The Sun.
London, England, 1833-11-21 00:00:00

LAMBETH-STREET.

HYDROPHOBIA EXTRAORDINARY.—On Tuesday
evening John Anderson, a chimney-sweeper, was
brought before the sitting Magistrate by a police-
man, who charged him with being found drunk in
the street. The prisoner, who at the time had not
recovered from the effects of the gin, was about to
offer something in defence, but was told by the
Nlagistrate that before he could be heard he must
wash his face. This he, with considerable reluct-
ance, agreed to do, and some soap being procured,
he was led to a water-cock in the yard, where he
spent nearly a quarter of an hour and used nearly
a quarter of a pound of soap in scrubbing away at his
face, but it was scarcely to any purpose, for on being
I nought back to the Justice-room, his countenance
was nearly as black as an African's.

MAGISTRATE—You have washed your face, have
you ? Sweep—Yes, me Worship.
Now Jong. may it be since you washed it before ?
—Stay, let's see. Why, its about seven years, me
Worship.—( Laugh t er.)
Have you a wife ?-0h yes, me Worship.
And how long is it since she washed her face ?
Why, about the same time, I should think.
What I seven years ?—Yes, I should think that,
at least, me Worship.—(Much laughter.)
The prisoner having by this time become some-
what sober, and promising to go home to his lodg-
ings in Kingsland-road instanter, he was discharged.

Rousseau says that the Southern languages
were the daughters of pleasure, thy Northern of necessity.
fluctuating thing;
it ON
passedO
OF TRADE,—Trade To Alexandria,
a
rue i
from Alexandria to Venice, from Venice to Antwerp,
from Anttverp to Amsterdam and London, the English
rivalling the Dutch, as the French are now rivalling both.
All nations almost are wisely applying themselves to
trade, and it behoves those who are in possession of it to
take the greatest cue that they do not lose it. It is a
plant of tender growth, it requires sun and soil and fine
seasons, to make it thrive and fiwurish It will not grow
like the palm tree, which, with the more weight and
pressure, rises the more. Liberty is a friend to that, a
that is a friend to liberty. But the greatest enemy to
both is licentiousness, which tramples upon all law and
lawful authority, encourages riots and tumults, promotes
drunkenness and debauchery, sticks at nothing to support
its extravagance, practises every art of illicit gain, ruins
credit, ruins trade, and will in the end ruin lil‘erty
Neither kingdoms nor commonwealths, neither public
companies nor private persons can long carry on a tene-
ficial and flourishing trade without virtue, and what
virtue teacheth—sobrirty, industry, ttugali•y, rrodet ty
honesty, punctuality, humanity, chaiity, ,he love el our,
country, and the far of God.—Bishop _Newton's Diastr•
tations on the Prophecies.

A DEAR MEAL.—A few days ago, a ludi-
crous trick was played off in this town, by two young
men. Henry Maddox and William Whittaker were en-
joying their coos together at the Kine's Head, and after
they had quaff d several sparkling compotations, barb
agreed that they were voraciously hungry, but the way
to appease the craving was a matter of considerable diffi.-
culty, since they knew that the article of money wilt just
the very thing which was not to be found to their pockets.
[fete was a delemma ; they were just at the end of their
wits, when what should emerge from the good things in
the kitchen of ihe King's Head, but a fine, smoking
so rerib, borne proudly along by a servant, who carried it
off to the lodgings of one John Morris, who 11,d pre-
viously bought it of mine host. Our two heroes regarded
each other wistfully ; the fumes from the savoury viand
had touched their olfactory nerves. Like dogs, faithful to
the scent, they followed the sparerib out of the home;
when they arrived in the strict, they stopped a passenger,
a young lad, whom they requested to do a favour for them.
This was no less than to go to the house of the said John
Morris, and bring from thence a fine bot roast ti sparerib,
which, they instructed the boy to say, had been sent
thither by tnistake ! Never did lover wait with more
anxiety for the coming o: his mistress, titan did Maddox
and Whittaker for the return of the sparerib. At
length it appeared ; and no sooner bad it got into their
Possession, than away it was carried to the Bell, where
these lovers of a " dainty dish" sat down i❑ great glee.
Like the ancient Egyptians, they soon finished the sacri-
fice of this portion of a pig to their favourite god, Bac-
chus, and, to make the sacrifice more accep'able to the
rosy gentleman, they poured forth libation upon libation,
•nd drank "one bottle more," multiplied by
dozen, until they had quite drowned .their reason• In
this state they tell asleep, and but a shot t time had elapsed,
before both felt a rough shaking about their shoulders,
and lo! a constable, armed in all the authority of a magis-
trate's summons! Neither Maddox nor NVlnttaker could
some half
bnelri.e vceotnhsetiarbleeyes
applied—tlte tthought ;nt setn, aisurnh oatdab‘ol,rneLue,
by
giving both a good English thwack upon the. back. This
less
had the desired
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of commandabuc wasoof
a given visiont
vanished, and the summons placed our heroes under the
protection of the constable. They were now put in
o
Ito ilord appearing', att!l he being a good-natured bonilace,
:I"iaciectlt'inign order,
quick. tme. to a magistrate ; bit the
f trgare the meddlers with other men's dishes, on condition
thitt they paid for the sparerib and expenses, and promised
never to play such tricks again."—fiereford

LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 21, 1833.

The Paris papers of Tuesday, which arrived
this morning, contain no information of a de-
cisive character from Spain. There are accounts,
however, from Bayonne, of the 15th, and from
St. Jean de Luz of the 14th inst., which state
that General SAARSFIELD was to proceed on
Vittoria by a combined movement. SAARS-
FIELD himself was to lead a division by the
road of Miranda; San LORENZO another by
Logrono, and a third column was to proceed by
Pampeluna. The Memorial des P.yrennes
states that a Russian and a French courier, who
were very anxious to proceed to Madrid, at-
tempted to pass the bands of insurgents, but
they were stopped and plundered of their
money and despatches, and with difficulty pre-
served their lives. The Carlist Chiefs at lrun
have, however, announced to the British Consul
at Bayonne that British Couriers will be re-
spected. A Ministerial Paris Paper contains
the following :—" The Royalist Volunteers of
Murcia have refused to surrender their arms.
General MUrtILLO has arrested at Corunna (in
Gallicia) several persons accused of treasonable
practices. General QUESADA has done the like
at Valladolid, in Old Castile." A French trad-
ing vessel is said to have been captured by a
boat manned by the insurgents of Bilboa and
brought into that port.
The Paris Papers mention the arrival of a
steamer at Anco►►a from Corfu with despatches
for the British Admiral, announcing, as was
reported, the passage of the Dardanelles by the
combined squadrons of France and England.

FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, Nev. 19.
Five per Cents., 102 f. 25c. 30c.
Three per Cents., 741. 80c. 75f.
National Loan, 11.211 10c.
Bank Actions, 1,7'...2f. 50c.
Rente de Naples, 911. 40c.
Roman Five per Cents., SPA.
Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 18.4.
Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 26%.
Royal Spanish Loan, 7736.
Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 61%
Belgian Loan, IKII, Five per Cent., 96%.
Haytian Loan, 2651.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
(hie month, paper, 251. 31,c. ; money, 25f. 30e.
Three months, paper, 25f. 20c. ; money, 25f. 20c.
—Cours Authentique.

Brussels papers, to the 20th inst., arrived this
morning. They contain no political news of
importance. An article from Italy states, that
the Duke of LUCCA, a member of the Bourbon
family, having protested against the change in
the succession to the throne of Spain, the
QUEEN REGENT has deemed it expedient to
withhold the payment of the revenue he has
hitherto received from Spain, until he shall
have acknowledged her daughter's right to the
crown. This is a business-like way of bringing
the Duke to his senses. The QUZEN might
try it on another Duke in this country, who is
the soul of the Tory party by which her ene-
mies, the Carlists, are so warmly countenanced.

A Tory journal contains the following para-
graph, certainly strange, in its columns :

" The Ministerial papers are constantly endeavouring to
bully the people into a supposition that this country is
prosperous, and that tens of thousands are not suffering
under the most distressing privations. The poor rates
and committals for trial, however, are unerring tests;
while such tables as the following can be drawn from
official data, the country must be suffering through their
plethora:—
Year. Amt. of Poor Rates. No. of Committals.
1826 £5,676,000 15,986
1827............ 6,179,000 17,654
1828............ 6,031,000 16,307
1830 ............ 6,553,000 17,759
1831............ 6,509,000.. 19,269
1832 6,731,000 20,4.86
This is all very true, but what have the pre-
sent• Ministry to —o with it ? It is the work of
the Tories, and it is chiefly the Tories who
would:bbir perpetuate the syetem tinder which
crime and poor's rate undoubtedly must in-
crease. Three millions of mouths have been
added to the population since 1821, and the
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Tories endeavour to.prevent atly increase of the
field of production from whic, these mouths
must be filled. They partially fail, but to
a considerable; extent they succeed, and behold
the result !

It is stated in the Times of this morning, that
the whole of the exiles included in the amnesty
lately granted by the Queen Regent of SPAIN,
have refused to avail themselves of the bene-
fit of that act. This is erroneous. Three of
the number, as we mentioned two days ago,
inend to return to Spain ; but it is due
to those gentlemen to state, that the cir-
cumstances under which they avail themselves
of the amnesty are of a peculiar character.
Like the other Spanish exiles, they are deter-
mined to give no assistance to the Government
whilst the Ministry is composed of men who
are known to be hostile to free institutions.
When it is considered that many of the gentle-
men who have been amnestied have, in addition
to the natural attractions of the land of their
birth, many dear and tender ties to render a
return desirable, it will be admitted that their
sense of political integrity must be strong in-
deed, for them to refuse such a boon from the
hand of the QUEEN REGENT. They feel that
their return to Spain, in the present state of the
Government, would merely have the effect of
strengthening the QUEEN REGENT in the
course which she has chosen, at the same time
that it would look like a mean abandonment of
the brave and excellent men who have not been
included in the amnesty. The reply of one of
the amnestied exiles, a man of 70, and labouring
under a severe illness, which the climate of
his country would materially alleviate, to the
advice of his medical attendant, is worthy of
an old Roman :—" I would return to my country
for her good, if I were certain of expiring on the
instant of my arrival ; but T will never allow
my bodily infirmities to overcome my sense of
duty." A French Paper of Monday, Le Temps,
mentions a report that the QUEEN REGENT
had removed all the restrictions from the late
Act of Amnesty, and abolished all distinction
between the exiled patriots. " Gratitude and
love of country," says Le Temps, " will attract
these generous spirits to their native soil. Let
the QUEEN only modify her Manifesto, and
upon her royal word thousands of powerful and
intelligent men would arm themselves, and
speedily clear the provinces of her enemies,
whose chief strength lies in the distrust of her
friends." We concur to a considerable extent
in the opinion of our French Contemporary, but
the modification of the Manifesto will not
suffice. It must be wholly retracted.

Dutch Papers of the 20th instant have been
received late this afternoon. Their contents
relate to the eternal question of Belgium and the
three Northern Powers, and the German Con-
federation, but possess no public interest. If
the Northern Despots had been sincere in their
professions, the question would have been settled
years ago ; but at this period it is really
disgusting to hear of their anxious intentions to
bring matters to a pacific and speedy termina-
tion. It has been a mere juggle throughout,
and as such deserves the scorn and reprobation of
all honest men.

DUTCH FUNDS—AMSTERDAM, Nov. 19.
Actual Debt, 234 per Cent. 4S% to 494
Amort Syndic, 43. per cent ...... B7 to 873,
Ditto, ditto, 332 per cent.
Voluntary Loan, 1831, 6 per cent 1023.4 to 103
Ditto, 1532, 5 per Cent.
Ditto, 1833, 5 per Cent.
Exchange on London
Ditto. two months l2 0 to 12 023 i
—Dutch Papers, Nov 20.

The assertion of Mr. HILL, made publicly
the other day, at a public dinner given to him
by his constituents at Hull, to the effect that
one of the Irish Members, who inveighed most
vehemently against the Coercion Bill, had pri-
vately waited upon ministers, imploring them
not "to bate a jot, but to stick to the whole
Bill," seems likely to bring the Hon. Member
into trouble. He has, in fact, with a rashness
most unaccountable in a lawyer, run his head into
a hornet's nest. If, therefore, he is all but stung to
death, he cannot wonder at it. It is the natural
consequence of his temerity. Unless prepared to
afford every necessary information, he should
never have brought forward the charge. The
Irish Members will of course follow—indeed
they are bound to do so—the example of Mr.
JOHN O'CONNELL, and then, what a dilemma
will poor Mr. HILL be placed in ! He cannot
back out of it ; the charge is too serious
and sweeping a one to be got rid of by
equivocation ; he must either give up his
authority, or confess (to use a courteous
phrase of FooTE) that he has been " more
poetical in his prose " than suits the
established etiquette of society. As a practised
lawyer, Mr. HILL must know this ; he must
know also that public character is not to be left
at the mercy of an unauthenticated charge;
it is too sacred a thing to be thus sneered
away at random. He must substantiate his
charge by evidence, and this without a
moment's delay. Mr. O'CONNELL, we per-
ceive, in a letter addressed to the " Hull Radi-
cals," has taken up the matter warmly. And
no wonder. What affects the tail, cannot also,
from sympathy, but affect the head. As well-
wishers to Mr. HILL, we trust he will see the
propriety of at once coming forward, and afford-
ing every necessary explanation.

A morning paper has stated that Lord AL-
THORP has resolved to repeal the house and win-
dow taxes, and to make up the deficiency by an
additional tax on British spirits and foreign wines.
This absurdity of the imaginary means of supply-
ing the deficiency which would be occasioned
by the repeal of the house and window taxes,
rendered it almost unnecessary for us to make
any inquiry as to the truth of the statement.
We have done so, however, and find that there
is not the slightest foundation for the assertion
of our contemporary. Lord ALTHORP would
hardly venture to impose an additional duty
duty upon foreign wines at a moment when the
public demand a diminution of them ; knowing
too, as he must, that an increased duty would
cause a diminution of the consumption, and

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that 640u1d, couseitueUtly, make up none of
the deficiency in question by such a proceeding.
As to an additional duty on British spirits, we
doubt whether, with such a preponderating in-
terest as the agriculturists have in the House of
Commons, Lord ALTHORP would propose an
additional duty on distillation from grain. Be-
sides it is not certain that any decision has yet
been come to as to the repeal of the house and
window taxes.

A Morning contemporary observes that
in a speech lately delivered to the Coun-
cil of Administration of Warsaw, assembled
at Modlin, the Emperor of Russia made
use of the following observations :—" Gen-
tlemen, you must persevere in your course ;
and as to myself, so long as I live, I will op-
pose a will of iron to the progress of liberal
opinions. The present generation is lost, but
we must labour with zeal and earnestness to
improve the spirit of that to come. It may,
perhaps, require a hundred years. I am not
unreasonable—l give you a whole age—but you
must work without relaxation." This is a fine
sample of Imperial rigmarole, and well deserves
the pointed comment which the quick-witted
Mr. Burchell attached, by way of rider, to
the vivacious boastings of Lady Blarney—
" Fudge !" His Imperial Majesty, it seems,
will oppose a " will of iron" to the progress of
free and enlightened opinions. We defy him to
do so. Yes, even with the omnipresence, om-
niscience, and omnipotence, which the Russian
Catechism attributes to him, we defy NICHOLAS
to arrest the progress of rational and liberal opi-
nions for one single instant. He may set his
barbarian hordes in motion ; he may martial all
the North in arms against southern Europe
fine, imprison, banish, torture, murder by whole-
sale, and still he will just be where he was when
he set out on his Quixotic crusade. Brute force
has no power over thought. The material cannot
grapple with the immaterial. Freedom is a subtle,
restless, invincible spirit, which no manifestoes
can effect, no dungeons can reach. Like the air
of heaven, it is here, there, and every where
When you think you have pinned it up in a
corner in the North, lo ! it has eluded your grasp,
and is mocking you, and playing all sorts of
anti-imperial pranks in the South. And yet
NICHOLAS, like that other congenial tyrant who
attempted to lay violent hands on the waver,
would check the progress of this etherial essence
by the bayonet and the bullet ! Let him try,
and we will send forth Lord BROuGELIM's
schoolmaster against him, who, armed only with
his horn-book and primer, shall, nevertheless,
enact more marvels than ever SAMPSON wrought
against the Philistines. Already the EMPEROR
quails beneath the frown of this valorous Dominie;
already he shrinks back at his bidding ; for what
else withheld him the other day, when Constan-
tinople lay trembling and prostrate at his feet,
from instantly availing himself of the oppor-
tunity to realize the fondest dream of Rus-
sian ambition ? His Imperial Majesty well
observes, taking a Tory view of things, " the
present generation is lost." It is so, never again
to be consigned over to the tender mercies of
bigots or despots. It has reached man's estate,
and outgrown all its nursery bugbears, among
which, that of a slavish idolatry of monarchs
stands supreme.

If, on the one hand, we have been disgusted
at the barefacedness of the attempt of the Mer-
chant Tailors' Company to hide their malversa-
tions from the public eye, there are not wanting,
on the other, examples of disinterested patriotism
worthy of the citizens of a free country. In
every town the municipal commission has visited,
numbers of gentlemen have come forward and
devoted a large amount of often valuable time
to aid its inquiries. The result in the country
has been the discovery of abuses innnumerable.
The citizens of London appear resolved not to
be behindhand in the great work of cor-
porate reform. So long ago as the month
of September a respectable body of them
met and appointed the following Committee to
aid the Commissioners appointed by his MA-
JESTY in their inquiry into the Corporation of
the city of London :—Messrs. W. Williams,
J. Wilkinson, H. Hall, J. Newell, G. Machin
D. Wire, J. Nicholson, W. H. Ashurst, W.
Stevens, H. B. Fearon, J. Travers, H. Hoppe,
J. Swain, N. D. Saull, W. Bestow, R. Taylor,
W. Pritchard, A. Galloway, C. Pearson, J.
Lutyens, D. Barrett, E. E. Hoppe, J. Sme-
thurst, G. Knapp, G. H. Heppel, A. Beck, and
J. Dillon. The greater part of these are the
names of gentlemen long known as advocating
liberal principles, and to better hands, upon
the whole, the care of the rights of their
fellow-citizens could not have been con-
fided. The result of their labours is now
before us in the shape of a report from a part
of their number appointed as a sub-committee,
to consider and determine what points and mat-
ters relative to the corporation of the city of
London and the trading companies therein, it
would be desirable to bring under the examina-
tion of his Majesty's Commissioners. The
report commences by tracing the history of the
constituency of London, and the elective rights
of the citizens through the various usurpations
of the trading companies to the Reform Bill.
It then suggests that the three species of con-
stituencies now existing in the City should be
reduced to one, either by the restoration of
the scot and lot franchise, or the adoption
as a qualification at all kinds of elections, of the
101. franchise of the Reform Bill, which in
London would, from the high rents prevalent
there, amount to a scot and lot franchise. The
Committee of the Citizens, looking to this
peculiarity of their case, are not willing to raise
any objection to the 101. qualification, but
admit that,
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matterofchtohe precedentice,andon forthe
ground of print
other corporate cities, towns, or boroughs, we
should desire a return to the scot and lot quali-
fication ; or rather that the holding of a house,
should of
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