The Sun.
London, England, 1837-05-30 00:00:00

SINGULAR DISCOVERY.

A coroner's inquest was yesterday held at the Grey-
hound, Kingston-upon-Thames, before Mr. Carter, the
Coroner, upon the skeleton of a man that was discovered
by some labourers on the works of the London and South-
ampton Railway, under rather singular circumstances.
Prior to any evidence being adduced, the jury proceeded
to view the remains, which were placed in a box. The
bones had evidently been in the earth a number of years,
and, from the large size of the leg and arm bones, it was
clear they belonged to a man of very large size.
The following evidence was adduced :
Robert Stacey deposed that he was a labourer in the
employ of the London and Southampton Railway Com-
pany, and on the 15th of the present month he was en-
gaged, with several other labourers, in digging at a place
called Surbiton common, upon the line of railway near
Kingston. While he was so engaged, at about ten or
eleven inches from the surface of the ground, he turned up
a large bone, but lie took no notice of this until several
other bones were turned up, and this excited their atten-
tion, and they dug more carefii!lv, and at length they found
the entire skeleton. It appeared to have been laid flat in
the ground, and there were no appeafances of buttons, or
cloth, or leather, so that, in his opinion, the body had been
put into the ground quite naked.
Juror—Did you observe any appearance of a coffin hav-
ing been placed on the spot ?
WitneEs—None whatever. If the body had been placed
in a coffin, some portion of the coffin must have been visible.
Juror—Were the bones all the same depth below the
surface ?

Witness—They were. The depth was so small, that a
plough would almost have turned them out of the ground.
The Jury said it appeared an extraordinary circumstance,
and they should be glad to know whether any person in the
neighbourhood could give them any information on the
subject.
A tradesman named Spong, who has resided for a great
many years on Surbiton-common, near the spot where the
skeleton was found, then made a statement to the following
effect.—He said that he recollected that, about 12 or 14
years ago, a man had called at his house, and informed
him that he was going to Kingston, to receive some
Kingston, money. The man left, on his way to and he
was afterwards eeen in the neighbourhood again on the
same day, and from that time all trace was lot of him.
No particular notice of the circumstance was taken at the
time, but a year or two afterwards a female came to
make inquiries, and represented herself to be the wife
of this person, and stated that he had left his home
to go to Kingston to receive some money, and was
never heard of afterwards. He immediately suspected
that the man had been made away w:th, and when
he heard of the skeleton being discovered, he felt very little
doubt that it was that of the man now in question. He
added, that about that time there was a high hedge ran
across this part of the common, which bad been removed
about ten years since, but the place where the skeleton was
found was directly underneath where the hedge formerly
stood. This hedge was so high that no person passing
along could look over it, and it was therefore well adapted
for concealment.

Mr. Taylor, a professional genticman of Kingston, was
next examined. He deposed •that he had examined the
skeleton, and he had no doubt it was that of a male. He
should conjecture, from the state in which the bones were
and the nature of the soil from whence they were taken,
that they had been in the earth for a period of from 10 to
14 years. It was impossible, from the condition of the re-
mains, to form any opinion as to whether any mortal injury
had been inflicted on any part of them previous to death.
He should conjecture the skeleton was that of a man consi-
derably above the ordinary size.
This being the whole of the evidence, the Coroner briefly
addressed the jury, who, after a short deliberatioo, returned
a verdict that the bones were those of a human bei:ig, but
how they came in the place where they were found there
was no evidence before them.

WORCESTER HOP MARKET, MAY 24.—There
was more animation in our market on Saturday than we have
noticed for some months past, and several parcels of hops were
sold at a small advance from last week's prices. It is calcu-
lated that a considerable portion of last year's crop is still in
the hands of the growers. who appear to be holding back fer
better prices, as they consider the backward state of the plant,
and the present cold weather, much against the growing crop.
Current prices: New \Vorcestcrs, 70s. to 965., choice to 51. ;
yearling ditto, 635. to 755. ; old hops, 20s. to 60-. Sixty-six
pockets passed the scales, and 18 during the week. The re-
ports this week from several districts in Herefordshire are by
no means favourable, the late cold nights having checked the
growth of the plant, which in many places is not sufficiently
forward for t3ing, and is still much infested with the flea. The
bine on the rich sails is looking hearty, though unusually late
for the season.

Yesterday, for the first time, the carriers of the two-
penny-post were put on a footing, so far as clothing is con-
cerned, with those of the general-post, each being supplied
pith a suit of livery at the public expense. The coat is blue,
with a scarlet collar; and the hat, in addition to a lace band
round it, has a rosette on the side. The tormer miser4ble ap-
pearance of this hard-working but ill-paid class, vas by no
means creditable to the splendid establishment which eaiploy a
them.

A painting on copper, which is attributed to the
brilliant pencil of Vandyck, has lately been discovered at Cam-
brai. It is the crown of thorns, spoken of by Watelet, in his
" Dictionary of Painting," done, probably, before Vandyck
executed another of the same subject for a chapel at Antwerp,
which was seen in Paris till 18.14, and is now in the gallery of
the King of Prussia at Sans Souci.
SHEFFIELD.—Trade here continues declining every
week, in consequence of the arrivals of packets from America
without money, and every week adds considerably to the list of
unemployed mechanics; so much so that, in passing through
the town, numbers of respectable workmen are seen walking
with their hands in their pockets, in all directions.—York
Chronicle.
A few days since, a bet of 5/. was made with Mr.
Allen, at Whitton, that he could not produce by his system of
culture, a cucumber twenty inches in length, in the space of
eight days from the time of setting the blossom. The wager
was accepted, and within five hours of the period named, as
choice and handsome a fruit as was ever seen, and iii length
twenty one inches was cut from the bins. It ought to be
mentioned that no lining was used, and that the frame in which
it was grown was one o the commonest description, and not
the better for its wear.—Seffolk Chronicle.
Covent-garden ,market yesterday exhibited a spring
appearance, though there is still a scarcity of vegetables.
There were a few samples of forced scarlet strawberries, and a
great variety of beautiful flowers. Excellent asparagus was
sold at :is. 6d. per hundred, but the su?ply, except of an infe-
rior sort, was very short. There was a display of cucumbers
a foot in length, and finely shaped, which attracted much no-
tice. Rhubarb was in abundance, remarkably large and ripe ;
this vegetable seems to have flourished in the harsh weather,
which has retarded the growth of others. Neither green peas
nor gooseberries were among the rarities of the garden.
The neighbourhood of the Carlton (Corruption)
Club presented all Sunday afternoon a scene of extraordinary
excitemenL The club-house was filled with a succession of
visitors, who betrayed by their hurried manner the most in-
tense anxiety, and groups continued to parade along the pave-
ment till a very late hour : among these Sir George Clerk and
Mr. Ross, Lords Stormont and Granville Somerset, and Sir
A. Grant, were most conspicuous. Indeed, the two first-
named gentlemen had no sinecure, as they had something to
say to every inquirer. Of course the Glasgow election could
not be the cause of the gathering; but where was Sir Andrew
Agnew when his Sabbath Bill supporters were thus engaged

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNAL...

The absurd misrepresentations of the Standard and
IVorning Post with respect to the Glasgow electron
Jae ably exposed in a communicaticn of tt correspon-
s'ent in another column, with the signature of Glaseu-
ensis. He shows that by no delay could the Tories
have gained one vote. No person can be put on the
Jon except at the one fixed period for registration eveh
tear, which does not take place for two months to
c ome. No legal delay could have added to the num-
ber of electors. But a certain proportion of the ele9-
tors are every year disqualified.fir sonic InpAqtts, from
the circumstance of there being only one Regis ration
Court in the year, and neither of. the terms (Whit-
suntide and Martinmas) at which renters of houses
give up and enter into possession coinciding with the
period at which the Registration Court is held.
A considaable number of most unexceptionable
electors are thus disqualified for several months
in every year, for the voter must make r,atlt that
he is actually in possession of the premises for
which he is registered. It so happened, observes our
correspondent, that the time of Mr. Oswald's resigna-
tion brought the probable day of election very close
upon.one of the terms above alluded to, and as the oc •
curence of the Whitsun holidays prevented the issuing
the writ in due course, it was found that if dispatch
were not used in transmitting the writ the election might
be postponed till the period which would, through a
point of form, merely incapacitate a large number of
voters. These voters would have had good reason to
complain of having been juggled out of their privilege ;
for ninety-nine in every hundred thus incapacitated to
vote by change of residence would be re-registered in the
beginning of August. What proportion of these voters
whom delay would have incapacitated were Reformers,
and what Tories, it is not for us to say ; but this
we will say, that it was never intended by the Reform
Bill that electors duly qualified shoukl be incapacitated
for two or three months every year ; and it is a strange
sort of complaint that the election was not postponed
beyond a term which would have unjustly deprived a
number of voters of their franchise. The votes for Mr.
Monteith could not have been increased, though they
might, and would, no doubt, have been diminished by
delaying the poll to this week. The number who voted
for Mr. Ewing at the last election was 2,297, and the
number who voted for Mr. Monteith was 2,292. The
Tories have not gained, but, on the contrary, lost 5.
Our correspondent conjectures that various causes have
kept back 217 Reformers, the difference between the
number of 3,267 who voted for Mr. Dunlop, and the
3,050 who voted for Mr. Dennistoun ; but the Tories
remain just where they were. Not one Reformer has
left his colours and swelled the Tory ranks.—Morning
Chronicle.

The result of the Glasgow election, as our reade
will have seen by the details in yesterday's Dm.
was a majority of 758 in favour of Mr. Denistoun ;
so that Glasgow still remains, for one while at least,
and so far as her representative is concerned, an un-
clean stve of Radicalism. Our readers are aware
that we have not put forth any recent promises or con-
fident predictions as to the manner in which this
northern struggle was to terminate. Proper means of
organization, we knew, had not been prepared to take
advantage of and ripen that wholesome public senti-
ment which had sprung from Sir Robert Peel's in-
structive and spirit-stirring appeal to the Constitu-
tional feelings •of the people of Glasgow. The fire
had not been carefully fed, and the hearth grew cold
in consequence. Of course we should have hailed
ssith heartfelt gratification any solid evidence, such as
a majority would have afforded, of the judicious
employment of that much improved political and
religious disposition throughout Scotland, the ex-
istence of which we had from other testimony
considered, and still consider, to be placed beyond
all rational question. A conquest such as Glas-
gow would have been inestimable. , But to miss
a prize, however precious, is merely a compara-
tive, not a positive, loss. Glasgow before the elec-
tion was not ours, Had we gained it, the blow to
the public enemy would have been mortal. That we
have not yet gained it implies no diminution of strength
to the Conservatives. It leaves us where we have
been for the last three years. It leaves us in that po-
sition which we certainly had not reckoned on spee-
dily exchanging for one more advantageous through
the medium of an election for the metropolis of Scotch
democracy. Nevertheless there are circumstances
which ought to be taken into account, for the sake of
duly estimating the more immediate causes of the
defeat of Mr. Monteith. The preliminary arrange-
ments were all more, matured on the side of his op-
ponent. So late as last Tuesday his committee
and agents had no knowledge of the constituency,
even by name ; one fruit of this was, that for a
considerable time after a necessity had shown itself
for prompt and decisive action, the efforts .which
ought to have been made towards classifying,
marshalling, and securing the electors, were lost
in vain talk and gratuitous assumption, and every-
thing like a sound and effective canvass was lost
sight of. But all this while the Radical voters were
skillfully arrayed and organized, and good discipline
established among them. Thus one considerable start
was given to the public enemy. Again, it was on the
very eve of the nomination that the constitutional can-
didate made his appearance in Glasgow, nor was it
until the same hour that the great body of Conserva-
tives had full assurance of any contest taking place, or
any Conservative being prevailed upon to show him-
self on the hustings ; whereas Mr. Dennistoun was
already and publicly pledged, and all his friends
prepared to exert themselves in support of him.
Thus a second start was surrendered by the Loyal-
ists to their opponents. A third and last mistake
was in some of the agencies resorted to. But on this
point we are the less inciined to dwell, because of our
entire persuasion that no such groundless, absurd, and
pernicious preferences arc likely to be indulged on
any flatus occasion, by those intrusted with the
central guardianship of that one great national in-
terest, of which Mr. Monteith was lately designated as
the local representative for the city of Glasgow.
Even under all the above embarrassments, however, the
Conservative power appears to have held its ground
far more vigorously than that of the Revolutionists,
adopting for the test of each the numbers of votes
polled at former elections, and the final majority, as
compared with that now obtained by Mr. Dennistoun.
In the election of 1835, the gross number who voted
for the Radical candidate, Mr. Oswald, was 3,832 ;
for Mr. Ewing, the Conservative, 2,297. Whence ap-
pears a majority for the Radical of no less than 1,538 ;
whereas the gross amount of Radical suffrages at the
late election _was but 3;050, a falling off of 832 from
the Radical poll books ! while Mr. Monteith polled
2,292, a diminution of no more than 5 ! This, so far
is satisfactory. With regard to the Ministerial trick,
alleged to be an illegal one, of sending off the writ by
a conveyance not sanctioned by the law, it stands some
chance, we hear, of becoming matter for legal inquiry,
and is, therefore, an unfit subject of animadversion
here. If it be true that several hundred votes were
secured to one side, and abstracted from the other, by
an irregular mode of transmitting a public instrument
so solemn as a Speaker's writ, it is not by the tribunal
of the Newspaper Press that either fraud or error con-
nected with such proceedings can be cured or punished,
--limes.

cry of re-action, in4,ist now blush at their own match-
less cfrrontely, if, indeed, the slightest remnant of
;!iaine lingers in their. breasts. Re-action ! Why, the!
re-action has been all the other way I The Tory caw%
didate of 1837 actually
_polled fewet VaA tlian the
Tory candidate of 1834, the triumph of liberal
ptincipies ht tlrlaagol.t is the more signal, when we
t1.1;4-.. 'di the means which were resorted t'6 lb defeat
the Reform candidate. Rerkk't,',-; artl unworthy as are
the expedients tt. %% Tan we know the Tories were ca-
nable. 4 ).:sorting, when they supposed those expedi-
ents would serve their purpose, they have tt tilts pee.
sent case far surpassed themselves its the baseness
the means which the hate stooped to ernOlii'y Ile
hope of akelkieving an ignobly tti'0.0.11;11. It has been
the fashion of the Toties, for some time past, td
create a pre;indice against all reform camlidatet, re-
presenting them as infidels. On the baseness of those
coul.d seek to gain a triumph by the use of wea-
pons so fool as these, we pause not now to make any
observations. But what shall be said of those who)
not confining their traffic in falsehood to general
charges, can have the unblushing effrontery to trump
up specific charges of the most atrocious nature,
with the view of defeating- an opponent? The To-
ries of Glasgow, knowing the commendable horror
the people of Scotland entertain towards irre-
-li4ion and infidelity, invented against Mr. Dennis-
toun—and audaciously preferred it in open day to his
face—the accusation of having put7liclv burnt the
hie. It is to be hoped that ihe miscreant who fabri-
cated this most atrocious charge—most atrocious, be-
cause it has been proved to, be utterly groundless—,it
is to be hoped that the miscreant with whom it origi-
nated will be discovered, that he may he shunned by
mankind, and treated with the scorn which such un-
heard-of baseness merits. But he is not the only
guilty party. Those are scarcely less so, who knowing
that there did not exist the shadow of a foundation for
so mendacious a calumny, assisted in giving it cur-
rency, in the hope that it would prove fatal to the suc-
cess of Mr. Dennistoun. It is gratifying to be able
to state, that Mr. Monteith, the Conservative candi-
date, was no party to so despicable an expedient
to promote his interests. To his honour, he not only
publicly disclaimed being privy to it, but denounced
the charge as a most dastardly calumny. We wish
we could say as much for the majority of his sup-
porters. We fear that to their characters as politi-
cians, the foul stigma of having sanctioned and abetted
this worse than assassin-like attempt at the moral
reputation of Mr. Dennistoun, must for ever attach.
Happily, this deadly thrust at the private character
of the Reform candidate, proved perfectly innoxious.
The Scotch Tories mistook the: genius of their coun-
trymen ; and hence their cunning and mendacity in
Plrumping up such a charge, have gone for nothing.
;The Reformers of Scotland are too shrewd and too
generous a class of men to credit any serious imputa-
tion on the character of others, without proof. In
this case there was, of course, nothing in the shape
of proof. The charge rested solely on the assertion
of the Tories, and the Reformers knew too well, to
pay the least attention to it, the worth of Tory asser-
tion when the character of a political opponent was
to be damaged by it. Well, what between their
mortification at their signal defeat, and the re-
morse which, in their moments of reflection, they
must feel at the profligate expedients to which they
have had recourse in the recent contest, the condition
of the Tories of Glasgow is pitiable indeed. So
fare all who are capable of resorting to such unhal-
lowed tactics with the view of promoting party pui.
poses I—Morning Advertiser.
We beg to point the special attention of our readers
to a copy of a petition from a National Association. of
Licensed Victuallers, for the protection of their trade
from unnecessary and injurious encroachments, recently
presented to the House of Commons, and also to a
paragraph highly illustrative of its justice, which we
hate copied from a provincial paper. The Licensed
Victuallers, who have been the prey during the last nine
or ten years of every Agnewite or Buckingham who
took it into his head to acquire a character for extra-
ordinary piety, temperance, or morality, ask for nothing
that is either unjust or unreasonable. They simply
pray the representatives of the people to deal with them
as they deal with all other classes of tradesmen—to in-
quire before they decide—to look to the effects of their
past legislation, before they determine upon future acts
—and not to be perpetually intermeddling with a trade
in which a large amount of capital is embarked, and for
the due and correct carrying on of which the most
ample security is exacted and given. We believe,
for our own part, that there is no danger for the
present, at least, of any farther tampering with a
trade which Ministers largely to the comforts of all
classes of the community, as well as contributes a very
considerable amount to the general revenue of the
country ; but it is nevertheless right, after what oc-
curred in the case of the infamous Beer Bill, which has
been productive of all the mischievous consequences
that we predicted previous to its becoming the law of
the land, that the Licensed Victuallers should be awake,
and watch carefully the follies which interested and
bigoted parties, or would-be saints, would attempt to
engraft upon their trade ; and we give them every cre-
dit, as they shall also receive our most strenuous sup-
port, for resisting attempts which can only result in
embarrassing and unsettling their business—depreciat-
ing their property—and curtailing those occasional in-
dulgences which the tradesman and the labourer can-
not always enjoy at home, but to which the poor are
as much, if indeed not more, entitled than the wealthy
aristocrat, whose cellars are always sufficiently stored
to render it unnecessary for- him to have recourse to
the humbler accommodation reserved for his less for-
tunate fellow-subjects.

THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LICENSED VICTUALLERS

OF ENGLAND,
To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled.
The humble Petition of the undersigned Members of the
Metropolitan Committee of the National Association of
Licensed Victuallers of England, appointed by the following
townq, to watch the interest's of the trade, viz. :—Liverpool,
Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Macclesfield, Bath, Wor-
cester, Sheffield, Chatham, Stroud, Rochester, Wakefield,
York, Bradford, end Portsmouth,
Shewetb,—That your Petitioners learn with regret that
various Bills are now before your Honourable House, having
for their objects great and important alterations in the trade
of your Petitioners.

That your Petitioners'humbly pray that your Honourable
House will be pleased not to make any alterations in the
laws affecting the trade of your Petitioners without calling
for a full inquiry into the operations of the Beer Bill of 1828.
That your Petitioners will then be prepared to shew, that
that Bill has totally failed in the objects for which it was
passed.

That your Petitioners farther beg leave to represent to
your lionOurable House the mischievous and ruinous effects
those various Bills have upon the vast extent of property
engaged in the trade, embarked upon the faith of the exist-
ing laws which regulate the same.
And your Petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever
pray ; &c., &c.

J. Morgan, Chairman William Tayler
John Wells Henry Toombs
John Dixon Francis Ward
John Horn William Wendover
Charles Ribble Thomas Wells
James Procter William Taylor
Richard Thorpe Leonard Baldry
Thomas Row James Hyde.
--- [outing Advt./14a'.

About ten days since we earnestly warned the Re-
formers of Glasgow against that undue confidence in
the result of the then impending election for that cite,
which has proved fatal to the Liberal interest in so
many other quarters, and of which we had so recent
and striking an example in the issue of the Westmin-
ster contest. We implored them to act with as much
zeal, and energy, and perseverance up to the last mo-
ment, as if the result were altogether a matter of un-
certainty. We concluded our counsel to the Liberalii
of the West of Scotland, by pledging ourselves, that
if that counsel was acted on, the result would be the
triumphant return of the Reform candidate. Most
nobly have the electors of Glasgow responded to rs-
appeal to them ; and the event has more '1 ur
that our anticipations were correct- - - wan proved
been returned by a major;. Mr. Dennistoun has
of 758. This is glorious
reaction in
What say the pow-
reaction
vanquished Tories now about the
. weir favour, with which our cars have been
thinned of late ? Re-action indeed I WhY
trl4t miiierable organs of the party who have been de-
pciving themselves, and d ludi th • f - 1 with the
no en
•-

It io not easy to conjecture how the Secretary of the
Treasury and his friends at the Post Office will come off
in the House of Commons tonight, when the latter
are to be examined, in consequence of the motion of
Sir James Graham, as to the manner in which they
sent to Glasgow the writ for the election of n new
:Member. That the law has been wilfully violated,
that it • his been violated for the purpose of promot-
ing the return of the Ministerial candidate, will, We
suspect, be made abundantly clear, but whether this
will be deemed by the House of Commons a matter
for cen3urc or for praise remains yet to be seen. If
the influence of Ministers predominates in that as-
snit upon this occasion the result, we presume,
will be unqualified commendation of all that has been
done. It is, by-the-bye, an unhappy peculiarity inci-
dent to the present Administration, that no subject can
be agitated in any department of the State without the
detection of some job previously unsuspected by the
public. 'We are told by the Secretary to the Trea.
sury that he sent the Glasgow writ to the Post Office,
with directions that it should be transmitted to its
destination with all possible speed. N'Ve are told by

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, 111 A 30, 1837.

the same eminent official person that, in consequence guished lidtiOi_ir of a public dismissal, should Ibe thought
of this direction of his, somebody or othere----sorne svorthy tbereof:4
No man, indeed; could be thought there ' worthy
nameless person at the Post Office--took upon bile-
, thefeof ;" and tiecorditigly; fol. OAS itti pertinent and
'sell' to send aOwn the writ by ex tress, instedil of .
'ti. l' li' ''A Ot i • utter' disqualification to act under , .a.. pee is ii LAI), y its .
obeying the express instructions of the Act of Patel the present Viceroy, in any capacity whatsoever, Mr.
Merit; and seticiiitg it by post. Why should the man St. George was immediately diettneeed from the corn-
:it the Post-office who receives and acts upon the in-
;;.!l9II. Qf tile peace of Cho county of Galway. It
structions of the Secretary of the ' r
- rvasury be a them- Fords us great p!eastire te add a plete of iirtelllgenM
less persoil? 'l'llere ie no other atlsteer.to be giVeh tb WliiElil liYllidiiye, lids iiBt Yet found itg ii''ae;.intd Aliv
this very eitliple tlilestheie 'hall that ivillitili thilsk wive Of the ptiblic pkintS,.tliat he has since been strticie shit
%
'the people of Ettgliiish in ki eases out of 100, when of the Coriontieieri for the adjecerit county of Mayo ;
akiltbitt,4 OVA, Wong finder the present -.4 dministration ; add td ietidel: the itleasiii:e 8f jtietiee is 6drilriete is
end that answer is ;
A eonfesSidu that sdnie eh4nithts possible, he has likewise been removed from the mini-
job had preYiettel:v liven p`c4Setrated. Why was neither her of Deputy-Lieutenants of the county of Galway ;
SectieWry Wel. Under-Secretary of the Yost-office * so that he has fallen hi fot it lereef RhAre of " distine
hand, to receive and obey the injunction of the Secree giddied liotiotte" then his friends are disposed to boast
tary of the Treasury ? le. the nation to be put old *jai of, of; perhaps; than he himself took into his own rani-
the responsibility of a pout Undetlitie; While it Pet giiial eakuletioti, And tiow ii.gAiii 'A+ say, we should
fifteen hundred portends it yttif id the Secretary of the like to see the man in either House of Parliament '
Post-oetteei to say nothing of the emoluments of the who would stand up in his place and attack Lord
office of Postmaster-General, and an adequate salary NlUlgtaVe of Lord iiitinlot fot this prompt and neces-
besides to a competent Under Secretary ? What sary vindication of the honour of their GoVerilitletit.
has the country, in 'it . matter like the present, Sure we are that the Duke of Wellington will
to do with small clerks) who are not paid for not condemn them for doing that which he and
reading, or undeNtanding, Acts of Parliament, and every man of spirit would despise them if they did
who naturally, in the humble station which they not do ; for no Government possessing the slightest
fill, think they do their duty completely,
if portion of courage or conscious integrity would brook
they implicitly obey the mandate of so great a to be so insolently and gratuitously reviled by one of
man as a Secretary of the Treasury ? In the time of
Sir F its subordinate servants ; and, certainly, Lord 114u1-
rancis Freeling either he or some other high
grave is-about the very last man upon whom a Con-
zud responsible officer of the establishment was always
naught blood might hope to run such rigs with im-
to be found at the Post Office whenever, whether by
punity. He is not just the person to be told to his
night or by day, the public service required the agency beard,
with equal audacity and falsehood, that, in or-
of that important establishment. Why, then, we beg derine
„ a public officer to do his duty, he had made a
again to ask, should the House of Commons on the sacrifice to the Moloch of agitation—that he was tak-
present occasion have had to issue its summons to an ing steps to supersede the authority of the Magistrates
obscure and nameless clerk ? We are in possession of —that his six predecessors knew how to respect loy-
-1 circumstances which afford an answer to the question. alty, but he did not—and that he had offered an un
jNeither Secretary nor Under-Secretary of the Post
Office can now endure the air of St.' Martin's-le- just insult to the resident gentry of the country.
dewed as a mere personal attack, it is true, he might
Grand. Its position is too far to the East. It lies
rest easy enough under these imputations ; but, as the
somewhat too near to Newgate-market. The vicinity representative of his Sovereign, he would have covered
of Smithfield is a vulgar vicinity. Our elevated offs- himself with disgrace, and his master with dishonour,
dials, for their health's sake, must inhale the aephyrs had he sat down patiently and suffered his insulted au-
of, Berkeley-square, or the soft southern breezes of
thority to be made a laughing-stock 1
Blackheath ; and the health and comfort of Whig a
to the factious, and
'
sign-post for every self-sufficient and shallow-gated
1 officials is, as we all know, of the highest importance. Midas who might think proper to pour his scorn
Cdlonel Maberly, we are informed, could not bring I u
house in St. Martin's-le-Grand pon it. But he acted, as he always acts, with a pro-
himself to tolerate time per and dignified regard to his own honour, and to
built and furnished at the public expense for
the maintenance of that public respect without which
his indefatigable and meritorious predecessor. It
a Government would be indeed weak and contempti-
was accordingly discovered that this commodious hle.—Morning Chronicle.
and even elegant dwelling was required for offices, and
Our readers are aware that our Liberal Ministers,
that, as the Whig Secretary was necessarily dispos- in their last struggle to preserve as much as they pos-
I essed of his official residence, it was nothing more -
bloody code,"
sibly could of what their Attorney-General in election
than fair and reasonable that he should be allowed a "
time called the and barbarous criminal
compensation for house rent, to enable him to live at
by a "glorious majority of one." This
the distance of three miles from his business, in the succeeded
Lord John Russell brings orwarhis Bills
form and Substance of 4001. a-year, besides the 1,5001.
a-year which he receives for spending in the offensive •
again in Committeefor the pretended reform of the
everting
atmosphere of Aldersgate-street the intervening hours criminal law, but really for the purpose ,of saving and
between eleven o'clock and four. This seem' to us to perpetuating on the statute book as many as he can
be a good, solid, creditable Whig job as any of which
of those punishments of blood which Christian civi-
we have recently heard. It would, perhaPS, have been lization abhors, and which the enlightened opinion of
a little better had Ministers hit upon the expedient of the people of England has irrevocably condemned.see
removing the Post-office altogether from the City to ee e are not, at the present moment, quite sure whe-
Groseenor or Berkeley-square, in order to foster the
titer Mr. Ewart intends to renew his proposition to
delicate health and gratify the fashionable taste of the limit the punishment of death to cases of actual
Post-office Secretary. Only then Mr. Stanley might, murder. If he does, nothing but a junction of the
perchance, have encountered the embarrassment of Tories With the Whigs can prevent the Ministers
to deal with a Post-office functionary who from losing even their " glorious majority of one."
having
placement have
would not have felt bound to obey his instructions inn- What consciences can those Whig
e
illicitly, in defiance of the express letter and plain Who vote upon a question affecting human life,
spirit of an Act of Parliament.--Morning Post. merely to keep their places ?As to those rather
. weak-minded than dishonest Legislators who oppose
Although the Tory Journals, here as well as in Ire- the humanising of our laws in deference to the opi-
land, have been thrown into a fever by the quick and nions of persons to whose authority in matters of a po-
eummary , act of justice dealt by Lord Plunkett to a litical nature they were accustomed to look up, we
Connaught squire, named St. George, it is a remark- . recommend them to bear in mind the sentiment ex-
able fact that the Parliamentary agitators have said pressed by Sir George Rooke on the trial of Admiral
nothing about it. The tempting bait has been thrown Byng, as mentioned in our paper of yesterday. "It
out to them, both by the ill-used gentleman himself, in may be thought presumptuous in me," said that gal-
his letters, and by his backers in the Press, that he is lant officer, "to differ from so great an authority as that
a victim to the enmity of O'Connell ; yet no knight- of the twelve Judges, but when a man is called upon
errant has started up on his•behalf in Parliament to to sign his name to an act which is to give authority
arraign Lord Mulgrave, or to assert that Mr. St. for the shedding of blood, he ought to be guided by his
George has been degraded from the magistracy to own conscience, and not by the opinions cfother men.'
ratify the spleen of the Agitator. How is this ? Has Now, it is true that the legislator who votes for Lord
Mr. St. George no confidants among the grievance- John Russell's Bills to perpetuate the punishment of
mongers of either House ? He that is already booked death in cases in which the opinion of society con -
to start as a Tory candidate for Galway at the next demns that punishment, does not actually sign the
election, has he no brother-spirit among the Rodens, the death warrant of any individual, but the authorising
Emersons, the Jacksons, and the Glengalls, to hold him the punishment to be inflicted by law comes to the
up to public sympathy, as the last oblation upon the altar same thing. In arguing against our exterminating
of agitation ? No, not one—they are all chopfallen. code half a century ago, Sir William Meredith said,
The thing is too barefaced, even for the most brazen of " the real hangman is your member of parliament."
them, and poor Mr. St. George is left to such sorry corn- The law also says, " quifacit per aliumfacit per se."
fort as he can pick out of the John Bull and the Dub- If members of Parliament were obliged to assist at the
lin Evening Mail. Eager as the Tories are to assail strangulation of the victims of our homicidal laws upon
the Irish Government, and reckless as they have proved the scaffold, they would soon be glad to get rid of
themselves to be of the truth of such accusations as it such laws, and wash their hands of the " drudgery
serves their purpose to advance, they durst not broach of blood." Those Bills of Lord John Russell, which
this matter there, where they know their charge would preserve the penalty of death for other crimes than
receive an instant and triumphant refutation. It is murder, may be described as Bills framed in direct
perhaps a waste of the public time to combat the ridi- opposition to the reasoning of his Lordship's own
culous statements which have been made on this sub- speech on introducing them. In this respect he has
jest. They are so palpably untrue, that none but those imitated the conduct of the Criminal Law Commis-
who are entirely ignorant of the regulations by which sioners, for their " recommendations" most palpably
stipendiary magistrates are governed and their move- contravene their own arguments, and contradict the
merits prescribed can pretend for one moment to attach evidence upon which those arguments are founded.
the slightest credit to them. From the impatience, in- Their logic goes the length of showing that the
deed, which the worthy ex-magistrate evinced at hay- punishment of death is the most ineffective of all
ing his " ancient solitary reign" molested, a stranger to punishment ; but their suggestions are framed upon
Ireland might suppose it an unusual occurrence for a sti- the principle that there is no punishment so efficient,
pendiary magistrate to take a part in the proceedings of for they would have that penalty still retained, and in-
courts situate within the district assigned to his super- variably carried into effect, for almost every serious
intendence. But it is really quite the contrary. Their crime to which it at present applies, with the excep-
duty requires them, and they are directed to attend at tion of certain cases of forgery, the lowest degree of
such courts as often as they can spare time from their arson, and some others. If the Whig Ministers could
other avocations. They are required to do so for derive any instruction from experience, they would
these amongst other good reasons ; in order that they abandon Bills sanctioned only by a " glorious majority
may the better know the habits and character of the of one ;" and, making a virtue of necessity, adopt
people with whom they have to deal ; and further, the reform proposed rty Mr. Ewart's motion, which
that they may cultivate relations of mutual confidence must, sooner or later, become the law of the land.—
and co-operation with the local magistracy. Far Morning Herald.
from desiring to excitejealousy or distrust, in direct- We rejoice that the Ministers have been directly
ing these ,gentlemen to assist at the local administra- charged in the House of Commons with that offence
tion•of justice, it is the anxious wish of the Govern- against the national and constitutional sentiment of
merit that they should maintain an amicable under- Enaland which taints every part of their political con-
e,
standing with the gentry of all denominations ; and duct. We mean the offence of taking part, on all pos-
more especially, in their intercourse with those who sible occasions, with the enemies of the Church, and
are politically opposed to the Government, are its con- against its acknowledged friends. The public is weary
fidential officers enjoined to let ther communications be (and with some reason) of the repetitions of details,
as frank, unreserved, and conciliatory as may be which all come to this point in the end. Let, then,
found consistent with an uncompromising performance this broad intelligible fact be continually kept in mind,
of their duty. That Mr. Crofton, the stipendiary that wherever an enemy of the Established Church is
magistrate of Galway, did not go beyond the letter to be found upon the public scene—whether he be a
or spirit of his instructions is admitted by Mr. professing Protestant or a professing Papist, or of no
St. George himself, who in a letter lately ad-
religious profession at all, he is found labouring for the
dressed to one of his condoling friends says--" Of
accomplishment of Ministerial plans; but wherever a
Mr. Crofton I am happy to say, from the short in- man is to be found who has proved his attachment to
tercourse I'have had with him, that lie is a gentleman the Church by the good service he has done it, that
on whose honour, integrity, and zeal you may, I think, man is also found denouncing the policy of his Majesty's
safely rely." It was the mere appearance, then, within present Ministers.. The Chancellor of the Exchequer
his principality of a magistrate honoured with the con- seemed to feel that the charge so plainly made against
fidence of Government, which set this imperious Au- himself and his colleagues by Sir Francis Burdett and
tocrat in a flame ; and without considering, or allow- Sir James Graham was not one to be submitted to in
ing, himself time to ascertain, that there was nothing silence ;but he did not appear to bear in mind, that to
particular or marked in the visit of Mr. Crofton, but
disclaim an accusation, even with all the ardour of well-
that it was, in fact, a compliance with a general regu- painted passion, is a very different thing from disproving
lation, never before complained of, and in force in it. Mr. Spring Rice said, that "on the part of those
every part of Ireland where a stipendi.ary. magistrate is with whom he acted, as well as on his own part, he
commissioned, lie takes his pen and inflicts an epistle gave the proud defiance, that neither in the scope,
upon Lord Morpeth, in which it is hard to say whe- tenor, nor intention, was any one measure they proposed
ther the impudence or the absurd vanity .of the writer calculated to affect injuriously religion in general, or
tishathteamg
general
ns
etvanity,solely with
wConceiving the Established Church in particular." We venture
to tell Mr. Rice that this vehemence of words.signifies
to wound his dignity ,;--or his impudence, in presuming very little when notorious facts are directly opposed to
rtaol obredeardlmtaidrebde—enh
framed
m ed
to address such language as that which follows to the that which these words convey. Most happy should
Government under which he held his commission : we be that the assertion of Mr. Rice were true, but it
" This is the first open step that has been taken by his is not so : the policy of the Administration to which
Majesty's Government in this part of the country to super- he belongs is identified with injury and insult to the
sedo the authtZitY of the local magistrates. I have Church of England. Surely the Ministers must see,
therefore to request; that you will convey to his Excellency however blinded by self-esteem, that the assistance and
the Lord-Lieutenant strongremonstrance against this
'sult to the maxis- co-opetation which they receive from avowed and
uncalled-for, discourteous, ai2sl urritl
e bionurbood. * es* * conspicuous enemies of the Church is at least a sus-
trates and resident gentry of the
sacrifice to the Mo- picious circumstance. They may, perhaps, persuade
The moral injury has been done—the .... . ,
Id the commis- themselves that they can better ' dwhat is for the
ju ge
loch of agitation has been made. I have th..
all of whom good of the Church than the majority of the bench of
sion for twenty-three years under six Viceroy‘f
tof their Bishops—the majority of the House of Lords-Lthe
have known how to respect the loyal attachmeel.
iled
fellow-subjects, ; and my first impulse was to have IN. 3jb majority of the Established Clergy of England and
my office into the hands of him who has now, for the .first lreland, and the majority of the representatives of
time, thought fit to consider me unworthy to hold it ir _ ele
:England in the House of Commons. They Inow
pendently ; but, as by so doing I should carry into effect l, t all these majorities condemn their policy with
the views of those who have suggested to the Government tlltt. ..0
the Church, and it is possible (such is Mi-
their present measures, I prefer to await the more distill, rcggcl 1.f...

ttisteri it modesty i) that.; notwithstanding this; thSi
think their plans beneficial td the Church ;—but suppose
they do, how can they reconcile it to theriiSelyes that de
bl4rei.l eri,criiie of the Establishment should be oti ',ben;
side Do tliej, Mr. Hume, Mr. War-
burton, Mr. Rippon, and griptiort their
rra§tires, because they think these measures
beneficial to the Church establishment ? Such a pro-
ig D.r they suppose that Mr.
O'Connell and Mr. Sheil, Mf. Wyte, and Mr. Wetslfe
sdppoirt their Measures because they recogniie in them
the best means df promoting the Protestant Reformed
Faith ? If thee do, what cite in there of palpable ab-
• J'r i • • • -1'
stir y r ext ar.ganee w they May not also
suppose ? And yet, tOttdt.* they tell us; while these
men are cheering them on and t'Olipotting them
against ti thJotity of the English representmiiies;
that they (the Ministers) are the best friends of
the Established Church I There is hearing so mon-
strous—nothing so plainly contradictory to truth
and common sense, but what we may find asserted
by men who and it convenient to pretend a friend-
ship to the Church, which, in fact and in habitual
practice, they ate labouring to destroy, Mr. Baines,
who takes much upon hiiti as an expounder of the sen-
timents of the Dissenters, is, lilt Mr. Rice, offended
when he ig told that his object is to overthrow the
Church Establishment ; and yet we find his name
appended to a resolution of a public meeting, which
declared its first object to be a severance of Church
and State ! Again, it is let out in the Home of
Commons by Mr. Sheil that the object of the appro-
priation clause is the ultimate diversion of Church
property from ecclesiastical purposes to secular pur-
poses ; and out of the House of Commons it is
plainly declared by Mr. O'Connell that neither
he nor - the Irish people will be satified until
the National Establishment of Protestantism in Ire-
land is wholly abolished. Yet these two gentle-
men are the great allies of the Government in all its
Irish policy, and the Government assures us' that
it harbour: no design whatever against religion
in general, or the Established Church in particular !
How can they eApect a sensible people to be gulled
by such nonsensical contradictions ? Do they think to
persuade us that men whom we see whitewashing a
wall are all the time actuated by a very sincere desire
to paint it black ? Do they think that upon their
suggestion we shall believe that men whom we see in
close confederacy with thieves and swindlers, are, never-
theless, marvellous honest men ? They might as well
attempt either of these things as tell us, in the face of
notorious facts, that their policy is any thing else than
the policy of the Church's enemies. With this hostile
policy they have now, however, been distinctly charged,
and we believe the whole people of England are ready
to repeat what the majority of their Representatives
have already done—via., to confirm that charge by
their votes. Whether the Ministry gives way, or does
not give way, this character of it is sure, that it is a
Ministry hostile to the Established Church.—Morn-
ing Herald.

HIGHLAND RAMBLES.

ILLUSTRATION OF INSANITY.

A lady who passes through much romantic adventure,
which we need not recapitulate, becomes mad and lives in
a ruined tower. A belated traveller, -hearing sounds like
revelry, seeks shelter beneath her roof. The gentleman
followed his conductress up the half-ruined screw stair,
which here and there exhibited fearful chasms, from the
entire absence of two or three successive steps, over which
she skipped without the least hesitation, while he was
obliged to thrust his nails into crevices of the wall to hoist
himself over the difficulty. But after he had ascended
two flights, he came to a landing-place where there was a
doorway entering into that large hall from which he had
heard the voice of the maniac. Into this she led the way ;
and as he was about to follow her, you may imagine his
astonishment when I tell you he discovered that the whole
flooring was gone except the bare oaken beams ; and the
apartments below being in the same state, his eyes stretched
uninterruptly downwards till vision was lost in the impene-
trable gloom of the dungeons below. But his conduc-
tress hesitated not a moment, and went onwards from
beam to beam with as much indifference as she would
have walked across a paved court, until she gained
the great hearth, which, with a small portion of the
planking in its vicinity, was still entire, and where
a fire of wood was burning under the huge projecting
chimney. After partaking of refreshment, they had a
dance. " Now, sir !' said the maniac, resuming all the
quiet and decorous behaviour of a well-bred woman, a
little gentle exercise after supper conduces to a good re-
pose. I shall be happy to give you my hand for a minuet.'
Pushing back the seats they had occupied, she seized the
stranger's hand, and took her position beside him on the
hearth. He offered no opposition to her proposal ; and she
immediately began to sing with great brilliancy and effect
that minuet so well known to our grandsires and grandmo-
thers under the name of the Minuet de la Cour. Fol-
lowing the example of his entertainer, the gentleman was
obliged to make his preliminary courtesies ; and had any
eye looked upon the couple as they were thus em-
ployed, it might have been naturally enough supposed,
that he danced with some handsome lady of quality, dis-
guised in a fancy dress, so perfectly did the grace of
her attitudes assimilate themselves to the various move-
ments of the minuet. But the gentleman had not alto-
gether calculated the nature of his present undertaking.
The spot of terra firma on which the dance commenced was
by no means large enough for the extent of one-tenth part of
the figure of the minuet ; and a less bold man than he would
have felt anything but tranquillity of mind, when his insane
partner, giving him her hand, glided with him over the
beams, amidst the half light that proceeded from the de-
caying embers, like some spirit from the other world. But
if this was alarming, what were his feelings when, after the
slow part of the minuet was over, she began to carol the
sprightly gavot which follows it, with a clear voice, that
made the lofty vaulted roof ring again whilst she darted off
and called to him to follow ! So, indeed, he found himself
compelled to do ; but whilst he, at the risk of his life, con-
tented himself with keeping up something like a semblance
of the figure, he was astonished and appalled to see his
partner go through the whole dance with all that actigty
which have been exhibited on a common floor by the ablest
professional dancer. Though he felt not for himself, his
hair actually stood 'on end as he looked with trembling
upon her, whom he expected every moment to see disappear
from his eyes into that abyss of darkness that lay below ;
and great was his relief from anxiety, when the dance was
at last terminated on the hearth-stone where it began.—
Sir Thomas Lauder': Highland Ramble:.

During the Whitsuntide holidays of the present
year, we remark with unfeigned pleasure, that we have only
heard of one instance of that cruel, brutal sport, Cock-fighting,
having taken place, which was at Endmoor, about five or six
miles from this town, viz., on Whit Monday, Tuesday, and
Wednesday ; which, we opine, has equalled former demo-
ralizing exhibitions, of the same species in all their savage de-
pravity. It may be justly considered a matter of deep regret
to the mind that is in the least endued with the common
feelings of humanity, that, in this enlightened age, a final stop
is not put to the progress of those vicious and wa,ton doings.—
Kendal Mercury.
It has been mistakingly imagined that only large
towns can afford to establish and maintain a gasometer; in
contradiction to which we find that the small town of Gilling_
ham, in Dorsetshire, was last week lighted with gas, the whole
expense not having exceeded 6001. and the number of public
lamps,,being 25, and of private lights 150.
Lady Charlotte Hill, daughter of the Marquis of
Downshire, met with an accident on the night of the ball in
honour of the Princess Victoria's birth-day. While her Lady-
ship was stepping into the carriage to accompany her family
to the ball the horses moved onwards, and threw her from off
the step. It was at first reported that the knee was dislocated ;
but on examination it proves to be only a severe strain of the
muscles.

SHIPPING INTELLIGE

~.~ -~--~

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.
Arrivals. —.MI 27, the Si- John Rae Reid, Woodin, front
Mauritius rt Liverpool, sailed Ist "Feb., Cape 33, and St.
kith Alarch.—Mav 29, the Bland, Callum, from 130-
il, at Liverpo,l; sailed from Calcutta- 21st, and Salvor 30th
January, Ca ie 3)th r•iarch, and St. Helena 15th April. TbA°
tit:,, Virtue, from Van litctt.squ's Land, off Kingsbridge, Fail"
Launeesi,;tl 2e,th January. The Olenalvon, Baird, from 0
Mau-
ritius, off Briglitoas sailed Bth February, and St. Helena, 2
March.
Arrivals at St. Helena.-11,7 Royal Admiral, April, f,
(rWfromßr rnbay, and railed 13th, for London; the Meldon, 7th
Caleutta and Cape, and sailed 7th, for London ; the Frances,
gtit, from Madras, and sailed 7th, for Liverpool ; the Roxburgh
Castle, Stii, from Bengal and Cape, and sailed llth. for Lon-
don ; the Sass,x, loth, from Mauritius and Cape; the George
*kale, Ilth, from Wballb,g ; the Castle Huntly, Jolly
sailed
llthr
from Chile+ ; the Ma*caria, 12th, from Bourbon, and,
Nth, for 11,1reeiles'; the, Irma, 13th, from Calcutta, and sailed
for Havre ; the Heywood, 13th, from China, aria sailed 13th!
for Liverpool ; the Kelly Castle, 13th, from China, and sailed
I 13th' for Liverpool the Novelle Louise, 13th, from Calcutta,
and .ailed, 14, for Havre ; the Duke of Wellington, lath, fro";
Whaling, for London ; the Africa, 13th,' from Ch'xin, 1111
sailed 14th, for Liverpool ; the Amelia, 13th, from Calcutta,
and sailed 14th, for Bordeaux ; the King of the Netherlandf,
15th, from Batavia, and sailed 15th, for Amsterdam;
Noophandel, 14th, from Batavia, for Rotterdam; the Brll
ion-
nia, 15th, fro n Bomb,y and Cape, and sailed 15th, for Londfri.
Arrivals at Hobart Town. The Donna Carmaliek,
17th, from China ; the William Metcalfe, 24th, from
Arrivals at Launceston.Emma, Kemp, Jan
' :th'
from Hobart Town ; the Boadicea, 13th, from Port PhibP;
the Albatross, 20th, from Hobart Town.
Departure.—The Arabian, Jan. 20th, for London.
London.

Some of the consequences which naturally flow 61
the perception by the people of an indisposition on the partth%
their high-mightinesses, the Oligarchy, to acquiesce i 0
oli
extinction of Church-rates are plainly foreseen, and as tr 1,
described by the Manchester Times, in the following nestslidi,
—The people will now take the matter into their own nan the,
and the rates will be abolished without the interference of
of
Legislature. Every parish vestry will become the seeneed
hot contest. Everywhere there will be angry and protract
meetings, and vexatious and protracted pollings. In inario
places the rates will be refused altogether, as they have bee 15
Manchester and Sheffield, and where they are carried throng.,
the influence of the parson or squire, the example of the Qualreti:
will be followed, and people's goods will be seized, all,cl„ahe
tempts to sell them by auction in the market places at
made. Fierce litigation will also be resorted to, for rates °be
consented to will be laid. Cruel imprisonments also
tried, and, as in the case of John Childs, they will only adt`..,
the determination of the people to rid themselves of the nui
pest. There will be agitation at every meeting to ele,r,
churchwardens; agitation at every poll for churchwerdener;
agitation at every meeting to lay a rate ; agitation at e
poll upon a rate; agitation when goods are seized for ranee'
tel;
agitation when those goOds are offered for sale ; agisatior
the courts when a rate is laid illegally ; and agitation w.."sh
any conscientious man is thrown into prison. ,In every elii•
stene the parson will be found arrayed against a portion of, $
parishioners, and the consequence will be the creation eg 0
feeling that all he obtains is unjustly bad, and, ultimately'
sturdy a resistance to tithes as to Church-rates.
We scarcely can remember a more distressing cif
cumstancei or one even parallel with the following if
Thursday last, a couple were about to be united in the n°l
bands of wedlock, at Bebbington, in Wirral • the bridegrli
Mr. Webster's son, of Upton, and the bride a young w°11!
of prepossessing appearance and under age. They We° 5C5
cempanied by four other respectable persons, male and feree_A•
and appeared happy in their minds as they proceeded oleo;
the altar of Hymen. On their arrival at the church they Ife,•
much disappointed at not finding the clergyman there, t",
Rev. Mr. Fielding. The party, however, seated themeielt
there and Mr. Webster said, " I will guto his house On, 6;0
prise him of our arrival ;" he did so, but on reaching the labs
opposite the Rev, gentleman's house, he drew a razor froze, $
pocket and cut his throat in a shocking manner. The to
soon became known to the inmates, and the unfortunate el, t/.
was conveyed to the Rose and Crown, in the same hamle 1
without delay, bleeding profusely. Mr. Gent, a Surer;
who resides near the New Ferry, was immediately sent 1°);
and, on his arrival, he used the utmost skill he possessed, ne,
sewing up the incision, to save the life of the unfortunate Mee
The appalling circumstance soon became known to the
ties interested, and their feelings can be better felt than uhe;
scribed. Horror was pictured in the countenances of all are
witnessed the fact, and we trust, though but small hope A
entertained, that he may ultimately recover. We understo.,
Mr. Webster is a groom, and came from London for the 1311
5.
pose of forming the matrimonial alliance alluded to.—Cher
Gazette.
We lament to have to announce the demise a th.fe,
second daughter of the Right Hon. Lord Lyndhurst',':t
the 15th year of her age.—We have the pleasure to state t'P'
the Very Rev. Dr. G. Wellesley has become convalescent.l
We regret to learn that the loss of her Grace's father has hI
a serious effect on the health of the Duchess of Buccleueblf
Times. We have long been of opinion that the editerscw
newspapers are the most susceptible, and tender, and sensitith
of men. They admirably observe the precept to rejoice y
them that do rejoice, and weep with those that weep. nee'
are diurually plunged into the most agonising grief, ana ue„,-;
'rated to the most extatic jey. It is well with them that t".•0
labour is divided by the foreign correspondent, and the wri.t
of the city article. Were one editor to sustain the operatn)
of all the feelings they express, they would expire of the e!ss"
row of a single column, or faint over the raptures of the Cnr,-,
Circular. It is with such feelings of sincere and heartfelt d;3O
tress that they announce the demise of the Right on. t••
Lord Knows Who—they are so happy to be enabled to stet 2
upon high authority, that Lady Charlotte Humbug is con;
lescent—and it is so frequently their melancholy duty
compelled to announce that no hopes are entertained of the :t
covery of the amiable and accomplished Duke of Dundernee",
=that they will shortly be compelled to receive intelligen.
l°
as soldiers receive lashes, with a surgeon at their side, fel
their pulse, in order that when a dozen of demises are cote"
municated to them, they may be taken down until they recove.re
" We have to lament to announce"—" we have the pleasere'-
state"—and "we regret to learn" indicate alternations of it
sion so severe and so abrupt as no single editor can long "IL
tain; and we should suggest that the business should be
vided, so that there should be a lugubrious reporter for stoPti
dangerous illnesses, a weeping philosopher for the deatbero
u
a laughing one to learn all the agreeable intelligence.of
upon the principle of division of labour, we may have a divisio not
feelings, so that be who " has to lament to announce" shell ,n,"
pleasure s •
interfere with the hearty fellow who " has theto stet
o
while the third shall monopolize all " the regrets to learn
hi m sel f. —Kelso Chronicle. go'
Yesterday an inquest was held at the Grange Atill„,o
Carey-street, on the body of Mr. John Mathew,- who
burned to death at the late fire. It appeared from the 010
dence that the unfortunate deceased had gone to bed early es
the preceding evening perfectly sober, but that the lite-,
gained so rapid an ascendancy that, until the body was serous
quently dug from the ruins, it was onirsmrmised (but nit; i 0
any certainty) that he had perished. It further appearelic,
evidence that it was the custom of the master of the puib;obt
house, the Wheatsheaf, to leave a glimmer of the ge;:syr
burning in the tap-room when he retired to bed. The for
after deprecating the practice, returned a verdict—"
deceased's death was occasioned by the late fire in Holy "-
street, Strand."
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DREADFUL EFFECTS OF DRUNKENNESS.-011
Saturday an inquest was held at the Spread Eagle, Thames-
bank, before Gel!, Esq. and a respectable Jury, on view of
the body of William Somers, aged 19, who had for many
years creditably filled the office of " Jack of the water" at
Westminster-bridge-stairs, and whose death was occasioned
under the following circumstances :—lt appeared from the
evidence of James Pocock, a servant in the employment of
Sir Robert Sidney, of Palace-yard, that on Saturday week,
about half-past seven o'clock, he was standing at Westminster-
bridge, when he saw a boat without any person in it go adrift,
and the deceased, who appeared quite tipsy, get into another
boat and follow it. He rowed a few yards, when he stood up
and immediately fell backwards, but soon recovering himself,
he rowed on again, and succeeded in catching the other boat.
He then got off his scat, and staggering towards the head of
the boat, he fell overboard and sunk, but almost instantly rose
again and struggled for a few seconds, and then sunk to rise
no more. Witness immediately gave the alarm, and in about
two minutes a boat passing under the bridge, he stated what
had happened, and accompanied the waterman to the spot,
where they picked up his hat, but could see nothing of the
body. The drags were soon afterwards procured, and they
dragged for half an hour, but without success. In his opinion
the accident would not have happened if the unfortunate
" Jack" had been sober. Matthew Parry, a labouring man,
stated that he was walking along the batik on Friday morning,
when ho perceived a body floating, and with a long stick he
brought it to the shore. The Thames police-boat passing at
the time, one of the men recognised it as that of the deceased,
and it was immediately conveyed to the Spread Eagle.
Verdict—" Accidental Death."