The Sun.
London, England, 1836-10-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1536.

Wednesday last. Four more were seized in the at-
tempt by the keepers ; two of them being desperately
wounded in crossing the ramparts, by falling upon
iron spikes. Of the thirteen, five have been already
re-taken.

The Journal du Commerce states that Lord G tz AN-
viLLE, our Ambassador at Paris, has interested him-
self to obtain
CS at HAM. Prince PoLIGN:; is to be
the release of the two remainin2
1
imerated) on condition that 'n quits France and go
into perpetual exile. M. DE GUERNON RANVILLE,
his fellow-prisoner, has consented to implore the cle-
mency of the KING to be allowed to reinain on his
estates, on his parole. The correctness of this state-
ment is doubted by some of the other French Journals.
The Journal des De6ats announces the departure
of the DuketE NEMOURS for Africa ; in conformity
with the will of the KING, that his Royal Highness
should join the expedition against Constantino..
The same organ of the Doctrinaires declares that this
arrangement is equally honourable to the valour of the
Prince, the wisdom of the Government, and the
parental fondness of the KING. The expedition to
Constantina (it adds) is one of those rare opportu-
nities which youth, patriotism, and courage are so
eager to seize, and that there is not a single officer in
the French army who would not gladly accompany the
illustrious Duke to the African soil. This is over-
, shooting the mark. The bravery of the French officers
and -army is unquestionable ; but a large proportion of
both would prefer garrison duty at home, to hostilities
with ABD-EL KADER. Besides, there are French
officers who doubt much whether France will be a
gainer by such expeditions, even if successful, of
which there is yet no moral certainty.
Of the other important topics dwelt upon in these
Journals—namely, the Swiss and Spanish questions—
a proper regard is had in our extracts from, and com-
. ments upon them.

The advices received direct from Madrid up to one
o'clock this day, are not of a later date than those pub-
lished on Saturday. The Madrid Gazette of the 15th
fails either to confirm or to explain the account of the
complete defeat of GomEz, published in a second
edition of the Eco of the same date, except by
the testimony of a coach-guard who witnessed
the battle, and who further affirmed that Ge-
neral ESPINOSA had entered Cordova at the head
of a brilliant column. It appears that the Carlists
had succeeded in stirring up several of the small
towns in the vicinity of Cordova to declare in
favour of the Pretender; and that even in Seville
the seeds of a Royalist insurrection were only pre-
vented from taking dangerous root by the discovery,
trial, and execution of the principal conspirator and
three of his accomplices. During the eight days Go-
MEZ was in possession of Cordova, ALAix with
his division was at Jaen, almost within sight
of the enemy. His inaction was the result, as is re-
ported, of his inability to cope with the Carlists single
handed, where he could only attack them at such a
disadvantage. The opportunity for him to signalize
himself is supposed to have occurred on the 12th, when
GOMEz took the highroad to Malaga, leaving CA-
BRERA to march against Granada. Then was fought
the battle of which so much has been reported, but of
the details of which we as yet know nothing.

While upon the subject of Spanish affairs, we may
as well observe that a correspondent, very well known
to us, has taken the trouble to inform us, that in
charging some of the Spanish Generals with "treachery
or inefficiency" a few days since, we did so " without
one 'jot of reason." We should be happy indeed to
learn that upon this point our correspondent was
-better informed than we are ourselves. 'We can
assure him, that were such the case we would not
hesitate a moment to acknowledge ourselves mistaken ;
but a regard for truth, rather than a desire to maintain
the character of consistency, obliges us to tell him that
his experience of " a quarter of a century" serves him
but indifferently upon this occasion. There is hardly
an incident of the war of Spain during the two last
years which does not go to prove the total incapacity
or treachery of the QUEEN'S Generals. Look for in-
stance at the first expedition of GOMEZ into the As-
turias. ESPARTERO at the head of an immense co-
lumn followed the rebels at the distance of a day's
journey for weeks together, and yet failed to come up
with them, though they sacked every village in their
route, and were encumbered with heavy baggage.
When ALAIX was appointed to succeed ESPARTERO,
the QUEEN'S troops, by one skilful manoeuvre, were at
once brought in front of the enemy. Was it not the
incapacity of the General that prevented this movement
from being made earlier ? Most certainly it was. But
we have not space at present to enter into a contro-
versy upon this subject. Our correspondent need only
refer to a file of the Madrid Gazette for the last two
years, for the most ample proofs of the incapacity of
most of the Generals engaged against Don CARLOS.

Brussels, Dutch, and German Papers, have been
received. Extracts from them will be found in another
part of The Sun.

Nothing definite is yet known respecting the set-
tlement of the Swiss question, beyond the certainty
that the final arrangement will be amicable. For a
report of the proceedings of the Diet, on the first day
of its sitting, we refer to our extracts under the head
Foreign Intelligence.

A public dinner—some account of which will be
found in another part of to-day's Sun—was given on
Friday last to Lord MINTo by about 300 Reformers
of Hawick. 'We have always been admirers of his
Lordship's public character ; for he is a bold, honest,
straight-forward man, and these qualities are conspicu-
ous in his speech at Hawick. He is moreover a
"good hater," and expresses his opinions of the Tories
with a downright energy that would have extorted the
respect even of Dr. JOHNSON. " Our opponents," says
Lord MrsTo, " with many fair words sought to win
your confidence and support, as the friends of Reform.
Measures and not men was the cry of their partisans,
who fairly outbid us in large professions of liberality,
for they who do not intend to pay can afford to bid
high prices ! And here let me appeal to any unbiassed
judgment, which party most justly claims the title of
Conservative—whether it be we, who, by enlarging
and fortifying the basis on which they rest, give sta-
bility to all those institutions which are inseparably
bound up with the Constitution; or those who reject-
ing its essence, and the pure principles on which it is
founded, cling only to the blemishes and defects which
time and change of circumstances have produced, and ac-
knowledge the Constitution only in its corruptions and
anomalies." Inthe
these few pregnant words we have the cha-
racter of Conservatism hit off to the life. It does in-
deed recognize
" Constitution only in its corrup-
tions," and clings to
the
those corruptions with all the te-
to the mouldering ruin. In
the course ofthe
evening
nacity of the ivy
a gentleman named
AITKIN proposed
health of Lord BROUGHAM
—the mention of whose name was received with
enthusiastic applause by the Meeting, as must al-
ways be the case in an assembly of gentlemen
whose minds have not been warped and tainted by
party prejudice. We have always held but one opinion
of Lord BROUGHAM, and that opinion we have ever
boldly expressed whenever occasion demanded. We think
he is unquestionably the
him one of the sincerest Os
ablest) Reformers of the day ; and have no doubt that
throughout the next Session he will be found fighting
zealously by the side of Ministers. Of late the Tories,
by dint of flattery, have endeavoured to enlist him in

their cause. But his Lordship is not a matt to be so
wheedled. He " heeds not the song of the charmer,
charm he never so wisely)" but will piirsbe the Same
manly course that he has always hithalb pursued. He
knows the Tories well, better, it would gem? than fly--
I
know him.

Wl,-

Mr. Hippy, says the author of " Night-
mare Abbey," was in low spirits, he always went to
dinner. Acting upon their prototype's hint, the Con-
servative Messrs. HIPPY. apply the same remedy to the
same disorder. They arc disconsolate, and therefore
they dine. The idea is an ingenious one ; though, if
we may judge from the unremitting perseverance with
which, day by day, it is followed up, it has not, as
yet, answered its end. Notwithstanding the frequency
of their public dinners, the Tories seem to be just as
miserable as ever. Anything more deplorable than
their speeches on these occasions, is not to be met
with in the voluminous annals of hypochondriasm.
They are spleen and melancholy personified. They
see everything " through a glass darkly," and can re-
cognise no honesty—no talent—no disinterestedness—
without the pale of their own faction. Their creed, in
this respect, is remarkable for its Athanasian zeal and
perspicuity. They do not equivocate, or beat about
the bush—not they ; they tell you frankly and boldly
—would that they were as candid on all other matters
—that political worth is to be found only in Toryism,
and that whoso dissents from this, is a political heretic,
fit only to be damned. They cannot even bring them-
selves to drink the " freedom of the Press," acknow-
ledging but one " Press," namely, that which wears
their own livery and echoes their own sentiments. To such
an extent is this besotted, purblind bigotry carried, that
even the fair sex cannot escape its reprobation ; for we
find, on looking to a report of a North Lancashire
Conservative dinner, which was swallowed—and we
conscientiously hope, digested—on Thursday last at
Preston, that the President gave among his earliest
toasts, the " Conservative Lancashire Witches," thus
virtually affixing the seal of Tory condemation on all
those Lancashire ladies who may happen to have Re-
formers for their husbands ! Shame on such brutal
bigotry ! Has baffled ambition so soured and bewil-
dered the Conservatives that they have actually for-
gotten that they are gentlemen? We imagined, till
now, that they always piqued themselves on their su-
perior refinement of mind and manner ; but after this
specimen of their delicacy, we shall not hesitate to set
them down as a mere vulgar, noisy, factious mob. But
the truth is, their brains are fairly crazed with disap-
pointment, and of men in such a condition it would
be cruel, perhaps, to form so harsh a judgment.
Will it be credited, the Tories are now every where
crying out that the country has misunderstood them ?
That they are, and always have been, the sincerest
friends to Reform ! At the North Lancashire feed they
dwelt with marked emphasis on this amiable feature
in their political constitution ; but as it was late
in the evening when they thus expatiated, the
hallucination may be at once accounted for. The
Noble President of this entertainment—he, we mean,
who, disliking the cacophonous appellatives of
BOOTIA WI LB RA HAM, exchanged them for the more
mellifluous one of SK ELM ERSDALE—after praising
Church and State at most wearisome length, observed,
" there had been a foul and unnatural conspi-
racy to overset the Established Church." The
Noble Lord is right. There has been, nay, there still
is—a vile conspiracy to overthrow this Establishment;
but where are the conspirators to be looked for? Among
the Ministerial ranks ? Certainly not. They are to
be found in the bosom of Mother Church herself—
in the writs of rebellion, the Exchequer processes,
the tithe campaigns and massacres, in use among
the Irish Protestant clergy. These men are the
true conspirators against the Church. When one
Irish parson loaded his blunderbuss the other day with
his own apostolic hands ; and another bagged six or
or eight brace of tithe recusants last shooting
season at Rathcormac, doubtless this ghostly
couple imagined they were befriending the interests of
Mother Church ; instead of which they were bringing,
down the poor old lady at a long shot. The Re-
formers would heal the wounds thus inflicted on
her by her own children, but the Conservative
conspirators are resolved they shall not. They have
sworn to be her death, and they will do their best
to keep their word. A Mr. WILKINs, we see, held
forth at this Lancashire feed. Now why will Mr.
WILKINs essay the oratorical ? Why not bear in
mind the old adage " a still tongue maketh a wise
head," and maintain a uniform taciturnity ? It
is melancholy to see a gentleman to whom nature
has denied even the ordinary understanding of
a Thersites, aspire to the eloquence of a Ulysses.
Mr. WILKINs is no orator, though he is far from an
indifferent brawler. He abuses those who may
happen to differ with him in a style and with
an emphasis that a Whitechapel butcher might
envy. His expressions are redolent of Wapping,
and of course, therefore, every way worthy of an assembly
who, forgetting that female worth and beauty are of no
faction, belonging neither to Whig, Tory, nor Radical,
refused to acknowledge the claims to respect of every
Lancashire lady but such as was Conservative in her
immediate connections, and would damn Venus and
Minerva too could it be proved that they also were
Reformers. We have left ourselves little room to
speak about the Conservative feed in East Worcester-
shire, which took place last week ; but when we as-
sure our readers that the different speakers were so
pushed for matter, that they were reduced to the me-
lancholy necessity of praising the Lords, wholesale and
in detail, they will doubtless feel grateful for our for-
bearance. Of a verity, these Tory gatherings are me-
lancholy affairs, and serve no other purpose that we
can discover, than to exemplify the truth of the pro-
verb, that " one fool makes many." A Skelmersdale
—thank Heaven, we are called upon to write, not to
pronounce this trissyllable—creates a Wilkins ; a
Wilkins manufactures a Patten ; and thus folly is pro-
pagated ! Had Pope lived in these days, Skelmers-
dale would have been the " Cibber," and Wilkins the
" Mother Osborne "of the " Dunciad." But no, we
mistake ; the latter would never have obtained such
high preferment. At best, he would have been but
the " Ralph" of that immortal satire, and dismissed in
two contemptuous lines, as follows :
" Silence, ye wolves, while Ralph to Cynthia howls,
Making night hideous ; answer him, ye owls 1"

On Tuesday afternoon, as a man and boy, servants
of Mr. Asketh, of High-street, were attempting to cross
the ford of the Dove at Sudbury with a waggon and five
horses, they were carried down the stream by the rapidity
of the current, and both men and horses were drowned.—
Derby Mercury.
The burgesses of Norwich give a grand dinner to-
day to the popular Mayor of that city, at which Lord
Suffield is to preside.

Vast quantities of grain in this and the adjoining
county are still standing in the fields, some in shock, but the
greater part uncut.—Cumberland Packet.
By the " short, sharp, and decisive" address of Sir
Wm. Folkes and Sir Jacob Astley to the electors of the
Western Division of Norfolk, it appears they arc ready for
the struggle whenever it may come, and form whatever
quarter the strom may blow.
The North Devon coach, on its route from London
on Wednesday night, was detained upwards of three hours
near Salisbury, by a large tree, which had been uprooted by
the wind, lying across the road. The passengers were
obliged to go in the dead of the night to procure assistance
to saw and remove the obstruction.—North Devon Journal.

On Monday a young man, named Meadowcroft,
was married to a young woman, named Whitehead,
of Broad•o'th'-lane. While making merry the same even-
ing the bride was taken ill, gave birth to a child, and, we
are sorry to add, both mother and child died in two hours
after this occurrence,—Lincolnshire Chronicle.

CITY REGISTRATION OF VOTERS.

(THIS DAY.)

(Before Mr, ,
Mr. MYLNE, upon taking his seat this timfnino4 said he
had considered the --qtion relative to parties being rated
upon
in tiifTerent parishes, and be was clearly of oinut,7:
looking to the Act, that it ltdg neeogary that the parties
should be rated) not only in respect of the parish in which
they at present preside, but also in the former parish ; and
so it was laid down in Mr. Cockburn's book.
After going at great length into the question, and citing
several precedents, the Learned Gentlemain said that the
names must be rejected.

ST. MILDRED, BROAD-STREET.

In the above parish there were only two objections, which
were made by the Conservatives.
Mr. Trott, for the Liberals, contended that the objec-
tions could not be entertained, on the ground that the no-
tices were informal.
After some discussion, one of the objections to the notice
was over-ruled, and the other stands over, to allow the
party to attend who is objected to.
No objections or claims were made to the following pa-
rishes :—St. Michael, Bread-street, St. Michael lc (benne,
and St Michael, Crooked-lane.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.-
(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.

These sessions commenced this day, before the Lord
Mayor, the Recorder, and Deputy-Aldermen Scholev,
Farebrother, Sir Chapman Marshall, and Lainson, the
Sheriffs, &c.
There are nearly 230 prisoners for trial ; and this being
the first session since the coming into operation of the Pri-
soners' Counsel Bill, it is expected that it will be prolonged
considerably beyond the usual time.
The Court then proceeded to empannel the Grand Jury,
many of whom were fined in consequence of non-attend-
ance, and others excused. Among those who claimed to be
excused, was a Mr. Greville, who stated that he was one
of the Heralds to Garter King at Arms, and was daily in
expectation of being summoned to attend a Chapter of the
Order of the Garter, for the purpose of the investiture of
a Knight.
The RECORDER inquired whether Mr. Greville had re-
ceived a notice to attend a Chapter.
Mr. Greville said that he had not, but a notice had ap-
peared in the Gazette that a Chapter was intended to be
held. _ _ _

The RECORDER—Are you one of his Majesty's House-
hold ?
Mr. Greville said he was not.
The RECORDER—Then I am afraid we cannot excuse
you. If, however, you should receive a summons to attend
a Chapter during the period the Grand Jury are sitting,
we will do all that we can to relieve you.
The Grand Jury having chosen their Foreman, and
being sworn,
The RECORDER proceeded to give his charge to them.
He said, that although the calendar presented charges of a
very serious character in many instances, still it did not ap-
pear to him, after reading the depositions in all the
cases, that it was necessary to dwell at any length
upon them, as they did not present circumstances
or difficulties which the experience of the Grand
Jury would not surmount. There were, however, one or
two cases which it would be necessary to advert to. One
was a charge of child murder, another an attempt to
commit a felony, by stabbing an officer who was taking a
party into custody ; and another was a charge of rape.
With regard to the latter case, it was his duty to tell
them that no charge required more anxious attention on
the part of a Grand Jury than that ; it was a charge so
liable to false accusation, that the greatest Judges of the
land had felt it their duty to express strong caution to the
Jury who had tried it. If it was proper on the part of a
Petty Jury to exercise great caution, it was surely
equally so on the part of the Grand Jury, through
whose medium the case came before the petty
one. The Learned Judge then adverted to opinions
expressed by Justice Hale, for the purpose of putting the
Grand Jury on their guard from considering as necessarily
true charges of this description, where for the most part
they were compelled to resort to the evidence of the prose-
cutrix herself, the offence being generally committed when
no other witness was present. He had carefully looked
over the evidence brought forward for the purpose of estab-
lishing the charge, and it was in his opinion of that descrip-
tion which required the most careful attention. The per-
son complained against was the landlord of the prosecutrix,
who was a married woman ; the offence was alleged to have
been committed some time since, but no complaint had been
made till a short time ago. It appeared also from the evi-
dence, that the prosecutrix had quarrelled latterly with her
landlord, and it was not till after that quarrel that the seri-
ous charge of rape had been preferred. These suspicious
circumstances must be well weighed, and it would be for the
Grand Jury to say, after due consideration, whether the
charge was one which they felt bound to put into a state of
further investigation. The case of attempting to stab an
officer in the execution of his duty, was a commitment by a
respectable Middlesex magistrate, not for the capital
offence of stabbing with intent to murder, but upon the
charge of a misdemeanor in having attempted to stab.
Fortunately for both parties, the instrument only penetrated
the coat, and did not make any incision in the skin. This,
according to the Act by which the Court was constituted,
was a misdemeanour, and cognizable before them. With re-
spect to the case of child-murder, he could not but think,
from the declaration of the parties themselves, that the
Grand Jury would feel bound to put it in a train of further
trial ; doubtless they would have before them medical wit-
nesses as to whether the child was born alive or not, a cir-
cumstance upon which the whole charge would depend ; be-
cause if it was clearly shown to their satisfaction that the
child had not been born alive, the Grand Jury would be
bound to throw out the bill. He could not conclude
his charge witliot making one general remark as to what had
occurred since the last Session. Since that period a great
improvement had taken place relative toprisoners. In the
Central Criminal Court Act a power had been reserved for
the better classification of prisoners before and after trial ;
and his Majesty, through his Privy Council, had issued an
order which he (the Recorder) considered would be highly
beneficial, particularly as it related to the gaol of New-
gate, the limits of which were very confined, and had been
found totally insufficient for the great increase of pri-
soners committed there. His Majesty, by the order
in Council had ordered, that only those prisoners who were
committed for trial should be sent to Newgatc, while those
who had been tried and sentenced should be removed to
the Penitentiary ; by this means a classification of prisoners
would be effectually made. Seeing, as he did, several gen-
tlemen before him, who were Magistrates in different
counties, he felt it to be his duty, through them, to give
publicity to the regulations that had been adopted by the
Privy Council, which would, he was sure, give very general
satisfaction.