The Sun. — London, England, 1832-11-30 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TRW PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Ultra-Tories, we grieve to say, are pro ceeding in several parts of the country with their scheme of self-immolation. That some amongst them have begun to look about them, and draw back from the precipice, we are well apprised ; but others, again, are insane, and, it is to be ' feared, incurable. The whole band of " Con servatives" have been warned more than once in this journal of the fate which infallibly be tides th , m, if, from blind hatred towards the ex i s ting Government, they fall into the tray which the Anarchists, or " Destructivss," have prepared for them, by coalescing, either as a body or individually, with the latter interest for the promotion of any Ultra-Radical object, because it may tend to embarrass or annoy the i•ters. There are two dangers which beset the Conservatives, and, we may add, the coun• try, both which may be powerfully averted or agsravated by those Conservatives themselves. By throwing themselves into the arms of the Anarch sts, they may very possibly carry some point against the Liberal Government, possibly they may force it to retire—and what then ? How lone. will the Ultra-Tories keep the helm, if they should succeed in gaining it ? Just so long as the clubbists please, and not another lour. If Lord Grey .and his colleagues, with the good sense and moderation of the whole United Kingdom at their back, find the post of Administration untenable, what chance of stability exists for those to whom the mass of enlightened friends to constitutional liberty are adverse, and whose extermination, both as politicians and proprietors, is at the same t: me little less a fithdamental principle with the clubbists than that of the Whigs themselves ? Let but the Ultra-Tories help the Ultra-Radical to power, :and they will lament the infatuated blindness of their own enmity to this interme diate and protecting Government, in sackcloth, al:d unprofitable despair. There is a second Luger likewise hanging over the country, and affecting not the " Conservatives" only, though produced by their extravagance and wretched in capacity of amendment. There adherence to, and abuse of, the borough power, occasioned filially such a burst of national indignation, that the boroughs were swept away, and have disap peared for ever. They are now exhibiting a wantonness and recklessness in their abuse of the landlord-power, which bids fair to raise a storm against property not less violent than that in which the boroughs perished, and of which the ballot and universal suffrage will be perhaps among the least noxious conse sprences. Look at the state of Marlborough amid the conduct of Lord Ailesbury's agents. Will it be endured that the tenant-right of England shall degenerate into a misera ble tenure by political prostration ? 110 Ailesbury'sLod drivers and other great-man's devils imagine, that if Sir Alexander Valet be thrown out ofthe representation of Marlborough, and that Dutch-American Conservative, Mr Baring, be brought in by force of ejectments served upon the liberal-minded tenants of the Noble Marquis,—do the aforesaid stewards and drivers, or does the Marquis himself, suppose that such proceedings will turn eventually to the good of Toryism ? Has a Mr. Shrimpton, or has he not, been threatened with destruction to his family, in the shape of a loss of his tenantry at will, unless he shall compel his two sons, who are independent of their father, to vote as the great Lord chooses ? If John Jordan, a poor blacksmith of Manton, has been told that he forfeited a great Marquis's custom for no crime but his attendance at a meeting of Sir A. Malet's friends, is there any simpleton of a Tory so thicksculled as to believe that Toryism will be the better for such offensive tyranAt ? If so, let him learn that the roused itiFa bitants have already raised between 8001. and 9001. to indemnify their oppressed neighbours. If this goes on, there will be a convulsion through the country, and the relation between laedlord and tenant—as, if the clergy do not leave off politics, the relation between parson and parishioner—will soon arrive at the same happy state as that under which Ireland now so eminently prospers. The truth is, that these Conservative bloekheads are playing the very game which has given birth to Ultra-Radicalism in this country, and by their perseverance in it the desperado clubbists are encouraged to hope for the success of their own plans of subversion. We believe we assert a fact which can be vouched by many testimonies,—viz., that a very high and very upright, as well as clear-sighted. personage considers the high Tories at this mo ment as one and all fit for Bedlam. What, again, shall we say to the workers of iniquity on the opposite side of the question ? The report of the Key-and-. Pearson Meeting on Wednes day last states that Mr. Wakley insisted on the reduction of 20,000,000/. of taxes, as a measure at once necessary and practicably ! The interest of the public debt is 28,000,000/., so that, without robbing the public creditor (though such an act might be venial enough with some peo ple) the country would have minus 2,000,000/. to support navy, army, and all its civil func• tionaries! God preserve us from radical arithmetic ! Mr. Hume might have taught the gentleman better. A blessed set of Lycurguses and Solons, of legislators, financiers, and states men they must have been who summoned a meeting of all London and Westminster for the sake of spouting forth, or listening to, such tremendous rubbish—of fixing beforehand, and binding candidates irrevocably to the support of what may almost be termed a code of laws dic tated by these same nose-leaders of the rabble, and voted by their supreme and unerring wisdom is be-applicable to the affairs of England at all tithes, and tinder all circumstances, foreign and domestic, of peace and war, of famine and abun• &nee, of prosperous and adverse fortune. We really cannot, upon looking at the proceedings (Attie London Tavern, and at those who appear to have got up and managed them—we cannot stifle our cont empt for the political mean ness of the Candidates and Members who so forgot the respect due to themselves and their avowed pretensions as to obey the sum mons and attend the meeting. If weakness to impudence —if want of will thus pander dignity will thus bow before want of principle, no wonder things are come to such a pass, or . that the mob assume to be the masters. The con coctors of the above meeting had as much busi ness to call before s them the whole body of gen tlemt n who stood for Middlesex, London, West minster, Southwark, and the new districts, and lecture them, and exact pledges from them, as they would have had to command the meet ing of the Parliament itself to Guildhall, and there issue mandates to their legislative slaves, as Napoleon used to those automata whom he ni.knamed " the Chambers" of his iron em pire. The thing is not to be borne—the de magogue-and-movement-monarchy must be grap pled with'!aiieflung down. LetThe'real friend' of liberty show a little of that firm spirit which liberty only can give, and these wretched anar chists, who understand liberty as much as they do algebra, will soon slink into that obscurity from which they never venture to emerge except when a false alarm, raised by themselves, has cleared the field for their operations.— Times. The result of the division in the Belgic Chamber upon the Address to the Throne, and the consequent resignation of all the Ministers of Leopold, is a very awkward fact, as far as the veracious reputation of those writers is con cerned who have been for some time past busily engaged in describing the armed interference of the French in the affairs of Belgium as a mea sure exceedingly popular with that nation and is representatives. The weathercock Journal and its evening satellite, which, from the begin• iiing of the protocols down to the present time, have practised gross delusions on the public mind as to the Belgic question—fixing day after ;lay, as" if from authority, for its peaceable and final settlement—ridiculing the notion that fleets and armies would be eventually necessary to cut the complicated knot which the sapient Lord Palm rst m was engaged in tying, and at last, IN he t coercive measures against Holland were resolved upon, declaring with oracular solemnity that Russia, Prussia, and Austria were consenting parties to the conven tion between England and France—these Joutn tls, we say, have been equally confident and equa lv false in representing the French expedi tion into Belgium as a measure which, if it (lid not twine any laurels round the diadem of Leopold, at least increased the popularity of his Govern ment. These same Journals threw the most calumnious imputations upon our Belgic cor respondent for asserting the contrary, and pre dicting that the result of the debate on the ad .ress would be to prove that the Belgians were not so lost to all sense of national pride—to all heeling of independence, as to be utterly insen sible to the abject, the deplorable state of Immi iiation to which the Anglo-Gallic policy and the coward conduct of their own Government have reduced them. The result has verified that pre diction. It has given the Ministers only an appa rent majority of 2 out of a Chamber of 86—but as three of the votes in their own favour were votes of their own body, it is clear that the nominal decision in their favour is a virtual defeat, and the Ministers themselves, looking on it in this light, felt that the confidence of the Chamber was withdrawn from them, and, under that con viction, tendered their resignations. One cir cumstance, among others connected with this discussion, which strongly manifested the unpo pularity of the French intervention, was the great applause which followed some poignant re marks of M. Fleussu against the Ministerial po licy, and the degradation that is inflicted ui:on Belgium, which applause the President was obliged to interfere to repress. Now, what were the remarks of M. Fleussu ? It seems s me foreign Journals, probably in the pay of Louis Philip's Government, had charged the Opposition with being the venal supporters of the House of Orange, and the Moniteur, the Government Paper, had, with the hope of breaking down their influence, in , inuated some thing of the same sort. M: Fleussu, having indignantly repelled this accusation, proceeded to express himself as follows:—" What is it the Op position desires? It asks for the Belgium of the Constitution, and not the Belgium ofth e protocols. This is what the Opposition desires, and that, in the presence of a nation reduced to 2,000,000 of inhabitants, -1 ) 000,000 of Belgians ought not to be degraded by subjecting them to the humiliating demands which diplomacy imposed." These were the expressions that were followed by ‘. disorderly ' bursts of approbation, which the President interfered to check. Never was there any thing in this world seen like the absurd state of complication to which Lord Palmerston's protocols have brought this . question, which could have been settled at least 18 months ago, in the only way in which it could be satisfac orily settled, by our abstaining from all inter meddling policy, and allowing the Dutch and Belgians to adjust their own disputes, either by negotiation or arms, as they best could. There is hale doubt that, if left to themselves, the ordeal of battle would have been appealed to ; and in that case, if four millions of Bel gians were not able to successfully vindicate their rights against two millions of Dutch, the former people would be proved to be to tally unfit for independence ; and, if Belgium cannot maintain herself suo marte, but must be a province, it is surely more for the interest of England, as well as of Belgium herself, that ,he should be a province of Holland rather than of France. But Lord Palmerston could not see this, when he was made the " cat's paw" of that treacherous diplomacy which tramples on the in dependence of Belgium, while pretending to supportit, and makes that betrayed and unhappy country the theatre upon which Louis Philip and his unprincipled Ministers perform, for the amusement of the French people, a political farce, in several acts, which is likely to end in some deplorable tragedy. The Treasury scribes, who generally contrive to make one part of their argument refute the other, tell us that all the five Powers . that sat in conference were ac tuated by their earnest desire to preserve the general peace of Europe. Be it so—if they were sincere, the easiest way of preventing the general peace from being disturbed was to have agreed to observe a perfect neutrality, while Belgium and Holland, having " a clear stage aad no favour," fairly fought the battle out. If the intentions of those Powers were pacific, they could have no objection to allow ing the question to be settled in this way, with out any trouble to themselves. if so, we should not see in the Netherlands, at this time of day, besides the armies of Holland and Belgium, those of France and Prussia, inflamed by ancient animosities and national hatred, observing each other with that fierce vigilance which, though it is not war, excites reasonable apprehensions of events, the occurrence of which would open on the plains of Belgium a volcano that would pour the stream of desolation over Europe. Is it to bring about such a state of things that the over taxed people of England are to be further taxed and impoverished ? Is it for this their com merce is impeded—their domestic reforms neglected—and the Ministerial pledges of peace and economy miserably falsified ?—Morn. Her. When a whole community suffer to the degree in which the inhabitants of the metropolis suffer, from the house and window tax, there is no • use in cavilling about the mode in which meet ings with a view to the repeal of them are got up. Of course all men wh o are see ki ng popu larity will naturally seek to obtain favour by taking a prominent part in denouncing an un popular tax. The question is not what the mo. , Lives of certain individuals may be, but whether object pioposed be a proper one. The best answer to that is the zeal and unanimity of the meeting at the London Tavern. It' any man says that the meeting did not speak the senti ments of nineteen-twentieths, or rather ninety nine-hundredths of the inhabitants of the metropolis and its environs, lie knows nothing of what is passing around him. Five-eighths of the house tax are levied on the metropolitan districts. The proportion paid by all Scotland for the year which ended the sth of January, 1832, was only 91,6461. that is less than one eighth of the amount paid by the m etropolis. Scotland contains a number of large and flourishing towns, and it is absurd to suppose that there is any proportion between the respective shares of wealth and the respective shares of this tax. What ! Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dun dee, Greenock, Paisley, Perth, containing a population of 600,000, to say nothing of a number of third and fourth rate towns, with all the seats of the gentry, not equal to one-eighth part of the metropolis! The idea is prepos terous. The assessed taxes altogether amount to upwards of four millions. Some of them are unobjectionable and ought to be continued. The tax on servants, carriages, horses for riding, &c. dogs, the game duties, &c. &c., are not in the same predicament with the hduse and window tax. One of our contemporaries (the Globe), while admitting that the house tax is more I rigorously exacted in the metropolis than in any lother part of the kingdom, and that in many cases it must be exacted from persons who hap pen at the moment of the demand to be little able to afford it, still seems to have a sort of hankering after this tax because a great part of it is borne by the fiindholders, and bes cause shopkeepers would pay higher rents if assessed taxes were repealed. " The assessed taxes (he says) setting aside the inequa lities which have prevailed in the assessments, are not th e most objectionable of taxes, if people were to be guided in their antipathies by reason. A very large proportion of them is paid by persons very well stile to pay them, and particularly by the reeeive4s of taxes. It is very well known that a large proportion of the funilholders, for in qsnce, live in London and its neighbourhood, and in the description of houses on which the assessed taxes have been allowed to fall most heavi'y in proportion to their va lue. Besides thet,e, there are within the same heavily taxed district a greater numb:•r of pensioners and office holders, besides the persons living less directly on sums paid out of the taxes, than in any other part of the king dom. The sums paid by them for assessed taxes are in abatement or re- basement of the dividend, or pensions, or salaries which they receive. The shopkeepers in the Strand and Regent-street, and other public thoroughfares, pay, no doubt, enormously in proportion to their means, but these are persons also, who, though not idle or opulent themselves, supply the wants of the opulent and the idle, and calculate their assessed taxes among their outgoings. If the houses in these advantageous situations have a pre ference over the other places for the purposes of business, equal to that which is now paid for in higher rent and higher taxes,and those demanded elsewhere, the whole would s -on be paid in increased rent if the increased taxes were taken away." It is possible that. a large proportion of the flindholders live in London and its vicinity ; hut if the object be to reach the fundholders, it would be better to tax them at once as annui tants, than by a process which reaches a large number of persons who are in most straitened circumstances. And with regard to shops, one of the things which most disposed the people to make a stand against the house tax was, that though rents had fallen greatly throughout the metropolis, all attempts to have the rate lowered were obstinately resisted. The inhabitants of S.. Paul's, Covent-garden, who began the op position, had made a new valuation, but the Go vernment surveyor would not admit of any al teration, and surcharged them. It was stated by them that the Duke of Bedford, the landlord of the most of the parish, had lowered his rents about 30 per cent. This, however, was deemed of no weight, because, though the rent might have been lowered to the occupying tenant, the holder of the lease was bound for a higher rent. The case put by our contemporary is singularly rnapplicable to tenants under lease during a pe iiod of a fall in rents.—Morning Chronicle. COURT OF CHANCERY, Nov. 29. IN RE HEATH. Mr. J. RUSSELL moved to dissolve an injunction granted yesterday on the ground that the time the application for that injunction had been made no WI had been filed, and the whole proceeding was therefore irregular. He would have been prepared with an affidavit of the fact but that it would be impossible to entitle the affidavit, no cause being it. existence. The LORD CHANCELLOR said if this were so, the injunction must be treated as a mere nullity. Mr. J. RUSSELL requested that the register mieht b- directed to take the deposition of the party to the fact that the bill had not been filed, which his Lord ship granted. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. 29. EDWARDS V. WILLIAMS. This was an action to recover compensation for an injury done to the plaintiff's chaise. It appeared by the evidence for the plaintiff, that in October, 1831, the plaintiff was (hiving his wife and child in his chaise from Norwood to Sydenham, when the defendant came with his chaise at a rapid pace round the corner of the London-road, and struck it against the plaintiff's chaise, by which the shafts were broken, and the plaintiff's wife and child were thrown out. The former sustained some injury. The Jury found for the plaintiff—Damages, 71. 65., being about .51. beyond the amount of the sur geon's bill. CLEAVE V. POWELL. This was an action on a bond for 1001., the de fence to which was usury. In December, 1828, the plaintiff had advanced to the defendant 1001. to be repaid in two years, at ten per cent. interest. On the money being paid, the plaintiff received back 101. half the amount of the two years interest, and at the expiration of the two years, a further pay ment of 101. was made, making in the whole 10/. per cent. upon the 1001. The business was tran sacted by Mr. George Besant, an attorney, who acted for both parties. The Jury found for the plaintiff. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 29. STANBURY V. GILLETT AND ANOTHER. This was an action of trover for a dog. The only question in the cause was, whether the plaintiff or the defendant Gillett was the owner of a black English water spaniel. The plaintiff, who keeps a coal-shed in the Hampstead-road, purchased a black puppy dog of this description a few years ago, and used him to draw a truck. In 1828 he lost him, and at the close of last year he found a dog resembling him in appearance in the neighbourhood of the Regent's Park, and concluding it was the same took him home. On the other hand, the de fendant had purchased a dog of this description in 1828 of the proprietor of tl:e Rose and Crown Inn at Sudbury, who took him in payment of a debt due to him by a Mr. Chinnery, who had shot with him for the five or six preceding seasons, and always kept him at the Rose and Gown during those sea sons. A servant of the defendant havin g lost this dog in the course of the last year, a friend of his saw the dog iu quest ion, whicn he supposed to be t h e same , in the plaintiff's possession, three days after he had been found by the plaintiff. The de fendant;therefore, demanded possession of him, and the dog not being given up, he ultimately obtained possession of him by accident. After a great deal of alterca'ion on the subject, and an attendance be fore the Police Magistrates of Marlborough-street, the present action was brought. For the plaintiff a vast number of witnesses were called, who swore most positively to the dog, as being the same they had seen drawing the plaintiff's truck for some yeirs, anti which was well known about the neighbourhood, the dog being remarkably fond of children, and therefore a general favourite and much noticed. He did not, however, evince any game qualities. He answered to the name of Jack. For the defendant G !lett Mr. Chinnery and seve ral of his friends swore, in the most direct terms, that the dog in question was the same dog which that gentlemun had shot with so many seasons. He answered to the name of Painter. Here the LORD CHIEF JUSTICF. suggested, that if any gentleman were to take the dog out to the fields for an hour, he could at once ascertain whether this dog was the plaintiff's " truck dog" or the defendant's. After some deliberation between the parties and their respective Counsel, it was agreed to refer the cau.e to a gentleman of the bar. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE—I hope you will take care that you select some gentleman who has taken out a license.—(Langhter.) Mr, Sergeant WILDE said they had referred it to Mr Sergeant Blackburn; but the plaintiff laboured under some disadvantage, as that Learned Gentle man was not so well used to a truck as he was to a gun.—(Laughter.) A verdict was then taken for the plaintiff, subject to Mr. Blackburn's award. There was some amusement furnished in Court when the dog was introduced. Mr. Chinnery called him by the name of Painter, while one of the plain tiff's witnesses called him by the name of Jack. The poor animal, however, seemed too much frightened to attend to either summons. The second defendant, Mr. Baker, claimed an interest in the dog, but was sued with Mr. Gillett Vcause it was alleged that he had, by his conduct on the occasion, been guilty of a joint conversion. This cause occupied the Court during the en tire day. ADMIRALTY COUR I', nog•. 29. IN THE MATTER OF A SLAVE NAMED DUNCAN. This was an appeal from the sentence of the Vice-Admiralty Court of New Providence, one of the Bahamas, in the case of the seizure Iry Mr. ‘Villiam M. Fux, waiter and searcher of the Cus toms at Nassau, New Providence, of a slave boy, named Duncan, claimed by Mr. Walter Light bourne, of that island, which slave had been em barked on board a small sloop, the Wellington, bound for Cuba, as it was alleged, in order to be conveyed to Ragged Island, a dependency of New Providence, in the way, to be employed on the plantation of Mr. - Taylor, a salt raker on that island ; and was relanded and returned to the work house at Nassau, where he was seized, on the ground that his removal to the sloop without a license from the governor, as well as a clearance and permit, was an infraction of the Act 5 George IV., c. 113; and the information further alleged that the real ob ject of the embarkation of the slave was to convey nim to Cuba. The Judge in the Court below con idered that the counts in the information relating to the latter charge were not established, and on this ground ordered restitution of the slave; and adding that there was not probable cause of seizure, condemned the seizor in costs. It appeared in evi dence that application had been made to the Go vernor fur a license on the 14th of June, 1831 ; tin the 15th, the slave was put on board the sloop; on the 16 , n the license was really granted, but was not issued till the 17th; and that, as the vessel c ruld not wait,it sailed on the 16:1), without the boy, who was removed from on board the ship on that day, arid returned to the workhouse, whence he had been brought. Dr. PHILLIMORE appeared in support of the sen tence of the Cour below. The KING'S ADVOCATE, in support of the infor mation, argued that the Court was called upon to consider and decide a great and important question, whether a party was at liberty to set aside the re gulations of an Act of Parliament, by the removal of a slave on board a ship without license, clear ance, or permit, and then to purge himself by with drawing the slave from on board. The Act pro nib.ted not only the embarkation, but the contracting to embark. Dr. PHILLIMORE—The simple question was, whether an offence had been committed against the Act. Sir C. ROBINSON said it was a nice question, and lie should take time to consider it. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Nov. 29. William Wilson, jun., applied on his petition to the Court, to be discharged from imprisonment. The insolvent is a very young man, by trade a journeyman pr.nter. His debts amounted to about 491., ha!f of which had been incurred before he came of age for beer and spirits. There was no opposition to his discharge on the part of his creditor:, but the COURT, on granting him the benefit of the Act, cautioned him in strong terms to correct his pro pensity for strong drink. Charles Sweet, a looking-glass and print-seller in Chancery-lane, was opposed in person by a Mr. K y, for a debt of 6/. 108. ; he was supported by Mr. COOKE. The insolvent, being in a state of insolvency in July last, ordered a splendid suit of harness of Mr. Kay, which came to 111. 10s., of which sum he paid 5/. He had been very minute in describing the manner in which his creditor was to ornament the harness, which, it seems, was elegantly and splen didly decorated with brass rosettes, garters, studs, buckles, &c. Mr. Kay complained bitterly of the way in which his debtor had used him. It was true he had received 61., which, however, was not the insolvent's own money, but his creditors', but he de clined, in answer to a request of the Counsel, to throw . it into the general fund for all the eteditors. Tne insolvent, he affirmed, had no right to get into debt as he had done. The COURT congratulated Mr. Kay on having got .5/. of his demand, and said, mere extravagance in an insolvent was not a ground of opposition. It appeared the debts amounted to 1,0401., and the credits to 4201. Mr. Flight, a coachinaker, in Hart-street, had re• paired gigs fur the insolvent, and given him 7/. hard money, in return fur his bill on a Mr. Wicks. The bill had not been paid, and was not likely to be. Mr. Flight had lust his 71., and worked at the broken gig.; to no purpose. The insolvent was ordered to be discharged. It is reported that some one wrote to O'CON NELL the other day, requesting his autograph signature, and that O'CorINELL returned this truly Milesian answer : .6 Si r ,—"l' be if I'll give any man my autograph Yours, DAN. O'CONNEEE. " —Metrop9litan. PROSPECTS IN CASE OF WAR.—The pro babilities of it general war give rise to the most anxious speculations in regard to the position and resources of the various Continental Powers. In accordance with this f ee li n g, the " United Service Journal," we understand, will prrsent to its readers in the December number two papers which are likely to be perused with no common attention, one of them being a comparative estimate of the French and German armies, both as to materiel and spirit, at the two periods of the commencement of the Revolutionary War and the present moment—and the other a sketch of the existing military and.statistical position of Prussia. SUICIDE. —On Tuesday last, an inquest was held before R. Lowav, Esq., at High Cummersdale, upon the body of a woman named ELIZABETH APPLEBY age d bs, who on the day preceding had committed ,elf destruction by cuttng her throat. The act was done with a common knife, and it may be rem biked as extra ordinary, that the incision was not made in the usual trans ' verse direction, but longitudinally, and presented a hor rible appearance. The Jury returned a verdict of " Whitehaven Herald, RESIGNATION OF ALL THE BELGIAN MINISTERS. BRUSSELS, NOV. 27. The Ministers have been beaten. The fourth and fifth paragraphs were carried in favour of the Minis ers' Amend ment by a majority of two only. There were 86 Mem bers present. Deduct from this number three votes from the Ministers them elves, and they are left in a mi nority of one. This morning, at the opening of the Chamtiera, M. Leheau informed the House that the members, in consequence of the vote of yesterday, had come to the resolution of tendering their resignations. We are now without a Ministry, and some difficulty will be found to form any other than a Catholic one. I pre • pared you for this at the very commencement of the Lebeau Administration, and foretold their downfall. It is true, the origin il Address has not been carried, but it is a matter of great doubt whether the French will feel themselves justified in commencing hos tilities until they have some further guarantee that the Belgians will evacua'e the territories belonging to Hid. land, as soon as they are put in possession of the citadel. The whole of the remaining paragraphs having been dis. cussed this day, the Address was carried by a majority of 6, and a deputation appointed to present it to his Majesty. Leopold will be placed in a difficult position—and he must sq. sin very bird to be p!eased with the loyal address from his Chamber of Re presentatives, and the expression of confidence in his Ministers. Our affairs are now becoming more enlarged than ever, and it must be a bold set of men who will under take to steer the crazy vessel. You now see tt c satisfac tion of the Belgians, at the friendly invasion of their Gallic friends, and the popularity of Leopold and his Minister, for having petitioned the French to take possession of that country, and putting into the hack ground the Brigian army. I think you will give me some credit for knowing the state of this country, and th • political bearings of its inhabitants. Up to 12 o'clock this day all was quiet at Antwerp; the French were unloading ; the Belgians erecting cannons on the quay, and the Dutch cutting dikes. The greater part of Aliddleburz is now under water. One farmer alone has 40 acres inund I forgot to mention a curious anecdote connected with the Sittings of yesterday. At the breaking up of the House, N. Nothotnb, the Secretary-General for Foreign Affairs, met the French Ambassador in the vestibule. The Secretary was almost heart-broken, and with stifled voice he accosted the Ambassador with " Vous voy, z on cela mons a manas !" Aye—aye, the Belgians will soon find the length their Government has gone to favour Louis Poil , p—and the recompense they are likely to re ceive in return. They will be 'aken under the powerful protection of France, and as a French province enjoy all the blessings of a Juste Milieu Government. I have heard from good authority that the Prussian Go vernment will not enter B-Igium so long as the operations of the French are confined to the citadel of Antwerp ; but that orders have been given to the different Generals to cross the frontiers the instant the French make any attempt on Holland. I sent )ou the particulars this morning of the liberation of M. Thorn. The Belgic Paper, L' Independant, of the 28th (yes terday), which we have just rec ived by empress, ha., under the date of Brussels of the preceding day, the fol lowing announcement, confirmatory of the fact above stated : It is certain that yesterday all the Ministers gave in their resignations. It was not positively known whether they will be accepted. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. LITANSION HOUSE. A boy named Coles was brought before the LORD MAYOIt, charged with having on Thursday last stolen a piece of cloth out of a shop. The case was ren dered somewhat curious by the examination of. a little fellow, between eight and nine years of age, who was put to the bar along with the other, and was the only evidence against him. The child saw Coles go into the complainants shop, and return with a piece of cloth, which Coles 'mmediately took to a pawnbroker's shop and pledged for a shilling. Witness mentioned what he had seen to his schoolmaster, who immediately told the prosecutor. At the pawnbroker's shop the shopmen denied that they had seen her of the boys, and produced the only piece of cloth which had been pledged there, and that was not only different in quantity but in colour from the article missed by the com plainant. The child persisted in his story, and dec!ared that he went into the shop with Coles, and witnessed the whole of the dealing. Coles said it was xll a lie. He had been in trouble before, but he knew nothing of the robbery. The complainant said that a piece of cloth had certainly been stolen out of his shop on the day abovementioned, but he had failed in tracing it. The landlady of the house, in which the chld and his mother lived, said that the little fellow was a boy of such a character as but seldom appeared before a Magistrate. Notwitstanding all the care that was taken of him, and his tender years he was given to dr►nk and the society of abandoned women. This strange and incred►ble description caused some laughter, which induced the landlady to men tion an instance in proof of the correc , ness of her statement. "It was only a few nights ago (sa.d she), that he came home quite tipsy, after an ab sence of a couple of days, and we found that he had been discovered in bed with a woman of the town." The LORD MAYOR—That's mere nonsense. I have no doubt of his bring a badly disposed child; but still he is a child, and has only the vices of one. I wish, however, :hat the pawnbroker's shop had been searched, for I know something of the tricks played in such places. The mother of the child made no observation upon the account given of the dissipated habits of her son, but said, in answer to a question from the Lord Mayor, that he was not at all in the habit of telling lies to her.—The case was then remanded. Miss Zouch waited upon the Lord Mayor, and informed him that Mr. Rawlinson had refused to pay attention to her compla'nt against the late mistress of the Marylebone workhouse, notwith standing his Lordship's recommendation to her to apply to that Magistrate. She hoped his Lordship would have the goodness to hear the case, and do her justice. The LORD MAYOR ought to have advised Miss Z melt to submit her case to the guardians of the poor of the parish, as the Magistrates had no cog nizance of complaints such as she had made. Miss Zouch pressed his Lordship to adjudicate in the matter. The LORD MAYOR really could not step out of the bounds of his own jurisdiction. He knew the person of whom Miss Zouch complained to be a very respectable woman, and wholly incapable of treating the poor otherwise than kindly. lf, how ever, Miss Zouch continued to think herself ill treated, site had but to represent the circumstance to the guardians of the poor. Miss Zouch denied the correctness of the opi nion of the Lord Mayor as to the humanity of the late mistress of the Marylebone workhouse, and proceeded to express herself in terms of no very high adulation of the conduct of his Lordship to wards her. The Duke of Portland was, she said, one of her father's connexions, who contributed, in some degree, although inadequately, to her main tenance. She was treated every where with in justice, but she was determined to give publicity to the whole business, and to do justice to herself. BOW-STBEET. Yesterday, a respectable-looking man applied to Mr. MlNstiuu, for advice how to proceed to recover the value of a watch, which was lost under the fol lowing circumstance- : The applicant stated that a basket, containing two rabbits, had been for warded to his address in London by a steam-boat. In the belly of one of the rabbits a watch, value 41., had been placed as a safe mode of conveyance by the person from whom the basket came. The vessel, after a four days' passage, ar rived at one of the wharfs near Sr. Katharine's Dock; and the rabbits having become tainted during the voyage were taken from the basket and thrown into the river as 'lilt for use, it not being known that one of them contained so rich a prize. Under these circumstances the applicant hoped that the Magis trate would grant him a summons against the pro prietor of the steam vessel, or the person in charge of her, on the ground that the basket on its arrival at the wharf ought to have been forwarded according to the address. Mr. MiNsuum, had no power to interfere in such a else. The fact of the rabbits being tainted and unfit for use was a sufficient reason for throwing them away. The person who was foolish enough to tike so extraordinary a mode of forwarding a watch had only to blame his own folly. Applicant—And have I no redress ? Mr, MINSHULL—A Magistrate can afford you no , e: consult your attorney, and bring an action if you should be so advised. THE TITHE AFFRAY AT DUNMANWAY. It appears that the Rev. Mr. Kenny, rector of Kilmeenr cominunieated to his parishioners, some days previous to that on which the unfortunate affray took place, that be would proceed forthwith to distrain for his tithe —or, for the composition in lieu of tithe, the parish having com pounded—and that if any opposition was offered be would call on military aid. On Wednesday last the Rev. Mr. Kenny, and three or four of his bailiffs, proceeded to the lands of Kildee, within about four miles of this town, and distrained cattle belonging to a farmer named Itl‘Cartbye The party had not proceeded far with the cattle, when all immense concourse of people appeared, and tither actually rescued them, or so intimidated the party that they gave them up. The assistance of the police of the Rallygurtee o station—not distant half a mile from the spot, was 'hen called, but without avail, as the increasing numbers of the peasantry, summoned together by the sounding of bonny & on the surrounding hills, made it worse than madness to attempt retaking the cattle. Rev. Mr. Kenny then sent off an express to Dank, Connor, Esq., of Manch-house—a Magistrate of the county—requesting he would come to his aid with the military and police stationed in this town. Mr. Connor immediately came here, ordered them out, and, w ith them, and Win. L. Shoublhatn, Esq., also a Magistrate, proceedel towards K Idee. Mr. Connor, accompanied by. four policemen, keeping in advance of the military who were led on by Mr. Shou'dhatn. Mr. Connor and the' police kept the main road to Kildee, whilst Mr. Should' ham and military turned off into an old mountains road. Within a quarter of a mile of it, Mr. Connor a nd hie party were proceeding through the valley of Kildee when they were attacked from behind the ditches, and two of the police were severely beaten, one of them so much soak to have doubts entertained of his recovery ; both were de' priced of their arms, but one carbine was subsequently re, turned to its owner. Mr. Connor and the other two po' lice with touch difficulty effected their retreat, frequently firing the assailants as they retreated. The country people withdrew after the attack on the police, which prevented the military from coming in cote' tact with them. A body of m.litary from Clonakill arrived at the glebe of the Rev. Mr. Kenny, where theY still, remain for the protection of the house and its inmateri Eat ly yesterday, horns were sounded in various direc tions through that part of the country, and bodies of . men were shortly afterwards seen approaching from evert direction ; but as neither police, military, hoc Ids made their appearance, the day pa-sed off tranquilly. In the mean time a fresh reinforecinrnt of fifty men, of the 69th, commanded by Capt. Bolton, has arrived; Quarter-master General Werre, and M jor Miller, of the police, have also arrived. It is said they are making ar' rangeinents for the accommodation of a troop of Lancers expected to-morrow ; so that in all probability on Mon day the tithe campaign will be opened with fresh vigour. The peasantry seem derermined to pay no more tithes , and state, with great plausibility, that from a functionary of the Government, they take their cue, who stated ja his place in Parliament that tithes should be totally ev u !shed. [Following up the preceding interesting communication , we have received letters by thi , post from Bandon, 14 tating that a troop of Lancers from Cork, four companies o f the 36 , 11 Regiment from the fort of Kinsale, and between 30 0 and 400 Marines, with a portion of the Rocket Brigade , from Spike Island, had ill concentered in that town last evening, and were to have marched this morning for th e disturbed district pointed out by our Dunmanway corms respondent. All our accounts agree in stating that the. utmost alarm prevails for several miles round for the resu ll of the present experiment to collet , tithes.— Corkßeportel• THE MARKETS. SOUTHALL MARKET.—Nov. This day's market was moderately well supplied fur the titlel of year, but, as it was numerously attended by buyers, pa • larly from London, the trade with each kind of meat, ex rt.q prime small Mutton, which sold somewhat briskly, was very du II at the following prices per stone of tilb. to sink the °flats:— Beet —,—.........—.. 2s. ldd. to 4s od Vea1.,............... 3s. Bd. to 4s. to Mutto..— I n . 3 8 4 8 Pork .................. 4 0 5 it ) The foregoing quotations are Pork 2d. to 4d. per stone loved than on this day se'nnight ; prices otherwise stationary. Beast 467; Sheep, 2,511 ; Calves, 47; Pigs, 22. But a small ',repo.- tion of the supply left the market unsold. _____.,4 HAILSHAM DIARKET.—Nov. 28. 3s. Od. to 4s. )d. I 4s. Od. to 4s. id' Mutton 310 410 f Pork 4 0 44. Supply of Beasts rather numerous, but chiefly of inferior clut lity ; of small stock-limited; trade with prime Mutton and POP somewhat brisk, with other meat rather dull. A 111.) NDEL MA ItKET.—Nov. 26. 3s. Od. to 4s. Od. Veal*..... 3s. Od. to 4s. ( 4 4 Mutton 3 10 4 10 3 10 4 Supply moderately good for the time of year ; tia• e with pri"" stock rather brisk, but with inferior stock dull. CHICHESTER M 28. A 6 11, Beef 3s. Oa. to 3s. 10d. 4s. Od. to Mutton 3 6 4 6 I 3 8 4 cot In Store Stock but little doing. Supply of Beasts good , of small stock limited ; trade rather dull. It U M FURL) MA it KEY'.—Nov. 2S. tl. S. d. to s. d. a. d- 6 Beef 2lO 310 1 Veal 4 Hutton 3 4 4 4 Pork ........»........ 4 0 suckling Calves from 14s. to 30s ; Quarter old Pigs 12s. t018.4.e7,... Supply limited ; trade with prime Mutton and small Porti ther brisk, but otherwise very dull. EO C COUNERY CORN MARKETS DURING THE vv Wheat. I Barley. I Oats. I Bet.„.0" 11* Per Quarter. s. to s. s. s. 8. to s. ' s. •r - Blandford , 51 31 25 Brigg 55 32 17 Chard .--. 54 58 28 32 16 20 34 0 Huntingdon .58 63 22 40 15 21 25 gS Long Sutton..--. 56 64 17 22 32 Louth 50 55 27 32 19 20 32 51 Lynn 54 56 20 38 22 28 3 2 Newark Nottingham 46 63 36 44 17 23 33 96 Peterborough 46 60 28 36 17 22 2 1, .•-• Plymouth 50 64 30 34 20 23 Pontefract 67 43 27 Iy Sleafonl 65 70 36 38 22 28 41 56 Uppingham 50 59 28 38 9.0 26 31) 9g 44 47 20 24 13 is 30 LEEDS CORN MA ItKET.—Nov. I'4 LEEDS CORN MARKET— _ Wheat, Norfolk. and Sullblk, 601 b. York. and Lincoln. 601 b. Barley, Norfolk and Suffblk • Yorkshire and Lincolnshire ..." 31g. to 556• J F t Grinding 1 t to . 1 .. 70. r; 8ean5.........., 63lb. Oats, l'otatoe —Mealing, For. Itki.tol3d Eng. 11d. to 1254 d. Pe 03 ,1. Shelling itaPanted.Eallaids„ 215..5iti . .?..2. LIVEEPOOL CORN EACH A ISUE.—Nov.. t?.7. NI, WHBAT. English, White, per 701 b. Red _ ii - u - Scotch, Welch, and Manx Irish, White 7 3 7 4 -..---.- Red 7 o 0 - Foreign 8 6 8 6 OATs, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 2 4 'I I -- Irish - Foreign RAiitts, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 3l 0 '."-" 9 - Scotch and Irish, per 601b s - Feeding 3lO 4 0 38 BeArsis, English, per Imperial quarter 36 0 0 - Irish, &c. - 0 - Foreign 'l4 0 :it 0 0 4 PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter - Foreign FLOUR, English, per •2801 b. 0 40 --- Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2,401bs 2l 0 50 v INDIAN CORN, per 4401 b. 1(Y E, per Imperial quarter MALT, per Imperial quarter IMPORT OF (3 RAIN for the Week ending NOV. '-'":.tule u4 ll. Wheat.l Oats. I Barley Fl our . L o s t Qrs• Qrs. 1 Qrs. Foreign, Brls.llrish,&e. Sc1( 6 •1 ~.:J 2,548 1,52'2 I 1,029 - I 3,133 -- 0 MEETING OF CREDITORS, BASINGHALL.S I./1 l' is. (From th e L on d on Gazette.) S . ,i': , TO-MORROW, Dec. I. 1 ' R. Hatch, builder, SusanDlVnah-stree tIDENDS., Poplar .................. 0 11 1 W. Spice, grocer, Great Surrey-street, Blackfriars_roa . • 11. Vos and Co., merchants, New-court ....................... ~7 al PetINTED AND PUBLISHED BY MURDO YOU , ‘-, SUN OFFICE, 114 STRAND, LONDON. BIRTHS. o g''' . - On the '23d inst. at Edinburgh, the lady of W. F° l " _ h - of kenzie, Esq., of Portmore, of a daughter. , _a ' t Oh the '2sth inst. at Capheator N ort h um be r l a nd, the p 7 4 Sir John E. Swinburne, Bart., the lady of J. W. Booll e of a daughter. of MARRIED. _,,..0 1 1)f • On the '27th inst. at Isleworth, James Newton Hednte _, • Chingford, Essex, to Agnes, eldest daughter of the . Benson, of Hounslow. of DIED. V itc On the `2Bth inst. at Feering House, &sex, the 110 2 f her daughter, Mrs. W. B. Goodrich, Mary, the relict .. 1 7, hid. Goodrich, Go,rich, Esq., of Sating Grove, in that coun,,' 00the On the Bth ult. on board his Majesty's packet Etnuir, ier r , s., return to England from the Mining Province of Bra,'",, • recovery of his health, Captain George Francis L Y O aged 37.