The Sun.
London, England, 1822-07-18 00:00:00

YORKSHIRE.

litr.L..—On Wednesday, the 3d inst. the Worshipful Mas-
ter., Officers, and Brethren, of the Phoenix Lodge of this place,
commemorated the sth Anniversary of its opening, by dining
`-oc:ether. in. the Lodge Room, No. 11, Iligh-street. Nearly
forty of the "mystic tie" sat down upon the occasion, amongst
-whom were some of the Officers and Brethren of the Minerva
Lodge, Bull ; those of the Constitutional Lodge, Beverley ;
and several other visitors. The diiiner and dessert were excel-
lent, and the ~vines choice. Numerous appropriate toasts and
tongs were 'introduced, and the affectionate cordiality which
Prevailed thl-oughcut the whole evening, most fully. evinced
!` J.-low good and pleasant it is for Brethren to dwell together
In unity."

• NORTHUMBERLAND.
MonrtTfr.—On Thursday last, an adjournment of the ge-
neral quarter sessions of the peace for the county of Northum-
t,erland, was holden at this place, for the purpose-of laying the
-.-uundation stone of the intended new gaol, house of correction,
t,.nd sessions house, at Morpeth.. About 12 o'clOck his Gracethe
Duke of No RTIIUMBERL AN D, Lord Lieutenant and Custos
Rotulorum of the county, arrived at Mrs. Sunderrand's,
Queen's heal Inn, when, soon afterwards, the procession pro-
ceeded to the scite of the said intended building, in the follow-
.aug order
The Bailiffs of the County, three and three. •
Sheriff's Trumpeters.
Gaoler.
Under Sheriff.
Bailiffs of Morpeth.
Gentlemen and Clergy, two and two.
County Treasurer and Clerk of the Peace.
Magistrates-of the County, two and two.
If is Grace the Lord Lieutenant, supported by the High Sheriff
and Chaitman of the County.
Architect.

A large and elegant assemblage of ladies filled a temporary I
c•allery, purposely erected for their accommodation, and well
• i..17-tpted for a general view of the ceremony.
On arriving at the spot, the following coins of his Majesty
were placed M a glass vase, namely, one sovereign, one half
sovereign ; (gold) one crown, one half-crown, one shilling, one
,
- sixpence,.one fourpence, one threepence, one twopence, and one
penny (silver) ; one farthing, the only copper -coin issued in
the present reign. As also three beautiful coronation medals
of gold, silver, and bronze; a brass plate, with 'the following
inscription engraved upon it:—" This stone was- laid by the
•• Most Noble Hugh Duke and Earl of Northumberland ,‘ Earl and
Baron Percy, Lucy, Poynings, Fitzpayne, Bryan, Latnner, and
Warkworth, and Baronet, Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotu-
loruin Of the county of Northumberland, and of the town and
county of the town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Vice-Admiral
of the same and the Maritime part 'thereof, Knight of the
Most Noble Order of the Garter, &c. &c. &C. in the pre-
sence of a Bench of Magistrates of the county of Northum-
berland, the eleventh day of July, in the third year of the
reign of his present Majesty King George the Fourth, A.D.
John Dobson, Architect."—Which plate was placed
in a glass vase and deposited together with the coins, in a
cavity in the stone, made to receive. it. A large and massy
stone of one ton weight was then raised, and being lowered to
its proper place, was adjusted and laid by his Grace in the usual
form. The silver trowel was presented to his Grace by the
Chairman, THOMAS CLENNELL, Esq. on which occasion he
• spoke to the folloWing effect
" Mar LORD,—ThiS trim:l, with which you are to lay the
first stone, at least above ground, of this intended new court-
house and gaol, 1 present to you from the beach of Magistrates,
at whose request your Grace has come forward to perform the
ceremony, and in their name 1 return you their sincere thanks
for your condescension on the occasion. My Lord, it gives me
the greatest satisfaction to be able to state, that the plan in-
tended to be followed in this great undertaking has been mi-
nutely examined by, and met with the decided approbation of,
ahose patriots and philanthropists, who are emphatically call-
ed " the Gaol Committee." From them some hints of improve-
meet have been thrown out, which will be duly attended to by
the magistrates. The Judge of Assize also expressed his ap- •
probation at the last assizes. Indeed, my Lord, the plan, under
the able management of the architect, comprehends all the
improvements of the modern gaol. By it security is afford-
ed to the gaoler, and those employed under him ;—by the
ready means of inspection order anti decency will be preserved
in the different wards the regular classification of the pri-
soners contamination will be divided, and the hardened convict
will not be allowed further to mislead the juvenile offender ;
by a judicious apportionment of labour, the daring villain will
be restrained, and the less reprobate offender, by a proper de-
gree of labour, will be trained, it is hoped,, to habitual industry.
Their religious improvement will be sedulously attended to.—
Thus, if the plan succeeds, the gaol will become a gOod school
of reform, and to reform, rather than to punish, ought to be the
great object of the criminal law ; and surely the retbrmation of
a criminal is a duty dictated by humanity, enjoined by religion,
and urged by every motive which the regard to the moral wel-
fare of the prisoner can suggest."
The Duke then returned thanks to the numerous assem-
blage present, and to the .Magistrates in particular, for the com-
pliment paid hint in inviting him to perform the ceremony now
about to take place; that he always was particularly attentive
to every wish to serve the county; that it gave him the greatest
pleasure to attend as far as posSible to their wishes at all times ;
that he felt the greatest pleasure in learning from the Chairman
of the County that the calendar •for the ensuing Assizes was
only defaced by one capital offence, a great proof of • the good
morals of the County at large a and concluded by trusting that
when the building was finished, it would be the only house in
the County unoccupied.

KENT. •
CANTERBU hY.—The first stone of the New Fish Market
of this City was laid on 3lbiitlay last in the presence of
WX. HOmERsHAM, Esq. Mayer, the Sheriff, and many other
respeCtable citizens, by Mr. Alderman BRoWNE, who, upon
proceeding to lay the foundation-stone, addressed the Meeting
in the following language :--
" MR..MAYOR AND GENTLENEN—It may be said by
some persons that as the sum of money about to be expended
here is not very considerable, it is, not of consequence suf-
ficient to have the ceremony of laying the foundation stone,
but in this I should certainly differ With them, situated as
our City is on the banks of the 'Stour, in the midst of a
pleasant fertile valley, with, a magnificent structure in the
centre, towering, above the summit of the surrounding hills
in'majestic grandeur, with an abundant supply of.excellent
water from them : it is of the greatest importance to our
large and populous City' to establish good markets, under such
regulations as Will induce a constant and aniple supply of every
article of provisions, by which the necessities of poor may,
in some measure, be ameliorated, the comfort and. convenience
of every class of society ensured, and an additional incitement
held out to the wealthy to come and reside ainongst as by
these means Canterbury may continue to fake its proper rank
amongst other great cities of the British Einpire ; with these
feelings, I shall now proceed to lay the foundation stone, and I
hope the work we are this day promoting will, under Divine
Providence, prove highlybetieficial to our native City,"-After
the worthy', Alderman i•lad concluded,
,the Mayor, Sheriff, .with
the Gentlemen of the Committee, repaired to the Fountain Ta-
vern, and partook of a dinner served-up in Wright's usually
excellent style.

SO M ER SETSHIRE.
FROML—areavpieparations are making in this place, for a
Grand Provincial Meeting-of all the Lodges in Somerset, ap-
pointed by the K.. W. P. G. Master, C. K. K. Tynte, Esq.,
M.P., on the 30th inst.' which it is expected, will be most nu-
nierouslY attended, and the regalia very magnificent.

THE LONDONJOU.RNALS. •

EXTRACTS FROM THE DAILY '3101:NINO PAPERS,

July 18, 18'22.

[MORNING POST.]

PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT.--Mr. Hope
and Mr. Menzies attended last night at the bar
of the House of Commons, in pursuance of the
Speaker's order to that effect. Mr. Hope was
first introduced by the Serjeant at A rms, to answer
for the alleged breach of privilege ; and this
Gentleman gave so satisfactory an explanation of
his conduct, that it was agreed no further pro-
ceeding should take place. It is due to Mr.
Hope to observe, that his firm, yet respectful ex-
position of the high-minded and honourable feel-
ings by which alone he was actuated in writing
the letter alluded to, together with the frank
and gentlemanly propriety of manner with
which he made that exposition, produced a
most powerful impression in his favour.—
The various and important considerations which
influenced this Gentleman are such, we do not
hesitate to say, as every man conscious of ho-
nour, and to whom justice and an unsullied cha-
racter are dear, will properly appreciate. Mr.
Canning placed the painful delicacy of Mr. Hope's
situation in its true light, and also his reason-
able claim upon the protection of Parliament.—
Upon the whole, however, we cannot regret that
the subject has come under discussion, for we
conceive that the debate of last night will prove
eminently advantageous to the interests of the
l'ublic.—After Mr. Hope had finally withdrawn,
the preliminary forms were gone through, and
Mr. Menzies called to attend at the Bar. The
explanation which this Gentleman gave was so
perfectly satisfactory, that on the motion of Mr
Courtenay, he was instanter• and unanimously dis.
charged.

[THE TIMES.]
A petition was last night presented to the
House of Commons by Mr. Brougham, from the
Proprietor of the Irishman, a Journal printed at
Belfast, expressing the surprise of the petitioner
that means had not been taken by the Executive
Government of Ireland, to prevent the insults
and outrages offered by Orangemen to the Ca-
tholics on the 19. th of July ; and praying that
the House would consider about the application
of some remedy. The surprise of the petitioner
is no more than natural, and his prayer one which,
in our opinion, it would- become the House of
Commons to comply Ns ith. It is deeply to he
lamented that the inevitable evils under which

Ireland seems doomed to suffer, should be in-
creased by these wilful and wanton aggravations,i
which a very slight regard for the public tran-
quillity, or for the comfort and happiness of the
people, would long ago, as it appears to us, have
induced the Executive Government, or, if not
within its competence, the municipal authorities
in Dublin and elsewhere, to provide against.—
NN'e have long since pressed upon the feelings of
men in power, the disgraceful perversion of the
name and character of William 111. to these
mean factious purposes. That Sovereign came
amongst us to put down intolerance—not to use
so- base an engine as the support of his Go-
vernment, or to soil the glorious record of
the Revolution by connecting with it a system
of petty vengeance, and perennial vexation,
against any class of his subjects. Much mischief
has been done to the general interests of the
empire by thus stupidly identifying, i❑ the
minds of the Catholics, the origin of British
liberty with that of Irish persecution. It has
deprived both nations of the advantage of drawing
their constitutional sympathies from the same
source, and has sensibly impeded the growth of
the Irish Catholic in those political principles
and attachments which would have fitted him for
the enjoyment of higher privileges, and for the
exercise of more extensive and more active powers.

[NEW TIMES.]
The affair of Messrs. Hope and Menzies, as
will be seen by our Parliamentary Report, has
been terminated without any attempt to proceed
to extremities against either of those Gentlemen.
We ventured yesterday to say that it appeared to
us to be totally unfit for further prosecution; and
such seems to have been the pretty general im-
pression of the House of Commons.—We fully
agree that both Houses of Parliament ought to
entertain a constant and watchful jealousy of any
infringement of their privileges ; and, far from
thinking that they carry that jealousy to an ex-
treme, we think theii• practical error is 'on the side
of excessive indulgence. At the same time it
will not be denied that there are many incon-
sistencies in this chapter of Parliamentary His-
tory : very venial matters have been treated as
grave offences, while some gross breaches of pri-
vilege have been passed over without notice. It
would almost seem that there are some privi-
leged offenders in this line ; for instance, The
Times, which (as was shewn by an Evening Pa-
per of yesterday) first put words into the
Marquis of Londonderry's mouth, as having been
spoken by him in Parliament, which words he
never uttered, and then broadly charged him
with falsehood in having uttered them ! We
know not exactly Why The Times is indulged
with this peculiar licence ; but we very well
know what would have been the consequence,
had we taken the same liberty with the speech
of any Opposition Member.

[MORNING HERALD.]
It appears to us strange that, in the present
day, while there is so much profession with respect
to the universal toleration of all religions 7 of
whatever denomination, whether Christian or
Anti-Christian, that in Dublin there shOuld be
these feuds between Christians called Protestants
and Christians called Catholics. If the Protes-
tant Christians, or the Orange party, as they nick
name themselves in Ireland, do dregs up a statue of
King William on a particular-day in the year, with
the intent to insult their Catholic Christian bre-
thren, who are equally fellow-subjects of King
George the. Fourth—which King, when lie was

in Ireland, had the wisdom to pay as much atten-
tion to the Catholic Nobility and Gentry as he did
to the Protestant Nobility and Gentry—we do
think that if the Irish Protestants on that day do

it with such an intent, they are highly blameable.
In England there is little or nothing remaining
of that outward miserable show of difference, in
Christian profyssion. Last year it was ven-
tured on in a trivial instance, but it was treated
with the only treatment it deserved—ridicule.
If a man in London were to attempt to dress up
any statue of King William in orange ribbons, he
would be in danger of being taken to Aldgate
pump and be well pumped upon. The people of
that neighbourhood would have no more mercy
on such an unlucky fancier of orange-coloured
ribbons than they would on Mr. Achilles, had he
fortunately been stuck up in the Minories, instead
of being placed in one of the King's Parks.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
The Greek question was brought last night
before the House of Lords by the Earl Gros-
venor, who expressed himself with respect to the
Turks in language such as became an English
Nobleman. lie had no doubt, he said, that
though there might have been some cruelties com-
mitted by the Greeks, " they were infinitely
exceeded by the horrible atrocities committed
by that detested race, the Turks." In fact, as
is Nv e 1 1 observed by M. Raffenel, an eye-witness
of the principal circumstances, in his candidly
written llistoire des Evimenzens de la Gr.ce, re-
cently published, the cruelties of the Greeks
are attributable solely to the Turks.—" How could
(he says) the Greeks shew themselves generous and
magnanimous towards monsters, who would only
have paid these benefits by the blackest ingra-
titude ? The known character of the Turks
could only give to this war a degree of unheard-
of violence ; if the Greeks wished to escape
death themselves, they were obliged to sacrifice
their enemies ; by sparing a sing!. Ottoman, the
Greek was sure, in some sort, that he was assas-
sinating a Greek, as the Barbarian, on escaping
death, thought only of the means of destroying his
benefactor."—llis Lordship deemed the forma-
tion of an Independent Greek State the best means
of preventing Russia from carrying her ambi-
tious views into execution, because, though that
Power might easily deprive the Turks of their
possessions, were it to set its foot within the
confines of independent Greece, the whole of its
gigantic figure would be paralysed. His Lord-
ship alluded to the Turkish frigate now fitting
in our ports, and manning with English seamen,
and to the report that the unfortunate Sciot hos-
tages had been guaranteed by the English Am-
bassador at Constantinople, and concluded with
a motion for Copies or Extracts of Despatches

from the British Minister at Constantinople re-
specting the murder of these hostages.—Lord Li-
verpool admitted that the conduct of the Turkish
Government, in executing the Sciot hostages, was
most flagitious, and observed, that every one who
knew Lord Strangford would readily believe that
his humanity would prompt him to use all that
personal influence which circumstances might
have given him with the Turkish Government to
prevent it ; but if the motion was passed, the
humanity of Lord Strangford would, in future,
be of no avail, as the Turkish Government would
pay no attention to any of his representations,
and " the misery of the unhappy Greeks would
be still further increased." He gave a new ver-
sion to the affair of the Turkish frigate, and
stated, that au application—made to allow her to
take on board ammunition and warlike stores—
had been absolutely refused. His Lordship made
strong professions of the strictest neutrality, and,
upon the whole, his speech was much more recon-
cileable with the idea of such a neutrality than
that of Lord Londonderry's the other night.

[BRITISH PRESS.
, The Northern Advocates were brought to the
Bar of the House of Commons last night, pur-
suant to the notice before given. The public
know the nature of the question. Mr. Hope ex-
plained so much to the satisfaction of his friends
that they cheered his conclusion—a precedent
which would be inconvenient for the adoption of
the lower Courts, in regard to individuals
brought before them. What a spectacle, if the
Judges, forgetting the gravity of their functions,
should on any occasion in which they sympa-
thized with the accused (and the Constitution
commends this in them on all Crown pleas), should
join the shouts of the by-standers, and clap their
hands in compliment to the dexterity of the
defence ! We do not mean to say that this is
not proper in Parliament ; that might be a breach,
of privilege, and it is not every one who can
come to the Bar of the House with the same ad-
vantages as Mr. Hope, since the time of Mr.
Wood fall. But times are much changed : no-
thing can be more lenient than the opinions on the
privileges of Parliament to which this very ma-
nifest breach of it gave rise. The liberality and
kindness of Ministers are so enlarged on this
question, that it might well make one doubt if
these are the same public officers who caused the
Parliament to enact the six Acts of 1819. Mr.
Canning, who made such stout fight for the Bill
for constraining the Liberty of the Press on that
occasion, declares it now to be a graft of the
Constitution which it is neither desirable nor
practicable to remove. We would rather thank
the occasion than the speaker, because the avowal
went upon the supposition that the reporting of
debates was a breach of privilege of the same
guilty nature with the angry comment of Mr.
Hope, or any other self - sufficient-man, who, in
his zeal to uphold the laws, endeavours to
set himself above them. The discussion is
a triumph for the freedom of discussion out
of doors, but in effect a very dangerous mat-
ter for that which will go on within doors.
Mr. Brougham • observed, that after this the
House would never be brought to the harsh
injustice of committing a printer of a news-
paper,for an unintentional inaccuracy in a report.
The discussion ended in calling Mr. Hope to the
Bar, and informing him that 'the House, under
all the circumstances, saw no reason for proceed-
ing further in the business. Mr. Menzies was
discharged, after being heard in contrite expla-
• nation, without eYpostulat►on of any kind.