The Sun.
London, England, 1829-11-13 00:00:00

Vet* in this case for defendant to counsel. lam
not acting as solicitor as well as officer. The brief
was brought to me by defendant's wife two day.
ago. I don't remember I ever delivered any brief
before. I will not swear I never did. I was never
rebuked for doing so.
Mr. Samuel Galkin--Is a professor of music.—
The complainant's father told him that he would
not have taken out the warrant if he had not been
afraid the defendant would have proceeded against
him.

OUR GLORY IS DEPARTED.

Vain have been the warnings frequently given
.o the people of this realm by its pious Ministers,
but not vain have been their predictions. The
Millenium, foreseen by Mr. Irving, is come,
though even he has' not observed its arrival.
The glory of Great Britain and of her country
gentlemen is gone for ever. It has glided so
silently out of existence, like all the great changes
brought about by Nature, who, it is now ascer-
tained, abhors violent alterations, as she formerly
abhorred a vacuum, that it was unknown till the
Chronicle published the discovery on Saturday.
The pride of ages—the independence of our
country—is destroyed. In spite of the remon-
stance of our pastors, and the paternal care of our
land-owners, our gluttonous people have actually
eaten up their birthright and inheritance. As a
Papist swallows * * *, so have they bolted
the great and the beloved idol of our national
independence. They have actually eaten us into
a necessity to import three million quarters of
corn per year, as Mr. Whitmore remarked,
whose voice, like that of every other prophet,
was unheeded and scorned, and as we, echoing
his statements, have shewn. This is the true
key to the conduct of the Duke of Wellington.
Any person who looks back to the debates of
1828 on the Corn Bill, will perceive that Mi-
nisters were then fully aware of our dreadful
situation, and that they guarded the. secret as
long as they could, Oily letting in half a million
quarters of wheat by Orders of Council or tem-
porary laws, and doing what they could to induce
our children in Canada to supply us without
making our sad necessities known to the strangers
on the continent. The • people, however, heed-
ing nothing but their belly, have persisted in eat-
ing, and Russia and Prussia hold us fast bound
by the chains of our own sensuality.
The Journals of the ancien regime may re-
proach the Duke of Wellington with having
sacrificed the national honour, but his Grace
knows that it has been eaten up by the enor-
mous appetite of the community. Those Jour-
nals may call on him to let loose the dogs of
war, but he is aware that he cannot threaten
Russia without running the risk of a " rebellion
of the belly" at home. That he has saved Con-
stantinople in a state of degraded dependence
shows his consummate diplomatic skill ; but he
was too well aware of our unhappy situation to
think of sending a squadron to the Black Sea,
or an army to defend the Balkan. The great, the
alarming fact, now that it is known, which has
tied the Duke of Wellington's tongue, and Sir
Pulteney Malcolm's hands, which has kept our
soldiers only longing for the strife, and our sai-
lors from being impressed is, that in spite of the
prudence of our Ministers, and the patriotism
of our Country Gentlemen, this land, once
great, glorious, and free,,, is sunk so low as to
be dependent on Russia and R ussia for bread.
Nor does it require any Highland second-sight
to pronounce that it must become more and
more dependent. Our people will not forego
beef, resign milk, and give up garden-stuffs.—
Cattle and grass cannot, however, be imported
to pacify the maws of our increasing town popu-
lation ; and grazing, and gardens, and meadows,
gradually restrict the breadth of the country
under the plough. Every man can probably re-
member how the corn-fields have gone away
from around every town in the empire. No
art, consistently with allowing the people to
feed themselves, can prevent an increasing im-
portation of foreign corn every year. There is
an end, then, to the glory of our Statesmen ;
and here also is an end to all the arguments
about national independence by m Inch they
have sought to appease the hunger of the
people. The gastric juice has been too
mighty for them. The powerful solvent has
even eaten into their system. The armies and
fleets, under the name of trade, sent forth by the
Prime Mover, have long ago trampled under-
foot the balance of power. They have beaten
down all the fortifications of ancient policy, and
are destroying, one after another, all the castles
and citadels erected to strengthen and guard the
Chinese wall it formerly placed between the dif-
ferent families of mankind, impeding their com-
munication and levying tribute on the wayfarers
of the world. Since the calamitous event so
long sought to be guarded against by our States-
men has actually come to pass ; since the intem-
perate indulgence of appetite in the community,
against which, it must be ad miffed, both the
Ministers of the State and of Religion have
striven all in their power, has brought us into
our present lamentable condition ; and since the
nation, in spite of prohibitory laws, is actually
become dependent on foreigners for bread—it
will be wise to give this dependence as wide a
basis as possible. The Ministers were com-
pelled, by the fear of famine, to give up prohibi-
tion and take to a protecting duty. Now, it
unfortunately happens for our national indepen-
dence that this duty, restricting us for a supply
to those countries in which corn can be grown
at 30s. a quarter cheaper than in Britain—for it
requires that sum in general to cover the ex-
pence of carriage and the duty—makes us ex-
clusively dependent for food on the half-peopled
ELOPEMENT.—Deserted from me, D. BAS-
TOW, a few days since, a woman, who, for the last five ports of Russia and her ally Prussia. It is well
years, has consorted with me, and has generally been re- known that our chief supplies of grain are de-
puted to be my wife. The cause of her disappearing is rived from the dominions of these two powers.
beyond the scope of my divining. She was always kind
We should be disposed—on the principle that
to me while we lived together, and I was occasionally good
when a man's services are desirable, and he can
to her. She is a middling sized woman, has black hair,
.hoose between many masters, servitude is very
and a remarkable winning leer in her eye. No apprehen-
clight—to recommend the abolition of the duty on
tropbe.—American Paper.
sive difficulty has occurred between us till the late catas-
corn when imported, in order that we may obtain
SENSIBILITY OF GENIUS. When BURNS supplies from every country in which it is grown
cheaper than in Britain. We would do this
resided in Edinburgh, his company was eagerly sought
ls,
after by the ton vivants; who, under the ominous title on general principles ; but when we observe that
of the Gin Club, yet continue to hold their meetings in j the effect of the duty on corn is to make us al-
their old retreat at the Canongate; they claimed him as 1 most exclusively dependent on that Power and
the choicest spirit in their revels, and held out all the her principal ally which is coming down the
temptations that pleasant society and a deep carousal could Black Sea into the Mediterranean, and sending
afford, to induce him to remain amongst them. But
out her feelers towards India, we feel ourselves
Burns' temperament was as full of vicissitude as his life.
He was sensitive to the first appioach of the disagreeably, called on to recommend that it be instantly done.
and shrunk even from convivial intercourse, unless kis We do not give this recommendation because
companions. were congenial to his taste. When they found we would let our people have cheap bread, and
him the vein," therefore, they knew his value, and increase our trade—because we would remove
cherished him. On one occasion he dined with a confi-
the bounty the grower of wheat now receives
dential friend, who, finding him in a most sparkling and
jovial mood, induced him to accompany him in the even-
against the feeder of beef, and the cultivator of
ing to the meeting of their companions at the Canongate. cabbages; nor because we would cultivate good
Buttes' vivacity promised a rich fund of humour and
fellowship with the most civilized and polished
glee, and his friend, our informant, auguring from the
delightful temper in which he had caught the poet, promised nations of the earth, who must make common
the members an enjoyment of the highest order. Buans I cause with us against the Colossus of the North ;
entered the roan, and took his seat beside his friend. The but simply on the principle of the Country Gen-
chair was called, and festivity began. An hour passed tlemen—because we would make our unhappy
away and poor IluaNs was silent ; several attempts to ex-
cite his hilarity were made in vain, and during the re- state of dependence involve as little as possible
nriinder of the evening he could not be roused even to ap
At last the disapointed assembly broke up, and they
the risk of famine. After all, the dependence
smile. have talked of so much cannot be very
the poet forming a little coterie of four or five of his own troublesome, since the people have slid into it
immediate and attached friends, repaired to that little so easily as not to perceive its weight, and have
sanctum, known by the name of Butt's's' Coffin—which, borne the yoke for several years with no other
we are sorry to say, is on the point of being sacrificed to i wish apparently than, by bowing their necks to
some modern street improvements ! Here the repressed en-
thusiasm shone out—his heart was on his lips in a moment it, to fling off that of the landlords. It is but
—and, forgetting the gloom of the preceding scene, he the dependence of one tradesman on another—
charmed his own little circle with songs and recitations, of the cotton-manufacturer on the farmer—
Until the " peep,o' dawn." 'When. his friend inquired the which both feel to.be pleasant, and mutually
cause of his silence in the club, his answer seas lcharac-
teristic of the susceptibility of his mind—" I dinna like amicable ; while nations independence, in the
the face o' the earl who sat in the chair sense of Country Gentlemen/ is/ in truth the

Mr. George Gregory swore that the bell was
never rung on the evening spoken to by the com-
plainant. He was certain of that, as he was sitting
in a room where he must have heard it.
The CHAIRMAN, after summing up the evidence
on both sides at great length, called the attention of
the Jury to the deposition which had been returned
from the Police-office, and from which it appeared
that the girl had in her evidence there sworn to two
assaults,—one on the morning of the 12th of Aug.,
when she said her master entered her room about
six o'clock, and after behaving improperly towards
her, went away, and desired her to get up and clean
his shoes. The other assault was that she had spoken
of that day.
The Jury, after deliberating for about a quarter of
an hour, returned a verdict of Guilty.
Many persons appeared astonished at the verdict.
Mr. BALLANTINE said, that now the case was
over, he could not forbear from remarking on the
improper conduct of the officer. It was a new fea-
ture in the conducting of the police, for an officer to
act as the agent of the defendant. He trusted, when
it came to the ears of the Magistrates of the Mary-
lebone office, they would not suffer the system to
remain any longer a nuisance to the public. If the
officer were attached to his office (the Thames
Police), he should not remain there another hour.
The CHAIRMAN, in pronouncing sentence, said
that as the jury, after an attentive consideration of
the case, and with the advantage of an elaborate ad-
dress and examination on both sides, had come to
the conclusion that the defendant was guilty, all the
Court had to do was to carry that verdict into effect.
The sentence of the Court upon him was, that he
pay a fine of 101. to the King.
The money was immediately paid.

A PUNDIT IN JEOPARDY.

Not long ago a gentleman from England and a
party of friends, while out coursing in a neighbour-
ing parish, encountered rather an ugly customer.—
Amidst the ardour of the chace, they entered a field
which report said was tenanted by a vicious bull;
but the Pundit made very light of the circumstance,
and talked of having a little sport with an animal
that had got his name up from the fears of the timid,
and that in all probability would either turn tail or
stand at bay the moment a bold front was shown.—
Speak of the devil," says the proverb, " and he'll
appear;" and scarcely had the words escaped from
his lips, when the shaggy monster emerged from
the rear of a set of old offices, and, as if offended
with the liberty taken with his name, singled out,
and beset his lettered traducer. The moment was
critical—the danger imminent—the assailant no re-
specter of persons; and as prudence in many cases
is the better part of valour, the gentleman, though
the very reverse of a craven, felt that the time, the
scene, and the subject, were alike unsuited for the
display of his powers as a senior wrangler. To his
heels, therefore, he took, with a degree of speed
that astonished his friends, and almost rivalled the
fleetness of his own greyhounds, and not only dis-
tanced the furious beast, but cleared in his way, at
one bound, a gate or fence that would have done no
discredit to a first-rate hunter. The bull followed

him to the extremity of the field, tearing up the turf
with his feet, and bellowing forth his dissatisfaction
at the boundary that hemmed his hostility in. But
still there were other intruders in- the field, and on
turning round he beheld half a dozen sportsmen,
fixtures on the spot where they originally stood, and
whom surprise, not unmixed with fear, had well
nigh deprived of the power of locomotion. But their
feelings, however amiable, were nothing to the bull.
Down therefore he bore on them in gallant style,
determined to break the enemy's line, as Nelson did
at Trafalgar. Though the onset was furious, the
assailant had the breadth of a field to cross, and be-
fore he arrived:at the old houses, there was luckily no
line to break. As a stimulant to action there is nothing
like fear, when► the feeling is not carried too far; and as
the enemy approached, the gentlemen separated and
got out of the way—that is with the exception of •
one of their number, who, in place of following hs
companions, scrambled to the top of an old side-
wall, where he hoped to see everything without
being seen. But he had well nigh paid the forfeit
of his temerity. When tired of other sport, the
bull found him out, and pawed with such fury at the
bottom of the wall, and tossed with such majesty
his os frontis—a capital substitute for a battering
ram—that he seemed in a fair way of bringing the
fabric to the ground. As the prospect was none of
the pleasantest, the climber left his perch, and -en-
deavoured to escape by some back door; but here
he reckoned without his host, for as often as he
peered round one corner, the enemy popped his nose
past another. The contest at this time assumed the
character of a regular game at bo-peep, and would
have been highly laughable bad it not been so dan-
gerous. In this spec►es of warfare two legs were
found preferable to four; and as the bull in turning,
necessarily made a good deal of lee way, the gentle-
man saw where his advantage lay, and felt from the
first, in the words of the poet, that he would be able
to " turn a corner jinking, and cheat him yet." And
it was literally so. Theban tired first of the jink-
ing sport, ar►d at last became so listless or exhausted
that so far from compelling the enemy to surrender
at discretion, he allowed him to march off with the
honours of war.—Dumfries Courier.