The Sun.
London, England, 1838-10-31 00:00:00

CUSTOM-HOUSE ABUSES

TO THE EDITOR OF TUE SUN.

SIR,—In your paper of the 16th instant yeu called the at-
tention of your readers to a statement which I made before the
Lord Mayor, relative to certain charges made by Messrs.
Jackson and Knill, the wharfingers at London Bridge Wharf,
on passengers' luggage arriving from Boulogne and Calais.
My complaint was, that after my luggage was passed by the
examining officer on duty a charge of sixpence was made on
each package, at the instance of the above wharfingers, and
on my refusing to pay it my goods were detained in conse-
quence. It will be recollected that the Lord Mayor de-
nounced the demand as a gross imposition, and advised me to
apply to the Commissioners of Customs on the subject. Fol-
lowing the suggestion, .1 wrote to the Board and the public
will learn, with surprise, that it disclaimed all knowledge on
the point, the Commissioners having returned the following
answer

" Custom-house, 19th Oct., 1838.

" Sxa,—The Board of Customs having had before them
your representation, dated 16th inst., with respect to a charge
of sixpence per package for wharfage, made by Messrs. Jack-
son and Knill, upon five packages, containing luggage, &c.,
landed by you from Boulogne, I have it in command to ac-
quaint you that as the charge does not relate to this depart-
ment the Board cannot interfere.

"lam, Sir, your most obedient servant,
" Henry Flower, Esq." "J. KER."

Determined, if possible, to learn by whose authority the
little poke-hole on London Bridge Wharf had been converted
into a quasi Custom-house, and tolls allowed to be levied for
the profit of private individuals, I wrote the full particulars to
the Lords of the Treasury for information, and to which the
subjoined reply was sent :
" Treasury Chambers, 24th Oct., 1838.
_ _ _

" SIR,—.I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of her
Majesty's Treasury to acknowledge the receipt of your appli-
cation, dated 20th instant.

" The subject will receive proper attention, and such further
communication be made to you, as may appear to be necessary,
" I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
"Mr. H Flower." "A. G. SPEARNIAN."

My object in troubling you with this correspondence is to
awaken the attention of the public interested in this matter.
If it likes to be fleeced, well and good; if it is disinclined, let
it resist the payment. Example is catching ; if the demand
grows into a precedent on this side the water it will pretty
soon be followed by our neighbours on the other side, who
are not at all backward in having an enlightened self-interest
for themselves. I have the honour to remain, Sir,

Your most obedient servant,
Compton-place, Islington, HENRY FLOWER.
30th Oct., 1838.

CORN-LAW FALLACIES, WITH THE

ANSWERS.

(Continued from The Sun of Monday.)
IBl.—To me it appears most extraordinary, that the pre-
sent moment should have been seized on by the Corn-law
abolitionists to moot the question. If ever there was a time
more unfavourable than another to the arguments of those
who would do away with Corn-laws, the present is precisely
that.—Letter of Mr. John Ellman, in Bell's Weekly Mes-
senger, Oct. 14, 1838.
ANSWER.—Adversaries do not always agree as to the
proper time. What is one man's meat, is another man's
poison. But let us see.

182.—We have had lately 1,200,000 quarters of foreign
wheat released duty free (for really the Is. per quarter which
it paid cannot be called a duty), and yet the markets have
risen since.—ld.

A.—That proves that there is not yet enough for the
year's supply ; or at all events, for a plentiful one. Being
liable, then, to encounter such wants, see what provision
we have made for getting them supplied.

183. —For a long time it has been evident that we should
require the aid of foreign wheat —ld.
A.--Who then, in their senses, would have proceeded
to cut off the chances of a foreign growth to supply ?

184.—Prices had risen considerably—the North of Europe
has been ransacked for every bushel they could spare, and what
have we had brought in ?—not a million of quarters in addition
to that in warehouse in the country—or less than one month's
consumption.—ld.
A.—So because none is to be got when we have done all
we could to hinder its being grown, it is to be concluded
that there is no use in anything but making up our minds to
do constantly without.

185. In a very able pamphlet, written by Mr. Jacob (no
mean authority even in the eyes of our political economists),
in the year 1814, the present Comptroller of Corn Returns,
says :—‘, The average price of wheat in 1800 and 1801 was
EIGHTEEN shillings a bushel—at one period, March, 1801, it
was as high as TWENTY-TWO shillings the bushel—and yet the
whole quantity brought into this country during these two
years amounted but to 2,689,286 quarters of wheat ; which is
to our present consumption only six weeks' supply." This, it
must be remembered, was written in 1814, since which our
population has increased many millions, without any corre-
sponding increase in cultivation. Indeed, taking England
and Wales only, I doubt if more wheat is grown now than at
that period. Scotland and Ireland produce more wheat, but
not more than sufficient to meet our increasing population.—ld.
A.—How should it ? If it was, who would pay for
it ? Nobody can find out, that corn will not be grown un-
less there is somebody to pay for it, and that men cannot
live without corn to eat. These make the two termini,
which might be supposed invisible to the naked eye.

186.—1 t appears to me that when the upholders of Corn-
laws permit themselves to argue the question as they would do
that of the necessity of protection for the manufacture of any
particular article, or, what is more in point, as the growers of
beet-root in France would be supposed to do as against the
introduction of foreign sugar, they descend from the high
ground on which we stand, and. at once open the gates half-
way to our assailants. Bread is a necessary oflffe ; it must be
had at whatever price. Id.
A.—Not if it cannot be got. Mr. Ellman is one of
those who never knew the want of bread. But will he tell
the man who just gets bread enough for his family by work-
ing sixteen hours a-day, that if bread doubles in price he
must gec it because it is a necessary of life ? The wretch
under Mr. Ellman's regimen will find, that it is not neces-
sary he should live.

187.—8 y much the greater part of our population would
purchase it, even were it double its present price. —ld.
A.—The enormous blunder is in thinking that men
purchase it when it is not there to be had. If bread is
dearer, it is only because there is less of it ; and the author
goes on conceiting that " by much the greater part of our
population" contrive to get as much as they did before.

188.—It is therefore clear that the only plan of securing a
supply of bread to the lower classes is by securing an abundance ;
and how can that be done unless by encouragement of the cul-
tivation of the United Kingdom ?—ld.
A.—How is an abundance secured of claret or Port
wine ? By letting it be understood by the foreign growers
that they may look to us for a market. To say there was
no hope for wine-drinkers but from growing grapes it home
in hothouses, would be just as good argument as the other.

189.—Suppose our average crop to be equal to our con-
sumption—and no one calls it more—should we be one-fourth
below an average, where can we make up the deficiency ?
No where. —ld.

A.—Our average supply will always be equal to our
consumption, by the token that if it is not, the consumers
will cease to live. This is what the public cannot be in-
duced to comprehend. And suppose it should happen
under the be-praised system, that there was a deficiency of
one-fourth—and why should not there ? We have nothing
to do but lie down and die.

190.—Does not this prove, beyond all doubt, that to our
own soil, and our own soil only, must we look for our supply
of the first necessary of life ?—ld.
A.—Not in the remotest conceivable degree. It does
not advance one step towards likelihood or probability, that
anything can make the premises and the consequence ad-
here together. Try it upon home-grown claret.

191.—Only let our own cultivation of the soil be protected
from a ruinous foreign competition, when corn is at a mode-
rate price here ; and with the great improvements in agricul-
ture which appear likely to take place, taken up as the subject
has been by the highest noblemen in the kingdom, wisely
throwing aside all party feeling, I have no doubt that, by the
blessing of Providence, we shall be able to supply the inha-
bitants of the kingdom at a more moderate and steady price
than the whole world would, were our Corn-laws abolished
to- morrow. —ld. _

A.—ln other words, pav an unreasonable price for corn
when it is plentiful, and then you will always have enough
when it is scarce. How strange that men have not made
the grand discovery in other quarters !

192.—1 will not tire your readers by noticing the idea, that
a fixed duty of 10s. a quarter. would at all times be a suffi-
cient protection to our own agriculture (any more than I would
Mr. Hume's reported assertion, that it would be better for us
if we did not grow a bushel of wheat), further than by say-
ing that it has been proved by merchants of the highest re-
spectablility before Committees of Parliament, that there is
no price, however low, that would secure us against foreign
importation, if we did not want it—as there is no price, how-
ever high, which will secure us sufficient foreign importa-
tion to make up any great deficiency here, when we really
do want it.—ld.
A.—A fixed duty is a fixed evil. No man has a right
to rob us in our bread by a fixed scale any more than a
moveable one. Mr. Hume probably meant, that it would
be better we' grew no wheat here, with liberty to get it
where we could, than grow it here, and be prevented from
getting it where we might ; which is as true as it is of
claret. We always want corn, when we can get it cheaper ;
and we should be just as certain to go without Port wine
when we wanted it, if we took the same insane mode of
hindering its being grown for us.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)

- -
His Exmliency Count Woronzow, Governor-Gene-
ral of New Russia, and suite, have arrived at the Green Park
Hotel, Piccadilly, from Wilton House, near Salisbury, the
seat of his sister, the Dowager Countess of Pembroke.

ENGLA

ITSSIA

Unhappily, the Euxine and its shores afford a proof that
Russia has sagacity enough to discern when perseverance in
her objects may be safe, and detet mination to pursue them with
undeviating pertinacity, though fortunately not always with
success. The repeated and extensive armaments, the Impe-
rial Ukases, and the Imperial visits, indicate sufficiently the
high value which the Government of St. Petershurgh continue
to attach to the subjugation of the Caucasian tribes. Yet the
brave Circassians still hold out; and the whitening bones of
the Russian soldiers, and the stranded wrecks of their navy,
attest both the desperate character of the Circassian resistance,
and the inefficacy of a Russian blockade.

Yet the world has heard that the British flag has been out-
raged by the seizure of not less than three British merchant-
vessels by Russian ships of war ; one of these, for the alleged
breach of sanatory and custom-house regulations, on a shore
sshere no right of establishing such on the part of Russia ex-
ists, has been condemned as a seizure, almost without inquiry,
certainly without proof ; while British merchants have found
themselves prohibited from trading with a free people, desi-
rous of such commercial intercourse, by an interminable block-
ade, which has never been recognised by our authorities, and
which Russia has no right to impose. And now the iniquitous
and avowedly exterminating war against this free people is
made a pretext for military preparations on a gigantic scale,
which may with ease, and probably will, be applied to purposes
subversive of the British interests in Central Asia.

But it is in quarters further removed from public obser-
vation that the progress of Russia has been most rapid and
alarming, because more securely carried on. Few and in-
different are the regards bestowed by most European States-
men on the countries eastward of the Caspian, or even on the
more known and less savage realms of Persia ; yet it is there,
notwithstanding, that the danger to British interests is greatest
and most imminent. Not four years since the aid of Eng-
land, in money and in countenance, placed the present Shah of
Persia on his throne. Accompanied by the Envoy of that
power, with the detachment of British officers, and by the
Ambassador of Russia, who gave no assistance beyond the
assent implied by his presence—for none other, indeed, was
required on the part of his master—the young Monarch made
his bloodless progress from Tabreez to the capital, where he
was seated in peace upon the throne of his grandfather_
and great and unbounded were the professions of his gratitude.
The Russian boundary was then the Arras, and the influence
of Russia was decidedly inferior to that of England in the
councils of the Shah. Since then we have seen that Mo-
narch, who thus owed his crown to England, in defiance
of the councils and remonstrances of the British Minister,
but listening to the voice of c ncouragement from the Am-
bassador of Russia, exhausting the resources and forestalling
the revenues of his still unsettled country, in support of
a war of aggression against the vital interests of England.
We have seen the English Minister insulted, his demands
for redress unheeded, forced to retire before the prevail-
ing influence of the Russian Envoy from the Court of the
Shah, where heretofore he had been paramount, and that
Monarch avowedly abandoning himself to the guidance of the
latter—acting in all respects by his advice—making treaties
under his guarantee, and receiving in return promises of the
most substantial aid, in prosecuting his designs against the
very points and people which it is our interest and object to
protect.
We have seen the Chiefs of Affghanistan, who but a short
while since coveted and solicited our alliance as their best
safeguard, disappointed in their hopes of assistance from Eng-
land against either Sikhs or Persians, dismissing the empty-
handed English agents, and admitting those of Russia, who
lavish the promises of aid and protection which England with-
holds; and entering into treaties with the Persian Monarch,
under guarantee of the Russian agent ; probably, too, with
the Emperor himself, against their own brethren of Herat.
We hear of the Russian Envoy intimating the intention of
the Emperor his master to send an army of 10,000 Rus-
sians to subjugate the rulers of Khivah and Bockhara, and
that done, to fix with Persia the limits of their eastern
frontiers. In short, we see Russian influence, instead of
being limited as formerly to the line of Arras, prevailing
now, not at Herat alone, but at Caubul—nay, even to the banks
of the Indus.

Nor is the rapidity of this progress less alarming and as-
tounding than its unerring uncertainty. Sixty-four years, that
is, from 1772 till 1835-6, were required to advance the
southern frontier of the Czars a distance of 700 miles
namely, from the line of posts established by Peter the
Great, between the Don and the Volga to the Arras;
within these two last years the Emperor Nicholas _has
advanced his influence, if not his troops, from the Arras
to Caubul, a stride of more than 2,000 miles. It signifies
little to object that the Russian troops are not yet even at
Herat : the time may not be ripe for the last decided step of
military occupation ; but it is fast approaching, and all is pre-
pared to take advantage of the proper moment; and, if Eng-
land remains as indifferent to the present and future, as she
has been to the past, that consummation will be speedily wit-
nessed. The English mission and detachment once got rid of,
a popular tumult, the revolt of a province or a chief, events
which the ingenuity of a Russian agent can at any time readily
bring about, may form a pretext for introducing a force that
shall hold the north in awe, and whose advanced posts may be
at Herat, or yet further east; for, the moral courage and in-
dt pence of the Shah once thoroughly subdued by a sense of
his own helplessness, no obstacle whatever will exist to the
military occupation of the country, and its resources will am-
ply maintain the requisite troops which have of late been mus-
tering to the north of the Caucasus.
Persia once prostrated, and Affghanistan overawed, or pro•
tected, who will again venture to smile or to sneer at the once
supposed impracticability of a Russian invasion of India? With
proofs before the Indian world so convincing of the superior
power of Russia to that of England, in the rapid
the former in despite of the latter, towards her Indian frontier,
what is to become of that talisman of opinion which has so
long sustained our Asiatic empire, or of the revenues and re-
sources we derive from it? Will Runjeet Sing then continue
our faithful ally,• h approach of
with the promises of Russia in his ear, and
question ag
the fear of her bayonets before his eyes ?
thi Is it asked what has brought on this alarming condition of
tilsi i s
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the timidity, policy and
nainedasures, which, losing sight of the national best interests
peace—peace at any rate—
havencils and induced
Government a rather to concede •and ,
conciliate, than to stand
firm and resent the smallest interests;
aggression on her
which has stripped herand
foreign Envoys of power .
means, when these should rather have been increased, to
match the agents of a Power money, or
that never spares ,
scruples at measures which are to further her ultimate end-.
How could ti .e Shah of Persia,
or the Chiefs of Affghan-
istan, resist the promises,
or brave the threats of Russia,
which experience had proved to be no empty words, in order
to cline. to England, th Envoys of which could neither pro-
mise efficient protection, nor threaten with effectual punish*
went?

But, again, it may be asked, " Is the case, then, desperate?
is the game so totally lost as to preclude hope ?" God forbid.

The statement of facts and anticipations here set forth are
meant to rouse, not to depress. The facts, indeed, are cer-
(From an interesting Pamphlet,Progress Pre-
entitled " and taint the condition of affairs in those countries is exactly
sent Position of Russia in the East," published by Murray.) stated
nor is it particularly cheering to reflect that the mis-
To whatever quarter we look, whether in Europe or in chief ,
is. entirely owing to our own supineness or timidity—that
Asia, the influence and power of Russia is seen upon the in.
a fitting support of our agents, and duly redeeming the pledges
they felt it expedient to give, and an earlier and more efficient
crease. 111-fated Poland points to the atrocious Ukases which,
constantly emanating from St. Petersburgh, send her sons to demonstration of resolution in the proper quarters, would have Siberia, or to die o saved the whole loss. But the remedy is fortunately still,
n the banks of the Kuban--her daughters
even at the eleventh hour, in our hands ; firmness and decision
to the Russian camp ; transplant whole families from Poland
will yet retrieve the game. The attitude assumed in Persia
to Russia for the purposes of population ; give the eststcs of by Russia, or at least by her agent, is unquestionably hostile
her former nobles to the instruments of Russian tyranny, and but, with the art which governs all her policy, a loop-hole has
are gradually blotting her out from even the memory of Eu-
rope.A British representative is excluded from the little
Envoy; and if need be, she will do so. Already, if report
state of Cracow, the existence and freedom of which, though
guaranteed by the great European Powers, is about to be ex- deserves credit, she has taken the first precautionary step : her
'
tinguished, while itself is to be absorbed into the mass of the Ambassador at the Shahs Court has been removed, it is said,and is to be replaced by another, well known in Egyptian Russian dominions. The veteran pilot of the Austrian mo-
Politics.
narchy, divided between his fears of Liberalism and of the 13
encroaChing spirit of his formidable northern neighbour, looks Should England assume a tone inconveniently high, this
on, irresolute and inactive, hoping that the blow may not fall step can at once be appealed to, as a proof of her conciliatory
in his day—that the status quo may last his time. dispositions and innocence of intention. If not, the former
The great moral change which has been gradually but
efficiente instrument at that of the Shah, while the ex-Ambas-
ag agent at the Court of Mahommed Ali will not be a less
surely wrought in Turkey by the operation of Russian agents,
sador, who volunteered to lead a regiment to the attack of
but those who possess the bust means of judging, know well
may be less obvious and palpable than it is real and essential ;
Herat, will make an admirable commander to replace, with
other Russian officers, the British detachment discarded
how tightly the bonds of her fatal protector have within that time been drawn through Russian influence—perhaps his Excellency may be
--how absolutely every act of the Sultan's
sent toorganize the troops of Dost Mahommed Khan at
Caubul.
Government, both foreign and domestic, is controlled by the erg
Minister of Russia, and how the confidence once felt in former
friends and allies has been lost, and their counsels and repre- But is Russia yet in circumstances to brave and to wage awar with England ? That is the question. We think not,
sentations remain almost disregarded. Europe has seen his
Highness compelled to the suicidal act of severing the last even were she to have England single-handed for her antago-
his own fir- nist. The proof of this may be found in the conduct of Russia
link of connection that remained between his person and the
principalities of Wallachia and Nloldavia— herself. The day is gone by when doubts might have been
last semblance of suzerainete he possessed over these former to annihilate the
entertained of her 'projects of conquest and territorial aggran-
disement; every assertion she has made of moderation and
bound hand and foot into the arms of Russia, by
provinces of the Turkish empire; and by delivering them
self-denial has been belied by her acts. But she knows when,
maun, to give the coup dc grace to the nascent liberties of where, and how to make her approaches, and carefully avoids
all attempts at encroachment, whether political or territorial,
these States, who earnestly longed to enter the family of Euro.
pear nations as free and independent members. It:has witnessed where there is danger of coming too fully under the public
she has been ' ll , lavish of concilia.
eye. To England esp.ecia y the agent of Russia dissolving, by an act of coercion, the re. t
presentative assemblies which his own Goverment (the Courory assurances and pacific declarations : were she prepared
Protectrice !) had but a few years ago made a parade of be-
for a rupture, would this be the case? Would she, but for
stowing on these principalities—violating and trampling on the dread of consequences, so lone, defer seizing on the prizes
Reglement Oryanique, or code of laws, which had been framed which otherwise are within her grasp, and which have beenthe object of her solicitude for years ? No : England may be
for them on the same occasion—threatening the sturdy oppo-
rents of these outrages with the vengeance of the Emperor— assured that Russia dreads her ; but presuming on the obvious
reluctance of the English nation to risk a disturbance of the
lording it despotically over both Princes and Nobles, and con-
v peace of Europe, and admirably skilled in judging bow far she
voting the former, together with the executive of both States,
into base and passive instruments of Russian purposes. The may press upon that reluctance, she does and will continue to
troops, meanwhile assembled in Bessarabia, are ready to pour advance, step by step, until patience is worn out, and indeceigd na-
in, at the first fitting moment, and to turn both principalities tion is roused. Then, and not till then, and she will continue sosto do while pressewill Russia rd, until driven to ae;
into that which they already are in fact, avowed provinces of
wch jce an
Russia—even while raising their dying voice in vain appeals warrant herhi in maiustintainind the common voice of Europe may
warrant her in maintaining.
to the justice and sympathy of civilized and Christian Europe. In the concluding words of the pamphlet, " The integrity
Less obvious, but not less certain, are the intrigues by which and independence of Persia is necessary to the security of India
dissension has been sown and maintained in the Sultan's do- and of Europe; and any attempt to subvert the one is a blow
minions, his revenues diminished, and his resources crippled struck at the other—an unequivocal act of hostility to Eny-
by treachery and rebellion. Nothing can be more grateful to land." This act has now been perpetrated, and that point
Russia than to witness the growth of Mahommed Ali's power, in the progress of Russia, when resistance to her dangerous
which if once more directed against his master would give the ambition becomes imperative, has surely been reached. The
signal for a second, and probably a more permanent occupation
moment for firmness in language and decision in act bas ar-
rived; and let it not be forgotten that a neglect of such junc-
of the Bosphorus by a Russian fleet, and of Anatolia, or part
of it, by Russian troops. Nor could a more unwelcome mea-
tures—a constant sacrifice of opportunities, in dealing with a sure to Russia have been perpetrated, than the ratification by
powerful and encroaching adversary—must at length place us
the Sultan of a commercial treaty with England and France;
in a position where to struggle may be vain, and we may
a treaty which, if acted on, must, by annihilating monopolies,
awake from our lethargy too late for safety.
strike at the root of the power of the Viceroy of Egypt, as at
present administered. The fact of this treaty baying been
carried through the councils of his Highness, in spite of Rus-
sian opposition and intrigue, significantly demonstrates how
perfectly sensible the Government of St. Petersburgh is of its
inability to oppose with effect the power of Great Britain
when directed with energy to the attainment of a just and
equitable object.

STATE OF IRELAND.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

DUBLIN, OCT. 29.
" In a word, we ought to act in party with all the moderation
which does not absolutely enervate that vigour, and quench
that fervency of spirit, without which the best wishes for
the public good must evaporate in empty speculation."—
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their sentiments boldly and honestly, even at the risk of dis-
obliging those whose approbation they much esteem. The
policy of such a course is the more clear, because truth and
justice, being all powerful, will be found in the end to be the
most efficient supporters of every cause. In my last letter I
stated, as one of the causes continuing the contest between
Whig and Tory, and leaving it doubtful how long such contest
is to remain undecided—that the Liberals are by no means as
expert, unanimous, or energetic, as their opponents in sustain-
ing themselves, and negativing the false imputations brought
against them, which seems to be the greatest difficulty they
have to struggle with. The only exception that occurred to
me was quoted from the answer of the Lord Lieutenant to
to Mr. Recorder Shaw's speech, on presenting the new City
officers. I now recollect, that the Member for Cashel has
supplied another, in his succinct and unanswerable refutation
of the charges published in the Standard against himself and
the two preceding representatives of that Borough, touching
certain electioneering gratuities, better understood and more
frequently distributed in England than in this country. If the
Liberals, in general, were equally on the alert to defend them-
selves and promulgate their principles and proceedings, as
contradistinguished from those of the Tories, through the
public press, their cause should advance more prosperously.
Mr. Creswell, one of the Members for Liverpool, stated, at
an entertainment there lately, as an ingredient of the
poison that he would instill into the minds of his countrymen
against Ireland, that Mr. O'Connell wished to have -Irish
Paupers represented in Parliament. In proof of his assertion
he alluded to the proposition for increasing the number of our
representatives, put forward in Mr. O'Connell's last letter.
How any learned gentleman, like Mr. Creswell, could utter
such absurdities, and expect them to be listed to by an intel-
ligent and thinking audience, is very strange, when the most
superficial knowledge of the statistics of Ireland would sug.
gest an immediate contradiction. The Times itself, in com-
menting on that object of the new agitation—the increase of
Irish representatives—admitted, that if all Ireland, including
the pauperised parts, were to be represented, according to its
population,
equally with the rest of the United Kingdom, she
ought to have 219 - Members, that is, more than double her
present number. Now, O'Connell does not require that num-
ber ; ho makes allowance for the destitute condition of many
le, and only asks for 150 representatives for Ire-
of the peop
land. This number, admitting two millions of our people to
be totally destitute of an thing that ought to be represented
•
in the Legislature, would be considerably less then the propor-
tion of Members representing any six millions, paupers in-
cluded, of the population of the other parts of the empire.
And if O'Connell confined himself to the proposal, without
demanding the disfranchisement of any part of England, it is
one so grounded on common sense and common justice that
it ought to become law at no very distant period; and you
readers that, whatever may become may assure your of Repeal
and other grounds of agitation, this will not be lost sight of.
But I notice Mr. Creswell's speech merely to point out—first,
the nonsense with which the Tory journals fill their columns;
and, second, the remissness of the Liberals, in not adopting
of contradicting such statements, and
the Tory press subservient to the publication
of better infor-
mation for the public, and the medium of communicating
some part, at least, of the really honest principles and views of
an enlightened Government.
The Opposition papers have been also ringing the changes,
on the fact of the Irish Government having, from time to
time,
liberated some convicts; and they ascribe this to a de-
sire of obtaining popularity amongst the multitude, at the risk
of social order and the public peace. A full answer to this
charge has not been, I believe, put forward and extensively
circulated. It is chiefly this:—one object of the policy of the
the present Government, during the last three years, has been
of those factious fights, which were so
the suppression preva-
lent, and which kept the people in such a savage state, and
so accustomed to the slaughter of each other, that they, under
other excitement, thought little of bloodshed upon any pretext
The Judges of Assize and Assistant B •
whatever. arristers
Executive in this laudable "
have been aiding the design, by
enforcing the punishment of the law for such offences more
()re
strictly than they were accustomed to do. The consequence
is, that while convictions for murder and atrocious crime is
diminished those for assault, battery, and homicides, under
such provocations, have increased. Under these circumstances
several persons have been imprisoned, against whose character
no other charges have ever been made than that of joining
in those party feuds, and, " for love," knocking down their
neighbours or friends, when drunk. But the Magis-
trates, gentry, and clergy, of the localities in which
such things have happened, knowing that several of these
convicts were, in other respects, peaceable and well
conducted men, and that their families were suffering • • 'stations
during their •
Excellency for
their liberation—_thinking
in ing that the ends of justice were obtained
by the Judge's sentence, and a shorter imprisonment than that
awarded. In such cases there is
always
a reference to the
Judge or Barrister and the general rule is to abide by their
know
recommendation. ; 1
some
of the Barristers who say, " I
have actuall •
y pronounced as severe a punishment as I could,
in order to put down the system • knowing that in all cases
i
deserving a mitigated punishment, '
gated punishment, application would be made
to the Executive
; and thus all the objects of severity obtained
in the culprits being made withthe and the
acquainted
causes of its relaxation." I have heard it suggested, that ad-
dresses ought to be presented to Lords
peth on this
very subject, expressive of the public sense of the
great amelioration effected in the habits of the people—and
contradictory of the Tory misrepresentations. But all the
most respectable and sensible community, now that
part of the
the novelty of an energetic and im I.rtial Government is
become familiar Ppublic meetings, or
to them—shrink from
getting up addresses no a t bsoute called for; and if we except
ff
eorts of the " Precursors," there is at this moment
a nascent
a greater apathy to agitation than is consistent with the great
desire subsisting opinion,however, is
or further Reform. An
g.iining ground very generally, as to other means of predicating
a desire for further improvement;y' and at the same time indicating
the course to be pursued by a Liberal Government—and it seems
deserving of publicit It is simply this : that convivial
meetings, for thepurposeY. of devisingmeans for enlarging the
legitimate
Liberal franchise, objects of
e, and promoting other
Reform, ought to be got up on a respectable scale in every
county and borough throughout the kingdom ; and their pro-
ceedings and resolutions published in all the newspapers, in
order that the readers of the Tory journals may have some
means of
,judging of theprinciples and motives of Reformers.
At present they are tauht to P.usle•e of their principles by the
false colouring
put on them by an hostile and jaundiced press.
Whereas if those • • represented as they really
principles were
arc by trustworthy persons, and placed in their proper light,
conviction Trust force itself upon all candid, honourable, and
unsophisticated minds. If something be not done in this way
to sustain the Whigs in opposition to the Tories, and at the
same time to point out to the former their faults, they must,

as the natural consequence of their own lapsing into Tory or
• corrupt practices, and the general disposition of mankind to
change, become in the course of a little time as unpopular as
their
adversaries. It is right to do this; and also to tell the
Whigs that if they wish to continue in office, they must con-
form to that altered state of things, which they have them-
! selves created, or prepare to make room for others who will
not scruple to conform to the exigency of the times. They
I should be told plainly, that it is necessary to give the people a
1 greater interest and share in the management of public af-
fairs than they have heretofore enjoyed ; that, in fact, charac-
ter, ability, and fitness, rather than the accident of being bro-
ther, cousin, friend, or protege, to some stupid and useless
aristocrat, ought to be the passport and recommendation to
public employment. The people of Ireland are beginning to
understand that the Whigs have made very little improvement
on the old system in this respect.
It has been rumoured here for some da%s that Lord Mor-
peth is to be called to the Upper House in his own right,
with a seat in the Cabinet. The intelligence is hardly well-
come to many Irishmen, who know how to appreciate his
Lordship's efficient co-operation in conducting the affairs of
this country, and who calculated on the continued influence
of his talents and character in the Lower House on our be-
half. But it will be consolatory to those who know his
Lordship's disinterested devotedness to the welfare of the
empire at large, and the sustainment of his party, to reflect,
that his promotion in the public service is a guarantee of the
permanency of any Government having the benefit of his
firm, straightforward, and enlightened counsels.

T HEATRES.

COVENT-GARDEN.

Believing, as we do, that the drama, when properly con-
ducted, may not only (as Addison wrote a century ago) be
made the source of, a noble and intellectual amusement, but
the vehicle for conveying the grandest lessons, and the medium
of the loftiest impressions, of which human nature is suscep-
tible, we have ever felt its cause to be a national one ; and con-
vinced, as we were, that the struggle so nobly commenoed at
this theatre last season on behalf of the legitimate drama, was the
contest between reason and folly—truth and falsehood—be-
tween all that is most worthy of our nature, and all that is
trifling, and puerile, and childish—we were impelled, no less
by a sense of duty than a feeling of pleasure, to bring our
humble aid to the right side, by noticing, with the eulogium
they richly deserved, those splendid revivals of Shakspeare,
which shed such glory on the management of Mr. Macready.
And it is with the same impressions that we now renew our
sincere, though too inefficient, efforts-in the glorious cause.
We last night beheld Shakspeare's Tempest upon the stage
at Covent Garden, and perhaps there could not be a finer oppor-
tunity of marking those distinctive characteristics of the true
and of the false drama, which, to a superficial observa-
tion, might seem in this play to be most overlooked, but
which arc in reality most carefully preserved. The Tempest is,
we think, the most purely fanciful of Shakspeare's plays. The
mighty genius, which, in others of his matchless produc-
tions depicts, with such wondrous fidelity the thousand thoughts
and emotions of our nature, and which, even in its boldest
flights elsewhere—even in depicting the fairies of Midsummer
Night's Dream, or the mysterious beings of Macbeth—keeps
somewhat within the boundaries, if not of human reason, of
human fancies and traditions—here appears resolved to wing
its poetic fancyings into regions where no mortal ere could fol-
low, and has discovered shapes before unknown, even to the
brightest vision, or the wildest dream. Who but himself could
have drawn a Caliban—that most hideous creation of poetry
" the freckled whelp, hag-born—not honoured with
a human form." Who else would have created

that " fine apparition",--the " quaint"—the " delicate"—the
" beauteous"—" Ariel ?" that lovely compound of fairy, spi-
rit, and "water-nymph"—partaking of all, yet, wholly,
neither. But the wonderful thing is, that Shakspeare pour-
trays these eccentric creations of his fancy with such truthful-
ness—he describes the unnatural so naturally—that we in-
stinctively feel, as it has been well observed, that, were there
monsters like Caliban, and beings like Ariel, they would just
so think, and feel, and speak, and act, as he makes them :
and yet further (perhaps more wondrous still) he contrives—
displaying herein a knowledge of man as profoundly philoso-
phical as his fancy was boundless—he contrives, by giving to
his "tricksy spirit" something of the suft gentleness of wo-
manly feeling, and to his " abominable monster " a little
of the elements of humanity—uncouth and savage though
it be—to create a species of link, however remote, between
our natures and their own ; enough, at least to call forth our
sympathy and interest in their fate. Whose heart does not
reel a kindred with the touching idea, so beautifully expressed
in these lines, when Ariel, speaking of the foes of Prospero,
says to him—

" Your charm so strongly works them,
That, if you now beheld them, your affection
Would become tender.
PROPER°. —Dost thou think so, Spirit ?
ARIEL—Mine would, Sir, were I human.
PROSPERO. —And mine shall. Hest thou,
Which art but air, a touch, a feeling,
Of their afflictions, and shall not myself,
One of their kind, be kindlier moved than thou art ?"

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)

DEAL, OCT. 30.—Wind W. S. W., fine.—Arrived and pro-
ceeded from the River, the Hope, Ryley, for New Zealand;
Miranda, Dyson, Antigua; Sarah Barry, Evans, and Thomas
Laurie, for China ; Rattlesnake, Rayner, for Malta ; Alert,
White, for Liverpool. Came down from the River and re-
main, the Medora, Sergeant, for Cape Coast Castle; Gipsey,
Cresswell, for Rio Janiero ; Finlater, Moir, for Constanti-
nople, and remain with the outward bound.
PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 30. Wind W. N. W. to S., fine.
Arrived the Jean Graham, from Mauritius ; Rosalie, Brun,
from Cette, for Rouen, leaky and sails split. Sailed the Sovereign
(transport) eastward; her Majesty's cutter Raven from Wool-
wich. Mem.—Her Majesty's ship /Etna is come into harbour
from Spithead.
PLYMOUTH, OCT 29.—Wind N. W.—The Ruby, Hann, to
St. Kitt's, put back with sails split. The City of Kingston,
Wise, to Bahia, has also put back having been struck by a sea.
FALMOUTH, OCT. 29. —Wind N. W. to W.—A violent gale
list night but moderated about day-light. Arrived the Spey,
packet, from the West Indies, sailed from St. Thomas, 2d
inst., Arcturus, Oliver, from Honduras. Sailed the Braganza,
(steamer) for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar.
LIVERPOOL, OCT. 30.—Wind W., moderate.—Arrived the
Tvrian, Cunningham, from Paraiba; Britannia, Atcheson,
from Quebec ; Susannah, Atkins, from St. Domingo; Helen,
Taylor, from Trieste ; Mantura, Wicks, and Atlantic, from
Malaga ; Dispatch, from Denia ; Adelaide, Major, from
Cadiz ; Emerald, Dempsey, from Bordeaux.
STANSATE. CREEK, OCT. 30. —Arrived the Portland,White,
from Vostizza.

PORTLAND ROADS, OCT. 30. Arrived the Criterion, Wal-
lace, from Constantinople.
BRISTOL, OCT. 29.—Arrived the Emma, de Garis, Zante.
CLYDE, OCT. 29.—The Hero, Thom, and Crickston
Castle, from Quebec; Pandora, Murdock, from Marseilles;
Margaret Connell, Morris, from Calcutta; Corsair, Hender-
son, and Lisbon, Hill, from Malaga.
DUBLIN, Ocr. 28.—Arrived the St. John, Hughes, Cadiz.
WATERFORD, OCT. 28.—Arrived the Regulator, Angel,
from London.
BSIXHAM, OCT. 30.—Arrived the Elizabeth, Lawson, from
the Mediterranean.
DARTMOUTH, OCT. 30.—Arrived the Northam Castle, from
Odessa.

KINGSTOWN, OCT. 28.—Arrived the St. John's,Pusey, from
Leghorn ; Hibernia, Feneran, from Quebec.
RAMSGATE, OCT. 30.—Arrived the Grand Turk, Varney,
from Antwerp, for New Orleans, with loss of anchor and chains,
having been on shore near Broadstairs.
LIVERPOOL, OCT. 30. —The Mountaineer, Short, from Hon-
duras, which was on shore near Crosley Point, yesterday, has
been scuttled.
MILFORD, OCT. 29.—Yesterday the wind was moderate at
S. E., but at ten last night, it changed to W. and blew a!perfect
hurricane for five hours. Apprehensions are entertained for
the safety of some vessels that sailed for Ireland yesterday.
JAMAICA.—The Jessie, Bisson, from Jamaica to Cork, was
totally wrecked in Morant Bay on the 18th ult. ; crew saved.
ELSINEUR.—The Seine, Charlotte, from Havre to St. Pe-
tersburgh, was on shore on Folsterbo Reef on the 19th inst.
dismasted. The Alexander, Furstoff, from St. Petersburgh,
put into Elsineur leaky, &c., bound to Liverpool.
CRONSTADT.—The Earl of Dalhousie was fallen in with on
the 11th instant, off Hogland, dismasted, water-logged, and
abandoned.
T'

:he Alma, Henderson, bound to Batavia, has put back to
Hamburgh with damage and leaky, having been on shore, and
must discharge.
The Favourite, from Chili, put into Calloa leaky; cargo
discharging.
The Pursuit, Stewart, from Galway, put into Kilrush leaky,
and must discharge, bound to London.
The Wanskupen, Hallowav, from Newcastle toLubeck, was
wrecked on the 19th inst. off Lanovig ; crew saved.
The Wellington, from Calcutta, put into St. Thomas's
leaky.

And who experiences not somewhat of sympathy, even with
Caliban, in his impatience under mockery at his hideousness,
and in his final exclamation—
What a thrice double ass
Was I, to take this drunkard for a god,
And worship a dull fool !"
after he finds there are others and nobler of human kind,
than the degraded man, whom he at first had deified. Above
all, who can read, without a feeling of unapproachable
sublimity, those majestic lines, which we verily believe
Shakspeare, who never wrote without a moral, intended for
the moral of this play, and Macready's utterance of which
will ring in our cars " while memory holds her seat"—
" Our revels now are ended : these our actors
As I foretold you were all spirits, and
Are melted into air, into thin air;
And like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples—the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherits, shall dissolve,
And like this unsubstantial pageant faded
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made of, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep."
Before we went to Covent Garden last night, we should have
deemed it impossible to have represented upon a stage so de-
lightful a fiction. We lack power of words to tell how plea-
singly we were astonished. We can only say, however
incredible it will doubtless appear to those who like us had
not witnessed it, that we beheld Sbakspeare's Tempest,
thoroughly and perfectly represented ; all its fantastic
creations, all its lovely visions and airy shapes, in
actual, in visible embodiment. From the moment that
the curtain rose, it seemed as though a second Prospero
had waved his magic wand, and at his bidding rose
a succession of enchantments so wondrous and so beautiful,
that we could not help exclaiming, " This is a most majestic
vision, and harmonious, charmingly." The storm—the rag-
ing billows—the flashing lightning—the rolling thunder—the
shipwrecked vessel ; the cell of the magician in the desert
island, with its mysterious inmates—the beauteous spirit,
that flies quickly through the air to do his high behests--
the awful spectacle that be conjures up to appal his foes—
and the lovely " masque," which is presented as the crown-
ing achievement of his magic art—all passed before us
with ♦ivid reality, and the exquisite snatches of melody, so
beautifully expressing the unearthly music to which Ariel
sings her fairy songs, completed the charm ; it was as though
we were dreaming of some wild poetic fable, and the spell was
only dissolved by the thunders of enthusiastic cheering with
which the vast audience expressed their feelings of uncontrol-
lable delight.
We hold this to be the greatest triumph the cause of the
legitimate drama has for some time gained ; and we point to
it as an incontrovertible evidence that the arts which minister
to the senses are never so well and so successfully employed as
when they are appealed to in order to embody the conceptions
of a truly poetical imagination.

HAYMARKET.
Last night a new and original farce, called " But How-
ever—," from the pens of Messrs. Mayhew and Baylis, was
produced at this theatre, and was most favourably received.
The singular title of the piece is a bewildering phrase adopted
by a man (not unknown to a peculiar class of legal authorities)
who has clandestinely left London in order to avoid his
ll
cre-
ditors. This honourable character seeks refugeselves inte
be a
takensm
country town, and, nobody,personating
for somebody; but when he is abouttorraetlthe curiosity‘lb of
those whom he falls in contact with, by disclosing ? and
what he is, he stops short before he come,s, to a climax
by repeating the words " But, however—. Such, then,
being the solution of the title, the plot is shortly as
follows :—Mrs.
Juniper (Mrs. F.
i Matthews), the land..
lady of an inn in the town, s anxiously expecting
the arrival of Squire Cashmere (Mr. Hemming), who
has been sojourning for some time in India, and has lately
been decreed to be the owner of an estate in the neigh_
bourhood—formerly the property of an opulent uncle. Just
after the landlady has been snaking arrangements for the recep-
tion of the Squire a coach stops at the door, and Caleb Chizzler
( Mr. Wrench) makes his entree, and from the peculiarity of
his dress, added to his mysterious mode of behaviour, Mrs. Ju-
niper concludes him to be the long-expceted Squire Cashmere.
Caleb Chizzler, as before hinted (having in reality come
therein order to avoid his creditors and the bailiffs), takes ad-
vantage of the mistake, when Mr. Standwell ( Mr. Strick-
land) and his daughter Julia (Miss Williams) visit the inn, in
order to welcome the return of Cashmere, who had formed en
early attachment to Julia. Chizzler is considered by them to
be the long absent lover of Julia, and is treated with great
friendship and cordiality ; but an unexpected change takes
place; the real Simon 'Pure arrives at the inn, and from the
equivocal nature of his conversation Chizzler imagines him to
be the bailiff in pursuit of him, and by dint of a little cunning
persuades him to retire to another room, when Chizzler re-
solves that, as he is mistaken for the Squire. the Bailiff shall
mistake the Squire for him. When the bailiff makes his ap-
pearance, Caleb Chizzler takes him to be the Squire ; but
when the former produces a writ against the latter, Chizzler
makes him believe that Cashmere is the scoundrel he is in
search of, and the Squire is accordingly apprehended ; but
Chizzler has another difficulty to encounter : Cashmere
proves his identity by producing a series of letters which
he had received when abroad from his Julia. This disco-
very clears up the mystery, and the bailiff seizes the real
offender ; but Mr. Standwell, admiring the ingenuity displayed
by Chizzler, undertakes to extricate him from his difficulties,
and procure him a " snug berth" in the neighbourhood, on
condition thal he promises to reform. It will be seen that the
subject of the farce is a continuation of mistakes,
and laughable situations, and, aided as it was by the excelen
equivoqiuest
,
acting of all the performers, could not fail to be successful.
Mr. Wrench rendered the part of Chizzler very eccentric and

The Friendship, Bell, was towed into Bridlington yesterday
abandoned, and nearly full of water.
The Jupiter, Gall (coal laden) is on shore near Whitby ;
crew saved.
The Betsey and Nancy, Croley, from Newport to Kinsale,
was driven on shore at Angle, but has not received material
damage.
The Blake, from China, was spoken with off the Cape of
Good Hope, by the Rainbow, arrived from the Mauritius, at
Helena.

The Cassiopea and Edward, bound to Cape of Good Hope,
have put back to Calcutta, leaky,
The Ann, Niildren, bound to London, has put back to Liver-
pool with part of her cargo thrown over, having been on fire.
The Samuel and Elizabeth, Hoskin, from Newport, was on
shore in Hell Bay on the 29th inst.
The Eucharist, Jensen, from Gottcnburg to London, struck
against the quay at Klippa, filled, and sunk.

'OST-OFFICE LIBERALITY.—Died, on Saturday'
nightlast, Marian Adams, aged 74, who for upwards of 4.1-
ya'ars was letter-carrier to the Post-office in Ashburton. We
are sorry to hear that her salary from the Post-office was only
the paltry sum of two shillings weekly, for two deliveries of
Iccers and newspapers daily in this town. Her furniture and
e:ther effects were sold by public auction on Friday last, when
poor Betsy, her far-famed donkey, bridle, side-saddle, and
plated spur, were all sold for three shillings and sixpence, to
Mr. W. Hamlyn, the worthy sexton of Ashburton Church.—
Western Times
were
On Thursday
emplo3..ed he
for
long bench
time ofio
hearing Magistrates
a case a
oft H
trespasstb
ton
and f
Hallelony preferred against J. 13. Haynes, Esq , of Winter-
, barrister, by A. Randall, waterman, under' the fol-
lowing circumstances : —Mr. Haynes having a pair of eagles
which stood at his entrance gates damaged and broken, and
suspecting A. Randall, proceeded to his house at midnight,
and without any notice or authority, forced an entrance
into his house, and the room where he was in bed with his
wife, and, seizing a pair of shoes, was about to take them.
away to compare them with certain footmarks near his gates,
when he was prevented doing so by Randall taking them
out of his hands and turning him out of doors. Mr. Guy,
of Lymington, appeared in behalf of the prosecution, and
commenced in strong terms upon the defendant's conduct..
After a long and patient investigation, the bench said they con-
sidered the offence fully proved, and sentenced him to pay a fine
ot4l. to the Queen. The charge of stealing the shoes the
Magistrates refused to go into.—Hampshire Telegraph.
Last night, at half-past seven, as the steamer New-
castle, from Port Carlisle to Liverpool, came in sight of the
Rock Light, one of the passengers called the attention of the
wan at the wheel to signal lights from a ship on shore. Pre-
sently two guns were fixed. Captain Sewell immediately
ordered the helm a-starboard, and though a strong current
was running, with an ebb tide, he approached the vessel, till
in two fathoms water. The greatest confusion prevailed
aboard of the ship. No distinct answer was given to Captain.
Sewell's inqr iries. The brig appeared to be an East India-
manAhomeward-bound, and is believed to be the Mountaineer:.
She had a pilot on board : but how she was run so close in
shore, or why an anchor was not seasonably thrown out when
she took the ground, and thereby yawed to seaward, could
not be ascertained. At the risk of losing the tide, Captain
Sowell lowered a boat and sent a couple of hands to convey a
hawser from the brig to tow her off. When hailed, the pilot
seemed to think that he was in three fathoms water ; whereas
the Newcastle was but in two by the lead, whilst at least eighty
yards to seaward of the brig ! After much delay on the part
of the crew of the brig, a hawser was lowered and fixed, but
the instant the drag was put upon it by the steamer's motion,
it unfortunately slippe.l from the stanchions. It is to be hoped
th _t she would get clear by this morning's tide. Had the wind
got up, with any sea, ship, cargo, and crew must have inevi-
tably been in imminent danger. As it was, the Newcastle
was under the necessity of leaving her, and barely succeeded
in getting into the Clarence Dock at a quarter past eigt-:t.
Other assistance was instantly despatched to the brig, but with
what result we could not learn.—Lancashire (Liverpool)
Herald of Monday.
FATAL AFFRAY AT KENSINGTON.,--Yesterday
alternoon an inquest was held at St. Georp's Hospital on the
body of James Sirnmonds, aged 63, who is alleged to have
died from the effects of a broken jaw, received in a fight with
his brother-in-law, Stephen Jordan, on the 15th inst. Mary
Ann Hamilton. of No. 2, Tavern-yard, Jennincrbs's-buildings,
Hi oi-street, Kensington, deposed that about half-past nine,
o'clock on the 15th inst. deceased was in his own room at No.
7, Church-court, Kensington. Witness, as well as her brother
Stephen John .Jordan and his wife, were present at the time.
Believed the deceased's wife was a little in liquor, but
no other person was so. They had been there but a few
minutes together, when words ensued in consequenfze of de-
ceased's wife having beaten her little brother, who lived wl,tll,
thesis, that morning. Deceased got up, spat in. his hands,
and challenged witness's brother to fight. He subsequently
struck Jordan, who said, " As you are an old man
dI
im. medi-
strike you unless you strike me again."
D"easereturned it.
will n not
ately made a second blow at Jordan, and tb-, latterfi
behind ensued,
the
door. Jordan then took off his coat, and a geneitseght
during which they both fell over a clothes-horse
struck door. Deceased lay there, but Jor. !'
w were
et
on
the room. Did not sec any
de-
ceased's wife, when witness, by greartuecgxkoertwtiloipinl
},lows struck
deceased speak after he
whilst the}' e himy
the ground together. nil. not
of being
hurt. Saw no blood
fell, or complain in any way o
drawn from him, Deceased was employed as cowkeeper at
Kensington Palace,
i d to my sister but.
Prescott
Howett, house-surgeon to St..
George's Hospital,
four months. Mr.
d
osed to the deceased being brought to
that establishment about and
15th inst., with a broken jaw, i, snce which period witness had
e'clock on the night of the
p twelve
attended him until the time of his death, which took place
about three o'clock on the morning of the 2,_.h. Since death
hr had made a postmortem examination, and found at the back
part of the neck a great deal of inflammation extending down
the lorgn.v and windpipe. Around the fractured jaw suppu-
ration and inflammation existed to a great extent, which Wad,
been the cause of death, consequent upon the breaking of'
the jaw. The jury returned a verdict of " Manslaughter
against Stephen Jordan." The inquiry occupied upwards of.
tlttee hours,

Ir.
amusing, and not only proved that there is no 4311 itager
who can tell " falsehoods" with greater succ 4'14-11titt` {
abilities as a light farceur are not in the sli 4:A*41;0-kit.' .;
7 Lej,: "
paired. Mrs. F. Matthews is an exceeding) c itctresh
and played on this occasion with great sprightli
mination. Miss Williams, Strickland, and He ' made- -
their characters as effective as possible. Prowkilielitillffi 1/4,k 4J.
and Gabby the boots at the inn (who has literally nothing to
do with the plot of the piece), were very well played by
Messrs. Hutchings and T. F. Matthews. If is only necessary
to add that the piece was given out for repetition without a dis-
sentient voice. It is decidedly the cleverest little tarce we
have seen for a long time.