The Sun. — London, England, 1836-12-13 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Although the election of a Representative for the county of Longford, in place of the late Lord Forbes, has not as yet taken place, no doubt is entertained by the Liberal party of Mr. White's success at the hust ings. The interest of the Earl of Granard—father of the deceased Member—is cordially given to the po pular candidate ; and this alone is sufficient to pros trate the fanatical clique who have for a few years thwarted—it is not now necessary to describe by what means—the feelings of the people. To be sure an Orange journal, with characteristic Hibernicism, tells its patrons and partisans that the tenantry on the Granard estates are not the tenantry of the Earl of Granard, but of the deceased Lord Forbes ; and that they will to a man " vote for their late landlord ;" to wit, the deceased Viscount. The votes of his tenantry, Lord Forbes does not now require. These votes they cheerfully gave to the deceased noble man for a quarter of a century ; he received them reluctantly since 1830, when he committed the fatal error of c oalescing with an intolerant fac tion, his own and his country's enemies : now that the dishonouring tie is severed, the tenantry, freed from undue controul, and left to exercise unshackelled the elective franchise, will, almost to a man, vote for the popular candidate, and in concert with the declared wishes of the venerable Peer who has ever been their own steadfast friend, as w e ll as the zealous advocate of their country's rights and freedom. So sure of defeat are the Orange bigots, that they already give expres sion to their frenzy in the columns of their newspa pers. The Evening Mail asserts that if Mr. Fox, the Lefroy cat's-paw, be defeated, " he is pledged to peti tion against the return, and to prosecute the same to a decision. This is manifestly a signal of distress, as well as a clumsy artifice to cloak a disgraceful defeat. If Mr. Fox and his friends (?) were not pretty certain of being soundly thrashed by the electors of Long ford, they would not have said a word about that derider resort of defeated candidates—a petition. A pledge to petition, even before the candidates have been nominated, and that, too, in a county which had been recently represented by two To ris, is strong evidence of a reaction against Toryism in that locality. It is more—it is incontestable evidence of the turpitude and factiousness of the Tory party. It demonstrates the implacable hostility of that party to freedom of election and popular rights. No matter what may be Mr. White's majority at the election— supposing, him to obtain the unbought suffrages of tiara-fourths of the constituency, still he and the elec tors are menaced with a petition ! We shall take care when the petition is presented, to recal this fact to the notice of the House of Commons. The premature pledge betokens distinctly a vexatious inten t . Mr. Fox, and the Lefroys, who are making a goose of him, Lad better take into their calculation of the chances the probable issue of an investigation, the corrupt object of which would be established by their own indiscreet re velations. They would look much bluer than usual were D. committee to declare Mr. White duly returned, and the petition against that return " frivolous and vexa tious." We can easily comprehend why the Messrs. Lefroy would strain every nerve to defeat Mr. White. So sure as he obtains and retains his seat, so sure will Mr. Anthony Lefroy march, whenever, Ministers shall dreide upon sending him, inter alios, to give an account of his s tewardship ; for, strange as it mav appear, the return of two Reformers in Longford would be achieved with much less trouble at a general election than the return of one, under the existing circumstances ; and of the return of that one the Orangists and Tartqfjes themselves are sure, and the conviction galls them bit terly. Still such is their malignity, such their per . v.er: - .iencss, such their hatred of the people, that they mean to fight a hopeless battle at the hustings, and then to contest before a Parliamentary committee the free choice of the electors And this is the party whom self-styled Reformers—the pink of Radicalism, for sooth—arc labouring might and main to restore to power. What care they for parties—what is it to them that a Liberal Administration does all it can to reform abuses and -to extend the privileges of the people—that it has reformed Corporations in this country, and has striven to reform them in Ireland _that here it has commuted tithes, and there it has attempted to adjust that impost in a manner satisfac tory to the present generation of tithe-payers and tithe-receivers, and will do so again—that it is daily purifying the public departments in a country where Oraneeism and jobbing have hitherto oppressed the people, and ground diem to the earth—that if To ryism were to , morrow in the ascendant, a brood of fac tious and partisan barristers would swarm upon and pollute the judicial benches, which are yet grievously over-burdened by the minions of former Tory Admi nistratious—that Irish corporations would then he pre served in all their vice and profligacy—that tithes would then be collected at the point of the bayonet — that the spirit of Saurin and Lefroy, of Blackburne and of Shaw, would animate the Viceroy and his Council and the law officers of the Crown—that the Chief Secretary would again, as Sir Henry Har diT7e did before, abuse the powers of his office, and violate the law in the attempt to trample upon the citi zens, and to carry the election of Orange candidates? For all these things what care your flaming Radicals—Torv- Radicals, as they have been aptly called ? Ministers will not initiate the proposition that a corrupt House of Lords should be reformed, nor will they initiate another equally valuable but still more difficult proposition— that the union between Church and State should be dis solved ; and, therefore, the Whigs should be turned out, and the Tories let in once more to power ! Such is the reasoning of certain individuals in this country who are magniloquent in their professions of love of liberty; but whose idol we fear is malice or re venge , an d not the " mountain nymph. In quite a different fashion do our Irish fellow-subjects reason and act ; as the reader will see by a reference to our report of the last day's proceedings of the General Association. The impe tuous Irish are setting the sober English a good example. • They will not quarrel with their friends because these friends will not or cannot at present concur in all their views. They will not open the door to Baron Lyndhurst or Sir R. Peel, because Lord Mel bourne cannot at once reform their municipalities or settle the tithe question. And yet are they not • inert and inattentive. Mr. O'Connell has laid the foundation of a systematic agitation. He saw that the people themselves, and not Ministers, should press upon the Legislature the questions of Church and Mu nicipal and Parliamentary and Peerage Reform, and he has set his, and gotten his countrymen to set their shoulders to the wheel. This is the right way to pro ceed. If the people are silent, unless when they com plain of Ministers, the latter cannot undertake any great m easures of Reform. Wh en t h e pu bli c opinion is manifested, Ministers w ill then know how to pro ceed ; so, too, will the Tories in both Houses of Par liament. The Irish are taking effectual steps to keep Toryism in opposition. Let the e peopl e o f E n gland evince a like spirit, and the measu res o f Gover n ment will be more comprehensive, more popular..... Mor n ing Chronicle. publish i n It will be seen by documents we another column, that the Whig Government have at last openly thrown over the so-called London University in Gower-street. These honest statesmen actually voted in March, 1835, in favour of a motion for an add ress to the Crown for a charter for that institution, which should give the power of conferring degrees, except in divinity and medicine ; but at that time they happened to be out of office, and Sir Peel, being Minister, op posed the motion. No sooner had they regained digit places and their pay, than they flatly refused the char ter which by their votes they had thus virtually pro mised ; and, after a vast deal of shufilina and sneaking they hit upon a plan which they have at length car ried into execution, "by writ of Privy Seal." It is shortly this :—A board of examiners has been ap pointed, with the power of conferring degrees, and with the title of the " University of from Gower-street "its good name," and degrading the ex -University by dubbin , it " a College," merely. Oh what a falling off was there, my Radicals !" Our readers will, we think, be not a little amused wit h some of the names in this list of Privy-Seal .sages, who are thus licensed to manufacture Doctors, _Masters, and Bachelors ex quovis ligno, all out of love fer learning of course, and not at all out of 'Whig spite to our Universities. But we confess we do not see the necessity for this long array of new functionaries. Why was not the power of conferring degrees given to the Poor Law Commissioners, or to the Boards of Excise and Customs ? Or why not have revived the Board of Hackney-coach Commissioners for the pur- pose ? The degrees would, in these cases, have been quite as legitimate, and, we will venture to say, would have carried with them quite as much weight and credit, as they will when conferred by this new tribunal,—in the appointment of which, by the way, we are sorry to say we obse rve s t ron g proofs of partiality. For in stance, there is Lord Brougham, but where is Lord Teynham ? there is Mr. Warburton, but where is Dr. Bowring ? there is an homoeopathist among the Doctors, but why is Mr. Morrison the Hygeist passed over ? there is Dr. Arnold, but we miss Dr. Wade : there is a Master in Chancery, but not a single new-policeman, nor even a police magistrate. But the drollest part of the whole affair is Lord Johnny's letter to the Earl of Burlington, which precedes the charter, and which his Lordship has taken care to have published, as he always does, no matter how much bad sense or bad grammar the epistles he perpetrates may happen to contain, and they are usually replete with both. This miserable abortion of a statesman tells Lord Burlington that this University of London is " an institution destined to confer the distinctions justly due to proficiency in literature, science, or art, witho'ut imposing a test of Religious Opinions, or binding by the fetters of the seventeenth century the talent and merit of the present enlightened age." If there is to be no test at all of religious opinions— if the University will not require that persons upon whom they confer degrees shall be Christians (we speak not of forms of Christian faith or worship, but of Christianity itself), then the following passage in the charter is utterly false and fraudulent ;—" Whereas we have deemed it to be the duty of our Royal office, for the advancement of religion and morality, &c., to hold forth, &c. an encouragement for pursuing a regular and liberal course of education." If the pro fession of Christianity is to be required from candi dates for degrees at this University, then Lord John Russell has .misrepresented the institution to Lord Burlington. We are afraid, however, that his little Lordship is right, and that this passage in the charter is a disgraceful and deceitful piece of humbug. But what can this very silly and ill-informed Home Secre tary of ours mean by sneering at the seventeenth cen tury, and setting up against it what he calls " the ta lent and merit of the present enlightened age ?" Has the Church in this age divines who rank higher than Jeremy Taylor, Chillingworth, Cudworth, South, Barrow, Usher, Burnet, and Tillotson ? Have the Dissenters of any sect a Baxter or a Ca lamy among them ? In pricking for physicians, has this Lord Small-wit been able to find any that have rendered the world as much service as Harvey and Sydenham ? Does he knoW where to look for a Milton, a Dryden, a Cowley, a Waller, or a Butler, now ? Ilas this " enlightened age" a Newton or a Locke ? Does he happen to know that besides these, there lived in the lith century, Bacon, Spelman, Coke, Raleigh, Hale, Holt, Clarendon, Falkland, Sidney, Hampden, Pym, Selden, Somers, Temple, Evelyn, and fifty others whose name, we doubt not, will occur to most of our readers. When Lord John Russall'S ow n narrow mind and small and superficial acquire ments are made the standard of "talent," and he him self is accepted as a sample of what should be called " enlig,litened," while his factious, unconstitutional, and unprincipled conduct as a politician is assumed as the test of "merit,"—then, and not s till then, will " the present enlightened age" bear comparison with the seventeenth century in " talent" and " merit." Really the friends of this very presuming and priggish person do not act fairly by him when they allow him so constantly to intrude such exhibitions of his igno rance upon the public.— Times. In the Number of the Quarterlg Review publishet . on Saturday, there is an article on Church-rates—the only article, by the way, which has even the appearance of a political character. The writer is, of course, a violent advocate of the justice and propriety of com pelling Dissenters to pay these obnoxious imposts. Their conscientious .scruples go for nothing with him. He can see no injustice—no oppression—in exacting money to support a church which they never enter, and from which they can consequently derive no benefit. He has some forebodings, however—some gloomy apprehensions, that the Government and Legislature may .be forced to give way to the urgent demands of the Dissenters for relief from these grievous burdens. He sees in the union, determination, numbers, and moral force of the Dissenting body, the impossibility of any longer extracting, per force, from their pockets, any amount in the shape of Church-rates ; and as he thus sees that the Dissenters can no longer be oppressed by Act of Parliament, he puts his inventive powers on the rack to devise some other means by which they may still be persecuted for conscience sake. Our readers would hardly guess the result of this exercise of his inventive faculties. It is none other than this— that the best way to punish the Dissenters for their audacity in refusing to contribute to the support of an establishment which they regard as altogether unscrip tural, will be for Churchmen to cease having any fur ther transactions in the way of trade with those of them who oppose Church-rates. The reviewer forgets one very important circumstance, in the intensity of his anxiety to punish Dissenters. He forgets that Churchmen are not the only buyers in shops and in the markets, and that Dissenters are not the only per sons who have goods to sell. If Churchmen adopt the advice of the .Quarterly, and have recouse to ex clusive dealing, then the Dissenters will be driven, in self-defence, to do the same ; and if they withhold their patronage, in the ordinary transactions of trade, from Churchmen, we suspect that the latter will find in the long run that they are the greatest losers. Does the reviewer not, know that in all large towns, where of course most business is carried on, the Dissenters are far more numerous than Churchmen ?—Morning Advertiser. The heartless agitator O'Connell struggles against a statutable provision for the poor of Ireland, as if he felt an irresistible conviction that the relief of famine — the alleviation of the most pinching and poignant mi sery that ever breathed its withering curse on any por tion of the human race—would impair his mischievous power, and diminish the yearly gathering of sordid alms, which he makes by the lucrative traffic that con verts patriotism into pelf. But it isin vain that he struggles against the increased and increasing convic tion that the destitute masses of his countrymen must not be allowed to starve, in order that his wallet may be filled to overflowing. It is true he has long been successful in preventing, both in and out of Parlia ment, the adoption of any measure for the improve ment of the physical and social condition of the 2,300,000 whom he himself has acknowledged to be in a state of deplorable wretchedness and beggary. That number, in our opinion, is greatly exaggerated, as every statement almost of Mr. O'Connell is. But supposing only one-half of that number—supposing only one fourth to be in the condition of forlorn po verty—of savage destitution—of which so many heart-rending and almost incredible instances are given in the Report of the Irish Commissioners of poor law inquiry, with a glorious achievement of Christian benevolence it would to 4 ' emancipate " so many myriads of our fellow-creatures from the horrible tyranny of unmitigated want—destroying its victims by the slow tortures of famine, and brutalizing the fa culties w hil e i t b rea k s t h e h eart . How many victims of thi s excruciating m i sery have gone d own t o th e grave s i nce O'Connell first obtained that power , which he ha s so selfi s hl y exercised for his own selfish pur poses, a n d which he has never yet employed to im prove the condition of the mass of his starving coun trymen. On the contrary, he has always contrived, n freer opposition,o h ei e ou f s ou t v o %l' l d m t a artful l.ai a t 0 - rin g by abortive the human e and benevolent designs of r i e l e i a l t g l i d i cell: where e others. this respect w e must admit that he has consistent on had very zealous co-operation from some Whirr Minis ters,ially Mr. s p • Rice, who has the more espec merit of being - rig icily one public ques tion‘, and that is the one u p on w hich Mr. O'Connell '' Legislatur e would spoil his admitted to Feargus O'Connor th at a really liberal and enlightened act of the trade." But looking to o Connell s cond uct towar d s the infant white slaves of th e factor y s y st em , who can wonder that, like the slave-drive rs of Americ a , he shall always have the cant phrases of liberality on his lip s , while his actions prove that the most illiberal propensi- THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1836. ties overlay " the generous emotions of his Irish heart." Shade of the benevolent Sadler, how art thou avenged for the calumnies which this man and his faction poured upon thy memory ! Some of the Ministerial papers wonder much, in their simplicity, that Conser vative Journals should write so much about Mr. O'Connell as they do, and make him of so much con sequence. Certainly, in point either of character or of talent, except for mischief, is the agitator of sufficient importance per se, to justify much public notice of him in any respectable quarter, in or out of the press ; but his connection wth the Ministry attaches a consequence to what he says and does, which no sayings or doings of his could otherwise possess. As the irresponsible dictator of the Cabinet, the Master of the political ex istence of Ministers, his speeches and his actions be come of importance, because his word is a law, and his conduct is a directing example to the self-abased Statesmen who, having once dared to denounce him as an enemy of his country, in a speech from the Throne, expiate, by the most crawling servility, the heinousness of their offence. The following picture of the condi tion of the Irish poor, and the conduct of the Irish Protector of the Minister, is taken from the Dublin Standard : " Accounts have been received from the counties of Roscommon, Leitrim, and Donegal, stating that not one third of the corn crop has been saved, and that what has been brought into the haggards and barns of the farmers is more or less damaged by the almost incessant rains. While famine already gives notice of its approach, those who by their condition in life must be the principal sufferers, arc plundered, in every part of Ireland, by those heartless boors, the political titulars and priests ; and the pence and shillings thus extracted from the wretched people, who have neither coats on their backs nor meat in their bellies, are remitted weekly to the monster of imposture and his satel lites, while he himself is almost every second day going into one or other of the Law Courts to make a deceptive show by introducing motions about tithe martyrs, and then receiving enormous professional fees, for making these motions, out of that very fund which is now so unscru pulously plundered by every description of law harpies con , netted with the Priests' Association." It is true, as the Paper adds from which this ex tract is taken, that the Irish poor are so infatuated as to have confidence in this pseudo-patriot—this trading hawker of popular grievances for his own benefit. But when famine lays a heavier hand than ordinary upon these wretched people, it is to English and to heretic generosity their cry for succour and relief will be raised—and that dreadful affliction, it appears, is coming fast upon them.—Morning Herald. The letters patent constituting the University of London have at length been issued. The University is to consist of a Chancellor, appointed for life by the Crown ; of a Vice-Chancellor, appointed in the first instance by the Crown for one year, and subsequently by the annual election of the Senate ; and of a body of Fellows or Members of the Senate, of such number as the Crown shall determine from time to time. The number of Fellows now appointed is thirty-five. These and their successors are constituted a body politic and corporate, with the usual grant of a common seal, the right of suing and being sued, Sec., under their corporate name, and that of holding personal pro perty to any extent, and real property not exceeding the value of 10,0001. per annum. This body politic and corporate is empowered to confer, after examina tion, the several degrees of Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, Bachelor of Laws, Doctor of Laws, Ba chelor of Medicine, Doctor of Medicine, and to examine for medical degrees in the four branches of medicine, surgery, midwifery, and pharmacy, charg ing reasonable fees for these several degrees. Persons presenting themselves for examination to produce cer tificates of their having gone through the proper course of study, from the London University College, King's College, or such other institutions, in any part of the King's dominions, as his Majesty by his sign manual may hereafter authorise to grant such certifi- I cates. In the case of candidates for medical degrees, the certificates of such of the medical schools of Great Britain, or even of foreign countries, as the Senate of the University may recommend to his Majesty for that purpose, are to be accepted. The Crown reserves to itself to be the Visitor of the University, with the usual powers appertaining to that office. We re fer our readers to the official document, which ap pears elsewhere, for a list of the persons who arc to constitute the Senate of this new institu tion, and we do not think we hazard much when we predict that degrees conferred by them will scarcely be regarded by the world at large as distinctions of any considerable value. Had it been the intention of Lord John Russell to constitute a club of Whigs, capable of mingling science with Liberalism in their conver saziones, the list, as it seems to us, would have been un objectionable. But, aiming at the formation of a per manent and influential national institution, he has cer tainly selected the Senate of his new University upon a principle much too narrow and exclusive to afford to the establishment the least chance of immediate success. This defect may be, and no doubt will be, remedied by some future Minister, who better understands the proper objects of such an institution, or is more sincerely desirous of pro moting them. Then, but not until then, a fair chance will be afforded to the new experiment, in its own nature sufficiently doubtful, of distributing the honours of literature and science by the hands of men of hete roffenous habits and pursuits, and linked together by no other tie than the piece of parchment on which their names are strung together. Having now said all that we think necessary upon the contents of the Royal letters patent, we cannot forbear a word or two upon the very singular epistle which Lord John Russell has had the good taste and good sense to send in company with that important public document to the noble Chan cellor of the new University. Lord John assures the noble Earl that he " shall esteem it an honourto co-ope rate in the advancement of an institution destined to confer the distinctions justly due to proficiency in litera ture, science, or art, without imposing a test of religious opinions, or binding by the fetters of the seventeenth century the talent and merit of the present en lightened age." This passage we own puzzles us ex ceedingly. Had the comparison it institutes between " the talent and the merit of the present enlightened age, and the fetters of the seventeenth century , " pro ceeded from the pen of such a man as Lord Brougham, we should at once have concluded that he meant to sneer, and the sneer would not have been ineffective, at his colleagues of the new senatus acadeinicus, the elite of Whig talent and Whig merit in " the present en lightened age." But we do not suspect Lord John of any such malicious intention, and must therefore, we suppose, charge his most unfortunate comparison to the account of sheer unadulterated silliness. " The merit and talent of the present enlightened age " may be very great, and no doubt they are, since they have permitted and enabled Lord John Russell, and men of similar dimensions, to govern nations and found Universities ; but while the present generat i on we re exulting in their superiority, in merit and talent to the fettered men of former days, it was, to say the least, very unwise or very unkind in the aut h or o f " Don Carlos" to remind us of the age in which Eng land possessed a Beaumont, a Fletcher, a J o h nson , an d a Shakspeare. " Don Carlos, it may be said, is un fairly mentioned, since the worst poet of one period should not be compared with the best poets of an other. But, if the present be an en li g h tene d age , the talent and merit of whic h transcend those of the fettered and benighted period to which the Noble Lord has so opportunely referred us, surely the superiority must be most conspicuous in the list of men selected by the State to judge of the various degrees of " proficiency in literature, science, and art," and confer -corresponding honours upon the pro ficients. We will not repeat here Lord John Rus sell's list of persons best qualified in our day to be the channels and the fountain of academic honours. We shall only say that, in our humble judgment, not withstanding the rapid and never-ending march of in tellect of which we hear so much, a list v er y near ly if not quite as good might by dilige n t inquiry have been formed in the s eventeenth century, fet tered and comparatively unenlightened as the men of that period had the misfortune to be. Dr. Barrow, or Dr. Tillotson, for example, were not, per haps, so much inferior as Lord John Russell seems to imagine to the present Bishops of Durham and Chichester. Lord Bacon, as a philosopher, and both Bacon and Coke, as lawyers---and Spelman, and Sel den, and Clarendon, and Cudworth, as politicians and as reasoners upon the character and conduct of mankind —were not much behind the position at which Lord Brougham now stands, considering at how rapid a rate the march of intellect has been going on for two centuries since their day. Nay, we question if Napier, a man of the seventeenth century, was not almost as good a mathematician as the Earl of Burlington, al though the latter was senior wrangler at Cambridge, and is now Chancellor of the University of London. We shall not fatigue our readers by seeking parallels in the dark and fettered period to which our attention has been led for the Amoses, and the Arnolds, and the Austins, and the Arnotts, and the Bacots, and the Beau forts, and the Billings, and the Clarkes, and the Daltons, and the Empsons, and the Ham micks, and the Hodgkins, and the Kiernans, who illustrate and dignify the senate of the new University. We mean no disrespect to these gentlemen, but we apprehend our readers would not follow us with patience into the obscure nooks and dark places of history which we must penetrate in order to find their fit competitors of two centuries ago. The same apology must, we fear, also suffice for the Penningtons, and the Quains, and the Rideouts, and the Simses, and the Sheepshankses ; all of whom, we doubt not, arc very respectable persons, who ought not to be neglected if we could help it. It would not do to mention in comparison with these gentlemen the single name of Boyle, for what is one name when placed in competition with so many ?—Morn. Post. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT THE CUS. TOM-HOUSE, DEC. 12. The Attwood, Strannack, from Rotterdam; Medora,Wright, Amsterdam ; Calpe, King, Gibraltar and Lisbon ; Margery, Wheatley, St. Petersburgh; Ariel, Booth, St. Petersburgh ; James Story, Lary, St. Petersburgh; Branken Moore, Ni. cholls, St. Petersburgh ; Baltic, Newson, St. Petersburgh ; Elizabeth, Smith, St. Petersburgh ; Caledonia, Whittingham, Hamburgh; Breadalbane, Morris, Faro; Liddell, Hall, Riga ; Countess, Webster, Cronstadt; Clarence, Barker, Riga ; Liverpool, Nixon, Pillau ; Samson, Sturges, New York ; Harlequin, Jones, Boulogne. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING. The Resolution, Wilson, fbr Constantinople; Patriot, Mul lins, Mauritius ; Belfast, Grant, Calais. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO. The Garryone, Hurguard, for Rio Janeiro; Alliance, Brown, St. Michael's ; Belfast, Grant, Calais ; Protector, Davison, Demerara; Marlborough, Coverly, Jamaica. CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST. The Europe, Young, for the Havannah; Harmony, Tread well, Sierra Leone; St. Charles, Laing, Calais. ARRIVALS AT LIVERPOOL, DEC. H. The Algonquin, Meirken, from Philadelphia; Canton, Melville, Quebec ; Despatch, Richebucto ; Helen, Butman, Charleston ; Ward, New Brunswick ; Idogheten, Newman ; Ware; Herald, Clark, Hondurus ; Charlotte, Fisher, Que bec; Esther, Montreal. TELEGRAPHED. Wind N. W.—Sailed from Holyhead the Cybele, for Per nambuco. Off Point Lynas, inward bound, the Esther, from Montreal. Off Voel Nant, inward bound, the Thomas Dickenson, from Savannah. We understand that, at the monthly meeting of Friends, in the meeting house in this town, on Thursday, twenty-two further resignations of members, consequent on existing differences in the body, were received. This will make the whole number fifty.—Manchester Chronicle. BOOK OF ETERNITY.—III Signor Castagnetta's' account of the Asbestos, we find a scheme for the making of a book, which, from its imperishable nature, he is for calling the " Book of Eternity." The leaves of this book were to be of the Asbestos paper, the covers of a thicker sort of the same material, and the whole sewed together with thread spun from the same substance. The things to be commemorated in this book were to be written in letters of gold, so that the whole matter of the book being incombustible and everlastingly permanent against the force of all the elements, and subject to no changes from fire, water, or air, must remain for ever, and always preserve the writing committed to it. We understand the Welsh residents in Liverpool intend holding a public meeting to petition Parliament, for a thorough reform in the Welsh Church, particularly for providing efficient Welsh pastors, a more equitable distri bution of revenues, and to better appropriate them to the spiritual and moral wants of the people. • The Welsh resi dents in Chester intend also to follow their example.— Ca rnarvon Herald. ST. JAMES'S PARK.-A great deal has lately been said of the vast and various improvements made in St. James's Park for the public convenience, and yet it is a fact that the public thoroughfare there, alcng which hun dreds of shoeless wretches are daily compelled to walk is ancle-deep in mud—for several hundred yards an all but impassable morass is presented. The Buckingham-bog, as it is now familiarly designated, is likely to kill off during the present winter a considerable portion of our redundant popu lation. _ _ The old saying, " There is a providence for a drunken man," was never more strikingly exemplified than in an accident which occurred a few nights since at one of the minor theatres, on the Boulevards. A tiler, named Duquesne, who had been sacrificing copiously to the jolly god, took his place, with a party of friends, in the third gallery, and, in striding from bench to bench, made a false step, and fell head-foremost into the pit, but fortunately on a spot unoccupied by any portion of the audience. The spectators of this frightful somerset of course expected to find the unfortunate man lifeless ; but, to their general as tonishment, in another moment he was on his legs, and as gay and alert as though he had experienced the most trifl ing accident. The physician of the theatre, who was im mediately called in, declared, after a slight examination of Duquesne, that he had suffered no injury, either internal or external.—Galignanis Messenger. (The same thing oc curred a few nights ago at Drury-lane Theatre, from the same cause, aed with an almost equally harmless result. The man, who was supposed to have thrown himself from the two-shillirg gallery into the pit, made the descent quite unintentionally. He was very drunk, and, falling from one seat to ano.her, at last bounded over, and alighted in the pit, with no other injury than putting out the bones of his ankles.) On Saturday last, at Union Hall, the Secretary to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals caused a very brutal fellow, named Josiah Hall, to be im prisoned for the space of 14 days, with hard labour, in Brixton gaol, for having cruelly beaten a poor dog with a heavy cudgel, until the animal expired under his hands. Although the offence took place ten months ago, the war rant for the offender's apprehension had been kept open against him, and on Tuesday last police sergeant P 8 suc ceeded in capturing him. The Magistrates highly ap proved of the perseverance with which the savage had been traced and brought to justice. On the same day, and before the same Magistrates, an extraordina r y ferocious looking fellow was convicted in the abominable and revolting offence of skinning cats alive. Police constable L 62 proved that the bodies of several cats were discovered close to the poisoner's dwelling ; and, on making inquiries, four skins, yet warm, were found in his possession, together with the knife stained with the blood of the tortured animals. Mr. Jeremy adverted in very severe terms on the infamy of such a calling, and told the prisoner that the next time he was brought there he might look to be severely whipped, in ad dition to imprisonment. The offender was then fined in the full penalty of 51., and in default of payment, sentenced to two months' imprisonment, with hard labour, in Kingston gaol. The society are making arrangements for the esta blishment of agencies in all the principal cities and towns in the United Kingdom, more particularly at Birmingham, Dover, Weymouth, Gravesend, and Brighton. On Thursday afternoon, between three and four o'clock, a dreadful accident happened on board the Mon trose and London Shipping Company's smack Eagle, Captain Andrew Mearns, at present lying at Downe's Wharf, Lower East Smithfield. While the crew were busily engaged. in shipping and stowing the downward cargo, a puncheon of yeast was being lowered into the hold of the vessel, in which were employed three of the seamen, immediately under the hatchway, w h en th e t ac kl e su dd en ly slipped off the winch end, and the heavy puncheon de scended quickly, and fell with great violence upon John Hanton, one of the three seamen in the hold stowing the cargo. The unfortunate man was in a stooping position It ; the time . of the melancholy occurrence , an d th e punche on s truck him on the back p ar t o f t h e h ea d, an d lit er ally c rushed it to pieces. He was, however, taken out of the hold alive, and a medical gentleman in Burr-street having speedily attended, recommended his immediate removal to the London Hospital, but he died in the hackney-coach before its arrival at that Institution. The other seamen in the hold did not sustain any injury.—Last night a Coroner's Inquest was held on the body at the London Hospital, and the foregoing facts having been sworn to by the witnesses, a verdict of " Accidental Death" was returned. The de ceased was about 24 years of age, a native of Montrose, was an excellent seaman, and his premature death is deeply lamented by Captain Mearns and the crew of the Eagle. Saturday evening police Constable Thomas Bates, 106, C division, committed suicide by cutting his throat. The unfortunate man, who was respectably connected, en tered the fore pin July, 1835. In consequence of some fa mily differences, which preyed so heavily on his mind that it brought on a fever, he was eight weeks in the hospital. On Monday he resumed duty, but was taken ill again on Thursday ; and last night he was discovered 'n bed with a wound under his right ear, which he had inflicted with a knife. He was conveyed to the hospital, where he expired at nine o'clock, LAW INTELLIGENCE COURT OF CHANCERY, DEC. 12. BUTTIVANT V. TAYLOR. In this case, which was not concluded yesterday when OUT Reporter quitted the Court, the LORD CHANCELLOR said there was no part of the practice of the Coart which should be watched with more vigilance than that which allowed a party to make half his case at first, and then, if that half failed, to allow him to produce more, or ask for an inquiry which he had not, in the first instance, thought necessary. This case was, however, not a n in s t an ce of that kind. Wartneby was brought before the Court as a person claim ing a lien on the deeds. The bill which brought him into Court prayed that the deeds might be delivered up, but it also prayed an inquiry into the grounds of the alleged lien, and into the amount of the debt. The Master of the Rolls ' had ordered the deeds to be delivered up, but excluded the inquiry. No harm could, however, result from the inquiry, while great injustice might be done if it was refused ; and his Lordship thought, therefore, under all the circumstances of the case, that Wartneby ought to have an opportunity of proving his lien if he could on an inquiry before the Mas ter ; the deeds, in the mean time, to be delivered up and deposited in the Master's office. SPENCE V. HOGG. In this case also, which was left unfinished yesterday, the LORD CHANCELLOR dismissed the appeal with costs. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, DEC. 12. WRIGHT V. WOOD. This was an action brought by the plaintiff to recover compensation in damages for bodily injuries, alleged to have been sustained by him through the negligence of certain persons employed on the defendant's premises. Shortly before nine o'clock on the evening of the 30th of March last a quantity of beer had been brought to the cellars of the defendant's house, the Anchor, situate in the parish of St. Mary-at-Hill, Thames-street, and the drays or waggons were near the house, and the draymen in the cellar, arrang ing the casks, when the plaintiff, who was an old man, in attempting to walk by the house, was thrown down upon the pavement and partially into the cellar, by ropes, as he alleged, which were depending from the dray-carts into the cellar, and by means of which the casks had previously been lowered. The plaintiff was so severely injured by the fall, especially about the hip, that he was confined to his bed for three weeks. The negligence complained of consisted in leaving the flap-doors of the cellar open, and in allowing the ropes to remain in the position described after the casks had been once deposited in the cellar.—The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 1001. EXCHEQUER COURT, DEC. 12. HARRIS V. PERRIN. This was an action against the defendant, as overseer of the poor for the parish of Greenford. The declaratio❑ stated that the plaintiff was the occupier of a house and premises in the parish, and liable to be assessed to the rates for the relief of the poor ; that the antecedent occu pier of the house had been licensed to sell beer ; and that plaintiff, wishing to have a license also, gave notice to the defendant, in order to be assessed to the rate ; but that defendant, through malice, omitted to rate her, whereby she was prevented from having a license, or making application for one. Lord ABINGEIi summed up, and the Jury found for the plaintiff, damages 201. GREGORY V. GREGORY. His Lordship said that in this case the only question was whether he ought to direct in his, decree that James Gregory and John Gregory, the trustees under the will of of an individual, also of the name of Gregory, should be charged with the sum of 7001. with interest, which it was contended they ought to have received from James Gregory the younger, their co-trustee, and whether he should direct an inquiry as to which of these sums had been lost to the estate by the wilful default of the parties who were the executors under the will of James Gregory the elder. The will gives an option to James Gregory the younger to purchase an estate called The Chequers, otherwise Pilkington Farm, which had been devised to the executors in trust to be sold for the general purposes of the will. James Gregory availed himself of this option, and conveyance was accordingly ex ecuted in 1808 of the lands in question, and on the bask of this conveyance the executors signed a receipt for the pur chase-money. In point of fact, neither of the executors received the money, but it remained unpaid by James Gre gory, - the younger, who became a bankrupt in 1816. It was contended in this case that the parties were trustees, and not executors, and that the rule of liability affecting them stood on a different ground. In the case of execu tors, if they joined in the receipt of money which might have been lawfully received by either of them, they are all liable, seeing that their joint receipt might reasonably be taken to amount to an admission of their having controul over it, and where either of them had received, and there occurred a loss to the estate, they must be all held to be equally liable. But it was not worth while to canvass the law on-this side minutely, as it did not apply to the present case. Here the receipt purported that the money was under the controul of both the executors. If one of them only had received his money, his case would be different from the other ; but here neither of them had received, and therefore both were guilty of a . breach of duty, and liable to make good the loss. He proposed, therFfore, to add to his decree a direction to the Master to inquire whe ther these things were so, and, if the facts were as sup posed, then he would charge the parties with the 700/, with interest at four per cent. NAVIES V. THOMAS. In this case the only question was, whether the plaintif: was entitled to claim a lien upon the estate of John Davies, to the amount of 8951. I Is. 5d., which estate belonged ori ginally to James Davis, and was devised to Abraham Lloyd in trust, to raise a certain amount due to David Davies, and by the will the residue was devised to the testator's chil dren. Under this power the estate was bargained to be sold by the trustees, and it was purchased by John Lloyd, for the sum of 2,042/. In 1817, by a deed of release. which recited the amount of debt and interest then due, and the other material facts, the estate was advertised by Abraham Lloyd, who was described as the surviving trustee and devisee. In point of fact, the whole purchase-money had never been paid, bnt only the amount of the debt due. The remainder, being a sum of 8951., was secured by the joint bond of John Lloyd and David Davies, and for this amount, therefore, it was clear that there was lien upon the estate. He delayed giving judgment in order that he might examine the deed. Here there was an engagement to con vey the estate to certain uses stated, and no notice was taken of the will. The decree must contain a declaration as prayed by the plaintiff for the existence of the heir, and this being the only point in dispute it was not necessary for Lim to say another word on the subject. 111ABER V. HOBBS. In this case he took time to consider his judgment, ar, the question was one of great nicety, upon which the most eminent authorities had given different opinions. The de fendant contended that the suit was defective for want of parties, inasmuch as the assignees of Hobbs, who dead , had an interest in the fund, which was the subject matter of dispute, and were therefore entitled to be heard, had not been made parties. In 1828 Mrs. Hobbs, then Miss Brook, assigned over the estate in question to certain trustees in trust for her sole and separate use and benefit, and independent of any husband whom she might here after marry. In looking at that deed he was of opinion that it contained no gift over, and it therefore followed that it did not prevent Miss Brook, prior to her marriage, from re-assigning the stock in question, nor after mar, riage did it prevent her, jointly with her husband, fron, making a similar assignment. He thought that the hus band could not set up his right, as husband, to the fund in question, nor, consequently, could his asignees, so far a the interest of the plaintiff was concerned. He was, therefore, of opinion that, subject to the claims of prior incumbrances, the plaintiff was entitled to the stock in question, and his costs must be paid out of the fund, he paying the costs of the prior incumbrances. HUGHES V. GARNER. The prayer of the bill in this case was that the defendant might be restricted from setting up as a defence at law an outstanding term, as a protection against an action of eject ment. The plaintiff claimed as eldest son and heir of James Hughes, under a settlement made before his mar riage with Alice Griffin. The defendant had purchased this estate by a subsequent conveyance, for a valuable con sideration. The rule in equity was that a person claiming under a subsequent deed could not set up a prior outstand ing term, unless he was a purchaser for a valuable consi deration, and without notice. This must be made out by the defendant. There must be a decree for the plaintiff; but, under all the circumstances, without costs. WEBB V. LU GAR. This case was brought before the Court on admissions. The only question was, whether the plaintiff was entitled to the tithes of the defendant's farm. His Lordship, after recapitulating the facts, which were of no interest, dismissed the bill with costs. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, DEC. 12. G. B. Symes was opposed in person by Mr. Arthur Rose, a drysaltnr. The insolvent had been a bankrupt and an insolvent. He was remanded for nine months, but soon afterwards ob tained his liberation. He has recently been an agent to the Portuguese Government, and employed in raisingirecruits for " Constitutional freedom." He had likewise been appointed receiver to thd Thames Association for the protection of life from steam-boats. He had contracted a debt of 471. for lead with Mr. Rose, and it was complained that he had defrauded that creditor. The Learned CHIEF COMMISSIONER adjudged the in solvent to an imprisonment of nine calendar months. The Bedouin Arabs are engaged to perform at Li ve rpool during the pr es e n t week, CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. - - - _ John Pywell, John Brown, and Charles Similar, were indicted for a conspiracy. A Mr. Kerrison, being in want of a horse, observed in the Morning Chronicle of the sth August last an advertise ment announcing some horses for sale, and which were to be seen at Lemon-tree-yard, Bedfordbury. On goinj to the yard he saw Pywell, and on the prosecutor look in g at a grey horse the defendant said that it Was the most. splendid horse in the world ; that he would draw a gig without having the bit removed from his mouth from Londoa to Brighton, and would clear all the five-barred gates on the road ; in fact, he would stop at nothing ; and if it was his horse he would not sell it under 1001. ; but h.n F,lpposed the gentleman to whom it belonged would take 701. it. On the following day he went to the stable and saw Brown, who said the animal belonged to a gentleman who was going abroad, and that if he (the prosecutor) wished to become the purchaser he could have the horse on trial for five days' for the longer be had it the better he would like it, and that no money would be wanted until the purchase was com pleted. After some conversation Brown proposed that a check for 451. should be lodged in his hands as a dormant security, and which the prosecutor agreed to. • He subse quently lodged 45 sovereigns in the hands of Brown, and they then retired to a public-house, and partook of a g lass of brandy and water, Brown stating that the money would be placed in the Bank for the benefit of some children, to whom all Bedfordbury belonged ; that he was a gurgco to the navy, and entertained the prosecutor with a narrative of his hair-breadth escapes from flood and pestilence. W hile talking Simplar came in, and exclaimed " Good God! have you bought the grey horse ? If you have you have got one of the most glorious animals in the world." He then said his name was Marshall, and could supply harness. The prosecutor stated he bad not purchased it, and it was then sent home. The Sunday following the animal was ridden by him to Laytonstone, when he was discovered to be unsound. The evidence adduced corroborated the Leatned Coun sel's statements. The Jury, after a short consultation, found the prisoners Not Guilty.—The trial lasted nine hours. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. Last evening eight young men were placed at the bar for re-examination, charged on suspicion of having been en gaged in manufacturing base coin. On Sunday week, Bal lard and other officers went, in consequence of infermation , to a house in Lascelles-place, Broad-street, St. Giles's, a°, found seven of the prisoners in a third-floor room, a nd found some moulds apparently intended for the manufacture of base coin, but no pieces of base coin were discovered. nal" lard, in pursuing a more thorough search of the premises, saw a very small ladder leading to the extreme top of the house. He ascended, and found the eighth prisoner crouched in the corner of a miserable cock loft, with scarcely any covering upon him. There was nothing about him to implicate him in the charge of coining ; but Ballard Inv; ing seen in the Hue and cry a very minute description 01 a young man who had committed an extensive robbery in the dwelling-house of Captain Hillyer, R.N., °f Wombe-hill, near Chatham, the resemblance of the pri soner to the description was so close in every re spect, that he (Ballard) was induced to write to the chief constable there. The whole of the prisoners were remanded until last evening, when they were brought 1 1 P , and Mr. Field, Inspector of the Mint, said there was not sufficient evidence to warrant a prosecution. Severe of the prisoners were consequently discharged ; but the one al luded to, whose name is John Burch, the chief constable at Chatham, and a servant of Captain Hillier identified 8 5 one of the perpetrators of the robbery. Having been posi tively sworn to he was delivered over to the Chutbam con stable, he took him away handcuffed. He said to the officer he supposed he should be " lagged" (transported). ~- MARLBOROUGH-S7'REZ7'. Brigadier-General Shaw yesterday brought John frarper, Esq., Paymaster-General of the British troops its Spain and Henry Chinnock, Esq., No. 12, Michael-place, Brolly ton, before Mr. CHAMBERS, on a peace warrant, for a con templated breach of the peace. General Shaw handed a letter to Mr. CHAMBERS, who► having read it, asked the complainant if he believed the letter was intended to provoke him to fight a duel. General Shaw replied in the affirmative. Mr. Chinnock acknowledged that the letter was in his handwriting. As the friend of Mr. Harper, he had w ritten to General Shaw, to ask reparation of an injury or to a ccede to the usual alternative. Mr. CHAMBERS stopped the parties, as they were about to enter into an explanation of the circumstances which led to the proposed rencontre, and observed that, the fact having been sworn to, all he bad to do was to call on the i m plicated parties to put in bail. General Shaw said the matter in dispute had been the subject of an action at law. He had paid tile money to settle it, and, as be considered that proceeding final, it was his intention to indict the defendants at the ensuing Old Bailey Sessions. Mr. CHAMBERS called on the defendants to put in two sureties in 1001. each, and themselves in 2001. each. The decision was immediately complied with, and the parties retired. EGYPTIANS IN ENGLAND.—Two young Egyr tians, one seventeen and the other twenty, arrived at Sheerness last week, to be instructed in the art of sail' making in the dock-yard. There have been several young men from that country receiving instructions in ship-build" ing for some years past, whose period of sojourn is drawing to a close. The progress they have made is truly asto nishing. There is a number of these Egyptian or Arab youths in this country, and in France and Holland, learn ing the various arts of civilized life. Some of them have already, leturned, carrying with them richly stored minds' Among the means most likely to add to the improvements of the natives of Egypt, we cannot but think that the ITV portation into that country of a few English ladies is 0 13 t the l eas t. S evera l o f th e y oung men h ave marr i e d i n 6' o country, who will take their wives home with them ; and' as a specimen of the march of i n t e ll ec t among th e so ns the desert, we take great pleasure in stating that ladies ar e received at court. This intelligence has been commun' cated in a letter from Mahomet Effendi, the son of a n Egyptian nobleman, who was sent over to England to be instructed in the management of a naval arsenal, and wh e i resided for several years at Port s m ou th an d Sh eerness , and returned to his native country last summer. In a l e tter lately received from him he states that his wife (an jog" lish lady) had been " presented."—Kent Herald. BILWRAORDINARY SCENE.—A little before te n o'clock on Wednesday morning a carriage drew up to th e vestry of the church, St. George's, Hanover-square, whey there alighted from it a party elegantly attired, two °r , whom were about, it was supposed, to enter into the 11 04 state of matrimony. No sooner did the supposed bride' groom (an old gentleman) make his appearance than b e was seized by the collar in the most ruffianly manner by t'° men dressed as gentlemen, who put forth all their strength* to hurry him into a post-chaise, which they had previousif kept waiting in the neighbourhood upwards of an WO . The execution of this design was, however, prevented II the lovely b r id e an d coac h man , w h o h a d near l y succe tcle; in repla c i ng th e b r id egroom sa f e l y i n t h e carriage, witeh, policeman came u p, an d th e con t en di ng part i es j o inea f , i r a the vestry tho ladies who had previously a li g ht e d. the lapse of about ten minutes they brought the old gen t 's" man out, and placed him in the post-chaise, w h er e he 1 ! as I joined by a male friend, and drove off. A s th e y boar him into the chaise he said, " They want to d' mare me sane." We understand the parties were a owl" ladau about 18 years of age, residing near Grosvenor- s quare, a venerable gentleman, of large property, in his 70th residing in the vicinity of Southall, who lately b e came e moured of his fair intended at a ball, and wh ose family hays procured a commission of lunacy against him. SECOND-HAND SILVER WATCar- 4 ': A variety of some dozens may be selected from, price Two Guilv,,,j". each ; some rather more modern, Two and a Half Guineas 01 ,1; and an assortment quite equal to new, Three Guineas each. % whole have been carefully examined, and are warranted. T. ° j c t. SAVORY, Watchmaker, 47, Cornhill, London. N.B. Seco° hand Watches purchased in exchange. BIRTHS. On the 11th inst., Mrs. James Clutterbuck, of Charterho use' square, of a son. On the 11th inst., in Arlington-street, Mrs. Beresford, of m ocit On the 7th inst., in Sebbon's-buildings , Islington, Mrs. " Styans, of a son. On the 9th inst. the lady of A. Owen, lsq•+ csf tterden, a daught. On the 10th inst., Mrs. Westall, of Guildford-street. Ru ssell - square, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 10th inst., at Il as lemere, George Ri c h ar d Griffiths, 5Cl ' to Letitia, second daughter of the late S. Chatfield, Esq. On the 10th inst. , at St. Helen 's , Bishopsgate-streJt, Edwa,r,l. Barron, Esq., to Eliza Needham, niece of Airs. Adamsr , n , of SL Helen's-place. Lain On the 10th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, Cap art the Hon. Charles Stanley, Grenadier Guards, third 1•on of the of Derby, to Frances Augusta, daughter of Lieutenant-General Slr Henry Campbell. D lED. 69• On the B th inst., at Greenhithe, Capt. T. Hill , R.N., ag---,he. B :gig: eee o dr n R,s5 e3Cv the ju 1 r. 10th ,A t i un t n c. g s k t so licitor , On the 10th inst. James Fairbank, Esq. , of Sta p le Inn, g S h ir an ß ,s o h b ir e e r , t atilareedek7ll4l.ill Russell, Bart., of .0 of On the 2d inst , at Little Barford, El izabeth, eldest (welter , aged 13. ls% London : Printed and Published by 111URDO YOUNG , ot 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112 ' Strand,in the coital of Middlesex — Tuesday , December 13, 1836.