The Sun.
London, England, 1832-06-26 00:00:00

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'Hewn, and shunned, as unfit for society and any
useful occupation. There is nothing in the soil
or climate or innate habits of the people to ac-
count for the good order which generally prevail,
in these countries, for every one acquainted with
history knows that previous to the establishment
of parochial schools in Scotland, the people were
the most restless, turbulent, and lawless race in
Europe. They did not, in fact, assume their pre-
sent habits till after the reign of WILLIAM and
MARY, when a law has enacted " that there be a
school and schoolmaster in every parish," with
small salaries to be paid by the landholders, and
moderate fees from each scholar. The people
in the south will no doubt be surprised at the
small expense with which such a beneficial
system is kept up when we tell them that more
is paid to one English Bishop than all the
salaries of the Scotch schoolmasters together.
There are between 800 and 900 parishes, and
with the additional schools, iu some of the large
parishes, the number altogether may be taken at
1,000, which, with a salary at an average of 251. a
year for each, makes the total expense for salaries
only 25,0001. A house and garden are also
provided by the landowners, which probably do
not cost more than 8,0001.,—at all events not
more than 10,0001. annually. When it is known
that for such a small sum schools are provided
in every district, where the children of the
poorest are admitted for a trifle, and where
they acquire those orderly and religious habits
which form the best qualities of good citizens,
it is not going too far to say that it would
be impossible to lay out in any other way
the same money to the same advantage. The
expense, in fact, is nothing, when compared
to the sums expended in England merely in
prosecuting criminals that can neither read nor
write. Let education be more generally dif-
fused in that country, and then, but not till then,
will crime decrease. The landholder would be
the first to reap the advantage, and he would,
besides, have the consolation of thinking that by
expending a small sum in rearing up the youth
of the country in proper habits, he would pre-
serve many of his fellow-creatures from utter
ruin or an ignominious death. Applying the
same rule to England as to Scotland, schools
could be established in every parish for little
more than a sixteenth part of what is now paid
to the clergy of the Established Church.

Lords ELDON and TENTERDEN both dis-
tinguished themselves last night in the House
of Lords by their opposition to the Punish-
ment of Death Bill. From the former Noble
and Learned Lord we expected such opposition
as a matter of course, nor are we in the slight-
est degree surprised at the sentiments of the
Chief Justice of the King's Bench, since
we find the venerable Ex-Chancellor taking
credit to himself for having been the means of
raising so distinguished a lawyer to that elevated
Judicial situation. The arguments of the
Noble Lords were ably answered by Lord
BROUGHAM, who observed, that "If he
thought the announcement of capital punish-
ment had a tendency to prevent crime, he,
for one, should be a friend to the continuance of
the law in its present state ; but his objection
was, that the law had so long threatened, and so
long failed, to inflict capital punishment in such
cases, that the threat now operated practically as
no threat at all. When their Lordships saw
upon how small a number the extreme punish-
ment of the law had been carried into execution,
he thought they must agree with him, that the
apprehension of capital punishment could not
operate very strongly or extensively. In 1831,
for instance, it appeared that 162 persons had
capital sentences recorded against them for the
crime of sheep-stealing, and of that number only
one was executed. In the same year, one hundred
and twenty-five persons were sentenced to capital
punishment for horse-stealing, and in not one of
those cases was the sentence carried into execu-
tion. For stealing to the value of 51. in dwell-
ing-houses, 100 persons were capitally sen-
tenced ; and in this case, as in that of the con-
victions for horse-stealing, not one was executed.
Of 387 persons, therefore, who were capitally
convicted, and against whom sentence of death
was recorded, only one person was executed.
For all offences against property in that year
the total number of capital convictions was 1,108,
and, of those, on only 11 persons was the sen-
tence carried into execution. After all the
chances which the criminal had, arising from
the failure of the prosecution and conviction—.
even when convicted, and sentence of death
had been recorded adainst him, it was yet a
hundred chances to one in his favour that the
punishment would not be carried into execution."
After some desultory discussion the Bill was
ordered to be printed as amended. In the
House of Commons Mr. STANLEY made some
seasonable concessions to the Irish Reformers,
which will have the effect of materially improving
the spirit of the Reform Bill for Ireland. In the
Committee four clauses were disposed of; and the
Bill was ordered to be recommitted on Wednes-
day.

The Paris papers of Sunday have been re-
ceived, but are barren of interesting intelligence.
Prince TALLtYRAND, it is reported, has declined
the Presidency of the Council, but it is only
report. One thing is clear, that a more liberal
Government than the present must soon be
appointed, or LOUIS.THILIPPE will be num-
bered among the kings that were.

The Irish estimates of miscellaneous services
for the quarter ending 31st of Marc!► 1832, and
for the year, from the Ist of April, 1832, to the
31st of March, 1833, have been published, and
present a decrease as compared with last year of
50,2201. The main items on which this saving
is to be effected are 40,0001. for the employment
of the poor—_a questionable saving, unless some
better method be substituted; 6,0021. in the Chief
and under-Secretaries' office ; and 17,5901. for
criminal prosecutions ; both laudable reductions.
But what will the public think of 60,0001. being
required for the current year for administering
Justice by criminal process ? Really things must

be brought to a precious state, if year after year
so much public money is to be wasted in vindi-
cating the laws in a country whale every new
enactment but more embitters the popular ani-
mosity ! Let us, however, hope, that a better
time is coming, when the people will have cause
to look to the law for protection, and not regard
it as at present, with all the horrors of a Tithe
Proctor's visitation.

We perceive an item of 26,6681. to enable
his MAJESTY to purchase the several commis-
sions and appointments in the Battle Axe
Guards of Dublin ! \Vlia: are these gentry
for ?—to protect the Protestant cause—or to vie
in absurdity with some Beef-eaters nearer
home ? We hope to see such monstrosities
abated in time coming.

Dutch and Hamburg Papers have been re-
ceived. It would appear that the Dutch KING
is mightily incensed at the late determination of
the Conference to settle his dispute with Bel-
gium in a summary manner. The game of
delay will answer no longer,—so_ that his MA-
JESTY must put his threats in execution at
once, or submit to necessity :

Bois-LE-Doc, JUNK 19.—The Prince Field-Marshal
will go to Tilbury, the day after to-morrow.
Persons who come from Russia say it is probable ; that
a camp will be formed in the environs of Colsfeld, in the
province of Munster.

THE HAGUE, JCNE 21 —lntelligence having been re-
ceived of the appearance of the Cholera at Sheerness, in the
Medway, in the county of Kent, that place, which was be-
fore among the suspected places, is now to be considered as
nfected; and ships coming from it to perform fifteen days
quarantine.

- We hear that the Marquess of Dalmatia, the new
French Ambassador, at our Court, will take up his resi-
dence in the hotel in Princes-street, lately occupied by the
English Legation, which he had hired for a considerable
time.

A German paper says that, at the beginning of this
month, notes were addressed by the French Government
to the Northern Powers, respecting the affairs of Rhenish
Bavaria, and that since the events of the sth and 6th of
June, a note was presented by the French Minister for
Foreign Affairs to the Ambassidors at Paris, in which ex-
planations were asked respecting the armaments of the
Great Powers, and their sentiments regarding the cessa-
tion of this expensive system.
LuxEmsunc, JUNE I6.—The fallowing is extracted
from a letter from Frankfort

The questio❑ of Luxemburg chiefly engages the atten-
tion of the Diet. The influence of Russia, and particu.
larly of Austria, not to say the positive will of those two
Powers, has removed the difficulties. It is plain that if the
northern Sovereigns allowed such a violation of the act of the
Confederation as the separation of a country belonging to
it without the consent of all the members (and certainly
some would object to it) there would be an end of the
German Confederation, and part after another would he
detached from it, and the bulwark which the North raised
against France in the general reunion of the German
Princes would be irreparably destroyed. If Russia
thought no sacrifice too great to crush the revolutionary
monster which appeared at the frontiers of its empire, if it
had spared ❑either pain uor expense to reduce the Polish
nation to obedience even at the risk of a general war,
you may be very certain that it will abide by
this system, and not suffer the Confederation to betray
its dearest interests, and receive and include the Belgiins
within its frontiers. This consideration, important as it
is to Russia and Austria, is still more so to Prussia.
But even were these considerations of less weight in the
negociations, of which the Landon Conference is the
centre, still the necessity of firmly attaching Holland to
the Confederation, and remaining its Sovereign among the
Confederate Princes, wool,' be of immense importance.
The Diet is convinced of this, and, without very extraor-
dinary political changes in the south of Germany, it will
not abandan a system tried by 17 years' experience.
DUTCH FUNDS.-AMSTERDAM, JUNE J.)11

Actual Debt, 2X per Cent to !I%

Amort Syndic, 70,i per Cent. 6S to 70
Ditto, ditto, 3j per Cent. ...... ....... ....... 554 to 55
Voluntary Loan, 1831, 6 per Cent., -935 i to 95
_.. ___..

~•, 6 per
Ditto, ditto, 1K32, 5 per Cent 7E4; to 79!4
•Dutch Papers, June :a

HAMBURG: JUNE IS.—The Assembly of the Es-
tates of the kingdom of Hanover has resolved to
direct the address in answer to the speech from the
throne not directly to the King but to the Vice-
roy. The First Chamber, in adopting this mode proposed
by the Second Chamber, declared that it certainly consi-
dered the old way of addressing the King directly more
proper, and therefore agreed on this occasion with the ex-
press narration that it did not mean to adopt it as a pre-
cedent. The address, expressive of the most unlimited
confidence and attachment to the King, and of the firm re-
solution of the States to second his Majesty in promoting,
to the utmost, the welfare and happin-as of the kingdom,
was presented to the Viceroy on the 16th, and answered
by him in a very gracious speech. Marshal Beresferd has
arrived at Hanover.

Cassxt, JUNE I.s.—The law respecting the civic
guard has been adopted, after the discussion of some dis-
puted points by the Assembly of the States, by a majority
of thirty-nine to two votes. It is probable that the law
will immediately receive the sanction of the Elector, and
be promulgated.
KONIGSBERG, JUNE 12.—Most of the ships that have
sailed this year from Dantzic for England, France, and
Holland, have had some Polish soldiers put on board, but
the captains would not receive more than six or eight at
once, fearing that a greater number, equal or superior to
that of their crew, might overpower them at sea. In a
few days, however, one of the largest Dantzic ships, with
a crew of 22 men, with only Poles and the provisions for
their subsistence, will set sail ; it is the Lachs, of 366
lasts burthen, commanded by Captain Jentzen. It is to
convey 400 Polish soldiers to Bordeaux. The freight
granted by the King's Government is about 13,000 dol-
lars, including provisions for the Voyage
llb. of meat per
man daily.—Humburg Papers, June 19.
lIA SIBU AG, JUNE 19. --BORsE N- HA LLE, HALF-PAST
Two O'CLOCK.—Since yesterday our Stock Market has
increased in activity, and Austrian Bank Shares and Rus-
sian and Polish Funds might easily have been disposed of
to-day at the prices quoted below. Discount 3 per cent.
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cent. End of June.
65%
Anglo-Russian Loan
Russian Inscription, 5 per cent., 1831
Polish Bonds .................................
Austrian Bank Shares 1141
Austrian Metalliques
New Austrian 4 per cent. 77%
—Hamburg Reporter.

GRAND REVIEW IN HYDE PARK,
By HIS MAJESTY, and PRESENTATION of CO-
LOURS to the Ist REGINIENT of GUARDS.

This being the day appointed by his Majesty for view-
ing the three battalions of the Ist Regiment of Foot
Guards, and presenting them with new colours, the road
leading to Hyde Park was much thronged with company
hastening to the scene. At about ten o'clock, detachments
from the Coldstream and Fusileer Guards marched into
the Park, and, with a detachment of the 14th Light
Dragoons, from Hounslow Barracks, kept the ground.
Shortly after, the three battalions of the Ist Regiment of
Foot Guards, with their colours flying, and their band
pi tying, marched into the arena, and immediately formed
into line. The warlike and healthy appearance of the
men excited the admiration of the vast crowds that had
assembled. Shortly after eleven o'clock, his Majesty ar-
rived on the ground, dressed in the uniform of a Field-
Marshal. He appeared in excellent health and spirits, and
was attended by the Duke of Wellington, as Colonel of
the Regiment, Lord llill, General Dalbiae, and a numerous
staff of general officers. His Majesty was most cordially
received by the people, the band of the first regiment play-
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g HisMajesty then inspected
the eg im
presenting arms as he passed
through the line, and afterwards they formed into columns
and other military positions, going through the whole
with a discipline and precision that appeared to give great
gratification to his Majesty. During the proceedings of
the day, his Majesty presented regiment with new
the
colours in the usual manner, which closed the spectacle.

The Duke of Wellington will give a grand entertain-
ment in the evening at Apaley House.

BRADFORD MARKET.-•--At this market,
last Thursday, there was rather an increased demand h
low wools, and the business transacted in plain-backs,
lastings, &c., was greater than usual.—Halifax Express.
On Monday an adjourned meeting of the
Waterloo Rooms
Council of the Edinburgh Political Union was held in the
, to consider the propriety of dissolving
the Union. Atter considerable discussion, it was put to
the vote—" Dissolve or not dissolve ?"—when it was
agreed by a majority not to dissolve at present.—Edin-
burgh Paper.

ROLLS COURT.-(THIS DAY.) r

JUDGMENT. LLOYD v. HARVEY.

His Honour the MASTER of —the ROLLS gave judgment
this morning in this case, in which the bill was filed for
the purpose of having it declared that the plaintiff was en-
titled to two sums of 5,0001. The facts of the case were
shortly these. On the marriage of the plaintiff with his
present wife, the lady's father entered into an engagement
that 5,0001. should be paid to the trustees of the marriage-
settlement within six months after her death. Some time
afterwards he made his will, referring to the marriage-
settlement, stating that he had paid his daughter 2,0001.,
and gave her 5,0001. in addition to what had been secured
to her on her marriage. Five years after the making of
the will the testator executed a deed, which was endorsed
upon the back of the marriage-settlement, providing a sum
of 5,0001. for the use of the settlement. The question,
therefore, was, whether the plaintiff was entitled to both
the gift by the will and also by the deed. His HONOUR
was clearly of opinion, upon the facts and circumstances
of the case, that the presumption was against the plaintiff
taking double portions, and ordered the bill to be dimissed,
but without costs.