The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON TUESDAY. MARCH 31 1840

by the House, and finally the motion was agreed to,
by which we presume the Ludlow ease is hung up till
the Committee has decided what can be, or ought to be
done to get over the difficulty.
Mr. GISBORNE presented a petition from Mr. AL-
cock against reviving a petition which had been put an
end to by due course of law—namely, by ❑ot fulfilling
its injunctions. On the opinion of the SPEAKER, being
adverse to receiving the petition, Mr. GISBORNE with-
drew it.

Amongst the notices given, we must notice one by
Mr.HUNIE, to call attention to the war encouraged in the
East, on Friday next, when Lord JOHN RUSSELL is to
prove that our interference has been calculated rather
to prevent than provoke hostilities.
In a Committee of Supply the Navy Estimates were
proceeded with, and, in reply to some questions from
Mr. HUME, Mr. MORE O'FERRALL explained that the
increase of the price of flour :it home in 1839, as com•
pared to 1838, was 18 per cent. This was meant to
show in what way the Corn-laws tax the State, the
landlords cunningly getting back, in the increased price
of wheat they sell to the State, all the taxes they pay.
In reply to Mr. WARBURTON, Admiral ADAM said
he had heard nothing before of a reef of rocks having
risen up on the coast of Dorsetsbire, so as to form a
natural harbour, and the Admiralty had of course not
ordered any survey of it.
There ensued again a long discussion on the state of
the Navy, which was begun by Captain PECHELL,
and continued by Mr. PLUMPTRE, who wanted a large
navy ; by Lord JOHN RUSSELL, who stated that the po-
licy of keeping up such large armaments in peace would
ruin the country, and who contended that the Navy was
in an efficient state ; by Sir ;G. CLERK, who dissented
from the Noble Lord ; by Mr. WooD, who repeated his
former statements ; by Lord INGESTRIE and Admiral
ADAM, who had a little sparring about the mode in
which promotion was conducted ; and by Mr. A.
CHaPstaN, who, though a Tory and a shipowner,
praised the manner in which the administration of the
Navy was conducted. Several votes were agreed to,
and several subordinate discussions took place—one on
the lightning conductors recommended by Mr. SNOW
HARRIS, which led to no conclusion.
After the House had resumed, Mr. LABOUCHERE
stated that he should have no objection to refer the
Inland Warehousing Bill to a Select Committee.
The House adjourned at a Quarter before One.

It is sometimes said by the advocates of the
Corn•tax, that it falls so lightly on the masses.
being not more than half a farthing a loaf, that the
people don't feel it, and it makes no difference to
them. At the same time, these advocates, when
they have anothet purpose to serve, cry out with
some bitterness against the Malt-tax, because it
raises the price and diminishes the consumption of
malt. We do not profess to reconcile these contra-
dictory arguments, and must state our belief
that the Corn-laws injure the farmer by raising the
price and diminishing the demand for his produce
in the same manner as the Malt-duty. One en-
hances the price of the loaf, the other the price of
the pot of beer, and of that increased price none
of it goes into the pockets of the farmer. He
collects it for the landlords, as the maltster collects
and pays the tax to the exciseman, but none of it
remains in his posiession.
The tax on malt is about 205. Bd. the quarter ;
the average Corn-tax on every species of grain, with
the fluctuating scale, may be taken to be about the
same sum. The revenue raised from malt is about
four millions ; the increased rental catned by the
Corn-tax is at least five times that amount. The far-
mers and their psuedo friends, therefore, are extremely
anxious to remove from them a weight of four
pounds, and as anxious to burden them with
twenty. In both cases their landlords profit by the
humbug ! They put the twenty millions in their
pockets, and if they can they wish to pocket the
four millions additional.

The increase in the price of malt makes persons
have recourse to substitutes for malt-liquors ; so the
increase in the price of the produce of our own soil
makes persons substitute whatever they can get
cheaper. They eat positively less bread—they
consume more rice, fish, sugar, tea, coffe,
and whatever can be used as food, than
they would if the pr ice of the produce
of the soil were lower. If, indeed, all
edibles, other than that produce, could be ex-
cluded—if the monopoly could be made as strict
as the landlords wish it, there could be no substi-
tutes used ; the farmers would only suffer by less
being consumed in proportion as the price is high,
and the people would only suffer the trifling pangs
of hunger and starvation.
11 the 20s. Bd. tax on a quarter of malt be in-
yurious to the farmers, the 16s. tax on barley,
when the price is at 305., must also be mis-
chievous, it not to the same extent. Of what con-
sequence is it to the farmer, whether he have
to pay the tax to his landlord, in the
shape of rent, or to the State, as a tax ? He
is indeed supposed to get something from the
State, namely, protection ; for the tax from his
landlord he gets nothing whatever. In both casks
the selling price of the article is much enhanced by
the tax ; in both cases the tax diminishes the emi-
r sumption, and causes other articles to be consumed
in preference to the taxed article. If, therefore, the
tax on malt be injurious to the far mer, so must
be the tax on bread, whatever benefit it may con-
fer on the landlord.
Mr. VI lAA ERs will bring forward his motion on
the Coin-laws before the end of the month ; and
we must, in the mean time, occasionally throw out
a few remarks, to revive in the recollection of our
readers some of the many enormities of this ini-
quitous impost. The mode in which it injures
and impoverishes the tillers of the soil is, in our
opinion not the least, mischievous of its operations.

The City of London Conservative Association,
which is noticed elsewhere, seems shorn of many
beams of glory. It could find no more distin-
guished Chairman than the promise and pledge-
breaking M.P. for Sunderland, and had no more
distinguished guests than Lord TEIGNMOUTH and
the RECORDER. No present wearer of lawn
sleeves honoured it with his company, and the
Church was represented by no greater man than
Dr. CROLY. The company was made up of per-
sons bearing_ such names as MACKILLOP, PIRIE,
PRIME LUCAS, GRIMSDITCH, AL SAGER,
BUCKLE, TWINING, PODMORE, and others bet-
ter known possibly to the " dungs" of the Guild
than to the public at large. The Tories of the
House of Commons were represented by the
smallest talking lawyer and poorest statesman of
that Assembly, not even excepting Mr. DA RBY.
We, however, are less solicitous to notice the in-
significance of the assembly than the sentiments of
one of the speakers, and we pass at once to call
attention to something said by that would-be
Bishop, :he Rev. Dr. CROLY.
. _ . .

He denied that the Church was the creature of
the State, and boasted that it would exist without
the State, while the State could not exist without
the Church. Will he graciously advise his brethren
to put that to the test, and demand the abolition at
once of all laws by which indivi,:uals are con-
strained to support the Church against their incli-
nations? A Church can exist without the State, but
not the Anglican Church of which the Rev. Doctor
spoke, and which is, from top to bottom—from the
head of it on the throne to the lowest beadle whose
gilded cocked-hat is paid for out of parish funds
the creature of Acts of Parliament. The
Reverend Doctor probably knew his com-
pany when he ventured to affirm, because the
Christian Church and religien exist independent of
the State, that the Church of England can so
exist. But what has the Church of England to
do with the Christian religion, except by its worldly
splendor to mock at the profound humility and
poverty of its founder ?
The Rev. Gentleman took an opportunity of re-
minding the democracy of what it had formerly
done. It had plundered the Church, or resumed
its own. It had seized Archbishops and Chan-
cellors—broke down the whole State, and estab.
lished a democracy. Under CRomwELL, how-
ever, who was its child and champion, and when
the Church was extinguished, England was
safe at home and triumphant abroad. OLD NoLL,
wielding the power of the democracy, was the arbiter
of Europe. Under his predecessor, when LAUD
was in the ascendant, England was the sport of both
France and Spain. Under his successor, when i
the Church was again rampant in the land, Eng-
land
became the degraded vassal of France. Both
her morality and her power sunk as royalty and the
priesthood got the upper hand, and the period be.
tween the Restoration and the Revolution is the
most disgraceful of our history. Did Dr. CROLY,
by reminding the democracy of their former glo-
rious successes, wish to renew such scenes, taking
care that a second Restoration, then of the kingly
power, now
blight the
—shall no
of the aristocracy—for the kingly I
power is only a name in England
hopes of the aspiring people ?
The Rev. Dr. CROLY exulted at the loyalty cf
the Church. We do not like that indiscriminate

loyalty preached by the priesthood, which equally I
adores vice and virtue in the wearer of the Crown.
To speak more correctly, it honours vice and scoffs
at virtue ; worships GEORGE IV., and satirizes
Queen VICTORIA. Our people must have discri-
minating loyalty.
The I intes of yesterday praised the energetic re-
solution of a dozen citizens of the United States
who had protested against Captain ELLIOTT'S
blockade of Canton. That was the action not of
dependent Ministers trembling for their responsibi-
lity before a truculent aristocracy, but of indepen-
dent individuals defending their own interests.
None of the Governments of the civilized world
could be so prompt or energetic, or could use
such language, because they must take many
matters into consideration, which keen private in-
terest, going straight to its object, wholly disre-
gards. Those men, too, were members of a demo-
cratic community, accustomed to think and act for
themselves. Their manliness was not the result of
loyalty such as the Rev. Dr. CROLY, and the
Church preach, which must consult the Sovereign,
or the Sovereign's servants, before it dare either to
think or to act.

Those who are best acquainted with Prussia
and France, are probably most convinced that
the excessive indiscriminating loyalty recom-
mended by the priesthood, is almost fatal to
individual energy. If our statesmen, like the
Dictator FRANCIA, prefer slaves to freemen,
they will encourage the priesthood in incul-
cating a loyalty which would prepare the commu-
nity, could it be successful, to imitate the inhahi-
sants of Paraguay. Even now it seems to us, at
times, as if eur people were becoming, like the Prus-
sians and the French, unable to take any step ex-
cept under the directions of a Government Com-
Times praises
missioner or a police sergeant. For our people to
ihaven t
h e thatya n
k e
Yankee robust
Captains,energy
their which
minds the
must not be
formed by what the Rev. Dr. CROLY and the
Church call loyalty.
The doubts whether the Church can ever incul-
cate that virtue with effect, should make enlight-
ened statesmen look with some suspicion at her
' means and power of promoting the morality and
happiness of the people. We cannot, at the end
of an article, enter into such a subject, but we
mast say, that when the wants of the State are
considered such as good soldiers and sailors,
good farmers, merchants, and bankers, honest, in-
dependent men, averse from chicane, humbug, and
fraud—it may be doubted whether the Church be a
suitable instrument for nourishing into vigour the
moral qualities which constitute the greatness and
happiness of nations.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL gave notice last night
that on Thursday he will wove for leave to bring in
a Bill to give summary protection to the publishers
of Parliamentary papers. By that means the Noble
Lord proposes to ;:rovide for the exercise of the
publishing privilege of the House in future ; but
we see nothing in the notice which leads us to
suppose that the Bill will clear away the present
difficulty. How the Sheriff is to be released, what
is to be done with Messrs. STOCKDALE, HOWARD,
and PEARCE, we shall not now endeavour to con-
jecture ; but we may say that such a Bill will not
remedy the real evil which the contest has brought
prominently into notice. The Judges, by their
decision, told the House of Commons—the
guardian of our rights, the authority to which
we look to have our grievances peacefully redressed
—that the law declared it to be an offence, for
which damages might be recovered, or punishment
inflicted, for an individual or a public body in
the performance of a solemn duty, to tell the
truth of a bad man, or in fit and appropriate
terms to describe the performer of an improper
deed. The Judges declared to the House of Com-
mons that such an honourable performance of duty
is by the law a libel. That is a scandalous and
clic:graceful state of the law ; and Lord J. RUSSELL,
after inducing the House of Commons to enter
into a disgraceful squabble with the subordinate
officers of the law, now proposes a Bill which is
❑ot to reform or abolish this unjust and scandalous
Law, but to exempt the servants of the House of
Commons from its jurisdiction. We must take leave
to say that such a measure will only add an-
other had law to the bad legislation for which the
people exclaim against the House of Commons. The
law-makers declare by their conduct that the law,
as interpreted by the Judges, its authorised ex-
pounders, is a bad law, and, instead of altering it,
they IA ithdraw themselves from its jurisdiction,
!caving the constituency exposed to its full force.
This the public will call paltry, peddling law
malting.

The Moniteur of Sundav, which we have received
together with the other Paris Journals of the same
date, does not publish officially the list of the new
Cabinet, but it was confidently asserted that it would
appear in the Moniteur Parisian of that night. The
Journal des Debuts, the mouthpiece of the KING, pub-
lishes the list, so that there is no longer any reason to
suspect that it will undergo any modification. It is
precisely the same as appeared in The Sun of yesterday,
except that M. GOEIN is the new Miaiser of Finance,
instead of M. LACAVE LAPLAGNE, who was first
offered the Finance Portfolio, but declined it. The
ultra-Liberal Journals are greatly dissatisfied with
the political complexion of the new Cabinet. After
ten days' travail, observes the National, the KING
ipplie:l to the Duke DE BROGLIE, who thanked
his MAJESTY, but stated that he preferred the
education of his children to the duties of a Premier.
M. MoLE was next invited to accept the Premiership,
to which he before stuck so tenaciously ; hut his seat in
the Academy had so reconciled him to the loss of his
seat in the Cabinet, that he declared himself averse to
the honour intanded him by his Sovereign. Seeing
that nothing better remained to be done, Louts PHIL-
uppE found himself constrained to invoke the incon-
testable talent and the suspicious devotedness of M.
'NIERS, who, according to the same organ, has an-
swered the appeal by forming a Cabinet better calculated
to display his attachment to Court interest than politi-
cal skill. The Ministry of the 12th of May was called
a body without a head ; the Ministry of the Ist of
March may be called a head without a body. For
this reason the National refuses confidence to the New
Cabinet ; and yet it is from the weakness of the body,
and the strength of the head, that we derive hopes of
its success. It is precisely because M. TmEtts is the
Alpha and Omega of the New Cabinet that we con-
gratulate France on its formation. We admit that it
consists almost entirely of a coalition of opposite parties,
but it is a coalition of ciphers, severally of no value by
themselves.

A coalition which would have included the names of
DE BROGLIE, MOLE, MAGUIN, ODILLON BARROT,
PERSIL, GUIZOT, and TRIERS, OS members of one Ca-
binet, would indeed have augured well for the strength of
the Cabinet,
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'Dimas is the very soul, the guiding principle, the un-
controlled and uncontrollable director, is what is
now wanted in France. Jn choosing Admiral
Roussin for the Marine Department, THIERS al-
ready evinces a sympathy for England upon
the Oriental question ; as, notwithstanding the Admi-
ral's frequent bickerings with Lord PONSONEY, it is
very well known that his opposition to the claims of
MEHEMET ALI, after the battle of Nezib, led to his
recal from the Turkish Embassy. It is further evident
that M. TRIERS wishes to avail himself of his expe-
rience, which he will be enabled to turn to profitable
account. Having said this much of the composition of
the Cabinet generally, our readers, no doubt, will be
pleased to learn the National's political appreciation of
the several ;Members individually. M. Tut Ens, the
President of the Council and Minister for Foreign
Affairs, is passed over in silence, his parts and claims
to distinction being too well known to require particu-
lar notice on such an occasion.
MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR.—M. de Remusat, adoctri-
naire, is connected by ambition with every combination,
and has hitherto passed for a man of talent and of form,
but has never been known as an administrator or man of
business. M. Thiers intrusts to his discretion the mini-
nation of the prefects, and the election department. Does
not this confidence savour of rashness, or does
M. Thiers
think that the surveillance of M. do Malleville, Under Se-
cretary of State for the Interior, will be sufficient to keep
M. de Remusat within proper bounds ?
MINISTER OF JUSTICE.—NI. Vivian is a third-rate orwor,
and cannot flatter himself that ho possesses any influence
in the Chamber or on the judicial body, either as a judge
or a political character.
MINISTER OF COMMERCE.—M. Pelet de la Lozere is a
Peer of France, but this is not a sufficient title to intrust
him with the improvement of our finances, which are de-
creasing daily. .
MINISTER OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.—M. t,OUSII, of all
the Ministers of Public Instruction that could be ap-
pointed, is certainly the one that will give least satisfac-
tion to those placed under his control. Will his popula-
rity in the two Chambers counterbalance this inconve-
nience? We doubt it much. It appears certain, how-
ever, that the disciple of Kant, the translator of Plato, the
possessor of five or six different salaries, and the despiser
of vain titles, occupies a high rank in the dornesticite of 11.
Thiers.

MINISTER OF Wan.--M. Cubieres is a court general,
having no other title to the confidence of the country and
of the army than his pusillanimous negotiations with the
Pope respecting the occupation of Ancona, his desertion
of the tri.colour Aug, the persecutions directed against the

Italian patriots, the shameful evacuation of the town so
boldly taken by Admiral Gallois and Colonel Combes. the I
favouritism, servility, and shower of decorations which ,
marked his administration of the war department during
the Ministerial interregnum in April last.
MINISTER OF MARINE Admiral Roussin is a clever
and brave sailor, hut he has the misfortune of hcing syste-
matically opposed to Egypt, and his forced recal from 'Con-
stantinople augurs badly for the part that the naval force of
France will have to take in the eastern question, wbieli
wears such a threatening aspect.
MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS.--M. Jaubert is a very
smart orator; he interests himself much respecting the
material interest of his department, and a little, occasion-
ally, respecting the general interest of the country. 711.
Jaubert lately proposed that the Louvre should be termi
mated at the expense of the State. This will assuredly
procure him the favour of the civil list, which intended, at
least so it was said, to take on itself the expenses of this
construction. M. Jaubert has another merit ; he will be
an active dissolvent for the new Ministry.
MINISTER OF COMMERCE.—M. Gomn has made himself
known by his endeavouring to obtain the conversion of the
Five per Cents., but has never to our knowledge had any
thing to do with commercial matters. It is for this reason,
probably, that he is placed at the head of the commerce
department, instead of being made Minister of Finance.
Such is the body of the New Cabinet. It is weak
enough, in all conscience, but it could hardly be made
stronger without the introduction of elements likely to
thwart the views of the head. M. TRIERS is the po-
litician of an emergency, and France is in the midst of
one. In a calm and in smooth water M. DE BROGLIE
and M. MOLE would be a thousand times safer State
pilots, but in a storm, off a lee shore, the bold decision,
bordering on rashness, of M. TRIERS, offers a kind of
guarantee for the safety of the vessel.
The following telegraphic despatch, dated 25th
ult., is addressed from General CASTELLANE to Gene-
ral HARIsPE

" The Consul of France at Valencia writes me, that
from the reports of the commanders of the vessels sent in
pursuit of the Barbary corsairs, said to have been seen off
the coast, it appears that the statement respecting them
was without foundation." _ _

The French Government pays dearly enough for in-
telligence not to be fooled in this way. A telegraphic
despatch received at Marseilles announced that two Bar-
bary corsairs were cruising off the Spanish coast. Two
days subsequently another despatch said the statement
was untrue. Five days later another despatch asserted
that the first statement was true, and that two French
vessls of war were sent in pursuit of them. Here we
have a fourth despatch repeating what was said in the
5 mud !
Tho Indicateur of Bordeaux of the 28th ult. states, that
at a public meeting held there that day, a Committee was
appointed to conduct the establishment of steam communi-
cation between that city and New York. M. Guestier,
junior (late Deputy for the Depart of La Gironde), sub
scribed 200,000 f. towards the proposed undertaking.

The latest news from Madrid is contained in the
Paris Papers of Sunday. The Moniteur Parisien of
Saturday night contains the following telegraphic des-
patch, which is copied into all the Journals of Sunday :
Baycnne, Feb. 29, One,p.m.
THE GENERAL COMMANDING THE 20TH DIVISION TO TIIB

MINISTER OF WAR.

The Ambassador writes to me on the 25th that the
emeute was confined to the environs of the hall of the
Cortes, sad had no ramification amongst the population,
which remained tranquil.
The 25th had passed over without disturbance. Madrid
was perfectly quiet.
We confess that those despatches following one ano•
ther in such succession have something of a stock-
jobbing appearance. What other intelligence has
reached us from Spain will be found embodied in the
annexed extracts from the French Journals :
NEWS `FROM SPAIN.

The Univers contains the following lines respecting
the disturbances which have caused the capital of Spain to
be declared in a state of siege

" It is affirmed that the Government have received from
Madrid other despe.tches besides those published to-day,
and that they have brought news of a still more serious
nature."

With respect to the army, a letter from Saragossa con-
tains what follows :

" The Duke proceeded yesterday from Muniers towards
Segura with the flying artillery and a battery of howitzers.
To-day he is to reconnoitre the place. The battery can-
non are ready.
" O'Donnell left Teruel on the same day with the escort
that accompanied him to that place. Segura was on the
point of capitulating ; a spy has spoilt all; but the death
of the Governor and of two other officers is confirmed.

" The capitulation of Segura is expected : as soon af,
that fort has surrendered, Aliaga arid Castillote will be at-
tacked at the s:me time."—Le Commerce.

MUNIERA, Fsn. 22.—N0 news. It is affirmed that the
garrison of Segura has r.ffercd to capitulate, and that thi,
teas what has delayed the movement of the troops.—Con-
stitutionnel.

There is a report on the Spanish frontier of a great vic-
tory, said to have been gained by Cabrera, over a strong
division of Espartero'e army. Our private letters mention
the fact, without at its truth, and without giving
any details. The news, though very generally st,read,
therefore in need of confirmation.—Le Gazettede France.

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CITY ADDRESS TO THE QUEEN.—About one
o'clock this afternoon the Lord Mayor proceeded from
the Mansion-house in great state to present the Ad-
dress to her Majesty on her marriage. He was accom•
panned by a number of Aldermen, Common Council
men, and all the chief City dignitaries except two—
the unfortunate Sheriffs. His Lordship was in the
civic state carriage, guarded by City policemen, drawn
by six horses, richly caparisoned, and followed by
long train of splendid equipages, amounting to son),
twenty or thirty—almost rivalling Royalty itself.
the authorities were, in their state robes, and wore•
white favours, and some of them of a vast size to repre-
sent their loyalty. The drivers and footmen also wore
the same emblems. The day being uncommonly fine,
the procession had a good effect, and was followed and
gazed at by hundreds.•

MR. SIDNEY SMITH'S LECTURES ON THE
Cosa-LAws.—At the Hall of Science, in the City-road, a
very large and intelligent audience last evening assembled, 'for
the purpose of hearing an address by Mr. Sidney Smith upon
the evils of the Corn-laws. The lecture was delivered under
the auspices of the Metropolitan Anti-Corn-law Association.
It was very favourably received throughout, and at its conclu-
sion many questions were asked by Socialists, Chartists, and
others. The meeting lasted for three hours and a half, and the
lecturer continued to defend his positions and to answer all in-
quiries, until the audience themselves declared that they were
satisfied, and that they would permit no mere questions to be
put. At the termination three cheers were given for the lec-
turer, and three cheers for the total and immediate repeal of
the Corn-laws ; and a petition embodying total and immediate
repeal was very numerously signed by the audience.
MR. BEULER'S CONCERT.—Last evening this
gentleman gave a Concert at the Crown and Anchor Tavern,
which was well attended. The first piece of entertainment was
an address from the chief pet former, which made allusions to
• many subjects, and was delivered with that humour and fervour
peculiar to Mr. Beuler. It concluded with the following no•
tice of that wonderful personage the " Wizard of the North,"
who, we are glad to see, continues to draw full houses :—" My
neighbour, the necromancer of the' Strand,' has be-gun with a
gun, and in imitation of his gun-trick, I have procured confe-
derates of talent to assist this evening, who to me will prove
great guns,' and will go off with good report, provided you be
kind enough to load them with applause." The performers
had no reason to complain of want of praise. Mr. Beuler's
song, " The lamed butcher," produced roars of merriment,
and the beautiful air " Hours of Sorrow," by Mrs. Aveling
Smith, was loudly and deservedly applauded. The concert al-
together went off well.
Pious FRAUD.—The article " Aberdeen," in
the number of the " Statistical Account of Scotland," just
published, contains, under the head " Newspapers," a number
of misrepresentations which, so far from being accidental, seem
obviously dictated by a spirit of paltry spite against this journal.
The principles of the Herald are calumniated in a manner for
which the responsible parties may, perhaps, be made +o answer
in another place. But this is not all; with a meanness which
only some professing saint could be geilty of, the circulation of
the Ilrrald is represented at one-third less than its actual
amount, while the circulation of the Journal is given pretty
correctly, and the circulation of the Constitutional is rather
exaggerated.—Aberdeen herald.—[ln looking over the last
number of the" Statistical Account of Scotland," we observed
a malignant insinuation thrown out against this spirited paper,
but refrained from any remarks, because we believed the insi-
nuation was made by some pious but mistaken individual of the
six gentlemen who drew up the account. When it turns out,
however, that not only the political and religious principles of the
paper are impugned, but that the writer has wilfully mis-stated
the circulation of the Herald, we can only say that it must be
a subject of regret that an article in that useful work should be
debased by such a wicked and uncharitable imputation.]
SURREY THEATRE.—Last night a new piece
was produced at this house with entire success, which in the
language of the play bill is styled " An historical dramatic
legend, illustrative of the manners, customs, and superstitions of
London in the olden time," entitled the City Apprentice; or,
The Three Lilies. The drama appears to be founded on an
ancient superstition which is supposed to have prevailed at the
time when the belief in astrology was general, and was to this
effect, that the marks which appeared on the body of a child at
its birth were types of its future fate, and mainly influenced its
destiny. In corroboration of this general theory, the author
has selected, as an instance, the legend of the " City Appren-
tice." The piece, on the whole, has been got up with great
care and attention to scenic effect, and was well supported
throughout by the whole of the dramatis persona. We cannot
but express our admiration of some very beautiful scenery, to
the introduction of which the piece gi7es occasion—viz., a pic-
ture of the city of London in the reign of Charles 11., of Bar-
badoes by sunset, passing the Granadian Islands by moonlight,
thence to Carthagena and the Leeward Islands, and the bay and
town of Panama. The drama was most favourably received,
and was announced for repetition every evening amidst the
plaudits of a very crowded audience.
On Monday Mrs. Hannah Dodgson, of Herod-
well, died, aged 105 years and seven months ; this venerable
lady has left eight children, 63 grandchildren, and 161 great
grandchildren.—Lincoln Chronicle.
A very lame otter was lately caught in the river
Isis, a short distance from Iffleymill, by Mr. Wyatt, of Utley
pound. It was four feet eleven inches in length, and upwards
of 26 inches in girth, and is considered to be the largest ever
found in this neighbeurhood.— Oxford Herald.

CRIMINAL COCE.T.-(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice WILLIAMS.)
DARING ATTEMPT AT HIGHWAY ROBBERY.— William
Tanner, aged 23, and William Brown, aged 19, were
indicted for feloniously assaulting William Usher, upon the
Queen's highway, with intent to rob him.
It appeared from the evidence that about twelve o'clock
on the night of the 24th of February, the prosecutor was
on his way home, across the St. George's-road, Lambeth,
when he suddenly received a severe blow on the head
from the prisoner Brown, who, it appeared, had been
following him. At the same moment the prisoner
Tanner tripped him up, and threw him with great vio-
lence, on the ground. The prisoners then both threw
themselves upon the prosecutor, and Tanner attempted to
snatch n bundle that he was carrying from him, and Brown
began to rifle his pockets. A person named Lees proved
that he saw part of the transaction, and laid hold of Brown
and tried to secure him, but he made a violent resistance,
and hit him on the hand. A policeman came up, and,
after a severe struggle, the prisoners were secured. It
now appeared that there were three other men with the
prisoners at the time, but they succeeded in getting away.
The prisoners, in their defence, denied the charge.
The Jury found the prisoners Guilty.
Mr. Justice WILLIAMS sentenced the prisoners to be im-
prisoned, and kept to hard labour, for twelve calendar
months.