The Sun. — London, England, 1829-10-15 00:00:00

tLe Czar, We beg mo:,t distinctly to deny,— and we do so because of the grOS misrepresent ations which our sentiments have often been ex posed to on this subject, —w e d o most gi s ave l t , an 1 in terms, disclaim every wish for the pre servation of the Turkish Government in any part of Europe. Its religion is a fraud, its es sence is ferocious tyranny, its scentre is the axe, its psople are barbarians. No Christian or civi lized being can desire the continuance of such a monarchy, as a thing to be valurtl for itself. Our only subject of regret or apprehension, or both, is that the downfA of such a brutal power should be qualified by the establishment of ano ther species of monster in the place of it. We do not mean to use the word " monster" r,rren sively in its application to ItitssiA '', we would signify merely an unnatural and , hi&ilsi fern-li d:hie power. It i s raid, that ',nerd exists no danger of another universal monarchy am! tln't we believe. It is. said, that tlwido kftl,ts no chance t,f thq rsvivai sof aify 1% - ,ver which shall thrP - steu seriously to cif: turi) the equilibtium of uropc. Doubtless, that proposition likewise we believe, with the proviso titat fit means are taken to arrest the :growth of such a power. The chance- does hot, or did not exist, because there is, or miss, a greater chance that such an event woulA be seasonably and effectually ft ustrated. If boating in the shape of resistance to the over growth of an immoderate power be attempted, the maxim is a silly one which denies the possi bility of such a power. Upon the whole, we consider the state of affairs consequent upon the signature of the treaty in question, as one which may be termed critical in the extreme. Wis dom and firmness are - mighty defensive agents a g ainst calamities whi c h th rea t en t h e genera! wel fare ; but they must animate the councils of more states than one, or those who betray the common interest will, unfortunately, not suffer alone.— Times. The terms impo.eed on the Turks by their vic tvrioue- opponents are sufficiently moderate, Less could not have been exacted from them than an imlemnification for the tepenca:_of the war, and free navigation of the _Bosphorus and the Dardauelite to the merchant vessels of Russia, or Pow-ere not at war with Turkey trading with IZusein. The cessions in Asia, however »u -rn-tent they may be to Russia with a view to the eonsolidation of her Caucasian possessions, are Cl comparatively trifling magnitude. The space which the Turks continue to occupy in Europe, and Asia Minor, is not in one eenee a matter of which our times arc entitled to boast. It were certainly to be wished that the regions in which the first important advances in civilization were made by onr epecies could be once more the a b o d es o f security, and its offspring, industry and enjoyment. But, in another sense, the moilera tion of the Russians is important as a striking homage paid by the power last admitted into the pele cf civilization to the principles of interna tional law, ned as a proof of the influence of European opinion over governments. We, for our parts, hail in this moderation, this deference to the views of the rest of the European Govern ments, this anxiety to show that war has been undertaken not with a view to extend dominion but to secure the development of the industry of the dominions already possessed (by far the most important of all conquests), as a :Baled improve ment in the history of our species, that strengthens the belief which, in all ages, men have been found to entertain, of an endless pro gression in social improvement. The idea of a balance tit power, which occupied our States 'Len so much during the last century, and which, till within these few years, formed the sub ject of so many a weary oration in Parliament, however absurd in itself, was yet, as is well re marked by Hume, an important advance on an tiquity and the middle ages, when there existed no community of feeling among nations. The conquests of the French arose out of the neces eity imposed on the partizans of the Democracy to destroy the European Aristocracy leagued against the new order of things, rather than a desire of territorial aggrandisement. Since the compromise between the old and the new, at the last European peace, it is impossible not to Nee that the various Governments have attained to a conviction of the folly of conquests. We firmly believe that the Governments in the pre sent day arc rather beyond than behind their re spective subjects in the soberness of their views on this matter, if we may take the aspirations from time to time manifested in the French Liberal Journals as a criterion of a not unex t;nguished hankering of the French for an ex tension of territory to the Rhine, and the re occupation of Belgium. However this may be, it is of infinite importance to inculcate the idea that time people never can be interested in ex tension of territory, because it is the same thing to the individuals constituting a nation, except as far as security against aggression is concerned, whether they amount to one or to twenty mil- Pons. The abandonment of views of aggran disement on the part of the great Governments puts an cud to the jealousy and apprehension of the smaller States, and has a tendency to produce the same confidence among the various members of the commonwealth of nations, however different in strength, which is observable among the possessors of property in any one country, however different the shares held by each. This confidence among the possessors of property in any one country, though it appears so natural to us, is vet itself of comparatively recent orgin. In Turkey, in the present day, that security is not yet possessed, and as is observed by Burkhardt, the Turk dares not to invest his gains in the purchase of land, the possession of which is ut terly insecure, while he can at least hide his money. But even in this island, security and confidence are but of very recent date. We have little doubt that the looking to national security from increase of national power, will appear as extravagant as the looking to individual security from amount of property, and not to the opi nion of society. There is an article, under the head " German Papers," from the Allgenwine Zeitung, in which inferences are drawn from the opinions entertained by a party in this country, not very creditable to the nation in general. it was observed by Lord Byron, that the Turks arc the Orangemen of the East ; and it is cu rious to observe the feeling which the Orange men contrive to throw into their conversations on the recent prostration of Turkey :—" Though certainly (says our contemporary, the Standard) no friends of the present Administration in this country, we cannot join in accusing the Duke of of Wellington of having precipitated the fall of the Ottoman empire ; that empire fell by tire disease which threatens greater and more re spectable nations, and not by any extemnal errors. It fell by ,hypocrisy and pedantry, and the love of clap-trap praise. It fell because the Emperor was neither iVlussulman nor Christian ; .because, while he affected surface reform, while he pushed his zeal for innovation to the extent of whole sale murder, . he .would not abate one iota of his preacriptive personal pretensions. Had Mahmoud been a true Mussialman he would not have murdered eighty thousand janiasttri'es ) , olely 'on account of their 'obtinale adherence to the institution'a of aaahomet ; had he been a Chris .iali, he would have taught his people the duty of humility and obedience—the first element of military discipline. He was indeed a fool, who aubinitted to the drill serjeant's cane nien whose faith was their b4ii iideer'elq invincibility, whose very rebaefi.oti Was unteachabie arrogance. Had . hat been a mere barbarian, he would not h? 'e '.l - 1. tangled himself in the n'astlialions• that ruined him-. By I..v.i' , Ag-: something of all, Christian in i yetitles, Mahometan in - religion, murderer and reformer, barbarian in diplomacy, Martinet in tactics—by being, ; in alaOrt, e'v'ery thing out of place ) : he ttaaL'-lt't nis people to despise and dis troat hitt), and and they have fallen in conse quence ; and whatever the English Cabinet had done, they must have falfem" TiVase comments might Inos titan headed (slightly altering the title of a well-known pamphlet of Arthur Young's), " The Example of Turkey a Warn ing to Britain." Mahmoud fell because be de stroyed the Janissaries ; and the corollary is, that Britain will be int licetithe time Irish Orangemen have been Net aside. Mahmoud, being a Ma hornedan and a barbarian, should have been con tent with la's lot, and not attempted improve ment. If the Czar Peter hail been conquered by Charles the Trelilli, we should have heald lamentations in the spirit on account of his at tempt to emancipate himself from the Strelitz. Mahmood has been unfoitunate in his reforms, not because they were unnecessary, but because he was unfortunate in his time. But the disease of the Turkish Einpirt lay somewhat deeper than "hypocrisy and pedantry, and the love of claptrap praise." The Turkish Empire fell because violence and oppression every where supplied the place of justice—because the people were every where ancrificed to an ascendancy. The Turkish Empire had been flilling during the sway of the Janissaries, who were not destroyed on account of their obstinate adherence to the institutions of Mahoinet (for the ascendancy of the Janis saries is of comparatively recent crigin), but be cause their existence was incompatible with a vigorous government and the prosperity of th e • people. government Mahmoud is a barbarian, may he true ; but he would have been still more a • barbarian, if he had been more averse to reform, and not more able to withstand the enemy to which he was opposed. It has been sometimes insinuated that his reforms filled his enemy akin apprehension, and precipitated the war ; but the insinuation is at all events a tribute to the cha racter of the reforms, whatever the issue.— Tu-key has fallen, but the wonder is not that it has fallen, but that it has existed so long. This however is, we believe, the first time of its being gravely mainta=ined that a resistance to innova -1 lion would have averted the fate of Tumkey.— While the nations of Europe have been con , stantly advancing in social and political improve merit, and the power of Governments has been incalculably increased by the increased means placed at their disposal by all manner of inven tions, the Turks have remained what they were centuries ago. Little more than 100 years have elapsed since time Turks still filled Europe with alarm ; and no small part of the fame of a great General, who died in the memory of men still living, Piince Eugene, was derived from his discovering a mode of engaging them suc cessfully. But the smallest of the influential Powers of Europe, Piussia, is now, from the changes to which we have alluded, far more powerful thao the great Ottoman empire was before its late invasion. Time secret of European ' power is the free scope Abided to the develop ment of all time faculties of man, which insure to him such a mastery over the material world.— Morning Chronicle. It was stated by a Correspondent, in a letter addressed to us the other day, that some regular members of time thieves and burglars' associations of the metropolis had got into the new police, for the purpose of carrying on time work of de predation with more facility. Now, although enough has happened to convince us that the scrutiny respecting the characters of the candi dates for admission ioto this new semi-military corps was not sufficiently severe to exclude per sons of drunken habits and indiscreet temper, yet we did not think it possible that any " pro fessional thieves" could have obtained the uni form and truncheon which place the lives and properties of the King's subjects under their protection." We believed this to be a slander on the new system, as gross as it was improbable, nor should we now advert to the subject, or think it at all worthy of notice, but for time facts de tailed in a pollee report which will be found in another part of our columns this day. Accord ing to that report, it appears that a man named Jones was charged at Hatton-garden Police Office yesterday with the commission of a felony, in having stolen a loin of mutton from a butcher's stall. He was taken, as the lawyers say, with the inainour on him, and was committed to New gate for trial. The constable, who apple hended him fagrante delicto, subsequently searched his lodgings, and there found the dress of a new police constable, including the great coat and truncheon—in fact, every thing belonging to the office but the hat and rattle. The constable, on inquiring at the house about the prisoner, was told that he belonged to the new police, and that he expected to be pro moted next week. If this statemeat be correct, and the prisoner really belong to the new po lice, it is not a very pleasant thing for the citi zens of London to reflect that any of the persons who are appointed to guard their property, and to exercise surveillance over themselves and fa milks, may be men, like the prisoner, who only watch that then may devour. If the dogs em ployed to protect the sheep should happen to have the appetites and habits of wolves, they could do much more mischief, in consequence of tile trust reposed in them, than the ravenous animals, that never come forth from their dens but with those warning manifestations of violence . which alarm in their natural prey tile instinct of self-preservation. The treacherous policeman, like the wolfish shepherd-dog, made free with the mutton which it was his duty to 'protect—that is, supposing the delinquent in question was really a policeman ; we trust, however, it will turn out that he had by some means or other possessed himself of the uniform of the new po lice, as a cloak for depredation, without hay- ilia. received ally appointment in thatacoys. We observe that one of the Magistrates asked if he could have bought the clothes army where ? We do not know how that may be. There have ! been, it is true, some of the members dismissed, and others have resigned, but we presume they were not allowed to retain for a moment, after they ceased to be members of the body, time clothes and appendages of the office. Neither - is it likely that those persons who are employed by Goverlunent to supply the clothing would furnish the uniform to any hod-;, without Itteer tainitig from authority that was really a mem , bet of the police. 'v'hetli2: the thieves have opened a clothing establisb:cut of their own, from which uniforms are supplied on the pattern of those of the new " regime," remains to be ascertained ; but, whatever the truth of the case ma'y turn but to he, it demands inquiry. The fact itself is calculated to make a tery unpleasant impression bn the piiblie anti the sooner it iseleared op the better. the prisoner do not belong to the new police, it well be well to relieve the public feeling from the apprehensions which the facts unexplained be likely to produce. Jf he tinfortunatcly had obtained an appointment under the new syst,m, it ought to be shown what mode of itnpot,ition he practistd upon those whose duty it is to inquire into the character and qualifications of applicatits.-:-. Minting Herald. We gave in our Paper of yesterday, a brief summary of the treaty entered into on the 14th ult., at Adrianople, hetween the Russian Ge neral and the Turkish PlAjpoten - iaries, a►►d also some observations on the natural and inevitable consequences of the compact ; and nothing that we have since seen—nothing that has been since stated—has altered our opinion of the treaty. It is, we hesitate not to affirm, on a second consi deration, a virtual exti!iction of Turkish au thority in the Turkish 'lnpire—the establish ment of an imperium in imperio wholly incon sistent with any suprethe authority or good government on the part of the reigning Sultan of Turkey, and an usurpation of power in the do minions of an independent State, for which no precedent can be found in the histocy of ancient or modern times. We stated yesterday that the seventh article of the treaty deserved to be read at length, and that it was incapable of abridgement. We may now add, with the voice of almost all our conte,qoraries to second us, that it is incapable of comprehension, except on the ground that Turkey is, in ail time to come, to hold of Russia as the sovereign power, and to be at her will and beck, in matters of internal and external administration. " Rus sian subjects," says it, " shall live under the ex elusive jurisdiction and police of the Ministers and Consuls of Russia ;" and, in another part, that " Russian subjects shall enjoy throughout the whole extent of the Ottoman Empire, as well by land as by sea, the full entire liberty of commerce, secured to them by the former treaties, concluded between the two high contracting powers ; and that no infringement of that liberty of commerce shall be committed, neither shah it be permitted to be checked, in any case nor under any pretence, by a prohibition or any re striction whatever, nor in consequence of any regulation or measure, whether it be one of internal administration or one of ex ternal legislation." In other words, Rus sian subjects, or natives of Russia, are to do what they please in Turk;; without being amenable to the law of the lar,c, as they are in all other countries ; and Russian commerce to be perfectly independent of Turkish authority. Such is the vaunted moderation of Russia ! such her tenderness for the independence of the Turkish Empire—such I►er affection for the reigning Sultan !—such her desire for peace ! But the result could not be other than it is. The natural allies and friends of Turkey held back—those in whom her chief reposed confi dence, betrayed him—the enemy advanced even to the gates of the capital without any one to oppose hiin—the prize was in view—nay, almost within grasp, but could not be seized lest Eng land should go to war to demand the fultilme►nt of the promises made by the Emperor Nicholas; and an indirect mode, tl►ereibre, of obtaining the same object had to be adopted, which, while it warded off any direct charge of breach of faith, made ample provision for the accomplishment of the same end. " The treaty," as it is ju observed by our cotemporary (The Sun), " :,:ars the stamp of hypocrisy in every article, but if any proof were wanting, it may be found in the simple circum stance of withholding the collateral parts, by far the most important, from public view. It the stipulations in the absent treaties were of an honest character, they would be forthcoming at the same time with the pre , : ; but the terms in them would not square the Emperor's professions of moderation, and it would be in judicious to provoke the pt ; indignation of Europe before the Russians are sufficiently pre pared Ibr the consequences. The Emperor Nicholas set out in the war with a man;festo, disclaiming all ambitious views—all territorial aggrandisement, and he puts up the sword, by saying to the Sultan, I give you up ali my conquests in Europe, upon condition that you pay me a consideration in money for the expenses of the war, but IN hich consideration I well know you cannot pay at once, and I shall keep posses sion of my conquests till you are able to pay for it, some ten or twelve years hence : in fact I am in no hurry—the longer time you take the better.' Such, if not the words the Emperor would use, is the real English of Russian policy. Ni cholas knows that the Turks have been impo verished by the war, and a he cannot consistently with his professions approiate the conquests at preaent, he makes the terms of peace such that he can keep possession of them till a more fitting opportunity presents itself for the development of his perfidy, by adding them permanently to his empire." This is the real truth of the matter, and no. thing but the truth. What the Emperor Ni cholas cannot do directly and immediately he is determined to accompli:,h indirectly, furtively, and as time and fitting opportunity may enable him. He has not the courage to say to the Sultan and to Europe, " Turkey is mine and shall be mine ;" but he imposes such stipulations as he knows cannot be fulfilled, and must render it his sooner or later. To conclude, we do not remember to have ever read a treaty of ancient or modern times which was conceived in a spirit of so much insolence as that of Adrianople. The conqueror is :not satisfied with exacting onerous conditions as the price of peace, but he must ne cessarily make the Porte feel that he is the con queror—lie is not content with merely dictating to the Porte what he will himself accept, but he must, at the same tune, proviL for the wants of others ; he wil! not rest with merely acting on his own behalf, but he must, at the same time, usurp the place of France and England, and ar bitrate between IlLssia and Greece as if he only had a voice in the matter 1 It remains to be seen what is to come of all this. Peaceful and tame as our Government is, such insults cannot be brooked ; and when we look at the blow which is aimed by the treaty at Engtish commerce, and English naval supremacy, we cannot help join. ing a French cotemporary in aiLiing that the die is cast, and that now is the time for England either to yield, or to maintain the dominion of the sea.—Morning Advertiser. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. M 4 NSION-iIOUST. Yesterday the street-keeper of Cheapfije to the LORD MAYOR for his Lordship's Oldtr to the police to assist in compaing the hackney-coachmen who had the stand for their coaches in Chcapside to leave that situation. It has been a complaint for some years amongst the shopkeepers in Cheap-:de, that the greatest iic con?:eiiienee and hiss were sustained in consequence of the hackney coach-stand being in that neighbour hood, and the Ward oftieets had taken the opportu nity during the repair of that great thoroughfare; to Make arrangements try which they hoped to be able to exclude the haeknek•coaches froM the old place of standing. As soon however as the repairs welie finished, the coaches returned in a string to the well known quarters, and began to sc.t at defiance the authority of the officers, upon the strength of the More important claims of the public. This resist ance on the Part cf . the haeltney.coachmen led to great confusion, and as they can, almost. with jrn , puoity, jaw a person on the pavement, they have not hesitated to assert their rights in such a man ner as secures to them a crowd of listeners. The street-keeper stated that he had received instructions from Deputies Brooke and Daw to re move the hackney-coachmen. Same of them drove off upon being expostulated with, but several re• fused to move, and said "they would see the de puties -heroic they'd starve." The disputes which arose in consequence of the order, were a much greater nuisance to the inhabitants of Cheap. side than the stand of coaches, and produced the most terrible confusion. The LORD MAYOR did not know that the depu ties had the power to prevent the hackney-coach men from standing in Cheap side. He believed the Act of Parliament protected the latter in the pri vilege to stand where they had been accustomed to take up. The street-keeper said he did not know what to to do under such circumstances. Ordered by the deputies on the one side, and resisted by the hack ney-coachmen on the other, he was quite at a loss what course to putsue. The LORD MAYOR said he should advise the de puties to consult the City Solicitor as to the best course to be adopted. It would, be said, be a most desirable thing to the shopkeepers in Cheapside to be free from the annoyance of the hackney-coach stand, and if the power to remove it lay with the Court of Aldermen, the best plan would be to peti tion the Court upon the subject. The hackney-coachmen ask very naturally where they are to have a stand if not in a wide street, and whether the accommodation of the public is not of more importance than that of a few shopkeepers, who took up their abode in Cheapside with the knowledge of the established hackney-coach-stand opposite to them. In other parts of the city, it is said, similar attempts will be made to drive away the hackney-coaches. A mean looking man, named James Carman, was charged with forging the acceptance, or, rather, the exceptance, of James Ellis, Esq., of Banning, near Maidstone, for the sum of 471. There was another charge of forgery against the prisoner, but it was not entered into. He was fully committed for trial. GUILDHALL Hcnry ilPeaftcy, who was charged with assault ing a deaf and dumb girl, whom he had entrapped into a house of ill-fame, was again brought up. Buckle, the constable, reported that be had de lirered the girl to the vestry clerk of Fulham, to whom he found she was an articled servant for five years, and who had promised to attend to prose cute, but he had not arrived. The prisoner was put back till the other business had been disposed of, when he was again brought up. The prioner said he was very sorry for his mis conduct, lie had a wife and two children depend-. ing on him, and he had served the King (in the army) in the four quarters of the globe, and had never been taken before a Magistrate in his I,(e till this affair happened. Sir PETER slid he should have thought of his wife when he was about to ruin this poor girl. It was a very fora:Hate circumstance for him that no person had attended to complain.—The prisoner was dis• charged. DIARLBOROU GH-STREET. Yesterday a young Mail of respectable appearance, named it illians Richard Smith, came to this office, and announced himself to Godchild as a person against whom he (Goddard) had a warrant, on a charge of felony, and said he was desirous of giving himself up to justice. The officer recollected that he held a warrant against such a person fur robbing his employer, Mr. Young, a solicitor, in Poland street, Oxford-street, in whose service the young mart had been as clerk; and accordingly took him into custody, and gave information to Mr. Young of his apprehension. Mr. Young stated that the prisoner had been for some time his clerk, and was frequently intrusted with considerable sums of money to pay in to the bankers, and other purposes. On the 3d of July last he was sent to pay 45/. into the banking-house of Messi. Gosling and Sharp, for account of Mr. Young, but the prisoner never returned, and it was discovered that lie did not pay the money as directed., The prisoner, when asked by Mr. DYER, the sif ting Magistrate, if he wished to say any thing, con fessed that the charge was perfectly true; he did abscond with the 4.51., and went directly to Dublin, where he had remained ever since, until be spent all the money, and then, being quite destitute, feel ing remorse, and that his character was utterly lost, he determined to come over to London forthwith, and surrender himself up to justice. What first urged him, he said, to this act of dishonesty towards his employer, who had always treated him with the greatest kindness, was a quarrel he had had with his own wife; he felt so unhappy with her, that he misappropriated Mr. Young's money and ran away. Mr. Young said, that if he thought refraining from a prosecution would restore the young man to cha racter and honest employment, he should be very reluctant to pursue the charge, although he had been a severe sufferer by the dishonesty of clerks. The Magistrate said it would be a most mistaken act of lenity to pass over an offence of this nature. The prisoner said that he was only desirous that the law should take its course, as he could never again expect any honest employment in this country. The prisoner was fully committed for trial. A very decent-looking middle-aged female, named Martha Geary, charged with robbing the Atheneum club-!touse, in Waterloo-place, was brought up for final examination. It appeared, by the evidence, that the prisoner had been for a considerable time engaged at the club as housekeeper, and had charge of the table linen, &c. Some weeks ago it came to the know ledge of the Committee of Management that several articles of linen with the club' s private marks had been seen for sale about town, and, on investigation, a great quantity of house linen was missed and it was ultimately discovered that the prisoner was the g uilty person. A Mrs. Gray, of Whitcomb -street, and several pawnbrokers, gave evidence against the prisoner, who was committed to Newgate for trial. - The property Was set forth in the commitment as belonging to the Earl of Aberdeen and others, the trustees. UNION-HALL. Yesterday a shoemaker, named Rummy, residing in the parish of St. George, Southwark, was brought before Mr. CHAMBERS and Mr. ELYARD, charged on suspicion with steali ng a s il ver h unt i ng watch, w ith gold chain and seals, the property of Mr. Os born, who had lately arrived from the west of Eng land. The investigation excited considerable inte- rest, from the circumstance of the complainant being intoxicated at the time he was robbed, and having a ,tun of no less than 7901., in bank-notesand sovereigns, in his possession, all of which, luckily for him, escaped the clutches of the thief. The accused said, that it must be obvious to every one, that if he was ir^l:• , ed to have committed a robbery on tl.e night ik question, he would have availed hitrielf of the opportunity that presented itself at the time, and taken the money which Mr. Oshdrn had so carelessly exhibited, instead of a ate . h, wai So Much easier of detection. The a&gitlid's v:- . ife esti gale her explanation of the matter, in the coufs6 of efie said that they were all til sy together. She desetilied thb manner in which Mr. Osborn displayed his hundreds dti the occasion, as well as his watch, but declared that neither she or her husband had attempted to act a dishonest part towards him. While they were at the " George," Mr. Osborn gave her the wink to go out, aud they bet!' withdrew together, leaving her husband in the " George" over a quartern of rum. Mr. Osborn then took her to the Anti-Gal liean, the latullord of which ; seeing that he was in toxicated, perrhh - fed him to lie down in his bar, and she left, and on going back to het husband he gate her a thump in the eye, for goinp7 away without his knowledge. "My husband," added the prisoner's wife, " is a very jealous man, and I can assure your worship that be has used me shamefully ever since, for lirving nceompanjed Mr. Osborn, and left him alone in the George." The beadle of St. James's parish gate an excel lent character of the accused, as far as honesty and hard work were concerned. Mr. CHAMBERS said, there was no evidence what ever to implicate the person accused, whom he should discharge, at the same time remarking on the egregious folly of the complainant carrying such a sum of money about him in the streets of London. It was a fortunate circumstance for him, that he had not lost the 7901. as well as the watch, and he should consider himself, under all the circumstances, ex tremely lucky in only losing what he did. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY. Last week an extensive robbery was committed at the Cross Keys Inn, Gracechurch-street, when property to a considerable amount was taken away, belonging to Sir Charles Flint, Bart., of the Irish Office, Great Queen-street, St.James's-park, West minster. The robbery was effected in the following daring manner in broad day :—lt appeared that Lady Flint, who is at present residing at Sandgate, in Kent, being about to return to her own residence, had given directions for a quantity of property of various descriptions, consisting of plate, books, and wearing apparel, to be sent immediately to town. Thirteen packages of property were accordingly made up, and sent by the Folkestone van, which stops at the Cross Keys, directed to her Ladyship's residence in Queen-street. The property was ac cordingly deposited in the warehouse. Shortly afterwards, a genteel respectable-looking man came to the hooking-office, and pulling out a paper from his po:ket, which he glanced at, said to the book keeper, " Those thirteen packages for Lady Flint you need not send to Queen-street, as a cart will call for them this afternoon." The reply was— " Very good," and the man departed. In the after noon another man, like a carman, came to the office with an empty cart, and said he had come for Lady Flint's thirteen packages, and asked what there was to pay for the carriage. The book-keeper replied, " 2/. I Is," which was instantly paid, and a receipt given for the money. Tie carman then drove his cart into the inn yard, and received the packages into his cart, and drove away. After a day or two an inquiry was made at the Cross Keys by Lady Flint's servants, to know if such packages had not been received from Sandgate, when they were in formed that they had been delivered up in the man ner above described. Information was immediately given to the police, and Ivimy, an officer belonging to Queen-square police-office, has been employed for several days in endeavouring to trace the depredators, but hitherto without success. It has been ascer tained that the cart which took the goods away was one of the city carts. The value of the property stolen has not yet been ascertained, as no estimate can be formed until the arrival of Sir Charles Flint, who is at present in Yorkshire, but it is said to be several hundred pounds. It is supposed that the robbery was planned by a person who got up on the road to ride to town, and who by some accident got a sight of the way-bill. It is the intention of Sir Charles to proceed against the proprietors for the recovery of the value of the property stolen. CORONERS' INQUESTS. Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held at the King's Arms, George-street, Bethnal-green, before UNWIN, Esq., on the body of James Estall, an infant, aged ten months, who came by his death under the following extraordinary circumstances : Mr. William Estall, landlord of the King's Arms, stated that he was uncle to the deceased. Yester day evening, about six o'clock, his brother called to see him, and brought the deceased in his arms; he began playing with the child, when a man went into the tap-room with some oysters; he desired him to open some, and he (witness) cut one up in several small pieces, which he gave to the deceased, and which he appeared to swallow, but in less than u minute he perceived him look black in the face, and was choking; he immediately sent for a surgeon, who arrived almost instantly, but too late to render the deceased any assistance. " By the CORONER—The deceased appeared to have swallowed the piece of oyster, but suddenly something attracted his (deceased's) attention, and he turned his head round and laughed, which occa sioned the oyster to go the wrong way ; he (wit ness):is quite sure it was the cause of the deceased's death. Mr. Estall's statement was corroborated by a per son who was present when it happened. Joseph Hodgson, a surgeon, said he was called in to the deceased last night, and found him dead, he inflated the lungs, but to no purpose. On opening the windpipe he found a piece of oyster, which had occasioned the deceased's death. If he had been on the spot at the time he could have saved the child's life. The piece of oyster that caused the child's death was produced, it was about the size of a fly. The Jury returned a verdict of accidental death. SUPPOSED SUICIDE OF A FEMALE.—Yesterday evening an inquisition was taken at the Light Horse man, Orange, court, Leicester• square, before Tilos. 1116 Gs, Esq., on the body of a female, name un known, apparently between 50 and 60 years of age, who was found drowned on Tuesday night, in the basin in the Green Park. _ William Ashton, one of the new police constables, stated that he was on duty in the Green Park on Tuesday evening, about nine o'clock, when he saw the body of a female flouting in the basin of the Park, at the end near Arlington-street, and with the assistance of Mr. Ward, the keeper of the lodge, got her out. There was no pulsation, but she was warm about the brtast. Shortly afterwards he found a black bonnet, containing a cotton handker chief, in a shrub near the place; there was no pro perty on the person, nor any thing to lead to a dis covery who she was. She was respectably dressed in mourning. A medical gentleman was brought, but pronounced her quite dead; a shell was prccured, and she was conveyed to St. Martin's work-house. Juror—Don't you consider the basin to be in a very dangerous state, and that in case a person fell in by accident, they could not get out again ? ness—Most decidedly so ; and if I was to fall in,. not being a smimmer, I am sure I could not extricate myself without assistance, the water being 10 feet deep at the edge. Mr. Ward, the keeper of the lodge, corroborated this evidence, and said that within the last three weeks a female who was passing slipped in b y „ er i_ dent, and would have been drowned but for the timely assistance of two gentlemen, who rescued her. He c onsidered the basin to be in a highly Chelsea s\to7oadtetr t i- 1 1 : a i s it o dangerous state. the The Jury expressed eardigd iezideetr t h h a e ot i f r hce h astonishmentueli basin should be left in such an unguarded state. Office of WOOll5 aud. Fo: i l S itt im d T s Ph it ° it nw in tnt a llese p s lan to the ;eats, to enclose the whole of it with an iron railings but that nothing had been decided on. The Jury observed that no time ought to be lo t in guarding the basin, as the banks of it were* area public thoronghfare, and very dangerous, pa' ticttlarly for children. The Jury returned a verdict of " Vrovincd - ,' f with the following addition :—" 1 " 5 tli,l opinion' of the Jun-, that the basin is left ill 11 , 3 unguarded sfm , :• . ; to the danger of his IllajeglY s ' subjects, and that the Coroner be requested to reprr, Sent the same to the Commissioners of his Majesty 5 Woods and Forests." The CORONER said, that he would make a repte bentation in the proper quarter immediately. LOSSES BY THE FLOODS. ileturn3 have been made by several of the GeV tlerten of Inverness and Moray shires, who sustainei losf4t2s by the late unprecedented floods, which ma' ciently evince the extent of that great national vile mite. We extract the - following : Earl of &afield—Damage done ix hirer m.ss-shire, (5,0001. ; in Afjtarthire i 11,0001. ; lo,s in district roads aisd Inilges, .,.X20,600 0 g Duke of Gordon—Estimated damage of the crops of the tenants on his Grace's estate, 2,4.941. th, 4d. ; lands perms- ne,ntly ruined or carried array, 10,5001 ; lmildin e gi destroyed, 1,5004 ; Isulwarks• end t-mlemliments to restrain and can tine the iver Spey and tributary stream, ' 2,0001.—(No estimate is made of the damage done to the lurks in Gordon Ca%tie, or the loss sustained on loads and bridges) Mr. Grant of Ballindalloth—Estate of ThilindaUocb,B,ooo/. ; Invereshie pro pel ty, 5001 Mr. Fraser of Itelig 16,494 6 8,500 0 ° 500 0 ° £46,094, 6 4 THUNDER STORMS IN INDIA, (From the Rembuy Courier, June 6.) ire informed that the annual Dukhan thunder storms have this year been unusually numerous? violent, and continued, and attended with mure•fatel accidents from lightning, than at any former perind i Oa the 21st May, two gentlemen on a shooting es ° cur-ion, some miles from Poona, were driven VI seek shelter from an approaching storrnortrkr sow lofty and stout trees: the lightning struck a 0 0 adjoining to them, and it, together with anotb' were subsequently blown down, the violence of the wind being. so great, that the gentlemen could ne t keep to their feet without assistance from a fixe° object.—On the same day a house was struck 0 , the village of Boosreegaon, ten miles north 0 ' Poona, and burnt.—On the next day the sleeping tent of Major Sykes, pitched under trees at the Hubhus Baugh, Joonur, was struck. There were six persons in the tent, three fell lifeless, and the other three were struck but not injured. Two of the vie: inns were old and valuable hamalls. The accident. on which the fate of individuals depends afford cause for deep reflection : had the poor people, when the tents were pitched in the morning, completed a small winch, round the walls, as was their custom in unsettled weather, and which would not have occu pied them live minutes, they would not have been in the tent for the rest of the day. The oversight was remarked, but the people were worn out with a long march, and a preceding wet night, and thel were not reealhal from their dinners to complete their labours. In consequence, the first head shower flooded the tent. Mrs. S}kea was provi' dentially driven from it to the sitting tent. The people were re-assembled to take down the wane with a view to dry the floor; but ere this object could be effected, the storm returned from the north' east, and while they were occupied in hastily eat' ing the walls again, the electric fluid fell on the eastern tent-pole, which had a long iron spike at the end of it, shivered the top and bottom of the pole into capillary fibres, leaving the centre unhurt, and struck down the unfortunate men, who were la different parts of the tent, and not so near to e ach other as Mrs. Sykes was to the man in the eastern part of the tent, but whose fall was unseen from the intensity of the light having obscured her Two of the men who were killed were severely burnt, and each had a patch of skin taken from his left breast. The third man had not the slightest mark of injury. The tent was not burnt nor was there any other mark o f fire, than a hole of the size of the little finger, in the white mosquito curtains, as if a red hot iron had sud.- den!) , passed through them. The tree was struck in three places; a piece of the bark stript off 30 or 40 feet up the stem, carried underneath the fly and shelf of the tent (the walls being down) and lodged upon the bed ; a branch over the tent was snapt to two, the broken ends presenting a multitude of fibren like paint-brushes; finally, the tree was struck on the opposite side from the tent, a circular hole to the depth of the bark being made of the diameter of a two-ounce ball, the edge of the hole having the same capillary character as the ends of the broken branch. On the 26th May Lieutenant Boyd's house, a Poona, was burnt down by lightning, and reporP states that during the period of the storms, a mall and two bullocks were killed at a well in the Pool" Cantonments ; the porch to a gentleman's house was injured ; five or six horses struck down 01 Kirkee, and one of them killed; two grass-cutteee killed. Accounts from Nassuck state that a horse was killed in a stable in the town. *lOO. A fraud has lately been discovered, the cif.. cumstances of which are of a very extraordinary na ture. The butler of a nobleman, during the absence of hi° master in Ireland, being left in the care of the town Tali-- dence, availed himself of the circumstance to assume the character of a man of fashion, attended various publio places, and had the address to impose upon several per , so•as, as being the person whose appearance he assumed. , He was, however, observed by a friend of his master's in this new character, and suspicions being entett mined - of the means he employed to support it, he was apprehended , and remains in confinement t:11 the arrival of his Lord ship from Ireland.—Morning Paper. LAUNCH OF AN IRON VESSEL.—Wa are mu:th gratified to learn, that the extensive arrangements m iking by the Irish Inland Steam Navigation Company, under the spirited management of C. 'W. WILLIAMS, Esq. are getting forward satisfactorily. This day one of the Company's double iron boats, built by Mews. FAwcerr and Co. with the engine and paddles in the middle, will be tried on the river. She is intended to carry passengers, and tow other vessels built for the purpose of carrying live stock, &c. on the Shannon. And, to-morrow, an iron boat 60 tons burthen, belonging to the Company, will he launched from Messrs. W. LAIRD's boiler-yard, on the banks of Wallassey Pool. She is admirably constructed for conveyance of cattle, being ventilated in a superior manner. We sincerely wish the Company success, and feel confident great advantages will result from the naviga tion of the rivers and canals of Ireland by steam.—Liver pool Albion of Monday. BIRTHS. On the Sth inst. at tl:e Deanery, Winchester, the lady of the Bishop of Barbadoes, of a still-born child. On the 11th inst. in Lower Berkeley. street, Portman- Nu ire, the lady of F. Barlow, Esq. of a son. On the 12th inst. at the Vicarage, Knockholt, near. Sevenoaks, Kent, the lady of the Rev. Thomas Nieholli of twin daughters. On the 13th inst. at York-road, Waterloo-bridge, the lady of Mr. F. K. Drawbridge, solicits r, of a daughter, still-born. MARRIED. On the 14th inst. at St. Mary-le-Bow, W. White, jun. Esq. of York-place, City-road, to Eliza, second daughter of J. Grant, Esq. of Che pside. On the 15th inst. at St. Szviour'., Southwark, Janes Watney, Esq. of Wandsworth, Surrey, to Rebecca, the eldest daughter of James Spurrell, Esq. of Park-street, Southwark. DIED. On the 12th inst. Charlotte, only . child of R. Wale, Esq. of Great Marlborough-street. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED• BY 111URDO YOUNG, Ai TUB SUN OFFICI, • 112, STRAND, .LIPINDO"