The Sun.
London, England, 1838-09-05 00:00:00

MILAN.

Au°. 26.—From an early hour yesterday the fine road
which runs through an exuberantly rich and picturesque
country from this city to the town of Como, beautifully situate
at the extremity of the lake of the same name, and about eight
leagues from Milan, was thronged with carriages of every
description, equestrians, and foot passengers, all hastening to
witness the arrival of the Emperor and Empress in the neigh-
bourhood of Como. _ _ __ _

Long before the steam-vessel in which were their Imperial
Majesties, who had embarked aboard it from the magnificent
villa Melzi, near Bellagio, some leagues further up the lake,
where they had passed the night, appeared in view, the quays,
shores, and even more distant eminences from which a view
of the Villa Raimondi, where their Majesties were to land,
could be had, were crowded with spectators, whilst the ex-
panse of the lake opposite the villa, and to a considerable
distance beyond it, was covered with boats carrying a full
freight of curiosity and eager expectation.
Their Imperial Majesties were received on landing before
the Villa Raimondi by Prince Metternich, Count Kolovvrath,
and Marshal Count Radetzki, Military Commander •in-Chief
of the Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom, and complimented by
the civil, military, and ecclesiastical authorities of the town
and d:strict. At tLis grand entrance of the villa their Majes-
ties were welcomed by the Imperial Archduchess, the Vice-
Queen, and the two young Princesses, her daughters. After
a short interval of repose the Emperor and Empress stepped
out on the balcony of the villa, and were hailed with numerous
vivas. After dinner their Majesties and the Vice-Queen, at-
tended by the Great Officers of State present, and followed
by a numerous and brilliant cortege, set out for Como, which
they entered under a temporary triumphal arch, and traversed
several of the principal streets, which were tapestried, fes-
tooned with flowers, and exhibiting at intervals appropriate de-
vices and inscriptions. After visiting the ruins of the Castle
Bazadello, built by Frederick Barbarosa, and other interesting
monuments and parts of the town, the imperial party returned
to the Villa Raimondi. This splendid villa, about half a
league distant from Como, commands an extensive and en-
chanting view over the blue and sparkling waters of the lake
and its romantic shores, gently rising into luxuriantly wooded
hills, which are thickly studded with hundreds (I speak lite-
rally) of magnificent villas belonging to the Milanese nobility,
with their statue-adorned terraces, hanging gardens, and
groves of orange and lemon trees, that fling their delicious
fragrance far over the waters. Besides these lordly and im-
posing mansions, there are thousands of other rural habita-
tions, either nestling in groups in the verdurous hollows of
the hills, or scattered singly on their sunny slopes and on their
most picturesque points. In the back ground are the lofty
ridges of the Splugar mountains, their precipitous sides glis-
tening with cascades, whilst in the crevices near the summits
are still to be seen huge patches of ice and snow. In the
midst of this enchanting scenery lay the lake, reflecting all
its beauties as in a mirror, unless when its surface was
ploughed up by numberless barges, barks, and boats of every
description. Amongst these some of the largest had castel-
lated or Gothic erections upon them, or were tastefully
painted, gilded, and adorned with statues, emblems, and
devices analagous to the occasion, and served either for a dis-
play of fireworks or as orchestras for bands of wind instru-
ments, Tyrolese singers, &c.
When night came down upon the scene, all these barks
were lighted up, the smallest having a large painted paper
lantern on the poop and the prow, and the larger ones being
almost entirely covered with a glimmer of variegated light.
The glancing of these illuminated barks over the lake in every
direction, the blaze and coruscations of fireworks, some on
board the barges and others on a larger scale on some of the
neighbouring eminences, together with the immense fires on
the tops of the more distant hills and mountains, the firing
of the cannon at intervals, the full and thrilling harmony of
the floating orchestras of wind instruments, alternating with
the wilder strains of the Swiss and Tyrolese singers, the
shouts, and songs, and laughter of the joyous parties in
the boats, the deep blue sky above with its innumerable
diamond lights, and the awful forms of the mountains, that
seemed as a rude but magnificent frame to the magic picture,
presented a combination of sights and sounds of the most in-
tensely effective and delightful nature, the impression of which
can never be effaced from the memory, though any attempt to
convey an adequate idea of it must be a failure. In the course
of the evening the Emperor and Empress, Vice-Queen, and
their brilliant suite, embarked on board a splendidly decorated
barge, and was rowed up and down through the throng of
illuminated boats, and amidst the vitas of those in the boats
and upon the shore. After their Majesties' return from the
lake to the Villa Raimondi, a very splendid display of fire-
works took place, in the midst of which appeared in a blaze of
variegated light the imperial bust and initials. It was not till
a late hour of the night, or rather indeed hour of the morning,
that the last glimmerings of this gorgeous pageant and almost
fairy vision faded from the calm surface of the lake.
AUGUST 29. —The Emperor, Empress, Imperial Family,
and Court are n0,..7 residing at Monza, where they arrived the
day before yesterday, and where they will sojourn until Satur-
day, when the Imperial party will make their solemn and puhl;c
entry into Mi!an.

Amongst other persons of note, the following Extraordi-
nary Ambassadors have arrived in Milan : —The Baily de Ta-
tischeff, Extraordinary Ambassador and Plenipotentiary of the
Court of Russia ; Count de Maltzahan, Envoy Extraordinary
and Plenipotentiary of the Prussian Court; Baron de Moll:,
rus, Envoy Extraordinary of the Netherlands ; Prince de Sayn
Withffbenstein, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plcnipoten_
t Lieutenant-General Baron Takenborn, En_
y Extraordinary
inary of B.iden ; Baron de Ossini, Resident
vioary of itu
Minister of the Duchy of Lucca and Nassau at the Court of
du
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Austria;si
Chevalier Don Andrea de Principe Corsini, Duca
livno, Chamberlain of his Royal Highness the Grand
a
Duke of Tuscany. Sir F'. Lamb, her Britannic Majesty's
Ambassador to the Court of Austria, was expected to arrive
last night at the palace Pceaalti, which has been engaired for
his residence, during the sojourn of the Imperial Court at
M ilan.— Times.

MOVEMENTS OF THE MPEROR

OF RUSSIA.

TRGERNSEE, BAVARIA, Avo. 25 —The Emperor Nicholas
arrived among us at Munich some 10 or 12 days ago, and, no
previous notice of the exact time baing given, quite unexpect-
edly. Instead of driving to the Palace, ho stopped at the
posthouse, and proceeded forelievith to Kreuth, leaving word for
the King where to find him.
In the mean time, the Emperor arrived incognito at Tegern-
see, when he got alane into a small peaty is gc_eart with one
horse and proceeded on to Kreuth, before reaching which
place he had several adventures at tile various lines of Gen.
darmes stationed round the baths, who strictly questioned
him, and were rather susicious, front his mode of travel-
ling, of his identity with 'the name he bore on his passport
—the Count of A:llersberg. It is retorted that at the last
post, the objections to let him proceed were so various, that
he was obliged to state his real rank, which the 13ava:i:In
Wachmetster, accustomed to the pomp of his own anointed
master's mode of travelling, and doubtless impressed wi.it
high
.notions of the magnificence and state befitting an au
tocratical progress, treated as a tnauvais plaisanteric of some
unprincipled adventurer, or pos,ibly a Polish assassin. The
a;severations and threats of the Emperor made but
little impression on the sturdy sergeant ; that trusty func-
tionary was not to be easily persuaded to contravene his orde,s
to stop all suspicious individuals, especially those whose parer

were not perfectly en regle, and the Emperor's was a case in
point. What was to be done? The Emperor was becoming
outrageous, and would not return the way he had come, as
was proposed by the urirelenting rgeant as a pout d'or to the
disguised Count, so the affair finished by the adoption of a
mezzo (ermine in the shape of a corporal's guard to serve as an
escort to the enigmatical Emperor, according as the matter
might turn out. It was, however, soon cleared up, for the
EmpreEmpress was walking in the neighbourhood, and when his
ss
was led before her in this guise, her astonishment and
joy at meeting him so unexpectedly created a scene d'atten-
drissernent, which perfectly edified and satisfied the too scru-
pulous genda:Tmes.

The Emperor returned to Munich the next day to me.:t the
King, and to attend the review and other fetes provided to
honour his arrival. Their Majesties, after a few days spent in
this manner, again left the capital to return to Tegernsee and
Kreuth, where all the Courts are now assembled.
You may have heard of a report respecting a marriage
being on foot between the Prince Royal of Bavaria arid a
Grand Duchess. There is at present no question of such an
alliance, notwithstanding the desire of tke King of Bavaria,
and the wishes, until lately, entertained on the subject by the
Eaiperor of Russia, for there exists an invincible aversion to
the scheme on the part of the Prince Royal. The Court of
Russia, however, in order to come to a clear understanding on
the subject, sent to Munich last year a Countess d'E--e, a
Dame d'Honneur of the Grand Duchess Helena, who was in-
structed, as it was confidently reported, to ascertain sous main if
there existed any possibility of changing the Prince's disposition
of mindAand of bringing about the marriage. The Prince soon
penetrated the secret object of the lady's visit, and his antipathy
to it increased proportionately with the advances made to him.
After a fruitless stay of two or three months, Madame
d'E --e returned to St. Petersburgh, and the affair is now
completely broken off.
The flattering manner in which his Imperial Majesty has
distinguished since his arrival in Bavaria the Duke of Leuch-
tenberg (only surviving son of Prince Eugene) is causing a
great sensation at this Court, where that Prince does not enjoy
the privileges of the Royal Family, from the dislike which the
King entertains to the alliance of his family with the son of
the Empress Josephine, which he considers as a "mesalliance."
Whether the Emperor of all the Russias would consider such
a connexion in that light is become to all appearances very
questionable. This young Prince, who is heir to all the
noble and amiable qualities by which his father was distin—
guished, was invited last year by the Emperor to attend the
manoeuvres at Wosnesensk.

Since the Emperor is in Bavaria the Duke has been his
constant companion and that of the Empress. Of course
this extreme preference is not without its effect upon the
Bavarian Court, and the surmises it has given rise to are
general.

The Czarowitz is expected to-day from Augsburg, and the
stay of the Empress at Kreuth will probably terminate in
about eight days. Horses are already being stationed for her
journey to Frederickshafen, where she visits the Court of
Wurtemberg, and afterwards proceeds to Leipsic. As to the
Emperor's movements, nothing is known of course, nor will be
ill we hear that he has left us.— Times.
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attendance on Windsor-terrace on Sunday
week was much greater than on any previous day this season.
It was literally crowded, and the Queen was so beset as she
passed along to the Slopes, as to express herself thankful
when she got within the doors of the Orangery. The com-
pany at the time paid but little attention to the rules hitherto
observed, and made their way, helter skelter," from all
parts across the flower garden, to the spot where her Majesty-
was walking.—Reading Mercury.
FISH, FLESH, AND FOWL.—Last Saturday
Thomas Woodhouse, fisherman, of Heaton, on hauling in his
nets, found in them a hare, a crow, a flounder, and a salmon.
—Lancaster Guardian.
THE FISHERY IN CORNWALL..--ACCOrding to
present appearances we may anticipate a very successful year.
The fish are seen in abundance on both coasts, and those taken
are particularly fine. We have received the following parti-
culars of the fishery this week. On Monday evening last, the
two scans belonging to Charlestown were shot for the first time
this season, and both enclosed good shoals of fish. The new
seen belonging to Messrs. Morcom, took about 200 hogsheads,
and the other about half that quantity, nearly all of which have
been sold fresh at 3s. per flasket, or 365. per hogshead. All
the fishermen say that they have not seen such fine fish since
1817, which was the last successful season for this neighbour-
hood. About 250 hogsheads of very fine pilchards were taken
at Coverack on Tuesday afternoon. Scans were also shot at
the Lizard, but missed the fish. Upwards of 200 hogsheads
of remarkably fine pilchards have been taken at Polruan.
Several scans shot in Mount's Bay on Wednesday, but lost the
fish owing to shooting in too deep water. A scan belonging
to the Mount took up about 70 hogsheads of fine fish. The
driving boats are doing very well. There are plenty of fish in
the bay, and hook-fish—cod, ling, hake, &c., are abundant.
The fishermen of St. Ives have just commenced the herring-
fishery, and 5,000 a boat have been brought in. Pilchards
are frequently seen, but not near enough for the seans.—
Falmouth Express.
EXECUTIONS IN CONSTANTINOPLE.---We had
passed over to Constantinople, and I was picking my way
through the filthy winding of the fish bazaar, when. I just
looked up in time to prevent myself from running against
the body of a man which was hanging from the /env project-
ing roof of one of the shops ; his feet about eighteen inches
from the ground. There was nothing over his face, which was
perfectly white ; his hands and feet blacl ; he was a Greek by
his dress, and had on his turban and Lis common costume, just
as if he hi been picked out of the street and hanged up with-
out any further preparation or ceremony. There was such a
total absence of the paraphernalia of death by the law, that I
could scarcely persuade myself that the object I now saw sus-
pended in a narrow street, opposite a shop door, was really a
human being whose life had been thus taken away. People
were in the shop buying and selling as if nothing bad hap-
pened ; and of the forty or fifty idlers who were collected out-
side, the feeling seemed to be either that of savage exultation,
heartless mirth, or perfect indifference I To the honour of
the Turkish women be it said, that not one was to be
found, in imitation of the civilised English, feasting her
eyes on this disgulting spectacle. Passing on at random
up one street and down another, our indignation and
horror was increased tenfold at seeing the body of a
woman hanging against the wall at the entrance of one of
the bazaars. One fold of her yashmac, or muslin scarf, was
over her face, bnt I could see sufficiently to tell that it was
handsome. An English gentleman whom we met at dinner
told us that he had seen the man upwards of an hour after he
was hanged, and that he was not then dead! And no won-
der, for the execution is performed by first tying a rope round
the poor wretch's neck, then passing it over the first conve-
nient beam they see, and thus hauling up, when they leave
him to struggle in his agonies as long as human nature will
hold out. The woman, we heard, betrayed no symptoms of
fear whatever at her fate. They hung for three whole days,
and immediately they were taken down two others were sa-
crificed in like manlier ; and two days after that again two
others—some said six ! The authorities offered on one occa-
sion to spare the life of a female culprit, but her father re-
quested, as a particular favour, that no mercy might be shown
her, adding, at the same time, that if they sent her home to,
him, he should put her to death himself. The bodies, after
hanging the usual time, were thrown into the Bosphorus with-
out any weight attached to them, and there left to rot, day by
day, on the surface, in full view of the whole city. A young
surgeon told me that one floated past near his house, and that
he had been trying all the morning with a rope and hook to
catch it for the purposes of dissection. But now we have
sufficiently " supped upon horrors," and I think I have given
some pretty specimens of what a late writer calls " the moral
beauty of the Turkish character !"—Lieut. Rose's " Three
Months' Lear.,"

A WORD FOR THE DOGS.—We copy from the
Bath Guardian the following paragraph, which appears to us
well-timed, and characterised by much more good sense than
we commonly meet with in paragraph writers on the same
subject, who, instead of appealing to reason and actual ex-
perience, generally speak to the foolish fears of people, and
thus perpetuate a popular and most pernicious delusion :
About this time of the year (observes the Guardian) a
113 drophobia panic prevails, either generally or partially,
in this country, and the poor dogs are either doomed to be
muzzled, or subject to be shot or knocked on the head if found
at large without the prescribed gag. The venerable political
apostate, Burden, alluded to the subject in his place in Par..
Lamely-, late in the Session, but he does not appear to have
made any motion on the occasion. Instead of dooming the
poor dogs to a species of periodical torturing restraint which 4
must have a tendency to render them mad by preventing them
from drinking, as we have known it to be the case, our Teen
in authority, who order all dogs to be shot that are found at
large unmuzzled; would act more wisely if they would provide
numerous small water tanks for the animals, and then there
would no more be heard of hydrophobia. In this country
hot weather and hydrophobia are generally associated, as cause
and effect, and yet there is every reason to believe that such
association is purely imaginary. We have often called the
attention of cur readers to the fact that in hotter countries
than ours, where dogs are more numerous, the hydrophobia is
unknown. We have heard this asserted by travellers who
have visited Constantinople, and still more frequently by those
who are acquainted with Portugal. It seems that Lisbon
swarms with dogs, which prowl about night and clay without
any owner, and yet it is said that no cases of hyirophobia are
ever heard of there. Pethaps the precan'tionary measure
mentioned by Miss Pardue in the following extract from her
Traits and Traditions of Portugal, may -account for the cir-
cumstance :—" In my first day's ramble Through the Belem, I
encountered about a hundred dogs, all. of them without a pro-
per owner—literally on the parish. I may as well remark in
this place, par parenthese, that I.; drophobia is unknown in the
wintry, and that during all the hot months a certain number
of tradesmen place vessels of water at their shop doors for the
use of those wandering quadrupeds," &C.
ADULTERATION OF BREAD.—(From a
!ne
inrit evils resulting from
Corre-
spondent.the
the less pro
the Corn laws, or what you appropriately
uati
mentioned designate the Devil's
ter'on of Bread. The
Laws, may be the A
people, Sir, are actually
poisoned—poisoned,
system alum,
groundbones,poisoned, through th slow
bat not less fatal process of a
and other deleterious inhred-ynts, now in corn-
mon se amongst the bakers! In asserting that our daily
u
bread is drea d.s
fully adulterated, I speak from actual experience,.
I
Yes, Sir, it
a fact that ought to be known—the !w ok
health, the public weal requires its publication—that shirt
procured from as many different bakers, have b'.:en sub.
loaves,
milted to a chemical test, and that in almost all the loaves the
presence cf some poisonous ingredient detec,.ea;
whilst in
nu less than nineteen out of the thirty the Pror,ortion of poison
great, and frightfully destructive to lb'
was health and life of
hose who cat it. Truly those laws are '.he Devil's, which at
the same time pillage and poison the people 1

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The supplement to the official correspondence between
the Government of Buenos Ayres and the French Admiral,
inserted in another portion of our paper, shows that the
real object of France in its conduct towards the Argentine
Confederation has been the extortion of a treaty admitting

its own subjects to an equality of privileges with those of
England and the United States, and that the injuries al-
leged to have been committed on French citizens by the
Republic, brought forward as the pretext for the rupture,
had no existence. The question is reduced to two demands
on the part of the French Admiral :—" I. An engagement
to treat the French and their property in the same manner
as are treated the property and persons of the most favoured
nation. 2. To recognize in the French Government the
right to claim indemnities in favour of the French who
may have suffered unjustly in their persons or property
in consequence of acts of the Argentine Government."
The absurdity of putting forward this latter propo-
sition as a formal demand, involving as it does the
imprescriptible and recognized right of every country,
is pointed out by the Buenos Ayrean Government,
whilst explaining its readiness to give every consideration
to the first proposal, on the appointment by France of a
diplomatic agent empowered to negotiate on the subject.
The Governor at the same time resists the demand of the

formal declaration required by the French Admiral, so
long as it is enforced by the hostile act of a blockade. It
is clear that these reasonable explanations left the French
Admiral no ,ustification for continuing his belligerent atti-
tude, but the precipitate withdrawal of the French Consul
rendering it impossible for the latter to resume his func-
tions without compromisinc, the dignity of France by the
betrayal of the futility of his complaints, placed the Admi-
ral in the predicament which must be the natural result of
aline of policy at variance with the established law of na-
tions, substituting violence for reason, and aggression for
peaceful negociation. The manner in which the French
Admiral endeavours to explain away the injustice of his
proceeciings is a lamentable comment upon the character of
his Government. Addressing the Governor of Buenos
Ayres, be says—
" Your Excellency cannot imagine, as you have done me
the honour to state, that I have presented myself before
Buenos Ayres at the head of a squadron, to impose upon the
Argentine Government by a display of force. I have never
conceived the idea of threatening any cne ; threats have al-
ways appeared to me useless and unworthy a man of honour.
" Your Excellency knows that two French vessels have for
some time past been stationed off Bucnos Ayres, that it was
becessary to employ another to convoy me thither ; conse-
quently this junction was entirely fortuitous, and certainly had
not the oljrct that your Excellency appears to have attributed
to it."

Such is thh disclaimer of the French Admiral, whits,
writing from a squadron exercising under his command a
right only justifiable in war, and which, from the impossi-
bility on the part of France of extracting a pretext for war
from the preposterous grounds she has advanced, offers the
prospect of an interminable interruption of the commerce of
all nations with the interior of South America. Under such
circumstances what is the position of England? Has any
step been taken to terminate a state of things no less de-
grading to our rational dignity than subversive of our ina-
lienable rights? or are we to continue to exhibit to the states
of North and South America, to Russia, to Persia, to Eg) pt,
to our colonies in the East and in the West, the spectacle of a
n ition powerless to defend any single interest beyond its
own shores? In her Majesty's speech at the opening of
the last Session of Parliament, the Foreign Minister of
England, whilst. refraining from allusion to tl e fereign
allies of Great Britain, boasted of basing called into exis-
tence a new State beyond the Atlantic—the Confederation
of Peru Bolivia. Have measures been taken to fortify
this alliance, or has not the power of England been ren-
dered subservient to Louis Philippe even in this remote
region of the globe? Scarcely had her Majesty announced
the political existence of this new State, when her Royal
brother of France communicated to the Chambers a sepa-
rate convention with only a portion of it. " I have con-
cluded
with the Bolivians a treaty of commerce, and I
hope that we shall in succession eitablish with all the
States of South America connexions of which our com-
merce will feel the happy effects." " Everywhere (adds
the King of France) our squadrons to our con-mate-cid
relations the support and protection which they have a
right to expect." In this single sentence is proclaimed the
absence of principle and justice on the part of France, the
consciousness of the necessity of arms to enforce that in-
jus;:ice, and of the concurrence of an English Minister in
her sacrifice of the rights of all mankind.—Times.
It was asserted yesterday in this Jouinal that " the
Tories gloried in their shame—that they cast that reproach
upon Ministers which justly belonged to themsel, es," and
that they pointed with infinite satisfaction to the few goad
measures which the last Session produced, as a proof that
Tory feeling was predominant in the Legislature as well as
in the country, and that her Majesty's Ministers were
wholly unworthy of the public confidence. We need not
adduce the slightest proof of these assertions. It is to be
found every morning and every evening in the columns of
our Tory Contemporaries. It is their daily food—the
thing they live by—their anchor of hope—their unfaing
topic of reproach, or unappreciated commiseration. We
know that they are eager for office—that they would abandon
all and every principle by which they have hitherto been
held together, in order to get a taste again of the sweet sa-
vour of " the flesh-pots of Egypt ;" and we do not blame
them ; but unfortunately, " weak, unwise, and incapable,"
as they allege her Majesty's Ministers to be, the public
aces not sympathize with them. The Pension-list, with
all its baseness, meanness, and spoliations, still rings in their
ears, and the cry is still " any Government but one com-
posed of Tories." This is the filet, gentlemen of the Tory
broad sheet, and ye are wasting your ink and paper in
vain in attempting to prove to the public the converse of
our proposition. The Ministers are in office by the voice
of the people, as well as by that of the Legislature, and
until you can make the people of England forget, in the
first place, the taxes and atrocities of which your party
were guilty in their high and palmy days, and, in the second,
the large, extraordinary, and unheard-of reforms effected
during the last eight years by the Whig Government, it is
in vain for you even to dream of office for your friends and
patrons. We know that, following the example of Sir
Robert Peel, they can turn and turn again, and though in
their hearts Tories, become Radicals in appearance ; but
we have had two exemplifications of the inutility of the
policy of " sacrificing conscience to expediency," and a
third will assuredly find no more favour in the eyes of the
people of England.—Morning Advertiser.
The petition of the National Guards of Paris, complain-
ing of the restriction of the franchise in France to about
180,000 voters, and praying for an extension, is, as wehave
already stated, calculated to make the French Government
somewhat uneasy. The National Guards consist chiefly of
the very class by the support of which the Government of
Louis Phillippe has hitherto been able to make head against
the Royalists and the Democracy. Men who petition with
arms in their hands are apt to assume a menacing tone if
their petitions be refused. In this country the petitioners
for an Extension of the Suffrage do not at present find much
countearnee in the middle classes. It is not that the middle
classes are satisfied with the present state of things. So
far from this being the case, the conviction is, we
believe, almost general that the Reform Bill re-
quires itself to be reformed, and it is certain
that that measure has by no means produced the
benefits anticipated from it. It was understood that it
would have the effect of transferring the return of the
Members of the House of Commons from the oligarchy to
the great mass of the possessors of property. This, how-
ever, it has not done, and the disappointment is in conse-
quence very great. Had that been effected which was an-
ticipated, the progress towards the amelioration of our
laws and institutions would have been safe and easy. At
present, instead of that being the case, the middle-classes
are impressed with the hopelessness of effecting substantial
ameliorations without once more convulsing the country.
While the Reform Bill has thus disappointed the expecta-
tions of the country, the incessant calls on the people to
register their votes, and the trouble to which they are
thereby exposed, is felt as a grievous annovance. The
business of providing for the wants of the day is
too serious an affair in England to allow of throwing
much supererogatory laZ:our on the industrious classes.
In most parts the utmost Aifficulty has, in consequence,
been felt of raising even the smallest sums for conducting
the business of the Registration Courts. In one populous
place we lately visited, the sum of 5/. could not be col-
lected. We regret this exceedingly ; for though there is no
disposition on the part of the middle classes at present to
put to hazard the advantages they enjoy, by a desperate
coalition with the incendiaries and agitators now appealing
to the masses and raising the banner of Universal Suffraje,
we are not the less convinced that the first storm which
.agitates the political world will sweep the present obstacle
isefo,e it, and open the door to changes which may not be
safe or beneficial.
In an able article which we have
copied from the Scotsman,
describing the most marked of
the gradations between absolute despotism and perfectliberty
we think our Contemporary has viewed the working of the
American democracy in too favourav b
ie
a fight. The im-
asression left on us by the able works of Tocqueville and
Chevalier, and the recent exhibitions on our Canadian Iron-
tiers, is, on the contrary, of a peioful nature.
.The labour-
ing, classes in America may
•
be in more easy circumstances
•see in this country are ; but we see
duct, as exhibited in their most en.-
rav York, Boston, Philadelphia,
us in love with the rule of the multi-
= of that multitude seems to us to
of a most outrageous character. Who-
intelligence and property shell be se
Ls to render Universal Suffrage safe, is a
ther not attempt to solve at present. We

confess we have strong doubts on the subject. The history
which our Contemporary has given of the change in our Con-
stitution, effected by reporting alone, is curious ; and there
is little doubt of the truth of what he states. The power
of the oligarchy was indeed shaken by reporting. The
late Mr. Windham, a man who thought for himself, used
to assert that the moment the House of Commons allowed
the publication of Reports, the Constitution of England
became de facto a democracy, because the parties in the
House pled their cause before the tribunal of the people of
England. The House, it may be said, might at any time
put a stop to this practice. But here the vanity of in-
dividuals interposed. Even Mr. Windham was as eager
as any other man to cut a good figure in the newspapers,
and on his affecting indifference on the subject, Cobbett
reduced him to silence, by producing the most striking
disproof of his assertions. An agreement of the reporters
of that day not to report his speeches, on account
of an insult offered by him to them, plunged him in the
greatest distress. Thus the desire of Members to have the
proof of their eloquence in wisdom or wit furnished to the
whole public, led to the formation of a new power, and the
Reform Bill is the constitutional recognition of it. That
matters can remain as they are—the House of Lords op-
posing a veto on all measures of substantial improvement,
and the aristocracy setting the provisions of the Reform
Bill at nought, by bribing the venal and intimidating the
timid—we will not for a moment believe. All our fear is
that the mad obstinacy of the aristocracy, by openly cling-
ing to laws founded on unjust principles, such as the Corn-
law, and by resisting measures called for by the public voice
and attended with no danger, will, ere long, impel the mid-
dle classes to take steps which ultimately may effect greater
charges in our institutions than may be safe and beneficial.
—Morning Chronicle.
The Globe of last night declares itself an advocate for a
milder system of punishment than exists in this country at
present. But our Contemporary is a cautious politician, a
very moderate Reformer, like the Ministers whom he de-
lights to serve, when the suppression of sanguinary laws,
and the discontinuance of legalised murder, are the changes
which he professes to advocate. Accordingly, no sooner
does he take up the cause than—as if startled at his own
rashness, he proceeds to censure those who have gone be-
fore him in the undertaking with much more determina-
tion, and we fear we must add sincerity. Our Contempo-
rary is quite scandalised at the idea of " mixing up party
malevolence with the question whether a fellow-creature
shall be consigned to death," &c., meaning, we presume,
by party malevolence all allusions to the Government,
however opposed that Government may be to the prin-
ciple of amelioration. Now, though we think we can see
the motive of our present ally in denouncing all allusions
of the kind, we cannot compliment his enthusiasm. The
meaning of his querulous remonstrance, coupled with his
timid advocacy. amounts to this You may attack the
system of death punishment if you will, but do not say a
word against my masters." But whatever the motive of
our Contemporary may be, the majority of mankind will
consider that those who have the power to aid or to ob-
struct the progress of a wise and enlightened course, and
who use their power in obstruction, must calculate, among
other consequences, upon hearing their conduct condemned.
It may sound very harshly in the ears of their friends and
retainers, but it is a necessary result of their own obsti-
nacy, and one of the means of correction which society is
justified in employing for its own advantage. The next
complaint is thus expressed—" Another consideration
arising out of the remission of the capital sentence in the
four or five cases of murderers seutenced to death within
the last few weeks is the expectation which it is calcula-
ted to engender, that in every case the extreme penalty
will be escaped, while the law which enacts it still remains
on the statute-book." There is no allusion here to the
mitigating circumstances which distinguished any of the
cases. The remission is at once assumed to be an evil,
and its effect in counteracting the certainty of punish-
ment alluded to as a deplorable calamity. We agree with
our Contemporary in ascribing to the certainty of punish-
ment all the importance he can desire. But the only
way to to make punishments certain is to make them con-
formable to the spirit of the age. The gallows has had its
day ; and whatever tenderness may still be felt for its re-
maining influence, it is in vain to think that people will sur-
render their feelings and opinions merely that the consis-
tency of the statute-book may be vindicated. With respect
to the question of secondary punishments, it is certainly one
that claims a large share of attention at the present moment.
Society is sick of executions, and the sooner an efficient sy-s-
-, tern of secondary punishments is devised the better for of
this we may rest assured, that whether a new system be de-
vised, or the present imperfect one continued, the aversion
to bloodshed as a means of improving society will increase,
sad the uncertainty of the gallows as a penalty or a school
of reform will become every day more and more perceptiVe.
How far the strictures of the Globe are calculated to pro-
mote the object which it set out with professing to advocate
this brief notice may assist in explaining. That it is free
from all enthusiasm will readily be granted, and with some
persons that will pass for a merit.—Morning Herald.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.

A person of the name of Bowden was yesterday charged
under tile Act of Parliament, 2d Geo. 11., chap. 19, with
fraudulently and clandestinely removing the household furni-
ture and other effects belonging to Mrs. West, from the house
No. 31, Great Ormond-street, in order to defeat the claim
of the landlord for arrears of rent due to him.

The defendant carried away in a van a number of chairs
and other articles from Mrs. West's house, No. 31, Great
Ormond-street, and refused to tell where he had carried them
to. A quarter's rent was due by Mrs West to Mr. Cham-
pion, Southampton-street (the complainant), and a broker had
received instructions to distrain for the amount, but, on pro-
ceeding_ to the premises, he found them shut up.
Mr. MINSHULL said, that if the defendant had no fraudulent
intention he ought to tell where the furniture was, and if he
had acted honestly in the matter he should give the landlord
the information required by him.
The defendant at first refused to say where the art'cl(s
were, but at length admitted that they had been taken to
No. 9, Bagnigge Wells-road.
Mr. MINSHULL postponed the case until Friday, to allew
the complainant an opportunity to ascertain if the information
given by Rowden be correct.

QUEEN-SQUARE.
Caroline White, a girl only 18 years of age, was yesterday
charged with stealing two gold watches, a quantity of jewel-
lery, plate, linen, and furniture, the property of her mistress.
Mrs. Elizabeth Morgan, of No. 47, Coleshill-street, Pim-
lico, went a fortnight ago to Margate, leaving the prisoner,
who had been from time to time employed by her as servant,
in charge of the house, with strict injunctions not to leave it,
and allowing her to be visited by any of her relatives. Prior
to her departure she took great care to lock the different rooms,
and beinc, a widow, had previously taken the precaution of hay-
ing her shutters lined with iron, as there were no males in the
house who could assist her in the event of a visit from thieves.
She returned on Monday afternoon by the steamer, and on ar-
riving at her residence was much surprised at finding it shut up,
and no opportunity of gaining admission. She knocked repeat-
edly , and after the lapse of half an hour so employed, went into a
neighbour's, where she remained until the arrival of the prisoner,
which was something like an hour afterwards. She then desired
the girl to get tea, and being inclined to divest herself of
some part of her clothing, went towards her sleeping apartment,
which she found was open. On entering the room she found her
drawers broken open, and the whole of her wearing apparel
strewed about the ground, the best having been taken away.
Her attention was next directed to the bureau, the locks of
which had also been broken, and the two gold watches, a
guard-chain, and several valuable articles of jewellery stolen.
She then hastened to the different rooms, and found that a
clothes• press and every other place which she had left fastened
had been forced, and that seven pillows, her blankets, sheets,
counterpanes, and even the hangings of the bedsteads had
been carried off. The pictures had been taken down from the
wall,and every article of furniture was in disorder, presenting
the appearance of being intended for a speedy removal. Pro-
secutriz went to the girl and inquired the meaning of such an
extraordinary change, and received in reply that she (the pri-
soner) did not know anything about it, and not believing this
statement, she immediately gave her into custody.
The prisoner was remanded until Friday.
Thomas Flower was yesterday again brought to this office,
charged with very violent behaviour in the streets, and assault-
ing a police-constable. It will be remembered that this person
had been charged at this office on the first occasion with at-
tempting to gain admission into the Abbey on the day of the
coronation, and lastly with having contrived to get within a few
paces of her Majesty's sleeping apartment in Buckingham
Palace. On the latter occasion he had been held to bail, and
was only discharged yesterday week.
A police sergeant of the B division found the defendant
creating a disturbance the previous night in Jew's row, Chelsea.
On witness desiring him to go away, he assaulted him, and was
so violent that the stretcher was fetched from the station-house
to convey him there.
Mr. Flower said in defence, that he was very sorry, and it
was caused by some liquor he had taken.
Mr. WHITE felt it his duty to hold him to bail to keep the
pence for three months.
We regret to say that private losses and a severe attack of
Hiswife
dependentis o
onf a M highlyr. F or:es':
theit brain fever have brought Mr. Flower to his present state of
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nine
childrend
•for
support. He is well connected.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
A woman with three very young children came to the office
to ask the advice of Mr Chambers. She had for eight years
carried on business in Jersey, but owing to adverse circum-
stances she had been obliged to come to London with her fa-
mily. About eleven years ago she formed an intimacy with a
tailor named Vaughan, under whose name she continued to
pass, and with whom she had lived until within the last few
bp. She had borne the man a large family, but only three
were now living. A few days ago she was turned out of her
lodgings in Soho, and the father of the children had entirely
n earthly
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and as
deserted her and his offspring, and bad gone to his father, a
tailor, in
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