The Sun.
London, England, 1834-06-24 00:00:00

MARRIED WOMEN-

Emily Phipps, a young married woman, was opposed
by, Mr. CooKE, on the part of a lady named Smith ; a
butcher, named Ford, appeared in person ; and a per-
son named Almond, who had been her " footman."
She was supported by Mr. WOODROFFE.
In this case a question of considerable importance
arose affecting the power of the court to remand mar-
ried women for improperly contracting debts. The
insolvent had represented herself to Mrs. Smith as A
widow, and rented from that lady a furnished house' ati
No. 22, Bernard-street, Russell-square, she being de,
sirous of leaving town, and signed an agreement to
pay 1961. a-year, in which she described herself as a
widow, but she now stoutly denied that she had passed
herself off as a widow ; she gave references, and one of
them had been before the court for his discharge. She
had kept possession for six months, and had not paid
any rent. Whilst in the house she managed to con-
tract several debts with tradesmen. Mr. Ford gave
her credit for 111., on the understanding that she was
a widow, and that her trustees resided in the country..
The insolvent had, it appeared, told, Almond, who had
acted as her footman in Bernard-street, and his wife as
cook, that she was married, but did not, as he termed
it, " inhabit" with her husband. He bad only re-
ceived 151. whilst in her service, and it now came out
that she had been separated some time from her hus:
band, who had instituted a suit for a divorce, and who
had agreed to allow het 1001. a year as alimony, but
had not kept up the payments.
The COURT defined a debt to be a sum of money
which a person in law was bound to pay. There were
doubts whether the insolvent was bound to pay the debt
contracted with Mrs. Smith, but the court held that
she must describe herself .to the world as contracting
debts as a widow, and adjourned her case sine die.

COURT OF REQUESTS.--JuNE 23.

TAR CDAtIIEAVIR AND lIIS aFICTEIt."

A small made man, with a carefully cultivated pair
of carrotty mustachios, whose seedy " toggery" pre-
sented a tolerably good imitation of a Polish " znili-
taire," came before the Cominiisioners to make good
his claim to fifteen-pence, the price charged for a
whole length portrait of Mister Robert White, a
member of the worshipful fraternity of coalheavers.
The complainant called himself Signor Benesontagi,
but, from all the genuine characteristics of Cocaigno
which he carried about him, it was evident he had
Germanised his patronymic of Benson to suit the
present judicious taste of the " pensive public."
Signor Benesontagi, it appeared, was a peripatetic
professor of the " Fine Arts," and accustomed to visit
public-houses for the purpose of caricaturing the coun-
tenances of the company, at prices varying from six-
pence to half a crown per head. In pursuit of his
vocation he stepped into the tap-room of the Vulcan's
Head on Friday evening last, where a conclave of
" operatives" interested in the coal trade usually as-
sembled to pay their devoirs to the genius of Barclay
and Perkins; he announced the nature of his profes-
sion, and was beckoned into the box where the de-
fendant was sitting, who offered him a shilling to take
his likeness ; this sum he consented to augment to
fifteen-pence, provided he would draw him in his blue
velvet Sunday " kicksies," which, he said, he• only
wore on grand occasions. The bargain was struck,
and the " portrait" was finished, but the defendant
was so ill satisfied with the performance that he swore
he would not have it, nor pay a " farden piece" for
the " Artists" trouble.

The defendant was called on by the Court to state
his reasons for refusing to pay.
Vy, my lords, said Mister White, my reason is this
here :—That, 'ere covey comes into the crib vere I vos
sitting, and ax'd me if as how I'd have .my picter
draw'd. Veil, my lord, being a little " lumpy," and
thinking it 'ud please my Sal, I told him I'd give him
a " bob," and be my pot to his'n, if he'd shove in a
pair of welwet breeches as I'd got at home. Yell, my
lord, he said he vould, and that he'd make a " out and_
out " job on it, for he'd larn't phisogomony under Sir
Peter. Laurie.

It's false, said the complainant; the name as I men-
tioned was Sir Thomas Lawrence.

Vere's the difference, said the coalheaver? Vell,
my lords, he goes to vork like a Briton, and claps this
here thing in my fist, vich arn't a bit like me, but is
more likener the head of a bull with the bellyache.
The defendant pulled out a card, and handed it to
the Court. On inspection, though certainly it was an
ugly likeness, yet there could be no doubt that it was
intended for the defendant.
The COMMISSIONERS were of opinion that the por-
trait was a good fifteen-penny copy of the defendant's
countenance.

T'ant a bit-like me, said the defendant. Vy, lookee
here, he's draw'd me with a bunch of inghans sticking
out of my pocket.
A bunch of onions, said the incensed artist, I'll
submit it to any gentleman as is a judge of the " Fine
Arts," whether it can be anything else thin bis watch
seals.

Votch seals, vy, I never yore no seals 'cause I never
had none ; so how can this here be like me ? said the
coalheaver.

The CommissioNEas admitted the premises, but de-
nied the conclusion ; and being of opinion that tho
fifteen-pence was justly due to Signor Benesontagi,
awarded that sum and the costs to him.

Mister White drew out six shillings, and laid them
down, one by one, with the expression of countenance
of a man submitting to have so many teeth drawn.

THE LION'S ROAR.—Having appointed
our watch for the night (a service which all the male
adults, masters as well as servants, agreed to under-
take in rotation), we had retired to rest, and, except-
ing our sentinels, were all buried in sleep, when
about midnight we were suddenly roused by the roar
of a lion close to our tents. It was so loud and tre-
mendous that, for a moment, I actually thought a
thunder-storm had burst upon us. But the peculiar•
expression of the sound--the voice of fury as well as
of power_instantly undeceived me ; and, instinctively
snatching my loaded gun from the tent-pole, I
hurried out, fancying that the savage beast was
about to break into our camp. • •
The reader who has only heard the roar of the lion
at the Zoological Gardens can have but a faint (on-
..eption of the same animal's voice in his state of
freedom ald uncontrolled power.—Priniles African
Sketches.

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LONDON,
T'UEgDAY EVENING, JUNE '24, 18:34.

The discussion in the Commons on the Irish
Tithe question led to no decisive result ; for
though there was a division, and a majority of
261 against Mr. O'CoNNELL's resolution, the
Toccrfltd opinion of the House on the appro-
priation of church property remains exactly the
same as it was on Mr.WARD'S motion, and it
is :;ingular enough, that in the division, parties
tvho are directly opposed to each other on the
jnestion should have voted on the same side,
and that ninety-nine of those who are agreed
with MittiVers should have voted against them.
There Is little or no difierenCer between Minis-
ters' and Mr.O'CoNsIELL's party, as to the
appropriation of the Surplus Church property,
and if there could have been any doubt on the
subject previously, it was completely removed
by the declared sentiments of Lord ALTHORP.
tord JOHN RUSSELL, and above all, of Mr.
ELLICE last night. They stated in language
as clear as words can convey, that after the
Irish Protestant clergy shall be provided
for, the surplus shall be applied to such
moral and religious purposes as the Legislature
shall judge meet, yet, after the declaration of
two of the Ministers, Mr. SHAW and Sir RO-
BERT PEEL taunt them with a want of man-
liness and a culpable equivocation in explaining
their sentiments. They call upon them to
speak out, yet in the same breath declare that
their intentions and those of the member for
Dublin are precisely the same. One would
have thought that the secession of Mr.
STANLEY and his party was a sufficient
proof of • the intentions of the Government,
and no reasonable man can doubt it. The
high church party certainly have no doubt on
the subject, and we can account for this out-
cry about want of manliness and equivocation
solely from a wish on their part to make the
people believe that there is some secret—some
mysterious plot hatched by Ministers against the
Established Church. This is one way of an-
noying a Government ; but what is of much
more consequence, it is the most effectual way
of exciting the two parties against each other,
and kindling anew the flame of agitation and
discord, not in Ireland only, but in every part
of the empire. If the Tories succeed in this,
will' they be one step nearer their darling
object, the recovery of political power ?
Without they change their principles—with-
out they falsify all their' professions with
rcgard to church reform and the appro-
priation of Church property, they will be fur-
ther removed from that object than ever,
and will find that by opposing the rational and
just measures of the present Government, they
only contributed to increase the power of their
bittcrost enemies. If the Winchilseas and
Rodens persevere in their wild schemes of
agitating the Protestants of the north,
another party will agitate in the south, and
we shall at last have Ireland reduced to
exactly the same state in which it was when
the Duke of WELLINGTON declared, that, of
all the evils which can afflict a country, none
was so great as a civil war. We can see no
other alternative. Owing to the length of the
debate, we have not room at present for further
observations on this important subject, and can
only call attention to the speeches, and more
particularly to the speech of Sir R. PEEL, in
which, with admirable consistency, he blames
the government for not protecting church pro-
perty in Ireland, while both the former govern-
ment and the present have, with 30,000 men,
tried this in vain, and expresses his dread of
the appropriation of the surplus, while he at
the same time declares that, if properly distri-
buted, it would not give more than 3001. to
each clergyman !

Is there a public assembly in the kingdom
but one, where the assertion would have been

hazarded that Poland had fallen a sacrifice to I
her excess of toleration? Such ignorance of
history could not.hairs escaped detection
.in the
rawest mechanical institution—in the rut
and remotest corner of the kinis-,10111.- There is
not a trades' union
to scorn inut would not have laughed
any brother
,who had so exposed his
wretched lack of information. What Poland
victimto religions toleration POland, the
pride of the north, the glory 'of the Slavonic
'flame, the bulwark of Christendom against the
Turk, the saviour of the ungrateful viper that
has since stung her ; while Poland gave reli-
gions 'reedom, in the most ample form, to
every inhabitant of her fertile and ex-
tensive plains. Poland a prey to intes-
tine dissension, the scorn and slave of
her ancient vassal the Muscovite, since she de-
parted from the_ principles of - toleration and
established one dominant sect to tyrannize and
trample- on every dissident-, converting half her
population into factious rebels ready to con-
federate with any power hostile to her haughty
and intolerant priesthood. Had the slightest
tinge of political Or historical knowledge per-
vaded the dense medium that surrounded the
speaker, might it not have occurred to him be-
fore hereferred to-such an illustration, that the
opposite fate:. of the Muscovite was fatal to his
argument fioln -experience. Slave as he has
ever been, the 14ruscovite has always practised
religious toleration.' Mahometan, Christian, and
Pagan enjoy equal rights under his iron-sceptre.
This single principle has maintained him
against every imported vice, every inherent de-
fect in his constitution. It has raised him in
little more than a century from being the vassal
of the Tartar, the Polander, or what not, to
raise his Imperial Crown to a level with the
most ancient and civilized nations of the world.

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When the last accounts left Lisbon a num-
ber of Carlists were waiting at Aldea Gallegos
for embarkation; they were mostly desirous of
going to Hamburg. Considerable violence had
been manifested against them by, the inhabit-
ants, and it is said four persons had been killed
or wounded. Lieutenant Colonel WYLDE, of
the British Artillery, was at Aldea Gallegos
for the purpose of rendering them assistance.
Don MIGUEL sailed from Cascases Bay for
Genoa on the 6th inst. in the Stag, accompa-
nied by the Nimrod.

The Paris Journals of Sunday are filled with
little else than election matters, which, it seems,
bid every where fair to turn out in favour of
Ministers.

DANIEL'S EPISTLES.—No. 1.

TO THE. RIGHT HON. E. J. STANLEY.

"He (Mr. O'Connell) hail often bad a wangle with the late
Right Hon, Secretary far the CGlonies (Mr.- Stanley). He had
no wish, hbwever, to revive that; grid he only reverted to it in
order to assure the hou4e that he now flung from him everything
like a feeling of irritation. The Right Hon. .Gentleman was at.
tached to public lite—he had amb=tion, and some Hon Memhe-s
speculated on coming into power utider' his wings."—tide
O'Connell's speech last light. •

Tho' you quizzed: me where er you were able,
While the House"hailed your wit with a cheer,
Tho' with both your-legs cocked on the table,
You've a dozen times shown me your rear ;•
Yet since you've bid-Althorp defiance, '
You've made rue most ample'arnends, -
So come, let's strike up an alliance,
Oh, come, let's shake hands and be friends.
To boldly throw off each Whig trammel,
Yet affect to look shy upon Pat,
What is't but to swallow a camel,
And strain at a poor little gnat?
I'm none of your frantic debaters,
Whose doctrine to anarchy tends,
No, sooner, I'd live upon taters!
So, come, let's shake hands and be friends.
Why, why should we kick up a pother,
Like termagant husband and wife ?
Why daily keep leading each other
Such a cat-and-dog sort of a life ?
We've both the same ends to achieve,
To both the same duty extends,
Viz., of place the base Whigs to bereave—
So, come, let's shake hands and be friends.
Hark ! the Tories are shouting and leaping
To think they've got such an ally,
But soon shall be sighing and weeping,
When we craftily bid them good bye ;
We fight not for such silly elves,
We look to more rational ends,
Like Sawney, we look to ourselves—
So come, let's shake hands and be friends.
On, Stanley, I long to be battling
For office, with you in the van,
Not a joint of my Tail but is rattling
At thought of so novel a plan ;
On then, with our daring endeavour,
And no matter whom it offends,
Let our watch-word be " office for ever 1"
But first, let's shake hands and be friends.

• In the House of Commons, a few nights since, Mr. O'Con.
hell cnmplained, in bitter terms, of Mr. Stanley's " insolent ha.
bit of rockb g up hls legs on the table."
t Mr. 0' Connell& mode of pronouncing the word "potatoes."

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Consols continue, as for several days past, in a languid
state, and opened at the price they left off yesterday,
92% % for the Account. In the early part of the morning
Spanish Stock bad,a very gloomy appearance ; it left off
yesterday at 474 and'receded to 46%, after which a re-
action took place and they went up again to 473/ ; Portu-
guese Stock may be quoted at 78 q. No arrivals as yet
from Portugal.
HALF-PAST ONE.

The Savage sloop of war has arrived from Lisbon at
Falmouth; abe sailed, we hear, on the 9th instant, and
brings accounts of an attempt made to assassinate Don
Miguel when marching down to go on board, which was
frustrated by Captain- Lockhart, who knocked the man
down. All was tranquil, and every thing going on in a
regular train. All 3liguelite property is held sacred, and
those who choose to enter the army are received.
Consols continue steady at 921,4 buyers for the Ac-
count, with little or nothing doing at present.
In the Foreign :slarket a great deal was doing in the
early part of the day. Spanish Stock, which has fluctuated
from 47,/t down to 461,4, is up again to 473fi ; at present
it may be quoted at 471,4 4. Portuguese steady, at
7814 to 1,4.

THREE O'CLOCK.

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Consols for the Account, 92%
CLOSING Ili 10ES.—VOUR O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 2161 India Stock _
3 per Cent. Red 9l Ditto Bonds 22 prn
3 pet Cam. Cons South Sea Stock . ..... .....-.
3t per Ccnt. ........ - 91 Ditto Old Ann Eel
lP per tint. 8ed......... tr,44 - Ditto Now Ann
N...,tw id per Crot ll,O Ex. Bills, lOcil 4B pm
per Ccnt. Assented... 100 :Ytto 4'ol 4B pm
Dissented... lull Ditto Small 48pm.
Lone .Ann. to expire Bank S. for Acc.
.4,, IMO Pi consols fur Opg P24
0,1 1559..... ......... i 7 1-16 India St. for Opg 269
.11111. 18611........ ....
FOREIGN
Austrian, 5 percent....... 11.14 i
B 'lgian, 5 per cent 9B
Brazilian Bonds
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent 3,1
Chilian. 6 per cent-- ...
Columbian, 6 per cent -,
Ditto 1824..- ........
Dinah
Greek, 5 per cent 354
Mexican 5 per Cents, INS 35
Dittos per Cent.. 1825.-- 45
Peruvian e per Cent ,

FUN lIS.

Portuguese, 5 per cent 78
Ditto, Reg. Bonds
Prussian, 5 per cent.
Russian Minds, 5 per cent: 11(4
Di, to, Metallic ......... I
Spanish, 5 per 474
Ditto, .. .
French 5 per Cent.— —t. —c.
Exchange ....... --f --c.
French 3 per car',..„
Dutch, lj per 501
Ditto S per fi;

REAL DEL MONTE COMPANY, AS IT
TS IN AIF,XICO AND LONDON.—( MANN, CORNHILL. )
We have perused this little work, which appears to us to
contain a full and highly interesting statement of the
affairs of this mining speculation. The details are
said to be taken from official documents, and appear
fully to bear out the views of our correspondent on
last Friday. Every proprietor ought to have this com-
prehensive statement of facts in his possession.

ROYAL MUSICAL FESTIVAL.
(THIS DAY.)

This Grand ..t
tor first day of. the ran Musical
Yerformanees in Westminster Abbey, the greatest
interest was excited, and all the avenues leading to
the Abbey were thronged at an early lidur by
eit*Els df well-dressed, people.
At twelve d'clook Majesties, accompanied
by their :Usual Slate . attendants, left St. James'sP.alaCe. . The Royal cortege, consisting of eleven
carriages, was escorted by a large body of the- First
Regiment of Life Guards. . Pall Mall and the line
of road to the Abbey, was thronged with per,
sons, and the fineness of the day . contributed
not a little to enliven the scene, The Royal
Horse Guards - (Blue), kept the . und,,- and
throughout the whole line of road their. Ma-
jesties Wert lduilly cheered. A Guard.of Hdnour,
consisting of a detachment of. the. Foot Guards,
with the band in their . State uniforms, was -sta-
tioned opposite to the grand entrance, and pre,
sented arms as their Majesties and suite entered
the Abbey. 'ln the carriage with their Majesties
we observed the Princess Auguita and the •-Prince
Of Saxe.Meiningen. His Majesty looked particu-
larly well, and seemed .much. delighted „vrith,
tlie-
cordial reception he met from. his loyal subjects._
His Majesty entered the abbey a few .minutes
after twelve o'clock, and took his seat in the royal
box, accompanied by the Queen, the Duchess of
Kent, the Princess Victoria, the Princess Sophia,
and his Officers of State. Their Majesties
appeared in excellent health, and excee-
sively gratified as every body must be -with the
performance. The crowds of _beauty and. fkisilioo
that. thronged the Abbey had a most beautiful -effect,
indeed it was one of the most splendid sights we ever
witnessed, and. the, arrangements reflect the greatest
Credit on theie who had the conduct of them, every
thing passing off with the greatest regularity.