The Sun.
London, England, 1833-11-05 00:00:00

VICTORIA THEATRE.

Mr. BUTLER, last night, made his first appearance cn
these boards in the character of Hamlet, a part in which,
it may he remembered, he made a favourable impression
at the commencement of the last Covent-garden season.
On the whole, he worthily acquitted himself of the difficult
undertaking. His early scenes, we thought, were some-
what marred by a too boisterous delivery of the text—a
fault, however, less perceptible as the play advanced.
His interview with the Ghost was successively executed.
He was greatly applauded in the play scene, and also in
the interview with his mother where he " spoke daggers,
but u.ed none." From the applause which attended this
performance, we should say that he is ofte❑ likely to repeat
it. Mrs. KEELEY played Ophelia, with considerable
judgment. The plaintive little snatches of songs were
given with great taste and feeling. The Queen of Mrs.
EGERTON, and the Ghost of Hamlet, by Mr.
EGERTON, are performances too well known to need de-
scription here. The tragedy was throughout received
with great applause by a very respectably filled house.

THE ARMY.

(Froth the Limerick Chronicle of Wednesday.)

Ciptiin Costley and a detachment of the 37th depot
have returned from Cork to this garrison with a large
store of ammunition.

The division of artillery in this garrison move to Ril-
lingcollig on the 10th of next month, to be replaced here
by a party from bland-bridge, Dublin.
Ye-terday the depot of the 77th Regiment, under the
command of Major Ramsey, marched on from Fermoy for
Middleton, to mbark on board the Romney for Ports-
mouth. The _Romney also conveys the depots of the 58th
65th, and 97th to Portsmouth.

On Wednesday at a very short notice, Major-General
Sir Thomas Arbuthnot, K.C.8., made his half-yearly in.
spectio❑ of the Royal Marine forces stationed at Spike
Island, under the command of Lieut. -Colonel Parke, C B.
Immediately after, the depot companies of the 97th Regi-
ment under the command of Major Tyler, were formed for
the inspection of the gallant General. The Alajor-Gene-
ral afterwards visited the barrack-rooms, hospital, &c.
Yesterday the depots of the 58th and 76th Regiments
were inspected by Major-General Sir T. Arbuthnot at
Buttevant. This day he inspects the corps at Fermoy.
Monday last two companies of the 27th Regiment,
Captain Manly's and Major Thorpe's, with Lieutenant
Vereker and Ensign Sparkes, marched from Enniskillen
for Cavan, to relieve Captain Johnston (grenadiers) and
Captai❑ Fulton's (sth) companies stationed there for some
time past. The latter companies; with their Captains, and
Lieutenants Durnford and H. Butler, marched into En-
niskillen.

The whole of the 47th Regiment are stationed at Mul-
lingar, excepting nue company at Tu!latmore.
Yesterday the depot of the 25th Regiment or King's
Borderers arrived at Glasgow, and embarked o❑ their
route to Drogheda.
The centre district (Dublin) has received instructions to
recruit for 250 men for British regiments in India.
Captain Carnegie has resumed the command of the
squadron of 9th Lancers at Gort.

On Monday, the 4th inst., a General Assem-
bly of the Academicians was held at the Royal Academy
of Arts, in Sumerset.house, when Mr. John Gibson
and Mr. Thomas Uwins were elected Associates of that
Institution.

TORY PERSECUTION.--To such an extent
is party politics carried at Ashburton, that a Tory inn-
keeper sent to the family surgeon to say, that if his father
went to a Whig dinner he should discharge him. The
father took no notice of the impudent threat, which
caused the dismissal of the son, although the wife of the
innkeeper was within a few days of confinement, and was
so affected that it nearly cost her her life—she is now past
danger:—Exeter Times.
Miss Hollywood, eldest daughter of the late
Sir John Hollywood, Bart., is about to be united to
Captain F. Barne, the late M.P. for Dunwich. The
family of the Gallant Officer inherit large possessions in
Suffolk.
The house at present occupied by Charles
Mathews, the comedian, in Great Russell-street, was the
mansion in which the present Duke of Bedford was born ;
it was at that period the residence of the same Marquis
of Tavistock alluded to in the Letters of Junius.
Two of the Aldermen of East Retford re-
signed their gowns on Saturday se'nnight, a third Alder-
man retired on Monday; and a fourth on Wednesday.
Of course a considerable sensation prevails in the borough.
Three gentlemen of the Society of Friends
are about to make a voyage of pleasure to the South Sea
Islands. The sloop Francis Freeling, 102 tons, late in
the Harwich packet service, has been fitted up for the
voyase.

A new system of regulating the nightly watch,
by means of watch clocks, has been brought into operation
in several towns in the country, apparently with complete
success. A Norwich paper says, " The new system of
watching, which commenced in the great ward of Man-
croft on the 14th nit., had been found to work well. The
clock pulling by the men on their beats has been regularly
performed with comparatively but few omissions, and those
satisfactorily accounted for. The new system has this

reat advantage over all other systems—that it compels the
watchmen to be moving in every direction all over the
town from the time they commence their watch at night
ill they leave it in the morning." If this paragraph be
'rue, watch clocks would douhtle.a form a very excellent
.übstitute for at least a part of the formidable array of
tiperintendents and insp,ctors connected with the metro
politan police. The inhabitants of the parishes who com-
plain of the heavy police rate would do well to inquire into
he matter.

REVISING BARRISTERS.—It is understood
that befs,re the next registration a general meeting
if all the barristers employed will be held, for the pur-
pose of comparing their notes of disputed cases, discussinz
their various decisions, and deciding upon the correct
interpretation of the Reform Act ; the result to he
ultimately submitted to the consideration of a certain
number of the Judges, whose decision is to be held as
binding on the whole body of revising barristers.—Lin-
colnshire Chronicle,

VERY MALAPROPOS.—A certain turf Ba-
ronet, who had been struck with the charms of a pretty
file de chambre of his lady's, lately stumbled on her on
the staircase, and could not resist the temptation of im-
printing some kisses, which the damsel cordially returned.
Flushed with amorous excitement, Sir
" By Jove, Susan, your lips are sweeter than your mis-
tress's." " Lord, Sir, (said the blushing soubrette,
with the greatest naivete,) only think ! why now if John,
my lady's own man, does not say the same." The Baro-
net's courage cooled down to zero.

LIEUTENANT JOHN SHlP.—Thisgentleman,
whose autobiography excited some considerable s,nsation
in the military circles a iew years since, has lately bee❑
elected to the situation of governor of the workhouse at
Liverpool, the emoluments of which are nearly 500/. per
annum ; in addition to which, Mrs. Ship, the wife of the
Lieutenant, has been appointed matron, with a salary of
1501. It will be remembered that Lieutenant Shipp rose
from the ranks; be greatly distinguished himself in the
Burmese war, and led the forlorn hope three dotes at the
siege of Bhurtpore under Lord Combermere.

On Saturday last, a man and his wife arrived
at Frampton•on-Severn, accompanied by their dog, a
donkey, a goose, and two hens ! the whole of the party
having travelled from Warwickshire for the purpose of
being dipt in salt water, to escape the dreadful effects of
the scratches or bites of a mad cat,—Bristol Gazette.

The value of the cargo of the Cambridge,
Captain Barber, from Singapore, discharged last week in
the St, Katharine's Docks, has been estimated to be be-
tween 300,0001. and 400,0001. It consisted of upwards
of 21,000 packages, making, according to the East India
C,mpany's scale of comput Ition, about 1,350 tons,
which were landed and housed by the Dock Company in
31 hours.

It is said of Vincente Mariner, a Spanish
poet, that he has left behind him 360 quires of papers full
of his own compositions, in a writing so exceedingly small,
and so exceedingly bad, that no person but himself could
read it.

Ancient Rome was 29 feet below the present
existing city. London was 16, 18, and even 20 feet ; and
Bath 14 to 16 feet. In the reign of Nero two thirds of
Rome were consumed by fire, but it afterwards contained
43,000 houses, and one of its aqueducts extended 60
miles.—Arnold'a Magazine of Fin. Arts.
AN IRISHMAN WHO NEVER ATE A Po-
TATOE !-It is perhaps one of the most singular facts of
a trivisl:nature, and we state it, upon undoubted authority,
that the late John Pollock, Esq., of Mountainstown, al-
though an Irishman, never ate a potatoe. He had no
antipathy whatever, he used to say, to potatoes, but so it
happened that from his earliest recollection he never remem-
bered having even tasted one.—Dublin Paper.

A short time ago Lord W. P. Clinton, fourth
son of his Grace the Duke of Newcastle, was entered as a
Nobleman at Christ Church, in this University ; and it
may be mentioned as a singular circumstance that thir •
are four sons of his Grace who are now wearing gold
tufts in the above college, viz., the Earl of Lincoln, Lord
C. P. Clinton, Lord T. P. Clinton, and Lord W. P.
Clinton.— Oxford Journal.

The property of the late Hannah More has
bee❑ sworn in the Prerogative Court under 30,0001. The
1,0001. bequeathed by Miss Martha More, payable on the
death of her sister, has been since paid to the British and
Foreign Bible Society.

DEATH of CALVIN EDSON.—It is stated,
on the authority of the Woodstock Courier, that Mr.
Calvin Edson, well known as the " Living Skeleton,"
died a few days since in Randolph, Vt. It is added that
his body was taken from the tomb the night after its in.
terment, and it is rumoured that some young men belong-
ing to the medical class at Hinover are suspected, and
two of them have been arrested for the offence.—New
York Spectator, Oct. 10.

The damage occasioned by the inundation .3n
the environs of Perpignan is very great at Rives4ltel and
Bompas. The loss is computed at 1,500 hectolitres of
wine. The river Tech alone occasioned in the commune
of Eine a loss of 100,000 f. in agricultural produce, indis-
pensable to the subsistence of the inhabitants.

The Etonians had a " turn-out" on Friday last,
possibly in imitation of the " gentlemen cads ts." They
sallied forth in a body of between 300 and 400, armed
with bludgeons, hammers, and stakes, determined on mis-
chief. Entering the town they assailed all persons they
met with a volley of crackers ; on reaching Thames-
street, an attack was made on the house of Mr. Fox, to
whom they bad owed " a grudge.' for a twelvemonth, and
the work of demolition commenced ; every pane of glass
was broken, the goods in the window destroyed, the
apprentice compelled to seek safety i❑ another house, and
several persons who attempted to interfere ill-treated.
Another movement on Saturday evening was contemplated
to give Mr. Fox a " finisher," but the masters, having
intimation of it, frustrated their designs by meeting them
or. the bridge and taking down the names of the ring
leaders, in consequence of which eighty of these " young
heroes" have been ignobly flogged ! Mr. Fox's damage is
estimated at nearly 30/.—Reading Mercury.

The Tin Coinage for the present quarter
ended at Penzance on Saturday last-1,623 blocks have
been coined..— Cornwall Gazette.

SILK TRADE.—The silk trade in the neigh-
bourhood of Manchester is in a miserable state. Many
of the weavers are totally without work, and those who
have some employment cannot get half enough. The
manufacturers say it is on account of the advance in the
raw material.—Manchester Guardian.

ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET. -- On
Monday last many of the manufacturers were asking
higher prices than on the preceding Monday, and in some
cases it was obtained. Low goods went off better than
usual; and a few pieces of middle and finer qualities were
disposed of. The market was altogether brisker than it
has been for several weeks past.—Manchester Guardian.

THE APPLE CROP.—A correspondent who
has lately been over a part of this county, says, '' the
crops of apples, which are now being gathered, will prove
as heavy as any ever recollected ; and not only is the pro-
duce abundant, but the fruit is remarkably sound and
healthy. An immense quantity of good cider will therefore
be made this year.—Hereford Journal.
THE GLOVE TRADE IN WORCESTER.—
In this city the glove trade is partaking in that activity
which is happily observable in most of our great staple
manufactures at this time. It is true that the demand is
in some degree owing to the supply of goods being short,
in consequence of a considerable number of the work
people having employed themselves in Lcp..picking, and
other country work ; but we cannot help hoping that the
activity in this business will not be temporary. Foreign
skins of some descriptions have advanced from 71. to 101.
per 100.— Worcester Journal.
OPERATION OF THE FACTORY ACT.—
We have already announced the names of the four In-
spectors who have been appointed by Government to carry
into effect some of the most important provisions of this
Act. The gentleman selected for this district is Mr.
Rickards, a partner in the late firm of Rickards, Macin-
tosh, a❑d Co., the extensive East India merchants, who
were obliged to stop payment, a few months ago, in
consequence of the bankruptcy of their correspondents in
Calcutta. Mr. Rickards has resided some years in India;
and to him the public is indebted for an able work upon
the resources of our Eastern empire, and the character of
the native population. His experience in the world,
joined to his acknowledged talents and various acquire-
ments, peculiarly fit him for discharging the delicate
and responsible office of Inspector. His district includes
the whole of Lancashire, Cheshire, and the northern
division of Derbyshire, having Manchester for its central
point. He is daily expected in this town ; for although
his duties do not commence for many months, yet certain
preliminary inquiries are necessary to prepare him for
discharging them with vigour and impartiality.—.Man-
cheater Chronick.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Another firebrand tea, hissed lorth from Der. -,..
rinane-abbey. Mr. O'Connelo47avowedly re 4,
slimed the agitation scheme, a4(cjinsen his hont-I,'P,,j
.vith much nicety, or stumbld.lan it by aceideitkiW
with curious felicity, just as t' worn-out 441-:
and pockets of his partisan 041,140 4.4* '4'7•41
further jogging. The " riw"‘fo-gro.;,,
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in course of immediate exaction, and ifothiiig
could be more opportune at such a crisis, and
under notorious despondency concerning the
result, than that the rint-collector should call
in the guardian genius of all fraud and all
floundering impudence and qu ickery, and en-
pidity,—the repeal demon, who has, since the
opening of the last session of Parliament, been
,I:ffered to lie torpid in his den. We have the
agitator, therefore, once more at his conjura-
tions. He takes for his text the Coercion Billy
which, to say truth, in its original form, cram...
ing as it did military tribunals throughout tNe
I country, for the trial of half-political offences,
we ourselves condemned as heartily as himself,
though perhaps somewhat less selfishly, and tl.en
proceeds to lash away at the Government which
introduced that measure, and at the Parliament
which passed it, both being marvellously unfit
to legislate for true-horn Irishmen. What. is
the thing aimed at ? Why, a native Parlia-
ment ! and this imposter talks of a native Par-
liament as a shelter from the tyranny of that
of the United Kingdom, though the Union
which he deprecates was the work partly of
that very Parliament which sold itself and Ireland
together for half a million of money, and partly
of the Roman Catholicfaction, which ,o'd the
" self-government" of Ireland to the British Mi-
nister of the day for a promise of early emanci-
pation ! What should make an Irish House
of Commons at this moment more virtuous than
its predecessor 0f33 years ago ? A reformed
constituency ! Why, whatever the Reform Bill
may have done for England, neither it nor eman-
cipation has enlarged the Irish constituency,
compared with what it was after 1793—the 40s.
freeholders having, by the Act of 1829, been one
and all disfranchised. O'Connell and his
pack have been eternally growling at the aboli.'
don of the 40s. freeholders, and pronouncing
them to be the most patriotic and honest of the
nation. If so, how comes it that a Parliament
returned by that numerous and incorruptible
body was the Parliament which took a bribe of
half a million of money to pass the Union and
extinguish itself for ever ? If the brave and vir-
tuous 40s. constituency elected such a venal
Parliament, what sort of consistency is there in
the man who declaims at once against the Union
and against the disfranchisement of the elec-
tors by whose representatives it was car-
ried ? Who asserts the inferiority of the
new created constituency to the old, and
would confide to that comparatively bad elec-
tive body a trust which was so iniquitously be-
trayed by their betters ? No, we shall have no
repeal of the Union. A motion for a repeal of
the Union we must have, indeed, otherwise the
very potatoes will turn paving stones to break
the head of the faithless and forsworn dema-
gogue. He says he " nails the repeal colours
to the mast :" if he were nailed there with them,
it would be a consummation not at all undesira-
ble. However, when the rint has been got in,
and the sporting season is over, we shall proba-
bly not hear a great deal more about repeal
than we have since the Ist of February—the
long threatened motion always understood and
excepted. The most frightful proof of the real
wretchedness of Ireland is that such tricks and
such imposters should have been suffered so
long to flourish with impunity.—Times.
Though the proceedings of the Municipal
Commissioners, and the disclosures to which
their inquiries lead, are not always of so much
importance or singularity as to excite a national
interest, they have seldom failed to create a strong
feeling of curiosity
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conduct has been correct, or their honesty
unimpeachable, but because their malversation
and corruption, though proved or admitted, were
on too diminutive a scale to command general
attention to their exposure. This observation
would appear applicable to the Corporation of
Banbury, in Oxfordshire, the recent inquiry into
whose conduct by the Commissioners is recorded
in the Ox,fbrd Herald of Saturday last. This
close body would seem to have done its utmost
ti-, obtain a pre-eminence in certain kinds of
mismanagement and servility ; but with the
exception of its manufacture of Members of
Parliament before the Reform Bill, its powers
of mischief have been extremely limited. It
had no amount of funds to mismanage at
all calculated to excite the cupidity of the
ccrporators—no trusts to pervert, and little
patronage to abuse. The mayor had only about
211. a year allowed him for the expenses of his
office, the deputy-recorder received 101. for
attending twice at the sessions, and the town-
clerk 251., with certain fees, for his services.
The corporation had no livings or lucrative
offices in its gift, being only enabled to appoint
a registrar of the court of record and a deputy
gaoler to the prison. The whole income of the
borough, from all the sources of its revenue,
amounted only to 1331.—a sum scarcely sufficient
for one tolerably sumptuous corporation dinner.
But still, in a small way, this self-elected body
attempted oppression,and usurped the powers of
Parliament in imposing taxes on the community.
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ration of Banbury had little revenue to misma-
nage, they lately showed that they could not
safely be intrusted with a more precious deposit,
that of justice. It appeared, from a variety of
testimony, that they had lately dismissed their
Deputy Recorder, Mr. Amos, on grounds
purely political, and thus interfered with the in-
dependence of the judicial functions. There
was no allegation brought against this gentle-
man's fitness for his office ; no suspicion was
expressed of his legal qualifications, and no
complaint made of his strict attention to his du-
ties. Mr. Amos himself gave no hint of a wish
to retire from the Deputy Recordership, though
he did not insist upon retaining it. In dis-
missing him, therefore, the Corporation was
guilty of attempting
to influence the course of
justice, and to interfere with the duties of a
Judge who possessed the power of life and
death. It could not be openly alleged against
him as an offence, though it constituted the
real ground of his dismissal, that he acted as

assessor at the Reform election to the Mayor
for the time being, and in that capacity gave
offence to the majority of the Corporation. Pro-
bably nearly all the ices of the borough adminis-
tration of this place resulted from its possession and
abuse of the machinery for making Members of
Parliament. It was th is fatal privilege which brought
it under the patronage of the Lords of Wroxton
(about three miles from Banbury), whether
Earls of Guildford or Marquises of Bute. The
corporation was worth courting, when it could
send two law makers to the House of Commons
and was accordingly overpowered with kind con-
descensions, if not with direct pecuniary appli-
cations, from Wroxton to return law givers
nominated by its proprietors. The borough was
looked upon as a political preserve of the
neighbouring family ; and, in return, the corpo-
ration often depended for its feasts on the pro-
duce of Wroxton-park. Some amusement was
excited, during the grave inquiries of the Com-
missioners, by an anecdote of one of these feasts.
It would appear that hampers of venison and
wine had been sent on a particular occasion
from the great mansion to entertain the corporation
at the Red Lion Inn of their own town, The
venison had been put to the fire—the preparations
for the dinner were far advanced, and the Mayor
and Aldermen had assembled round the scene
of their expected enjoyment, when an order
came to carry back the whole provisions to
Wroxton, and to bring the corporation to feed
on them in the presence of their masters. The
venison, taken from the fire half dressed, and the
other gift stores were, therefore, thrown into a
cart, and transported from the inn at Banbury
the house of the patron of the borough, without
further ceremony. It need scarcely be added,
that the corporation followed the cart, and that
they never lost scent of the game till they saw
it on its lord's table. These luxurious doings
are now over, since the passing of the Reform
Bill and the appointment of the municipal com-
mission. The corporation of Banbury must
now pay their own Deputy-Recorder, without
having the power of dismissing him ; and if they
eat venison, they must pay for it out of their own
purse.— Times.

The Irish judges, imbued with the party spirit
of the natives of that agitated and agitating part
of the empire, appear to consider themselves at
liberty to assume political as well as judicial
functions. The " charges" of these official
personages have been too long the medium of
Orange party politics, and it is about time that
this abuse of the judicial office were terminated.
It pollutes the fountain of justice, and naturally
creates a prejudice against the judicial tribunals
of the most offensive and injurious nature. The
great mass of the people of Ireland must neces-
sarily view with suspicion and distrust the heads
of the Courts of Law, w ho prostitute the Bench
to party and political purposes. The Constitu-
tion has provided a summary remedy. The
Judges hold their appointments by the tenure
of the due discharge of their duties. Their
Commissions are issued not as formerly, durance
bene placito, but quarndiu bene se gesserint ;
judges are continued in their offices during their
good behaviour. The statute 1 Geo. 111. c. 23,
was enacted on the avowed principle of securing
their independence and single-mindedness, on
the celebrated declaration of the King (Commons
Journals, 3d March,l76l), "that be looked upon
the independence and uprightness of the judges'
as essential to the impartial administration of
justice; as one of the best securities of the
rights and liberties of his subjects ; and as most
conducive to the honour of the Crown." The
effect of this statute, in England, has been
upon the whole to secure the simple and
honourable discharge of judicial authority ; but
in Ireland the King's Judges seem to regard it
as a license for political harangues and factious
propagandism. Our contemporary (the Globe)
has justly and pointedly animadverted on the
pernicious habit of Baron Sir W. C. Smith,
and some of his Hibernian judicial contempo-
raries, who pervert and degrade their sacred
offices by preaching political sermons to Irish
Grand Juries. We extract, in another column,
the judicious remarks of the Globe on this ma-
lignant and detrimental conduct of the Irish
Judges. We have already published a pretty
full abstract of the raving Orange effusions of
Baron Smith to a Dublin Grand Jury, which
might have been appropriate at a public dinner
of the Anti-Catholic Corporation of that city; but
a more disgusting or fanatic oration was never deli-
vered at an Orange Lodge. The unruly imagination
of the Learned Judge has seduced him to embark
ov the dangerous sea of party politics, and his
" charge" is a tissue of vulgar and exaggerated
commentary on the evils of anti-tithe associations
and O'Connell agitation. The Learned Baron
does not condescend to analyse the causes or
provocation of the evils lie denounces, but ful-
minates a manifesto, of two columns of smoke
and words, against the liberal party, not bestow-
ing one word on the subject of the crimes re-
corded in his calendar of prisoners. If this pro-
stitution of the judicial office is allowed with
impunity, it is in vain for any Ministry to at-
tempt or expect the pacification of Ireland. Mr.
Baron Smith must be superannuated, or unfitted
for his high station ; and if he repeats his of-
fence, and the Irish Government cannot remove
him, his Lordship must be consigned to the
consideration of a Reformed House of Com-
mons. The Irish people have too long been
the martyrs of political juries and judges.
The crying evil of party Juries has been at
length remedied by the policy and integrity of
the present Ministry, and propagandist Judges
must be removed from the judgment-seat, or
Ireland will lose all reverence and respect for the
laws and tribunals of justice. Mr. Baron Smith
and his political colleagues must elect between
their judicial offices and their Orange Lodges ;
they cannot hold both situations. We do not
know what is the public feeling in Ireland on
these scandalous exhibitions ; but in England
they are regarded with disgust and abhorrence.
Judge Jeffries was am nquisitor and political
barbarian. We do not say that the Irish Orange
Judges would imitate his character and crimes,
but they partake of big spirit, somewhat modified
by the discretion and humanity of the present
age. The Irish Government must abate this
crying nuisance.—Morning Chronicle.
Our readers will recollect that we have always
considered Greece, since the days of Capo
d'lstrias, as destined to be the prey of Russia.
We objected to the arrangement which placed a
boy-king upon the throne of that new kingdom,
because a Government conducted by the inexpe-
rience of youth, and the divided power or a
Regency, was just the sort of arrangement which
was likely to facilitate the ambitious designs of
the Russian Cabinet. In furtherance of this
imbecile project England became, of course, the
guarantee of a Greek loan, from which the Au-
tocrat, who is looking to become Protector of
Greece, as he already is of Turkey, will derive
all the advantage. We had no doubt that the

troubles in Greece which have signalized the
very beginning of the reign of the beardless
Otho were fomented by Russian emissaries, and
now we find this is placed beyond all doubt, by
the recent intelligence from that country, which
states that the i" Capo d'lstrias's party is again
lifting up its head, after remaining long quiet,
in the hope of estranging the people from the
Regency." The disturbances in Tenos appear
to be the work of the same party, the heads of
which are said to be in regular correspondence
with the Councils of a foreign Power. What
Power is meant no person can for an instant
doubt. It is the Power that can open and shut
the gates of the Dardanelles at its pleasure, and
now wants the harbours of the Archipelago for
the fleets with which it intends at no very distant
period to command the coasts, and supply the
commerce of the Mediterranean. One of the
first acts of the present Greek Government was
exceedingly weak, and we remarked upon it at
the time as being calculated to bring about
internal agitation and disorder. Instead of
giving employmennt to the Greek Chiefs, who
had been most distinguished in the protracted
struggle which led to the severance of their
country from the Turkish empire, the Greek
Regency excluded them from all office, and thus
left no alternative to those adventurous and fiery
spirits but either to droop in a state of disho-
noured inaction, or direct their energies against
the Government which foreigners had placed over
them, and which had treated them worse
than aliens in their father land. It would seem
as if emissaries of Russia had given the advice
which the Government of Otho so foolishly acted
upon. His first act taught the Greeks that
their new state was not one of independence,
and that they had only been transferred from one
foreign yoke to another. They who could not
brook the dominion of the Turks were not
likely to submit very tamely to the insults of
Bavarians. England, indeed, should never have
assisted in severing Greece from Turkey, unless
upon the conviction that she was able to main-
tain herself as an inedependent State, and a
harrier in that quarter against Russia. If Greece
were qualified for a free and independent exist-
ence, she ought to have been allowed to choose
her own form of Government and her own So-
vereign. But the spirit of foreign dictation, as
in the case of Belgium, has already brought
Greece to the verge of ruin—and the new king-
dom, instead of being a barrier to Russian ambi-
tion, is likely to become a stepping-stone to the
future conquests of that Power—more especially
her efforts to establish a maritime ascendancy.
—Morning. Herald.
The conduct of Mr. Baron Bayley, with re-
(Yard to the persons summoned to appear in the
Court of Exchequer for refusing to pay the
assessed taxes, deserves the highest praise.
Grievously did he disappoint those officers who,
according to established practice, wished to make
the thing a matter of fees, by ordering the ap-
pearances of the parties to be entered on the
spot, without the expensive preliminaries of
employing legal assistants, and paying fees to the
officers whose duty it is to make the entries.
The Exchequer writs require the party to appear
in Court, but the practice hitherto has been not
to consider his personal appearance as any ap-
pearance at all—the true appearance, secundem
artem, being to appear by attorney, who enters
the name in a book at the office, on which a fee
to the officer becomes payable. Mr. Baron
Bayley, to the great astonishment of the officers,
who seemed inclined to dispute the matter at
first, ordered them to produce the book in Court
and record the appearances forthwith, as being
the undoubted right of the persons served with
process; and thus has one tax on the subject
been repealed.—Morning Herald.
The negotiation which has been going on for
some time between Mr. O'Connell and the
Government of Ireland has at length terminated,
and the Learned Gentleman, having carried each
of the points in succession, which induced him
to prolong the farce even for so long a time, has
thrown off the mask, and in a letter to Mr.
Fagan, the appointed chairman of the dinner
to be given to him in Cork on the 4th of this
month, has issued his declaration of war against
the Government, and hoisted the standard of
" Repeal." This, then, is to be the war-cry
during the approaching winter, and thus has
terminated Mr. Littleton's first essay towards
the pacification of the country, where Mr. Stan-
ley's reputation as a statesman received its death-
blow, and where, if we mistake not, Mr. Lit-
tleton's career will be as brief and as—dis-
honoured ! Thus stands the affair : Mr.
O'Connell was offered the Mastership of the
Bolls, accompanied by various little acts of
conciliation, such as the dismissal of Colo-
nel Blacker, the pardon of the anti-toll
rioters, and a few other sops of this kind. Mr.
O'Connell's ambition, however, has of late
taken a higher light. The Mastership of the
Rolls was—and but a little time ago—the ob-
ject of his proudest wishes. Upon Mr. Little-
ton and Lord Wellesley the case becomes dif-
ferent. Mr. O'Connell judges, and wisely,
that the chances have become more in his fa-
vour ; and what would have been a boon from
Mr. Stanley ceases to be a favour from Mr. Lit-
tleton and Lord Wellesley. However, Colonel
Blacker is dismissed from the Commission of
the Peace ; Mr. O'Connell interferes to procure
the pardon of ten rioters from Fermanagh, a
county with which he has no connection, but
in the affairs of which, as " General Protector
of Ireland," he, of course, looks upon himself
as specially authorised to interfere ; his interfer-
ence is accompanied with the most entire suc-
cess 1 and, having thus induced the Govern-
ment to commit an act of gross injustice towards
a most deserving and beloved Protestant Ma-
gistrate, having shown to the people the strength
and efficacy of his interference with the new
Government, and having disgraced and befouled
this Government in every way in the eyes of
the multitude, the successful agitator, having
no other object to attain, throws aside the
mask, scorns, and spurns them ! This is Mr.
Littleton's first lesson. Will it be his last? We will
not now stop to inquire into the abstract propriety
of pardoning, at this period, and under the par-
ticular circumstance of their crime, the Fermanagh
rioters ; but we must draw attention to the reason
given for this exercise of the royal prerogative
of clemency by the new Secretary for Ireland ;.
not the reason ostensibly given, but the reason
manifestly uppermost in Mr. Littleton's mind,
when he consented to remit the further punish-
ment of these men. This reason appears in the
very first paragraph, nay, the very first words of
his letter to Mr. Randal Kiernan : " Mr. O'Con-
nell has transmitted to me," &c. ; and therefore,
though the offence certainly was a serious one,
the Lord Lieutenant has thought time imprison-
mentthep ro prove
prisonerse ihe
na vt ewaal
rrne
ndgy
tboe et
hn
esmu
je ctd t,owwohui lcdh
&c. Was there, then, no gentleman more imme-
diately connected with the county of Fermanagh

to whom, under the particular circumstances of
the case, Mr. Littleton could have applied for
further information, before he thus consented
to pardon persons guilty of a " serious offence?"
Was there no resident Magistrate nor presiding
Lord Lieutenant to whom, for mere decency s
sake, he might have addressed a letter requiring
further particulars, before he adopted the un-
usual course of taking the recommendation of
a stranger ? It is perfectly manifest that the
whole proceeding was adopted simply and purely
to conciliate Mr. O'Connell ; it is perfectly
manifest that Mr. Littleton was egregiously out-
witted in the entire affair ; that while he thought
he was bringing the Agitator to terms by all
these concessions, the Agitator was laughing in
his sleeve at his folly ; and it is perfectly manifest
that Mr. Littleton has by this course at once,
and for ever, not only exhibited his own Inca-
pacity for the office which he fills, but given
another proof of the disgraceful truckling of
the Whig Government to this man, who, though
their oft-denounced coadjutor, still disdains to
be their more degraded ally.—Morning Post.
Next to the associations, now fortunately at
an end, for resisting the payment of the assessed
taxes, we know no subject on which we can
touch which it is more delicate to manage than
the almost universal combinations which are now
in existence, on the part of workmen, to obtain
higher wages than are now paid to them, and on
the part of masters to resist them. We say de-
licate, because truly there is no possibility of
touching upon the subject without offending
either the one or the other ; but having no in-
terest to serve but that which tends to the good
of both, we shall not hesitate to speak the truth
of them, and to state at once, without the
slightest reservation, that both, in all the cases
which we have examined, have been egregiously
in error. The object of the workman is,
naturally enough, to obtain the highest rate
of wages which the trade to which he has
been brought up can possibly entitle him
—that of the master to obtain the highest
rate of profit upon his capital; and unquestion-
ably there are times when these two interests,
owing to excessive demand on the one hand,
and grasping avarice on the other, will be in a
state of collision ; but, at the same time, nothing
is more certain than that the interests of the
master and the working man are very closely
united, and that it only requires a very small
exertion of good feeling on the part of both
to prevent even the semblance of a mis-
understanding between them. How foolish
is it, on the part of the master, to refuse a
rate of wages which his profits will fairly allow,
and how ridiculous also, on the part of the work-
ing man to demand more than the other can
possibly afford to pay ? It is the interest of the
master to employ as many hands as his capital
will permit him to engage, while their employ-
ment furnishes a remunerating profit ; and it is
equally the interest of the workman, to give his
time and his talents to the best bidder, while
either the rate of wages will enable him to live,
or his necessities compel him to receive them.
These points are so self-evident that it appears
almost an act of folly to state them , yet such
is the folly on both sides, that nothing is now
more common than to hear of combinations
among the masters, on the one hand, to resist
the payment of a certain demand of wages ; and,
on the other, of workmen to insist upon adherence
to a particular scale. Both parties have an absolute
and unquestionable right to form such combina-
tions—the law declaring them to be a crime has
ceased to exist ; and we are not aware that a greater
boon has ever been conferred upon the respective
parties than that of allowing them to take their
full swing in such matters ; but there is nothing,
at the same time, more self evident, than that
any attempt at intimidation on the part of either
is not only a gross breach of the law, but a still
grosser breach of individual liberty. Every man's
labour and talents are his own property ; :,e has
a right to employ them as he pleases, with or
without remuneration, except in direct breach
of the law, and we know of no greater tyranny
which any one man, or any body of men, call
attempt to exercise over another, than that of
attempting to prevent them from the exercise of
this lawful and just right. The circumstances of
all individuals are not the same in any one trade
or profession. It may suit one capitalist to re-
ceive a small per centage upon the employment
of his capital, just as it may suit, or indeed be
imperative on a workman to accept a small
amount of wages ; and who shall dare to say
to the one that he shall not let out his money
at small interest, or to the other that he shall
not accept of such wages as he can obtain in
order to supply the wants of his family ? We
trust that these hints will not be mistaken. 'We
are, and we ever have been, the friends of the
working classes, and in all that they deserve to
be supported they shall have our cordial aid and
co-operation ; but we can no more countenance
intimidation on their part, either towards their
fellow workmen or towards their Blasters, than
we can or will sanction any attempt on the part
of the latter to oppress them. Let both be but
of good heart and of good feeling towards one
another, and no permanent or serious difference
can possibly occur.—Morning Advertiser.

THE CUMBERLAND BARD.—A few days
after the death of the late Robert Anderson, it was stated
in one or more of the London papers that he died in the
workhouse, in a state of great abjectness and poverty; and
some reflections were cast upon the people of Carlisle for
allowing `a man of genius to die thus neglected. We
cannot at present lay our hands upon the paragraph, but
the above is its purport, and we here give it a most
unequivocal denial, For a considerable period prior to his
death, and after he had ceased to labour for his own main-
tenance, he was comfortably lodged, and every necessary
provided for him, out of a fund raised amongst a few
gentlemen in Carlisle ; and though he certainly died in
" poverty" (according to the usual acceptation of the
word), he had not experienced any real want.—Carlisle
Journal.

IRISH CASE OF BIGAMY.—At the Coin-
mission Court in Dublin came on to be tried on the 30th
ult., the case of the King at the prosecution of Maurice
O'Connell, Esq., v. INlary Jane Galway, alias Cockburne,
alias Macneile, alias Scott, for bigamy. It will be recol-
lected that the first mention of the case made some noise
in the papers not long since. The prisoner was charged
that she being the wife of Anthony Galway, married in
11Iarch last with John Scott, Esq., of the county of Clare.
A witness named King, a clerk to a couple-beggar, was
called to prove the marriage in the year 1821, at the
Haymarket, in Dublin. His identification of the pri-
soner was, however, very slight. It was submitted by the
counsel fur the prisoner that some years had elapsed since
G ilway had been in the country, or was known to his
wile to be alive, but whether this was the case or not, did
not clearly appear from the evidence. Mr. Maurice
O'Connell, who some short time ago married a sister of
Mr. Scott, was a witness to prove certain conversations
with the prisoner, when he endeavoured to induce her to
sign a paper relative to this transaction, which she refused
to sign. It caused some amusement is Court when it was
elicited on cross-examination, that this gentleman, the
clerk to the couple beggir, Mr. Walsh, and Mr. Galway,
travelled from Dublin down to Clare in the same post-
chaise and four to confront the prisoner with Galway.
The Court considered the evidence against her as slight,
and the Jury not being able to agree in their verdict, a
juror was by consent withdrawn. The prisoner was then
bound over in sureties to appear and stand her trial again
when called upon.

COURT OF CHANCERY, Nov. 4.

WINCHESTER V. LAWES.

I Mr. PHILLIMORE moved that this cause might be
ordered to be set down before the Master of the
Rolls. A lease had been made of the Italian
Opera-house, by the late Mr. Holloway, to Mr.
Taylor, who afterwards parted with his interat to
Mr. Waters. When the lease expired in 1819, Mr.
Holloway was dead, and Mr. Sergeant Vitruvius
Lawes and Mr. Croft, who were his executors, were
applied to for a renewal of the lease. They were
willing to grant it on payment of the fine of 10,0001.
This amount was objected to, on the ground that
as the Crown had remitted the renewal fine to the
representatives of Mr. Holloway, the latter ought
not to demand it of the lessees; but the lessees,
who said they had laid out a sum of 9,0001. in put-
ting a new front to the theatre, and otherwise im-
proving it, and that the remission of the fine was in
consequence of such expenditure, declined to take a
less sum than they had demanded. They therefore
brought an action of ejectment,w hen the representative
of Mr. Waters, Mr. Alderman Winchester, filed his
bill to stay the proceedings. A reference was sub-
sequently made to the Master, who reported that
the fine ought to be paid to the representatives of
Holloway, and, by an order of this Court, that re-
port was confirmed. Some difficulties arose as to
the shares in which this fine was to be contributed
by the several parties who had subsequently become
interested in the theatre, and the cause was set
down for further directions before the Master of the
Rolls. An objection had been taken as to the au-
thority of the Master of the Rolls to hear the cause,
as the order last referred to had been made in this
Court, and his Honour the Master of the Rolls de-
clined to proceed. The present application had
therefore become necessary.
Mr. TRESLOVE, for the representatives of Mr.
Waters, sought only to he satisfied as to the costs
of his party, and that being done, he was indiffe-
rent fas to the Court in which the matter which
remained should be discussed. The question really
in dispute was not to whom the fine should be paid,
for it must doubtless be paid to the executors of
Holloway, but in what proportions it should be
paid by the parties liable, of whom his clients
were one.

Sir E. SUGDEN, on behalf of Mr. Alderman
Winchester, was instructed to oppose the motion,
and was proceeding to state his objection, when
It was stated to the Court by a solicitor for some
of the parties that an arrangement was in progress
for terminating the dispute, and that the Court
would not be called upon to decide anything but
the payment of the costs.

After some discussion, it was arranged that this
should be mentioned on Thursday next.

ROLLS' COURT, Nov. 4,

FIELD V. SOUL.

In this case the petition was presented under
somewhat singular circumstances. In 1820 the
petitioner, Mr. Field, employed a Mr. George Be-
zant as his solicitor to prosecute this cause and
various other matters; and, in 1828, an order was
made for the delivery of his bills of costs, that they
might he referred for taxation in the usual way.
Bezant, it appeared, was indebted to the petitioner
upon certain bills of exchange, the principal of
which, together with an arrear of interest, was at
this time due, and to recover the amount an action
was commenced in the Court of King's Bench.
Bezant pleaded the general issue, but gave notice of
set off, including the amount of those bills which
were under taxation by order of the Court. Having
put in his plea, he applied for an order to postpone
the trial of the action on the bills of exchange
till the taxation was completed. In February,
1831, the taxation being incomplete arid the ac-
tion still suspended, an order was made in the
original cause for payment of various sums of money
out of Court to the petitioner, on his delivering up
certain securities, which were in the hands of
Bezant, his solicitor, who refused to part with them,
insisting that he had a lien on them in respect to
the untaxed bills. Mr. Field proposed that 450/.
should be set apart to wait the result of the taxa-
tion; but Bezant objected, and ultimately 7001.,
part of the moneys ordered to be paid out, was re-
served for that purpose. One of the objects of this
petition was to have that sum paid to the peti-
tioners, it now appearing that nothing was due to
the solicitor.

His HONOUR said the Court of King's Bench
were of opinion that the petitioner was bound to
pay the costs of the action, and although he could
not cuncur in their opinion, he had no jurisdiction
to reverse their order. The petitioner, however,
was entitled to have the 7001. which had been set
apart paid to him, together with the costs of this
application.
Mr. Balguy, having been appointed King's Coun-
sel, was invited this morning to take his seat within
the bar.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. 4.