the man with whom she lived, and it further showed that she was wholly un worthy to be entrusted with the care of her two chi dren. Police-constable, C 119, said the mother could hardly be induced to come forward against the man. Mr. HARDWICK requested a constable to ask the parish officers of St. James's to step to the Court. The churchwardens and the relieving overseer, Dore, immediately attended, and were made acquainted with the circumstances of the case. Dore said the man and the woman belonged to St. James's. They had both been taken iuto the work house, and both had discharged themselves about three weeks ago, under pretence of getting married. The woman was an incorrigible profligate ; her two children were by different fathers, and she had now taken up with the man just sent to prison, without being married to him. Mr. HARDWICK said he had no doubt that the woman was perfectly worthless and wholkr unworthy of commiseration or relief, but then it was quite clear that something ought to be done to protect her un: happy children. The churchwardens, under the circumstances of the case, consented at once to receive the woman and her children into the workhouse. MORE BRUTALITY.—Henry Pardoe, a pauper, w as charged with beating his wife. The wife, when she entered the witness-box with an infant in her arms, disclosed a shocking sight; her face was blackened all over, and every feature was beaten quite out of human shape. She said she went on Saturday to the stone-yard, where her husband was employed, to ask for some money for the support of herself and child. Her husband offered her a shilling, which she said was not enough, and words arose between them. Her husband was about to strike her, when she took up a stone to throw at him. He took the stone from her, threw her down, and beat her on the face with his fist until she became as she now appeared. Them - an, in defence, said the injuries occurred in his attempt to take the stone from his wife. The stone accidentally went against her face in the struggle. Mr. HARDWICK said something must be done to put a stop to these savage attacks of men on their wives, or women with whom they lived. He should fine to the full extent, namely, St, or two months' hard labour. ASSAULTS.—John Roderick O'Connor, assistant to his brother, a furrier in Regent-street, was charged With having been mad drunk the overnight, with assaulting his brother, with having attempted to commit suicide, and with having severely bitten two of the police. The defendant's brother did not attend to support the charge. The constables, who had been called in by the brother, proved the state in which they found the de fendant, and the injuries they sustained in attempting to take him to the station-house. One constable was struck on the fac.", and bitten on the hand, and another constable had one of his fingers nearly bitten off. In defence, the defendant said, his brother wanted to prevent him from drinking as much gin and water as he pleased. He told his brother he would do as he liked in that respect, and an altercation ensued. It was a mistake to suppose that he intended to com mit suicide; the mistake arose from his haring a penknife in his hand, with which he was trimming his nails. The police complained of ill-usage, but he had a similar complaint to make, as he had been struck over the arms with their truncheons. As to the charge of drunkenness, he conld say, that he had not drank more than the best part of a bottle of gin. Mr. HARDWICK inflicted the fine of forty shillings for each assault on the constables, or one month's im prisonment. DESTITUTE CONDITION OF THE LABOURING POOR. A special session of Justices of the Bromley di vision was held yesterday at the Bell Inn, Bromley, for the purpose of disposing of a great number of ! summonses, &c., against poor people residing in Bexley, Bromley, Cudham, and other parishes, for non-payment of poor-rates. The magistrates present were the Rev. Sir C. Farnaby, the Rev. Mr. Scott, the Hon. Mr. Dashwood, J. Goodhart, Esq., J. Berans, Esq., and P. H. Dyke, E sq . The first case gone into was a summons against a poor old widow, named Evans, for non-payment of a poor-rate for Bexley parish. The poor old creature said she was not able to pay any poor-rates. She was herself at this time receiv ing relief fro:n the parish. The overseer admitted that that was the fact. Sir C. FARNABY asked how it happened, as this was the case, that she was called upon to pay the rate ? The overseer replied that the vestry had heard the old woman had a son who was earning money, and they thought he ought to pay for her. Mr. DYKE asked the old woman what she received from the union P—She replied one shilling a week, and a loaf of bread. The BENCH said they thought this was a case in which the party ought to be excused paying the rate, and Mr. Goodhart observed that the poor old woman ought to have an extra loaf given her for her trouble in coming to the beach. The next case was that of another poor widow, named Martin. She was summoned for six shillings. The poor woman said the reason she had not paid the rates was because it was entirely out of her power. Her husband, when he died, left her destitute, and she had no means of subaistence but doing a little needlework. During her husband's life they had paid rates in the parish for twenty-one years. Mr. DYKE asked whether this case had been re ported to the vestry ?—The overseer said it had, and the parish authorities thought that, from the amount of rent paid by Mrs. Martin, the rate should be enforced. Mr. DYKE—What rent does she pay ? Overseer —Three shillings a week. Mr. DYKE—People who pay 71. or 81. a year rent must pay the rates. If not, they should take a smaller place, or else a room. Mrs. Martin—l should have to pay as much for a room, and I have lived in the house with my husband a good many years, and don't like to leave it. She thought it was very hard, after paying rates for twenty-one years, that she should be troubled in this way. The BENCH said that they must order the payment of the rate. They would, however, allow her a fort night to make up the money. The woman said it was no use to promise to pay. She had not a farthing in the world. She had no thing to subsist upon but the produce of a little needle work, and everybody knew how badly that was paid for. Sir. C. FARNABY said the bench had no alternative but to grant a distress warrant if she did not pay. Another poor widow, named Street, was also sum moned for a rate of six shillings. The reason for the non-payment was 'that she had been left in very bad circumstances by bar husband, and had latterly been ill. The rent she paid was three shillings a week. The BENCH said this was a similar case to the last, and the money must be paid in fourteen days. Mrs. Street said she could not pay. She had been lying ill of fever for four weeks, and was quite destitute. 'rho BENCH said, if the parish enforced the claim, they must issue a distress warrant if the money was not paid. A man named Leamington, the occupier of a cot tage, which, with several others, it appears, is let on lease by the parish of Wickham to a person whose name did not transpire, and who underlets the pro perty to a number of poor persons, was summoned for six shillings. Leamington said that his landlord told him the pro perty was not liable to the payment of the poor-rate. Mr. DYKE said that as the occupier there was no doubt he was liable. It frequently happened, how ever, that the landlords of wattages told their tenants they were not liable to pay poor-rates, in order that they might get more rent. The overseer said that one of the occupants of the cottages had unde t r o s ld tan h d i i m ng th i t s t h t e h p e a re id w ad e d re itio n n o al rent, poor rates to pay. The BENCH said it would be a very good thing if the landlords of cottages and property of that de scription were compelled to pay the poor -rates. At present, however, the occupiers were liable, and the payment must be enforced from them. Leamington said that he and a number of other poor people had acted upon the statement of their landlord, and he trusted that under the circumstances the bench would not compel them to pay the costs. The MAGISTRATES said they could not remit the costs, which must be paid, with the rate, in fourteen days, or there would be a distress w arran t. Mrs.i Lawson attended to answer a summons for eight shillings. She said she could not pay. Her husband had not done a day's work for some months, and there were nine of them in family. Mr. DYKE asked what rent she paid, and she re plied, eleven guineas a year. The BENCH said this was a case in which the rate must be enforced. They had no business to keep a house of eleven guineas a year if they did not pay the rates. The poor woman said that with seven children they could not get a house jo shelter them for less rent. Mr. DYKE said thrtrwas their look out. Houses of that value must pay the rate, and if the amount was not paid in fourteen' days there would be a distress warrant. The poor creature said it was quite impossible for them to pay the rates. She had left her children at home with nothing but a piece of dry bread to eat, and if they took all they had got in the world they would not make up the money. Mr. DYKE said that if they were in such a destitute state they should have applied to the Board. She replied that it was no use going there, for if she did they would not give her a loaf of bread for her children. The BENCH said they would give her a month to pay the money. She said that if her husband got any work they would pay it, but if he did not, it was impossible for them to do so. She added, that when she went home she should not find a morsel of food, and she had not a farthing in the world. Several other summonses were then gone into, and the parties, were ordered to pay in fourteen days. They begged hard to be excused from the payment of the costs, which in almost every case amounted to the sum claimed for the rate, but the Bench said they had no power to relieve them, and both the rate and the costa must be paid, or there would be distress warrants. John Masters, a poor, decrepid old man, was sum moned for four shillings. The BENCH asked how he got his living ?—He re plied, by shuffling about with a few coals and a cart and horse. Mr. DYKE—Oh !if you keep a horse and cart you must pay. The old man said the horse was not his. It was only lent to him. The BENCH ordered the payment in fourteen days. The next case was that of John Vensels. He said he was a cripple, and unable to do any work. The overseer said this case had been before the vestry, and they thought the rate ought to be en forced, because the old man had a son who was earn ing something, and they considered he should pay. The old man said his son was a boy of nineteen, and he had only done three weeks' work out of the last five. He added that, if his son had not supported him, he must have gone into the union long ago. He had never received a farthing from the parish, and he did not want to have anything from them. Sir C. FARNABY inquired the character of the son ? —The overseer said 'he was a hardworking young ma- The BENCH thought it was bad policy to , enforce the rate from the father because the son was willing and able , to work, and they expressed their qinion that the vestry aught to r:-conside• - their determi nation. John Tippin was summoned for G. 6d. due for poor-rates in the parish of Cudham. He appeared to he a strong healthy man. The reason assigned for not paying the rate was, that he had three small children, and hii wife was just about to be brought to bel of a fourth. He was willing to work, but could not always obtain it, and had had no regular work for three years. The overseer said he was instructel by the vestry to enforce the payment of the rate. The man was in work now. Tippin said he was in work, but the farmers had lowered the wages to 10s. a week. Five shillings went for flour, 2s. for rent, and ls. for firing, and he had only 2s. left. The BENCH said they had no alternative but to order the payment of the rate, and ss. costs. Tippin said he hoped they would not make him pay any costs. The NIAGISTRATES told him it was his own fault that there were costs ; he should have paid the rate. An order was then made for the payment of the whole amount in a month. GREAT PROTESTANT MEETING. A crowded meeting of the members of the Metro politan Tradesmen and Operative Protestant Associa tion, and others friendly te Protestantism, was held yesterday evening in E xe t er -h a ll. Th e demonstra tion, if such it was intended to be (and the eve of the " Gunpowder" Plot would seem to imply it), was most successful. The large room was densely filled, and the platform was crowded with respectable and influ ential, if not distinguished personages. Among those present we observed the Rev. Mr. Benson, of St. Saviour's ; the Rev. Mr. Thelwall, of Bedford Chapel ; the Rev. Tennyson Cuffe, of Car lisle Chapel, Kennington-lane ; and R. H. Binden, Esq., &c., &c. The chair was taken by J. G. P. Smith, Esq. The Rev. TENNYSON CUFFE opened the meeting with prayer. The CHAIRMAN, said that to-morrow was the anni versary of a great *itional deliverance—a deliverance from tyranny—Popish tyranny and oppression ; and surely that deliverance was a greater one than any that could be obtained from any external aggres sion. That day was ordered, by Act of Parliament, to be commemorated in after times, and they would do so to-morrow, in the way most consonant to the principles of God's word, namely, by prayer and other religious observances. The Rev. A. S. THELWALL moved the first resolu tion. He had not intended to speak at that meeting, but he held that, as a minister of the Gospel by law established, he should be always ready to advocate Protestant principles, and that liberty which was dear to every British bosom.—(Cheers.) He had, there fore, readily conceded to the wishes of the Committee in coming forward to promote this resolution— " That, in the opinion of this meeting, the spread of Popery among the operative classes arises from igno rance of the real principles of the Church of Rome ; and that, therefore, it is of the highest importance to promote sound Protestant information among them. This meeting, therefore, earnestly desiring the in crease and prosperity of the Metropolitan Traiesnien's and Operative's Protestant Association, pledges itself to renewed exertions on their behalf, trusting that by the blessing of God their labours may be useful in bringing many back into the good old paths from which they have wandered; of confirming in the truth those who are halting; and of arousing in all that vigilant and prayerful spirit which, under God, gained for us the Protestant Refor mation, and which alone can preserve it in our land." The Rev. Speaker then went at considerable length into an elucidation of the political domination which, he maintained, had always been shown by the Roman Catholic Church. He contended that it was a prin ciple inherent in their tenets, and inculcated by their priesthood, to persecute Protestants whenever they had an opportunity. He cited the case of th e R ev . Robert Kelley, of Madeira, who had been thrust into prison contrary to the Portuguese laws. And why ? In the hope that the dungeon would do the work of the scaffold or the stake.—(Cheers.) He also ad verted to the case of a female confined in the same island. She was a victim of Popish persecution be. cause she had renounced that Church for the souls saving truths of Christianity as explained by Protes tants. But he hoped they would that night and to morrow make a demonstration that would ring through all quarters of the earth, and prove sufficient to open the prison doors of that unfortunate sister. Mr. A. V. ALLEN—It had been said by many—it had been boasted by Roman Catholics—that the doc trines of their Church was on the increase in England, and surely it was incumbent upon all right-thinking Protestants to unite in preventing the further exten sion of those baleful principles. That extension did not arise from an influx of Catholics, but it altogether had its strength in the apathy of Protestants them selves. It was time to arouse themselves, o now, alas, Popery had been intruded into the Church of England, and it would require much watching and much prayer ere they could get the evil eradicated. True, the " Tracts for the Times " were now done away with, but the principles of those tracts were yet in full vigour, for they had now, written by a clergyman of the Church of England, tracts entitled " For the last day," and he would read them portions of one, to exhibit the manner in which this clergy man spoke of that Church of which he was a member. the speaker then quoted at considerable length from the works in question. Let them not indulge in vain regrets for the past, but, like true soldiers of Christ, fight the good fight of faith for the future, and with the blessing of God their efforts would he folly crowned with success.—(Cheers.) He had great happiness in seconding the resolution. R. H. BINDER, Esq., rose to move the second reso lution. Popery did not aim at destroying the spirit of the Constitution only—it would destroy the Con stitution itself.—(At this time the Rev. Hugh Stowell, of Manchester, entered the Hall, and was greeted with enthusiastic cheering. Silence being restored, the speaker proceeded.) Popery had been the same in all ages. She was the same now that she had been when expelled from this island to her own home—the city of the Seven Hills.—(Cheers) Why had they got rid of Popery ? Was it not that she tried to make the intellects of all, kings or vassals, succumb to the power of a foreign mercenary ? Would she not do the same still ? She would, for the canons of the Church declared it.—(Cheers.) It was her principle that the spiritual shoeld coerce the tem poral power by every possible means. Was it not the policy of Protestants, therefore, to confine her within her present Bounds ? If Popery were once to gain an ascendancy in this country, where would she rest ? The speaker quoted from many Catholic works to prove the intolerance of the creed, and then instanced the experiences of many individuals as proving the same. If they had any love for their country or their Queen—for Popery could not tolerate a Protestant Mo narch—they must withstand the spread of Tracta rianism, for what Papists were in the middle ages Tractarians were now.—(Cheers.) The many mo nasteries and nunneries that were now building in many parts of England afforded ample evidence of the active spirit of Papery, and, therefore, he said, that it behoved them to struggle as earnestly, and the Lord would assuredly be on their side to help them.— (Loud cheers.) He proposed the second resolution— " net the struggles of Popery in this country are unprecedented and alarming, and call for the most strenuous exertions of all true members and friends of our reformed Protestant Church to oppose and counteract them." The Rev. Ikon STOWELL then rose to second it. He said it was worth hastening from Manchester to witness a meeting like that he had the honour of ad dressing. They, in the country, were accustomed to look to the metropolis as the heart of the community, and if the life-blood flowed healthily and steadily through the heart, they were pretty sure that its cur rents would be felt even to the extremities.—(Cheers.) Yet he could not conceal that there was stagnation among them. They trusted, he was afraid, too much to an arm of flesh, and neglected that higher power which could only lead them on to victory.— (Cheers.) They trusted to party politicians, and found that they leant upon a broken reed. They found themselves deserted on the day of battle--for saken in the hour of need.—(Cheers.) But now they had got rid of those recruits, and they had only in their ranks sound and Protestant spirits ; they had lost rank, and, it might be, talent, but they had re tained sound sense and religious consistency.— (Cheers.) lie would not diverge into party politics, but he would say that the pious ministers of the Church, and the noble-minded among the laity, had their confidence in the present Ministry sadly shaken when they saw that, despite the earnest remonstrances of their Church, the Dissenters' Bill was passed, con cessions made to the agitators of Ireland, the grant to the College of Maynooth doubled, in spite of the eloquent denunciations of a Sullivan and a M‘Ghee.—(Cheers.) Well might a friend of his say that " God was indeed doing all for them, and man doing everything against them." Their pe titions had been indeed slighted by a Ministry whose governing principle was concession, but were those petitions slighted at a throne to which their earnest entreaties should ever be directed ? (Cheers.) They were charged as wild enthusiasts, who produced more schism than unity in the church of heaven ; but let them remember that but a few clergymen carried the Reformation. Let them think of Luther, who walked forth alone with his Bible under his arm, against an embattled world, and, in the name of the Lord of Hosts, fought and triumphed.—(Cheers.) Let them take an example from their antagonists in their industry, in their buildings of monasteries and of nunneries in the face of Protestant England; not that he would compare these doings with what their own Church had done, and what she would yet do.— (Cheers.) But it was of interest to observe the bold. front that Rome now exhibited in old England. Time ,:,was when a Roman Catholic procession dared t , xhibit their absurd paraphernalia in the broad ligh of Heaven ; but now—as lately at Manchester—thef poured their long length through the streets, and ern the site of their intended church they planted a cross, seven feet high, the emblem of their gross super stition. He would give them a scene which occurred not long since in Manchester. It had been announced that high mass would be said is the chapel, and that prayers would be offered up for O'Connell—(Cheers and hisses.) A detachment of a regiment there were accustomed to go to that chapel, and the officer in those circumstances took the advice of his captain, who said that he must attend his meat and if anything occurred which they should not see or hear, he was at once to march his men out. Well, they went there, high mass was said, and then the priest commenced an harangue upon the wrongs of Ireland, and he went so far that he as much as said that O'Connell ought to be King of Ireland.- - (Cheers and hisses.) At that moment the British officer started up, and in a stentorian voice called out, Attention"—(Laughter)_e face about"—(Conti nued laughter)—" march ;" * and then the measured tramp --of the men formed the fitting close to scene so ludicrously unexampled.—(Cheers.) When all parties were combining some for the abolition of the corn-laws, some for their retention, some for their seven points of the Charter—should not they, the friends of truth and Protestantism, combine against an open foe, or secret enemy, or perfidious friends ?-- (Cheers.) Should they not take their stand against a false expediency—(Cheers)—a truckling to p lace and pelf, and say, emphatically, and with uplifted hands, " We shall have no more concession to Rome not one step further down the precipice—no more sa crificing to man or devil ?—(Cheers.) Our watch word shall be, " The Church for which our fore' fathers so nobly bled, uncontaminated and unreduced in its fair proporti ins."—(Cheers.) Praise to God they had not a Tractarian on the Bench of Bishops, and it was creditable, at least to her Majesty's ad visers, that, in their appointments to the Church of England, and still more to their appointment. in the sister country of Ireland, they had not advanced one of Tractariau principles. But Tractarianism, he was happy to think, was at its zenith, though, as sappers and miners, they raiaht be still endeavouring to injure the Church of Christ. The Rev. Gentleman continued in a strain of the most thrilling eloquence, interrupted at every sentence by the most general cheering, to expatiate upon the duties incumbent upon the members of the Church of England in that crisis. He commented, in withering terms, upon an amalgamated system of education, which, consisting of all religions, really inculcated none. He concluded by exhorting them to be wary and watchful—to make no cause with any of the wild sects who called themselves Protestants, but •to trust to a power, all wise and infinit e , w h ose i ns t ru ctions might be Ind in the Scriptures and in the Homilies of the Church. There might be specks in the latter, but there were specks on the sun, and they migh t depend upon it that they wou ld b e f oun d a su b s t a ntial shield in their warfare with the Romanists. But let them show that it was Popery they hated, and 1 4 the souls of those who professed that principle. Let them treat their antagonists with love, speak to them. in love, and pray w ith an d for them in the spirit 0 1 love and mercy. Let them hope that as it was a glorious British Queen wh o f os t ere d th e i r Ch urc h ill its infancy, so another Queen would at that time nurse, and foster, and succour her, now in the hour of her struggles. The speaker sat down amidst the loudest applause. Several more speakers addressei the meeting, and some resolutions were proposed and seconded, and after thanks had been voted to the Chairman, the meeting separated. SLAVERY IN ALGIERS. From a correspondent at Oran we have receitred • translation of an address to the Duke of Isly (Marsha l Bugeaud) from the Institut d'Afrique at Pans, in re' lation to the slave trade notoriously carried on under French dominion in Algeria. The address does great credit to that body, and must, we should think, have powerful effect. We trust it is only the first of series of steps which will be taken by the Institute, if further measures should be found necessary in order to efface this foul blot from the fair fame of France• Since writing the above we have seen Marshal By geaud's reply to the address of the Institut d'Afriquel on which we cannot at the moment make any extended remarks. It is, strange to say, in the negative, so pleads strongly for the continuance of the slave-trick' in Algeria! Of the arguments which he urges, UP' right and benevolent men can form but one opinin It is evident, however, th a t h e i s no t acq uainte with the facts of the ease. He writes, for example/ as though the purchase of slaves was confined to the Arabs, and seems not to know that it is practised by Frenchmen. Many proofs of this have alreadf appeared in our columns ; but we give another, sup' plied to us by the last letter of our correspondent from Oran :—" A captain of the chasseurs, a Mons. Traver sier, now resident here, has just purchased a little black boy for 200 francs. An English lady asked the captain if he was not afraid of his Government. N°: he replied, 'I purchased him at my own risk. If he runs away, the law does not permit me to reclaim him. This is my punishment." '—Anti-Slavery Re' porter. NEW WORK BY THE AUTHOR OF "H ANPLJ Cross."—The author of " Handley Cross" is again abous d ~ to come before the publi c w i t h a new wor k, en title " Hillingdon Hall ; or, th e C oc k ne y S qu i re , a Tale' $ 3l Country Life." The Quarterly R ev i ew , i n n o ti c ing this writer's former production, o b serve d, w ith muc h truth , that " the author of Handley Cross' is a writer of 11 ° common promise. The easy styl e i n whi c h h e arranges and draws out his characters, satisfies us that he migh t " if he pleased, take a high place among our modern ne" velista. He has a world of knowledge of life and manner' s beyond what most of those now in vogue can pretend to and a gentlemanlike tone and spirit, perhaps Even rarer among them." We understand that "Hillingdon 116 1 r is a work which is likely to answer to the fullest extent , the expectations thus expressed by the first of ou r critics' authorities. ----- KINGSTON, OCT. 24.—During the late heavy Min i the Spey has been much swollen, a nd ha s d es tr o yed pt . ° . perty iu this place to a large a m ou nt. N o f ewe r tbsr i four dwelling-houses have been entirely swept away, 1111 h, seven or eight oth e r s des e r te d, in consequence. of I -- course the river has taken, whi c h i s di rect ly aga inst the soft beach, upon which the town is built, and which is O W being gradually washed off. A great quantity of wan t !: factured timber has also been lost, and even that left so mixed that it must be difficult for the merchants t f :, know their own. The inhabitants represented their O s .; to his Grace the Duke of Richmond, and requested h i t interference in altering the course of the river—a retrie ( ' which, we are happy to say, has been most promptly an honourably granted, his Grace having desired a asesti a,, ? on Saturday first, to consider the most judicious plan ° proceeding.—Elyin Courant. A LIGHT CIGAR.—A. passenger recently arriv, e4 „ in the St. Katharine's Docks, in the ship Berksbi r ; from Bombay, had amongst his baggage and effects cigar, weighing no has than one pound and a halfi,,b moderate specimen, cert a i n ly, o f t h e ar ti c l e to wi , ".." Byron attributed suc h varie d com f orts an d delight"; t One might suppose th a t th e ar ti c l e was i n t e nded '?„ show only, h a d no t t h e owner ma d e a d e l ara tion, 2 0, order to obtain its delivery, that it was fur hls t/t/ private use. Miss BURDETT COUTTS.—I have to-day heard piece of intelligence which I think will take the ge ner a readers of newspapers. both here and in the coun try with some degree of surprise. It is said that Miss Bur n dett Coutts has at length fixed on an individual WWII, ht bless with possession of her hand and immense weilit's: and that the fortunate winner of the golden lady is o f young surgeon, the junior partner of a house in on o the Burlington -streets.—Private correspondent of Hampshire Independent. BIRTH On the 3d inst., at Wimp°le-stre S. et, Lady Mary Hood , °f. daughter. _ A of On the 26th ult., in Sussex-square, Brighton, the Is 4 J. W. Fitz Patrick, Esq., of a daughter. t l4fy On the 29th ult., at Eccleshill Hall, near Bradford , .-° shire, the lady of George Stodt, Esq., of a son and heir. . 0 , On the 31st ult., at Camden-terrace, Camden-town, William Dalton, of a daughter. A dJ On the Ist inst., at Avenue-road, Regent's-park, the of Joseph Haynes, Eq.. of a daughter. On the Ist inst., at s Tavist oc k-place, Tavistock-squarep th° lady of G. J. L. Noble, Esq , of a daughter. On the 2d inst , at Gloucester-road, Hyde-park-gal" Mrs. Grainger, of High Ireby, Cumberland, of a son- j T. On the Ist inst., at Commercial-road, Lambeth, M!' • Wheatley, of a son. MARRIED. boD e ' On the 2d inst., at All Souls' Church, St. MaTY - L shy Mr. Joseph Crush, of Mountnessing Hall, Essex, to o ; r dff e, second daughter of J. Bennett, Esq., of Pulteney L Enfield. On the 2d inst., at St. John's Church, Pa.ddington,t— e ,ipeep William Frederic Wingfield, M.A., of Christ Church Co,"„110, Oxford, to Charlotte, second daughter of George Niou" Esq., of Hyde-park-street. DIED. On the 28th ult., at Kingsbury, Warwickshire, Mary. ii l; beth Medora, daughter of Lieutenant• Colonel WhY‘ e ' 7t Hussars. eill On the 28th ult., at Boulogne. sur-Mer, Let tsorn, Esq. Esq" On the 9.. ..i th ult., Charlotte, the wife of Henry Alley, of the Louge, Brecenshire. a 1.• Samuel Fothery On the 28th ult., at Somercoates, Derbyshire, Williara .1 verwood, Esq. we. On the 30th ult , at Burton-upon-Trent, Charles 0 t 11 Allsopp, Esq. i rti• On the 31st ult., at Chelsea College, Mrs. Elizabeth LY On the 31st ult., Ann Jenkins, formerly of South a l e ' of On the 31st ult., at Duke•strect Adel hi, Lucy , "'" Mr. William O we n, o f B roms g r o v e. ' P Lof On the Ist inst., Anne, the wife of Mr. J. M. Prat t , Berners- street. 1, z rden ° ' On the Ist inst., at Stanhope-terrace, Hvile-par—'.-8„%, Miss Janet, eldest daughter of the late Captain- J. E ms ,, 'of On the Ist inst., Jane, wife of Charles Wilks, jun., r''''''' Georginia-terrace, Kender-street, Old Kent-road. K. fl. On the Ist inst., Ellen Maria, eldest daughter of m Mortimer, Esq., of Upper Tooting, Surrey. il n 'll, re' r 9 On the Ist inst., at Grove. hill, Camberwell, M. m _..4 lict of the late Claes Grill, Esq of I",,ndon : Printed and Published by MURDO • No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office,„__,,'N4 Strand, in the Precinct of' the Savoy, In the uvw ' Middlesex, Tuesday, Noyember 5 1844. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING,' NOVEMBER - 5, 1844.