The Sun.
London, England, 1826-04-18 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY—(Tins DAY. )
In consequence of a general expectation that judg-
ment,wbuld be given this morning in the cause of
Wellesley v. the Duke of Beaufort, the avenues lead-
ing to the Court were crowded at an early hour.
There was a violent rush as soon as the doors were'
opened. When the LORD CHANCELLOR took his
seat, a gentleman, who said he was a Solicitor of that
Court, complained to his Lordship of having been in-
sulted by an Officer of the Court -on his en-
trance. The LORD CHANCELLOR wished to
know his name, that he might punish , him ;
but the Solicitor declined giving it.—A Short-hand
Writer having, complained to his Lordship of -having
been prevented from following his profession, by'being
excluded from the Court, the LORD CllANcEttou
said that he would make no order for the acconunoda-
tion of any other class of persons but that of Coun-
sel and Solicitors : at the same time hitt- Lordship re-
marked, that he was as anxious as any other person
that the proceedings in that Court should, be made.,
public.

WELLESLEY V. DUKE OF BEAUFORT.

The Loan CHANCELLOR having 'taken a brief
view of this case as argued by counsel, suggested the
propriety of Messrs. Wellesley and. Pitman making
further affidavits in answer to those of Dr. Bulkeley
and Mr. O'Meara, and observed that if in giving judg-
ment he should not order the children to be committed
to the care of their father, it did not follow that they
should be intrusted to the care of any of the parties
connected with the proceedings.

COURT OP KING'S BENCH.--(Tres DAY.)
THE KING V. BOTES.
Mr. KELLY applied to the Court for a rule to show
Cause why the verdict should not be set aside, and a
new trial granted in this case. The defendant, he said.
was convicted at Thetford at the last assizes, before
Mr. Justice Holroyd, of a libel, for baying circulated
printed handbills accusing the plaintiff, Mr. Owen, a
minister of a dissenting congregatinn in Norwich, of
adulterous intercourse with his the defendant's wife,
and in consequence of the conviction has been impri-
soned in the gaol of Norwich, in which place he has
been served with notice to attend in this Court, to re-
ceive judgment ; but from his poverty he was unable
to defray his expences, and consequently could not be
brought up. The Learned Counsel grgunded his ap-
flication for a new trial on the part of material.evidence,
or defendant having been rejected by the Judge on, the

The CowiT having considered the evidence refused
the motion, but said that the affidavits would operate
in mitigation of punishment, and as he was unable to
attend, judgment might be passed on him in hisab.
sence.

Nothing of mblie interest occurred in the COURT
of COMMON PLEAS this morning.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

STATE or rHE 0 in-M.— n
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ET. LEGER.
Nothing th Se.

arrirE.—On Tuesday last, the remains of Lieut.
Dyer, of the Coast Blockade, whose untimely death
we noticed in our last, were removed from Fort Tiiisee
for interment, with military honours, at Ifythe. The
melancholy end of this gallant young officer, who fell
a victim in the performance of his duties, has excited
the sympathy of every class of persons in this town
and neighbourhood. At one o'clock, the procesion.
moved from the Fort.

Plan of the Procemlion.

Firing party-103-rank and file, commanded by Captain Wright,
Band of the Regiment.
iall Bearers.
Lieut. M'Leod.
0 Lieut. Jull.
Ca Lieut. Westbrook.
Chief Mourner,. • '
J. IiItPBURN, ESQ. . , , •
Officers of the Coast Blockade--Mr. Williamson, rigurgooo.
Assistant-surgeon, Lienta. Luton, Gordon, Clayton,
Homies, Reed, llellard.
Sixty Seamen and petty officers, commanded by Mesas. Reed sad
Raymond. • . . •
Royal Staff, commanded by Col. Lord Greenock,
We understand that the Widow has caused a coinniu7.
nication to be made to the unfortunate' author of her
severe loss, who is committed to goal on a charge of
manslaughter, expressing her conviction of 'its being
entirely attributable to accident.—(Cinque Ports 116. '.‘
raid, April 15)
„ ,

Pall Bearers.
Lieut., Oke.
Lieut. Johnstone.
Lieut Tlrokeutha.

The Delphina, MARTIN, arrived at Antwerp, on
the 14th instant. She sailed on the 7th of December
from Java. Several battles had been fought between
the Dutch and Javanese, without any thing decisive
on either side, but with a result, on the whole ruinous;
to the Dutch ; whose forces were so reduced, that if
re-inforcements did not speedily, arrive from Europe,
they would be obliged to abandon the island. A. very
small quantity of coffee would be sent to Europe, as
the coffee and the plantations had suffered greatly from
the conflagrations, which had been gcncral, both in
the towns and in the country. The following is a
copy of a letter received by the Delfihina, at an emi-
nent house in the city, which gives a different version
of the affairs of Java
" BATAVIA, Dec. 3.—Wt h tegtrd to the War In the native
lrovinces, we have nothing to °Wert both parties will, most
ikely, remain inactive, until the commencement of the tair
monsoon. The country is at present apparently quiet."

We are glad to perceive that our fair countrywomen
do not seem very generally inclined to adopt the enor-
mous umbrella bonnets which are sported by the dash-
ing French ekgantes. _

-Mr. Pea GMen AVM!: H exhibited himself in a sky-blue coat.
on a brown cob, on Sunday, in the Park.
The Dean and Chapter of Durham have presented the Rev. 0.
Townsend, one of the Prebendaries of Durham, to the living of
Northallerten, rendered vacant by the death of the Rev. (1,-
'louver.
The Park was on Sunday, thronged from Cumber.
land Gate to Piccadilly, both with carriages and P'-'deß"
trians ; but the alterations are not yet
completed to make them agreeable to the latter, who,
we dare say, will in a Sunday or two betake them-
selves to the turf of Kensingtpu
The public clays at Lambeth Palace will commence Gardens.
on Saturday next, the 22d of this month, and be 00.
tinued every consequent Saturday until further uofice,
Dinner at half-past six o'clock.

1,:,:1.

THE LownotTIOUTENATS: ;

%%,11.Y" EXTRACTS FROM TIE-i/fORNINCI PA.PERS,
• . APRIL 18, 186,

[THE 'min.]
With the most sorrowful feelings we' have this day
to point the attention 'of, the Public to such scenes ofsuffering ,as probably never before occurred in any civi-
lized country. , Ireland has been So.governed as hardly',
to come within that description ' • but even Ireland it-
self, whether civilized or barbarous, did not suffer
greater misery, even at that period: when the sympa-
thies of Englishmen were so strongly excited, than is
now sustained- by no inconsiderable portion of our
fellow-subjects on British ground. In few words, the
manufacturers of Blackburn in Lancashire are perish-
ing through hunger. Let any one reflect but, for a
moment, silently m his own bosom, what aggravated
woes are contained in these three short words, " dying
of want ;" and then he will not need much out-of-
door eloquence to melt his pity, and to draw forth his
charity, for the thousands who are in so dreadful a
state, for the poor manufacturers of Blackburn in
Lancashire, and the adjoining
,districts. We do not
seek 'to provoke indibmation, but to excitocompassion.
It was but the other day, and while the famine was
raging among the poor manufacturers of Blackburn in
Lancashire, that an attempt was made, and even car-
ried in the affirmative, to assign to the President of
the Board of Trade an annual salary of five thousand
pounds, The project, howevei, was stopped : let
Government, therefore, immediately send down to
Blackburn only the amount of the first year's stipend
thus rescued---(it will not be much when it comes to
be divided among fourteen thousand starving persons)
and the humanity of individuals will do more. How
lucky that the. first five thousand, pounds was.saved for
this wBrk of charity. The President of the Board of
Trade may have fifteen thousand a year for any thing
we care, when trade flourishes: but let the plague of
famine.be stayed .forthwith, by the application of the
first year's salary, There is no time. to lose. The
documents by which the truth of the preceding state-
meat is substantiated, and to be found in this day's
journal, are, first, a letter from the Rev. Mr. Fletcher,
a gentleman long resident in the place ; next, the pe-
tition of the poor sufferers themselves to Mr. Peel ;
and lastly, the proceedings of a public meeting held in
the Sessions-house of Blackburn on the 7th instant,
as detailed in the columns of the Blackburn Mail, a
respectable: Government paper. It is from these that
the following extract is made :

" township of Blackburn has been•divided into sixteen
districts,' and visitors appointed to call at every house, in order
to ascertain the want.; of the really tweet tc4ous poor. The task
was a most arduous one to perform, and many were the heart.
rending seenetrof distress whielt they were compelled to witness.
Some families they found without food, money, or work.
During the last nine weeks, about rot, ItTEErf TBOUSAND
14D1V11)1!Af..9. (more titan lla4 the population of the town-
ship) hive been relieved weekly with food ; and as the appli-
cation for relief are on the increase, without there being a pros.
pect of immediate employment for the poor, the Committee up.
pointed to distribute the fund t," rnestly solicit the contributions
of the benevolenno feed the hungry at titisisresSing season of
distress. The poor have received the relief with thankfulness,
and expressed their ardent gratitude fur the bounty of the
public; and many of them have declared, that the ant of the
aubecriptions have preserved them from entire starvation:"

With respect to the petition, drawn up in very artless
language, and therefore the more affecting, the poor
sufferers attribute their distress to the mechanical in-
ventions, and more especially the power-looms, by
which the necessity Of inamml labour has been dim.-
rtished ; and.to the corn kws. In relation to the first
of these subjeCts of complaint, We must observe—that
if we were not to avail ourselves of all the mechanical
discoveries that are made, our neighbours and rivals
would ; they then would undersell us :in our own mar-
kets, and manufacturing WOUld absolutely cease among
US perhaps, ,if We were fret; to choose, whether any
new mechanical discovery should be niadc or not, we
fuigyetifsPend our judginent ; but the disco Very being
nuide, we must apply it : no change, therefore, can
be made in this respect. Against the corn laws the
complaititlS well-fOunded and just. Our manufactures
are Ong. from us, because the foreign rriatiufactUrer
.can undersell Us : and he can undersell us, because his
journeynieli require less wages';' and they require less
wages, because bread, and the other necessaries of life
are cheaper abroad tbau in EnglancL Still it must be
observed, that if bread. were sunk at .once to a very low
value, the, farmer;' who pays his labourers and his rent
from the price which he receives for his corn and' other
rural products, must employ fo,wer hands; distress
would then fall upon the agricultural labourer: Some
management is therefore necessary on this head, though
nothing can equal the iniquity of -those, who,'hy sane-
timing all the evtravagance of Govermnent, have ren-
dered, the, high price of corn to a certain degree neces-
sary, in order that the land-owner may be able to pay'
those taxes out of which the extravagance is supported.

It will be seen by an advertisement, that Mr.' Ward,
a merchant .unl Bank Director, hes been requested to
beeOnie a candidate to repreSent Ilse City in the next
Parliament, and that be has signified his intention to
comply with the requisition. Ag. nst Mr. Ward per-
senally,we have ,not .one word to say : he is, we be,,
lieve, very respectable 'gentleman, . and is, inorcos'er,
a nephew of the Secretary to the Board of Ordnance.'
Btrt the ,list l of 'persons, who call upon Mr. 'Ward to
stand' forward, cannot' claiM equal' exemption from
remark, It is obserVable that the great majority
consists: of men. who are,not liverymen, who have no
connOxion with the CorporalOn of LOndon, who, in
fact, are not citizens in the proer Sense of the word,
as ,tbay , neither live in the City, nor perform any
of ,th9se,useful and laborious offices, for .the due
excputiew of which the City Charter was granted, and
for, I.).e' neglect of die 'Charter would certain-
ly ky4., forfeited. • These men, thus unconnected with
the CorporatiOn, apply to a gentleinari equally uncon-
nected to represent the Chattered Body in the House,
of. :Uonamons. This we flunit neither just nor deco-
rang: It is fit and reasonable that those persons whose
lives have been spent 'in labouring for the service of
their, fellow liverymen should rev such honours
antiliiWardtif-ai3 the liverymen,
have in their power to
beSiejf. , interloper, whatever 'may'. he his per-
sonattreiits, should dirdst hiMself into a society upon
which be his no just claim, to rob any really efficient
meinbt:ti; of that society of his 4uanturn meruit. We
know• it will be said, that a great mercantile commu-
nity`orrdht, to, be represented •by eminent merchants :
but is it • not a fret, that the merchants as • a body,
and even in their, distinct and separate classes; are
,u,,p)y represented, both AS tp number 'and 7intelli-
,
gone 7 The Bank and East India House have each
of therm numerous, and by no means inefficient Organs
to enforce or protect their respective privileges ; and
while :Mai men as Baring, 'Ellice, Grenfell, Hudson,
Gurney, Philips, John Smith, and Whitmore, sit in
the House of Conmions, there is no branch of trade
or merchandise that can entertain any just apprehen-
aici thit its particular rights or interests will be

either misunderstood or disregarded.
is Such be-
ing the case, the )•question of acity. election re-
solves itself into a very short and intelligible
issue. There, Are certain-- laborious until highly
useful functions =which uruperformed,- and -can. only
be performed, by members of the .Corporation.—
To those who by their zeal, industry, and talent, have
risen to the highest of these offices, it has been usual,
as it is most just, to award the honourable distinction
of representing in Parliament that body which they
have long and faithfully served. Is there any good
and sufficient reason for violating this equitable prin-
ciple ? Why should those who refuse to do the duty
of citizens,—nay, who reject all the subordinate ho-
nours with disdain,—thrust themselves forward at the
eleventh hour to claim the highest prize of all, and
shoulder aside the meritorious labourer, whose whole
life has been dedicated to the service of his civic breth-
ren, and who naturally aspires, at the close of his la-
bours, to that remuneration which is at once the
cheapest and best appreciation of public merit. We
trust that the livery will not be unmindful of this view
of the subject ; that they will show they are not with-
out gratitude for their best and most constant friends ;
and that they will not suffer any motives of vanity or
caprice to lead them into new and strange connexions
with persons who usually treat them with scorn, and
only court them when some great advantage is to be
gained.—(Mid).

Our Journals contains two extremely curious and
important documents, in relation 'to Popery strictly so
called ; that is, in relation to the power and preten-
sions of the Pope, not to the doctrines of the Catholic
religion as existing partly in the New Testament and
partly in the traditions and inventions of man. Four-
teen Archbishops and Bishops of France have drawn.
up and presented to the King of France, by the
hands of three of their body, a declaration asserting
the independence of the Gallican Church ; and re-
futing certain doctrines advanced by the Abbe de la
Mennais, according to which the Pope can deprive
sovereigns of their crowns for infidelity, &c. The
declaration, which is published in the official part of
the Moniteur, is, indeed, in substance, the same as two
of the celebrated propositions maintained by the French
clergy in 1682, which two propositions were as fol-
lows :-1. God neither gave to St. Peter nor his suc-
cessors any power, direct or indirect, over temporal af-
fairs.-72. The rules, usages, and practice, received in the
kingdom and in the Gallican Church, ought to remain un-
alterable. The Archbishop of France has refused to sign
the declaration before us, for reasons which he has laid
before his Majesty hi private : but he approves of the
Maxims it maintains. The Archbishop appears to us
to be but a shifty gentleman. Thus, it appears then
that the French clergy have no sooner—through arts
which we shall not now take time to describe—ob-
tained a certain degree of . power, than they have
to quarrel for the possession or exercise of it, with
a certain animal living across the Alps, unknown
to Our Saviour or his disciplc,i4,called a Pope :
a successor of St. Peter ! Alas ! poor St. peter :
he little thought he was to have such a successor !
We Protestants are glad of this occurrence. It may
afford us some amusement, and much sincere joy.
that we belong to a reformed church far removed
from such absurdities. Now what can his Infallibility
the Pope do, when he reads this saucy declaration of
the French bishops ? He must excommuniate them,
or else be is nothing of a Pope : and then we shall
have the unity of the church prettily preserved by means
of an Infallible Head ! It is rather singular, that
just at the time when the declaration of the French
Brelates is published, there should appear in the
russels paper, a. docummit professing to be uttered
at Rome ; and putting forth the most extravagant
pretensions on the part of. the .Pope and the Papal
' clergy; placing them indeed above thrones and princi-
palities, The opinion that emanates with this produc-
tion, and accompanies it into the world, is that it is
spurious. Our own suspicion is, that it come forth in
an. unofficial form, only that it may be disowned or
.acknowledged, as its principles seem to be rejected or
allowed by the subjects of Roman Catholic states: In
truth,. its pretensions are very little more extravagant
than those which are combatted in the declaration Of
the French prelates.—(lbid.)