The Sun.
London, England, 1832-03-12 00:00:00

TO THg DITOR OF THE TIMES.

S'it,—Your attack on the political conduct of Lord
' trey, during the last two days, joined by those of " a Me-
tropolitan" and " Philo-Radical," are hardly justifiable
under any plea of public emergency; and you will stand
accused of gross partiality, and want of that boasted inde-
pendence, with which you are pleased to assail his Lord-
ship, if you decline the •' avdi alterum purtem." Why
should Lord Grey be called upon by you to obey the dictum
of " Philo-Radical," and to originate a precedent on an
extended and dangerous basis, if, by means less hazardous
to the tf:obstittition than an extensive creation of Peers,
probably within his own view and compass as a prudent
statesman, he still hopes to carry the present measure of
R.-form, under the spirit of rational conviction, "in Toro
conscienticr," and without producing a collision of inter-
ests, hurtful in its tendency to the welfare of the nation
at large. What has the private "attachment," fidelity,
or " counsel" of the members of his Lordship'► family to
do with an important measure of national state policy,
which should tarry conviction on its own merits on purely
public grounds? And what, forsooth, if Lord Grey even
shrinks from the danger, as not merely insinuated by you,
is England so lost in intellect that only one public man
can he found to sustain her at the critical juncture? Away
with such untenable reasoning ! "Philo-Radical," who
assumes to himself the chief direction of the state machine,
if in heart an Englishman, pays his countrymen a sorry
compliment indeed, for their presumed lack of intelligence
and honesty of sentiment. Lord Grey surely moves on
his responsibility, and if he is to act nobly, he must also
act independently of external dictation, or he would indeed
deserve the "justifiable mistrust of an indignant people."
With the actual professor of knowledge discretion is power.
" Violence" can never be the true result of discreet action,
and the bare assertion of " Philo-Radical" that Lord
Grey is armed with the " King's authority" to hazard a
dangerous precedent solely to carry a measure of such
magnitude, is not sufficient to warrant the unqualified at-
tack you have made, in the absence of sufficient data, on his
Lordship's policy, and whereon to found your premises.
If Lord Grey really " wants not courage," how can he
he deficient in "resolution," unless he sets the propriety
of pursuing that system of heroic moderation which in
times of civil danger has ever, by the wisest men, been
deemed t!-.e greatest attribute of a statesman, and as best
calculated to " lull the jarring elements to peace," and sa-
tisfy the desires of all considerate men, tending to pro-
duce that tranquillity so essential to the public weal, and
th,t repose of the Royal mind which can alone spring
from national unanimity en this vital question. Dealing
in invidious personalities gives no support to fair argument,
and the " celebrated letter to Lord Talbot of 26th Decem-
ber" is not the only moving-spring of Lord Grey's con-
sistant hesitation. I have it from the first authority that
it is in conformity with the expressed wishes of the King
that the Reform Bill should not be carried by "violent,"
but by moderate means, and the recent personal attentions
of his Majesty to Lords Wharncliffe, and others of the
same party, prove the fact. Your contradiction, or that
of your correspondent, " Philo-Radical," if you can give
a better authority than that which emananates from those
who profess kindred ties to royalty itself, is therefore at
your op'ion.—l remain Sir, yours, &c.,
Westminster, March S.

JUSTUS.

The Radical Press are directing all the shafts of
their malevolence and resentment against poor Earl
Grey because he hesitates, as they say, to make
such a number of Peers as would render tne House
of Lords a subservient instrument in the hands of
the present -Ministers of the Crown, and secure the
adoption by that Assembly of the Reform Bill with-
out any considerable amendments. This censure, if
the statements which gave rise to it were true,
would, in the estimation of all but determined revo-
lutionists, amount to the highest praise. It would
he, in truth, to award to the Noble Earl the honour
which is due to one of the most difficult of human
achievements—that of st •pping short in the down-
ward career of evil ; of arresting himself, by dint
of his own virtuous resolution and manly energy and
courage in the midway descent of a revolutionary
course, slippery and precipitous as it is, loud, vehe.
merit, and appalling as are the menaces and yells by
which he is urged to proceed, violent and reckless
as are the efforts of his less reasoning followers to
push him onward to the most fatal depths of the
gulf which terminates the declivity. But before
either merit or demerit can justly be ascribed to
Earl Grey on account of the non-creation of Peers,
it would seem indispensible that some grounds
should exist for the belief that the Noble Earl had
possessed the power of packing the House of Lords,
and that he could have exercised it without creating
in some other quarter an hostility as fatal to his Ad-
ministration and its revolutionary scheme of Reform
as the most determined resistance of the Upper
House of Parliament can be, even in its present
unpacked, independent, and constitutional con-
dition. Certainly no foundation for the belief of
either of these propositions has yet been presented
to the public, and the strong prolsability is that no
grounds for such belief can be advanced. With
respect to the disposition of his Majesty, it is only
necessary to say that his acquiescence in an unli-
mited, or indeed in any, creation of Peers, rests at
present exclusively upon the authority of that divi-
sion of the Revolutionary Press which employs
itself day after day in vituperating the Administra-
tion for not availing themselves at once of the sup•
posed prostration of their Sovereign. And as it is
from some Member of the Cabinet only that any in-
formation upon the subject could by possibility have
transpired, and from him only by a flagrant breach
of his duty and his oath, we must assume,
before we can credit such an authority, that
some INlemi er of the Cabinet has been guilty
nafndhisthattrehacehehryas
Icihmotsenthese
oill
thfethicshancrniemlse,
in-
telligence, which is the effect of his betrayal of
the King's counsels, is brought forth to the world
in conjunction with the most virulent abuse of the
King's Government. As fair and avowed opponents
of the present Administration we are not inacces-
sible to the proof of this delinquency ; and the crea-
tion of Peers, after all that has passed, wou d go far

to prove it. But oar opposition is 'not so virulent
as to prepare us to admit it gratuitously. But, in-
dependently of the disposition of the Sovereign,
there is a difficulty in the way of a large. creation of
Peer.; for the purpose of carrying the Deform Bill
of which the advocate.i cf t%is revolutionary measure
do not gee:ll io be aware. In the whole of the
three Kingdoms there is not a large number of per-
sons who would in any circumstances yore for the
Reform Bill, and who possess the advantages
of fortune, character, and lineage necessary to give
decency or plausibility to their• elevation to
the reetage t while; o!' this i t Considerable num-

ber, the - greater part would shrink from the
danger of entangling themselves as parties to an
impeachable conspiracy against the Constitution.
Earl Grey then, to complete the muster of his Re-
form battalion of Peers, must deScend to a lower
class of the gentry of the conntry, and here he would
be met by the opposite difficulty, of an inconveni-
ent'.'y numerows body of competitors for the degraded
distinction. Hence the danger of making more ene-
mies than friends, and of impairing rather that,
‘trengthening the influence of the administra-
tion. And hence the Bill, instead of being more
ssfe, might be in greater jeopardy than ever;
for if a single syllable or letter of the Bill
be altered in the House of Lords, the Com-
mons recover their power to reject the Bill
altogther and the present House of Com-
mon, it is not extravagant to suppose, might sympa-
thize very warmly with the offended and 'disap-
pointed portion of the reforming gentry. Is it,
moreover, so very certain that even the present
House of Commons, in a majority of the Members,
although we know they have voted in favour of the
Bill, are desirous of seeirg it carried by means of
the protestation and destruction of the House of

Lords? We have great doubts, if the alternative
could be proposed to them, whether the Reform Bill
should be lost or the Peerage degraded, trampled
under feet, reduced as a branch of the Legi-lature to
a mere vassal of the Crown, in effect annihilated as
an independent Member of the Government of
Great Britain, whether a majority of the pre-
sent House of Commons, notwithstanding the
authority of rabble dictation, would not prefer
the former. We have reason to know that
a creation of Peers for the undisguised purpose,
of overruling the opinion of the House of Lords,
would convert many of the present friends of •the
Administration and the Bill, in the House of Com-
mon•, into the determined and uncompromising
enemies of both, and that Ministers cannot adopt
so violent and revolutionary a measure without in-
curring tire risk, not only of dismis-al from office
from the alienation of the existing House of Com-
mons, but of impeachment by such an improved
House of Commons as a General Election would
not even at the present moment fail to produce.
Earl Grey then perchance is not the renegade, the
iaspostor, nor the driveller which the Radical Press
labours to represent him, although the second estate
of the realm has not yet been destroyed by the re-
volutionary coup d'etat which that press so urgently
demands.—Morning Past.

We learn with much satisfaction, from a para-
graph in another part of this day's paper, that the
Secretary of State, Lord Melbourne, has at length
determined on cautioning the Magistrates not to
grant licences for the sale of spirits to the owners
of beer-shops, many of whom have recently made
applications to that effect. The ground on wh;cli
Lord Melbourne is anxious that they should not be
granted is, that the granting of such licences would
tend materially to increase the consumption of
Spirit,, and to injure the morals of the community ;
but leaving this question to rest on its own merits,
as one more fit for individual settlement than for le-
gislative enactment, it must have become appae,nt,
long ago, to all who had ears to hear, or eyes to
see, that that the Beer-shop Bill has been already
productive of almost all the mischievous conse-
quence; which we expected to result from it—
that it has tended to deteriorate, instead of
to improve, the quality of malt liquor—that
instead of beer-shops proving an accommoda.
tion to the public, they are voted, in all quar-
ters, to be pests and nuisances—that they have
been injurious to the morals of the poorer class of
society, and instead of benefitting those who have
established them, they have been alike ruinous to
them, and to the regularly-licensed victualler. In
the country the beer-shops have proved convenient
places of resort to poachers and thieves—and in
town it is equally well known that many of them are
mainly supported by equally meritorious members of
the community. No one benefit, in face, has re-
sulted from the Beer Bill, which its fond father,
Goulburn, predicted as its necessary results—it is
the most complete legislative failure that ever took
place, and were it not that it must soon die a natural
death, we should say that the sooner it was repealed
the better, both for the beer-shop-keeper and for the
community at large.—Morning Advertiser.
Shakspeare's well-known exclamation, " 0 world,
thy slippery turns !" and its subsequent elucidation
were never more fully exemplified than in the treat-
ment which Lord Grey is now experiencing from
that part of the Press which has hitherto given him
what may be called its " thick and thin" adherence.
Not being ourselves among the number of those
who have allowed themselves to be leagued under
the banner of any political leader or party, we have ,
felt ourselves perfectly free at all times to praise or
blame, to support or condemn, both men and mea-
sures, as their probability of promoting the real in-
terests of the country seemed to us most apparent.
With this view, on the subject of Reform especially,
we have given Lord Grey's Government our
warmest and, we trust, consistent support, con-
einced as we are that, though the measure may
not be perfect in its detail:, its principle and its
main features are such as the good sense of the
right-judging part of the community loudly calls
for. And we must add that the consistency and
the firmness with which Lord Grey's Govern-
ment have adhered to the measure through
every mode of clamour and resistance—nay, even
after defeat—entitles them at least to " fair play"
from all the real friends of Reform. What the pre-
cise nature of the negotiations have been which
have lately taken place between Lord Grey and the
more moderate opponents of the Bill we may, pro-
bably, never know,—unless, indeed, they escape
during the forthcoming discussions in the House of
Lords ; but one thing seems pretty certain from the
result, that Lord Grey has hitherto yielded no one
atom of the principle of the measures ; but his of-
fence, it would seem, now is that, instead of taking
counsel of " violence," he still hopes to carry the
measure by means of reason and moderation; and he
is arraigned, forsooth, at the bar of public opinion,
as possessing a " fear of what posterity may think of
him if he resort to violent measures for carrying the
Reform Bill." This is one of the most extraordi-
nary accusations, in its terms at least, that ever was
made against any public man. For what does it
imply, but that violence is praise worry, and any de-
ference to the opinion of posterity a fault ! Truly,
if this be the " absolute wisdom " of the " great
public instructor," the world will do well to ask itself
what kind of ignis fatutis it has been following?
Yet, after all, unless (which we do not profess to know)
more is meant, on this occasion, than meets the ear,
whlst does Lord Grey's offence, in the eyes of these
accusers, amount to, hut that he has delayed availing
himself of using the power of the Crown in creating
a sufficient number of Peers to ensure the passing of
the Bill through the Upper House ? Now, we
would ask, in reply to this, is there any man moving
in the ranks of the well-informed and moderate
classes of society who does not look upon such a
creation of Peers as an evil of great magnitude, and
one which nothing but an overwhelming unavoid-
able necessity can justify ?—and whether the Minis-
ter, who may find himself at last compelled to re-
sort to it, ought not to be able to show both the
present age and posterity that he avoided having re-
course to it up to the very twelfth hour, and till
every means of so avoiding it had been tried, re-
tried, and exhaused ? Instead, then, of Lord Grey's
conduct upon this head. being brought against him as
an accusation, we are 'relined to hope that it will

entitle him to the highest ptaisC—that praise, it is
true, will cease, should he not, if the time should
come which renders the act unavoidable, have the
courage to perform it. But we never yet heard the
courage of the General called in question who won
a battle by first out-manoeuvring an enemy; nor will
the victory of Reform be the less complete by be-
ing brought about by a little generalship.— Mornitt,g
Herald.

In the absence of all positive or direct information
on the subject, it seems the general opinion that the
Premier, in the face of the Jesuitical epistle of Lord
Harrowby, is determined to commit the second read-
ing of the Reform Bill in the Vpper house, to the
promises of the Tory Peers. To us this appears the
very acme of credulity ; and if, in consequence, the
Bill is treated as the last was, the name of Earl
Grey will, in future limes, never be uttered unac-
companied by the most bitter terms of reproach. Ac
%ve stated in our last, the Anti-Reform Peers intend
to maul the Bill in the Committee; to which stage
of the measure their treaty with Earl Grey does not
extend. It will then be seen whether his Lordship
possesses spirit enough to apply the means with
which he is entrusted to counteract their plans.
Even if he dots, we contend he is acting a puling
part in not using those means lather as a preventative
of an evil than as a cure for it, after it has been
done. Forty or fifty new Peers might suffice if sent
sent into the House simultaneously with the Bill ;
but eighty or a hundred may not be enough after
the Bill has been emasculated in the Committee.
The immediate friends of Lord Grey may write vo-
lumes in his defence, but it cannot be denied that
the timid, hesitating manlier in which be has con-
ducted the Reform Bill to its pre-ent point, has
had an invariable tendency to weaken the efforts of
the real friends to Reform—to draw aside from its
support those hollow advocates, on whom principle
had no influence in voting for it, and to stimulate
the Tories to the desperate defence of their rotten
system they have made in the Commons, and to the
no less desperate one, which may he expected in
the Lords.—News.

ROLLS' COURT, MARCH 10.

DE BLAQUIERE V. HUTCHINSON.

A separation having taken place between Gen. and Lady H.
de Blaquiere, a sum of 2,0001. alimony was settled on the
latter. This sum, originally vested in Exchequer Bills,
the trustees became desirous of laying out in a more pro•
ductive security. The defendant, Hutchinson, solicitor
to one of the trustees, having been intrusted with the ef-
fecting of some such desirable arrangement, contracted,
with a person named White, a client of his, to lend him
the fund on the security of certain premises, wharfage and
freehold land, situate at Deptford, it being covenanted by
White, in conformity with the recommendations of a sur-
veyor, that a sum of 2,0001. should be expended on the
property, that it might be rendered the more disposable to
a tenant. Eventually the money was advanced to White,
who being in embarrassed circumstances, and overwhelmed
with actions, did not make the stipulated nude), on the
premises in question, and shortly afterwards became a
bankrupt. The bill was filed to compel Hutchinson to re-
place the fund of Lady de Blaquiere. Two questions
were involved is the case, whether the defendant was
liable to this demand ; and this depended on the opinion
of the Court as to whether he had acted in the transaction
with White as agent for the trustee, or directly for the
ces'ui que trust, 'The second question was, whether he
had been guided by due discretion and purity of motive in
this negotiation with White.

His HONOUR. was of opinion, that Messrs. Hutchinson
and Holdsworth had acted ss solicitors not merely for the
trustee, but also for the eeslui que trust ; and that they
should be held responsible for the loss incurred, if it ap-
peared that through the want of reasonable skill and dili-
gence they had failed in this transaction. From two
letters of Hutchinson, describing the property, and rum
his correspondence with White, his Honour was of opi-
nion that there had been a most improper bias on the
mind of Hutchinson, ; and that his conduct therefore ren-
dered him liable, with his partner, who was involved with
hint, though not an active ag, nt in the transaction, for
the loss to the mortgagees that had been sustained. The
prayer of the bill was therefore granted with costs.

SPRING ASSIZES.

IIUNTINGDON, MARCH 9.

Henry Russell, whose trial for the murder of Mary
Worimsley was reported in The Sun on Saturday, but not
concluded, was found guilty, and sentenced to be executed.

LANCASTER, AfAncm 9.

William Heaton was charged with the wilful murder of
John Ratcliffe, at Burton-wood on the 29th Oct. last.

James Andrews, on the morning of the 29th of October
las., about six o'clock aaw a man lying dyad in Dallam•
lane, near Burton-wood. That man was John Ratcliffe.
He was lying on his face. One hand was in his waistcoat
pocket, and the other lying under him ; his hat was off.
There was a quantity of blood, and some brains, under the
right ear.

James Ratcliffe examined—l am a son of the deceased.
Deceased lived at Warrington, but I live with my grand-
mother at Burton-wood. I rememb-r my father coming
to our house on Friday evening, the 28th October. He
went away about half-past 8 o'clock. My grandmother gave
him 31. to buy two plates, and he usually carried a knife
and tobacco-box in his pocket. He was quite sober. I
saw the prisoner on that night. He lives at Burton•
wood with his sister, Martha Lawson. He came into
our house just as the clock struck 10 that ❑ight, and
asked my uncle William if he had seen his (prisoner's)
brother John. lie came and sat down by the fire, and
asked for a pipe. Ile smoked part of it, and said, " I
had like to have been in a skirmish last night." I s lid,
" Who with ?" and he made no answer. I said, " You
have either gotten a black eye now, or there is a scab on
one side of your nose." Ile said, '' No, it's dirt," and he
rubbed his face. He stuck to it that it was dirt, and for
satitif.ction sake I took a candle and held it up to his
face. I then saw three marks of clotted blood. I said,
" Why it's blood," and he went very red. He said, " Oh,
I fell over Charles Hindley's wheelbarrow, and scarred
my hand among the cinders." He showed me his hand,
and I observed it was all covered over with blood. I oh-
served no mark of a scar. After this he sat till about
20 minutes after ten, and then went away. He wore a
white straw hat.

Robert Davis.—! am a constable of Warrington. On
Saturday, the 29th of October, I went to DaHam-land, and
was shown the spot where deceased's body had been found.
I found much blood, and the mark of some instrument,
made by striking the ground. I had . exa:nintd the body.
There were 3d. in the pockets, and a key. The shoes
were off. I then went to look for the prisoner. I went
first to the witness Pownel's house, and found two po-
tato-forks behind the bid. On the prongs of one were
marks of blood. I afterwards saw some blood on the
handle. I afterwards apprehended the prisoner in a gar-
den near Tarbuck's house. lie seemed just to have got
over the pig-sty. I took him to Dellam lane. Before I
got to the spot where the body was found, I in Ide him
stop, and then 1 went to look for footmarks. I saw the
mark of a shoe within three yards of the blood. It was
pointed tow ads the blood. I first tried prisoner's left
shoe by holding it over the mark, and thought it did not
fit. 1 then took the right shoe, and fitted it exactly. I
noticed the nails on the shoe, some were long and some
were shorter, and they exactly fitted the impression. I
compared the cuts in the ground with the edge of the po-
tato-fork. they exactly fitted. (The potato-fort was pro-
duced.) I afterwards searched prisoner. I found in his
pocket a small pocket-book with a luck of red hair in it.
After the coroner's inquest the wife of the deceased went
to prisoner at his request. The book and lock of hair
were produced, and she said in prisoner's presence that
she had given them to him.
Mr. Kellet, a surgeon, had no doubt deceased died of
the wounds upon the head, given by some right-handed
person meeting the deceased.
It was proved that the prisoner was a right-handed man.
The Jury deliberated some time, and then pronounced
the prisoner Guilty.
The Learned JuDGE forthwith sentenced the prisoner
to be hanged on Monday next.

SALISBURY, MARCH 10.
This day at twelve o'clock the Assizes for this county
were brought to a conclusion.

--John Afoor and Daniel Middleton, convicted of the rape
on Sarah Keuipstor, at Marlborough, and George Pearce
;wit Elizabeth Haws, with being accessories thereto, are
left for execution.

Judgment was respited on Ellison and Vines, convicted
of arson, as Mr. Justice PARK was of opinion that a
point reserved in their favour for the consideration of the
Judges was

Robert Star, convicted of burglary in the house of
Jane Greenman, at Breemhill, under ♦ery aggravated cir-
cumstances, was brought up this morning to receive judg.
meet, when hie Lordship stated, that alter a full consider.