The Sun.
London, England, 1833-08-27 00:00:00

MITTEE.

COLD BATH-FIELDS MEETING CONI-

The Report and Minutes of Evidence of the
Cold Bath-fields Meeting Committee were brought
up on Friday night in the House of Commons. The
Resolutions were read as follows :

" That it is the opinion of this Committee, regard
being bad to the knowledge possessed by the Commis-
sioners of Police of the character and avowed intentions of
the persons by whom the meeting was convened, that no
blame attaches to them in the arrangements which they
made for carrying into effect the instructions they received
from the Secretary of State on the occasion in question.
" 2. That it is the opinion of this Committee, that
the conduct of the bodies of police employed in the actual
dispersion of the meeting was not attended with greater
violence than was occasioned by the resistance they met
with from a portion of the meeting in the execution of
their orders.

" 3. That it is the opinion of this Committee, that,
after the dispersion of the meeting, some of the police em-
p'oyed in clearing the surrounding ground were suffered to
follow persons to a greater distance than was necessary,
and that, under these circumstances, they were nut sub-
jected to that efficient control which, in a moment of excite.
ment and irritation, and after much provocation could alone
prevent individual instances of undue exercise of power.
" 4. That it is the opinion of this Committee that the
meeting was held with a full knowledge on the part of
the leaders that public notice had been given by the Go-
vernment of its being considered illegal, and that inter-
ference from the police might he anticipated. And your
Committee are further of opinion, that resistance in case
of interference was contemplated, and that, for the purpose
of such resistance, offensive weapons of a dangerous
nature were carried and used by some of the persons com-
posing the meeting.
" 5. That it is the opinion of this Committee, that the
police did not in any way interfere with the meeting until
they had fully ascertained its identity with that which had
been convened by a public placard, purporting to be by
order of the Committee of the National Union of the
Working Classes, for the purpose of adopting preliminary
measures for holding a National Convention; that the
police then advanced in two directions only, not occupyi❑g
the ground to the north or east, until after the meeting
had been dispersed, and that opportunity was given for
any persons, not taking an active part in the business of
the meeting, to escape.
" 6. That it is the opinion of this Committee that none
of the police were in any degree intoxicated, and that no
dangerous wound or permanent injury has been shown to
have been inflicted by them on any individual, while, on
the other hand, one of their own number was killed with
a dagger, and two others stabbed while in the discharge
of their duty.
" 7. That while it is the opinion of this Committee,
that the conduct of the police as a body, on the occasion
in question, affords no just ground of complaint, they feel
it a duty to advert to the importance of the utmost cau-
tion and vigilance on the part of the superintendents and
other officers of the police to check any approach to un-
necessary viole❑ce among their men on all occasions, but
more especially where large bodies of them are employed
in the prevention or suppression of disturbance, and the
maintenance of the public peace."
Report to lie on the Table, and to be printed.

The editor of an American journal has the
following apology for the non-appearance of his paper on
the usual day of publication :—" It will be noticed that
the outside of our paper bears the date of Friday, and we
verily intended to have published it on that day, but the
arrival of the President knocked all our compositors into
pye,' and we were not able all Thursday to get more
than one of them together at a time."

A FEMALE DANDO.—A lady-like young
woman, named ANN ES EKE, was charged at Gui!dhall,
on Tuesday, with having defrauded the chief waiter of
the Swan with Two Necks Tavern, of 9s. 9d. The com-
plainant said that the defendant, after partaking of an ex-
cellent dinner, a pint of sherry, and a " nice little dessert,"
in a private room, asked if she could be accommodated
with a bed? On hearing this, the truth flashed on his
mind that she was the female cheat of whose doings he
had read in the newspapers. He presented his bill, and,
as usual, be received a reference for payment to the solici-
tor of a gentleman on the Continent, named MEYER, with
whom she had been living. The solicitor, as usual, would
not pay the account. She was brought up to Guildhall a
few days ago for running up a score at the Bull Inn,
Holborn, which house she had honoured with a call upon
being prevailed on, by a present of a new bonnet, to quit
the Bell and Crown adjoining, where her reckoning
amounted to 9/. The defendant frankly admitted that she
had no means of paying, and Alderman HARMER, there-
fore, called on her for sureties for her good behaviour, and
in default of which she was committed.

IMMEDIATE RELIEF OF TOOTHACHE.--
Dr. RYAN observes, that the application of pure nitric
acid to carious teeth procures almost immediate relief of
toothache and faceache, without producing the slightest
pain. The acid must be applied to every part of the
decayed surface, and care taken not to suffer it to touch
the gum, cheeks, lips, or apparel. The mouth should be
washed after the application with tepid water. It is much
easier to touch the teeth in the lower than in the upper
jaw ; but I have never known a single instance in which
the acid was fairly tried, and completely applied to the
decayed surface, without procuring almost immediate
relief, and without any pain. When the upper teeth are
diseased, it is very difficult to touch the nerve in a small
opening, and this is the cause of failure. The remedy
may be employed however delicate the patient, even to
children.—Medical and Surgical Journal.
FERNANDO Po.—Extract of a letter dated
2d May, 1833, from Mr. Wooler Knapp to Mr. G.
Knapp, College Hill :—" The island has a very beautiful
appearance, palm trees almost down to the water's edge,
and the yarn plantations are very neat. In the evening
two vessels came in sight, which on Monday morning
proved to be the Curlew brig of war, with a fine Spanish
slave schooner she had made a prize of, which they could
not send down to Sierra Leone, in consequence of having
no provisions on hoard, and scarcely any water ; she was
taken at anchor at New Calabar, the day after the slaves
were on board. Mr. Buroft took me on board of her, and
the eight was horrid ; she was literally crammed with
people, having 290 on board. If the establishment had
not been here they would riot have known what to have
done, as the slaves had no provisions on hoard and the
brig very little. Richard Lander arrived here on Wednes-
day from the steam boats which are up at Curtain Curafee,
a short distance below the river Tsnailda, having been
obliged to come for provisions, and also for the recovery of
his health. The brig Lord Byron, of Liverpool, lost her
masts off Cape Sr. Paul, on the Guld and Ivory Coast,
and came in here to-day to refit. Mr. —is very well,
and so are all of us here."

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MEN AND BOOKS.-TO PoRSON I never
could take kindly, wag though he was, and Grecian too;
and able to " think in Greek." I wish he would have
thought a little more in the Greeek of PLATO, instead of
the Cynics. He was too sordid—l do not mean in point
of money—but he had a scurf on him of want of moral
grace and decent companionship. Your later " magna-
nimous heroes" were too much given up, either to an
orthodox worldliness, or formality, or buffoonery. All
their poetry was in the books they edited—they had no
real share of it themselves—they had none of the right
faithof the WARTONS and such men, who loved a tree, as
verse, a companion, or a cathedral window, as much a
the poets who talked about them, and loved the poets
truly for that reason. The generation that have been
lately quitting the university, have left some behind who
may revive the right stock, and even improve it—thanks
to an age of greater poetry and philosophy than existed
then. Yet they will hardly have the snugness of the old
times. Narrownesses of all sorts, even of the better kind,
are breaking up. The world is demanding the assistance
of all her children. We must be content to have old
things in old books; luckily, they will remain there for
ever, so that we need loose nothing, as we advance. We
may be as public as we please for the public good, and
retreat for refreshment into all the nests of literature.
Furthermore, we can create new ones. I confess
this
though I aman ardent reformer, because the good of the
many requires it, I am so content to be one of the few
in certain respects, that with the exception of living by
myself, and of having no books but philosophy, I could
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If this is to be one of the few, it will be acknowledged
that few of the few will be disposed to envy me. Nor do
I envy them : there are reasons why I should fain possess
some of the advantages, which they know not how to
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verty, fur their chariots, their ennui, and their gaping
about for a sensation—by heavens ! I would as soon be a
blank sheet of paper in preference to a page of Theocri-
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tus.-New Monthly Magazine,