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

HASTINGS, JULY 19.

On Thursday, July 19, the inhabitants of this town
met to celebrate the passing of the Reform Bill, by a
public dinner in a spot called the Priory Meadows. The
morning was ushered in by a merry peal of the bells of St.
Clement's, and all was bustle and animation. The dinner
was got up by the gentlemen of this town by subscrip-
tion, and a committee of management was formed assisted
by their neighbours. At two o'clock dinner was brought
on .the ground in vans, &e., for the occasion, the band
playing national airs. The people having taken their seats,
to the number of 6,000, a plentiful supply of roast beef
and plum puddings, with a large quantity of strong beer
and porter, were served up. After the cloth was removed
4t The King" was given with many cheers. " The Queen
and the Royal Family," &c. followed, and then " Lord
Grey and his Majesty's Ministers," the band playing Rule
Britannia. The who!e was one of the most admirably
conducted things ever yet seen here, and much is due to
the gentlemen who formed the Committee fur their able
management. We suppose there were present 20,000
people. All went off quietly, and every one was highly
satisfied.

A fellow, named JOHN GRAHAM, was con-
victed of raising two bodies, which had been interred in
the burial-ground at the rear of Steven's Hospital, and
cutting off their heads. He had been seen in Harcourt.
street by a peace-officer, who, knowing him to be a body-
snatcher, and seeing a bundle in his hand, was about to
stop him, when GRAHAM threw the bundle into the Re-
corder's area, and ran away. The peace-officer pursued,
overtook, and made a prisoner of him. The bundle was
got out of the Recorder's area, and found to contain two
human heads. It was proved that they had been cut off
the bodies which had been raised as aforesaid. Sentence
--Three months' imprisonment and bard labour.
Saunders's News-Letter.

LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING. JULY 20, 1832.

The Anatomy Bill last night passed the House
of Lords. No other business of any public
importance was transacted. The Commons
made no House.

If we may credit the following, from the ex-
press edition of the Times of this morning,
Don PEDRo's cause has every fair prospect of
success. The 9th, 14th, and 19th regiments
have already joined him :

PORTSMOUTH, THURSDAY EVENING.
I observe by the Times of this day's date that
you imagine PEDRO'S forces are advanced be-
yond Villa Nova, and you imply that the Pan-
taloon brought the news. You also state va-
rious successes of PEDRO'S troops at Grijo and
Vonga ; and you further state that MiGuEL's
troops congregated on the 12th at Aveiro, about
half way between Oporto and Coimbra. This may
all be true ; but how is the Pantaloon to bring
the news ? She left our ships off Oporto very
early on the morning ofthe 12th (Thursday), and
therefore, unless your information of this morning
is founded on some other arrivals, it must fall to the
ground. I can repeat, from further inquiries,
that the last information of PEDRO'S successes
amounted to this—that in the middle of the

11th his troops had not then advanced beyond
Villa Nova, but that he had then 5,000 men
there. I have also satisfactorily ascertained, that
late in the night of the 9th three Miguelite re-
giments—the 9th, 14th, and 19th—came back
and joined Don PEDRo's forces at Villa Nova ;
a fourth regiment attempted to do the same, but
were fired upon and dispersed by direction of
Colonel MARTINEZ, or MARTINI. The
Commander of the Terceira schooner was
killed by a musket ball in aiding the troops
to land ; and the greatest credit is given
to Major POPHAM HILL, of the Isle of
Wight, who commanded a corps of English-
men, and to whose exertions very much is attri-
buted with regard to the success of landing. I
observe you dwell much on a portion of Don
PEDRO'S forces being sent to land at Figueira,
which is, I believe, the mouth of the river lead-
ing up to Coimbra : I cannot learn that any force
was sent to land there, nor do 1 believe it. We
have long had an English squadron in the Tagus
doing little. The French have only the sixty-
gun frigate, the Melpomene; but with this ship
her captain forbade the sailing of the two Por-
tuguese line-of.battle ships, alleging they were
French property, and if they dared to attempt to
get under weigh he would instantly place his ship
between them, and blow them out of the water.
The threat was sufficiEnt—the ships did not at-
tempt to move.

In another part of The Sun, under the head
" Uxbridge Petty Sessions," our readers will
find some fresh proofs of the extraordinary
sagacity with which it has pleased Providence
to endow certain of our provincial Magistrates.
On Wednesday last, a squad of these rural
Solons, in solemn convocation assembled, con:
victed the proprietor of the Cricketers' Inn,
Harefield Green, on the charge of having « on
Sunday, the 7th inst., during afternoon service,
suffered persons to be drinking and tippling in
his house." The poor man's reply to this
serious charge is curious,aiiclt
perspicacity,othose%vhohma\a'ey
not the advantage of magisterial
possibly appear quite satisfactory. We subjoin
it for the edification of the unprofessional
Mr. Wise could not deny the f sets, but had a complete
answer to the case. Just before the commencement of the
afternoon service, a respectable looking man and his wife
came to his door in a gig, and stating that they had tra-
velled a great many miles, desired to be accommodated
with some mutton-chops for dinner. These were got, and
when they had dined, the male visitor called for a glass of
grog and a pipe—this was the whole of his offence.
Mr. FuowEas—That is no defence at all to the infor-
mation. You had other persons there drinking and
smoking; I saw them myself through the parlour window
before the church service was over.
Mr. \Visa—l dare say von might, Sir, for I saw you
looking over the hlind—hit I will tell you how that was.
The lady and gentleman who dined have relations in the
village, neighbours of mine, who et his request were sent

to epend the afternoon with them, al they had come a
long way. _

The Dean of CARLISLE+ They had all better have
teen at church.

The MAGISTRATE said be must be convicted.

Mr. WISE hoped not. He had always been informed
that, as an innkeeper, he was obliged, under pain of a
prosecution at common law, to serve a traveller at any
hour with necessary refreshment. Now it seemed he was
liable to a penalty if he did so, so that he was certain of
being in the wrong, act which way he would.
Mr. FLowE its—Your being answerable at common law
for refusing to furnish refreshment is no answer tJ the
statute upon which this information is laid.
Mr. Visa—Then what am I to do ?

Mr. FLOVI ERS—I can't tell, except that if you offend
the law you must take the consequences. You must b..
convicted.

Mr. WISE said if it must be so, he, of course, must
submit; hut in fixing the penalty, he trusted the Bench
would consider that he had kept the house upwards of
forty-five years, and this was the first complaint ever
brought against him. . .

Mr. FLOWERS-Your experience ought to have taught
you better than to infringe the law.
PARKER, the witness, admitted that he saw the person
described as a traveller and his wife going into the house,
and heard him say they had travelled a long way and
wanted dinner. They looked dusty and fatigued.

From this it appears that for a publican, no
matter how respectable or well-intentioned, to
allow fatigued and hungry travellers to eat or
drink during Divine service—even though to
abstain from the requisite nourishment may be
attended with inconvenience, perhaps with
danger—is a serious breach of the law on the
part of such publican, to be expiated only by
condign punishment. The Dean of Carlisle's
observations on this point are highly professional
and edifying. He thinks that the travellers had
better have been at Church; that recruiting
exhausted nature was perfectly superfluous, a
manifest suggestion of the Evil One ; that, in
fact, they had no right to pay attention to their
perishable bodies ; they should have thought
only of their immortal souls. It may be all
very well for a divine of the Dean's rank,
station, and abundant opportunities of appeasing
the qualms both of soul and body, to moralise
in this strain ; but place him in the position of
these wearied and half-starved travellers ; set
his gastric juice at work—that most ir-
resistible of special pleaders,—let him be
covered with dust ; parched with thirst ;
baked dry and crisp, till his skin crackles like
parchment, beneath a meridian July sun ;
place his Reverence in this ugly predicament,
with a respectable hotel just standing most in-
vitingly in view, and then see whether, like the
travellers, he will fall a prey to the temptation
of " the flesh-pots of Egypt," or like St. JE-
ROME of old, subdue the cravings of the
flesh, and with rumbling bowels, and fe-
vered lips, turn his nag's head in the direc-
tion of the village church. We have not the
slightest desire to disparage his Reverence's
virtue—possibly it might prove equal to the fearful
struggle—but we much fear it would fail ; and
that the Dean, like other peccant sons of earth,
would barter his devotion for a mutton chop.
The conviction of Mr. Wist excited so much
surprise (as well it might) throughout the neigh-
bourhood, that a subscription was instantly com-
menced to defray the expense of an appeal to
the Quarter Sessions.

The Paris Liberal Journals are of course full
of indignation at the effrontery of the late edict
of the German Confederation. The Ministerial
Papers have not as yet spoken fully out on the
subject, with the single exception of the
Journal des Debats, which has come forward
with a rhodomontade defence of the decrees of
the German despots. _

German Papers contain some rumours (not
yet sufficiently authenticated) respecting the
future intentions of Austria and Prussia with re-
gard to the Constitutional Charter of some of
the German States. They will be found among
the subjoined extracts :
_

FRANKrowr, JULY 9.—Among several sinister re-
ports that have been in circulation, and which, if we
could assume that they were any wise founded on truth,
would indeed be calculated to cause consternation, is one
according to which the constitutional charter in some
German states will be reduced by an authentic declaration
within much narrower limits than the circle in which
most of the assemblies of the States have hitherto thought
themselves free to move. This limitation will, it is said,
especially affect the right of refusing the taxes. These
reports further state that 80,000 foreign troops are ready
to preserve public tranquillity, as it is feared that in con-
sequence of these measures attempts may be made to dis-
turb it. Such is the report which many reflecting per-
sons, confiding in the word or the oath of the Princes, do
not believe, but consider it as a fable invented to excite
fermentation, and so really to lead to measures of reaction
which otherwise are wholly alien to the sentiments of most
of the Princes.

As far as our accounts from Rhenish Bavaria go, the
most perfect tranquillity prevails there.
Private letters from that country say, with respect to
the Royal Commission, that it seems to have been sent
wholly to secure the strictest observance of the laws, with-
out interfering in the least in the administration of justice
or other branches of civil Government.

CASSEL, JULY s.—The estates of the Electorate, and
the Minister of War, differ considerably respecting the
account of our military force, or the expen.e of maintain-
ing it. The estates have made frequent proposals on this
subject, to which General Von liessberg, in the admi-
nistration of the War Department, has paid very little at-
tention. How far the 'War Minister is from intending any
future reduction of the expenses, appears from the fact,
that wholly overlooking the grant made by the estates,
which does not exceed 700,000 dollars, he has laid before
the Assembly a budget for his Department, to the enor-
mous amount of 1,100,000 dollars. Yet it has often been
asserted that 400,000 dollars per annum would be fully
sufficient for one whole military establisbement, if a system
of judicious economy were introduced, for instance, if only a
6th or 6th part of the men by turns were in actual service, and
if useless expense in the military uniform were avoided.
The accuracy of this opinion is confirmed by the fact, that
for a sum not much exceeding 400,000 dollars twice as
many troops as our federal contingent amounts to are
maintained in the Grand Duchy of Baden; and that under
the late Elector, 'William 1., a very strong military force,
far exceeding in number the actual federal contingent of
Ilesse Cassel, was maintained for the sum of 300,000
dollars per annum. To this may be added, that as we have
now a Burgher Guard, a much greater proportion of the
regular army may be allowed to be absent at a time than
has hitherto been practicable. But this again is a
point
in which the Estates and the Minister cannot agree.
The former persist in not consenting to a stronger military
force than is necessary for fulfilling ouc obligations to the
Confederation ; but the Minister of War understands those
obligations in a manner very different from the Estates.
This difference is the cause that the new law regulating
the
recruiting of the army has not yet been definitively agreed
upon.
CASSEL, JULY 6.—ln the account communicated to
the Estates, of the expenses of the War Department last
year, there is a sum of 19,572 dollars, the expenses of
maintaining the fortresses of the Confederation. The
Committee was reminded by this of a late debate and re-
solution of the Estates of B tden, to request the Govern-
ment to inquire, through the Minister in the German
Diet, how the 20 millions of francs, which France paid
to Germany at the last peace, had been employed,
they had been placed, and what was become of the in-
terest ? where

The Committee proposed that the Estates of Hesse
Cassel should make a similar application to the Govern-
ment, which was accordingly agreed to.
31. Weill-en said, it was certainly very dkeirable, the