The Sun. — London, England, 1834-08-20 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Conservative Journals are very unreasonable in objecting to us, that we do not make sufficient account of the numbers of the Protestants of the Sister King dom, and at the same time abusing Ministers for issu ing a Commission to ascertain what the number of Protestants actually is. " The political theory of the revolutionists, as respects Ireland (says the Standard), has for many years assumed, that there are no Protes tants in the Sister Kingdom,—or at least that the Protestants are so few in number, so mean in rank, and so backward in intelligence, as to be properly re jected from all calculation. Now, the bare fact of such an assemblage as that which collected on the 14th, with the report of the arguments delivered upon the occasion, at a bloW destroys the whole theory of the insignificance and ignorance of the Irish Protes tants, which has served as the basis of some ten or fifteen years' Pro-papist legislation." Our contem porary is treating this question in a very Ish manner indeed, when he infers the importance and in telligence of the Protestants of the Sister Kingdom from a meeting at which most of the speakers raved "rather than argued, and uttered a quantity of sedition and treason, that the Government could only overlook on the principle on which the frantic and brutal ex hortations of The Poor Man's Guardian are over looked. We have not the smallest doubt that the speakers at the Protestant effusion would be delighted with bloodshed and carnage. But, notwithstanding the solemn assurance of our contemporary of the Dublin Evening Post, that something like resistance to the Government is contemplated by them, we should hold the language of the speakers to indicate rather the feeling of their desperate condition, than of confidence in their ability to work mischief.— We do not the less detest the sentiments of the Reverend Marcus Beresford, that we have no faith in his power to give effect to his threats. But we never said that the Protestants of Ire land were an insignificant portion of the popula tion of the empire. There is a material difference be tween making the creed of a fraction of the population, however respectable, the religion of the State, and establishing clergy to inculcate that creed when there are no flocks who believe in it, and considering that fraction of the population as not entitled to all due re spect. The Catholics are unquestionably the great majority of the people of Ireland : they constitute nearly the whole population of three provinces ; and even in Ulster they are a moiety. But, few or many, the . numbers of the Protestants will be ascertained by tl2e Royal Commission. God for bid, however, that we should for a moment iden tify the Protestants of Ireland with this soi disant Protestant Meeting. The speakers at this meeting were strangers to the principles of Protestantism ; and the great majority of Irish Protestants must have held their sentiments in utter abhorrence. In Protestant Ulster, as it is called, such sentiments could only be palatable . to the mob ; and indeed the speakers took care, by constantly affecting a particular regard for their poor Protestant brethren, to show that they counted principally on the mob. Our contemporary of the Standard supposes that Protestantism and Episcopacy are synonimous, and .. .that every Irish Pro testant must necessarily be ready to fight for the Arch bishop of Annagh and his pious relative, the Rev. Marcus Beresford. , The most learned and ingenious of the Reformers, Melancthon, in his great standard work Loci Communes, tells us expressly that the Church is not essentially connected with titles in suc cession from the Apostles :—" Ex hac regula judicari potest ecclesiam non alligatam esse ad certos titulos, aut successionem ordinariam. Hies sententia vera est, sed politicis viris ingrata est ; ideo intuentes imperia et politias humanas quadam imitatione transf or m an t cede siam in regnum.' , It was the splendour and wealth of the Church which the speakers at the Dublin Meet ing had alone in their contemplation. The first Re formists would have considered them as worse Papists than the men they were branding as such.—Mornin g chronicle. The Malthusian gentlewoman of the Globe, who has been employed during the greater part of the late ses sion in giving her obstetric assistance to deliver mother Althorp of the " boon to the female population," and whose assistance went nearer to strangle the little morn- ster than the malice prepense of any of its enemies— this Malthusian midwife to all the disgusting produc tions of the " preventive-check school" made the other day a ridiculous and pitiable exhibition of the impotent rage with which she is animated against us for our un ceremonious mode of handling the principles of the pet ticoat philosopher, Miss Martineau, and her unmanly accomplices in the dissemination of the doctrines of the Westminster propaanda, for the full developement of which we must wait until the Malthusian Poor Law Bill shall have worked its: degrading effects upon the minds of Englishmen—if, indeed, it be allowed to continue in existence long enough for that purpose, which we much doubt. We passed over that ludicrous exhibition of the wrath of the beldame with silent contempt, as we have many others ; but, emboldened by theimpu nity, she persists in flinging dirt at us ; nay, she plays gambols in her spitefulness with that heavy sort of vivacity which makes a joke a very se rious thing. To improve her manners, which are becoming very unseemly and licentious since her dear Althorp got safely through the painful parturition of his Bill, we must give her a taste of the rod of a schoolmaster who teaches the very opposite of a priori logic, though some persons may think we had better leave her to the tender mercies of her own sex, at whose hands she richly deserves to receive that sort of castigation which it may appear ungallant and even in delicate for us to administer. For the purpose of flagellating her 'properly, we must mount her on • the back of the new police system, of the charms of which she is so desperately enamoured, that we are sure we could not choose any flogging-horse for her that was more to her taste. Well, there she is mounted, and kicking more vigorously than she ever wrote, and not at all approving in her own person of that severity of punishment which she prescribes as a cure for the re bellious grumblings of the half-starved agricultural la bourers and oppressed operatives of England. This old lady, who was once the "Lady Blarney" to the Wel lington Administration, until she was smitten with the official wisdom of Lords Althorp, Palmerston, and Co., and is allowed the sweepings of the intelligence of Downing-street as her perquisite, though her hanker ings after her old friends, the Tories, are still visible in the midst of her praises of the superlative virtues and profound sagacity of the Althorpian dynasty—this old lady, we say, attempts to be exceeding smart upon us for throwing a little light on the Parliamentary pro cess which has been had recourse to byiour Whig rulers to purify the new police in the eyes of the pub lic, and reconcile the people of England to the prac tical excellences of that most unconstitutional and dan gerous force, which, whatever its political patrons may say of it, is a bad English transcript of a Bourbon in vention, and wholly incompatible with the genius of a free Constitution. To the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel, in the hey-dey of their Tory ascen dancy, we owe the importation of that French gendar merie which the ancient female of the Globe, with seem ing satisfaction, told the public, the day or two before the great assemblage of the workmen of London to petition for the remission of the vindictive sentences on the Dorchester Unionists, were to be armed with pis tols and cutlasses. But this display, upon considera tion, the Globe's patrons thought it better to avoid; and then we were informed that this ostentatious announce ment was an inadvertent paragraph—Credat Judaus ! The Malthusian lady now says---." The procession of the Trades Unions was among one of the many instances in which the judicious distribution of that force, on ertainpoints, was a measure, to say the least, as effec tive in guarding against disturbance, and far less offer.- sive to popular feeling, than would have been any de monstration of military force, which was judiciously kept in reserve. The events of that day dissolved at once, and for ever, the prestige of the Grand National Consolidated Trades Union, &c. Now, the simple fact is, that Ministers, having reaped a little wisdom from the results of their own unspeakable folly, in pro voking, by the wanton and reckless employment of their police force, the disastrous events of the Cal thorpe-street affair, abstained from such wanton inter ference with the Trades Unions going in procession to Ftition the Zing, E.:rough i,3 Secretary fizz e :Emma Department. We can say, from our own observation, that a more peaceable body of men never passed through the streets of the metropolis ; but if the police force had been let loose upon them, and if the head splitting truncheons had been used in promiscuous onslaught—as they were used in knocking -down men, women, and children in Calthorpe-street—the events of the day would have been far more deplorable ; and the streets of London might before the sun went down re semble the streets of Paris or Lyons, under the pater nal sway of the liberal Louis Philip—the two great cities of a country where the original gensdarnterie, of which our own is yet the imperfect copy, flourishes in all its perfection. It is, at least, highly probable that there would have been more verdicts of Coroners' Juries for the Court of King's Bench to quash, and other testimonies equally satisfactory to the abilities and humanity of Lord Melbourne. Per haps the Malthusian gentlewoman can inform us whether they were of the rabble who not long ago in the House of Commons applied to the conduct of some of the police force, whose insolence Members of Parliament had experienced, the epithets " brutal and disgusting ;"—but we war not with the individuals, but with the system. We say that we pay too dear a price for the protection of our silver spoons and pocket handkerchiefs, which, if we are to judge from the state of crime in the metropolis, are badly protected after all. We say that those who are appointed to protect the property of the citizens of a free country from depre dation should be responsible to the citizens themselves. The old system—like the House of Commons— wanted reform, but that was not " reform" which sub verted the English principle of watch and ward, and substituted for a constitutional constabulary force these Prwtorian bands—this spurious civil force, with military organization---copied from the Bourbon ori ginal—and dependent upon the Minister of the Crown, who, if he be so minded, can always employ this body, as it is chiefly employed in France and in other parts of the Continent, as a political machine, and for the vilest purposes of oppression and espionage. We observe that the Duke of Wellington has recommended the extension of this unconstitutional force all over the country—a recommendation to which Lord Melbourne promised the most serious attention. The Malthusian lady will not surely consider this recommendation a proof that " from Marlborough's lips the streams of dotage flow." We rather think the Duke shows a great deal of sagacity in this matter. He expects to come into office again, and he wishes previously to that to have " the House swept and garnished" by the Whigs. He knew that in supporting the Malthusian Poor Law Bill he was increasing vastly the patro nage, and of course the influence, of the Ministers of the Crown. He knows that by extending the Prwto rian bands of the new police all over the country, he will create a force which he may render available for the worst Tory domination, when the time is ripe for cutting the connection of the Whigs with the throne. Therefore, we say, let the country look to it.—Morning Herald. Dr. Johnson used - to say, when he wanted to ex press the effect of an argument, that he always knew the force of a blow by the violence of its rebound. If that be the case, a harder hit has seldom been made than the defeat of the Irish Tithe Bill ; for the Mi nisterial Papers, not being content with one ebullition of rage and disappointment, repeat their attacks from day to day with increased animosity and virulence. People in the wrong are sure to be angry. So great indeed is their annoyance that they actually begin to tell us, in a demi-official manner, throwing out a hint as a sort of feeler to the country, that they still have the desire to maintain the Church (how very kind) although their hope of doing so may now be impair e d (how very foolish). Why, if their desires be sincere, they may easily recover the hope, by standing firm and upholding the truth. Let them not concede two fifths of its property, merely because its greatest enemy (who, if he regarded his oath, has neither voice nor vote upon these matters) has dared to propose the robbery. There is one way, and one alone ; by which the Government can settle this question, can avoid a collision between the two Houses, and give satis faction to every one (except O'Connell and his tail), and that is by re-proposing the measure which they themselves introduced, converting tithe into land-tax, with such facilities to the landlord for redemption that the whole might be redeemed in a few years. This measure has already received the sanction of the Com mons by a majority of five to one. And it has also met with the approbation of the Lords. Consequently .it must pass—if once proposed. But there are two reasons against the Ministers reviving it, although it is their own mature, wise, and deliberate plan. First, because it would please the Opposition ; secondly, because it would displease O'Connell. To us they now seem like Launcelot Gobbo in the Play ; with a little remainder of conscience urging them on one side to do what is right, and with the " big beggarman" on the other urging them headlong into the contrary path. " Budge I" says the fiend. " Budge not," says conscience. " Conscience," say they, " you counsel well." " Fiend," say they, " you counsel well." Wearied at last by these importunities, they exclaim with the wretched Launcelot, " The fiend gives the more friendly counsel. I will run, fiend. My heels are at your commandment—l will run." So off they scamper to O'Connell, and leave their conscience in the hands of Lord Grey. For the amusement and instruction of our readers, we are tempted to add a fable, altered but little from the original, and won derfully applicable to the circumstances of the time. A country fellow went one day into the wood and looked about him with some concern ; upon which the trees, with a natural curiosity, asked him what he wanted ? He replied that he only wanted a piece of wood to make a. handle to his hatchet. Since that was all it was voted by the foolish brambles and the use less dogwood that he should have a piece of good, sound, tough ash. But no sooner h a d h e r e ceived and fitted it for his purpose, than he began to lay about him most unmercifully, and to hack and hew with out distinction, felling the noblest trees in all the forest. Then the oak is said to have spoken thus to the elm, " Brother, how could we be so absurd as to allow the bramble and dogwood to dictate for us ? Now we shall suffer for our folly." This beau tiful fable conveys a timely moral. Mr. O'Connell is the countryman ; the brambles and dogwood are his Majesty's Ministers, who give him the weapons he asks for ; and the forest which he intends to level with the ground represents the Church of Ireland. The lesson we learn from it is this—never to put any confidence in the advice of pretended friends, for they will furnish our enemies with the means of destroying us. To forgive an enemy is gracious, to trust him is folly ; and he whoballows him to be armed and strengthened will have to repent of his false benevoleuce. In addi tion to which, he will increase his distress by the mi serable reflection that he brought his misfortune on himself by his own credulity. Therefore let the oak and elm, i. e. the staunch supporters of the Church, beware that they do not submit their interests ro un worthy counsellors, or else the time will come when they shall say to each other, " Brother, how could we be so absurd as to allow the bramble and dogwood to dictate for us ? Now we shall suffer for our folly."— Morning Post. We beg leave to call the attention of our readers to a series of reports (inserted in this day's paper) of a Committee appointed by the guardians of the poor of the parish of St. James's, Clerkenwell, to inquire into abuses in the management of the poors' funds of that parish. It exhibits a scene of gross and extensive peculation on the part of one of the parish function aries, which has been permitted to be carried on for a series of years, and to the amount of above ten thou sand pounds, through the negligence and incapacity of the overseers of the poor. At a time when the Poor Law Amendment Bill is so industriously attempted to be made the subject of popular odium, the expose made by these reports is a very seasonable illustration of its utility, or rather its necessity. A great topic made use of by the writers in Conservative Journals and the orators at parish meetings has been the un- English character of the Bill, in introducing what they call a system of centralizat ion—transferring the management of the poor from the wholesome control of the local authorities to. Government commissioners and assistant commissioners. A pretty picture of these local authorities is exhibited by the reports before us. turns out that " robbery has been eoia:mitted oa POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARLBORO UGH-STREET. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1834. most of the books used by the overseers or the board, instruct them on first coming into office, are the more viz., the money order book, the funeral book, and the board and relief book;" and the com mittee account for the facility given to these frauds by " the constant change of those offi cers who, varying every month, and in many in stances not having the assistance of past overseers to easily imposed . upon." If such is the case in a great metropolitan parish, where those functionaries are of course respectable and conversant with business, what must be the case in hundreds of parishes throughout the country, where, to the facilities for fraud af forded by the constant change of office, are to be added those arising from the persons appointed to those offices being ignorant and illiterate, and, from the lowness of their station, liable to every species of corrupt influence ? Were investigations, similar to that made by the parishioners of Clerkenwell, gene rally entered into, numbers of simil ar di scover i es would certainly be made ; but such inquiries are not entered into ; or, if begun, are not persevered in ; a fact of which we have a remarkable instance in the reports to which we refer, where it is stated that, owing to a sus picion of there being something wrong, a committee was formed to inquire into the matter ; but that they, " after meeting some few times on the subject, left it as they found it, without making any discovery what ever." The effect of the Poor Law Amendment Act will be to render such practices no longer possible,and, by establishing a system of superintendence, to secure the proper application of the whole of the funds raised for the support of the poor.—Morning Chron isle. FRAUDS IN THE HAY SALES.—Joseph Kidney, a hay salesman, residing at Apperton, yesterday appeared volun tarily to answer a complaint made against him by Mr. G. W. Watkins, a medical gentleman, residing in Frederick terrace, Vauxhall Bridge-road. Complainant stated that he bought half a load of hay of the min in the defendant's employ. He had it weighed by the clerk of the market, and 1.5 trusses were found altoge ther deficient 571bs. ; three others, making the full number of trusses, were 181bs. over weight. Defendant, in reply, said that he was not aware of any deficiency. The hay lost by exposure to the sun. Mr. CHAMBERS said that new hay might lose by the heat, but even then it ought to exceed the limited weight when it was tied up, in order that it should reach the standard when it came into the market. But this was old hay, and it was impossible that it could have lost to that extent. Defendant maintained that hay would lose by exposure to the sun, and that half a load, from not being kept so moist, would lose more than a whole load. Mr. CHAMBERS, in referring to the Act, said that the penalty was 2s. 6d. on each truss ; but as three of the trusses were over weight he should only reckon twelve as defective. He therefore adjudged the defendant to pay to the penalty of 1/.los. Complainant said that during the last four years he had made frequent purchases of hay, and not more than two or three of them were of the proper weight. He had seen amazing deficiencies. He knew nothing to the disrepute of the defendant ;- but this he kiim - v, that the public were plun dered hourly in the sales of hay. He had done it for their benefit. Theresa Sinclair and Sam. Charles Pearson, who have been in custody some days, charged on suspicion of being concerned in the burglary at Sir Edward Paget' s , a t Sand hurst, Kent, were yesterday again brought up and remanded for a week. Nothing has been discovered from which it can be proved that these persons were actually concerned in the offence ; but they are evidently in the recent possession of funds. QUEEN-SQUARE. COMMITTAL OF ONE OF THE SWELL MOB.--Yesterday, a fashionably-dressed young man, who gave the name of John Henry liosonzan, but whose real name is Hicks„ a well-known member of the swell mob, was brought up for final examination before Mr. WHITE, charged with robbing Mr. Thomas Munyard, confectioner, of Tothill-street, West minster, of a watch and appendages at the doors of the Surrey Theatre. It appeared from the evidence that last week the com plainant was going into the pit of the Surrey Theatre at the time the doors opened. There was a great crowd and rush, and the prisoner snatched the watch out of his fob. He seized him and called a police-constable. with whom the pri sioner had a violent struggle and got away ; he was how ever, stopped by police-constable Miles of the L division, No. 140, who secured him and took him to the station-house. The prisoner was fully committed for trial. THE POLICE WAR WITH THE APPLEWOMEN.-Mr. Green, a surgeon in Queen-square, came before Messrs. WHITE and GREGORIE, in consequence of the committal of a man named Simons to prison for a month, for an assault on the police, arising out of the following circum stances : It appeared that, on Saturday last, a man named Simons, and another man and two women, were fined 40s. each, and in default of payment were committed for one month to the house of correction for an assault on the police. A police man named Brown, of the B division, had seized a basket of cucumbers belonging to a poor creature who gets her livelihood by selling fruit and vegetables about the Broad way. The woman resisted the seizure, a violent struggle took place, the basket-woman became incensed and attacked the constable and tore his coat to ribbons. Simons and the others were sworn to be the ringleaders. Mr. Green said that he was positive there must have been some mistake. He hid known Simons from a child. He was a mild inoffensive lad, about twenty years of age. He had totally lost the sight of one eye, and nearly lost the sight of the other ; in fact he was so blind, that he did not think him capable of taking hold of a basket correctly to lift it. After some further discussion Mr. Green was desired to call at the office on the following day, when all the wit nesses would be in attendance. COMMITTAL OF CoiXEßS.—John Jackson, alias Jack the Logger, one of the most notorious coiners and smashers about Westminster, who has been once transported, and since his return convicted of uttering base coin, and Wil liam King, were brought up for final examination, charged with having in their possession thirteen counterfeit half crowns. • Mr. Banister, one of the inspectors of the B division, from information received, went to the house N 0.4, Union court, Orchard-street, and in one of the garrets he found the prisoners. On searching the room a quantity of imple ments for coining were found, and thirteen base half-crowns. Mr. Powell, from the Mint, 'moved that they were all counterfeit. Jackson, in his defence, admitted that he had taken the room, but how the things produced came there he could not tell. Both prisoners were fully committed for trial. HA TTON- GARDEN. THE TRADES' UNlON.—Yesterday a man named Henry Turner was brought before Mr. Sergeant SELLON for making use of the following threatening language : A female named Cable having been sworn, stated that her husband was an ironfounder in extensive business in Crawford-passage, Clerkenwell, and likewise proprietor of the George public-house, in Saffron-hill. Within the last few days the men employed at the foundry had left their employ in consequence of Mr. Cable having requested them to sign a declaration to the effect that they had ceased to have any connection with a Trades' Union, and her hus band still adhering to the determination of not allowing them to return unless they complied with his wishes, had rendered himself obnoxious to the parties immediately con cerned. Between eight and nine o'clock on Monday even ing the prisoner entered the public-house while Mr. Cable was absent, and threw witness and her family in great terror by telling them that their premises would be burnt down, and that her husband would be dead in less than a fortnight. Mr. Cable said the prisoner worked for him twelve years ago. When informed of the gross misconduct of the de fendant witness asked him if he had any animosity towards him, and he answered " Not the least." Mr. Sergeant SELLON—He might have come to you as a friend to caution you against opposing your men. Was he drunk ? Mr. Cable—He was. Mr. Sergeant SELLON—I thought so. He is a great fool there is no doubt, but I do not think there is reason to fear any harm from him. At all events Ido not consider the evi dence sufficient to order him to find bail to keep the peace. ROBBERY AT THE ORIENTAL BAZAAR, HOLBORN.—A well-dressed young man, named William Easton, was placed at the bar charged with a robbery at the Oriental Bazaar, High Holborn, but was remanded until the return of Mr. Tully, the proprietor of the Bazaar, from the country. MARY LEB ONE. Yesterday Mr. William Whale, the proprietor of the Bayswater Tavern and Tea-gardens, situated in Elm-lane, Bayswater, appeared before the sitting magistrate, Mr. RAWLINSON, on an information laid by the T division of police, charging him with suffering a number of drunken and disorderly characters to assemble in his house. David Farney, police constable 20 T, deposed that oe tween two and three o'clock on the morning of that day se'nnight, he was on duty near the defendant's house, when a youth, whom he believed to be the defendant's grandson, came running to him apparently much alarmed, and re quested his assistance in quelling a most formidable riot which had broken out among a number, of men assembled in a largo room on the above premises. Witness imme diatelyrepaired to the room in question, and found about ' 100 persons there, composed chiefly of omnibus-drivers, conductors, cads, and others belonging to those vehicles, who were fighting together in the most desperate manner, amidst the most indescribable uproar and confusion. Wit ness,' with the assistance of another constable, endeavoured to appease the fury of the combatants, most of whom were intoxicated, but in ,so doing they were surrounded and hustled, and Ms brother officer robbed of his watch, the oi.ltside case of which was subsequently found on the floor and restored to him, but the watch had not been heard of. David Davies, 132 T, the constable who was robbed, corroborated tfie above evidence, adding that in the scuffle he felt hi s watc h torn f rom hi s f o b w i t h much violence, but in the confusion he could not tell who was the thief. He was told a man, who goes by the nick-name of Dr. Lord, had got it, and this individual, as well as several others, was searched, but the property could not be found. The dis turbance was of such a desperate nature that it required twelve constables to quell it, who with difficulty lodged the ringleaders in the station-house. The defendant said, in his defence, that the room in question had been hired that night by a party, who took it merely for the recreation of music and dancing, and he (de fendant) had not the least idea that such a disgraceful breach of the peace would take place. He concluded by stating that he was heartily sorry for what he had done, and would take care to avoid a recurrence of the evil. The Magistrates, under these circumstances, convicted him in the mitigated penalty of 50s. and costs. Yesterday six savage-looking Irishmen and one woman were placed at the bar, charged with having created a des perate riot the previous evening in Lisson-grove, and with assaulting several constables of the D division. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoners quar relled with a man because he refused to join their Union, and that they proceeded so far as to attack his house with stones and brick-bats, breaking several squares of glass. At length a number of constables arrived, and on their endea vouring to take the prisoners into custody, they met with the most desperate resistance. A mob of several hundred persons soon collected, who, led on by the prisoners, at tacked the constables with bricks and stones, one of which, weighing two pounds, struck a constable on the head, and would, in all probability, have killed him, if it had not been for the guard to his hat. At length, with much difficulty, the prisoners were taken to the station-house. They were all ordered to find good bail, and to pay for the broken glass, in default of which they were locked up. WORSHIP- STREET. Yesterday two boys, named Whitaker and Ward, were brought before the sitting Magistrate, Mr. TWYFORD, charged with having committed the following robbery Mrs. Barnes, a lady living in Oxford -street, stated that the prisoner Whitaker was employed by her as an errand boy ; " about a month ago," said witness; " I sent him to Thames-street with four sovereigns to pay a bill. On the following morning he returned, and said that he had been robbed of the money by two girls, in Farringdon-street. who, seeing the money in his hand, snatched it from him. Believing at the time that his story was true, I passed it over until an officer of the G division called upon me ; from a statement he then made to me, 1 was induced to give the boy into custody." • Police constable 67 G said that, on the morning of the 27th ult., the prisoner Ward, who is five years older than Whitaker, came running to him at the bottom of White cross-street, stating that the latter had been robbed by two girls of four sovereigns, but who had ran away, he knew not where. Witness immediately proceeded to a house in an obscure court, occupied by the girls, and there found the boy Whitaker. crying bitterly at the Joss of his mistress's money. He told witness that lie met Ward the day before in New-street, Covent-garden, and having told him of hav ing the four sovereigns, and also where he was going. the former said he would walk along with him. On arriving at the end of Farringdon-street, he said they were accosted - by two girls, one of whom gave him some thing to drink out of a bottle, which in a short time so completely stupified him, as to be unable to recollect what occurred until he found himself the following morning with the prisoner Ward, in bed, in a strange house, and his mis tress's money gone. The prisoner Ward then told witness that after the girls had given Whitaker the dose, they called a cab-and put him into it when they all went to their house, where in a short time he went to bed with Whitaker, having previously secured the sovereigns under his pillow. On awaking the followi ng morn i ng th e mone y was gone and the girls too. Witness immediately went to the pro secutrix, Mrs. Barnes, and informed her of the circum stances, and afterwards took the girls into custody. Mr. TWYFORD— What was done with them ? Witness—l took them before Mr. Dyer, who committed them for two months to prison, as disorderly characters, and discharged the boys. Then why bring them now before me 2—Because infor mation has been sent to Mrs. Barnes that the girls had given up the four sovereigns to me, and that they were in the Magistrate's hands, all of which is false, for on seareh ing them only Is. 3d. was f oun d upon t h em. Brown, an officer of this establishment, said he had no doubt but the eldest boy Ward was at the " bottom of it all." He bears," said witness " a very bad character, and I have no doubt he was linked with the two girls, who afterwards met him by appointment, and administered the dose in Farringdon-street, the boy Whittaker having told him on the night before where he was going the next morning" Mr.TWYFORD said there was not evidence to prove that he took the money, and discharged both of them. LAMBETH- STREET. Robert Branch, a journeyman carpenter, was placed at the bar upon the following singular charge of felony. A police constable stated that at .a late hour on the night befor e his attention was directed to the house No 34, Col linswood-street, Bethnal-green, by hearing loud and repeated cries of " Murder ;" and on entering it he found the pri soner and a blind Greenwich pensioner, named Perry, who occupied the house, together with the wife of the latter, in the most dreadful combat. He separated the combatants, and Perry at once charged the prisoner with carrying on an improper intercourse with his wife, and robbing him of pro perty to a considerable amount He in consequence took the prisoner into custody, and the property described by the blind pensioner was subsequently found in his (the pri soner's) room. Perry, the pensioner, on being sworn, said he had no wish to press the charge against the prisoner, as he understood from his wife that she had removed the goods to his room, lest he (complainant) should take them with him to Green wich, where he wanted to take her. Mr. Ebbs, a superintendent in the K division of police, observed that Perry had told a different story at the station -1 house on the previous night, when he charged the prisoner with carrying on an adulterous intercourse with his wife, and also robbing him of a quantity of valuable property, toge ther with 10 sovereigns, which were found in his room. He was also dreadfully incensed at the conduct of the.pri soner and his wife, but they had succeeded in wheedling him, that he took her home, and at six o'clock on that morning both came to the station-house with an excellent breakfast for the prisoner, but the coffee had such a quan tity of rum in it that it could not be admitted. The pensioner admitted having heard some queer stories about his wife and the prisoner, but he was d e t erm i ne d t o separate them, and t a k e his wife to Greenwich. The prisoner was then discharged. UNION-HALL. Two men, named Harrison and Pack, were brought up charged with being at Camberwell Fair for the purpose of playing at unlawful games. Harrison was taken into cus tody sitting at a table surrounded chiefly by a number of young persons of both sexes. He presided at a game called " Under seven, over seven," at which the players appeared to be losing very fast. The game was played with dice. He was taken into custody with his apparata , u, of 1/., chiefly in coppers, was found in his possession, all of which he had gathered during a short space of time, owing to the cupidity of those who ventured on the game. The magistrate committed the prisoner for two months to Guildford. _ Harrison—l haVe no other way of living. I hope your Worship will order the money to be given up to me. Mr. TRAILL declined to comply with the request, saying that the money should be reserved to pay the prisoner's travelling expenses to Guildford, and the residue to go to wards his maintenance while in gaol. The other prisoner presided at a game called " Hap hazard," and had a crowd of young persons round his table whom he was chousing out of their mow. He wa s also committed to the treadmill ; and, on turfing out of the office, he said that he had an insuperable aversion to that " everlasting stair-case, the mill." - .THAMES POLICE. EXCESS OF A UTHORITY. — Yesterday John Clark, a tall young man, was brought before Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Tubbs, a country Magistrate, charged with committing several desperate assaults on the constables and gatekeepers o f St. Katharine's Dock. It appeared from the evidence of a gatekeeper that orders had been given to exclude the prisoner from the dock, about which he had been seen loitering, evidently for no good purpose. On Monday afternoon, about two o'clock, the prisoner was observed by the witness in the dock, and the gate-keeper immediately seized him by the collar, and expressed his intention of walking round the quays and showing him to each gatekeeper and warehouse keeper, that his person might be known. The prisoner had not gone far before he was tired of his walk, and endeavoured to get away from the gatekeeper, who refused to let him go until he had made the circuit of the dock. The prisoner struggled to get away and a scuffle ensued, and thegatekeeper was beaten and kicked in a very severe manner. Other officers in the dock came to his assistance, and were served in the same way ; half a dozen of them were h:eatea suctessively by the priso.nort but they at length made one joint attack on him, and took him into safe custody. Some of the persons attacked appeared in the office, and seemed to have met with a good deal of punishment. Mr. BALLANTINE said he did not see any necessity,to march the prisoner round the dock, nor had any constable or other peace officer a right to do so. The plain duty of the gatekeeper was to turn the man out of the dock, if he was an improper character, and if he refused - to go to bring him before a magistrate. He must be discharged. CORONERS' INQUESTS. Yesterday afternoon a Jury assembled at the Craven Arms, Marshall -street, before Mr. Higgs, to inquire into the circumstances which led to the death of Mary Herbert, a young female who, it was currently reported, had poisoned herself with some drug which she had taken to procure abortion. Mr. Corey, dispensary surgeon, King-street, was sent for on Saturday morning last to attend the deceased, about half-past 12 o'clock. The deceased was an out-patient of the King-street Dispensary, and lived in Peter-street. The deceased was in bed in her night dress, and vomiting very freely. Witness gave her some medicine, but, from her state of exhaustion, did not believe she could recover. A Juror—l wish to know from this witness if he was aware of any thing particular which had occurred to the deceased. Witness—l heard that she had miscarried on the Tues day previous. After I had given the medicine, I did not see the deceased again. A Juror wished to know what time had elapsed from the granting of a letter to the dispensary to the. time when she received medical attention, as it was important the sub scribers to the charity should know that medical assistance had been obtained with due celerity. Witness answered that he could state nothing on that point. Some other medical persons, not from the dispen sary, attended in the first instance. Frederick Caughe, a young man, was next sworn. He said he was dispensing for the apothecary of the dispen sary, who was absent. Witness had not seen the deceased until after her death, he having been only present at the opening of her body. From the appearances which wit ness discovered he was of opinion she died from inflamma tion of the uterus and loss of blood. On opening the stomach, found traces of inflammation, but could not tell the cause of it. There were no traces of poison. The deceased had been delivered about ten days. When deli vered she could not have been further advanced in preg nancy than the fifth month. The deceased might have taken something, but from the length of time all traces of it had evaporated. Witness was of opinion, from the in ternal appearance, that the deceased had taken some acr id drug (not poison) in order to produce miscarriage. An individual wished to know if any witness could give information as to who was the father of the child. He thought a case of this description ought to be sifted very closely. Robert Ellis, a very young man, a pupil to Mr. Paterson, of the dispensary, was next examined. He said he went to see the deceased on Monday week, about 12 o'clock at night. Was informed by some person in the house that the deceased had taken some kind of drug, to procure abor tion. Witness put the question to the deceased, but she neither acknowledged nor contradicted it. The deceased had been delivered about a quarter of an hour previous to witness making his appearance. The child could not be found anywhere. She appeared in great danger, and occa sionally relapsed into a state of insensibility. Witness sent her some medicine, and on the following morning and three following days Mr. Paterson attended her. By the Foreman—Witness heard the deceased had taken a pill and a draught for the purpose of procuri ng miscar riage. Witness gave her nothing to bring the stuff off her stomach. The deceased had been vomiting previously, and witness believed her stomach was sufficiently cleared. Wit ness informed Mr. Paterson of the situation of the deceased, and Mr. Paterson went to see her the next morning. There were evident appearances of a miscarriage. The medicines' witness prescribed were only to allay the inflammation, and not to clear the stomach. Mrs. Alison Lidgate, No. 18, Peter-street, said she knew the deceased from living in the same house with her. The deceased lodged with an old female and her daughter in the hack attic for about six months. Had often challenged the deceased with being in the family-way, but the deceased ap peared very much annoyed at the charge. Did not think the conduct of the deceased very proper, as she was out at all hours of the night, and had men call and stay with her in her room. The landlady of the deceased told witness on Monday week that she had seen the deceased take a white powder and put it into a tea-cup, which had fright ened her very much. In the evening the deceased passed witness in a hurried manner, and about eleven o'clock at night she again passed her without speaking, and went into the privy. From what witness saw, she suspected some thing wrong, and called in a neighbour, and both went to gether there. The deceased was standing against the wall in a dreadful condition. The deceased cried out, " For God's sake don't expose me." Witness led her up stairs, and put her to bed, after having sent for Mr. Paterson. Witness did not know how the drugs had been procured, nor did she know anything about the circumstance beyond what she had been told. The supposed father of the child was a married man, and the deceased used to pretend he was her brother. Mr. M. Paterson, surgeon, Wardour-street, examined.— Saw the deceased on the following day after his assistant had atttended her, and gave her what hit considered proper for her condition, she having apparently had a recent mis carriage. Witness did not treat the case as one of poison ing, but as one of simple miscarriage. On the following Friday, finding some unfavourable symptoms appeared, he desired that the parish doctor might be sent for. Witness thought there was danger. After witness left her on Fri day, did not hear of the deceased until after her death. A female named Thurston, with whom the deceased had lodged, said, some time ago the deceased used to complain of being very sick, especially i n th e morn i ng, an d w i tness taxed hr with being in the family way, but the deceased always denied such was the fact. Witness never heard that the deceased had taken any stuff to procure miscarriage. About two months previous to her death witness.had heard the deceased say, if she proved with child, she would take something to destroy it, but afterwards she passed this off as a joke. Sarah Bennett said, on Monday week the deceased told her that she had taken a pill and some stuff, but she did not say what she had taken the stuff for. The daughter of Mrs. Thurston said, on the Wednesday before the deceased died, she was desired by her to go to Robert and tell him to come immediately, but to be sure not to say she had taken any thing. Witness said, " Have you taken any thing, then ?" and the deceased replied, " No, I IMve not." This being the whole of theevidence, the Coroner ob served there was no proof before the jury that the deceased had died from any other cause than miscarriage. The jury then consulted for a short time, and returned a verdict of "Died of abortion, followed by exhaustion." On Monday night at 10 o'clock an inquest was instituted before Mr. Payne, the city coroner, in the vestry-hall of St. John's Church, Horselydown, on view of the body of John Cole, a sailor, about 30 years of age, whose death was attri buted to injuries inflicted on him under the following out rageous circumstances : The inquisition, which had been adjourned on account of the insufficiency of the previous evidence, excited much in terest, from the place where the affair took place being known to be the resort of loose and desperate characters, and that disturbances wcre daily occurring there. The jury-room was crowded. Mr: I - Miry 0 Iles, Surgeon to a-ors nospitg — de - pros4 - that the deceased was brought into the hospital on Sunday, the 3d of July, in a state of insensibility. There was a blow over the right eye. There was no fracture on the head. He was in a state of collapse. He was attended to, and there was every appearance of his doing well, provided he remained in the hospital ; but in - two days after his admis sion he left the hospital without permission. Since the deceased's death witness has examined the body, and found some clotted blood at the base of the brain, which could not have happened from natural causes, but from some vio lence. This appearance was the cause of death. Had the deceased remained in the hospital, :he might have got over it, but any violent exertion might reproduce the symptoms. The evidence of two other medical gentlemen, Messrs. Carey and Grant, tended to the same conclusion. Mr. Stephen Larkin Wexford, mate of the Rover, mer chant vessel, was sworn and said, that on the Sunday above stated, about nine o'clock at night, he was by the Red Lion public-house, in the Maze, Tooley-street, and saw the de ceased, who was struck by some one, a stranger to him. About a week after be came on board the ship to which he belonged. He engaged himself in the work of the vessel. Shortly after witness was informed that he was dead. George Collins, No. 2, Union -court, in the Maze, de posed that he was at the Red Lion at the time the assault took place on the deceased. Witness received a blow while interfering in his behalf. He saw the deceased first speak ing to a woman of the name of Rees. He gave no insult. About five minutes after there was a quarrel, and the de ceased was lying by the pavement at Mrs. Smith's door, which is the house next but one to the Red Lion. Several persons were about him ; among whom were John Des mond the elder, William Desmond the younger, Anna Do novan, Dennis Donovan, Sce. He first saw John Desmond strike the man on the top of the head with his fist a heavy blow. William Desmond, while the deceased was falling, hit him on the right breast. When the man was down Anna Donovan jumped on his head ; and Dennis Donovan took his head up by the hair, and. with his right hand planted a tremendous blow on the jugular vein on the left side. •Mr• • Smith then a ss i s t e d w it ness to take the deceas ed to e n Walker, a surgeon , w h o a d v i se d that he should b e taken t Guy's Hospital, where they left him. By the Jury-L-The deceased did not fall stone. When witness interfered, they threatened to sco rn was ton-. him in the same manner. The deceased's coat off his back by Anna Donovan. of Edward r• • W. ilkinson, a chimneysweeper, thirteen years t age, was examined, and stated that the deceased came °°,,, of the Red Lion, and said, " Who struck my mate when John Desmond said " I did." While they were talK do ing together, Dennis Donovan came slyly b e hi n d the in ceased, and bit him on the ribs with his right fist, the When do h ' : others came on him, and the deceased fell. against sq. John Desmond kicked him on the ribs, and Anna I\I"IT kicked him in the side.- Then the deceased put his hat u t to his side, but could not move. Witness got it was immediately snatched out of his band, and blown Out.he The deceased spat blood. Mrs. Donovan j um ped en t head of the deceased, when he was on the ,round. Mr. Edward Macey, brass-founder, 44, Maze, ri.°° e ;t: street, saw Mrs. Hurley stamp on the deceased's the; t , also deposed to many of the facts above referred to.as. The prisoners, who were alleged as principals in the ve. sault, except Dennis Murphy, were brought in and se s, rally identified (Mrs. Hurley had an infant in her arm it which being done, they were ordered to leave. A juror observed that it was time for some eltainP the be shown, as riots were so frequent in the Maze, that a police seldom attended to them, observing that it on a Candle, bt mere Irish row. He had seen respectable women g ° ° there and their bonnets knocked in by the ruffians. bserve d The Coroner summed up the evidence, and ° .oca that it was possible th ere m ight h av e been some Pr°` has Who tion •on e ar of e deceased, who asked struck my th mat p e re" the It was not therefore a mt , rdernus at o tack u ld on the part of his assailants, in which case the jury saner,.not record their verdi c t an y other than man dau° ed, There was now no doubt as to the identity of the dee o e f as tb e and there was every probability, from the evidence surgeon, that the injuries were the cause of death. i r The jury immediately returned a verdict of " Mansl aag a • ter against Wm. Desmond, John Desmond, Ann a I: i . n " van, Dennis Donovan, Anna Murphy and Mary lin r.. or The witnesses were bound over to 'prosecute at the . 1 : ° , a iLel , assises, which commence in November at the Old 13 and the Coroner issued his war r ant f o r the committ al ot the prisoners to Horsemonger-lane.Gaol. der a ll The prisoners were taken at past twelve o'clock un tee], escort of a strong body of police, as a rescue was OP ° and lodged in the Counter for the night. The inquest was not over until twelve o'clock. con' The inquest was summoned for eight o'clock, but ',_ ll d to sequence of the absence of on e j uror , as the Coroner °riled hold another inquest at eight o'clock, it was again acti a° ha d till half-past nine. The Coroner told the juror thate;:< forfeited his recognizances, but at the request of tn e • I • the fine was remitted. An inquest was taken on Tuesday last at Reim s, tra, on view of the body of George Randall, a Ynnt den of the age of about 25 years, who shot himself in a 5:1105C adjoining the residence of the Rev. John Jenvey , i n rind school he had been an assistant more than two years, ""ble. which time his conduct had been steady and irreproacilauch Of late, however, it appeared that his mind had been li c h excited in consequence of an unfo r tunate attachment-wob, he felt towards a young lady in London, and by other dis jects which preyed upon his spirits, till he became q uite and tracted. On Sunday he attended divine service twice!ch he accompanied the pupils in their evening walk, after wilj t han was observed to be more m e lan c h o ly a nd thoughtful and before. The family retired to bed at the usual lmn r ' the the deceased, after wishing them good night, went intO ildr school-room and employed hims e lf in committing his o l herent thoughts to paper, till the dead of the n , i i g. ti l e l ll t ' te rm" he loaded a pistol and perpetrated the deed 14 Hated his existence. Coroner's verdict—" Insanity. • Yesterday an inquest was held before Mr. na ker ' s •oll" Coroner, at the Shakspeare's Head, Shakspea, re- ,:t Shadwell, on the body of a boy, name unknown , tl i ncla," years of age, which was picked up in the river on 1; 0 4, afternoon. Evidence was given of the finding of the • ta ess which was seen floating down the st re am. One said he had no doubt the deceased w as drowne d ,: c bathing, but he had no knowledge of hi s name or air °. The Jury returned a verdict of " F oun d drownew" COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE . tcti b l Yesterday morning the first public sale of teas,inn e ; r te pti; private merchants, since the abolition of the esel u , sn i ' ioa vileges of the East India Company to the imPn r `,%ciar teas, took place at the Commercial Sale Rooms , I\ll ef ir lane. As the period has not yet elapsed for the n' a is .P ro or tion of teas for home consumption direct from C l ' I a jloo; elsewhere, sufficient time not having yet ;lapsed t° o o°l the arrival of teas from China, shipped after the ij l o wea April last, these teas already i m p or t e d were only entry on condition that they should b e b on d e d f o r exPe,";,o The sale took place in the Commercial Sale where a spacious apartment has been fitted up, Ile ar ' l larg °l lar in point of appearance and accommodation to the 01 05 sale room of the East India Company. This new r° jile e ' intended for the sale of East India, China, and other Pr e te a ie The sale of yesterday was composed of teas imP er ooll: the Snaresbrook, Perseverance, and Columbine, fro m al it" burg, and' consisted of the following qualities an d cl e ijes ts ties :-1,076 quarter chests of Congou, 324 quarter aver of Bohea, 185 eighth chests of young Hyson, Of chests of Hyson and Gunpowder, 20 eighth chests of powder, and 80 quarter chests of Hyson skin teas. j ibe Before the sale commenced, questions were as k 50,t ° ther the teas to be sold would be allowed exPor t taal es Guernsey, Jersey, the Isle of Man, and the British vv generally for consumption. rcpl j e d Mr. GEORGE WHITE, the broker and auctioneer' lid th that these were the conditions upon which he sa to t he teas ; they were bonded for exportation, and adaP te colonial markets and British dependencies. e old r. COUSINS asked if it was true that they l c allowed to be sold as ships' stores ? Mr. WHITE replied in the affirmative. t o°3 Mr. CouslNs could not but conside r that if tht: se . o tie ° were allowed to be used as snips' stores, great a'riepar3' would be done to those merchants who had mad e „ P 0 01 11 , 1 • e i ' tions to import teas direct from China, as soon a., 5 r t jll° l ll ‘ after the period at which the monopoly of the r As t Company had ceased—(Hear). He considere O a a ti would be broken with the free-traders with Chin d a , °3 0 1 ", those teas imported and bonded only for exportation resell; be allowed to be used as ships' stores. As th e fi l es al , sale was the commencement of a new system in 0 allo ° t of teas, he wished to know if it was intended t „ r oal interest on deposits for goods purchased to the r sa jej day.--(Hear.) int to Mr. WHITE replied, that as the teas were not o olit f for home consumption, he did not think interest Orions ° be allowed; and he must sell according to the en o4 sale. 0 10 Mr. COUSINS said, since the new system n' est led been established in East India produce, such inteure 011) been allowed, and as respected teas, he thought the e t deduction ought to be granted. g re e§ The sale then proceeded, and went off languidl,Pue pm t o portion of the teas offered being bought in. P u t • realised were as follow :—Good Gunpowder, fr n , - ne r ss. 6d. per lb. ; good Hyson, from 4s. to 4s. 41 40 ' r 0 0 ; 6A ; young Hyson, 2s. Oid. to 3s. 2d. per lb. ; 11 0 middling quality, Is. 7d. to ls. Bd. per lb. ; Cor n t js. lo • thong, at Is. Bd. per lb. ; good common Congo u l a e as f r° r e to Is. 73d. per lb., and ordinary to good EtT t i e s Is. Oid. to Is. 2,id. per lb. ; some inferior qu aii rte sold on lower terms. o p° ere 1,...-ight-mto the port or Lond on, the I under the provisions of the India Bill, and un der trade system, were reported on the 22d July last. BIRTHS.toI s, On the 19th inst., at Putne eath : 0 f 13ri ' at the Marqu is I,lcl'' the Lady Augusta Seymour, of a daughter. Co'l e On the 17th inst., at Exeter, the lady of Wm. C ole of a son. f s h s t , On the 16th inst., at Hampton Court, Mrs. Frank na i ke ja ° ol l " . On the 17th inst., at Islington, Mrs. R. Oldershaw , °' 9 4 ' t MARRIAGES. Wh a telee 11P On the 18th inst., at Biddenden, Kent, William barrister-at-law, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the of* Nares, and relict of the late Lord Henry Spencer Chloe - frail On the 6th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-seluarneil3o eldest daughter of the late Thomas Alexander, Esq" - to Mr. Joseph Forrester, of Edinburgh. • On the 19th inst., at St. 11Iarylebone Church , tir i ci a e tiio'. Chaplin, son of the late Charles Chaplin, Esq. , °f dicer 00, Caroline Horatia,4hird daughter of the l a t e William to•-: On the 19th ins T., at East Barnet, George Kno tt, widow of the late Joseph Aldridge. Esq. o f th e DEATHS. • - w idc* l On the 18th inst., in Surrey-square, Mary, the Tr. late IVam Smith, Esq. in her 70th year. winks° pSI• On the 14th inst., in ' Lower Islington-terrace, ches e rl) Esq., of the firm of Luley, Fry, and Thorn, solicitors,_ b, fora' On the 18th inst., at Islington, Mrs. Ann Greenho ofi of of Camberwell, aged 81, Cro°' On the 18th inst., at Rotherhithe, Mrs. Thom as e df o rdt On the 11th inst., at `Watford, Herts, Viril s4 :j c P Great George-street, Westminster. f 11r 1,0 0 On the 18th inst., Siice Ann, wife o o r, . Cheshunt, Herts, late of Crown street, FinsburY-1„ On the 16th inst., at Will Hall, Eltham, Or e Y infant son of George Lee, Eq., aged six months. . fargar et of On the 14th inst., at Heigiington Durham , the wife of Lieut. Wm. Robso \ ,, R. N P . o wn, hn P fs4'' On the 17th inst., in St. James's-place, . t i f dda' the Middle Temple. Charles n Ol On the 17th inst., at Camberrell-grove , Ja ti r s :7 of Angel-court, Throgreorton-strut, aged 34- On the 16th inst., John Pallisle, Esq., °f Ear sington, and St. Paul's Churehyaro, London. - forUf. Loudon : Printed and Publishcdl)y MURDO _ 4a 214 sult Gib, 14, 1 13, p'7- I kt, 4 41 1/41 i s"N‘l ° likt e x , } Pri n . '..Sect