The Sun.
London, England, 1833-06-29 00:00:00

SIMPLE LARCENY BILL.

Col. DAVIES moved the second reading of this Bill.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL moved that it be read
this day nix months.
After a few words from Mr. O'D•vyer, Mr. Alderman
Th,mpson, Mr. J. H. Lloyd, Mr. Frederick Shaw, Mr.
Aglionhy, Mr. Pease, and Mr. W. Tooke,
The House divided, when there appeared_
For the Motion 43
Against it
Majority --3
CUSTOMS' CON:3O.I•IDATION BILLS.

Mr. POULE TT THONISON, in answer to a qua.
tion put to him, said that he hoped to go into these Bills
this day fortnight. The delay had not origirmtid with him,

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EAST INDIA BICVA "\ -::"/
Mr. C. GRANT in0v,..1 the first i•til4ELtopth
India Charter Bill.
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The Bill was real a first time, and ordered •
a second time on Monday week. ' 'l' 4110,
The remaining orders of the day were disposed of, and
the House adjourned at a quarter to three o'clock.

'E MINORITY
ens' M.,tion, that the Consi-
'hurter be postponed till next

LIST OF TH.
Who voted for Colon,' Torn
sideratinn of the Bank C
Session.
ENGLAND.

Aglionhy, '' '—:Cockermouth
Andover, Vise.— Malmesbury
A stley, Sir Jacob—West Norfolk
Attwood, M.—Whitehaven
Bainbridge, E. T.—Taunton \
Baring, E.—Thetferd
Beaumont, T. W.—South Nor-,
thumberland
Berkeley, G. C. F.—West Glou-
cestershire
Biddulph, R.—Hereford
Blamire, W.—East Cumberlandi
Blackstone, W. S.—Wallingford
Bowes, John—South Durham
Brotherton, J.—Salford
Brocklehurst, J.—Macclesfield
Bulwer, H. L.—Coventry

Calvert, N.—Hertfordshire
Cayley, E S.—North Yorkshire
Chaytor, Sir W.—Sunderland
Chaytor, W. R. C.—Durham
Duncomhe, Hon. W.—North
Yorkshire
Faithfull, G.—Brighton
Fellowes, N.—North Devon
Fielden, John—Oldham
eorester, G. C. W.—Wenlock
Forster, C. S.—Walsall
Gaskell, D.—Wakefield
Gisborne, T.—North Derbysh.
Godson, R.—Kidderminster
Guest, J. J.—Merthyr Tydvil
Hawkins, J. H.—Newport, Isle'
of Wight
Hoskins, K.—Herefordshire
Hume, Joseph—Middlesex
Hutt, W.—Kingston-on-Hull
Irton, John—Cumberland
James, W.—Carlisle_

Lister: E. Cunliffe—Bradford
Lowther,Viscount—Westmore.

land
Lowther, Col.—Westmoreland
Moreton, Hon. H.—Gloucester
Morrison, J.—lpswich
Parker, Sir H.—West Suffolk
Peel, Col. J.—Huntingdon

'Pigot, R.—Bridgewater
Potter, R.—Wigan
Plumptre, J. P.—East Kent
Richards, J.—Knaresbarough
Rick ford, W.—Aylesbury
\Scholefield J.—Birmingham
Scott, Sir E. D.—Lichfield
iSerope, Poulette—Stroud
IShawe, R. N.—East Suffolk
'Stanley, E.—West Cumberland
!Strutt, Edmund—Derby
ITancred, H. W.—Banbury
Tayleur, W.—Bridgewater
Trelawney, W. L. S.—East
Cornwall
Tyrell, G.—West Suffolk
Wanon, Rigby—lpswich
Welby, G. E.—Grantham
Whalley, Sir s.—Marylebone
Williams, G.—Ashton
Williams, W. A.—Monmouth
shire

SCOTLAND.
Parnell, Sir H.—Dundee

IRELAND.
Baldwin, Dr. IL—Cork City
!Blake, Martin—Galway
[Butler, lion. P.—Kilkenny Co.
Evans, G. —Dublin Co.
'Finn, W. F.—Kilkenny
Fitzsimon, C.—Dublin ['o.
Galway, J. M.—Waterford Co.
Nagle, Sir R.—Westmeath
O'Connell, John—Youghall
0 Connell, Morgan—Meath
[O'Brien, Cornelius—Clare
O'Dwyer, A. C.—Drogheda
Roche, D.—Limerick
Ronayne, D.—Clonmell
Ruthven, E. S.—Dublin
Ruthven, Edward—Kildare
Vigor., N. A.—Carlow
Wallace, T.—Carlow

TELLE3EORits.on
(Torrent,

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, JUNE 28.

LIBEL --constrr V. LAWSON AND OTHERS.

This was an action for libel, brought by the M.P. for
Oldham,agninst the printer and proprietors of the Times.

C. PHILLIT3 stated the case. For the first time
in Mr. Cottbett's life he appeared in a court of justice,
claiming compensation for a libel; had it been an attack
upon his character as a public man, he would have scorned
to come there; he would have relied upon his public life;
hut this was an attack upon him as a private individual.
It was well known that for a long time his object had
been to get a seat in the House of Commons, and his nu-
merous enemies, among whom the most violent was the
Times, used all their efforts to prevent his success. A
month before he was entitled to take his seat, this para-
graph appeared in the most influential paper in London :

" Cobbett.—lt is hinted to us that Cobbett is an uncerti.
ficated bankrupt, therefore cannot sit in the House of Corn-
moos.—Leeds Intelligencer."

In consequence of the complaints of his constituents,
Mr. C. was obliged to bring actions against every paper
that had copied this libel ; but every one had made a sa-
tisfactory apology except the Times, which he most wil-
lingly accepted, for money was not his object. Mr. C.
had once had the misfortune to become a bankrupt, but
so far from having been refused his certificate, he got it at
once, and without the slightest hesitation. The libel
evidently meant to imply that his conduct had been so
fraudulent, that his creditors had refused it him, but here
was a complete refutation.
Sir JAMES Scaittxrr, for the defendants, said, was
Mr. Cobbett a man to seek damages for a libel, he who
had a remedy always in his own hands—be might have
inserted in the next Register, that false, lying, and
corrupt paper, the Leeds Intelligencer had told some
most malignant falsehoods of him, and that there the
thing would have ended. Or, he might have said that
‘‘ the bloody old Times has again been at its dirty work,"
—or, as lie had included two females, Fanny Reit, and
Anna Brodie, in the prosecution, could not he have used
some such language as this :—" I would tell those two she
bullies—those two blackguard women editors of the bloody
old Times, who have abused me in terms more foul
than the foulest tongued hacks on the pave, that they
bad better beware how they attack me, or they must
be treated like bullies and kicked down stairs." Now
would not that have been forcible and striking, as well as
elegant language, and was it not a style in which he was
well versed? That was the course he should have taken,
and not come like a common person seeking fur damage..
Damages, why far what ? Was his reputation damaged ?
Mr. C. did not stand before the world as a tradesman with
a shop and one window, but as an eminent—a moe' erni-
-.ent literary man, who could write equally well on both
sides of a question ; a man who could confute, change
side, and confute again. The Learned Counsel then
quoted a number of passages from the plaintiff's works,
diametrically opposed to each other.
The Jury, after nearly half an hour's deliberation,re-
turned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 100/.

The London and Birmingham Railway is
proposed to be 1121 miles long, and rise 256 feet. The
different levels require one rise of 315 feet in 15 mil-s, or
1 1 minutes only. There will be ten tunnels, and two
lines, six feet distant, with places for turning out. It will
pass under Primrose Hill, by Watford, Northampton, and
Kilsby, entering Warwickshire near Farnborough. For
15 miles, it will pass through clay ; for 19, chalk ; 20,
marl and clay ; 16, lias marl; and 241, red marl and
sand-stone ; the travelling rate will he 20 miles an hour,
and the distance be performed in 5 hours, or between
breakfast and dinner. A similar railway is in progress
from Birmingham to Manchester, of 4} hours' distance.—
Hereford Journal.
STEAM-CARRIAGE. Much interest vrais
excited among the fashionable* yesterday, in consequence
of R. OGLE, Esq., having signified his intention of start-
ing his light and elegant steam carriage, which has re.
cenily undergone various improvements ; and at half-past
eleven this admired vehicle was launaed from the Bazaar,
King-street, Portman-square, and took up in Henrietta-
street, Cavendish-square, the Hon. Mrs. PERCIVAL, Mrs.
R. PERCIVAL, the M►sses TREVELYAN, Miss BLACKET,
Mrs. T. G. MAeGmtv, and other Ladies of dist►nct►on.
It proceeded to Portland-place, and received Lady Rap.
STOCK, Lord RADSTOCK, Capt. PIXWELL, and cPveral
other gentlemen. The party then proceeded to Lady
CARR'S, at Ealing, and partook of a sumptuous cold
collation ; after which they returned to the place from
whence they started. The distance to Ealing, which is
seven miles, was performed in seventeen minutes! His
Grace the Duke of RICHMOND and several of the Nobility
were present when this unique and elegant vehicle
started.

THUNDER-STORM AND PROVIDENTIAL
ESCAPE.—Greenwich and its vicinity were visited on
Monday last, about half-past one, r.m., with one of the
most violent thunder-storms ever witnessed by the oldest
inhabitants. It was sudden and unexpected, the sun hay.
ing shone with brilliancy just before. Its effects were most
terrific in the southern part of the town, and in Black-
h• ath-road: The tremendous claps of thunder made the
horses on the road apparently frantic; and bad it not been
fur the extraordinary dexterity of the waggoner, a team of
horses would have effected very serious injury to the front
of the warehouse of Mr. GRIFFITHS, wine merchant and
auctioneer_ The electric fluid descended on the premises
of Mr. SNELTON, grocer, Blackheath-hill, and its destruc-
tive effects were singular. It appeared to have descended
in an oblique direction, destroying a part of a stack of
chimneys, shattering the back part of the premises, driv-
ing in the window and frame of the back attic, shivering the
in .er walls, and destroying the inner floors of that apart..
merit. I seems to have passed through the front room
of the first flmr, where it destroyed every thing down the
staircase, through the shop, and to have buried itself in
the footpath before the adjoining shop window. As the
flash came through the shop, it knocked down the carman
of Mr. WARREN, blacking manufacturer, who was deliver-
ing goods at the time, but without doing him the 1, eat
injury. Mr. Sxm.Tow, who was standing behind the
counter, remained untouched. A policeman, walking before
the window, was struck down and much injured, whilst
another individual near him received no injury whatever,
and the poor horse in WARREN'S vehicle waseiso laid
prostrate. Miss SKELTON was sitting in a beck-room,
reading the newspaper, and although the room was appa.
rently filled with the electric fluid, and the chairs and
tables were turned over, she experienced no other sena
;ion than that of extreme terror. The roof et Air. MIL-
LER'S schoolroom, next door, wits in part destroyed.
Tne shock fortunately did not happen during school-hours,
or the consequences might have been mote serious. The
premises of Mr. SKELTON present the appe.r..nce of a
complete wreck, but it is underato id that the fire-otfice iu
London in which he is insured pill act liberally upon the
occasion.

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LITERATURE.

WESTMINSTER RP.. VIE W. Aro. XXX VII.

LONDON, 1833.

This periodical is a mirror in which the spirit
of the age is reflected at full length. It is not
supported, like ..the., Edinburgh Review, by
the Whigs, nor, like the Quarterly, by the
Tories, but by the community at large. Its
voice is the voice of the people; that is of th:tt
vast portion of them who, under the name of
the " movement party," are rapidly bearing
down all before them. Hence it is bold in the
expression of opinion, as one who knows its
strength ; subtle, sagacious, fond of disputation,
searching in inquiry, stern and zealous in up-
holding truth. Like most Reformers, too, it is
pedantic and dictatorial ; professing an enlarged
liberality, yet holding as an axiom, that there is
no salvation without the pale of its own faith.
Those who are not for it, it considers against it,
and rates them accordingly. A little more charity
would considerably improve it ; but in a shrewd,
stirring, inquisitive age like the present, this is a
quality very apt to be thrown aside with contempt.
While great political changes are progressing,
books, like men, have no time to cultivate the
amenities ; they are wholly absorbed in the en-
forcement of the sterner duties. It is not till
the deluge has subsided, that charity, like some
smiling upland, can rear its meek head above
the waters. The Westminster Review makes
no appeal to the fancy or the feeling—it deals
only with the understanding. It argues with
mathematical precision and monotony. Its sar-
casm is coarse, bitter, and weighty, not the
light play of the rapier, but the stunning blow
of the bludgeon. In its tastes it is ultra-utili-
tarian, out-Benthaming even Bentham himself,
It has no apprehension of the fine arts ; and but
f?vv and faint sympathies with poetic and ficti-
tious literature, though it has just tact enough
to see the necessity of keeping up some little
show of intellectual refinement. We should
never expect to meet with a superior criticism
on Wilkie or Martin, or Chantry, or Scott, or
Wordsworth, in the Westminster, though
we should make sure of a first-rate one on Ben-
tham, Mill, Maculloch, or Miss Martineau.
The present numba is more varied that, usual.
The Thames Tunnel," though it adds little
to what has already been urged on the subject,
is penned in a very commendable spirit. We
subjoin an extract which will doubtless be new to
many of our readers :

The first work placed at the head of this article,
though professing to detail the origin of the Thames Tun-
nel, carries its account no farther back than the year
1823, the date of the commencement of the undertaking
in its present form and size; but the attempt was first
made in 1802, twenty-one years earlier than the time
stated in that account.
" At that time the want of a communication from shore
to shore of the Thames was greatly felt ; and as many in-
surmountable obstacles presented themselves to the erec-
tion of a bridge, some individuals of spirit and enterpr-ze
conceived the idea of excavating a sub-way beneath the
bed of the river. The engineer was a person who had
hid conside-able experience as a miner; he made h. rings
on each aide of the stream ; pronounced the undertaking
practicable, and that the expense would he much smaller
than bad been at first imagined. On this favourable re-
port, proper surveys, plane, and estimates were made;
and an Act of Parliament was obtained, incorporating
the Thames Archway Company.' The first operation
of the engin er was to commence sinking a shaft of eleven
feet diameter to the depth where the archway was to
begin ; but the obstacles which presented themselves to
his progress were so numerous and unexpected, th :t he
was obliged to relinquish the attempt after reaching
forty-two feet in depth. In consequence of this failure, it
was determined to make fresh borings ; and these pre-
sented results sufficiently favourable to induce one of the
proprietors to engage to finish the shaft to the depth of
seventy-six fee►, below which it was considered daneerous
to attempt the excavation ; and the shaft was proposed to
he reduced from a diameter of eleven to one of eight
fret. The proposal met with the approbation of the
Company, who engaged a second engineer, also expe-
rienced in mining operations; and the two engineers
agreed to reduce tI e size of the drift-way to three feet at
the bottom, and two feet six inches at the top. They
proceeded to the depth of seventy-six feet, where they
found a bed of thin sand, and there they opened the
drift-way, which they carried forward on a very gentle
and gradual ascent, and after completing 394 feet of exca-
vation, the Company discharged their first engineer. This
was in November, 1807, and after much deliberation on
the best means of insuring the fullest efforts of the re-
maining engin- er, the Directors agreed to present him
with the sum of 1,0001. if he succeeded in reaching the
opposite shore. Liberality in such cases insures exertion,
And in the instance under notice it gave rise to the greatest
Activity. Four hundred and twenty feet more of drift-
way were carried forward, and planked, through firm and
dry ground ; and 138 feet more were cut through a stra-
tum of calcareous rock, eight feet in thickness, making
952 feet of excavation, completed by the middle of De-
cember of the same year. The exertions deserved stre-
ws; the reverse was, however, in store for them. Mis-
fortunes :Ater this attended their labours, baffled their
,efforts, and finally destroyed their hopes."

Progress of Law Reform" is a valuable essay,
pointedly expressed, and full of argument and
erudition. It is scarcely the production of
ig tti...ofessional mind, for few of our legal lumi-
naries would, and still fewer could, write it.
Fairs, Mythology," which is dull and narcotic
to a degree, should have been taken up by the
Edinburgh or Quarterly Review; it has no
business in the Westminster, where it looks
as much out of place as a west-end Exquisite
At the Stock Exchange. " Life of Pym," the
great reformer in the time of the first Charles,
and the leading manager of the impeachment
against that apostate, the Earl of Stafford, is
well discussed. Of course Pym is exalted to
the skies ; not, however, without reason, for
the concurrent testimony of most of the his-
torians of that stormy period :makes him one
Hof the most inflexible pai_riots of his age. Even
the smiles of a court, which thawed the icy
reservo of a Wentworth, had no power over
the stern integrity of Pyrn. He was a man on
whose name Englishmen must ever dwell with
pride and fondness. " White's Selhourn" is a
slight, sketchy account of one of the mast fas-
cinating books in the language. The reviewer
does ample justice to the mild, unostentatious
virtues of the natural historian of his native vil-
lage. " Future Government of British India" we
should conceive,from the elaborate way if, which
subject is canvassed, and the great variety
oewatter introduced, to be from the pen of M.
Mill. At any rate it is not unworthy of him.
" Whewell's First Principles of Mechanics" is
as dry, dull, and uninviting as its subject, but
then, to quote a homely appropriate adage, " it
is impossible to make a Bilk purse out of a sow's
ear.", " Emancipation of the Jews" takes, of
course, the liberal side of the question. It is of a
very learned, pains-taking character, " Otter-
bourne" is a brief, pithy notice of a romance
of that name, published some one or Lwo years

since, and now, we believe, forgotten. " The
Wesley Family" contains some gossiping, cha-
racteristic anecdotes, together with a slight
biographical sketch of the celebrated founder of
the family, whom Southey has immortalized in
his late delightful Memoirs. " Nathan on
the History and Theory of Music," should
have made an interesting article, but is
here inexpressibly tedious, though brief. In-
stead of a graceful, elegant play of fancy, we
have a pedantic essay, full of hard words and
allusions to the Joloffs of Africa, the Wahabees,
the Ashantees, the Chinese, and their King
Fum Hi. The music of the Joloffs, like half
the poetry of the Cheskians, exists, we suspect,
only in the imagination of the great Pangloss
of his day. " Turkish Empire" contains a
graphic sketch of the early history of the reign-
ing Sultan, who, is, however, overrated. The

other matters of information in this article
lie on the surface, and are known to every one
who has been in the habit of skimming the
journals for the last one or two years.