The Sun.
London, England, 1838-02-19 00:00:00

POLAND.

We have much pleasure in giving insertion to the annexed
letter, addressed by the Palatine Ostrowski, late Commander
of the Patriotic National Guard of Warsaw, to Mr. O'Connell,
as Chairman of the Meeting held at the Crown and Anchor, on
the 29th November la►t, in commemoration of the glorious
but unfortunate Polish revolution :

" ADDRESS OF TOE PALATINE OSTROWSKI TO MR. O'CONNELL,
AS CHAIRMAN OP THE MEETING HELD AT THE CROWN AND
ANCHOR ON THE 29TH NOVEMBER LAST, IN COMMEMORA-

TIoN or THE POLISH REVOLUTION.

" Sir—Member of the Diet of revolutionized Poland, and
native of that land which is persecuted by the atrocious
despotism of the great spoiler of the North, proud of
sharing the proscription, the exile, and the affections of
my numerous companions in misfortune, 1 experienced,
like them, a lively feeling of consolation in learning that
the illustrious advocate of the rights of the oppressed
and of nations, that you, Sir, had so recently raised your elo-
wont voice in favour of our holy cause ! Yes, that voice,
which has caused our hearts to throb with emotion of gratitude
toward you, who are so worthy a representative of powerful and
free Albion—that voice will find its echo not only in the con-
victions of our friends, and of all who can appreciate what is
noble, just, and for the true interests of mankind, but, more,
it will make itself audible as an echo of our griefs, as a warn-
ino. (perchance as a reproach) to those over-timorous con-
sciences, which a spirit of narrow egotism and forgetfulness of
the principles of a sound policy have hitherto kept silent.
Thanks, then, be to you, Sir, fur having presided so nobly,
and with enthusiasm so touching., at the last commemoration
of our immortal night of the 29th of November, 1830.
Continue your noble labours in this glorious work of justice—
of universal interest—this work so worthy of your great
heart And you will continue them, our presaging hearts
by anticipation assure us, with that perseverance which
is your characteristic, and which renews to the world the olden
virtue of a Cato. By proclaiming aloud the necessity of
humbling our common foes, by incessantly demanding the re-
storation of entire Poland to its primitive independence and
liberty, you will have worthily crowned the labours which have
so nobly filled up your career.
Have the kindness at the same time, Sir, as President of
our profou
wnldin gratitude
jnined
thtoeir the
voices honour-
le onou
tr n
-
the patriotic Meeting of the 29th of November lost, to commu-
nicate
generouselpressi
onof
Englishmen
In the annals of our history, and our national affection is yours
for ever.
"The Palatine ANTOINE OSTROWSKI,
General and late Commander of the National Guard
of Warsaw.
ti Paris, Rue des Petits Augustin, 17, Dec. 10, 1837."
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1:1301ne oar's,
Your name, Sir, and theirs, arc henceforth enrolled

HORRID ACCIDENT.--On Thursday, several of
the inhabitants of Chorlce were attracted by screams from the
house pf Mrs. Mary Bamber, a widow, aged 87 years, On
entering the dwelling the poor woman was found to be one
body which was put out, leaving her the most horrid
spectacle.of
melaThe flesh was burned away from her face and
head,leaving her bones bare, notwithstanding which she lived
for upwards of four hours, calling on her husband, who had
only been dead a few days, to come to her.—Preston Chron.

A LEAP EXTRAORDINARY.—Sam. Scott, the
celebrated American jumper, has now made a most extraordi-
nroy jump—viz., from the house of Mr. Jones, at Warrington,
to the treadmill at Kirkdale.—Liverpool Paper.

PROTESTS AGAINST' FHE THIRD
READING OF THE CANADA GOVERNMENT
BILL.

DISSENTIENT :-

1. Because it appears by a despatch from the Earl of Go-
ford, dated the 23d of December 1837, th7t the measures
adopted for putting down the revolt in Lower Canada have
been crowned with entire success; that the principal instiga-
tors and leaders have been killed, taken, or torced into exile ;
that the revolutionary press is no longer in existence ; that
the disposition of the Roman Catholic clergy is favourable ;
that numerous offers of service have been made by large por-
tions of the population in various parts of the province, to
enrol themselves i❑ volunteer corps fur the defence of the
Government ; and that loyal addresses are pouring in from
the French Canadian population is all parts of the province,
expressing their fidelity to the Queen and their attachment to
the British connexion, and strongly reprobating the selfish
ambition and treasonable designs which have ruthlessly involved
one of the fairest portions of the country in all the horrors of
civil war.

2. Because, therefore, the averment in the preamble of the
Bill, that in the present state of the province of Lower Canada
the House of Assembly cannot he called together without
serious detriment to the interests of that province, is not only
not supported by facts, but negatived by the inference to be
drawn from the latest facts of which the House is in possession.
3. Because the conduct of the House of Assembly being
the alleged ground of the Bill, and certain Members of that
Assembly who had mainly influenced its proceedings having
brought upon their country all the horrors of civil war, it is
not just to suspend the Constitution, of the province with a view
to its alteration by an Act of the Imperial Parliament, without
first dissolving the House of Assembly, and thus affording to
the people the opportunity of showing that they have with-
drawn their confidence from such of their late representatives
as have proved unworthy of it, and that they do not approve
the acts of the House of Assembly which are deemed to justify
the Bill.

4. Because the Bill gives to the Governor and Council
power to make, with certain exceptions, all such laws and or-
dinances as the Legislature of Lower Canada, as now consti-
tuted, is empowered to make, and thereby places at the dis-
posal of the Governor and Council all the monies heretofore
appropriated by the House of Assembly, as well as all the
monies heretofore appropriated by the Crown ; thus making
much more extensive alterations in the Constitution when
order is restored than the Executive Council deemed it expe-
dient to recommend when agitation distracted the province,
and paralysed its Government.
5. Because, from the experience of last year, there is reason
to fear that this measure will not only revive the hostile feel-
ings of those who hare hitherto opposed the Government, and
increase their means of agitating the province, but at the same
time excite the strongest disapprobation on the part of those
who arc most attached to British connexion, and who most
reprobate the past proceedings of the House of Assembly.
6. Because the events which have taken place on the fron-
tier of the United States show the expediency of effecting at
the earliest period a permanent, and therefore a conciliatory,
settlement of all questions relating to Lower Canada, and the
Bill interposes a long interval of despotism before any propo-
sition for such settlement can be entertained.

7. Because it is impossible honestly so to modify the Elec-
toral Franchise and the Electoral Districts in Lower Canada
as to deprive the French population of that province of the
power of electing the majority of the Legislative Assembly ;
and, therefore, any new Assembly which may be called toge-
ther hereafter must be elected by a constituency essentially the
same as that which elected the present Assembly, whose con-
duct is alleged to justify the Bill.
8. Because it is consistent with reason and experience that
the long arbitrary discontinuance of the use of a Parliament
will, when that Parliament is at last called together, greatly
increase instead of diminishing the difficulty of carrying on the
Government of which it is a part.
9. Because the Bill thus postpones the calling of a new
Parliament to a period necessarily mote unfavourable than the
present, and, occupying the interval by a coercive despotism,
tends at once to alienate the affections of the people of Lower
Canada, to engage the sympathy of the people of the United
States in their favour, and to bring upon this country the ac-
cumulated evils of civil and of foreign war.
10. Because, if it be necessary to make alterations in the
constitution of Lower Canada, Parliament is already in pos-
session of ample information, the result of various recent in-
quiries, upon which, collected in times of tranquillity, it
would be much safer, after mature deliberation, to legislate,
than upon new opinions to be collected from parties still under
the exasperation of civil contest; and to suspend the Consti-
tution for more than two years for the purpose of gathering
such opinions upon the nature and extent of the reform as-
sumed to be required, is calculated to create agitation where
it is most desirable to re-establish tranquil habits under settled
and free Government.

ELLENBOROUGII.
For the 6th, 7th, Bth, 9th, and 10th reasons,
BROUGHANL

February 8, 1838.

EARL FITZWILLIAM'S PROTEST
AGAINST THE THIRD READING OF THE
CANADA GOVERNMENT BILL.

On Saturday se'enight a protest was entered upon the
journals of tho House of Lords by Earl Fitzwilliam against
the third reading of the Canada Government Bill. Lord
Brougham afterwards signed it :

" DISSENTIENT,
" First,—Because it must be presumed that the constitu-
tional rights conferred upon the people of Lower Canada by
the British Legislature were given them with the full know-
ledge that the House of Assembly in that province would,
and with the intent that it might thereby be enabled to exer-
cise that controul over the Executive Power which the Com-
mons of Great Britain are, by their undoubted privileges,
enabled to exercise over the Executive Power in the Mother
Country.
" Secondly,—Because this measure deprives the people of
Lower Canada, not only of the rights which were so given
them by the British Legislature, but of the rest of the Con-
stitution which they had previously enjoyed.
" Thirdly,—Because the Bill being founded upon the as-
sumption that such privation is just, it appears to us that such
assumption is erroneous.

" Fourthly,—Because it appears to us, in determining the
justice or injustice of a penal measure against a whole commu.
nity, the Legislature is not confined by those technical rules
which govern courts of law, but is bound to institute a larger
inquiry ; and that therefore it is necessary not merely to refer
to the recent acts of that community, but to examine into the
causes of those acts, and to ascertain their origin, which can
only be effected through a careful investigation of the succes-
sive steps by which the accused party has proceeded, and of
the circumstances by which it has been gradually led on to
those proceedings which furnished the immediate grounds of
this penal measure.

.Fifthly,—Because such investigation has satisfied us that
the origin of those proceedings is to be found in the early mal-
administration of the colony by those branches of the Govern-
ment which were more immediately connected with the mother
country ; and therefore it is not just to deprive the colony, even
for a time, of its political rights, upon the alleged ground of
recent misconduct.

" Sixthly,—Because it appears to us that this is only the
first of a series of measures which may involve the nation in
great difficulties ; an opinion countenanced by the admission
made in debate, that her Majesty's Ministers were prepared to
apply to Parliament for an increase of our military forces, in
which admission is obviously involved the further admission
that even, according to the expectations of the authors of this
measure, it may not improbably occasion an armed resistance
in the colony.
Seventhly,_Because, finally, we are determined not to
incur the heavy responsibility of a measure which may involve
our country in civil war.
( Signed) " FITZWILLIAM.
" BROUGHAM."

UDINIORE.—INCENDIARISM.—Between 11 and
12 o'clock on Sunday night week an extensive:and alarming fire
broke out on the premises of Mr. John Woodhams, of this
parish; the diabolical act, there is every reason to believe,
was that of one or more infamous incendiaries. A barn,
stabling, and out-houses, have all fallen a prey to the de-
structive element, together with three loads of sheaves, some
nine quarters of thrashed corn, four fine and valuable horses,
and three pigs. A labourer named George Ilookham, who
was in the habit of sleeping in the barn, has been apprehended
on suspicion of the foul deed.

STATE OF THE RIVER..—Wc regret to state that
the Thames is in a very bad state, and the navigation was con-
siderably impeded on Friday by the vast quantities of ice on
its surface, which came up the pool with the flood tide in the
afternoon in extensive fields, and where there was any consi-
derable quantity of shipping which formed an obstruction to
the passage of the icebergs, the stream was occasionally co-
vered with ice from side to side. The ice prevented a great
many barges and other craft from getting out in tome parts
of the river near the shores, and it is feared if the frost con-
tinues two or three days longer, that the navigation will be
again stopped. The frost, during the previous night, had
been most intense, and accompanied by a keen easterly
wind, which increased on Friday to a perfect gale. It
blew in gusts and squalls during the whole of Friday,
and in the evening the hurricane was tremendous. The river
was like a rough sea when the tide ebbed, and the blast,
which was never exceeded in keenness, was most severely
felt. In many of the reaches the ships under weigh were
obliged to bring up, and frequent collisions occurred—iadeed,
in the Pool and the vicinity of Greenwich and Deptford, the
damage done by collisions was very great; they were of the
ordinary nature, and there is no occasion to particularise
them. A good deal of ice appeared above bridge, where the
river was in the same rough state as bclow. The steamers
going down the river on Friday had great difficulty in making
their way against the wind and tide, and were frequently put
be. The long continuance of severe weather, and the want of
employment alongshore, have produced great distress among
the working classes.

After the death of Mrs. Mary Barnes, who died
lately at Eckington, Worcestershire, there were found in her
boles, drawers, and wardrobes, 542 gown-pieces, and 100
made-up gowns, and a proportionate stock of shawls. The
same old lady had generally a dozen cats, and a large stock of
rabbits.

It is a custom hi the south of France to carry the
body of a deceased priest to the grave with his face uncovered.
A few days ago, as they were thus conducting the corpse of
the Abbe Gounon through the streets of Toulouse, the sigh t
had such an effect upon the Abbe d'Auzat, Librarian of the
College, that he was struck with a fit of apoplexy and died
instantly,

SPRING ASSIZES.

CROWN OFFICE, FEB. IG.
Days and places appointed for holding the Spring Assizes, 1538,
viz :

WESTERN CIRCUIT.
The Right Hon. THOMAS Lord DENMA N, Lord Chief Justice;
the Right Hon. Sir JOHN BEILNAS,I. BOSA N(All ET. •
SOUtltarSpiGH—Thursday, March 1, at the Castle of Winchester.
Wiltshire—Wednesday, March 7, at New Sarum.
Dorsetshire—Tuesday, March 13, at Dorchester.
Devonshire—Saturday, March 17, at the Castle of Exeter ; City
of Exeter, the same day, at the Guildhall, Exeter.
Cornwall—Saturday, March 24, at Launceston.
Somersetshire—Saturday, March 31, at the Castle of Taunton.
HOME CIRCUIT.
The Right Hon. Sir Nrcitor.As CONY NGHAM TINOAL, Knt.,
Lord Chief Justice; the Right Hon. Sir Jourt VA ucHAN, one
of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas.
Hertfordshire—Wednesday, Feb. 28, at Hertford.
Essex—Monday, March 5, at Chelmsford.
Kent—Monday, March 12, at Maidstone.
Sussex—Monday, March 19, at Lewes.
Surrey—Monday, March 26, at Kingston-iin,n- Thames.
MIDLAND CIRCUIT.
Mr. Justice PARK; Mr. Justice LITTLE DA 11.
Nurtha:nptonshire—Monday, Feb. 26, at Northampton.
Rutlandshire—Friday, March 2, at Oakham.
Lincolnshire—Saturday, March 3, at the Castle of Lincoln.
City of Lincoln—The same day, at the City of Lincoln.
Nottinghamshire—Thursday, March 8, at Nottingham.
Town of Nottingham--The same day, at the Town of Nottingham.
Derbyshire—Tuesday.. March 13, at Derby.
Leicestershire—Saturday, March 17, at the Castle of Leicester.
Borough of Leicester—The same day, at the Borough of Leicester.
Warwickshire—Thursday, March 2:2, at Warwick.
City of Coventry—The same day, at the City of Coventry.
NORFOLK CIRCUIT.

The Right Hon. Sir JAMES PARSE; Mr. Baron BOLLAND.
Buckinghamshire—Tuesday, March 6, at Aylesbury.
Bedfordshire—Saturday, March 10, at Bedford.
Huntingdonshire—Tuesday, March 13, at Huntingdon.
Cambridgeshire—Thursday, March 15, at Cambridge.
Suffolk—Wednesday, March 21, at Bury St. Edmund's.
Norfolk—Thursday, March 29, at the Castle of Norwich.
City of Norwich—The same day, at the Guildhall of the said City
of Norwich.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.
Mr. Baron ALDERSON : Mr. Baron GURNEY.
Berkshire--Saturday, Feb. 24, at Reading.
Oxfordshire—Wednesday, Feb. 28, at Oxford.
Worcestershire—Tuesday, March 6, at Worcester.
City of Worcester—The same day, at the City of Worcester.
Staffordshire—Saturday, March 10, at Stafford.
Shropshire—Saturday, March 17, at Shrewsbury.
Herefordshire—Friday, March 23, at Hereford.
Momouthshire—Wednesday, March 28, at Monmouth.
Gloucestershire—Saturday, March 31, at Gloucester.
City of Gloucester—The same day, at the City of Gloucester.
NORTHERN CIRCUIT.
Mr. Justice PATTESON ; Mr. Justice CoLERIDGX.
Westmoreland—Saturday, Feb. 17, at Appleby.
Cumberland—Tuesday, Feb. 20, at Carlisle.
Northumberland—Saturday, Feb. 24, at the Castle of Newcastle•
upon-Tyne.
Town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne—The same day, at the Guildhall of
New castle-upon-Tyne.
Durham—Wednesday, Feb. at Durham.
Yorkshire—Saturday, March 3, at at the Castle of York.
City of York—The same day, at the Guildhall of the City of York.
North Lancashire—Saturday, March 17, at Lancaster.
South Lancashire—Tharsday, March 22, at Liverpool.

DISTURBANCES AT KINGSTON-ON-THAMES.--•
Wednesday afternoon the inhabitants of this quiet town wit-
nessed a serious fracas, which terminated unfortunately in
bloodshed. For some time past the workmen on the London
and Southampton Railway have been divided in feeling.
owing to some degree of jealousy felt by the ordinary la-
bourers towards some labourers from Scotland and the North
of England, who have been employed of late to lay down
the rails. For weeks past scarcely a day has elapsed but
some unlucky Wight with a broken head has been borne
into the town to undergo surgical examination, On Wednes-
day, however, things assumed a very serious character. A,
large body of the rival parties came into collision, and the
Northerns being in the minority were forced, after manfully
standing their ground for some time, to retreat into the town-
of Kingston. They there sought refuge in the Adam an'
Eve public house, which, notwithstanding the interference of
the police, would unquestionably have been pulled down bad
not the authorities deemed it necessary to put a summary stop
to these proceedings. The Riot Act was read by the
Mayor, after which the conquerors retired, and the dis-
turbance ceased. To prevent any fresh attack, the poli'
were ordered strictly to guard the public-house during the
night, and to escort the besieged from the town.

MURDER.—Accounts from Montevillien, Sein3
Inferieur, dated the 14th of January, state, a horrible murder
was committed yesterday morning, in the hainlet of Mar Carelt
near Bolbec. A man named Lecompte, turned of 73 years (?r
age, after a violent discussion about money matters with 1;2:
wife, a woman of 55 years of age, struck ber v olently on 1.
head with an iron crowbar ; the wretched victim of his 00"1
fell dead from her chair on the spot. In order to obliterat-
,
the traces and evidences of his crime, Lecompte dragged tal
body to the chimney-place, and having placed the fracturou
head upon the fire for pa
sufficient time, went out and told the
neighbours, with pretended alarm, that ho had just found his
wife fallen into the fire, and that drunkenness had doubtless
been the cause of her death. Lecompte, notwithstanding the
plausible story, was arrested in consequence of some suspicious
circumstances in his manner and answers, and the affair is now
undergoing judicial investigation. On the crime being made
public, the Procureur du Roi of Havre immediately proceeded
to the house, and instituted a court of inquiry into the cir-
cumstances of the case on the spot. It was a curious cir-
cumstance, that both husband and wife had been married
three times.

AFFAIR OF HONOUR AT BRUSSELs._In con-
sequence of some discussion relating to places at the theatre,
Lieut. Belson, of the Rifle Brigade, was assailed and struck
with a stick on the hack of his head, not only in the most un-
provoked manner, but when totally off his guard, by a Pei
gian half-pay officer. Although the aggressing individ
offered to apologise upon the following morning for this out-
rage, Lieut. Belson, with the spirit and proper feeling be-
coming the gallant corps of which he is a member,
rejected
t
this offer, and insisted upon more positive reparation. A oi"._
.
ing therefore took place on Tuesday morning, which tert:n!
nated in Lieut. Belson (whose pistol missed fire) receiving
his adversary's ball in the thigh. The wound, though severe!,
is not dangerous. The alternative to which Mr. Belson found
himself reduced and the issue are the more unfortunate, since
his adversary subsequently declared that he had struck him by
mistake.

On Thursday evening a very prolons,red inquiry took
place at the Hero of Waterloo Tavern, 'Waterloo-road, 00
view of the body of Mr. Alexander Stewart, aged 54, a gen-
tleman holding an appointment in the Custom-house, Who
was discovered dead, with considerable marks of violence on
his person, at the bottom of the steps on the Surrey side of
Waterloo-bridge, at an early hour on Tuesday morning last.
There was a deep and extensive wound on the left side of the,
head, the left eye and nose were also severely injured. The
surgeon was of opinion that the death of the deceased wee
produced by the severe scalp wound described occasioning
concussion of the brain. The Jury returned the following
special verdict :—" That the deceased was found dead, wits
extensive marks of violence on his person, but to what they
were attributable there was no evidence to prove."
MOUNTAINS OF HERRINGS.-The Pilote dtt
Calvados announces that the vessels engaged in tke cod
fisheries at Newfoundland have ascertained that there are in
the same waters such immense shoals of herrings, that they
may be called sub-marine mountains of fish I They also state
that the fish are larger and of finer quality than any that have
hitherto been caught either at the Orkneys or on the coast of
Holland. It is added that several vessels will be sent from
Granville and other ports of the Channel to explore this new
fishery as soon as the season opens.

PATENT LEVER WATCHES,
With silver double-bottom cases £6 6 0
With silver hunting cases 6 16 0
This celebrated constiuctien (the most accurate on which a
watch can be made) is offered, with the latest improvements,
i. c. the detached escapement, jewelled in four holes, sapped
hand to mark the seconds, hard enamel dial, and maintaining power
to continue going while winding up, at the above price, by
T. COX SAVORY'S,
Working Silver and Goldsmith, 47, Cornhill, London,
(Seven doors from Gracechureh-street.)
N.B.—Second-hand Watches purchased in exchange.

BIRTHS.
On the 12th inst., the lady of C. Pesball, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 11th inst., at lilackh path Park, the w.fe cf the Het'.
Fenn, of a son.
On the IRh inst., at Walthamstow, Mrs. Henry F. Gadsden,
of a daughter.
Oa the 10th inst., in Belgrave-square, the lady of John Dram"
mond, Esq., of a son.
On the 11th inst., at Mr. Wilson's, Wandsworth-common, the
widow of his son William, of a daughter.
On thel2th inst., Mrs. George Tongs, of Meellenburgh-square'
of a daughter.
On the 13th inst., the lady of IL Merceron, Esq., of I-Lackner
road, Bethnal-green, of a son.
On the 11th inst., in Chester-terrace, the lady of James Leman,
Esq., of a son.

MARE
At St. John's Episcopal ChapR
elI, ED
dinburgh, on the 9th inst.,
John, eldest son of It. K. Rotherham, Esq., of Coventry, to Eliza,
eldest daughter of A. Clappertot E • sq., of Princes
-street,
Thos.
On the 12th inst., at Ogbourne St. Georffe's, Wilts,
Jones, of King's Arms-yard, Colemaw-street, solicitor, to Jar:
youngest daughter of the late Mr! Robert Canning, of Whitetie
near Marlborough, Wilts.
P • " •treet, Edin-

DIED.
On the 9th inst., at Greenwich, John Restall, Esq., aged 74. of
On the Bth inst., Maria, wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Trickey,
Richmond-place, Brighton.
On the Bth inst., at Layton, Essex, Stillingfleet Rayner, Esq.,
late of the Ordnance-oflice, Tower, aged 75.
On the 7th inst., -
at Liverpool, aged 85, Mrs. Moss, relict of T.
Moss, Esq.
On the Bth inst., M. G. Da Costa, Esq., of Torrington-square,
aged 69.
On the 9th inst., Mary Ann, wife of Mr. Wm. Stone, of Pan-
ton-street, Haymarket, aged 94.
On the Ist inst., at Walworth, Jane, third daughter of the late
J. Idle, Esq.
°P, the 7th inst., at Old Burlington-street, Richard Pollen, Esq''
aged 52.
At Pau, in the Pyrenees, on the 3d inst., aged 35, Lord Georg*
Hervey, second son of the Marquis of Bristol.

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