The Sun.
London, England, 1832-05-04 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

A Court was held yesterday for despatch of general
business. After the minutes of the former Court had
been read and confirmed, the following letters were read :--,

" TO SIR JOHN KEY, BART., LOAD MAYOR.
"MY LORD,-I have had the honour, on my return to
town, of receiving your Lordship's letter ; and I beg to
convey, through your Lordship, my grateful sense of the
high honour done to me by the citizens of London in pre-
senting me with the freedom of their city. This honour
is enhanced by the recollection of the support ever given
by your distinguished body to the rights and liberties of
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been bestowed upon me. No one can esteem more highly
than I do this testimony of approbation from the repre-
sentatives of the citizens of the first city in the world ;
and it will be a source of continued gratification to find
that my services has received such a flattering testimony of
approval. " I have the honour to be, &c.

" ALTHORP."
These letters were ordered to be entered in the minutes
of the Court.

The Committee of the New London Bridge recom-
mended that the city seal be affixed to a bond tor the loan
of 50,000/. from the Bank of England, to carry on the
improvements.—Ordered.
The Court then adjourned.

Viscount ALTHORP has arrived at his residence
in Downing-street, from Leamington (Warwickshire),
where his Lordship has been on a vi'it for a few days to
hie mother-in-law, Mrs. Acitax, to whose daughter the
Noble Chancellor of the Exchequer united himself in 1814.
Lord ALTHORP had the affliction to lose his lady in 1818,
and he has not since formed a second nsatrimonial con.
nexion. Lady ALTHORP brought a large fortune to the
Noble Viscount, who became possessed of his seat, Wyston
Hall, in Yorkshire, in right of his wife. In the event of
Lord ALTEORT dying without male issue, the Earldom of
Spencer, with its vast domains, will devolve on his brother,
the Hon. Captain Fitzoxiticx SPENCER, M.P. for Wor.
cester county.
LORD KENYON SITTING CORRECTED;_
Soon after Lord KENYON was appointed Master of the
Rolls, he was listening very attentively to a young clerk,
who was reading to him, before a number of gentlemen of
the long robe, the conveyances of an estate, and on
coming to the word enough pronounced it mow. His
Honour immediately interrupted him,—" Hold ! hold I.
you must stand corrected, enough is, according to the ver-
nacular custom, pronounced enuff, and PO must all other
English words which terminate in ough ; as, for example,
tough, rough, cough, &c. The clerk bowed, blushed, and
went on for some time, when coming to the word plough,
he with a loud voice, and penetrating look at his Honour,
called it pig! The great lawyer stroked his chin, and
with a smile, candidly said, " Young man, I sit corrected."
There lately occurred, not many miles front
the Cross, a disturbance among some of the poor people on
the removal of a cholera patient. The cry way,kill the
doctors, use Board of Health ! but an old woman, exert-
ing herself with all her might to allay the tumult, at la,t
exclaimed, "Clear the way there, clear the way, here
c itnei the Boatd as' Health !" This exclamation, as might
he exp cted, commanded the attention or all ; when, to
the astonishment of the mob, the "Board of Health,"
,vhich the old woman referred to, patud through the
crowd, in the shape of a baker, with a large burden of
loaves smoking upon his bread board. With this piece of
good Imam the dig estdcd....siegonan,

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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS

The King is to be this day engaged in a royal
and we may add—what we are sure will not he
ungrateful to his Majesty's feelings—a profes-
sional visit to the Royal Dock-yard and nava:
depot of Woolwich, by the latter of which esta-
blishments the Emperor Alexander was so struck
with admiration, as to exclaim, " What an evi-
dence is here of the resources of England, after
twenty years of unremitting warfare !” Theis
Majesties propose, on their return, to examine
Greenwich Hospital,—a second monument of
the grandeur of Great Britain, more generous
and glorious than all the manifestations of mere
belligerent power that ever she has exhibited in
fleet, arsenal, or fortress, by-courage, skill, or
eenius, on sea or shore. V. 76. can imagine our
beneficent Monarch in this asp of his worn-
out shipmates, a thousand times more exhilarated
by their hearty and honest shoutggoi welcome,
than when met by the obsequious,ind mayhap
suspicious, greetings, to which he has lolls, since
been accustomed on other scenes. How often
amidst the circle of stars, feathers, and embroidery,
will King William sigh to tred once more the
beautiful quarter-deck of the Vernon, or the
Hospital terrace. There are considerations too,
of a different nature, which may force them-
selves on his Majesty's attention while he tra-
verses the long and densely-peopled streets of
Woolwich, Greenwich, and their neighbour-
hood. The King will ask himself what was
the state of that whole district in the days of
Elizabeth, even when animated by the bustle of
a present and brilliant Court, as compared with'
its actual condition. What ratio, may his 111 a
jesty inquire, did the amount, the opulence and
importance of the population, throughout the
Greenwich district bear in the sixteenth century
to those possessed by it in the nineteenth, com-
paring it with the progress of other places ?
Some foreigner calls London a " province
covered with houses ;" of those houses three-
fourths or more, as well in the capital itself as
in the environs, are the work of the last hundred
years. So, in respect of wealth and inhabitants
the Greenwich district, as defined by the Re-
form Bill, is a modern creation. Must it not
strike the active mind of King William, to be
the most preposterous thing in the world, that
the relation between representative and consti-
tuent should correspond with what has not been
the state of England for three or more genera-
tions ? Now, we have some reason to suspect
that the metropolitan clauses of the Rill, are
those which the whole body of anti-national
Peers have doomed the foremost to destruc-
tion. If so wild a vote be passed, we
once more wain the noble persons who may
be guilty of it, that twelve hours will not have
elapsed before they will repent themselves in
sackcloth and ashes. The spirit of the .nation
will brook no such unworthy proceeding. Nor
does that spirit, so raised, and so unanimous,
owe any of its ardour to a disregard either of se-
rious consequences or of moral duties. The
earnestness of the people has grown out of
anxious, diligent, and persevering discussion
upon the principles and effects of the Bill. On
this precise point of the metropolitan district
question, what do they say about Greenwich and
its adjuncts? Why, there is a Kentish popula-
tion of 64,000 souls, with about 6,000 houses
of 10/. rent and upwards, and paving assessed
taxes to the amount of between 21,0001. and
22,0001. per annum, condemned to have no
organs but the county Members, through whom
their sentiments can be made known to Parlia-
ment. Midhurst pays a few hundred pounds
per annum, with a population of hardly 2,000
souls, and it retains a representative ! Here,
then, is what may be considered by far the most
important town population in the whole of
Kent, with between 60,000 and 70,000 inha-
bitants, Canterbury having but 14,000, Maidstone
15,000, and Dover 12,000. Yet the ultra nomi-
nation Lords are threatening to refuse the Green-
wich district its franchise, because the 6,000 qua-
lified houses paying 22,0001. in assessed taxes,
are tenanted, forsooth, by rabble. Then come
to the metropolis itself, where it has been proved
repeatedly, that, except in the Borough, the 20/.
householders far exceed the 10/. in number, and
how monstrous is the anomaly which it now
presents ! Of the four sections of the Metropo•
lis about to receive members, they all—to-wit,
Finsbury, Marylebone, the Tower, and Lam-
beth—contain a larger population than the city
itself (proper), of which the inhabitants, accord-
ing to the returns of 1831, are in round numbers
123,000, while Finsbury contains 225,000 ;
Marylebone, 234,000 ; the Tower, 293,000 :
and Lambeth, 154,000 ! Such are the masses
of Englishmen regarded as unworthy to be in-
trusted with the choice of their own members of
the House of Commons !—a mass of English-
men, whose annual contributions to the revenue,
under the single head of assessed taxes, is not
less than 670,000/. What unproductive rabble !
We have already expressed our sincere persua-
sion that the country will not endure a rejec-
tion of the Metropolitan, or of the 101. clause
of this Bill. The measures consequent upon
a vote for the rejection of them are already
at this moment organized throughout the
kingdom, and grievous will be the self-reproach
of those who compel the people of England to
put in force their resolutions. If the Lords will
not have the 101. voters, the Reformers of Bir-
mingham, Manchester, and other towns, will de-
mand, and will carry, too, the scot- and-lot quali-
fication as a substitute. And will the Anti-
Reform Lords, with their eyes open, invite and
warrant such an aggravation of all .the alleged
offences of the Bill ? How, then, by what
human means, can they expect to avert it ?
Lord Grey has but one rational and manly course
before him. If his Lordship chooses to be
beaten on Lord Salisbury's or any other im-
portant motion, by way establishing that case of
solid necessity which some persons are reported
to look for, as his justification of a large in•
crease of the Peerage, the Noble Earl must then
address himself, without losing an hour, to that
authority in which is vested the creation of
Peers. We will anticipate no result but that
which all good men desire. Should the issue
be of an opposite character, the question then
comes home to every breast in England. Dares
a middling personage like Lord Wharncliffe as-
sume the Government of a nation so intrepid of
purpose, and so formidable in its Just resentment,'
as the English under such a provocation ? If
Lord Wharncliffe make the experiment, how
long will he (politically speaking) be suffered to
survive it ?—Times.

We are glad to see that the intolerants have
brought an old house about their ears, by endea-
vouring to enlist the Presbyteridn 'Ministers of
Scotland in the opposition to the Government
plan of education in Scotland. Fortunately, the
clergy of Scotland are not of that rank and stand-
ing in the country, that they can aWord, like the
English clergy, to place themselves in opposition
to the people. All Established Churches have
a leaning towards illiberality, and it is pretty

obvious, that if the Scotch clergy could, they
would abet the Bishops and Irish Orangemen in
their factious attempts' to impede the Government
plan of education in Ireland. They will, how-
ever, be brought to their senses by their flocks,
who are quite indignant at the mean subserviency
of their clergy to hypocritical Bishops and
Orangemen, who cover Protestantism with dis-
grace. They have been so imprudent as to call
a public meeting in Glasgow for Tuesday last,
and we can see from the Glasgow Chronicle of
Monday, that they will experience a sad humi-
liation. How could Presbyterian clergymen so
far forget themselves as to suppose that in Glas-
gow of all places a subserviency to bloated Epis-
copalians would be tolerated ? Throughout the
NV est of Scotland, the memory of the persecu-
tions from the Episcopalians is still fresh ; and
it maybe safely stated that the Church of Eng-
land stinks in the nostrils of the people. We
see, from a number of addresses and letters in
the Glasgow Chronicle, .that the liberal citizens
are determined to repel with spirit the insidious
attempt of tlie'Clergy and Anti-Reformers. In
one of the addresses to the requisitionists, in
the-Glasgow Chronicle, the writer forcibly ob-
serves—

" There cannot be a doubt that one of the most urgent
questionsin a Reformed Parliament will be,how it happens
that while Scotland, yielding more revenue than Ireland,
is kept quiet by a few hundred troops, Ireland should re-
quire, in regular yeomanry and prlice, a military force of
63;367, to collect the tithes of the idlest and the richest
hierarchy in the world, from a peoplo of a different religion.
It was to protect such a system as this that the Irish Anti-
Iteferin Lords, spiritual and temporal, met in Dublin, and
although they had only a few years ago declared open
war against allowing the Scriptures to be read, even by the
grown up people, unless accompanied by the Common
Prayer Book, and glosses of the episcopal Church—they
now, most hypocritically, change their note to catch the
Protestant Dissenters, and sing out the praises of the
whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible, unaccompanied
by the liturgy, as a school-book for infants, learning the
mechanical process of reading the English language."
The writer adds—

"Do all the teachers of Glasgow, inferior to none in
care for the proper teaching of children, even if they were
not under the special inspection of the Established Church,
we nothing but the whole Bible as a school-book ? Every
teacher, every parent, every clergyman knows that it is
not so used.

" Why, then, are the reverend sounders of the tocsin of
religious and political discord so anxious to pull the mote
wit of the eye of the reforming Ministry; while such a
beam obstructs their own vision, that it perceives not their
own negligence of their own bodies, their carelessness of
this newly-discovered peril of all the little ones who use in
n-any school-books constructed en the common sense prin-
ciple by which every art is most speedily learned; passing
from that which is easiest to that which is successively
more and more difficult."

From the following passage, it may be con-
jectured that the Bishops have little chance of
gaining partisans in Glasgow :
" The Orange Protestant Dissenters, who play the gan e
of the Irish Bishops, have a paper called the Guardian,
which is the mouthpiece of intolerance in Belfast; and the
same game has now been attempted in Glasgow, where
the same breed of Bishops engaged and quartered our an-
cestors, and stuck their heads on spikes, which were even
lately visible at the Cross, because our clear-sighted, bold-
hearted martyrs would not play the underling, like the
stupid renegadres of these degenerate days—to the same
Episcopal tyranny which in Ireland only exists by the folly
and wickedness of these Orange Dissenters—falsely called
Protestant, which means—protesting against per•ecution
of tho.e who refuse to swallow religious tests as the con-
dition of receiving education, and enjoying other civil pri-
vileges. But is it not worth the serious consideration of
the che ip resident decorous and laborious established
Clergy of Scotland—whether they should follow the lead
or play the sordid hypocritical gains, and draw on them-
selves the odium of the Anti• Reforming Absentee Lordly
Hierarchy of Ireland, which charges with the bloody
bayonet for tithes from people whom they neither see nor
teach?" _ _

Another correspondent reminds the Presby-
terian Clergy that the Catholics are taxed to
support them, and asks them—
" Would it be called tolerance if the Catholics of Ire-
land were to say, Money is granted to a church in Scot-
land consisting of Presbyterians? They don't use in their
schools the Apocrypha, which we believe to he part of the
word of God, and they use a Catechism, which we be-
lieve not to be of Apostolic authority, and to be heretical.
It is against our conscience that public money should he
granted to such a church.' "
Another correspondent exposes forcibly the
inconsistency of the Scotch Clergy, in opposing
that in Ireland which they overlook at home—
" The very men (he observes) who clamour most against
the Government plan of education for In land, are among
the very individuals who admire, who prai-e, who sup-
port systems of education in our own country, from which
the Scriptures, as a whole, have been lung exploded. Go
to any, or to all of the most fashionable and genteel
pi ices of elementary education in either Edinburgh
or Glasgow, or any other of our principal towns,
and will you find the Bible used as a class-hook in
any one of them ? Verily not. A system of education
which is good, if not indispensable for the poor of Ireland,
cannot be bad for the comparatively rich in Scotland ;
and yet, in none but the very lowest and commonest of
our schools, will you find the system advocated preval.
What is the cause of this ? Why, that enlightened
teachers—men who have studied teaching practically, and
with regard to effect—have long ago discovered that the
Bible, as a whole, is a very inexpedient school-book ; and
even in schools in which it is so employed, 1 never knew
an instance of its being employed in any other way by a
judicious teacher than by way of selection ; and where is
the difference between leaving the selection to the instruc-
tor himself, or preparing it ready to his hand ? No teacher,
worthy of the name, either can, or will cause the Scrip-
tures to be read in his school straight-forward, from be-
ginning to end ; and of a prepared selection, and one made
to suit individual taste, it may be caprice : the advan-
tage, in my judgment, lies all in favour of the former.
To make the Bible a common hackneyed school-book, is a
total prostitution of the Word of God."
It is curious that none of the dissenters from
the Church of Scotland (the Dissenters are the
genuine Presbyterians) have joined in this cru-
sade against Ministers. We anticipate for the
others a severe castigation. They will be much
the better of a lesson from their flocks at this time,
calculated to impress on theirminds the doctrine
that Christian ministers can only hope to be
respected by keeping within the limits of their
duty, and that when they make religion a stalking-
horse for factious politics,-and seek to injure the
cause of Reform by attempting to sow divisions
among Reformers, they can only hope to reap
discomfiture and•disgrace. We hope to be able
in few days to-give a good account of this
%Nicked attempt to disgrace Scotland by an oppo-
sition, which the dissenters in England at once
s a through, and reprobated.—Morn. Chron. •
Ministers have entailed upon themselves a se-
rious responsibility by their late delay in bringing.
forward the question of the Bank Charter. Whe-
ther this delay arose from the inability of Lord
Althorp.,to grapple with the question, or that
Ministers themselves can sometimes be " wa-
verers,"O'd, as such, had not been able to make
up their,.minds upon the subject,—in short, in
whatever point of view the subject is considered,
:the niore we must lament that gambling specu-
lators in the Funds should receive their cue from
a quarter which ought to be the first to prevent
it. That Ministers themselves are' quite above
being parties to, still less in being partakers in
these consequences, we need hardly affirm our
unequivocal belief ; but as, in, private life, the
man who is the cause of vice in others can lay
but little claim to merit on the score of his own

virtues, so public men, who, by their indolence,
neglect, or indecision, give rise to consequences
which an opposite conduct might have prevented,
must be held moraiir .responsible for no small
part of the evil triis produced. A speculative
rise of 15 per cent. in one description of Stock

in a few days, and that arising from the con-
cealed views of Government, cannot but
be looked upon as an evil, adding, as it
does, to the gambling propensity of those
who too frequently, dike other gamblers,
feed, as it were, voraciously upon the vitals
of the credulous, and of each other. But
there is another point of view, and one to
which we have already slightly alluded,
in which the postponement of this question
must be productive of anything but good ;
and
that is, that it tends to raise a suspicion that the
Government dues not turn its mind to topics of
infinite importance till the very hour arrives
when its views are to be publicly developed.
This looks too much like a mere life of expe-
diency to satisfy the country, which expects, at
the hands of men in the high responsible stations
of Government, at least as much foresight and
preconsideration as prudent men bestow upon the
affairs of private life. A want of this has, un-
fortunately, of late years, marked the conduct of
more Administrations than the present, arising,
we apprehend, not merely from an inaptitude for
business in some of those who fill the higher de-
partments, but from the indolent sleepy manner
in which those who fill the minor departments,
and whose duty it is to prepare details, too often
conduct themselves. It has been one of the
blessed consequences of the borough system to
crowd the public offices with inefficient persons,
who often place the Administration in the situa-
tion of able workmen with bad tools. This, it
is to be hoped, is one of the many evils which
Reform will remedy. But, after all, the tools
are of little value, unless the workman himself is
endowed with skill, and a thorough aptitude and
willingness to labour.—Morning Herald.
The price of the Stock of the Bank of Eng-
land had suddenly advanced within the last two
or three days as much as six or eight per cent.,
which is accounted for upon 'Change by the as-
sertion that the present Ministers have deter-
mined not to meddle with the affairs of that
corporation further than to extend the present
Charter for two or three years, in order to give
themselves time to know a little what they are
about before they propose any final arrangement.
The fact of the rise in the market value of this
security is certain. Whether the explanation of
that fact which is current in the city be the true
one or not we do not profess to know ; but it is
to be inferred from this explanation that, in the
sober judgment of monied men, an escape from
the hands of Lord Althorp and his colleagues,
even although it be but for a time, and although
it be attended with all the inconveniencies and
disadvantages of a provisional and transitory
state of existence, is sufficient to add six or
eight per cent to the value of property. We
had not before so accurate a criterion of the
discount at which the present Ministers of
the Crown are computed upon 'Change. It
will scarcely be disputed that this criterion
is a fair one, or that it is fairly applied. For

why should the postponement of the question of
the Charter for a period of two or three years
raise the value of Bank Stock ? Why should the
prolongation of that suspense and uncertainty as
to its eventual character, functions, and powers,
which might actually be thought injurious to the
interests of a mercantile corporation, be deemed
in this instance so eminently advantageous ?
Why, but that there is a good chance that in
less than the time mentioned the settlement of
the affairs of the Bank, as well as of all other
public questions, will have devolved to other
hands, and no chance at all that they can devolve
to hands more unsuitable and incompetent. The
eight per cent. rise in Bank Stock is the exact
measure of the premium which men are instinc
tively eager to pay for a probable chance of get-
ting rid of the intervention of such statesmen as
Lord Althorp and Mr.Poulett Thomson in mat-
ters in which their private interests are concerned.
And who can wonder that this premium is so
high? It is scarcely three weeks since Ministers
thought themselves sufficiently prepared to enter
upon the discussion of the subject of the Bank
Charter in the House of Commons They had
a motion upon the subject on the paper, which
dropped on account of the accident, or no acci-
dent, of forty Members not being present at four
o'clock. Now it seems the Charter expires too
soon to admit of a satisfactory investigation of
the subject. Was there ever in the whole
history of mankind such pitiable imbecility
displayed in the Government of a great na-
tion ? Does the Charter expire unexpect-
edly ? Have not the present Ministers
been in office a year and a half? Did not
many Members of the Administration, and
many even of its underlings, pretend to uncle-
stand all the principles and to be cognizant of
all the facts relating to the Bank question for
years and years before they had a glimpse of
office ? Yet now it is said the subject is to be
postponed for two or three years. For this pe-
riod the system of banking throughout the coun-
try is to be held in a provisional and transitory
state. So long the country is to be deprived of
all the advantages which, as these same States.
men have asserted every year since the Charter
was last renewed, might be attained on a revision
of the system. So long the Bank of England,
the great dispenser of our national currency, the
great bulwark of commercial credit at every crisis of
panic and distress, is to remain in doubt as to its
final character and condition, and consequently
to be a less vigorous and effective agent for these
important purposes than it would be in a less
equivocal and precarious state of existence. And
all this for what ? Simply, it is said, because
these miserable Ministers admit that
the theyecauasree
unprepared and incompetent to meet question
of the Charter. The world bears testimony to
the fact, while it expresses its joyful surprise at
the humiliating admission, by rushing as it. does
to the purchase of a description of property
which it is at once perceived has had a most for-
tunate and unexpected escape._Morning Post •

At our petty sessions on Thursday last, the
overseer of a neighbouring parish brought before the sitting
magistrates a young woman, who filiated one child, and
*swore another, of which, on repairing to the house oppo-
site, she was safely delivered, and was afterwards removed
to the parish workhouse, the whole business not occupy-
ing quite an hour.—Leamington Spa Courier.

" SELF-CONTROL."—In the interesting me-
moir of the Authoress of " Self- Control," which Dr. Bans-
TON has given to the world, is the following passage, relative
to the composition of that celebrated novel, which now
forms part of the series of Standard Novels. "It was
chiefly for the employment of accidental intervals of lei-
sure," says Dr. BRUNTON, " that Mrs. BauNroN began
the writing of ' Self-Control.' A considerable part of the
first volume was written before I knew anything of its
existence. When she brought it to me, my pleasure was
certainly mingled with surprise. The beauty and correct-
ness of the style—the acuteness of ohservation—and the
loftiness of sentiment—were, each of them in their way.
beyond what even I was prepared to expect from her. It
had not been published a' ore a month when a scond edi-
ion w.,s 4.a1,e1 for."

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAY 3.

THE KING V. KELLY AND ANOTHER.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL had an application to
make to the Court in this case, in which on Monday
_ _

last Sir James Saarlett obtained a writ of habeas
corpus, directed to Mr. Alderman Kelly and a police
officer named Rowe, commanding them to bring a
lady, who was called Mrs. Newton, into Court, as
the wife of a Mr. D'Arcy Raymond Newton, a news-
agent in Warwick-square. His application to the
Court now was, that the time for making a return to
the writ might be enlarged. He said, that he and his
Learned Friend who was with him in this case had
taken upon themselves to advise that the lady
should not be brought up to-day ; but in case the
Court should, after hearing the affidavits, refuse the
application, she could be fetched within half an
hour. The Learned Counsel then proceeded to
state the circumstances. The application for the
habeas corpus had, he said, been made on behalf of
Mr. Newton, who described himself as the husband
of the young lady, Miss Rosa Matilda May Baxter.
She became of age in November, and on the 23d of
March last Mr. Newton, having procured a horse
and chaise, took her from Kentish-town and pro-
ceeded to Gretna-green, where they underwent the
ceremony of marriage. The lady was entitled
to considerable property under the will of her
uncle, and to such annual income under the will of
her grandfather, the late Mr. Alderman Crowder,
as the trustees should think proper to allow her.
Her mother, who knew that she was of an extremely
weak mind, her governess, and some other ladies of
her acquaintance, were induced to accompany her to
the Zoological Gardens, whence she was decoyed
away by Mr. Newton. While on the journey to
Gretna-green, she evinced great reluctance to pro-
ceed, and a great change was noticed in her manner
and appearance. At one place on the road, so ex-
tremely unwilling was she to go forward, that the
hor'es were sent back eleven miles; but they re-
turned, and the lady was taken to Gretna-green.
After the ceremony had been gone through, Mr.
Newton slept wi:h her, and the marriage was con-
summated. The parties were pursued by Mr. Al-
derman Kelly, one of the trustees under the grand-
father Mr. Alderman Crowder's will, and a police-
officer. The lady received Mr. Alderman Kelly with
the most perfect cordiality, and, without the least
force or violence being used, she was taken away in
a carriage and brought to London. She was now at
the house of Mr. Alderman Kelly, arid was perfectly
satisfied with what had been done on the part of
her friends. He would now state the reason why
she ought not, lie submitted, be brought up at pre-
sent under the habeas corpus. It had been sworn
by her mother, her governess, and by others, who
had known her for some years, that she was a per-
son of weak mind, and subject to violent fits of pas-
sion. She could not understand what other persons
were capable of understanding, and had no sense of
the obligation arising from a contract of marriage.
This was evidenced by her having spoken, since her
marriage, of other persons for whom she had felt an
attachment. In addition to the affidavits of her
mother and governess, it was sworn by three medical
men, who had known her from an early age, that she
was a person of unsound mind, and utterly unable to
take care of herself; that she frequently went into
fits of ungovernable passion, and committed acts of
folly, such as throwing books and knives at her
mother,and throwing knives and forks out of the wirl-
dow ; and one occasion she actually struck a knife
into her mother's hand. The medical men had
sworn that they believed she was totally incapable
of understanding the nature of the marriage-contract.
Under these circumstances, the Learned Counsel sub-
mitted, that Mr. Newton had not put himself in a
situation to have the lady brought up as his wife. Her
mother, Mrs. Baxter, thought it her duty to institute
proceedings both in the Court of Chancery and
at Doctors' Commons—in the one court for the pur-
pose of having her, protected as a ward of. Court,
and in the other for the purpose of annulling that
which had been called a marriage, but which in fact
was no marriage at all. It was stated in the affida-
vits that Mr. Newton had until lately been living
with another woman as his wife, and that she had
now become reduced to the greatest possible dis-
tress by his desertion of her. The Learned Coun-
Sel said he hoped, upon this statement, that the
Court would be of opinion that Mr. Newton, the
husband, as he called himself, of this young lady,
was not in a situation to object to any course that
her friends might think it advisable to adopt in
order to have her taken proper care of.
Lord TENTERDEN—Without going further into

the affidavits, suppose you were to take a rule to
show cause why the time for making a return to
the writ should not be enlarged, and then there
will be an opportunity to the other side to answer
the affidavits.

Mr. F. POLLOCK appeared for Mr. Alderman
Kelly, one of the guardians named in the will of
the young lady's late grandfather, Mr. Alderman
Crowder. His prayer to their Lordships was, that
she might be restored to the custody of her mother,
and remain in that custody until the further order of
the Court.
Sir J. SCARLETT—WouId the Court have any
objection to let one or t(vo persons, to be named by
the Court, have an opportunity of seeing the lady ?
Lord TENTERDEN--Tbere can be no objection, I
think, to that.
The ATTORNEY.GENERALNOt the least objec-
tion.
Lord TENTERDEN—To wh it time do you want
an enlargement ?
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL—TiII next term.
Sir J. SCARLETT--We can answer the affidavits
in a very short time.
Lord TENTERDEN—WeII; let the time be enlarged.
-Mr. POLLOCK—In the mean time the husband is
not:to molest the parties.
Sir J. SCARLETT—He has no wish to do so.
Mr. POLLOCK—It is chiefly on account of his in-
. terference that Alderman Kelly objects to the lady's

continuing at his house.
Sir JAMES .'iCARLETT was not aware of any im-
proper interference on the part of Mr. Newton. He
called at the house, and Mr. Alderman Kelly being
from home, he left a note stating that he had come
to demand the delivery up of his wife.
Mr. PoLLocx said that he had been parading be-
fore the house, and causing great annoyance.
Sir J. SCARLETT—Since you state that, I will
mention that he saw his wife at the window, and
that she made eight tokens to him, indicative of the
severity with which she conceived she was treated.
Mr. POLLOCK—If your Lordships read the affi-
davits:, you will find that she is utterly incapable of
making any token at all.
Lord TENTERDEN, after conferring for a few
minutes with the other Judges, said, we propose to
name, as the two persons to see her, Dr. Morro and
Dr.M'Michael, as they have not made any Ada% its.
Sir J. SCARLETT---Will there be any objection to
allow Mr. Newton's solicitor to see her with the
physicians ?
Lord TENTERDEN—Then we must allow the so-
licitor on the other side to see her also.
Mr. FOLLETT—The solicitor on the other side
has access now.
Lord TENTERDEN—Then Mr. Newton's solicitor
may see her, in company with the solicitor on the
other side.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, MAY 3.

GLASGOW, EXECUTOR, V. DIXON.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff, as ex•
ecutor of the late General Schalchs, against the de-
fendant, Miss Dixon, to recover back the sum of
500/, alleged by the defendant to have been received
by her as a gift from the testator two months before
his death.
The testator, who had served several years in
Canada and other places, was an eccentric old gen-
tleman, and for some years previously to his death
conceived ideas very unfavourable to his relations.
In 1825 he made his will, bequeathing his property
altogether to strangers in blood, and appointing the
plaintiff his executor and re,iduary legatee. To the
lefendant he bequeathei a legacy of 500/. lie re•

sided in obscure lodgings, for which he paid 10s. a
week, at Lewisham, where, for the last two years of
his life, he conducted himself in. a manner which
showed that he laboured under a singular delusion of I
mind. He was a single man,but he fancied that his re-
lations had combined to destroy him,and not only they,
but that many other persons had concerted to take
him off by poison. So powerful was this delusion,
that he used to refuse the food prepared for his
meals. He would throw away the fowls boiled for
his dinner, and drink the water in which they had
been boiled. He would take the bread from the
baker himself, choosing the loaves at the bottom of
the basket, and then would eat no part of them but
the crust. He had from time to time had the pump
pumped dry and cleansed to avoid the poison he
ssoumppeotsd imeesto havewalkei
in
nbeetn put
the garden,
buttle water.
i when
uhe He
did
so, he turned out any person who might be in his
apartments, and locked them up, for fear of affording
an opportunity of introducing poison. He also con-
ceived an idea that the fair sex had ccn,pired against
him, and occasionally put love powder in his bed,
which, he said, did not affect him as it did other
persons, for it only made his stomach --. Upon
all other subjects he was perfectly rational, particu-
larly on scientific topics connected with his profes-
sion. In money matters, also, he was perfectly ac-
curate, never giving or receiving more or less than
the proper sum, either when making purchases
or paying his rent, &e. His father, and the father
of Miss Dixon, who is a respectable elderly lady
living in good society at Woolwich and keeping her
carriage, had been brother officers; and on one oc-
casion at Minorca, when his fathergot into difficulty in
consequence of a defalcation in his accounts as pay-
master, Miss Dixon lent him a sum of money to
meet the deficiency, and thereby rendered him an
essential service. For this service to his father, the
testator expressed himself grateful, and anxious to
manifest his gratitude by conferring an act of kind-
ness on Miss Dixon. On the 14th of December,
1827, he requested Mr. Stace, a respectable magi-
strate of Kent, and an old friend of his, to procure
him 8001. on his cheque, from his agents, Messrs.
Cox and Greenwood. Mr. S..ace accordingly pro-
cured the money, and sent it to him. He had pre-
viously inquired of Mr. Stace whether Miss Dixon,
to whose father's kindness he referred in grateful
terms, was in a situation in which 100/. wculd be of
any use to her, and desired that she might call upon
him. On the day on which Mr. Stace sent him
the 800/. Miss Dixon placed 5001. in the hands of
Colonel Campbell, a mutual friend, for security,
which she requested him to have invested in the
funds for her : and at the same time she procured
the change for another 100/. which she sent that
evening to the General, who sent back a written
note (not produced) by the messenger. The 5001.
deposited by Miss Dixon with Colonel Campbell,
and afterwards invested in Three per Cent. Long
Annuities, were subsequently found to have been
some of the noes sent by Mr. Stace to the testator
in December. On the 12th of February, 1828, Ge-
neral Schalchs died, his death being supposed to have
been occasioned by starvation through fear of poi-
son. After his death a sealed parcel was sent to
Mr. Stace, who supposed at first it contained the
money he had sent him ; but a portion of this mo-
ney not being forthcoming, Mr. Stace inquired of
Miss Dixon if she had received any money from the
testator. She replied that she had nor. But she
afterwards stated that the General had made her a
present of 5001. In some time subsequently, when
the parties attended at Doctor'-Commons to have
the will proved, the plaintiff observed to Colonel
Campbell, in the defendant's presence, "Miss Dixon
is very fortunate; in addition to 5004 bequeathed
to her by will, I understand that the General gave
her 5001. more, as a gift, shortly before his death."
He added," We are very fortunate in getting anything
from General Schalchs : I never knew that such a
person had been in existence, until I was informed
of his death." Such were the leading facts of this
eurilas case, on which it was contended, on the part
of the plaintiff, that the defendant had either not
been given the money at all, or, if given, th it it was
at a time when the General was incapable of dis-
posing of his property, his mind being then decidedly
insane. On the other hand, the defendant's Counsel
argued that the General had bestowed this money
upon her, and that whatever might be the testator's
fancy as to persons intending to poison him, he was
in every respect capable of managing his affairs.
The Jury returned a verdict for the defendant.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.

A case of some importance to publicans came on
for hearing yesterday at this office.
Its consequence of repeated complaints of the
manner in which the Ship public-house in James.
street, Covent-garden, was conducted, the Magi-
strates suspended the license on the last licensing
day, against which suspension the landlord, Mr.
James Mills, an attorney, residing in Hatton-garden,
gave notice of appeal, and entered into the required
sureties to appear at the next sessions, and show
cause against the decision of the Magistrates. In
the mean time the house has continued open, and is
said to have been conducted in the same disorderly
manner as heretofore ; iu consequence of which
Mr. Thomas, the Superintendent of Police, felt it
his duty to cause an information to be laid against
carriedt
th
edecisiont
the proprietor for selling excisable liquors, without
a license. The information was laid by Johnson,
the informer, and the question to be decided was,
whether
usin
business
appeal could
b against aiason in
s
during the suspension of the license by the Magi-
hhe
r aettes, notice
having
been formally given.
The case having been proved,
Mr. James Isaacs, on behalf of Mr. Mills, con-
tended that his client had a right to trade under the
license which he held from the Excise until the case
should be finally disposed of at the sessions. He
urged the great loss which publicans would suffer, if
they were obliged to shut up their houses between
the period of the suspension of their licenses and
that at which their appeals could be decided. Ma-
gistrates might suspend licenses on insufficient evi-
dence, and publicans might be ruined, if obliged to
close their houses even for a week.
Mr. HALLS said that the suspension of a publi-
can's license by magistrates was sufficient to cause
the house to be closed at once, unless an appeal
against the decision had been entered, in which case
he conceived the publican might continue his busi-
ness until the higher Court had finally decided either
for or against him.
Mr. MINSILULL was of a contrary opinion, and
held that after the magistrates had suspended a li
sense, the publican had, in fact, no authority to trade
under it,and must close his house until that euspen-
sion was reversed. Under that view of the law he
should convict the landlord in this instance in the
sum of 5/. and costs, for selling excisable liquors
without being licensed by the magistrates.
Mr. Isaacs, on behalf of his client, gave notice of
appeal against the decision.
A stable-keeper, named James King, was charged
with having brutally assaulted two unfortunate
females. •
It appeared that the defendant was driving in a
cabriolet along Holborn during the heavy rain on
Wednesday night, and offered to give the two
females a lift towards Somers-town, where they
lived. They gladly availed themselves of the offer,
but were scarcely seated in the vehicle, when the
defendant began to take indecent liberties with one
of them. She resisted, when the fellow seized her
in the most savage manner by the throat, tore her
clothes, and finally attempted w throw both her and
her companion out of the cabriolet on the pavement,
and would have done so but for the interference of
a police constable, who caught one of them in his
arms, as she was in the act of falling, and finally suc-
ceeded in stopping the vehicle, and taking the de-
fendant into custody.
Mr. MINSIIIILL fined the defendant 505., and in
default of payment he was sent for one month to the
House of Correction, there to be kept to hard