The Sun. — London, England, 1844-10-31 00:00:00

PIRIT or the JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENI:,G PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—The English, as contrasted with the French press, and the pet qualities with John Bull, fora " leading journal," have been humorously de scribed (as our readers may have seen in our columns) by a weekly Contemporary. They correspond to partly weak and partly strong points of the English mind, and may be pretty well comprised under the two heads of the Sea-saw and the Fault-find. Nothing can tend more to suicide in this immi nent month of November, than the contemplation —not of " London's column"—for that the civium largitas has now rendered anti-suicidal—but of Lon don's columns. As we run our eyes down them, what do we see, but now a violent attack upon a party of country gentlemen, met for the innocent purpose of eating and drinking and improving the condition of the poor—now " dreadful doings ' in a union workhouse, and then an elaborate exposure of prison discipline, lunatic asylums, and the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's. A little lower down we have a letter from a poor old woman who has been run over by an iron hoop—or a gentleman complains that his peace of mina is disturbed by the matutinal beating of mats at house doors—or some unfortunate person his strayed into Mr. Close's church at Cheltenham, and seen that gentleman turning in his devotions towards all quarters of the compass but the East, when straight ways he rushes to pen and ink, and unbosoms his sor rows to the Times, knowing full well the condoletnent he will meet with in that quarter. There never was a paper which had so many unhappy correspondents as that journal. All its "old subscribers" and " constant readers" are the most melancholy race of beings in existence, fit only for the company of Mr. Croaker, in the oodnatured Man. If we are to believe them all, society would, indeed, be in an awful state. The least crimes that we have to reproach ourselves with appear to be irreligion, avarice, cruelty, oppression, injustice ; and how Heaven has spared us so long, and still continues to spare us, is really a matter of won der. We certainly must be in a very deplorable condition ; but there is one pleasing reflection left to console us, and that is, that if the world is " out of joint" (as it would undoubtedly seem to be), there is one at last born to " set it right." We presume it is because the Herald (as Punch lately affirmed) is not a newspaper, that it no longer follows, even at humble distance, this Flagellant procession. In con sequence, we suppose, of having ceased to have any thing to do with journalism, how cheerful and con tented the Standard and Herald are, and have been for some years past ! Everything with them is couleur de rose since the Tories have been in. We have, as they assure us, the best of all possible Minis tries, the wisest magistrates, the most enlightened country gentlemen, the most exemplary Bishops —in short, everything to please us, and nothing to complain of, if it be not a plethory of riches, and a superabundance of physical comforts. They know nothing of harsh . poor-laws, oppressive guar dians, disorderly prisons, and ill-conducted lu natic asylums—nothing of the long train of evils on which the Times is for ever dwelling. Their friends are never run over by iron hoops, besprinkled by the twirling of a mop, or driven to madness by the conduct of unfeeling housemaids and the beating of mats ; no, these misfortunes they escape, and all their clergymen, we have no doubt, turn the right way. There are classes which must make up their minds to be treated as fere nature by the small print " pro viders" to the lion's mouth of leading journalism. Amongst these may be reckoned Low Church Bishops or Archbishops, Deans and Chapters, Poor-law Commissioners and Guardians—and, it would seem also, Wesleyan Missionaries. These, like the rest of animated nature, have particular descriptions of vermin which prey on each; and which, in journalist entomo logy, are classified under appropriate appellations—as " Catholicus," " Churchman, " Master of Arts," "-Rate payer," &c. &c. There are individuals, however, of more sensitive minds than can be supposed in any of the above categories ; who are not class •hardened against censure ; and to whom the position of dangling ?ibbetted in the columns of the Times (for example) is truly formidable. We would venture, therefore, to recommend (except, of course, in the case of pre • lanes or poor-law guardians) that such individuals should be spared from figuring in this way, when milder treatment might be sufficient; and that, as our leading Contemporary has a giant's strength, so it should exercise that strength with the bonhommie which, notwithstanding the dreadful apprehensions we were taught to entertain in our nurseries, we have every reason to regard as rather a giant-like characteristic. STANDARD.—The Soult-Guizot Ministry has completed the fourth year of its existence. It would be no novel remark, either in the way of wonderment or praise, to say that the present French Cabinet is the longest in duration of any that has been formed since 1830. Such compliment was paid to the states men composing this Administration last year, and even with no slight emphasis the year preceding. But we can ray now, confidently, that which, at the periods referred to, we could only utter in hope, that we see no likelihood of change, within any given period of time, so far as we may be allowed to look forward to, without being open to the charge of rash speculation in the composition of the administration of France. Our hope in the stability of the French Cabinet rests upon three distinct grounds. Firstly, upon the policy which they are engaged in perfecting ; secondly, upon the success which has hitherto crowned their measures ; and, thirdly, upon the character of the statesmen who form the Administration. The policy which actuates the Statesmen, in whose hands are the destinies of France, has lately received an exposition from the mouth of his Majesty Louis Philippe, in his replies to the addresses from Portsmouth, London, and Dover. It is peace with Europe, guaranteed by the cordial understanding of Great Britain and France, and we need hardly add, that so long as the two great Constitutional Govern ments of the west are united, war in Europe is impos sible. We believe that the sentiment of peace is in the hearts of the great majority of the French people, as we know it to animate those of our own. We be lieve so, because we see the people of France in a state of unexampled prosperity. We believe it, because th whole country is in such a state of repose, that we have almost forgotten that there were such things as enteutes, that previous to the accession of the present Ministry were the familiar expression of ceaseless discontents. And we believe it the more firmly, be cause we see France, through the enterprising spirit of her Government, entering that wide field of com mercial exertion, abroad and at home, which, inde pendently of the creation of bonds of interest and friendship with other nations, and our own especially, affords an outlet for the restless activity of a viva cious people, in a manner free, healthy, cheerful, and happy, different from the mad stimulants of war and invasion, because constant and continual and ever re warding. We place in the next degre2 of order the history of the measures of the administration, because the great policy of the day has only been approached through difficulties the most complex and disheart ening-. We think it a grateful pleasure to stand upon the hill, and at the one view look back upon the path we hare laboriously trodden, while at the same time we command the promised land. Having thus enjoyed ourselves, w e may, if we please, once more toil through the detail of differences, such as we trust we shall never have to encounter in reality again. The history of the past four 3 ears is one of immortal honour to M. Guizot and his colleagues. When he was summoned from his ambassadorship of London to take the helm, he found the Anglo-French alliance broken, France regarding England as incarnated in Lord Palmerston, and consequently all that Lord Parlmerston is. M. Guizot, with his happy art of characterising a situation, pronounced the word isolation. This word England blamed and could not understand. But it expressed the feelings of France, and satisfied them. With the accession of Sir Robert Peel that isola tion began to thaw ; the two Governments quickly understood each other. When men at both sides are animated by good intentions, and possess frank manners, with clear heads, they soon speak out without fear or equivocation ; and M. Guizot again, by a happy phrase, "cordial understanding," hit the mean between suspicious reserve and full alli ance. In France this phrase, entente cordiale, has been attacked right and left. We think late events have tested its propriety. Cordial understanding means goodwill, or the disposition to treat in the best temper, and with the best spirit, such incidents as might, in the case of mutual irritation or suspicion, lead to hostile results. Now , supp ose that in the late complicated questions of Otaheite and Morocco, there existed at either side a predisposition to take offence, and having taken offence, to demand unwarrantable satisfaction, could those questions have been resolved as they have been ? If neither Otaheite nor Morocco feel to war, ye thank the entente cordiale, uttered a year ago, in that foreseeing spirit, and with that pregnant meaning, such as only men of the first order of genius can give to expression. The journals at this side of the water, who at the fir.,t blush of the matter fulminated threats about Otaheitie and declared war about Morocco, were cer tainly not among those who understood the entente cordiale as the resumed exposition of a grand po licy, to ' which En g l an d and France were equally parties. We now enter, we do believe, upon a third phase of policy, in which cordial u nderstand i ng weh will be changed for cordial alliance. doubt that Louis Phi lippe will, with that av f w e e n. n ri o _e e ss_ n fra t nk . ness exhibited so lately in his replies d h e i b l ate i and his . country, call the policy upon the Chambers y t tio t will t be adhered to by his Government; m an in d r i a s t t i raa f the glory of the Soult-Guizot Ad consummated the great scheme of turning b are critical point at which France, abandoning the spirit of war invasion for mere war's sake, shall adopt the ideas, already established in England, of civilisation through free institutions, with honourable labour and conimercialenterpriso The THE SVN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 31, 1844,. third ground of our hope is the character of the statesmen who form the Administratiob. They are a united Cabinet; they have long toiled together; they have battled and they have won ; they have en dured no shameful defeats ; and they each stand per sonally high. While all have been victorious, each has had his individual triumphs. Marshal Soult is a great administrator ; by his hands the army has been re-organised. Of M. Guizot less may be said than of another man, for his fame is European. M. Duchatel, the Minister of the Interior, is distinguished for the solidity if his understanding, and is every day rising in debating qualities. M. de Villemain is an accom plished debater of the very first class ; upon him has devolved the delicate task of upholding the independ ence of the University, without lessening the just authority of the clergy in the eyes of the people. The Minister of Finance, the Minister of Public Works, and the Minister of Justice, have severally distinguished themselves in their departments. To such men the Op position have none of any weight to oppose, but theH the Opposition are split into factious sections, soldered together for the moment, and for a temporary pur pose, while the Cabinet are united heart and hand. It was owing to this conscious inferiority of talent, to the impossibility of finding a man capable of combatting M. Guizot, that they resorted last session to the disgraceful attempt to cry him down, and only afforded their mighty antagonist an occasion for covering himself with fresh glory, as a man whose courage was equal to his unrivalled oratory. Thus, whether we look to the mission of the Cabinet, that mission of peace and civilisation to which the King has attached the glory of his reign, or take a retrospective view of the struggles and triumphs of the administration ; or look at the men themselves, individually or as a Government; or rather when we take in the whole combination, no matter how rapidly or crudely, we are forced to the irresistible conclusion that the French cabinet gives more evidence of stability, with power to carry out its views, than it did at any period during the four previous years of its honourable existence. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. _ Yesterday James Murdock was charged with utter ing a forged bill of exchange, purporting to be ac cepted by a Mr. Barbour, of Manchester. He had surrendered himself on Saturday at the office of the Police Commissioner, in the Old Jewry, confessing that he had committed forgeries to the extent of 4001. on the National Provincial Bank. His manner seemed to indicate derangement, and it was ex pected his self-accusation would turn out to be moon shine ; but the letter written to the police of Man chester brought Inspector Buckley to town yesterdal morning, armed with a warrant for the prisoner s apprehension. Sir C. MARSHALL asked the inspector if he could identify the prisoner as the individual named in the warrant ? The inspector said he could not. The prisoner admitted he was the person. Sir C. MARSHALL thought the better course was to send the prisoner to Manchester for examination, and delivered him to the officer. _ _ _ Mr. Richards, a carpenter, complained of a breach of faith on the part of Mrs. Parkes, in respect to her recent lottery for paintings. He said he was the purchaser of two ticliets in the lottery, one of which he presented to his 4aughter, who attended the draw ing, and heard he number drawn a prize of 1001. Upon applying fof it the same day, ha was told no person could be admitted, but an authorised list of prizes was being printed. He went next day and saw a printed list, in which his number was omitted. He then peremptorily demanded to see the check-book in which the prizes had been taken down at the moment of drawing, as under the state lottery system the Government always allowed this satisfaction to ticket-holders. He was told it could not be shown to him, but he had an indirect message from Mrs. Parkes that three 1001. prizes had been omitted (and inferior prizes substituted), and his number was pos sibly one of those. After several attendances he was laughed at by the secretary, who told him he was labouring under the mistake that the number of the picture 249 was the number of the ticket, and he was at liberty to inspect the books. As a week had passed over, it was useless to refer to the book then, and the applicant wished the Alderman to take up the matter as a public grievance. The lottery was to consist of 14,000 tickets, and 2,100 prizes. He wanted to know why three of the prizes had been subtracted in the distribution ? Sir C. MARSHALL asked if the young lady had the ticket with her when she attended the drawing ? Mr. Richards said she had. Sir C. MARSHALL said the case had occurred out of the City, and, therefore, he could have no juris diction' but he had no objection to state his view.— that if Mrs. Parkes invited the ticket-holders to be present at the drawing, and a prize was drawn against a number, which prize through some mistake could not be found, Mrs. Parkes was bound to make good the loss to the purchaser of the ticket. If not, the lottery would be altogether a delusion. It was not, however, a case in which he could interfere. BOW-STI?EET. Yesterday Inspector Barton, of the G division of police, was charged by Lord Ranelagh with having violently assaulting him, in the Strand, on Monday afternoon. The case occupied much time, but may be stated in a short compass. Lord Ranelagh said that he was walking with Sir Thomas Hare towards Charing•cross at about two o'clock, shortly after the police had received instruc tions to clear the carriage-way for the return of her Majesty from the Royal Exchange, when two con stables came up to him and ordered him and his friend to get on the pavement, at the same time pushing them in a rude manner. He remonstrated with them, upon which the defendant walked up to him from the other side of the road, and, without making any inquiry relative to the dispute, pushed him with great violence on to the kerbstone. lie (Lord Ranelagh) then endeavoured to strike the defendant, who immediately seized him by the neckcloth, and addressed him in so excited a manner as to convince his Lordship that he had no sort of control over either his language or his conduct, and was therefore a very unfit person to be a police officer. His Lordship called Sir T. Hare, who gave some corroborative evidence, and expressed an opinion that the defendant used an unwarrantable degree of vio lence on the occasion. Rupert Richbell, who did not see the commence ment of the altercation, heard the inspector demand ing his Lordship's card. Lord Ranelagh was then walking from the middle of the road (which had been cleared) towards the pavement, followed by the de fendant and several other policemen. His Lordship complained of his not being able to pass along without the interference of the police, and declared that, hav ing been insulted, he would force his way across in spite of them. The defendant appeared to be having hold of his Lordship's coat; he had a staff in the other hand. The defendant's solicitor commented briefly upon the foregoing statements, and examined the follow ing witnesses, who were kept out of Court until called upon. No. 65, G division, said he saw the complainant and his friend walking in the road after it had been cleared. Heard defendant call and tell them to go out of the carriage-way ; he spoke in civil terms to them. They made no reply, but attempted to force their way past defendant, who stood before them and resisted thein, having previously repeated his former request. Lord Ranehigh raised his arm, and struck a violent blow at the inspector with his closed fist, afterwards raising his umbrella with the other hand, and exclaiming, " You vagabond, don't stop me," or words to that effect. Defendant evaded the blow, and, taking Lord Ranelagh by the arm, forced him upon the pavement. His Lordship then demanded the inspector's name and number, of which he made a memorandum. In reply to defendant's application for his Lordship's card, he said, " Card be d—d," and walked away. Police-constab!es G 197, G 137, and G 106, and Inspector Shackell, all denied most positively the as sertion of his Lordship that the defendant seized him by the neckcloth, or used any unnecessary violence. They stated that the blow which Lord Ranelagh aimed at defendant was received by a by-stander, whose mouth bled profusely in consequence.. The road had been effectually cleared, his Lordship and Sir Thomas Hare being the only persons out of the line on either side. All the witnesses said that the Noble Lord was very refractory, and declared " that he was always 'being annoyed by the d—.d police." Mr. TWITORD said, looking at the contrariety of statements which had been made, it was difficult to decide what were the facts of the case ; but, even were it admitted that the assault complained of by his Lordship actually took place, after what had uccurred, upon his own showing, he hardly knew that he could blame the inspector (who had received'strict orders to keep the road clear) for his share in the transaction. It appeared to him that the only respect in which the defendant neglected hia duty, was in not taking the Noble Lord into custody; and therefore he thought he must dismiss the case. Thomas Jones, who had been nearly four, years confidential clerk and collector to Mr. Bohn, book seller, of York-street, Covent-garden, was committed on six charges of embezzlement, preferred by his late master. MARY LEBON E. Yesterday Captain. Charles Irvine, R.N., who is upwards of seventy years of age, was brought up on a warrant to answer the charge of having written and sent a letter to Edward Walter Forester Walker, a Captain in the Scots Fusileer Guards, with intent to induce him to fight a duel with him. Captain Walker, handed in the letter containing a Ca ll p i tain i 'lr e lt challenge r to fight with swords, when e afte (w r ho he ad h m a i d t t e p d e rtuhsaetd. the t he writing same,asked w a was his) what he had to say ? this to say, Sir, that ; called • Captain Irvine—l have on Ca p tain Walker to meet me in Belgium, and under these circumstances I submit, that no breach of the peace having been con templated in this country, there is nothing of which you can take cognizance. Mr. LONG —This letter clearly contains a chal lenge to Captain Walker, and it is my duty to do all in my power to prevent this duel from taking place. Captain Irvine—As I before observed, Sir, I wished Captain Walker to meet me in Belgium. I had no intention whatever of committing a breach of the peace in this country. Mr. LONG—I must take care that you do not. Captain Irvine—l ought to have brought Captain Walker here instead of his bringing me before you; he has abused me in the grossest terms. . . Mr. LONG—I shall require you to find bail to keep the peace, yourself in 2001., and two sureties in 1001. each. Captain Walker read extracts from other letters addressed to him and Captain Hamilton (also of the Fusilier Guards), and the magistrate perused some of the epistles ; they were penned by Captain Irvine, who upon more than one occasion had challenged the above-named military gentlemen to light him with swords. In one of the letters were these words : "I'll cut you in pieces, or you shall me." The letter was (said Captain Walker) a most extraordinary pro duction. It appeared Captain Hamilton was in the first in stance challenged by Captain Irvine to fight him at Ostend. Captain Walker, in consequence of the extreme age of Captain Irvine, and taking the cir cumstances of the case altogether into consideration, advised his friend to decline the " honour" of being " cut into pieces" abroad, and hence arose the chal lenge to himself for his interference in the matter. Mr. LONG (to Captain Irvine)—l shall alter my former decision, and call upon you and your sureties for double the amount of bail which I had before fixed upon. Captain Irvine—A most gross attempt has been made to swindle me out of 4001. Captain Walker and Captain Hamilton have both virtually challenged me to fight, and they can't deny the fact. Captain Walker—l do deny it. Captain Irvine (to Mr. Long)—May I ask you, Sir, what has induced you to double the bail ? ill.. LONG—I have doubled it, believing that your circumstances are such as to warrant my doing so. If you are really disposed to keep the peace, the sum in which you and your friends are bound over can be of no importance. Captain Irvine—For what period am I to be bound, Sir ? Mr. LONG—For twelve months. Captain Irvine (after some little hesitation) —Very well.—The required recognisances were then entered into for Captain Irvine keeping the peace towards all her Majesty's subjects, but more particularly towards Captain Walker and Captain Hamilton, for the next twelve months. The sureties were Major Charles Walker, of Lea mington House, near Ipswich, and a barrister named Hawkins, of Lincoln's Inn_ Q UEEN-SQ UA RE. Yesterday a very respectable-looking man, in busi ness as a dairyman, was charged on suspicion of stealing a watch from a person who had met the pri soner and four or five other acquaintances on the pre vious evening at a skittle-ground, and had not been there many minutes before he fell asleep. When he awoke he discovered that his watch had been stolen from his pocket. As the only reason assigned for sus pecting the prisoner and giving him into custody was that he had endeavoured to rouse the prosecutor to give him some drink, and had left the company before the watch was missed, and as a respectable trades man stated that the accused was a very honest well conducted man, Mr. BOND said that there was not the least ground for suspecting the prisoner more than any other of the party, and immediately discharged him. A general dealer, residing at 26, Little Chapel street, having been recently fined 10s., at the instance of the police, for exposing goods in the front of his premises, so as to obstruct the footway, he complained of being singled out when others were permitted to violate the law without being at all interfered with, and took a summons against his next door neighbour for a similar offence. Mr. BOND inflicted the penalty of 103. Defendant thought it very hard, and said it was al . spite. Mr. BOND observed that the public were much in convenienced by goods being exposed on the foot and carriage-way. LAMBETH-STREET. Some weeks since a number of wretched-looking objects applied at this court for intercession to obtain for them the amount of gratuities due to them from the Spanish Government, or such other relief as would protect or remove them from the state of wretched ness into which they were plunged by withholding the pensions and gratuities due to them. The state ment made by the applicants was such as was calcu lated to awaken the deepest sympathy, but from the numerous communications which hare since reached Mr. Henry it is quite clear that some of them, at least, do not deserve all that sympathy which was at first awakened. Amongst other communications re ceived by Mr. Henry was one from an officer in the Spanish Legion, who appeared to be intimately ac quainted with the whole merits of the case, and who commenced his letter as follows :-- " Sir,—l regret to perceive by an account in the news papers that your sympathy and the public charity have been imposed on by a scamp of the name of M'Cormack, formerly in the Spanish service." The communication went on to state that the man M'Cormack (who had been spokesman on the occa sion alluded to, and to whom a benevolent individual had since sent 10s.)was undeserving of the slightest sympathy. A communication was also received from Senor Castaneda, the commissioner for the settlement of the claims of the Spanish Legion, from which it appeared that the case of M'Cormack had undergone the most strict and impartial investigation, and that, so far from his having cause to complain, he had been most liberally treated. William Duvall, the second mate on board the Prince Oscar brig, who has been remanded for some weeks on a charge of gouging and forcing out one of the eyes of his captain with his thumb, and also in flicting other injuries on his person, was brought up for final examination. The following letter received by the chief clerk from: Captain Lawson, dated " South Shields, Oct. 26," was read : " I must acknowledge Mr. Henry's kindness in not enforcing my appearance at the sessions, as it would be attended pith considerable pecuniary loss to me as well as inconvenience ; and, considering the way I am situate, it would be inflicting a greater punishment on me than a longer imprisonment would on the prisoner Duvall ; and as I trust in the course of a week to be able to pro ceed on my intended voyage, I must, with many thanks to Mr. Henry for his endeavour to give the prisoner a just punishment for his offence, be content with the punishment that is in Mr. Henry's power to inflict upon him." Mr. HENRY expressed the strongest reluctance to part with the prisoner until he took his trial, and was adequately punished for his ruffianly conduct; but feeling that by compelling Captain Lawson to come to town to prosecute when he was on the point of sailing with his vessel, he wuuld be, as the captain himself expressed it, subjecting him to considerable pecuniary loss—in fact, adding something like injus tice to injury—he should not insist upon his attend ance, but should hold the prisoner to bail for six months, so that captain Lawson, on his return from Alexandria, might have an opportunity of indicting , and prosecuting him for the serious injury he had in flicted upon him. The prisoner was ordered to find two sureties in 401. each for six months. TfIA.IIES POLICE. On Tuesday a man named King was charged with breaking sixteen panes of glass in a public house, kept by Mr. Abbott, and was fined 405., the value of the glass. As the demolition of the windows still went on, Mr. Abbott set two constables to watch :the premises. It was soon discovered that some person in the house was also a party to the de molition, as the broken glass in the latter instances had fallen outward. Suspicion lighted on the pot boy, and he was seen by a constable to break three squares of glass with a piece of coal, and when ar rested a stone was found in his pocket. The prisoner denied that he had broken any of the glass. He was on good terms with his master, who had not given him notice to leave, and there was nothing to instigate him to the act. lle was himself struck in the eye by one of the stones, which had been thrown from the street, and the stone found in his pocket was the one which struck him, and which his master must admit he (the prisoner) had been de sired to keep. Mr. Abbott admitted such to be the fact, but said he had every reason to believe that the boy was connected with the party who broke the windows from without. Mr. BALLANTINE said if the windows had been broken in this instance from without he would have inflicted a heavy penalty, but, as it stood, it was a case of wilful damage, and the law only allowed him to impose the amount of the damage. The prisoner must therefore pay 35., or go to gaol for seven days. The fine was immediately paid. Captain Macdonald, master, and Andrew Gray, a steward, of the Isabella Watson, from Calcutta, were charged on Custom-house informations with being concerned in the- " un shipping and carrying and con veying" of three quarts and one pint of brandy, and seven pounds of cigars, by which they had incurred penalties of 1001. each. Mr. Pelham applied for a po3tponement of the case until this day, that he might apply to the Board of Customs for a mitigation of the penalty, the goods having been inadvertently unshipped by the parties. Mr. Potbury, clerk to the Solicitor of Customs, offered no opposition on the part of the Crown. Mr. BALLANTINB ordered each defendant to enter into sureties, himself in 601. and two sureties of 30/. each, for their appearance tbis day. The report of Inspector White (of the Thames police) was, that after sunset he saw a cart and horse come out of Wigrana's ship-yard, at Llack wall, the defendant Gray being in his company. "White asked Gray where he was going to convey the contents of the cart, and he replied "To the captain's house," and that he had just left the Isabella Watson in the dock. As White had received certain information that there was a good deal of contraband property in the cart, he seized the whole of the goods, which con sisted of the cigars and brandy mentioned in the information • a box of jewell er y wor th 2001., a por tion of which is of foreign manufacture, and liable to duty ; a dozen of champagne, 12 bottles of eau de Cologne, sugar, tea, and other articles liable to duty, and a quantity of furniture, the whole of which was seized by the inspector, and conveyed to the Queen's warehouse, where the confiscation of the whole or part of the property awaits the decision of the Com missioners of Customs. When the inspector stopped the cart, Gray said the captain was close behind, and White looked for him, but could not find him. He afterwards saw Captain Macdonald in his own house, and informed him of the seizure. The captain said it was A 'bad job, and asked White if it could he settled without an exposure. White said it could not, and arrested him on the part of the Crown. The va!ue of all the goods seized is about 350/. assessed the property, and had instructed him to en force payment of the rates. Lord SYDNEY inquired of Mrs. Bryant what wages her husband was earning at the present time ? She replied that he had been out of work a good while, but had now got a job, and he was earning 2s, a day. The I.3ENcu said the rate aild the expenses must be paid. _ _ Mrs. Bryant said she was ready to pay the two shillings for the rate, but she considered it very hard to be compelled to pay three shillings for expenses. Lord SYDNEY, having consulted with his brother magistrates, said it was her own fault there were any expenses. The rate and the costs must pe paid in a week, or else there would be a distress warrant. The poor woman left the court declaring that she could not pay the amount, and their goods must be taken. A woman named Parker then appeared on behalf of her husband, to show cause why she had neglected to pay 3s. 6d., the amount of two poor-rates. The parties, it appeared, occupied a house, for which they paid 4/. a year rent. Mrs. Parker said that when she and her husband took possession of the house they were not aware they should have to pay the poor-rates. The collector had put a rate- paper in at the window when she was out, but he never made any application to her for the amount, or gave her any explanation, but he sum moned her without any notice. Lord SYDNEY said it was not necessary for a col lector to give any notice. Persons who occupied houses must be aware they would have to pay the poor-rates. _ _ _ The collector said that he applied to Mrs. Bryant for the rates, and she told him she could not pay them. He then said that if the vestry would excuse her hus band, it was all very well ; but if they did not, he must enforce the payment. Mrs. Parker said the money would have been paid if application had been made for it; but, instead of this being done, she was summoned and put b addi tional expense ; and she thought it very hard that poor people should be served in such a manner. The BENCH then ordered that the rate, 3s. 6d., and the costs, which, in this case, amounted to ss. 2d., should be paid in a week, or that a distress warrant should issue. THE SPANISH REFORM BILL. CHAPTER 1.-OF SPANIARDS. Art. 1. Are Spaniards--all persons born within the Spanish dominions ; children of either Spanish father or mother, if even born out of Spain ; foreigners who shall have obtained letters of naturalisation, or who have obtained rights of citizenship, or shall have esta blished their domicile in any town or city in Spain. The quality of Spaniard is lost by naturalisation in a foreign country, or by taking employment in any fo reign service without permission from the Sovereign. Art. 2. All Spaniards may print and publish their opinions with previous censorship, if in conformity with the laws. Art. 3. Every Spaniard has a right to petition the Cortes and the Sovereign. Art. 4. The same code of laws shall exist and be in force throughout all the Monarchy. Art. 5. Every Spaniard is eligible to public em ployments according to their merits and capacity. Art. 6. Every Spaniard is bound to defend his country in arms,when duly called upon by the law, and should contribute according to his fortune to the exi gencies of the State. Art. 7. No Spaniard can be arrested or imprisoned, or taken from his dwelling, or his house searched, but in the regular form and manner established by the law. Art. 8. Should circumstances require the tempo rary suspension of the preceding article, it must be ordered by a law. Art. 9. No Spaniard can be tried or condemned, but before a competent tribunal, and by the forms prescribed by the law. Art. 10. No confiscation 'of property shall take place ; no Spaniard shall be deprived of his property, except for well justified public utility, and after hav ing received a fair indemnity. Art. 11. The religion of the Spanish people is the Roman Catholic Apostolic. The State takes upon itself to support public worship and its ministers. CHAPTER 11.-OF THE CORTES. Art.l2. The power to make laws is vested in the Cortes, with the Sovereign. Art 13. The Cortes is composed of two legislative bodies, equal in power-the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies. CHAPTER THE SENATE. Art. 14. The number of senators shall be unlimited -the nomination is with the Sovereign. Art. 15 and 16. No person shall be eligible to be senators but Spaniards, who, besides having attained the age of 30 years, shall belong to one of the follow ing classes, viz. :-Presidents of legislative bodies, senators or deputies who have been so three times, and who possess besides a revenue of 30,000 reals in landed property, or official situations of which they cannot be deprived without an inquiry, or retiring pensions. The Ministers of the Crown, councillors of state, archbishops, bishops, grandees of Spain, captains ge neral of the army or navy, ambassadors, ministers plenipotentiary, presidents of supreme tribunals, judges or King's procurator of the said tribunals, grandees of Castile, possessing a revenue of 60,000 reels, persons who pay annually more than 8,000 reals of taxes, and who have been senators, deputies, or al caldies of localities of a population of 30,000 souls, and persons who have rendered signal services. The conditons necessary to be named senator may be mo dified by a special law. Art. 17. The function of senator is for life. At. 18. The Sons of the Sovereign, and the imme diate heir to the Crown, are senators at the age of 25 years. Art. 19. The Senate, independently of its legisla tive functions, shall exercise judicial functions :-Ist. When it shall have to try Ministers in virtue of an act of accusation by the Chamber of Deputies. 2d. When it shall have to take cognisance of offences against the person or dignity of the Sovereign, or the safety of the State. 3d. When it shall try its own members. CHAPTER IV.-OF THE CHAMBER OP DEPUTIES. Art. 20. Each providde shall appoint one deputy at least for each 50,000 souls of population. Art. 21. Deputies shall be elected directly, and may be re-elected indefinitely. Art. 22. To be deputy it is necessary to be a Spa niard, belonging to the secular state, to be 25 years of age, and otherwise qualified according to the elec toral law. Art. 23. Every Spaniard united in these conditions may be named deputy for any province. Art. 24. Deputies shall be elected for five years. Art. 25. The Cortes shall assemble every year. It belongs to the Sovereign to convoke, prorogue, or dissolve the Chamber of Deputies ; but under the necessity to convoke a new Cortes within the space of three months. Art. 26. The Cortes shall be expressly convoked when the throne shall become vacant, or when the Sovereign from any cause shall be unable to govern. Art. 27. Each of the Chambers shall draw up its own rules and regulations for its own internal govern ment; the Cortes shall inquire into the legality of the elections, and the qualifications of the persons composing it. Art. 28. The Chamber of Deputies shall name its president, vice-presidents, and secretaries. Art. 29. The Sovereign shall name the presidents and vice-presidents of the Senate ; the Senate itself shall choose its secretaries. Art. 30. The Sovereign shall open and close the Cortes, either in person or by the ministers. Art. 3L One of the legislative bodies shall not be convoked without the other, except in the case of the Senate having to exercise its judicial functions. Art. 32. The legislative bodies cannot deliberate in common, nor under the eyes of the Sovereign. Art. 33. The sittings of the Senate and the Cham ber of Deputies shall be public ; no sittings can be secret except under peculiar circumstances. Art. 34. The Sovereign and each of the Chambers may take the initiative with laws. Art. 35. Resolutions will be adopted by an absolute majority of votes : but in order to vote laws it is ne cessary that at least half the number of the Chamber be present. Art. 36. If a Bill be refused sanction by the Sove reign, no other Bill of a similar nature can be brought forward. Art. 37. In addition to the legislative powers exer cised by the Cortes conjointly with the Sovereign, the following powers shall belong to them :-Ist. To receive from the Sovereign, from the immediate suc cessor to the throne, and from the Regent of the kingdom, the oath to observe the Constitution and the laws. 2d. To decide on any doubtful point, either in fact or law, which may occur with regard to the succession to the throne. 3d. To elect the Regent of the kingdom, and to name a guardian to the Sovereign minor, according to the Constitution. 4th. To render effective the responsibility of the Ministers, who will be indicted by the Chamber of Deputies and tried by the Senate. Art. 38. The Senators and Deputies are inviolable with regard to their votes in the exercise of their functions. Art. 39. Senators and Deputies cannot be prose cuted or arrested during the sessions of the Chambers, without permission of their respective bodies, except when taken in flagrante delicto, but in this case they may be arrested after the closing of the Cortes. Art. 40. Deputies accepting public places or ap pointments must be re-elected. CHAPTER VI.-OP THE SOVEREIGN. Art. 41. The parson of the Sovereign is sacred and inviolable, and cannot be subject to any responsibi lity. The Ministers are responsible. Art. 42. The power of executing the laws is vested in the Sovereign, according to the terms of the Consti- Uttiop and the laws, Art. 43. The Sovereign sanctions and promulgates laws. , Art. 44. Besides the prerogatives attributed to the Sovereign by the Constitution, there shall belong to him :-1. To publish decrees for the execution of the laws. 2. To provide for the due execution of justice. 3. To punish offenders according to the laws. 4. To declare war and ratify treaties of peace, rendering an account thereof to the Cortes. 5. To dispose of the army according as their services are required. 6. To direct diplomatic and commercial relations with other Powers. 7. To regulate the coinage, on which his effigy and name shall appear. 8. To direct the pay ment of funds, destined for each branch of the public service. 9. To name public functionaries, and gives titles and distinctions. 10. To appoint and dismiss the Alinisters. Art. 45. The Sovereign must be authorised by a special law to (ID any of the following acts :—To yield up or exchange any portion of the Spanish territory ; to receive foreign troops in the kingdom; to ratify treaties of foreign alliance, special treaties of com merce, grant subsidies to foreign Powers, quit the kingdom, abdicate the Crown in favour of the imme diate successor. Art. 46. The Sovereign, before contracting mar riage, shall apprise the Cortes, to whose approbation shall be submitted the stipulations of the matrimonial contract, which shall be the object of a law. The same shall affect the marriage of the immediate suc cessor to the throne. Art. 47. The dotation of the Sovereign and of his family shall be fixed by the Cortes at the commence ment of each reign. _ _ CHAPTER VII-OF THE SUCCESSION TO THE THRONE. Art. 48. The legitimate Queen of Spain is Donna Isabella If., of Bourbon. Art. 49. The succession to the throne of Spain shall take place according to the order of primogeni ture and representation, preferring always the elder branch to the younger. Art. 50. In case of the want of legitimate descen dants to Donna Isabella 11., shall succeed, in virtue of the order just established, her sister, and her uncles, brothers of her father, and their legitimate descendants, whether male or female, if not otherwise excluded. Art. 51. In case of the specified lines being extinct, the Cortes shall make fresh appeals, according as it shall suit the nation. Art. 52. Persons declared incapable of governing, or who may have acted in a way to merit the forfei ture of right to the Crown, shall be excluded from the succession by a law. Art. 53. When the reigning Sovereign shall be a female, her husband shall have no participation in the government of the kingdom. CHAPTER VIII.—OF THE MINORITY OF THE SOVE.- REIGN AND OF THE REGENCY. Art. 54. The Sovereign is a minor until the attain ment of the fourteenth year. Art. 55. When the Sovereign shall be a minor, the father or the mother, or, in default of them, the nearest relation, shall exercise the Regency during the whole time of the minority. Art. 56. The nearest relative, in order to exercise the Regency, must be a Spaniard, and be twenty years of age. Art. 57. The Regent shall exercise royal authority, and shall publish the Act 3 of the Government in the name of the Sovereign. Art. 58. The Regent shall exercise the royal autho rity, and shall take an oath before the Cortes to be faithful to the Sovereign, and to observe the Con,titu tion and the laws. If the Cortes, in such case, be not assembled, the Regent shall convoke them imme diately, and in the meantime shall take the oath before the Council of Ministers, engaging, at the same time, to repeat it before the Chambers. Art.s9. If there shall be no person on whom the Regency devolves of right, the Cortes shall appoint a Regency, composed of one, three, or five persons. Until this nomination shall take place, the Council of Ministers shall govern the kingdom provisionally. Art. 60. Shall be guardian of the Sovereign minor the person named by the deceased Sovereign in his will, provided he be a Spaniard by birth. If no guardian be named in the will, the father or mother while remaining unmarried shall be guardian. CHAPTER IX.—OF THE MINISTERS. Art. 61. Everything ordered or decided on by the Sovereign, in the exercise of his authority, shall be signed by the Minister to whom it belongs, and no public functionary shall be bound to obey any order without this formality. Art. 62. The Ministers may be either senators or deputies, and take part in the discussion in either chamber. Chapter X. relates to the powers and functions of the judges, which are defined and guarded ; and the judges are to be responsible for all infractions of the law; justice to be administered in the name of the Sovereign. Chapter XI. relates to the provincial assemblies and ayuntamientos. Chapter XII. relates to the revenue, and points out how the contributions are to be imposed, collected, and applied. Art. 75 provides that the public debt is to be under the especial safeguard of the nation. CHAPTER X. 111.----01" THE AR➢IED FORCE. Art. 76. The Cortes shall, year by year, on the pro position of the Sovereign, fix the amount of the armed force by land and by sea. Additional Article. The provinces beyond the seas (colonies) shall be governed by special laws made in each case. THE DOUBLE SUICIDE NEAR KILMARNOCK. ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS. The two persons, whose bodies were found in the Irvine, stayed at the Wheat Sheaf, Irvine, for eight days, during which time they enjoyed themselves by visiting the various interesting places about the country. By their inquiries they seemed to have'a high regard for antiquities, going one day to Dundonald, another to Kilwinning. They also went to the Tournament ground, which place they said they had come all the way from England to see. They were at Irvine parish church, and, as strangers, attracted some notice ; the lady seemed rather old-fashioned and bare in her dress. On their arrival at the Wheat Sheaf they bargained about their bed and board, which they paid at various inter vals ; and, on leaving, presented one of the daughters with a handsome bead purse, containing half-a-crown, as a keepsake. They left Irvine on Thursday, the 3d inst., with the intention, as they said. of taking the Fleetwood boat, but they no doubt must have changed their route and gone to Kilmarnock. They seemed attentive and affectionate to each other, took up with no person, but walked out and in by themselves ; the gentleman some times visiting the coffee-room, while the lady employed herself in knitting and sewing.—Greenock Advertiser. The real names of the suicides are yet unascertained, nor is it certain that the address evidently designedly placed in the male's hat, will afford the right clue. The mark " B " on the seals and on the shirt of the male would, of itself, tend to throw great doubt on the name being Atkinson, as ite apparently wished to he believ, d. An examination, however, of the articles left in the inn shows not only no trace of the name of Atkinson, but traces of another name, and positive proof of the efforts of the devoted pair to conceal their identity. The portmanteaus were found filled with articles of female apparel, and only the under clothes of the male, all of which that arc marked at all bear the mark " B," as on the linen on his person.—Kilmarnock Herald. COLBURN'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE FOR NO VEMBER.—This Number well sustains the reputation of the New Monthly. The first article, " Scenes of So ciety," by a new contributor, is a most striking story of the marriage of a heartless man of fashion, whose wife meets her end by secret poison. The liveliness and abandon with which this tale is told contrast curiously with the nature of the subject and the unexpected de nouement. The author of " Peter Priggins" gives us a spirited sketch, called " The First Meet of the Setvon." The portion of the" Talleyrand Papers" contained in t his Number comprises the True History of the Diamond Necklace, and forms one of the most interesting of this remarkable series of papers. Mrs. Trollope's " Ro bertses" have progressed on their Travels as far as Germany, and are characterised by as much amusing vulgarity and assurance as ever. The "Conversations with the late Author of Vathek, Part 5," chronicle a vast number of Mr. Beckford's opinions on literature and art, men and things, expressed in the most pointed and tranchante manner. " The Outcast" is one of the wild and wonderful tales of " The Medical Student," lacking nothing of his usual energy and force of colouring. Mr. Laman Blanchard's paper, " Talk of the Devil— !" is hittpy specimen of this favourite writer's humorous powers. Miss Eliza. Cook contributes a charming lyric, entitled " My Old Straw Hat ;" and that capital satire, " Social Piracy," is brought to a conclusion with the total smash of the Grand Universal Providence As surance Company, and the consequent flight of the famous family of the Hawkes. OLD COIN.—A beautiful gold coin, of the reign of Edward 111., was recently discovered on baring some grounds at the lime works at Levit Hag, near this town. The coin is a quarter noble, of the value of one shining and eightpence of the period, and weighs one penny weight and four and a half grains. Obverse—" Edward, Die. Gra. Rex. Angl.," the royal arms within a tressure of eight arches, pointed:with trefoils. Reverse—" Ex altobtur, in Gloria," in a double tressure, with Fleurs de-lis and lions in the arches, a cross fleury, with trefoils in the angles. It was probably minted at a period from 1360 to 1369, as during the interval the title of Edward, as King of France, does not occur on his coins ; but he resumed the claim in the latter year. The words " Di e gratis" appear on the English coins, for the first time in the reign of Edward M.—Doncaster Chronicle. MARISCHAL COLLEGE, ABERDEEN.—The Senatus Acadeinicus of Marischal College and University, Aber deen, at a meeting held on the 26th current, unanimously conferred the degree of L.L.D. on William Pyper, A.M., who has been recently appointed Professor of Humanity in the University of St. Andrews. Dr. Pyper is an alumnus of Marischal College, and by his acknowledged superiority as a classical scholar, and his eminent services in the cause of education, has well earned the distinguished honour conferred upon him by his ulna miter, CLERKEIV WELL. Yesterday Mr. W. B. Diamond, proprietor of a private lunatic asylum, Weston-house, Western street, King's-cross, sought the advice and assistance of the magistrate, stating that a few days ago a gen tleman came to him, and request e d him to receive into his asylum his sister, who was insane, and whom he had just brought from Brighton. He stated that her husband was a man of property residing in York shire, and that whatever the demand for her main tenance was should be satisfied. Applicant refused to receive the patient, unless there were two medical certificates testifying her insanity. These the brother obtained, and he received the woman, who was labouring under insanity of a very aggravated kind; in fact, she was so violent that she disturbed all the other patients, and on this account he was most anxious to be freed from her. Upon inquiry, how ever, it turned out that her husband was not worth a farthing, and finding that she would be a perpetual burden upon him, he went before the St. Pancras Board of Guardians, and stating the case to them, asked them to receive the woman into their house as a destitute - lunatic pauper in their parish; but they refused to do anything for him. Mr. COMBE (addressing Mr. Keys, the overseer) — Here is a destitute lunatic pauper in your parish, will you refuse her admission ? Mr. Keys—l have no doubt but some of the authorities at Brighton advised the brother to take her here, so that they might be freed from the burden. Mr. COMBE—WeII, if that be so, you can indict them for a conspiracy, but that forms no excuse for refusing to admit the woman. Mr. Keys—The gentleman has got his answer from the board. I can't interfere. Mr. COMBE —Does your board mean to say that a destitute lunatic pauper is to remain in their parish without taking any steps to relieve her ? Mr. Keys— He ought to have been more cautious. Mr. COMBE—Why, it is clear the gentleman has been imposed upon. If he should turn her upon the streets, dare you refuse to receive her ? Mr. Keys— Let him do so at his peril. The Clerk—And you refuse to receive her at your peril. Mr. Keys—lt is not our doing, but his own. Mr. CoasßE—Not your doing ? Why, what do the people pay heavy rates for ? Is it that destitute lunatics may be suffered to roam about the parish, or burden one of its ratepayers ? The law is, that the workhouse is open for the reception of destitute per sons who may have casually come into the parish. If the St. Pancras parish permit this unfortunate crea ture to wander about the streets, it is my opinion they will subject themselves to an indictment for ne glect of duty. After some further discussion, during which Mr. Keys admitted Mr. Diamond to be a highly respect- able gentleman, Mr. COMM advised the applicant again to apply to the parish, as he felt confident they would not, after consideration, refuse to receive her. The gentleman left the Court, went to the work house, and made the application ; he returned to the Magistrate, and stated that the authorities persisted in refusing to receive the lunatic. Mr. Comm advised him to apply to his solicitor. UNION-HALL. Yesterday an elderly man, named Morris, was convicted of obtaining money under the old deception of pretended illness and forged signatures to a peti tion for relief. His detection was owing to the curious accident of Horsford, the Mendicity officer, passing at the time the prisoner was exhibiting his petition, and displaying all the well-feigned symptoms of se vere disease. The moment he caught sight of the officer he " bolted," leaving his'petition behind him ; the officer gave chase, having for six years known him as an impostor, and captured him. Mr. TRAILL sentenced him to three months' im prisonment, with hard labour, telling him that the next time he was brought up he should be sent to the sessions. GREENWICH. Snrcely a day passes at this court without several cases being brought before the magistrates, under the Act of the 3d and 4th of Victoria, for using abusive and threatening words. In one which occurred yes terday, Air. Jeremy stated it to b e hi s d e t erm i nat i on to put down, if possible, these sorts of cases, as they were as disgraceful to the partie s w h o appeare d i n them as they were disgusting to the public, whose ears were continually assailed with the most filthy and blackguard language. He should, therefore, fine the defendant 40s. for using the language imputed to him, ss. the cost of witnesses, and 2s. costs. WANDSWORTH. Yesterday, a lad, about 14 years of age, was con victed of throwing stones at the tr a i ns p ass i ng on t h e South-Western Railway. Mr. Dalby, the superintendent of the railway po ro said that there had latterly b een a grea t many , complaints made of stones being thrown at the trains whilst in passage, and it had been found necessary, in order to abate this dangerous nuisance, to solicit the aid and interference of the metropolitan police. Inspect(r Buisane said he had, in consequence, instructed his men, to take into custody all persons whom they found throwing stones upon the railway. Mr. PAYNTER observed that the lives and limbs of railway passengers were endangered by such a prac tice. What defence had the prisoner to make to the charge ? The prisoner said the train was too far off for him to hit it. The mother of the prisoner said she was a widow, left with nine children, and she hoped the magistrate would deal leniently with the case. Mr. PAYNTER observed that the prisoner was not a mere child ; he was old enough to know that he was committing a very seriou s o ff ence . H e cons id ere d the prisoner's conduct was most wanton, and unde serving of any leniency ; he should therefore convict him in the sum of 51., and if that sum was not paid, 'he would be committed to the House of Correction for six weeks. The prisoner was committed in default of payment BROMLEY. (Before Viscount SYDNEY, 61;keV. Sir C. FARNABY, Bart., and J. GOODUURST, Esq.) TREATMENT OF TILE POOR.—Several poor persons residing within the district of the Bromley union were summoned to show cause why warrants of dis tress should not be levied upon their goods and chat tles for the non-payment of poor-rates. The sums for which the parties were in default were very small —in no case exceeding 3 , . 6d. The first case was that of Mrs. Doolan, of Hayes, who was summoned for non-payment of 3s. 6d. The reason given for non-payment was, that her husband and family were very poor, and they had lately been put to expense by reason of one of their sons being sent to Maidstone on a charge of felony, of which he was acquitted, but the expense of defending him had very much impoverished them. Lord SYDNEY said the rate must be paid. The Clerk and the Bench said that the costs amounted to 3s. Lord SYDNEY—Three shillings ! How is that amount made out ?—The clerk said it was the regular charge for summons and service. The BENCH said the amount of the rate and the costs must be paid in a fortnight, or there would be a distress warrant, which would create additional ex pense. The next case was that of a person named Bryant, who was summoned for non-payment of two rates of one shilling each. The wife of the party summoned said she th oug h t it was very hard that poor people like her and her husband should be put to the expense of a sum mons, when they were willing to pay without. She said the collector had put the rate through the window, but he had never applied to her for the amount. The collector declared that he had made two or three applications for the rate, but could not see Mrs. Bryant nor her husband, and he was therefore obliged to take out a summons for the amount. Mrs. Bryant said ill :t she and her husband had gone out, hoping to try and earn something to sup port their family, and the collector might have left word for the rate to be paid, and thus have saved them the expense of being summoned. In answer to a question from the BENCH, the col lector said that the house occupied by these parties was rated at 2/. a year. Mrs. Bryant said, that although it was called a house, the place was formerly merely used as a shed, in which a gentleman in the neighbourhood kept his coals and firewood ; but they put a fireplace in it, and made it into a sort of dwelling-house, and she and her family had occupied it as such; but it was, in point of fact, nothing but a shed. The collector aaid the parish authorities had LEGAL PROFESSION. Yesterday a general and public meeting of the Association for the Protection and Justification of the Profession, convened by public advertisement, Was held at the Gray's Inn Coffee-house, for the purpose of electing a president, vice-presidents, council of in' quiry and direction, auditors, and secretary, for the_ year ensuing, and for confirming the rules prep ared . by the provisional Committe for the government of, the Association. There were about fifty members 01 the profession present. Sir G. STEPHENS, having been voted to the chair, stated that the main object of the Society wa s to unite and combine together with a view to their own honour and advantage. Possessed, perhaps, of more influence than any other profession, they had hi therto neglected to use that influence for their own protee't tion. Attorneys and solicitors were engaged 0 l t were in a personal conflict with all mankind, and elf', conflict was too frequently characterised by rersonS4 hostility amongst those by whom it was necessar il y conducted. Public feeling was often against thew, and their proceedings were exposed to be carped .et; their fair profits pecked at, and their means of x is ,': ence even cut down and taken from them by POW' whose only object was to gain popularity at their 0; pense.—(Cheers.) It was important, therefore, ths, the profession should combine together to resist su ch attempts, and to endeavour to turn the tide of tb s . prejudice which had too often run riot at then' expense.—(Hear, hear.) With the objects of the Association all must concur ; they were as follows T o p romo t e and support the general interests of tl e l 4 i profession. To prosecute (if necessary) all unqutdi 6 „ s persons who may usurp either the duties or privileg of the profession. To originate and assist in obtain.: ing all useful and practical reforms and amendmetl of the law. To expose, and, if possible, pun ish persons guilty of any acts of malpractice, wh ethe they be members of the bar, attorneys, or solicito.s• To maintain the respectability of the profession 4 3 ,Y 0 an honourable and liberal mode of practice. To adopt measures for obtaining a co-operation vvith.l i d law societies (provincial or local) having sire l ,,ia objects in view." It was important that theyshti c expose and reform malpractices, whether in the own branch of the profession or the bar, but tat should reform and purge themselves before they s t : tempted to correct the errors of a higher departi ng° —(Hear, hear.) It was important also that th e O ti ; racter, the honour, the respectability of the professisd should be upheld by a liberal mode of practice/ the sharp practice (which he believed was ge nerally 1 : it act of clerks and not of the principals, but wh ich must rest with the principals to prevent) should tit altogether abolished, and the profession made wh at o f should be, " a liberal profession" in the strict sens e the word.—(Cheers.) Mr. D. WIRE then moved a series of rules and f i r e gulations fur the government of the Association. u . rig disclaimed on the part of this Association soy like rivalry with the Law Institution in Chane e ,'"; lane. Some gentlemen who had been favourable the Association in the first instance, had seceded ',rev( it because they thought it would clash with the ?1,/ Association ; but there was room for both, 01 '01 co-operation each might assist the other. He w ° ,,,c , say one word as to the legislative reforms in th e tice of the law. The profession was anxious M o . real reforms, not alterations merely, but imP i l lot ments in the practice of the law. They wish en to be made, as Lord Coke said it sh ° be i be made—the perfection of reason ; but the objected, and the public did not require, that a profession should be so cut down as that it practised by a class of persons little above the shopkeeper.—(Hear, hear.) They objected to iti o ; lation upon legal matters by men who knew oath of the law. - after bjcb The rules baying been put and seconded were, various alterations had been suggested, many 0 ' w were introduced, carried. bee 4 Mr. D. WIRE then proposed that Sir G. St e P be appointed President of the Association, which agreed to non. con. J. Burchall, Esq., of Red Lion-square; T. " t he) Esq., of Dover; and D. W. Wire, E sq ., were : t el proposed as Vice-Presidents, and were ape ° accordingly. velit The auditors and council for the ensuing.d co te were also appointed, the number of the latter t° sist of 24, with power to add 10 to their numbe r ' c ol Mr. E. CLARK, of Bedford-row, was aPP ei t "boti Secretary, and, in returning thanks, he s tated 1" amongst the legislative reforms proposed by th e y] sociation, was one to render invalid all deeds requi.ooo a stamp, if not executed and attested by a professl man. Thanks having been voted to the Chairman' duly acknowledged, the meeting separated. I , THE HARE AND THE PEASANT . — Although COs of the pure-minded who offer incense at Exete r 0 0 / may not be conscious of the fact, is is nevertheless otb true, that John Bull has his idols, to the whic.. h ,Vg, most sanctimonious face, he is ever and anon socil i vio, men, women, and babes. John, with a look of t i ler disgust, talks of the superstitions of the past an a ",0° present : he laments the darkness of the heath el o l aill o have their sacred apes, their consecrated e roc Nay, John does more than this. John un butt°, ll fir pocket, and pays men to build ships, that truth all;: s iolf dom may be carried to idolaters. He enlists 0 ; 0 1 0 aries—he sends forth the hopeful and strong-hea e' wither beneath a pestilential climate, so thsiteo ‘, withering, they may be ministrant of civilization 101 l savage, And all the while—simple John—th ilt h ell ° , paying for and labouring in these good works -1," 0 4P, his own pet idols—his own baboons and alligator s A las; his " bold peasantry," as their constant victims• de!' ere John shall again count up these a b om ination s , t belf heathen, let him calculate the number of men, vviqh oo st ° wives and families, sacrificed at every quarter sessl6oo the idols of the landlord—to his hares , his Ph e , B ;ce; and his partridges !—Punch.--[We regret that v; not also present our readers with the p i c ture , d e, Game Laws, or the Sacrifi c e of th e P easa nt to th e V o , by which Punch painfully, but graphically, illusto,i a few strokes of his pencil, an age of cruel opPrel n O °J ; STATE OF TRADE.—There is no change gc artr market this week. Yarn continues extrelneli. - t ou jj " owing to the greater part of the spinners het, ge,, contract, and prices are consequently buoyant. ' - v ricv there is no great amount of business doing, 1)36 are quite firm.—Manchester Guardian. DEATH OF MRS. HENRY SIDDONS.---It, !silo regret regret that we have to announce th e d e ath 0, 1 00' 4 ' spected lady, which took place i n L on d o n on -3. "Rli morning last. Mrs. Siddons had left Cheltenh o 4, o fi d , she had been staying for the benefit o f her h° 3 `, o l on arriving in London had a s urg i ca l oper 3 g on ; d formed, which she survived only ten days. 1r., f0 .,11,' ' stand that her remains will be brought to F:4 1 ,f1u", - "tri'' interment in the family burying- 4 round in ( - 1/.4. ` 4 churchyard.—Edinburgh Paper. P°' PROPOSED PARTIAL REMOVAL OF rio r Tty br i g MARKET.—The Market Committee of the advertised that portion of Farringdon merket Shoe-lane, for sale, in building lots. J j BIBTHS. NV °tif o f Oct. 26, at Castle Bernard, county of Cork, .1, Bernard, of a daughter. . Oct. 23, at F- Dopie, 23, at rankfort-on-the-Maine, L a dy Do`' Sir Alexander Downie, M D., of a son. f E , • Oct. 26, at Ch aw t on H ouse , H an t s , th e la.,' ° Knight, Esq., jun., of a son . gore T Oct. 26, at Muswell-hill, Hornsey, Mrs. E. - a daughter. I° B " Oct. 26, in Torrington-street, the wife of Arthu r Esq., of Lincoln's Inn, barrister, of a daughter. t o 0 10 1 Oct. 26, Mrs. Clowes, of Tulse-hill, Surrey, of 5 ,1, of Oct. 25, at the Cottage, Romford, Essex, the Iv" 01 Turner, Esq., of a daughter. u 0 .0 4 Oct. 27, at Scarborough, the lady of John Dalr ee " ? a daughter, still-born. t Ed Oct. 27, at Shooter's-hill, the widow of Lieuten ne • 0 0 1 18 1/1j Nicolls, R N., of a daughter. Oct. 27, at Wandle House, Wandsworth, Langton, of a daughter. 100 1 HARRIED. 0 01 1, 0; On the Bth of July, at the Cathedral Church , g e o 1 13° (t) Gunning Seymer, Esq., Acting Principal, Dioeesloo, " A tion, to Avice, widow of the late Captain H. J. r e ° l or 23d ' Regiment Madras Light Infantry. i On the 9th of September, at the residence 01 se ce f r o r Minister, near Than, Switzerland, Robert Gregn e9 „ - l ef.A of the late Major-General Robert Craufurd, to FaW o llev," eldest daughter of the late Vice-Admiral Thomas j;e•i'•,, t e Oct. 22, at St. Nicholas Church, Brig tb hton, th e e Rhodes, of Leyton, Essex, to Louisa, daughter of dog; T. Peacock, Esq., of South Kvme, Lincolnshire. r ge P dt ef Oct. 23, at Mongstown church, Captain t e e. ° o e° o° P ' Rotertson, 25th Regiment Bombay Army, to J3 ,- l iiesc e ' of Brabazon Newcom en, Esq., of Camla, county of 0,6 94;( DIED. Oct. 24, at Lucknam, Wilts, Andrew Christ ian e sq., °el Oct. 24, at Waltham-cross, Harman Dyso n, if ife Park- lane, aged 82. de, Oct. 25, at the Cottage, Romford, Essex , o e • r 1V ,f 1 John Turnert Greenwich, Grace, the wife of Charles E Oct. s 2s ,of Garthmeilie. Joh n of Oc at Brooklands, Great Oakley, Ess° c ' Ate` Esq., M.D. t cl e° ,,ro ° Oct. 25, Fran ces D oro th ea Sp arrow , voung e s ,lo.- Mr. T. Sparrow, of New North-street, Red Lio n vet° Oct. 26, Mr. Collier, River-terrace, I s lington . , te r o f Oct. 26, at L u dlo w , C a th er i ne , e ld es t clang' jor Henry Bro wn , E sq ., o f M ar i ne - square , Brigh,t i n ' l i. g r. „A Oct. 26, at Elm-t ree Cottage,- Sidcup, V .. Kendrick Turner. gr og yd Oct. 26, at Wi nc h es t er , Eli za b e th, wife of Jo" 10- 1 ' A of Southampton. 80/ IT Oct. 27 at Charles-street, Northampton - K u Over, agedC 77. 0 f Oct. 27, at St. Da v id' s , E xe t er , Elizabeth, eo re lic t lict c ion 9ii Josias Gard, Esq., aged 88. Ol e 13 , Oct. 27, Thomas Ilosegood, Esq., surg street, Southwark. , he w ife v uD Oct. 27, at Coventry, G eorg i an a Maria , t' of .% 150 Twist, Esq. A Oct. 27, the Hon. Arthur Annesley, eldest jOlO Valentia. tote Oct. 27, at L'ton, Essex, Anne, relict o f tbe 00 , 00 1 Wackerbar, q. Es Oct. 28, M th r. S. J. Daniel, of Richard-streetivti et f e o P Oct. 29, in Bryanstone-street, Frances, tile OO Tegart, Esq., Inspector-General of ArmY o° ,, s p r r of Oct. 28, Mary Ann Timbrell, the daughn. Esq., Montague-place, Clapham-road, aged 1 ov" --- London: Printed and Published by gu-m apo oce, 140 ' f , n ow 4 thi No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Su s S sand, in the Precinct of the Savel• bliddlesa, Thuraday, wow 31,1844.