The Sun.
London, England, 1828-03-28 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS

It is well understood that Russia some time ago
announced to our Government her intention of re-
senting by arms the infractions of treaty notoriously
committed by Turkey. To this communication an
answer, after some delay, has been returned; but to
what effect is of course not known. It is presumed,
however, that the Russian army will cross the
Pruth early in April, and that the declaration or
manifesto of the Court of St. Petersburgh will he
issued when the last orders are sent to the Com-
mander-in-Chief. It was yesterday confidently be-
lieved that some cheering intelligence had reached
London through official channels, respecting the
state of affairs in the East. It was alleged, that in
the explanation of the complaints of Russia against
Turkey, the whole stress of the statement rested on
the conduct of the Porte in stirring up Persia to a
breach of the preliminaries of peace, and that
this question being now settled, the British Go,
vernment would have good ground to heighten the
tone of its deprecatory remonstrances at St. Peters-
burgh, against any step on the part of his Imperial
Majesty which might endanger the peace of Europe.
It is, however, a great in,istake to suppose that the
Russian Cabinet made the case of Persia and ho.
Government the exclusive subject of complaint
against the Porte. A prominent argument it must
have been undoubtedly ; but the breach of the Treaty
of Akermun, the boast of Turkey that she never
meant to execute it, the closing of the Bosphorus,
the seizure of Russian cargoes, and the imprison-
ment, of Russian subjects, afforded other matter in
abundance. We are sorry, therefore, to be com-
pelled to damp the hopes which were yesterday so
generally entertained, by stating oar conviction that
the settlement of the Persian quarrel by no means
concludes the question of peace and war between
'Turkey and Russia; in other words, we fear that
fee probability of a rupture between the Porte and
the Czar is not at all diminished. Accounts from
Parit, however, affirm positively, that no military
movement has yet taken place in Russia. That Algiers
has been the destination of the French armament now
preparing, is not countenanced by Lord Granville,
re, we are informed, and is not bel.eved among the
higher circles of politics. The British troops, it ap-
pears, are actually coming home fro ID Lisbon, the
squadron and marinesbeing thought s dlicient to keep
down the two absolutes—the old ar.o young., In the
mean time, Austria is, or pr etends t o be, as much
astonished as Env,iand at the monstrous acts of Don
Miguel and his advisers. Austria (that iv, Prince
Metternich) declaring herself astonished, would go
for nothing with any man of discernment : but if
she be really averse to the proceedings of Don Miguel,
the reason is, that she now looks upon the question
sus cue involving the too great preponderance of the
house of Bourbon, which in fact it does. However,
if the design of the Lisbon and other Apostolicals
be to play off anvfurther humbugs against England,
-,ve apprehend that they will find themselves "at the
wrong side of the door." Sir Frederick Lamb
proves to be a minister of strong sense and unceasing
-rigilance. He certainly has no undue taste for des-
potism, nor biae it; favour of legitimate protestations,.
and has already gained the confidence of the friends
a liberty in Spain as well as Portugal.—Titres.

We believe that all the names of the members of
the two commissions moved for by Mr. Brougham
ere not yet determined on. In the selection, we
trust the great defect of the Chancery commission
will be avoided. The majority of the members of
that commission were either Judges, or practitioners
grown grey in all the prejudices of form and fiction.
If the new commissions are so constituted, good
night to all hopes from Mr. Brougham's exertions—
we shall have to look elsewhere and to other times
tfm: improvement. The complexity of the laws (in
;particular of those relating to conveyancing), and the
prejudices of the Judges and old practitioners, are
to manifest, that there can be little hope of advan-
tage, unless there is infused into the commission
some of that spirit of liberality and desire of im-
provement which the printed evidence of the Chan-
cery commission fully shows is nut often to be found
amongst the barristers of the past age. —lbid.
Sir Ronald Fergusson, a roost gallant and distin-
guished officer, no way connected with the Minis-
ri.y, but who, on the contrary, has almost always
voted in opposition, to have the regiment vacant
11,y the death of Sir A. Cameron., As it is pretty
well known that in a very high quarter the greatest
anxiety :•vas expressed to have a very different sort
of soldier appointed, this arrangement speaks well
for the tirmnesz and integrity of the new Comman-
ger-m-Chief.—lbid.

The conduct of the Gentlemen of England, in the
ease 0; Mr. Wilmot Horton, deserves a name which
we shall take care not to use. " The condition of
the Poor,' said Mr. John Smith last night, "in
malt' parts tlf the kingdom is such, that he was
suite certain no ,:nan of common humanity could
11..n0w them, and the same time refuse to afford
them assistance and relief. There were parts in the
eountry in which the Poor:: Rtes were so heavy
gis to be nearly intolerable, and tlio labourer could
scarcely find any employment." Vet, after a labo-
rious Parliamentary Inquiry, and a voluminous Re.
pert, in which the positions of Mr. John Smith are
btrt too well proved, the Gentlemen of England be,
tray such indifferencE_P to the fate of the Poor, that
when n. plan, founded on the Report, is proposed
by the 1142ntleman who presided over • the Inquiry
and is announced for discussion, ail attendance can-
not be procured, .and the e Home Secretary avails
himself of the opportunity to extend Lis protection
to Mr. Wilmot Bolton n 4 t 1 his Poor, so tar as to
insure for him an opportunitg of stating fully what
his views are to the House, Were it it
cook-and-a.buli story of immense granaries of
foreign corn in the Isle of Man, hundreds
would be at their post in a moment,
girder that a single grain might not be devoured by
the Poor which was not loaded by. the tax of their
monopoly; but the condition of the labouring poor
—a discussion of a question involving the possibility
of bettering that condition—is a very different
w.atter: "If you have nothing more attractive for
its than the condition r.'f the poor, Mr. Wilmot
,Horton, why you must just have all the discussion
to ;,ourself," e have already ,enough to do with
the poor, in keeping our hares and pheasants from
them, anal signing commitment's: We will not even,
for the sake Ofappearances—for the sake of obtaining
credit for a liti2e sympathy with our unfortunate
countrymen—take die trouble of attending in ouir
we think Mr. 'Wilmot
places, to say whether
the
plan deserving of attention or not. Why
should we be 'everlastingly bored with the poor
The sins of the fathers are visited the children of
third and fourth generation, says Holy Writ, and
the day may come when the apathy of the higher
,anks of this country, in all cases where their own
Immediate interests, real or supposed, is not con-
erned, %yin be remembered. To a person not
absolutely blase, as the French say, in whom every
nobler feeling has been extinguished by continued
habit; of indulgence, and constant reference to
:;elf—to any one who possesses the least portion of
mina—what subject can possess more attractions
than an inquiry,
of which the object is the possibi-
lity of mitigating the distress of the great body of a
nation—those beings to whose exertions we arg in-
debted for all that we possess ? It may, or it may
not, be possible, to devise means for improving their
condition, and securing them from liability to still
greater privations than they now suffer! ,but,at an
events, the subject ought to command attention.--.
When we hear it stated every day, by those who
have turned their attention to the subject, that
causes are in operation, which must, if a check be
not discovered, drag down the labouring population
of England to the level of Irish wretchedness, and
spread misery and crime still more widely through
the land, shall it go forth to the world, that the
gentlemen of England were of themselves so indif-
ferent to this subject that they could only he dragged
to a discussion respecting it by a Treasury mandate?
it was but the other day that Sir Francis Burdett
told us that the subject was the most important that
;nuld occupy the attention of Parliament= more

, portant even than the Catholic Question—and yet
the Gentlemen of England, the glory of their coun-
try—the men who, according to him, are unequalled
in Europe, or even America—turn from this subject
with an indifference approaching to disgust! The much
calumniated Long Parliament, with all its Sectarian
intolerance, displayed a very different feeling with
regard to matters for improving the condition of the
people. The Legislature did not then conceive it-
self assembled merely for raising rents and preserv- ,
ing partridges. Mr. Horton stated what is incon-
trovertible, that no plan with regard to the poor,
which had not reference to Ireland, could be of
any real service to England, and that it would
hold out the grossest delusion if it professed to be
beneficial. But though it is known that Ireland is
now working the ruin of the labouring classes, and
that all attempts to benefit these classes, or preserve
them from still farther degradation, must embrace
Ireland as well as England, Parliament will not ap-
proach Ireland. Mr. Wilmot Horton announced an
intention to move for a variety of returns, with a
view to ascertain the extent to which the Poor Laws
have been abused. We must observe, however,
that though great benefit must be derived from ob-
taining an account of the parish money advanced for
the purposes of maintaining the poor, according to
the legitimate object of the Poor Laws, and a sepa-
rate account of the money raised from the parishes
for the purpose of paying labourers by way of an in-
crease of their wages, as money paid to fathers of
families for the support 'of their children, it does
not follow that this increase of wages out of the
poor rates would be received by the labourer
were there no poor rates. The payment of in-
creased wages out of the rates is a proof of a
redundant population; because, where the popu-
lation is below the demand for labour, the la-
bourers have the fixing the wages and not .those
who employ them ; and the competition for employ-
ment caused by the redundance, were it not for the
poor rates, would compel the labourer to live more
wretchedly than' he now does. The poor rates, in
fact, keep his notions with regard to subsistence,
higher than they would otherwise be. Were it not
for them, his ideas as to comfort would fall with his
wages till he became reconciled to the most wretched

fare nit which life could be supported. However
the redundance may have arisen, it is the merest
delusion to suppose, that so long as it exists, the
ceasing to increase wages out of the rates would
have the effect of procuring for the labourer as much
from his employer alone as he now obtains from his
employer and the rates together. Those, too, who
suppose that the privations which the withdrawing
the rates from the labourers must subject them to,
would have the effect of thinning their numbers, and
ultimately producing thereby an increase of wages,
have, we suspect, bestowed very little attention on
the effect of low diet and wretchedness in keeping
down a population. The condition of the labourer
can alone be improved by making it the interest of
the rich that the population should not be redundant.
And till Ireland have poor-rates, we shall always be
cursed with shoals of wretched beings from that
country.-11forning Chronicle.
His Majesty held a Levee yesterday afternoon, at
St. James's Palace, which, owing to the favourable
state of the weather, and the rareness of the occur-
rence, but principally, we believe, owing to the
anxiety of the Nobility and Gentry to pay their re-
spects to our Sovereign, was very numerously at-
tended. At half-past one the Horse Guards drew
up before the eastern avenue of the palace, wirh
the band playing inertial airs; and a lung string of
carriages commenced setting down company. The
Foot Guards were drawn up in the Palace-yard, St.
James's-street ; and the members of the Royal
Family, Foreign Ambassadors, his Majesty's Mi-
nisters, and such of the Nobility as have the privi-
lege of the entree, commenced arriving at the western
avenue—amongst whom we observed his Royal
Highness the Duke of Gloucester; Prince Polignac,
the French Ambassador; Prince Esterhazy, the
Austrian Ambassador, accompanied by Baron New-
man and Prince Schwartzenbeig ; Prince Lieven,
the Russian Ambassador, and suite ; Baron Bulow,
the Prussian Ambassador; Count Palmas, the Por-
tuguese Ambassador; the Spanish, Neapolitan, Sar-
dinian, and Dutch Ambassadors; the American,
Brazilian, Mexican, and Colombian Ministers;
the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, and
the Bishop of London ; the rDukes of Wel-
lington, Norfolk, Northumberland, Leeds, St.
Albans, Montrose, and Athol; Mr. Secretary
Peel, Earl Dudley, and Mr. Secretary Hus-
kisson, the Lord Chancellor; Earl Bathurst; Lords
Melville, Ellenborough, Aberdeen, and Palmerston ;
-Nlr. Goulburn, the Chancellor of the Exchequer;
Mr. Herries ; the Earl of Eldon ; Marquises Wel-
lesley, Winchester, Hertford, Camden, and Lans-
downe; Lords Hill, Beresford, and Bexley;
Viscount Sislmouth; Lords Bloomfield, Colchester,
and Farnborough ; the Vice-Chancellor, the Master
of the Rolls, the Attorney-General, the Solicitor-
General;'. the Advocate-General, Lord Lowther,
Lord Fitzroy Somerset, Mr. Stratfm d Canning, Mr.
Wynn, Mr. Sturges Bourne, Lord Heyteshury, Mr.
Lamb, Sir Wrn. Clinton, Lord Gwydyr, and a
great number of .Military and Naval Officers, No-
blemen, and Gentlemen. The Duke of Wellington
having had an accident in stepping out of his car.
riage the other evening, in going to the House of
Lords, when his foot slipped, and precipitated him,
with some degree of violence against a pillar, his
Grace was obliged to wear a small black patch on a
prominent part of his face—not withstanding which
the Duke looked in good spirits. The Marquis of
Wellesley has likewise much improved in his looks
since his marriage and absence in -Ireland.—
His Lordship, as well as Prince Esterhazy,
amused themselves in chatting with Towns-
end, the police officer. The Prince:wore a Hussar
uniform, and his equipage and attendants attracted
much notice. Prince Polignac is a handsome man ;
but Prince Lia:ien'a countenance appeared grave and
thoughtful. The Earl of Eldon looked uncommonly
cheerful, far more than he did whilst presiding in the
Court of Chancery. His Lordship was dressed in
black, The Marquis of Hertford was the first Noble-
man that. left the Court, and his frame, once so athle-
tic, seemed to have lost much of its vigour; his
Lordship was lame. in fact, more instances of lame-
ness were observable amongst the courtiers attend-
ing the Levee of yesterday, than have been witnessed
4:)4 former occasions. Mr. Secretary Huskisson seemed
improved is Ilpelth.; Lord Goderich's countenance
indicated not the slightest regret for the loss of place
as Premier; and the Marquis of I.,apsdowne stepped
into his coach without relaxing a single muscle of
his face. The Mat'quisses of Winchester and Cams
den, and Lord Melville, were a:7,companied by their
sons, as was the Duke of Montrose, out age and in-
firmity seemed to be creeping on the latter Noble-
man. St. James's-street and Pall-mall were crowded
all (:.y with carriages and company ;and the windows
of the Club-licaties were fully occupied.—Morning
Herald.

The course pursued and threatened by the Whig
and Parliamentary Reformers, with respect to the
measure now before Parliament for disfranchising
the Borough of East Retford, presents an amusing
and edifying example of political consistency, and of
the deep and sincere regard felt by the parties we
have named to the purity of election. We need net
allude to the shade which has been carefully thrown
over the past delinquencies of this Borough, and the
successful artifices by which, up to the present time,'
its corruption has been concealed from the eye of
Parliament ; or to the remarkable fact, that the party
which Row affects to be the most zealous enemies of
corruption have been in times past the most busy
end active traffickers in bribery, in this very place
which they- are now so eager to blot out of the list
of Boroughs. These facts would have been per-
haps sufficient to warrant a pretty strong suspicion
that the desire of reform was not the only or the
strongest motive by which the Reformers were ac-
tuated. But the value of these facts, to a just esti,
mate of the transaction, is greatly reduced by sin-
tiler fact, stated and not contradicted in the House
of Commons, which sheds a blaze of light upon
th. subject; and it-,elf decisive evidence

that the proceedings :agairst East Retford have
been prosecuted so ardently, because it was a
job intended to open two popular Seats in the
House of Commons to the Whigs, and to in-
crease to this extent the power of that party in
Parliament. The transfer of the forfeited rights of
East Retford to Birmingham was to have been fol-
lowed, had the Whig project taken effect, by
the election of one of the leading prosecutors
of the offences of the former place, as one of the new
Represeritives of the latter. That Gentleman and
some other Whig or Radical would, no doubt, have
had the best chance of success in the popular borough
it was intended to create at Birmingham, as two
similar persons will have at Manchester, in the
event of the franchise of Penryn being transferred
to the spinners and weavers of that overgrown place.
With respect to one-half of their project, the Whigs
are fortunately defeated; any if any further proof
were required of the motives by which they have
all along been actuated, it is abundantly supplied by
the manner in which they haVe intimated their in-
tention to act upon this defeat. Parliament having
determined that the franchise of East Retford shall
not he transferred to Birmingham, but extended to
the freeholders of the Hundred in which East Ret-
ford is situated, the first and spontaneous impulse of
the 1% hips, we find by their own declaration to be,
to throw out the Bill altogether, and thus to re-
store in unmitigated virulence that horrible corrup-
tion which during two Sessions it has been their
chief employment to denounce. Perhaps a sense
of shame may deter them front this course; but it
ought never to be forgotten that this is the course
which they meditated and have avowed. They pretend
that the intended change will not make the state of
the representation better, but worse ; as if any
thing can be worse than the system which has ex-
isted at East Retford, according to their own elabo-
rate and repeated descriptions, or as if this system,
with all its vices, were preferable to that which pre-
vails in English counties, and which the election by
the freeholders of the Hundred will very closely re-
semble. It is almost a waste of words to notice the
Whig objection to this mode of disposing of the
forfeited right, founded upon the supposed influence
in the Hundred of the Duke of Newcastle. All the
contingent advantages, that of influence included,
which appertain to landed property, the Duke of
Newcastle has the same right to possess as any
other maa. To legislate with an express view to
intercept those advantages front falling into the
hands of a particular individual, would be a mea-
sure partaking of the character of confiscation,
so far as that individual is concerned, while it
would sanction the revolutionary principle, that the
representation of a large proportion of the counties
of England is vicious, that the right ought to be
withdrawn from them, and conferred upon the
largest and most sumptuous multitude that can be
found assembled in any one place of calico-weavers
or blacksmiths. The injury which cannot fail to
accrue to Birmingham or Manchester by making
either of those places the scene of an intense politi-
cal conflict, at least once in every six years, appears
to be totally overlooked. It is a consideration how-
ever entitled to great attention, and we yet entertain
the strongest hope that it will eventually prevail.
The East Retford Disfranchisement Bill is placed
in comparative security by the judicious change in-
troduced into it. That for the Disfranchisement of
Penryn will probably fall to the ground unless it
should also be saved in the same way.—Morning
Post.

The views entertained by his Majesty's Govern-
ment on the Corn Laws are to be opened, not dis-
cussed, in both Houses of Parliament to-night, and
Resolutions are to be laid, for the consideration of
the Legislature and the country, till after the holi-
days, when it will become the duty of the former
to give them effect, and that of the latter to express
its sense of the manner in which its interests are
likely to be affected by the proposed change. The
principles on which the new system is to be founded
have, for obvious reasons been hitherto kept secret.
We shall not seek to anticipate. We have
sufficient reliance in the wisdom and patriotism
of his Majesty's Government to be convinced
that, so far as they can, they will propose a
satisfactory settlement of this most vexatious
as well as momentous question. But, like all
other Ministries, they must bend to circumstances.
The House of Commons is in spirit so decidedly
commercial, that it is doubtful whether a Bill con-
sidered equitable by the agricultural part of the com-
munity will have any chance of obtaining its assent.
The final settlement of the question will therefore,
we fear, be attended with greater difficulty than is
generally imagined. With respect to the opinions
expressed by a Correspondent, we differ from him
on two points which he has discussed.—We are op-
posed to all prohibitions as unsound in principle and
injurious in practice. We do not think that the
agricultural, nor any interest in the State, had a
right to ask them. They are entitled to a protection
equal in amount to the difference between the neces-
sary charge of producing corn in the home and in the
foreign market, and to no nzore. We are opposed to
all varying duties, because the difference alluded to
is a fixed quantity. When it shall be shown that
the farmer pays more taxes when wheat is 80s.
than he does when it is 605., we shall readily concur
with those who would fix a smaller duty in the
former case than in the latter..—New Times.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CITANCERY—M.tacm 27.
1N RE FRANKS, A LUNATIC.

Mr. StIoDEN stated the petition of Mr. Cooke, who
was the committee of the lunatic, and which was to
the effect that, in 1825, it had been declared by
the Commissioners appointed by the Lord Chance:-
lor, that Mr. Franks had been a lunatic since 1815.
Between the latter period and that at which the
lunacy was established, Mr. Franks had made con-
tracts for the sale of parts of his property, and flew
contracts the purchasers now sought to enforce a
completion of. Three suits had been commenced
against the committee by the purchasers, and he was
now in contempt, and in danger of being attached,
for want of an answer. He was wholly unable to
put in his answer, owing to some disputes between
the heir-at-law and the children of the lunatic, and
he therefore came now for the protection of the
Court, and, by his petition, prayed for an' order
that the attachments might be stayed, and that a
reference made to the Master to inquire into the
facts anti report to the Court, whether the contracts
ought or ought not to be completed.
Mr. WAKVFIELD was heard on the same side.

Mr, PEPYS and Mr. KNIGHT opposed the peftion
on the part of the heir-at-law.
Mr. WRAY, for the younger children, insii-ted on
the expediency of a reference in this stage or the
cause.

After some further discussion, the prayer Df the
petition was granted; the attachments were ordered
to he suspended, and the purchasers were directed
to be at liberty to attend before the Master.

The prospect of raising coal, within a shirt dis-
tance of Wells, seems nearly realized. A shaft has been
sunk in a field, belonging to Mr. ROBINS, near Wookey,
and necessary buildings made for erecting a steam-engine :
and from the information received from the engineer, there
appears very little doubt but that a tine vein of coal will be
found.—Balle aronicle.

Five bean ricks, the property of Farmer\`'tLD,
of Coate, near Devizes, were entirely consurnel by fire in
the night time of Saturday, evidently occasioned by the
act of an incendiary, as three of the ricks were discovered
on fire at one time. Not the slightest snspieon attaches
to any oue, Mr. Wan not being aware Otat he had an
enemy in the world.—Rath Chronicle.

The best dentifrice which can be used is the
charcoal obtained by burning the thick cuttngs of the
vine; but it should be carefully prepared ly being first
carbonised itt a close crucihle, then powdered in a mortar
Previously heated, and afterwards kept in Close-stopped
bottles. The challoal dentifrice sold by the Iruggists bas
i.ci;rcely any detergent ci.-aality-,

DESTRUCTION of the NEW BRUNSWICK

THEATRE, WELLCLOSE-SQUARE.

RESUMED ADJOURNED CORONER'S INQUEST,

SIA RCM 27.

(Continued from our Paper of yesterday, which appeared

in part of our impression.)

Upon the return of the Coroner and the Jury,
Mr. Hill addressed the Court, and complained that
the examination of Messrs. Nash and Smirke, which
was fixed for this day, was postponed in conse-
quence of some difficulties being thrown in the way.
Mr. M‘Cann (a juror) said, that he and twenty
other jurymen had now attended for 12 days, at
serious inconvenience, and it was much to be la-
mented that any person, and particularly persons in
authority, should have thrown any difficulties in the
way of the proceedings.
The CORONER said, he certainly had been inter-
rupted, insomuch as he understood that the Magis-
trates intended to hold an adjourned Sessions in the
Court this dad•. In consequence of this intimation
he (the Coroner) had remanded the attendance of
Messrs. Nash and Smirke, as he understood the
Court would be used by the Magistrates.
Mr. Stable, the Clerk of the Peace, said the
Magistrates never intended to obstruct the Inquest.
They had already sat and disposed of their business
up stairs.

Mr. Stable was then examined, touching the
orders given by the Magistrates in October last.
When Messrs Carruthers and Maurice obtained a
licence for opening the theatre, Mr. Copt, the dis-
trict surveyor, was ordered to give in a certificate of
the stability of the building before it was opened;
and he had delivered a letter to the Magistrates, at
the last Sessions, accounting for his not having de-
livered in the certificate according to order.
After hearing Mr. Stable's testimony, Mr.
M'Cann asked the Coroner whether in point of
law the Magistrates had done right or wrong in
granting the licence at the time they did
The CORONER said he would rather not give any
opinion on that subject. The Magistrates had a
discretion, and no doubt they had acted according to
the best of their judgment.
In reply to a question put by Mr. Pullen, Mr.
Stable replied that Messrs. Carruthers and Maurice,
and Mr. Whit Well, were in Court when the license
was granted, and in answer to the Magistrates, they
all stated that the theatre would be completed by
Boxing Day (the 26th of December.)
In answer to a Juror, Mr. Stable said that Mr.
Whitwell told Mr. Ballantyne, the Magistrate,
that if sufficient funds were supplied, the theatre
might be completed fit for opening against the time
mentioned.

The witness Shaw (the clerk of the works) was
next called and examined, in explanation of certain
parts of the testimony he had given on a previous
day. In answer to some inquiries made by the Co-
, rover, he said, I think the total weight hung to the
roof was about 24 tons, at the time the roof fell in.
At this time there were about 1.5 men in the car-
penters' shop, whose weight I do not take into ac-
count. Neither do I take into account the fire-
place of the carpenters' shop, because a very small
part of its weight mas attached to the roof. lam
now in the employment of Mr. Harrison, at the
buildings in Carlton-place. I am foreman of the
joiners. Messrs. Nash and Smirke surrey the
works. I was at Carthagena during the war, and
erected a battery, for which I received the thanks
of the Duke of Wellington, conveyed me by Cap-
tain Adams, of the Invincible. 1 sent the Duke
the model after the battle of Vittoria.
By Mr. Hill.-1 have had several conversations
with Mr. Finlay about hanging weights to the roof.
I told him I had Mr. Maurice's and Mr. Carruthers'
directions for hanging the weights. I never said to
Mr. Finlay that I had Mr. Whitwell's directions or
consent to hang those weights. The conversations
about hanging weights to the roof were not in the
presence of Mr. Whitwell. On my oath, I never
had any sanction from Mr. Whitwell to hang
weights to the roof, but quite the contrary.
The proceedings of the day having closed, a long
tnnl- I,latu heturepn the Court. the
Jurymen, and the representatives of the parties,
as to the time at which it would best meet the con-
venience of all parties to attend again.
Mr. Hill (who appeared as counsel for Mr.
Whitwell, the architect) stated, that his professional
avocations rendered it impossible for him to attend
again until Monday se'nnight.
The CORONER said, the principal reason which
made him anxious to resume the investigation en an
early day was, that Well-street, in which the thea-
tre was situated, was blocked up, and must continue
so, until the walls of the theatre, which were still
standing, and some of the walls of the opposite
house, which were in a most dangerous state,
should be pulled down. He had deferred making
any order for the pulling down of those walls, as
the verdict of the Jury involved a question of deo-
dand, to which the materials of the theatre would
be liable.

It was finally proposed by one of the jurors, and
acquiesced in by all parties, that the inquest
should adjourn to Wednesday se'nnight.

AFFRAY NEAR PORTGLENONE.

(From the Dublin Morning .Register.)

A melancholy affray occurred, near Portglenone,
on Patrick's day. It appears that previously to
that festival, the Right Rev. Dr. Crolly, anxious to
discountenance the progress of Ribbonism through.
out the diocese over which he presides, had been ac-
tive and indefatigable in his exertions, both person-
ally and by pastoral letters, for a considerable Lime
to retard the progress of that illegal association, and
to remonstrate with and admonish those 'whom he
suspected to be members, and had travelled through
his diocese several days; yet, notwithstanding all his
zealous exertions, as well as those of his clergy, a
considerable body of Ribbonmen assembled on
Patrick's day, at Rasharkin, from the neighbouring
districts, as well as Loughgill and the county of
Derry, who proceeded in procession to a place called
M'Neillstown, between Rasharkin and Portglenone,
where they were attacked by a large party of Orange-
men well armed. A melancholy conflict ensued.
The Orangemen were covered by ditches, houses,
and haggards, from behind which they ministered
their deadly engines of destruction. The Ribbon-.
men, during the onset, suffered severely. A young
man of the name of Mooney was shot through the
head and immediately expired; another of the name
of M'Dorinell (supposed to have been. killed) was
shot through the knee, and wounds innumerable
were inflicted. Regular discharges of musketry took
place on the part of the Orangemen—one division
loading while the other was committing havoc. The
assailants, however, after making a stubborn resist-
ance, were routed by their more numerous opponents,
who, in retaliation, made shocking examples. A
great number are mortally wounded, and many have
sustained the loss of their limbs. The whole sur-
rounding country is in a dreadful state of exaspera-
tion, and even worse consequences are expected
soon to follow. Different letters arriving in the city
to-day corroborate the above statement, and admit
the affray to have been sanguinary and melancholy
in its consequences.

It is very remarkable that the father of the young
man who was killed, fell also a victim to Orange in-
humanity, even at his own door, some years since.

A WHIPPING JUDGE.-It is a little Ship-
lay that Mr. Sergeant D'OYLEY, to every sentence passed
by him of imprisonment and hard labour, made the addi-
tion of whipping. In each case it is -to be inflicted once,
and privately.—Maidstone Gazette.

When IBRAHIM PACIIA took Missolonghi,
he compelled his Greek prisoners to cut off the ears of their
countrymen who had fallen in the battle, and pickle them,
for the purpose of their being sent to Constantinople as
trophies of his victory. As they did not appear suffic:entiv
numerous, he caused to be added the ears of several Turks
who had fallen. The prisoners, however, introduced into
each barrel of ears the following paper :—" It will be seen
by the length of these ears that they are no Greek.