The Sun.
London, England, 1833-11-20 00:00:00

BRIGHTON, Nov. 19.

The King gave audience to Baron Ompteda, the Hano-
V Minister, on hie arrival here. Previous to which,
his .Majtaty sat to Sir M. A. Shee for hi.r picture.
His Majesty held a Council yesterday at the Pavilion.

The Recorder of London made his report to the King
in Council of all the prisoners now under sentence, whom
his Majesty was graciously pleased to respite. •
The petsons who assisted at his Majesty's Council yes-
terday had the honour of dining at the Palace. The fol-
lowing were also of the Royal dinner party :—Lieutenant-
General Sir George Anson, Mr. George Byng, M.P., Sir
M. A. Shee, Lord Howard de Walden, and the suite and
household.

Their Majesties did not leave the Palace during the
whole of yesterday.
Lady Harriet Hoste had the honour of visiting her Ma-
jesty Ity appointment in the morning. Lady Pulteney
also paid her respects to the Duchess of Gloucester.
A King's messenger arrived last evening from the
Home-office, with despatches to Sir Herbert Taylor,
which were immediately laid before his M tjesty.
The Princess Augusta, accompanied by Miss Wyn.
yard, took an airing yesterday in a carriage and four
through various parrs of the town.
Their Majesties will attend the Fancy Fair about to be
held at the Town-hall in aid of the funds of the Sussex
County Hospital.

The Council of the University of London
have appointed Captain Maconochie, R.N., Sec-retary to
the Royal Geographicra Society, to the professorship of
geography; and tke Rev. Robert Vaughan, author of the
" Life of Wycliffe," and of " Memorials of the Stuart
Dynasty," to the professorship of history.
REMOVAL OF THE CORNWALL SPRING
Assizes.—The memorial and petition of the inhabitants
of Truro praying that one of the assizes for this county
may be held in that town, have been referred to a commit-
tee of the Privy Council tor their consideration and report,
and W. Tooke, Esq., M.P., has been requested by the
Truro Committee to take such steps as he may judge ex-
pedient infurtherance of the prayer thereof.—Falmouth
Packet.

A BUDGET OF NEWS.—Cerigo, the most
eastet n of the lonian states, formerly had very little com-
munication either with Corfu, the seat of government, or
the other islands. Such was the infrequency of it, that
the officer commanding the small party there heild of the
return of Napoleon, the battle of 'Waterloo, and the death
of the Princess Charlotte, at the same time.

On Monday the Recorder made his report to
his Majtsty, at Brighton, of the prisoners in Newgate
capit illy convicted at the last September Old Bailey
sessions—viz., Henry Perry, 28 ; .Tames Hulls, 24 ;
Robert Wright, 24 ; John Reynolds, 19; Joseph Steadwell,
18, highway robbery. John Williams, 22 ; John Willis
alias Hutton, 20 ; Thomas Johnson, 22 ; Daniel. Clark,
13; Edward Pickard, 13 ; William Tilbury, 22, house•
breaking. William Field, 21 ; George Trcagle, 23,
cutting and maiming. Charles Reynolds, 19, shooting at.
Lewis King, 35, stealing a letter from the Pcet Office ;
and George Russell, 27, convicted at May sessions of
burglary. Also of the following, convicted at the last
October sessions—viz., James Bett, 25 ; Thomas Sinnott,
36 ; John Delaney, 19 ; Patrick Maloney, 20 ; Richard
Ryan, 17; James Franklin, 34; William Hedger, 22 ;
James Isaacs, 21 ; Alfred Green, 35; Francis Marryatt,
23 ; James Wood, 22 ; Joshua Woodcock, 21 ; Henry
James Graves, 18, housebreaking. Thomas Knight, 28,
returning from transportation ; and Samuel Johnson, 18,
highway robbery. All of whom his Majesty was graciou•dy
pleased to respite during his Roy il pleasure._

CAPTAIN ALEXANDER'S TRANSAT-
LANTIC SKETCHEII.-44 There are few better natured, or
more amusing travellers, than Captain Alexander. The
Americans, as might he expected, are nit much to the
taste of a young British officer, who looks to favour at
headquarters; he confines his satire, however, within
very narrow bounds, and speaks of the nation generally
with kindly feelings. The upper ranks, if we may use
the term in speaking of the United States, are even more
favourably dealt with than by any other traveller: hi.
' fun' is reserved for the back settlements, and the Yankee
traders—clas.es, who it must be allowed, afford consider-
able materiel for a man gifted with a relish for humour ;
and Captain Alexander is evidently fond of a good thing,
and tells not a few. He is preeminent in his sketches of
scenery ; no author has been more successful in conveying
striking impressions of the luxuriant vegetation of an
intertropical climate, and the incredible variety, beauty,
and splendour of its natural productions."—Examiner.
WRITS UNDER THE NEW LAW ACT.—
Several attorneys have applied at the Secondary's office, in
consequence of the statement which appeared under the
head of Sheriffs' Court, London, in which it was men-
tioned that a dispute arose between Mr. Potter, the secon-
dary, and Mr. Gude, as to the right of the secondary to
make a return of the writ. The reply has invariably been
that the secondary in that case insisted upon the right,
and that finally the writ was given up to Mr. Potter, by
Mr.Gude, who had possessed himself of it without having
any legal power whatever to interfere. No case of the
kind has been sent down front that time to the Sheriffs'
Court from any of the superior Courts, and we are given
to understand that the cause, after which the conversation
on the subject of the right to return the-writ occurred,
had bee❑ sent down by Baron Gurney, upon the applica-
tion of one of the city law functionaries, called clerks
sitters—gentlemen who are vastly interested in increasing
the business in the Sheriffs' Court.

GLOUCESTER AND BIRMINGHAM lt
WAY.—The meeting of the members of the Provisional
Committee, appointed to forward this important under:
taking, was held at the Tolsey, on Tuesday last, when
much discussion of an interesting nature took place. The
Committee, we understand, are busily engaged in the pro-
secution of inquiries as to the best line of road to be
adopted, and in obtaining accurate information of the
exact account of the present traffic betwtcn the two places.
It was stated at the meeting that the country was very
minutely surveyed by a Mr. Brunel, for a Birmingham
Committee, about two years ago, and that that gentleman
recommended that the line should go within about two
miles of Cheltenham, the same distance from Tewkesbury
and thence through Pershore, leaving Worcester about
five miles to the left. This line, it will be perceived, is
almost a straight one, and the country through which it
would pass, is supposed to be most favourable to railways.
Some of the gentlemen present computed that this line
could be carried into effect at about one-half of the expense
of the proposed line through Kidderminster and Stour.
bridge. The grand question for consideration now re-
maining appears to be whether the traffic on the longer
line would be so much increased as to remunerate the pro-
jectors for the extra expense its projection would occasion.
Gloucester Chronicle.

The small pox is at this time exceedingly pre-
valent in the city of Lincoln. Doncaster Gazette.
A REPLY.—A gallant veteran, many years
the commanding officer of one of the fine•t regiments in
his Majesty's service, being at the governor's table at
Corfu, was asked by Lady Ruthven (a blue), if he h.d
iead Sir Walter Scott's last work? " Give you my
honour, my lady, never read but two books, in my life—
Bible and the Articles of War." The officer was John
Frederick Brown, Col. 28th.

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,11j, JOURNALS.
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.
i-,a';)(1 obtained'
The Municipal Comini-..414:!.,.
t.,..._,_ ts inquiries
cited so great a degree of i 7
so vast a • body of informatT
•
into the provincial corporatio • ekingdom,
is to open its court next week itrOnildhall, for
the investigation of corporate abuses or corpo-
rate privileges in the metropolis. The ap-
proachyoftt,hvois ipnutberleicsatitniognsevoefntahaysery
been signa-
lized
opposite
character, which now lie before us—namely, Ist,
the report of a respectable committee of the
freemen and liverymen of London (chiefly, we
believe, members of the Common Council),
nominated by their fellow-citizens to aid the corn,
missioners by all the information which they
could collect ; and, 2d, the resolutions of rstit
of the trading companies (the Merchant Tai-
lors) to resist all examination into their affairs,
or, in the words of the Leicester corporation,
to make no disclosures " which might criminate
themselves." The latter document derives its
chief interest (for it is note of very little import-
ance) from the support given to this refractory
body by the opinion of Sir James Scarlett and
two other learned counsel. The profoundly
meditated design of " the Merchant Tailors"
to keep their own secret and their own dinners
as long as they could, is no secret to anybody,
When the Committee of the House of Commons
was appointed last session to inquire into the crin.4
duct and constitution ofthe municipal corporations
of England, this body, by its master or wardens,
was the first to take the alarm, and to protest
against the anticipated scrutiny. The Committee,
having foreseen the impossibility of an effectual
and full investigatiOn into the subject of its ir-
quiry, by a body of gentlemen sitting for a cer-
tain number of days in a room near St. Ste-
phen's, -and having, upon abdicating its func-
tions, formally recommended to the Crown the
appointment of an itinerant or visiting commis-
iiril'iati'liet—lias btt
commis-
sion to fulfil its duties, nobody sopposed that
the gallant fraternity which had entertained in
its hall so many Tory foes of reform Mould
submit without a struggle to the new delegated
authority. The commission was, indeed, nomi-
nated by the Crown, for whose prerogatives the
Tory party on other occasions affect the greatest
deference, and the nomination took place on the
suggestion of an impartial Committee of the
House of Commons, of which Sir Robert Peel
and several other Tory representatives were ac-
tive members ; but what signifies the concur-
rence of the King and the Commons in a salu-
tary and useful measure, when they require the
disclosure of corporation secrets or trust mis-
management of the Merchant Tailors of Lon-
don ? Had the Ministry taken a hint from the
threatened resistance of this corporation (through
its organ, Mr. Attwood) to a Committee of one
branch of the Legislature, and introduced a
short Bill which must easily have commanded
the consent of the other, all pretexts for cabal,
or remonstrance, or legal opinions would have
been removed. We consider that the commis-
sion has already obtained, or is about to obtain,
all its objects, notwithstanding the very tardy
and clumsy attempts at secrecy and concealment
by one corporation of proved corruption, and
by another of doubtful virtue. The corporators
of Leicester, and the Merchant Tailors of Lon
don, may boast, if they please, that they stand
alone in their heroic contumacy towards the
royal commission ; but, happily, they cannot
congratulate each other on the result of their
shallow mancauvres. So far from seeing at first
any illegality or deficiency of jurisdiction in the
commissioners, the corporate officers of the
former had been under examination for nearly a
fortnight, and had admitted all its malpractices,
before its town clerk, by the advice of its Recorder, thought of making a stand
on the demanded production of a particular
mortgage, which, indeed, was as little neces-
sary to establish its criminality as the pro-
duction of the written confession of a convict
after the verdict of guilty by a jury. The
Master and Wardens of the latter have begun
their resistance earlier, but we are convinced
they will find it equally inefficient and delusive
in the end. They are not only opposed by the
11 great body of their fellow-freetnen of the city,
but (as we are assured by a letter inserted in
another column) by the great body of liverymen
of their own fraternity. In fact, they object to
the King's commission on the same grounds as
the proprietors of a rotten borough objected last
year to the Reform Bill—because they are
conscious of abusing their trust and usurping
the rights of their fellow-citizens. With these
two exceptions, the King's commission has been
everywhere respected, and the efforts of the
commissioners have been everywhere successful.
Everywhere they have been welcomed by the
friends of liberty and reform ; everywhere vo-
luntary witnesses presented themselves in abun-
dance to be confronted with the corporators ;
and the latter, though often overwhelmed with
embarrassment and shame, could not, without
Incurring still deeper disgrace, resist the demands
of inquiry. And what a rich harvest of abuses
have they not gathered from the east and the
west, from the north and the south,—what ample
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disclosures which have been made at Cambridge,
at Leicester, at Coventry, at Tiverton, at War.
wick, and in many of the boroughs of the mid-
land and western counties, and then say whether
investigation was not necessary—whether reform
could have been much longer delayed, and whe•
titer any man; -not an actual participator in cor-
porate iniquities, can be conceived base and
stupid enough to abuse or to resist the Royal
Commission. The report of the Committee of
Liverymen to which we have alluded shows, at
least, that there will be no indisposition in the
Corporation of London to afford the most ample
corporatear
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of their members. A man must not only be
free of one of these corporations, but must have
taken up his livery in it before he can vote for a
Lord Mayor, Chamberlain, or Sheriff. For-
merly, before the passing of the Reform Act,
the election of the City Members of Parliament
was equally restricted, while freemen house-
holders, on the other hand, can elect Aldermen
and Common Councilmen. Surely, by the
way, we may find in the possession of this
power of admitting to certain municipal privi-

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leqes and rights, exercised exclusively the
trading' companies, some ground for thinking
that they are invested with a municipal character.
The power. thus engrossed by the trading com-
panies is at once galling, humiliating, and op-
pressive. By their caprice they may exclude
a citizen from the enjoyment of some valued
rights, or by their cupidity they may render
their acquisition expensive. Accordingly, the
fines imposed on freemen for taking up their
livery in some of these corporations, have been
the subject of loud and just complaint ; they
compose a real 7/tunic/pal tax, levied by bodies
who are, by their advocates, denied the munici-
pal character. Would it not be better, therefore,
to have only one kind of constituency for all
the public elections of city officers, instead of
choosing Aldermen and Common Councilmen
by the means of freemen householders, the
Lord Mayor and Sheriff by liverymen, and the
City Members by ten-pound householders
mixed with the latter ? This is one of the
recommendations in the report before us, and
it appears to us an improved arrangement, at
once of easy introduction and a judicious sim-
plicity. We agree equally in the justice of its
remarks on the inequality of the city wards, and
the benefits which it promises as the result of a
new division. We regret that we cannot at
present enter into any further remarks, and have
only room to quote the recapitulation of the
changes which the Committee recommend :
" 1. To obtain the repeal of the 11th Geo. 1., cap. 18,
or of that clause of it which gives the voting for certain
municipal officers to the liverymen of the trading coru-

patties.
" 2. The giving this franchise to the freemen house-
tolders of the city of London, thus placing the election to
these eflices on the same ground as the election to the city
representatives in Parliament under the Reform Act.
"3. The removing or lowering the heavy fines on
admission to the freedom of the city, and preventing the
necessity of a previous admission to the freedom, or a
subsequent admission to the livery, of any of the trading
companies.

'• 4. The obtaining a more equal division of the several
wards of the city.
" 5. That the members of the Court of Aldermen
should be subject to re-election at a time to be fixed, and
that the magistrates of the city should be elected by the
whole of the citizens, and not by the inhabitants of one
ward.

" 6. That the Lord Mayor should be chosen by the
whole 1104 of the freemen, and not, as now, be chosen by
the Court of Aldermen, from two aldermen who had been
merely nnminattd by the live: its.
" 7. That the veto on city elections claimed by the
Cola of Aldermen should be declared invalid.
" 8. That the Court of Aldermen should conduct their
business in public.
" 9. That one simple and uniform mode of disbursing
the city funds should he established; that responsibility
should be fixed ; that the accounts should be audited and
published, and effective checks upon the expenditure pro.-
Tided.

" 10. That the masters, wardens, and officers of the
different trading companies should be chosen according to
their several charters, and the original practice, by the
freemen or liverymen of the companies.
" 11. That the accounts and affairs of the several com-
panies should be laid before the freemen and liverymen of
the sum for their inwectien and approve.
" 12. That an investigation of the property and endow-
ments of these companies, whether commercial or cha-
ritable, should he strictly entered upon by the proper
authorities, in order that they should be devoted to their
original purposes, as trust or corporate, and not private
property."
"TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
" Sir,--1 am desired by the committee of liverymen of
the Merchnnt Tailors' Company, appointed to obtain a
restoration of their chartered rights and privileges, to state
that the resolutions forwarded to Sir Francis Palgrave,
Knt., signed by J. B. De Mole, purporting to be the reso-
lutions of the ComPary, have emanated from the self-
elected court of a.sistants, a body unrecognised by the
charters, consisting-of some 35 individuals, at the head of
whom is John Pelly Atkins, son of Alderman Atkins, and
signed, not by the clerk of the Company, but the clerk of
the master and wardens, and that the same have been put
forth without the knowledge cr consent of the body of
freemen, who are in number upwards of 1,100.
"I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,
" ROBERT FRANKS, Hon. Sec.
" Redcross•stre.t, Nov. 19. Time,.

The right to publish the proceedings in courts
of justice was long supposed to have been deter-
mined in the affirmative by the decision in the
case, Currie v. Walter. The question, however,
remains yet, it appears, to be determined, as our
readers wouid see from the report in the Court
of Exchequer, in yesterday's Chronicle, Pennell
Lawson, in which case the Lord Chief Baron,
after consulting with the other Judges, observed,
that as the question was one of very general im-
portance and considerable difficulty, they would
consider the point, and give judgment on a future
day. It has always appeared to us, that if courts of
justice must be open to the public, the right to
publish is at once determined. In arguing the
question, Mr. Platt said he would advance it as
a general rule, that whatever took place in public
court, to which the whole of his Majesty's
subjects had the right of access, was a fair sub-
ject for publication ; for the publication of
these proceedings was no more than, as it were,
extending the results of that court to all the
readers of the paper in which it appeared.
Why is a court of justice open to the public ?
In order that all persons may see that jus-
tice
is fairly and honestly administered, and
may know, from the decisions of the court,
what is declared to be the law. In the
early periods of our history, the whole of
each respective community actually assembled
in an open space where justice was administered,
This open space went by the name of Mote, or
Moot-hill—i. e. the Hill of Meeting, and other
similar names ; and many rising grounds, both
in Scotland and England, have retained the
name to the present day. Historically, there-
fore, it may be said, that the publicity of courts
of justice was as extensive as society. The
aggregation of a number of communities, and
the building of courts to shelter judges, suitors,
and audience, from the inclemeney of the
weather, made it physically impossible that the
whole population, affected either directly or
indirectly by the proceedings, could be present
in court ; but, without striking at the principle
of publicity, no part of the population desirous
of being present, could be excluded, and every
individual was entitled to admission, so long
as there was space for him. No building could
be erected capacious enough to include the
population of a great community ; and a com-
paratively small number could see and hear the
proceedings ; but if all could see and hear, all
%vete entitled to see and hear. Taking the whole
of a large community, it could not be said that
there was one individual who might not see and
hear. The principle of open Courts carrying
with it the right of the whole community to be
present, it follows, as a necessary consequence,
that men may aid themselves in overcoming the
physical obstacles in their way in the best manner
they can. If the Court, or the place in which
justice is administered, be so capacious as to
admit a much larger number than see and hear
to advantage, men may avail themselves of
glasses, as at the opera, and of ear-trumpets to
catch the distant sounds. The press is merely
another physical means of extending the range
of the Court. Those present may communicate
orally what they have seen and heard ; but as
memory is treacherous, writing, as supplying the
means of communicating an exact account, is

a happy means of overcoming the obstacles
to a publicity co-extensive with the Society
which grew out of the circumstances which we
described. It is of course essential, that in.-4
extending by writing the range of the Court,
the proceedings should be faithfully reported ;
but this is the only limitation which can
be conceived. Individuals may be injured
by reporting the proceedings of Courts of
Justice. This, however, is inseparable from
publicity. Whether a thousand shall hear the
injurious words, or a hundred thousand by
means of the extended publicity given by the
press, the question is merely one of degree.
Every member of society, we contend, might
have heard the injurious language if he could.
Every reason for allowing one thousand men to
hear the injurious language, is equally cogent
for allowing a hundred thousand men to hear it.
In society we must put up with many incon-
veniences. A barrister should, as far as pos-
sible, avoid introducing into causes individuals
not present to repeat the slander : and where a
barrister exceeds a due discretion in this respect,
the Court should set him right. As far as the
principal is concerned, it is as unjustifiable to
indulge in calumny before a thousand people, as
before a hundred thousand. It is no doubt true
that a barrister often exceeds his duty, that
Judges do not always confine him to his duty,
and that statements are introduced into affidavits
which ought not to be in them. But this is
only saying that in all- human affairs perfec-
tion is impossible. We must take the advantage
of publicity subject to these inconveniences:
they are the pike we pay for the security for
person and property we derive from an open
administration of justice. We are glad that so
important a principle has been reserved for the
adjudication of Lord Lyndhurst, who possesses
a clear and a logical head, if any man ever pos-
sessed ene. Whatever may be thought of his
Lordship as a party man, there can, we should
think, be but one opinion as to the soundness of
his understanding. As this is merely a case of
deduction from an admitted principle, it could
not be in better hands. Indeed we think it
would not be difficult to discover the bias of his
Lordship's mind from his interlocutory remark :
" Suppose a witness were to say that he would not be-
lieve a man on his oath—that was the strongest libel that
could be uttered—would it be a libel to report such a case
a% that ? If the arguments that you have advanced are to
be held good, every reporter will require to be a sound
lawyer, in order to decide whether he was reporting what
was material to the cause or not."—Morning Chronicle.

A singular case came on yesterday in the
Court of King's Bench, relating to three Ma-
gistrates of th county of Warwick. As the
case was ex parte, we should abstain from all
remark till the three Magistrates have an oppor-
tunity of being heard. if the case be proved,
the proceedings of Trades' Unions are just and
equitable, compared with those of Unions of
Magistrates. We should have been more scep-
tical than we are, if we did not know from
publications of unquestionable authenticity, that
in Petty Sessions the conduct of Magistrates, in
all that regards the administration of the Poor
Laws, is often tyrannical in the extreme, and
that they resist nothing so much as any attempt
to control their arbitrary proceedings. In the
reports of the Poor Law Commissioners, cases
of systematic persecution of overseers by Ma-
gistrates are detailed of the most revolting cha-
racter. But we will not allow ourselves to be
betrayed into farther remark in this stage of the
cause. We will, however, have our eye on the
future proceedings.— Morning Chronicle.
it appears that the Corporation of Leicester
is not fated to stand alone in its resistance to
the Municipal Commission ; the Company of
Merchant Tailors of the city of London have
resolved to share with them whatever honour or
dishonour may attach to the determination of
shutting their mouths, and bolting their doors
and locking up their desks against inquiry. This
Worshipful Company, to give them their clue,
have managed matters with an adroitness which
must delight the very soul of Toryism, and make
it leap with its dying fame. They have consulted
Sir James Scarlett, and other lawyers, on the
legal question of the right of the Commissioners,
involving the right of Parliament and the right
of the Crown—to interfere in the extreme case
of a corrupt, worn•out, and perverted system
for its reformation and correction. The lawyers
have backed the Worshipful Company in their
scheme of resistance. Neither the power of the
Commons nor the prerogative of the Crown can,
according to them, be interposed in the above
case : so that the country must resort for its
remedy, if remedy it would have, to Courts of
Law, in the technicalities and entanglements,
and " glorious uncertainty" of which the Cor-
porations put their trust for escaping from
justice. Those who refer us to the Law Courts
for relief would do well to inform us, amongst
other things, how long it would take to wrangle
our way, case by case, and step by step, in the
ordinary tribunals, before justice could be done
upon all the rotten, jobbing, swindling Corpo-
rations in the kingdom ? Suppose the Courts
possessed of the necessary power, how many
generations must pass away before that power
could be exercised to a sufficient extent in the
removal of such wide-spread and deep-rooted
abuses. Perhaps our children's children might
live to see the end of them, hut fbr ourselves
we might as well expect to see the end of the
world. But the fact is, that the Courts have
not power—that the existing laws are nut
sufficient to grapple with this monstrous over-
grown evil of corruption. The bare fact of its
existence for
.such a number
.of years is a proof
that the law is . insufficient. Happily it is now
too late in the day for the apologists of Corpo-
rations, even for those who have played their
cards so well as the Merchant Tailors have done
by the present manoeuvre, to take the high
ground of character in this dispute. The Com-
missioners have gone too far—they have exposed
too much—they have let in the light too strongly
upon the transactions of those immaculate bodies
to be met now, as if they were on the thresh-
hold of their inquiry, with a high head and a
confident appeal to reputation. Enough has
been done already to show what is going on
behind the curtain, and it is now too late to
think of interrupting the progress of such
disgraceful but useful disclosures. The
Merchant Tailors, we therefore venture to
prophecy, will take nothing by their motion.
One effect, we think, will follow from the
course they have pursued. The hearts
of the people will be fixed more intently than
ever on the cleansing out of these Augeao
sta-
bles, when they see the struggle that is making
to shut the doors. If the Whigs could have
prevented that struggle they would have acted
most unwisely had they done so. It must
necessarily operate to their advantage, by unit-
ing all Reformers once more. The Merchant
Tailors may flatter themselves, the Tories may
flatter themselves, that they have hit upon a fine
device, but it is one which cannot fail to over.

whelm them with confusion. The documents
to which we have been alluding in the foregoing
remarks will be found in another column, under
the proper head, and to them, without further
preface, we shall now refer our readers.--
Morning Herald.

The Emperor Nicholas—the type and patron
of Toryism all over the world—is again, it
seems, in the field, and in that especial character
which it best befits him to assume—the foe of
liberal institutions—the conservator of all that is
odious, tyrannical, and inimical to human beings.
In a speech lately delivered to the Council of
Administration at Warsaw, assembled at Mod-
lin, he is reported to have employed the fol-
lowing characteristic, as well as portentous
expressions:—
" Gentlemen, you must persevere in your course, and
as to myself, as long as I live I will oppose a will of iron
to the progress of liberal opinions. The present genera-
tion 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. lam not unreasonable--I give
you a whole age, but you must work without relaxation."
Aye—a " will of iron," or of anything else
that thou pleasest ; but the triumph will not be
thine. Persevere thou mayest in thy course,
and labour thou mayest with " zeal and
earnestness" to resist the progress of liberal and
just opinions : thou mayest take a whole age
to work thy " will of iron" in this way ; but
what will it avail thee ? Canst thou stop the
progress of opinion ? Canst thou say to the
mind of man, hitherto shalt thou come and no
farther ? Worm as thou art—with thy days
numbered even as the days of other men, infe-
rior to many in all that naturally- gives the su-
periority to one man over another, and distin-
guished above them only by an accident of
birth which has proved a curse instead of a
blessing to thousands, what madness can induce
thee to imagine for a moment that thy will shall
triumph over the stronger will of thy fellow-
men ; that thou canst control the progress of
civilization and improvement, and make thy
fellow mortals stop short in their career of use-
fulness within the limit which it may seem fit to
thee to appoint ? Verily such a piece of
combined madness, insolence, and barefaced
impudence, as that which we have printed
above, it has not been our good or bad
fortune to meet with at any time since the
commencement, if we may be allowed the
expression, of our political career ; and of such
another piece, we are apt to think, we shall not
hear again. The autocrat is evidently fulfilling
the dictum of Quem Deus vult perdere Arius
dementat ; for he not only does not see the
necessity of moving onward with the spririt of
the age, but he is determined to oppose it with a
" will of iron," and for the very reason that
would determine any person, not wholly
bereft of prudence, to pursue a course diametri-
cally opposite ! " The present generation," says
he, " is lost"—that is, it is so thoroughly im-
bued with the spirit of justice to mankind, that
no rational hope can be entertained of divesting
it of that sublime character : but because "it is
lost,"—for such appears to be his mode of rea-
soning—he will endeavour to render that which
is to follow it its very reverse—to divest it of
all desire for the improvement and happiness of
the human species, and to imbue it so thoroughly
with the spirit of passive obedience to the
powers that he, that no one shall enjoy the shade
of a shadow of freedom but the despots to whom
a bad custom has given supreme power
over the rest of mankind ! It may .be
the labour of my whole life—says the
autocrat, but I wilt try to effect' it ; it may take
one hundred years, but I will accomplish it !
Hear this, ye Germans, who pant for freedom
which ye are fitted to enjoy, and which is denied
you—hear this, ye people of Italy, who are
groaning under the yoke of a foreign despot—
hear this, ye Poles, who have so often bled in
your country's cause ; and, above all, we pray
the Tories of England, the laudators of the Rus-
sian autocrat, to hear this, and to be more loud
and animated in their laudations ! Have they
nut a Chief worthy of them, and are they not
worthy of their Chief ?—Morning Advertiser.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Nov. 18

The Matters of the Petitions and Schedules of the Prison.
era hereinafter named (tbe same having been filed in the
Court), are appointed to be heard at the Court House,
in Portugal Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, this day,
the 20th of November, 1833, at Nine o'Clock in the
Forenoon.
Sneluc, John, late of Church Street, Tewkesbury, Glou-
cestershire, gardener.
Hennem, Thomas, late of Prospect Place, Kingsland, gin-
gerbread and biscuit baker, and omnibus proprietor.
De Witte, Gerard John, Stephen Street, Tottenham
Court Road, patent letter manufacturer.
Freethy, John, late of Baldavin's Gardens, Leather Lane,
Holborn, goldsmith and working jeweller.
Atkinson, Robert, late of Dean Street, Shadwell, black-
smith.
Davis, John, late of the Marquis of Wellington, High
Street, Shadwell, licensed victualler.
Ball, William Abel, late of Joiner Street, Westminster
Road, comedian.
Cole, William, late of Beaumont Square, Mile-end Road,
working gardener and dairyman.
Pierpoint, Thomas, late of Old Compton Street, Soho,
following no trade or business.
Flude, James, late of Addle Street, City of London, wine
and spirit merchant.
Kirkland, William, late of Lower Shadwell, coal-whipper.
TO-31011.R.0W, Nov. 21.—Same Hour and Place.
Davis, Thomas, master mariner, and owner of the smack
Merry Maid, sailing between London and Boulogne.
Clarke, William, late of Holywell Street, Millbank Row,
Westminster, short band writer and parli imentary re-
porter.
Ketstiog, Henry, late of Upper Rathbone Place, Oxford
Street, journeyman engrav:T.
Rowbotharn, Thomas Leeson Scrace, late of Catherine
Place, in the parish of St. Paul, near Bristol, drawing
master, painter, and artist.
Whitehead, George, late of Wardour Street, Soho, shop.
keeper and general dealer.
Spittle, George, late of Gloucester Place, Blackfriars Road,
dealer in horses on commission.
Giller, George, late of Church Lane, Limehouse, ropemaker.
Newman, Joseph, the younger, late of High Holborn,
shopman to an oilman and tobacconist.
Lawrence, John, late of Berwick Street, Soho, hairdresser.
Crick, Robert Henry, late of Rateliff Highway, cook and
biscuit baker and dealer in bread.
Webb, George, late of Seymour Street, Euston Square,
butter and dairyman.
On TUESDAY, Nov. 26.—Same Hour and Place.
Getvil, George, late of Little George Street, Bermondsey,
hat dyer.
Williams, William, late of Great St. Helens, Bishopergate
Street, boot and shoemaker.
Phillips, Richard, late of Cross Street, Walwortb, copper
and hairdresser.
M'Kean, Barnet, late of oilman Place, Bedford Row,
Holborn, clerk to an auctioneer.
Savage, John, late of Great Marylebone.street,
Boller, William, late of Brownlow-street, Drury .lane,
j
ou
business. neylli
William, l
n oaacthe s tonf Wych-street, Drury-lane, out of
i t
Elliot,
Young, William, late of Old Pye-street, Westminster,
carpenter, and licensed to sell beer by retail.
Bywacera, William, late of Carnaby-street, Carnaby-
market, journeyman bricklayer and plasterer, and
lodging-house-keeper.
Stacey, John, late of Connty.terrace•street, New Kent.
road, bricklayer.
Sweeny, William, late of Middlesex-place, Hackney-read,
tailor and draper, and an agent to the Atlas Assurance
Company.
Prichit, James, late of Grovefield, in the parish of
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, gentleman.

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, OR THE
ADVENTURES OF CHARLES MATHEWS, THE
COMEDIAN.

(From the Morning Chronicle.)
[An account of a most romantic adventure—and most
providential escape from what might have terminated in a
fearful accident—which happened a few days beck to Mr.
Mathews and his companion on Salisbury Plain. It is
communicated by himself in a familiar letter to a dear and
valued friend.l
"I am well, and have suffered nothing, and therefore
would never have related my adventure to you, but that
it may be erroneously reported from other quarters. As
my servant was absent, and the carriage obliged to be in
Salisbury on Monday, I was too glad to spend all Sunday
with my friends, Charles Young and his son the Rev.
Julian Young, in preference to remaining alone at Salis-
bury. Julian volunteered to drive me—the distance being
only twelve miles from his house—eigh'een from Andover
—beautiful day ; Charles Young accompanied us six miles
across the Plain. In the way they told me it was only a
bridle-road, but they knew every inch of it, and it was as
pleasant to travel over as a Macadamized one ; they de-
scribed the difficulties people met with in finding their
way off the Plain. Sir John Paulin had last year been lost,
and literally remained on horseback all night. About an
hour after Charles Young left us we came to very rough
ground, and I wis shaken once or twice enough to make
me cry, Oh! At last a collection of ,rute made it evident
that wheels, springs, and all were in danger. Julian
paused, and proclaimed the necessity of getting out to lead
the horses over ; requesting me to remain within. Oh
had I !—my impulse was not strong enough to make me
immediately decide ; but the Providence which watches
over all, and has hitherto protected me, was my guide,
and in a half minute, an agonizing exclamation of woe
was followed by my companion struggling with the horses,
and before I could scramble with my weak limbs to assist,
we saw the affrighted wild animals gal'eping at speed
away with the light vehicle over Salisbury Plain. It was
undulating ground, and from their ascending a steep bit,
they were totally lost to our view in a very short period
of time. I advised Julian to run as fast as possible, and
if he could keep them in view, he might, at all events, see
the result. He left me—he followed in the track, mounted
the bill, and then I lost sight of hint. I remained, I be-
lieve, but a few minutes, when I saw him returning wav-
ing his hat over his head. I concluded the carriage and
horses were found or stopped. No ! he had not seen them,
but all anxiety for me—came to say he knew one land-
mark on the hill, that if I could walk or crawl to that, he
should know hove to find me, but not where I was—that be
had ascertained we were within a mile and a halt of the
high road, and then but four miles from Salisbury. He
assured me if he could not find his carriage, he would go
or send for a chaise to fetch me, and left his coat in my
care that he rnieht run the lighter, and again departed on
the hopeless errand of overtaking two horses galloping at
the rate of twenty miles an hour. I shall not attempt to
describe my feelings when left a►one on this wild heath.
I call upon your imagination to assist me, " helpless, for-
gotten, sad, and lame." I lay on the bare ground after
praying on my knees to be rescued from my desolation,
and returning thanks for my miraculous preservation, for
had I remained in the carriage, Julian would have had the
additional horror of seeing me borne away by tl:e desperate
animals, for the pole was broken by the uneven road, and
his power of holding them entirely taken away by a blow
from the point of it on his breast, which compelled him
to quit his hold. My reflections on the nature of my losses,
and the possibility of repairing them—having the whole of
my luggage with me (money* and all packed within), &c.,
you must fancy. My bag had supported my legs, and wee
loose in the front of the vehicle—the portmanteau not se-
cure, as it was an entirely open carriage, without a head.
I was encumbered with toy heavy coat. I got on my
legs, and, without a stick (which was left in the four-
wheeler)--then exhausted sat—then 200 yards more, and
again rested. My gouty toe, after being what I thought
well, gave way (not that it is gout), and I crept on my
hands and knees to the furse on the bill, where I was
directed : altogether about half a mile, we suppose. There
I was seated, with a possibility of remaining all night.
The world before me, but no choice. Not a house, not
a human being to be seen—a wild waste immeasurable,
and a shower of snow to cheer my spirits. After reflect-
ing on the cold ground, I know not bow long, I saw at
about half a mile distance a man on horseback ; I waved
my hat, my handkerchief—he saw me not; I shouted,
he heard me not ; a human voice, however rough and
dissonant, would have been music to my ear. He seemed
to direct his course towards me—good God! 'tis Julian—
he brings me rescue from this comfortless bed. -Again. I
shouted, again I waved my silken signal—still though
there was no recognition, I thought it could be no other
than Julian—surely he must see tne if it is he; here I am
at his own appointed spot. 'Tis he—'tis he—alas! no.
He turns from me, and again I ant left, perhaps, to
perish, unheeded, perfectly helpless —no friendly voice
to cheer me—no human arm to lift me from the sod.

The only chance of help I had seen disappeared in the
dip of the hill in the old Roman road, whose various
fosses met my eye and impeded the viev of the road
which was nearer than I had dreamed of. In a short
time, the horseman to my almost wild delight re appeared
—;he movements of the form—the turn of the bead,
indicated an inquiring look—the rider was evidently in
search of an object—be was, a wretched one. My hopes
revived. " 'Tis an iron grey, I know the horse—it is

Julian—l waved my bat (I could nut get up) 'tis a coon-
tersi:rn—he sees me, he waves in response. My knees
o`ieyed, though my legs had refused their office, and I
returned loud thanks to God, for it was evident the horses
had been stopped..— Our meeting was curious. An
hys'eric affection appeared to make him laugh at the acci-
dent. In brief, for I have not room, I find, for minute
description, be told me that after the ponies running for
a mile and a half, they had encountered the stump of a
tree, about four feet high, which had impeded their
course—completely overturned the carriage, and, by a
sudden shock, broke the traces all to atoms, by which
they were disencumbered and released from their clatter-
ing followers, and all their responsibility ; and must
have remained instantly still, for there Julian found them
close by the remains of the phaeton. To the immortal
honour of the Gypsies, be it known, there was a camp
of them near the spot; they had assembled round the
wreck before Julian appeared ; they bad abundance
of time to have appropriated our scattered lug-
gage; the barn might have been popped into their
camp, and we should have c included that they had been
shaken out, and all search useless. They had not touched
an article—all was safe, even to three sticks and an
umbrella—nothing shaken out till the overturn. Is it not
marvellous? Hart not this stump and a foss within their
sight have impeded them, it would be useless to conjecture
whether they would have galloped five or twenty miles, or
whether they had been found at Southampton or Andover.
I mounted (with the assistance of a Gypsy, who oppor-
tunely appeared, and Julian on all fours—l treading on
his back) his bare backed pony, and without stirrups, of
course, when he led the animal ; and on foot did he pro-
tect me, forgetting all his cares and losses in his affec•
tionate anxiety. Thus, in misery of perspiring agony from
hip arid toe, did 1 accomplish three miles—do it I did,
but nature at last was exhausted, and I proclaimed my
inability to proceed. We were then two miles from
Salisbury, and I sat down by the road side. At this
moment a stage coach most opportunely presented itself—
we got on the top—a man from the roof descended to lead
the pony, and we arrived safe. Julian immediately took a
chaise, and at six o'clock returned with every article safe
—the dilapidated phaeton excepted : this had been fastened
with ropes and attached to the chaise. I gave my enter-
tainment that night in Salisbury ; and you may suppose
what were my balmy reminiscences of such events when I
laid my head on my pillow."

* Three hundred pounds in gold.

RAIL-ROAD FROM LONDON TO PARIS

In the Journal dcs Debuts, we find a very able
article, written by a native of France, resident in
London, upon the important advantages likely to
result from the formation of a rail-road between
London and Paris. In the estimate of the effects.
likely to arise from facilitating the communication
between the two countries, the writer chiefly takes
into consideration those that will be produced in
speedyi
places and
conveyance
affordedwill
derive
by from
ai - r the d
s ,
he France; and among the benefits which his country
upon the commercial education which it will be the
means of bestowing upon his countrymen. " If,"
rro
he observes, " there were a rail-road from London
to Paris, we Frenchmen, who scarcely know what
business is, would go to learn it in London, where
the spirit of business seems to be born with the
people. Our speculators would there see how great
undertakings are conducted simply and without
diplomacy. Our retail venders and purchasers
would learn from the English, that to buy and to
sell well it is not necessary to charge exorbitantly
and to haggle for lower prices. Our capitalists and
merchants would find that there is no durable com-
mercial prosperity, and no security for capital where

credit is not well founded; they would see the
operations of the Bank of England and its branches,
and, perhaps, they might be disposed to introduce
Into their own country similar institutions, which
are so advantageous both to the public and to the
proprietors. We should see there in what comfort
consists, so essential to the tranquillity of life, and
how it may be attained. As we are a people
abounding in self-love, we should return from Eng-
land ashamed of the condition of our agriculture,
of our modes of communication, of our schools of
elementary instruction, and we should endeavour to
equal our neighbours in these respects. The railway
from London to Paris would thus become an insti-
tution for public education. It would constitute a
commercial establishment of the first order, and it
would also become a political institution, and form
the elements of a close and indissoluble alliance be-
tween France and England."

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

525. a 545. 6d. ; middling 551.; good middling 56k !I:*
a 575. 6d. ; good 555. a 58s. 6d. Brown Denset_t7,
and Trinidad, 51s. a 549. ; middling 551. a 551. tia*.f. •
good middling 561. a 561. 6d.; good 575. 6d. flitsa
St. Lucia's 51s. a 535. ; middling 545. a 541. 6d. ;
middling 565. Barbadoes, middling whites 58s. a b!.,*.1
good 61s. a 625. ; and fine 635. a 645. A small Par:7
of Demerara Molasses was sold in the warehouse ag Fit
6d. Refined Sugars are without any alteration in Priri.
brown loaves 725. up to 82s. for fine. Candy 1°474
10i-d. Crashed Sugars are in limited supply, and sermil
very freely. Browns and yellows 531. a 591. ; mid
and good middling 60s. a 635. ; good and fine 64e. s "•
British Molasses dull at 225. 6d. a 235.
No Sales made in COFFEE, PIMENTO, or EAST .-11
RICE.

anaiel 16

Rum.—Nothing worthy of remark done;
over, 2s. '7d. a 2e. Sd., and Leewards 2s. for proofs.
DYEWOODS.-No bales made.
ASHES.-Dull of sale; Pots 231. 6d., and Pearls 25.•
Y. C. TALLow.—Selling in small parcels at 411.
On..—Whale Oil 181. ; Cod and Pale Seal lg r"
tun old measure.

.

$lOl7
COUNPRY CORN MARKETS DURING THEW...t, '
Wheat. Barley. I Oats. i.....—.....„..fnea."7-
to 14,,,•
Per Quarter. a. to a. a. to a. a. to a. 5. ,' p /.
Boston 45 52 24 32 16 22 33 att
Gainsborough ........... 57 34 18 ••••• 40 .
Grantham ....... ~ 48 50 20 34 20 26 35 Or '
Grimsby . 46 55 28 32 16 20 38 lg'
H0rnca5t1e.................. 44 54 26 34 14 20 36 41'
Lincoln ........—............. 44 52 28 35 16 22 38 4
Spilsby 46 50 26 30 16 20 40 •13 :'
Stamford 4O 51 32 35 16 26 32 # t
York 46 58 30 32 14 24 38.......ev
NORWICH. N0v.16.
otaa. 0°1".

NORWICH, Nov. 16.
294 Vi 4
Wheat (per qr.) 40s 525. 565. I Beans (per qr.) •
Barley 2os. 265. 365. Pease, Grey.............2941,01:r.
Oats 20s. 245. 265. Flour, fine (per sack) 4tiw
CANTERBURY, Nov. 16 • '•!4,••
Wheat, 575. to 635.
red 48s. to 64. —l, to •:;;;;.
Barley, Malting --. 2.65, to 325. Grinding.. CO ";;3,.
Oats we.•••••*.0r0vw.......0. 20i. to 255. 20s. to t
Beans 3ls to 355.....,. --s. to rid ,
Pease --...... 30s. to 365. 30s. to •.r-
MANCHESTER, Nov. 16. •
Wheat, per 70Ib. Bs. (Id. to Bs. 2d. Red ...... 7s. 91. to a' 4,9,
Barley, per 601 b 5 0 5 6 Oats - 3 2
Beans, per Imperial quart( r • 36 0 39 I, ti
Pease, White, per Imperial bushel 5 0 o,:g'
Malt, per 6 Imperial bushels 3B 0 49 .O
- 464, ••

Floui:per, Sack of 2801 b

~..• 40 0

IRISH 111)
DUBLIN MARKET NO'

RKET
[7k—Fai

From
1,550 Wheat, per barrel 20 stone 18 0
215 Bele l6 stone 12 3
323 16 stone 12 0
1,275 Oats 12 stone 8 0
15,588 Cwt. Flour 9 stone 5 0
922 Oatmeal 8 stone 9 t)
Sold to Rakers only.
12,003 Cwt. Flout -
Average price of Wheat am
Receipts of Flour, 16,142 Firsts,
Sales of Do. 15,588 Second Thirds,
PRICE OF
I

AY' Nov. L
To
30 0
12 0
13 0
12 6
20 0
12 0

.1 13 6
id Flour

20 0 1
4d. per
17e. yid.
I 13s. 6d.

18, ~mho ll'
vow... frl
BREAD.
Half Quar

56. Od.

p.
Lver,;l'
11 24',1
s
10 ,),„
9
11
is
acx. 64.
to
to 1...g0
to 100-

!uartern Loaf,

s4d'i.i

CORK MA RKFTS.—Nov. 16.
Wheat (per 20st.)
Barley (per I6st.)
Oats (per 14st.)
Flour (per cwt.) 5 0 18 0 •
Oatmeal (per cwt.) 0 0 10 0
Beef, sd. to 6d. ; Mutton, sd. to 6d. ; Veal, 6d. to Bd.l
York, 2d. to 2/d. ; Fresh Butter, lid. to 12d. per lb.
,-.
PRICE OF BUTTER. ...4`
To the Merchants. To the Conn.". •

First Quality
Second
Third
Fourth
Fifth
Sixth

745. 6446
70 6O
60 5O
50 4O
40 SO' ' )
30 2O

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