The Sun. — London, England, 1836-07-14 00:00:00

---- We have elsewhere given a report of the proceed ings at a meeting held yesterday at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, to petition . Parliament on the subject of the treatment of Dr. Beaumont. We confess we could-have wished that Mr. O'Connell, who stated the case of Dr. Beaumont very forcibly, had spoken with more respect of the Head of the trench Government. Certain we are that if it be wished to effect the libera tion of Dr. Beaumont through the representations of the English Government, the application of hard words to the King of the French will not tend to promote that object. The extent to which the Press of one country should go in discussing the conduct of the Government of another, is always a matter of some de licacy. We would not deny to oppressed foreigners the sympathy with their wrongs which they may ob tain by an appeal to the world through the columns of the English Press ; but we question whether it be al lowable to use the English Press as an instrument for the purpose of exciting in any people dissatisfaction with . , their G overnment. W e object, therefore,, to the use o f t h e words " tyrant on the throne, and " tyrant Monarch of France " by Mr. O'Con nell. The French are a great and enlightened nation, and it is for them to decide on the conduct of their Monarch. Indeed, we question whe ther they may not feel the application of such lan guage to their King an insult to themselves, as imply ing in them a subserviency to misgovernment which would not be manifested by another people under si , 1 'filar circumstances. With respect to the case of Dr. Arthur James Beaumont, it does certainly seem that i I he has been very harshly treated. It is no d ou bt true that a foreigner is subject to the laws of the country i 4 which he resides ; but even this doctrine must be r eceived with some exceptions, for the French Govern , inent demanded satisfaction from Don Miguel for the treatment exp er i ence d by French subjects in Portugal, 'th oug h h arsh, was yet in accordance with the '4 " ef th a t country, and on the refusal of satisfaction force was resorteato. The Frenchmen were sentenced b y, Port uguese tribunals, just as Dr. Beaumont has been sentenced by a French tribunal. Were a French 'llan to have been tried in England on a charge similar to that prefer re d aga i nst D r. Beaumont, his fate would I 1 no do u b t have been very different. We think the jchief stress ought to be laid on the substantial in ustice of the sentence against Dr. Beaumont, for we doubt whether there is much force in the point la boured b y Mr. O'Connell with great ingenuity, that lie was tried under a law which had no existence when ~ he was committed to prison. It is true that power was given to th e P eers to try Dr. Beaumont, when he was already in pri son ; b ut have not offenders been fre - qnently tried in this and every other country by Courts which had no existence when the offence was commit ted ? It would not be a good objecti on t o the com petency of the the A ct of Central C r i m i na l C ourt, to say that Parli a ment constituting it was passed sub sequent to the act for which an individual was placed °" his trial. The treatment of Dr. Beaumont is sub stantially at variance with the principles of justice, and we cannot be help thi n ki ng, therefore, that if his case properly represented, he will obtain his liberation. The instance of Turkey does not apply, 'because, by express treaty with that power, English are - empted f rom the Turkish tribunals.—Morit me . n Citro n A letter published in the Irish Papers explains why the name of Mr. Sharman Crawford did no t appear i n thet majorit y against Lord Maho n ' s amen d ment upon e Appropriation Clause in the Irish Tithe Bill. We hav e always given Mr. S. C rawford credit for upright f g, and honourable, patriotic purpose ; but in the t• I Present i nstance he has put it out of our power to con -1 1 cede to him the character of prudence or good sense. It is possible that his constituents may be satisfied with his absence from the division on Lord Mahon's amendment, and with his declared reasons for absent ing himself from his place—but of this we are quite , s ure, that out of Dundalk there is not to be found a " ze n of sensible Reformers who will acquiesce in the IT !eine or concur in the matter of the Hon. Gentleman's letter to th e " Liberal Constituency" of that borough. Allowing Mr. Sharman Crawford to be actuated, as zwe.belleve he is, by the sincerest love of country, the most anxious wish to improve the moral he e e y i ; h y si cal condition of the Irish people, we at a 1 - loss to understand upon what plea egotis 7 ti c a a j lit " - t corn ) '9 charge—as .he . does . by an ~.kr. OConnell r ast and an offensive implication— menibers wt. and the rest . of the Liberal Irish . • in question"°Wivtohted in the majority on the occasion constituents'degrading themselves and their call th e b y sancti on i ng w h at he is pleased to ClUdin" the pitiful offer" —that is, the Tithe Bill, in th ;itl'i at, Approp r i at i on Clause. Are we to believe l ' sentatives one exception, the Irish Liberal Repre are dolts and betrayers ?—Or does Mr. S. C raw for dolts • „ s ro imagine that he alone is " wisest, virtuousest, Prettygicreetest, best ?" Now, in our opinion, and we are , sure this opinion is shared by 19 out of 20 of ll Reformers of the United Kingdom, the wisest and 0f bes t course to be pursued, in reference to the question to tithes in Ireland, is 'to adapt our proceedings toocircumstances, and not to spurn a moderate good, instant we cannot, unfortunately, achieve in an _ ant üblic , are all the advantages to which we, the entitled. The Member for Dundalk th at art•ully ; impressed with the conviction—that even ::,11,_ measure conditions," insulting which he repudiates as a " pitiful as respects its amount and its t he notions is still too large —too good —to meet _ notions of the Tory Peers, who constitute 4,e perverse and bigotted majority in one of our thatl gtslve assemblies. He must also know, ic. i o , t hi s country there is much diversity of in favour upon this question, and that the prejudice _na,tyour of that monstrouso anomaly, the Ecclesiasti iieolt Establishment dlreland—an anomaly avowed and i n defended by Lord M a h on hi mself while perform ,log the offi ce of Tory mouth-piece —is in England by means inconsiderable, though exceedingly inconsi (ler .ior a . te : That such should be the fact is lamentable— ,.itt is matter for serious regret to observe in the He yre__4,l a Chamber a blind determination to adhere to 4 _,na t 9 uphold a gigantic evil, the parent of countless abuses and mischiefs, which has hitherto marred the gr s owth of Protestantism and checked the progress of ocial improvement in . Ireland, and will in the end odious the very name of the Church of England thous in the sister countr ; and it is equally to Ile regretted, that upon his point the titled con servators of abuse have with them no insignificant Portion of British sympathy --a matter of r. atter fact, to .11 Mr. O'Connell claims the attention of his :1_„1-intrymen in his very able second letter to the people tutu, Ireland. This, then, being the case, the great bulk of the Hereditary Legislators having a selfish _,',"d a factious interest in the Having of the c t',l6siautical Establishm e nt in its pernicious entirety, and : li e Peopl e of England not being yet all, or nearly greatsufficiendy alive to their own interests and to the Ads' v , antage s to the Protestant religion with which fr uorough refor m of the Irish Protestant Church is a lit 1 Mr. Cr pi e ,: , how can the letter ofawford, so re iii:,,,with acrimonious feeling and gratuitous insult to goo!,'"eral Irish colleagues, be reconciled either with for !L sense or judicious policy ? -The Hon. Member c "undalk taunts the Reformers in the House of ... 0r ,,,_ )11e-'1"0115 with " blustering swagger in words, and tailat" submission in action." Will this most unwar ei. abl e charge, a charge not justified by facts or by Ic ninst ao , ' • breasts of those Wh o c es, meet a response in the Mr. D onuernned a si milarprocedure on the part of .. . • V. Harvey .. P . the tithe ni, r It is not upon 4-esti on , , l gooses alone that we perceive Mr, S. Crawforc to quarrel with the Reformers of the Lower Do se the „.: He assert s that they have already sacrificed %i 0: ~ e nce of the Corporate measure to avoid a colli li with the, we fear incurable T -' P With ho,h ie , ~ ory peers. kfact. submission, this assertion is at war with ink , In what consisted the essenc e of the bi tot _Pi Bill ? Was it not in the establish jar i _ °l.a reformed municipal system in Ireland, simi fie jai pr.inciple to that which is found to work so bene -4ppeal)•Nn Great Britain ? So we think, and so, it liamen't., thought the Tories in both Houses of Par ,l,A , for they resisted, and, being omnipotent in c' /louse, rejected rd , . the measure. Does Mr. S. ''''''sisted ..nca n to say that the essence of that measure tes ni the numbe r of • •1 . •-?I i I • Inutile:a ale.i tns Peet alone slid ~,,. • snerifi_e .vrintsters and the] Commons make a cto the adverse feelings of tl Lords. 0 the Was it SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. \ then fair on th e part of the Member for Dundalk to put forth this groundless charge of sacrificing the essence of the Corporate Reform Bill ? On the whole, we question if Mr. Crawford's letter will raise his character in the estimation even of those to whose warm, and upon the two questions which he discusses, naturally strong feelings he appeals. It may afford a handle to faction to play with, but to the Reformers who have steered a wise and politic course it can do no harm.—Morning Chronicle. It is, upon the whole, a matter for congratulation to the country, and in a worldly sense, above all others, to the possessors of landed property, that the English tithe question may now be looked upon as substantially settled. 'We shall not scrutinize too severely the mo tives which have actuated various classes of the com munity, through whose acquiescence, or whose more positive concurrence, this great object of the domestic policy of England has thus been brought to a fair and satisfactory adjustment. The non-opposition of the landowners throughout the kingdom may have pro ceeded, as it professed to flow, from the purest feelings of benevolence and attachment towards the Church ; nor shall we stop to throw doubts upon the genuine ness of such liberality, because of the solid advan tages with which it happens to be attended. But there is one body of men whose intentions no shade of unfavourable suspicion can be affixed to. The clergy of England, though not driven by persecution, like their unhappy brethren on the other side the Channel—the English clergy, with the vast prepon derance of national opinion and sentiment in their favour, against all who should oppress or disturb them, with the protecting arm of the law, had such support been necessary, to uphold them, in the full maintenance of their just rights, and in the collection of their unimpaired revenues—that clergy, with nothing to intimidate, nothing to produce upon them any irre• gular or overbearing bias, have agreed, without a mur mur, to the sacrifice of no inconsiderable present in come, and of large, nay indefinite, accessions to it hereafter, for the sake of spreading increased harmony and contentment over the land, and of leaving no pre tence for even speculative projects, no field for adven turous experiments, upon the condition of the Pro testant Established Church, to expose the most pre cious institution of civilized man to risk, from the fluctuations and future contingencies of party conflict. This conduct is noble, for its personal disinterested ness, and admirable for its long-sighted wisdom ; nor can it fail to endear the ministers of the established re ligion to that wide portion of their flocks which com prehends the middle and labouring classes of society, who will henceforth stand towards their clergy in the single and undefiled relati on o f h earers on l y o f the word of God from their lips, not as contributors to their worldly subsistence—as receivers, but no longer payers.—Times. Scarcely has the blood of the assassin Fieschi and the murdered Morey and Pepin, dried upon the scaf fold, when the axe of the guillotine drips with the gore of another political fanatic, who devoted his own life in attempting to take that of the " Citizen King," the representative of the " glorious days of July ;" the President of the " Monarchy with republican insti tutions." Whether Alibcaud acted in concert with others, or conceived and ventured upon the criminal design alone, his whole conduct, from the moment of his arrest up to that of his execution, showed that he was an enthusiast whose morbid sensibilities were worked up to that pitch of fixed determination which in the prosecution of a dreadful enterprise, is reck less of all consequences: In a Brutus, this would be called Roman courage. In Alibeaud it was only that disease of the reason which is called manomania, for which 'the proper coercion, or cure, was a lunatic asylum —not the guillotine. Very different was the conduct of this last assailant of the life of Louis Philip—wh o is no more a Csar than Alibeaud was a Brutus—to that of Fieschi, who was a crazy ruffian, but not an enthusiast, and who mixed up with unmi tigated ferocity the flippant vanity of a coxcomb. We believed all along, and we believe now, that Fieschi was a rank coward, who confidently flattered himself, and seemed to have received secret assur ances to that effect, that his life would be spared at the last moment. Hence the impudent levity with which he conducted himself before and during his trial, when he was the coaxed, admired, and even appjauded hero of that disgusting drama exhibit e d i n t h e C r i m i na l Court of the d egra d e d Peers of France, which reflected the deepest disgrace upon the civilization of our Gallic neighbours in the nineteenth century. The plot of Fieschi is still involved in mystery—whether the ob scure allusions, which he frequently threw out to some Clark agency behind the scenes had reference to police emisseries is a secret that is buried with him. Certain it is that he denounced two men as accomplices, against one of whom, with the exception of Fieschi's own de clarations, and those of the infamous woman who had her instructions from him, there was scarcely anything like evidence, and against the other—none at all. The ruffian who destroyed 18 or 20 . innocent lives at a blow was consistent in dying his hands in innocent blood at the moment of going.down to th e g ra ve . B ut w h at are we to say of - the " mild and merciful virtues" of the " Citizen King," who allowed Fieschi's appetite for human victims to be indulged in the last moments of his wolfish career ? In order the better to under stand the regal virtues of the revolution of July has encircled with the splendours of a Throne, let us turn back a page or two in the recent history of France. We find that on the Bth of October, 1830, M. de Tracey moved that the punishment of death be abo-* lished in France. In this he was supported by General Lafayette, M. Girod de l'Ain, M. Keratry, and other distinguished Deputies. General Lafayette emphati cally observed, in allusion to the infliction of that pu nishment for political offences, " Those who seek for the adjournment of this proposition have not had the misfortune to see their families dragged to the scaffold. I am, for my part, the enemy of the punishment of death, and above all, the enemy of the punishment of death in political matters." M. Girod de l'Ain, after an able and convincing argument, proposed that the punishment of death be abolished. He said " a pro ject of law will be presented to the Chamber during the session, to determine the punishments which ought to be substituted for the punishment of death in the cases to which it is now applied." Subsequently an address, supplicating him to prepare a law for the abo lition of the punishment of death, was carried by a majority of 225 to 21, which was received by the King in a manner which left no doubt on the minds of the supporters of the address that lie sincerely meditated the abolition of that punishment. On the 17th of the same month of October King Louis Philippe received a deputation from Stt Brieux, capital of the Cotes du Nord. M. Charles Lucas, Advocate in the Royal Court of Paris, one of the deputation, addressed the King in a speech which concluded in the follow ing words :—" Permit me, Sire, to express a per sonal wish—namely, that we owe the abo lition of the penalty of death to the reign to which we are already indebted for the abolition of war." The King said in his answer that he had not forgotten the brave battalions of the Cotes du Nord, with whom he had fought at Gcnappe, and that if there still remained in the department some of those old defenders of the country, he begged the deputation to tell them that he remembered them with affection. " I am happy," he added, " at the abolition of civil war in your country; and as for the abolition of the penalty of death, I am led to desire it, from a conviction which I have enter tainedtw throughout King my lif e , an d I s h a ll d o my utmostt orealize your wish, w hi c h i s a l so m i ne. " The King hore expressed that sentiment is he under whose reign more blood has been shed in France by military exe cution than in any former period, with the exception of the " reign of terror," that could be mentioned. It is the same King whose throne " with republi can institutions," is surrounded by bayonets—whose reign is aseries o f emeutes—police plots and politi cal assassinations, an d whose Government is supported by incessant prosecut ions against the pr ess , by Fi esc hi laws, which trample ill liberty in th e d ust , an d b y t h e vigorous working of the mac h inery of the guillotine. A'Sovereign of whose character some porti on o f wis dom and mercy formed any part would have sent Ali beaud to a lunatic asylum. His death upon the scaf fold will only have the effect of a dreadful attraction upon the diseased temperaments of other rnonomaniasts of his class, men of strong political antipathie s , w h ose mor bid imaginati ons , b y an exclusive contemplation of the one idea, are wrought upon and maddened " to that worst pitch of all which bears a reasoning show." Was Alibeaud put to death for example's sake ? Why then endeavour to make a secret of his execution ? Ii appears that it was intended to enact the horrible tra gedy at so early an hour as three o'clock is the morn ing, when all the population for whose benefit the ex ample was intended were supposed to be in profound repose. It was an accident which revealed this design to the people of Paris. If Alibeaud was not put to death as an example, for what purpose was he put to death at all ? Was the " Citizen King" afraid that the victim would have the sympathies of the people ? If so, could he not have seen that the taking of the life of the unfortunate man would be only an unprofit able shedding of blood ? C an an y exam pl e o f pu nishment b e beneficial which enlists the feelings of the community on the side of the sufferer ? When we witness such scenes occurring so frequently in France under the new regime, let us recollect the emphatic declaration of Louis Phillippe to the friends of the abo lition of the penalty of death, when the lives of the ex-Ministers vvere in jeopardy—" I shall do my utmost to realise your wish, which is also mine!"—Mornin g Herald. The case ,of Dr. Beaumont, in whose person the French Government has committed a most flagrant violation of the rights of British subjects, as well as of the law of nations, was last evening the subject of a public meeting at the Crown and Anchor. Mr. O'Connell presided, and addressed the meeting in the most eloquent and energetic manner, condemna tory of the aggression committed by the French Government in punishing a British subject on an ex postfacto law. Dr. Beaumont's sole offence con sisted in his being a member of a society for pro-. moting the interests of the working classes. At the time there was no law in France under which he could be legally convicted ; but the French Government arrested him, and after keeping him in prison for two years, a law was passed on the Fieschi attempt, under which Dr. Beaumont was arraigned, and having re fused to plead, was pronounced guilty, and sentenced to deportation,—a sentence which was afterwards commuted, and under another ex-post : facto law, he was sentenced to perpetual imprisonment in a French dungeon ! Is this to be endured ? The outrage committed on Dr. Beaumont is an outrage on the British nation ; and if France choose to disgrace herself by submission to a tyrant, it is no reason why England should become a participator in her degrada tion, and basely allow one of her subjects, guiltless of any crime, to be the victim of an atrocious and abomi nable despotism. If this be submitted to, what Eng lishman on the Continent will be safe ? It is nothing less than an invitation to tyranny to select a victim from the subjects of a nation which, by acquiescing in the present instance, would show itself either unwilling or unable to vindicate the rights of her citizens. It is almost incredible that the French Government would have dared such an aggression —perpetual imprison ment of a British subject ! and for what ? Being a member of a society for advancing the interests of the working classes I We do not blame the French people —we would, if they would but vindicate their own liberties, gladly hail them as brothers=but we have not words adequately to denounce the Government to which they have so shamelessly yielded the destinies of their country.—Morning Advertiser. Mr. O'Connell's patriotic missives to his country men, in which he exhorts them to obey the law, but nevertheless to obtain by agitation what he wants, whether the law will give it or not, are most consist ently supported by the demonstrations of his Radical friends , here, who enlighten the nation through the medium of the Ministerial newspapers. They even go beyond him in that particular department of his public labours which he seems to perform with the heartiest good-will. We allude to his coarse and venomous abuse of the British name and nation—his brutal hatred of that honest Protestant people to whom, if he were ever in the slightest degree capable of honourable gratitude, he would constantly show his thankfulness, by behaviour such as they could esteem. It is the part of gross and ungenerous minds to believe that no boon is ever conferred except through fear of withholding it, or hope of obtaining some selfish ad vantage in return for it. Upon this principle Mr. O'Connell supposes that when the British nation granted an equality of Legislative privileges to the Roman Catholics of Ireland, they did so either because they could not help it, or because they wanted to make some use of him, to establish a popular influ ence in Ireland. The former is the cause which he now affects to believe—the latter teas the darling con viction of his soul ; and the personal disappointment of that conviction is, no doubt, the origin of all the rage against the Conservative party that he has since exhibited. The truth is, the British people ac quiesced in Catholic Emancipation, so far as they ac quiesced in it at all, from a sentiment of national kindliness and good-will ; and what they hoped for in return was, the peaceable and legal conduct of those who, up to that time, contended that their violence and agitation had for its object the attainment of Emanci pation, and that alone. But this would by no means suit Mr. O'Connell's temperament. He was resolved either to hold the place of influential friend of - the Government, and absolute master of Ireland, as lie now does in relation to the Melbourne humbug, called, by courtesy, an Administration, or to have his revenge for being neglected, and to give the most violent kind of practical evidence that his hatred of England and Englishmen was not dead, but had only slept while there was a hope of getting something better for him self by fulsome flattery of England—of the House of Lords—and especially of the Duke of Wellington. During the year 1829 there was enough of this to sicken every man in England, gentle or simple, who was possessed of that spirit which becomes a man. But to return to our sheep—those " best public in structors," who now help out Mr. O'Connell in his libels upon Englishmen because they will not be the slaves of Mr. O'Connell's slaves, namely, the present Ministers. A Ministerial paper of yesterday brings forward in its most vehement manner these charges against the farmers of England : I. " That it has been demonstrably proved in Warwick. shire, South Devon, Northamptonshire, and other counties, that by the operation of Lord Chandos's tenantry at will clause in the Reform Act the farmers in this country are reduced to the most cruel vassalage." 2. That " they are driven to the hard necessity of screening their abject slavery beneath the cloak of Sectarian animosity." 3. That " they are driven to the poll like oxen to the pens of Smithfield by their Tory landlords and Tory agents." 4. That " the farmers of England, in a majority of in stances, are glad to hide the shame of a necessary sub serviency to the will of a tyrannical Tory proprietary under the veil of a religious rancour." We would fain hope that no Englishman—that no man who feels as an Englishman—could be guilty of the foregoing insulting falsehoods. What does he mean by a " necessary subserviency" to such base ness ? An Englishman cannot understand the neces sity of being a dastardly, false tongued scoundrel, which he must be if such charges could be established against him. They are false--grossly, foully, false— and we only wish that it were possible for language to convey the intensity of the conviction, and the depth of the scorn, with which we charge falsehood upon the low-thoughted libellers of the British farmers who have the audacity to venture upon such charges ? Talk of " insults to Ireland," because the Upper House of Parliament judges it. meet to guard the country from the machinations of perjured political mountebanks I What are we to call such charges as these ? Are they not insults—insults of a character which every honest man who feels for outraged honesty ought to re sent ? But we are, perhaps, wrong to be moved to anger by such gross folly, for the folly—the mean, drivelling, idiotic folly—of the charges is even more apparent than their insulting character. Let men who have eyes to see, and ears to hear, judge. Let experience say where there is anything like " cruel vassalage" on the part of the English farmers ? There is no such thing—they would allow no mortal man, Lord or Commoner, to make vassals of them. But they are "abject slaves" too ; and, instead of rising up to abolish their slavery, they " cloak" it, forsooth, be " sectarian animosity." Insolent idiot ! Again, " they (the farmers of England) are driven to the poll like oxen to the pens at Smithfield." Tut, tut we should like to see the men, or the army, that would so drive English farmers. The host which that great chief of liberals, Napoleon Bonaparte, THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1836. took with him to die in Russia would not do it. The veteran and enthusiastic army that he led to be beaten out of existence by British valour at Waterloo would not do it. No—Englishmen are not to be so driven until they have been poisoned by the atmosphere and slavery of towns. The man who wrote this must have been thinking of the super stitious, priest-ridden Irish. They, indeed, are driven —ay, beaten, like dogs—to the polling places. But we are English and Protestants, and we will not suffer for a moment the bare imagination of such indignity and wrong. Again, the tenants-at-will contemplated by Lord Chandos's clause in the Reform Act must be holders of land for which they pay, at the least, a rent of 501. a year. Can any piece of impudent folly go beyond that of the assumption that men in this situa tion are less independent than the miserable creature who, under the Reform Act, has a vote for Members for towns if he pay three or four shillings a week for the squalid stall in which he cobbles out his existence ? Or, to take county constituencies, is it to be imagined for a moment, by any man out of Bedlam, that the tenant-at-will who rents ground worth at least 501. a year in Middlesex, and votes for Captain Wood, is less independent than the dirty little shopkeeper of Hammersmith or Mile-end who, in virtue of his lease; or his forty-shilling freehold, votes for Mr. Hume ? Away with such utter nonsense ; but we have been provoked to speak our mind upon it, and we have done so.---Morning Post. POST-OFFICE. (From the Votes of the House of Commons.) Mr. Wallace is to move the following resolutions this evening : I. That the present numerous complicated Laws re specting Communications by Post be repealed, and replaced by clear comprehensive Statutes. 2. That a reduction be made on the present rates charged on letters sent by the General Post, whether Do mestic, Colonial, Foreign, or Private Ship Letters. 3. That the rates of Postage by the G enera l P ost b e charge a bl e on l y accor di ng to the computed distance by the nearest carriage road between one Post Town and another. 4. That Letters from the Colonies and Dependencies of Great Britain and Ireland, may be received free by Mem bers of Parliament, the same as if coming from subjects of the King in these Countries. 5. That Postage be chargeable to Members of Parlia ment, by weight, on whatever that may exceed the allow ance of one ounce each, on the aggregate of fifteen letters, presently allowed to be franked, namely, fifteen letters free, if not , exceeding fifteen ounces on the whole. 6. That the terms Penny and Twopenny Posts shall cease to be used. 7. That the term Parcel Post be substituted for those of Penny and Twopenny. 8. That Parcel Posts shall be considered elsewhere, as they are in London, as short distance, local Posts ; and that Postage shall not be superadded, in future, on General Post Letters or Newspapers, although forwarded through the Parcel or Penny Post. 9. That Parcel Posts, similar in all respects to the pre sent Twopenny and Threepenny London Posts, which cover Letters or Parcels not exceeding four ounces in weight, and which has so long been working beneficially, for fifteen miles in and around London, be generally established all over the Kingdom. 10. That Parcel Post Mail Bags may be sent by Stage Coaches, wherever this can be done better and cheaper than by Horses, Mail Carts, or Mail Coaches. 11. That Mail Bags may be sent from the General Post Office in London, as they are in every other town what ever, at any suitable hour of the day. 12. That all Mail Bags arriving early in the morning in London, be sent forward towards their destination by ten o'clock at latest the same day. 13. That the Stage Coaches having a Guard, may be employed to carry Mail Bags containing General Post Let ters, whenever the public service will benefit thereby. 14. That the powers, duties, salaries, and emoluments of Post Office Surveyors and Deputy Postmasters, be defined and regulated, and published at every Post Office. 15. That Post Offices in Towns be established in conve nient central situations. 16. That Maps of the roads of Post communication be published by authority, and for sale ; and Time-bills con nected with each locality be exhibited in every Post Office, in some conspicuous place. 17. That a sum amounting to 800,0001., as some calcu late, or to nearly double that amount, according to the computation of others, has been lost to the Nation, in con sequence of recklessly creating and obstinately persisting in the maintenance of a Fleet of Post Office Steam Packets. 18. That those to whom these losses are attributable are unworthy of public confidence. 19. That the Crown Lawyers do prosecute Defaulters or Delinquents connected with any frauds, or other unwar rantable losses sustained by the Public in the Steam Packet branch of the Post Office service ; and also, any other De f.telters or Delinquents in any other branch of the Post Office Department, where losses have been unduly sus tained, since the consolidation of the Irish and Scotch Post Offices with that of England. CH ANCERY COURT-WEDNESDAY. WARD V. POMFRET. This was an appeal from an order of the Vice- Chancellor directing a second trial of an issue to ascertain whether a certain modus with respect to the payment of vicarial tithes had existed from time immemorial, in the parish of Tenter den, in the county of Kent. The appeal was opened on Saturday by Mr. Sergeant WILDE, on the part of the de fendant, in whose favour the Jury on the last trial gave their verdict. Mr. BOTELER was also heard in support of the order of the Vice Chancellor. Mr. WRIGHT followed this morning on the same side, contending that although the Jury had found in favour of the modus, the Vicar would still be unable to recover his tithes, because it was impossible to know what sum he could legally claim from each individual. Mr. KNIGHT having declined to avail himself of his right to reply, The Loan CHANCELLOR said that the issue, as framed, being a part of the decree, and that decree having been argued before the Vice-Chancellor, and re-heard by Lord Brougham, it was not in the power of the Court to alter it. That being so, it seemed to be quite useless to send the matter to a new trial, as the jury had already pro nounced their verdict on the issue as submitted to them. His Lordship, under these circumstances, refused the new trial, overruling the order of the Vice-Chancellor, and di recting that the costs of the defendant in the hearing be fore his Honour should be costs in his cause. PREROGATIVE COURT. I HADLEY AND WESTON V. WRIGHTSON AND HARRIS. The arguments in this case were to-day concluded, and Sir HERBERT JENNER gave judgment. Mr. Joseph Hadley, of Birmingham, the deceased in the case, died on the 31st of January, 1835, leaving personal property to amount of 2,0001., consisting mainly of his stock in trade as a button-maker, and his book debts. He left a son, two daughters, and grandchildren. The will, which bore date, 1833, was prepared by Mr. Whateley, the con fidential solicitor of the deceased, whose conduct appeared to the Court to have been most perfectly correct and pro per throughout the whole transaction, was executed in the presence and the approbation of his family, and be queathed the property in equal shares amongst them. However, shortly afterwards, the surviving son, Mr. Benja !pia Hadley, had applied to a solicitor respecting a codicil to his father's will in his own favour, and it was said, there fore, that the paper now propounded had not originated in the mind of the deceased ; but the question was whether, even supposing the suggestion to have originated with the son, the deceased had not adopted and subsequently acted upon it. Under all the circumstances, the Court was per fectly satisfied that the codicil propounded was the free and spontaneous act of th e d eceased, though perhaps not ori ginating with him, and wa s o f op i n i on that the evidence was sufficient to entitle the codicial to the probate of the Court. The Court, therefore, pronounced for the codicil of the Btli of November, 1833 ; for the will of 1833, and the last codicil of December, 1834. He decreed the costs of both parties out of the estate. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT, CHELMSFORD, Juzr 13. John Scowen was indicted for the manslaughter of Wil !Lan Hitchcock, on the night of the sth of June last. The defendant was driving the Norwich mail towards London on the night in question, which had the usual lights, and he was driving at the customary pace in the middle of the road. At the bottom of Ardleigh-hill, not far from Col chester, he met a cart, in which were four men, and which was driven at a great rate, and was not lighted. The two vehicles came in contact ; the cart was overturned, and Hitchcock, who was in it, was so seriously injured that he died in a few minutes. It appeared from the evidence of Draper, who drove the cart, that the men had been drink ing, and that they kept the middle of the road. The Jury acquitted the defendant. John Evans alias James Malone, was indicted for utter, ing a forged walking -pass, stated to have been signed by two of the visiting Magistrate s of the House of Correc tion in this town. The case was clearly proved, and the prisoners found Guilty. . Anne Fletcheralias M ar y G av i n, was conv i cte d of a mu- lar offence, the pass being suspected by the parochial offi cers at Sheffield, it not having the private marks. Both prisoners were sentenced to be transported for life. MID LAND CIRCUIT..--.NORTHIMPTON, JULY 12. The Commission for this county was opened yesterday afternoon, before Mr. Justice Park and Mr. Baron Bol land ; from the Court they returned to their lodgings. Their Lordships having heard divine service performed this morn ing in the parish church of All Saints, thence proceeded to their respective Courts, Mr. Justice Park presiding over the Criminal Court, and Mr. Baron Bolland sitting on the Nisi Prius side. There are the names of 2.5 prisoners in the calendar, but the offences they arc respectively charged with are without exception, of a trivial nature. On the Civil side nine causes are entered for trial, one being a spe cial jury, the cause in dispute being a right of way. There is also a case of breach of promise of marriage, and one for seduction. WEDNESDA Y JULY 13. POTTER V. BULL. This was an action brought by Mr. Wm. Potter, a far mer, living at Moreton Pinckney, in this county, to recover damages for the loss of the services of his daughter by rea son of her seduction by the defendant. Temperance Potter—ls daughter to the plaintiff, Mr. William Potter, who is a farmer living at Moreton Pink ney, in this county. Has two brothers and four sisters, three of whom are married. Has lived with her father since her birth, and assisted him in the general business of his farm. Knows the defendant and has been acquainted with him all her life; be being a farmer in the same rank of life with witness. He first proposed paying his addresses to witness ten years ago, when they were not received. Subsequently he again proposed to renew them two years ago last Christmas, when witness then received him as her suitor, and he was in the habit of frequently visiting her in that character. She subsequently became pregnant by him, and a child born in December last was the fruit of their connection. Witness did not communicate the pregnancy until September last, and when informed of it he ceased to visit her any longer. The Learned Judge having summoned up, the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 1501. ; costs, 40s. BRENTFORD PETTY SESSIONS Tuesday, immediately on the magistrates taking their seats they were informed by the Rev. Dr. Walmesley, Rec tor of Hanwell and one of the bench, that he had just re ceived information of one of those disgraceful exhibitions called a prize fight being upon the point of taking place at Greenford, between two men named Brown and Smith, but better known as the " Sprig of Myrtle" and " The Chelsea Doctor," for 251. aside, and he crlled upon them to use their endeavours to prevent its taking place. After a short consultation Mr. Pownall determined upon proceeding to the spot, and requesting Inspector Marquard, of the T. division, to accompany him, immediately ordered a post chaise, in which they in a few minutes started for Green ford. On arriving at that place, they found the parties had assembled at the Hare and Hounds public-house at Northolt, some distance further on, from whence they had proceeded to a field belonging to a farmer named Simmonds between that place and Harrow, in which the ring had been formed ; when , Mr. Pownall and the inspector arrived just at the finish of the first round. They immediately jumped out of the chaise, but so intent were the assembled multitude on the appearance of the men that the worthy magistrate entered the inner-ring be was recognised, but upon his being so, the scene which ensued beggars description. The combatants, seconds, bottleholders, backers, &c., fled in all directions, followed by the vehicles with which the ground was crowded, the anxiety to escape being so great that several gigs, &c., were driven through the hedge (the gate being completely blocked up), by which several accidents were occasioned. Having cleared the field, the worthy magis trate proceeded in pursuit of them to the Crown, at Northolt, where the greater number of the vehicles had drawn up, when he determined on stopping to watch their move ments. After the lapse of near an hour and a half, Mr. Pownall received information that the head-quarters of the party were at the White Hart Inn, West End, near Ruislip, whither he immediately proceeded. On his arrival there the principal promoters of th e fi g ht en d eavoured to persuade the worthy magistrate to allow it to proceed ; but Mr. Pownall having expressed his determination, at every risk, to prevent the disgraceful exhibition t a ki ng p l ace within his juri s diction, Tom Oliver, " the Commissary," pledged himself immediately to remove the men out of the county of Middlesex ; on which he desisted from following them further. The word was then given for Moulsey Hurst, whither the assemblage accordingly proceeded, and where, not being interrupted by the Surrey Magistrates, the fight took place. It lasted one hour and fifty-two minutes, and when the palm of victory was awarded to the Chelsea Doctor, both men were so dreadfully beaten as to be unable to leave the ring. Application was then made to the landlords of several licensed houses in the neighbourhood to receive them ; but we are happy to say, so great has the distaste for these brutal exhibitions become that they refused doing so. They were consequently placed in two carts, and conveyed, Brown to the place where he had been in training, at Brentford and Smith to the Caroline Arms, at Shepherd's Bush, where they still remained (yesterday) in a very dreadfu state, very little hopes being entertained of their surviving POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARLBORO UGH-STREET. S. Bullman, a small methodistical elderly clicker, was summoned by his wife, Mary, for having put her in bodily fear on Saturday last. The lady, who was likewise well stricken in years, and twice the size of her puny helpmate, declared that although she had only been a very short time the better half of Mr. Bullman, yet his conduct to her was so violent that she was compelled to bring him before the bench as a prelimi nary step to a final separation. The defence of the husband was that be had more cause to be alarmed at his wife than his wife at him. She was bigger and stronger than he, and although she had done all she could to aggravate him to strike her, yet for good and prudent reasons he bad abstained, and he de fied her to say in all their matrimonial squabbles he had exhibited any thing beyond an exemplification of ‘. passive resistance." But, concluded Mr. Bullman, I'll emigrate as a wolunteer to Spain before I'll live with her again. Mr. CHAMBERS—How came you to marry if you did not intend to live with your wife ? Husband (shaking his head)—l was betrayed. Mr. CHAMBERS—Betrayed ! Why, what do you mean ? Husband—She seduced me. My mind was against having her, but she overpersuaded me. Mr. CHAMBERS—How long have you been married ? Husband (sighing)—lt will be a whole fortnight next Saturday. _ Mr. CHAMBERS—And pray how long were you ac quainted before marriage ? Husband—More than a month. I met her promiscuously in the street, and she told me she'd been a widow fifteen years, and I told her I'd been a widower more than twenty. Then, says she, you're the only man in the world I could set my affections on. But she took me in. She said she'd got money in the Bank of England, but she had not a dump. Wife—Why, you poor beggarly fellow, how dare you say I took you in ? Didn't you tell me you had .501. a year for life ? And on the day we were married didn't you come to my lodgings, which I'd furnished myself, and only bring your nightcap ?—(Laughter.) Yes, your Worship, that's every rag of his property that I've set eyes on since we've been married. Husband—You said you loved me so well you'd take me without a shirt to my back, you know you did. Wife—Give me my furniture, and I never want to see your ugly face again. Mr. 'CHAMBERS called on the husband's grown up daughter, and told her as her father would not make up matters it would be better if he again returned to his family. The daughter very frankly admitted that there was as much fault on the one side as the other. The old people would get married, and on the wedding night they got' drunk, and began to quarrel, when the wife, catching up a bootjack, nearly knocked her spouse's nose into schedule A with it. The case was then dismissed. MARYLEB ONE. James Roberts, a bricklayer ; William Pilby, a carpen ter, and Joseph Farrell, a bricklayer's labourer, were brought up in custody, and placed at the bar before Mr. Rawlinson, charged with being concerned in severely in juring Jeremiah Sullivan, while he was engaged in a pugi listic encounter with the first-named prisoner. They were remanded till Sullivan should be pronounced out of danger. Yesterday George Hobey and Edward Wood, two coachmen, in the employ of the New London Omnibus Conveyance Company, appeared on summonses obtained against them by the police, for racing their vehicles, Nos. 7 and 8, in the Edgeware-road on Saturday last. Mr. ftAwr.iNsoN, after remarking that the Company, w hi c h set forth that they intended to correct the abuses practised by the other proprietors, ought to be particular in the choice of their servants, fined each of the defendants 40s. THAMES POLICE. Yesterday George Boyle, who was on Monday sent by the Hatton-garden magistrates to this Office, in conse quence of his having made a long confession to the magi strates at St. Alban's, Herts, of his having murdered a child, in Which he was a3sisted by the mother, a woma❑ named Evans, with whom he cohabited, was again brought before Mr. BALLANTINE, when the story of the murder turned out to be a complete fabrication. The prisoner, on being asked what had induced him to ,make such a confession as he had done, and accused a ence. FRENCH PAPERS OF TUESDAY. The responsible editor of the Gazette de France has been this day sentenced at the Paris Assizes to an imprison ►uent of six months, and a fine of 4,000 francs, for having in its numbers of the 24th, 25th, and 28th of June, attacked the principle and form of the Government, and excited to hatred and contempt of the Government. (From the Droit.) Yesterday Baron de Naundorff, the fifteenth or sixteenth Louis the Seventeenth known to the public, was, by order of the Home Minister, put into a diligence between two gen darmes and despatched to Calais. It is said that, whilst waiting for the departure of the coach, several ladies visited, and took leave of him. (From the Courrier.) It appears that the police has had within the last few days b. rather lively alerte. Information more or less worthy of credit has caused the Government to suspect the Du chess de Berri's presence in France ; and orders to watch in a special manner female travellers have been transmitted to every part of the kingdom. (From the Siecle.) The review of the 29th of July will take place. It has been decided that the troops stationed within 20 leagues from Paris shall be brought into the capital, on pretence of conferring more solemnity upon the inauguration of the tri umphal arch of the Barriere de l'Etoile, it being deemed prudent to have always thirty or forty thousand men at hand on those days when revolutionary recollections revive with an ardour which it would be unsafe not to repress. (From the Messager.) Since the return of the Princes the affair of the marriage portion of her Belgian Majesty has been arranged. The Treasury is to advance to King Leopold, in the shape of a loan, the stipulated sum, with the interest fallen due ; and in next Session a Bill for regulating the said advance, and deciding at the same time upon the portion, is to be pre sented to the Chambers. The Phare de Bayonne of the 9th inst., contains the following letter : " Bayonne, July 8. • Sir,—ln consequence of the most absurd reports which have appeared in several French and English jour nals relative to General de Lacy Evans, I am authorized to deny them in the most formal manner, and to declare that it is not the intention of General Evans to return yet to England, or to quit the service of the Queen of Spain. " HARVEY." The followi ng are f urt h er extracts from this journal : " In reply to the assertions of the Journal du Commerce, it is a fact that the English Legion is well paid ; the monthly pay of 300,000 f. has been paid for June ; the bills on M. Carbonel have been also paid ; and the pay of the Legion settled up to the month of July. It is not true that bills for General Bernelle have been protested. 650,000 f. have been sent by a merchant named B--- to Pampeluna, of which 100,000 f. are for General Bernelle. It is not true that the insurrection is making progress in Gallicia and the Asturias, nor in the province of Leon."—" By order of Don Carlos more than fifty per sons have been thrown into prison at Mondragon, with the intention of exacting from them heavy ransoms. They have since been taken to Onate, and three of them were shot on the road ; one of whom was M. Manzanares, a physician much respected in the country, and' father of the unfortunate Colonel Manzanares, who was Constitutional Minister at Cadiz in 1823, and whose tragical end is well known. His father has not escaped the hatred of the Court of Don Carlos, and even his great age, 80 years, could not preserve him from the vengeance of the Carlists. He was shot at Escoriaza, at the door of his own house." A letter of the 6th inst., from Sara, says that the Basque 'provinces are in a state of complete anarchy ; that the pri sons are filled with the relations of deserters and refugees ; and that their servants are subject to all sorts of rigour. An agent of the Pretender's police, escorted by a few sol diers, is making an estimate of the g ra i n i n each commune, l eav i ng to th e p r oprietors hardly enough for their subsist- For what he takes he leaves notes, without a price or a date affixed. A schoolmaster and a custom-house officer at Etchalar having taken refuge at Sara, their daughters have been arrested and led to Estella. "An official report from General Bernelle, of the tictioa at Zubiri, gives the details of the engagement, which agree with the account we have already given. It appears that the heat of the day was so great several of the soldiers died under it before coining on the field. The Carlists, it was calculated, had 150 men killed, and from 450 to .500 wounded. On the side of the Queen the loss was 25 or 30 killed, and 70 or SO wyunded. The prisoners taken by the Queen's troops were not shot, except two deserters from the Foreign Legion." The Bon Sens states that yesterday (the day fixed) the first instalment of the Spanish loan of 900,000/. sterling, contracted by Mr. Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, was paid in. The C'ourrier Francais says :—" Despatches from Tan , giers have brought sorne details of the affairs of France in Morocco. The Government of that country, after having pretended that it is not responsible for the incursions of its tributaries on the territory of Oran, has since declared that it has taken all possible measures for recalling the Arabs, who have passed the frontiers for other purposes than those of commerce, and for hindering them from doing so i n future. It pretends that it has expelled or imprisoned the persons who furnished men and provisions to Abdel Kadcr." A Toulon lett er o f th e 7th in s t. says We are in formed that the Trident and SuPen of the line, and the frigates Dryade and Galatee, with several brigs and sloops, now, in our roadstead, have orders to prepare for sea. It is said that these ships are not to go out of sight of Toulon, but are to assemble at the Islands of Hyet es, and are to be under sail every day, for exercisin g the sailors, till Septem ber, when they will return into this po r t, an d b e di smant l ed. The Mentor steam-ship, which has been built on account of the Minister of Finances, is ready to be launched. Her engines arc of 160-horse power." A labourer named Hirlock, employed on the Lou don and Birmingham railroad, near the Hampstead-road, was killed yesterday morning, in consequence of his foot slipping as he vas ascending to the top of the embankment with a hog of learn, and falling against a hard substance ho injured his spine. woman of assisting in the murder of her own child, said he did not know, and he did not want to be kept there any longer. Mr. BALLANTINE told the prisoner to go about his busi ness, and said he was either mad or a very stupid fellow. (From Galignani's Messenger.) ALIBAUD.—On Saturday evening, after his condemna tion, Alibaud firmly believed that he was to be executed the following morning, and lay on his bed in his clothes all night. On being told at five o'clock in the morn ing, that it was not his last day, he undressed and went to bed. He passed the day gaily enough, singing all the republican songs he could recollect. It is said that a foreigner of-very high rank obtained permission to visit him in his cell, when he conversed with him for a long time, and was much surprised at the rudeness of his conversation and the determination of his character. The Abbe Grivel presented himself to him, was calmly received and left Alibaud, having made a favourrble impression upon him yesterday mornin g . While th e f a t a l t o il ette was b e i ng perform e d h e smoked, and was heard to say that he re gretted only one thing, the having failed in his attempt. The preparations of the toilette, though long, were borne by him with calmness and resignation. He was allowed to keep on his pantaloons, but his shoes and stockings were taken off ; his shoes however, were afterwards put on aga:n. A black veil was tied over his face. and a sort of pe47,noir was tied round his waist, which at a certain dis tance had the effect of a chemise. His coat was then thrown over his shoulders. Before descending from his prison he bade adieu to the persons employed in the prison, and embraced some of them cordially. It appears that his last moments have produced a very different effect from that of Fieschi. He was taken to the place of execution in a panier a salade, by the alley of the Observatory, and was accompanied in the vehicle by the Abbe Grivel, two executioners, and two Municipal Guards. Having heard the sentence read he said—" Adieu, my brave fellows," accord ing to some accounts, though others state that his words were—" Adieu, my friends, I die for the people and for liberty; the victim of an evil monarchy." Some of the jour nals have given the following :—" I die for the Republic. I repeat that I had no accomplices. I deny all that the Pro cureur-General has stated with regard to my prevate life. I am as pure as Brutus and Sandt, and, like them, wished for the liberty of my country." His demeanour was cool and decent. At the moment of his coming on the scaffold an in dividual in the few persons allowed to stand near is stated to have cried out, " Pardon, pardon !" He was immediately arrested. It is presumed he was some friend of Alibaud. The executioner of Paris was assisted by that of Versailles. Shortly after the execution of Alibaud, a letter from his fa mily was delivered to the keeper of the cemetery of Mont- Parnasse, claiming his body. The letter was immediately transmitted to the higher authorities ; but we have not learnt whether the demand has been complied with. Alibaud suffered this morning at five o'clock the penalty awarded to parricides. He had been conducted to the place of execution in the manner prescribed by law.— Journal de Paris and .ilfoniteur. The same prints announce that the news of the attempt of the 25th of June reached Algiers on the 29th, and ex cited a profound indignation in the army and population. (From the Temps.) This morning's execution is a momentous political event in the opinion of those who, though sharini, in the p u bli c indignati on , carry th e i r t h oug h ts b eyond the crime and its just punishment, and behold in clemency results which se verity;has been unable to obtain. Another course might have opened a new era. They who have solved the ques tion by the scaffold have taken upon themselves a very serious responsibility. May the future belie our fears and presentiments,! ~