The Sun. — London, England, 1832-12-15 00:00:00

OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS The Reform Bill has hitherto wrought won ders. With a very few exceptions, the elections have gone in favour of Reformers. A Reformer is no doubt a comprehensive term, embracing all the shades, from absolute Conservatism down to the advocacy of annual Parliaments and univer sal suffrage. However, we may venture to speak more explicitly. We have no hesitation in an ticipating, from the character of the gentlemen hitherto returned, an honest determination on the part of the great majority of the next Par liament to discharge their duty to their consti tuents with zeal and diligence, and more espe cially to check the besetting sin of the Govern ment of this country—a lavish expenditure of The public money. The Conservatives and quasi-Conservatives will certainly be in a mi nority; and the Government can only be carried on by yielding to the wishes of those who have no other object in view than the benefit of the peoples At a meeting at Chelmsford, on Friday week, Mr. Western observed, " In every part of this county, in every part of England, are not the Conservatives, as they call them selves—those Tory dominants—are they not now exerting every effort and every means that art—that influ e n ce —th at aut h or i ty — t h at con trivance—that chic a n er y— an d that priestcraft can devise, to subdue that spirit of independence that shall rise superior to them all ?—(Cheers.) In my conscience, I say that the spirit of liberty which has burst forth in Modern times is neither dead nor dying, and that it will display itself in the approaching election to the utter confusion of those creatures. That is my perfect convic tion. I tell you they will not succeed ; and I am satisfied that they who are the advocates of Re form and Liberty are embued with that sort of 7irit—that energy, which will trample down the feeble efforts of corruption and its satellites.— (Cheers.)" When Mr. Western made these observations, none of the elections had com menced ; but the result has completely borne him out. We trust that his anticipations, with respect to the northern division of Essex, will be equally justified by the event. " In the northern division—to represent which I ven ture to aspire—l trust there is that spirit among the middling classes, that with them no unwor thy aristocratical influence can prevail." The Tories have made everywhere desperate efforts, but they have made them in v a i n . Th e quest i on will no longer be, whether abuses shall or shall not be removed—reforms or retrenchments shall or shall not be made, but the extent to which abuses shall be removed—reforms and retrench ments made. The oligarchy can never hope to raise their heads again. 'We regard not the desperate struggle to retain influence in the counties, and the bribery which has been re sorted to in Norwich and several other boroughs. The Reform Bill has so far extended the con stituency, that bribery and influence cannot pos sibly command a majority of representatives. We all know that when a majority of the repre sentatives were returned by the oligarchy, the Government for the time was obliged to pay, in meal or malt, for the votes of that majority ; and bribery meant the sharing with the wretched instruments oftheir ascendancy the plun der of the nation 1 But bribery now, how ever odious and corrupting, will be merely a tribute paid by Conservative vanity ; it will be a. license-duty to exempt Conservatives from the necessity of behaving with decency to their fel low -creatures, and appearing before them with a claim founded on character and merit to obtain their suffrages. For a time the vile exclusive spirit, which our oligarchical system has fostered, will lead our Conservatives to buy suffrages ra ther than to merit them ; and we should not at all wonder, as the number of venal boroughs has decreased, while the excluded oligarchs are many, that there should be more bribery than be fore. But this, like many other evils, will exhaust itself. The source of bribery was the hope of plunder. With the extinction of that hope, bribery will gradually wear itself out. The question now will be the quantum of Reform, and the time for entering on it. Without meaning to hold out any excuse for delaying the good work, we may observe, that any amount of Reform facilitates farther Reform. We trust that the representatives of the people will proceed boldly in the work of Reform and retrenchment ; hut whatever their success, we will not despair. The Church of England, hitherto the great enemy of Reform, the opponent of instruction, and of all good, will no longer be suffered to outrage the people. One retrench ment will lead to another. At every step the people will acquire fresh vigour ; while their enemies will become more and more feeble. We see abundant reasons for hope, and none for despair. No Government—no INlinistry can hereafter deprive the people of the means of working out their own salvation.--Morn. Chron. The circular of the new Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs, M. Zea Bermudez, addressed to the diplomatic agents of Spain in foreign countries, is a most important document, con taining, as it does, at the present eventful crisis, an expose of the principles according to which it is intended to conduct the policy of that country both at home and abroad. This docu ment at once puts an end to every hope that may have been formed of a peaceful amelioration of the political state of Spain, at least while the existing Administration continues in office. In deed, the appointment of "Zea Bermudez to the high station which he occupies was, in itself, a fact that afforded no happy augury of the fate prepared for Spanish freedom, which had pre viously found in him a most bitter and unre lenting persecutor. The memory of the gallant and martyred Riego, and of other victims of the merciless despotism which Bourbon bayonets and perfidy established on the ruins of Consti tutional Government, cannot be thought of without recalling recollections that cover the name of B ermu d ez w ith an ythi ng but glory. Nothing but a moral miracle could make such a man the a d vocate o f a generous system of policy, and certainly his declaration of political faith gives .us no reason to suspect that such a miraculous conversion has taken place. In the outset of his manifesto the Spanish Mi nister is exceedingly anxious to have it under stood that the amnesty, which the exiled Spa niards hoped was but the commencement of a brighter era, not only for themselves but t h e i r country, is an act of mere despotic grace, which it would be criminal in them to interpret as a presage of improvement in the political institu tions of Spain. In returning to their native soil they must not expect to see it purified from the vices or delivered . from the terrors of absolute Government. They must not expect to enjoy the protection of enlightened laws, that exercise authority over both Princes and people. They must submit themselves wholly to the capricious mercy or malevolence of that power which ac knowledges not the salutary coercion of consti tutiunal restraint. In closing the door upon all hopes of any real political reform this official do - cument is explicit enough. After speaking of' maintaining the religious system of Spain in all its splendour, with her legitimate Kings enjoying the plentitude of their authority, it goes on to say --" Her Majesty, the Queen, adhering to the bases that the wisdom of the King our master has laid down as the rules of his Government, and persuaded that the Spaniards cherish a noble pride in being at all times faithful to their Sove reigns and submissive to the laws, declares her self the irreconcilable enemy of every relig,ions or political i nnova ti on th at it might be sought to establish in the kingdom, or to introduce into it from abroad, to subvert the reigning order of things, whatever, moreover, might be the pretexts or the manoeuvres with which party spirit might endeavour to cover its criminal designs." It is true that, although all essentials of Government are to remain the same, M. Bermudez does not proclaim a spirit of immutability in all the exter nal forms b y which absolute power is adminis tered ; for he is liberal enough to go the length of promising that " her Majesty will not refuse to adopt, in the different branches of the public administration, the ameliorations that a sound policy, and the councils of wise men, really attached to the country, might point out as useful." He also promises that her Majesty " will feel no repugnance to revoke or modify her regulations or decrees, whenever expe rience shall have proved the insufficiency or the danger of them." Thus it is clear that the wise men, whom the Queen is to consult, are not intended to be the Constitutional Cortes. The supreme power is to issue or revoke its de crees of its own will, and neither in the making nor modification of them are the people to have any share through the interposition of represen tatives. The Minister is afraid, it may be ima gined, that " Spain has formed an alliance with revolution." But the convoking of her ancient Cortes would be so far from a revolutionary measure, that it would but restore to Spain the benefit of her old Constitutional system, before the Emperor Charles V. executed that despotic revolution that, by its enfeebling and demora lizing effects, gradually reduced her from one of the greatest, the most enterprising, and the most glorious nations of the earth, to one of the weakest, the most despised, and most degraded. This official declaration also shows that the cause of Don Pedro or his daughter have nothing to hope from the change which has taken place in the Cabinet of Madrid. It states that, wiih re gard to the contest between the two Princes of the House of Braganza, a strict and perfect neu trality will be observed ; and adds that France and England have given solemn and reiterated assurances that they will not infringe the neutra lity agreed upon. The announcement of perfect neutrality on the part of England, France, and Spain, with regard to the contest for the crown of Portugal, is in direct contradiction to reports lately brought from Madrid, stating that the British Cabinet had addressed a diplomatic note to all the Courts of Europe, to apprise them of being about to take an active part in the esta blishment of Donna Maria on the throne of Portugal that an expedition for that purpose is to be undertaken conjointly with France, and that Donna Maria is to receive not only a crown, hut a husband, in the person of the Duke of Nemours. We thought those reports fabulous when they first came under our notice, and we do not believe them the less so now. If Eng land could by her good offices restore Donna Maria to a throne which is her lawful right, it would be well ; but to interfere by force 9f arms for that purpose would be an act of folly which, with the consequences of other absurd interfe rence in other people's quarrels before her eyes, we do not think is likely to be committed. Our Goverment ought, indeed, to have instantly and signally punished the insults of Don Miguel to our flag ; but beyond that she ought not to go in the employment of force. As to the ambi tious Louis Philip, we confess we have seen enough of him to think British arms and treasure might be better employed than in aggrandising him and his family. Our Government will have enough to do in attending to the internal state of their own country if they mean to fulfil one half of the promises which they have given to the people, of which peace and retrenchment were two, and the latter cannot be without the former. If, therefore, the Duke of Nemours wants a Royal bride and a throne, let him win them for himself. England has suffered enough already, both in treasure and blood, for her Quixotic enterprises on behalf of the selfish and ungrateful family of Bourhon.—Morn. Herald. The protracted defence of Antwerp seems already to have produced in some degree the usual effect of courage and perseverance when employed in a just cause in procuring for the King of the Netherlands, his conduct and his motives, something more of the decent appear ance, at least, of respect and consideration than a day or two ago it suited the humour, or was permitted by the instructions of the minions of the British Administration to afford them. When we find sheer scurrility and abuse succeeded in such a quarter by an attempt to reason upon the merits of the question between the King of the Netherlands and his assailants, it is impossible any longer to doubt that the fire of the brave Chasse has produced one effect equally salutary and surprising—an effect upon which the friends of the Dutch nation have much reason to congra tulate themselves, since in the war of invective, considering the talents and practice of their an tagonists, the chances were grievously against them, while in that of argument the triumph in this instance is sure to be wholly their own. The Globe of last night contains an elaborate dissertation, having for its object to prove the justice and necessity of the war undertaken by France and England against Holland, upon the principal points of which we shall offer a few remarks (and very few are required), in order to show that it entirely fails to accomplish its purpose. Our contemporary contends that England and France acted justly and consistently in enforcing the last decree of the Conference against Hol land, although they had permitted the Belgians to resist, and finally to overrule, the first decree issued by the same authority, because there were intervening facts which materially affected the question. Now what are the intervening facts upon_ which our contemporary relies ? The rejection by Holland of a second project of the Conference, and the irruption of the Dutch force s into the Belgian territory. These facts do not appear to us to affect the question in the slightest degree, for if the Conference believed its first decree to be a just one, as must be pre sumed, no one of its subsequent decrees, which differed from it in a manner objectionable to either of the parties interested, however they might have been multiplied, could, in the esti mation of the Conference, as an impartial umpire, be equally just. Hence it follows that, on find ing no modification could be introduced with the consent of both parties, the Conference ought to have reverted absolutely to the precise terms of its decision, that being evidently the only pos sible decision that could ever be forced upon the two parties with any show or pretence of impar tiality. Nor is there any ground for the as sumption that by the invasion of Belgium the King of the Netherlands forfeited any particle of the claims which, by their first project, the me diating Powers had so distinctly acknowledged. This act was justified fully by the facts that the cause of the King of the Netherlands had been prejudiced during the negotiation ; first, by the elevation of Prince Leopold to the Throne of Belgium, and, secondly, by his acceptence of an oath which bound him never to concur in those conditions of peace upon which the Conference had already stamped the character of justice by all the authority of their original decree. The irruption into the territories of Belgium gave the Conference no ground of complaint against the King of the Netherlands, for there existed no armistice which might not be broken without the breach of any law or any engagement, upon due notice; and due notice was given, as perhaps Lord Palmerston recollects ; but the oath of Prince Leopold was, in the actual circumstances, not only an outrage upon the rights of the King of the Netherlands, but an insult to the authority of the Conference, whose submission might well have been taken as a conclusive s ymptom that there was no chance of justi ce or impartiality towards Holland in any of its future proceedings. From this moment, had Holland been a powerful State, she would, no doubt, have refused to have any further communication with the Conference. But the great and magnanimous Powers knew, unfortunately, that Holland was not a powerful State, and the hopeless negotiations proceeded. It is then pretended that the Conference were bound in some way or other to settle the dispute, whether justly or unjustly, because a war between the King of the Netherlands and King Leo pold might have led to such a disturbance of the territorial relations of the divisions of the Nether lands as would of necessity have been fatal to the peace of Europe. This argument assumes a prospective and contingent inconvenience, and employs it as a sufficient justification of an immediate and certain wrong. Other reply it neither requires nor deserves. But we cannot refrain from observing that this eventual danger to the peace of Europe must have broken upon the perception of the Conference suddenly but late, since it is undeniable that for many months after it undertook its mediatorial office it conti nued to disclaim the intention and the right to interfere in any circumstances by means of arms, and that the idea of forcible intervention for the preservation of the peace of Europe was never introduced until the family compact between the King of the French and the new Sovereign of Belgium had been concluded. Much stress is laid upon the circumstance that the great military Monarchies were parties to the pro ject of separation which the King of the Ne therlands had thought it his duty to his sub jects to reject. But injustice is not the less unjust from the number of participants in the crime. These Monarchies were parties also to the original decision, in which the King of the Netherlands had acquiesced, and to the en forcement of which, if any decision was ever to be enforced by arms, the Conference had given him an indubitable claim. The Northern Courts are honourably distinguished from the Govern ments of France and England, inasmuch only as that theme was, it is now plain, a certain point in the career of iniquity and oppression at which they were determined to stop short. That some of the stipulations of the last project which Holland has rejected were included in the first which she accepted, and that these particular articles are now made the ground of complaint, is alleged as a proof of inconsistency and bad faith on the part of the King of the Nether lands. The cause must, indeed, be desperate which requires the aid of such an argument. The first project was, as every project for such a pur pose necessarily must be, a mere catalogue of compromises and equivalents. It was accepted as a whole, and surely there is but little consis tency or good faith in the assumption that, having accepted it as a whole, the King of the Netherlands has lost his right to reject and con• demo any of its separate parts, when incorporated in another and a different project.-11 Torn. Post. An evening paper of yesterday states that " Prince Lieven received despatches from his Government on Tuesday, of a most warlike and peremptory nature. It is also said that a courier has left St. Petersburgh for Paris, with a mani festo of the Emperor Nicholas, protesting ill the strongest terms against the proceedings of the French in Belgium ; and, it is added, that upon his arrival at the French capital, the Rus sian and Prussian Ambassadors in London, will immediately make known to Lord Palmerston the determinations of their respective Govern ments." If there be any truth in the above statement, the enemy of the peace of Europe is at once unmasked, and a greater traitor to it assuredly never existed. There is no ground either for the protest, or for the interference of the Emperor of Russia in any other way in the contest which is now waging between the obsti nate King of Holland, and that portion of the five Powers which has determined to act according to time decisions and resolutions of the Conference. Nay, should it be the intention of the Emperor to act in the manner reported to our contemporary, a greater instance of hypocrisy and villainy will not be found on record. For two long years has he been apparently aiding and assisting the efforts of the other European Powers to bring about that conclusion of differences on account of which a French army is now in Bel gium ; and yet, if the statement made by our contemporary is to be relied on, he is the first to quarrel with his own apparent pro ceedings ! It is possible, however, to wish to do evil, and yet not to have the power of accom plishing it ; and such we believe to be the case with the Autocrat of all the Russias----with the traitor to the liberties of Poland—the banisher of her children—the destroyer of her institu tions. His treasury is not so full either as he could wish, or as would enable him to take a very decided part in the Belgian question ; aH d what British capitalist, in the present state of Europe, would trust either him or any other similarly situated Sovereign with a loan ? An Evening contemporary states that all the efforts of his agents in the city have failed to 1110- cure for him the four millions which he pre tends to want in order to render his army, of 100,000 men, in Poland, available —and the answer of the capitalists, namely—that «as soon as the Belgian question was settled," they would be ready to listen to his propositions, ought to be at least a gentle hint to him that moneyed men are not always fools, and that persons in hi s situation, as well as those in humbler life, re quire a certificate of character, and a specifica tion of use, before they can be trusted with the property of others.—Morning Advertiser. ROLLS' COURT, DEc. 11. GOSDEN V. DOTTEREL. His HONOUR. gave judgment in this case, which was brought before the Court during the last Term, to obtain a decision on a question arising upon a will. The testator, at the time of his decease, had 6001. in the Funds, and, after disposing of his furniture and other property, he bequeathed a legacy of 1001. and then added, " I give the rest of my money to my brother." The question was, whether the brother rook the 6001. stock under the word money. His Honour was of opinion that the word money did not pass stock, unless where it appeared from the con text that such was the intention. PIERCY V. ROBERTS. This was a case in which a question arose as to the power of the assignee of a bankrupt to institute a suit without the consent of a majority of the cre ditors. His Honour had already stated his own opinion very fully on the subject; but as the point invoked was of considerable importance, he inti mated his intention of conferring with the other Judges. His Honour now stated that he had spoken to three of the Judges on the point, and having called their attention to the conflicting authorities, as might be supposed, they were not ready to give a decided opinion. The impression, however, which the question made on their minds appeared to con firm the view he had previously taken. The debtor of a bankrupt could not object to a suit brought by an assignee, on the ground that it had not been in stituted with the assent of the majority of the credi tors. If the suit failed, the debtor was exonerated ; and as to the assignee, he proceeded at his own peril, and would be - liable not only for the costs of the suit, but for all the injury done to the bankrupt's estate by the institution of such a suit. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, DEC. 14. HARGRAVE AND ANOTHER V. THE LONDON ASSURANCE COMPANY. This was an action on a policy of insurance on the ship Thomas, a merchant vessel of 429 tons, from Mother Bank, near Portsmouth, to Cork, of which the plaintiffs were proprietors. The facts established on behalf of the plaintiffs were, that the vessel was insured at Cork on the 3d of December, 1830, through Mr. Hawker, their agent ; that the vessel set sail from Mother Bank on the 25th of the previous November, having 40 tons of iron and copper, and 120 tons of loam as ballast ; and that she had some time previously per formed a voyage with a similar ballast, which the witnesses on behalf of the plaintiff considered suf ficient. At the period of the insurance the vessel was entered at Lloyd's as I. 2., which implies a vessel of the third class, deficient in materials. The insurance was effected by Mr. Dean, one of the plaintiffs, who stated in a letter to the agent, on ap plying to insure her, on the 2d of December. that he had received a letter, informing him that she was safe on the 21st of November. On the 27th of November, after having been tossed about for nearly two days by a severe storm, she was abandoned, the crew not deeming it safe to continue in her any longer, as they were unable to keep down, by pumping, the water which she admitted. Since that period she has not been heard of. This being the case on behalf of the plaintiffs, Sir JAMES SCARLETT addressed the Jury on be half of the defendants. He undertook to satisfy the Jury that the plaintiffs were not entitled to re- . cover in this case, for various reasons—principally because they had made misrepresentations respect ing the vessel at the period when the insurance was effected; because the vessel was not seaworthy when the voyage was commenced; and because there was not an adequate necessity for abandoning her on the 27th of November. Several witnesses, among whom were the pilot who attended her from Portsmouth, some of the crew, and surveyors belonging to Lloyd's,were then examined, whose evidence went to show that the vessel had not ballast enough on board. They con sidered that 250 tons ballast were necessary as bal last for that vessel; though one-third of the burden of the ship was in general sufficient ballast for ves sels, yet it was not sufficient for this vessel, on ac count of her shape, she being very high; for after she had been built and used for a time, she was raised six feet in the middle, and a new deck formed on her; so her weight being disproportioned to her height, she required more ballast than ordinary ves sels. In the opinion of the witnesses she ought to draw 13 feet 4 inches water, whereas she drew on this occasion 11 feet 9 inches only. Independently of the ballast being insufficient, they considered loam improper ballast for a leaky vessel, as it soaks the water, and thereby renders the pumps incapable of service. It further appeared that the ship was defi cient in sails and other materials, and that the night previous to their abandoning her there was no light on board (the oil having been exhausted), so that they did not know how to steer or use the compass. A person who had been on board the Waterloo, a merchant-vessel, deposed that he saw the Thomas floating on the ocean on the 2d of December. He attempted to board her, but was unable on account of the state of the sea. This being substantially the evidence on behalf of the defendants, The Jury having deliberated for a short time, res turned a verdict for the plaintiffs—Damages 2,0001. The case occupied the Court from 10 till 6 o'clock. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, DEC. 14. MR. MONCK MASON'S BANKRUPTCY. The meeting of creditors under the fiat issued against Mr. Monck Mason, late of the King's Thea tre, was held to-day, for the proof of debts, aid to allow the bankrupt to pass his final examination. lii consequence, however, of the indisposition of the bankrupt, the examination was again postp one d. Several of the corps drantatipe made proofs for their professional services. Signora Costelli, the vocalist, proved for 711. 3s. ; Mr. Williams, stage manager, for 261., and M. A. d'Angeli, cho rus master, for 30/., &c. The attention of the Court was drawn to a claim made on behalf of a lady who had made her appear ance at the King's Theatre, a contract having been signed by her and the bankrupt. Mr. SMEDLEY opposed the claim being entered, as the lady had commenced proceedings against the estate for the amount she claimed. Mr. Commissioner WILLIAMS asked why the claim of the lady was thus treated ? The official assignee (Mr. Clarke) said the as signees would be able to prove that she did not per form her part of the agreement. Mr. SMEDLEY said the lady " did not take." He was sorry to speak thus of a lady, bu►. her attempt was a failure. She could enter a claim if she thought proper. The CommtssioNEß said the lady must make her selection whether she would enter the claim or per sist with the action. The matter was allowed to stand over for con sideration. The debts proved against the estate during the day amounted to 7091. 195., which, added to the proofs entered at the last meeting, m a d e a tota l o f 3,006/. The total amount of debts due by the bankrupt are estimated at from 32,000/. to 33,0001., of which from 8,.5001. to 9,000/. are due to " professionals" engaged at the theat re by t h e bankrupt.—The further examination of the bankrupt was postponed till the 22d of January. King OTHO will be accompanied in his journey to Greece by his Aides-de-Camp Count Saporta and Baron Von Asch. The suspenion of the recruiting for the Greek service is only for a tew days, till the preparations for the journey are completed, as, after the departure of the Regency, the recruiting committee remaining at Munich will recommence its operations , and th e enrolment of vo lunteers proceed without interruption. The Greek deputies have received from his Majesty the King the cross of Commander of the order of civil merit of the Bavarian Crown, and their Aides-de-Camp valuable diamond rings. Nuremburg Correspondent, Dec. 6. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION HO USE. A house-painter, named Collins, complained against Mr. King, the proprietor of the Grapes public-house, in St. Mary Axe. Collins had been engaged by Mr. King and Mr. Kilby, who were partners in agency to Don Pedro, to go out to Portugal as painter. Ilpon reaching Terceira he was put on board Don ,Pedro's yacht, where he remained painting for some time. He had been promised 2/. 15s. per month, the same rate at which a great number of others went out ; but ex cuses were made, and there would have been no use in a controversy about money when the enemy were preparing to let fly. Miguds batteries, when they reached Oporto, played upon them, after having, to their surprise, first given them several cheers. After having remained exposed to the fire of the adverse forces for some time, Collins received a severe wound, and was conveyed to the hospital, where he was not long situate when a bomb-shell burst down through the roof, and killed a Portu guese soldier on each side of him. He escaped narrowly, with the assistance of others, from the flames, which soon consumed the hospital, and, on recovery, was placed on board the schooner Eugenic, in which he had sailed out. The schooner one night suddenly took it into her head to set off for Eng land, and the whole crew were discharged when they reached Dover. Collins, and another man who had gone out as carpenter, were discharged, as well as the rest, without receiving a halfpenny, arid they were now in London without being possessed of a fart him? ' . The LORD MAYOR—Why did you return so sud denly; was not there something extraordinary in the business ? Collins—The carpenter and I were ra ther surprised when some of the crew carne to us one night, and said, " We are bound for England." The Loup MAYOR—I suppose they thought t hey had enough of fighting ?—I don't know, but they told me that they were all Dover men, and " that they had no idea of staying at Oporto any longer." I said I begged to be considered neuter; and their answer was, " You have only six hours to live, for overboard you go." I begged for mercy, but they sail I should certainly go under water. The LORD MAYOR—I thought there was some thing more than usual in the refusal to pay. So, after all, the thing has turned out to be a mutiny. Pray how many of yuu engaged in it ?—Neither the carpenter nor mys e lf h a d any thing to do with it. The LORD MAYOR asked Mr. King whether the crew had been dealt wi th for the mutiny. Mr. King said, that it was the only mu ti n y th at had occurred amongst the persons who engaged to assist the cause of Don Pedro, and that they were merely discharged without receiving the intended remuneration. The LORD MAYOR—Very properly. They de. served more serious punishment. Collins—Before the crew all came up from below together, they went aft to the Captain and the other officers, and sail they must return to England. The Captain expostulated with them, but it was in vain; they would turn to the right-about, and the Captain, finding they were determined, undertook to rtar gate the vessel home, and did so. Whenever the Captain used to say, at Oporto, that the wind was fair for England, some of the crew used to say, and I thought it was in joke, " Ay, and may be you'll eat yout Christmas dinner there." Kekon, the carpenter alluded to, said that the statement of Collins was correct The crew resolved to cut the service. The mutineers were all dis charged the day after their arrival, and were chiefly Englishmen. Bath men, in answer to questions by Mr. King, said that the treatment they had received all through the contest, so long as they continued in it, had been most unexceptionable. The conduct of the cap tain and other officers towards them was exceedingly kind, and they had nothing to complain of except the non-payment of their wages, amounting in the one case to 221. and in the other to 201. The LORD MAYOR-Mr. King, are you the agent of Don Pedro, and did you engage these poor men ? Mr. King—You must excuse me for not answering the first question. As for the second, I deny that I engaged them ; but of this I am convinced, that if they were not concerned in the mutiny, they will be paid every farthing they claim. Mr. Kilby en gaged them, and he is now in Portugal, but I shall write to the Captain, and shall soon learn whether these men were guilty of the disgraceful act of de serting the cause. There have been many gross falsehoods told in the metropolis, relative to matters in Portugal. The fact is, that the Admiral and Colonel Hodges found it necessary to weed the mul titudes of all sorts who went out, and were actu ally obliged to send home all they objected to. Those who remain are as fine troops as can be seen. The persona whose services have been dispensed with, have, in consequence of their disappointment, made the most ridiculous and groundless misrepre sentations. The LORD MAYOR—Do you believe the state ment of these two men ? Mr. King—l have no reason to doubt it. The melancholy i!,cident of the fall of the bomb-shell is correct, and such is the case of the mutiny. I have no cause to dispute the assertions of these men, one of them (the carpen ter) being, to my knowledge, a valuable acquisition to the service. I can only say that I shall assist them now, and interfere at once with the proper authorities to get them their wages, if they have not forfeited all claim by their conduct at the mutiny. The LORD MAYOR said that Mr. King had done great crtdit to himself by his conduct on the occa sion. He (the Lord Mayor) had considered him self justified in interposing on this occasion, al though it did not fall within his jurisdiction, be cause he was convinced that a Magistrate could do a great deal of good in a line beyond the exact limits of his duty.—The parties then retired. G UILDHALL. A stout young fellow, named Frederick Cooper, was charged with stealing a great coat from the shop of Mr. Smith, a silversmith and clothiei, in Barbican. Sir CHAPMAN MARSHALL committed the prisoner for the misdemeanour of attempting to commit a felony, the severance of the property from the fas tenings not being complete. MARLBORO UGH-STREET. DON PEDRO'S RECRUITS.--A couple of stout agricultural labourers, and a woman, were placed at the bar, on a charge of vagrancy. The men said they had gone out in the Swallow cutter, Captain Adams, to join Don Pedro's army, but were sent back to England, and set on shore without receiving a farthing of their stipulated pay, and, being totally destitute, they were compelled to resort to begging. The men exhibited some papers in support of the truth of their statement, and added that there were between 70 and 80 of their comrades who had been set on shore in the same destitute situation. Mr. CONANT directed that they should be kept in the office until the overseer of the parish in which they were found made his appearance. BOW-STREET. ST. MARTIN'S PARlSH.—Yesterday, Mr. Webb, a glover and hosier, residing in the Strand, was sum moned by the officers of St. Martin's parish for re fusing. to pay an arrear of church-rates. Mr. Aldridge, the senior churchwarden of the parish, proved that the sum of 21. 6s. Bd. was due to the parish by the defendant for church-rates made in 1825 and 1828, and that the defendant had been applied to for the payment of the same, but refused to settle the demand. Mr. Webb had several objections to urge against the rate. In the first place he totally denied the right of the Select Vestry to make a church -rate, and contended that the power to do so was vested in the parishioners at large. The Select Vestry had themselves admitted that they had not the power to make a church-rate, anti an entry to that effect was now on their books in the Vestry-room of the church. He considered it was rather strange that after he had resided in the parish for nearly 10 years, he should now, for the first time, be caled upon to pay rates, the validity of which he vas prepared to prove could not be sustained. Sir F. ROE said that the question as to the %Ili dity of the rate was not for Magistrates to ry. Their power was merely ministerial, and if hey saw that the rate was legal they were bound to en force it. In the present ins'ance an Act of Palia ment was before them by which they had powe• to act. Mr. Webb said that he was aware of the Act referred to, which was called " The Camden-town Burial Act." That Act, however, was merely a local one, and the authorities of St. Martin's tad caused a clause to be smuggled into it, upon witch they now rested their claim. That clause pre authority to Magistrates to enforce the payment of church-rates made by the Select Vestry, withmtt giving the party summoned the power to appeal to a higher Court. Sir F. ROE suggested to Mr. Webb that be might, if he pleased, apply for redress to the Eccle siastical Court, which had power to interfere in all cases where the affairs of the Church were cat cerned. Mr. Webb replied that the process of the Eccle siastical Court was too expensive for an individual like himself to encounter. lie had hoped that he Magistrates would have allowed him to apply to the Court of King's Bench, which he could have done at a comparatively trifling expense. S'r F. ROE----YOU may bring an action against me if you please, and try the question in that way. The order for the, payment of the sums demanded by the parish was then made, and Mr. Webb ex pressed his determination of resisting the payment as far as he could legally do so. INCENDIARIES. A very alarming incident was yesterday mentioned by Mr. Felix Booth to the Lord Mayor. A day or two ago, in a garden on his estate at Little Ealing, one of his ser vants picked up ten small pieces apparently of wood, covered over with black oil-cloth, and of the form and size of a❑ old-fashioned pepper-castor. A strip of papv was pasted round each end, and contained the words " Adkins's alarm-shell and protector." It was found upon examination that the shell was divided into two parts, and that near the bottom, which was floored with tin, there was a small plug, upon the taking out of which a passage leading to the body of the article presented itself. One of the domestics cut open one of the shells, but it exploded in his hands like a detonating ball. Mr. Booth thought it right to bring one of those dangerous curiosi. ties to the Lord Mayor, in order that, at such a period as this, the landholders and farmers might be immediately informed, through his Lordship, of the sort of machinery which probably was employed to destroy the corn and hay stacks. The LORD MAYOR asked Mr. Booth whether he had reason to suspect any particular person, and whether the shells had been so placed as, in case they had exploded, ;ni , chief might have hee❑ done. Alr. Booth declared that he had no cause to suspect any body ; and as to the danger likely' to be produced, if one of the shells had been placed by an incendiary within a few 1 hundred yards of the place in which they were found, pro perty to the amount of 3,0001. must have been consumed. Tee paper round the shells was quite inexplicable. The Loau INIAvou said that the paper was probably put on as a blind, in order to mislead any body who might have occasion to apprehend the person who should carry them about his person. He remembered having sect', a • few days ago, a paragraph in the newspapers, stating that a meeting had taken place in Kent, to secure property from the attacks of incendiaries, and that Lord Amherst and Alderman Adkins were active i❑ promoting a sub cription, and other means of preventing the dreadful operations of the incendiaries. The name of Mr. Adkins might have been used on tho paper round the shells, to give the greater currency to the statement that they were protectors instead of destroyers. It was possible too that the shells might have been deposited to excite apprehen- ' sion, by way of a joke. It was, however, very neces sary to have the fact, from whatever it arose, publicly mentioned. STATE OF TRADE.—The woollen and stuff trade of Yorkshire continues in nearly the same state as it was at our last notice of it, though if anything there is luss activity perceptible. " - The demand is moderate, but the prices offered are low and scarcely adequate to the re muneration of the manufacturer. .At Bradford, on Thurs day, there was a fair share of business done in the finer qualities of worsted goods and wool, but there was no improvement in prices. —Leeds Intelligencer. A remarkable instance of the effects of religious enthusiasm is now creating a considerable excitement in the northern part cf this city. A young lady in a high state of enthusiasm, suddenly fell into a swoon, and remained in that condition for several days. All efforts to rouse her were ineffectual. Her eves were fixed, her limbs immovable, and her pulse feeble. Her friends, believing her dying, procured medical assistance, and she was at length, with great diffi culty, called hack to a consciousness of life. She awoke as from a dream—said she had been in heaven and hell, and told marvellous stories of her discoveries in the course of her migrations. The living and the dead were seen by her in their appropriate state of enjoyment or suffering, and a ll that was mysterious to her earthly senses was made plain. These things, of course, have excited much surprise among the credulous. We understand her vision has been re corded, and will shortly be published.—New York Paper• DEATH OF MR. LEMAN THOMAS REDE. —This gentleman, who had been several years engaged on the Press, and connected with theatricals, died on Wed' nesday last, of aneurism of the he irt. He was the author of a work entitled " York Castle in the 19th Century," of a Memoir of Canning," published two months after the Statesman's decease, and of " Oxberry's Dramatic Bio graphy," 7 volumes, containing lives of all the celebrated actors and actresses. Mr. REDE had been on the stag! himself, having been at different periods at the Adelphir the Queen's, and Olympic theatres. His last performance was for Miss FORDE'S benefit, at Sadler's Wells, when he appeared as Pluto in the Loves of the Devils. He was 33 years of age, and has left a widow unprovided for. MURDER AND ATTEMPT AT ROBBERY. At an early period of the evening of Thursday, as an elderly female, named MARY ANN BROOKES, was pro ceeding along St. Martin's-Line, a gang of thieves sur rounded her, threw her down, and attempted to rifle her pockets ; but an alarm having been given which attracted the attention of the police and other persons, the desperate assailants made off, leaving their victim on the ground in an exhausted and almost insensible condition. A policeman assisted the unfintunate old lady to rise, and on ascertain ing she had received several severe injuries by the daring attack upon her, lie considered it most advisable to convey her to the Westminster Hospital, which he did with all possible speed. It was then discovered that her right eye was discoloured from the effects of a vio lent blow, and on her being placed in bed, seve ral bruises were apparent in different p a rt s o f h er body. Th e house surgeon a nd oth e r gen tl emen o f th e esta blishmen t her' all the advice and ass i s t ance in thei r lower, but notwithstanding she gradu a lly b e c a me worse ( i and in less than half an hour e xpi re d. Sh e was sup Poe to be upwards of sev e nty y ea rs o f age , an d f rom the P!" pers found upon her p e rs o n, a n d o th er i n f or mations i t appeared that she formerly kept a r e sp ec t a bl e boarding' school in the n e i g hb our h oo d o f Pi m li co , an d was highly esteemed by al! who knew her. Sh e conti nue d her blishment upwards of twenty years, when p ec uniary di' d culties, and her advanced age and i n fi rm i t i es , c omped e o her to give it up. Subsequently h er s it uat i on b ec ame I ' d distressing, that many hum ane i n di v id ua l s , w ho b a r , d known her in more prosperou s c i rcums t inces , came fars va. to her assistance, and were e nd eavour i ng to o b ta i n for ' e " , a yearly income from the National Benevolent Institution 5 in Great Russell-street. She was one of the candida t t e , for the next election ; and we are given to understand :I; was retut ning to her r es id ence i n t h e V aux l i af t d ' e - soliciting for votes, wh en th e v ill a i nous attac k w as to'. upon her. There were three or four persons e ngaged I n t the outrage ; but s o i nstantaneous was t h e i r e scapeof tr , the alarm, th a t it i s f eare d no person i s ena bl e d to give description of them. 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