The Sun. — London, England, 1836-09-05 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNAL. SCHOOL FOR ROCKITES. " As long as Popish spade and scythe Shall dig and cut the Sassanagh's tithe, And Popish purses pay the toils, On heaven's road for Sassanagh's souls — As long as millions shall kneel down, And ask of thousands for their own, While thousands proudly turn away, And to the millions answer ' Nay'— So long the merry reign shall be Of Captain Rock and his family." The Church Establishment in Ireland we look upon I as the great National School for Rockites, and the Writ of Rebellion is the " Reading made easy" of the seminary. We take the following extract from a Cork n ewspaper, the Southern Reporter. The dis trict alluded to is the neighbourhood of Youghal, now the theatre of a vigorous tithe-war " I am sorry to tell you that the poor people in the sur rounding districts are still still sleeping out of their houses. This town has been placarded with notices, calling on the parishioners of Kilmacdonough to pay tithes, or else Ex chequer writs will be served on them ; but the poor people are on the watch. A number of police, accompanied by a 4 rebellion gentleman,' scoured the parish of Irnogeely yes terday ; but the sentinels were on their post, and not one was arrested?' The same state of affairs exists, we learn from the Dublin journals, in many other parts of Ireland. In the mountains of Wicklow the peasantry are " on the run," as the phrase goes, before the parsons about Baltinglass, a town whose name preserves the memory of the old Pagan divinity of the country, whose altars were perhaps_:mot more sanguinary than those of the modern Reh•or Moloch, worshipped on the shrines of a nominal Christianity. In Tipperary the people are flying before the face of Dean Holmes and his Com missioners ; and it appears that Archdeacon Ryder, too, has fallen vigorously to his old work, weary of his long confinement in quarters, and unable longer to abtain from battle. Ratheormaek is in a " state of siege ;" we are promised a second performance of the tragedy of Gurtroe ; the weight of an " undone .vi dow'''is not sufficient to paralyze the arm of a clerical Overreach ; " wronged orphans' tears " glue not the spiritual sword to its scabbard. This is the way to make Rockites, and to ground them well in habits of turbulence, and the principles of wild justice. The " poor people" about Youghal are " sieving out of their houses !" Mr. Hingston, head school-master in the Academy of Riot in this district, is " abroad," and so are his Catholic parishioners also. Pleasing no tions of Protestantism must these people entertain, as they roam the bogs and , mountains in rainy midnights, nausino. at intervals to catch upon the b leak win ds the u well-known war-cry of their parson, and the clatter of the armed Exchequer party at his heels ! Heartless must they be, and insensible to spiritual beauty as iEsop's coe - k to the lustre of jewels, if they can resist the ge nii:is of the Establishment, when it courts their affec tionsin such a panoply - of sweet charms. How each circsumstance must contribute to endear the Church to their feelings I 'The fatigue of being hunted—the in clement air of night upon the savage heaths—the thought of their desolate wives and famished children in their wretched huts in the valleys—the image, of the reverend Nimrod before their eyes—his " feet beautiful upon the mountains !”—had we the commis sion of Luther, this is just the situation, and just the nmament, we should seize upon to cleaver a lecture or homily upon the Thirty-nine Articles ! We could not fail to win the souls of the most inveterate Papists at so happy an instant for persuasion. The fact is that one of the main causes of the snail-paced progress of the Reformation is, that these delicate occasions for making proselytes are not laid held of asi they ought to be. The iron is not struck at the white heat ; the wf:x is allowed to harden before the seal of the Esta blishment is applied. The roving missionaries who are abroad in Connemara and the Isles of Achill ought to see to this ; they might be the means of reclaiming myriads who are now taking the broad downward road of Popery, if they would only follow the Commissioner's cf Rebellion through the country, and preach to the peasantry '' on the run If "he that runs may read, who knows but that he that runs may hear likewise ? Certainly there is one missionary of the Church which those that run may hear, namely, the bullet—the only missionary of the Establishment in Ireland whose lessons are addressed to the heart. The following narrative is also taken from the Southern Reporter : " Two men, John Hegarty and William Ronayne, were brought in here and lodged in the Bridewell, under a writ of rebellion, for tithes due to the Rev. Mr. Hingston. These poor men are still confined here, and their situation is most distressing. One of them is a married man, the father of six children ; they have no gaol allowance, the mayor, Captain Parker, having no power to grant it ; nor will the agent who had them arrested, as I ani told, allow a farthing for their support, nor has he any idea of forward ing them to a legal or proper place of confinement ; the consequence is, tat their families are obliged to dispose of their little effects to support them. I was myself a witness to the bed clothes of Hegarty being pledged at one of the pawn (jives here by his wife, to purchase the neces saries of life fin- hint. Add to this, the place they are con fined in is a wretched spot, where no human being ought to be kept•one day ; and in order to give the people an idea of what it is, I give you the following extract from the report of the Inspectors General of Prisons laid before Parliament, page 33." Such is the Lord's Church How like the Church of the Lord I What Christian feature has this insti tution ? 'What resemblance bears it to an edifice of divine foundation? In which of its aspects does it rewind us of those sweet and sublime descriptions of the new Jerusalem which holy hypocrites in the pul pit scruple not to declare a type and figure of this tem ple of Mars and Mammon ? A Christian Church would promote harmony : this Church is a living foun tain of strife and discord. A Christian Church would alleviate misery : this Church aggravates ten thousand fold the poor man's sufferings and privations. A Christian Church would diffuse knon'ledge and civili zation : this Church is a college of ignorance, and a school of barbarism. A Christian Church would be like its author, poor, meek, benevolent, and useful : this Church has all the opposite points of character and fortune. Represent the Church of Christ and the Church of Ireland upon a globe, and you must place thqii at the antipodes of one another, with the whole code of divine morals and the whole body of evan 7 gale doctrine between them. There - is no better_ similitude for this costly and cruel engine of op= Fression than Panurge's strange ear-ring. We read in the seventh chapter of the third book of the deeds and sayings of the Great and Good Panta gruel, that when Panurge entered upon the govern ment of Dipsody, " he caused pierce his right ear, after the Jewish fashion, and thereto clasped a bold ring of a ferny-lik e kind of workmanship, in the col let whereof was set a black flea ; and the expense thereof, being cast up, was found to amount quarterly to the charge of an Hercanian tigress. At these vast costs lie fretted much ; and afterwards, as tyrants used to do, he nourished and fed her with the sweat and blood of his subjects !" Here we have admirably sha dowed forth the wealth, the wantonness, and the inhu manity of the Establishment in Ireland. The black flea, set in gold, and fed upon the sweat and blood of • the people, images exactly a gorgeous priesthood de vouring the bread of the poor, and keepin g a nation sleepless and wretched. The extravaganc e of a flea in an ear-ring is not a whit more preposterou s than a Protestant Church in a country without Protestants. The flea and the Church could not possibly be placed in a more grotesquely inappropriate situations. It is also to be observed that the nimble, voracious, and blood-thirsty insect which the ruler of Dipsody esta• blished so magnificently, is peculiarly the troubler of mankind during the season of slumber—thus in the closest manner possible representing the system which will not suffer the Irish peasants to sleep in their houses, for fear of their Rectors and the Commissioners of Rebellion. Rabelais says that Panurge, in thus endowirtrgtfirT'Oirventor of his subjects with their sweat andA4ls 4 irants used to do;" but Irish ty ranny Wis*ir 'aplijurtlier. Panurge did not make a IVloloeb TilaVg flea, or declare jumping the sta rt fZ ; lliarildf,l34l ,- ay. He did not order his peo pl.Air fail.dqWn tiqd!,..ii.orship the disturber of their re prp;,:atia.:th4 sucker - of their vital juices.—Examiner. 14' r amos was returned for East Cumberland on , Fri day la any opposition. We have elsewhere given a iiirfeport of time proceedings at the election, taken from the Carlisle Journal of Saturday. This THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1836. from leaving the Lords in their present position. When ever the Times wishes to pourtray the revolting and terrific, it appears to take the conduct and constitution of the Lords as its model. Next comes the crimes of the present House of Commons, presented by the Times in frightful and hideous array :—First, the re jection of the Speaker of the rotten borough Parlia- , ment—the Tory nominee, Mr. Manners Sutton — from the Speakership of the Reformed House of Commo n a s t ; second, the punishment of bribery and perjury Ipswich, and the not punishing the a gent of an election at Carlow ; and third , the attempt to educate the people of Ireland with the surplus revenues of a Church which in Ireland is for the greatest part useless unless as a medium of pro viding for its idle minister at the expense of the people ! ! Such is the sum total of the offences alleged against the present House of Commons by the Times, and for these the people of England are called upon to renounce representative government, and sur render the whole legislative power into the hands of three or four hundred Lords, and all the sages and fools—honest men and knaves—patriots and tyrants, whom they may beget, or who may be begot for them, throughout all future generations. Will the people of England thus renounce their inheritance—we em phatically ask, will they ? Wherever we cast our eye throughout Europe, from the circumference to the centre, from the horizon to the zenith, we perceive the masses, like clouds surcharged with electricity, ready to burst into an explosion. If England be wise she will prepare for the thunder-storm, and by passing a conductor through the House of Lords protect the State from the impending fury of the elements.--.- Morning Advertiser. Mr. O'Connell has addressed a long letter to the editor of a Sunday Radical journal, which seems to have been foolish enough to contradict his assertion that " the majority of the English nation are indiffe rent or, worse, hostile to the claim of the people of Ireland to justice," for the apparently unnecessary pur pose of proving the correctness of his own statement. Daniel in this instance is right beyond all question. Facts of almost daily occurrence attest the accuracy of his opinion. The majority of the English people are hostile to what Mr. O'Connell intends when he speaks of justice to Ireland. They wish for real and substan tial justice to the people of Ireland, and not for the ag gravated tyranny of despotic Priests, nor the bound less rapacity of a mendicant demagogue. Justice to Ireland, in the English sense of the expression, cer tainly includes the disgrace and punishment of him who cheats, agitates, and plunders, the poorest and most ignorant portion of her people. And to this kind Of justice the English nation, with the slight exception of Lord Melbourne's Government and its interested or infatuated supporters, are neither hostile nor in different. Mr. O'Connell appeals to the result of the Newcastle election in proof of his proposition. No example could have been better chosen. A very short time before the election the Irish mendicant agitator had shown himself to the people of that important English town. This was enough. The exhibition cured the inhabitants of the Radicalism by which they had previously been distinguished. The helots of Sparta were exhibited in a state of intoxication in order to guard the sons of freemen from the disgusting vice of drunkenness. Mr. O'Connell was at Newcastle, as he has always been wherever he presented himself in England, a Lacedeinonian teacher ; and a most suc cessful one. We wish we could persuade him to have a public entry and a dinner at every town in Great Britain between this and the next general election. A more decided majority than even the present would then, we are persuaded, he hostile to the O'Connell sort of " justice to Ireland."—Morning Post. A voice from Derrynane has reached London in the shape of a dull letter, addressed by the Irish dema gogue to one. of the English Radical newspapers. It is written to prove that the majority of the English nation are indifferent, or worse—hostile to the claim of the people of Ireland to " justice ;" and the late Newcastle election is adduced in support of the,writer's views. To a certain extent he has herein the adVan- . tage over the Radical whom he addresses ; for he shows, that if, as was stated by the Ministerial papers at the time, Blackett was rejected for not being Radi cal enough, the reforming electors must have stultified themselves by returning Mr. Hodgson, who is not only no Radical, but an unequivocal Tory. And it was upon the very question of the Ministerial mea sures, with reference to the appropriation clause and Irish Municipal Reform—the two questions forming the great political test of the popular feeling—it was upon these questions that the Reformers of New castle—who thought Mr. Blackett did not go far enough—supported Mr. Hodgson, an avowed op ponent of the Government. This is true, as be tween O'Connell and his English co-operator, but we deny that it proves that the English nation have any wish to withhold justice from the people of Ireland. As we have over and over again urged, the only way of considering this matter usefully is first to acquire a definite idea of what " justice to Ireland really means, and how far it is identical, or indeed at all consistent with the venal policy advocated by the rapacious Radicals on both sides the Channel. It is our opinion that no greater injustice could be done to Ireland, nothing more fatal to her peace or to that prosperity of which peace is the main and most es sential element, than the overthrow of the Protestant church, and the transfer of all pOlitical power in the sister kingdom into the hands of the O'Connells and M'Hales. We laboured earnestly, ardently, and suc cessfully to impress this truth on the popular mind in England, and the decision of the Newcastle electors, on a late occasion, is one of the proofs that we have not laboured in vain. By the result of that election, a numerous constituency practically declared that they would be no party to the infliction of " a heavy blow on Protestantism in Ireland," or to the exaltation of Popery in that country. This injustice they, and the English people generally, will never be prevailed upon to do, despite of all the alternate cajolery and bullying of the sordid and slavish dastard who dates from Derrynane. the letter we allude to contains a most conclusive proof of this man's miserable meanness. He has the monstrous ingratitude to deny that English sympathy secured emancipation for Ireland. The stupidity of such a statement is no less glaring than its pitiful thanklessness. Has Mr. O'Connell forgotten the adulation with which he declared that he looked! to English sympathy, and to English sympathy alone, for effecting this measure of emancipation, at a time when he, indeed, " crooked the pregnant hinges of the knee, where thrift might follow fawning ?" He now tells us, speaking of the achievement of religious freedom for Ireland, " her hereditary bondsmen did it, and here I am who led them on." Is it not ludicrous to the last degree, when one remembers the long list of illustrious names who assisted in preparing the public mind for this great concession, and who finally accomplished what nothing but their vast talents and 'untiring energy could have succeeded in doing—is it not, we say, in finitely ludicrous, with a recollection of these great men fresh in our minds, to find such a person as O'Connell pointing to himself and his " hereditary bondsmen" as the sole successful strivers in a cause which, in point of fact, they and they alone have dis honoured and degraded ? If the Agitator be thus com placent as to the past, he is no less positive in his com mands as to the future in regard to Lord Melbourne. He says that no Minister ever had so glorious a career before him. There is nothing, according to him, that Lord Melbourne may not do ; but then comes a long list of things which that unhappy Minister must do, in obedience to his taskmaster. In the very words of the letter "he must satisfy the rational portion of the English people." (This looks much like a mauvaise plaisanterie asking his Lordship to retire.) " He must content the English and Scotch Dissenters ; they ask only for justice.' He must become the ad vocate of an increased and extended franchise. He must content to shorten the duration of Parliaments. - He must not shrink from the ballot. Above all, he must prepare for the conflict with the Lords." When read ing this preposterous nonsense, we know not which to admire more, whether the bloated vanity of the insane scribbler, or the unparalleled baseness of the Adminis tration which can submit to he so schooled by any man whatever. In truth, the lazy leader of the Lords, and the little leader of the Commons, have a very pretty session's work carved out for them by the burly bigot who keeps them in their places. Extension of the is the best answer to the insinuation thrown out by Sir James Graham, that there was a re-action in Cumberland. The speeches delivered by Major Aglionby, who is Chairman of the Quarter Sessions, and by Mr. Howard, of Greystoke, show that in East Cumberland, at least, there has been no compromise with the Tories. Mr. James himself is a Reformer of the most decided character. He advocates the Bal lot, short Parliaments, Church Reform, and, above all, Peerage Reform. He stated his opinions without reserve or hesitation, and expressed in glowing terms his unabated zeal in the cause of reform, and his de termination to support the present liberal Administra tion. Major Aglionby proposed Sir James Graham in 1832, but refused to propose him at the last elec tion. Mr. Howard, of Grevstoke, who seconded Major Aglionby; is nephew of the Duke of Norfolk, and both these gentlemen, as well as Mr. James, declared for Peerage and all the other Rgforms to which the Tories are opposed. " On the hustings - (says the Car lisle Journal) were some of the largest and most res pected landowners in the county, and the most extensive manufacturers. Are these signs of reaction ? Do these afford tokens of public approbation of the part taken by Sir James Graham against the Ministry of Lord Melbourne ? " The strongest feeling was manifested by the electors against the part taken by Sir James Graham, and we are assured that it is hardly possible to conceive the extent of his unpopularity in East Cumberland. A man is often the last to hear infor mation unpleasant to himself, and it is possible, there fore, that Sir James may not have heard that the only re-action in Cumberland is the general determination of the electors to shut him out from the representation of the eastern division of that county. It is in cotem plation, we undersiand, to bring forward Lord John Russell at the next dissolution in opposition to the Right Hon. Baronet. This intention is alluded to in the Tory journal, the Carlisle Patriot. The door at all events, may be considered shut against Sir James Graham ; and the electors of East Cumber land cannot better manifest their attachment to Reform and their determination to support a Reform Ministry, than by sending Lord .John into the House of Com mons. A perusal of the admirable speeches at this election will serve to show with how little reason the Tories boast of the impression their sophistries have made on the country. The plain good sense of the Cumberland manufacturers and yeomen is proof against all their arts. They see that the Tories are fighting for the power of plundering the people at home and abroad. Major Aglionby described their views in a most forcible manner.—Morning Chronicle. Had the Peers known their own interests—had they not been drunk in the delirium of usurped dominion, and blind to the most manifest indications of their danger, they would have made any sacrifice, short of the total abdication of their legislative privilege, rather than have allowed the question of Peerage Reform to have been brought under public discusssion. The more the principle of an hereditary Senate be examined, the more obviously absurd and indefensible must appear its constitution. Already are men surprised that such a monstrous system should so long have been suffered to outrage the reason, and oppose the interests of an enlightened people ; and those who but a few months since called out merely for a reform of time House of Lords, begin now to inquire the use of its existence at all, and ask, if "one Chamber represent, which, if pro perly elected, it would do, the wisdom, property, in terests, intelligence, worth, and honesty of a nation, must not a second Chamber be at best supererogatory ? —even if it be equally wise and virtuous, must it not be an obstruction and delay to public business ? —if it be less wise or virtuous, must it not be a' nuisance ? and if it be neither wise nor virtuous, but imbecile and wicked, having neither the honesty to con cede the demands of justice, nor the acuteness to per ceive its own danger in withholding them, must - -not the public good and its own safety be best promoted by removing it from its position ill the legislature ?" These are questions which are now earnestly discussed, not so much in the public press, as in the social inter course of the country—in those debates—those inter changes of thought, whereby individual opinion diffuses itself through masses and directs their action, and whereby the public mind is whetted and prepared for a great movement. The spirit of these communings is much inflamed by the insensate advocates of the recent proceedings of the House of Lords, who recklessly in stitute a comparison, or rather contrast, between here ' ditary and representative government—who, in order to defend the Lords, attack the Commons—who seem de sirous to compensate by profusion of abuse and false hood the lack of argument and truth—and dare even to call upon the people to support the House of Lords in trampling upon their own representatives. In this respect the Tory press, by its folly and wickedness, is plunging the 1 - louse of Lords deeper and deeper still in the contempt and hatred of the country—its abuse in flames the apathetic, while its sophistry is too feeble to enmesh the most inane. Let us briefly examine the manner in which Peerage Reform was discussed dur ing the last week by the most abandoned journal in Eu rope. The first argument or assertion put forth by the Times is, that were it not for the House of Lords the majority of the House of Commons would exercise, without controul, the whole Legislative and Executive functions. In reply to this we ask, where ought the Legislative authority to be vested, if not in the repre sentatives of the people ? Will it be contended that the opinion of the minority should be the rule of legis lation, and not that of the majority ? If the House of Commons represent the people, the will of its majo rity should be law—and if the House of Commons do not represent the people, the elective franchise should be extended until the public will be fully embodied and expressed in that aseembly. As to the executive functions, they could not, consistently with the dispatch of public business, be vested in any assembly, but the right of appointing the executive is imprescriptibly the people's. To deny this would be to strike at the tenure by which our present gracious Sovereign holds his sceptre. So that the House of 'Lords, in opposing and controling the majority of the House of Com mons, evince hostility both to the people and to the Monarch, and prove the magnitude of the danger to be apprehended if they be not speedily coerced into an acquiescence with public opinion. The next asser tion of the Times is, that one reform of the House of Lords. ,would not give satisfaction, but that we should have another and another, till its total abolif tion. And " thus the science of government would retrograde thousands of years." Successive changes will no doubt be necessary in the constitution of the Lords. and Commons, but nothing can hasten the total abolition of the House of Peers more than its opposition to popular claims and the nega• tion of all reform in its own body. To leave the House of Lords unreformed is to rest under the despotic sway of its barbarous origin, and keep up a perpetual barrier to general improvement. But while we are threatened with a retrogade movement of "thou sands of years," we are invited to take example from Greece and Rome, and to abjure popular authority. The Times makes a most singular prophecy when it states, in reference to the abolition of the peerage, Thus the boasted Constitution of this once great, once glorious country, would dwindle into the worst of all tyrannies—a sordid oligarchy." So that even by the Times' own shewing, the utmost stretch of its imagination could conjure up no vision more dreadful or horrible than the representation of the present posi tion of the country—prostrate under the " worst of tyrannies—a sordid oligarchy." What greater en couragement can be given to innovation than this , which, in the logic of the Times, proves that we can not be under a worse system than we are. The com munity are next called upon to " consider well what uld be o the t consequence of their necks being sub jectedyoke of three or four hundred irrespon sible tyrant Commoners, elected for seven years, and with the means of continuing their reign for ever by merely voting it perpetual." Now if the community wish to appreciate the extent of the evil thus held in they have merely to review the t error em before them, last session, and consider the consequence of having their necks subjected to the yoke of three or four hundred tyrannical and irresponsible Lords, appointed not for seven years, but for ever, through their whole generation. Here the Times again unintentionally ad mits that the worst possible result of vesting the sole power in the House of Commons, even if its members could perpetuate their authority which they could not, would be at least as good as what is to be expected franchise; which Lord John Russell declared to be finally fixed by that Reform Bill which he was per mitted to father—a shortening of Parliament, which, with their usual trickery, the Whigs declared to be no longer necessary as soon as they had fixed themselves in office—the concession of the ballot, against which many of them spoken, and all of them voted, since they have been in power ; and, above all, that conflict with the Lords, the object of which is assuredly the greatest and most pregnant of the organic changes which Lord John Russell has publicly declared, in Parliament and out of it, he never would consent to; — all this is not submitted to the option of Lords Mel bourne and Russell, it is not offered to them as what may be, but what must be, done, or the peasant hand that raised them up will assuredly hurl them down. The Lambs are proverbially a gentle race in the order of creation, and the Russells have manifestly dwindled down to the extremest point of diminution in the per son of the present Home Secretary, and thus these two leading Members of his Majesty's Govecument may be dead to the deplorable debasement of standing in the nation's eye as the cowering creatures of an -Irish demagogue. But we appeal to the robust and manly mind of England, and that with the fullest confidence, when asking if any Minister of this country was ever before subjected to such dictation as that which we de nounce ; and whether any Minister, submitting to it, ought to be permitted to preside over the destinies . of a free and independent people ? Mark the position assigned to the Prime Minister of England by the Chief rebel 'of Ireland ; for we contend that the overthrow of the House of Lords is an act of un questionablerebellion against the Constitution." If," he says, "Lord Melbourne will but conduct and manage that necessary organic change—if he will combine in hii-olarn person the popular leader with the Kirig's Miuisier, the transition wilL be easy, and safe, -and secure from. social change or individual misery.". • Here is a combination not very devoutly to be wished, but very definite as to its import. But we fear Lord Melbourne will be startled, and shrink from the ener getic activity required of him. He is to combine the popular leader with the King's Minister I The latter character he has abundantly proved his ability to fill, so long as nothing is required of him but to 101 l on the Ministerial benches, with the occasional variation of vapid, vulgar, and frivolous speech-making in reply to questions beyond his industry, if not above his un derstanding. But to be a " popular leader" requires something more than this ; and the combination of the two characters would leave but little space for such innocent and interesting speculations as whether Mary Magdalen were, or were not, the most virtuous of her sex. To such strenuous exertion we are con vinced that Lord Melbourne will never submit, unless the Agitator should effect in his Lordship, indi vidually, as great an organic change as that with which he impotently menaces the order of the Peerage gene rally. After some, to say the truth, not unmerited puffs of his pet Peer, and appointed Lord-Lieutenant, Lord Mulgrave—after charging that Noble Lord with " vigorous exhibition of common sense, with a manly display common honesty," Daniel gives a description of himself, not intentionally, we admit, but so truly that we cannot but extract it. He speaks of an illus trious assembly being, as they certainly are not, and as his bigotted and besotted slaves, with equal certainty, are, " led on by the most base of mankind, sustained by the most selfish of the human race, and encouraged by the least chivalrous but most daring of successful adventurers." It were impossible to heighten this self portraiture ; we therefore leave it to the appreciation and approval of all who have any knowledge, political or personal, of Mr. Daniel O'Connell.-L-Tinzes. There appeared in our columns the other day a re port of the sale by auction of a captured slave-ship at the Captain's room at Lloyd's, the last slave-vessel that can be so put up to sale within his Majesty's dominions, since, by a- very proper alteration of the law, it is required that, for the future, all prizes of this sort shall not be sold, but broken up, the only way of effectually preventing the possibility of such vessels being again employed in the. abominable traffic which has so long ravaged one quarter of the globe to sup ply the "man-degrading marts" of another With human black cattle. Our readers may recollect that some time ago we gave in our Private Correspondence an account of the capture of the slave-ship in question, the Cazador, and the proceedings with regard to it, which were of rather a peculiar nature, in the Vice- Admiralty Court at Gibraltar. We commented upon the proceedings at the time, with the view of direct ing the attention of the Government at home to a case in which there seethed to be some danger of a failure of justice in regard to the claims of the real captors. In order to the effectual sup pression of the slave trade, it is necessary that those who are engaged in capturing slave-vessels should have the fullest confidence that they shall not be deprived of the rewards which the law attaches to all successful efforts to abate this horrible nuisance. But something more energetic ought to be done, than anything that has yet been attempted, for the extirpa tion of a traffic so afflicting to humanity, and so dis graceful to the civilized world. The capturing a slave ship now and then, and condemning it under a mixed Commission, has had very little effect indeed in abat ing the nuisance. It is now ascertained that on the average no less than 100,000 Africans are imported as slaves in Brazil every year, many of them by Spanish and some by English adventurers ! The suf ferings to which these unfortunate beings are sub jected are much greater now of course than before the trade was declared to be contraband—a diaboli cal ingenuity has contrived the most extraordinary modes of concealment, at the expense of great addi tional torture to the slaves. Why should Mr. Fowell Buxton and his party be so remiss—so apathetic as they have recently been in regard to the exten sive carrying on of the slave trade, in fact, though prohibited by law ? Much remains to be done before the blood-stained commerce can be put down, which bars a vast portion of the African continent against the entrance of civilization, and delivers it up to unceasing desolation, misery, and crime ! Why are not armed steam vessels sent into those creeks and harbours on the south-eastern coasts of Africa, where the nests of slave-pirates are known to be established, and where these infamous wretches carry on their detestable traffic with an impunity similar to that which was so long en joyed by the Barbary States in dealing in Christian slaves ? It was at' the instigation of some of those slave-pirates that the late enterprising and lamenied Richard Lander and his party were butchered, while endeavouring to introduce legitimate commerce into Africa. Why, we say, does our. Government content itself with lopping off a shoot now and then from this upas tree of crime, when it has the means of laying the axe to the root?—Morning Herald. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILIJHAL L. Reuben Gilbert, a lad in the service of Mr. Brown, of Great Carter-lane, was re-examined, charged with having inflicted a dangerous wound on a lady, as she was riding in a Mile-End omnibus, round . St. Paul's Church-yard, on Monday forenoon, since which time the prisoner has been detained in custody. The intervention of a false curl alone, it is believed, saved the lady's life. George Perry, the conductor of the omnibus, stated that the prisoner was drawing a truck, laden with coals, and, in passing the omnibus, some altercation occurred between him and the driver. The prisoner, in a fit of passion, threw a lump of coal, which, apparently, was intended to hit the driver, but it struck the lady, who was sitting near the door. She bled profusely from a wound on the temple, and after it had been dressed by a surgeon on the spot, she was sent home in a coach. Mrs. Trusler, the lady above-mentioned, said she still felt ill from the effects of the blow. The silk dress she wore, which was worth 61., was spoiled by the stains of blood. The prisoner said the omnibus came so near his truck, that he called out, " Where are you coming to ?" and the driver answered, that he would smash him and truck too, at the same time catching his wheel. This aggravated him (the prisoner) to throw the piece of coal. The Magistrates (Mr. Alderman KELLY and Sir CHAP MAN MARSHALL) said they bad no doubt the injury was inflicted accidentally on the lady, but the prisoner must be taught that persons were not permitted to take the law into their own hands. If the omnibus driver behaved ill, the prisoner should have applied to a Magistrate, and not have resorted to a course which had nearly deprived a person of life. They concurred in fining him 51., or to be imprisoned three months, unless he chose to pay the lady 31. as a com pensation for some of the damage he had done. The prisoner was locked up. s - --..-- - _ The driver of Chancellor's Chelsea omnibus, No. 1963, Mr. LAING—Then I shall send for your wife, and intro attended to answer the complaint of a gentleman named duce that young lady to her. Kingdon, for giving him a box on the ear, as he was getting Prisoner (sighing)—There is no necessity for that your out of the omnibus in Ludgate-street, on Thursday last. Worship ; she knows all about it. My son has told her The complainant said he was getting out of the vehicle the predicament lam in. sideways with his back to the conductor, when the latter A gentlemanly-looking young man here stood forward , gave him a blow on the ear which knocked his hat off. and said that he was Mr. Mullard's son. After some discussion about the facts, M r . Kingdon, in Mr. LAING—WeII, what have you to say o n behalf consideration of the defendant's family and low wage s, and of y our father? Son—That l am ashamed of his conduct. long service, consented that he should be let off with paying Mr. LAING—I should think so too. D o you know the only the costs and apologizing, which terms the conductor female ? The son said he did ; adding, that his father had thankfully accepted. met with her at a party the night previous, and when it broke up he undertook to escort the young woman safe home. Mr. LAING—And the constable, you see, had to escort them to the station-house—(Laughter.) (To the female.) Have you anything to say ? Female—l am very sorry. Mr. LAING—Are you married or single ? Female (crying)—l am unmarried. Mr. LAING—Let me know where you live, and how you support yourself ? Female—l occupy apartments at Battle bridge, and am a dress-maker. Mr. LAING—You may now go about your business. And as for you (male prisoner), I shall leave the settling of the matter, as regards yourself, to your wife. I also dis charge you. The defendants left the office greatly abashed. BOIT-STREET. Three men, named Mitcham, Evans, and Jones, who were charged on a former day with stealing money, to the amount of about 201., from the house of Mr. Tessier, the landlord of the Craven Head public-house, Drury-lane, were brought up for re-examination. Mr. Payne, the barrister, now appeared for Mitcham and Jones ; while a clerk to Mr. Tomlins, of Hatton-garden, appeared for Evans. Mr. MINSHULL thought there was no evidence against Evans or Jones, and ordered them to be discharged. . Mr. Tessier, however, stating that he had reason to be lieve that on a future day he could produce some further evidence against Mitcham, he was remanded until Wed nesday. THAMES- OFFICE. Elizabeth Forward, a respectable woman, the wife of a baker and confectioner, in High-street, Shadwell, was charged with stabbing William Webb, a carman. From the complainant's statement it appeared that, on the 2 6 t 1 ' ult., he was passing prisoner's shop, when, seeing her stand ing beside a basket of oysters, he put his hand on het:, shoulder, and said, " How do you sell your oysters ? When he walked a few yards he felt some one stab him on the back, and on turning round found it was the prisoner. It was done with an oyster-knife. He was taken into her shop, when she said, in answer to a question from com plainant why she had done it ? it was because he had taken indecent liberties with her. He denied this, when she said, " Then somebody else did so." He was taken to the hos pital, where he had been ever since. The prisoner said she had stabbed complainant in the heat of the moment, be having taken an improper liberty, with her. The complai n ' ant's statement was confirmed by l twO Other poisons. The solicitor for the prisoner said 11 . e .had two viitnesses to prove that Webb had behaved indecently towards her. The Magistrate said that would be a matter of defence, into which he had no business to enter. Bail was then tendered for the prisoner to any amount , the solicitor contendinc , that it was a doubtful case. Mr. BRODERIP said, the fact . of the prisoner stabbing the man was clearly proved. He refused to accept of bail, and committed the prisoner for trial on the capital charge. She was much affected, and went into strong hysterical fits. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVED AT LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 3. The Spencer, Wilson, from Berbice; Favourite, Hora n ' Ball de Banderes; Indian, Borthwick, Pernambuco; TallY Ho, Nicholson, Virginia; Abercrombie, Ford, Quebec ; Bra zilian, Trieste. ENTERED FOR LOADING, SEPT. 3. The Clemente, Thell, for Antwerp; Liv e rpool, ROW' Bahia; Combatant, M'Kenzie, Halifax; Crusader, Smith , Honduras; Splendid, Proal, New York; Emerald, Prindle, New York ; Donna Maria, Steel, Oporto; Indian, Fox, St. John's, New Brunswick. CLEARED OUTWARDS, SEPT. 3. The Angelina, Boke, for Rotterdam ; Southampton, Briggs' Lima; Regular, Bond, Madeira; Fame, Bond, Genoa; Elizabeth, Dick, Africa; Cambyses, Hutchinson, Rio Janeiro; Betsy, Lisbon ; Lady Campbell, Johnson, Demerara ; Vros' Henrietta, Rotterdam Wilhelmina, Boke, Brake ; Indian , Fox, St. John's, New Brunswick ' • Calcutta, Raisbeck, Dal housie; Asia, White, Quebec ; Royal William, Calcutta; Matilda, Marseilles; Matilda, Wandle, Marseilles; Selina, Luckie, Calcutta; Asia, Hannah, Dalhousie ; Argo, Elsineur; Catherine Derothea, Brake. SAILED. The Oriental, Scales, for Calcutta ; Alexander Savin, Ohrt, St. Petersburgh ; Jane, James, Miramichi ; Loyal Briton, Ram, Riclaebucto ; St. Patrick, Bruen, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Sir H. Parnell, St. Petersburgla Niagara, Howes, Boston; Redbreast, Millard, C ons t an ti n ople; F rank ' Harrison, Jamaica ; Cyrus Buller, Martin, Charleston ; Ariel, Dye, Smyrna; St. Lawrence, Chace, Philadelphia; Lessiug. Newman, Stettin ; England, Write, New York ; Tropic , Rickett, New York ; Ann Gale, Pictou ; Myrtle, Couch, Alicant ; Nightingale, Crookshank, Bahia; Russell Baldwin' Magna, New York ; Louisa, Trueman, New York ; Emulous; Mumford, New Yord. Notwithstandi ng the outcries made in Demerara l a ' specting the conduct of the apprenticed labourers, it 10w appear, from the following statement published in the jo y Gazette of that colony, that the new system has not 'Qv: l " h ,, so badly as som e interested persons there would fain make t world believe. The following is the respective quantities °, sugar produced in British Guiana in the years 1833, WO' and 1835 : In 1833 1834 1835 for Showing an increase in 1835, the second year of the &pp— ticeship, over 1833, the last year of slavery, of 8,479,47.311)%e A SHOCK FOR MISS MARTINEAII.-0 0 i e j 29th of August the wife of a journeyman carpenter, Ott e r Jame?, Penfold, residing at No. 5, Leicester-place, 1 - 4° 74 Tooting, Surrey, gave birth to two fine girls. These_ br i tbe the number of her children to 17, which she has borne 11 , v be short space of 11 years,—having had nine at four births- mother is 29 years of age. a MOZART.—A subscription has just been openc . a Salzburg, the native place of this illustrious composer, to 1 1 4 1 5 9 0 a monument to his memory. His widow is still living. 0 first funds have been raised by a concert, at which nutn er° o admirers of the genius of Mozart assisted. The r esult o _, t most gratifying. No doubt the example will be foll ow"' throughout Europe. , 1 „, ! a PLAGIARISIII.—A mod ern dramatist pro,--e of piece with some success, the pl o t, i nc id en t s , an d even sow g e_A the dialogue of which were t a k en f rom an uns uccessful early drama by Mr. R The latter, considerabli so„ noyed at the unacknowledged plagiarism, complained :130 mutual friend, who d e f en d e d t h e b orrower , sa ying, ge taken your old drama, it is true, but then, my dear sir,lvi how he has impr ove d i t ." " Y es , b ut d_ n it, sir," reel e R., " If a fellow steals my old boots its no answer to ed. . charge of felony th a t h e a ft erwar d s go t th em soled and be e ' s —New Monthly Magazine. PLATE FOR HIRE.—A' LARGE ASSOIIOI AIENT OF PLATE is kept exclusively for LENDING; portion of which may be had for the use of Parties, Diaperso,rkiiig at a very moderate charge, from T. COX SAVORY'S , w_ n doe• Goldsmith, Silversmith, and Watchmaker, 47, Cornhill , N.B. A pamphlet maybe had gratis, containing a List of the ri of Plate. Plated Goods, Watches, Clocks, &c. VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT THE CUS" TOM-HOUSE, SEPT. 3. The Queen Adelaide, Fox, from Havre ; Columbine, Strannack, Hamburgh; Fame, Aslett, Guernsey; Susann a ' Muscatt, Cette; IIP Hayes, Crawford, Riga; Mary, Manger , Jersey; Laurel, Ives, Cadiz ; Coquette, Hinds, St. Lucie' Eurios, Byers, Montreal; Louisa, M'Cutcheon, Batavia; Hope, Sughure, St. Kitts. ENTERED OUTWARDS, SEPT. 3. The Genoa Packet, Miller, for Berbice; Kingston, Hor ton, Barbadoes; Amy, Christie, Lisbon; Cater, Morels, Dunkirk; African Packet, Young, Valparaiso; Kent, Tune , Boulogne • William Jolliffe, Middleton, Calais; Ramon a, Bridge, Rotterdam; Helen Mar, Hammond, Montreal. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO, SEPT. s' The Batavier, Dunlop, for Rotterdam; Cater, Merrell' Dunkirk; William Jolliffe, Middleton, Calais; Heroes, Fail lant, Calais; Lord Hawkesbury, Overton, Ostend; Wha r " finger, Cousens, gotterdam; Adventure, Stevens, Lisbo n ; Liberty, Paine, Boulogne ; Colombia, Clearing, Trinidad. CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST, SEFT. 3. The Baltic Merchant, Brown, for St. Petersburgh ; Smith, Quebec; Venus, Carr, Constantinople; Hope, C° l.l ' sens, Harlingen ; Christiania, Wilkie, Riga. MARYLEB ONE: Captain Henry Bell, alias Stewart, (a military officer on half-pay), a dashingly-dressed young man, residing in the , Hampstead-road, was placed at the bar for final examina tion on the charge of having plundered taverns, lodging houses, billiard-rooms, &c., of property to a considerable amount, and the office was literally crammed with witnesses, &c., bringing with them many of the articles stolen. The first case gone into was preferred by Mr. Samuel Hunt, the proprietor of extensive billiard-rooms at 109, Quadrant, and from the evidence given it appeared that on the 28th ult. the prisoner entered one of the rooms as above, and began knocking the balls about with his cane, and during the absence of Mr. Hunt's son, who went below4O deliver a message to the boy, he (the prisoner) escaped unperceived from the premises, taking with him .three balls, which it was subsequently ascertained that he had pledged . ion the ' same day for eight shillings, at the shop of Mr. Fitaem, a' pawnbroker in Oxford-street, in the name 'of Charles Mor ton, ,St. Jame's.street: The prisoner, in reply, said that the balls were his own, and that he had purchased six of them for half a sovereign. The next charge against him was for robbing Mr. Thomas Jackson, of the Globe, Bow-street, of a silver tea-spoon and five mus tard ditts, on the 26th ultimo, on which occasion he walked into a dining-room up stairs, and called for a plate of pie ; having eaten it and quitted the house, the disco very was quickly made that he had taken from the several tables the articles in question, upon which on the same af ternoon, he obtained an advance of 10s. at Mr. Hedge's, Drury-lane. Mrs. Ann Elliott, with whom the prisoner some time ago lodged, in Somers' Town, proved that he had on leaving her house carried off a large table cloth and pawned it in Skinner-street. Mrs. Mortimer, of Duke street, Manchester-square, brought forward conclusive evi dence of the prisoner having during the period he lodged with her, stolen various articles of wearing apparel, and that at one period she preferred against him a charge at Hatton-garden office, but for want of sufficient proof he was acquitted. Mr. Shepherd, a billiard-table keeper in the New-road, established against the prisoner a charge of robbery, similar to that committed by him in the room of Mr. Hunt, in the Quadrant. A policeman said that on taking the prisoner into custody in the Hampstead-road, he found in his possession seventeen duplicates for different descriptions of property pledged. The prisoner was fully committed for trial on the whole of the charges. UEEN-SQUARE. EXTENSIVE PLATE ROBBERY.—AMCS Williams was placed at the bar, before Mr. BURRELL, charged with stealing a large quantity of plate, consisting of silver table and tea spoons, tea pot, wine strainers, &c., from the resi dence of Thomas ,Howard, Esq., of Herne-hill, Camber well. The prisoner had been observed on Thursday week singing ballads on the hill. In the evening of the same day it was discovered that the plate which had been on the side-board in the parlour had been carried off, and on in spection it was found that there had been a small hole cut in one of the panes of the parlour windows, and the fasten ing having been removed, the perpetrator of the robbery had entered from there. Mr. Davis, of the London-road, proved that the prisoner brought him the articles on the evening of the day the robbery was committed. He re fused to buy them ; and, believing that they were stolen, he sent for a constable and gave them into custody. On inquiry it was _ discovered that the plate belonged to Mr. Howard. The prisoner was*ommitted for trial. THE RIVAL OmNtsusEs.—Thonzas Watkins, driver of a Paddington omnibus, was brought up on a summons ob tained against him by a conductor of one of the New Company's vehicles, charged with the following gross mis conduct :—lt appeared. from the evidence of several wit nesses, that on Wednesday last, as the two omnibuses were proceeding to the Bank, complainant stopped at the end of Rathbone-place to take up a passenger, when defendant, who was annoyed at havinr , been previously passed by the other, started his horses, which gallopped off at full speed, and attempted to regain the lead, by dashing between com plainant's vehicle and the coach rank, without having half space enough to effect his object, the consequence of which was that the pole of the latter vehicle entered the sides of the former just above the seat on which several ladies were placed, to the extent of two or three feet, and had any one been seated at the precise spot at the period of the occur rence, the consequences must inevitably have been fatal. The defendant denied that he was going at a greater rate than seven miles an hour, and said that the accident could not have been prevented owing to the complainant pulling , up short, and omitting to give the usual signal of his inten tion to do so. Mr. HosxiNs, after censuring the conduct of the de fendant in very severe terms, ordered him to pay 40s. for the offence, and 30s. for the damage done, together with all costs. UNION-HALL. An apprentice to a tailor was charged by his master with absentinc , himself from his work, and " sporting his figure" about the west end, with his hair curled, and an eye-glass suspended to a broad piece of ribbon. His clothes were also made up in the first style, and he looked, as the mas ter termed it, " a regular swell." On being remonstrated with the defen'dant put his glass to his eye, surveyed his master from head to foot, and, with the most ineffable con tempt, said he should do a day's work when it suited him. In reply to the Magistrate the apprentice said his hair curled naturally, he never employed a barber ; and as to his dressing fashionably, his master ought to be proud of it than otherwise. He certainly did take a stroll about the west end of an afternoon, which was, in his opinion, better than going to a public-house. After some further conversation the defendant was taken back by his master, the Magistrate intimating that if he was brought there again he would be sent to the treadmill. W OR SHIP- STREET. A boy named Charles Curtiiwas charged with administering a quantity of vitriol to his sister. The occurrence took place a week since, but was not made known to the Magistrate until Friday, who hearing . that the girl was in a dangerous state, went to the 'place to take her deiitiSitiOn. From this it appeared that the girl was with her mother, a widow, who keeps an oyster-stall, when her brother (the prisoner) told her that up-stairs she would find a bottle with ginger beer in it, which she might drink if she would. She was nursing a baby at the time, and went up stairs, when finding a bottle such as her brother had described, she drank great part of the contents, but immediately felt a violent burning in her throat, and exclaimed to her brother, " Oh, Charles, you told me it was ginger -beer, but it is vitriol !" The girl was taken to a surgeon who administered such remedies as he deemed necessary, and there was reason to believe she would recover, but the case had since assumed so unfavour able an aspect that the patient was in great danger. Mr. BROUGHTON, the Magistrate, regretted that the girl had not been taken to an hospital, and it was now ar ranged that she should be taken to St. Bartholomew's. The young prisoner, in defence, said he did not think his sister would drink the stuff, which had been given him by an uncle, to clear his hands from stains. lie was remanded. HATTON-GARDEN. ESCORTING HoME—Alexander Mullard and Sarah Paine, were brought before Mr. LAING, under the follow ing circumstances : Policeman Kerr stated, that between one and two o'clock in the mornirw, he was walking across the Britannia-fields, Islington, and nearly tumbled over the prisoners, who were lying upon the grass, and so earnestly kissing and fondling each other that they were unconscious of his approach. He thought such a ssignations highly improper, and consequently considered it his duty to take them into custody to try their right of behaving in that manner. Mr. LAING (to the man) —Pray how old are you ? Prisoner—Siity - five. Mr. LAING—And how old are you, Miss ? Prisoner (crying and holding down her head)—Nineteen, Sir. Mr. LAING—WeII, upon my word, these are pretty goings on. You (to the male defendant) I presume have a wife ? Prisoner_l have, Sir. Mr LAING—But the female by your side is not her, I guess ? Prisoner (putting his hand to his forehead) —She she is not. 1 • al Mr. LAING—What are you, and where do you live Prisoner—l am a jeweller, and reside in Red Lion-stree Cletkenwell. • MARRIED. rec to; On the 30th ult., at Meldon, the Rev. John E. Shadwell, lio r 0 1 of All Saints, Southampton, second son of the Vice-Chance Ssq• England, to Emma Donna, second daughter of Isaac Cookson, of Meldon-park, Northumberland. On the Ist inst., at Pagam, Sussex, the Rev. 'William C°‘ o li e l r i, Johnson, of Merton College, Oxford, B. A., to Catherinet,t ot child of the late George Taylor, Esq., of IVI 'cl Asr t i Devon. te I On the 30th ult., at Whatley, Somerset, Mr. Charles S to . 0 only date Clarke, of Bristol, solicitor, to Elizabeth Hurle, o t the late J. A. Shore, Esq., of Whae t 0 11 • , eldes t ix , On the 31st ult., at Liverpool, George Loch, Esq. James Loch, Esq., M.P., to Cath •eldest Catherine, daughter 0, Brandreth, M.D. Pt Ocala: an ge, in the cow., On the 29th ult., at St. Pancras Church, J. E l - V ' ds'ig" Esq., East India Company's Service, to Susan Eliza, eldes vorel ter of Richard Y. Vance, M.P., urgeon to the Forces,' Gower-street. 100 1 : • On the 3d inst., at Walthamstow, the Rev. HenrY danfr Creed, Vicar of Corse, Gloucestershire, to Elizabeth, eldest cjiet . O ter of John Mabank e , Esq., of Chri tl urst Surrey, an d r • G. Mtiquay, Esq., of Cheltenham. s 1 ' / ham. --------------' ..., E. On the 13th u lt. , J o h n Low D , I son D of James Low, Gra cechigre street, aged 18 years and 6 months. On the Ist inst., at Lodge-place, S. F : 1 - 1e1::22: __-----"rt London : Printed and Published by AfURDO YO"'"' c ol 112, Strand, at The Sea Office, No. 112, Strand, WWI of Middlesex. • BIRTHS. , fo On the Ist inst., in Park-crescent, the Baroness de Lag" a son. it f. r• On the 2d inst., in New Burlington-street, the wife of '''' Tupper, Es., inst., at North of a dauter. On the I q st Bank, Re ent's-P ark, Mrs. CVO' pher Fryer, of a son. g On the 28th ult., the lady of R. Hawthorn, Esq., of a s .v on• d ' or On the 2d inst., at Page-green, Tottenham, Mrs. W . " f a son. Al° On the 2d inst., in Old Burlington-street, the lady of .-- I. ' of a daughter. a ey, newsven e t reg' On the 3d inst., the wife of W. W lkl hels d r of a daughter. __.------