The Sun. — London, England, 1832-11-16 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS Lord Henley seems fully aware of the neces sity, in this age of puffing, of doing justice to his own merits. In his speech last night, he informed the portion of the electors of Mid dlesex which he was addressing, that " the trust of representing the people in these times should be confided to tried, honest, virtuous, and reli gious men—men who will not originate dis order for their own ends." We are to under stand from this that his Lordship, in offering himself a candidate for Middlesex, considers himself a tried, honest, virtuous, and religious man, and that he wishes it to be understood that Mr. Hume is not s, tried, honest, virtuous and religious man. £ Stand by thyself ; come not near to me, for lam holier than thou." His h . Lo drs ip has been tried, but unfortunately, till the pass ing of the Reform Bill, he was always found on the wrong side. When there is - no longer any use in opposing Reform, and opposing religious liberty, his Lordship would wish to be thought a Reformer. This is being tried ; but is it not being tried in the balance and found wanting ? He declared himself now " a friend of civil and religious liberty." Why, who does not now profess to be a friend of civil and religious liberty ? After the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, even an Ex-Inquisitor would have tact enough to avoid making enemies of so powerful a body as the Dissenters, by declaring himself, without any object, an enemy to civil and religious liberty. His Lordship confessed that " on the question of the repeal he had voted in the minority ; but he- had since seen his error." This reminds us of an anecdote of Wil liam Cowper, Bishop of Galloway, told by Dr. M'Crie, in his Life of Andrew Melville : " When Cowper was made Bishop of Galloway, an old woman, who had been one of his parish ioners at Perth, and a favourite, could not be persuaded that her Minister had deserted the Presbyterian cause. Resolved to satisfy herself, she paid him a visit in the Canongate, where he had his residence as Dean of the Chapel Royal. The retinue of servants through which she passed staggered the good woman's confidence, and on being ushered into the room where the Bishop sat in state, she exclaimed, Oh, Sir ! what's this ? And ye ha' really left the quid cause, and turned Prelate !' Janet (said the Bishop), I have got new light upon these things.' So I see, Sir (replied Janet) ; for when ye was at Perth ye had but a'e candle, and now ye've got twa afore ye : that's a' your new light. " Lord Henley's new light comes certainly at the most convenient time to him. But his Lordship endeavours to brave it. Let those who have never changed any of their opinions in five years throw the first stone at him. We are far from wishing to encourage an obstinate perseverance in error, merely to gain a reputa tion for consistency ; nor do we pretend to the possession of any infallible means for distin guishing between sincere and affected convic tion. But still there are circumstances which enable us to approximate to certainty in judging of any man. Lord Henley is (as he says him self) a tried man ; but, as far as he has been tried, he has been found acting against his present con viction. Now, this tried man is no chicken ; and it is certainly curious that, in all his trials, he never hit on the right course till a Whig Ministry made it no longer possible to oppose Reform and liberty of conscience. The film seemed to have adhered obstinately to his eyes till the very last moments of the Tory Ministry, when it suddenly fell off, and he " saw his error." This is being a tried man, and this is what is called having a new light. Lord Henley may be an honest man, and he would be a fool if he did not call himself a religious wan ; but, if he be honest, he is found in very bad company. As Dr.Caius says, what has the honest man to do in my closet ? He is honest, but he has no objection to avail himselfof the calumny against Mr. Hume*hat he is an Atheist—a calumny which one of his own Committee very assiduously dis seminated. We are more inclined to believe in his prudence than his honesty,, and we think it argues some skill in management, that cap tivated the good graces of the Dignitaries of the Church, and the Dissenters. The Dignitaries have generally good noses—they can smell a real Reformer a great way off ; and the attraction between the Dignitaries and his Lordship might, we should think, have put the Dissenters on their guard. It turns out, that the lure thrown out to the Dissenters, of readiness to pledge himself to vote for the immediate abo lition of slavery, is a mistake. Last night, he by no means expressed himself on this subject in a decided manner. "If he should be satisfied (he said) that bloodshed and ruin would ensue from the immediatefreedom of the blacks,he should have recourse to more cautious methods." This proviso is, no doubt, thrown in for the sake of the West Indians, as the abolition is for the Dissen ters. His Lordship, we see, is all things to all men. We regret that Mr. Hume should have said that he did not know whether he should support Ministers. If the course Ministers pursue be deserving of support, they are entitled to his support ; they are not entitled to it, of course, on other terms. But a man should never allow the treatment he has himself experienced from any men to come into consideration when determining in what manner he should act. If Ministers be dealing doubly with him in the case of Lord Henley, we have no hesitation in saying that this would materially injure them, not in Middlesex alone, but in many other quarters, because hostility to Mr. Hume would naturally lead the electors to distrust them. But knowing this, we will not allow ourselves to be lieve that there has been any double dealing in the case of Lord Henley and Mr. Hume. Mi nisters, as men of the world, must be too well aware of the importance of preserving their repu tation for honesty on the eve of an election, to turn against the Member, who, more than any other, produced in the public mind the convic tion of the indispensable necessity of that Re form by conceding which they so well earned a title to the gratitude of the nation. It is of im portance that on this subject there should be no mistake. We confess, however, that if Mr. Byng, after jockeyin g Mr. Hume, by transferring his interest to Lord Henley, is called to the Upper House, it will have a very odd appear ance.—Morning Chronicle. The speech of Leopold of Belgium to the Chambers, which we published yesterday, conveys as little definite meaning under a laboured pomp of words as any Royal speech which we have seen for a long time ; nor does it breathe any thing of that chivalrous spirit which his flatterers had led the world to believe Leopold would dis play in vindication of Belgic rights, and which is calculated to animate a people to the most heroic exertions in the crisis of national danger. On the contrary, the speech of the King of the Belgians is dull and spiritless in the extreme ; it studiously avoids all reference to those topics The travels of Pozzo di Borgo through Ger many seem to hare been watched by German politicians (who were not in the secret of his erratic tour) with something of that curiosity and alarm with which the ancients regarded the appearance and wanderings of a comet. He came direct from the Emperor of all the Russias, and he visited the Courts of Berlin and Vienna, together with some of the smaller Courts of the Confederation, while his presence was under stood to be so necessary in Paris. Therefore it was inferred that he was sent on some great errand, which he alone could execute, and which it would have been unsafe to have committed to a diplomatic despatch or to a Government courier. Having s e ttl e d thi s preliminary point, our German politicians and publicists were next absorbed in conjectures respecting the object of his tour, and the forces which kept him in his eccentric orbit, conceiving that the presence of such a planetary stranger in their political system portended some general convulsion. According to one sagacious theorist, who pointed his tele scope towards this diplomatic prodigy, Pozzo di Borgo was come to propose a partition of Turkey, on the model of the partition of Poland, and to offer Austria a share in the spoils of her Ottoman neighbour and ally. By another he was consider e d as t h e preacher of a new coalition against France, as the hermit Peter of a new cru sade sgainst constitutional freedom, and in favour of absolute monarchy. A third read in the diplo matic horoscope a new division of Germany be tween Prussia and Austria, and a total extinc tion of the smaller monarchies, together with which might stimulate the national pride of the Belgians, and incite them to main tain their rights, and consummate the work of their independence by their own valour and re sources. The' reason is that Leopold relies on foreign aid ; and having been called to a throne to defend it by his martial prowess, stoops his diadem beneath the ample shield of France, and, under that protection, contents himself with an inglorious security. When danger was more re mote nothing could surpass the warlike alacrity and patriotic decision of Leopold ; he was conti nually moving from place to place, reviewing his troops, and making speeches to them full of heroic anticipations of their future conduct and his own. He rode in laurelled camps, to the sound of triumphal music, and accompanied by his Royal bride, and the beauty and chivalry of the land, distributed those honours before battle, which usually follow a victory. Having worked up his troops and the Belgian people, as we were repeatedly assured, to a high pitch of enthu siasm, no sooner does the moment for action arrive than he descends from his war-charger and assumes a peaceful attitude. He talks with composure of the soldiers of another nation achieving by the sword \ the settlement of the Belgic quarrel, instead of putting himself, as he ought to do, at the head of his " brave Bel gians," and maintaining the credit of his own Crown, and the cause of a country with four millions of people, against an adversary who rules a population of only two millions. When Belgium separated from Holland, we con tended for her right to independence, pro vided she could keep it, as she had won it, by her own right hand. But if Belgium cannot maintain her own independence single-handed against Holland, her separate existence cannot long be an independent existence. She must become a province of some greater Power. At present France, by ordering the Belgic army to remain passive, while her own troops proceed to fight the battles which ought to put Belgian cou rage to the test, exercises something very like the rights of sovereignty over the people of Leopold, and, indeed, the speech of the son-in-law of Louis Philip is more like the speech of the Viceroy of a French dependency than that of an independent King of the Belgians. It is in vain for the Treasury scribes to attempt to hood wink the good sense of the people of England by debating this question as a party one, and making it a tennis-ball of Whig and Tory tactics. If every error that the Whigs commit—if every abuse that they advocate, is to be patiently borne, because the Tories, if in office, would have acted in a similar manner, of what benefit is it, we ask, that the question of Parliamentary Reform has been carried, for the only ♦alue of that measure was to insure wise, and good, and cheap Government, by making public opinion be felt in the Councils of the Empire above the selfish clamours of faction or party. That the present warlike proceedings against Holland are absurd and mischievous in the extreme—that they are the result of that conceited intermeddling in capacity at the head of our foreign affairs which we accurately estimated from the beginning of the protocol-follies, every man of sound mind, and who has not an interest to the contrary, now acknowledges. The opinion of the great commercial interest of London has been pretty strongly expressed upon the subject, without dis tinction of party----the supporters of Ministers, but not their servile tools, being as ready to con demn them for their conduct in this matter as any other persons. But though the advocates of liberal opinions have the " thunders" of poli tical excommunication► fulminated against them, because they venture to remonstrate with Minis ters upon this question, yet, as all " free-born Englishmen" are not easily reduced to the state of gagged helots, without even the privilege of complaint, there are some who will still venture to look more to the wisdom or folly, the good or evil of the measures of a Government, than the party-badges which its Members wear. As to the conduct of Leopold in acceding to the de mand of the French to enter Belgium, it would he bad enough, under any circumstances, while there was none except a Dutch enemy to op pose ; but it becomes much worse when it appears that he has, in so doing, acted against the wishes of the majority of the Belgian people. Our Brussels correspondent says—" The ma jority of the country is strongly opposed to their Gallic friends, and the instant the formal de mand of Leopold (for the French troops) is known, he will be the most unpopular Monarch in Europe ; and, supposing the city of Antwerp to be destroyed, I would not give him six months' purchase of his throne." We can ea sily believe, from the anticipations of the peace able submission of the Dutch King, which were made from day to day in the Treasury Journals, when the Convention between France and Eng land was first announced, that the statement is not far from the truth which asserts that" Talley rand completely entrapped Lord Palmerston--that he persuaded the sapient Minister it was only necessary to show a strong demonstration of co ercive measures and the Dutch would yield." Indeed the Government Papers at one time in formed the public gravely that " William only required a decent pretext for submitting." The Convention between the two Powers was to afford that pretext. Thus were our Statesmen outwitted by the Doetrinnaires.—Morning Herald. their legislative Chambers. None of them could conceive that this flaming emissary of the nor thern Czar could visit the Courts of Germany for a trifling object, and none of them could imagine that his object could be a good one. The mighty Emperor of all the Russias, it was sagely concluded, never could travel from Court to Court, and from Government to Govern ment, in the person of his most intriguing Am bassador, for nothing,--as there was never a comet without its commission. " Nunquam futilibus excanduit ignibus rather." What will such politicians say, then, should we be enabled to point out some even laudable object in the diplomatic travels of this Russo- Italian Count ? Will they believe us ? We fear not ; though we can assure them that we have no intention to mislead, and that we have the means of knowing what we state. It is well known that last summer the two leviathan Powers of the Germanic Confederation assumed the dange rous initiative of proposing measures to the Frank fort Diet, alarming to a considerable portion of the German people, and offensive to all the constitutional States of Europe. The smaller kingdoms, or principalities, of southern and western Germany were particularly attacked in what they justly considered their guaranteed rights and liberties. It was evident that, were the same system continued, the discontented friends of freedom in Germany must begin to plot against their own Governments, and look for aid in attack, or an asylum in defeat, to the west of the Rhine. France would thus natu rally be forced to become the protectress of Ger man liberty; and already the Holy Alliance party in Germany spoke of France and England as enemies of general tranquillity, because they are the friends of constitutional freedom. Had this state of things continued, an explosion was to be apprehended which (without the subsidies of England) might have dislocated the German empire, and renewed a war of political doctrines. Russia, though not a German Power, was sup posed to have urged to extreme measures, and was known to have great influence at the German Courts. In such a state of things, it is under stood to have been one of the objects of Lord Durham's mission to explain frankly to the Rus sian Cabinet the consequences likely to ensue from an intestine contest in Germany for free institutions, or against the abolition of such as existed, should France be invited to mingle in the quarrel, and England rather countenance or assist than oppose the malcontents. The Em peror was consequently invited rather to allay than to excite a tempest that might become dan gerous to the party whose cause he was desirous of espousing and supporting. His Lordship him self, had he been able to undertake a journey to Vienna, as he did to Berlin, might have been requested to explain the new views which the Emperor had thus obtained, and which he him self had suggested to the German Courts ; but as he felt it would be useless for him to go on such a mission, the duty devolved upon that able diplomatist whose movements have created so much speculation. Such, after all, is a very plain history of transactions on which so much mystification has been grounded. The simpli city of a statement of facts is not always a reason for doubting its truth, whatever some cunning Conservatives may say ; and we there fore leave them to take our account or that of the alarmed politicians of Germany respecting the mission of Count Pozzo di Borgo, as they think proper.— Times. Without attempting to preach a visitation ser mon, or to detail for our readers the especial and positive duties of parochial clergymen, it can do no harm to give some of them a hint as to duties which are of a negative and general description. It becomes, then, as we conceive, most expedient in times like these, that clergy men should not do anything to increase the dan gers which beset the Church establishment, by incurring themselves, or entailing upon their order, any public obloquy or hatred that can be considered gratuitous, and might by possibility be avoided. It seems to us more desirable than ever, that clergymen should, in the exercise of their several functions, strive to conciliate to the utmost the confidence and good-will of their neighbours,—that for such a purpose they ought to show themselves free from undue selfishness, and easy to deal with,—but above all things, that they should cautiouslyabstain from provoking the laity by exhibiting a spirit of arrogant dicta torship in affairs over which, properly speaking, they have no control,—by the assumption of powers whi c h th e l aw h as not veste d i n them ; and which they render themselves ridiculous as well as odious when they affect to enforce upon their parishioners. Clerical Magistrates are throughout England a hated race,—partly because there exists a strong and just dislike amongst right-thinking people to the degradation of the sacred office of a clergyman by its intermixture with the harden ing duties of the temporal magistrate,—partly, and chiefly, because it cannot be denied that clerical justices, as a body, have the reputation of discharging their magisterial trust with less ad ' mixture of mildness, forbearance, and impar tiality, than most other classes of Englishgentle men. We fear that this abuse of their judicial authority, alleged against the parson justices, has gone far towards indisposing the minds of men towards a patient hearing of the claims of the Church, as an ancient establishment incor porated in a great measure with the social as well as political constitution of the country. But if this be the result of political power, beyond all question legal, when injudiciously employed, in how much worse estimation would the clergy be held were the grasping at unlawful power on their part as general and flagrant as is their sup posed misuse of that which the law concedes to them ! A statement on this subject has reached us from Brighton, at which we refrain from expressing the full measure of disgust that fills us, because we can scarcely yet believe the fact, - however well authenticated, to be real. It is said that, between the two manias of cant and presumption, the parochial clergy of Brighton went so far as to order that the shops of that populous and busy town should be closed throughout yesterday, the churches being by the same high ordinance opened, with a view to the formal celebration of a thankigiving for the exemption of Brighton (by name) from the cholera. The Supreme Omniscient Being is informed by these humble and pious minis ters, that there has been no cholera within Brighton or its purlieus, and his attribute of omnipotence is inv(oikfedpotslsiaibtiteh;e braevagweasrdoedf the off all the rest of t h e C hristian d fr i o s m ord ß er rig m b a to y o s — til l l et population of Great Britain shift for themselves how they may ! Now, passing by the wretched humbug of this spectacle, let us look at its enormous impudence. What ecclesiastical au thority sanctioned the notification of a public thanksgiving upon that particular subject for any given day ? Was the Bishop of the war. diocese consulted ? Was any recognized power or jurisdiction a party to it ? Again, by virtue of what Order in Council, or other legal and accustomed measure, were the shops of the trading portion of the King's subjects closed upon a week day--the town of Brighton being undisturbed by any mob or tumult—and not, ever so remotely, threatened with such a visitation ? Talk of clerical encroachments I Why, no corporation of Jesuits under Charles X. were ever guilty of so daring an attack upon the body of society. The King, as became him, felt and acted like a man of sense, and as a hater of hypocrisy, and officious cant, or osten tatious folly would do. His Majesty loudly de clared his displeasure at the usurpation of power by these groundlings of the Church. He for bade the projected service in his own chapel, and ordered that neither the Royal Household nor the troops on guard should attend it else where. The Bishop of Chichester, we take for granted, is the diocesan, and will probably tell a bit of his mind to the impertinent functionaries who figured on this troublesome ocsasion.— Times. The Whig Ministers, if we may believe their organs of the Press, are so committed to their rash and disastrous policy as to be com pelled to persevere. As Bonaparte would say, they are " fulfilling their destinies." The ve teran Talleyrand has taken them one and all in the toils of his expert diplomacy, and France exults in the idea of being avenged on England for the unforgiven 'glories of Waterloo. The ancient characteristics of the rival nations are again exhibited, and the changing cycles of time furnish fresh illustrations of the so-often noted fact, that what we acquire by the ho nourable toils of war we are foolish enough to surrender to the fraudful artifices of negotiation. Once more, it would seem, the well-known lines are to be verified— " Ardent in arms, impetuous Britain fights ; Refined in arts, France plots and overcomes." But, after ages of suffering from this one cause, we ought surely to have become more wise; and the people at large, if half as enlightened as they are said to be, will not allow the Whigs to relieve themselves from the difficulties of their position, or to gratify their malignity as a beaten party, by undermining the foundations of the peace of Europe, and opening again the flood gates of revolutionary war. Whilst a single hope remains of averting this catastrophe, be it ours to endeavour to rouse the attention of our country men to the impending danger. We call the Whigs a beaten party, and we have a right thus to designate them, from the complete and ludi crous failure of all their measures, and from the contempt or detestation with which they are ob viously—regarded by the country. The memo rable Reform Bill was their sole stay, and, this being removed, the pigmy pretenders have shrunk into their natural dimensions, to the scornful wonder of the community. Stung by distress, the natural result of Whig policy, a considerable portion of our countrymen forgot for a moment their characteristic good sense, and allowed themselves to be duped into the belief that some good might be extracted from the nostrum of Reform, which now stands re vealed to the conviction of the dullest mind as one of the most elaborate of their egregious mis takes. The people seized upon a few of the leading provisions of th e Bill, an d i mag i ne d t h at what tey did not comprehend involved some hidden wisdom, or at least was not wholly absurd ; but they now discover the whole busi ness to have been a deception, designed to fence party interests, but unable to accomplish even that object, from the mere fatuity of its authors. Yet this was their best move, their single gleam of temporary success ; all else was deplorable failure from the very outset. We therefore call them beaten, and beg to ask the people of Eng land, who must act for themselves in the unac countable absence of their Paliament, how much more public mischief they will allow this despe rate faction to inflict upon their country and Europe for the sake of floating on from one quarter day to another. Nobly has the mercan tile body of London done its duty by summon ing public attention to the injustice and impolicy of the Dutch war, and we trust the example will be instantly followed throughout the country. Such meetings are " gall and wormwood to the enemy," and may be successful, even at the eleventh hour, in preventing much of the threatened mischief. Ministers are thus put upon their defence, and the shuffling sophis try of their hireling scribes shows the titter worthlessness of their case. The proper course was, if the award of the Conference were not sa tisfactory, to leave Holland and Belgium to settle the dispute, no third party interfering. If in that case France attempted to assist Belgium, ma marched France w ou ld stan d out to t h e v i ew of Europe the ed aggressor.to Paris would d rs w e l which know s o howrecently tochastiseas the avo we d di stur b er o f i ts peace, and the Would France fight upon her own soil for the dynasty of the barricades, with the certainty of immediate defeat, and ultimate dismemberment? Certainly not ; she would instantly abandon her 'nsolent interference, and there would be no The Belgian question would be settled one way or other in a single month, Parisian intrigues being at an end, and all would be tranquillity. There would be no wars of opinion, no revolutionary collisions, no alternations of anarchy and despotism, but, the causes of contention being removed, neighbour ing nations would content themselves with a ge nerous emulation in the arts of peace. The gra dual progress of knowledge, and especially of Christian knowledge, would speedily bring about those constitutional improvements which harmo nize power with liberty, not indeed by means of theoretical institutions, based on the speculative rights of man, and forced upon reluctant com munities by dominant partisanship, but through the quiet and resistless influence of growing intelligence and improving virtue. Such we believe would be the results upon Eu ro p e at large of a steady perseverance in the well-known principles of British foreign policy. But these principles are all set at nought by the hateful measures now in progress. If the fact be, as the Times asserts on behalf of the Ministry, that we are going to war in order to limit French aggression by joining it to a certa i n extent, in what an unprecedented and horrible position is this country placed. The unnatural war is certain, the future fancied advantage contingent. France gets all she wants, a license frnm Eng land to break the peace of Europe in support of a revolutionary throne, and this she can plead as a sanction for future measures of aggression rest ing on similar principles. But we maintain that there is yet time for this country to arrest the fraudulent and anti-national procedure of its unworthy Government,Morning Post. SECOND EDITION. SUN-OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. THE LONDON GAZETT THIS EVENING. WAR OFEICE, Nov. 16, 1832. 3d Regiment of Dragoon Guards, Lieut. C. J. Cornish, from the 16th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Mansergh, who retires, Nov. 16. 14th Regiment of Light Dragoons, Lieut. F. H. Stephens, from the Rifle Brigade, to be Lieutenant, vice Lockhart, who ex changes, Nov. 16. 15th Light Dragoons, R. Bell, Gent, to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Crompton, who retires, Nov. 16. 16th Light Dragoons--Captain G. Manse!, from the 30th Foot, to be Captain, vice Luard, who exchanges ; Cornet W. A. Sweetman to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Cornish, ap.. pointed to the 3d Dragoon Guards; R. Pattinson, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Sweetman, Nov. 16. 3d Regiment of Foot—Lieut. J. Whittam to be Captain, by purchase, vice Kingsbury, who retires; , Ensign G. G. Lonsdal e , NN to be Lieutenant, by purc h ase, vice hitt= • Ensign C. Pe shall, Mom the 9th Foot, t o b e E ns i gn , vice Lonsdale, Nov. 16. 9th Foot—W. W. Powell, Gent., to be Ensign, by_purchase , vice Peshall, appointed to the 3d Foot, Nov. 16. 21st Foot—T. B. Mortimer, Gent, to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Jervis, who retires, Nov. 16. 30th Foot—Captain J. I,uard, from the 16th Light Dragoons, to be Captain, vice Mansel, who exchanges, Nov. 16. 420 Foot —Ensign T. G. Stirli ng , t o be Lieutenant, by pur chase, vi3e Macfarlane, promoted, Vov. 16. 63d Foot—Captain J. Briggs to be Major, by purchase, vice Douglas, who retires ; Lieut. A. Erskine to be Captain, by pur chase, vice Briggs ; Ensign It. Dale to be Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Erskine; W. G. Jervis, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Dale, Nov. 16. 820 Foot—Lieut. C. F. Maxwell to be Captain, by purchase, vice Hannay, who retires ; Ensign N. E. 011ivier to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Maxwell; T. P. Firman, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice 011ivier, Nov. 16. 86th Foot, Lieut. J. Creagh, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Twigg, who retires; Ensign R. N. Carlisle to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Creagh; C. W. Gore, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Carlisle, Nov. 16. 91st Foot—Captain E. R. Northey, from half-pay Portugues e Officers, to be Captain, vice Kenney, who retires, Nov. 16. Rifle Brigade—Lieut, R. A. Lockhart, from the 14th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Stephens, who exchanges, Nov. 16. UNATACED. Lieut. W. D. Macfarlane, T from the 42d Foot, to be Captain of Infantry, by purchase, Nov. 16. MEMORANDA. The name of the Ensign of the 92d Foot, is Dc Balinhard, and not Carnegy, as formerly stated. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Nov. 14. Royal Regiment of Artillery. Second Captain A. 0. W. Schalch to be Adjutant, vine Cater, March 29. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. THOMAS DAVISON, oilman, Barking, Essex. HENRY SHEEN, grocer, Leicester. ALBERT BARRETT, wine -merchant, York-street, St. James's-square. CHARLES BOURNE' victualler, Leicester-square. BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. RICHARD LORD, maltster, Barby, Northamptonshire, from Oct. 5 to Nov. 23, at eleven, at the Goat Inn, Northampton. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. GEORGE BAKER BILLOWS, ironmonger, Poole. BANKRUPTS. HENRY PALMER, timber_merchaut, Stratford, Middlesex. GDORGE PRICE, bookseller, Portland-place North, Clap ham-road, Surrey. WILLIAM CAEFALL, butcher, Rickmansworth, Aert fordshire. JOHN PEARCE, licensed-victualler, Musenm-street, Blooms bury. EVAN HIGGINS, draper, Manchester. JAMES PETER OLDFIELD, merchant, Liverpool. GEORGE POWER, jun., MANUAL BOWER, toy-makers, Thavie's Inn. THOMAS JEFFREYS, otherwise THOMAS HOWARD JEFFERYS, hairdresser, Stoke-upon-Trent, Stalfordshiae. JAMES DITCHFIELD, victualler, Lancashire. WILLIAM KILSBY, hotel-keeper, Southampton. SAMUEL BURRELL, linen-draper, St. Ives. Huntingdon shire. THOMAS HOWARD, tailor, Burnley, Lancashire. SAMUEL. HARRISON and WILLIAM BRISTOW, nur. serymen and seedsmen, Old Brompton. GEORGE BEEBY, haberdasher, London.wall. JOHN SAUNDERS, schoolmaster, Corbel's Tay, Essex. ISAAC LAVER, tallow-chandler, Clapham, Surrey. HENRY CRACE, painter, Regent-street. WILLIAM JARVIS, victualler, Peterborough. WILLI AM SMITH, fishmonger, Billingsgete. BEVAN GEORGE SLOPER, manufacturing-chemist, Chester. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARLBORO U G H. STREET. Lord Valletort came yesterday to this office to complain of an attempt to extort money from him through the medium of a fictitious case of distress, contained in a letter addressed to him and left at his residence by a young man whom he had just given in charge to a police-officer. His Lordship stated that a few days ago a petition under cover was sent to him, which purported to be from Mr. John Harrison, box-keeper at the King's Theatre, soliciting in urgent terms a small donation. This petition appeared to be signed by Lords Burghersh, Palmerston, Goderich, Count d'Orsay, Countess Carlisle, Countess Gower, Mr. Greville, and a number of other gentlemen, for sums varying from 11. 10s.; but as he (Lord Valletort) had some knowledge of the hand-writing of two of the signing parties, he suspected the signatures were forgeries, and upon sending a servant to make inquiries, he found his suspicions correct. When the prisoner called for an answer, an officer was sent for, and he was given into custody. His Lordship further stated, that the system of imposition carried on through the medium of begging letters was greatly extending itself. This was the second attempt he had detected that morning, and not a week elapsed in which he was not five or six times subjected to similar attempts. He was, however, determined to punish all those whom he detected in future. The prisoner, who is suspected to be an old hand, having gone by the names of John Williams, alias Archer, alias Lyon, alias Harrrison, now asserted that his name was John Lyon, and that he had been sent by a person of the name of Harrison for an answer to a letter which he had written to his Lordship. Mr. OVER ordered the prisoner to be committed for the usual period. HATTON-GARDEN. Yesterday, Robert Mills was placed at the bar before Mr. ROGERS, charged with having embezzled various sums of money belonging to his late em ployers, Messrs. Fisher, Davis, and Co., solicitors, of Chancery-lane. Mr. ROGERS committed the prisoner to Newgate for trial. MARYLEB ONE. Yesterday, Anthony Rawlings, a tailor, living in Henry-street, Hampstead-road, appeared before Mr. Hostums, at the instance of the St. Katharine's charity, to show cause why he should not be compel led to cancel the indentures of a boy named William Fraser, who had been apprenticed to him by the charity, and to make restitution of a part of the ap prentice fee. The defendant promised to comply with this con dition, and the parties left the office. T 0 WW--BALL. A respectably-dressed gentleman, who gave his name Mr. John Stowell, an officer of his Majesty's stamp duties, No. 12, New-street, Kennington-road, Surrey, came into the Justice Room, and requested the advice of Mr. Newman, the Magistrate's clerk, how he was to act. In the Times of Friday last there appeared a report from this office relative to an information which had been laid against John Humphreys, Esq., one of the Sheriffs of the city of London, by a person named Stowell, an informer, for not conforming to the Act of Parliament, in deli vering coals without a proper vender's ticket; the information was quashed. The applicant regretted to say that the informer was his son, and in consequence of the Christian name of his son, which was Thomas, not being in serted in the Times, together with his address, Union-place, Newington, the applicant bore the stigma; inasmuch as his very old acquaintances would not recognise him, but treated him con temptuously, in fact, every day in consequence of his son pursuing the disgraceful avocation. He hoped Mr. Newman would not encourage his son's dishonourable calling by receiving any more infor mations; for his son was not satisfied with injuring him in the estimation of others, but added to it per. sonal threats and insolence. Mr. Newman said that Mr. Stowell's case was a truly pitiable one, and as regarded the publicity wffrch had been given to his surname in a public print, he had no doubt but that engine would set him and the rest of his family right with the public. The province of receiving informations from in formers lay with the Magistrate, whom lie would advise him to see when sitting. Mr. Stowell said he had held his situation many years, and if some public notice was not taken, he should die broken-hearted; it was to him, indeed, a painful task to state what he had in that pul office against his son. He would write to the ferent police-offices in town and country a full st went of the facts. THE MARKETS. SOUTHALL MARKET.—Nov. 14. This day's market was moderately well supplied throughi and rather numerously attended both by London and cout buyers, but as most of the former purchased the greater par , their week's supply at Smithfield on Monday, the trade was dull, except with the very primest Beef and Mutton, at thel lowing prices per stone of 81b. to sink the offals:— „„ A , Beef. 2s. Oct. to 4s. Od. I 3s. 6d. . Mutton 3 8 4 8 Pork 4 0 5 The foregoing quotations are Beef 2d. per stone higher, 2d per stone lower than on this day se'nnight ; prices others about stationary. Beasts, 256; Sheep, 3,671 ; Calves, 47; P 35. A considerable number of the Beasts and Sheep left market unsold. ... HAILSHAM MARKET.—Nov. 14. 8eef....—.......... 3s. Od. to 3s. 10d. Pork . 4s. Od. to 4s. l Veal 1 Mutton 310 410 l 4 0 4 ! Supply of Beasts rather great, but chiefy of inferior qualil of small stock limited; trade rather dull. ARUNDEL mARI(Ei lmm 8eef............--..... 3s. Od. to 4s. Od. I Veal 3s. 10d. to 4s. Mutton --.... 3 8 410 I P0rk=......7 310 4 Supply good; trade with prime stock rather brisk, but v inferior stock dull. CHICHESTER M ARK ET.—Nov. 14. 8eef.........„.„.„„ 2s. M. to 3s. 10d. 1 Vea1—,...,—.... , 4s. Oct. to 4s Mutton 3 6 4 4 l Pork 3 8 4 In Store Stock but little doing. Supply of fat Beasts good, of small stock limited; trade rather dull. ..i RUMFORD MARKET.—Nov. 14. s. (1. to s. d. s. d. s• Nlutt Beef 2 8 3 8 I Veal on 3 6 4 6 Pork 4 0 6 suckling Calves from 14s. to 31s. ; Quarter old Pigsl2l tolBs. eal Supply rather limited; trade with prime Mutton somewli brisk; with other meat dull. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DIM NG THE WEE] 1 Wheat. Barley. Oats. I Bean Per Quarter. s. to s. s. s. s. to s. 8. to Blandford 52 30 22 Brigg 52 63 36 40 1 19 17 -- Cambridge, .. 54 2 31 3 —7 Chard 52 56 28 32 17 20 34 Huntingdon...—. 58 63 24 37 14 2° 2S• Long Sutton-- 56 64 17 0 2 32 Louth 5O 55 27 32 19 20 32 Lynn 54 56 20 38 22 28 Newark 52 63 36 42 16 3 3 6 2 Nottingham 50 63 35 45 19 23 38 Peterborough 46 60 28 36 17 22 29 Plymouth . 50 64 30 34 20 23 Pontefract.—......... 67 43 27 ' Sleaford 65 70 36 38 22 28 41 Uppingham 50 59 28 38 20 26 30 Wisbech 44 48 20 24 13 15 30 M LEEDS CORN MARKET.—Nov. 13. Norfolk and Suffolk, 601 b. York. and Lincoln. 601 b. Norfolk and Suffolk Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding Beans Oats, Potatoe 23.. to 265. *1 —Mealing, For. 12d. to 13d. Eng. 11d. to 1234 d, pers,Sl Shelling Rapeseed, English, 224 to 23........ Foreign, —l. to I. per las', _, Wheat, Barley, LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.—Nov. 13. WHEAT, English, White, per 701 b. Red .. Scotch, Welch, and Manx Irish, White 7 4 7 6 --- Red 7 2 7 3 Foreign 8 6 810 OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 2 4 2 8 Irish Foreign 2 0 2 6 BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 34 0 38 0 -- Scotch and Irish, per 601bs. Feeding 3lO 4 2 BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter 36 0 38 0 Irish, &c. Foreign PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter 3B 0 40 0 Foreign FLOUR, English, per 2801 b. 45 0 46 0 Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401b5. ...... INDIAN CORN, per 4401 b. Etvr, per Imperial quarter MALT, per Imperial quarter IMPORT OF GRAIN for the Week ending Nov. 12. Wheat. Oats. I Barley Flour. O a tmeal' Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. (Foreign, Brls.llnsh,&c. Scks . l Loads. 5,030 3,384 , 1,503 0 1 3,270 3,830 CHELTENHAM Per Bushel. 8. d. to s. d. Wheat Barley 4 0 5 6 Oats 4 0 4 3 Beans Pease 5 0 7 0 Hay 3l. lOs A RKET.—Nov. 13. Per lb. d. to d. Beef 6 7 Mutton 4 I Veal Pork Lamb 7 8 to 31. 15s. Od. per ton ARKETS.—Nov. 7. s. d. s. 11 ", Butler, l6oz . 0 Otoo u Eggs, dozen ........ 0 0 0 0 Beef, per lb. Mutton 0 4 0 a Veal O4 0 0 Quartern Loaf ..... DUMFRIES M 8. d. s.d. Wheat, Imp. Bush 6 0 to 6 3 Barley.-- 3 0 3 4 Oats ....... . .......... Flour, 141 b. Oatmeal 1 8 1 9 Potatoes, cwt. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS, AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL-STREET. (From the London Gazette.) TO-MORROW, Nov. 17. st. 1 1 ; C. Bull, Bath, tavern-keeper 1 at i' J. Pratt, King-street, St. James's, ironmonger J. Moss, Great Charlotte-street, Blackfriars-road, shoe maker 1 10 DIVIDENDS. T. Watkinson, Marsh-gate, Lambeth, wine-merchant at ig J. Ansley, Little Distaff-lane, merchant D. Smith, Walham-green, stage-coach-proprietor la 10 T. Scarnell, Brighton, tavern-keeper A rumour was afloat here on Saturday, that two of our packets bad received official orders to bold themselves in immediate readiness for sea. One WO stated to be destined for St. Helena, and the other for the Cape of Good Hope, with important despatches, w hich were to have arrived here from Government. We, boy' ever, cannot trace the rumour to any authentic source,'" Cornubian. COUNTY OF SELKIRK.—The Justices of ,he Peace and Heritors of the county of Selkirk, at meeting recently held, at which Lord NAPIER presides' agreed to pay some suitable mark of respect to the me mory of Sir WALTER SCOTT; and nominated a most re' spectable committee to consider and report whether a lar, statue, or portrait would be most appropriate. Si r WALTER, independent of his general claims to admiration and r'gard, acted for upwards of thirty-two y e ars se Sheriff of the county.—Seots Times. TOWER HAMLETS ELECTION.—DR.LUSIP INGTON.—Yesterday evening Dr. LusmtroTorr addresse 4 a meeting of his friends at the King's Arms Tavern, in the Mile-end-road. The Learned Doctor, in the c ourse of his address, stated that, in the department of Eccleei' astical Law, he could inform them that a Bill was pre' pared, and would be brought forward at the earliest or portunity, which would abolish Three Hundred and Sixty Courts, and a l so a b o li s h tw i ce that number 0 , sinecures in the gift of the Church, and which amounted to very many thousand pounds a year. To the honour of the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, he begged to state that his Grace cheerfully relinquished the whole of his great sinecure patronage.—(Morn. Chronicle Correspondent.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, Nov. 1 4 . —The sales of Cotton to-day are estimated at 2,500 bale. —viz., 500 Brazils, in Pernams., at 9d. to 9}d. ; Ma ranhams, sid. to 9P. ; Babies, at 74d. to Sd.; and 2,000 in American descriptions, from 6d. to 7p. A fire occurred at a farm near Lingfield, on the borders of Surrey, on Tuesday se'nnight; and the circumstances leave no room to doubt that it VMS the work of an incendiary. Two large barns, containing twenty loads of wheat, and about fifty loads of eats, with several carte, harness, &c., were consumed, so that the loss must have been very great. The landlord, Mr. KELSEY ; was, we hear, insured, but 'Eve fear that the tenant, Mr. Amain' was not. The fire was seen still burning on Friday.-' Brighton Gazette. BIRTHS. On the 15th inst. in Hereford-street, the lady of the W Y ' Allen Cooper, of a daughter. On the 14th inst. at Skreens, the lady of T. W. Bramston, 554 ' of a son. On the 15th inst. Sirs. J. D. Woods, of a son. On the 15th inst. in Newington place, Kennington, Mrs.Cabe l4 of twins (daughters.) MARRIED. • On the 15th inst. at St. James's, Colchester, Capt. gchrel ber, late of the 18th Hussar s , to Anne, eldest daughter of Adolfo' William Hume, Esq. On ihe 15th inst. at Marylebone Church, the Rev. 1 3 ; p , George Bridges, son of the late Sir Brook William Bri u gii; 13Prt., of Goodnestone Park, Kent, to Louisa, daughter of late Charles Chaplin, Esq., of Blankney, Lincolnshire. On the 10th inst. at St. Paul's Church, Dublin, Georg e Batchelor, Esq., of Abb erville, to Jane, youngest daughter ( James Cull, Esq., of the S trand. On the 15th inst. at Highgate New Church, William Lu° 4 l' 41.90 eldest son of William Hanley, Esq., of Newington-green. dlesex, to Maria, eldest daughter of William Crew, Esq. , - Highgate, and of Sholley-house, Essex. On the 15th i nst. at Clapham, the Rev. Ralph Drake na— ,k, house, M. A., Fell ow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, to Mary A° - „e eldest daughter of D. R Remington, Esq. lE. On the 13th i ns t . at Islewort D D h, Mrs. Franks, relict of the l ate John Franks, E sq . , i n the 86th year of her age. On the 14th inst. at Thames Ditton, Surrey, Barth°lo ol Gibson, Esq., in the 77th year of his age. fi On the 11th i nst., of scarlet fever, aged seven years and of months, George T owns h en d W a lk er , f ourth son of Mr. Ar t Lewis, of Norwood, Surrey. On the 14th inst. Catherine, the wife of Mr. Charles Common Pleas, Westminster. On the 13th i nst. Ch ar l otte, daughter of the late Thomas AO' well, Esq., of Newark, Notts, and Coleman-street On the 13th inst. at Ilfracombe, Michael Bowman, surgeon, of Harley street, Cavendish-square, aged 67. —doe PRINTED AND PUBLIsIIED BY M URDO YOUNO, SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, LONDON. Na th e testi Pre