The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-12 00:00:00

Age.

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY

THEATRE ROYAL HAYM4RKF.T.
Mr. B Wabater, Sole Lessee and Manager. Old Brampton.
Being his Farewell Season ag Le'see and Manager.
THIS EVENING,

Will be performed Holcrofes Comedy of THE ROAD TO Pl' IN.
Principal characters by Messrs. Stuart, Leigh Murray, Lambert,
A. Wigan, and Miss Ross Bennett.
After which, THE WOMAN I ADORE.
To conclude with BOX and COX, by Messrs. Keeley and Buck-
stone.

THEATRN ROYAL, A.DELPRT.
Lame, Mr. B. Webster ; Directress, Madame Celeste.
Real Attraction.
7th appearance of Madams Celeste since her return from America.

THIS EVENING,
Wall be perforMed THE GREEN BUSHES. by Madame Celeste,
Miss Woolger, Messrs. Paul Bedford, Emery, Honey, &C.
To concicde with the celebrated Adelphi Drama ot JACK SHEP-
PARD. Wild, Mr. S. Emery ; Owen Wood, .51r O. Smith ;
Jack Sheppard, Mrs. Keeley ; Blueskin, Mr. Paul Bedtord : Thames
Darrell, Miss Ellen Chaplin ; Winnifred, Miss Laura Honey.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management of Mr. C. Kean.
THIS EVENING,
Will be presented THE PRIMA. DONNA. Principal cbaracters
by Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, and Cathcart; Miss Robertson,
and Miss Heath.
After which a new Melodrama, entitled MONT ST. MICHEL
er, The Fairy of the Sands, by Messrs. Wright (his sth appear-
ance here), Harley, Ryder, Graham, Cooke, Everett, and Chester ;
Misses Marshall, Vi,ash, and Carlotta Leclercq.
To conclude with THE SPITALFIELDS WEAVER, in which
Mr. Wright will sustain his original character.
The Box-office is open daily from 11 till 5.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPIIITREATRE.
Under the Patronage ofri hernce
Al Majesbetyrt. rnd his Royal Highness
P
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty.
Open Every Evening, with the Largest Equestrian Establishment
in the World.
Most Gratifying Success 1
Sixth Week of the Equestrian Entertainments.
The immense applause bestowed by crowded houses is a convinc-
ing proof of the daily increasing popularity of this favourite place of
amusement The Brothers Seigrist will introduce their new per-
formances of Feats of Strength in the air. In addition to which Mr.
Batty has engaged the Madlles. Ellsler, who will make their appear-
ance on the Double 'light Rope; likewise will be displayed Globe
Ascension, Vaulting, the Nicol° Family, and the most pleasing Scenes
in the Arena, embracing all the principal artistes in the establish-
ment.

The doors open at Half-past Six o'clock; the Performances commend
at Seven.
Half-price at Half-put Eight.
tilnalssion—Stalls, 55.; Dress Boxes, 45.; Upper Boxes, 35.; Pit,
Is. ; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, Gd.
Tickets to be had at the Box-office from Eleven till Four daily.
Stage Manager, Mr. Leelercq.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
rivi DAY —Morning 45 min. after 12 1 Evening 8 min. after 1
Tc -Moaaow—Homing 29 ntin. after 1 I Evening 50 min. after I

THE WEATHER.—Sus OFFICE, OcrouEa 12.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
53—higt est 8 lice noon yesterday.
39-lo,a eat this morning and daring the night.
49—lia day, at noon. _

BARomETER, 30.41.
WIND N.—tine clear weather.

DAILY WEATHEa TABLE.
State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following
places at :Nine o'clock yesterday morning.—The stations
re arranged in order of latitude.
POOLE—Wind N.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
PAsTntas--Wind N., gentle breeze—overcast.
SountalaFrox—Wind W., gentle breeze—foggy.
Fouctrzromt—Wind N., light breeze—overcast.
TUNBRIDGE—Wind W., gentle breeze—cloudless.
GREENWICH—Wind N.W., gentle breeze—overcast.
STl.ooD—Wind N.E., gentle breeze—overcast.
LEIGHTON—Wind N.W., calm—partially cloudy.
ODLCHESTER—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast.
CAMBRIDGE—Wind N.W., gentle breeze—cloudy.

summoned once more to the task of deciding impar-
tially, deliberately, and—let it never be forgotten—
most responsibly in what manner the affairs of Hin-
&sten are henceforth to be regulate& in what form
one hundred and fifty millions of our " fellow-sub-
jects" in that quarter of the globe are to witness the
permanent stabilitation of their government.
Happily a comparative lull has at this juncture de-
scended upon the Supreme Councils of the United
Kingdom. The Northern Confederacy has been
broken up. The war with France has terminated.
The American independence has been arranged and
recognised. The French Revolution has passed
through very many phases of its development, through
agony and through glory, until it has assumed at least
an aspect bearing somewhat the semblance of consoli-
dation. The Great NAPOLEON has been dead more
than thirty years from the present time, his ashes
have been reposing more than ten years under the
gorgeous dome of the Invalides, the heir
of his fortunes and the representative of his
family has been presiding for nearly four years over
the administration of the French Republican Govern-
ment. Catholic Emancipation has been acceded to as
incorporated among the statute-laws of the realm
even by the most earnest supporters of the English
Church Establishment. Parliamentary Reform, so
far from being considered impracticable even by the
most prejudiced minority, is allowed on almost all
hands to be a question necessitating the toils of a
progressive and properly graduated development.
The Free-Trade System has been at length accepted
as an unavoidable necessity, even by the more in-
fatuated sticklers for the dogmas of Protection. The
Revolutionary turbulence of 1848 and 1849 has sub-
sided into a complete and universal tranquillity.
Ireland itself, relieved from the presence of its
disloyal and infuriated agitators, has subsided into a
state of quietude long unknown amongst her in-
poverished and unfortunate population. It is under
these propitious circumstances, it is at this pacific
juncture, it is in the midst of such wide-spread pros-
perity, that England finds herself again summoned
to the task of deliberating upon the often-deferred
problem of her Oriental Government. GOD grant
that the Parliament of Great Biitsin may acquit
itself of the solemn responsibility now devolving
upon it in a manner becoming the legislators of
those vast and scattered realms which alike own vi-
legiance to the gentle sceptre weilded by the hand of
the English SOVEREIGN ! GOD grant that the zesult
of our approaching deliberation may not prove by the
lapse of time that the Anglo-Saxon rule in the
East has continued to be a curse instead of
a blessing to 150,000,000 of souls, created like
ourselves, redeemed like ourselves, and entrusted by
PROVIDENCE to the care and the conscience of our
Government ! GOD grant that England may ia
respects regard the sacred rights of Hindostan, and
that the Oriental races may have no longer reason to
abhor the supremacy of their trading conquerors!
The Indian question will now very speedily have
to be sifted in Commission, the result of that examina-
tion will have to be debated in the Legislature, and
the decision arrived at in consequence will then have
to be sanctioned by the Crown end enforced by the
Government. Our legislators and administrators
will consequently have to consider within the limit of
next year's Parliamentary session whether the powers
entrusted hitherto to the Court of Directors shall be
renewed, whether one hundred and fifty millions of men
shall be subjected again for another quarter of a cen-
tury to the rule of a " corporation of capitalists," or
whether England shall assume to herself the enor-
mous end responsible privilege of thoroughly and
radically re-organizing the whole system of the Bri-
tish Oriental Government. In order to solve this
difficulty, it must no longer be said, " the question
will be taken up in haste, decided in haste, and we
shall crowd the discussions into a few weeks, and
postpone all discussion until the eve of the decision,"
as was formerly remarked with painful accuracy of
prediction by Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH. It must no
longer be said to the national Representatives, as was
indignantly done by Mr. MACAULAY when he occu-
pied the position of Secretary to the Board of
Control —" A broken head in Coldbath-fields
excites more attention in this House than

three pitched battles in Hindostan !" Party spirit,
moreover, must at length give way in a matter over
which it has hitherto exercised a disgraceful and
alarming predominance. We must no longer wit-
ness such odious tergiversation as was witnessed in
1784, when Fox advocated and DUNDAS successfully
opposed en East India Bill identical in character
with the measure which only two years before,
namely, in 1782, Fox had opposed and Dusznas ad-
vocated ! Proceedings very different from these
must now, we believe in our hearts, illustrate the
deliberations of the British Legislature. For the
anxious observation of the country must at last be
directed to the decision arrived at in regard to the
future conduct of the affairs of Hindostan. The
difficulty can be no more blinked. The country
cen no longer ba hoodwinked in refe-
rence to the conduct which has been
pursued by the Court of Directors. Already the
people of England have heard from the lips of an
authoritative witness that most extraordinary con-
fession, that " the larger the territory the greater the
debt," under the hitherto tolerated system of con-
fused and blundering administration. Yet more the
inhabitants of these islands have found, even now, that
that lamentable acknowledgment has been most de-
plorably verified! For while it bas teen seen that
the recently conquered territories of the Siekhe, the
Mahrattas, and the Beloochees, have secured by the
annexation of Scinde, the Punjaub and the Sutlej,
an addition to the actual revenue of our eastern pro-
vinces of 6,000,0001., a permanent additional outlay
of more than 6,000,0001. has thereby been incurred
showing that there has been actually added
to the general deficit by these means, a new
deterioration of 1,472,0021. sterling l Altogether
it proves, on inquiry into the official statistics of 18.52,
that the Indian revenue amounts to only 20,221,9521.,
while the Indian debt (exclusive of what is termed
the " home debt") amounts to 44,204,080/.1 For a
detailed exposition of these and other melancholy
truths of a similar character we would here, there-
fore, for the cogent reasons already enumerated,
direct the most earnest attention of the English
public to the arguments advanced upon the subject
by the New Quarterly. Humanity not less than
patriotism imperatively demand at this juncture that
the condition of the Hindoo multitude should Ea
weighed in the balance of judgment by every generous
and conscientious Englishman.

Extraordinary decisions sometimes are given in the
Metropolitan Polico Courts. One of these was
given, last Wednesday, in Worship•street, by Mr.
D'EYNCOURT, the magistrate. We shall state the
fects as reported, give the magistrate's judgment
and remarks, and leave the public to judge between
the delinquent and the magistrate, the offence and
the punishment.

A man, named CHARLES JoaEs, described rs
" an athletic, resolute-looking fellow," was brought
up at Worship-street, before Mr. VEYNCOURT, on
Wednesday, charged with the committal of a series
of scandalous outrages. It was proved, in evidence,
that a smell lad, aged thirteen years, named HENRY
MORGAN, was in the gallery of the Standard Theatre,
in Shoreditch, on the preceding evening ; he felt
g
very thirsty during the performance, and, having
out to procure a draught of water, returned
quietly to the seat he had left in the front. Before
be could resume possession of it the prisoner seized
him under both his arms, raised him up over the
outer part of the gallery, and violently attempted to
throw him down headlong into the pit. To use the
-words of WILLIAM LAMBERT (one of the door-
keeprs of the theatre), " the prisoner, who appeared
to be determinedly bent upon his purpose, h:d suc-
ceeded in getting the little fellow's legs over the iron
bar, but the boy clung with desperation to the rail,
and screamed for help in the greatest terror, vs the
depth from the gallery to the pit was but little short
kbeillbedu.t v
levryitul
ei tstsl,e h do ownebvte r h
iant s t ha
ne
of 70 feet, and if he hod been hurled over there could
ocualudg
hhta vheo bl
de eonf
tlyw
the lad, and succeeded with some difficulty in rescu-
ing him from his perilous position, but he had no
sooner done so than the prisoner made a rush at him,
and after striking him several sharp blows in the face,
declared with an oath that he would fling him over
next. The prisoner then seized hold of him by the
hair of his head and forcibly dragged him down until
the upper part of his person projected over the bar-

rier, and be felt perfectly satisfied that his assailant
would speedily have effected his purpose, as he was on
the point of losing his balance, iF it had not been for
the fortunate arrival of several other officers, with
whose assistance tha prisoner was at length over-
powered and secured." AIGRGAN, the intended vic-
tim, said that be was wholly at a loss to account for
the savage conduct the prisoner had exhibited towards
him, as the prisoner was au entire stranger to him,
and he had not offered him the slightest provocation
previously to his seizing him up and attempting to
pitch him over into the pit. In truth, the assault
seems to have been as unprovoked as it was aggra-
vated.

These assaults with attempt to murder—for
they were nothing less—were not the only
acts of CHARLES JONES, the prisoner, on
that night and in that place. When he had
grasped LAMBERT, the door-keeper, and attempted to
throw him over into the pit also, an assistant con-
stable of the theatre, named STANNARD, made an
exertion to extricate LAMBERT from the grasp of the
prisoner, who was et that time holding him down by
the hair of his heal, and making desperate efforts to
force him over the railing, the prisoner commenced a
similar attack upon him also, and endeavoured to
hurl him down into the pit with such an exertion of
muscular strength that they were both in imminent
danger of losing their lives. These repeated out-
rages were fully proved by the persons upon whom
they were successively coramitted—by the boy
MORGAN, by LAMBERT the door-keeper, and by
STANNARD the constable. The police report states
that the prisoner's only dufence was a vociferous
denial of the entire facts, and a declaration (in
the coarsest language) that the whole account
given of the transaction was a tissue
of lies from first to lest. And, to carry out the evi-
dence of the pr'soner's conduct, it should be remarked
that while the witnesses were giving their testimony
" he repeatedly interrupted them, and assailed them
with the foulest invectives."

The charges, as merle and proved, were three :
That, without provocation of any sort, this athletic
M2ll tack a boy of thirteen years, raiA him up in
his arms, and attempted to throw him over into the
pit, a fell of 70 fee, the consequences of which
attempt, if successful, would mest probably, have
been the lad's . death, and serious injury to the
Jsons in the pit on whom he would have been pre-
cipitated—that he seized the man (Leeinerr) who
had rescued the lad, struck him several times, seized
him by the hair of the heed, attempted to throw him
over into the pit, and was only stopped by the joint
efforts of several policemen ; and that the prisoner
attempted to throw over one of these officers also,
and was prevented with difficulty.
What was the magistrate's decision in this
series of assaults with intent to commit
murder ? Mr. D'EYNCOURT (it is duly re-
ported) " characterised it as a most wanton
outrage." He might have committed the ruffian to
trial on the charge of felony, or he had a power of
summarily fining him 51. for each of the three as-
saults, or of giving him three months in prison on
two cases, or two months for the assault on the
policeman, without the option of paying a fine.
It may be a question whether the ruffian bad
not done sufficient to be indicted capitally,
but, at any rate, on the evidence against him, a
judge, on conviction in the Criminal Court, would
most probably have sentenced him to transportation.
Mr. D'EYNCOURT punishes this " most wanton out-
rage" by fining him 51. for two of the assaults (quite
forgetting that on the constable STANNABD), " in de-
fault to stand committed to the House of Correction
for two separate terms of one month each, one to take
effect at the expiration of the other."
So, the punishment in Worship-street Police-
court for a series of brutal assaults (every
one of which, if successful might have caused
death to one or more persons), is no more than a fine
of five pounds, or two months' imprisonment ! If
this was not a case in which the maximum of punish-
ment was not fully merited, we know eothing of law
or justice. On the same day, when M. IYEYNCOUBT
gave what we cannot help thinking a most inadequate
punishment for a very serious offence, a case some-
what similar came on before the Magistrate at Guild-
hall. A fellow named Joliet WELLS was convicted
of a violent assault upon MATTHEW GAMBLE, "who
apperred with a dreadfully
strapped to his side." Without the slightest provocation,
while GAMBLE Was speakinghis
h friend CEASE
lacerated
with
no se and his arn
in the street on the previous Monday night, WELLS
came up, abused both, knocked CEASE down, kicked
him about the head end body while insensible, end
then, on GAMBLE'S interfering to essist his friend,
knockedcessian rj him
a down also, end inflicted so much per-
sonal his collet-bone, end render it
y be taken to the hospitrl.
neurtyhas
that
h t
ue sbhroe
kl
Igor theset ults—
unprovoked, violent, and
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name is not given) fined the ruffian 405.,
and in default of payment committed him for 21 days'
roeta
atgh r _
he sthe worthy magistrate" (we re-
imprisonment.
Justice at Guildhall and Worship-street is some-
what capricious. This WELLS might have been fined
51., or sentenced to thede months' herd labour, in
default of pa) ing the fine, for each offence. He
is let off with 40s. fine, or twenty-one
days' imprisonment, though he was liable to
indictment for unlawfully wounding, the punishment
of which would probably have been eighteen months
imprisonment with hard labour. This
set-off to that of Mr. D'EYNCOUF.T.
'tached object had been charged with beg-
ging a penny in the streets, he would have been
leniency
ite:oi twoof
ya yearswwar
ge
h three montlas' imprisonment. There-
times as great a crime for Poverty to
fpourne
it shedis with
oi
ut r
to it is to break one man's
ask
collar-boneapenny
and from
materially Charity,
injure another man; or to
commit three assaults, either of which, if carried out
as the ruffian intended, might have terminated fatally
to one or more, obtains two-thirds of the punishment
e
inflicted on simple mendicity.

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SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.
Graonssa trgaroaczewceeiepkts for
ring Passengers

1852 .lBul ••• ... ..; £17,843 15 1
... 20,415 2 7 Ditto, Cot. 11, •
... •
...

Decrease in 1852
London Terminus, Oct, 11, 18a *" £2,571 7 G

SUICIDE OF A GENTLEMAN AT THE SAINT
ALIIAN'S lIOTEL,CILAALES•STREET, HAIMARKET.—Last
night, about twelve o'cloFk, the utmost cansteination pre-
vailed at the above hote!. In conLequenco of its having been
discovered that a gentleman hau committed suicide in the
coffee-room. It appeared .:ono maJe by the re-
porter that the decea,cd, where name i 3 supposed to be
Bloomfield, entered the coffee-room of the hotel above-men-
tioned about cloven o'clock on the previor s night, and called
for a sausage and gloss of ale, which wera su Tpl'ed to him by
the waiter. At that time decea'cd was orsily employed
writing. About a quarter of on hour :;wards, on the
then calla; in West
waiter entering the room to attend on a customer, he was
horrified at finding the decersed, lying on the floor apparently
lifele-s. The waiter gave the r
58 C, who immediately sent for 41r. Tote,)!, surgeon, of No.
8, Charles-street, who was speed ly in
.attendanco, and di-
rectly he saw the deceased pronounced lice to be extinct' On
the table was an ounce bottle, which lor.d intrined piossic
acid, and which was empty. A letter and bundle of papers
sealed up in brown paper, and directed to the coroner, was
also found on the sear It is supposed from letters found on
him, that the unfortunate decorscd held an appointment at
Saint Domingo. Only a few pence were found upon him.
Letters have been received from Van Deimen's
Land to the 12th of June, which give, incidentaly, a bad
account of the prospects of the flocks in the colony of Vic-
toria. The following extract furnishes some detailF, but it
may bo honed that toe evils described in it r-e limited to
Particular localities :—" I have deplorable news from Po-Lc
Philip—many a rich man ruined there. The shipments of
weal from Victoria will be much less this year than formerly.
Many of the squatters have no lambs, while the consunq .
tion to! fresh me-. 1 is far greater than ucLvl. The scab has
also broken out in many parts of the colony. In Port Al-
belt 100,00 sheep are being destroyed by foot rot. Thus
you see, while some are making fortunes, others are being
rained."

THE AFFIDAYIT•OFFICE OF THE COURT OF CHAN-
CERY.—From the 28th instant the duties of the Afiida%it-
office of the Court of Chancery are to he performed by the
clerks of records and writ;, but etlidevits and rffirmatiors
may be sworn, affirmed, or attested upon honour, and de 11-
rations made before the Clerk of Errolments for the time
being, as occasion may require, for the better dispatch of
business, and the duties of the Clair. of Reports are to be
perforated by such person or persons as the Lord Chancellor
may appoint for that purpose, at a salary or salcries not ex-
ceeding 4001. a•year.
MUSEUM OF ORNAMENTAL ART AT MARLBO-
ROUGH-HoUSE.—Tho numbers attending, &c., during the
month of September were as follows : - 6,538 persons r'a the
pribiic days, and admitted free; 057 pereans on the students'
days, and admitted es students on payment of 6d. each, be-
sides the registered students of the cless:s and schools.
Thirteen articles removed from their cases to be copied, No
account is taken of copies made of articles which arm nut
removed.
DISABLED OFFICERS OF THE CaLIIT OF CHANCERY.
—The Lord Chancellor is now empowered by one et the
new Acts to remove any officer of the Court of Chancery,
&c.,1-ho is disabled to act, but why refuses to resign, ancl
to
grant pensions to such persons.

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