The Sun. — London, England, 1829-10-23 00:00:00

- wtre better than low prices with sympathy. Mr. Tickner alluded to the prospect as to defeating; the combination from the Railway now con structina under a new Act to the mouth of the Tees. L "lt seems the coals in this quarter are ample in quantity and superior in quality, and can be worked at a less cost than those transmit ted by the Tyne and Wear. We trust that he will not be deceived in his expectations. The severe opposition which was made for two or three Sessions to the Bill for the construction of the Railway, is alone tolerably conclusive as to the opinion of the Tyne and Wear coal-owners - on this subject. It is expecting too much from poor human nature to suppose that the great coal-owners in the Tyne and Wear, having it in their power to take four hundred thousand pounds a-year, under an arrangement among themselves, more than they could take without it, would have any scruple in pocketing it.— We confess we have never yet, in the course of our experience, stumbled on any persons who thought they could receive too much either for their goods or their labour. To saturate men with good things has always appeared to us a very hopeless endeavour ; and so satisfied are we on this point, that we should even have some doubts whether even Mr. Alderman Waithman might be proof against thz. power of taking 400,0001. a-year from the consumers of coals, though he inveighs so eloquently against " the foul and abominable combination. ' We do not believe there is a man in the House of Lords, or House of Commons, or Court of Common Council, who, if circumstances gave' him the power of adding 400,0001. a year to his former receipts, would not avail himself of them. But Mr. Alderman Waithman thinks that the Mar quis of Londonderry and his fellow-combina tors have been a little too lavish in the way of hypocrisy, in the interval of the non-existence of the combination. "An opposition (lie ob served) had been got up in the House of Lords against the City of London, when, for the pur pose of effecting a great public improvement, it had been proposed to levy a tax of 6d. a chaldron on coals. The opposition was placed on the ground of the tax being a great injury to the poor. - Their Lordships had extended their sympathy on this occasion a great way, and so strong was their sympathy, that they brought wit nesses and solicitors a distance of 600 miles, and maintained them in London at a great expence, not for their own interests, but the interests of the poor. A combination had formerly existed among the coal owners; a quarrel had afterwards ensued among them, and the coals fell eight shillings a chaldron. The best coals had then been under thirty shillings. The differences, however, among the coal owners had been healed, they had agreed that the vend should be re sumed ; and the instant this agreement had been entered into, coals had risen more than eight shillings a chaldron. The coal owners had ob jected to a tax of sixpence per chaldron for a great public object, which would have amounted to forty thousand pounds a year, and they levied a tax of ten sixpences, amounting to 400,000/., which they took from the poor and the public generally, not for any public pur pose, but to put into their own pockets. These persons had entered into a foul and abominable combination. Ought not (he would ask) the indignation of the public to be roused, and ought not the opinion of that Court to be displayed ? An opposition had been got up to the execution of a great public object, upon the miserable and hypocritical pretence of the tax raising 40,0001. on the public, while they who opposed levied on coals a tax of ten sixpences to put in their own pockets." It is no doubt true, as the Worthy Alderman observes, that Lords London derry and Durham played the hypocrite on time occasion alluded to very ably, which is a proof that hypocrisy is by no means monopolised by Methodiscd Parsons. It is very wrong, no doubt, to affect great regret for the sufferings of the poor, when the only regret really felt was, that they could not add a little more to these sufferings. But our indignation is somewhat mitigated by the , consideration that hypocrisy is better than force, and that it is a sort of ac knowledgment of your importance when people - take the trouble of playing the hypocrite before you ; for it is only when force is not safe, that another way is had recourse to. When an Arch bishop of Cologne, in former days, built a castle, and was asked how he meant to keep it up, as he had no lands near it, he frankly observed, he could be at no loss, as there were four highways close to it ; meaning that it was favourably situ ated for highway robbery. An Archbishop, in the present day, would be under the necessity of pretending a strong regard for religion, study ing carefully every word and justure used in public, And slily watching his opportunity for smuggling Bills through Parliament, for getting hold of sinecures in spite of the recommenda tion of Parliamentary Committees. Pope Leo X. laughed 40y at his own trade. A Pope in the preient. day is as circumspect as a Fenelon. Before ever -our most gracious Sovereign can build or pull down a palace, two or three Minis ters, one after another, are obliged to come for ward with plausibly invented stories, of which they best know themselves how much ought to be taken for gospel, to prevent the impatience the people would feel, if the truth were to come too abruptly across them. It would be a great deal better, no doubt, if men would always do what is right ; but when they are determined to 'do wrong, hypocrisy is on the whole better than tyranny.—Morning Chronicle. Our readers will find, in another column, an article extracted from the Brighton Guardian of yesterJay, on a subject of vital importance to the people of this country—namely, the oppres sion suffered by them from the want of well or ganized local Courts. The text which supplies our Brighton contemporary with food for his comments, is a case of contract between a coach man, and a young woman, a green-grocer, whe ther walnuts sold for 11., and delivered, were or were not according to sample. Tilt parties live -at Brighton, and the County, Court is held, we liselieve, at Lewes. The trial took place regu larly on the Sth October, 1829, when the plain tiff gained, and his attorney's bill of. costs amounted to 411. ls. There was, however, taxed off 121. Rs. 6d., still leaving to the de fendant to pay 291. 7s. 6d., besides her own aliorney's bill of costs. In the speech with which Mr. Brougham intisssissced his motion for Law Reform, lie says—" In py mind, he was guilty of no error, he was charge4lo with no exaggeration, he was betrayed by his fancy into - no metaphor, who once said that all we see above us, King, Lords, and Commons, the whole machinery of the State, all the apparatus of the system, and its varied workings, end in simply bringing twelve good men into a box." s o that Kings, Ministers, and Bishops—all the showy and most expensive apparatus, for the fake of which twenty millions:of - industrious P eople are so beatnifully exploited (e.rgoit6:), to use an expressive French word, has only for its object to obtain for such persons as Mellish, the coachman of Brighton, the performance of ccntracts with individuals in their own rank of life. The machinery is certainly very operose and clumsy. And yet who, without being told that this was the end and object of all the ma chinery by so great an authority as Mr. Brougham, would ever have arrived at such a conclusion, from what he witnesses in this coun- try ? If asked why Kings were appointed, he would naturaAy say to build and pull down palaces, to hold levees, to distribute courtesies in such a way between the ins and the outs, that the one shall never be too confident, and the other never too despondent, &c. If asked why Ministers were appointed, he would say to ob tain money for Kings and Placemen. If asked why Bishops were appointed, he would say to keep up palaces for themselves, and bestow rich livings on their sons, and the husbands of their daughters. If asked why Judges were appointed, he would say because they were become too old and too lazy for toiling at the bar, and wished to pass the evening of heir days comfortably on the Bench. If asked why Magistrates were ap pointed, he would say that 'Squires, when living in the country and not more pleasantly engaged, may have something to do, and he enabled to preserve their game by punishing poachers. But it would be a long time before he stumbled on the discovery that the end of all this was the protection of the persons and property of the people. No—the only part of the whole that is neglected is that part for which all is contrived. It is like as if an expensive water-mill should be constructed, but no water-course should be made, and consequently no grinding should take place. Beautiful machinery welave, indeed, of great benefit to those who have the care of it, but only to them. The wants of the people are the only wants which have not been attended to. Far are we from saying that the business of go verning is a light one. It is, indeed, no easy matter to keep peace amongst the various per sons employed in the management of this costly machinery ; for though the benefit of those for whom the machinery is constructed is kept out of view, and the only persons who benefit are the employh themselves, yet to adjust the share of loaves and fishes in such a way as to satisfy all parties is a difficult matter. Hence Legislatures have long sittings and stormy debates—hence intrigues are constantly forming—hence Mini sters are made and unmade—hence Tories take the place of Whigs, and Whigs the place of Tories. The science of governing, without attending to the end of Government, is not the less a perplexing and difficult science on that account. This, however, is certain that no part of the difficulty is occasioned by any attention being bestowed on the end of Government. — During the days when the end was a little at tended to, that is, in the long Parliament time, when the King and House of Lords and Bishops were disposed of in a very unceremo nious way, the idea of bringing justice home to the door of every man occupied occasionally the thoughts of the Legislature. But ever since the people were relieved of the trouble of self-go vernment, it is astonishing, amidst all our diffi culties, how little difficulty there has been in staving of all attempts to obtain Courts for the people. In the last number of the Westminster Review there is an article on Law Reform, in which there is only the slight oversight, that in a country in which so much money is required fir other ends than the good of the people, money cannot be afforded for Local Courts.— Had the Reviewer lamented the disappearance of cassocks, the rarity of shovel-hats, and proposed a tax of a million or two to gladden the eye sight of Lords with a hundred or two additional church steeples, his recommendation would have been sure of due attention. But to wander from the machinery to the object of it is as ill-timed as the recommendations of Wick liffe or Huss, in an age when the smell of burning Heretics ascended sweetly to Hea ven. Mr. Bentham, according to this article, " proposes the establishment of Judge-shires, or districts, to form, as nearly as possible, a square, equidistant, and of similar size ; the scat of justice as nearly as may be in the centre of each ; the Court to sit six hours a-day, and, from its adjacency, to allow to the suitor the facility of reaching it, dispatching his business there, and returning home to sleep. A radius of twelve miles would be enough for all this ; and one hundred and twenty-five Courts or thereabouts would suffice for England and Wales. But as the population of cities and towns is en titled to consideration, seventy-five other Courts would amply provide for these." To these Courts Mr. Bentham would commit all suits whatever (military and ecclesiastical excepted). Herald. To the details or this project we regret not to be able to give the spce they demand. They will be found in a work now passing through the Press, to which we must refer our readers. Mr. Bentham says (p. 63), " The County Courts ought to be diligently reformed—their process extended to matters of large amount and of greater variety—their officers rendered more able and effective. The remedy is well intended, and intended, doubtless, to forward the ends of those who originated the County Courts' Bill' a few years ago ; but it is wholly inadequate, its benefit small, its expellees enormous ; and, by its expence alone, likely to have thwarted any more e,xtensive reform, for it proposes to allow the continuance of all the existing judicial ma chinery, to the charges of which, enormous as they are, it would have added its own. Both logically and locally considered, the County Court plan is in every respect inferior to the Departmental Judicatures constituted by the Napoleon Code." Can anything be more op pressive in the working than the existing County Courts, as exeliiplified in the 401. plaintiff's bill for a one-pound ,contract ? But who cares for the people in England—and who ever will care for them, in a country in which it is the height of imprudence to appear to take any interest, however slight, in their welfare? Occasionally, even in a canting and hypocritical country like this, an individual no doubt wili h,e found who, from indiarence to the ordinary objects am bition, and the acpidental determination of his inquiries to the good of his fellow-creatures, may oectlpy himself with speculations of which the object is the advantage of the people. But even such an individual dreads nothing so much as to he known fora man who has any other than sel fish and vulgar aims. p_e k nows that. his only chance of being able to do good iptit depend on his objects not being too clearly revealed', a,r4 that ;numbers of the very people whose goods he seeks, from the ignorance and prejudice insepa rable from their degraded condition, ssould be among - the first to tear him to piesea if set on by their eneinies.—Thid. Certain paragraphs, by way offeders, are, we see, putting forth by the Press, relative to re placing Mr. Peel in his seat for Oxford. That there bre certain persons in both the Universities who know the value of having a Minister of State for their Representative cannot be doubted. Of the good - things which Lord Lyndhurst has showered upon his former constituents is an un answerable proof. Some of the paragraphs in qu2stion go the length of saying that Sir Robert Inglis is to resign his seat to make way for the return of Mr. Peel. In this we cannot believe that there is one word of truth, or the least sha dow of foundation. None but a corrupt motive (and that, we are sure, cannot for a moment be imputed) could induce Sir Robert Inglis, we should suppose, to resign an honour so gallantly and so decidedly won. Sir Robert Inglis may possibly partake of the infirmities of other men ; but nothing, we suppose, short of a Deanery or a Bishopric for some very near and dear con nection, would induce him, or any other man, to relinquish such a prize as that which he has so unexpectedly and honourably obtained. Has the measure for which Mr. Peel abandoned all the principles of his early life brought with it that " healing on its wings" which we are taught to expect ? In short, are the University, or their late Member, proved to have been in the light ? Let the present state of Ireland answer. It; then, the University has nothing to upbraid itself with on the score of political sagacity and foresight, or on behalf of those principles which it was especially bound and called upon to main tain, what silly, what damning inconsistency would it not speak, to retrace, without reason, the step which it so manfully and consistently has taken ? Nor would it become Mr. Peel, we should think, to attempt to place his Alma Mater in such a dilemma. To be sure, to see oneself transformed from the high station of Representative of one the most learned and cele brated bodies in the world, to be a Jew's nomi nee at Westbury, is mortifying enough ; but as Junius said of Sir William Draper, " if Mr. Peel's be a bed of thorns, he has made it for himself ;" and we doubt whether it can be now remade but at an expense of honour and con sistency which no man should impose upon others. To be sure the Vice-Chancellor has made a Latin oration in honour of Mr. Peel; and Dr. Copleston, who wrote him into his cur rency principles, will, perhaps, now write him out of them again ; but nothing, we should say, can or ought to be done (especially in the way of compromise, behind the backs of the non resident members) to involve the University of OxfOrd in the double dilemma of retracting a solemn judgment, and that, apparently, for the sole purpose of having a giver of Church Pre ferment for their Representative.—Morning We inserted in our Paper of yesterday seve ral documents, or rather memorials of the discon tent which exists at the present moment in the Indian army ; and the first observation which we mean to make upon them is, that the Directors of the East India Company never adopted a pro ceeding more truly impolitic in all its bearings — more uncalled for, or more likely to gratify those who would delight in seeing its empire at an end, than that of reducing the pay of its military servants, and thereby exciting discontent in the very quarter where discontent is truly and greatly dangerous. The Company, to speak the truth of it,cannot, indeed, be charged in its general conduct, either - nitt being aixel taskmaster, or a niggardly paymaster. It has uniformly re warded its servants handsomely, and it has been repaid by an affection and loyalty, and good service, on their part, which, considering the dis tance of the seat of government from the seat of actual rule and management, has no parallel in the annals of history. The system was good and worked well ; and we cannot really account for the hallucination with which the Directors have been visited in attempt ing to change it. " Our empire in India," as Lord Hastings most truly remarked in our own hearing, " is an empire of opinion ;" and nothing, in consequence, can be more impolitic than to expose its extreme fragility to such dangerous contact as that of a collision between the civil and military power-- between the power which controuls, and that which actually maintains our supremacy in the East. The sums, we readily allow, which are paid by the East India Company to its civil and military servants in the East appear enormous, and out of all proportion, when compared with those which are paid here ; but it ought to be remembered that every one who enters the service of the Company in the East, does so, not only at the expence of leaving behind him relatives, friends, and connections, but, from the unfavour able nature of the climate, at the risk of his life —that the health of all Europeans is more or less injured by a long residence in an Indian climate —and that those who thrive best, and survive their time of service, return to their native country with at least ten or fifteen years of shorter life than they would otherwise have en joyed—and that that life, from the breaking up of old habits, friendships, and connections, is by no means the most delightful. And are not these grounds for the awarding of greater emo luments and indulgences to the officers of the East India Company than to those in any other service? And is it not unjust and cruel first to entice men into such service by offers of liberal reward, and then to turn round and cut short their allowances ? We shall not indulge in the remarks which, under other circumstances, we should be inclined to make ; for we are confi dent th4t, when the Court of Directors come to revise their proceedings, they will rescind them at once as unjust and impolitic. The army in India, or rather the officers of that army, is their tower of strength ; and it would be much better for them to resign their empire at once than to give such just ground of discontent to those who can maintain, lime, or seize it, as may suit their interests and inclinations, as they have now done.—Morning Advertiser. Considerably more bustle has been perceptible at the lower part of the harbour for the last few days than has been witnessed for the three previous months. The trade, however, is principally confined to the steamers. — Since Saturday five of these arrived from Ireland with grain, and the exports of dry goods, coa's, &c., are on the increase. A cargo of herrings arrived from the North Highlands on Saturday ; and another of potatoes from the Water of Leven, which are selling at l Is. per boll. — Glasgow eh r (Mick. The fate of WILLIANI VIALL, a lad of 16, who was tried under Lord ELLENEOROUGH'S Act at our last Assizes for cutting and maiming GEOR G E GREEN, his fellow-apprentice, with an intent to murder, of which he was found guilty, and sentence of death accordingly passed upon him, but which has been respited from time to time until the last week, is decided, and his punishment c omputed to transportation for life. lie will very skortly be tient f-o- , to hence to the prison-hulks at Portsmouth , to • be embarked on board the first ship that Government fits out for Botany Bay. It is said tliat the recovery of GEoncE GREEN is still very doubtful, and that the sur geons who have hitherto attended him cannot pronounce him put of danger. Should he die within a year and a 'day Of the time when the act was committed upon him, the charge against Ytat.r.. will then become murder, for which crime lie has not been, but in that case will be liable to be, tried, being a distinct offence from that pro vided for under the Act before alluded t0....8ury WESTMINSTER SESSIONS. These sessions commenced yesterday morning, before FRANCIS CON,ST, Esq., and a full bench of Magistrates. Robert Shoohridge was indicted for assaulting James Bland, Esq., his master. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, who was then sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment in the House of Correction. Elizabeth Lovell was charged with keeping a brothel in James-street, Oxenden-street. Mary Ann Crudale, a modest, pretty-looking girl, was servant at 5, Oxenden-street. On the 21st of August she was going for the supper-beer, about nine o'clock in the evening, and when passing the house in question, she was accosted by two men, who invited her into the house. She desired them to go about their business, and one of them replied that she bad better walk on by fair means lather than foul. They then caught hold of her, and dragged her forcibly into the passage of the house. Alice Booth and Mary Nevi!le, both common pro stitutes, proved having taken men to the house, where they saw the defendant, and paid her for the accom modation received. _ Mr. PIIILLIPS made a powerful appeal to the jury on behalf of the defendant. _ The CHAIRMAN, in summing up, expressed a doubt as to whether the proof of her having had the care and management of the house was sufficiently made out to bring her within the scope of the Act of Parliament. The Jury, after some hesitation, returned a ver dict of Not Guilty. Batson, the alleged proprietor of the house, was included in the indictment, but did not appear. On the motion of Mr. Alley, a Bench warrant was issued against him, with orders for his giving 48 hours' notice of bail. Jane Atkins, a wretched-looking old woman, \Vat charged with stealing four pewter beer-pot', the property of as many different licensed victuallers.— Verdict—Guilty. The CHAIRMAN then sentenced her to three months' imprisonMent. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Mr. Dunsby, the foreman of Farringdon-within Ward, appeared before the LORD MAYOR, in order to complain to his Lordship that there was still to be had in IQewgate-tnarket abundance of diseased meat. The LORD MAYOR expressed his regret, that after all the efforts that had been made to prevent the sale of bad meat, there should be facilities of dis posing of it. Mr. Dunsby said it was well known that an ar rangement had been made between his Lordship and the butchers and salesmen of Newgate-market, that if Mr. Fisher, the clerk of the market, was appoint ed inspector of the meat, they (the butchers and salesmen) would, if any unwholesome meat should be sent into the market, send for him to seize and condemn it. Notwithstanding this arrangement, bad meat was collates' ly to be seen in the market. One case he should most particularly call his Lordship's attention to. On the 13th of October the steward of Lord George Cavendish sent to Messrs. Challis and Harris, the salesmen, the body of a diseased cow, with directions to sell it. The salesmen, upon seeing the condition of the cow, would not, under any circumstances, perform the sale, and desired that it should be removed from their premises. The cow was removed . and taken to an inn-yard, and Lens down, the sausage-maker, }ming heard where he could be accommodated with what he usually sought for, went to the spot and immediately purchased the dainty at one penny per pound. Now this pro ceeding upon the part of the salesmen was directly in the teesti.ofssthe contract, which went to the•de struction of the bad meat, instead of winking at the sale of it. Thus were the exertions of the inquest in favour of the public made completely nugatory. If the Lord Mayor did not oppose such conduct on the part of the salesmen, the sausage-makers would be as busy as ever in dishing up filthy food for the public. The LORD MAYOR sent for one of the salesmen who were complained of, and Mr. Harris appeared to make an explanation. He stated, that he and his partner had given directions to their men not to take in unwholesome meat, on any account, for sale. This had been done. Mr. Dunsby said that was by no means sufficient. The salesmen must assist in protecting the public, by sending for the clerk of the market, whenever they saw any bad meat in the market. The neces sary vigilance had not been observed ; on the con trary, the greatest remissness had taken place. Mr. Harris said that neither he norhis partner had been present when the cow was offered to them. If he had been present, he would have ordered the I clerk of the market to be sent for. The LORD MAYOR said the filthy evil complained of might be easily got rid of by co-operation; and he trusted that there would be no disinclination upon the part of the salesmen to put a stop to the trade in diseased meat. Adams, one of Messrs. Challis and Harris's men, stated that he was in the market when the cow was offered, and he ordered it to be taken away as a " wet 'un." Mr. Dunsby said his office would soon be at an end; but while he remained in it, he should most scrupulously protect the public. The LORD MAYOR commended his zeal, and hoped that the sale of bad meat would immediately be abandoned. GUILDHALL. James Hayes, a respectable looking man, about 40 years of age, was brought before Mr. Alderman ATKINS yesterday, charged with stealing a piece of Gros de Naples, from the premises of Mr. Curia, a silk-manufacturer,No. 47, Church-street, Spitalfields. Mr. Hobler, jun., attended on behalf of the pro secutor, and Mr. Isaacs for the prisoner. Mr. Lewis Curia stated that he had known the prisoner about five years, and that two years and a half ago he entered into an agreement with him to become his (Mr._ Curia's) agent for seven years ; but about six months ago the prisoner took the agreement away from him, having got him to sign something written on the back of the instrument, which he understood to be a form of cancelling; ne vertheless, the prisoner had continued to act as his agent in the same manner, and on the same terms as while the agreement was subsisting. Ile could not read to understand (being a native of France) what he signed. On Monday the prisoner came to the warehouse and took away the piece of Bros de Naples although witness told him he would not assent to his doing so. He said to him " I will not have it taken." The prisoner replied " Well, 1 shall take it," and witness then called a stranger down stairs to see that he WEti taking it without his consent. Mr. Alderman ATKINS said, that to save time he would put his finger on a point as they went along. As an agent, and acting under the agreement, he might legally do that, the doing of which was now charged against him as a crime. After some desultory conversation, another case was entered into, without positively deciding that the first could not be entertained. Henman,a constable of Cripplegate-within, stated that while conveying the prisoner to the Compter, he complained of having been ill used by the prose cutor. Being confined under a false arrest, he said ha transferred his property to Mr. Curia, who, with out his consent, disposed of and pawned_ . a part of it. He had obtained the duplicates, and redeemed what he could, but the prosecutor was considerably in debt to him. At the Compter witness called upon him to surrender all the money he bad about him, and he produced 1111. lie declared he had no other money, but witness searching him closely, found a 2001. note sewed up in the lining of his trousers, and when asked why he concealed it i" this manner, he said he chose to be his own banker, , anti had secreted it for security. Witness was pre sent when a warehouse in Addle-street, Wood , street, which the prisoner had taken in the num of " William" Hayes, was searched by Mr. Curls and Mr. Sawyer, (of the firm of Sawyer and Hall, of Aldermanbury), who had given the prosecutor credit to a large amount, and suspected he might discover some of the goods there. A vast quantity of silk goods had been found, which witness had been desired to hold possession of, on the behalf of Mr. Chris's creditors. Some books, papers, and bills of exchange, wanting only the endorsement to become negotiable, were also found at the pri soner's. The prisoner had formerly been in busi ness in Gutter-lane. Mr. Alderman ATKINS asked if Mr. Sawyer had discovered his property. Mr. Sawyer said there was some which he had little doubt of, but having been dyed he could not swear to it now. Mr. Alderman ATKINS inquired whether he mean to say the property had been fraudulently obtained from him, or merely in the regular way of dealing. Mr. Sawyer said, in the regular course of deal ing, certainly. The Alderman observed that under such circum stances it was not in his power to assist him. The avidity to do business, and the superabundance of the supply, unhappily led many tradesmen to mis place their confidence. Mr. Hobler begged that the prisoner might be remanded. Henman, the constable, intimated that something would result, probably, from what he had heard, if he were allowed a little time to trace the 2001. note he hdd found on the prisoner. Mr. Isaacs pressed for the release of his client, but the Alderman remanded him till the following day (this day.) BOW-STREEL A poor half-starved young man, who said his name was William Crook, was yesterday brought before Mr: HALLS, in custody of one of the new police, by whom he was charged with having created a disturbance near St. Giles's workhouse, on the evening of Wednesday. The patrol stated that he was on duty near St. Giles's workhouse, on the above evening, when he was directed by Mr. Nangle, one of the overseers to remove the prisoner. Upon telling him to move on, he said he was waiting to see Mr. Nangle, who had refused to take him into the workhouse, al though St. Giles's was his legal parish. He (the witness) then told him that he must not stand there, and t'ien the prisoner said that he wished to be taken into custody, as he had nowhere to lie down but in the streets. Mr. HALLS said that Mr. Nangle ought to have given his directions to one of the parish-officers to remove the prisoner. The police constables, he conceived, might employ themselves much more usefully than by interfering in parish matters. Here was a miserable creature turned out at night from the workhouse, and being desirous to press his claim upon the overseer, that person, in order to get rid of the annoyance, charges him with a dis turbance, and orders him to be taken into custody. He (Mr. Halls) was at a loss to know why the of ficers of this parish had lately adopted the practice of refusing to admit paupers into the workhouse. — They were in the habit, it seems, of supplying the poor creatures who applied to them for relief with a portion of bread and cheese, and having done so, they order them to leave the workhouse, intimating that they might find a bed where they could. Now however convenient this practice might prove to the parish, it was not the legal way to dispose of pau pers, not to mention the inhumanity of turning poor creatures into the streets to be punished in the morning • for an act of vagrancy. Five miserable beings were brought before him (Mr. Halls) on the previous day, having been found by the police sleep big in the streets on the preceding night. They all declared tha they belonged to St. Giles's parish, and havingen refused admission to the work house, they were forced to lie down where they could. Under such circumstances, he (Mr. IIalls) could not find it in his conscience to send the poor creatures to prison as vagrants, but directed the offi cer to take them at once to St. Giles's, and repre sent to the parish officers, in his name, the manner in which they had been apprehended, and suggest ing the propriety of taking them at once into the workhouse, provided they really had claims upon the parish. It appeared that instead of finding the relief which they sought, the five unhappy beings were once more driven from the workhouse, with a small portion of bread and cheese to relieve their immediate want. Mr. HALLS told the prisoner he was discharged and directed him to apply to Sr. Giles's workhouse: UNION-HALL Yesterday three coal-porters, in the employment of the proprietor of the Devonshire coal-wharf, Bankside, were brought before Mr. HONE, charged with having threatened the life of Everstone, one of the Surrey labouring coal-meters. Mr. Adolphus attended ~ on behalf of the de fendants. Mr. Turquand, one of the principal coal -meters, stated that the complainant was one of their most active men, and had rendered himself particularly obnoxious to many persons engaged in the coal trade, in consequence of his having been a principal witness against many of those following the business against whom charges of fraud were proved. Owing to that circumstance, Elverstone's situation had be come hazardous; he was constantly obstructed in the execution of his duty, by the coal-porters of the different wharfs along the water side, who assailed him as he went along with abuse of the most low and vulgar description. It was impossible, therefore, added Mr. Turquand, for this man to do his duty if a stop were not put to those proceedings ; and, as an example, the three defendants were selected as the ringleaders of the party. The complainant then stated, that on Monday last as he was passing the Devonshire Coal Wharf, Bankside, the moment he was observed by the coal porters, they ceased work, and set up a shout after him, and amongst other names called him " Yellow Belly," which term, amongst them,, denoted an in former. The defendants, who were prominent on the occasion, exerted their lungs to the utmost stretch, and mingled amongst their cries a scanda lous epithet, which no man was justified in applying to another. He added, that one of the defendants had a short time previously threatened to knock his head off his shoulders, on witness directing him to shoot a sack of coals which he suspected was short of measure. Mr. HONE asked the coal-meter whether he could undertake to swear that he apprehended danger from the threats of those men, and that if he could, he should have the protection of the law ?—The complainant went in bodily fear of the men. Mr. Adolphus contended that no case whatever was proved against the defendants which would justify the Magistrate in holding them to bail. Mr. HONE observed that the meter had sworn he went in personal danger of the defendants, and he should therefore make them find sureties to keep the peace. After some further discussion between the Ma gistrate and the Learned Counsel, the latter strongly contending that his clients had committed no offence in law, the defendants were held to bail, Mr. El lard, one of the county Magistrates, perfectly con curring in the deciden, THE RIVAL FIRE KINGS.--A Curious onn from the a t r h t e o g f a a scene occurred at the Argyll Rooms yesterday, during the performances ,who was also l dr e er r ea y f p iai t to t ,d d a i n cl d r lsmv o c h f b h o l‘ a l t l in l , .c aa n sn C g ; e: e d i e A nn l a t h m E e e;p: b e Li r t f i A a o n r zg t: P na e e t r n o v o :7 it6ehapei. N, CuattEßT called this person an impostor, and a long altercation took place. At length the challenger and his friend descended to the floor, and LAZARUS professed to be ready to take any poison•, and undergo any experiments of heat attempted by M. CIIAIIERT, The latter, professing great contempt for his opponent, referred LAZARUa tc the College of Physicians, who had offered him 5,000!. for the secret, which he refused, as he required 10,000/. The friend of LAamtus declared that he would exhibit at the West End of London, in order to convince the public that he possessed the secret. • • MADNESS IN DOGS. r The following observations on rabies are We by Mr. Hertwich, Professor at the Vetq:i na d, School at Berlin, in a work which he has re cen t* published. Their extension may be useful :......' " The two different forms of rabies, thi o ne of which Dr. Hufeland calls the acute or fie* oe , and the other the chronic or quiet rabies, are i lo t two, distinct diseases ; for inoculation from ao a nino! affected with the one was frequently observed to produce the other. In the acute rabiea, the doe are observed to change their manners, and to be' come either more lively and irritable, or m ore lazy and morose.; they generally become of veil changeable temper, and are, at times, s eized with restlessness, which forces them to riot about ; most of them know and obey their master until a very short time before death. At the' commencement of the disease the animals A° show a great desire to lick cold things. They lose their appetite, especially for solid food, but. frequently eat wood, turf, straw, or their fceee s ,;, this symptom is very characteristic, and the COr tents of the stomach in the post-nzortent exam s nations of dogs are of the greatest importance r 9 determine whether there has been rabies or 1 0 No rabid dog shows a dread of water at all period of the disease ; they drink, lick, a nd br hold it, without any dislike, and sometimes et hibit even a great avidity for it, although thel often have some difficulty in swallowing it, of a ccount of the swelling in the throat ; there ' also no dread of light, nor any dislike on lookin% at shining surfaces, or being exposed to a c ur : rent of air. They are very costive, f or som" period, at least. The most important and co" stant sympton is a peculiar change in the voice; and in the manner of barking ; the sounds emits: are either higher or deeper than usual—rour hoarse, disagreeable, and indicative of distrel t ! The bark does not consist of repeated tioir, terrupted sounds, but the first bark goes iT, a sort of short howl, so that it is neither a h$T ; • ing nor continued howling, but between b otP A during it, the mouth is lifted up, as in dcr who are made to howl by music. This ch oll . o of the bark is very easily recognised after ha` been once heard, and is considered as p 3 “73 gnomonic. Phlegmatic dogs, when affec t : , with rabies, hardly ever show an increased de Ta of biting ; but irritable snappish dogs are set t with a real fury, in which they attack $ ll . , kill every animal which they can get Pr. and destroy and bite at every thing near the sometimes, even, they lacerate their own bads It appears that their rage for biting is first!, rected against cats, and lastly against men. 1 1 ' generally bite without any previous barking A , growling, and the bite mostly consists of a 611 ; den snapping and tearing of the teeth ; if s n ii ) ther dog comes near them, they smell -at- i .,,, e mouth, and at the same wag with the tail, be' they snap at him ; they also often snap a ts j air, as if it were to catch flies. The extol'. appearance is but little changed on the first d s . jr on the second, the eyes become injected , r o e so mewhat irritable, by strong light ; the sk } a the head is corrugated, and they look as ifyi wer e morose and drowsy : at a still later pePj the eyes become lifeless , and turbid, as if coql with sand ; the whole face, or part of it, ° r , tongue, swells ; they become greatly e tnaeiv' of and their coat is rough. As long as theyA not quite exhausted, they carry the tail to':; 1 0 upwards ; at the least degree of debility, it bel f down ; the mouth is rather dry, and hardlYLp covered with foam ; the hind legs are weak the beginning of the disease, and always bee" paralysed before death. In quiet rabies animals are never restless, but become dejec7i very tranquil, and sad. The most impor t , and characteristic symptom consists in the ltr_ . jaw hanging down, as if its muscles were n lysed. This depends not, as has been aase sc lid upon a spasmodic contraction of the Ito r r io which draw down the lower jaw, but on s• 0 paralysis of those which close it; the loweri sp i is, at least without any difficulty, lifted OW kept in situ by very slight pressure. I S s at pens, however, frequently, that, when th e t o mal is irritated, it recovers for a 5 11 ° 4 r' its faculty of biting, of which, it app s iii however, to have no increased desire. „i 0 the above symptom the dogs are prevented 1701 swallowing : the saliva constantly flows O l d, the mouth, and the tongue is a little protrtw 0 The bark is changed •in the same manner 0 el fierce rabies, but is very seldom heard, mo s ei e the dogs emitting hardly ever any sound,.o. •-• i f when irrit a t e d. The other symptoms, e° o ' tion, loss of appetite, absence of real hydro bia, &c., are the same as in the other o p The duration of the disease is nearly eeltel both forms. The animals die within, Ili I eight days, apparently from exhaustion; se very few, only, sudden death, as if fro g -,. plexy, ensues at an earlier period." e The public will shortly be deprived o f / 8 1 0. 6. to Runnymede, which is about to be enclosed. Do t le sirable that Runnymede should be rendered ns ti° perty by pp/chase, under an Act of Parliament- 001 MISSISSIPPI SHARKS.-----Anothero al (Squalus Carcharies, or Great Shark), three, i istiPP, two inches in length, has been taken in the 14 .6. ; ab ° b i opposite the residence of JoHN SmaltuND. f . ' s O s lo two miles below this city. As this fish is not l io qi. tant of the fresh water, it is difficult to dete, he evi l has induced him to leave his native element . tilte of t o bility is, however, that at the present :4 hiss, river, he is not inclined to leave the c hannel , 8 ng ir, been driven up from the Balite by the stea mer' e i oe rni towing vessels from thence to New Orleans. '-ojts"'"; day or two since, while bathing his feet from 11.r,f.' had one of them shockingly mangle d b y an d 11157 Natchez (Mississippi) Galaxy, --- BIRTHS. Of ° On the 21st inst. at Downhana, Norfolk, tbe st Mr. C. Hunter, surgeon, of a son. cl ft. P On the 2Ath inst. at %liner, Ken:, A* 'li 9 ' ' mington, of a son. , Mari On the 21st inst. in Portland-place, Lady -lass of a son. MARRIED. lot fol i d , 'j ° On the 2lst inst, at Alaryiehone, Mr. J. - e per merchant, of Arbroath, N. 8., to nos Jan e o' IP Welbeek-street, Cavendish-square. I R• pot' On the 22d inst. at Fulham, Lieut.-Col. .'• ,' ire L C.B. second son of the Hon. R. Ward, of Ban Coo, to Ca1.41 - eiine Frances, eldest daughter of Johp .F- 0 Fulham, Esq. or e, t i, On the WA intq. at St. George's, H CanoverAgiottetv R. G,:ieve,'Esq. of New Bond-street, to ,1248,e„rer? only daughter of Jos. Silver, Esq., of Aliu'' New-road. 1 i ' TO ill' DIED. On the 19th inst. inlotith Audlcy-street, thbeelltif'' Gilbert Ileathcote, A. 111., Archdeacon pa' Fellow of Wincliqte; Cpllegp,• • e efteri r che i ' On the listh imit. at his brother's in .!1: 1- . 1. Frederick Woolley, seccnd son of the late 0 5..1 Esq. aged 22. tt " 1 ref On the 19th inst. at Ilainsgate, J. Ogg ° 0 in his 79th year. ' ste On the 12th inst. at Nice, in Italy,tbe ao" late of Piccadilly, au licctioneer. efit et? 0:1 the 22d inst. of consumption, Fra il,str daughter of heard WiL!gins, Esq. of J evir gate, aged 18. 1 J r 0, 1" PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY 31U1 Llk., THE SUN OFFICE, 1 1 % STILANP, L°l4