The Sun. — London, England, 1837-01-06 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Glasgow dinner to Sir Robert Peel is fast ap proaching, and we must, of course, prepare ourselves for a skilful exhibition of Tory principles and Tory prospects. We are not of the number of those who entertain a low opinion of the abilities of the Right Hon. Gentleman, and certainly we do not think less favourably of him because his prudence in yielding a guarded deference to the wishes of the Tories induced them to estimate him far below his deserts, and to make, the more reckless Lyndhurst the god of their id6latry. Sir Robert Peel is unquestionably the first Than among the Tories, and we trust that this country will never be so indifferent to certain considerations as to allow the patrons of Lord Lyndhurst to place him with impunity above the Right Honourable Baronet. The Times will of course praise Sir Robert's exhibition as straightforward and candid. It was, it is true, but the other day that the character of ‘, Subtle" in The Alchemist was assigned to him, but then that of " Dol Common" was assigned to Lord Lyndhurst. A new set of characters will be dis- covered by our " powerful Contemporary," or our "ad mirable Contemporary" (for with such titles it has been invested), for the two Tory leaders. The Duke of Wellington is no longer the most insignificant man in the empire, Sir Robert Peel no longer the most in sincere, and Lord Lyndhurst the most unprincipled. We shall no doubt be told at Glasgow of the immense debt the nation owes to the resolute resistance of the House of Peers to the measures passed by the Com mons. The Times, too, which has never abandoned one principle it ever advocated, will, however, we fear, notwithstanding its tenacity of principle, take care, in trumpeting forth its praises of Sir Robert's speech, conveniently to forget what it told Lord Grey's Admi ninistration on the 23d May, 1832, that their duties " Did not end with the Reform Bill, which at bestis but a means to an end ; the means free agency—the end good government. There are a dozen other questions after Re form shall have passed, requiring extraordinary influence over the Commons, no less than direct power in the other House of Parliament. According to the present constitu tion qf the House of Peers, it will be impossible to carry on the Administration, for any man who has not the confidence of the Tory party ; in other words it will be impossible— without an extensive creation of Whig Peers—to counter act the old, established, and indefatiyable forts of the Tory Peerage, which itself has been the growth of the last sixty or seventy years, for the downfall of a Liberal States man." This is both true and powerfully expressed ; and ii opposite principles be advocated on the day when Sir Robert's eloquence is ushered into the world, the power of the unblushing impudence of the Times must be at least equal to any other power it possesses. — Morning Chronicle. The Yearly and Quarterly Account of the Revenue published by the Treasury does not present a very flattering picture. It is true that in the whole year there is an increase of 2,570,9571., but the quarter's increase, as compared with the corresponding quarter of 1836, is only 16,231/. ; while, with respect to the immediately preceding quarter, there is a decrease of no less than 1,292,1681. ; the difference between the October and January quarters of the former financial year being only 281,9401. In looking at the tables it will be seen, that the increase on the quarter is in the items of excise, taxes, and Post-office duties ; the decrease in the customs, stamps, and miscella neous taxes,—the increase amounting to 524,4291., and the decrease to 508,1981., leaving a balance of 16,2311. This is certainly no occasion for any flou rishing note from the penny trumpets of the Trea sury ; nor can we derive even a modicum of comfort from the paltry item called a surplus in the table of income and charge. We must first see the details of the charge before we shall be satisfied of the esistence of even this meagre residuum : we wait to see whether all the expenses of the commissioners of a hundred names—whether all the extravagant outgoings for Lord Palmerston's Peninsular " non-intervention war," have been regularly brought to the account. We almost pity Thomas Spring Rice, whom we already fancy we see now jumping about the floor of the house " like .Jim Crow," now weeping, according to the phrase of one of his countrymen, " like a crocodile with his hands in his breeches pocket," while attempting to ex plain and justify to the knowing, to inveigle and mys tify the unknowing, he developes the uncalled-for ex penses of his colleagues, and the rash blundering of his own Right Hon. and Right Ridiculous Self.—Times. We present to our readers elsewhere a tabular state ment of the Revenue for the year and quarter ending yesterday, and a more gratifying document we have rarely had the satisfaction of laying before our readers. Upon the year there is the enormous and unprece dented increase of upwards of two millions and a half, notwithstanding the equally enormous and unprece dented reduction of taxes on various articles of general . use and general necessity. The increase on the Cus toms alone is upwards of a million, and in the Excise there is an increase of a similar sum. On the Stamps there is a gratifying increase of 181,000/. ; and in the Post-office of 72,0001. So that on the whole year, in almost every department, there is an increase which must not only be exceedingly gratifying to the Go vernment, but to all his Majesty's subjects—a distinct proof being afforded by it, that taxes have only to be reduced to a certain extent to increase the aggregate amount of the Revenue. So far as the quarter is con cerned, it will be seen that owing to the panic at tempted to b e go t u p b y a certa i n Old Lady, who for the moment shall be nameless, a decrease has taken place in the Customs department of somewhere about half a million, but the loss in that quarter is relieved by a nearly similar amount of increase in the Excise. In the Stamp department, as might naturally have been expected, in consequence of the reduction in the duty on newspapers, from three-pence and one-third of a penny to one penny, there is a decrease of 46,0001.; but that is a mere trifle compared with the benefit al ready conferred upon the public, and another proof that another quarter will shew in this, as in every other in stance, that the reduction of a tax does not carry along with it a reduction of the revenue. Into other matters connected with the Post-office, Miscellaneous, &c., we deem it unnecessary to enter, inasmuch as the amount, on the one hand, either of increase or decrease, cannot affect to any great extent the results of the more im portant matters already alluded to ; and that, on the other, it would not furnish those satisfactory tests of the state of trade or the condition of the people which are afforded by the Customs, Excise, and Stamps. How our Tory contemporaries may digest these state ments it is not for us to say ; but they may to breakfast with what appetite they may.—Morning Advertiser. The official tables of the Revenue for the quarter ended last night have been received, and will be found in another column. They present, certainly, a very favourable report of the state of the public income. With all the disadvantages of the boisterous weather for the last three weeks, and which, it will be seen, has had its influence upon the produce of the quarter, the receipts for the whole year exceed those of the preced ing year by two millions and a half. This improve ment is equally observable as regards the general result in the two great sources of public wealth—the Cus toms and Excise—though in the former there has been a material falling off for the quarter, probably owing to the causes above stated. The exact increase in the Customs for the year is 1,093,5341.. and the decrease upon the quarter, 450,477/. ; in the Excise, 1,199,414/. for the year, and 456,0011. also increase for the quarter. The Stamp Duties have produced 181,1121. more than last year, but 46,0181. less upon the quarter, attributable to the repeal of the newspaper duties. Under the head of Taxes also there is an in crease for the year of 13,2381., and an i ncrease u p on th e quarter of 19,0141. The Post Office revenue shows returns of 72,0001. more for the year, and 4,0001. for the quarter. The taxes called " Miscellaneous," on the other hand, present a decline of 19,036/., and 11,7031. for the two periods respectively. Repayments of public money, previously advanced, have also in creased upon the year to the amount off 30,6951., and upon the quarter to 45,4141., forced probably in order to turn the scale to the right side, for with the excep tion of the Excise, the Post Office. and those repay ments, the income of this last portion of the year is inferior in productiveness to that of the year preceding. The main saving of the credit of the quarter has been the increase of the Excise receipts ; and it will be seen that , unde r this head alone, the improvement in the revenue for one year has amounted to very nearly a million and three-quarters of pounds. As this revenue has been generally held to be a test of the condition and comfort of the people, we congratulate them upon this result, under whatever Government we live. The exact increase upon the year is 2,570,9571., and upon the quarter, 16,231/., which is just tantamount, upon so large a revenue, to an escape from a deficiency in comparison with the corresponding period of last year. The probable amount of Exchequer bills required for meeting the engagements of the present quarter is estimated at 5,236,0221. With two million , : and a half richer now than when they met the Parliament last year, what re duction of taxation ought not the people to expect at the hands of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.— Morning Herald. It is one of the extraordinary anomalies of the times in which we live, that in a country professing and practising the charities of life in a manner and to an extent never surpassed, if ever equalled, its Legislature should pass, and its Government carry into effect with unrelenting rigour, an Act which violates every one of those charities in its most obvious and called-for charac ters. The history of civilised society scarcely affords an instance of a Government retrograding as the people advance, or, as is here the case, of the latter carrying on a war of humanity against their rulers. That such, how ever, is the fact, the general abhorrence felt throughout the country at the cruel features of the new Whig Poor Law, and the efforts which private charity are every where making to avert calamities brought about " ac cording to law," afford ample and convincing proofs. Happily the late rigorous weather appears to be leav ing us. But no sooner was its visitaticn experienced than one universal feeling seems to have pervaded the community, of hastening to the rescue of the suf ferers by the inclemency of the season, aggravated, as they were and are, by the grinding harshness of this new law. And why do we reiterate, why do we so often appeal to these facts, but to impress upon the Government (if it be susceptible of such impressions) that is its duty to yield to and be guided by the spirit of the age, not, as hitherto on this subject, to oppose a dogged obstinacy to the unequivocal testimony of public opinion ? We never have de nied or defended, nor ever shall, the abuses which had arisen in the administration of the old Poor Law. But this we are prepared to contend, that such abuses were but as a drop of water in the ocean, compared to the cruel, heartless severity, which in its operation this pretended amendment of them has brought about, and is inflicting upon the aged, the helpless, and deserving. Let us suppose for a mo ment that these cruel results were never contemplated by the framers of the new law—that they contemplated a kind of beau ideal in theory, which in practice dis appoints their expectations—is there any apology or pretence for persisting in an experiment which has been found to fail, and not only to fail, but to stir up a spirit of exasperation in minds which it is both the duty and the policy of their rulers to satisfy ? When Parliament meets, which it must soon do, the operation of this new law must, we imagine, be one of the first objects brought before them. When that takes place we shall, no doubt, hear some of our cold-blooded political economists extolling the new law, on the score of the saving which it has brought about. As well might a parent boast that, by the death of his children, his household expenses have been diminished. The people of England have shown, and are every day showing by their conduct, that they are not to be caught by, or enlisted into the ranks of those heart less sophists. But what is to be said when it turns out, as we have little doubt that, on a fair statement of facts, will prove to be the case, that the new law has not even this merit of producing the saving imputed to it. Much of the diminution in the': poor-rates has been notoriously produced by two very different causes —the abundance of labour and the cheapness of pro visions ; and when to the saving resulting from these obvious causes is added the enormous charge upon the Consolidated Fund, brought about by large work house loans, high salaries, and other expensive machi nery of the Act itself, we should not wonder if this boasted diminution of expenditure were to vanish en tirely, and the balance be found on the directly oppo- Isite side of the account.—Morning Herald. Our contemporary of the Morning Chronicle is wonderfully charmed at his own ingenuity in the dis covery of what he deems a strange inconsistency in our poor selves. 'We blamed, it seems, the foreign policy of Lord Palmerston when Bilboa was on the point of opening her gates, and we still blame it when Villareal has been driven from her walls. That, in the judgment of the Morning Chronicle, is an incon sistency. We attributed more than half the evils of the Peninsula to British interference, when that inter ference seemed rather more contemptible than hateful ; and we still attribute more• than half of the evils of the Peninsula to British interference, when that inter ference is become rather more hateful than contempti ble. That, in the judgment of the Morning Chro-, nicle, is an inconsistency. Unluckily, the opinions we form and express are not quite so depeuslent on results as our censor would have them. We have said that England ought to have taken no part in the war of the Spanish succession : we shall say so still, whether we see the dynasty of Isabella Secunda consolidated on a throne or extinguished on a scaffold. We have said that if a part was to be taken it should not have been taken openly, avowedly, and decisively; not disguisedly, hypocritically, and ineffectually. We shall say so still, whether we see Don Carlos triumphantly escorted into Madrid, or exiled from the last foot of his patrimonial kingdom. For this adherence, through good or evil fortune, to the principles from which we have never swerved, we must be content to be accused of inconsistency by an opponent whose hard task it is to believe Lord Palmerston, Member for Tiverton, consistent with Lord Palmerston, Member for the University of Cam bridge ; and to fancy the Lord Melbourne of to-day consistent with the Mr. Lamb of twenty years ago. Seriously, why is the success of Colonel \Vylde at Bilboa to draw from us praise of what we have hi therto condemned, or to make that seem honour able to us which hitherto we have deemed most mean and base ? Has the war ceased to be a civil war, to which no foreign Power may justly contri bute a regiment or a frigate ? Has Don Carlos ceased to be the Prince designated for the Spanish throne alike by the letter of the Spanish law and the voice of the Spanish people ? Has it become less certain that we have uniformly held it that to terminate this civil war we must have recourse to other measures than those of naval co-opera tion—that to expel this Prince we must send out other levies than those of the Isle of Dogs ? Suppose we, in our turn, inquire of our contempo rary, whether there is a strict adherence to consistency in two particulars of his own daily ratiocination. The Morning Chronicle zealously supported the cause of the Queen, when it was professedly the cause of consti tutional monarchy and aristocratic institutions. The Morning Chronicle as zealously supports the cause of the Queen, when it is the cause of military revolution and democratic insubordination. Is that quite consis tent ? The Morning Chronicle styled the party of Don Carlos a " wretched faction" when their chief was a fugitive, their leaders unknown to fame, their efforts confined to the incursions of guerilla warfare, amidst inaccessible mountains. The Morning Chro nicle still styles the party of Don Carlos a " wretched faction," when, to rescue a rich commercial city from their hands, we read of " batteries formed by Captain Vicars"—batteries " worked under the immediate di rection of Major Colquhoun ;" of " two 32-pounders in the Desierto, which Capt. Lapidge and Lieut. Le Hardy directed personally, having the men of two Bri tish men-of-war to work the guns ;" of a " bridge of pon toons, thrown over the river, at the back of the Desierto, under the superintendence of Col.Wylde;" of the Carlist musketry, outstripped by "the boats of the Ringdove and Saracen, manned by British sailors ;" of the p ( r iti e t p y ar ; :ti on of boats and rafts, in which " the English i had entirely th e h onour o f executing this important the rightfaunld,,pofiveuaially, of the assurances of General Esparte ro , C O ma iv n ie d r i , ng the best army in the service of (l and adorable Queen, that " he could not have re ; he felt all would have been useless without e . the British co-oper a ti on 1" the partisans of Don Ic!'artria:tat aid he received from quite consistent ? If s e t e i s tut t e y , fo in t d t e h e e d, di. is a " wretched faction," where theenne si rection of Major Colquhoun and the superintendence of Colonel Wylde—the two 32-pounders, worked by the men of British men-of-war—and the boats of the Ringdove and Sancen, manned by British sailors ? If the quarrel of Don Carlos be the quarrel of the majority of the Spanish people, what place is there for an English uniform in the strife which is to decide it ? It is difficult to find words for the scorn and hate with which we regard that crooked policy which is risking the best blood of our gallant countrymen where reason can neither sympathise in their disasters nor exult in their successes !—Morning Post. The depth of the snow in some of the hollows be ween Lincoln and Boston was eighteen feet. The Lon don Express only arrived thrice, and there was only one coach out of Lincoln to Nottingham during the week. The Tally-ho to London, the Magna Charta to Nottingham and Hull, the Imperial to the same places, the Union to Lei cester, and the Louth coach, &c., were all stopped, and it was only yesterday that a few of them ventured to proceed. —Lincoln Gazette of Tuesday. A few days ago an icicle was was taken down from on outbuilding in the stable-yard of Mr. Dunhill, in West Laith-gate, in this town, which measured in length six feet, was seventeen inches and a half in circumference, and weighed ten pounds and a half.—Doncaster Chronicle. GILBERT GURNEY A FATHER.—As things look at present it seems most probable that I shall attain to the dignity of a father " before four moons have filled their horns." A thousand new ties will then bind me—a thousand new duties devolve upon me. Well, I have thus early in life seen enough of the world to qualify me for a guardian and guide—to he sure, if I should have a son, he will not require much of my guiding' for some years to come, and then I may look more ;sternly at the world's " follies" and become a severer parent, as the young beau generally become an old sloven ; but I think I shall be able to make my son my friend—a course of education fa vourable to a boy who is born when his father is young. There are, however, men—and I could point out a very remarkable instance—who can not bring themselves to such a line of proceeding—who see in their sons rivals for " golden opinions," and opponents in the race of life, who hear with no pleasure the shrewd remark, the pointed phrase, or witty observations of the youthful aspirant for fame and honour, but who, feeling as parents do towards their offspring, and would feel if they lived to the age of Methuselah, that they are still children, endeavour to check and subdue the ebullitions of their genius, and keep them subject to themselves. Towards daughters the feelings of fathers are totally different—there is no rivalry to be feared there, consequently there is no jealousy. The more lovely, the more accomplished, and the more attractive a girl is, the more delighted is the fond father. In some instances mothers are found somewhat to partake of the feelings of fathers towards their sons with regard to the young ladies. Many a poor creature has been embargoed into the nursery or the governess's room for at least four years after she ought to have been out, because she unfor tunately happened to be born when her mamma was not more than seventeen, and who at three and-thirty did not like to have a beautiful repetition of herself at that age, constantly associated with her, to induce comparison.— The New .Monthly. THE RIVER THAMES.—The removal of the old London-bridge has caused a considerable change in the river above, and also, though in a less degree, below the bridge. Owing to the contracted arches through which the water had to make its way at the old bridge, there was a fall of from 4 feet 9 inches to 5 feet at low water. This fall is now reduced to about 2 inches, so that the low water line above the bridge is nearly 5 feet lower at spring tides than formerly. In consequence a greater increased body of tidal water now flows up and down the river ; and, as it meets with no obstruction, it flows with a decidedly greater velocity. The effect of this is to scour and deepen the channel of the river, its influence in this respect being sen sibly felt as fir up as Putney-bridge, 74 miles above London bridge. The shores above the latter that were formerly foul and muddy, arc now becoming clean shingle and gravel ; and near low water the beach is quite hard and firm. The shoals are also decreasing below the bridge, and there can be little doubt that the change will, at no distant period, be felt from the Norc up to Teddington. Before the removal of the old bridge a barge, starting from the Pool with the first of the flood, could not get further than Putney bridge without the assistance of oars ; but, under similar circumstances, a barge now reaches Mortlake, four miles further up, before using oars, and, with a little help, she may reach Richmond, and, taking horses there, get to Ted dington in a tide. The descent down the river has been equally facilitated ; the mean velocities of the flood and ebb between London-bridge and Westminster-bridge are— flood, 3 miles an hour, extreme, 34 ; ebb, 34, extreme, 34 —.3l•Culloch's Statistical Account. It is known to our readers that the intelligeni operatives of this city have prepared a congratulatory ad dress to Sir Robert Peel, to be presented on his arrival a , Glasgow. A sheet, nearly filled with names, was in its progress through the newspaper offices, and had reached that of the New Liberator for signature, when a fellow, others consenting, threw the paper into the fire On such des picable conduct it is needless to expatiate. We feel assured that the editor, Mr. Taylor, would.give no countenance to such a base act. But does the miscreant who committed the outrage not know that he is liable to severe punishment —perhaps to a couple of months' confinement in Bridewell, for destroying such a deed ? The wretch is known ; and, to show we are not altogether ignorant of the circum stances of the case, and that we know the actors, whom, in pity, we name not—we ask, was the paper. not snatched from the fire by a sti anger present, and again shoved in by a dastard whose name would rhyme with Bear f—Glasgow Constitutional. A report having obtained circulation in Thaxted, on Monday last, that John Edwards, the walking post man from that town to Danmow, had perished on the road the preceding night, an active enquiry was insti tuted, when it was ascertained that he left Thaxted post office at the usual hour (five o'clock in the evenin g ), and that two persons had met him about a quarter of mile from the town ; it appeared also that two labourers had shortly afterwards found am umbrella, a basket, and a box, belonging to Edwards, by the roadside, which, from the hope of obtaining some trifling reward from the owner, they took home and kept till the next day. News having arrived from Dunmow that he had not reached there, an active search was commenced near the spot where the above-mentioned articles were found, and on the removal of a quantity of snow drifted over the ditch during the night, the corpse of the unfortunate man was discovered. From the state in which he was found, it appears that he had gone to the roadside for a particular purpose, and had fallen backwards into the ditch ; his umbrella, basket, and box, had been placed on the ground in the mean time, and it is believed that when they were found, their unhappy owner had just met with the fatal accident. The nostrils of the deceased were filled with mud, and in his right hand was a letter containing money which he had received at a house scarcely 100 yards from where he was lying, and the grasp was so violent that it required some strength to release it.—Essex Herald. On the sth inst., Mr. Joseph Edwards Bullocke, the only son of Mr Joseph Bullocke, of Penzance, and who has for some time past resided with Mr. Beard, chemist, in that town, delivered a lecture on the gases, at the Me chanics' Institute recently established here ; and on the 19th he exhibited a series of experiments to illustrate that lecture ; and amongst others he hazarded an experiment with the arseniated hydrogen, procured by sulphuric acid poured on arseniate of zinc ; and the gas-jar not having so much water in it as he (being near-sighted) supposed it had, and the atmospheric air above the water diluting the gas, he inconsiderately applied his mouth to draw up the atmos pheric air while the process of generation was going on and unhappily inhaled a portion of the gas, which, bell]; highly poisonous, affected his whole nervous system, and ultimately his lungs ; the case baffled the skill of his medical attendants, and although for several days no alarMing ap prehensions were entertained, to the great grief of his father and sister, and a circle of attached friends, he died on the 30th ult. STATE OF PUBLIC FEELING IN GLASGOW.--. The address to Sir Robert Peel, recently agreed to by the o peratives of Glasgow, and which has received many hun dred signatures, affords a tolerably strong proof that the spirit of Conservatism prevails to no inconsiderable extent amongst the industrious classes of that important city. The reader will be able to judge, from the following incid en t, whether that may be taken as a true test of the feelings of the majority of that body, or whether Radicalism is still in the ascendant at Glasgow. That consistent and renowned champion of Radical principles, Mr. Feargus O'Connor, announced a lecture, to be by him delivered, on Saturday evening last, on a variety of subjects connected with the interests of the industrious classes, or, as explained by a Mr. Walker, who took the chair, " on the subject of Trades' Unions ;" the proceeds to be devoted to the relief of the family of one John Tait, deceased, and of certain " quarriers now on strike." The place appointed for the meeting was calculated to accommodate some 700 or 800 people : but when an hour after the time announced had expired not more than 60 persons had assembled, and the Mr. Walker above-named having been called to the chair, stated that Mr. O'Connor thought it better, on account of the thinness of the meeting, that all proceedings should be deferred till the month of March, when he intends to be in Glasgow. This announcement gave great umbrage to those who had come out of curiosity to hear Mr. O'Connor, and one gentleman operative, with much spirit, declared that " Mr. O'Connor never was a man, nor had shown himself a man on this occasion." A motion of adjournment was then put and carried. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. John Macpherson, aged 53, was indicted for stealing a gold watch of the value of 101., the property of Mr. J. Roe. Tho prisoner declined saying anything in his defence. Some witnesses gave the prisoner a good character, who stated that he had formerly been in good circumstances, and had carried on business as a schoolmaster for many years ; that he had been in the workhouse, and at times appeared to be insane. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty of stealing under the value of 51., and recommended him to mercy. William Coveney, aged 28, was indicted for stealing two bank notes, one of the value of 1001., and the other of 501., from the person of William Burton Newingharn, on the afternoon of the 2d of December. _ Mr. Maxwell, clerk in the banking-house of .Sir James Esdaile, identified the notes as being the same which he paid to the prosecutor on the 2d of December. Luke Nixon is a police constable of the B division of police, and was sent after the prisoner, whom he traced to Portsea, and from thence to Brighton, where he appre hended him. He had on his person a watchguard, and some gold rings on his fingers. The prisoner succeeded in runnino. away. He pursued him about half a mile, and re apprehended him. While conveying the prisoner to the Town Hall, he said that his wife had picked up the notes between Belgrave-square and Chelsea, and that she thought they were ballads. On the road to London he said the notes had been given to him ; and he subsequently said, " They cannot hang me for it ; all they can do is to lag me." Mr. Justice PATTJSON summed up the evidence, and the Jury found the prisoner Guilty. The RECORDER, by the desire of the Judges, sentenced the prisoner to be transported for life. The Judges retired at six o'clock, and were succeeded by the Recorder, who sat until nine o'clock, trying cases of no public importance. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Yesterday a charge of embezzlement was brought by a master carman against two of his men. The case was ren dered important by the disclosure of a system of plunder which has for a long time been carried on against dealers, wine-merchants, tobacco-merchants, and a great variety of tradesmen. Samuel Cope and John Herbert, who have been a considerable time in the employment of Mr. Punton, of Northumberland-alley, Fenchurch-street, master carman, were put to the bar. Mr. Punton said that the two prisoners, in the first of whom he placed unbounded confidence for ten years, had not only been in the habit of giving to him less than they received from his customers for labour, but of plundering the chests and casks of property with which they were entrusted. Mr. Smith, a grocer, invariably paid to Cope a shilling for the carriage of each chest of tea delivered, and upon re ference to the books of the prosecutor there was uniformly a receipt for less money, although the men received beer for themselves. The prosecutor paid to the prisoners 235. a week each, and treated them in all respects with great kind ness and liberality. They, however, were in the habit of staying out so long with the horses, and brought them home in such a heat, and complaints of defective quantity having been made as to the goods they delivered, that the prosecu tor made inquiry into their system, and set a watch upon them. The consequence was, that three distinct cases of embezzlement were made out against Cope ; but, unfortu nately, from want of judicious management, the more serious charge of robbery could not be sustained. In a very strict and ingenious cross-examination by Mr. Staples, Mr. Punton stated, that there being great competi tion in the trade, he was content to take from some custo mers less than he received from others for work ; that he could not tell to what his deficiencies might amount ; that Cope was a man of very good character ; and that he never looked after him or the other prisoner until lately, in conse quence of his belief that he was safe in their hands. Mr. Staples—lf your charge should be ninepence, and they happened to get thirteen or fourteen pence per chest, would you expect the latter sum ? Mr. Punton—Most certainly. Mr. Richard Gibbs, a tea-broker, had a few observa- tions to make with respect to the tea-dealers both in town and country. Within the last twelve months there had been a vast number of complaints made by grocers to those who purchased tea from them that the chests were fre quently deficient in weight, and it had been ascertained that the carmen employed by the master carmen were in the habit of boring holes in the bottoms of the chests and drawing away pounds of tea when they had to go to any dis6nee. In a case which had occurred a few days ago the prisoners had been employed to take some chests of tea to the Hampstead-road. He (Mr. Gibbs) employed a person to weigh the tea at the West India Docks, and privately sent the same man toreweigh it upon its arrival at its des- tination, and the deficiency amounted to 9ilbs. There was a way of boring the chests and getting the tea out by means of a pierce and a wedge, and it was impossible to ascertain the difference between the aperture made by thieves here and by thieves or by accident in China. The policeman who apprehended the prisoners produced instruments corresponding with those mentioned by Mr. Gibbs, which witness had found in a place where Herbert, the second prisoner, kept his horse's furniture. He also produced a bar , which had been found in the same spot, and which contained a small quantity of tea. This bag, Mr. Punton said, was one of two bags in which the prisoners used to carry their dinners. Mr. Gibbs said that complaints had reached him from Maidstone and other places of deficiencies in chests of tea. Another tea-broker confirmed the statements made by Mr. Gibbs, who added that it had been also ascertained beyond question that tobacco-dealers and wine-merchants had been plundered by carmen under similar circumstances. Mr. Punton, since he had discharged the prisoners from his service, had gone round to the places to which they used to go, and he accomplished the - business in less time by two hours and a half, and brought home the horses in proper condition. The LORD MAYOR then committed Cope for trial for the embezzlement, and remanded Herbert for further exa mination. An application was made by the friends of a young man, about 31 years of tr , e, who had, on the 21st of December, disappeared, and about whose fate serious apprehensions were entertained. He was stated to be about five feet seven inches in height, dressed in black, with a brown great coat ; of pale complexion, light brown hair, and reserved manners, and had been lately affected with determination of blood to the head, in consequence of which it is appre qended some accident may have occurred to him. Direc tions were given to the Marshals upon the subject. GUILpHAL L. Yesterday Charles W. W. Penruddock, a medical student, was brought up for final examination before Mr. Alderman PIRIE, charged with having, on the 2'2d of December last, violently assaulted with a deadly weapon, called a life-pre server, three members of the Court of Examiners of the Apothecaries' Company, because they deemed him unfit to be licensed as a medical practitioner. The prisoner was remanded till Saturday, by way of form, but committed in fact, the depositions being completed and signed, and the witnesses severally bound over to pro secute him at the February Sessions. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Mr. David Wernyss Jobson was yesterday brought before Mr. CONANT and Mr. CHAMBERS for re-examination, charge with having violently assaulted Mr. Stocken, a trades man in Regent-street. The defence of Mr. Jobson was, that he was first as saulted—a statement which Mr. Stocken positively con tradicted. The Magistrates would let a Jury decide on the matter, by requiring the defendant to find bail to appear at the en suing sessions. Bail was procured, and Mr. Jobson was liberated. MARYLEBONE. Yesterday Mr. Wm. Smith, surgeon, of 21, Dorset street, Portman-square, appeared before Mr. SHUTT to show cause why he boxed the ears of James Wrist, a foot-boy in the service of a gentleman named Stevel3s, residing in the same house. The complainant having a turn for music, was constantly humming and dancing some favourite jig, much to the an noyance of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, who had a mortal antipa thy to such noisy and boisterous mirth. On being remon strated with by the latter, he became extremely impertinent, and instead of desisting struck up ", Pray Goody please to moderate the rancour of your tongue," to the great vexa tion of the lady. On this coming to the ears of Mr. Smith he resolved to bear it no longer, and made up his mind to present the complainant with a " musical box" for his trouble the next time he favoured them with a tune. An opportunity of this kind presented itself on Tuesday evening, and while the complainant was on the stairs, sing ing his favourite song of " Jim Crow," having just finished the words " Turn about, wheel about, do just so," Mr. Smith suddenly came upon him, and gave him such a box on the ear as made him wheel about and turn about to quite a different tune. The complainant informed his master, but instead of obtaining any pity he was told that it served him right. _ _ Mr. SHUTT being of the same opinion discharged the warrant on the payment of one shilling. SINGULAR DELUSION.—A respectable-looking man, who gave his name Brown, was charged as follows :—The un fortunate man, whose mind has been wandering for some time past, among other delusions fancied that he had been challenged to fight a duel at Chalk Farm, and he accord ingly repaired thither on the previous evening, with a large loaded pistol, to meet his imaginary antagonist. The prisoner, having waited for some time to no purpose, began to grow impatient, and at length by his strange conduct at tracted the attention of a constable, who secured him. He was delivered up to the care of his friends. LAMBETH- STREET. Yesterday Mr. Fitzgerald, the present occupier of an un licensed theatre in the Commercial-road, called by some the New Brunswick, and by others the New Royalty, attended before Messrs. COMBES and HALSWELL, at the request of the former Magistrate, in consequence- of a complaint made at this office on Tuesday last by Mr. ex-Sheriff Ward that the place was an intolerable nuisance. Mr. Fitzgerald, after reading over the report from a Morning Paper of the charge alleged against him by Mr. Ward, denied in the most positive manner that any nui sance whatever had been caused by his theatre, and said that if necessary he would prove the fact by many re spectable tradesmen in the neighbourhood. On the con trary, he had for some considerable time past, by raising the prices of admission to those of the Garrick and Pavi lion, and refusing the admission altogether of disreputable characters, made the house respectable, and this he had done principally in the hope of being able to obtain a license at the Quarter Sessions on the last licensing day. Several of the neighbours participated in this hope also, and were as much disappointed as himself at the refusal ; but he attributed his disappointment then, as well as his annoyance now, solely to Mr. Ward. He (Mr. Fitzge rald) would wish to have the opinion and decision of the Bench, and if they were against him he must of course bow them, and close the house. Mr. COMBES would ask Mr. Fitzgerald if he had not kept the house open without a license, and therefore in vio lation of the law ?—Mr. Fitzgerald admitted he had, but said that others had done the same thing. Mr. ComBES observed, that after Mr. Fitzgerald's own admission that he acted in violation of the law, it was ridi culous to require his (Mr. Combes's) opinion on the subject. Mr. Fitzgerald then withdrew. WORSHIP- STREET. Yesterday Elizabeth Ryall, who the day previous was taken before the Magistrates of Lambeth-street Police office, on a charge of having deserted one of her children, which she had left at the door of the poor-house of the pa rish of Christchurch, Spitalfields, was placed at the bar be fore Mr. TWYFORD, charged with having been found in a state of destitution. Police :constable H, 122, found the poor woman, who had an infant at her breast and a child about four years old with her, sitting at the step of a door. The whole of them were shivering with cold. As she stated that she had no home, and had no means of gaining a sub sistence either for herself or children, he took her to the station-house, where she received some temporary assistance. The Magistrate having ascertained that they had been found in the parish of Spitalfields, directed that an order should he made out to the overseer for her admission into the workhouse as a casual pauper. THAMES- OFFICE. Yesterday John Robinson, a man about 28 years of age, was brought before Mr. BRODERIP, on a charge of stealing a large quantity of property from his brother, Mr. Joseph Robinson, who carries on the business of a smith, in Tar ling-street, St. George's East. Mr. BRODERIP, on the prisoner being placed at the bar, said, why surely you don't mean to proceed against this man, a poor half-witted fellow, who, I am sure, is not in his right senses. I have seen him here several times. The prosecutor—lt's very hard indeed, Sir, to be losing our things. We have taken him in out of charity, Sir. Mr. BRODERIP—What have you lost? The prosecutor —Oh, several things to a large amount. Prisoner—lt's right, Sir, I took all the things. Mr. BRODERIP—ReaIIy, I don't believe he knows what he is about. How came you to take the things ? The prosecutor—Not through want, Sir. 1. have kept him well. Mr. BRODERIP—He is your brother, and more an ob ject of pity than of persecution. Do you mean to pro secute? The prosecutor—lt's a hard case. I have lost my property. Mr. BRODERIP—WiII you go on with the case or not ? —The prosecutor—Yes, Sir ; I will. Mr. BRODERIP—Very well. Then take the depositions, Mr. Leadley ; and mind, Sir, I must consign your brother to a prison. The prosecutor, who began crying, and really seemed in a state of some excitement, said the prisoner had been lodging with him and his mother for six weeks, and had been under the doctor's hands for one month. He bad made away with and pawned everything he could lay his hands upon, broken open boxes, and stolen linen, wearing ap parel, books, and everything. The prisoner, on being called upon for his defence, in a silly tone of voice said—" Oh, I own I am guilty ; I have done the thing I ought not to have done—it's not proper." Mr. BRODERIP—Tou call upon me, then, to commit your brother ?—The prosecutor (who burst into tears)—Yes, Sir, I do. Mr. BRODERIP—Then it is for a jury to say whether he is a responsible agent or not. He is committed for trial. I have no other alternative. TIIE DRAMA IN INDIA.—The car of Thespis still travels in a very unpretending manner in Hindostan, scenery being in a great measure dispensed with by the followers of the histrionic art,;while their properties are con veyed in a small compass ; a hall of audience, or open quadrangle of the house in which they are to perform, com poses the theatre, and the attempt at creating illusion is neither very artful nor very successful. The actors, how ever, often display considerable skill in their representations of the favorite characters of the mythology, whence the drama is taken. After the festival, at which they have assisted, is over, they return to the temple to which they belong ; in every large or well-endowed pagoda, there al ways being a sufficient number of detached apartments for the accommodation of the attendant Brahmins, and their various male and female auxiliaries. The descriptions given of the dancing girls of India differ widely from each other. —Asiatic Journal. A discovery has been made in chimney-building which is likely to put a stop to the building of lofty pillars for the purpose of carrying away engine -smoke from ma nufactories. The only scientific reason assigned for build ing these lofty stalks is that the increased height gives an amazingly increased draught. But it was found that a chimney of the ordinary height, or at most 60 or 70 feet, which is so constructed as to have the inside of the flue narrowest at the bottom, and gradually widening as it ascends, has the effect of increasing the draught and burning the smoke in a much greater degree than is produced by a tall flue on the old principle. A chim ney built on the new principle has the appearance out ward of a tower, asit stands upon a large base, and carries its width on the outside to the very top. The cost is not one-third of that of one of the tallest chimnies, and the danger from falling is comparatively small. Messrs. Clarke, cotton-spinners, in Glasgow, have proved the superiority of the new system, having recently built a chimney on that principle, about 70 feet high. HORRIBLE MURDER : DOWNHAM, JAN. 4.-- On Tuesday morning last one of the most diabolical mur ders took place at Denver, near Downham, that has occur red in this neighbourhood for many years, and has excited a sensation of horror in all ranks. A female, about fifty years of age, whose name is Hannah Mansfield, residing on Den ver Common, of rather eccentric habits, left the house of a friend in the village about ten o'clock on the evening of Monday, and in going to her home called in at the adjoining cottage, and stayed a short time, and then retired to her own dwelling. On the morning of Tuesday, the 3d, her neigh bours saw nothing of her, nor did they pay any attention to that circumstance, as she sometimes laid in bed rather late ; but about ten o'clock a female, who came to deliver a parcel, called, and receiving no answer, went into a neighbour's house to ask if the deceased was not up. They replied that they did not know, and their daughter went to see, and im mediately called out that there was blood upon the thresh hold ; upon which they attempted to open the door, and to their horror found the poor woman lying upon the floor in a pool of blood, with her throat cut, having been dead appa rently some hours. Her body was lying across the door way, so that the door could not be completely opened with out touching it. Some of her clothes were lying on the table, and her pockets also, but rifled of every thing, and a considerable quantity of plate also was taken from the cup board, together with the money she had about her, supposed to be nearly 20/. The bloody footsteps of two miscreants were traced more than 200 yards across the common, but no clue can at present be obtained likely to lead to the dis covery of the perpetrators, but the most active exertions are making to endeavour to find some circumstance that may lead to their apprehension. In consequence of the absence of the Coroner a jury could not be sum mone d till thi s morn ing, when, after examining several witnesses, they adjourned until to-morrow. It is rather extraordinary that a neigh bour heard a sort of " rumbling" noise, as he thinks, about two o'clock in the morning, and supposing it was some stock got into a small adjoining yard, he arose and opened the win dow ; but finding that not to be the case, and hearing no more, he retired to rest. The poor victim was in her night dress only, and had evidently come down stairs on hearing the noise, and appears to have struggled violently. MR. PITT'S OPINION OF THE DUKE ON WEL LINGTON IN 1806.—Lord Wellesley, in his letter, inserted in his letter in the last number of the Quarterly Review, giving an account of his interview with Pitt, in the last year of that statesman's life, says—" Amongst other topics he told me, with great kindness and feeling, that since he had seen me he had been happy to become acquainted with my brother Arthur, of whom he spoke in the warmest terms of commendation. He said, I never met any military officer with whom it was so satisfactory to converse. He states every difficulty before he undertakes any service, but none after he has undertaken it." SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT THE CUS TOM-HOUSE, JAN. 5. The Earl of Liverpool, Lomax, from Ostend; Tourist, Whitcombe, Antwerp; Neptune, Haacks, Ostend; Charles, Pallash, Jersey ; Oscar, Matthew, Riga; Apollo, Jacks, Dantzic. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING. The Maria, Harrison, for Teneriffe ; Monarch, Armstrong, Havre ; Susannah Ann, Gayner, St. Mary's; William Inglis, Truscott, Venice; London, Pearson, Rotterdam ; Neptune, De Zulueta, Cadiz. - CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO. The Camillus, Masters, for Demerara; Ann Gales, Sayer, Demerara; Tamerlane, M'Ellar, Calcutta. ARRIVALS AT LIVERPOOL JAN. 4. The Perseverance ' James, for Mobile ; Orpheus, Bursley, New York; Rhode Island, New Orleans. CLEARED OUTWARDS. The Jane, M'Kenzie, for Africa; Martha, Greaton, Char leston ; Fanny Connell, Joy, Genoa ; Canadian, Stevenson, New Orleans. SAILED. The Dandy, Mayhew, for St. Michael's ; England, Waite, New York; Napier, Stafford, Baltimore; Amelia, Cholditch, Genoa. TELEGRAPHED. Wind S.W.—Off Holyhead, inward bound, the Alpha, from Antwerp; Westmoreland, Mantura, from Exeter; For titude, from Exeter ; Crescent, from London; Elvira, front Demerara. The following was received at Lloyd's yesterday : " Foreign-office, Jan. 4, 1837. " Sir,—l am directed by Viscount Palmerston to transmit to you, for the information of the Committee of Lloyd's, the copy of a despatch from his Majesty's Consul at Boulogne, en closing the copy of a paper found in a bottle which was picked up at sea, a few miles to the eastward of that port, and which purports to have been thrown overboard in lat. 50. 20. N., long. 19. W., from the British troop ship Kent, bound to Quebec, with a view of ascertaining the direction of the cur rent in the Atlantic. (Signed) " J. BACKHOUSE." " British Consulate, Boulogne, Dec. 24, 1836. " beg leave to transmit to you the enclosed copy of a writing found in a bottle, which was picked up near to Cape Blanc Nez, a few miles to the eastward of Boulogne, on the 20th inst. ; and as the insertion of it in the public prints is re quested, and may be of service to nautical men, I have for warded it to you for that purpose, should you for that purpose, should you deem it expedient. (Signed) " W. HAMILTON. . . " John Backbouse, Esq." " Troop ship Kent, with detachments of the Royal Artillery, Royals, and 66th Regiment on board, bound for Quebec ; all well. This bottle is thrown overboard for the purpose of as certaining the direction of the current, for the benefit of all sea going men, the ship having been for several days past found considerably to the southward of the reckoning ; and it is par ticularly requested that the finder of this, in whatever quarter of the world, will cause the same to be inserted in the newspa pers. Ship Kent, lat. 50. 20. N., long. 19. W.—August 19, 1836." " I certify the above to be a true and faithful copy of the original, picked up near to Cape Blanc Nez, a few miles to the eastward of Boulogne, on 20th inst. (Signed) " W. HAMILTON. His Britannic Majesty's Consul at Boulogne." THE LATE SIR SAMUEL HULSE.—FieId-Mar shal Sir Samuel Hulse, whose death we recorded on Tues day, entered the army upwards of 75 years since, in Decem ber, 1761, as an Ensign in the Ist Foot Guards. The gal lant veteran was consequently upwards of three-quarters of a century in the military service of his country. He was appointed Lieut.-Colonel in his regiment in 1780, and em ployed during the Lord George Gordon riots of that year. He embarked in 1793 in command of the Ist battalion of his regiment, and landed in Holland - he served a short while there, and return e d w ith th e rank of Major-General in November the same year. He served in the same country for a second period the year ensuing, and com manded the brigade of Guards. In May, 1795, he was ap pointed Colonel of the 56th regiment, and was placed on the home staff. In January, 1798, he received the rank of Lieut.-General, and was a short time in Ireland during the eventful period of the Rebellion. In 1799 he was appointed to command in the expedition to the Helder, and was pre sent at all the engagements from September to November, when he returned with the expedition, and was appointed to the command of the southern district, in the room of the Lord Grey, in which situation he continued until the peace of 1802. In September, 1803, he received the rank of General. In February, 1806, he was appointed Lieutenant- Governor of Chelsea Hospital; and in June, 1810, Colonel of the 62d regiment. His last appointment was that of Governor of Chelsea Hospital in February, 1820, and Field-Marshall in July, 1830. By his death there are now only four Field-Marshals in the British army, viz. :—The Dukes of Wellington, Cumberland, and Cambridge, and the King of the Belgians, ANCIENT CUSTOM.—At Hornchurch, in Essex, on Monday, the 26th ult., Christmas day being on Sunday, the annual wrestling match, continued according to custom immemorial, took place for a boar's head, the gift of Messrs. J. and P. Bearblock, lessees under St. John's College of the rectory of the liberty of Havering-atte-Bower. The scene of contention was highly picturesque, the country being whitened with snow. The ground was in most beau tiful order, namely, as hard as frost could make it. The spectators were ranged in a large ring, on the margin of which, held by the senior workman on a high pole, was the boar's head, tastefully decorated with holly and light blue ribands, and a lemon placed be neath his ample tusks. About 10 couple entered the ring but the hard and cold embraces of mother earth seemed to chill the ardour of the competitors. After the usual num ber of falls, two out of three having been enjoyed by all but the winner, the conqueror was declared, and the prize pa raded round the village, amidst the acclamations of his friends, and afterwards feasted upon by the party at one of the inns. A singular and somewhat laughable circumstance recently happened near Rochelle to a man of property named D—, who had fallen in love with the wife of a man engaged in the Customs, whose pecuniary circumstances were by no means in a flourishing condition. The faithful wife would not listen to a word he had to say for a long time, but one evening, to the great delight of Mr. D—, she gave him to understand that her husband was going from home, and he might come and see her if he would. This was too good an opportunity to be allowed to escape, and he punctually kept the appointment. He had scarcely, however, entered the chamber of Madame when he found that a snare had been laid for him, and that he had fallen into it, for the husband presented himself armed with two pistols. The poor dupe now found himself in a most awkward predica. ment. He was not allowed to escape until he had purchased his freedom at the cost of 33,000 francs, for which he gave his acceptances. He has since appealed to one of the Courts to have them made void, and both parties wait the issue with some anxiety. - - A LOVING PAIR !—At present, at Lower Cragie, may be seen a remarkable instance of attachment between a cat and a pigeon, of the cropper species, animals of totally dissimilar nature and habits. They are so wedded to each other, ofr,that they are constantly together, and show evident pain on being separated. A few weeks ago, when the family, t o whom they belong, were removing from their former residence, puss would not submit to the process of " flitting" until put in a cage along with her companion. They constantly feed out of the same dish, when the crop.. per is courteously looking at, and cooing around puss, while she, evidently much charmed, returns the gallantry by me*. ing, faw n ing upon, and laying her paw gently on his neck, and drawing her tongue under his bill.—Perth Ccurier. SETS of PLATED DISH COVERS, WITH STRONG SILVER EDGES, may be selected from various Pattern s , p r ice 201. the Set , at T. C OX SAVORY'S, Working Silversmith, and Watchmake r , 47, C orn hill, L on d on . cover of 20, 18, 16 , 14 , an d 12 i nc h es The Goldsmith, Set e 0 ns is t s ofo ne diameter. N.B.—The three Show Rooms contains a large variety of superior Silver-edged Plated Goods. A Pamphlet, containing a List of Watches, Clocks, & c ., may b e h a d grati s , or w ill be Pric es an d Drawings of Silver Sp oons an d F or k s , Sil ver Pl a t e , Plated Goods, forwarded in answer to a post-paid application. MiOtenhetlheßlßTHS. 8 , Queen's-square, Bristol, the lady of surgeon, R.N., of a son. On the sth inst., at Islington, the lady of Francis Whishaw, 5 th Thomson,in s t , E a s t q . N , o. Esq., of daughter. On the 4th inst., in Stratton-street, Piccadilly, Mrs. Anthony Cleasby, of a daughter. , On the 3d inst., at Hammersmith, the lady of Dr. Alexander, of the Hon. East India Company's service, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 4th inst., at St:bernint Danes, Charles T. W. Parry, Esq., o f Chester, to Esther, only daughter of Mr. W. Walker, of the Strand. DIED. On the 2d inst., aged 19, Harriett, youngest daughter of Isaac Lawrence, Esq., of Balham-hill, Surrey. On the 25th ult., the Rev. John Carey, 8.A., Fellow of Exe ter College, Oxford, second son of Jas. Carey, Esq., of Guernsey, aged 25. On the 3d inst., Thomas, second son of Wm. Wilson, Esq., of Chan ,e-alley and Brixton. hill. On 14th of June, at Tunbridge Wells, Wm. Wastell, Esq., of Burton-crescent, aged 47. On the 3d inst., aged 36, Ann, wife of Mr. R. Chittenden, of Greek-street, St. Ann's, Soho, and daughter of Mr. J. Sharpe, of Dean-street, in the same parish. On the Ist., aged 92, Mr. Player, of Union-street, Deptford. On the 4th inst., in Brompton-row, Mrs. Harrison, aged 76. On the 26th ult., at Boomhall, county of Londonderry, the seat of her father, the Lord Bishop of Derry, Harriet, wife of the Rev. T. Lindesay, Rector of Tamlaght. London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the count► of Middlesex.—Friday, January 6, 1637. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1537.