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TH.P. SUN, LONDON, TTICRSOAY, SEPTEmrortin la, 1'441.

SPIRIT of the Pt_):LIC jOURNAL.

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
G LOBE.—That the 'Whig play is at au caul, and that
tile power of the Tory party ie to have no end, except by
utter subversion at toe hands of the Chartists or Radi-
cals, is the moral of the sone of the " leading Journal"
again this morning. If this were true, it would not
be matter of much rejoicing for the wiser Tories.
No party can rule for ever ; and if the end of the
sway of the party now in power is to be radical
revolution, unmitigated by the existence of any in-
termediate party, then their actual triumph may sug-
gest subject of awful apprehension for the future.
Not many days back, a Radical Contemporary made
it matter of charge against the Whigs, that, for these
ten years past, they had stood between the people and
the aristocracy, and-declared that when the Tories should
again lose rower the Whigs would not again be suffered
to protect the enemies of the people. It appears their lead-
ing organ is of the same opinion. The maxim "Delezda
est Carthag97 has been carried out to Whiggish extinc-
tion. When the Tories fall (as Ministers must, sooner or
later), they will throw us without reserve into the arms
of the Chartists ; and Sir Robert Peel will advise her
Majesty to send for Mr. O'Connor, or Mr. Vin:ent, or
possibly to despatch Hielson a longer journey for states-
men at a distance, while the seals of office are held, ad
interim, by any single Wellington of the Chartists,
whom the Tories- may not have sent to join the chiefs
of his party at the Antipodes. Seriously, however,
we doubt whether Whieeee sin (understanding by that
name the principles of 'a
body of statesmen neither
Tories, nor advocates of popular absolutism) is so
utterly exanimate in the country as the Times repre-
sents. We doubt this the more, because we never meet
with professed Conservatives who do not scout the very
idea of governing on old Tory principles. Well ! but
abandoning the old Tory principles is tantamount to
adopting Whig ones ; and if this is the way the Tories
speculate on putting an end to the Whigs, they act on the
principle of that ancient usurper, who ruled by person-
ating a slain monarch. Parties put an end to in this
way are apt to revive again ; because what constitutes
parties is
.public action on common principles ; and those
whose principles are acted on hold power virtually, and
must hold it finally. The more authentic morning organ
of the party in power says (adopting the words of Lord
Howick), that " a cautious but decided advance towards
liberal commercial principles may be expected from the
present Ministry." We shall have personation, then,
after assassination. So much the better. If the usur-
pers act as well as they depose, they may pass for awhile
instead of them. If they personate "-liberal commercial
principles" without really carrying them out, then the very
pretence of acting on them will lead back the public
mind to the consistent professors of those principles, and
restore them to their legitimate station.
STANDARD.—In obedience to the frequent and
earnest appeals of the Liberal press to the inhabitants
of the manufacturing districts, to attempt •by every
means in their power to obstruct and embarrass the new
Cabinet, a small and comparatively insignifant portion
of the householders of Manchester have signed a requi-
sition to the Mayor for a public meeting, having for
its professed object to take into consideration the
distressed state of that town and neighbourhood, and
the expediency of petitioning the Queen not to pro-
rogue the Parliainent until a " full discussion" of
" the corn and provision laws has been entered into,"
the requisitionists being of opinion that those laws
" are the main cause of the prevailing distress." The
principal -movers in this affair are Mr. Cobden and the
other Members of the Anti-corn-law League. Among
the requisitionists are many respectable and well mean-
ing persons, actuated no doubt by the best intentions ;
but by far the larger portion of them are obviously
of that order of politicians who are never chary of
their services when the work of agitation .is to be
done. Whatever their motives may be, they seem
to be hut imperfectly informed of the real causes of
the distress or which they complain. Were the Corn-
laws to be repealed to• morrow, and the• same system
of over-production to continue, the condition of the
industrious classes would not be ameliorated in the
slightest degree ; and_ when we contrast the misery
which is said to exist in our manufacturing towns
among the operative classes, with the overgrown
fortunes realised in' a few years by the least libe-
ral of their employers, it is not difficult to un-
derstand to what origin the evil is to be referred.
Whatever modification of the existing Corn laws may be
contemplated by Sir Robert Peel, he will not, we are sa-
tisfied, permit himself to be dictated to by people who
employ the phrase " provision laws" as a watchword of
faction; still less will he consent to allow such persons
to suggest to him in what manner he shall per-
form the responsible duties which have devolved
upon him. That there exists considerable distress in the
manufactining districts cannot be doubted, but that the
extent of that distress has been grossly exaggerated for
factious purposes is equally certain. Sir Robert Peel
requites no stimulus from the Anti-Corn-law League
and its dupes to induce him to seek the earliest possible
opportunity of applying a remedy to such a state of
things ; but. the consequences of long years of Whig
misrule cannot be removed in a week.
COURIER.—No further particulars have transpired
beyond what we were enabled to communicate yesterday
respecting the horrible attempt at assassination in Paris
of the Duke of Orleans, or one of his royal brothers who
finned part of the cortege entering Paris in triumphal
procession with him. But this atrocious event cannot
but re-awaken the most painful reflections on the moral
and religious state of a country where assassination is
reduced to a system, and trained assassins themselves
sympathisingly mourned over as'martyrs, when, on pro-
vidential failure of pistol or dagger, the miscreants are
delivered over to the tribunals, and finally condeMned to
expiate their sanguinary intents on the scaffold. In re•
viewing heretofore on various occasions the official
statistics of crime and education in France, we have had
occason to show from irrccusable authorities that in pro-
portion as the modern theories of education without
religion have been adopted as the basis of legislation
for the instruction of the masses, so also has crime be-
come rateably on the increase. Of late, indeed,
the French Government hare been made pain-
fully sensible of the fundamental error of their educa-
tional policy, and have laboured, not without success,
to retrace their steps by more specially associating
the clergy with the administration of a system
which has signally failed in all its promised fruits. Bat
the foundation being unsound—the tree being rotten at
the core—it were vain to hope by grafting on it more
wholesome shoots from a sounder stem to make it bear
meet fruit in good season. The whole system requires
to be revised and recast, with Christianity not only
for its basis, but as the pervading cement of every
part of the social structure. With this conviction
no one, we believe, is more deeply impressed than
that good man and able statesman, M. Guizot
himself ; nor is the conviction confined to him alone,
for the philosophic mind of France has been irresisti-
bly impelled to the same conclusions, notwithstanding
all the force of former prejudice against what were deemed
and treated as monkish superstitions of the olden time.
The recent writings of M. Chevalier, one of the ablest
and most enlightened men of the age, and peculiarly a
creation of the school of La Jenne France, with those of
other equally distinguished men who might be named,
tend to show how decidedly they have been converted
from a cherished attachment to former speculative anti-
cipations of social perfection to be arrived at by means
of a system of popular education based on purely secular
principles of ethics or morals. The frightful results de-
veloped by the official returns of educated and non-edu-
cated France have produced this change of convictions ;
returns which confirm the melancholy truth of the ex-
traordinary spread of crime following on merely laical
instruction.

THE LATE FIRE AND LOSS OF

LIFE IN PICCADILLY.
(ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.)
About five o'clock on Monday afternoon a large por-
tion of the wall between the houses Nos. 86 and 87, fell
down with a frightful crash, carrying the various floors
along with it, but providentally no person was hurt,
the fronts still remaininr, up. On Tuesday, it being
evident that the front ofb No. 86 would soon come
down, and probably bring with it the front of Nos. 87
and 88, a hoard was commenced round Nos. 86 and 87,
and supports were placed under the bow-windows of the
house of Mr. Nixon, No. 88, and under those of the
house at the corner of Half Moon-street. About hale
past five o'clock in the afternoon a loud crash was sud-
denly heard, and instantly that part of Piccadilly was en-
veloped in a dense cloud of dust, from which hundreds of
persons might be seen hastening in all directions. On
the dust clearing away a little, it was found that the
fronts of Nos. 86 and 87 had at last fallen ; fortunately
no one had been hurt.
Since the adjournment of the inquest it has transpired
that the name of the deceased was not William West,
but Moses West, in consequence of which some diffi-
culty has occurred as to the registering of the death,
to obviate which an application on the subject has
been made to Mr. Higgs, the Deputy-Coroner for
ilre:!mitister, who being aware that should it
turn out at the conclusion of the inquiry that the fire
had not been accidentally occasioned, the misnomer
might opentte to the frustration of justice, has issued
another warrant in the name of Moses West, and on the
Jury re-assembling on the adjournment day, the inquisi-
tion will be again gone through de nave. The body will,
therefore, remain at the workhouse in Mount-street,
until ugain viewed by the Coroner and Jury.
The other unfortunate sufferer, James Weaver, still
remains at St. George's Hospital in a most precarious
state.

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian.)
MANCHESTER, SEPT. 14.—There was a decidedly bet-
terpemand for yarn yesterday than on the preceding Tues-
day, and though no advance was obtained, prices were
tolerably firm. In the goods market there was a
tolerable demand for fustians, domestics, and long-cloths;
but shirtings and printing cloths continue much depressed.
MONDAY, SEPT. 13.
BoCHDALE FLANNEI:MARKET,
The flannel market continuos good, yet not quite so
many pieces have been sold as upon former Mondays.
Prices remain still very low. There is no change in the
wool market ; yet prices are firm.
HUDDERSFIELD ILLIMET, SEPT. 14.—A fair amount
of business was done to-day, yot not so much as last
week. Nor is there quite so much confidence felt in
commercial stability, partly owing_ to numerous failures
in most parts of the country, and the foreign demand
being on the wane. The principal demand was in
middle and low priced woollens and kerseys, In plain
superfines there was more animation ; and in light
fancy goods, generally, the demand was equal to the
season. Prices are firm, and business in the warehouses
continues tolerable.

Very large supplies of foreign corn are arriving
in the ports daily, and it is now reckoned that not less
than 1,500,000 qrs., including flour, will be cleared for
home consumption before the duty can rite again.—
Liverpool Times.

SURREY SESSIONS—YEsTERDAY.
(11:-fore Mr. ruexi,E and a Bench of Magistrates.)
Wit urn DanglZe Ava,: indicted for steaiing, on th
14th August last, 120 pence, 120 halikpenee, and certain
quantities of bread and meat, the property of Richard
Bashford.
Richard Bashford, the prosecutor, is a grocer resin ing
at Battersea. On the morning in question he left his
house at six o'clock, and returned shortly before seven,
when he discovered that two papers of half-pence and
certain quantities of bread and meat had been stolen
from his cupboard during his absence. On his return
home he met the prisoner at a short distance from his
house, walking away.
Jordan—ls a carpenter, and was at work on the
morning in question on the house next to Bashford's,
and on looking into Bashford's house, between si
and seven o'clock, he saw the prisoner there. He went
for a policeman, but Dungate was not taken into custody
at that time. He knew the prisoner, for he had been at
work with him in the same premises. They had both
worked for Mr. Cox.
On his cross-examination by Mr. Corner, the witness
said that he had on that morning told the prisoner that
if he came, on the premises again, Mr. Cox had given
orders that he should be taken into custody ; 110 was
in consequence of a quarrel which had taken place be-
tween the prisoner andMr.' Cox. The boy Hutchins was
with him at the time. On their way to the Magistrate's
at Wandsworth, had had some conversation with the
boy Hutchiis on the subject of tho charge; had told him
to speak the truth, and had denied before the Magistrates
that he had had such conversation, but admitted it now.
He had merely asked the boy about the day of the month,
which he had-forgotten. Had worked for Mr. Cox fin-
three years. Had previously worked for Mr. Spencer.
Had left him because he had no more work for him.
Had never been accused of stealing tools. Did not say
when he heard the prisoner was taken into custody that
he was glad to hear it. That he should like to hang him,
for he owed him him a grudge. Had never said any thing
of the sort.
Edward Hutchins, the boy, corroborated the evidence
of Jordan in every particular.
James Howard, a policeman, was told by Jordan on
the morning in question to take the prisoner into cus-
tody. He saw the prisoner walking away, and missed
him at the turning of a lane. The prisoner was walk-
ing, not running.
Police constable M‘Malion took the prisoner into cus-
tody on the 22d of August.
Mr. CORNER addressed the Jury for the pri-
soner, who had, since this occurrence, enlisted
in the Marines ; and on obtaining leave of ab-
sence from his commanding-of-Hoer at Woolwich,
had come back to the neighbourhood•where this had oc-
currz.,d to see his fattier, which he would certainly not
have done had he been guilty of this charge. The
Learned Counsel also commented severely en the testi-
mony of Jordan and Hutchins, and put it to the Jury
whether they could convict on such evidence.
Several witnesses gave the prisoner an excellent

ratter.
The CHAIRMAN summed up, and the Jury found the
prisoner Not Guilty.
IT'Sium Edmonds a little urchin, who was scarcely
higher than the bar, was convicted of stealing a cheese.
On inquiry, it appeared that although at the time he
committed the offence he was in company with a wed-
known thief, yet he was not known to the police, and
that his parents were hard working people. His mother,
a respectable-looking woman, was in 'Court, and
said she was not aware her son, who she ha)
always kept at school until lately, when he had
worked with his father, had any bad acquaintances,
and that he had been in custody fourteen days before his
parents were aware of where he was, during the whole
of which time his father had been searching for him.
The CHAIRMAN sentenced him to fourteen days' im-
prisonment in the House of Correction at Brixton, to be
kept in solitary confinement the whole time, and to be
once privately whipped.
Elizabeth Horsley was, indicted for stealing 12 yards
of printed calico, the property of Eleanor Williams.
The prosecutrix keeps a drapers'. shop in Lambeth-
walk, and on the night of Saturday, Aug. 21, between
the hours of 11 and 12, the shopman of the prosecutrix
received information which led him to look outside the door,
e hen he observed that a piece of calico, which was ex-
hibited outside the shop on a chair, was gone. He saw the
prisoner walking away; apprehended her, and the calico
was found in her possession.
The CHAIRMAN, in summing up, commented severely
on the imprudent conduct. of drapers in exposing goods
outside their shops at so late an hour-as between eleven
and twelve at night. - -
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, but recommended
her to mercy on the ground of the temptation which had
been thrown in her way by the imprudence of the pro-
secutrix in permitting the goods to be exposed in the
street at so late an hour.
Two previous convictions having been proved against
her, she was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment,
with hard lab our. -
The Court refused allow the expenses of the pro-
secution, on the ground that the incautious exposing of
goods in the street at so late an hour was holding out
too great a temptation to persons in the situation of the
prisoner.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

A case of very gross immorality was exposed yester-
day in the Justice-room, before Sir Peter Laurie, who
stated that in the whole course of his experience he had
never been called to adjudicate under circumstances at
all similar to those which were candidly avowed by the
two parties who appealed to him for his decision.
A man of very decent appearance, named Wm. Wright,
who said that he was a yeast-maker, was placed at the
bar, with a female infant in his arms, having been taken
into custody by a policeman for having stolen the child
from a Mrs. Harriet Elphy, the mother.
The complainant, a comely well-dressed person, stated
that she had been obliged to leave her husband, who had
been respectable, but was now a costermonger in the
perrywinkle line, on account of ill-treatment. By her
husband she had had four children, three of whom were
under his protection, and the fourth was under hers, un-
til the-defendant thought proper to take possession of the
little girl, upon the pretence that she was his own child,
which the Alderman might be assured was not the case.
Sir P. LAURIE—Does he mean that he is the father of
the child, you being the mother ? Defendant—Just
so, Sir. That's just the case, she is the mother and
James is certainly the father. In fact, she gave me up
the child herself, and as it is mine, I shall take good
care of it. _ _ _

Complainant—l do assure you, Sir P. Laurie, whatever
he may think, that he is not the father. My husband is
the father of my four children.
Sir P. LAURIE (to the woman)—Do you mean to ad-
mit that this man has had any reason to suppose himself
to be the father of this child ? Complainant—Why, he
may suppose so to be sure, but I assure you, upon my
honour, he's very much mistaken. It is not, nor is any
one of my children his, whatever may be his opinion.
DefendaPt—Tut, tut ; I've been a much greater fa-
vourite of hers than her husband has been for the last
five years, and its rayther odd that she should deny that
lam the father of this baby. As far as matters go, she
and I am a greet deal more man and wife than she and
her husband are, and no mistake.
Complainant—Not now, not now. Tdon't want to have
anything to do with you more ; and if my husband pro-
mises to treat me well, I'll go back and live happily with
him. _

Sir PETER LAURIE—I never heard of anything more
abominable.

Defendant—Correct, Sir ; you're quite correct. Its
very bad indeed.
Sir •P. LAuntE—Why, woman, is not your husband
jealous of this sort of participation ? Defendant—Jeal-
ous ? Not at all. He knows all about it as well as I (10.
Sometimes I lodged with them, and sometimes they
lodged with me, but wherever we were there was always
a complete correspondence between her and me. Lord
bless you, its no use to disguise it.
Sir P. LAuftm—Well, you are certainly the most
barefaced profligates I ever beheld, both of you.
Defendant—You are quite right, Sir, quite correct. I
know it. Its all bad as sure as this dear baby is mine. •
Complainant—You shall not have it, I tell you. The
child is my husband's, I .tell you; and I have often told
von so. _ _

Defendant—There, now. Why, your Worship, the
reason she wants the child, is because she knows if I keep
it I shall never go to see her any more. All she wants
is that I should go back to her ; but, as your Worship
says, that would be very incorrect, and I'll do nothing of
the kind.
Sir P. LAURIE—Why, you and she and her husband
are not a tittle better than brutes of the field.
Defendant—Correct. Sir : you're quite correct, I do
assure you. Yon never spoke a more true word.
Complainant—Your Worship is not aware that this
man, who wants to persuade me that the child is his, is
now living with a Mrs. Brown, with whom he has lived
at least thirteen or fourteen times. She's here waiting
for him.
Sir P. LAURIE.--Let Mrs. Brown step forward.
Mrs. Brown, a steady, sober-looking woman here made
her appearance")
Sir P. LAURIE—WeII, Mrs. Brown, do you happen to
know that gentleman at the bar with the child in his
arms ? Mrs. Brown (looking towards the bar)—Dl) you
mean that gentleman, your Lordship? (pointing to the
policeman.)
Sir P. LAURIE—NO. I mean the gentleman next to

him. -
Defendant—Yes, yes (to Mrs. Brown). Don't you
deny it.
Mrs. Brown—Oh, yes, please your Worship, I know
Mr. Wright.
Sir P. LAURIE—Do you live with him ? Mrs. Brown
(evidently shocked)--Live with him !• Oh, tie, no. I
hope the good lady as did live with him stint been taking
away my character.
Sir I'. Lauitir.—She only says that you and he now
live together as man and wife, and that you have done
so 13 or 14 different times.
Defendant—l did not live with her half so often, I'll
be on my oath.
Mrs. Brown—Your Worship, I hope you'll protect
me. lam a widow that lives by hard work, and I was
ust taking care of the dear baby for Mr. Wright. I
hope the child could not do me any harm.
The policeman said that lie apprehended the. °defendan
at Mrs. Brown's lodgings,t
where Wright appeared to be
master.
Complainant—Please your Worship ho lived with Mrs.
Brown, as modest as she is, when his own wife was alive.
I know all about it.
Sir P. LAURIE—The defendant must give up the child
to the mother, as she desires it, and a worse mother never
had a child. I must say that I never beheld more dis-
gusting profligacy.
Defendant (giving the child to the mother)—Correct,
Sir, you're quite correct. Its all bad. Now she thinks
I'll go back to her because she has got the child, but I
never will, and I'll tell her husband so.