The Sun.
London, England, 1835-02-24 00:00:00

It is a consolation to the agricultural interest, that his Ma-
jesty, in his Speech from tne Throne has expressed his anxiety
for their interests, and it is an increase to that consolation,
that his Majesty has expressed himself desirous to allel4ste
their distresses.--( Cheers:) if I may be tilloWed to make
a remark, it would be this,—that so long as we are
enabled to keep off agitation upon the question of the
corn laws, to allow that question to remain at rest,
coupled with the knowledge that his Majesty is de-
sirous to do hi utmost, and will probably be 'able
to take off some of those local taxes that press most heavily
upon the people ; if such a course is allowed to be pur-
sued I feel quite certain that in the result the best effects
will be produced. But if the question should come
to be agitated in Parliament, the mere agitation of the
question is, in my opinion, sufficient tO depress the prospects
of the trade, and may be productive of the most serious conse-
quences.—( Hear.) I will now, my Lords, approach another
part of his Majesty's Speech, which I consider to be
of the utmost importance. I believe, my Lord, there
Never was a time when it more behoved every Englishman
to stand forward and assist His Majesty to carry out his good
intentions--( Cheers.) If ever there was a time in which his
Majesty stood in need of their support it is the present,
and every man ought to stand forward and support him, what-
ever political differences might exist.—( Cheers.) On such
an occasion, all party feeling and tactics should be put au end
.
to, for the purpose of approaching the Throne, and thanking.
his Majesty for th
speech ht! 4.s this day delivered in Pa'rlia-
'urn Tne su6ject alluded to in his Majesty's Speech, with
respect to the commutation of tithes, is one of vast
importance to the country in general, and I have no doubt
If a voluntary commutation of tithes be effected, it would be
I stand a living specitileti of tire,ii:frititteAi nt' titltii,
productive of the best and most efficient results. My Lords,
the estate to which I have lately come, and which I bel!Gvii
rums into some --
en parishes, the clergy are entirely
By the landlord, much: to the satisfaction of the
tenants and the clergy themselves—( Loud cheering.)-7-
I next wish to address a few words to your Lordships on the
subject of dissenting marriages, for it is a question of great
importance; involving. as it does the fotindation of the domestic
happiness of tin influential portion of his Majesty's subjects. It
has therefore been considered necessary to issue a commission
Pr on
for the purpose of bringing about a settlement of this delicate
question, so that the marriages of Dissenters may be cele-
brated in consonance to their feelings at the same time
ensuring as mush publicity as possible, and removing their
conscientiotts tiertitilel tin the Millet. On the tlUestion of
Church Reform, as it is one to which the country looks ,for-
ward with great anxiety, I am confident all of your Lordships
will enter into the views entertained by his Majesty's Go-
vernment, and are with them prepared to extend the foun-
dations of the Church, so as to make them commensurate
with the wants of the people(Hear, hear)—and all those
who are dispiited to ednfortil to its doctrines and discipline.
It is easy to be computed that the present Church Establish-
ment is not equal to the wants of the people, and that cannot
be better proved than from the retui n of the town of The
name of it we could not hear.) It was formerly a barren
and now it contains a population of 60 or 70,000 inhabitants.
This shows the impropriety of confining the foundations of' the
Church to the want of its present adherents, and demon-
strates that the establishment is not disproportioned to
the population of the dotintry.—(Great cheering.) The
Church is not so 'rich as people out of doors are disposed to
imagine. A question of difficulty therefore remains to be settled
=bow far thb Warne§ tit the higligr orders of the clergy can
be reduced, and those of the working clergy increased. How-
ever anxious your Lordships may be to act in improving the
the institutions of the ,couritrf, lam sure that all will agree
that we shiiiil3 proceed With the greatest catition, arid ateertain
beforehal if. the practical, grievances really existed that are
Cointilaine if, The Noble Lord then quoted a long extract from
an author weak. name we could not learn, enforcing the
cessity of caution in improving the old institutions of any
Country.) I will not, continued his lordship, trespass any
longer upon y-o attention, thin merely while I read an ex-
teat froth Majesty's Speeen, agreeing with the tietts of the
writer just referred to. The King says " I rely with confi-

the kindness with which they had heard him. His Lordship
concluded by moying, tba,t,an humble Aildress be presented to
hi Ma;(4tv. Ilis Lordship then read trig Addiese, ithichi as
usual, was an echo of the King's Speecn.
Lord GAGE rose to second the motion, and said, it is un-
necessary, for ine to tqke up the timg of the House with a
I,4ngtlfe'ned Address, after what has fallen from My Noble
Mend. ile may have left me but little to say, more
tban hat d€l:lAr'e I poi; cordially *Mid , the Address, and
that I klurigialnlale itie tinge iipoll ilid Spiegel has
been delivered by his Majesty on the present state of public
affairs.—( Hear.) But I cannot but feel that the intentions of
his Majesty will not be realised, except by a line of conduct
very different to that whieb is adopted ,elsewhere. This
btingi site to a point which, in my Opinion, Stieiticl influ=
ence your Lordships to be unanimous on this question. It is the
actual and particular position of the country at the present
time, and I do conceive that for good or for evil the die is
cast, and a Government had been formed for, the purpose of
1 • t• • x•••
TAW:king the principle of loyalty in this Kingdom. That
my Lords is the plank between us and the ocean, if that fails
us we sink to rise no more in our present political
form.—( Hear, hear.) Will those who oppose existing institu-
tions bring forward some Utopian form of Government without
)I.EFT SPEAKING.)

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

This day his Majesty in person will meet the new
Parliament, and recommend, in a Speech from the
Throne; these principles and measures which, in the
opinion of his majesty and dt his responsible tamers,
p , A ;
advisers,
are most likdy tO ctindbec td the i*elfafe of the min,
to remedy ail the evils of which any class 6f the
people justly complain, and to avert the dangers with
which the most valuable instittitions of the country are
ttfaiiifestjv threatened: Corisideting the multiplidity,
the importance-, AO the aeheaty tit the iepies td which
of necessity h Majesty's speech must allttde, and the
(iamb position in which the Government actually
stands, there would upon the present occasion be
more than Ordinary danger iii, -ay very edtiikletit pre-
the, eotiteno of this important coniftitiiiitii-
tifhl. The eiteiiinStande§ id We advert nay
serve, however, in some degree to assist and giiide
us in the formation of a few probable conjectures as
to the general nature of the Royal Speech, and the
mode iii which it rosy be expected that his Majesty
*ill have been advised to deg the leading topit/s.which
it will embrace. It may, for example, be anticipated,
without much liability to error, that the King's Speech
upon the present occasion will be of cnnsiderably more
than ordinary length, and that it will develope the
views and intentions of his Majesty's Government with
sottie*hat more of distinctness and detail than has
hitherto been aimed at in similar productions ; nor
does it seem hazardous to conjecture that considerable
forbearance will be practised in adverting to topics
which, in the present state of parties and of opinions,
are more calculated than others to provoke, dissension
and stimulate debate. His Majesty will probably say
that he has taken the earliest opportunity of meeting
his Parliament after the recent appeal he had made to
the sense of his people. His Majesty will lament the
destruction of the two Houses of Parliament, and state -
that this calamity was evidently the result of accident ;
that a full investigation of the circumstances had taken
place before the Privy Council ; and that the report
of that body shall forthwith be laid before Parliament.
It will no doubt be announced that his Majesty con-
tinues to receive from all foreign Powers assurances of
their friendly disposition, and of their determination to
concur with his Majesty in.the maintenance of general
peace. It will then probably be stated that the only
circumstance which threatens an interruption to the
general tranquillity of Europe is the civil war which
continues to exist in some of the northern provinces of
Spain ; and his Majesty will naturally proceed to in-
form Parliament that, in conjunction with his allies,
the King of the French, the Queen Regent of Spain,
and the Queen of Portugal, he has agreed to certain
supplementary articles, which he will cause to be im-
mediately laid before them, for the completion of the
objects contemplated in the treaty of April, 1834.
His Majesty will express his regret that the questions
in dispute between Holland and Belgium still remain
unsettled. Upon the subject of our Foreign Affairs it
is not to be expected, we think, that the speech will
contain either more or less than we have thus ventured

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. GROCER'S COMPANY.

The arguments in this case-were resumed to-day.
Mr. JACOB for the defendants, Sir WILLIAM HORNE
in reply.

It was found by an inquisition taken in 1686 that the
Grocer's Company had received, amongst other charitable
gifts, various sums, to the amount of 4,5201., to be lent out
in different portions to poor members of the Company, in
order to enable them to set up in their trades. It appeared
by a decree of the Charitable Commissioners in 1687 that
the Company had become very much impoverished in con-
sequence of the fire of London, and that they were defi-
cient in their charitable accounts. In consequence whereof
the decree directed the Corporation estates to be conveyed
to twelve trustees, upon trust to pay the yearly growing
payments to certain charitable uses charged thereupon, then
to apply the surplus rents in payment of the arrears of the
latter Charities, for which purpose twenty years was allowed
them ; and, after discharging all these arrears upon trust to
pay the Warden and Masters the Loan Fund in question
for the purposes of the loans, the rest of the rents and pro-
fits subject to the annual payments to be held in trust for
the Corporation. The object of the present suit was to
have the 4,.7201., raised with interest ; which sum at com-

pound interest since 1686, it was calculated
to above four millions and a half. However, Sir William
Horne affdred to atcept a decree for 50,0001. It was in-
sisted no loans had ever been made in ptirsuance of the
charities.

1-1 ~mount

His HoNoun, after observing there was some obscurity
concerning the nature of the charities, and after stating the
facts already detailed, remarked that the decree of the
Commissioners never severed the dominion over the funds
from the hands of the Corporation. The money, when
raised by the trustees, was to be paid to the Warden and
Masters. The information must be dismissed with costs.

During the day his Honour, addressing Sir William
Horne, observed he had just been informed a gentleman's
pocket had been picked in Court, but that the thief had
been caught and taken to Bow-street. His Honour said
he had applied to the Lord Chancellor to have a police
officer regularly attached to the Court, and to have his
salary paid out of the suitors' fund.
A little after, the police officer who had been in attend-
ance since his Honour's application to Sir Frederick Roe,
applied to his Honour in consequence of the gentleman
whose pocket was picked having refused to obey the Ma-
gistrate's summons to attend at Bow-street.
His HONOUR had no authority to interfere.
Mr. MINN observed the gentleman was his client, and
was waiting for the next cause in the paper.
His HoNoun immediately directed the cause to stand
over for to-morrow, in order that the gentleman might suf-
fer no inconvenience from attending the Police Office.

ROLLS' COURT.

COGAN V. STEVENS.

This was a bill filed by the plaintiff in his character of
heir-at-law of tuo testator in this case, Louis Stevens,
claiming to be entitled to a sum Le thirty t.hcusand pounds.
The testator, by his will, after making devise.s, di-
rected that a sum of thirty thousand pounds shoulal ane-
diately after his death; be laid out in the purchase of an
estate or estates, in the county of bei,on or Cornwall, the
income of which was to belong to his widow far her life,
and after her decease to his brother William and his issue,
and in default in succession to his three other brothers
end sister, and to their issue ; and in default, in trust to
establish a charity for boys in the city of Exeter. The wi-
dow survived the testator, and outlived the brothers and
sister, all of whom died without issue. The third brother
made a will, by which he treated the thirty thousand pounds
as of course going on his decease for the establishment of
the charity. The sum in question, instead of being laid out
in the purchase of lands, as directed, was invested in the
Funds, the atinuai dividends of which the widow received
during her life. The question now to be decided was, whe-
ther or not the heir-at-law of the testator would take the
thirty thousand pounds, or whether or not that sum would
fall into the general residue.
Mr. BICKERSTETU was heard at great length on be-
half of the plaintiff.
His Honour the MASTER of the ROLLS postponed the
hearing of the reply till to-morrow (this day.)

COURT OF KING'S BENCH.

THE KING V. FRANKS.

This was a criminal information filed against the defen-
dant, at the suit of Mr. De Mole, the clerk and solicitor
of the Merchant Tailors' Company, for libels alleged to
have been published of and concerning that gentleman in the
Sunday Herald. Proceedings had been in the first instance
taken against the proprietors of the paper, but these were
abandoned on their giving up 'the defendant as the author.
The defendant carries on the business of a hatter, in Red-
cross-street, and has for sometime employed himself in the
exposure of Corporation abuses. In 1833 he undertook to
furnish the Sunday Herald with articles on this subject,
and did in fact supply several to that paper. Among these
articles, which were severally printed in September, Octo-
ber, November, and December, were some accusing the
prosecutor of hauteur in office, complaining that the Mem-
bers of the Company could not obtain from him information
to which they were entitled, and contrasting him with Mr.
Knapp, the clerk of another Company. The libel, how-
eve?, Most complained of was one in which the prosecutor
was described as " patronymically a Swiss, but those who
are acquainted with the peregrinations and amours of his
mother, may be able to trace his hauteur to the blood of a
Spanish hidalgo.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL, in stating the case to the
Jury, commented severely on this passage.
Mr. Robertson, the printer of the paper, and Mr. Lewis,
the proprietor of it, were called to make out the fact that
the defendant was the author of the alleged libels. They
could not prove his handwriting, but they proved his offer
to supply ;:ticlesbearing the name under which the libels
had appeared ; his to;Faking of these articles as his, own ;
and his having, after the cr;.7.'inal information had been in
the first instance moved for againstthe proprietors of the
paper, stated that he should take time to consider whether
he should give himself up as the author or not.
Mr. HILL addressed the Jury, after which
Lord DENMAN summed up, and told the Jury that it
was for them to consider whether the statements in the
paragraphs were or were not libellous. As to the pro-
ceedings by action, he was bound to tell them that it was
very doubtful whether any action could be maintained by
dttr perm for a libel upon a relative.
The Jury retired to consider ; .and then returned a
verdict of guilty on all the counts in the information but
the three which related to the prosecutor's conduct in office.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.