The Sun.
London, England, 1834-01-09 00:00:00

GERMAN PAPERS.

VIENNA, DEC. 28.—Among the plenipotentiaries who
Lave arrived here this week to attend the Congress, are
Baron Ompteda, on the part of Hanover, Count Re-
ventlow, from Denmark, and M. de Minkwitz, from
Saxony. The statue of Hofer, the Tell of the Tyrol,
executed by Schaller, has been sent off to Innspruck,where
it is to be erected.
A commercial letter from Constantinople, via Bu-
charest, dated the 2d ult., sass that the Porte has at
length consented to allow the Greek Ambassador, Zogra-
phos, to come to Constantinople in a Greek ship of war,
and that his arrival was in consequence daily expected.
TURICEY.-Selim Bey, the well known reneged° Selves,
Las deserted with two of his brothers, and has put himself
under the protection of the Sultan. Two other officers
have done the same. The Commander-General of Ar-
tillery, Ali Bey, died lately in Syria, it is suspected by
foul means. The Egyptian officers openly express their
dissatisfaction. Affairs are no better in the naval forces.
Owing to the increase of desertion a decree has been
issued, that every officer in whose company a man is
missing, must instantly supply another, and pay also a
fine of 1,500 piastres. Wretchedness prevails among the
people, and Mehemet Ali has been forced to give up his
monopoly of silk and tobacco for the present. The Nile,
too, does not rise this year, and we are threatened with
the panic in 1834.
COBLENTZ —The storm which visited us on the night,
oaf the 31st of December did much damige to the shipping
at anchor in the Moselle. The waves of the river rose
three or four feet high. Two vessels were torn from
the r anchorage and sunk, with their cargoes. The
manufactory of Messrs. Rhodins, near Andernach, was
burnt down on the same night ; the loss is estimated at
twenty-five thousand dollars, but the property was in-
sured. Preparations were makirg at Darmstadt to
receive the hereditary Prince and Princess, who were to
make their entry on the 6th.—Allgenteine Zeitung,
Jan. 3.

MUNICH, Dre. 28.—His Excellency Baron Von Geise
Minister for Foreign Affairs, will set out to-morrow to
the Ministerial Congress at Vienna. He will be accom-
panied by Counsellor Von Fink, his Majesty's Chamber-
lain Count Von Waldkircb, and the Secretary M. Gesele.
A despatch from the merchants of Kitzingen has ar-
rived here to day, to thank bis Majesty for concluding the
new commercial treaty with several German States.—
Frankfort Papers, Jan. 3.

BRAZIL PAPERS.

(From the Correio Official.)

RIO DE JANEIRO, NOV. 14.—An official circular, from
the Minister of\ Justice to the Justices of Peace of the
several districts, states that the Regency has been informed
that negroes have been landed in spite of the abolition of
the scandalous traffic in slaves, which fret, if not known
to the justices, shows a great degree of negligence in the
performance of their duties ; the Chamber therefore orders
that the strictest search shall be made for the said negroes
so imported, and that the utmost rigour of the law shall
be exercised towards the importers and those who harbour
and keep the said negroes, and thus concur with the
authors of a crime the punishment of which is called for
by humanity and policy.
The Correio, to Nov. 95, contains no political news of
rn por tance.

Within the last few days the waters of the
Seine have penetrated into several parts of the catacombs,
and more particularly those under the hotel of the
Minister of War. On Saturday, however, the river began
to fall.—Paris Paper.

CROMWELL.—The person and disposition
of this great man are well describtd in a letter written by
Blaidstone, the steward of his household, about a year and
a half after his master's decease. " His body was well
compact and strong, his stature under nix feet, I believe,
about two inches, his bead so shaped as you might see in
it a storehouse and shop, both of a vast treasury of natural
parts. The temper exceeding fiery, as I have known ;
hut the flame of it kept down for the most part, or soon
allayed with those moral endowments he had. He was
naturally compassionate towards objects in distress, even
to an effeminate measure, though God bad made him a
heart wherein was left little for any fear but was due to
God himself, of which there was a large proportion. A
larger soul than his was, I think, has seldom dwelt in a
house of clay. I do believe, if his life were impartially
transmitted, and the unprejudiced world possessed with it,
she would add him to her nine worthies, and make up the
decemviri."

GREAT LANDLORDS.—The arrival of the
Duke of Devonshire at Paris reminds me of a story which
is told of him, and which I have every reason to believe
is literally correct. On one occasion, when riding out
with his steward, be proceeded for some two or three
miles through a well wooded and well cultivated range of
country. On arriving at a break in the scenery, he pulled
up his horse, and remarked to his steward bow fine an
estate that was which he had just been contemplating,
and how desirable it would be to possess it. " To whom does
your Grace think it belongs?" was the reply of the steward.
I really do not know; I was asking you." "To his
grace the Duke of Devonshire," rejoined the steward, and
there the conversation terminated. This is a specimen
of what happens every day. On this estate, which the
Duke of Devonshire had been contemplating, perhaps
bitty families were employed in the cultivation, earning
barely sufficient to keep body and soul together. But if
this estate had been divided into small properties and bad
been cultivated as it;should be by those who bad an interest
in the land, why not less than one thousand families
would have been fel and clothed in abundance, nay, even
with profusion, and would have been joyous and happy.--
Letter of 0. P. Q•
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THE HEDGEHOG.—Professor Buckland of
the University of Oxford, " accidentally came to the
knowledge of certain circumstances which led him to
suspect that hedgehogs preyed, occasionally at least, on
snakes. In order to be satisfied of the truth of his con•
jecture, he placed the common-ringed snake (coluber
natris) and a hedgehog in a box together. The latter bad
been bred in an undomesticated state for some time in the
Botanical Garden at Oxford, where there was no proba-
bility of its having been able to see snakes. At first the
hedgehog, being rolled up, did not see the snake, when
the Professor laid the former on the body of the letter,
and in such a way as that the snake was in contract with
that part of the ball where the head and tail met. As
soon as the snake began to move the hedgehog started and,
opening himself up, gave the snake a vigorous bite, and
instantly resumed his rolled state. It speedily repeated
the bite, and followed it up at the same interval as before
with a third bite, by which the back of the snake was
broken. The hedgehog then standing by the snake's side
took up and passed through its jaws the whole body of
the snake, cracking the bones audibly at every inch. This
preparatory process being completed, the hedgehog com-
menced eating the serpent, beginning at the tip of the
tail, and proceeding without interruption, though slowly,
consumed it, just as one eats a radish, until about half
the victim disappeared. The hedgehog could not go
farther from mere repletion ; but it finished the rest of
the serpent on the following evening."--Notes to Hender-
son's Cuvier.

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LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 9, 1834.

By the arrival of the Pike from Lisbon, we
have received letters and papers to the 29th ult
They contain very little news of interest. The
only military operation on the part of the Con-
stitutionalists, since the date of the preceding
accounts, has been the destruction of three of
the windmills from which the army at Santarem
was supplied with flour. This advantage, how-
ever, is of no great importance, as a great number
of hand mills have been set up in Santarem, for
the supply of the army. General SA LDANHA has
been offered a place in the Pedroite Ministry,
which he has wisely refused. In a letter to a
friend he says :—‘, I know nothing of the in-
trigues of Cabinets or of the ambition of party ;

I have been called into action by a sense of
duty to the Constitution ; and if, as a soldier.
I can advance that cause, I will do so ; but I
will have nothing to do with any Ministry."

General SALDANHA has taken the proper
course, for, independently of his beingof too open
and frank a character for the chicanery of a Por-
tuguese Cabinet, his talents are entirely of a
military order. Soldiers mistake their forte
when they think they can direct legislation, and
control civil bodies. There are few instances of
good soldiers having made wise Ministers. It
would have been well for WELLINGTON if he
had acted with the discretion of SALDANHA.

We are sorry to hear that the misun-
derstanding between our gallant countryman,
Admiral NAPIER, and the Portuguese Mi-
nistry has not been accommodated, and that
on the contrary, the Admiral makes no secret of
his intention to quit the service as soon as se-
curity shall be offered him for his prize-money.
The Admiral, who of all men in the world
would be the most difficult perhaps to reconcile
to the Portuguese way of doing business, viz.,
putting off every thing to the morrow, com-
plains that he can get nothing done expeditiously
or well, and that the interests of the fleet are
wilfully neglected. Similar complaints have
been made by every British officer of rank who
has entered into the Portuguese service. Colonel
HODGES quitted the service because the men
under his command were neglected by the Mi-
nistry ; and every officer who values the comfort
and health of his men has made remonstrances
against the neglect and indifference of the Mi-
nistry to these subjects.
The Lisbon official Paper, the Chronica,
contains a kind of manifesto, which is intended
to appear as an amnesty, inviting the Miguelites
to join the Constitutionalists. It is not, how-
ever, of that general character which would
make success in the attempt probable. Nothing
short of an unconditional amnesty, signed by
the REGENT, which the article in question is
not, will produce •the slightest effect. Even in
that case we doubt, after the declaration of the
Miguelite chiefs to Colonel HARE, that they
would never treat with the present Ministry of
Don PEDRO, whether any amnesty, however
extensive, would detach the partisans of MIGUEL
from his side, unless preceded by a change of
Government.
General MACDONALD has resigned the com-
mand of, the Miguelite army, which has been
taken by General POVOAS.

The Paris Papers of Tuesday arrived this
morning. They contain no news of interest
from Spain. The debate on the address, in the
Chamber of Deputies, has concluded. Most
of the amendments, although not of a kind
materially to affect the original address, were
rejected. The-speeches of M. MAUGUIN, and
other opposition Deputies, which were expected
to be very violent, were, on the contrary, re-

markable for their moderation. This WA; per-
haps, the resii% 1
of a uetermination to defeat the
pla7. Which had been laid by the Ministers to
entrap the opposition into a declaration of sen-
timents Which would offend and alarm the mo-
derate party in and out of the Chamber. If so,
M. MAUGUIN and his friends have acted moEt
prudently. Their influence in the Chamber
must be, in a great degree, regulated by the
skill with which they oppose the doctrines of
the juste milieu party without giving encourage-
ment to the party called the Young Republicans,
for it cannot be concealed that republicanism is
not a favourite principle in France among per-
sons of property, and particularly in the com-
mercial interest. There are thousands even of
those who detest the juste milieu, who would
shudder at a prospect of pnre republicanism.
The Ministry know this, and therefore are con-
tinually goading the opposition into the avowal
of sentiments which would create alarm in the
moderate party. Hitherto they have succeeded
in their efforts, for the members of the cote
gauche in the Chamber of Deputies have been
more remarkable for patriotism than prudence.
With a greater regard for moderation, and with
more consideration for the prejudices of the
timid than they have yet displayed, they will
become formidable to the Government.

Brussels, German, and Brazilian papers have
arrived this morning. Extracts from them will
be found in another column. There is nothing,
however, very important in them.

As the Session of Parliament approaches,
curiosity is on the wing to know what measures
the Ministry will bring forward. We are not in
the secret, but -we may make some conjectures,
and offer some suggestions.
We presLlme a Bill will be again brought for-
ward for a commutation of tithes. We think
and hope such a Bill will be passed before the
temporal property of the Church is meddled
with in other respects. We wish a similar course
had been followed with regard to Ireland.

We believe the CHANCELLOR of the Ex-
CHEQUER will be obliged to repeal both the
house and window duties. It is rumoured his
intention is to repeal the former, but to retain
the latter. We think of the two the house tax
is the best, if it were fairly levied, because the
house which a man occupies is in proportion to
his ability to pay taxes, but the house tax is un-
fairly levied, and a proper rate cannot be esta-
blished without a new survey in every parish,
the amount of the expense of which must be
added to the tax for the year in which it is
made, and, therefore, perhaps, on this ac-
count, the best course is to repeal it. The
window duty we consider a tax upon health,
for air anti light in dwellings are necessary to
health, which the window-tax tends to exclude,
and is felt most severely in old houses. There
is an objection upon principle to these taxes,
which the trumpery resisters to the payment of
them are ignorant of. They were imposed as a
commutation for the tax on tea, which was re-
pealed in Mr. PITT'S time, because its amount
led to smuggling and adulteration, which could
not be repressed. The tea tax, therefore,
should never have been renewed, but it is nearly
double what it was in Mr- PITT'S time ; and
now that the trade with China is thrown
open, adulteration, if not smuggling also,
cannot fail to take place to an extent which will
again compel a repeal of the tax on tea, unless
the duty be greatly reduced.
But how are these taxes to be supplied ?
There is a limit to reduction of expenditure, and
the country will not submit to, indeed cannot
bear, additional taxes, But there is no limit to
increase of revenue through well apportioned du-
ties of customs, which will always increase with
the increase of the numbers, and of the means
of the population. The revenue from cus-
toms is to be augmented not from increasing
the amount of the duties, but by diminishing
them. They were all excessive in 1811, when
money began to rise in exchangeable value from
the defalcation in the supply of gold and silver
from the South American mines, and they are
still more disproportioned i❑ amount to the
price of the articles upon which they are levied
now. They should be lowered so as to bear a
reasonable proportion to the price of articles
imported, for as the aggregate of mercantile
income increases by small profits upon a great
number of articles sold, so the public revenue is
to be increased by small duties upon a great
number of articles imported. For this purpose,
returns should be ordered from the Custom-
house of the declared value of every article
imported in 1810, with the amount of the
duties then levied, anti a similar return of the
articles imported at the present time, with their
declared values, whereby it will appear what is
the amount of the duty now levied compared to
the present price of the article, contrasted with
the duty levied in 1810 compared to the price
at that period, and a foundation will thus be
laid for constructing a well apportioned table of
duties of Customs. A Bill was passed last
-session, brought in by the Vice President of the
Board of Trade, consolidating the duties of
Customs, as it appears to us, to little purpose,
because these duties were consolidated so late as
1825, but infinite good may be done by a Bill
for remodelling these duties ; such a Bill is
necessary if we mean to render India what it
ought to be under the freedom of trade and
communication now opened with it and China,
and it receives importance nearer home from the
demonstrations made by Prussia to secure to
her manufacturers the markets of Germany.
But the main object is to promote home in-
dustry by promoting importation, because, for
every article imported, some article of home
industry must be exported.

We understand the CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER has it in intention again to
attempt to compel country bankers to give
security for their issues. We know he will be
a; completely discomfited again, as he was last
session, but we shall not be sorry if he makes
the attempt, because it will enable us to show

the mischiefs he has done, by enabling the
Directors of the Bank of England to raise and
depress prices at pleasure for ten years to come,
as they have done for nearly half a century past,
by the abuse of their exclusive privilege of
issue.

We make no doubt we shall have a continu-
ance of law reforms, to which we do not object,
but we beg leave to press upon the promoters
of these reforms, this consideration, namely,
that not one in a thousand in this country goes
to law, and the nine hundred and ninety-nine
are distressed, and require relief.
Notwithstanding the Report of the Agricultural
Committee of last session, we believe the Govern-
ment will be obliged to yield to the general feeling,
and bring in a Bill to repeal the present corn
law, which has destroyed agricultural capital
and industry, and restore the operation of the
laws that prevailed for forty years previous to
1815, by which both were improved. Though
this committee states that the heavy clay (wheat
and bean) land has gone and is going out of
cultivation, that farmers have lost their capital,
and continue to hold their farms only by
scourging and exhausting the soil, and that a
diminished supply of horne-grown corn, with an
increasing demand, has rendered the nation
annually dependent for a portion of the supply
on importations from abroad ; yet, in conclusion,
it avows its opinion that hopes of amelioration
in the condition of the landed interest rest rather
on the cautious forbearance, than on the active
interference, of Parliament. The remark with
which it sets out is just, namely, that although
it is in the power of the Legislature to do much
evil, yet it can do little positive good, by fre-
quent interference with agricultural industry.
This was an unanswerable reason why it should
not have interfered in 1815, again in 1822, and
again in 1828 ; but having iaterfered in these
years to do evil, it must now interfere to do
good by removing the cause of the evil it has
done, otherwise our landed proprietors will, ere
long, be without rent, and we shall be rendered
still more dependant upon foreign countries for
a supply of corn.
We look with no small degree of impatience
for the Report of the Poor Law Commissioners,
which has been too long delayed. We are sa-
tisfied that by refusing relief to able bodied
labourers, putting an end to the payment of
labour out of the rate, and abolishing the dis-
tinction between married and unmarried labourers,
the evils of the poor laws may be more easily
removed than is generally imagined, but labour
and cultivation are so intimately connected that
these things cannot be done, until the cultiva-
tion of the soil be restored to agricultural la-
bourers as they enjoyed it previous to the year
1815. We are unwilling, however, to antici-
pate the Reports of the Poor Law Commis-
sioners, which, we trust, will be forthcoming
soon after the commencement of the Session of
Parliament, which we also hear will not be allowed
to separate before a well considered measure
shall receive effect, founded upon this report.
We have much to say with regard to Ireland,
but we must postpone what we have to bring
forward on this head to another opportunity.

We beg to call the attention of our readers
to a message from the President of the American
Republic to the Senate, in refusing to lay
before them a paper he had read to the heads of
the departments relative to the Bank. Its some-
what cavalier tone may serve to reconcile some
of the few who in England are foolish enough
to refer to mere forms as a test of the degree of
responsibility of the governing power to - the
people. England, surrounded by powerful rival
States, is clearly not in a situation to have its
chief magistracy elective ; but, supposing that
it were, the few who desire such a form of go-
vernment to be established in this country
would not, we imagine, be very well satis-
fied with so haughty an answer being
returned to the representatives of the people.
In our own case the difficulty would have been
overcome with much less violence. In the event
of the House of Commons calling for a docu-
ment improperly, the Ministers resist its pro-
duction, and if the representatives of the people
persevere so far as to pass a vote insisting upon
having the document, they take it as a hint that
they must resign. They do resign, and some
other administration, that has the confidence of
the representatives of the people, immediately
succeeds to their power, and everything proceeds
smoothly. We hardly imagine that the Presi_
dent of the United States, and the Senate can
be upon the most cordial terms during the
remainder of his administration.

If the extracts we have had from the report of
the Poor Law Commissioup had not esta-
blished the necessity of a large modification of
the Poor Laws, the police reports every day
furnish evidence of the fact. Take, for instance,
the following example of the effects of legal
charity as at present administered :
<, Sarah Corney, a rawboned Irishwoman, with an
infant, was charged with having conducted herself in a
disorderly manner in the palish workhouse of St. George,
Hanover-square, and with having demolished about nine
squares of glass.
46 Mr. Randford, the master, said, the prisoner arid
her infant were supported in the parish workhouse, and
the woman herself had for a number of years received
parish bounty. She was one of the most violent, vicious,
and drunken women in the house, and he had found
it necessary, on more than one occasion, to have
her brought before the Bench on account of her
conduct. On Tuesday last she had been brought
to the office for disorderly conduct. She had gone
out the day previous and got drunk, as was her custom,
and, in consequence of her drunken habits, it had
been determined by the Ward, that she should not
have the liberty of the gate, that is, she should not go out
in turn because the only use made of the privilege was to
get drunk. In consequence of this determination she
became very violent, and when brought before the Bench,
the Magistrates recommended that she should be received
again into the house, but not allowed to go out. When
she got back to the workhouse, she demanded her dinner
and a pint of beer, which not being immediately brought
her, she seized a pint pot, and smashed windows to the
value of 3/. She fought and resisted until overpowered
by numbers.
" In defence, the woman said she admitted breaking the
windows. She asked for her dinner and beer, but she did
not get it. The overseers, she considered, promoted bad
conduct among the paupers by not giving them as much
' wittels!' as they could eat.
" Mr. DYER sentenced her to six weeks' imprison-
ment."
A pretty state of law that must be which

gives a drunken wretch like SARAH CORNEY
an idea that, without any reference to desert, she
is entitled to draw for her luxurious subsistence
unlimitedly from the pockets of her industrious
neighbours.

We have received letters from Oporto, dated
the 30th ult. They state that no movement had
taken place on the part of the Miguelites since
the 22d, when a party of cavalry approached the
city, but retired after a slight reconnoissance. A
great number of Spanish Carlists had arrived at
Villa Real, where they were being armed by a
Miguelite General.

A gentleman, who has just returned from
Egypt, states, that in an interview which he had
with the PACHA, the conversation turned on
the preparations making by Russia in the ports
of the Black Sea, in the course of which the
PACHA stated that- the British and French
Governments had been grossly deceived by the
representations of Russia on that subject. The
PACHA declared that he had undoubted proofs
of the views of Russia, and that the only course
for the British and French Governments was to
send a fleet to the Dardanelles. " Should this,
contrary to expectation, lead to hostilities on the
part of Russia," said the PACHA, " I am ready
to assist Great Britain with 100,000 troops, in
as fine a state of discipline and as fit for fighting
as any in Europe." We have reason to believe
that a communication of this important interview
has been made to our Ministry, although it was
probably unnecessary, as Lord PALMERSTON
must have been previously aware of the senti-
ments of the PACHA through the reports of his
official agents in Egypt. Such an offer of alliance
is not to be despised, and it is the more valuable
considering that very recently we had in a blind
courtesy to Russia arrested the progress of the
Egyptian arms, and opened the way to the
increased influence of Russia over the resources
of the SULTAN.

The British residents of Hamburg have
addressed a memorial to Lord PALMERSTON,
which will be found in another column. They
complain, and apparently with great reason,
of the neglect of the British Government, by
which they have been exposed to various exac-
tions and annoyances, and particularly to
being treated as aliens by the Government of
Hamburg, at the same time that they are com-
pelled to perform military services from which
they were formerly exempt. Lord PA LAI ERSTON
will, we are sure, instantly apply for the redress
of these grievances.

Those who desire to see a fine sample of cant,
will do well to peruse a report of a meeting
which took place at the Liverpool Exchange
Rooms on Saturday last, and which will be
found in another part of The Sun. A gentle-
man named EDEN, horror-struck at the idea of
the good folks of Liverpool becoming too en-
lightened, proposed that the proprietors should
take an opportunity of showing their attachment
to Christian principle by keeping the news-room
shut the whole of Sunday. Mr. EDEN must
entertain strange notions of Christian principle ;
he must be clearly of opinion that Christianity
is a something at utter variance with common
sense, or he would scarcely bring forward a
proposal which has for its immediate and ine-
vitable object, by closing the avenues to rational
entertainment, to throw open still wider those to
dissipation and all sorts of profligacy. Close
the Liverpool news-rooms, and you fill the
Liverpool public-houses. This, we suppose, is
what Mr. EDEN calls inculcating a Christian
principle. And so it is—after a fashion !
Cant like this is really intolerable. It is An-
drew-Agnewish to a degree bordering on the
superlative. If it be unchristian to store one's
mind with rational and useful information on the
Sabbath, thereby helping to render one's self a
better man and a better citizen, pray what is it
to show off in gaudy carriages on the highway,
or in dandy yachts on the river,—to cultivate
dyspepsia in this pot-house, and cherish all the
systems of apoplexy in that ? Is this setting a
discreet example to one's equals or inferiors ? Is
this the sort of doctrine that was taught us by the
propriety, moderation, and utter freedom from
intolerance that our SAVIOUR'S life evinced ?
Shame on such sickly fanaticism!
It is seldom that we find cant perfectly free
from selfishness. It has a trick of sticking to
number one, with the same tenacity with which
an oyster sticks to his bed. Thus we find that
Mr. EDEN—worthy, as he is, from his extremely
costive virtue, to inhabit that paradisaical garden
which bears his name—though he may be disin-
terested in the present instance, has not always
evinced the same miraculous disinterestedness.
What said Mr. EARLE on this subject ?
What was the consequence of stopping the
sailing of the boat on the Leeds and Liverpool
Canal on a Sunday, by which passengers were
conveyed into the country ? Why, that six or
eight omnibuses immediately started ; and the
proprietors of the canal, of whom, lie believed,
Mr. EDEN was one, then consented to let their
boat ply as usual.—(Applause.) In doing this,
they never dreamt of profit.—(A laugh.)"
This is a rich anecdote, and proves to our
satisfaction that though saints may talk of
closing their eyes to all wordly motives,
they generally contrive to squint pretty signifi-
cantly at their own interests. Some cant from
a lust for notoriety, some for their own personal
aggrandisement, and some from sheer imbecility
of mind ; but show us the man of strong intellect
and sterling integrity who affects the puritan
from a pure moral conviction of the wisdom and
necessity of the course he is pursuing, and we
will —But it is useless to pursue this question
further. It is an absurdity, and involves a con-
tradiction in terms.

From time immemorial the members of the
Council of the Order of Advocates have gone to pay their
respects on the new year to the Chief President of the
Royal Court, the Presidents of the Chambers, and the
Procureur-General, but in consequence of a resolution come
to by the Chamber of the Council, they have this year
abstained from this mark of respect.--French Pape".

INSOLVENTS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

(Before the CHIEF COMMISSIONER.)

Jane .Dalson, a lady of rather corpulent appearance,
and the proprietress of two ham and beef shops in Ken-
nington-lane and the Wandsworth Road, applied by het
petition to be diicharged,

The insolVent teas opposed by a person named Holds-
worth, a butcher, to whom she was indebted 71. 18.
Mr. Harben, a solicitor, stated that he had made re-
peated applications to the insolvent on behalf of Mr.
Holdsworth, for the payment of the debt, both in person
and by letter, of which she took no notice: She was
threatened with proceedings, but that threat was as
little heeded as the applications which bad been made
for payment; subsequently, however, upon process
being issued, Mr. Dollinan appeared for the insol-
vent; the action was tried ; great difficulty attended
the proving the delivery of meat to the insolvent, but
talimately a verdict was obtained for 5/. 17s. Mr.
Holdsworth, previous to the trial, offered to take the debt
without the costP, which had at that period been taxed at
upwards of 201., but the insolvent refused to agree to the
adnption of such a course, and upon the attorney Writing
to her to inform her of the offer, she expressed her
surprise that he should put her to so unnecessary an
expense, and desired her solicitor to leave her to her fate.
The CHIEF COMMISSIONER inquired of the insolvent
why she had not paid the debt.
The Insolvent—lt is not my debt, it belongs to nay
daughter; she incurred it, and I will not pay it.
The CHIEF COMMISSIONER—I see you owe but about
30/. in the world, which it is evident you will not pay
through perverseness, as the profits of your business are
stated in your schedule to be about 150/. a year. I shall
dismiss your petition.

The Insolvent left the Court expressing her indignation
at baying received no benefit for two months'imprisonment.

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