The Sun. — London, England, 1839-05-09 00:00:00

Mr. LOVETT moved the adoption of the address. Mr. O'CONNOR in seconding the address, said that Mr. Sankey had not found out even a technical objec tion against it, for if people had not arms, what would be the necessity of keeping them bright. He thought that the Convention, and the country were under immense obligations to Mr. O'Brien for the very able document which he had produced, and which he hoped would be unanimously agreed to. It was said by all, even Sir Boyle Roach, that the best way to preserve peace was to be always prepared for war, which he thought was a doctrine inculcated by this address. This address was necessary, in order that the people should not be without some guide as to the way in which they should act in this very important crisis. Every one knew that the Tories would be as sisted by the Whigs in many instances against the peo ple's exertions in the cause of liberty. Every one knew that O'Connell would also assist them in striving to put down the Chartists. Has not that political scoun drel boasted that Ireland cannot only afford to send the 3 regiments which she has already sent, but will give 3 more for the same object as that with which those were come to this country. It is impossible that three parties can exist in the State, there can be only two, and as one of those is already down it was their duty to keep them so.—(Hear and cheers.) If ever they came into existence again, or if ever they came up, it must be with th e people. If ever that party should promise to take Power again, they must come into the arms o f the Charti sts ; if ever t h ey o bt a i n that station from which they have b een h ur l e d, it would only be through the aid of the Radical forces. It is not the powerful that the new Go vernment wi ll attac k , t h e y w ill be sure to put down the weakest ; an d master Daniel, though he seem s not toe w thj k 80, will b e th e fi rs t person that will be assailed—HDe iel will (Hear, hear.snot be attacked in his ( len.— succho fool as to be gulled by either Whig or Tory. Th e y assa ult will be made on poiertyed not be deceived—the bYro r perty.—(Cheers.) The middle classes will assist the Torie ass much wiullchalsaos thethe Whigs, for the Tories will protect them a Whigs did.—(Hear.) It will be th e un i on of the few Mr. CARDO said in his district, the parish of Maryle bone; the people were as 10 to 1 in favour of the People's Charter. Mr. SKEVINGTON said in his part of the country (Loughborough) the people were with them as 20 to 1. Let the Convention be firm and unanimous, and they must gain their ends. Mr. FENNY was for peaceful agitation so long as they were allowed to continue it ; but when they were to be put down with the bayonet, it became the duty of every one to resist such tyranny by all the means in his power. —(Cheers.) He would not go out of his way 10 yards either to court or to meet a collision, but let it come, and he trusted the people would be prepared. Mr. SANKEY said he felt it necessary to put the Con vention on their guard as to the course to be adopted in reference to this address. He submitted that though the address, taken by itself, might not be objectionable, yet, taken in connection with other circumstances—the exciting language of many who supported it—the tone of debate—all these taken together, might make out such a case that a lawyer might consider the address as illegal. He appealed to Mr. O'Connor, as a law yer, whether this was not a true statement of the case. With respect to what fell from Mr. Burns and Mr. Halley as to the people of Scotland. he would tike leave to corroborate it, as he knew what they said to be true. As to Mr. Halley's constituents, he had the pleasure of being acquainted with them, and he could bear testi mony to the working men of Dunfermline as some of the most intagent men, tind the best acquainted with poli tical principles. In fact, were recourse had to siolence, three fourths of the people of Scotland would leave this movement. He (Mr. Sankey) had used strong lan guage, had used constitutional language, and spoken often in the ardour of his feelings in strong indignation when viewing the oppression under which the working classes were ground down. For himself, however, he would say when he entered this movement, lie had every confidence that the great objects would be carried with out bloodshed. Had he thought otherwise, he would not have taken part in so common and ordinary a course of action. He hoped, and he still trusted that a move ment commenced by the virtuous working classes would have this singular honour of being accomplished without bloodshed : that for once a revolution might be enrolled on the page of history unstained by crime. Mr. WOODHOUSE said he was against the rich arm ing against the poor, and against the poor arming against the rich ; but the fact was, the rich and middle classes were armed to put down their meetings, therefore it was absolutely necessary that the people should be pre pared. He knew hundreds and thousands in Nottingham who dared not sign the petition, and many who had sub scribed to the rent under the signature of a friend, be cause they dared not let their names be known. The Secretary of the Working Men's Association had been turned out to starve, and compelled to go elsewhere to seek for work ; and he himself had been crushed and ruined, therefore it was necessary that the people should be prepared for the worst. He was against the use of physical force, but it was neces sary to meet physical force by physical force. He could assure the Convention that if he were to re turn to Nottingham, after stating that physical force ought not to be used under any circumstances, as Dr. Wade had done, his life would not be safe. He was an enemy to any outbreak, unless it should be forced upon them by the tyrannical conduct of the Govern ment, and then it would be their duty to make use of their own strength. Mr. MILLS said that in every movement with which he had ever been connected, he had always found that those who were the moat loud-mouthed were the worst in action. He was surprised to hear per sons boast of the courage of patriots, who dare not sign the petition. Two months would show whether the prudent portion of the Convention were right or not. Why did they talk about arms, if they did not wish the people to use them. He would do all he could to obtain their object, but he would do it in a legal and constitutional way. Mr. JONES was of opinion that they were decidedly not in a majority. In many agricultural counties agi tation was nearly unknown, and it was upon that ground he should oppose the Address. He had no objection to recommend the people to arm individually, but he would not jeopardize the Convention, by recom mending it in his capacity as a Member of the Con vention. Mr. DIALING believed• they had the majority, and would have while the present system of Government continued, because it created poverty, distress, and dis satisfaction. It was wealth pitted against labour, and the people could not submit to be starved in a land of plenty, created by their own hands. Mr. CARPENTER said that the address could not fairly be charged with the speeches which had been made upon it. He was against the Convention recom mending the people to arm, which he believed the ad dress did not ; he put a totally different construction on it, and would support it with one alteration, which he thought calculated to get rid of all the objections urged against it. He would, after Mr. Sankey's amendment should be disposed of in the manner in which he trusted it would be, move that the words " with those arms," be omitted. With regard to the ques tion as to the majority or the minority, it had been introduced into the Convention on a former occasion in consequence of some remarks in the Birmingham Jour nal, and those very gentlemen who now talked of a ma jority then said they would h a ve noug ht to fear since they had a majority, unless the petition should receive three million and a half of signatures, and that unless this number were obtained, the House of Commons would repudiate it, and yet these same persons now sa id they had a majority with them. He was more desirous for the organization of . the people than if he were certain that they had a majority ; they ought to prosecute I EVENING vim loN. SECOND EDITION. NATION AL CONVENTION. (THIS DAY.) Mr. Mout, Delegate from Glasgow, in the chair. After reading the names over, and the confirmation of the minutes of yesterday's proceedings, Mr. SKEVINGTON said, that he hoped that the Con vention would be good enough to allow him to absent himself from the Birmingham Sitting for one day, in order to visit his family, one member of which was lying ill since he came here on the 4th of February. He did not presume on the Convention for this permission on ac count of his constant attendance to his duties, he not hav:nc , been absent one day since the period they first sat, but from a knowledge that they would allow him to indulge in a little of that family regard, without which be would be unworthy of the name of man.—Leave granted. Mr. POWELL asked would it not be well that the Convention should at once decide the day and the man ner in which they should enter Birmingham. He made the inquiry in order to give the people of that place an opportunity of giving them that reception that would be equally worthy of both parties. The CHAIRMAN said this subject would come on in a more regular manner by and by. CORRESPONDENCE. The SECRETARY read a letter from Knaresborough. They (the Chartists of Knaresborough) would have written sooner, but that they had experienced much op position. They send 12s. rent. They were, when he left Knaresborough, in considerable strength. Shortly after that had hdppened a discussion took place as to what would be the best means of obtaining the Char ter. Atter this discussion Mr. Joy and about half a dozen of moral force traitors abandoned us and did us all the injury they could ; but this did not, as they imagined it would, do them any injury—it only operated as a powerful stimulant to urge them onwards in the course which they were pursuing. They spread umours through the town that we were armed, that we were in possession of a great number of pikes and guns, &c. (I wish to God it were so). The consequence of this was that the tyrants began to tremble, and they accordingly sent all the constables of the town, together with one of " little Johnny's bull dogs," to our meet ing one night. They speedily succeeded in obtain ing from Briggs, the landlord of the house where we assembled, that he would not allow us in future to meet in his house. They were next told that the first man who should attempt to get up a Chartist ad dress would be instantly arrested. All their efforts have been hitherto unsuccessful. The greatest enemies of the Chartists in this place are the Whigs and Whig Radical Operatives. Had the working men of Knaresborough come forward in greater numbers, as in other towns, there was no doubt the authorities would not act in the tyrannical manner they had done. The working men are their greatest enemies, they omit no opportunity of pointing them out, and holding them up to the contempt of the people. They had no place of meeting, but notwithstanding this they were determined to stand by their principles under all diffi culty. The letter was directed to Mr. Bussey. CONTINUATION OF THE SITTINGS IN LONDON DURING THE WEEK. Mr. O'BRIEN moved that the Convention do assem. ble to-morrow at eleven o'clock for the dispatch o business. This being seconded, was passed. Mr. Bailie CRAIG asked what were the pecuniary arrangements with regard to the adjournment to Bir mingham. His reason for thus asking was that he found that a rule had been passed which made it necessary to give three days notice on money votes. Mr. LOVETT, in reply, stated that the Finance Com mittee had it in their power to bring forward a resolu tion without previous notice. Bailie CRAIG —A. truly accommodating rule. ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE. Mr. O'BRIEN, as one of the Committee appointed to draw up the address, bad prepared the one which he was about to read—it b a d met t h e appro b ation of those Gentlemen with whom h e acted, and if any one present objected to it, now was the time to state their objec tions, in order that it might be referred back to the Committee.—( Hear, hear.) If it was too strong let it Nee weakened, to accommodate those people who thought so : and if it was too weak let it be made strong, to meet the approval of persons of that opinion.—(Hear, hear.) He had, to the best of his ability, drawn it up so as to meet the emergency which had occurred. He agreed with Mr. Jones that the present movement in Wales was brought on by the Government, in order that the people might be further curtailed of their liberties. And it was with the same object the people of Lancashire were instigated to an outbreak—the arrest of the seven men in Manchester the other night was with this intention. He then read the Address, it was as follows ADDRESS ov TIIE CONVENTION .TO THE PEOPLE 01' GREAT BRITAIN. FELLOW COUNTRY MEN,-When you elected us to take charge of the National Petition, you limited our trust to the exercise of functions truly Constitutional and legal; beyond the bounds of that trust we cannot step without betraying yore and prejudicing our cause. It is therefore, our first duty, consistent with our present in structiods, both to obey the law ourselves, and to assist you in maintaining it. If we continue to obey the law, no power on earth can prevent our success. If we once violate the law, or countenance a violation of it, our cause must be inevitably mined. Aware of our position your oppressors are moving heaven and earth to bring us into collision with the enemy. They are pouring spies and traitors into your ranks, in order to seduce the unwary into illegal prac tices. They then pounce upon their victims, and by brutal and unconstitutional treatment, seek to exas perate the people to MADNESS and rebellion. They have already succeeded in fomenting disturbances in Wales, and they have seduced a few incautious indivi duals in Lancashire to practice training and drilling in contravention of the Six Acts. By these and the like perfid'oas agencies they hope to excite a premature in surrection, of which they mght take advantage to dis solve the Convention, to put down all public meetings for the Charter, and to abolish the surviving con stitutional rights and safe-guards through which alone we can hope to obtain the salvation of the country with out anarchy and bloodshed. Not content with these machinations the tyrants are also seeking to arm the rich against the poor under pretence of protecting life and pro perty, of which the tyrants themselves are the only de stroyer=. Yes, countrymen, they are actually encouraging a pro;cct of arming the ertem:es of the country at the ex rense of the State, whilst at the same time they are hurting out pretexts (having the semblance of lega lity) for dispossessing the Chartists of their rights fut arms. If the public Press tell us truly the Ministers just resigned have been base enough to engage to furnish 200 aristocrats in Monmouthshire with arms paid for out of the taxes. Here, fellow -countrym en , is an openly-avowed scheme which, if we suffer to be carried into execution, must crush for ever your rising hopes and liberties. What course, then, do we advise ? d Our advice is, that you lII4I DLY OBEY THE LAW ; but a t the same time he pro- pare to make your oppressors likewise obey it. Be upon your guard against spies or madmen, who would urge you to ille ga l pract i ces, but at the same time bear in mind that you have the same right to arm that your enemies have, and that if you abandon that right your liber ties are gone for ever. Be prudent and cautious, but at the same time firm and unflinching. Parade not your arms at public meetings, but keep them bright and ready at home, so as to be ready at all times and all seasons to cefend your Queen, your country, and your liberty. Give your oppressors no excuse for invading your inviolable right to meet and discuss your grievances by needlessly carry ing arms to public places, but at the same time fail not to be prepared with these arms to resist any and every unconstitutional attempt to suppress your peaceable agitation by physical violence." Mr. SANKEY objected to an expression in the address relating to the right of arming, which objection was not persisted in. against the thousands, therefore will the battle be to the strong and the race to the swift.—(Ch:ers.) These were the times for every man who values his life, his t liberty or his country, to rally round the flag of liberty. These were the times for them to speak out, or their voices would be lulled in such a manner that they would never be heard again.—(Cheers.) He hail great pleasure in seconding this address, it was drawn up in such a manly, firm, temperate, and independent manner, as to be satisfactory to the country, and solacing to the people.—(Hear and cheers.) Dr. TAYLOR was strongly in favour of the Address, for the time had certainly come when the Convention ought to tell the people to arm, whether it was legal or not. He begged to ask Mr. O'Brien, as there was some obscurity in the Address, whether it was his inten- tion to do so Or not ? Mr. O'BRIEN said his intention in drawing up the Address was to recommend the people to arm, without saying so in as many words. Mr. HALLEY said he would oppose the address ; it went very plainly to recommend the people to arm. This had hitherto been the great obstacle to our pro- gress, and the object of it plainly was to incite to acts of violence, and this would compel every one to oppose us for their own defence. Mr. O'Connor said it " would be a war between property and poverty." Now he thought there were two parties at the opposite ex tremes—the one wishing to arm to keep down the poor, the other wishing to arm the poor against pro perty he was opposed to both, because he felt both were enemies to the good of the people. Every honest Reformer who sought to promote the well being of his country would endeavour to unite all classes, and not to place them in hostile array against each other. As a working man he did not come here as a class Re former, seeking the benefit of one class at the expense of another, or wishing to raise one by depressing another. His object, and the object of those who sent him, were, to obtain their just and equal rights, to se cure good Government that will promote the true in terests of all classes. His instructions were, and he would religiously abide by them, to adopt none but legal and Constitutional means, and by peaceful agitation en deavour to unite the majority of the people to join with them in their claim. _ Mr. LOVETT had always been in favour of peaceful means, and he had incurred odium for so favouring them ; but now that the Government and the middle classes were determined to put down their peaceful agitation—as their meetings were to be put down at the will of a Magistrate, or even by a proclamation, which was not law—if their members were to be imprisoned on the information of a policeman, then liberty was to be put back in place of going forward.—(Cheers ) They must then manifest their firm determination to oppose tyranny in the breach—(Cheers)—otherwise they would be put down. They had yet some mea sures in store much more effective than arms. The middle classes put their faith in the standing army and the police, and other means of oppressing the people ; but, and he spoke his own feelings, he would rather, than be reduced to the condition of the people of France, that they shrltld not meet more than three or four to gether—the Press plugged up—rather than all that, he said, let England be a desart.—(Cheers.) Mr. BURNS said they had wasted much time that morning, for unless the great majority of the people were with them, they could do no good by telling the people to arm. Instead of being in a majority he was con vinced they were in a minority.—(Cries of " No, no, we are 10 to I.") He was very glad to hear it, but if that could be proved there would be no occasion to arm, for then their demands must be complied with. If they pursued such a violent course they would lose the sup port of his constituents and of three-fourths of the people of Scotland. Mr. POWELL said the only way to get the majo rity was for the Convention to show a determined front. The middle classes were arming at the expense of the people—why should not the people then arm to maintain their privileges and rights ? If it was constitu tional for one party to arm, surely it was as much so for the other. The Convention would be retrogading if they did not tell the people that they should arm to assert their rights. Dr. FLETCHER supported . the address. Mr. LowaEv,contended that they had a large ma jority of the people upon their side. They had a mil lion and a quarter of signatures to the Petition, and more than two-thirds of the people were apathetic, but they would join the people if they had occasion to assert their liberties. MA 9 I t . H:3:). SUN, 1/0 ND(iN THU SD A , their plans with greater vigour, but at the same time LATEST NEWS FROM AMERICA. 1 APPREI - I EN _ to __ they should be exceedingly careful that while in ' TION OF EN ~ „,,, , their addresses they abstained from urging the people to . (Further extracts from pa era le ceivcd by the Great _n l mi.) e, R 0 F We tern.) : YIEWS'.EY, acts of violence, they did not by their Speeches induce FROM THE FRONTIER. YEAR 1816. some few ardent men to rise under the idea of obtaining support which would fail them. Much had been said April 13 Messenger,i d . a ) m+, re the people ra I3ing round the Convention. Had' 'Ait.tff'u's on our there havingingDoubtlessgreat been to the them one by one by the law, and who has rallied round and watchfulness of our militia, who have. in se them ? veral instances, frustrated the plans of the incendiaries. Mr. O'CoNNoß—The Convention itself should do so. The almost nightly disturbance of our guard, we fear, will i pre . sence Mr. CARP EN TER would admit that, but yet they cone yet lead to serious consequences. tinued to s it th ere as if no thing had happened. In the On Thursday morning, about five o'clock, Captain present frightful condition of public- affairs it would not Caldwell 's guard, stationed at Johnson's, were fired upon do for th e m t o be carr ied away by their feelings, but by three men, who ( e i t re o d b iat F el r y d fled. Their firing, how were somewhat lay they must look at the facts of the case and not utter a ever, took Sbetlersnolfe word which should induce the people to believe they did tiened near ....,Mi115.... molested. . or-1 night theguarAd tor word at Saxe 's Ml ( Highgate) speaks of it as not mean what they said. follows :—" The guard on the outpost, about eleven Mr. DONALDSON, having combated the sophistries o'clock, saw a man prowling about the lots among some scat and calumnies of Mr. Salt in the Birminghan Union, tering trees near the post. The guard hailed him, upon would repeat his conviction that the Convention had which the man snapped his gun. The guard then fired not gone out of the proper path. It was important without effect. Nothing more was sent till about 12 o'clock, they should continue to pursue the same line of conduct, when two men were discovered about the same place. Our and he should therefore support the suggestion of Mr. guard hailed them, and for answer received the discharges c aaruff e t t , h t e h u fire, ghd i t sheehya m n g e r e g a i Carpenter. He cared not which way the ma j orit y was—their cause was a righteous , just , and hol y one, and he would pursue the same course if he stood alone. verynetaor.the. ho n u g se for ammuni tiu g u es w w ith he th u e t rn he , th t e e y t i r r e e d they - Mlongr. BROWN said that as as the higher and m turned iddle u t h f r t e w e ('g g u u n u s , s H . b u O v t i u s r t i l g l no and w m th u o t r h u e e t n returnedrtyied heard the men say , ` The y have left.' The guard y and classes attempted to put down the people's liberties, that others returned to the spot, but could discover nothing. man deserved to be a slave who would no t arm to p re- About 3 o' clock the picket saw a man a pp roaching, when serve those. liberties which Nature and Nature's God he hailed him, but received no answer; he then snapped had given him. There were numbers who would have his gun, but it flashed in the pan. The man immediately signed the petition if paper had been prepared for their disappeared into the woods." signatures. If the rich and middle classes had a right On Saturday night there was some disturbance. One to arm, so had the working classes, and they had a right of our guard, seeing a suspicious person was dis short d, dishtanch ce to defend themselves against oppression. How was it off, hailed him, wh ereup a gun charge wi was immediately returned by the guard, and probably with likely the people would rally round them when the effect. Co nvention had sent word to the people to be q uiet ; but if _.. The gun s seem to be rather bad in that quarter, and the the Convention had courage to put the p eo p le to the gunners - no t much better; thirteen triggers pulled and test, they would find they would not suffer one of the nobody hurt. We su s p ect t hat the shotsw er were somewhat Members to be arrested, except over their bloody corses of the longest ; and perhaps there is some drawing of the Mr. MARSDEN said that Mr. O'Brien had advised longbow in the story. the people not to violate the law ; now he would ask We learn from the Sackett s Harbour Journal that soon Mr. O'Brien what the law was ? H e w ould say let after the arrival of the steam-boat United States at that the people follow the dictates of their common sense. place, bringing information of the firing at Prescott and What use were arms to them unless they knew how Brockville, the steam-boat Oneida, in the employment of to use them ? Mr. Marsden then commenced comment- the United States Government, was dispatched for the St. ing on the conduct of various Members of the Convention, Lawrence with a detachment of troops on board. amidst loud cries of `° Order, chair," he was several THE CASE OF DR. Hoesies.—The Burling ton Free Press of last Friday contains the argument of Mr. Adams, times interrupted by the Chairman desiring him to con one of the counsel,,in support of the demand of the Gover fine himself to the question. He then insisted on the nor of Lower Canada for the surrender of Dr. Holmes, the duty of the Convention protecting those men who had accused murderer of Mr. Tasche. It occupies nearly nine co been arrested on the charge of drilling, which drew forth lumns, and is very able. It is to be fo ll ow ed b y the ar g ument the following exposition o the law on the subject from on the other side. The Free Press says--" Governor Mr. F. O'CoNNoR. It is a misdemeanour to re- Jennison has bestowed a good deal of attention to the commend men to arm ; it is a transportable offence if subject, consulted the most eminent jurists and constitu you recommend men to train themselves to the use of tional lawyers in the country, and had the benefit of ahl 2 . arms, or march them, or drill them in military procession. written arguments on both sides : and with such appli- Mr. NEESOM supported Mr. O'Brien's address ; he antes, we want no other assurances of a just decision than had the application or that sound practic al common sense for no doubt they had a majority of the wo r k i ng c lasses which his Excellency is so peculiarly distin g uished. with them in the Tory-ridden, priest - ridden City of UPPER CANADA. Bristol. Their petition had received 2,000 more sig From the Kingston Herald. April 16 .) natures than the Anti-Corn - law petition , but the nu m- About 4 . 000 barrels of flour, t wo or three cargoes of her of signatures was of little consequence — the res ult wheat , and some hundred barrels was the same. down last week by the steamboats and schoon• re. Most Mr. HICKE would have supported the Address, of it is destined for Montreal, and will probably be shipped but for the language used in support of it. He would for England by the first arrivals. The weather, so far, has never load the people of this country to suppose that been very favourable fur sowing spring grain, and the any settlement of an-; great or permanent improvement farmers are very busy. was ever obtained by means of brute force. Thera Five schooners have arrived at Oswego en the 6th inst. had been too much of brute force in all ages of the from Ohio, through the Welland canal. Four of them were laden with wheat, to the amount of 15,000 b u sh e l s , world. Mr. O'BRIEN in reply said, that not a syllable of the wardsforthereOuswego millers. 5,000 bushels were a f fter. address went to recommend the people to arm ; they wenand elcanalved . as s This ß s h o •v s theharbour gareaast then closed•antag e by iu the only recommended them to keep their arms bright and, and would probably be soalof some time longer ' e ' clean, and if the upper and middle classes had It is expected h e for Rideau canalwill that the i be open next been recommended by the Whigs and Tories week. to keep their arms bright and clean, would they The Great Britain was towed from the Navy-yard by the be such fools as to make objections. With respect to Commodore Bacrie yesterday, in order to be fitted out the doctrine of majorities, the minority was always fur commencing her trips. She will be commanded by bound by the majority ; if the minority bad had a voice Captain Herchmer, her late Captain ( Whitney) having in the making the laws, but not otherwise, the grand taken command of the United States, which has, some object of the Convention should be not to separate how or other, escaped, from the States authorities, who themselves from the great body of the people, in order seized her-for the,Prescott business. Non-intercourse is that, by preserving the influence over them, they might the order of the day between Canada and the United States. The steam-beats of both ceuntrics run only to prevent the people from committing themselves ; and their own ports. Indeed, far is this carried, that so the only way to preserve this was to show that they we have been eeninformed the sentries at Brockville and were in earnest. Prescott fire on the American boats even in the day time. The motion was then put with the omission suggested The United States steamer was fired on last week, and an by Mr. Carpenter, when there appeared— American schooner received several balls, and even one of For the Motion 32 our own schooners that came to Brockville in the night was For Mr. Sankey's amendment 7 fired on before they could anchor. They were hailed Would not vote 3 from the shore, but could not hear from the noise, and five Absent close between two of the men. This practice should be Mr. O ' CONNOR then asked Mr. Pitkeitliley to post- instantly stopped, as it not only incurs the danger of kill pone his motion in order that he might move that it was ing innocent persons, but also must provoke retaliation, necessary to throw the protection of the Convention and an active border war. We trust the Lieutenant Go around - Mr. Vincent, supposing him to have behaved vernor will immediately suppress this conduct. On the properly, and that Mr. Frost be directed to proceed to other side, a quantity of oad plank, &c., was lying at Og- Wales for the purpose of succouring him forthwith. densburg for the Hon. John Hamilton's steam-boat at After reading a paragraph from a morning paper, he Prescott, and when it was known where the plank was go said it was absolutely necessary to give all the protection log , some in the power of the Convention. audit. was necessary to the whole. send a :man in whom they had implicitconfidence, and no man had that more than Mr. Frost.—(Cheers.) Mr. Vincent was a good tempered, an eloquent, and a talented young man, and was doing all that was in his power for the benefit of the cause, and was deserving of their protection. They must first get him Counsel, and when they had the Report of Mr. Frost they would "sympathizers" set fire to it, and burned up take such other steps as would be found necessary. Mr. TAYLOR was afraid that by acceding to the motion they might prejudice the ease of Mr. Vincent. Mr. O'CoNNott said he did not think it would, or he would not have proposed it. The real bugbear was Universal Suffrage, and that would prejudice his cause more than anything else. After a few words from Dr. TAYLOR, the motion was adopted unanimously. Upon the motion of Mr. O'CONNOR strangers were ordered to withdraw, as the Convention were going into Committee on some financial business. When the room was again open for the admission of strangers, we found Mr. O'CoNNOR moving a resolution on the TYRANNY OF THE GRELK GOVERNMENT. The following extract from a speech delivered at the opening of the House of Assembly of the United States of the lonian Island, by his Excellency the Lord High Commissioner, places the tyrannical and illegal conduct of the Government of King Otho in so strong a light as to justify the adoption of a more decisive policy on the part of our Government. King Otho is surrounded by Ministers not a jot better able to govern a Consti tutional State than he is himself—which, God knows, is paying no compliment to their understanding:— rho lonian parliament hal a right to ask—the lonian people expect to know—what has bean done by their go vernment, by the Queen's representatives here and at the court of Athens, to procure redresa and satisfoction in the case of the unfortunate Bitullia (father and son) who, upon some trifling dispute, were seized and dragged to prison, where the father died; in that of Potarniano, a native of Cephalonia, who, upon a frivolous charge of having spoken d,srespectfully of a " ooulnier," was round telnes an ned refused by fopracye, rations,i in the with cords and h f u eu r a : he i e at ied, caused t o oh n fe ot a rtil,e l o lo n a g raede j k o a u r r bg r;y aerrl t rir o prison. without being allowed to t Ake his clothes, and whose deat;. e a f as a i s n e t b h e e ra s i n co i e-in?: at Patras? Wh n a ci t jut 4i ee o l ue in the case of the unfortunate Diaeacto, a Cerigote, who, tarn by force from a widowed mother, was G srig, r u,: e n,v, e wdh c eela e nirotd as hwsi w,gba: a ies: substitute, ifel:fsetreu,4iropi,m:i i, eaneni hasi. suffering, disappeared, and of whom the Greek Govern hurried off on a lolhn ia,,,su b r ien neenYtlitee obliged to abandon been t m a , k n o to givencannot from ia it givebt boat ae t any casean d account? l prison upon a frivolous tA m on e dn addi t b o e member this f s a sa B d ri cataloguei h firm es charge; tahlish , d and h there, who b o d com mercial pursuits at Patras in cens ege " of want of se- Signor Rietti, a native of Zante, more e c recent . atidon thelasye of committed upon four of your y h i a n s person o recently r been in e p h r property it grieves me to be obliged nowthat another out :. augr se curity coun trymen, which, for illegality and contempt of the rights of her Majesty's protected subjects, u which I have already adverted. Friendly,srsses all those to earnest applications for redress havi ng been maderespe I ctf . ul, and eeffe toally to the Greek Government in all these e lonian people, placed under the exclusive protection of Great Britain, expect to learn whether that protection is real or only nominal, as in these cases it would appear be, had her Majesty's Government not acted with e to firm ness and determination which I have now to announce. " It is painful to speak in terms of complaint against th e government of an adjoining and infant state, in the conso lidation and improvement of which her Majesty's govern ment have taken an interest and shown a solicitude second only to that with which her Majesty fosters these states. It has ever been my most anxious wish and study, and that of this government likewise, to cultivate the most friendly and intimate relations with Greece, whether we consider the connection which subsists between these states and that great power which has evinced so much solicitude in the political existence and well-being of the kingdom of Greece; or w hether we consider the many relations and associations which should produce •the most friendly intercourse between these states and the king dom of Greece. But I regret to be obliged to state that neither this Government, nor her Majesty's Minister at the Court of Athe is, nor myself, could be satisfied with the answers given by the Greek Government to the represen tations made in the case of the deceased Bittulia and Potamiano; and that no answer whatever having been made in the cases of Diacachi and Saisi, or more recently in that of Rietti, we have been obliged to appeal those cases for the consideration of the protecting Sovereign. The answer proves that the government of the protecting Power is determined that the lonian people shall be con sidered in everything relating to protec tion as of the British family, and treated accordingly. A nd her Majesty's Minister at the Court of Athens has been instructed to demand of the Government of his Hellenic Majesty the severe Punishment of the Procureur D'Etat at Patras, by whose cruel and arbitrar conduct the death of y Potsmi to demand that the ano was caused—and further Greek Government engage that the citizens of the lo nian States shall enjoy n. ceded to British subjects under the treaty recentl made b e t ween Great Britain and Gr eece ; and I, in bey half of this Government have expressed my expectation that redress would be given in the cases of Diacachi, Saisi, an d Rietti ; and I h av e only to e x p ress m y re gret th a t the rep r esentations first made unofficially in that spirit of affectionate solicitude with which I have ever regarded the Greek nation, with that profound respect for his Hellenic Majesty which I have always maintained, should not have been listened to by his go_ vcr nment in a manner to render any official appeal unneces sary. I regret to say that up to the la test moment ( Februar y 27), the Greek Government bad taken no notice whatever of the demands which her Majesty's Minister to the Court of Athens had been desired by her Majesty's Minister for Foreign Affairs to address to the Government of his H a t_ lenio Majesty. It only remains for me to communicate to this Government the whole of the c orrespoedenee that has taken place u on those sinful pnt • atiers , ahich have called for the Pthe duties ef most energetic exercise of recommending the most excellent the Senate to adopt whatever measures it may deem necessat y, for the security of its own subjects, for the dignity of the lonian Govern ment, and to correspond with the tone which the Govern ment of the protecting power has taken to vindicate the rights of lonian b . '' • su ye? :. _ . _ ... ....„. aaa a,.,, . : RESIGNATION OF DELEGATES. Mr. O'CoNNOR moved, that in consequence of the fre quent resignations without cause being assigned of many Delegates, this Convention hold any person to be a traitor, if he resign without the consent of his consti tuents. Mr. O'Connor's object was that every Delegate should give twelve days' notice, in order that sufficient time should be given for the election of a new Delegate, to replace the person who would resign. Mr. SANKEY objected to the use of the word traitor, as personal liberty was as much to be respected as ab stract liberty. - Mr. CLEAVE—No one had a right to prescribe to him but the constituency who sent him there. It was an abominable tyranny, which, if not met at once, would be Vie reverse of freedom of thought. If this motion passed, it was only for three or four ill disposed persons to get up trumpery charges to damage them in the eyes of their coutrymen. Mr. O'CONNOR would withdraw it. Mr. ROGERS moved that the Treasurer's accounts up to the 6th instant be printed. Seconded by Dr. TAYLOR, and carried. Mr. SMART moved that a Committee of five be appointed to stop in London, to superintend the pre sentation of the petition, and to transact any other business that may be necessary. He would not ex pect any objection to this resolution, as it would not be prudent to leave the petition in its present unprotected state without some persons to attend to its security. Mr. MILLS seconded it. Mr. JAMES TAYLOR asked if the Committee would have the power of voting away money. Dr. FLETCHER supported the resolution, inasmuch as it being possible that Parliament would be dissolved, the petition would then be out of the care of Mr. Attwood. Mr. Bailie CRAIG would request of Mr. Smart to withdraw his resolution, as it would be determined in a day or two whether it could be presented or not. Mr. O'CONNOR would support Mr. Smart's resolu tion—that part of it which went to say that the Commit tee should have the power of transacting other business, as suggested by Mr. O'Brien. The petition was the ground of their future agitation, and, therefore, it would be necessary that it should be well watched over. Mr. SMART withdrew his motion after some further discussion. Dr. TAYLOR would move that they should all go to Birmingham by the earliest train on Monday morning, in order that they might have a public meeting. From what he thought, the Convention would get such a re ception as would add much to the cause of,the people. Mr. O'CoNNort seconded the resolution ; Mr. POWELL and Mr. DONALDSON supported it. It was unani mously adopted. After going through some other business, the usual vote of thanks was passed to Mr. Moir, the Chairman. After which the meeting desolved. CARLOW ELECTION COMMITTEE (THIS DAY.) The Committee met this morning at the usual hour, when the vote of Thomas Coleman, of Barret-street, was objected to by the petitioners, on the ground of in sufficient value. It appeared that in 1832 the vote was objected to by the Conservatives, but that his vote was allowed. Since that time, however, be had parted with a garden for which he was at that time registered. The vote was under consideration until balf-past four o'clock, when the Committee decided the vote was a good one. The Committee then adjourned until to-morrow. Mr. Goulburn is to be set up for Speaker, by Sir Robert Peel, against Mr. Lefevre. FIDELITY REWARDED. --- The Rev. Mr. Veasey, of St. Peter's. College, whose decease we re corded last week, has left to his late servant, Mr. Daniel Barber, now porter of the College, a legacy of 1,0001., in grateful acknowledgment of his long-continued and faith. ful services to his master during his declining years. The Rev. Gentleman also left IOOL to his gyp, Mr. Philip Buck.— Cambridge Chronicle. •■•••••;•••••••-....""•---- At the Glasgow assizes on Sa tui da y Ale xander Johnston, 000 per—, lad named S m i t h, i n t h e Hi g h.strcet of Glasgow un hat Ne Years morning a nd sentenced to he executed on the 25th inst. O MEN THEIR NEAR AND EXA:VII7 A- C A R f.',; ED WIT II THE GRANDFATHER AT UXBRIDGE, IN THE It will no doubt be in tlio r0c0V , et . ;9,4 of S(U at our readers that a mordcr a d rAlwry was committed in December, 1816, in the secluded villa.e of Yiewaley, near Uxbridge, under circumstances which h4ve aver since been enveloped in mystery, but which h've in duced a strong belief that some members of the family, or some persons well acquainted with the premises, were concerned. The unfortunate objects of the murderers' attack were Mr. WAliam Howard, an opulent farmer, 91 years of age. who resided with his aged house keeper, Sarah Randall, in a retired part of the above village. They were the victims, and found shortly before seven o'clock on the evening of the Ist of December, 1816, in an almost lifeless state from the effects of inju ries received from some persons who entered the house and robbed it, it is believed, of between two and three hundred pounds in Bank of England notes, besides various articles of plate. Mr. Howard expired the next day about three o'clock in the afternoon, and an Wednesday the 4th of that month an inquest was held on the body before the late Mr. Stirling, when a verdict of" Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown" was returned. The magistrates of the division also entered into an investigation at the White Horse Inn, Ux bridge ; but nothing likely to throw any light upon the murder transpired. About three or four months sub sequent, however, a strong suspicion was excited that a grandson of the deceased, named John Bond, had been concerned in it, from the circumstance that a 101. Bank of England note, which was proved to have been received by Mr. Howard at the Bank of Eng land a few weeks before the murder, and which was LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Al Ar 7 THE QUEEN V. TIIE POOH LAW COMMISSIONEM IN TIM IdArIVR OF THF. VALISE] OF sr. MART. LA MB• Tri Sri ". • I ; OLIOCK --- 11 - 1 ,, : . ; , 1 A oar; ;,.. 0 i;e, 5 , d in r t-c ! , r ~€ iv.. r lay resocetwg the manner of pr,eccding in the election (4 . euardia,, , s of th,' parish. The defend .n s issued an order on the 26 , 1 , of March, 1836. to regulate tlo election of bite officcrs, and in February, 1830, they is,ued another ord, r, which was now the subject of complaint, inasmuch as the parish ioners contended that it had the eff.qt of greatly inereasi , l the expense of elections. Thus, for inst.:nee, the expens , s of the elreti. , n in the present year amounted to 454/. So that the obj , etions now raised to the or:ler were not rai-ed for a factious purpose, but because the order produced serious inconvenience and expense to the parish. The COURT granted the rule. THE QUEEN V. GREGORY. The defendant in this case, the printer of the Satirist, was convicted of publishing a libel on Mrs. Weir Hogg, the wife of the Member for Beverley, and was now brought up to receive judgment. The case has already been several times before the public. Mr. Justice LITTLIDALE said that the defendant stood on the door of the Court to receive sentence for publishing a libel on Mrs. Hogg, calculated very much to distress the feelings of that lady and of her husband. There was no justification whatever for his conduct. The sentence of the Court was, that he should be imprisoned for three calendar months in the custody of tile Marshal of the Marshalsea. 'Fbe 1, BAIL COURT, MAY 7. THE QUEEN V. DAVID JONES. On a former day the Court granted a rule to show cause why the proceedings against the defendant in the Eccle siastical Court should not be set aside, with costs, and why he should not be discharged from custody. It will be re collected that the proceedings were instituted against the defendant for refusing tq supply the necessary sacramental bread and wine for the parish in Wales of which he was churchwarden. Mr. CARLTON now moved to make the rule absolute, when Mr. Justice COLERIDGE said that as the case was one of very considerable importance, he must beg the Learned Gentleman to make his motion in the full Court. Shortly afterwards Mr. WILLIAsts stated that he was instructed to apply to his Lordship to enlarge the rule in this case until the next term. It was obtained on the 29th of April, served on the following day upon the Judge of the Ecclesiastical Court at Carmarthen, and also upon the Rev. Ebenezer Morris, as well as upon their agent in London. The latter, of course, on being served with a copy of the rule, did not like to take upon himself without instructions from his clients the responsibility of ordering ofti:T copies of the very voluminous affidavits on which the rule had been obviineo. and which could not be done without incurring a very con siderable expense. On receipt of the rule, he wrote to his clients, to know whether it was their intention to answer the rule or not, and the moment he received their instruc tions he applied at the Crown Office tor office copies of the affi.lavits, but which he did not obtain till Monday last. The cas, Is as one of ;;neat public import:inee, and it was quite impos-ible for the pirties to answer the matter 3 con tain din those affijavits during the present term As it ~ as the ease of a pris net-, al.) were ai , xiiius to exped,te the pree, c'.inc rs much possible, but the C,-u.t isould are, that there had been gri at eel.ey on the part 0f the de• fendant, who tuig-‘,t have made his application much ear. lip r if h• hRd thought proper. He haft been in custody ever since Deceinb,r last. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE asked why, if that were the ca,e, believed to have formed part of the cash stolen by his murderers, was traced to have been changed for Bond at the Uxbridge Bank. He was accordingly apprehended on the charge of murder and robbery ; but the proof failing as to the charge of murder, he was fully com mitted for trial for the robbery, and was tried at the fol lowing Old Bailey Sessions, when his mother, a daugh ter of the deceased Mr. Howard, swore, that at the sale of his effects, after his tragical death, she purchased the bureau in which the deceased kept his money, and subsequently she found in a secret drawer a sum of money in Bank of England notes ; and the father of John Bond being indebted to him in the sum of 301., she paid him some of those notes in discharge of that debt, one of which was the note in question, and he was in consequence acquitted. From that time until within the last month the matter has been buried in most impenetrable mystery, although a reward of 2001. was offered for the discovery of the murderers. In March last, however, a man named George Haynes, a well known character was apprehended on a charge of sheep-stealing, on which charge he WAS tried at the last sessions of the Central Criminal Court, con victed and sentenced to transportation ior life. Sub sequent to the consiction, havmg been the leader of a large gang of desperadoes which have for year, infe,ted the counties of Widl,s- , x, Surrey, Bucks, H..rts, and Berks, he was visited in Newgate by C. Murray, Larkin and Darvile, three active officer... of Uxbridge, ween be offered to make some disclosures as to numerous robber ies, but more especially as co the murder of Mr. Howard, with the full circumstances of which he declared he was well acquainted. The officers accordingly communicated his statements to Sir William S. Wiseman, Bart., one of the Uxbridge magistrates, who communicated with Lord John Russell on the subject, on condition of Haynes' confessions being a commutation of his sentence of transportation for life to a few years imprisonment in this country. Several letters passed between Sir W. Wiseman and his Lordship, the last of which from Lord John Russell, dated the first instant, stated that her Majesty's government. from the known bad character of Haynes, could not entertain the question of a commutation of his sentence ; but that if he would divulge all he knew on the subject. Lord John Rus sell would judge further as to what steps could be adopted. Haynes, however, then entered into various statements, some of which were taken down in writing, and tended to criminate two grandsons of Mr. Howard, as having committed the murder. Warrants were ac cordingly issued by the local magistrates for the appre hension of John and Thomas Bond, and placed in the hands of the above officers for execution. They soon traced that John Bond was an inmate of the Union Workhouse at Hillingdon Heath, where, on Saturday last, they took him into custody. They then proceded in search of Thomas Bond, and apprehended him at the Red Lion at Uxbridge. Tuesday having been appointed for their exami nation, the town of Uxbridge was throughout the day in a state of great excitement—intelligence of the ap prehension of the prisoners having flown like wildfire through the neighbouring villages. Long before eleven o'clock, the hour at which th Magistrates assemble, the door of the large room, in which they hold their tre yard of the . King's Arms Inn, was sur rounded by . hundreds: '4.'itsishis' ishitiousto obtain ad mittenceu..,Tbe- Magistrates on the Bench were Sir WittiasntS , Wisetnau,Bart4•Mr.,Dagnall. and Mr. T. T; Clark, The priioners, who declared Haynes' statement false, were examined, and the evidence of several persons was taken by the Magistrates, who, after consulting toge ther, said, through Sir William Wiseman, that although the statement of Haynes was voluntary, and made with out any promise being held out to him, such was his known bad character, that they did not place any re liance on it. They should, therefore, as it was uncor roborated, discharge the prisoners, against whom they certainly thought there was not the slightest.suspicion. The prisoners were then discharged, and left the Court, followed by an immense crowd. the def ndant did not apply to the Court earlier ? Mr. CHILTON said it was entirely owing to his client being in very embarassed ciren nstanees. He had made an application to House of Commons on the subject. think ing that was his cheapest mode of obtaining redress, but the House, although inclined to prevent the recurrence of any similar proceedings, would not interfere in that particular case, more particularly as it was stated that the proee dings against him in the Ecclesiastical Court were informal and irregular. His only resource then, was an application to the Court. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE said that as the defendant was in custody, he thought the case ought not to go over until next term. Mr. WiLuxikfs said it would be quite impossible for his clients to lac prepared to show cause ageinst the rule in the present term, which would end on Wednesday. If the case were argued this term, it must be on the defendant's affi davits only. Mr. Cilium:4 said the facts of the case lay in a very small compass. The affidavits, though legthy, were merely in verification of certain documents. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE said that whatever were the contents of the affidavits, the other party must have an opportunity of answering them by other affidavits, parti cularly as it did not appear that there had been any unrea sonable delay on their part. Still, however, as the de fendant had been a long time in custody, the shortest pos sible time ought to be granted for that purpose ; and he, therefore, thought that cause might be shown at chambers during the vacation, on a day to be agreed upon between the parties. It was ultimately arranged that the case should stand over until the first day of next term, the affidavits in oppo sition to the rule to be filed a week before term, and the case not to go into the peremptory paper. Mr. BUTT applied for a rule to show cause why a writ of mandamus should not issue, commanding the Mayor and corporation of Liskeard to execute a bond for securing to James Phelp, a Sergeant-at-mace of that borough, the annuity granted him by the Lords of her Majesty's Treasury as a compensation for his loss of that office by the passing of the Municipal Corporations Amend ment Act. The Court granted a rule to show cause. Mr. BUTT afterwards obtained similar rules on the part of three other persons who held certain offices under the old corporation. Mr. ERLE applied on behalf of Mr. Parr, late Town Clerk of the borough of Poole for a similar rule. Granted. Mr. CRESWELL applied for a writ of certiorari to re move into this Court the order for electing auditors and town councillors for the town of Bolton, in order that the same might be quashed. The ground of the application was, that the same persons had been elected to fill both offices, which w:.,s contrary to the Act of Parliament. 'The Court granted the writ A CORONER'S DEFINITION OF SUDDEN DEATH.-011 Tuesday. at an inquest held before Mr. Waitley, M P. at Brentford, Mr. Bonney, a medical gen tlemen, asked the Coroner west was su'dthn death? Mr. Wakely said sudden death meant sudden death. Mr. Boatel said he wished to know what the law considered ,u 'den death, as some persons considered that where per. were s--z,(l with illness and died in five or Aix hours, .;:s in eases of chohra, that was sudden death, and ought to be inquired into Mr. Wakley replied that be did not consider such eases to come under the definition of sud den deaths, and that by law no inquiry into them was nee cessary. Sudden death, in his opinion, could onli. pro perly be called so in cases where the parties were suddenly , e'zed and death forowed within half an hour, or where tree were found dead in bed, &c., wi!bow haying been under medical treatment. In all such cases he considered iriqueAs ought to be held. • THE LATE CASE OF DELUSION AND FRAUD. —William Slade Smith, whose examinations at Queen equate police-office, on a charge of defrauding an aEed lady, by representing that he was prosecuting her claims to large estates and to the titles of the Duke of Bucking ham, nave already been noticed in The Sun, was on Tues day fully committed for trial. RUMOURS.—Lord Roden is to be Sir Robert Peel's Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. The fighting hero of the new Administration—Blackwood's model of a military man—cannot, it is supposed, be spared to help the Orange Lord in the Government of Ireland. His services are required by the Chartists in England. Sir Henry Hard inge is, accordingly, it is reported, to have a new office created for him, and he is to be appointed Lieutenant- General of the Police of the United Kingdom. Since the gallant Sir E. Barnes is gone, his sword cannot he used against his countrymen who differ from him in poli tical faith, but there is no doubt amongst the Generals and Lieut.-Generals an equally good blade is left for the Tory purposes. A military man, at all events, is to be Lord Roden's right hand in the Government of Ireland, should his Lordship be the Lord Lieutenant. The writer of a letter on Medical Reform which appeared in The Sun on the 29th April, begs the following correction, which is material, in an early paper :—ln a let ter on Medical Reform lately, read danger instead of dag ger, and breaches instead of preachers. SALMON FISHING.—The take of salmon trout in the different river fishings within the bounds of Dum fries-shire and Galloway, has been greater upon the whole since the season commenced than for four or five preceding years. In 1833, June had arrived before the majority of the tacksmen paid expenses, while this year, keeping out of view tackle and the interest of rent, expensed, we rather think, have been paid pretty nearly from the begin ning. On Monday morning, Mr. Scott caught 25 trouts and one salmon, and we farther learn that our old friends the halvers, at Glencaple Quay. are coming in for their own share 'of good luck ; two of them, to say the least, caught a cl;zen trouts each last week ; but these of course were mere trifles compared to the High Jinks at Tong land. On the 11th of April 67 salmon were caught in one day. Sixty of these, from all we can learn, were taken at one haul, and seven at a second. The average weight was, as near as may be, Blbs., and the proceeds at 18d., 401. 4s.—DutVries Courier. OMNIBUS AND RAILROAD ROBBERIES.— On Monday afternoon, between the hours of 3 and 4. Mrs. Mason, of 147. Regent-stre , t, was robbed of a pocket-book containing 21. 10s. and 31. ss. Bank of England notes, while riding in an omnibus between St. Paul's Churchyard and Piccadilly. On Sunday evening, between 8 and 9, in one of the trains on the Greenwich railroad, Mrs. Mary Matthews, of Fulton -street, Hoxton, was robbed of a gold curb chain with gold key attached, marked with the ini- A. M." POLICE INTELLIGENCE, MANSION-HO USE. 0 , 1 Tuesday four men, named Hughes, Rudd, Crouch, and Goldsmith, were brought before the Lord Major, charged with having acted riotously in Cheapside and its n Aghbourhood on the preceding night, on which the Chartists had appooited to meet in Salithfield market. The matter had excited a great deal of interest, as many of the inhatitan , s of th..t part of the city looked upon the visit of the crowd as likely to remind then of the days of the SFa-fields intemperance. The prisoners were brought up by the direction of In spector Kelly, an active and intelligent member of the city police force. George Farren, policeman, No. 322, stated, that at about half-past 9 o'clock on Monday night, he heard a great noise in Cheapside, and upon going to King-street saw a mob of, as he thought, between 200 and 300 peo ple, and Hughes addressing them with his arms open : witness and another policeman named Rymer, tried to per suade him to go away, but he refused, and said that be was on the King's highway, and he was d—.d if he would go on. Witness said, If you don't go on I'll move you ;" upon which Hughes defied him in violent language. Witness and Rymer then took hold of him on each side, and he cried out to the mob, " Do you see this boys? Am Ito be used this way ? Go it ; give it to the --." The crowd immediately surrounded witness and Rymer, but Kelly, the inspector, came up with five or six policemen, Hughes then said, " Give it to the —; now is the time. You want your pikes." The mob hooted, and hissed, and groaned at the police, who took Hughes up King -street, across Cheapside, and down Queen-street. In Queen street Hughes threw himself down, and swore D— his eyes if he'd go farther. He was, however, taken down to the police station, but with great difficulty. Hughes, who appeared to be extremely dejected, said, " Was I sober ?" Witness—You were a little elevated, but not drunk. W. Rymer, policeman, 396, said that he was on duty in Ironmonger-lane, when he heard the noise of the mob, which came from the west. He immediately went to King-street and advanced into the centre. Hughes was in the attitude of speaking, and they were shouting and hurraing in the middle of the . street. A great deal of alarm and confusion was created, and Hughes appeared to be exciting the crowd by which he was surrounded. Wit ness endeavoured to prevail upon him to pass on, and believed that if be did pass on the mob would have imme diately dispersed. Ho said he would be d—d if he would, and that be was on the King's highway. Hughes then proceeded down King-street, and the mob with him. They all appeared to be looking to him. As soon as they reached the Castle public-house, near Guildhall-yard, they halted, and one of them broke a window in the public-house with a stick. Hughes then addressed some words to the mob about the Charter, but what they were he could not ascertain. Witness went up again to him and told him to pass on, and remonstrated with him. Sergeant Fosnes then came up and begged him to go away, but he refused in a violent and intemperate manner, and he was taken by the police up King-street. He endeavoured to excite the crowd to rescue him as the police took him along, sving, " Why don't you go in and give it to the —?" /1 , - also said something about their knives, or pikes, and when he reached Queen street he threw himself down. There was no assault made by the crowd, but they insulted the police, calling them beasts, and saying that the police wanted to kill and murder the man. It appears that for some weeks there has been a partial run upon the Savings' Banks; and we are informed that in Truro alone, not much less than 2.000/. 11,a been withdrawn within this fortnight. Itil:T103 that the Chartists have caused this ; but whether by directly instigating the run, or by the al, :m occasioned through their dangerous proceedings, we are not informel—probably both way;, ..__ Corn wall Gazatte. The Lr , RD ,MAYOR —W:IS the crowd so great nw 1.0 caw* alarm to the inbAlitatits? STABBING.--On Tuesday, at the Thames-office, John Allen. a ship-riggi.r, was brought befire Mr. Green. wocd for final exa,ni,ation, charged with felonii,usly ent tine and wounding Thomas Brian, a corn-port,r with in tent to murder or do him some grievous bodily harm. The wounded man, who has been in the hospital ever since the affray occurred, now attended to give evidence ; but all he could state of the transaction was, that on the night of Sunday, the 28th of last month, he was in liquor, and went to the house of a woman of infamous character, named Jane Griffiths, in Swine.court, Shadwell; that he was stabbed in the hick, and that wh, , n he came to his recol lecti.in he found himself in thy hA ever siow?, temaitied. Othil.evidei:ce ten ed to connect the pri vner with the transaction, and he was fully committed. flu. t d ._rl kcs, Witness said he had no doubt it put them in great fear. The mob followed the police and Hughes down Queen street to the station-house. They were so dense as completely to obstruct the way, and they were very dis orderly. Sergeant C , ruwalc No. 57. stated thy , he went from Watling-street with Inspt.et....r Kelly to Cneapside, where the crowd was so great that the omnibuses could not proceed. Witness followed the crowd .to Guildhall yard. He did not hear any one address the mob till he saw Hughes in the custody of the police, when Hughes called out in a loud voic , something shout the Chartists- As they were taking Hugh,' a vay, there were three or four persons in the mob %hr. " Now give it the -; wnere are your pikes ?" Witness then took out his staff, and as the crowd pressed on hi m with the intent to rescue the prisoner, he used it. The other officers also drew their truncheons, but did not use them. The party witness struck with his truncheon bolted i mm ediately down Cateaton-street, and was foll o w ed by sheer AO others. Witness and other officer s k ept in the rear to prevent a r.scUe. Tee LOUD MAYOR Had you gued ttatm: t • - • O use your truncheon? INS tt , k-eo N.,; 0 . 1,e , , • • .1. h ;4' ) g , ( i yv • • • '"•“' . N • I'6l. w o,.ft Hught-s oas •,'s. , th•• crow•i iurking shout nod .e.ot ,mong`t t"' 5111 and eppiehended the pris.•ie,-r, G• id. s in,. re %Witness was not sure that Goldsmith was ter. of those who booted the polic., and Goithoiith him In If &flied that he was, but he mo-t has ht kid ti:e ielhtie the er-wd to go on Tte rilf . TT, he ob , ei.ved, putt thy torwari. and kept hick th-mselves. Inspector K.• 11,, of the W•ulog•street di tract, stNted that he was in Watling-street b .te.,•et.‘ 9 and to, when he distinctly heard the hurraing, in Chea aside He w, ut ap Queen street and saw Sergeant Fovenes, to whom be gave directions, going towards Chtiapside. The crowd • extended from the top of King.et rect. Cheapside, to Guilahall-yard Upon goiog to G'orard's hail.),,rd: h e saw Hughes in custody. There seorned to 1.).• a strong inclination upon the part of the pemple to rescue Hughes, and witness and his men got between the prisoner and the mob to prevent the latter from pr,eaaing upon those who were taking Hughes to the station-house. He ordered four of the men to face outwards and draw their trun cheons. The hooting and groaning were tremendous. The police acted with mercy and judgment. After they had lodged Huges in the station-house, he told the men to disperse the crowd, and caused the prisoner Rudd, who refused to go away, to be locked ult.. The LORD MAYOR asked the pris inners what they had to say in their defence ? Hughes declared that he knew nothing in the world of the Chartists, or any other society. He was a journeyman painter, in the employment of Mr. Wade, and he bad worked in every room in the Mansio n-house, and as be ws s going along in liquor he fell in with the crowd , solemnly declared that he had no idea of giving offence' He had not been at Smithfield or anywhere else with the mob, but he might have acted as foolishly as others. As for heading a mob, he never thought of such a thi n g . The prisoner Rudd said, that he was a journeying! barber, and had been returning fr om shaving people au but be day, when he saw the mob. The prisoner Crouch said he had just left off working ill the sewer in Thames-street as a bricklayer when he 50 the mob, and be went to ask what was the matter, when he was taken into custody Mr. Boucher, a builder, stated that Crouch had been in his employment twelve years, and had been engag ed it work the whole of the day. He was a man of gad character The LORD MAYOR than cautioned Crouch ag ains d t joining ero , vd , , and told him than on account of t he g o. eharAct , r he got he ,hou!ri be discharged;, but it w to be hoped that the ti , ,,nger which ire hml escaped so or" sg roAly would ,Terate a s.:lut.::ry 1e , 55 . .0% to him- °lll Gobism,,b litd) ,aid, Ora no had just come uP f r . Devonshiro, 41,1 watt gong - .long the btt et, wi=n sa*: the mb, but he did not k: ow what tbey were about. !: , a , hor way buti,^l - to a gelli killaU who. resided in Great (-°' ram.,truct. Tile LORD MAYOR or,leied ti: *t Hughes, Rudd, go G.:id,rilith shook, 13, remauded. liu g h v g, sou i,, the prisoner. " id that A hia i 4 v; i,ad leceived a l itijury in tho head butt Gil th C:t) The,tru, w 13.2.11 he took any IV h e w a t. dinost mad. R a nd LORD MAYOR—I shall not part with 1-14 he s, and Gott:No.lth until 1 .. know more about th..m. No (Wu": tnere wtre ringleaders to this mob, and their intention' were not at all good. Time will probably show who thel were. Inspector Kdly said, that after the four men were lock et up in the station house, the mob di.persed. Hughes, Rudd mid Goldsmith were then sent back totl3l Compter, and Crouch appeared to be very thankful $ being discharged. Yt sterday Rudd and Goldsmith were wain brought 141,4 The LORD MAIOR having heard favourable account! two the young men, who it appeared had accidentally got ni g , the crowd, discharged them, after having advised 001 avoid mobs and prisons for the future. SHIPPING IN T LLLIGENCE• (LLOYD'S.) PARIS, MAY 6.—The Deux Augustes, Scard, from 14e i r ; seilles to Smyrna, has put back into Malta leaky, b a n; been in contact with the Neapolitan brig, St. Pierre , 1 r ..% Syracuse to Malta, the latter vessel sunk; crew awl P sengers saved. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.—The Albion, frorn hi to New Orleans. 19th ult., lat. 49, lon. 22, by t he ' Ala c i :ll° trite, Ahrens, arrived off the Start ; Jackson. L ive d rPa Ja to Grenada, 23rd ult., lat. 47, lon. 10 • Ann, Wee maica, 26th ult., lat. 50, lon. 7, by t he Jane' arrived47t, Hull ; Thomas Bennett, of Charleston, 28th ult., la t ' ioo , lon. 22 ; Hector, Cork to Quebec, 30th ult., lat• 4 , 9 1 ' 13 ; Forth, Liverpool to Madeira, 2d inst., lat. """frors 10; Thenus, bound to Dalhousie, and Christiana, , Margari t ; Sunderland, 28th March, lat. from Liverpool, 13th ult., lat. 39, lon. 1 5 ; ' saf e day, by the Carl Johan, arrived off the Wight' It ib extraordinary to observe hov't b ot h men w a i n t r, things, ball in themselves, improve by a co m P arie n this e' others which arc worse. Listen to an illustration o truth. There was once a Mayor of Tiverton, w ho w accounted a terrible bigot in his day, but who would necf„' by the rule of comp ar i son to which , we have alluded. ": considered a remarkably tolerant person. He flourished s; the time when John Wesley first unfurled the banner 01 Methodism, and sent forth his enthusiastic followers to spread his opinions far and wide. Some of them ap proached Tiverton. The Mayor of that borough tel. " • instantly in arms against them. He threatened noth ing' less than pumps and horseponds in this world, anc1,301%; thing warmer in the next. H. was reason ed • SY "liel ti s a friend, who counselled him to follow ,G arlia But advice, and leave the Missionaries to theres t _T v .:if w ith the worthy man was inexorable. Swelling tli re ' . s ave alt that poop of majesty which none can as9uille i:e thus turkey-cocks and mayors under the ancient regime , be replied--" What, sir I Why, what reason can the e • n g o f gOl s.r, for any new religion in Tiverton ? Another way to Heaven, when there are so many already ?' W h P on there's the Old Church end the New Church. religion ; there's P.,rson K , d.i. li's. at this Pitt geetio ft; that's two; P-trion Westcott's, in Petcr.smet, hat 't lh Four laud old Pd.rgo! Netypi; t-street, is fou r ' to w4y; of going to 1 - leaven *heady and if thcv dal Heav b • ont- or other of these wlys, le ' shi'nt go to Heaven at all from Tiverton, v 7 ,7 1 6 , r e, am Ma : or of the town." Now, as we sa ; € l this M:iyor Tiverton was considered to be t ea o f t s bigot in his own times; but, if he is to be judged f o comparison at th,• present day, he must be voted to be $ tolerant cud lax in his ids as as to be accounted alr°° to : freethinker. Why, he absolutely allowed four % 48 Y: Heaven to the Tiv, 'lonians, and yet was called a b i nds!' his liber..lity. Four ways to Heaven I At this time 0' 0 . no one thinks of admitting that there is more than °one All highways and byways are swallowed u p by t he pro great rail, oad, whose booking-office is at Exeter-h all. ea , private carriages, no posting, no coaches are now 8 11°° ' t be The trains of the great company, which start fro°, t he place aforesaid, are the only conveyances in which journey can be made.—Liverpool Albion. i3 e nChf LIBEL LAW.—In the Court of Queen's to' Dublin, last Saturday, Mr. Barrett, the responsih'eePd to sente tic ae og, prietor of the Pilot. we regret to learn, was three months' imprisonment. and a fine of 20/. i t " rt i 0 ` a fracas . occurred between two gentlem . en and A 1 33 „ r aiii police, in which the conduct of the gentlemen , ace; tract to Judge Burton, was not " wholly blameless." " 0 0 0 , ensued, and Mr. Barrett hearing that the gentletseltd v er an application for the payment of their expenses, i'l l „,hole suading himself from what be had heard of the 1 , - , 0 if transaction . that the gentlemen were more in fau l t„ t e les'' '' implied by the modified phrase not wholly b 137 n &if wrote a strong paragraph in the bustle of a publie 6tl° o s n and allowed it to go to press. He afterwards niaheo apology in what he considered the f o rm that oug ht ". o bse'' satisfy the feelings of the parties assailed, and b, ..,logt r quently invited them t o sugges t th e i r ow n terms of ar". They declined ; moved for their conditional ordedeioltt tained it. Judgment was then allowed to go bY peol e " and the sentence which we now announce was the OA ---...Eamerasamarrlansal A 4 , SECOND-HAND PLATE PURCHO-- A. B. 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