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London, England, 1829-05-21 00:00:00

sriBIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS.

We have already put upon record our opinion of
the wisdom displayed by the Honourable House, on
the occasion of Mr. O'Connell claiming to take his
seat ; but we have not said all we think as to the
mode in which the opposition he experieaced was
conducted. It was repeatedly professed in the
course of the discussion, that every thing of per-
sonal hostility was wholly put aside, and that there
was no disposition in the Members of the Admini-
stration to treat the matter as a party question, or
to bias the decision by any exertion of influence.
ISow, it does so happen that we know the facts to
be exactly the reverse of these professions. We
know that the interval between the preliminary pro-
ceedings of Saturday and the adjourned debate on
Monday was sedulously emp!oyed, by certain
zealous adherents of the Powers that be, in strenu-
ous and successful efforts to enforce the attendance
of Members whose independence is Sufficiently no-
torious. We should like to receive answers to two
very simple straight-forward questions. Did the
official person (the usual channel upon such occa-
sions) decline to comply with the application of a
Alernber known to be favourable to Mr. O'Connell's
pretensions, who desired to pair off 9—and was the
refusal consistent with, and given in, the spirit of
peifect impartiality which the Government pro-
fessed ?--Illorning Chronicle.

The question as to whether a New Writ shall be
issued for the county of Clare comes on this even-
ing. The great problem which all men aspiring to
be politicians are called on to solve, is jusqu' d quel
point on dolt tramper—the extent to which de-
ception ought to be carried. The answer might ap-
pear obvious—the extent to which deception can be
carried. But then this is a nice point—for what
succeed: at one time may not succeed at another.
It may he allowed, that as far as the deceiver is con-
cerned, he can never be said to go too far; the con-
sie'teetine is only difficult as relates to the gulli-
bility of those who are practised on. Let us endear
your to throw a little light on this subject by the
case of Mr. O'Connell. Those who could be ca-
pable of the low and disreputable contrivance of
framing a Bill for the relief of the Catholics from
the restraints and disabilities under which they suf-
fered, in such a manner, that while it professed to
include all Catholics, it yet subjected one man,
Mr. O'Connell, to the restraints which it had de-
clared ought to be discontinued, must have had
the exclusion of Mr. O'Connell very much
at heart. The intention of excluding him
was, indeed, steadily kept in view from the
beginning, us is well known to all who at-
tended to the proceedings. That Ministers had the
exclusion of Mr. O'Connell very much at heart
mny be inferred from the very circumstance of their
descending to so paltry a trick. Having soiled
themselves with this piece of pettifogging, any man
who possessed any knowledge of the spr►ngs of ac-
ti,•n might have been pretty well-assured that they
would not easily forego the object for which they
bid risked so much. When, therefore, Ministers
pretended that they were impartial, and they ap-
proached the question as a judicial one, with all the
impartiality which judges ought to possess, we must
not understand this in any other sense than that it
was convenient for them to say so. They could not
be impartial—because if Mr. O'Connell had been
allowed to enter, they would have had all the credit
of the trick, and all the mortification of its failure.
Their self-love was of course powerfully enlisted in
the cause, in order that they might not have the
credit of petty vindictiveness, and the mortification
of a fruitless display of it. They, of course, be-
stirred themselves ,most energetically to prevent
themselves from being deprived of the fruits of
their machinations. But though to all persons of
any discernment it was obvious they could not be
indifferent to the issue, they nevertheless presented
themselves before the public with the most impos-
ing gravity,' as if all they had .at heart was to see
justice done to Mr. ,O'Cortnell, and no pains
bad been taken to influence votes. It is obvious
that they imagined the public would forget the
anxiety with which they had watched over the ex-
clusion of Mr. O'Connell from the commencement—
that the exclusion was even a condition, without
which the Bill could not have passed—that they
were obliged to submit to the degradation, or their
labour would have been thrown away. In fact this
last consideration forms their best excuse; because,
in htitnan affairs there is generally an alloy of evil
with good, and the alloy in this case was the trick
forced on them. But then it would not do to allow
they were forced to this meanness. And the ques-
tion now is, whether they have really succeeded in
deceiving the public to the extent they obviously in-
tended to deceive. Of this we are certain, that as
long as trickery cannot be seen through it will be
practised. Hence it may be useful to treat the pro-
ceedings of Ministers in the present case as they
ought to be treated—to give them credit for their
intentions, and to laugh at them for the clumsi-
ness of the attempt. If they could be brought
to believe the public a little more clear-sighted,
they would be a little more cautious. It is
amusing to see how much Statesmen in all parte
of the world resemble each other. In Mr. Craw-
furd's " Journal to Ava," just published, we have
an apposite exemplification of this in the Burmese
Statesman :—" Mr. Judson informed me, that when
he was in prison he overheard two Chiefs, who were
subjecte d to a temporary confinement for some pec-
cadillo, discoursing together on moral subjects.—
The eller of the two asked the other if he knew
the proper definition of an upright matt.' The
younger professed his ignorance; when the senior
added, Then I will tell you : an upright man is
exactly the same thing as a witless man, or a sim-
pleton.' Maongrit, the senior Atwen-wun, who
gave in a formal note at the last conference, recom-
mending to all parties loyalty, disinterestedness, and
truth, was detected, in the course of the day, in what
was little short of a forgery.—lbid.

So intense was the curiosity, both in and out of
doors, to hear Mr. O'Connell on Monday, that the
number. of Members present at four o'clock ex-
ceeeded five hundred ; and the applications by
strangers for admission to the privileged seats under
the gallery were numerous beyond all former pre-
cedents ; insomuch that the speaker found himself
under the necessity of refusing the great mijority of
them. Efforts were made successively by Mr.
J3rougham, Lord Morpeth, Colonel Craddock, ant!➢
we believe, Mr. Hume, to procure this envied indul-
gence for some Irish gentlemen much attached to
31r. O'Connell, and deeply interested in the result
of the debate : but a negative, eaurteous but de-
cided, was the invariable reply from the Chair to
these reiterated applications.—lbid.

A statement of a curious nature will be found in
this day's journal, respecting certain documents ap-
pertaining to the history of the Scottish Kirk; of
which documents Sion College became possessed
by a proceeding of a very questionable character as
to honesty, but to which questionable proceeding it
appears that the present Members of the College
would set their seal, by upholding the unrighteous
condition attending the first deposit. The observa-
tion in ceternum of a condition which was unjust in
its origin, is not integrity or honour,—it is protracted
iniquity. The guilt of the first propounder, and
those with whom he treated, may be thus tranferred
to the latest posterity. " Thou shalt put from thee
the accursed thing," is an order of high authority,
we should suppose. We will put a parallel ca'e. A
man receives the child of another, which is in danger
of being carried off or destroyed, for the purpose of
safe custody; but the condition of receiving it is,
that the child shall be kept in perpetual darkness—
shall not be suffered to see the day. Ought such a
condition to be observed when he who imposed it
its ne more? It may have been submitted to at
~!first with a view to prevent a greater evil, and to
save the child's life; but=when the restoration of the
child can only be for good, it ought undoubtedly to
be brought forth and restored: The subject was
brought forward in the House of commons by the

Lord Advocate of Scotland, and we have no doubt
but that the observations which ensued will lead- to
an arrangement of the difficulty without more trou-
ble.—Times.

One of the. worst broaches of the jobbing system
in Ireland is that exercised by Grand Juries in the
valuation of land for the purpose of taxation, in the
presentment of roads, &c. We are glad to see the
exercise of the former of those powers has bgen
adverted to in the House of Lords, by the Earl of
Farnham, with merited reprobation. It is impossible
that even the foundation of civil improvement can
be laid in Ireland until the vast and complicated ma-
chinery of local jobbing, which, through centuries
of misrule, has worked to the oppression and im-
poverishment of the people, shall have been cleared
away. It is this jobbing, which, more or less,
taints and corrupts almost all public proceedings in
Ireland, that presents the greatest obstacle to the
civilization of the country. We recollect when the
Right Hon. Mr. Robinson, now Viscount Godes
rich, designated the Government of Ireland as an
" Augean stable," that must be cleansed before the
country could be improved. The work has yet to
be done, and, to make it effectual, the besom of
reformation must be applied kith a truly Herculean
arm. But, of all the modes of taking money out of
the pockets of the public to squander it on private
and venal purposes. that by the assessments of Grand
Juries is the most objectionable. A Grand Jury is
an evanescent body, wholly without responsibility, ,
and, as such, ought to have nothing to do what-
ever with the levying of taxes. The powers of a
Grand Jury ought to be confined to what are strictly
and properly their constitutional duties—namely, the
admission or rejection of bills of indictment laid be-
fore them at the Assizes, Lc. and the presentment
of nuisances—to which may be added the examina-
tion of the state of prisons, and reporting thereon. It
is quite beside their functions, in propriety and
good policy, to value lands for taxation, or levy
money, under the name of " Grand Jury Cess,"
for the making and repairs of roads. In the exercise
of the former power there is a universal complaint
of their acting in a most arbitrary and partial man-
ner; but this power will he superseded as 'soon as
the Ordnance Survey of Ireland, now in progress,
shall have been completed. To perform that sur-
vey with care and scientific precision is, no doubt,
an elaborate task, but it certainly seems to proceed
very slowly, and we do not see why the Act of Par-
liament, which allows the Lord Lieutenant to make
a valuation of the lands surveye I, should not be car-
ried into effect in those counties where the
survey has been finished, without waiting for
"the completion of the whole. No put of the
country can be too soon rescued from the
arbitrary and oppressive levying of taxes tinder the
Grand Jury system. As to the road-making, that
is notoriously a power which the members of Grand
Juries in Ireland exercise to play into each others'
hands for their individual interests, without any re-
gard to the improvement of the means of communi-
cation throughout the country, or the public con-
venience. One member of a Grand Jury wishes to
have an old road stopped, or a Hew one made ix a
direction which may improve his estate; and others,
who have no direct interest in the thing, support the
job, that he may feel himself bound to support their
jobs in return. Then the public money is profusely
laid out in contracts for repairing roads with tenants
in arrear, to enable them to pay their rent, and on
terms which show how generous the landlords can
be of the public money when they expect it will re-
turn into their own pockets. The Grand Jury,
though an evanescent body in law, may be consi-
dered a permanent institution, as far as the same
family influences are concerned; and thus its mem
bers, without a particle of responsibility, exercise a
power, that, by being perpetually renewed, may be
said to never die.—Morning Herald.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

M A RLBOROU GILSTREET.

The Hon. Frederick Byng came to this office on
Tuesday to state a circumstance to the Magistrate@
respecting a public-house in St. James's. street,
called the Blue Posts, with which he was sure, he
said, they had not been previously made acquainted.
On Sunday night last, he said, as he was coming
from White's Club-house, and passing by the pub-
lic-house in question, he heard a great noise and
rioting inside, although it was then past the hour of
twelve o'clock. He waited some time, until several
men came out of the house fighting and creating
much uproar in the street ; and at last some watch-
men came up, and two of the rioters were given
into custody and taken to the watch-house, by the
directions of the landlord of the house, for breaking
his windows, or doing some other damage. lie
(Mr. Byng) expected from this that of course the
whole matter would be brought the-next day under
the cognizance of the Magistrates ; but on inquiry,
he found that although the men were taken to the
watch-house, they were let go again, and no notice
whatever of the case made in the night-constable's
watch-book. He (Mr. Byng) was therefore very
anxious to have the matter investigated by the Ma-
gistrates, in order to discover by what means the
affair was hushed up.
Mr. Broderick, the landlord of the house, said
that the disturbance on Sunday night, to which Mr.
Byng alluded, was created by a set of drunken men;
that he was using every effort to get them out of his
house, and in his endeavours to do so they assaulted
him violently, and broke several drinking glasses and
panes in his window, and two of the most promi-
nent he did certainly send to the watch-house; but
when he went there to give charge of them, the
night-constable refused to take any charge, and said
that it would be better to settle the matter, by the
men paying for the damage they did; and the con-
stable took a sovereign from the men for that pur-
pose,
and let them go about their business. It was
no wish of his (Mr. Broderick) that the men should
be let go.
Mr. CONANT, the magistrate. observed that Mr.
Estcourt's Bill left very little power now in the
hands of Magistrates with respect to public-houses.
The constable of the night, who was also in at-
tendance, declared that when the parties came to the
watch-house, so far was Mr. Broderick from wish-
ing to prefer any charge against the men, his great
desire seemed to be to get paid for his glasses, and
lie never said a syllable about an assault ; and it was
with the entire consent of Mr. Broderick that he
(the constable) took a sovereign from the men as a
deposit until the amount of damages done should be
aicertained by Mr. Broderick, which he did the next
day, and paid himself out of the sovereign.
Mr. Broderick positively denied this statement, or
that he entered into any compromise ; and to decide
this point the case was adjourned until yesterday,
for the attendance of the watchehouse-keeper and a
watchman, who were present on the occasion.
Yesterday, accordingly, all the parties attended,
and the watch-house-keeper and watchman com-
pletely bore out by their testimony the statement of
the night constable, reed that the case as settled was
with the entire consent of Mr. Broderick.
The sitting magistrate, Mr. Delete, said that there
did not appear to be any blame whatever attaching
to the night constable, arid he should therefore dire-
miss the matter altogether, which he accordingly.
did, after a caution to Mr. Broderick as to the future
regulation of his house.
A tall, gaunt-looking person, of the name of
John Hasselworth, was brought before Mr. Co-
NANT, charged with having violently assaulted his
wife, a remarkably good-looking woman, under cir-
cumstances of peculiar depravity.
The complainant, on being sworn, stated that she
had been married to the prisoner about six years.
Shortly after their marriage be refused to work, or
to do any thing towards their support, and upon her
remonstrating with him upon his conduct he in-
formed her that he expected her to keep him. She
stated that she had no means, when he desired her
to go into the streets as other females did. After
making every exertion on her part egainst such a de-
plorable line of living she was obliged to comply
with the order? when her busband used to farm

her and take away the wages of her iniquity. Being
disgusted with such a life she subsequently accepted
the offer of a person to live with him, having no
other alternative, and of which the prisoner was
informed ; but it appears to have had no more effect
on him than if she was the greatest stranger, and,
upon hndi►►g out where she lived, he used to call
upon her repeatedly, and said that be wanted Money:
Being, however, ruined by her marriage with him she
refused to give him any money, when he used to annay
her with letters, and which were addressed to her in the
name of the person she was living with. Her reason
for stating this part of her history was, to chew that
the prisoner was not ignorant of the mode in which
she was obliged to live, and which he had forced
upon her. She, however, took no notice of them ;
when, upon re?eated occasions, he used to come and
assault her, and, for her own protection, she was
obliged to get a bench warrant, but, from motives
of humanity, she slid not have it served for some time.
In consequence of this proceeding he let her alone for
same time, but latterly he had annoyed her, as he used
to do formerly, for money ; but taking no notice of his
applications, he came on Monday night and knocked
at the door, and upon her going to it he rushed into
the passage, and struck her violently, when she had
him taken into custody.
Mr. CON NT—What do you say to such dis-
graceful conduct ?
The defendant, in reply, denied driving his wife
into the streets, or being aequainted with her living
under the protection of any person.
" You know to the contrary," replied the com-
plainant, " and if any further proof is wanted, here
are several of your letters which you have addressed
to me in the name of the person with whom lam
living;" at the same time handing several letters to
the worthy Magistrate.
Mr. CoNANT, after looking at them, inquired if
he intended to deny the fact now ?
Defendant—" They are not my writing ;" on
which one was shewn to him, which, after some
hesitation, he admitted was his writing.
The defendant, in reply to the charge of assault,
said, that he went to the house to ask her to come
home, and that he would forgive her all her faults,
when, upon the door being opened, the person with
whom she lived rushed out on him, and, with some
instrument in his hand, struck him on the forehead,
cut his hat, and knocked him down; that he had
never touched his wife, nor had he seen her until he
discovered her assisting in raising him up; and he
had a witne,s to prove the fact.
He then called a young man of the name of Jef-
feries, who deposed that he was passing by the
house at the time the defendant was ringing the
bell, when the door was opened, and the defendant
went in. In a minute after he saw a person come
from the inside, and knock him down.

Mr. CONANT—Was that the beginning? Wit-
ness—lt was, to the best of my knowledge.
Mr. CoNANT—As you have not disproved the
charge of your wife you must find bail; at the same'
time I must tell you that your conduct is the most
disgraceful that I ever heard of.
Defendant—The man silo is living with has a
wife and three children, and whom he has left to
support her.
Mr. CONANT—You ought to be ashamed to say a
word upon the subject, for you have entirely sought
your own infamy, and, therefore, you must find bad,
unless you can get her to forego the charge.
The complainant observed that she could not do
it, for he had driven her from every thing which
was respectable, and that was punishment enough
without being assaulted.
The defendant was in consequence ordered to find