The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-19 00:00:00

SENTENCES.

Traw.ported for 1b years—J. Smith.
For 14 years—J. Harris, T. Colegate.
For 10.yCirs—W. Cooper, J. Girdhall, Caroline Sowt
Butlers, Julia Hill, Thomas Jones, G. W. Stewart, J. Ro-
berts, J. Colbin, Thomas Smith, Ann Day, J. W. Brown,
R. Fitzgerald.
For 7 years—Edward Williams, T. Horgan, W. Jones,
J. Owen, J. Hill, James Cirgley, Joseph Clark, Roach

EXTRAORDINARY DELUSION.-011 Friday a tall,
elderly, military-looking man, named Javan Evans, who
has on several occasions annoyed her Majesty, was brought,
accompanied by a keeper, before Sir J. S. LILLIE and
Messrs. BARLOW and SUTTON, the Sitting Magistrates,
by Mr_ Newson, one of the relieving officers of the Ken-
sington union, for the purpose of being passed to the Coun-
ty Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell.
The necessary documents having been prepared and
handed into the Magistrates,
Mr. Wright, one of the surgeons of the union, deposed
that by virtue of an order signed on the application of the
overseers of St. Luke's, Chelsea, by Captain Fitzgerald,
a county Magistrate, he had examined Evans, and was
decidedly of opinion that he was insane, and unfit to be
at large.
The BENCII—What is the nature of his insanity—is he
violent ? Mr. Wright—His insanity consists of notions of a
very high character. He is very noisy, and obliged always to
have a person watching hint to prevent his doing mischief.
Sir J. S. LILLIE (to Evans)—What is your name ?
Evans—Javan Evans. You must know me; I am the
King of England,
Sir J. S. LILLIE—You have been in the army, I see ;
pray when were you discharged? Evans—l never was
discharged. I have the army under me now. lam a
general, a colonel, a lieutenant, an ensign, a quarter-
master, an adjutant, a sergeant, a corporal, and a private,
and I have the pay of them all.
Sir J. S. Liws—You certainly are a very fortunate
man to hold so many appointments. Evans--ob, that is
nothing. lam also Christ, and I came from Heaven.l
can call down gold, and have as many millions as I like
in a moment.

Sir J. S. LlLLlE—lndeed, then the Chancellor of the
Exchequer will be very glad of your assistance. There's a
scarcity of money just now, and the Ministry. find a great
difficulty in raising it. They'll be very glad, as it will
prevent their funding so many Exchequer bills. Do you
know Mr. Spring Rice? Evans—Spring Rice? No, I
don't know much about him ; but I believe he's a crony of
my wife's.
Sir J. S. LILLIE—Then you are a married man—have
you any family ? Is your wife here ? Evans—The beau-
tiful Queen Victoria is my wife. I was married to her at
St. Paul's Cathedral on the Ist of August, and you shan't
take me from her. I love her, and she loves me.

Mr. BARLOW—Where did you come from this morning ?
Evans—Where did I come from? Why, from the Palace,
to be sure - it belongs to me.
Sir J. g. LILLIE—Yes, and you have another palace
at Hanwell, with 50 acres of pleasure grounds. We are
now going to send you there. Evans—No, no ; 1 shan't
go there. St. James's Palace, I mean. lam Christ,
and I built it ; and yet they will not allow me any tobacco.
The First Regiment of Foot Guards is mine ; I was in it
22 years.
Mr. BARLow--IWho is that behind you? (pointing to
the keeper). Evans—Who--He ? Oh, I don't know.
Sir J. S. LILLIE—He's one of your aides-de-camp. I
suppose. Evans—Oh no ; he's one of my people from
the Palace ; all my clothes are there, and I give my ser-
vants 100 guineas a-year.
Sir J. S. LILLIE—WeII, Kings generally remove in
summer to their country residences, and so must you.
Evans—Ah, but I sha'nt ; I shall always live at St.
James's. I won't leave the Queen.
Sir J. S. LILLIE—But the Queen herself is going to
Windsor on Saturday. Evans—Then I shall go with her.
Sir J. S. LILLIE—WeII, so you can; we'll arrange
that. She shall meet you at Hanwell.
The BENCH then signed the documents, and the unfor-
tunate man, who was formerly a private in the Foot
Guards, was led out of the office, exclaiming, .1 Lovely
Victoria! Dearest Victoria !"

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

MANSION-HO USE.

AN ORPHAN GIRL'S ADVENTURE.-On Saturday a little
red-headed, rosy.cheeked girl, named Elizabeth Cash,
who appeared to be between seven and eight years of age,
was brought before the Lord Mayor, by the direction of
Inspector Harrison, of the City Police, under the following
odd circumstances :

A blind fiddler, named Clarke, who scrapes in public-
houses, happened to become acquainted with the child
through a child of his own of the same age, who used to
lead him about to fiddling. Finding that she had lost both
her parents, and that she had no protection except that
which St. Giles's workhouse afforded, he determined to take
her home, that she might divide the duties of a guide with
his own little girl. She was delighted with the change of
living and treatment she experienced, and performed the
duties of a guide so well, that the fiddler resolved to give
her three days schooling in each week, and to bring her up
to the trade of music along with his daughter, who was to
go to school on the three alternate days. She was not long
in the situation when she took the measles, but, being ten-
derly nursed, she soon recovered, and very gratefully ca-
ressed the blind fiddler, calling him " father," and telling
him that she would always be his child. It appeared how-
ever, that another blind fiddler, named Cassidy, became
also acquainted with the little girl, and her good qualities
as a guide, and calculating upon her kindness as being su-
perior to that of the boy who led him about on the tap room
rig, resorted to means of supplanting her blind benefactor
in her affections. In a abort time he succeeded, and
the poor little guide preferred her new employment so
much, that she refused to return to her old quarters. It
was in consequence of a dispute between the two fiddlers,
each of whom claimed the child, that the inspector, who
considered the case to be rather a knotty one, caused the
matter to be brought before the Lord Mayor. Clarke, the
blind fiddler, and his wife and child attended, and anxiously
awaited the decision of the Lord Mayor, but neither
Cassidy, the other blind fiddler, nor his wife, appeared to
assert their interest in the fate of the poor little creature.
Elizabeth Cash said in answer to questions from the Lord
Mayor, that her father, who had lived in the service of
Lady Dashwood, had died about five or six years ago, and
her mother, after having been ill for a length of time in St.
Giles's workhouse, died there some months since. After
she bad been taken home by the first blind fiddier, she was
treated well by him, but she preferred the other, and
she pressed the Lord Mayor to allow her to serve Mr.
Cassidy,
The LORD MAYOR said that the child looked as if
great care had been taken of her. Clarke—l assure you
my Lord, I acted towards her as she acknowledges, with as
much tenderness as I exercised towards my own child.
Elizabeth—Yes, 1 know you did, but your wife beat
me severely, although you both know I worked hard for
you.
Clarke—No, no, she should not beat you ; I would not
allow it, if she was inclined. _

Mr. Hobler—But, my good man, you could not see
what took place.
Clarke—No, I could not, Sir, but I have very sharp
ears ; and the want of the faculty of sight enables me to
exercise my other faculties more powerfully. My wife
never beat her, or I must have heard something towards it.
Elizabeth—She did • she beat me often, very severely.
It was more than I could bear.
Mrs. Clarke denied that she had ever used a harsh word
or a blow. _
__ _ _ _ _ _

Clarke—There's the return for all my kindness. I took
the poor friendless child away from the company of common
prostitutes, and from starvation, and here's the way she re-
turns it. Well, I'll never treat another so.
The Loan MAYOR—But the child complains that your
wife beats her severely. Now, I dare say, Cassidy, who
is known here as a very decent well conducted man, would
not allow his wife nor any one else to strike her. Clarke
—My Lord, lam only anxious that the poor child should be
taken care of. I'll deliver ber up to your Lordship with all
my heart. She is an excellent guide for a poor blind fel-
low, but she has behaved ungratefully to me.
The LORD MAYOR—I shall take care of her, and not
allow her to go near either of you until I learn all about
her from the proper authorities, and see whether we can-
not improve her prospects.
The LORD MAYOR then directed Gooch, who officiates
at the Compter, to tell the matron to take care of the little
orphan. His Lordship then said that he gave every credit
to Clarke for parental feeling towards the child, and that
the child frankly acknowledged his kindness, but the blows
which she received from another hand were injudiciou!ly
administered, where the mind was so deeply impressed with
kind treatment.

ENGLISII ARTISANS IN FRANCR.—Three poor women,
one of them had two children, and each of the others had
one child in their arms, stated that they arrived by a
steamer from Havre in a destitute condition. They were
natives of a place thirteen miles from Birmingham, and
were by trade needle and fishing-hook makers, and -they
stated, that in the month of January last, a commercial
man from Normandy, prevailed on them, their husbands,
and other workmen, to the number of fourteen, to ac-
company him to France, where he would give them plenty
of employment at their trade and English wages, so that
on account of the cheapness of provisions they could save
o but contract,
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money. lie paid their expenses to France, but on their
arrival at his premises he insisted that they should teach
his people their trade. They refused to perform what
was never thought
and their new employer immediately reduced them to
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which they ththeyemcoausldpasrlot slot live their
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punishedages,
their refusal in that way, but actually de-
ducted the amount of their passage money ; and when they
loudly remonstrated against such conduct, and threatened
to apply to the English Consul on the subject,• he sent/
the females to Havre, from whence they were brought ever
by the steamer. Their husbands and the other men were
poor creatures ap
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of London Union at once, with great kind
to send them to their homes by the Birmingham
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Railroad,
The LORD MAYOR very warmly commended h
and alacrity with which such important t e warmth
I offered.

LAMBETH. STREET.
SERIOUS CASE OP' STABBING AND WOUNDING —Satur-
day Carl Greabey, a German skin-dresser, was placed at
the bar before Messrs. • Combe and Garford, for further
examination on a charge of stabbing and seriously wound-
ing George Graffer, a countryman of his. From the evi-
dence it appeared that late on a Saturday night, three
weeks ago, the prisoner quarrelled with some person Itt
the Catherine Wheel public-house, in Essex-greet, White,
chapel. Upon which the complainant, who was servant
to the landlord interfered, and in putting them out he re-
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Barker, H 1, came up, and found the prisoner knocking at
the door of the public-house with his shoe, and on asking
him why he made such a noise he replied that he bad been
stabbed ; his hands at the time were covered with blood. The
constable took him to the station-house, and •
there ascertained
that he it was who had stabbed the complainant, and a
clasp knife, covered with blood, was found outside the pub-
lie-house door, and he was, in consequence, detained, and
the injured man sent to the London Hospital. Mr. Howell,
a medical pupil at the hospital, described the wounds in-
flicted on the complainant to be of a very serious charac-
ter, particularly the two on the side of the throat, and said
the man's !life was in very great danger for several days.
The injured man, who had been brought from the hospital,
and who seemed still suffering from the effects of the
wound, could not swear as to having seen a knife in the
prisoner's hands at the time of the scuffle, but immediately
after he had struck him on the top of the head he felt the
injury.
Barker, the policeman, said that on a future day he
would be prepared with witnesses who would satisfactorily
prove that the prisoner was the person by whom the inju-
ries had been inflicted.
Mr. COOMBE told him to have the witnesses in attend-
ance on Friday, when he would commit the prisoner for
trial on the charge.
A FRAIL Rte.—Daniel Driscoll, a jobbing porter, was
brought up on a warrant charging him with assaulting
William Pugh. The complainant, who appeared young
enough to be the son of the defendant, stated that on the
night of that day week, the defendant,' without any provo-
cation, caught him by the neck-handkerchief, and at-
tempted to strangle him. The witness added, that the
present was not the first or second time he bad been used
in a similar manner by the defendant, who, in fact, attacked
him every place he met him.
Magistrate—What is the cause of his doing so? Wit-
ness—l don't know, your worship: I can't tell the cause.
Driscoll—You don't know, don't you 1 Oh, you eter-
nal villiant, you 1 and isn't it meself 'll tell his wurtship.
Magistrate—Well, what is the cause? Driscoll—Why,
Sir, the thief has taken away my wife, and stolen any pro.
perty.
Magistrate—Complainant, is that the case—have you
taken away the man's wife? Complainant (after some he-
sitation)—l hav'nt taken her away, Sir; she came with
me of her own accord.

Magistrate—And you have since been living with her, I
suppose? Complainant—Yes, your Worship.
Magistrate—Then you must not be very much surprised
at this man giving you a thump or two on the head when
he meets you. Driscoll having promised not to repeat his
violence, the warrant was dismissed.

METROPOLITAN POLITICAL

SUMMARY.

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" The Globe of Saturday, speaking of the reprieve
of the Warwick Chartists, says :—" We have hitherto
imposed on ourselves a degree of reserve respecting the
case of these convicts, whose lives the mercy of the Crown
has spared. We had heard from good sources, soon after
the sentence was passed, that it was not expected its ex-
treme rigour would be carried into execution. We have
not however considered, and we do not now consider
this clemency a fact which ought to be made the subject
of hasty congratulation, or drawn into a precedent, if
unhappily the recurrence of outrages of a similar descrip-
tion should prove the necessity of rigid infliction of the
law. This we do not anticipate ; the union of firmness
with mercy will, we trust, prevent it. We think the
distinction a sound one between crimes attended and
unattended with violence."
The Courier speaks in the following terms of the
conduct of the Portuguese Government with regard to
the slave trade :—" What more particularly aggravates
the odious character of the Portuguese conduct in this
matter, is the circumstance, that Portugal cannot plead
that she has herself at this moment any one colony in
which slave labour is either necessary or desirable. No
national interest is promoted by the infamy so wantonly
incurred by the Portuguese Government, of trampling
under foot the solemn obligations .by which she has
bound herself to England, for Brazil has ceased to be
a Portuguese colony, and it is chiefly for the supply of
Brazil and Cuba that the merchants of Portugal now
prostitute their flag to the basest of ends. Even the
Brazilian Government makes the conduct of Portugal
a subject of complaint."
The Standard thus alludes to a late manifesto of the
Trowbridge Chartists :—" The Chartists appear to
omit no opportunity of recalling to the recollection of
her Alajesty's Government the intimacy of the relations
which used to subsist between them. The manifesto
of the Trowbridge Chartists, after a recommendation
to its disciples to disregard her Majesty's proclamation
by what it is pleased to call a National Torchlight
Meeting,' takes care especially to remark that it offers
the suggestion in ' direct opposition to the opinion
of her Majesty's Attorney-General, as delivered to
the authorities of Dudley. when that law officer
was honoured with a torchlight procession by the

inhabitants of that town,' and goes on to
ask by what statutes such meetings are illegal.
We believe the only plea Lord John Russell can offer
in reply is that of necessity. How that necessity has
arisen, the extracts from his Lordship's speeches and
letters on the subject of the meetings of Political Union-
ists to which we referred a few dAys ago, and which
have formed a leading feature of the defences made by
some of these misguided men on their recent trials, will
sufficiently explain. If the Government goes on as it
has done 'during the last eight years of Whig domina-
tion, it may be necessary to return to the Curfew, and
force every body to put out their lights at set of sun."