The Sun. — London, England, 1832-05-29 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. What a change has one little week produced ! The last Drawing-room was got up by tin female Tories ; in the vain hope of proving ti Royalty, that whatever might he the reception afforded by the people, on the Tories they might depend for countenance and support. To that assembly flocked all the old and battered vete rans—covered with the honourable scars of mangy Almack's campaign—old in their persons, and antiquated in their prejudices. These vene rable relics of another age, ''in the plenitude of their superannuated twaddle, fancied that their furbelows and flounces, their bustles, and their imbecillea, could prop up a sinking faction, and impart a tinsel splendour to an almost unfur nished Throne. The failure was complete, and we venture to predict, that if the late happy restoration of glorious memory had not taken place, our rouged grandmothers never would have exhibited their tattered finery, and their " appas postiches" at another Drawing room. Our good King happily retraced his steps, and was reconciled to his people and his Ministers. What was the result ? Eighteen hundred of the best and noblest of the land at tended to celebrate his birth-day at St. James's yesterday. In no country in the world could such a show of youth, beauty, loyalty, and pa triotism have been exhibited. We ourselves had the happiness of observing the benevolent ex pression of our good Monarch's countenance when he witnessed the gorgeous array of the fair and beautiful Liberals, who yesterday presented themselves in crowds to commemorate his natal day. Long may he live to bask in the sunshine of their brilliant eyes, and long may our lovely countrywomen know how to discriminate be tween loyalty and subserviency !—Morn. Chron. We are glad to hear that the attendance at the Drawing-room this morning was very great. Many of the old Whig Nobility and Gentry who have hitherto attended but rarely, or who have abstained from these ceremonies, made a point of marking by their presence, upon this occasion, the respect which they consider to be due to a constitutional Monarch. We trust that this will not have been without its effect. We trust that a comparison between the last and the present occasion of this description will not have been without its salutary lesson. Then the half-filled reception-rooms exhibited a motley mixture of battered dowagers, of hoary place men, and of expectant paupers. Now, the saloons were crowded with the old Aristocracy of England, anxious to give, by their presence, a complete denial to the lying assertions of the Tories, that in their worn-out party, or in their miserable presence, consisted the dignity, the splendour, and the support of the Throne. But although we are glad that so different an attend ance should have marked the feeling entertained by the true friends of the people amongst the Aristocracy upon the successful overthrow of the late Court intrigues, we are by no means inclined to attach too much importance to it; and, above all, we desire that undue weight may not be attached to it by others, by those indeed most interested in forming a correct judgment. It is not enough that a Sovereign should command the respect and obtain the affections of that class who can attend at Drawing-rooms or vapour in the gilded saloons of a Court. The hearts of a people should be his, and those hearty testimonials of affection and resp - eci — WriTch the people of this country know so well how to afford, should at tend the presence and follow the footsteps of a Monarch of England who desires to stand in the proudest, aye, and in the only safe position which becomes him. Is this so ? We wish that we could say that it was. Unhappily it is not ! Whenever Royalty has shown itself of late, no cordial commendations, none of those expressions of attachment—rude, perhaps, but not less heartfelt—marked its progress or hailed its presence. Silence or less equivocal symp toms of unpopularity waited on it. It will take much time, it will take no little exertion to de stroy these impressions amongst the people.— The Court, the Aristocracy, are now wisely influenced by symptoms—the people require facts—to regain their good opinion, a long course of straightforward, of popular conduct will be required. We do not wish to deceive. A blow has been struck at the confidence of the people, which it will require much to repair. The nation feels that it has been deceived where it reposed unbounded confidence. Its suspi cions have been roused—justly roused ; and no blame can be attributed to those who, having confided, having been deluded, are inclined to adopt even an undue degree of suspicion towards those who were, if not by their own will, at least iytheir weakness, the auth ors o f their disap pointment. How much, then, does it behove those who can offer advice at the present junc ture to be plain spoken in their recommenda tion ? Any appearance of faltering, any suspi. cions even of hesitation, would be fatal. Let the Sovereign seem to have taken the Reform Bill under his special protection—let him appear to resist any alteration—let him stand forward as the firm supporter of the Bill, the whole Bill, and nothing but the Bill, and he may yet regain that place in the affections of his people which the events of the last three weeks have deprived him of—he may again show himself in public, attended even by his family, accompanied, as before, by the grateful acclamations of his sub jects. We sincerely hope that such will be the result.—Morning Chronicle. It will be recollected with what difficulty Mi nisters at last removed Earl Howe from the situ ation of Chamberlain to her Majesty, though he pertinaciously voted against Reform and the Reform Bill. It would, indeed, have been con trary to all precedent if a Ministry had suffered a state officer of the Queen-Consort to retain his station whilst he voted and acted in opposi tion to the measures of the constitutional advisers of the Crown. There was, therefore, no alter native but that either the Ministry must retire before Earl Howe, or Earl Howe retire before the Ministry ; and, accordingly, the latter event tardily took"' place. But to this day the situa tion of Chamberlain has never been filled up ; from which some are disposed to infer that her Majesty has found the office unnecessary, and that the salary will from henceforth be saved.— We, however, are sorry to see the antique splen dour of the Crown diminished from whatever cause, and we do not know that any existing Queen of England has a right to deprive the elevated station which, either through her own or her husband's demise, can appertain to her but for a brief space, of those dignities with which the loyalty of the people has thought it neces sary to surround it. However, we touch this matter en passent. Lord Howe was very justly and constitutionally forced hum his office, and no successor has been appointed. Now let the contrast be marked. Her Majesty's Attorney and Solicitor-General, Pepys and John Williams, thought themselves bound, by p r inciple, to re sil):11 their situation s at the moment when Lord Grey suspended his Ministerial functions und,r a temporary inalatfto'carry the Reform Bid, and successors were immediately appointed in the persons of Sergeants Taddy and Merewc ther, who did not think it necessary to resign, now that the Ministry to which they were op posed has resumed its station. This is indeed most singular. How gladly would the people of England love their Queen ! and of how much more value is their love, than the sordid and selfish adherence of the sycophants who advise these silly flouting displays of feminine petu lance ! Her Majesty knows the attachment of the people to their Bill ; she knows she cannot resist it. Why, then, does she listen to the ad vice which prompts her to offer wanton insult even to popul a r prejudice, if it were such ? She ought to know, also, what best becomes a woman and a wife in state affairs, and at periods of great excitement.— Times. It is needless to remind our readers of the quantities of jargon which the last six months hare let loose upon them, against the creation of Peers'as a measure " unlawful," " unconsti tutional," " revolutionary," &c. Those who could apply such epithets to the exercise of a prerogative inherent in the Crown, and on an occasion when it appeared to be the only effec tual and practicable remedy known to the law of England for a collision between the two Houses of Parliament, which, if suffered to continue, must have caused a dissolution of all Govern ment,—those, we say, who could employ such language must have mistaken the meaning of their own words, or been impervious to the clearest reasoning upon them. The members of the Anti-Reform faction who exclaimed against the creation of Peers as an attack upon the " independence" of that body, ought to have used another term. They ought to have said that the " supremacy" or " despotism" of the House of Peers would be curtailed by an acces sion to the Peerage. No rational man, we be lieve, can point out any difference between a Peerage not susceptible of increase, and a Peer age altogether uncontrolled. Is the King to be fettered by money-bills, and the Commons by a dissolution of Parliament, and is no prerogative of the Crown to be available against the arbitrary power of a factious majority in the Upper House of Parliament ? Is the Peerage to be a perpetual monopoly against both Crown and people—riding both, oppressing both—reducing the Monarch to a Doge-puppet, and the bulk of the nation to miserable slaves ? But we forgot: these men will hear no remonstrance except from lips of high authority. Authority, therefore, we give them—that of their own idol, the cham pion of Courts, and Peers, and aristocracy— one who understood wherein Monarchy consisted —wherein legitimate power,—who could discern beyond most of his contemporaries the point at which order ended and anarchy began,—who reverenced law, and held revolution in abhor rence. It was Edmund Burke who thus forcibly defends the Royal prerogative of making Peers as essential to the maintenance of the Consti tution : Extract from Mr. Burke's speech on the Regency Bill, delivered in the House of Commons, February, 1789. " He (Mr. Burke) severely reprobated the idea of re stricting the Regent from creating Peers, us likely to be attended with the most dangerous consequences. To shut the House of Lords, he said, was to ruin the people. The people possessed the power of controlling the Commons by their influence over their representatives : they had also the power of controlling the Crown, because if the Crown should refuse to listen to their just demands, their repre sentatives bad the means of compelling it to attend to them by refining the supplies. The Crown had the power of controlling the Peers, by adding to them a sufficient num ber of new Members to break any faction they might at tempt to form. Thus the people, according to the general principles of the Constitution, possessed that control which they ought to possess over the whole Legislature. They could control their own representatives in the first instance; by means of their representatives they could control the Crown, and, through the Crown, the House of Lords ; but if the Crown was deprived of the power of controlling the House of Lords by overruling any confederacy that might be formed there, the people would no longer have any means of restraining them ; for they had no voice in electing Peers, as they had in electing the House of Com mons, and no means of redress would remain but an ab solute dissolution of Government. If, therefore, they shut up the House of Peers, so that it could not again be opened, except by their own consent, they betrayed the dearest and most valuable rights of the people."— Times. The principle on which the Duke of \Vel lington and his party have seceded from the House of Lords, since the return of Lord Grey's Administration, would imply a more lofty regard for character on the part of those Noble persons than the public seem disposed to give them credit for. The principle on which their Lordships seceded was, according to their own account of it, to keep clear of all contact with the dreaded revolutionary Bill, when they found that it was no longer in their power to defeat it either by fraud or by force. It is true there vas something like over-refinement in de clining to breathe the same air with the Bill and its authors, even for the purp o s e o f counter acting their noxious effects by attempting to modify some of the details in Committee ; it is true there was something like over-excitement in implying that' the Bill was too bad even to be opposed; but high minds are occasionally prone to extreme courses, and while poor plain hard-working common sense is for main taining its post, and doing its duty at all times, and under all circumstances, those lofty ebulli tions of spirit, which sometimes carry great men away, have been known before now to sacrifice prac tical objects to a false and visionary, but still elevated, sentiment of pride. Unhappily for the Duke and his party, they did not secede in time to entitle them to the benefit of this construction. Had they taken their determination before Lord Lyndhurst, with the craft of a special pleader, endeavoured to cheat the people of Reform, and before the Duke of Wellington, with the pliancy of a place-hunter, exhibited a disposition to grant it, despite of speeches and protests, in which he denounced it as fatal to the monarchy —had this been done there would have been still character enough among the party to gain them credit with some politicians for being in fluenced by notions the error of which was partly compensated by their romance. But, after the expose which the Noble Duke and the Noble Baron have made of themselves and their friends, the public, who have a strong propensity to judge fro'n facts rather than from professions, seem to hesitate about asso ciating the idea of dignity with their retirement. It cannot be from a lofty disdain of the Bill, for the Duke would have stooped from that dis dain to offer the same Bill with his own hand to the people. It cannot be from a proud objec tion to the means by which the Bill was saved, for the Noble Baron had tried a trick to defeat it, in comparison of which all other expedients are respectable. It could not be for either of those reasons that the party seceded ; at least so think the public, in the midst of their satisfaction and good humour at the result. Shame, vexa tion, and disappointment, may have contributed to their voluntary exile from Parliament ; but it is impossible to affix a high motive to a transac tion accompanied with grovelling circumstances. Error may be respectable, for it may be bon( st and conscientious; but tergiversation and trick are always hateful when they prosper, and desp - cable when they fail.—Morning Herald. A Morning Ministerial Paper has at length discovered what we have over and over again, during the course of the last twelvemonths, re being blinded by the glare of popularity which sounded in vain in the ears of the Govern ment and the nation, that Lord Palmerston is not fit to be trusted with the manage ment of our policy. Far from the Re form Bill obtained for Ministers, we have all along, while giving that Bill our best sup port, kept a watchful eye upon the conduct of the Cabinet in other questions; and more especially have we looked to their suspicious intercourse with the Holy Alliance—an intercourse so con ducted as to strengthen the influence of the three great despotic States, and exalt Russia in parti cular to an unexampled pitch of power, pride, and insolence. From the beginning we warned Ministers auainst the consequences of that con nexion, the fruits of which have been the ridi culous volumes of protocols that have brought the affairs of Belgium and Holland to a " set tlement" of inextricable confusion, apparently only to be cut by the sword. The desolation of Greece by civil commotion—the humiliation of England, by paying vast sums of tribute-money to Russia to keep her good humour—and last, and not least, the destruction of the nationality of Poland, by that barbarian Power, and the con temptuous cancelling of the Treaty of Vienna, to which we were a party, and which Nicholas de stroyed with as much ease, and with as perfect an indifference to what England thought ofthe matter, as Ferdinand of Spain displayed when he had a British subject butchered in cold blood—almost in the presence of the British Consul, and with out trial Truly the renewal of our connexion with the Holy Alliance, which Mr. Canning broke off; has greatly exalted throughout Eu rope the fame and dignity of England. The Morning Paper in question says—" Is it not notorious in the society of every capital of Eu rope, that our negotiations are imprudent, but never promoted by our own agents ; that con stant communications are maintained either di rectly or indirectly between them and the Anti- Reformers in England ; that there is the most perfect sympathy in spirit and feelin g between these parties and the Metternich and Lieven school—the zeal of all being equally directed to uphold the principles of the Holy Alliance—to render unavailing any effort on the part of its victims, whether Pole, German, Italian, or Por tuguese to break their chains—to the suppression of all liberal institutions, and to the firmer es tablishment of the rule of aggression of tyranny ? We might be disposed to wait for a Reform Par liament for a radical cure for this grievance, were we not daily becoming more and more the laughing-stock of all Europe, as the dupes (four own agents in this miserable system. Lord Pal merston must be either an imbecile or something worse." Now we, who had by advice and re monstrance endeavoured to prevail upon Minis ters, from the very outset of their "miserable system" of policy on the Continent, to withdraw From a course which would redound either to their credit, nor to the honour of the country, never passed such a sentence of incapacity upon their Administration as is here pronounced by a Journal that gave itself up to unqualified praise of those Ministers while those calamitous events were in progress which it now laments, and which we fear are now irretrievable. It is poor consolation to enslaved Poles, Italians, Germans, and Portuguese, to be told that their chains would not have been so firmly riveted as they now appear to be if a " liberal" Adminis- tration in England had not been the "dupes of its own agents," and gone on, with the assist ance of Casimir Perier (the extraordinary thick ness of whose skull has been just now disco• vered), doing the work of the tyrants until " we have become the laughing-stock of all Europe." Lord Palmerston, as a politician, may be an "imbecile," but what are we to think of Lord Grey as a statesman, who selected such a Foreign Secretary, and keeps him in the Cabinet, to pro mote by his folly the views of the Holy Alliance abroad, and assist the operations of the Anti- Reformers at home,?—Morning Herald. The King's birth-day was yesterday celebrated in something like the usual manner. The bells rung here and there a merry peal—the mail coaches, with their handsomely caparisoned horses, formed the usual procession ; a few ships showed colours, and in the evening there were some dinner parties and some illumina tions ; but there was no rejoicing at the heart mingled with these outward signs, and but for the illuminations in the evening the day would have passed over without any one dreaming that it ought, iu any way, to be distinguished from the other days of the year. We mention this fact with regret, because it is by no means impossible that it may be mentioned to his Majesty, as a proof that he has lost the affections of his people, and that he could not have been in a worse predi cament, had he attempted to brave their voice by yielding to the Duke of Wellington's desire to be once more at the head of the Government ; whereas the fact is, that the political struggle in which the people have been engaged during the last eighteen months, has so wholly engrossed their minds, on the one hand, and alienated them, on the other, from those matters of mere show and pastime in which they were wont to take delight, that the same indifference would have been exhibited had the day been set apart for the celebration of any other equally interest ing event. It might admit of some dispute whether this change in the habits of our country men be, on the whole, for the better or the worse ; but it may be justly observed, that it is not out of season, and that it would have but ill comported with decency and propriety of feeling and conduct, had they passed at once from the lofty and indignant bearing by which they were lately char ac t er i se d, to t h e tumultuous, and, in some respects, sense l ess j oy, which they had been accustomed to manifest on similar occasions.— Morning Advertiser. The French people of the Republican, the Buonapartist, and the juste milieu or egalite fac tions, differing widely as they do upon almost every other subject, are in one particular quite unanimous, if we may judge by the Journals ~ shich are understood to represent their respec tive opinions and feelings ; they all hate the Duke of Wellington with a perfect hatred, and [hey are all equally enthusiastic in their expres sions of esteem and affection towards Earl Grey. The feelings of the French in both these re spects may be considered as not altogether un natural, although, when we attempt to trace them to their source, they can scarcely he thought .vorthy of a high-minded or generous people. — If the Duke of Wellington vanquished their ablest Generals and their finest troops in a hun dred hard-fought battles—if by his crowning victory of Waterloo he finally extinguished the glory and the po.ver of their military idol and civil tyrant, Napoleon-4f his splendid triumph, in the .field twice opened the wav to the occupa Lion of their capital ; it would still have bees magnanimous in them to recollect that in beat ing them he only performed his duty to his owi country, that he beat them in all fairness and honour, and that, conqueror as he was, he ha , ever been the foremost to acknowledge their claims to the name of a powerful, warlike, en lightened, and glorious people. For the honour of the French nation we had rather that it had not exhibited so inveterate a recollection of the defeats it has sustained at the hands of our Noble Duke. But yet when we look back to the cir cumstances, and the reiteration, and the com pleteness of these disasters to its arms, we cannot be greatly surprised that we should still witness, as occasion arises, some effusion of spleen on the part of a people so deeply wounded in the acutest of their feelings, the love of military glory. We doubt whether the partiality which the people of France bear or affect towards Earl Grey, although it manifestly springs from the same source as their hatred to the Duke of Wellington, will equally admit even of the same imperfect apology. If Earl Grey, throughout the whole of the glorious period during which Wellington was beating the invincibles of France, at the rate of a good drubbing a month, laboured in his place in Par liament to damp the spirit of the British people, to paralyse the energies and impair the resources of the State, to embarrass and ob struct the Government, to render British victory and French defeat, so far as he could, impossible, still it is by no means clear that the French on this account owe any gratitude to the Noble Earl, since there can • not be the least doubt that had any other nation instead of France been the enemy of Great Bri tain, at that particular moment and in the actual position of political parties, Earl Grey would have done as he did ; that is, would have aided as much as he could the enemy of his country. The services rendered by the Noble Earl were not rendered to France, as such, but to France as the enemy, for the time being, of England. They were not only ineffectual and dishonourable, but they were purely accidental services. It is rather odd, therefore, that a nation so acute as the French should regard them as constituting a claim upon its lasting gratitude. The same observa , Lions will apply pretty closely to the partiality evinced by the Noble Earl, since he came into power, towards the Government of the barri cades. It is a great favourite with Earl Grey, a sort of pet indeed, not because it is French, but because it is revolutionary. It is a ma nifestation of little besides vanity and self love. The Government of the barricades is dear to the British Premier simply because it is an incarnation of the principles which he has throughout his life professed and patronized—of the principles which he proclaimed when he showed himself the only man in the British House of Commons who had the austere virtue not to mourn the death of Louis XVI. The Government of Belgium is equally cherished, and for the same reason. The Black Govern ment of Jamaica, had the recent movement in that island been successful, would equally have been the object of his affection and regard. The Milesian Government of Ireland, whenever that may happen to be installed, and probably it is not long to wait, will alike be found to have an irresistible claim to the systematic attachment of the Nuble Earl. Then why should the French be so redundant in their expressions of gratitude and affection towards the Noble Earl ? In as sisting Napoleon, as in worshipping the power of the barricades, he has but obeyed the irre sistible instinct of his nature, or the unalterable bias of his education.—Morning Post. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. A young man, named Murphy, was brought be fore the LORD MAYOR, charged with having com mitted an extensive robbery, at the apartments of the Commissioners of Excise in Broad-street. A person in the employment of the Excise stated, that he had the care of the dressing-room of the com missioners, and that on the morning of Monday week he found the window leading from one of the passages to the dressing-room open. Upon going in, he saw that the cupboards had been forced open with instruments, and p'undered of silver spoons, clothes, shoes, 46 towels, and a percussion gun, be longing to Lord George Seymour, one of the com missioners, and other valuable property. He also found that the doors of the board-room and of the secretary's-room, had been forced open. A great deal of violence must have been used, as appeared from the marks of the various fastenings. Witness believed he had seen the prisoner before, but he knew nothing about him. Golding Bird, a person also employed in the Ex cise-office, under the Excise Board, stated, that he had made inquiries, by order of the Excise-office, into the nature of the transaction, and he had reason to suspect, from the account given by the father and mother of the prisoner, that the prisoner was cer tainly a party to the robbery. The prisoner was a son of one of the door-keepers belonging to the office, who resides in apartments attached to the so licitor's office. A person could have access from the door-keeper's room to the Excise-office, and the pri soner had been at his father's house between Satur day and Monday, in which interval the robbery had taken place. A police officer searched the prisoner upon ap prehending him yesterday morning, but found no property which would connect him with the robbery. The prisoner was determined to give no account of himself, and said that he lived no where, that he would not answer at all, as he might have to answer somewhere else. No money whatever was found in his pockets. The LORD MAY OR asked the prisoner whether he had any objection to say now where he resided ? The prisoner occasionally lived at his father's apart ments, and he had certainly been there on the Sun day referred to, but was not aware of any depreda don, and if he had been guilty of robbing the Ex cise Board, he certainly would not have made his appearance at his father's apartments under such circumstances. He had slept for the last few nights at 63, Devonshire-street, Lisson-grove, where the solicitor for the Board of Excise might hear of him. Mr. Mayow, solicitor, said it might be necessary to produce the prisoner's father, who was a very honest and industrious man. The LORD MAYOR felt considerable reluctance at the idea of making a father evidence against his son, but he remanded the prisoner until Saturday, in order to see if further evidence could not be produced. MAR YLEB ONE. Yesterday a most extraordinary examination was witnessed before Mr. RAWLINSON, whose attention was engaged for a considerable time by investigat ing the charge preferred by a policeman, of E divi sion (David Laing, 50), against a clergyman, for inebriation and unseemliness, on Sunday even ing, when numbers of respectable families were pro ceeding to a place of worship. It appeared from the statement of the policeman, whose deposition was confirmed by a gentleman of high character, and who happened to be passing at :he identical time, that the prisoner had been stand ing at the houses in Grafton-street, Fitzroy-square, at about six o'clock on the evening of Sunday las-, beckoning to the ladies at their windows, and kiss ing his hand: over the railings to them. Several ladies 6d in consequence retreated from the pa- lour-windows. When he was desired by the po 'iceman (E 50) to walk on, he not only at once re• fused to go away, but attacked him with such vio lence and virulence that he was on the eve of °vet powering him. Being now questioned by Mr. RAWLINSON on se veral points, the prisoner said that his name was Eleazer Rees, and he had only come to town yes terday; that he was formerly of St. John's College, Cambridge, had been ordained by the Bishop of London, and was well known to Archdeacon Cam bridge. John llngston, Esq. of Cirencester-place, Fitz roy-square, was walking with his family to church, and chanced to come up exactly at the moment when the policeman was giving way to the violence of the prisoner, who possessed such muscular prowess, that he supposed i , to be impossible for any one in general to master him. The prisoner was like Sir Walter Scott's Black Dwarf, and nothing else. The mob ►ere getting round, he regretted to say, at the instance of a master butcher, who incited them to attack and rescue ; and he believed that, unless for his own interference, the policeman must have been overpowered by them before his col leagues could have relieved him. Mr. RAWLINSON—Your conduct does you great credit, Sir. As to the prisoner, if he ever was in the station he describes, we must suppose that he cannot be in his right mind. Eleazer Rees—l have been deprived of my live lihood, and, moreover, I have been disastrous in love; and yet the ladies gave encouragement tome, or I never should have beckoned to them. Mr. Hingston—This is really too much. Ilk language, Sir, was as disgusting as his conduct. Eleazer Rees was then fined in the penalty of 51, and, in default of payment, lie was committed for one month to the House of Correction; but, con sidering that he was a clergyman, it was directed that he should be confined in the infirmary, whither he was conveyed in a hackney-coach by one of the officers. THAMES POLICE. A young Irish girl, named Kitty Sullivan, who said she was a pot-girl, was charged with attempting to drown herself. The love-sick damsel had been slighted by her lover, a tall brawny coal-whipper, named Maloney, who never met her at chapel, ac cording to mutual appointment ; she therefore went from chapel to Stone-stairs, Ratcliff, and threw her self into the river. When, however, the water had reached her chin, her courage cooled, and she called out for help, which fortunately was at hand in the shape of a Thames Police officer. The poor girl seemed ashamed of her watery trick, and was discharged, after an admonition. QUEEN-SQUARE. A female named Dance, about thirty, was charged with attempting to drown herself. On Sunday night she jumped off the wall near the Penitentiary into the Thames, a height of twenty feet. A Waterman and two gentlemen who were in a boat rowed to. wards her, and one of the gentlemen caught hold of her clothes. By this exertion the boat was upset, and the whole parry were immersed in the water. A policeman, who had jumped into a boat at the first now approached, and by his exertions the whole were rescued. She now said that the cause of her rash conduct was a quarrel which she had had with a young man. After an admonition, she was discharged. The saving of the party was a miracle, and one of the gentlemen, who weighs about twenty stone, said she ought to have had six months' imprison ment, as she had nearly cost him his life. CALAMITOUS FIRE AND LOSS OF LIFE Yesterday morning, about six o'clock, a fire broke out in the lower part of the house of Mr. Smithers, tobacconist, 398, Oxford -street, which was attended with loss of life, and has beets otherwise of a most calamitous nature. The police discovered a quantity of smoke and flame issuing from the lower part of the premises, and on proceeding to the spot, ob served Mr. Smithers endeavouring to make his escape by the front area, at the same time calling out fire. He in vain endeavoured to reach the street, and all the efforts of the persons on the spot to force the railing up proving fruitless, Mr. Stnithers ran up the kitchen stairs, which were at that time in flames, through the shop into the street. He was very much burned in the face and hands, and was ultimately conveyed to the Middlesex Hospital. In a very short time the flames reached an alarming ascendancy, and before the inmates could be aroused to a sense of their danger, the house was filled with smoke and flames. The instant the lodgers and others became aware of their alarming situation, they made an attempt to escape by the stairs. Fruit less, indeed, were such attempts, for the flames had so rapidly increased in their ascendancy, that the whole landing was on fire. At almost every win dow was to be seen some individual imploring aid with uplifted hands where it was impossible for the slightest assistance to be afforded them. The ser vant girl was about to throw herself out of the third floor window, but was implored not to do so from so great a height, but to endeavour to reach the second floor. The entreaties prevailed, and the poor girl, after making the best of her way through the dense smoke, reached the window on the second floor. Several men underneath ranged themselves to catch her in her descent. It was a few minutes before she had the courage to throw herself out, but finding the flames approaching her, she did so, and alighted on the shoulders of a man; the force of her fall knocked him down, and seriously injured him, but the young woman escaped comparatively unhurt. The second floor was occupied by an elderly lady named Twamley, her two daughters, Elizabeth and Caroline, and a niece and an orphan boy about eleven years of age, nephew to the Misses Twamley. When this family became sensible of their danger, all hopes of escaping by the landing was impossible, and they ran from window to window in a state of mind border ing on distraction. Miss Elizabeth Twamley held the boy in her arms, and appeared more alarmed for his safety than her own. Not knowing what course to pursue, she lingered at the window until the flames reached them, and what clothes they had on had caught fire. The poor little fellow caught hold of the window, and appeared determined to throw himself out, in which he succeeded ; but before Miss Elizabeth, his aunt, could do so, the smoke appeared to have suffocated her, and she sunk im mediately under the window a prey to the flames. The boy fell on his bead, and was carried to the Hospital in a bleeding and apparently lifeless state. The elder Mrs. Twamley, her daughter Caroline, the niece, and Mrs. Smithers, after they had left the windows found heir way to the back of the premises and from thence to the leads of some house in Dean street. Previous, however, to reaching the lat ter place, it became necessary to make a descent of upwards of 20 feet, in accomplishing which Mrs. 'rwarnley, it is said, broke her back, and the niece dislocated her shoulder. Mrs. Smithers and Miss Caroline Twamley were more fortunate, they re ceiving only a few slight bruises. The old lady was ultimately conveyed to a friend's in Pulteney-street without any hopes of her recovery—indeed, it was expected that death would put an end to her suffer ings ere she could reach the above named place. The remaining inmates succeeded in effecting their escape. A rumour prevailed, that a French gen tleman, who resided on the third floor, had met his death by the fire, but it is believed that such is not the case, as a person answering his description w as seen running to a place of safety with only his nigh t clothes on. A number of engines were speedily on the spot, and the unceasing exertions of the firemen prevented the flames extending beyond Mr. Smithers's pre mises, which were entirely consumed, and every article of furniture and stock in trade destroyed. After the fire had been extinguished, and the ruins somewhat cooled, the firemen went over the pre mises. They found the remains of Miss Twamley immediately under the window where she was seen to sink down, with some rafters en the body. The spectacle was most frightful, the arms and fee. were berned entirely off, and her intestines pro- COAL MAR. Per Ton. Adair's 18s. Od. East Percy l6 6 Holywell IS 6 K illingworth 18 0 Pontop Windsor...—. 16 0 St. Lawrence Main 19 0 anfield 17 9 Wylam lB 3 Walla End Gosforth ..... 20 0 Ditto Bewicke and Co. 20 0 Walls End Heat0n........ 19 0 Ditto Killingworth 19 0 Ditto Northumberland 17 9 Walls End Riddell's—. 19 0 Walls End Walker 19 0 Ships arrived since KET.—May 28. Per Ton. Beamish South Moor.- 15s 6d. Walls End Hetton ........., 21 0 Walls End Lambten--. 21 0 Walls End Stewart's 21 :3 Walls End Adelaide...-, 19 0 Walls End Gordon-- 19 6 W. E. South Durham 18 6 Walls End 20 0 Cowpen . 17 6 Walls End 17 0 Hartley 21 0 Llangennech C0a1....-.... 27 0 Silkstone Field and Co. 17 0 Scremerston Engine...-, 16 6 Tanfleld Trader 18 0 Old Etherley 5ma11...-. 11 3 last market-day, 40. ST. PANcRAs.—The parishioners met at Mr. OWENS'S Institution, Gray's Inn-lane, yesterday morning, to put in nomination forty persons to serve ae Vestrymen, and five others to serve as Auditors, under the new Act. As early as ten the large room was crowded to excess, and various lists were handed about, from which it is wished the parish should choose their representatives. In the list of Reformers are Major REVELL, Mr. Mu ItPirv• Mr. BLAKEMAN, and several others, whose names were re ceived with de..fening acclamations; while, on the other hand, the Tory party (as they are termed) were r e ceived with discordant sounds. The election commences this day, by ballot, and continues three days.. A German publisher, in advertising a work under the title of Royalism and Liberty, in which it is at tempted to prove that an absolute monarchy is the beau ideal of government, candidly adds—that he has under taken this publication solely to please the author, whom he considers in other respects a very worthy man, but that it would be against his conscience to recommend the work to the public. _ _ _ In 'the afternoon of Saturday last a carriage stopped at the shop of Mr. LANE, straw-hat-manufacturer, in North street, from which two ladies alighted, and en tering, proceeded to examine the stock, with the intention of purchasing. They were waited upon by Mrs. LA and an assistant. While they were thus engaged, an el derlype, n i ai breathless ti ed 4 , p h e a youst e, ent, seizingseizing utihaeubustled ladies know where you are ? You're in th it man ' s s h op w ho d e liv e red that abominable speech on th e S te i ne on Monday (at the Reform meeting); come out, come out ; if y o ur by into their the arms, pa' knew you bought a bonnet here, he'd never forgive you as long as he lived ; come along, come along !" and, so say ing, he endeavoured to drag his female friends out of the warehouse. Mrs. LANE at first stood as if petrified at the strange conduct of this ultra -Tory, but, recovering herself, calmly observed that "Mr. LANE was at home, if the gentleman wished to see him." , 6 Me see hits !" wa s the fierce rejoinder ; " N o , no ; let tradesmen stop at home, and mind their own business, and not make speeches at public meeting s !" and with some half-dozen more " co me along," he forced Mrs. LANE'S customers into their ear. I riage, and drove off..—Brighton Herald. On the 2 7 BIRTH.I. th inst. at Cheltenham, the lady of G eorge Grahamheir. Blackwell, Es•, of minx ) q A .y ark, Gloucestershire, of a son wig On the 27th inst. the lady of John Burnet, B; q., Golden-squares of a daughter. On the 27th inst. in Mabledon-place, Burton-crocent, Mrs. Edward Lowrance, of a son. MARRIED. Blaylock, On 1 01% Fore street, c a e t t, S c t. r l l ) .,e pl o e n g t a tr t d e :s t , o Sp i rseclitch, Elizabeth Mr. B e G is e h o i r a g g : of Shoreditch. On the 28th inst. at St. Luke's, Chelsea, George Augustus Starling, M.D. of Bishop's Stortfoid, Herts, to Julia, second daughter of the late Thomas William Gordon, Esq., of Demerara. DIED. On the 25th inst. at Burton House, Dawlish, Devonshire, the Right Hon. Sir William Grant. On the 24th inst. aged 68, Mrs. Martha Purnell, 33 years house• keer at the Army Pay-office. On the 2tith inst., aged 52 Mr. Thomas Orchart, of Wood street, Cheapside, and one of the Common Councilmen of Crip plegate Ward within. On the 27th inst. at Woolwich, in the 78th year of her age , Mrs. Pheebe Wright, widow of the late Major Jesse Wright. • who was killed at Lannoy, in Flanders, in the campaign under his late Royal Highness the Duke of York, in the year 1794 . , whilst in command of the British Artillery attached to the Guards. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY MURDO YOUNG, erTng SUN °FMB, 112, STRAND, LONDON.. traded. H er remains were wrapped in sacks, an conveyed to the workhouse by the firemen. The prevailing opinion was, that the fire was not the effect of accident. Mr. Smithers, while lying at the Hospital, informed us that he had been employed for a day or two in cleaning the cellar and dustbins out, as be expected to let his shop. Yesterday morning he got tip about five o'clock, for the pur• pose of concluding his work; finding himself un well, he made a fire in the front kitchen, in order to boil some water to dissolve some salts which he was about to take. The place was nearly filled with shavings and wood, which he was in the habit of bringing there for lighting the fires froto his workshop, he being a cabinet-maker by trade. Shortly after he bad made a fire and put the kettle on, the shavings on the floor became ignited, while he was in another part of the kitchen, and the flames spread rapidly; he endeavoured to stop their progress, but without effect, and he then tried to escape by the area. Finding that impossible, be made his way through the fire to the stairs, and reached the street. During the time he was stating this he could not see for the plasters on his face, which was shockingly burnt. His hands were also in a dreadful condition. The poor little fellow who threw himself out of the window was lying near him. His head had been shaved and his wounds dressed. His legs were seriously injured. He appeared in great pain, and but little hopes were entertained of his recovery. Mr. Srnithers had about five weeks since insured in the British Fire office to the amount of 7001., but we believe has not received his policy of insurance: he had long been on bad terms with his wife, and several times the Magistrates at Marlborough -street had to settle their disputes. LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. The highest price of Bread in the Metropolis is 10d. fot th• 41b. Loaf. There are others who sell from %d. to 134 d, below that price. PRICE OF SEEDS.—May 28. New English Red Clover Seed (per Cwt.) —s. 525. fine --s. 821. * Old Ditto Ditto. —s. —ii. fine —s. New Foreign 525. 6Ss fin- 925, Old Ditto _ . -a -s. fine -e. -s. New White Clover. s2s. 82s. tine -s. 925. Old ldDitto Ditt0.............*,..„................ -8. -s. fine -e. ...111. SI w Trefoil -s. 12s. fine 50s. 525. -.. Old Ditto .........,.....,wv••••••• ••• . s -s. tine -is ..41.. Rib Grass English Carraway Seed . -s. -s. 60s. fine 655. Foreign Ditto ........ Coriander , ...... -s. -s , fine 255. 30s. St. Foiu .(per Quarter).............. -s. -5. fine -s. 725. Rey ye Grass _ . -s. -a new 20s. 435. Pac Ditto _ 40s. 565. new -s. -s. Linseed, for feeding •"""'-s. 40s. fine .--a 445. Ditto, for crushing • 365. 40s. -s. fine -s. Canary Seed, New. . -s. '7os. 72s fine -s. itte Old ---....-.....................---.......... --s. ...S. -s. line ....11. 1 White 'Mustard Seed...-.(per 8u5he1)....... -8. 7s. Ss. fine .-s. ' Brown Ditto -s. 10s. 17s. finc -s. Turnip Seeds, _Bounds -s. --s. Bs. fine 12e. Green and Red Ditto 0r.......-•••••............0.......... • .9. ~ .3. SS. fine 12s. Tares, Old -s. ss. 6d. tine 6a. Ditto New ...--... -s. -s. fine -s. -s. Bar,eSeed, English, fine (per Last) 231. 271........ Foreign 20/. 245. exicEs OF HOPS.—May 28. Kent Pockets 5/ ss. 61. 2s. to fn. Os. Sussex Ditto 41. ISs. Si. 14s. to 61. Os. Fssex Ditto 5/. Os. 61. Os. to 71. Os. Farnham Ditto. Fine 91. Os. 121. Os. to 01 Os. Seconds 01. Os. 71. Os to 91. Os. 4!. 10s. 5/. 15s to 61. 12.. 41. 4s. 5/. Os. to 51. 12.. 01. Os. 01. Os. to 0/. I . Kent Bags..., into SU3SQX Essex Ditto - - PRICE OF OIL. Rape Oil, brown W....—. Refined 0 Linseed Oil 24 -0 10 10 5 5 Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand Rape Cake, per ton WHITECH A PEL HAY Al A RKET.—May 26. flay Od. to 1006. OcL j Od. to 1306. Od. Od. to 38i. Od. PRICE OF POTATOES.—May 28. Kidneys Scotch Reds - 4/. 10s. to 5/. Os. ditto. Oxnobles and Shaws '2l. 34. to '2l. Ios. ditto. YRICES W. LLA'I'HEK. Per lb. d. to d. Per lb. d. toil. Butts, English ............. 15 21 English Horse Hides.,. 12 14 Ditto, F0reign........... 15 184 Spanish Ditto ............ 14 15 Dressing Hide 5—........ 12 14 Per dozen. Ditto - ......... i 7 18 Calf Skins..,, 35 to 4111 b. 15 20 Ditto, light .. Ditto ......... 50 to 701 b. 19 23 Crop Hides, light.—.. 12 13/ Ditto ........ 70 to SOlb. 17 19 Ditto 40 to 451 b. 13j 14 Small Seals, Greenland 181 Ise Ditto . 144 15/ Large ditto l2 13 RAW HIDES. Per Stone. s. d. to m. d. I Per Stone. s. d. to s. d. Seat Heifers& Steers 2 4 2 8 Ordinary 1 8 110 0 2 2 Market Calf 6 0 each. SHE ....- EP SKINS. Short Wool ........ 33. Od. to 43.6 d. I Long Wool-- 4s. Od. to sz. 6d. Shearlings.......... Or. (hi. to Os. &I. ...... PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP &c. per 1121 b. Town Tallow .................,.. 455. Od. Yellow Soap. „ 6os. 04. Yellow Ru55ia.................. 445. 6d., M0tt1ed........w...... 695. 041. White 441. tid White .. 72.. Ocl, Soap Ditto 42s. Od. Graves ........—.................1.55. Od. Melted Stuff' 3ss. Od. Good Graves --........ ss. Od. Ditto Rough `3s. Od. PRICE OF RAW FAT. per stone of filh. Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Melters)--......95. PRICE OF. CANDLES. The price of Store Candles, in the retail shops, is as follows : Candles, per doz. 7s. Od. to Bs. Od. I Moulds, per dozen-Os. 6d.