The Sun. — London, England, 1832-05-28 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Amidst otner edifying matter, in certain speeches ascribed to Lord Wynford on Friday last, we find his Lordship " convinced of the necessity of putting an end to illegal and uncon stitutional assemblages" like that Reform meeting which had taken place at Newcastle, and at which one of the speakers was reported to have used some highly outrageous and offensive expressions towards illustrious personages, all which having been brought under the notice of the House by • that enlightened statesman the Marquess of Lon donderry, gave rise to the commentaries of the learned and temperate Lord Wynford. The Learned Baron went on to say, as reported, that " if such meetings (reform meetings) were in future permitted, Government could no longer on, but must give way to the different poli tical unions which at present disgraced the country." Further,' that " these I olitical unions must be suppressed,"—that " the laws of the country must be respected, and its Government supported." There is nothing to the world easier than to holt out a com monplace, or a string of them, touching respect for the laws, and support of the Government, and so forth. Upon the application of these maxims, nevertheless, doctors will differ, as do Lord Wynfiprd and ourselves. His Lordship thinks that certain kinds of meetings ought to be put an end to, the laws respected, and the Government supported. So do most reflecting men. We agree with Lord Wynford that the business of the State can never for any length of time be carried on by means of reform meetings, or political unions, but that, on the contrary, their existence for a long period must gravely embar rass, if not wholly supersede, any government in the exercise of its most important functions. Our concurrence of opinion with Lord Wynford, however, terminates with that admission. So far from acknowledging that reform meetings and political unions, as established by the people, have disgraced the country, it is our firm belief that they have saved it, and our feeling that they have raised and done honour to its character in the eyes of the whole civilized world. We can think of but one political " meeting," or " union," which has recently clone no honour to the British name; and that we beg to be ex (used for declining to specify, further than that Lord Wynford is suspected of being himself among its most active members. If the learned Lord be at a loss for information as to the nature and objects of the unions which he denounces, we can assure him that they have been instituted to speak the sentiments of the people of Eng land, which were not fairly or freely expressed by the so-called House ofCommons, making laws and spending money in their name,—that these unions do represent most truly and emphatically the opinions of the people, being their own opi nions,—that any attempt to put them down by Attorney-General or State prosecutions, would serve but to render them more numerous and powerful, unless, indeed, some means could be found for indicting, fining, and imprisoning an entire people,—and that if Lord Wynford wishes to put an end to them, it must be by redressing the grievance in which they originated, and passing expeditiously the Bill for Parliamentary Reform. . The day after that on which the Royal assent shall have been given to the Re form Bill, the prayer of Lord Wynford may not, in its letter, have been heard, yet will its end and meaning have been substantially accomplished. The Attorney-General may have done little, but the Legislature will have done all. The Reform meetings—the Political Unions—will have died a natural death—the Newcastle agitator will have becomefitncius officio, and Lords Wyn ford and Londonderry with him. Lord Rad nor's speeches on all questions which involve the causes, operation, and cure of popular dis content, exhibit, in a light most honourable to that nobleman, the true rationale of a constitu tional and representative Government.— Times. We do not wish to anticipate the fruits of the Reform Bill, but we feel it to be our duty, from representations which have reached us, of the character and conduct of the Tory Staff attached to our Diplomatic establishment, to require from Lord Palmerston some explanation of his inveterate and suspicious attachment to the ad herents of former Governments, who have not been equally wise in their generation with him self, and have not been converted with him to a " new and more orthodox faith." Has he not bad sufficient experience, since the commence ment of the Belgian negotiations, of the disad vantages of working with the tools of his former friends? Is it not notorious in the society of every capital in Europe, that our nego ti a t ions are imprudent, but never promoted by our own agents ; that constant communications are maintained either directly or indirectly between them and the Anti-Reformers in England— that there is the most perfect sympathy in spirit and feeling between these parties, and the Metternich and Lieven school—the zeal of all being equally directed to uphold the principles of the Holy Alliance—to render unavailing any effort on the part of its vic tims, whether Pole, German, Italian, or Por tuguese, to break their chains—to the suppres sion of all liberal institutions, and to the firmer establishment of the rule of aggression and tyranny ? We might be disposed to wait for a Reform Parliament—for a radical cure for this grievance—were we not daily becoming more and more the laughing-stock of all Europe, as the dupes of our own agents in this miserable system. Lord Palmerston must either be • an imbecile or something worse. But although we will not accuse him of betraying his colleagues, we must say that " it is full time that they should overhaul his establishments and his appointments —and if they are weak enough to suppose that the Reformers will continue to endure. this state of things, we must recommend it to the especial care of Lord Ebrington and the other friends of our cause in the House of Commons." The evil is not confined to the first; second, or even third class of our • diplomatic corps—to Ambassadors or Envoys. The lowest un derling vies with his next in rank, and he with his immediate superior, in heaping re proach and contumely in all society, and in every Caste and Salon, not only upon the Go vernment, but upon all their measures. Every t.;ourt in Europe still rings with their exuberant joy at the momentary prospects which the Duke of Wellington's miserable a:tempt gave them of being relieved from their reforming Masters, and they must and shall share in the penalties of his failure. Lord Granville, we understand, returns in the course of a few days to Paris. We have full confidence in him, but has he provided him self with a new Secretary and an amended squad of attaches ? Mr. Hamilton and Mr. Ashburn ham, we take it for granted, are now engaged i n Packing up " their all." The only merit the latter can boast at the Foreign-office is, that his brother Was a stanch opponent to the Reform Lill in the House of Lords. But connexions of this description will be found the chief quali fication of most of'the corps. And why-a corps diplomatique at all ? What advantages do the public derive, under present circumstances, fron persevering in the maintenance of this absurd establishment ? Sucking diplomatists lead even, to more expensive and injurious results than tin sticking Statesmen of the Boards of Treasury and Admiralty of other times. The situation of unpaid attache leads to that of paid attache, when the claims on the public purse begin The young diplomate with Tory connexions soon raises himself to the posts of Secretary, 1 Diplomatic Agent, Envoy, and Ambassador ; and we should have no objection to the system, —if these schoolboys engaged in it at their own expense and risk, and aspired only to the higher branches of the profession, when their talents and merits entitled them to the honours and emoluments of it. But, according to the present practice ; we must retain, to the exclusion of abler men, who have qualified themselves by other means, all the dolts and blockheads who have fastened themselves by an apprenticeship on the service, till they are got rid of by retiring pensions of from 5001. to 2,0001. a year. And then the advantage of confiding delicate and dif ficult transactions to the management of such people, till they are of sufficient standing to jus tify their patrons in apportioning their share of the public plunder to them ! That we should be ridiculed and despised for our want of skill and success in diplomacy, under such a system, can be no matter of astonishment. The Ameri cans, who somehow or other contrive to work out their ends, anti never to fail in negotiations, when either the honour or interests of their countryare at stake, have no diplomatic schca They draw upon the general fund of talent; skill, tact, ex perience, and prudence in their country, and are at no loss in selecting the most efficient agents to be found in the diplomatic circles of Europe. They are moderately, we believe inadequately paid ; and they neither require an education or a retiring pension at the public cost. Have we no gentlemen amongst the higher ranks of society in Parliament, or in the professions, equally qualified with the American diplomatists, who might be selected for missions to foreign Courts, and would consider themselves amply repaid by the salary during the time of their actual service and the honour of the employment, without seeking to quarter themselves on the public for pensions for life ? We did not intend to go so fully into the subject when we commenced this article, relying on the sweeping away of these abuses by a reformed House of Commons ; but we have been led on by the pressing nature of the grievance, and the sooner the attention of Parliament is directed to the subject the better. We believe, indeed, that the arrange. ment for providing permanently for the ex pense of this establishment, which has been separated from the Civil List, has not yet been submitted to the House of Commons. The Reforming party should require a pledge from Lord Palmerston, that every Anti-Reformer in the service should be recalled, before they vote either their salaries or his own for the present year. 'There are only two or three men in the corps with a reputation for ordinary acquire. ments ; but we shall hope, that even Lord Heytesbury's services might be replaced by those of an equally efficient, and more liberal representative of a liberal Government at the Court of St. Petersburgh. We would not vote one shilling for the inert supererogatory services of Lord Cowley's son—the last appointment of Lord Palmerston—as Secretary at the Court of Munich. The claims of this functionary, and those of the Ambassador, rest nearly on the same grounds. The father of the Secretary opposed the Reform Bill in the House of Lords, with equal zeal with the brother and the other nominee of the Petersburgh Ambassador in the House of Commons. It is high time that an end should be put to a system under which the highest foreign interests of this great country were intrusted to the charge of such a lunatic as Lord Londonderry.—Morning Chronicle. The Peers have fallen very much in public estimation, by their absurd denials of the preva lence of a desire for Reform throughout the country. The people everywhere say, these men speak as they do either in ignorance or bad faith. If they speak in ignorance, what a cala mity for a nation to be ruled by men who know not what has long been notorious to man, woman and child, throughout the country ! To legis late for a people, some knowledge ought to be possessed of their opinions and wishes ; but they who are ignorant of the prevalence of a desire for a measure of Reform as efficient and exten sive as that of the Bill, must know as little of the opinions and feelings of the people of this country, as of the opinions and feelings of the people of Loo Choo. If they speak in bad faith, how dreadful to think that there is a class of men in the country so base and unprincipled as to give, knowingly, utterance to vile false hood to promote their own selfish ends. From this dilemma there is no escaping. "he majority of the . Peers are either the mos Contemptible of men, in point of information, or the most worthless in point of principle. An other mischievous consequence, as regards them selves, of their attempt to depreciate the numbers and the strength of the Reformers, is the pusil lanimous character in which, if sincere, they hold themselves up to the country. If the far greater part of the property and learning of the nation, and a larger proportion of the population, are, as the Antis pretend, hostile to the Reform Bill, is it not cowardly in them to desert such powerful interests ? If they sincerely believed what they confidently maintained, they pay a very poor compliment to their own nerves. The great al ways suffer from separating themselves from the people. The people cannot be compelled to do themselves justice without thinking meanly of those who had the desire, but not the power to resist them. In human affairs, the great point is to know when to insist and when to yield. If the Duke of Wellington had in the field acted on the principles he has followed as a po litician, his career in the Peninsula would have been both brief and inglorious. The oppo ition to the Reform Bill has taught the people K hat it can never be the interest of the Peers to teach them—that there is no community of feeling between them. They ought to hate seen, from the beginning, that they must yield sooner or later ; and it was, therefore, madness in them to encumber themselves, in addition to defeat, with the hostile recollections of the people. Two years ago the House of Peers stood in a very different relation to the people from what it will ever stand again. The people are deeply in censed that the anti-Reforming Peers exposed them to the calamity of civil war, and it will re quire a long probation of disinterested and me ritorious conduct on the part of the Peers, to drive out of the heads of the people the hostile feelings in question. The language of tine people hind the language of the organs of the people, is bitter and contemptuous. " This is not a time (says the Caledonian Mercury of Thursday I last) to measure eipressions or mince opinions.l Sales populi suprona lex ; and if the safety o: he people require that the sentence of Delenda est Carthago shall be pronounced against the House of Incurables, their ruin will be their own work." The same Journal observes," the people . have found out the secret of their own strength, and if they are trifled with much longer, they will profit by the discovery."—Morning Chronicle. It would be more satisfactory to the present age, and of infinite importance to the truth of history, were some authentic statement to be given in Parliament of the real situation of Mi nisters with their Royal Master previous to the recent important events. This is more especially due to the highest personage in the State, whose character for sincerity and consistency appears to have suffered in the eyes of some, when. were the real facts truly stated, there is probably not the slightest ground for any such imputation. To the character of Ministers themselves such an explanation as we allude to is not less im portant, though from them it is obvious that it cannot be extracted without a breach of that high confidence with which they are intrusted. The main point to be ascertained is whether they ever had the carte blanche which has been so confidently spoken of, and, if so, why it was withdrawn. It is highly important that the fu ture historian should be set right on a point of such infinite importance in the annals of William IV. For want of facts, conjecture will, of course, be substituted, and mistatements con sequently made. The country in general, we believe, is firmly persuaded that Ministers had the power, but that it was withheld when the hour of need arrived. The country too, we be lieve, is not less fully persuaded that this change in the Royal mind was brought about by an in trigue behind the Throne, which, if it be true, ought to be developed and laid hare. But we are launching into that very field of conjecture which we deprecate, but e.hich the want of facts is ever sure to give rise to.— Morning Herald. It appears, as we stated on Saturday, that the King has consented to appoint Lieutenant- Colonel Fox to be Aid-de Camp to his Ma jesty. We are sorry for it. We regret for the sake of the Army, and even of this young offi cer himself, that his appointment should have been persevered in contrary to the known opinion of the respectable Officer at the head of the army. The offices of Aid-de-Camp to the King are merely honorary, as the King does not take the field at the head of his army. His Aids-de-Camp have, therefore, none of the duties which are performed by those officers called Aids-de-Camp of General officers. Some of them attend his Majesty at reviews, some at his Court ; but they perform no service at either, and receive no pay. The advantage derived by the Officer receiving the appointment of Aid de-Camp to the King, besides the honourable distinction by his Sovereign, is that he has conferred upon him the rank of Co lonel in the army, to which, according to the usual course of promotion in the military service, he could have attained only when it should come to his turn to be promoted. The Officers promoted to be Lieutenant-Colonels in the army in 1814 are still Lieutenant-Colonels, and are first to be promoted to be Colonels. These follow those promoted in 1815,including those promoted for their conduct on the field of Waterloo. Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Fox is a Lieutenant-Colonel of 1827. In considera tion of the nature of the appointment of Aid-de- Camp, that it had no duties, and that it conveyed frothing but distinction and rank, the predeces sors of his Majesty, his Royal Father and Brother, had been very cautious in the selection of the Officers upon whom the office should be conferred. Those Sovereigns selected Officers from the top of the list of Lieutenant-Colonels most noted for theirservices, their talents, and their qualifications.- There is no trace of favouritism in their selections of the Officers to be their Aids-de-Camp. Above all, the appointments made by those Sovereigns occasioned no heart burnings or remonstrances in consequence of the supercession of services. Since his Majesty's accession to the throne, he has appointed to be his Aids-de-Camp, first the Earl of Munster, next Lord Frederick Fitzclarence, and now Lieu tenant-Colonel Fox. Each of these Officers has been put over the heads of many deserving seniors ; the last over the heads of not less than 450 Officers, many of them of the highest dis tinction for service, and other qualifications. The Earl of Munster is an Officer highly distin guished, but Lord Frederick Fitzclarence and Lieutenant-Colonel Fox, never saw a shot fired. The Officers of'the army are proud of associating with the Princes of the House of their Sove reign ; they rejoice when one can command them ; but they do not consider the Nobleman and Gen tlemen above mentioned as superior to them selves, or as Princes of the Blood Royal. They are not aware of their merit. They do not ac knowledge it as superior to their own ; and they cannot but feel hurt at the supercession of them selves by these young gentlemen, for no cause excepting one which they do not consider ade quate. They feel the utmost respect and at tachment for their Sovereign and Master; but they feel that in these instances his good nature has been taken by surprise, and that their claims, services, and merits have been neglected and forgotten. We shall soon see that they can do no good to those thus unjustifiably preferred. Colonel Fox, promoted to be a Colonel over the heads of 450 meritorious Officers his seniors, will he promoted to be a Major-General; and will be liable to be employed in that rank, and to receive the rewards and honours of the ser vice before them. The Royal or Minis terial favour which has given him this ad vantage will not endure for ever. He is a young man, and he must expect to sur vive it. Can he expect to overcome the preju dice against him, professional as well as general, which this promotion will occasion ? Certainly not. He will find himself, at an early ertainly age, •placed on the shelf, and distinguished only for a favour unjustly conferred upon him. We have used the term " Ministerial" because we happen to know that at an early period of the King's reign an expectation was entertained by Lieute nant-Colonel Fox's friends that he would be ,appointed Aid-de-Camp to the King, certainly in ignorance of the nature of the appointment. We do not believe that Ministers have lately interfered in such matters. But if they have, we recommend them to review the proceedings of themselves and their friends, about twenty-five years ago, upon the promotion of Lord Burg hersh, not to be Aid-de-Camp to the King, but to be a Field Officer in the army, to which rank he was clearly entitled according to the rules and usages of the service. —.Moat. Post. It would be worse than useless, now that the Reform Bill is certain to reach in t h e course o f 1 few days, the goal of_ the people's hopes, to ~a y one word more, either in defence of the ne cessity of the measure, as a whole, or of any one H of the particulars of which it is made up. The spirit of the times required it—the ;people willed that it should become the !aw of the land, and as it will as certainly receive the royal sanction in the course 01 less than fourteen days, all that we have now t( Flo with the matter is to consider the result s , which it is calculated to produce—the evil or the good which it is to inflict upon the English and European community. And here, whatever 'may have been the clouds and darkness with which its passage through the two Houses of Parliament has been enveloped, the prospect, after it has fairly passed them, and become the law o f the land, is as bright as it is cheering and full of hope. Already has even the certainty of its be coming the law of the land begun to exert a salutary influence on the trade and manufactures of the country—that confidence, which is the natural result of internal peace, and the absence of ex ternal embarrassment, has begun to revive, and to exert a salutary influence on the employment of the poor, the expenditure of the wealthy, and the enterprise of the merchant and manu facturer ; and what immense additions to all these proofs of healthy energy may we not ex pect when the Bill has become the law of the land—when mutual animosities and enmities have ceased—mutual reconciliat ion taken place between the various classes of the community, and each can pursue the even tenour of its way without any dread of being opposed, thwarted, or jostled .by another ! The capital which has been with drawn from circulation—hoarded up through fear or invested in foreign funds, in consequence of domestic insecurity, will not only find its way back into its usual channels, but discover new and more profitable outlets—plenty, in every sense of the word, will be again seen to reign in the land, aid. " the voice of man made to re joice in its fulness" and blessings. Again, with respect to the legislation of the country, criminal, civil, and commercial, what immense benefits are there not in prospect for ne, in the wisdom and patriotism of a reformed Parliament ! The cri minal law will be purged of its absurdities and inconsistencies—the process in civil courts abridged of its unnecessary tediousness and ruinous expense—and our commercial policy, especially in its external regulations, regulated by those principles of mutual dependency and ad vantage on which alone commercial dealings can be permanently and profitably conducted. In other matters also there must be great and ad vantageous changes. The Bank Charter must be abridged of its injurious and monopolizing power—Bank-notes of' one pound, payable on demand, again find their way into the currency of the country—independent bank ing establishments, on the Scotch system, of receiving deposits, and paying interest upon them, be established on a sound basis—the East- India Company's monopoly abolished—the Corn Laws settled on the principle of a gradually de creasing scale of duty, alike beneficial to the home and foreign grower—and, finally in lieu of the tithe system, which has been so injurious to the agriculture and peace of the country, a provision be granted the church, commensurate with the services of its Ministers, but neither conducing to sloth by its enormity, nor expos ing to contempt by its poverty. Again, if our foreign relations are considered, how much more influential must the country be in all its transactions with foreign Governments, when power and peace have been secured at home, than when both were absent—when the support of the people can be depended upon, and the attention of the Government is not distracted by domestic business? During the reign of the Duke of Wellington, the naval and military power of the country was set at nought both by France, Russia, and Austria ; by time first, in the conquest of Algiers, and the retention of its territory—by the second, in the subjugation of the Turks, and the impositio❑ of a heavy tri bute for the expenses of the war, in addition to the seizure of a large portion of terri tory—and by the third, in not only permit ting DJII Miguel to continue at the head of the Portuguese Government, in defiance of the most solemn promi ' es, oaths, and contracts, but in playing in the intercourse between him and the rightful claimant such a shilly-shally game as could not fail to expose the country to the contempt and scorn of its neighbours. These matters have been somewhat better managed during the Premiership of Earl Grey; but still it must be confessed that the country has not regained the eminent station which it occupied at the close of the war, and that to the eternal dissensions of the country, and consequent weakness of the Government, is fairly to be at tributed the greatest blot on the history of mo dern Europe—the subjugation of the gallant and free people of Poland, in the teeth, not only of the most sacred treaties between the parties principally concerned, but in defiance of engagements entered into with every Court of Europe. When the Reform Bill has passed, we confidently hope and trust that these things will have an end—that the country, calmed and tranquillized at home, will resume its proper sta tion in the balance of European power; and that whatever other evils it may be subject to, it will not, at all events, have to feel the burning shame of foreign disgrace—foreign scorn and foreign contempt.— Morning Advertiser. An inquest was held on Saturday at the Bird Cage, Silver -street, Fecon-square, on the body of Tiros. JUDD, a fine infant, six months old, the only son of Mr. JUDD, of Silver-street. It appeared that the grand mother of the child was standing at the door of her resi dence, 8, Vincent -court, with the infant in her arms, when a Mrs. Joon, who lives in the second floor of the same house, threw a heavy bullion box out of the window, intending to chop it up in the yard, which alighted on the child's head, and knocked it out of the old lady's arms some distance. On the infant being picked up it was found to be in a dying state, and expired in a few hours. Mrs. JONES, at the time, expressed her sorrow at the dreadful accident, but afterwards proposed to the parents to allay their grief with potations of gin, which she sent for. It also appeared she was addicted to drinking.—The jury were of opinion that Mrs. MARGARET JONES had been guilty of the most culpable careles-ness, and brought in a verdict of Manslaughter against her, and she was com mitted to Newgate to take her trial.— Observer. DREADFUL SUICIDE AT DUNSTABLE.— On Saturday, between the home of ten and eleven o'clock, the town of Dunstable was thrown into a dreadful state of alarm and agitation, owing to the lady of FREDERICK BROWN, Esq. (a gentleman of independent property and large landed estates in the county), having made away with herself under the following melancholy circumstances : It appears, from the best information we could obtain, that for some time past she had been in a very desponding -tate. This day there was to have been a large party to dinner, for which great preparations had been made, in which the deceased lady assisted, and was busily employed with the servants till within a few minutes of her losing 'ter life, when, under a pretence that she wanted something from the lawn, she ran the direction of the well, and, dreadful to say, was seen by one of her female servants to open the top of the woodwork, and to plunge in head fore ,nost—a depth of nearly 90 feet ! The poor girl, in the most piercing screams, called out for help, when imme diate assistance was afforded by means of letting's man down with a rope to the bottom of the well, who . suc ceeded in raising her up, but too late to save her life, she -ming bruised in a dreadful manner. Her husband was at the time a short distance up the town, and when be heard A the event, his feelings may be better imagined than de scribed.— Observer. BANKRUPTCY COURT, MAY 26. To-day being the first day of Term, the COW recommenced its sittings. EX-PARTE POOLY IN RE TURNER, A BANKRUPT. Mr. CHANDLERS was about to make an applica tion to the Court under rather peculiar circum stances. Before the present Court was established, the case of Pooly and Turner was before the Urd Chancellor. In the course of the proceedings then be bankrupt made an affidavit, containing a great quantity of scandalous and impertinent matter. nu ffidavit was refetred to the Master, and on the 15th of February, 1831, the Master certified that the affidavit was impertinent. The Lord Chancellor thereupon made an order, directing the impertinenc. to be expunged, and the costs of doing so to be paid by Mr. Noel, solicitor to the bankrupt, and also by the bankrupt himself. The costs had since been taxed, and payment demanded of Mr. Noel, but without success. He now applied to the Court for in order to Noel to pay the money ; or perhaps the Court would first require that he should move to have all the proceedings transferred into their Court. After some consideration, it was arranged that Mr. Chandlers should make a .motion for the above purpose, giving Mr. Noel notice of SITTINGS OF THE COURT. His Honour the CHIEF JUDGE announced in the course of the day that the Court would not sit on either Monday or Tuesday. POLICE EX A MINATION at CHELMSFORD John Thompson, " a noe-begone married man," was charged with frightening Sarah Maul, a lady of" a certain age," out of her sober senses, and into hysterics. The parties lived at West Ham. Mas ter Thompson recently sepamed from his better piece of clay, but alas ! woman's love is so lasting and Mrs. Thompson lingered at the house of Mrs. Mold, to obtain a sight of her liege lord. Last Monday night Master Thompson went to the house, and drawing out a large case knife, stood deliberat ing.with himself— To cut or not to cut, that's the question; Whether 'twere better to despatch my wife, And by a halter end it— But here his soliloquy was broken off by Mrs. Mout, who insisted upon fainting, and being in her own house, nobody had a right to prevent her doing so. A witness proved that the prisoner said, when he pulled out the knife—" Now you shall see, Mrs. Moul, you was the infigation of our coming toge ther, and you are the infigation of our parting." Master Thompson told a long story of matrimo nial mishaps. The Bench ordered him to enter into his own rc cognizince to cut no throats for twelve months, which he eventually did. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Edward Parry, alad about 18, attended to show cause why he should not maintain an illegitimate child, of which Mary Underwood, his father's servant, aged 22, said he was the father. The defendant de nied the fact; and his father said that she had been frequently seen drinking with carpenters. Mary, whose apearance is not very engaging, said her young master " had frequently taken the liberty of her," during his mother's absence at Margate. She admitted having said that he was not the father of her child, but this was that she might not lose her place. She was very impudent about the matter; and as nothing could be brought forward to impeach her testimony, the defendant was ordered to pay half-a-crown a week. The tears trickled down his cheeks on hearing the decision. BO W-STREET. On Saturday a woman of infamous character, named Ann Glover, was brought to this office by Mr. Thomas, superintendent of police, charged with having decoyed a young girl into a house of ill fame, and delivered her to a fellow from whom she received a sum of money. From the statement of the girl and her mother, it appeared that on Friday she was sent on an errand by her mother, and was met by the prisoner, who induced her to go with her to a notorious house near Long-acre, where she met a scoundrel who gave the prisoner a sum of money in her presence. The prisoner then went away, and from the child's account of the conduct of the fellow, the magistrate gave his opin on that as the girl is under 12 years of age, he had committed a capital offence. The police are in search of him, and expect to apprehend him. The wretched pri soner also took from the poor child .ss. she had of her mother, under pretence of buying her fine clothes. Mr. MINMIULL said, a more infamous wretch had never boleeit. been brought before him, and committed her fora Mr. and Mrs. Homan, a couple of respectable appearance, were charged by Mary, the wife of Ro bert Brown, the former with an attempt at violation, and the latter with an aggravated assault. Mrs. Brown, a well-dressed, pretty young woman, lived in the same house with the detendants. Mr. Noman had for some time annoyed her with unlaw ful solicitations, and on Thursday came into her room, and was proceeding to effect his purpose in spite of her resistance, when suddenly his wife en tered, and flew at her with the greatest fury, striking her in the face with such force as to blacken both her eyes. She had not cried out when Mr. Noman was taking liberties, because she was ashamed to be found in such a situation, the world is so censorious. Mrs. Noman now gave her version of the story. Mrs. Brown was a most seducing woman, and was constantly inveigling other women's husbands to her bed-room. Ott returning home after a short absence on Thursday, she missed her husband, and suspecting where h e was, s h e ran up stairs to M rs . Brown's room, and suddenly entering, found her rising from her bed in such a manner that confirmed all her suspicions. She demanded her husband. Mrs. Brown denied that he was there, and invi ted her to search; she did search, and found him doubled up in a corner cupboard. She lugged him down stairs, and then returned and punished Mrs. Brown as she deserved to be punished. Her hus band had confessed his fault, and she forgave him ; all flesh was frail, and she had tier own feelings. Mrs. Brown hung down her head, and did not at tempt to gainsay Mrs. Noman's statement. The Magistrate dismissed both her charges: and as she left the office she was followed by some of the auditors, who greeted her with a chorus of hisses. QUEEN-SQUARE. Mr. Edmund Colman, who holds a situation in the Lord Chamberlain's-office, and is the son of George Colman, Esq., the licenser of plays, was brought up on the following charge:--About half past five on Saturday morning, a policeman found him in Vincent-square, Westminster, leaning over the railings in the fronts of the houses, and breaking off the branches of several ornamental shrubs and trees. The defendant said he had taken a few glasses of wine, and was unconscious of his inconsiderate be haviour. On paying the damage he was discharged. UNION-BALL. A poor woman, in great distress, co mplained of the conduct of a broker, who seized the goods of her husband, even to the bed they slept on, for an arrear of rent amounting to ls. 9d. He would not allow them time to make up the trifle, but sold a portion of the furniture for the benefit of the land lord, and retained the possession of the remainder to cover his expenses. The MAGISTRATE censured the heartless proceed ing of the broker and ordered him to deliver up the goods to the complainant. The broker was much chagrined at this decision, and then brought a charge of assault against the poor woman's husband. He was, however, unable to sustain it. THAMES POLICE. _ . Charles Faulkner, a seaman of the Lady Clinton, from Leghorn, was charged under th e f o ll ow i ng cir cumstances :—O Friday he was paid off, and then got drunk as soon as he could. He next sallied out on a cruise, and his fi rst exploit was to overturn a poor apple-woman's b4sket. On her endeavouring to protect her property, he knocked her down, and kicked her till she was insensible. A female named Hayley was about to pick her up, when he seized her, and dashed her with such force on the ground :is to break her shoulder-bone. He knocked down wenty persons in succession who endeavoured to capture -him, and also five policemen. He was eventually secured by several men closing round him, tying his hands and feet, and taking him to the station-house in a truck. The prisoner was sen tenced to two months' imprisonment. HATT ON- GARDEN, Henry Ball, a man about 30, was charged on Kusp:cion of being cot cern:A in the robbery of the warehouse of Mr. Jonathan Haynes, silversmith, of TUrianil!-street, Clerlien well. He said nothing in his defence, and was remanded. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAST WEEK. j Wheat. Barley. Oats. Bvens4 l'er Quart?r. s. to s. s. to c. Catlisle 65 31 Hexham 5S (5 32 34 Penrith 65 33 ettield Winchester 56 66 32 35 Per Btishel. i 5.,1. K. d. s. d. s.(l. Carmarthen 6 6 7 0 3 6 3 9 ;:oventry 7 0 9 0 4 8 5 4 'ewcastle (Staff.) 9 4 9 8 6 4 6 6 Northallerton 7 0 9 3 3 6 4 6 i9B 99 56 60 Swansea --- 7 6 80 39 42 Warwick I 9 0 10 0 4 6 50 Per 8011. Barnardeastle ll6 0 16 0 9 0 10 0 Durham 05 0 17 9 9 3 10 6 Richmond Stockton ils 9 17 0 9 6 10 0 32 36 42 46 8. 4. R. d. 00 00 56 60 53 56 56 60 62 66 00 00 73 ?6 00 110 9 0 10 9 80 100 00 00 WA KEFI El a) CORN MARKET.-May 25 Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Suffblk -s. 545. to 595. fine 635. --- Lin. and Cam. -s. 535. to 595. fine 625. -- Yorkshire -s. 565. to 595. fine 625. --- White -s. 565. to 625. fine 665. - Foreign, Red . -s. 48s. to 535. fine 5.95. White -s. -s. to -s. fine 645. Barley, Norfolk and Suffblk - Lincolnshire 14s. to 365. fine 395. - Yorkshire Wold - Foreign - sr to -s. fine -8. Beans, Small - Tick 12s. to 345. fine 35s Oats, Potato 22s. to 255. fine 26.. - Poland -s. 20.. to 245. fine 255. - Friezland and Small -s. 17s to 225. fine 245. - hlealing 1034. to 12%c1. per Stone. Shelling 26s to 295. Od. per Load. Malt 32s. 425. fine 455. per Load. Rapeseed 2l/. Os. 24/. Os. 251. 10s. per Last. SCOTCH MARKETS. Wheat. 26 29 —.- 26 30 23 30 23 30 48 23 24 45 48 43 44 26 30 hout the ceuntrV. Barley I Oats. I Beana . 'Oatmeal. Aberdeen Coldstream Cupar Dundee Elgin - I I nverness....,.. Kelso Perth The size SO 58 46 50 44 50 60 (8 St 70 60 62 57 60 46 50 40 45 60 68 of the oil 25 29 22 24 22 25 30 34 32 35 28 30 30 32 23 25 27 39 30 34 asure va - - 22 24 22 25 no 31 35 38 EIHNBII Wheat. First 76s Ott Second l,BB Od Third 578 Od Pease. 35, Oct 33A Od 31s Od 23. • Beans. 3.5 s Od 23s Od 31s Od GLASGOW CORN Wheat, per 2401 b, s. d. British, old 250t030 0 new 270 300 Canada, free 27 0 20 0 Irish Barley, per 3201 b. English 0 C Scottish 27 0 28 6 Irish 8. to s. 20 24 23 25 - 24 22 24 s. d. g 1 40 36 39 33 40 38 47 20 26 2 2 26 54 6 50 73 50 70 50 70 19 22 15 18 15 18 20 24 24 27 1 18 21 20 24 17 19 25 32 24 27 ies throb , Gil CORN MARK Barley. Oats.: :37s Od '2ss 44 35s Od 23s Od 33s Od '2ls 4d PRICES OF PROVISIONS, &C. Beef, per lb. Os. :3itlto Os.6d. Mutton 0 5 0 6 Veal 0 5 0 8 Pork 0 4 0 6 Lamb, per qr. 3 6 5 0 Tallow, cwt....W 0 40 0 Quartern Loaf 0 0 0 9 Potatoes, 171 lb. 0 3 . 0 0 Freshßutter,lb. B.lod. to Is Id. Salt Ditto 0 10 0 11 Ditto, per cut. 0 0 90 0 Eggs, per doz. 0 7 0 0 OatStrawi,kp%)l4 0 I 5 0 Wheat Ditto,.l3 0 14 0 Barley Ditto .12 0 13 0 Hay, per 1 1 I 3 EDINBURGH IIIEAI There was but a middling supi ket, which met a quick sale; pt . Per Sack of 2801 b. Imp. First Oatmeal Second ditto 1 16 0 Barleymeal 1 12 0 Peas ens eal . 1 6 0 Pot Barley—No. I, per cwt. 13: M A It K ET: —May 22. ply of Oatmeal at this day's mar. ices continue the same. Per Stone of 141 b. Imp. First Oatmeal £0 2 0 Second ditto Barleymeal 0 1 8 I'easemeal .-2cl. 155.-3 d, 204.—Peat1 24a. M ARK ET.—May 23. Oats, per 2641 b. s. d. 6. d. Irish l6 Oto 183 British . 0 Beans, per 2601 b. English Scottish Pease, Scottish Oatmeal, per 1901 b l5 0 17 0 Flour, per 2801 b 96 0 48 0 CORNWALL MARKET. Tatoto—Wheat (average) 24a.—Barley, 12s. 3d.—Oats, 9s. 3d. ST. AvsTELL—Wheat, —s. to Ms.—Barley, —s. to ILL—Oats, O. to Ba. Od. BODMIN—Wheat (average) 245. 6l.—Barley, 12s. Od.—Oats, HELSTON—Wheat, 255. Od.—Barley, 121.6 d. ST. COLUMN—Wheat, 225. to 23s.—Barley, I Is. to 1214—Beef, and Mutton, sd. to 6d.—Veal, Od.—Lamb, Od. PENZANCE—Wheat, 245. to 251.--Barley, S. to 121.—Oats N. to Bs. Od.—Beef and Mutton, sd. to 6d.—Pork, Nd. to 4d.— Butter, 12d. per lb. Listmatto—Wheat, —s. to 225. 6d.—Barley, Ils. 0d....0at5, Os. to 7s. 6d. LAUNCEsToN—Wheat (average) 225. 6d.—Barley,l Is. Od.—Oats, Od.—Beef, 6d.—Mutton, 6d. MINING INTELLIGENCE. Tons. Cwt. Quantity of Copper Ore sole. at Redruth last Thurday 3,100 0 Quantity of fine Average Produce 8% 0 9s. od. Ainoiint of Sale, 19,8831. ss. 6d.—Average Standard. 1011. THE SPIRIT OF RODENSTEIN.—Gossips have been busy in Englaid with the spirit of Rodenstein. It s, ems the spirit has been disturbed, and departed from Rodenstein to Schnellartsburgh ; to those who have seen the opera of the Freischutz, the incantation scene is what the noise may be compared to—or rather, as people say, the noise in that scene is taken from what is heard in the Odenwalde when this spirit is troubled—all the horrible noises combined which can be im ,gined. It prophesies war; when peace is near at hand, the spirit will return to its own mountain : however, for the credit of the improv ing generation. this tradition has lost some of its import ance, for the &host of the old Baron RODENSTEIN walked abroad s nne seven years since, and no war followed. It has been reported that the cholera morbus had broken out with great virulence in the little village of Greenhithe, in Kent, but it is ascertained that though a great number of deaths, considering the size of the place, had occurred there within a very few (Lip, the real cause was the having partaken freely of periwinkles, which were exceedingly abundant and cheap there, and which have since proved to be of a poisonous quality. The great supply of this fish took place on Saturday week, and the first fatal case occurred on Monday. In the whole about 70 persons had been attacked, of whom up to Fri dgearyeelasststla7te,hiamdt died, , on a e nd de m at a h ny h m . p o p re en r e e d ma e i x n e e e d p i t n i a n dathne instance of those who hid partaken of the periwinkles. The following notice has been given at the General Post-office :—" The mails for Lisbon will in fu ture be made up on the Ist and 16th of every month, unless either day should happen to he on Sunday ; then, on the following day, to bt conveyed by steam packets from Fal mouth. His Majesty's steamer Columbia is appointed for the Ist of June." The « desperate fidelity" with which the peasantry adhere to their resolution of persevering in a passive resistance to tithes is very remarkable. A correse pondent informs us that an auction of distrained cattle took place on Monday, on a townlind near Rathangan, in the presence of 100,000 people. There were portions of five regiments (having two pieces of artillery) and about 200 police to superintend the proceedings ! The multi• rude were addressed by the parish priest, - (the Rev. Mr. DUNNE) his curate, (the Rev. Mr. WATERS) the Rev. Mr. BaENAN, P.P., of Kildare, and Mr. C. Qum, of Robertstown. There was not the slightest v i o l a ti on o f atiulectopienael'eer. and as soon after th e sa l e as t h e names of the and purchasers were announced, the vast assem blage dispersed. Our informant states that he has atten ded auctions at which the owners of cattle worth 6/. a piece s uffered them to be sold for 3s. On one occasion he saw two cows and two heifers knocked down for la, 6d. per head ! Morntng Register: ' BTHS. On the 22d inst. at Robert-str s tr eet, Fulham road, the wife of the Itev. R. Lynam, of a son. On the `2sth inst. Mrs. Hillary, of a son. MARRIED On the : 1 4th inst. at Sidmouth, the Rev. 'J. H. Bradney, of Hurcot, in the county of Somerset, to Mary, second daughter of the late Lieutenant -Colonel Boland. On the 26th inst. at Brighton, Henry Parkin, Esq., of St. Mall Abbott's-terrace, Kensington, to Mary, widow of the late Wil liam Williams, Esq of Gray's-inti-place,_London. , DIED.. On the 22d at Homerton, aged 78, Mrs. C. Wilkie, relict of the late M r . J o h n Wilki e, ofJames-place, Hackney-road. On the 24th inst. at Covington, Huntingdonshire, in th e 48th year of his ag e , Willi a m Henry Stanley, Esq., s o n o f th e l a te Robert Stanley, Esq., of Medbourne, Leicestershire. On the 25th inst. at Maxton.house, near Dover, aged 1 8, Christian P. Meyer, jun., eldest son of Christian P. Meyer, Esq. On the 2:3d inst. at Remenham-hill, Berks, Mr. John Bult, late of Durham-place, Lambeth, aged 34. On the 23d inst. at Pollan...house, near Penzance, in the 2 14 yeas of her age, Frances Agnata, youn ges t daughter of Vincent Hilton Briscoe, Esq., of Hookwood, in the county of Surrey. On the 25th inst. at Highbury_gr ove, Esq., aged 61. On the 25th inst. at Br ompton.row, Mr. Samuel Wood, aged 01 On the 25th inst. aged fiv e y ears, Frederick, second son o f Mr. Thomas Winkworth, of Gutt er- l ane, Cheapside. James Raymond Barker, PHIN MD AND PUBLISHED BY MURDO YOUNG, AT 701 SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, LONDON.