The Sun.
London, England, 1839-04-08 00:00:00

if its downfal would be att,nded with positive evil and
disasters, can there be a doubt about the choice ? At
a late meeting in Ireland, Mr. O'Connell humorously
likened the Government to the old bat which so often
serves to stop a gap in the cabin window, not, as he ex-
plained, to let in the sun, but to keep out the cutting
wind. A pane of glass would be incomparably better ;
but till Pat can provide himself with glass, he is not un-
wisein availing himself of the old hat as a protection.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT

CALENDAR.

(THE 54TH SESSION, AND THE 6TH OF THE PRESENT
MAYORALTY-COMMENCING THIS MORNING.)
A summary statement, descriptive of the various
offences with which the prisoners already committed for
trial at the present session of Oyer and Termincr, and
gaol delivery of Nevigate and tha other prisons within
the jurisdict►on of the Central Criminal Court, severally
stand charged—viz., with murder, 1 ; misdemeanour, 4 ;
embezzlement, 10 ; bigamy, 1 ; burglary, 8 , house•
breaking, 5 ; shop-breaking, 1 ; rape, 2 ; larceny, 141 ;
child stealing, 1 ; sheep stealing, 2 ; highway robbery,
2 ; stealing goods and monies in dwelling-houses, 4 ;
ditto, from the person, 31 ; ditto, by domestic servants,
&c., 31 ; obtaining the like by false pretences, 1 ; 'ac-
cessory before the fact of felony, 1 ; unnatural offence
1 ; uttering and unlawfully possessing base coin, 15 ;
forgery and uttering forged instruments, 2 ; having en
engraved plate in possession for a felonious purpose, 1 ;
receiving stolen goods with a guilty knowledge, 8 ; cut-
ting, wounding, and beating persons, 4 ; London pri-
soners, 37 ; Middlesex ditto, 191 ; Essex ditto, 1 ;
Kent ditto, 22 ; Surrey ditto, 25 ; total, 276.

The Chronicle does not now• concur in this view. It
says—
" The object we aim at is paramount to any feeling to-
wards any administration. The consolidation of a people's
party would render very unimportant the personnel of
Government' and leave little concern about who should
come in, or who go out. Let us but see the great
mass of honest Reformers again in union, and we defy any
set of Tories to govern the nation upen Tory principles,
or to obstruct, as they now do, every attempt to embody
liberal principles in practical measures."
If it be, in the Chronicle's opinion, a matter of little
concern who should come in and who go out of office, is
it also a matter of little concern who may come in and
wh• go out of Parliament upon a dissolution under a
Tory Ministry, and a rupture between Whigs and Ra-
dicals? As the battle must be fought in the House
of Commons, the question appears to us of momentous
importance whether the Reformers would gain or lose
strength in the House by the first certain consequence
of overthrowing the Administration—namely, a disso-
lution under a Tory Government at the moment of ex-
asperation between the deserted Whigs and the seced-
ing Radicals.
The union of Reformers of all shades of opinion, from
the most forward to the most backward section, would un-
doubtedly be more than a match for the Tory power ; but
we must reckon on something more certain than the bird
in the bush, and it would be prudent to effect the union
before the accession of the Tories to power is hazarded ;
for the prospect would be rather blank if, after the ene-
my had possessed himself of the citadel, the Radicals
find themselves on the one flank shorn of the Whigs (who
though the fewer in numbers, have the powers of station
and influence,) and on the other of the populace still
ranged under the separate banner of the Chartists.
The sane means which would suffice to turn the Tories
out, if once in power, would be at least equally available
to keep them out of office ; and we cannot recognize a
first step to the Temple of Concord in a quarrel with
the rear rank of the Liberal forces. When the Duke of
Wellington was thwarted and impeded by his Spanish
allies, who could hardly ever he induced to act in con-
cert with him, it never occurred to the Great Captain
that he could improve his condition by turning his arms
against them, or leaving them to be cut to pieces by the
French.

STATE OF HER MAJESTY'S GAOL OF NENVGATE.
SATURDAY, APRIL 6.

Prisoners sentenced to death but respited arid trans-
ported for life, males, 2 ; under sentence of transporta-
tion for 10 years, males, 1 ; ditto, for 7 years, males, I ;
whose judgments have been respited, males, 1, females, 1 ;
commuted by order of the Secretary of State, males, 12 ;
ditto, bankrupt commissioners, males, 1 ; acquitted on
the ground of insanity and remains, males, 1 ; for trial
at the present session, males, 206 ; females, 70 ; total, 29G.
#*4' It will be observed that Matthew Sutton and
Wm. Berry, upon whom sentence of death was passed
at the last session for rape, have had their punishment
commuted to transportation for life.

As a great many prisoners are under a course of pre-
liminary examination at the metropolitan police offices,
it is expected that 50 more will be committed to New-
gate crc the Grand Jury terminate their labours.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO U SE.

A young man, named John Jones, was brought
before the Lord Mayor, charged with having stolen a
cheque for 153/. 4s. 4d., the property of Messrs.
Bolton, Bell, and Mcrewether, solicitors, of Austin-friars.
Mr. Charles Greenwood, clerk to prosecutors, pro-
duced the cheque for 153/. 4s. 4d., on the Bank of
England, which he said had been left in his custody, to
be paid to a person who was to call at the office. He
had left the cheque in his desk, to which there was no
lock, on Wednesday last, while he went to dinner, and
at his return it was gone. The prisoner was a clerk in
the office, and the witness, when the cheque .was pro
duced by a clerk in the Bank who gave cash for it, per-
ceived the prisoner's name and address on it. There was
another cheque, which was for 21. 18s. Id., also missing,
and that was found upon the prisoner's person.
Mr. Bell said that the prisoner had been in the em-
ployment of the firm ten years, and had been most
kindly treated ; but his passion for drink was exces-
sive, and on the night of the day he committed the
robbery he was brought home in a state of brutal in-
toxication. Mr. Bell said he considered he was bound
to state that the conduct of the waiter at the Elephant
and Castle, where the prisoner went at night to get
more drink, was most praiseworthy. The prisoner was
observed by the waiter pulling out a great number of
sovereigns, and the waiter, suspecting that all was not
right, gave a hint at the bar. The prisoner's hat was then
looked into, and that afforded a clue to his abode, and
in the mean time all the money he had about him,
which amounted to nearly the whole amount of the
check, was taken from him and lodged in the bar.
A second clerk in the prosecutor's office said that he
saw the prisoner go to Mr. Greenwood's desk, and told
the prisoner be would not be pleased at his taking that
liberty, at which the prisoner smiled.
A clerk in the Bank of England proved that he paid
the cheque in bank notes and sovereigns to the prisoner.
An officer, who was informed by the firm that the
robbery had taken place, and that the prisoner was the
suspected party, said he expected from his knowledge of
the prisoner's habits that the prisoner would be brought
home drunk.

We say not a word in extenuation of the obtuseness
and obstinacy, or the timidity, of the Whig leader% in
opposing the necessary Parliamentary Reforms ; all that
we contend is, that we should not damage our own cause
in dealing with their errors ; and that whatever may be
the fate to which their perverseness may lead them, it
should not be precipitated in any way, or in any degree,
by Radicals, who would be the sufferers in turn from the
resentments excited by such an act, however much it may
have been provoked.
We believe even now, that if the Whigs would
make any step, however moderate, in the right
direction, it would be accepted with reasonable satis-
faction by Reformers ; and we repeat our surprise
that they are not invited to show their willingness
to maintain their own principles by a motion for an
amendment of the Reform Act according to the
original principles and design of the Bill first pro-
posed, and most approved by Lord Grey's Government
—that is to say, without the 501. tenant-at-will clause ;
without the franchise of the corrupt freemen ; and with-
out the nuisance of the very small boroughs— and in the
all-comprehensive words of Lord Grey, giving represen-
tation, not nomination. This would not fully satisfy
the demands of the Radical Reformers, it is true : but it
would be a move in the direction of their objects, the
Reform Bill having been received by them as a step, but
it having so failed of the purposes of a step that the step
intended is yet to be made good. Here, then, is a ground
upon which the Whigs, without violence to their own
opinions, or compromise of their consistency, should
be prepared to meet the Radicals, and as the power-
ful writer of the article on the re-organization of the
Reform Party in the London and lircsinzinster Review
observes—

" Men may combine in supporting a good thing which
is to be had now, and continue to do all they can by speech
and writing for something they think better, which the time
is not yet come for putting into a practical shape, and car-
rying through Parliament. Each may drive at his separate
and remote ()Eject, in addition to, and not to the exclusion
of, the immediate and practicable one."
And as for tho notion that differences as to ultimate
objects are inconsistent with practical co-operation for
present purposes, the same able writer remarks—

The LORD MAYOR—The waiter deserves great
praiFe, and there is much credit due to the house too.

" A great part of the difficulty arises from the mi►taken,
and in realty unpractical idea, that in order to help one an-
other it is necessary that Reformers should be silent on their
points of difference. So far from this, that one Reformer
often gives a mere effectual support to another by demand-
ing more than he, than by demanding only as much. We
would have them aid one another not by leaving their opinions
and feelings unspoken, but by speaking them. We would
have every man loudly cry out for what he deems most im-
portant, for whatever he is most in earnest in desiring to see
carried. Men are sure to be more stirring and active
for all that they want, than for a part only of what they
want : while, the more deeply-seated the dissatisfaction is
seen to be, and the more it seems to require to satisfy it,
the greater is the intimidation of the enemy. It is net
those who ask for all, but those who reject less than all,
that render unio i impossible."
In all the writing that we , have seen for the last
fortnight upon the obstacles to Reform, and the
proper means of overcoming them, it is remarkable
that the great impediment of all, the irresponsible
House of Peers, has not ever been glanced at !A'
The Ministry is treated as if it alone stood between
Reformers and their wishes, and as if it depended on
the will of the Government only to refuse or to grant
every object of popular benefit and desire. This is
deplorably uncandid and unjust. Ministers may fairly
be blamed for not doing what is in their power—for not
proposing what the public interests require ; but it is
not just and not true to talk of them as having the weal
or woe of the nation in their hands when the power of
the Lords frowns over and darkens all their counsels.
This is a difficulty which should not, and would not,
daunt a popular Government ; but it is a difficulty
which should always be kept in view and considered by
Reformers, not only for the sake of justice, but for the
very purpose of conquering it.
• The Chronicle of yesterday touched upon the House
of Peers, assuming what we have always much doubted,
that the Lords would yield to a strong majority in the
Commons; and how is the strong majority to be had while
the Lords have the power and the will to resist any amend-
ment of the representative system?

THE LATE EXECUTION AT MAIDSTONE.
No execution for many years has been attended so nume-
rously. It is calculated.that between ii,ooo and tO,OOO
persons at least were present. These consisted mostly of
well-dressed (for their station) country labourers, their
wives, sisters, and children, the mud upon their rustic habi-
liments bearing witness to the distance they had walked,
their half-tired shambling pace, and the excited expression
of their countenances showing the intenseness of their de-
sire not to be too late. Mtn with crutches, women with
club-feet, decrepit persons of both sexes walking with
sticks, some of whom were at least 70 years old, and chil-
dren from infancy upwards, crowded upon each other's
heels towards the place of death with infinitely more eager-
ness than is usually evinced by similar people ehen going
to a fair. The space before the gallons is large enough
to accommodate some 20,000 people, and when persons
had once reached the scene of the only public entertain-
ment their rulers provide for them, every one could feel
comfortable in the enjoyment of it. There was room for
all, and nothing to pay; and, whets females had gleefully
recognised their female neighbours, and discussed in a busi-
ness-like manner the comparative advantages of different
spots as "the best place," their next business was to apply
themselves to the baskets of provisions which their fere"-
thought had secured, and also sundry small flint glass and
ginger beer bottles, which doubtless contained water, and
which seemed to have a good effect in raising their spirits.
Everybody, except about one-tenth of the men, who were
smoking short pipes, seemed hungry, and none more so
than the women. Those who came late, and had no
baskets, contented themselves with buying a bun er a roll,
and hastily devouring it as they passed along the street ;
and the number of pies sold by the itinerant pastr)cooks
must have been great. The anxiety evinced by some of
' the fair sex to drag along one, two, three, and (in one in-
stance)to
et
threa>p,
el ad c
ae ofo
morbid
i
ov stranglinge of the hor-
rible was gra-
tuitously
which we had hoped to find extinct.—Kent Paper.
ROBERT MACAI fIC male beggar of
fashion is not so well known among us as in Paris, where
street-doors are open, six or eight families live in a house,
and the gentleman who earns his livelihood by this profes-
sion can make half a dozen visits without the trouble • f
knocking from house to house, and the pain of being ob.
served by the whole street, while the footman is examin-
ing hint from the area. Some few may be seen in England
about the inns of Court, where the locality is favourable •
but Paris is full of such adventurers—fat, smooth-tongued,
and well dressed, with gloves and gilt-headed canes, who
would almost be insulted by the offer of silver, and expect
your gold as their right. Among these, of course, our
friend Robert plays his part; and an excellent engraving
represents him, snuff-box in hand, advancing to an old
gentleman, whom, by his poodle, his powdered hair, and
his drivelling stupid look, one knows to be a Carlist of the
old regime. " I beg pardon," says Robert, "is it really
yourselfto whom I have the honour of speaking ?" " It is.'
"Do you take snuff ?" " I thank ou." " Sir, I have
had misfortune3—l want assistance. lam a Vendean of
illustrious birth. You know the family of Macairbec—
we are of Brest. My grandfather served the King in his
galleys—my father and I also belong to the marine. Un-
fortunate suits at law have plunged us into difficulties, and
I do not hesitate to ask you for the succour of ten francs."
" Sir, I never give to those I don't know." " Right, sir,
perfectly right. Perhaps you will have the kindness to
lend me ten francs?"—Parisian Caricatures, London and
Westminster Review.

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 8, 1839.

Mr. Bel—lf he had gone to some other houses, not
a f►rthing would have been saved. The waiter's con-
duct was uncommonly good.
The LORD MAYOR—If he had gone to some houses
which I know you never would have heard a word about
the money again.
The prisoner, who had all the appearance of a person
devoted to the glass, was then committed for trial.

Mr. HARDWICK was of opinion that the witness was I
bound to answer any proper question.
Solomens, in answer to the questions of Mr. Clark-
sun, said that on Wednesday morning last he melted
down various articles of gold, consisting of watch-cases,
snuff-boxes, chains, seals, &c., into two bars, and sent
them by his young man, John Deane, who was present
at the melting, to Messrs, Bull and Sons, dealers in bul
lion, in Chcapside, and received 1,2001. in payment.
He could not say the precise number of any particular
article which he had melted down, but kept a book in
which was entered his different transactions ; and the
reason of his Inciting the gold down on this particular
occcsion was on account of his wanting the money.
Mr. Phillips here interposed, and said that such a
course of examination was calculated to injure the wit-
ness, or any other respectable tradesman in his business.
Mr. Solomons had attended in compliance with the
Magistrate's summons, and if any charge were to be
made against him he was ready to meet it.
Mr. HAnDwicx replied, that at present there was no
charge against the witness ; and he must nay he did not
perceive anything Improper in the examination of Mr.
Clarkson. It was of course perfectly optional with Mr.
Solomons to answer any question or not, but it would
be his (Mr. Hardwick's) duty to tell him he was bound
to answer any proper questions. If the transaction upon
which the Learned Counsel was examining was a fair
and bona fide one, no honest man could have any hesi•
tation in telling the whole truth of the matter.
Mr. Solomons, after some further discussion, stated
that the melting took place on the Wednesday morning,
about eleven o'clock, and immediately after he sent the
two bars, consisting of 408 ounces 2 pennyweights of
gold to the shop of Mr. Bull, and received a cheque for
it. The cheque was cashed, and he received 11 one-
hundred pound notes and 100 sovereigns for it. The
witness said he might have a couple of the notes
so received, still in his possession, and he lodged three
others with his bankers, but of what he had done with
the remaining six he refused to give any account. After
much difficulty on the part of the Learned Counsel,
the witness said he might have sent three or four hun-
dred pounds of it to h:s-shop in Coventry-street, and the
remainder he might have paid to persons from whom ho
had borrowed money, and concluded by saying he had
no right be called to account in that way, and he cer-
tainly should not answer any more questions.
Mr. Clarkson observed, that, this being the case,
he certainly would advise those engaged in the prosecu-
tion to look after and have the whole of these notes.

Mr. George Henry Bull deposed to having been pre-
sent when the servant of Mr. Solomons brought the two
bars of gold and received the cheque for them. The
gold had been sent on Friday morning to Dover by
coach, to be forwarded to Paris ; but he had the assay
marks and bits of the ingots to show the quality. The
cheque was on the banking house of Roberts and Co.,
and was for 1,200/. The firm to which he belonged
had done considerable business with Mr. Solomons, but
he did not recollect any one transaction before that
amounted to more than 6001. The witness was not a
competent judge of gold so as to speak positively, but
his opinion was that the two ingots in question were
composed of different articles of gold melted down.
Mr. Clarkson—But would not a couple of penny
pieces thrown into a crucible with Brazilian gold mate-
rially alter its appearance ?
Witness—Certainly it would.

Jane Bradley said she had been a servant in the em-
ployment of Henry Moss, who is a watchmaker and fore-
man to Mr. Hvams, a watch-manfacturer in Lemon-
street, Goodman's Fields, and resided at No. 12, New-
street, close to the London Hospital. Her master was
always iu the habit of going to his employment in his
working-dress. On the morning of Monday, the 25th
of last month, (the day upon which the robbery bed
been effected), she recollected his going out about half-
past eight o'clock in the morning, dressed in his best
clothes, and returned about ten o'clock, when, contrary
to his usual mode, he gave a single knock at the door,
and was let in by Mrs. Moss. After stopping in the
parlour a few minutes, he went out again, and did not
return until eight o'clock in the evening.
This witness went into a lengthened and minute
statement of the different visits of the elder prisoner at
leer master's house, both before and after the robbery ;
her finding a quantity of wood ashes with nails, and a
portion of red sealing wax, about the fire-place on the
morning after the robbery ; her master taking the brass
plate off his door during the night, and removing from
his house in New-street to a lodging in Mansell street, ;
and, in short, detailing such circumstances as could
leave no possible doubt on the mind of any person who
heard her, that Moss was the individual through whom
the robbery had been effected, and to whom the boxes
of gold dust had been delivered. At the conelution of
her testimony the prisoners were remanded until Thurs-
day week.