The Sun.
London, England, 1831-11-09 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TUE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

There was no disturbance at White Conduit-
muse. Alas ! the Tories were disappoiuted of
their Godsend. The respectable portico of the
Lore!on mechanics and artisans stayed at home,
while the ruffians from whom mischief might have
been expected were terrified at their forlorn condi-
tion, and a few mud-balls, pelted at straggling horse-
men as they passed, were the sum total of the am-
munition expended on this awful occasion. Now-
ever, the thing xas not to be thus disposed of.
Since a brittle could not be had, and a dr facto re-
bellion, the Tories have treated us to one de jace,
and in proof of the terrible situation to which this
country, and above all the metropolis, has been re-
duced by the no-meeting at Pentonville, they have
dwelt upon those circumstances which men of more
sober brains would have recited as evidence of the
commanding power of the Government, and of the
solid foundations on which social peace and order
may be justly considered as resting in Great
Britain, to show how much people ought to
have been frightened—nay, and ought still, at
this moment, to be frightened—because of the
magnitude of the measure employed for en•
suring the public safety ! " 11:eis there no dan-
ger, when such and such militory precautions
were taken ?" we are asked by the borough Prese.
" No," is the proper answer, " there was no
danger, by reason of those very military precautions,
and by reason of the encouraging display of civic
zeal and resolution on the part of the several
parishes, which induced yea many thousands of sub-
stantial householders to enrol themselvei as special
constables, to the end that there might be no
danger." What the better class of householders
effected, or largely contributed to accomplish, on
that one day, we have, for some time past, been
urging them to realize by similar demonstrations,
but in a more permanent manner. Had the house-
holders of London been notoriously and avowedly a
body armed for the defence of house and property,
the preparations for war by an assemblage of the
king's forces, though for the salutary purpose of pre-
venting war, might on Monday last have been alto-
gether dispensed with. There are no human beings
more desirous than ourselves of supporting, by all
reasonable and consistent means, and none more
reluctant by any means to embarrass, or ever so
slightly to obstruct, the constituted authorities in
their efforts for the maintenance of the public peace,
and for the establishment of confidence among the
people. It is therefore, we need scarcely say, in a
spirit of sincere anxiety for the ease of the King's
Government, and for the lasting repose of society,
that we have thought ourselves justified in urging
the defensive armament of every man of property in
the realm, be that property great or small, provided
it gives him a stable interest in the public
welfare. If the fathers and master of families
come forward and put themselves in a permanent
relation with the Government, as functionaries
willing to take charge of the K;lig's peace, under
leaders of the King's appointment, we can conceive
so human suggestion so calculated in practice to
afford strength to the executive power, and as-
surance of protection to all honest and loyal subjects.
This proposal, be it remembered, is not in itself
connected, much less identified, with the scheme of
" political" unions, although it is manifest that pre-
sent circumstances are such as to render a combina-
tion of the two expedients unavoidable. We do
not know that the political character of any associa-
tions which may now take place will survive the
just and universal excitement produced by the
doubtful issue of the Bill for Reform. That their
armed, or guardian, character ought to outlive it,
we are well convinced. When did the National
Guard of France prove itself dangerous to the laws,
institutions, or well-exercised magisterial power of
that country ? It is essentially, and invariably, an
instrument of peace, and of legitimate authority ;
and so would a voluntary enrolment of these classes
which, in England, have " something to lose."
As for the Political Unions, we believe that most,
if not all of them have been formed to support and
encourage the existing Government in its laud-
able endeavours for a demolition of the borough
system; and it is clear that the growth of such con-
federacies has been quickened and extended by 811
impression by no means partial, that the Ministers,
however upright in their Reform policy, are not se-
cure of an easy or speedy triumph. If by a prompt
creation of Peers, or some other strong and intrepid
measure, bearing directly upon their Lordships'
House, which may be regarded as the only garrison
in the empire yet standing out against Reform,—if
by some bold step against that hostile body th:
Administration shows itself no longer afraid, but
proud and confident is its position both with Court
and country,—the people, too, will immediately re-
linquish their distrust, and political unions, whether
designed as Promoters of the Bill, or . provisions
against its second overthrow, will, we apprehend,
soon cease to make such rapid accessions to their
numerical force. In the mean time, it may be proper
to repeat, what we announced some weeks ago, that
Parliament will meet for the despatch of business in
the first week of December.— Times.

In that clever book, the " Tour of a German
Prince," to which we alluded on Monday last, there
is an observation peculiarly deserving of notice at
present. Speaking of the worldly policy in the
sense of clever, adroit knaves, of the various weights
which have been attached to the wheels of improve-
ment, that they might revolve slowly and painfully
—of the Protestantism, which protest: baclu'rnda,
he observes, " ' Au reste' one cannot take it amiss
of any man' qu' it preche pour sa paroisse.' To
require from an English Archbishop, with 50,000/.
a year, that he should be an enlightened man, is as
preposterous as to expect from the Shah of Persia
that he would transform himself into a constitutional
Monarch of his own free will. There are few men
who would voluntarily refuse a rich and splendid
sinecure, where nothing is required of them but to
fling a little dust in the people's eyes, or to be a
despot ruling millions with his nod. It is the busi-
ness of human society, if possible, to put things upon
such a footing that none of us, be our good will for
it ever so great, can either get such a sinecure or
become such a despot." These observations were
written without any reference to the struggle which
is no going on in this country ; but they seem
as if they were. They are, however, of universal
and perpetual application. Wherever any body of
men have interests distinctly at variance with the
interests of the community, they will, with few ex-
ceptions, strive for their own interests against the
community. The Archbishop of Canterbury and
the other Bishops, the boroughmongers, haring in-
terests at variance with the interests of the people,
are naturally hostile to good government, which
would secure even-handed justice to all. They will
never voluntarily consent to Reform. For the first
time since the revolution the Bishops have opposed
the Ministry, because, for the first time, the Mi-
nistry were endeavouring to carry a measure calcu-
lated to secure to the people the blessing of good
government in all time coming. All the acts of in-
justice and oppression proposed by successive Mi-
nistries—the countenance given to the slave trade—
the encouragement of bribery and corruption—
have always received the support of the Bench
of Bishops; but a measure calculated to cut up
corruption by the roots—to destroy the great
cause of the debasement of the lowest pint of
the population, was wormwood to them ; because,
being the children of corruption, they are naturally its
champions. We have always been slow to believe
the reports of conversions of Bishops and Peers,
knowing the strong aversion that these men must
have to all measures founded on equal-handed jus-
tice—and more especially to that crowning measure,
a Reform of the Representation. All coaxing—all
attempts at persuasion must be thrown away in such
a case. The request to Barnardine to come down
to be banged was not more unpalatable than to the
boroughmongers and Bishops (one and the same),
must be the application to consent to a really effi-
cient Bill of Reform. We know that it is the in-
terest of these men to affect a disposition towards

'conversion, because it throws their opponents off
their guard, and what they want is delay. It is
only in hell that the great poet excludes the entrance
of hope-. The Anti-Reformers feed themeelves with
hopes of re-actions—hopes of deaths—hopes of riots
and insurrections which might inspire alarm into
men possessed of rroperty. We ourselves are not
without alarm, on account of the distress caused by
the stage:ation of trade in many parts of the country,
In the manufacturing districts, there ate at pre-
sent numbers of men out of work and suffering
severely; and till the Reform Bill is carried,
no improvement is to be hoped for. The Anti-
Reformers hope to profit by the calamities of which
they are the authors, by the rejection of the Reform
Bill. The 7'enies, we observe, shares our suepicions
with regard to the alleged conversions of the Anti-
Reformers. '‘ That the Peers have not (says our
contemporary) ❑sefully rec.onsidered their opinions
on the Reform Bilf, so as to ensure a reception for
that measure More palatable to the nation than the
last, bee within these few days become a matter of
widely diffused suspicion. No proof, indeed, of the
contrary has yet been adduced, nor any facts which
carry much weight or authority on the farce of them.
If, therefore, Ministers, once already deceived and
disappointed,—once already instrumental, no doubt
innocently, in the heavy disappointment of the nation,
—if they have not more materials for confidence in
the self-reformation of the House of Lords than
have yet reached the public eye, and still do ant
lend themselves with instant vigour to a re' -adjust-
ment' of the Peers, the concluding passage of the
following extract tray be found to express a feeling
by no means confident to the author, who begins
with some caustic, though grave, reflections on the
Bishops, and on the Scorch and Irish Peers. (Here
our contemporary introduces a long quotation from
a pamphlet, in the shape of a letter to Earl Grey,
on the adjustment of the House of Peers') :"—An
efficient Parliamentary Reform must necessarily lead to
economy in Church and State, and of this the
Bishops and Boroughmongers are well aware. To
a Reform which will be attended with such re-
sults they will never, we fear, consent, except under
circumstances which they hope may never occur.
In the mean time the vote of the Bishops has at
once and for ever alienated from them the regard of
the nation. It is one striking sign of the times, that
every where on the sth of November last the
Bishops were substituted for Guy Faux. North
and South, East and West, speak but one language
with regard to them. At a meeting of the Barony

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' of Bargy, in the county of \Vexford, on Thursday,
the 27th of October last, reported at considerable
length in the Wexford Independent, the speakers,
many of them Protestants, expressed themselves in
peculiarly strong language. Richard Boyse Osborne,
Esq., observed—
" I have to congratulate you, my friends, on the re-
formation that has taken place in our ecclesiastical dy-
nasty. Sortie poor infatuated men have condemned our
Bench of Bishops. Not so with me. You know too well
how I love the saintly, meek, mild, and poverty-loving
Bishops. I am sure you will not doubt my sincerity,
when I assure you that I literally adore them, admire
their disinterested open-hearted conduct in their lordly
jurisdiction. Like Christian men, they have denounced
the idolatry of their predecessors, and seen the errors of
their ways. No longer will they bow down to the powers
that be as heretofore; they have opposed their Royal
Master's will—they have opposed the people's prayer ; all,
as in conscience bound, they have come forth and written
the bill of divorcement between Church and State. They
have proved that a State Government can go on without

them—nay, with the united energies put together to ley
that Government prostrate ; by tripping up its heels,
stealing clandestinely behind the Throne, in the sheep's
clothing of sacerdotal lawn sleeves, and then, without no.
tice, pouring in a general broadside of their opposition
votes; thus entering into the ranks of its enemies as de-
serters and traitorous armies.—(Cheers.) Thank them,
I repeat, must every Protestant; for heretofore no such
honest Protestant Bishops, atleast since 1688, have betn
to be found. The sacred pious boys will no longer Bishop
royalty—(Laughter and great cheering)—nor loyalty
no longer seek to p:.y the court to mammon, but
be separated (I trust), a inensu et thorn, from their
unchristian mate, the State ; they will now, it is to he
presumed, yoke themselves to that of Christ—cast away
their wealth to feed the poor—clothe the naked : they wi:l
devote themselves to their God, their country, and their
conscience. But these Reverend Heroes may be too mo-
dest, and wait for the vox populi to support their pious
intentions ; no doubt they will, and the people shall give
it freely, and without possibility of its Ewing mistaken.—
(Cries of "We evil'.") That damnable, idolatrous, un-
christian piece of Popery, you, my boys, must protest
against, in the Parsons' creed—it is called tithes, and in
his doctrinal confession of faith you will find it was in-
vented to uphold those doctrines they have sworn to be
damnable and idolatrous. Will you, boys, warrant them
in continuing the use of such terms ?—(Cries of " No,
no.") Fear not—speak out—resist not the law—pay no
no tithe—injure no man in person or property ; the law
decrees the tithe, let the law take it, as by law directed.
Unite as a body of Quakers—make your stock puree in
every parish ; thereout indemnify the tithe sufferers under
the law ; persevere ; buyers you will have, for six months
or a year ; but rest assured, before another year has paned,
so will tithes pass from our political horizon—vanish and
be no more.—(Cheers, and cries of " We will take your
advice.") But if you are in love with tithe-paying, why,
in the name of Heaven, begin and pay tithes to your ore n
clergy— _ _

" The Rev. Mr. Barry said they would not accept of
;hem.

" Why (said Mr. Osborne)? Because your eyes are
opened—you are too enlightened—the day-star of know-
ledge has risen in your Church.—(Cheers.) Think not
I want or wish to injure the many eminent or Christian
clergymen in any Church ; God forbid. No ; but if you
would befriend them, pluck from the millions of plunder
now in lording Bishops' hands--take from the fox-hunting
parson his thousands, and give the Christian resident
clergyman ample means, not only to provide for his own
household, but the wants of all Christians that reside
within the precincts of his own Ministry."
These are the sentiments that now pervade the
country. Reform must ultimately be carried ;of
that we have no doubt. But we dread the collision
of an angry people and the selfish enemies of the
people; and we are suspicious of the alleged con-
versions of enemies to friends. This we know, that

if the people do not bestir themselves in such a
manner as to extinguish all hope in the borough-
mongers of the possibility of resisting Reform, the
country may have to wade through blood to the at-
tainment of that blessing. We know that the bo-
roughmongers are capable of all wickedness.—
Morning Chronicle.

The last accounts from Sunderland are calculated
to keep up the apprehension that the Indian cholera
has made its appearance in that town ; they repre-
sent the disease as in actual progress, six new cases,
two of which proved fatal, having been formally re-
ported by the Chairman of the Medical Board, and
transmitted to the Clerk of the Council in London.
We expressed some surprise, after perusing the first
communications on this important subject, at the
vague and unsatisfactory manner in which it was
brought before the public. We thought that, upon
an occasion so deeply interesting to every member
of the community, no pains should have been spared
to ascertain all the facts connected with the cases,
in order to form a distinct opinion as to the nature
of the malady ; but the good people of Sunderland
'bought otherwise, or acted as if they thought so.
'Well, POW we have an official document from
the same quarter. The Medical Board, the pro-
fessional authorities of Sunderland, have come
to the aid of the unlearned correspondents ; but,
like the interpreter in The Critic, they are
more difficult to be understood than those
for whom they pretend to interpret. This
document, which will be found in another column,
so far from deciding the important question, whether
the cases are really cases of Indian cholera or not,
never once mentions the word cholera in its state-
ment. There is a mention of six new cases having
occurred; but what they are is left to the imagina-
tion of the reader, assisted only by the doubtful glim-
mering of the first accounts. We are, therefore, still
in a state of uncertainty, having nothing but infe-
rence to guide us in forming an opinion as to whe-
ther the malady alluded to is that which has so long
afflicted various parts of the continent, or whether it
is only the ordinary cholera incident to this country
and to this season of the year. One thing, however,

is cettain, in the midst of this obscurity, and that is
tit importance of adopting every precaution against
disease, the most obvious of which is cleanliness.
We would refer our readers to the report of what
took place at Hatton-garden yesterday, with refer-
ence to the point we have just alluded to. From
that it will appear that Saffron-hill and its neigh.
bourhood are in a most filthy state. Leather-lane
and Gray's Inn-lane are also stated to be in a situ,
atlon not only disgraceful to the metropolis, but
absolutely dangerous, from the disgusting and
fetid nuisances in which they abound. We hope
that the parish authorities will be compelled to do
their duty at a time like the present, not only in
thesis, places, but in many others that could be
named. Nor is it the obscure and narrow lanes
alone which require the attention of the inhabitants.
Even the great thoroughfare of Fleet-street presents
an appearance by no means creditable to the persons
whose duty it is to superintend, or perform the
task of keeping the streets clean. Shoe-lane is still
worse. It would be a nauseous process to describe
it. But we may ask, what are the scavengers
about ? Is there no power to compel them to do
their duty ? If it be the will of Providence that the
affliction which has visited other nations, and is sup-
posed even already to have made its appearance in
: this island, should extend to the metropolis, how
can these people answer to themselves for having
aggravated, by their negligence, a scourge too fatal
under every precaution ? We hope it will not be
necessary for us to allude again to this subject,
under the awful circumstances which at present
exist.—Morning Herald.
It seems, from concurrent testimony, that much
of the frightful havoc committed during the late riots
at Bristol was the act of some of the many Irish
with which that place and ite suburbs abound. If
such be the case, it constitutes, if we are rightly in-
formed, another just ground of complaint against
the corporation of parochial authorities there, who,
instead of passing to their own country the nu-
merous Irish who arrive at Bristol under the Vagrant
Act, neglect to do so, under a false notion of eco-
nomy—some of whom they set to stone-breaking—
suffering others to wander at large—many of them
spreading themselves over the adjoining counties, and
not a few actually returning to London and other
places, from whence they have been conveyed at
great expense, on the way back to their own country.
These persons, so treated at the end of their land
journey, naturally feel indignant at the breach of faith
which they thus experienc and, of course, many of
them were but too ready to wreak their vengeance
upon those who are supposed to be the cause of
their detention and renewed vagrancy. We do not
say that the operation of the Va1..1-int Act in this
respect may not entail a very heavy and apparently
unjust burden upon Bristol, in common with Liver-
pool and a few other outports; but we never beard
that the apparent hardship of a law was any excuse
for individuals in disobeying it ; still less can it be
so for wealthy constituted authorities. If tl e
burden be unreasonable or unjust, Parliament should
be asked to remedy it. If we are rightly informed
as to the fact and the cause on this occasion, they
form a serious warning against similar violations of
the law, merely because it i 3 onerous or otherwise
disagreeable. At any rate it behoves the public
authorities of Bristol to look to the matter in future,
and not, by warding off a minor evil, expose them-
selves to such tremendous consequences as have un-
happily befallen many of the innocent inhabitants of
that unfortunate city.—Morning Herald.
We have given elsewhere the particulars of a riot
which has taken place at Coventry, and which is
characterised by an Anti-reform Evening_ Print as a
Reform Rebellion." After, however, perusing all
the accounts which have appeared on the suhject,we
can discover nothing in it which bears the slightest
resemblance to " rebellion." The riot appear: to
have proceeded from some differences between the
masters of the manufactory which was attacked and
destroyed, and their workmen---differences arising
wholly out of a question of wages, and not having
the slightest reference to, or connection with, any
political matter. Any riot, however, is now sufficient
with the Anti-Reform Press, for the manufacture of a
rebellion, just as death, whatever may be its caul..,
is now, if it happen near Sunderland, or any other
suspected spot, sufficient to warrant a report of
another death from cholera. While on this subject,
let us earnestly entreat the working classes to refrain
from such acts of outrage, as quite as detrimental
to themselves and their own interests, as to those of
the manufacturer. In no case can they profit from
wanton injuries intlcted on others—in no case can
they destroy a manufactory from which they or
others have been receiving employment, without
injuring themselves even more than the proprietor
of it. The capital of the manufacturer is not
only as much his property as the labour of the
workman is his, but if the former be de-
stroyed or diminished in any way, tl:e first ef-
fect, and by far the most fatal effect, of that
destruction is certain to fall upon the misguided
workman himself, who loosened the first stone of
the building, or applied the first spark of fire to its
more inflammable materials. In the case of the manu-
factory destroyed at Coventry, for example, how
many men will not be thrown out of employment—
perhaps exposed to the receipt of a miserable pit-
tance of parish relief—not only for weeks, [tit for
months? The manufacturer must be indemnified by
the county; but to whom can the workman apply
for indemnification for the loss of employment
caused by its destruction ? We throw ant these
brief hinte, not under the vain imagination that
they will persuade the evil-minded to refrain
from such deeds of mischief, but in the hope
that we may thereby induce the prudent, the
virtuous, and the thinking part of the working
population, not only to aid and abet the
civil power in quelling all such disturbances,
but to use their utmost exertions in the way of per-
suasion, to prevent their commission by their less
intelligent brethren. There is nothing so senseless
as the destruction of property—nothing which marks
more certainly the prevalence of ignorance and bar-
barism ;—and, let us add, there is nothing which so
certainly militates against the right of universal
suffrage which is now prayed for by many of them,
as such outrages of the law. It is an equally true
saying, that those who cannot take care of the pro-
perty of others, are not fit to be entrusted with their
own, as that those who cannot take care of their
own, are not fit to be entrusted with that of others.
Who, indeed, would trust a vote for a Member of
Parliament in the hands of persons, either stained
with the blood of their fellow-citizens, or soiled by
the destruction of their property.—Morning Adger.

PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE.—It is now (said
Vow Wyux) more than two years since in the very pl tee
where we stand, I ventured to take one of the most daring
shots that ever was hazarded. I had been amusing my-
self in giving transcendent polish and mirror-like reflection
to a pair of hoots, and having left them outside my cottage,
proceeded for a few moments to the garden, my wife sit-
ting in the house near the door, and the children playing
about her, when suddenly, though it was mid-day, an
enormous lion appeared, came up, and attracted evidently,
by the lustre of the boots, for be fixed his glaring eye in-
tently upon them, laid himself quietly down in the shade,
on the very threshold of the door. My wife, either frozen
with fear, or aware on the danger attending any attempt to
fly, remained motionless in her place, while the children
took refuge in her lap. The lion still gazing intently on
the hoots. I glided gently by the side of the house up to
the window of my chamber, where I knew my loaded gun
was standing, which by happy chance I had set in a
corner, so that I could reach it with my hand, for the
opening is too small, as you may perceive, to admit of my
having got in, and still more fortunately the door of the
room was open, so that I could see the whole danger of
the scene. The lion was beginning to move, perhaps with
the intention of making a spring ; there was no time any
longer to think ; I called softly to the mother not to be
afraid, and invoking the aid of Heaven, fired my piece.
The ball passed directly over my boy's head, and lodged
in the forehead of the lien immediately above his eyes
which shot forth as it were sparks of fire, and stretched
him on the wound, so that he never stirred more.—Re-
collection' of the Cape of Good Hope.

ALLEGED CASE OF HORRID MURDER
BY BURKIIICG AN ITALIAN BOY.

CORONER'S INQUEST.

Yesterday afternoon, at three o'clock, Mr. GELL, the
Coroner for Westminster, and a Jury composed of some of
the most respectable inhabitants of the parish, assembled
at tl,e Unicorn, at the corner of Ifeurietta-street, Covent-
garden, on view of the body of a boy, unknown, who was
supposed to have been murdered, or, as the phrase goes,
" Burked" by four persons, named May, Bishop, Sheen,
and Williams, now in custody.
William Hill, Mr. Partridge, the surron of King's
College, and Mr. Beaman, the surgeon, of Covent-garden,
gave evidence, the substance of which was contained incur
I3ow-street report, and in the account of the post mortem
examination which followed.

Mr. Beltran and Mr. Partridge both concurred in
ascribing the death to external violence.
The only additional evidence tending to throw light on
this most mysterious transaction was as follows :
Mr. Charles Starbuck, a member of the Society of
Friends, and a stock-breker, residing at No. 19, Broad-
street-buildings, City, attended here in consequence of a
report he had read in the Morning Chronicle of the exa-
mination at Bow-street; he had seen the body of file de-
ceased, and had rri doubt it was that of the boy whom he
had often seen about the Royal Exchange and the B ink
with white mica ; he was an Italian boy, and witness had
sometimes stopped while his brother had conversed with
the little fellow in his own language; he saw him, on
Thursday evening last, sitting on the pavement near the
Bank, with his head nearly on his lap, and a mouse- trap
under his arm, attracting notice by his position ; and
some boys and other persons about him told him to get
up, for the police were coming. Witness said to his bro-
tner, he thought the boy was ill, but his brother said he
had thought for some time that he was a humbug, and
was practising ,apon the humanity and credulity of pas-
sengers. Ile thought it his duty to come forward.
Dlargaret Peregani, of 11, Parker's-street, Drury-lane,
knew the deceased well, and had known him all the sum-
mer ; be always carried a tortoise and some white mice
about for show ; she did not know his name, but knew
his person; she saw him last on Tuesday, the lit instant
(yesterday week) in Oxford-street, near Hanover-square;
he had then a mouse-trap with him.
Mr. Douchez, surgeon, thought, from the appearance
of the spinal veitelnat, that it was quite possible--and,
indeed, it was his opinion—that the boy had been first'
stunned by a blow on the head, and his neck afterwards
twisted and dislocated like a duck's.—(A thrill of horror
here ran round amongst the crowded auditory.) There
was a mark of the pressure of a grasp on the wrist, and
one mark of a finger distinctly appeared as though the poor
boy had been held down by a powerful hand while the
mischief teas done Witness had no doubt whatever that
death was caused by external violence.
Mr. Thomas, the Superintendent of the F Division of
Police, on Saturday afternoon last, in consequence of iu-
formation he had received, sent several officers to the
King's College, and four men, named May, Bishop, Sheen,
and Williams, were taken into custody. When brought
to the station-house, witness asked Bishop where the body
came from, and he said from Guy's, adding, "We have
been removing it from Guy's to the King's College." Wit-
ness asked Bishop what lie was, and he said " I am a
body-snatcher." Witness had this evening asked the pri-
soners at Bow street, if they wished to come before the
Jury and say anything ? and May said, " Not I—l have
nothing to say to it." Bishop's reply was—" The body
is mine, and if you mean to keep it, you may find out
where it was got, if you can." Sheen said he was merely
employed by Bishop to carry the body ; and Williams de-
clared that he went with the others merely from curiosity
to see the King's College.
Mr. Cribb, the Foreman of the Jury, stated that it
was a well-known fact that the deceased boy had been
seen to carry a tortoise about, and it had been this even-
ing mentioned by Mr. Thomas, that a tortoise, similar to
that one, had been found, which was stated to have been
sold within a short time before the boy's death.
Mr. Thomas this afternoon received a letter, informing
him that such a tortoise as the boy had was exhibiting for
sale in Middle-row, Holborn ; and he went there and saw
the tortoise, which he now produced. He asked the
woman of the shop where she got it, and she said her
husband bought it in Leadenhall-market, where such
things were regularly bought and sold.
Joseph Peregani sworn—Has known the deceased
twelve months, and well recollects his carrying about a
tortoise, and the one now produced is similar to that he
so carried. It is very much like it.
Mr. Corder, at this period, suggested the proFriety of
an adjournment. The case, he said, was one of the
deepest importance to society, and as the proceedings of
this day would go forth to the public through the Press,
other information might by that means be obtained, espe-
cially as regarded the purchase of the tortoise.
The CORONER agreed that it was proper that an ad-
journment should take place.
311'. Thomas thought it his duty to state to the Jury a
fact perfectly astounding, namely, that, since Saturday,
eight parents had come to the station-house to view the
body, every one of whom had lost a boy about the same
age as the deceased, and all within fourteen days! and not
one of them could in the remotest way account for the
absence of the respective children.
Mr. Isaacs, the solicitor, said that a friend of his, a re-
spectable tradesman in Oxford-street, had lost a fine boy,
14 years of age, in a similar manner. He left home on
an errand, and had never since been heard of. He was a
boy of superior manners, well educated, extremely steady
in his habits and pursuits, and not at all likely to take to
wild courses all of a sudden. All exertions had failed in
tracing him.
The Jury now requested strangers to withdraw for a
time, and eventually the inquest was adjourned till to-
morrow, at fire o'clock in the afternoon.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

Edward Cummings was brought before the Loan
MAYOR, charged with having endangered the lives of
people in the streets by tumbling against therm in his
drunkenness.

An officer described the conduct of the defendant as
very dangerous. As the fellow went along, he shoved
some of the passers by through the windows, and others
into the middle of the street; at last be reached a nice
soft spot, in Gracechurch-street, which the scavengers
had just swept together, and down he fell in it upon his
hack. Not fancying his conch, however, he started up,
and pursued his way to Bishoplate, cleaning himself as
he went along by rubbing against the people, so that by
the time he reached the church he had contrived to divide
the mud with about 50 persons.
. .

The LORD MAYOR asked him why he got so beastly
drunk, and whether he was able to pay for all the damage
he had done? The defendant—l could not help getting
drunk, my Lord, for I lost my place yesterday morning.
The Logo 111Arox—And co, by way of making up for
the loss, you thought the least thing you could do was to
get drunk ? The defendant—lf I did'nt get drunk I'd
have fretted my life out, my Lord; au I got amongst two
or three friends, and the liquor overtook me.
The Loan MAYOR-.--I dare say your friends were out of
place too? The defendant—Two of them were, and the
third wanted an excuse for leaving a bad place, ea he stayed
out with us.

The Loan MAYOK—Then depend upon it you just put
him in the way of being on an equality with yourbelf.
The defendant believed he had acted like a fool, and he
hoped to be forgiven.

_
The LORD 111,tvos—I don't see that any one appears
against yian but the officer, and he pities you. Now I
pity you too, and to prove it to you, I'll fine you for your
drunkenness, which disgraced you so much, the sum of
five shillings.

Defendant—But, my Lord, my drunkeunees prevents me
from paying.
The Loan Ma.voa—l don't care : if your drunkenness
can't pay for you, you must certainly pay for your drunken-
nees.—(A laugh.)

On 'Monday, the 7th instant, a General
Assembly of the Academician• was held at the Royal
Academy of Arts in Somerset-house, when Mr. WILLIAM
WYOli was elected an Associate of that Institution.

A TRICK ON QUARANTINE.--One evening
smartish
th brig eras observedwyealslowflag"
coming up the
streaming
in the
wind. The quarantine officers took for granted that the
pestilence was on board, and that the honest master of the
ship would forthwith proceed to the Lazaretto at St. Mar-
garet's Hope, to undergo the usual process of aquatic puri-
fication. The sea was running high at the time, the night
this
Firth wrnk, fu a
full
closing fast, and it would have been extremely dangerous
for the Coast Guard to have approached within hail of her.
Next morning dawned, when inquiry was made after the
plague ship," but no such vessel was to be found any
where on the bosom of the Firth. It was subsequently
ascertained to have been a smuggler, which, during the
night, bad landed some gawsy ankers of mountain dew on
the shores of Fife, and the crew of which struck the
yellow flag the moment the ship was purified of its " blue
ruin."-- &NS/WA.

PRESENTATION OF THE LORD MAYO

TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR.

Yesterday Sir John Key went, attended by the Sheriffs,
the Recorder, the Common Serjeant, the other City Law
Officers, and the Gentlemen of the Household, to the resi-
dence of the Lerd Chancellor, for the purpose of being
presented on his election the second time, to the Mayoralty,
for the approbation of his Majesty.
The Recorder introduced the Lord Mayor to the Lord
Chancellor with a spirited address, " I have the honour,"
said the Learned Gentleman, " to present to your Lord-
ship, for the approbation of his Majesty, the Lord Mayor
for the year ensuing, who has been elected by the Livery,
in Common Hall assembled, which election has been con-
firmed by the choice of the Court of Aldermen, according
to the due course of proceeding on such occasions. The
distinguished honour to which this gentleman has be•n
raised by being called to fill two successive Mayoralties in
proves the high confidence which his fellow-
citizens repose in him, and the exalted opinion they enter-
tain of his merits. In such awful times as these, tvli-n the
principles of insubordination and of resistance to the est :-
Wished regulations for securing the tranquillity of the social
system are constantly inculcated by the disaffected—when
the enemies of the serial compact are wickedly engaged in
destroying the mansions and the properties of his Majesty's
subjects, and when other symptoms of an alarming nature
manifest themselves, it is to this individual the citizens of
London have determined to commi t the guardianship of their
city. In that most responsible situation have they again
placed him, in the full confidence that he will exert all his
energies for the welfare of the community ; and, at such a
period of emergency, maintain the peace of the city of
London in such a manner as to make it worthy of the imi-
tation of all other parts of the empire. With respect to
the protection of the rights and privileges of his fellow citi-
zens, those who have appointed hint look to the Lord
Mayor with unabated confidence for the performance of
every act likely to accomplish an object so near and their
to the hearts of his predecessor.. They are convinced that
he will maintain the dignity, splendour, and hospitality of
the Mayoralty; that the importent objects corrprebended
trader that head will suffer no diminution. [Here there
was a slight buzz of approbation amongst the other city
law officers.] The citizens of London express a firm hop,
and I am sure a well-grounded one, that their election will
meet with the sanction of his Majesty, through your Lord-
ship."
The LORD CHANCELLOR, in 1 very low tone, addressed
the Recorder in the following manner :—" I feel, Mr.
Recorder, the greatest satisfaction in assuring you of his
Majesty's entire and unequivocal approbation of the choice
made be the citizens of London. His Majesty is assured
of the propriety of the election, and relies, with most entire
confidence, upon the exertions of the Lord M tyor for the
preservation of the peace of the metropolis. His Ma-
jesty also has full confidence that in the second Mayoralty
of his Lordship the Magistrates of the city of London wiq
*hew an example to the rest of the Magistracy of their de-
termination to make every effort to prevent even an attempt
at a violation of the peace."
The Lord Chancellor then entered into familiar conver-
sation with the Lord Mayor, the Sheriffs, the Records r,
Common Serjeant, and Sir Charles Flower.

EXETER.

(From the Morning Chronicle.)

This city has been in constant alarm for several days
past, in consequence of the vast influx of strange ill-loakirg
fellows, and as it wag well known to the authorities th it
it was the intention of certain parties to burn the effigy of
the Bishop, an officious little Tory Alderman, the Bishop's
Secretary, and several other obnoxious characters, on the
sth of November, it was greatly feared this scene would be
taken advantage of by the ill-looking fellows who were
lurking about the city in parties of six and eight ; accord-
ingly the Mayor sent to Plymouth for a regiment of soldiers,
but none could be spared. So affrighted were many of tl e
wealthy inhabitants, that they removed their plate and ve-
lualdes, provided themselves with fire-arms, and fortified
their houses in every possible way. The long-dreaded sch
of November came, and the morning, as usual, was ushered
in with a merry peal on the parish bells, firing of cannon,
&c. The day passed off quietly, and, in the evening,
the usual display of fire-works took place ; but the
spectators were comparatively few ; no move was
made to burn the effigy of the Bishop, &c., till
eleven o'clock at night, when a large body of deter-
mined fellows made their appearance in the Cathedral-
ward with the effigy of the poor Bishop, mitred and lawn-
sleeved, &c., also a large quantity of faggots ; a temporary
gallows was soon erected, and the pious scaramouch was
soon hoisted upon the gibbet. Its appearance was ridicu-
lously em!,lematical of this notorious hater of liberty and
Reform. The head was composed of a hollow turnip,
with a candle in the centre, in which were cut the ra,,e
and mouth, but no eyes—showing, that though the head
possessed light, the Bishop was blind to the past and
present scenes around him. The faggots being adjusted,
they were set fire to, and the light soon discovered the
vitals, composed of the liver and lights of a sheep, which
the flames soon devoured, with the Whew head, mitre,
and lawn sleeves, of one of the 21 enemies of Releriti, and
withholders of the people's just rights ; all this was doe,
in the Cathedral yard, in full sight of the Palter. Had
any attempt been made to prevent this innocent ebullition
of public indignation, I have no doubt many lives would
have been lost, and we should have bad a second Be isttil
affair. Much credit is due to the Mayor in perinittin2
the people to vent their indignant feeling (created by the
late blind, obstinate, and wiceed conduct of the Bistelis)
on this effigy of a man who can never reel tiro his charact r
but by voting for Reform when the Bill is next iirouebt
fore the House of Lords. The bonfire and effi, y beite:
consumed, the assembled multitude, conipo•ed of many
thousands, gave three groans for the bishops
Tories, and nine hearty cheers for the cause of Reform.
The Bishop's Palace was tilled with armed soldiers, who
kept guard all night. Nothing occurred until half-past
twelve, when the whole Palace was set in commotion by
a few idle boys rolling a burning tar barrel towards the
Palace, which was supposed to be the signal for its demo-
lition ; but it was only done to frighten and make a deeper
impression on the mind of the Bishop, of what might
the consequence of a second act of hostility towards the
people. The boys continued their course down a street
towards the river, which soon quenched the ter- barrel, and
dissipated the fears of the Bishop, the Tory Lord Rolle,
and others assembled in the Palace, to support the drooping
spirits of time Holy and Right Rev. Father in God, Whose
compunction of conscience they had serious apprehension
would urge him to apply one of the loaded muskets to his
bead, and blow out the small portion of brains his skull
contained. Semi after burning the effigy of the Bishop,
the assembled multitude separated, quietly went to their
homes, and up to the present titne, Monday morning, there
has not been a single committal fur riot or disturbance. I
again repeat, much credit is due to the Msyor for fore-
sight, determination, and coolness, in permitting the effigy
to be burnt, which could not have been prevented without.
bloodshed.

Will the liberty-hating Tories now dare to say there is
a re-action in Reform in Devon, and especially in this
city, which till lately has been completely under their
thraldom? It has thrown off its shackles, and the people
are now as free as the air they breathe. An Anti-Reform
petition has been hawked about the city for the last week
past; and, notwithstanding the Tories have had the mean-
ness to get upwards of thirty people to sign it under the
pretence of its being in favour of Reform, and several other
poor creatures at sixpence ahead, still only forty-three in-
dividuals of the lowest class hare disgraced themselves be
signing it. No sooner had the affrighted inhabitants of
this city recovered themselves on Sunday, than as alarm
was created about two o'clock by the galloping of the
Yeomanry Cavalry through the streets to Newton Bushell
(a town about 14 miles from Exeter), an express having
arrived that the whole town was in flames—this I ant
not surprised at, as it is the veriest sink of Toryism in the
county. No doubt they have set the town on fire to divert
the public attention from Reform. Such is their chagrin at
their fallen littleness that they would, like their mad fool-
hardy leader, Sir Charles Wetherell, sacrifice the lives of
thousands of their fellow-creatures to effect their hellish
purpose by throwing the county into anarchy and confu-
sion. Newton Bushell is a town composed of houses
which are principally covered with thatch, and nothing
can save it if set fire to in two or three places; it is bete
the Tories have lately had their meetings and dinners, for
they are completely driven out of this city ; and their
numbers have so dwindled that they would be lost in a
respectable sized room ; they have breathed their last gasp,
and their writhing will avail them nothing—their Le:-
tious spirit must expire, and, like an eel out of water, will
eventually smother itself in its own slime.
CIVIS.

MONDAY, EIGHT o'CLocic•—An express has just ar-
rived, stating that the fire was extinguished before the
arrival of the military, and was supposed to have taken
place from a chimney having taken fire, the flakes from
which fell on the thatch. The damage done does not ex-
ceed 1001. An unnecessary alarm existel in this case.

HIGH RECOMMENDATION.--.A young man
advertising in the Morning Herald for a situation as valet,
begins by stating that he is six feet Mph.

THE WORKING CLASSES.

Although the intended meeting of the Working
did not take place in White Conduit Fields, up%
one thousand of the body assembled in the large th
the R stun ht. Toe generality were armed with
truncheons, and in•iny of them wore tri-colours

ad,s ; a large tri-co,oured flag deo hung over the Pr
Mr. DLIFFE4 was called to the Chair. ,
Mr. WATSON rose to propose the first reso;
"'That whi'e we are (I, sirous of obtaining our just"
we are anxious to have them peaceably conceded:,
therefore call upon our brethren to abstain froto
violent It is not die men, but the system of car;
we seek to overthrow; not for individual benefit, b
puld c good. We therefore confidently call deal
brethren to enrol themselves in Political Voione °
this object ; to cast their petty jealousies and couteoor
,
aside, and to unite with all who will unite
against the cetnnion enemy. Let order he thedo
union their motto; equal justice their object ; an
pine-s of all their end."—(Applause.) Din man red
more than he did their meeting had not taken place,!
no man was more confident that had it iaken,9o
it would have passed otT in peace and order.---k
a He cared not abn.° .
responsibility, he came not to say what he did n°tor
or feel; but he had not yet screwed up his cooed
the necessity of suffering death. They had been tna,,
their declaration was seditious, and that if they ba,a,
and violence had ensued, they who were /Old it'
with the tricks of Governments well knew such an 10
tunity would not have been lost of spihing their ,r/
(Great confusion.) To-day their foes had got the!t't,
them—(Hear, Lear)—and however they might 131.1'ii
the sacrifice which they had made, a little more PaA
organization, un inimity, and boldness, and they
exhibit themselves in such an attitude—aye, and a r
able attitude too—as would command attention t°oo
wants and immediate redress.—( Loud cheers.) 50r
had b en determined to hold their meeting those cal'l 0i
circumstances had occurred in Bristol, and had al,
every one posse-s n,,;.; one pound's worth of prop rrY ;el(
the Press, the vile Press, which had never dared b°ll,loll'
represent the feelings of the working classes, had °jet
say they had calla! the meeting to act the Bristol °.„6:(0
in London, and that their only objects were the ef4Criel
litt:uan life and the spoliation of private property:
of r Shame, shame," and the" Times.") Hi' to rv„
with Lord Melbourne was the first interview betfivt""
with a Lord, and he hoped to the Lord it
d ybr
last—(Laughter)—not that he haft any thing l*t:p.tr
to complain of respecting Lord ,Me;bourne, but he Do?
Lordship to understand that he might put (100 btu
terance of opinions, but he could net prevent then/
held:—(Hear.)

Mr. CLEAVE seconded the resolution.
Mr. MANsw.supported the motion. 11"
Mr. CARPENTER (the Editor of the "
ter.") had procured leave of absence from his pri7
0e
for one day ; he had but a few mrtments to realoti:
order of Lord Tenterden, which he had in
would expire in a quarter of an hour, and then 00014
return to the circuit of his e.)
proceeded to tidy lie fully c their dee 10.,
and all the subsequent pr.. their' hods'''. en
listing in holding the meet' they would bageor
nothing beyond a publication of their declaration' °
only at the risk of their lives.
A resolution was then put and carried. asi
A 31E3IBER stated that a meeting had tbst hof
hdd in Bethual-green Church, to form a branc..el
National Political Union. Similar meetings r".-1110
to be held, and he trusted the working °
on the alert. a

Mr. LovETT proposed the sec,,nd resolution'. ea 0
as we (the working classes) have often been deco)! .00
cajoled by those who have m wie us the tools of tbenlolll
bition, we hereby call on our brethren throog h-t
United Kingdom to consider whether they (3140,0
longer to ply taxes in money, as well as to take ineoi
sideration the withdrawal of their monies now'
od
Saving.,Bil,l:s and Benefit Societies, or any further 1.0
by which they may obtain their rights."—(Loud Chee
Mr. BENusw secondA the resolution.

It was then put and, carried alter which the IA"
dissolved the assembly, requesting them to separate 'V

The naval tale of " Cavendish, or the 11
cian at Sea," is said to be chiefly formed of occurrig
which actually took place in the life of a young Nobi
now holding a command in his Majesty's services
EDWARD CODRINGTON, among other distinguished ow
figures in its pages.
EXCLUDING AND INCLUDINO.--A Og„
day asked his friend, 4, How many knaves do you 0,,r
are in this street besides yourself ?" "Besides 01,
replied the other, in a beat, "de you mean to , insultt'
" then," said the first, 4, how many do you v
excluding yourself ?"
1
The Swabian licrotru announces the .0
of the reigning Prince of 'floberiziillern-Sig'n°;
ANTHONY A LoYS, on the 17th kcarit, Of 3 6`
pleay. lie had bees slightly indisposed for sever
bat not sufficiently to create the least alarin•
, IWO
REPUBLICAN FREEDOM.—A soot) e.
in Rensclear coun,y, N.Y. has been fined 1,000 at'is
kissing one of his female pupils !
111)
SINGULAR CUSTOM IN THE ISLE OT
—lf a single young woman prosecutes a hingle n' y 0
Jurythis t the
guilty, tjy ,u Judges
Judgeimpanel
ei lave rj: to i 0
man a rope, a sword, and a ring ; and she has Ird i
chui,e to have him hanged, beheaded, or to 10"
Olio. 1:d

In a small town of France, there is 01911,
an o!d amateur of the stage, who goes to the 11s'`toc
night, though he sleeps there from the beginnirgbea'i
end. His servant sits by him and informs hint °.,00",
curtain is dropped. The old gentleman the° erit;
" Are they married." " Ye,," replies the
" Veiy well, then, let us 2oto bed," and the (13Y t;ort,
eiii,ys the performance with the same degree of PI jig
I•HE CATECHISM OF HEALTI,)
little work, announced for immediate publieat:',.o,
comprise a body of valuable information respertl%itii'
exercise, &e., and we hear, written by an,eifs
medical practi,ioner. Possessed of this useful
isUlr
every person may become his own physician : - CI;
to become more especially useful to families, as it "0 t,r,
tain numerous facts respecting the nature, treatffie
cure of that dreadful malady, the cholera, the fir''resdP
tiros of which will be indicated, and the trienuber
cessary for instant adoption, before the arrival °I •
sician, clearly pointed out.
03d
We regret to hear that the labourers 9:
ham, near Newbury, hare broken out into acts of fl
dination. It appears, from the best inforrnatioo hall a
been able to obtain, that a farmer of that pari9li
iluced the wages of his labourers one shilling Pet
emt,„
The labourers, not being satisfied with this ar'ra'6cerd,
assembled, to the number of forty or fifty, and Pre -1
to demand of the farmer the reason for this ste'Poui
met him at his house and he attempted to escsPel of
pulled off his horse and severely handled. SLit4f
ringleaders were apprehended, and sworn to to ...tteti
most desperate of the mob, and have been colt
trial at the Sessions.—Berkshire' Chronicle. ply
0
e ,t
STATE OF TILE COUNTIIY.—Tne - the
of Galway and Mayo are at present almost under toi
limited controul of the " Terry Alts." A Mr. ISI :11e31
of Galway, has been, of late, several times e°ll'k;oetv;
swear to the paying of certain wages to his svor
has also ha4l his villa wrecked : he is represelite hi
humane, good man. The " Terry Alts" are s:o3'
everyhas nights
glared the whole plundering , forleu
coarmsn;t nd their ter',
system
in a state„f„,o
"
A numerous meeting of the Magistrates of "i'St,JI
place, in Mayo, on Monday last ; the 31arrittis ° to ‘;
as Lord Lieutenant, in the chair : the object sv`l,e
sider of the best means of restoring and securing
of the Barony of Eoris.— Scotsman.

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BIRTHS. tia"
On the 7th inst. the lady of A. Cocker, Esq. Of ' ro
Soho-square, of a son. 1.• q.,
On the 6th inst. the lady of .1-Im.Hyndnian,
street, Westminster, of a son.
On the Bth inst. prematurely, in Tavistock-cqua"c,
Stutfield, of a son

MARRIED. r. 'oe
Oil the 3d inst. at Christchurch, Marylebone, •3. Cr•
of St. John's Wood, to Jane, fifth daughter of Mr..
On the Bth inst. at S. John's, Southwark. J. Di,%°,11.
Savage-gardens, to Margaret Newsome, only dauga,
Landell, Esq.. of Shooter's-hill. V('
DIED.
s lOi
nng the 5
at hgeidn sst2.
,of brainr N‘. ev(efr,caetn
tiNcoi
d. North a r
,Ptas°4olll4;
dent of the Editorial Department of the British a., tat,
Bible Society, leaving his wife and five infant cbildte"
his early removal.
On the sth inst. at her father's at Hackney, in the;"ll7tf
her age, Ann, youngest daughter of Mr. 'Tomes,
co
Inn.tields.
On the 7th in Clifford-street, Lient.-Colone. „cc,'
of Breetwell-huuse, Oxon, late his Majesty's Cons"
Jr
East Friesian::.c Al°
On the Bth inst. at Woburn-place, Russell-squat ,
of the late W. J. Reeves, Esq , aged 67.

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