The Sun. — London, England, 1832-10-02 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Journal data Haye, to whose lou war-whoop we alluded last week, has published two or three more articles on the Dutch and Belgic question. In alluding to the article of the Paris demi-official paper, the Journal des Debats, it expresses surprise at the announce ment of military preparations on the part of France and England, which it had itself pro voked. We have repeatedly mentioned that the great difficulty which lies in the way of a final arrangement of Belgic affairs, is the lingering hope of the King of Holland, that by continued delay, and by taking advantage of the chapter of accidents, he may ultimately recover possession of Belgium. This fooli, , h calculation is be trayed in every phrase and word of his official and hired advocate. Hence the King of Bel gium is never mentioned under his real desig nation, but as Prince Coburg, or as the person who now rules in Brussels. Let his Dutch Majesty content himself with the com mand of those glorious " United Provinces," for which his ancestors did so much, and which, under the sway of his family, did so much for the independence of Europe, and we should not despair of a speedy set tlement of all existing differences between him - and his southern neighbour. It will be impossible, except through a war, to look to a settlement on any other conditions ; and a war thus provoked, which must be a war of opinions and principles, more than one of material in terests, would be more likely to strip him of his :crown than to increase his dominions. The Journal de la Halle is not satisfied with an at tack upon a Paris demi-official journal, but it must likewise make a violent assault on us, for supporting the necessity of a speedy arrange ment. We can assure our contemporary of the Hague, that we feel no resentment at its abuse on this occasion ; and that, as we never had any intention or desire to attack either the Dutch people or the King of Holland—unless in their character of disturbers of order or ob stacles to peace—we shall be the first to befriend them, when they show a disposition to remain tranquilly within their own limits, and to extin guish the lighted torch with which they have threatened a European explosion for the last 18 months. It will be as easy, and perhaps as in glorious, for the King of Holland to kindle a war in Europe, as it was for the ambitious in cendiary to set fire to the Temple of Ephesus ; but what can he gain more than his sacri legious prototype by such an operation. The demi- official journal of the Hague complains that the Conference of London, and particularly France and England, two of its members, wish to make Holland the victim of their arrange ments. In what sense this lamentation is to be understood, the are at a loss to conjecture ; on what altar Holland is to be offered up, we have never yet learned. The Dutch nation, as a na tion, profess their happinees at being released from a Belgic connection which brought them only losses, agitation, and misfortunes. The Dutch King, as a good patriot, cannot, or ought not to act contrary to the wishes of his people, for the renewal of so ill-assorted a union. The political divorce has thus been pronounced, with the consent of both parties, the Belgians being efinally desirous of such a result ; and the only difficulties to be settled by their respective friends relate to the conditions of their separa tion. Holland ought not, in this case, to claim mere than she brought into the common stock, and she certainly did not bring any right to the province of Luxemburg, or any just claim to the exclusive navigation of the Scheldt. If the mouth of that river was sealed for the 150 years which preceded the exile of the present Nassau family, it has been opened ever since Europe has been thrown into a new arrangement, and its naviga tion has been declared free by the treaty of Vienna. Are the Dutch, therefore, to be considered the victims of injustice because, without depriving them of any right, the Powers of Europe refuse to see their neigh bours ruined by shutting up the only outlet for their commerce ? The Dutch demi-official journal pronounces false some of our former statements, but its polite epithet applies only to matters of little importance if true, the ads statement of which therefore, though admitted, could not be intentional. One of these , Vidse" statements is, that the late propositions were sent to the Hague by Lord Palmerston, " as President of the Conference." " No," says the Dutch oracle, " not as President of the Conference, but as an individual member." OF what use is it to contest such a point as this ? The Conference had been exposed to ridicule by multiplying formal meetings, and drawing up formal protocols, which had led to no effec tual result. A new proposition was to be made, a new modification of the treaty of the twenty four articles was agreed to by Belgium ; of what consequence was it whether this new proposition was transmitted through Lord Palmerston in one capacity or another, provided it was authentic ? But, on the showing of the Dutch Govern ment itself, if the proposition was only to be considered as emanating from Lord Palmerston, individually, the answer ought not to have been sent to the Conference collectively. Then, it is said that the propositions of Lord Palmerston were rejected because they were considered worse than those of the treaty which they pretended to mo dify. This certainly is a most extraordinary charge, not against the Noble Lord's honesty,—but against his common sense. If the charge, how ever, were correct, why was it not proved by the answer of the Dutch Government—an answer which, with a kind of mock-heroic dignity, passed by the p: oposals of Belgium, transmitted by his Lordship, as of no validity,—as in fact non avenues? Then it is denied that the Lon don Conference are any thing but peaceful me diators between Belgium and Holland. Did they in that capacity originally compel an ar mistice ? Did they in that capacity authorize France in August, 1831, to repel a Dutch in vasion ? Did they in that capacity force the Belgians to receive the treaty of the 24 articles ? The allegation is absurd. From the very com mencement of the negociations, and at every stage of their progress, the means of their execu tion by force have been contemplated, if force became necessary ; otherwise the meetings in Downing-street might have been regarded as those of a debating diplomatic club, of which their protocols were the minutes. There is only one other charge brought against this paper by the Government journal of Holland which we think worth answering ; but our answer involves a point of great importance. We had called the Belgic set tlement " a part of the public law of Europe." flow can that be denied by any person of com mon sense ? The Journal de la Haye has the folly, or the impudence, to allege that nothing has been done towards a new arrangement of the States of Europe till Holland cow-ent to the se paration between itself and Belgium, Nothing could be more false or absurd. The treaty of the 24 articles has been ratified by two of the great Powers of Europe, without any reserve whatever, and by all of them with a reserve which does not affect the main question of Bel gic independence. In whatever way Holland and Belgium may settle their present differences, it is not understood that their former incorpora tion is contemplated. Belgium is recognised as an independent state. King Leopold is acknow ledged as an independent King : he has Ambas sadors already at four of the Courts which com pose the Conference—his flag is recognised by all nations at sea—he can make treaties of peace or war—and nothing but a new conquest can deprive his Government of its independent sove reign character. Let us, therefore, again press upon the King of Holland the necessity and the advantages of making peace on reasonable terms with a Sovereign whom he cannot longer regard as an usurper, and whose states he cannot hope to incorporate with his own, except by a war which may dethrone both.—Times. The Falmouth Packet, received yesterday, contains the astounding intelligence that the re volt in the Mauritius did not terminate with • the re-shipping Mr. Jeremie. The Planters have actually, it seems, thrown off their allegi ance to Britain, and declared themselves inde- pendent. This seems indeed a strange step. — One can hardly suppose that the inhabitants conceive themselves able to resist the powerful Government of this country ; and even admit ting their ability to hold out, they could easily he cut off from a market for their produce.— Were Great Britain to abandon them to them selves, then, indeed, they might be easily able to do without us ; for if it be true that the Colonies of Great Britain raise a great deal more sugar than can be consumed in this country, the price of . the continental markets determines the price here, and the Planters of Mauritius would have the continental markets open to them. We do not see why they sl:ould be particularly anxious to be connected with us, any more than Cuba should be anxious to be connected with us. The Government of this country must have been felt as a great restraint on their importations of slaves from Madagascar, to which importations they, no doubt, ascribe their prosperity. The affair has an ugly appearance. We are anxious For further accounts, to clear up this business.— Morning Chronicle. The Conservatives take strange methods oc casionally of recommending themselves to the people of this country. In the Standard of last night there is a long and elaborate article of two columns, headed—" The Netherlands— Political Reflections," impeaching the conduct of the Conference in not having lent themselves to the seconding the desi g ns of the King of the Netherlands for regaining Belgium. But would it be believed that one of the principal objections is, that King Louis Philippe has purchased the alliance of England as a bulwark against Mo narchical Europe, by following in the wake of this country ; and another main objection, that England wishes to avail herself of Belgium to pour her manufactures into the heart of Ger many ? It would appear that the Conservatives consider it a great crime to remove any of the impediments in the way of the commerce of the country. The following extracts will serve to show what we allude to : 4 , We have, therefore, seen how the celebrated Ministry of Louis Philippe, whose system has attained the name of piste-milieu, always following in the wake of England, and esteeming itself happy in having her as a bulwark against Monarchical Europe, has sacrificed every thing to that alliance. To remain on the Throne was the first :cant of the King elected by the Bewolution ; and in spito of the resentment of the other Monarchs, he was proud to lean upon the arm which Great Britain held out to him. What, then, is the meaning of that long and monotonous farce which they ale playing in London, and those mes sages and those stipulations in which no one believes? Let us return into the path of truth, the time is come—and let us form our opinion of the authors by the inspection of their works. Twenty-four Articles consti'uing a pre tended treaty of peace, hive emanated from the Conference in London. By those articles it would appears that Bel gic independence has been settled, but under a British Prefect; that canals and rail-roads may be constructed in that Belgium where already ruined industry will make room for the immense importations of British merchan dise, and that those roads and those canals may be carried on through the territory of Holland ; and, to wind up all, the free navigation in the waters of Holland is stipulated, so as to leave Belgium no other hope for the future than, if once converted into an immense warehouse, to convey by its new roads and canals into Germany the produce of the manufactories of England with which Antwerp will he incessantly encumbered. " Such is the genuine meaning of the Treaty, in spite of the deceitful appearance of its form, and the too glaring perfidy of its diplomatic redaction. It is not known whether—for not Leing bound to adhere to the principle of non-intervention, by which Austria was excluded from Italy, Russia from Poland, and Prussia from Switzerland— those Northern Powers, wishing to remain masters at 1 borne, have tacitly promised England and France not to \defend the King of the Netherlands. A great diplomatic mystery exists, whatever it may be, and is hidden under the Conventions with which publicity makes us acquainted. It is necessary, it is indispensable, to explain the conduct of the three great Northern Powers, and the odious manner in which their egotistical politics have abandoned the most just, the most wise, and the most venerable of their allies." We leave Louis Philippe to settle with the French as he can the charges brought against him of subserviency to England ; but it is strange that it should be brought forward as an accusa tion against English Ministers, by Englishmen, that they have endeavoured to make the settle j went of the Belgian question available to the extension of English enterprise.— Morning Chronicle. They are ingenious politicians who have made the discovery that the King of Holland only wishes to be compelled to abandon the terms which he has dictated as the price of peace with Belgium, and that to oblige him in this particu lar the French troops, and the combined fleets of France and England, are put, or are about to be put, in motion. But though the idea is very ingenious, it is also very absurd. The cha racter of the King of Holland is not quite so tricky kis that of Louis Philip, He is not a King who, having sacrificed the interests of his people by all sores of cowardly and base conces sions to foreign menaces, or foreign influence, endeavo=urs to recover his popula:ity by dramatic exhibitions cf patriotic spirit and political clap traps. He has, from the first, taken a decided and manly tone, and nothing has caused him to alter it, He does not swagger one day, and droop and supplicate the next. He does not alternately bully and fawn upon his enemies. His determina tion has been so consistently inflexible as to receive, and peibaps deserve, the name of obstinacy ; but, whatever it may be called, it is som,ething far more respectable than the shuffling, evasive, and equi , rocating conduct oC the London Con ference, or the martial vapouring, unckling re tractions of the King of the French, or the wa vering indecision of the Sovereign of the Bel gians. The King of Holland may be the most obstinate Sovereign in Europe, but he is cer tainly the most honest ; and, though we are op posed to his policy, we cannot but wish his opponents would take a lesson from his firmness, and show as much moral :courage in support of the right as he has in defence of the wrong. We believe that if the demands of the King or Hol land be complied with, particularly that relative to the free navigation of the Scheldt, the inde pendence of Belgium will be a miserable farce — its commerce will be annihilated, and con sequently its prosperity ruined. In that case, it would be better that it had never separated from Holland. If, indeed, such concessions should be made, they will be pretty nearly equivalent to a counter-revolution. They will either drive the Belgic State to a restoration eventually, or to a new revolution to secure the advantages of the first one, unless events should previously arise in France which would have the effect of changing the destinies of more than one kingdom. As to the part which the Governments of France and England are acting now in relation to this question, it is so utterly unworthy of two of the greatest na tions of Europe, that it is painful and humiliat ing to contemplate it. There can be no doubt that the three great despotic Powers refuse their sanction to the employment of coercive means against Holland. Both our Government and that of France know it, and dread to oppose those Powers ; yet they make a show of warlike measures, which can have no other effect than to alarm simple-minded people, and cause a mischievous stagnation of the regular course of trade and commerce ; while the King of Hol land, conscious of the open support of his peo ple, and of the secret sympathy, if not open as sistance, of three of the Powers of the Confe rence, laughs at the pompous parade of military md naval preparations, which he knows to be but empty spectacle, and nothing else.—Morn. Herald. The clamour which the Ministerial Press, aving first received the hint from Lord John Russell, is attempting to excite against that pre ponderant portion of the landed aristocracy that supports conservative principles, upon the pre tence that the Noblemen and Gentlemen who compose it are in the habit of exercising a dicta torial and tyrannical authority over their tenantry as to the manner in which they shall vote at the approaching election, is, of all the clamours ever attempted, even in this age of empty noise and silly excitement, the most perverse and irrational, the most destitute of any solid foun- dation in fact, the most unwarranted and gra tuitous, even upon the supposition that every specific allegation hitherto advanced in order to promote it were strictly and literally true. We have no hesitation in expressing the opinion that the very allegations of those who are labouring to excite this clamour against the landlords of the conservative party afford, when properly con sidered, evidence the most conclusive, not mere- ly that they have refrained from any undue exertion of their influence over their ten- antry, but that they have not even employed it to the extent to which it is on all hands admit ted it may be legitimately used, and that their opponents, the landed aristocracy of the Whig and Liberal factions, have made a far more un sparing use than they have done of the power and authority which they derive from their pos sessions. It is not a principle which we ar© now discussing. We are only attempting to establish a fact from the evidence within our reach. And our reasoning may probably be regarded with less suspicion if we preface it by the frank avowal that its result is in our judg ment less honourable to our political friends than to our political adversaries. If the Tories have been supine or remiss in the exertion of their influence in times like the present, we hold it to be a weakness and a folly which they cannot too soon discard ; and if, as we fear is but too evi- dent, the Whigs have been more vigilan and zealous to avail themselves of every pow& they possess to promote the suc cess of their political principle.;. , and pro jects, they have, we are bound to confess, in this solitary instance, surpassed their political rivals in the manifestation of wisdom, sincerity, and vigour. It is some extenuation, but far from a complete defence, of such Tories as have been timid or negligent upon this occasion, that they cannot employ their influence unless at the risk of being held up to popular odium, while their rivals may make the fullest use of theirs, without the least danger of this inconvenience. Men ought not to permit their dread of clamour and vituperation to deter them from the discharge of an important duty. Now for our proof. We may assume, we suppose, as a matter not ad mitting any doubt, that if the great Tory land owners of England were generally employing, as they ought, their influence among their tenantry to promote the success of Conserva tive candidates at the next election, by the fair and legitimate means only of persuasion and advice, there would infallibly occur among a body so numerous, and comprehending of course every diversity of character, particular instances in which the strict line of pro priety would be more or less overstepped ; that now and then an individual would be be trayed into an excess of zeal in the cause which all had so much at heart ; that warmth of tempe rament, constitutional impatience of opposition, the pride of conscious power, would occasionally swell the language of advice into that of admoni tion, sharpen the tones of persuasion into those of command, change the mild accents of entreaty into those of fierce and angry menace. We may take for granted also that such an instance of self forgetfulness on the part ofa Tory Noble man or Gentleman would not escape instant exposure and severe animadversion in the present day, when a vigilant and active Press is em ployed in the threefold task of supporting Government, discrediting rank, and inflaming the passions of the ignorant and vulgar. Now if it be the fact, as we aver, that not a single instance of the kind is advanced by :the Minis terial or Radical Press in support of their broad and general assertion that the Conservative land lords arc exercising a tyrannical authority over the suffrag 's of their tenants, does it not follow that, so far from doing too much in support of their principles, these too delicate and timid landlords are as a body doing far too little? This we think would be conclusive. Our case, how ever, rests upon yet stronger grounds. The :Ministerial Press, in default of any better in stance to give q. colour to their general accusa tion of Tory tyranny, have produced the con duct of I.ord Brownlow with respect to the can vass now go ing on in the northern division of the county of Lincoin, whose fault it seems is— what does the reader think ? That the Noble Lord insists upon his tenants voting for the T or y c2ndidate ? No such thing. That he forbids them to vote for the Whig, Mr. Pelham, or the Radical, Sir William Ingilby ? No such thing. That he is urgent in his efforts to persuade them to vote for his friend the Tory, and refuse their votes to his opponents the Whig and Radi cal? Not even this. The fault of Lord Brownlow, whose conduct is selected by the Whig and Radical Press as the instance of Tory interfer ence with the freedom of election more heinous (Lan any other that can be food, is simply that having received from Mr. Pelham, the Whig candidate, the very modest and proper and rea sonable request that he would give him leave to canvass his tenants, or, in other words, that he would assist Mr. Pelham in producing among his (Earl Brownlow's) own tenantry, the false impression that he, their landlord, was favour able to the Whig candidate, or, at the least, wholly indifferent to the success of the Tory can. didate, he refused to be any party to so monstrous and unnatural a delusion. " What ! refuse leave to canvass his tenants ? Oh, the tyrannical Tory !" These are the exclamations of our Whig Contemporaries. But when the very ob vious consideration is not forgotten, that Earl Brownlow's leave for this purpose was wholly unnecessary, and that this needless permission would have implied favour and approbation, these exclamations will appear somewhat inapplicable to the case. " What," we should rather say, " ask a Nobleman to patronise the canvass among his tenantry of a candidate whom he is bound in consistency and conscience to oppose to the ut most of his power ! Oh, the impudent and un principled Whig !" We impute no want of zeal or consistency to Earl Brownlow; on the con trary, we believe there are few men who possess these valuable qualities in a higher degree. But certainly, when we find that a Tory Nobleman of such a character is exposed to applications like that of Mr. Pelham, the inference to be drawn from the fact is anything rather than favourable to the prevalence of any excess of party zeal among the Tories ; and when the re fusal to accede to a request of this nature is the greatest political crime of which any individual of the party can be accused, it would surely seem that political hostility is not carried, at least by that party, to any mischievous extent, or pursued by any very unfair or objectionable means. To show that the Whigs do not let their in fluence rust for want of use, as there seems good reason to believe too many of the Tories do, we need merely mention the case of the Duke of Bedford, who, having been accused of employ ing dictation and threats to compel his tenants to vote for the Whig candidates in Cambridge shire, repels the charge very properly by order ing his steward to write to the Newspapers simply to deny that he has employed dictation or threats. This, in the estimation of the Whigs and of the Whig Press, is a sufficient vindica tion of the Noble Duke, as it is in our estima tion also. The tenants of the Duke of Bedford had been no doubt officially apprized of the wishes and feelings of their landlord, as it was fit they should. But even this in the case of a Tory landlord would be intolerable oppression, and call for the immediate adoption of the ballot. —Morning Post. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. G UILDHALL. The inquiry into the authorship of the placard abusing the liverymen who voted for the Lord Mayor at the last election, was resumed yesterday before Mr. Alderman KELLY, Mr. Woolen attended for Jacobs, the bill-sticker. The only progress made in the matter was, that the printers were discovered to be Messrs. Dean and Munday, of Threadneedle-street (who had also printed the an,phorized bills for Sir Peter Laurie's committee). Jacobs, it appeared, had been employed by this firm to post another bill, addressed to the liverymen residing in Aldersgate ward (which bill was not ac knowledged by Sir Peter Laurie'scommittee), and, from the same defects appearing in the capital let ters R and Y in both the placards, there seemed no reason to doubt that both were printed at the same office. The charge against Jacobs was, therefore, aban doned, and he was discharged, with a caution to ascertain by whom he was employed hereafter; but Mr. Turner, of Cheapside, who had been sus pected of being the printer, threatened, for the pur pose of vindicating his own character, to pursue Messrs. Dean and Munday, for omitting their im print, and Sir Peter Laurie's committee also ex pressed their determination to sift the matter. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Mr. Kemp, a tradesman at the west end of the town, was yesterday charged by policeman C, 156, with having attempted the rescue of a person whom he had in custody, by creating a crowd about him, and ultimately assaulting him. Mr. CONANT ended the matter by requiring him to find bail. " ALL FOR LovE."—Miss Mary Croxford, a damsel neither very young nor very pretty, charged Mister Henry Grunston, a pale-featured melan choly-looking little gentleman, with having put her precious life in danger with a carving -knife, and his own life in danger also with threepenny-worth of laudanum. _ Miss Mary came forward, and with delicate re luctance, made the following statement :—She had, about two years ago, formed something more than a " platonic" acquaintance .vith the defendant ; but an intimate friend of both parties having succeeded in convincing her of the impropriety of her conduct, she confessed to Mr. Henry Grunston, on Friday night, that his friend's arguments had proved so powerful, she was determined to " cut" him hence forward and for evermore. Mister Henry Grunston instantly caught up a carving -knife, and made sundry terrific flourishes at her, swearing most lustily that he would first sacrifice her, and then annihilate him. selelf, if she persisted in her resolution. Finding her inexorable, he ran to the nearest chemist's shop, and having procured a dose of laudanum, he swal lowed it off, and then came back to inform her of the fact. The stomach-pump and several strong drenches had the double effect of curing Mister Henry Grunston of his love and the consequences of the laudanum, and he appeared before the Magis trate quite willing to give up in future all thought of Miss Mary Croxford. Mr. CoNANT—Pray, Sir, what are you ? De fendant—l am a commission-agent; but I am al lowed a certain sum to live on by my grandmother. Mr. CoNANT—I am afraid you are an idle fellow, to be living on your friends ; will you promise not to molest this young woman in future ?—Defen dant—Oh, certainly; for the fact is, my feelings h a ve been much hurt by the strong physic which I have taken, and which I am sure she persuaded the Doctor, out of spite, to give me. I inn now willing to give her up, and go down to my grandmother at West Ham. The complainant not being satisfied with this de claration, as she had forgiven the defendant, she said, so often, that Mr. CONANT ended the matter by re quiring him to find bail. Q UEEN- S Q UARE. Yesterday, a middle-aged man, named Francis Drake, by trade a shoemaker, at Lambeth-marsh, was brought up in custody, in a coach, by police constable Newman, of the L division, No. 36, c harged with attempting to shoot his wife and also himself. For some time past the prisoner and his wife have lived most unhappily together, and frequent quar rels have taken place between them. A short time ago the prisoners conduct was so bad towards her, that he was taken bercre 4 Magistrate, and bound over to keep the peace. About three months ago she was compelled to separate entirely from him, and get a lodging for herself. Since that period, however, he has been continually annoying her, and entreating her to comp and live with him again, ' which she h as p erem p toril y refused to do. About per-gio • , morning the prisoner went to at No. 21, Prince's -street, Up- Bhickfriars-road, and, having got 7 i h n i s t o o ''''vl l 'o l i e feeu r k'ns r (Yl o l:o O d m itrgee , irenci l t e ): asked her whether she would come and live with him again; the wife refused, when the prisoner stood with his back against the room-door, and, pulling a pistol out of his pocket, snapped it at his wife : fortunately, it flashed in the pan, and an alarm being given, several persons got into the room and wrested the pistol out of his hand. The prisoner ran out of the house and got into Duke-street, Stamford-street, were he pulled another pistol out of his pocket, placed it at his head, and fired it : he almost instantly fell. The whole neighbourhood was soon in alrrm, and a large concourse of persons assembled. Po lice constable Newman came up, and with assist ance conveyed the wretched man to the station house in the Waterloo-road, in a state of insensibi- lity. Mr. Stephen Smith, the inspector on duty, immediately sent for medical assistance, and Mr. Cook, the surgeon, promptly attended, and exa mined his wounds, which were just above the tem ple ; from the holes, the pistol appeared to have been loaded with large shot, which had taken a slanting direction, and although severely wounded, his life was not considered in danger. The pistol which he had snapped at his wife was examined, and was found loaded with large shot, correspond ing with a paper containing shot, which was found in his pocket. After being bled, and some restora tives administered to him, he began to revive, but as soon as he came to himself he recognised his wife, who had come down to the station-house, and sud denly broke from the officers, and seized her with great violence by both her hands, and would have done her some injury had not the officers interfered, who with great difficulty rescued her from his grasp. The pistols, powder, and shot were produced, and Mr. Smith informed Mr. Gregorie that the pri soner had become so ill, that he could not be brought into the office. Mr. GREGORIE gave directions that he should be immediately conveyed to the Westminster-hospital, which was accordingly done. W OR SHIP- STREET. Yesterday Thomas Farr, who appeared to be about 40 years of age, was brought before Mr. TWYFORD, by police constable Thomas Seale, No. 145, U, who charged him, under the following cir cumstances, with begging in Finsbury square. The constable, it appeared, first saw the prisoner in Finsbury-square on Thursday evening, with a few bunches of matches in his hand, and in very miserable plight, being without shoes or stockings or any covering for his head. Having spoken to the pri soner, who stated that he had formerly been an officer in the navy, he took compassion upon his dis tressed condition, and promised to give him cover ing for his head and feet. The prisoner called upon him on Friday, and received from him an old hat and pair of boots, for which he then seemed extremely thankful. On Saturday evening, however, he again assumed a begging position in Finsbury-square, and precisely in the same half-naked condition as before, and being asked what he had done with the hat and boots given to him on Friday, he said that he did not wear the hat because it wanted mending, and his feet were so sore that he could not wear the boots. The officer then took him into custody as a vagrant, and on searching him found in his pocket a Scotch cap and a black silk handkerchief, although he stood with his throat as well as his head bare, to excite compassion ; arid under his jacket, arid suspended by a string from his neck, was a placard, which it seemed he occasionally exhibited, with the following inscription, extremely well written, in various coloured inks : " To Sinecurists, Placemen, Pensioners, &c. &c. " Behold the reward of fifteen years' service by land and sea. Testimonials are iu my possession. " The writer, being ruptured and nearly blind in the above service, has commenced business as a timber mer chant, (i. e. a dealer in matches,) and humbly solicits a small portion of public favour, which it will be his study to merit. " N. B. All orders from any of the above-named gen tlemen must be accompanied with ready money, as be can not possibly give them credit after the assembly of a Re formed Parliament. London, Sept. 27." The prisoner said the placard was his own, and the inscription composed by himself to attract the attention of the public to his timber trade ; -and he wished to know if the officers meant to swear that he was begging. Mr. TWYFORD—Did you see him beg ? The constable did not hear the prisoner speak, but he held out his hand as if he solicited alms, and he as sumed that bare-headed and bare-footed appearance to excite compassion. All the money he had then about him, however, was 2id. The prisoner was committed for a month under the Vagrant Act. He said that he had formerly been an officer on board the Leda frigate, and it was stated, that amongst several papers in his possession was a letter addressed to him from the War-office, negativing an application which he appeared to have made for a pension. MAR YLEB ONE. Yesterday Charles Illorland (who has been seve ral times before committed from this office I was brought before Mr. RAWLINSON, the sitting Magis trate, charged with obtaining money by the follow ing gross artifice: — Mr. Thomas Chilver, surgeon, of No. 14, New Burlington-street, stated, that as he was visiting Mrs. Jones, in ikluncheiter-street, between 12 and 1 o'clock yesterday morning, the prisoner knocked at the door, and by signs gave the servant to under stand that he was deaf and dumb, and sent the fol lowing letter up for Mrs. Jones's perusal : " A DEAF AND DUMB APPEAL. " Ladies and Gentlemen,—l recommend William Page, the bearer of this case, as a proper young man : in a word, he came into this world deaf and dumb, by the visi tation of God. He is a fatherless and motherless young man, born and bred in Manchester ; and the poor young man, having no friend living, came up to London, in the hope of getting a situation to teach in the Deaf and Dumb Asylum ; but, on the contrary, he could not succeed. Now, Ladies and Gentlemen, the petitioner has met with great disappointment by coming to London, which obliges him in person to apply to a few respectable houses for a small trifle, and it will be most thankfully received. " D. J. YEATES. " Late Dr. Watson. Deaf and Dumb Asylum, London. " Ladies and Gentleman,—Be pleased to put your names and donations down." Here follows a long list of names, and amongst others is written, in a large and perspicuous man ner, " Mr. Alderman Birch, 55." Mrs. Jones, after reading over the above, handed them to witness, and he went to the street-door, where he found the prisoner waiting. Witness put several questions to him, but he made no answer but by signs. Ile then wrote on a piece of paper in pencil, " I should like to inquire into the truth of this matter in a police-office,' which he showed to the prisoner, who, upon reading it, attempted to get away, but witness detained him until a police man came up and took him into custody. When they arrived at the station-house, the inspector who took the charge recognized him as an old offender; upon which he threw himself down on his knees, and, bursting into a flood of tears, begged witness's pardon. Mr. Chilver added, that it was a source of great satisfaction to him to think that he was the instrument of bringing such a vile impostor to justice. Keys, an officer of this establishment, knew the prisoner at the bar. About six or eight months ago he was brought to the office on two or three similar charges, and committed to the House of Correction for three months. The prisoner was accordingly remanded. WATT ON- GARDEN. On Saturday S usannah Warr, a stout middle aged woman, and John Warr, her son, about 22, were brought before Mr. I..ANg, the sitting Magi , strate, on a charge of stealing potatoes from ground in Holloway, the property of Mr. Barnard. Mr, Burnard's gardener deposed to seeing the prisoners amo - i:g th. 2 retatoes, and the p o li ceman confirmed Mr. Burnard's statement as fac as he was concerned. When asked what they had to say in answer to the charge, the man was mute, but the woman boldly denied the stealing, said the evidence was tonally false, that she had bought the potatoes in the cart, and could not want that shelhad plenty of money, to steal, but she produced no , witness, nor could she tell of whom she bought the potatoes. Mr. LAING should fine them 51. each and the value of the potatoes, and if the fine were not immediately paid, he should commit them for six months. Mr. Burnard stated the value of the potatoes at Is., and Mr. LAING directed the prisoners to be locked up. UNION-HALL. Yesterday, John Thonzas, Arthur Yates Dillon, and Letitia Dillon, his wife, were brought up, charged with being engaged in the performance . of the Honeymoon at an unlicensed place in Rothe- , lithe. In consequence of the announcement of a play at the " Royal Tunnel Theatre," a miserable hovel in Rotherhithe-wall, that a party of police went there on Saturday last, and surprised the actors, just as they had concluded the Honeymoon, and were about to commence the farce of Raising the Wind. On the entrance of the police a scene of indescribable confusion arose ; the defendant, Thomas, who was the Jeremy Diddles of the piece, upon seeing the unwelcome visitors, gave the first alarm, by singing out " Here's the police ! let us bolt." The mo ment he gave the announcement the whole of the dramatis personee ran towards a window at the back of the stage, and tumbled out one over another into fi the yard. Th e th ree d e f en d ants , w h o enacte d t h e principal characters in the piece, were secured and conveyed from thence to the station-house in the ir, dresses they had made their appearance in, but the whole of the supernumeraries escaped, owing to the darkness of the night. In their flight across a field, which was surrounded by a filthy ditch, some of them, not being expert jumpers, got into the mud,. and stuck there for some time, until released by some persons passing: the mischief of spoiling their . dresses, and being soused in the mire besides, was considered a sufficient punishment for transgressiev; the law, and no pains were, therefore, taken to secure• them afterwards. Sergeant Smithers, who headed the party of police on the occasion, said, that the audience con sisted chiefly of a set of ragamuffin boys, amongst whom were sweeps in abundance. The charge of admission was 4d. to the front, and 2d. to the back seats, and owing to the announcement of a play in such a neighbourhood, the door of the theatre was besieged from an early hour, to the great annoy ance of the passengers. The hubbub occasioned by the blowing of two trumpets and the loud beating of a big drum at the entrance, added in no small degree to the nuisance created by an exhibition of the kind in such a place as Rotherhithe, where the people, who are composed of the working classes, retire early to rest. Upon inquiry the sergeant had ascertained, that the "company" had recently been performing at Chelsea, but that they had " shifted the scene" to the Surrey side of the water, owing to some " unpleasantness" that had occurred in a rival establishment in the neighbourhood of Queen square. - Thomas, in his defence, declared that the Royal Tunnel Theatre had no connection whatever with either of the penny exhibitions alluded to; that at the former the legitimate drama was played ; ladies and gentlemen of talent in the theatrical profession. were engaged at the " Tunnel," and as there was nothing of an immoral tendency said or done on the boards of that theatre, he trusted that none of the members of the company would be considered as coming under the clauses of the Vagrant Act. Sergeant Smithers said that there was no license for the place, and that such performances encour aged all the low characters in the neighbourhood to stop out late, and make disturbances in the streets. The Magistrate (Mr. WEDGWOOD) should dis charge the defendants this time, but warned them to leave the neighbourhood, as they rendered them selves liable to the infliction of a 50/, penalty for playing in an unlicensed place. BRIGHTON POLICE, SEPT. 27. (From the Brighton Herald ) ARISTOCRACY AT BRIGHTON.—This being the adjourned day for receiving the Jury Lists, the con stables and overseers of Brighton and i he surround ing parishes were in attendance. Mr. Thomas Mills, of North-street, complained that he was wrongly described in the List, by being designated a grocer, whereas he was a merchant.— He should like to be called by his proper name. Mr. SEYMOUR—You keep a shop in North-street? Mr. Mills—Yes. Mr. SEYMOUR—You sell a great variety of ar ticles ? Mr. Mills—Yes; but I am a merchant, and transact business the same as merchants in Lon don and other places; I wish the designation to be altered to merchant. Mr. SEYMOUR—.WeII, but you are a retailer, and we won't call you a merchant. Mr. Mills—l con tend I have a right to be called so, for such I am in reality. Mr. SEYMOUR—But we have decided against you. Mr. Cordy, the churchwarden, then rose, a nd, addressing the Bench, said that he was described in the list as a wine-dealer. He was a wine-mer• chant, and seeing Mr. T. West, who was also a wine -merchant, described as an esquire, he thought rhat if he (Mr. C.) was to go from the highest to the lowest grade, that, at any rate, there should be no distinction. Mr. SEY➢fOUR—The statute says that bankers shall be described as such. If you had wished an alteration in your designation you should have spoken on Monday, as it is now too late, there was then na opportunity to amend the list. Mr. Cordy submitted that the designation of Mr. West had been altered since Monday, and be thought he had as much right to be called a wine' merchant as Mr. West. He added, that there wee other cases in which parties had been wrongly do' scribed ; for instance, Mr. Robert Wigney was env titled an esquire, when he was, in fact, a lodging" house keeper. Mr. SEVMOUR replied, that most of the esquire s in Brighton havinghouses whi c h th e y l e t, would probably come under that denomination. Mr. Frederick Walter Mott next presented ilia' self, and complained that he had not been des" mated an esquire, but a lodging-house-keeper, 1° felt that he had as much right to be called an e squire as the gentleman before alluded to, The Bench consoled Mr. M. by directing the " lodging-house-keeper " to be erased, and a n " esquire" to be added in lieu thereof. Mr. Thomas Mills again addressed th e Bench' He did not, he said, attend at all to the business in North-street. Mr. SEYMOUR—But you have a property in it. Mr. Mills—l believe all merchants have shopgl i . All'. SEYMOU R —N o . I neve r h ear 4 o f Baring selling a pound of so4p,—(l - 11.aughter.) 0 be T h h an e d s e i rto Isi th R e igh Constable.Art H .Es then directed the Jury List t [The theatrical reader will be reminded of M i r _Delany's objection to lose any thing of his sty e e and title. —" Arrah, master, d on ' t b e ca lli n g 111 Dill,' tis making so little of one."] BIRTHS. o f On the 28th ult. the lady of R. N. C. Hamilton, Esq. daughter. Gam . the Ist inst. in Lei g h. s t ree t, B ur t on . crescen t, M rs . law, of a daughter. on the 2tith ult. the lady of James Goren, Esq., of Orchard street, Portman-square, of a son. O le On the 30th ult. at Maida-vale, Paddington, the lady O f Rev. James Stratten, of a daughter. ARNEJ+ t o l On the 26m 0:4 Hasti M ngS; 'Mt! 0, Alton, ofOOxfor d , 'wise - p. 4 1 -104; d 4 g g hteic or the 'late Mr; William Francis Asp. London, and grand-daughter of Sir James Williams, Kell , " town. DIED. d On the 30th ult. at Hyde, in the Isle of Wight, Isabella, el daughter of Sir William Milman, Bart., aged 20. ra the On the 30th ult. after a long and painful illness, aged✓ wife of Henry Frost, Ee. niv i On the 21th nit: at Kingston, Surrey, after a long and p a, 1111164 Mr. John Sk yram, in his 77th ear. On the 29th ult. suddenly, by apoplexy, Lieutenant-Co lonel Gossip, of Thorpe Arch-hall, Yorkshire, and Charlton, Ke..,,,,nt" oe On the 29th ult. at Weybridge, Ann, relict of the late I+7 Z . Stables, 9th Es „ D onf On the ult. 2 Octavins George Etc:tape, sqn or J, rt glas:Willan. cif Twyford.abbey, Middleak, Esq 4 aged nine Ye 7 4, On the 25th ult. Mr. Peter Burgess, of Holborn.hill, aged ~nr On the 28th ult. in her 28th year, Jane, wife of CharlesNa` of Esq"H of inxton in the county of C am b r idge, and niec e of Matthew' Culley, Esq., of Fowberry-tower, in the count/ Northumberland. PRINTED AND PUBL!SIIIED BY MURDO YOUNO,•T'r SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, LONDON.