The Sun.
London, England, 1834-04-02 00:00:00

CERTIFICATES.-Apßut. 22.

J. P.. Oldfield, merchant, Liverpool—R. P. Gibson, victual.
ler, Manchester—J. F, W, Brewer, victualler, Bermondsey,

Surrey—W. Fowler, printer, Cirencester—W. Bellamy, horse
dealer, Haseley, Warwickshire.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

W. Drew and H. Combe, surgeons, Gower-street—R. Logan
and S. F. Campbell, Charlotte-row, Mansion-house—J.
Gudgeon and C. Hinnell, surgeons, Stow-market, Suffolk, and
Bury St. Edmunds—J. Harrop, R. B. Hill, and J. Smith Liver..
pool—J. H. and C. Lee, cheesemongers, Great Russell-street,
Covent-garden—J. and E. Smith, and G Robinson, lime-
burners, Houghton-re-Spring, Durham—G. and J. Miller,
cloth-dressers, Rawft rds, Yorkshire—T. Druce, T. Hill, and W.
Druce, coal.merchants, Swan Wharf, Chelsea—W. Hallitey
and H. J. Smith, retailers of superfine cloth, Dewsbury, York-
shire—l. Balls and W. Cooper, grocers, Colchester—M. A.
Brunswick and J. Pook, furriers, Mansion-house-street—J.
Shaw and S. M‘Millian, shawl-manufacturers, Mold Green,
Yorkshire—T. Nettleshipp and H. Bicknell, attorneys, Grocer's
1 lall—J. Crocker and D. Colegrave, cotton-winders, Wood-street
—R. Edmunds and J. G. Hodgkinson, tailors, Maddox-street_j.
i:nd G. Bishton, the Right Hon. G. W. Lord Stafford, and the
Hon. H. V. S. Jerningham, ironmasters, Dawley, Salop_j.
Drew, jun., and J. Lashbrooke, oilmen, Waterloo-road—J. and
J. Andrew, cotton-dealers, Brookbottom, Saddleworth, York—
J. Radcliffe, T. Barker, jun., and J. Radcliffe, cotton.spinners,
Rochdale, Lancashire—J. Jarmin and T. S. B. Maddox, bill..
brokers, Air-street, Piccadilly—J. Booth and J. Harrison, at-
torneys, Manchester—W. Barker and G. H. Wawn, coal..
factors, Coal-Exchange, London—F. G. C. Briand and J. Tay-
lor, wine-merchants, Cheapside—J. and T. Taylor, stay makers,
East Retford, Nottingham.

A trotting match took place last week at
Runcorn for the enviable stake of a coffin !
In the island of Guernsey the poor are pro-
vided for by one general fund, which is raised by a
general property-tax of three per cent.
The Charivari observes that formerly rank
was obtained on the field of honour, but now the Citi-
zen Princes acquire it on the Champs-de-Mars.

It is reported that the Hon. Mr. Plunket,
Dean of. Down, will probably be translated to the
Deanery of Lismore and Archdeaconry of Aghadoe,
vacant by the demise of Sir G. Bisshopp. . .

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For some days past robberies have taken place
in the French capital. It appears, that the law of the
Minister of Justice, Barthe, does not apply to the as-
sociations of robbers.—Mode.

Mr. Hollins, coroner for the Stockport divi-
sion, has, during the years 1832-3, ridden on horse-
back upwards of 13,000 miles in the performance of
his professional duties.

the Corsaire says that it is a remarkable
fact that for two years past Louis Philip has not walked
in the streets of Paris, and for fourteen months has not
appeared at the theatres.
" Can anything be more droll," says the
facetious Corsaire " than anti-national law sanctioned
by an ex-Republican, and proposed by an ex-Car-
bonaro ?"

LONGEVITY.—A short time ago three indi-
viduals died at Wrawby, near Brigg, on three suc-
cessive days, whose united ages amounted to 254 years.
—Boston ferald.

Mr. O'Connell has left town for Brighton
for the benefit of the bracing air, and; in preference
to the tranquil state of the metropblis, will have an
opportunity of enjoying occasionally the agitation of
the sea.

It is said that in New South Wales an old
maid is a much rarer animal than a black swan. It is
asserted that the fair emigrants from this country re-
ceive offers of marriage through speaking-trumpets
before they land from the ship.
INCENDIARISM IN AMERICA.—The to-
bacco factory of Messrs. W. F. and H. Borne, in
Petersburg, Virginia, has been destroyed by fire, sup-
posed to be the work of an incendiary.—New York
Paper.
LONGEVITY.—At Colrain (Massachusetts)
town, of about 1,800 inhabitants, of which 119 are over
seventy years of age, twenty-nine are over eighty, and
five or six over ninety ; a degree of longevity perhaps
unequalled in the world for the number of inhabitants.
On Palm Sunday the usual cracking of the
whip, or gad, was gone through at Castor church.
The number of strangers (being the day after the
fair) was very great. We hope soon to be able to
lay before our readers the cause of this singular
custom.—Stamford News.
EX-SHERIFF PARKINS AGAIN.—An in-
quest was taken yesterday in the Circuit Court in the
slander suit by Robert Usher v. Joseph W. Parkins,
in which a verdict for 2,500 dollars was rendered for
the plaintiff. .1. Lynch and M. C. Paterson counsel
for the plaintiff.—New York Paper of March 6.
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CURIOUS COINCIDENCE.—In the House
of Commons, on Wednesday night, the Highways Bill,
the Hemp and Flax Bounties Bill, and the Felons'
Property Bill, were severally read a second time.—
[These are Ketching titles for legislative acts it must
be confessed.]
RAIN IN VIRGINIA.—A gentleman in Vir-
ginia has had a standing bet for twelve or fifteen years
that it would rain the first Saturday of every August,
which he has won every year except one. Another
gentleman bet that it would rain the 25th of July, and
won it. He says that it had never failed to do so for
the;last sixteen years.—New York Paper.
EXTRAORDINARY VORACITY.—On Tues-
day last a lady purchased from one of our fishwomen
a very beautiful cod-fish. Upon opening the fish a
codling, about as large as a middling sizeil haddock,
was discovered; and in the stomach of the latter a
small ling was found ! The trio were in a good state
for the operations of the cook.—Sunderland Herald.

LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, MARCH
31.—T0-day prices are tolerably firm. Cotton offers
freely, but the demand is sufficient to prevent actual
decline. Sales to-day 2,500 bales, say 200 Surats,
200 Bahias, 50 Pernams, 50 Maranhams, 1,000
Boweds, Bd. to 81d. ; 500 Orleans, 500 Mobiles, Ala-
bamas, &c.

Francis Douce, Esq., the most tasteful and
eminent antiquary of our times, died at his house in
Gower-street, Bedford-square, on Sunday morning.
Douce was the friend of Stevens, Reed, Malone, Wm.
Gifford, and Sir Walter Scott. He has left behind him
an invaluable library, printed and in manuscript, of
early English, French, Spanish, and German poetry,
coins, medals, missals, and prints.—Morning Paper.
SINGULAR OPERATION.—A novel opera-
tion has been performed in Philadelphia, under the
direction of Drs. Jackson and Draper, of that place,
by the internal application of leeches, by means of sil-
ver tubes being passed down the throat of a gentleman
who was afflicted with what is termed " throat con-
sumption." The result was satisfactory.—American
Paper. _ _

The tragedy of Sardanapalus will be deferred
from to-morrow to next week, in consequence of Mr.
Bunn having suddehly engaged Mrs. Mardyn to act
the part of the lonian Myrrha, a character the illus-
trious poet wrote for her, and instructed her in all its
points. The re-appearance of this lady will excite
considerable interest in the theatrical circles. She is
at present in Paris.

The Marquis of Breadalbane is so dan-
gerously ill at Taymouth Castle that no hopes can
reasonably be entertained of his recovery. In the event
of the decease of the Marquis, the representation of
the county of Perth, contested on the last occasion by
the Earl of Ormelie and Sir George Murray, will be-
come vacant by Lord Ormelie's removal to the House
of Peers.

The embarrassments of a Noble Lord holding
large and valuable possessions in the north, have at
length come to a crisis, which has produced a powerful
sensation, but no surprise at the west end of the town.
It is said that the creditors of the Noble Lord alluded
to offered him 14,0001. per annum, provided he would
assign over property to pay at distant periods the full
amount of their demands, but the offer was declined.

The bricklayers and others employed in
building the New
,English Opera House, who struck
last week for an increase of wages, having settled their
differences with their masters, resumed their labours
yesterday, and it is expected that there will be no fur-
ther interruption to the building. When the walls are
erected and the roof is complete the theatre will be
soon finished, as the woodwork for the interior has been
preparing for some time.
A novel is announced under the -title of
" Eustace Conway, or the Brother and Sister," which
is thought to unite the two qualities of " Tremaine"
and " De Vere." Of the former, in the orthodoxy of
its tone, when it occasionglly treats of religious sub-
jects, and of the latter in the lofty character of its poli-
tics. These two qualities have given rise to many
conjectures as to the author, who is believed to be a
Tory dignitary of the church.
An extraordinary draught of the common
fishes called roach and dace was made in the river
Welland, on Saturday, a short distance below Deep-
ing, by a fisherman, named Baker, who frequents
Stamford market. In one large net not less than 316
stone•weight was caught. They were taken to Stam-
ford in three carts on Sunday morning-, and forwarded

immediately in a waggon for sale at Leicester and
Birmingham. On Wednesday, an extraordinary num-
IK.r of wild ducks were hawked for sale in Stamford.—
Boston Herald.

ROYAL FAMILY OF DENMARK. The
banishment of Prince Frederick, son of the Crown
Prince, to which we yesterday adverted, has been since
explained. It appears that this young gentleman
lifted his hands not only against his wife, but also
against the King and Queen. Denmark is unfortunate
for its family fracas. We believe there is no Court in
which intrigue is more rife. The Prince is to be sent
on his travels to Iceland.

FINE SPEAKING IN TIIE CHAMBER OF
DEPUTIES.—M. Salvandy, in opposing an amendment
to the associations law, expressed his astonishment
and indignation at the audacious display of republican
.
opinions. This party, he added, wishes to make our
young monarchy carry suspended at her girdle, in like
manner as a law of Sparta forced a peasant to conceal
under his garment a fox which devoured his entrails.—
( Voice from the left, " What a fine metaphor.")—M.
Salvandy—lt may not be fine, but it is true.
On Tuesday Mrs. Mary Anne Aldersley,
aged 49, hanged herself to the tester of her bedstead,
at her residence in Union-street, Maidstone. She had
kept her bed from illness for four years, and on the
previous day was unable to turn in it without assist-
ance. While, however, her daughter had gone down
stairs to fetch some wood, she most unaccountably con-
trived to suspend herself as above stated. An inquest
was held on the body on Wednesday, and a verdict of
" Temporary insanity" returned.—Maidstone Gazette.
The Chevalier d'Assas, called the French
Decius, fell nobly whilst reconnoitering a nopd near
Closterkamp by night. He had left his regiment, that
of Auvergne, at a short distance, and was suddenly
surrounded by an ambuscade of the enemy, who
threatened him with instant death if he made the least
sign of their vicinity. With their bayonets at his
breast, he raised his voice, and calling aloud, "A moi,
Auvergne ! ce sont les ennemis I" fell, pierced with
mortal blows.—Mrs. Hemans's National Lyrics.
SEVEN MEN DROWNED AT ARUNDEL, IN
SUSSEX.—On Sunday afternoon nine young men be-
longing to Arundel took a walk by the river side, and
having proceeded some distance, they all got into a
small punt, for the purpose of crossing over to the op-
posite side of the river. Unfortunately the boat upset,
and seven out of the nine met a watery grave. Only
one of them could swim, and he succeeded in saving
his own life and that of another. Two of the deceased
were horsekeepers, employed by Messrs. Crosweller, of
Brighton.
A correspondent of the Liverpool Albion
says_" I give you a specimen of the President's lan-
guage and temper. The President of the Girard Bank
of Philadelphia called on the President, and stated
that, if something was not done, the banks in New
York and Philadelphia would have to stop specie pay-
ment. The reply was, " Let them stop and be —."
What would the good people of England think if Wil-
liam IV. were to make such a reply to any deputa-
tion."—( We should suppose they would think his Ma-
jesty had sadly forgotten himself.)
It was expected that a trial would be pro-
ceeded with at the Kildare assizes on Saturday last of
a most revolting and extraordinary character. Twelve
men are said to have drawn lots -as to which of them
should murder a farmer named Broughall, who had be-
come obnoxious to them. The lot fell upon one less
hardened than the rest, who hesitated at the bloody
deed assigned him.. His guilty associates were about
to sacrifice him, when lie begged for another chance.
The lots were again drawn, and the bloody act was
consigned to another of the gang, who, in savage exul-
tation, leaped several feet from the ground ! These
particulars are stated in a letter written by a gentleman
who has been in attendance at the assizes.

ANTEDILUVIAN RELICS.—A few (lays
ago whilst the workmen were engaged in an excavation
of some earth at the back of Spring Bank Mill, on the
Wellington Road, Stockport, they disvovered the entire
skeleton of a horse standing upright. To the antiqua-
rian such a specimen would have been of incalculable
interest, and sorry we are that it is not in our power to
assist him with any materials which might serve him in
his research. Trees have at times been found imbedded
near the same place, which, when taken out have been
in the most beautiful state of preservation, and our in-
quiries then could in no way tend to afford us the in-
formation which would be likely to account for these
antediluvian relics.—Macclesfield Courier.
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.
On Monday an inquest was held in the
King's Bench Prison on the body of John Mytton, Esq.,
who died there on the preceding Saturday. The de-
ceased inherited considerable estates in the counties of
Salop and Merioneth, for both of which he served the
office of High Sheriff, and some time represented the
borough of Shrewsbury in Parliament. His munifi-
cence and eccentric gayeties obtained him great noto-
riety in the sporting and gay circles, both in England
and on the continent. Two medical attendants stated
that the immediate cause of death was disease of the
brain (delirium trenien), brought on by the excessive
use of spirituous liquors. The deceased was in his 38th
year. Verdict--" Natural death."
DEATH OF THE WILD BOAR.—This fero-
cious animal, which escaped from Mr. Shard's, at
Hedgerly, early in December last, and which has re-
mained at large, ranging the woods near Beaconsfield,
was shot on Sunday night last. It appears his visits
to a nursery-ground on Farnham Common for some
acorns which had been sown was discovered,
and in consequence two men armed with guns
laid wait for him, and the next time he visited the
spot both guns were fired at him ; the boar, on being
shot, was seen to fall, but he instantly recovered him-
self and went away again into the woods. On Thurs-
day, however, he was found dead in East Burnham
Beeches, about half a mile from the place where he
was shot.— Windsor Express.

At a tavern, called the Throstle Nest, in the
Scotland-road, Liverpool, may be seen a dog that be-
longed to a poor Italian, who wandered about with an
organ and monkey. The Italian died, and was buried
in the cemetery of the Catholic chapel, adjoining the
tavern. For some time hunger alone induced the
dog to leave his master's grave, but when the tavern
was opened lie became an inmate. Every morn-
ing, directly the doors are opened, he may be
seen going to the, burial-ground—where, " all for-
getting, by the world forgot," the poor Italian sleeps.
A few days ago a monkey was taken into the parlour,
and it was a singular sight to see the joy the poor crea-
ture manifested on the appearance of a member of the
country of his old friend Jacko.—Derbyshire Courier.
MISERY DISCO VERED.—" John," said the
housekeeper in a gentleman's family in Aberdeenshire,
about twenty years ago, to her fellow-servant the
gardener, " What is't that ails ye ? I've kent ye forty
years, an' I never saw ye sae humdrum as ye are just
now ; there's surely something the matter wi' you."—
" Muckle's the matter," replied he of the spade, " we
are a' gaun wrang the gither ; an' the very State itsel
is gaun to the d—l." " Hout awa, what needs ye
mind the State," said the lady ; " havena ye the same,
gude place, the same wages, the same kind master and
mistress that ever ye had, and what for suld ye vex
yoursel' wi' nonsense ? ye're as well now as ever ye
was, an' ye would only think it."—" That's a' that ye
ken," replied John, " but an ye would read the Aber-
deen Chronicle ye wad fin' out how meeserable ye
are."—Aberdeen Journal.

FIRE AND Loss ;;; LIFE AT STOCKPORT.
—About nine o'clock on Wednesday evening a fire
broke out in a cellar-house occupied by a family named
Dooley, behind Great Portwood-street, when nearly
the whole of the furniture was destroyed; but how the
fire originated is mere matter of conjecture. The
heads of the family were watching an exhibition of
fire-works in the Market-place, having locked the
door, leaving three children within. On Dooley's
return he found the place on fire, and the fastening of
the door offered some obstruction, but when admittance
was obtained, a granddaughter, aged 34 years, was
found suffocated, his eldest girl, aged 7, was burnt to
a cinder, and a second daughter was rescued in time
to prevent her meeting the fate of the first from suffo-
cation. The father had nearly fallen a victim to his
natural anxiety to save his children, his face being very
much burnt, and he was nearly stifled by the smoke.—
Macclesfield Courier.
FIRE IN AN ILLICIT GLASS MANUFAC-
ToRY.—On Saturday evening, about 7 o'clock, a fire
broke out in a small house in that populous neighbour-
hood known as Back Change, Rosemary-lane, near
the Tower. The flames were first discovered issuing
from the upper part of the house, and before the arrival
of the firemen or engines of the New London Esta-
blishment the house was entirely destroyed. It ap-
pears that there had been a melting furnace constructed
near the chimney, and in consequence of the inatten-
tion of some of the parties concerned, the door of the
furnace had been left open, and some wood work near
having ignited caused the accident. The premises
belonged to Mr. Rossiter, a butcher, in the Dover-
roads but he was not aware of the nature of the busi-

ness carried on. The parties that occupied the house
effected their escape, but with great difficulty ; and
until the present discovery, not the slightest suspicion
has been entertained of the illegal traffic carried on in
the premises.

On Monday morning, about 4 o'clock, Ay-
ton-house, near Berwick, the property of J. Fordyce,
Esq., was discovered to be in flames, and the family
and domestics had only just time to escape with their
lives, almost in a state of nudity. A messenger was
immediately despatched to Berwick, but before the
engines could arrive a great part of the roof had fallen
in, and the valuable furniture, library, &c., with a
chest containing a large quantity of plate, were de-
stroyed. By the exertions of the firemen the cellar
and kitchens, and one of the wings of the house, were
saved; every thing else was consumed. The fire is
supposed to have originated from a candle in one of
the servants' rooms. We understand that the furni-
ture, &c., is insured to the amount of B,oool.—New-
castle Journal.

AN EASY MAN.—A drover, named Brown,
one of those scarce beings who take anything fate
chooses to send them with a friendly hand, and never
attempt to pick a quarrel with adversity for dropping
a few bitters in their cups, pleaded guilty to ferreting
rabbits at Waltham. He was fined 405., and 13s.
costs. Defendant—What punishment shall I have if
I don't pay the money ? Chairman—You will be com-
mitted. Defendant—The weather is warm now, and
I don't care particularly about it myself.—( Laughter. )
Chairman—You will have two months. Defendant--
Very well, Sir, it will be quite sunny and pleasant
when I come out.—( Laughter.) He was accordingly
committed.—Esser Paper.

THE GUERILLA.—There are some epochs
which are very resting places of romance—pe-
riods abounding with that excitement, variety, and wild
adventure, which would formerly have attracted the
poet, and now form the vantage ground of the novelist.
'rhe Peninsular war is just such a time ; and Don T.
de Trueba has been most judicious in selecting it for
his scene of action. Spain being his native country,
he has a thousand advantages no foreign Writer could
have obtained ; and we doubt not that " The Guerilla"
is a faithful picture. Love, friendship, battle, murder,
and sudden death—all the horrors of a ampaign, when
the warfare is brought home to your own fireside—such
are the events which these pages delineate ; completely,
it must be allowed, out of the ordinary track of the
modern novel.—Literary Gazette.
SINGULAR APPREHENSION OF A FUGI-
TIVE SHOPMAN.—On Sunday evening policeman Col-
lier, 94 N, was on duty near the Angel Inn, Islington,
when he observed a young man walking backwards and
forwards, during the rain, near the booking-office.
Collier ascertained that he had booked a place for the
Liverpool mail that evening, and paid four sovereigns;
but suspecting from his manner that all was not right,
he took him into custody. The young man asserted
that he had committed no robbery, and at the same
time was preparing to throw something from his hand,
when Collier seized it, and found eleven sovereigns.
The_ prisoner, on being taken to the station-house,
gave up the residence of his father, and Collier, on
proceeding there, was informed that the prisoner had
lived as shopman to Miss Heath, pawnbroker, of
Powis-street, Woolwich. Collier went there, and
found that the prisoner had been only a few months in
her service, that a quantity of property having been
missed, his boxes were searched, and a variety of
watches, brooches, chains, spectacles, &c., were dis-
covered, and that the foreman was sent with the pri-
soner to London, that search might be made in his
father's house. The prisoner, however, escaped from
the Woolwich coach on the road to town. He was
yesterday brought up at Hatton-garden, and remanded.

LOSS OF THE STEAM-BOAT WILLIAM
PENN, BY FlRE.—Yesterday afternoon the steam-bcat
William Penn, belonging to the Citizens' Line, ply-
ing between this city and Baltimore, on her way from
New Castle, when nearly opposite the. Point-house,
was discovered to be on fire. The boat was run on
shore between the Point-house and the Navy-yard,
and the passengers, amounting to 140 or 150, jumped
overboard. The scene presented was one of inex-,
pressible dismay ; and, painful to relate, three 1:v a
were lost. The Rev. Mitchell Moore, a lady from
Lewiston, Delaware, and Colonel Porter, of this city,
who all jumped overboard abaft the wheelhouse, where
the water was deep, were drowned. The passengers
all suffered severely from the nature of the landing, it
being very soft mud. The boat was burnt to the
water's edge, and, we regret to learn, the loss sus-
tained will be about 70,000 dollars. A gentleman
who witnessed the melancholy scene writes :—" The
steam-boat William Penn took fire about one mile
below the Navy-yard, and was burnt to the water's
edge. There were about 120 passengers on board.
The mails, trunks, and merchandise were thrown over-
board about 30 minutes after the fire took place.
Some of the mails were found floating down the river,
and brought to the Post-office, and had to have new
wrappers on the packages. There were about thirty
ladies on board, one or two of them drowned. The
sight was horrible beyond all description. I was
within 100 yards of the spot, and saw the whole of it.
—P. S. The fire commenced about five o'clock, and I
have just returned to the wharf, and it is burning yet
8 o'clock."—New York Paper, March 10.

Manley acted before his Majesty George 111.
at Weymouth, when the farce of the Spoiled Child
(a favourite of the King's) was played ; and a re-
markably masculine woman sustained the character of
Miss Pickle. On lighting their Majesties to their
carriage, the King said to the manager, " Very good,
very good, Hughes ; farce well played, well played ;
clever man that Miss Pickle—clever man, clever man."
" Man ?" exclaimed Hughes, " your Majesty is de-
ceived ; the person who sustained Miss Pickle is Mrs.
—, a very respectable woman." " No, no, Hughes,"
rejoined the laughing Monarch ; " a man, Hug-hes--
a man, a man I" " With all submission," rejoined the
astonished manager, " I assure your Majesty Mrs.
is a woman !" " It won't do, it won't do, Hughes,"
continued the delighted Sovereign ; " a man, Hughes,
a man !—hey, Charlotte, hey ? hey ?—clever man,
Hughes—saw his beard, saw his beard—his beard !
a man, Hughes, a man I" The next morning Hughes
entered the green-room, and addressed the assembled
company :—" Ladies and gentlemen, I am happy to
tell you their Majesties were very much gratified by
The performance of last night—much gratified ! 'And
(turning to Mrs. ---, who sat in gigantic dignity in
one corner of the room) I am most happy in saying,
madam, that his Majesty particularly noticed you."
" God bless the King," exclaimed the delighted lady.
" And the Queen also distinguished you," continued
Hughes. " Lord love them I" said the lady; " I saw
they were looking at me, bless their dear hearts."
" Yes," said Hughes, his Majesty was vastly pleased."
" May the King live for ever !" rejoined Mrs. —,
brightening with smiles. " But his Majesty," pro-
ceeded Hughes,—" God bless him," interrupted Mrs.
" his Majesty insists that you are—a man !"
" The nasty beast !" cried Mrs. —, as she rose with
offended dignity and stalked out of the room.—Dyer's
Actor's Life.
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Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held at
the Paul's Head, Paul-street, Finsbury, on the body
of Mr. W. Betts, a middle-aged man, whose body was
found in an uninhabited house in the neighbourhood.
The body was of a mahogany colour, and very dirty in
appearance. Charles Higley, a letter-sorter at the
General Post-office, said that he resided in Providence-
row, Finsbury ; the deceased took lodgings in his
house four or five years ago, and left in lebruary,
1833, to lodge at the Paul's Head ; the deceased had
formerly held a situation in the Victualling-office, and
subsequently he became an isinglass merchant ; he
was of very eccentric habits, and generally appeared
in great wretchedness, though he might have 1,0001.
about him ; he never disclosed his name, and witness's
family called him " the gentleman ;" he placed wit-
ness's children at a boarding-school in France, and
paid for their education ; witness, some months after
his departure, heard that he was in great distress, and
he endeavoured to find him but without success. Wit-
ness met him about two months ago, and then offered
to assist him, but he declined. The deceased had a
sister, Mrs. Cramp, of High Holborn, a lady of re-
spectability, who had given orders for him to be re-
spectably buried. An altercation took place between
the jurors and the witness, Mr. Higley, as to the pro-
perty
the of the deceased. The witness acknowledged to
having some boxes belonging to the deceased in his
possession; but it was his opinion that they did not
contain anything of value. They were locked and
sealed up, and he should now deliver them to the sister
of the deceased. Policeman Malin said. the deceased
had subsisted for the last seven itionyks by the kindness
thweasevC°i_deunn
of some charitable persons in the neighbourhood. If
was frequently at the Paul's Head. He was permitter'
to take Shelter in an uninhabited house in Paul-street
and The oi
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SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

We promised, on Monday, to endeavour to
establish the expediency of a general registry
of instruments affecting land, and we now pro-
ceed to perform that promise. This question
has always appeared to us to lie in a very nar-
raw compass. We should be content to rest it
on this simple question—Do the laws of Eng-
land afford protection against secret convey-
ances, and the means of ascertaining the safety
of titles ? If the answer were in the negative
—and no other answer could be truly given—
would not every one at once decide that such a
::leasure was imperiously called for? It is easy
to demonstrate that the question must be an-
swered in the negative—that no other answer
can be truly given. We will illustrate the sub-
ject by an example. Let us suppose that each
of two persons is desirous of investing a sum
of money—the one chooses a funded in-
vestment, the other a landed investment.
The first proceeds to the bank, and upon
payment of his money, the stock he con-
tracts for is transferred from the name of the
former proprietor into his own, and his title is
good against all the world ; he can never be
deprived of his purchase. And why is this ?
Simply, because there is a general registry of
stock. Let us now turn to the other. He
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. for. Suppose the seller to have been entitled
to the estate absolutely, and that upon his mar-
riage lie settled it on himself for his life, and
after his death upon his wife and children. The
deeds will remain in his hands as tenant for life,
and he has, therefore, only to suppress all
mention of the settlement to make himself ap-
pear the absolute owner of the estate. And
what is the consequence ? The person who
contracted for a fee simple estate finds that all
lie has actually purchased is an estate for the
life of another. It must be recollected that no
precaution on the part of the purchaser can
guard against this evil ; all that his profes-
sional advisers can do is to pronounce an opi-
nion on the title as it is shown—they cannot
tell that there may not be other instruments
which, if produced, would give the title a dif-
ferent appearance to what it is made to bear.
And now, let us ask, could the evil we have
mentioned exist with an efficient registry ?
Certainly not ; for to give the settlement full
effect it must have been registered, and the
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kind ; it may, however, be observed, that when-
ever a person would but for a certain instrument
have an absolute title, he may by suppressing that
instrument commit fraud. A similar power exists
in all dealings with reversions, for as the deeds,
being in the possession of the tenant for life,
cannot be delivered to the purchaser or mort-
gagee, should the seller or mortgager obtain pos-
session of the deeds on the death of the tenant
for life, lie might again sell or mortgage the
estate, handing over the deeds to the new pur-
chaser or mortgagee. In the case of mortgages,
too, great injustice may be occasioned for want
of a registry : suppose three successive mortga-
gees—the third, if at the time he lent his money
lie had no notice of the security to the second,
may by paying off the first obtain payment of
both his debts in preference to the second mort- •
gagee. The practical result is, that a person
can never be safe in lending money on a second
mortgage. One of the precautions adopted in
order to guard against the existence of secret in-
cumbrances, is to keep on foot a term of years
the purposes of which have been satisfied ; this
term is assigned to a trustee, in order that if the
title acquired by the last conveyance should
prove defective, resort may be had to the title
originally conferred by the term, which is fre-
quently of very ancient creation. This protec-
tion, however, sometimes fails. The term may
have been secretly assigned—it may have been
surrendered or merged—a court of law may pre-
sume it surrendered—or there may exist a term
of still earlier creation. But suppose the term
to be available, at what expense is the protec-
tion afforded? The length of the abstract is.
greatly increased ; an additional deed is fre-
quently required to assign the term, and the
death of the trustee without leaving a represen-
tative renders a limited administration necessary,
which is obtained at an expense of 201. or 30/.
When there is no term, and in some cases where
there is, various searches are made, at a consi-
derable expense, for the purpose of discovering
incumbrances. In the appendix to the report of
the House of Commons it is stated, on the au-
thority of a solicitor, that the expenses of assign-
ing a term amounted to 731., and of search-
ing for judgments alone, to 61/. These,
however, we admit, must have been ex-
treme cases. It should be here observed,
a deed is estimated at 255. It will be a satis-
faction to persons who are averse to innovation
to know that the establishing a registry would
be but restoring the principle of the ancient law.
The practice of this country formerly was to
give a certain degree of publicity to every transfer
of land. The most ancient mode of conveyance
was by livery of seisin, or actually putting the
new proprietor into possession in the presence of
the tenants of the neighbourhood. When the
statute of uses was passed, which introduced a
new mode of conveyance, it was required that
every such instrument should be enrolled in
order that some notoriety might be substituted
for that afforded by livery of seisin. The con-
veyance now in general use—that of lease and
release—owed its invention to a desire to oan-..
teal the manner in which property had beer, set-
tled. The inconveniences attendant on the
want of a registry appear to have been felt soon
after the introduction of this secret mode of
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conveyance, and that at a time when transac-
tions connected with land were much less nume-
rousmade to establish a general retry, but without
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not attend some partial
measures. Thus acts
were passed establishing registries for the Bed-
ford Level, in the reign of Charles 11. ; for Ire-
land, for the . West and East Ridings of York-
shire, and for Middlesex,
in the reign of Quezni
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! dons of the magistrates and grand jury of tii:!
county. All these registries have eaminu
ever since their formation, and althouji

some respects defbetive, are still ben;,-iicid.
Seothm4 has possessed her present re.-istry for

upwards of two centuries. England possesses
a general registry as to copyhold property, by
means of the court-rolls ; and there exists a re-
gistry of British shipping. There are several
other registries in this country for particular
instruments. Most of the British colonies,
France, Germany, and nearly all the other
countries of Europe, besides the United States
of America, have registries, which are considered
advantageous ; the only complaint in some
of those countries being, that the system does
not embrace all interests in real property : in
several countries registries have been enlarged
and extended, and in no case has a registry been
discontinued. The following are a few of the
benefits to be expected from a registry :—The
prevention of fraud—the simplification and se-
curity of titles—the diminution of expense in
the transfer of property—the supplying the
want of lost deeds—the diminishing of litiga-
tion—and the facilitating the proof of instru-
ments in legal proceedings. The measure would
on all these accounts increase the value of
landed property, and render sales and mortgages
more easy and expeditious. We trust we have
thus shown the expediency of a general regis-
try, and further, that it is a measure calling pe-
culiarly for the support of the landed proprie-
tors, who, from an erroneous view of the sub-
ject, occasioned chiefly by the misrepresentations
of interested persons, have hitherto been its
chief opponents. We hope that the landed
proprietors will pursue a different course for the
future, and that they will at last diligently in-
quire into the matter and judge for themselves.
We have no doubt of the result, being satisfied
that the question requires only full investigation
in order that every impartial man may be con-
vinced that the establishment of a general re-
gistry of deeds must be advantageous to all
honest men, and that it can injure none but
rogues, who have hitherto plundered, and who
will continue to plunder so long as the defects
of our laws on this head not only enable them
to plunder with impunity, but actually invite and
encourage them to dishonest practices.—Times.

Whenever we for half an hour withdraw our
attention from the details of domestic policy,
and look beyond the geographical limits of these
islands, the quarter to which the eye almost un-
consciously turns is the east of Europe, and in
the east, the dominant, nay, the single object, is
Russia. Were the Russian Government inac-
tive—were the Czar to remain motionless in the
position to which the last three or four years
have raised him, still must every man in Eng-
land, who feels for the security of his own
country, and for the repose of Europe, view
with distrust and apprehension the offensive at-
titude which that Sovereign has chosen to as-
sume, and consider as almost in the nature of a
direct aggression upon each individual State in
Christendom the new and very formidable rela-
tion in which Russia has placed herself towards
them all. But the Russian Cabinet is not inac-
tive ; our lagging vigilance is frequently roused
by some fresh demonstration on the part of Ni-
cholas or his servants, of the venom by which
the Muscovite counsels have never ceased to be
actuated. Scarcely a day passes without pro-
ducing some proof of the deep-rooted jealousy
and hatred which, circumspect as in general
Russia is, drives her almost headlong into colli-
sion with this country—not in Europe only,
but in distant quarters of the earth.
Scarcely does a foreign journal appear with-
out containing some article indicative of the
fixed and all-pervading hostility between Rus-
sian aggrandizement and British power. In
every paragraph the defensive spirit of Eng-
lishmen (measures of their Government, alas I
there are none), manifested on all occasions
against the positive encroachments of Russia,
forms a text for grave reproach or insolent de-
rision ; the Allgemeine Zeitung, the Austrian
Observer, letters from Berlin, from the Inn, the
Vistula, the Danube, all teem with attacks
upon the resistance (as yet no more than moral
resistance) presented by the British nation to
the grand scheme of Russian supremacy over
the east of Europe. Vexation and malignity,
but dogged stubbornness of purpose, are appa-
rent in every line. The German, papers have
within the last three days brought one of these
effusions, dated " Prussia," v*herein the ob-
vious aim of the writer, in contrasting the con-
duct of the British and French Governments at
different periods of the last twelve months with
each other, is to weaken the influence of their
alleged union of sentiment upon public opinion
throughout Europe, and thereby to add greater
weight to whatever attempts may be made by
Russia to coerce the secondary Powers every
where into an acquiescence in her own ar-
rogant and meddling practices. It assumes
that the English press " has abandoned
its suspicions on the views of Russia with
respect to the Porte," as a peg whereon
to hang an impertinence against the press of
France, for picking up such suspicions, dropped
as it were by England. It was necessary to
assume the relinquishment of the hostile feeling
before expressed by most of the English jour-
nals towards the last iniquitous and fraudulent
treaty of July between Russia and Turkey, to
make the false charge of disunion between
Fraime and England intelligible ; but if on the
part of Great Britain and her press (we can at
present say nothing of her Government), an
absolute and indignant denial be given to the
assertion that this country has abated one jot of
her just resentment at the foul play shown by
Russia, and an assurance that in all that has
been, and all that can be, urged by France in
reprobation of such conduct, we heartily and
entirely concur, what becomes of the coxcombi-
cal flourish as to a discrepancy of sentiment be-
tween these two countries, and a corresponding
Ithock experienced by their political alliance ?
'Ad contemptuous language held in the above
article with regard to France and the French
Ministers, we leave to the parties interested to
requite as it deserves ; but when the Russian
paragraph writer charges an evening English
journal, said to be under the sway of his Majes-
ty's Government, with "being now satisfied with
he Convention of St. Petersburgh," the necessity
goings nearer home for some resolute disavowal
of an acquiescence in any English breast so
disgraceful, and more especially when ascribed
to official influence. What is that same Con-
vention of St. Petersburgh, at which the Eng-
lish journal in question is said to declare its
" satisfaction ?" It is one which for the first
time in the history of the world makes the ad-
mission of English men of war to Constan-
tinople and the whole of the Black Sea con-
tingent upon the gracious assent and con-
descension of Russia, avowing that Turkey is a
tributary and vassal of the Czar, and placing in
the hands of the latter despot the keys of the
commercial intercourse between the Mediter-
ranean and the Euxine. It is a convention
which transfers to Russia the virtual sovereignty
of the Turkish empire, and establishes precisely
same relations between them as if Constan-

tinople had been taken by assault, and Nicholas
was in military possession of the whole territory
from the mouths of the Danube to the western
extremity of the Dardanelles. Now, is that a
change in the condition of human affairs, which,
if brought about by a Russian army England and
France would for a moment tolerate? Let us ask,
therefore, is it one to be permitted when brought
about by a diplomatic fraud? We use this strong
expression advisedly. When the Court of St.
Petersburgh took credit with Western Europe
for having withdrawn her troops and her squadron
of men of war from Constantinople, the fair and
honest understanding was, that after the retreat
of her forces, she should stand in exactly the
same situation with regard to Great Britain and
France, and by consequence in the same situa-
tion towards Turkey, as before she had under-
taken the expedition to the Turkish capital.
The plain sense of the thing was, that when
she engaged to the other powers to withdraw
her troops, she implied an engagement to ab-
stain from exacting any price for that withdrawal
which should operate as an advantage to her-
self, obtained without the privity of the parties
whose demand she had promised to comply
with. But how stands the fact ? The troops
retired ; but in the mean time Count Orloff had
appeared, and as the secret price of the os-
tensible fulfilment by Nicholas of his en-
gagements with France and England—a price
which those powers would never have per-
mitted beforehand the Ottoman Porte to in-
cur—he actually by a stroke of the pen shut
out all Europe from the navigation of the
Euxine, hitherto an open sea, save only at the
will and pleasure of his Muscovite Majesty.
This whole transaction is admirably .4lescribed
in the concluding article of the last number of
the Foreign Quarterly Review. The article is
entitled " Turkey, Egypt, Russia ; the Crisis
in the East." We have no time at present to
touch pn any other of its extensive topics but
that of the policy pursued of late by Russia,
and must therefore omit to notice the striking
and interesting narrative which it offers of the
war between Mehemet Ali and the Sultan.
But throughout the whole article, and eminently
in his acute development of the intrigues and
subtleties of the Russian Cabinet, the author
exhibits a knowledge of his subject at once in-
timate, sound, and well-digested. We agree
with him in the deprecation of hasty or ill-con-
sidered measures by this country, however jus-
tified on every ground of self-defence and of the
law of nations ; but that without a bold and
masculine policy,—one for which, we fear, re-
course must be had, more to acknowledged prin-
ciple than to any precedent discoverable in the
history of England during the last few years,—
the projects of unjust supremacy disclosed by
Russia can be so much as even momentarily
checked in their execution, we are not chimeri-
cal enough to entertain the slightest hope. We
must defer to a future day the concluding ob-
servations of the writer, which are extremely
valuable, as expositions of the general character
and designs of Russia, and limit ourselves now
to a short extract, illustrative of the dishonest
proceedings which terminated in the convention
of July.
" True it is, however, that on the very day-after the
return of the Russian ()Seer who had seen the passage
of Ibrahim's army across the Taurus, the Russian
commander requested permission of the Turkish go-
vernment for his troops to return to their own country,
which being granted, they actually embarked and
sailed. Nobody on the spot thought it probable that
they would go ; nobody, indeed, would believe that
they had gone until the last vessel had rounded the
Symplegades ; then all at once burst forth a general
chorus in praise of Russian honour 1 The sincerity of
the Emperor's professions and the loyalty of his con-
duct were everywhere vaunted. Had Russia, indeed,
acting in the spirit of her engagement, withdrawn her
troops without obtaining any recompense • had she
not taken advantage of the weakness of her ally to
further her own selfish ends ; then, though she would
have acted only with common honour and honesty, yet
looking at the general course of her policy, we should
have acknowledged with praise that in this instance
she had pursued a straightforward course. But this—
true to herself—she has not left it in our power to do.
The Europeans at Constantinople had not recovered
from their surprise at seeing Russia, with openness and
readiness, fulfilling her engagements, when a report
arose—hardly credited at first, as originating with the
dishonest dragomans—that the long interviews between
Count Orloff and the Reis Effendi, and subsequently
with the Sultan, had not been without result. A
treaty was talked of, of what kind does the reader
think ?—a treaty of mutual protection between Russia
and Turkey ! The report was confirmed, and as no
secret in that land of corruption may not be discovered,
a copy of it, though not for some time officially given,
was soon obtained by the alarmed ambassadors of other
countries, who, innocent themselves, ' thinking no ill
where no ill seemed,' had been rejoicing over the ter-
mination of their embarrassments the moment they saw
the Russian squadron sailing up the Bosphorus.
" The basis of this treaty (of July 8) is declared to
be that of reciprocal defence ; its object being the pro-
tection of the two contracting parties against all at-
tacks, whether foreign or domestic ; and each engages
to give to the other such effective aid and assistance
as will insure that object ; and that the auxiliary forces,
whether by sea or land, which cirumstances may com-
pel either party to require by virtue of this treaty, shall
not be at the expense of the party who asks for the
assistance, except in the supply of provisions. By a
separate article, the Porte, acting in the spirit of this
treaty, and to promote its object,' engages to close, in
case of need, the straits of the Dardanelles. The in-
tention of the contracting parties is, that this treaty
should last for ever, but for the present its duration is
limited to eight years. All preceding treaties are con-
firmed, especially, amongst others, the treaty of Ad-
rianople, and the parties pledge themselves to everlast-
ing peace and amity.
" Looking at the state of the relations between
Turkey and Russia previously to this treaty, we shall
find that the latter Power had secured too firm and
solid a footing in the other to be easily shaken. By
the 9th article of the treaty of Adrianople, Turkey
acknowledged a debt of nearly 5,000,0001. sterling, as
an indemnity for the war. It was subsequently agreed
that this sum should be paid by regular instalments in
ten years, during which time Russia was to hold the
principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia as security for
the payment. We need hardly add, that Turkey never
will, never can discharge this debt ; and she has the
less inducement to do so, since Russia has, by other
regulations of the same treaty, so far taken the princi-
palities under her protection, and deprived the Turks
of all advantages from them, that the nominal suze-
rainete of the Porte, and the equally nominal
tribute, cannot be worth possessing, certainly less
so than the large sum which must be paid to re-
cover them. By the same treaty it is agreed that
the commerce of Russian subjects is not to be checked
in any case, or under any pretence, by any pro-
hibition, restriction, regulation, or measure, whether
of administration or legislation. Russian vessels are
never, under any pretext, to -be visited or spoken to,
or interfered with in any way, by the Ottoman autho-
rities ; and Russian subjects, who, be it mentioned,
have of late greatly increased in Turkey, are placed
throughout that country under the exclusive jurisdiction
and police of the ministers and consuls of Russia. By
this last treaty of Constantinople the Porte not only
binds itself to have the same friends and enemies as
Russia, but to close the Dardanelles against the vessels
of every other country, in case of need, which means,
if it have any meaning, at her request. Is it not little
else than a delusion, under these circumstances, to call
Turkey an independent country ?
• • • . • • •

" The fact is, Russia has at last driven into Tur-
key the end of that fatal wedge by which she has con-
trived to dispossess so many other countries of their
governments and independence, and to substitute her-
self in their place. She has afforded her protection
and gained the right of interference. Her course has
then been uniform ; she mixes herself up in every
question between the government and its subjects ; she
foments the dissensions which she interferes to allay ;

she corrupts where there is strength, and oppresses
where there is weakness, until exhaustion and treach-
ery finish for her the work of subjection."— Times of
Tuesday. •

It is scarcely possible to imagine any thing
more provocative of laughter than the bluster
and bombast with which the Times vents its
reproaches, not only against the Russian go-
vernment, but against every continental journal-
ist who ventures to say any thing in the slight-
est degree opposed to the notions which at the
present moment that very consistent and high-
principled paper thinks fit to proclaim as to the
character and objects of Russian policy. Yes-
terday our contemporary issued the following,
with several other equally loud peals of its
mimic thunder :

" Were, the Russian government inactive--were the
Czar to remain motionless in the position to which the
last three or four years have raised him—still must
every man in England who feels for the security of
his own country, and for the repose of Europe, view
with distrust and apprehension the offensive attitude
which that Sovereign has chosen to assume, and con-
sider as almost in the nature of a direct aggression
upon each individual state in Christendom the new
and very formidable relation in which Russia has
placed herself towards them all.
" But the Russian Cabinet is not inactive ; our lag-
ging vigilance is frequently roused by some fresh de-
monstration on the part ofNicholas or his servants of the
venom by which the Muscovite Counsels have never
ceased to be actuated. Scarcely a day passes without
producing some proof of the deep-rooted jealousy and
mortal hatred which, circumspect as in general Russia
is, drives her almost headlong into collision with this
country—not in Europe only, but in distant quarters of
the earth. Scarcely does a foreign journal appear
without containing some article indicative of the fixed
and all-pervading hostility between Russian aggran-
dizement and British power In every paragraph the
defensive spirit of Englishmen (measures of their Go-
vernment, alas there are none), manifested on all oc-
casions against the positive encroachments of Russia,
forms a text for grave reproach or insolent derision ;
the Allgemeine Zeitung, the Austrian Observer, letters
from Berlin, from the Inn, the Vistula, the Danube, all
teem with attacks upon the resistance (as yet no more
than moral resistance) presented by the British nation
to the grand scheme of Russian supremacy over the
east of Europe. Vexation and malignity, but dogged
stubbornness of purpose, are apparent in every line.

" What is that same convention of St. Peters-
burgh ? • * It is one which, for the first time in
the history of the world, makes the admission of Eng-
lish men-of-war to Constantinople and the whole of the
Black Sea, contingent upon the gracious assent and
condescension of Russia, avowing that Turkey is a
tributary and a vassal of the Czar, and placing in the
hands of the latter despot the keys of the commercial
intercourses between the Mediterranean and the Euxine.
It is a convention which transfers to Russia the virtual
sovereignty of the Turkish empire, and establishes
precisely the same relations between them, as if Con-
stantinople had been taken by assault, and Nicholas
was in military possession of the whole territory from
the mouths of the Danube to the western extremity of
the Dardanelles. Now is that a change in the condi-
tion of human affairs which, if brought about by a
Russian army, England and France would for a mo-
ment tolerate ? Let us ask, therefore, is it one to be
permitted, when brought about by a diplomatic fraud ?"

Now we certainly cannot see how any re-
proach can be too grave, or how any derision
can be justly described as insolent, that may
happen to be retorted to such language as this,
when it proceeds from a journal notoriously the
foremost in applauding and supporting the
whole series of measures, on the part of the
British Government, which have led, as natu-
rally as ever cause produced its effect, to the
present relative positions of -Russia and Tur-
key—from a journal which thoroughly and
completely identified itself with that policy of
which Lord Holland gave the only intelligible
exposition, when in the House of Lords he de-
scribed the Turkish Empire as one the preserva-
tion of which it would be a folly and a crime in
any man to wish—from a journal which, even
now, amidst all its fierce denunciations of Rus-
sian perfidy and ambition, labours assiduously
and zealously to maintain in the possession of
political power in Great Britain, an administra-
tion distinguished chiefly by the alacrity it has
shown to become the dupe of that perfidy, and
the abject submission with which it still conti-
nues to crouch before the steady march of that
ambition. The Times attempts a fraud upon
the British public not less unprincipled, although
less skilful, and less successful, than any of
which the Russian Government can be accused,
when it affects alarm and indignation at the spirit
of encroachment which characterises the Mus-
covite Power, while it has no louder note of
reprobation than an occasional and parenthe-
tical alas I for the imbecility, the cowardice, or
the treachery in the councils of Great Britain,
which have presented, to that aggressive and
ambitious policy, temptations too strong to be
withstood, and opportunities too auspicious to be
neglected.—Morning Post.
Trades' Unions are bad things. They are
bad in principle, and they lead to consequences
in unison with that badness of principle. But
they are not worse now, though they have ex-
cited the wrath of Government, than they were
when they enjoyed its patronage, and patronised
it in return. We cannot, therefore, go the
whole way with an evening contemporary in
denouncing them to the law and the legislature
as depots of treason, and charging, their leaders
at least, with a systematic design for the over-
throw of the Government, and the appropriation
to themselves and their followers of the whole
property of the kingdom. What results those
formidable combinations may ultimately lead to,
further than that we think they can lead to no
good, it is not our present purpose to inquire ;
but we think it impossible that the directors of
this immense mob machinery, supposing them
to entertain such a design, could so soon
have altered the character of our industrious
population as to render them fit instruments al-
ready for the execution of such atrocious projects.
Weak as the present Government confessedly is
in public opinion, the Constitution has still a
strong hold upon the mind of the nation, and the
sacred nature of property is sufficiently recog-
nised amongst us to be secure against any mad
attempt at robbery which, under the circum-
stances, none but murderers could contemplate.
The mischiefs arising from Trades' Unions and
the prospects connected with them are bad
enough without such fearful exaggerations as
those to which we have been alluding. Our own
opinion is that the Trades' Unions, prosperous
as they seem at present, carry within themselves
the seeds of dissolution. They are founded in
despotism, and the fiat has gone forth against
every despotic institution which, however it may
be disguised for the moment, must, sooner or
later, yield to the increasing power of knowledge.
The Unions, we say, are founded in despotism—
witness their conduct towards individuals who
refuse to join them, and their intolerance of any
thing like free agency on the part of those who,
many of them with great reluctance, are enrolled
amongst their members. The bond that holds
them together is fear, and it must give way
before long. There are also assistant causes
of dissolution which can scarcely fail to operate.
It is, we should-conceive, impossible but that
the distress which their proceedings are calcu-
lated to bring upon poor families, and the ruin
with which they threaten the general interests
of trade, must assist in opening the eyes of the

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majority to the thraldom in which they are held
by a few. Adversity is a great purifier of the
sight ; it is an acid that stimulates the moral
perception exceedingly ; and, if they continue
long in the same blind allegiance to their leaders
which they manifest at present, they are likely
to have enough of it. But in the mean time
the whole nation will suffer as a manufacturing
nation, and evils will begin to show themselves
of which no man can see the end. If it be the
intention of Government to take any steps for
putting down the domineering power which
they once lent their best exertions to foster, it
is not by a side-wind that they can hope to
accomplish such an object ; neither is it by a
verdict, which shows rather the treachery than
the energy of the law by throwing the noose of
an Act of Parliament over the heads of sleep-
ing men. No ;if they mean to grapple with
the unions, they must do so directly and man-
fully, and upon proper occasion, not exagge-
rating the parties into monsters nor their pro-
jects into miracles, but showing the real mis-
chief and danger of each, and applying to
both a reasonable and a just correction.—
Morning Herald.

We have been much struck with the folow-
ing daring article in the Morning Post of yes-
terday :
" Another attempt--another abortive attempt—has
been made to fill up the vacant seat at the Treasury
board. Mr. John Warre, the very respectable and very
dull member for Hastings, was the bold man who
thought he could secure his re-election upon taking
office under Lord Grey, and he, like his predecessor,
has failed ; and for the same reasons that his predeces-
sor failed—from the universal unpopularity and con-
tempt which, attaches to any man who consents in any
way to connect himself with the present ministry.
" Mr. Warre, however, acted with more discretion
than the Hobhouses, Berkeleys, and Campbells, who
preceded him, by making his acceptance of office con-
ditional upon his re-election. He has been thrice to
Hastings on this errand, and exposed during the late
north-easters to the cutting winds, and more cutting
refusals of his constituents in every dirty lane and alley
of the borough.
" Within the last two days he was undecided, ex-
pecting that the respectable portion of the inhabitants
would, if the contest rested between him and the Radi-
cal candidate, Mr. Elphinstone, prefer him ; but an
address from Mr. Planta, formerly member for the
borough, and Secretary to the Treasury under the
Duke of Wellington's administration, expressing his
readiness to come forward if the vacancy occurred, has
at once dispelled all hesitation, and Mr. Warre in
despair has resigned the Lordship of the Treasury,
which he had conditionally accepted.
" Thus, after four months' delay, and hawking this
office for sale to any one who could venture to vacate
his seat, the Reform Ministry find their own bill so im-
practicable in its working that the wheels of the Go-
vernment machine are completely locked. They have
no Attorney-General for England in the House of
Commons and no means of getting him in ; no Attor-
ney or Solicitor-General for Ireland to assist a Se-
cretary so confessedly incapable that nothing but the
impossibility of introducing a successor into the House
of Commons could keep him a week where he now is;
in short, such is the state of the King's Government
in the House of Commons, that no man, however
grasping or ambitious, dares to take office under them ;
and out of the House such is their character for mean-
ness and political profligacy, that nine-tenths of the
gentry and educated classes are opposed to them,
whilst the radicals use them as the instruments of their
ulterior designs, and, by degrading and holding them
up to public obloquy, are preparing the public mind to
hold all government in contempt. Despised in and out
of Parliament, nothing saves them from public indig-
nation except the selfishness of those who, having got
into Parliament by the factious cry of reform, know
they will never be returned again, and therefore sup-
port the men whom, on every other account, they ri-
dicule and despise."
The abuse of Mr. Warre is beneath notice,
and we will not follow the example set by our
morning contemporary, by abusing Mr. Planta,
following the old maxim of de mortuis, &c.
When a Secretary to the Treasury under the
Duke of Wellington's administration has only
to make his appearance in a town of 10,000
inhabitants to drive all other competitors out of
the field, we may next expect the dead to rise
from their graves. With the borough oligarchy
at his back, Mr. Planta might have been for-
midable in Hastings ; but on the death of oli-
garchy, Mr. Planta's political death followed
as a matter of course. Requiescat in pace. The
paragraph is not, however, altogether invention.
There is no use‘in attempting to mystify the
public—supposing we were even to lend our-
selves to anything of the sort. • Mr. Warre
did, it is true, make his acceptance of the
vacant seat at the Treasury Board conditional,
and he has been at Hastings sounding
his constituents, with a view to ascertain the
chance of his re-election. He discovered that
he would not have been re-elected. In these
matters parties are apt to err rather on the san-
guine side. Mr. Warre, however, by not ac-
cepting the seat at the Treasury Board, and
vacating his seat, tacitly admits that he did not
think he would have succeeded. We have been
informed by a friend of Mr. Elphinstone, the
Radical candidate (we state the source, because
the question is one of evidence), that Mr. Warre
did not receive more than 105 promises, inclu-
ding the Tories and Whigs. This was when
there were only Mr. Warre and Mr. Howard
Elphinstone in the field. Mr. Planta made his
appearance at the twelfth hour ; but if he had
been betimes in the field, he would have polled
about 50 out of the 105 promised to Mr.Warre,
has. Wbeeaorreo.ommSuocnhioai
formation which M rantgionsswhf communicated
and we do not hesitate to publish it, because
(supposing it to be, at all events an approxi-
mation to the truth) it indicates sufficiently the
verydifficult position in which ministers are placed.
The Tories are grievously mistaken if they suppose
that Mr.Warre s difficulties in Hastings are occa-
sioned by any reaction in favour of themselves.
But they know better. They know that their
acceptance of office would rally the whole
country, now divided between Whigs and Radi-
cals, against them. The strength of the Tories
is in the Aristocracy and the Church, and the
Ministry are less popular than they otherwise
would be, were they to be more decided in their
giving to the Reform Bill the consequences ex-
pected from it by many. We may allude to a
thorough reform of the Church—the relieving
the Bishops from the labour of attending the
House of Lords—the unpensioning aristo-
cratical paupers, who have no claims but
family connection to the public money—the
opening the magistracy,
of which the Tories,
through their Lords-Lieutenant, have almost a
monopoly, &c. &c. The difficulties of Minis-
ters are not in the House of Commons. The
Members in general feel every disposition to
make allowance for the relation in which Minis-
ters stand to another house. But the people
do not make that allowance ; and we need not
say, that in the long run, Members must have
an eye on their constituents. The House of
Lords, as great landholders, must always
have much influence in the affairs of this
country. But there cannot be two powers in a
State. Thore cannot be a House of Commons
determining one way, and a House of Lords
determining another. Before the reform of
Parliament took place, there could be no differ-
ence of determination between the two Houses,
because the House of Lords returned or influ-

enced a majority in the House of Commons.
The theory of the Constitution given in text-
books was not the true theory. During the
struggles of the 17th century, the Commons
were more powerful than the Lords, because,
from a variety of circumstances, the old nobility
had lost much of their property, and the new
creations were made by favour of court, and not
on account of great possessions, and so gave no
fresh strength to the Upper House. All this
time immense masses of property had been fall-
ing into the hands of Commoners. During the
18th century a different policy was pursued.
Whenever a man acquired great property, and
could influence boroughs, no matter whether he
were Jew or Gentile, whether his blood were
pure Norman, or
" Had crept through scoundrels ever since the flood,"
he was moved into the House of Peers, and
gave unity to the government. The Reform
Bill, however, has put an end to the efficiency
of this system. The present state of things,
however, cannot continue long. There cannot,
as we have said, be two powers in a state.
Two Houses of Parliament there ought to be ;
but they will not remain long as they are now.
However, things will find their level without
our going out of our way to vaticinate. We
trust that the good sense of those who influ-
ence the people, will teach them that it is pos-
sible to go too fast, as well as too slow—that if
ministers, with the best intentions in the world,
go a little too slow, there are others in the
country who go a little too fast. They should
remember that there is such a thing as com-
bustion from excessive rapidity of motion.—
Morning Chronicle.