The Sun.
London, England, 1836-11-15 00:00:00

COURT OF REQUESTS.

KINGSGATE-STREET, MONDAY.-It was a pleasing sight,
yesterday morning, to observe several ladies and gentlemen
in the inner Court, and still more pleasing to record the
fact, that one gentleman gave his card and address to seve-
ral of the most wretched of the defendants, at the same
time desiring them to come to him in the morning early.
Among the three hundred and ten cases heard before Mr.
Commissioner DTBOIS, and a very respectable and intelli-
gent Jury, the following is a haphazard selection :

ANOTHER DANIEL !—Daniel Flyn, a very knowing-
looking (as far as the outline of his features went) blind
beggar of the parish of St. Marylebone, was summoned by
a depraved-looking, gin-shortened Irishwoman, for the sum
of 335., for thirty-three weeks' attendance on the defen-
dant, at the rate of I s. a week, board and lodging included.
The cat was sadly let out of the bag in this case.
Mr. Commissioner Dußois inquired how it happened
that the defendant could afford to keep a servant ?
Plaintiff—Wish, me Lord (said the complainant), many's
the long time he's tould me he finds over 2001. a year for
begging; he's got the length of the fut of a mighty num-
ber of gentlemen, and in regard of his being blind and not
able to say (see), and being altogeder no small time thrunk
entirely, its them sends him the money, and I wonst tuck
in a rale paper note meeself, five pounds weight.—
(Laughter.) Its meeself that's seen him wid scores of
goulden suvreigns in his pockets, and now (less power to
him!) he refuses to pay me, bckase he's got sich a world
of tin (money), its nothing be don't know what to be at
wid it, except to pay me !—(Laughter.)
COMMISSIONER—ReaIIy begging appears to be a most
profitable speculation ! Plenty of brass in the face, it
seems, is sure to attract gold to the pocket. What have
you to say to this, Mr. Flyn ?

Defendant (sciatching his left ear, and making very cu-
rious faces)—l've heard that bastely woman's tongue—
(laughter), and sad is the sorrow brought to me own door,
that I tuck her to my house. Many's the good turn she's done
to me—(laughter). She stole me a flock bed, and she
tuck away the tick ; she 'stole me a pair of shoes that did'nt
belong to meeself; she stole a large sheet of linen without
my consint—(laughter) ; she stole me a pair of snuffers,
and she stole me two pillows and tuck away the cases—
(roars of laughter) ; and she stole me half a dozen of the
finest knives and forks that ever was put into mate ; but,
me Lord, the most bastely thing she done was washing for
two men without me consint, and wid me own soap and
starch—(laughter) ; and last of all she stole—
COMMISSIONEIL—For pity's sake stop, Daniel. She
must have been a capital jackall to provide so handsomely
for such a lion. Do you mean to say she actually stole all
these things, and that you received them ?
Defendant—Me resave them !—Glad would I be ;—but
she stole all of 'em from me, and in regard of that I contind
I don't owe her a brass fardin.

COMMISSIONER—Oh ! oh ! the things were taken from
your establishment. Pray, Sir, how do you get your living?
Defendant—There's a great number of rale gentlemin as-
sists me. I make a regular collection.—(Laughter.)
COMMISSIONER—A sort of rent, I suppose? Defendant
—Exactly so, my Lord.—(Laughter.)
COMMISSIONER—WeII, Sir, I must say begging seems to
be an excellent business ; and the only way we can decide
upon this knotty question, is, for you to .put a value on the
goods you say you have lost, and we will allow it as a
set-off.

After a long squabble between Daniel and his ex-hand-
maiden, it was decided that the rint-seeking " Daniel" of
Marylebone should hand over 10s., with all costs ; and he
immediately pulled out a bag of money and was about to
pay, but was informed that it was not required until Wed-
nesday next.

I shall pay it with considerable pleasure, Sir," said Dan,
and groped his way out of Court, followed by the termagant
plaintiff, who, dissatisfied with the amount awarded to her,
vowed vengeance upon Daniel the little ; and the l?eggarman
was very efficiently clapper-clawed before he was out of the
precints of the Court.

LORD PRovosT.—At the meetilig of the Edin-
burgh Council on Thursday, Mr. Spittal was unanimously
re-elected Lord Provost.

The present snow storm is unprecedented at this
season of the year, especially on the range of hills from
Liddlesdale across Teviothead to Eskdalemoor Pen, where
the fall has been so great that several of the farmers in that
range have already been obliged to have recourse to feeding
with hay.—Edinburgh Courant.

As Mr. Fry, of Chippenham, was shooting on Sa-
turday last, with a double barrelled gun, one of the barrels
burst; and considerably injured his right hand. The acci-
dent occurred in consequence of its having been loaded
some time previous.—Wilts Herald.

The Waterloo of Ipswich, Cloid'master, bound to
London, with flour and grain, from that port, was ran on
board by the brig William of Sunderland, on the 7th inst. ;
thereby, carrying away mainsail, fore stay, bowsprit, &c.,
which rendered it necessary to be towed into Harwich.
Mr. Wason, according to Saturday's Sqffolk Chro-
nicle, has sent a letter to his constituents, in which he says
he never contemplated otherwise than " being at his post
at the opening of Parliament, or at the hustiags in the event
of a dissolution."

LORD RECTORSHIP.—The Campbell party have
achieved a great triumph. They have successfully driven
Lord Lyndhurst and Mr. Colquhoun from the field, and
have forced their affrighted opponents into the forlorn hope
of wasting their votes on Sir Robert Peel. We say wasting
their votes, because there is not the slightest probability of
his being elected. The Churchmen dare not vote for the
man who was rejected from Oxford on account of the laxity
of his church principles ; the Whigs will not vote for a
Tory ; and those students who have the least regard for
common decency will not insult the name of theirUniver-
Sity by voting for a man who, two years ago, refused to be-
come a candidate for the rectorship, and who is opposed to
reform in every shape.—Glasgow Chronicle.

The Rev. Charles Boyton, to the great rage of the
Ultra/Orangemen of Ireland, has declared himself in favour
of the National Board of Education.

A Paris musical work concludes a memoir of Ma-
dame de Beriot, which has been compiled entirely from the
Musical World, with the following characteristic flourish :
Madame Malib' an terminated her engagements among
foreigners. She was about to return to us in all the force
of her admirable talent ; she was about to find in the midst
of her countrymen that genuine sentiment of enthusiasm, of
lively and sincere affection—exclusive with the people of
Paris—and which was her only hope."—Not one word of
which, either as regards herself or themselves, is true.—
Musical World. •

In consequence of the great rise of the price of
coals, it is the intention to re-open a coal-mine in Leicester,
and to strike a shaft in Northampton, where, from the ex-
periments made, they expect to find a productive field of
excellent coal.

It is mentioned in the Canadian papers that eleren
steam-boats were building on Lake Erie.
BEES.—The following extraordinary circumstance
cannot but be interesting to naturalists :—A. hive of bees,
belonging to Mr. J. C. Shaw, Derby-breck, and which are
kept in lateral boxes on Mr. Nutt's humane principle,
threw out a swarm on the 13th' October last, and which
were secured in a common cottage hive. After remaining
three weeks incapable of laying up any portion of nourish-
ment for the winter in consequence of the unusual early
severe weather, they returned to the mother hive, and
were re-admitted. This fact almost proves that these in-
teresting insects have reasoning faculties.—Liverpool Albion.
Very seldom has the announcement of the death of
a private individual possessed one-tenth part of the interest
which will be excited in every part of England, among the
friends of the Church, by the intelligence that on Sunday,
in the 77th year of his age, at King's College, Cambridge,
departed this life, and entered upon his glorious rest, the
Rev. Charles Simeon, Senior Fellow of that college.

LORD BYRON.--- " At thev
period of my exile in
England Lord Byron was at the school of Harrow, a vil-
lage about ten miles from London. He was a boy ; I was
young, and as unknown as he. I was destined to precede
him in the career of letters, and to remain in it after him.
He had been brought up on the heaths of Scotland, on the
sea-shore, as I had been on the heaths of Brittany, on the
sea-shore.. He was at first fond of the Bible and Ossian, as I
was fond of them. He sang in Nevvstead Abbey the recol-
lections of childhood, as I sang them in the Castle of Coln-
bourg. In my long solitary rambles in the neighbourhood
of London I several times passed through the village of
Harrow, without knowing what a genius it contained."—
Chateaubriand.; Sketches of English Literature.
Last evening an inquest was held at the Black
Horse public-house, May's-buildings, Bedfordbury, on the
body of Mr. Andrew Flockhart, a clock and watch-maker,
formerly of King-street, Covent-,garden, who hanged him-
self on the previous evening in his back kitchen. It ap-
peared that the deceased, who was between sixty and
seventy years of age, had of late had some misfortunes in
business, which preyed upon his mind, and he had lately
shown occasional aberrations of intellect. The Jury re-
turned a verdict of " Insanity."
The brief of the United Cathedrals of England
and Wales against the Bishops amounts, we understand, to
120 folios. It contains an analysis of Episcopal patronage
for 70 years. The object of the analysis is to show to the
Houses of Parliament that the Bishops themselves have
not been entirely innocent of that crime of nepotism for
which, as Ecclesiesticoal Commissioners, they have confis-
cated the patronage of the Chapters and conferred it on
themselves ; the nimblest and neatest transfer of property
and the most disinterested decision, in the opinion of readers
of ecclesiastical history, which has ever occurrEd in the an-
pals of the Church.-11forning Paper.

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SPIRIT OF•THB PUBLIC JOURNALS

It gives us great satisfaction to learn from'i--07- City'
Correspondent that the feverish apprehensigi
lately prevailed in the commercial world has be
' ceeded by an appearance of tranquil confidence. ite-TiC-p;k'.i../
Irish Banks have stood their ground ; and it may
assumed that the danger in the sister island is at an
end. The apparent illiberality in the conduct of the
Bank of Ireland with regard to notes of the Bank of
England has been satisfactorily accounted for by the
circumstance of those notes being no legal tender in
Irelaed, and consequently the possession of them
would not secure the Irish Bank against a demand for
gold. The Exchequer Bill Market is still heavy.
They closed yesterday at 6s. to 4s. discount for the old
Bills, and at ss. to 3s. discount for those at the im-
proved rate of interest. - The Manchester Guardian
of Saturday last contains an interesting extract from a
letter from a Bank Director to a gentleman in Man-
chester, on the subject of their intentions and wishes
with respect to accommodation.
" It is very gratifying," says that Journal. " to be quite
aware that the Directors of the Bank of England do not
see anything in the circumstances of the present times to
induce them to contract the accommodation they have
been in the habit of affording, in the discount of legitimate
commercial bills. We mentioned in our paper of Wed-
nesday, that a letter had been addressed, on the previous
Saturday, by one of the Directors of the Bank, to a gen-
tleman in Manchester, stating this fact ; and we are now
enabled to supply an extract from this letter, which will
place the matter beyond cavil. After some previous obser-
vations—which there is no occasion to quote—the writer
says—
" But Ido think it necessary to assure you that the
Directors of the Bank are, one and all, anxious to give
every possible facility to the nianu*turing and C01111)10,
cial classes at this moment ; and so far from any impedi-
ment to the circulation of bills, founded on real business,
being either promoted or desired by the Bank, it is their
wish to act with the utmost liberality in their discounts, and
in declaring this I beg you will distinctly understand that I
speak with authority, and am desirous that any use you can
make of this letter, with a view to the inspiring of confi-
dence among the trading classes of Manchester in gene-
ral, you will not scruple to do ; and it will afford me the
greatest possible satisfaction if the result of our cor-
respondence should be to check the sad effects which would
inevitably follow were the erroneous impression with refer-
ence to the intentions of the Bank of England to remain
uncontradicted. Let the houses of Manchester and Liver-
pool try the experiment, and I can assure them they will
find no dculties whatever in obtaining credit for their
paper, when it is based upon real, bona fide transactions.'
" This, we think, is quite as much as the Bank of Eng-
land can be expected, either to promise or to perform ; and
to us it is a highly gratifying communication, as clearly in-
dicating that the Bank, although the exportation of gold
and the imprudent proceedings of some of the joint stock
establishments have compelled them to raise the rate of
their discounts, are yet satisfied of the fundamental sound-
ness of the condition of the mercantile and manufacturing
interests. We trust, therefore, there need be little appre-
hension that, during the approaching winter, any consider-
able scarcity of employment will be added to the too likely
calamity of a high price of food."
With respect to the price of food, we have also the
satisfaction of being able to announce that the price -
at Mark-lane fell yesterday 3s. a quarter. However,
it would be premature to pronounce vet any decided
opinion with respect either to the extent of the defi-
ciency, or the means for supplying it.—Morn. Chron.
By intelligence from Dublin a day later than that
which appeared in our paper yesterday, it would appear
that the scuffle between the various " authorities,"
Whig-Radical and Papist, has been settled (after a
fashion), as follows :—Mr. O'Loghlen is to be the
Puisne Baron of the Exchequer : Mr. Scipio Fitz-
simon has surrenderad the fruits of the victory he had
already won, and declines being Accountant-General T.
With regard to the Puisne Baron, report states
that originally Mr. Attorney-General O'Loghlen did,
as we assumed yesterday, demand the contingent Chief
Barony of the Exchequer or Chief Justiceship of the
King's Bench, as the understood sequel and condition
of his accepting the seat left vacant by the now doubly
lamented Sir W. Smith ; that the learned gentleman
actually signified his acceptance of the Puisne Judge-
ship without waiting for the positive assurance from
Ministers of any future promotion to the higher office ;
that in consequence the patents were all ordered to be
made out, but that from the operation of some new
(it is easily guessed what) influence upon the mind of
the late Attorney-General, lie repented of his pledge
to become a Puisne Baron, without security for; any
thing more, and did his best, but too late, as it seems,
to back out of it ; that Lord Mulgrave put an end to
his coquetry by declaring that the patents of Attorney
and Solicitor General being in preparation, should be
completed out of hand in favour of Messrs. Richards
and Woulfe ; and that the late Attorney-General might
either act upon the arrangement to which lie had already
assented, and go upon the bench as Puisne Baron of
the Exchequer, or might go upon the shelf, as the
Right Hon. Michael O'Loghlen, and nothing in the
world more. Now mind, we state these proceedings as
reported to us ; we, of course, were not present at, nor
parties to, them. The narrative nevertheless, until con-
tradicted on good' authority, not the vague ipse dixit
authority of a mere out-dcor Radical gossip, but the
formal statement of some individual personally conver-
sant with the circumstances of the case—until then,
we repeat, the substance of the facts above related shall
have from us implicit credit. Nor do we think it wou'd
be fair to throw blame upon Lord Mulgrave or the
Whig Government for standing out against the preten-
sions of one of O'Connell's most servile instruments
and assiduous Privy Counsellors, to become a mortgagee
upon the Royal prerogative of appointing on some fu-
ture occasion the chief judicial functionary of one of
his Majesty's superior courts. It is true Lord Mulgrave
was obliged to bully a little, but he did so effectually, as
the result demonstrates, though in a direction opposite
to his usual course ; and before Mr. Richards, the be-
spattered of O'Connell's foul eulogy, has a chance of
jumping into the succession, thus snatched from the
O'Loghlen gripe, it is possible that a new order of
things may have arisen, and the Administration of
Ireland he placed in keeping more worthy of general
confidence and support from the friends of Church
and State, and of Great Britain. Respecting Mr.
Fitzsimon, it has been circulated that Lord Plunket
positively refused to swear him in as Accountant of
the Court of which the Learned Lord is President.
Chief Baron O'Grady, if we remember right, made a
similar experiment with an officer of his own court,
appointed by external and higher authority, but failed.
However, if the Dublin accounts be true, Mr.
Fitzsimon has fled the field, without showing much
pluck or bottom. The excuse alleged for 17iin is a
lame one, and more satisfactory, we should suppose, to
the feelings of Conservatives than of Repealers—namely,
that the registries of voters for the county of Dublin have
gone with such mortal force against the revolutionary
faction, as to make the trial of a new election an attempt
too desperate for the nerves of the agitator, or too costly
for the yet unprobed resources of the rent of 1836.
We perceive that one of the agitator's numerous
announcements to his seditious association on Thurs-
day last, was one relating to the " rebellion rent," so
named by Mr. O'Driscol. Now, if a man could fish
up by any known apparatus what lies in the bottom of
,O'Connell's heart at this moment, we little doubt that
it would be a feeling of bitter jealousy and annoyance
at the growth of this new contribution, so inconside-
rately set on foot at his own suggestion, some two or
three months ago. Unless the resources of the pau-
per peasantry, who arc always ready to swear that they
have not a halfpenny wherewith to pay their tithe—
unless, we say, those resources be quite inexhaustible,
it is obvious enough that what goes to " rebel-
lion rent must subtract something from what goes
cg for O'Connell's rent," and that in such case the
learned mendicant will have encouraged (what is not
usual with him) a system of plunder from which
he derives no individual profit. Doubtless there is a
story current that the impost levied by, or under the
name of, the old Roman " Catholic Association,"
somehow or other found its way into channels which
terminated in the estuary of a certain Kerry election ;
and if such a precedent be acted on in tne instance of
the " rebellion rent," we admit that it little imports to
the agitator whether the money now wrung from the
poor of Ireland bears the nickname of the O'Connell"
or " the rebellion" fund, the-destination of both being
the same. Much fresh mischief being promised by
Mr. Daniel O'Connell, in the shape of new contrivances
for disturbing the peace of society, we shall, with
what patience we are able, wait their advent, watch

heir progress, and, if practicable, alleviate or frustrate
their pernicious fruits.—Times.
'The mortifications to which the Anti-national Con-
servative faction seems destined, are not confined to
their defeats in the registration and municipal elec-
tions. An intrigue, deeply planned and carefully con-
cealed, has at length, after a protracted series of machi-
avelian manoeuvres, terminated in a signal failure, and
the backstairs influence to which the Tories have so
long clung with trembling hope, has received a blow
which every friend to his country devoutly hopes may
prove mortal. In order to make a matter, which we
suppose must hereafter be the subject of Parliamentary
investigation, perfectly intelligible, it is necessary to
refer our readers to some circumstances which occurred
immediately before the termination of the late Session
of Parliament. It will be remembered that at the time
just mentioned his Royal Highness the Duke of Cum-
berland conferred upon his grateful countrymen the.
highest favour in his power to bestow, by withdraw-
ing his august person to the more congenial realms
and that on this auspicious
of continental despotism,
occasion he was accompanied by the veteran ex-
whipper-in, the renowned Billy Holmes, the agency
of the latter adroit personage being thought ne-
cessary to keep up a confidential intercourse with
the heads of the party at home. Mr. Holmes, it
would seem, had made his arrangements for a winter's
sojourn at Berlin, when, greatly to his surprise and
discomfiture, be was overtaken at Hamburg by a per-
emptory order to return forthwith to England. The
practised disciplinarian in Tory tactics instantly obeyed,
and on his arrival in London found that his services

Government denounced, although he conducted him-
self with more sobriety and discretion than most
of his adherents. Still Sergeant Woulfe, another
Roman Catholic, who has just now been made So-
licitor-General, is not more indebted to the favourable
opinion of Mr. O'Connell than 'Mr. O'Loghlen was.
Why should he or his friends he ashamed of acknow-
ledging what he owes to his political benefactor ? Is it
derogating from the character of any Roman Catholic
Barrister to receive promotion through the instrumen-
tality of a man whom his Majesty's Ministers delight
to honour ? We are told that a Conservative Govern-
ment would have made the same appointment. If so,
its ingratitude would be at least as great as Mr.
O'Loghlen's merits, for there are not a few Conserva-
tive members of the Bar of Ireland whose talents and
learning are not inferior to those of the new Baron of
the Exchequer, for such we believe him to be notwith-
' standing the " coy, reluctant amorous delay " which
the promise of a Chief Judgship may probably over-
come. We see that Mr. O'Connell has taken up the
case, and not more assuredly will Lord Plunket feel
the effects of his enmity than Mr. O'Loghlen will ex-
perience the advantage of his patronizing favour. Since
writing the above we perceive from the communication
of our Dublin Correspondent that Mr. O'Loghlen has,
as we anticipated, accepted of his new appointment.—
Morning Herald.

Charles X., with the Duke de Bourdeaux, arrived
on the 21st October at Goritz, in Illyria, which residence
the Duke and Duchess of d'Angouleme had reached before
them. On their way to their new abode the King and his
nephew stopped at Salzburg, to visit the Princess de Beira
and the children of his Catholic Majesty, with whom a most
affectionate interview took place. At Goritz it has not
been possible for the Royal Familii of France to procure
apartments under the same roof. Charles X., and the
Duke de Bordeaux occupy the Grafenburg Chateau, and
the Duke and Duchess d'Angouleme, with her Royal High-
ness Mademoiselle, have taken up their residence at the
Strasoldo Hotel.
Thursday afternoon the numerous body of men
who have for some weeks past been employed, under the
direction of Mr. House, of Hammersmith, cleansing the
Serpentine River of mud, completed the undertaking in that
part of the river extending from Bayswater, through Ken-
sington Gardens, to the new stone bridge. Friday morn-
ing the dam which extends across the river on the east side
of bridge at Kensington Gardens was taken up, and
the pure water admitted into tho part cleansed. As a pre-
ventive and caution to bathers, by the command of his
Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, large posts are to ho
driven into those parts which have been discovered to be
dangerous, with painted notices affixed in large letters on
boards. _ _

were required to assist the progress of an intrigue
which had nothing less for its object than the removal
of the existing Administration, and the substitution of
a Tory Government during the Parliamentary recess.
It will not be expected that we could undertake to
bring to light all the ramifications of a plot shrouded
in the deepest mystery, and studiously concealed from
all but the immediate actors. We know that the name
of the highest personage in the kingdom was, upon
the occasion alluded to, most unceremoniously, and,
in all probability, most falsely, invoked, to aid the
object of the Tory conspirators ; and we have the best
reason for believing that the continental excursion of
Sir Robert Peel, and more particularly his visit to
Prince Talleyrand, were directly connected with the
proposed coup el' etat. Of this latter fact it would be
difficult to adduce direct proof, but we can mention
one circumstance which certainly carries prima facie
evidence of its probability. Bcfore the Right Honour-
able Baronet left England, an itinerary of his pro-
posed route was made- out, and the place where a mes-
senger could overtake him on any given day of his
absence accurately specified. We believe, but we are
not certain, that the same precaution was taken on
behalf of the brains-carrier of the hereditary wisdom,
the immaculate Lord Lyndhurst, also about to emi-
grate at that time. Fortunately for the tranquillit) of
England, and for the honour and popularity of its
Sovereign, the Tory faction had miscalculated their
means, and exaLTgerated their supposed influence, and
Sir Robert was permitted to complete his circuit undis-
turbed by the expected recal. In what quarter
the unlooked-for obstruction was discovered, we
do not pretend to say ; but as soon as the
fortress w as pronounced impregnable by assault,
the Tories, with characteristic perseverance, de-
termieed to proceed bv sap—in that tortuous and
undermining course they have persisted iu almost to
the present hour, and we defy contradiction when we
say that it was not until yesterday announced to the
trusted few " that the triumph of Conservative prin-
ciples must be deferred until the opening of the Par-
liamentary Session." N'Ve take the liberty of borrow-
ing the words of " a most private and confidential"
Tory dispatch, which it has been our good fortune to
see. We have said that we could not be supposed to
be in complete possession of all the ramifications of
what we have already designated by its proper title—a
backstairs intrigue. We are promised further eluci-
dations At present we content ourselves with re-
peating our perfect conviction of the accuracy of our
statements so far as they go, and of the reality and
failure of the conspiracy—on the latter event we con-
gratulate the country and the Sovereign. We appre-
hend the wiser portion of the Conservatives will see in
it a subject of congratulation also to themselves.—
Mora I nbr Advertiser.
We are heartily tired, and we think the public must
f the coquetting of Mr. O'Loghlen with
lie so, too, o
his good fortune in the shape of judicial preferment,
and the quantity of doubts, contradictions, mysteries,
and solutions which contribute to make the off-and-on
manoeuvres connected with this piece of Roman Ca-
tholic promotion ridiculously important. But there is
one solution of the doubts and difficulties which some
learned Pundit has discovered which beats all the rest,
and that is, that the King objected to the appointment,
because Mr. O'Loghlen is a Papist. The King is,
we need not say, as stanch and uncompromising a sup-
porter of Protestant principles as any of the illustrious
members of his family who have sat upon the throne
of England ; hut, since the Legislature has made Ro-
man Catholics equally eligible with Protestants to ju-
dicial and other appointments under the Crown, his
Majesty has no desire to make what is commonly
called tae Emancipation Act a dead letter, by regarding
it as a mere theoretic acknowledgment of Roman Ca-
tholic eligibility not intended to be reduced to practice.
It is true the Roman Catholic hierarchy and Clergy,
as well as the lay agitators, have grossly falsified the
promises which they made of rendering a contented
obedience to the laws, and cultivating peace and good
will with their Protestant brethren, in the event of the
" Catholic claims" being conceded. With them the
Wellington and Peel Bill of Emancipation was always
spoken of as the " tranquillising measure"—the
" healing measure,"—the " panacea for all the evils
of Ireland." To express an; doubt that it would hare
that pacifying and healing effect, exposed a Protestant
at that time to a charge of double heresy ; yet, from
the day almost on which the Bill received the Royal
assent until the present hour, the agitation which it was
to have allayed has gone on increasing in extent and
violence, so as to throw up a stronger barrierthan ever
to peaceful improvement and the progress of civilisation.
There is a class of prophets who are said to be skil-
ful in realising their own predictions. Now the clerical
and lay agitators of Ireland have taken pains to falsify
their own predictions. They prophecy peace, content-
ment, and obedience to the, laws in Ireland, as the
speedy and inevitable consequences of the passing of
the Emancipation Act. They have, since that Act was
passed, been more actively en ;aged than ever in sowing
discontent and strife, and the harvest of evil has been
commensurate with the unremitting labours of their
malignant industry. It was not until Roman Catholic
Emancipation had been obtained that the Romish
Bishops threw off altogether the mask of seeming mo-
deration, and openly and boldly came forward and had
their names enrolled among those of the lay agitators.
This was the practical answer to Lord Brougham's
declaration, when, advocating the Bill in the House of
Commons, he exclaimed,
with that peculiar energy of
manner which distinguishes him, that if the Bill passed,
he would answer for the tranquillity of Ireland with
his head. If he had been taken at his word, the
Noble and Learned Lord must have had as many
heads, at least, as the fabled hydra, to have kept one
upon his shoulders to this time—nor would he have
been any match for the modern hydra, whose potency
of mischief is in " the tail." There was a time, in-
deed, since the passing of the Emancipation
when Mr. O'Connell did endeavour to conciliate
not only the Protestants, but the Orangemen of
Ireland—a time when he addressed to them much
smooth and oily flattery of a gloziog tongue that
never mentions them now without distilling the most
venomous abuse. But why did he then use the lan-
guage of conciliation, and even flattery, to the Orange-
men of Ireland ? Because he wished them to join
him in demanding a " repeal of the Union." He
asked them in plain terms to assist him in that favou-
rite work, and when they indignantly refused to be ac-
complices in the dismemberment of the empire, his
professions of hollow alliance and friendship were con-
verted into the fiercest expressions of that rancorous
and implacable hostility with which he has ever since
pursued them. No objection has been made to Mr.
O'Loghlen because he is a Roman Catholic, nor has
any objection been taken on the stronger ground, that
he was a protege of the man whom Lord Grey's

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Mr. Banister made his first appearance as Dick, in
The Apprentice, at the Haymarket Theatre, August 27,
1778, and retired from the stage, at Drury-lane, June 1,
1815. lie was seventy-seven years old when he died.
Mrs. Banister, whose maiden name was Harper, survives
her husband, end is in her seventy-ninth year. She made
her first appearance at the Haymarket, as .Rosetta, in Love
iiz a Village, in 1778, and retired from the stage in Sep-
tember, 179'2.
On Saturday an inquest was held at Heston work-
house on the body of a man who had been found dead at
Hounslow, under rather mysterious circumstances. James
Morris, a lahouring man, residing on the farm of Mr. Ro-
bertson, at Scrabage, stated that on 'Wednesday evening be
heard cries of distress, and on proceeding to a ditch, ob-
served the deceased scrambling out of it, who complained
of having been severely hurt by a fall, and begged permis-
sion to lie down in a barn near the spot. Witness assisted
him thither, the deceased being unable to walk alone ; and
alter eeverine him over with some straw left him for the
night. On the following morning the deceased complained
of having had no sleep from a pain in his side. Deceased
also sad he must try and go out for some refreshment.
During the day witness saw nothing of him, but in the
evening he went to the barn, and gave him some broth,
the deceased stating that he bad had a mouthful of bread
and cheese. On Friday morning, on witness going to the
hero, he found the man was dead. Witness did not think
the deceased was had when he first saw him, or he would
have informed his master, who had given orders for no
person to sleep in the barn. An old razor, a tobacco-box,
some needles and buttons, were all the deceased had about
him. ; there was no money. There being no other witness,
the Jury proceeded to view the body. The injuries on
the side wore very severe, the skin in several placee being
much lacerated, and on the chest the skin and flesh, to a
considerable extent, were hanging loose. .There was aleo
a small bruise over the left eye. The Jury consulted to-
gether for a few minutes, and then returned a verdict that
" The deceased was found dead in a barn, with marks of
violence on his person, but bow those marks were occa-
sioned there was no evidence to prove."
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Saturday a female moving in the upper circles of
society at Remsgate, and possessed of conselerable wealth,
was detected in the market of that town pilfering turnips
from a poor person's stall ; and having been long suspected
of similar disgraceful acts, an immediate hue and cry arose
amongst the market people, which had well nigh brought
summary vengeance upon the head of the offender ; as it
was she had some difficulty in reaching her domicile in
safety, although protected by the police. We understand
that a Dutch cheese rolled accidentally into her muff a
short time since front a grocer's counter. The sum of 40s.
has been paid to prevent prosecution.—Kent Herald.
At the Court of Assize for the department of the
Landes, held at Mont de Maison, two men, named Saubion
and Lalanne, were tried for the murder of a farmer, named
Jean Sessi. One of the prisoners had a very venerable ap-
pearance, being nearly seventy years of age—the other was
a young man. It appeared that the deceased was a man
of a very easy disposition, and Lalanne, who knew that he
had a considerable sum of money in his possession, had ob-
tained very great influence over him. Lalanne, knowing
that Saubion entertained a great aversion to Sessi, easily
induced him to assist in the murder for a small sum of mo-
ney. Lalanne, upon some pretence or other, induced his
victim to go out with him about midnight, into a wood in the
neighbourhood, and Saubion followed, armed with a gun.
When they got to a retired spot, Sessi was fired at, and he
fell dead upon the spot. They then threw his body into
the Adour. Saubion was shortly afterwards taken into
custody, when he confessed his crime, and accused Lalanne
as his accomplice. Both prisoners were found guilty, and
sentenced to be guillotined. They heard the sentence with
the most perfect indifference.
PRACTICAL SCIENCE.—It appears that thirty-five
railway bills passed the Legislature during the last session,
of which five are merely for the alteration of lines already
authorised to be made, and thirty for new lines, the length
of which is 994 miles 1 furlong 90 yards, and the estimated
cost of formation 17,595,0001„ or at the rate of 17,7001.
per mile ; and the annual expense of working and mainte-
nance at 1,5711. per mile. The most expensive lines are
the London Grand Junction, the estimated cost of which
is 228,5711. per mile, and the expenses of working 15,2331.
per mile ; the London and Blackwell Commercial, the
estimated cost of which is 183,5881. per mile, and the cost
of working 8,523/. per mile ; and the Deptford Pier
Junction, the estimated cost of which is at the rate of'
134,866/. per mile, and the cost of working at the rate of
4,500/. per mile. Of the 30 railways above enumerated,
19 have no tunnels, and the remaining 11 hare 27, the
length of which is 11 miles 7 furlongs 35 yards, or upon
an average, 775 yards each. Of these tunnels five are
upon the Leeds and Derby, of the length of 3,208 yards ;
four upon the Northern and Eastern, of the length
of 1,770 yards ; four upon the South Eastern, of
the length of 5,874 yards ; and three upon the Ulster
line, of the length of 1,200 yards. The most ob-
jectionable curves are upon the Manchester and Leeds
line, of which there are 33 in a distance of 14 miles, and
most of them of small radius. The curves upon the other
lines are generally favourable. Of these 30 railways, 17
have no inclined planes to be worked by assistant engines,
either stationary or locomotive ; the remaining 13 have 24
planes to be so worked, of which three are upon the Man-
chester and Leeds line ; the first is four miles long, and the
second 4i miles, both of them with an inclination of 1 in
165 ; the third is 3 miles 7 furlongs in length, with an in-
clination of lin 130. The steepest inclined plane is upon
the Tremoutlia Railway, the length of which is 4 furlongs
131 yards, with an inclination of 1 in 9. The Newcastle
and North Shields Railway has a plane 400 yards long,
with an inclination of 1 in 15 yards 2-3ds. And the Merthyr
Tydvil and Cardiff has three short self-acting planes, with
inclinations of 1 in 18, 1 in 20, and 1 in 25 respectively.
'I" he Eastern Counties, the Dundee and Arbroath, and the
Sheffield and Rotherham lines have established the best
traffic cases ; the former showing a clear profit of 23? i per
cent, upon the capital employed, the next 20 per cent., and
the last 183; per cent. Of all the long lines yet projected,
the Eastern Counties is the cheapest, and shows the greatest
amount of traffic.—Railway Magazine.
theDlOtsh of DE E.—A heavy bankruptcy occurred here on
October, followed by half a dozen minor ones
in the town and neighbourhood, amounting in all to some
100,0001. in the course of a single week. Amongst these,
it is computed that there will be not less than 50,000/. of
substantial loss to the community. The shake of public
credit and general confidence greatly aggravates the loss.
In Kerriemuir and Forfar active young rnanufacturers have
j
failed, whose prospects in business werejust (venirs. We
arc happy to learn that there have been no material losses
in Perth, Newburgh, or the other towns connected in trade
with Dundee.—Edinburgh Courant.

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1836.