The Sun. — London, England, 1832-07-06 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS The Scotch Reform Bill, as we mentioned yesterday, will meet with no serious opposition. The Lord Chancellor characterized, with his usual spirit, the nature and oFeration of Scotcl. superiorities, by stating that they had so little to do with the soil of Scotland, and were so thoroughly marketable commodities,—or, in deed, mere negotiable instruments,—that nothing would he easier tl•an for some thiry gentleman capitalists, in Lombard or Thread needle-street, to return 30,—that is to say, the whole body of Scotch county Members, by the simple possession of the requisite number of parchment superiorities, without having amongst the entire 30, a single acre of ground from Ber wick-upon-Tweed to the Orkneys. This con dition of affairs, under the old Scotch system. was really enough to make the lips of the rottenest English borough patron water, and the eyes most familiar with fiction in these latitudes, turn up their whites in wonder at the pro 'ess of the north. According to Lord Haddington, it is true that a species of the lex talionis was acknowledged he'ween the perfections of the Scotch superiority qualifica Lion, and the beauty of the English rotten bo roughs. In revenge, it appears, for the absorp tion of so much county patronage beyond the Tweed, by the thirty sober-minded gentlemen of Lombard-street, the gentlemen " frae the North" were not unaccustomed to make their septennial inroads upon John Bull, and, carrying the war into the enemy's quarters, to levy black mail from the pock-pudding Suthron, in the shape of seats in Parliament for a large portion of schedule A. This privilege, or perquisite, or whatever it might have been, was, with amusing gravity, entered by Lord Haddington upon the catalogue of good things accruing to Scotland from the system " now no more," as an argument whence to conclude that the proportion of influence to be exercised by Scotland under the new law, though with an ostensible increase in the number of her representatives, would be re duced below its former level. However, the feu dal spirit of the gentlemen " frae the North" begins to show itself in another form. In lieu of finding, as they did heretofore, an available set-off in our condemned schedules, for the mi gratory nature of Scotch superiority qualifica tions, whereby, as we have said, or as says Lord Haddington, if Lombard-street spread her claws across the Tweed, North Britain, on the other hand, contrived to lay hold of certain Ordnance, Treasury, and Admiralty boroughs, in lieu of such advantages, the feudal grandees of Scotland now threaten to tear a leaf from the old code of Irish barbarism, and as the law confers inde pendence on their tenants, and enables every occupant under a specific rent and tenure to vote for whatever representative he pleases. they have the insolence to talk of resent ing, " as a personal insult," an attempt, not li - censed themselves, to canvass the votes of their tenantry l Now, even in Ireland, such mons•rous arrogance has been of late years suppressed as a common nuisance, and such criminal and vulgar preteesions totally abandoned. In Ireland, voiere the small leaseholders are not to be com pared with those of Scotland in any of those qualities which fit men to exercise an en lightened judgment upon the merits of public men, civilization has advanced too far to admit the continuance of such a ruffian and stupid practice, as that of shooting a candidate, for soliciting the suffrages of electors ; but. it seems the case is Tate different in that country whose metropolis has been styled " The modern Athens," whose aristocracy call them selves, and whose middle and laborious classes are among the best educated of their kind, throughout the empire. Representation by parchment is in Scotland to be succeeded by that of the pistol, the claymore, or the dirk 7 . The order of things which has displayed itsefi in England is . to be reversed by these hyper borean patriots. Here ancient violence gra dually gave way to corruption ; whereas the Scotch conservative, forbidden to bribe or cheat, has recourse at once to murder. But the Scot tish tenant holds the remedy in his own keeping. lie, at least, may vote as he thinks proper. The lanldord will hardly venture to take his life. The threat, indeed, is as ludicrous as it is barbarous. —Times. We were led in yesterday's article on the case of Somerville into an erroneous course of argu ment upon one branch of the subject, by the mistake of a single, but very important, fact In our Parliamentary report of what fell from Sir J. Hobhouse, it was stated that Somerville had been tried by a " general " court-marcial, whereas, it ought to have been a " regimental" one. This alters the whole complexion of the case. A regimental court-martial might have been led astray by hostile feelings towards So merville as a politician ; a regimental court-mar tial might have shared the resentful spirit im puted to Major Wyndham towards the prisoner; and under these circumstances it is manifest tha. the necessity for an investigation becomes a thou sand times more urgent. Indeed it is now ine vitable. We are convinced that no obstacle will be thrown in the way of a measure essential to public justice by the present Secretary at War. than whom it would be difficult to name alt English gentleman connected with office at an) period, more direct, or manly, or true to his principles and professions.—Times. The subject of tithes in Ireland, which seems to have been for some time settled in that country, last night engaged the atten tion of the House of Commons. "At this late period of the Session (said Mr. Stanley, on opening the subject), on the eve of a dissolu tion of Parliament, and after so lung and labo rious an attendance on the part of its Members, he would willingly have refrained from bringing forward a subject so complicated in its details, and the discussion of which, however he might wish to avoid it, must almosl necessarily lead to warmth, if not to asperity. But looking at the state of Ireland, at the condition of the clergy of the Church of England residing there—at the entire disorganization of society, and at the ab sence of power in the law to secure its own exe cution, he should be wanting in his duty, and the other Members of the Government in theirs, if the present Parliament were suffered to separate. without knowing the existing state of the Sister Kingdom, and the mode in which it was pro posed to treat the evils of the present systen. laid before it." This is a somewhat onto. nous commencement. Mr. Stanley had little difficulty in proving that the present tithe system was bad ; but the moment he proceeded to propose another, he involved him self in difficulties of a most serious nature. Mt. Stanley proposes, in ail, three measures.—Hi first Bill is to render the tithe-composition coin pulsory and rfi4 y Eti t il it t iryin g only according It the variation& in 4ie rice of agricult ura l pro duce, okys..l4ord. His seco n d Bill i ever{ tiiAe t a,corpoitition in each dio , . • -.:;—*/ • Irt.,‘ , 411:)3.t0,1,07. cese, consisting of the bishop and beneficed lergy, who are to collect the whole incomes t)i •he clergy in the diocese, and to divide then) , greeably to the shares to which the clergy are •espectively entitled. The object of this i 3 to remove individual clergymen from collision with heir parishioners. His third Btll is to allow 'andlords to redeem their tithes, and the Corpo ration to invest the price in land. All these measures suppose the necessity of the allocation )f the property now in possession of the Pro testant Church exclusively to the maintenance of that body. Unfortunately for him, the people of Ireland think the time is now come for be stowing the public money only on those whose ,ervices are useful to the State ; and they are it a loss to see the utility of maintaining a clergy who profess a religion which is not that of the nation. The arrangements for ascertaining the tithe, and for levying it, may or may not be well contrived ; the more difficult question re• maids, why should so much money be taken from the people forthe sake of a sinecure Church ? Mr. Stanley admits now that this property is under the control of the Legislature, but he contends that, till the Legislature otherwi-e dispose of it, the parties to whom it is at present destined should be enabled to possess it. 4‘ Whatever difference of opinion (he said) he might have with those with whom he acted upon ether gney ions, it was not his intention to do away with the con•roi which the Legislature might assume over the property of the Church.—(Hear, hear.) Whatever opinions he might have expressed at any time upon that subject, to such opinions he alone was pledged. But there was nothing in the arrangement which he was about to propose the could in any way affect the power which the House could have over the property of the Church. His proposition would only go to substitute one kind of property for another But that woult be no less under the control of the Legis lature than the property which the Church held at present, and it would be less subject to the influence of any out break of popular violence.—(Hear, hear.) Be tithes ob jectionable or not, no man could wish to see them, or any other kind of property, got rid of by a popular combina tion.—( Hear, hear.) It would be dangerous to the peace of the country, and to the security of all its institutions, it the property of the Church were allowed to be done away with by a comhinition, which might easily be r. entered applicable to the county rates, nr to the rent of land, or to any impost sanctioned by the Legislature.—( Hear, hear. ) Whether or not the property of the Church was to be wholly at the disposal of the Legislature, it was at leas , under the protection of the Legislature—(hear, hear,) — and it was not to be left to the undisputed control of po pular violence and combination." It is, no doubt, an evil that legal claims should be controlled by popular violence, but the popular violence, we fear, proves that the body with whom it lay to reconcile the law with the welfare of the people, required the correc tion of popular violence to enlighten their con science ; and Ireland being now in a state of disorganization on account of tithe, payable to a sinecure Clergy, while the claims of the poor, (who must be maintained somehow,) are disre garded, it seems to us that the removal of the cause of the disorganization must precede the removal of the disorga'iization. It appears to us, that as one great cause of the hatred of the Irish to Tithes is the allocation of them to the clergy of a sinecure Church, the determination as to the destination of the property should precede the measures for ascertaining and levying it. The man who would pay a tax without scruple for the defence or security of his country, might yet object to pay it to idle sinecuriats. Mr. James Grattan objected to the scheme of Mr. Stanley, as compositions could not be en forced. He was anxious to see something like the Scotch system established for the present. He proposed a series of resolution, stating that it is essential to the peace of Ireland that tithes should cease and determine ; that the Rouse recognises the various interests, and the duty to provide compensation, and the liability of landed property to contribute to a fund for religion and charity; hut that the mode of levying and distributing the fund be lett to a Reformed Parliament. The debate, after a division, was was adjourned to Monday next. Several Mem bers declared that the Protestant establishment in Ireland was a great grievance, however respect able the Protestant clergy as a body may be. This battle will be fought inch by inch ; the issue, however, cannot be doubtful.—Morning Chron. We are happy to state that, from all we hear, the new Vestry Act is operating very favourably in most of the large metropolitan parishes. In the large parishes of Marylebone, Pancras, and St. James, Westminster, the new men are rout• ing out the errors and abuses of the old ones, and with every probability of very soon pro ducing the most desirable result—that of re ducing the amount of the rates, without in any manner diminishing, but rather adding to, the comforts of the poor, for whose necessities the rates are principally collected. In most places, we understand, the most scandalous scenes of abuse have presented themselves ; not arising so much from any peculation on the part of those who had charge of the parish funds, but from their own indolence and ignorance of business, and their tacit connivance at the indolence and ignorance of those about them. The well-known phrase of tel maitre tel valet has, in many of hese instances, been literally verified, the master having been quite ashamed to have the man wiser than himself. The consequence has been that in many instances the accounts have fallen into complete confusion, and any thing like a check upon needless expenditure appears to have been quite beneath the notice of irresponsible bodies. Auditors have, in most instances, been looked upon as prying nuisances, which were not to be tolerated ; or where they were colourably idinitted, they were only allowed to look into by-gone payments, not to scru.iilize the pro. priety of unnaid demands. From these and a long train of other evils the representative system is it length likely to rescue parishes, as an im proved representative system is, we trust, caltu lated to rescue the country. Nothing can be so mischievous as power in irresponsible hands.— The honestest man, unless he feels that he is an accountable agent, is too apt to deal with affairs as either of no consequence, or, in time, to con vert what ought to be a trust for others into a s dirce of mere favouritism or personal benefit. We have little doubt but that in a reformed Parliament we shall see persons who, as Man hers for exploded boroughs, were very often worse than useless, become, if elected by a larg e constituency, both active, diligent, and useful. So it is in the affairs we have first alluded to. flue new members of the vestries alone will nut .lo all the good their election will produce,. but heir active surveillance will impart itself to those who have hitherto slumbered on their post.— .Vorning Herald. The WEATHER.—Th e heat of the sun i, .i“w becoming exceo,ive, the rmosphere being alinm• loudiess, and the wind imperceptinl e . The hay harves, pr seeding with great vigour, and the crops are very hundan'. A great portion of the lea hay is already ioused, of course in the fittest condition, and the meadows, ,t the immediate ne:ghbourhood of Whitehaven at least, r- princip illy mows'. The grain clops, wheat in par •-ular, look uncommonly promt,ing, and very thing i..or• rids a season more than usually productive ftmo ,r man and beast. Tne accounts from all parts of Erg. rid and Ireland are to the same effect.— Whiteha ren Herald, POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSI 01V H USE. A young man, named Harms, a Jew, the servant ,f Mr. Muses, a slopseller, of Houndsditch, charged before Sir CHAPMAN MARSHALL, mil . l a vi ng robbed his master of 110/. in Bank notes, and fifty-five sovereigns. He was remanded fn, further examination. The Russian Hornblowers presented the follow ing note:— ';‘ My Lotto,—With feelings of the deepest gratitude, ~vee; yourth Russian Hornblow e rs, I umhly and respecifisil ; Lordship to accept our most sincere thanks for the k.nd and humane reception we have experienced in the ma.ion-house, wt.en labouring under a greet many difli which are, thanks to heaven and to you, my Lord, likely to cease in a few days. We sha'l never torger :hat, through your Lordship's ex-rtions in our behalf, we ire certain to remain free, and to be able to get an honest livelihood in this free country, where the hand of a despot could never yet reach his prey." This was .igned by Ihe whole band, who begged to be allowed to play at the G iildhnll dinner, to b.• given in honour of the Reform Bill, as a token of their gratitude. MARY LEB ONE. Mr. Stride, Inspector of the D Division, came to ask the Magistrate's advice as to what should be done with a male infant, about two week.' old, which was brought to the sration-house, about twelve o'clock the preceding evening by a police man named Patrick Bourke (D. 101), who stated that he found it lying on the step of the door of No. 6, Upper Beikele)-s ree', in an old fi-ih-baske , , wrapped up in flannel. Mr. Si•ide added, that upon opening the basket he found the followin u letter In it, addressed to Mrs. Wallace. of No. 32, Queen Anne -street, but upon making inquires at that bourne he fouid no such pt-rson lived there, and that the writer of the letter was nil known " ManAm—However appear nces may b.. against this unnatural act, I assure you there is no avoiding it—the mother of this infant lost her li'e by giving it birth. The father once was well known to you, but liytnis:ortune and Irs own improvidence he is now reduced to the utmost distress, and cannot support himself. Two or three we ks he has by charily paid for nursing this child, but all his resources having fiiled, be is now compelled either to let it die of starvation, or appeal to you, whose benevolence is well known to the writer, who some years ago was frequently in your company. If you will rear it, may the Almighty reward you is the fervent prayer of its dis tressed father. " GEO. ALLEN. " The child's name is George. Tile writer is in hopes of claiming the child, it a liw.suit terminates in his fa vour, of which there i 4 little clou,t." Addressed to " Mrs. W.,114ce 32, Queen Anne-street." The Magistrate ordered the child to tie taken to the workhouse, where it now lies, and the paro chial authorities of Marylebone have offered a re ward of three guineas for the apprehension of the guilty party. W ORS HIP- STREET. Yesterday, a rat-catcher, in B teman's-row, Shore ditch, named Hunt, and his wife, were placed at the bar by Sergpatir Grove, of the G. division, before Mr. BENNETT, charged under the following circum stance.:— It aopeared, from the statements of constables Nos. 133 and 175, of the G. division, that about three o'clock that morning, while they were on duty in Holy well-lane, Shoreditch, the female prisoner, with a dead chill, about eight weeks old, in her arms, came to them crying, and said that she and her husband had been making preparations to have the child christened on next Sunday ; in conse quence of which, on the night before they drank a little too freely, and in a slate of inebriation they had overlaid and smothered the child. The offi cers instantly awoke Surgeon Finer, who declared it was impossible to restore animation, a .: th e c hild had been dead for some hours. The officers then brought the child to the lodgings of the prisoners, where they found in a small room seven human be ings huddled together on one wretched looking bed. They brought the prisoners to the station house, and left an officer in the care of the dead child The MAGISTRATE inquired ifthere were any marks of violence upon the emit', and being answered in the negative, he remanded the prisotterit, in order to await the is,ue of the Coronet's Inquest. UNI()N HALL. Three young lad-, named Page, Gibson, and Parke, were charted with endeavouring to extort ;no ey from Ir. Thomas C-, son of the banker at W-, Oxfordshire, by charging him with at tempo- g to commit a certain offence. Mr. C- lodged at Mr. Chandler's, County. terrace, New Kent-road. On Sunday evening he was in the K-nt•road, and he had just parted with a female, when Page arid another lad came up, and said they must have a sovereign. He treated the demand with ridicule, but they followed him; on getting near his house, he seized Page, and said he should give him into custody. Page, however, clung to an iron railing, and complainant contented himself with knocking him down. Duri.,g his absence on Tuesday, Page and the two prisoners call , d, arid re presented to Mr. Ellis, a lodger in the same house, that he (Mr. C) ha l behaved improperly, and they wanted a sovereign to make it up. Tney called agali on Wednesday, and compla nant then gave them into cuwody. Page said that Mr. C- had asked him to carry a box on Monday evening, and he led him into a by-s reef, where he to.,k certain liber•ies. Page then acknowledged calling at the lodgings of Mr. C-, as already staled. Mr. Bryant, son-in-law of complairvint's land lord, deposed to the treghbatirhood being in a Brea uproar, in consequence of the charge mate "gain't Mr. C-. On Monday evening, Mr. C old - him of the demand of a sovereign made upon him, but he did not say that he had been accused i,f wrong practic-s. He said he thought the fellows were bullies, connected with the female with whom he had been to a hou-e. Mr. Ellis gave a similar account. When heard what the lads charged %fr. C- with, h. advised him to give them into curody. The prisoner Gibaoti alleged that an assault had been made on him by Mr. C- last winter. Hear ing how he had acted towards Page, he accompanied Page to his lodging.. Parke wade a similar defence. Mr. C- said he was in ►he country last wipi. ter, and be could bring numerous g.-fitlemen io wore his respectability and character. He lived oti an allowance fr ,rn hi. father. The MigisTrive reminded the prisoners, and told Mr. C- to endeav-ur to find the girl with whom tie had walked on Monday evening. THAMES POLICE. Wm. Wood, a waterman, plying at Waterloo bridge, was charged with demanding and extorting more tram his legal fare, from J. J. Kinlock, E.(' eliding in Brunswick square. The complainan hired the deferpiant at Waterloo-bridge, to convc ) him to the Red House, at Battersea, and back, th. I gal fare for which was half-a•crown; but on lan.- log, ss. was demanded by the waterman, who in sisfPd that he had a right to charge for a pair of oars, because there were oars in the boar. Defendant—And I hargey there was oars in the boat, and, ther e f or e, your Worship, he is wrong anti I um right. Mr. Kinlock said there were certainly two oars, but he pulled one himself, for the purpose of exer rise, which reduced the water man's labour. Defendant—Tow, Sir, didn't you tell me to gei .ri when you hired me, ins.ead of scull. ?—:111 Kinlock—l did so ; but there was only one watei nan—yourself—in the boat. I have hitherto take. boat at Whitehall, and was never charged mot e than a half-crown fare. Mr. BALLANTINE said if gentlemen hired a pair of irs, they must pay for it. Defendant—Thai's just vot I hargeys. Mr. BALLANTINE — Roviding th , re are two t% a , ermen in the boat to pub them.—Defendant.-oi,, d ain't h rgey hat.—(Laughter.) Mr. BALLATINS asked Mr. E..ans, the Priheipt I Surveyor of the Thames Police, who is well expt r - .triced in matters connected with the river, if it w..s usual to charge double if there was only m an i n ti boat with a pair of oars.—Mr. Evans replied, mo certainly not. The oars fare was never paid unless there were two men to row; the defendant knew hat as well as he did. M , . Kirdock only wanted the point decided. The defendant here adopted a different line of "tiargeyment," and said he charged the extra half t-erown for giving the german a lesson in the art of owing. H- would " harzey" that point. Mr. Kinlock said the defendant was not delay( d by the le , son, and this was the first he had heard of the charge. _ _ _ The defendant, finding this argument overruled, ~ aid he had to pay half-a-crownfor the hire of the oars Mr. BALLANTINE said every waterman ought to have oars, as well as scull , in his boat, and I , e de cided that the defend ,nr had tiered illegally, and ‘.as only ent tletl to the Fculler's fare; htir on the intercession of Mr. Kullnek, the Worthy Magistrate did not itifbct any penalty, hut ordered Wood to refund the halt-crown, and to pay the costs only. THE JEW, THE CONSTABLE, AND THE MAGISTRATE. Some of our readers may remember an old Jets pedlar, with a flowing grey beard, who occa'.ionally ''sits the different parts of the principality with jewtllery, &c. It happened about a fortnight hack, hat thi- same old fellow, whilst pursuing the traffic of " his order," in a neighbouring' town, was ac costed by the Chief Constable, sans ecremonie, with " Where is your license, Sir ?" Jew—Srr ? Constable—Where is your hawkees license ? Jew—lt is here, St,,—pointkg sivniflcantly to that part the hum in frame, understood by some as the "seat of honour." Cutts able--You scoundrel do you know who I am ?—how dare you answer me in that manner but I'll serve you my. Come along with me, Sir ; —did collaring the old man, lugged him before a Magistrate. When arrived in the presence of his Worship, the constable gravely stated his charge, v . z.—travellitig without a lic •rise; and indignantly noticed the insulting language made use of by the accused. MAGISTRATE, to the Jew—Where is your license Si. ? Jew—lt is here, ST—pointing as before. MAIGSTRATE—yOU impudent rascal, do you dare to treat me in this mariner ? Tell me instantly, Sir, where is your license ? Jew (in a passion)—lt is here, Sir; I told you so before. By this time the " even tennur" of each of their tempers was very much ruffled, and all " waxed wroth," the Magistrate and constable towards the Jew, and the Jew towards them. Brine me Burn's Justice, John," says the Magis tra'e; " I'll make him come to. Now Sir, will you produce your license ?" Jew-Yesh MAGISTRATE—Why did you not show it to me before ? Jew—Betas I was not asked. We mu , t here let our readers into a secret. Some time ago, this poor Jew was robbed, while on his journies, of his license ; anti in order to guard against such mischances for the future, he had taken the precaution of,ewing all licenses, soon as procured, in that part of his clothes (or small clothes), where we cloobt not our readers are by this time aware of, without further elucidation from us. Now, being commanded to produce it, he said, looking about him—" Mu-ht it be had here ?" MAGISTRATE—Yes, Sir ; you move not from this place until it be produced, or I shall commit you instandy. Jew—" \re!, vel, then ; if I musht, I musht ;" accordingly, off goes the box, other awful notes of preparation followed, when th ee ladies marched in. The J ..w, however, was very deliberately proceed ing, according to orders, when he was stopped by the Magimrate with " turn the rascal out !" Jew—. Won't you see the lisbense first ? MAGISTRATE—You impudent vagabond, if you do not instantly get out, commit you for inde cency. _ _ The poor old fellow (as be afterwards said) thinking they were determined to give him lodging. for nothing at any rate, hastily packed up, and wen. nff grutnb!ing, leaving Magi,traste a ,, d constable as wise about " de lishense" as when they first found him, — Cambrian. CIVIC REJOICINGS FOR THE PASSING OF THE REFORM BILL. On Wednesday a deputar ion, consisting. of several of the most respectable members of 'he Corporation, waited upon the Lord M lot at the Mansion-house, to request that his Lordship would lend the Guild hall io the freemen householders, for the entertain ments they are to have, in accordance with the vote of the Court, in celebration of the great event of the passing of the Reform Bill. They stated that it would add greatly to the satisfaction of the freemen householders if they sere permitted to assemble in the Hall, and give their te-timony to the value in which the citizens, almost one and all, with only here awl there et few awkward instances of a con trary feeling, held the celebrated measure. The LORI) MAYOR said that he had cause to re joice in the application to him, as there was nothing about wincee he felt grea'er anxiety than adding ti the comforts and happiness of his fellow-citizens. H. was convinced that there was scarcely a single citizen who had not been indebted to the by-gone depraved syrem of the tep.esetuation lor success, that old not join in the animating ehorus which resounded through the land, and the appli earns might rely upon it, as far as his con sent to grant them the use of Guildhall, or any other place which his interference might enable him . 0 procure, his wishes and exertions should be per fectly coincident. Thete was one difficulty, ho• ever, but he ousted it would be soon removed. 13) the vote of the Court of Common Council, tin Guildhall was to remain under the care of the En et...oilmen, Committee so long as the fitting—tip s. , ould remain in 'tie Hall, arid their consent :nu be °trained, otherwise the Hall would be altoge her useless. The Deputation said they entertained no doubt vhar...er of the readiness of the Committee to givt their consent. Tu 1 ORD MAYOR a‘lced whether it was in cnn ternplati.,ll o give to the poor of the city, who were rt ,t householders, any part cipation in the puh'it• ejoicing of a more silb+tantial kind than was usual!, 'h.:vowed ? He thought that they ought not to b •or,totten, and would, with all his heart, put hi. name down at the head of a subscription to procute tor them a hearty meal. The Deputarion were of opinion that a subscrip tion would be the best means of accomplishing sr benevolent an object. Tne LORD NIAYOR then recommended that the hollers in the Hill should tike place at an early !tour, as the expense of lighting the Hall for one d:iy 'mounted to 2001—a sum which it would be much 'ever to appropriate to giving additional comforts; old, as the en entailments must extend to three or •our days, a great par, of the sum voted would he .-xpendrd if the gas were resorted to. His Lord ,frip also stated that, in his opinion, a capital error nad been committed in not providing that the ladies hould participate in the general joy to be expressed pun the occasion. If certain females at the other end of the town met with deserved reproach an • ,bloguy for their efforts to destroy the rights of all reenter), by maligning and execrating the Reform 13.11, surely due honour ought to be done to the le tittles of the city of London, who had shown so of all things, th e c l a i ms ladies ou ch zeal and sincerity in tendering the m easure H w e o t u o id p ert b di that,eneglected. tithe The Deputation begged further to know whethei cite Lord Mayor would du the freemen the lion.iun ,t take the Chair at the Guildhall on each of the ays on which the enteriainments would be given Tye LORD MAYOR said it would give him tl.t gnest gra:itic.,tion, as well as reflect upon him the „fewest honour, to preside at the entertainments. The illuminations are not to take place until all the Reform Bills shall have passed. BANK CHARTER. From the commencement of the investigation deputed to the Committee on the Bank Charter, we have been aware that the earnest desire of the Government was to bring it to a close in the present session. They did not, on going into it, sufficiently consider the magnitude and dif ficulty of the subject, nor imagine that it would he possible to develope such a scene of miserable quackery and grave mysterious subterfuge a , that by which the paper currency of this great mercantile community has been managed. With the exception of a few Members of the Com mittee, who have obtained information by in quiry and the practice of business, the subject is new, and almost wholly unexplored by the whole of those who have undertaken to investiga.e it, and report upon it. The public interests may not suffer from this, provided patience, perse verance, and candour, distinguish their conduct in the discharge of their arduous duty. But every candid man upon the Committee feels now the extraordinary difficulty of the question, and admits that he was little prepared for the disclosures respecting the operation of the new system of mana l 2ement introduced into the af fairs of the Bank by confident and superficial men, who are grossly misinformed on all that relates to the wants of the people, and the prac tical operations of the industrious. What the public had to fear, therefore, from the decision of this question, was the want of time and opportunity to lay it clearly before the view of the Committee. Lord Althorp may, with unaffected modesty, speak of his " moderate abilities," but if he proceed with a firm resolu tion to render justice to the country upon this important and engrossing question of banking and currency, the public will hold him in higher honour, and feel for him deeper gratitude than they have entertained for any Finance Minister, of the most splendid eloquence, that ever drew forth and appropriated the resources of the king dom. But his Lordship seeing, as he con fessedly does, the subject branch out under in vestigation into 'matter of such deep and vital interest and importance, should himself be placed upon his guard against being managed, or rather being biassed and controlled, by cir cutnstances connected with, and surrounding, his own peculiar position. his Lordship's principal adviser and official fellow-labourer en tered office with all the prejudices, and feel ings, and interests of the Bank of England, im planted by habit into his character. Lord Althorp's official duties lead hint into almost daily intercourse with Batik Directors. Seeing these persons surrounding the Chancellor of the Exchequer, it is natural to apprehend that they would be found endeavouring to lead his Lord ship's opinions and views into th ose c h anne l s i n which his predilections in favour of the Bank of England would be strengthened and confirmed. We observe that nine-tenths of the evidence is collected from London bankers and Bank Di rectors. Messrs. Palmer, Ward, Harman, Nor man, Glynn, Sir Coutts Trotter, Mr. Samuel Loyd, and Mr. Samuel Gurney, may be very skilful money-dealers, but it is a formidable phalanx brought up to support the Bank. We are all creatures of circumstance, and the habits of life of these gentlemen would incapacitate them from giving evidence with a proper and suitable sympathy for the wants and necessities of the enterprising and hard-working producers of national wealth. As commercial men, their notions, interests, and opinions respecting money and its uses, are altogether formed by their habits and intereouse in their vocations in Lon don. If any one amongst them has clearer and juster views than the rest, he has them—as one Statesman has clearer views upon commercial subjects than another—in consequence of his superior faculties, or from their being more wisely directed to the acquisition of knowledge; and not because the habits of his life have led him to a knowledge of the wants of the indus trious in those parts of the country where the production of national wealth is in progressive activity. If the Committee come to a decision upon such evidence as persons of this character would bring, or if they be in any material degree swayed by it, the public will be discontented, and the decision will be retersed in another Parliament. 3.5. 84 to 4a. 4cl. 00 0 0 LEWES MARKET—JuIy 3. Beet 3s. Oct. to 45. Od Veal Mutton I 3 6 4 6 Pork Lamb 4s Sd. to ss. Bd. Supply moderately good ; trade with prime Beasts rather brisk, with those of inferior quality and Calves, rather dull. RUM FOR I) M s. d. to s. d. a. d. s. d. fleet . ... 2 8 3 8 Veal Mutton 3 4 4 4 Pork 4 0 4 6 Lamb 4s. 6d. to ss. 6d. Suckling Calves from 14s. to 26s ; Quarter old Ptigsl2s.to 18s.each. A moderate supply, and a dull trade. It KET. -July 3. COUNTRY CoRN MAtihEIS DURING IHE WEEK. DRAMATIC PIECES. Prefatory to the return of the number and title of each dramatic piece or song licensed b y , the Lord Chamberlain during the years 1829, 1830, 1831, and to the 11th June 1832, Mr. Colman gives the following explanations : In pursuance of a resolution of the House of Commons I now forward a return of the number and title of each dramatic piece or song examined by me, and licensed by the Lord Chamberlain, during the years 1829, 1830, anti 1831, to the present time, specifying the dates of the licenses. As to an account of the fees paid to me by the theatres, which I am further ordered to for ward, those fees are two guineas upon the deli very of each license, which sum has, to the best of my knowledge and belief, been regularly re ceived by those holding my office, ever since the Act of Parliament passed in the year 1737, which placed theatres under the control of the Lord Chamberlain. Fees, therefore, appear to le established by a prescriptive claim of 95 Years, and " fees and emoluments" are included in the terms of my stamped appointment. The fee of 40s. was exacted, in remote times, ny the Master of the Revels, whose office seems from record to have been equivocal. A fee of two guineas for each license has been paid time tut of mind to the Examiner, who is regularly old legally sworn into office, and his appoint ment is signed and sealed by the Lord Cham berlain ; so that the Examiner's fees are very materially less in the present day than they were in former times, according to the comparative value of money at the different periods. On the first year, however, of my holding the office of Examiner, I established one alteration in my receipt of fees, which the following copy .)f a letter to a former stage manager of Covent garden Theatre will best explain : " June 29, 1824. _ _ " conscience obliges me to trouble yotl igain, and to return (as enclosed) two of the fort' guineas which you have this day forwarded to rne. Certainly a license is indispensable for each near -ong, and there is a fee upon e ve.) , license; but 1 , hotild be sorry to bear hard upon the performers b) 00 close an adherence to my perquisites. If there fore several new detached songs be sent to me a, nice to be licensed for one and the same bent ii light, I beg to receive only two guineas for all o hem collectively ; should there, however, be only on, song, I expect the same fee.—l am, S ee . (Signed) " G. COLMAN. " To J. Fawcett, Esq., Stage Manager, Theatre Royal, Covent garden." Again, in the year 1828, a company of French ierforiners was allowed to act for a season in London, since which they have continued then seasons annually. On their second season I re linquished all my fees due for 113 dramas which Wheat. Barley. I Oats. i beans. Per Quarter. s. to s. s. s. a. to s. s. to s. Rlandford 61 35 22 38 B 52 63 36 49 19 22 31 35 Cambridge— 24 18 33 Chard 56 62 28 34 18 22 34 38 Huntingdon 58 67 27 33 19 24 30 34 Long Sutton 56 64 17 22 32 35 Louth 5O 53 27 32 17 20 32 34 56 61 28 32 22 28 34 35 Newark 55 65 33 43 17 20 32 40 Nottingham ..—.—.. 60 66 31 42 22 26 36 42 Peterborough 50 61 32 33 20 24 33 38 Plymouth 60 66 30 34 21 23 67 43 27 43 Sleafbnl 6.5 70 36 38 22 28 41 43 Uppingham 58 63 32 40 20 24 30 40 Wisbech.. . 54 57 32 35 14 18 32 35 LEEDS COHN MARKE'. Wheat, Norfolk and Sunlk, 60Ib. York. and Lincoln. 601 b. Barley, Norfolk and Sutibik Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding Beans 63lb. Oats, I'otatoe —Mealing, For. 12d to 13,1 . Er Shelling Ratx.,eti. C.-July 3. 565. to 7 1 11 . 54s to 693. 125. to 355. 10 343 to 365. 215. to 235. 4, 345. to 425. 235. to 28s. • ng. 11%d. to 13,1. per Ft. ... 315. to 325. per load. gn , —I to Per last „. V r.ltrifibi. i iritN iOtt:HANUL.—JuIy 3. WHEAT, English, White, per 701 b. Red --. Scotch, Welch, and Manx Irish, White 8 6 8 9 Red 8 4 8 6 - Foreign 9 6 10 0 IATs, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 3 0 3 1 Irish quarter 37 24 0 25 6 Foreign 2 6 2 9 y iImiLEY, English, Malting, pet Imp. quarter 36 0 40 0 Scotch and Irish, per 601bs. 46 4 9 Feeding 40 0 37 0 (JEANS, F r iiigi , s B h , , c. per I in t p r e i. r h ia , l pe qu. : rte eb . s . 35 0 39 0 Foreign Ftouß, English, per 28111 b. ......... i'EASE, } E .. n r g e l i i g s n h, . ..per ... Imperial .. ...... . . ... ..quarter .. .. . 0.. .... .. ..... 0 0 38 g ---- Irish . .. ...................... nv., i.. ........ 47 0 49 0 28 0 30 0 31 0 32 0 I,tjiApp, OATMEAL, C; r E raN n i f i English a s r li l r a u a r in and b . 1, . ...riat q uarter .... .. W ending 2. 64 0 HALT, per Irni---- .- Impoicr OF —NA ,1. IN for . tit 118 Wheal Oats. &vie , ' Flour. Oatmeal. Oatmeal . Qrs. Qrs. sys. Fore ign, Brls.llrish,&c. Scks. Loads' 4,989 6,2 ° 6 1 3,855 742 BIRTHS. On the Pct inst., at Crayford: Kent, the lady of the Rev. R. B. BOWIIIC, of a s on . on the 3d inst. the lady of James Weston, Esq., of Finsbury" circus, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the sth inst. at St. Monis Backchurch, M. Saward, of Chatham-place, to Harriette, eldest daughter of the late Itcv• John Summer, of Rochford, Essex. On the 4th i nst. at St. Mary's, Leyton, the Rev. Robert MO: ricke, of Dinharn.lodge, Luolow, Salop, to Mary, of the late Ed ward Andrews, Esq. of daughter On the 13th u l t. at Legh D or l n E , D ilary Augusta Stephenson , Yotinge t daught rof Edward Stephenson, Esq. Farley.hill. On the 4th i ns t . at 'Footing, Walter Lord, Esq., in the 73d year of his age. On the 3.1 inst. in Sloane-street, Chelsea, in his 34th year, Mr. James Whitehead. thi the 3d hist. , after a lengthened illness , M r. Willia m Mac kley, of Tottenham-court-road, in his 65th year. On the 4th inst. Mr. Edward Mould, of East-place, Lambeth, aged 56. On the 30th ult. at Winchester, Miss Blackburn. On the 3d inst. at Brunswick.place, Brixton-hill, William, son of Mr. William Holt, in the cad year of his age. On the Ist inst. at Lower Connaught-place, Mrs. France s Scott, aged 76. On the 24th ult. a' his house, Springfield, Liverpool, Nicholson, Esq., late Lieutenant-Colonel and one of the senior >eputy-Lieutenants of the county of Lancaster, in the 56th yea r ,f his age. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY MURDO YOUN Ar 11 " .1 SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, LONDON. had been represented in the first season, its order that these dramas might be considered as stock given to the Frenchmen on their first set ting up business in the metropolis. The Examiner's nominal salary is 4001. per annum ; but the deductions from it (the chief part of them reverting to the Government as taxes) are no less than 311. 8. per cent.; so that the actual salary is 2741. Bs. annually—a sum scarcely adequate, without the fees, to the labour of the business as now executed, and the constant residence ill or near London. I have had but one leave of absence (for a month or six weeks last year, through the kindness of the Duke of Devonshire) during the whole time I have held my appointment—a term of nearly nine years. In my absence it happened that only two dramas were licensed, which were ex amined by Mr. Collier, who was my locum towns, at the Lord Chamberlain's recommenda tion. The only expense arising from the Lord Chamberlain's control over theatres is the salary of the Examiner of Plays, which, if this office were abolished, by leaving theatres totally unre strained, would he a very insignificant saving in that part of the Civil List of his Majesty's household : now, whether such a saving be of more grave importance than the relinquishment of all control over the stage is a question for moral and political consideration. GEORGE COLMAN. [ Here follows a list of the pieces licensed in the years 1829, 1830,1831. and 1832—amount ing altogether to eioto 410.] TILE k'EEttAliE. The secret history of 'he obtainment of the coro net by nine-tenths of t' , ose who set themselves so strenuous y against he proposal fora late creation, would fill readers, not merely with smiles, but with scorn and indignation. Ad sorts of base intrigues and petty motives wer. involved in them. I know a curious anecdote of the mode by which one got an Irish Peerage, whence the son stepped into an English one. And what shall we say of the new c of Lord ••".', one of the most noisy ones ? The Peers have never suffered so much in public estimation, as by provoking the dis cussions they have now provoked. They ought to have known that the subject would not bear such nice and sevetc analysis. The origin of a large proportion of the modern peerage is so mean, that a 'trict research into it is sure to raise contempt. The Herald can do nothing with his thin gold leaf to hide it ; or, and argent, and azure, and purple, and Rules, and ermine, decking fantastic and hieroglyphic figures, such as were never seen before, nor dreamed of, except by old Sir Isaac Heard, who is gone to his grave with all his anti-heraldic crotchets, will not now delude a discerning public. Best or worst, the greater pill of them are birds of a feather. It is better for men, ebscure on their own personal qual ties, not to come into history at all. These are days in which men's characters and persons can be drawn even to a laugh able likeness. Ermine robes disguise no shape, and hide no ugliness or folly now ; and what Burke said five-and-thirty y-ars ago of Collins and Edmonson is no longer applicable. No one now mistakes old Ellenborough' fierceness of temper for sharpness of intellect, or his arbitrary and wilful positions of ill humour for law. His loud voice was not eloquence, nor his broad northern dialect force. He might quarrel with little Townshend, the Herald, about the arms he assumed (the arms of the projector, Law), but whether he was right or wrong no one concerns himself; nor whether Radical's story about the Bishop's father is c , irrect or erroneous—(it is pro bably true). lam old enough to recollect the old Bishop, a retired unpolished Cuniberlandian, with a northern accent as barbarous as that of his boyhood. THE MARKETS. sou'rit A LI, ...I.—July 4. This day's supply moderately good throughout, and each kind of prime stock met a steady sale, but middling and inferior qua_ lies were very dull, at the following prices per stone of 61b. to sink the oflals : Beet 3s. Od. to 48 Od I 38.6 d. to 4s. 6d. Mutton 3 6 4 6 Pork WWI. 4 0 4 8 Lamb The foregoing quotations are Lamb 2d. per stone lower than on this day se'nnight ; prices otherwise stationary. Beasts, 121; Sheep and Lambs, .3,949; Calves, 80; Pigs, 80. A considerable number of the Beasts, Sheep, and Lambs, but not many Calves and Pigs left the market unsold.