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

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Ditto Constituted 9% Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux, 1 paid Paris and Rouen. 20 paid SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. GLOBE —Game preserving is, no doubt, espe cially in the case of country gentlemen, a great allevia tion to the miseries which flow from idleness and in digestion. Even our gravest senators find the slaughter of the battue a very agreeable recreation after the fatigues of a Parliamentary campaign. We would not needlessly curtail the amusements of the rich, any more than we would deprive the poor of those sports which tend to re lieve the monotony of continued labour. It is well, however, to inquire, in all cases where simply the amusements of life are concerned,- whether they are, in any way, prejudicial either to those who indulge in them, or to those who are not permitted to partake of them. If an amusement be found the subject of very stringent legislation—an amusement to be exclusively enjoyed by the wealthy—above all, if we find this amuse ment the source of a great amount of crime—it is well, under such circumstances, to reflect whether right feeling and sound policy—both which will inva riably aim at securing the good of the community— do not indicate the abandonment of what is a mere selfish gratification, seeing that gratification can only be obtained by the infliction Of suffering, and the prompting of crime in others. 'We do conscientiously believe that never, in modern times, was a series of enactments framed of a tendency more injurious to the morals of the labouring classes in the agricultural dis tricts than are the existing game-laws. Well did the late justly-venerated Dr. Arnold demand of our National Church, why it shrunk from " exposing the wickedness of the spirit which could maintain the game laws ? " Ha well knew them to be some of the bitter dregs of that system which, in days of yore, laid waste whole villages to extend the "game preserves" of some local tyrant, and made the pursuit of a wild ani mal by a peasant an offence to be expiated only by death. Of bite years there has, happily, been a considerable ameliora ion of the criminal code. There has been an increasing feeling that the ends of justice may be attained more certainly by lowering the amount of punishment, as much as is consistent with the purposes for which penalties are inflicted on offenders against the laws. As regards the most venial offences, how ever, there has not hitherto been a proportionate relaxation in the penalties. A child is detected in picking up a few apples from under the trees of an orchard, and is sent to prison for a month, there to associate with hardened offenders, and to be trained for the adroit commission of frauds and felonies. Scarcely a day passes, but the reports of the police-courts and of the quarter sessions supply instances of the dispro portien between the wrongful act and the amount 01 punishment inflicted for minor offences. It is, how ever, to the game-laws that we at present confine our remarks. The ferocious statutes which disgraced our land in days of comparative barbarism have, it is true, been repealed. But much, far too much, of their exe crable spirit still remains. The trespasser on the rights of game is still classed with the hardened robber, and treated as if their crimes were equally prejudicial to the welfare and stability of society ! Can any human enactments ever persuade the poor—nay, will they ever convince candid and considerate men in any walk of life—that their cases nee similar ? We earnestly hope the day is not far distant when the example set by somepatriotic noble men and gentlemen will be pretty generally followed. We shall then see landlords discharging their game keepers, and freely allowing their tenantry to share in the amusement of destroying those wird birds and animals which frequent the lands they cultivate, and often consume a considerable por tion of the fruits of their husbandry. The Duke of Bedford, it is stated, has given his tenantry fife permission to treat rabbits as rats ; and to shoot, or take them in any way, as marauders whose ravages ere a fearful drawback from the farmer's gains. If really desirous of improving the condi tion of the poor, Lord John Manners, and the other leaders of the " Young England" party, should assail the game-laws, as among the worst engines of oppression, by which the poor are ground down to the earth by the unthinking rich. So sanguine are w e as to the feeling which now pervades the more cnlightered portion of the community on this subject, as to feel assured that, were a Bill in troduced in the next session of Parliament—providing proper securities against trespass upon private lands, and other necessary protection against the wilful inva sion of personal property, but at the same time greatly modifying and am eliorating the game code, as it now exists—it would have the support of a majority in both Houses. Notwithstanding the force of deeply root ed prejudice with which it would have to contend, the voice ofpublic opinion would be raised in its favour. This would sustain its advocates in the conflict, and obtain for them and tbeir measure a certain triumph. The Government, through Sir James Graham, is pledged to inquiry. If the inquiry be an honest and searching investigation into the whole question, the result, though attained by a long preliminary process, will be convincing t o all who are not pre-determined to oppose the force of evidence. The humanity of the ege 'sill not longer permit the game-laws to work the extensive demoralization, and other forms of misery, of which they are notoriously the source. STAN DAll,l).—sk few days ago we announced that her Majesty had been graciously pleased to confer upon the Earl of Powis the order of the Garter, vacant by the Duke of Grafton's death. One would think that this simple affair of a favour, which the Queen must confer upon some one, being conferred upon a nobleman, it is by all admitted every way worthy of it, might be suffered to pass without pro voking malignant commentary; but no, one of the " Nothing if not critical " this morning makes the matter the subject of a dissertation, in which it ingeniously contrives to insult the Premier, the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, the Earl of Powis, and Lord Ashley. The Premier, it says, prostitutes the highest honours of the Crown, to corrupt the three n b' em es named; the noblemen being bri4eecl bythtee /vim ours to desert the causes of the parties who had corn mi t d themselves to their guidance and protestior. This is the plain meaning of the dissertation to which we refer, and to sit (I( wn to gravely answer such a charge wet Id be to ( e cend almost to the level of those who make it. What is the truth of the case ? Out of office and in office the present Frei-der has for many years had the zealous end must valuable support of the three distinguished No blAnen associated with him in the calumny referred to, and each of these Noblemen is, party claims aside, confessed to be entitled to the highest ho nours the Sovereign can bestow; but each has, upon one or other question, thought differently from Sir Robert Peel, and oppos e d him, it is n)t denied, with vigour and sincerity, upon that question on which each differed from him. The Prime Minister, supported by the Par liament, prevailed against each, but without any compromise on the part of him who was defeated. We may think the Prime Minister and his Parlia mentary majorities in the wrong—and in the case of the Factory Bill we do think them decidedly wrong —but they who think least favourably of the de cisions of Parliament upon the modifications of the corn-laws and the tariff, the suppression of the Welsh bishopric, and the Factory Bill, must surely o .-e an ;obligation to the noblemen by whom these decleiens were ingenuously, though unsuccessfully opposed. How, then, does the case stand ? Sir Robert Peel finds among his most zealous, most valuable, and his most honoured general sup porters, three noblemen who prove the honesty of their general supoport,. and, if possible, en hence him b as hence its value, b members of the independent lion u s t not as mem bers of a faction, upon Ties RobertN- lch they differ. how are they to act ? Is 1 ; l i to withhold from these noblemen the y : honours Peel which they have a fair claim, and which, but s for the isolated differences spoken of, he would be ex pected to offer to them; or are they, on the other hand, to reject the proffered honours, because coming from a Minister with whom they had each of them once differed? Would not such conduct on the part of a Minister, justly expose him to the charge of treating his supporters as slaves? Would not such conduct on the part of the three noble men prove a factious resolution to enslave the Minister ? Such is not the relation subsisting be tween Sir Robert Peel and his supporters ; they are cordially united in maintaining the same sound principles of government, but at the same time they are reciprocally independent. There is, we are aware, some novelty in this state of political relation ; but, though perhaps new, it is that which best suits the candid genius of our people and the free spirit of the British constitution. The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos received the Order of the Garter from Sir Robert Peel's Government, as his father had received the same order from Lord Liverpool's Government, and his grandfather received it from the Government of Mr. Pitt. We cannot go back to count all the garters in the Noble Duke's illustrious lineage, but putting one one side his Grace's royal ancestors, we do not hesitate to say that from John Chandos down ward, not one of their race ever presented higher personal claims to the favour of a Sovereign and to the gratitude of a patriotic Minister than its present representative. The Duke differed from the Premier upon a particular question, and thus differing, he felt it to be due to himself, to his colleagues who out-numbered him, and to his Sovereign, to resign the high office (the second or third, we believe, in dignity) which he held in the Cabinet; not resigning, however, in hostility or anger, but upon the plain and just ground that he would not be responsible for a measure or measures of which he disapproved, or exhibit to the country the fatal phenomenon of a Government divided upon any great question. Having disencumbered himself of office, the Duke gallantly fought the battle of his own opinions, and was beaten. Was he, therefore, to go into opposition, - and to enrol himself in a party with which he had a hundred living differences, in hostility to a Ministry with which he had had one difference, but that dead and buried ? Yet, without his Grace going into opposition, Sir Robert Peel could scarcely withhold from him the Garter, and he, without declaring a perpetual war, could as little refuse it. The case of the Earl of Pow is differs from the Duke of Buckingham in this that the Noble Earl had no office to surrender ; but, in other respects, it is nearly alike. The Premier does not proscribe the Earl of Powis because of a single difference; the Noble Earl does not feel that, by such a difference, he is "fore-doomed to wage perpetual war " against the Queen's government. But we now come to the most honoured and beloved nobleman in the United Kingdom, and the public man in the wide extent of that kingdom most worthy of honour and love. This description would at once point out Lord Ashley, even had we not mentioned him as involved in the slander that has challenged these remarks. Lord Ashley refused office, that he might be free to assert the claims of the factory labourers. He did assert those claims, with what ability and zeal the country knows ; and the country also knows how near he was to a complete victory. That he failed of that victory was surely no fault of his, but coula suspicion light upon the sincerity of such a man, what is there to support it ? Lord Ashley has received no Garter—no office—no favour of any kind. He refused office, as we have said, and still refuses office, though it would be as gratifying per sonally to the Sovereign as it would be to the country to see his Lordship in the highest station, and the bearer of the proudest ho nours. Is it not like the very wantonness of spiteful impertinence to affect to sneer at such a man as Lord Ashley ? We are rejoiced, however, that the offence has been committed, because Lord Ashley can easily bear such an attack, and the attack upon that nobleman brings out in the boldest possible relief the malice and the meanness of the writer with whom we have to deal. MINISTERIAL CIIANGES.—It is reported, in circles likely to be correctly informed, that Lord Haddington is about to retire as First Lord of the Admiralty, and that Lord Ellenborough will take his place. The fre quent interruptions of health to which Lord Hadding ton is subject, and which have materially impaired his official efficiency, renders his Lordship's retirement from office by no means unlikely ; while the desire which the Cabinet must feel to propitiate Lord Ellenborough before the meeting of Parliament, by providing him with a good post, in lieu of that from which his Lordship has been recalled, gives an air of probability to the latter portion of the rumour.—Evening paper. ' 4 ADVANCE OF WAGES AT OLDIIAM•-A few days ago, the spinners in the employment of Mr. J. Holden, Royton-lane mill, received, without solicitation, an ad vance of Bd. per 1,000 hanks.—Manchester Guardian. . - EQUICK WORK.—A young Lincoln gentleman, a noted shot, left Boulogne-sur-Mer, one morning last week, and in less than twenty-seven dours killed 51 brace of birds and travelled a distance of nearly 300 miles. So much for steam !—Lincolnshire Herald. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. 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. Ile 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. He (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 tier:fore 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 divi.ion , 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 them, having previously repeated his former request. Lord Ranelagh 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 nurnher, 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-constables 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 police." Mr. TWYFORD 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 occurred, 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 his 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. MARYLEBONE. 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 challenge to fight with swords, when Mr. L ONG , a f ter b e had perused the same, asked _a ptain Irvine (who admitted that the writing was his) what h e h ad to say ? t Captain Irvine—l have his to say, Si r , t h at I called on Captain 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 plaice. 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 fight 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 ? Mr. 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. QUEEN-SQUARE. 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 suspQcting 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 all 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 have 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 art account in the news papers that your sympathy and he public charity have been imposed on by a scamp of the name of Dl‘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 Duran, the secon 1 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 with 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 would 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 thrt 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. THAMES POLICE. On Tuesday a man named King was charged with breaking sixteen panes gla s s 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. He 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 s':uck 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. BALLA NTINE 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 " unshipping 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 100/. each. Mr. Pelham applied for a postponement 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. BALLANTINE ordered each defendant to enter into sureties, himself in 601. and two sureties of 30/. each, for their appearance this day. The report of Inspector White (of the Thames police) was, that alter sunset he saw a cart and horse come out of Wigrain's ship-yard, at I3lack 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 jewellery worth 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. lie afterwards saw Captain Macdonald in his own house, and informed tun of the seizure. The captain said it was a bad job, and asked White if it could be settled without an exposure. White said it could not, and arrested him on the part of the Crown. The value of all the goods seized is about 3501. 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. ComnE—Well, 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—L-And you refuse to receive her at your peril. Mr. Keys—lt is not our doing, but his own. Mr. COMBE—Not your floing ? Why, what do the people pay heavy rates for ? Is it that destitute lunatics may he 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. COMBE 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, an i stated that the authorities persisted in refusing to receive the lunatic. Mr. COMBE 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. Scarcely 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, Mr. Jeremy stated it to be his determination to put down, if possible, these sorts of cases, as they were as disgraceful to the parties who appeared in 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,4os. for using the language imputed to him, ss. the cost of witnesses, and 2s. costs. WANDSWOI?TH. Yesterday, a lad, about 14 years of age, was con victed of throwing stones at the trains passing on the South-Western Railway. Mr. Dalby, the superintendent of the railway po lice , said that there had latterly been a great 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. Inspector I3uisane 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 pri soner sa id s h e was a w idow, left with nine children, a n d s h e h ope d th e mag i s t r ate 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 serious offence. He considered 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 siic weeks. The prisoner was committed in default of payment. BROMLEY. (Before Viscount SYDNEY, the Rev. Sir C. FARNABY, Bart., and J. GOODHURST, Esq.) TREATMENT OF THE 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 3i. 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 amount. the wi n d ow , b The wife of the party summoned said she thought it was very hard that poor people like her and her husband should be put to the expense of a summons, when they were willing to pay without. She said theut h collector c h e a t ( o i r neverha d put applied e t r o a t h e e r t h f r o o r u gh 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 th •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 said the parish authorities hai asse3sed 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 ea rn ing 2i, - a lay. The i3Excit said the rate aid 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. Gd., 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. CRAFTER I.—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.—Or TILE 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. Are. 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 reals, 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 THE CRAMBER OF DEPUTIES. Art. 20. Each province 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 he 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 i nqu i re 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 rice-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. 31. 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 adapted 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 fiagrante delicto, but in this case they may be arrested atter the closing of the Cortes. Art. 40. Deputies accepting public places or ap pointments must be re-elected. CHAPTER VI.-OF THE SOVEREIGN. Art. 41. The person 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 tution and the Jaws. ! Art. 43. The Sovereign sanctions and promulgate 3 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 Ministers. - Art. 45. The Sovereign must be authorised by a special law to do 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 VIL—OF THE SUCCESSION TO THE THRONE. Art. 48. The legitimate Queen of Spain is Donna Isabella I[., 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 Cgovernment of the kingdom. HAPTER THB 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 Acta 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 Constitu 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. 59. 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 I.X.—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 he under the especial safeguard of the nation. CHAPTER XIII.—OF THE ARMED 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 Kilwinntng. 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, attrr ;ted 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 he apparently wished to be believed. 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 are marked at all bear the mark " B," as on the linen on his person.—Kilinarnock Herald. COLEURN'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE FOR No- VE3IBER.—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 Season." The portion of the" Tallevrano Papers" contained in this 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 " 110- 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. Leman Blanchard's paper, " Talk of the Devil— !" is a ha spy 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 Unifersal Providence As surance Company, and the consequent flight of the famous family of the llawkcs. 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 shilling 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 Pleura dc-lis and lions in the arches, a cross floury, 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 " Die gratin" appear on the English coins, for the first time in the reign of Edward lll.—Doncaster Chronicle. MARISCIIAL COLLEGE, ABERDEEN.—The Senatus Acadernicus 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 distingu;shed honour conferred upon him by his alma muter. MARRIED. h On the Bth of Jul, at the Cathedral Churc Gunning Seymer, Esq., Acting Principal, DI S• tion, to Avice, widow o f th e l a t e C ap t a i n IL pri s ,4 23d On the 9th of September, at theresidence nf self' Minister, near Thu n , S w it zer l an d, R o b er t Gre v otte l f of the late Major-G e n era l R o b er t C rau f u rd, to eldest daughter of the late Vice-Admiral Thor; veVi A te Oct. 22, at St. Nicholas Church, Bright )n, tu fth e 0 1 4 , Rhodes, of Leyton, Essex, to Louisa, daughter ° obh e 4 T. Peacock, Esq., of South Kynse, Lincolnshire,;eage Oct. 23, at Mongstown Church, Captain u p , 001 1 Rotertson, 25th Regiment Bombay Army, to JlifieEc° of Brabazon Neweorn en, Esq., of Camla, county ° „,fl__------ DIE. Oct. 24, at Lucknam, Wil ts, A ndrew Christia n , 4:7, Pla , Oct. 24, at Waltham-c ross , H arm an 1).7 0°12 Ai i Park-lane, aged 82. Jee lifil* P i Oct. 25, at the Cott age , R om f or d, Essex, o'fi l John Turner, Esq. lifiel el' pil , Oct. 25, at Greenwi c h, G race , th e wife o f Ch Esq., of Garthmeili e . , jobl i Ai d Oct. 25, at Brookla n d s , G rea t O a kl e y, Essex' elfr Esq., M.D. t JO w oo Oct. 25, Frances D oro th ea Sparrow, Yo e ”: ft• 0 6 4 Mr. T. Spa rrow , o f N ew N ort h -street , Red La ° f 6 Oct. 26, Mr. Colli er , Ri ver -t errace , Islingte l liot ° fo lil l Oct. 26, at Ludlo w , C a th er i ne , e ld e st daub., ~,r , i Henry Brown, E sq ., o f M ar i ne - square , Brig ht 74 P 9 4 '' Oct. 26, at El m -t ree C ottage, Sidcup, e g, Kendrick Turner. 0 11 e t, Oct. 26, at Winchester, Elizabeth, wife o.r Joh n gr, • A of Southampton. A l ' Oct. 27, at Cha r l es - s t ree t, Northampton-eq or* of tI P r Over Oct. , aged 77. reli Ct 27, at St. David's, Ex e ter, Elizabeth' , Josias Gard, Esq., aged 88. ' rgeo' i ti• Oct. 27, Thom ai Hasegood, Esq., eti Wif e street, Southwark. • the Oct. 27, at Co ven t r y, G eorg i ana Afar* of Q' .., n Twist, Esq. ' Oct. 27, the Hon. Arthur Annesley, el dest 0 0 Valentia. the W e 1 Oct. 27, at Upton, Essex, Anne, relict of tol l ' f /41040 14 Wackerbaqh, Esq. e et, ... 01 , Oct. 28, Mr. S. J. Daniel, of Richard-stri.e wi fe j ot Oct. 29, in Bryanstone-street, Frances, t os pita g ise. P Team t, Esq., Inspector-General. of Army . t t e r o' Oct. 28, Mary Ann Timbrell, the de_ A ll e' ill Esq., Montague-place, Clapham-road , es.u— I.levor i f ols" 10 ' London: Printed and P u bli s hed by °°'" ° d No. 112,. Strand, Printer, at Tm LP Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoll Bliedlesex, Thursday, October 31, LEGAL PROFESSION. fhe t Yesterday a general and public meeting 0 .,,, A -iociation for the Protection and Justification 0 1 ; Profession, convened by public advertisement , 1 5 , held at the Gray's Inn Coffee-house, for the ;0 0 , of electing a president, vice-presidents, council 0 . t i lle quiry and direction, auditors, and secretary, fo r .sfe d year ensuing, and for confirming the rules prel l % by the provisional Committe for the government of the Association. There were about fifty member s the profession present. sit, Sir G. STEPHENS, having been voted to the ell . 0 stated that the main object of the Society was to 11 11 , 1 0 and combine together with a view to their 0 0 " 0 honour and advantage. Possessed, perhapFe of 133 ko influence than any other profession, they had hitberl neglected to use that influence for their own pr od s tion. Attorneys and solicitors were engaged , 40 1 were in a personal conflict with all mankind, enu'd conflict was too frequently characterised by rer s° •if hostility amongst those by whom it was necessalo. conducted. Public feeling was often against tileo, and their proceedings were exposed to be carped, ! , their fair profits pecked at, and their means of Me ence even cut down and taken from them by it r whose only object was to gain popularity at the° o 6 pense.—(Cheers.) It was important, therefore, o b the profession should combine together to resist, s o l attempts, and to endeavour to turn the tide ol o it prejudice which had too often run riot at _O9 expense.—(Hear, hear.) With the objects °' , Association all must concur ; they were as follonrfsibe " To promote and support the general interest s° ,•ol profession. To prosecute (if necessary) all unqn!' l ,4 persons who may usurp either the duties or prirtc of the profession. To originate and assist in t o o ing all useful and practical reforms and am en, s ll of the law. To expose, and, if possible, pur.the persons guilty of any acts of malpractice, W ll `. o o they be members of the bar, attorneys, or olio !!! To maintain the respectability of the profession 9 an honourable and liberal mode of p ra ctice. a adopt measures for obtaining a co-operation wit,,Poi law societies (provincial or local) having s',,„'" o ld objects in view." It was important that they si iiii expose and reform malpractices, whether in t yl own branch of the profession or the bar, b 0 0, should reform and purge themselves before they 0 tempted to correct the errors of a higher deperwitr —(Hear, hear.) It was important also that the .# racter, the honour, the respectability of the Profelt; should be upheld by a liberal mode of practice, 0 sharp practice (which he believed was gene r 5 , 1 .,10 1 act of clerks and not of the principals, but Will i to must rest with the principals to prevent) sh° °I 111,4 altogether abolished, and the profession made 0 0 should be, " a liberal profession" in the stricte r) ! the M word.—(Cheers.) dr ( Mr. D. WIRE then moved a series of rules f‘ ri Ili gulations for the government of the Associatio t yl disclaimed on the part of this Association anY ce tr : like rivalry with the Law Institution in Ch ali blel l lane. Some gentlemen who had been favour!? the Association in the first instance, had secede d yol it because they thought it would clash with th e ( Ill! Association ; but there was room for both , ' 1 ; 0 0 co-operation each might assist the other. K e e say one word as to the legislative reforms in tiwf o r tice of the law. The profession was anxious ro real reforms, not alterations merely, but il ° ,P e e V ments in the practice of the law. They wig' boo to be made, as Lord Coke said it 5 t y: be made—the perfection of reason ; h ° ,,, t o objected, and the public did not require, " 0 0, profession should be so cut down as that it sh ° o pt' practised by a class of persons little above tb e le ( shopkeeper.—(Hear, hear.) They objected t ° „ ! ,130 lation upon legal matters by men who knew l l ' .1 of the law. The rules baying been put and seconded we r i'" various alterations had been suggested, manY ° were introduced, carried. Mr. D. WIRE then proposed that Sir G. be appointed President of the Association, vl agreed to nem. con. re f l,4 J. Burchall, Esq., of Red Lion-square; Esq., of Dover ; and D. W. Wire, Esq., we' ne if proposed as Vice-Presidents, and were orr accordingly. • SI The auditors and council for the ensui ng were also appointed, the number of the latter uk silt of 24, with power to add 10 to their nut o / Mr. E. CLARK, of Bedford-row, was 1 8 5 i.! Secretary, and, in returning thanks, he stsi th e.! amongst the legislative reforms proposed by_ Lt ,e, sociation, was one to render invalid all deeds'?" a stamp, if not executed and attested by a pro man. ° I Thanks having been voted to the Chair ° duly acknowledged, the meeting separated. - _. THE HARE AND THE PEASANT.—Althollg ti f f; of the pure-minded who offer incense at &l e i / 0 e 1: may not be conscious of the fact, is is neverthe4l4 true, that John Bull has his idols, to the syt ti r, most sanctimonious face, he is ever and anon 11 men, women, and babes. John, with a look or o t, disgust, talks of the superstitions of the past et e of present : he laments the d ar k ness o f t h e heat" o .o4 have their sacred apes, their consecrate d Nay, John does more than this. John unb ti Vi pocket, and pays men to build ships, that truth .„V f , dom may be carried to idolaters. He enlists aries—he sends forth the hopeful and strone t , 5 wither beneath a pestilential c li ma t e , so tu, ll o withering, they may be ministrant of civilizate t G 1 savage, And all the while—simple John--t"be i r paying for and labouring in the se go od worit . _ .4 s / 4 , ois own pet idols—his own baboons and alligew`"o his " bold peasantry," as their constant victim s ' yo? ere John shall again count up these abontillett i ltbi heathen, let him calculate the number of meth; wives and families, sacrificed at every quarter s h 4 the idols of the landlord—to his h are s, his I; 7 . oeqs and his partridges !—Punch.—[W e regret th a t not also present our readers with the piet ur ti, 1 1 '1 Game Laws, or the Sacrifice of the Peasant to tP ri e by which Punch painfully, but graphically, ill us : s si6 a few strokes of his pencil, an age of cruel oPPI: 41 in) STATE OF TRADE.—There is no ebanv iv g d market this week. Yarn continues extreree!g owing to the greater part of the spinners b el ly contract, and prices are consequently buoyaet• h o there is no great amount of busi nes s doing, " are quite firm.—Manchester Guardian. -r t ig, e DEATH OF MRS. SIDDONS , " . - / tb' g ro Y regret that we have to f announce the death °',ri l s spected lady, which took pl ace i n L on d o n on fr o 0,,e morning last. Mrs. Siddons had left Chelteil bs o lo l f she had been staying for the benefit of her M oo s on arriving iu London had a surgical 0 1 3 1 1 AteebF formed, which she survived only ten dayS:,, :a bsitiff stand that her remains will be b roug ht to Dc"" r interment in the family burying-ground in 6 0 churchyard.—Edinb u r g h P a p er . 0 1 ',, PROPOSED PARTIA L R EMOVAL OF - 11 0,1 1 1 , ` MARKET.—The Market Com m itt ee of the oe ijo l advertised that portion of F arr i ng d on m arket Shoe-lane, for sale, in building lots. BIRTHS. 11.5C° OP' Oct. 26, at Castle Bernard, county of Cork, ll' .e Bernard, of a daughter. Down' Oct. 23, at Frankf or t- on -th e -M a i ne, Lady —° r I Sir Alexander Downie, M.D., of a son. ° lady f Oct. 26, at Cha w t on H ouse , H ants, th e 10-0 / Knight, Esq., j un ., o f a son . , I, ) I° ' it Oct. 26, at Muswell-hill, H ornsey , M rs . D. a daughter. t ar 13 O/ Oct. 26, in Torrington- s t ree t, th e w if e of A 4 Esq., of Lincoln's Inn, ba rr i s t er , o f a d aug hter. soo. 9 Oct. 26, Mrs. Clowe s , o f T u l se -hill, SurreY, cu i s ,..cl i 4 ~' I Oct. 25, at the Cottage, Rornford, Essex, the "" A P 1 Turner, Esq., of a daughter. _ip I Oct. 27, at Scarboro ug h, th e l a d y o f J o hn Pilw l , ( I P a daughter, still-born. se' ..d. Oct. 27, at Shooter's-hill, the widow of Lieeten . V Al p , ~ Nicolls, K N., of a d aug ht er . ~4 Oct. 27, at Wandl e H ouse , W an d swo rth, i lm- Langton, of a daughter. , 0 THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 31. 184‘.