The Sun.
London, England, 1833-11-23 00:00:00

ARRIVALS.

Lord Farnborough, at his house, Whitehall.gardens, from
his seat, Bromley hill, Kent; L. Mason, Esq., at Fenton's
Hotel, St. James's.street, from Coventry ; Major Bowry, at
ditto, from a tour; Lady Murray, at Batt's Hotel, Dover-
street, from Richmond ; J. Dedel, Esq., at ditto, from a tour;
Lady Munro, at ditto, from Richmond ; Captain Mordell, at
Morley's Hotel, Trafalgar-square, from the Continent; J. R.
D. Fyson, F,q., at ditto, from ditto; Captain and Mrs. Rum-
ford, in Brook street, from Cheltenham; Mr. and Mrs. Sitwell,
in Albemarle-street, from their seat in Norfolk ; Robert Bar-
tholomew, Esq., and Mrs. Bartholomew, at Marshall Thomp-
son's Hotel, Cavendish-square, from York ; James Molyneux,
Esq., and Mn. Molyneux, at ditto; Richard H. Roundel!,
Esq., at ditto; Wilmot Horton, Esq., at the Waterloo Hotel,
Jermyn.street, from Titsey Park; William Brougham, Esq.,
M.P., in Mount-street, from Brighton ; Viscount Fitzharris, at
the Earl of Tankerville's, from Heron Park, Hants ; Count
Pahlen, in Lower Brook-street, from a tour; Lord Kenyon, in
Portman.square, from Gredington Park, Flintshire ; John
Barham, Esq., in Queen Anne-street, from a visit to the Earl
of Verulam, at Gorhambury ; Sir Thomas Hardy, at the Admi-
ralty, from Brighton ; Lady Alicia Gordon, in Saville-row, from
a visit to the Earl of Aberdeen, at Haddo House, N. B. ; the
Duke and Duchess of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey, from Ho-
thienmachus, N. 8.; Sir John and Lady Anne Beckett, on a
visit to the Earl and Countess of Lonsdale, at Lowther Castle,
frem Whitehaven Castle, Cumberland.
DEPA RTURES.

Sir Richard anti Latiy musgta,,, feom the Borlington Hotel,
Burlington.street, for Ireland; Mr. and Mrs. Dimsdale, from
ditto, for Fleets; Sir F. Hopkins, Bart., from ditto, for the
Continent; Mr. and Mrs. Baker, from ditto, for Beyfordbury,
Herts ; the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Hay, from ditto, for ditto; J.
M'Neill, Esq., from ditto, for Belfast; George W. Shep-
pard, Esq., from Marshall, Thompson's Hotel, Cavendish .
square; Robert B. Wilson, Esq., and John Wilson, Esq., jun.,
from ditto; Captain Hinde, from ditto, for Brighton; James
Strange, Esq., from the Waterloo hotel, Jermyn-street, for
Edinburgh ; Sir Thomas, Lady Strange, and family, from ditto,
for Harrow ; the Duke of Devonshire, for the Continent ; Lord
Gardner, for Melton. Mowbray ; Sir Philip Acland, Bart., for
his seat in Somersetshire; Captain Smith, from Raggett's
Hotel, Dover-street, for Brighton ; Mr. and Mrs. Walsh, from
ditto, for their seat in Worcestershire; Capt. Mackenzie, from
ditto, for Ireland; Lady Campbell, from Thomas's Hotel,
Berkeley.square, for Kent ; Mr. and the Misses James, from
Batt's Hotel, Dover-street; Captain Moore, from ditto, for
Brighton; Mr. and Mrs. Owen, from Park lane, for their scat
in Salop ; the Earl and Countess of Guildford, from Warren's
Hotel, Regent-street, for their seat, Old Alresford, Hants.

A marriage is said to lee on the Lapis between
John Barham, Esq., of Queen Anne-street (son of the
late lamented Lady Caroline, and nephew to the Earl of
Thanet), and the beautiful Lady Caroline Grimston,
eldest daughter of the Earl of Verulum. An elegant
equipage is understood to be building for the distinguished
parties in South•street.

The Hon. Colonel Butler, M.P., and Mr.
Fergus O'Connor, M.P., have both written letters to the
editor of the Dublin :Freeman's Journal, denying the
truth of Mr. Hill's late statement at Hull.

M. Rothschild, with a spirit of toleration as
well as of generosity, which is worthy of imi-
tation, having learned that the Rector of Boulogne, near
Paris, had been robbed of all his plate, which he was
unable to replace, sent him a chest fully making up the
loss.—French Paper.
MR. D. W. HARVEY AND THE BAR.—
The Benchers of the Inner Temple met on Tuesday even
ing last, by appointment, to hear Mr. Harvey's renewed
application to be called to the bar. At seven o'clock the
Masters, among whom were Sir J. Scarlett, Sir G. Rose,
Sir E. Sugden, and Sir C. Wetherell, assembled in the
library, for the purpose of hearing Mr. Sergeant Wilde o❑
behalf of Mr. Harvey. No other persons were admitted
to the room, except Mr. Harvey, his solicitor, a shorthand
writer for Mr. Harvey, another for the Masters, and the
witnesses, as they were severally required to give testi
mony. Mr. Sergeant Wilde, having opened the case of
his client, proceeded to call witnesses to vindicate his pro-
fessional character from imputations which hail been cast
upon it by the refusal of the Benchers to admit him to the
liar. At half-past ten o'cl ick thi! heating was adjourned,
and resumed on Wednesday evening. Other witnesses
were examined, and Mr. Harvey himself entered into ex-
planations, and replied to various questions put to him by
some of the Masters. Sbortly after ten the hearing was
again adjourned to this evening (Friday), at a quarter after
seven o'clock. It is expected that the case will occupy
more than one more evening. We need scarcely add, the
proceedings excite the deepest interest i❑ the county of
Essex, and also among the legal profession generally...._
Chelmsford Chronicle.

FINE WRITING.--We copy the following
unique specimin of fine writing, from the " Private
Correspondence" of a morning contemporary. The com
parison of the " demon of despotism" with a " wounded
Titan" and an "exoculated Cyclop" is a glorious touch
of the sublime. It has also the merit of originality—n
rare qualification in this age of common-place :—" In
Spain as well as in Portugal the demon of despotism and
priestcraft seems to be on the point of being for ever
overthrown, and reels already to and fro like a wounded
Titan. Staggering about with the unsteady strides of an
agonised and exoculated Cyclop it succumbs under the
baby blows of infant Liberty, which, on the principle of
iteration, only can finish its gigantic but worn-out anti•
gonist, unab'e to accomplish this glorious task by giving
him the coup- de. grace."
DEWSBURY.—The blanket trade here is very
flat, and there seems to be little hopes of i•B recovery fur
some time.—. Wakefield Journal,

SPIRIT OF TIIE PUBLIC JOURNALS

In the conduct of the German States within
the last eight or ten days we find subjects for
ave remark, if not for serious apprehension.
The Grand Duke of Hesse Darmstadt has dis-
mised Legislative Chambers, with strong
expressions
nsofhis dissatisfaction at their resist-
ance to the censorship of the press, and at their
objections to the interference of the Diet in the
internal affairs of the duchy. In \Virtemberg
the Ministry has been defeated in its appeal to
the popular branch of the States, and has been
obliged to close the session by a solemn petition
to the King to abolish the censorship, and to
maintain the rights of his people against the
encroachments of his despotic confederates. And
in the Grand Duchy of Baden, the States con-
secrated their last sitting to the adoption of an
address, in which they set before his Royal
Highness the Grand Duke the dangers with
which European tranquillity is threatened by the
resistance of the governing party to popular
rights,—the injustice of the Princes of Gerrnat.y
in delaying the constitutional improvements
which they promised to their subjects at the end
of the war,—the unjustifiable pretensions of the
Diet in limiting the freedom of the press,—
and the probability that a dreadful reaction
will take place, if the will of the people
is not speedily consulted, or their grievances
redressed. This assembly even adverts in
its address to the inauspicious reign of Charles
X. in France, and hints at a catastrophe like
his from an imitation of the measures which he
pursued. Here we have the representatives of
more than 3,000.000 enlightened Germans
courageously corning forward with the expres-
sion of their opinion in favour of an extended
liberty, and particularly in support of that in-
strument of all intellec,ual and political improve-
; ment—the freedom of the press. Nor is the
feeling thus expressed likely to be evanescent or
transitory ; it has already animated the deli:nes
of several sessions—it has presided at several
elections—it has inspired several changes of
deputies—it has acquired strength from resist-
ance, and it has become more vigorous as the
States were dispersed to their homes among
their fellow-citizens. In this catalogue of re-
monstrants we do not find included the Legis-
lature of Bavaria, which, though not now
sitting, partakes the sentiments of ha liberal
confederates; but we find in the German papers
a decree of the Bavarian King, which shows
how little he is capable of learning anything
from the events passing around him. At the
very time that popular changes are demanded,
more alarming than the " eclipse which formerly
perplexed monarchs," he seems to he thinking
only of an inverse mode of exalting his legal
dignity, by degrading his subjects, as the follow-
ing paragraph will show

" On the 7th inst. an ordinance was published here
founded on a Ministerial rescript of October 29. The
first article of this ordinance forbids all carriages, me
matter to whom they belong, and all riders on horseback,
to pass carriages in which th it Majesties are ; and,
when the King is on horseback, it is forbidden to pass
or remain before him. The second article orders all
carriages and horsemen who may meet their Majesties to
draw up immediately, and halt till they have passed by."

In Germany there is in general no lack of
respect or reverence to persons of rank, or to
persons in office. There is rather, on the
contrary, a too profuse or prodigal expenditure
of tokens of regard, and of observances of ce-
remony. It is not likely, therefore, that t
crowned head should be the only exception, or
that his Bavarian Majesty has been denied the
usual courtesy with which he was formerly
received by his subjects, and consequently it
can scarcely be supposed that there could be
any necessity for issuing a Royal ordinance
to enforce customary civility. The regulation
is thus likely to be entirely new, and cettainly
does not appear a happy omen of a sincere
constitutional reign. The present period is nut
exactly the time for trying humiliating experiments
in Court etiquette. From the Royal pedant,who was
formerly a Liberal, and who still is vain of his

liberal verses, better things might have been
expected. One would be tempted to believe that
the throne of Greece had changed his temper
and his intellect more than those of his less ex-
perienced son. Such an extravagant piece of
folly could scarcely have occurred to any consti-
tutional Monarch, not a candidate for Bedlam.
Who shall enforce the ordinance thus promul-
gated without the form of law ?—and what
penalty shall be awarded for its transgression ?
—are questions which must occur to everybody,
and the solution of which (according as the ex-
periment is successful or the contrary) must show
the absolute weakness or the positive tyranny of
the Government. The most insane and un-
worthy despots have always been the most severe
exacters of personal homage. That mad auto-
crat, Paul of Russia, ordered, by an imperial
ukase, that all persons who met the Emperor's
.
carriage the streets should fall down on their
knees and take off their hats as it passed, and a
peasant who did not observe the regulation,
because he did not know it, had his hat nailed
to his head by order of the imperial savage.
Is the King of Bavaria, the inditer of German
sonnets to liberty, disposed to imitate the
northern tyrant, and prepared to enforce his
order by any similar rigour ? We suspect that
the States must take some notice of his conduct,
though it refers to mere ceremony.— Times.
Messrs. O'Connell and Co. have begun to
realize their threats of agitating Ireland over
again. The text chosen for the new discourses
of the missionaries—not undoubtedly messen-
gers of peace—are twofold, as in the last cam-
paign—" Abolition of Tithes, and Repeal of
the Union." There is beyond all question
deep room to regret that the former of these
two subjects has been kept open to the present
hour. A mournful omission it has been that
the one great evil of the tithe system, which
comprehends so many others, yet remains an
instrument in the hands of unprincipled men,
whereby they may inflame at pleasure the pas
sions of a vehement people, and enlist not
merely the impatience of suffering, but in some
measure the sense of justice, and the suggestions
of foresight, in a league against British con-
nexion. " Support me," says the Agitator,
" in my repeal of the union, and we can jointly
and speedily effect the abolition of tithe.
What must be thought of the wisdom of
that policy which places at the disposal of
such a man a bribe to the Irish multitude
so vast and irresistible ? But that is not
all. Tithe is not merely a thing hated by
the people : it has been formally denounced
by the King and the House of Commons, as an
institution which could not any longer be conti-
nued, and in lieu of which some more expedient
substitute must be found for maintaining the
Irish as well as the English clergy. From such
high
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entertaining a confidence which it was our own
misfortune largely to partake of with them.
The disappointment, however, has worked cala-
mitously, having formed the most prolific mate-
rial of what agitation and outrage followed, and
the indirect origin of that coercive law which,
no matter how effectual it may have been in
repressing positive violations of the peace, and
attacks upon life and property, still grappled
with consequences only—not with causes—and
operated favourably on the fears of the moment,
hot left the national affections unconciliated.
It is b!,, no means our wish to disparage
the value or importance of any measure
which restores the reign of even outward
tr.anquillity, and enables men to sleep in safety.
A wild beast must be chains d, and a madman

waistcoated ; and a great blessing has been
achieved when innocent lives are released from
peril, by such necessary, though severe, appli-
cations. We repeat, therefore, in justice to the
'coercion law, and to the exemplary mildness
'with which it has been administered, that so
far as actual outrage and disturbance went, it
has, notwithstanding its unconstitutional cha-
racter, succeeded in restoring, in one part of
Ireland, a state of order, and of general sub-
mission to the laws. But that such indications
of social tranquillity will be lasting, that they
would exist over to-morrow night, if by to-
morrow's noon the coercion law were to expire,
he is a bold man who could dare to prophecy.
No ; it is not in the nature of restraint to
dry up the springs of disturbance. Fur that
we must resort to other remedies. If Ireland
is to he permanently cured—if a feeling of
goodwill towards the laws, and towards Eng-
land, the legislating power, is to be created,
—if the animating principle of " repeal of the
Union," the discontent of the people with
the British Government, is ever to be extin-
guished, and " peace in the spirit of peace" to he
hoped for, Parliament must at once redeem its
pledge—it must head the confederacy for the
abolition of tithe. It must, besides, deal
vigorously with the frightful abuses of the land-
lord power ; it must liberally provide for, as well
as anxiously and skilfully watch over, the educa-
tion of a quick, susceptible, and unsteady race:
then indeed will the " matter of sedition" be
exhausted, and the dynasty of demagogues be
overturned ; then will the platform drop from
under O'Connell's feet—the shouts which now
deafen us for " repeal of the union" will sink
into some partial and feeble murmurs, and law
and constitutional authority will assume in Ire-
' land the exercise of those rights from which en-
tire centuries of oppression and faction have
ousted them.—Trues.
The Conservative lawyers aini pre,s are in-
dulging in grave dissertations on the validity
and authority of the Corporation Commission,
while the municipal corporations throughout
England, Wales, and Ireland, arc, with two
Ultra-Tory exceptions, commendably respecting
its powers, and honourably permitting a public
inquiry into public trusts. We shall not idly
discuss the historical and political arguments
for or against the Commission. It is simply a
mode of inquiry into the existing state of mu-
nicipal institutions and notorious abuses. In
the majority of boroughs, the corporators have
usurped the ancient municipal rights of the
middle classes and householders. They have
iinpuently claimed, *.as private property, the
funds originally vested in them for public in-
terests ; and they have frequently and scanda-
lously perverted, to political and sinister pur-
poses, the powers and authority intrusted to
them for the municipal advantage of the com-
munities. It is, therefore, natural that the
Conservatives who garrison these strongholds
of corruption should feel dismayed at the
close siege of their remaining political for-
tresses. The Morning Post of yesterday is
charmed with the political opinions and no-
table discoveries of Sir Jaa.es Scarlett, Mr.
Follett, and a Mr. Retinal!, and pathetically
laments the folly of those corporations which
have honourably submitted to the Royal Cow
mission. The times are changed since our con-
temporary justified any act of a King or a Par-
liament ; a Reformed House of Commons and
a popular Monarch materially alter the venera-
tion of the Morning Post towards the Govern-
ment. The Merchant Tailors' Company have
wasted their funds in paying for such Counsels'
opinions as those in answer to the case sub-
mitted by the Company's Cleik, Mr, Mole. Sir
James Scarlett labours to show that the Com-
missioners have no power of compulsion, and we
are not aware that they have ever claimed or
exercised any such authority. In the instance
of Leicester, we observed that what the Corpo-
rators denied the inhabitants amply afforded ;
and we do not doubt that if the Merchant
Tailors' Executive Managersiesist public opinion,
sufficient communications will be given to the
Commissioners by the freemen of the Company.
A public meeting of the freemen of the Com-
any is said to be contemplated, and Saint
Thomas's Day may sensibly display the opinions
of the majority of the Livery of London on the
subject of Corporate Reform. The second query
to the Learned Counsel, viz., whether the Mer-
chant Tailors' Company is a municipal corporation
exhibits no very extreme confidence in the
objections to the constitutional character of the
Commission. Sir James Scarlett " owns" that
he finds " considerable difficulty in bringing the
Merchant Tailors' Company within any proper
definition of the words Municipal Corporation."
Mr. Follett is " disposed" "to think" that it
cannot properly be called a municipal corpora-
tion. Mr. Rennal is of the same opinion. It
would thus appear that the three learned counsel
did not consider the resistance of the Merchant
Tailors' Company well founded on a technical
opposition to the authority of the Commission ;
and they, therefore, by a singular coincidence,
all assume the false position of a play on the
word " municipal." A more transparently party
or absurd opinion never was given, than that a
City company is not part and parcel of the Lon-
don Corporation, or the latter a branch and
integral portion of the former. The companies
are the door-ways to the municipal franchise and
rights of citizenship. But the clerk of the
company has himself settled this municipal
question, as the following singular contrast to
his query to Sir James Scarlett in an affidavit in
1831 will inconveniently show :
" Mr. J. B. De Mole, in the "M.J.IL Dc Mole, in the
case, November, 15.33, asks— affidavit, January, b 331, de.
' Whether or not the Mer. Glares—' And this deponent
chant Tailors' Company is a further saith that by virtue of
municipal Corporation or a the same charter, or of former
Corporation of that character, charters, the members of the
nature, and description, as to said fraternity as such, and by
be legally within the scope becoming either freemen or h.
and power of such commis. verymen of the same, become
pion P " enabled to, and, in fact, enjoy
many benefits and privileges,
municipal and mercantile, in
the city of London.' "
The " roving" nature of the opinions of these
barristers is palpable throughout their laboured
documents, though the superior craft of Mr.