The Sun. — London, England, 1832-10-04 00:00:00

the holy fire, " like Vesta's, ever burning ;" and, therefore, deserves well of the people, who know that, without the possession of freedom, all other possessions would be of little worth. But touching the question whether " truth should be a libel," Mr. Tennyson said, "It was a point on which he had arrived at his conclusion with great difficulty, but he thought it should not." Thus we find that, as to the general question of the merits of the Press, nothing could exceed this gentleman's warm praises, or his " ardent devotion " it its cause; but we also find that ardent devotion very con siderably cooled down when a practical measure for the better securing of its liberty is propound ed. Many a Tory, without injury to his creed or his conscience, would, sooner than lose a borough, go as far as the liberal candidate for Lambeth did in thinking that truth ought not to be a libel. He would, no doubt, have great difficulty in arriving at that conclusion ; and so, upon his own admission, had Mr. Tennyson. What constituted the difficulty to a just and clear mind, or one of liberal notions, we cannot conceive ; but we can easily conceive why those politicians who dread the truth would fear the reform of the law of libel, which endeavours to extinguish the light of the Press, by making an adherence to truth one of its greatest crimes. The present Lord Chancellor once promised a bill to reform the law of libel ; but he seems to have forgotten it since he came into power, as have all the other Whigs who used to attack the doctrine of truth being a libel when out of place. The fact is, both Tory and Whig, when in power, find this doctrine a very convenient one : but it must perish, like other things rotten in the State, when the people choose really ho nest and efficient representat'ves. We would rather see Mr. Tennyson the Member for Lam beth than the imbecile Lord Palmerston—though one who is less a party man might be more a pa triot.—Morning Herald. The present high price of bread in the metro polis, and indeed, as far as we can learn, all over the kingdom, compared with the reduced price of corn, after the late abundant harvest, is a subject in which every one is interested, and calls for prompt remonstrance and correction.— The fault, as far as we have been able to ascer tain it, appears to lie with the middle-men ; the price of the manufactured material, the flour, bearing no just proportion to that of the raw material, the corn. The very fact mentioned in this paper a few days since, of a large public Board having contracted for a year's consump tion of the best wheaten bread at a price amount ing to less than two-thhds of what the general consumer in the metropolis is now paying, con firms this. There is no secret that in such cases the contract is taken by the mealman, of whom the baker is only put forward as the agent. It is impossible to look back at the history of popular discontent, both at home and abroad, without perceiving in how many instances the very worst fruits of commotion have been brought upon countries, amounting, in some instances, to the very subversion of Govern - ments, by the too inflammatory modes of treating the subject to vt hich we are now referring. With such instances before our eyes, nothing can be further from our view than to treat the subject in a way which may excite feelings which it might be difficult to control or restrain. At the same time a great public evil is not to be glossed over, or passed by, merely because its exposure admits of being abused. For the evil in ques tion, great and general as it is, there appears to us a very easy and effectual remedy—viz., that persons should be induced to embark in the trade, who are willing to be contented with reasonable profits, and that the public should patronise those who are ready to extricate them from the imposition which it is evident is now practised upon them. In the case of the con tract alluded to, there appears to be a profit of upwards of 30 per cent. between it and the ge neral price of bread. Now, one-third, or nearly so, put upon the first necessary of life, cannot be considered otherwise than as a very grievous impost, depriving the people as it does of par taking of those blessings which Providence has, in its goodness, just showered, upon them in such copious abundance. At the same time the remedy happily presents itself hand-in-hand with the evil, so inordinate a profit presenting, as it does, an ample field for enterprise, provided such enterprise be duly encouraged. Strange to say, that has not, hitherto, been the case. The high priced baker has hitherto been the person who has obtained the greatest share of public pa tronage. If people will be cheated with their eyes open, who can help it ? But still the rich owe something to their poorer neighbours upon this subject ; and that duty they may perform, by not too readily acquiescing in a state of things for which a little union would soon pro vide a remedy.—Morning Herald. We refer our readers to two very important papers among our advertisements—Mr. Wes. tern's Address of September 27, to the Electors of the Northern Division of the County of Essex, and a Series of Resolutions agreed to at the Associated Reform Committees of the said Division, held at Braintree, September 26. Mr. Western commences his Address by demanding why Mr. Baring, who resides in Hampshire, where he has a splendid mansion, an ample domain, a princely estate, should not avail him self of the retirement of his brother from the re presentation of that county, to offer himself as a candidate for it, instead of coming into Essex,l where he is a perfect stranger, at the invitation of those to whom he has been opposed his whole Jife? 11r. Western justly observes that " There are no two men, who, according to their re ppective opportunity and means, have more distinguished t h einge :ves in their bitter hostility than Sir John Tyrell and Mr. Haring. Mr. Baring now accu,es his former friends of thir.:y years' standing with faults, of which any man, having any shade of candour, would, I should have thought, have acquitted them, and pronounced to be wholly unfounded. Me. Baring is governed by conscience no doubt ; but unfortunately, from the nature of these charges, as• well as from big eager embrace of the High Tories, persons might be led into the suspicion that he was rather under the influence cf those feelings which are known often to prevail in the breast of a man who abandons and makes war upon former friends, thin swayed by the dictates of a calm, dispassionate judgment." It is impossible for Mr. Western to express in writing half the contempt which is universally felt for Mr. Baring ; and the Tories and Pai sons of Essex must be hard pushed indeed, when they are obliged to rally round a renegado, who has all his life been their bitterest enemy. Mr. Western is, by universal admission, one of the most honourable men in Parliament. He is, as the Associated Committees say, their long-tried Representative. His principles are well known. He avows himself a party man, an admirer of 'Earl Grey, and declares that his great wish to be re-elected is to support his ad ministration. " I am convinced," he says, " there is the best chance under his Ministry of accomplishing every rational, prac ticable Reform, in every department of the State—Civil and Ecclesiastical—and effecting every possible ameliora tion of the condition of human beings, tvliether white or black, in this and every other country in the world ; I think, too, from the confidence of the people in his inte• gritv, that he will have the more power to conciliate the mind of the too sanguine enthusiast, and control and coun teract the attempts of the more subtle and dangerous par ties of unprincipled ambition. The ancestors of the pre sent men in power obtained for us our Bill of Rights, and placed the present family on the throne of these realms. Could that have been done if they had not acted upon well understood, high-principled party attachments? I hesitate not to assert that their succesgots have continued to fight the good fight; have gained, by their persevering exertions, every step we have advanced toward the establishment of civil and religious liberty, upon a safe and firm basis, and their last great work bas enabled the people to command nearly all that is possible for human legislation and human power to accomplish ; and it now remains for them to do their duty." Mr. Western observes, that " the lovers of liberty will certainly maintain the triumph they have gained, unless they fall under the too fre quent and fatal effects of divisions amongst them selves ; and history tells us, that such has been too often the case in every country, in every age of the world." Surely the lovers of liberty will not disgrace themselves by acting in such a manner as to allow two opponents of Reform to be returned from the northern division of Essex. But this leads us to the consideration of the re solutions of the Associated Reform Committees. They say, that " having received the registration returns throughout the county, they have the means of knowing that the Reformers of this division may now be certain of Western's return —if they be true to themselves." But they add, that the public feeling will be satisfied with nothing less than the attempt to return two Re formers ; and they pledge themselves to act on this principle. They say, that hitherto no man has been proposed which could command the support of the entire party, but that " a few weeks must now suffice to clear up all doubts in the minds of reasonable men—to make the course clear as the day to all true Reformers; and then will the Committees, as the organ of public sentiment, earnestly and zealously take the field against both Tyrell and Baring, under the best leaders they can find, be they whom they may." More is meant here than meets the ear. The Essex Independent of Friday last gives the following key to it : " The great body of the constituency (says that paper) is clearly composed of those now designated as Liberals ; but as their political sentiments de in the main approxi mate to those of the Whigs, they will generally support the return of one of those gentlemen, if they in their turn are willing to concur with them in the election of an inde pendant man, as his colleague. Attempts have been made it Harwich, in Mahlon, and in North Essex, to bring in two Whigs—the attempt in every instance has signally failed, and it must do so. Had Mr. Disney been willing to coil , see with with Mr. Leader, then success must have followed. If Mr. Lennard had been willing to stand with a liberal at Maldon, Mr. Dick's resignation would have been tendered ere this—and if Mr. Western and Mr. H4r vey can but come to terms in North E-sex, the chance of Sir John Tyrell and Mr. Baring will not be worth a six pence. If, however, candidates are determined to stand stone, neither is sure of his return. From the present as pect of the whole kingdom, it is quite clear the liberal or independent party will be represented, and it consequently becomes a very serious, question with the Whig Aristocracy —whether, by throwing obstacles in the way, they will not be hastening a crisis, the effects of which may be in the extreme disastrous to their own interests." The associated committees defer their next, probably decisive, meeting till Wednesday, the 24th of October, " in the joyful anticipation of Western's appearance amongst them, to work with them in their honest course,—w hich they now declare to be their course." It was long ago remarked by Burke, when he was a Whig, in a confidential letter to Lord Fitzwilliam, that the gentry of England were essentially Tory ; that the Whigs were nothing when not favoured by circumstances, and that their chief strength lay among the Dissenters. The Dissenters, for tunately for the good cause, are in almost all the influential towns, three or four to one, compared to the Members of the Church of England, and, upon the whole, form a considerable majority of the population, even allowing to the Church the benefit of infidels, indifferents, and all who have never enrolled themselves under any denomina tion. With all deference to the Whigs, they are but too apt to forget that they are a minority of the landed gentry, and that, to be strong, they must draw the people with them. We are as sured, on most respectable local authority, that, properly speaking, in the northern division of Essex there are no Whig aristocracy; that there are few gentlemen of estate who are Mr. Western's per sonal friends. The great stumbling-block, we are assured, is the pride of these squires, who cannot brook the idea of any one representing a county who is not a great land-owner, and who cannot reconcile themselves to the idea of tenants voting against their landlords. We learn that the second division of the party consists of a very numerous body of men of the middle classes—decided, but by no means violent, Re formers—mostly farmers and tradesmen, with here and there a clergyman and Magistrate, and all the dissenting ministers. Among this class there are no leaders of any distinguished ability ; but they possess a great fund of sound principle, and abundance of energy and activity. They are devoted to Mr. Western, of whose past ser vices to the good cause they have a grateful re collection, though there is not the most perfect sympathy between his sentiments and their own. This division has given the tone to the party since the election of 1831. Thirdly, then, the division of radicals devoted to Mr. Harvey, who will decide the battle. They are now irritated and watchful, and would not sup port Mr. Western standing alone, and should Mr. Western's friends split with Tories, they would plump with any Radical Candidate who might come forward. Hitherto this class have acted cordially with the second class ; but their numbers have been rapidly increased by the un satisfactory aspect of county politics, and they are in some danger of breaking away from their brother Reformers, and setting their brother Re formers at defiance. We have said nothing of the inert mass of voters, utterly dead to all po• litical feeling—men who would not pay the shilling or go to the poll unless urged by com mittees—a class, we are assured, more mime rous than would easily be..believed. We will deal frankly with Mr. Western. We hold his character in the very highest regard, and should regret exceedingly his being thrown out fOr Essex. But we have a stronger attachment to tire cause of Reform than we have to Mr. Baring or any other individual. Now we hold it to be the duty of all Reformers to merge personal considerations, and to consider merely how the cause is to be best served. If it be attempted to return only Mr, Western, we are assured that he will assuredly be thrown out. Now, in our • humble opinion, the true and proper course is . to draw together. Let the Whigs find out some Candidate of their body, of high and popu lar character, such as might be acceptable both to Aristocrats and the rest of the Electors, and try whether the Radicals will renounce their favourite, Mr. Harvey, in his favour ; or let them wake a virtue of necessity, and upon broad prin ciples support Mr. Harvey to put out the Tories. The Associated Committees meet again on the 24th October, when, should the Whigs and Radicals agree, the election for two is gained, and should they disagree, the election for one will not be carried. We have a great deal more to say upon Essex. It is an important subject ; and we fear that what is going on there is going on in other counties. We trust the fable of the bundle of sticks vv_ill_mat..be forgotten. The election in Essex, in which Mr. Western joined Tyrell against Mr. Wellesley, did great injury to the cause of the Whigs, and we trust that a similar stupid junction will not be repeated.— Morning Chronicle. An amusing narrative might be composed (and, by the bye, it would not be a very brief one) of the succession and variety of accidents by which his Majesty's present Ministers, after talking big, either in Parliament or through their accredited organs of the Press, at Mr. O'Connell, have been furnished with apologies for doing nothing. To some of those occa sions, indeed, the term accident would seem to be misapplied, unless it may be deemed an ac cident that the Law Officers of the Crown should discover their own ignorance just in time to save Mr. O'Connell, and to cover Govern ment with ridicule for its too hasty fulminations. It will be recollected that the Lord Lieutenant and Chief Secretary for Ireland did not merely abuse and menace Mr. O'Connell for his defi ance of the Government proclamations against tumultuous assemblies, but that they actually prosecuted him, that they obtained judgment against him by default, that Mr. Stanley pledged himself in the House of Commons to have him called up for judgment, and that at the moment when all the lovers of peace and order were waiting with anxiety to see what punish ment would be inflicted upon this enemy of both, lo ! and behold ! it was discovered in the very nick of time that the Acts upon which he had been indicted having expired subsequently to his con viction, or confession rather, this notorious, con victed, confessing criminal was to escape punish ment altogether. This would have been quite enough, no doubt, to redeem any man, although of a temperament much less sanguine than Mr. O'Connell, from any fear of the law for the rest of his life. But this was not all. Instead of the condign punishment which Mr. Stanley pledged his Majesty's Government to cause to be inflicted upon this audacious offender against the law, the special grace and favour of the Crown were showered upon him, as if the country had been his debtor for the most important services, and the cause of peace, order, public prosperity, and social happiness in Ireland demanded his eleva tion as its most faithful, vigorous, and successful champion. Since this escape and exaltation it can occasion no surprise that Mr. O'Connell has continued as before to set the laws at defiance, to brave the authority of Government, to inflame the passions of the people, to inculcate doctrines the most disorganizing and pernicious, to sound the trumpet of rebellion, to incite to the com mission of murder ; for it must have been ob vious to him, as to all the rest of mankind, that to his former success in those and similar achieve ments in the field of agitation he was exclusively indebted for his advancement. But, once more, the Government Press has been instructed to speak the truth of this obedient pupil of Lord Anglesey ; once more Mr. O'Connell has been threatened with legal punishment ; once more it is discovered that the Law Officers of the Crown, when they affected to intend to bring him to punishment, were ignorant of the law as it applies to his case ; once more—but we shudder to complete the parallel—he seems, indeed, to be on the very path to preferment. Silk was the emblem of his last triumph ; the robe of triumph in which he is next to be clothed can be no other than ermine. The system of Government with respect to this Gentleman seems to be to assume every now and then the virtue of denouncing him, of con demning his lawless and atrocious conduct, of threatening even to punish it ; and presently af terwards, upon some contemptible pretext or other, to give him not only the assurance of full impunity, but to load him with favours, in com pensation, we suppose, of any annoyance to which he may have been exposed during the fit of seeming virtue, and as an atonement for the vituperation by which, so long as the fit lasts, the well disciplined hacks of the Treasury are sure, of course, to assail him. We would wil lingly, therefore, dissuade our Ministerial Con temporaries from speaking so much truth as they now do of Mr. O'Connell ; we dread the proportionate atonement. When they re vile this Gentleman as a public disturber we already, in imagination, behold him Attorney- General of Ireland. When he is described in their columns as an incendiary and an instigator of murder, he rises in our frighted fancy to the dignity of a Judge. When they threaten him with an ignominious termination to his career we cannot suppress our alarm lest we should hear to-morrow of his having the Great Seal. In the full persuasion that Mr. O'Connell deserves all that they say of him, and much more, and certainly without any feeling of regard or affec tion towards that individual, actuated solely, in deed, by the apprehensions we have just de scribed, we beg to suggest to the Journals in the service of Ministers one or two obvious con siderations, which ought to have the effect of moderating their expressions of indignation to wards the agitator. It would be well, we think, for them to recollect that, both in the eye of law and of reason, Mr. O'Connell is now precisely what he was when they fl atered and their patrons promoted him—that then as now he was the law less enemy of tithe—then as now the agitating repealer of the Union—then as now the incen diary writer and speaker—then as now the advo cate of resistance to law—then as now the con temner of all authority—then as now the trum peter of insurrection—then as now the syste matic promoter of violence and bloodshed. They should reflect, also, that Mr. O'Connell, being changed in nothing save in his relation to their patrons, whom he then patronised as he now spurns, for his own purposes, they are not likely to gain much credit for sincerity, however vehe ment may be the manifestations of their present anger, It behoves them to remember also that if, in the particular instance which furnishes the immediate occasion to their outpouring of wrath, Mr. O'Connell be wrong, their patrons at any rate cannot be right ; and, above all, that it is not for them to keep public attention fixed upon the facts that his Majesty's Ministers first incurred the probable and indeed imminent risk of blood shed, in reliance upon a point of law now admitted to be doubtful at best, and then threatened with a prosecution for libel the lawyer who corrected their legal error, merely for correctin g it. Th e y c an not surely but see that this, anthis alone, could have been the cause of the threatened prosecution, if the discovery that Mr. O'Connell was right in his law be, as is pretended, the rea son why the threatened prosecution is aban doned. The letter of Mr. O'Connell exposed what he believed to be the ignorance of the Government upon a question of law, and con tained, at the same time, a direct excitement to bloodshed and rebellion. For this he is to be prosecuted until it is found out that upon the question of law he is perhaps right, and then the prosecution is at once given up. Can there be a more distinct acknowledgment that correcting the error of Government was the crime deemed worthy of punishment, and that, in the estimation of the Irish Government, an incitement to murder and rebellion go for no thing ?-117orning Post. Among the new candidates who have made their appearance in the neighbourhood of the metropolis, or rather who are announced as about to make their appearance, is Lord Henley, for the county of Middlesex. His Lordship is a man of talent as well as of worth, and, consi dering that he is a Tory, of very liberal and rea sonable sentiments ; but what grounds have his friends to suppose that he can possibly succeed, by his coming forward, in effecting any other object than that of entailing expense upon the present representatives of the county ? Mr. Byng has long represented it, and if he has not shone as an orator, his votes have always been on the popular side. Will the electors of Mid dlesex then discard their old and well tried friend, for one of whom they know compara tively little, and who, though a liberal in many respects, is not a Reformer? We say shame upon the Reform Bill and its operation, if any such consequence result from it. It would be a stain upon the Bill—a disgrace to the county. Mr. Byng has served it honourably and faith fully, and his grey hairs deserve a better fate than that of being turned adrift in search of a constituency, by those to whose private and pub lic interests he has proved himself so true. And then again, as to Mr. Hume, who or what is Lord Henley compared with him ? It is true that an Evening Paper says of him, that " as no man of Tory politics, gentlemanlike feelings, or Christian principles can vote for Mr. Hume, and as Lord Henly has a high claim on all who pos sess such attributes, we hope and trust that Middlesex will purge off the base stain which it has contracted by having chosen the quondam Member for Montrose as its representative ;" but the abuse of such a Paper is the highest recommendation which. either Mr. Hume, or any other candidate for the representation of the peo ple, can possibly receive. That persons of " Tory politics" will not support him is no doubt true—that men of " gentlemanlike feel ings" can have any objection to him, except on public grounds, is incredible—and that " Chris tian principles" can bear against his election, appears to us exceedingly absurd, unless it be a principle of voting that men of " Christian principles" will not support those who agree with them in sentiment. But we have no fear of the result. The county, if it does not mean to dis grace itself in the eyes of all England, will never be guilty of such base ingratitude as to reject its old representative Mr. Byng, or to refuse its support to one who has deserved so well of the whole country, and would readily find constitu ents in any borough or city of the kingdom.— Morning Advertiser. The Sun of last night, in speaking of the in tention of the Scottish people to go into mourn ing, as a mark of national honour to the memory of Sir Walter Scott, observes, that " this is cre ditable, so far as it goes, but it is not the right sort of respect that is just now most needed. It is the repurchase of Abbotsford that is the one great requisite—of that Abbotsford which, for years past, has been a place of pilgrimage for all tourists from the Continent, and which they would be not less astonished than disgusted to hear, had passed away from the family of its illustrious founder. To prove herself truly grateful, Scotland must assist England in the repurchase of this classic spot."— True it is that it is the repurchase of Ab botsford that is wanted ; but shame, we say, on Scotland—eternal disgrace upon her—if she allow a farthing of English money to be ex pended in aid of the repurchase of what ought to become a national property. Let England raise her monument if she will, in honour of him who has spread her name and her deeds, as well as those of his own country, far and wide —but shame, we again say, on those who would seek for aid from the " foreigner," as Sir Walter would have expressed himself, to re purchase the spot on which the first man of the age, without any exception, penned those beautiful and interesting tales which have rendered her climate and soil, her moun tains and her rivers, her glens and her brakes —her language, her literature, her religion, and her mann ers — as e xt ens iv e ly known, and as truly classical in the mind of all Europe, as the plains of Troy or the field of Marathon. " Sir WAL TER'S best monument," as is justly observed, " is his own genius.," but there must be a mo nument also. When death came upon him, his strongest wish was that he might breathe his last breath in his native land, and rive his re ma i ns to the country w hi c h h e h a d rendered so illustrious; and shall there be no monument to tell where he was buried ?—no tablet to record where the re mains of the author of " Waverley" were laid ? —Morning Advertiser. A MODERN DON JUAN.--A love affair, attended with romantic circumstances, is making some noise at a bathing place in this county. Last season, a lady of considerable personal charms, and who was said besides to be heiress to a large property, delighted the inhabitants of the place by taking up her abode there, and ;s o mutual was the plea ,, ure, that she made her appearance again this season, attended by a female friend—a foreigner. The ladies were extremely attached to each other, and their affection was such as at last to excite some suspicion. At length a discovery was made that the foreign lady was neither more nor less than a young gentleman in disguise, —a modern Don Juan locating with his lady love in the fens of Lincolnshire. The happy pair were advised to depart and seek some other bower of love. Verily, this bathing place is (loomed to be distinguished this season for affairs of gallantry. —Boston Gazette. By the Conder, arrived at Falmouth, we have accounts from Buenos Ayres, to the 15th of July, by which we learn that a revolution has occurred in the re public of the Banda Oriental. The principal facts attend ing it are as follow:—The President of the republic, Don FnucTuoso RIBEIRA, was at Durazzu, his head-quarters, on the 29th of June, when his escort was attacked and disarmed, and the President himself narrowly escaped, having been fired at. It was rep or t e d t h at h e had fled to the Brazilian frontier. On the 3d o f J u l y, Colonel EUGENIO GURZON put himself at th e h ea d o f a b attal i on of infantry , and being j oined by a number of the inhabi tants, disavowed the Government of the l a t e P res id ent , whom he charged with . having placed th e country i n dan ger of civil wa r, and issued a proclamation, appointing General D. JUAN ANTONIO LAVALLEJA, Commander in-Chief of the army, until the House o f A ssem bl y s h ou ld o therwise determine. This appoint ment was a f terwar d s confirmed try the legislative body, which a l so i n trusted to the chiefs of the force which had taken up arms the pre servation ot the public peace. The Minister of State, D. SANTIAGO VasQuEs, was removed from office, and it was said would be impeached. :;11e the new Government, House of Ass Assembly of had D A A o r,Tsanctionedludl the appointment , DUEL V IDA L, as Minister of Finance, and D. FR.ANCISCO JOAQUIN Murtoz, as Minister for the Home Department. Opinions were divided as to whether th e ex-President would endeavour to muster a force and give battle to his opponents, or whether he would submit to circumstances. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. G UILDHALL. Mr. Munday, of the firm of Dean and Munday, printers, Threadneedle -street, attended before Mr. Alderman THORP yesterday, to ask permission to be sworn to an affidavit, touching the aczusation that they printed the inflammatory placard, stating that Sir Peter Laurie was tricked out of his election in 1831 by a combination of radicals, &c., assisted by the lowest blackguards of the city. Mr. Alderman THORP allowed the affidavit to be sworn. Mr. Munday then swore that he did not print the offensive bill, and that he does not know who did print it. The printer, as well as the author, of the placard remains undiscovered, but it is perfectly clear that neither Sir Peter Laurie nor his Committee had anything to do with its publication. MARLB OR 0 U GH-STREE T. A porter, named Robert Tanser, was yesterday brought before Mr. CONANT, to answer to a charge of felony brought against him by a person named Bawden. Mr. Bawden produced a quantity of papers, and, as we understood him, said he was authorized by the Court of Chancery to execute an attachment against the goods of a lady named Savage. living in War dour-street, for a sum of 3801. He perceived the prisoner at the bar loading his truck on the previous evening with a portion of the goods so attached, and consequently he had him taken to the station-house for what he conceived to be a felony. A lady here stepped forward and said the goods about to be removed were her property, and she had hired the prisoner to remove them to her lodg ings in Poland-street. She was entirely ignorant of any attachment or any other process which could affect her goods, as she had paid up her rent, after doe warning, and she certainly did feel grtat sur prise when they were stopped and seized in such a sigular manner by Mr. Bawden. Mr. CONANT did not see how it was possible that Mr. Bawden could charge any party with felony. It was evidently a case of hardship on the part of the lady, who was justified in endeavouring to protect her own property. . . Mr. Bawden had done no more than he thought was his duty. Mr. CONANT was of opinion he had gone a little further than his duty in making a felony of the mat ter, and he suspected he had thereby rendered him self liable to an action for false imprisonment. Mr. Bawden then inquired if he might not retain the goods Mr. CONANT could give no opinion, but, as they were off the premises, the attachment could not operate against them. The prisoner was then discharged, and the lady retired, to avail herself of the hint thrown out by the Magistrate. Richard Davis, a cab proprietor, charged the coachman of T. Marley,Esq., Cork-street, with hav ing assaulted him. Mr. CONANT said, had the case been laid under the High way Act, he should certainly have inflicted a fine, but being charged as an assault, he could not deal with it as a wilful action, and therefore it must be dismissed. The complainant having stated that his thigh was seriously injured, Mr. Marley said he would take care it should be cured without expense to him. MARY LEB ONE. Yesterday being the day appointed for the hear ing of the summons issued against the proprietors of the Harrow steam-coach, at the instance of Mr. Proudfoot, bookseller, of 89, Wardour-street, Soho. Mr. John Squires, the proprietor, attended by Mr. Charles Phillips, as his counsellor, appeared before Mr. RAWLINSON, the Sitting Magistrate, to answer the charge of running a machine, to the great danger of his Majesty's subjects. Mr. Proudfoot repeated his former statement, which appeared on his application for the summons, and underwent a long and severe cross-examination by Mr. Phillips, in the course of which he stated that the carriage, when it passed his chaise, was proceeding at the rate of twenty miles an hour, there were several persons on the top of it, and that he had met with an accident before at Windsor, when driving the same poney and chaise. Mr. Proudfoot denied that he called to his wife to pull the horse's reins, or that she did so. Mr. Phillips denied that the accident occurred through any fault of the steerer of the carriage, or that it was at all a dangerous machine to run. He called on behalf of the defendant— Mr. Bennet Oden, jeweller and goldsmith, of the Burlington-arcade, who stated that he was riding on the steam-carriage at the time the accident oc curred. About 200 yards before they came to the complainant's chaise the conductor all but stopped the carriage; he was sure it was not going more than a mile an hour when it passed the complainant's vehicle. The complainant was standing at his poney's head at the time, and holding the bridle with both hands; and, in witness's opinion, the horse took fright on that account. The steam-car riage parsed numerous horsey, gigs, and carriages on the road, without the slightest accident taking place. ' pa ly d r in J g a to m n e , s c W or a ro re b l o ia ra m t , ed ee m gi r n . ee o r, de o r f i, G s r s e t e a n t - e s m tr e e n e t t : and added that Mrs. Proudfoot did not get out of the gig, neither did the horse start, till the steam carriage had got upwards of LO yards from it. Mr. George Lewington, of 65, Berwick-street, Soho, and several other highly respectable gentle men, who were riding on the carriage at the time, gave similar testimony. Mr. RAWLINSON said it was a much more impor tant question than it appeared at first view. It was not only whether Mr. Proudfoot should be paid for the damage done to his chaise, but also whether the steam-carriage was, or was not, a public nui sance. It was an indictable offence, and he should therefore leave that question to be settled by a Jury, in case Mr. Proudfoot or any other person should think proper to indict. Mr. Squires was then ordered to find bail, himself in 501., and two securities in 251. each. Yesterday Charles Morland, the fellow who was brought before Mr. RAIVLINSON on Monday last for having for a considerable time past practised upon the credulity of the charitable and humane, by pre tending to havebeen born deaf and dumb,was again brought before the same Magistrate for final exami nation. Before the hour of 1 (the time appointed for the prisoner's examination), Mr. Best, the steward to Sir Francis Burdett, Bart., waited on the Magis trate, and requested to see the prisoner, as there was a man, answering the description given of him in the newspapers, who had been in the constant habit, for the last three years, of calling with a petition at Sir Francis Burdett's house, and it was only the other week that he had received half-a crown. Mr. RAWLINSON immediately ordered the gaoler to show the prisoner to Mr. Best, and on his look ing into the cell where he was confined, the fellow fell on his knees, and implored that gentleman's forgiveness. He said he knew he had acted as a gross impostor, but he hoped he would not deal too hard with him before the Magistrate. On his return into the justice-room, Mr. Best in formed the Magistrate that since he had read the re port of this fellow's mal-practices in the newspapers he had made some inquiry into the history of his impositions, and had been informed that there was hardly a family of distinction known for benevolence who had not been duped by his art.fices. At 1 o'clock precisely the prisoner was brought in, and placed in the dock, and in addition to the evidence adduced on the former examination, Sergeant Harrison, of the D division, went to the prisoner's lodgings, No. 5, Great St. Andrew street, Seven Dials, and on inquiry of the land lord, who is a baker, he was informed that he had lodged there about a fortnight, that he had a wife and several children, and always gave out that he was a clerk in a mercantile concern. When he came home at night he was generally drunk, and was in the constant habit of beating and ill-using his wife. He could afford to enjoy himself with his pipe and his glass of grog. One night he brought . two drunken Irishmen home along with him, when they kicked up such a disturbance in the house that he was obliged to give him notice to cjuit. The prisoner, when called o n f or his defence, be gan to whimper and cry, and hoped the . Magistrate would not deal harshly with him, as he had a wife and young family entirely dependent on his exertions for support. Mr. RAWLINSON—Why you are the most auda cious impostor I have met with for a long time. You take home two drunken Irishmen, and ill-use your wife, and then, to screen your own iniquities, you hold her up as an object of compassion. As there may be some doubt whether the last convic tion was returned, I shall again commit you for three months to the House of Correction, and de pend on it they will recollect you, and will take care that you will not find it so comfortable as you did last time.—Committed. QUEEN- S QUARE. Yesterday a middle-aged female, named Mary MMahon, one of the most desperate and violent characters about Chelsea, who has been frequently ' charged at this office with assaults, was brought up in custody and placed at the bar before Mr. GRE.. GORIE, charged with maliciously stabbing Joseph Russel, an out-pensioner of Chelsea-hospital, with / a shoemaker's knife on the previous evening. A certificate from the surgeon of the hospital was produced, which stated, that Russel was most dangerously wounded, and that he was unable to be 1 removed. Mr. GREGORIE ordered the prisoner to be re manded, until the fate of the man was known, and desired the constable to call several times a day at the hospital, and if Russel got worse to inform him, that he might go there and take his deposition. The prisoner was then removed from the bar. WORSHIP-STREET. Yesterday James Harris, stated to be a returned transport, was placed at the bar for anal examination before Mr. BENETT, charged, under rather extraor dinary circumstances, with having conspired with two others, not in custody, to defraud Mr. Samuel Evans, a tailor, of a quantity of apparel. The prisoner called at the prosecutor's shop, in Moortields, about three months ago, stating, that he had just returned to England from New Zealand, where he had been stationed as a missionary for three years. The pretended missionary prevailed upon the prosecutor to make clothes for himself and two persons, whom he called mates of the ship from New,Zeafand, as has already been stated on the former hearing. The prosecutor thus incurred a loss of about 501. The prisoner was recognized as a person who had been transported many years ago for a robbery at Messrs. Wilkinson and Co's, upholsterers. His term of seven years had long since expired, but it was alleged that during that time he had been con demned for some other offence, and sent to the penal settlement at Macquarrie-harbour, from which he must, therefore, have effected his escape, and re turned to England. That charge, however, was not entertained, as evidence to prove it must be brought from the antipodes. The two pretended mates, his companions, were supposed, from description, to be two escaped convicts. Mr. Harmer, on the part of the prisoner, submitted, that as no indictment had been preferred, or bill found, the Magistrate could not properly hold him to bail for conspiracy. After some legal discussion of the point, however, The prisoner was required to find bail, and com mitted in default. HATT ON- GARDEN. Yesterday, Mr. Townsend, a cabriolet proprietor, was summoned to this office before Mr. LAING, to answer the charge of James Allen Seagrave, an in spector of hackney-ca rr i ages , app o i n t e d by th e Com missioners of Stamps, for using plates licensed to another person. He was convicted in the penalty of 5/. and was locked up in the cell until the penalty was forthcoming. Richard Phillips, jun., coach and cart wheel wright, of 17, Mount-pleasant, was next summoned to answer a similar charge. Mr. Robinson, from Mr. Harmer's office, who at tended for the defendant, objected to the evidence of the witness Seagrave, on the ground of his being susceptible of bribery. He stated that on the 24th of last month Seagrave took out a summons against Mr. Phillips, for a similar offence, when he attended to answer the charge before the Magistrates, and took with him a person named Langhorne, from whom he hired the plate, as a witness. On their arrival at a public-house near Marlborough street-office, they met with inspector Seagrave, who agreed not to press the case if he was paid a couple of sovereigns, and the expenses 3s. 6d., and ultimately he went before the Magistrates, and made a false representation, that Mr. Phillips was a poor man with a large family, and he would readily forego the proceedings, with the consent of the Magistrates, if he would pay the expenses. Their Worships admired the humanity of the inspector, dismissed the case, and the two sovereigns a nd 3s. 6d. were paid immediately. Mr. LAING inquired whether there were any wit nesses to that fact ?—Mr. Robinson replied in the affirmative, and called Langhorne, who, being sworn, stated that he had licensed plates, which he occasionally let out to other persons having cabs. He recollected the 24th of last month, when Mr. Phillips was sum moned by Seagrave to Marlborough-street Police office, and saw him (Mr. Phillips) pay two sove reigns in order to avoid a prosecution. Mr. Phillips—Did you not see me offer him one sovereign, in the first instance, which be refused to receive, because it was not enough, and I gave hiss two ? Langhorne—l certainly did. My objection to go in was, I thought I had done wrong. Mr. Robinson said that he had other witnesses. Seagrave in his defence (heteing now at the bar) said, that he was allowed by the Commissioners to settle cases, with the consent of the Magistrates, if he was paid for his trouble and the expenses. Mr, LAING was determined that the case should be taken in a regular way before the Magistrates at Marlborough -street, and the charge of extortion made against Seagrave; and that the evidence te a/ eeived agaitisthim He theft that day should o ldb rd e e placed ha hefore the Comm i ssioners. . Townsend, who had been convicted on Seagrave'g evidence, should be instantly liberated, free of all expense. The Devonport mail to London was over. turned last Tuesday morning, a mile beyond Whitchurch —fortunately no one was hurt. The road here is in all respects one of the very hest pieces of road in the king' dom. The coach was not going extraordinarily fabt, buC was found to have overturned from the edge of the bank 0 0 the off (the wrong) side of the road. BIRTHS. On the 3d inst. in Cork-street, Burlington-gardens, the ladY of Miles Marley, Esq., of a daughter. • On the 2d inst. at Spring.grove, Pembury; the lady of Ale , x' ander Brymer Belcher, Esq., of a daughter. On the Ist inst. at Teigninouth, Devon, the lady of Richard Corbet, of Adderley Hall, Shropshire, Esq., of a son and heir. MARRIED. ------ - On the 10th July, at Wynberg, Cape of Good Hope, by sr: cial license, Robert Dampier Halifax, Esq., Captain 75th Regi' ment, eldest son of the Rev. Fitzwilliam Halifax, of Bathcot, near Ludlow, to Harriet, only surviving daughter of LieUt"' Colonel Thomson, Commanding Royal Engineers. of On the 3d inst. at W es t H am , Willi am St orrs F r y, E s q., Upton, Essex, to Juliana Sally, eldest daughter of John Henry Melly, Esq.. of the same place. On the 24z1 inst. at Chailev, Sussex, the Rev.Cilgiahrdleens, Sussex' second son of Sir Charles F. Goring, Bart., of H to Maria Arabella, eldest daughter of General the Hon. Fr e " derick St. John. DIED. On the 30th ult. at Brighton, in the 66th year of his age, th e Right Hon. Edward Southwcll, Baron de Clifford. The re mains of this venerable nobleman will be removed for interme nt in the family vault at King's Weston, near Bristol. On the 15th ult. drowned, on the lake of Como, Lock, Esq., jun., late of Norbury-park. w it On the Ist inst after a long and painful illness, Ann, the w i of Mr. William M. ;Lander, linen-draper, Upper NN hiteerc° . street, aged 9.5. On the Ist inst. Mrs. Herbert, wife of Mr. Thomas Herb er " of Checquer.yard, Dowgate.hill, aged 77. • On the 3d inst. after a long and paiuful illness, Maria, the wife of Mr. Hilliard, of Stockwell-place-school, Surrey, aged 4 V On the 2d inst. Charles Morton, Esq., of Kilnacroft, Cavan, Ireland, aged 30. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY MURDO You/go, AT 11" SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND ; LONDON.