The Sun. — London, England, 1832-10-12 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TTIF. runT,Te JOURNALS. - - The Cabinet which met yesterday had abun dant matter for deliberation, foreign and do mestic. We are still persuaded, notwithstand ing the ominous paragraphs in the French Papers, that a general war in Europe may and will be avoided. The unsettled state of Italy and Germany gives to both Austria and Prussia a deep interest in the continuance of peace. We wish this country could have kept itself al together clear of the Belgian question ; but as it has mixed itself up with that question, and the King of Holland seems determined to ruin both his own country and Belgium, rather than aban don his pretensions to the latter, something seems due to a people like the Belgians, suffer ing under a long-continued expenditure beyond their means, and whom we have not allowed to pursue their own course. We do not believe that any steps taken by France and England in conjunction would lead to war. But we are almost certain, that if the King of Holland is not soon brought to his senses, disturbances will take place in Belgium, which may gradually in volve the other Powers. We wish, there fore, the Belgian question were well set tled ; and we think that the King of Hol land has no reason to complain of any want of patience on the part of the Conference. With respect to the other ()Eject of Lord Durham's mission—the endeavour to obtain from Russia a mitigation of the oppression of the poor Poles —we fear that there is but too much truth in the reports in the French Papers—that he has not been successful. We have no doubt that his Lordship's heart was in the cause; but Rus sia knows that, in the case of Poland, she has nothing at present to fear from the rest of Eu rope. So long as Austria, Prussia, and Russia are agreed on the subject of Poland, there is no hope for that country, except a general war were to take place. But the most momentous subjects for deliberation are of a domestic nature. The planters of the Mauritius have done what amounts to rebellion, and they are prepared, if reports may be trusted, to maintain the ground they have taken, by force if necessary. They calculate on the impossibility of Government sparing so many troops as would be necessary to reduce them, in the present state of Ireland. The other sugar colonies are all in a state little short of rebellion. A very large proportion of the people of this country, and a proportion continually in creasing, are determined that slavery shall be extinguished without delay throughout the Bri tish dominions. They say, let abolition. be the first step, and we shall then he prepared to dis.. cuss the question of compensation. To all mea sures of interference between master and slave, the planters have decidedly opposed themselves, and it must be owned that slavery admits of no mitigation through the medium of third parties. The abolitionists, therefore, are satisfied from the resistance to the orders in Council, and the treat ment of Missionaries (the only instructors who set seriously about the improvement of the ne woes), that the evils of slavery admit of no remedy short of abolition. A strong party in the next Parliament will give effect to the views of the abolitionists. Here, then, the Colo nies and the Mother Country are at issue. The Government have a most difficult part to play. With regard to Ireland, again, whichever way Ministers turn, they are surrounded with diffi culties. They are called on to enforce laws, of the injustice of which they must, in their own hearts, be convinced. The people of Ireland are forced to support a Church to which they do not belong, and from which they derive no be nefit—a Church too, so full of abuses, that even in Protestant England, it cannot maintain its ground against the Dissenters. But then know that the Aristocracy of the country iden tify themselves with the Church on account of the very abuses which impair its efficiency, be- cause they profit from them. They know that Ministers are so far impeded by this connexion between the Aristocracy and the abuses of the Church, that inability to execute the law would form the only justification of an attempt at an effective alteration. Hence the impossibility of any approximation to an understanding between Ministers and the Catholics of Ireland. So long as the Church of England is forced on the Irish, so long will Ireland be a prey to anarchy. And he must be a bold Minister who would think of proposing—what yet will be effected, ere long—the freedom of the Irish Catholics from the ignominious yoke of subjection to a Protestant Church. .Ministers must be go- verned by events ; and events will teach those who would now be refractory, to yield with a good grace to what is inevitable. We had omitted the contest in Portugal, which Minis ters will find a source of no small difficulty to them, should Don Pedro fail in his object.. We almost shudder to think of what the consequences would be to an influential part of the merchants of this country. Ministers have a deep interest in the success of Don Pedro ; for misfortune is seldom just, and the sufferers would be loud in their complaints. The time has at length come, too, when it must be decided whether the pre sent Parliament shall be re-assembled, or a dis solution shall take place. Enough has already transpired with regard to the probable composi Lion of the new Parliament to enable Ministers to be prepared for the policy from which no Mi nistry can hereafter deviate with safety.—Morn. ing Chronicle. Many of those who advocate what is termed the fitting the negroes for freedom, and exclaim against immediate abolition as the dream of fa natics, can hardly be aware of the state of opi nion throughout the, country on this question. Are they aware that, at a special meeting of de puties from the several congregations of Protes tant Dissenters of the three denominations in and within twelve miles of London, it was resolved, " that the principles of Christianity and slavery are so opposed to each other, that the only re medy for these evils is the immediate and corn plete extinction of slavery ; and that it is the opinion of this meeting, that, in the approaching general election, it is the duty of every friend ty humanity and of the Christiam religion to give a decided preference in his vote to those candidates who will support in Parliament such measures as shall have for their end the accomplishment of this desirable object."--- The three denominations represent the great body of English Dissenters. The Metho dists are equally determined in favour of imme diate abolition. The Quakers soon began t o see the incompatibility of slavery with Chris tianity, and emancipated their slaves. In the year 1787 there did not remain a single slave in the possession of any Member of the Society of Friends. They were actually persecuted for their endeavours to instruct their own negroes. It is curious that the Quakers, so far from seek ing compensation for the loss of their slaves, ac tually gave compensation to the slaves for the injury which had been done to them by holdi:ig them in slavery. They calculated what would have been aue to the slaves as wages over and above food and clothing, from the commence ment of their slavery, and paid the debt, thus clearing their conscience, as far as they could, of this deep offence. The Friends are determined advocates of immediate abolition. The United Secession Church in Scotland, forming a large part of the population, are to a man for imme diate abolition. If anything, the feeling in favour of immediate abolition is more universal in Scotland than in England, as might be expected from the people being more generally religious. A meeting of the Edinburgh Anti-Slavery Society takes place this day, at which one of the Baptist Missionaries from Jamaica is to give a narrative of the extraordinary treatment received by the missionaries. The result of this meeting will afford a proof of the feeling of the Scotch re specting slavery. But are the Dissenters and Methodists alone bent on immediate abolition ? By no means. The members of the Establish ment, in great numhers, show their views. When we consider that the Dissenters alone form a majority of the middle class in all our towns, and that they are determined to support no candidate who is not prepared to vote for immediate abolition, we can have little difficulty in arriving at a conclusion with regard to the sentiments of the next Parliament on this ques tion. Those candidates who endeavour to tem porize, will find that they have to do with shrewd men not easily deceived, and who are not to be captivated with - unmeaning phrases. We believe a number of candidates are now sufficiently sen sible of the mistake they committed, in believ ing that their adroitness would enable them to steer between opinions with safety.—Morning Chronicle. Among the curiosities of the time, a corres pondent has pointed out to us one which pro bably few of our readers the most conversant with clerical abuses are yet prepared for. Bene ficed clergymen of the Established Church are either sinecurists, and ought to have some pro fessional work cut out for them, or, having parochial duties to fulfil, they ought, assuredly, not to be withdrawn from such a forced attention to other than spiritual employments. The days are long past when priests were allowed to be openly Lord Chancellors of England ; or Arch bishops notoriously, even though not ostensibly, Prime Ministers to Irish Viceroys. The days, indeed, are past and gone when clergymen of the Church of England could exercise the powers of justice of the peace, and sit upon the unpaid magistrate's bench with impunity, at least in so far as the heaviest visitations of public censure can be regarded as a punishment for unbecoming and indecent acts. But the Church has lately out-mountebanked herself. Because " justice of the peace" is a judicial and admi nistrative office, and being so has never of late had a clergyman for its occupant without excit ing the uneasiness, if not the indignation, of all who felt for the dignity of the Church, or for the unsuspected administration of the laws, it has seemed fitting to certain high functionaries, that the pastors of our establishment should carry their extra-professional incursions into fields which have hitherto been exempt from clerical encroachment. The last Gazette contained the promotion of " the Reverend Samuel J. Goodenough to the office of Deputy Lieutenant for Cumberland !" " What next ?" may very well be asked by our alarmed corres pondent,—" what will our parsons become next ?" The Deputy-Lieutenant is purely an executive office, as is that of the Lord-Lieute nant himself. But what ecclesiastical services does he perform ? Why, he is in some respects a military officer. He calls out the militia, we believe, upon occasion : upon occasion, it may so happen (may it not ?) that he will command the militia of the county, or a portion of them. He wears, moreover, a scarlet embroidered uni form, with a regulation sword and epaulettes ! This Reverend Samuel Goodenough ! We do protest it appears to us that some Birmingham church-rate recusant must have secretly jumped into the boots and spurs of the Lord-Lieutenant for Cumberland county. If it were necessary for objects the most subversive of the church to augment that heap of obloquy under which her servants unfortunately labour, we can imagine no freak of malice more dexterous than that of encouraging them to arm their breasts with a cuirass not resembling that of faith, and to gird on their loins a sword far different from that of righteousness. It would not be one atom more preposterous to make Parson Goodenough a Colonel of militia. This is not Church and State ; it is Church and broadsword. As suredly, we need do no more than bring such an appointment under the eye of autho rity to have the nuisance abated. What more efficient handle could the Dissenters wish for as an engine wherewith to assault the character and functions of our clergy, or to wrest from them the means of their actual maintenance, than such an exchange of spiritual for carnal weapons ? What will Mr. Goodenough's parishioners (for there can scarcely be a Goodenough unbene ficed),—what will they say to the Rev. gentle man's abandonment of his pastoral, and assump tion of a politico-military charge, while he still retains (for who but a fanatic would not ?) the pastoral privilege of tithe-getting ? Here, then, is,another bone to pick for censorious dissidents from the mother church. An evening paper, in alluding to the Dissenters, dwells much upon the difference with respect to tithe between re pealing the tithe laws, as an impolitic and irreco verable system, and resisting those laws, on the plea that their validity is impaired by the odium into which they have fallen. There needs no learned jurist from Padua to remind the world of:a distinction to which every new act of Par liament bears witness, for if popular disobedience to a law were equivalent to the repeal of it, we see little use in any corrective legislature. But the truth is, that a law or class of laws which cannot be enforced except in the teeth of great national repugnance, is sure to be repealed if the legislative body be in its sound senses. And so universal is the clamour against the existing Church, that it can no more go on without a thorough reformation—financial as well as per sonal—than a clock would go forward after the pendulum had stopped.—Times. Several of our contemporaries have copied a report from the Constitutionnel to the effect that " a new alliance is about to be formed by the absolute Powers in support of the monarchi cal i principle, the Count Pozzo di Borgo being he principal agent in the negotiations." It is not a little curious that almost the whole of the Press of London should now publish this re pok as a novelty, and that too as upon a French authority, seeing that this identical report ap peared so long ago as the 2d of September in a Berlin Paper, whence, if we mistake not, it was copied into the Allgemeine Zeitung of the 12th ult , and, on the 19th of the same month appeared in our columns, having been published by Fotne of, our evening cotemporaries on the 18th as part of the contents of the German Mail of that day. On the following day we ad verted again to the subject, and we spoke of it in the following terms There is another topic touched upon in the article from Berlin, which is deserving of some observation. It re lates to an incipient design for a confederacy of the Governments against the political rights of the people of Europe. Perhaps the apparent success which has attended the tyrannic decrees of the Germanic Confederation has still further disposed the despots to _ -I Play those fantastic tricks before high Heaven That make the angels weep.' However this may be, there is no mistaking the tendency of the following passages But the work (of general pacification) would be only half done if the Conference did not pursue its labours, and secure the still precarious state of Europe against contingencies that might sud denly occur, and, in spite of all that has yet been done, might again kindle into a flame the passions that have been scarcely allayed. With this view it is affirmed that the Cabinets are re solved to co-operate with each other, that the predominant political system may not only he consolidated, but extended ; which would lead to the revival of the monarchical, and the slow but certain extinction of the revolutionary principle, which constantly degenerates into anarchy." Then an intimation is given of all the advantages that would result f all the Governments can unite to solve this problem ; and it is added that " one of the most distinguished diplomatists of a Northern Power is said to be commissioned to open a way to arrangements on this head." In reference to this last passage we said, " Whether this personage be Pozzo di Borgo we know not, but that diplomatist is at present at Vienna, concocting some design, certainly not favourable to the liberties of Europe." It now turns out that Pozzo di Borgo was the person socautiously alluded to. A few days after we published those remarks a communication appeared in our paper from one of our Paris correspondents, throwing some additional light upon the subject ; so that it is quite clear the report which several of our contemporaries have copied from the Constitu tionnel, as an original one, is but a reflection of what appeared some weeks ago in the London Press, affording one of those instances which one sometimes meets of the truth of the para doxical adage, that " All knowledge is but obli vion." It is only about a week since that a Morning Journal, which favoured its readers with the exclusive intelligence of Lord Durham having" made a Liberal of the Czar," accounted comically enough for the journey of Pozzo di Borgo to Vienna on the ground of his being appointed diplomatic Missionary to propagate the new political faith of the converted and peni tent destroyer of Poland. " What would appear almost incredible," said our contemporary, were there not some ground for believing in this conversion, his Imperial Majesty has-de spatched Pozzo di Borgo both to Berlin and Vienna, to enforce the new views both on An cillon and Metternich." We then hinted that what the new views were had been snore satis factorily explained in the Berlin article, which stated that he had gone to concert measures for the more effectual preservation of the monarchical, i. e., the despotic principle, and the success of counter. revolutionary projects in Europe. As to Lord Dur ham's mission, if anything good had come of it, the result would not have been so closely kept from the trumpet of Fame as it has been. So far were we from auguring any thing favourable in a political point of view from the elaborate and ostentatious civilities of the barbarian Autocrat to our Ambassador Ex traordinary, that we looked upon them as but the hypocritical blandishments of the deep de ception of the Russian Court. It is not a stately inexperienced Lord, so fond of the ex ternal trappings, and pomp, - and costly parade of diplomacy, as to travel with six carriages and 22 post-horses, who is qualified to penetrate the designs of the wily and circumventing politicians of the Cabinet of St. Petersburg. For such a man, especially when accompanied by the fairer members of his family, the splendid hospitalities of a gay and brilliant Court have a dazzling charm ;—it is natural enough. It is only men of " sterner stuff," and whose habits of life set them above such temptations, that ought to be exposed to them. What would such statesmen as Cromwell, or Chatham, or Pitt, care for the courteous magnificence of banquets or balls, or the glozing civility of smooth words, lavished upon their Ambassadors ? Their only consi deration would be, was the business done ? all the rest would seem to them " but leather or prunella."—Morning Herald. A kind of dead set is at this moment made against Mr. Hume, and that by parties so op posed to each other upon all subjects, that it is a rare thing to find them agreeing upon any one. These parties are the Tories and the Whigs. The Tories hate Mr. Hume for being a Re former at all—the Whigs for being too consistent and uncompromising a one to their taste. Now of Mr. Hume, any more than of any other public man or party, we have never been the thick-and thin adherents or apologists. We admit that Mr. Hume, like most other men, commits mis takes, and those generally ill so unguarded a manner as to give his adversaries an advantage. As an instance, we would advert to his indiscre tion in dividing the House upon the proposed reference to God's Providence in the Scotch Cholera Bill, which is now insidiously and un justly urgcd against him as a proof of blasphemy and infidelity ; an inference, we will venture to say, the most far-fetched, overstrained, and pre posterous, that even party hostility ever invented. At the same time Mr. Hume was, we think, to blame for giving his adversaries even the slight est handle for this imputation, knowing, as he well must, that he is opposed by an evil spirit, which, like another alluded to in Holy Writ, " seeketh whom it may devour." But, passing by the faults of Mr. Hume, and the reckless ve nom of his adversaries, will the Whigs or Tories produce from among their ranks any one indivi dual who, as a Member of the Legislature, has any thing like the claim to the gratitude and confidence of the country that Mr. Hume has? Can they produce a single individual from their ranks whose paid services have been of one tenth the value of his, or who has given up any thing like the portion of his time to the public which Mr. Hume has done ? No wonder that the whole tribe of office-bearers, and of the hungry, Lay, aspirants for office, are leagued against such a maw. His presence is naturally wormwood to them. But then the very ground of their ha tred is that which should produce, and we have no doubt does produce, a totally opposite feeling in the minds of a great majority o f i mpart i a l lookers-on. To that majority these remarks can be hardly necessary. We will not believe that the electors of Middlesek, or any other large constituency, can be so weak or besotted as to be worked upon by such engines as ar e now i n operation to decry the public services o f Mr. Hume. But we would recall even the stragglers from the camp of reform, if there are any, who have allowed themselves to be the dupes of his and their adversaries. Mr. Hume, as we have hinted, is not without his weaknesses and defects ; who is ? but as a Member of the House of Commons he has been, and is likely to be, more valuable to the country than the whole race of those who enter into an unnatural union to decry him.— Morning Herald. The improvement exhibited in the Official Statement of the Revenue of the Quarter which terminated on the 10th inst. is equally gratify ing whether we consider it as a renewed evi dence of the solid foundation and inherent vigour of our national resources, or as a proof that the abatement of political excitement, and the resto ration of the country to sobriety and good sense, are the indispensable conditions upon which alone any degree of public prosperity can be attained. The total increase of Income in the last Quarter, as compared with the correspond ing Quarter of last year (when the Reform mania was at its height), is 696,8471. This surplus has arisen under the heads of Customs, 356,388/. ; of Excise, 297,591/. ; and of Taxes, 116,3831.; which, after deducting the several sums of 23,9861., 33,0001., and 16,5291., on ac count of the diminished receipts in the Stamp, Post-office, and Miscellaneous Departments, leaves the net balance as above stated. The account of the whole year terminating at the same period presents, as might be expected, seeing that the first nine months of it was a season of convul sion and alarm, a much less gratifying aspect, showing a diminution of the national income, notwithstanding the comparative prosperity of the last Quarter, of 327,576/. The increase of the Customs Duties during the last quarter is no doubt to be accounted for in part by the removal of those impediments to commerce which were interposed with the view of check ing the diffusion of pestilence ; while that under the head of Taxes is scarcely so great as might have been expected, from the operation of that clause in the Reform Bill which dexterously, and we think very prudently, connected the acquisition of the franchise with payments to be made by a day certain to the tax collectors. Yet we feel no disposition to invalidate the evidence which these facts, com bined as they are with that of a simultaneous and considerable increase of the produce of the Excise, undoubtedly afford, that the country du ring the last quarter has been upon the whole in a condition of greater ease, contentment, and prosperity than during the corresponding portion of the year 1831. Whether this comparative ease, contentment, and prosperity is destined to prove a mere transient gleam of happiness, or to continue and increase until once more the coun try shall be permitted to feel itself in its wonted state of health, vigour, and security, is a question the solution of which would be a difficult and hazardous attempt ; but we shall make one step at least towards its solution if we can succeed in tracing the actual improvement in the condition of the country to its true causes. Several causes have, we believe, contributed to the favourable change which seems to have occurred in the situation of the country. In the first place, it has become manifest that the constituency cre ated by the Reform Bill will be much less de mocratic in its character than the authors of that measure intended, and than its opponents feared, from the fact that a large proportion of those upon whom in words the Act of Parliament conferred the franchise have practically disfran chised themselves; have passed the severest cen sure upon the Bill, by rejecting the gift which it offered them ; and have, whether from ignorance, from apathy, or from pau perism, relinquished the power which it con ferred. In the second place, it has been made evident, from the state of the canvass now going on in different parts of the country, that the party whose object it is to preserve what remain of our established institutions have a much stronger hold upon the esteem and affection of the com munity at large, and are much more likely, therefore, to constitute an influential portion of the new Legislature, than could have beet► ima gined during the delirium of the revolutionary fever, when mobs and Ministers of State seethed bent upon nothing but to urge each other forward in the work of destruction. The third cause which we venture to assign is one which, whimsical as the opinion may seem, has, we have no doubt, been eminently condu cive to the improved condition and prospects of public affairs. Earl Grey, Lord Brougham, and the rest of his Majesty's Ministers, with the exception of the two nobodies, Lords Melbourne and Palmerston, have been rusticating for a great part of the last quarter ; consequently there has been no ouportunity for midnight conferences between Earl Grey and Mr. Place ; no scope for the display by the Lord Chancellor of the temper, manners, and principles which adorn and dignify the discussions at Political Unions ; no Cabinet meetings to alarm the country with the apprehension of some new mischief. The public have been permitted for a moment to for get who the Ministers are, and the influences by which they are guided and impelled. Some of these causes of augmented comfort and prosperity are obviously temporary, but it is pleasant to remark that there are also some of them which will not fail to endure and increase. Earl Grey and his colleagues rusticate no longer, but it may reasonably enough be expected that the three-and-tenpenny voters will neglect to qualify next year in still greater numbers, and that in the same proportion the constituency will he still further purified ; while it is pretty certain that the real friends of their country, the party who desire to preserve and uphold its established institutions and its permanent interests, will ob tain a progressive increase of power, as the pub lic mind gradually resumes its serenity, penetra tion, and good sense.—Morning Post. BERLIN, OCT. 5.--The Minister of the In terior has just published the resolution of the Diet, by which the Liberal, the Sentinel on the Rhine, and the Universal, political annuals, are prohibited in all the German States. A good deal of merriment Was created in the Glasgow police•court on Thursday, by a case which was tried there. A respectable man, who, it appears, bad been indulging rather freely with the bottle after dinner, was charged with being in a gentleman's garden in Char lotte-street, and rapping at the window early in the morn ing, to the great consternation of the inmates. It ap was sot rounded by a w a ll 12 or 13 f eet h i g h , an d pear ed from the testimony of the principal witness, that the garden cov ered with broke n g lass in such a manner as to render i id tanextttimpossible to get over ; an d h ow t h e p r i so n e r obtained) an entrance was altogether unaccountable. When interrogated on the spot by the proprietor of the dwell i ng, l ie (the panel) told him that he had been pitched over the wall oy a terrible tall man, about 10 o'clock the p re ceding evening, after which lie had fallen asleep, and did not discover his real situation until he found, on reach ing forth his hand, that instead of his wife, there was nothing to lie found but his umbrella, and his hat on the end of it. As no suspicion of criminal purpose was en tertained, the prisoner was dismissed , with an advice not to indulge ina n Advertiser.y such harlequin prop ens i t i es if or t h e future.— G reenock SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock. [HE LONDON' GAZErrE THIS EVENING. At the Court at St. James's, the 12th day of October 1832, PRESENT, The KING'S Most Excellent Majesty in Council. It is this day ordered by His Majesty in Council, that the Par liament, which stands prorogued to Tuesday the sixteenth day of October instant, be further prorogued to Tuesday the eleventh day of December next. WAR-OFFICE, OCTOBER 12. Ist, or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—Ensign and Lieut. E. B. Reynardson to be Lieutenant and Captain, by pur chase, vice Ricketts, who retires, Oct. 12. 10th Regiment of Foot—Lieut. W. Rawlins, from 13th Regi ment, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Rannie, pro. moted, Oct. 12. 13th Foot—Lieut. A. Stewart, from the half-pay of 84th Regi. ment, to be Lieutenant, vice Rawlins, appointed to the 10th Re giment, Oct. 12. 16th Foot—Lieut. A. R. Evans, from the half-pay of 93d Re giment, to be Lieutenant, vice W. Murray, who exchanges, Oct. 12. 21st Foot--J. B. Guthrie, Gent. to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Ainslie, promoted. 27th Foot—Lieut. W. Elliott, from the 45th Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice J. S. Lyon, who retires on the half-pay of the 3d Garrison Battalion, Oct. 12. 45th Foot—Lieut. B. E. Stretch, from the half-pay of 3d Gar rison Battalion, to be Lieutenant, vice Elliott, apointed to the 27th Regiment, Oct. 12. 60th F'Oot—Second Lieut. A. Mundy to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Fitzgerald, who retires; C. W. Jebb, Gent, to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Mundy, Oct 12. 67th Foot.—Gentleman Cadet C. S. S, Evans, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, Oct. 12. 73d Foot.—Lieut. T. F. Sandeman, from the half-pay, to be Lieutenant vice J. Coane, who exchanges, receiving the differ ence, Oct 12. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Oc'r. 11. Royal Regiment of Artillery. Captain and Brevet Major C. Gilmour to be Lieut.-Colonel, vice Wilmot, deceased; Second Captain H. L. Sweeting to be Captain, vice Gilmour; First Lieut. H. Palliser to be Second Captain, vice Sweeting ; Second Lieut. H. S. M'Clintoch to be First Lieutenant, vice Palliser; Quartermastei-Serjeant W. Porter to be Quartermaster, vice M'Coy, deceased, Sept. 25. Corps of Royal Engineers. Major-General Sir Frederick William Mulcaster, K. C. H. to be Colonel-Commandant, vice Sir Alexander Bryce, deceased. Dated sth October 11532. WHITEHALL, October 8. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Richard Henry Rolls, of Banbury, in the county of Oxford, Gent. to be a Master Extraor dinary in the High Court of Chancery. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. JOHN WATLING and ROBERT KNIGHT VORLEY, drysalters, Bread-street-hill. CHARLES THOMAS, corn-factor, Bristol. BANKRUPTS. JOHN MOSSMAN, Maulden, Bedfordshire, sheep-dealer, to surrender Oct. 26, and Nov. 23, at half-past ten, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Williams, Hatton.garden ; Whitmore, Austin friars, official assignee. JONAS BENNETTS and NICHOLAS ROBINS, Gunnis lake, Cornwall, granite-merchants, Nov. 14, and 23, at eleven, at Elliott's Hotel, Devonport. Fox, Finsbury Circus; Gilbard, Devonport. JOSEPH ANKRETT, Walsall, Staffordshire, grocer, Oct. 22, and Nov. 23, at twelve, at Dee's Royal Hotel, Birmingham. Norton and Chaplin, Gray's Inn-square, London; Hawkins and Richards, Birmingham. HENRY DAWES, Birmingham, curry-comb-maker, Oct. 20 and Nov. 23, at three, at Dee's Royal Hotel, Temple-row, Bir mingham. Clarke, Richards, and Medcalf, Lincoln's-Inn-fields ; Tyndall and Rawlins, Birmingham. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. Robinson and W. Hepworth, Shaw, Crompton, Lanca shire, cotton-spinners. J. Dobson, jun., J. and W. Dobson, Selby, Yorkshire, worsted.manufacturers. J. and J. Brooker, sen. and jun., Cambridge, carvers. W. Pilortimer and J. G. Wilson, Bristol, surgeons. S. Bettison and M. Cox, Cheltenham, coal-merchants. W. Fort, M. Fort, and T. Fort, Marlborough-place, Kenning. ton. Cross, as far as regards the said M. Fort. M. A. Reid and A. Cross, Poland-street, Westminster, milliner. G. Abraham and M. Lebrecht, Speldhurst.street, Judd-street, Brunswick.square. A. and A. George, Reading, common-carriers. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. AN EXTRAORDINARY NEW COLONY.—Several young men and women, and children of both sexes, from ten to twenty years of age, were brought before the LORD MAYOR, charged with having planted a regular colony under some of the dry arches on the eastern side of London Bridge. From the statement of Evans, the street-keeper of the district, it appeared that crowds of vagrants of both sexes were in the habit, after the labours of the day, of assembling under the arches of London Bridge, for the purpose of getting up a meal, and afterwards sleeping together. When he went to the new colony, he saw about fifry poor wretches, who evidently had no other home than the melan choly one they had thus established. About twenty men, women, and children, had retired to repose under one of the arches, where they lay " spoon ways," and quiet enough, with the exception of that music which bears the strongest testimony to the absence of care. A fire was burning under another arch, and there was a large saucepan upon ir, con taining, it was stated, a ram's kidney, and the out side parings of two jemmies (sheeps' heads), besides a considerable quantity of coarse beef, called by the sausage-makers " bow-wow." An old bone-grub ber was stirring up those delicacies with a piece of an iron hoop. The smoke was so dense that he was only seen at intervals, arid then in tears, which dropped bitterly from his eyes, and formed part of " the ingredients of our cauldron." Altogether the scene was such as a man might meet in an old book, but never could expect to find on the great metro politan stage of life. To questions put to them by the LORD MAYOR, some of the defendants replied by charging the officers of the parish to which they belonged with having totally abandoned them to want. Others said that they had no claim to parochial support; and others that they had ineffectually tried every experiment for a morsel of bread. Whether any of those statements were without foundation could not, of course, at the moment be ascertained; but if ghastly countenances and tattered garments speak any language, the poor creatures at the bar pleaded moat eloquently before they opened their lips. The officers said that many of the workmen em ployed about the bridge had lately complained of having lost their tools, and a number of pieces of timber had been cut up and burnt by the paupers, who now seemed to think they had a legal claim to the dormitories, and began to mark out boundaries, &c. It was almost impossible to stand the smell which issued from those crowded chambers, which, at bed time, the inmates closed up by means of bricks and quantities of rubbish. Evans said, that he had been obliged to send some of the unfortunate vagrants to the Hospital, as they appeared to be almost starved to death. Others he sent to the workhouse to prevent them from perishing. If severe weather had set in, there must have been fatal work amongst the wretched population. B O W-STREET. BURGLARY AT PADDINGTON.—Yesterday Nicho las Wood, who stands charged with a robbery at Mr. George Clarke's, at the Iron Gate Wharf, Pad dington, on the 29th of July last, was again brought up for examination. Lavinia Shelley, on Sunday, the 29th of July, at about three o'clock in the afternoon, was walking with her brother in the Harrow-road, when she saw three young men walking together nearly opposite a public-house called the Running Horse, behind which there is a passage leading to Mr. Clarke's (the prosecutor) back premises. Her attention was called by her brother to one of the men who carried a bundle, containing something in the shape of a guitar. It was tied up in a red and yellow silk hand kerchief. She would not be able to identify either of the men; she had been to Newgate, and had seen the convict Jephson, who was similar in figure to one of them. Witness could not identify the prisoner as being one of the party. The witness's brother corroborated her testimony. Inspector Adamson would be able to obtain some further evidence in the course of a few days. Mr. MINSHULL, in consequence, ordered that the prisoner should be brought up for re-examination on Monday next. MARLBORO UGH- STREET. TABERNACLE V. DOUCHEZ.-Mr. Douchez, a lit tle dandified doctor, was called upon to answer an allegation of having " punched the head of a youth," who, in addition to rejoicing in the remarkable pa tronymic of Jabez Tabernacle, walked on a wooden leg, by the assistance of a stout stick. The complainant deposed, that he called at an early hour on Mr. D, for the purpose of giving warning on behalf of one of his mother's little Ta barnacles, who officiated as errand boy to the doctor , because, in the article of wages, Mr. D. was found to be more plentiful in promises than in payments. Mr. D. was not up, consequently the complainant had to deliver his message to Mr. Jones, the loll' lord, a peppery old gentleman, who possessed some thing more than a mere spice of the " Sir Anthony Absolute" in his temper. Mr. Jones ordered hi° to get out of his hawse, and on receiving a refusal , he waxed wroth, and was only deterred by a sigh t of the complainant's stick, from promptly executing his own orders. The old gentleman ran up staid to the doctor, brimful of anger, and told him that his own tabernacle had been put i n t o man if es t pet" , by the walking-stick of young Tabernacle. The doctor dressed himself in a burry, and ran down stairs, when seeing the complainant, be, sans are monie, gave him a punch of the head, and conclude d by applying his foot to that portion of young Tr bernacle's own tabernacle, which was last visibid when the ejectment was accomplished. The Tabernacle who was the original cause of h l9 i brother Tabernacl e ' s d ru bbi ng , came f orwar d a n d corroborated the statement in every material peal' cular, differing, however, in " mode," but not in " substance," in d escr ibi ng the assault, it being, 0 he averred, a " wipe," and not a " lick," which his brother had received. The Doctor, in defence, declared it was neither " wipe" nor a " lick," which Tabernacle got, bu t a " shove," which it was necessary to inflict to get him out of the house. (Here Mr. Jones stepped forward as witness, and the testiness a n d l oquac i t y h e di sp l aye d, f urn i s beu to the Court a continued source of merriment.) I ought to be the complainant in this scandaloul case, began Mr. Jones, in tone of comical rage and he, that howdacious dog, ought to be the col' prit. He came to my house, a purpose to do for me and the Doctor this morning. I'll swear PI life and all my lodgers lives against him. We are not safe in our beds, I'll positively assure you r Worship. Mr. CONANT—What d o y ou mean by " do ing ' s for you, Mr. Jones ? Mr. Jones—Why, I mean that he came to kill me with that bludgeon he ho g got with him. Now, didn't you come for that pur pose (said Mr. Jones, turning sharply to the cor e ' plainant). Tabernacle—No, I did not. Mr. Jones—Don't contradict me, you dog : 7 011 know you did. Your Worship, he banished id° bludgeon about my head, and swore he would d° for me. Didn't you banish your bludgeon, and .1 so ?—[turning to the complainant] Tabernacle" No, I did not. Mr. Jones—How dare you contradict me ; you know you did. Igo in danger of my life , and $ ll does the Doctor; and I hope your Wor s hip will ' bind him over. Mr. CONANT—You surely cannot be serious in saying you are afraid of a boy like that, who h sl * the misfortune to have a wooden leg. Mr../ones—l'm on my oath. He wanted to crack thy .kull, and he brought that bludgeon on put• pose (turning to the complainant), did'nt you? Tabernacle—No, I didn't. Mr. Jones—Don't contradict me, Sirrah, Yol i know you did. Mr. CONANT here interposed, with the remark' that the charge appeared to be of so trivial a character , he should recommend both parties to retire and set• tle it among themselves. The parties did retire; but Mr. Jones and the Doctor would not come to any rerms; consequently Mr. CONANT decided the case by fining Mr. Dow chez ss. and expenses. QUEEN- S QUARE. A MAN OF EASY MANNERS. —Yesterday,a young , man, very respectably dressed, named Wm. Marsh , was brought up, charged with creating a disturb' ance at the house of Mrs. Wornley, a lady residing at 38, Vincent-square, Westminster. About one o'clock yesterday, the defendant called at Mr.' Wornley's house, and told the servant to inform be t mistress that a gentleman wished to see her. Mrs' Wornley sent down her daughter to inquire his bir siness, but he said he must speak with the mistre o of the house. He then walked into the parlour with all the coolness imaginable, and seated himself verf comfortably on the sofa. When Mrs. Wornley carol down stairs and inquired his pleasure, he told be r that he had seen better days, but was at present to great distress. He then drew from his pocket ° bundle of stay-laces, and asked her to purchas e some. Mrs. Wornley desired him to quit the pill instantly; upon which he comme nce d a ti ra de 0 abuse, which continued till the arrival of a coir stable.—The fellow, who said Mrs. Wornley did 1 0 treat him as a lady should do when he offered hi ° stay-laces for sale, was ordered to find bail for hi ° future good behaviour. THE MARKETS. COUNTRY CORN MARKET'S DURING 11-1 E WEgf.". Wheat. Barley. Oats. I Bean , ' Per Quarter. s. to s. s. s. s. to s. 8. to Blandford 53 35 22 Brigg 52 63 36 40 19 22 31 Cambridge 4 51 30 14 -- 4 Chard 52 56 28 34 18 22 32 'l4 Huntingdon.......... 58 63 30 36 18 23 30 4 Long Sutton.-- 56 64 17 22 32 44 Louth . 50 55 27 32 19 20 32 Lynn 56 61 28 32 22 28 34 3 8 Newark 58 64 33 40 18 2t 36 4 1 Nottingham ............. 54 66 44 21 24 38 0 8 Peterborough 56 63 32 36 19 25 3.3 Plymouth 50 64 30 34 20 23 Pontefract 67 43 27 -- is Sleaford Unpingham 58 65 32 40 20 24 30 34 Wisbech LEEDS CORN MARKET Wheat, Norfolk and Suffblk, 601 b - York. and Lincoln. 601 b. Barley, Norfolk and Sutiblk - Yorkshire and Lincolnshire - Grinding Beans 63lb. Oats, Potatoe -Healing, For. 12d. to 13d En Shelling Rapeseed, English, 161. to 21 Foreig L—Oct. 9. s'2s to 6 0 '• s 503 to 5 51 • 325. to 365. 30s. to 34r. 21s. to 23 8 . 335. to 41s' r 235. to 26 1 . lg. 11d- to 1234 d. Pe,La. .. 265. to 28s. per .7,0 t. zn, —l. to —/. 111— LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.—Oct. 9. „,, 941. 9 WHEAT, English, White, per 701 b. Red it 7 10 0 --. Scotch, Welch, and Manx - 3 Irish, White 7 0 ~,' g Red 6 6 ' 0 --- Foreign 8 9 9 g 9 OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 2 8 2 6 Irish Foreign 2 2 0 , 0 3/3 5 BARLEY, English, Malting, per imp. quarter , 4 8 0 Scotch and Irish, per 601bs. 4 0 4 "0 4 0 — Feeding BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter sa 0 ‘ , 4 0 --...... Irish, &c Foreign PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter Wheat.' Foreign FLOUR, English, per 2801 b. Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 241/1b5.... INDIAN CORN, per 4401 b. 45 0 lii RYE, per Imperial quarter MALT, per Imperial quarter Flour. I o SI a P t O s. RT IB O a F rI G ey RAIN for the Week ending Oct. 8. 0110.0 45 1 Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. IForeign, Brls.llrish, &c. Scks. li09„ 14,715 8,287 2,288 0 I 2,091 ''....../ MANCHESTER, Oct. 6. 5 ,1 ' Wheat, per 701 b. Ss. 9d. to 9s. Od. Red 85.3 4. to 9. I Barley, per 601 b 5 6 6 0 Oats 3 0 3 „, 0 Beans, per Imperial quarter Pease, White, per Imperial bushel 5 0 5 0 Nlalt, per 6 Imperial bushels 43 0 48 0 Flour, per Sack of 2801 b 45 0 EXETER NI A I Beef Od. 9s. 6d. Mutton (1b.)»...-0 51 0 6 Veal and. 6 0 7 Turk 4 0 6 Geese (each) --4 0 5 6 Ducks 'c0un!e\.........4 0 5 0 Fowls - 0 4 0 KETS —Oct. 5. . 4 6 4 ' Wheat (bushel) ....Bs. CO. — ,..9 4 Barley 6 ' Oats o 3 ... 0 Beans 5 6 1 0 Butter (1b.)—.,.......1 0 i 0 Eggs (12) ....................0 0 A I Potatoes (peck).0_1......"..„/ BITHS. On the 10th inst. at Hethe R House, Oxon, the LadY Lu° Slater, of a son. „ $ 4 On the 10th inst. at Southgate, the lady of J. R. Sod" o f of a son. On the 10th inst. the wife of James William White, P q. ' Nfelbury-terrace, Dorset-square, of a son. tl , ed , On the 10th inst. at the Lodge, near Hemel HemPs t lady of the Rev. C. Beauchamp Cooper, of a daughter. - . . . . _ MARRIED. EA' On the Nth inst. at Christ Church, Joseph De l p ratt, _ sol ti _e only son of the late Samuel Delpratt, Esq., of Jamaica, T.„. • o' Elinor, only daughter of the late Henry B. Barnard, ..•'''' Cave Castle, Yorkshire. DIED. T ho 0 13° On the Ilth inst. :at Pimlico, in his S9.d year, Mr. ~00. Hardy. Mr. Hardy was the founder of the London Corresir ll ing Society, and was, with Mr. Horne Tooke, Mr. Theillwhiclk Holclott, and eight others, indicted for high treason , °` after a trial which lasted nine days, he was acquitted. s sete On the 10th inst. at Chester-place, Lambeth, *r,. R 0 aged VS. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY MURbO YOUN,s SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, LONDON