The Sun.
London, England, 1837-09-26 00:00:00

CITY REGISTRATION-THIS DAY

Before Mr. Cam°.

The Court was still engaged with evising the l'sts for the
parish of St. Botolph, Aldgate.
The first objection was one taken by the Turks azainst
the name of Aaron Freight.
His rating and occupation were proved, as also the pay-
ment of his taxes by Mr. Jones.
In his cross-examination the witness said he spoke like a
foreigner, but that did not satisfy him that Mr. Freight was
a foreigner, because he had known many whom he knew to
be English Jews, who, having been in foreign countries,
when they returned had as much of the foreign accent as
Mr. Freight. There was nothing more foreign in the ap-
pearance of Mr. Freight, than there was in the generality
of Jewish countenances. He was spoken of in the neigh-
bourhood as a foreigner ; but that, in his mind, proved
nothing.
Mr. Rowcroft called Benjamin Hog, who deposed that
he called on Mr. Freight, and in conversation he told him
that he was a foreigner—that he belonged to Russia, of
which country his father and mother were natives.
Cross-examined by Mr. Tijou—He had been employed by
the Conservative Association to go and make inquiries. He
had not been paid yet, but he expected to get something ;
still he would speak the truth. He did explicitly tell Mr.
Freight that he came from the Conservative Association,
and to inquire whether he was a foreigner. Mr. Freight
said he was a Russian, but he had been fourteen years in
London, and he considered that was sufficient to put him
on a par with the natives. Witness was a tailor.
In the course of the cross-examination i\lr. Tijou said
some persons had been hired for the purposes of deception
and perjury.
Mr. Rowcroft very indignantly denied the imputation.
His instructions to all persons sent out were that they
should distinctly tell from whom they came, and that if the
persons would satisfy the inquirer that he was not an alien,
they would give him no further trouble.
Mr. Tijou did not doubt Mr. Rowcroft's assertion as to
the instructions given by him, but he was perfectly aware
that one of their agents had represented himself as from
the Reform Association, and that he bad committed per-
jury. He was in a condition to prove that.
Mr. CRAIG was satisfied with the evidence in this case.
He would not, in any case, hold that a man speaking with
a foreign accent must be an alien—that would not be suffi-
cient proof, because many natural born subjects went to
foreign countries, and on their return spoke with the foreign
accent : but in this case the evidence was that Mr. Freight
acknowledged himself a foreigner, and not only so, but went
further, and said he thought " a residence of 14 years ought
to entitle him to the privileges of a native."
Name expunged.
(Before Mr. MYLNIZ.)
Mr. Wilmot claimed to be put on the register for a
house in the parish of St. Mary, Colechurch.
Mr. MYLNE—I think, Mr. Wilmot, I have seen you
here before. Your name is already on the list.
Mr. W.—Yes, Sir. I occupy a house in St. Stephen,
Coleman-street, for which I am on the list ; but as I think
it will shortly be pulled down, in order to make sure ,of a
vote, I claim now for a house i❑ this parish.
Mr. Goodeve—And I believe your name stands in the
list of Liverymen ?
Mr. \V.—Yes, it does.
Mr. Goodevc—That might satisfy you. Pray, how
many more lists do you want to be on ? You cannot claim
as an occupier of two houses.
Mr. M YLNE—Certainly he can if he likes.
Mr. W. then proved his rating payments and occupa-
tion, and his claim was allowed—the Revising Barrister
observing that he would now have a choice of three polling
places at an election.

CRIMINAL COURT.-T HIS DAY.

SENTENCES.

The RECORDER, accompanied by the Sheriffs and other
City functionaries, took his seat on the Bench this morning
at halt-past ten o'clock, for the purpose of passing sentence
upon the various prisoners convicted during the present
Session.

To be imprisoned for One Month—Mary Lely, Cor-
nelius Neale, Samuel Hood, Evan Jones, William Deane,
and George Spencer.
To be imprisoned Six Weeks—Mary Anne Lubbick,
John M'Mally, and Robert Noy.
To be imprisoned for Two Months—Bridget Price,
Mary Anne Rupkins, and Jeremiah Foster.
To be imprisoned for Three Months—Anne Wells,
Mary Powel, alias Cowdroy, Jane Robins, William Francis,
William Race, George Harte , Edward Smith, Joseph
Clarke, William Jones, John Browne, William Ward, John
Lewis, James Shirley, John Cooper, John Wood, James
Cannon, Andrew Rennie, Richard Fell, Thomas Richard-
son, John Stewart, and James Pringle. .

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To be imprisoned Three Months (three weeks in Solitary
Confinement) Anne Oaks, Jane Watkins, Margaret
Smith, James White, George Stanwin, Samuel Russell,
William Burne, Michael Norton, George Johnston, Thomas
Hillyard, Robert John Arnold, James Mitchell, Henry
Cloudsley, Robert Lockyer, John Beagle, John Thompson,
Henry Chennimant, John Way, Thomas Sellin, Thomas
Matthews, Thomas Boulter.
To be imprisoned for Six Months—Bridget Scanlan,
Sarah Harwood, Julia Dwyer, Mary Willick, Mary Charl-
ton, Thomas Ofileys, Thomas Kirk, James Knight, George
Wilkman Bevan, Godfrey Kennedy, John Simms, W. Davis,
Thomas Standage, Roland Owen, John Thomas, George
Pearce, James Bowles, James Stevenson.

To be imprisoned for Nine Months—Mary Oat.
To be imprisoned for Twelve Months (three months
solitary confinement) Hannah Sullivan, Bartholomew
Cunningham, John Fort, William Smith, Nicholas Walker,
Richard Pike, William West, Richard Russell, William
Platt, Joseph Harrison, George Browne, Thomas Seymour,
William Swaine, William Pellin, William Mobbs, Thomas
Williams, John Copeman.
To be imprisoned for Two Years—Thomas Hill, John
Davies, John Coates.

To be transported for ,Seven Years—Elizabeth Read,
Mary Hale, Mary Lucas, Catherine Lyons, Mary Smith,
John Hughes, Robert Hicks, Wm. Cowdroy, Wm. Bell-
man, Robert Newton Payne, Edward Ricketts, Edward
Bradshawe, Cornelius Driscoll, Wm. Wagstaff, William
Gales, Henry Noel Wilkinson, John Davis, John Smith,
James Adams, Wm. Jackson, Thos. Fitkins, Samuel Ken-
dall, Thos. Wm. Roseviere, Joseph Gibbs, John Kingston,
John Hanning, Charles Curslake, John Callaghan, James
Edwards alias Wells.

To be transported for Fourteen Years—Ann Wilson,
W. Stevens, Thos. Young, jun., James Moore, W. Major,
James Davis, Michael Flynn, Thos. Lyn, John Scarmell.
To be transported for Life—Margaret Kidner, Edward
Collins, Richard Wilson, Isaac Dodman, Wm. Morgan
Mordecai, Charles Thompson, John Saunders, James
Wilcox, John llennessey alias Curtain.
The Court then adjourned to Monday, October '23.

The King of Prussia has allowed several of his
officers to proceed to the French head-quarters at Algiers,

and to participate in the expedition against Constantine, to
afford them an opportunity of perfecting themselves in their
military studies.
Count Pozzo di_Borgo has consented to return to
his embassy at the British Court. The Count is expected
with his suite at Ashburnham House on the Ist of No-
vember. _ _

M. de Poggenpohl, who is said to have been ap
pointed by the Emperor Charge d'Affaires to the Infante
Don Carlos, and who is now in Paris, was formerly, we
believe, Secretary to the Russian Ambassador.
ENGLISH OPERA ElousE.—Last evening Miss
Rainforth undertook the arduous duty of appearing as
Leonora in Beethoven's opera of Fidelio, and although the
performances of Schroeder Devrient and Malibran had
been so familiar to the English public as to render the
attempt somewhat hazardous, yet Miss Rainforth over-
came all these difficulties, and her efforts were crowned
with complete success. Without servilely imitating Dev-
rient, or, like Malibran, overacting some of the scenes, Miss
Rainforth had cauglat sufficient of their spirit to render full.
justice to the c.iaaracter ; her acting was good throughout,
and excellera in the prison scene ;. her singing was also ex-
tremely good, and the trio, at the end of the first act, be-
tween her, Rocco (Seguin), and "Mareelliae (Miss Poole);
the duet in the second, act, between her and Rocco, and
the finale, were loudly and deservedly applauded—the two
last being horaoured with unanimous encores. We have
much also 'ea, praise in the singing of Miss Poole, than
whom IV6 have never heard a better Marcelline. We
heartily congratulate Miss Rainforth on her success. The
oPt,ra was followed by a concert, in which Belle, Fraser,
'Seguin, Sapio, and Allen took a part ; and the perform-
ances concluded with The Little Laundress, in which Miss
Rainforth played with spirit the part of Madelon.
Yesterday an Inquest was held at the London
Hospital, in the Mile-end-road, before Mr. Baker, the Co-
roner, on the reuiP2ms of Thomas Cornbes,a. dock labourer,
aged 40
his limit-, drunk nearly a quart of full-strength rum. Mr.
ye'.rs, who died in that institution in consequence of
,era medical .student, stated that tldeceasedwas
'''z'aight 'to the hospital in a state of insensibility on Friday
evening. lie smelt very, strong of rum, and he in conse-
quence applied a stomach-pump, and evacuatcsd nearly a
quart of rum from the stomach. He used all the usual
means to rally and restore the deceased, but without suc-
cess, as he died in a short time afterwards. It further ap-
peared that he had been employed on the rum quay at the
West India Docks, and got what is called " sucking the
monkey," and drunk such a quantity that he become almost
immediately insensible, and was conveyed to the hospital.
The jury returned a verdict of " Natural death, produced
by drinking a large quantity of rum."