The Sun. — London, England, 1836-12-02 00:00:00

army in Navarre, are fully able to put down their an tagonists. In Catalonia, in Arragon, in Valencia, the Carlists have been put down, or survived but in the shape of bands of robbers. And even Go mez himself exists but on the condition of eternal flight. As to the other reason, that the Spaniards had a Constitution in 1832, and one to make in 1836, we deny that the Estatuto was aliConstitution, or that Martinez de la Rosa, its author, ever mistook it for such. The Constitution is now as regular as it was then ; the representatives elected under it are more steady supporters of Government, and have proved themselves as loyal and as attached to public order as their predecessors. There is not a shadow of reason for giving aid to Isturiz which might not have been given toCalatrava. The French Ministers have not a shadow of reason, in the change of the Spanish Mi nistry, for refusing the co-operation which they had duped the Spaniards into expecting. The grand ar gument of the Journal des Debats, and indeed of all the anti-co-operationists in France is, that the Cham ber of Deputies is opposed or indifferent to such a measure. The Chamber of Deputies, in deed I As if any one took its opinion into account, when a weighty matter was to be decided. No admi nistrative machine is so convenient as the French Cham ber of Deputies to a French Government. It can be pushed and driven, manoeuvred or frightened, into any vote, no matter how contrary to its feelings. if public liberty is to be infringed, if September laws are to be voted, then Government soon exerts itself to work up the Deputies to the vote. But when a liberal step is to be taken, when Spain is to be saved, or Poland, oh, then, indeed, Government can do nothing with the Deputies : they are selfish arrieres, absorbed in material interests ; they do not understand making sacrifices for other countries. So do IVlinisterial writers take care to represent the Chamber, which thus be comes the very instrument for any illiberal act, and the excuse for the non-performance of every liberal one. By thus allowing itself to become a mere convenient tool of Government, the French Chamber has disgraced itself in the eyes of Europe. The Chamber of Depu ties will not hear of intervention, or of co-operation, quoth the Debats. Let us state a case in point. There is Algiers. The Chamber of Deputies, its majo rity and commissioners, have repeatedly declared their aversion to throwing away money on the con quest and colonization of Africa. What Government has paid the least attention to the wishes of the Cham ber or the recommendations of its commissioners ? Not one. With co-operation it is the same. If M. Thiers had sent his 20,000 men, and had occupied Navarre, the Chamber would have applauded. Now M. Mole comes, and represents success as doubtful, expenses as great, the step a serious one in the pre sent state of Europe ; he hints to the armies of East ern Europe on the Rhine, and excites a phantasma goria of dire results before the eyes of the worthy De puties, with whom fear is ever the prevailing senti ment. And fear prevails. The whole history of France, since 1830, forms a drama, of which fear is the passion and the key. Governments, Chambers, press, and people have been conjugating the word fear through all its moods and tenses, and it has at length become incarnate in them. They dread Russia, they dread Austria, they dread Spain ; nay, they are even in dread of being thought ill of by the Por tuguese ; and the end of this system of fear will be, that a hostile and absolutist flag will float at every corner of their frontier. The French Chamber of De puties may for a time be broken in to this ; but not long or always. We know nothing so diametrically opposite as this to French character, which is emi nently spirited, philanthropic, and alive to all inte rests, however remote, which may affect or touch it. The French Representative Assembly must sooner or later show a spirit corresponding to that of the na tion. Nor should we be surprised to see it show that spirit soon. The question of Spain offers a noble opportunity. And the French have perhaps still time to retrieve their lost reputation for sympathy with the Liberal cause, and for courage to show and act upon it.—Morning Chronicle. Numerous as have been the manifestoes of Whig gery issued from the repertory of Messrs. Ridgway, there was, perhaps never one so utterly objectless as the pamphlet entitled The Conservative Peers and the Reform Ministry. Is it not reasonable in any one who reads this sounding designation, to suppose that some proposition is at length to be made by adopt ing which the two Houses of Parliament are to he brought into harmonious co-operation ? One would naturally suppose so. But what is the fact? Why, that in 823 closely written pages, we find not one single suggestion, either for the reform of the Peers, or the support of the Ministry. Whig crudities in abundance, and of almost every conceivable kind, we are favoured with, but not a syllable having any prac tical bearing on the great question indicated by the title of the pamphlet—viz., the irreconcileable differ ences between a Ministry of Popish revolutionists and the Protestant Conservative Peers of England. From organic change the writer recoils with as much horror as Lord John Russell did at the Bristol dinner. He says, " To prepare for battle with the Lords would he to go on with the work of reform at the wrong end." This is a novel turn of expression. We have heard of "be ginning at the wrong end," but going on at the wrong end, after having begun at the right, is a notion to us quite new. The - writer says that this way of " going on" would be highly pleasing to the Conservatives, who, according to him, would forthwith exclaim that " Ministers were about to cut away one great branch of the Constitution, and with it would go the mo narchy, the church, and all those noble and ancient institutions which have made us what, till now, we have ever been—a great, prosperous, and a powerful people." With due respect for the worthy Whig ad vocate, lie must be either childishly " juvenile," or an tiquated to very dotage, not to be aware of the fact that, from day to day, during the last half-year, the Conservatives, at public meetings, public festivals, in the public press, in short, by every public means, have said all this, and with such effect, that a spirit of un compromising nationality has penetrated to every cor ner of the kingdom, and now pervades every class of his Majesty's subjects, save the craven Minis try and their factious supporters. And even they, judged by this pamphlet, are convinced that " Down with the Lords" is a cry as vain as it is base ; un worthy of any but the Popish rebel who first bellowed it forth. The " organi c c h ange " is, then, as we have said, thrown overboard by this writer. Has he any thing else to propose to resist the following influ ; ences, enumerated by himself, as implacably inimi cal to the faction—" the counteraction of the Court — of the Conservative Peers —and of a Tory party in the Commons 3 00 stro n g?" What d oes h e p ro pose to neutralise this mighty opposition to the measures of rtd sett er takenup and of course puller the anti-English Minist r y ? " P eaceful agitation." Yes, these are the words o,po f from the text-book of the , the writer, i down" of the present Ministers. Suppose, then, thi s " peaceful agitation" resorted to--what can it effect not fresh in every more than it did last year ? it man's recollection that the peaceful agitation of O'Con nell's mission was the proximate cause of those Con servative associations', which have com bined all'classes in one indissoluble league for the defence of the con s in Church and State ? Look at the miser able figure presented by the faction, in every one of their attempts at political display during the recess. They gave as much " peaceful agitation" as they possibly could, and on each successive occasion placed fresh argumentative weapons at the disposal of their public opponents. At this very moment Mr. O'Con nell, the master of the Government, is practising peace ful agitation as best he may ; and what is the result ? Practically speaking, political discomfiture. For, put ting out of view the mere money-taking, the " rebel lion rent," we unhesitatingly pronounce every public display recently made by Mr. O'Connell at the Corn- Exchange meetings a dead failure. Forced, for in stance, to crouch in the very dust at the feet of the man he most hates and fears—Mr. Sharman Craw ford—he is yet so thoroughly an oppressor of the poor, that, though a provision for their destitution can no longer be withheld, he, with all his hypocrisy, cannot consent to it with a good grace. Nor is this, perhaps, to be wondered at in a man who, all his life long, has been in the habit of " grinding the faces of the poor," and of wringing, not only from the " hard hands of peasants," but also from the palsied hands of penury and decrepitude, the most degrading impost ever levied in the annals of Popery itself. We repeat, that the wry 4a faces made by this " rebellion-renter' in the matter of a poor law for Ireland, together with his abject truck ling to a person of such inconsiderable influence as Mr. Crawford, avowedly against his wishes, and co lourably against his convictions, is a spectacle of " peaceful agitation" not calculated to strengthen the moral influence of Daniel or his Government. Thus, then, the hundred and twenty-three pages of Whig- Radical speculation have offered nothing towards the solution of the difficulty now perplexing Ministers, by courtesy called " His Majesty's." As we said at the outset, the pamphlet, to all practical intents and purposes, is objectless. If we may suppose a motive for such a jumble of crudities, we may suppose that some aspirant to a Commissionership, or Inspector ship, or other Whig-Radical sop, has in great haste, lest he should lose the last chance, battered his brains in pamphleteering the Premier and the other givers of good things. If so, he may achieve his ends, for aught we know or care. But, as he has thought fit to bespatter one or two great names with his stupid misrepresentations, we may:bestow another notice on him of a somewhat more castigatory character.— he ingenuity of parson persecution—that " a bill' should be filed, a "sub/myna" issued, an " alias" —a " pluri es subpcena," and a "proclamation"—and in case the defendant should prove refractory to all these several appliances, then only might a writ of rebellion be legally issued. Neither in the present case, nor, we believe, in any of the cases of cruel and unmerciful persecution lately practised by the Church under the rebellion process, have those regulations and forms been complied with, so that if the writ in this instance be set aside, as from the opinion apparently entertained by the presiding judges it must be, all the onslaughts of the Church under the Exchequer processes have been illegal, and the victims consequently will be en titled to compensation, if they choose to bring their ac tion for that purpose. If these victims be poor, as many of them undoubtedly are, we consider it would be a legitimate application of the Justice Rent to em ploy it in procuring them legal redress. The tithemen have urged the severest application of the law, and it is but just that a similar indulgence should be meted to them.— Morning Advertiser. The attempted " diversion" in favour of the 'Whig Ministers in the borough of Lambeth, under the dis guise of a meeting for the abolition—i. e., the reform —of the House of Peers, was not so cleverly arranged by the Whiglings who undertook the " getting up" of the farce as to deceive the Radicals. They—we mean the real Radicals, for the Whig-radicals are only im postors—are shrewd enough to have discovered by this time that the value which the Whigs attach to reform principles is just that which the political economist at taches to his wares, and in which respect, we believe, there is no difference between the mercantile " science" of the trading "philosopher" and the Jew pedlar. .A poet of that school has sung the whole creed of the Whig " philosophy of Reform" in a single couplet, after the following fashion " The real value of a thing Is just the money it will bring." Times. The small writs of the Ministerial party, who trea the apprehensions of British Protestants respecting the course of events in Ireland, as a proper subject for ridicule, have a vast deal of ignorance on their side. No doubt this is a powerful auxiliary, and does much more for them than anything else to which they can lay claim, but they should not presume upon it too far. It has great weight with the majority of the present Representatives of the new boroughs—it is very pow erful in the " reformed" town councils—it is of im mense service at Lambeth meetings, and the like—but its success is transient, and even the memory of it is not pleasant to dwell upon. The truth is, as any man may find who will take the trouble to read upon the subject, that the apprehensions of British Protestants are borne out by the evidence of the Roman Catholics themselves. That which these Roman Catholics are now doing under the fostering encouragement of that great statesman, and tenth-rate novelist, the Earl of Mulgrave, is quite as much beyond what was calcu lated upon ten years ago as the realisation of all the present apprehensions of British Protestants would be beyond that at which Popish pretension has already arrived. When we compare the statements which Irish Roman Catholics made—ten years ago—with the facts of the present day, we cannot help being convinced that, if their usurpation of ten years hence bear the same proportion to their demands of the present year, the apprehensions of Protestants will be more than realised. There is certainly not any extravagance in apprehending no more than an equal degree of encroachment when the power to en croach has become so much greater. The strength which Remish ambition has acquired by going is not by the rational to be despised. We are indeed per suaded that it is not. The silly and chattering—the pedantic and shallow—the fop who thinks he is li beral because he is attached to nothing, and the villain whose pleasure and interest it is to make the bad pre vail, make light of those events in Ireland which seem to lead to an establishment of Popish authority there ; but wise and well-informed men fall into no such folly. We do not mean to charge all the Roman Catholics who take a lead in their affairs with foul conspiracy against that which the general obligation of allegiance, and their particular oaths as Members of Parliament or official servants, bind them to respect and uphold. Nevertheless, they are but men, and some of them at all events may che rish an ambition to which, if virtue were the only oh stacle, even their virtue might give way. They are borne upon what must be admitted to be an extraordie nary tide of circumstances. They are carried into positions which they never dreamed of attaining ; and it is not for those who have at all studied human nature to be surprised that in these situations the memory of ancient pledges should wax dim, and the voice of con science should be drowned amid the acclamations of those who hail their extraordinary advancement, and point to yet higher elevation, which they may attain. A slight consideration of this subject will show into what fatal folly the weakness of the present Admi nistration has led them. It was undoubtedly right that Roman Catholic Emancipation should not be a law, and nothing more ; it was very fit that when eligibility to legislative and official power was given to the Roman Catholics, it should be acted upon. It was right that they should become Members of Parliament, and that they should hold offices of trust. But what was the conduct of our Whig Go vernment ? In the first place, it kept the Irish Ro man Catholics at arm's length, violently denouncing the vulgar agitator O'Connell, even from the King's Throne ; and omitting to attach to the Government the educated and respectable members of the Ro man Catholic body. This produced exasperation, and made Mr. O'Connell the leader of the Roman Catholics, when he ought to have been exhibited as nothing better than the leader of the Roman Ca tholic rabble, clerical and lay. But the time came when the beaten and dwindled Whig-Radicals found that their places depended on Mr. O'Connell's as sistance, and thereupon this abused and scorned person was at once placed by them in a position of power more formidable than has been held by any one man in the United Kingdom since the days of Cromwell. Along with him, and not until then, some Roman Catholics, with fair pretensions as men of talents and character, were recognised by the Government, and promoted to office. Mr. O'Connell's aim was power, not office, and that he has attained to the fullest extent that Government can give. But is it not plain that no course of policy could be more likely than this to give to Roman Ca tholic Emancipation the full amount of practical evil which that measure could, by the utmost force of ingenuity, inflict ? If British Ministers had been above all things desirous to cause the Roman Ca tholics of Ireland to forget themselves, and all their promises of fidelity, they could not, and pro bably would not, have fallen upon so ingenious a mode of proceeding. But for this policy, how could such a man as the present Solicitor-General in Ireland be so carried out of himself as he has been ? He was a Roman Catholic who, after the Emanci pation Bill was passed, might well have been trusted. In character and in talents he was very far superior to Mr.O'Connell; but Mr. O'Connell, by his perseverance as an agitator, wrested from the British Administration that influence which has led to Mr. Woulfe's promo tion. Under such circuinstances we do not think Mr. Woulfe is to be trusted. A few years before Emanci pation was carried, Mr. Woulfe published a very able pamphlet, in which he claims for the Catholics an equal regard with the Protestant for the civil institu tions of the country. "It is not even pretended," he says, that " the Roman Catholics prefer a des potism to a limited monarchy—that he is hostile to a House of Lords—or that he would wish to con vert the House of Commons into the supreme as sembly of a republic." Will Mr. Solicitor-General Woulfe say this now? Again he says, and for the greater emphasis, ho prints the passage in italics, " I think I'shall be able to prove that there are no grounds for attributing to the Roman Catholics, either at pre sFisttaiiobrsihednthe event of their emancipation , any dispo sition or d es i re to i nter f ere w i t h th e endowments of the Established for their Church, or to obtain any thing similar Own. ,, Will Mr. Solicitor-General Woulfe thing like this now . ? No; even he has sta a n n t d s m fa i l g s h ifi t ed hav t expectations from hi s Is)aroykeannyliis pl e d which British P g rOt s e , to complain now lid distrust him ? character. And is h e sus pect a had d at we e has no right to do so. There may be excuses in the state of circumstances for the conduct of such men ; but, if men's faith is to depend upon circumstances, it i Posts right that we should avard.—Morning be upon our , . roceedin The account of the pgs in the Irish Court of Exchequer, and the arguments of Mr. O'Connell against the legality of the rebellion write recently is sued against the tithe defaulters, are of peculiar inte rest, as will be seen by a reference to another part of this day's Advertiser. Mr. O Connell rests his ergo_ ments on the fact of the necessary legal forms not having been complied with, wherefore he applies for the writ of rebellion to be set aside, and demands the defendant's discharge. It appears that by the letter of the statute, as well as the practice of the Court—a practice which had gone into disuetude until revived by THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1836. dation in which they had placed themselves, by their vacillating conduct and their contemptible minority in the House of Commons, were not worthy the support of the people of England." " The Whigs," he pro ceeds to say, " hemmed in on all sides, without the power of extricating themselves, or the moral energy to attempt it, despised by one party, trampled upon by the other, present the melancholy anomaly of a popular Administration without popular support, and are com pelled through their supporters to seek the most dis graceful alternatives." This is the picture drawn of the character, pasition, and resources of the ever-job bing and manoeuvring Whig Administration, by an honest Radical. When history takes up the pencil, she may paint this unpleasant subject in more lasting colours, but in none that, while truth guides he r hand, can render it a more attractive object of contemplation in the eyes of posterity.—Morning Herald. The marriage of Lady Caroline Finch Hatton, only daughter of the Earl of Winchilsea, has not yet been solem nized. The ceremony, however, will take place in a few days. ANIMAL INSTINCT.—The story that I am about to relate is one which has excited a great deal of feeling in the vicinity where it happened, and is well worthy a conspi cuous place in your paper. The facts handed to me are are these :—On Friday, the 30th of September last, near the close of the day, a little lad, about eight years old, by the name of George Parks, started in pursuit of the cows. He made his way along the path through a piece of wood of about nalf a mile in length. On reaching the opposite side of the wood he found his cattle had started towards home. The drove consisted of a very gentle old cow and a number of young cattle. His mother told him, previous to his starting, to keep near the old cow, as she would con duct him on a straight course home. This he was careful to obey ; but shortly after he had entered the woods on his way home, walking by the side of the old cow, he heard a crackling in the bushes, and on looking round what should he see but a large bear making towards him with all the speed and fury that those ferocious animals are possessed of. At this critical period, strange as it may seem, the boy pos sessed presence of mind enough to make use of his alterna tive—which was to jump astride of the cow's back, and leaning forwards he caught her by the horns, and in this perilous situation rode through the woods. The bear seemed to envy him his elevated situation, and fain would have pulled him down. The cattle ran and roared—the boy screamed—but all did not terrify the bear ; ever and anon she would come alongside of our gallant rider, growl ing and snarling and striking with her paws—and would have torn him to pieces, but for the other cattle, who would as often attack her in the rear, and as she would turn to give them battle, the cow would gain of her some rods. She would then leave the young cattle and come with all speed after the boy, which seemed to be her whole aim. Several times she rose upon her hind legs to take him, and as often the cattle would give her battle ; and thus they followed through the woods until the bear's cubs came up, and the young cattle turned upon them. The old bear took their part, and the cow and her rider had arrived at the door of the farm-house ere the old bear could renew her attack. The boy was almost senseless with fright, and it was not until some time after he alighted from the cow that he was enabled to report to his mother the why and wherefore. It is thought that the boy will hereafter pre- Fer that some one else should drive the cows to the yard. Now it must be admitted that the Whigs have found the thing called " Reform" to be of pretty consider able value in that point of view. The money which they have made, and expect to make by it, in the way of salaries for themselves, and Commissions, jobbings, and pensions for their connections and de pendants, cannot easily be told—for a more jobbing and sordid Government than its present so-called Whig Administration, England never had the good fortune to possess. We say " so-called," because, though nominally Whig, it has no fixed principles whatever—except the principle of sacrificing to the possession of office all other principles—of bartering for the enjoyment of place and pension all public character and consistency. The cunning tricky Whigs take from the Radicals all the support they can get, and wish their Radical auxiliaries to consider it a sufficient reward to have the honour of keep* them in office. They give the Radicals credit for a world of disinterestedness, which they are very well con tent to allow them to monopolise, as long as the sub stantial fruits of office are left to themselves. The portly, full-blown Whig, whether "juvenile" or ancient, enjoys the feast of office to repletion—pampers himself with all the luxurious things with which the table of the Treasury is spread—talks of Reform like a politi cal saint—jobs under that pretence with all the eager ness of one of the elder children of corruption—keeps for his own enjoyment, while practising the solemn cajolery of another Father Paul, whatever tends to make " pure patriotism" fat and florid, and leaves to the hungry Radical, who scents the savoury viands afar off, the share of the famishing lay-brother. Under these circumstances, Radicalism, disclaiming a larger share of the virtue of disinterestedness than falls to the lot of the " best of all possible Whigs," which the pre sent race of Whigs, according to their own Journals, undoubtedly are, begins to grow impatient. Many no tices of that impatience have been served upon the Whigs. Those distinguished patriots have in structed their Journalists to expatiate upon the advantages of union, and the irreparable mischiefs of disagreement. Those public instructors exhort the Radicals' to preserve unity by all means; but they offer them no share of the substantial advantages of that unity. They tell them to fight the great battle of Reform like gallant patriots, as the only way of en abling the Whigs to keep out the Tories ; but the Radicals want to know what they are to gain by it. They see that the Whigs take all the profits of suc cessful patriotism to themselves, and the Tories could do no more. " Fight on, my gallant little fellow," said the generous giant to his dwarfish friend ; fight on—another such victory as the last, and we shall have no more enemies to conquer." " No," said the dwarf; I've already lost an eye and an arm in your service, while you have pocketted the spoils. I had better retreat while I have yet two legs to carry me, than go on exposing life and member in this way for one who takes all the advantages and leaves me all the blows. " But, after all," says one of the Whig instructors of the people, " what is the boundary line between Whig or Whig-radical and Whig-proper ? There is none whatever—it is evanescent—it is imaginary." .Now, to our view, and we believe to that of the great mass of Radicals, the difference is very palpable and strik ing. It is precisely the difference between the con dition of the giant and the dwarf, in the old apologue with which we have made free. The Whigs take all the advantages of the victory, and leave the Radi cals all the blows. The latest stratagem of the Whigs to turn the Radicals off the scent of their own jobbery, in the chase of which they were get ting into full cry from Shoreditch to Lambeth , was that which was played off in the latter district the other day, which we call a " diversion" in favour of the happy occupants of office, but which Mr. Spring Rice would most probably call a" false drag." Well, we care not how it is called—the thing was pal pable enough. It was previously announced under the name of a " demonstration" by some of the Ministerial papers. It is easy to know out of what vocabulary that term was supplied; but the " demonstration" of the Whig Ministers in Lambeth against the House of Peers was as ridiculous a failure as the " demonstra tion" of the same Whigs the other day at Lisbon in favour of a House of Peers; for all reformers should know that the Ministers, who endeavour to shout on the Radicals against the House of Lords at home, sent to the Tagus seven line-of-battle slips, be sides a dozen other vessels of war and an army of marines, to make a demonstration against the Portuguese Constitionalists, because they have abo lished a House of Lords—that being the great distinction between Don Pedro's Charter, which has been pushed aside, and the Constitution of 1822, by which it has been supplanted. We have said that the Radicals were not deceived by the " diversion," or " false drag," or " demonstration," or whatever it is to be called, which was so cunningly got up at Lam beth, and announced from time to time with no small flourish of preparatory trumpets. It was said of two great characters that Whiggling contrivers of their una iTiohedoubt, t o s h ow w h a t a "whenever th e y agree d, wonderful unanimity exists b e t ween t h e R a di ca l s on li d it e e r n fu d l e . d " :, n th im is ity m w ee a t s in; * and Whigs upon the idly speculative question of the existence of a House of Lords; but, instead of the wonderful unanimity, there was dissension as extra ordinary, and a confusion. which rivalled on a small scale, the ludicrous miracle of Babel. This was the c onsequence of the Radicals seeing clearly enough the object which the Whigs had in view. The Whigs know well that if the Radicals keep them in office until the House of Lords is destroyed, or, what is the same thing, until its independence is crushed beneath the feet of the Whig oligarchy, they will have a very long tenure of power indeed—much longer than we trust either they or their factory system of white slavery, or their Central Poor Law, tyranny are destined to have. In confirmation of what we stated as to this farcical meeting, we published yesterday a letter of an active and sincere Radical of the borough of Lambeth, Mr, T. B. Barker. That gentleman says " that the meet ing itself was got up for the purpose of bolstering up a tottering Whig Administration, wanted nothing more than its subsequent proceedings for its corrobora tion. No sooner was anything offered contrary to the sentiments of the Whig Committee than the signal was given, and noises and screams, for which their utterers must have studied long and carefully at some wild beast show, drowned the voice of any one who dared to question Whig policy. This was the case when I en deavoured to establish the above fact, as well as to show that the Whigs, from the state of political degra- Bradford (Me.), Oct. 2, 1836.--American Paper. Letters have been received from the intrepid travel ler Mr. Davidson, dated Wednovo, Sept. 25. An ar mistice had been concluded amongst the native tribes, to allow of their attending the great annual fair ; and it was his intention to take advantage of this cessation of hostili ties by starting on his hazardous route to Timbuctoo three days before its termination. His expedition was to consist of two hundred men and six hundred camels, ten of which would be required to convey his money in cowries, which would not exceed 100/. in value, and between fifty and sixty more would carry his baggage, the rest being laden with salt for commerce. _ _ Two expeditions are about to be dispatched to the Pacific Ocean by the French Government, the one to ex plore the eastern and the other the western portions. The vessels are to be gun brigs, and they will be prepared to sail in about three weeks. THE FEMALE SAILOR AGAIN.—No more to in voke Panlope, this genuine Abeona, who nine months ago entered Hymen's arena, and unlike Periboca, when wedded to Polybius has proved that " Jack" can participate in the feelings of " Eve's fair daughters," and offer the first sure pledge of affection, was on the 11th instant delivered of a fine boy, who wag on the same night baptised by the name of William, in honour of his Majesty. It should be borne in recollection that the " heroine" of the present subject pe titioned the King, as a brother chip, and he was graciously pleased to settle on her an annuity of ten pounds, which sum she regularly receives from the hands of the Vicar of Done real. In addition to this independence, she possesses, what is not generally known, an excellent farm of land, rent free, bestowed upon her by Alexander Murray, Esq., of Brough ton, a farm from which her father had been long since ejected, and latterly held by a poor widow whose claim Mr. Murray purchased, at no inconsiderable price (say 301.), that he might restore to the female sailor the very " castle" that boasted of her birthright.—Ballyshannon Herald. There was a trial on Wednesday of new instrumental music, by the Society of British Musicians, among which were several overtures, pianoforte concertos, and a concerto for the trumpet, performed by Harper. In consequence of the absence of several of the subscribers the society's public concerts will not commence until the second week in January. On Wednesday at Hatton-garden a man was charged with having broken three panes of glass. Mr. Rogers asked the prosecutor, " Pray what is your charge ?" The witness coolly replied, " Three three-and-sixpences—half-a guinea, your Worship."—(Laughter.) Paragraphs have been going the round of the papers stating that the second son of the Marquis of Lansdowne, since the death of the Earl of Kerry, had assumed the title of the Earl of Shelburne. Such is not the fact. This young Nobleman retains the title of Lord Henry Fitz maurice, and will do so until the accouchement of the Countess of Kerry. It has been at length decided that John Barnett's opera of Rosamond is to be brought out at Drury-lane Theatre ; the composer is daily expected in town from Paris. On the demise of his father, the Duke d'Angou leme has assumed the title of King of France, declaring that he does so only that the authority may not be weak ened which he must retain, as head of the family, over his relations, and especially in the interest of his brother's children. His incognito title will continue to be that of Count de Marne, derived from a little village near St. Cloud, in which is situate the domain of Villeneuve l'Etang, which belonged to the Duchess d'Angouleme, and has been sold since the revolution of 1830. The young Duke do Bourdeaux is expected shortly to visit some of the Continental Courts, accompanied by a general officer, who has not yet been selected, but who will probably be the Marquis de Clermont Tonnerre, Minister of War dur ing the Administration of M. de Villele. The melancholy loss just sustained by the exiled branch of the Bourbons has produced a rapprochement be tween the Duchesses of Angoulemo and de Berry. If we be correctly informed, it is the former Princess who has made the first advances, by writing a most affectionate let ter to her sister-in-law, in which she calls her, as formerly, her sister. The communication is stated to have drawn tears from the Duchess de Berry, who, it is thought, will deem that her children, especially her daughter, cannot be confided to better hands than those of the virtuous daughter of Louis XVI. SCOTTISH HOSPITAL AND !CORPORATION. — There was onWednesday a meeting of the friends and contri butors to the Scottish Hospital and Corporation at the Al bion Tavern, Aldersgate-street. The Duke of Sutherland presided over an assembly of about 200 persons. The cha rity of the Scottish Hospital is applicable to the poor me chanic, the artisan, and labourer, natives of Scotland (with their wives, widows, and children, if born in Scotland) re sident in this metropolis, and its immediate neighbourhood, who, not having acquired any parochial settlement in this country, would, in age and poverty, in sickness and distress, or when in want of employment, be exposed to the utmost wretchedness, or to discreditable beggary, but for the fos tering care of this institution. The usual loyal and national toasts were drunk, and Mr. Broadhurst and others, with glees and songs, and Mr. Morgan, the celebrated Irish singer, enlivened the evening by their various efforts. About 500 guineas, we understand, were subscribed during the evening. ATTEMPT AT SELF-DESTRUCTION. —Last night, between seven and eight o'clock, a married woman, named Foxey, residing in White Hart-yard, Drury-lane, throw herself into the Thames from the stairs of Waterloo bridge. A policeman of the F division and several water men succeeded, after much difficulty, in bringing the body to the shore. After the usual remedies had been resorted to successfully, a stretcher was procured from the Bow street station-house, and she was removed to her lodgings, A family quarrel is supposed to have been the cause of the rash act. THE LATE SNOW-STARM IN SCOTLAND.-- During the heavy fall of snow on Wednesday last, a young man, named James Brydone, employed on a farm belonging to Dr. Ogilvie, left his master's house about scven o'clock to look after a flock of sheep upon the hills from which de scends the Lethen water, in Peebles-shire ; and two of his dogs having come home at a late hour without him, suspi cions were raised, and a search made immediately for the missing shepherd, when the melancholy fact was discovered that he had perished in the snow within 400 yards of his own house... Edinburgh Mercury CORON ;UEST APPALLING ACCIDENT.—Last night an inquest was held at the Grapes, Upper Thames-street, before Mr. Payne, City Coroner and a respectable jury on view of the body of Thomas East, a fine youth, 14 years old, who was killed by the machinery at the flock manufactory of Messrs. Blythe, Hammond, Hughes, and Co., of No. 47, Upper- Thames-street. The body of the deceased presented a most dreadful spectacle, the skull being literally severed in two, and the body much mutilated. It appeared from the evidence that the lad was at work at the carding machine, when his leg became entangled in the straps, and he was drawn up between the rollers, which cut his head in two, causing instantaneous death, and se verely mutilated various parts of his body. Mr. Blythe, one of the firm, as also the foreman, were present, and fully explained the nature of the machinery, and satisfactorily proved to the minds of the Jury that the unhappy catastrophe was the result of accident, and that no blame was attached to any party.—Verdict—" Accidental Death." LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, DEC. 1. KITE V. GILBART AND OTHERS. This was an action of trespass brought by the plaintiff, a market•gardener, residing in Wick -street, Hackney, against his landlord, and other persons, for entering his house and premises on the 11th of October, 1836. On that day the defendants went - to the house of the plaintiff during his ab sence, and having procured a key from some of the neigh bours, took possession of the premises, upon which they left one man. The plaintiff, upon his returning home, was told that the landlord had distrained for rent ; and in the course of some days a green-house in the plaintiff's garden was pulled down, and the materials carried away. There were several dog-kennels and pig -sties also taken away. The whole amount of property, as it appeared in the bro ker's inventory, taken on the first occasion, was estimated at eighteen guineas ; what was left was subsequently va lued at 11.65. 6d. The plaintiff's complaint was, that the defendant had taken the law into his owu hands, and acted with a degree of violence which was quite unjustified. Sergeant WILDE and Mr. TURNER appeared for the plaintiffs ; Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD and Mr. BALLS for the defendants. In the course of the evidence, The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE interfered, and said that clearly the law would not sanction the taking away of the greenhouse, which it would be impossible for the defendants to restore ; the defendants, therefore, must have a verdict against them as to that amount ; and as he certainly thought that this was not a case for large damages perhaps his bro ther Wilde would consent to some arrangement. Mr. Sergeant WILDE did not wish to press the case be yond its fair and just limits. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE—I suppose you will not allow me to fix any sum ?—The Learned Counsel on each side assented, and The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE thought that 201. would be a proper sum. A verdict for that amount was accordingly entered. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, DEC. 1. Edward Wright, the Servants' Registry-office-keeper, formerly of Hatton-garden, and late of Hungerford-street, Strand, presented himself to be discharged under the Act. He was opposed . by Mr. COOKE, on the part of a poor car penter, named James Adams, and supported by Mr. WOODROFFE. The opposing creditor became acquainted with the in solvent in April last. In consequence of an advertisement for a collector and book-keeper, he applied to the insolvent at his registry-office, in Hungerford-street, Strand. The insolvent told him he wanted a clerk, and it was requisite he should give security by leaving a deposit. He said he wanted 201. deposited, and he was told it could be ad vanced. He then said he would engage with him at 15s. a week as standing wages, which, with the perquisites, would amount to 21. a week. An agreement in writing was en tered into between them, by which he (Adams) was to have half the profits arising out of the house-agency department. The agreement was produced ; the '2O/. was stated to be a loan ; and the agreement was prepared before the money was advanced, the Christian name being only required to be inserted. He took possession of his situation on the 3d of May, and was paid the first week's salary, and he afterwards got a few half-crowns. There was no house agency profits, and all the business of his master was to answer advertisements respecting situations. He summoned him for his wages, but he never got a shilling of the 20/. The insolvent's debts amounted to 728/. Mr. Commissioner Lew said the insolvent had cheated the foolish carpenter out of his money, and then starved him out of his situation, as it was called. He sentenced him to an imprisonment of five calendar months. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. Several cases of burglary were tried before the Judges, not one of which possessed the slightest public interest. At five o'clock the Judges retired, and were succeeded by the Recorder. Ann Finnigin, aged 46, and Catherine Con°lly, aged 22, were indicted for stealing a desk, containing 68 sove reigns, twenty-five shillings, twenty-three sixpences, a 10/. Bank of England note, two brooches, and other articles, the property of Mr. John Brown, the landlord of the White Hart, Drury-lane. The particulars of the case appeared in our Bow street Report so recently, that we do not consider it necessary to repeat the evidence. The Jury found both the prisoners Guilty. The RECORDER sentenced the prisoners to be transported for life. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARLBORO U GH- STREET. Mr. Toogood, the rate collector of the district within the jurisdiction of the Woods and Forests, called Mr. DYER'S attention yesterday to the circumstance of a con siderable number of the rate-payers having very recently allowed themselves to be summoned to the office for their rates. The reason assigned by the parties was that the rates were excessive in amount, and very much higher than those of adjacent parishes. They wished, therefore, to have an opportunity of raising the question relative to the principle on which they were rated, and to be put in possession of the reasons why their rates were so much higher than those of their neighbours. The parties were then informed by the magistrates that the Act of Parliament allowed but one mode of appeal, and that was to the Board of Commissioners, and afterwards to the Sessions. The parties, through their solicitor, having represented to the bench that the question affected a very numerous body of tradesmen in St. Pancras, and that it was wished to bring the matter to a speedy settlement, it was agreed that one of the rate payers should have an opportunity of going before the Board to make his statement, and to hear the decision of the Com missioners, and that all the other cases which were to stand over in the mean time were to be disposed of according to the issue of the application. With this understanding all parties retired, the board day occurred, and the person se lected was duly apprised of the circumstance, and desired to attend. He did not make his appearance, and conse quently he (Mr. Toogood) had received orders to enforce payment of all outstanding rates. Mr. DYER inquired if the Commissioners knew that such a matter was likely to come before them ?—Mr. Toogood replied they did, and were prepared to entertain it. Mr. DYER said he asked the question for the purpose of being provided with an answer to the St. Pancras's rate payers in case they came again before him under similar cir cumstances. Johanna Donovan charged Bridget Murphy with having assaulted her. Your Wurtchip," said Mrs. Donovan, " about a wake ago meself and Misthress Murphy had out of the fut of an ould grievance in our court. Whin I was goin home yes terday wid one basket of frute Biddy Murphy calls out, Who sthole Paddy Hogan's pratees ?' Is it meself, says I, you mane ? Then sorrows the pratee you or your chil dren ates that's bought with an honest penny. Me sowl to the divil,' says she, taking a stick out of her basket, may be I won't give you the contints of this." Mr. CHAMBERS—What sort of a stick was it ? Bridget Murphy—lt's only a bit of an Irish swish, not more than one or two fingers' thick, wid the laste knob at the toe of it. I ,keep it to bate away the little childer whin they come to stale me frute. Complainant—Biddy then spit in me face and hit me a crack wid the stick, which knocked me bonnet to smithe reens, and laid the head of me open. Defendant —Saving your presence, she called me an ugly ould Irish faggot, and, saving your presence, she said I was a blaggard Mr. CHAMBERS —Stop, stop ; don't tell all the abuse which passed. Defendant —Saving your presence, she said I wasn't a lady. " What do you mean," says I, "by calling one out of one's name behind me back and before me face ?" To the divil wid the likes of ye," said she, " and every durty Connaught brute baste." I can't take a fight wid you now," says I, " bekase me basket is round me." " that," says she, kicking me basket over, and losing me three and sixpence in coppers. y o ur money Mr. CHAMBERS — Come, did you not pick up Take again? Defendant—l didn't pick up a s ingle halfpenny except me bit of grub. Plays yer Wurtsbip, ax her what she manes by telling the public that I've had more chil dren than me husband's father to. Complainant—And ax her why she said that red-headed .--......—..............----- . _____ Johnny took me husband's place whin me husband wcn out a hopping. Mr. CHAMBERS — You r husband would be very silly to pay any attention to what a couple of angry women chose to There, the warrant is discharge. One loses her m say. oney and the other the costs, so you are o n equal terms, LAMBETH-STREET. Two MONTHS AFTER MARRIAGE. THE T A ILOn DONE OVER.—Yesterday Mr. George Tyler , a master tailor, residing in Pennington-street, Ratcliffe highway, pre sented himself before the Hon. G. C. Norton, and address ing that Magistrate, said, " I beg to apply to your Worship for a warrant against my wife." Mr. NORTON—What has your wife don e to you? Tyler —Her conduct is most outrageous , Sir. S he has repeat edly put her clenched fist in my face, and threatens to tear my eyes and liver out. Indeed, Sir, I do not think a greate termagant ever lived.—( Laughter.) Mr. NORTON—Pray how long have you been married to her ? Tyler—Not quite two months, your Worship. (Renewed laughter.) - Mr. NORTON —Had you known her long before you were married ? Tyler—Why, no, Sir, unfortunately, I did not. The fact was I had a most comfortable home, a nd I wanted some person to take care of it and myself, and, in an evil hour, I placed my mind on her. Mr. NORTON—And so you took her at a venture'? Tyler—l did, Sir, and Ido think that no man in this world ever took a worse bargain.—(Laughter.) Mr. NORTON—Does she drink ? Tyler—WhY n ° ' Sir, I cannot charge her with that ; but drunkenness would be a fortune compared with her vices. Without the slightest provocation she uses the most violent imprecations, threatens that every moment shall be my last, and calls out murder, and we were not many days married when I had to send for the police to quiet her, but it was all to no purpose. Mr. NORTON—How old is she ? Tyler--Why, Sir, she is 40 odd. Mr. NORTON—StiII she is your junior by many years? Tyler (whose age appears to be about 70, and who has a most sanctimonious countenance) —Why, yes, Sir, she is by a few years.—(Renewed laughter.) Mr. NORTON—My advice to you is to call on some mu tual friend, and see if he cannot settle your differences. Tyler—l am afraid, your Worship, it would be no use , as there is very little probability of being able to do any thing with her. Her behaviour, I assure you, Sir, is the most extraordinary, and as for her tongue, it is beyond any thing ; she is, I do assure you, in every sense of the word , a complete Tartar. I will, however, take your Worships advice, and sec what can be done. The applicant then withdrew. ArARYLEBONE. Yesterday, soon after Mr. GREGORIE, the Magistrate, had taken his seat, a little elderly gentleman, almost out of breath, and apparently suffering under more evils and mise ries than Pandora's box ever contained, bustled into the office, and, making a low bow to the worthy dispenser of justice, solicited his advice and assistance. Mr. GREGORIE—Pray, what can Ido for you ? WhY , your worship, I'm a particularly quiet man myself, and, el"' though I like a bit of a tune now and then, BO Mr. GREGORIE -1 wish you'd tell me in a few words, Sir; what it is you want. Applicant—By all means —hop • I'm desirous of putting down, if possible, a most intolerable nuisance, which is this : A lodger of mine on the first floor is continually playing either the French horn or the violin, and when I tell him to be quiet, the louder he goes on besides, he's only a learner, and makes at present a terribly discordant noise. Mr. GREGORIE—Why don't you get rid of him, if Y° 4 disapprove of his mode of amusing himself ? Applicant --1 don't want him to go from the place, as he is a very good person in other respects ; and all that I come here for is t° request that your worship would inform me how I should act. Mr. GREGORIE—I am very sorry for your misfortune ill having such a troublesome inmate, but it is quite out of tel power to afford you any relief in the matter. Applicant- -- Then I don't know what I shall do. All the rest of the lodgers say that if the musician don't move off they will, and I shall then have an empty house. Mr. GREGORIE—Why don't you give him notice to q uit? Applicant—l have already done so, but he won't go awl. Now, if he'd leave off playing at 10 or 11, I shouldn't s 0 I much mind, but to keep on with it all through the night s really too bad. The tormented one then left the office. COURT OF COMIVION COUNCIL• ary. Yesterday a Court was held for the purpose of ta into consideration a set of by-laws for the regula tion o f k t i h ng e port of London. The principal rules comprised the following i mpr ovements —Alternate duty by the harbour-masters was abolis hed, the river Thames being divided into three stations or distr icts, at each of which a harbour-master is to attend constantly to perform the duty and to take soundings. The principal harbour-master is to have the controul of the whole of the establishment of the harbour service and mooring -chain de' partment and to be responsible for them. 147 colliers are to be allowed to be moored in the tiers, and 300 clear feet of waterway to be kept, and regulation s . established f o r restrictin g the speed of the steam-vessels, a nd for carrying lights upon arriving in the dark. It is rath er s i ng ular that about three years ago Alf' Tickner, one of the Deputies of Farringdon Ward, Pr' posed the adoption of these regulations, but ineffectual l Y• Sir John Hall, upon the failure of the attempt to mak e these rules most ably and resolutely prosecuted the matter in Parliament, and succeeded to the complete wish of the improvers of the port of London, and the Court of Commo n Council gave the finishing blow yesterday. ON THE RECENT BEQUEST OF MR. DAY O F £lOO,OOO to FOUND an ASYLUM for the BLIND• Thus Providence with every stroke Still mingles consolation kind; The loss of Dv, which brought their woe, Brings an Asylum for the Blind. What, though they blessed the fatal hour That gave such solace to their pain, His bounty gladly they'd forego To see the fact of Day again. W. C• • 1' Extract from a letter, dated Port Philip, addressed' to a Gentleman in Hobart Town :—" I wish you would col and see my fine sheep hills, I think you would be tempted to send some sheep—they are far superior to the best la° I have ever seen in Van Diemen's Land — we have 51:10111, 200 persons and 25,000 sheep. If you know any pe r for wishing to send sheep here , I will take charge of them 11, 10 per. cent. on wool and increase ; or I will take a! ficiF paying all charges myself , and guarantee 40 per cent. Jr': creas e, and 40 per cent. on the wool, and be responsible Or the original as well as increase." DREADFUL SUICIDE AT BRIGHTON:' lady's maid of the Hon. Mrs. Ashley threw herself fro°l the top window of one of the highest houses on the Ma rio°. parade, on Wednesday night, and was killed on the 51 3 ,....0° t i, SILVER SNUFF BOXES, of all sizes, and of a g e :, variety of Patterns, either Plain or richly Chased, are offered, qs, from Ten to Eighteen Shillings per Ounce, at T. COX SAN T ° ll :bill, Working Silversmith, Goldsmith, and Watchmaker, 47, C°'"" London. os N.B.—A Pamphlet, containing a List of Prices of Silver SPl:ay and Forks, Silver Plate, Plated Goods, Watches, Clocks, So. " t i o n. be had gratis, or will be forwarded in answer to a post .paid aPitc.l.o.4 B IBM S. u flop. On the 29th ult., at Heanton Satchville, Devon, the R i g ht Lady Clinton, of a daughter. O a " On the 30th ult., in Bryanston-square, the lady of G. S ' court, Esq., of Ankerwycke House, Bucks,' of a son. lady of On the 27th ult., at Whippingham, Isle of Wight, th e h Rev. J. G. Gifford, of a son. ___...-------- MARRIED. On the 29th ult., at St. Pancras, Mr. W. Wilton, of Chen, street, Lincoln's Inn, to Elizabeth, fourth daughte r of john Esq., of Guildford-street, Russell- square. On the Ist inst., at St. George's, Hanover - squ are, crederic J. e : Clarke, Esq., Captain the Royal Scots Greys , e ldest sonther"' of Clarke, Esq., of Coworth House, Berks, to Margaretta Ca Anne, second daughter of the late T. Teary, Esq. f nen ti , the the Ist inst., at Streatham, James Aerson, ° late " House, Durham, to Elizabeth, second daughter of the Macdougal, Esq lED. On the 21st ult., at Prescot, D aged 73, Jane, relict of the Rev. J. Barnes, late Vicar of Huyton. On the 25th ult., aged 83, Harriet , relict of the Rev. Dr. Vil ett, of Swindon, Wilts. On the 26th ult., at Kirklands of Ancrum, Roxburghshire, li.. zabeth, wife ofJ. Richardson, Esq., of Fludyer-street, Westrnialtfr* On the 10th ult., at John's, New Brunswick, Susan Frances, In fant daughter of Capt. C. Dalton, Royal Artillery. ironmong er On the 29th ult., aged 58, Mr. Thomas Sharland, I%linories. On the 26th ult., a t Pinhoe, near Exeter, age d 46, Ann, neice the late G. Scot, Esq., of Alphington, Devon. of On the 28 t h ult. t , Thomas Puxty, Esq., of Rye-lane, Peckham, aged 70. On the 28 th ult., at Oxford. Mr. Wise, aged 70. On the 30 th ult., Thomas Henry, only son of Mr. T . Nortzell, of Bouverie -street, a g ed 30. O n the 24th ult., in Upper Harley- s t r eet, Henry Frederick, relic youngest son of R. T. Kindersle , Esq. ed 7 3 , E lizabeth, On the 28th ult., at Stamford -hill, Y g Henry Field, Esq. e d 47 a t of On the 12th of September, at Grenada, West Indies, ag John Stokes, Es On the 28th 11 , Miss Thornton, of Norfolk -square, Brighton. On the 23d a lt ., in London, Henry R. Bellingham, tA;,,el Lincoln's Inn, barrister-at -law, second son of the late Sir A. ...' lingham, Bart., of Castle Bellingham. On the 14th of May, at Vellore, Lieutenant Duncan Char.le,,s. 1 , Campbell, 9th Native- Infantry, eldest son of Lieut.-Colonel Li Campbell, C.B. .... ..„pd 51. On the 19th ult., at Hackney, James Wildman, _msg. , ..e - London : Printed and inidished by MA--D-0-1451-lii G, of • 14° ' 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, m the countY of Middlesex .— Friday, December, 2, 1836.