The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-29 00:00:00

MUSICAL FESTIVAL AT WEST

CASE OF M'LEOD.
(From the New York Herald of Sept. 2.)
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Atm. 31.
The House resumed the consideration of the resolution
ailing upon the President to inform the House whether
any officer of the army or the Attorney-General of the
United States had, since the 4th of March last, been di-
rected to visit the State of , New York for any purpose
connected with the imprisonment or trial of M'Leod ;
and, if so, to communicate to the House copies of the in-
structions to, and report of, such officer, and whether, by
any executive measures of correspondence, the British
Government had been given to understand that M'Leod
would be released or surrendered.
Mr. Barnard enumerated the facts connected with the
affair of the Caroline and Alexander M'Leod, and main-
tained that the incursion from the Canada side, on the
29th December, 1837, was not a trespass upon the State
of New York, but upon the soil of the nation, because it
was made in contravention of the treaty which existed
between the two countries; and, as such, it necessarily
become a subject of negotiation on the part of the Go-
vernment of Great Britain and that of the United States.
He reviewed the course of the Supreme Court of the
State of New York, and remarked that he did not say
that the Court ought to have set M'Leod at liberty, but
that he ought to hare been released upon a habeas corpus
a nolle prosequi, or upon his own recognizance. It was
the duty of the Supreme Court to sustain the Government
it the view which it had taken of the subject ; for New
York could well afford to do her duty, and that, too,
without gasconade in reference to State rights. There
was no glory for her to reap in the wide field of nullifica-
tion. That State knew too well what was due to her
justice and honour than to attempt to take this affair out
of the hands of the General Government. But if the
Court would not do justice the people would; and he
could select a Lockport Jury who would acquit M'Leod,
on the law, without any hesitation. He knew them to be
honest, they had no disposition to stain their hands with
the blood of any man, and they would not do it although
all the immunities of the law should be thrown around
them.

Mr. Everett said, that from the position in which he
had been placed with reference to this question, having
been placed on a Committee to examine into it, he had
prepared, and had now in his possession, his written re-
flections upon the sub!ect, which he would propose to
read to the House on some future occasion.

NSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.

IN THE MATTER OF JOHN MARSHALL.
The insolvent, who was described as an accountant and
Parliamentary agent, likewise a compiler of statistical works,
was opposed in person by a creditor named Sewell.
The ground of the opposition was the insolvent by false
reprt.sentat ons induced the opposing creditor to cash a joint
promissory note. It appeared the insolvent's father, whose
Christian name was likewise John, held a Government office,
aid resided in Stamford-street, where the insolvent likewise
resided, and a person named S'acey having drawn a bill which
he endorsed and made payable at Stamford-street, the op-
posing creditor cashed it under the impression that it was en.
dorsed by John Marshall, senior.

After -a number of witnesses had been examined, the Learned
COMMISSIONER said he did not consider himself justified in
ordering a remand in this case.

The insolvent was accordingly discharged forthwith.
IN THE MATTER OF THOMAS STOWALL.
The insolvent in this case, the well-known common in-
former, applied to be discharged under the Act.
Mr. COOKE, cn behalf of numerous creditors, opposed the
application.—Judgment deferred.

POLICE INTELLiGENCE.
MANSION-HO USA.

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THE REWARD FOR THE APPREHENSION OF
BLAK ESLE Y.—The Chief constable of the Hertfordshire
Constabulary Force, attended the Justice room to call
the attention of the Lord Mayor to a paragraph in
several of the newspapers to the effect that, in conse-
quence of the surrender of R3bert Blakesley, accused of
the murder of James Burdon, there could be no claim
to the reward of loot. which had been offered by Go-
vernment for the apprehension of the'alleged murderer.
He begged to state to his Lordship, that the paragraph
complained of was calculated to impress upon the public
mind that those who were certainly entitled to the re-
ward ought not to receive it. Now the fact was, that
Blakesley did not give himself up. He appeared about
the market-place at Hitchin, and was taken into cus•
tody there by the two constables who had given evidence
on the Monday at the Mansion-house, and who would
not, whether they suspected him to have been guilty of
the murder or not, have permitted him to leave them.
The LORD MAYOR asked whether Blakesley's conduct
was not that of a man who surrendered himself ? The
impression upon his mind was that the man had given
himself up.
The chief constable of Hertfordshire here said Blakes-
ley had never given himself up. He was wandering
about until he was addressed by one of the constables,
and from that moment he was in custody, for the orders
issued to the constabulary were to take into custody any
person who was without an abode and destitute. It was
easy enough for a man to make a merit of giving himself
up when he found his detention was unavoidable.
The Lon') MAYOR said he understood the man to have
confessed at once in the open street that he was the per-
son who stabbed the landlord and his own wife in East-
cheap.
The Chief Constable of Hertfordshire said (as our
Reporter understood him) that the constables, in going
up to Blakesley, and saying it was 'a fine night, merely
used those words as a preliminary to his apprehension
as a prisoner, and never for a moment thought of letting
him go. If the constables had allowed him to leave
them they would have been guilty of a transgression of
orders, which he perfectly well knew they would not
commit. His (the Chief Constable's) wish was to re-
move the impression likely to be made upon the public
mind, that the constable.-: had no merit in doing their
duty.
The LORD MAYOR said that he never imputed to the
constables, that they had not done their duty. There
was no imputation that he had seen upon any person
employed upon the service.
The Chief Constable of llertfordshire said, that if
the city authorities had sent down to the Hertfordshire
constabulary a description of the man who was accused
of the murder, the probability was that Blakesley would
have been apprehended on the second day after the per-
petration of the offence but no description whatever
had been transmitted to Hertford, and the man had been
wandering about for six days after he left London. As
the case had been brought before the Lord Mayor, he
(the Chief Constable) considered that his Lordship was
the best person to whom to make the statement as to the
reward, to which he decidedly considered the two con
stables of Ilitchin, who took the prisoner in the marke
place, were entitled.

The LORD MAYon—He was six days from London,
and penniless—in fact, in a state of beggary ; and,
therefiwe, his only resource was to surrender.
The Chief Constable said—Why, then, had not the
man surrendered himself in the day time? If Inspector
Hodgson had entered the Market-place, and seen the pri-
soner, and said the prisoner was the murderer, he could
have claimed the reward, and received it, and was it rea-
sonable to suppose that the constable who had actually
apprehended the prisoner should be denied it ?
The LORD MAYOR observed that the applicant, as a
gentleman of good sense, having read the advertisement
offering the reward, would be able to judge whether the
Hertfordshire constables were entitled, according to the
wording of that advertisement, to the reward. He (the
Lord Mayor) had not read it, and could not, therefore,
form an opinion as to its construction.
The Chief Constable of Hertfordshire said the hand-
bills stated that a reward of 1001. would be paid to anv
one apprehending, or giving such information as would
lead to the apprehension of Robert Blakesley. He con-
sidered that conclusive in favour of the claims of the two
men acting under his orders, and he wished to hear his
Lordship's opinion.
The LORD MAyou—l do not consider myself qualified
to give an opinion on the subject. I have bad no in-
structions from the Government in respect to it, and I
think that the Secretary of State for the Home Depart-
ment is the only person to whom you can properly ap-
ply in such a ease. You will be treated with the greatest
courtesy there. . _

The Chief Coastable—l thank you, my Lord. It was
my intention to wait upon the Home Secretary, but it
occurred to me that it would be right to make the state-
ment that I have made to your Lordship, for I am most
anxious to show that r am alive to the interests of the
constabulary of Hertfordshire.
The LORD MAYOR-it is a very commendable anxiety,
Sir, and I have no doubt whatever that the men un-ter
your authority are encouraged, by your example, to do
their they.__

The applicant then bowed to the Lord Mayor and
retired.

The people at Bath surpass the Athenian sage.
He merely chewed the pebbles, but, according to the
Morning Herald, "At Bath the Victoria column is in
everybody's mouth."
A lady once heard a man preach, and was so
enraptured with him that she sent him a letter to the follow-
ing effect :—Dear Sir, there's my hand (my heart you have
already), with my fortune, which is very considerable. Will
you accept' I am, &c., ..4.xxA. The clergyman, unmoved
by the entreaties of the lovely fair one, replied in the follow-
ing terms :—Madam, give wir hand to industry, your dowry
to the poor, and your heart to God.

MINSTER ABBEY.
This day (Wednesday) being the feast of St. Michael,
Tallies celebrated service will be performed, both morning and
afternoon, at Westminster Abbey, furnishing a rich treat to the
lovers of eccle'iastical music. It is surprising that the name of
Tallis, venerable as it is in the eyes of connoisseurs in church
music, should be so little known to the generality of people, for
out of the numbers who may listen to-morrow to the august
strains of his services, many w►ll see nothing in that name, or
know no more of it than that it is composed of six letters.
Tallis, rightly entitled the " Father of the Cathedral Style,"
was, according to the best of our recollection, born in 1520.
He was organist of the Royal Chapel to King Henry VIII.,
King Edward VI., Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth. In
the second and third of these reigns he was simply a gentleman
of the chapel, and served for sevenpence half-penny a day, but
under Queen Elizabeth, he and his affectionate disciple, Bird,
were gentlemen of the chapel and organists.
Learned and elegant as are the compositions of Tallis, they
are not less original. Among the works of the old cathedralists
of the kingdom he formed his style, and his music has a grave
and majestic air well-suited to the "pealing organ."
Tallis, though a Catholic, accomodated himself and his
studies to the alterations introduced at the Reformation, and
his " Services," which are to be performed to-morrow, were
composed by him after the musical part of the church service
in Queen Elizabeth's reign had ben settled by Parker, Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, who, himself a skilful musician, had the
care of selecting at this period from the Common Prayer the
offices most proper to be ning—a matter of no little import-
ance, especially as the rubric contains no directions about it.
Several professors and amateurs we believe are to assist at
the regular choir at the recitation. The morning service com-
prehends the " Venite exulteraus," " Te Deum," and " Be-
nedictus ;" and the evening service " The Magnificat" and
" Nunc Dimittis." Mr. 'furle presides at the organ. .