The Sun.
London, England, 1832-07-20 00:00:00

adopt any measure disagreeable to Austria and
Prussia, and to outvote these two Powers, tie
Decree could not be executed. It is natural
that the inhabitants of States of the same race,
speaking the same language, and possessing the
same literature, should feel a desire to be more
closely connected than natives differing in race
and language. The Germans may, therefore,
be considered in some sort one nation. But the

inhabitants of the separate States have not the
smallest chance of good Government, if they are
not to be considered independent in all that re-
spects their domestic transactions. If Austria
and Prussia interfere between them and their
rulers, and declare that the rulers shall be inde-
pendent of the representatives of the people, the
latter must soon become the prey of every abuse.
It has been found in the East Indies, that the
moment a native Sovereign comes under our pro-
tection, the oppression of his subjects has no
longer any limit. So long as he is independent,
he dreads resistance; but when secure of English
protection, he has no longer anything to dread ;
and he carries his oppression so far, that at length,
in mercy to the people, we are obliged to add
them to our other subjects. The inhabitants of
the small German States will now be in some-
thing like the condition of the subjects of the
native Indian Princes under English protection.
But the means of the inhabitants of the smaller
States to resist the great States are so dispropor-
tionably small, that we cannot anticipate any
effectual resistance. Of the 14,000,000 Han-
over has 1,500,000. This State will always
support the great Monarchies. Of the four
millions of Bavarians, about one million only
can be considered enlightened. In fact, the
struggle would be with Rhenish Bavaria, Wir-
temburg, Baden, the two Hesses, Nassau, and
some smaller States, and the rest of the Confede-
ration, with the other dominions of Austria and
Prussia. France would not interfere—England
would not interfere. The result may easily be
anticipated. Were there any common feeling
among the Germans as a nation there might be
some hopes. But we fear there is not. The
Germans take a great deal to rouse them. The
oppression must be very great under which they
lose their patience. The people have little public
spirit. The writers deal largely in exaggerated
sentiment ; but a German, though extravagant
in his book language, is a very sober man in real
life. We wish we may be mistaken ; but we fear
the power of Austria and Prussia will, for the
present, experience no obstacle. In time, how-
ever, injustice will produce its effects ; and it is
to be hoped if ever oppression drives the Ger-
mans again to take up arms, they will make a
better use of them than they did in the war of
liberation, as they called it, when they showed
themselves so deficient in wisuom and foresight.
—Morning Chronicle.

SUMMER ASSIZES.

NORFOLK CIRCUIT.--BUCKINGRAM,

JULY 18.

William Alridge was indicted for having, in Fe•
bruary last, set tire to a barn and two stacks of hay,
the property of William A-Wry, of her.

Mr. PRAED conducted the proiecution.
The principal witness against the prisoner was his
sister-in-law, who stated that the prisoner came to
her house about six o'clock on the evening of the

fire, and pulling out two bundles of matches from
his pocket, threw them down on the table, observ-
ing that he had brought them for her (the witness).*
She told him she did not want them, and he then
returned them to his pockets, from which he took
an old file and a flint, which he struck together, in
order to satisfy himself that he could produce fire
from them. Finding that he could, he asked for
some rag, and the witness gave him tke half of one
of her children's napkins. This occurred at eight
o'clock, and in about half an hour the witness went
to bed, leaving her husband in the garden, and the
prisoner sitting by her fire. She had been in bed
only a few minutes when she smelt something burn-
ing; she then got out of bed, and stood on the
top of the stairs, and asked the prisoner what
was burning ? He replied that nothing was, and
that if she smelt any thing she must have set her-
self on fire. Not satisfied with this answer, she
looked into the room in which the man was,
when she saw him making the rag which she hal
given him into tinder. Very shortly after this, the
prisoner and her husband left the house together,
going in the direction towards the premises of the
prosecutor. They returned about half-past ten,
when the prisoner went into the bed-room of the
witness, where he passed the night, lying in one
corner of the room. When the husband came up,
he asked if his wife were sleeping. The prisoner
replied, " What need have you to be afraid ? It's a
good job. I struck the light before we got to the
place, else I should have made such a noise, and
I've done it very clever not to be seen ?" On the
following morning the prisoner went again to her
house, and took away her children's victuals, which
he had often done before. She threatened to tell
Ashley about the fire, and he told her, if she did
he would most certainly murder her. She, however,
told Ashley a few days afterwards. It appeared
that she had three children, whom her husband fre-
quently left three or four days without food, and she
was reduced to the necessity of parting with her
tea-kettle, and some other articles of domestic use,
in order to save herself and children from starvation.
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husband she attributed to the bad advice of the
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The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty, and sen-
tence of death was passed on him. He left the bar
very little affected by his perilous state.