The Sun.
London, England, 1830-09-08 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

Yesterday morning, betwee►t seven and eight o'clock, a
detachment belonging to the first battalion of the Cold-
stream Regiment of Vont Guards, m►arched from the
Barracks In Portman-street on route for Kew, and re-.
tiered a similar detachment belonging to the third Nitta/inn
of the Grenadier Regiment of Guards, which, on their arm
rival in London, proceeded into Westminster quarters.

(From the Limerick Chronicle of Saturday.)
The first divisio3 of the 37th Regiment, from Ennis-
killen, under Capt. Dillon Many, march into Cork next
Thursday, to embark for Bermuda. The grand division
arrives in Cork the day following, under command of Capt,
Wood. Colonel Smelt, who is in England, will join um
regiment in a few days, and embark with the service
companies.

Two divisions of the Std regiment arrived front Duldin
at Quebec on the Sd August. The remaining division,
under Major Palk, had not arrived.

Col. Warde is daily expected in Limerick to resume hit
duties as Quartermaster-General.

Col. George Flue!arm% Deputy Adjutant—General, is
appointed a Gommistioner of the Royal Military Atylam I
afro Lord Francis Leveson Gower, the Secretary at War.
Col. Fitaclarence is, in addition, a Commitaimutr of thn
Royal Military College.
Col. R. G. Hare, h. p., is appointed an Inspector of
Army Clothing.

Al the War Office, E. Marshall, Esq., is appointed
Chief Examiner of Amounts, vice It. Browne, Esq.
Capt. Gil, 150th Regiment, has entered a student In the
senior department of the Royal Military College,
Lieut.-Col. C. King is appointed Inspecting Field
Officer of the Recruiting Department in Mobster—head.
quarters, Cork; vice ALjor-General Aliddlemote.
Lieut. Plunkett, 84th Regiment, is removed from the
Athlone Recruiting District to Londonderry.
Lieut. Kiusbury, 8d Buffs, is placed on the Recruiting
District at Coventry.
The five Military Districts into which Ireland was here-
tofore divided, viz., northern, eastern, western, southern,
and south-west, are now reduced to four, distinguished by
the names of the province.. Leinster, Munster, Connaught,
and Ulster.

THE FCRTY•SECOND REGIMENT.

We have been favoured with the eight of A ;suer front
Serjeaut.Major Wheatley, of this dieting w!alied.regiteens,
now stationed at Gibraltar, and give puldieity to the to,:
lowing highly i►tteresting extract 1.-I.in the month of
February, about 100 of the non-commiosioneil officers
and men entered into a subscription, under the patronage
of the Lieutenent.eolonel, to fora► a library. The 10,-
scription requited Was six days' pay of whatever rank the
individual held. In 44 hours we had every nott.eormnia.
sioned officer in the regiment, and laii men. On the
NM. day a committee of wauagement was appointed, eon.,
sisting of three serjeants, two eorporals, and axe sue
from every ten of the privates. At the *rat ►ueeeting of
the committee were elected a prteident (why is also Mira-
Han, and has under him a paid deputy and the tleputy'o
assistant), a vicelresident, a treasurer, and two au.
data% A list of books was i►nmedlstrly made out
and conunissioaed from London; bye..law* were
drawn up and approved ; a MDR) was allotted to
serve the double purpose of a binary and reading.
room. In ten days we were in palomino of 10 volumes,
and the library was open to atibarribers. Sipe* that No
have received neatly tititi volanies of new works halts
London, and *NI WVe are ordered. At got the library
alternate ihrtillghts ; but for the last five 'weeks it has been
admitted quarterly. The
open to all.
subscriber pays sixpence monthly
In keep up the eeteldittli_
was only npenTtiniausnue-whoslifbeoraf
Itilti,ewsmumtesocertilbet otto a2tuon.ete,yeforry
(with
tintl-sentt.subSsourbispctioterswitaareotir itritYhrea instalments, but tl►os*
who now enter must pay all at once, having time to prepo,„,
titileir
of
Many more are nxious to subscribe. Ai►uut RI
volume* of oar beat works, and any periodicals gawk..
wood, of course), we have, are reserved for the read
iOn urwrqculaullatisointis
ing..rootn. We have received, a gnat many done,
tpb hr *ionsou:etkrpiloe;tfei.:e
rhtilleltien
gltWlittoevlfefatohrdi nee:their Inttkvh:eor:Y lrliug lua
institution.ilel
and in a few years, keepingulo
their usual kind attention to the comfort, of the men) to
are emaidered excellent ; the mon pay every utteuti t t
from campaigning, I think we shall have a respect4llo
concern. The beneficial effects are already evident in
various ways, particularly in the decrease of eri►nn. among
thole who are subseribetx." We are proud that our gal,
lent couutrymen, who have ever beeu foremost illi tiaairra •
should also be farm.* in such a labour as that oft have
here rettorded. We look upon the foundation of this
library as a glorious era in the ;midi of the -WIWI 'artuy►
....,Stfinburati CliraniglA , .

as a precaution, order his ports to be shut against
the tri-coloured flag, and further commanded the
return of his nussiati subjects to their native coun-
try, adding that Frenchmen could not be allowed to
visit the Imnerial dominions. His Majesty, how-
ever, did not . go the length of recalling his
4:Was:odor. It cannot be denied that these orders
indicated, at' the time of their being issued, both
alarm and dislike of the proceedings at Paris; but
altered circumstances will doubtless alter his views;
at all events, we can state with perfect belief that
the Emperor Nicholas will immedintely recognise
the existing. Government of Louis Philip, King of
the French. Austria has already recognised the new
order of things in Franee ; her recognition proceeds
to Paris via Berlin, and will be accompanied by tiler
of Prussia. This conjoint ntode of proceeding is
far from unimportant,
.as, besides the additional
guarantee for the preservation of the general tran-
quillity of Europe held out by this solemn act of
two great Continental Powers, it marks a cordiality
of intercourse and harmony of purpose in two
States, which, from contiguity and various other
local reasons, might be supposed most likely to be
affected by reciproeril jealousies.— Times.
The industrious chums of Frenchmen (and we
may add, of our own countrymen also) seem better
to understand the duties of a Government to its
subjects, than those of fellow-citizens to each other.
The disturbances created by bodies of mischievous
and refractory printers in the French capital, form a
hod sequel to the achievements of the last week of
July, in which many of the same well-Meaning, but
ill-taught men, bad borne a part so glorious. Their
object in destroying the improved machinery for
expeditious printing, is not more guilty or more
barbarous than the assailants of power-looms—
the professors of the Luddite policy in England;
but it is undoubtedly not a whit less criminal, or
less void of common sense. The avowed purpose
of the outrage committed by these journeymen upon
the property of their employers, has been to
throw all press machinery out of use, except
that rude implement the hand-press, in order
that press men may be employed hereafter in-
stead of the streets-engine and the rollers. This is in
plain English an attempt to render Newspapers
five or six times as dear as they now are, by
applying to their production about ten times the ex-
isting quantity of labour : in other words, it would
diminish in the same proportion the circulation, and
therefore the manufacturing of journals. There is
in a French journal an excellent letter, addressed to
some member of the discontented body of printeri,
by M. Charles Dupin. The writer, who promises
a second letter, treats the subject in the present one
as a question of pure justice, and enforces the right
of every citizen to employ his. capital and industry
in the manner which suits him best. M. Dupin de-
nies the right of the Legislature so to protect the
interests of any one class of citizens es to abridge
the liberties and injure the
.property of others; and
on that score of right to nitermeddle, it may well
be asked, if we grant the existence of the rights
who shall assign its limits ? If the steam-engine be
interdicted, for the sake of pressmen, why should
not the same wonderful invention be abolished, to
whatever branch Of manufacture it has yet been aps
plied 2—for nowhere is it seen but as a power which
supersedes a certain quantity of manual labour, and
excludes it. The progress of menufeeturing industry
in all branches may be used as a term synonymous
with the gradual substitution of mechanism for the
hand 'of man.. Since the spinniugelermy has been
brought to such'perfection that one labourer by its
inetrumentelity performs the work of 50, the num-
bers of human beings employed in working cotton
throughout the north of England have been multi-
plied in the ratio of more than 50 to one. Since
the publication of newspapers came to be expedited
by the steam-engine, the sum-total of families
supported by printing establishments in France
and in this country have been increased to an
immense extent. But if the steam press be
sacrificed, where will the reformation stop ? Whet
is the hand press,---what the type itself, but an op-
presslve'and inhuman invention, whereby thousands
of worthy individuals who had earned their bread
by 'the useful art of penmanship, must have been
irreparably ruined ? Let the Parisian compositors
and pressmen, but reflect how many hundred's of
quills could be employed in writing daily 16,000 or
20,000 copies of journals, laid in manuscript before
whole regiments of clerks, and then ask them-
selves how, if these early artisans should witge war
upon the leaden alphabet, and destroy it, with other
elements of the yet infant inventions—how, let us
repeat, could these persecutors of the steam-press
condemn the abolitionists of its clumsy predecessor
of the list century, by any argument which must
not /Nuttily: recoil upon their own proceedings ?*
To n dispassionate mind, with even the slightest
tincture of knowledge, it tnust appear ludicrous to
treat such questions as if they could bear discussion,
And when we see large bodies of men capable, not
many weeks ago, of acts trot merely of the most
daring courage, but marked at once by u steutlittees
of purpose, a sagacity and genero,ity above all
praiser—when such men so "non afterwards degene-
rate into n series of outrages, contemptible and senses
lees, as well as lawless and iniquitous, the suspicion
becomes almost unavoidable, that foul seductions
have been practised on them, from motives and with
objects which will not bear the light. We insert an
address from a eorregpondent to the impetuous and
misguided multitude, who now seem half disposed
to tarnish their well-earned honours of the pre-
ceding month, and if arty thing cast either penetrate
the understandings or touch the feelings of men so
excited, and so imperfectly instructed as to their
personal interests or their social duties, we have
hopes dust such an appeal from a cordial friend,
who admires their heroism, may not be without in-
fluence upon them. Let them at least be assured
of this—that all who instigate them to disturb the
public peace, are implacable enemies to the (sieve
for which the credulous workmen have bled and
conquered.—Times.
Besides observations on the opposition to the use
of machinery, now a subject of immediate interest
with the Paris Journals, the contents of the Papers
of Sunday last are in other respects not unimportant.
There ball been a renewal of the late disturbances at
Nismes, and though 'tranquillity is supposed to
be restored, for that is not certain, the affair is
stated to have been of a very serious nature. The
ultra violence displayed in this quarter of France is
e natural consequence of the encouragement given to

s That journeymen printers have thetoselveshete
how been the victims of hostility to their old bans!- press,
swilichr tiurtigh considered A very Simple machine by therm
has been thought mi.chievonaly powerful in its productive
'towers by others is an historical fact. The Court of
Station in Newland having made an order that certain
manuscript papers necessary to bo submitted to the Judges,
in the viuraw of processes before that Court, should be pre-
Itnte4l° Chum Printed, the order was resisted by an inn.
:nem number of writers' who were at that time
constantly employed in copying these papers. riots took plat*, in which these 44 Violent
penny.page" writers, as
they %Vete called, attacked the 1)6416144.01%1e5, and any
kcompositor or preasman who cause in their way war its
danger of being quickly rendered A fit lobject for th„
lections of the Professor of Atiatotoy. These gentlemen,
doubtless, thought it very bud that books were printed,
since it was so clearly for their benefit that they should all
be written. The invention of pretties and types was a
great usurpation over manual labour, and perhaps Choate,
X. and the Holy Alliance would be glad to tee legitimate
penmanship restored.

was in Germany, on account of his health--Prince
Lieven holding his porleleuille in his absence—
when the Revolution in Paris was consummated.
Our informant even stated that he was at Carlsbad
when the news of that event reached him, and
that he hod immediately an interview with Price
Metternich. The result of that interview was
this :--They
,both agreed that the wisest course

for their respective Governments to pursue
would be to leave the French unmolested,

unless they should seek to revolutionise other
countries. If they did that measures were to be
taken to check them. If they did not the Conti-
nental Powers were to be advised to remain pasaive.
The result of this deliberation, wo were informed,
was communicated to the King of Prussia, who ap-
proved of it, and to the Emperor of Austri►►, who
gave it his sanction. We are inclined, therefore, to
suppose that the orders sent by the Russian Go-
vernment to its 'Ambassador at Paris were sent
before Count Nesselrode's opinion and the opinion
of the Courts of Germany had reached it ; and we
presume that those orders will be recalled, or mo-

allied, when the resolution of the other European
Powers, particularly of Englund, is known at St.
Petersburgb, and when it is seen that the continued
quietness of France affords no other Power a pre-
text for treating her in uny but the most friendly
manner, We have. also reason to believe that the
determination of the British Government to acknow-
ledge Louis Phillippe was not formed till it received
by a courier (on this day fortnight, we believe) in-
telligence that such as we have stated them were
the opinions of Prince Metternich and Count Nes-
-elrode.7 Morning Chronicle.
A contemporary (the Times) has the following
observations:—

" It will Ise perceived that the new Government of

France have .introduced a new mode of address smeng the
Peers and functionaries of France, and even among the
great functionaries of State. There are to he no more
• Illy Louis' emong them—no longer Moro•eigneur, but
M. Le Ministre. Now there is no country in Europe in
which the distinction between Peer and Commoner is se
'nuked as in England; and that owing to the existence
of those absurd, and even profane addresses, • My Lord,'
ua applied to the tamer ; and ' Your Lordship,' Your
Grace,' tend • Noble Lords.' Foreigners are diesusted
with us on this account ; and think that, with the freest
institution'', we are the basest people, to suffer such n dis-
tinction to exist in daily practice l No ono would or
could interfere with a Lord as a legislator in the Upper
House--a Member of the House of Louis, if you please;
but Lord Grey, for example, or Lord Grenville, would
quite as well discharge all the duties of that station, if
addressed • Sir;' Yes, Sir;' No, Sir;' as when celled
that which they are not,. ....g the Lord' of him who ad-
drones them. We should like to see this profane and
disgusting foolery put an end to in England. It exists
nowhere else. It is not worth the while to inquire how
it crept in here; but this is the last country where it
ought to find a place; and we have no doubt but that
being once branded, it will very soon vanish hence.
The sooner this takes place the better ; and no time
so good as the present., It is remarkable also, that
the servility of practice outruns the formality of
the law in this respect. The law allows no titles to

the younger sons of Dukes or Marquises. It is George
Gordon, Esq. commonly called Lord George Gordon ;
yet each of these persons is now a My Lord
a My Lord_l

The title is the smallest part of the Weir. The
evil of Aristocracy lies much deeper than title. -Title'
without substantial power would only be ridiculous;
and a poor Nobleman would be us glad to get rid of
the title of " my Lord" as the unfortunate hump-
backs, to whom it is given by the vulgar. The evil
is in te law of succession, which allows large masses
of property to accumulate in the hands of a corn-
. pnrattvely small number of individuals, who are
thereby enabled to make the property of the rest of
the community tributary to them. The solid power
lot the Aristocracy, and the habits of the people of
'England, which lead them to worship wealth and
show to a degree known in no other country, pro-
duce the servility of mind which disposes to the
yielding willingly to much homage in the way of ad-
dressing Peers, as Peers would be disposed to exact.
We have just received ,Lndy Morgan's work on France
in 1829-30, in which there are several able articles
by Sir Charles Morgan, and among others one on
primogeniture, which goes to the bottom of thy

question to which we are now alluding. We are
glad to perceive that this important subject has of
late attracted so much attention, and that the belief
is beginning to be general that no people can be
moral with an Aristocracy; no country well governed
where primogeniture is the law of descent. Sir
Charles Morgan observes—
" In England the powers of the State, however theo-
retically divided, are, fur all practical purpwes, vested in
a pure Oligarchy. A close Aristocracy of the titled
Nobility and the greater I.nded Proprietor*, monopolise a
paramount influence in Parliament ; and the King and
his_ Ministers can do nothing without their permission;
while the people have little direct controul over affairs,
and are allowed nu,greater liberty than serves to increase
their productive power as labourers, for the benefit of the
Privileged consumers of the public revenue. It is a notion
in— •
istAYOU us the Englishman's imagination, that the

possession of land is something very different and very
superior to all other sorts of wealth; and that .if-to `this
claim to distinction be added a title, and two or three ge-
nerations of ancestors, the possessor is fairly privileged to
quarter his family on the tithes and taxes of the nation.
Befure this power every knee bows ; to it the Throne has
gradually yielded its prerogative, and the people ?omen-
tiered their rights ; and in it is vested all the substantial
authority end real influence in. the English scheme of Go.
vernment. Although the principal part of the public
business he transacted in the Commons, the Lords (repro-
sented there by the nominee's) in reality decide on ail im-
portant questions, and give the tone and character to public
affairs. In France, on the contrary, the rights of primo-
geniture are abolished; Aristocracy has scarcely any pri-
vileges; and the Chamber of Peers is a mere surplusage, a
supernumerary wheel in the state machine, which compli-
cates without materially modifying its movements. It is
in vain that the Executive, on creating a Peer; dignjfies
him with a title, and confers on him a legislative power;
he is not thereby separated from the mass of the people in
sentiment or in interest ; and the spirit of liberty shows it-
self in the Upper House, with nearly as much firnme:as and
purity as in the Chamber of Deputies.
" This political condition is a natural ornsequence of
the deeply-rooted feeling of equality, which (with the ex,
caption of the emigrant noblesse) pervades all classes of
Frenchmen ; and of that abhorrence of feudality which
has Arian) from a thousand years' experience of its horrors-
This feeling it was that dictated the laws established dur-
ing the: Revolution, for regulating the descent of property;
which, by breaking up the great estates, .has eradicated all
vested interests in State abuses, and has united all ranks
and foams in one common desire for a free and a just
Government. •
" The advantages derived from this new order of things
are too immediate and tangible to escape popular remark ;
and notwithstanding all the efforts of Napoleon to raise up
a new Nubility, and all the vat of the Bourbons to re-
establish the old, the dislike of artificial grades in society
is becoming daily more rooted. All attempts to re-este..
blish new houses by the creation of majorata have made
no change in public -opinion ; and it is remarkable that
-the eldest. sons of families have shown ea ateady an opposi-
tion to the principle, as they who would have been disin-
herited by its adoption.
" It is, in fact, in the single act of gavelling the French
territory that the whole practical benefit oldie Revolution
centres ; and it is at the same time the chief guarantee for
the future developemetit of a Constitutional Government.
The diffusion of wealth and of industry is a powerful in-
strument for disseminating knowledge, and for creating a
public opinion ; and the traditional remembrance of what
the peasant was before the Revolution, and the contrast of
that condition with the actual. state of the small proprie-
tors affords an argument for liberty which no sophistry
can refute, and no power silence.
" Wherever the right of primogeniture is acknow-
ledged, there the cavil-pled cadets of the great proprietors
most be supported by the peop'o, It was so in old
France ; it is so in England, The younger brothers,
educated with the future chiefs of their lonises, necessa-
rily adopt their habits and their prejudices, their turn
for expense and idleness, and their proud contempt
for commercial industry. To provide for them, the
Army and Navy, the Church and the Civil Service, must
be placed at the disposition of the heads of the great fami-
lies ; and to rimless this influence, the Nobility must obtain
such a power in the State, as is obviously subversive of real
liberty and of diffusive happiness. To keep this body in
vigour, the laws nom be so regulated as to encourage, in a
vicious degree, the aocumulation of wealth into few hands,
so that eventually the population must be divided into two
groups--.the extreme rich and the extreme poor ; than which
a greater curse can hardly be inflicted on civilized man.
" In England, the energies of the people, and the suc-
cess of their manufacturieg and commercial exertions have
tended to controul and to disguise this catenation of events.
The grout industrial fortunes raise the apparent condition
Of the people to the level of the landed Aristocrat; and-us
this species of property is to a certain degree gavelled, •it
returns a large mass of wealth hack upon the middle and
inferior ranks. But the mischief is still at work, an active
agent of misery ; and it shows itself in all its deformity in
the 'debt, the taxes, and the poor rates, and the deteriorated
condition of the labouring classes. . . It is in Ire-
land that the unequal distribution of wealth produces its
evil consequences in all their intensity."
• So much for Aristocracy. Alas, the abolition a
title would go but u short way to relieve us of •thin
substantial enemy to good government and nation.'
bappiness.-11forning Chronicle.

It cannot be denied that the peace of Europe is,
at the present moment, in a state of extreme peril.
The shock of the French revolution pervades the
continent from the shores of the Tagus to the banks
of the Volga, and Kings and 11111101111 feel the
tremblings of the political earthquake, by which the
throne of the Bourbon dynasty has been subverted.
Whether this fearful state of things is to end in a
general war, or new and pacific relations among the
various people and Governments of Europe, no.po-
Nice! sagacity can yet discover. Much will depend
upon the good sense or faulty of those Govern-
ments themselves; although, in a crisis of 'Rich
great excitement, and where thel combus:ible mate-
rials of revolutions are so thickly strown, an acci-
dental spark might kindle the flame of
,war in a way
which no human prudence could foresee or avert.
Whatever may be the issue of the great events
which have so suddenly risen to confound the wisdom
of man, and whose remoter consequences are known
only to that Supreme Intelligence which governs the
destinies of the universe, it must be the wish and
hope of every person of well-constituted mind, that
the progress of revolution may be wetted. by:those
timely reforms which the spirit of the age demands.
It is in vain to say that the revolutionary movements'
which have appeared, and which are in progress,'
are the work of a few incendiaries, who have Coils
spired together against civil order and, legitimate au-
thority, .and excited the people to desperate resist-
ance to their rulers. If we search the history of the
world we will find that good GovernMents never
produce revoletions. There are, indeed, in all
countries, and under the best Governments, to be
found some turbulent and discontented spirits, who,
its Lord Bacon expresses it,
.would " set their
neighbour's house on fire to roast their own eggs;"
but as it always is the interest, of those classes who
constitute the strength and power of the State to
prefer quiet to disturbance, and order to insecurity,
such spirits can never gain on ascendancy over the
public mind, unlesi there be something decidedly
wrong in the nature or administration of the Go-
vernment which people are hopeless of having
redressed by peaceable means. The daises by
whose combined efforts only a revolution can
be accomplished, are, generally, mote remark-
able for their long :endurance of grievances than
for resorting to the desperate remedy of violence,
which they always fear may produce greater evils
than those of which they complain. In France,
fur instance, how long had the Bourbons been set.
ing in a manner which proved their incapacity for
exercising the duties of enlightened Government
Long, indeed, before any woel resistance was made
to their power by any large portion of the people.
It bas been clear to France, for years past, that ,
these infatuated Princes were employing all their
power, both by open oppression and secret intrigue,
to bring the nation back to that state of ignorance,
superstition, and moral debasement which had
already precipitated it into the frightful scenes of a
sanguinary revolution. Yet it was .not until
Charles X. and his Ministers, by an act of trans-
cend„ot insanity, expunged the Charter, that any
formidable resistance was offered to the tyrannical
ambition of the Court. Instead of conforming his
Government to the spirit of the age, Charles, under
the direction of his priestly advisers, was perpetually
endeavouring to make the age conform to his no-
tions of Government. Hence the crisis which has
been felt, or will be felt, by every other Government
that-heti hitherto displayed more of p6Wer than of
either virtue or wisdom. 'We should be sorry if
the revolutionary spirit which nOW abroad should
lead to anarchy; and yet, in some States, such a re-
sult is to be dreaded. Of all Governments, a ge-
nuine mob-government, or that which the Greeks
called an mob-government,
is the worst. It has more
than the tyranny of the sternest despotism, without
any of its dignity. It is continually actuated by the
wild fluctuations of unbridled passions, and science,
art, virtue, and intelligence, perish under its de-
grading and desolating influence. To prevent such
a state of things-in 'countries where revolution might
lead to a total and sanguinary subversion of order
and existing institutions, how desirable is it that all
just cause of public discontent shoald be met, in-

quircd into, and remedied, in the first instance !-
1-lint rulers been wise enough to observe the sigm
of the limes, and had salutary reforms been adopted
in Belgium, in Prussia, in Italy, how much less
would the GoVernments of those countries have to
dread 'the example* which France has afforded to
their subjects, and which now strikes them with so
much. terror 1-21forning Herald.

POLICE I NTELLIOENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

A respectable man applied to the LORD MAYOR
for protection against the annoyance which his Wife
was constantly inflicting upon him. " She had, he
said; done him some time ago, as all ilia public
prints could testify, the greatest injury a wife could
do her !instead! by going off with another man, and
she now continued to perseCute him, although she
had not the alightest vlaim upon Wm either legally
or otherwise, a regular divorce . a mcnsa et !hero
having taken Place as soon as possible aft, r the de-
tection of her infidelity.
The circumstances of the case were peculiarly die-
tressieg, for the husband was fond, domestic, and
industrious, and the connection promised to be a
very happy one. An attachment to gin, however,
grew up in the unfortitorre woman, and was 'en-
couraged by some of the old 'g►ossips of the neigh-
bouthood in which they resided,.and this propensity
exposed her to temptations of another kind which
she had not sufficient command of herself to resist.
Her husband.. did 'all.that man could do to conquer
the infernal craving., for drink, which , made her a
theme of laughter and contempt to all her former
acquaintances, and finding that all his services were
useless, and that she would even descend to "lush"
with coal-heavers and chimney-sweepers, and after-
wards give them other proofs of her partiality, .he
determined to get rid of her in the most effectual
mariner. He accordingly 'commenced a suit in
Doctors,'-Commons, and succeeded, and he had the
documents and judgment of the President of the
Court, showing that there was a perpetual impedi-
ment to all claims upon hiM.upOn her part.
The defendant said it was true the divorce had
taken place, but then it was supported by Mae evi•
dence; she had never been guilty of infidelity, and
those who had poisoned her husband's mind were
influenced by some base motives to ruin her.
She considered that as she was actually innocent of
the adultery of which she was accused, she had a
Moral claim at least for support, and she hoped that
his Lordship tt•ould see justice done to her.
The LORD MAYOR had no 'more to do than to

protect .the complainant from assault and other.
noyonce. The verdict of the Court of Doctors'.
Commons bad finally separated the husband and
wife, and he mutt arcordingly' adjudicate ay if they
had always been strangers to each other.
The Complainant—She follows me about, dis-
gracing me, and threatening to do. me serious. injury.
1 am, however, willing to make her any allowance
your Lordship may think proper to mention, although
she now, as a destitute person, falls into the hands
of the parish, according to usage. The complainant
then fixed upon a certain sum to be paid weekly by
him, to keep the defendant still from the disgrace of
being it' pauper in a workhouse, and left-the Justice.
room in great apparent trouble.
The woman has a countenance which proweronsi
days most have elevated into beauty, but the daemon
of drum-drinking had blasted the feminine expres-
sion, and the. raw and watery eye, and discoloured
nose, fully indicated what she had had that meriting
for her breakfast.

A man named 'Stevens was brought before the
LORD MAYOR, by John Forrester, the officer,
charged upon suspicion of having committed a
robbery.
Forrester stated, that as he was going along Little
Bell-alley, he saw the prisoner trudging along with
a bag full of sometlung. The prisoner, the moment
he saw witness, of whose profession he was not at
all ignorant, 'tuned short into a public-house, and
i
made down to the water-Closet n the yard, where
lie waited for some time. Ile then walked gently
our, and was sliding out of the house, wken wit-
ness thrust Isis unwelcome face right before him,
and made him almost leap out of his skin. The
prisoner wits diets taken to the Compter, after hav-
ing assured the officer that he had purchased the
contents of the bug, which contained a quantity of
brown pelisse cloth.
The Loau Mityort—Prisoner, where did you get
this cloth ?—The prisoner made a low bow to the
Lord Mayor, and said, " My Lord, may I most re-:
spectfully beg that you will be so condescending as
not to insist on my giving an answer to that clues.;
tion ? I have a particular objection to say anything
on the subject now."
The LORD MAYOR—Oh, certainly, I shall riot
ask you to say any thing you do not
_lsiah to say;
but it was my duty, when you were found carrying
1 cloth that does not belong to you, to ask you where
you got it. Prisoner--My Lord, I repeat my re-
quest. In a few tiffs, I assure you, II shall be able
to account for this eonsarn, but I cannot now. I
hope your Lordship will be so goad_ us to excuse
me. The communication shall he made in a day or
two. May I hope for your Lordship's indulgence ?
The LORD MAYOR, who was struck with the
overwhelming politeness of the prisoner, bowed to
hiM arid said, " Oh, II all means, Sir. .Pray, on
what day would it be convenient to you to snake the
communication you speak of ?" Prisoner—Why,
my Lord, I shall leave that to you.
The LORD MAYOR—Oh, by no means ; you must
appoint the time yourself. Perhaps the latter end
of the week would answer your convenience. Pri-
soner—l thank your Lordship exceedingly. That
will exactly do.
The LORD MAYOR---I am, I assure you, very
happy to. hear it. Pray, what day shall we mime?
Prisoner Why, on Friday, my Lord; suppose your
Lordship Will be so good as to say. Friday.
The LORD MAYOR-43y all means, Sir. For-
rester attend Mr. Stevens to you know where, and
accompany hint back here on Friday next, at twelve
o'clock precisely.