The Sun.
London, England, 1833-05-20 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

The Funds continue steady this morning. Consols which
left off on Saturday at 88 to for the account, opened at the
same price, with little doing.
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HALF-PAST ONE.

We are informed from good authority, that the convention
with Holland has been signed. It is now going to be forwarded
to Holland for the signature of his Dutch Majesty, and in the
course of eight or ten days we may expect that the embargo
on the Dutch ships will be taken off, the Scheldt opened, and
the Dutch prisoners in France sent home.
The mines of the United Mexican Company, viz., the Rias,
are in a prosperous state ; the St. Acacias and the Zecho mines
are yielding profits ; and the affairs of the Company are
flourishing. _ _

Consols are not so good as in the early part of the day, when
they were 8814 for the Account; at present they may be
quoted at 87 % to 88, with little doing.
There is little business doing in the Foreign Market.
THREE O'CLOCK.
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The Duke and Duchess of GORDON have
taken possession of their future town residence, 34, Bel-

grave-squ ire.
PROLIFIC FAMILY.—Mrs. NORTON, Wife of
Mr...1031MA NORTON, tailor, of Hunslet-lane, in Leeds,
was delivered, on the 3d of May, of her twenty-fifth child.
Married before sixteen—before twenty, four children—and
twenty-five at forty-three. JOUN ROBERTS, grandfather
to Mr. NORTON, had twenty-four children ; out of them
seven are living, whose ages are 515 years. The mother of
Mr. NORTON had eighteen children, many of them
living.--Sheifield Mercury.
FIRE.—This morning, about half-past two
o'clock, a Are broke out at the Horse and Groom, occu-
pied by Mr. GEoitax FOWLER, Camomile-street, Horsley-
down: Several engines were quickly on the spot, but,
notwithstanding the exertions of the firemen and policemen,
the flames continued to rage with unabated fury until the
entire house, with the exception of the main walls, was
heap of ruins, and nearly the whole of the property it
contained sunk in the devouring element. The fire Fri-
gloated in the kitchen, where a fire had been left burning.

INQUEST ON IL CULLY.-(THIS DAY.)

The further examination respecting the death of the de-
ceased was resumed this morning at eleven o'clock.
John Jefferey, jun., sworn and examined—l live at No 7,
Wells-street, Gray's Inn-road. I was engaged on business at a
house in Calthorpe-street, four doors from Mr. Stallwood's, on
Monday last. From the front room on the second floor I had
an opportunity of seeing what occurred. I saw a number of
persons about three o'clock, amounting to about 4 or 5,011.
I saw a number of the police at the top of the street near
Gray's Inn-road, and I saw a procession, which I believe is
called the Political Union, with banners, in Gray's Inn_
road. When they crossed Gray's lnn.road they hissed,
hooted, and yelled at the police most violently, as did the
mob who accompanied them. On coming near the lower
part of Calthorpe.street, near the field, a person in
a frock-coat, more respectable than the generality of the
populace, stepped some yards in advance of the crowd, took
off his hat, waved it, and saluted the approaching persons as
friends, as did also the rest. I saw the caravan come round
from Gough street with a young man in it ; he jumped out
when the van came opposite where I was, and the van drove
off. There was only one van—a young thin man was in the
van whe❑ I saw it. He rejoined the people. I saw a man
hoisted on the rail opposite the end of Calthorpe-street, next
the field. I am near-sighted, and cannot recognise his features ;
lie harangued the people in language calculated to excite the
worst passions in such an indiscriminate assembly.
A Juryman—We will have that language, if you please.
Witness—l will be particular, because I know my evidence
is looked at. He thanked the Government for publishing or
giving notoriety to the meeting. _ . _

A juror—You say your evidence is looked at ? Witness—
Yes, Sir; I do.
Another juror—We look at the evidence of all alike.
CORONER—WeII, well, but we need not enter into such a
discussion as that.

Foreman-210, but it Was quite unnecessary Li- the witness
to make the remark he did in the first instance. _

CORONER—No, we want no remark—give us the facts, Sir.
Witness—That person then said, there were spies there sent
by Government, to take notice of any thing that might be said
against them. One person cried out to take the heads of the spears
off; another voice said, "As we would the King's.'' Shortly after,
the police marched down the street, to the number, I should sup•
pose, of 70 or 80. They formed in line exactly opposite where

I was. I had heard some one exhort the peoWe to be peace-
able. As the police approached, the people shouted and
groaned; after the Chairman had been speaking I should sup-
pose about 10 minutes, the police having then been in the street
about twenty minutes, two (I presume) officers of the force
went to the front, the force at that time extending from curb
to curb. The two officers placed themselves in front of the
division, and gave the word " Forward," and then they
marched on at quick time. When near the crowd, the man in
the frock coat pointed to the flag with the death's head and
cross bones on it, and called aloud " Men (or Englishmen, I
can hardly recollect which) be firm ;" that was the man who, to
the best of my belief, 11... d before advanced and saluted
the Union as friends; he added to " Men be firm,"
" Liberty or Death ; down with the Police." By this time
the force had come nearly in contact ; the man with the frock
coat stepped forward with his arm thus (extended) to one of the
two officers who led the division ; the other officer endeavoured
to seize the flag ; they pressed on the crowd, which turned back
and ran in all directions into the field. A general rout ensued.
In about two minutes I saw a man with (I presume) an Ameri-
can flag, having blue and white stripes and stars, in
conflict with one of the police; the policeman was endea-
vouring to take away the flag, and a violent scuffle it was.
This man had a frock coat on, also with a velvet collar ; the
scuffle continued until they came opposite the window where I
was. The man with the flag made aviolent thrust with the flag staff
at the policeman, in the breast, which knocked him down; the
policeman in falling seized the end of the flag-stafl; and, not-
withstanding he was down, still endeavoured to secure the flag,
the flag-bearer thrusting at him with the flag-staff.—(Here the
witness described the manner of the thrusts.) Still the police.
man firmly held the flag-staff; at this moment two others of
the force came to his assistance; one of them raised his staffer
truncheon, struck the flag-bearer a violent blow on the head,
which knocked his hat off; and, I believe, broke his hat ;
the flag-bearer then let go the flag, and ran away up
Calthorpe-street, in a stooping position, with his hands
to the back part of his head—the officer after him;
the other policeman seized the flag, and snapped the
staff across his knee into three pieces; I believe the flag was
thrown down the area of No. 10; a flag was thrown down there,
and I believe it was this one. The policeman who had the con-
flict with the flag bearer got up and walked in a staggering
position towards another division of the police who were then
coming up. I was very anxious to get home, and, seeing the
street was safe enough to venture out, I went home, and, under
the gateway leading to my shop at the back of my house, I saw
a man with his face cut or scratched, but decidedly not a wound.
Finding all safe at home, and the street well protected, I returned
to Calthorpe-street ; there were then many persons straggling
about besides the police force. When I got up to the window
again I heard Mr. Stallwood, from his balcony, which is at the
side and not the front of his house, the balcony being in
Gough-street, haranguing the police, who were then drawn up
nearly in front of his house, in very angry terms. He told
them they had acted illegally—that they had no right to do
what they had done—that he knew the law, and to the best
of my belief he said he was a county magistrate. I say to
the best of my belief, because, knowing to the contrary, I al-
most doubted my ears. I heard the police shout who were be-
fore his house ; a person at their head made a reply which I
did not hear. The shout was instantly suppressed by the per-
son at their head holding up his truncheon. The people
again collected, to the amount, I should suppose, of 300—taking
courage, as I presumed, at the moment, at what I suppose Mr.
Stallwood said. The police were then ordered to form again
and the word " forward" was given ; the moment the police
moved the people dispersed. They then wheeled back again.
CORONER—We are now out of order.
A juror—We cannot have too much of the truth.
CORONER—I beg your pardon, we may have too much of a
good thing.—(Laughter.)

Mr. Thomas, superintendent of the F division of police
sworn. On Monday, I received orders to assemble at the sta-
tion-house, Bow.street, 100 police constables, 10 sergeants, and
2 inspectors, as well as myself, and to take them to the Riding
school, in Gray's-inn-road, by 10 o'clock on that day ; we as-
sembled at the station-house previous to leaving, when I ad_
dressed the men in a few words on the nature of the business
we were going on ; my words were as near as I recollect to this
effect;—" Now men, we are going out under circumstances
that may possibly prove serious ; I therefore have to entreat
you will pay particular attention to what I am now saying; cir-
cumstances may possibly bring us into collision with the people;
I hope that will not be the case; but should it unhappily turn
out so, recollect that the orders of the Commissioners are, at all
times, and under all circumstances, to execute your instruc-
tions with fidelity and firmness, but also with humanity. Don't
forget, men, that they are your countrymen that you are going
amqpg ; therefore I have to implore you to act with modera-
tion and forbearance. Don't suffer yourselves to be irritated,
but at the same time don't use your staves unnecessarily, but as
a last resource, and as a matter of self-defence." Those were
my observations, I believe word for word, and embodied what
were the wishes of the Commissioners at all times. We then
proceeded to Gray's Inn-road. I think I got my division in the
riding school at a quarter past 10 o'clock. We remained there
I think until a quarter before 3 o'clock, and then I saw a ser -
geant of the A division running down Gray's Inn-road, calling
upon us to turn out ; there were four divisions (or such
portions as had been ordered to assemble) then in
*e Riding School ; we had previously received an
imation that in case we were wanted we should march
k a certain order, viz., the C division first, E next ; then
the F, and the S last. We left the riding-school in that order.
When we got into the road, we formed in columns of twenty-
five each. We thus proceeded into Calthorpe-street. By the
time I got my division into Calthorpe-street, I found the meet-
ing had been dispersed. As soon as I got in and halted my
own men, I was informed by a respectable looking man that
one of cur own men was stabbed. I came round to this
house (the Calthorpe Arms) ; I saw a man whom I knew per-
fectly well, bleeding, and apparently dying. I gave some ne-
cessary directions respecting him, and went out and
passed by Mr. Stallwood's house. I found a crowd,
but only a very few persons under Mr. Stallwood's
balcony; there were about a dozen persons, and I should call
them a crowd under the circumstances. Mr. Stanwood was
calling out in a very loud and vehement manner " That the
police had acted in a very disgraceful manner—that they had
acted illegally—that the people were not to blame, and that the
police acted illegally, no Riot Act having been read." Some
of the persons under the balcony were then venting threats
against the police ; two in particular were pointed out to me
by a young man, I believe his name was Kent, as havingmade
use of some deadly threat. Mr. Kent is the Reporter,
who gave his evidence at the commencement of the in.
quiry.—(A loud cheer from the mob outside here
interrupted the proceediags ; it was occasioned by Mr. Hunt,
the ex-M.P., who came up into the jury room.) I repeatedly
requested Mr. Stallwood to desist, saying " Sir, you are doing
a deal of harm." Mr. Stallwood called out twice," Why have
you not read the Riot Act ?" I told him I was not present
when the mischief had occurred, nor was I nor any one of my
division Mr. Stallwood still continued speaking. I don't
mean to infer that was the case, but the impression
on my mind was, that he had been taking too much
wine ; but he still continued in spite of my remonstrances. I
merely speak from a sudden impression because it was not borne
out by subsequent observations. I think I said, for my
feelings were much excited from what I had witnessed, " It i,
through such fellows as you that this mischief has arisen."
I think I asked if he was aware that one man had lost his
life? He said, " No." I said a policeman had Just been mur-
dered. Mr. Stallwood seemed to deny it, and said, " I be-
lieve it is no such thing." I offered if he would come
down, to take him and show him that it was. When he came
down, having refused my name in the first instance, I then
gave him my name, and who I was. Mr. Stallwood said, " I
have heard of you, Mr. Thomas. I shall meet you on the
Police Committee, for I am a county magistrate." We
then came round to this house. I showed Mr. Stall-
wood the body of the deceased, in which life was
extinct, and the wound was exposed. I said, " Do you
not think this a sad sight, Sir ?" He replied, " It
is indeed a sad thing." Mr. Stallwood having declared he was
a magistrate, and believing ions to be a gentleman, I said,
" now, Sir, if in the height of feeling I said any thing offensive
to you, I beg to apologise for it." He replied " say no snore
about it, I am quite satisfied." I then returned to my men
who were still in Calthorpe-street ; during the time from the
moment I first nmehed Calthorpe.atreet, until I finally le,

I saw no violence committed either by the people or
by the police—if I except taking a man into custody,
apparently a baker, who was laid hold of by two of the
police, and who resisted a good dea', but it was a mere
struggle.
By the Jury—My orders to attend were from the Commissioners
—the orders are generally signed with initials, C. R. or R. M. the
initials of the Commissioners ; they are generally written or-
ders ; we staid about the ground from a quarter or halr-pa,t
one until a quarter to three.
;aye to ask what refreshment the men
had
. _ .
starmtede

Witness—l should say infinitely below a half pint per man.
I tell you, Sir, how I know it ; some men had no money,
and nothing was ordered but what they paid for.
themsieves ; there were no orders given by the Commissioners
or any other person, for the men to have as much refreshment
as they wished. My attention was directed to my
own division ; I cannot tell what any other division had ; my men
were served in this way. Four men joined in having a pot of beer
between them. I desired the men two or three times not
to take more than was absolutely necesssary—not to
teke too much. I have not a copy of my orders
here; they were to assemble at the Riding-school in Gray's Inn-
road, and to wait further orders ; I had no further
orders, but I saw a sergeant running towards me, call-
ing upon us "to fall in." We did fall in. I had no more
specific orders than I have related how to usemy men.
acted in obedience to the general wishes of the Commissioners,
as to temperate conduct, and to report (as I always do), any
men who are guilty of disobedience. When I spoke to Mr.
Stanwood about the mischief," I alluded to the
death of the deceased. I do not know the whole num-
ber of the policemen who were ordered out on the ocra-
sion—l should think about seventeen hundred, but the
majority of them were out of view. I had no orders to take
possession of the ground previous to the meeting taking
place. When I got to Calthorpe-street the people had
dispersed. One man came up to me at the corner of
Mr. Stallwood's house with his head bleeding, avid asked me
what he was to do ; I advised him to go to a surgeon,
and he went away. When my men went up Calthorpc-street I
think my men had their staves out, but I am not sure I gave
trict directions not to use their staves except as weapons
of self-defence. Mr. Baker commanded the C division ;
he proceeded my division out of the Riding-School ; and could
not tell whether he took his division down Calthorpe. street. I
am not aware that any division excepting our own went into
Calthorpe-street. Whan I went there I did not see any stones
thrown.

By the Foreman—l heard the person distinctly who ad.
dressed`the people, in language calculated to excite the worst
feelings. I heard that same person exhort the people to be
quiet ; he said, "Be peaceable." The man who, I say was
exciting the worst feelings exhorted the crowd to be quiet
and peaceable ; he said, " Let not the spies of Government
excite you to mischief." That is the language which I consi_
tiered calculated to excite the worst feelings. Some of the
crowd cried out, "Take off the spear heads." I saw on the
tops of the spears something that shone. I cannot say whe-
ther those things were of steel or brass, or of what they were.
I don't know who called nut, " Take off the heads ;" it might
have been a boy, or it might have been a child. 1 mean by a
spear a sharp pointed thing, something like a lance, and I should
suppose they were on almost all the flag-staves. Front
the moment at which the struggle commenced between the po.

'iceman and the flag-bearer, I should suppose two minutes
elapsed—not more than three—before the assistance of other
police arrived. From the moment the police received orders
to " march forward," the people began to disperse. All the
circumstances I have detailed about the struggle did not last
more than three minutes. I did say that on my return to my
shop, I saw a man in the gateway with his face cut or scratched,
but decidedly not a wound. According to my acceptation of
the word, I consider a scratch merely a slight incision of the
skin : I take a wound to be a deep cut that goes into tho flesh.
His was a scratch. I won't swear it was not a wound that went
deep into the flesh—that's a nice thing to say.
CORONER—He says it did not appear to him to be a wound.
Foreman—l want to know whether he will wear it was not
a wound.

CORONER—He did not probe it.
By a Juror—l did not use my eye-glass to it.
CORONER—I dare say there were plenty of people there with
deeper wounds than that.
By the Foreman—l will say it was a wound so far as that
there was blood flowing, but an incision into the flesh is such
as requires surgical assistance. I was in Calthorpe-street, four
doors from Mr. Sapwood's, from 10 o'clock in the morning.
At about 10 o'clock there were about 100 persons as.
sembled—by 3 o'clock I should suppose there were four
thousand or five thousand. When the police came up, they went
into the crowd. I never heard them read a Riot Act,
or proclamation. The police made the attack. I could not
see whether the police attacked the bannerm n or the banner-
menithe police first. I did not see the police use their staves
when they entered amidst the crowd. ♦t that time they
all had their staves drawn, but I did not see them use them. I
could not say there was anything in the hand of the person
who pushed the pnliceman except the flag-staff. I did not see
anything thrown. Some of the political people had sticks.

I did not see any person wounded, nor a single person knocked
down, man, woman, or child. I could hear Mr.Stallwood from
his balcony—l did not see him. If there had been any stones
thrown in Calthorpc-street I should unquestionably have seen
them.

By a Juror—The first policeman who seized the flag-star
got up and walked away. I did not perceive he was wounded.
That happened at the distance of about ').5 yards from where I
was. I did not observe any spear on the top of that flag-staff.
I should think the person who was exciting the bad feelings of
the people was more than 25 yards from me. I heard him
sufficiently to understand what he said ; he asked who would
subscribe to support his wife and family if he were to get into
mischief? If the police had struck any persons when dispersing
the people I should have seen them. They did not strike. I saw
them dispersing the people over the field, but not interrupting
them in their flight. The policeman who first seized the flag-
staff held it, and at the same time fought most manfully! I
saw no act of violence on the part of the people before the
police came up. Ido not think the question ought to be put
to me, whether I think any breach of the peace would have oc-
curred if the police had not interfered. I come here voluntarily.
saw an officer here the other morning and told him I would
come forward and give evidence. lam prejudiced by nothing
but the truth. As a housekeeper, I feel an interest in the
safety of the neighbourhood.

(The Inquest was proceeding when oar Reporter left)

Bute Cottage, erected with considerable taste
and at vast expense, in the isle of Bute, by KaAN, the
tragedian, will shortly be sold by auction. The furniture.
and some valuable theatrical relics which were deposited
there by the deceased actor, are intended to go with the
cottage.

ININIENSE SALE Or LITERARY WORKS.-
A gratifying statement has appeared in some of the public
journals of the present immense sale of the new edition of
Sir WALTER Scores admiraole Novels. To this we
may add, that " The Standard Novels and Romances,"
bi ou.tht out in monthly volumes, and similarly printed and
illustrated, enjoy scarcely an inferior popularity, upwards
of 100,000 of this cheap reprint of the most sterling mo-
dern works of fiction having already found purchasers.
In this excellent undertaking, be it remem},ered, the entire
novel is, with but few exceptions, complete in a single
volume for six shillings, less than one-fourth of the cost
of the original edition.

The author of" Lawrie Todd,"in his new story
of " D,en Erskine," includes some of the events which
occurred to him during his travels in Greece and Albinia.
This will, no doubt, prove of great interest to the nu-
merous admirers of the other stories from the same pen.
A novelist can hardly arrive at the universal fame enjoyed
b y 1 r Go Af L T
life,
ait.hdouitt drawing
fo
rt
only that he bas seen and undergone what rarely falls to
personal
not
ex-
perience
the lot of literary men, but that his genius peculiarly fits
him to turn such actual incidents to account in the page
of fiction. utoiantehi fso ortv3nlr. GA

The opposition to the payment of tithes in
the county Carlow is completely prostrate, and the cler-
gymen are now receiving their tines wit'iout any difficulty.
—Limerick Chronicle.

Another attempt has been made upon the
humane and charitable feelings of the wealthy D •an and
Chapter of Westminster, to permit the remains of KEAN,
the tragedian, to repose by the aide of GARRICK, in ti .e
Abbey, provided the Very Reverend Dean would consent
to remit the customary fees, which could not convenientiy
be paid from the estate of the deceased. We were not in
the slightest degree astonished at the result of this applica—
tion, when we recollect this venerable personage not long
since refused to receive the body of Lord BYRON.

A number of the paupers in the parish of St.
Margaret, Westminster, having consented to join Don
Panao's army, if 10s. each were given them, in the way
~f boun'y, the overseers, considering it would be a saving
to the parish, and a riddance to themselves of some trou-
blesome customers, promised to give them the desired sum
each the moment they embarked on hoard a vessel, which
was to convey them to a steather lying off Gravesend with
recruits. Between 20 and 30 men shortly enrolled
themselves, and while on their way down to Gravesend,
the beadle of the parish handed over the money to each
individual, which they had no sooner pocketed, than one
and all refused to go on board the steamer which wes to
convey them to Oporto. Threats and remonstrances were
Company,letter
. appointed
fom nsotwiOr
equally vain ; and, as a dernier resort, the whole were put
on shore at Gravesend, where the majority enjoyed them-
.ielves until their money was spent.
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Join; CONROY, announcing that her Royal Hizhness the
Duchess of KENT bad directed him to forward fiftypoun is
to the Committee, for a box for the remainder of the
season. This munificent present is greatly enhanced by
the circamstaaoe of its being purely spontaneoue.

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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS

The election of Sir C. Greville for the borough
of Warwick has been declared void, and the dic-
tation of the Warwick family in the borough
we trust, been for ever destroyed. Mr.
Sergeant Goulburn, the brother of the ex-Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, has declared himself a
candidate in the Conservative interest, and ex-
pects, no doubt, to succeed as a nominee of the
castle,—that is, in other words, on the same in-
terest, which was too feeble to return Sir Charles
Greville without an application of those means
of gross corruption, the proof of which has for-
feited his seat. Is the Learned Sergeant likely
to be more fortunate either in finding unbribed
voters to support him, or in evading the penal-
ties attached to the employment of undue influ-
ence ? The people of Warwick must soon an-
swer this question. But before any appeal can
be made to them, we hope and trust that their
temptation to sell their votes will be lessened, or
their power to injure the character of the represen-
tatives of England reduced. The writ has been, for
the present, suspended, and it is expected that some
signal act of justice will be founded on the 'special
report of the evidence before a new writ is issued.
Numbers of the witnesses, whe were voters, admitted
the receipt of large bribes. Lord Warwick's bankers
proved that all the money of Sir Charles Greville's
committee came from Lord Warwick's agent, and
that it was drawn out by checks to the very agents
who were proved to hare committed the acts of bri-
bery. if this corruption was proved to be so exten-
sive as to warrant the ejection of the late Member,
the House should not stop short at such a disquali-
fication. It ought to look for a permanent remedy
for the future, and the only effectual remedy would
appear to be an enlargement of the boundary, so as
to include the neighbouring town of Leamington.
The rramher of electors at present in Warwick, com-
posed of scot and lot voters and 101. householders,
Is about 1,200. The addition of Leamington would
create a fresh constituency of 1,000 more 104
householders, of respectable characters, and inde-
pendent either of the purse or of the intimidations
of " the Castle." Parliament will, we trust, show
its wisdom and integrity by effecting those partial
reforms which probably could not have composed a
part of the original measure, because that measure
proceeded upon general rules, but which the corrupt
state of individual constituencies is likely to give it
an opportunity of accomplishing sooner than was at
first anticipated. We have not room to enter at
present further into the facts connected with this
borough, or its late proceedings.—Times.
Mr. W. Brougham's Bill for establishing a Gene-
ral Registry of Title-deeds, will be read a second
time on Wednesday next. We say " will be read
a second time," for we cannot imagine it possible
that the House of Commons should reject a mea-
sure of such great and practical utility. We trust
that the interval which has elapsed since this Bill
was first discussed has sufficed to remove the preju-
dices of many of its opponents, and that men's
minds have been somewhat disabused of the misre-
presentations so industriously circulated by those
whose self-interest prompted them to defeat the
plan by any means, however uncandid. Indeed,
we cannot but marvel that any class of men (save
only country attorneys, whose gains and profits will
be materially cut down by a general register) should
be blind to the vast and important benefits of a
scheme which, after it has been a few years in ope-
ration, will enable a man to sell or mortgage his
estate as easily as he now transfers his stock in the
hooks of the Bank of England. Under the pre-
sent system of conveyancing, no estate, great or
small, can be sold or dealt with without an attorney
being employed by the one party to prepare the
abstract or pedigree of the title, and an attorney by
the other party to investigate, that is, to pick holes
in it. Every hole he picks costs the unfortunate
client pounds upon pounds,-6s. Sd. for a letter,
13s. 4d. for an attendance, a guinea for a search
after a document lost or mislaid, five guineas for a
conveyancer's opinion, whether the verification of
this deed should be insisted upon, or the production
of that deed dispensed with. Anxious to buy, the
purchaser accepts a title which he cannot afterwards
sell; or, unwilling to complete his contract, he takes
advantage of the pretext which the non-production
of a deed gives him to break off his bargain. It is
riot the disputed titles which pass through our
courts of law or equity,—it is not the cases of
fraudulent concealment of deeds, or of endless and
expensive litigation, that are to be put forward as
the chief grounds for adopting a general registry ; it
is the expense, vexation, delay, and uncertainty
which attend the daily transactions with land that
call loudly for a remedy, and that remedy is only to
be found in a general record of every deed and in-
strument affecting real property. All the great
evils attending the transfer of estates proceed from
the uncertainty of titles,—from the insurmount-
able difficulty of finding oat every existing deed
which may in any way touch the title. At
present this cannot be ascertained with certainty :
the utmost that can be done is to take every pre-
caution which the vigilance or skill of your legal
adviser may suggest ; and even if the result places
you in a state of comparative security, you pay for
it with a vengeance when you come to settle your
attorney's bill. Now, if there were an office in
which every deed is recorded, a man who wishes to
sell or mortgage has nothing to do but to refer the
purchaser or mortgagee to the book where his title
is registered, and there he will find, duly entered in
the order of their execution, every deed and instru-
ment affecting the property. He will see at a glance
the whole pedigree of the title; he will have the sa-
tisfaction of knowing, with absolute certainty, that
sio other deed can by possibility exist to defeat him;
above all, he will have no attorney's bill to pay for
what may be a doubtful or bad article. If an
argument were wanting in favour of this plan,
surely it is to be found in the fact, that registration
has been adopted in almost every country ex-
cept England--in France, Switzerland, Germany,
Prussia, Denmark, Holland, Norway, Sweden, Italy,
America, the West India Islands, Scotland, and Ire-
land ; and even in England, where there is a regis-
try in Middlesex and Yorkshire, which are con-
ducted on the worst possible system, there is so
much partiality shown to the principle, that York-
shire is most anxious to be excluded from the opera-
tion of Mr. Brougham's bill, and to have its own
register-office left untouched. Can it be doubted
that a system which is found applicable to the va-
rious institutions which exist in the different coun-
tries we have mentioned, is based on the soundest
principles ? This is no party question; it has been
supported by men of the most distinguished talent
in this country—both lawyers and men of business
—from Sir Matthew Hale and Sir William' Petty
down to the present time; and we look in vain
among its opponents for any names that are likely to
be associated with the diffusion of knowledge, or the
advancement of the civilization and happiness o
mankind.—Times.

The important office of the Irish secretaryship
has been accepted by Mr. Littleton, the Member
for Staffordshire, and the country will consider the
offer and the acceptance equally creditable to the
Government and the Hon. Member. Mr. Littleton
has never been the attache of any party or political
faction; but as an independent country gentleman,
whose fortune places him above the necessity of
office, the Irish secretaryship can only have been
tendered to him from honourable motives, and rte.
cepted with the single view of benefit to the empire
and fearless support of a liberal Administration.
This particular official situation is not to be coveted
in these times, nor can any Member be anxious to
vacate his seat in the present state of public opinion.
A new writ will be moved for this evening, and we
have no doubt that Mr. Littleton will be again

returned for his county, probably without op.
position. Mr. Littleton was a decided and

most consistent advocate of the great measures
of the Reform Acts, and as an influential Member
of the country party consistently upheld Lord

Grey's Cabinet, through good and evil report,
when the blind infatuation of the Peers threatened
a dissolution of the Constitution. He is a man of
business, and on 9uestions of Irish policy is known
to entertain liberal opinions. It will be recollected
that Mr. O'Connell recently seconded his nomina-
tion for the Speakership of the House of Commons,
in opposition to Mr. Manners Sutton. On that
occasion Mr. O'Connell eulogised Mr. Littleton in
the highest terms for his " good sense, candour,
and experience in business; the Hon. Member for
Staffordshire yields nothing to Mr. Manners Sut-
ton in point of talent ; in my judgment the Hon.
Member for Staffordshire displays a greater degree
of intellect, and possesses a higher order of mind than
the Right Hon. Gentleman, whilst his public print
ciples are undoubted." In comparison with Mr.
Stanley, the personal deportment of Mr. Littleton
is better suited to the Irish, and the present good
opinion of Mr. O'Connell may give him some pro-
spect of conducting the administration of Irish
affairs with more popularity and success than have
fallen to the lot of his predecessors.—Morning
Chronicle.

In one respect, for the 'interests of justice, we
have abstained free; ;taking remarks hitherto upon
the proceedings of the Coroner's inquiry which is still
pending, relative to the death of Robert Cully, the
policeman. We thought it right era becoming that
the Press should take no pat during this important
investigation, by which it might influence, or appear
to itifluentrn., the course of justice. Most of our
contemporaries, hcwever, have not been so scrupu-
lous. The Government journals in particular have,
from day to day since the commencement of the inquiry,
indulged liberally in such comments as they thought
conducive not to the elucidation of truth, but to
the suppression of it. They endeavour, by sneers,
taunts, and revilings, to prevent the Coroner's
Jury from inquiring fully into what they are bound
by their oaths thoroughly to investigate—the whole
of the circumstances connected with the death of the
deceased. If the Jury were sworn only to ascertain
whether the body of the unfortunate man on which
they are sitting died a violent or a natural death,
their inquiry might soon be brought to a close ; but,
they have to ascertain whether the violence was com-
mitted under such circumstances as would enable them
conscientiously to determine whether the death con-
stituted a case of murder, manslaughter, or justifiable
homicide. On the conduct of the police we shall
express no opinion until the investigation shall have
terminated, The conduct of our contemporaries
shall not cause us to deviate from our practice of
abstaining from remarks on matters sub judice. We
observe that some of the Tory Papers make common
cause with those in the Whig interest, and that
both parties prejudge the question at issue—the
Tories because they generally lean to the side of
arbitrary power, and the Whigs, because they do
not like their practice in office to be too nicely com-
pared with their principles when out of it. One
Whig morning Contemporary avows principles
exactly the same as those which the Whigs so vehe-
mently condemned at the time of the " Manchester
massacre." A Tory print is in ecstacies at finding
that its own opinions, and those of its Whig oppo-
nent so closely coincide as to the proper means of
suppressing a public meeting declared by the Home
Secretary to be illegal. The former compliments
the latter on its inestimable concessions to Toryism.
On this point we shall say no more at present than
that the Whig journal in question was one of the most
violent instigators of the populace during the reform
excitement, stirring up the rabble to such scenes
as occurred at Bristol and Nottingham, and calling,
day after day, for Political Unions and armed asso-
ciations to carry the Reform Bill, and keep the
Whig Ministers in power. We, who opposed all
violent proceedings then, while we advocated, with
such reasoning powers as we possessed, the cause
of reform--we, who always oppose unconstitu-
tional measures, conic from what patty they may,
are now nearly left alone, of what is called the "
li-
beral press," to insist upon justice being fairly done
between the Executive Government and the peo-
ple, as to the late aMay between the police and one
of those " Political Unions" which the organs of the
present Ministry called into existence. Though we
abstain from making a single comment on the facts
until the Coroner's inquiry shall have terminated,
we do not consider ourselves under the same re-
striction as to the law. The Coroner, if reported
correctly, appears to be of opinion that he is
to determine what witnesses are to be called.
He ie mistaken. It is his province, undoubtedly,
to state the rules of evidence to the jury; but the
jury have a right to call for what witnesses they
please; otherwiseesaand we say so without meaning
any reflection on the present Coroner—it would
be in the power of the Coroner to stifle inquiry by
declining to call material witnesses. The jury, it
is said, intend to call Lord Melbourne and the
Police Commissioners. In that we think they are
quite right. In order to satisfy the country with
the decision, the matter ought now to be com-
pletely investigated. The proceeding of the Coroner
at the Oldham inquest, which arose out of the cele-
brated," Manchester massacre," were very accep-
table to the Tory Government of that day. Whe-
ther they were strictly in accordance with law or
not we do not now take upon us to determine; we
only know that those proceedings were greatly con-
demned by the Whigs, who were then looking for
power, but who have since altered their principles
to suit their change of position. A good deal of
misconception prevails as to the application of the
Riot Act. An Evening Ministerial Paper says, it
is not necessary to read the Riot Act, unless in
cases where a legally convened meeting becomes
dangerous to the public peace. This is nothing
more nor less than the expression of gross igno-
rance on the subject. The reading of the Riot Act
becomes necessary, as a preliminary step, to the dia.
persion of an unlawful assembly by military force.
Until the Whigs carry such a Bill for this country
as they have passed for Ireland, it will be
always necessary that the Riot Act should
be read before military execution can be done on
any portion of the King's subjects assembled in a
meeting, however illegal. If soldiers fire without
the sanction of a Magistrate upon a mob, and with,-
out the Riot Act being read, either they or the
officers under whose orders they act are liable, if
death ensue, to be indicted for murder. There is
another reason why the Riot Act should be read to
an unlawful assembly before an attempt is made to
disperse it, and it is that all who continue assem-
bled for the space of one hour after reading the
prescribed proclamation become guilty of felony,
arid are liable to the pains and penalties of felony,
although the act of participating in the original
meeting only constituted a misdemeanor. We admit
that it is not necessary to read the Riot Act where
the civil force only is employed to disperse an
illegal assembly, or to prevent it from meeting.
But then the civil force ought to call upon the peo-
ple to disperse quietly before they proceed to dis-
perse them by force—even in France it is necessary
to read a summons to the crowd. Even an illegal
meeting may be dispersed by illegal means. As to
the proclamation from the Home-office, on the
Calthorpe estate meeting, we consider it most ir-
regular ;—the proper and usual course is for the
King in Council to agree to a proclamation, which
is signed by the Privy Councillors present. A
proclamation, purporting to emanate from the
Home-office merely, and without referring to the
law on which it is founded, is a most unusual pro-
ceeding—and its not being signed by the Home Se-
cretary made it still more extraordinary. We believe
many persons regarded it as a hoax, and therefore
there was the greater necessity for giving notice to
the meeting to disperse before violence was used for
that purpose. We do not pretend to say, in the
present stage of the proceedings, whether such no-
tice was given or not. We only say that it ought
to have been, and then a reasonable time should
have been allowed for the crowd to disperse. But
the best mode was what we suggested at first
namely, that if it was thought necessary at all to in-
erfere with so contemptible a meeting, Lord Mel-
bourne, with his 1,500 policemen, instead of lying
tit ambuscade, should have pre-occupied the ground,