The Sun.
London, England, 1835-02-09 00:00:00

not, is a traitor to its own interests, as well as a traitor
to the country.—Morning Advertiser.
In no part of the United Kingdom has the Reform
cause been supported with so much zeal and earnest-
ness as in Scotland ; and the promptitude and deter-
mination with which they have acted on all trying oc-
casions, cannot be too highly extolled. 'We wish the
example set by the Reformers of Edinburgh, in passing
the following resolutions, were generally followed :
" Resolutions proposed by Mr. Gracie, and passed unani-
mously at a full meeting of the Edinburgh Liberal Central
Election Committee, held on the 3d of February, 1835 :
" 1. That this meeting have heard with much satisfaction,
that the Right Honourable James Abercromby has agreed to
accept the office of Speaker of the House of Commons, if
elected thereto.

2. That Sir John Campbell be respectfully requested to
be in his place on the day of the election of the Speaker.
" ANDREW MILLAR, Chairman."

The constituencies throughout the country cannot
too strongly impress on their representatives their wish
that they should be in their place on the clay of the
election of the Speaker. The choice of a Speaker is
really a most important question. The Tories will
consider their carrying Sir Charles Manners Sutton as
a signal victory over the Reformers. We really can-
not understand how any man calling himself a Re-
former can either support Sir Charles Manners Sutton,
or not attend in his place to vote for Mr. Abercromby.
Whatever strengthens the Tories must be injurious
to the Reformers ; and he must therefore be a strange
Reformer indeed who can wish to promote the success
of the cause to which he affects to be opposed. Of
all politicians, the puling and irresolute are the most
to be dreaded. You will sometimes find a man who
pretends to entertain certain political principles, and
yet he will not scruple to act on a trying occasion
in such a manner as to injure the very men by
whom alone effect can be given to these principles.
Sir Charles Manners Sutton is a Tory, and ought
to be supported by the Tories ; for the Duke of Cum-
berland is not singular in thinking him as hostile to
Reform and improvement of all kinds as a man can well
be. But why should any Reformer support him ?
There might be some show of reason for supporting
the Speaker of the old Parliament, when so many new
men were returned for the first time on the passing of
the Reform Bill. But, even if Sir Charles had not
rendered himself obnoxious to every Reformer by his
intriguing to dismiss the Melbourne Ministry, it would
be unadvisable to choose for a Speaker a man who is a
stranger to the spirit which ought to pervade a Reformed
Parliament. The Tories have hit upon an admirable
reason for continuing the services of Sir Charles. This
is not the first session of a Reform Parliament, but it
is the first session of a new House. " There is ano-
ther circumstance," says the writer of an article in the
Quarterly Review, " which would render the success
of this attempt as inconvenient and injurious to the
public service, as it would be personally inconsistent
and unjust. Not to insist on the general advantage of
having a person of Sir Charles Sutton's qualifications
in the chair, it is peculiarly desirable at this moment,
when the change of the place of meeting will require all
that learning and experience in Parliamentary practice,
principles, and precedents can supply, to facilitate the
adaptation of the old forms and traditionary regula-
tions and habits of the House of Commons to the
new locality !" This is said in sober earliest. We
have pondered over this passage, and cannot, for
the life of us, discover what difficulties are added to the
conducting of business by the new locality. There
are seats for all the Members, we presume, and a table
for the clerks ; and the only derangement we can think
of may be that caused by a neglected nail in the in-
expressibles of some member. The Ministry and op-
position can take their seats to the right and left of the
chair in the new locality as well as in the old, even if
that chair be not filled by Sir Charles Manners Sut-
ton. The Tories are hard pushed for reasons when
they resort to one like this.—Morning Chronicle.
Poor Lord Palmerston is, indeed, in a pitiable
plight. " Alliteration lends its artful aid" to de-
scribe the peculiar position of the ex-Foreign Secre-
tary, and late Member for South-Hants, a posi-
tion perhaps unrivalled for absurdity and inconvenience
in the annals of Parliamentary and politicel life. Nay,
even the last resort of unsuccessful candidates is denied
to him. No consolatory dinner breaks his fall, and
convinces him that, however odious to the great
majority of gentry, clergy, and yeomanry, who con-
stitute the elective body, he has around him a knot
of factious friends, who admire the system of " pro-
tocolling," and regard the honour and dignity of Eng-
land with reference to her foreign relations as a matter of
secondary consideration. Here, alas ! this melancholy
consolation is withheld, and we find the member of every
Cabinet (which would admit him), from the highest
shade of Toryism to the deepest tinge of Destructive-
ness, compelled to attend as a collateral limb a dinner
given at the immaculate borough of Portsmouth to the
amiable Whigs, Airessrs. Bonham Carter and Baring,
one of whom at least es.^•aped by a very narrow majo-
rity the same fate which herd our unfortunate friend
Cupid in the division of the county wherein Torts-
mouth is situated. How often do we perceive the fol-
lowing announcement in country play-bills :—" For the
benefit of Mr. Snooks, on which occasion Mr. Hug-
gins, of T.R.C.G., will make his first appearance on
this stage." On such occasions the house is crowded,
but the inquiry presently occurs as to who and
what the said " Huggins" is ; and then comes the
unfortunate discovery that he was either hissed off
the boards, or discharged by the management for in-
capacity or insubordination. Even so the rejected of
Cambridge and Hampshire struts his hour upon the
Portsmouth boards, and gives vent to the intense
and poignant feelings of anger and disappointment,
under whose combined influence the poor gentle-
man evidently writhes. The dinner to which we re-
fer appears to have gone off flatly, and the speech of
Lord Palmerston was a mere rifacciamento of the old
topics, " Reform," " inconsistency," " change of opi-
nion," "adopting our views," and all the pretty et ceteras
of which the orations of superannuated Whig fine
gentlemen are ordinarily made up. Now, on the part
of Lord Palmerston this is a great deal too bad ; for
w.
liere is the measure which has not been at one time
suppoyled, at another period opposed by him ? Where
the Ministry to which he has not bolonged ? Where
the party of `which he has not been the servile ad-
herent ? There was, however, a redeeming trait of
modesty (we never deny just praise) in the ha-
rangue of the unfortunate Viscount—we mean the
careful and scrupulous manner 'n which he abstained
from the slightest mention of the fore:',7 policy of the
defunct Administration. Perchance a si:qlclen qualm
came over his conscious soul when he thought upon
Holland, Portugal, and Spain, or a vision of Talley-
rand, Manfred fashion, flitted before his eyes, dim-
med with unofficial tears, or—and this shall be our
last supposition—the name and character of the Noble
Statesman to whom the foreign interests of the empire
are now entrusted forced themselves upon his mind,
and even a Palmerston was silenced when he recol-
lected who is his successor. The change is, indeed,
propitious, and is felt to be so by everybody, but Lord
Palmerston himself. In lieu of one whose name was
a byeword and jest at foreign Courts—the tyrant of
the weak, the victim of the strong, the dupe of the
cunning is substituted one of the greatest men of
any age. or country. The substitution is, verily, of a
character well calculated to check the after-dinner elo-
quence even of a person possessing all the constitu-
tional self-complacency of Lord Palmerston.—Post.

NEW TEMPORARY CRIMINAL COURT IN PARIS.
—The southern aspect of the facade of the Palace of the
Luxembourg is composed of two square pavilions, united by a
building less elevated and of less depth by nearly 20 feet. In
the hollow space between the pavilions workmen are at pre-
sent actively employed in erecting the Court for the reception
of the Peers during the approaching great trial. The com-
munication with the Palace will be made through the great
gate in the centre, and by the window entrances of the pavi-
lions toward the gardens. A part of the former apartments of
Marie de Medicis will be converted into halls of waiting for
the numerous witnesses. The small apartments of the Grand
Referendary will be adapted for the reception of the accused.
The grand perystile in the centre will contain the military
force, and the public will be admitted by galleries which will
be erected outside the Palace in two ranks. In the hall there
will be a bureau for the President, Vice-Presidents, and Se-
cretary of the Court, directly opposite the door of entrance.
On the left, an amphitheatre will be left clear for the accused.
The Peers will sit on the right ; the witnesses will be placed
directly opposite the bureau of the President ; the counsel will
be stationed in front of the prisoners, and the Minister of
Justice will have a seat near that of the President : such, with
slight variations, will be the arrangements of the Court, ac-
to the plans laid down by the Minister of the Interior.

SHREWSBURY.

DINNER TO MR. SLANEY.
( From the Shrewsbury Chronicle of Friday.)

The electors of Shrewsbury, anxious to testify their un-
altered respect for Mr. Slaney, their late representative,
and their firm attachment to the principles he advocated in
the House of Commons, invited him to a public dinner in
the Lion Rooms nn Wednesday, wheee he was met by 180
of his former constituents, and some strangers, being, we
believe, the largest party that ever sat down to a public
dinner in these rooms. Mr. W. J. CLEMENT presided ;
Messrs. DONALDSON and COOPER occupied the Vice-
chairs. After dinner the Chairman gave " The health of
the King, and the other members of the Royal Family," to-
gether with that of " the Duke of Sussex ;" these toasts
were received with great cheering.
" The health of the Founders of the Second Great
Charter of British Liberty—Earl Grey and his Majesty's
late Ministers"—was received with several rounds of cheers.

Mr. SLANEY, in return for his health being drank, made
an excellent speech, but we can only afford room for ex-
tracts :—One word, gentlemen, respecting the dissolution
of my late connection with Shrewsbury. Whilst I thank
most heartily the zealous friends I here see around me, and
many others whose zeal and exertions were above all praise,
and whilst I candidly state that the result of the late elec-
tion was contrary to my just anticipations, fortified as I
was by the promises of support I had received, yet I can
account for our defeat by various ways. In the first place,
there was arrayed against us a power such as was
never before combined to crush a candidate or a people.
—(Loud cheers.) Nearly all the neighbouring country
gentlemen were against me ; and all the influence they
could exert was brought to bear on the voters in opposition
to me.—(Cheers.) I deem it not my misfortune, but my
pride, to differ from their polities—(Cheers)—believing
those I profess the best for my country ; and whilst, in
private life, I forget our hostile sentiments on public affairs,
I never forget the kindness which ought to characterize the
intimacy of neighbours ; nor do I carry into private life any
of the excitement and separating influence of political dif.
ferences. Such has not been the general course pursued
towards me : a desperate lounge was to be made ; the last
game was to be played ; unbounded influence was exerted
to win the stake ; and you were defeated.—(Cheers.)
Another cause was very apparent during the election, more
particularly on the polling days. They brought against us a
prodigious purse—from whence filled I know not, but well
filled it was—and with that they bought away some of my
rotten supporters ; men who, when two opposing parties
are nearly poised, know well they can cast the balance by
throwing their votes into the scale of the candidate who
gives them the largest bribe. I regret. to say, moreover,
that some electors for whom I entertained deep respect—
some whose names have been repeatedly inscribed under mine
as the friends of freedom—some to whom I could have said,
" You are men of principle, on you I can implicitly depend ;" vet
in the day of battle they forsook me and their plighted words,
and gave their voices to our opponents ; in the hour of trial,
when the gold is known from the dross, they were found
wanting.—(Shouts of execration.) True, after they had done
what they could to defeat rne, some have come to me be-
wailing the necessity which forced them into such a course.
With such I can hold no communion. I leave them to
to their own consciences—l leave them to the looks of
their fellow-citizens—l leave them to the degradation of
knowing, that those who seduced them despise them—and
that after their bones are rotten in the grave, their offspring
will shrink with horror to hear that their fathers were
apostates.--(Much cheering.) The Tories have long and
often boasted that there was a reaction in public opinion
strongly in their favour : and to a certain extent I admit
this to be correct, but not in the wac. they mean. During
my canvas, several persons whom I addressed told me tha
their opinions were unchanged—they were as much Re-
formers as ever—but they lived under the eyes of persons
who, if they voted conscientiously, would do all in their
power to injure them—(Cries of " Shame !")—and if they
could not altogether deprive their children of bread, they
might materially lessen it. Besides, said they, the
battle is won—the progress of reform must go on in spite
of any set of Ministers ; and therefore we need not bring
trouble on ourselves and our families by perversely setting
our faces against those who have it in their power to ruin
us. All these things, gentlemen, I mention to account for
the issue of the contest, but not. with the slightest view
of distressing or annoying any inhabitant of Shrews-
bury. I never mean to recollect anything, of what has occur-
red save the devoted kindness of my friends, and
the warm-hearted manner in which they have obtained our
triumph and shared in my defeat.—(Much cheering.) I
have been asked (and on this point some explanation I am
bound to give you) whether it is my intention to come for-
ward again, in the event of a vacancy in your representa-
tion ? Some of my friends, (confounded Tories they were)
—(laughter)—hinted to me, that as the people had now
got all they wanted, I had nothing more to do. Reform
would go on, moderate and safe reform. What meant
they, think you ?—(Renewed laughter.) So that I had
better let thiugs remain as they are. "Do you think,"
said I, " you are to have it all your own way ? No, never ;
whilst the electors of Shrewsbury stick by their principles
and by me, they will never find me wanting." (Several
rounds of cheers.) Don't you see even the Tories turned
such wholesale reformers, that they have proposed a mea-
sure of Church Reform so wide and extensive that, in
times past, 1 should have shuddered to hear it named in
the House of Lords, lest the wigs of the Bishops should
have started from their heads in pious horror.—( Laughter
and cheers.) How comes this ? a calculating Tory be-
gins to ask. What is its cause ? says another, as he be-
gins to reason on his fingers, and to look at you. One
says, it is the gradual progress of opinion ; another,
that Churchmen begin to see the error of their ways,
(High Churchmen I mean ; the others were always
sensible.)—(Much laughter.) But I tell you, it is the
Reform Bill.—(Great cheering.) It is the Reform Bill
which has compelled the Tories to promulgate this
useful and necessary measure ; and in so doing they acted
like prudent men.—(Laughter.) But that is not the only
reform we want. We must have Corporation reform as
well—( vehement cheering)—a reform of those bodies equally
wide and searching. Is it to be borne, gentlemen, that a
few self-elected individuals, neither morel earned, nor more
virtuous, nor more independent, than their fellow-citizens,
should be permitted to rule over the inhabitants of large
and populous towns, without controul or responsibility from
those whose property they use, and whose liberties are ill
their hands? and not only to do so in person, but to per
petuate the nuisance by electing their brothers, and sons,
and cousins, and grandmothers for ought I know—(much
laughter)—to usurp the same powers, after they are dead
and gone ; and yet no one can find fault with them, or in-
quire, into their conduct.—(Cheers.) To be sure such
things exist not in Shrewsbury.—(A peal of laughter fol-
lowed this sarcasm.) We are too pure to admit such scan-
dalous doings among us. But some hundred miles or so
from this borough, such things we know have been,
and must be removed. And I have not a doubt that they
will soon be swept away, and that, too, by the efforts of
those who have hitherto been the greatest apologists of
corporation abuses.—(Cheers.) The real grievances of the
Dissenters, too, will very shortly be removed ; for since
public opinion cannot go back (I defy them to do that), it
must go forward, and must, ay, and very soon, too, how-
ever unwillingly, wrest from any Government that can exist
the redress of every grievance. Mr. Slaney concluded
amidst loud cheers.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.
CASE OF JOSEPH ADY.

Joseph Ady was indicted for having, on the 10th of July,
obtained one sovereign from Francis Tebbutt, by means of
false pretences.
The Rev. Francis Tebbutt, a clergyman, residing in
Northamptonshire, and formerly living in Lower Clapton,
has a brother living in Austin-friars, whither he went to re-
side on a visit to town in the month of July last. While
there he received a letter, dated from No. 11, Circus, Mi-
nories, and signed " James Laurie." He proceeded to
that house, accompanied by a Mr. Hammond, and having
knocked at the door, inquired of the servant if Mr. James
Laurie resided there ? The defendant then appeared, of
whom he asked the same question, when he begged of him
to walk- in, observing he could manage that business, He
then called Ady's attention to the letter which he had
received, and observed to him that Laurie was a singular
name, and that he was formerly acquainted with a Mr.
Laurie at Cambridge. That individual was a relation of
Sir Peter Laurie's, and he inquired whether James Laurie
was in anyway related to that Gentleman? He replied
that he was his brother. They (Ady and Laurie) had
been some time in partnership. Every one in London was
acquainted with that fact. Witness then inquired whether
he could give him the information pointed out in the letter,
whereby he could obtain 2501. by payment of a sovereign ?
He replied that he could. Witness inquired whether, in
the event of the sum named not being forthcoming, he would
return the sovereign ? He replied in the affirmative, and
gave an acknowledgment to that PiffiCit: Mr: Hammond
then gave the sovereign to the defendant, at the same time
inquiring whether he was authorised to receive money on
the account of Mr. Laurie in his absence. He replied that
he was. Witness would not have consented to give the
sovereign unless upon the assnranee that he should receive
the sum of 2501. Witness then received a paper relating to
1001., which witness's father had given to a nephew of wit-
ness, to remain in stock under the trusteeship of Mr. Tho-
mas Tebbutt and a Mr. Lloyd, Witness remarked that
that had been out of stock, and that he had no interest in
it ; at the same tiM? he demanded the restitution of his