The Sun.
London, England, 1834-07-15 00:00:00

ADJOURNED INQUEST.

Last evening, Mr. BAKER, the Coroner, and the Jury
sworn in on Saturday last, for the purpose of inquiring into
the circumstances attendant on the death of William Clubb,
a journeyman coppersmith, reassembled at the London Hos-
pital, further to prosecute their inquiry.
George Peter Garritt said he was a fellow workman of
the deceased and Davidson, who is at present in custody.
He was at the White Raven public-house on Saturday
evening week, when the affray took place between them,
but he did not witness any of it. After it was over he
went into the kitchen, where he saw Davidson writing, and
observed that it was a great pity to see shopmates quar-
relling and fighting, upon which Davidson remarked that he
had been grossly insulted by the deceased, and at the same
time exhibited his book, which was blotted in consequence
of the deceased having flung some flowers on it while he
(Davidson) was writing.. Witness said that the deceased
was too strong for him to compete with, and Davidson re-
plied, " But I have given him one hit that he will feel to-
morrow."

Juror—Were not the words he used, " I have given him
a settler ?" Witness—No, Sir, they were those I have
before stated.

deceased going into the street, after quarrelling with Richard Colley, another coppersmith, said that on the
Da-
vidson in the parlour, he had endeavoured to prevent Da-
vidson following him, ind was assisted by Mrs. Beckett,
the landlady ; on his doing so, Davidson struck him twice
and got past him: He could not say whether he (David-
son) had a knife in his hand at the time, because he did not
see one ; but in the scuffle the finger of Mrs. Beckett had
been cut by some sharp instrument.
Mrs. Beckett was next called, and her testimony did not
differ materially from that of the last witness.
Diana Forward, the wife of a policeman, saw the de-
ceased a few minutes after his return home on the night -of
Saturday week, and on his seeing her he said, " Oh, Mrs.
Forward, lam a dead man." She asked what was the
matter, and the deceased exhibited his shirt, which was
quite bloody, and a doctor, was instantly sent for, and im-
mediately attended. She washed his breast with sponge
and water, and saw the wound, which was bleeding pro-
fusely at the time. The deceased, in answer to a question
from her, said it was Dick Davidson did it, and desired his
wife to proceed at once and get a warrant against him, so
as to have him taken up and punished for the offence. The
deceased was at once removed to the hospital ; before he
was, he fainted from loss of blood. Witness subsequently
gave information of the circumstance to a policeman, and
Davidson was taken into custody.
Robert Hack, a pot-boy at the White Raven, deposed
to seeing the prisoner Davidson put his hand into his pocket
during his fight with the deceased, but did not observe him
take any thing out.
After the examination of other witnesses, the Coroner
summed up the evidence, and the Jury returned a verdict
of Wilful Murder against Richard Davidson, who is at
present in custody on the charge.' The Coroner at once
made out a warrant for his committal to Newgate, and
bound over the witnesses to prosecute.

CHOLERA PREVAILS IN DUBLlN.—Amongst
the victims on Monday is a gentleman deservedly lamented,
who was in prime health and spirits in his office on Saturday,
Francis Armstrong, Esq., Register in the Court of Chancery,
brother-in-law to George Moore, Esq., late M. P. He died,
after a few hours' illness, at his house, North Frederick-
street.—Limerick Chronicle.

A GOOD BARGAIN.—Mr. L., a well-known pro-
fessional singer in the metropolis, one day entered a cheese-
monger's or grocer's shop, to make a purchase. " Have you
any more of this paper ?" said he to the master, regarding
with curiosity and astonishment that in which his purchase
was wrapped. " Plenty, Sir, a great pile of it." Mr. L. re-
quested to see it, and followed the tradesman into a little back
room, where many reams of waste paper were collected, to be
used in his business. " Well," said Mr. L., after inspecting
the pile from whence the wrapper, of his parcel had
been taken, " will you sell this--what 'would you ask for it ?"
" Twopence-halfpenny per pound," answered the man, much
astonished at the uncommon greenness of his customer.—
" You can have it, if you like, for waste paper at that price."
Mr. L. readily assented, and thus purchased for a few shillings
33 complete oratorios and operas of Handel, besides fragments
of the best,—viz., Arnold's edition ! Henceforth, let no one
dpspise the literature that may find its way to the trunk-
maker's and chandler's, &c.—Mirror.

Neer did the Monarchy of the Barricades experience a
more severe secousse than by the dissolution of the Grey
Administration. It is, as you will observe by its organ, the
Journal des Debats, laying the flattering unction to its
soul, that a Liberal—that is, in the French sense, a ma-
nageable—Cabinet will succeed to it. ...One thing is, how-
ever, seriously apprehended, namely, that some how or other
Sir Robert Peel will become a member of the Government
about to be constructed. This I give you as a fact, with-
out troubling you with the why or the wherefore. The
Hon. Baronet is, I am assured, one of the very many
cauchernars that trouble the repose of the King-Citizen.
Let your Administration take any shape but that, and
through the Archbishop of Autun his perturbed spirit will
sink to rest ; for all the others eligible to office Prince
Talleyrand is said to have boasted he carries in his pocket.
The effect produced among the gamblers at the Bourse,
yesterday, by the news of Earl Grey's retirement, was not,
as you will have seen by the Stock list, so unfavourable as
might have been expected. It were idle, however, to oc-
cupy you with those gentry, than whom, in all weather-
cock France, there exists not so sensitive, so changeable a
class. On the general public the affair has made, however,
a very deep impression ; for it has reminded' them that the
national spirit and the national strength have been so de-
pressed and so broken down by the peace-at-any-price sys-
tem of the juste milieu, that France would be incapable of
successfully resisting a combined attack of the Holy Al-
liance were England to be detached from her—an event
deemed possible should a Tory Administration succeed
that of the Whigs.
This is all that it strikes me, at present, you would de-
sire to know of the impression made here by the news from
London. A little later in the day I may, perhaps, return
to the subject.
The dearth of intelligence from Spain continues. By
your private correspondence you are in advance of the
Paris Press ; but even your arrivals through me become
less frequent. This is to be accounted for by the occupancy
of the Basque provinces by the insurgents. From Bayonne
no letters have reached me these.two days ; not because of
any impediment to their arrival from thence, but, I am con-
vinced, because your correspondent, owing to the circum-
stance just mentioned, had nothing to communicate.
We have no domestic news. The heat of the weather is
again becoming intolerable, for it promises to be as great
to-day as on this day fortnight, when he had 92 degrees of
Fahrenheit in the shade. Storms, and suicides, and assas-
sinations, its natural accompaniments in France, are not
only- already frightfully frequent, but may be expected, I
fear, to be considerably increased by the intensity of this
day's heat.

OPINION OF THE PARISIAN PRESS ON THE
CHANGE OF MINISTERS IN ENGLAND.

The Gazette de France states that the downfall of the
Grey administration might have been foretold from the
moment it was obliged to stop in the way of innovations,
by the House of Lords finding a point d' appui in the
Crown—it was henceforth vulnerable on all sides ; the
Radicals found it too great a slave to the past—the Con-
servatives too far compromised with the Radicals—and the
Tories considered them as the most dangerous and guilty
enemy of the British constitution. The blow has been
inflicted on the Constitution of 1688, by a reform law, and
it is now too late to expect to be able to prop up the tot-
tering edifice. The Gazette, who sees in the Tories the
only party competent for the task, does not think that they
will immediately arrive at power ; but that they will ulti-
mately be called upon is its decided opinion. I t then cri-
ticises the foreign policy of the administration, and shows
how detrimental to British interests and trade were the
sacrifices consented to by it to preserve the alliance of
France.

The Temps, after paying a tribute of praise to Lord Grey
and his administration, still maintains that the cause of
reform cannot suffer by their downfall. A coalition cabinet,
to view matters in their worst light, will attempt to para-
lyze the movements. ; but, by that very act, it will compro-
mise its own existence, and prepare a re-action, in a
perhaps more radical sense than is to be desired. The
result of the late reform is now not only appreciated,
but well felt ; it has given the people a taste for more,
and proved that privileges and corrupting abuses may
be victoriously attacked and destroyed without endan-
gering the peace of the country. The Conservative
system is there at an. end, and for ever, and with it the
men who are its abettors. This journal then goes on to
show what effect the change in the political Administration
of England. is likely to produce in the Doctrinaire Cabinet
of France, composed, as it is, of such heterogeneous ele-
ments, without any great cohesive power, and foretells its
speedy downfall.
The Courrier Francais contrasts the manner of acting,
under similar circumstances, of British Ministers, with that
of the disciples of the school of Talleyrand and Fouche.
How is it possible, say these, that a Ministry composed of
such able and distinguished men can shrink before so slight
an obstacle ? Elsewhere such matters are so easily ar-
ranged. Without denying the confidence, means could
have been devised to throw doubts on the veracity of the
disclosure made to the Chamber, it would have been said
that whenever a Minister thought proper to hold a com-
munication with a Member of the Opposition, the Cabinet
did not deem itself bound by his words, as would be the
case if the communication were of an official nature ; it
would, perhaps, also be asserted that the Minister was no
longer of the same opinion—that when he announced the
Bill would be abandoned he was sincere, but that his opinion
having since changed, it was indispensible that the Bill
should be presented—that the Ministry, in adopting two
diametrically opposed views of the same subject in the
course of a few days, had given a proof of its good faith
and zeal in the search of truth, &c. The Minister, after
this explanation, would triumphantly descend from the tri-
bune, and cast a menacing look on the Deputy who had
brought about the discussion ; the Chamber would applaud,
and among the public a number of people would be found
disposed to admire the presence of mind of the Minister
who had extricated himself so artfully from the difficulty.
In England matters are differently arranged ; there the
object is not to exhibit skill, art, or assurance ; all the
public man heeds is to satisfy his countrymen that he is,
and remains, a man of honour. If the least suspicion be
cast on the sincerity of a communication made by Minis-
ters, the entire Cabinet feels the attack ; if differences have
originated among them, which the Chamber and the public
view in an unfavourable light., the entire Cabinet will that
moment deem it expedient to resign ; none of its Members
will remain in office if a single circumstance of their poli-
tical life be misconstrued. When we see Ministers setting
such a value on the esteem of their country, evincing such
a scrupulous delicacy of sentiment, such unalterable pro-
bity, we conceive the extent of the guarantees they offer
their fellow-citizens, and the price of that political probity,
which no man can completely disdain without his private
character being seriously impaired thereby ; we conceive
that the country in which such Statesmen exist is well go-
verned and administered, because the Government and
Administration are honest—the first and indispensable re-
quisites, which are wanting in so many places, and for which
no substitute is to be found.

The Quotidienne sees in the breaking up of the Grey Ad-
ministration the downfall not only of a Cabinet, but that.of
a whole system. This event it had foretold the moment
Lerd Grey had not replaced Mr. Stanley and his Conser-
vative friends, by men more imbued with radical principles

Their Lordships met at half-past foUr o clock. The
House soon after presented a very animated appearance, it
being expected that some ministerial explanation would be
given. The space before the Throne and below the Bar
was very much crowded by Members of the House of
Commons.
The LORD CHANCELLOR did not take his seat• until
past five o'clock, the Ehrl of SHAFTESBURY having pre-
viously sat as Deputy Speaker.
ESTABLISHED CHURCH.
Petitions were presented in favour of the Established
Church, and against the claims of Dissenters, by Lord B olle
from Milton Abbott, and 3 other places in Devonshire
by,.,L?rd Kenyon, from parishes in Salop ; by Lord D.,.,ne-
vor,'Yso.m Pembroke; and by the Duke of Gloucester, from
parishes ;,n Lincoln.
JUSTICIS OF THE PEACE (IRELAND) BILL.

On the mot of of Lord MELBOURNE, the Order of
the Day for the second reading of this Bill was postponed
till Monday next.
POOR LAW A.
MENDMENT BILL.

The Duke of BUCKING-I:TAM wished to know when
it was intended to bring forward t;:e second reading of the
Poor Law Amendment Bill.

The LORD CHANCELLOR said it hat been his
Noble Friend's intention to bring it forward on Friday ;
but, upon further consideration, it was deemed more expe-
dient not to bring it forward until next Monday.