The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-24 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN POLITICAL

gentlemen addressed Mrs. Larkins. I regretted that I
did not see more of them as formerly.
Mr. George Smith King examined by Mr. Mon-
triou—l have been acquainted with Mr. Larkins for
about two years and three months. I also know
Mrs. Larkins. lam on intimate terms with both.
Since Mrs. Larkins's return to India I have been in
the habit of visiting once or twice a week, until Mrs.
Larkins went away. I then continued visiting Mr.
Larkins. I saw Mrs. Larkins the last time about the
19th of September last, but not at her own house.
She was at Mr. Farish's, at a prayer meeting. I had
often met Mrs. Larkins when meetings of that nature
were held at Mr. Larkins's house. She invariably at-
tended them, and joined in the devotional exercises of
the evening, and it struck me she entered into them
with pleasure. I know Mr. Lewis. Repeatedly met
him at Mr. Larkins's house, and was on intimate terms
with him. Has met Mr. Lewis at prayer meetings,
held at Mr. Farish's and Mr. Larkins's. He was in
the constant habit of attending those at the latter per-
son's house. The last meeting held at Mr. Larkins's
was on the Saturday before Mr. Lewis and Mrs. Lar-
kins eloped. He was there. The meeting generally
assembled at seven and closed about nine. Mr. and
Mrs. Larkins and myself sometimes took upon our-
selves to expound Scripture. The defendant joined in
the devotional exercises of that evening. Mr. Lar-
kins's motive in inviting Mr. Lewis to attend these
meetings I understood to be with the view to incite
Mrs. Larkins to withdraw herself more from gay so-
ciety. Mr. Lewis told me the reason why
he courted religious society was that he re-
ceived more real kindness at their hands than from
other portions of the community. I should say that Mr.
and Mrs. Larkins lived happily. When visiting there I ge-
nerally had dinner, and remained during the evening.
My visits were not so frequent after Mr. Lewis went
to reside at Mr. Larkins's. Mr. Larkins was not parti-
cularly austere with Mrs. Larkins, and I should add
that Mr. Larkins was a very fond and indulgent hus-
band. I was invited to dine at Mr. Larkins's the day
Mr. Lewis and Mrs. Larkins eloped. I arrived at Mr.
Larkins's house about six o'clock. On entering the
dining-room Mr. Larkins said, " King, they're gone."
Mr. Larkins was extremely excited, and I then thought
he had lost his reason. I remained there the whole of
the night at Mr. Larkins's request, and stayed there for
a fortnight. During that time most of his conversation
was about his wife. Mr. Larkins was very ill for the
first three or four days after the occurrence.
Cross-examined by Mr. Campbell—l had convers
tions with Mr. Larkins regarding Mr. Lewis and Mrs.
Larkins. Mr. Larkins wished to get Mr. Lewis out
of his house. These conversations took place about
eight or ten days previous to the elopement. Mr. Lar-
kins urged as a reason to be rid of Mr. Lewis's presence
that he was afraid he was putting fashionable notions
and ideas into Mrs. Larkins's head. Mr. Larkins was
very uneasy at Mr. Lewis remaining in his house. Mr.
Larkins seemed afraid of offending Mr. Lewis by or-
dering him out of his house. Mr. Larkins entertained
suspicions of Mr. Lewis's conduct before the event took
place.

Mr. S. D. Murray examined by Mr. Montriou—l
am a partner in Messrs. Gisborne and Menzie's house-
I had a few opportunities of observing that Mr. and
Mrs. Larkins lived happily as man and wife, and those
since March or April, 1838. I never saw them but in
the presence of a third person. On the last occasion
Capt. Andrews (Mrs. Larkins's father) visited Bombay ;
he resided at Mr. Larkins's.

Rev. George Candy examined by Mr. Montriou—
I have been on intimate terms with Mr. and Mrs.
Larkins since December, 1837. I generally attended
a Saturday evening meeting at their house, and I once
spent a week there. I had sufficient opportunities 01
judging that they lived Lappily together. Mr. Larkins
appeared to be a kind and indulgent husband. I never
saw anything to the contrary. There did not appear
to me that any kind of restraint was placed on Mrs.
Larkins by her husband ; she was ever cheerful.
have been frequently present at devotional exercise in
their company, and the part she took in them was ❑nt
that of a person labouring under any restraint. In
fact, Mrs. Larkins always took part in religious con-
versations.

Mr. Thomas Lancaster examined by Mr. Montriou
—I am a merchant of Bombay, and manager of Foster
and Co.'s firm. Mr. and Mrs. Larkins were on tho
best of terms. He was an aff,2ctionate husband. 1

thought their affection mutual. I never heard Mr.
Larkins reprove Mrs. Larkins, or use a harsh expres,zion
to her.

Mr. Campbell addressed the Court on the part of
the defendant in a most powerful speech.
Five letters, numbered from 1 to 6, were read in
Court by the prothonotary. They were letters sent by
Mrs. Larkins to Mr. Lewis, full of the most tent!cor
effusions of love and constancy to him, and entreatimr
him to hasten their departure from what she was pleased
to term •• the inhospitable and never-to-be-endured
residence in the house of her husband," &c.
Mr. Montriou having replied, and the evidence
having been summed up by the Court,
The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Da-
-1 mages, 2,000 rupees (2401. sterling).

SCOTTISH CHRISTIAN UNITA-

TARIAN ASSOCIATION.

The ninth anniversary of this Institution wa:-;
held in Glasgow, on Sunday and Monday, Bth and
9th of September. The Rev. R. E. B. Maclellan,
of Edinburgh, preached in the forenoon, in the
Christian Unitarian Chapel, Union-street, from
Gal. iii. 20. ; in the afternoon, the Rev J. Cropper,
A.M., of Aberdeen, preached from Heb. x. 24, 25.
The Rev. George Harris then addressed nearly
three hundred communicants, and the Lord's Supper
was dispensed. In the evening, Mr. Maclellan
again preached from the passage 1 John iv. 8.
Notwithstanding the extreme wetness of the wea-
ther, persons were present from upwards of twenty
towns ; and between the afternoon and evening
worship upwards of one hundred friends took Ica
together at the Argyle Hotel, where a very hand-
some entertainment was provided by the attentive
landlord.

On Monday afternoon, a meeting, numerous
attended, was held in the Chapel. The Rev. J.
Forrest, A.M., of Greenock, engaged in prayer,
and a hymn of thanksgiving was sung. W. Wat-
son, Esq., was then called to the chair, and the
Report of the Committee of the Association for ti►c
past year, read by the Secretary, Mr. Harris. Its
statements presented cheering proofs of the progress
of Scriptural inquiry, and benevolent feeling,in varion 3
parts of Scotland, deeply interesting to a denomi-
nation, upholding the fatherly character of God,
and the universal brotherhood of man. Several
resolutions were proposed by gentlemen from dif-
ferent towns, in speeches replete with good feeling
to all mankind ; and the meeting closed about ten
o'clock, with prayer and benediction. We give the
two following resolutions :
" That the Members of the Association rejoice
in the opportunity presented by their annual meet-
ing, of expressing their gratitude to the one God
and Father of all, for the increase of success which
has attended their promulgation of the life-giving
truths of the Gospel of Christ, and believing t!,e
principles they are associated to support to be of
,unspeakable importance, indissolubly connected
with the honour of God, and the well-being of man ;
with piety, benevolence, and freedom, the great
motives. to moral and spiritual progression ; the
harbingers of individual and social improvement
and happiness ; and the never-failing sources of
consolation, peace, hope, and joy, again pledte
themselves to continued and unremitted efforts for
their diffusion and practice."
" That regarding ignorance as the prolific source
of fanaticism, superstition, and bigotry, the barrier
to individual improvement and social melioration,
the members of this Association rejoice in every
measure calculated to diffuse the blessings of know-
ledge ; considering it the paramount duty of society
by its civil government to provide for the education
of the entire community, they feel called on to give
public expression to their sorrow at the deplorab!e
deficiency of means, for the accomplishment of this
great end, which exists in the British dominions ;
as well as their deep regret on account of the
blind and furious opposition with which a• 1 plans
for enlightened National Education have hitherto
had to contend ; coupled, however, with their ear-
nest hope, that the wise and good of all communi-
ties will unite in pressing on the Legislature the
urgent necessity of laving the foundations of the
increasing liberty, virtue, and happiness of the
people, on the solid basis of universal education."---
Scots Times.
A

TTACIIM ENT OF FISHES. —I once had occa-
sion to observe the friendship which can exist even beta een
&h. I was accustomed to keep some gold-fish in a large
glass globe. I do not think I should do so now ;
for whatever care I might take of them, still it vt as a
state of imprisonment to which I was doom;ng
them. It so happened, that from some cause,
the nature of which I do not recollect, !ny
stock was diminished to two; I gave away one of the n.
The other, from that moment, refused to eat ; he
lay motionless at the bottom of the water, r!)f!,
as I thought, was evidottly pining away. It struck to
that he wa. mourning the loss of his companion. I
shall never forget the evident joy and strange antics to
restore
hieh
abandoned himself, when his companion w d
to his;.—North Devon Journal.

—A--- spring of stron2ly impregnated saline water s
just been disco erect at Tenbury. The water is similar to t
of Cheltenham, except that there appears to be double int:
quantity of saline matter in the fluid, o
d, one pint of which n
slow evaporation in a shallow vessel, produced an of
crystalline salt.— Worcester Chronicle.

TURKEY AND EGYPT.

MEMORANDUM,
Addressed to the Consuls of the Five Pow.r,
resident at Alexandria, by the Viceroy of Egmor,
in reply to the despatches arrived by
whereby he was enjoined to adhere to the treaty of
Kiutaya, and not to trouble the peace and status quo
of the East. Dated Alexandria, Sept. 5, 1839.
" I believe I have submitted to the other four Great
Powers every observation calculated to enable them to
appreciate my position and my wishes. I still cherish
the hope that his Majesty . . . . will continue
his good-will towards me, and that in time he will
change his opinion on my affairs, and no longer oppose
himself to my wishes ; for I desire nothing contrary to
the interests of European policy,:or the tranquillity of the
East. I have felt that it is my duty to provide, before
my death, for the fate of my family and my adopted
children. It is for them that I claim the hereditary
succession, with which I shall be satisfied, if I ob-
tain it by means of negotiation. Such is all my desire.
I will not commit hostilities against the Sultan, and of
But I cannot consent to allow my hands to be tied that
I may become the victim of the Porte, and I would
prefer a complete downfall, to leaving the fate of my
that disposition myjourney to Sennaar is a sufficient proof.
family and people undecided. If I do not succeed in
obtaining what I ask by solicitation—if my reasons are
disregarded by the great Powers—if they will give no
guarantee as to the future position of Egypt—if, in
fine, I am reduced to depend on myself, I shall resort
to such measures as I believe most proper to rescue
myself from the difficulty. In case I
am compelled to
have recourse to arms for the solution of this question,
it will not then be the hereditary succession that I shall
proclaim, but my entire independence. lam not igno-
rant that, if the Great Powers unite against me, I
must expect to fall ; but, placed already in so elevated
a position, such a triumph will not augment their re-
nown, 'while I leave the Courts to judge of the conse-
quences, if the chances of war should turn in my favour."
(From the Medtterraneo of the 11th instant.)
" Our private correspondent at Constantinople informs
us, that the news of the day is, that it has been decided
in a council held by all the Ambassadors, that the Eng.
lish and French fleets are to proceed to Alexandria, to
demand the restitution of the Turkish fleet, and that, in
case of refusal, they are to force Mehemet Ali to a com-
pliance. In case Ibrahim Pacha makes any attempt to
advance towards Constantinople, the Russians declare
that they will send an army of 20,000 men to oppose his
progress. The Austrian Government, jealous of this
.notion on the part of Russia, also give out that they will
send an equal force into Turkey, so as to prevent any
encroachment whatever upon the Sultan's territories.
Should Mehemet Ali refuse to yield to the wishes of the
united Powers, England and France are to declare war
against him, and the latter will proceed immediately to
land troops at Alexandria or at Kashid. We cannot
understand this ; for should the French succeed in ef-
fecting a landing, it will be a hard job for the English
to dislodge them. In fact, the policy of the day is in-
comprehensible—but a thin veil of out .ard amity covers
the mutual jealousy and enmity of the several great
Powers."

The complicated difficulties by which the -question h;
surrounded are thus detailed by our Maltee Contrtr-

porary

" The Five Power! unite to settle the :Iffirs of th
East, or to check the ambition of an obstiiia;.. Paeha ;
but is their union a bona fide one? England and France,
whose Cabinets, at least, are moved by one and the
same principle, ought to be so. The journals of both
nations, however, are not in unison. The French jour-
nals persist in seeing in Mehemet Ali their hero, and
would give to the Pacha the supreme direction in the
arrangement of the affairs of the East, and the care of
dictating the treaty of the boundaries of both kingdoms.
Those who know Mehemet Ali must know also what
the Porte would in that case become, and those who
know Russia must know also, how, by this mode, the
French journals tickle her appetite. On the other
nand, British journals have been silent in deprecatim;
Mehemet, because Great Britain aspires at an aggran-
disement of territory, or exclu.;ive advantages over the
Red Sea and the Euphrates. Whatever things turn
out, the gr!,i,t question of the European equilibrium
must of nee-ssity be decided at Constantinople.

" That Russia is allied with the Porte, and why and
how she has the interests of the latter at heart, are
things known to all. Wh::t is the use of repeating,
that it is the irresistible desire of Russia to attain the
Dardanelles, and that she will not have completed her
political intentions until she has become the mistress of
them ? On the other side, Turkey can, indeed, be di-
vided into two kingdoms, hut they will never be made
two independent kingdoms the one will be absorbed
by the other, or rather by that formidable powei-,
from whom both will solicit support. It is evident
that in tue last struggle, each party did but wait
for a favourable opportunity to attack the other.
And of what use can a treaty of independence be ?
Conquest for Mehemet All is now become a condition
of his existence, as the possession of the Dardanelles
is foe Russia. She can give no vent to her gigantic.
life, without breaking through such a barrier. The
former cannot be contented with Egypt and Syria, for
he is not sufficiently rich to maintain his newly created
military power. And in the interim, what is Russia
looking for, more than that Mehemet Ali may never
be contented ? It is easy now to draw an inference,
but let us not be hasty ; let us even admit that the
Pacha now, in one way or other, is kept within the
limits assigned him by the Powers. Mehemet Ali, in
order to support himself, must overstep those limits.
Will he not find a pretext for a second attack against
the Porte ? And will not Russia find a pretext to
justify an assistance that will make her the mistress of
the Dardanelles ? What remains, then, for England
and France? Either an honourable war or a disgrace-
ful peace."

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

James Curly was charged with the manslaughter of his
wife Mary Curly, by beating her on the body, and casting
her to the ground.
The Jury acquitted the prisoner of the felony, and found
him guilty of an assault. Sentence—Six months' impri.
sonment.

Henry Dale and Alfred Beard were indicted for stealing
a handkerchief the property of John Robinson.
It appeared that the prosecutor was walking in Parlia-
ment-street, on the 27th of August, the day on which
her Majesty prorogued the parliament, when the pri-
soners who had previously been observed to " try" the
pockets of several other persons in the crowd, went up
to him, and Dale took the handkerchief from his pocket,
while the other prisoner " covered" him to prevent him
from being observed.
The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
A policeman named Cundell was then called, and it
appeared that he had sworn positively at the police-office
that Dale had been before in custody for felony, and had
been summarily convicted. He now, however, admitted
that this statement was false, and upon, being questioned,
he said that it must have appeared in the depositions by
" mistake."

Mr. C. JONES who defended the prisoners, commented
very severely upon the conduct of the policeman, in pre-
suming to swear to a circumstance of such a serious cha-
racter affecting the prisoner, when it appeared there was
no foundation for it.

The RECORDER remarked that the witness certainly
appeared to have sworn very rashly, and he thought some
inquiry ought to be made, in order to ascertain whether
he had acted by mistake, or whether it was his intention
wilfully to deceive the Court. = He should not, under the
circumstances, allow his expenses.
It appeared that Beard had been before in custody, and
ha was sentenced to be transported for ten years, and Dale
was sentenced to six months' imprisonment.
Two lads named Farrow and Abbott were then indicted
for stealing a handkerchief, the property of a man un-
known.

Messrs. Phillips, Payne, and Doane defended the pri-
soners.

This case occupied a considerable time, and created a
good deal of interest. It appeared from the evidence of
Bagnell, a policeman of the F division, that he saw the
prisoners in Drury-lane, and observed one of them pick
a. gentleman's packet, and they both ran away.
His evidence was corroborated by a person named
Lawler, who said he was a printer, . but who ap.
peared to be a kind of amateur thief-taker
It turned out that he had been a witness under similar cir-
cumstances at the last Session of this Court, and that on
that occasion also the prosecutor did not appear. This
witness and the policeman contradicted each other flatly.
It also appeared that Lawler was in the habit of walking
about v.ith the policeman while on duty. Neither of them
gave any satisfactory reason why the gentleman who it was
alleged bad been robbed did not come forward.
Mr PHILLIPS made a powerful address to the Jury, and
remarked upon the facility with which prosecutions of this
kind were got up, and the danger, if such evidence were
to be relied upon, of innocent persons being punished for
crimes o. which they were not guilty.
Witnesses were called who gave both prisoners a good
character.

The Jury, after deliberating some time, returned a
verdict of Guilty against both prisoners; they at the same
time recommended them to mercy, and expressed their
disapprobation of persons like the witness, Lawler, being
allowed to accompany a policeman when on duty.
The Court concurred in the opinion, and hoped the
practice would be discontinued in future.

The prisoner, Abbott, was then sentenced to six months'
imprisonment and judgment upen the other was respited.

THR LATE SIR JOHN RAMSDENT, BART.-
The property left by Sir John is prodigious. The young
Bdrenet, who is his grandson, and only twelve years of
age, succeeds to 120,0001. a year; 500,0001. is left to be
divided amongst Sir John's sons, 40,000/. to each of hia
daughters, and 8,000/. a-year, together with the mansion
of Byrom. to Lady Ramsden, the widow —Hull Times.

THE STEAMER SOLWAY.—We are sorry to
state that thiq vessel, on her passage from Belfast to this
port, on Tuesday last, encountered a tremendous gale off
the Mull of G.llloway. She was struck by a heavy sea,
hich carried off the cattle, staunchions, &c., from the deck.
I z was then found that she had sprung a leak, and was mak-
water so rapidly that her engines soon became useless.
The Captain, at length, found it nect-ssary to throw part of
the cattle overboard ; and having succeeded in getting the,
vessel before the wind, fortunately carried her into Port
Nessock, with five feet of water in her hold. Fifty-five.
cattle were thrown overboard, and 12 drowned in the hold.
She had 198 cattle on board.—Carlisle Journal.
PRINTING FOR THE BLIND.—OUr readers
are aware that Mr. Alston has already completed the
printing of the New Testament, and many other works,
in raised Roman letters for the use of the blind. Some
time ago he commenced the arduous task of printing the
Old Testament; and, having finished the book of Genesis,
he proceeded on a tour of all the institutions for the blind
in Eng ;and and Scotland, in order to ascertain the extent
to.which they were wlltlng to aid him in this important
work. With the exception of one the directors of
all the institutions expt essed their readiness to assist
turn by taking a proportion of the different volumes
in their progress through the press. Encouraged by
this co,,ideration, he made application to Lord John
Russelt, as Secretary for the Home Department, for assis-
tance f..ont the Royal bounty, to aid him in the accomplish-
ment of this benevolent object. We arc happy to state
that the application was transmitted to the Lords of the
Treasury, who have been pleased to direct that an issue of
4001. bz made from the Royal bounty, for the purpose
of assisting him in the prosecution of the work.--. Scottish
Guardian.

SINUULAR DISCOVERY.—A few days ago
some poplar trees of three or four years growth, were re-
moved from the shrubbery of Bridge Cottage, Edward.:
street, Truro, where they had been planted as a screen,
when the trunk of one of them, on being cut transversely
for fire wood, exhibited a perfect cross, of a blood colour.
The interest of this phenomenon, from whatever cause it
may arise, is considerably heightened by the fact that the
ground on which these poplars grew was a part of the old
Dominican Friary ; and had the discovery been made a
few centuries ago, the fragments of wood which exhibit so
sacred an object would, in all probability, have been depo •
sited in a costly shrine, and •isited by devotees from every
part of Christendom.— West Briton.

FORGERY AND DETECTION.—A forgery was
a few days ago detected, in a manner to which it may be
serviceable to some of our men of business if we direct at-
tention. A person trading in the city had bought in Eng
land goods for which he tendered a bill, which was for 681.
odd, and.which purported to have been accepted by another
citizen known to the house at which he purchas• d, was at
once taken, and would have been payable a few weeks since.
The supposed acceptor having died, the drawer waited on
the widow, and apprised her of the existence of the bill,
and that it would shortly become due. The widow denied
the acceptance, arid said that if any such bill bore her hus.
band's signature it was a forgery. The drawer offered to
swear that he had seen her husband sign it, but this would
not satisfy her. ;She mentioned the matter to a friend ;
communication took place with the agent of the English
firm, and on examination it was discovered that the date
on the stamp was :about two months subsequent to the date
of the bill. This, of course, proved the forgery, and the
drawer decamped... A similar fraud, we remember, was
detected in the sat ne way in England, soon after the pass-
ing of the Act which requires the stamp to be dated, but
we are not aware that any case of the kind has hitherto
occurred in Irelartd.—Cork Paper.
THE NEW POLICE AST.—On Saturday John
Sharp, a young titan, was charged before the Magistrates
at the Kensington Petty Sessions, with violating the new
Police Act, by r inging a house bell without just cause.
Mr. Jerome Barra tt, a surgeon, at Notting hill, stated
that about one o'clt )ck that morning some one rang his bell,
he being in his study at the time. On going to the door
he saw the defendant running away, but a policeman
broug'at him back. The policeman hearing the bell ring
ran after the defendant and another person, and took the
former into custody. The defendant said in his defence
that seeing a light he wanted to purchase a dose of salts,
but, recollecting that he had no half-pence in his pocket,
he ran away. Vhe Magistrates said if that bad been the
case he ought flu )t to have run away ; they were inclined to
fine him in the ft 111 penalty, but, on the intercession of Mr.
Barrett, they mi tigated it to half-a-crown.
It is said to be the intention of the Admiralty to
try the experion eat or fitting a line-of-battle ship wits a
steam-engine, of moderate power, to aid in propelling her
during calms, a tad not to interfere in any way with the
working of the sails.—Devonport Telegraph.
ANNUITY- .TAX.—A friend has shown us a
notice which h as been served on him by Mr. Davie,
the Collector c if Ministers' Annuity, intimating that
warrant has be ten obtained from the Magistrates for
poinding and distraining his effects for payment of
annuity tax arr Gars, and that, unless payment be made
within eight di tys, the warrant will be put in force
without furthe r intimation. Now comes the tug of
war I Have tb to Churchmen resolved to create a new
batch of martyr s? If so, we trust that all whom they
select for this I tonour will prove themselves worthy of it.
The recusants, as wo have already intimated, are more
numerous this year than formerly ; and if they only remain
true to their pi inciples, they have it easily in their power
to secure the s peedy and total overthrow of this obnoxious
impost —Scot tish

PUNISHM ENT FOR CLEANING SHOES ON
SUNDAY.—Tht I injustice of the case which appeared in our
Loughborough report last:week has excited genera! attention,
and it is deem ed only right that a subscription should im-
mediately be et tiered into to reimburse the poor bey for the
amount of the l eavy fine so improperly inflicted on him by
the Magistrates, and lest all our readers should not be ac-
quainted with 1.1 to case we again give the particulars:
" Frederick Pic, c, servant to Mr. Bryan, of Six Hills, .was
brought up for Lisobeying the orders of his master. Mr.
Bryan said he bad given instructions that the knives and
shoes necessary for the family should always be cleaned on
a Saturday nig! it, in order that the Sabbath might be pro-
perly observed, but contrary to his orders he found Pick on
Sunday mornin g last Sept.( 8) cleaning his own shoes.
The defendant admitted the offence, but urged that he had
cleaned all except his own that was necessary ; after which
the Magistrate s gave him a severe lecture on the enormity
of his offence i n disobeying his master's orders and break-
ing the Sabha ;b, acid fined him 40s. and costs." A book
lie. at our offir it, for the names of all persons disposed to
contribute six pence fur the above object. —Leicestershire
Mei curl.

DREADF 171. STORM.—On Tuesday Hastings
was visited by a. complete hurricane; the oldest inhabitai.ts
do nut remen ta,er it blowing so violently for many yeßrs•
Great fears were Pfitert in ed for the safety of our fishermen.
but we are happ r to say that they got too Rye harbour
quite safe; we t egret, however, to say, that the poor
fellows had their • sails shivered into threads. A great
many of our lodg' ing houses had windows destroyed. Toe
St. Leonard's tf otel suffered the vnost severely ; we have
not heard of any other damage occasioned by the storm.—
Sussex Express.

SUMMARY.

The Times of this morning makes the following cursory
remarks with reference to Mr. O'Connell's last letter to
the people of Ireland, on the subject of registration ;—" If
once, by any calamitous chance, the Whigs could obtain the
support of a large majority of the county and burgh repre-
sentatives of England, it is quite clear that 0 Connell's
occupation would be gone. The influence which that
demagogue possesses with the Ministry depends solely
upon their straitened circumstances. Cou'd they only
command a sufficiency of English votes for their purposes—
a disaster which even O'Connell's destruction could scarcely
atone for—their deliverance from his tyranny would be coin
plete. It is only because they are so dreadfully embarrassed
in divisions, that he and his Irish party, having sufficient
strength to rescue them from defeat in critical cases,
assume a degree of political importance which they other-
wise would not possess. An English majority of such
strength and steadiness as might enable the Whigs to set
him at defiance would be absolute death to him. His whole
weight with the Government would he at an end. Nobody
knows this better than O'Connell himself. Any appre-
hensions he may entertain of- the Whigs becoming
so popular in England as to enable them to
do without him are visionary enough, God knows ;
but still, the ideal spectre of such a contingency
appears to be too frightful to._ be contemplated
by him without a seasonable- effort to prevent
its realization, and to scare it away. This, our readers
may rely upon it, is the secret cause of his letter to the
hereditary bondsmen,' which we published on Saturday.
The deep and double game which he has to plsy at pre-
sent is just barely to maintain his Whig vassals in office,
and yet to keep them so contemptibly weak in the House
of Commons, and so generally despised among the inde-
pendent representatives of England, as that on every_ cri-
tical occasion they may be fain to purchase his support by
giving him whatever he chooses to ask. With this two-
fold object in view, and without forgetting so to O'Con-
nellize the Irish registrations as to enable him, not to ad-
vance the cause of iberty, which Popery eordially hates,
but to increase his Parliamentary power for his own selfish
and beggarly ends, forth comes the recent manifesto from
Derrynane, at once the craftiest and clumsiest effort which
that national workhouse has yet produced."
The Morning Chronicle says, in allusion to the approach-
ing agitation on the question of the Corn-laws :—" Last
year the Tories had the Chartists for allies. No principle
could be more serviceable to the former than that on which
the latter acted—that all attempts at Reform ought to be
postponed till the Charter was obtained, as by delaying
other reforms, all classes would be forced, from the pres-
sure of intolerable evils, to concur with the Chartists in
extorting Annual Parliaments, Universal Suffrage, &c.
The Tories sought to profit, too, by a delusion which some
of the leaders of the working people entertained with re-
spect to the connection between high prices and high
wages. Experience has undeceived the Chartists, and
we may expect this year the union of all classes in agi-
tating.for the repeal of the Corn-laws. They have learnt,
that though the price of food has risen wages have not
risen, while partial employment has practically had the
same effect as a fall in wages."
- The Morning Post thus clumsily endeavours to account
for Lord Normanby's recent appointment to the Home-
office :—" A great deal of ink has been spent by the hire-
lings of the dirty and degraded Whigs in the attempt to
prove that the new Secretary of State for the Home De-
w.rtment is a marvellous proper man to ' direct the do-
mestic administration of the country ' The real secret of
these patriotic efforts is undoubtedly this—the man was
O'Connell', sub,ervient tool as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland,
and therefore it is extremely pleasing to Mr. O'Connell
and the Irish priests that he should be male Secretary of
State for the Home Department. Now, the present Ad-
ministration of Great Britain being as completely dependent
upon Mr. O'Connell and the Irish priests as any lackey
of any Lord in England is dependent upon his master, it is
very easily seen why the Ministerialists are so very anxious
to reconcile the public to the preposterous appointment of
Lord Norrnanby in the room of Lord John Russell."
The Morning Herald thus expresses itself on the ques-
tion of national education :—'• It is by the combined
influence of the aristocracy, the Church, and the middle
orders, that our national education should be still superin-
tended The interference of the Government and the
Privy Council can only retard and injure our moral, intel-
lectual, and social improvement. It is unconstitutional in
principle, and will be found detrimental in practice. It is
foreign to all our manners' and habits, and, thank God I it
is altogether impracticable on a great and national scale.
But the attempt deserves to be met with the severest
rebuke and castigation. On the part of the revolutionists
,and agitators it is an effort to destroy the natural influence
of the upper and middle classes of society on the poor.
On the part of Dissenters itis an effort to destroy the just
and beneficial influence of the Clergy and the Established
Church. On the part of Papists, it proceeds from the
sheer hope of destroying the ascendancy of Protestantism."

The Courier of last evening, in a leading article on
the subject of Ireland, says :—" Ireland is made the
battle-field of politics ; and unhappily for her present
generatidn the personal interest of the individual who
now has so powerful an influence on her destinies, lies
in the discontent, the turbulence, and the insurrection-
ary readiness of her population instead of their tran-
quillity and prosperity. It is now generally understood
that it is from the want of regular employment that the
Irish population has long suffered, and continues to
suffer. In the agricultural improvement of Ireland, to
say nothing of the establishment of railways, it will not,
we think, be disputed, there would be employment for
double its present population. But this requires
the steady application of capital ; and capital
is not only prevented from being invested in Ire-
land, but capital already in use is driven from Ire-
land, by the insecurity of property. And how much
worse must be this state of things, when in 'aggrava-
tion of the insecurity of property, life itself is unsafe
from the bitter religious animosity' artificially en-
gendered and systematically fostered in the minds of
the Irish people ? Tbus it is, that, the agitation'
practised—whether designedly for • the advantage of
an individual or not, certainly producing that per-
sonal advantage as a result—having the effect of
driving capital and capitalists from the country,
thereby draining it of the means of employment, and
the want of employment rendering the people, in their
starvation and discontent, the fitter materials for agita-
tion to work upon, a mischief is produced acting in a
perpetual circle, and seeming so hopeless in its remedy.
as almost to justify the despair of those wishothee condi-
tion There is no remedy for Ireland.'
of Ireland, for whose distresses some seem to de-
spair of finding a remedy ?"
The Globe observes, with reference to certain clauses
of the Metropolitan Police Bill :—" It will be remem-
bered that in the course of the last session of the Cen-
tral Criminal Court the Recorder of London, in an ad-
dress to a common jury, indulged in some extra-judicial
comments on certain clauses of the Metropolitan Po-
lice Bill, then before Parliament, for giving sum-
mary jurisdiction to Magistrates, under certain re-
strictions, in cases of petty larceny. The design
of the projectors of this change in the law was to
remedy an evil of almost daily occurrence, in the cases
of mere children brought before the magistrates, charged
with petty thefts ; and who, upon the evidence being
taken, and found to establish a prima facie case against
them, were necessarily committed to prison until the ses-
sions. The certain contamination to which children must
be exposed by being brought into contact with experi-
enced thieves ; the cost to the public for their mainte-
nance in prison, and prosecution ; the expense and in-
convenience to which the prosecutor and witnesses are
necessarily put by being compelled to attend from
the first day of the Session before the Grand Jury,
and then till the case comes on for trial in its regular
course ; the absurdity of putting the whole machinery
of justice, accompanied by all its solemn forms, into
motion to try a child entirely ignorant of the mean-
ing of the terms of the indictment charging him
with the offence, and to whom the new and strange
scene of a Supreme Criminal Court, with the pa-
raphernalia deemed necessary to stamp dignity on
the administration of the law, and produce a
due sense of its importance on the minds of the ignorant
—all these considerations induced some Members of Par-
liament, who are at least as celebrated for legislatorial
wisdom as the Hon. and Learned Recorder of London,
to imagine that substantialjustice could be as satisfactorily
dealt out in such cases by two Magistrates deciding on
the question of guilt, and on the degree of suitable pu-
nishment to the child-culprit, as by the preliminaries re
quired in trying the graver offences against persons and
property committed by adult offenders. The Hon. and
Learned Recorder Law happens to be of a different
opinion. He is one of those who pride themselves on
supporting things as they are ; in whose eyes the anti-
quity, and not the utility of an institution gives it value."
The Standard makes the following allusions to the
Commissioners of the Irish National Board of Educa-
tion :—" We have only bad time to bestow a very cur-
sory glance at the Parliamentary Return of the sums
of money which have been paid to the Irish National
Board of Education, which has just fallen under our
notice ; but we • have seen enough to satisfy us
of the degree of candour and good faith which is to
be expected from the commission. Notwithstanding
the order of the House of Commons, which directs that
an account of the number of Protestant and Roman
Catholic children respectively educated out of the
funds of the Irish National Board of Education
shall be supplied, the Commissioners have taken
upon themselves the responsibility of withholding
that information ; although it might easily have been
obtained by a letter of inquiry, addressed by them to
every school under their inspection. The object of
this Jesuitical omission cannot be mistaken. They are
naturally anxious to avoid furnishing data which would
enaiele the public to estimate as it de•erves their
rigid and Catholic notions of fairness and impartiality.
Their cue is, of course, to keep out of view how verysmall a proportion of the chi!dren belonging to the Este-
bli,hed Church have been allowed io derive the sliWest
benefit. from the system of national education now adgopt,al,
by the Government. in Ireland."

~,r!
TRADE OF LEEDS.—The demand still conti-
nues brisk :or low-priced goods at, both our Cloth aids,
and in fine and middle-priced cloths there hr's been a little
morecone than for some time pest; cn the whole, how-
ever, there is much less business doing than usual at
this season. There has also beer a little imprnvement in
business in the warehouses this week, compared with the
last few weeks.—Leeds Mercury.
Mr. Feargus O'Connor has declared himself a
Candidate for the West Riding of the county of York at
the next election.—York Herald.

ELECTION OF PERPETIT AI, CU-.
RATE TO ST. JAMES'S CLERKL.N i ELL.

The poll finally closed yesterday at four o'clock, and
shortly before five Mr. Lerard, tho churchwarden, pro-
ceeded from the workhouse in Coppice-row, where the
the poll had been taken, to the porch of the parish
church in Clerkenwell-green, and announced the num-
bers to be—

For Rev W. E. L. Faulkner, M A 2.231
For Rev. R. C. Dillon, D.D ,842

MAjority_for Rev. W. E. L. Faulkner... 389
And that the election had consequently fallen on the
Rev. W. E. L. Faulkner. This announcement was
received with loud cheering.
Mr. NICHOLSON then stepped forward, and, on be-
half of the Rev. W. E. L. Faulkner, thanked the
parishioners for their kindness in electing him as their
Minister, and stated that they would always find him
ready to perform his duty as a Christian pastor to all
alike without distinction of sect or creed—to those who
had opposed as well as to those who had supported
him ; and he trusted that, as the election was now over,
all heats and animosities would cease.—(Cheers.)
Mr. PARIS, COS behalf of Dr. Dillon, thanked the
1,842 parishioners who had supported him ; and be
also trusted that any differences that might have been
generated by the election would, now that was over, be
for ever buried in oblivion.—(Cheers.)
On the motion of Mr. NrcHoLsoN thanks were then
voted to the Churchwardens for their impartial con-
duct, and the meeting separated.