The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-28 00:00:00

WORSHIP STREET.

ALLEGED ROBBERY BY A CABMAN.-117m, Gardiner,
a person of respectable exterior, who was described as
a carver and gilder, was brought before Mr. CODD, the
sitting Magistrate, under the following circumstances :
It appeared from the statement of police constable
Green, H, 139, that lie was on duty in Brick-lane,
Spitalfields, at three o'clock that morning, when he saw
the prisoner lying in the road with two or three persons
round him, by whom he was informed that he (the pri-
soner) had just been pitched headlong out of a cab, the
driver of which had driven off at full speed. Witness
and two or three other policemen ran after the cab,
which they saw proceeding at a rapid rate some distance
before them, but the driver, on perceiving that he was
pursued, lashed his horse furiously on, and was soon out
of sight. The prisoner was conveyed to the station-
house in a state of stupor, on his partial recovery from
which, he said that the cabman, before he threw him
out, had robbed him of his watch, value ten guineas,
together with his purse, which contained fifteen so-
vereigns.
Mr. CODD put several questions to the prisoner,
from his answers to which it appeared, that after
spending the evening with some friends, he got into
the cab in Farringdon-street for the purpose of being
driven home, b.ut he was too much overpowered by
the liquor he had taken to retain any clear recollec-
tion of the circumstances of his ill treatment, and all
he knew was, that he had been robbed and grossly mal-
treated by the cabman.
Mr. Conn said that he would not add to the severe
punishment he had sustained through his indiscretion
by imposing any penalty upon him. The worthy Ma-
gistrate directed the police to exert themselves for the
purpose of finding- out the cabman.
Sergeant Barker said he had obtained a clue which
he thought would most likely lead to his apprehension.
The prisoner was discharged.

THE LATE ELECTION FOR. IPSWICH.—Had
the el-ction depended upon the constituency created by
the Reform Act, Mr. Gibson would have been our Mem-
ber by a majority of thirty-nine upon the number polled ;
and it was only by the support of the least informed por-
tion of the old free burgesses that the election of the Tory
candidate was effected. But under any circumstances,
if we had the Ballot, the cause of Toryism in this borough
would have received 113 death-blow ; for it is an in-
disputable fact that by far the larger proportion of the
191 neutrals were Reformers in opinion, and would
have voted for Mr. Gibson, had they been protected
from the foul influences which were so extensively
in operation during the contest. It appears also
that there were no less than 98 persons disfranchised
merely on account of removals ! Now if Mr. Gibson's
Electors Removal Bill," which passed the House of
Commune, but was unceremoniously thrown out by the
Lords, had been made law, as it ought to have been, every
one of those 98 persons would have been entitled to re-
cord their votes. And we have not the least doubt that,
under such auspicious circumstances, Mr. Gibson would
have been triumphant by a majority of perhaps 100 or 150,
at the lowest computation. We -do most sincerely hope
that for the safety of the Liberal cause, for the sake of the
country, and as the only means of saving us from the iron
sway of a Tory Government, our legislators will see the
necessity of adopting as their own propositions, the Ballot
and the Electors Removal Bill. With such instrumen-
tality, th. suffrage would be extended, and all those im-
nrovernents which the people so anxiously desire, would
c,irrii;tl fr,i•tvard ;`gird; in ne,or,i,inc: with thr sacred
principles of " peace, law, and order."—lpswich Lspress.

EVENING 14: DITI f, )IN.F

FROM LAST rIGHT'S GAZETTE

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At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 26th day of Au-
gust 1839, present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in
Council.—This day the Right Honourable Francis Thornhill
Barinl was, by her Majesty's command, sworn of her Majesty's
Most Honourable Privy Council, and took his place at the
Board accordingly.

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 26th day of August,
1839, present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
—Her Majesty acing been pleased to appoint the Most Noble
George Granville Duke of Sutherland Lord Lieutenant and
Custos Rotulorum of the county of Salop, his Grace this day
took the oaths appointed to be taken thereupon, instead of the
oaths of allegiance and supremacy.