The Sun. — London, England, 1832-10-06 00:00:00

SPIRIT OV THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Every public-spirited man in England will assuredly rejoice at the well-judged, albeit some what tardy vigour, at length displayed by the King's Government in Portugal for the defence of British property, life, and honour, the last of which has been already long since and repeat edly outraged, and the two former of which have for some time been imminently risked by the si tuation of Oporto, under siege of the Mi g,uelite partisans. It was well understood that at the period when France so wisely and promptly extorted reparation from Miguel for the wrongs perpetrated upon her citizens, there were British claims of a far more formidable amount entirely unsatisfied by the tyrant, and wounds inflicted upon the dignity of this empire in the persons of many of her unoffending subjects, which have ne ver yet been healed. Miguel appears to have treat ed the representations of Lord Palmerston as he had previously those of Lord Aberdeen, with open contempt and defiance. A long forbearance on the part of England had produced the ordinary effect upon a depraved and ungenerous mind, —it had persuaded Miguel that we feared him. He has all along manifested the most inveterate hatred to the English resident within the sphere of his usurpation ; and there is little doubt that had Oporto been taken by assault, our country men would have fallen early victims to a ven geance pointed studiously, if not exclusively, at their properties and persons. Under these cir cumstances, as a means of securing reparation for unredressed injury, and prevention of appre. hended crime, we applaud the mission of a ma ritime force to the Douro. If the tyrant's operations be embarrassed by it, so much the better. He has richly earned that appropriate reward of his injustice ; it is time that our countrymen should cease to be amused by words.—Times. The events of every day tend to confirm the correctness of the opinion which we expressed long ago of the melancholy incapacity which presides over the Department for Foreign Affairs, and the embarrassing and humiliating conse quences to which the feeble and blundering course of policy pursued by our Foreign Mi nister must lead. Our readers will give us credit for having deprecated all intervention in the affairs of Belgium and Holland from the begin ning. We predicted that, by intermeddling in those matters, especially in conjunction with the wily, treacherous, and liberticide Cabinets of the Holy Alliance, our Government would get itself into a position from which it could not advance with safety, nor retreat without dishonour. Into that position it has got with a vengeance I It has bound itself in a treaty with Belgium which it cannot carry into effect, and of which it knows not how to get rid. It has dictated terms to Holland which it dares not enforce. It has made final and irrevocable" protocols, only to alter or revoke them. It has been nearly two years en gaged in settling a question which it has ren dered more difficult of settlement than ever; and it has, in conjunction with the equally imbecile Government of France, blown the clarion of war in Europe, and moved fleets and armies, only to frighten itself with its own military bluster. and fall back upon that awkward diplomatic posi tion which excites the compassion of friends and the ridicule of enemies. We have always as serted that the obstinacy of the Dutch King was supported by the secret encouragement of' the three despotic Powers that pretended to be anxious for a fair and equitable arrangement of the disputed points between him and his late subjects of Belgium, while they only endea voured to protract the unsettled or provisional state of things, with the expectation that the Belgians, wearied and disgusted with the uncertain and miserable position in which they have been placed ever since the revolution, and heartily sick of the constant succes sion of alarms and disappointed hopes—the sufferings and anxieties of a state, which is one neither of peace nor war, would fly for refuge to a restoration. Have we been mistaken ? Is it not evident to the dullest understanding—to all but those who are wilfully blind—that the game of the King of Holland has been played so well by the Plenipotentiaries of the despotic Powers in the London Conference, that the Cabinet of the Hague now entertain strong hopes of ob paining more than the dominion of the Scheldt by persevering in the present course ? The case of M. Thorn, the late Belgic Governor of the province of Luxembourg, is a most flagitious example of the perfidy of some of our Allies. It will be recollected that he was kidnapped by the agents of the King of Holland, and carried away by force, and thrown into prison. The Conference being appealed to against this fla grant act of injustice, after much deliberation, issued a protocol, advising the liberation of M. Thorn, and also recommending the discharge of 'l'ornaco, and some of his hand, by the Belgian Government, as a quid pro quo to the King of Holland for de livering up M. Thorn. Now this was not a fair condition, for there could be no doubt at all about the illegality of the capture of M. Thorn, who represented the Belgic Government, the independence of which had been acknowledged by the Great Powers. Besides, his capture was not only an act of aggression upon Belgium, but an insult to the Conference, which pretended to maintain a state of truce between the two Go vernments pending the negociations. As to Tornaeo and his followers, they were taken with arms in their hands, endeavouring to subvert the Belgic State, or, in other words, to bring about a counter revolution. If they had not made themselves amenable to the laws of Belgium, surely Belgium could not be considered an inde pendent State, for it dare not punish those who were taken in the act of exciting civil war in its own territories. Tornaco and his followers were, however, brought to trial, and matters were so ma naged to please the Conference that they were ac quitted and discharged ; but M.Thorn still remains in captivity, nor does there seem to bevany more chance of his prison-doors being unbarred by the Conference than there is of the citadel of Ant werp being evacuated by the intervention of the same authority. There is no doubt that if the French army dared to enter Belgium to enforce the terms dictated to the Conference by the King of Holland, the Prussian forces would march to repel them. This the English and French Governments know well, and yet they attempt to deceive the public by making preparations fur war, while they tremble to raise a finger in earnest, unless by permission of Russia and het Allies. Let the French people settle the matter with their own Government ; but, as to the English people, it is time far them to demand the dismissal of Lord Palmerston from office, unless they are satisfied to have the British cha racter become utterly contemptible throughout Eu rope. Poland, Belgium, Germany, have reason to deplore the fatal influence w !licit has presided over our foreign councils ever since Earl Gre; selected Lo r d Palmerston to establish a branch association of the Holy Alliance in Downing'. street.—Morning Herald. The ballot spreads like wildfire. The neces sity of its adoption becomes daily More and more apparent, and we have now no doubt, thanks to the tyranny of the Tories, that the Reform Bill will be rendered complete by the addition of a clause which will give at once pro tection to the voter, and deprive the landlord of all motives to influence his tenant in the exer cise of his political privilege. We have men tioned the quasi conversion of Lord John Rus sell—ref Mr. Coke—of Mr. Tennyson—and of many others, and we have now to add, that the ballot is as popular in Warwickshire as it is in any quarter. No voter can possibly refuse to exercise his vote by ballot, for it can make no dif ference to him whether he votes openly or in secret ; and no candidate who is desirous of pos sessing the confidence and unbiassed suffrages of his constituents can object to it. The honest voter will give his vote under the cloud of the ballot just as he would have given it had it been openly given ; and the honest candidate can in no case object to a mode of election which in sures him a complete knowledge of the confi dence or non-confidence of the constituency. Our mind, in fact, is now most distinctly made up in favour of the ballot. We hear from all quarters of the most grievous oppression being exercised upon the comparatively poor and dependent—we know that there is no shelter for them—no certain pro tection but the ballot—and, however we may, under particular circumstances, be inclined to support one candidate in preference to another, we shall assuredly give our best support to those who are for the ballot—and being for the ballot, prove themselves thereby to be the best friends of the people. We observe that there are many who profess themselves favourable to the ballot ; —but favourable means merely a present inclina tion—a possibility of change—and favourable, therefore, we will not have. We wish not "to burly any man's cattle ;" but to pursue a middle course in this case is now utterly out of the ques tion. The man must be either a fool or a knave who cannot make up his mind on the subject.— Morning Advertiser. • It would be difficult to find an illustration of the embarrassments %illicit beset the cause of practical Reform, and of the dangers which may result to the country from pure mismanagement of their own undoubted strength by the members of that party which is beyond all question or comparison by far the most powerful in the whole realm, more striking than may now be draw» from the situation of the great county of Essex. It is admitted on all hands that the sound Re formers might, in the northern division of the county, if they thought proper, return two re spectable gentlemen in the Reform interest (one of whom would be Mr. Western) to the House of Commons, to the utter exclusion of the Con servatives, indeed most probably without a con test—that is, if the latter were wise. How hap pens it, then, that so fair a prospect, founded on a sober and reasonable calculation of the relative strength of parties, has become all but desperate, and that instead of two liberals—the foremost being Mr. Western—the Essex patriots are threatened with one hereditary and one renegado Tory, to the exclusion of everything of Whig or liberal race, and of Mr. Western himself, who was always sure of his seat on Reform principles so long as an Anti-Reform Parliament existed ? This is not the natural working of the Reform Bill, nor is it the natural consequence of Tory manoeuvring with and perversion of that Bill ; the mischief originates with those who passed the Bill, or petitioned for it, promoted it, and were promoted by it—Whig Reformers, gentle men in Paliament and out of Parliament, con stituents of the upper and the middle classes, men who ought to have known better things, and who ought to have known, above all things, how to merge their personal or subdivisional party feelings in a general solicitude for the public good. The honour is theirs ; the Tories are almost passive in it. If Mr. Speech-versus -vote, Mr. Boroughmonger, Land-scoffer, Hampshire hated, Renegado Baring should now be let in for the agricultural county of Essex, with the Tory Sir John Tyrell for his colleague, both dragging a better representative than either, the upright and consistent Mr. Western, at their chariot wheels, all we can say is, that the merit of such a victory belongs not to the Tories ; the Reformers have pushed them on to it, and won it for them. An excellent address from Mr. Western to the elec tors begins with the sarcastic words—" Mr. Baring resides in Hampshire !" So he does, and therefore it is the more curious that he should fly from Hampshire, where, " he has a most splendid mansion, an ample domain, a princely estate," to Essex, with which he has comparatively no connexion. It would be still more curious if Mr. Baring, thus circumstanced, should become county member for any division of Essex, and most disgraceful to the Whigs and reformers of that county should they render themselves instrumental to the imposition upon its constituency of such an unworthy yoke. We do not like Mr. Western's appeal to the Essex public the less for the repugnance which it shows to a multiplicity of promises and pledges. He is, indeed, just the description of candidate from whom it would be preposterous to exact a pledge, seeing that his sentiments upon most great questions have been proved during a pe riod of, we believe, near 40 years in Parliament. And although there are two subjects of high importance upon which we differ essentially with Mr. Western, we should as soon think of asking him to pick a pocket as to act in the teeth of his own settled opinions for the sake of succeeding in an election contest. But if Mr. Western be uncertain of his return just now, after having borne his part so manfully in carrying the Reform Bill through Parliament, is it not plain that something extraordinary must have occurred to produce a chan g e in this gentleman's position, so much the reverse of what he ought to have experienced, after helping to achieve for his country so vast a triumph ? We have befote us a narrative of those party measures, and, we are sorry to add, those individual caprices or jealousies, to which doubtless may be traced whatever seems precari ous in the prospects of Mr. Western himself, or discouraging for the public cause in the actual relations of the interests into which Essex is di vided. If Mr. Baring comes in, and Sir John Tyrell with him, it is because Mr. Western's fr ends and the requisitionists to the other Re former, Mr. Leonard, have not felt disposed to coalesce, and because, since the moment for z-uch a coalition passed away (if it he yet passed), no other reformer whom the Radtcal party could confide in, and, at the same time, the more mo derate Whig party would support, has been pitched upon as a colleague for Mr. Western. "Fherefore, because professed reformers are too stubborn to yield even an inch to their friends, all is likely to be seized upon by the enemy. For shame, electors of Essex ; even Mr. Baring wilt laugh at you for suffering him to &feat you. From the north division of Essex if we turn to the corresponding one of Warwickshire, the same want of harmony, activity, and energy is unfortunately too apparent. Why should such men as Sir George Chetw3nd and Sir Eardly Wilmot, country gentlemen of the old Pitt school (however worthy ones), be suffered by their vis inverlice to perpetuate those abuses which it is the manifest desire of the great bulk of their countrymen to abolish ? Mr. Demp ster Herring, one thorough Reformer, is in the field. Can the Warwickshire constituency be at a loss for a second ? or is the breed of inde pendent Whig or reform gentry worn out, so that candidates cannot be found of a temper enabling them to sympathize with the national feelings? In the mean time, symptoms of a salutary nature have at length become visible in quarters where they were slow to appear. Think, reader, of an opposition to Mr. Goulburn at Cambridge, set up by the Parsons, too--and on what ground ? Verily, that of his being a " West India slave-owner, who has done nothing to ameliorate the condition of his slaves I" Here is the description of Mr. Goulburn's estate, by an eye-witness, who founds on it his decided objection to Mr. Goulburn, and urges the same upon the body of his ecclesiastical brethren. " I mean not indeed to Pay, that the slaves of Mr. Goul burn have been treated with any peculiar harshness. I found them, on the contrary, to be precisely in the same state with those of the generality of his brother planters. The same wretched system which prevails, with slight variations, throughout the West Indies, I found to be, on his est tte, as elsewhere, in full operation. His slaves, during the period of his possession of them, had been des titute of religious instruction. Not a single marriage hwi taken pl ice among them. They had continued to live in the same state of promiscuous concubinage which pollutes society, and checks population, in all our slave colonies. Toe men and women had continued to toil alike, under the lash, from morning to night ; and in crop time for half the night;—the women, equally with the men, beine subject to have their bodies shamelessly exposed, and lace rated with the cart-whip. Their labour hid not been relieved, as it might have been, by the plough, though Mr. Gnu burn's estate is peculiarly adapted for the use of that instrument. And in consequence of the continuance of these evils of the slave system, evils unredressed to this hour, the population of his estate bad continued to de crease." Well, this has been sent to us by a member of the Senate at Cambridge, and it spreads like wildfire. So much for the preservers of the Church.— Times. The address of Mr. Western to the electors of the northern division of the county of gssex has attracted a good deal of attention. The state of parties is evidently producing some em barrassment to the Liberal cause in that quarter; and the appearance of Mr. A. Baring as a can didate looks like a desperate effort of the Tories to try what money can yet do towards vitiating the character of a county election. Mr. Western is a stanch Whig : he is, therefore, a party man. For owselves, we have always deprecated party spirit, because we thought, and still think, we could trace to it many of the evils under which the country at present labours. But, with all our impressions upon this subject, we are ready to confess that there never was a time,—except the time, if it can be said to have yet passed, when the measure of reform was in its progress —at which the name of Whig could be avowed with so little injury to the fair claims of any candidate. The battle of reform, though achieved by the people, was led on by Lord Grey and the Whigs. They bore the brunt of the engagement, and Englishmen will not refuse them the credit of haring main tained the post of honour with heroic forti tude and perseverance. Their contemporaries will not refer them to posterity for justice. The claims of Mr. Western, as a consistent Whig, an active and intelligent Member of Parliament, a man of high public and private worth, need not be here insisted on—they are known to the electors, and to the people at large. In fact, he possesses, as compared with any new or less tried competitor who may present himself, the decided advantage of a long public life to appeal to. Others may deal more largely in professions, but who will think of rejecting the voice of experience for the pleasure of hearing a man blow his own trtmpet, without any possible means of ascertaining whether he may not blow it in the face of truth ? But, with Mr. Baring for a competitor, is it possible (we do not ask is it right or is it wrong)—but is it possible that Mr. Western can he in any danger of suf fering a defeat ? The Tories must be strong indeed in that division of Essex, if they can carry a Whig renegade into Parliament against the reformers, who have hitherto returned a consistent Whig. -Mr. Western asks why his opponent does not appeal to the elec tors of Hampshire, where he is known ? But Mr. Baring is known every where. There is not a county, there is hardly a town in the whole kingdom, where he is not known as one who left his party when they were engaged in performing the best servic e th e y ever rendered to the people, and left them because they were so engaged. No doubt he would be a fine coadjutor with Sir Robert Tyrrel to for , ward the working of the Reform Act, which, in company with the same politician, he tried every effort to defeat. But as for the knowledge which the electors of Hampshire have of his qualifications, though it seems natural enough to presume that his neighbours must know him best, it does not follow that where he is best known he would he most likely to prove success ful. It is probable that his neighbours have a better recollection of his speeches against Re form ; it is probable that they have a more lively sense of the insulting tone in which he spoke in some of those spe ec h es o f t h e peop l e. " Th e blackguards in the street" was one of his phrases. But they will all be transformed to gentlemen, or electors at least, when he addresses them from the hustings. Let the people beware of him, however ; let the Reformers rouse them selves in time, and, by a powerful exertion, re sist the insult attempted to be put upon the county by the endeavour to impose upon it a man who stands no chance in his own county, and who, in addition to the taint of Toryism, stands before them in the character of a de tected enemy—a renegade from the party and the professions of his former life.—Mor fling Herald. THE RED SEA.—The Water of the Red S.ta is so very clear, that Mr. BUCKINGHAM read on the wooden stock of an anchor the name of the ship at the depth of 25 fathoms (150 feet).-21firror. SINGULAR EXPLOSION OF A WATER few days ago, the inhabitants of Newin,Jori Butts were much alarmed, by the sudden bursting of the main water-pipe, opposite the Church. The pavement was torn up with such force, that, extraordinary as it may appear, a stone, weighing upwards of six pounds, was carried through the first floor window, into the draw ing• room of a grocer's shop, to the great terror and alarm of a party of ladies, who hail assembled round the tea rable there. A number of other stones, of smaller size, o ere thr ow n with great violence to a considerab'e distance, but without striking any of the passengers. A column of water then burst forth with resistless fury, and ascended as high as the tops of the houses, which continued for some time to attract attention. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. Sapwell, the officer who apprehended and gave evidence against Wm. Reynolds, the fellow who en deavoured to impose upon Mr. Wilson, the mer chant, of Devonshire-square, by a forged character, applied for a detainer against the prisoner.—The officer stated, that ever since he had taken Reynolds into custody, the prisoner had threatened to do him some violent injury. Soon after the conviction of Reynolds, witness went to take him from the cage (an apartment surrounded with iron bars near the Justice room), and received from him a despe rate blow on the forehead, which cut him to the bone. The prisoner then began to kick at the officer, and would no doubt have done him some dangerous mischief, if a policeman had not ran to his assistance and overpowered the assailant, who actually frothed at the mouth with fury. Reynolds kicked the po liceman several times during the struggle. The LORD MAYOR immediately ordered a de tainer to be lodged at the prison to which Reynolds has been committed for three months, and directed that the City Solicitor should prosecute. BOW-STREET. Yesterday Hurst and Webb, the men who stand charged with having abstracted notes to the amount of 2101. from a letter addressed to Messrs. Wooton, of Grange-road, Bermondsey, and which was given into the charge of Webb, as a supernumerary letter carrier to the New Post Office, were brought up for re-examination. No furl her evidence being pro duced against them, they were again remanded for a week, when the Magistrate expressed hs deter mination to commit them for trial. A young man, who stated bis name to be William Hudson Davis, and that he lived at 63, South Mol ton-street, was charged on suspicion of having robbed Mr. Edward Phillips, of Took's-court, Cur sitor-street, of two sovereigns. Mr. Phillips on the preceding day had been dining with some frieuda, and being elevated with drinking more wine than usual, in his way home he went to the Shades, in the Adelphi, where he had some brandy and water, and met two persons who were strangers to him. They had some conversation, and after he drank his liquor they all went out together. His new companions then conducted him to a house Brydges-street, where they had some wine and water ; and while thus engaged, the prisoner entered and joined in !heir conversation. Witness was subsequently conducted to the Finish, in James street, Covent.garden, as he stated, by the prisoner and the two first-mentioned persons. Here they had some more wine and water, after drinking which, it was proposed by one of the party that they should retire into a private room and have a rubber at whist. To this witness, unconscious of what he was doing, acceded, when they were shown into a room where cards were produced, and they sat down to play, when having played for some time, and he lost a few shillings, he proposed retiring, and rose for diet purpose, when the prisoner and the other two men placed their backe against the door, and would nor permit him to pass. He endeavoured to force his way, but the men surrounded him, and pushed him cbout, when, apprehensive of some personal violence, :‘te called our " Murder !" as loud as he could. A waiter immediately came, burst open the door, and conducted him into an adjoin 'err room, where he discovered that he had lost two sovereigns, and that his umbrella had been carried away; he mentioned the circumstance to the waiter, who called up a fellow-servent, but no steps were taken to restore to him his property. He then quitted the house, and meeting a police man under the Piazza, Covent-garden, stated to him what had happened. Just as he had finished his story, he observed the prisoner approaching him, and he gave him into custody. The prisoner, in his defence, had been down to Croydon Fair, and arriving too late in town to gain admission to his lodgings, he went first to the house in Brydges-street, and from thence to the Finish, where he met Mr. Phillips arid the two other men, having no know!edge of any of them. He admitted that he had gotte up stairs to play a rubber at whist, but denie 1 that he had participated in the robbery, if such had been committed. On being searched by the policeman, it appeared that but 1/. 3s. 6d. had been found in his possession, which he claimed as his own money. As Mr. Palllipscould not swear that the prisoner had actually taken the money from him, Sir F. A. ROE would feel satisfied, if the prisoner would enter into his own recognizance to appear on Tuesday next, giving instructions to the police man to etn to discover the other two men in the interim. MAR YLEB ONE. SEDUCTION AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—Yest er day Elizq Carter, a girl about 18 years of age, was brought before Mr. RAWLINSON, the Sitting Magi strate, charged with attempting to put a period to her existence. Police•constable, William Powell, No. 59, of the D division, stated, that at half-past 11 o'clock on Thursday night, as he was on duty in the Regent's Park, near the bridge leading to the inner circle, he heard a splash, and on hastening to the bridge, he saw a woman's bonnet lying on the road, and heard a noise proceeding from the water, like that of a person struggling in the agonies of death. He after wards perceived a rope, one end of which was fas tened to the railing of the bridge, and the other sus pended in the water, and a women's head above the surface. At that moment a gentleman, who resides in Cornwall -terrace, came up to his assistance, and finding that the rope was attached round the waist of the prisoner, they managed to drag her ashore before life had become extinct. She remained for a considerable time in a state of insensibility, and when she was being conveyed to the Sta t i on -h ouse in Marylebon e -l ane - , she exclaimed several times " Oh, Lord !" Witness asked her, whets she re covered, how she came to commit the rash act, and the only answer she m a de him was " because I was in trouble." On searching her at the Station house, he found on her a bottle containing nearly a pint of laudanum, which she said she intended to have taken, provided the water had been too shallow to drown her. She was afterwards conveyed to the Marylebone workhouse, and placed under the care of a nurse. Witness added, that the gentleman who hail assisted him in getting her out of the w ater, had desired him to give the prisoner 55., which he accordingly did before she was removed from the Justice-room. Mr. Henry Thompson Green, surgeon, 39, Es sex-street, Strand, stated, that the prisoner had been about three mouths in his employ as a servant. There was a foreigner lodged in the house, whom witness suspected had seduced her, and he took her to task on the seeming intimacy which subsisted between them, when she informed him that she was labouring under severe illness. On the night on which she attempted to commit the fatal act, she asked leave to go to the house of a Mrs. Robinson, m Citiey-street,.but not returni ng , h e sent to i nqu i re for her, and not finding her there, he gave orders to the other servant not to admit her into the house again if she s hould return. Witness, however, heard no more of her till that morning, when he was told she was in custody. Mr. R A WLINSON here asked th e w i tness what had b e come of the foreigner?—.Mr. G reen sa id , that lie Thad decampe d from his lodgin gs to avo id b e i ng ar rested, awl t , ii;ce that time the girl had fallen into a deep melancholy. Witness here Fodueed the following lines, which t h e prisoner left behind her, addressed to her mo ther : s, My body will he found its th, : S erpent i ne Ri ver , when all my troubles will sink to rise no more. " ELIZA CARTER." Mr. RAwlastsoN asked the witness if it was his intention to take the prisoner back into hie service ? He replied, that, after what had taken place, he cer and), should have loathing more to do with he:. Mr. HAWLINSON then asked the prisoner why r3he hed committed the rash act. The prisoner said she could not bear the uejust reproaches of her master. She denied that she had ever permitted the foreigner to take any liberties with her, or that she ever had the disorder imputed to her, or that she was with child. In answer to a question from the Magistrate, she said she tied the rope round her waist to attract at tention, that her body might be found. Mr. RAWLINSON—Are you sorry for what you have done ? Prisoner—No, not at all. Mr. RAWLINSON—WouId you do it again, if I wera to discharge you ? Prisoner—l don't think I Mr. RAWLINSON said, that in the present state of the prisoner's mind it would be unsafe to let her go at large, and ordered her to be taken over to the workhouse, and to be carefully looked after, until her friends, who live at Greenwich, are made ac quainted with the circum'tances. The prisoner was then removed. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A female named Farrow was brought before Mr. CONANT, having, as stated by a policeman of C di vision, applied to him to allow her to sleep in the station-house, as she was without either home or friends in London. On being asked by the Magis trate why she had not applied for relief at her legal settlement, she made the following statement : Her maiden settlement was at Stanwell, in Middle sex ; but having married a labouring man belonging to Farnham, that parish of course became her pro per settlement. After her husband's death, she en deavoured to earn her subsistence by washing ; but having found it impossible to maintain herself by her labour, she applied to Farnham parish for relief. The overseer would not do anything for her, and told her to go to Stan well. She went to Stanwell, and the overseer referred her back to Farnham. Being thus bandied about between the two parishes, and being entirely ignorant of the proper mode bf proceeding prescribed by the Poor Laws, she made her way to London about three days ago, half naked, and in a starving condition. Mr. CONANT inquired in what parish she had last slept. The woman replied she did not know, as she had wandered about the streets the last three days, sleep ing in empty houses at night, and during that time she declared she had eaten but one single penny worth of bread. Mr. CONANT said he could hardly believe the overseers could have acted in such an unfeeling manner towards her; but the woman declared her statement was true, and added, that she had a cer tain claim on the parish of S:anwell, as she had lived some years there in the family of Sir John Gibbon, as kitchen maid. As the appearance of the female was that of an hard-working woman, Mr. CONANT, in addition to some temporary relief which he directed to be given to her, wrote an account of the woman's statement to Sir John Gibbon, with whom he is personally ac quainted, which will probably have the effect of causing some inquiry into the conduct of the over seers of both parishes. ASSAULT.—Timothy Hagan,. an Irish ninth part of humanity, the pride of pugnacious tailors in St. Giles's, was charged by Jerry M'Kelland with hav ing " punshed his head in a cook shop," without reasonable cause. Your %Vertship, said Jerry, I wint into Misthress Dinnis's cook shop to get a treepenny plate of cow weal, whin I saw Tim Hagan and two other blag gards ating a basin of shupe together; " that's a nate dhrop of shupe, Mishtress Dennis," said Tim, " but may be I'd like it betther, if you made it wid mate that hant got any maggots." " Och, by the powers !" said I to M's. Dinni3, " don't take any notice, darlint, it's that big blaggard, Tim Hagan, whom I've taken a howth never to spake to agin, bekase he ink a false howth agin me at the Ses sions." " You won't spake to me no morel" said Tin; "do you mane that Jerry "Bad luck to me if I don't," said I. "Then take that," said he, taking up his fisht and hitting me a whack before I could git guard o' myself. Tim Hagan, however, by the help of two of the ugliest mortals who ever came forward in the cha racter of witnesses, succeeded in convincing the Ma gistrate that Jerry had brought the drubbing he got upon himself by giving the first insult, and striking the first blow; therefore Mr. CONANT dismissed the warrant, and divided the expenses between them. LAMBETH- STREET. William Silvester, a journeyman copper-plate printer, was yesterday charged before Mr. HARD WICK and the Rev. D. MATHIAS, with assaulting his wife and giving her a black eye. The complainant, who is rather a good-looking woman, stated that since her marriage with the de fendant in July, 1831, scarcely a day passed, cer tainly a week did not elapse, without his assaulting and beating her in the most cruel manner ; and, such was the extreme of his temper and violence, that her life was in danger if she continued longer to live with him. On going to bed at night, it was his constant habit to place the poker alongside him, or in such a situation that he could lay hold of it without the necessity of getting out of bed, if any thing occurred to disturb his temper. On Monday evening, without her giving him the slightest pro vocation, he beat her most unmercifully, and gave her the black eye she then had. The defendant, in reply to the charge, said that he had had the misfortune to be cajoled into a mar riage with the complainant by the payment of 71 from the officers of the parish to which she be longed ; and he had had ever since to curse his fate for doing so, for he had not only got hold of an invete rate gin-drinker, but a --. The money, at the time, was a tempts•ion to him, he being then, and for some time previously, out of employment; but, on discovering the sort of bargain which he had got, he offered the money back to the overseers, and entreated they would take her off his hands, but they refused to do so. On Monday last, while on his return from the west-end of the town, he saw her come out of a lane near Temple-bar, arm-in arm with a man who was a perfect stranger to him. Determined to watch their proceedings, he fol lowed them along Fleet-street into Farringdon street, when they entered a gin-shop and remained there some time. They afterwards went into Fri day-street, where her companion went into a ware house, and remained for 20 minutes, during which time she waited for him at the end of the street. Ou his again joining her, they proceeded to Rose mary-lane, where he (defendant) left them, being tired of the pursuit, and it was nearly two hours afterwards when she reached home, in a state of ex treme intoxication. Being naturally exasperated at her conduct, and she having refused to state who her companion was on the occasion, he had, he would confess, given her a sound beating. With respect to the poker, and his taking it to bed with him, he did so, he said, in consequence of her having a num ber of male followers, some of whom were so impu dent and daring as to enter his apartment, even while he was there, and he was determined to serve them our. Mr. HARDWICK requested that the complainant would state the particulars of her acquaintance and marriage with the defendant. She said she had been left a widow with two children at the death of her late husband, and she had sub-equently had the misfortune to have an of which she was delivered in the workhouse of the parish of St. Mildred, Bread street, city. Alter tier delivery she got a ittiation as wet nurse in South-street, Finsbury-square, and subsequently went to reside over the water, when she became acquainted with the defendant. Having occasion to call ou one of the overseers of St. Mil dred's, from which parish she had an allowance for her child, he recommended her to get settled, and she then told him that there was a young may pay ing her attentions, and he (he overseer) then told her that the parish would allow him 71. if he mar ried her. Site told this to the defendant, who ap proved of it, and they were accordingly married. The complainant stopped here, and did not make a single observation in reply to the accusation of her husband, of being escorted from Temple-bar to Resemary-lane, and getting drunk with a stranger to him. Mr. HARDWICK expressed considerable surprise at this mode of marrying paupers, but Mr. MATHIAS observed, that he believed it to be common practice with most of the parishes in th metropolis, if not in the country. Their object evi-e dently was to get rid of the females, as they alway took care that the husband had a legal claim on ano ther parish, and that parish would also have t o s u p port the wife. The Magistrates ultimately discharged the warrant, recommending the parties, if they could not contrive to live on amicable terms, to separate. UNION-HALL. FAUX PAS ON BOARD Or SHlP.—Yesterday, John Kibbin, a seaman belonging to the William Fawcett steamer, made. the following curious ap plication :—He had been married to a handsome girl at Liverpool some years younger than himself, and in consequnce of her ill state of health, he took her on board the steamer, thinking the voyage from Belfast to Dublin might be beneficial to her. On the passage, while he was steering the ship, he saw the steward go down rather suspiciously into the forecastle, where his wife was in bed. He was not able to leave the helm for ten minuses, arid then he hastened down stairs. He was just in time to meet the steward ascending the stairs, with his clothes in a state of disorder, and his whole appearance so confused, as left no doubt on his mind as w some amour haring been carried on, and disturbed by his appearance. " When I sees this (said the appli cant), I axes him whether he had beets overhauling my wife. Says he it's unfortunate, don't mention it;' to which I says, ' aye, we're all liable to misfor tunes, but I'll thank you, while you're steward, to let that ere wife of mine alone.' Now, your Honour, I'm convinced of my ife's infidelity, and in our passage from Dublin, I've often been tempted to throw myself overboard, my feelings are so hurt." Well, said the MAGISTRATE, what is it you want? —Why, your Honour, I wants to swear a davy to all I've stated, and then to show it my Captain, that he may see what sort of a" galliwanting" chap he's got on board. The MAGISTRATE said, the Captain would, no doubt, believe it without an affidavit, and refused to swear the unfortunate husband, who left the office very disappoined. ALEXANDRIA, Letter.i have been received from Alexandria con taining a bulletin, which we subjoin, giving an ac count of the victory gained by Ibrahim Pacha over the Turkish army, commanded by Hussein Pacha, on the 30th of July, near Babylon, between An tioch and Scanderoon. EIGHTH BULLETIN OF THE ARMY OF SYRIA. _ _ _ 7th of the Moon Rabiul-ewel, 1248 (Aug. 3, 1832.) On the 2d Rabiul-ewel (July 29) about 2 in the morning, our army began its march from Murad Pacha's bridge, and at 10 o'clock reached the defile called Bylan-Bogasi, distant about five leagues from the bridge. We there learned that Hussein-Pacha, Mohammed Pacha, formerly Governor of Aleppo, arid several other personages, were encamped beyond the defile, with the remainder of their regular and irregu lar troops; that cannon were planted on the heights, and batteries formed on the most elevated points. Having by reconnoissances verified the correctness of this information, the General-in-Chief, Ibrahim Pacha, ordered Brigade-General Hassan Bey to ad vance with the 13th infantry, the sth cavalry, and 4 pieces of cannon, by the road on the right, he him self taking the road on the left, with the 18th and Bth infantry, the regiment of guards, and 12 pieces of cannon. The other regiments of cavalry were posted on different points near the defile. • The enemy, seeing our two columns advancing upon him, opened a fire from the cannon which he had planted on the heights above the passage, anti which commanded both the roads; but our artillery returned a vvell•sustained fire, and in the course of an hour, the enemy's guns were all dismounted, with the exception of one, which still continued its fire. While the enemy's left wing was suffering from our artillery, the Bth infantry and the guards were ordered to advance. In an instant these brave troops gained the heights on the enemy's left, and attacked him with astonishing vigour. Obliged to yield to their impetuosity, the enemy, abandoning his artillery, baggage, arid ammunition, began, about sunset, his flight towards Adana. Our army passed the night on the field of battle. On the 3d (July 30), at daybreak, all our regi ments of cavalry were sent in pursuit of the enemy, and the rest of the army encamped at Baylan, where Arif Bey, Colonel of the 10th Turkish regiment, came over to us. Our General-ia-Chief immediately appointed him colonel of the 20th infantry. According to the statement of Arif Bey, his ragi meta, on leaving Konieh, was 3,268 strong. BY desertion, sickness, and death, that number was yes terday reduced to 1,880. Before the flight of Alishe, Pacha of Latakia, 60 horse and 600 foot, belong ng to his corps, pro ceeded to Alexandretta, and surrendered themselves to the mercy of our General-in-Chief, who gave them full liberty to return home, to go to Egypt, or to remain in the country. He ordered that they should be supplied with whatever might be neces sary for their journey. These fugitives report that Alishe Pacha had embarked his harem for Cyprus, with orders to join him at Alexandretta, whither be himself, having freighted a European ship, intended to repair, to meet his Highness Ibrahim Pacha, taking with him six pieces of cannon. The regiments of cavalry sent in pursuit of the fugitive Pachas harassed and annoyed them all the way to Adana, whence they have returned with 1,900 prisoners. On the sth, the notables of the town of Antioch made their submission to our General, and Khalil Bey, the brother of Mustapha Pacha, was appointed governor of the district of Bsbylon. The Pacha of Aleppo passed, in his flights through Anlab, letiving behind him his cannon, which have fallen into our hands. We learn that this Pacha is at Milatia, with very few in his suite. In the defile of Baylan the enemy lost 39 pieces of cannon, of which we have obtained possession. On the 6th (August 2), Eyoub Bey, Iskian-Bashi of the tribe of Milu, in the district of Urfa, addressed letters of submission and as weh also veasov‘e a havek congratulation tace t on o risis l iodhieapird up t o thi s es of Ibrahim Pacha, who has been pleased t o con fi rm him in h'' place of hkian-Bashi. F ca i n r ' o a d ay o ly o o i o t d with t oh the thedifferentem o t r ar a c t ions enemy, quantity of ammunition of every kind. The n umber of killed, and the prisoners we have made, amount to 13,000, without reckoning the fugitives, the num' lien of whom must be immense; for, according t ° Arif Bey, the enemy had 36,000 regular troop" scarcely 5,000 of whom remain with Hussein Pact's; In the affair of Baylan, our loss in killed 11 0 wounded was 20 men. The etymology of the word Buccaneer i 9 traced by OxMELIN to a custom which prevailed a moniC the original inhabitants of the Carribbee Islands, of roast' ing their prisoner; of war upon frames of clay placed ove f very , trong fires. These clay frames were called barbacoar the place where they were erected boucan, and the cry' tion boucaner, to roast and smoke. BIRTHS. On the 29th ult. at Edinburgh, Mrs. Campbell, of Strachor' of a son and heir. On the sth inst. in Wimpole-street, Mrs. J. Stephens A ldersei, of a son. On the 4th inst. in. Nottingham place, Mrs. Charles Cancell°f' of a daughter. MARRIED. o f On the 4th inst. at Fulham, Wilson Hetheringto n , Lincoln's-inn, barrister-at-law, to Georgiana Maria, eldest daub ter of the late John Gifford, Esq., of Penge, Surrey. ard' On the 2d inst. at St. George's Hanover-square, and afterw.,. o at the French chapel, King-street, Portman-square, Monsw h ii Charles Edouard Colmache, of Paris, Zt o rivate Secretary r r Excellency Prince Talleyrand, French Ambassador to the Co_n_ of Great Britain, to Miss Creorgiana Alicia Lee, of Lower C u naught-place, Hyde-park. f On the 2d inst. at Lenten Church, Mr. James Bohn, per Stamford-street, second son of John Bohn, Esq., of rt J. rietta.street, Covent garden, to Elizabeth, third daughter ot Stones, Esq., of Parliament-street, and the Park, Notting DIED. •O On the 4th inst at Blandford-place, Regent's-park, Mrs. Di' Dickson, aged 74. On the 3d inst. at Hampstead, in the 83d year of her2 e ti e : Mary, widow of the late Joseph Severne, Esq., of Munderu house, Herefordshire. 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