The Sun. — London, England, 1832-05-03 00:00:00

LTIIIII (..1 7 THE PrE3l.l( JOURNALS. The Anti-Reformers, in their defence of the bo, : roughmorizer system, and in their warfare against the h 11, have, to speak familiarly, thrust " two irons into the fire." In respect of their argurneats and their facts, it may he said that they have tried both fallacy and falsehood. We . are assured by them, tbat the Bill ought not to pas:, because the transfer of political power which it meditates amounts to nothing less than a " revolution," re ferring- always to that revolution which overturned the French monarchy. This is meant for a threat; but it is in truth a concession cf extraordinary va lue to the friends of rational liberty. The Bill does nothing more than place the Government of the nation in the property and intelligence of the nation, thereby realizing the immemorial theory of the Bri tish Constitution, and reviving all its better prac tice. To what an extreme, then, mutt the abuse and perversion of the fundamental laws cf England hare been stretched, when to rcaestablish them on their natural basis assumes ti . * character of a revolu tion ! It is, we app re h en d, no very startl i ng re proach against a magistrate, when he transfers a purse of money from the h an d o f t h e t hi e f to t h at of the rightf u l owner, to tell him, that so far as the matter of his judgment goes, Ire has effected a change in the relations of the panics as complete as can well be conceived. The only question worthy to be considered Is, whether the change be desirable in the same degree in which it is admitted to he vital. The notion of our constitutional practice avosaetal by some conspicuott: noblemen is, that the Minister, in his administration of the King's Government, ought to be as much na possible un con•rolled by the national voice. In other words, the political - beau of such statesmen is unlimiied monarchy. Now it is quite reasonable that Lords or Gentlemen who feel about . 4 the King's Go tvernment'' a: if it were something apart from, or inflated opposed to, the national interest, should look with abhorrence upon a scheme of domestic policy, which regards a constitwien as excellent in the same proportion in which it releases the people from ir responsible coercion, and ties up the hands of a Mi nister of the Crown. The sentiment of that pen sion-fed or placeofed oligarch is perdmiable, although his opinion may he altogether false, who regards it as a grievous calamity to the kingdom that the Mem bers of the House of Commons should be dependent on the body of the people for a renewal of their seats in Parliament, and should therefore be bound, at their peril, to watch and overhaul the distribution of Ministerial favours to which any enjoyment of rack, whether civil or military, in the state, or any ap propriation of public money, is annexed. It is, we say, a pardonable selfishness in those wl,o look upon the possession of office as valuable chit fly for the opportunities which it has afforded, and mi2lit again afford them, of puAling the promotions of fash;enable friends and relatives, or in those who make their borough intere:t subset vient to the like predatory purposes on their own behalf,—it is a weakness open 'o some sort of extenuation in the two classes of persons here alluded to—givers and receivers of public meney—to rail against that plan of representative Government as revolutionary which lets in the people to affix a negative, or a penalty, as the case may be, upon all such gross malversations. But the nation has proved, with ;great distinctness and unanimity, that if it forgives the (lime of the conservatives, it does not share their delusion. The two principles, in fact, are directly arrayed against each other. The nation loves the Bill because of that very blow about to be inflicted by it upon the oligarchy, which the nitres, the " moderates," and the wretched underlings of the Court, cry out against as an overthrow of mo ?welly, law, and order. Such opposites can never be reconciled. They have no common principle, any more than the parties to a disputed succession. The people ,ay," You have usurped cur rights, and must le s - ore them." " No," exclaim the fac tion, " you have no rights inconsistent with our monopoly of power, and what we have we will keep. It is our hereditary property." The people rejoin,—" It is - a trust which you have Niolated." Thus issue is joined, and the events will show who best can vindicate his pretensions. When Tory statesmen affect to identify the 10/. electors throughout Great Britain with the mob, and then preach about the attacks which are likely to follow against " operty," does it never occur to them that the more opulent inhabitants of cities and manufacturing towns, who have most reason to be apprehensive of mob violence, are also the most eager portions of the community for the establishment of the 10/. franchise % In Edinburgh, in Glisgow, Manchester, Birmingham, and Leeds,—in Liverpool, in Bristol, and above all, in this metropolis,—the feeling of the rich and independent classes is (all but universally) in favour of the 10/. qualification. It can never, we say, be too often repeated, or too carefully recollected, that those whose persons and dwellings, whose lives and fortunes, are most at the mercy of what ought to be called rabble, have ex hibited from the very commencement of this great c,ritesr, by speeches, resolutions, petitions, and every other mode of attesting men's desires, the most rooted conviction of the political necessity for giving 101. householders conjoint right pith those of higher quali fication, to choose representatives in Parliament. This is a circumstance worthy of deep at teotion. The higher body of town inhabitants feel that their nu m b ers are took few to justify the exclusion of their neigh bours from a privilege so valuable, and, in case of such exclusion, so invidious. They call for an wig mentation to the constituency of the kingdom, asei partner in, and therefore a protector of, our political institutions. They are for enlisting the ten-pounders as a rdnforeement to that garrison, by which alone law and property can be defended. Leave this body of our fellow-subjects without the citadel, and what is it but provoking them to joie the multitude so much dreaded by some as its beseigers ? We ear nestly recommend the moderate Reformers—the enemies of the 101. qualificatiore—to beware how, by an obstinate resistance to this essential portion of the Reform Bill, they force such a coalition. -e- Times. , We yesterday adverted to the :iota:ion of al treades and the disregard of all the laws of huma pity and justice, shown by Russia in her outrsges upon unhappy Poland. • To-day we present, in ano ther column, the natural consequences of such des potifm and perfidy. It might, at first sight, appear to the careless observer, that it was of little conse• quence to preserve the nationality of such a country —as it was destined alike to be oppressed, whether as a distinct kingdom or as an incorporated province of the autocrat. Where Russian domination pre vails, it has been argued, it matters little whether the people are Poles or Muscovites,—Calmees 9r Kamisehaikadales,—they •are sure to be all alike s laves, and their iron chains will weigh as heavy at Warsaw as at Tobolsk. This proposition, though literally true, is not practicaily correct. So long as the national existence of Poland was respected to any extent, and so long as the Poles were left to be judged or condemned within the limits of their own country, though the sentence might be arbitrary or the penal?) , excessive, some restraint was always im posed en the exercise of a foreign power by the 6ympathies anti moral sense of the people. The pri sons, might be filled with victims, and cruel or de grading punishments might be inflicted on obnoxious Individuals; but whole bodies of respected nobles or honoured citizens could not be all at once snip ped of their social consideration, and reduced to the condition of galley-slave,, in the midst of their al miring or eympaiWz:tee countrymen. At any rate, they were sure of beirg known,—their names could not be abolished, like that of their nation,—they would net be barely numbered like bales of goods, —they would not be tormented with the idea that their sufferings; were unheeded, or their invocatioe of vetereauce de.pised. Had the whole membees of the late independent Diet, and all the officers wbo distinguished themselves in the late campaign, beep paraded through the streets of Warsaw in chine, the [track seion would rather hare appe.arzl a triumph • then a di,gram But it is otheterise, when, by the most flagrant violation of !he national rights of Pa alt.!, Poles are 'Riven nut of their rm couwrA, sent to the wilds of Siberia, or transported into he iniefor of Russia, "unknowing and tin: known." " The Tiary of a Traveller," which will be found in another column, shows the extent to which brutal vengeance may, in such cip eumstances, be carried against the most noble of honourable of the land, when dispersed among the ltarbatians whom they deipise, and who on their part know not the worth of the parties whom they op press and insole. If anything can justify an imme diate interference of the great Powers of Europe in the affairs of Poland more than another, in conse quence of the is , ue of the imptral tika , .e which has destroyed its existence as a Wngdom, it would be the exile of its citizens to Siberia, and the atrocious cruelties recorded in the narrative to which we have referred.—Times. The blasphemous abstuditie; which have for some months pasi been enacted in the Caledonian Church in Regent-square are now, we trust, brought to an elfec!u,l conclusion. The Scottish Presbytery in London, who aie, by the trust-deed of the chapel, appointed to decide o; any alleged depariure of its minister from the standards of the Kirk of S:otland, to which, by the same deed, he is sworn to adhere, last n:ght, after a laborious investigation, declared that the fooleries which he bad encouraged or per mitted were inconsistent with the doctrine and dis cipline Of the Scottish National Eitablishment. It would, indeed, have been a subject of lvon'ler had they come to a different conclusion, though they had had the benttit cf a concert upon " the Tongues" from the whole male and female band of Nti. select performers. 50 long ac the Reverend Gentlemen occupied exclusively the stage himself, he was heard with patience,--perhaps sometimes with pity,—by a respectable and devout audience, what ever character he represented, or in whatever vaga ries he indulged. He might art as an oracle or a prophet—as an expounder of the Apocalypse or a worker of miracles—with impunity, so long as he exercised the gift' alone; hut when he errercd into partnership with knaves and impostors, to (;splay tl;eir concerted " manifestations," — when he profaned tl.e sanctuary of God, and inter rupted the devotions of the people introducing h;deous interludes of " tl!e unknown tongues,"—it was impossible any longer to tolerate the nuisance. Ad the respectable and sensible part of his audience deserted him, and the trustees were called upon, in the exercise of their duty, to draw the curtain on a farce by which religion and reason were etpally in sulted. Toe resi:lt was an application to two emi nent counsel at the Chancery Bar, under whose ad vice they have acted, in that appeal to the Presby tery, v.-11;dt yesterday terminated in the decision against \lr. The Church will of course be shut up cu Sunday, unless a miracle comes to the iuil of the Rev. Ge►:tleman; and " the tongues," if they are inclined to be musical, must display their powers in a different thea , re. But we believe the imposture is already blown up, and will not require an injunction of the Chancellor, or the interference of the police to exclude it from the Regent-square chapel. Two of the chief actors —Miss Hall, and the Yerkshire attorney—have de clared that the whole was a gross delusion; that they were inspired by no other spirit but that of ; and that their " unknown tongues" were only studied, inarticulate sounds. The Yorkshire attorney was sumrronei to town by the reverend di cerner of spirits," in order to bear testimony to the truth of his own inspiration, when, to the 'nor- titication and astonishment of his friend, he declared that the whole was a spiritual hoax,—that he never had given any " manifestations of the Holy Ghost," byeause he had nt.ver any manifestations to give,- awad that if he were railed before the Pieshytery, he must act the part of Milaam, when emp!oyed by Bank, and denounce the defendant, whom he was ittrited to support. Such will, sooner or later, be the termination of all such outrages on common sense and reason.—Times. We yesterday alluded to an attempt to ascertain and classify the personal property in this country from data afforded by the 14th Report of the Com missioner,: of Revenue Inquiry. From the account it appears that the amount of property proved, &c , in one year, is 46,435,066/. Considering thirt)- three years as a geneiation, if we multiply the aboie sum by 33 we shall have for the whole property 1,532,357,178/. And if we multiply the num!ier of testators and intestates in one year, 19,909, by the same figures of 33, we have for the whole pos sescrs of personal property 656,997. Now we Ca1:110t better show what an interest the House of Peers, as a body, have in misgoverning this country, than in estimating the amount of property posses,ed by them, and comparing it with the property in the ' above statement. The average incomes of the se eerat,Peers has often been estimated considerably under 8,0004 per annum, but never oho , : e. If we take it at this slim, we have about 2,500,000/. per curium, and valuing. this at 25 years' purchase, we have somewhat more than 60 millions—say 65 mil lions. It has often been remarked, that in all coun tries in :he world, those who live on rents are im provident and embairassed. We may be tolerably sore, that the share of the personal property belong ing to Peels in the 1,532 millions, is greatly below the sums due by mortgage, contract, and otherwise, to other holders of personal property. But there is no use for descending to nicety in this matter. It is quite clear, that ilte amount of property pos sessed by the House of Peers is trilling when com pared with the amount of the nation. The fee simple of their whole estates is not worth more than one twenty- . bird part of the personal property of the rest of the people. As landholders, they cannot possess more than the fifteenth of the real properly. Cin we wonder, then, that the borough-holders should cling with obstinacy to a system, which places such an enormous amount of property, com pared with their own, within their grasp ? There may be about twenty members of the Peerage, who, possessing enormous estates, suffer more from the general pillage than they can recover back as their shares; but the body of Peers mti,t have a direct interest in adding to an expenditure of which they are irresponsible disposers. The great problem in Representative Government is to diminish the in fluence of individual properties, and to increase the influence of property in the mass. That the pos sessors of the mass of property should wish to de stroy property is a contradiction in terms ; but three or four hundred rich individuals may find their inte rest in diminishing the mass of property. They may involve millions in misery, by a wasteful ex penditure, by which they shall themselves be en riched. In a calculating commercial country like this, considerations like these must present them selves to the minds of most persons. Hence the indignation which the conduct of the Anti-Reform ing Peers has excited throughout the country. It has been said of the people that they are actor et judex ; but this may be said with more propriety of the Peers. They are in the case of thieves deli berating whether or not there shall be a preventive police. But can Reform be withheld ? The best answer to this is, what has induced nearly all the Peers to admit that Reform to a certain extent is proper and necessary ? Why do they say that it is proper and necessary ? Because they know that it cannot he withheld. When the Duke of Wellington refused to transfer East Retford toßirmingham—when he afterwards refused to allow the enfranchisement of a few of thegreat commercial and manufac. uring towns —when he declared that the House of Commons, so far from needing Reform, was improved by its shameful parts, and that the wit of man could devise nothing to equal it—when this insolent declaratiom was loudly cheefed by the Anti-Reform Peers, who now pro fess themselves Reformers—the parties in question then conceived that they should be able to resist the nation. Their aversion to Reform is the same that it was, but they s e that they are unable to resist it. The people know that if they could re sist Reform, they would not even enfranchise Bit mingbam or - 31auchester—that they yield only to an over-ruling necessity—and that the same necessty under which: they %iota yield a hit-and-bit R e f orm cx•ort f oat them a full and complete tb,astir:e IZe'orm. They have compelled the people to csAlt their °Nil ,tiength. They have compelled he people to vindicate their claims to a representa tion in the Commons' House, which shall prctect them from the pillage of privileged robbers. They have forced the people to put forth their strength. All power is in the people, though it may lie dormant for a time. How foolish, then, to perist in a contest, in which defeat is certain ! It never can be the interest of any order of men in a State, to unite the nation in opposition to it. The party provoking such opposition is sure to suffer from it. The Peers have suffered greatly from the contest. They have taught the nation to look on the order as an incubus on it. Their authority has suffered a check which it never will recover. Throughout the country there is but one loud note of indignation tittered against them. And why incur all this obloquy—why cause themselves to be viewed in every quarter a; enemies of the people ? 14 there a man among them so stupid as to believe that any power is possessed by the °Her by which the people can be withstood ? What madness then to enter into a contest without a shadow of hope! The people cannot suffer from any contest, because all power is in them, and they have only to will a thing to obtain it. But any separate body which enters into a contest with the people may, by defeat, lose all. What cannot be withheld should be given graciously. Had the Peers been able to read the signs of the times, they wonld have escaped the mortification attendant on a forced and ungracious surrender. The strength of the Peers is in the regard and attachment of the nation. Historical associations threw a sort of halo around them. Like desperate spendthrifts, they have thrown away this precious treasure, without re gard or consideration. Where ae end is doubtful, something may occasionally be hazarded, without incurring a charge of imprudence; but no wise man would commit himself to a struggle, in which, to the certainty of defeat, must be added the injury in separable from the contest. In common life, there are individuals who never pay their deb's 011 com pelled by execution. By such a course, they not only pay more than the debt, but lose their charac ter into the bargain. The obstinacy of such debt ors may be deemed proper sphit by anti-Reform Lords; but by other people it will be deemed the height of folly. Such folly, however, is equalled by that of the Reforming Peers, who resist just claims, and when at length obliged to yield, lose all the credit of yielding through a sense of honour and justice. From one end of the country to the other, loud complaints are heard on account of the delay in passing the Bill ; and the language used in speaking of the Lords, by grave men, possessed of a deep stake in the country, is such as two years ago no man would have uttered, without hazarding the respect and consideration of all who heard him. Is this nothing ? Can the Peers be so lost to their own interest as not to see to what they expose them selves by this wanton disregard of public feeling? What infatuation has taken possession of them 1— Morning Chronicle. If those practical Members of the House of Lords, who have been hitherto opposed to the R.form Bill, would, now that they must perceive the hopeless ness of any further endeavours to defeat it, lend their assistance towards improving its detals, they might render a valuable service to the country. By its details we mean the machinery through which its fiamera propose that it shall be brought into action. In this particular it is that the Reform Bill is defec tive, or rather, perhaps, overloaded. In this re spect it is like a tine, lively, handsome chili], so swathed up and bandaged by. its nurses as to be deprived in a great measure of the free use of its Finbi. We doubt, for ins•ance, altogether the use of the registry as compare] with the intricacy, the trouble, and expense, which is to attend it. By the registly, as now proposed, it may be nearly two years before a man may be entitled to vote, to which, if we add the seven years which the Parliament for which he could not vote may sit, it may be nearly nine years before even a freeholder can exerc7se those rights which the RH is intended to insure to him. And then this undesirable result is to be accomplished, through we do not know how many barristers, who are to be paid at the rate of five guineas a day for apparently mistifying that which, without their aid, would he simple and prac ticable enough. The proposed division of coun ties again, is a point to which the Lords may very advantageously direct their attention in Com mittee, and with the more propriety, as one ob jection to it is, that it is calculated to increase the evil arising from local influence which many of their Lordships now exercise to an overwhelming extent in county elections. The manner, too, in which the household vote is to be acquired, after all the changes it has undergone, is still anything bi t sfactory. recommendedlthe a ed a n etly criterion s f t a a r g t e h s e of the 101. voter,flrs t Ball se which v appears to us still more just and practicable than any of the several changes which the former or the pre sent B:ll has hitherto undergone. What we then pro posed was that the householder should acquire his right to vote in precisely the same manner as, under the last alteration in the law of settlement, he can acquire a ti g ht to parochial relief—viz., by having rented and occupied for a whole year one entire tenement, and have paid a whole year's rent bona fide out of his own meats. This, as far as the lower class of voters is concerned, would produce a more unobjectionable constituency, by weeding them of mere casual, temporary occupiers, arid, as regards the whole of the household voters throughout the kingdom, would simplify and define the right in a way which would admit of little or no quibble er evasion. In these, and perhaps in ssme other re spec•s, what is called the macainery of the Bill ad mits, we apprehend, of considerable improvement, and that improvement we should be glad to see it undergo in the Committee of the House of Lords. In the lengthened debates which the measure has already undergone in the Upper House, the Peers have shown a knowledge buth of the principle of the Bill and its details mole extensive than any which the Commons have exhibited. The country at large will be glad to see those powers brought into action, not in a vain attempt to paralyse or de feat a measure which must and will take effect, but in improving and simplifying its details, so that, when it comes fairly into action, neither its friends nor foes may have to upbraid themselves with de fects which a timely attention might now avoid. Morning Herald. In order to show the justice and necessity of the Reform 8.11, a Government journal has been in structed to put forth a series of accounts of pro bates and administration?, and to infer from these tables that the number of persons possessing st immense.to so per sonal property in Great Britain is very large, and is as t plptetmw h niuhlteuoath a bedritib,js t sli lec,eocit,: t hitfrr h sh,oha,tsn e autesoweetvic s fhoi, v eavdaaaetr h eotvelc o pdthlatieh l airerolp e i oeyelgneoct, a srantel m astpxopesiomeisatte o dnourisro u fisinttsoelui n iafironp t sdipne: utotlisoa:thcl,l,fri tables wae s oetfpab u isssarina%lsi c eoveitdks l ptioo i suaoehrnetcu p nlrhstohdwt r thehf: o moaho p ofptritiurr e bini iiiels r ettotie t tyanthn y tai todeeh n boepsre i erf n i pneoya g 6osukft:mci a tn. e6at blgo)n r ) :: e e9dird s s: 003; calcula tion 21 old nay, r r e d p millions sterling. We like this result property, Wel that we will not scrutinize the calenlatiiiottn we even represented could c w a. i that have t b h e e ei ti ) g d u a r a e b s ied b y ; :a f v a h r ic a h a excellent argument for cleaving to the Constitution, under under which this public and individual wealth and prosperity have been fostered and protected, the ar gument would then have been exactly twice as good. But when we look at the subject a little more in detail, it presews many oth er very strong arguments against the Bill, and, so far as we can discover, not a scintilla of argument in its favour. A large proportion of this immense m ass o f pro perty must belong to the subjects of Great Britain resident in her colonies and dependencies. Is this a reason for depriving this class of persons of all in tluence, direct or indirect, in the National Legislature? A large proportion of this immense mass of pro i•crty must of necessity belong to inhabitants of the metrop , lis and its vic , niv, where, by the 8i11,.a . constituency is to be cleated, ao overwhelming majority of whom will consist of persons having no share of it. Is the large amount of this property then an argument in favour of a measure which thus de prives a most important class of its possessors of all effective influence in the Nationol Legirlature 7 A large proportion of this immense mass of property belongs to persons who are not householder , , and to whom therefore the Bill imparts no influence whatever in the National Representation. Is this again an argument in favour of the Bdl? The Bill gives an unequivocal ascendency in every election of Members to the House of Com mons to persons who notoriously have no share, or a very small one, in this immense mass of property. And is such a Bill to be defended on the ground that this property deserves and requires representation 7 The statement is a most satisfactory and cheering ore. We dare be sworn it is every word true. It stews what ignorant drivellers they are who pre tend that the country has been impoverished and brought to decay and ruin by the vices and follies of its Government. But its production for the pur pose of showing the necessity of any Reform of Par liament, and above all of such a Reform as the Po litical Unions and mob meetings are daily clamour ing for, is a blunder as great as any which has or will be committed even by Lord Aithorp or Mr. Poulett Thomson.—Morning Post. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nltv 2. CRINIINAL INFORMATIONEX•PARTE SHIPDEN OR SHIP FIELD, LATE MAYOR, AND NOW JURAT AND MACIS. TRATE OF THE BOROUGH OF HrTHE. Sir J. ScanLETT moved the Court on behalf of the above-mentioned gentleman, for a rule nisi, for filing a cri minal inform ttion against a person of the name of Shrews bury, a printer, at llythe, for publishing a false and mali cious libel, reflecting in the must injurious manner on the gentleman's character. Mr. Shipden, or Shipfieti, had heen Mayor, and was now a magistrate and jurat of the borough of llythe, in which phee it appeart.d that political and pirty hostilities prevailed to a great extent.—Rule granted. EX £A-RTE JAMES ADAMSON, CENT. Mr. ALEXANDE[ morel the Court for a rule nisi for filing a criu:inal information against James Thompson, pro prietor and editor of the Satirist newspaper, and against a person of the name of Byrne, for the publication in that paper of a false and malicious libel on Mr. James Adam son, an attorney of this Court. Byrne bad purchased, or proposed to purchase, a lease of a Chancery house, in Ely. place, from Mr. Adamson, and the terms mentioned were, that the money, 251., should be pail down, or by bid at two months. Mr. Byrne wanted more favourable terms, arid his wife called on Mr. Adamson in order to endeavour to procure more favourable terms, but to this Mr. Adam son refused to consent. Byrne then assaulted Mr. Adam sen, for which he was taken before a magistrate and fined 51. Byrne arterwards had Mr. Adamson taken before the magistrates at Bow-street, and there charged him with having committed an assault on his (Byrne's) wife. Now, in the Satirist of the 13th April 1 ist, a letter was published in reference to these tran.actions, which he bad mentioned in order to ley , the foundation for t h, application against Byrne. The libel appeared in the shape of a letter addressed to the editor, which began by complimenting him on his zeal in the exposure of the vil lenies of the limbs of the law, and then went on to state the circumstances respecting the purchase of the lease, and added, that when the writer's wife went to call on Mr. Adamson on the business, the amorous spark endeavoured to seduce her, and offered to give up to her the 23/. if she would yield to his wishes—that he proposed to her to elope with him, and that he laid ho'd of and for cibly held l.er hand for some time, till she at length broke away from him an] inferined her husband of what bad passed ; and the writer added, that it was an aggravation of this conduct, that the wife was within two months of her confinement, and that Mr. Adamson himself at time time had a wife lying dead in the country. This was in allusion to some statements in the polic., Reports in the Newspapers of what took place b.:fore the Magistrate, which reports the applicant represented as garbled and in accurate. The letter was signed " Dedasculus ;" but he submitted that there was sufficient reason to suppose that Byrne was the a titer. The writer asked the editor's ad vice as to what he should do in this ease, as he was nnwil-. ling to incur the expense of resorting to legal proceedings, or subjecting himself to legal proceedings by thrashing the applicant within an inch of his life, and the editor advised hint to take the applicant before the Magistrate, which Byrne had done. Mr. Adamson decidedly denied the truth of this ivory about an assault on the wife ; and he submitted that the publication of such an imputation on any one, and rope cial'y on an officer of this Court, was sufficient to warrant the interposition of their Lordships. Lord 'f ENTERDEN—Take your rule as to Thomson, but we do not think tke letter sufficiently brought home to Bp ne. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, MAY 2. DIGBY, BART. V. HUMPHREYS. The deferidatit, Alexander Hutnphreyt, is the person claiming the earldom of Stirling, and the right to confer the title and privileges Of " Baronet of Nova Scotia," under a patent granted by King Charles in 1628, to Sir W. Ahxander, the first Earl of Stirling. The plaintiff, Ad miral Sir Henry Dighy, having assisted the defendant with money to support bis c'xm, commenced an action in this Court to recover the debt. In answer to the declaration the defendant put in a plea, setting forth the grounds on which he rested his claim to the earldom of Stilling, to show that he was not brought before the Court by ha true designation. To this plea the plaintiff demurred, that it was not enough for the defendant to object argumentatively to the name by which be was described in the declaration ; but that to substantiate his plea, it was necessary th it he should positively aver that he was the Earl of Stirling. The Court decided in favour of the demurrer, consider ing the defendant to be sufficiently designated in the decla ration as Alexander Humphreys. DILLON v. rimy's. This was a remanet case from last Michaelmas term, in an action brought by Mr. Thomas Damn, of Dublin, to recover from Mr. Phipps, the editor and proprietor of the News, Sunday newspaper, in Catherine-street, Strand, a certain sum for goods sold and delivered in 1828. The goods were 21611,5. of ink, asbich were valued at Is. Id. the pound, part payment of which had been made, though not acknowledged in stating the case, from some legal tact on the part o! Mr. Sergeant BosirAs, who stated for the plaintiff. John Southgate, a printer, of the Courier and News establishment, was subposnaed to prove that the ink had been received and used ; but he was evidently a reluctant witness, and in cross-examination by Mr. Sergeant WILDE, he said that the ink given had proved so had in the us.., that the establishment was obliged to use it in printing the broadsides or placard papers, which being printed on one side only, did not require ink so good as for other printing purposes. The ink was of agi itry and sedimental qua. lity, invariably besmearing the paper for which it was used to print, generally discoloured with a yellowish tint, and difficult to be used by the printers ; often in printing the Courier, the ink bad to be rejected or used for infe rior purposes; so in printing the News the establishment was often placed in such a dilemma as to send out to bor- row or buy other ink, to answer the emergency ; some of the ink had, indeed,• been used, but much of it had be 21 refused, because incapable of being used for any efficient purpose. Besides, the price was extravagant ; for now very good ink may be had at one shilling the pound; and ink used for broadsides (for which alone Southgate said Mr. Dillon's ink was useful or applied of late) was not mo re than 6d. or B d. the p ound. S nith g ate acknow. ledges be gets commission-money from the ink-supplier at present of the establishment ; but he volunteered an asser tion that Dillon had promised, but not given commission also, and to a greater amount than another. Sergeant WILDE contended, on behalf of Mr. Phipps, that the demand had actually been paid, and produced a b,s.4oerateut3iialiviites'ides receipt by Mr. Dillon, dated August 6, 1830, for 61. 14s. Now, considering the inferior quality of the ink, and the remonstrances made by Mr. Phipps, this his client con sidered a satisfactory payment for the whole, although at a calculation of is. Id. in the pound it would not pay for the 2161b5. ; nor was it ever contemplated by Mr. Phipps to pay at that price for the . whole quantity of such a fina lity. This the very expressions of the receipt, and of the therefore, Mr. Dillon could come at this letter from which that receipt originated, evidently maid- ifieesrtie;,lll. to demand a full charge for an inferior article lie compositor of the wa s utterly astonished. He called Ne3t!sr. P. G ip e e o r r ) g t e o c s o P r A ro r b d o i r i a le te ( t f l o ia n t n p e a d r y t of Southgate's evi. ! e p e e, which went to prove that the ink was inferior, and used principally, if not . solely, for the broadsides. Sergeant BoMPAS, in reply, said that his client hail yet accepting part payment of a sum does not cer tainlyne- gative received part of the money, but it was only on ac_ the demand of tie other part. Again, the ink had used at first for the paper, though afterwards for . the —because, from the improper mann e r, and t h e l o ng time it had ban kept, it was rendered inferior ; bu. us client should not be made responsible for that. Th , .fury returned a verdict for the defendant. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, MAY 2, SIR J. DUCKETT, MORLAND, AND C 025 BANKRUPTCY. A meeting of creditors took place yesterday—Mr. Bald win, M. P., in the chair. Mr. Walford, solicitor to the estate, said the affairs of the hmkrupts were more favour able than at first imagined. The estate would only have to pay 83,791'1., and the amount had been first estimated at 59,5741. On Sir T. Morlind's estate, there was an available balance of 11,000/. mere than was expected ; and, of the had and doubtful debts, nearly 6,000/. would he recovered. Resolutions were then agreed to, empower ing the assignees to accept the offer of the I)uke of Buck ingham, for paying cff his large bond debts by instalments of 5,000/. every two months ; to accept the offer of Mr. Sparrow, for paying his debt of 1,5001. by instalments (his acceptance for 8,600/. Mr. Sparrow has agreed to take up) ; to petition the Superior Court to allow the claims of the County Fire Office, the Literary Fund, and other Societies ; and to accept the offer of a London banker to make advances, for the porpose of carrying en the fi-heries belonging to the bankrupts in Ireland, which hail hitherto yielded about 5,0001. a year.—Mr. Watford said, that arrangements bad been male for the disposal of the Cana' property.—The meeting then adjourned. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, MAY 2. .1 - vim 0 sinox d Deakin, a clergyman of the Gairelt of England, was opposed in person by Mr. Waring, an archery implement• maker, for a debt of 1 91., incurred by the insolvent for weapons of this description. The in salvent's debts amounted to upwards of 6,000/., to liquidate which he could not show the Court that he possessed any mode or means. He took Ho'y Orders in 1825, and bad never been advanced beyond a curacy in his profession. Early in life he came into the receipt of considerable pro perty, and engaged with a brother-in-law in a silk-ma chinery speculation, by which he lost, without any return, 3,2001. Latterly he has been - depending for money on his friers s. In reply to Mr. Waring, the insolvent st ;tett that he gave the " arrows," &c. to the Archery Society, of which he was a member, and presented the " ladies' bows" to his sister. Mr. Waring having objected to this, induced Mr. Com missioner Law, in a sally of wit, to remark, that surely he could not think of depriving the I,dies of their bows (beaux). The pun produced no sm dl laughter, which was increased by Mr. COOK E, who added, that Mr. Wa ring was a sort of paradox, making bows for the ladies, yet wishing to take them away from them. The CHIEF COMMISSIONER awarded the insolvent an imprisonment of three months from the date of filing his petition. Lady Augusta Elizabeth Hawke was brought up this day to receive the sentence of the Court, which was, that she be confined for the term of six months from the date of filing the petition, fur making away with her prop,rty to the prejudice of her creditors. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Mr. F. Quin, a gentleman holding the situation of Head Armourer in the Tower, was summoned before the Loan MAYoa, for refusing to maintain his wife. In the eours- of the present and previous hearing it transpired, that the defendant had been introduced to his wife (who is highly connected) on the continent by Ler brother, a cap tain in the 7th Lancers. The marriage was celebrated at the British Ambassador's ; but the match was disapproved of by a relation of the lady, from whom the reversionary interest in 5,0001. per annum would accrue, and to which it was stated the defendant's daughter would he entitled ; and the consequence was, that a coolness arose betwixt the lady and her family.--Mrs. Quin stated that she had been married fifteen years, but had lived most unhappily in con s.quenee of the violent conduct of her husband towards her. Mr. Quin, in reply, said his wife bad an incom e al lowed her by her friends, which was sufficient for her sup port, and that his income, arising from his situation, was only 801, out of which he had to educate his daughter suitably to her future expectations.—Mrs. Quin denied that she received sufficient for maintenance, and said her husband's income exceeded 2001. per annum.—A long dis cussion ensued, conducted on the part of Mr. Quin with greet animation, which was at length F topped by the Lord Mayor adjudging him to pay half-a-guinea weekly to his wife.—Mr. Quin at first objected, but hearing the or der fo• his committal to Bridewell given, he consented to make a suitable arrangement with the parish officers. GUILDEALL. Yesterday John Schultz and James Garden were charged with obstructing the pavement, and annoyi , g persona who have occasion to pass through Doctors' Com mons. I appeared from the evidence of Mr. Thornbury, a solicitor, Mr. Wilson, the bookselhr, and Mr. Rob!rts, Mr. Swale, Mr. Brickwood, and Mr. Satham. respectable Proctors, of Dean's Court, th!t the prisoners belong to a gang who attire themselves as ticket- porta s, and endeavour to take those persons who come to Doctors' Commons on business to certain Proctors, who give them fur so doing, a compliment. Any person in mourning they immediately attack, as they imagine they come upon business relating to a will, and they sometimes succeed in bringing business to those Proctors who descend to such mean shifts. When a passenger makes no answer, they get in his way end an noy him by their importunities. Mr. Alderman Wu.sotr was well aware of the nuisance, and tined the prisoners 5/. each for obstructing the pave ment. He, however, gave them to understand, that if they did not repeat the nuisance, the fine would not be enforced. BO 1V- STREET. Four Irishmen ttere brought into this office on Tues day night, before G. R. Ithatsuoci., Esq. charged by the Sexton a St. Clement Danes parish, with opening one of the graves in the Churchyard in Portugal-street, Lin coln's-inn-fields, with a view of carrying off the corpse of a young man, named Coglan, which was interred there on Saturday last. The Sexton stated, that the tour prisoners got over the iron railing round tLe ChLrchyard, and were diggin g the grave where the deceased was buried, and be gave them into the custody of a police officer, who conveyed them and their spades to the station-house. The defence of the accused was, that they were related to the deceased, who had died of a disease which had baf fled the skill of the surgeons, and they were aware that the faculty were anxious to get possession of the corpse, for the purpose of ascertaining, by a post-morttna examination, the cause of his death. The relative sof the deceased were informed on Monday night that two sus picious men were seen larking about the burial-ground, who, being asked by the policeman the reason of their being there, replied that they were friends of the deceased O'Coglan, and were there for the purpose of watching the grave that it might not be violated. On the following day the prisoners went to the grave, and saw such appear ances as induced them to believe the body had been ex humed, and they came to Mr. Halls, the magistrate of this office, and asked his leave to open the grave to ascertain, for the satisfaction of the relatives of the deceased, if the body still remained there or not. Mr. HALLS said he thought the parish officers would permit them to have the grave opened, but he bad no authority to compel them to do so. The prisoners again applied to the sexton, and being again refused, they proceeded to the ground, and were opening the grave when they were taken into custody. Mr. Mrxsuur.r. said that the prisoners had no legal right to open the grave, and he thought the supposition that the body had been stolen was unfounded. A policeman was sworn, and slid that be saw two men lurking about the Churchyard on Monday evening ; he asked them the cause of their being there, and they re plied that they were the friends of O'Coglan, and were watching his corpse. The prisoners all declared that no persons were em ployed to watch the body, and they were of opinion that many bodies besides the deceased O'Coglan had been car ried away. . _ Mr. AlpisnuLL consulted with the plrish officers for some time, and he recommended that the grave should be opened, or the friends of persons lately in!erred in that burial-ground would ke very much dissatisfied. This was fin thy agreed to, and yesterday, on the grave being opened, the body was found undisturbed. The prisoners were, of course, discharged. William Johnson was reexamined on a charge of steal ing hooks and other articles from various tradesmen, whose shops he entered, and, under pretence of asking quei tions, concealed property under his cloak. The prisoner was committed. An officer from Union-Hill saw him after his exaniina- tion, and then identified him as an author, schoolmaster, and occasional preacher, whose real name was Cottinghani Crofton. He was a schoolmaster at St. Leonard's, Elam tings, where he obtained a quantity of goods from trades. men ; and he was a few months since examinad at Übion- Hall, for cruelty to his wife, and indecent conduct to two boys. MARY LEB ONE. A Jew, and a yming man dressed up as a hotel valet, with a white cotton jacket and an apron of the same ma terials, were yesterday brought to this ea,e for defrauti4 tradesmen in the following ingenious manner. They were accompanied to the office by a boy with a bagful of hat but he was not placed within the bar:—The dandy vale' goes into a shop with a nily bat under his apron and ni , t: on his head, to favour the deception that he has just step, DUMFRIES MARKETS.—ApriI 9.5, s. d. s.d.l s. d. Wheat, Imp. Bush 6 6 to 7 o,Butter, 16oz. 0 oto 0 0 Barley . .• 3 9 4 6jEgg dozen .... ...... ... 0 U 0 0 Oats ........ .......... , 2 6 3 O'Beef, per lb. Pour, 111 b. - C 4 0 0 Oatmeal P.:tatoe.s, ewt. SUDDEN DEATH.—On Thursday last, at the termination of the festivities at linvood, a melancholy and striking instance of the uncertainty of life occurred. - Mt. T. KING, surgeon of Melksham, who had been a spectator of the scene, and more than or.limirily cheerful through the day, while waiting for his horse at the Inn at Sandy-lane, dropped his bead on the should, r of his brother-in-law, and was instantly a corpse! On Friday an inquest was held nn the body by W. ADYE, Coroner, when . a verdict was returned of "Died by the visitation af God." The deceased has left a widow and nine children.—Both Gazette. the l n ' t i n i n e ey on o l , y a k n e e t w h a f s 'e latell n re of n s l d le a a p r cent., in Bark Stock, owi ng , as i s suppose d , to l arge purchases mad: under th e i mpress i on t h at t h e Diree ea coieirbtirelrlissZattijoun tsfi.or fire relative t o th e renewal of the chart- r. Same say that a tors are likely to ma k e a good b.irgain with Government renewal for seven years longer is in contemplation, with out disturbiag any of the existing privileges and monopo lies, and giving the further right to the Bank during that period to make extended issues of silver, which is to be made also a legal tender beyond the limit at present pre scribed l.y law. Others are san„ou'ne enough to expect that the Bank is to participate with the Government in the profit of the coinage of the proposed new issues of silver, and that they will be made to extend to 5,000,000/. sterl ing beyond what is already in circulation. In fact, there is no supposition too extravagant for those whose ima ginations have been excited by ihis topic. The more probably likely, too, li t y. o n o ; ,orftfioav five e e yne t ea v wr e s l a l ,l - w i onifftohtrhot without e t i d (3 , lai4i t ,t l iti a re t bhinagr .Ministers taern,y foorf temperate version, however, is among those who are more provi sions to or now existing, and that the inducements to this course are, on their parts, the extreme difficulty of doing justice to the country, on this very intricatl question of the cur reney, in the short period that remains previous to the ' the i three,. ka ex piration of the present charter. A renewal for the full term of 21 years, which has been the courte usually adopted, is thought wholly inexpedient without great al terations in the system, and in these, it is sail, some danger is perceived, unless more time be employed in preparation for the change. These are only to be received, however, as the explanations current in the city of the rise in Bank Stock, of which the last only can be ,aid to possess any share of credibility ; and nothing can in reality be with c.-Ttaitity affirmed on the Subject. That the rase has oc curred in Bank Stock only, v.liihr the Government Se curities, so far as they have fluctuated at all, have rather declined than otherwise, proves that the cause lies in some thing peculiarly affecting that stock, which has hitherto been kept he low its due proportion to the others, by the doubts watch have , existed relative to the issue of the ne gotiation with Government. B ink Stock was at 208 in the course of the morning, and lest old" at 207 to Times. BIRTS. On the '2d inst. Mrs. Sherwood, H of Whitehall House, White. hall, of a son. 'n the Ist inst. at Paddington, the lady of the Rev. John G. Giftimi, of a (laughter. On the 2d inst. at Waltham Abbey, Essex, the lady of Joseph Jessopp, Esq. of a daughter. , II4REIED. On the 2d inst. J. T. Hill , of Hull, to Lydia, youngest daughter of C. Morgan, Esq. of Archangel. On the •28th ult. the Rev. N. H. Arthy, A.M. to Anna Maria Ruxton, of York-place, Portman-square, and Broad Oak, Kent, youngest (laughter of the late Colonel Patrick Hay. On the Ist inst. J. J. Leon, Esq , of Russell-square, to Sarah, the fourth daughter of the late Sampson Lucas, Esq. On the lit inst. at St. Mary's, Islington, the Rev. Thomas Mount Fallow, B.A. Curate of the abo ve c h urch, to Elizabeth, second daughter of the late J. Jones, Esq., of Finsbury-square. DIED. On the 30th ult. at Enniskillen, Wi!liain Henry, infant son of Lieutenant Furlong, 30th Regiment. On the 20th November, a t Hussingab a d, Li eu t. Willi am in'th Rent. Bengal Native Infantry. Es q., On the in his ...th u t. y eal atr. Meert own, Shrop s hi re , S amue l P artr id ge, .J 85th On the Ist inst. at Bayswater, Lady Graham, wife of Sir Robert Graham, late one of th e B arons of the Exchequer. U per Bedford-place. tle 2cl inst. L ouisa, the wif e of T homas Lane, Esq., of FILMED AND PUBLISHED BY MURDO YOUNG AT THE SUN OFFICE, 112, STAND, LONDON. tut from an adjacent hotel, and vs to the p,:rson in the " Here is a beautiful hat my master has made me a present of; I wish to sell it, as I have got several others; you shall have it for such a price." While they are areu lug about the hat, the Jew comes in under some pretence, admires the hat very much, and regrets he has not money enough to become the purchaser himself. This raises the desire of his credulous dupe ; be purchases the hat, and when too late discovers that he has been dealing with a couple Of sharpers. As it appoared that the cleats were provided with a intwker's license, the Magistrates were nimble to punish them. They therefore 1 herated them after an admonition. HATTON- GARDEN. A middle-aged man, named Hugh Kelly, was charged ivith breaking into the house of Madame Maria Percy, cf Tonbridge-place, Brunswick-square. Madame Percy sjd, that on Wedms lay night as she and her servant (who Lad returned from a walk) were sitting in the parlour, they heard some one break open the kitchen door. She was so frightened that she could not move, and her servant, after some time, was per. sutled to go to the street door and call a policeman. The p isoner was found in the kitchen without coat, hat, or shoes, and in the possession of some wearing apparel, and a reticule with 3s. 6•l. in it. Mary Daley, tbeser;ant, give similar evidence, and admitted the prisoner had been her sweetheart, but bad long since been forbidden the house by her mistrea., and she had kept him at a great distance The reticule b - longed to her, and it had been snatched from her by the prisoner, who refused to return it. The defendant said he was the dupe of Mary. He en tered the house by her invitation, and he was without shoes in obedience to her orders, that he might make no Mary denied this; and the magistrate put a stop to a scene of recrimination, by stating that the prisoner's ac count was very unsatisfactory, and committing him for haying entered the house of Madame Percy with intent to commit felony. THE MARKETS. COAL MAR: Per Ton. Adair's 19;. 6d. Holy well l9 6 Kenton West IS 0 Sliircote 15 6 I oilfield West Hartley 17 6 Walls End Bell & C 0.... 19 6 Ditto Bell,Robson,&Co. 18 6 1)8 to Bewieke and Co. 21 6 Walls End 13r0wn'5......,. 19 6 Wall, End Callerten 17 3 %Valls End Carr and Co. 19 0 Ditto Clarke and C 0... 19 0 Wall; End Gostbrth....— 21 6 Walls End Heat0n....,,,•.,,. 21 3 Ditto Hazlerigg---- 18 3 %Valls End 1 - totsi,ur—.. 19 9 Walls End Hilda --. '2O 0 Ships arrived since ET.—May 2. e Walbi Pr End Newniarch.„ 204 6d.T d. Ditto Killingworth ...... 19 6 Ditto Northumberland 19 6 Walls End Riddell's.... 21 6 Bells Primrose 17 6 Walls End Lyons 20 6 Walls End stewart's 9 Walls End Adelaide.— 20 6 Walls End Butter Knoll 20 6 Walls End Cleveland... 18 6 W. E. Musgrove 17 9 Walls End 28 0 New Flockton, Milne, and Co. Silkstone Field and Co. 18 0 Silkstone Wilson ........ 18 6 Scremerston Engine.... 16 0 !Tantield 18 0 last market-day, 13. t'tJUNTRY CORN 51A Khz•l'S ()URI NO IHE WEEK. Wheat. Batley bats. Beans. Per Quarter. Abingdon-- S. to s. 31 43 87 41 40 44 32 36 26 .58 36 40 23 32 30 33 44 48 32 42 34 44 Andover Birmingham-. nridport, irencestor i arinodon G lid ford H Hereford Highworth Maidenhead —...... Monmouth Reading , . Southampton Stroud 31 47 31 40 33 40 37 38 30 42 37 40 17 43 30 44 Tewkesbury Uxbridge Wantage. _ Warminster Windsor Wcrcester--.. 44 51 s. to s. 22 20 23 24 32 28 30 21 25 26 3t 26 35 20 30 a; 34 2'2 30 21 27 29 26 28 32 22 32 30 38 2:3 33 21 30 20 21 21 22 31 3 e. to s. as - 44 36 ii - 43 -- 49 36 37 '4. 4e 36 54 - 46 $4 42 34 46 - 4,2 LEWES MAItKET._May White Wheat (per quarter), ,M,, 20t0£3 4 0 -- Red ditto . IC n ~ _. Oats, New Cake. New tifi U 1 5 0 1 15 0 1 17 0 19. 0 0 net thousand, Wheat, Old .......lIULL MARKET'—play 1. ....... —s. 58s. 60s. ......New —s. 58s. Gls. Foreign ......... —s. 50s. 545. ln bond... —s. —s. --s. Oats, Poland ............. —s. 20s. '22s Old —s. —s. 245. Small or Feed—. —s, I6s, 20s --s. Foreign ............ —s. 16s. 18s Barley, Norf. & Sut —s. —s. —s. Line. & %Vold —s. 36s 38s. Foreign Beans ........................ 30s. 325. :11s. Foreign —s.34s. —S. Pease, White... .......... —s. 38s. 411. Grey —s. -S. . Laos ........................ 40s. 41s. —s. Foreign —s. 308. 3fis. Rapeseed, in bond none. CET.ELTENAM l'er Bushel. s. d. H to s. d. Wheat 6O 80 Barley 4 0 3 6 Oats• 40 43 Beans PectS e 5 0 7 0 Hay 3/. lOs A R KEE—May 1. _ _ Pei lb. d. to d. Beef 6 7 Mutton Veal Pork . . 0 0 Laud) 0 0 to 31. I ss. ed. per ton