The Sun.
London, England, 1837-05-17 00:00:00

COVENT-GARDEN.

A tragic melodrama, entitled IValter Tyirel, was last
night produced at this house. The name at once suggests
the historical incident of our early Norman annals. There
are several well-devised situations in the piece, cod it is
worked up with tact. Mr. Elton performed the part or
Tyrrcl in his usual striking manner. Miss Faucit appeared
as Editha, and Mr. Dale as William. Webster also bad a
farcical part, which he overacted, as is his wont ; and Miss
Vincent was quite herself in a smart chambermaid. The
melodrama passed off successfully, and was announced for
repetition by Mr. Elton with much applause.

POST OFFICE REFORM.—Through the indefatig-
able exertions of the Hon. Member for Greenock, this import-
ant object has been brought much nearer attainment. Mr.
Wallace has caused a hope to spring up of seeing an end of
the barbarism of making the communication by post a source of
revenue instead of expending the public money, if need were,
to bring down the rate of postage to the smallest that would
confine the transmission of letters within reasonable bounds.

It is stated in the Quito papers of December, that
the towers of pyramids erected in November, 1736, by the ce-
kbrated French mathematician Condamine, and his learn( d
associates, to commemorate their scientific labours in that part
of the world, but soon after demolished by orders from the
jealous Court of Madrid, are about to be restored by Roca-
fuerte, President of the Ecuador, and who, in November,
1836, refixed with the accustomed ceremonies the foundation-
stone in the presence of a distinguished cortege. The Presi-
dent's speech on the occasion was particularly good and ener-
getic : several other speeches were made, and among them one
was spoken by General Miller, as Minister Plenipotentiary
from Peru, in which he threw some interesting light upon the
condition of the aborigines.
Rumour has been very busy with the names of a
certain Gallant Admiral and his wife, within the last few days.
The Gallant Knight is a great personal favourite with the
King, and of every body else who has the pleasure of know-
ing him, and within the last three or four years held a com-
mand of considerable importance ; the parties have not been
married much more than a twelvemonth, and a separation is
on the tapir, if it has not already taken place ; if rumour is
to be credited, the fault lies with the lady.—Cieltenham.
Looier-on.

"'THE HUSSAR," BY THE AUTHOR OF " THE
rnBALTF.RN."—It 73 remarkable how few military stories we
n-cve had, in comparison with naval ones. The former, how-
ever, possess a charip of no common description, and few will
rise from the perusal of Mr. Gleig's new work wiilicut feelings
of the highest gratification. He takes his hero through bat-
tles, sieves, and assaults under Sir Arthur Wellesley, Sir
Robert Wilson, Lord ileathfield, Sir Edward Baird, Lords
Frederick and Wm. Bentinek, and many others in Germany,
the West Indies, Spain, Italy, and various other places; in the
Prini..e of Wales'i Hussars, in the Guernsey Troop, in the
York Hussars, in the 20th Light Dragoons, &c., and in more
places and characters than we can enumerate. A inure exci-
ting work has not appeared for a long time.
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At the Middlesex Sessions yesterday a juror brought
a medical certificate, stating his own inability to attend the
Court. The circumstance excited considerable merriment.
The Learned Chairman, Mr. Sergeant Adams, observed it was
the first time he had known of such a document being brought
by a party in propria persona. The juror, in explanation, said
he deemed it' more respectful to come him elt; although his
particular complaint prevented his remaining in the Court.
The schooner William and Thomas, of Plymouth,
Vaughan master, arrived at Cardiff this week in six Clays from
Falmouth, in ballast, without a living creature ou board save
himself and a dog, the crew having deserted the vessel pre-
vious to leaving Falmouth. The vessel is of considerable
burden, and her safe navigation for such a distance by a single
pair of hands, is an extraordinary circumstance. —Carnbrion.
The question regarding the Moderatorship of the
General Assembly, as the time draws nigh for its settlement,
excites great interest throughout the country. It will come
before the Assembly on Thursday afternoon. —Edinburgh
Courant.

On Saturday evening last, as Colonel Darner was
passing along the Strand, he felt a slight pull at his coat poc_
ket, when, on putting his hand suddenly behind him, he
grasped the wrist of a fellow in the act of abstracting his
handkerchief: Ths Colonel secured his property, and was in
the txt of collaring the fellow, when a rush was made by five
o•,six persons, who succeeded in rescuing their accomplice
from the gallant genticinan's grasp. The Colonel's wrist was
severely wrenched in the scuffle.

The pillar to be erected at Drumelog, to commemo-
rate the triumph of the Covenanters over Claverhouse, is to
l:e commenced this summer. Many will fed proud of the pri-
vilege thus afforded them of throwing a stone on the calm of
their covenanting forefatlicrs.—Ayr Observer.

On Monday last Mr. James Orchard, the celebrated
diver, walked under water •I'rom the Pier Head, at Bridport, to
the Buoy, a distance of about half a mile, and from thence
landed on tlie beach, cast of the harbour, to the great gratifi_
cation of about two thousand spectators.—Sontemet Gazette.
The ('currier Rouennais states that several mer -
chants of flame had gone to Paris to obtain assistance for t 7 ,
eintnn,,reial interests of that town,and that a loan of 10,000,0uc
has been granted, principally for the purpose of making ad. .

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The Tories must have strange ideas of Protestan-
tism, when they represent its existence as incompatible
mith even-handed justice to all classes of his Majesty's
subjects. We have higher notions of the Protestant
religion than to suppose it unable to exist without
something more than justice for its protection. The
people of England and Scotland are Protestants, be-
cause they are firmly convinced that every modification
of Protestantism is better than Catholicism ; and though
they could wish that the great majority of their irish
brethren were equally convinced of the superiority of
the religion of free inquiry, they know from experience
that penal laws and a partial administration of jus-
tice cannot effect the conversion. As, however, Ire-
land and Great Britain, are connected by an incorpo-
rating union, every sensible Protestant must see that if
we wish the connexion to be something more than
nominal, the law which declares Catholics and Protes-
tants equal should be fairly and honestly administered.
In what way Protestantism is to be endangered by giv-
ing to the Catholics motives for being attached to the
Government under which they are protected and kindly
treated, we are at a loss to conceive. If we may be-
lieve the Times, however, Sir F. Burdett has rescued
the Protestants from impending destruction.
" Tlnd hour," says the oracle of Printing-house-square,
" at which Sir Francis Burdett delivered his brave and wise
declaration of stanch Protestant principle and feeling, was
the happiest among the many surpassing felicities that at-
tended the Westminster election. That the question for
Ireland is Protestant or Papist ?' we have long and
earnestly represented. That such is the question, viz.,
whether Popery shall domineer over the realm, or the re-
formed Church be suffered to exist in peace ? each reflect-
ing and well-informed politician throughout England and
Ireland has, even for years, while sitting by his own fire-
side, been persuaded. But the alarm bell was never rung
before in tones so clear, or with a peal so thrilling. Pro-
testants have hardly ever yet been so distinctly, so empha-
tically, or in a voice of command so stern and authori-
tative, summoned to unite for their common protection.
It is the cry of No Popery,' not for aggressive purposes,
not for offence to any man, or injury to any, or for the
sake of threatening any, but in answer to the exterminating
veil of No Protestantism,' No Protestant religion,' No
-Protestant Irish people.' "
We give the Tories joy of the old apostate, and we
suppose his conscience will be lulled for a time by
the sickening incense offered to him. But, in sober
seriousness, what means this trash ? When the law
smote the Catholics, it made them, no doubt, poor and
ignorant ; but still they increased and multiplied.
And how are the Protestants to be exterminated ?
By the law ? It would be strange if a Parliament,
composed almost exclusively of Protestants, were
to pass penal laws against Protestantism. By fly-
in4 in the face of the law ? This is pa"ing a poor
compliment to Protestants to suppose that they
would allow a Catholic minority to exterminate them.
conversion ? He must be a poor Protestant
indeed who thinks so ill of his religion that he despairs
of i.s standing its ground against Popish arouments.
1-1,),v the miracle could have been performed, even if
L'is second Saint Francis had not thrown his protect-
w,g,is over Protestantism, we cannot for the soul of
u-; conceive. " The cry of No Popery,' not for
<ig,z:ressive purposes," has, however, saved the Protes-
tants from extermination. Not for ao-gressiye our-
nos.!s T. Oh no ! only making the law of 1829 a dead
`ter—only perpetuating the ascendancy of Orange-
e'en, and all the heart-hurnings which it wotiid occa_
sion—only appointing Orange Judges, and Orange
.Magistrates, and Orange Sheriffs, and subjecting Ca-
t knics to be tried by o:anoe ,Jurors, packed by Orange
f'.orporators f. This would be no aggression ; for
are the Catholics used to injustice as eels are to be
skinned ? We beseech our countrymen to repel the
in,nit offered to their understandings by this renegade
journal, and by the imbecile old twaddler who has
afforded the Tories a temporary triumph. Let not
the good feeling which ought to prevail between sub-
jeers of time same King, members of the same empire,
he disturbed by such incendiaries, who make religion
a stalking-horse, for vile and corrupt purposes. The
'nen who now cry out Protestantism is in danger, are
1;-.boniing to rein.;tate the Inquisition in all its autho-
r;tv in Spain. The monster who issued the bloody
Durango decree is the object of the idolatry of these
pretended Protestant alaraiists. The religion of these
incu is their maw.—Morning Chronicle.

As the time for the commencement of the newfan-
gle.l laws of England affecting the registration of
and deaths, and the solemnization and registra-
tion of marriages, draws near, we think ourselves bound
to resume the consideration of that most important
sn)ject. We have before shown that the provisions
ir the registration of births are utterly defective. The
parents of a new-born child must give notice of the
vent to the registrar, and in case of their death,
ilbless, absence, or inability, the next of kin, or (says
the Act) " the occupier of the house or tenement
where the child is born, must give the notice." And
if
.they give not such notice, there is no penalty. But
wnat is meant by " the occupier of the house or tene-
ment where the child is born ?" Why, the parents
must be the occupiers of the tenement where the
child is born, must they not ? and if they abscond
or neglect their duty, what other occupier is to be
found ? Probably the enactor's of this notable law
meant, the owner or landlord, instead of occupier.
But a matter more deserving of notice than the above
mere absurdities and inefficiency of the new laws is
their injustice. They are meant wholly for the relief
of the Dissenters—and would that anything satisfac-
tory could be invented for that purpose ; but is it fair
that the whole nation should thus be taxed for the re.
lief of a portion, and that at a time when it is at-
tempted to withdraw the funds necessary for the main-
tenance of the mere fabrics of the national Churches?
The salaries of the Registrar-General, and of the
:said officers, clerks, and servants, and the amount of
the sums hereinafter provided to he paid to the super-
intendent registrar, for every entry of the certified co-
-uies of the registers, and all expenses of carrying on
the business of the general registry, shall be paid out
of the consolidated fund of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland." (Clause iv.) These are
the words of the Act, and of most unjust and unfair
import they are ; for the people of England, the great
body of the British nation, will have nothing to do
with these complicated registrations. But the man-
ner in which the sacred rite of marriage is desecrated
and degraded in the Act which directs the various
forms under which it may be celebrated, almost exceeds
credibility, and must, we should think, shock Dissen-
ters of even the most lax creeds. Mr. Burke, in
speaking of the law of the French National Conven-
tion, by which marriage was declared a mere civil con-
tract, has these remarks—" All their new institutions
(and with them everything is new) strike at the root
.of our social nature : other Legislators, knowing that
marriage is the origin of all relations, and consequently
the first element of all duties, have endeavoured by
every art to make it sacred. The Christian religion,
by confining it to the pairs, and by rendering that re-
lation indissoluble, has by these two things done more
towards the peace, happiness, settlement, and civiliza-
tion of the world, than by any other part in this whole
creme of Divine wisdom. The direct contrary course
has been taken in the synagogue of antichrist—l mean
in that forge and manufactory of all evil, the sect which
predominated in the Constituent Assembly of 1789.
Those monsters employed the same or greater industry
to desecrate and degrade that state which other Legis-
lators have used to render it holy and honourable."
`Will it be believed, or is the great body of our country-
men aware, that in the new Marriage Act of this yet
_Protestant and Christian country, about to take effect
next July, if God's providence do not obliterate it,
there is a provision and form for celebrating marriage
as a mere civil contract ; and that that form has as
little of solemnity in it as the process by which a man
would transfer a horse or mare to a purchaserin an open
and proclaimed fair. " Any persons objecting to
marry in a registered building may contract and so-
_lmmnize marriage at the office, and in the presence of
h vt superintendent register and two witnesses, using
the se words :—I call upon these persons here present
ao witness that I A.B. do take thee C.D. to be my
lawild wedded wife (or husband)." Clauses 20 and
2.t of the New Marriage Act. The form we believe
use !d by Gipsies in the solemnization of the marriage
rite. is somewhat more striking and impressive : a stake
is drawn from the adjoining hedge-row, which the
tensor Gipsy present holds at a reasonable height from I

the ground before the parties ; another person calls out
at the same moment—

" Jump rogue 1 follow w-e
" Man and wife for evermore."

There never was, we believe, any country profess-
ing Christianity—for France at the time of its now
marriage law professed Atheism—there never was any
country professing Christianity, or even in a decent
state of civilization, the Legislature of which allowed
its male and female subjects to unite themselves under
the pretence of marriage by so slight a form as that
which the present Ministry have provided for the
people of this degraded country in the preceding mock-
ceremonial. On reading the Act, or at least that portion
of it, we really ask ourselves where we are ? Are we in
honest old England ? Or are we in turmoiled France,
at the beginning of its horrible massacres ? And it is
the more remarkable that this Act was carried by a
House of Comnions in which Papists vrerefirstadmitted,
with whom the marriage rite is a sacrament I Yet, men
believing that rite to be a sacrament, voted for the ad-
mission of this law into the statute book of their coun-
try We have still our doubts, however, of the pos-
sibility of carrying these Marriage and Registration
Acts into operation, for their chief agents, the Regis-
trars, are to be the Secretaries also of the new Poor
Law ; and yet this more savage enactment halts in
its march, and may never go on to its completion. It
was, however, consistent in these motley legislators of
ours—Papists, political Dissenters, and infidels—as
they meant ultimately to tear and separate husband
and wife from each other in the days of their infirmity
and affliction, to take from that rite which originally
bound them together every thing of a sacred character,
and render the marriage tie at its origin loose and
dissoluble.— Times.

It has long been manifest to every person at all ac-
quainted with the state of public opinion or the strength
• of parties in Great Britain and Ireland, that there re-
• mains not a vestige of chance for the Tories ever again
to clutch the helm of the State, by the exercise of a
' moral influence on the national sentiment. We, of
[ course, mean by moral influence that hold—however
fraudulently acquired—on the confidence and coinci-
dence, however feigned or forced, in the opinion of
the people, and that intellectual supremacy by which
the councils of free States are usually directed. No
one could ever suspect the influence of the Tories to
have at any time been moral in the ethical acceptation
• of the term. This moral influence, however, has for
[ ever departed fie.n the Tories, and though the more
judicious and less evil-disposed of the party would
endeavour to ward off the day of final retribution, and
delay the triumph of popular principles, by doling out
tardy concessions on the one hand, and endeavouring
to mar the effect of these concessions by the vilest chi-
canery on the other, yet the more reckless and ruth-
less are evidently desirous to try the chance of a violent
and sanguinary collision. The symptoms of this de-
sire manifest themselves in accordance with the vary-
ing indications of the relative strength of parties.
When Sir Robert Peel usurped the Government, he,
arid almost all the Tories, professed themselves Re-
' formers ; but the cheat did not impose on the country,
and they were scouted from office midst the strongest
expressions of popular indignation and popular deri-
sion. The more desperate of the faction, foiled in the
attempt of imposture, changed their tactics, boldly de-
nounced ail ameliorations in our political system, and
proposed the repeal of die Reform Act. These ma-
mruvres having served only to exhibit the weakness of
the faction, without attaining their object, the cry
of " re-action," and the yells of the grand Con-
servative manifestations" having been proved to be
mere " sound and fury, signifying nothing," a favour-
able opportunity has been waited for, and encouraged
by the success of the arch apostate of Westminster,
out comes from the leading organ a manifesto to put
down the people of Ireland, in whose case the great
question of progressive Reform is now being tried,
by the " gallows and the sword"—the " No Popery"
ciy is revived with most infuriate animosity, and the
diabolical atrocity of these acts having no palliation in
existing circumstances, is sought to be excused by at-
tributing to the existing Ministry, the Reformers of
England, and the Catholics of Ireland, the design of
exterminating Protestantism. Even a war-cry is in-
vented for them to this effect, and " No Protestan-
tism " No Protestant religion I" and " No Protes-
tant Irish people !"—language never heard of but from
the incendiary writer who basely coined it for the
grounds of malignant accusation—are represented as
the watchwords of Reform. When " No Popery !"
and the government of the " gallows and sword" is
openly advocated under the encouragement of partial
victory, snatched from the Reformers in the case of
Westminster, what might we not expect if they could
establish even the semblance of having the majority of
the British constituencies in favour of Tory principles ?
This is a question which it behoves all genuine Re-
formers to ponder on, and thereby stimulate their exer-
tions to protect the empire from the horrors of a Tory
Administration.—Morning Advertiser.
The Radical party seem to be wholly incapable of a
rational submission to the circumstances of affairs.
The leaden, winking eyes of the genius of stupidity
(embodied so aptly in the person of Joseph Hume)
might be able to perceive that this is not a time for the
success of Radical proceedings. Why will these people
not look at facts ? Why do they torment the public,
and make themselves ridiculous, by representations
which have no foundation in 'truth, and arguments
which have no sanction from reason ? Why do they go
on croaking and scolding about their defeat in West-
minster, and publishing nonsense about that affair,
which only shows how seriously they have been wounded,
and with how little manliness they endure the pain ?
Surely the gratification which they derive from the ex-
pression of their spleen is more than balanced by the
ridicule which they bring down upon their defeated
speculation. One would have thought that their
boasting before the battle, compared with their success
in it, presented a contrast sufficiently humiliating
to make them hold their tongues and their pens on
that subject, at all events for a long time to come.
But, as they have not courage to win a fight, so they
have not fortitude to bear a defeat. Instead of a calm
acknowledgment of defeat, and a cheerful exertion to
repair their loss, they assail our ears with the vulgar
yelp of wounded vanity. Like crushed wasps they
thrust forth their stings while writhing in the dust, and
in their dying throes display their ineffectual venom.
If we may believe their ex post facto. discoveries on the
subject of the Westminster election, its result was
owing not to the unpopularity of Popish Radicalism,
but to the potency of Tory intimidation. The philo-
sophy of Leader the candidate, in Covent-garden, was.
according to their account, no match for the frowns of
the ladies who canvassed in Regent-street and Bond-
street. The ladies, we are assured on the best Radi-
cal authority, overthrew Mr. Leader, and patriotism
was not proof against the purchase of a gown ? Alas !
the day when, notwithstanding the Reform Bill, the
Penny Magazine, Mr. O'Connell's letter, and Mr.
Leader's eloquence, the cause of Radicalism in Westmin-
ster is thus easily overthrown ! We could not have be-
lieved it upon any other evidence than that of the Ra-
dicals themselves. But we would again ask these wise
and potent undertakers of an entirely new British Con-
stitution why they are so fond of their own disgrace as
to proclaim to all who will listen to their complaints
that they have been utterly routed by intimidating
ladies ? Can they find no better excuse ? Is it
come to this, that, while Mr. Ward, M.P., is ha-
ranguing in one public-house, and Sir N. Moles-
worth, M.P., in another—while Joseph Hume is
auimating one congregated district by his spirited elo-
quence, and Mr. Wakley inspiring another by his
fiery declamation—the whole effect is counteracted by
the intimidating intimations addressed to patriotic
tradesmen by Conservative ladies ? If this were the
case how strange that nothing should be known of its
tremendous effects up to the very night preceding the
election. Was there nobody who had thne to run
down from Bond• street and Regent-street to acquaint
the Committee in Charing-cross that all was lost for
the present, because the Lady A., and Mrs. 8., and
several others would buy no shawls nor bonnets this
season unless Sir Francis Burdett were allowed to win?
Had this been done, the Courier might not have ap-
peared quite so absurd in its confidence, and the
Chronicle might the next morning have been judi-
ciously diffident of success. It would have been
much better to have refrained from boasting, on ac-
count. of the tremendous intimidation of Tory ladies,

than to continue boasting to the last, and then, when
defeat came, to let out the disastrous truth that the
British ladies were so accustomed to imposing chains
upon men as to have indulged themselves in throwing
shackles upon the Radicals from the ribbon-shops of
Regent-street. Away with all this ridiculous false-
hood. The Radicals are beaten because England is
itself again—because the riot of revolutionists is past
and gone, and sound old English feeling is again in
the ascendant. We tell the Radicals the times have
changed, and they have no men among them capable
of :stirring up the nation to mutiny against the
excellent things which still remain of the British
Constitution. No, not though they have the trembling
and faltering hands of a weak and worthless Govern-
ment to aid them—not though they have the as-
sistance of Irish Popery, and the mass of misguided
peasantry whom that superstition alternately stupifies
and excites—not though they have an Irish tail to vote
with them, and, a mendacious mendicant to brawl
within the House of Commons, and flatter without it
in their behalf—not even with all these means and
appliances can they succeed. The English blood and
mettle is wanting among them. Disappointment tuft-
hunters are not the men to lead in any English cause
where the public heart and. mind are to be wrought
upon. It is one thing to spout spurious philosophy
in a Review, and quite another to lead the sympathies
even of an English mob. We have but small respect,
God knows, for those who accommodate themselves to
mob sympathies for the sake of carrying out a plan of
selfishness and of deceit, but still the men who have
the ability, the spirit, and the sentiment to lead the
direct and downright minds of the English public,
even of the lowest class, must be very superior
indeed to the puffed-up and perverse witlings who
dub themselves the " philosophical Radicals." They
ridiculously mistake themselves, and they absurdly
miscalculate the temper of the present time. Their
folly and their weakness have become apparent, and if
a dissolution of Parliament were declared to-morrow
we are well satisfied that at least twenty per cent. of
those who figured on Mr. Leader's preposterous elec-
tion Committee of non-electors would be left quite as
much at leisure from House of Commons affairs as
Mr. Leader himself now is. We would recommend
such gentry as Sir W. Molesworth and Mr. Ward
to learn some political tunes than those they piped so
ineffectually last week in Westminster, unless they
would perchance choose to join their friend the late
candidate in those deep studies which attendance on
Parliament may have too much interrupted.—Morn-
ing Post.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

An elderly man, named James Harland, who was some
years ago a machinist in Fenchurch-street, was brought be-
fore the LORD MAYOR, charged with having struck a
constable a violent blow with a tin tube.

The officer stated that the defendant gathered together
a crowd near the church in Fenchurch-street, at half-past
nine o'clock in the morning, and proceeded to read to them
the contents of a large piece of parchment. Witness,
anxious that no disturbance should take place, put his hand
upon the old gentleman's shoulder, and requested that he
would go away. This mild expostulation was, however,
received with a very bad grace, for the defendant struck
witness on the forehead with the tin case of the parch-
ment, and the blood immediately followed. Another offi-
cer interposed, and the defendant made an attempt to
give him a " tin topper" likewise, but was prevented and
secured.

Mr. Harland had been formerly a very wealthy trades-
man in the neighbourhood, but having been treated
with great cruelty, particularly by lawyers, he had consi-
dered it necessary to read the statement of his case from
the parchment, which also contained his pedigree, to a few
persons who assembled at the church. He would dot have
used violence if the officer had not, by seizing him, vio-
lated the liberty of the subject.
The officer who apprehended the defendant said that the
sum of 1151. in Bank of England notes, 71. in gold, and a
fed shillings, were found in the old gentleman's pocket. It
was evident that the defendant, although in possession of
his faculties on general topics, started away from them on a
particular point, and certainly was not a fit person to have
in his possession so large a sum of money.
The overseer of St. Dionis Backchurch parish stated
that the defendant's wife, who had been separated from
him nine years, had been obliged to apply for relief within
the last week at the workhouse, and as the parish officers
found that he had such a sum of money in his possession
they thought he might support the poor woman upon it.
Defendant—They say that my wife is in their work-
house. That I will never believe. The fact is that my
wife was some years ago removed from London, but to what
place I don't know. If they are able to produce her, why
do they not ? Here Mrs. Harland, who appeared to be
overwhelmed with affliction, was brought into the roam,
and the defendant, when he saw her face, acknowledged
that she was his genuine bona fide partner, to whom he
bad been married thirty-one years ago, and from whom he
never would have been separated had it not been for the
calamitous litigation in which the whole family were in-
volved for the benefit of that honest profession—the law.

It was here stated that at the death' of Charles Harland,
the brother of the defendant, the family became entitled
to a large sum of money, about which all the members of
it began to quarrel before the corpse was buried. The
consequence •f the fierce contention which took place was
the estates being thrust into the Court of Chancery, and,
as a matter of course, began to undergo the inevitable pro-
cess of decay under the active superintendance of the gen-
tlemen who so cleverly manage pecuniary matters in that
establishment.

The defendant said it was true the case was in Chancery,
but that was neither his fault nor the fault of his relations.
By a conspiracy of lawyers and Jews, who seemed to have
been born to help each other for the honour and glory of
their common parent, the devil, the property was thrown
into the above-named Court, and the greatest confusion was
the result. He (defendant) had gone off to America,
where he remained for some years, and now that he was
come back to make another attempt to rescue the estate
from the fangs of Chancery, he was apprehended the mo-
ment he began to adopt measures for the purpose.
A gentleman of the legal profession, who was acquainted
with the circumstances of the defendant and his family,
having been sent for by the Lord Mayor, willingly attended
to state some facts on the subject. The case was, he said,
a most deplorable one. Mr. Charles Harland, the brother
of the defendant, had upon his death left a large sum of
money among the family, all of whom had been in very
humble circumstances indeed. The money produced the
most active spirit of hostility amongst the claimants, and
that spirit was aggravated by another sort of spirit which
sudden prosperity often causes to flow particularly
amongst those who have been obliged to live by
the sweat of their brow. At length it was agreed,
upon reference to a high mercantile house that the
property should be equally divided, and an agreement to
that effect was drawn up and signed by all the parties.
The agreement, however, afforded matter for further dis-
agreement, and again the estate was committed to the te-
dious misery of an equity process. The defendant con-
trived,,notwithstanding, to get hold of 1,0001. of it, and with
that he proceeded to America, of his return from which
country nobody knew until the complaint against him had
been made at the justice-room.

The Loan MAYOR—Whatever may be the case with
regard to the property, I cannot let you go without pro-
curing bail for this violent assault.
Defendant—What bail do you require?
The Loan MAYOR—Two sureties in 201. each.
Defendant—Take 401. of the money you have of mine
as a deposit.
The LORD MAYOR—I ant not permitted to do that.
You must procure two respectable house-keepers to bail you.
Defendant—Let me go and get them. You can keep
1001. in security.
The LORD MAYOR—The officer will call upon any of
your friends.
Defendant—Very well. Bless your soul I have as much
power as the Emperor of Morocco. They dare not refuse
to come.

The defendant then, without taking the slightest notice
of his wife, retired with the officer, apparently with the in-
tention of walking quietly to the Compter. The moment,
however, he reached th• bottom step, he turned round
short and cut away as rapidly as he could with the police at
his heels. He was soot, stopped, and then, finding that re-
sistance or attempt to escape was useless, he ♦ery tranquilly
went to his place of destination.