The Sun. — London, England, 1839-11-19 00:00:00

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. (From the Morning Chronicle.) The Bishop of Exeter's charge, as revised and pub lii shed by himself, contains many passages, especially on the subject of national education, which had not ap peared in the previous reports. One of these is re markable, as showing, it may be presumed, the extreme point to which the High Church party is disposed to advance for the purpose of facilitating the settlement of this momentous question. The passage to which we refer is as follows : " For instance, to meet the most obvious case, let no child be compelled either to attend Divine Service in the Church if his parents object to it on an alleged scruple of conscience, or to learn the Catechism, or anything else to which the parent may object on a similar ground in any school maintained wholly or partially by the State." (page 38.) This statement, taken by itself, affords no answer to ' the inquiry on which its worth, as a concession, is alto gether contingent. It does not tell us by whom the schools, subject to this arrangement, are to be con trolled, directed, and superintended We will take the most favourable supposition for the public. Let the ruling agency be that, not of the Church, but of the Government which furnishes, in whole or in part, the pecuniary support. What, then, is the position in which the children of Dis senters and Roman Catholics are placed by the Bishop's suggestion ? The schools are supported by pub. I lie funds ; not by a national reserve, like the tithe, but by taxation levied equally, according to their means, on all classes of religionists. They arc as much the pro perty of one class as of another. All classes have in them their proportionate rights. The proposed inequa lity of privilege is therefore an obvious violation of the simplest principles of justice. It provides for the chil dren of the wealthiest Church religious instruction at the expense of the poorest Churches. To such rob bery, for his religion's sake, the Bishop of Exeter ex pects submission, and on it he professes to crave the blessing of heaven. If injustice be thus perpetrated on the parent s how stands the case as to the children ? A zealou s p hi lanthropy may gratu i tous l y prov id e reli gious teaching for them out of school. The unavoidable expense of this process is a further tax upon the poorer classes of r eligionists. Or the onerous duty may be neglected, and the children left solely to the education received in the school that is to say, they are either edu cated without religion at all, or the only rel Lion which they are taught is c onstantly exhibited to them in a degrad ing point of view. Isolated from the majority, banished , from the walls of the school-room, a thing almost of stealth, and evidently of bumbl e charity, there is every presum ption that it will lay little hold upo n their minds : the glar in g dis p ar ity by which i t is d egraded i will render it ine ffi cacious. A nd this is th e effect the Bishop wou ld produce on all child ren unconnected with the Church. He would abase and destroy their religious training for the worldly purpos e of exalting the comparative position of his own Church, and upholding the trappings of its temporal supremacy over all other sects and Churches. Maintaining religious instruction with in to be primarily essential , he would (for the childr e n question) keep it outside the school do or, a slave or felon badge upon its back. Truly t his is worshi p; ping the earthly superiority of th e e Established Chu rc h by a costly sacrifice of childrens ' souls. We will take the other supposition as to the direction and manage ment of the schools, and imagine them under the con trol of the clergy. This is evidently what the Bishop intends, He broadly claims for " the religion the Church of England to be the foundation of of the system of National Education in Eng land." Now if so, what else must the entire school be but ajuvente Church of England ? Its course of general instruction, its authorities, discipline, ser vices, religious teaching, direct and indirect—all will be deeply imbued with the spirit of Episcopalianism. Ac cording to the Bishop's own notions of education, even the west material sciences will be taught theologically. How is it possible for parents, in such a case, to mark a YEN IN G EDITION. smugglers. The terms, therefore, asked by the Ministers, and understood to be final, are these :- 5,000,000 dollars for the first two years ; 6,000,000 dollars for the second two years ; 7,000,000 dollars for the next three years ; and 8,000,000 dollars for the last three years. It would not be a matter of surprise here if the terms were ultimately agreed to." Three Commissioners from the States into which the Republic of Colombia was divided, viz., Venezuela, New Granada, anti Ecuador, are now sitting in London to consider what propositions shall be made to the cre ditors of the republic previous to its partition, for the settlement of their claims, only about 14 years in ar rear. There are two weighty points to be adjusted by these Commissioners ; one of which is the extent of re lief they can agree to afford to the claimants ; and the other, to obtain their assent to such offer as may be made. Their first public act has not been of a very promising nature. Finding how very slow their progress was, Mr. Robinson, the Chairman of the Committee of Spanish American bondholders, addressed a letter to each of them, intimating that applications were daily received from the bondholders for information as to the propositions to be made for the adjustment of the Co lombian debt. The following is one of the answers re ceived, the others, from Snor Fortique, for Vene zuela, and Senor Gual from Quito, being to the same tenour "1, Dorset-place, Dorset-square, Noy. 12, 1839. " Sir,—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your esteemed favour of yesterday. " In reply, I beg to inform you that the Commission appointed by the Governments of New Granada, Vene zuela, and Ecuador, for the adjustment of the Colom bian debt, is now actually engaged in its preliminary re gulations, and so soon as its labours are in a proper state of forwardness, the Commission will be happy to make the necessary communication to the parties in terested. " I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servant, I\l. M. MOSQUERA. " To G. R. Robinson, Esq., Chairman, &c." We have often said before, that all the acts of these Governments connected with the liquidation o f th e i r foreign debts have b een devised to gain time, an d t o keep Lord Palmerston and their creditors quiet. Thi s e ase may be a n exception, but at present it bears a ve ry inauspicious appearance. HERA LD.—By her Majesty's ship Pique, letters and papers have been received to-day from Quebec, with dates to the 23d of October. It appears that Sir John Colborne, who was received most enthusiastically at Quebec, is to return home in her Majesty's ship Ringdove. The merchants of Quebec had presented an address to the Governor-General, wherein, after re ferring to his former opinions on the trade of that colony, which differed materially from their own, they expressed their satisfaction at receiving him, because they never doubted but that from the moment of his undertaking the government of the colonies, his strenuous and un biassed efforts would be directed to the promotion of their interests, commercial as well as political. They then added : " We are fully persuaded that the withdrawing of that protection, hitherto afforded to the timber trade of the British North American colonies, would not only be fatal to their prosperity by destroying their greatest staple trade, and weakening the bonds that now happily unite them to the mother conntry, but also highly injurious to the empire at large. " We, therefore, confidently hope that when your Excellency's mind shall have been more particularly ap plied to this subject, you will be satisfied that it involves the question of supporting or abandoning those im portant elements of national strength, ' ships, colonies, and commerce:" This address concludes by alluding to the commercial and agricultural capabilities of the colony, and expresses the hope that though the task of developing those latent elements of prosperity, and thus establishing tranquillity under a just, firm, and steady system of government, may be difficult, his Excellency may achieve it. To which the Governor-General replied generally that he would endeavour to avail himself of all his practical commercial knowledge to advance the capabilities of the two provinces and ensure their happiness and tran quillity. The private letters state that the Governor-General will proceed to Montreal, and from thence to Toronto, in the Upper Province, in which city the seat of Go vernment will be held during the winter. All parties seem disposed to receive Mr. Poulett Thomson well, but the compliment of fixing the seat of Government in Toronto for the winter arises, it is said, from the desire to convince the inhabitants of the Upper Province of the advantages that would arise from the union of the Upper and Lower Provinces. Flour and wheat were generally deficient this year, but the two provinces had purchased largely from the United States. Trade was dull, but no political outbreak was apprehended. The new Governor-General appears to have received some strong hints as to the line of policy which the colonists expect from him, in all the addresses already presented. The Money Market continues tolerably easy at pre sent, so far as regards the discount markets ; these must, however, be governed by the rate of the pre vailing exchanges upon the Continent, which from Paris come higher, as also from Hamburg ; from Holland they come lower, but the general influence of the foreign ex changes in this market will probably be modified by the circumstance that gold is cheaper at Hamburg and St. Petersburg, and therefore the amount of silver coin here, for a short time, will somewhat tend to keep the tide of exchange in favour of this country. Operations arising out of these particular circumstances will pro bably be some somewhat supported by the anticipated imports of flour, as well as cotton, from the United States. The derangement of the United States Money Markets will tend much to nullify the latter operations collectively, because it is known that we actually do not want bread stuffs, and that we are overdone with Ame rican State loans, stocks, &c. At this moment there is tome appearance that British Securities will advance, whilst Foreign Securities and produce cannot for a time be well expected to be strongly supported by the in fluence which the operations of the public may give to the international debt of this country. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS distinct line, and say, when this is passed, the childrdn are to be withdrawn ? The distinction is impossible ; would be nugatory, if it were possible ; and is imposing a task to which the parents must in most instances be utterly inadequate. To call this proposition an offer of education to all is sheer mockery. It is like bidding a Jew to a banquet where, besides a conspicuous roast pig in the centre, every dish is garnished with sau.ages, and savours of pork. The Bishop bids him arise and eat, for it is offered to all, and he has only to leave what he cannot in conscience take. Such mockery to a Jew would be ungentlemanly ; the Bishop mocks, not Jews merely, but all Christian denominations except and that one is more dishonoured by his gibe than it would be in being the object of the mockery. In another part of the Charge (p. 30), the Bishop says, " It will not be pretended that more is de manded, on the part of the Church than that the mat ter of instruction in the national schools shall include the Bible, the Catechism, and the Prayer Book." If the High Church would stick to this statement, it would simplify the question very much indeed. But the Bishop himself does not stick to it through the length of one page. He says it simply as a contro versialist, making thereby a hit at a rival pamphleteer, and when the assertion has served its turn it is kicked out most unceremoniously. The very next paragraph i m putes folly and dishonesty to the notion of a plan of education " capable of combining all parties and all re ligions denominations." In fact, this statement,coupled with the language quoted at the commencement of the present article, would amount to a concession to the Government and the friends of National Edu cation of the main point in dispute. The two pas sages together imply the possibility of separating se cular and theological instruction, and, consequently, of the one being provided by the State for all classes, and the other devolved upon the religious teachers of those different classes, according to arrange ments made by themselves for that purpose. We can not understand the Bishop to mean that ; and we point out the incongruity as one indication among many, that he has not gone into the subject as one well skirled in the principles or details of education, and honestly anxious for its extension, but in the spirit of a political partizan, eagerly grasping a topic which may be turned to account in the warfare now waging by the High Church and Tory alliance to which he belongs. Another and more striking illustration of this spirit is found in the enormous pretension, very solemnly advanced, that the Education Grant of last Session is the exclusive property of the Church, in so far that it can only be applied to education founded on the theology of the Church of England. He charges the Committee of Privy Council, and by inuendo their Royal Mistress (pp. 33-35) with perjury, if a single shilling of that grant be touched by any save orthodox fingers. " Within this limitation (of Church of England instruc tion) they may exercise their discretion ; beyond it, if they venture to extravagate, if, for instance, they shall date to establish, with the moneys thus granted, a model school for Roman Catholics, they will become guilty of a high crime and misdemeanor ; they will place themselves within the peril of the law, from which a majority of two in the House of Commons may not always be found able and willing to bear them harmless." Hypocrite! If such were the known and inevitable re striction of the grant, why was it so fiercely opposed, and on such false pretences ? Mitred man of faction, and, if words have meanin g , in purpose man of blood, when was it ever heard of before, in christendom, or in heathendom, that to promote the instruction of the poor, the ignorant, and the erring, was a crime to call down the terrors of impeachment, and the penalties of perjury or treason ? (From the Times.) The crime of these ill-fated insurgents in South Wales being complete, there remains the punishment— a punishment, too, which must be inflicted, or there is an end of civil society in England. The crime is treason and rebellion—nothing more nor less—an attempt to sack and destroy a large portion of a populous and im portant town—an attack by fire and sword upon the Magistrates engaged in the fulfilment of their delibera tive duties—an attack upon the Queen's troops assem bled in obedience to the Magistrates, and in defence of them—an enterprise, one and only one of the meditated consequences of which was to seize on all the property of the country, to convert it to their own uses, and leave the rightful owners to starve. We shall not follow the example of Lord Normaoby, and apply small names to wholesale atrocities " Outrage" may do well enough for a novel writer, but rebellion is " rebellion" in the eyes of a Minister. Who headed the rebellion ? Frost. What gave Frost the paramount influence and authority which he exercised throughout the whole mining dis trict of South Wales ? Obviously his position as a Magistrate. And who made him a Magistrate ? Why, who but Lord John Russell ; and, what is worse, he was so made by Lord John Russell in the teeth of remonstrances addressed to his Lordship by respect able persons, who had known Frost all their lives, who were aware of his once having been a fraudulent bank rupt, and of his having for a very long period been oc cupied in schemes of violence and crime. But what was Lord John Russell's answer to such communica tions ? Did he act upon them ? Oh, yes, by alleging that he felt it his duty still to appoint Mr. Frost a Magistrate, in deference to the wishes of those in habitants of Newport who had applied in his behalf" —that is to say, of the Chartist and other conspirators, who saw a facility for their own plots in the promotion of a leader and a fellow rebel ; these men were deemed worthy of all attention by Lord John Russell, while the denunciations and dissuasions of loyal and respectable men could obtain no notice from the Queen's Home Secretary ! We see the consequence. The " Liberal" Government carried their liberality to a pitch which most reasonably and logically led the poor mountaineers to imagine that Mr. Frost, the delegate of Lord John Russell, when he spoke treason, was uttering Lord John Russell's sentiments, and had the Noble Lord's full ap probation of his schemes ! What a plight, then, must the consciences of these popularity-hunters be in, when they find themselves forced by the necessities of office, and with the eyes of all England upon them, to issue special commissions forthwith, to try and hang the dupes of their own wicked policy ! We know that the com missions must go forth—we know that some of the im mediate perpetrators of rebellion must suffer. But, good Heaven I only think, once more, what must be the feel. ings of that Cabinet which first made Frost a Justice of the Peace, not listening to any advice against the ap pointment, and next sign the warrants under which he and those duped by him, because he was a Magistrate, must undergo the doom of traitors ! If the alternative were proposed to us whether to stand at this moment in the shoes of a rebel mountaineer or of those whose Ma chiavelian selfishness and rabble courtship had first se duced and then betrayed him, we undoubtedly would not prefer the position of Lord Melbourne and Lord John Russell. (From the Morning Advertiser.) Well, the Dissenters of Leicester have met for the purpose of expressing sympathy with poor Mr. Thoro good, and raising a subscription on his behalf. And a great and glorious meeting it was—in every respect worthy of the noble, nay, heavenly, cause of Scriptural non-conformity to State religions and State Churches. Give us within the next two months a dozen such meet ings in the leading towns in England, and we pledge ourselves that before the approaching Session of Parlia ment shall have passed away, we shall not only witnesss the liberation of Mr. Thorogood from Chelmsford gaol, but the extinction of those iniquitous imposts known by the name of Church-rates, for his non-payment of which he is now suffering, and has suffered for ten months past, the pains of martyrdom. What, we should like to know, do the London Dissenters—those of them especially who, in the capacity of Members of Committees, have professedly taken the cause of the persecuted friends of religious freedom under their special pro tection—what, we wonder, do such persons now think of themselves? If they have any sense of self-respect remaining —if they be not lost to all perception of what was due to their own character as men, as Dissenters, but, above all, as Christians, they must now suffer the pangs of self-reproach at their criminal inac•ivity and criminal indifference in the case of the Chelmsford martyr, to an extent of which none but themselves can form any conception. We blush for the Metropolitan Dissenters, and especially for those who have constituted themselves the professed guardians of the interests of Dissent, when we thus see that our Dissenting friends in the provinces have been left to set the example of rushing to the rescue—or if not the rescue, to the asistance—of Mr. Thorogood from the fangs of a State Church. We beg to disclaim all indi vidual allusions in thus arraigning the conduct of per sons who have arrogated to themselves the title of the leaders and protectors of the Dissenters of England. We do not say, for we do not know, with what parti cular individuals the blame rests, of not taking any steps to alleviate the sufferings and solace the spirits of Mr. Thorogood ; what we say is, that blame of the most awful magnitude that indif ference of the most criminal and inexcusable kind, rest somewhere. It is therefore, for those who can vindicate their own characters as men, as Dissenters, and as Christians, to come forward and exonerate them selves from the charges preferred against the Com mittee of which they are members. If those who feel that the criminality does not rest with them, do not forthwith come forward and at once establish their inno cence, and publicly disavow all future connexion or sympathy with such Committees—their Dissenting bre thren will henceforth feel themselves perfectly justifie d in h o ldi ng them up as partic i pators i n t h e gu ilt of suf fering Joh n Thorogood to pine away_ in Chelmsford gaol for t en months without having made so much as one effort to without to o u e rv r a e eg l r e e ase him from his bondage. Nay, more, conveyingone sol i ta r y expression poor victim a f of honestysympathy. e Shame on th ose whose consc i ences plead guilty to this charge! What Dissenter does not blush to think that persons w ho so this could be true of c n o o n t si o d nl r y ed ela b im to be, but actually were for a tim e the guides, philosophers, and protectors e &ernDaniys , Dis senters throughout the country ? H a d t h ose Dis senting Societies in London, undertaking to lead and direct the Dissenters in all parts of the king dom, only done their duty ; had they but performed THE SUN', LONDON, TUESDAY, WOVEMBER 19, 1839. what they voluntarily promised ; had they only acted up to the principles on which they professed to be based ; had they only done this, there would have been by this time such a demonstration of public opinion in favour of Mr. Thorogood, and against the iniquities of Church -rates, as would, beyond all ques tion, have insured the liberation of the former, and the abolition of the latter in the course of the ensuing session. As it is, we do not despair of these happy re sults. If the example of the Dissenters of Leicester be only followed with that promptitude, spirit, vigour, and determination, which we confidently anticipate, then is the speedy release of Mr. Thorogood certain, and the doom of Church-rates inevitable. The Church persecutors of this noble martyr to a good conscience and a righteous cause, doubtless thought, that in consigning him to Chelmsford gaol they were consigning him to his grave. What if his dungeon should become the grave of Church rates ! Nothing could exceed the unanimity and decision of purpose which characterised the speeches and proceed ings at the Leicester meeting. All present—and as our readers must have observed from the report which ap ' peared in yesterday's paper, the meeting was at once most numerous and respectable—all present seemed actuated by one feeling of the warmest sympathy for Mr. Thorogood, and the most resolute determination to do everything in their power to diminish the pressure of his trials. There were no heartless Dissenters at the Leicester meeting ; no, nor half-hearted Dissenters either. The non-conformists of that place are non conformists ; they are in heart and soul, aye, and in practice, too, what they profess in words. How striking the contrast which they present to the London Dis senters, if we may judge of the latter from the specimens afforded us in the members of the Societies to whom we have found it necessary to make such repeated allu sions. The meeting at Leicester, taken in conjunction with its inevitable results, cannot fail to be regarded by Mr. Thorogood as some compensation for the injuries he has suffered, not only at the hands of a tyrannical Church, but also at the instance of persons calling themselves Dissenters, and who parade their professed attachment to the principles of religious liberty in speeches at public meetings, addresses at tavern din ners, and in the columns of the public journals. The lukewarmness, nay, positive indifference of the latter, must, indeed, have gone deeper into the heart of the Chelmsford sufferer, than even positive injuries inflicted on him by the High Church party ; for what can so deeply wound the susceptible heart as the coldness and the unkindness of friends in the hour of adversity ? Henceforth let us not do the Church the injustice of representing Mr. Thorogood as her exclusive vi c tim : he . is just as much, and we doubt not he considers him siders himself even more, the victim of half-hearted Dissenters as of the Church. But we turn from the ungrateful task of reprobating the conduct of a large portion of the Dissenting body, to the gratifying one of bestowing our most hearty commendation on the Dis senters of Leicester, for the noble manner in which they have acquitted themselves in the case of Mr. Thoro good. To the Dissenters in every other town of any importance in the kingdom we say—" Go and do like wise," We earnestly hope that that body in all parts of the country will arise as one man, and ,by public meetings and public subscriptions on behalf of Mr. Tho rogood, show that they are not participators in the guilt of the London Societies, and that therefore they will not submit to bear any portion of the opprobrium which they have drawn down upon themselves. (From the Morning Herald.) We said the other day that the riots of workmen at Merthyr Tydvil, in the year 1831, which led to great carnage by military execution, were of a local cha• racter, and of an unpolitical origin. A. Welch journa —the Glanzorgan and Monmouth Gazette—contradicts us, and positively states that the disturbances in ques tion were of a political and revolutionary character. We repeat our assertion that they were not. We well recollect that local, and not political, causes, were as signed, at the time, as the cause of the outbreak, one of which causes was that the iron-masters had lowered, or were supposed to be at.out to lower the wages of their workmen. Another was that they thought the Merthyr Court of Requests a grievance, and were resolved to put it down. In alluding to the revolutionary character of Frost's Chartist outbreak, the other day, we happened to say, en passant, that it was the first rebellion that had occurred in Wales since the days of Owen Glen dower, for that the riots of Mertbyr Tydvil, thougl. only suppressed by a military force, which caused great carnage, were local in their origin, and only assumed the appearance of being insurrectionary from the means taken to suppress them. We instanced only one of the causes of this local quarrel—the lower ing of wages. The thing having occurred nearly nine years ago, we had not at the moment recol lected the other local cause—namely, the hostility which, for some reason or other, the workmen had con ceived against the Court of Requests. The Welch newspaper which contradicts us in the most dogmatic and discourteous manner as to the local nature of those riots, furnishes itself corroborative proofs of the cor rectness of our statement. It admits that. wages al that period were lowered, particularly at one of the more extensive works." There was, then, a lowering of wages just about that time. Many serious local out rages have arisen from the same cause. The lowered wages of the peasantry in the south of England, in consequence of the cheapening of labour by thrashing and other farming machinery, gave rise to the " Siving riots," which preceded those of Merthyr Tydvil, and took place while the Duke of Wellington's Adminis tration was yet in existence, Many thousands were concerned in those riots, and they extended into several counties, which the riots of Merthyr Tydvil did not, and yet the " Swing riots" were not of a political nature, but connected with the lowering of wages and the use of machinery. They were in fact local outrages, wholly unconnected with any design to overturn the Government, or change the constitu tion of society. We say the same of the Merthyr Tydvil riots which took place in the following year. With regard to the merits of the quarrel we expressed no opinion whatever—we merely stated the fact of the riots not being ;like those lately headed by Frost—a po litical insurrection. The Welch journalist chooses to ex tract from the few words we wrote upon that subject an imputation of blame on one party, and an oblique ex pression of sympathy for the other. In this he only shows the liveliness of his imagination ; for, whatever we may have felt, we expressed nothing of the sort, either directly or indirectly. But, inasmuch as the Whigs threw upon the Tory Ministers all the responsi bility of the " Swing riots," we thought it fair to mete out their own measure of justice to themselves, and to hold the present Government accountable for the carnage which took place by rifle-ball and bayonet under " Whig auspices" at Merthyr Tydvil. The Welch writer having admitted that wages were lowered by the iron-masters about that time, goes on to say, " What excuse did this afford for dissatisfaction ? , None whatever. The iron trade was in a deplorable condition then, and when there is no prosperity for the masters the men can hardly look for exor bitant wages." What has this to do with the matter at issue between us ? We said not one word of the merits of the quarrel. We did not say on which side there was justice or injustice. At the same time we are free to confess we do not think working men are at any time put in particular good humour by the low ering of their wages, though, perhaps, a "philosopher" sitting at his desk might be able to give them a hundred reasons why they should be not only content but happy at finding themselves in possession of reduced means of subsistence. Now that our attention has been more particularly called to the subject, we recollect it was stated at the time that after the conflict in the town the mob, who had possession of the heights, called out to the soldiers, " Don't injure your own countrymen—we only want bread." This looked more like a " revolt of the belly" than a political insurrection. It is quite pos sible that some persons of Whig politics may have taken advantage of the riots to wreak their hostility upon some of the more prominent of their political opponents, al though the disturbances were local in their origin, and quite unconnected with political objects. The fact is, there was no Chartist organisation in Wales then, nor anywhere else—socialism had not then spread its baneful influence among the labouring classes. Nor was any one of the Merthyr Tydvil violators of the peace, at that time charged, like Frost's men, with high trea son—those who were tried, and some of whom we in terested ourselves to prevent from being hanged, were tried either far rioting or for felonious acts connected with riots, and in no way connected with treasonable proceedings. (From the Morning Post.) It is to be feared that Mr. O'Connell's manifestoes, being very long and coarse, and containing many repe titions, are not so generally read in this country as they ought to be by those who wish to knuw exactly what . Ireland suffers. Still it appears hardly excusable to re vive, after four and twenty hours' interval, his last washy and windy effusion, which contains nothing that has not been better expressed every day in the last fortnight by the Whig and Radical press, except the proposal—which, to be candid, is, as the lady in Con greve says, "agreeably impudent"—that Mr. O'Connell and the Trades' Political Union should " enable the Lord Lieutenant to send to England every soldier of the regular army now in Ireland !" There is one point, however, so strikingly and instructively illustrated in this letter that a notice of it may be worth a few lines. " Treason is abroad," says the Agitator, " and exhibits itself in open violence by one set of traitors and in unmanly and malignant calumny by another set of traitors." The first set are the Welsh Chartists, whom Mr. O'Connell excuses and flatters. If this be disputed let the epistle itself decide. The second set are the Tory party, who, it would seem, include nearly all England ; and of their late treasons the following account is given. The reader's patience is entreated for a few moments : This, as far as treason is concerned, is the epitome of f ou lest language was appli e d to the i llustr i ous s h . .o re igns over these realms—l anguage almost un fi t ecstews and certainly unfit fo r any other locality. theLa for Lady fyha Thewt 2. To such vile language were added distinct threats of assailing the Throne, and expelling the Sovereign—that is, in other words, of committing high treason. 3. This traitorous conduct was displayed by men in the rank, though without the manners, of gentlemen; was supported and applauded by many beneficed clergymen of the Established Church ; was listened to with approbation by officers of the Queen's army, of various grades ; cheered to the echo by baronets, and knights, and country squires in a mass, or rather in a mob. 4. This exhibition is the act of a great party It is not an isolated fact. It is a fact of a family. The creed and conduct of the Tory party is thus announced. Here they are "in flagrante delicto." That which the press of that odious faction has been for some time past c)vortly insi ❑uating is now publicly disclosed. Tory treason stands forth in all its atrocious deformity. After some more paragraphs, containing the modest proposal before adverted to, the Precursor continues : But one thing is absolutely necessary—there must be an immediate investigation into the conduct of the military at the two seditious and traitorous meetings. Lord Hill can not refrain from investigating the facts ; and if it shall be proved or admitted that there were officers present at the treasonable language of the ruffian Bradshaw, at Canter bury, then Lord Hill will be guilty of dishonourable faithlessness to the Queen unless these officers be instantly cashiered. So at Ashton—if it be true that Colonel Thomas was present at the rabid malignity towards the Queen of the miscreant Roby—especially if it be true that he (Thomas) was so stupidly wicked as to say that the British army is a partisan army—that they are partisans against the Queen's Government, and in support of the statesmen who would so enslave the Queen as to deprive her of the power of selecting the ladies of her bedchamber—if Colonel Thomas was wicked enough to say any thing like what is attributed to him by the public papers—why, in that case, Lord Hill would himself be a traitor to the Crown and the country unless he instantly dismissed Colonel Thomas from a service of which, in the case supposed, he would be a dis grace, and of which in no case is he an ornament. Exquisitely characteristic conclusion ! Now to the application. Why all this barking under the windows of Lord Hill ? Why do Mr. O'Connell, and the few who somewhat resemble him, pursue the Commander in-Chief with these miserable urgencies ? Mr. O'Con nell, at least, is a lawyer. Let him answer. Have the " ruffian Bradshaw" and the " miscreant Roby" com mitted treason or not ? Have they, and the gentlemen who dined with them, held seditious meetings ? The facts are notorious ; never was proof more easly at tainable. As to the words spoken, it is needless to dis pute with Mr. O'Connell about the etiquette of the stews ; but that which was really said may be proved by a crowd of witnesses. The parties implicated are known and not beneath notice. If crimes have been committed, never were crimes more fit for public animadversion. Why, then, do not her Majesty's servants of the Home Department at once grapple with these trea sons, by enforcing the law against the principals ? Why does not Mr. O'Connell, from one end to the other of his epistolary tract, suggest one syllable in fa vour of such a course ? If Ministers think of these matters as Mr. O'Connell writes—nay, if he himself so thinks of them—they, and not Lord Hill, are guilty of " dishonourable faithlessness to the Queen" while such measures are omitted ; they, not the Commander in -Chief, are the " traitors to the Crown and the country." Must an army be sent from Ireland to suppress treasons and seditions where not even an individual has been bound over to the Quar ter Sessions ? Must Lord Hill exert an odious summary authority against minor offenders (as suming them to be so) when the Queen's pretended champions dare not face the principal cul prits before a Jury ? Lord Hill is a man of sense as well as honour, and when he sees all these very loyal personages so cautious of putting their hands to the fire, he may perhaps question the propriety of allowing his own high office to be made what would vulgarly be called their cat's-paw. It is unnecessary to add that Mr. O'Connell and the rest know perfectly well that there is no treason or sedition in the case—that there is scarcely a man in England (perhaps not even the wretched Chartists themselves) who meditates any wrong to her Majesty's sacred person, to the purity of her character, or to the stability of her throne. Individuals may use intemperate phrases ; but Mr. O'Connell is not squeamish about that. The true complaint is, that men have impeached the purity of some Noblemen who are too much at her Majesty's side, and this is " called lan guage almost unfit for the stews ;"they have proclaimed the inextinguishable hostility of the English nation to Popery, and this called " assailing the Throne." Let Mr. O'Connell be assured that, without transporting any army from Ireland, there is loyalty enough, and manhood enough, in England to protect the Queen ►gainst all her enemies, even if that body should include himself and his " 500,000 fighting men." FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. (From the Globe.) It is possible for the Tories to rrrest the progress of sound measures through Parliament—but it is clear that they cannot arrest the progress of public opinion in the country. To us it appears that every week of this recess is of the highest value to the Ministry. Their own judi cious administration of the executive, and the violent ravings of their adversaries, are making their due impres sion on the public mind. At the close of the last Ses ' sion it was undeniable that the divisions in the "...lberal ranks threatened serious disasters to the party. On the one hand, timid persons were getting frightened at the follies of the Chartists, in which they chose to implicate the Liberals generally, and the Government ; and on the other hand, some Liberals were becoming impatient at what they considered the lukewarm libe rality of the Ministers, and the non-adoption of either their favourite leaders or principles. We think that both of these sections have been greatly conciliated by the late measures of the Government. The vigorous steps which they have taken against the Chartists imme diately that vigour was called for, prove to the greatest alarmists that the public peace is in very good keeping ; and those who some time ago were shocked at the vio lence of the most indiscreet of the Liberals, are now beginning to discover that the Ultra-Tories, who are the most active and influential section in that party, are talking, and, moreover, are prepared to act, with infinitely greater violence. (From the Courier.) From accounts which have reached us we find that no more than from 500 to 600 men joined the Newport rebels from Merthyr Tydvil, of whom not more than 100 were armed. That town, the grand focus of Chartism, and, numerically at least, its head quarters, remains quiet. After the failure of Frost's attempt, some dis orderly meetings took place indeed, but the infatuated people were emphatically bid by their leaders to " gome home and be quiet ; our friends at New port have jumped over the hedge too soon." The general language of the leaders, it is fair to say, has, outwardly at least, been dissuasion from open violence, and confidence in the moral and imposing force of union. It would not be well, however, to repose faith in evidence so equivocal of peaceful intent ; the existence of the Char tist union itself is the great evil to be struck at and eradi cated. At the time of the assault on Newport, and whilst the people of Cardiff, a few miles distant only, were an ticipating and preparing for a similar visitation of the rebels, a creditable instance of good feeling and prompt, resolution occurred, which, to the credit of our Ameri can brethren, ought to be, although it has not yet been, recorded. Captain Foulger, with twelve of the crew of the United States' merchant ship Warsaw, lying in the port, volunteered their services, and actually took charge of some light pieces of artillery from the castle to work them against the insurgents. Of course their services were fortunately not wanted, but the good will , was the same. (From the Standard.) It has been stated to us, upon authority which we consider entitled to respect, that Lord Melbourne has, within the last few days, communicated to a dis tinguished Conservative nobleman his determination to retire from office before the meeting of Parlia ment. We have no means of ascertaining whether the retirement of his Lordship (supposing him to have deter mined upon it) is to be single , laavinm the Premiership vacant for Lord Durham or Lord "Normanby, or to be accompanied by the resignation of the whole Cabinet. The solution of this question is, however, in our judg ment, of less moment, because, whatever Lord Melbourne may have said in the supposed co mmunication, experience of his Lordship's prac tice would teach to believe the opposite of it ; and otherwise there is no reason to expect that Lord Melbourne or any other of the Ministers will retire until he is actually turned out. The truth is, they cannot afford it. There is not one among them, ex cept Lord Lansdowne, Sir J. Ilobbouse, and perhaps the Chancellor, to whom the loss of salary and the loss of the wages of a wife or sister, quartered upon the public, would not cause a melancholy difference in his mode of living --not one, with the exceptions named, to whom even a quar ier's official emolument is not a vital object. Why, then, should they resign ? LEITH MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY. — On Thursday a few of the friends of Mr. Thornborrow, Manager of the Forth Marine Insurance Company, entertained that gentleman at dinner in l‘l'Dougall's Hotel, where the evening was spent with much hilarity. It is somewhat astonishing that in a sea-port town of such magnitude as Leith, and where so much capital is embarked in shipping, that an insurance company against sea risks should not have been established long ere this. Under the impression that such a Company would n o t only be accom mo d a ti on to the public generally, b u t would also remunerate those who embarked their capital in it, a few spirited individuals, upwards of six months ago, started the Forth Marine Insurance Com pany,,and wer e so f ortuna t e as to secure t h e services of Mr. Thornbo rrow , th e p ro jector of the lame Insu rance Company of London, under wh ose j udicious ma nagement the Co m p an y h a s not only neve r m et with a single loss, but such is the confidence of the public in Mr. Thornborrow's management, that the whole of the shares of the Company's stock have been taken off, and latterly part have changed hands at a premium of 30 per cent. The clauses introduced in the policies of this Company are justly appreciated by all shipowners. --Edinburgh Courant. A FAST ONE.—A person named Nash, living at Haddenha:n, has a pony whiih last Wednesday did forty miles in three hours and six minutes, without ap pearing distressed.—Aylesbury News. LAW INTELLIGENCE. common occurrence for years, and he was not at all \ aware that it was an ille . gal proceeding. Tile defendant was th en fined in the same penalty as in the former case. COURT OF CHANCERY, Nor. 18. GOMPERTZ V. ANSDELL. The arguments in this case having occupied the time OOB.O of the Court sor 6 days, were brought to a close to-day. CO Ty co LSI tT OF REQUEST S. The LORD CHANCELLOR would look into the papers before he gave judgment. " ORNITHOLOGICAL C-SEARCHES."—Mr. Commis sioner Dußois was for some time occupied in deter mining the right of one . John Simpson to half-a-crown, claimed by him from Tho aias Sherrard. The blue sleeves, sleek aspect, itod greasy hair of the complainant, indicated the Smithfield butcher ; while the bottle-green Newmark-et coat, knobbed switch, and top boots of the defends nt, proclaimed with no less accuracy the London " h orse chaunter." Both pos sessed that peculiar look a rid bearing which would be sufficient to deter any person possessing a reasonable stock of worldly nous, from trusting the first with either live or dead mutton, or b uying a horse on the recom mendation of the latter. Mr. Commissioner Dtino;s— How was this debt in curred ? Plaintiff—l sold him a hen, your Lordship, in the Blue Lion. His boy fetched the fowl off of my premises, and when I asked for the money three weeks arterwards he denies ever having had the hanimal. Mr. Commissioner Dußois—Well, what have you to say to this, defendant ?—" The plaintiff ony summoned me for a lark, your Lordship." Mr. Commissioner DUBOIS—For a lark —no, its for a hen, as I understand. Defendant—l means as it's vot ve calls a lark—out of gammon. You see this here's the s;ittyvashion of this here affair. Ve vas in the Blue Lion having a pint and screw together. I says says I " I've got a Malay cock ;" and be says says he " I've got a Malay hen."— "WI you deal ?" says he. " Vots the ticket ?" says 1. " It's your'n for three bob," says he, " and I'll spend a tanner." " Half-a-crown's the money," says I. " Done," says he. " Done," says I, " and let's have in the heavy." Yell, I sends my boy for the hen and he goes and puts it to roost with my cock. But my cock druv the hen slap avay, cause it warn't no real Malay, but only a reglar dunghill. Ven I diskiver'd the pater of the bird, I sends my boy back vith it, and he puts it down jest vere he took it up from. Mr. Commissioner Dußois (to plaintiff)—Did you receive back the hen ? Plaintiff—Never sot eyes on it arter I'd delivered it to his boy. Defendant—l say you did. Vy, the bird vas seen seen about your place for veeks arterwards, and that I'll take my oath on. Plaintiff-I'll bring a man who's vord is better than your oath to prove as you had the hen biled vith a fine of pork for you and your vife's supper Defendant—And as for your oath, vy its as good as your vord, an' I'd as soon take von as tither—over the left. A sagacious looking Juryman, with a very red nose peeping through the bridge of a pair of polyscopic spectacles, intimated a wish to put a question. " After the hen was returned," said the Juryman, " did you see it in its haunts ?" Plaintiff—lts aunts, vy I never know'd it had any, cause I bought it a chicken. The Juryman framed his question this way :—" Was the hen seen in its usual places of resort after the boy brought it back ?" Defendant—Yes, and its in the plaintiff's premises now. ' Mr. Commissioner Dußois—Then go and take it. The hen is your property. Defendant—" Faint a Malay, it's ony a dunghill, and so I didn't vont it. The Jury thought differently, and they found a ver dict for the plaintiff. The defendant made as much expedition as he could out of Court, and in a few minutes lie returned. Defendant—Been arter the hen, your lordship, and VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT. BENTLEY V. FOSTER-COOPER ' S NOVELS V. " THE NOVELIST." The Court was occupied up to the period of its rising with the arguments in this case, which came before his honour the Vice Chancellor upon motion to dissolve an injunction granted by the Master of the Rolls during the long vacation, restraining the defendan's from print ing and publishing in a pamphlet, called the Novelist, a romance, or any part of it, written by Mr. Cooper, the celebrated novelist, entitled " The Headsman," the publication of which was alone in the plaintiff by virtue of an agreement entered into between him and Air. Cooper. The arguments, at half-past 3 o'clock, were postponed till to-morrow (this day), when we shall enter more fully Lao the case. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 18. CELEY V. ELLISON. Mr. Serjeant WILDE moved for a rule to show cause why the venue should not in this case be moved from Lincolnshire to Middlesex. The parties lived in Lin coln, and were violent political opponents. The de fendant had met plaintiff on his (defendant's) grounds, and had quarrelied with him, assaulted him, and wounded him in the arm with a sword, which he had with him ; he afterwards alleging that he did not know plaintiff, and thought he was a poacher. The action was to recover compensation for the severe injuries the plaintiff had sustained. The provincial press had taken the matter up, had excited great prejudice against plaintiff, creating an impression that it had served him right, and bringing the farmers to believe that he was their enemy, being opposed to the Corn-laws. The farmers would form the principal portion of the Jury in the country, and therefore, the plaintiff wished the cause to be tried in London. The farmers had dis persed cards in the corn markets, describing plaintiff, " Silly, the landowner's enemy." The Court granted the rule nisi. (Sittings at Nisi Prius before Mr. Justice ERSKINE and a Common Jury.) LYNDUS v. BULLOCK. This was an action for a false arrest. The parties were connected with stock-broking, and the case for the plaintiff was, that he had been arrested by defendant, who obtained the warrant from a Judge b y swearing (as under the new law is requisite) that he believed plaintiff was about to g 3 to the Continent. This plaintiff alleged to have been utterly false and malicious, and that there was no probable cause for the arrest. Oa that, issue was joined. Mr. HILL was for the plaintiff, and called a Mr. Hayman, a doctor, who attended plaintiff, and who stated that on the 16th August he was in the plaintiff's house and heard the defendant and a Mr. Bailey, a friend, ask after Mr. Lynch's. Mrs. Lyndus replied that he was gone to Gravesend, and would be back that night or next day. Mr. Sergeant STORKS, who was for the defendant, made an amusing speech, and called a Mr. Bailey, who distinctly swore tat Mrs. Lyndus had said her husband was gone, or going, to the Continent. The Learned JUDGE left it to the Jury to decide on the credibility of the witnesses. The Jury found for the defendant. BAIL COURT, Npv. 18. (Before Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE.) M?ORTANT APPLICATION AGAINST THE SHERIFF OF they von't give it up. Mr. Commissioner DUBOIS—Why ? Defendant— Cause they say they've got a Iron on it for three weeks' wittles. Mr. Commissioner Dusois—l'm afraid I cannot assist you. The defendant scratched his head, evidently quite satisfied that for once in his life he had been done. MIDDLESEX.-STOCKDALE V. FIANSARD. Mr. PLATT applied to his Lordship for a rule to compel the Sheriff to return the writ of inquiry in this case to the attorney for the plaintiff. Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE—There never has been an application to compel a Sheriff to return a writ of inquiry. Mr. PLATT said the Sheriff was an officer and minis ter of the Court, and their Lordships might at any time rule him to perform his duty. Such a case, perhaps, had never risen before. A Sheriff had not been so tried in the execution of his duty. He wished to have the authority of the Court for so doing, and he (Mr. Platt) apprehended that the only mode of compelling him to do his duty was to apply to the Court for a rule, commanding him to return the writ, and if he dis obey ed, of course an attachment would lie. The plain tiff was without any remedy, unless his Lordship granted the rule. In the Exchequer there was a case in which a rule had been made, calling upon the Sheriff to return a writ of trial which he had kept back on the ground of one of the witnesses being indicted for perjury, and the Court said the Sheriff had only to perform his duty, that when a writ was, directed to him it was his duty to re turn it, that he was a mere minister of the Court, and ought to be obedient to the writs of the Court directed to him. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. John Henry, described as a clerk, was yesterday brought before Mr. HALL, charged with robbing Mr. Jabez Poulson, a jeweller, residing in Whitcomb -street, of a gold watch, a small sum of money, and three gold rings. The prisoner was also charged with ex torting a sovereign and other monies, under a threat that he would accuse the prosecutor of a nameless offence ; and James Taunton, an eating-house keeper, in Great Peter-street, Westminster, was charged with aiding and abetting in the robbery. The prosecutor stated, that on the evening of the 30th of September, as he was returning home from his employers where he had been at work, he stopped to examine some books that were exposed for sale in St. Martin's•court, when the prisoner Henry came up and made some observation about the cheapness of them, and as he proceeded home, the prisoner accompanied him to the door, conversing with him all the way. On the next night he was again accosted by the prisoner in a more familiar manner, and not wishing to stop at his residence, as he did not know him, witness continued with him until they had passed Westminster Abbey, when the prisoner said he wanted to call and see how a friend of his got on who had lately taken a house in Great Peter -street, requesting that he would accompany him. Witness agreed, and they had no sooner entered the house than the prisoner collared him, saying, " Now I have you in my power, and I shall accuse you of a nameless offence unless you give me whatever you have in your pockets," at the same time thrusting his hand into his pocket and taking out whatever money he had. He then seized his watch, and pulled the rings from his fingers, and hearing a noise at the back window the other prisoner instantly •made his appearance, de manding to know what was the matter, but not attempt ing to render any assistance. The prisoner Henry said he had got ab- b-. Witness was then thrust out of the house, and heard nothing of the prisoners until last Friday, when the prisoner Henry again came to him. YV Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE—You have an affidavit of being refused, have you ? Mr. PLATT—Oh, yes, my Lord. Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE—WiII you read the affidavit ? Mr. PLATT then read the affidavit, which, after setting out the issuing of the writ and the finding of the jury, stated that the Sheriff had been applied to to re turn the writ, and have the costs taxed, but that he had refused so to do, and giving as a reason that Messrs. Parkes and Preston had served him with a notice to that effect. There was an averment in the affidavit to show that Messrs. Parkes and Preston were not the attorneys in the cause, and had nothing to with it. Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE (after having consulted with the other Judges) said Mr. Platt, you may have your rule to return the writ.—Rule absolute granted. JURISDICTION OF THE WESTMINSTER COURT OF REQUESTS. MARMION V. LADY FANNY PARKER. Mr. JERvis appeared on behalf of the Commissioners of the Court of Requests, Westminster, to show cause why a writ of prohibition should not issue to prevent them from further proceedings in the cause between Anthony Marmion and Lady Fanny Parker. The case possessed no public interest, and the argu ments rested chiefly on the jurisdiction of the Court of Requests. Mr. JAMES, who argued in support of the rule, sub mitted that the Court of Requests had no authority to adjudicate in such a case as the present, which was not a debt, but a compensation for his attendance as a wit ness ; and that the parties had a right to take proceed ings after sentence. His LORDSHIP considered this a case of some import ance, and took time to consider. Mr. HALL observed that it was nearly two months back that the robbery occurred. Witness said he was so terrified at the crime with which Henry threatened to accuse him, that he did not know what steps to take. Mr. HALL said it was much to be regretted that there had been such a delay, and inquired how the prisoner knew his place of abode ? Witness said they must have watched him home and conside'red he was a man of property, and he was quite certain there were others not in custody concerned in the matter. Witness then said that he had not again seen the prisoner until Friday evening last, when he accosted him in a familiar manner, and upon his seeming not inclined to have any thing to do with him, the pri soner desired that he would not be alarmed, saying that he could get the man from Westminster to swear to any thing he wished him to say. Witness appearing agitated, the prisoner again desired he would not be frightened, as he was obliged to get his living by accusing persons in the same way, although he knew he could be trans• ported for it, but he had no trade or friends ; and he could not help it. Witness then gave him a shilling and some halfpence, and, upon his repeating his threats, he promised to give him a sovereign if he met him on the next evening. The prisoner then said he should have money, as witness's masters were rich, and lie had nothing from the things which lie took from him in Westminster, only the watch and the rings, which he pawned for ss. each, being obliged to hand over the rest to the other prisoner, for what he was to do for him. EXCHEQUER CHAMBER. LIABILITY OF PUBLICANS.-ADAMS V. HUMPHRISS. In this case the Jury returned a verdict for the de, Pendant. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' OOURT, Nov. 18. AN OLD PRISONER.—George Murrell, an elderl) man, was opposed by Mr. Woodroffe, on the part o Henry Cowper, Esq., banker, at Chichester. This insolvent, wno had been a maltster, in Hamp shire, had been in the Fleet Prison since 1824—nearly sixteen years. Mr. Comper had advanced 3001. on mortgage, and was the detaining creditor ; he had, how ever offered to discharge the insolvent provided he would execute a deed to sell the equity of redemption. He had refused, and the Warden had brought him up, being anxious for his departure from his old quarters. Mr. Woodroffe stated the case. He said Mr. Cowper, who was a highly respectable man, and felt aggrieved at the allegations set forth in the schedule. The insolvent amended his schedule and was dis charged. He left his old quarters with great re luctance. Mr.H ALL inquired if the property had been recovered? Witness—Never, and having appointed to meet the pri soner on the following evening to give him a sovereign I communicated the entire circumstance to my employer and shopmates, by whom I was advised to m ar k a sove reign, and after giving it to the . prisoner, to h a v e a po liceman in attendance, to take him into custody, which I did, at the corner of Bow-street. The other prisoner was apprehended on Sunday in his house at Westminster. David Cooper, 125 F, who took the prisoner Henry into custody, proved that he found the marked sovereign produced in his pocket. Mr. HALL asked—Did the prisoner Taunton assist the other in the robbery ? The prosecutor said he did not, but on his pretending to go for a policeman, the other prevented him, and desired him to let witness go away. Mr. Vies, one of the prosecutor's employers, said that he had been many years working for the firm, and he was always found to be a man of c orrect moral habits. He was a married man, and had buried his wife almost a year back, and he was respected by every person in the establishment. The prisoner Henry said that he had sold a w a t c h to the prosecutor, which he was to pay for by enstal ments of five shillings per we ek q , u a e n st d io h n is as fa p il a in r g t p to ay d m o e s n o t: b as e i g i e a himv h e ad th r t e h a e te s n o e v d e s overeign s n um in mons him. The prosecutor declared that he never had any trans action of the kind with the prisoner, who was a total stranger to him. The prisoner Taunton said that hearing a noise in the house he went in, and seeing the scuffle he offered to send for the police, but h . e knew n o thi ng o f t h e rob bery, and, as he had onl y just commenced business, he hoped he might be admitted to bail. Mr. HALL refused to accept bail, and as he con sidered it was necessary to go further into particu lars, the prisoners should be again brought up in aweek. We regret to learn that Mr. Alfred Montgo mery, who is known to the public as the innocent in strument recently employed to procure, by anticipa tion, post obit notices of Lord Brougham from our London Contemporaries, has himself since become an actual party t o a tru l y l amen t a bl e ac cident. Whilst shooting at Levermere, in Suffolk, the seat of Charles Martyn, Esq., the gun of Mr. Montgomery went off, and shot away the hand of his loader. Little hopes . are entertained of the recovery of the unfortunate suffLrer. —Observer. CROYDON PETTY SESSIONS. (Before D. R. WARINGTON, Esq., Chairman, and a ful _ _ Bench of Magistrates.) A question of very great importance as affecting the interests of licensed victuallers throughout the country, was yesterday brought before the notice of the Bench. A person named Robert Hughes was charged upon an Excise information with having sold, at the parish of Croydon, one-eighth part of a pint of brandy, without a license, whereby he had forfeited a sum not exceed ing 50/. The defendant pleaded guilty to the charge of selling the spirits, but said that he had no intention of defrauding the Excise. Mr. Barnard, the supervisor of Excise for the Croy don district, explained that the present information had been laid by order of the Board of Excise, with a view to put an end to an illegal system that had been going en for a length of time, by the improper use that was made of the spirit licenses granted to the different licensed victuallers of the district. It had been the custom upon the occasion of a fair taking place, for the publicans to sell spirits to the booth-keepers, and lend them their licenses, imagining that they were a sufficient authority for retailing those spirits in the booths in the fair. This proceeding being, however, altogether illegal, the Board had directed the present information to be laid against the defendant, and several other persons, who sold spirits under these circumstances at the last Croydon fair. The BENCH said that every one of those persons who did sell spirits under such circumstances, were liable to a penalty, and inflicted a mitigated penalty of 121. 10s. Another information for a similar offence was then heard against a person named Thomas Arridge. The defendant admitted that he sold the spirits, but said at the time he did so he held a spirit license. The MAGISTRATES said if he produced his license, of course there would be an end of the matter. The defendant said it was not his own licence, but a licence that was lent by Mr. M artin, of the shi p , Croydon. Mr. Martin, on being sent for, admitted that he had lent his license, but said this w as a proceeding of very EVENING EDITION. SPORT IN ,IGENCE. TATTERSALL s—YEsTEnnAr. THE DERBY. Business yesterday afternoon was the reverse of brisk, nor were there many changes in the odds, the favourites, as before, being in a cluster. Wardan just had the call, and no more, Muley Ishmael and the Angelica colt following close at his back, with little or nothing to chose between them. Launcelot was backed once at 20, and afterwards at 18 to 1, the latter being the offering price at the close. Brother to Euclid was in some favour; 22 to 1 was betted once, but at the finish no one offered more than 20 to I. A few others were backed without leading to any alteration worthy of notice. CLOSING PRICES. 13 to I agst Lord Exeter's lot—taken 17 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Wardan 18 to 1 agst Lord Orford's Angelica colt—taken 18 to 1 agst Lord Jerse} 's Muley Ishmael 18 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Launcelot 20 to 1 agst I)uke of Cleveland's Brother to Euclid—taken 25 to 1 agst Mr. Robinson's St. Andrew 27 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Glenorchy 30 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Lucetta colt—taken 33 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Molyneux 40 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Gambia—taken 40 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinek's Grey Milton—taken 1000 to 15 agst Lord G. Bentinck's May Boy—taken 500 even between Angelica and Launcelot, and 2,500 be :wren Grey Milton and Fitzroy—taken. THE OAKS. 4 to 1 agst Lord G. Bent hick's Crucifix } taken in one lot 12 to 1 agst Duke of Grafton's Currency 15 to 1 agst Mr. Greatrex's PQcohontas—taken. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Baron Rothschild's staghounds will meet on ednesday, at 111cntmore—at half-past eleven. The Cheshire hounds Wednesay, at Banbury Heath ; Thursday, at Wrenbury Kennels ; Saturday, at Ravensmoor Windmill—at half-past ten. The Berkshire hounds Wednesday, at Stadhampton Gate; Friday, at. Kingston Inn. The Pue";eridge hounds Wednesday, at Manuden ; Satur day, at Waikern. The Earl of Harewood's hounds Wednesday, at Clifford Moor ; Friday, at Deighton Bar—at half-past ten. The Eddlethorpe hounds Wednesday, at the Windmill, Stockton Eorest ; Friday, at IN orth Grimston—at ten. Colonel G. Wyndham's hounds Wednesday, at Ides Common ; Friday, at Waltham Park—at half-past eleven. The Duke of Beaufords hounds Wednesday, at Trouble House ' • Friday, at Petty Erance ; Saturday, at the Bell Inn, Old Sodbury—at half-past ten. Mr. Alorgan's houndsiWednesday, at South Wood—at ten. The Vine hounds Wednesday, at Paul's Wood; Friday, at Chinham—at eleven. The Perthshire hounds Wednesday, at Argaty; Friday, at Ardoch—at a quarter-past ten. The Eamon harriers Wednesday, at Newton ; Saturday, at Carleton at ten. The Lancaster Union harriers Wednesday, at Caton ; Fri day, at Hest Bank—at ten. The Norfolk foxhounds Tuursday, at Duker's Bridge ; Satur day, at Thornage Mill—at half-past ten. Mr. Archer's hounds Thursday, at Cross, near Lifton—at half-past ten. The Cambridgeshire hounds Friday, at Tetvvorth—at half past ten. Mr. Fane's harriers Thursday, at Watlington ; Saturday, at Ipsden Mr. Giles's hound, Thursday at Highman—at ten. The U. P. hounds Friday, at Lemon House—at eleven. Lord Elcho's hounds Wednesday, at Choice Lea; Thursday, At Ladykirk Village ; Saturday, at Ayton—at half-past ten. Sir George Cope's hounds Wednesday, at Burghfield Scrubs; Friday, at Mapledurham ; Saturday, at Hartley Row Turn pike—at half-past ten. The Swansea harriers Friday, at Rhyd-y-pandy—at eleven. The Whitehaven harriers Wednesday, at Keckle Bridge ; Friday, at Linethwaite—at half-past nine. The Plymouth harriers Wednesday, at Plymouth Inn, Ridgeway. IWyndham's hounds Wednesday, at the London Elm ; Friday, at Fonthill Abbey—at half -past ten. The Y. H. Thursday, at Upton Gate—at ten. Mr. Farquharson's hounds Wednesday, at Ashley Wood. The Charborough hounds Friday, at Bloxworth Down. The Carmarthen harriers Friday, at:Glanwilly Gate—at ten. The Tivyside hounds Thursday, at Blarn-y-ffos—at ten. The Pembrokeshire hounds Thursday, at Hill Mountain—at ten. The H. H. Thursday at Candover Church ; Saturday, at Illstield Down—at half. past ten. The Hambleton hounds Wednesday, at Westbury House ; Friday, at Stoke Park—at half.past ten. ' The N. F. H. hounds Thursday, at Hale ; Saturday, at the Royal Oak, Tritbam—at ten. Earl Fitzwilliam's hounds Wednesday, at Stanwick Pasture; Thursday, at Walcot— at ten. The Northumberland and North Durham hounds Wednes day, at Coupland Gorse ; Friday, at Pallinsburn ; Saturday, at Wark—at half-past ten. The Earl of Yarborough's hounds Wednesday, at Riby Cross Roads' . ; Friday, at Croxby Village—at eleven. THE MA RKETS.-(YESTERDAY.) IMEA D. le Metropolis is lOyid. for the 41b. 9d, , SEE , S l;er Quarter. I k St. oin 45; 68. Rye Grass --s. 40s. 44.. I"..icey Grass —s —s. Linseed, for feeding —s. 4hs. 52'1 Ditto, for sewing —s. 545. 56. , IDitto, for crushing —s 425. 465 'Canary —s 70s. SOs Hemp —s. 33s 40s. T'er Bushel. White Mustard-11s. 04. 14s. Brown Ditto I ss. Od. 19:. Od Tares ss. 6d. 7s. 6d at) 281. 31/. Foreign 261. 26i. LEATHER. PRICE The highest price of Bread in ta Loaf. Good Bread may be had at ! PRICES OI Per Cwt. New English Red C10ver...556. 90s Old Ditto Ditto —s. —s. —s New Foreign Ditto —s. L6s. 30s. Old Ditto Ditto New White Clover 503. 655. 70s. Old Ditto Ditto New Trefoil •—s, ISs. 303. Oki Ditto —s. 12s. ‘2:23. Trefoil= s 286 3 0 s English Carraway —s. 523. 56i. Foreign Ditto —s. 50s. 56s Coriander —s 20s. 255, Rapeseed, English fine (per La PRICES OF Per lb. d. to d. Horse Hides, Cerrnan l2 22 Spanish 13 24 Calf Skins,3o to 4olb.(doz) 15 22 10 50 --50 60 ... ---—7 O 100 Seal Skins, large... I- 5ma11.... Kips Basil5... Bellies 1 0; Shoulders i 2d. to CI. por lb. more. OF Per lb. d. to d Crop H ides,3o to 401 b. each 11 131 40 50 l2 16 ----LC/ 60 l3 18 Bull Hides ... . Butts, V triol - English .... 15 24 Foreign Foreign Hides Dressing Hides ... 11 14 --Shaved•• • 1:3 17 Best Saddlers' Hides... .15 161_ Horse Hides. English 11 I Sht. Calf Skins, if rounded 2d. to s. PRICES OF HOPS. Farnham Fcckets (per cwt.) Ol Os. 01. es. to 0/. Os. East Kant Pockets. 4/ les. 5/. 15s. to 6/ O. Ditto Bags 3l. Ins. W. Os. to 4!. 4s. Mid Kent Pockets Si. 10s. 4/.los. to Ditto Bags 5l. los. Ot. Os. C. C. Os. Sussex Yearlings O/. Os. 31. 3s. to 3/. 10, Old Olds Old Duty estimated at 225,090/. PRICE OF OIL. RapeOil,brown, per ton, 3.51. Os.—Refined, 36/.los Linseed nil, 231. Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill (10v0), 12/.l2s.—Rape rake, per ton,'7/ PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, &c. per 1121 b. Town 'fallow ....... ..... 525. Od. Yelkw Soap... Yellow Russia 505. 6d. Mottled . White -s. Od. Curd s. ad. Soap Ditto ... Melting Stuff ... Ditto Rough . PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of Si , . Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Melters) 29. lid. The price of good Store i andl es in th e Retail Shops PRICE OF CANDLES. Candles, per dozen, Ss. Od. ; i n f er i or, 7 s. Od. ; Moulds, 9s. 6d. Sixpence per doze, discount for cash. COAL 51 s, d Adair's Buddies' West Hartley 2l 6 Rurdon Main 2l 6 Clrr's Hartley Hebburn Main '22 0 is as follows :-." Hunter's Tanfield Ord's Redhugh Pontop Windsor 2J 0 Smith's Pontop 2O 6 West Hartley Wylam. 2O 6 Walls End Brown's Ditto unscreened l7 6 Walls End Gosforth 23 I Walls end Heaton ., 22 9, Ships arrived since HAMBUR ARKET. s. d 22 6 Walls End Hilda ............... _. 0 Walls End Hotspur ...... •••• H! 6 Walls End Newmarch ....••- '.; Walls End Northumberland n ; Walls End Riddell's .........• 't 3 Walls EndßraddylPsHetton f 4 : Walls End Hetton .......... ".",',*, 0 Walls End Lyons ............... N 3 Walls End Lambton ...•.....• . T.. 3 6 Wails End Whitwell ........ . ‘,. 6 Walls End Hart1ep001......• - ;1 1 , 1 5 Walls End Clarence Tees... 7 !.: 3 Walls End Tees Hetton •••• - ; 2 1 5 Walls End Tennant ••••• ••••• 2 1 6 Walls End Wendleston ...... last market-day, :48. MARKETS. GRAI. 2 81 to Wheat, Marks 414 to 474 Barley, Mecklenburgh ..... to 32-- --- Magdeburg Anlialt, white 4t4 to 492 -- H015tein........ ,:f„' to 190 tra , 05 --- red - 5ummer......... , 20 to Bloc ick 455 to 484 Oats, Eider ...... ..... ' 6 .2 to 741 1 17 1 klenburg 4OB to 480 -- Mecklenburg ••• . 2 9 to ---- Polish 15 to .-- -- Holstein nyc, Mecklenburg 324109 tot,) 2 2 7 7 t t 1 i Pease,BZ' 500 eans Mecklenburg ••• 255 to Dantzic..... to SI -- Elbing and Ko- Buck Wheat .............•• ~0 0 t o 40 0 nigsburg -- Upland - - Riga 252 to 218 Tares . ....................... COTTON. 9 to o .... , Carolina and Tennessee 7%t0 9% :klaranliam ............. fits ;21 Georgia, Ist sort 9 9 , 4 Madras ...................... ~.,L 6) , .1 2el Wand 4th COFFEE. . 5 to 5% Mocha 9to 11 ;4 Domingo ................... ~, w., , Batavia Sumatra — P,,rto Rico ................. .•• .. 5,.. di Rio 4% 5 H avanna h ..... .••• ....... Bahia ...... SUGAR.— (Wit Havannah, White ....... Nto 9 3 ,4 Brown 5 SS. ... ..... It 8% Discount.) Babia, Brow White .......... t° 6 7/4 Brown . ........... Pernambuco, White ...b_ Brown _4% Rio, White 6 7 Brown 4% 5 % Manilla, Bro, 5% to 5N NEW MUSI C.—A QuantitYot MUSICAL BOX E S' playing upwards of 400 Airs, Overtures, &c., bein g for Sale, t M List of the Music is now published ; also the prices of the usical Boxes. The List can be sent by post, as a single letter. MO be had gratis, from T. COX SAVORY, Goldsmith , Si l " r. sm ith, Watchmaker , &c., 47, Cox nhill, London (Sevea Deo" from G r aoechurch-street ). BIRTHS. , ( 4 . On the 16th inst., in Su ssex -pl ace , Regent's-park, ,'1.5" C. Cumbeilege, of a daughter. of Airtk At Rome, the l a dy o f William Graham, Esq. , • Castle, of a daghter On the 15th u inst.,. the lady of Mr. Jalland Edenborough, Of Friday-street, of a daughter. He O n n ry t ß he ic l h s a t r h dso in n st do : , t E S s p ci o . i , id o o f n a , s D on er . by, the lady of .Gceho:: On the 15th inst., at Ludgate-hill, Mrs. Robert a son. MARRIED. On the 12th • inst., at Frant, by the Rev. J. Hawley , Cap tain William O'Grady Haly, second son of Aylmer Haly , E s q"' of Wadhurst Castle, Sussex, Harriette Cravn, only of Robert Hebden, Esq., of Ely Grange, in the same ou n n t Y; On the sth inst., at Borrowfield, near'.lllontrose, John P°- chart, Esq., surgeon in the lion. East India CompanY.° Seri ♦ice, Bombay establishment, to Helen Reid, third daughter o George Neill, Esq. On the 14th inst., at Woolton-bill, T. Lloyd, Esq., of of Ludlow, Salop, to Lydia, daughter of R. Tench, Esq,, of the same place. daughter DIED. On the 11th of Septem ber, at Calcutta, John Moore, Esc?' aged 42. Sir Francis Gordon, Bart ., of Lisnaore, On the 9th inst. , only Aberdeenshire , age d 76. On the 1 4 th ins t . , at Abberton, Essex. Anne Frances, c hild of the late E. H. Cliffe, Sidney, aged 15. On the 1 4 th in st., at Shrewsbury, Hannah, the wife of Wil" ham Bayley, Esq. On the 15th inst., at Windsor, Sophia, daughter of the late Alexander Calder, Esq. On the lath inst., at Princess-place, Plymouth, Elizabeth, relict of Josep h Fox, 111. D., late of Wood-cottage, Cornwall, aged 88. - at Cheltenham, La ilia Watts, the third On the 15th inst., d au ghter of th e late Rev. Robert Watts, Rector of Featheard) Tipperary P r inted and Published by MURDOI7OTIN6: No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office , No 112, Strand, in the I London county of Middlesex.—Tuesday. November 19,1839'