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London, England, 1834-06-11 00:00:00

BEAUCLERK V. TITE•DUKE OF RICHMOND.

The first hearing of a suit, which excites great in-
terest in France, relative to the Duchy of Aubigny,
instituted by Mr. C. Beauclerk, on behalf of himself
and other claimants, against the Duke of Richmond,
came on before the Tribunal de Premiere Instance of
Sancerre, department of the Cher, in which the pro-
perty is situated, on Monday last. Mons. Jollivet, as-
sisted by Mons. Bethmont and Mr. Okey, the English
barrister, appeared for the claimants, and Mons. Mo-
reau for the Duke of Richmond. For the plaintiffs it
was contended by Mons. Jollivet, in a luminous speech,
that the property of Aubigny, situated in France,must
be exclusively governed by French law, according to
Art. 3, Code Civil ; that at the death of the third
Duke of Richmond in 1806, all entails whatsoever—
rights of primogeniture, of partage noble, and of mas-
culinity—having been abolished by the laws of 1792,
the estate of Aubigny became subject to division
amongst the co-heirs of e third Duke ; that the
Droit d'Aubaine. though existing at that period, was
never in operation with respect to this property, as the
French government only sequestred the estate, and
by treaty in 1814 restored it for the benefit of those
to whose prejudice it was sequestred—thus re-
nouncing the rights which the Droit d'Au-
baine gave it. Monsieur Jollivet then clearly de-
monstrated, not only the absence of all inten-
tion, but the absolute inability of the French govern-
ment by treaties, or otherwise tnan by an express law,
to have granted the estate of Aubigny to the Duke of
Richmond personally in prejudice to his co-heirs, and
that, moreover, the very treaty on which the Duke
pretends to rest his claim contains nothing which gives
him an exclusive right to the whole ; he considered
the Duke of Richmond as having acted as representa-
tive for all the co-heirs, responsible to them for all
sums received either by way of indemnity for damage
done to the property, for the loss of mesne profits, or
otherwise ; and he concluded by some forcible obser-
vations as to the impossibility of re-establishing in
France by treaties, and in favour of foreigners, insti-
tutions which the legislature had long since exploded
as militating both against common law and common
sense, and which, as regarded Sancerre in particular,
doomed a portion of that arrondissement to the per-
petual vassalage of an English Duke, whose very
existence, until his visit a few days since, was known
only by report. It was contended, on the other hand,
by Monsieur Moreau, that to destroy the right of the
Duke would be to strike at the root of all diplomatic
conventions ; that the claims of the Duke himself, as
of all other persons, had been extinguished by the
operation cf the Droit d'Aubaine before its repeal in
France ; but that the rights of the Duke had been re-
stored to him by the treaties of 1814 and 1815 ; that
the French government and the high contracting
powers were not confined by the strict terms of com-
mon law, and were by the law of nations at liberty to
grant the duchy of Aubigny to whomsoever and in
whatsoever manner they deemed fit ; that the duke,
being an English subject, they had applied the English
rather than the French law to his possession, and
that, being in possession, he had a prima facie title,
which the claimants were not now in a position to
dispute. These and many similar arguments having
been replied to and combated by the other side, the
Procureur du Roi requested a few days to consider
the case before he made his report ; the judgment of
the Court will, therefore, not be known for a week or
ten days, although there appears but one opinion as to
the ultimate result. The case excited great interest
in the neighbourhood, the general feeling being very
strong in favour of the claimants. The Court was
excessively crowded, and the fair part of the auditory
gave satisfactory proof that they were fully sensible
of the justice done to their sex by the laws of France,
and the cruelty inflicted by the laws of England on
their neighbours on the other side of the channel.

GREAT IMPROVEMENTS IN ST. JAMES'S
PARK.—The Commissioners of Woods and Forests on
Monday engaged a number of workmen in removing
the iron railings fronting the ornamental water in St.
James's Park, for the purpose of considerably widening
the new intended carriage road which is to be immedi-
ately made in the front of the new palace. A large
quantity of gravel and rubbish, which has been placed
there for some months, is now being sifted, for the
purpose of heightening the road between six and seven
feet. Bricklayers are engaged erecting an arched
brick wall, which is built in a circular form, and will
be the means of giving upwards of twenty-five feet of
ground at each end of the park fronting the palace,
and six feet in the centre, by taking from out of the
interior of the park the ground on which the iron rail-
work will be placed, similar to what it was before.
Immediately that the road is completed, the high
wooden palings which front and obscure the palace
will be taken down. Workmen are also busily em-
ployed in erecting very superb iron railings, upwards,
of ten feet in height, the tops of which are richly gilt,
fronting the palace ; plots of green sward ale 'being
laid down, and the carriage entrance, ;:nrough the
grand triumphal arch, is being gravell‘:,d, elegant stone
lodges for the porters belonging to, St. James's park to
reside in, are also to be built. The whole of these
great improvements, which will have an elegant ap-
pearance, are to be completed with all possible
despatch.

DUNDEE.—An open rupture has taken place
between the masters and operatives of Dundee, and in
this instance the former would appear to have been in
some degree the aggressors, the manufacturers hav-
ing issued a joint declaration to the effect that they
would give employment to no individual unless he
previously renounced all connexion with the weaver's
union. In order to counteract this harsh, and we
think impolitic, decision on the part of the manu-
facturers, a general meeting of the trades was held
last week in the Magdalene-yard, when a series of
resolutions were adopted, stigmatising the procedure
of the masters as tyrannical, and agreeing to support
those operatives who might stand out. The number
present is supposed to have been not less than fifteen
thousand. The streets have ever since presented the
thriftless spectacle of being occupied with groups of
idle workmen. The people of Dundee might surely
do something better than go into a warfare of this
sort. Herald.

THE LATE SIR WILLIAM COSWAYb---
The remains of Sir William Cosway, the unfortunate
gentleman who was killed by the overturning of the
Criterion Brighton coach, on Saturday afternoon last,
in the Borough, will not, in consequence of the ar-
rangements made by his family, be removed from the
residence of Mr. Lever, surgeon, Bridgehouse-place,
until Saturday morning next, when the funeral is to
take place. The procession will proceed direct from
the house of Mr. Lever to the parish church of St.
Martin-in-the-Fields, where the body will be interred
in the vault of his respected family. Lady Cosway,
widow of the deceased gentleman and daughter of Sir
Thomas Farquhar, the banker, in St. James's-street, is
expected, provided her health will permit, to be in
attendance on the melancholy occasion. Sir William,
who was fifty-two years of age, was the unsuccessful
candidate for East Kent, in which county he had con-
siderable estates. He was formerly secretary to Lord
Collingwood, and was engaged in the action and re-
ceived a severe wound in the head at the battle of
Trafalgar. Sir William Cosway was the son of a baker,
at Devonport. His first employment was in the victual-
ling-office in the Dock-yard, from whence he entered
the navy. There he filled successively the situations
of captain's secretary, purser, &c., and eventuall:;
became secretary to the late Lord Collingwooo, by
whom he was highly respected, and whose c!-.mfidence
he enjoyed in the highest degree. hyleed, so well
did that gallant and intellectin!loft.Z:er think of Mr.
Cosway, that he expressed a w'.sn that his daughter
should Th!'. young lady was not un-
willing, was arranged for the comple-
tionillin g, marryaw e vhim.ery ill..
,ig
of this auspicious and highly flattering union,
when by one of those dreadful accidents from which
Sir William was so often a sufferer, and eventually a
victim, he had the misfortune to have both his legs
broken, as he was driving one day through Temple-
bar i
in a gig. His horse shyed at a light tax cart
which was coming n an opposite direction, started off
with fiThat speed, but being pulled on the wrong side
can right upon the tax cart, the shafts of which pene-
trated and broke both Mr. Cosway's legs. This cala-
mity was an awful one under his circumstances, and
whether from the tediousness of recovery, or the im-
patience of confinement, compelled him to confine
himself to his chamber for some years. The young
lady bad constancy enough to wait no less than three
years for his recovery, but that being still regarded as
doubtful, she married another. In a very few weeks
afterwards, however, Mr. Cosway's recovery was pro..-
nonnced complete, and he, too, married the lady who
is still living to lament his loss. His career since has
been more or less known to the public, and, we be-
lieve, there is but one opinion as to personal probity
and the purity of his public stunt,

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phy, is not confined to the Whig or Ministerial' are entirely worthy of each other. Fortunately,
circles alone ; it pervades all parties ; it mixes with however, this galimathias of barbarous absur-
all shades and colours of opinion. The Whig, the dity, -miscalled the Poor Laws' Amendment
Radical, and even the Tory, find themselves occa- Bill, has yet to pass through the ordeal of another
sionally brought together by virtue of some dogma assembly, which possesses few qualities in corn-
in that most dogmatizing science. It is, therefore, mon with Lord Althorp" and the crew that
no wonder that the Poor Laws' Amendment Bill, nightly surround and obey him. The House of
with its despotic machinery for keeping down relief, Lords will upon this occasion prove themselves to
should find friends in the House of Commons, where be, what in reality they always have been, the trust-
selfishness and conceit are not yet at a discount. worthy guardians of the liberties of the community,
But the success of Ministers in carrying this mea- the humane protectors of the rights and comforts
sure with so high a hand is no more a proof of their of the poor. We must at least see, before we be-
power than the hurrying of a boat along the rapids lieve, that this noble assembly will confer upon any
would be of its excellence in sailing. We must, irresponsible junta of ministerial tools, a legal right
0-erefere, have recourse to some other test if we of dictation as to the local government of every
v _Li come to a just conclusion. Now all the parish in England and Wales ; that it will give
other tests, at least the most obvious of them, are them a legal right to thrust their hands into the
indicative of weakness, so far as we can see. pockets of every individual of the community ; that
There is the press, which, if it does not actually it will allow them to determine by what rules the
represent the state of public opinion, influences, possessors of property in every district of the
and is influenced by it to a considerable extent country shall be guided in the treatment of their
—the press is, with few exceptions, opposed poorer neighbours ; that it will tolerate the erec-
to the present Government. But why should tion of a central authority, by which that of magis-
we appeal to symptoms, or enter into proofs, trates and overseers in "every part of England is to
when we have the confession of the Minister be superseded ; or, finally, that it will consent to a
Lord Grey himself, as to the complete depen- law which virtually consigns to banishment from
dente of his administration upon the forbearance of the scene of his past industry, his long-formed
the party opposed to him in the House of Lords. connections, and his established habits, and
Whether he ought to continue in office under such transports, without pity or remorse, to a
circumstances is not merely a question for him and distant and perhaps unknown part of the
for his colleagues ; the public ought to take it up. country, every individual who may in early life
We are constantly referred by Lord Grey to the have quitted the place of his birth, and in his latter
" signs of the times ;" but one of those signs would years be compelled to become an applicant for
seem to be the tenacity of a weak government, parochial assistance, The House of Lords under-
which clings to place in spite of every honourable stands too well the structure of British society,
inducement to relinquish it. This sign, which is comprehends too fully how much the nation is in..
plain enough, affords neither an evidence nor a pro- debted for whatever is peculiarly valuable in its
spect of good government, for where is the security character and condition to the practice and the in-
to the public if ministers stick like pitch to their fluence of self-government, has too lively a sym-
places, notwithstanding the discovery and confession pathy with the feelings and too conscientious a re-
of their weakness, which is incompatible with the gard for the rights of the poor, to lend its sanction
efficient discharge of their duty as public men ? to an experiment which militates against the prin.
There is one question, however, which promises to ciple of social organization as it has been developed
put an end to the forbearance of their opponents, in this country—which withdraws, as far as is pos-
and of the community, on which their existence as sible, all moral responsibility, and with it all active
ministers seems to hang. We allude to the scheme zeal and every generous acid independent impulse
for appropriating the church revenues. It is true towards improvement, from the natural depositories
they have contrived, by a dexterous trick, to evade of local authority ; and which is conceived, in every
it for the present. But the trial must come ; and line, in the spirit of brutal disregard to the feelings,
when it does, the ministers and their adherents will the wishes, the domestic ties, the social relations of
probably find that they have miscalculated the ge- the poorer classes of the cominunity.---,Morn. Post.
neral sentiments of the people.of England upon a
question involving such important considerations
either in a religious or in a political sense.—Morn-
ing Herald.
It affords us great, but not unexpected, pleasure ,
to be able to announce that the Right Hon. James
Abercrombie has been appointed Master of the
Mint, with a seat in the Cabinet—that a new writ
for Edinburgh was, in consequence, moved for last
night in the House of Commons—and that the
right hon. gentleman has set off for the " Modern
Athens" to secure his return. It would be useless
for us to attempt to tell our readers how much we
are gratified by this appointment. It is gratifying
to ourselves, because we have supported the Ad-
ministration of which he now forms a part, against
all the slanders and insinuations of our Tory and
nondescript contemporaries, but it is still more gra-
tifying, as furnishing a proof that the " lath and
plaster" Administration, respecting which so much
has been most wrongfully said, is about to mark, by
more broad and distinct lines, the immeasurable
difference, in opinion and in practice, which exists
between the present members of his Majesty's
Government and those high churchmen and
disguised Tories, who lately formed such a
drawback upon its movements. Mr. Aber-
crombie is a, man of character, as well as
of talent. He has ever been the unflinching advo-
cate of reform, and the fact of his having consented
to take office under the Grey administration, is a
proof that the Stanley incubus has been wholly re-
moved—that the movement party is now uppermost
in the cabinet—that the will and the wishes of the
people are in future to be consulted—that the King,
instead of being adverse to just, and necessary, and
safe reforms, is greatly slandered by those who,
arguing on general principles, allege that he
has not confidence in his official advisers,
and is not inclined to follow their advice.
To such assertions there is but one true answer,
and that is, that the King has never deserted his
ministers upon any occasion—that he has invariably
signified a disposition to comply with the reasonable
wishes of his people—that on the occasion of the
late secession he gave full power to Lord Grey to
appoint whom he pleased to the vacant offices—and
that in the appointment of Mr. Abercrombie, he has
furnished a fresh proof of his confidence in Earl
Grey, and of his attachment to the cause of the
people. This proof will not, cannot be lost upon
the public. It is an answer to all the calumnies
which have been uttered upon the subject for the
sake of effect, and which have so sadly failed of their
nark.—Morning Advertiser.
The Poor Laws' Amendment Bill proceeds suc-
cessfully in the House of Commons, which circum-',
stance, if the decision of that assembly were of the
least imaginable authority, would no doubt be dis-
couraging to those who resist the measure upon the
broad ground that it goes to establish in England
and Wales something worse than Turkish des-
potism, and would infallibly, if it were possible that
it should ever come into operation, provoke a ser-
vile war throughout the realm. It is certain, how-
ever, that thii decisions of the present House of
Commons have long ceased to be regarded as of any
authority whatever—that the House of Commons
is an assembly which has shown itself to be by far
below the general average of Englishmen in respec-
tability, intelligence, and integrity—that the great
majority of its members dread nothing so much as
any rupture with the Administration by which a
change of Ministers, and consequently a dissolu-
tion, might be produced, and that meeting for
which they are generally so lamentably ill-pre-
pared, be accelerated between themselves and
their insulted and indignant constituents—that,
in short, the great majority of the existing House
of Commons have lost whatever share they formerly
possessed of the respect or confidence of the
country. To look no further back than last night,
what do we find the House of Commons doing with
reference to this important measure of the amend-
ment of the poor laws? Mr. P. Scrope, as will be
seen on referring to our report, moved the intro-
duction of a proviso, " that no rule or order of the
commissioners shall prohibit the guardians of unions
from giving relief out of the workhouse to such of
their sick or impotent poor, and to such widows,
orphans, and illegitimate children under ten years
of age, as they may think fit so to relieve." This
amendment Lord Althorp, although he did not dis-
sent from its object, opposed as unnecessary, be-
cause forsooth, by the bill as it was, the guardians
of the poor, under the discretion of the commis-
sioners, would still have the power of ordering
relief. Upon the authority of this reasoning, which
overlooks the distinction between an independent
authority in the guardians of the poor and an
authority to be exercised only under the discretion
of the commissioners, the House of Commons re-
jected Mr. Poulett Seropo's humane amendment by
a majority of 108, no more than forty mem-
bers being found to vote in its favour, Lord
Althorp admits first that the object of the
amendment is good. He then asserts that the
amendment is unnecessary, inasmuch as the object
it has in iiew already provided for. He next
quotes the language .of tne bill, clearly showing
that the amendment, which is to placp the relief
of certain classes of the poor out of the reach
of the authority of the commissioners, so far from
being provided for by the bill, is frustrated and de-
feated by the bill, which expressly subjects the re-
lief of those partly classes of the poor to the dis-
cretion of the commissioneo, And, after this dis-
play of stupidity or bad faith on the p,lrt of the
noble lord, the House of Commons vote as no
desires them to vote, and negative the amendment,
which, so far as he had argued the question at all,
he had virtually supported. The leader and those
who are led, in the present House of Commons,

We announce with great satisfaction the minis-
terial appointment of Mr. Abercrombie as Master
of the Mint (in the place of Lord Auckland, the
new First Lord of the Admiralty), with a seat in
the Cabinet ; and it is still more gratifying that,
while in office, Mr. Abercrombie resigns his pen-
sion as ex-Lord Chief Baron of the Scotch Ex-
chequer. The country, therefore, has gained the
public service of an eminent and consistent Re-
former, without any pecuniary cost ; and perhaps
the greatest guarantee of the value of this popular
addition to the Cabinet is, that Mr. Abercrombie,
by his junction with the administration, receives no
pecuniary advantage. Under such circumstances,
and in the state of parties, we think that no public
man of reputation can join the present government
without intending the public good. Mr. Aber-
crombie left town last night for Edinburgh, as soon
as a new writ had been moved for the northern
metropolis. We do not entertain a shadow of
doubt of his return. The Scotch Reformers too
highly appreciate the consistent labours of Mr.
Abercrombie in the great cause of Parliamentary
and Municipal Reform, to be divided on this occa-
sion. He can have no sinister motive in the ac-
ceptance of office, and he is solely indebted for his
political elevation to his own personal powers
and well-established character. The Tories have
recently made but a sorry exhibition, and they will
scarcely risk a second display of their weakness.
The Whigs are now put upon their trial, and the
country will anxiously observe whether they will act
on their principles and professions. The recent
changes have been productive of great benefit. The
Cabinet is emptied of its Tory leaven. The bridge
between the Whigs and the Tories is broken down.
But measures, not men, will be the test of the pub-
lic confidence. The country, we grieve to say, has
lost much of its confidence in public men. The
members of the late Cabinet were united only in the
creation of the Reform Bills : on the consequences
resulting from those great measures they were di-
vided. At this late period of the session little can
be reasonably expected from the new Administra-
tion. It will take " a long vacation" further to
strengthen the liberal composition of the Govern-
ment, and to concert many important measures de-
manded by public opinion, or, to use Lord Grey's
language, by " the spirit of the age." Suspicions
have been circulated of the integrity of the Court.
Notwithstanding these rumours, and certain unto-
ward manifestations, we look with confidence to
the acts of the King ; and with still firmer re-
liance on his manifest interest. With the single
exception of his Majesty's hesitation in his diffi-
cult situation in May, 1832, the King has con-
ducted himself with perfect good faith towards
Lord Grey ; and his lordship must be bound to the
Sovereign by much gratitude and honour in being
continued in the conduct of public affairs, under all
the critical circumstances of parties, and the nume-
rical opposition in the House of Lords. The King
must and does know from his own. convictions, or
from the political sagacity of his confidential per-
sonal advisers, that the restoration of the Tories to
power would necessarily involve a violation of the
Reform Bills, and after all would only be a tempo-
rary government, fraught with the most dangerous
consequences ; that, instead of staying, it would
only hasten incurable democratic changes. Such
must have been the motives which induced his Ma-
jesty to invest Lord Grey with the plenary power
of re-forming the cabinet. Besides, the recent
amendment of the representation has invested the
constituency of the United Kingdom with a com-
plete check on the prerogative of the crown, and
revived the real power of the British constitu-
tion. The country now anxiously waits the " do-
ings" of the new administration, and the policy
of the House of Lords. We do not conceal our
unchanged opinion, that an early collision between
the two branches of the legislature is almost
inevitable. Lord Grey, in the moderation of
his measures—in the desire of avoiding an open
rupture—in the policy of preserving in tact the
existing " order" of the constitution, has been
unquestionably consistent. He has never made
any false pretences, or indulged in fraudulent
professions. But it is now impossible that Lord
Grey should preserve a political neutrality. He
eins no longer succumb to the Tory aristocracy
wciliout the utter ruin of his party and the total
loss of publie confidence. Will the House of Lords
discern the " spirit of the age ?" or will the Tory
Peers make another desperate effort to stem the
popular power ? If they prove incorrigible and
blind to their real interest, which is most probable,
their fate is sealed : they must fall. It is ridi-
culous to suppose that 420 individuals, moo of
whom possess no other influence than what they
derive from their rank, can oppose the will of mil-
lions of their fellow-countrymen. A conformity of
opinion and action, some how or other, must be
effected between the Lords and Commons. The
existing political anomaly cannot much longer exist.
The Peers now stand on the edge of a fearful pre-
cipice. They think that the constitution of their
branch of the Legislature is sacred and inviolable.
They forget the lessons of history ; they reflect not
on the annals of their own order. The Peers ori-
ginally formed no separate estate distinct from the
Commons. The parliament of Scotland, at the time of
the union, in which the titled nobles and the com-
missioners or deputies from the lesser barons or
freeholders, and for the boroughs, sat together,
forming one body, conveys an exact idea of the
English Parliament as originally constituted. The
separation into two houses was dictated by conve-
nience, the number of individuals being too great
for one house, rather than from the abstract notion,
Adopted in latter times by theoretical writers, of the
necessity of two independent branches in the le,iis-
Jature. Great changes, at different periods, have
occurred in the constitution of their legislative
body. Both before and at the reformation, the
abbots and most of the great dignitaries of the
church were excluded from the legislature. Sub-
sequently the ancient Catholic barons were ex-
cluded from Parliament. In the times of the com-
monwealth the hereditary branch of the legislature
was entirely suppressed. The restoration revived
the peerage. The spiritual peers now sit in Par,-
liament under the cover of a faction—the tenure of
certain baronies under the King. They were
once excluded ; they may be again relieved from
their legislative burdens. The temporal part of the
House of Lords has varied equally in its
construction and its numbers. The independent
peerages of Scotland and Ireland have been
set aside. Sixteen peers are periodically elected
in every new Parliament to represent the Scotch
nobility. Twenty-eight Peers of Ireland are
elected for life, by virtue of the Irish union. Scot-
lain! has no Bishops in Parliament. One Irish
Archbis.'.'ol3 and three Bishops of Ireland, 'f take
turn about.' Lately the Catholic Peers have been
restored to their just legitimate privileges. Such
are the revolutions vC.!lich time and circumstances
have produced in the Upper House. It is a re-
corded saying of Charles 11., that if his friends could
secure him a House of ,commons, " he would put
U.; whole troop of guards jai.° the Upper House,
but he would have the Peers." Unquestionably
the King can reduce the Peers to tbeir #enses, by
the exercise of his prerogatives and it is upiikely
that any monarch will neglect to do so, when it may
be necessary to self-preservation. It will he well
for the Tory Peers, therefore, at Oxford—revelling
in Conservatism—to reflect on their critical posi-
tion. Lord Grey on Friday boldly acknowledged
their power to outvote him, and laid bare his real
position. It is evident that the real crisis 4. the
Reform Bills approaches. A weighty responsibility
now devolves on the House of Commons and the
House of Lords. " England can never be ruined
but by a Parliament."—Morning Chronicle.
If we were to measure the strength of ministers
by the facility with which they seem to carry every
provision of their new scheme for extinguishing
poor laws in this country, we should pronounce it
to be great indeed. But this would be a false cri-
terion. Political economy, or Malthusian philoso-

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JUNE 10.

RIDSDALE V. GULLY, M.P.

Mr. F. PoLimcic showed cause against a rule ob-
tained by Mr. Blackburne to set aside the verdict
in this case, on the ground of excessive damages.
The plaintiff, a sporting gentleman, sought to re-
cover damages for an assault committed by the de-
fendant. The parties were at Doncaster, when the
defendant rode up and said to the plaintiff, " You
have raised a report that I won 5,0004 in the St,
Leger." The plaintiff said he had only mentioned
a general report. The defendant then observed you
know I did not win 1,200/. The plaintiff replied
he did not know that, and that the defendant might
have won much more, on which Gully called him a
liar and a scoundrel, and struck him a violent blow,
which made the plaintiff shrug up his shoulders.
The Jury gave 5001. damages. The rule was ob-
tained on the ground that the Jury were prejudiced
by the topics urged at the trial by Mr. Pollock, the
plaintiff's counsel.
The COURT in the present instanee asked whether
the matter could not be settled by the parties ?
Mr. PoLLocx considered it a case entirely for
the decision of a jury. If Mr. Gully had in-
structed his counsel to complain that any thing had
been stated foreign to the cause of action, and that
he was desirous of placing himself right in the pub-
lic opinion, he (Mr. Pollock) could have no objec-
tion to hear it, and, if necessary, make the amende
honorable; but lie was sure he had said nothing at
the trial which Mr. Gully could complain of,
Mr. Justice TAUNTON said it was impossible to
say any cause could be better conducted.
Mr. F. Pott.oeic remarked that it had been said
Mr. Gully did not care about the amount of the
verdict, but was anxious to do justice to his cha-
racter, as it had been reported that he horsewhipped
the plaintiff, who had come to the field to sell 4
horse. There could be no pretence for that asser-
tion, because the statement had not been made at
the trial. He should contend that every person
acting with gentlemen ought to conduct himself
properly ; and if he misconducted himself he must
pay such damages as a jury might award. In a va-
riety of cases, which it was unnecessary to name,
large damages had been given to persons sustaining
personal insults. In the present instance there was
an aggravation of circumstances. The plaintiff was
told he was a liar and a scoundrel. He might then
ask the Court on what principle they could inter-
fere with the verdict ? As judges of what was due
in society they must say the damage was not ex-
cessive. The blow was inflicted in the presence of
servants, and no apology offered down to the time
of the trial.

Mr. BLACKBURNE supported the rule.
Rule discharged.

MARY LEBONE.

FORGING A CHECK.—Yesterday Thomas Birkett
was brought up for final examination, charged with
forging a check for 161. Is. I d., with intent to de-
fraud his employer, Mr. William Temple, con-
veyancer, No. 4, Blomfield-street, London Wall.
He was fully committed to Newgate.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

ROUSE OF LORDS, June 10.
The house sat to-•day at four o'clock.
HURLOCK'S DIVORCE BILL.

Counsel were heard, and witnesses examined, on
this bill, which was read a second time, and ordered
to be committed on Thursday.
Lord ROLLE presented petitions from parishes in
Devon, in favour of the established church.
The Marquis of BRISTOL presented similar pe-
titions from parishes in Warwickshire.
Earl DIGBY presented similar petitions from Nor-
wich.

The bills on the table were forwarded a stage, and
their lordships adjourned at twenty minutes before five
o'clock, to half-past three to--morrow.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, June 10.

The SPEAKER resumed the chair at twenty minutes
past five.
Their lordships' messengers announced to the house
that the lords had agreed to the. House Tax Repeal
Bill ; the Poole Bridge Bill ; the Longney Enclosure
Bill ; the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal Bill ; the
West of England Insurance Bill ; the Equitable Ap-
portionment Bill ; the 14onmouth Market Bill ; and
other bills.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE

On the motion of Mr. M. WOOD, a new writ was
moved for the city of Edinburgh, in the room of the
right hon. J. Abercrombie, who had accepted
the office of his Majesty's Master of the Mint. ( Loud
cries of " Hear, hear.")
Mr. FINCH gave notice that in the event of the hon.
member for Tipperary not bringing forward his motion
to-night, he would on Thursday next move " that it
be an instruction to the commissioners appointed
to inquire into the state of the established church
of Ireland, to proceed with due caution and delibera-
tion, and to embody in their report a faithful picture,
so far as it is attainable, of the religious condition
of the Roman Catholics as well as the Protestants of
Ireland ; and that they be empowered and required to
examine on oath any witnesses, and to peruse any do-
cuments or other evidence, and duly record the same
which shall be presented to them by any respectable
Roman Catholics or Protestants, clerical or lay with
reference to this end." _

Arrivals at Singapore—The Helen, from Rio, Jan.
9 ; Haidee, from China, 10th, and sailed the 18th, for
Madras ; the Red Rover, from Calcutta, 14th, and
sailed the 16th, for China ; the Osmond, from the
Cape, 15th ; the Elizabeth, from Penang; 17th ; the
Sylph, from Calcutta, 17th, and sailed the 19th, for
China; the Homagee Bomagee, from China, 20, and
sailed the 21st, for Bombay; the Pascoa, from Ma-
nilla, 22d, and sailed the 27th, for Malacca ; the
Thetis, from Calcutta, Feb. 2 ; the Will Watch, from
Penang, 4th.
Departures from Singapore—The Tayac, for Ba-
tavia, and his Majesty's ship Hyacinth, for Madras,
Jan. 13th ; the Runnymede, for Siam, 16th ; the
Dania, for Hamburg, 20th; the Elizabeth, for Pe-
nang, 24th ; the Stokesby, for Bali, Feb. 4th ; the
Australia, for Malacca, Feb. 4th ; the Tartar, for
Batavia, sth.

Mr. BARNARD presented petitions from Kent
and Greenwich against the Church Rates Bill.
Lord S A N D ON presented petitions froM the church-
wardens of Liverpool, praying for the better observ-
ance of the Lord's Day ; also a petition from.the mer-
chants and shipowners of the same place in favour of
the reciprocity duties.
Mr. HALL DARE presented a petition from
Chelmsford, against the admission of Dissenters to the
Universities ; also petitions from Braintree and fifty
other parishes in Essex, against the claims of Dis-
senters.

Arrivals at the Mauritius—The Symmetry, from
London, Jan. 29th ; the Mary Ann, from Sydney,
30th ; the Coventry, from the Cape, 31st ; the Atholl,
from the Cape, Feb. 6th ; the Broughty Castle, from
the Cape, 6th ; the Tancred, Bth, and Ulysses, 9th,
from the Cape.
Arrival at Coringa—The General Palmer, from
London, Feb. 6th. _ .

Departure from Madeira—The Africa, for Ceylon,
May 17th.
Arrival at Calcutta—The Sterling, from London,
Feb. 6th.

Departure from Calcutta—The Orient, for London,
Feb. 3d.

The Patriot, from Marseilles to the Mauritius, has
put into Malaga, leaky, having struck a sunken rock.
The West Indian, arrived in the Downs, sailed from
Jamaica April 24, cleared the Mayagnana-passage on
the 30th, and on the North Reef saw a large vessel and
a wrecking schooner close by.
NEWPORT, JUNE 9.—The Hope, from Dublin to
Chepstow, passed on the 4th inst. part of the wreck of
a large vessel, with about 50 bales of cotton around
her ; Wicklow head bearing N. N. E. ten miles.
LIMERICK, JUNE 7.—A boat, apparently a gun-
brig's launch marked on the stern " Plymouth-yard,
June 1832, No. 28," was picked up in Galway-bay,
about a month since,.

VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT THE CUSTOM-HOUSE,

JUNE 10.
The Waterloo from Dunkirk—Union, from Ostend
and Rochester—Royal Adelaide, from Leith—Jemi-
ma, from Lisbon—Bengal Merchant, from Calcutta—
Madras, from Madras and the Cape of Good Hope—
Providentia, from Smyrna.

ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING.
The Harriet, for Rio Janeiro—Countess of Elgin,
for Ostend, Bruges, and Ghent—lndemnity, for De-
merara—Morley, for Bombay.

CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO.

The Coldstream, for Madras and Calcutta ; Abel
Gower, for Manilla; Cedric, for Boston ; Tom and
Jessie, for Leghorn ; Francis, for Elsinore and St.
Petersburgh ; Emelie, for Dram, Norway ; Tourist,
for Hamburg ; London Merchant, for Rotterdam ;
Albion, for Genoa and Leghorn.

JosEPH ADY.-LThe-LORDRAYOR stated that
Joseph still persevered in his endeavour to humbug
people. The last person from whom his Lordship
had received a complaint was the Lord Lieutenant
of Ireland, whose private secretary had directed a
letter to the Mansion House, enclosing one of Mr.
Ady's circulars, which informed his Excellency that
upon the payment of twenty shillings, something to
his advantage would be communicated to him, but
that his Excellency must pay the postage. The
Lord Lieutenant's respectable correspondent, how-
ever, had, in this instance, thought proper to sub-
scribe himself as " John Laurie, No. 11, Circus,
Minories," instead of Joseph Ady of the same place,
and
Mr. Hobler observed that Mr. Ady seemed to
be totally regardless of the frequent expdsures made
by the public press, as well as of the injurious con-
sequences arising from his practice of writing letters
of promise to persons in distant places. He had
adopted the name of " Laurie" probably in the ex-
pectation of annoying the late Lord Mayor, who
had given him three or four bitter rubs.
The LORD MAYOR had received a great number
of letters relative to Ady, some of which called
upon his lordship in the most peremptory and indig-
nant manner to put a stop to a humbug of so
disagreeable a kind.
THE LATE ACCIDENT NEAR LONDON BRIDGE.—
Mr. C. Pearse, surgeon, of No. 46, Marsham-street,
Westminster, and one of his sons appeared at the
Justice-room, and begged to be permitted to make
a statement on the subject of the swamping of the
wherry on Tuesday last near London Bridge. It
had been stated that blame was attributable to
those in the wherry, who had rashly rowed along-
side of the Royal George, and the managers of
the steam-vessel were altogether exonerated. He
(Mr. Pearse) and his son were two of the persons
who so narrowly escaped drowning on that day, and
he was perfectly aware where the fault lay. The
waterman who rowed the party to the steam-vessel
perfectly understood his business, and went along
side when there was not the slightest motion in the
paddles. The boarding-man had hooked the wherry,
and fastened it to the nose of the steamer, when
suddenly the vessel was put in motion with all her
power, without the least notice. The consequence
was, that the boat filled with water and went
down; His object in coming forward was to
request that the lord Mayor would interpose
his authority to obtain for". the waterman some
recompense from the proprietors of the steam-
vessel, who were certainly bound on such an occa-
sion to give remuneration to the poor men, who it
was known were great sufferers by the steam spe-
culations in the Thames. He (Mr. Pearse) had
distributed as much money amongst them as he
could afford.

CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST.
The Tranby, for St. Petersburgh.
VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.

Wheat (per qr.) 40
Barley 21:
Oats ------

NORWICH, June 7.
is. ~2s. 6' s. Beans tper qr.) :348.
Is. 265. 365. Pease, Grey...-. VAl!i. 475.
Is. 122,. :Ms. Flour, fine (per sack) 41s. 435.

The Tacitus, from New Orleans to Liverpool, the
23d ult., lat. 45., lona. 31. ; the Java, from Apala-
chicola to Liverpool, the 31 st ult., lat. 52. 33., long.
20 ; the Herald, from Liverpool to New York, the
21st of April, lat. 45., long. 44.

CANTER B June 7.
Wheat, white--- 575. to 635..,,,..,, —s,
48s. to 614. Old —s.
Barley, Malting 265. to 325. Grinding.. 221,
Oats -20 s. to 255. Old-- 20s,

to --s.
to —4
to Ms.
to 28s.
to —s.
to 345.

Mr. W. BROUGHAM presented a petition from
Essex, to the same effect. The hon. member then
brought up the report of the committee on the Bank-
rupt Acts Bill.
Colonel DAVIES gave notice that, on the 13th of
July, he would move the rescinding of certain resolu-
tions respecting the business of the house and the sub-
stitution of others.

Beans 31s to 353...,,,.,
i'eaac---- 30s. to 36i. 30s.

It it not a little remarkable that the two
great sticklers for the inviolability of church property
—that is, for its being continued to be paid to men
who from Want of hearers,—the means of
doing anvye not,thing for it—Mr. Stanley and the Earl of
Winchilsea, are among the greatest holders of church
property. The livings in the gift of the former scion
of nobility are variously stated at from 6,0001. to
9,0001. a year ; while the latter holds more livings, or,
at all events, more church property, than almost any
other Nobleman in the kingdom. We do not, of
course, mean to attribute the opposition of the one to
the more liberal ideas entertained by his late col-
leagues, to the evident interest which ho has in pre-
serving what has fallen into his hands from state inter-
ference, nor the agitation which the other would
create, if he could, to any similar source ; no such
thing - a cause and an effect are apparent ; but it
would be bad logic to think, for a moment, that any
direct, or even indirect, relation existed between them.
Who, indeed, would dare to suspect that, under the
lofty language and proud daring of the one, and the
pious address of the other, there lurked any thing so
mean and paltry as a regard
to self interest ?—Morn-
ing Advertiser.

MANCHESTER, Junt
Wheat, per 701 b. Bs. Od. to Bs. 2d. Red.,
Barley, per 601 b 5 0 5 6 Oats
Beans, per Imperial quart( r
Pease, White, per Imperial bushel
Malt, per 6 Imperial bushels
Flour, per Sack of 2801 b

7s. 9:. to Bs. Mi.

SUSPECTED MURDER.—On Saturdaymorn-
ing, about three o'clock, a very respectable-looking
person was found in the Nottingham meadows, shot
through his head, near the ear. No pistols being
found upon the spot, it is supposed he was murdered :
the body was taken to the Crown and Anchor. The
inquest was not held when our correspondent left Not-
tingham.--Stanford News.
A Second Edition of the new historical ro-
mance " Makanna," will be published on Tuesday the
27th ult., by Messrs. Whittaker and Co., Ave Maria-
lane. " One of the most interesting and graphic
romances that it has been our lot to read for many a
year. ** * The author transports us to South Africa,
as completely as a Judge could to South Asia. *
He is equally at home when grappling with the ocean's
storm, hunting the wild beasts of the wilderness, or
painting, with Flemish minuteness, the voor-hanwr
of a Dutch boor at the Cape."—Atheneum. " His
eloquent delineations of individual character are life-
like and philosophical. "—Atlas. " This work abounds
in interest, and is written in a style of great vigour
and elegance."—Sunday Times. 46 We have rarely
read a production of deeper interest—interest sustained
from the first page to the last. The author's mind is
of a very high order—we augur for him great success."
—New Monthly Magazine.

MILITARY FLOGGING.--On Monday
morning, at half-past ten
_o'clock, William Harvey, a
private in the third company of the Coldstream
Guards, and another private, whose name we could not
learn, at present stationed at Knightsbridge Barracks,
were brought out from their place of confinement,
before the whole battalion, to have the minutes of a
courtmartial held upon them read over—Colonel
Gooch, President. Harvey, it appeared, was charged
with outrageous conduct and striking Sergeant
Turner, of which he was found guilty by the Court, and
sentenced to receive 300 lashes. He was immediately
strip,orderedtow
and woastotiretduretr
buthe ,a
when thvesdurnuambreetros
commenced the
receive little more than two-thirds of the sentence
passed upon him by the Court, and he was taken down
after receiving 214 lashes, and conveyed to the hospi-
tal. The other private was found guilty of the offence
charged against him, and sentenced to three months'
imprisonment at Brixton—two months to hard labour,
and one month to solitary confinement, at the expira-
tion of which time he was to be brought back and
drummed out of the regiment,

Ye
hnaniCshriorne,eyH,
on N. V
Cilolimapinanyisayshloipr
teos Yesterday
c Jilionhg
Henry Peters, and John Parkinson, seamen belong-
ingfrom Canton ; Henry Scarlett, 'd mi s ipman of the
Duke of Northumberland ; and Thomas Smith, W.
Beard, James Dodsworth, and James Hubbard, seamen
of the same vessel, were brought before the Thames
Police Magistrates, who sat in Petty Sessions, under
the Revenue Laws, for smuggling tobaooo and segars,
and illegally Importing it in packages containing less
than 450 lbs. respectively. The prisoners were stopped
by Blyth, Gray, and Fox, Surveyors of Thames Police,
as they were leaving their ships at Blackwall, and the
tobacco, amounting to about 31bs. each man, was found
in their chests and about their persons. The sailors, in
defence, said that the tobacco was the remains of their
sea stock, which they had been unable to consume dur-
ing the voyage, and that they had brought it ashore
for their own use. The Magistrates, Mr. Ballantine
and Mr. Combe, said the law prohibited sailors from
bringing a single ounce ashore. The sailors inquired
what they were to do with the remains of their sea
stock on the arrival of their ships in port? The Ma-
gistrates said they must leave it on board, or they
would always render themselves liable to heavy penal-
ties. The offerce having been proved, they had no
alternative but to pass the sentence of the law, which
was, that the prisoners should each pay a fine f 100/.
to the Icing, or be imprisoned until such fine was paid,
The Custom-house Commissioners alone had the
power to reduce the penalties, and to them the prison-
ers must apply. The Customs' solicitor said the pri-
soners would
be dealt with as leniently as possible by
the Board, but it was necessary to lay these inforsucaarz
tions, as the practice of smuggling tobacco was
ried to a great extent on the river.

Th 9 LORD MAyoa said he was much afraid