The Sun. — London, England, 1839-03-25 00:00:00

NI: ."--- i Ir - A, ',,r - r . ...;;t- - - . ~.„ t , t•••'....1 1, :;', ).:._ ' °plutons )rayers , ,f---*... ------;,:-,- ~ ,...,,111. 4:- . .. - 47-71-,.:&„,""?:' --....„ ..... JA,,,,,, • St.--- GENERAL EDUCATION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sre - ,—Surely there never ;a; a COtTntty — ;c: cursed party feeling as Great Britain, or such slaves to As confined, illiberal, and baneful effects, as the inha bitants of it are. Measures which would appear to com mon sense clear as the sun, are sure to be mystified by the fog of party faction. The question of general education, now so much engrossing public attention, must be treated like all others, as a party question. The parties in this case appear to be the High Church- men and ultra-Tories, who are at variance with the rest of the nation. It seems, however, to be admitted on all bawls, that education is less diffused amongst the Bri tish population, and less encouraged than it is by other civilize:l States ; and that this country ought not to lie under the disgrace of possessing a less educated popuLition than other countries. It is either right or wrong that education should be more encouraged ; if right, unnecessary obstacles should not be thrown in the of doing so, and if the mass do not, or can not, ,:az.t of means pursue it, the State, or more pro perly, thf.! exuberant wealth of what is called the Church property, should furnish those means. If it be ivrong to encourage the extension of it, let it be con iinucci to be left to individuals, but do not blow hot and cold, in the same breath, and allow the propriety of tl.ie measure, but prevent the effect. Would these High aurchnen and ultra-Tories have it believed that they are afraid of education opening the eyes of the public too much ; and that it will more clearly discern he corruption of the State, and the covetuous mono oly of the High and Mighty in it P If that be really )e:r opinion, let them not be ashamed of it, but boldly row ;t, and let the world judga between them and their but they may assure themselves that it is io late to - cherish such ideas, as education wid information have been diffused too much already, without public assistance, for the public in general ever to shut its•eyes again and ge to sleep. The mis chief, if they deem it such, is already done, and the wisest plan for them to adopt is to increase education and in form the judgment of the public, and enable it to form rational opinions on the affairs of their country, and i not wild and destructive ones. Individuals, when they have the means of seeking truth, will gene rally discover it. Do these gentlemen wish to hide it ? This country being a Christian one, it is cer certainly quite clear the education in it should be tlitcted on the Christian and moral principles which the i New Testament warrant ; and such moral principles of 1 the Old Testament, which now assimilate with the l Christian code. But the High Churchmen would feign I have it believed, that unless they have the sole control i and management of a general State education, the IChristian religion will be endangered ; and, a pp ear i ng not to allow wat all others know and acknowledge, thdt the dissenting and sectarian portion of the population (except two inconsiderable sects of whom hereafter) are as much Christians as those who are attached to the Established Church are, though they may hate some slight immaterial difference of opinion as to some particular points—but not points which affect the vital spirit of the Christian religion ; and that the Sacred Scriptures, both Old and New Testament, are the foundations of their reli g ious opinions, and always part of the means employed in their system of educe tin. It is, therefore, idle and contrary to fact, to hold out for a moment that the Sacred Scriptures would not be used by Christian sectarians, and be in some measure what are technically called class-books. And do not these Rev. Gentlemen feel, and is not the world well aware, that the Christian religion has been to a very gr,nt extent diffused by the exertions of these very sectarians ? and do not they likewise feel that the sacred cause having been so signally taken partly , out of the hands of the Established Church, was owing to the neglect and lukewar ness of that Church itself ? They likewise know, and %lust feel, that the sectarians for many years have diffused religious and moral education with far greater exertion and attention than the Established Church. And is it now that the I High Churchmen, being aware that they have, from their I own neglect and misconduct, lost many of their ad- I herents, and have lowered the Establishment in public opinion by attending more to the mammon of the Church than. the religion of it, or the educa tion of its members—is it now for them to Istep forward and assume that they are the only parties who ought to have the controul of a public general :ilucsation ? Is it decent, is it modest, is it just for hem to do so ? The humble writer of these re narks is an adherent of the Established Church, an ad nirer of its Liturgy in general, attached to its general trines, and is adverse to extemporaneous sermons and thinking that the excellent comprehensive prayers, collects, Li( any, &c., of the Church are better calculated to fix the attention of individuals, being well known to them, than the often vague and rambling effusions of extempore delivery ; but it does not follow 4 that others may not feel themselves more affected by extemporaneous prayer ; it is, therefore, too much to neist on the Common Prayer-book being exactly a class book, in schools consisting of the children of sectarians, though it might be well to deliver it to them. But though the Common Prayer-book is, generally speaking, an excellent compilation, it is not faultless. There is more repetition in the service of the Church than is at 1 all necessary, probably o cc a s io ne d by diff eren t p ort i ons having been originally i n t en d e d f or di s ti nc t serv i ces , b ut , being all used at th e same wors hip, causes use l ess repe i tition—the prayer called the Lord's Prayer, for in stance—the State prayers, where the Litany is read, are unnecessary—the hymn, " Glory be to the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost," &c. The first, or Apostles' Creed, is sufficient, without the Nicene Creed or the Athanasian Creed, both of which are badly penned ; the last particularly is so dogmatically framed, and displays such a degree of intolerance, that it gives offence even to the generality of the adherents of the Church. High Churchmen should consider that the Common Prayer. book is chiefly the work of paid men, and not, like the New Testament, an inspired production, which we have the best ground to believe it to be ; therefore other thinking men have a right to form their opinion of it. For these and other reasons it should seem that High Churchmen would not be warranted in insisting that that Book should be made exactly a class book in sectarian schools ; it would savour too much of the dogmatic do mineering of the Roman Catholic religion, which unfor tunately though a Christian one, was converted into a po litical one, as well as one of worship. Protestant clergymen should e specially guard against rendering their religion a political one, but maintain it simply a re ligiou of worship, and not contaminate its purity with party politics and filthy lucre, or they will be treading back in some of the steps they have protested against ; and though we are assured from the highest authority that nothing shall prevail against the Christian religion, they will by such conduct assuredly aid the breaking up of the outward State Establishment of it in this country. And this is the more necessary to remark upon, because many High Church men have of late years shown a dis position to adopt some of the intolerance and domination of the Catholics, though they are by no means back ward in violently vituperating them for exercising it. The proposal of instituting normal schools in the first instance, will. it may be well feared, prove another fer tile source of opposition and altercation, as the question of how new masters are to be educated, and in what exact tenets, will be mooted. High Churchmen are well aware that Christ did not consider that his religion and doctrines required learning and refined distinetiona to understand them, for he selected illiterate and un learned men to promulgate it in the first instance, and though Christ did afterwards call St. Paul, amore learned individual, and inspired him to assist in that promulgation, it. may perhaps without prenimption be considered that Ch:ist, knowing the perverseness and pride of man, might deem it proper to employ him that he might have weight and influence with the more learned, vain, and self-opinionated ; and the history of the progress of Christianity proves that mystery and difficulties have always been created by p-jests and others,who pretended to superior learning and erudition, and which little affected the vital doctrines of that religion, and which points have been chiefly raised for the cavil of disputa tion, instigated by obstinacy, pride, and vanity, except as to the Roman Catholic tenets, which are of more importance. Upon the whole, it would seem that upon every principle of liberality, tolerance, charity, or justice, all public state schools, where the schoolmaster engages to use the Old and New Testaments, and instruct their pupils in the general principles of Christianity, should be aided, without insisting upon the schoolmaster being an adherent of the Established Church, and with out requiring that the Common Prayer should be a class-book, and visitants should be appointed to ascertain whether the main Christian principles were inculcated, and this liberality should be extended to the Roman Catholics, and particularly so in Ireland, by which the Catholic population would see, and be convinced, that the Protestant religion is not actuated by intolerance and bigotry, but that Protestants feel for their Christian brethren and fellow countrymen, though they have differed in some points in expounding the Christian Scriptures. An exception was made above as to two sects ; it alluded to those professing the principles of Socinianism and Unitarianism ; now as these sects deny the main foundations of the Chris tian religion, they do not come under the denomination of Christians : this is not mentioned invidiously ; no doubt there are honest and honourable men amongst them, but it is quite clear that they do not seek the same path to a future life which the Christian deems the only proper and safe one ; and as this country and Government is of a Christian character, it is equally clear that it is not incumbent, nay more, it would not be proper for the State to assist those parties in edu cating their children in principles opposed to, and de structive of, Christianity : for the State to act otherwise Would be unprincipled, and be the liberality of infidelity. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, LLOYD LLEWES, An Adherent of the Established Church. Baron Bulow, the resident Prussian Minister to the British Court for upwards of ten years, is about to 1 , 4 _ l eave E ng l an d en route for Germany, on account of con ill health. F or several days past his Excellency be tn unable to attend to his diplomatic duties from fear idfaggta . vating his disorder. with the City of London, because it was found to be under a police much more perfect than the police of the City of Westminster. In fact, the principle of this A meeting took place on Saturday last, at Will's Bill isfounded upon the principle on wl4h the police of Coffee House, Lincoln's Inn-fields, for the purpose of the City of London is founded. The police there is taking into consideration the best mode of bringing into under the municipal authority and regulated by one general operation Colonel Maceroni's steam carriage, head." which has been exhibited some time since in various Page 1,846.—" Sir, I beg to be understood as mean parts of the metropolis. ing to express no more with respect to large towns than The chair was taken by Mr. THEOBALD, who en- , my wish that the principle of the Bill should be adopted tered at some length into the history of Colonel Ma- by them. Manchester, indeed, has at the present mo ceroni's steam carriage, and referred to the evidence ment a Stipendiary Magistrate ; and Glasgow, if lam taken before a Committee of the House of Commons in not misinformed, is placed under the same control. 1832, who reported in the most favourable manner of Now, what I should think extremely desirable is, filet a the invention. These carriages had been exhibited for better system of police should be placed under the con several months in London, and they had also been trol of such Magistracy." tried in Belgium and other countries with the most "It should be borne in mind that the object of the decided success. Now that the great lines of inter- Police Bill was merely to unite the police forces then course in the country were about to be traversed by rail- existing under various local authorities and circum ways, by which turnpike roads would be completely cut stances under more general control. I think it was off from their former traffic, it was imperatively neces- p ro ved that there were fifteen or sixteen different watch sary that some measure like the present should es tablishments in the parish of Mar) lebone previous to be carried into effect in order to save from the passing of the Police Act." utter ruin the parties whose property was The answer to the Address necessarily led to much embarked in them. The object of the present comment. It was observed that in that answer nu more meeting was to appoint a Provisional Committee, who notice was taken of the City Charter and privileges than would make a report to a general meeting, to be held if such things were never in existence ; and her Majes at a subsequent period. There was a very able and ty's Ministers had acted upon the occasion as if they eminent engineer present, Mr. Alexander Gordon, who had the most unbounded authority over all her actions, had very accurately investigated the working of Colonel and prescribed to her a course which, more than any Maceroni's steam carriage, and he hoped that gentle- other, was calculated to show that they were determined man would favour the meeting with flee result of his to make the Queen, as well as the Police Bill, a mere views upon the subject. instrument in their hands for the attainment of peculiar Mr. GORDON read a long report, very favourable to objects of their own. Colonel Maceroni's plan, which was received with loud The CHAIRMAN strongly recommended the most cheering. vigorous exertions in the now long interval which the Colonel Mecenom having been called upon by the Secretary of State had vouchsafed, without being at all meeting, then came forward, and said he would give solicited upon the occasion, since he refused the request them a brief history of his proceedings with reference of Mr. Pattison. to this steam-carriage. He had published statements Many reports as to an anxious disposition upon the relative to it in various pamphlets, and had given away part of the Ministers to come to a compromise with the upwards of 2,000 of them to persons who were anxious City were quoted, and certain overtures were re for information on the subject, but who had never read ferred to, which justified the opinion that the expecte them.---( A laugh.) With great difficulty, and after tions of carrying the Bill are by no means sanguine. surmounting numerous obstacles, he bad constructed his Lord Melbourne, it was said, denied that he knew any • first carriage in 1832, and announced in the papers that thing at all about the all, and when he heard of the it would run daily from Paddington-green to Watford ; indignation excited in the City on the subject, expressed and there were many gentlemen present who must be such surprise, that credit is given to him in the City by aware that it was one of the softest and hilliest roads in the Corporation for the declaration of his ignorance. It is the kingdom. A great number of persons had !:ravelled also stated that Lord John Russell placed such implicit by it, and had warmly approved of the inventioer ; but reliance upon Mr. Hawes and Mr. Fox Maule as to the want of funds, or any public support, left the ' natter leave the whole affair in their hands, without making just where it was. The scientific gentlemen, and I\etem- any inquiry into its merits. The impression in the bers of the Houses of Lords and Commons, who pee- City, however, is that the Lambeth constituency will tended to be the supporters of science and improvements' call upon their representatives to oppose the Bill. in the arts, considered the affair unworthy of notice. The Committee will continue their sittings daily at They had, on the contrary, lent their influence to other the Exchequer Coffee-house, and Alderman Venables speculations, which every rational and intelligent and Deputy Hicks will alternately preside. man would at once pronounce to be mere delusions. ' Still without any public support he had continued to run the carriage for upwards of a year and a half, with out the slightest injury to the machinery, with the ex ception of breaking an axle two or three times, owing to the obstinacy of a very well-meaning man, Squire, who insisted that these axles could be made on the anvil, in a common forge. At last he had bought Squire out of the concern, and had been obliged to give him 2,0001. A few hundred pounds of that sum remained unpaid and that had still further crippled him. In the meantime a Company was formed at Birmingham to bring Dr. Church's carriage into use, and another Company by the Messrs. Eaton, with a capital of 28,0001. The Messrs.. Scolfield, Attwood, and other influential gentlemen took an interest in the matter, and he (Col. Maceroni) was invited by Mr. Attwood to bring his steam carriage to Birmingham, assuring him that the capital subscribed , would be placed at his disposal if the invention was found to correspond with what had been stated of it. He had accordingly gone down to Birmingham, and had esta blished coke and water stations along the line. The Messrs. Eaton and Dr. Church had declined the spe culation, as they could not make their carriages run.—(A laugh.) They had undertaken to go at the rate of ten miles an hour, but could not accomplish more than six, and they declared that seven or eight was the greatest speed that could be attained on com mon roads. Now, Mr. Gordon and other gentlemen would tell them that his carriage attained a speed at times of twenty-four miles an hour. When he returned to London, Squire, at the suggestion of some attorney, refused to allow the carriage to leave the yard until the few hundred pounds were paid. A friend of his, who had formerly been one 'of his Aides-de-Camp, fortu nately arrived from abroad at the moment and paid the debt. He took the carriage to Belgium and France, and Louis Phillippe rode in it several times to St. Germaine, and a company offered his friend 80,0001. for theinvelation, but he refused in the heyday of success. While that was pending, the railway mania broke out, and the steam carriages and common-roads were quite forgotten. Meanwhile he (Colonel Maceroni) was compelled to remain quite inactive. His friend sold the carriage in Paris for 16,0001., and of that sum he (Colonel Maceroni) had never received a farthing, and be was thus obliged to begin de novo. He had undertaken to go to Bir mingham at eighteen miles an hour, which even without his present improved boiler he could have easily accom plished. As to the success of the undertaking, if once carried into execution there could be no doubt. It might startle some persons present, but he predicted that in four years they would not have a railway existing in England—the expenses were enormous, and when he told them that the repair of each engine cost at least 501. a month, while he had run his carriage 5,000 miles without expending a shilling in repairs, they might form some comparison between the two systems. CoI. Maceroni here entered into a statement of the difference in the construction of his and the ordinary boilers, showing that it was quite impossible that any danger could result from his boiler bursting. He bad on one occasion put his children in the carriage, got his eleven workmen to place their hands upon the bailer—raised the steam till the pressure was equal to 1,4001b5. on the square inch. He had then tied down the safety valve with copper wire, and in ten minutes the boiler burst, without doing the least harm to the persons standing round it.—(Cheers). After entering into a variety of details, which we have not space for, Col. Maceroni concluded by stating that he now left the matter in the hands of the meeting. Mr. HODGSON, Mr. WHITE, and several other Gentlemen then addressed the meeting. A provisional Committee was appointed, and several resolutions adopted, expressive of the determination of the meet ing to carry the plan into operation. It was stated that several large coach proprietors and others, whose pro perty had been affected by the railroads, would subscribe liberally, as soon as a company had been formed. Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the Meeting adjourned. STEAM CARRIAGES ON TURN- PIKE ROADS. THE ALLEGED MURDER AT HAYES. (ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.) The case of Mr. Francis Hastings Medhurst, who on Thursday was fully committed by the Uxbridge Magis trates for manslaughter, and also on the Coroner's warrant for the " wilful murder" of Mr. Joseph Alsop, at the resi dence of the Rev. Frederick Sturmer, Wood End-green, Hayes, continues to excite much of public attention. From the period of his apprehension, on Thursday week, to his removal to Newgate, he has been kept under the care of Sergeant Cooper, of the Uxbridge Local Police, at the station-house in Windsor -street, in that town, where every comfort and privilege were allowed him, consistent with his safe custody. At first he did not appear at all im pressed with the serious nature of the situation in which he is placed, but on returning to the station-house on Friday se'nnight, after his first examination, he became more thoughtful, and during the night his sleep was much disturbed. On the following day, during the first proceed ings at the Coroner's Inquest, he was very anxious to learn how matters went on, and on Cooper informing him the Inquest was adjourned until Monday, he appeared much disappointed at its not being concluded. On Sunday morning he seemed rather depressed, and requested Cooper to furnish him with a Bible and Prayer-book, which was done, and which were, while at the station. house, his constant companions. During that day, as on the subsequent days, he was several times observed to fall on his knees in silent prayer, and, al though at times he appeared to be greatly ex cited on the subject of the melancholy occur rence, he repeatedly declared he bad never borne the slightest ill-feeling towards the deceased, Mr. Alsop, who was comparatively a stranger to him (not having been at Mr. Sturmer's a month), but that having, from the irrita tion caused by the offensive expressions used by Mr. Alsop, momentarily struck him, and that gentlemaa (who was a taller and more powerful young man than himself) having wrested the stick from his hands and attacked him with it, he, during the excitement of the moment,struck him with the knife, quite without premeditation, and without intend ing to injure him in any way, much less to occasion his death. On Monday morning, previous to the re-assembling of the Jury, he was visited by the Count de Salis, one of the local Magistrates, to whom he declared the suspense he was in as to the probable result of the inquest was al most unbearable, and he earnestly entreated he might be made acquainted with the verdict. In the evening, while the Jury were considering their verdict, be was visited by Messrs. Stammers and Sudlow, his Counsel and Solicitor ; and on Cooper's return from Hayes, and acquainting him that the Jury bad returned a verdict of wilful murder, he burst into tears, exclaming, " Oh, it's an unjust verdict I-- it's an unjust verdict." Duriug that night his sleep was much disturbed, and he was several times observed in tears. On Tuesday morning the Magistrates having determined, instead of sending him on the Coroner's warrant imme diately to Newgate, to proceed with his examination, he was at eleven o'clock removed, hand-cuffed, in a fly from the Station-house to the Magistrates' room at the King's Arms Inn, in London- street, where he was brought before Count de Salis, Sir William Wiseman, Baronet, and T. Dagnall, Esq., the sitting Magistrates, but it not being considered the Bench would proceed further with the case after the decision of the Jury, only one of the witnesses was in attendance. Mr. Medhurst was accordingly further remanded until Thursday, for which day the whole of the witnesses were summoned. During Tuesday and Wed nesday he appeared exceedingly depressed, denouncing the verdict of the Jury, frequently shedding tears, and scarcely taking any nourishment. On Thursday morning at ten o'clock he was again removed, handcuffed, in a fly to the Magistrates' room, where he underwent an examination of six hours' duration, which ended in his being committed by the Magistrates on the minor charge (that of manslaugh ter), although they were also bound to commit him on the Coroner's warrant for the capital offence. A great altera tion was, on that occasion, observable in him to those who had seen him on his first examination. He seemed very weak and indisposed, which appeared to increase on him so much, that about the middle of the proceedings the Magis trates ordered him to be provided with a chair. Before his removal, after his committal, his Counsel and Solicitor were allowed an interview with him, after which they pro ceeded to town, and arranged with Mr. Cope, the Gover nor of Newgate, for his occupancy of some apartments on the State side of that gaol. On Mr. Mcdhurst's return to the station-house he expressed to Cooper that he was much satisfied with the manner in which his examination had been conducted by the Magistrates, and appeared more tranquil and cheerful. On Friday morning at eight o'clock he was placed in a post-chaise, and conveyed by Cooper to New gate, where he arrived shortly after nine o'clock. His re moval was conducted in a most private manner, scarcely any person at Uxbridge being aware that it would take place so early. On entering Newgate he again became very much depressed, and shed tears ; but he rallied con siderably during the day, and yesterday was much better. The family of Mr. Medhurst have for years been con nected with the county of York, their residence having been Kippax Hall, near Ferrybridge, at which place it was that the grandfather of Mr. Francis Hastings Medhurst ter minated the existence of his lady. The manner in which her lamentable dissolution was effected has been variously stated, and to each of the statements considerable credit has been attached ; but we believe the following may be relied on as accurate. Mr. Medhurst, sen., who was fond of sporting, and kept a pack of hounds, had been out shooting, and was returning to his residence as above, when Mrs. Medhurst ap p eare d at one of the w i ndows, and sarcastically upbraided her husband for passing so much of his time in following the sports of the field ; upon which he became much irritated, and, in a moment of passion, levelled the piece he was car rying in his hand at her, and, discharging its con tents, instantly deprived her of life. On this most heart rending and lamentable occurrence becoming known, he was taken into custody, and was subsequently tried at the York Assizes, when proof having been adduced that be bad some time previously exhibited a strzngeness in his manners and conduct, he was acquitted, on the ground of insanity, but was ordered to be taken care of. He is now under the care of Mr. Stillwell, the proprietor of Moorcroft House Establishment, Hillingdon, near Ux_ bridge, who is in the receipt of 5001. per annum, which is paid for his maintenance. Mr. Medhurst, sen., is n ow between seventy and eighty years of age, is very i n fi rm, and at the present moment seriously indisposed. Hi s son (the father of the prisoner) was a Major in the English Service, and was stationed with the army of oc cupation in Sicily, during the reign of Murat. H e there married a lady, a native of Messina, who is now a widow, and resident in London. She has eight children, four of whom are females, and one is married to a wealthy Sicilian nobleman. The young man, the subject of the present charge, is her third child, and the eldest son. He was taken to Italy when he was two years of age, where lie re mained until he attained the age of 17, when he returned to this country, since which period he has received an al lowance of 3001. a-year. Although naturally of a warm temperament, he possesses many amiable qualities, and has always evinced a most kind-hearted disposition. A brother of the late Major Medhurst has long been an esteemed clergyman of the Established Church. The trial will, it is expected, take place about the 12th or 13th of April, the sessions of the Central Criminal Court commencing on Monday, the Bth. The Attorney.. General (Sir John Campbell) has already been retained as leading counsel for the defence.— Observer. METROPOLIS POLICE BILL. On Saturday the City Police Committee assembled at Guildhall, with the view of making further arrangements for opposing the alleged attempted interference on the part of the Government in the City's privileges, by the " Metropolis Police Bill." Notices were ordered to be sent round to all the parishes in the metropolitan districts, drawing the atten tion of the authorities to what are considered to be the most obnoxious provisions of the Bill. Copies of the two Bills in progress in the House of Commons—the one for improving the Metropolitan Po lice, the other for improving the Police Courts—were ordered to be transmitted to the Clerks of the Peace for the counties of Middlesex, Surrey, Essex, and Kent, the Tower Hamlets, and the city of Westminster ; and the attention of these official persons was called to both measures, as destructive of the magisterial rights, and a conference with them on the subject was requested. The Committee appointed Deputy Hicks Sub-Chair man to the Police and Watch Committee—a judicious selection, the Deputy's activity and talent in all matters connected with the security of property having been long experienced and appreciated. The following extract from the rotes of the House of Commons was read : " MARCH 22, 1839. " METROPOLITAN POLICE COURTS BlLL.—Second Reading deferred till Monday, 22d April. " METROPOLIS POLICE BILL. Second Reading deferred till Monday, 22d April. " NOTICES GIVEN ON FRIDAY, 22d MARCH. " Mr. Law before the Second Reading of the Metro polis Police Bill, to move that Counsel be heard at the the Bar, on the petition of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the City of London, in Common Council assembled (Monday) 22d April. " Sir BENJAMIN HALL, on the Order of the Day for the Second Reading of the Metropolis Police Bill, and the Metropolitan Police Courts Bills, to move that they be read that day six months (Monday, 22d April). " METROPOLIS POLICE BlLL.—Petitions against. " From Ward of Walbrook, Ward of Cripplegate Without, Merchants, Traders, and others of the City of London, and-Ward of Farringdon Within, ordered to lie on the table." The CITY REMEMBItANCER stated that there were 14 petitions to be presented to the House of Commons against the Bill. - It was observed that the postponement of the Metro polis Police Bill for one month, •after Lord John Rus sell had peremptorily refused to postpone it for one day, although requested by Mr. Pattison, to give some little breathing time, was a proof of want of confidence in the success of the measure. The assurances which had been daily received by the Committee from Members of both Houses of their support against the Bill, were alluded to with great satisfaction, and the more so as those assu rances have been made by men in the habit of being at variance in political matters. From a great number of speeches with reference to the City Police, we copy the following quotations from the speeches of Sir Robert Peel, as read before the Committee : Lord Glenelg is to have the pension held by Lord Auckland previously to his appointment to the Governor-Generalship of India. The pension is 2,0001. a-year. On Saturday, before the Commissioners of Excise, Mr. Gadsden, the auctioneer, applied for a return of the auction duty on some houses sold by him, the purchaser having refused to complete his contract, in consequence of a mis-statement in the conditions of sale. The solicitor for the purchaser said that the houses had been described as brick, whereas they were only part brick and part lath and plaster. In a similar case the Vice-Chancellor had ditmissad a bill for a specific performance. The Com missioners allowed the return of the duty to the vendor. METROPOLITAN POLICE BILL, 1829. Extracts from the Speeches of Sir Robert Peel.— Mirror of Parliament, page 1,742. The Hon. Member says, " the Bill does not provide for the City of London ; that subject, Sir, was atten tively considered, and it was determined not to meddle CORN-LAWS. LORD MAIDSTONE and SIR J. GRAHAM. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sta,—Among the many curious arguments employed in support of the Corn-laws, I have not seen any which is more absurd than that used by Lord Maidstone on Thursday last, in the House of Commons. Having assumed that a fall in rent would be the immediate consequence of a repeal of the Corn-laws, he coolly tells us that landlords cannot afford any re duction whatsoever, because rents have fallen already forty-five per cent. since the peace. Indeed, Mr. Edi tor ! rents fallen 45 per cent. ! Wonderful discovery, we must own, provided it be true. But I doubt the truth thereof ; because, previous to falling to 45 per cent., rents had risen 100 per cent., that is, had been doubled. Consequently, after a reduction of 45 per cent., as stated by Lord Maidstone, there will still re main a permanent increase of rent to the extent of 55 per cent. Now, add to that great increase the further relief from the abolition of th property-tax, as well as the reduction in the prices of many articles of necessity, and the landowner will seem to be upwards of 70 per cent. better off than formerly. So much then for the logic and the knowledge of this very hopeful heir to an Earldom ; and if hereditary Senatorship has always generated a like progeny to this enlightened scion of an ennobled house, we may cease to marvel at the daily reproach cast upon a certain Right Hon. Assembly for its lack of political wisdom. I am ready to admit, Mr. Editor, that where a land owner has to pay charges and annuities fixed upon his estate during the time of the highest rents of land, he is to be pitied. Such we have been told is his own case, by another luminous speaker on Thursday last, Sir James Graham, who published the matter in print not many years ago. He then advocated very strongly the seizure of a portion of the funded debt, in order to in demnify himself and all other persons in a like difficulty, because their fathers had been so inconsiderate as to die at a wrong moment for their children. When in office as a Cabinet Minister of William IV., why did not the worthy Baronet follow up his own honest pro posal of docking the fundholder for the benefit of the landowner ? Were his colleagues too thick-headed to comprehend the strict justice of the plan, or were they more honest than him ? For myself, as a plain south countryman, I shall not pretend to follow an astute north countryman through the various mazes which his ingenuity would lead me, were I to commit myself to his guidance. But, unquestionably, Mr. Editor, now or ,ever is the time for the Cumberland Senator to bring forward his notable plan, once proposed, of making me and others in the south repair out of our fortunes the stupid blunder committed by the man who left him his estate in the North. The landowners must inevitably losesomething when the Corn-laws are altered ; and a cunning person like the worthy Baronet would act wisely by having broached his financial remedy for the landed interest, before the evil day shall arrive. For, if he defer mentioning it till the evil has come, Parliament will be taken too much by surprise to understand it off-hand. I would recom mend, therefore, that the two wise men of whom I have spoken in this letter should confer together, and each give his aid to the other. The Noble Lord may begin by insisting upon keeping up the seventy per cent ad vance in rent ; and the Right Honourable Baronet can finish by pointing out a fair and honest way of doing it. I have the honour to subscribe myself, Mr. Editor, your most obedient servant, Q IN THE CORNER, Margate, March 17. 1839.: HOW TO SETTLE “ THE BOUN DART QUESTION." (From the Spectator.) The disorderly proceedings of the State of Maine are said to furnish proof of the peculiar weakness of the United States Executive. Then, what is proved by the disorganized state of the Canadas ? Is the British Executive peculiarly weak ? It is so in the Canadas ; it must be so anywhere but at home. And this answer points to the true cause of the weakness of the American Executive. Demo cracy is not the cause, but Federation. The Im perial Government of England is miserably ineffi cient in so far as it is Imperial or Federative—wit ness the state not of the Canadas only, but, more or less, of every British colony where the people are sufficiently numerous to have any will of their e i 3 aofa n i f c bi col averting . 1: : 1 r own. Viewing the Imperial system of England a a great federation comprising the Colonies as wel as these Islands, which Federal Executive is the less efficient—that of the United States in Maine, or that of England in the rebellious Ca nadas, and scarcely more manageable colonies of Jamaica and South Africa ? The Supreme Execu tive of the United States, defectively operating in any State of the Union, appears to advantage when compared with that of England, set at naught, or productive only of mischief, in her distant colonies. We have made the comparison merely for the pur pose of illustrating an important truth. The Federal system of the United States —every federal system of the government—is necessarily wanting in exe cutive power. Federation is nut a principle that wise statesmen would adopt in construct ing a government from the foundation : it is but an experiment for so far uniting a number of in dependent States, as to prevent war amongst them selves, and for constituting a league against common enemies. Every federation is rather a congress than a government. Such is, in form as well as in fact, the American Union ; such is, in fact, though not in form, the whole British Empire. The State of Maine and the Province of New Brunswick have in some respects interests totally separate from those of the empire of which each respectively forms a part. What conceivable interest have the people of the United Kingdom, or of other parts of the British empire, such as Bengal or Jamaica, in the present subject of dispute between New Brunswick and Maine ? Of what importance is it to any State of the American Union, except Maine, whether the disputed territory form part of Maine or of New Brunswick ? The answer is, that the whole British Empire except New Brunswick, and the whole American Union except Maine, can nei ther gain nor lOse anything by any mode of settle ment,iteuio, which,tTeioriErtl eini i ad, but git agilso:w,tintla h aadtri a ree Issw with :e uafa l r the rt ea.l ,s eEcDldrvaeiaerii scarcely England walo e ywni is:to( less leut i sl i ll ilsd.Ateoefubmrroleuerdesmi America. ii cdiuephgeou upon envtohiael the evils \V cottonh a t muaniiituefdactsutraet,estb,evoruulidn p o r f od co o t o t o on g c o u o l e t r h a 'a l tio s n off i e n rin tl g ie . It would be a great mistake to suppose that tlieSo of cotton. TheuthernStatesalone great are interested market restedin the cultivation of the North-western States for their surplus pro duce is the cotton-growin g States of the South. The North-eastern States are the carriers of the exportable produce of the . South, and they also own a good part of the capital in vested in Southern cultivation. It has been said, and we believe with truth, that if the abolition of slavery, or any other cause, should put a stop to the cultivation of sugar, tobacco, and cotton in the Southern States, grass would grow in the streets of Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New Yolk. Besides this great interest in preserving peace with Eng land, all the States of the Union, and especially those of the North and West, are deeply concerned in maintaining that vast stream of capital and labour which now flows continually from Britain to America. Thirty millions sterling, at least, of British capital are supposed to have been recently invested in public works in America ; and none know better than the Americans, that their great public works now in progress would be as effectually stopped if Irish immigration should cease, as - the mills of Lancashire by a want of raw cotton. A civil war, as we termed it last week, between these kindred and mu tually-dependent na tions, would be equally injurious to both of them. Is it, then, possible to believe, that they will go to war about the miserable boundary question between New Brunswick and Maine ? Every consideration of mutual interest inclines both nations to peace. A suggestion has been made by influential per sons both in the British Colony and the Ame rican State. They propose that the whole question should be referred to Commissioners appointed by both the Local Legislatures ; both the National Governments declaring that there should be no fighting, and that the dispute should remain un settled until settled by the Commissioners so ap pointed. If Lord Melbourne's Government had half the sense and vigour of Mr. Van Buren's, this suggestion would not be neglected. TH E THEATRE FRANCAIS.—This Theatre, of which Mademoiselle Rachel is now the greatest orna. ment, is the private property of the d'Orleans family, t o whom the sum of 320,0001. was due for arrears of rent. Louis Philippe has just remitted this debt, and reduced the rent from 62,000 f. to 50,000 f. SHEEP WORRYING.—We are sorry to say that the canine villains have again commenced their destructive work. On Sunday night last nine sheep were worried in a field belonging to K. Greenway, Esq., adjoining the race.course, one of which was found dead and half eaten, six other s h ave s i nce b een s l a ughtered, and the remaining .two, it is th oug h t , w ill recov er. A piece of chain below,'_ mg to a d og ' s co ll ar was f oun d in the field, but not hi ng further has been discovered.— Warwickshire Reporter. THE TWO PREMIERS (From the Weekly True Sun.) Weil, the Corn-law que'stion has been decided, so far as a selfish band ori landlord legislators can decide it. The House of Commons has refused to go into Committee to inquire as to the operation of the Corn-laws upon the country by a majority of 147. The nuinberf 3 were, for the food monopoly, 342 ; against it, 1'35. 13ut although t.l.re most important part of this deed of violence and wrong was perpetrated in the Commons, the Lords' debate of last week points out most clearly the course the people must pursue. The deb ision of making an open ques tion of one thrit so deeply affects the main tenance of o , lr commerce and manufactures and the subs'istence of our over-taxed people was there Pally exposed. • What matter the votes or spe eches of a few of the subordinate nrcinbers of the Govermnent, when the Prime Mi rister, Liird Melbourne, is a principal upholder of the monopoly. Lore. Melbourne wished the subject had not been discussed because of its vast importance; he de clared his deliberate purpose of maintaining the high-rent-laws, even though commerce and manu factures were sacrificed ; he " declared before God, that he thought free-trade, the doing away with all protective duties, the maddest and wildest proposi tion he had ever heard in his life ;" he asserted with all the confidence of complacent ignorance the falsehood, that "protecting duties" could not be dis pensed with for the sake of thepublicrevenue. Now, the veriest tyro in political science knows, that all pro tecting duties produce less revenue than might be raised upon the same class of commodities by duties framed solelyfor revenue, and not so as to limit the quantities imported. Who, calling himself a Libe ral, can now support Lord Melbourne's Govern ment ? Who, pretending to desire commercial prosperity, can avoid active hostility to the Whig Ministry ? The chief Minister of the Crown has subscribed to the creed of the landed oligarchy, and has betrayed an amount of ignorance almost in credible ; so incredible, indeed, that we dare not call it aught but dishonesty. The way, how ever, is now clear before all those who are not wil fully blind. Nothing is to be expect e d f rom th e present Ministry, nothing is to be hoped from the Legislature is now constituted. We have long de clared that opinion, and have, thereby, occasionally incurred the censure of some whose good inten tions were greater than their foresight or their energy. But now there can be no mistake ; he who really desires to effect amendments in our laws and institutions must endeavour to turn out Lord Melbourne's Government, and to reform the House of Commons. In the meantime, what is the next step ? In reprobating the conduct, and exposing the ignorance of the present Premier, let us give a glance at the conduct of him who passed the Pre mier's chair—Sir R. Peel—and who is, probably, destined ere long to fill it again. As if ignorance, real or assumed, and facility in making false state ments, constituted the prime qualification for a land lord's First Lord of the Treasury, Sir Robert Peel on the following night made the same assertion, viz., . that all protecting duties could not be repealed, by reason of the loss of revenue that would thereby ensue. We assert broadly that this is false, and Peel, when he stated it, knew that it was utterly untrue ; moreover, what can be thought of a states ; man comparing the exports of 1838 with those of ' 1837, as evidence that the manufacturing industry of this country is in a state of safe and permanent prosperity, notwithstanding the bread monopoly, without making the slightest allusion to the fright ful and ruinous panic of 1837 here and in the ' United States ? Yet such was, in fact, Peers honest argument I This is the man who wished to examine the question fairly I ! ! ' Such are the leaders of the two factions between ' which the people have suffered themselves to be bandied about. Will they now be aroused to make an effort for their own emancipation ? STRAND UNION AND THE PARISH OF ST. PAUL, COVENT GARDEN. MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF A PARISH BOOK. The election of Guardians for the several parishes in this Union has terminated by the withdrawal of all the opposition candidates, and thus great excitement and expense have happily been avoided. One circumstance, however, has occured in the course of the proceedings which has excited a consideraLle sensation, and which is likely to be the subject of public investigation. Under the provisions of the Poor-law Amendment Act, the owners of property, as well as the rate-payers, are en titled to have a voice in the election of Guardians ; and a " Register of Owners and their Proxies" is directed to be kept, in which, from time to time, are to be re corded the names and residences of parties claiming to vote as owners, with a description of their property, and the names and residences of the parties appointed by them as their proxies, for the purposes of voting. These " Registers" remained in the custody of Mr. Corder, the Clerk to the Union, until the month of August last, and whilst they remained in his custody it appears they were open to the gratuitous inspection of the rate payers, and entire copies, as well as extracts, were al lowed freely to be taken. Applications were, however, made to the Board of Guardians, and ultimately to the Poor-law Commissioners, by the parish officers of St. Paul, Covent-garden, to have the Register of Owners of their parish placed in their own custody ; and, in the month of August last, with the sanction of the Com missioners, it was given up to them accordingly, and was, as they state, deposited with the other parochial books and documents, in the office used for that purpose at the parish Church. When, however, Mr. Corder, as the returning officer at the recent election of Guardians, ap plied under the order of the Commissioners, to the pa rish officers of St. Paul, Covent-garden, for " the Re gister of Owners and Proxies" of that parish, to enable him to conduct the election, and to issue, if requisite, voting-papers to the owners as well as rate-payers, he was wa►ted upon by the Churchwardens and their Vestry Clerk, Mr. Moseley, and informed by them that every possible search had been made for the book in question—the receipt of which, in August last, they ho nourably admitted—but that it was nowhere to be found. It is supposed that it has been secretly abstracted from the office by some partizan, whose zeal for his party has led him into the commission of an act, which, in the event of detection, may place him in a situation of a very awkward description. The Board of Guardians, on the facts being communicated to them by Mr. Corder, passed some very strong resolutions on the subject,and requested him immediately to report the matter to the Poor-law Commissioners. On Saturday, at the Croydon Petty Sessions, Mr. Graham, the constable of Carshalton, was summoned to show cause why be refused to pay the poor-rates collected by him for that parish, and which was due to the Croydon Union. Mr. Graham said he was ready to pay the de mand, if he were repaid the expenses he had been put to in the performance of his office; but the Poor-law Corn. missioners forced the officers to lay out their money in obeying their orders, and at the same time instructed the auditors to refuse them payment when demanded of the Union. Ore of the Magistrates, who was Chairman of the Union, acknowledged the hardship and injustice of the case, and recommended an application to the Poor-law Commissioners for a remedy. The Bench, after consult- ing together, recommended the defendant to pay the money, and promised to use their endeavours to see him repaid the money he had expended. THE NEW POOR LAW IN LAMBETII,--AL Union Hall on Thursday Messrs. Barber and Hunt, two guardians of the poor of the parish of Lambeth, were sum moned for refusing to produce certain books connected with the parochial rates, for the inspection of one of the assistant Poor-law Commissioners. After a lengthened dis cussion as to the right of the Poor-law Commissioners to demand the production of the books in question, which re. lated to Church -rates, the Magistrates decided in favour of the complaining parties, and imposed a penalty of 51. on each of the defendants, which was to be levied unless they produced the book s the same evening at the vestry. THE DUNDEE MURDER.—It is stated that in consequence of petitions from Dundee and Edinburgh in favour of Arthur Woods, convicted of murdering his son, Lord John Russell has authorised the authorities there to delay his execution for a week. STOCKHOLM, MARCH s.—The merchants of this city, who some time back addressed a petition to the Go vernment relative to the abolition of the Sound duty, have since presented another petition to the effect, that the Government would support by diplomatic intervention the claim which they think they have on the Danish Govern ment for the repayment of what has been paid too much for many year: past. WORCESTER HOPS, MARCH 21.—There was a good supply of hops at our market on Saturday, a great portion of which were yearlings and the growth of 1836, though a few long lots of new, of favourite marks, were disposed of, and realised good prices. There remained a considerable bulk of middling and inferior samples unsold at the close of the market, although the holders of such would have submitted to much lower prices, could pur chasers have been found. Weighed 79 pockets; during the week 22 pockets. THE H AYES TRAGEDY.—The practice of carrying those weapons of assassination, Spanish knives, is apparently on the increase. They have found their way from the midnight brawler and desperado, to the pupils of a private academy. Mere boys secretly exult in posses: sing them, and boast of their newly-acquired facility for stabbing an unwary adversary. Even the keepers o f suc h academies—men whose business it is to implant the seeds of moral and intellectual improvement in the minds of youth—see these deadly and detestable weapons in the hands of their pupils without censure or prohibition.— Bell's Weekly Messenger. LAW INTELLIGENCE. HOUSE OF LORDS, 217anmur 23. The House sat to-day to hear Scotch appeals, the Peers in attendance were the Lord Chancellor. Lord Brougham, the E4rl of Aberdeen, the Earl of Haddington, Viscount Melville, and Lord Berners. THE FRESBYTERY •OF ALCHTERARDER V. THE EARL. OF KINNOUL The arguments in this appeal, which is an t'-xtreinely im portant one to the Church of Se,eland, and which have already occupied five day s, were concluded to-day. The question in the case is whether the Court of Session or any civil court has the pewer to int(rf, re with the decision of any of the Presbyteries of the See ch Church in Eccle siastical matters, or whether the judgments pr:,nouncecl by those Pesbyteries could only be reversed or altered by the General Assembly of . the Church of Scotland. The short facts out of which the question arises are as follows : The presentation to the Church of Auchicrarder being in the Earl of Kinnoui, his Lor&-hip in 1834, upon the death of the incumbent, presented the Rev. Robert Yonne to the living, but the Presbytery of Auchterander refused to admit him, on the ground that the majority of the coen niunicants were against his being ("_;lied. Upon this refusal the Earl of Kinn ou i an d :‘lr. Young brought an action of Deciatator against the Presbyteryof Auchterander on the ground that their refusal to admit Mr. Young, was illegal, unwarrantable, a violation of the Statute, and to the prejudice of the patrimonial rights of the respondents, and therefore praying that it might be cl , clared that the presentation was valid, and that the appellants might be ordered to admit Mr. Young,. Upon the case coming on before the first Division of the Court of Session, that Court decided, that the Presbytery of Auchterander, in refusing to take trial of the qualifications of Mr. Young, on the ground that the majority of the male heads of familes, communicants in the parish were against his admission, had acted, to the prejudice of the Earl of Kinnoul and Mr, Young, illegally, and in violation of their duty, and con trary to the provisions of the Statute of Anne: from that decision the present appeal was brought. Sir F. POLLOCK and Mr. PENIEERTON appeared on be half of the appellants, contending that the Church of Scotland, as reformed from Popery by Presbyters was fully invested with the power of deciding on all questions with regard to the calling, trials, or dination, and admission of members, and of making laws and regulations with regard to those matters ; that the judgment pronounced by the Courts of the Church in relative to the trial, ordination, or admission of ministers, could only be appealed from to the General Assembly of the whole Church, whose decision was final ; and that the Court of Session had no jurisdiction with respect to the admission or calling of ministers, except so far as deciding upon the civil right to the emoluments of the benefice, and that they had no right to adjudicate upon any other points The ATTORNEY- GENERAL and Mr. KNIGHT BRUCE, who were Counsel for the respondents, submitted, at con siderable length, that the judgment of the Court below was correct, because the pleas of the appellant could not be sustained without leading to two results, first, to the acknowledgment of the entire independence of the Church Courts of all civil authoriy, which independence was not bestowed by statute, hut was one of the claims of the Church of Rome, cut down by statute, and was an extravagant pretension on the part of any Established Church ; and secondly, without leading also to the acknowledgment of the right of the Church to decide without controul as to the nature and extent of it 3 own powers and the validity of its own pretensions, which would prostrate the rights of all before the power of the Church as at once omnipotent and infal lible, and create a tyranny the same in character, preten sions, and in its alarming consequences as the tyranny of the Popish Church, the jurisdiction of which was by the statute of 1560 declared to have not only " been con tumelious to the Eternal God, but also very hurtful and prejudicial to our Soveraine's authoritic and commown weill of this realme." Sir F. PoLi.oex having concluded his reply this morning, The LORD CHANCELLOR said that the great importance of the present question, and the extent to which it had been carried, would render it necessary to postpone the consideration of the case for some time, but he would take care that it should not be delayed beyond the period that was necessary for the due consideration of the case. Lord BROUGHAM concurred with the suggestion of the Lord Chancellor. He looked upon the case as one of unspeakable importance to all parties concerned; and ie felt bound to say that he had never known a case of difficulty and importance argued with greater ability and learning than the present. He would take care that the judgment should be given before the 15th of May, ou which day the General Assembly would meet; and if he should not be in town, he should furnish his Learned Friend, the Lord Chancellor, with his written judgment. Indeed, whether he was present or not, such was the im portance of the case, that he should consider it necessary to write his judgment, in order that there might be no mistake about it. The further consideration of the case was then pos , poned, until after the Easter Recess. COURT OF CHANCERY, MARcm 23. The LORD CHANCELLOR did not sit in his Court to-day, in consequence of having to 'Attend the House of Lords, to hear a part-heard appeal. VICE-CHANCERY, Rem 23. His Honour the VICE-CHANCELLOR took motions to day, but no case of the slightest interest came before the Court, previous to its rising. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARLBORO UGH- STREET. IMPOSTURE. —Eliza Elflane, a middle-aged woman, was brought before Mr. DYER, charged with having defrauded a great number of the nobility and gentry, by representing herself to be the matron of the Infant School, St. George's, Hanover-square, and employed to collect sub scriptions in aid of the funds of that excellent charity. It was clearly proved that th e woman was i n no way connected with the Institution, and that her proceedings were based in imposition. It was also brought forward in evidence that the prisoner had obtained other sums of money by representing herself to be the matron of the Farm-street Infant School. Among those whom she had imposed upon were Lady Mary Ross, Lady Braybrooke, Lady De Dunstanville, Lady Clarke, Hon. Mrs. Best, sirs. Long, Mrs. Hodgson, Mrs. S. Bourne, and Miss Long. '.l:e prisoner was remanded till Wednesday. A notorious imposter, who pretext - 1s to be, or is, deaf and dumb, going by the names of Parker Page Morley, &c., was apprehended by W. and J. Horsford, the Mendicity Society's constables, who proved that the prisoner had been several times committed for his fraudulent practices, and that recently he had succeeded in obtaining money from Lord Wharncliffe, Sir F. Booth, Baron Biome, Lady M. Ross. Lady Bouverie, Hon. Mrs. Stanhope, Hon.' Mrs. Gosling, H. Hoare, Esq., &c. &c. The prisoner was ordered to be brought up again next Saturday. FIRE . REWARD!.-It has long been a subject of• very great complaint on the part of the householders of St. James's, St. George's, St. Giles's, and St. Anne's, the four parishes within the jurisdiction of this office, as to the very large sum they are called upon annually to pay in the shape of fire rewards. The aggregate sum, which can easily be ascertained, is shared among a very few persons, not more than ten or a dozen, as reported, and a good pro portion of these not regular firemen. The principal num ber of rewards appear to be fires in chimneys, and although sufficient evidence is always produced to satisfy the Magistrates that an alarm of the fire was reasonably created, yet in at least one half of the cases it may fairly be doubted if the reward has been honestly obtained. The last case, in which great doubt existed, was that of the Marquis of' Salisbury. It was alleged that a fire had occurred in a chimney in the Marquis's house in Arlington-street, and the engines were in consequence brought to the spot. The firemen admitted they went ever the house, but could see nothing to infer that a fire in the chimney had taken place. One of the firemen re marked some pieces of paper lying about, and observed, iL scraps of paper had been thrown on the fire, they, when ignited, might have blown up the chimney and produced the appearance which led to the idea that the chimney was on fire. Two witnesses, strangers to each other, distinctly swore they saw a quantity of sparks come out of a chimney pot belonging to his Lordship's house. On the other band, the steward and four of the Marquis's domestics were ex amined, and they swore distinctly that no fires were in any grate capable of producing sparks which should make their escape out of the chimney-pot. The sweep also went up the chimney where the sparks were said to have been seen, and he swore it had not been on fire. Mr. CONANT was of opinion that sufficient proof had been given that reasonable cause of alarm existed, and, therefore, that the engines were required, and awarded the third penalty. MARYLEBONE. John Galletry, coachman to his Royal Highness the Duke of Brunswick, was placed at the bar, charged with driving the Duke's carriage over a little boy, eight years of age, the son of a shoemaker, named Mills, who was playing in the road in Wigmore-street, about six o'clock, on Fri day, and who almost immediately after the accident died. As the prisoner was driving the Duke and his Secretary, Baron Andlom, to their residence, in Bryanston-square, the accident took place ; the child got on his legs after the wheels had gone over his body, but died before he could be taken home. On a policeman taking the prisoner into custody he was not aware of the fatal result of the accident, and seemed deeply affected. Baron Andlom became bail for the prisoner's appearance at the inquest, and he was liberated. HATTON GARDEN. Wm. Kinq, a young man, aged 22, was charged with passing counterfeit coin. On the Clerk saying that he re collected the prisoner a dozen times before the Bench on a similar charge, the fellow strongly denied it, and was asserting that he had only been a few days in London, when Mr. Field, of the Mint, coming into the office, he acknowledged to that gentleman having been fifty or sixty times charged with uttering false coin.—The prisoner was remanded. On an information preferred by Stowel, the informer, against Mr. Milling, of Smithfield, for obstructing the foot-way, being dismissed for want of proof, Mr. GREEN WOOD, the Magistrate, said to the informers, " Your race is nearly run, the Legislature is about to take away from the informers the moiety of the fines." The men looked aghast at this information. LAMBETH-STREET. Joseph Hermes, a fine looking young man, an engraver by profession, wa• - , charged.with taking away the daughter of the keeper of an ale and British wine warehouse in the Mile-end-road, named Dykes, and who also holds a situa tion in the City. The complainant said that the defendant had twice taken his daughter, .a girl of fi fte e n y ears of age , from his protection, and he had beer , obl i ged to send her from town to keep him away from her. On the previou s even i ng the defendant came to the ale-rooms, and called for beer, which being refused him, he made a disturbance, and rtes sent away in custody. The defendant said he did not take away the complain ant's daughter : the girl Ind sent for him to take her away from her father's house, because he wished to send her aNay. He took her to his cousin's, and sent for her uncle, whose care he put her. He acted in the same way on the second occasion. In this the defendant was con firmed by the persons referred to, who stated that the par ties were much attached to each other. The Magistrate told the defendant that he might be im p,i.:umed for taking .:wdy a girl under sixteen, arid dis charged him. THAMES-OFFICE. Hastings Moore, fir manly a Custom-house officer, Ra g convicted, in the high , st penalty of 1001., or smuggling tobacco. Two officers, who had known the prisoner to be a notorious smuggler, watched him and his daughter into a tobacc , mist's shop, with s eve r a l pound , . of smugg led tobacco, and took them into custody. On searching lbe, defendant's house, bladder s o f f ore i gn brandy and seve ral pounds of leaf tobacco were found, for which he had no permit. The defendant, being unable to pay the fine, 1 01 committed to prison duriog her Majesty's pleasure. BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, MAacti 21.—1 n the sitting of the Senate to day (21st) M. de Hang presented the report of the Celli' rnittee appointed to examine the project of law relative to the acceptance of the treaty of peace. The reporter observed that the Committee did not mean to justify the treaty of peace. It had not entered into a long examination of the several articles which it contaiess No Change can be made i n th em . We must refuse or accept the misfortune in the whole extent. • Our patriotism, our national prid e , ar e d ou btl e ss: mar fled by the late decisions of the Conference of London, but this decision has become a fact against which there is no means of contending. Mel? We might have sp o k e n o f th e means o f res i stanc e s-v— -the country could oppose to it; we might have dwelt op the various systems which have been brought forward another place, to save the country from so fatal a nee, e . s, sity ; but those means ha ve b een judged, the ChanW s ; has found them inadequat e t o res i s t the perils that -three o t e e j us, and dangerous in their consequence, and the g sense of the public has since ratified their judgment. $ The future fate of Belgium cannot be submitted t° f rash decision, and besides, g en tl emen , t h e peo ple „ s ' : Luxemburg and Limburg w ou ld b e t h e fi rst to b e ss e ,' ficed—their interests, their saf e ty wou ld run too gres;: risk in a desperate and unequal conflict. Abandoned its allies—pressed between a superior force, which threat s an unhappy futurity, which an i mposs ibl e res ists° — , reserves for it, your Committee has judged that nee ss ; sity obliges B e l g i um t o accept t h e treaty, and i t has tea honour to prop o s e t o y ou , b y a ma j or i ty o f 4 to 1, to S Y to the project of law. The report was ordered to be printed, and the dis u c g til ; sion to commence to- morrow , th at t h e M em b ers may "A;:• an opportunity to examin e th e re p or t ( w hi c h i s to be tributed this evening. Th e Ch am b er i s net to meet tO, morrow till two o'clock. The Chamber of Representatives, in its sitting to-dt agreed unanimously to the p ro j ec t o f l aw , au th or ising, t io re-exportation of foreign co rn i m p or t e d an d deposites,oo entrepot subsequently to the pr o hibiti on o f t h e expo rts of corn, DUTCH FUNDS.—AMATERDAM, MARCH 22. Money. 81 11 ,, , . Actual Debt, 2% per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. Amort Syndic, 4% per cent 94li 95 Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent. 79; SO Commercial Company, 4 , 4 per cent 179 : 179 g Ditto (1832 and 1833) 5 per cent....., — Ditto 1837, 5 per cent. lOO% 101 Loan 1837, 5 per cent. rs% 98% Exchange on London, One month ll 95 Two months ...... BEI.GI A N 1. UNDS—BRusms, MARCH 23. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. lft/U Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. --- --- 3 per Cent ...... .. 71 1 4 Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent 25 Society of Commerce, 4 %per Cent 123 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent l3B National Society . NO —Brussels Papers, March 23. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIEWNA, MARCH 14. Five per Cents. Metalliques Fmar per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shares 1474 —Allgemeine Zeitung, March 19. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BisauN, Matto' lg. Bids. Monet' St. Schuld. Sch., 4 per cent. 103% 102% Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 102% 10 ,1 Y Exchange on London, three months 620 —Prussian State Gazette. March ID. EGYPT. ALEXANDRIA, FEB. 20.—There is news from the F il ,, s „ P ; of the 21st of January, di rec t f rom F azog l o, whither bete really gone. He has ordered a number of houses to s a built there (where the gold i s f oun d) f or t h e workseet i ft the soldiers, and neglects nothing t o secure th e working °' mines against the neighbouring negro tribes. Six thousand Egyptian troops ar e t o su bd ue or keel/ ;oaf awe the mountaineers of Fazoglo. If any bodies O, Abyssinian cavalry should ag a i n a pp ear on t h e fronti'd orders are given immediately to enter Abyssinia, 3 0 subdue all the country bordering on Sennaar as ti r o Gondar. This will not be difficult ; and we wonder to 0, the Pasha has not don e it a l rea d y , i n sp i te o f t h e ru er strances of the English, who affirm that Abyssinia is o f their protection, th o ugh n o b o dy th ere k nows a nything o9s the English. The accounts add th at t h e Pasha st 5 0 twenty days in Fazoglo, and then returns to BOP" that he is expected about the end of March. THE MARKETS. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS, Wheat. Barley. Oats. Bea -- ......... Per Quarter. s. to s. 8. to a. a. to a. a. to a. S. , Boston Gainsborough — 81 37 23 44 „.. Grantham Grimsby Horncastle - .0 Linco:n 7O 77 j3l 42 20 29 48 50 --- .0 Spalding — SO 35 24 49 —." ..0 Stamfoid York l7O 80 ,26 34 24 28 32 44 -- WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET —March 21. ist. V l Theat, Red, Norfolk and Suffblk —s. 645. to 71s. fine ~,. --- Lin. and Cam. ' ---- Yorkshire —a. 58s. to 68a. line 7 p, ----- White ---- Foreign, tied —s, —s. to 61s. fine 70 White —s. ..-7. to—s. nn e 0. Barley, Norfolk and Siithilk , 42s. to 455. finel y -- Lin colnshire oBs. to 40s. fine 5 Yorkshire Wold . Foreign 4( 1: An: 4 5 Beans, Small —s. to 465. fine _4O -- Tic k —s. to 40s. fin e 3 4 Oats, Potato --a. to 30s. tine :,',O, -- Poland —s. —s. to 30s. fin e :v. --- vriezland and Small —a . . —L t .. , aling Shelling 36 13d s . 1 t is o 38 14 s .C4 Od d 26 ..:sPp. fine il' ''' 1. t; 1 0. 31117 ,S i Malt s. 4!. fine 48s.r L ot. Rapeseed .... —l. Os 29/. s Os. S O l. Os Pert .RKET tiberdeen Berwick Coldstream► Curti' (Fife) Dunbar Elgin Kirkaldy Perth 75 to 80 40 54 52 55 48 65 0t 70 66 70 (35 CS 16 51 64 • 77 (30 ^6 aze of the 11)ING CO Wheat. 75s Od 60s lid 6ls Od Average, DALT Tho HA[ 34 to 3( 94 28 24 26 26 at 34 38 26 38 35 3S 2! 27 23 31 23 2f measure va) N CORN S Barley. 44. s Oil 40s Od 36s Od First SJecend Third Oats. 21 te 27 IS 21 17 18 18 22 26 32 `8 35 27 2:4 16 23 20 23 20 22 ries througl KAItKEI.. Oats. Xis Od r. 03 Od 28s 061 31. 6.- Beans. to 26 30 27 28 211 26 40 42 23 30 32 33 32 34 45 48 22 25 ;hoot the c —March 2 I P r cs o e 4 423 Od 403 Od 3d: 9.l2ths. _..,KEITII CORN MARKET.—March 21. Wheat. Barley, I Oats. Pease. . 4 „US First 74s Od 41s Cad 37s 4d 56s Od 0 0 Ass , Second 67s Od 37s 6d 28s Od 45s Od Third s3s 3d 30s 6d Ms 6d 40s Od 401 U EDINBURGH CORN MARKET.—March 20. 0 10 We had a large supply of all kinds of G ra i n t o-day, an d the were rather dull. ' Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. P li -An #' 7 7 3 0 8. O o d. 3 4 5 4 s o t'd. 3 4 0 15. S o d. 4 48 5 5. 0 0d. 4 - 4 0 60 0 22 6 21 0 40 0 40 ° rerage price of Wheat 31. 7s. PRICES OF PROVISIONS, &C. F gi. Beef, per lb. Os. ed. to Os.7d. Fr es h B utter, lb . s , 10,1, to . 1 11 Vlutton.* 0 6 0 7 Salt Dittow....,. 010 Veal 0 9 1 0 Ditto, p er cwt .... 84 0 0 v Pork _ 0 5 0 6 Eggs, per dos-- t) 0 1 6 Lamb, per qr. —lO 0 15 0 OatStraw(lcy.i.). 0 ... 8 6 i o 0 Callow,o 44 0 Wheat Ditto...,. 8 0 ' b 6 2uartern Loaf 010 0 101 Barley Ditto —7 0 i Potatoes, 1411 i. —0 6 0 0 Hay, per 1 0 EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET.—March 19. There was a middling supply of Oatmeal at this day's mar' thr sales were rather heavy. Per Sack of 26011). Imp. First Oatmeal Second ditto. Barleymeat.. Peasemeal ll4 01 Yot Barley—No. I, per cwt. Nat' GLASGOW CORN ] A moderate business doin; Wheat, yer 240tb. s. d. s. d. British, old 370 to 39 0 new 36 0 35 0 Canada, free 34 0 36 0 Irish Barley, per 3201 b English 32 8 3' ' 4 cottish 29 0 Irish First Second Third Truro Helstone St. Austell Bodrnm Liskeard Launceston Camelford Penzance. Per Stone of 141 b. lop 0 First Oatmeal 0 g Second ditto - Barleynieal w•' • 0 0 i Peasemeal 1, 208 A R KET.—March 20. in Grain ; prices.steadP d. O. Oats, per 2641 b °' 0 teis l Irish 2O British .21 0 Beans, per 22601 b.„ ni English 24 u r 0 Scottish 22 0 0 Pease, Scottish Oatmeal, per 1401 b .' 0 Flour, per 280Ib 5O JORNIVALL MARKETS. ilculated at 24 gallons to the bushel.) Wh ea t. Barley. s. d. to r. d. s. d. to s. 0 25 0 0 12 0 `is 0 0 9 0 25 6 0 9 0 24 6 0 9 0 22 0 0 9 0 21 6 0 9 21 0 24 0 0 10 24 0 26 0 0 11 p. 22 , d. s. d• L° l o 0 O 0 0 0 6 —. 0 I! 0 6 _ 0 7 0 6 .... 0 0 0 O — n O 6 0 o 7 v 0 o 0 PRIZE CUPS.—New and Second-hand Sits,ol l PRIZE CUPS are offered at very REDUCED PRI G es selection may be made from a grea t var i ety, b ot h of Afo t teß i. Patterns, at T. COX SAVORY'S , G o ld sm i t h, &nu chu rc°' maker, 47, Cornhill, London (Seven Doors from Grace yor to Street).—Drawings of Cups will be forwarded in an s post-paid app s licatton. ie ptio N.B. It i desirable L e tt ers f or Drawings shouldat 1116 either the size o r a b out t h e price of the Cup or Cur thn be required. Afr'' BIRTHS. On the 20th inst., at Melina-place, lace St. John's - v' o- J. W. Grazebrook, o f a d aughter. On the 21st in s t., Mrs. Charles Meyer. Newington,place' K the ennington, of a daughter. On the 21st inst., at St. George's-terrace, IlY cle-Paru, wife of Geo rge A r b uthnot Es of a son On the 22d inst., in Manchlter-square . ~ Mrs. ypillia of a daught er . , C i Vi ard On the 22d inst. at Thelnethan, Suffolk, the lady ° Fl. Sawb r id ge, E sq., of daughter. fi e °f b On the 22d i nst., at Islinivton, Emma, the 0 Joseph W ontner , o f a daughter. MARRIED. On the 23d inst., at Kensington Church, th e F ` el‘ ou l t b Y e° l Lovett, third son of Slckville Lovett, o f the soame s, Dublin, Esq., to Frances, only daughter of W. A. Milton, Kent, Esq. Loudon : Printed and Published by MURDO I r° c'' . (1 ' in No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office. No. 112, the county of Middlesex.—Monday, March 25, 1839. SCOTCH M. Wheat. I Barley. - 1 EVEN INC- EDITION. THE SUN, LOND IN, DAY, MARCH 25, 1839. EVENING EDITION•