The Sun. — London, England, 1832-10-17 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. In our publication of yesterday we gave an extract from. our Hague correspondence, con taining an account of the proceedings of the Conference on the Ist inst., and we stated that the tone of the language attributed to Lord Pal merston and the French Plenipotentiary was per fectly consistent with the resolution which has been since adopted by the two Governments. — Since writing the article in question, we have reason to believe that the following is a correct version of what was addressed by those Plenipo tentiaries to the Conference on the Ist inst.:— The British Plenipotentiary expresses his regret at not being able to consent to the proposition made by the Plenipotentiaries of Austria, of Prussia, and of Russia. He is thoroughly con vinced of the advantages which would result from unanimity of action on the part of - the five Powers, were it possible to obtain it ; and he flatters himself that he has afforded proof of the importance which he attaches to this unanimity by the fact of his having suggested, at the preceding meeting of the Conference, the idea of having recourse, in the first place, to pecuniary measures, in preference to measures of a more vigorous character, an idea which he hoped would obtain the active concurrence in it of the Conference. But the British Plenipoten tiary is convinced, that in the actual state of the negotiation it is necessary, for the maintenance of the peace of Europe, that some decisive measures should be adopted by the Powers who have ratified the treaty of November, and who ;have guaranteed the execution of the provisions of that act, and he regrets that he does not dis cover, in the proposition of the Plenipotentiaries of the three Courts, any measure which responds to the exigency of the case. The tendency of that proposition is to renew negotiations, which the experience of many months, and the confes sion of the Conference itself, have proved to be barren, and to renew them,, too, not with the united weight of the five Courts represented in Conference, but by a separate proceeding on the part of some of those Courts, and this, after the experience gained by those very Courts them selves of the inefficacy of their efforts to carry with them, by the influence of their counsels, the determinations of the Cabinet of the Hague. The British Plenipotentiary is unable, therefore, to consent to a proposition, of which the only certain result would appear to be fresh delay ; and in reserving to the Government of His Bri tannic Majesty the decision of the course which it shall deem advisable in the execution of the engagements contracted by his Majesty, lie confines himself for . .the_present to the expres sion of his regret that the Plenipotentiaries of Austria, of Prussia, and of Russia, are not prepared to concur in measures of efficacy for the purpose of carrying into execution a treaty which, for so many months, has been ratified by their respective Courts, and the prolonged incompletion of which exposes the peace of Europe to continual and g rowing dangers.—The Plenipotentiary of His ajesty the King of the French, adhering in every point to the declara tion which has just been made by the Plenipo tentiary of His Britannic Majesty, expresses, like him, his regret at not being able to accept the proposition of the Plenipotentiaries of Austria, of Prussia, and of Russia ; and pet sisting as he does in the declaration which he has himself presented to the Conference, he re serves, moreover, to his Government the full power of acting in execution of the treaty con cluded with Belgium, in such a manner as the right which his Government possesses may au thorize, and as the tenour of its engagements, and the interests of France, may require.—Times. The Paris paper.; of Sunday, which we re ceived yesterday, evince a more violent and de cided unanimity of reprobation against the new Ministers than we had anticipated,—though we have been long acquainted with the unpopularity of their names, and with the strong language of their opponents. The Constitutionnel, whose circulation is more extensive than that of any other French journal, has seven or eight articles against them ; the other liberal journals are equally hostile ; and the only paper • which defends them with any zeal or effect is the Journal des Debats, whose impartiality has been rendered doubtful at least by the elevation of its chief proprietor to the Chamber of Peers. As usually happens when the French are displeased with their rulers, the opponents of the Cabinet do not confine themselves to reasoning or dis cussion. They resort to rumours for a rein forcement of arguments, and if the occasion re quires it have recourse to fiction. Thus we find in the Constitutionnel that the Comman• der-in-chief of the National Guard at Paris, Marshal Lobau, was about to resign,—that many subaltern officers of the same civic militia were resolved to abandon their standard,—and that the country would thus be left without pro tection. At the same time we were assured that the ordinances for the creation of Peers . were illegal,—that the nomination of so many members at once was against the express declara tions and engagements of M.Perier last year,—and that some sinister design is now entertained of playing the majority of one Chamber against the independence of the other. Then, we hear of persons who have refused the peerage, whose names were never proposed to be on the list, — and of others who ought to have been promoted, but who were never thought of. But the most successful manoeuvre of all is the constant comparison of the present Cabinet to that of Polignac, and the constant real or 'af fected anticipation of the same results, Hav ing no interest in any factious opposition to the present, or to any other Ministry among our neighbours, we call feel amused, without being offended, at these evident exaggerations. We can relish the joke of comparing that zeali?us friend of freedom,—that prop of the constitu tional opposition for 17 years,—the Duke de Broglie, to Polignac, Labourdonnaye, or -Pey ronnet, who always professed anti-liberal opinions; but we are not so sure that the unpopularity of his associates, from whatever cause it proceeds, may not be as fatal to public order, or to the duration of the Ministry, as objections founded on their established incapacity or arbitrary prin ciples. We speak not of the Duke de Broglie himself, nor of M. Guizot, who, in quiet times, deserve the honours, and can peform with effect the duties, of office ; but what do some of the rest bring to the Cabinet but the reputation of their favouritism, or the odium of their recent change ? Would M. niers, for instance, who is known only for writing some very ordinary po litical articles in the public journals,—whose histoty of the first French revolution could not get him bread, till the madness of the Bourbons produced the second,—who is dis tinguished only from the heroes of the barricades by a more rapid desertion of their cause than some of his fellow journalists, and by a more intrepid self-confidence at the tribune,—would we say, this fraction of a Deputy—this most minute of Ministers—this most tiny of Euro pean statesmen—have been now called on to indite circulars in the Moniteur instead of paragraps in the National, had he not been the favourite of Louis Philippe, and had he not engaged to be the humble instrument of his will ? We shall say nothing of Mr. Humann, who is only known in committees on the budget, but who has never done any thing for the people, nor of M. Barthe, who, being one of the fifteen year conspirators against the Bourbons, has become the most bitter persecutor of his former associates. It is quite evident from these allu sions (and we shall not enter further into the subject at present), that the two or three doc trinnaires whose party is at present discredited, and a successful soldier of fortune, whose prin ciples are distrusted, compose the only strength of the Cabinet—that the rest could have no weight in any combination of circumstances — that they are ill-assorted to each other in man ners, station, and habits—that they are all un popular—that they cannot hold long together, and would not be powerful if they did. The Chambers will apply a dissolvent to this incongru- OUSbody,in voting against the address,or contrary affinities will begin to operate amid its temporary success.— Times. The last number of the Edinburgh Review contains rather a desponding article on the prospects of the Ministry in the next Session of Parliament. After referring to the complaint so generally urged against them in respect to the small amount of real business transacted within the last Session, and enumerating, in a tone quite as important as the measures would justify, the catalogue of their Parliamentary exploits during that period, the Reviewer proceeds, as usual, to lecture the public on the unreasonable ►►ess of finding fault with the Whigs. We do not dispute the Reviewer's right to labour in his vocation and work for his employers, nor do we question that he is more likely to be acquainted with their hopes and fears than other people, who have not the same interest in observing their fluctuations ; but we think he is much mistaken if he supposes that, by any ingenuity, he can reconci'e the people of this country to the slow progress which they were obliged to put up with from a House of Commons over which they had no control. Reform has laid the foundation for many changes, and, amongst the rest, for an im portant change in the quantity of public business that will be expected at the hands of the Legis lature. The men of tremendously active talent, of whom Sir Robert Peel spoke with so much alarm, will inoculate even the men who have no talent, or talent of that Aristocratic order which prefers retirement to display. If, there !bre, the Whig Ministry be not prepared to keep pace in some measure with the accele rated movement of the times, they will hear the complaint of last Session reiterated with stronger emphasis, and probably with more decisive re• sults, against the next. There is another point connected closely with the one to which we have just alluded, in which we also expect to trace the efficacious working of Reform. This point is the curtailment of Parliamentary speeches. No one not accustomed to Parlia ment can form an idea of the extent to which the prolixity of our public speakers has inter fered with the effective business of the Session. The very thought of such a thing as a four hours' speech is enough to make a man yawn at noon-day. Then what must the infliction of it be after midnight ? Really and seriously speaking, this is a great grievance. But we have reliance enough on the practical good sense that is likely to characterise the people's House of Commons, to expect that they will at once and for ever put down such ostentatious attempts. Upon the whole we would advise the Whig Ministers to prepare themselves for a more ac tive campaign than they have yet experienced. They will du well to spend that time in the con coction of measures that used to be devoted to the preparation of speeches and the fabrication of excuses for delay.—Morning Herald. __- SURREY SESSIONS. Yesterday a General Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the county of Surrey wai held at King. stun. There was a very full attendance of Ma- Orates. Shortly after twelve o'clock the Chairman, B. BARNARD, Esq., took his seat on the bench. The Court was occupied for a considerable time in settling matters connected with the registration. Committees were appointed for the purpose of ap pointing polling places for the eastern and western divisions of the county respectively, and as it ap peared that the overseers had, in a great many in stances, neglected to transmit to the Clerk of the Peace lists of the voters in their several parishes, the Clerk of the Peace was authorized to address a circular letter, ordering them to transmit such lists forthwith, and acquainting them with the amount of penalty (500/.) which, under the Reform Act, they incurred for such neglect of duty. The reports from the medical and clerical officers of the houses of correction at Brixton, Kingston, and Guildfthd, and from the county gaol, were then presented and read. APPOINTMENT OF A STIPENDIARY CHAIRMAN. The Clerk of the Peace then read the report o he committee appointed in consequence of a rest). ution of the Court, that in consequence of the greal ncrease of the criminal business at the sessions, it was expediant to appoint a chairman, with an ade quate remuneration for his services, and that a com mittee should be appointed to devise the best means for carrying that resolution into effect. The com mittee, in their report, recommended that the selec tion of a legal gentleman to fill the situation should be vested in the hands of the Chief Justice of the King's Bench, no barrister of less than seven years' standing gt the bar to be eligible to it ; and they suggested that his salary should be fixed at 1,0001. per annum. They reeorninitmled further that such permanent chairman, with the Magistrates to assist, should preside at all sessional business, with the ex• ception of the four county sessional days, when a chairman selewed from amongst the Magistrates themselves should preside. Mr, NICHOLSON, in moving Ow the report of the committee should be confirmed, did not anticipate that any objections would be raised to such a mea sure, except such as arose out of the expense of it. Mr. SIMINE4 seconded the motion. Mr. WARD did not object to the principle of the measure, for he was of opinion that it was of the greatest importance that the person presiding at their Quarter Sessions would be a permanent officer, but he thought that 1,000/. a-year would be a great deal too much to pay to such an officer. The num ber of days which he would be employed throughout the year would be altogether 57, and at a salary of 8001. per annum ha would be paid at the rate of 141. per day, which would be amply sufficient for him. Mr. SPEER objected to the measure. Mr. AWN supported the motion. Sir T. lutrroN spoke at considerable length against the proposition, Mr. R. JACKSON recommended the postponement of the question to the Epiphany Sessions. Mr. COLES moved, as an amendment, that the further consideration of the subject be postponed till the first day of the Epiphany Sessions, and that in the mean time the report of the Committee in re- ference to it be printed and circulated amongst the Magistracy. After some discussion, the amendment was finally agreed to. The Court did nut adjourn until near 7 o'clock. SOUTHWARK SESSIONS, OCT. 16. Eliza Smith, a common prostitute, was indicted for robbing a carpenter, named George Lee, of a half-sovereign and four half-crowns. The prosecutor gave his evidence, amidst great laughter, as follows:—On the night of the Bth of September, as I was coming along Union-street, I saw this woman and ano , her coming out of the Rose public-house. The prisoner said to her companion, " That is the man I robbed of 13 sovereigns," " You are right," I replied, " I am." She then asked me to treat them with some gin. I said I did not know whether I would, but at last I took them in and gave them some gin, and I had some beer. All the time she was drinking she kept bouncing about that other " con Fain," the former robbery. She said it was her counsel who got her off, and I said yes, I always heard that Mr. Payne, the barrister, was a clever fellow.—(Loud laughter, in which Mr. Payne joined.) She then said she would serve me so again if I would go with her, and she would also show me how she did that robbery. I went with her _ RECORDER—Have you been robbed of thirteen sovereigns before ? Prosecutor—Yes, to be sure i . and she was tried here for it. _ RECORDER—And yet yo - u consented to go with her again ? Prosecutor—Why yes, my Lord ; you see I was asleep when she did it before, and I went with her this time to see if she could do it when I was awake. —(Loud laughter.) So we went up one or two dark alleys to Saunders's-court, in the Mint, where we saw an old woman at the door. The prisoner bargained for a room, and I paid the old woman 6d. which I took out of my purse. I was go:rig to put the purse into my pocket again, but the prisoner de sired me to lay it on the table, where, she said, it would be perfectly safe. The prisoner afterwards sprung up like a tigress, seized the purse from the table, where I had placed it, and bolted off with it, leaving her bonnet in my custody. Mr. PAYNE, who was the prisoner's counsel on the former trial, was also engaged for her on this occasion. The prosecutor, in cross-examination, told nobody of this robbery between the Bth and the 25th of Sep tember, nor did he go to look after the prisoner in that period, although he knew she was about the Borough. He assigned as a reason, that he was at work, and did not wish to lose time. The prisoner was tried two sessions ago for stealing 13 sovereigns from him, and on that trial he swore that he was sober, but other persons swore that he was drunk, and the prisoner was acquitted. The jury acquitted the prisoner, the foreman re marking that they could place no confidence in the prosecutor's evidence. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, OCT. 16. These Sessions commenced this morning before FRANCIS CONS; Esq., Chairman, and a full bench of Magistrates. STEAM-BOAT NAVIGATION ON THE THAMES. James 111'Keliar (Captain of a steam-packet trad ing to Scotland) was indicted for a nuisance by un lawfully navigating the steam-packet of which he was the commander, upon the river Thames, from the 11th of July last up to the 22d of September. The indictment contained several counts, varying the allegations; and on a second indictment the defendant was charged with an assault upon Thomas Lennard, Benjamin Rogers, Thomas Lyses, and William Mo lyneux, on the 12th of August, by upsetting and swamping a certain wherry, in which they were na vigating the river Thames. The defendant pleaded " Not guilty," and having been given in charge to the Jury, Mr. Thomas Lennard was the managing clerk to Mr. Graham, a solicitor in the Temple, and be tween three and four o'clock OR the afternoon of the 12th of August last, be, accompanied by two friends, a Mr. Lyses and a Mr. Molyneux, engaged a wherry at the Billingsgate-stairs, with a view to go on the dyer. The party entered the boat, ac companied by the waterman, Benjamin Rogers, who was directed to row towards Greenwich. They proceeded along the Bermondsey, or Surrey side of the river, as far as Mill-stairs, when the Glasgow steam-trader between London and Dundee, coming up the river, passed the witness and his party. Of this vessel the defendant was Captain. The Glas gow passed about 30 yards distant from the boar, and in consequence of the very rapid rate at which she was coming up the river (running as she did in shore, in order to round a number of vessels which were lying abreast), the water, before perfectly smooth, became very rough, arid a perfect sea was created by the rapid course of the steamer, running with waves from three to four feet high. In con sequence of the vessels moored in the river, the party in the wherry did not observe the approach of the Glasgow until close upon her, and the effect of her passing at the rapid course she was then running swamped and sunk the wherry, capsizing the waterman and passengers, of whom only one could swim, into the river. The wherry had scarcely passed the steamer when the first wave of the swell, occasioned by the rapid speed of the steam-packet, struck the boat, the second wave filled her up to the seats, and with the third wave she fill ed entirely and sunk. Fortunately, however, assist ance was speedily afforded to the party, and all were saved, though upwards of four or five minutes immersed in the water. The next day the witness went to the office of the Company to which the Glasgow belonged, and having ascertained the name of the Captain, was shown to the defendant, to whom lie stated his reasons for now waiting upon him—namely, that it was owing to an accident which had occurred the preceding day, by which the lives of himself and his friends had been placed in imminent peril and danger, stating also the spot where it had taken place. The defendant, in reply, stated that he ha•l not before heard of the accident, which he was sure he should have done if any of his people had been aware that such had happened at the time. He expressed his sorrow for the in convenience and danger to which the witness and his patty had been exposed, and added, that had he known of the accident at the time, he should have been the first to have ordered a boat to be owered to their assistance, and would have stopped his vessel. D'njainin Rogers, the waterman employed by the last witness on the day in question, corroborated the evidence of his employer. Nine other witnesses were examined, and their evidence went clearly to show that the speed of the Glasgow could not, at the time of the accident, have been less than from eight to ten miles an hour. The Jury, after a deliberation of about a quarter of an hour, returned a verdict of Guilty generally. The CHAIRMAN remarked, that the question was one of great importance, and that the Magistrates would but ill discharge their duties if they should slightly pass over this offence, which to the satisfac tion of the Jury had been made out, and therefore perhaps the best course to be followed would be that the defendant should enter into his own re ' cognizance in 1001., and two sureties in 50/. each, to come up for judgment when called on. He must also notify to the defendant, that in case he should again offend in like manner, the recognizances would be estreated. The defendant then entered into the usual recog. nizances, and was discharged. THE KING V. BOND AND OTHERS. Mr. BARRY applied on behalf of the defendant, E. Bcnd, against whom, with Joseph Bond, an in dictment had been found for keeping and maintain ing a gambling-house, to respite the recognizance.; until the adjournment day, on the ground that the prosecutor could not be found, in order to serve him with the usual notice of trial.—Rule granted. The Court then adjourned. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. Yesterday Joseph Webb and Robert Hurst were brought forward for a final examination, the former charged with having feloniously secreted and em bezzled a general post-letter, containing bank-notes to the amount of 10/., while employed as a supernu merary letter:carrier, and the latter with having re ceived the whole or part of the money, knowing it to have been stolen. The prisoners were fully committed to Horse monger-lane gaol to take their trial at the next assizes for the county of Surrey. MARLBORO UGH-STREET'. Four ragged a nd half-starved human beings were charged with having sold ,the Poor Man's Guardian and the Cosmopolite without a proper stamp. One of them, an Irish lad, named Costello, who has been imprisoned on the same charge twice before, was brought into the office on Saturday three times, quite drunk, having been allowed to go on his pro mise to abstain from the offence. Having three times been found offending, he received a month, and the other three 14 days' imprisonment. LAMBETH- STREET. Yesterday William and Maria Wright, who stated themselves to be man and wife, were brought before Mr. HARDwicK, charged with hocussing and robbing a sailor named John Meade. The prosecutor on Sunday week arrived in London in the brig Henry Brougham, from North Shields. On the evening before, while going along the Commercial-road, he met two young men, whom he had formerly seen, and drank with, though he did not know their names, nor where they resided, who invited him to go and have some beer with them. He accepted their offer, and went with them, supposing they were going to a public-house. They however took him-to a private house, when, on entering the parlour, he saw the female prisoner, and another woman. One of the young men sent for a pot of beer, and on its being brought all the parties pressed him to drink hearty of it. He had one or two draughts, and almost immediately afterwards became excessively ill, and attempted to leave the house; but the female prisoner got before him, and urged him strongly to stop with her. Being so very ill at the time, he returned into the room, and flung himself on the bed, and instantly became so stupified as to loose All sense of recollection or feeling. In some time after he was aroused by the prisoners, and found he had been stripped of his jacket, waist coat, trousers, and two silk handkerchiefs. He com plained of his loss, and said he would not leave the room until he had got his clothes, which had cost him 31. 10s. on the day before, when the male pri soner threatened to bundle him out, saying that he wanted to turn into bed himself. He again insisted on remaining in the place until his clothes were re stored to him, and a policeman being called in, he gave both the prisoners into custody. The prisoners denied all knowleke of the robbery, but admitted that it had taken place in their room. They were fully committed to Newgate to take their trial. HAI'T ON- GARDEN. Yesterday, a middle-aged respectable-looking woman, who was charged on Sunday with having been found in the house of Mr. Clark, of Northamp ton-street, Northampton-square, Clerkenwell, under suspicious circumstances, and who affected to be deaf and dumb before the Magistrates, was brought before Mr. LAING, who was anxious to ascertain what effect his recipe of temporary confinement would have upon the deaf and dumb. On being placed at the bar she assumed a dignified position, and stood sideways, gazing at all around her. Mr. LAING—WeII, can she see, hear, and speak ? Prisoner (nodding her head and looking at the Magistrate)—Ah, ah ! you'll know it in time, you will. I'll serve you right, I will. Mr. LAING—WiII you tell your name ? Pri soner—Ah !ah ! ah! you reptiles, my name ! Ah ! never, you vagabonds. Mr. - LAING - -You shall give an account of your self. What took you to the house where you were discovered ? Prisoner—My mission to these mortal regions (looking with affected solemnity). Waddington—She persists in it, your Worship, that she is an angel sent from heaven to perform wonders. While in the lock-up place she has been speaking of the cornet, the stars, and the planets : she says I am a devil, and we are all imps, and that she will punish us when the flood comes. She has been telling all the prisoners their fortunes, and they say that all she has told them is true; but she refuses to tell me my fortune; I think she is a fortune-teller; one woman is frightened at her, she has told her so much of her history. Mr. LAING said he would not be imposed upon, and ordered this woman to be brought before him. Mr. LAING —What has that woman been saying to you ? Woman (trembling)—She knows all my mind and private circumstances, although I never saw her before in all my life. Waddington—She is afraid to speak, Sir; she dreads the charm. Mr. LAING--Wdl you tell where you live and your name? Prisoner—Ah, ah I never. She was ordered to find bail; in default of which she was committed. THAMES POLICE. ou in nt p y re o f gn C ar o jc r y k : and, Y l e i s i s t e w r d i faey, an Irishman were ushered into the office by Park , the bsadle of St. John's, Wapping, to have their examination ‘vho‘a i sf n ar fraodmvan thec advanced taken previous to being passed to Ireland. Th e man could not speak a word of English, arid the wife was directed to interpret the questions and answers. She had no sooner taken the book in her right hand than her husband muttered something in Irish, ac• coinpanied with a menacing gesture, and the woman instantly dropped the book. Mr. BALLANTINE—What is that he said to you ? The woman said her husband told her she must not take an oath while she was in the family way, and she knew it was very unlucky to do so. Mr. BALLANTINE—You have only to speak the truth, and the whole truth, and that is to be told at all times, whether you are with child or not. The book, on the cover of which was an image of our Saviour on the cross, was again handed to the woman, who, with great reluctance consented to be sworn, exclahning " No luck will the chilt have after ;" while her husband said she would go to purgatory. UNION-HALL. THE SCHOOLMASTER AT HOME.—Yesterday, Mrs. Louisa Clements, a handsome young widow, was charged with threatening the life of Mr. James Chuttlebury, a schoolmaster. The complainant said he had a very amiable wife, and a very nice house, and he had led a life of real connubial bliss until l ate ly, when the widow, who had lodged 32 weeks in his house, changed his heaven into its opposite, " and for what ?" continued the schoolmaster, " merely because I gave her notice to quit. Since that her conduct has been shocking; and I verily believe that, on one occasion, she would have em brued her hands in human gore had I not crept into a cupboard." " What (lid she say ?" a,ked the MAGISTRATE. " Why, Sir, she vowed she'd have my liver and lights out," replied the schoolmaster. "Then," said Mr. WEDGWOOD," you must have given her some dire offence." The widow here exclaimed, " Yes, your Wor ship; some time ago he took advantage of the bad ness of the lock to my door, and in the dead of night he actually came and stole into my bed. When I awoke, he told me not to split (such was the term), as if 1 did, his days would be numbered, in consequence of the jealous disposition of his wife. I was foolish enough to listen to him, and I acknow ledge I have threatened him, as he has disavowed his forthcoming offspring, and told me to prepare for being turned out of doors." Mr. WEDGWOOD said her case was a bad one, but he was compelled to hold her to bail. SIGNS OF THE TIMES.—An old woman entered a country shop a few days ago, and put the fol lowing interrogatory :—" Have you any thing that would shoot an ould parson."—Dublin Express. TOWER HAMLETS' ELECTION. Yesterday evening a most numerous and highly tespectable, meeting was held at Mr. De Fontaine's Riding•school, Worship-street, Shoreditch, for the purpose of meeting Colonel Leicester Stanhope, and hearing from him an exposition of the principles on which he claims the honour of representing the Tower Hamlets in Parliament. We should think that not less than 1,500 persons were present. Mr. B. WADDEN was called to the chair, and in- troduced the business of the evening in an eloquent and much applauded speech. After adverting to the services redered by Colonel Stanhope to the cause of liberty in Ireland, in Greece, in India, and else where, he urged upon them the importance of elect ing men on whom they could rely—men who would carry out to their fullest extent the great principles, the dereliction from which made Reform imperative. He then referred to the state of Ireland, and to the abominable system of tithes. No maa who re garded Ireland with any degree of attention, but must be convinced that tithes ought to be at once extinguished.—(Cheers.) Triennial Parliaments were also wanting, to put an end to that odious system of corruption which had been so long carried on. He concluded by introducing Colonel Leices ter Stanhope.—(Cheers.) Colonel STANHOPE then rose, and was very warmly greeted. He was the only candidate out of eleven who had presented themselves to their no.- , rice, who had given written pledges.—(Hear, hear.) The reason why they had not given written pledges, was probably because they did not feel it prudent so to do. But what was prudence but the practical application of wisdom ? and if it were prudent for them to be acquainted with the character of their Representatives, surely it would not be imprudent for those who sought that honour to give them faci lities for acquiring that information. They might depend on it there were no colours like black and white.—(Cheers.) Those were the colours of the British standard, and the emanations of the human mind were displayed upon it. The first duty of a Statesman was to ameliorate the condition of the suffering portions of the community. Such being his opinion of the duties of a Statesman, he would take that opportunity of enumerating the means by which that end would, in his opinion, be best at tained. The first thing that was necessary was, to have an honest Parliament—a Parliament that would promote cheap government—(Cheers) — the improvement of trade—tile advancement of knowledge—and the atolition of all monopolies. —(Continued cheers.) Parliaments should be tri ennial. According to the old law of this country, Parliaments were annual ; but in 1694 they were niade triennial. The security of secret ballot was indispensable —(Applause.) Each man would then be at liberty to vote according to his own interest, and thus the public interest would be promoted; for the general interests of individuals con,tituted the public interest. Owing to the manner in which the Reform Bill was drawn up, the gibberish in which Acts of Parliament were involved, at least one half of the constituency were deprived of the right of voting.—(Cries of " More"—" Shame, shame: ) Their first endeavours should therefore be directed to remedy this defect. For the purpose of advancing knowledge, he advocated the establish ment of schools in very parish and village, and of libraries of useful knowledge for the working classes; but the most important step of all, for that purpose, was the abolition of a'l taxes on knowledge—(lm- mense cheering)—and the substitution, in its place, of a small postage. It had been said that the mails would not be sufficient for the purpose; if so, let omnibuses be engaged.—(A laugh.) With regard to our religious establishment, he thought it most unjust that 12,000,000 of Dissenters and Catholics should be called on to pay towards the support of the church of which he was a member.—(lt is.) He was, therefore, for the entire abolition of tithes. —(Approbation.) That part which belonged to the Church as a corporation should be sold for the benefit of the public, and paid into the public exchequer; and that part which belonged to individuals should be sold, and the produce paid to those individuals; for he was a respecter of pro perty—landed property, funded property, and also property in labour. Every pastor should be provided for by his own flock. He had high authority for this; he understood that Dr. Lushington had ex pressed himself in favour of an abolition of tithes. This would create a great rumpus in the part of the country where he resided. He lived opposite the Palace of the Bishop of London—( A laugh)—and when he heard that one of his ecclesiastical judges had been speaking in favour of the abolition of tithes it would fall on him like a thunderbolt. The ad ministration of justice was a fertile field of abuse, and he agreed with the illustrious Bentham in his opinions on this subject. They must get rid of fee gathering, as they had got rid of it in France, be fore ally efficient remedy could be applied. That mountain of parchment which contained the Statute Law should be reduced. Would they believe it ? The Statute Law of England occupied thirty-nine immense volumes; and of those, the statutes passed from Magna Charta to the commencement of the reign of George the Third filled only seven and a half. He was favourable to the system of codifi cation. The next step was cheap government ; and he was inclined, in common with his friend Mr. Hume—(Applause)—to fall back to the stan dard of 1792. The standing army should be reduced, and one step towards it would be the extinction of tithes, the collection of which in Ireland alone cost us 25,000 men. A standing army was, in his opi nion, unconstitutional. He was favourable to free trade, but the great preliminary was a free trade in coin.—; Loud cheers.) He would vote for the re duction of the duty at once to 12s. a quarter, and for the subsequent reduction of is. annually. With regard to the East India Company, he thought some advantages attended it, but that its trading ought to be separated from its sovereign character ; that the tax on tea ought to be abolished, and that all British subjects should be allowed to settle there. He was the first man who raised his voice in India to advo cate a free press.—(Cheers.) The silk manufacturers were, he thought, ill-used—they ought to have given them a free trade in corn before they gave a free trade iu silk. He expressed his abhorrence of West India Slavery, and his determination to vote for any measure that Mr. Wilberforce might sanction. He would emancipate all children born of slaves—all who could read and write, and place those who could not on the footing of apprentices in this country. An efficient Act to give the parishioners a voice in the Vestries ought to be passed without delay ; and as to flogging in the army and navy, his detestation of the system was well known. He con cluded by thanking them for the patient attention with which they had heard him.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. CHILD moved a resolution expressive of con fidence in Colonel Stanhope, and pledging the meet ing to support his return. Mr. SMITH seconded, and Mr. LEMON supported the motion, which was carried unanimously. Mr. COOPER and Mr. ALLEN moved and second ed a motion for the appointment of a Committee for that purpose, which was carried. It was then stated that a subscription had been commenced to bring the Colonel in free of expense. Thanks were voted to the Chairman and the meeting separated. After the recent stormy discussions in this be rough, it may be proper to say, that the meeting, though large, was one of the most orderly we ever witnessed. A few days ago, as the Lincoln coach was driving up to London, it met a drove of sheep and oxen, which, it appears, could not be got out of the way before the horses came upon them, and all fell in the midst of the sheep with a great crash, killing several of them, and maiming others. None of the passengers were injured. In half an hour afterwards the down coach in the same connection overtook the iden ical drove of sheep some dis tance from Bale's-hill, mar Watford, and before the horses could be pulled up they were all thrown down amidst the flock, and the coachman was viuhntly pitched from his seat. Several sheep were also killed here, and the coach man so much injured that he was taken to the Bull, at Walton, in a dangerous state.—Herts Mercury. NEWCASTLE-MAYOR'S COURT. AN UNFORTUNATE FIDDLER.—On Wednesday, James Clooney entered the Mayor's Court to prefer a charge of robbery against his wife. The com plainant, as he walked along the room, thrust out his head a full foot from his body, and exhibited to their Worships a phiz so redolent with fun, frolic, and broad humour, as is only found among the lower classes in Hibernia, and which proclaimed him to be, at once, a real " Jim" of the Emerald Isle. Plase your Honours (said Misther Clooney, in breathless haste), plase your Honours, I insist upon my wife, who was the dare jowel of my shoul, being prosticuted for a great big robbery. • Here he stopped, and the Court desired him to state the particulars of the awful charge. Place you then, isn't it enough to murther the mother's son of me for vevatiou, that my wife should stale away the very fiddle that was used to, put the dare shouls in gond humour at a wake or a wedding ? ALDERMAN—WeII, my good man, how was it stolen ?—You know we can't interfere between you and your wife. Mr. Clooney (with indignation) 7 Och ! not interfere! then by th e p owers . t h e re's neither law., justice, or robbery ! You see,: your Worships, the matter's as Clare to be seen as the big posts they drive through the ships in the sa (point ing. in the direction of the Tyne). I just goed outs and sure didn't I see the fiddle hung on the peg, and didn't my wife run away with another to a publicanist with it, and didn't they get just the worth of it in the dare cratur, and hav'nt I lost the fiddle, and isn't that enough for your Worships to prosticute her for ? Here the volubility of Jem was cut short by a little round-faced woman, who having slily followed her enraged lord and master i nto t h e room, bad hitherto kept at a respectable distance, but who noei stepped forward with an evident determination to make a duett of the complaint before their Worships. ALDERMAN—Who and what are you ? Mrs. Clooney, who seemed to be a woman of° few words, answered very composedly—" b ig wife." ALDERMAN—WeII, you have heard what your husband charges you with—is it true ? Mrs. Clooney looked Mr. Clooney in the fac e ' and again aniwered with the most provoking Cool' ness—" It is." Mr. ClOoney—There ; by the shoul of me, ; 01 that enough to raise a prosticution tell PI what it is, your Worships; she'll think no more 0 1 swallowing a big me a s ur e o ' t h e cratu r , than would o' just taking a rale roasted praty to dinner' ALDERMAN—WeII, my good woman, and wil ily did you do with the fiddle ? Mrs. Clooney—And sure it's with the publicanis t ' We gave him the fiddle for just Is.6d. worth of This confession set the " Jim" of the Emeral d Isle into an amusing passion, and he was advised 11 1 the Court to make application for redress to tb e Court of Conscience. Mr. Clooney—l4 it conscience, my jowel ! illy St. Patrick ! devil a conscience has she, so b°" willl get at it tell you what it is, your Honou r ' she and the other—(Here he thundered out a n er probrious epithet)—would just spend more tinpt vies afore you hear th e coc k o ' t h e morn, t h an 11 earn in a week. C ourt o ' C onsc i ence ! S ure 01 . Belfast ? Sure I'll go into n o et h er court in rh' • don't I live in a court that's as long as any street L place, for I see I'll get no justice. So saying, the unfortunate fiddler walked off oi l high dudgeon, followed by his taciturn wife;, ° • thus terminated a scene which kept the Court in roar of laughter, and which we have vainly ended' voured to describe.—Newcastle Journal. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS, AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL-STREET• (From the London Gazette.) TO-MORROW, Ocr. IB.—DIVIDENDS. 41 G Keene, Union-street, Borough, victualler... ........... D. D. Davis, Fitzroy-square, boarding-house.keeper ...... ••••'' A. A. Fry, Great Ormond.street, dealer W. Steel, Berkeley-square West, Edgeware-road, stable . keeper H. M. Robinson, Walbrook-buildings, wrought-iron OW 1 manufacturer Wednesday a whale, caught the morning be ; core in Loch Long, near Arrochar, was b rou ght to vh e f, l o 6 o Mr. BLACK'S cooperage, in Greenock. It had been 0 0 on Monday last swimming about in the loch, and,k found dead jammed between two rocks, which the rei,,o ing tide had left dry. It is supposed to weigh about s pi tons, measures 21i feet in length, is feet in girth' 0 , 5 feet across the tail. It is supposed by those s killet' , " whaling to be three months old. One, about three el 0 larger, has been seen wot king in the loch and rive r some days past.— Glasgow Journal. II A fatal accident accurred at Firle, near Vol on Thursday. A boy, named Faise, who was O r oo k at a mill at that place, hail just stepped out of the r ° liaise, not being aware that the mill was going , one of the sweeps struck him on the head with ene b oi mendous force as to beat out his brains, and he fell on the spot. oxionc E Teon: N ueyi C imi .toper country oTtp T hrehe ß L: p E :lcoe7 I B coLne E nto T , pstyis W a opri BETWEEN patrol people t uiFtrwEiniTHE.within re oaodmsr P ni ton O h:ket r :f l dna C ailisr : ot of " 001 3 , C i n O n: aI U R e: P :d use of some abusive language to the police, who r e l .? in the same strain. Both parties then separated, 1 1 came in contact again, when the same language ()c i: g fi!' sumed on both sides, one of the countrymen, in t " h ~,11", lence of his passion, rushed upon a policeman, s e ri lII' gun, and discharged its contents at him, by o l t e . e 4 policeman was severely wounded in the arm; syh' - '4l another of the police run his bayonet through the nd,/ the countryman, who immediately fell and e%P J ' Galway Free Press. tt A few days ago some vile miscreant pco - of . o thirty-nine fowls, belonging to Mr. WlELtaittsotit 0,104 Swinehouse Farm, in the pari s h of Arrunts--Staffr f Mercury. (10 $6 A THIEF CAUGHT NAPPING IN 4 ".• Buser.—On Saturday morning, about three n'c l r,„, - . dwelling-house of Captain * llExcE, R. NO lj ' - hba ' Myrtle•place, Blackheath, w as b ro k en open a nd 19 '"pi" property to a large amount. The robbery was J 64044 the thief climbing over the garden wall, and witloirrsoil the bolt of the kitchen door. The robber i° d el ° through the streets, concealed himself and the {toll gorse bush, in a sort of valley in the rear of ther;id, if i, Fa'igued with the labour he had endured.'f asleep, and snored aloud. Sergeant BEtto' vision, No. 18, apppened to tae passing along t' b , and his attention was excited to th e go rse ,07 1 ) 4fieer, on arriving at the spot, found him from his slumber, and, not at the time sulee'lle t committed any robbery, suffered him to depart'not been gone many minutes however, when tb e . o to , ,fiscovered the bundle cont a i n i ng t h e p lunder In; l e t hole where the thief had deposited it. UP" t o ridail e very BERRY set out in pursuit of the robber, 0,50 diligent search, he detected him concealed in 3c , bil,„o in the neighbouring marshes, when, on seat-don't), it was found to be loaded with part of the IOW!, r irotn Captain REECE'S house, amongst which 'P sys e watch belonging to the gardener. The prisoner,o,ooo b..f,re the Magistrates assembled in Petty 10 1), Greenwich, to whom he gave his name lote s j e gl o o w is recognised as b e i ng f ormer l y a " ca d" bel ° telf Woolwich vans. The property having bee° e i a idatv tifieil, the pri soner was f u lly comm itted to ,be take his trial. It is a singular fact that, Whi 1 ',,,0 14 was in the h ouse , a p o lice-con s table named C g " P e. sitting f as t as l eep on t h e s t e p o f t h e front doci r ' su it. stant dismissal of the sleepy constable was t he re S. r hon' s, On the 17th inst. the wife BIRT of H Mr. Joseph Birehin-lane, •)f a son. dole On the I2th inst. Mrs. John Thomas Hart, of 3 for. On the 26th ult. at Seville, the wife of Richard of a daughter. 0 v i‘ o in n g t d h a e ug i h m t i e , r of the e a l t at c e M ARRIED. eo , hire C al/ — On the 9th inst. at Llanbeblig, Caernarvons,•-,-,41, - ,i Mathias, 14th Madras Native Infantry, to Elizol,-sosePo, Nicholl, Esq. M.D. of Charles-street, Berhele):l-5,1-0 Charlotte, third daughter ofJ. D. Hume, Esq• °f 11 30 ,,, DIED. Wale' 10v., On the 6th inst. a ft er a few hour's illness, at ~ (JO v ie G. L. F. WhinEeld, Esq. S.C.L. Pembroke 'Collenocir, 9 4 of Oxford, seventh son of the late Rev. W. Wh,,, oi# l Ramsey and Dovercourt-cum-Harwich, in the c° cha r On the 9th inst. Mr. S. Watkins, of Upper the e f i l i l e . r P ito o n ole c , hEusqrc.ll23,ognnearr, sol30104:0 Northampton-square, from an inflammation 10 ,- fll brought on by a severe cold ; and in consequence ," on the 15th inst. Mrs. M. Watkins, his wife. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY 111 LI It 1.) 0 y o SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAINP. T. t