The Sun. — London, England, 1836-09-27 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS• In the letter of Mr. Wentworth Beaumont to Mr. O'Connell, enclosing the munificent subscription of 1001. to the " Justice Rent," the corruptionists have discovered another grievance. The subscription, large as it is, they would forgive ; but the letter, which ap peared yesterday in the communication of our Dublin correspondent, has thrown the factious prints into a rage little short of frenzy. The Morning organ of the Carlton clique has vented upon the Honourable Mem ber for Northumberland no small portion of the spleen which has been evidently stirred up in its conductors by Mr. O'Connell's late letter. After announcing the fact—so unpalatable to the interested abettors of abuses —that an English representative,—the representative, too, of an agricultural constituency, and a gentleman of large fortune, who would be exposed by a convul sion► to greater loss than some score of those Peers who played an obstructive game during the last ses sion, and is, consequently, in the same proportion more interested in the preservation of public order than these lords of ruined fortune or of no fortune at ail, save what they receive from the public purse,—after announcing the fact that this English Member of Parliament has not only sympathized with the insulted and oppressed people.of Ireland, but given solid proof of his sincerity in advocating equal justice for the sister country, the notorious journal says— " We are not sure that this or any similar act on the part of the Hon. Gentleman would justify the animadversions of a public journalist, were Mr. Beaumont to content himself with doing what he likes with his own.' But when in addition to his peculiar munificence in support of the treacherous, not to say treasonable, views of a political ad• venturer, he himself stands forward as the expounder of the public views and sentiments of Newcastle and Northumber land generally,•we may be pardoned if we consider his let tci rather with reference to the adventitious distinction of the writer than to the intrinsic merit of the document itself." The first !sentence of this extract would, if anything that is said' by the writers in question could, excite surprise. Who forgets the attacks of the aforesaid journal upon 'the Duke of Newcastle for using, in re ference to certain electors at Newark the memorable words that are quoted above? We suppose the apos tate is preparing the way for a defence of the Noble Duke, and of other Tory Lords who act upon the Noble Duke's maxim, of doing what he likes with his o;v11. The sentence we have marked in italics looks exceedingly like a feeler —put forth to try how far it would be safe to defend the conduct of those Tory landlords who trample, or intend to do so, upon the provisions, and insult the spirit of the Reform Bill, by either coercing. their enfranchised tenantry to vote against their own conscientious opinions in favour of Tory candidates, or visiting them with vengeance for • daring to use their electoral right as becomes free Britons. We pass, however, from this point for the present, merely wishing the 'public to keep it in their recollection. Well then, Lord Lyndhurst's tool would'allow'Mr. Beaumont to do what he likes v:ith his own,—it would obligingly .permit him to spend his fortune in such a way as to •hims'elf. may seem meet,—a liberality and condescen ' for ''which, no doubt, the Honourable Member will feel. gilateful ; but then he has had the audacity to accompany his splendid subscription with a letter ex pr:7ssing his sympathy for the wronged people of Ire land, and his concurrence in the measures recom mended by is O'Connell to his countrymen, and by them adopted.for the achievemmt of their rights, and the overthrow of their corrupt and insolent oppressors,' ani explanatory. of the causes which occasioned the re;nrii of an opponent of Reform for the boronah of Nowcastle-upon-Tyne ; and for this he must hatted ; by the. executioners of ch&acter, who pursue that.. teputable avocation in, Printing-house. square. Beaumont; forsooth, is ioconsistent, and also the . witness of- Ida ovi.-n inconsistency ! And haw doss all this appear ? Why • the Honourable Member, found flitrit with Mr..Otlimell's attacks . up on the House OF Lords in -his mission through the North of -Eng land' and SCotland in the summer of 1835, and -now lie,(Mr.'BeatiniOnt) subscribes 100!'. towards the rum!. O'COnnell has on , -inatad - for the purpose' ( - 4,lqtaforeing the legal and riglitful ck'ini of Ireland for equaljusticc--for that useful reform of her municipal inhitutions—these,.in their present shape, reservoirs of all manner of 'aiAraination, which has been intro titt,'ed into the Britilkorporate system with such ex cellent cffcct ! Herein - consists the inconsistency of the Hon. Member for Northumberland. Last year he. took exception to Mr. O'Councll's proceedings ; for then the Lords lic4 . not proved by their factiousness, their selfishness, their bigotry, and their corrupt prac tices, 'now just were Mr. O'Connell's attacks upon their injurious privileges. This year Mr. Beaumont approves the proceedings of the Irish leader, be (lll.lse the Peers in the late session obstructed almost all necessary and useful legislation—because they abused their privileges to the grievous detriment of the people-- 7 beeause they perilled the peace of the United Kingdom, and jeopardised the integrity of the empire. While it was imagined that the Peers would conform to the spirit of the times, and square their conduct with the altered constitution of the House of Commons, Mr. O'Connell had but few supporters in his attacks upon the House of Lords. • The case is different now - Lord Lyndhurst has raised up thousands of allies for Mr. O'Connell in the war he menaces upon the mis chievous irresponsibility of the hereditary Legislators. When it is seen and felt that the present constitution of that legislative assembly is incompatible with good Government, is hostile to the interests of the people, and to the peace of the country—and this is now the conviction of thousands of British subjects in every grade of life, who twelve months ago were'deeply im pressed with the opposite opinion—Mr. O'Connell's call for reform of the House of Lords finds a cheerful response in numerous quarters of the empire, where • last year it was either laughed at as a caprice, or de nounced as revolutionary. Without taking upon us to class Mr. Beaumont in the category of Peerage Reformers, we hesitate not to assert that the conduct pursued last session by the Obstructives, headed by a reckless renegade who cannot lose anything by a con vulsion—their rejection, or pernicious mutilation of nearly all those beneficial Bills for the improvement of the condition of Great Britain and Ireland which the King's Ministers either framed or supported, and the representatives of the people approved—their factious oppositio n to the present popular Administration, because it is di'sposed and anxious to- ameliorate the condition of the people, to extend their rights and for tify their privileges —their headlong support of every abuse in our institutions—their inveterate antipathy to all reform, no matter how glaring the defect, and how necessary the remedy,—this conduct of the Tory Lords, we repeat, has completely negatived any charges of inconsistency that might be advanced against the Member for Northumberland, a n d hundreds of thou sands of others who, like hi m , diff ered from Mr. O'Connell last year, and are now his zealous sup porters. These are perfectly consistent. Reformers interweave sly diits h at all times, they cannot consent to the pe r p etuat i on o f a b use s, though the. Peers have dexterovt: iv ly il e and cre s w erec tly contrived to their own c orruption, so that both must n o w stand or sink' toge ther. We at once admit . that Mr. O'Connell is not • " less loud in his demonstrations as regards the Peerage of England than he w as when he forced Mr. Beaumont ° to speak very unceremoniously' against the expediency of his agitation." On the contrary, his denunciations are louder. But then they were comparatively, unheeded—now they arc more generally listened ~to :and approved. The Lords may thank. - themselves alone for popularising, by the proceed ‘inas 'of - last S ess i on , Mr. O'Connell's denuncia r*tions against hereditary legislation. It was in their po wer to bl unt hi s wea p o ns, and they have pointed his arrows. They might, had they been wise and virtuous, make him utterly powerless, and they have invested him with immense power. Had they done justice, he would be impotent in any at tempt to do them harm—they did injustice from a glaringly factious motive, and outraged justice will overthrow them. When they shall have succeeded in 4 ,, t if y i n g their misconduct, it will be time enough for Mr. Beaumont to vindicate his consistency—a quality doubtless, it well becomes the most barefaced, impudent apostate that ever disg uste d mank i nd to talk about. —Morning Chronicle. There is beyond all question no country on earth vibere more deception has been successfully practised, or more grievous mischief accomplished, than in Ire land by the mere abuse of epithets. If the " Liberal" • dictionary of that island were brought into juxtaposition with Johnson's, or any other in use amongst ourselves, we apprehend that no further evidence would be re quired to prove the truth of the much-canvassed ob servation, that the English people and the Irish are with respect to each other " aliens," at least " in speech." We defy even an Irishman of the last generation to understand without a glossary the Irish nomenclature of the present. 'What, for in stance, some fifty or sixty years ago was meant by the phrase " the Irish nation ?" Why, the Irish nation was then, by the loudest patriots of that time, considered to embrace-Ist, the whole Protes tant community (being synonymous with the property and intelligence of Ireland) ; and next, the Roman Catholic body, being the uneducated and the mor. But in the jargon now current, ''the Irish nation" ex cludes the great bulk of intelligence, property, and Protestantism, assuming that few, if any, deserve the name of Irishmen who possess any one of the above qualifications, and even among the uneducated or ill-provided Papists comprehending none but those who are willing to make themselves tools of turbulence and rebellion. In the last century " justice to Ireland" was meant by Mr. Grattan, and other enlightened lovers of their country, to signify an extension to that country of free trade with England and with the British colonies, and the abolition of - that invidious law which subjected every act of Irish legislation to the fiat of a Parliament wherein Ireland had no representatives. But each port of Ireland many years ago acquired a free trade with England and her colonies, as absolute as that which has ever been enjoyed by the metropolitan port of London ; and instead of being subjected to Poyning's law, Ireland has herself the right of rejecting through her representatives, laws which the represen tatives of Great Britain may be ever so willing to pas 3 for the Government of the people of Great Britain. What is the meaning of " justice to Ireland" at this moment, in the sense of those parties who are most apt to use the expression ? It does not mean " free trade,' for that she has.; nor a fair portion of legislative power, for of that an unfair portion, as is well known, a certain class of her mis-representatives have long been exer cising. No; the change -of language has in nothing been more marked or significant of other changes than in this much-hacknied term ; it means invest ing one particular denomination of Irishmen with a power of inflicting unlimited persecution upon all the rest. It means confessedly, as employed by the aspi rant faction, that their leaders shall be permitted, under the name of "religious freedom," to strip the minis ters of a religion, the whole progress of which has been accompanied by a concomitant growth and enjoy ment of civil right, and which has been endowed for centuries with a fixed interest in the soil, of the re venue which has for the same period supported them, and to transfer it and more to the ministers of an hierarchy which scoffs at and tramples on the very name of "religious freedom,". whenever it has in its own hands the means of crushing the professors of other creeds. It means, that all warning shall be thrown aside and all history forgotten ; that the old and i nse p ara bl e. union of " Popery and' slavery" shall be stigmatized by Act of Parliament as a fictrOn of our - puerile an cestors, who bled and burned under their joint domi nion; that a sham democracy shall, in Ireland, be re ceived as the small end of that wedge, of which the real thick end, to be driven in hereafter, is a subtle, rapacious, and domineering priesthood. The term " justice .to Ireland" means yet more. than a total sweeping away of the temporal Protestant-Church—it means that in every town of • the island there shall, under the name of Cornoratibn, be an organised band of fiscal robber::, of local tyrants, and licensed insur gents, to carry on, in all directions, under the guidance of the priests, the oppression of Protestantism, and of attachment to the law, and to familiarize the imaaina tion of a fierce and unscrupulous multitude with fresh schemes of violence and confiscation, discussed and insisted on at every ,municipal meeting. " Justice then to Irelanris equivalent to the conqueror's excla mation of " tth victis." The Papists having w o n the victory, clamour fora prompt division of the spoil. How often has it been represented, and how truly, : that if Corporations were in reality a nuance, the House of Lords passed a Bill for abating them— that if tithes in their existing form were a grievance, the House of Lords passed a bill for commuting them ! It was the Popish 'faction that rejected these two great remedies ; and why ? Because they wanted not .to get rid of a corporation nuisance but on condition of creating a worse—because they wanted not to commute tithe, but to abolish it, and with 'it the Protestant Church Establishment. They have now got up a new society, which, under the name of justice, means inti midation, and they promote its objects by the old in strument of money. It is an amusing and characteris tic shuffle of O'Connell, that when it was proposed the other day to report the expenses of the new Society, as well as the receipts, the crafty agitator would not hear of it. Oh no I encourage subscriptions as much as you will by publishing (or exaggerating) their amount, but you must not attempt anything so mon strous as telling the world how " I, the First Lord of the Rebel Treasury, dispose of any part of the money." Mr. O'Connell fancies that he may have contested elections to stand, or petitions to resist, for false re turns of some half-dozen sons and nephews whom he has already foisted into Parliament, and hopes so to elevate after another dissolution. Funds must, there fore be at hand. "Oh I no—by no means pub lish what I do with the money." By the way, there is no bad - sample of the character and en croachments of these, lawless associations recorded among their proceedings. The new " General Asso ciation," among its other other attributes of a freedom loving body, exercises pretty liberally those of inqui sitor-general. There is not a gentleman or lady, named or alluded to before this promiscuous assem blage, of whom it is not demanded or asserted, whe ther they have registered their tenants or not—whether they have displayed that testimonial of their zeal and love of justice—or whether they must be written to, snubbed, sneered at, and in what form they are to be coaxed or bullied, how the sugar-plum is to be dis posed, and how the lash is to be administered ; yet do Noblemen, calling themselves Whig Noblemen, sub mit to this species of outrage. There are notes pur porting to be from some of them, high in connection with the Melbourne Cabinet, who are said (we trust falsely) to have answered questions and given assur ances touching the registration of their tenantry—that is, as to the management of their own estates ; and it is perfectly beautiful to see, with how little ceremony the titled and estated slaves of the political Obeah are handed over to their daring,,, and dark t ormentors . A s for the boasted tranquillity of Ireland and its freedom from crime, there were recorded in our yesterday's columns a catalogue of savage and ferociousvit one of that would vie with those of any period, but open rebellion.— Times. The anomalous position in which Sir 'William Molesworth finds himself placed is not peculiar to himself. There are many other Members of the House Commons in a similar predicamkt. Nor is this any thing new. The circumstance has occurred on re peated occasions within the last few years. What i s the position—what the predicament in question ? It is this—Sir 'William Molesworth and other Members of the House of Commons find that because they have exceeded rather than fallen short of the promises they made on th e h ust i ngs , t h e more t i m id an d trimming Ref ormers, who supported them in the first instance, have they have resolv e d electionshall ' ''' Tother - on opo-ina them whenever another take place. _n words, because of their acted honestly and fearlessly in the attesta tionare to be reward e d , is certainly a Principles and the people's . rights, most Pith must be something r „ t . . country which could they ejection from their seats. This mortifying state of things—there a ra n in the representation of that tolerate such an anomaly for a moment. It is of importance to observe that Sir Wil liam Molesworth and those wh o are similarly circum stanced, are not placed in th e i r anomalous position 'e Peopl e a enera ll y ; i t i s , comp aratively, of portion of their themselvesoais,lyregaasrrdesgatih.desmselvesaii d the a the suffrage more th a t su ff rage i s so circumscribed that a handful nore extended, matt ers Were con stituents. would be all right. It is only milk-and-water Reformers , are able to turn the scale against them. How is the evil to be. remedied ? I t may be done in two way's. We ..have just glanced at one of these—the extension of the suffrage. Enlarge the constituencies, and the small lot of personages calling themselves Reformers, but who are, in fact, only a species of modified Tories, who do so much mischief at elections by forcing on the people the alternative of either choosing one of their own stamp, or suffering a Tory to be returned ; extend, we say,. the suffrage, and these men will at once be reduced to comparative nonentities, considered as politicians. We speak not now of universal suffrage. Household suffrage, in favour of which public opinion is now rapidly growing, would answer the purpose. But there is a yet more simple remedy for the grievous evil ; and because of its simplicity and its undoubted efficiency, it is of the two the favourite with us. That remedy consists in two words, " The Ballot." Give us this, and we ask no more. With this moral lever we will perform won ders in the political world. With the ballot Sir Wil liam Moleswerth would find his seat secure—so would every honest representative. To this complexion it must come at last : the sooner it does so the better. The man who opposes the ballot we shall always re gard, however lofty his pretensions, as a very questiona ble Reformer.—/V/Orning Advertiser. The restless and reckless political party, whose ap petite for " organic changes" in the Constitution seems to be quite insatiable, attack the House of Lords upon two distinct grounds. The first is that the House of Lords has rejected Bills of which this party ap prove—in other words, it refuses to be guided by them and, therefore, say they, a reform of that House is evidently necessary. The second ground is, that the House Of Lords is an irresponsible body of legislators, and as responsibility is necessary to good conduct on the part of legislators, an alteration in the Constitu tion of the House of Lords is a necessary Reform. The first of these grounds of attack resolves itself into gross presumption, and is unworthy of discussion ; the second has excited some attention, and it is as well that the public should have some distinct and settled opinion upon the subject. It has lately been contended that the Lords are responsible to the public like every other member, or body of members of a sane commu nity, who have duties to discharge and privileges to maintain with equity and moderation. Their respon sibility, it is said, consists in this, that if they grossly neglect their duties or commit outrages in the exercise of their privileges, the public indignation will interfere and provide at once a remedy and a punishment. Without disputing the correctness of this theory, as regards extreme cases, we own that we regard it as rather too violent a view of the matter for the ordinary circumstances of legislation, and we are disposed to meet the charge of irresponsibility which is brought against the House of Lords in a different way. There is a class of unhappy per Sons whose levity is the most sorrowful thing that a good man can contemplate in this world, and to whom it is perhaps in vain to speak of the responsibility which all men owe to their Creator for the just discharge of their duties. They tell us, with a sneer, that they cannot trust in a re sponsibility which is to operate only beyond the grave. But even they will scarcely deny that there is such a thing as conscience. They will acknowledge that a good reputation is not a mere phantom of the imagina tion ; and more readily still will they admit that self interest is not forgotten by the aristocratic part of the community. Now it seems to. us that . the responsi bility of the House of Lords is, that which we owe to conscience, to character, and to their own interests, which is so intimately bound up with the prosperity of the nation. We do not think this insufficient. In a country possessing such laws as those of Great Britain, such habitual freedom of thought, and, ab ove a il, so much liberty and opportunity 'foe the dissemination of opinion, we very much doubt whether the wit of man could devise a better - responsibility for public men than that which we have described. At all events, our Consti tution recognises no other in the Members of either House of Legislature, and that is the point to which we are anxious at present to draw the attention of our readers. The " irresponsibility" of the House of Lords has been 'started as a convenient catch-word, to fit the mouths of habitual sailers against the Conti tution under which they live, without giving diem the fatigue of any thought, in order to find out a grievance for themselves. The truth is, that if there be any sub stance in the complaint, it applies just as much to one House of Parliament as the other, and they who bring it forward either do so in ignorance, or must int en d t o go much further than a reform in the House of Lords. They cannot have such a responsibility as they seem to require, until the Legislature shall consist of " De puties" of the people, bound by the Constitution to act in conformity with the will of those who elect them, and liable to punishment if they do not do so. At present this is not the state of the circumstances of either House of Parliament, nor do we see any thing deserving the name of responsibility to the people which exists more in the House of Commons than in the House of Lords. A Member of the House of Commons is by no means bound, either in law or in honour, to act in conformity with the political opinions of those who have elected him. He generally does so, not because his votes.is dictated by them, but because his opinion agrees with theirs. This is certainly the theory of the Constitution, according to all the best authorities. A Member of the House of Commons is not elected as a deputy to express the opinions of his constituents, but as a Representative, to exercise. his own judgment, not merely for the good of his con s tit uen t s , b u t f o r th e common weal of ° the whole realm. It is true that in modern times some mean and slavish-minded persons, unfit for that reason to be members of any powerful and august assembly, have voluntarily come under en gagements to th e i r cons ti tuents , as unconstitutional as they were degrading ;- but such bise exceptions have nothing to do with time general rule regarding the re sponsibility of Members of the House of Commons. If there were in theory any such responsibility, doubt less some power would have been provided for carrying it into practical effect. But there is no such thing ; nor, let the conduct of a Representative be ever so disagreeable to his constituents, have they any power either to punish or to displace him. When the Parlia ment is dissolved, and the connection of the Member with those who elected him has ceased, they may refuse to renew that connection, but they can in no way call their Member to account for what he has done. It may he urged that the power of rejecting a Member at a future election, does operate in practice like a formal responsibility to the electors. This is, however, not a legal but an accidental responsibility ; and there are other things which operate as an accidental re sponsibility with the Members of the House of Lords, such as a desire to stand well with the people in the districts to which they belong, and several other points which might be enumerated. But it altog e th er depends upon circumstances whether the fear of not being elected by the same constituency at a future elec tion will have any effect upon a Member of the House of Commons. It is by no means an uncommon thing for a Member to be utterly indifferent whether the same constituency will elect him again or not. Nay, in many cases, a Member is quite resolved that he will not ask to be re-elected. In such a case where is the responsi ass s the hioß nof bility of the Memb e r of one H o us e more th an anot h er ? responsibility? s i e,f i o t rexample, that Mr. Blamire kn ew very well th at t h e part w hi c h h e too k regar di ng the Tith e ß u il in the il l shouldlastthat which be Session was exceedingly dis a g reea bl e to the e l ectors of East Cumberland, where was his e He had, would carried. n H no doubt,come omeeh at (oal passverym all shrewda proba bility, r soob oao bility, a very Tithe Commissioner, and, that erebfeore, b would e i mad n b o e va blo e of a snissioner ; and if the electors as to tu rs of TTIa C Ce a u l mber l l ' a lt n h d e hCado:nin the mean time run up any account of responsibility against him, they might go whistle for its payment. Putting conscience and character out of the question, he p i l s au e qually e Blyut independentconsoiconscience andof otheirara character scuariemajntd be their a put out of the question by British nobl emen an d gentle men, and hence it is that while w e have noblemen gentlemen as legislators, we need n ot a l arm our selves about the want of more formal and sts.tutable responsibility.—Mor „ 22112 a Herald. So wretched have been the practical restf.ts of Mi nisterial, or Whig-Radical, policy, all over the world, that, when a party of Ministerialists or Radicals get together they do not so much as ventnie to allude to those results. Their declamation uniformly consists of indignant lamentation concerning what they have not been able to do, and spiteful vituperation of those who have scccessfully opposed them. If Eng lishmen consider this conduct either manly or decent, in a political party, they must be much changed from what they once were. But we are persuaded that they do not so consider it, and we attribute the coldness and indifference with which the public demonstrations of the Whig-Radicals are received to the natural contempt of a manly-minded nation for a set of politicians who can do little else than whine about themselves, rail upon their adversaries, and put the public money in their pockets. One standing_ topic pervades these meetings—to wit, th e d e f ec t s of the Upper House of Parliament, of which an overwhelming majority has set itself against Whig-Radical projects of legislation and government. The iteration and re-iteration of com mon-place cant, about the necessity for Peerage Reform, has become most wearisome and disgusting. We do not mean to say that the idea of Peerage Re form is self-evidently nonsensical, and ought not to be entertained, but assuredly such a subject ought to come before the public—if it come at all —upon grave and reasonable grounds of discussion. It ought not to be thrust upon us by the swelling impudence or mortified vanity of some persons whose political schemes the Lords have treated with calm contempt. What is the origin of the feeble blustering against the House of Lords ? Whence arises the cry of Peerage Reform ? These are questions not difficult to be answered, and the true answer to them is of great importance to a just understanding of the merits of the present en deavour to raise a clamour about Peerage Reform. The cry is that of a beaten party. Because their poli tics have failed—because their boasted " Reform" of the House of Commons has produced nothing of the splendid results which they so loudly vaunted that it would produce—because they have totally failed, even with the ten-pound a year suffrage at their backs, to bring forward even one example of remarkable talent for public business, or ordinary eloquence in public debate —because of this miserable failure, and its natural con sequences, the public disappointment and contempt, they must, forsooth, with admirable modesty, lay the whole blame of their failure upon the House o• Lords. Is an intelligent public thus to be deceived ? Is it to be believed—is it not contradictory to all ex perience —that, if the weight of reasoning and the power of eloquence had been on the side of Ministerial measures in the House of Commons, and the national mind, filled, as it must have been, with conviction by the one and enthusiasm by the other, had been also on the side of Ministerial measures—is it, we say, to be believed that, at this hour, the advocates of these measures would be endeavouring to console themselves with an ineffectual whine against the effectual oppo sition of the House of Lords ? When have the Lords resisted the heart, and the mind, and the united voice of the nation ? Never—nor does it at all consist with probability that an assembly so constituted ever should resist that which the convictions of a free and intelligent nation like this have decidedly adopted and deliberately retained. The same effects would, in all human pro bability, be produced upon the House of Peers as upon the rest of the nation. It is, however, very necessary to bear in mind the marked distinction between the convictions of a nation and the sudden impulses of the least instructed of its populace. It is for in terested knaves, or unthinking fools, who live upon the breath of popular folly, to be governed by these. impulses—it is the duty of steady and honest legis lators to resist mere popular impulse, and to wait for the more deliberate expression of national conviction. With regard, however, to " Peerage Reform," there is at present neither the one nor the other in this empire. The Whig-Radicals have not been able to get up even a popular excitement in favour of that question. It is asserted, with the usual effrontery of the party, that the Lords have been " running counter to public opinion ;" but every public symptom which we have an opportunity of observing proves the falsehood of this assertion. If by " public opinion" popular opinion is meant, we confess that, whether it were for or against the course which the House of Peers has lately taken, our view of the sound national policy of that course would be just the same : but it is a fortunate circum stance that at present even the popular opinion seems to be on the same side with reason and the principles of the British Constitution. But we find here and there—sparsim, as Sir Charles Wetherell would say— small knots of self-adoring Whig-Radicals, who are pleased to inform the world that there is a great necessity for a Reform of the House of Peers, be cause that House will not pass Whig-Radical measures without amendments. A few Members of the House of Commons, by no means distinguished for natural good sense, or acquired information, or political expe rience, or pure integrity of purpose, get some obscure rabble about them, which rabble they very compla cently harangue upon the necessity of revolutionising the Legislative Constitution of the British Empire, because the party measures which they approve have not been approved by the present House of Lords. Is such a political exhibition as this to be treated with any respect ? No, but with derision rather, if we can so command a natural impulse as to repress dis gust. The question of Peerage Reform may indeed be made an interesting object of inquiry by the inge nuity and eloquence of speculative politicians, who co lour their abstractions with all the bright hues of fancy, and bring their poetry to the aid of their politics. But all the inspiration of the present declaimers upon the subject consists in coarse conceit. We have no thing in support of it but the drivelling of dense stu pidity-, the bellowing of brutal ignorance, or the mag pie chattering of frivolous and ridiculous vanity. To such demonstrations no very serious attention can be claimed, or will be given.—Morning Post. A NOSE CUT OFF.—About twelve o'clock in the in the night of Tuesday last, an old woman named Sarah Smith, who lives in Gregson-street, was brought to the watch office in a state of gross intoxication, and her face covered with blood. On examination it was found that by some means her nose had been cut across the bridge, leaving the lower part including the nostrils, hanging over the upper lip, attached only by a small portion of the cartilage. Her own account of the matter was that she had fallen across the bed-stocks, the edge of which had inflicted its unseemly mutilation; but the appearance of the wound was such as to lead to the suspicion that some sharp instrument had been used, and this suspicion was further strengthened by the fact that the woman being of bad character and disgracefully intemperate habits, frequent quarrels had arisen between her husband and herself, and that one of these had occurred during Tuesday evening, the husband being exceedingly exasperated at her repeated acts of intem perance.—Manchester Guardian. COACH ACCIDENT.—On Monday night last, while the Standard coach, which runs betwixt Edinburgh and Car lisle, was coming down by the bridge into Galashiels the horses became unmanageable, set of at full speed, and on coming to a sharp turn of the road the coach was upset and several of the passengers more or less severely injured. One gentleman, a Mr. Phipps, received fatal bruises on the knee and foot; a Miss Cochrane had her arm broken, and a young gentleman and the driver received serious injuries on the head.—Kelso Chronicle. SAFETY SPRING.—At a Meeting of the Literary and Philosophical Institution held at the Museum, a communi cation was made by the Rev. Mr. Barlow of a newly invented patent safety spring for carriages, having amongst other advan tages durability, diminished weight, and superior economy.—. Sheffield Mercury. On Thursday night a decayed licensed vict ua ll er snaemcedV, committed erdun, suicide whosefa b family and h ad a d nin c g on g seneehtiimonslaf a re ta in Wapping. Though he had been for some time past la. bouring under distress, he always appeared in the best health, and had not exhibited any symptoms of derangement. A boy of the name of Chandley, who had been watching crows near Hornsey, on his return home a few days since, left his gun in the corner of the room. A little fellow nine years of age, the son of a milkman of the name of Tucker,. running into the room and taking the gun, ex claimed " Joe, I'll shoot you," and pulling the trigger wounded his young friend in the right hand and thigh. Two gentleman riding . past at the time alighted, and gave every assistance in their power. One of them shaking the little fellow, said he would have him hanged, which had such an effect on him that next morning he was unable to rise from his bed. He cried, and " hoped Joe would be better." He was answered he was getting better, and that he might go and see him. He did so the following day, and appeared more c omposed, but his feelings were too great for his strength, and on Thursday morning he died. The wounded boy is now walking about. Mr. Horace Smith, the celebrated author of the " Rejected Addresses," " Brambletye House," &c. &c., while reading a paper the other evening, at the Conversazione of the Literary Institution and Mantellian Musuem, Brighton, the subject of which was " the probable moral effects of loco motion by steam," among other humorous observations, re marked, that so ardent were the anticipations respecting the rate of travelling by steam entertained by its advocates, that a gentleman, we believe from the sister Isle, had asserted that by-and-by a man would actually be enabled to travel from Brighton to London by steam in a shorter time than he could stop at home, "an assumption, however," observed Mr. Smith, " in which I do not exactly concur I" SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock. THE LONDON GAZE FTE THIS EVENING. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, SEPT. 24. Ordnance Medical Department--A. A. Staunton, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Mahon, resigned, Sept. 20. • Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County Palatine of Chester. King's Regiment of Cheshire Yeomanry Cavalry. Stockport Troop—G. Andrew, jun., Gent. to be Lieutenant, vice Caistor, resigned, Sept. 9. Macclesfield Troop.—J. C. Ryle, jun., Esq., to be Captain, vice Powell, resigned, Sept. 15. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Worcester. Worcestershire Yeomanry Cavalry—J. Dixon, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Round, deceased, Sept. 24. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Kent. East Kent Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry.—The Right Hon. G. J. Sondes, to be Captain, vice D. Denne, resigned. W. C. Fairman, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice T. Denne, resigned. S. G. Lushington, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Deeds , resigned ; Sept. 20. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. HENRY LEWIS, grocer, Swansea, Glamorganshire. BANKRUPTS. CHARLES PEARCE CHAPMAN, metal broker, Cornhill, to surrender, Oct. 11, at eleven, and Nov. 8, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Paterson, Old Broad-street; Clark, official assignee, St. Swithin's• lane, Lombard -street. JOHN LASHMAR, merchant, Brighton, Oct. 10, and Nov. 8, at twelve, at the Town-hall, Brighton. Cooper, Lewes, Sus sex ; Sweet and Sutton, Basinghall-street. RICHARD HODGKINSON, builder, Leamington Priors, Warwickshire, Oct. 10, and Nov. 8, at two, at the Lansdowne Hotel, Leamington Priors. Cox, Red Lion-square, London ; Burbury and Lampray, Warwick and Leamington. GEORGE COWELL, hatter, Great Russell-street, Covent garden, Oct. 4 and Nov. 8, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Badham, Verulam.huildings, Gray's-inn ; Clark, official assignee, St. Swithin's-lane, Lombard-street. MYLES PRIEST, nurseryman, Reading, Berkshire, Oct. 4, at eleven, and Nov. 8, at ten, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, Basing - hall-street, official assignee; Taylor, Turner, Sharpe, and Field, Bedford-row, London. SUSAN SHEPHERD, dress-maker, Richmond, Oct. 4, and Nov. 8, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lackington, Basing hall-street, official assignee ; Helder, Clement's Inn, Strand. ABRAHAM OXLEY, WILLIAM OXLEY, and JOHN OXLEY, iron -founders, Sheffield, Oct. 7, and Nov. 8, at ten, at the Town Hall, Sheffield. Rodgers, Devonshire-square, Bishops gate-street ; Ryalls, Sheffield. WILLIAM FOSTER, manufacturer, Hollinwood, Oldham, Lancashire, Oct. 18, and Nov. 8, at two, at the Commissioners' Rooms, Manchester. Bower, Chancery-lane ; Clegg, Oldham. COURSE OF EXCH2 Amsterdam C F l2 0 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam` , U l2 (3% Antwerp... Hamburg. M.B. 13 14 Altsna Paris, 3 days' sight 25 50 Ditto .....................2 Us 25 80 Marseilles. Frankfort on Maine, Ex.M 153 Pttersbuigh, ruble '3 Us lO 0 Berlin Vienna, effective 0 " M lO 12 ['rieste ditto lO 12 Madrid 37 Cadiz 37 llilhoa Barcelona Seville 96 lA Gibraltar LIVGE._r THIS DA Y.) Leghorn 48% Genoa 25 80 Milan 3l Venice 47 Naples 4014 Palermo per oz. 121 Li:;bon 55 Oporto 55 Rio Janeiro 36 Bahia 26 Buenos Ayres -- Dublin, 21 days' sight 1 Cork l% PRICE OF BULLION, PER OZ. Portugal Gold, coin £0 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 10% New Doubloons New Dollars Silver. bars. standard 0 5 0% POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. A young man, named Charles Rich, was brought before the LORD MAYOR, charged with having stolen twenty sheep, the property of Mr. AlgAikins, a farmer, at Horn church, in Essex. The prisoner was fully committed. Mr. Sturtevant, of Church -street, Shoreditch, soap-boiler, waited upon the LORD MAYOR, in consequence of the state ment made before his Lordship that the mixture of arsenic in the manufacture of soap would be pernicious to health. He firmly believed that by the operations of soap-boiling the arsenic would not contain more than one-eight of its poi sonous quality. The ingredients used in the manufacture of the article of soap were of such a description, and the pro cess was so severe, that the poison would be rendered quite harmless. The Lonn Mai on requested to know whether the gen tleman who favoured him with the communication applied to him at the request of Mr. Fenning ? Mr. Sturtevant did not apply at the desire of Mr. Fen ning, but he wished to purchase the provisions which had been injured by the fire, and addressed his Lordship on the subject on account of the difficulties which the statement about the arsenic threw in the way. The LORD MAYOR—Do you know the nature of the property which you wish to purchase ? Mr. Sturtevant replied in the negative. The LORD MAYOR—What do you suppose it is worth per ton ? Mr. Sturtevant—About 151. The LORD MAYOR—And how many tons are there ? Do you suppose there are ten ? Mr. Sturtevant—l dare say there is about that quantity. The LORD MAYOR—Is it worth your while for a thing of such small value to run such a risk by the purchase of property about which there exists so great a difference of opinion between you and chemical practitioners ? Will you hazard your character-and your business by purchasing a commodity respecting which there is so much suspicion ? Mr. Sturtevant—My opinion is most decided that not one atom of the poisonous quality would remain after the soap boiling operations. It is quite impossible that any injury could arise. - The LORD MAYoß—Well, I have nothing further to do with the ma tt er . M r . P enn i ng can d o what he considers to be expedient under the circumstances, but I again put it to you whether you think it worth your while for a small profit to purchase any commodity, about the safety of making any use of which there is so very great a degree of suspicion ? Mr. Sturtevant made no reply, but immediately retired. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. David Lynch, a labouring man, was yesterday charged with having nearly knocked out one of the eyes of a young girl by a blow with his fist. The circumstances of the as sault disclose an instance of that mingled brutality and cowardice which appears to be peculiar to a portion of the labouring class of Irish. The girl was standing at the corner of Woodstock-street, when the prisoner came up to her, and without speaking felled her to the ground. The blow left her senseless, and bleeding profusely. She declared she had never seen the prisoner in her life before. Mr. CHAMBERS—And I am afraid, my poor girl, thati you will never see him, at least with your left e y e . Why, l you fellow, how came you to injure the girl so crue lly ? Prisoner (with a stupid grin)—Yes ; I pretty nearly knocked out her eye. Mr. CHAMBERS-Why did you strike her ? Prisoner— I'll not deny it. I had not the laste rason in life. Mr. CIIAMBERS—I'II put a stop to your brutality for some time. Pay 31., or you shall go to prison for one month. HA TT ON- GARDEN. A tall, slovenly-looking Irishman, who gave his name Paddy Flynn, was brought from the station-house by police constable 1.53, G division, charged with being drunk. The constable, on Sunday morning last, at an early hour, found the prisoner lying upon the broad of his back, on Saffron hill, in a state of intoxication, with his hands and legs tied with a rope, his face blackened, and a short pipe in his mouth, and quite insensible, when, with assistance, he took him to the station-houses Mr. LAING asked him what he was ? Prisoner (rubbing down his hair)—A poor Irishman, your Wortchip. Mr. LAING—How do you get your livinc , ? Prisoner— I am a skin-dresser, and please your Wortchip ; and I work for Mr. Taylor, near Cow-cross. Mr. LAING—What have you to say for getting drunk, and getting your arms and l egs ti e d ? P r i soner —l vent to th wake of a friend who died the other day, where I smoked and dhrank till it was late, and I sated myself down to take a rest on the step of a door and fell fast asleep, when I suppose they had their fun on me and tied me hand and foot, and divil a farthing did they lave about me, and I didn't know where I was when I found myself in the station-house, and good look to them for taking care of me.—(Laughter.) Mr. LAING discharged him, advising him to be cautious in future, and not to be brought there again under similar circumstances. Paddy then thanked his Wortchip, and quitted the office, UNION-HALL. Yesterday Susannah Hill, a girl of thirteen, was bro ug ht before Mr. TRAI LL , on a c h arge of stealing a quantity of jewellery and plate, the property of the Misses Fothergill, of Hatton-garden ; and Alfred Hill, the brother of the fe male prisoner, was charged with receiving the same, know ing. it to have been stolen. Prom evidence adduced it appeared that the brother had incited the sister to steal the arti c l es , i n or d er to sup ply him with c l o th es . The girl's own confession completed the proof. BOth the prisoners were committed for trial ; but it is intended to make application to the Judge before whom the case is tried to allow the female to become a witness for the Crown. THAMES -OFFICE. Yesterday John Rawlins, a fisherman, and John Perry man, a fisherman's apprentice, belonging to the oyster smack Edward, were br oug h t before THomns CLARicsoN, Esq., the sitting Magistrate, charged with breaking into a barge, called the Abergavenny, belonging to Mr. William Jones, of Rainham, i n K ent, and stea li ng a q uantity of ; wearing apparel, two sovereigns, and other property there from. The prisoners confessed the robbery, and were committed. MURDER NEAR MAIDSTONE• Last week the village of Tavil, about half a mile from Maidstone, was placed in a state of considerable ex citement, in consequence of a report being circulated tba t a woman of the name of Ann Covies had been murdered by her husband. Cries of " Murder" h a d been heard to proceed from the house, which was occupied by Will iam Covies and his wife, and which is situated in Tavil, when, as some words which had previously passed between them had been heard, the door was f orce d open, and the deceased was found at the foot of the stairs stretched a lifeless corpse. A very great crow d o f th e i n h a bitants colle cted . who immediately charg e d th e h us b an d with the death of his wife. Information of th e c i rcums tance was fort hwith conveyed to F. F. Daily, Esq., Coroner for the borough in, the jurisdiction of whi c h T av il i s i nc l u ded, when he i ssued his prescript for an inqu es t t o b e h e ld o n the body. In t , course of the week th e J ur y, cons i s ti ng of thirteen bighY respectable burgesses, were i m p anne ll e d before Mr. D ally,l the Coroner, at the Royal Paper Mills, Tavil. The inquiry_ lasted two days, and d ur i ng th e ti me a large concourse of persons was assembled b e f ore th e d oo r, while the inq uest room was also crowded. The husband was exami ne d. H e stated that on the night of the alleged murder he and his wife had words about her being out late. Both prepared to go to bed when, as he happ ene d t o o p en th e d oor , th e first thing he heard was a shuffling, which appeared like a fall a nd a cry. He heard no words distinctly, He went down stair`' when he found his wife lying at the bottom of the steps, with her head upwards. There was just room for him to e pass without interferin g w ith h er . S evera l persons WI in, and he did not interfere. The neighbours said he had pushed her down st a i rs , w hi c h b e d en i e d. Some men an d his wife then took her up s tai rs . Wit ness believes that wife was not sober. She was subject to fits, and fell dow n in one on Friday. After having recovered from the fit, sir, remarked that if she h a d ano th er suc h an one that it wo uld be her last. She has b een s i x mon th s con fi ne d in a luna tic e asylum. Two years ago was the last time she was in O a ' Esther Quinnell and Jane Baker both spoke to circuity" stances of strong suspicion against the prisoner. William Susans, son of the deceased, after he broke tbef door open, challenged W m . C ov i es w i t h b e i ng the cause at his mother's death. C ov i es ma d e no answer , b u t struck 1.1 witness, and, on a female observing to witness's wif e ' 1/1 Covies' presence, th a t h er m o th er was dead, Covies oh; served, " Let the die, and her son along with He never knew his moth er i n li quor , an d never saw hhere r ill a fit. Sophy Tugwell, a married woman, was close to Covidl back premiies on Saturday night, when he and the decelts au were quarrelling. Heard him say, ,‘ that if she came up stairs he would break her neck down again." Saw her g fi across the kitchen when s h e went up sta i rs, an d h e followe d her in a violent passion. Heard her exclaim, " Oh, n t h ' Covies, do not." She kept f a ili ng i n h er b reat h, then sh e screamed out " Murder," an d f e ll w i t h great n oise an d force. Covies came down stairs. Witness said, " °P ell the door," when Covies said, " bring me a light, let Ine,,,sf e where she is—she is dead-,4 shall di e t o - mor row." . ." e door was then forced open by W. Susans. Several other witnesses were examined, when the Core ner, having summed up the evidence, the jury returned , verdict of " Wilful murd er aga i nst Willi am C ov ies," an the witnesses were bound over to prosecute. The Coroner issued his warrant for the committal of Covies to 'ib id. stone gaol, who was a pp re h en d e d t h e next d ay, a f ter a stou t resistance, and lodged in the gaol. The deceased , w it° was 53 years of age, was a widow when she married Covies' to whom she has been joined seven years. all It CORONERS' INQUESTS. Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held at the Th ree Crowns, Well-street, Piccadilly, before Mr. HIGGS and 3 respectable Jury, on the body of John Messenger, aged 45 ' Mr. John Davidson had been formerly acquainted with the deceased, wh o was i n comfortable circumstances as a bo rne dealer, and li ve d very we ll , an d was a man of extremely high spirit ; but latterly, however, he had become e' s ; tremely reduced i n c i rcumstances, an d was, i n fact, ex posen to starvation, and b e i ng turne d out o f hi s lodg i ngs s l e pt f or the last four night s i n one o f w i tness ' s h ay l ofts. O n Satur dayi(' last he compl a i ne d o f severe pa i ns i n h i s b ac k a n along his side and forehead, and went to bed about twelv e o'clock, and at half-past three was found by the ostler (J° lle . i Humphries), who slept in the same loft, quite inanimate Z cold. He went to bed p er f ec tl y sober, though his habits intoxication were so excessive that he was frequently to'cke ct o up in the station-house, and in a scuffle a few months ag e with a policem an h a d hi s s k u ll severe l y f racture d, sines which period he never was in good health. Vierdiet' " Died of apoplexy." Yesterday eve n i ng an inquest was h e ld a t tne Loa ,l of Hay, Praed-street, Paddington, before Mr. STIRLING , the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Foster, aged 43. The husban d of the unfortunate lady left her when he went fr o m home the morning for the City in excellent health and spirits- On his return at noon he inquired for her, and was told she was in her bedroom. H e procee d e d up stairs, and to nig horror found her on the floor in the agonies of cie,! tb. Before medic a l ass i s t ance could arrive she expired. vel diet—" Died by the visitation of God." In some departments connected with the execritiOn of the Great Western Railway, and throughout most of th largest establishments in the Potteries, a suspension of '01. 1 1i" ness has t a k en p l ace from a strike amongst the workmen.. . the form er , t h e quarrymen are the dissatisfied parties, and their numbers are not stated • in the latter, from 5,000, to 6,p 00 have ref use d to work and all the gre a t manu f ac tories are 8 " stand still.—Bath Herald. At an early hour, Friday morning, a dreadful "A cident h a p pene d i n the neighbourhood of Bunhill-row• fine lad ab out f ourteen years of ago having excited 'the dispbr o sure of his father, the latter pursued him to th e top . of t he house, from whence the unfortunate youth war ; prempital e. into th e street. He was taken up a most pitirAble specta c ., His life is di spa i re d o f , an d the father is in agony at the ai r tressing circumstance. A shock of an earthquake was felt on the 16th in k '' at a qua r t er b e f ore one o'clock, in the depa r t men t of the Ga r in France. ,The oscillations were from south to north, lasted between two and three seconds. It was felt most pe r ceptibly at Nismes. Within the last week, sheep-st ea li ng has been v er y prevalent in the neighb our h oo d o f Bath. - " The good people of Calais," says the Pro:, du Pas d e C a l a i s , " comp l a i n loudly of the d earnes s of eg o f I, j. This arises f rom th e i mmense quant i ty sent over to Eng li , r ,d, Out of 72,000,000 o f eggs annually imported into Eng,la, from France, Germany, the Netherland s , J erse y, Gucir o 4 o , Man, and other countries, France contributes 55,0YO , V an d Calculating the first cost at 42 centimes the dozen, .800 00 , pays annually to France for eggs, 1,925,000 franc a. re posing the freight, the p ro fit s o f t h e i mporter, an d ,of °ether tail dealer, the import d u ti es , t h e l oss b y b reakage an d ° damage to carry the price to lf. 50 cents. a dozen, thelft, amount paid by consumers o f F renc h eggs in England vri no less than 4,812,500 f. Th e i mport duty upon French einreiri, landed in England is 1 fr. 50 cents, upon every 120, an d e a t sequently the annual sum received by the British Governlll - this source is nearly 500,000 francs."—Gelignani•,•oo TO FLORICULTURAL and HORTICULTagto: SOCIETIES.—The Die for a Prize Medal, beautifully elre u . i o r has been lat e ly cu t, w i t h a Design suited for either Flormulq u ' - sil. Horticultural Prizes. The Medals may now be had either in ver, Bronze, or White Metal. i lia I'. COX SAVORY'S , W or ki ng Silversmith, Goldsm ith s Watchmaker, 47, Cornhill, London. QOO BSI The whol e o f th e Fi rs t an d S econ d F loors are fitted up as ROOMS for the Display of Plate, Plated Goods, &c. &C. e s ager N.B. A pamphl e t, containing a Detailed List of Pric'es cu„ la jc.4, Spoons and F or k s , Silver Plate, Plated Good s , We c ches• &c., may be had gratis. BI R 2'.H S. ham the 18;49 On the 22d inst., at th e R ec t ory, Sedgefi , eld, Dur t of the Rev. T. L. St rong , o f a d aug h ter, of On the 26th inst., i n L anca ster-pla.tle, Mrs. C. E. I‘'-d r e bele, a daughter. ..rf On the 24th inst., at Petersham, Surrey, the lady o f Charl es Bevan, Esq., of t w i n sons . taif•l Jel f On the 24th inst., a t Twickenham, the lady of CaP Sharp, of a daught er . ___....----- MARRIED. arCb At Henley-on-Thames, R. H. Giles, Esq , of London, to lotte, only da ug ht er o f G . Bennett, Es q., of the former, place' On the 21st i ns t., a t S t. Andrew's, J a mes Sanderson , x'74, the Madras M e di ca l A rmy, to Eliza, widow of J. 14`Ritehie' of Bancoorah, Bengal. dba.° l ' On the 22d inst., at Bockino., in Essex, Ceorge David 13 a E s q., Esq., of Waldringfield, Sate, eldest son of David Badhaerjkaro of ulmer,P t o S ara h E mma, second daughter of C ap t a in v" -- R. N., of Bock ing. D lED. ;r e of $ ' On the 24th inst., a t Peamore, Devonshire, Agatha, w i fe T. Kekewich, Esq. A wont On the 18th inst., at Tor Grove, near Plymouth, Edmun d ' only son of G. Foot, Esq., of that place. v a ~°( On the 17th inst., at Cheltenham, Alexand er Finlay', Esq,., Limpsfield, Surrey, late of Edinburgh. 00 ( 1• 0 On the 23d inst., Francis, eldest son of Wm. Ullathorn e, Woburn-place, Russell-square. GeOrg e' On the 16th inst., at Brook-green, Adam Bell, Esq., o f - street, Bryanstoinst.,ne-suare. On the 15th q n at Berne, Switzerland, Mr. W. '-'• Ke nt, °' Grove-end-road, St. John's-wood, aged 56. of . 1 ' On the 22d inst., at Farnham, Su rrey , Elizabeth, r elict N. Martin, Esq. ~ ,„ ' ,' Inic" On the 24th inst., in Alexander square, Brompton, i'' 's son, Esq.:of Ryder-street, St. James's. On the 21st inst., aged 39, Charlotte, wife of S. S. Br isc oe , '' of the Fir-tree House, near Dudley • hter of On the Bth inst., at Genoa, Aug . usta Ellen, infant datig,_ ; ,,, in the ltev. T. Harvey, M.A., 1 • Majesty's Resident Chap` that city. 0 a° . On the 23d inst., at Camberwell, Barbara, widow -f .1. shank, Esq., aged 85. Ore ° On the 23d inst., at Ryde, Mrs. Munday, of North-plac e, Inn-lane, aged 76. _.......,_ 1 f .onclon Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, ~nroatf 112, Strand, a t The San Office, No. 112, Strand, in OP.'" of Middlesex.—Tuesday, September 27,1536. 27, 1536. I .~