The Sun.
London, England, 1832-10-31 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The Tory party in England has long been the
bulwark of arbitrary government throughout Europe.
When the Duke of Wellington declared against the
Iteform principle, he made war as much for the
Hely Alliance as for the English oligarchy. His
Grace understood his own position in every thing
but its weakness. He felt that he sat upon an
isthmus connecting the dominion of the foreign
bayonet with that of rotten boroughs; hut he could
not calculate the force of that great national torrent
which came to sweep every mound and intrench-
ment from about him, and which enabled Lord Grey
completely to isolate the cause of despotism on the
continent from that of corruption here. There was
not, however, a Court minion amongst ourselves
who did not, until the very last hour, encourage the
creatures of the Holy Alliance with assurances that
the borough system wag too deeply rooted in the
soil to be disturbed, and would, in the end, prove
victorious over all its enemies. The several stages
of the struggle were watched with the eager-
ness of a condemned wretch, whose last hope is
that a reprieve will yet snatch him from the
gallows. First, the nation was to relax in its
zeal; next, the King was to dismiss his Minis-
ters; again, the House of Lords was to set King
and people at defiance ; last of all, the mob was
to be let loose, the troops to sabre them, and so a re-
action might follow. Alas, for our Conservatives,
it was in vain ! Even after the Reform Bills had
passed, a change of Ministers was still upon the
cards. With a Tory Executive Government, cried
the oligarchs at home,we will get the returns to work
in our favour. With a Wellington Government,
said the sabreurs abroad, we shall make war upon
France, and Belgium, and Don Pedro ; and, hur-
rah for divine right, Frederick-William, Nicholas,
and Francis, will he " themselves again." Nor
were such expectations very unreasonable, had the
preliminary condition been fulfilled, and a Welling-
ton Ministry once more installed in office. The fo-
reigners, indeed, have all along been deluding them-
selves with the certainty of such a consummation ;
and there is no doubt that the Duke of Wellington,
who had pronounced the French revolution to be a
" grievous calamity," the Belgic deliverance to
have been an unjustifiable " revolt" and the tyrant
of Portugal a Prince whom he, the Duke of Wel-
lington, had been on the point of acknowledging rot
lawful King of that much-injured country, would, as
natural consequences of his return to power, have
gratified the virtuous and benevolent longings of hit.
allies, and have striven with might and main to
abate the treble nuisance of constitutional govern-
ment in France and in Portugal, and of national in-
dependence in Belgium. The futility of such
hopes, as we said on Monday, there is reason to he
lieve has been cleatly established through Lord
Durham's able and temperate representations of the
state of England to the military Courts. Its
Lordship made it plain, that whatever might or
hereafter may be the personal composition of any
English Ministry, it is morally impossible that its
principles should be otherwise than in accordance
with ;he public feeling, expressed through a Parlia-
ment which no longer meets to register the edicts
of the oligarchy. The effect of this better under-
standing of the subject upon the conduct to be ob-
served towards Belgium has been already hinted at.
Russia and Prussia are now aware that the course
of British policy is no longer likt-ly to be ex-
posed to fluctuations produced by anti-popular in-
fluence; and they appear to have abandoned the
hope of further embarrassing, by evasion or delay.
the pacific adjustment of this critical and alarming
quarrel.—Times.

Mr. Alexander Baring, like most men who
from the straight road, finds himself more and more
entangled in his progress. Finding no opening for
himself in any other than an agricultural county, he
at once determined to set a good face on it, and to
present himself before the farmers as an enemy of
free trade, and a staunch friend of the agriculturist-
in the sense in which too many of them understand
the word. The effrontery of the thing was no doubt
surFrising; but a General often gains an advantage
precis ly because it is against all probabilTty that he
should seek it, and no preparation is made in the
quarter attacked; and as it was about as probable
that Bill Soames should seek to pass himself off as
a saint, as that Mr. Alexander Baring should seek
to pass himself off as an advocate of agricultural
protection, had the election been immediate, it is
ten to one but he would have stolen a march
on his opponents, and humbugged the farmers.
Fortunately, however, sufficient time has been
afforded to admit of an inquiry into the pre-
vious life of Mr. Alexander Baring ; and such has
been the result of that inquiry, that we should deem
it a hazardous speculation for the 11lillionaii•e to en-
counter personally an assembly of farmers. It has
been shown that Mr. Alexander Baring has, of all
the political characters of our time, been the most
opposed to the farmers as a body ; that in his op-
oosition, he did not content himself with argument,
but was absolutely foul-mouthed. In fact, ma,e-
rials in abundance for a comedy, in which farmers
should be held lip to ridicule, might be found in
Mr. Alexander Baring's speeches delivered in the
House of Commons. It gives us peat satisfaction
to see the miserable plight in which this rich arro-
gant
man apdears. The head of this man is either
originally of a peculiar construction, or it has been
turned by his worldly success. His fate will be a
warning to others, that a little respect is due to th,
world, and that because a man is rich, he is not
entitled, on that account, to sport withal! principles
to take up and abandon all opinions, and to ridicule-
the men one do whom he affects to patronize the
next.—Morning Chronicle.

Next to the Dutch question, the position and pro-
gress of events in Spain appears, of all other foreign
concerns, to excite the greatest share of interest,
and merit the most attention. That ancient and
once all-important kingdom has, within the last two
months, been the theatre of proceedings which ap-
pear likely, perhaps, to influence its future fortune,
far all time to come, and to restore it to that place
amongst nations which it had already all but lost.'
Our readers are aware, from the frequent letters of
our cot respondent at Madrid, and our own allusion
to them, of the great revolution which was effected
during the King's illness in the Councils of Spain,
and of the prospects which these changes have
since appeared to hold out of better days to th,
Spanish Constitutionalists, and every friend to
Spanish liberty throughout the world We have
now the satisfaction of stating that every recent
at rival tends to strengthen the hopes held out, ate
even—but we must not be too sanguine—to jusify
the presumption that the very best views of the
Spanish Liberals will, in the long run, be realis, d.
It will be seen that the young Queen continues ti
pursue those measures which she originated, ano
with uncommon spirit prosecuted, and that new ap-
pointments are still being made, which increase the
preponderance of the old party of the Cortes. The
King and she returned to Madrid, for the first tim,
since his illness, upon the 18th instant, when then
were received with all the enthusiasm a people,
flushed with the hope of political ameliorations, and
grateful for the favourable turn which things had
taken, could display. His Majesty, in celebration
of the event, and the birth-day of his daughtei,
ordered the theatres to be re-opened, which had
been closed since the 15th of September, and all was
unalloyed joy and universal satisfaction. The Queen
with great tact, as well as generosity, whilst she wa.
making new friends, appears to have been anxious
to conciliate old, and even avowed, enemies, for
liberal pensions have beet reserved for the greater
part of the displaced party of the Carlists. .Many
functionaries are now in employment who actually
held office under the Cortes, and some of them were
charged under that regime with trusts of the greatest
responsibility. The whole influence of Government
is, in fact, understood now to reside in the hands of
a fraction of the Constitutionalists of 1823—a small
and moderate portion, but whose views are good,
and their notions of constitutional freedom sound,
though temperate. This party is called the anilloros,

or members of the Society of " the Ring ;" and du-
ring the reign of the Cortes were regarded as the
juste milieu of Spanish revolutionists. Their theo-
ries are entirely English, and their notions of a
House of Lords, as well as the Cortes, were often
justified with vigour at the time in question, and
have been since cherished with unvarying attach-
ment throughout all their reverses. Their first ad-
vice to the Queen, it is said, will be to remove
every trace of the detestable inquisition, and the
next to restore order and credit in the finances of the
country. The Queen-Regent has already shown
herself favourable to something like a free Press, and
the Cortes hot estamentos, or States-General of the
kingdom, are speedily to be convened, to advise upon
the best steps to be taken under present circumstan-
ces, and prepare the ground-work of of a Charter.
The Carlist party is thought to be discomfited, but
far from di-couraged from making fresh attempts
upon the throne and the liberties of the country.
Don Carlos himsflf has been sent upon his travek,
but his partisans are still numerous, and sufficiently
audacious, if we may judge from the offensive songs
which were sung in Madrid upon the very day of
the King and Queen's entering the capital. The
army, however, has declared for the King's daugh-
ter, anti a plan is about to he put into operation,
which, it was hoped, would neutralise the well-
known hostility of the Royalist volunteers. As rr-
gards Portugal, the effect of the late change will
operate most happily, for not only is all intension of
interference for Don Miguel abandoned, but General
Sarsfield who commanded at Salamanca, has been
recalled, and the little army of observation itself,
never stronger than 9,000 men, was thought to be
.upon the point of being disbanded. In more re-
spects than one, then, the Ministerial revolution has
been as fortunate as it was unexpected. A con-
temporary states that Don Pedro was about to take
advantage of his good-luck, by sending an agent itn-
mediately to Madrid, to propitiate the parties in
power there, and no doubt he could do nothing
better. We hope he will carry this intention into
execution.— Morning Herald.
Those who infer that Prussia, Austria, and
Russia will permit Holland to he overrun or e,seti-
tially enfeebled, because Holland has rejected the
terms which they concurred in urging her to ac-
cept, forget the overruling motive to this con-
currence. It was Bo doubt to keep the French
out of Belgium, and it is obvious that the moment
the French enter Belgium, and make that country
the basis of military operations against Holland,
the position of Prussia, Austria, and Russia is
altogether changed ; the law of expediency adopts
,t new language; unity of purpose between
them and France exists no longer; co-operation
is superseded by mutual jealousy, distrust,
and dislike; and, with respect to Holland, it is
also obvious that from the same moment the
natural alliance between her and her nothere
neighbours is revived in more than its original force.
We believe confidently that the aggression now
about to he perpetrated upon Holland will lead to
a general European war, and we sincerely believe
also that the permanent and most important in-
terests of Great Britain would not be promoted,
but essentially injured, by the success of that party
to the contest with which the Government of this
country has thought proper for the moment to con-
nect it. This connection we know can be but tem-
porary. We at once and frankly say, therefore,
that we shall not sympathise in any triumph that
may he achieved during its continuance; and in u
termg this sentiment we feel assured that we do
but re-echo the voice of the great majority of
our countrymen. The war in which we are about
ro engage is no English war. It has no English ob-
ject. It is a French war, and its objects are excluivel'
French. And highly as the nation honours the laurels
won by our brave soldiers and sailors in fighting the
battles of their country, it will not desire to see
them increased in fighting the battles of France.
The navy of England can acquire no accession of
glory by the utmost success of a piratical expedition,
nor with the successors of the heroes of the Peninsula
and Waterloo either obliterate or rival the splendid
achievements which those names recal by filling the
place of subordinates and auxiliaries in the array of
revolutionary power.—Morning Post.

A meeting of the Clergy of the archdiocese
of Canterbury has, we bear, been called for to-day, at the
National School-room in that city, to consider the propriety
of addressing the Archbi4hop on the present circumstances
of the Church. The meeting is convened by Archdeacon
CROFT.

Our botanical friends will be glad to learn that
the seeds of a new and splendid Hibiscus, believed to be
nondescript, have been received by the last packet from
Jamaica. It is a native of the Island of Cuba, bears
-plendid bright crimson flowers, and was sent from that
island in August last by Dr. CHAMBERLAINE to Dr.
BANCROFT, of Jamaica, from whom the present supply
was received. It has been provisionally named after this
latter gentleman Hibicus Bancroflii.
A MISADVENTURE.—" Come awa' man,
she'll no come out the night." This was uttered a few
evenings ago by a sweep, standing in front of one of the
genteel houses in Love-street, to some person within the
inclosure, and in an Irish whisper, loud enough to be heard
b) a passenger who passed the spot. The passenger did
not think, by the appearance of the sweep, that he was a
likely person for any she to come out to, so he concealed
himself to watck what was going on. After several ar-
ticles of washed clothing had been handed out, there was
one parcel that seemed rather large for the width of the
railing. In forcing it through, it cried quack, quack,
and a nice fat duck slipped into the sweep's bag. The
passenger then rushed out and seized the two rogues, but
being unaided to surround them, one trade his escape.
After much struggling, he succeeded in delivering the other
over into the hands of the police. Evidence was clear,
and the man of soot was sent off for sixty days to Bride-
well. On Monday the superintendent of police pounced
on a fellow that he had seen in the sweep's company on the
,lay of the robbery. As expected, he proved the assistant,
and was next day sent off to share the fate of his confe-
derate,—Paisley Advertiser.

SEDUCTION AND SUlClDE.—Yesterday an
Inquest was held at the Elephant and Castle, St. Pancras
r•o id, on the body of EMMA Goon, aged 19. Mrs.
CHARLES GROON, of 5, Cuarles-street, Hampstead, said
,hat the deceased was her servant, and on Saturday last
.he was taken ill. She gave her some medicine which re.
!ieved her; she then, from some suspicions she had, ac-
.•.used her of incontinence. She at first asserted her in-
qicence, but finally confessed that she had been seduced.
Witness mentioned a young man of the name of GRA—
HA3s, who resided in the house. She replied, "hew is
innocent, and that it was one who ought to have known
better ; he was a married man." After the confession,
she was very much excited, and in much agony of feel-
og, exclaimed, " Oh, my pour mother and father, I can
never look you in the face again, I must go and hide my-
from the world." She continued in a low and in.
•onsolable state till Sunday afternoon, when she secretly
eft the house, and was not beard of till found drowned in
lie Regent's Canal. Verdict—Temporary Insanity,
HARVEY THE CONVICT.—Our readers will

recollect that some time ago paragraph went the round
.if the papers, stating that WILLIAM HARVEY, who, for a
crime of a most infamous description, received sentence of
transportation for life at our last circuit court, had escaped
from the huntl by petsonating another convict of the smile
tiame, for whom a respit , had been received ; and that
after his liberation he forged the signature of Lord MEL-
BourtnE to a letter reflecting in no measured terms on the
verdict of the Jury. Few would have expected to find in
a man, expert enough to elude the vigilance of the law, such
shallowness as to court investigation into his else by
rendering public his escape. or was it so. He actually
believed he had got a reprieve, and was under a much
more fatal mistake, in believing himself free, than we of
the press iu representing his case. It appears that the
original mistake lay with the captain of the vessel in which
he was about to embark, who received a commutation of
Iris sentence to seven years' transportation, in answer to
petitions forwarded by his friends to Lord MELBOURNE,
and, without proper examination, liberated him, believing
it to be a respite. The error was not detected till HAR-
VEY, having returned to Beith, and, considering himself an
injured man, forged the letter alluded to, in order once
more to establish his chatacter ; but his knavery proved
his snare. An investigation of the mysterious circum-
stances took place, the error was discovered, and be was
again escorted to his old quarters to fulfil his septennial
engagement.--Ayr Advertiser.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

Mr. George. May, the son of Mr. May, the ink ma-
nufacturer, was charged before the Loan Mal-oa, by Mr.
Rolfe, the master of Coleman-street Infant School, under
the following circumstances :
Mr. Rolfe stated that the defendant had seduced his
daughter, a girl only fifteen years and three months old,
taken her away from the comfortable situation which she
held of assistant in a respectable school, and ruined her
prospects in life for ever, and that he aggravated the
cffence by committing a most furious assault upon her
father.
The complainant here appeared to be greatly affected ;
and Mr. May begged that those who heard the charge
would not allow their sympathies to be taken hold of un-

til they should hear both sides of the question.
Mr. Rolfe said that the defendant bad taken his daughter
to a lodging, where he had detained her four days and four
nights. Having heard that the defendant intended to go
out of town on the preceding night, he determined to ex-
postulate with, and endeavour to prevail upon him to
make reparation for the dreadful injury he had inflicted.
The de'endant, upon being addressed by him, instead of
showing the least compunction, laughed at the accusation,
and acknowledged his guilt.
Mr. Hobler told the complainant that, unfortunately,
a Magi•trate had no power in case of the kind, and
begged that he would confine himself to the charge of
assault.

The complainant—l said to him, "What a pretty
fellow you are to treat me in this way !" Upon which
he pushed me. I then pushed him, and he struck me
with the greatest violence. As I would not, under any
circumstance, have a black eye, I put my hand to defend
my face, and did not return the blow ; but I took hold of
him and held him fast, and called the watch, who soon
came to my assistance.
A friend of Mr. May said that the complainant had
confessed that he had struck the first blow.
The LORD MAYOR—If the defendant had seduced the
complainant's daughter, a question which I am not com-
petent to try, no one could wonder or regret if the former
had come off with a broken head.

The complainant—He has taken her, as he calls it,
under his protection, and blasted her hopes, and her fa-
mily's hopes, for ever ; and, not content with that, he has
laughed at me, and basely attacked me in my distressed
condition.

The LORD MAYOR—WeII, Mr. Jay, what have you
to say to this charge of assault ?
Defendant—l have to say, my Lord, that the charge of
seduction is a vile conspiracy against me. Ino more se-
duced the girl than any other person here seduet d her.
I had no desire to have any communication with her, but
she scaled my father's waPs, and actually wanted to be-
siege my bed-room. Although she is young, she has had
her education at Cams.ridge, and her father knows that I
have had no band in her ruin.

The complainant shook his bead, but said nothing.
The drieridant—As to the assault, I most solemnly as-
sure your Lordship, that when he met the he struck with
great violence, and it was fur the purpose of bringing this
trumped-up story of seduction bet ore your Lordship that
he began the conflict. It is I, my Lord, that have reason
to he apprehensive of violence from him.
The complainant appeared to be by tar the more power-
ful man of the two, and many persons were rather sur-
prised at the " bad fight" which the complainant said he
had made.

A brotl er of the defendant—l assure you, my Lord,
th•it Miss Rulfe was no more the victim of my brother's
acts 'ban she was of mine. li-fore my brother saw her,
she had been seduced many and many a time. Although
she is so young, any one would take her for 18 or 19
This matter has been got up without the sligkest fowl
d a on.

The LORD MAYOR asked whether any one had seen the
complainant sti Ike the first blow, and nobody having an-
swered, his Loidship said that the defendant must find
bail to answer the complaint at the S-ssions.
The defendant's brother—lf a girl scales the walls of a
man's house, what is he to do? If she scales my father's
wails again I'll either shoot her, or set the dog at her.
The complainant was silent 'luring this conversation.
The defendant—He has acknowledged that he was the
aggressor, and really I am the person who ought to be
afraid. I know that he will strike me again ; and I dare
say he will repeat that I am the assailant.
The LORD MAYOR—If he strikes you he must he re-
sponsible, for whatever may be the injury you may have
inflicted be is not warranted in taking the law into his
own bands. You must find bail. _ _

Amongst the papers which were banded in to his Lord-
ship on the subject was a letter from the complainant's
daughter, stating that she was not disposed to return
home, in consequence of having received a blow from her
father.
The defendant immediately procured bail.

A female pauper, in a very advanced state of pregnancy,
was brought before the Lord Mayor on a most extraordi-
nary occasion.
One of the overseers of St. Botolph, Aldgate, stated
that the pauper had been for seven years chargeable to the
parish, along with her husband and an increasing family.
Although treated with great kindness she was excessively
riotous in the workhouse, and was in the habit of convey-
ing to the lying-in ward quantities of gin, whenever she
could collect the means of purchasing it. The introduc-
tion of such a beverage was of course not calculated to al-
lay any inclination among the inmates to quarrel, and
few disputes ended in mere words On the preceding
evening a great disturbance was heard in the lying-in
ward, and the first object which presented itself upon the
entrance of the person appointed to superintend was the
defendant, with her cap off, her hair about her neck, and
the sleeves of her gown tucked up, and standing opposite
to another woman, who was also in an advanced state of
pregnancy, in a boxing attitude. " Come on," said she,
" and I'll give it you—l'll whop you !"—(Laughter.)
The officer declared that it was quite frightful to see two
women, in such a condition, with their fists clinched and
ready to do each other the most fatal mischief. He be-
lieved that they were each of them within a few days of
their lime. _

The LORD MAYOR—Do you mean to say they bad been
fighting?—The officer said that was really the case. As
the defendant was, no doubt, the aggressor, it was thoue,ht
fit to remove her trom the ward, there being no other way
of securing the other women from imminent danger. She,
however, swore that she would go no where but to the
Compter, and was accordingly conveyed thither, as there
was an hospital in that pt iron, where aid might be given
to her in the event of an accident.

The defendant slid, in a voice very much out of repair,

from constant devotion to the gin bottle, that the fault
was not hers. She was not, she said, stripped to fight,
but to go to bed, when she was challenged by another
woman to spar a little before they went to sleep, and she
had no idea of having any thing but a little wholesome

exercise.
The LORD .MAYOR told the defendant tint, if Bhe did
not happen to be in a condition which entitled her to the
most indulgent treatment, he would certainly send her to
the tread-mill, where ehe would have plenty of exercise

every day to make her sleep dt night. His LurdMhip then,
having received her promise not to disturb the peace of the
workhouse, recommended her to the protection of the offi-
cers, who sent her back in a coach.
GUILDHALL.

Yesterday William Tate, late a waiter, and a person
named Christie, were charged on suspicion of having
defrauded various tradesmen.
Mrs. Abel Frenci-i, kid glove manufacturer, of St.
John-street-road, said that Christie, on Saturday morning,
called on her, and having given his card " Christie and
Co., warehousemen, 60, Aldermanbury," desired that some
samples of gloves might he sent to him to show to a geo.
tleman from Hastings. Five dozen and a half were sent,
and on her son going a second time to learn whether they
were approved ot, the door was closed, and several trades-
men were waiting outside.
Christian, or as he called himself, Christie, was appre-
hended at a public-house, and on him were frond memo-
randa of different tratles,en, and delivery notes.
The prisoners were remanded to Thursday.
BOW.STREET.

BEGGING LETTERS•-John IVchid, who stands charged
with having committed various frauds, by ►ne,ns of beg-
ging letters, was yesterday again brought up, and, in the
absence of direct evidence, discharged.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

COACH INFORMATIONS.-The proceedings of Byers,
the informer, against the pair-horse coach proprietors, for
alleged offences against the 38th and 40th Sections of the
new Act, which sections relate to the width and sitiation
of the seats fir the outside pissengers, provided the addi-
tional number is carried, have been productive of so much
annoyance as to induce a number, who have been served
with summonses, to apply to the Commissioners „f Stamps
for some satisfactory explanation of the intentions of the
Legislature, or rather of the construction of those clauses
referred to in the new Act.
Yesterday this office was completely crowded with par-
ties interested in the question, in consequence of the an-
nouncement that Mr. Timms, the Solicitor to the Board,
would attend on behalf of Mr. Gray, a pair-horse coach
proprietor, who bad been summoned, with a batch of