The Sun.
London, England, 1838-09-14 00:00:00

APPREHENSION OF MYERS.

Henry lif.yers, who stands charged on the Coroner's
verdict for the wilful murder of Mr. Pow, was this day
apprehended in Holborn, and after being brought before
Mr. TwylOrd at three o'clock, was fully committed for trial.

MARLBOROUGH-STRE ET.
(THIS DAY.)

Timothy Leary was brought this morning before Mr.
CHAMBERS, at this office, charged with begging and annoy-
ing persons in the street. The person making the charge
not appearing, Leary was ordered to be discharged.
Mr. CHAMBERS—I am afraid, Leary, you are a regular
beggar, and are in the habit of annoying her Majesty's sub-
jects by exercising your vocation.
Leary—No, indeed, your Worship, I am not; I should
be glad to get any thing to do if I could.
Mr. CHAMBERS—What do you do to get a living besides
begging ?
Leary—Any thing, your Worship, that comes across
me.—(Laughter.)
Mr. CHAMBERS—Come now, tell me the English of
that, if you can.—(Laughter.) Do you work at the rail-
roads, or what do you do ? What did you do last ?
Leary—Why, I went hay-making.
Mr. CHAMBERS—Aye, I thought that would be it—
that's the excuse all you beggars make at this time of the
year—you have been either hay-making or reaping. If I
see you here again, I shall send you to prison.
Leary was then ordered to be discharged.
Ellen Callaghan and Judy Reardon, two raw-honed-
looking Irishwomen, were charged with being drunk, and
fighting with each other.

Callaghan, upon being asked by the worthy Magistrate
how she came to be fighting in the street, said that she
and that lady, pointing to Reardon, had had a drop of
summut together, which got into her head, and she did
not know what she was about ; if she had, she would not
have hurt the lady for the world.—(Laughter.)
Reardon said she would not hurt a fly, much less strike
one of her own sex.

Mr. CHAM➢SRS ordered them to be locked up together
till night, which, he had no doubt, would have the effect
of making them both friends.
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When they were taken away, Reardon set up a regular
Irish, howl, vowing she was innocent.
The policeman told the Magistrate that Reardon was
continually in the habit of making disturbances in the streets,
and fighting with all she met.

TORT JOKES.—The "horrible outrage" Journals
are at length beginning to follow the example of the world,
and laugh at their own incredible stories. We can scarcely
believe it possible that they can see any joke in cruelty, or that
they have a penchant for poisoning in jest. The following para-
graph is from the Nenagh Guardian, and if we did not believe
the writer's merriment arose from a recollection of the palpa-
ble fiction in which it is his unhappy habit to deal, we would
feel bound to call the attention of the " Society fur the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals," to the animus that runs through
it. A FEW JOINTS OF THE TAIL I—Some joints of the tail,
not of Mr. 0' Connell's tail we are sorry to say, but of a cow,
were lopped off on the lands of Ballyhogan,. on the night of
the 3d instant. Hugh Kelly, the man to whom the cow be-
longs, is a driver,—which in the eyes of the nocturnal legisla-
tors of this our most peaceable county, is sufficient reason for
having his own head lopped off as well as his con's tail. We
have some notion of collecting for the future the state of the
country paragraphs, under the apposite heading of " Jokes of
the Week."—Pilot.
In the Newbury district for registering births,
deaths and marriages, comprising a population of 20,000, it
appears that, during the year ending the 30th of June last,
there have taken place 119 marriages according to the rites
of the Church of England, 10 in Dissenting places of wor-
ship, and none in the office of the superintendent-registrars.
Berks Chronicle.

WAR !-11.---few days ago, as will be recollected by
our readers, we discerned a strange and growing disposition
in a Belfast Contemporary to assume, contrary to his usually
pacific practice, a very warlike position, as if determined to
show the world his giant power and the crushing strength
of his artillery. On Tuesday we see he resumed his terrific
thunders, and we may now conclude that a raking fire is to
be kept up against Mr. O'Connell, and the whole scheme of
that patriot's policy. That Mr. O'Connell will smile at the
harmless attacks of his puny assailant, and that our Con-
temporary will throw away a vast deal of his very valuable
force, must be plain to every person but the writer himself.
As proof of our assertion, we copy the concluding paragraph
of a dull comment on Priest Davern's letter :—" We do not
expect (quoth the News Letter) that light will at once
burst upon the Roman Catholics of Ireland generally, as to
the deception which O'Connell has practised towards them;
but experience is in the end a successful teacher, though in
the outset its progress may be tardy. The bold, energetic,
almost indignant tone, adopted by PriestDavern, is good evi-
dence that a mass of dissatisfaction is silently accumulating
amongst the educated classes of Roman Catholics at the po-
litical imposition of which they have been made the dupes,
and so glaring are the facts of the case, and so incapable of
straightforward explanation, that this feeling will inevitably
go on to increase as its grounds are progressively developed
in actual practice. Like the power described by the poet—
.g Mobilitate vigebit, viresque acquiret eundo.' "
This needs no comment.

Lord Dungannon visited Dumfries a few days ago,
on his way to Ireland, where, we believe, his Lordship had
never been before, at least as a resident ; but, now that he
has succeeded to extensive possessions in that country, he
considers it a duty to see and hear with his own eyes and ears,
by spending a portion of his time every year in the sister
island. For this resolution we give him the greatest credit,
and would that hundreds of absentees would go and do like-
wise. The humane and kind-hearted are at all times more
easily moved than the cold and calculating?. but there are
causes in silent operation that will compel even these to
" change their hand and check their pride." Blessed by Pro-
vidence, the new Poor-law will yet work perfect wonders for
Ireland; and one of its first fruits will be, a reduced list of
absentees, and the extension of improvement in various forms
by planting, draining, and inclosing—reclaiming bogs, open-
ing new lines of communication, and, even in the case of the
most rugged steeps, making two blades or ears of some-
thing grow where only one grew before. Kindlier feelings,
too, will be cultivated, and poor-rates kept under in the exact
proportion that employment is diffused and suitably rewarded.
—Dunffries Courier.
Between three and four o'clock on Monday morn-
ing James Jameson, the superintendent of the gas-works at
White Conduit House, returned home after the house was
closed, and not wishing to call up any of the inmates, at-
tempted to scale the garden fence, which is about sixteen feet
high, and in doing so he slipped and fell to the ground,
pitching on his head with great violence ; be sustained asevere
contusion of the left temple and an extensive laceration over
the eyebrow ; his left thigh was also broken. He wa.snsin
a precarious state.
re-
moved directly to St. Bartholomew's
Hospital and return

SMITHFIELD MARLUT-
The supply was by no means large, and trade was heavy.
Prime Beef rose 2d. per stone ; Mutton, Veal, and Pork
were without any variation. Beef, as. 4d. to 4s. 2d. ; Mut-
ton, 3s. 10d. to 4s. 6d. ; Veal, 4s. 4d. to sg. 2d. ; Pork,
4s. 4d. to ss. 4d. ; Lamb, 4s. Bd. to ss. 4d. Beasts 588,
Sheep and Lambs 7,695, Pigs 346, Calves 298.
BILLINGSGATE MARKET.
Good Fish to-day were scarce, and prices rather high.
Turbot, ss. to 255. ; Soles, 9d. to 3s. per pair ; Lobsters 9d.
to 2s. 6d. each ; Salmon, 9d. to Is. per lb. ; Cod, Is. 6d. to
25., Bs., and 9s. ; Whiting, 2d. to 6d. each ; Haddock, 4d.
to Is.

TALLOW MARKET.
both ways to-day, and very little doing.
SPIRIT MARKET.
The market is quiet. Proof Leewards Rum 23. 10d. ;
Good Jamaica 4s. 6d. to 4s. 9d. ; Brandy and British Corn
Spirits remain as previously quoted.
COTTON SALE THIS DAY.
2,130 bales were put up to public sale this day, and sold
steadily at firm prices.

P. Y. C. is 525.,

HOP MARKET.
Nothing doing, and prices merely nominal. Picking is in
progress. Very few new Hops yet at market. The duty to-
day is 160,0001.

COLONIAL MARKETS.
To-day the public sales were light, and indeed, if they were
heavy, the market would sink under their weight. Sugar
B. P. sells rather languidly, realizing much its former value,
of from 48s. to 625. 6d., according to quality. These are the
extreme prices. To-day we had no public sales of Sugar.
Coffee still is brisk and firm. To-day we had public sales of
204 bags and 14 casks of B. P., which sold at from 955. to
1315., according to quality. These are former prices. Small
sales of Nutmegs, Cloves, and Mace sold at much their previous
worth. Pepper-2,783 bags of Malabar were put up, all did
not sell ; that which did, went at former rates. Cassia Lig_
nea is just now rather a rising article.
During the week, the business transacted has not been ex-
tensive, and, generally speaking, prices have been much the
same as they were last week.
The imports continue to be rather light.

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LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, SEFT. /3.
Rather an animated demand was experienced at to-day's
Market for Cotton ; and the sales may be stated at about
3,000 bales; the following are the sorts taken by purchasers :
—5O La Guayra, 73a. B'd.: 350 Surats, 4jd. 5,1 d. ; 40
Bahia, 81d. ; 100 Pernam, 83d. 93d. ; some Upland were
purchased at qd. Bid.; and the remainder American, sid. 7d.
COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK.

Wheat. Barley. I Oats.
---
Per Quarter. S. to s. s. s. 'S.tos.S. to s 8. Blatidford d 7480275523 26 38 44 to 8.
Grigg .
166 74 24 26 124 30 42 41 30 32
Cambridge. —7s— 31 25 40 38 Chard 68 76 i2123i172132 34 34 40
Huntingdon i 6580343824 29 38 Long Sutton—.- 15878 16 21 NO 34
Louth
65 76 22 31 16 20 :SO 3-Z 32 34
Newark 75 85 24 31 19 28 31 43 32
Nottingham 64 '79 28 31 19 28 35 42 Peterborough 59 72 35 42 22 29 38 43
Plymouth 70 57 30 34 20 23 —— - Pont,efract, —76'—43—27 43
Sleatord 75 SO 36 38 22. 28 41 43
Uppingham 63 74 24 30 18 28 32 44
Wished] 163 72 —1 20 30 32

Between three and four o'clock yesterday morning
Edward Meeres, a labouring man, employed at Mr. Bridle
now's brewery, Skinner-street, Bishopsgate-street, was in th_
act of adjusting the tackle of a steam-engine, used on th
premises, when, before he could get out of the way, it was in
advertently started going by the engineer, and the unfortunat
man's head was crushed in a dreadful manner. His shriek
alarmed the engineer, or his death must have been inevitable
He was taken to St. Thomas's Hospital.
Between two and three o'clock yesterday morning
Thomas Bateman, aged 39 years, was brought into Guy's
Hospital in a state of the most intense agony, arising from his
having accidentally fallen into a copper of boiling glue, at his
residence, No. 3, Ann. street, Waterloo-road. The unfortu-
nate man was scalded in a dreadful manner, and but slight
hopes are entertained of his surviving. He has a wife and
three children. He was attending to the manufacture of the
glue when he slipped into the copper, which was violently
hoiling at the time. lie contrived to scramble out without
*instance, and alarm the inmates of the house.
An inquest was held yesterday in Milton-street,
City, on the body of a young woman named Walsh, who, it
ha/ been rumoured in the neighbourhood, had poisoned her-
relf. It appeared, however, from the evidence of a medical
geniaman, that the girl had died from the rupture of a blood.
vessel on the brain, and a verdict to that effect was returned.
The deceased had been taken suddenly ill on Monday night,
a d never spoke afterwards.
A cabbage, weighing 28 pounds, was sold yester-
d,y in 'he Halle for 20f., to a fruiterer of the potato market.
The vegetable monster has been brought to the Halle by a
farmer of the name of Dieu, residing near Les \Tutus, in the
vicinity of the capital.
At Gedling Lodge, the seat of the Earl of Chester-
field, on Tuesday, Sept. 11, after twelve o'clock, Count d'Or-
say and Lord Castlereagh killed sixty brace of partridges,
thirty hares, and two landrail. The same day Lord Jocelyn
and Mr. Bentinck killed forty-five brace of partridges, twenty-
three hares, and a landrail. The farms are this year well
stocked with game at this celebrated shooting-lodge, which
has long been remarkable for the brilliant sport it has afforded-
NA It RO W ESCAPE.—Yesterdav afternoon, be-
tween two and three o'clock, a gentleman, accompanied by
a lady, was driving a high-spirited horse in a gig, in the
Regent's Park, near the Zoological Gardens, when the ani-
mal suddenly became restive, and set off at full gallop to-
wards Park-square. The :gentleman could not arrest his
speed, but succeeded in guiding him through Park-square
gates, dashing across the New-road, through the gates into
Park. crescent, through the gates at the west side, and again
into the Regent's Park, and turned him into the road front-
ing the ,Colosseum, where his career was stopped by two
hackney coachmen. The lady had fainted away on the seat,
and in another minute must have fallen over the side of the
gig into the road. She was removed to a gentleman's house
in Chester-terrace until she recovered. The gentleman pre-
sented each coachman with a sovereign. The horse, it is sup-
posed, became alarmed by a noise of some of the wild beasts
in passing the gardens.
SALMON AND GRILSES.—At no season, perhaps,
have salmon and grilses been more plentiful than at present,
and the numbers which have been taken with the rod at the
close of the last and commencement of the present week, in
the immediate vicinity of the town, by several distinguished
anglers, have been unusually great. On Saturday and Mon-
day the river was in excellent order for fly-fishing. On the
former day his Grace the Duke of Roxburghe, after returning
from the Moors, killed twelve fine fish, and on the latter day
no fewer than sixteen, with the rod. In the fishings on the
Tweed the fishermen have been uncommonly successful with
the long nets. At Twizel Boats, on Monday last, the extra-
ordinary number of 113 fish, consisting of seventeen salmon,
ninety-five grilses, and one trout, were taken at one draught.
Taking the average weight of the salmon to be 14Ibs. each,
and the price of them to be 7d. per lb., they would amount to
61. IBs. 10d. ; and supposing the grilses to bring 2s. 6d. each,
and the trout Is., they would be worth 11/. 17s. 6d. The value
of the whole would thus be 18/. 17s. 4d. —Kelso Chronicle.
AWFUL INSTANCE OF SUDDEN DEATH.—Henry
Pyne, Esq., Commander, R. N., who lately arrived from Jer-
sey, and who has been sojourning here for a few weeks, was
about to quit the town for the north of Devon, on Friday, the
7th instant, previous to which, on Thursday evening, between
the hours of nine and ten, he called on an old shipmate, Lieu-
tenant Coates, R.N., 17, Oxford-street, and having stated it
was his intention to rise at an early hour and accompany the
waggon on foot to Tavistock, he was then about to take his
leave, and was in the very act of expressing his regret to Mrs.
Coates that he must leave Plymouth without being enabled
to introduce his daughter to Miss C., when he was seized with
a sudden tremour, fell back in his chair without uttering an-
other word, and expired without a groan. A medical gentle-
man was promptly called in, but found the vital spark bad
fled. On the following morning a Coroner's inquest was held
on the body, and a post Inortem examination took place, whets
it was found that the deceased had died in consequence of the
bursting of an abscess in the lungs. Commander Pyne was
an old meritorious officer; he entered the naval service in
1798 and was made Lieutenant in 1806, and promoted to the
rank of Commander for his heroic conduct in assisting to cap-
ture and destroy a number of armed vessels on the coast of
America in the year 1814, since which period he has not been
employed, but, when afloat, was respected by all who knew
him.-IVest of England Conservative.
A French lady, named Dangeville,
said to be
. a
sister of the Deputy for the Department of the Ain, ascended
She quitted
to the summit of Monte Blanc on the 4th inst.
the valley of Chamouni on the 3d at early hour in the
morning, slept at the Grands Mulcts,
anda
4th.
She
remainedherp cr i
ous destination at twelve o'clock on the
onnotetsh,ea summit of
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spoke in the highest terms
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courage,she w was
saccompaniede
encouraged
perseverance, andthem, chatting and
presence of mind, and the
cheerfulness with which h
joking with them during the entire of the ascent. Previously
to this successful trip the feathm
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nbie,enwaccomplished e
reachingnly
the
one female, a peasant of Chamouni,
grand plateau, became exhausted with fatigue, and was car-
ried by force to the summit. Mdlle. Dangeville, on her re-
turn to the Chamouni on the morning of the sth, was received
with the utmost enthusiasm by the inhabitants, who pro-
ceeded to meet her, and fired salutes of cannon in honour
of her exploit.

A CANNIBAL.-011 Friday, several rows took
took place in Newland, amongst the Irish, and in one of them,
a person named Cassey, had his lower lip entirely bitten off,
by a cannibal from the sister Isle ; the same brute also bit se.
veral other persons during the day.-York Courant.

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THE MARKETS—(THIS %• -Mp- ••-
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CORN EXCHANGE. • WRIIIVANAILIN
The arrivals of English Grain and Flour this week are mo-
derate, and of Fo-eign Whe it considerable. Although the
duty of one sh lling will now be paid on all the Foreign Wheat,
the holders show very little disposition to part with the good
parcels at the present prices; and as there is scarcely any
English Wheat fur sale to day, the te:rns of all quditics are
firm. In other Grain there is little doing, and the rates are
unvariad. The Flour trade remains as last reported.
ARRIVALS.
Wheat. I Barley. Oats. Flour.
Irish
English
-
Foreign 3,310
28,118 1,420 - brls.

A Morning Paper of yesterday devotes a chapter of
pompous common-place to the subject of duelling ; be-
ing moved thereto, as it should seem, by our statement
that this much-to-be-lamented practice is an unfortunate
necessity of civilisation. We wish once for all to state
that we by no means set ourselves up as defenders of
duelling. It is one of those subjects which does not well
bear to be argued about, much of the truth of the matter
being dependent upon sentiment rather than reason-
ing,- and a manifest advantage moreover lying on the
side of the pompous and dogmatical, who make no
scruple to advance upon a field where, from a sense of
reverence, we cannot encounter them. But as our editorial
chair is not a pulpit—as we have to do with society under
its actual circumstances, and as we are not clothed with
that authority which would make it either fair or becoming
for us to treat of the occurrences of the day in a merely
religious point of view, we have ventured, and we shall
venture, to speak of such occurrences in that spirit which
we believe to belong to men of honour, of character, and
of eminence in the world. At the same time that we do
this, we think that, in the pulpit, and in those publications
which are exclusively devoted to the inculcation of religion,
there ought to be but one couase taken with respect to
the practice of personal rencontres—namely, that of serious
warning and reproof. The solemn and somewhat pedantic
article of our Contemporary, in reference to what we
said on a former occasion, would have been very well
as a lecture to be delivered from the usher's desk
of a classical academy, to boys who had been fighting
with more than ordinary ferocity ; but where it is, it is
utterly useless. All but those who are already quite out
of the danger of fighting a duel, will regard it as a mere
schoolmaster's flourish. There is nothing in it (notwith-
standing its ponderous references to the histories of Greece
and Rome, and all that sort of thing) which every person
of ordinary education is not quite well aware of. But
these things do not apply to the practical matters before
us in the present state of society. The Greeks did
not fight duels : no, nor in Greek society was a man's
reputation under a cloud who bore an insult without
requiring this kind of reparation. What, then, sig-
nifies the Greek practice to us ? But the Greeks
were a refined and civilised people, and yet the Morning
Post has said that duelling is an unfortunate necessity
of civilisation. Very true, but the civilisation of the
Greeks was by no means the same thing as the civilisation
of the British. The classical schoolmaster, or the man
who thinks it a very fine thing to write about the affairs of
the world in the fashion of a classical schoolmaster, is
btt too apt to f eget this difference. The contracted po-
sitiveness of mere pedantry is proverbial. Refinement has
various modes, and our refinement is a very different thing
indeed from that of the Greeks or the Romans. The re-
finement of our society is derived chiefly from the practice
of chivalry, and hence the sentiment of society, prevailing
to this day that personal honour must be vindicated by per-
sonal combat, or rather by that resemblance of it, to which
duelling among gentlemen has now been brought, and
which is rather a mutual incurring of personal danger, than
of combat. Those newspaper writers who usurp the pro-
vince of the Clergy, and with a clumsy and overbearing
manner of which the Clergy are incapable, would be much
better employed in showing how the tyranny of headlong
carelessness, or cool malignity, is to be kept in check without
that practice which they so vehemently reprobate. Every
one must be aware that the most cruel injuries may be
inflicted for which the law affords no redress. Some
people say that these are only injuries of the fancy—they
are not substantial injuries. This is mere grossness. Bene-
fits and injuries are not the less real because they are not
substantial, nor cognisable by law. 'What would a man
not give for that fair fame which would not buy him a
pennyworth of cabbage in the market-place, and which
may be taken away from him by a single word, for the ut-
terance of which no tribunal on earth can give him redress
against the utterer? Society recognises one mode by
which he may relieve himself from the stain. This may be
a very foolish and a very criminal mode, when tried by other
standards than the opinion of society, but that is the
standard which will govern men. We cannot get rid of
that fact. If therefore public writers would really accom-
plish a practical good in this matter, it must be by
causing society not to hold this mode of redress
in any estimation, but to devise a better in its room.
To rail at the practice, while society regards it as
the last resort of a man of honour, is needless, ex-
cept it be under sanctions higher than society usually
contemplates, and therefore appropriate to another kind of
teaching than that of the newspapers. To confound the
practice of duelling among men of honour, with the grati-
fication of a brutal desire for vengeance, is merely a vulgar
mistake. It is almost disgusting to find persons who ought
to know better railing in general terms against all duelling,
because some drunken ruffians have gone out to pistol one
another at twelve paces. There are no doubt practised
duellists who would be assassins but for fear of the hang-
man, and whose courage even is not in the stoutness of
their hearts, but in the dexterity of their hands. For the
benefit of such persons we think it a good thing that every
now and then a duellist should be very effectually hanged.
We have no wish to see the laws against homicide altered,
but we do wish that the prosy preachers of common law and
school-boy classics, in the newspapers, would recollect
when they have a delicate subject to deal with, and not be
so dogmatical as is their wont.—alferning P,st.
The public will recollect that when Lord Lyndhurst
exercised 11;s sagacity, and Lord Brougham followed the
instinct of his malice, in quest of the most plausible
ground for assailing the Irish Government, the ground
selected by those Noble and Learned Lords was the con-
duct of that Government in the appointment of High
Sheriffs. The Tories out of Parliament, who had long
been used to hear accusations of all crimes, and breaches
of the laws, divine and human, advanced against the Mar-
quis of Normanby's Administration, without ever enjo3ing
the satisfaction of seeing one of these accusations esta-
blished, or so much as put into train of proof, manifested
extreme joy, and crowed aloud from a thousand dunghills,
when at length a Tory Lord took heart of grace, and
moved for a Committee of Inquiry upon the subject we
have just referred to, with a solemn pledge to the Con-
servatives of the kingdom that the result of that inquiry
would cover the detested Government of Irelaud with
infamy, and hurl it from office. So confidently did the
mover for this Committee anticipate the disgraceful dis-
closures which were to be elicited in the course
of its labours, that some who had not been as
attentive observers of the proceedings of the Irish
Executive as we have been, and therefore not so
well acquainted with the true state and merits of
the case, felt some alarm for a Government which
possessed their best wishes, and expressed their apprehen-
sions that at last these Tory Lords had the Lord-Lieute-
nant upon the hip, and had found one joint of his armour
pervious to their poisoned shafts. For ourselves, we
laughed at. Lord Lyndhurst's Committee as we laughed at
Mr. Colquhoun's or Lord Westmeath's speeches. We
knew that the Tories had discovered only another mare's
nest, and that the viper had but once more struck his fangs
into the tempered steel. The Government was of course
fearless, as they best knew the stamina of their case, and
they agreed to the inquiry with as much alacrity as the op-
position Lords called for it. The Committee was ap-
pointed—it sat; and although it did not conclude its la-
bours, and has not yet published a Report, the evidence of
some of the leading witnesses has found its way into the Press,
and there is enough of information before the public to warrant
us in asserting that the attacks of Lords Lyndhurst and
Brougham have met the same fate with those of the Colqu-
bouns,Westmeaths, and Percevals, and the Irish Government
stands as clear of the offences alleged against it in the mat-
ter of the Sheriffs as it does of the charge of persecuting Protestants, or corresponding with the Pope, or consulting
with Beelzebub, or any of the thousand and
one inventions
of the Times and the Standard, which ought tohe E
collected and published under the title of " The Tory Nights'
tainments." In the present article we shall call the reader's
attention to the evidence of Sir Michael O'Loghlen, the Mas-
ter of the Rolls. This gentleman held the office of Attorney-
General
for Ireland in 1836, and of course no better autho-
rity upon any subject connected with the Administration
of affairs in that year could have been referred to. We
shall see the account which Sir Michael O'Loghlen gives
of those monstrous departures from the Judges' lists for
which the Tories have so often declared that the Mar-
quis of Normanby ought to forfeit his head upon
Tower-hill. We shall take the eight counties in which the
Sheriffs of 1837 were gentlemen whose names were not
upon the judicial return ; we shall give the names returned
in these eight cases, with Sir Michael's statement of the
grounds upon which the Government proceeded in each
instance. For Clare the names returned Mr. were Edward
Fitzgerald, Mr. Gore, and Mr. Michael Morony. Mr.
Fitzgerald was attached to the British Embassy at Berlin !
Mr. Gore was recommended by the circumstance that there
were executions against him for debt in the hands of the
existing Sheriff. And as to Mr. Michael Morony,
it turned out that there was no such gentleman in the
county ! ! For Kerry, the names were Mr. Anthony
Stoughton, Mr. John Coltsman, and Mr. S. M. Hick-
son. The two former were upon the Continent ; the se-
cond in attendance upon a very near relative in dangerous
illness. Every effort, however, was made to prevail upon
these gentlemen to serve. The Government did not think
proper to appoint Mr. Hickson for the following reason,
which would no doubt have been, under a Tory Govern-
ment, the best title to the office of Sheriff that any
gentjan c uld produce. Sir M. O'Loghlen
Hickson was passed over for this reason—a Com-
mittee of the House of Commons sat in 1835 upon, I'think,
the intimidation of voters, and they published a report in the
latter end of 1835 ; and a letter from Mr. Hickson was
produced and given in evidence, and printed in the report
of the Committee, by which it appeared that Mr. Hick-

son, during the contested election of 1835, gave the letter
to a voter, who intended to vote one way, sending him
off a distance of some forty or fifty miles, and directing the
letter to a gentleman, telling him to employ him in any way he
might think right, in surveying any land in the neighbour-
hood. The letter is printed in the Report of the Committee,
and this appeared to me—l took upon myself the responsibi-
lity of it—to be an interference with the elective franchise that
justified the Government in not putting him into the office of
Sheriff."
For the King's County the returns were, the Hon. L.
Parsons, Garrett O'Moore, and Francis Berry. Sir Mi-
chael does not appear to have remembered the circum-
stance of Mr. Parsons' case. Lord Morpeth, however,
states, that this gentleman was excused upon his
own application ; his plea was, that he had no resi-
dence, or a square inch of property in the county.
Mr O'Moore was the individual who some time
before had been the leader of a most violent parti-
san attack upon the Government in the person of Mr.
Gibson, the assistant-barrister for the county in question,
who, upon this gentleman's motion, was shoved out of the
chair at Quarter Sessions, in violation of every principle of
propriety, and in utter contempt of the respect due to a
judicial officer, and the administration of justice. Sir
Michael O'Loghlen merely says tkat the Government
considered that it would be "imprudent" to nominate Mr.
O'Moore ; we shall go a step further, and say that had the
Government appointed him it would have acted most un-
warrantably and most criminally towards the public. The
third on the list, Mr. Berry, was excused as a person in
trade, and his plea for exemption was supported by an appli-
cation from the Tory Earl of Charleville !! ! Of such ma-
terials are the charges against the Irish Government
composed. The returns for Leitrim were Mr. Westby
Perceval, an officer of an Orange lodge ! Mr. Tennyson,
a sick man in Italy ! and Mr. Percy, whose case the
Master of the Rolls states that he does not happen to be
acquainted with ; we wager Lombard-street to a China
orange, that Mr. Percy will be found in one of the follow-
ing categories—an absentee, a grand-master, or a non-
entity, like Mr. Morony of the county Kerry. For Louth
the names were Sir A. Bellingham, who had served the
year before, or the year but one before ; a Mr. Brabazon,
who had his foot in a packet, about to sail for the Conti-
nent for the recovery of his children's health ; and Mr,
J. S. Barry, another dignitary of an Orange association !
Monaghan—The returns were Mr. Shirley, Mr. Johnson,
and Mr. Plunket. Mr. Shirley may be said to have been in
the predicament of Mr. Morony ; however, the Mr. Shirley
meant was upon the Continent, with the intention of remain-
ing abroad for another year. The application of the Go-
vernment was answered by his father, who promised that
he should serve in 1838, if called upon to do so. Mr.
Plunket was a permanent resident abroad, in what re-
gion it does not appear, whether France, Italy, or
Timbuctoo. Mr. Johnson was grand treasurer of all the
Orange lodges of his county !! ! Now for the Queen's
County. The names were Mr. E. Staples, Mr. Chidley
Coote, and Mr. R. Moore. The Government did their
best to get Mr. Moore to serve, but did not succeed.
Who was Mr. Staples ? A committee-man of the Orange
Society. Who was Mr. Chidley Coote ? Grand Master
of the Queen's County ()ranee lodge ! ! Oh ! detestable
Government of the Marquis of Normanby and Lord Mor-
peth ! Were law and justice ever so outraged ? Were
right and wrong ever so audaciously confounded ? Let so
much suffice for the present : we are entitled, we think,
to assert that, as far at least as the transactions of
1836 are concerned, the charge against the Irish Go-
veanment of improper deviation from the judicial re-
turns in the choice of Sheriffs has fallen to the ground,
and failed most egregiously and most completely. The
departures, it is clear, were all either in • cases of
absolute necessity, or in cases of such a nature that the
appointment of the persons named by the Judges would
have amounted to the grossest abuse of the powers of the
Executive. The question is, why did the Judges nominate
absentees, insolvents, Orangemen, and non-entities? Not
why did the Marquis of Normanby refuse to sanction such
nominations. We leave it to the Tories to vindicate the
ermined chieftains of the party ; for our part, did we not
know, as certainly as we know the fact of our existence,
that the mountain snow is not purer than the character of
the Irish bench, or the genius of honour itself more un-
tainted with a factious spirit, we should be constrained to
believe that the nominations of the Irish Judges in the
counties above enumerated had been made with no other
view, and for no other purpose, but to place the Govern-
ment in the embarrassing dilemma of either incurring the
odium of selecting improper persons for a most momentous
post, or subjecting themselves to the attacks of their
opponents for deviating_ from the returns to secure com-
petent and worthy officers for the public.—Morning
Chronicle.
If it b.: a desirable thing for a man to have the execution
of his own law, more especially when that law is one of
blood, our present Liberal Home Secretary has had that
sort of gratification lately. The law is his own, under
which he executed Maslen, the convict recently executed
at Devizes for shooting at and wounding Mr. Rumbold. In
this case the prosecutor and the inhabitants of Devizes pe-
titioned for mercy to the criminal, hut the Home Secretary
was inexorable. Doubts were expressed of the validity of
the indictment ; but, as they were judicially overruled, we
shall not further advert to them at present, though we shall
have something to say on the subject at a future opportunity.
If ever Secretasy of State signed the death-warrant of a
criminal, Lord John Russell signed that of Maslen.
" What extraordinary ignorance," says a Treasury scribe,
" to assert that a Secretary of State ever signs a
death-warrant, or that a death-warrant is ever signed at
all !" Still, in spite of the minute criticism of the
Treasury scribe, whose " mare's nest," we fear, has but an
addled egg, we adhere to the expression which we have
used—and we mean to give substantial proof of what we
have stated before we have done. But, previously to that,
it may be as well that we reprint here what we formerly
said on the subject of the signing death warrants—a sub-
ject which we fully explained to the public some years ago,
expressly for the purpose of clearing away a "popular
error," that death-warrants are, at the present day, signed
by the Sovereign. We confess it was somewhat to cur
astonishment, though still more to our amusement than
surprise, that a Government Journal, which had, probably,
learned from ourselves the correction of that error, had the
cool effrontery to ascribe to us the ignorance which we had
taken pains to instruct, and the error which we had cor-
rected. It might have been politic enough on the part
of the Whigs to attempt a diversion of the public mind
from the merits of the question of capital punishments to
r a cavilling controversy about mere forms ; but it was
rather " too bad" to impute to the Morning Herald an
ignorance of the precise mode in which the legal licence
to commit homicide is communicated, under which the
British hangman is authorised to strangle the subjects of
the British crown. In noticing the other day the ridicu-
lous fiction of some scycophant of the Home Secretary, we
referred to the remarks which we had made on the me-
morable case of Job Cox, against whom it may be remem-
bered a death-warrant was lodged at Newgate some years
ago, subsequently to a decision by the King in Council to re-
mit the capital sentence ! The Government Journals, either
being really ignorant of the facts of the case, or having
instructions to mislead the public mind, and so prevent
its being known that so awful a mistake had been com-
mitted, put forth false accounts of the matter, attributing
the report of the intended execution of the man whom the
Crown had reprieved, and whom Chief Justice Denman
rescued when on the verge of eternity, to an " erroneous
newspaper statement." We ascertained and published the
real facts, showing that there was no newspaper error in the
matter (except what the Government Journals them-
selves put forth to blind the public eye). Our statement
that the then Recorder had actually lodged in Newgate
a death-warrant for the execution of Cox subsequently
to the mercy of the Crown being extended to him,
caused an inquiry to take place in the House of Com-
mons, and in the Corporation of London, which led to
the Recorder's resignation, and the consequent advantage
from the administration of criminal justice has derived
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difficult, perhaps, to be-
lieve that it
was through the contrivance
that the High Sheriffs of London, of the newspapers
Messrs. Peek and Hum-
phery, were on Wednesday evening
labouring under the pain-
ful impression that if some effectual expression of public opi-
nion, either in or out of Parliament,
for a comparatively petty theft, did against the sacrifice of life
not
have to perform the disgusting duty
of Pridita(e place, they would
of blood. If, then, the newspapers didnoetsforng ati the oblation
forge t se Recorder's
warrant, we presume it is of some public im
tain by what agency a doeuninet was fabrliecateflcae ascer-
where authentic documents of that description are alzwayd leadgdeed
posited, to take away the Ye of a fellow-creature to -
whom
the Crown had already extended its clemency.
" Let us only suppose that the contents of the spurious do-
cument had not been announced through the Press. No coil:
t adiction would have followed, because there would not have
been any hnown error to contradict. The Sheriffs, unless the

matter reached the ears of Government in some other way,
would have come on Thursday morning to demand the body
of the prisoner, whom the keeper of Newgate must have deli-
vered up, and the contradiction, which has now saved the
man's life, would have followed his execution. What a con-
solation to his family and friends it would have been to find
that he was hanged by mistake."
We wrote the above on the 21st of June, 1833. The
consequence of brushing away the Ministerial web of de-
ception, and letting the public know the truth of the Re-
corder's warrant having been actually lodged in Newgate
for the execution of the reprieved convict, produced a sen-
sation in London not easily described. The Home Secre-
tary was interrogated in Parliament, and a Common Hall
was convened in the city of London to address the Crown
on the Recorder's conduct. The result we announced in
another article on the subject, of June 26, which com-
menced thus :

" The Recorder of London, by submitting to the sentence
of PUBLIC OPINION, and resigning his judicial office, has made
it unnecessary to address the THRONI on his conduct. The
indignant feelings of his fellow-citizens in relation to the case
of Job Cox, were so unequivocally expressed in his own hearing
at the Common Hall on Monday, that he could no longer en-
tertain any doubt that, in sealing the document which was to
authorise the execution of the reprieved convict, he bad sealed
the death-warrant of hie own official existence."
In the same article we corrected the vulgar error in
regard to death-warrants, which the Treasury Journal,
with its accustomed veracity, has ascribed to ourselves, and
explained the established practice at that time, in the pas-
sage which we subjoin. This was our explanation,. which
will be found in a Selection of Articles on the Punishment
ofDeath,from the Morning Herald, published by Hatchard,
vol. ii., page 122.
" The public in general are, perhaps, not aware of the sort
of formal procedure which constitutes the legal authority for
the taking of human life at the Old Bailey. It is done in this
way. The Recorder waits on the King in Council with the
report of the convicts under sentence of death. It was the
popular and erroneous notion that the King himself signed the
death warrants of those criminals to whom mercy was refused.
Not so. The Recorder takes, or is supposed to take, the
order* of the King in Council with regard to the convicts
whose sentences of death, previously pronounced at the Old
Bailey, are commuted or confirmed. With regard to the latter
class, he writes out his warrant in his own hand (no printed
formula being used upon the occasion), and seals it with his
own black seal. This instrument he does not despatch to the
Sheriff, whose duty it is to see it carried into effect. He
merely deposits it with the Governor of Newgate. The latter,
on receiving the instrument of death, writes a note to each of
the Sheriffs, who thereupon come to Newgate, and satisfy
themselves of the authority on which they are to act, by the
inspection of the warrant lodged there. Now all this appears
to us a very circuitous and clumsy mode of carrying the law
into effect, and ought to be reformed."
Thus, then, it is seen that five years ago we corrected
the popular error respecting the signature of death-war-
rants by the Sovereign, and described with great particu-
larity the actual formalities preceding executions, which
took place previously to the passing of that vile Whig law
which abridged the prerogative of the Sovereign, and de-
prived the City of London of a privilege, which, instead of
being annihilated, ought to have been extended to all parts
of the kingdom, in order that no subject of the Crown
might suffer death but by a direct authority from the
Supreme Magistrate. It was rather comical, if anything
comical can intermingle with matters of such tragic inte-
rest, that we should be accused of being ignorant of a prac-
tice which, so long ago, we showed to be a clumsy one,
liable to dangerous mistakes, and which we declared at the
time " ought to be reformed." But it seems still more ob-
jectionable and dangerous to make the execution of the
law depend upon a marginal note in the gaoler's calendar.
But to return to the case of Maslen, or Maslyne—We
have said that, " if ever Secretary of State signed the
death-warrant of a criminal, Lord John Russell signed that
of Maslen." Now for the proof of that assertion. Of
course we do not mean that the Home Secretary
literally took a pen in his hand, and, like Mr. Newman
Knowlys, in the case of Job Cox, wrote out a warrant in
his own hand, sealed it with a black seal, and upon his
own authority, thus formally conveyed to the High Sheriff
of Wiltshire, put the machinery of the " finisher of the
law" into motion. No. The warrant for the execution
of Maslen was Lord John Russell's own law—a law
which he used his ministerial position to carry against
the real sense of the House of Commons—against its real
sense, we say, because its independent opinion was over-
land and neutralized by Government influence, when a ser-
vile crowd of Whig placemen and retainers were " whipped
up" to oppose Mr. Ewart's motion for limiting the punish-
ment of death to cases of actual murder—a motion, the
principle of which received the subsequent approval of two
ex-Lord Chancellors, Lords Lyndhurst and Brougham,
who in the Upper House expressed their regret that the
reform of the criminal law had not been based on that prin-
ciple, instead of being complicated and encumbered by Lord
John Russell's " nine bills," under one of which Maslen
has been hanged. The law which was the warrant of the
Home Secretary, as the representative of the Executive
Government, for hanging Maslen, would not have been in
existence if Lord John Russell, and 16 other Whig place-
men, had not defeated Mr. Ewart's motion to limit the pu-
nishment of death to cases ofactual murder. Notwithstand-
ing all the exertions of the Government, that motion was
defeated by only a majority of one ! Subtracting the
17 Whig Ministers and placemen from the division, the
motion, as far as the independent opinion of the House of
Commons was concerned, was virtually carried by a ma-
jority of 16. Yet it was upon the authority of a law
whose principle was thus repudiated by the independent
opinion of the House of Commons, and subsequently by
that of two ex-Chancellors in the House of Lords, that
the Liberal Home Secretary took the life of Maslen. We
say took his life, because his fate depended upon the Home
Secretary's fiat, who refused to advise the Crown to accede
to the prayer of the prosecutor and the inhabitants of De-
vizes for mercy to the culprit—and so the law, the Home
Secretary's own law, the law carried by Governmentinflu-
ence, the law of the majority of one, was left " to take its
Feurse."
.Have we not proved what we set out with assert-
ing? Del not the Home Secretary virtually sign the
death-warrant of every man executed, or that ever will be
executed, under any of his laws which affix the punish-
ment of death to any offence short of murder, when, as the
leader of seventeen placemen, he obtained a disgraceful
victory over enlightened legislation in the May of last year
by a single unit ? Is it possible to speak of such conduct
on the part of the Reform-professing Whigs, without in-
dignation and contempt ? When we opposed the Tories
in power upon the question of the full and efficient reform
of our criminal jurisprudence, we had to contend against
prejudices boldly maintained and honestly avowed. Towards
such opponents we could feel respect, while we laboured to
convince them of their errors, or to beat them out of their
prejudices. But the trickery, the shuffling policy, the
hypocritical conduct of the Whigs, excite our disgust. In
the question of criminal law reform they have exhibited
their tortuous and treacherous policy in all its dishonest per
fection.—illorning Herald.
S

UDDEN DEATH OF GENERAL ADYE, C. 8.,
ROYAL ARTILLERY.—This distinguished officer had spent the
best part of his life in the " tented field," and was at the
principal battles and sieges during the late war. He was
wounded severely at the ill-conducted and ill-fated ex-
pedition to Walcheren. Subsequently, on the plains of
Waterloo, he added another wreath to his well-earned ho-
nours, and received the Cross of the Bath. Wednesday the
General accepted an invitation from his friend and companion
in arms (who shares equal honours), General Drummond,
R. A., to meet a few brother soldiers at dinner. and he re-
turned about eleven to his house on Woolwich-common, near
the Royal Military Academy, in perfect health ; but, about
two o'clock in the morning of yesterday, Mrs. Adye discovered
he was a corpse. It has caused a great gloom over the mili-
tary circles at Woolwich, from the suddenness of the event,
and the garrison being deprived of an amiable friend
and a gallant soldier. The men have lost a firm
protector of their rights and privileges, although a strict dis-
ciplinarian, and the poor of the surrounding neighbour-
hood a real benefactor. Major-General Adye was chief fire-
roister of the royal laboratory in the arsenal, which has caused
a vacancy to which many gallant officers of this scientific
corps lay claim. It is in the gift of the Master-General of the
Ordnance, Lieutenant-General Sir Hussey Vivian, Bart.
G. C. 8., G. C. H.
The Senior and Junior United Service- Club
Houses, Crockford's, and the other principal subscription
houses, are undergoing a course of decorative repair, during
the absence of the members in different parts of the country
and the Continent. The projected new Club-house in Pall-
mall, adjoining the Carlton, for the Reform Club, is not ex-
pected to be completed for two years and a half, for which
Period the Club have become tenants of the Countess of Clare,
at her Ladyship's spacious mansion at Whitehall, called
Gwydyr House; the gardens of which are vis-a-via to those
of Sir Robert Peel.

Marschner, the celebrated composer of the Vamire,
which has been enthusiastically re-
&Hca.n,ohvaesr,juesnttiptlreoddußceadcbaoun7 opera at the King's Theatre,
ccived.

Dn. BowRING.—On Wednesday the people of
Kilmarnock presented their late representative with their
magnificent testimonial—a colossal silver cup. The learned
Doctor was received in the forenoon by a procession of the in-
habitants on foot and in vehicles, which conducted him to the
Cattle-market, where he addressed an immense concourse
from all the country round. In the evening the Doctor was
entertained in the large room of the George Inn, at a banquet,
attended by upwards of GOO individuals. Each of these paid
four shillings a head. The political sentiments expressed by
the speakers were strong, not violent, and the sympathy of the
audience with them seemed entire. The principal speakers
were the D octor himself, Mr. Galloway, of tha Common
Council of London, the Rev. Mr. lll‘Dougall Ehmed Bey,
&c.— Caledonian Mercury.
Miss Martineau was in town on Thursday last,
when she visited several of the public works and other objects
of curiosity. She is now ou a visit to the Lord Advocate at
Strachur.--Scottish Guardian (Glasgow).