The Sun. — London, England, 1832-06-04 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS. ?From the Messager des Chambres of Thursday.) It is stated that another rencontre took place on the 27th, between the Chouans and the troops and National Guards, when the conflict lasted for six hours; a great number of the rebels were slain, and the field of battle remained in possession of the pa , tiotg. The state of General Lamarque'shealth is not any /getter. It is thought that had he not been de prived of his Governorship-General of La Vendee, affairs would not have been in their present unhappy state. (From Galignani's Messenger.) The following is the declaration of the opposition deputies who assembled on Monday at the house of M. Laflitte. To the signatures affixed it is expected that the names of many others now ahient from Paris will he added 7. " To our Cocretituents—The undersigned Depu. ties, who are at present in Paris, convinced of the danger of a system which is leading the Govern ment farther and farther from the revolution which created it, consider it an important duty, under the existing circumstances of the country, to render an account to their constituent!' of their principles and their votes. Though it has not been in their power to bring back their Government to measures which will insure its preservation, it is at least in their power to point out the danger. Our revolution of 1830 has been differently construed. some have seen in it only an incidental modification of the resto ration, and have concluded that the men and the principles of the restoration ought to be the men and the principle, of the new Government. The pre valence of this opinion has been exemplified in all the phases of the late longandbarren session. I' was evi dent in the debates upon the Civil List, the Peerage, and the organization of the army; it presided over the discussion of the Budget ; it directs the Administration of the empire, and regulates one Conduct towards foreign powers. Others, amongst whom are the undersigned, greeted in the revolution of July the definitive consummation of the principles and rights which were proclaimed by the great revolution of 1789. These principles and these rights form the bases upon which they could have wished to teta- Nish the throne. Their speeches and their votes have been constantly in conformity with these sen timents. Thus, in the discussion of the civil list, we considered that the new monarchy had other elements of strength and permanence than the dis play and corruption of old monareNes, and that, fortified by its popular origin, and the deliberate assent of the people, there could be no need for acting upon the imoginaiion by investing it with opulence, nor to purchase its adherents. The at tempt made, in the same discussion, by one of the Ministers, to re-establish in our language, and in our political laws, the old feudal expression I sub ject,' we felt ourselves hound to protest again's , . The debates on the constitution of the peerage pre sented a wide field, in which the supporters of the doctrines of the fallen regime expressed at once their wishes and their regrets. To hear them, there was nothing more sacred than the privileges which existed previous to the revolution, and no state, no society, could possibly be lasting without an here• aitary peerage. This was the idea of the restora tion. For ourselves, faithful to the principle of equality and national sovereignty, we succeeded in cawing the wish of the country to prevail, and the hereditary descent of the peerage was abolished. 'We wished for more; we demanded that the legis lative power, even in the other Chamber, should be derived from a delegation of the Sovereign, that is to say, from the nation. We did not wish that cer tain peers should have the right to style themselves more legitimate than the King. We conceived that the revolution ought to elect its legi•lators,as it ought to have instituted its judges. The majority, however, was of a different opinion—time and experience will decide between the majority and us. The army was the object of our most anxious solicitude. To repair the past acts of injustice of the restoration towards it,—to render it in future formidable to the enemies of France, without endangering eternal li berty by it,—to insure promotion, not for favour itism, but for services,—to diffuse instruction through all the regiments ; and, in fine, to insure for the soldier every possible amelioration of his condition, was our object. The proposition for ac knowledging the promotions and decorations granted during the hundred days was adopted by both Chambers, and thus satisfied the first of these wishes. It was for a legislative enactment to grant reparation, which was not confined to individuals, but extended to a collective body. Without either giving or refusing the Royal assent, the Govern ment substituted an ordinance for a legislative act, thus treating the initiative privilege of the Chamber with contempt, violating the rules of constitutional competency, and even the material forms established for the refusal of assent. It was our duty to pro• test. Two systems for the organization of the army were presented. One, which required a powerful corps of reserve, composed of the Garde Nationale Mobile, and of soldiers who had been discharged from service, would have admitted of a reduction in the force and expense of the standing army. The other, on the contrary, left the Garde Nationale Mobile without organization, and thus rendered ne eeesary a greater number of soldiers to be constantly embodied. The former and most economical system which would have facilitated the fusion of the Na tional Guards with the army, was ours, but the latter obtained the majority. The budget was expected to unite all parties in one general view of effecting retrenchment, and relieving the burdens of the people. The supporters of the system of restore• Lien, however, found all the existing expenses legi timate, and all the taxes duly assessed, and, not content with urging the painful argument of neces sity, they undertook to establish the outrageous theory that an increase of taxes is a benefit. We wish that the revolution should bring its dower to the people. Far, however, was it from our wish to compromise those resources which were neces sary for the defence of the country, but a more simple and economical system, a better assessment of iruposts, a mode of levying the taxes less vexa tious, would have diminished the public burdens, they would have become more equitably distributed, and less oppressive to the labouring classes. We were also divided upon questions of internal admi nis'ration. We wished, as much as our opponents could, the repressio❑ of all attempts against public order. Convinced that security is the chief want of a people whose existence depends upon their in dustry, we thought that a popular Government would show more energy in preventing disturbance, and more moderation in repressing it when it broke out. The Government, however, which so much boasted of its strength, has been obliged to confess that its violent measures hive only had the effect of rendering resistance more systematic in every part of the country, and of throwing the most de voted parts of the population into a state of irrita tion and disorder. With regard to the persons el-- gaged in the administration, it was easy to perceive, after the fall of a Government on which the exist ence of many depended, that some must be found who were enemies to the new order of things. The Government, however, deluded by false doctrines and unjust prejudices, have only seen enemies in those who fought to establish it. A member of the opposition wee desirous that Fiance should know whether her Government had sufficient deter mination or not to identify itself with the revolution of July. 'llea proposition of M. de Bricqueville having failed in the preceeding sessions, was renewed in the last. It appears as the presentiment of a recent attempt, which was then in medita tion, and to which the Government, if we are to believe its official organ, had already the secret. The Ministerial party, however, exerted their united efforts to prevent this proposition, and even after it had been voted by both Chambers, a reluctant dis position delayed the Royal sanction, as if to afford a tacit protection and a motive for absolution. This system of temporising comprises the internal peace of France, and excites doubts in timid minds as tp the stability of a Government which appears itself to eeterintin doubts. The last session nu expected to be particularly devoted to the realization of the promises of the Charter. The Chambers were to have constituted the municipal 'system, were to have settled the responsibility of Ministers and of all the agents of the t4overnment, to have authorised pri mary schools, and established the freedom of in struction, We urged the fulfilment of these pro mises, wre demanded 'a enhicipal system which would leave minor local affairs to he regulated within the several districts, simplify the more important con cerns, extend throughout the country political life, and grant the rights of citizenship to the greatest possible Number of eifzens. A wide and liberal organizwion of each depertrine . nt and commune would become the m o st p"owerrui means of insuring strength, public orde;', and prosperity. Bills were forced from the Ministry by the urgency of public opinion, but they were neutralized in the Chamber by a secret influence, and finally extinguished by indefinite ad journments. Such were our views w ith regard to our internal policy, but we were, however, unable to secure their adoption. In the relations of France with foreign powers, our standard has still been that of 1789,—n0 war of ambition or for conquest, but absolute independence of ail foreign influence in our intcrital affairs. It was With shame that during the session we several times heard the agents of the Government speak of the fear of dipleasing foreign Cabinets. We thought that France was for ever deli vered from such humiliating influence ; the do not dis avow our lively sympathy with the happiness and liberty of other nations ) but we have never set up the pretension of subjecting them to our institutions. After the subversion of the dynasty imposed by the Holy Alliance, it was the duty of the Government to watch closely the twos ements of foreign Mo narchs, and especially to prevent them extending augmenting their power. The Government itself acknowledged this duty when it announced to France its intention of succouring Italy against Austria, and of protecting the nationality of Poland against Russia And yet, notwithstanding these positive promises,—in spite of both the old and new interest of France,—it has abandoned Italy to the domination of Austria, and suffered Poland to pe rish, unfortunate Poland, which it was in our power to assist, whatever has been said to the contrary in the Chamber, and which it was our duty to save. Let it not be thought that measured and firm lan guage would have led to war; we, on the contrary, believe that it was the only and the surest means of preserving peace. In short, peace sviih the inde pendence and dignity of France; order by liberty, unalterable fidelity to the principle of the revolu tion of July, a principle of nationality, justice, order, glory, and moderation,—liberty and general civiliza tion, a glorious and pure principle, which we wish to promote, which all our votes have faithfully ex pressed, and which oor hearts have never betrayed : such has always been and always will be our poll tisal creed. Far from us be it to imitate our adversaries in their violence and calumny. But let the men of the 13th of March tell us whe ther one of their promises has been fulfilled.— They were to rally round the throne every opinion, but they have caused fatal divisions among generous men, united by the love of liberty and a sense of their country being in danger. They were to consolidate the revolution, but they have removed its natural supports by the dissolution of the 'National Guards of the most warlike and faithful towns. They were to favour the liberty of the Press which saved France, but they have fettered it by their prosecu tions, ruined it by imposts and fines, and corrupted it by amortissements. They know that the im mense majority of the nation and the Chamber of Deputies wished to abolish the hereditary descent of the Peerage, but they treated the wishes of the nation and the Chamber as visionary and absurd. They declared that they would cause legal order to prevail, and yet there is not a law the application of %%bleb they have not perverted or falsified ; that they would derive their support from the Chambers, and yet they have stifled their proposition of laws ; that they would discharge by hospitality the debt of France towards the Polish, Spanish and Italian re fugees, and yet they have branded this hospitality by the shameful condition which they have attached to it. They pledged themselves to afford us internal security, and yet it has always been distutbed by commotions, violent conflicts between the people and the authorities, and by the audacious and daily-increasing aggressions of the partisans of the fallen Government. They announce to us a general disarmament, and yet they have led us into a la byrinth of diplomatic intrigues so inextricable, that it is impossible even for them to assign an end to this state of anxiety, which is neither one of peace nor war, and which annihilates our commerce. Fi nally, in what situation does the system of quasi-le gitimacy leave France after two years' experience ? Abroad, is not the coalition of Kings more menacing than ever ? At home, is not civil war evident ? Are not the troops which skirt our frontiers, those plots and disturbances constantly renewed in the west and the south, sufficient to open the eyes of the Government ? Before it decides, will it wait until our departments are in a flame, our provinces invaded, and France so compromised, that she can only be saved by sacrificing both her sons and her treasures ? We declare with painful and deep con viction, that if this system be prolonged, the re volution of July and France will become a prey to their enemies. The restoration and the revolution are recommencing an old struggle which we thought was at an end. Let the Gevernment choose : the equivocal position in which it has placed itself is not tenable. It gives us neither the strength of the re storation which is irreconcilable, nor that of the re volution, which has become irritated and distrustful. France of 1800, like that of 1789, thought that hereditary R'yalty with popular institutions had nothing incompatible with the principles of liberty; let the Government of July, therefore, confidently return to the conditions of its existence. The whole world knows what power the French revolution affords to those to whom it is devoted; but it wishes that the latter should also be faithful to it without disguise or afterthought. As for 113, united by the same devotedness to that great and noble cause for which France has been fighting for the last forty years, we will forsake it neither in its successes nor in its reverses. Our lives are de voted to it, and we are confident that it will be finally triumphant. " Paris, May 28, 1832. " Allier, Audry de Puyraveau, Argo, Bacot, Ba voux, Bernard (du Far,)Blaque-Belair, Marquess de Bryas, Cabet, Comte, de Corcellea, Cordier, de Cormenin, Count Duchaffault, Duria-Dufresne, Galabert, Garnier-Pages, Gauthier de Rumilly, de Girardin, de Gouve, de Nuneques, d'Heram bault, Jolivet, Laboissiere, General Lafayette, George Fafayette, Jacques Laffitte, General Laf- Sae, General Lamarque (by proxy, being on his death-bed) Larabit, Lenouvel, Marchal, Mauguin, Marquess de Mornay, Nicod, Odillon-Barrot, Portalis, Pourrat, Taillandier, Tardieu, Thiars, de Tracy." The private epistolary correspondence of a lady of rank, shortly to be published, will, it is said, sur pass in interest the celebrated " Tour of a German Prince." The work, which is to be called " The Private Conti nental Correspondence of a Woman of Fashion," will, we find, comprise sketches of the Courts of England and France from the year 1815, interspersed with original and piquant anecdotes of all the distinguished individuals who moved in the brilliant circles of both countries. REJOICINGS ON THE PASSING OF TIIE REFORM BILL.—The inhabitants of this town are to meet on Monday morning, at the Town Hall, to fix on the most effectual and appropriate plan of testifying their joy when the Reform Bill shall have received the Royal Assent. It is wished to avoid a general illumination, as it would, by confining people to their houses, prevent that universal interchange of social fellowship and mutual con gratulation which the occasion demands. a übtless the column, tewn-hall, and other public buildings and offices, will be illuminated, end 'any private individuals who choose, may adopt this method of testifying their loyalty and gratitude for the important privilege about to be ex tended to this town, in common with other places enfran chised by the Bill. Various schemes are suggested, such as public entertainment, processions, bonfires, &c. &c., but as the period of the meeting is so near, it will be un necessary more particularly to allude to them at present.— Deco:wort Telegraph, _ DUTCH AND GERMAN PAPERS. ST. PETERSBURGH, MAY 14.—Yesterday, tht 13th of May, the Emperor gave a solemn audience in the Winter Palace to the Deputies who wen commissioned to lay at his Majesty's feet the ho mage of the profound gratitude of the Poles, fot the general amnesty, and for the favours which his Imperial Majesty has been pleased to grant to the kingdom of Poland: , -- 7 T The whole Imperial Court, the Members of the Council of the Empire, the Senators, the Generals and Officers of the Guard, as well as the persons of the first four classes presented at Court, assembled in St. George's Hall, where the deputation arrived at noon, and was introduced by Count Strogonoff to their Majesties, who stood before the throne. Prince Valentine Radzivil, the senior member of the deputation, then read the following address in the Polish language :-- " Sire,—Erents beyond the reach of human foresight had caused the kingdom of Poland to pass from a state of profound tranquillity and of prosperity, such as it had never before known, to one of trouble and anarchy. A handful of factious men, exciting the mass of the people, had :rustrated the intervention of prudent men, and of the most devoted subjects of your Majesty, to restore order and peace : the voice of your Majesty was disregarded. It was in these deplorable circumstances that your Majesty, using the only possible means to make men who had gone astray return to their duty, reduced the factious to silence by the force of arms, and chained the monster of discord. Your Maj sty did more : you resolved that moderation should succeed victory, and that pardon and oblivion of the past should be the pledge of your paternal intentions and a new monument of your inexhaustible goodness. The Deputies of the kingdom of Poland now assembled in the capital of your empire hasten to lay at the foot of your Majesty's throne, for so many benefits, the homage of their fidelity—the submission of their gratitude,—and even venture to hope that, pitying the miseries hich the war has brought in its train, your Majesty will deign to stretch out a protecting hand to the victims of these deplorable excesses." The 3liniver of the Interior, by his Majesty's orders, then addressed the Deputies in the Russian language to the following effect : " Gentlemen,—His Majesty the Emperor receives with pleasure the expression of the sentiments of his subj-cts of the kingdom of Poland, which you lay at the foot of his throne. His paternal heart was afflicted when fulfill ing an imperative duty. After having exhausted all means of persuasion, his Majesty found himself obliged to recur to arms, to restore order which had been destroyed by guilty factions. Success has crowned the cause of justice; the people of the kingdom of Poland have been snatched from the abyss of revolution and anarchy, and his Ma jesty the Emperor hopes that, by the aid of the Almighty, his care and his solicitude will soon efface even the traces of the evils which have latterly afflicted the country. His Majesty depends on a zealous cooperation on . your part, as well as on that of all his faithful and well-disposed sub jects in the kingdom of Poland. Under the protection of the laws which have been given you,—laws which are adapted to the situation of the country, and to the cir cumstances of the times,—you will make unanimous efforts to attain the object indicated by his Majesty, viz., to consolidate public order by propagating the salutary ideas which serve as its securities by rejecting perfidious suggestions,—in a word, by preserving the weak-minded from the fatal influence of men habituated to sacrifice the general good to private interest, and who are now im pelled by despair as much as by a sense of their own sh ime. His Majesty the Emperor is confident that their efforts will be vain. Melancholy experience has often taught the people of the kingdom of Poland, that their happi ness and tranquillity can find no solid foundation but in unshaken fidelity to the monarch, in the institutions due to his wisdom, and in a sincere and indissoluble union with the Russian nation, which has issued from the same parent stock as themselves. The future will restore to them the blessings which the disorders of intestine war have destroyed, and his Majesty will thus see the accomplish•. ment of one of his most ardent wishes." The first ship from Cronstadt this year sailed on the Bth of May, with a cargo of Russian goods for Liverpool.— Journal de St. Petersbu►g/i, May 15. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. A meeting of the members and friends of the Society for the Diffusion of Information on the Punishment of Death was held on Saturday, in Exeter Hall. The greater por tion of the assembly consisted of ladies. Among the gen tlemen on the platform were Mr. Ewart, M.P. Mr. Hume, M.P. Mr. Sadler, M.P. Mr. D. O'Connell, M.P. Mr. Strickland, M.P. Mr. T. B. Lennard, M.P. Mr. Wyse, M.P. &c. &c. On the motion of Mr. WILLIAM ALLEN, Lord NUGENT was called to the chair. . The Noble CHAIRMAN congratulated the friends of the Society on the steady progress of their cause. Since the days of Draco experience bad demonstrated that undue se• verity of punishment was always accompanied by propor tionate uncertainty and inefficiency. Prosecutors held back, and juries, witnesses, and judges swerved from their strict line of duty, rather than subject an offender to an extensive measure of punishment. This general reluc tance to inflict the too rigorous penalties of the law afforded chances of ,escape on which criminals speculated when meditating the commission of illegal acts. Within the last three days, he was happy to say, that the cause of humanity had made a great advance ; but the triumph was darkened by a melancholy event of which his heart was painfully conscious, for on the day when Mr. Ewart'a resolutions passed the committee of the House of Commons, on that very day the lips of his dear and respected friend Sir James Macintosh, whose strong reasoning and persuasive eloquence had ever pleaded for the rights of mankind, were sealed in death. He who had caught the mantle of the virtuous Rornilly—who had upheld the banner of philosophic philanthropy—would, had he been spared to witness it, have exulted in the triumph of that hour.— (Applause.) The difficulty of instituting a proper system of secondary punishments which hal been put forward by the opponents of the Society ought not to arrest their indeavours to abate the pruriency of severe legisla►ion which hail too long disgraced this country. It was edu cation that must take the place of severe penal enactments, and schools that must supersede gibbets.—(Applause.) Mr. ALLEN read the report, which described the mea sures adopted by the society for the accomplishment of their humane object, and stated that the disbursements had exceeded the receipts by 2621. Mr. BASIL MONTAGU moved that the report should be received and adopted. The Learned Gentleman adverted to circumstances which had occurred thirty years before, on an occasion when he had been the means of convey ing a respite to two convicts at Huntingdon. From that period be bad determined to persevere in his efforts to put an end to those legalized atrocities that tended to harden the popultr mind. Mr. STRICKLAND, M. P., seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously. Mr. T. B. LENNARD, M. P. moved the next resolu tion—" That the efficacy of criminal laws depends less upon the severity of punishment than the certainty of in fliction, and that laws which cannot be carried into exe cution without shocking the feelings of society, and ex citing sympathy for the offender, are contrary to reason, inconsistent with morality, and opposed to the interests of justice." Mr. J. flumr, M.P., seconded the resolution, which was agrred to. The following resolutions were then severally put and agreed to : " That the criminal laws of England are of a character so vindictive and barbarous, as to be utterly incapable of uniform execution ; and that, consequently, under the present system, the lives of men depend less upon the pre cise and express provisions of law, than upon the temper, feeling, or caprice of a Judge or Secretary of State ; whence it arises that all the assizes and courts throughout England afford examples of inequality of punishment, and practical proofs of the arbitrary discretion exercised in the selection of victims for the altars of sanguinary justice." " That the excessive severity of the law operates to the total impunity of offenders, by;deterring humane persons from prosecuting, and by holding out a temptation to jurors to viola'e their oath rather than be accessory to judicial murder ; while almost all the capital punishments now in the statute-book are innovations upon the tem perate and wholesome principles of the ancient common law of the land, which had ever bee❑ admired for its hu manity and wisdom by the greatest legal authorities, and is coeval with the noblest and best principles of the Eng lith constitution." " That, France baying recently introduced ameliorations into her criminal code, which was previously far less san guinary than our own, and the United States of America having abolished ❑early the whole of the exterminating statutes received from this country, it behoves the British Parliament not to neglect those enlightened examples, but to do that which the true interests of justice as well as of humanity require, by introducing such a thorough and efficient reform of the criminal law as will render it more auxiliary to public morals than to private vengeance, and, by a judicious system of prison discipline, afford that pro tection to propeey of which all persons may avail them -elves without purchasing it by the sacrifice of human li . e." It was agreed that a petition in conformity with these resolutions should be adopted, and presented to both Houses of the L-gislature,—and that his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex should he requested to present it to the House of Lords, and Mr. Hume to the house of Commons. Thanks were then voted to several distinguished advo cates of the cause of humane legislation in foreign coun tries, to the public press, anti to the Chairman : after which the meeting broke up. - - _ COURT CIRCULAR. The Duchess of KENT entertained the Duke of Sussex And a large and distinguished party at dinner on Saturday at the Palace at Kensington. The Duke and Duchess of CUMBERLAND, attended by Lady Sortna LENNOX, honoured the ➢Marquess and Mar chioness of SALISBURY with their company at dinner on Slturday, at their residence in Grafton-street. Their Royal Highnesses left town in the evening for their resi dence at Kew. The Princess AUGUSTA and the Duchess of GLOUCESTER took an airing in a carriage yesterday afternoon. Divine service was pet formed yesterday before the Duchess of KENT and the Princess VICTORIA and their Royal Highnesses' Household, by the Dean of CHESTER. The Princess Auc u STA attended divine service yesterday morning, at the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The French . Ambassador, the Prussian Minister, and the Austrian Charge d'Affaires had interviews with Vis count PA LMERSTON on Saturday at the Foreign-office. The Boys of the Royal ,Military School will have a holyday on Thursdly next, fur the purpose of visiting the Surrey Zoological Gardena. THEIR MAJESTIES. (From the Windsor Express of Saturday.) Their MAJESTIES and suite arrived at the Cistle at half-past ten o'clock last night, from the Baroness HowE's, at Twickenham. In consequence of the unfavourable state of the weather, the company did not go out on the lawn to view the regatta, and the Royal party left at nine o'clock. The KING drove through Windsor about eleven o'clock this morning towards the Great Park. His MAJESTY also drove out this afternoon, accompanied by Lady Sidney, and returned to the Castle a little before five o'clock. Among the distinguished personages visiting their MA JESTIES are Lord and Lady CLINTON, Lady S. SIDNEY, Lady FALKLAND, Baron and Baroness Boum and family, Lord PALMERSTON, SIC J. BEYNETT, MISS BOYLE IS Maid of Honour. This evening his Royal Highness Prince ALBERT, from Prussia, arrived at the Castle to dinner. His Itnyal High ness stays on a visit to their MAJESTIES for a few days. The KING has notified to Dr. KEATE his intention of being pres,nt at the Eton regatta on Monday next. The KING goes to town on Wednesday to attend the Levee. On Whit-Tuesday it is expected that the Court will attend the Eton Montem ; on the 14th the QUEEN holds a Drawing-room, and on the 15th a Grand Ball will be given, bath at St. James's. It is expected that the Drawing-room and Ball will be the last for the present season, after which the Court returns to Windsor for As cot Race, and will remain for some time. The KING and QUEEN continue to enjoy excellent health, hut that of Princess Louise, we regict to say, is still in a very declining state. THE CONVICT ORDERED FOR EXECUTION. John Druitt, the unhappy culprit to be executed to morrow morning at Newgate, is a young man about 27 years of age ; and it appears, from his own statement, that his relations arc persons of respectability, whom his mis conduct had induced to turn their backs upon him. He was tried at the April Sessions, Old Bliley, and convicted of two daring burglaries; his wife, a young woman of 22, and a woman named Reeve, who lived with them, being tried with him as receivers of the stolen property. One of the indictin.nts was for r, Ming the house of Mrs. Sarah Harriet Watteridge, in York-,quare, Regent's Park, of plate and other property to the amount of 2001. It appeared upon the trial, that on the 26th of January, the prosectitrix having gone to the theatre, the prisoner went to the house about half-past nine, and told Hannah Fran cis, the servant, that he had been sent by her mistress, who had fallen out of a coach, and was then at a doctor's shop near Covent-garden waiting for her cloak. The servant accordingly took the cloak, and accompanied the prisoner, who, however, left her unperceived when near James-street, Covent-garden. Finding, upon inquiry, that nothing had happened to her mistress, she hurried home, and discovered that the house had, in the mean time, been entered, and robbed of the property stated in the indictment, part of which was found when the pri soners were apprehended. Druitt pleaded an alibi i❑ his defence, hut the proof against him was clear, and he was convicted. The second indictment charged him with breaking into the house of Mr. Kemp, a tobacconist, in Broad -street, St. Giles's, and stealing 1121bs. of tobacco, 301bs. of cigars, and about 101bs. in copper money. The depredation was committed early in the morning of the sth of March, and the property carried rafr in four sacks. Part of this property was found on the following day, and the prisoners apprehended, under rather singular circum stances, at their residence, in Grove-place, City-road. It appeared that some of their neighbours, having seen sacks carried in at an unseasonable hour, suspected the occupants of the house of being markers, and that the sacks contained the bodies of their victims. Information was accordingly given to the police, and on searching the house, the four sacks, a quantity of tobacco, and some of the copper mo ney, stolen from Mr. Kemp, were finny!, besides a nurn• her of housebreaking instruments and pawnbrokers' du plicates ; and evidence was obtained of various other depredations. A policeman, named Delany, about half past two on the morning of the robbery, saw Druitt in Broad -street, near Mr. Kemp's ; but shortly after missed hint, and a coach from the stand. There were other in dictments against Druitt besides the two abovetnentiond. A very curious specimen of the good old Tory times in Ireland has just appeared in a return from the Court of Chancery, printed by order of the House of Commons. By this document we find, that within the short period of eight years the four Masters of that Court have drawn from the public purse a sum of nearly 100,0001. !—one-half of which would, :n all reason, have been ample remuneration for the services of those gentle men, who are not of the first grade in their profession, and whose office attendance, we are informed, seldom ex tends beyond the hour of three o'clock each day during the sittings of the Court. To another officer, the Registrar of the Court, a sum of 35,5001. has been paid during the above-mentioned period, as a retired allowance, at the rate of upwards of 4,0001. a year ! and for which no attend ance or value has been given. Then to two Examiners of the Court 9,0001. between them; and among the Six Clerks a suns amounting to nearly 60,000/., one half of which sums would have abundantly compensated thosa worthy public functionaries, particularly the Six Clerks, whose duties might be altogether dispensed with. The total of these extravagant payments for salaries and allow ances amounts to nearly 200,000/. ! and, Irish like, the Chancery fund, which was appropriated by Parliament to meet those payments, has not (luring the time produced much more than 100,0001. Now we would ask Mr. HUME out of whose pocket the difference comes? And w or e we would recommendust ha ve cheap a t hpe law, subject a t s w o e h ll is m seriousche,p Govern ment. f We must no longer be reproached with the law having become, both here and in Ireland, " not a refuge to the poor, but a luxury to the rich"—nor our Courts of Justice represented as " open to the indigent only as spec tators"—where " the farther or the peasant, oppressed or defrauded to the amount of 10/., cannot buy even a chance of redress in the lottery of the law for less than 601." where " by victory or defeat lie is equally and irreme diably ruined. This system must be amended—abandoned." Lord HARBOROUGH is adding to the beau ties of Stapleford Park, near Melton, and increasing its boundaries. Miss LOVE, late Mrs. GRANBY CALCRAFT, still lives with him, and he seems to have shut himself nut entirely from the world for her sake. He has lately commenced an action against a member of the Melton Hunt, for a trespass on his sanctum sanctorurn.—Leices ter Journal. T HE REFORM BILL.—The inhabitants of the populous town of Kettering, Northamptonshire, con ,idering the Bill as already virtually passed, have begun to display some symptoms of that boundless joy which will soon revel in every vein, and beam in every countenance throughout the three kingdoms. E ver s i nce S aturday week, the small turrets which form the buttresses of their lofty church spire, have been profusely decorated with oak in tertwined with chaplets of flowers. The inhabitants of Kettering have indeed peculiar reasons f or re j o i c i ng, for a lmost the entire property in that extensive parish is copy hold, and has consequently never yet been represented, the existing law making an absurd distinction be ween copvhold and freehold property. The inhabitants have also another source of joy, arising from their ton n having been fixed on for the place whence the from tle northern division of Northamptonshire is to be made, MURDER AT LEICESTER. , ADDITIONAL FACTS. The residence of the supposed murderer, Cook, is situa ted in Wellington-street. A kind of tool, used by book binders, was found upon tbat counter of the woihshop, besmeared with blood and brains, and there is little doubt but the murderer despatched his victim by striking him on the head with this instrument, before he proceeded to the butchery of the body. Mr. Paas was the first tradesman, in his line, in the kingdom—a man of good property, and had connexions in trade in Germany, Holland, Swit zerland, and Russia. He has left a widow and large family in good circumstances. Mrs. Pass had, we have beard, about a fortnight since 10,0001., left her by a re lation. A rather singular circumstance is connected with this horrible affair. Just about the time of the murder Mrs. Paas put on a widow's cap, and looking in the gl ass, said she looked very well. Her mother, upon hearing her, said, " I hope, my dear, it will be a long time before you have occasion to wear one." We understand that a brother of Mr. Pais was burnt to death at the time Govent-garden Theatre was destroyed. A meeting was convened by the Town-clerk of Leices ter late on Friday evening, which was attended by most of the Magistrates belonging to the Corporation of that place. The result was, that a reward of 2001. was off, red for the apprehension of the murderer, and Acers were eespatched in all directions in pursuit of him. The driver of the Rocket coach, who left Leicester at nine o'clock in the morning, describes in strong colours the ex citement into which the town has been thrown by this atrocious murder. Several of the most respectable inhabi tants of Leicester not only put down their names as con taibutors to the reward which has been offered, but volun teered their services to go in pursuit of the murderer. The following handbill has been issued at Leicester :—" Mur der—Absconded from justice, James Cook, an inhabitant of Leicester, and by trade a bookbinder, stands chargtd with wilful murder, and has absconded this morning. IL is supposed to have made his way towards Liverpool, for the purpose of embarking for America. The following is a description of him :—About 22 years old; 5 feet 6 or 7 inches high ; dark brown hair, very bushy at the sides ; dark eyes, dark whiskers, pointing to the chin, long visage, sallow complexion. He had on a lappd blue coat, black waistcoat, dark trousers, Blucher boots, and wears a black stock, with shirt collar above the stock. Walks upright." LATEST PARTICULARS RECEIVES) LAST NIGHT. The day after this horrible murder is supposed to have been committed, Cook went to a public-house, not far from his workshop, and played several games at " four corners" and " skittles," and was observed frequently to cast an inquiring eye towards the window of his shop ; when he paid his reckoning, he displayed a considerable quantity of cash, and seemed very impatient, and it was noticed that he trembled violently ; this, however, was attributed by his companions to the exertions he hail used in the course of the game. Several constables have been put in possession of Cook's house, and although ever search bas been made for the head of the unfor tunate gentleman, no trace of it can be found, nor is there anything by which the body cin be identified, although the snuffbox, and other articles found in Cook's house, belonging to the deceased, leaves not the slightest doubt of his horrible murder. It has now been ascertained that the deceased bad a considerable sum ni money in his possession when he called upon Cook, which he carried in a long dark-green purse, and which was filled with sovereigns, besides a quantity of bank notes. The amount cannot be correctly ascertained, but it i supposed, he had at least six or seven hundred pounds. From inquiry we learn that the suspected individual is a young man much respected, and of remarkably sober and industrious habits; his employment being sedentary, hi occasionally indulged in those amusements that were likely to be beneficial to his health, of which he was very careful, being always extremely abstemious. Such are the exer tions used to discovsr and once more secure the individual Cook, that his escape appears ❑ext to an impossibility. Mr. Cook, sen., has always borne the most irreproachable character, and is universally respected. ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS-RECEIVED THIS MORNING We arc happy on being able to announce, that in tin course of yesterday (Sunday) some most important fact were disclosed, which, by a most providential coinci dence, at once proves that the wretched man, James Cook, was the actual murderer, and furnish a clue to his retreat. The same train of circumstances also proves that the un fortunate victim, to a certainty, of this most treacherous, premeditated, and horrid act, was M. Paas. The brother and brother. in-law of the deceased arrived at Leicester early yesterday morning, and an interview was shortly after bad, at the Exchange Hall, between thest gentlemen and the Town Magistrates, and their active ane efficient agent the Town Clerk, Mr. Burbidge. Mr. Paas produced an extract of a letter, sent by Cook to the firm of Paas and Co., about a month back, containing an order, and a request to know when Mr. Pass would call on him. The clerk, before executing the order, wrote ti Mr. Paas, stating the substance of the communication, reminding that gentleman that Cook had been irregular in his payments, and requesting advice how he should act.— Mr. Paas, in reply, stated, that the order was to be exe cuted, and Cook to be informed he should call upon him in three weeks. The fatal directions were obeyed, and, as the visit of Mr. Pass to Cook corresponded therewith. there is too much reason for fearing the period was em ployed by Cook in concocting and arranging the horde plot. The horrid discovery was made the followin t ., morning, but the prisoner was then not to be found. B) great perseverance and activity, it has, however, sub sequently been ascertained, that early on the morning o that day he was seen walking in the direction from Leices ter to Wanlip. At the latter place, which is five miles from Leicester, he got upon the Courier coach, which hr left at Loughborough. In this town he appears to have spent about two hours, principally at the Black Horst public-house, but he also visited a pawnbroker's there, or, at least, a person answering his description did, and pledge,' a shirt-pin, containing nine black stones, having a lock of hair in a glass in their centre, and on the hack the initials G. W. arid the ciphers " 1818." This pin was yesterday identified by Mr. Paas as being one which the deceased con stantly wore as a memorial of the death of his mother-in law. Here was obtained evidence most important and conclusive in every respect. After remaining at Lough. borough about two hours, Cook got upon the Defiance coach, and went by it to 111anchester, where on alighting lie instantly made off without giving the customary gra tuity to either coachman or guard. His object is sup posed to have been to avoid an observance of his person ; but in this he failed, for the guard, to whom he was well known, on his return to Leicester, anti learning what had happened, gave instant information of the fact. Here the trace of him at present, we believe, ceases; but it is supposed he is journeying in the direction of Liverpool, with the intention of embarking for America. It has been ascertained that 41r. Paas must have paid at least two visits on the same day to the den before he was mur dered. His first visit was about ten o'clock in the morn ing, for shortly after that hour he called on a customer named Plant, and said that he had just come from Cook's, and was to call on biro again in the afternoon, and that in the mean time be would leave his samples with Mr. Plant for inspection, and call for them on his return from Cook's. He left them, but never returned. This was on the Wednesday, and sufficiently fixes the day, ano nearly the hour, on which the deed took place. On searching the premises a receipt, signed by Mr. Paas for twelve shillings, received of Cook on that day, was found; and it is supposed that this receipt was given in du morning, and that the afternoon invitation was under pretence of giving an order. It is supposed that Cook alone perpetrated the murder; but, from a variety co little circumstances, the magistrates consider that he had an assistant in cleansing the place, and removing thost parts of the body of which no traces exist on the premises. From a careful examination of the fragments found, it is believed that the body was sawed in two above the pelvis, and the upper part, without further mutilation, carried away and burned, or sunk in sonic pit. Suspicion has at tactic l to Michael Cook, a brother of the presumed mur derer, who lives at a village called Qucenybury, about six miles off, and he has ken arrested, and now, with his father, lies in the Crown Gaol. Michael had a horse and cart, and worked for his brother. One circumstance is dwelt on, and that is, that two men were seen on Thurs day evening, in the direction of the premises, with a corded hair trunk, which they carried between them. It is a singular fact, that on Wednesday afternoon, when thi murder is supposed to have been committed, a gentleman was seen to enter Cook's, and immediately after the ap uwntanits,htihmatforbitswmo a o s r te t r hr w ee hi , s ia p ) er s e . d p h r im en , ti t c h e a l t e l f r t e - shilouisldacncoot There is no murder on record of such a horrible naturt as the murder of Mr. Paas since the year 1761, about 71 years ago, when a Frenchman, named Theodore airdelle, an enamel painter, murdered Mrs. Ann King, his lant.- lady, at his lodgings in Leicester-hquare ; and a f ter ro bbi ng her, burnt her body p i ece -meal to avoid detection. The scarcest of SHA K SPEA RE'S minor piece: is:the poem of " Lucrece," of which we never saw btu one perfect copy, and that is in the possessio❑ of the inns distinguished Bibliontanist of any age or country. Tlit booksellers would gladly give fifty pounds for this ran gem, which extends but to a very few Imo of small Co, NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Portsmouth Herald of Sunday.) PonTsmouTu JUNE I.—His Majesty's cutters Cracker and Sylvia arrived from Jersey, the former on Saturday and the latter on Monday. The Cracker will be paid off on Thursday next and recommissioned by Lieut. J. Mor gan, who formerly commanded the Sylvia. The Danish brig of war Santa Cruz, sailed on Sunday fur the West Indies. His Majesty's steam-vessel Hermes, Lieut. Bastard, came in on Sa.urday from the River, and proceeded on Tuesday for Falmouth and the Mediterranean. His M,j-sty's ship Talavera, 74, Capt. T. Brown, re turned to Spithe id from Plytnouth, on Tuesday. His Majesty's ship Briton, 46, Capt. J. D. Markland, C B. (having teen docked and re-fitted) went not of harbour on Friday. She was paid wages yesterday, and will sail early in the ensuing week for Lisbon. His Majesty's cutter Sylvia, Lieut. Spark, sailed on Friday o❑ a cruise for the prevention of smuggling. The Lord Wellington transport, Lieutenant Woodman, agent, arrived on Wednesday from Barbadoes and Antigua. She brings the remainier of the 35th foot, under the com mand of Major Power ; and passengers, Lieutenant Deacon, 49th Regiment, Lieutenant Nelson, 93d Regi ment, Assistant-Surgeon Robertson, Medical Staff, and Captain Macgregor, Ist Foot. She came into harbour en Thursday, to discharge her cargo, about 400 tons of ordnance stores. The Roslin Castle transport, Lieutenant Derriman, agent, arrived on Friday from Jamaica and Halifax, having on hoard invalided soldiers, being a part of the 23d and 77th Regiments. Sfe left Port Royal on the 18th of March. On the 20th of that month a heavy gale of wind came on, which continued without intermissio❑ until the 9th of April, in which she sprung her rudder, and was obliged to bear up for Halifax, at whisk port she arrived on the 23d of April, and having got a new rudder, and embarked a few of the 96th Regiment, she sailed on the 501 of May. His Maj-sty's ship Racehorse, Captain Cotton, sailed from Halifax on the same day for the River St. Lawrence. The Roslin Castle left at Port Royal his Majesty's ship Blanch, 46, Captain Arthur Farquhar, C.B. ; Magnificent, 4, Lieutenant John Paget; North Star, 28, Captain the Hon. G. W. R. Trefusis; Gannet, 18, Commander M. H. Sweny ; Kanga roo, 3, Lieut James Hookey Ariadne, 28, Capt. Charles Philips; the schooner Nimble, and Minx gun-brig. His Majesty's ship Blossom, 16, surveying -vessel, Commander Richard Owen, bad sailed to different Ldands to collect freight, and may be expected home in about a month or six weeks. On the 16th of March, his Majesty's ship Fly, 18, Commander Peter M'Quhae, arrived at Port Royal from England, and on the following day she sailed for Ber►nuda. The following officers of the Army and Navy came passengers in the Roslin Castle, as also several in valided seamen from the squadron on the Jamaica station, viz., Lieut. W. Young, Lieut. J. H. Foskey, Lieut. A, Whitefield, and Lieut. W. H. Hadley, all of the 33d Re gina nt ; Mr. E. Ewing, St iff Assistant Surgeon. Inva lids—Mr. J. Huntley, Master of his Majesty's ship Mag nificent; Mr. Robert Simmonds, Purser of his Majesty's ship Gannet ; Mr J. O'Brien, Purser of his Majesty's ship Ariadne ; Lieut. Charles Scott, of the Royal Ma rines, from his Majesty's ship North Star ; Mr. H. Cru •oe, Carpenttr of his Majesty's ship Tweed ; Mr. A. Murray, Mate of his Majesty's ship Kangaroo; Mr. Thomas Cousens, Mate of his Majesty's ship North Star; Mr. Thomas Lewis, Mate of his Majesty's ship Minx ; Mr. Charles Lellyett, Master's Assistant of the North Star; and Mr. W. F. Beckford, Mister's Assistant of the Magnificent. The Bellerophon, 80, and Mastiff, 6, surveying vessel, have been undocked during the week, and the Queen Charlotte, 108, has been hauled off to her proper moorings off the Dock yard. Lord Yarborough's yacht, the Falcon, having been taken into dock, and her bottom examined and cleaned, has been undocked again and is proceeding with her refitment. The Plymouth steamer, the Brunswick, on Thursday nigh., on her passage to Portsmouth, fell in, off the Start, with a schooner dismasted and water logged, with nobody alive on board ; one man was lashed to the rigging dead. The name of Ellen was on her stern, and she is supposed to be homeward bound from the Straits, laden with fruit. The Brunswick towed her into Dartmouth harbour, and was remunerated with the sum of twenty guineas. Two pilot boats had taken possession of her, but could do no thing with her. She is supposed to have been dismasted in the gale of Tuesday night. The Spartiate, 76, is again placed in a state of Or dinary. The Grasshopper, 18, is sold out of the service, and delivered up to the purchaser, Mr. Ward, of Ratcliffe, near London. Several more of the small vessels are about to he sold, viz. —Ontario, 18, Podargus, 14, Sheerwater, 10, and Rosario, 10, being unfit for any further service. We never reco.lect witnt sing the harbour mere gay than on Mt,nday I at, our most gracious Sovereign's birthday. Every description of vessel displayed their colours on the occasion at an early hour in the morning, and the Victory, flag-ship, was dressed with a profusion of flags from stew to stern, as was also the King's yacht Royal George, and the rest of the ships and vessels in commission. Up the harbour, all the ships in Ordinary had their colours flying, and the Commanding Officer's ship, the Prince, was hand somely painted and decorated with numerous flags ; in deed the whole harbour, from one end to the other, ap peared to be one brilliant scene of bustle and delight. The gunners of the ships in Ordinary at this port have commenced their new exercise in naval gunnery on board his Majesty's ship Excellent, under the command of Capt- Hastings. At Spithead—Donegal, Talavera, and Briton. In Harbour—Victory, Royal George, Beacon, Panta• loon, Mastiff, Excellent, Cracker, and Emerald. PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.—Lieut. C. J. F. Newton is appointed to his Majesty's ship Warspite.-- Lieut. J. Morgan is appointed to the command of the Cracker (to be paid off and recommissioned), vice Roepel, whose perod of service has expired.—Dr. Charles Alison, Supernumerary Assistant-Surgeon of his Majesty's ship Victory, is appointed to his Majesty's steam-vessel Africao• —M. sara. W. Payne, John Fleeming, R. S. Hewlett, and Alfred Bentall, Midshipmen, are appointed to his Ma jesty's ship Excellent.—Mr. L. T. Cunningham is ap pointed Assistant-Surgeon of his Majesty's ship Castor. ROYAL MARINES.—First Lieutenant R. L. Tinklae, of the Chatham Division, is appointed Quarter-master of the Portsmouth Division, vice Hewett, resigned from ill health. Second Lieutenant J. G. Walsh, of the Chat ham Division, has been permitted to resign his Commission. We are again under the necessity of denying th e cor rectness of the report, of a coming Brevet promotion is the navy of one hundred flag officers, and a stage in rank to Commanders and Lieutenants to 1814, which has during the week been circulated by the London Papers. The report is totally groundless. Several alterations and new arrangements are in pro" greys in the public t ffices, connected with the Naval Con solidation Bill, of which our readers shall be made sc' (painted as soon as they can be published with propriety. Mr. Brown, Master Attendant of Sheerness Dock-yards whose retirement we mentioned last wet 1, has retired on $ superannuation of 5591. 14s. 7d. including his half-pap after an honourable and faithful servitude of considerab l Y over half a century. He is succeeded, as we before stated , by Mr. Gtze. Letters have been received from his Majesty's ship Scylla, 18, Com. Hon. George G rey , d ate d M a l ta, April 11th. She was then " all well." On Wednesday last, Vice-Admiral Sir J. BeresforP dag was rehoiated at Sheerness in his Majesty's ship °coo' flig-ship at that port, on the gallant officer's return from leave of absence. ROYAL Maams.—We have great pleasure in extract' lug the following from a Brigade Order, issued by General Sir James Cockburn, subsequent to his late vi° at this garrison : " Royal Marine Barracks, Portsmouth, May 25. " Major-General Sir James Cockburn desires to offe / to Sir Richard Williams, of the Portsmouth Division ° Royal Marines, the assurance of the satisfaction which 11 ; has derived from the inspection he has just completed; t i . l ; appearance and equ i pment o f t h e men, t h e i r rea di ne ss' the field movements, and steadiness in the several form a Lions ; the st a t e o f t h e b arrac k s, i n fi rmary, b oo k s i n °- different offices, and internal arrangements of the core; are all equally satisfactory. The Major-General caniV i e refrain froin further expressing the gratification which o bi felt in witnessing the orderly and regular embarkation: ) , the fine and extens i ve d etac h ment, w hi c h too k p l ace Yr' oe ° terday morning, and his full confidence, should they called into actual service, in their upholding the high c iri racier of the co r ps, an d a ddi ng t o th e h onours an d dal I ; e on the fav o ur o f th e i r Ki n g and Co untry , w hi c h t h e y bay already so universally acquired." est i ' In Sheerness Hari our—Ocean, (flag-ship) Ins gator and Swan, cutter. In B as i n —S a l aman d er stesu r r ,.. 1- 1, —ln Dock—Hercules. Building—Vestal, 28, and '- hope, 28. V ce-Admiral Sir P u lt erey M a l co l m, K . C . B. '° eg" pected to return this day from London, and will irnM e a l l ately hoist his fl i g o n b oar d h i s Ma j esty ' s ship IMegth; 76, Captain John Dick, as Commander-in-Chief of summer cruising squadron, about to assemble at Spit il ' a ill . .srur Capt. Symond s entered upon his duties, as Survey° the Navy, on Thursday last: beer' The establi s h ment o f D ept f or d Dock-yard h as finally brought up, and placed under the superinteadon