The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-28 00:00:00

On Saturday last some workmen digging the founda-
tion of a new nuilding at Brussels found a great number
of Gallic gold, silver, and copper coins. They are des-
cribed as very curious.
The King and Queen of the Belgians, in visiting
France, have left their children at Ostend, where they
will remain till the return of their Majesties.
The reception given by the Emperor of Austria to
Prince Milosch at Vienna, on the 16th, is described in
the German Papers as singularly flattering. The Prince
was dressed in a splendid costume of blue and gold,
covered with pearls, his breast covered with the insignias
of orders adorned with diamonds. The Emperor, as a
mark of extraordinary favor allowed him the privilege
of shooting in the Imperial preserves.

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PARLXILIVIENTARY.
Her Majesty's answer to the Address was last night
read to the Peers. After expressing satisfaction that
the Lords are animated by a desire to promote the in-
terest and welfare of the people (why should the Queen
be made instrumental to such delusion and humbug), it
promised
to take into immediate consideration the
other
part of the Address, namely, that relative to the Tories
having no confidence in the Whigs, and a great deal in
their own ignorance.
The Billsifor Draining and Improving Towns, intro-
duced by Lord Normanby last Session, and reintroduced
on Tuesday, were read a second time.
The.correspondence which has taken place relative to
the election at Yarmouth, where it appears a number of
policemen erroneously supposed they were disfranchised
by their situation, and resigned in order to vote, which
has begotten several paragraphs in the Tory papers, is
to be la,d on their Lordships' table. They have ad-
journed till Monday.
In the Commons, Mr. M. Phillips presented the peti-
tion of the Manchester Conference.
Mr. Sharman Crawford gave notice of an addition to
the Address on bringing up the Report, recommending
an Extension of the Suffrage.
Captain Berkeley called attention to the Jewish prac-
tice of making her Majesty's seamen in the Mediter-
ranean take a dollar which passes far only 45., at 4s. 4d.,
taking away from him 9 per cent. of his pay. The prac-
tice is to be remedied. Who has pocketed the difference?
The adjourned debate was resumed by Mr. Monckton
Milnes, who took the same line as the rest of the Tories,
and refused to consider or talk of anything but of the
unfitness of the Whigs, and the fitness of the seraphic
Tories. to govern the country. Another dull debate, in
which the speakers were Mr. Rennie, Mr. Wallace, Mr.
Hindley, Mr. Wigney, were the first speakers, ensued.,
It got a little more lively towards nine o'clock, when
Mr. Villiers made a useful speech ; Mr. Hawes a smart
one ; and Mr. O'Connell an impassioned one.
Sir Robert Peel followed Mr. O'Connell, and lashed
him severely for his vituperation of all parties ; telling
him that what he said had lost all weight and value.
The Right Hon. Baronet forgot that when Mr. O'Con-
nell called the Whigs bloody and brutal, they were re-
presented in Ireland by his Right Hon. Friend Lord
Stanley. The Right Hon. Baronet made on the whole a
showy speech, but we are sure he has nothing good to offer
the country, by dwelling with much emphasis on the
peace of Europe, and recommending the nations to dis-
arm. We heard this part of his speech with great plea-
sure, for it told against his party. He dwelt much on
his recent declarations ; and instead of telling the
House what policy be would follow, defended at great
length the sliding scale. He talked largely, too, about
his independence of partizans, and his resolution, if
Ter devolved on him, to act on his own conscientious
convictions. His speech seemed to us to want the ac-
cents of sincerity.
Lord John Russell concluded the debate by an elabo-
rate and judicious defence of the policy of Ministers.
He showed that they had been successful abroad and at
home, and had lost the confidence of the country more
by misrepresentations than by their own demerits. At
the close Lord John made some observations about
the press, that were rather a compliment to the
Tory Journals, and a slur on the Journals of his
own party, than a vindication of himself, and might have
been spared. The division which ensued is elsewhere
mentioned.

PUBLIC OPINION.
The Morning Chronicle insists that, so far from being
a free agent, Sir Robert Peel will be hampered at every
step he takes by the faction who have got him fast bound
to their chariot-wheels. The following are our Con-
temporary's remarks on this subject :—" That Sir Ro-
bert Peel will not be long in office before wishing the
Chandos clause were repealed, we verily believe. But
he dare not fly in the face of his masters. He knows
that the Chandos clause prevents him from discharging
honestly his duty to his Sovereign and to the people ;
but he knows also that he has no power to shake off the
yoke. The Duke of Richmond has only to wag his little
finger, and out he goes. In the serious times which are
approaching, it is of infinite importance that the people
should know their real position, that their force may not
be mis-directed. We are the thralls of the landlords.
They can make and unmake Ministries, and, as the Duke
of Wellington observed, that if the people will not be
quiet they ought to be made quiet, so the landlords
make light of the inclinations or opinions of the Queen.
They can make her quiet. They have proved their power."
" Serious times" are indeed approaching, but far more
serious for the landlords than the people. Let the for-
mer then take warning in time. The days are past when
the many could be made to succumb in quiet is the few.
It is now for the few to tremble, when the many express
their determination to be righted.
In another article, our Contemporary, alluding to Mr.
Peter Borthwick's oratorical display in the House of
Commons last night, says ;—" Mr. Peter Borthwick rose
up, and straightway nearly the whole House waked
out." This sudden and general movement on the part.
of lion. Members, reminds us of a fable in lEsop, where
the beasts are represented as holding a solemn council.
First the Lion addressed the assembly-then the Tiger—
then the Fox—but when at last the Ass got up to speak,
the whole meeting at once took to their heels ! We re-
commend this apt fable to the particular attention of
Mr. Peter Borthwick.
We quote the following significant passage from the
Times :—" 'Beware of America,' said Mr. Grattan. Pray
what does this mean ? Many of the great communities
in the United States participate largely, they tell us, in
the feelings and designs of the sympathizers on the Cana-
dian frontier.. To seduce the subjects of Great Britain
from their allegiance is the main object which those
sympathizers have in view. This tampering with Ire-
land, which was originally invited by O'Connell him-
self, was first responded to at. Boston, from whence the
resident Papists despatched to Dublin a violent revolu-
tionary address. More recently the Irish Repeal Associa-
tion has received a contribution of 1001. from its republi-
can approvers in New York. Who does not see, then, that
Mr. Grattan's admonitory warnings, coupled with his
faction's American machinations, are just a covert intima-
tion, or rather a very broad one, that the accession of a
constitutional Government is about to be villanously
perverted in Ireland as a plea for sedition and revolt?"
This is evidently put forth as a sort of feeler, in order
to try the pulse of the people, and ascertain how far they
will relish the sending of fresh troops to Ireland, and
carrying matters with a high hand there. Indeed the
Times confesses as much without disguise, for, at the close
of its article, it observes, "governed the Irish subjects
of her Majesty must be, and shall be." Now, we all
know the meaning of the word " goierned," as applied
to Tory legislation in Ireland. It means neither snore
nor less than a revival of the Orange system of misrule
in that country ; a renewal of tithe. hunts, Rathcormac
massacres, and out-door Protestant ascendancy ! But
will Ireland submit to this sort of government ? Im-
possible. She will rise as one man, and not cease from
strenuous agitation till she obtains all that .-She has a
right to obtain at the hands of an English Ministry.
The Herald is quite indignant that Ministers should
have been so far forgetful of precedent as to put common
sense and spirit into a Royal Speech, and adds, that this
Speech "is little less than a declaration of war against
the rights and privileges of the British constitution."
Our Tory Contemporary 'would prefer a Royal Speech
modelled on the good old Tory principle, and containing
a " declaration of war" only against syntax and gram-
mar. We quote the Herald's remarks on this matter,
for they are exceedingly rich in point of absurdity,
especially in the comparison instituted between her
Majesty and the " leaders of the French Revolution!"—
" We perfectly assent to the manly and constitutional
declaration of the Duke of Wellington, that the lan-
guage which the Ministers have put into her Majesty's
mouth in her Speech to the Parliament, is little less than
a declaration of war against the rights and privileges of
the British Constitution. It is an appeal to the passions
of the people against their known and deliberate judg-
ment, as expressed in the result of the late general elec-
tion. To make the Queen appeal to her beloved people'
against her ' beloved Hou.;es of Parliament,' is, in
fact, to make her act the part of the leaders of the French
revolution, who continually appealed from the Govern-
ments, as by law established, to the people, as distinct
from those Governments. Such is the mad, revolution-
ary, and traitorous conduct of the present advisers of
the Crown, who are now resolved to enter on a course
of the most factious and unprincipled opposition—liay,
to create, if possible, a backstairs opposition to any Mi-
nistry which does not carry out their headlong measures
of anarchy and revol..f ion.'
We find the following in the Post :—"The amendment
to the Address is described by the Ministerial Journal-
ists, and by some coarse Ministerialists in the House of
Commons, as an affront to the Throne. Instead of
going into consideration of the Corn-laws, the Ad-
dress acquaints her Majesty that Parliament has no con-
fidence in her Majesty's Ministers. This is called an
affront to the Throne. We say it is no such thing ; but
we may very fairly retort that the continuance of Minis-
ters in office up to this time is an affront to Parliament."
The Advertiser thus alludes to the late Manchester
Conference :—" We hail the calm and philosophic dis-
cussion of the Corn-laws at the recent Conference ; and
the more so, because the banner of the Church has sel-
dom been upreared on the side of the people. History
furnishes us with too many instances of the tendency of
the clergy to range themselves on the side of arbitrary
power, and to forget that their duty is to sustain the
oppressed, instead of supporting the oppressor."
The Nottingham Review observes, with reference to
the prospects of the Tories:—" If they use their power
with moderation, they may continue for many years to
direct the reins of state, but if they indulge in the old
vices of Toryism, and despise, insult,
and oppress the
people, again will they be shaken off, as an incubus of
which a generous and high-minded nation will be weary."
The Chelmsford Chrorkb,_ speaking of the Corn-law
question, says :—" It is well known we feel no sym-
pathy with the Anti-Corn-law cry ; we think the Go-
vernment to a great degree merit the ruin into which
they have recklessly flung themselves by an attack upon
the land ; but Parliament having been specially elected
to decide on the proposition, it ought to give a special
answer. When it shrinks from that answer it engen-
ders suspicion of its integrity in the minds of those who
are honestly determined to stand by a fair protection
to the soil."

The Derby Reporter expresses itself as follows on the
subject of the Manchester Conference :—" The minis-
terial Conference, at Manchester, must convince every
reflecting mind that the Corn-law question has taken
too strong hold of the public mind to be disposed of
without some material melioration, or a desperate
struggle, which must involve the land in continued
suffering and misery. The attendance of six hundred
and fifty ministers, at great personal inconvenience and
expense, from all parts, including the remotest dis-
tricts of the kingdom, speaks volumes on the urgency
of the cause which brought them together."

MONEY—TRADE—COMMERCE.
The hosiery trade at Nottingham is very bad ; a great
many hands remaining idle or only partially employed.
Trade in Leicestershire is equally bad.
At the meeting of the Shareholders of the British
Iron Company, on Thursday, the motion for a dissolution
of the Company was rejected by a considerable majority,
when it was intimated that a dissolution would be sought
for by proceedings in Chancery.

AGRICULTURAL.
At Nottingham the weather has been favourable
during the week, and on every hand the scythe and the
sickle are busily employed in cutting down the golden
ears of plenty. Much barley has been housed, and very
little white corn will be standing at the end of the week.
In Wiltshire the weather is still unsettled; and a good
deal of rain has fallen. The harvest gets on slowly ; in
a great ninny places the wheat is very green.

NAVAL AND MILITARY.
The utmost activity now prevails at our naval arsenals,
and many ships of large size have been ordered to be
commissioned. The Impregnable, three-decker, 110, is
the only ship at Spithead.
Information has arrived that her Majesty's •loop Acorn
on the 11th of last July, had been engaged with the brig
Gabriel, a pirate, under Spanish colours, mounting 18
guns and 62 men, which, after three hours hard fighting,
struck. The prize has been sent to St. Helena, and the
pirate crew transhipped to the Acorn.

LAW AND POLICE.
At Lambeth-street Police-office on Thursday, a case of
some interest to the mercantile community was decided.
John Bruton East, the master of the ship Britannia, ap-
peared to answer the claim of Archibald M`Neile, a sea-
man, who made a demand of 12/. 10s. for his services on
board, on a voyage from London to Jamaica and back.
Five of the crew were taken ill of the fever in Jamaica,
one of whom died, and the Captain called upon a doctor
to attend them on board, and he made a deduction of
14s. from the wages of each sick man for the expenses
of the doctor, which the complainant refused to comply
with. Mr. Broderip said by Act of Parliament the mas-
ter of a vessel was bound to provide a medicine-chest,
and whatever medicine or advice plight be necessary for
the health of the men,and he therefore ordered the full
wages to be paid with costs.
At Guildhall, Mr. Watson, a solicitor in Falcon-
square, appeared to answer a complaint laid by Captain
Shipston, of Botherfield- street, Islington, for detaining
a ship's register, whereby he forfeited 100/. The evi-
dence had been taken at great length on the 13th inst.,
and Mr. Alderman Wilson yesterday expressed his
opinion that the plea of detention, urged by the defen-
dant till his bill was paid, would not hold against the
statute, nor would the plea that the complainant,
because he had received 1,5001. out of 6,5001., was
bound to give up possession of the ship or his title-
deeds to it. Till the payment was complete the com-
plainant remained the owner, and was therefore entitled
to possession of the register. He must therefore order the
ship's register to be given up. The defendant, acting
under the advice of Mr. Clarkson, refused to part with it,
when the Alderman said the terms of the Act were im-
perative, and it must either be given up or he would in-
flict the penalty of 1001., and in default of payment
commit Mr. Watson to prison for three months. Mr.
Watson eventually paid 1001., under protest, and kept
the register.
At the Liverpool assizes on' Wednesday, Thomas
Roche and Samuel Blackney were indicted for the mur-
der of Matthew Naylor, a musician, on the 12th of April,
at Manchester. The Jury retired for about an hour,
and not considering the evidence sufficient, returned a
verdict of Not Guilty.

COURT—FASHIONABLE.
Prince Albert's birth-day was celebrated on Thursday
at Windsor with great rejoicings, and the 72d Highlanders
were reviewed in the Home Park. At Kensington, most
of the houses were illuminated.
The Marchioness of Exeter arrived on Thursday at
Brighton.

A- French journal announces that Queen "Victoria has
lately composed the music for two ballads of Schiller,
one entitled "To Emma," and the other To a youth
on the brink of the water."

MISCELLANEOUS.
A monument, has within the past week been erected
in the South East Transept of Salisbury Cathedral, to
the memory of the late Canon Marsh, Chancellor of this
Diocese.

It is well known that trees, and chiefly the oak, are
frequently struck by lightning. Chymists attribute this
to the quantity of iron held in solution by the sap, and
distributed through the whole tree.
Mr. Baker held an inquest on Thursday on the body of
a child who had died from a fall. The accident caused
stupor, which the mother mistook for sleep, and the
pr -Ter remedy being neglected, the child died. Instances
of this kind, it appears, are frequent.
By the machinery at Weevil, near Portsmouth, eight
men and two boys manufacture ninety hundred weight
of biscuit in an hour and a half.
The Vine Inn, at Honiton, was set fire to on Saturday
night by an incendiary. The fire, however, was soon
got undor.

A Commission of Lunacy was opened on Thursday at
Kensington, to inquire into the state of mind of Miss
Charlotte F. Rowley, agcd twenty-four years, who,
among other strange delusions, fancied that her' rips
were falling to pieces, and that she had lost her head !
The Jury retnrned a verdict of " Unsound mind."
A private of the Royal Guards at Paris received some
time ago a violent kick on the head from a horse, and
ever since then the excitement of his hair has become so
extreme, that it can only be kept under by almost con-
tinual bleedings, both local and general. The slightest
touch is felt instantly, and cutting the hair gives exqui-
site pain.

TU-day is the anniversary of the death of Robespierre,
who was guillotined in 1794.
General Gascoigne, who was formerly the Tory Mem-
ber for Liverpool, and whose vote gave the famous majo-
rity of one on the first division on the Reform Bill, died
on Thursday, at his house in South Audley-street, of in-
flammation of the bowels.

Mr. Peter Borthwick has a decided talent for clearing
Houses. A few years ago he cleared the Surrey Theatre
by his performance of Othello; and last night—according
to the aro/tide—he cleared the House of Commons by
his speech on the amendment question.
Thursday an inquest was held at St. George's Hospi-
tal on the body of a man unknown, between 68 and 70
years of age, who was killed by a brick falling on his
head from a scaffolding in the Edgeware-road. A
labourer had shot some bricks as the deceased was pass-
ing, and one falling over at the height of 40 feet, knouked
deceased down and fractured his skull. Accidental death,
and deodand on the brick one shilling.

CEN TRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice ERSKINE and Mr. Justice COLERIDG R. )
Thomas Luke Wills, a clerk in the General Post-office,
pleaded guilty to an indictment for having stolen a 101. note,
from a letter placed in the Post-office. 'the facts of this case
recently appeared in The Sun, at the time of the examination
of the prisoner at Bow-street.
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE, in passing sentence, said, that al-
thongh evidence was ready to be tendered of the good charac-
ter of the prisoner, the crime to which he had pleaded guilty
was so frequent an occurrence, that it was necessary, although
it was painful to the Court, to make an example of the priso-
ner. The sentence of the Court was, that he be transported
for the term of fifteen years.
Elizabeth Maxwell, aged 30, married, was indicted for •e-
-loniously at d maliciously stabbing James Maxwell, her hus-
band, with intent to murder him.
The Jury, under the direction of the Learned Judge, ac-
quitted the prisoner on the capital charge, and she pleaded
guilty to the common assault.
The facts of the case, as they transpired were recently pub-
lished in The Sun, the prisoner having stabbed her husband in
the back, in a fit of jealousy.
The Learned Judge COLERIDGE then addressed the prisoner,
and said—You have been convicted, upon your own confes-
sion, doubtless advised by your counsel, of a most serious crime.
Upon the statement that Las been made, both by the
Learned Counsel of the prosecution and for yourself, it has
been thought right at least that no evidence should be
offered in respect to the most grievous part of the charge, and
the Jury have done their duty in respect to that, and found you
not guilty, and you have yourself pleaded guilty to the re-
mainder of the charge. That charge taken by itself is a very
serious one indeed, and even under all the mitigating circum-
stances which appeared to excite you to the commission of it,
it is impossible tor the Court to pass it over with anything like
a nominal punishment. It was stated that having seen your
husband under the most highly provoking circumstances, you
had gone back to your own house, and then inflicted on him the
blow with a knife, aed I must say that, if that fact had remained
unaltered, it would have been very difficult for the Jury, ac-
cording to their oaths, not to have found you guilty on the most
grievous part of the charge, because however high the provo-
cation the law will not allow any person deliberately so pro-
voked to inflict injury or take lif.. i have had in the course of i
my experience an instance before me, strongly impressed on my
recollection, when one of the most learned and humane Judges
that ever sat on the bench thought it his duty to inform a prisoner
who was before him, under the same circumstances, that had
the Jury believed that he procured the pistol and fired it, know-
ing it to be loaded with deedly means of destruction—however
high the provocation might have been, the offence would have
been m ilful murder. The law will not allow any person to
avenge himself in that mode. You are relieved, by the ex-
planation that has been made, from that serious part of the
charge, because it seems you did not go for that purpose when
y, ,u went home. You had probably no thought of vengeance
with the knife you had in your hand when you deserted the
house ; but it was in your hand when you received the provo-
cation; and as the unhappy blow was given, it remains now
to pass on you such a sentence as the facts of the in-
quiry seem to require. And very painful it is for
me to pass upon you anything like a severe
or painful sentence, because we cannot but recollect that the
act was done on serious provocation—the most grievous perhaps
a woman could receive; and we have learned that up to this
passage of your life you have conducted yourself in a most ex-
emplary manner. But you must pay the pe.nalty for the crime
for which you have been found guilty—for the sake of others,
for the sake of society, and for the sake of the law, you will
suffer a severe punishment. The sentence of the Court is, that
you be imprisoned in the House of Correction for 12 calendar
months, and that during that time you be kept to hard labour.
The prisoner, who was extremely affected throughout the
address, was then led from the bar.
Thomas Priest, alias William Smith, aged 20, was con-
victed of a burglary in the House of Thomas Johnson, and
stealing therein twenty-four gold and silver watches, a large
quantity of jewellery and plate, of the value of between 6001.
and 700/., a-id sentenced to transportation far fifteen years.