The Sun.
London, England, 1831-11-16 00:00:00

'RMING STATE OF THE COUNTRY.

{From the Boston Gazette of Tuesday.)
STACKS BURNED near BOSTON.
e eight and nine o'clock on Wednesday evening
r,„: persons were alarmed in Boston by the cry of
:antivabich was shouted by a man who was on horse-
et% ',;',41 galloped towards the church for the fire
%Ito, 'Pota inquiry we learned that the fire was upon
,"I Everard's farm, at Huhhert's Bridge, in the
or air
tiire ot ertoft, and newly five miles from Boston.
hot. e: Were distinctly visible at Boston, and illumined
spot;n• Great numbers of persons left this town for
arrnPon arriving there at half-past ren o'clock, we
Immense mass of fire,—the substance then con-
laving originally formed a wheat stack, most of
fallen upon the bank of the drain adjoining the
and was there smoking and smouldering to
.I,"ttunately th evening was quite serene,
ere been any e wind a number of other stacks
'74"1 roust have fallen a prey to the devouring
• Be
ss the Bostonians, a number of persons
from the surrounding cottages, and
respectable farmers of Swineshead and the
, 7beered. present. C. K. Tunnard, Esq., a Magis-
lvlsion, attended, and exerted himself in the
dtrecf°n of the proper means for subduing the
At one time more than 1,000 persons were on
lad;
•ng, we regret to say, many whose motives
t-t,;:e any thing but honest. Some were drawn
"e curiosity, and who contented themselves
' Silent spectators of the scene ; while others,
a more worthy motive, exerted themselves in
the fire. We learned that the fire was first
:seven and eight o'clock ; it commenced
Stack, which formed first of a line of corn
-41 adjoining which on bone side was a stack of
(7. Besides this property, a large barn and a
Were put in jeopardy. The early discovery of
.„d
the prompt attendance of an engine from
prevented the flames spreading far beyond the
the stacks were originally ignited ; at one
the fire had extended itself to the adjoining
but the water from the engine being directed
the fire was extinguished there. The old hay
remarkable appearance; the fire, nodouht,
J it at an early period,and the whole of the in-
itially consumed, while a mere shell of hay,
on the outside, prevented the fire from being seen,
some few spots where the glowing embers shone
s there appeared at one time symptoms of the
frng at,
it was deemed expedient to send for another
arn Boston, which arrived between eleven and
"Y of the labourers looked on with the ut-
%4"'Y, and never offered to lend their aid, while
slerted themselves to the utmost. An immoderate
ale, distributed on the spot, did infinite mis-
, b We have heard that some quarrels and fighting
tlta4nt four o'clock in the morning. The engines
",re under, the flames gradually died away, and at
,„fire presented a scene of red ashes, which
."flisig the morning, and on Thursday the fire was
,fished. We understand that Mr. Everard
the wages of his labourers, which had ex-
but le dissatisfaction, He now resides at Gos-
was at Stamford on Wednesday ; he arrived at
ietweea eleven and twelve o'clock, in a state of
agitation. lie was insured. The damaged has
at from 3001. to 4001. No doubt it was
regretn incendiary.
welo:to state tat on Monday afternon, about
a 6te brohke out on the premises of Mr.
f utter, about two miles from Ratcliff. The
ei4 twdentY acres of barley and ten acres of beans
ineemndei; It is supposed that the fire was caused
Petition arY' 1%4. Butler having signed an Anti-Re-
wedn Nottineham, a short time ago.
in :s(aY evening a fire broke out, about seven
and b." large barn, close to the Mansfield turnpike-
bakeYond Daybrook ; the flames raged furiously,
Past
;lie eight o'clock the roof fell in, above 100
tae corn, the property of Mrs. Frignall, being
building was formerly a part of the premises
j 4.4. Davison and Hawksley, of Arnold mill.
- I.- reason to suspect that the fire was not
tlineffrlay evening the 2d inst., about six o'clock,
out in the stack yard belonging to Mr. Mit-
Pc" widow woman, at Hacehy, near Falkinge
to' g about rn a straw-stack, and a large stack of
sixty
quarters. Much praise is due
'men and labourers ofOsbournhy,who were in-
ithno'falt their exertions, and who did not quit the scene
'hey ,w 0 o'clock on Thursday morning, by which
at oot"au succeeded in totally extinguishing the fire.—
4114, doubted that the conflagration was occasioned
Oa fldiery u
tst '.utda appoy, the property was not insured.
get tit night, about eleven o'clock, a fire, no doubt
ar" 14,4hann pa4,incendiar was observed on the land of Mr.
-'Y, of GujYliiin, in the parish of Wiabech St.
sl:l'ttalrt hieh consumed a straw stack, and the principal
544,1111 44,t„74'hing-ntachine belonging to an industrious
Nthe Burrows. The corn was fortunately removed;
hastitaehine filled with straw, and covered with some
uf.le sne Material, which was discovered after the fire.
Ph, Wei day evening,soon after five o'clock, the atmos-
i p of Binghsm was most brilliantly illuminated
':even incendiarism was suspected to he the
ne' ktaeks`r was soon found to be too just a suspicion.
(gated to n 1 barley, (the produce of 20 acres, and esti-
-41 ad °%ro 10 qrs. of grain,) and two of beans,
s Nbt avres, ealrulated at 40 qrs.,) together with
lai:'}),,,,,`bT hovel, all the property of Mr. Richard Butler,
it ghost), firmer of Radcliffe, about four miles from
soda litti?t_which stood in that part Of the field which
lat were more than two miles from the latter
lettellooif totally consumed. It is not doubted that
ea ' het was caused H ropily no lives were
4 trao was to be regretted that Mr. Sheppard, in the
der ial:efren" Hull (formerly of Boston), was passing
1411;18,. gig, and took up a stout
thetafarig-man to ren-
-4,4 n,ee possible, and owing to arkness of the
tat thtn,, kng the fields to get to the fire, Mr. Sheppard
le4ea up :n out of his gig, and much hurt. He was
tale useless, and conveyed to the village in a hope-
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10'4111,-i:I4Y night, between ten and eleven o'clock, a
to "Nth k Stark, belonging to Mr. Samuel Barrow, of
oeo was set on fire by some incendiary, and entirely
efl •
In, 4 Prida
Gilbertkae night the 4th instant, a barn belonging to
Sp reilfoi, farmer, at Barsby, near I\lelton Mowbray,
I:4dav Y set fire and destroyed. On the following
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tlattnses of n,if oats were discovered to be on fire on the
ai.Y, also 4r. Black, of Ashby Folville, near Melton :
st it. Were completely destroyed. And on Monday
4tiat:ral stacks of corn were fired and consumed at
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nr VI;A it WETHERELL.—We , have.
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we deem good authority, that, lan,
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kti,"tttn to " ks which S CHARLES WETHERLL hhe
Dr 4 th„ a gentleman wholrassisted him in his flight,
t s not e shall not again .
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n come to this City." W.e.
vee a •e4lnng the number who believed that he won't!
at
ti'4lll venture h , much less that he would preside
417'1°411:-..LterAco'reyiz.e., 'sires- currently reported last week.
tlit4 ()14211A INTORBus.—The
l'il'4l) " Sunderland has hitherto beenso
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~slow, that
progress of this
k.fireat .'e continental or not, has become a matter of
-ical '4,Portance If contagious, as some of our
oltiit'.nt.at:Te:',
.iiaittaegin:e, its contagion has been of small.n
aside .Port `,,,i'_l Virulence compared with its effects
bie
t tb "i .Europemerely epidemic, it cannotr a
41,1111)1 • -"e strict sense to have merited the name ; fo
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Which has attacked so few out of so cor.iside-
124),:PePolation can hardly be considered according to
a1,1,-"'neation of 'th to be either " generally re-
ttionti,t4tl;,oris":iffileentinge, greattem ;aniu numbers."
fbteirisis."bEe Every
really
precaution,i"atil)-." ',bolero of which,
however, there are now stronger
still t 8
ttUa4 el: s'r
der it decided that
44143,11°- '°' it ffeesifthit'ehemr aaynd thither in a most extraor-a
4,(1, afte4:4l ineXplieable manner, it lingers on a few
.cme _
''rifi ;Wards breaks forth and spreads with the rapidity of
rl.l ut if the state of Sunderland continue im-
tic' e 4ieis at present, we hop •in our next to be able,e
-'al'sto°'ltulate our readers' and the public that the disease
*hr,st.kethee gone. Indeed from Mr. Et S accoun ,
taiv history of the cholera appears o have met w itbhe
hat:C:ol aPprohation, the danger may be reckoned to
",hio, tk'r the utmost interval has nearly elapsed during
eVtr he States the. • ta ions cholera "is developed in
t4l
Y 41keeti".' On contagious
gWhole, we conceive that we have
4"Zr4h e seas n•
to agree ewitli he Edinburgh Literary
a
11414,- :I'l in the remark that "it has been represented as bohji`" ready to devour us at a single mouthful, buw.i..f
ttir tailn,i frank) met when it makes its spring, it
_ill str itsiantlyYand disappear round the corner of the
iaole' lt is nei.her the plague nor the typhus fever ; it
'HY the cholie in a lion's skin."-- Tyne Mercury.

(Signed) ROBERT DAUN, M.D.

Ministers will do well to mark a piece of ad-
vice emphatically given them by the Times, not
to let the Tories make a second Catholic Relief
Bill of Reform. On that question the Whigs
laboured for years, and others entered into their
labours, and carried ofr the spoil and the laurels.
So it will be with the Reform Bill if, contrary to
all hope and expectation, the Government should
flinch at the eleventh hour, and be too squeamish
to make the addition to the Peerage that would
carry the Bill in triumph, and crown their toils
with victory.

The KING has given Lord GREY a carte
blanche. We know it upon the best authority.
Earl GREY is conscious that he holds in his
hands the plenitude of power that he needs, and
if he will not exercise it, his Ministry will be
precipitated to the bottom of the precipice at
whose summit it now stands. The question of
Reform does not depend upon any Ministry,
Whig or Tory, for success, but the converse of
the proposition is the fact—that any Ministry,
Whig or Tory, must henceforth depend for its
existence upon its accomplishment of Reform.
For the last thirty years the Whigs have been
playing into the hands of their antagonists, and
if they commit such a piece of folly, if not of
wickedness, as now to give up the game to the
people's enemies, they will brand their names
with a reputation which we have no desire
to reflect upon. Lord GREY, of all men in the
world, ought to be convinced that in measures,
such as the great measure he has in hand, the
only safe rule is—drink deep, or taste not.,
Either the campaign should not have been
begun, or it should have been pursued to the
last with the vigorous spirit with which it was
originally undertaken.
The squeamishness at increasing the Peerage
may be compared to the squeamishness of a
thrifty traveller, who hesitates to put on the
extra pair of horses which would, within the
day, carry him to his destination. There is
some slight sacrifice, no doubt, in diluting the
noble blood of England still weaker than it is
already diluted ; but what is such a considera-
tion, compared to the preservation of peace and
property, which the passing of the Bill can alone
secure ? The hesitation to add to the Peerage
is worthy only of a genealogist, or of a waiting
gentlewoman, who esteem a Lord as haberdashers'
apprentices esteem the gewgaws of a city pageant.
But, so far as hitherto appears, there is no cer-
tain road to the success of ttw Bill, but by an
exercise of the Royal prerogative. We should be
glad if our knowledge or observation had led us
to a contrary conclusion—but at present there is
no reason to believe that the new Eill will pass the
Lords, except by means of new creations. We
therefore call upon Ministers either to advise
such creations, or to show cause why a different
policy is preferable.

History will record the Bristol riot not only
as a deplorable example of the state of our times,
but as an instance of the evils which arise from a
system, which permits political partisans to ad-
minister from the bench public justice. No two
classes of duties can be more distinct, and more
incompatible, than those of a Legislator, and
those of a Judge ; and the mischief of their

union is particularly great in country like this,
where unfortunately there are scarcely any of our
Legislators who do not belong to a party, or
who are exempt from the influence of party
spirit. The violence of the Parliamentary de-
bates would be an utter scandal to a Court of
Justice, and it is almost impossible for those
who take part in them to fill judicial offices with
that temper and impartiality without which the
bench is the mockery, and not the fulfilment, of
justice. If this be generally true, how much
more so must it apply to the case of a person,
like Sir CHARLES WETHERELL, who has been
pronounced by a high legal authority to be a
lunatic, having but one lucid interval,—that is to
say,—between his waistcoat and his breeches ?
By the Act which abolished the Welsh Judi-
cature the Judges of the Welch Circuits, like
those of the English, are no longer permitted to
sit in Parliament, and this was generally admitted
to be one of the greatest benefits of the change.
So by the new Bankrupt Act, the Judges, tn-
missioners, and Officers in Bankruptcy, are in-
capacitated from sitting in the House of Com-
mons, and this, again, was considered to be one
of the principal merits of the change in this
department. The general principle seems,
indeed, to be recognized in almost every case,
except that of Municipal Judges, such as Re-
corders, who are exactly the class of persons
upon whom political feeling is likely to operate
the most strongly. A Judge of Westminster
Hall is free from the influence of a host of con-
siderations, which in corporate towns, and espe-
cially those on the close borough system, act
with irresistible force upon the legal adviser

of the Corporate Body. We have no hesita-
tion in saying that the Bristol rioters would
not have a fair trial before Sir CHARLES
WETHERELL, and if they happened so to have,
the public would never be persuaded of the fact.

Is a man who was elected Recorder of a rotten
Corporation, because he has been the never-
failing advocate of rottenness and corruption
throughout the whole of his political career,
likely to be an unbiassed administrator of justice,
in mercy, in the character of Recorder ? About
as likely as a Clergyman is to decide with im-
partiality, as Justice of the Peace, a tithe case
in which himself or his patron is interested.
The times are, moreover, such that, society
being divided into two grand classes or castes,
the one comprising those who have property,
and the other those who have none—which latter
class has proceeded to repeated acts of violence
against the other—there can be no satisfactory
judicial proceeding against offenders, unless the
uprightness of the Judge is confided in by all
branches of society alike ; and it should be re-
membered that it is quite as important for the
public to be persuaded that justice is done to
all parties alike, as that such justice should be so
done in truth and in fact. These considerations

induce us to hope that it may not be long before
a Bill is introduced into Parliament, for the ex-
pulsion from it, for the future, of all persons
whatsoever filling judicial posts, whether Re-
corders, Common Sergeants, or of whatever
other denomination. It may be impossible to
put an end to political Judges altogether, but a
measure of such a nature would go a great way

to calm the turbulence of their political spirits,
by confining their attention to the sphere from
which Judges can never depart without injury to

their own character, and outrage to the public
sense of the sacredness of the pure administra-
tion of the law.

Since writing the above, we have read what
we suppose is intended to be the exculpation o

the authorities at Bristol. We cannot say
much for the document : it is a very lame
performance, and proves more clearly than
ever that a public investigation into all
the circumstances connected with the late riots;
is absolutely indispensable. On the principle
that Judges are unfit to sit in Parliament,
equally unfitting is it that self-elected political
Magistrates should preside over the welfare of a
great city like Bristol.

The following are extracts from Brussels and
German Papers received this morning
TRIESSE, OCT. 26.—Authentic accounts of the let
instant have been received here from Corfu, which an-
nounce that the celebrated rebel Albanian chief, S,lictar
Poda, had arrived at the lazaretto there with a numerous
suite, composed chiefly of Albanians of distinction. All
Lower Albania is now occupied by the Sultan's troops.
We have letters from Scutari to the 12th of October ;
they contain, however, no important information respect-
ing what is passing there; the citadel still held out, but it
was said that the garrison was in want of water, because
the cisterns were beginning to fail in consequence of the
dry weather. According to accounts from Bitoglia, the
cholera in Turkey is advancing towards the west. It had
broken out in Adrianople, Philippopoli, Seres, Sophia,
gt.c., as well as in Bitoglia itself. In the latter town its
ravages are extensive, especially among the Jews.
VIENNA, Nov. 2. Nov. 3.

Five per Cents.
64% 57,4
Four per Cents.
Bank Shares. llO6 lll5
VIENNA, Nov. 3.—Within the last three days the
number of cholera cases in the city has increased from
18 to 24, there being here 10 new cases, and only four
recoveries, but no deaths. In the suburbs there still re-
main 231 patients. The whole number since the corn
mencement is—

Cases. Recoveries. Deaths.
In the city 1,042 ..... 614
In the suburbs

Total 3304
BRUSSELS, Nov. 12.—Yesterday evening the Ministry
was not completed. It is said that proposals have been
m ide to M. Felix de Merode.
It is said th it M. Nothotnb will go as Minister Pleni-
potentiary to the United States of America.
There being only twenty-four Members of the Senate
pres,nt yesterday no business could be done. The Cham-
ber of Representatives was wholly engaged in hearing a
report of the Committee of Petitions. Almost all these
petitions are of a private and personal nature, and the
Chamber passed to the order of the day on nearly the
whole of them.

The police has just seized at Ghent a bale of copies of
the letter to Prince Leopold, by M. d'Herbigny, the
author of the " Destinies of Europe." It is not known on
what pretext this seizure has been made.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS► DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.

Povursatourrr, Nov. 15.—Wind N.N,W.—Arrived
his Majesty's ship Madagascar, Kent, from the Medi-
terranean.

PLYMOUTH, Nov. 14.—Wind W. S. W.—Arrived from
London, the Isabella, Wiseman, for New South Wales.
LIVERPOOL, Nor. 14.—Arrived the Jessie, lil‘Vicar,
from Quebec.
DUBLIN, Nor. 13. —.Arrived the Royal Oak, Carter,
from Oporto.
CORK, Nov. 13.—Wind N.N. W.—Arrived the St.
David steamer, from Dublin, with troops.

RAMSGATE: Nov. 15.—Arrived the Margaret, Dusk,
from Cork. . . _

MILFORD, Nov. I.h—Arrived the Nymph, Miller, from
Odessa, mainmast sprung, and with loss of anchor.
BELFAST, Nov. 13.—Arrived the Patrick, Miller ;
Patriot, Miller ; and Gipsey, Kenn, from St. Petersburgh.
DAwrmouTii, Nov. 14.—Arrived the Britannia, Mel-
herele, from Hamburg, with damage, and loss of sails,
bound to Newfoundland.

The Ambrook, Eales, from Newcastle to Shoreham ;
and the Hope. Shepherd, from I.ondon to Cowes, drifted
On shore in Newhaven Bay on Monday night ; the former
the latter got off with damage, and
putthe crew, and part of the stores and
wasitnottoa
Nl y e rheitend
materials of the Ambrook, savect._

The Zephyr, Maclean, from Newcastle to Newry, was
totally lost at the entrance of Kyleakin the Bth inst. ; crew
and part of the materials saved.
The Robert Lovely, M'Guffie, from Newcastle to
was aground on the beach at Kyleakin previous
to the 11th inst., but was expected to be got off.

•
The Farley, Smith, from Sunderland to Plymouth, was
abandoned at sea the Sth inst.

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE,

The arrivals of Grain this week are only moderate, but there
is again a good return of Flour. The Wheat trade is dull at
Monday's prices. Barley, Beans, and Pease, are unaltered.
Oats find buyers freely at their late quotations, the quantity here
being only moderate. Flour unyaried.
ARRIVALS.
Wheat. Barley. Oats. Flour.
English 3,821 qrs. 13,865 qrs. 4,539 qrs. 7,33Bsacks
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