The Sun.
London, England, 1834-12-18 00:00:00

NEW COURT.

Ellen Hannon was indicted for uttering a counterfeit half.
crown to Francis Herdrick, with intent to defraud him.

It appeared that the prisoner, accompanied by two men,
went to the prosecutor's shop in Fitzroy. square, and purchased
half an ounce of tea, for which she tendered a half-crown
piece, which was changed, and immediately afterwards it was
discovered to be bad. She was pursued, but denied knowing
the piece to be a counterfeit ; at the same moment she was
observed to throw something down, which was picked up and
found to be another half-crown of the same description.
Mr. Field, Inspector of the Mint, examined both pieces, and
declared them to be counterfeit, and cast in the the same mould.

The prisoner, who still denied the felonious knowledge, was
found Guilty.
Timothy Grady, aged 61, was indicted for uttering two
counterfeit shillings, with intent to defraud James Thomas
Edwards.

The prisoner went to the prosecutor's shop in Aldersgate-
street, and bought an ounce of salts, for which he tendered a
shilling, and received the change. On a subsequent day, he
came for a pennyworth of ointment, and tendered another
shilling ; but the shopman had discovered that the former one
was bad, as well as tho second, and had him taken into cus-
tody. Verdict—Guilty.

BUSINESS OF THE COURT.
The gentlemen of the Bar frequently complain to the Court,
that from the present system they are unable to tell when the
cases in which they are engaged will come on, and that fre-
quently prisoners have not above two or three hours' notice of
trial, and consequently they are unable sufficiently to prepare
for their defence.

It appears that the business of the present session had been
arranged by the authorities of the Court in the following man-
ner commitments of the first week after the last ses-
sion were to be taken by the Grand Jury on the first day of
the present session ; those of the second week on the second
day, and so on in rotation, a day for each intervening week,
until all the bills were disposed of. It was thought that the
Police Magistrates would have furnished a sufficient number
of cases for the first day, or if not, that the aldermen and county
magistrates would make up the deficiency. This, however, has
not been the case, chiefly on account of the trifling nature of
the charges brought before them, and the plan not being per-
fectly understood. This, however, is not likely to occur again.
The Judges recommended that the New Court should not sit
upon the first day, having found great inconvenience on the
Winter Home Circuit, arising form the Grand Jury not being
able to furnish bills fast enough to occupy both Courts. The
Petty Juries were consequently discharged until the following
day, and the prosecutors and witnesses were not detained a
whole day for nothing, as formerly. By the present plan,
instead of 500 or 600 witnesses being all at once in attendance,
only so many are summoned together, as the Grand Jury are
likely to examine in the course of each day, and the allow-
ances which the absent witnesses would otherwise receive are
saved to the county.

LITERATURE,

THE OMNIPRESENCE OF THE DEITY.

A POEM. BY ROBERT MONTGOMERY, A.B. THIRTEENTH

EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED.
London : Simphin and Marshall. 1834.

When a book reaches the thirteenth edition within
the lifetime of its author, having fairly travelled through
the preceding editions at the solicitation of the public,
it has nothing to fear, and very little to hope for, from
newspaper criticism. It becomes, by that kind of
universal consent, or rather forbearance, which leads to
the establishment of customs in common law, a " part
and parcel " of the literature of the country : and
though, like the law, it may in time become obselete,
yet can it never all at once be abrogated.
Nearly half the volume before us is composed of
short pieces, some of them, we believe, never before
published. They contain passages of greater beauty
and originality than any to be found in the " Omni-
presence of the Deity." The following description of
Night, though not the best specimen of the author's
ability, is, nevertheless, a fair criterion of the general
merit of his minor poems

Another day is added to the mass
Of buried ages. Lo ! the beauteous moon,
Like a fair shepherdess, now comes abroad,
With her full flock of stars, that roam around
The azure mead of heaven. And, Oh ! how charm'd
Beneath her loveliness, creation looks ;
Far-gleaming hills, and light-inweaving streams,
And fragrant boughs with dewy lustre clothed,
And green-hair'd valleys, all in glory dress'd,
make up the pageantries of Night. One glance
Upon old Ocean, where the woven beams
Have braided her dark waves. Their roar is husli'd!
Her billowy wings are folded up to rest ;
Till once again the wizard winds shall yell,
And tear them into strife.

A lone owl's hoot—
The waterfall's faint drip,—or insect stir
Among the emerald leaves,—or infant wind
Rifling the pearly lips of sleeping flowers,—
Alone disturb the stillness of the scene.

Spirit of All ! as up yon star-hung deep
Of air, the eye and heart together mount,
Mans immortality within him speaks
That Thou art all around! Thy beauty walks
In airy music o'er the midnight heavens ;
Thy glory garmenteth the slumb'ring world."

The splendid services of rich cut glass for his
Highness the P acha of Egypt, manufactured by Jones, of
Ludgate-hill, will remain a few days longer, previous to their
being forwarded to Egypt.

SIR R. PEEL'S MINISTERIAL MANIFESTO.

TO THE ELECTORS OF THE BOROUGH OF

TAMWORTH.

GENTLEMEN,—On the 26th of November last, being
then at Rome, a received from his Majesty a summons,
wholly unforeseen and unexpected by me, to return to
England without delay, for the purpose of assisting his
Majesty in the formation of a new Government. I instantly
obeyed the command for my return, and, on my arrival, I
did not hesitate, after an anxious review of the position of
public affairs, to place at the disposal of my Sovereign any
services which I might be thought capable of rendering.

My acceptance of the first office in the Government ter-
minates, for the present, my political connection with you.
In seeking the renewal of it, whenever you shall be called
upon to perform the duty of electing a Representative in
Parliament, I feel it incumbent upon me to enter into a de-
claration of my views of public policy—as full and unre-
served as I can make it, consistently with my duty as a
Minister of the Crown.
You are entitled to this from the nature of the trust
which I again solicit—from the long habits of friendly inter-
course in which we have lived—and from your tried ad-
herence to me in times of difficulty, when the demonstration
of unabated confidence was of peculiar value. I gladly
avail myself also of this, a legitimate opportunity, of making
a more public appeal—of addressing, through you, to that
great and intelligent class of society, of which you are a
portion, and a fair and unexceptionable representative—to
that class which is much less interested in the contentions
of party than in the maintenance of order, and the cause of
good government, that frank exposition of general principles
and views, which appears to be anxiously expected, and
which it ought not to be the inclination, and cannot be the
interest, of a Minister of this country to withhold.
Gentlemen, the arduous duties in which I am engaged,
have been imposed upon me through no act of mine.
Whether they were an object of ambition coveted by
whether I regard the power and distinction they confer, as
any sufficient compensation for the heavy sacrifices they
involve, are matters of mere personal concern, on which I
will not waste a word. The King, in a crisis of great diffi-
culty, required my services. The question I had to decide
was this—shall I obey the call? or shall I shrink from the
responsibility, alleging as the reason that I consider myself,
in consequence of the Reform Bill, as labouring under a
sort of moral disqualification which must preclude me, and
all who think with me, both now and for ever from enter-
ing into the official service of the Crown ? 'Would it, I
ask, be becoming in any public man to act upon such a
principle ? Was it fit that I should assume that either
the object or the effect of the Reform Bill has been to pre-
clude all hope of a successful appeal to the-good sense and
calm judgment of the people, and so to fetter the preroga-
tive of the Crown that the King has no free choice among
his subjects, he must select his Ministers from one section,
and one section only of public men.

I have taken another course, but I have not taken
it without deep and anxious consideration as to the pro-
bability that my opinions are so far in unison with those of
the constituent body of the united kingdom, as to enable
me and those with whom I am about to act, and whose
sentiments are in entire concurrence with my own, to esta-
blish such a claim upon public confidence as shall enable us
to conduct with vigour and success the Government of this
country.

I have the firmest conviction that that confidence cannot
be secured by any other course than that of frank and ex-
plicit declarations of principle ; that vague and unmeaning
professions of popular opinions may quiet distrust for a time,
may influence this or that election, but that such profes-
sions must ultimately and signally fail, if, being made,
they are not adhered to, or if they are inconsistent with
the honour and character of those who make them.

Now, I say at once that I will not accept power on the
condition of declaring myself an apostate from the princi-
ples on which I have heretofore acted. At the same time
I never will admit that I have been, either before or after
the Reform Bill, the defender of abuses, or the enemy of
judicious reforms. I appeal with confidence, in denial of
the charge, to the active part I took in the great question
of the currency, in the consolidation and amendment of the
criminal law—in the revisal of the whole system of Trial
by Jury—to the opinions I have professed, and uniformly
acted on with regard to other branches of the jurispru-
dence of the country. I appeal to this as a proof that I
have not been disposed to acquiesce in acknowledged evils,
either from the mere superstitious reverence for ancient
usages, or from the dread of labour or responsibility in the
application of a remedy.
But the Reform Bill, it is said, constitutes a new era,
and it is the duty of a Minister to declare explicitly, first
whether he will maintain the Bill itself ; and, secondly,
whether he will act upon the spirit in which it was con-
ceived.

'With respect to the Reform Bill itself, I twill repeat
now the declaration which I made when I entered the
House of Commons as a Member of the Reformed Par-
liament, that I consider the Reform Bill a final and ir-
revocable settlement of a great constitutional question—a
settlement which no friend to the peace and welfare of this
country would attempt to disturb, either by direct or by
insidious means.

Then as to the spirit of the Reform Bill, and the willing-
ness to adopt and enforce it as a rule of Government. If
by adopting the spirit of the Reform Bill it be meant that
we are to live in a perpetual vortex of agitation—that pub-
lic men can only support themselves in public estimation by
adopting every popular impression of the day, by promising
the instant redress of any thing which any body may call
an abuse, by abandoning altogether that great aid of Go-
vernment, more powerful than either law or reason, the
respect for ancient rights, and the deference to prescriptive
authority ; if this be the spirit of the Reform Bill, I will
not undertake to adopt it ; but if the spirit of the Reform
Bill implies merely a careful review of institutions, civil and
ecclesiastical, undertaken in a friendly temper, combining
with the firm maintenance of established rights the correc •
tion of proved abuses and the redress of real grievances, in
that case I can for myself and colleagues undertake to act
in such a spirit, and with such intentions.

Such declarations of general principle are, I am aware,
necessarily vague, but in order to be more explicit, I will
endeavour to apply them practically to some of those
questions which have of late attracted the greatest share
of public interest and attention.
I take first the inquiry into Municipal Corporations.
It is not my intention to advise the Crown to interrupt
the progress of that inquiry, or to transfer the conduct of it
from those to whom it was committed by the late Govern-
ment.

For myself I gave the best proof that I was not un-
friendly to the principle of inquiry, by consenting to be a
member of that Committee of the House of Commons on
which it was originally devolved.
No report has yet been made by the Commissioners to
whom the inquiry was afterwards referred, and until that
report be made I cannot be expected to give, on the part
of the Government, any other pledge than that they will
bestow on the suggestions it may contain, and the evidence
on which they may be founded, a full and unprejudiced
consideration.

I will, in the next place, address myself to the questions
in which those of our fellow-countrymen, who dissent from
the doctrines of the Established Church, take an especial
interest. Instead of making new professions I will refer to
the course which I took upon those subjects when out of
power. In the first place, I supported the measure brought
forward by Lord Althorp, the object of which was to
exempt all classes from the payment of church rates, apply-
ing in lieu thereof, out of a branch of the revenue, a certain
sum for the building and repair of churches.
I never expressed, nor did I entertain, the slightest ob-
jection to the principle of a Bill of which Lord John Rus-
sell was the author, intended to relieve the conscientious
scruples of Dissenters, in respect to the ceremony of mar-
riage. I give no opinion now on the particular measures
themselves. They were proposed by Ministers in whom
the Dissenters had confidence. They were intended to
give relief, and it is sufficient for my present purpose to
state that I supported the principle of them.
I opposed, and I am bound to state that my opinions in
that respect have undergone no change, the admission of
Dissenters, as a claim of right, into the Universities ; but
I expressly declared, if regulations, enforced by public
authorities superintending the professions of law and medi-

:ine, and the studies connected with them, had the effect
of conferring advantages of the nature of civil privßeges
on
one class of the King's subjects from which another !lass
was excluded, those regulations ought to undergo modifica-
tion, with the view of placing all the King's subjects, what-
3ver their religious creed, upon a footing of perfect equality
in respect to any civil privilege.
I appeal to the course which I pursued on those several
questions, when office must have been out of contempla-
tion ; and I ask with confidence, does that course imPIY
that I was actuated by any illiberal or intolerant spirit to-
wards the Dissenting body, or by an unwillingness to con-
sider fairly the redress of any real grievances ?
In the examination of other questions which excited public
feeling, I will not omit the pension list. I resisted, and
with the opinions I entertain, I should again resist a retro-
spective inquiry into pensions granted by the Crown, at a
time when the discretion of the Crown was neither fettered
by law, nor by the expression of any opinion on the part of
the House of Commons ; but I voted for the resolution
moved by Lord Althorp, that pensions on the Civil List
ought for the future to be confined to such persons only as
have just claims to the Royal beneficence, or are entitled to
consideration on account either of their personal services to
the Crown, or of the performance of duties to the public,
or of their scientific or literary eminence. On the resolu-
tion which I thus supported as a private Member of Par-.
liament, I shall scrupulously act as a Minister of the
Crown, and shall advise the grant of no pension which is
not in conformity with the spirit and intention of the vote
to which I was a party.
Then, as to the great question of Church Reform, °l3
that head I have no new professions to make. I cannot re
my consent to the alienation of Church property, in any
part of the United Kingdom, from strictly ecclesiatical pur-
poses. But I repeat now the opinions that I have alreadY
expressed in Parliament, in regard to the Church Establish-
ment in Ireland, that if, by an improved distribution of the
revenues of the Church, its just influence can be extended,
and the true interests of the established religion promoted,
all other considerations should be made subordinate to the
advancement of objects of such paramount importance.

As to Church property in:this country, no person has el-
pressed a more earnest wish than I have done that the
question of tithe, complicated and difficult as I acknow-
ledge it to be, should, if possible, be satisfactorily settled by
the means of a commutation founded upon just principles'
and proposed after mature consideration.
With regard to alterations in the laws which govern our
Ecclesiastical Establishment, I have had no recent opPw"
tunity of giving that grave consideration to a subject of the
deepest interest, which could alone justify me in makiet
any public declaration of opinion. It is a subject which
must undergo the fullest deliberation, and into that delibere:o
tion the Government will enter with the sincerest desire ;0
remove every abuse that can impair the efficiency of tea
Establishment, to extend the sphere of its usefulness, aP
to strengthen and confirm its just claims upon the respect
and affections of the people. r ther
It is unnecessary for my purpose to enter into itir-
details. I have said enough, with respect to general Pilo
ciples and their practical application to public measures,
e,
indicate the spirit in which the King's Government is Pr,
'
pared to act. Our object will be the maintenance of Peace
the scrupulous and honourable fulfilment, without refer 7:
to their original policy, of all existing engagements with ,nt
reign Powers, the support of public credit, the enforceal.l_o
of strict economy, and the just and impartial considerat,w,
'
of what is due to all interests, agricultural, manufactuier'
and commercial. 4)o'
Whatever may be the issue of the undertaking e.
I am engaged, I feel assured that you will mark, by eo 1
newal of your confidence, your approbation of the eeu-
I
have ursued in accepting office.
the
enter upon the arduous duties assigned to me, Ny-th
r„ t
deepest sense of the responsibility they impose—with gctils,
distrust of my own qualifications for their adequate e,
charge, but at the same time with a resolution to Perse' `.ere,
which nothing could inspire but the strong impulse of roo
duty, the consciousness of upright motives, and the. tai"
belief that the people of this country will so far mon, of
the prerogative of the King, as to give to the Minis!'
his choice—not an implicit confidence—but a fair tris''

I am, Gentlemen,
With affectionate regard,
Most faithfully your's,„.
(Signed) ROBERT PE.614

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY)

(FROM LLOYD'S.) A,giveti
DEAL, DEC. 15.—Wind N. N. E., strong breeze.---°.-40.
from the river and sailed the Japan, Hill, for the South
The Hero, for Antwerp, and Sesostris, for London, renaa'ri.
PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 17. —Wind N. N. E. ztifet
PLYMOUTH, DEC. 16.—Wind E.—Arrived the ,T.ar.-
Katharine, Suttaby, from St. Übes.
FALmoUTII, DEC. 16.—Wind N. E. to E., fresh. r..,44
BRIRTOL DEC. 17.—Arrived the Duke of Wellington, °—
St. Michael's ;
DEC. Alfred, Cocks, from Smyrna.
LIVERPOOL, DEC. 16.—Arrived off port the Stormont,
frog
Demerara ; and John, Taylor, from Bombay.
DUBLIN, DEC. 15.—Arrived the Alfred, Mears, Londble..
CoRK, DEC. 15.—Arrived the Zebulon, Forster Que and
WATERFORD, DEC. 15.—ArriVed the Rapid, ,Mi!lerr'froo
Regulator, Angel, from London ; and Brothers, '
Taylor,
Seville. St'
SLIGO, DEC. 15.—Arrived the Ceres, DempseY, (rein
John's, New Brunswick. for
„,a,
POST- OFFICE NOTICE.--,—HiS Majesty's brigS Ita .-
the Lisbon mail of the 16th instant, detained; letters 4,01
this evening. His Majesty's brig Spey, for the Le His
Island mail of the 17th : letters in time this evening 17th;
Majesty's brig Opossum, for the Mexican mail of the
letters in time this evening. as bur"
The Amelia, Glascott, from-Africa to England, eater,
by the natives' on the 21st August, and the master, nail
and steward killed.

The following was posted at Lloyd's this morning- '--834.
Admiralty, Dec. 17, I of tlig
''''''Sir;""'-La.DA,,commanded by my Lords Cmmissioners Coro'
A.dmiralty to acquaint you for the information of tinestYl
mittee for managing the affairs of Llo 'd's that his I‘, 'lO6
sloop, Champion, has been ordered to c)ruiZe off Seal oiy °`
the continuance of the easterly winds, to relieve e-,,row
the vessels homeward bound that may be in want cut r
sions or water.—l am, Sir, your most humble Ser,l,6W'
(Signed) JOHN BAIL
W. Dobson, Esq., Lloyds,

BARFLEUR NEW LIGHTHOUSE.
(RECEIVED FROM THE FRENCH GOVERNMEN'r.I36, the
Notice is hereby given, that from the Ist April, 15
i61e4116
fixed light in the old lighthouse of Barfleur, situated ,- nstella
E. N. E. of Cherbourg, will be discontinued; arii;"' tbollyse
of it, an intermittent light will be shown on the
lately built, 61 metres (about 67 yards) S. 25 min. `" the
of the old lighthouse. t„ove
The new light will be 72 metres (about 236 feet) a'b seeP
bar of high water at the equinox. The flashes win :et'
regularly every half minute during the whole of tbleagties'
aD
In fine weather they may be seen at the distance of 8 e
and the light will not disappear entirely at a less distalle
4 leagues.
VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT THE
TOM-HOUSE, DEC. 17. fiainbu;r,g
The William Jolliffe and Lord Strangford, fromThet''
—Atlas from Cronstadt—Charlotte, from The
from Hamburg. nINC' f r
ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOA— Hall, -°4
The Adonis, for Guernsey and Jersey—William proge"'
Genoa and Leghorn—Vrow Elizabeth, for Ostend, _Ol4ll,
marlboi aocs
and Ghent—St. John, for Havre and Rouen— narba
for Jamaica—RaMona, for Rotterdam—Tropic, for
—Argo, for Gibraltar—Euphemia, for Vera Cruz. 0.
CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH ARca--
104
Cam
The Mercy, for Barbadoes—Flora, forlliance, for
Jai
, Cadiz, San Lucar, and Seville—A
kirk—Europa, for Havre and o. Monte Vide
Anna, for

THE FUNDS.—(THIS DAY.)
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CITY, TWEL a , n o
We have no arrivals this morning of foreign mail. from prls
one arrival of ship letters, consequently the expres!,6! hourli
has not as yet been received ; but the French man l'cl toce,
expected, and should it bring any information of conse
we will give it in our City article of half-past one.
THE FUNDS. .
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The opening of the Consol Market this morning 'lwo
shown so favourable a view of Mr. Peel's address f!5_,,,,nt i°
first anticipated, owing to a general belief that parlirt-sp 8
on the eve of being dissolved, and that then affairs Witt
at the price they
more serious turn than at the present moment. A 92i 1;
Consols opened
at present they are 921, Sellers for the Account. irDufc'eetell
that talented address has not had the least favourable eP
the funds.
Spanish, 521 i ; Portuguese, 85k i ; Dutch, 54 f• „rz,,
left off yesterualz_.9 eon
The general topic of conversation still continini ig er
City, respecting the address of Sir Robert Peel, wn,";he par:
HALF-EAST °:701-"tbe
pounded in various ways, according to the politics o;,.'t oil OW
ties. Up to the present time, it has not had any ell' lth
funds.
little doing.
1. port''
Consols may be quoted at 92. i to 92+ for the Account, 0
Spanish has improved, since the morning, to 534. r
guese continues firm, at 85k -}l. Dutch, 54i i• eh rnali°4
As yet we do not hear of the arrival of the Frella the C
express from Paris, which causes a great dulness I
in respect to foreign intelligence. r. 00
THREE O'C—
Consols for the Account, 921 to 921.

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