The Sun.
London, England, 1836-08-22 00:00:00

STiN, LONTDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1836.

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RESULTS-OF THE SESSION.

(From the Spectator.)
The results of the Session are row before us. The time for
considering calmly what has been gained or lost by the Legis-
lative proceedings of the last seven months has arrived. We
lave exakiined the votes of both Houses—those dry but truth-
telling records things done—with the view of getting at
the actual result of all the strife and talking with which the
country has been so long dinned. It is unsatisfactory beyond
the belief cf any person whose attention has rot been regularly
given to the progress of Parliamentary business. To put our
readers in possession. of the facts, we have drawn up a state-
ment, which will show the fate of the more important measures
and motions introduced into either House during the pastsession.
First come the 1311!3 having reference more especially to the
affairs of England and Wales.
ENGLISH BILLS.

STAFFORD BOROUGll.—lntroduced Feb. 9 by Mr. Divett—
Received by the Lords March 15—Rejected by the Lords

;c isx 'firm—lntroduced February 11 by Lord John
Russell—Received by the Lords June 28—Passed, by the

Lords August 8. •
McNicipm. CORE•ORATION ACT A I'.7ENDNIF.NT. —lntroduced Fe-
-1 ,bruary 11 by Sir John Campbell—Received by the Lords
March 24—Rejected by the Commons August 11.
VOTERS' REGISTRATION.—Introduced February 11 by Sir John
Campbell—Received by the Lord's August B—Allowed to

drop because pervertcd'by the Lerch..
LAW. OF LIBEL ANIENDMENT.--Introduced February 11 by Mr.
O'Connell—Allowed to drop by Mr. O'Connell.
PaisoNras' COUNSEL.—lntroduced February 12 by Mr.
Ewart—Received by the Lards April 12—Passed by the

Commons August 19.
REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, &C., AND MARRIAGES CF.LEBRA-
TION.—Introduced February 17 by Lord John Russell—
Received by the Lords June 30—Passed August 15.
CIVIL OrFicrs DECLARATION.—Introduced March 24 by
Alderman Wood—Received by the Lords August 12—Re-
jected by the Lords August 16.
PLuRALrriEs BlLL.—lntroduced April 12 by the Archbishop
of Canterbury—Passed by the Lords May 17—Withdrawn
inthe Commons August 12.
pont,E CORPORATION.—Introduced April 20 by Mr. Poulter
—Received by the Lords July 28—Rejected by the Lords

Aug. 1
Lorup's DAY BlLL—lntroduced April 21 by Sir Andrew
Agnew—Rejected by the Commons May 18.
ESTABLISHED Ciluacn.—lntroduced May 20 by Lord John

Russell—Received by the Lords July 26—Passed Auk. 11.
CHARITABLE TRUSTEES.—lntroduced June 7 by Mr. Vernon

Smith7Receire-d-bY the Lords Aug. I—Rejected by the

Lords Aug. 4.
Jr:NISH DISABILITIES.—Introduced June 14 by Mr. Spring
Rice—Received by the Lords Aug. 15—Rejected by the

Lords Aug. 19. -
STAMP DUTlES.—lntroduced June 22 by Mr. Spring Rice—
Received by the Lords July 26—Passed by the Lords

August 12.
IMPRISONMENT Ton DEBT.L-Introduced June 30 by Lord
Chancellor Cottenham--Rejected by the Lords July 11.
COUNTY ELECTIONS POLL BlLL.—lntroduced June 30 by
Lord John Russell—Received by tho Lords August 1—

Passed August 19.
CllSTOMS.—lntroduccd July 16 by Mr. P. Thomson—Re-
ceived by the Lords August 4—Passed by the Lords

August 10.
POST-OFFICE CONIMISSIONERS.—Introduced July 16 by. Mr.
Spring Rice—Received by the Lords August B—Rejected
by the Lords August 12.
Next in order come the
IRISH BILLS.

Poon RELlEF.—lntroduced Feb. 9, by Sir R. Musgrave—
Rejected by the Commons June 8.
Poon RELlEF.—lntroduced Feb. 15, by Mr. Poulett Scrope
—Rejected by the Commons June 8.
MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS.—Introduced February 16 by Mr.
O'Loghlen— Received by the Lords March 24—Rejected by

the Commons June 30.
IRISH CONSTABULARY.—Introduced Feb. 18 by Lord Mor-
peth—Received by the Lords March 24—Passed by the
Lords ?lay 10.
ROMAN CATHOLIC MARRlAGES.—lntroduced Feb. 26 by Mr.
Lynch—Received by the Lords May 13--Rejected by the
Lords Aug. 4.
IRISH CHURCH.—lntroduced April 29 by Lord Morpeth —Re-
ceived by the Lords July 18—Rejected by the Commons
Aug. 2.
Then the meagre list of the
SCOTCH BILLS.

EDINBURGH POOR-RATE.—lntroduced March 14 by Sir J.

Campbell—Received by the Lords May 30—Rejected by

the fords July 25. -
SCOTCH COURT OFlSESMON.—lntroduced March 30 by Mr. J.
A. Murray—Received by the Lords August I—Rejected

by the Lords August 9.
SCOTCH UNIVERSITIES.—Introduced June 6 by Lord Mel-
bourne—Withdrawn in the Lords August 2.
We close the list with the more celebrated
PRIVATE BILLS.

LONDON AND BRIGHTON RATIONAY. —lntroduced Feb. 12 by
Lord George Lennox—Received by the Lords June 30—
Rejected by the Lords Aug. 4.
MANCHESTER AND CHESHIRE RAlLWAY.—lntroduced Feb. 17

by Mr. Wilbraham—Received by the Lords June 21—
Rejected by the Lords July 25.
TRINITY HAanoun—lntroduced Feb. 25, by Sir A. Leith
Hay—Rejected by the Commons Aug. 8.
SOUTH DURHAM RAlLwAy.—lntroduced March 3, by Mr.
Bowes— Received by the Lords June 30—Rejected by the

Lords July 12.
LIVERPOOL Docxs.—lntroduced March 15, by Lord Sandon
—Rejected by the Common! June 24.
DUNDEE WATER WORKS.—lntroduced March 28, by Sir H.
Parnell—Received by the Lords June 20—Rejected by the
Lords July 19.

It will be 'observed, that though many of the Bills have been
formal/II rejected by the House of Commons, the Lords have
been the real Destructives ; and if we add the measures which
they mutilated with intent to destroy those which found their
last home in the House of Incurables, the account against the
latter will appear much more formidable. In point of fact,
though not of form, the Peers are chargeable with the loss of
all the undermentioned Bills :-
The Stafford Borough,
Municipal Corporation Amend-

merit,
Voters' Registration,

Civil Offices Declaration

Poole Corporation,

Charitable .Trustees,

Jewish Disabilities,

Irish Church,
Roman Catholic Marriages,
Edinburgh Poor-Rate,
Scotch Court of Session,
London and Brighton Rail-

way,
Manchester and Cheshire

Imprisonment for Debt,

Pos. :7- Office Commissioners,

Trio MuncipalCorporations,

Railway,
Trinity Harbour,
Dundee Water-works.

Neither is the whole mischief done by the Peers comprised
in the account' of rejected measures. They have damaged
Many, which the Commons have reluctantly accepted ; and
among- them the following :.___
The Prisoners' Counsel, Established Church,
Registration of Births, County Elections Poll.
Marriages Celebration,

The legislative annals of the country furnish no parallel to
this slaughter and mutilation of Bills sanctioned by the House
of COMMOTIS. The cause lies on the surface. Formerly the
Peers had little to do except to pass their own Bills, the as-
sembly styled the Representatives of the people being merely
the Lords' instruments. But now that, for the first time, an
elTrwt is made to carry a series of measures really and truly for
the people, the anti-national spirit and policy of the Peers is
transoarent. It is no longer denied by the Peers that they
regaM the House of Commons, and everything emanating
from it, with jealousy and distrust ; and the determination to
maintain the oligarchical principle of vesting superior power
in the minority is most offensively avowed by their chosen
leader. The loss of almost every one of the Bills in the
long catalogue above printed may be traced to the work-
ing of this policy. The Municipal Act Amendment Bill
gave the representatives of the majority in towns a control
over public property ; the Poole Corporation Bill punished
frauds in elections. by which the minority were enabled to
elect a majority of councillors ; the Imprisonment for Debt
Bill made landed propertv—the mainstay of an aristocracy—
liable to the payment of just debts ; the measures for reform-
ing the Irish Church and Corporations recognized -the claim
of the Irish millions to a share in funds now engrossed by the
Orange fraction of the nation ; and as to the Trinity Harbour,
Dundee Water-works, and Brighton Railway Bills (on the in-
trinsic merits of which we offer no opinion here, for the deci-
sion did not turn upon merits or demerits), they interfered
vtith the interests, alliances, and spites of certain Lords. Act-
ing on the principle we have
.attributed to the Peers on the
authority of their own repeated admissions, they could not
consistently do otherwise than reject all the measures they
have thrown out. Besides, their policy, as a party anxious for
place, has been to thwart and trample upon the House of Com-
mons—to demonstrate the inefficacy of the Whi„,o--Radical
union to procure practical benefits for the country. They have
succeeded—for the session ; whether for their own ultimate
good or evil remains for the future to tell. All depends on
the use which may be made of the lesson which the session has
read both to Ministers and people.

ALARMING FIR' .-A few minutes after 8 o'clock
Yesterday morning the neighbourhood of Brooke's Market and
Leather-lane, Holborn, presented a scene of the utmost con-
fusion in consequence of a fire breaking out in the house of
Mr. Davis, a milkman, No 3, Dorrington-street, Brooke's
Market. Information of the circumstance soon reached the
engine stations of the London Fire Establishment in Farring_
don-street and French Horn-yard, and after the lapse of a few
minutes, several of the fire brigade under the direction of Mr.
thoir foreman, arrived on the spot, when by their vigorous
exertions and a good supply of water, the fire was extinguished,
and confined to the floor in which it first commenced. Very
fortunately for Mr. Davis, whose circumstances would not
enable him to bear the loss the fire has occasioned, he had ef-
fected an insurance for sonic time in the Sun Fire Office, and
a gentleman connected with that establishment waited on Mr.
Davis yesterday, and liberally recompensed him for the extent
of damage
done to his property. How the fire originated is
not known,

MARCII OF EDUCATION.--In the learned city of
St. Andrews, the other week, a lady was rebuking her servant
for some fault or neglect of duty. All at once the lecture was
interrupted by the pert damsel exclaiming_...“ Stop, Mrs.
that is shocking to educated ears. If you are to scold me at
a!1, I beg you will do it grammatically."

(300 D OLD TIAIES.—One of the earliest provincial
newsp.apers in the southern part of the kingdom was printed
w
by a m
n named Mogridge, who used to insert the intelligence
from I"crkshire under the head " Foreign News."

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violent insurrection broke out on the Bth of August at Oporto.
In the beginning tite insurgents had the worse of it ; but there
is every reason to I.AlVve, from the contents of the letters,
that the struggle ira • renewed, or that the authorities gave
way, and that at the. present hour the Constitution of 1812 has
been proclaimed in that city. We are induced to think so
because a commission had been appointed by mutual agree-
ment between the insurgents and the authorities to proceed to
Lisbon and submit to the Queen, in energetic terms, the
grievances of the city. The deputation was about to start -at
the moment when the courier departed who has brought this
intelligence.
" The Constitution of 1812 was proclaimed at Chirlana, of
the Ist of August.
" On the same day the Constitution was proclaimed at Me-
dina—Sidonia.

" Juntas are everywhere organizing, and the example of
Cadiz has been followed in the principal towns of the south."

We have reason to believe that the above is un-
founded. Letters direct from Lisbon have been re-
ceived to the 11th instant, in which the state of Por-
tngal is re
presonted as perfectly tranquil. It is true
that fears were entertained of the influence of the
Spanish Constitutionalists upon the Liberals on the
frontier ; but it was not apprehended that the public
peace was liable to be seriously disturbed in any part
of the kingdom. The writers of the letters to which
we refer speak of the elections at Oporto, and through-
out the kingdom, as having been conducted in a very
decorous manner. The Cortes were to have assembled
on the 15th of August, but, by a Royal Decree, the
meeting of the legislative body is now postponed till
the 11th of September. This certainly does not look
as if the Government entertained fears respecting the
spread of dissatisfaction among the people.

Mr. HUME'S speech in the House of Commons on
Saturday, which was unfortunately abridged by the
prorogation of Parliament, is deserving of the careful
perusal of every honest reformer in the united king-
dom. The Honourable Member for 'Middlesex has
sounded the tocsin for a reform in the House of Lords,
and the country will respond to the call in a voice of
thunder. "On behalf of the people of England,"
said the Honourable Gentleman, " we, the represen-
tatives of the people, must have reform in the House
of Lords." This declaration was received with loud
cheers by the House—a proof of even the in-door po-
pularity of such a measure. After commenting upon
the conduct of the Peers with respect to the Irish
Tithes' Bills, the Irish Corporation Bill, the Registra-
tion of Voters' Bill, the Post-office Reform Bill, and
the Bill for the Reform of the Court of Chancery, the
Honourable Gentleman proceeded to repel with indig-
nant scorn the libellous imputations attempted to be cast
upon the liberal party in that House by the great Tory
leader in the House of Lords. He maintained that
the Commons had done their duty, but that they were
thwarted and opposed on all occasions by the Mem-
bers of the Upper House. " What," continued the
Hon. Gentleman, " were Peers created for ?—the pub-
lic good ; and if they set themselves against everything
that is for the public good, the question will be—
whether they shall or shall not bepermitted to exist? I
do not see why old and antiquated notions should prevent
a reform in the House of Lords. The boroughs were as
old as the Peers ; yet they have been swept away. The
Corporations were as old as the Peers ; yet they have
been reformed. 'Why, therefore, not reform or sweep
away altogether the House of Peels ?—(Great cheer-
ing.) Changes have taken place in the Monarchy—
changes have taken place in the House of Commons
—and why should not changes take place in the House
of Lords ?—(Great cheering.) It is clear from the
course the Lords have pursued, that the question is,
whether the Aristocracy or the people should prevail?
—(Great cheering.)" These words will sink deep
into the public mind. They will produce an effect
which the Peers little contemplated when they sup-
ported Lord LYNDHURST in his insane career towards
the brink of a revolution. Either the House of Lords
will sanction a reform of itself, so as to make it respon-
sible to the country for its proceedings, or the people
will abolish it altogether. The nation will not suffer
itself to be longer mocked and insulted by a body of
men, who neither know its wants, nor respect its
opinions.

The KING'S Speech has given great dissatisfaction
to the Tories. Because it contains no lies, it is not at
all to the taste of that impudent and unprincipled fac-
tion. Because it is simple and unpretending in its
style, boasting of no triumphs which have not been
achieved, and therefore proving, beyond a doubt, its
anti-Tory paternity, a demure and spectacled organ of
the LYNDHURST clique inflicts upon its readers this
morning two mortal columns of anile twaddle, to
prove—what ? that Ministers have not been able
to accomplish all that they wished ! The object
of this unconscionable quantity of drivel is to
draw a comparison between the Royal Speech of
Saturday, and that delivered at the opening of the
Session, the driveller himself—or rather herself—
not seeming to be aware, all the while, that the
more clearly the point aimed at is made out, the
greater is the condemnation of the- Tory party. For
why is it, we ask, that so little has been done ?
Whence comes it to pass that his MAJESTY'S Minis-
ters have not effected all the Reforms which they had
planned and announced ? From no fault of theirs,
the country will reply with one voice. Had all the
measures which they have introduced into Parliament,
or supported when introduced by others, been allowed
to pass, we may safely assert that we should not have
seen the organs of Toryism charging the Government
with, having done too little.
But the people are not to be gulled by the dis-
ingenuous tricks of this disappointed and desperate
crew. The people have only to look at the con-
duct of that assembly, which now, that Parliament
has been prorogued, we may venture to call, in regard
to its organization, the greatest curse that ever afflicted
a nation—the people, we say, have only to look to
the conduct of the House of Lords for the solution
of the question, why Reform has not made greater pro-
gress during the late Session of Parliament ?
The policy of the Lords has been either to defeat,
or to cripple every measure passed by the Commons.
They have pursued this obstructive policy with more
determination and more perseverance than ever they
did before ; having put themselves under the guidance
of a man bankrupt in fortune, in character, in every-
thing, in short, which is necessary to constitute true
respectability.

We have received the whole of the Paris Journals
of Friday and Saturday. Copious extracts from them
will be found in another part of The Sun, so that it
is quite unnecessary here to recapitulate their contents.
We have advices from Bayonne to the 17th instant.
On the 14th General EVANS proceeded to Bayonne,
for the purpose of having an interview with General
HA lIISPE ; but the latter was absent, and the gallant
Member for Westminster returned to San Sebastian.
The condition of the Legion is deplorable.
Annexed are extracts from the Evening Journals of
Saturday, received this morning :

PARI9, AUG. 12.—The Duke of Nemours has set out fur
Compiegne.
Marshal Clausel is certainly to embark at Port Vendres, on
board the Styx, on the 20th or 22d of this month.

It is announced that several regiments are to quit the capital
in a few days. At the moment of their departure some of
these regiments will have been hardly nine or ten months at
Paris. It is added that the Moniteur will shortly publish a
decision of the Minister of War, to the effect that henceforth
a reniment shall not remain in a garrison more than one year.
We have not forgotten that on a certain occasion the Bourbons
of the elder branch had recourse to a measure exactly similar.
We have received the Barcelona Journals of the 6th, 7th,
Bth, and 9th. On the Bth, in the evening, Barcelona still ac-
knowledged the authority of the Queen.—Journal du Corn.
General Harispo was at St. Jean de Luz when General

Evans came to Bayonne : it seems that General Evans wished
to proceed to St. Jean de Luz to see the French General, but
his health would not permit him.
A letter from Bayonne says, " The soldiers enlisted for
Spain, who arc at Pau and in the environs, are about 4,300
in number. They have almost all voluntered from the ranks
of the active army. The Spanish commissariat at Bayonne
had already provided them with uniforms.
" Several battalions were completely clothed and equipped.
All was ready, even the artillery, to pass the frontier, when
orders came to remain where they are. Thus there are only
600 men, those who crossed the frontier a week ago, who go
to reinforce the Foreign' Legion.
" In consequence of the new arrangement of the Govern-
ment all these men are in a very critical situation ; the Spanish
commissariat having ceased to give the provisions and pay
hitherto received every day. The fate of these men so en-
listed, especially of those who had come from their own homes,
is said to cause the Government embarrassment."-Messayer,
Aug. 20.
FRENCH FUNDS.-PARTS, Aueusr 19.
17,ve per Cents., 10q.
Four per Cents., 1011. 25c.
Three per Omits. 701 95c. 150 f.
Bank Actions, 2,2714:
ltente de Naples 1001. 25c 29c,
en Roman Five l:Cents_ 10214.
Spanish Actives, 30 ':'9s 30.
Spanish Differes, 13%.
Spanish Passives, 1414 9 01,4,%
Belgian I.oan, Five per Cents, 10314„
Portuguese Three per Cents. 45.
Haytian Loan, 335 f. 330 f. IiSH. 50c.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25E 25e.; money, -1. -c.
:Three months, paper, 251'. lie. ; money, -f. -c.
-four., ituthenligme.
FRENCH FUNDS.-PAnts, AUGUST 20.
Five per Cents., 103 f 70c. 65c.
Four per Cents., 101 f. 23c.
Three per Cents., 791. 95c. 80c.
Bank Actions, 2,270,E 25c.
Ciente de Naples, 100 t. 20c. 10c. sc.
Spanish Actives, 31 30%.
Spanish Passives. 9% 9 9,i.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents., 10314.
Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents, 44%
Haytian Loan, 3851.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25c. 224 c.; money, 2.51. 2.0 c.
Three months, paper, 251. 7y.c. ; money, 25f. Sc.
-; 'ours .lutheuti2ue.

BOURSP, QUARTF.II TO Foua.—The Rentes opened at 80r.,
and have improved to 80f. 15c. Upon this, Spanish Actives
have fluctuated between 30 and 30+, with an immense deal of
business doing.
LAST PRICES.—Five per Cents., 100 f. 35e. ; Three
per Cents., 80f. sc. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, —; Three
per Cents. Spanish, —; Cortes, —; Coupons, Gueb-
hards, —; Differes, 10k ; New Loan, —; Actives, 30k ; Pas-
sives, 9K ; Ducats, 100 35 ; Romans. —; Pedros, —;
Belgians, 103+ ; Dutch, —f. —c. ; thytians, 385 f. ;
Miguels, —; Brabant Bank, —; Belgian Bank, 25 ; Con-
tinuation, —c. ; New Differes, —; Five per Cent. Verpe-
tuelles, —; Royal Loan, —.

DUTCH FUNDS—ANrrmitsam, Atm. 19.
Money. Bills.
Actual Debt, 214 per Cent. 55% stl
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
A !mat Syndic, .114 per cent 97 98
Ditto, ditto, 314 per cent gou fo'?.}}'Commercial Company, 4'', per cent 18214 181%,
Ditto (1e32 and 183!1) 5 per cent.
Loan 18311, 4 per cent.
kxchange on London, One month l2 t, 71A
Two months
—Dutch Papers. Aug. 20.
BELGIAN I UNDS—Baussacs, Atm. 19.
Actual Debt, 214 per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. lOl%
Loan of City, 1832.4 per Cent lOOl4
Loan of Thirty Millions 94y4
Society of Commerce, 41, per Cent 14214
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 126
.—Brussels Papers, Aug. 20.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Ana. 12.
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cents.
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares 1358
—Allgemeine Zeitung, Aug. 17.

We direct attention to a letter from Devizes, on the
irresponsibility of the House of Lords. Our corre-
spondent's suggestion will not be lost sight of. We
have received several other letters from correspondents
in various parts of the country, evincing the strongest
opposition to the longer irresponsibility of our
hereditary Senators. Thanks to the Honourable
Member for Middlesex, we shall often have
occasion to refer to this subject. Our read-
ers will also find in another part of The Sun an
article from our weekly Contemporary, the Spectator,
enumerating the bills burked by the Lords since the
opening of the last session. It will be perused with
interest.

Claremont, it is expected, will be tenanted by their
Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent and the Heiress Pre-
sumptive during the winter. Sir John Conroy has taken a
mansion at Esher for a twelvemonth in order to be near Clare-
mont during their Royal Highnesses' sojourn there.
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FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RlVER.—Saturday
morning, between the hours of ten and eleven, two unfortunate
individuals, sons of a tradesman residing in Lambeth-walk, of
the name of Washington, were rowing in a boat between Vaux-
hall and Westminster Bridges, when, by some mismanagement,
the boat capsized, and the two youths were immersed in the
Thames. Several watermen immediately put off in boats, but
unfortunately too late. The bodies have not been found.
His loyal Highness the Duke of Sussex arrived at
Southwick Park, the seat of T. Thistlethwaite, Esq., on Mon-
day last, in good health, and enjoys his eyesight in a manner
better than could have been expected. In coming over Butser-
hill, the horses of his Royal Highness's carriage frightened a
horse in a gig, which backing against his carriage was upset,
and a lady in it was much hurt; she is, however, recovering,
having been conveyed to Petcrsield by Lord John Churchill,
at his Royal Highness's order, for medical assistance.—Hamp-
shire Telegraph. . . . .

The Duke, Duchess, Prince George, and the Prin-
cess Augusta of Cambridge, the Landgravine of Hesse Hom-
berg, and the Duchess of Gloucester, arrived at Frankfort on
the 15th inst. —Galignani.
BRUSSELS, AUGUST 19.—1 f we may believe the
Emancipation, Baron Evain, after quitting the office of Minister
of War, will, nevertheless, remain in the service of Belgium.
We are curious to learn what kind of employment will be given
to this personage. —Courrier Beige.
AUGSBURG, AUGUST 16.—Our city has just sus-
tained a great loss by the generally revered Bishop Ignaz Von
Riegg, after long and severe suffering, which he bore with ad-
mirable fortitude and Christian resignation.
DIVISION AMONG THE PUBLICANS.—Saturday
another public meeting of the Licensed Victuallers of the
metropolis was held for the purpose of taking into considera-
tion business of considerable importance connected with the
trade and the public. The Chairman, on taking his seat, ob-
served, he regretted exceedingly that many'of the gin-palace
proprietors who, at preceding public meetings, had held up
their bands in support of the resolutions agreed to the effect
that the public should be charged 33-d. per pot for porter
served in customers' pots, and not consumed in the vender's
house, and 4d. when supplied in the vender's pots, had stulti-
fied those proceedings by charging their customers only 3d.
per pot. In consequence of this procedure many of the pub-
licans had been compelled, for self-protection, to charge for
their porter the same price as the recusant gin-palace keepers.
There were, however, some honourable exceptions, who had
made a spirited determination to charge the increased price,
whatever the consequences. In the parish of St. Pancrss,
the Chairman of the Licensed Victuallers' District Pro-
tection Committee, who keeps several gin-shops, and
had presided at the meetings_ held at the. Wheatsheaf,
Itathbone-place, Tottenham Court-road, was one of the
first to break faith with that Conamitteo by charginr,
the increased price. Several of the gin-shop keepers of
Tottenham-court-road immediately followed his example, and
there was now to be found the anomaly in all the metropolitan
districts of one public-house underselling another without ob.
taining a reasonable remunerating profit. Such a state of
things, such a division between licensed victuallers generally,
could not be otherwise than deplorable to the trade and preju-
dicial to the public. It was now for the meeting to express its
sentiments upon the subject that had convened it together,
and he should leave the consideration of the question in its
hands. Several persons then addressed the meeting in favour
of, and in opposition to, the resolutions of the former meeting,
of enhancing the price of porter ; but, upon a show of hands
being taken, it was found that two-thirds of the publicans pre-
sent were anxious that the price of porter should remain at the
former unincreased price ; and they declared their intention
of charging it accordingly. This announcement was received
with immense cheering, mingled with shouts of disapprobation.
Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, after which several
Gentlemen formed themselves into a Standing Committee to
watch the interests of the trade.
On Monday evening, about ten o'clock, a most
alarming fire broke out on the premises of Thomas Hassell,
Esq., at Atkcnden farm, near Greenhithe ; engines from
Dartford and Gravesend were on the spot, but the flames had
gained so rapidly on the buildings, which were of timber and
thatch, that the whole were in one blaze. The old farm now
converted into cottages is the only part saved. Two large
barns full of old corn, two large wheat stacks, carts, ploughs,
stables, lodges, timber, and all the agricultural implements,
are destroyed. One of the men going to bed first discovered
the fire, and alarmed all the inmates of the cottage near, and
by a miracle all the horses were saved just as the stable caught
fire. Three valuable dogs and several hogs were consumed,
and about 150 fowls—most of the waggons being in the field
at harvest carrying, were preserved. The farm-yard is situate
in a sort of natural amphitheatre (or at the bottom of a large
bowl), the sides of which were covered by hundreds of specta.
tators, and about 12 o'clock, when the fire was at its height,
it presented one of the most awful and sublime scenes that
was ever witnessed in the neighbourhood. At first it was sup.
posed to be the work of an incendiary, Mr. Hastell being one
of the Guardians of the Dartford Union, but as he is gene-
rally respected by all his workmen and neighbours, there can
be no reason to suspect that to be the case. The loss will
amount to upwards of one thousand pounds.
The church will not repair her own places of wor-
ship, find her own bells, organs, surplices, &c. She will not
light the edifice where the righteous God is worshipped, nor
find fire for the vestries where the sacred ornaments of the
priests are leapt, &c., because she has only five millions of
pounds coming in annually. She can pay to archbishops,
bishops, archdeacons, prebends, deans, chanters, choristers,
sinecure rectors, and non• resident priests, two or three millions
yearly, and yet is determined, if the parliament will but help
her, to remain an eternal pauper on the public.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Sergeant ARABIN.)
Frances Lockwood, who was indicted for stealing, on the
Ist of August, from her mother a gown and quilt, value five
shillings, and a book, the property of John Mattingly, pleaded
Guilty.