The Sun.
London, England, 1833-03-12 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Lord Althorp brought in, last night, the Bill
to alter and amend the laws relating to the tem-
poralities of the Church of Ireland, which was
read a first time. On his Lordship announcing
that the Bill would be printed and in the hands
of Members this day, and that, as the prin-
ciple of the Bill would not require long consi-
deration, he saw no reason why the second
reading should not be fixed for Wednesday, a
violent clamour arose among the Conservatives,
against the alleged indecent haste with which he
was pressing the measure. We perceive that the
Conservatives are preparing for a vigorous fight.
Mr. Sergeant Lefroy contended that more time
ought to be allowed for the consideration of the
principle of a Bill which involved the very ex-
istence of the Established Church of Ireland ;
and Colonel Conolly, improving upon Mr.
Sergeant Lefroy, contended that not only the
welfare, but the very existence of the Church,
and of the Monarchy itself, was involved in the
principle of the Bill. Lord Althorp offered to
compromise matters, by fixing the second read-
ing for Thursday ; but this delay would not
appease his opponents. It is quite clear, that
if some measures of a remedial and conciliatory
character do not proceed part passe with the
Coercive Bill, the latter may produce some very
unpleasant effects. It is, therefore, of the very
utmost importance that the Bill regarding the
Church shall pass into a law with as little delay
as possible. The Conservatives, on the other
band wish to push the Coercive Bill, and to
delay the other as much as possible. By aiding
Ministers with the Coercion Bill, and prevent-
ing the passing of other measures, they think they
will be able to put Ministers in what is familiarly
termed a cleft stick. However the instinct of
the majority will save them from vacillation at a
crisis like the present. On a division the motion
was carried by a majority of 187 to 46, so that
the second reading will take place on Thursday.
We honestly confess that we are not displeased
at seeing the Tories appear in their old factious
character. Nothing injured Ministers so much
as the aid of the Conservatives. It is almost
impossible to avoid having a suspicion that there
must he something wrong in any policy which
is so heartily approved of by men who entertain
so cordial a hatred of all improvement, and who
cling so pertinaciously to all abuses. Ministers,
however, by their promptitude in fixing on
Thursday for the second reading of the
Bill for the Reform of tile Irish Church,
have put the sincerity of Sir Robert Peet's
desires for the pacification of Ireland to
the test. They should yield not a jot on
this point to the Conservatives. The cloven
foot was sufficiently visible last night, and we
can easily foresee that tile Conservatives will
fight a. stoutly for every impurity in the Irish
Church as they did for schedules A and B.
Old Sarum was not of more vital importance to
the Constitution than the retention of every one
of the sinecure bishoprics of the sinecure
Church of Ireland. However, by persevering.
it) their course of improvement—by probing the
wounds of Ireland —by freeing corporation,
from the abuses which have placed them
hostility to the nation, they will receive a support
which will mote than compensate for the hosti-
lity of the Conservatives. To divide against
Sir Robert Peel is to preserve their own family
from disunion. There may he differences of
opinion among the best-intentioned with regard
to the extent of remedial measures, and the
period for urging them ; but when an enemy
at the gates, opposed to all impioveinent, these
differences will be forgotten. The Conserva-
tives, on their way home last night (for a nu.nber
of them instantly left the House in dudgeon after
the division) were loud in their invectives against
Ministers. We defy them.—Morning G'hron•
At a time when civil justice in Ireland is
about to surrender her scales and sword into the

hands of military power, it may seem like 3
mockery to talk of a projected Reform of the
Irish Jury system ; nevertheless, as the question
has been brought under the notice of Parlia-
ment by the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
concurrently with the Bill for establishing mili-
tary tribunals, it may he worth while to say a
few words on the subject. If the scarlet coat
of armed authority is ever again to be displaced
by the judicial ermine, it will be of great

portance to the future peace and welfare of Ire-
land, that the machinery of the Constitutional
Courts should be so far improved as to inspire
the people with greater confidence than they ever
yet have had in the pure and impartial adminis-
tration of justice. It is difficult to treat of any
question touching the Reform of civil institu-
tions in Ireland without entangling it with poli-
tical considerations. In that country, for cen-
turies past, the administration of justice has
been made but too subservient to party feelings
and political purposes, to allow even the Jury
system to be discussed on its own merits, free
from the disturbing influence of party excite-
ment or the taint of political prejudice. Yet
next to giving the people of Ireland regular
employment, or a well contrived system of
poor laws, is the necessity of so remodelling
the institutions of justice, that the abuses
which have prevailed ever since the Eng-
lish laws were introduced into that country,
met., not continue to be among those grievances
which make a " repeal " of the Union popular.
In the recent charge of Baron Smith to the
Grand Jury at the Assizes of Louth he highly
eulogised the sound judgment and discretion
with which the Sheriff for the time being always
exercises his power in constituting the paunch
from which the petty juries for the trial of cri-
minal cases are selected. He praised the system
itself in all its parts. It is a system, however,
which although standing high in the estimation
of Irish judges, and lauded by law officers of
the Crown as one of the best of all possible con-
trivances, is certainly not the jury system of the
British Constitution. We would separate this
subject from politics altogether—and, looking at
the construction of juries as merely part and
parcel of the judicial system, we ask on what
urinciples of fair dealing or impartiality is it
that the Crown exercises the power in Ire-
land of setting aside jurors almost without
limitation as to number, while in capital felony,
where the life of the prisoner is at stake,
he can peremptorily challenge no more than
twenty? Such a practice, which is in contra-
vention of all notions of equal justice, as well as
a violation of the principles of British law, of
itself sufficient proof of the imperfection of the
jury system in Ireland. It would not be dif-
ficult, we think, in any case of tteason or felony,
where the Crown was anxious for a conviction,

to wield this power of making all jurymen " stand
by" who might not be thought subservient
enough, in such a way as to secure, from a
panne! of two or three hundred names, twelve
Caen more ready to do the sanguinary work of
a bad Government than to observe the sanctity
of their oaths, or respect the lives or liberties
of their fellow-citizens. Let us only imagine
such a monstrous power claimed by the Crown
in England, as that which in one instance stated
by Mr. O'Connell, set aside 132 jurors without
showing cause, and would it not be received as
an attempt to reduce the people of England to
the lowest state of civil bondage and debase-
ment ? If the Union is to be realised, such
degrading distinctions must cease to exist.—
Morning Herald.

We insert a letter indicative of considerable
dissatisfaction among military men at the recent
appointment of a " very young" Major-General
to the 97th Regiment, in whose favour it appears
that several distinguished officers (a list of 15 is
given, and many others, we believe, might be
added) were passed over by the Commander-in-
Chief. Now, when we state that Sir Henty
Hardinge has been the fortunate officer on this
occasion, few will suppose that we have any
design to underrate or disparage his pretensions.
Sir Henry is reputed among those who know
him to be as brave. A soldier as ever fought, and
has been grievously wounded in the service.
He is also a man of more than average general
talent, a vigorous, diligent, and active public
servant, though, with all deference be it spokes,
not the very wisest or most liberal of living states-
men. In fact, Sir Henry Hardinge is
a Tory of the deepest hue, and so is
Lord Fitzroy Somerset, Military Secretary to
the Commander-in-Chief, and not unfrequently
supposed to enact the part of " Viceroy
over" Lord Hill, his nominal chieftain. This
Noble Secretary's Tory sympathies, of which his
Lordship is accused of having many, may, per-
haps, have forgotten, for the sake of Sir H.
Hardinge, that so many older officers, some of
whom had seen as much fire, and with as much

sang froid (more cannot be said), as he had,
were no less unprovided for than Sir Henry.
In a military point of view this is hardly fair.
Perhaps, however, it may be said that Sir H.
Hardinge had filled (and none, we acknowledge,
filled more worthily) two political situations,
viz., that of Secretary at War, and Chief Secre-
tary in Ireland. But we have never heard that
the military privilege of superseding senior offi •
cers was the fit reward for such descriptions of
civil service. Upon the whole, this no+nination
snacks of partiality. Had Sir If nry Hardinge
himself been Commander-in-Chief or Military
Secretary, we are sure that no such promotion
would, or could, have taken place.— Times.

PROGRESS OF THE SESSION.
(Foirn the Sprctator )
That the proceedings of the It-formed House of
Commons have hi, herto disc :pointed general ex-
oectai ion, is undeniable. I is difficult to meet wilt)
any person, neither a trimming Goo-ersative nor a
Mutister ial tool, who bolds a (Wei ent language. That
• his would bet he case as respects a very nutnerous holy
of sanguine and somewhat visionary politicians, such
:Awe to be found in all t It-nes and in almos. all countrie.,
we clearly foresaw and f-retold. Bur the feel:tig of
disappointment to which we allude, is I:Ci of that
unreasonable nature, or confined to those who ex.
petted to receive an almost ins, anianeous and mira-
culous cure, a, the hands of tl4e Reformed Parliament,
tort he evils occasioned by (Pal urn- s of mi-go,ertinietit.
Sensible and clear-lvadjd men, well affected t 0.% ds
LA Grey and his colleagues, and anxious to make
the best of things as they are, do not hesitate to
declare their dissatisfaction at the little progress
which has been made in effecting real good for the
country since the opening of the session. The 2,
cf,outsati.lg
li,tiii (and who can deny the justice of such
complaints?) that the disease of talking, and the re-
luctance to work, which is indicated by it, is d S.
prevalent in the new House of Commons,
Just as it was in the old : there is scarcely a man
actively engaged in life, as merchant, manufacturer,
or agricul,urisr, whose operations are not p ,ralysed
at the present moment by want of information as
to the intentions of Government, and the ap,,rehen-
sion, apparently but too well grounded, that all
practical measures will be indefinitely postponed
till the session closes. Meanwhile, the " abstract
principle" of sinecures is upheld; and millions of
taxes are imposed in thin Houses, without even the.
meagre pretence which the speech of a Chancellor of
the Exchequer has usually furnished our represeA-
tatives for their votes on such questions. Five long
rights have been occupied by the Lish Suppression
Bill already ; and we suppose their is NO human
being so sanguine as to expect that it will be passed
justito indulge himselfethel;as t e r II ally this prospect
fies the grumbling which John Bull is begim,,"g
solemn promises madewtohelniimhedurtuinugli'tlahteelatsoeneltelc'e-
Vow. But it is not in the character of English-

men of the present day to think lightly "of tl,•
pledges of politicians. Some of the Members have.'
been made sensible of this fact since the division on
Mr. Hume's sinecure motion. Their constituents
have very earnestly, and very properly, called them
to account fi,r their votes on that occasion. Scarcely
one of those votes was given by a Member for a
populous town or district, except in direct violation
of a promise, which is most clearly remembered by
the men who demanded it. The people, who almost
expected, as A matter of course, to be laughed at
and cheated by the Membt rs of the rotten borough
Parliaments, are plainly determined to be cheated
no longer; but, on the contrary, have adopted the
inconvenient notion that an electioneering promise,
expressed or implied, is as sacred as any other. It
is, to be sure, a very disagreeable thing to be forced
to resign on account of forfeited pledges. No pains,
therefore, will be spared to avoid being placed in
the predicament of fulfilling them, or being
turned out of Parliament for their non-fulfilment.
To such men, the Irish diversion, which affords so
much talking to so little purpose in the House, is a
perfect godsend. Many persons believe that Minis-
ters and their majority are thus playing into each
others hands,—that long debates upon questions
not immediately connected with that horrible thing
retrenchment are encouraged, in order that the
public may be excited, amused, and tricked into a
belief that their representatives are laboriously em-
ployed; while the real object of all this worthless
discussion is to kill time, and stave off the considera-

tion of practical measures, which are not equally
agreeable to Ministers and to the people. This
manoeuvre—if such a course has really been in
tended—will fail. Tne present session may be lost
to business, but it will have gained for us a com?lete
insight into the characters of men who have hitherto
worn masks, audit will have prove)l the efficiency of
deficiency of the " final mea,ure." In the mean while
we recommend that the example, so pertinently se'
us by our brother electors in the north, should be
immediately and extensively adopted. In that case,
we may venture to anticipate, even in the present
session, a different result to Mr. Hume's next econo-
mical motion.

(From the News.)
The C immon Council of the City of London
have rejected the motion, brought forward by a few
Saints in that body, to petition Parliament on th.
subject of that first-rate humbug—at present in
course of concoltion—by Sir Andrew Agnew, and
a few others like him—to prevent people from pur-
suing their amusements, and avocations, where they
are compelled to do the latter, on the Sabbath.
This con piracy against the recreations of the poor
has been tlefetiied ; as we trust it will be also in the
House of Commons, should the busy meddling per-
sons who are stirring in it be foolish enough to in-
troduce it into Parliament. We have long since,
and frequently, exposed this hypocritical absurdity;
and it gives us satisfaction to find our views so fully
supported and borne out by a majori►y of the re-
presentatives of the freemen of the first city of the
empire.* It was well remarked on this occasion,
when those who came forward in the Common
Council to advocate the cause of the saints had
abandoned the religious part of their scheme, that
the only remaining motive they could have had was
a mercenary one. This is undeniable :if those who
wish to put a stop altogether to Sunday trading are
influenced by conscientious motives alone, they will
not hesitate to close their shops, whether others do
so or not; and if they keep them open because
others do, what becomes of their conscience ? It
yields to .vhat is clearly with them a matter of higher
consideration—self-interest. It sickens the heart to
see in these days, when common sense is beginning
to have some influence on men's actions, that such
hollow and deceitful pretenders can find honest
(simple, in a double sense, they must be also COI,
sidered) men to take up their hypocritical schemes
in Parliament.

* The hypocrisy of these people is well proved by the corn.
promises they are willing to make with their own consciences ;
for instance, we dare say that Messrs. Williams, Pewtress,
&c., do not object to write letters on the Saturday to their
country correspondents, advising them of bills drawn or goods
sent, though they know that those letters travel and are de.

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livered on the Sabbath. Nor do they object to receive orders
from the country on the Monday, though they know to a moral
certainty that the letters containing them were written on the
Sabbath. The truth is, they are-offended at the poor man's
recreation, because their interest is not connected with it. Let
these fanatics stop the mails, and place the whole kingdom
under a seventh day's interdict, and they would soon be amongst
the loudest to complain of the effects.

ARMY PENSIONS.— A Royal warrant, bear-
ing date the 7th of February, 1833, has been published
by order of the House of Commons. It says that a soldier
enlisted for unlimited service cannot demand his discharge
as a matter of right, either with or without a pension ;
but discharge may be granted—l st, on account of incapa•
city for further service ; 24, in consequence of reduction
of the military establishments ; 3d, as an indulgence, upon
certain conditions. Permanent pensions—the scale for
wounds in action :—First degree,—men able to contribute
towards earning a livelihood, although rendered by
wounds unfit for the ordinary duties of a soldier, private
6.1. to 9d., corporal 9,1. to Is., sergeant Is. to Is. 6d.
Second degree, men rendered incapable by wounds of
earning a livelihood, hut not requiring the aid of another
person ; private Is., corporal Is. 4d., sergeant Is. 10d.
Third degree, men losing two limbs, or both eyes, from
wounds, or being so severely wounded as to be totally
incapable of earning a livelihood, and to require the as-
sistance and care of some other parson ; private Is. 6d. to
25., corporal Is. 10d. to 2s. 4d., sergeant 2s. 6d. to 3s.
Forfeiture of pensions—a soldier forfeits all claim to pen.
sion who has been convicted by a courtmartial of the
crime of desertion ; of having wilfully maimed himself, or
of having tampered with his eyes, or caused a total or
partial loss of sight by his vice, intemperance, or other
misconduct; of having made, or being privy to the making
of any false entry, or of producing auy fraudulent docu-
ment, either as regards his own services or those of any
other person ; and upon a conviction by a court martial.
or by a civil tribunal, of any vicious or disgraceful conduct.
TRAFALGAR-SQUARE. This square, it

finished according to the plan projected, will, it is appre-
hended, he a very bungling business, occasioned by th
pnittusain of the south sole of Sr. M rrtin's workhou
too far into the spare intended fur the squ ire. Th.
Na'ional Gallery proposed to be er. cred at that side wil
be 461 feet in length, and 50 in width ; but in conse
yu nee of tin. workhouse, there is not room to erect th.
G.llery sufficiently tar bask so as t.i leav an open an,
uninterrupted view of the fine portico of St. Martin'.
church from Pall-mall East. The Duke of NORTHUSI
BERLAND and oilier noblemen and gentlemen are strong')
odposed to the view of the front of the church tieing in .
great measure hidden by the erection of the Gall, ry
Ssone of the advocates, however, of the plan intended h iv
he modesty to depreciate the grand pi rico, and, indeed
the church altogether as a specimen of bad archit-c,ur.
The church was built according to the plan of Mr. GIBBS,
and those wise men who abuse it as a t•uildine, are pro
naidy nor aware that Sir CHRISTOPHER WRVS as•ist.,
Mr. GIBBS in his pl.n, and gave him his advice in ev r
p.rtieular dining the progress f the building. The en
lig.itened cri,ics who abuse it, will pr. b ihly ask who wh•
Sir CIi:USTOPHER WREN, and if cid that he was a
arehiteet, under whose plan and in•pection St. Paul'
cathedral was eucted, in their peculiar vtrit of critic sn.
th. y will say, that it is an incon4rtious mass of st.:n
bud togeth,r, and disgrace to the British metropolis!
LADY STEPNEY'S NOVEL, " THE NE%\
ROAD TO RUIN "...This Work wail certainly he publishe•
•ti W. thiesday next, orders sbould therefore be sent imme-
diately to the various B rok•ellers to insure the delivery ro
e ,rly copies. Agents for Sco land, .iliesslS, BELL 2111,
BRADFUTE, Edinburgh ; for Ireland, Mr. JOHN CUM
vits,G. Dublin.

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A BIGAMIST BY HIS OW CONFESSION.-
The parish officers brought up a worn in to be pa-sed to he
maiden settlement, at PArington. It appeared that sli
had been regularly married to a master baker, name
HECKENBERG, wit., after cruelly treating her, had turn,
her out, and refused to maintain her and 11.1 child. 11
being called upon. HECKENBERC justified this re!usal, ti
the ground, that at the time he married tier he had anott,
%rite living !—and he even furnished the in'tsier ti

workhouse with a copy of the certificate of his ularriag•
with his first wife ! As the v.ainian was pregnant, an
the child might heiniii,e chargeable to Huh, it horn tin
the applican's were very anxious to obtain an order lame-
.fiat ly ; but the magi Crates declined to act, until the'
had 1 gal proof ot the first mat riagt., anl of the first wife',
existence at the time ot the second marriage ; and, in the
event of this being produced, they expressed s hope tha.
the heartless and unprincipled husband would he prose-
cuted by the parish.—Hull Pachet.

POLICE INTCLUOENT,E.

0 W-S-71ItEET:

INDELICATZ ASSALTLT.—John Manteca, a student of
medicine, a young man of respectable appearance, w-a
yesterday charged with an indecent assault an Jane Stiff,
with intent, &c.
Jane Stiff lived in the service of Mrs. Ferguson, of No.
Staple'st9h,aton
Sunday,lnn btuhield isndg
instant,here thesheprisonerhad
occasionlodged,to g
a n do
into his sitting-room, when he shut the door, and drew
her towards hint fur the purpose, as he said. of examining
is tooth of which she had previously complained, when
lie threw her upon the sofa, and attempted to take liber-
tieslid yesterdaywith her
morning,;
she screamed—"
to eaad
son having knocked at the door at the moment, he let her
go tn . She informed her mistress of the circustanee on
scrrnsd—" Murder," and some per-
Thursday, who directed Ler to tell her mother, which she
nyd. the defendant was, in come-
qiience, taken into cusThe defendant denied that there was anything either
outrageous or violent in his conduct, and that he hid
simply put the complainant on the sofa for the purpose
of examining her tooth, at her own request.
An attempt was made to prove that the girl had made
similar charge at a former lodging-house at which she
had lived ; hut on the person coming forward he could
not prove that it was the same girl ; and even if he bad,
Mr. HALLS observed, as the defendant bad in some re-
spects admitted the assault, he must End hail, two house-
keepers in 25/. each, and enter into his own recogni-
zinces of 50/. to answer the charge at the sessions. To
give twenty-four hours' noticed bail.

HAT T ON- GARDEN.
ATTEMPTED VIOLATION.-Yesterday IV. Ellie, plas-
terer, aboutSo.was charged under the following circumstan-
ces :—Mrs. F. Bewley, wife of a respectable cabinet-make-,
o:Brook-street,New-road (who appeared to be on tit putt t
of hecotning a mother, and about 40), said that on Su -
lay ev.ning she was returning home through Red Lion-
square, from a visit to Mr. Jameson, musical-instrument -
maker, of St. John street-square, when the prisoner,
perceiving her to be lame, offered her his arm. She
refused at first, but on his assuring her that he was a mar
ried man, she accepted his assistance. O❑ getting to some
empty houses in Wnhurn-square, he insisted upon kissing
tier, and on her telling httn to leave her instantly, he
grasp-d her round the waist and threw her upon the
ground. She screamed "Murder," and a policeman of
the E division on coming up found the prim ner in such
3 situation as to leave no douht of his intention.—The
prisoner said the prosecutrix asked him to let her walk
with him, hut the Magistrates disbelieved him, on the
,estimony of Mr. Jameson and others.—The prisoner was
fined Five Pounds, and, in default of payment, committed
for two months.