The Sun. — London, England, 1835-10-10 00:00:00

sPIILIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. One would imagine that the ci-devant Thunderer and Standard are sufficiently able themselves, in all conscience, to pour out an all-satisfying torrent of abuse upon the devoted head of Mr. O'Connell, with out seeking auxiliary assistance in any other quarter. But such is not the case ; and as their " great revenge has stomach for all the scurrility and filth that can be levelled at him, they encourage a swarm of petty assailants, who, in the capacity of correspondents, act like s'oarp-shooters and fire their ammunition, from a convenient ambush, at the reputation of the great Agitator. One of the creatures so employed ” is a long-eared animal, who signs himself " Detector," and whose lucubrations have been bepuffed by the wretcl-„ e a Ott! Times and Standard, at no small rate. wiseacre addresses his epistles to the Duke of Wel lington,. which are spun out to an amazing 1. - ength in enu merating the faults and misfortunes of Mr. o ' Connell. Among all Mr. O'Connell's bad qualities and imper fections, there is one which the Correspondent of the Times charges him with, whir n we were not, we must confess, prepared to hear brought against him, namely—that of his being a bad lawyer. With all due deference for the opinion of this " learned The ban," as well indeed us for that of the briefless scribes of the Times, who have lately been in the habit of trumping up a 'similar story, by assuring their readers that the chief of the Learned Gentleman's clients were the Munster Whiteboys (not the only bad boys, as we will shortly show, that sought his pro fessional services), we must be pardoned if we he sitate to assent to their high authority, when we find them differing, upon a point of this kind, not only with Lord Plunkett, but with three fourths of the most exalted members of the Irish bar. Why, Mr. O'Connell's pretensions as a sound and general lawyer, and an almost unrivalled advocate, never have been questioned, even by the fiercest of his political op ponents belonging to the legal profess:on—and it is rather a curious coincidence that while he was making Ireland reverberate with denunciations against Orangeism, from the Corn Exchange, that the persons who caused the plethoric distension of his bag in the Hall of the Four Courts, until it be came too ponderous for his brawny arms to bear, were Orange Attorneys. We, however, by no means pre tend to he able to pronounce a competent judgment upon Mr. O'Connell's legal acquirements ; but there was a circumstance that occurred a few years ago that led us to believe that in Ireland, no matter how great the diversity of opinion which prevailed concerning his merits as a politician, all parties were tolerably agreed in bestowing upon him the reputation of a clever law yer. We shall just mention the occurrence which in• duced us to arrive at this conclusion. It will, perhaps, be remembered by many, that when the first successful attempt was made to drive the Beresfords from their strong-hold in the county of Waterford, Mr. O'Con nell was the conducting agent of the rival candi date, Mr. Villiers Stuart. It will not be denied, that upon that occasion the House of Curragh more had ample and melancholy proofs of Mr. O'Connell's professional abilities, and ardent devo tion to the interest of his client. The Beresfords are allowed "to be wise in their generation"—a family never suspected of any lofty talent, or that could boast, through all its ramifications, of the least portion of the mens'divinior. Still they are known to be cautious and plodding—eager to put their hands into the purse of the people, and most tenacious to keep whatever they may have been fortunate enough to draw out of it. That such a family would indiscreetly lavish their money upon a Popish Barrister, unless they thought he would be in some way able to repay them one hun dredfold, is too absurd an idea to be for a moment en tertained. However, after they had been defeated by Mr. Stuart, they required an agent to superintend their business at the registration of voters, and upon whom did the choice of the discerning Beresfords fall ? Saurin they passed over, and he was at that time in active prac tice. Pennefather, with all his strong Tory predilections, they regarded riot. Lcfroy they despised ; and, oh ! tell it not in Gath, Blackburn, Jackson, and even Freddy Shaw were forgotten, and an enormous fee was offered to a Popish Agitator, and, if we are to credit the recreant Times, an indifferent lawyer into the bar gain, by one of the most violent Tory families in Ire land. But- then it will perhaps be said, that it was not Mr. O'Connell's legal exertions," but his political influence they wished to purchase ; and that, in throwing out this temptation to his avarice, they were only acting upon a suggestion, or rather a command made in a communication by the military hero then at the head of the Government to a certain Lord Be resford. But surely the Tories would never admit that a family which may be said to he the very essence and concentration of Irish Toryism—spiritual and temp& ral, would think of trafficking for the political influ ence of Mr. O'Connell—of the man whose present support of Lord Melbourne's Government they stig matise with such incessant constancy and violence. We are therefore compelled, in charity to Tory con sistency, to conclude that the Beresfords offered 2,0001. to Mr. O'Connell in consideration of his being the best lawyer they could procure.—Morning Chron. The revolting task of noticing the rabid ruffianism of O'Connell again devolves upon us. We betake ourselves to the performance of this duty with hope and expectation more confident than ever, that, let the Ministers crouch to him as they will, and make their slaves of the press call him " gentleman" and " dis tinguished individual," the exposure of his coarse and wanton blackguardism will in time cause him to be shunned by every man who is not as foul-mouthed a savage as himself. He has already put himself without the pale of even decent private society; and we shall not be surprised to find that, in England at least, the fact of any man associating with him will be consi dered as a ground for such man's exclusion from the company of gentlemen. From his harangue to the Trades' Political Union of Dublin—which will be found entire in another column, we reproduce here a few passages. What thinks the reader—be his politics what they may—of the following passage : " The Orange faction have talked and boasted much about loyalty. Loyalty, forsooth I If they could they would change the succession to the throne. They would do so too, in favour of the white-whiskered Duke of Cumberland, because he is a bigot. Prince of the blood he is, to be sure, but, saving your pre sence, he is at the same time a mighty great liar ! (Laughter.)" Can it be possible that the man who uttered this laanguage is to be, or has been, enter tained at a grand banquet by the representative of his Majesty, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland? Another post will resolve this question. In the mean time, we have a second question to ask. Will such a person be suffered to remain a member of Brookes's ? For the present, we content :ourselves with merely putting this question. Our next quotation from his speech, and upon which we also call for judgment from all com monly respectable people of whatever patty and politics, runs thus :—" Such are some of the component parts of that house (the House of Lords), which is backed and headed by the Duke of Wellington—a man who was brought up amidst the hackney dregs of the Orange faction at the Castle, who passed from that hotbed of factious and sanguinary intolerance into public life, with all its prejudices and narrow-mindedness inculcated upon his young mind—aft receptacle for such doctrines. He has been raised by the blood and bravery of British soldiery to an elevation, to a height of military dig 4y, almost equal to th a t of Napoleon, with this differeirce, that the latter owed his rise to individual merit, while that of the former was in some degree the eat of chance. He has attained an eminence from which the stunted corporal, for which nature originally intended him, must be astonished to look. He is an Irishman, ;too, but the only Irishman who ever denied or was ashamed of his country." Again, we ask, has this man been, or is he to be, feasted by the Lord Lieutenant ? Will he be suffered to remain a member of Brookes's ? We beg our readers to observe that this is no question of politics —it is simply leis question, and no other, namely, vdiOlibi . .i+cti qloke common decencies of society which re,.tecolgned and enforced in all civilized countries, I ,37,k;t k l ic tasant in the circle in which he moves as well tp _fr . iC - ,peir in his, shall be violated and outraged e s*, iinparirtY by, - a cowardly bully, who, instead of 4titinrin# honestly)to gain his livelihood, sends a beg ( _g-IiOX into every hovel where the fraction of a far thinethinidssilily be extorted from its half-starved occupant ? The iDuke of Wellington the only Irishman who is ashamed of his country I Oh, we hope not ; we trust that while, such a wretch as this reigns paramount in Ireland, the re are some other of the gallant and high minded sons of that now beggar-ridden land whose cheeks burn 'at the mere mention of its name, and who hide their leads for shame to think that the country which gave' them birth is bowed beneath a yoke of such unparell'? l red ignominy. There must be many, many Irishnv, n , who feel thus, and who clearly perceiving (as wly:` can fail to see ?) whither the ambition, the in tr.igues, and the duplicity of O'Connell, tend, exclaim— " Come the eleventh plague, rather than this should be; " Come sink us rather in the sea. " Come rather pestilence, and reap us down ; " Come God's sword rather than our own. " Let rather Roman come again, " Or Saxon, Norman; or the Dane ; "In all the bonds we ever bore, "We griev'd, we sigh'd, we wept ; we never blush'd, before." We have had but one object in calling the attention of respectable and decent people to this disgusting dis play of the " Ministerial Missionary," and we pass over without notice the stuff he talked about reforming the House of Lords, and his modest declaration that the Irish Reform Bill did not give half the reform Ire land ought to have had : in other words, that the " Tail' ought to be twice as long as it is. The abuse of ourselves we shall dispose of in a few words. He says—" The Times, which has now arrived at the very acme of literary profligacy, has been showering its venal filth upon me. But it is falling gradually into utter insignificance, and is like a tumbling sky-rocket, with nothing but a bit of burnt stick to make it for midable, and I am sure my head is sufficiently hard to bear any blow it can inflict." Daniel ought to know best how hard his head is, but we will wager the amount of a year's rint, that hard as it may be, his heart is a vast deal harder, and blacker withal than his best hat. As to " our falling into utter insignificance," that can only happen when all men think with him, that lying and slandering, foul and filthy Billingsgate, and a begging-box, are the best passports to eminence and power. But Daniel will never live to see that day, and we shrewdly suspect that if he mend not his . ways, we shall (to use a phrase which no man better understands than himself) " lose a day and a half penny by him."—Times. Lord John Russell, it would seem, has declined an invitation to dine with his friends and late Constituents in Devonshire. This, in some measure, confirms our recent opinion that his Lordship's visit to Endsleigh was one of retirement and repose, and not, as had been asserted, to rouse his partisans in expectation of a new election. This refusal to dine will be attributed by some to prudence, by others to pusillanimity. For our own parts, we imagine it partakes of a union of both. Lord John Russell has probably by this time learned that Hamlet's advice to the players, to " say no more than is set down for them," is equally applicable to men in office ; and that the ebullitions of an after-dinner harangue, urged on by the tipsy shouts of Radical ad • mirers, may betray a man into sentiments and avowals which, in soberer moments, would not find vent, and which may become the source of much subsequent embarrassment. Lord John Russell knows full well what were the' effects brought about last autumn to Lord Brougham and his colleagues by this species of itinerant post prandium ora tory ; and as Lord John has no wish to lose his place by these or any other means, he is anxious, no doubt, to avoid the rock upon which the ex-Chancellor so unfortunately split. Besides, Lord John Russell must have in his eye the out-pourings of a more recent ora tor of the migratory school ; and while he is conscious that it is to that individual alone that lie and his col leagues owe their continuance in office, the Noble Lord, we apprehend, is hardly prepared to go the lengths, or at any rate to adopt the opinions promul gated by Mr. O'Connell at Manchester, Edinburgh, and Glasgow. Lord John Russell, for instance, is the son of one Peer, the relative of several more, and him self, perhaps, an aspirant for the same distinction ; yet the whole race is one of which Mr. O'Connell threatens and advises the extinction. Lord John's family owe their wealth, and he himself his faggot vote in Bloomsbury to that Church spoliation Cinch Mr. O'Connell would pursue towards one Church, with the view of restoring it one day to another. Now these would be awkward opinions to grapple with, but they could not be passed by. Mr. O'Con nell holds the Ministry in what jockeys call " a hand-gallop." They cannot unseat him without un seating themselves. They dare not cast him off, for with him down they themselves must tumble. Are we not justified then in assuming that it is with a due proportion of fear and caution that Lord John Russell avoids much public speechifying during his sojourn in the west ? Besides, we suspect that his audience would be hardly found of a description, or ripe for such avowals as the Anglo-Irish of the North. The last election for South Devon must have taught Lord John Russell that even his own then opinions were a little too politically prurient for the majority of that agricultural county, and that were Mr. O'Connell to show his face' there as an agi tator, he would probably be hunted through the country to the Land's End. Yet though he might perhaps be bought off, he cannot be cast off. " Usque tenebo," is the Agitator's motto with the Whigs. He knows his importance to them. He knows that the moment he leaves them they are undone. He feels all the consciousness, as between himself and them, of " the giant's strength," which he is tyrannous enough to use in all its fierce, uncompromising violence. We pity poor Lord Melbourne who is thus enthralled. Believing him to be a high-minded and honourable man, however unfit for the high station in which un toward circumstances have placed him, we feel for such a man when we see him compelled to succumb to one who has openly avowed his contempt for him per sonally, and who stands ready with the axe to fell the very tree of which the Noble Viscount is one of the branches. But we should pity him still more if he had colleagues indiscreet enough to own this state of vas salage, by openly adopting opinions which at any rate they dare not disclaim.—Morning Herald. On Wednesday last the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland had the honour of entertaining Mr. O'Connell at a grand state dinner at the Viceregal Palace. We do not concur with such of our Contemporaries as think that in this exercise of hospitality, Lord Mulgrave compromised the dignity or transgressed the duties of his station. Lord Mulgrave was sent to Ireland for the express purpose of conciliating Mr. O'Connell— an object in competition with which every other con sideration was to give way ; and, having undertaken this mission, Lord Mulgrave would have been grossly inconsistent had be shrunk from any task, any humi liation, any disloyalty or disrespect towards the Sove reign, any outrage upon the feelings of the decent part of society in the three kingdoms, which might become necessary to its effectual and satisfactory execution. These things are only so many essential and well understood parts of his original Commission, and for his Lordship to have affected any respect for rank, any reverence for institutions, any regard to decency, or to morals, would have been a sheer absurdity. Mr. O'Connell knew the Lord Lieutenant ; he knew right well, for he had drawn them up, the instruc tions in obedience to which the Lord Lieutenant had undertaken to act, and he was determined that the people of Great Britain and Ireland should also know them. Having the Lord Lieutenant and the Government in his toils, he resolved as it was quite natural that Mr. O'Connell should resolve, to expose the Lord Lieutenant and the Government to the whole people of Great Britain and Ireland in all their degra dation. To discredit and weaken the British Govern ment in Ireland, under the pretence of supporting it, is good Popish policy. Hence the dinner at Dublin Castle, and hence the exhibition which Mr. O'Connell made at the meeting of the Trades' Union of Dublin the day before that dinner, and manifestly as a prepa ration for it. The day before that on which Mr. O'Connell was to sit at the table of the representative of the King, he collected around him a mob, composed of the mere scourings of the streets of Dublin, and de livered an address to this ignorant and brutal rabble, of which the main purposes seemed to be to insult the Sovereign, by directing a torrent of ribald invective against his Majesty's brother, and to exasperate the feelings of his Papist hearers against their Protestant fellow-subjects, in direct counteraction of the osten sible policy of his Majesty's Government, by a tissue of calumnious assertions, the falsehood of which THE SUN, LONDON, SATMIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1835 is notorious to every man of ordinary intelligence or in formation. The Duke of Cumberland, the loyal sub ject and the affectionate and beloved brother of the King, was denounced as " a white whiskered bigot," and " a mighty liar." The Protestants of Ireland and those English and Scotch Protestants who feel a special sympathy with the oppressions, the insults, and the dangers to which their Irish brethren are exposed; were denominated " a gang" " one great companions ship of liars." The weak, contemptible, and exploded fable of a plot to alter the succession was impudently revived, for the purpose of telling the mob—and such a mob—" what mere child's play it would be to them to fling the Orangemen—aye, and unarmed to, into the sea." The Duke of Wellington was described as a man whom nature designed for " a stunted corporal, and who had attained his height of military dignity, not, like Napoleon, by individual merit, but, in some degree, by chance." The Marquis of Londonderry was proclaimed " a maniac ;" the Earl of Wicklow, " a sim pering silly Lord ;" and the Earl of Limerick, .a landlord who starves his tenants. But it may be doubted if either the insults and calumnies upon individuals, however exalted, or the malignant attempts to inflame the passions of the most ignorant classes of the people, were the portions of Mr. O'Connell's speech which will generally be considered as the most complete dis qualification of the speaker for the society, we will not say of the representative of the Sovereign, but of any honourable or honest man. Mr. O'Connell having committed these offences against decency, order, and truth, proceeded to show, by more direct evidence, and with great apparent pride and ostentation, that political or private confidence cannot be reposed in him with any degree of safety ; that it will be nothing to him, whenever it suits his purpose, to reveal, to any mob whom he may chance to address, the confidential con ferences which have taken place between himself and Lord Mulgrave on the affairs of the Irish Government, whose movements he directs, and whose patronage he distributes. This peculiarity in his moral consti tution he exhibited with manifest exultation and de light. The conferences to which he was admitted by Lord Althorp, and Lord John Russell, and Mr. Spring Rice, and, if there was truth in what he said, Lord Stanley, on the subject of the Irish Reform Bill, were trumpetted forth as a matter of boast, as if they had not been confidential. We do not know what the 'special intention of Mr. O'Connell might be in de livering such a speech at this particular moment, but the effect of the speech was exactly as if he had said, in so many words, " I am determined to let Lord Mul grave, and all the world, know what manner of man I am. It is now my greatest triumph to display my self fully, and, thus unfolded, to have it in my power to say that, such as I am, the Representative of the King of England dares not spurn, reject, nor offend me." Nothing, indeed, can be more clear than that, at this moment, Mr. O'Connell is pursuing more vi gorously than ever his determination to detach Ireland from the Government of Great Britain. He knows, if the drivellers whom lie keeps in place do not, that a Government which every man of sense, honour, or spirit must despise, cannot long maintain its autho rity ; and it is evidently his purpose to reduce the Bri tish Government in Ireland to this degraded and hope less condition.—Morning Post. If Mr. O'Connell's late mission has done no good to the House of Lords, or to Toryism generally, it has not been without its advantages to the Journals iden tified with that cause. It has afforded them materials for many a diatribe, with which to grace their columns in the absence of other topics, which might serve as a conduit for the discharge of their coarse abuse. And never, it must be admitted, did their talent for vitupe ration, appear to greater advantage than during the time which Mr. O'Connell took to perform his tour. Not a single term in the sweet vocabulary of Billings ante did they omit in speaking of him and his princi ples. They seem, indeed, to have completely ex hausted their stock, ample as it was, of this pe culiar species of rhetoric ; for now that they have begun to transfer their vituperation from him to Lord Brougham, every one must see that, however " will ing the spirit," there is a miserable falling off in ef fect. Lord Brougham must by this time have found out that of all the hopeless tasks which a hu man being could undertake, decidedly and beyond all comparison the most hopeless, would be that of pleas ing the Tories. If he speaks occasionally, when speaking is almost unavoidable, he is " a quack," " fond of notoriety at any price," " restless," " loqua cious," and a thousand things beside. If he is silent for some time, the worst motives are assigned for that silence. Since the close of the Session he has not ap peared in public. Of course there must be some par ticular reason for this. It cannot be from a love of repose after the unusual fatigues of the last very arduous Session. It cannot arise from tfie prosecution of those literary or scientific pursuits of which he is known to be so peculiarly fond. Neither can it have its origin in the circumstance of the special opportunity having offered itself since the close of the Session to address any assemblage of the people. Oh, no. Either of these reasons, but especially all of them combined, would account satisfactorily enough for the silence of any other man, though he had been much more in the habit of speaking at public meetings than Lord Brougham. But they will not explain his si lence. Well, then, one would think that the most that could be said about the matter would be, that there is something very mysterious in it. That certainly would be the most rational conclusion, according to the above premises ; but it is one which will not do for a Tory. Nothing is mysterious to him. What is a mystery to others, is clear to his optics as the noon-day sun. The Tories have accordingly discovered, beyond all doubt, the cause of his Lordship's late silence. And what is it ? Why, he has made certain proposals to Lord Melbourne for his return to office, and he now awaits an answer. May we take the liberty of asking our Tory contemporaries at what particular time Lord Brougham made these proposals to the head of the Government ? Was it immediately after the close of the session ? Then Lord Melbourne must not be very hasty in his decisions ; nor Lord Brougham so impa tient as his enemies represent him, if he can have waited with patience so long for an answer. Or were the proposals made but a few days ago ? How hap pens it, then, that his Lordship . was equally silent during the space that intervened between the time of making them, and the close of the session ? These are questions which the Tory journals may answer at their leisure. We tell them, in the mean time, that there is not a word of truth in the report.—Morning Advertiser. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. Yesterday a case of considerable importance came on before the Lord MAYOR, in which Mr. Bodkin appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Charles Phillips and Mr. Clarkson for the defendant. Aaron Cohen, of No. 5, York-terrace, Old Kent-road, was charged with having received a great number of mil lers' sacks, well knowing them to have been stolen or un lawfully obtained possession of. Mr. Bodkin, in stating the circumstances, as they were afterwards detailed in evidence, said that the millers and flour dealers were constantly sustaining heavy losses from the plundering of their sacks, and that although ninety good sacks belonging to Mr. Kidd, the prosecutor in this case, were traced to the defendant's possession, that per son treated the matter lightly, and merely said that he had had them of Mrs. Palmer, a dealer in marine stores, with whom he had frequently done business in the rag line. Mr. Phillips said that a question of importance arose here. It was necessary to prove that the sacks had been stolen before a man could be called upon to account for having received them. Mr. Bodkin said that the prosecutor would state that the sacks must have been lost by felonious acts. They had been in the possession of his customers, by whom they ought to have been returned. Instead of being returned they were disposed of. Mr. Hobler, the chief clerk—The customers could not have stolen them if the sacks had been left in their posses sion, although they might have unlawfully disposed of them. The LORD MAYOR said that although no particular per son could be charged with the felony it was necessary that those in whose possession the sacks were found should clearly account for that possession. Sacks when they were old and of no use were often sent to the paper•makers, but in this case the sacks were unexceptionable. His Lord ship then decided that the evidence should be heard. Mr. Samuel Kidd stated that he was a miller at Wam- pledon, in Surrey. In consequence of information which he had received he went to Mr. Cohen's warehouse, in the Great Dover-road, and saw the defendant there. He had previously been at Trigge's wharf, and saw there forty-eight of his sacks, with his name upon each ; there, and at the wharf, be was told where to find the defendant. He told the defendant what he had found at the wharf, and that he wanted to see whether he could find any more. He, how ever, saw nothing of any consequence. The defendant upon being asked where he got them, said at last that he must have bought them of a Mrs. Palmer. They had been some time lying at Trigge's wharf, having been refused by Mr. George Venables, of Cookham, near Maidenhead, paper manufacturer. There were also at Trigge's wharf some sacks belonging to a miller named Sharpe. Witness was in the habit of sending his flour to bakers in sacks, and it was the business of the bakers to return the empty sacks to the collector who was sent round for them. The LORD DiIAYOR—Do you keep a regular account of the sacks ? Witness—No ; we send round a collector, who returns to us an account. He does not know the number of sacks be has to collect from each baker. It is not the custom of the trade. Mr. Hobler observed that it was usual with the journey men bakers to bang the flour out of the sacks, and to make beds of them for themselves. The LORD MAYOR—Did you consider the baker respon sible for the sacks ? Witness--We never charge them, but leave it to the collector to gather them. Mr. Phillips—Did you not search as long as you pleased in the defendant's premises? Witness replied that no ob jection was made. The defendant afterwards sent to him thirty sacks more. Witness had about 10,000 sacks alto gether, and his customers were responsible for deficiencies. The LORD MAYOR—Do your customers pay for the use of the sacks ? Witness—Provided we get them back again they do not. There is a penny a sack given by our collector for all that are returned, and we give him two pence halfpenny a sack for collecting. I cannot say where I saw any of the sacks in question, nor the customers to whom they had been sent. 1 believe the baker gets - the penny, and not his journeyman. How many I have lost I cannot say, but my losses in sacks I expect cost me about 2001. a year. They are greatly increased of late. Mr. Phillips—Yes, we pay for all that in the loaf.—(A laugh.) Mr. Bodkin—What do you mean by making the bakers responsible ? Witness—lf we prove that they have not returned the sacks they have to pay for them. I pay 2s. 7d. each for them, and these are as good as new. Richard Britten, clerk at Trigge's wharf, deposed that on the 20th and 22d of July he received bales which appeared to be old rags , addressed to Mr. George Venables, of Cook ham. Mr. Venables brought with him, as was the practice, a gentleman from Alderman Venables' house, to examine the bales which lay on the wharf, and be rejected them. At the side which was cut open there appeared coal sacks. Mr. Kidd appeared at the wharf afterwards. Robert Dear, foreman of Trigge's wharf, deposed that the bales which had been rejected by Mr. Venables lay on the wharf until the outside rotted, and then it was seen that they contained flour sacks. Benjamin Messenger, collector of sacks to Mr. Kidd, de posed that he received 2id. per sack for collecting, and he paid a penny a sack to the baker. He never made away with any of those sacks. Witness stated that the master bakers kept the penny a sack ;he did not know why. He did not know how many sacks a baker might have belong ing to those for whom he collected, except at times. Mr. PHILLIPS said it was no wonder the sacks were lost, when the system was so loose and unmethodical ; but it was ridiculous to charge his client as a receiver of stolen goods under these circumstances. Messenger added, that he saw several torn sacks, on which were the names of a great many millers. Amongst the names were Fell, Charrington, Durant, Ever, Hutton, Clements (not a miller), \Vilden, Appleton, Kidd, Smith, Grey, Freeman, Champion, Derth, &c. He was present when Mr. Cohen was spoken to, as to the manner in which the flour sacks got into the bales, and the defendant said that he did not know how they got there. The sacks were packed in open work netting, but they were wrapped up inside the netting. The LORD MATOR—You say that the defendant said he did not know how the sacks got into the bales ? It is most extraordinary how they got there without your client's know ledge (to Mr. Phillips). Mr. Piiiims—My client has a great number of ser vants, and cannot be supposed to know everything that oc curred in his extensive business. The Loan MAYOR—I wish to see Mrs. Palmer, of whom the defendant says he must have bought these sacks. Mr. Phillips said that the lady was present, if the prose cutor chose to call her as a. witness, but he was not going to examine her. Mr. Bodkin—Pll examine her. Mr. Phillips—Take care how you bring her into trouble afterwards. Mr. Prendergast, who appeared as counsel for Mrs. Palmer, told her to be very careful how she answered. Mrs. Palmer said she was a dealer in marine stores in Bermondsey-street. She had had many dealings with the defendant. Her attention had been called to the sacks in question. She never saw them till she saw them at the Mansion-house. She never sold them to her knowledge to Mr. Cohen. She had sold rags in bags often to him, and if he got anything of such a kind from her, he ought to have told her so ; for she never sent anything clandestinely to him. She had sold to him 1,200 sacks as sacks several years ago, but she had never sold him sacks as rags. Henry Clay deposed that he packed for Mrs. Palmer the bales which she sent from time to time to the defendant. The LORD MAYOR—Did you ever pack whole sacks for her ? LOVE AND A MICHAELMAS GOOSE. Mary Jones, a pretty, engaging looking specimen of a mantua maker, carrying in her hand a defunct goose, applied to the Magistrates of Henry -street office, for a summons for one Miss Eleanor Carty, a s pi ns t er plyi ng th e same t ra d e as the complainant. Miss Jones, holding up the goose, after making her curtsey, said, " Your Worships, this' is my goose ! " Magistrate—Well, and what about it ? Mary —Foul play, your Worship ; it was poisoned on me. Ma gistrate—Pray, how came that ? Why, jealousy, your Ho nour ; Ellen Carty gave her a pill or a potion, or somewhat that way. Magistrate—What was her reason for that strange act ? Mary—Why, I bought the goose six weeks ago, and was fattening her up for Michaelmas, to give a young man who has a liking for me this long time, and in deed there's no love lost, a treat next Michaelmas-day. Miss Carty, who is no beauty, God knows, and she's pock marked besides, and might be my mother for age and good ness, I'm inclined to think gave my poor g oose a d ose ou t of pure spite. She wants to get inside of me with my Johnny, and (in a voice between a cry and a whimper said Mary), that she never shall. Magistrate—Where did you keep the goose ? In a box on the lobby, please you Wor ship. Magistrate—Oh, I suppose the bird died of suffoca tion ? Mary—lndeed, its impossible it should die of suffo cation ; its the best of good oatmeal and potatoes, and plenty of them she got. Magistrate—lf you have no bet ter proof of Miss Carty's guilt, I cannot give you a sum mons. Mary—Then I'll go to Jervis-street Hospital, and see if the gentlemen there cannot find out the contents of her crop. I'll have my revenge, if it costs my life. The disconsolate Mary here left the office, bearing the dead body of the goose, which to all external appearance cer tainly had died of depletion, and not as her jealousy tempted her to believe. The result of the post mortem examination satisfied poor Mary of Ellen's innoc e nce, and she came back to the Magistrates, declaring her mistake, and exculpating her rival from having had hand, act, or part in the death of the fowl, and that it was her intention to invite Miss Ellen to take share of the fowl, if it would keep savoury till Tuesday next. She left the office curtsying, and wish ing the Magistrates a happy Michaelmas.--Dublin Paper. Witness—l never, to the best of my knowledge, packed any sacks that were fit for use. I take my solid oath I never packed a sask like these. I :have sometimes sold packages by mere weight without opening them. The LORD MAvon decided that the defendant should find bail, himself in 2001. and two sureties in 1001. each, to answer any charge that might be brought against him for being in possession of the sacks. The bail was immediately produced, and the justice-room soon cleared of an immense crowd of journeymen bakers. MARLBORO UGH-STREET. John Payne, a hackney coachman, was brought before Mr. CONANT, on suspicion of having stolen fourteen sove reigns, belonging to Samuel Jervoise, Esq., of Hanover square. The prisoner was engaged to take Sir Samuel Clarke Jervoise and the prosecutor from the Gloucester Coffee house, Piccadilly, to their residence in Hanover-square. Among the luggage was a box, containing papers of conse quence and fourteen sovereigns. The prisoner assisted in p u tting the luggage into the coach, a n d i n t a ki ng it out when he got to Hanover-square. After he had driven off it was discovered that the box in question was missing. Subsequently the prisoner called at Hanover-square with the box and papers, but the sovereigns were gone. He asserted that he had found the box in his coach, forced open, and had brought it in the same state in which he bad discovered it, as he recognized it to be the box he had seen with Sir Samuel's luggage. He was remanded for the present. Mr. Carter, woollen-draper, of Oxford -street, applied for advice to Mr. CONANT in the following matter : A young man, named Tomkins, applied to him for a situation, stating that he had lived, since February last, with a shopkeeper in the Kingsland-road, who would give him a c haracter. Applicant wrote for Tomkins's charac ter ; and, in reply, received a letter from the shopkeeper, stating that Tomkins had lived with him since February last, and that he was sober, honest, and very trustwor thy. Applicant was, on this reepfnmendation, about to engage with the individual, when he discovered that he had lived with several tradesmen since February last, and that he had been actually apprehended on a charge of felony in the shop of the tradesman in the Kingsland-road, who had given him such an excellent character. Appli cant went to the tradesman in question, and, on asking him why he had endeavoured to introduce a young man of bad character into his establishment by false representa tions, he was grossly abused, and told that he had no bu siness to hinder the young man from obtaining employment, and, if a dozen applications as to character were made to him, he would still give him a favourable one. Now he (applicant), being of opinion that such conduct, if allowed to go unpunished, would prove very detrimental to trades. men, wished to know if he could not take proceedings against the shopkeeper who had furnished the false cha racter ? _ _ Mr. CONANT said the best course for Mr. Carter to have adopted would have been for him to have given the young man into custody after he had found the sort of character he was. With respect to the person who had given the false character it would be an expensive and troublesome proceeding to punish him for the imposition. Mr. Carter remarked that, in situations of responsibility, it was necessary . to have honest young men, and had he engaged this young man he might have been a serious sufferer through it. His object was to put tradesmen on their guard, and with that view he should consider of some step which would effect his object. Mr. Carter then retired. BOW-STREET. Yesterday Mr. Clarke, an eminent surgeon, in practice at Hoxton, came before Mr. HALLS to apply for a warrant against a young gentleman, named Waring, under the fol lowing curious circumstances : Mr. Clarke stated that the person against whom his ap plication was made was a young gentleman of very consider able attainments, and most respectably connected, and had received a portion of his professional education at the Royal College of Surgeons. Some time ago application was made by his friends to him (Mr. Clarke) to article or rather ap prentice Mr. Waring to him, and it was finally arranged for the term of five years, applicant receiving a premium of 3001. The young gentleman conducted himself with great propriety, was extremely studious and attentive, and gave fair promise of becoming an ornament to the profession which he had chosen. All at once, however, a few days ago, he was missed from the house, and•could not be found or heard of among his friends or elsewhere. The most an xious inquiries were made,.and all his connexions were in a state of the greatest alarm, when a letter was received from him by the applicant, dated from the Dart steamer, lying off Woolwich, in which he stated that he had made up his mind to go out to Spain, to fight in the cause of Donna Isabella, and that as soon as he had got beyond the reach of any power which the applicant might have to punish him for an abandonment of his duties as an apprentice, he would write again, and acquaint him more fully with his reasons for absconding. The applicant and the young gentleman's friends were extremely anxious to bring him back, and therefore he (Mr. Clarke) had applied to Mr. Halls for his assistance. Mr. HALLS said he doubted very much if he had any power to act in a case where a higher premium than 25/. had been given. The Act of Parliament gave power to the Magistrates at Sessions only to interfere where the premium was above that sum. Mr. Vine, the clerk, said that, under the Act, the Ma gistrate had no power to punish for misconduct in cases where the premium exceeded 251. ; but there was a clause which enabled him, in case of an apprentice fleeing into another country to avoid the due performance of the duties imposed upon him by his indentures to cause the offending party to be brought before him, and to hold him in good and sufficient sureties to answer the charge at the Sessions. Mr. HALLS, upon reading the clause, immediately issued a warrant ; and Keyse, the officer, went off to Woolwich, accompanied by Mr. Clarke, to execute it. Should the young gentleman be brought forward, the discussion which must take place upon the subject will ex cite great interest, more particularly amongst the members of the medical profession. Two notorious thieves, named Thomas Weatherby and Joseph Prosser, were charged as follows : It appeared that on Thursday night Frederick Johnson, a policeman of the F division, observed the two prisoners and another man lurking about Holles-street, and, suspecting they were after no good, he watched them for some,time, and put his fellow constable on the same beat on his guard against them. Two of the three (the prisoners) were shortly after missed, and Johnson suspected that they had got into an empty house in the street, with the intention of robbing the one next door, occupied by Mr. Edmund Bennett. He placed, his fellow-constable outside, and, knocking at Mr. Bennett's door, obtained permission to go to the top of the house. He got on the roof of the empty house, and, de scending by the trap-door, heard voices, and footsteps de scending the stairs. He followed, but the thieves, hearing some one, increased their pace, and found their way through the cellar-flap into the street, where, however, they found the other constable ready to receive them, and he took them into custody. In the cellar was found a sack con taining several large pieces of lead, which had been cut from the top of Mr. Bennett's house, and, upon searching Prosser, a large and very sharp knife was found upon him. The prisoners denied all knowledge of the lead, but were convicted as rogues and vagabonds, under the Police Act, and sentenced to two months' imprisonment and hard labour in the House of Correction. _ _ _ The Magistrate ennunended the constables for their vigi• lance and tact. FIRE AT THE PEi•TITENTIARY. STATEMENT OF THE GOVERNOR. The following narrative of the origin and circumstances attending the late alarming fire in the General Penitentiary was yesterday communicated to the reporter by the Gover nor, Captain Chapman. It will be seen there was much exaggeration and mis statement in several parts of the accounts first published, and which were hastily obtained amid the confusion of the fire. The fire had its commencement in the laundry, which occupies two sides of the basement of the hexagonal build ing, where are the officers' apartments and the infirmary for the sick. With the exception of the sick, the prisoners are wholly confined in the six pentagons that surround the hexagon. Each pentagon has in the centre of its yards a circular tower of three stories, perfectly isolated. The fire was first discovered about six o'clock in the evening. The women employed in the laundry had, as usual, left off work at about half-past five o'clock, and returned to their separate cells in pentagon No. 3, where they were locked up for the night. All was apparently safe at that time. It has been ascertained that the fire was perfectly accidental, and was caused by the linen on one of the horses in the airing chamber having fallen off the horse upon the grated floor, through which the hot air rises from the furnace below into the chamber. The hot chamber is a projection from the main building, and is about ten feet wide and seven deep, and has seven horses for linen, which slide upon iron grooves backwards and forwards. When these slides are shut, it is a perfectly close room, with only a small iron flue at the top, which is carried up along the outside of the main building to the roof, and through which the hot air slowly find its way. The fallen linen, it is presumed, rust from the great heat have ignited, and communicated the flames to the rest of the linen, and to the wooden work of the chamber. The flames having no vent but up the flue, rushed in a body through it, and with inconceivable rapidity communicated to the upper part of nearly one half of the hexagon, whilst at the same time they were fast extending themselves along the whole of the roofs of pentagons Nos. 3 and 4, and to a portion of the upper story of those penta gons. The extensive lead gutters which ran along the edges of the roof were soon melted by the intense heat, exposing the ends of the wooden joists and rafters of the roof to the full fury of the flames, and the roof not having a single divi sion throughout the whole of its length, the draught of air was astonishingly great, and carried along with it the flames through the immense loft with wonderful rapidity. When the fire first broke out, it was the opinion of the Governor that he should be able to master it with the force he had within the walls, but, still determined to leave no means of prevention unused, he soon after sent off notice to the Queen-square police-office, and to the head-quarters of the Metropolitan Police in Scotland-yard. The Governor likewise sent to the different surrounding fire stations. Se veral engines soon arrived. The West of England was the first that was brought into play. There was no engine be longing to the prison. The crowd collected at the outer lodge-gate, and along the river front of the building, had become excessively great, and of the usual mixed character on occasions of the kind. Whenever the great gates were opened to admit the fire men, or for any other necessary communication, it was found difficult by a very small portion of the prison officers who could be spared for this duty, to keep the mob from avail ing themselves of the opportunity for rushing in. The Governor made a representation of this source o alarm to Mr. White, the Magistrate, who immediately sent a mes senger to request the assistance of a detachment of the mi litary, which was granted, and the soldiers arrived with ex traordinary promptitude ; their presence, with the assistance rendered by the new police, had the desired effect of keep ing back the mob. Immediately on the fire breakinc , out the governor felt it to be his paramount duty to attend first to the preservation of the lives of his prisoners, of whom the females alone were at any time in danger. The total number of female pri soners was 90, of whom 10 were in the infirmary, and the re mainder in pentagon No. 3, along the roof of which the fire was running. The fire was prevented from extending down wards by the stone ceiling. The uppermost story was, be sides, wholly unused. The ten patients in the female infir mary, which is situate in the upper story of the part of the ------- hexagon where the laundry is, were in the most immediate danger, but long before the flames could reach their 81: 414- ments, they were removed by order of the governor undl. the superintendence of the surgeon, Dr. Wade, to t he round tower in the centre of the yars of No. 3 pentagon, they were perfectly safe, the towerbeing completely isolatel.ol The 80 female prisoners in pentagon No. 3 were at an period removed under the immediate superintendence and direction of the governor to the chapel, which is in the. centre of the hexagon, and free from danger, it. being isol ated with the exception of three covered galleries of communic tion, which being composed entirely of brick and stone were of course fire-proof. At a later hour of the night they were removed from the chapel and placed in the pentagon 11°' 6, which fortunately had been kept empty for the PurP ?s lla f : . of perfecting some extensive alterations that were bei made therein.. 'The other pentagon, No. 4 , to t he rod o which the fire extended, was empty and undergoing aheie ad: tions. The women were, as might be naturally ex P cc much frightened at first, but on receiving assurances fromt the governor of their safety in the chapel for th e p resen with a solemn promise of removal should any cha n g e of eh' cumstances cause danger, they soon became tranquillized.l The number of male prisoners in the infirmary was 12 out of 448, the total number confined within pentse" r' Nos. 1,2, and 5. None of these were ever in any dange and consequently remained unremoved. About ten o'clock one of the Westminster visitinj gistrates of their new Bridewell arrived, and informed ( 1. 81 ; tain Chapman, that the Governor of the Bridewell , tenant Tracy, had made arrangements by which he OE', receive 400 of the Penitentiary prisoners, should the not sity arise for their removal. This offer was followedof the sending the Westminster prison van for the purp?se their conveyance. Captain Chapman expressed him { o r very much obliged to the Magistrates of Westminster I° the offer, but declined availing himself of it then, and e ' t : pressed a strong hope that no necessity would arise for any removal. of es t . oo - Between eleven and twelve o'clock, at the suggo r Mr. Beer, the Governor's clerk, Mr. Braidwood, the soPe o , intendent of the London Fire Establishment, collected to gether some of his men, and was himself the first to tO i e j to the roof No. 4, where the men sawed away and retool the rafters for a wide space in a most effectual manner. i f , The flames were afterwards similarly stopped by 'to Braidwood and his men from spreading beyond No. 3 No. 2. It has been said in some of the accounts, that Lord gel: bourne was sent for by the governor. This is a raistak.et; his Lordship's arrival was entirely his own act, and Visa unexpected. He arrived about midnight, and contiin_l,t within the building some considerable time, evincing S anxiety and intgrest in the measures that were being 0 % 6 for the safety of the prisoners, and the suppression of t"0 fire. Many other Noblemen and distinguished Per, o l were on the spot during the night ; among others was AdOlphus Fitzclarence, who came accompanied by the 0° Manners Sutton. The damage done is considerable, but no exact 0 6 °1 can be formed of the extent and amount of loss t ill a set vey has been made, which is about to be done 11 Robert Smirke. # In this calamity, although there is much to deplo re, not a single accident, not even an irregularity, occurlo; amongst the prisoners. Water was supplied to the euP ter by the constant working of the male prisoners at the ril e machines, of which there are three in the prison, whererip laboured most cheerfully and willingly from six ocloeteir the evening till five o'clock the next 'morning, doing the work in perfect silence, and bearing ample testimony high state of subordination and discipline which el ls "; of this institution. The men were brought out in geoP er e about 30 at a time, and having worked for an hour w oo relieved, the men quitting work immediately, and vritteb murmur marching back to their separate cells, in v; a nd they were locked up, as on ordinary occasions. Very nl e d, individual instances of marked good conduct oceurrtile which have been made the subject of a special report by governor to the proper authorities. ..uover % Tae statements which have appeared,r,that the 1 3 1 — ,„, of were seen in a frantic state screaming from the vriud°', their cells, as also that they were drawn up in their 97-ify and there exhibited such symptoms of a turbulent au subordinate character as to require the presence of W o o litary, who were sent for to awe them, Captain ChtP states to be completely erroneous. The object of tl. O Ol litary being sent for was the protection of the prie° D , the vast assemblage which had soon formed arouou •70 outer lodge entrance, and was every moment increasieg numbers. se By yesterday morning the consequences of the Brea:elt, far as the prisoners were concerned, had ceased to be tpy Every necessary arrangement for their permanent uc c t ,eo tion of the cells to which they were removed had Icto made, and the prison in every department brought becebot its accustomed state of strict discipline. It is not true 00" the new tread-wheel was destroyed, and for the best r e .,bio — no such thing ever had an existence at any period W the walls. A few evenings since a young woman ne w : cl , Brooks, the daughter of a bricklayer and plasterer Oslo ing on Royal Hill, Greenwich, was sent out by h er P ar°P as for some grocery, but she did not return, and searcheel as for made for her in all directions, but no tidings of he r be obtained. Two mornings afterwards a milk man ha t having occasion to go to the well on Royal Hill, f°llh-0 that the water had been very much disturbed, an d that " bucket struck against something unusual. Assistance 'lilt procured, and the body of the young woman was b r°ll f,be up. Her clothes were tied round her legs, and it ' s i t 0 general impression that she threw herself into thew e',of she had been for some time labouring under despond of mind. It appeared on the inquest held on the body e; her unfortunate girl, that she was the principal support e ' . 13; parents, and bore an excellent character. The affair beithe involved in some mystery, the jury, by the a dvice l ea v ing Coroner, returned a verdict of " Found ' drowned," s t• ts te the case open for another investigation by the mag ls if further evidence could be obtained. Jo /laic LESSONS FOR ROGUES.—The Stirling 0 says, " It will no doubt be in the recollection of ol o re our readers that in the month of March last, Messrs' o ly well and Sons, manufacturers in Paisley (then and Pr evi° A considered a highly respectable firm), abscond ed to P:001 rice, leaving behind in this country, through the so rt ' of means of fraud and forgery, debts to the incredible Ote°ol. between 70,000/. and 80,000/. The parties in qu estion u lier Paisley, as we have already stated, in March.r. till was employed to follow them, but did not leave t'fbils April ; so that the Carswells had thus the advantage ° p ro' by by upwards of fourteen days. It would he a tedious. rot, cess to relate the extraordinary and almost roulae,.tien. ventures of that enterprising officer, who, after lanweporcis the New World, travelled in pursuit of the fugitives ued the of 5,000 miles, when, to use his own words, be of Carswells, father and sons, in the wilds of MiellT where they had purchased a small farm i n the lieShicll the woods ; their home being a small log cabin, the. they were arrested on Friday evening, the 28th of k tig last. , (ADVERTISEMENT.) EIGHT-DAY CL 01 FOUR GUINEAS each warranted. H FOR THE DRAWING ROOM, they are mad e under "eocr shade, 11 inches high, the whole of the Mechan i sm of the showing. FOR COUNTING HOUSES, SHOPS , AND tulogs°' BUILDINGS; they are made in round or octagon Go ic cases, (to hang,) 14 inches diameter. FOR HALLS, &c. &c. They are made in Rose wood 41, pattern case to stand on a brack T. COX s, SAVORY, Working Goldsmith and Silversinitii' Cornhill, London. BIRTHS. grid On the 7th inst., Mrs. Robert Johnson, Crescent -place, of street, of a son. 15 0 On the 7th inst., at Sutton Courtney, Berkshire, P.-e f r° Thomas Alexander Allnutt, Esq., of a son. .10t P 4 o{ On the 6th inst., at Croydon, at the residence of her. s tr eet ' Colonel Kelly, Mrs. William Bailey, of Upper Starefor°"' a son, still-born. mee l MARRIED. Co7oo On the Bth inst., at St. George's, Hanover-stioa r f , -1 ea Y %. Henry Freke, C. 8., of Hannington House, Wilts, to e cic11:00 A Smeeton, niece of James Peters, Esq., of Cricklewood, , "" th ist e6 t On the 28th ult., the Rev. George Maynard, IVl•'' yo • ong o r of Captain Maynard, of Donyland Hall, Essex , to Erol° B ' fitg" daughter of the late Edward Shaw, Esq., of Russell . plac, 1100,e square, London. On the Bth inst., at St. Pancras New Church, Mr. S• 5 ', T $ 544 of Stamford-street, to Harriet, second daughter of R. Bay of the Ordnance Office. DIED. go. Sir On the 30th ult., at Geneva, Lieut.-Colonel the ,thr Gordon, brother of the Earl of Aberdeen. n ivr;"' On the Bth inst., at Cowes, Emily, the amiable 044 respected wife of Charles Day, Esq., Surgeon to the R. 00 Syr On the 7th inst., at Maidenhead, Charles Scudato to, Esq., aged 68. •f e of 1 %. , On the 30th ult., at Lille, in France, Elizabeth, :4°,011, Urbain L e thi erry , an d d aug hter of the late Richar d Are 'f o ‘r , many years M.P. for Dundalk, in Ireland. .., i f e _ On the 6th inst., at Hastings, Charlotte Laurence, vb Sloane, of St. Martin's-lane, aged 27. nf ife of On the Bth inst. at the Royal Academy, Justinta, Hilton, Esq., aged 34. °ff On the 9th inst., M. S. Laisne, aged 77. tier' of On the 9th inst., in his 54th year, Mr. Henry r • -- " u Tor' ringdon-street. lsq t , On the Bth inst., Mary, wife of Thomas Times, 0 115 rington-square. On the 7th inst., in Dover-street, Piccadilly , I %'-` r. aged 60. 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