The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-21 00:00:00

THE DUKE OF SUSSEX.

Captain BRYAN gave notice of hts intention in the
next Session to move for an increased grant to the Duke
of ,Sussex —( Hear, hear.)
;The House adjourned at five o'clock till to morrow.

METROPOLITAN

POLITICAL

SUMMARY.

The Courier of this evenin,g comments, in the following
terms, on the Session which is now fast approaching its
close :—" Parliament will in a few days be prorogued,
and the pitiful S2ssi mof 1839 will have closed. We did
believe, at this time last year, that the session of 1838
had reached the extreme of worthlessness, but the expe-
rience of the last six months has shown that we were in
error. Is it possible, we will now ask, that the interests
of the country can be trifled with in the same manner
for another year, and that the same farce will be gone
through again in 1840,: of bringing some 600 Commoners,
and some three hundred Peers up to London, to amuse
themselves, at the public expense, by playing at cross pur-
poses with one another ? Such will, we fear, be the case, un.
less some demonstration be made in the meantime by the
people, indicative of a determination to be trifled with no
longer. The blame of this state of things is frequently laid
upon Ministers, nor is it our intention altogether to acquit
them, but the chief blame rests with the people themselves."
The Globe, in the course of an article on the Slave
Trade Suppression Bill, thus alludes to the demoralising
effects of that traffic —" The tendency of the Slave-trade
to transform men into monsters has been often shown.
The proverbial humanity of 13,•itish seamen was forgotten,
and indeed unknown, among the vessels employed in the
African Slave-trade, while that trade disgraced our nation.
The evidence taken before the House of Commons, in order
to show its influence on the moral feelings of the crews en_
gaged in that horrid tr-ific, astonished and disgusted the
a hole nation, and produced a feeling of national degrada-
tion that such atrocities were perpetrated under the British
flag. But those disclosures, horrible as many of them
were, sink into insignificance when placed in comparison
with a fact Lord Minto stated in the debate on Monday
evening, from which it appeared that the Portuguese slave.
traders, in order to deter our cruisers from interfering with
their vessels, had actually concerted a diabolical design,
and had given instruetioas to carry it into effect, to poison
hg wholesale the crews of British vessels which might in.
tercept them."

Tile Standard makes the following allusion to the debate
on the Bolton Police Bill, last night in the House of
Lords :—" The debate disclosed an agreeable sample of
the mode resorted to by Ministers for the suppression of
Chartism. ' Set a thief to catch a thief,' says the pro-
verb; but we doubt if its interpretation can be so far
strained as to justify the appointment of a Chartist magi-
strate for the more effectual suppression of Chartist out-
rages. The excuse of Lord Melbourne was, that the facts
stated by Lord Lyndhurst had nothing to do with the
question of whether Bolton should have a Police Bill or
not ; but even if this were true, they have a great deal to
do with the disturbances in all parts of the country which
have rendered an increase of the police force necessary.
In order that the peace of Bolton might be duly preserved,
the Government appointed the Mayor, one of the m,st
zealous Chartists in the town, a Justice of the Peace; who.
in his turn, as might readily have been foreseen, took care
that his constables should be of the same kidney."

CAMBRIDGE.—We learn from a Second Edi-
tion of the Cainbridge Advertiser, that on Tuesday even-
ing a meeting of about 200 Electors in the Liberal in-
terest, residing in Barnwell and the neighbourhood, took
place on the subject of the vacancy expected to take place
in the representation of the town. Mr. Thomas Cross in the
chair. lie stated that Mr. G bson came from the hot-bed
of Toryism, and preserved himself to the first constituency
which offered itself on Reform principles. He suggested
that Mr. Gibson would soon have a scat in the
Cabinet, and be enabled to reward his supporters
with Bishoprics, Deaneries, Commissionerships, &c. &c.
A resolution was carried, that no one was entitled to the
support of the Reformers unless he advocated Vote by
Ballot—Household Suffiage—Triennial Parliaments—and
Repeal of the Corn•laws. T. B. Burcham, Esq., then
explained that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had con-
fidentially, intimated to four gentlemen, that. in conse-
quence principally of domestic calamity, he should be
obliged to retire front public life. Upon this. Mr. Alder-
man R. Foster, Mr. Searle, and himself (Mr. B.) pro-
ceeded to town. He (Mr. B.) was selected as a member

the Reform Club, and because it was thought he
might be useful, as knowing many Liberal Members
of Parliament. It was agreed that no person would
stand any chance in Cambridge, unless prepared to
support the Ballot. The Hon. G. W. Fitz william was
at first applied to; and on his declaring that he was op-
posed to the Ballot, Mr. Gibson was suggested. There
was no intention of thrusting any particular person upon
the electors; and he (as a member of the University)
could have no pretence for doing anything of the sort. It
was merely meant, that whatever person they selected,
should come before a public meeting of the electors, and
that, upon the exposition of his views, the great body of
electors were to express their approbation or disapprobation
of the individual and his principles. Nothing could be
more remote from their intention than dictation. He
exhorted the meeting to merge little difference>, and con-
sider only the person who most accords with the opinions
of the great body of the Liberal electors, and who had the
requisite talent to enforce his opinions in Parliament.
After some discussion, during which the 'names of Mr.
Merewether Turner, and Mr. Christie, of Trinity College,
were mentioned as proper to be put in nomination, the
meeting was adjourned till Thursday, to give Mr. Gibson
an opportunity of extending and exp!aining• his principles.

LAW INTELLIUE,NCE.

HOUSE OF LORDS.
APPEAL COMMITTEE.
(The Earl of SHAFTESBURY ill the Chair.)

SIR LUMLEY StiEFFINGTON, BART., V. ALDERMAN ITIGMN

SON AND OTHERS.

This was an appeal from the decree on the equity side of
the Exchequer in England, and made by Baron Alderson
in favour of the above defendant,. It was presented this
session on Ttiursday, July the 18as, upon I..etition of Mr.
John Bell, Parliamentary agent f,ir the appellant.
The Appeal Committee granted time until the first week
of the next session of Parliament fur the appellant to bring
in his case.

The matter in dispute consists of a large property at
Rotherhithe, in Surrey, and claimed by the appellant.

POLICE INMLLIGENCE.

MANSION HOUSE.

A few days ago, Airs. Wade, a female of respectable
appearance, in deep morning, waited upon the Lout)
MAYOR, fcir the purpose of requesting that his Lordship
would cause a person named Livingston, who had been
carpenter on board a vessel which had been wrecked in
the PacifiC. Ocean last December twelvemonths, to ap-
pear at the Justice-room, and to give such information
es he possessed respecting some melancholy occurrences
which took place subsequently to that calamity.
The Loan MAYOR sent, upon hearing an outline of the
ease, a messenger t,) Livingston, to request his attend-
ance. Yesterday, at the Justice•room, the ship carpen-
ter accordingly appeared before his Lordship and Mrs.
Wade, and the uncle and aunt of the second mate of
the wrecked vessel also attended. The following pirti.
culars were then in a very confused and irregular manner
detailed :

By the' statement of Mrs. Wade, it appeared that her
son had gone out in the Toward Castle, South Sea
whaler, with Captain Kennett, on a fishing excursion to the
Sow.h Pacific in the later end of the year 1837. Tidings
reached .England some time afterwards that the Toward
Castle wiai wrecked near California. but that the crew had
got away in boats, and the friends of all on board f a long
time were in the most miserable suspence respecting their
fate. At length intelligence arrived that young Wade,
and Henry Gerard, the second mste of the vessel, and
another of the crew, and a native of New Mexico were left
to perish in a desolate island about 60 miles from the spot
in which ' the ship was wrecked, under circumstances
of the most afflicting nature. It also came to the
ears of Mrs. 'Wade, that Livingston, the carpenter, who
had lately arrived in England, was acquainted with all the
circumstances, from the report of which it seemed that the
lives of the four poor fellows who died on the island might
have been easily saved, if common humanity had been exer.
cised by some of those who escaped towards them. [living
failed in obtaining a satisfactory account of the event, she
was advised to apply to the Chief Magistrate, whom she
now besought to make an investigation into the circum-
stances.
The uncle and aunt of Gerard, the second mate, seconded
the application of Mrs. Wade in the most earnest manner.
They as well as Mrs. Wade declared that they were con-
vinced that the least offence with which the survivors was
chargeable, was a heartless disregard to the condition of
their fellow creatures who died by starvation. They ap•
prehcnded that a sordid motive might have prevented the
neee‘sary interposition.
The LORD MAYOR asked whether any of the crew was
suspected of having abandoned the f,air persons who were
represented as having perished, in order to take possession
of any of their property which might have been saved from
the wreck?

Mrs: Wade said that the- case was as singular as it was
beart.rending. She understood that when the vessel
struck, the boats into which the Captain and the whole of
the crew got were rowed off to an island, after landing
upon which the second mate became very ill ; that the
crew resolved to return to the wreck, to see whether any
thing could . be saved ; and that the second mate being
unable to leave the island,_her son, who was greatly
aftached to him, and two others, remained with him ; that

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
then moved the Order of the Day for the House goii4r,
into a Committee on the Bank of Ireland Bill, and
said, this events which had occurred during the last
month 4n respect.to the Bill, imposed on him a task of
no ordinary difficulty, and he feared of no ordinary re-
sponsibility. The difficulty, too, in which the House was
placed was of. no slight nature. He wished, before he ap-
plied himself more distinctly to the resolutions of the Go-
vernment and the
.determination they- had adopted, to
explain 'shat were the objects which the Government
had in the introduction of this measure. The
Bill affected the Bank of Ireland, the Joint , Stock
Banks of Ireland, - and-'-the- litililier-Ks-tOthe Bank:
the design wtillYfrerme. for four years certain. anti
ten ten years more, optional, the exclusive privilege of issue