The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-18 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
(From the Mornina Chronicle.)
It is justly observed by the able writer of an article
on Lord Lyndhurst's review of the last session, in the
number of the Edinburgh Review just published :
" That if Sir Robert Peel were a year in power—no
matter what majority he might secure at a general
election following on his installation—that no language
of reproach uttered against Lord Melbourne, by the
most impatient of the Ultra-Radicals, would equal the
vituperation heaped on their Prime Minister by a larger
and more powerful portion of the Ultras of his own
creed." Sir Robert is the leader by necessity, not
by choice of the Tory party. He obtains for that
party a reputation which it does not deserve, by qua-
lities personal to himself. " The allegiance," adds the
writer, " paid by a large portion of his follcwers, not
only in Ireland, but in Great Britain, to Sir Robert
Peel, arises from respect to his talents, not confidence
in his opinions. His good qualities theinsves ; his pro-
found experience in practical affairs ; his deliberate
caution, which, while it moderates ambition in himself,
tends to darap enthusiasm in his allies ; his decorous
and honest respect for whatever is just and moderate in
that section of public opinion to which his political creed
is not violently opposed ; all these qualities, in a word,
which, combined with his accomplishments in debate,
have obtained for him so eminent a position in the
House of Commons, seem to many to savour of timi-
dity ; and. should he regain office, the first moment he
is driven by circumstances and the public to one liberal
measure, what now is timidity will be called treason."
But then, unfortunately for the Tories, the bold avowal
of their principles, and the endeavour to give full effect
to them, would rouse against their Government the
feelings of all those classes of the community who are
now indifferent. Sir Robert Peel is a negation—if he
be not liberal in his principles, he yet cautiously evades
shocking the people with an exhibition of the odious
parts of Toryism. But the Tories, though willing to
derive advantage from the dexterity of Sir Robert,
never for one moment forget that they are opposed to
a Liberal Government for something more than such
differences as the Right Hon. Baronet chooses to avow.
" How long," says the Edinburgh Reviewer, "mould
the convert to Catholic emancipation, the surren-
derer of the Orange lodges, retain the confidence of
1 his Irish partisans ?—fatal auxiliaries, whom nothing
less than the entire subjugation of their own coun-
trymen—the restoration of the old Protestant as-
cendancy, can bribe into submission. Allow that the
Members, drilled and tamed into moderation by con-
tact with English common sense, are willing to com-
promise and obey, will the constituents, hot and rabid
with prejudice and triumph, be equally submissive ?
Look to the reception of Sir Frederick Shaw, one of
the most able of the Irish party, among his own Corpo-
ration of Dublin—treated as a deserter and apostate for
his qualified concession in Municipal Reform, and hissed
in the most eloquent periods of his eulogy on Sir Ro-
bert Peel. See more recently what has been said of
ehveParliainentary Tories by Mr. Gregg—the archi-
.liitn„. (bite of Orange polemics—Gregg who encountered
`!naguire—Gregg who shouts aloud what more prudent
Intolerance thinks in secret. The Rev. Gentleman
passing 'with a contemptuous toss of the head by Lord
h,Lit.t, fails foul upon whom of all men ? Why, Mr.
Sergeant Jackson of Protestant Bandon ! Yet it has
been whispered that had Sir Robert
to Robert Peel retained office,
Lord Eliot might have Ireland, it
and may be
supposed that Sergeant goneeksoii's talents would equally
office.
have found their way intoA pleasant prospect
then for Sir Robert Peel's Irish Government. He.e
the Catholics—there the Orangemen--
' Nubibus hic tumidus, fluctibus ille ni 'l3x
But it may be supposed that Mr. Greggivaaea.isolitary
a
fanatic—alas! he is but one many." El
may judge from the Quarterly Review, there anrell symp-
toms pif
toms of mutiny in the Tory camp ; and it
would not-
surprise us to find next Session an attempt made to
drive him into a course of opposition more akin to what
some restless spirits in the House of Lords have occa-
sionally pursued. If the Tories found that the moment
the enormous war expenditure ceased, year after year
some portion of their power left them, till even in an
unreformed Parliament they were obiiged to make great
concessions to public opinion, it is impossible that the
oligarchy, now that the Reform Bill has given such addi-
tion to the power of the great towns, can possibly recover
their lost ground. The Tory aristocrat may endeavour to
suppress all outbreak of public opinion in his neighbour-
hood ; and, at a general election, fight up against it by
intimidation and the beer barrel ; but if, on the faith
of successes won in this way, the country were once
more to be insulted by a Tory regime manifested in all
i its hideousness, the general indignation would soon drive
1
them from power. It is admirably observed by the writer
in the Edinburgh Review, to whom we have already so
often alluded, that—
.s The Administration of Sir Robert Peel, if formed,

Dould neither be vigorous nor durable; the present crisis
in our national civilization forbids it. In all stages of II
popular progress, the main and striking landmarks are in
the increased power of the large towns. Cast your eyes
over any page in our history, in which the successful
movement of the people is recorded ; and the chief cause
of the success is in the growth and prosperity and
energy of the burgher class. The philosophical histo-
rian, who pauses to examine the causes of the rise
of free opinion under James and Charles, invariably
dwells with care and emphasis on the development of
that popular power and union which results from some
new importance acquired by the inhabitants of the
towns. To the same cause is to be attributed the bloocl-
.ess and irresistible struz
gle that terminated in the Re-
form Bill. That measure, which unequivocally proved,
has also prodigiously increased, the influence of the middle
classes of the towns upon the whole machinery of legisla-
tion. When Lord John Russell, in a sentence, the spirit
of which has been unfairly represented, observed that in
the electoral distribution of the Reform Bill, care was
taken to give stability to the State, as well as progress to
the people, by a numerical preponderance to the agricul-
tural interest, he rightly estimated the force and the ten-
dency of urban influences on political affairs. In the long
run the spirit of a town population must always gain upon
that of the agricultural. It has a much more rapid and
extensive effect upon public opinion. With the former
political questions rise up with a suddenness that seems to
the unobservant almost miraculous—reeive instantaneous
combination—and are urged on the Legislature with a con-
tinuous energy and intelligence, which the lethargic and scat-
tered electors of a provi rice never can command. A numerical
preponderance to the agricultural population, is not a moral,
not a real, not an actual prepo.,derance. It takes many coun-
ties to balance one Birmingham. Of this truth Sir R.
Peel was aware, when he made it a principal excuse
For his concession to the Catholic claims, that he found
he representatives of the large towns in their favour.
He estimated not merely the number of the representa-
tives for and against, but those of the respective consti-
tuenccs. But has Sir Robert Peel gained, and will he
gain, to his side any reasonable proportion of the large
towns? How many small boroughs and subdivided coun-
les will equal the life and movement, the agitation and
the power of the immense constituencies that would be
brought to bear against his Government ? What diffi•
culties—far greater than those arising from the disfavour
of two ladies of the household—will await the Cabinet
•hat sees against it the mighty forces of London, Bir-
ningham, Manchester, Salford, Wolverhampton, Sheffield,
Leeds, Nottingham, Edinburgh, and Glasgow ?"

(From the Morning Advertiser.)

We publish, in another part of this day's paper, a very
tble and sensible article from the Scotsman, relative to
the case of the late Lady Flora Hastings. The obser-
vations of our Contemporary, it will be perceived, are
in perfect accordance with the sentiments which we our-
4elves expressed in calling attention, some days ago, to Sir
James Clark's statement on the subject. The same
,entiments, we may farther add, are now universally en-
tertained throughout the country. To Ladies Portman
and Tavistock, and Sir James Clark, it must be
exceedingly gratifying to find, that notwithstanding
all the calumnies and misrepresentations to
which their conduct in this matter has been sub-
jected for some months past, they are acquitted of
all blame by the unanimous verdict of the public. In-
deed it is now admitted on all hands, that they have
been most deeply injured persons. They ihave been
persecuted with a degree of rancour and perseverance,
for nearly eight months past, which, happily for the honour
of our country, has no parallel in the annals of individual
injustice, and which could only have been prompted by
the private malignity of parties who had personal pur-
poses to promote. Their traducers must now feel
themselves covered with confusion. Sir James Clark's
statement has not only scattered all their calumnies to
the winds, but will render perfectly innocuous any future
efforts which they may make to traduce either himself
or the ladies of the Palace. And here we have great
pleasure in doing an act of justice to the Tories as a
body. The strenuous and persevering efforts which
have been made to calumniate the Queen, and to
injure the character of her physician and the ladies of
the Palace, have been limited to a mere handful of
persons belonging to that body—persons who were
equally ready to trample truth in the dust, and to assas-
sinate the characters of individuals, in their anxiety to
gratify private malignity or accomplish political objects.
The great body of the Conservatives have not only
been no parties to these atrocities, but, to their honour
be it spoken, have openly and decidedly discounte-
nanced them—a fact which is abundantly proved by the
conduct of the Times, the Morning Herald, the Stan-
dard, and Courier in the matter. We sincerely con-
gratulate Ladies Portman and Tavistock on the cir-
cumstance of the public mind being now so entirely
disabused in reference to the late unfortunate affair
at Court. With regard to Sir James Clark, the
public sense of the wrongs which have been done
him, being a professional man, is pecularly strong.
It is now felt, and admitted throughout the length
and breadth of the land, that he was placed in
a most painful and difficult position, and that no
man could have :acted, in all the circumstances of the
case, with greater caution or prudence. or with more
honourable feeling. But we will not pursue the subject
farther. Sir James's character, and that of the ladies
of the Palace, has come untarnished out of the fiery
ordeal through which they had to pass. We earnestly
hope we shall have no further occasion to recur to the
matter. We trust it will now be allowed to drop for
ever. The Marquis of Hastings has done everything
which he could be expected to do, and much more than
was required, to vindicate the honour of his sister ; and
any further attempt to keep the subject alive, will not
only be treating with disrespect the memory of the
dead, but will be wantonly outraging the feelings of sur-
viving relatives, and of society in general.
(From the Morning Herald.)
_

Among the many disgracefull-appointments made by
the present Ministry, it may well be doubted whether
the appointment of Mr. Poulett Thomson to the Go-
veruship of Canada, be not the most disgraceful in itself,
as it assuredly is the most perilous in its possible effects
on the integrity of the British empire. The Governor
of Canada, at the present juncture, requires qualities,
in all of which Mr. Poulett Thomson is notoriously de-
ficient. The Governor of Canada ought, moreover, to
be under the influence of principles, precisely the reverse
of those professed by the late President of the Board of
Trade. The value to England of the Canadas is in-
finite. But Mr. Poulett Thomson belongs to a school,
which hold colonies cheap ;—a school, which gabbles
about colonies, to the effect, that they are always profit-
less,and, generally, most expensive to the mother country ;
—a school, which teaches that trade with independent
countries is always to be desired, rather than trade with
colonial dependencies. Mr. Poulett Thomson holds, in
short, that England would gain by the erection of the
Canadas into an independent State. His creed on this
point harmonises precisely with that of the French
Canadians—of the men who have recently been discom-
fited in their attempt at rebellion. True, the process by
which the Whig Governor of the Canadas has arrived
at that conclusion, may differ from the process which
has led the Canadian rebels to the same point. Still a
" sympathy" as to ends exists—whatever discrepancy of
opinion as to means may be discovered. The British
loyalists throughout the Canadas know that the Gover-
nor holds opinions most injurious in their tendency
upon all British interests. The rebels know, on the
other hand, that if they can succeed in their treason-
able designs, they will create a new field for the appli-
cation of the Governor-General's " philosophy 1"
Can such a state of things be deemed other than most
perilous ? Will the " sympathisers" of the United
States border fail to turn such a state of things to
account ? But while the Whig Governor-General's
principles must be admitted to be most pernicious,
what are the personal qualities that fit him for the
high command that has been thrust upon him ? Mr.
Poulett Thomson is a singularly feeble personage—a
man devoid of energy, and of that species of prudence
which the difficulties of his very peculiar position de
mend. He promises, in short, to be just the sort of
instrument that Mr. Van Buren might desire. If no
fresh rebellion should, during the approaching winter,
break out in Canada ; if Canada should, in fact, con-
tinue a portion of the British empire, we shall owe
these fortunate events, not to the sagacity and courage
of Mr. Poulett Thomson, but to the matchless loyalty
and zeal that carried the Anglo-Canadian volunteers
through all the hardships of their services in 1837 and
1838.

(From the Morninr, Post.)
The most violent supporters of the Government con-
tinually cry out thiit the people should have secular
eilucation at all events, and then they will the more
easily made religious, and better able to judge what is
true religion. We hold this to be a stupid misappre-
hension of the nature of man ;—stupid, because all ex-
perience so plainly teaches that the theory is false. The
violent supporters of the Government insist, however,
that all who do not subscribe to this theory are guilty of
bigotry and Toryism. We appeal from these violent
supporters of Government to the real friend of the Go-
vernini'nt, Bishop Denison. His Lordship says that the
differences of opinion of statesmen in both Houses of Par-
liament do not alter the opinion of the Church that reli-
gious and secular knowledge are, orshould be, inseparable,
and that that system of education should be universal.
The Lords of the Treasury, he adds, have a grant for
this purpose, and they have been in the habit of distri-
buting a large portion of it through the agency of the
National School Society, and he rejoices to find that the
present Committee arc resolved to pursue the same
course. This is the language of a mars who is accus-
tomed to put a favourable construction upon the views
I and conduct of Government. We are accustomed to do
p7-eeis«-iv the contrary, and we suspect the Government of
foul play in everything connected with public education,
because we find them giving countenance to views and
principles upon the subject which are directly opposed
to the sound principles of their friend Bishop Denison.
We do not expect good fruit from a tainted and
cankered tree. The Bishop is favourable to inspection
of schools, and so are all friends of a good system, but
should appoint
poinrtebleatienspdeocetsornso.t say
We are
Government
j most
tarnnxmieeenst
tthhhauet all schools should he well inspected, because in ge-
' neral no business will be well attended to unless those
who have the doing of it be occasionally looked after
I but we would not trust the appointment of
f inspectors to
the
advisable
;
the present Government, nor do we?
think

that any set of merely political men, of any party, should '
make such appointments. At all events a Government
which is willing, for the furtherance of what it considers
policy, to give a heavy blow and a great discouragement
to Protestantism, cannot safely be trusted to appoint in-
spectors of education which ought to be conducted
upon the principles for which Bishop Denison so ably
and earnestly contends.
(From the Times.)
The vacancy of Greenwich could not be filled by one
Yellow Admiral without a vacancy being created for
another Admiral of similar pretensions to her Majesty's
favour and to public gratitude. Admiral Fleming
could not be transferred to Greenwich without being
transferred front somewhere else. A good fat berth he had
already—a berth wherein little seamanship was, indeed,
required, or any of those professional qualities of which
no evidence is to be found in the naval biography of the
Hon. Charles Fleming. It was the post of Port Ad-
miral at Portsmouth, together with the command of
the guardship Brittania, of 120 guns, and pay and
allowances as Admiral, exceeding 3,0001. per annum !
We know not how much more. This appointment
yielded the Whig partisan tolerably substantial
pickings, and would go far, one might suppose, to
indemnify him for the sums he had spent out of his
private monies upon Ministerial canvassings and con-
tested elections in the O'Connell cause. But Radicals
might walk out of office—holiday placemen might be
superseded by working ones, who had stood all trials
and weathered them, and established names at which
the enemies of England still grew pale, whilst that of
Fleming was unknown beyond the Scotch hustings, or
the secret columns in the Secretary of the Treasury's
note-book. Greenwich, therefore, with a house and
1,5001. a year for life, or good behaviour, was a prize
more valuable than Portsmouth and between 3,000/.
and 4,000/ in the shape of a tenancy at will. The
Portsmouth job was thus, upon a conscientious calcula-
tion of profits, laid aside, and a vacancy announced,
where a monopoly of Portsmouth and Greenwich at the
same time, however desirable, appeared to be out of
the question. The readers of this Journal have seen
the Greenwich scheme sketched out, and a negative bill
of fare of the merits of Admiral Fleming. Ven, what
is to be the fate of Portsmouth ? Why, thy; y tell us
that a certain Admiral " Sir George Parker, IC-C.8.,"
has been nominated to the port and guard-ship there,
not forgetting the sundry thousand pounds per ann.
On inquiry of almost every man of our acquaintance now
in London " Who is Admiral Sir George Parker,
K.C.B. ?" we find that this personage has been selected
for Portsmouth on principles identical with those which
decide the choice of Admiral Fleming both for that sta-
tion and for Greenwich ; that his qualificatiOns bear a
dose resemblance to,those by which only the Hon. Charles
Fierning has at any period of his life been distinguished—
viz., a total absence of professional fame, and a redundant
familiarity with hustings, polling-booths, electioneering
stratagems, and partisan bustle. Sir George Parker,
if we are not entirelv misinformed, is unknown to Me
maritime records of Great Britain. He has never,
as a naval officer, done a single act to raise him above
the level of the most ordinary insignificance. But
he has done other acts. He has been a resident
somewhere in the neighbourhood of Great Yarmouth.
He has therefore proved himself a Whig Radical,
or democrat, or, without reference to any set of
principles, he has performed the functions of a party
swabber. and something more—he has pumped,
and mopped, and scoured, and cried " Scaldings !"
he has manoeuvred, not men of war, but men of
straw. He has dealt more with that sort of canvass
which " raises the wind" than with the canvass which
is swollen by it. Whatever be the defects of this
worthy gentleman, the redeeming virtue of Whiggery
supplies them all. Nor is he devoid either of those
talents which fit him to command a guard-ship, when
for want of hands she cannot by possibility go to sea,
or of those aptitudes which make a Port-Admiral useful
to a Minister, when the port is one which sends repre-
sentatives to Parliament. Viewing, as we have done,
with peculiar zest the progress and consummation of
the " Fleming job," our partiality can nevertheless not
blind us to the belief that the "Parker job" will be
found eventually even more exquisite and pungent.

FROM MR DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Globe.)
The tactics of Cabrera and the Count d'Espagne are
recommended by the Quarterly to the Tory party at
the present " crisis." They are to go on fighting,
with or without any head, or any plan of opera-
tions. Too much discipline hitherto has in fact been
the ruin of them ; and Peel (their traitor Maroto)
has betrayed their cause, and his fellow leaders.
This is not explicitly stated, but it is plainly implied.
" We repeat," they say, " our opinion, that during
the late session the discipline of the Conservatives has
been too closely maintained ; they waited for orders
which it was not deemed prudent to promulgate, and
thus, instead of firing their muskets independently
whenever they got a glimpse of their irregular enemies,
they patiently and in mute silence stood before them to
the very end of the Session with ordered arms.'" No-
body, we will engage, could have written this gunpowder
manifesto but the late Lieutenant-Governor of Upper
Canada. It is quite of a piece with his flaming trans-
atlantic philippics against the Americans, and republi-
cans, and all that sort of thing, and everything else, and
almost everybody else, in the world. If its go-a-head
style did not alone afford demonstration of its origin, it
is proof strong as Holy Writ that the article is almost
all about Upper Canada. The grand sin of omission
charged on the Tories throughout the course of last
Session is, that "the imperious dictator (Lord Dur-
ham) passed through the ordeal of last Session un-
harmed, unanswered, and unpunished!" Certainly the
Opposition excel in the esprit de l'escalier—the gift,
not of saying their good things in the drawing-room,
but of bethinking themselves of them as they are going
down stairs ! The effect might have been wonderful, if
it had only occurred to them to set about " punishing"
Lord Durham while the session yet lasted. Unfortunately,
however, their re. Header last session (Lord Brougham),
has a wily versatility about him which prevents him "pu-
nishing" anybody with a perseverance which should
bring out the case on the ether side. Under Lord
Brougham's leading, Lord Durham was just enough
" punished" to bring him back from the scene of his
mission, and then prudently let alone. In like manner,
the same learned harlequin, towards the end of the Ses-
sion, took it in hand to " punish' Lord Normanhy, on
scarce-printed and unread evidence. These two me-
morable examples of abortive attack of the Opposition
leave no doubt of their will to " punish," whatever be
thought of their power—or "discipline."
(From the Courier.)
It is rather an unfortunate charge for the morning
organ of the Ministers to urge against the Conservatives,
that they act on " no fixed principle." There are very
few thinking persons who are not fully conscious that it
is because the Conservatives religiously adhere to their
fixed principles that they are out of office ; and it
is equally notorious that it is because the pre-
sent Ministry have no fixed principle to act on
that they remain in. The Conservative party
have the fixed principle to protect life and property (in
Ireland as well as in England) : to increase religious
education : to support the Established Protestant
Church : to promote all useful improvements : to resist
all useless and dangerous innovations : generally, to afford
to the people good government. N' hat has been the
course of the present Ministry ? In Ireland to abandon
life and property to the mercy of a population indus-
triously trained to regard their possessors as excommu-
nicated aliens : to allow heavy blows and great dis-
couragements to be dealt on Protestantism : to encou-
rage, sometimes by active interference, and at others by
supine negligence, the excitement of the people, by the
wildest revolutionary doctrines ; at one time sending
emissaries to rouse the people to discontent; at another
despatching troops to shed the blood of the people,
whose discontents they them-selves have kindled ; dis-
regarding good government, or any government, and
regarding only patronage ; without any fixed principle
of foreign or domestic policy : we forget, there is one
fixed principle to which they have invariably, and under
all circumstances and humiliations, pertinaciously ad-
hered—the fixed principle of keeping their places.
(From the Standard.)
The Ministerial journals announce with manifest
exultation a subscription from her Majesty for the
purpose of aiding in the formation of a Normal
School, in connection with the British and Foreign
School Society, of 1001. per annum. The truly
loyal and constitutional subjects of her Majesty will
regard that contribution with very considerable
pain. They cannot choose but regret that Ministers
should, for the mere purpose of promoting their own
selfish and anti-national views, have advised their
Royal Mistress thus openly to defy the opinions not
only of the second branch of the Legislature, so strongly
manifested, but of a large majority of the most intelligent
and influential of her subjects of all religious persuasions.
The " sharp rebuke" dictated by Lord Melbourne to
the deputation from the Upper House of Parliament,
in reply to its strong but respectful remonstrance on
this subject, was made a matter of congratulation by
the Ministerial Journals, as having " settled the Lords ;"
whilst the much vaunted subscription which has just
given occasion for the Io Pecans of the Morning Chronicle
and Globe, is designed, no doubt, to convey a similar re-
proach to such of the nobility, gentry, clergy, magis-
trates, merchants, and others, of England, as signed
the four thousand petitions which were transmitted to
Parliament in the course of a few weeks against the
Ministerial education scheme. We are told that
our delight at such an act of " munificence," ought to
know no bounds ; for that, in fact, it is meant as a
rebuke, not only to the House of Lords, the heads
of the nobility, clergy, and landed and mercantile
interests of the country, but also to a large majo-
rity •t* the representatives of England in the House of
Commons. We repeat, that we regard this demon-
stration, if we are to believe that it was so designed.
with sorrow. It can have but one effect, and that,
one which is of all others the most to be deprecated.
It is thus that Ministers continually attempt to shield
themselves from the ignominious fate that awaits
them by thrusting before them the person of their
Royal Mistress as a shield, against which they are
' well aware that no shaft will be directed. How long

will the people of England consent to tolerati3 so per-
fidious and disloyal a faction ; men, who, to apply the
phrase of one of their leading organs, " ha ve trans-
formed a minority into a majority by taa'king their
Royal Mistress their slave," and ya) care iaot to what
consequences they expose her, provided thei :r tenure of
office may be preserved for ever so short a I ime by the
sacrifice ?

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

QUEEN-SQUARE.

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF BAN K•NOTESe—• IVilliam
Bexhill and John Wood, two snabbily dressed men, were
yesterday placed at the bar charged with stealing
thirty-six 51. notes of the Wells and Dorset Bank, pay-
able at the London and Westminster Bank.
Mr. Barefoot, an inspector of the B division, pro-
duced the following letter for the information of the
Magistrate : . _

Andover, Oct, 13.

Gentlemen—l have this evening been robbed of
thirty-six 51. notes of the Wells and Dorset Bank, the
whole of them dated Trowbridge, which I received from
Mr. Ball, the manager of the Wilts and Dorset Bank,
and request that they may be stopped,
JOSIAH GANGER, Melksham, Wilts.
To the Directors of the London and Westminster Bank.

The inspector said that to this letter was added a list
of the numbers of the no tes, and information having
been given throughout the police force, the prisoners
had been apprehended by him, and it would be found
on a hearing of the case that the evidence affected
them very strongly.
S. J. Fremand, shopman to Mr. Henry Leach, draper,
f No. 10, Tothill-street, Wetitminster, stated that on
Wednesday afternoon the prisoners came into his mas
ter's shop and selected goods to the amount of 11., for
which they tendered in payment a .5/. note of the Wilts
and Dorset Bank. Witness said he had not change,
but would run out and get it. He did so, and in-
formation was then given to Inspector Barefoot, who
ultimately took them into custody,. He had ascertained
that the notes were stopped at the bank where they
were payab!e in London. He received the note from
Bexhill, but the other was standing by at the time.
After some further evidence, to a certain extent im-
plicating the prisoners, they were remanded till Satur-
day, when the gentleman who had 'been robbed would
be able to attend.

BARNSTAPLE ADDRESS TO

LORD EBRINGTON..

(From the North Devon Journal.)
On Monday morning this town was quite on the
qui vive from the circulation of a rumour that his Ex-
cellency the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland was expected
to arrive at Ilfracombe, and to pass through Barnstable
on his way to Castle-hill, on a visit to hi,s Noble and
venerable parents. An address to his Lordship was
instantly got up. and by the active exertions of our
townsman, Mr. Robert Gregory, jun., a great number
of most respectable signatures, including men of all
shades of politics, was obtained to it in the course of
an hour or two. The expectation of the inhabitants
was kept up until Tuesday, when it was ascertained
that his Excellency had landed at Plymouth, and had
reached Castle-hill by another route. The Worshipful
the Mayor addressed his Lordship to inquire when he
would be pleased to receive the address, and his Ex-
cellency having appointed this morning, Thursday, a
deputation, comprising the Mayor, Stephen Bencraft,
John Law, John Pyke, and Richard Thorne, Esqrs.,
proceeded to Castle-hill to present it. The address
and answer were expressed in the following terms :
TO HIS EXCELLENCY LOflD VISCOUNT EBBINGTON,