The Sun. — London, England, 1832-12-20 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. To-day the polling for the metropolitan county commences. A contested election for the county of Middlesex is always important ; but it assumes an unusual degree of interest, on the present occasion, from the extraordinary efforts which certain parties have made to turn out Mr. flume, against whom the battery of misrepresentation has long been opened ; and if the effects of the fire kept tip upon him had only been commensurate with its violence, he must have been annihilated as a public man, to the great satisfaction of all who like to gather the golden spoil of luxuriant corruption, whe ther they belong to the Whig or Tory camp. That we do not agree in all the political opinions of Mr. flume is well known—that we, on the contrary, differ with him decidedly on some most important public questions our readers are perfectly aware ; but as a Member of Parliament, taking his faults and his merits togrther, there are few men, in our opinion, who have stronoer claims upon the support of that large and in fluential portion of society who are solicitous to send industrious, working men into the Senate. to bring about good and cheap government, and to wage an uncompromising war against prodi gality and corruption, regardless of the colours under ta hich those political vices are practised, and aloof from the party influence of men who struggle to get into place, or to retain it. When Lord Henley opened the trenches of that opposi tion to Mr. Hume, which was expected to dislodge him from his strong hold in Middlesex, the banner of religious persecution was unfurled, and we are ashamed to say that a considerable portion of the Dissenters, whose claims to civil and religious liberty Lord Henley had opposed, and Mr. Hume most energetically supported, ranged themselves under the orlfiamme of the titled placeman, and joined the intolerant cru sade. To cover the ingratitude of this proceed ing a specious charge was made against Mr. flume. He was accused of denying the very existence of a Supreme Providence. If we thought there was any truth in the charge, whatever his merits might hitherto have been as a Member of Parliament, we would have not only not advocated his cause, but we would have entered the field against him ; and simply upon this ground, that the man whose mind is insen• sible to the proofs, and whose heart is dead to the influence of the provident wisdom of that Great Being who created and sustains the uni verse, must scorn those moral obligations which are the basis of both public and private virtue, anti be destitute of those qualities which should inspire confidence or command respect. The proof offered in support of the charge has been so disposed of by Mr. flume's explanation that we need not further refer to it. We cannot believe that he premeditated any insult to re ligion, who, we understand, is habitually at tentive to the observances of that Christian Church of which he is a member. Few, in deed, are the saints or philosophers whom his tory records that have not had a moment of weakness or error at some period of their lives. The great Locke says that the characters of men should be judged of, not by a single act or ex pression, but by the general habits of their lives. If we thought the life of Mr. flume could not stand this test, laid down by one of the soundest reasoners and most virtuous Christian philoso sophers that England ever produced, we would disdain to advocate his cause. Moreover, we happen to know that if some of the Members of the existing Government had not, for some cause or other, of which they are probably now ashamed, given encouragement to the hopes of Lord Henley, the vehement persecution to which Mr. Hume has beet , subjected would not have been heard of. Some good and pious men there were, no doubt, who acted from the purest mo tives ; but there were others, whose affected zeal for religion was not unmixed with motives of a more selfish and earthly nature than then eiought it expedient to avow. What proof did such men require of the sincerity of the religious faith of any man opposed to Mr. Hume ? None whatever. They rejected the solemn professions of Mr. flume's attach ment to the Christian dispensation, but they took his opponents at their word. They knew that there were some men in power who thought his presence in Parliament inconvenient; they s a w that the most devoted of the Treasury Papers represented him as a " man of crotchets ;" a Marplot, and in other ways designated him as one on whose career the cheering sunshine of power was not destined to diffuse its prosperous rays ; and hence much of the zealous malevo lence of a class of persons who are more dis tinguished for the cunning of the serpent than the innocence of the dove. If Lord Henley were a sincere Christian, did he prove it by his intolerance in opposing the Test and Corpora tion Acts ? But he has fled from the conflict, and now Sir Charles Forbes unfurls the banner of Ultra-Toryism, and attempts to take by storm , the position which the " Church - reforming" Master in Chancery failed to carry by sap and undermine. Lord Henley did not come forward as an avowed Tory ; he assumed a political mask, which to us appeared a tolerably transparent one, judging from his own speeches. Sir Charles Forbes appears in his proper character, which is, undoubtedly, a respectable one among his party, but not a character that has any claim upon the support of the people, whose rights he has resisted, and whose burdens he has never given himself much trouble to relieve. As to Mr. flume, he has, beyond all other men of the present day, the great merit of never allowing a Chancellor of the Exchequer to repose in luxurious indolence, or to enjoy his seat as a bed of roses. In the present deplorable state of the finances of the country his searching and in defatigable attention to the budget and the esti timates of the year is of more importance to the public service than any other quality of a se nator. Of what use are the occasional and flashy speeches of such a lack-a-daisical patriot as Sir Francis Burdett, or persons of that stamp, compared with the practical, unceasing energy which distinguishes Mr. Hume, and the vigilant sentinelship which lie exercises over the public expenditure ? Times are coining wh e n that unsparing spirit of inquiry into the state of our finances, and that resolute resistance to the vices of venality and profusion, which Mr. flume has always manifested in Parliament, will become more important to the country than ever. The electors of Middlesex have more at stake in the contest that is coming on than Mr. Hume. Let tiiem look to it.—Morn. Herald. As we anticipated yesterday, the northern division of Hampshire has thrown out the two Tory candidates, though one of them is the son of the Duke of Wellington, the Lord-Lieu tenant of the county, and the great leader of the Conservative party. The two Liberal candi dates, who are returned, came forward on the strength of their political principles, and the re spectability of their private characters, without any of those pretensions to the support of the electors which great names and high connec tions can confer. Their triumph was therefore more that of public confidence than of private influence. From the state of the poll in South Hampshire, where Lord Palmerston is more than 300 a-head of his antagonist, the result will, we dare say, be equally satisfactory, and that four Reform Members will be returned for the county of Southampton. In the West di vision of Surrey, Mr. Denison, a Reformer, who has so long represented the county under the old system, has been returned along with another Reformer, in opposition to Mr. Holme Sumner, who glories in the name of Tory. Mr. Denison concluded the polling with 2.5 per cent. above his antagonist. In Derbyshire the Con 'ervative, Sir Roger Gresley, whose success was announced by his friends as certain, is found at the bottom of the poll ; and in the South division of Warwickshire Sir G. Philips. a Reformer, has been returned, though he only began leis canvass on the day of his nomination. We consider these as important triumphs for the reform cause, and we are confident that in the great majority of the contested county elections we may calculate on a similar issue. We are sorry to add two new cases to our small but dark catalogue of election delinquencies, in appending Southampton and Bristol to Norwich, Liver pool, and Hertfbrd. A correspondent from the first-named borough has sent us an account of a meeting held there on the 17th inst. to rais funds to prosecute a petition to Parliament against the return of the Tory candidate, on the score of bribery. The meeting is said to have been attended by 1,500 persons, who were led by their indignant feelings to enter warmly into the project of a subscription. The leading Re tormers have thus taken up the cause of their late Member and present defeated candidate, and are determined to spare neither expense nor ex ertions to wipe off from their town the disgrace of a return effected, according to them, by bri bery and intimidation. They expect the assist , ance of their brother Reformers over the empire • in prosecuting their righteous object. Another correspondent assures us, " that if we were to inquire into the circumstances of the Bristol election, we should find that bribery and intimidation, particularly the lat ter, are weapons which have been wielded by the Tories in Bristol, with greater vio lence, on this occasion, than at any time within his recollection." He refrains from specifying numbers or names, but repeats his positive assurance as to the circumstance itself. Now, in all these cases we may expect, and we have a right to demand, a searching Parlia mentary inquiry at the commencement of the Session. The infamy is evidently unconnected wbb the Reform Bill, but the remains of the old system which it has spared have produced the evil. A corrective must, therefore, be ap plied, either in depriving those individual free men of their votes who have abused their pri vileges—or in rendering the 101. householder system, against which no complaints are brought, uniform over all the borough constituency—or in establishing for such places, if not for all, vote by ballot. At present we press for no specific measure,—we insist only on the necessity of investigation. These cases prove, not what the Conservatives pretend, that the Reform Bill is an evil, but that it has not been sufficiently severe in its corrective application. There is still much of rottenness remaining in the system, and if the prunings already made have not ena bled the tree to flourish with its proper vigour, the other branches which still encumber its healthy growth must be cut away.— Times. At the nomination for South Devon, Lord John Russell cut up the Conservatives in fine style. The Russian-Dutch Loan is the never failing argument against Ministers. Lord John observed truly that the money was paid under an engagement which the former Govern ment had taken ; that neither Sir Robert Peel nor any of his party, would declare against the project ; and " that, whatever may have been the folly of entering into the engagement, he could not remedy that folly by the dishonesty of not fulfilling it." The other stock argument—the war with Holland—he disposed of in an equally satisfactory manner. Towards the conclusion of his speech, he had the following happy passage : " We wish not, as it was falsely imputed to the Re form Bill, to take off the Crown from the King's head. We,- on the contrary, think the Crown will shine in brighter lustre when it is reposing on the affections of the people.—(An expression of dissent from the Conservatives here caused Lord John's friends to give him three hearty cheers.) We wish to preserve all the other valuable in stitutions of the country. It has always been my opinion that those institutions, if they were in danger—and they certainly were in danger—it was because they were perverted and abused.—(Loud cheers.) I think that when restored to their proper and primitive use, they are institutions which are worthy of the people, who would now defend them, as of the ancestors who glori ously founded thern.—(Cheers ) But I am of opinion that the ministers of religion should devote them selves to the purposes of religion.—(Cheers.) I am of opinion that public servants of the Crown should devote themselves to the public service. —(Cheers.) I am of opinion that trose who, in what, ver station of life, are called to bear the great burden of public affairs, should carry on those affairs honestly, for the benefit of the whole country, and not pervert those sacred and vene roble institutions to the benefit and property of indi viduals."—(Cheers.) His Lordship thinks the Ministers of religion should devote themselves to the purposes of re ligion ; but they themselves, unfortunately, think they ought to devote themselves to anything rather than religion. Hence the part which they took against the Reform Bill—hence the zeal w i t h which they are now exerting themselves everywhere to prevent the return of liberal can didates. The present is the first election in this country in which the people can be fairly said to be represented. It affords a pretty convincing proof that the affairs of religion are not in a healthy state, when the people are on one side, and ther clergy on the other.—Morn. Chronicle. The polling for Middlesex commences this day, and we do not wish to libel the electors by the . supposition that they will disgrace themselves by returning an out-and-out Conservative. It Mr. Hume was not sufficiently fervent as a Negro Emancipator for some of the Dissenters, and Lord Henley endeavoured to manoeuvre them by the help of a few ambiguities on that score, surely Sir Charles will not be more pala table to them on this score. Sir Charles is a very worldly man in his private capacity, but he has never been accused of any predilection for li berty for men of any colour, in any quarter of the world. The endeavour to run down Mr. Hume as an Atheist, was no doubt deemed a good joke by the Conservatives. There would have been no joke, of course, if lie had not been so well known as exemplary in all that regards ri t t o ten return o nth t is o religion. Weare iei a l lm h o a s y t e as h h e a e m nd l w e the puerilities which subject. The Standard of last night, however, returns to the Providence argument. Alluding to our obserratious of yesterday, the Standar d says : " This argumentum ex abusrt needs not to be an swered : it is quite enough for all purposes that it be in tell.gibly stated. Two fanatics or hypocrites—silly per sons, at all events—have profaned the name of Providence by asserting, while under some delusion, or in wilful vio lation of truth, that the Almighty obediently ministered upon request to their most shabby and trifling occasions; and, therefore, the national acknowledgment of God's pro vidence and power in a visitation of awful magnitude ought to be proscribed. This is the argument ; if a second time we omit to answer it, we shall, we trust, be forgiven. We cannot now surmise that a single person will require an exposure of its futility any more than yes terday we could suspect the use of such re,soning by an able writer." So Providence is not to be introduced on shabby and trifling occasions, but ought to be introduced on great occasions. But the charge against Mr. Hume was, that by opposing the introduction of " Providence" into an Act of Parliament, he denied the superintendence of Providence. The belief in a Providence is one thing, and the propriety of referring to it in an Act of Parliament another. his no doubt true that the abuse proves nothing against the use ; hut it would be as absurd to infer that Saint Percival, Wm. Huntington, or Irving, were ir religious, from their introducing Providence too often, as that Mr. Hume is irreligious from his refusal to introduce it. The introduction of Providence into an Act of Parliament was a question of propriety, and warranted no conclu sion as to belief. But it seems Mr. Hume pre sented petitions from persons having no religious belief. What ! and is toleration synonymous with irreligion ?—Morning Chronicle. The Warwickshire Reformers are doing their duty nobly. The county will be rescued from the threatened return of the blind Tories, who have made strenuous efforts to bring in one man in each of the two divisions. The poll of the southern division of the county closed on Tuesday night. Sir Gray Skipwith and Sir George Philips having both prevailed against the Conservative, Mr. Shirley. The facts of this contest are most honourable to the War wickshire electors. On Friday last, the day of nomination, the constituency had no intention of opposing Mr. Shirley's return—fearing the expense to Sir Gray Skipwith, and that the Tory tenants at will (or rather tenants without will) would overpower the Reformers. Mr. Shirley, however, believing his election safe (and, indeed, his chair being in waiting), most gratuitously and insolently commenced a tirade of Tory abuse against Ministers, the Reform Bills, and the Reformers. In tell minutes the electors in the Hall applied to Sir George Philips, of Weston Hall, to resent the insult, and to test the strength of the Tories. An un disturbed canvass by Mr. Shirley had most unluckily pledged a considerable number of the liberal party ; but a Committee was instantly formed after the nomination of Sir Geo. Philips —deputies were immediately sent off express , to every part of the southern division—local committees formed, and the tocsin of a deter mined opposition sounded throughout the whole county. Saturday was the only day of prepara tion, Sunday intervening, and the poll opening on Monday ! The register—the infinite use of which to the Reformers has been thus signally illustrated—by its perfect record of the name, address, and locality of qualification of every elector, afforded the immediate facility of can vassing and bringing up to the poll every liberal elector. On Sunday night the electors poured into Warwick, Stratford, and Sout ham ; and during the whole of the poll of Monday " headed" the Conservative. On Tuesday the contest closed, Sir Gray Skipwith having a majority of 288, and Sir G. Philips sixteen votes over the num bers of Mr. Shirley. The northern division of this active-minded county is now engaged in a similar cause ; and the proceedings on the day of nomination display an amusing contrast be tacen the opinions of the Liberals and the Conservatives. The Tories are riding two hack h arses—the Dutch war and the currency ; but the durnmels will not carry them safely on the course. It will be an eternal disgrace on those Whig or Radical electors N‘llo do not cordially unite to return Mr. Dempster Heming and Sir E. E. Wilmot, and to cast out from among them the rank Tory Dugdale.—Morning Chronicle. The Ministerial papers make it their daily boast that the elections are proceeding in a manner highly favourable to the Parliamentary power of the present Administration. Their calculations we hope will prove erroneous, for we can scarcely figure to ourselves a deeper ca lamity to the cause of national freedom than the decided and uncontrolled ascendency in the Le gislature of the men who now hold the reins of Government in this country. It is not yet, we trust, too late to implore the electors of the United Kingdoms to reflect upon what they are doing before they commit the freedom and happiness of the nation absolutely to the mercy of the men now in power. Despotism may yet be averted, although, from the progress already made in the formation of the new House of Commons, it is evident that nothing short of the most active and strenuous exertions on the part of all who have a dread of despotism can now suffice for that purpose. We need not retnind the electors of a truth so obvious as that any Ad ministration flaying the support of a devoted and unscrupulous majority in Parliament, upon whose votes it can rely, whatever be the character of its measures, is to all intents and purposes an Administration in the actual possession of despotic power ; nor will it require, we imagine, much warning to awaken reflecting minds to the danger that despotic power in the hands of the present Ministers cliche Crown may be tyrannically exercised. We will not advert to the tyranny exercised by the present Ministers over the Peerage and the Crown, in order to force the enactment of their Reform Bill, in defi ance of the conscientious conviction of these two independent branches of the Constitutional Le gislature ; we will not advert to the provisions of that Bill, which always appeared to us to have for their primary, if not their . exclusive, object to consolidate and perpetuate NA? big domi nion, in proof of the tyrannical disposition of the Administration, since in both of these in stances they acted in concurrence with a consi derable proportion of the nation. Nor is it ne cessary in support of our accusation to refer to those arbitrary and selfish proceedings, for in the more recent conduct of Minist ers , an d i n the every-day language of their confidential or gans, there is more than enough to show that they are the last men in England whom any sin power. Th e cere and rational friend of freedom would intrust Govern affection continued nined boundless sympathyatid irresponsible o7 t n ev ‘h ig Government unabat e d ßevolutionary Govern ment nt England of France, theandthe of the former t o wards the latter, notwith standing its undisguised assumption of despotic • sway, is a conclusive proof that the tenden cies of the Statesmen who now govern this country arc towards tyranny. We can for give to Earl Grey and his colleagues (to some of them at least) their devotion to the interests and their subserviency to the wishes of the Citi zen King; it was no more than might have been expected from the language and conduct of their whole former lives. But when the Citizen King degenerated into a lawless tyrant—when he violated the chartered liberties of the French people, when he subjected the civil inhabitants of his capital to military tribunals of his own ap pointment, when he and his Ministers procured the election of a Parliament which has permitted them to propose, and will no doubt eventually. sanction, a law placing the liberty, property, and life of every man in France at the uncontrolled disposal of tile Executive Government, and when, notwithstanding all this, Earl Grey and his col leagues, and every organ of opinion over which they exercise any influence, continue to flatter and to obey the Revolutionary Government of France, with all their original adulation and ob sequiousness, we feel it to be our duty to submit to the judgment of our countrymen whether, in the event of such Statesmen obtaining an irre sistible ascendency in Parliament, the people of England, Ireland, and Scotland would not have just cause to apprehend danger to Magna Charta, the Bill of Rights, and the Habeas Corpus Act. We hear much abuse of Don Miguel from Ministers and their retainers, because he abolished a Consti tution which the Portuguese people liked so little that they called him to the throne for the very purpose of getting rid of it ; but the Govern ment of Louis Philip remains the object of their partiality and their homage, although it has trodden under foot the constitutional charter which it was created by the people expressly to defend. And is this, we ask, the party in whose favour the British people will dismiss their ha bitual and salutary jealousy of the executive power, and create a House of Commons con sisting of little else than their devoted and sub missive adherents ? The journals in the in terest of the Administration are already so elated with the success which has attended its creatures at various elections, that they no longer hesitate to avow principles and designs the most repug nant to the Constitution, and the most revolting to the habitual feelings and opinions of the na tion. It is conjectured that the Scottish Peer age may elect sixteen representatives to sit on its behalf in the House of Lords, who will not vote implicitly in obedience to the commands of' the King's Ministers upon every occasion that may arise; and this the confidential organs of the Government are instructed to represent as an enormous evil, and to call for an extraordi nary exertion of the prerogative for the purpose of counteracting it. The elections now in progress seem to promise the exclusion from the House of Commons of any competent number of persons connected with the colonial and other very im portant interests of the country. "It is quire right," exclaim the well-instructed organs of our liberal Government, " that this should be so. The total exclusion of all such interests from the national representation is only a new proof of the admirable working of the Ministe rial measure of Reform. Why should sugar islands, or shipowners, or banks, covet the power of sending Members to Parliament ? What pur pose can it serve but to promote debate and strife? Can these unreasonable persons not be satisfied with the care and protection his Ma jesty's Ministers are sure to afford them ?" This surely is indiscreet. The nation which has been struggling for three years upon the ' question of Parliamentary Reform, must be an extraordinary nation indeed if it can hear the organs of the Reforming Administration thus intimate that all value for the privilege of direct representation is in their opinion a folly, and that every interest is best protected when it is left to the absolute disposal of the Executive Govern ment, without perceiving that the Reform Bill, however it may operate, could never have been produced from any other motive than that of keeping its authors in place, and without im bibing at the same time a pretty strong suspicion that constitutional freedom is not free from danger in their hands.—Morning Post. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, DEC. 19. COOPER AND OTHERS V. HUTCHINSON AND OTHERS This was an action of detenue and debt brought by the plaintiff;, ship-owners at Hull, to recover from the defendants, who were shipowners, at Peterhead, the value of certain oil, taken from the ship William, which they had sold, and also the oil which they had not sold. The plaintiffs were owners of the ship William, of Hull, which they sent to the Greenland whale fishery, and which, after having obtained a good cargo of blubber, was jammed by the ice, and became a comple , e wreck. The Captain and crew of the defandant's ship, the Traveller, after the William was abandoned, and after the crews of other ships had taken stores and other things out, conveyed the blubber o.► board their ship, an d brought it to England, where it was boiled down, and converted into oil. The quantity of oil ob tained from the blubber was about 24 tuns, and was estimated at about 8001. On the part of the defendant sit was observed that in the Greenland fishery it was customary that when a ship was wrecked, and was abandoned by the crew, other ships might appropriate, for the benefit of their respective owners, any part of the stores or cargo from the wreck. Witnesses were then called, who deposed to that custom having existed from and before 1780, and that, when their (the witnesses') ships had been wrecked, they had often repurchased the stores from the owners of the ships which had brought them home. The witnesses also stated that the crews of lost ships were always brought home by other ships in the trade, and that every exertion was made to save them, and also damaged vessels, before the cargo or stores were touched. Mr. Scoresby, a clerygy►nan, who has written a very interesting book upon the Greenland fishery, he having visited that dreary climate for the pur pose of making observations, stated that he was aware the practice of taking stores and the cargoes out of wrecks existed, and was considered in that particular fishery as lawful ; and that the custom by mrny ship-owners was acknowledged. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE summed up, and the Jury retired; and alter ten minutes' absence returned with a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 3921. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, DEC. 19. BOLDER°, LUSEIINGTON, AND CO.'S BANKRUPTCY. A meeting of the creditors of the London bank ing firm, against which a commission was issued so long ago as 1812, was held to-day, for the purpose of auditing the accounts, which were of a most ex tensive and complicated nature. The banking firm of Boldero and Co. stopped payment in the month of January, 1812, with claims against them to the extent of between 475,000/. and 500,0001. The bankrupts had con the West Indies and ytaomirtal amount of dividends in the to 6s. 9d. in the h pi d u e tt r hi a,iibs. hithertol ecdoipeu,crhrillevtararyletedt late Mr. :siorop neh i ey iarryat t , one o f the Mem ben rs il floBr24S,alwidhwenieltlla‘tvagsenatslseimgnaeneied. The manage ment of the estate then devolved upon Mr. Win. Timson, who still is the assignee. For some years the creditors have been endeavouring to ob tain further dividends, but without success, and since the new system came into operation the Com missioner has been applied to upon the subject of the unsettled condition of the bankrupts' property. In July last Mr. Abbott, the official assignee, was appointed to investigate the numerous accounts connected with the estate, and the result, as stated by the official assignee, was, that there appeared money and property, to the extent of between 45,0001. and 50,0001. which was not satisfactorily accounted for as to its distribution. In the accounts of the surviving assignee there appeared to be a de ficiency of from 14,0001. to 15,000/., which was not fully accounted for. The object of the meeting was to proceed with an investigation of the accounts of the present assignee, in order that his accounts of receipts and disbursements might be verified and explained. Mr. MAYNARD, on behalf of creditors whose debts amounted to 20(1,0001., was anxious to obtain jus tice for his clients. Mr. CHING, on behalf of Mr. Timson (the sur viving assignee), should have to contend that there was a debt due from the estate to his client, as as signee, of 56,0001. for advances made by him to part pay the first dividend and previous claims due to Mr. Timson. Mr. MAYNARD went into some details of the ac counts, to show that, so far from this being the case, the creditors had a large claim on the assignees. The total amount of debts proved was 477,500/. and it did not appear that the assignee had, as stated, ad vanced money to make up sufficient to pay the di vidend. The COMMISSIONER asked whether he was called upon to believe that there ever was an estate which owed an a-signee so large a sum for the purposes stated ? He asked Mr. Timson whether, before or after Mr Marryatt's death, he had eve r advanced any of his proper moneys to pay the dividends ? Mr. Timson did not think he had. After some further conversation, time was allowed to consider as to what ulterior steps should be taken in order to obtain the large sum which, by the ac counts, appears to be deficient, or to obtain a satis factory explanation how the whole assets of the bankruptcy have been applied. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, DEC. 19. CHERRINGTON AND WIFE V. BROWNE. Mr. PLATT stated this case, which was an action fo , an assault against the wife's father. The plain tiff had kept an oil and Italian warehouse at Isling ton ; the defendant was a clerk in the Bank of Eng. land. The plaintiffs were married in December, 1831, unknown to the defendant. After the mar riage the wife went to reside with her father until August la•t, when the plaintiff took her to lodgings. The defendant knew nothing of the marriage until that time. In September the defendant came to the house where they lodged. The wife opened the door for her father, when he struck her with a stick on the head, and said he should use her hus band in the like manner. The husband in the mean time came in, and some loud words passed between them, but no blows. It was for this assault that the action was brought. The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiffs— Damages, One Farthing. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, DEC. 19 NECK OR NOTHING, OR A CASE FOR THE JOCKEY CLUB. William. Nelson Blackman Harman, horse-dealer, late of Carnerbuiy, was opposed by Mr. NicnoLs, on the part of two creditors named Hutchinson and Cook ; he was supported by Messrs. COOKE and WoonitoFFE. An application was made to the Court, on the part of the opposing creditors, to remove the inso;- vent to Maid tone gaol, to be heard on circuit, in the neighbourhood of which place all his creditors reside. His debts amounted to 2,0001., for nearly 9001. of which a lady named King became answer able, and subsequently married him, on which occa sion a settlement of considerable property was made for her benefit-. 'Mr. Hutchinson stated his readiness to remove the insolvent to Maidstone, at his own expense, and he considered it necessary for the elucidation of his affdirs. Mr. COOKE objected to the removal, and said the distance was nothing, for he could prove by Mr. Hutchinson that he could do the &stance from Can terbury to London (a distance of 56 miles) in the short space of two hours and twenty -five minutes. '1 he CHIEF COMMISSIONER ( with astonish ment)—Whar, Mr. Cooke, in two hours and twenty -6 ye minutes ? Mr. CooKE—Yes, Sir. I will prove it by the witness himself. Mr. COOKE (to witness)—Did you ever ride your own horse, for a wager, from Canterbury to London in that time ? Witness—l did. And the Corporation of Canterbury, for the ex traordinary exploit, rewarded you with the freedom of the City ?—Yes.—(Laughter.) The COURT said it was " a wonderful perform: ance," and Air. COOKE hoped that his client would not be sent to be heard in the country. . The COURT refused the application, and ordered the hearing to take place in London, on a future day. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION--HO USE. A gentleman named Goddard was brought before the LORD MAYOR charged with having beaten a watchman. The case occasioned great mirth. A watchman stated that as he was going his rounds, at 12 o'clock on Saturday night, he cried out the hour, and the defendant mimicked him so that the people laughed as he did his duty. He told the defendant not to cry the hour, as " it warn't fit for none but watchmen to do so ;" but the gentle man continued the offence, and, moreover, struck the witness's comrade, who endeavoured to prevail upon Lim not to disturb the neighbourhood. In the scuffle the witness's wig tumbled off and was sopped in the mud. The LORD MAYOR—I thought the absurd prac tice of calling the hour was long since abandoned. Ledbetter, the Marshalman, said it was still kept up all through the city. The LORD MAYOR perceived, too, that some of the old-fashioned watchmen were retained, as was evident from the appearance of the poor old man with the muddy wig. He often heard the watch men's voices, but never yet heard the hour. Mr. Hobler believed the guardians of the night never knew the hour, and that they generally started out of their sleep to join in the unseasonable con test for the annoyance of the inhabitants. The defendant said, that the watchmen had treated him most unmercifully. One of them cried the hour so unintelligibly that he (the de fendant) cried it afterwards to show him the way he ought to exercise his lungs. Suddenly the two attacked him most violently, and kicked him in the shins, and pummelled him in the puddle, so that he got as wet as the wig that fell off accidentally. They then dragged him to the station-house, from which he was removed to the Compter, where he was detained until Nlonclay morning, and all for no thing but crying the hour better than the watch man. He was a respectable citizen of London, and felt that he had been grossly abused. The LORD MAYOR said, it was evident that the watchman was afraid that he should be superseded by the greater vocal accomplishments of the de fendant, who could have no right to join in the chorus until he became one of the fraternity. The defendant said, it was rather too much to in flict such punishment upon him for so harmlessly employing himself. The LORD MAYOR admitted that fact; but said that the defendant had acted very foolishly in crying the hour, and that what he had suffered would, probably, make an alteration in him for the better• His Lordship discharged the gentleman. QUEEN-SQUARE. Yesterday, Amelia Gray, alias Westminster Poll, the bilker, made her 43d appearance at this officei and was charged by Thomas Harding with robbing him of some gold and silver, at a house in Old PYe' street, Westminster. The prosecutor stated that he met with the prisoner and another female on th e previous evening. At first he was inclined t 0 " shake them off," but they had so many " insist' vating " ways with them, that he consented to e t e them something to drink, as i t was a co ld night. be changed a sovereign at the first public-house tbel went into, and before they reached Westminster,' ° many houses had been visited, that only a few 50 lings of t he ch ange remained. By this time th e prosecutor had becom e so enamoure d o f hi s fa" , companions, that he was at a loss which of the tv° opportunities that presented themselves to e mbrace' After some cogitation, however, he made up mind not to part with either of them, and cosy quently off the trio proceeded to the house in OKI Pye-street. About 4 o'clock in the morning th e prisoner and her companion secretly left the house , arid on the prosecutor awaking shortly after, h e die covered that his money had also disappeared. g e gave information to the police with all possible de. spatch, and the prisoner arid another female we re apprehended. Th e l atter , h owever, h e could un' , swear to, but Miss Amelia he was positive was on e of his companions, and she was accordingly broug ht before Mr. WHITE. MARLBOROUGH -STREET. Yesterday, a lady who was dressed in the first ' style of fashion, attended with an assistant oversee r of St. George's, Hanover-square, to get a deposition which she had made for affiliating a child si g ned hi a Magistrate. The lady, in reply to questions putil Mr.DvEte, said she was now enceinte by a gentleola n named M—. She was born at Trinidad, wber e her father held a situation in the civil departmen t ' and she had a brother in the army. Nine yo rs ago site lived under the protection of Mr. and she had a child by him, but it was now dew' After some time Mr. M— settled 1201. upon he r ' and observed it would enable her to get married' l'wo years ago she married Mr. H--, b ro ther° Col. H--, and nephew to the late Mr. M.P., who, she thought, was the cause of the i r subs. quest separation. Af ter a h oneymoon o f s eve n weeks, her husband discovered how she had r e ; ceived her annuity, an d h e l e f t h er; an d a l t houg she followed him abo ut , s h e never cou ld meet wit h him afterwards, and s h e b e li eve d h e was now to" India. She then renewed her intimacy with 141. ' M--, but he had some time ago deserted be t ' and she was compelled to resort to the present un" pleasant mode of ge tti ng hint to support her chit Mr. DYER—Where have you lived since rs lr husband parted from you ? Mrs. H—ln 8 highly respectable house, and also in the country- Mr. DYER—Can you sssear that there has be en no access on the part o f y our h us b an d f or t h e 15s " , . year or twe. Mrs. H— I have not seen hi m s i nce he le ft me, and I am now likely to become a mother, I n consequence of an intimacy with Mr. M, Mr. DYER—Your appli ca ti on i s certa i n l y an eN' truordinary one. Mrs. H-- I am under the necessity of maki i . n g, it, for Mr. M— has turn e d hi s b ac k om me l c !' marrying; and he has compelled me to adopt d ill' course, for the purpose of annoying me. Mr. DYER—That does not agree with your fo r ' mer statement ; for you stated that he wished you to many ; observin g , th a t th e 120/. a year woul d make you comfortable. Broomilead, the ov e rs e e r —Th e gent l ema n vviC— he 6 1 this course to be adopted. The lady is only casu ti to her parish; but her case coming to the know ledge of the Board, they, from motives of humanity' have taker) it up. womanl‘lr. DYERcd riot ex legallypressed bhaisstaordpizneiohnerthoawl e that l All she could do was to proclaim her own eririe, nality. He, however, signed the deposition, sou granted the warrant, upon the und ers t an di ng t h a t 10 ulterior proceedings should b e ad o pt e d unt il h e 10 5 again applied to. ' i m bi a ld rr r i e e! t UNION-HALL. f , Yesterday the Rev. Mr. Bellairs waited uPe the Magistrates, and stated that, since the s uicide of the villain who called himself Captain Beaucler k, a sister of his, residing at Bedworth, in Warwick' shire, who had been receiving parochial relief for a length of time, ma :e application to him (the Re j v ' Mr. B.), ss a Magistr a t e o f t h e coun ty, for his 8 " . vice and assistance, in order that she might °Wi ll possession of the property which her brother vvn e , possessed of at his death. Sh e s t a t e d that his re 9.l name was Clarke, and that he changed it to Beau' clerk previously to his obtaining a commission in the 60th regiment, Mr. MURRAY said, that the Jury returned a v e , r : dict of felo de se at the inquest, an d, therefore, property of the deceased w as con fiscated to t he Crown. elf As Mr. Bellairs had kindly interested for the poor woman, he had better make an apP cation to the Treasury. - - - Information was yesterday given to the po lice that a very large massive gold neck chain, cable Pat tcr f: about a yard and a half long, with padlock soap' :i round with Oriental and Emerald s to nes , and valued 50 50 guineas, had been stolen from the dressing-WEB Of Mrs. WYNDHAM LEWIS. 1, Grosvenor-gate, Park -lan e, WHOL ESA LE ROBBERY.—OII Tuesday af ter noon, the carman to Messrs. CLARK aild Co, of Shr ditch, left his horse and cart standing at the end of t inl° , ll :, street, Whitechapel-road, whilst he got a book signed. his return, in shout two minutes, he found that so lve person had driven off w ith th e h orse a n d c art. The re were two hogsheads of o il, a quant i t y o f stone b ot tl e s, 20" A about 100 weight of starch, in the cart at the time. The property has not since been discovered. THE BELL ROCK PILOT.—JAMES SPlN E died at Arbroath, on the 9th CID t., age i 85. He is rt . minently noticed in the account of Bell Rock Lighth ou 'i e ' connected with the operations on the 2,1 September, Ig o ;when he providentially arrived at the rock with letter from the shore, and was the means of sitting the lives Forhad engineer and 31 artificers—at a time when the te , had drifted, and the tide was fast rising upon them. th e this service he was allowed a small pension from Lighthouse Board. SP I NK was a very trusty pilot, s% a tine example of tall robust fisherman, whose figure 'ej his pilot's dress and large bonnet, has been well pr osers : t h by Howe, in a full l e ngth, l e ani ng upon his boat, W 0 the Bell Rock Lighthouse in the distance. The 11 °his jacket and badge were laid upon the mort-cloth at tuneral, which was attended by several of the merrha • and shipmasters of At broath, and by the master a nd creo o f the Pharos Bell Rock tender.—Scotsman. e d do' DEATH EXTRAORDINARY.—Drow. „ - : tine the chace, last week, occa s ion e d by his c°°" ° ,7je l r• contact with a mill-wheel, the celebrated stag, A1e 13 ,,,' of usually called the Kingston Deer, late the proP er "farl De BURGH, Esq.,and formerly (we believe) of t be sur• of DERBY, and subsequently of the proprietors of the ol co rey Stag-hounds. This excellent deer, wkese los 4 ist ier sincerely lamented, afforded the last day of the ~o unds a chace of upwards of fifty miles.—Bell's London. BIRTHS. o l f s a tii d, i i i u ,s g t hte a r t . On the 18th inst. at Grovehall, Bow, Mrs. Captain .1' Ba ( r ) c . la t y h , , t be Richmond Villa, Tunbridge Welll' lady of John Jackson, Esq., of a son. f oe On the Irth inst. in C'adogan-place, the lady of Thomas " Ireland, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIED. ... f oe: On the 18th inst. at St. B o t o l p h, Bi s h o ps g ate, B. rl ' RACK' Esq., of Naples, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Walter fort, Esq., of Alderman's-walk. ilarrie tC6 On the 18th inst. William Ashmore, Esq., to 0. daughter of J. G. Paley, Esq., of Bowling, Yorshire.. r v. On the 18th inst. at St. Peter's Church, Walworth, ~_`l ' Edwards, surgeon, to Eliza, relict of James Lambert, D .(l. 01 G uo, On the 16th inst. in Wigmor D e-streat, London, James Stanley, Perthshire, aged '2,4 years. 1 0i' SO , 'cle• On the 18th inst. at Islington, Mr. John Ellill, aged 12 ,1 1 , formerly an eminent lead merchant in Queen-street, Ch o e n , P o i' On the 17th inst. at Walkhampton Vicarage, 13ev,,y„ 0 William Alexander, fourth son of 'Janie' Alexander, n o 11 the Isle of Wight, late an officer in the East India Service* •2•2 d ear. G il Ce' On y the 18th inst. Mr. Timothy William Barker, late of church -street, and Lee, Kent, aged 45 years. 0 " '-- PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY MU It I) 0_1? 0 U N 0, Al ,ilO SUN OFFICE, 112,...5T11AND, LONDON.