The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-19 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOfi OP THE SUN.

gir,—in reference to the reports in your newspaper last
week, respecting sonic gl!e.getl swindling transactions in the
city, we are instructed by Mr. AA, tipho occupies one of
the offices in the place in question, to intottil y r that im,
triediately he was apprised of the reports, he waited ott the
Lord Mayor; and offered free access to every part of the
house, in order that the city officers, and also the trades-
men, who, it was aliegddi had been imposed upon, might
have an opportunity of identifying the goods, which, it was
stated; had been improperly obtained ; but as no one came
forward, otir client yesterday addressed a letter to tile Lord
Mayor, renewing his offer, and fixing a time (12 o'clock
to-morrow, Friday,) when he will be in attendance to give
access to every part of the premises.
We think it right to trouble you with this statement,
in order that you may, if you think proper, publish it ;
and we beg at the same time to inform you, that our client
having been most seriously injured by the statements as
published, is resolved to have a full and public investigation,
in order to prove, before the proper tribunal, that the
charges, so far as they affect him, are utterly false and
unfounded. . We are, Sir, your obedient servants,
62, Mark-lane, Sept. 19, 1837. OWEN and DIXON.

BRUSSELS AND GERMAN PAPERS

BRUSSELS, OCT. I3.—Sir Robert Peel who has lately
arrived here with his family will not make a long! stay in
Belgium ; he is going, we understand, to Bavaria, by the
advice of Dr. Brodie (Sir B. Brodie) one of the most emi-
nent physicians (surgeons) in England, for the cure of a
lumbar abscess. The Right Hon. Baronet's tour on the
Continent will be about six weeks.
A project of law was presented to the Chamber of Re-
presentatives on the 7th of this month relative to a new
tariff of Stamp Duties., The stamp on newspapers will be
considerably reduced if this law should pass. It is to be
four centimes on each sheet, whatever the size may be, and
the supplements are not to be stamped. The reduction will
be 39 per cent., besides the exemption of the supplement
from the stamp. Journals coming from foreign countries,
and now subject to a double duty, will be laid on the same
footing as those of the kingdom. The sections of the
Chamber of Representatives continue the examination of
the budgets. Most of the reporters arc named, and the
preparatory labours will be completed by Thursday, when
the public sittings will be resumed.
The original correspondence of the Prince of Orange,
William the Taciturn, with Margaret of Parma, Regent of
the Netherlands in the latter months of 1566 and begin-
ning of 1567, were discovered a few days ago in the ar-
chives of the kingdom.
OCT. 17.—A Company has just been formed under the
name of Civil Society for the enlargement and embellish-
ment of the capital of Belgium. The object of this new
Company is to build new quarters within or without the
City of Brussels, particularly between the Louvain 'and
Hanover gates, to be called the Quarter Leopold. The
capital of the Company is five millions. The affairs:of the
society is to be managed by seven directors without salary,
and a secretary. This Company is formed between the
General Society, the Society of Commerce, the National
Society, and another society.
BERLIN, OCT. B.—The friends of the Emperor of Rus-
sia are not without apprehensions on account of the dangers
to which he manifestly exposes himself by his journey across
the Caucasus. We know the examples of rare personal
courage which Nicholas displayed, as well on his corona-
tion as subsequently, during the cholera at Moscow, at a
time when the most extravagant fables respecting the dis-
order were believed, and the Emperor has certainly always
inspired awe by his intrepid conduct. But in Circassia the
Monarch, as so many of his brave officers have already
done, would expose himself to the dangers of lurking assas-
sination, without confounding by his presence an enemy that
is as little influenced by an exalted personal character as re-
strained by laws and treaties. By what we hear the Emperor
will embark at Odessa for the Crimea, then visit the naval
harbour and fortifications of Sebastopol, then, with the Em-
press, pass some days on the estates of the Governor-Ge-
neral, Count Woronzoff, and go next to Kertsch, while the
Empress sets out for Moscow. From Kertsch the Emperor
will go to the Island of Taman, situated between the sea
of Azoff and the Black Sea, and then (and as it is said on
horseback) up the Kahan to Jekaterinodor (the same town
in the neighbourhood of which the poet Afarlinsky Bestus-
chOrmas lately killed by an enemy's ball), and to the sources
of the Kahan. The Russian Sovereign will then be in the
midst of the Circassian war, which he means to see with his
own eyes ; he intends then to return by the same way to Ta-
man, there to embark,and to inspect all the fortified places on
the coast of the Black Sea, beginning at Anapa, to land at
Pote, and to go by way of Kutari to Tiflis. In that capital
of Georgia, where no European Sovereign was ever yet
seen, the Emperor's presence will cause a great sensation
among both the Armenian Christians and the Mahometans,
and may probably have the happy results that the Knights
(Chans), and attendants, who live precisely on the same
footing with respect to the feudal Lord as in the middle
ages of Europe, may be converted into good subjects by the
engaging manners of the Sovereign. From Tiflis the Em-
peror means to take the road across the Caucasus, through
the dangerous pass at Wlalikankas to Mosdok, thence to
proceed to the country of the Don Cossacks, and inspect
them in their native abodes. Hbre at Berlin, where the
Emperor has a great number of personal friendi, it is
wished that the dangerous undertaking of this great journey
may succeed, Ike every thing the immoveable resolution and
strong bodily constitution of the Emperor have hitherto
Overcome.

The change of the Constitution of the Republic of
Cracow, now published in the Journals of that city, will
probably give the English and French Journals ample
matter for discussion in the absence of other political sub-
jects. We, Germans, whether we approve the principle of
the changes or not, may console ourselves with the fact
that the influence of Russia, of whose grasping power so
much is said, is paralysed in this instance by the preponde-
rating influence of two German powers, Austria and Prus-
sia, who will take care that the Republic of Cracow shall
not be made subordinate in its political or commercial rela-
tions, to the particular interests of the third protecting
power.

VIENNA, OCT. Demidoff has returned from
Bessaralein, where he has left his scientific companies, who
arc engaged in searching for coal mines. He will soon go
to Italy.
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BELGIAN FUNDS—BRUSSELS, OCT. 17.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent lOl%
Loan of Thirty Millions 92,;;,
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent lOO
Society of Commerce, 4i.; per Cent 140%
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 1424
—Brussels Papers, Oct. 17.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIEXNa, OCT. 10.
Five per Cents. Matalliques
Four per Cents.
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares 1385
—Allgemeine Zeitung, Oct 14.
DUTCH FUNDS— Asis-rnitoest, OCT. 10.
Money. Bills.
Actual Debt, 2% per ^,mt
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
A mort Syndic, 4% per cent 93% 9444
Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent 764 76%
Commercial Company, 4,:', per cent 162 1614
Ditto (1832 and 1833) 5 per cent.
Loan 1830, 4; er cent.
Ditto 1837. 0 per cent.
Exchange on London, One month l2 07%
Two months .....
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—Beaurr, OCT. 12.
Bills. .
St. Schuld. Sch., 4 per cent 102% Mon
102% ey
Pru*sian English Loan, 1830, 4 percent 101% 101%
Exchange on London, three months 6 25% .
—Prussian State Gazette, Oct. 13.

RECEPTION OF THE QUEEN.—It has not yet
been determined that deputations from the Courts of Alder-
men and Common Council khall appear on horseback at
Temple-bar in order to receive the Queen on the 9th of
November ; but there is a great stir in the City on the
subject. Sir Peter Laurie has offered to make trial of
every horse before the assembled members, and to prepare
the animals for the occasion, so that the exhibition may be
as free as possible from those awkward accidents which
have befallen persons in their anxiety to do honour to the
Sovereign. Besides Sir Peter, there is an excellent horse-
man amongst the Aldermen, who, although in the 84th year
of his age, is ready to do suit and service on the occasion
upon_the back of one of the most spirited horses in London.
This is Alderman Scholey, the junior of Sir C. S. Hunter
on the Aldermanic list, although we believe the senior of
the Baronet in years.. The Lord Mayor elect has, we
understand, an objection to the plan of attending on horse-
back, in consequence of the great inconvenience which may
arise if the day be unfavourable ; as, however, there is a
determination to do every thing calculated to show the
loyalty and respect of the citizens towards her Majesty, and
at the same time to exhibit as much as possible according
to the old style of receiving Royalty, the probability is,
that the deputations from the two Courts•will appear at the
gates on their chargers.
THE OLD COMMODORE.—In many respects this
novel differs from Captain Marryat's former works ; for
though " The Old Commodore," invincible on the sea,
suffers dreadfully from the gout on shore, be engages in
some active and important scenes on terra firma. The
Baronet (for such he is) had an only daughter, Miss
Rebecca Bacuissart—a spoiled child, the plague of the
family—but naturally affectionate and amiable. A juvenile
attachment subsists between Miss " Becky" and her cousin,
Augustus Astell, a boy of sixteen. Him the Commodore
takes to sea, and the youth having shown some indig-
nation at his uncle's flogging propensities is himself or-
dered to strip for punishment ; to avoid the degradation,
he jumps out of the cabin-window, followed by his repent-
ant uncle ; the Commodore is fished up, and becomes an
altered man towards his next crew. On the event we
have noticed hangs the whole interest of the second and
third volumes. The events are admirably wrought up, and
it will require an effort in the reader to pause in the pe,
rusal.—Bristol Journal. •

J I'

DUTCH STATES-GENERA
UNITED SITTINGS OF THE CHAMBER—OWY."IIO4,II/11
ING SPEECH OF THE SESSION.
HAGUE, OCT. 16.—This day, at half-past 12 o'clock,
the Members of the two Chambers met in the hail of the
Second Chamber to open the Session, according to the fond.
dm-rental law.
Count Von Reede took the president's chair, and they
of the First Chamber read his Majesty's resolution of
the 14th of October, nominating Count Reede to be Presie—
dent of the First Chamber during that Session. , „
•
After a short address, the President ordered the Royal,
resolution also of the 14th of October to be read, by which
the Minister of the Interior and Messrs. Van Lynden Van
Hawetaken and Van Pabstot Bongerden, Councillors of
State, are commissioned to acquaint the assembly with the
lamented death of her Majesty the Queen, and then to
read the speech which his Majesty intended to deliver, but
was prevented by the melancholy loss of his consort.
At one o'clock the Minister of the Interior and the two
Councillors of State were introduced in due form, and
having seated themselves before the throne, the Minister
delivered the following speech :
" Noble and Mighty Lords,—
" The King has commissioned us to open in his name this
Session of the States-General.
" We execute this commission with profound sorrow, as
we have at the same time to announce to you the grievous
loss that his Majesty, by the will of Divine Providence,
sustained on the 12th of this month.
" This sad event, by which the King and his family are
plunged in profound affliction, hinders him from appearing
among you as usual on the opening of the Session.
" You will, with us, deeply lament the loss of a univer-
sally beloved and highly venerated Queen, whose truly
princely virtues and noble qualities are indelibly impressed
on the hearts of all.
" The King has commissioned us to open this Session
with the following Speech
" Noble and Mighty Lords,—
" The marks of friendship which I receive from foreign
Powers still contribute to alleviate the wounds which the
Belgian insurrection has inflicted on the country. On more
than one side it experiences the beneficial influence of my
constant care to found our foreign policy, without any de-
viation, on strict respect for the rights of others and a pro-
per maintenance of those which we ourselves claim.
" A convention lately concluded between the Nether-
lands and Prussia has regulated the navigation between
them to their material advantage, and opened the prospect
of an extension of our commerce with the States of the
German Commercial Union.
"' There is reason to expect that the trade and navi-
gation of the Netherlands to Great Britain will be placed
under the guarantee of a treaty which is now negotiating
for that purpose.
" Though the latest steps taken on my part to settle the
Belgian question have not led to the desired result, my
attention is still directed to all means and opportunities
of putting an end to a difference which is equally to be
lamented by the Netherlands and all Europe. My Minister
for Foreign Affairs shall again lay before you the poli-
tical events since the last communication made to your
Assembly on the subject, so far as this kingdom is con-
cerned. In the course of the journey which I have taken
this year, I have convinced myself that our internal affairs
are encouraging. •
" I reflect with pleasure on this journey : I everywhere
received the most unequivocal proofs of attachment and
confidence, and beheld the traces of the manifold bless-

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logs which a kind Providence continues to bestow on the
Netherlands, blessings which should fill all hearts with joy
and gratitude.
‘" Our manufactures flourish, and some branches have
improved.
" Agriculture has in general been favourable. Not:
withstanding the abundant crops of the fruits of the earth,
it is a matter of congratulation that the prices of the prin-
cipal article of produce have not declined.
" Some provinces have suffered from a malignant dis-
order among the cattle, but the Government does every-
thing possible to repair the losses that have been sustained.
The fisheries promise no unfavourable result.
" Trade and navigation are in some parts more active.
" Desirable improvements in our walerstaal, in roads
and canals, have been submitted to a special inquiry, as
well as a more rapid communication with the Rhine by an
iron railroad ; and I hope to be able to apply to you during
this Session for your co-operation in measures to this effect.
" ' The sanatory state of the kingdom is in general fa-
vourable. Heaven has graciously preserved us from the
prevailing disease which affects other countries.
" Our colonial possessions continue to enjoy order and
tranquillity. The produce of our East India possessions is
increasing. The situation of those countries, and the
national prosperity, have a salutary influence on the finances
of the State. The revenue covers the expenditure. It will
be possible in the next year again to reduce the public bur-
dens, especially such as affect the necessaries of life.
" "File financial measures adopted last year with your
concurrence have produced the desired results. Amidst
the pecuniary crisis which has been generally felt, in oti:er
commercial countries, our public credit has suffered no
shock, thanks to the solid basis on which it is founded.

" ' Independently of the budget, and of a law for
im-
proving one of those on the excise, a project of law will
be presented to you containing some modifications which
have become necessary in the tariff of import, export, and
transit duties.

" 1 have a well-founded hope that the new Legisla-
ture may be entirely carried into effect in the course of
next year. _ _

" In this expectation measures have already been taken
to be able, before it expires, to proceed to the organization
and introduction of the system of the courts of justice.
The legislative measures which may be necessary for the
purpose will be laid before you during this session.
The Committee of Legislation is still actively en
gaged in examining the changes which may be made in
the present code. I flatter myself that I shall be ena-
bled to submit to-your deliberations the projects of law on
this subject during the present session.
" Noble and Mighty Lords—May your deliberations
continue to be distinguished by calmness and goodwill.
May your concurrence continue to support and strengthen
the action of the Government. The present session of the
States-General, with the blessing of the Most High, will
then again produce good fruits. The Netherlands may look
to the future with confidence, and i may indulge the hope
of seeing success crown my constant torts for the- hap-
piness and prosperity of the people whom divine Provi-
dence has committed to my care."—Nelheriandschc &Emir
Courant, Oct. 17.

OBSTRUCTION TO THE NAVIGATION OF THE
PoRT LONDON.—There are no less than three consi-
derable wrecks within a short distance of each other in the'
navigable channel of one of the most important parts of the
port of London, which, to the discredit of the Conservators
of the Thames, have been suffered to remain for some
months, to the injury of the shipping interest, whose mem-
bers contribute cheerfully their tonnage duty for the sup-
port and improvement of the harbour. One of these
wrecks is that of the steam-ship Apollo, which lies in.
the direct channel in Northfleet Hope,- undergoing an
ingenious process for raising her, by inflated cones of
India rubber, under the direction of Captain Bush. Ano-
ther wreck within a short distance from the Apollo lies se-
cure from all attempts at removal under the protection of a
Trinity House wreck buoy, and the third. lies in the deep
channel of a very important and by no means a wide
part of the river, just off the south-east baslion of Til-
bury Fort. This is the collier brig William, which was
sunk by the collision with the Royal Adelaide steamer more
than four months ago, and no attempt has been made eater
by Conservators or Committee to remove her till within
these few weeks, the owners having abandoned her as
worthless. The Lord Mayor at last ordered Mr. Kemp,
the patentee of a most ingenious apparatus and machine for
raising sunken ships and other heavy bodies from the
bottom to the surface, to remove her. The philosophical
rationale of Mr. Kemp's plan is the power of the elas-
ticity of atmospheric air and the non-elasticity of water,
and it is believed by those who have witnessed experiments
with the machine that had it not been for the numerous
obstructions which the adventurous patentee has received
from vessels carrying away his apparatus almost at the mo-
.ment of success, in spite of the City flag flying at his mixed,
and the corporation chain-lighter, with the Navigation
Committee's flag hoisted at its jury mast, this dangerous
obstruction would have been removed. It is at all events
quite evident that vigorous measures should be adopted to
remedy the dangerous evil in some way or other, and we be-
lieve that the shipowners contemplate an application to
Government, 'if they find that the authorities persevere in
the remiss course they have hitherto been pursuing.
An individual of the name of Smith, a clothier,
who formerly resided at Armley, suddenly disappeared about
fourteen years ago. It was at that time supposed that he
was drowned, as on the following morning his clothes were
found in Water-lane, near the river side ; but it was known
that he had 50/. in his possession, which !vas found in his
clothes, and he never having been afterwards heard of, there
still remained some doubt, upon the circumstance. On
Monday last the investigation was resumed in consequence
of some information given by a woman to the police, stating
where his mortal remains might be found ; but the informa-
tion has so far led to no satisfactory result,.for the ground
pointed out has been dug up to a considerable depth, but
nothing was found to confirm her testimony. The evidence
rdduced goes to prove, if anything, that the man was mur-
dered, robbed, and his body consumed in a furnace near the
place where the clothes were found. If this should even-
tually prove to be the case, it will put a stop to all further
proceedings, and the guilty parties will evade justice.
York Herald.

EIVIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

mosities of sectarian hate and bigotry.' IN, To' W., that a
man should get A slap in the face front an adversary
nor Uncommon, nor a sort of con-
is neither surprising
tinetney on whit:b Mr. Daniel O'Connell waP not A
very likely person to calculate beforehand %kiln he set
up his accommoilating " VOW lit heaVen:'' But that
a man well versed in the practice of receiving slaps
from other_ people should find thr 'Ctitation so exqui-
sitely agreeable, as t,7+ ttliainister it by a back-handed
movement to h's own chops, while ostensibly con=
bating his neighbours, would be a new fact in natural
history, if we did not often witness the tifelaneholy
effects of that state of mind in which terror becomes
rage, and
rage ripens into madness. For Mr. Daniel
O'Connell to brooch the topic of " rancour,''
" national antipathy," " vile and virulent animosities
of mlarian hate nod bigotry !"—that Mt. Daniel
O'Connell, we repeat, should light Upon such phrases
accidentally, would indieatc that he was in a run of
bad luck for the time ; but that he should Voluntarily,
and with his eyes open, take them up and handle them
before the whole world, proves him to be down right frail,
tic. This unhappy person slavers away upon the expo=
dienev of using all the efforts in the power of hitnself,
the noble fag-ender of the Peerage, Lord Cloncurry,
to whom he writes, and` their congenial spirits of the
rebel Association, " to prevent the horrible evils with
which. the Tories threaten them, and to procure all the
guarantees they can for the protection of their pro-
perties, lives, and liberties !" Here- is more down-
right, stark-staring, madness 1 of which it is one of
the most frequent and notorious symptoms, as all
medical authorities agree, that the wretched lunatic
suspects innocent people of conspiring against his life,
property, freedom, Ste., and begins to rail at, or very
often to shoot or stab them in self-defence. In what
other character,but that of maniac is it possible for
O'Connell even to glance at " threats being held out
of horrible evils ?" or at the necessity of protecting
" life and property ?" What are the evils with which
Tories threaten the Papists of Ireland ? Do they burn
them in their beds ? or, in parties of 10, 20, or 30
ruffians, attack one or two helpless Roman Catholics,
and beat their brains out, or leave them senseless by
the road-side ? Do they clamour and disturb the
peace of society for the avowed purpose of robbing
Roman Catholics orthe-ir property, or driving them,
by dint of intimidation, out of Ireland ? What new
h laws do the English nation or the Irish Protestants
call for, to change the whole distribution of land, and
the old relations between Protestant and Roman Ca-
tholic ? When have Englishmen or Protestants dated
to announce " a general and bloody rebellion" through-
out either island, provided the Sovereign should exer-
cise his or her prerogative in a manner not favourable
to the views of a particular faction ? When have
Englishmen or Protestants menaced a forcible dismem-
berment of the State, unless certain political changes
in the country dictated by themselves should be passed
into laws, and vest in their hands an absolute power
of trampling on all their fellow-subjects who are not
of their own religious creed ? The blindness of this
frenzy, or the wickedness of this hypocrisy, surpasses
what we have 'ever read or heard of. All things,
hoWever, as human experience teaches, have a cause,
could we only discover it, and in the present instance
Mr. Daniel O'Connell helps us to the origin of
his own seeming hallucination. The subscription
for doing " Justice to Ireland" has suddenly
shot up into the master-grievance. of that many-
grievanced land. That subscription is now de-
signated by the, deep-mouthed Daniel as " an open,
avowed, and most profligate conspiracy against
all the Liberal Irish Representatives" who were re-
turned to Parliament at the late election ; and then a
corresponding exhibition of O'Connellism follows. In
the first place, it is no conspiracy ; a subscription to
enforce the law of the land, by defraying the unavoid-
able expenses of the legal process which that law pre-
scribes, is no conspiracy, the term " conspiracy" being
limited by lawyers to a preparation for one or more
" illegal" acts. 2d. It is a gross falsehood to assert
that the subscription has for its object to support peti-
tions against " all" the Radical " Irish Representa-
tives." The subscribers aim at nothing but the
support of such petitions as are fully warranted by
the facts of particular cases, wherein certain parties
have been returned by unlawful means, and in fraud
of those who ought to have been returned. 3d.
No resolution of an O'Connell majority in the
House of Commons can make that law which the Le-
gislature has not enacted, or metamorphose that into
conspiracy, against whit-lithe law has directed neither
penalty nor prohibition. 4th. It is sufficiently mani-
fest, from the fury of the Radical Press, and from the
confused and morbid ferocity of the Agitator's own
language, that the subscription is doing its desired
work—that we have •hit the nail on the head—that
the enemy are frightened into hysterics ; and that if
the Conservatives had before no reason for persisting
in their course, abundant motives have now been fur-
nished for increased and indefatigable exertion. Mr.
Daniel O'Connell says that we are bought—aye, our
very souls—by the Conservatives. May be so, but
who told him so critical a secret ? He avows that
we are not harmless—he knows that we are venal :
why has he not bid for us himself ? Why should he
not try, at least, when he is so well aware that we
have no sense of honour or principle, to prevent our
closing with an offer even from him ? Why should
he not take courage and tempt us ? Verily, Daniel,
with all thy tricks, thou art little better than a despica-
ble blockhead.— Times.
A most important and interesting letter from Mr.
O'Connell to Lord Cloncurry, urging the propriety
and wisdom of calling a meeting in Dublin of the Irish
Liberal Peers and Members of the House of Com-
mons, previously to the assembling of Parliament,
appears in the day's paper. The object of the pro-
posed meeting is to consider and resolve upon the
measures which ought to be particularly pressed upon
the attention of the Government and Parliament in
the ensuing Session. A more judicious and effective
means could scarcely be devised to make the wishes
of the real Representatives of Ireland respected, and
their claims admitted by the British Senate, than
thus to assemble, deliberate, and decide upon the
couse of action best celculated to promote the good
of their country. The reasons indicating the neces-
sity of this proceeding are most ably and convincingly
enforced in Mr. O'Connell's letter, which also sug-
gests measures for the adoption of the meeting,
which, if ultimately resolved upon, must produce a
powerful effect on the proceedings of the approaching
Parliament.

When we laid before our readers, last Tuesday, a
fratifying proof of 'the decrease of crime in Ireland,
ounded upon the returns to the constabulary depart-
ment of offences actually Committed, we stated that we
were at a loss to imagine to what new device the Tory
organs would resort to get rid of this irrefragable evi-
dence of imprOvement. We hazarded, however, a
prediction that the Times would in all probability ac-
cuse Colonel Shaw Kennedy of making up false re-
turns ; and this is precisely the course that our vera-
cious, decent, and consistent Contemporary has taken !
The Times of yesterday (maddened by the production
of documents utterly subversive of its daily statements
for the last three months, and wholly out of the reach
of its absurd objections to the argument founded upon
the lightness of the calendars, and the statements of
the twelve judges,) has the almost incredible harui-
hood to describe the constabulary returns, signed by
the Inspector-General himself, as "paltry tales,fibri.
cated for fraudulent objects." The Times adds,
" We have the strongest reasons to be convinced that
the manner in which those returns are prepared,
and the spirit and animus which direct them,
are calculated to stifle the votcc of truth, and
to cheat the people of this country." And
again—" The official reports, garbled and dis-
torted, are A LIE." But this is mere sweeping as-
sertion : the Times condescend.; to be circumstantial.
To the stipendiary magistrates and chief constables,
who report once a month the amount of crimes com-
mitted, hints arc given that the lighter they can make
their reports the more agreeable to the Government.
Again, they are ordered not to report trivial 'natters,
leaviu-g,to these O'Connell journeymen-to decide (in a
way the most agreeable to their master), what is or is
not trivial." The reader has only to keep in view,
while he glances his eye over these extracts, that the
returns, thus audaciously assailed, are doccuments
signed by Colonel Shaw Kennedy, and made up from
the reports of officers appointed by him, and under his
exclusive direction and control. The ignorance dis-
played by the Times is on a par with its mendacity.
The monthly reports to the constabulary arc not drawn
up by the stipendiary magistrates, who are ap-
pointed by the Lord-Lieutenant, but by the chief
Constables exclusively, officers with whose appoint-
ments the Lord-Lieutenant has no more to do than
with the Bens-d'armerie of Paris. So utterly and
flagitiously
_untrue are all the assertions that have
been made from time to time, by this des-
perate print, with respect to the interference of
Lord Mulgrave in the police department, that net a
single chief-constable, constable, or sub-constable in
the entire force, consisting as it does of upwards of
7,000 men, has been nomtnated to his office except
by the Inspector-General, Colonel Shaw Kennedy.
The choice or rejection of the persons applying to be
taken into the constabulary has been left absolutely
and entirely at the discretion of that Gallant Officer ;
the Lord Lieutenant, we are enabled to state, has
not, in a solitary instance, interfered so far as even
to recommend an individual to Colonel Kennedy 's no-
tice or favour. But we are enabled to throw still more
light, upon the atrocious fabrications of this shame-
less journal. The Bill for establishing the Irish po-
lice on its present footing—that " cunning and pro-
fligate" Bill which Sir R. Peel cordially supported—
provided for the creation of a new office in the service,
under the name of Head Constable--a post somewhat
analogous to that of sergeant-major in the army, and
so considerable in rank and emolument as to have been
solicited by hundreds of gentlemen for their sons
and near relatives. Here was an opportunity, then,
for Lord Mulgrave, had he been so rapacious of pa-
tronage as his malignant traducers assert, of lavishing
it to his heart's content. Here was " ample room and
verge enough " for " demagogues and priests and
Mr. Daniel O'Connell"—if they possessed the as-
cendancy ascribed to them—to seize upon a means
of infusing a new spirit into the whole service, by
cramming their partisans and dependents three deep
into posts of confidence and honour. But Lord Mul-
grave was in no hurry to fill up those appointments.
He might have given them away eighteen months
ago, when the Bill came into operation. He was
anxious, however, that they should be rendered as in-
strumental as possible to the efficiency of the service,
by being given to none but men of approved experience
and character ; and he was, furthermore, determined
that they should all, without exception, be bestowed
upon individuals who had served in the police, as a
reward of their good conduct, and a stimulus to the
exertions of others. For these causes the appoint-
ments were delayed by order of the Lord-Lieutenant,
until Colonel Kennedy should have made himself ac-
quainted with the respective merits of the persons who
were to he candidates for the office ; for to him was con-
fided the duty of selecting and recommending candi-
dates to fill it. He has at length done so ; after a
careful examination of all constables who presented
themselves to -him for that purpose (and the competi-
tion was thrown open to the whole body of the police),
he submitted to the Lord Lieutenant the names of
two hundred and fifty-three persons, whose qualifi-
cations and deserts he approved of, all of them
police constables, all of them having served in the
old police, and consequently who could not have ob-
tained their admission into the service- through the
• influence so affectingly deplored by the .Times--for
they received their first appointment from the local
inal,Tistracy. Now every man of these—the whole
two hundred and fifty-three—has Lord :Mulgrave pro-
moted upon Colonel Kennedy's recommendation, to
the lucrative and honourable situations which he•
could have obliged so many political adherents by dis-
tributing among their friends. And it is in less than
a month after this splendid instance of single-minded
and unswerving attention to the public interests that
the Times dares to insult the common sense of the
British peop.ie by " telling them that Lord Mulgrave
has turned the police into a standing army bearing
muskets at the disposal of Mr. Daniel O'Con-
nell," and that he " treats Colonel Shaw Ken-
nedy's recommendations with such contempt that
the gallant officer now never dreams of trou-
bling the Government with any !" From the above
facts the public will judge what degree of credit is due
to the daring assertion, that the constabulary returns
of crime " are garbled and distorted." If the " official
reports" in question are " lies," the liars are Colonel
Shaw Kennedy and a body of constables appointed
and controlled by him directly, entirely, and exclusively.
The public . will also recollect what we have already
stated more than once, that the staff of the Irish police
fence, designated " Mr. O'Connell's
„journeymen,"
and " the household troops of Popery, is composed
almost exclusively of Protestants ! Among 250 ap-
pointments, the Papists have only 38. Out of 188
chief constables—those complaisant miscreants who
falsify and garble the returns of crime just as Mr.
O'Connell, Dr. M'Hale, or Lord Mulgrave com-
mands them—no fewer than 158 are Protestants. If
" the tranquillity of Ireland is a lie," the liars are
Protestant judges and Protestant constables. What a
picture the Times draws of Protestantism l—Morntzw
Chronicle.

.‘ \Ve have, (observin Mr. O'Connell) formidable,
merciless, and unceasingly active cntzmies. The English
Tories place their last hope of power in fomenting English
prejudice and bigotry to the highest paroxysm of maddened.
exertion. The same spirit which actoattrd the English Par-
liament in the days of the C7ltirxellian war, when the ex-
treersno7eadtiouni,lotn, Coil
the total extomination of the Irish race s.vet
'nearly perpetrated—that my spirit
still presides river the Peel-Wellington councils, and ani-
mates the efforts of nine-tenths of Their Tory partisans. I
do not hesitate to dotlare my thorough conviction that
many of the Tory party in England are equally desirous
If:dr tic slaughter of the Irish Cathelie3, as were the more
Ivaliant but equally merciless soldiers of Cromwell—and
that they would desire to see our exertions for political
liberty smothered in our blood,"
Would that we could repel from all Englishmen,
even from the most rabid of the Tories, the san-
guinary from
here charged against thon l It Was
our first itnpulse to give an emphatic denial to the ac-
cusation ; but reflecting on the truculent declamation
of the Tory leaders, and the vindictive, ferocious, and
savage howling sent forth by their partisans of the
Press against all interested in the welfare of Ireland,
we are reluctantly compelled to coincide in the opi-
nion, that many of the faction would not hesitate to
i
drown the aspirations of liberty n the blood of the
Irish people. The accusation is not rashly made.
Mr. O'Connell adduces, amongst others, the following
proofs in its support :—.
" Look at the Tory press of England. Consider the
enormous expense that party have gone to in order to pur-
chase the souls as well as the pens of the wretches who
conduct the Times and the Standard, and the minor organs
of their politics. Look at the terms of reproach, con-
tumely, contempt, and execration which they use to the
people of Ireland. The resources of Billingsgate are ex-
hausted so find terms and expressions the most smegrading,
in order to apply them to the Irish people. They are
called by those instruments of Toryism, " ruffians," " mur-
derers," " a barbarous rabble," " a sava:.,,e rabble ;" " per-
jury" is imputed to them every hour, if
inani.sts," " 17Videle 'lar
—such terms
rd butj
aurer small sin,

Another letter has been nuhlished, hearing the rank
Nignature of Mr, Daniel O'Connell. That it has
sor.ic traits in common with every former specimen of
the sawie school will be easily believed, inasmuch as it
is a school the productions of which arc not merely
tnultitialinoti, hut monotonous likewise, beyond all
k tc:lroAin example. It is long, gloomy, desperate, and
we need not say. But it is more than
ordinarily savage, because of all feelings the most bar-
barous is cowardice ; and an unfortunate culprit in a
more edifying fright than was the disturber of the
pr-ace of Ireland when he penned that same epistle
has never, we do conscientiously think, been seen on
any spot of the inhabited world, save possibly in the
short passage between the press-room of Newnate and
the \viiitiow which opens to the drop. Amongstt' other
reasons for summoning t:3,gotiier a c< connterfeit resem-
blance.' of a (,:oilege-green Parliament, which is
to meet f.,-,rthwith in Dublin "previous to the com-
Illereitent" of the Imperial Session, and like a
'plot balloon, to show the aeronauts of rebellion which
way the wind blows, the letter-writer assigns
this one—viz., that " it is necessary to obviate the
Inischiefs with which Ireland is threatened by the
machinations of that large party in England which
ernbodiet the worst passions of the vulgar rancour of
national antipathy, with the wore vile and virulent ani-

TUE SUN; LONDoN, kiItitRSDAY, OCTOBER 181.

eimen of the ❑nremitting virulence with which the foulest
language is poured out upon the Irish nation,"
Imperatively, must imperatively, is it incumbent on the
eilliglitened people of Bnglatiti to teptilliate
and disclaim all patticipation lit the liftital sentiments
cOnVeyed ill these slanderous and malevolent epithets.
teen the Irish priesthood are not spared by the Tory
defamers, but are rather made the objects of even
more aggravated detraction, as is stated the letter
befort us

" The .dti'a!, or, it possible, worse language is used to-
wards the clergy of the Irish people. They arc daily called
in the leading organs of the English Tories—the Dime:
and the Stamda. d—" Apish eqllian.s,' " atroc;orts bypo"
" b Hal P. iothoprO " et..pliced 1107,1115," and
a thottitand 604 th-w other equally vilifying appellations, or
tvtse, if a vicious ingenuity enables the Tory writers to
discover such appellatirs"
This hot intended to evaporate barmles:dy,
`6l merely to gratify the malevolent yearnings of the
more violent To.ries—no I it is intended to burn deeply
into the hearts or the prejudiced and fanatic an im-
placable• hatred of the Irish people. As Mr. O'Con-
ticll In this case words' arc things.
They are used to instigate and justify the horrors of
opprenitm and even of bloodshed." It affords us
especial gratification to perceive that the Spottiswoode
conspiracy is
.proposed as a prominent subject for
the consideration of the intended meeting, as will be
seen by the following suggestions of the measures to be
adopted t—
lst—An address of allegiance and dutiful respect to her
gracious Majesty the Queen, respectfully claiming from her
the protection which her royal prerogative can bestow on
her faithful people of Ireland.
2dly—Another address to her Majesty, praying specifi-
cally that she may order her Attorney-General for England
to prosecute the members of •the Spottiswoode gang for a
dangerous and. unconstitutional conspiracy against the
freedom of election and the privileges of the Commons
House of Parliament.

I deem it quite impossible for any constitutional lawyer
to doubt that Spottiswoodc and his gang are guilty of such
a conspiracy.

adly—To form a deputation to wait on Lord Melbourne
on the subject of these addresses, and in particular to as-
certain the proper mode of presenting them to her Majesty.
4thly—To arrange the mode and time of bringing for.
ward in the House of Lords a suitable motion on this
subject.
.sthly—To arrange for the bringing forward in the House
of Commons of a motion for an address by that House to
direct the Attorney-General to institute the prosecution
which I have suggested. . .

6thly—To arrange a motion in the House of Commons
for a Committee to inquire and report upon the privileges
of the House with respect to election committees in re-
ference to the existing conspiracy.
7thly.—To arrange a motion in the House of Commons
or in both Houses of Parliament, for the repeal of the
Grenville Act, and to substitute a mode of trial of election
petitions, free from partiality, less liable to expense, and to
be presided over by a responsible judge.
Bthly—To prepare an addre.ss to her Majesty from the
people of Ireland, praying her to continue in office her
present Ministry, as being the first Ministry the people of
Ireland ever found honestly disposed to administer equal
justice to all.
9thly--Having thus testified our confidence in her Ma-
jesty's Ministers-, we should, I think, make the fittest ar-
rangement we possibly could, to press upon that Ministry
our conviction of the absolute necessity of enabling the
Reform Bill to work its intended purposes, by extending
and rendering more simple the elective franchise—and, above
all, by giving the electors the protection of the Ballot.
Thanks to the Tories, the advocates of the Repeal
of the Union are never left in dearth of facts to sup-
port their opinions—and facts, too, more successful in
making converts to repeal than the most powerful ar-
guments which human ingenuity could other wise de-
vise—facts which make even such men as Lord Ebring-
tin declare that unless the Tories cease or mitigate
their' hostility, Ireland would be fully justified in in-
sisting upon a domestic legislature. If the decisions
of such an overwhelming majority of Irish representa-
tives as we have no doubt will attend the meeting
should be disregarded by the Imperial Senate, Ireland
may as well at once decline sending any representatives
to a Parliament wherein the national wishes arc de-
feated by the tyranny of faction, as keep up the
mockery of representation, inefficient to all purposes
of good, and serving only to sicken the hearts of the
people with perpetually disappointed hope.—Morning
Advertiser.

Mr. O'Connell has just published a letter to Lord
Cloncurry on the subject of the election petition fund.
We cannot make room for the letter, which is a long
one, but we may state in a few words that its object is
to convoke a meeting of the Irish -Members—Lords
and Commons—in Dublin, between the 21st of this
month anti the sth of November, for the purpose of
considering how they may best protect the Irish agi-
tators against the consequences of a Parliamentary in-
vestigation. The plan suggested by the arch-agitator
himself is a petition to the Crown, recommending the
prosecution of the Committee with whom the idea of
the dreaded fund originated—the Committee to be pro-
secuted by the Attorney. General as conspirators. We
need hardly observe that such a proceeding, from such
a quarter, furnishes a decisive proof, if any such were
wanting, of the triumphant success of the fund in
question. That the head of the faction is panic-struck
appears not only from his proposition, but from the
tone and language of his letter ; and we may be cer-
tain, that when he shows signs of fear, the tremor will
he commonivated through all the limbs and arteries of
agitation, down to the very tip of its tail. This de-
monstration of the enemy is, therefore, a most encou-
raging circumstance to the friends of order and good
government. It should encourage them to redouble
their exertions, by showing them that those exertions
arc likely to be crowned with success.—Morn. Herald.
We are never sorry to meet with a letter of Mr.
O'Connell, especially when it is addressed to a Whin-
R adical Lord, and when it appeals vociferously to the
proclaimed opinions of another Lord of the same poli-
tical class. We think that Lord Cloncurry, to whom
a letter, dated " Darrynanc Abbey, Oct. 12," and
signed " Daniel O'Connell," is addressed, and Lord
Ebrin.Jon, to whose recent speech that letter confi-
dently-appeals, will have read this production of Mr.
O'Connell's pen with much less satisfaction than we
confess it has afforded to us. These Noblemen are now
made to stiffer the penalty of their past folly. The
distinction of being paraded before the world by Mr.
O'Connell its his firm allies; is one which they must
loathe, but they cannot forget that it is one
which they have laboriously and zealously sought.
Mr. O'Connell, if we 'night trust to his letter
(but unfortunately nothing that he says or writes
can be trusted), is determined once more to become
a Repealer, The ennouncement is almost too good
to be true. That Mr. O'Connell should again be an
avowed and active Repealer would be gratifying to
the people of England, who, never afraid of any ene-
mies, delight most in the encounter with those who do
not fight under false colours. We cannot imagine
any circumstance that wool(' he hailed in G reat Bri-
tain with an acclaim more Unanimous and sincere than
that of the Repeal flag being; distinctly unfurled under
the auspices of Mr. O'Connell. Lord Melbourne and
his official colleagues might or might not range them-
selves under the tattered and vamped. p banildt of
their leader, as they thought best. The people of
England would have no reason to care which course
the Melbourne Government pursued, knowing that if
they coalesced with Mr. O'Connell, in opposition to
their known and avowed opinions, they would be driven
from office, amidst the scornful hisses of an honest na-
dein and that if they did not coalese with him their
fate would be the same, in consequence of the indis-
pensable support of the O'Connell faction being with-
' drawn from them. In either case the Briti,ll nation
would get rid of a Ministry the most contemptible and
odious that ever governed may country—of a Ministry
which has no definite purposes or intelligible prin-
eiples---of a Ministry which seized at first, and has
continued to possess, office by surrendering its own
opinions, and pandering to the factious projects and
revolutionary passions of other men. This cheering
prospect is opened to the view of the English people
Repeals 13uttheO'Connell's resumption of the watch-word of
speet; thought cheering, is, we
fear,
nct become a Repealer. He
gill not abandon Lord Melbourne, or compel Lord
Melbourne to abandon him. The honest and loyal
people of Great Britain must not permit themselves to
be misled by the habitual bluster of Mr. O'Connell in
Ireland, Notwithstanding this bluster, there is no
room to hope that the O'Connell and the Mel-
bourne influences will be separated. The people of .

Great Britain will still, as heretofore, have to
tiumbat them together for the preservation of the
British Throne, and the British Altar, which
they afe still ris mach aS eiiet leagiiod to destroy: -The
Irish Agitator, who provides for Lord Melhourtie the
majority in the House of Commons, by means of
which the hitter is to govern the country, takes, how-
ever, in Ireland, as he is entitled to take, a high tone.
He reminds Lord elolidirry of the Leinster declara-
tion ; he reminds Lord Ebrington of his reedit avowal,
that " there were imlications of such atrociously cri-
minal hostility to Ireland Athritig:lt the Fondish Tones,
if successfully persevered in, would justify and
would require the Irish people to insist on the Re-
peal 4" and he insists, tipdo paili of the renewal of the
Repeal agitation, oh these Noble Lords and the Go-i
'I/eminent of Lord Melbourne, Colicutthig in Measures
to prevent the late elections in Ireland, which have
given him an apparent majority of the whole representa-
tion of that country, from being questioned in the House
of Commons. Mr. O'Connell is terrified at the thought
of the recent Irish elections being subjected to the in-
vestigation of Committees of the House of Commons,
under the provisions of the Grenville Act. He will
agitate the Repeal question, so at least he pretends,
if obstacles be not thrown by the Melbourne Govern-
ment and its partisans in the way of such an inves-
tation. Upon the subject of the Irish election pe-
tition fund he is furious beyond measure--a tolerably
conclusive indication of his opinion that this sub-
scription is necessary, and that, with a view to the ob-
jects which the loyal subjects of her Majesty have
most at heart, it will. be eminently successful. Mr.
O'Connell does not conceal the alarm which the crea-
tion of a fund by voluntary subscriptions in England
for maintaining the integrity of the Irish representa-
tiOn, and protecting the rights of the legal constituen-
cies of Ireland, has excited in his mind. His manifes,
tation of terror upon this occasion is not less grotesque
and amusing than it is conspicuous. Not content
with railing, in imitation of the Ministerial journals
of ' England, against Election Committees, without
proposing distinctly any better mode of deciding con-
troverted returns—not content with exclaiming, in
imitation of the same journals, against the partiality
of these sworn tribunals—not content with reverberat-
ing the charge of perjury upon their Members—not
content with repeating the absurdity that, chosen by
lot'from an assembly in which he and the Ministry he
protects pretend they have a majority, the Election
Committees of the House of Commons have a con-
stant leaning against the friends of that Ministry—not
content with giving renewed currency to these effusions
of stupidity and malice, Mr. O'Connell has announced
spdcific measures of his own for preventing any
inquiry into the Irish elections, which have ended
in returns favourable to his friends and followers ;
and in these measures he exacts the Concurrence
and aid of the Melbourne Government and its re-
tainers, threatening them that if they do not instantly
obey his behest he will renew the Irish agitation
upon the question of Repeal. The measures pro-
posed by Mr. O'Connell for the above purpose re-
quite only to be clearly laid before the British public,
who will form a just estimate of their merit without any
assistance from us. There is to be a meeting in Dub-
lin in the first week of November, if Mr. O'Connell's
mandate be obeyed, of the Irish liberal Peers, and
Members of the House of Commons. This meeting
is to address her Majesty, praying specifically that she
may order her Attorney-General for England to pro-
secute the promoters of the Irish. Election Petition
Fund, for a dangerous and unconstitutional conspi-
racy against the freedom of election, and the privi-
leges of the Commons House of Parliament. But
the efforts of this meeting of the Irish Liberal Peers
and Members of the House of Commons against the
promoters of the subscription for securing an honest
representation for Ireland, are not to end here. The
meeting is further to arrange for the bringing forward
in the House of Commons a motion for an address by
that House to direct the Attorney-General to institute
the prosecution above mentioned. The promoters of
the subscription surely must be very formidable per-
sons, that all this cumbrous machinery is to be put in
motion for the purpose of prosecuting them. The
meeting of Irish Liberal Peers and Members of the
House of Commons is not, however, to terminate
thus. They are to arrange the mode and time of
bringing forward a suitable motion in the House of
Lords upon the same subject. They are to arrange a
motion in the House of Commons, or in both Houses of
Parliament, for the repeal of the Grenville Act. And,
lastly, they are to press upon the Ministry the neces-
sity of extending and rendering more simple the elec-
tive franchise, and, above all, of giving the electors the
protection of the Ballot. These are the subjects which
Mr. O'Connell intends to submit, before the session,
to a preliminary meeting of his own little Irish Par-
liament. Between this assembly and the Parliament
of the United Kingdom there will, we imagine, be
little sympathy. How Lord Melbourne and Mr.
O'Connell will so adjust their respective schemes for
the session so as to avoid collision we cannot 'guess.
It is probable, however, that some contrivance will be
adopted to prevent a conflict, which would be fatal to
both, notwithstanding any sacrifices of character or of
consistency which it may require.—Morning Post.

LOVE AT EIGHTY.-SOllle men, it is quite evi-
dent, have hearts made on the touchwood principle—the
more they advance to decay the easier they take fire ; and
last week a gentleman of eighty proceeded to Billericay
fair, with a heart of this description buttoned up in a trim
Sunday going coat, the breast pocket of which contained
the precise sum of 141, to be there and then expended in
the purchase of two mulch cows. But in passing up the
street, as mischief would have it, he stumbled against one of
those frail fair daughters of the creation, whose silky
tongues and bright eyes sometimes lead erring men, like nil
ignix fat tins through the bogs of vice, and the touchwood
heart was instantly in a flame. Our lover of fourscore was
not disposed to—

." Let concealment—like a worm in the bud,
Prey on his wrinkled cheek,"
and soon his suit was proffered and accepted ; soon again he
found that by some legerdemain of love, the 141. had va-
nished from the innermost recesses of his Sunday coat
pocket. Dear-bought • experience, we have heard, is the
best ; but fourteen pounds' worth of this description laid in
at eighty, is rather more than a man is likely to require
for the remainder of his natural life.—Essex Herald. .

NEW USE FOR FIIRZE.—We have occasionally
seen it mentioned in newspapers, that furze or whin bushes
may be rendered suitable food for cattle. The following
is a paragraph which lately appeared on the subject, and is
worthy of the attention of persons who keep cattle :—A
gentleman near Birmingham keeps one hundred cows, and
supplies milk to that town ; his land is of a poor, light,
dry quality, such as in the common mode of culture would
be insufficient for producing fodder for his stock ; he has
sown down one hundred acres with furze-seed—he never
lets the plant rise into a shrub, but is constantly mowing
it for his dairy cows ; when bruised in the mill, it is mixed
with a certain portion of chaff, chapped hay or straw, and
wash with grains ; but the furze forms the principal
portion of their diet, and increases the quantity, and im-
proves
the quality of their milli, In the ruder parts of the
country, the mode used for bruising the furze-tops before
giving them to cattle, has been an iron-bound mallet, with
a long handle, with which the furze is beaten upon a thick
flag-stone ; in some parts of England, however, the bruis-
ing process is performed by means of passing it between
coarsely fluted iron rollers, worked by a fly wheel, or in
other cases bruised in a machine like a bark-mill ; but in
whatever way it can be reduced to a soft mass, and mixed
with a small quantity of cut hay or straw, it forms a most
useful and healthy fodder. He also follows an unusual
system in other respects, which he finds most profitable.
He buys his dairy cows about a fortnight after they have
calved, places them in his pens, and they never stir out
from their stalls until they are fat, and are sold to the
butcher, which is usually at the end of five years—during all
that time lie continues to milk them, although they do not
have calves ; at the end of five years they are dry and fat ;
as the milk decreases, the fat increases ; and he says, by
this means of combining milking and feeding, he loses less
of the use of the cow, and makes more profit than others,
and that he does this with land that would actually be
otherwise of no value to him, The system is altogether
novel."

In Tottenham-court-road may now sometimes be
seen a very aged and infirm man, who has not, it appears,
any other dependence than easual benevolence. He is
supported on two crutches, by which he is enabled to jog
on at the rate of about half-a-mile an hour. He says not a
single word t but, suspended to his breast, is a card label,
descriptive only of his present age. He states himself to
be a native of Bath, in which city he says he. was born on
the Sth August, 1735, that his name is Samuel Coleman,
and that he had, is his younger days, worked in the
Royal
Oardons at Richmond.

DUTY OF BRITAIN AND FRANCE

TO SPAIN.

While the despotS of Europe are screwing money from
their beggarly subjects to replenish the coffers of Carlos,
lase Often regretted that the richer nations of Britain
and Vrance conttitiotii nothing to the cause of Spanish
freedom, with which they so heartily sympathise, and With
width their own interests are to some eAteot bound up.
Even were no commercial advantages held out, we think
these two States would hate tone no more than their duty
bad they jointly guaranteed a loan Or ten millions for the
wise and Laic pOrpose of depriving despotisth of emo of its
strongholds, and gaining ot7er o. powerful nation to the gteat
trttlsc of human improvement. %re say it is the interest of
free nationi to make some pecuniary sacrifice:; fvf the pro-
motion of freedom. it IS obvions that any wars which take
1-dace in the next half century sill arise between the par-
tisans of eoilc and bad government ; and whatever weak-
ens the latter and etrangthens the former 'multiplies the
Obarrees of preserving peace; and will render wars, when
they do ete!,r, shorter and less expeosive. Again, for what
purpose is Europe burdened with the Cost of maintaining.
two millions and a half amen in arms, but to fight the bat-
tles of the two antagonist principles' Were the ascendancy
of the good principro once established, tno-thirds of this
feree would be disbanded, and fifty millions a year saved
to the oter-taxed nations of this quarter of the world.
A few millions upended to hasten the advent of this de-
sirable state of things aro not thrown away, If free
states look on with indifference while the battle of Li-
. berty is fouglit,Oey are false to their own interests. They may
stand neutral, but the despots will not follow their example.
It is plain now that there are but two methods of aid-
ing the popular cause in Spain with any hopes of a good
result. The one is to furnish the Government with the
means of calling out the energies of the people by guaran-
teeing a loan. The other is to march an army into the
country powerful enough to act independently of the na-
tional force—an army, for instance, of twenty or thirty
thousand men—to put down the insurgents. Experience
shows that the plan of employing auxiliary corps of foreign
troops has no chance to Sucf,ced.—Scotsman.

LOi-WON BEGGAIVi' CAROUSALS

SHOAL Of WHALES.—Towards the end of Sep-
tember last, while the Lighthouse Tender was crossing the
Regent Bank (which has of late years been ascertained to
abound with cod, bug, and tusk), between Sumburgb
Head and the Fair Isle, she passed through a vast shoal
of small whales, of a kind nearly allied to the grampus,
the larger measuring from thirteen to twenty-five feet in
length. A space of five or six miles in circumference was
literally swarming with these monsters of the deep, many
of which continued for a long time sporting and playing
about the vessel. On a sudden, however, the whole mul-
titude, as if they had got the word of command, took a
northerly direction towards the island of Foulah, and pur-
sued this course in a continuous drove. One of the largest,
probably a male, seemed to take the lead, and the rest
followed like a herd of cattle or a flock of sheep, till they
disappeared in the distance. It is from this herding or
following propensity that the popular name of calling
whales has been bestowed on them. The tendency is
very fatal to the poor animals, but very profitable to the
Highlanders and islanders, when the leading whales get
bewildered and enter the lochs of the Highlands, the Goes
of Orkney, or the Voes of Zetland ; hundreds being then
killed by the natives, who arm themselves with all sorts
of weapons, matt every boat and yawl, and launch forth
with the utmost alacrity and zeal to the grand hattu.
This species of grampus was first described by Dr. Neill
in his tour through Orkney and Shetland in 1806, under
the popular name of Ca'ing Whale ; afterwards more fully
by Dr. Traill, in Nicholson's Journal, under the title of
Delphinus Melas ; and latterly by Captain Scoresby (now
the Rev. Mr. Scoresby, of Exeter), in his account of the
Arctic Regions, under the name of Delphinus Deductor.—
Edinbarg,h Chronicle.
Much food has been afforded for gossip in Leeds,
during the last two days, in consequence of a report that
a young lady, the daughter of a clergyman, the rector of a
parish some miles from Leeds, and allied to a noble family,
had eloped with the butler during the absence of her fa-
ther. On Tuesday morning, during the absence of the
rector with a portion of his family at York, the young lady
put into execution a design, long entertained, of running
away with a butcher, of near 40, residing in the village,
who had formerly filled the situation of butler and footman
in the family. For this purpose a chaise had been engaged
to wait in the vicinity of the house, and about seven
o'clock the lady, accompanied by her intended and a younger
sister, who had acted throughout the affair as her confi-
dante, left home and passed through Leeds, with the in-
tention of being married, it is said, at Liverpool. Soon
after their departure, a friend of the injured father thought
it his duty to take steps to frustrate the object of the party,
and to effect that end he despatched intelligence of the flight
to the police-office at Leeds. Mr. Heywood immediately
sent some of his force to the different toll-bars in the neigh-
bourhood, and to the residences of the Registrars under
the New Marriage Act ; and he himself, learning that
a party answering the description of the fugitives
had been seen walking in the direction of Hud-
dersfield, took a chaise and proceeded with all speck" in
that direction. On arriving near Churwell, he came in
sight of a chaise travelling at a very rapid rate. He sus-
pected that this vehicle contained the parties of whom he
was in pursuit, nor was he deceived ; for, on running up-to
the chaise .(his horse being exhausted), he discovered the
two ladies and the butcher. It was in vain that they as-
sured him he was mistaken in his object. Mr. Heywood
transferred the ladies to his chaise, and shortly afterwards
returned with them to Leeds. In the meantime news of
the transaction had been forwarded to the Hon. and Rev.
Mr. --, who arrived at home in time to meet his daughter
on Tuesday afternoon. Of the interview, of course, nothing
is known ; but, whatever may have been the paternal re-
monstrances used on the occasion, they seem to have pro-
duced but little effect on the lady, for she determinedly told
him that she would be married, and on the following morn-
ing—measures of detention being useless—she again left
home and proceeded to Leeds, at which place she now re-
mains, awaiting the completion of a marriage settlement re-
stricting the property of which she is possessed to her
control, when it. is understood that her nuptials with the
butcher will take place. The lady is the daughter of the
Hon. and Rev, Mr. Cathcartc, Vicar of Kippax, and is
not only highly accomplished, but possessed of great per-
sonal attractions. The person who has succeeded in gaining
her affections is Mr. Lodge, an innkeeper, in the same
neighbourhood, The lady is possessed of; or entitled to,
considerable property in her own right.
WELSHMEN TIIE ORIGINAL DISCOVERERS OF
AMElliCh.--A correspondent of the Yee; York Express,
noticing the rains of Aztalen, a recently discovered city,
gives the following story, which will at least serve at; a basis
for antiquarian speculation :--There is a tradition amv:ng
the Welsh people that an expedition, consisting of a large
number of people sailed westward front Wales two hundred
years before Ameriea was discovered by Columbus, with a
view of discovery and settlement, and that there has never
been anything heard of them since they set sail. These
ancient works (at Aztalen) have recently been examined by
a Welshman, who pronounced the work to be of Welsh
construction, and similar to some of the old fortifications in
his native country—and that the word Aztalen in his native
tongue means good or beautiful land, I am told that
Humboldt in hie " History of South America," gives an
account of that country being overrun by the people of
Aztalen, who came from the North, before its settlement
by the Spaniards. If these reports are true, 1 think that
historians and antiquarians have a wide field before them,
and one worthy their attention.
PARIS CORRECTIONAL Po I, E..---J!ilesßranchu,
a young labourer of about twenty, with rather a n,,...."41,°Te
face and agreeable person, appeared to take his trial n:.!"
having deprived a man of his daughter, whose honour lie I
had outraged, and afterwards abandoned her. The name
of the prosecutor was Fine!. The defendant, having lodged
iu his house, pretended to become enamoured of his daugh-
ter Marie, a pretty girl of about sixteen. She was neither of
an age nor disposition to be indifferent to a lover, and as such
she received \ him. Jules became importunate, and the virtue
of poor Marie was at length sacrificed to a promise of mer-
ria,ge. Marriage, however, was altogether out of the question,
for the relations of the two lovers were not on good terms.
But Jules was not disappointed at this, becau-as marriage was
not what he wished, He, however, to accomplish his base pur-
pose, proposed a secret marriage, and their flight was very
soon planned and determined upon. Marie packed up
a few articles of wearing apparel, and having eluded the
watchfulness of her mother, the lovers were off. Jules
was waiting for her on the Boulevard, and in a short
time a furnished apartment in the Rue de Faubourg du
Temple received the fugitives—the artless Marie, happy
in the presence of him whom she confidingly believed to
be her devoted lover ; and the treacherous Jules pleased
at the success of his villainy. A fortnight thus rolled on,
the time passing too rapidly to be observed by the de-
lighted but deluded Marie. She forgot her father, and the
t ears which were shed by her distracted mother touched not
her heart, for every other feeling gave way to that of ardent
love. Jules, however, soon became weary of their position,
which Marie appeared to like better every day, for she
really loved him. But while she had left the roof of her
parents on account of her love for him, the act on his part
was mere caprice, and as soon as he became weary of her,
he sent her back to her parents. She was received, how-
ever, notwithstanding her fault, and it was afterwards dis-
covered that the ruin of the daughter of Finch had been a
concerted matter with the prisoner and his mother, in order
to be revenged on the parents of the poor girl for some
imagined injury. This fact having been proved, the Court
sentenced both Branchu and his mother to three months'
imprisonment, and condemned the former in damages of 500
franca for the benefit of Marie Fine!.

(From Sketches in London.) .
There are numbers of the London beggars who hold re-
gular convivial meetings, at which some remarkable rot"'
nk, feats are
their(perormed. On some special occasions f bey
regularly elect chairman, and have their series of toasts,
their speeches, and songs, as on other great public occa
sions. It is known to several persons, that Georg
Fourth, when Prince of Wales, went, on one occasion, with
which take
hie friend Major Hanger, to witness the scenes
place at these guzzling exhibitions of the mendicants. 151-„.
ot
toted as the young i2,-ince was by Sheridan and otters
th
his boon companions in aii sorts of frolics, he enjoyed
scene for some time. At last, however, a circumstane
cer
occurred which somewhat Clisconcerted him. 'rile beggi!
the
who presided on the occasion as chairman, after a panic !n
the merriment of the evening, rose, and pointing to tinT:
,
Prince, said, " With the permission of the company 1 ca"
on that ere gernman with the clean shirt on for a
beggars"song.
A round of applause from the rest of the "jolly I
showed how eagerly they responded to winked aPPe.a
thus made to his Royal Highness. He 315'
nificantly at Major Hanger, and then stammered out the
m
expression of a hope, that as he was no singer the companY
would excuse him.
" Not a bit of it," said the chairman.
" Ve'll have no denial, young man," said another of the
jovial crew.
" Perhaps, gentlemen, you'll allow the gentleman to sing
by proxy," interpossa l Major Hanger. se
Proxy !" said sevcra; voices at once, " vat's proxy r
, another person singing' for him," answered the Majookr...
" 0
" 0 certainly, if he can find one " , said the chairman, le
gentl-
ing round for the concurrence of the cOmpany in his
meat.
v:ce os,att once.
there can be no objections to that," obser'Vedll dozen
Come then, 11--...., you must do it yourself," said the
Prince, addressing himself to the Major. The latter promptlY
responded to the appeal, and sung amidst great app
l (rater'
a
well-known ballad—well-known, I mean, among the
nity themselves—called " The Beggar's Wedding."
" Gen'l'men," said the proprietor of a little unwashed an
unshaved face, and a nose of remarkable flatness, who sa
healtht
opposite the chairman, " Gen'!'men, let us drink the
and song of the gen'l'man vot's just. sung."
1 " Gen'l'men," shouted the chairman, drawing his uwn
glass towards himself ; " genTinen, fill your glasses.
Every glass was full to the brim in a moment.
" The genTrnan's health and song," said the chairman in
Stentorian accents.
o The gen'l'man's health and song," shouted a host of
voices, and in an instant every glass was emptied of its con-
tents, except that of the Prince.
1 " I say, young man, vy don't you drink to your friend ri
said
a round faced mendicant, who sat opposite his 11°Y°
Highness, his eyes rolling in a fine frenzy through the in-
spiring influence of the liquid he had so copiously qua
" 0, I beg your pardon, Sir, answered the Prince, who
bad been for the moment lost in surprise at the ecstasies a
uproarious merriment he witnessed every where around biol.
" 0, I beg your pardon, Sir, for the omission ; it was quite
accidental, I assure you." This was addressed to the P.er-
sonage who had challenged him for not drinking to the Mari.'
" Vell, vy don't you do it now ? " inquired the other, Tv°
was a very consequential personage in his own estimation the
The Prince filled up his glass, and having drank efflt
contents to the health and song of Major Hanger, 'lel
out in his hand in an inverted position. shouted
" Bravo ? you're a trump !" "Go itclean shirt !'' "
a dozen voices.
" Three cheers for the gentleman who has favoured °s
with so excellent a song! " exclaimed the Prince, beginniug
osand
to feel himself more at home. As he spoke he re,
waved his hand with his empty glass in the air, as if to lead
the plaudits of the others. All present were on their legs
in an instant, and deafening and universal were the
cheers
with which the Major was greeted. The scene was kePt uP
1 with great spirit and eclat, until at least one half of t.kbe
" jolly beggars" bad drunk themselves asleep, and lay I' 7
so many masses of inert clay on the floor, in a horizontna
position. The Prince often afterwards spoke of this adven:
, turc. He never mentioned it in the hearing of Sheri&
1 without the latter feeling the deepest regret that he was not
1 an actor in so rich a scene of low life.

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.
off
Arrivals.-O ct. 16, the Claudine, Kemp from Maul."' 1
Falmouth 14th inst., sailed June 19, St:Helena, Sept.
Oct. 17, the Courier, Proudfoot, from the Cape °f
Hope, off Falmouth, sailed from Algoa Bay, Aug. 70 St'
le na, Aug. 3
Arrivals ato. Bombay.-The Tweed, Lawson, July 7, fr(n
Liverpool; Minerva, Brown, July 10, from London ; Finiral;
Donahay, July 11, from Calcutta ; Cavendish, Bentinck, riJn(,
11, from Calcutta ; Caledonia, Lymers, July 12, fro°, July
cutta, Vizagapatam, and Madras ; Palinurus, Haines, Ju,'Y„.oy.
from Mocha ; Frances Warden, July 17, from Mocha ; ra`'"
Sulun, Gillett, July 18, from Calcutta; Fultay, Rah
July 20, from Mocha • Hero of Malown, Grundy, Julicale
Y °
from Liverpool ; Fazel, Currim, July 21, from Mocha. j
Departures from Bombay.-The Hero, Hughes, Jnif k,
for Penang; Hebe, Hazlewood, July 16, for Madras; Buck-
for
inghamshire, Hopkins, July 17, for China ; Mary Bibby, "avd
ming, July 18, for Liverpool; Ann, Griffiths, July 180 1„.
Carnatic, Laird, July 20, for China; Le Perouse, La/ei;
was
20, for Pondicherry and Madras ; Berenice (s.)
leave Bombay, August 18, for Suez. June 11,
Arrivals at Madras.-The Salamander, Dobie,
from Bordeaux and Pondicherry ; William Metcalfe, rujitil;
son, July 12, from Sydney and Covelong; Aurora, :;
14, from London ; Catherine Smeeve, July 14, fr°,m ,v6'z2,i-r`Oarn
patam ; her Majesty's ship Conway, Bethune, JuiY,`,y-, July
Trincomalee, and sailed July 16, back ; Fortfield,
16, from Mauritius and Pondicherrpa from Madras.-The y
.
rongon,
Jun
8, for Coringa, &e. ; the hadora, Hodson, for Northern Port
the Duke of Roxburgh, Dessington, July 8, for London ;
Clarmont, Dunbar, July 11, for Calcutta.
Arrivals
at Singapore.-The Harlequin, Chiene, 12th
from London to Penang and Malacca, and sailed on the b, y,
WKenZier
for Manilla; the Hannah, M'Gregor, on the 3d, from 13°61-1,13,
and sailed on the 6th for China ; the Sylph, Viall, on the' lasdy
from Calcutta, and sailed on the 10th for China ; the
Hayes, Burnett, May 7, from China; the Cherub, \lra IL,
May 8, from Penang ; the Hero, Smallwood, May 8, fr°r32te
tavia ; the Lord Sidmouth, Uttowa • May io, from Sern-iled
the Antonio Pereira, Young, May 10Y:from Calcutta, an
Sa.
for China.
Departures from Singapore.-The Isabella, Robert.l_nr..;
Hudson, Wray, on the 4th, for China ; Scaleby Castle, INI°
gan, on the 15th, for China. d Sent
Bombay, July 22 -The March packet, via the Re 0,1,
arrived at Bombay on the 24th of June, by the Felt* voile(1.
bury, which together with some of the January letters, Toe
fromi the Skinner, were delivered on the 7th of JulY•Let, ia
almirus arrived on the 12th of July, with the May pach.,„d
nineteen Of
days, from Mocha, reached Alexandria on the
May, in eighteen days from England. Thirty-threes 01 w.'"'ha-
occupied in conveying the packet from Alexandria
Accounts to the sth-of May.
, lat Batavia.-The Henry, Walrnsley,
Ar -Iva
Launcestcn and Sourabay a. Jung
Departure from Batavia.-The Margaret Bareharn,
14, for Sourabay.a. pornbal'
Passengers per L.ntin.-Capt. G. Ellman, from \Jo.
at Liverpool ; Capt. Hocken, Capt. Mordan, Lieut•3laci,„
surgh, Ensign Rathbonc, Mr. Joht, Murphy, Mr. Jobn
June 11, from
cted)en '
Per Mary Bibby, from Bombay. for Liverpool ("Mleozie,
Mr. Armitage, Mr. Swinton, Mr, Marsh, Mr. .
Capt. Neale, Mr. Wilson.
}till,
=T. COX SAVORY, Goldsmith, Vic'
London. informs the Public, that he has a consicterablel Clrorie yeas
London. ox'
SECOND-HAND GOLD WATCHES, any of
vrbic
jefully
at EIGHT GUINEAS each. They have all been c; e.
amined, and are warranted. -Watches purchased in ex
nttteioli

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On the 16th in3t., lbs. Slihritoßlb7;cl(ll,SC,f Kentish-town, °f s()ri
' 3
On the 16th inst., in Charterhouse•square, Mrs. John Bairvot
Cuthbert, of a son.
On the 15th inSt., in Oxford-terrace, tha lady of J. Svraby, ".'
of a daughter. Russell-square,
On the 16th inst.. in Woburn-place, Rinsel Mrs. 3°141
Houseman, of a daughter.
On
Stapleton, thel tth inst.:, at St. Mary's hill, near Plympton, the
A. G. loy of
Esq., of a son. ---
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On the 27th tilt., John Carr Chambers, Esq., of the rhillisnsij oil:-
1.
Jamaica, to Louisa, eldest daughter of Mr. 11.
Dibdin, 01
to M
Whil'lP°l.99i°
lane, London.
Ott th? 17th inst., at Broinyard, Lechmere Williarn
Esq., fourth son of General Sir G. Whitmore, K•C.
of the late 8., , P
Sarah Patience Mee, daughter and solo • Ake,
heiress
Esq., of The Til'd house, ,-.....00n,
Staffordshire.
On the 17th inst., at St. Alphage, Grcenwicln, John J-1;:te J.
Esq., of Iligham Lodge, Suffolk, to Mary, daughter of the
Brittain, Esq., of Buenos Ayres, and Blackheath. —q. so-
On the 18th inst., at St. John's, floxton, '"°9.
I)Yliiidtosf Loco
geon, of Upper Norton.street, to Tryphena, only c
----
Birch, Esq., of Brunswick-placi::
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DIED. _ flar..
On Monday, the 16th inst., in Waterloo-creieent, DeSNe(lOl
riett, fourth (laughter of Thomas Starr, Esq., of th
Precincts, Canterbury. tied 511'
On the 17th inst., Rob. Child. Esq., of Russell-squas:_atjaas J.
On the 12th of April last, at Bang,alore, Madras,lA; cony
Rogerson Middlemist, As Hon• East Alidalean9tP
pang's Service, aged 32, youngest son of th® late Mrs.
of Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury-square. ~nier, f.,Sq'
On the 17th inst., in Doughty-street; John Thos. 0 ,
of Furnival's Inn, aged 36.
On the 17th inst., James Troughton Esq., Coventry._
On the 16th inst., William Foster, q• of Stoke ileiegt°l4
aged 62. 78, S°l.4ll'
On the 17th inst., in Duke-street, St. James's, aged
relict of Mr. J. Macqueen. Elisabeth
On the 17th inst., in Charles-street, Berkeley-scinar, oe%
Francis, daughter of the late Jacob Raynardson, Esq., 01
Lincolnshire.
On the 17th inst., at Windsor, Mrs. Jeffreys, aged 72.
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