The Sun. — London, England, 1832-12-21 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF Ttir, PUBLIC JOURNALS. Our readers will perceive that Mr. Hume heads Sir Charles Forbes by upwards of 1,000, and Mr. Byng by between 200 and 300. This is as it should be. Without meaning to under value Mr. Byng, who has stuck to his party for upwards of 40 years, we have no hesitation in saying that Mr. flume has done more good in one year than he has done in his life-time ; and that if we are to estimate the importance of a return to Parliament by the value of the services to be performed, there can be no comparison between the men. Mr. Byng's proper station is where he now is. We are sorry to perceive in some of the leading Whigs, during this elec tion, a conduct towards Mr. Hume which can not injure him, but must have a most injurious effect throughout the country. We were from the first afraid of this, and did what we could to prevent the split. We understand that Dr. Lushington, Mr. Michael Angelo Taylor, and others of the same stamp, all professed friends of Mr. Hume—if their former proceedings and co-operation are to be taken for evidence of it, actually voted against him by giving plumpers for Mr. Byng. It is to be observed, that by the general voting the supporters of Sir Charles Forbes have either given him plumpers or split with Mr. Byng, by which he has been raised higher on the poll as regards Mr. Hume, than he otherwise would have been. We wish well to the Ministry, and we therefore regret exceed ingly to see this conduct on the part of those who are notoriously influenced by them. We regret it on many accounts. That man must have looked most superficially at the elections throughout the country, who does not perceive that whatever may be the name given to the majority, they are for the most part independent men, who will carry economy and retrenchment as far as they possibly can. We take the favour shown to Mr. Grote in the city election, to be in some sort symptomatic of the times. Now we have no hesitation in saying, that all Mem bers of this way of thinking will look with very great jealousy and distrust at this apparent dis position on the part of the leadinn . Whigs to injure Mr. Hume. It never can be the interest of Ministers to foster these jealousies and dis sensions. The character of Parliament is now essentially changed ; and they who wish to lead must not think of giving their opinions to Par liament, but of taking their opinions from it. Why then do we see on this occasion the Tories, the High Churchmen, and the Whigs, all arrayed against Nlr. Hume ? Surely they could not sup pose that the trash which has been vomited forth against him on the subject of Providence—the attempt to make him out an Atheist, because he, in common with most of the distinguished divines of the English Church, has advocated the siish t of free discussion on all subjects—would ha re the eflect of obliterating from the minds of the people of England the memory of the services ren dered to his country by Mr. Hume. Mr. Hume is not a man who can be put down, as has been more than once proved. All the pretty little sarcasms about the Greek loan might have told against any poor sensitive creature who depended for his happiness on the countenance of fashion able coteries ; but if a man has only moral courage to disregard such nonsense, he need be under no apprehension from the public. The public took part with Mr. Hume, and not with his backbiters, on that occasion; and they do the same now. It is, therefore, a paltry policy to show the disposition, without having the power to strike. 'What is it that this secession from Mr. Hume will prove ? It will prove that, it he succeeds (and there cannot be a doubt of his success), he succeeds notwithstanding the efforts against him of the openly corrupt, and the would-be liberals, who would rather return a Tory than a Rlformer. This futile display of malice can onradd to Mr. Hume's triumph. We take it for granted that neither open nor secret enmity could injure Mr. Hume. Open hostility would only have roused a spirit of re action, and the shabby display of ill feeling has only created dissatisfaction with the conduct of the party. The best possible feeling exists with regard to him, especially in the western districts of the county. A Morning Contemporary of yesterday, ob served, " We happen to know that if some of the Members of the existing Government had not, for some cause or other, of which they are probably now ashamed, given encouragement to th e hopes of Lord Henley, the vehement perse cution to which Mr. Hume has been subjected would not have been heard of ;" and that of those whose opposition to him was founded on a pretended zeal for religion, there were some who took his opponents at their word, because " they knew that there were some men in power who thought his presence in Parliament incon venient ; they saw that the most devoted of the Treasury Papers represented him as a man of crotchets,' a Marplot, and in other ways desig nated him as one on whose career the cheering sunshine of power was not destined to diffuse its prosperous rays." We know it is much easier to bring forward accusations than toprove them ; and till we see some evidence, we shall refuse to believe that any Minister actually encouraged Lord Henley to oppose Mr. Hume. But the conduct of such Whigs as Dr. Lushington and Mr. Michael Angelo Taylor, who have a tole rably good scent, will go far to encourage a belief that Ministers are at the bottom of the opposition. Never, however, was there a greater mistake than to suppose, that by getting rid of one man, troublesome inquirers would be got rid of. Mr. flume at one time had no fellow labourers ; but in this Parliament he will have litany. If any faith may be reposed in declara tions, there will be many men in the next Par liament who will probe our finances to the bottom, and show no mercy to the hosts of aristocratical spoilers of the public. We agree with our contemporary, that " Mr. Hume has, beyond all other men of the present day, th e great merit of never allowing a Chancellor of the Exchequer to repose in luxurious indolence, or to enjoy his seat as a bed of roses. In the present deplorable state of the finances of the country, his searching and indefatigable attention to the Budget and the est i mates of the year, is of more importance to the public service than any other quality of a senator. Of what use are the occasional and flashy speeches of such a lack-a-daisical patriot as Sir Francis Burdett, or persons of that stamp, compared with the practical, unceasing energy energy which distinguishes Mr. Hume, and vigilant sentinelship which he exercises. over the public expenditure ? Times are coming when that unsparing spirit of inquiry into the state of our finances, and that resolute resistance to the vices of venality and profusion, which Mr. Hume has always manifested in Parliament, will become more important to the country than ever." We have often made the re mark, that, the unceasing energy of Mr. Hume was not to be put for a moment in com - parisou with the flash speeches of some of our children of luxury, who would fain have a repu tation for patriotism without labouring for it. The truth is, that, independently of the indis position to labour, most of our aristocrats have so many points of connection with each other that, like the Italian Condottieri of the middle ages, in certain respects they never made war in good earnest. Fortunately for the country Mr. Hume was a novus homo, whose amibition was directed exclusively to labour, who cared nothing for the good word of fashionables, and he, therefore, was enabled to do what perhaps no other man in the House could have had the heart to attempt. We trust there will be an end of this system of unreasonable jealousy. Ministers will obtain the support of the new Parliament if they deserve it ; but it cannot be of service to them to display a bad feeling towards a man like Mr. Hume.—Morning Chronicle. The Conservative candidate for Middlesex, as we had anticipated, is, notwithstanding the a -,t tivity of his omnibuses, 800 below the second Reform candidate. It is a pity that the good natured Baronet has allowed his Tory friends to bleed him with such Oriental profusion ; and all to no purpose ! In South Hampshire Lord Palmerston and Sir George Staunton, another Reform candidate, have been returned by a great majority. The utmost efforts of the Con• servative faction have been exerted in vain on the constituency of the northern division of Northamptonshire. The triumph of Lord ton is the greater, that his Lordship has pro nounced his opinion in Parliament, on the hustings, and through the press, against the existing corn monopoly, which the Tory land lords have prevailed upon their farmers to con sider as essential, if not to their existence, at least to their welfare. Even " my brother, the Colonel," who numbers only as a cipher after Lord Lowther, is likely to be thrown out for Westmoreland. From the very general and al most unanimous feeling manifested in North Warwickshire in favour of the two Reform can didates at the nomination on Tuesday, we think that the Tory Dugdale has little chance of suc cess even in that Tory district. South Derbyshire has done honour to its independence by returning two Liberal candidates, and North Wiltshire must share in the same distinction by its equally meritorious conduct. The exhibition of a popular election in the metropolis of Scotland for the first time has excited great attention. The Tory candidate has no chance against the Lord Advocate and Mr. Abercromby, whose re turn we formerly announced as certain. We have all along contended, that those who con tributed their zealous efforts in the House of Commons to carry the Reform Bill were better entitled to the support of their constituents in their election for a Reformed Parliament than new candidates, who, though they might have acted in similar circumstances with equal regard to the public interests, had not enjoyed the same opportunity of performing a public ser vice. On this ground, we have frequently be sought the electoral body to return their old and tried friends in preference to strangers or upstarts, however showy their pretensions or magnificent their promises. In such cases gratitude might have been expected to invigorate attachment, and experience to increase confidence. How much more, then, is it incumbent on the electoral body to return to Parliament their tried friends, in opposition, not to new friends, but to declared enemies ? In the city of London, in Westminster, and in many other places, which we need not now stop to enume rate, the claims of old connection and the feel ings of grateful confidence have carried the late Reform Members to the head of the poll. It is, therefore, with some surprise and more indignation we learn that a considerable portion of the freeholders and electors of North Essex (we hope not a majority) have resolved to sup port Mr. Baring, who opposed the grant of their extended franchise, against Mr. Western, who voted for the Reform Bill in all its stages. It would be unjust to suppose tbat Mr. Western and the other Parliamentary supporters of re form acted from any sordid regard to their future return in promoting a measure which their feelings of public duty required them to adopt-; but the disinterestedness of one party does not relieve another from its obligations. It can scarcely be imagined consistent with honour or generosity to accept of a favour and to refuse its acknowledgment ; it is not honest to profit by labour and withhold its reward, although no formal stipulation wss previously made that the exertion should be compensated. We still hope, therefore, that the electors of North Essex will do justice to Mr. Western,along with the relative of one of our most stanch Reformers ; and that the miserable trash addressed to their prejudices at the nomination by Mr. Baring, against the Reformers and the ?resent Administration, will receive no sanction iiy their suffrages at the polling-booths. Essex would be for ever disgraced by abandoning so old and consistent a friend as Mr. Western, for a gentleman who (whatever his personal claims may be) never made a speech of ten minutes' length without contradicting one part by the other, or when his speech was too short for this species of conflict did not neutralize it by his vote. We have copied some excellent observations from the address of Mr. E. J. Stanley to the electors of the northern division of Cheshire at the nomination of candidates for that district on Monday last. The creed of the Conserva tives is fully developed, and the contingency on which the ballot would become necessary is for cibly stated.— Times. Of the elections which have terminated, few, if any, have done more credit to the zeal, the independence, and perseverance of the reformed constituency than that for the northern division of the county of Hants. Previous to its di vision under the Reform Act, this county was looked upon as little better than a Government borough, the balance being sure to be turned on which ever side the influence of Portsmouth dockyard was thrown. By its separation from dockyards, custom-houses, and the other public establishments incident to the sea-coast, the inland or northern division became a purely agricultural district, presenting every apparent chance of sending to the Legislature Members expressing the unbiassed opinions of the class of which its constituency became then composed. The Reformers found, however, that though re leased from the overwhelming influence which had formerly neutralised their exertions, they had another species of influence to contend with, and which had been exerted to an extent which, in the result, shows how very little the Anti-Reform candidates had to hope for without it. This wa s no other than finding the whole of the aris tocracy, in the persons of the Dukes of Wel lington and Buckingham, the Marquis of Win chester (Groom of the Stole!), Earls Carnarvon and Guilford, arrayed against them. Of most of these personages the Power cannot be de- M c d ; but the ;neater their purser, the greater and more honourable their defeat. Such has been the independence and the spirit of the consti tuency that, with " all applicances and means to boot," not 700 voters could be brought to the poll in favour of the Conservative candidates, who, after the most positive boastings of suc cess, at the close of the first day, surrendered at discretion. Such a triumph has rarely been witnessed ; speaking as it does volumes in fa your of the cause of rational reform.—Morntng Herald. The annual election of the Members of the Common Council of the City of London takes place to-day. Reform has been long wanted in the Civic Parliament, and, indeed, in the whole governing system of the Corporation. Now that the Imperial Parliament has under gone the process of a sweeping Reform, we trust that the Civic Senate will be subjected to as purifying an operation, both in the Upper and the Lower House, and that some efficient restraint will be placed upon jobbing and mis management of the city funds, whether practised by the Court of Aldermen or Committees of the Common Council. The Court of Aldermen, ' the public are aware, pursue a course less honest and liberal, and far more " aristocratic," than that of the House of Lords, for they do not condescend to admit the public to witness their proceedings, but carefully enshroud themselves in the mystery of darkness and closed doors ; and where that is practised, the suspicion of the public will ever be, that the " mystery of ini quity" is not unknown. As one check upon the " doings" of this body it is proposed that the Court of Aldermen should he an open one. This we think is very reasonable. The Alder men do not, or at least ought not to meet there to discuss their own private affairs ; and if they transact the business which affects the interests of the whole Corporation in a way that they are ashamed of placing under the public eye, the convenience which seclusion produces to them selves is the strongest argument possible why the Corporate body at large should not tolerate that seclusion any longer. Another check on Alder manic misgovernment is proposed to be the election of Aldermen periodically, or for a spe cified number of years, when, if proved worthy of that office, their constituents may have an opportunity of evincing their gratitude, by re electing them ; if unworthy, that they may have the opportunity of putting better men in their places. Now, as there are some of the Court of Aldermen who are professed Reformers of Church and State, we presume such persons can have no objection to put their hands also to the work of corpora tion Reform. It is certainly a minor work of patriotism, when compared with the reformation of the national system ; but whether the local interests of London are to be well or ill ma naged, and whether the funds that were bestowed on the Corporation for great public purposes, are to be expended only on objects of utility or profusely squandered in folly and extravagance, are matters not wholly unimportant, and cer tainly, in some degree, affect the interests of a large portion of the citizens of London, who, if they are as active and earnest in pursuit of Cor poration Reform as they were of Reform in Parliament, must obtain it. If there had been a Reform in the Corporate Government in the year 1814, it could not be possible that at a time when, as we are informed, the Corporation was 30,0001. more in debt than at present, the enormous sum of 20,000/. should be squall . dered on a single banquet. If it had not been for the spirit of reckless profusion which has cha racterized the acts of the Corporation, that body might have done a (Treat deal more substantial good with its funds than it has performed, and yet be much richer than it is at present. We trust that the citizens will now take up this sub ject with energy and perseverance. If they do, civic Reform cannot long be withheld.—Morn ing Herald. MIDDLESEX ELECTION.—The state of the poll yesterday was unfavourable to Sir Charles Forbes, but not one half of the constituency has yet polled, and there is still in reserve a number of voters of Tory principles amply sufficient to turn the scale, and bring in the Conservative Candidate triumphantly. Will the Conservatives of Middlesex allow it to be said that, for want of a little timely exertion on their parts, the great metropolitan county gave its aid to the cause of impiety, revolution, and destruction ? Will they incur the indelible disgrace of holding back on such an occasion, and allowing an irreligious and Radical faction to return a man to Parlia ment who will be in no sense a representative of the great majority of the constituency ? Let them come forward at once ; let them consider that every individual vote is of high importance, and the honour of Middlesex will be triumphantly vindicated. —Morning Post. A GOOD-NATURED MAJOR.—In the Bank ruptcy Court on Tuesday, Major VILLEROY RUSSELL came up to be examined. The Major, who was a good natured soul," had become security for several old friends, who, however, taxed his friendship too much, by " let ting him in" to the amount of the security. One of his liabilities was contracted on behalf of a solicitor bred up under the late Judge BULLER, and who, perhaps, not succeeding in his profession, became gamekeeper to the Earl of CARNARVON. In this capacity, he shooed the Major some " shooting," and then induced him to become security for him to the amount of 2501.—a rather dear shot. It appeared that the Major had some valuable landed pro perty, and the visages of the creditors were illumined with " a pretty considerable" smile when they heard that there was a probability of the property not only being suf ficient to satisfy them, but to set the Major up in life again, to which he may add the advantage of some dear-bought experience. In the " Life of a Sailor" is the narrative of the wreck of a vessel off the Havannah. The crew took to the boat, which upset; they succeeded in righting her, and while two men were baling her with their hats a shark was seen to approach. No language can convey an idea of the panic which seized the struggling seamen. Every man now strove the more to obtain a moment's safety. Well they knew that one drop of blood would have been scented by the everlasaing pilot fish, the jrekalls of the shark ; and that their destruction was inevitable if one only of these monsters should discover the rich repast, or be led to its food by the little rapid hunter of its prey. A few minutes after about 15 sharks came right amongst them. The boat was again upset by the simultaneous endeavour to escape danger, and the 22 sailors were again devoted to destruction. At first the sharks did not seem inclined to seize their prey, but swain in amongst the men, play ing in the water, sometimes leaping about, and rub bing against their victims. This was of short duration. A loud shriek from one of the men annonneed his sudden pain ; a shark had seized him by the leg, and severed it entirely from the body. No sooner had the blood been tasted than the dreaded attack t o ok place; another and another shriek proclaimed the loss of limbs, Some were torn from the boat, to which they vainly endeavoured to cling; some, it was supposed, sunk from fear alone. The with gallant gallant hearts, rest had all sharks had tasted the blood, and were not t o b e d r i ven !imp their feast. By great exertion agai n t h e b oat was righted, vweres e t so ed in her an T d he t t w w o o s m u e r n vir to redouble their exertions. '111?y lightened the boat sufficiently not to be easily overset. The voracious monsters endeavoured to upset the boar ; they swam by its side, in seeming anxiety for their prey; but after waiting some time they separated. The two rescued seamen, in spite of the horrors they had witnessed, soon fell asleep, anti were the next day fortunately picked up by a vessel. T3ELGIUM PAPERS, ANTWEILF, DEC. 17.—The day when the breach bat teries will be completed is not yet known. In erecting these works, the activity, and audacity of the besieged, have to contend with obstacles which it is not easy to overcome. These obstacles are the excessively rainy wea ther, and the continual fire of the besieged, which at the short distance that the French now are, be comes extremely destructive. Accordingly, not the slightest credit is due to the prophecies of those intrepid Journalists who make a practicable breach, and storm and take the citadel before the end of the week. The citadel must fall in the end ; ❑obody doubts of this, but it will not be within a week of this time. _ _ Since yesterday evening the cannonade has been, if we are not mistaken, more violent than it has yet been. The citadel fire a great deal with grape shot. Nothing important has, however, come to our knowledge. As for the random reports and suspicious street-news of which there is always an abundance, we never notice them. The state of the atmosphere does not permit us to see distinctly what is passing on the river and the two banks. We learn that Lieut. Bartellin, of the gendarmerie, com manding the public force at the head quarters has been stationed at Berehem to exercise the utmost vigilance re specting the numerous strangers who come without any authority to get news of the observations of the siege. A!ready several of these gentlemen have been arrested. Among others the correspondent of the Independant Memorial has just passed twenty-four hours in the Corps de Garde. ANTWERr, DEC. 18.-The details of the latest opera tions of the siege do not afford matter for a long bulletin. The works of the besiegers continue, but still with the slowness which the inclemency of the season, the nature of the ground, and the position of the workmen, render inevitable. Hitherto, it is said, only one breach battery is completed. It is raised against the left flank of the half-moon, and it is intended to act against the bastion of Toledo. We positively know that it has been armed for above twenty-four hours, but we have not learned that it has began its fire. A report is spread that it has been dismounted by the fire of the Dutch artillery. It is diffi cult to come at the truth on this subject, as it is, indeed, of all the incidents of the attack and defence. It is pos sible, however, that the report may have arisen, mere'y from the circumstance that the battery has not yet fired, though it has been finished for some time. Some cannon balls and splinters of bombs fall from time to time, in the city. Yesterday several fell near the Nlalines-gate, among other places in the rue de Sant'. Happily nobody was killed or wounded by them. Hitherto the ❑umber of houses in the city damaged by the random shot, amounts to more than 70. _ _ . Yesterday and to day, more French wounded have bee❑ brought to the hospital at Antwerp. There is nothing interesting from the Scheldt. The King is expected here. We are so used to the sound of the artillery, that we had nearly forgotten to say, that since yesterday evening, the besiegers and the besieged have continued to can non ide each other vigorously. ARLON, DEC. 15.—Yesterday several caissons of artil lery, coming from Metz, by way of Longwy, passed through Arlon. It was observed that these were the first French troops .hat have get foot i❑ the territory of Luxemburg, since the revolution of September. This fact seemed import ant to some persons, who thought the French were not allowed to enter Luxemburg, because it is a state of the German Confederation.—Journal du Commerce d'Anvers, Dec. 19. BRUSSELS, DEC. 18.—General Evain set out yesterday morning for Antwerp. General Latour Maubourg arrived at Brussels yesterday morning with his aide-de-camp. GHENT, DEC. 17.—The editor of the Messuger de Gand, M. Vanlooche, Messrs. Froment, Steven, and Convieur (formerly a manufacturer) were arrested yester day morning, and taken to the citadel. M. Michels de Brialinont, whose arrest seems also to have been resolved on, succeeded i❑ escaping. It is affirmed that M. Metdepenningen, the advocate, having received information on his way between Ghent and Alost, got out of the dili gence and fled by by-roads. Seals have been put on the presses of the journals. A plot, of which the details are unknown, is spoken of. The hussars of Orleans, cantoned at Lokeren, scud patrols along the Dutch frontiers, as far as Zelzaete, near the Sas de Gand. It seems that the Dutch arc concen trating their forces at Breskens and Terneitzen, where strong batteries are erected, which it is intended still far ther to increase.—Brussels Papers, Dec. 19. HUDDERSFIELD MARKET.-This market' last Tuesday, was well attended by cloth merchants, wh o transacted rather more business than was done on Tues day week. Cassinets were rather more in demand. '— Halifax Express. " Otterbourne,' as the title indicates, is the history of the events that led to the famous battle of Ot terbourne, as fought between a part of the power of the stout old Earl of NORTHUMBERLAND, headed by his son HoTsruit, and the Scottish force under DouGLAs, then returning from a `harrying' expedition on a large scale. The battle itself is preceded by such events as might be expected—the skirmishing of outposts, the seizing of spies, the rencontre of bodies of free-prickers, the sack of pri • vate castles ; and, on a large scale the beleaguerment of the town of Newcastle itself, in which Hotspur's troops are shut up waiting reinforcements, and before whose walls many is the knightly passage of arms, and the more secret deed of treachery, worked by the industry and skill of the author."— Spectator. THE ONLY CONIPLETE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH NOBILITY.—We are requested to state, that the fourth edition of Mr. BURKE'S " Peerage and Baronet age," corrected to 1833, from the first authorities, with all the new creations, and embellished with upwards of 1,500 engravings of the arms, is now ready for delivery at the various booksellers, in two very handsome Bvo. volumes. RIVER OF VINEGAR.—III South America, near Popayan, is a river, called in the language of the country, Rio Vinagre. It takes its source in a very ele vated chain of mountains, and after a subterraneous pro gress of many miles, it reappears, and forms a magnificent cascade upwards of 300 feet in height. When a person stands beneath this point he is speedily driven away by a very fine shower of acid water, which irritates the eyes. M. BOUSSINGALT, wishing to ascertain the cause of this phenomenon, analysed the water of the river, and found among other substances sulphuric and hydrochloric acids. The following is the result of the analysis :—Sulphuric acid, 0,00110 ; hydrochloric acid, 0,00091 ; aluatine, 0,00040 ; chalk, 0,00013 ; soda, 0,0001; silex, 0,00023, oxyde of iron and magnesia, traces. MURDER OF THE REV. C. lERGUSSON, OF TIMOLEAGUE.—We lament to state that accounts have been received in Cork, by express, at a late hour this day (Saturday), announcing the murder of the Rev. CHARLES FERGUSSON, of Timoleague. As far as we have been ena bled to learn the particulars, this respected gentleman, while proceeding in a gig, accompanied by Mr. SWETE, at an early hour this morning, on his way to Bandon, per ceived a number of persons in a field, running as if to wards the road ; he quitted the gig with the intention of seeking shelter in a neighbouring house, when he was pur sued, overtaken, and murdered on the spot. Mr. SwErE escaped.— Cork Southern Reporter. We learn that the Bev. MICHAEL RUSSELL, LL.D., has been appointed by the Right Rev. Bishop WALKER to the office of Dean of the United Diocese of Edinburgh, Fife, and Glasgow, in the Scotch Episcopal Church, vacant in consequence of the resignatio❑ of the Rev. R. MOREHEAD, D.D., nosy Rector of Easington, in Yorkshire. This tribute of respect paid by Bishop WALKER to Dr. RUSSELL'S attainments and services to his native church has given great satisfaction to the respectable mem bers of the Episcopal Church in this city.—Edinburgh Observer. _ - - pupils, to which we alluded last week, A N A TOMY.—A deputation connected with at the Home-office, a few days l ' ation to present a memorial to theawgaoi waited eia.evtnii having g g i ri o .o f pcao Int; Le iinp ps Lord MELBOURNE. We again repeat our warning : let public attention be directed to the subject of their complaint, and the evil in question will be multiplied tenfold. The Bill has worked with astonishing facility, considering the very short period it has been in operation ; and if those who hid been most fortunate would but assist those who have been less so, and all parties would keep quiet, we are convinced that in a very short time there would nowhere exist any cau se of com p laint. The students ha ve been urged l on by a a knave who said bef ore h an d t h a t the Bill d not ans wer, andis now trying v ar ious expedients to mike good words, which the resu lt s were quickly wo fal sifying. Since the riotous meeting referred to, the number of subjects has undergone a marked diminution. He who makes appeals , address e d to th notthicee'cause of the students, whom he isa e p p ro u f b , l B i , c i , en a a n i d r t e r n ie e s ga t d o e, br a in n g d to be th e i r f r i en d. Th e S ecre t a ry sdm fo ue r oce esh t ti h vg e teurs Homeeeasbtcyih°enar'ff°eiuncstt iotnog Department is in communication with the principal teachers, and we beli e v e a li tt l e time and pa tience are all that are required to make the Bill work to the satisfaction of all parties. —Medical Gazette. COURT OF CHANCERY, DEc. 20. EX-PARTE ALCOCK. Counsel were heard on a former day, upon a pe tition presented by Mr. Alcock to discharge a caveat entered against his application for a patent for an improvement in machinery for manufacturing lace ; and the Lord Chancellor then ordered it to he referred back to the Attorney• General, to report whether the petitioner's improvements were new, or similar to those of Mr. Henson, who opposed the granting of the patent. The certificate of the At torney-General was, that the inventions were per fectly dissimilar. The petitioner's claim to a patent was therefore allowed, and Counsel were heard on both sides as to the question of costs of the appli cations to this Court, which his Lordship ordered the petitioner to pay, in consequence, as we under stood, of the irregular manner in which he pro ceeded to obtain his patent ; which justified the other party in suspecting the invention was taken from them. GREENWOOD V. TAYLOR. Sir EDWARD SUGDEN replied in this case, and contended that the charge of contempt was com pletely established against Mr. Farquharson—but even then, at the last hour, he offered to abandon the proceedings against him if he would give up the real author of the articles which were published by him. The LORD CHANCELLOR, in the course of Sir Edward's reply, took occasion to say that he wished persons were aware of the difference between the publication of proceedings in the Master's office and of discussions at a meeting of creditors. In the former, though the number of persons may not be more than three, or four, or five, yet it was a public meeting, where both parties were heard ; but a meeting of creditors, though a hundred were pre sent, was strictly a private meeting, and the publi cation of their discussions, even of the communica tion made by one creditor to another, was a con• tempt. His LORDSHIP, after the case was closed, said he had no doubt that this publication was a contempt, and that Mr. Farquharson was guilty. Ile would, however, give him some interval to consider whe ther he would give up the name of the person who gave him the information, and, in the event of his own absence from town in the vacation, and that if Mr. Farquharson were committed to the Fleet, and would then repent of his error, and resolve to give up his author, he would give him till the first day of Hilary Term, when his commitment would be as certain as if the order was now made. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. UNION-HALL. FRAUDULENT BAKERS.—Various complaints having been recently made at this office relative to the dis honest practices of bakers, no less than fourteen per sons carrying on that trade, and living within the district, were summoned upon information before HENRY WESTON, Esq., one of the county Magis trates, to answer for the offences with which they were charged. As the whole of the defendants were convicted of the alleged charges, the name and residence of each, with a brief outline of his case, together with the particulars making each offence, will be found in the following account of the ex aminations : William Giles, of Blackfriars-road, was summoned upon two informations; one for having alum on his premises for the adulteration of bread, and the other for using a false balance—namely, a piece of lead attached to the scales in his shop, for the pur pose of defrauding his customer , . . _ . The defendant pleaded guilty to each information, and was fined 101. and costs for the first offence, and I/. Is. 6d. fur using the false balance. Thomas Chester, of Wellingt on-st reet, Black friars road, appeared to answer informations of a similar nature. Gil, the officer, on going into the defendant's premises, discovered a mixture of alum and water in the seasoning-tub in the bakehouse, a portion of which was produced. Upon examining the scales a twopenny piece was found affixed to them, which gave a preponderating weight of two ounces in favour of the defendant each time he was called on by a customer to weigh a loaf. This defendant also pleaded guilty to each information, and was fined 61., besides costs. William Ledger, of No. 10, Swan-lane, Rol her hithe, was summoned for having ingredients for the purpose of adulterating bread on his premises; and there was also a charge against him for ob structing the officers in the execution of their duty. When the officers entered the defendant's shop he ran into the bakehouse, followed closely by them, and, seizing up the seasoning -tub, which stood near the door, he ran towards the oven, and, pulling out a pot containing a quantity of potatoes, threw them into the seasoning -tub, to prevent the detection of alum, and then soused the officers with the mixture. The officers, however, procured a sufficient quantity of the mixture, during the strife, to enable them to ascertain its quality. . - The defendant, in his defence, was boiling 14. lbs. of fruit to mix up with his bread when the officers en.ered the bakehouse, and was in the act of putting them into the seasoning-tub at the time. He was fined la and costs. Irni. Illudie, of Gedling•terrace, Bermondsey, pleaded guilty to an information charging him with having alum on his premises, and was fined 101. and costs. This defendant, on the entrance of the of ficers, ran away out of the shop with four small bags containing alum, which he threw down the privy. Two of the bags containing the stuff were recovered by the officers, and produced in Court. Geo. Atkins, of Suffolk-stz eet, Southwark, pleaded guilty to an information charging him with using a false balance, three ounces of lead having been dis covered affixed to the scales in his shop. He was fined .5/. and costs. Walter Raithie, of the Cornwall-road, Lambeth, pleaded guilty to the offence of having alum on his premises, and was fined 101. and costs. Wm. Parsons, of the Borough-road, pleaded guilty to a similar offence, and was fined 31. and costs. Samuel Bolting, of George-street, Blackfriars road, was convicted and fined .51. for having two penny-pieces affixed to the bottom of the scales in his shop. Robert Brown, of Fryer-street, Blackfriars-road, pleaded guilty to a similar offence, and was fined .5/. and costs. This defendant had a two-ounce weight attached to the bottom of his scales by a wire through a hole in the counter. This mode of de frauding the poor is called by the trade " riding the monkey." John Bowen, of Gravel-lane, Southwark, pleaded guilty to the charge of having two ounces of lead affixed to his scales, and was fined 3/. arid costs. Richard Nichols, of Adam-street, Rotherhithe, pleaded guilty to a like offence, and was fined 31. The officers, on examining this defendant's scales, discovered two pieces of lead and iron, weighing five ounces, affixed to the scales. George Clarke, of Gravel-lane, Southwark, pleaded guilty to the offence of having a piece of I ead,weighing an ounce and a half,affixed to his scales, and was fined 2/. and costs. Edward Moor, of Paradise-street, Rotherhithe, was convicted, and tined 101., for having alum on his prem'ses, George Haydon, of Trinity -street, was fined 1/. for not having scales in his shop, agreeably to the Act of Parliament. T. R. Mawby laid the whole of the above infor mations, and he was assisted by two officers of this establishment. On Wednesday, an inquest was taken on view of the body of Jos JEPSON, of Juddfield, near Langsett, a Quaker, aged 44 years, who was found sus pended by the neck to the bough of a tree, in a field in the occupation of his uncle. Some imaginary losses and troubles appeared to have affected his mind, and he had said he was tired of his life, being so nervous and low spirited. Verdict—" Hung himself in a fit of insanity." —Sheffield Iris. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. LE WES, THURSDAY, DRC. 20. These Assizes terminated yesterday. Two per sons are left for execution. WREN, THE INCENDIARY.—This wretched man was brought up to receive judgment after all the other prisoners had been disposed of. He is only nineteen years of age, slight and rather delicately made, light complexion, flaxen hair, and light blue eyes. As sox) as the Judge put on the fatal cap the prisoner's countenance told the inward workings of his mind ; he did not speak, but looked wistfully around the Court, apparently in search of some one. EFs Lordship passed sentence in nearly the follow ' ing terms :—" Prisoner at the bar, you have been found guilty, by a most patient, intelligent, and mer ciful July, of wilfully setting fire to property. The circumstances of your guilt were too plain to admit of doubt ; the very means you used to prevent de tection led to the discovery of your guilt. It is most lamentable to see a man of your age commit a. crime of this nature, and which can only proceed from malignity of disposition. I have ❑ot come hastily to a decision, but have taken considerable time to reflect upon it, and the conclusion at which I have arrived is that execution must lake place." The impressive manner in which his Lordship delivered judgment affected all present, and at this moment the sobs of females were audibly heard throughout the Court. The prisoner became rest less ; raising his hand to his neckerchief and look ing towards the place from whence the sobs pro ceeded, his eyes rested upon his three sisters in the gallery. His LORDSHIP proceeded, " I ant convinced that mercy to you would be cruelty to society, and I feel it my painful duty, therefore, to pass senteneei of death." His Lordship then passed sentence in the usual way, bidding him employ the short time he had to live in seeking for mercy only where it could befotind, for it would be in vain to expect it in this world. At this time the sobs of the femalei creased ; they leaned over the rail of the gallery and wept bitterly. The prisoner seemed more affected by their situation than his own ; he looked anxiously towards them, and then turned from the bar. THE MARKETS. SOUTHALL MARK ET.—Dec. 19. This day's market was well supplied throughout, and rather numerously attended both by London and country buyers. ¶:tg trade with Beef and prime Mutton was somewhat brisk, SO'', other kinds of meat rather dull, at the following prices per sta . of Slb. to sink the oftals:— Bee f 3s. 4d. to 4s. 10d I V 3s. Sd. to 58. 0 :$ 1 ' Mutton 3 10 4 10 Pork 4 0 5 The foregoing quotations are Beef from 4d. to 6d., Mutter, and Pork id. per stone higher than on this day se'nnigb", prices of Veal stationary. Beasts, ‘Z7I ; Sheep, 1,39 - 2 ; Calves,a , t Pigs, 46. But a small proportion of the supply left the mar unsold. LEWES MARKET.—Dec. 18. Beet..*.. 4s. Od. to 4s. Bd. Veal 4s .od. to 4s. 4d ' M l utton -- 4 2 5 0 Pork .--.. 310 4 ,4 Supply of Beasts good, both as to numbers and quality; " small stock limited. Trade somewhat brisk. RUMFORD MARKET.—Dec. 19. - d. s. d. to s. d. s. d. 0 Beef 3 4 4 8 Veal Mutton .. 3 8 4 8 Pork Stickling Calves from 14s. to 30s. ; Quarter old Pigel2s tolBs. 0 0 ' Supply moderately good ' • trade with Beef and Mutton soO C ' what brisk, with Veal and I'ork rather dull. --.w.---- COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEO(' Wheat. Barley. I Oats. Beane. Per Quarter. s. to s. s. s. s. to s. s. to Blandford 53 30 20 -- Brigg l' 52 63 36 40 19 22 3 Cambridge 55 17 Chard 54 58 28 34 17 2(1 34 :',JS Huntingdon 58 63 22 36 15 21 24 Long 5utt0n......... 56 64 17 22 32 ‘ , l Louth.. 5O 55 27 32 19 20 32 Lynn 154 56 20 38 22 28 32 5 . Newark 52 63 36 42 16 22 36 4 .2, Nottingham 50 62 36 42 17 23 38 q 5 Peterborough ...... 46 60 28 36 17 22 29 '- Plymouth ............... 50 64 30 34 20 23 49 Pontefract—.. 67 414 27 4 5 Sleaford 65 70 38 38 22 28 41 35 Uppingham 50 59 28 38 '2O 26 3 0 s i Wisbech --...—...1 44 50 20 24 13 15 30 LEEDS CORN M A RKET.—Dec. 19. Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, 601 h. York. and Lincoln. 601 b. LEEDS CORN MARKET Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, 601 h. - York. and Lincoln. 601 b. Barley, Norfolk and Suffblk - Yorkshire and Lincolnshire - Grinding Bean. 63lb. Oats, I'otatoe -Healing, For. 12. d. to 13d Er Shelling Rapeseed, English, 216. to 22, Forel; --Dec. 19. 52s to 595. 496.. to 545. 30s. to 34. 295. to 335. 21s. to 238- 333 to 4116 to 268. t , ng. 1 1 y.ict to Rid. perl i, 235. to 28s. per 103 st —l. to —l. P!E_l-!-, LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.—Dec. 1 8 . n,4 WHEAT, English, White, per 701 b. Red —.. Scotch, Welch, and Manx Irish, White 7 7 r ,"' Red 8 6 - 810 Foreign OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 2 5 : 2 ) ; Irish Foreign j , ‘ : 0 BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 34 0 0 Scotch and Irish, per 601bs. Feeding 3ll 4 0 8 0 BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter 36 6 q 4 0 -- Irish, &c. Foreign 40 - PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter 3B 0 ~,,i 0 Foreign FLOUR, English, per 2801 b. 44 0 4 " 0 ---.. Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401b5. .. .2 0 2. „ INDIAN CORN, per 4401 b. Eve, per Imperial quarter MALT, per Imperial quarter IMPORT OF GRAIN for the We F e l k ot e ir n . ding . D l cc ._ o . 17 1 ' ;IA: 03%.' Wheal Oats. I Barley Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Foreign, Brls.lrish,&c. Soo. r.rel 3, ,, ' 12,430 8,363 3,861 100 I 6,099 MEETINGS OF CREDITORS, AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL-STREET. (From the London Gazelle.) 0 , TO-MORROW, DEC. El M. t i t: .1. Hook, flour-dealer, Great Alie-street, Goodman's-tields I a 11 11. Savage, clicesemonger, Oxford-street .................... .. I I G. Ball, artificial-flower-manufacturer, Wood-street ...•• I The bodies of the men who were shot 3t Dunonine have, by order of the Government, been e , humed, and an inquest is now bolding on them at Car rickmacross, before Mr. Mao'Er., one of the Counti Coroners. A witness against the police sw ore that l'ae saw a particular man of the police party, whom lie s' d he knew well, and whom he named, kneeling down taking particular aim at a man in the crowd. Mr. g°., NAN, one of the Magistrates, has been obliged to quit 1,1; resilience in the county and go into Carrick. He is a considerable tithe impropri a tor, and nephew to the Ron l6- Catholic Bishop. It appears that DAwsoN, the polic / ,' man, was kept for a considerable length of time beltr they murdered him.—Drooheda Journal. " FLEETWOOD," BY THE AUTHOR OF " °:1 LEB WILLIAMS."—" We are indebted to the judgme nt : o the publisher of The Standard Novels' for the gratificat'°, we have received from a revived acquaintance with Fi e d s wood. Of Mr. GonwlN's works of fiction, this solo. next to ' Caleb Williams.' Fleetwood is a posaic O le be When advanced in manhood and of formed habits' t i ' marries a young and beautiful woman, and desire s bis impossibility of assimilating her tastes and pu rsuits t°, it , own, and, at the same time, of allowing her youtPuty, customary pleasures. Fleetwood is prone to )e 6 . l° bpi and an logo (GrrFonn) finds no difficulty in exeit" t o, suspicions of his innocent wife, and working him,__ ull atie l a conviction of her guilt. Mary, his wife, i S 8 "Ca ;rts l design, exquisitely preserved throughout. T he itr merit of the story, however, is not in the fable, th. gi iitf cidents or the characters, but in the truth and origl.ab it of the observations on men and things With ViblCio, abounds." —Examiner. BIRTHS. cl C" ' On the 17th inst. at Fetcham, the lady of Lieut..C oloo dy Short, Coldstream Guards, of a daughter. the Is On the '2oth inst. in Charles-street, Berkeley-square, or° of Dr. Seymour, of a son. N V3ls" on the 20th inst. Mrs. Norris, of Beresford-stree t, of a son MARRIED. tr. joil li r ' ) , On the 00th inst. at St. James's Church, PiccadillY, .. of t Crawley, of Oxford-street, to Charlotte, third daughte` .t. late Lovell, F-sq., of Uxbridge. f ooi c `pi, On; he 20th inst. at All Souls, G. W. Hind, Esq. , ° d WO street to Ann Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Eahnu n f O, Esq. . ‘ ,„nrY to On the 20th inst. at All Souls, Latighain-place, ..--iwilt-'4;- Talbot, Esq., M.P., of.Lacock Abbey, in the county of f pfli , Constance, youngest daughter of Francis Mundy, EsQ , ° 11, •cr e n eaton, in the county of Derby. pe , 0 ,- , On the 20th in t. at St. George's, Bloomsbury, John ~ C of Gray's Inn, Esq., to Mary Ann, daughter of Tll OO3 Esq., of Montague-street, Russell.square. DIED. " 1 On the 19th inst. in Tavistock.street, au Bedford-square' ret „ f ie Alderson, Esq., late of Symond's Inn, so licitor, aged ViY" On the 16th inst in North Repps, Norfolk, Robert, " , Playford, Esq., half-pay, 08th Regiment. • diii ills On the 18th inst. at Islington, after a short and pail t pe Sally, wife of B. P. Lespinasse, Esq. Y , iP t >' On the 19th inst. in Great ltussell-street, Bloonisbu r , o i e ,;(). 64th year of his age, Augustus Pugin, Esq., author 01 . , o p - amples of Gothic Architecure, and several other thic Architecture. e 0: 1 - q u 'of° On the 00th inst. in Gloucester-place, Portman - ) ~Air trice, widow 01 the:late George No ille.Adams, Esq , IN Hall, Essex, in the .7th year of her age. .............m. Wort , ow 10 PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BYNURDOYO U _l 4 Go ►r .... . ~------- SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, LONDON.