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SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1835.

bodies of all England and Wales. We have this week,
with our Parliamentary Papers, received Part 111. of
the Appendix of the Reports of the Municipal Com-
mission, and we shall have more to say on the ap-
proaching discussion of this subject. Tiverton, with
all its corporate impurities, is a small sample of the
corrupt system, compared with the revelations of the
last volume. We recommend all Reformers to read
the Reports on Coventry and Leicester, two corpora-
tions boldly defended in 1826 and 1828 by Sir Robert
Peel and Lord Lyndhurst.—Morning Chronicle.
The name of Lord Palmerston has been pressed
into the service of Aome of those Journals whose in-
credulity with regard to the Callist successes resists
even the evidence afforded by the Court of Madrid
itself, of its total incapacity to contend any longer
with the forces of Don Carlos, without the aid of
foreign intervention. On Tuesday evening a paragraph
appeared in certain of those papers, to the effect that
Mr. Ricardo, the contractor for the Spanish Loan, had
called on Lord Palmerston, with the view of ascer-
taining, for the information of the public, whether the
British Government had received any recent despatches
from Spain, which would justify the impression that
Don Carlos was likely to overcome the Queen's forces.
We need not go through the details of the statement
—the upshot was, as it has gone forth to the world,
that Lord Palmerston assured Mr. RiCardo that the
despatches received by the Government did not con-
tain a syllable which went to corroborate those idle ru-
mours. On the contrary, his Lordship was assured that
the Queen's cause was, to all appearance, " as triumph-
ant now as it had been for several weeks." Is it possi-
ble that such a statement could have been made by a
Minister of the Crown, with a view of operating upon
the funds, at a time when the flag of distress is hoisted
by the Government of Madrid—at a time when the
Queen's Generals, shut up in fortresses, dare not meet
the enemy in the field, and the Carlist Commander-in-
Chief, having routed the army of Valdez, excites by
his successful progress, terror and consternation in the
capital itself ? It is true Lard Palmerston might say
in a sarcastic way that the Queen's cause was to all
appearance as triumphant now as it had been for se-
veral weeks, because for several weeks it has been in a
very deplorable state ; but it is only decent and be-
coming in a Minister to be serious on such occasions.
It was no time for a joke ; the deception that has been
practised with regard to Spanish affairs has been the
ruin of many. Neither the Arigna Mining affair, nor
any bubble of 1826, has been more artfully blown,
nor has more wofully burst. We agree with those who
say that " an atrocious scheme of plunder has been
perpetrated," and that none ought to pay without first
inquiring how it is that they have been so egregiously
duped ?—Morning Herald.

We are no friends to the requisition of pledges from
candidates on the hustings. The country is not so
devoid of men of character, nor are the means of access
to the political history and proceedings of English gen-
tlemen in active life so small, as to leave a body of
constituents at the mercy of any hasty information, or.
sudden and compulsory assurance, which thelle4yiae
enabled to wring from an anxiousctitatate, by making
it the price at which they t,, rider him their support.
Prudence and duty alike suggest to the electors a timely
consideration of the claiihs of public men to their confi-
dence, and must imprese'epon them the value of obtain-
ing such a previous knewledge of thoso
who would best
suit them for theirrepreSentatives, as must Supersede any
necessity for resorting to the offensive and insecure ex-
pedient of exacting pledges. He of whom we deem it
necessary to demand a pledge that he will pursue a cer-
tain course of measures, must be one upon whom we
can have no reliance that he will not violate his word.
IF, however, there were any circumstance which could
reconcile us to the exaction of a pledge, or any
pledge which we should esteem worth insisting on,
that circumstance would be the possibility that our
Representative might not be satisfied with voting on
particular questions in a different sense from any in
which we could concur, but that he might barter
away for mercenary objects the entire trust which had
been reposed in hini, and in effect disfranchise us, or
at least subject our interests to great inconvenience, if
not to risk of extensive injury, by an abrupt abandon.
ment of his post, and transfer of his services to other
quarters. If, for instance, Members who have re-
commended themselves to particular Constituencies by
affecting a warm zeal for their advantage, and by im-
plied, if not express, engagements to stand by them
through all political trials—if such persons have on
more than one occasion deserted their post, and
turned over the electors who had sent them into
Parliament to friends or connexions of their own
men in high office—with patronage at their
disposal, wherewith richly .to remunerate the
obsequiousness of those who have obliged them
—if, we say, such things have sometimes hap-
pened, a case is established which does in our minds
afford some grounds of justification for the demand of
a pledge, not indeed that a representative will meanly
compromise his own sincere conviction on important
questions, but that he will not sell his constituents for
lucre, and come in as a warming-pan to make over the
"goodwill " of the shop which he relinquishes to whom-
soever will bid him the highest price. We should like
to hear whether Colonel Fox would have had the ma-
jority of the Stroud voters on the last election, if he had
then apprised them of his project for handing himself
over on so early an occasion to the Ordnance, and their
borough 'to a successor who should be a confederate of
his own ? It is not enough to say that no injury has
been wrought against the borough of Stroud in the
minds of its elective body, because they have now chosen
the gentleman whom Col. Fox designated as his friend,
for in fact the thing came upon them like a thunder
clap—they could not help themselves, having no time
to prepare for a contest. The question is, would the
people of Stroud, or of any other borough, if left to
deliberate on the matter, ever think of choosing a can-
didate who they knew beforehand would expose them
to the necessity of a fresh election in the course of two
or three months ? It is obvious that they would not,
and we therefore condemn the gross unfairness of a
transaction the consequences of which were studiously
concealed by one of the parties from the other, for fear
of that other running restive. So, with regard to
Tiverton, where, if Mr. Kennedy has not turned his
back upon himself (of which we are far from accusing
him), he certainly has upon his constituents. This
learned O'Connellite vacates in favour, as it is under-
stood, of Lord Palmerston—behaving to the electors of
that Devonshire borough pretty much a la Renard.
The rumour has been circulated for some days that
Mr. Kennedy, in place of representing Tiverton
gratis, was to be paid some thousand pounds a year
for representing the magisterial authorities of the
India House at Madras, though it is possible the
arrangement may cost a dozen or two more of
protocols before it can be completed. It is now
indeed as stiffly denied by the Ministerial press,. as
was Colonel Fox's Canada Commissionership, and
perhaps the payment may be in sovereigns rather than
rupees ; but the main point for the country, and the
only one of any substantial interest, is, whether the
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wanted chance of sneaking up to the
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somehow or other. If Mr. Kennedy
gets any lucra-
tive office, it is all-sufficient for our doctrine, and the
merit of the King of England's Ministers in providing
for this personage will have been awfully aggravated
by the circumstance that, except the tail of the Irish
Agitator, he, Mr. Kennedy, was the only British
member of Parliament who voted for separating Ire-
land from Great Britain. Such cases, we repeat, as
those of Stroud and Tiverton are enough to justify
the demand of pledges, but they are pledges of a dif-
ferent kind and tendency from those by which our
shallow-pated Radical philosophers have been in the
habit of torturing their victims.—Times.

We can state, upon authority, that the Bishop of
London has made a regulation refusing ordination to any per-
son, however excellent his qualifications and testimonials, who
has exceeded the age of thirty ! 1 It is full time that the sic
volo sic jubeo system, exercised by Bishops, should be better
regulated by Parliamentary interference.

THE THREE JEWS.—On Saturday afternoon, the
Royal-square and adjacent streets were crowded to witness
the exhibition of these convicted utterers of forged notes in
the pillory, pumapt to a part of their sentence.-. Jersey
Argun.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH.

THE KING V. THEOPHILUS JEVES.

Mr. R. N. CLARKE showed cause against a rule for a
mandamus to be directed to the defendant, as Treasurer of
Northampton, to pay two sums of money, claimed on ac-
count of the expenses of a prosecution for a riot arising out
of the last election but one in that town, and ordered to be
paid by the Learned Judge before whom the indictment
was tried. One of the sums was for money due for the
expenses of the prosecutor, the other for the expenses of
witnesses. The first was clearly not recoverable, as the
Act (7th Geo. IV., c. 64, sec. 23) under which it was
claimed, gave it only to prosecutors who should appear be-
fore any Court on recognizance to prosecute. Now here
the prosecutor was under recognizances to appear and pro-
secute at the Sessions, but he prosecuted at the Assizes,
where he was clearly under no recognizance to prosecute,
and consequently had not brought himself within the words
of the Act. This case, too, was not one for a mandamus,
for the Treasurer was only an inferior officer, to whom this
Court would not direct a mandamus. He might be pro-
ceeded against by indictment.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL supported the Rule.—Rule
discharged.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION HO USE.

A Jew, named Bonseca, was yesterday charged with
having followed a gentleman, and endeavoured to rob him.
A policeman observed the prisoner and another man at-
tempt to pick the pockets of several gentlemen. In one
Instance the prisoner contrived to whip out a pocket hand-
kerchief, and handed it to his companion, who ran away
under the bellies of the horses, and escaped. When the
prisoner was apprehended, a respectable deaf and dumb
man at once recognized him as a formidable chiracter.
The deaf and dumb man signified, upon paper, to the Lord
Mayor, that the prisoner and another Jew were constantly
following him about, and he knew from instinct that they
intended to rob him.

The prisoner said that it was all a lie.
Policeman—He is a common thief. I have known him
this long time. When I spoke to him, he threatened to
crack my skull.
The LORD MAYOR—I shall send you to Bridwell for
three months. Prisoner—Any thing is agreeable in these
hard times.

The LORD MAYOR—You shall be hard worked, and
your health shall be preserved by a very temperate diet.
Prisoner—l thank you, my Lard. Can you do any more
for me ?

The LORD MAYOR—I'II do more for you if you, and
I meet again. But I advise you not to throw yourself in
my way.
Prisoner—lt seems that you intend to provide against
that, my Lord, by locking me up.

The LORD MAYOR—For three months we must part.
Take him away,officer.—The prisoner was then committed.
John Jeremy was charged with having committed an as-
sault upon John Smith and his daughter. The eyes of
father and daughter bore the marks of violent blows.
The complainant said that on Saturday night he and the
defendant had some words and they stripped to fight. After
the interchange of a few hard blows they tumbled down to-
gether on the floor, the defendant being under. At that
moment the clock struck twelve, and although witness had
the best of the battle, he proposed to his antagonist to post-
pone the contest till Monday morning, that it might not be
;aid tiOlated the Sabbath.—( A laugh.)
The Loan MAYOR thought that a person who had such
a veneration for the Sabbath might be expected to exercise
the Christian feeling of abstaining from the conflict alto-
gether.
The complainant said that the quarrel was a severe one,
and he thought it no harm to renew the fight when the Sab-
bath was over ; bnt he kept a quiet and sober house, and
it would be a scandal to have a disturbance in it on the
Lord's Day. Well, the defendant consented to stop, and
up they got, and witness's daughter addressed some angry
words to the defendant, who retaliated by " bulging" her
eye, and, no doubt, expecting to get something in return,
flung his fist into Witness's eye also. It was for this violent
breach of contract the charge was made.
The defendant declared that the complainant never said
a word about the Sabbath until he found that he was getting
the worst of the fight, when he suddenly cried out, " Jack,
it is Sunday, and we ought to wait till Monday." He
(defendant) did not think it quite right to abuse the Sab-
bath, and, although the stronger man, acquiesced in the
proposal. At that instant, however, the daughter entered,
and then the complainant, presuming upon such an addition
to his side of the question, renewed operations, and the two
black eyes were the consequence.
The LORD MAvon said that a case had been made out
to induce him to bind over the two men to keep the peace
towards each other, and the rest of his Majesty's subjects.
It appeared that they were accustomed to pugilistic efforts,
and he should endeavour, if not to check the propensity, at
least to secure others, as well as themselves, from injury at
their hands.

Q BEEN-SQ UARE.
Yesterday a very well-dressed man, of remarkably gen-
teel appearance, was brouAt up in custody by a sergeant
of the A division, and charged before Mr. 13URRELL under
the following circumstances :
It appeared from the evidence of police sergeant Stewart
that yesterday morning, as the Dukes of Cambridge, Wel-
lington; and Gordon, were inspecting detachments from
the three Regiments of Guards on the parade in front of
the Horse Guards, the prisoner broke through the guard
appointed to keep the ground, and advanced towards the
spot where the Duke of Wellington and several other of-
ficers were stationed, brandishing an umbrella in his hand,
and vociferating in the most outrageous manner.
Mr. BURRELL—Who, and what are you ? Prisoner—
' am the Alpha and Omega, and am favoured with a di-
vine mission. . .

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Mr. BURRELL—But I wish to ascertain your Christian
and surname ? Prisoner—William Stafford, related to the
illustrious house of Stafford, and am a lineal descendant of
the ancient Kings of Saxony.
Mr. BURRELL—WeII, Sir, you must find sureties to
keep the peace for the future.
He was then removed to the lock-up cell, and shortly
afterwards despatched a letter, written in the most inco-
herent style, to the Archbishop of Canterbury, stating that
" a stranger in the land inherited by his fathers had been
unjustly deprived of his liberty merely because he went to
hear the band in the Park." Several Greek characters
were affixed to this epistle, but the Archbishop not return-
ing answer, the prisoner was sent to Tothill-fields.
He is understood to be very respectably connected.
Yesterday a very' respectable-looking man, who gave his
name as Mr. Chumleigh, coal-merchant, of Marchmont-
street, was placed at the bar, charged with having abstracted
a sovereign from the pockets of the complainant, who de-
scribed himself as the " Boots" at the Old White Horse
Cellar.

The complainant bad been to see the horsemanship at
Astley's Theatre, and in the " scrimmage " he felt a hand
in his pocket, which was turned inside out in a " jiffy." He
kept his eyes on the prisoner, who bolted into the theatre,
and he '° knabbed" him along with his pals in the ring.
The prisoner and his friends had been dining together,
and afterwards adjourned to the Theatre. They had not
been long in the pit, and were laughing at something that
had occurred, when the complainant came up, and saying
that he would make them laugh on the other side of their
mouths, accused him of robbery, and struck him a violent
blow in the face. He then gave him in charge, and at the
police station the complainant accused him of robbing him
of a sovereign. He believed he had not lost one, but
merely came in drunk to create a disturbance. He had
several respectable men present to vouch for his character,
if necessary. This evidence was confirmed by Goding, one
of the officers at Astley's.
The MAGISTRATE inquired of Goding why, in this case,
his name appeared on the sheet as having given the pri-
soner in charge ? Goding—lt was only meant as a form
your Worship.
Mr. WHITE—OnIy meant as a form ! Is a man to be
imprisoned because you choose to sign your name for form's
sake ? Goding—When we arrived at the station-house,
the Inspector would not take the charge of assault, as no
one saw it committed ; but as complainant persisted in
charging prisoner with robbing him, that charge was entered
in the books. -
The MAGISTRATE said the charge was evidently without
the slightest foundation, and regretted exceedingly that Mr.
Chumleigh had been confined upon so groundless an ac-
cusation.
Mr. Chumleigh was then discharged, and the com-
plainant Stevens having changed places with him, was
charged with the assault.
The same evidence was adduced as in the previous
case, and Stevens was adjudicated to pay the sum of 40s.
and in default of payment was committed to the House of
Correction. -