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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
[Mar. 11, 
regulated, and maintained that the principle of patronage was 
clearly acknowledged and recognised by them, It was unde- 
niable that the Church was attempting to act in defiance of the 
statutes on which it was founded, and, were the House to ac- 
quiesce in the claims made by the Church, they would be over- 
ruling the supremacy ofthe law. The General Assembly ought 
to have paid obedience to the law, as pronounced by the highest 
tribunal in the kingdom, ‘The effect of the resolution proposed 
would be to put on record the opinion of the House as being thal 
the statute of Anne wa: binding, and that patronage In 
hed. ‘To these principles he could not 
‘should vote against the motion. 
assent, and therefore he! 
Sir R. Peer felt the fu 
well aware of the magnitude of the evil which threatene: 
land from the secession of the ministers of its Established Church, 
A state. of i never contemplated by law had arisen— 
Church established by statutes at variance with the Courts b 
. Two propcsals had been 
that patronage shculd be abolished, and the other 
il importance of this subject, and was 
Se 
d he could not admit the pro- 
priety of attempting to define the boundaries of civil and eccle- 
i ‘0 go into committee, because he 
did not think there was any probability of his agreeing in the 
iews which would be there propounded by Mr. Mantle, and not 
because, if he saw any prospect of actory solution of the 
difficulties that surrounded the question, he was not willing to 
‘i A settlement might certainly be effected consistently 
‘ileges and rights of the Church of Scotland, but that 
2 
Princes of India, in reference to the gates of Somnanth, was sub- 
itted by Mr. V. Smiru. The substance of thisresolution was a 
declaration that the conduct of Lord Ellenborough was unwise, 
indecorous, and reprehensible, Afteraspeech from Mr. E.TEn- 
NENT in defence of the Governor-General, Mr, Macautay sai 
that the two most serious dangers which theBritish Governmentin 
india had known were caused by religious interference with the 
Mahomedans ; at Vellore, in the affair of the turbans; and at 
Bangalore, in the affair of the Mosque. Now did Ministers mean 
o let their Governor-General act upon his own proclamation ? 
Was he to govern upon Brahminical principles, and restore the 
temple with its dancing girls?) No doubt they would take care 
to countermand him; but was it no evil thus tomake announce- 
ts and abandon them, to be always doing and undoing? 
Other Governors-General might have been hated, but now, for 
the first time, a Governor-General was laughed at. Turgid pas- 
sages from Eastern compositions had been cited, but ought their 
style to be imitated by a British Governor-General? Ought he, 
The House then divided: Against the motion, 242; 
For it, 157; Majority against it, 83. 
Friday.—At 4 o’clock there were only 34 Members present, and 
the Speaker consequent! d not take the chair. 
CITY. 
Money Market, Vriday.—Consols closed at 963 to % 
for money, and 96 to 7 for account 5 New Three-and-half 
per Cent. Annuities, 102} to $3 Exchequer Bills, 71s. 
to 73s, prem. 
Metropolis and tts Dicnity. 
Charge of Threatening to Shoot the Queen and Sir R. 
Peel.—It is again our painful duty to record the appre- 
hension of another ‘‘ monomaniac,’’ who has been appre- 
hended on the charge of threatening the lives of the 
Queen and Sir R. Peel. At his examination before the 
Lord Mayor yesterday, he gave his name James Steven- 
son, and said that he belongs to the parish of Lochwin- 
noch, in Renfrewshire. He spoke in a broad Scotch accent. 
The clerk to the packet owners at Hull stated that the 
prisoner booked his passage on board the Gazelle for 
London, and said he was going to London to see the 
Queen, and that it was quite improper for a woman to 
rule. No woman had a right to take the reins. He said 
further that he wished the woman to be put on one side 
—the woman was to be destroyed, and the man was 
to take the reins of the affairs of this nation. The 
captain of the steamer stated that the prisoner during 
the voyage told him that he had written letters to Sir R. 
Peel, who had not answered them, but there were plenty 
of people who would show him Sir R. Peel, and that he 
would finish both the Queen and Sir Robert Peel. The 
prisoner in reply, said “I never said I’d finish them. I 
don’t think I did; but said I’d strike at the root 
of the’ tree, if I should catch a minister of the king- 
dom who would not do what he was bound do. 
My attention was first drawn to the subject of Sir R. 
Peel being in power when the man shot at the Queen. 
wrote the letter to Sir R. Peel at that time. I read of his 
being in power in the newspaper.’—The result of the 
examination left no doubt that the mind of the prisoner 
was quite disordered, and on the sug, of Mr. Maule, 
Solicitor to the Treasury, he was committed by the Lord 
Mayor to the Compter, in order that medical men might 
have the opportunity of examining him, to ascertain 
whether he could be at large without danger to others. 
Threatened Assassination of the Chancellor of the 
Exchequer.—On Tuesday, the Chancellor of the Ex- 
chequer, accompanied by his private secretary, the Right 
Hon. G. R. Dawson, and Mr. Maule, attended at Bow- 
street to swear an information, and demand a warrant for 
the apprehension of Mr. John Dillon, late an officer in 
the navy, for having on different occasions threatened, by 
letter and otherwise, to take away his life. The informa- 
because the native princes deck their horses with beadsand have 
black faces, to ride out upon a palfrey so adorned, and paint his 
own face black ? ‘he Indians, whatever their own dress, habits, 
and style, yet perfectly understood and respected the sobriety of 
the English in all these particulars. The proclamation, however, 
in imitated, not from Indian itions, but from 
tion of Mr. Goulburn stated that, on or about the 22d 
February, he received a letter, bearing the name of John 
Dillon, complaining of alleged injustice done him, and 
ining certain threats, which he considered did not 
the trashy manifestoes of the French revolutionary generals, who 
jJoved to talk nonsense about ancient Rome. He was sure such 
a document had not been sanctioned by any of the civil servants, 
by any of those who understood the country and the people; but, 
indeed, Lord Ellenborough kept those civil servants at such a 
distance that none 0! m. ever ventured to offer their advice. 
Really the vast power of an Indian Governor-General was not to 
be trusted to a man who was thus wanting in discretion of his 
own, and thus unwilling to profit by the discretion of others, 
‘r. Hoce admitted i ought not to be 
M that a Governor-Genera 
absent from his Council, but opposed the motion.—Mr. Mancirs 
and Mr, Hume spoke in favour of it, and Mr. Escorr and Mr. 
—Mr. PLumerre and Sir Groner Grey calied 
religion; he warned the House of Commons against exciting 
them now by a declaration that this document did involve such 
an insult, Its style had been said to betoken a mind unequal to 
the duties of government; but he would remind the House 
that quite as bad taste had appeared in the military mani- 
festoes of a man whom Europe and the world had certainly 
thought not wholly incapable of wielding empire. He concluded 
with a glowing panegyric on the services of Lord Ellenborough.— 
Lord Parmerston declared that he and his friends were ready 
to defend their own policy in India; but that this was notthesub- 
ject now before the House. It was essential that the House should 
take notice of this proclamation. It would be a want of courage 
to abstain from expressing an opinion which everybody enter- 
tained. id not believe that the effect of such a censure 
would be to recall Lord Ellenborough ; but even if it should, that 
noble person woul ‘ous to his country in the House 
of Lords than at Calcutta.—Sir R. Pern said, what had 
passed to-night must have fully dissipated the suspicions of those 
who had imagined the Government to have made a compromise 
with the Opposition on the subject of Mr. Roebuck’s late motion, 
en. h ive disas , of which the tidings 
were then daily flowing in upon the Governor-General, and 
eulogised the courage with which he met those difficulties. But 
it was necessary for him to abandon Affghanistan—it was im- 
rr im to do so without dispiriting the Hindoos, and 
therefore it was that he had been anxious to secure, for the sake 
Sir R. Peel inveighed especially against the party 
Tegard to the pi 
sort of inflatio: 
bee by succe: 
nd Sovereign Prince. Such a man was not a fit person to su- 
perintend the great destinies with which England was entrusted 
assume any definite character. He believed the letter 
was sent by the person whose name it bore; and about 
the 28th February he received another Jetter, bearing the 
same signature, and containing similar threats. It men- 
tioned in strong terms the case of M‘Naughten, and al- 
though the writer abhorred the name of assassin, still he 
considered he would not be doing wrong if he had shot 
any person through whose means he had suffered an in- 
justice. On the 4th inst. Mr. Goulburn received a third 
letter, bearing the same date, and signed “John Dillon, 
157, Strand,” in which the writer made claims upon Her 
Majesty’s Government for a considerable sum of money 
alleged to be due to him for boarding the Peru, and which 
he accused Mr. Goulburn of being the means of keeping 
back from him ten years ago, when he was in office as 
Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the grounds that a 
charge of cowardice was hanging over him, and that the 
amount he claimed could not be paid until such charge 
was cleared up. The letter also mentioned that Mr. 
Goulburn had admitted the charge to be removed, and 
unless the money was paid, he (the writer) would be driven 
to follow in the steps of M‘Naughten. The information 
further stated, that Mr. Goulburn never had any commu- 
nication with the person whose name was signed to the 
several letters, except in his official capacity, and through 
the letters referred to, and he had every reason to appre- 
hend that John Dillon would do him some grievous bodily 
harm. He also stated, that he did not lay the informa- 
tion against him from any malice he bore to the said John 
Dillon, butsolely from personal apprehension of danger. 
Mr. Pemberton, private secretary to the Chancellor of the 
Exchequer, corroborated many of the leading facts of this 
statement; and John Walsh, a colourman residing in 
Bernard’s Inn, deposed that he knew Mr. John Dillon, 
and saw him one day last week in a coffee-house in West- 
minster, when he commenced a conversation with him 
respecting M‘Naughten. He also referred to the case of 
Bellingham, who shot Mr. Percival, and said there was a 
wide difference between his case and that of M‘Naughten, 
as Bellingham had received a bond fide injury, by which 
be was driven mad, whereas the other had received none 
at all. He contended that Bellingham was perfectly 
justified in shooting Mr. Percival. He continued this 
conversation with two strangers present, and told them 
he had a claim upon the Government, and unless it was 
satisfied, he would have a pop at some of them, and if he 
did shoot any one, it should be Mr. Goulburn. This 
occurrence took place late in the evening, and he appeared 
to be quite sober, and determined to put his threat into 
execution, saying, “When I’m tried, I’ll not plead insanity, 
but injustice.” One of the strangers observed, ‘* Wh, 
not petition the House of Commons upon the subject, and 
wait for reply to your petition, after it will be laid on 
the table?” He replied, ‘Before I can xeceive any 
answer to any petition that I may make, 1’ll have taken 
Mr. Goulburn’s life, and swing for it.’” The warrant for 
the apprehension of Mr. John Dillon was ordered to issue 
immediately. Immediately after Mr. Goulburn had laid 
his information, and the warrant had been issued for Mr. 
Dillon’s apprehension, the services of the police were put 
into requisition, in order to discover his retreat, and in 
the course of the evening the inspector discovered that 
he had been, the day previously, arrested for debt, and 
lodged in Whitecross-street prison. As he is, under these 
circumstances, virtually in the custody of the sheriff, a 
writ of habeas corpus must be obtained for, the purpose of 
bringing him up before} the chief magistrate, to answer 
the charge contained in the information, and a detainer 
has been lodged against him. 
The Custom-House Frauds.—A numerous meeting of 
the operative weavers of Bethnal-green, Spitalfields, and 
their vicinity, was held a few days since, to take into con- 
sideration the practice of passing silk manufactured goods 
through the Custom-house without collecting the duty, and 
to adopt such means as may be expedient under existing 
circumstances. The Chairman stated, that for years 
past the trade of the Spitalfields weavers had suffered 
great grievances ; and to add to their distress, a quantity 
of goods have been passed through the Custom-house 
without paying duty. If they had to contend with goods 
legally imported, they would have sufficient difficulties, 
considering that the principles of free-trade were only 
artially in operation. But officers receiving good salaries 
had been bribed to an extent not to be conceived, and the 
silk-weavers had suffered to a very serious degree. 
Another speaker said that, when Mr. Labouchere was in 
office a deputation of silk-weavers waited upon him, and 
he then stated to them that from the French returns he 
had ascertained that the exportations of silk goods into 
this country were double the amount of what was registered 
as imported at the Custom-house. If that were the case, 
there was no doubt that the quantity not accounted for 
at the Custom-house had been smuggled. It appeared 
that 1,000,0002. worth of silk goods were imported ; but 
there was the same amount which was not legally imported, 
with which they could not come into competition. Had 
that not been smuggled, it iscalculated that there would 
have been employment for 6,663 persons throughout the 
year. It was also stated that one of the defaulters had sold 
30,0002, out of the funds a few days previous to his de- 
parture from the country. Memorials to the Treasury 
and Commissioners were then passed, declaring that the 
frauds practised at the Custom-house had ‘‘ overstocked 
our markets with foreign manufactures, to the exclusion 
of British industry, depriving thousands of the already- 
depressed silk-weavers of employment, and reducing the 
miserable pittance, called wages, of those in employment,” 
and expressing the opinion of the meeting, that, ‘‘in cases 
where frauds are detected, no compromise should be 
allowed, but that the penalty should be strictly enforced, 
and imprisonment added to the fine ; the frauds not only 
injuring the revenue, but undermining and depriving the 
British artisan of his only capital, (that is, his labour,) 
which, in the opinion of the meeting, must be allowed 
to be one of the most important interests of this country.’” 
Last India House-—On Wednesday a special general 
Court of the Proprietors of stock was held at the India- 
house, for the purpose of laying before the proprietors 
documents relative to the military operations in Affghan- 
istan, and the resolutions of thanks adopted in conse- 
quence by the Court of Directors, A long and desultory 
discussion took place on the form of the resolutions, but 
they were ultimately carried as proposed by the Directors. 
Arrival of the Chinese Silver.—On Friday evening, six 
waggons arrived at the Royal Mint, escorted by a detach- 
ment of the 60th Regiment, with the Chinese silver, 
amounting to 1,000,000Z. sterling, being the first consign- 
ment of the indemnity to be paid by the Celestial Empire. 
The treasure was brought over by the Modeste sloop-of- 
war, which arrived at Portsmouth on Thursday, and was 
forwarded to London by the Southampton Railway. The 
procession attracted a good deal of notice, and an immense 
crowd followed the waggons to the Mint, and as the outer 
gates closed upon them, three cheers were given. The 
Sycee silyer was contained in large wooden boxes, and on 
passing along the Minories one of them burst, but owing 
to the precautions taken, not a particle was lost. On 
Tuesday, another train of waggons, escorted by a party 
of the 10th Regiment, arrived at the Mint, from the 
Southampton Railway, with 20 tons of the Chinese silver, 
in value 750,000 dollars, brought over by the Columbine. 
City Antiquities.—Several excavations for the forma- 
tion of sewers are now in progress in the City, which have 
led to the discovery of various relics, connected with its 
former history. In Liverpool-street, Bishopsgate, where 
the sewer is about 15 feetin depth, the labourers have come 
against the old Roman wall, which was continued from the 
London-wall, across Bishopsgate-street, to the Minories 
and the Tower. In Finsbury-pavement the excavations 
are carried to a considerable depth, and numerous bones 
of persons supposed to have been buried there during the 
great plague have been discovered. In Cloth-Fair another 
sewer is constructing, through the former site of the burial- 
ground attached to the monastery of St. Bartholomew the 
Great, by which numerous bones, coins, and other relics 
have been brought to light. 
The Thames Tunnel,—The annual meeting of the 
proprietors took place on Tuesday. ‘The chairman, Mr. 
B. Hawes, M.P., stated that a resolution had been come 
to on Monday by the Directors, requesting the Duke of 
Wellington, who had always been a warm admirer of the 
undertaking, to appoint a day between the 18th and the 
25th inst., for the opening of the Tunnel for foot.passen- 
gers, and requesting hig Grace fo honour the Court of 
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